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»PLegality Of V oting Probe Is ChallengedLAREDO, Aur. 2 t*~T*o Teredo attorneys who say they are sympathetic to the Independent efts Is 1 (iub today challenged the legality of thr master of chancery hearing naking probing alleged absenlee voting ir-man, regularities,Horace C. Hall and Gerald Weatherly said no district Judge can place the question before a master of chancery.'Nobody can investigate this but a grand Jury or a district judge,” Weatherly told Dan Moody Jr.. who is acting as master.The hearing was ordered by Travis County Dist. Judge Charles 0. Rett* aflrr complaints of Irregularities in Webb County absentee voting for last Saturday s Democratic primary.Moody said he was only gathering evidence. ,The Reform Party, whose leaders asked Judge Betts for the investigation. claim they canned get a fair hearing before a similar probe now under way four blocks | from this hearing site. This ptobe j is being conducted by Judge R. D. Wright of Webb County.The Independent Club and the Reform Party are local political dement groups which have been fighting hich he each other for years, p would lt;A, W. dates, l.aredo rancher, conven- was fired JoO earlier by Judge resident Wright for contempt of court in t that I refusing to testify at Wright’s id, Dick hearing, dates claimed, as did in nom- three others, that they couldn't obtain a fair investigation in that ques- court, Ie r n o r rhe legality flareup occurred Ithe Reform Party called Rodolfo Villarreal, deputy clerk in the city secretary’s office, to testify.^ Reform Party attorney George\ Byfield asked Villarreal if he hadever seen or if he knew Augustina Jasso and Manuel Jasso. ( Villarreal swore he had never heard of them or seen them.makersonal-is and[ Penn-I cam-►wever, * of the jecome tics.”I be re-on the an Na-ir irre-old E.»cnln. Chris-that if lination tepubli-will be, The e could ;whon lination,0*Euises on _r body.”sed into All • /1pfcm Adlai Countnothing
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Waco News Tribune
Waco, Texas, US
Fri, Aug 03, 1956
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