Don Hall and associates hit with more bank burglary charges
Don Hall, Virgil Counts and Lois Counts face further federal charges in two Texas bank burglaries tied to a spree that netted bonds, a diamond brooch and cash. Hall, known in Odessa as a leading criminal, remains jailed on a murder conviction appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Hall
Wite
Don Halls
Odessa
Texas
Virgil
Lois Westfall
Fort Worth
Hall
Wilma Sue
Harvey Foster
FBI
Home State Bank
Trent
U. S
Abilene
Foster
W. O. Shafer
Clarence O. Whatley
Andrews Carpenter
Counts
Mississippi
Melvin Marks Westfall
Huntsville
Steve Higgs
Terminal City
Carter
Okla
Lubbock
Tuesay
Safeman Nabbed After Mississippi Roadblock Shootout
J Virgil Counts a 35 year old Texan and Melvin Westfall 13 were captured in Mississippi after a roadblock chase. They faced a federal warrant for unlawful flight in the Odessa Tower Food Market burglary. Police found guns and cash in the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Virgil Counts
Odessa
Mississippi
Counts
Melvin
Marks Westfall
Fort Worth
Albert Simpson
Corinth
Miss
Federal Bureau of Investigation
A. I. Means
Memphis
Tower
W. 10Th
Don Hall
Justice of Peace
M. Newman
Third Life Claimed By Gun Orgy
Odessa police report a double murder suicide at Watts Cafe rear in which Roy A. Ray shot Mrs Elsie Sanders and Marion A. Gilcrease then killed himself. Gilcrease later died from his injuries at Medical Center Hospital as family mourns in Santa Fe with services planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion A
Ace) Gilcrease
Odessa
Gilcrease
Medical Center Hospital
N. MM. Hi
Gilcrease Sr
Santa Fe
Watts Cafe
N. Grant
Elsie Sanders
Roy A. Ray
Reds Seize Renault Factory Amid French Sit-Down Strike
In Paris suburbs on Wednesday Communist commandos seized the Renault nationalized factory as part of a planned sit-down strike protesting Jacques Duclos’s imprisonment. Police massed to retake the plant while workers and guards resisted. The national strike drew little support, with under 2 percent of workers participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Ecommandos
Renault
Red
Jacques Duclos
Antoine Pinay
France
White House Seeks Steel Labor-Mgmt Parley
The White House invited CIO Steelworkers Union leaders and top steel industry officials to a meeting at 11 a.m. June 5 in the Executive Office Building to end the steel strike following Supreme Court action. Participants include Benjamin Fairless of U S Steel and executives from Jones and Laughlin, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, Republic, Bethlehem, and Inland Steel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
CIO Steelworkers Union
John R. Steelman
Philip Murray
Steelworkers Union
Supreme Court
Truman
Steelman
CIO
United Steelworkers
Murray
Benjamin Fairless
U. Steel Corp
Jones and Laughlin Steel Co
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Republic Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Inland Steel Co
Irving Perimeter
CRMWD Fight To Be Continued
The State Board of Water Engineers gained more time to file documents in its Supreme Court appeal of a West Texas water dispute involving the Martin County Water District. CRMWD had sued claiming the Martin district’s boundaries and rules cut off water plans for Odessa, Big Spring, and other users while awaiting a new Colorado River reservoir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
State Board of Water Engineers
Supreme Court
West Texas
126Th District Court
Martin County Water District
Water District
Colorado River Municipal Water District
Martin County District
Odessa
Big Spring
Colorado River
Walter Wanger to Surrender for Four Month Sentence
Hollywood on June 4 Walter Wanger planning surrender to serve a four month term at a county honor farm for shooting Jennings Lang in the groin last December 13. The producer admitted shooting Lang over a belief he romanced his wife Joan Bennett and faces a possible transfer to the Costa County honor farm if approved by the jail board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Walter Wanger
Wanger
Jerry Giesler
Jennings Lang
Lang
Joan Bennett
Harry J. Border
Castaic
Calif
Lawn Watering Comes to End in Odessa
Odessa city officials urge residents to stop all lawn shrub and tree watering immediately due to hot dry weather. A L Wright, water department head, says car washing should halt until further notice and relief is expected next week as the Martin County field pipeline nears full capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Martin County
Ike Arrives In Abilene For Abilene Homecoming Events
General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived by special train in Abilene for a two day homecoming program. Crowds estimated at 25,000 lined the streets as plans included laying a cornerstone for an Eisenhower museum and a parade with 30 floats. The event marks a political turn with speeches and conferences to boost his Republican presidential bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene, Eas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Abilene
Kansas
Eisenhower
Kansas City
Washington
Hugh Edwards
Kansas Highway Patrol
Sunflower Hotel
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Eisen- Nower
White House
Hisenhower Park
Freedom Party Campaigns To Oust Sheriff Parr
The Freedom Party of Duval County launches an early bid to take political control from Sheriff George B. Parr with a Saturday motor caravan from San Diego to Freer and a rally. Donato Serna leads with a charge over an alleged bus station relocation. Texas officials debate jurisdiction over bus station locations as opposition grows. Ralph Yarborough announces a wide East and West Texas campaign swing starting in Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Freedom Party
Duval County
George B. Parr
San Diego
Freer
Donato Serna
Parr
L. H. Warburton
Carlos McDermott
Archie Parr
Senna
Texas Railroad Commission
Ernest O. Thompson
Austin
Thompson
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Texas
Georgia
Louisiana
Rep. Buffett
House
Eisenhower
Buffett
GOP
Ralph Yarborough
Deep East
Far West
Athens
Rusk
Pineville
Aopetine
Crockett
Chaandler
Yarborough
Gilmer
Pittsburgh
Linden
Atlanta
Texarkana
Taft Narrowly Leads Eisenhower in South Dakota Primary
In South Dakota Taft holds a slim margin over Eisenhower as 14 GOP delegates are decided. With 1,762 of 1,947 precincts reported Taft 62,665 Eisenhower 61,682 and about 15,000 votes uncounted. Kefauver wins Democratic delegates as Taft-Eisenhower race dominates the state’s attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Chicago
Eisenhower
Associated Press
South ‘Dakota’s
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Sioux Falls
Black Hills
Midwest
Nebraska
Truce Talks Exchange Bitter Words on PWs
At Panmunjom the United Nations and Communist truce negotiators exchanged sharp notes over prisoners of war. North Korea protested treatment of captured Reds on Koje Island while Maj. Gen. Harrison pressed for accountability of about 1,009 UN soldiers listed as missing. Names remain private to avoid false hopes. Another session is set for tomorrow at 11 a.m. local time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Nam II
Panmunjom
Koje Island
William K. Harrison Jr
U.N
Red
American MP Shot In Berlin
An American military policeman was shot and wounded by an East German border guard near Berlin. Major General Lemuel Mathewson condemned the act as barbaric and demanded punishment of the offender. The incident followed a partial easing of the Soviet bloc’s blockade on Allied patrols and came as tensions rose after a British led assault on Radio Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Lemuel Mathewson
U. S
Machnower ‘Strasse
Mathewson
West Germany
Radio Berlin
Three New Polio Cases In Houston Today
Houston reports three new city polio cases raising year to date totals to 66 city cases and three deaths. A county case involving a five year old boy was also announced. Overall figures include 39 county cases with one death and 51 out of county cases with three deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
U S Battle Casualties in Korea Rise to 109159
Washington reports 109159 American battle casualties in Korea, up 182 from the previous week as of today. The tally reflects ongoing combat losses and the widening conflict in the peninsula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S
Korea
Injuries Fatal To Odessa Youth
Russell Lee Cole aged 16 died from injuries after a bicycle accident last Wednesday night. He was struck by a car driven by 17 year old David Richardson near 27th Street and Andrews Highway. Funeral services are pending with Rix Funeral Home. Survivors include his father Elmer Cole of Pecos, his mother and stepfather, two sisters Jo Ann Cole and Loretta Margaret Malone, and two brothers Ray Cole and Ben Alien Malone of Odessa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanders
Ray
Gilcrease
Santa Fe
N. Golder
Surv Ivors
Jessie Gilcrease
Beverly Ann
Annabelle Gilcrease
Ardell
L. B. Jackson
W. E. Bindel
el Paso
P. W. Cassidy
Odessa
Hubbard Funeral Home
Fairview
The
Baptist Church
Russell Lee’ Cole
Western Union
David Richardson
Truman
27Th St
Andrews Hwy
Rix Funeral Home
Elmer Cole
Pecos
Ben T. Malone
Jo Ann Cole
Loretta Margaret Malone
Ray Cole
Ben Alien Malone
Gls Tanks Take Down Red Flags on Koje Island
American infantrymen and tanks seized control of three prisoner of war pens on Koje Island Korea burning and removing red flags without a shot fired. Seventeen prisoners were freed and 75 more moved from a second compound as guards huts were destroyed with flame throwers. The operation was led by U S Second Division 38th Regiment under Lt Col William F Kernan with commander Antonio Tex asserting readiness to act again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koje Island
Korea
U. S
William F. Kernan
Antonio Tex
Negro and White Pair Wed After Campus Romance
Robert McAllester, 23, and Grace Cunningham, 22, both graduates of Earlham College, exchanged marriage vows in Ithaca New York amid campus disapproval. McAllester, of Berkeley, California, and Miss Cunningham faced objections over interracial marriage and planned to continue studies by mail. Earlham President Thomas E. Jones stated the college discouraged such marriages despite a non segreg ation policy on campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca
N.Y
Robert McAllester
Grace Cunningham
Berkeley
Calif
Earlham College
Richmond
Ind
McAllester
Allen McAllester
Miss Cunningham
Thomas E. Jones
Earlham
Eviction Tension Escalates In Michigan Farm Case
In Lapeer Michigan irate neighbors clashed with Sheriff Clark Gregory and a deputy as they attempted to serve eviction papers on 60 year old widow Elizabeth Stevens owner of an 80 acre farm. The farm had been sold to Grace S White after Stevens failed to pay a 171 belt assessment from a failed mutual fire insurance group. Governor Williams and the State Administrative Board met with Stevens and protesters to avert bloodshed and seek a peace plan while awaiting a state police decision on involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lapeer
Mich
Elizabeth Stevens
Here
Lansing
G. Mennen Williams
State Administrative Board
Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance
Grace S. White
Williams
Clark W. Gregory
Joseph Childs
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Wilma Sue Hall
Safeman
Reds
Ike
Duval
South Dakota
S. D
Dwight D. Hisenehower
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