Del Rio News-Herald (Newspaper) - June 7, 1956, Del Rio, Texas JIM wre or Went Oot of fift today aMtet four t then and walked out Ore pri was captured just before dawn the te bars on knife on four DISTRICT AT TRIAL IT STOCKTON Discussions concerning the used tn handling checks tie School District consumed the morning of the D C Chapa trial here apa A former tax assessor ctor of the School et is charged with it flro Moris former tax office oye waa questioned by both attorney Percy Foreman Atty Sam Burrls con the handling of checks in Dora Mae former of the office was recalled lie stand and also questioned nt check handling methods in charged yesterday that al County politics appeared to scared some witnesses away the trial ne witness told me he was nid he would got a knife tn hts when he returned rls said at last nights session he trail Others told me they have in Duval thia trial Is Inch of yesterdays testimony In answer to questions about al County politics and the ac iting methods used In the district Dora Moo Canales former worker in the District tax office and now resident of Corpus was final witness yesterday ot the questions put to Canales were answered I ont know or I dont said that at a previous lal in Tyler she had related Uie office routine f When defense attorney Percy oreman of Houston attempted to clop lax methods of keeping records hts questions fiom Mrs Canales re of I dont know or I anl a former tax assessor soners still it targe M Wayne 35 armed with O Colliers 16 Bitty James Ray Parker 19 and Richard W from a number of cities in this west Texas area Joined in the manhunt Blf spring sent fit aid in search which between Odessa and 30 miles to the northnorthwest of here The five men were all under six feet in height weighing to pounds Richardson home address not given and White of Fort Worth were being held oti a burglary charge of Odessa was charged with theft Colliers of Odes sa with car theft and Parker home address not given With Manhunt On For Officers said the prisoners were on the top or third floor of the jail After overcoming the trusties they climbed down n lattice work outside the building Officers said Spencer 53 had stolen a car and drove north on a farm road then turned apparently heading for Midland and ran out of gas He was captured as he tried to hitchhike to Midland Officers were working on the theory that the other S prisoners had been in the car with Spencer and were somewhere in the rugged country above here To saw out the bars in the cell the county sheriffs office said several hack saw blades apparently were used An Investigation waa into where the blades origi THE WR passerby holdi hts IB dismay at babel of signs ing the forthcoming city hall elections Thirteen patties have and their various spiels and blurbs result in wallpaper in the district Is accused embezzling a check from oil company R E Daniel finance officer of KUS Eastern Transmission earlier testimony revealed the was sent to the school dis rict but the company later got a Sun for the amount He said the matter was later Cleared up but did not elaborate Two former members ot the chool board testified they had heard of Chapa having a as tax jor the district Francisco Man Small Plane fo Scotland PRESTWICK Scotland June 7 watchmaker flew In in his niter a solo flight from New York It is third solo At out of his small yellow brown plane Gluckmann said ilte trip was uneventful except ifor bad weather on Uie between New York and He left New York day and stopped at Greenland and Iceland Im not he said 11 dont get lonely Theres plenty to I plans to fly to London to visit and then on to Switzerland Greece across to over the to and Its jay h FUNERAL SERVICES FOR D C SHUTE TO BE HUD IN GLOBE 4 The body of Douglas C Shu Us Border Patrolman killed in a plane crush Wednesday morning will be shipped to Globe Thursday night for burial Local arrangements were in charge of the Doran Funeral Home Shute was piloting a plane with Border Patrolman James M Carter of Marfa as a passenger when the crash occurred on the Carson ranch near the Pan dale road about 70 miles from Del Rio He resided at 1103 East First Street His widow children and parents Mr and Mrs Frank of Globe survive Shute came to Del Rio more than a year ago from Phoenix and had been in the Border Patrol six years Mrs Carrie L Hodge wife of Assistant Postmaster W C Hodge died Wednesday at in a local hospital Funeral services will be held Fri day at 10 ajn in the Doran Chapel with Rev Pat Armstrong pastor of the First Methodist Church Burial will be made in the Masonic Cemetery under the tion of the Doran Funeral Home Mrs Hodge was born and reared in Mexla Texas She had resided in Del Rio 30 years Survivors her husband two daughters Mrs George Of Tyler and Mrs F 8 Spain of three grandchildren BUI Mary Frances and Carolyn Spain Six sisters and a brother also sur vive The sisters are Mrs Otis TIN HOSPITAL of Mrs Lula Mae Sims of Houston Mrs Jeanle Prewitt of Austin Mrs Walter glesby of Pasadena Mrs Reynolds Dickson of Texas nd Miss Frances Beckham of Dal as the brother is Jesse Beckham of Coolidge Begin Preparing Delinquent Tax Roll July First Preparation of delinquent tax roll of 1955 state and county taxes will begin July 1 O D Finegan said On that date B penalty Interest plus cost will be add ed to the original roll If your 1955 state and county taxes have not been paid you can avoid the additional cost by pay ing them before July Finegan said Refuse Slay Of Execution For M A Washington HUNTSVILLE June 7 Board of Pardons Wednesday re fused to grant a of execution for Marion A Washington 27 sched uled to die here in the electric chair early Friday morning The Bremond Negro was convicted In Waco on April 2 1955 of the murder of Airman Henry Poole of Connally Force Base near The chairman of the board Jack Ross after the hearing thai unless something else comes In we do not sec any reason to FIRE DAMAGE MOUNT PLEASANT June 7 lire believed to have start ed from faulty wiring caused an estimated damage of to the Badt Building a large structure located In the heart of the city here last night pone the Washingtons attorney Fred Finch of Dallas repeated pre vious pleas claiming fian cee had Identified other suspects In lineups prior to picking Washington as the Negro who her from the car and Inter tho Poole Asst Atty Burney Walker of Waco said lie was present a all the lineups but one and tha the girl did not pick anyone bu Washington APPROVED WASHINGTON June 7 which would create a fourth federal judgeship in the Northern District of Texas was approved Wednesday by a Judiciary subcommittee Agricultural In Texas Vary Greatly STATION Agricultural conditions in Texas are extremely varied ranging from acute drouth and steppedup sales of cattle and sheep due to lack of range and pasture In South and West Texas to enough moisture or planting crops in some areas and harvest of grain yields be yond expectation in other areas he Texas Agricultural Ex Service said today Director O O Gibson said in a weekly report from district agri cultural agents that recent rains In many of the dryland farming areas has made possible planting cotton and grain sorghum seed and growth and maturity of other crops However a good general rain is needed in most of the state Little or no feed in pastures and shortage of has caused accelerated movement ot cattle and theep In the Uvalde Medma counties area to market and to the report said In the Coastal Bend Counties an excellent crop of grain sorghum is maturing In the Dilly area light yields of watermelons are being In far West Texas high winds and blowing dust kef ps the cattle and sheep ranges In generally poor condition and selling of livestock continues irrigated cotton contin ues to grow well Around crops and ranges are responding well to rains re In the past 10 duyo to two Wheat farmers in Huns ford Hemp hilland Wheeler counties should now harvest a fair amount of wheat Cotton and grain planting is almost complete The Rolling Plains small grain June t WVA manhunt underway m this today for a man Who kidnaped people one of them att orange County deputy sheriff who forced into a car he sought to arrest the man on child desertion and burglary charges Sheriff Cheater A Holla said the man sought was James Edward Johnson 31 of Orange The search waff concentrated in the Sperger and De Bidder The deputy sheriff Tom Eddie man was pushed out of the cers car near Sperger The second man kidnaped was Harvey Lee McCarty 45 of Du cette Tex He was later released across the state line In Louisiana About Eddleman was pushed out of the car near ger and telephoned Orange police from a farm His car was recovered out of 6 am two mites east of Sperger Sheriff Holts said a kidnaping charge would be filed against Johnson During the hunt for Johnson a report of was received McCarty called officers from the service station ot C W Neely of saying he had been kidnaped and forced across the state line McCarty said he WHS en route to work at Jasper when he was stopped by a man who pre tended to be an officer He said the man told him that his patrol car had run out of gas and asked for A ride into Jasper After he got tn my car the were hemmed in a thick 6t seat W trail the man Afi was dispatched units were being used oft the ground to liaison with the plane Eddleman said the matt boasted he would never be taken guy put a gun In my ribs and forced me to drive and into Lousiana to a point half way between and De McCarthy said He forced me to drive Into a pasture and I was put out of myt car two miles from the He told me that If I tried anything funny he would kill f McCarty said tha man took from his wallet car was found about 0 on Louisiana Highway 171 between DC Bidder and De Deputy Sheriff Fred Coolen said the man was believed Bulganin Writes To Ike Again WASHINGTON June 7 viet Premier Nikolai Bulganin has written a new letter to President Soviet Ambassador N arranged to de liver it at the State Department today A Soviet Embassy source ques about an afternoon date that Zarubin made with Secretary of State Dulles told reporter I understand he is going to de liver a letter from Mr Bulganin for the President Since last summer Bulganin and have exchanged a se ries of mostly concerned with disarmament but also includ ing a proposal made by Bulganin in January for a friendship treaty between Russia and the United States and other Western powers The spokesman declined to com ment on the subject matter of the new message Zarubin had been scheduled to return to Moscow last Saturday tor consultation but canceled his flight There was speculation today that he had received tions to stay here an deliver the new note m ain V test Senator Estes Kefauver a breakfast roll in Los Angeles with habit of haste learned In Hying campaign in which he sought support for Democratic presidential nomination Ste venson won a decisive victory MJP to has it an but it has never held any ife t holding Uai part bf the itf The haw already Her Contest Manager Tells How To Win 56 Buick Py AND yoi ever O UPTON had questions hurled at you so fast that you hardly knew which one to answer first what nearly ev ery day to manager in charge oj the big A Justice of the verdict of murder suicide were to the wealthy afternoon for example Chief kilted wife as W t he ly plan She came to the point right away Weil count me in on con test and tell me all about Yen replied Ow in charge you Tell me first can I win new Bulck wdan in Just seven and half KYou most can That If you get largest harvest about complete with wheat yields beyond but the oat yield Is very light Small grain harvest In North Texas has been resumed and there too wheat yields are higher than expected Cotton insects and grass hoppers have been reported doing damage Predict Large Volume Of Surplus Cotton To Be Sold WASHINGTON June 7 Farm officials predicted today that a large volume of surplus govern cotton will be sold when the Agriculture Department reopens its export sales program next Tuesday At that time and on each Tues day thereafter until further notice tha department will open bids on offers of exporters Selling will be shifted to a some what lower price level set by Con peas in the farm act signed by Eisenhower two weeks ago The department suspended ex pert selling until it could revamp its policies to comply with the now law This legislation directs the de to sell surplus cotton for export at prices not in excess of those set by other exporting coun tries for comparable qualities It set a level of cenU a pound an the basis of 1516 Inch middling cot ton at ports That is about 2 cents less than the price at which the department had been making sales and about 7 cents less than domestic market prices which are by farm aid programs Believes Rare Cranes Will Reach Summer Home CORPUS CHRIST June 7 Howard believes that U the folks In Canada will just be patient all the whooping cranes will reach their summer home A dispatch from Ottawa Tuesday said Uie Canadian government U worried because only six of Uie rare whoopers have been spotted in Buffalo Park the summer nest ing area Howard director of the Aransas refuge near here where Uie whoopers spend their winters said we sometimes have difficulty in finding all the birds in a small area here and we can feel for the Canadians in efforts to find 26 birds in so vast an area of Howard said the migration north ward began on schedule about March 30 but that one pair of Uie birds was still at Aransas on May 9 unusually late TIGHTENING FORTH WALD June 7 frontier po lice said today la tightening its Iron Curtain with West with wore wire bunkers tonk trap and Their with fairer couth beginning to cut the wire along the DEL RlO DEL RIO AND VICINITY Clear to partly cloudy this afternoon to night and Friday change in temperature Maximum tempera ture yesterday 88 minimum 73 Maximum temperature a year ago 97 minimum thU morning 73 of tune of sunset pro Relative humidity at 77 per mit at 40 per cent WES pP Wth Partly afternoon tonight Widely Mattered ens in the ward and th ward Not io South Plains TO HOLD RITES FOR J M CARTER FRIDAY IN SAN SABA Funeral cervices for James M Carter 35 held Friday at 3 In the Funer al Home in SanSaba Burial will be made in Springs Cem etery near San Saba Carter was killed in the crash of a Border Patrol plane day morning on the Carson ranch about 40 miles northwest of Corn stock The body was taken over land Thursday in a Doran funeral coach to San Saba Carter was in Pel Rio on a special detail from Marfa where he was stationed He was a passenger In a piloted by Douglas C Del Rio Border Patrolman checking on aliens in the United SUtes illegally Wednesday at the time of the crash He had been in the Border Pa trol since April 25 1055 and had served us a Jn the United States Marine Corps in World War Two Survivors include his widow Mrs Blanche Carter t two children Jim mie and Eileen Carter a sister Mrs Annie of San Saba and a brother Carl Mack Carter elded to carry wt a ber of In Ite me Eden sakt the talw jj t 1 i lands and the ar ranged as to avoid danger to or property v The tests which will not involve out All safety wm taken in the light of our own edge and of experience the testa of other The main base of the Force aircraft and facilities used in the will be located on about miles south of Hawaii DEMONSTRATORS LE HAVRE France June 7 Two thousand demonstrators rioted In the railway station here Thurs day protesting the departure of 15 Le Havre army reservists for duty in Algeria Police finally were able to clear the station and the train carrying the left for Paris after several cars uncoupled by the riot ers were reconnected The demonstration was similar to others which have erupted all over the SIDETRACK CLAIM TOKYO June 7 Mln teter Ichiro said today Japan will sidetrack its claim to the South Kurile Islands in an ef fort to work out a peace treaty with Soviet Russia Hatoyama told a news confer ence he thought it would be ad to Japan to wait until world pence comes to settle the of the Southern Kuriles taken by Russia from Japan after World War IL Polio y DALLAS June 7 there appeared to be a growing surplus of Balk polio vaccine tn the Dallas area an official of State Health Department Wed there would be ho change in the policy of limiting its use to young under 0 and women Tlie Dallas News aid it asked the State Health Department In whether It might mend using the extra doset cine on adults who It er than have of it go waste vaccine has an tion date Dr J E Peavy communicable disease control lor the department raid Despite apparent polio vaccine in come of Texas the State Health recommend temlon of the age of the fact of the people under 80 women have The use oj Git AHA M DRAWS CROWD OKLAHOMA CITY June 7 Evangelist Billy Graham drew an opening day crowd of into the Oklahoma City fair grounds Sunday for his crusade and expressed pleasure and prise at the large turnout We rarely start out with so he said Its one of the largest crows weve ever had on UM that is by private purely probably will for the time being lie vaccine pregnant the National and can not be changed state eign disclosed today period First Beauty Entrants Mary and Lee Tampke became the first court la the World bert for Unton to treed after A cooperation with the to give local to Plans to haye are also at aM hays by to lo in the Pel Rio and beauty contests upon today Tjw blink in the and bath city and military to enter The two wW be Park of July 4 iu an elfort to provide and area f m WO W T Burns has already mode Uie necessary wlU supply
