Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 113, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1951 Page: 4 of 10
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May It Solvud
HOUSTON. Aug. 2 «JJb—Shartff
Hunter Kern of Harris county dis-
rioned today his office "might be
on the road" to .solving u 22-.vear-
old double murder.
Too mysterious murder is that
of Olma Wunsche, 20-veur-old
housemaid, and Edward Stone, 21-
year-old machinist
Their boriiee, torn with shotgun
pellets, were found May 8, 192H.
near the Woetfieid-Aldine rend.
Sheriff Ki rn reported Ins of-
fice reopened investigation into
the grisly ‘win slaying nearly two
months ago.
"Wo got some new informa-
tion." he -aid. “We are question-
ing several men and we’re work-
ing on the ease hard Hut I have
no other information to give out
at this time."
It was known, however, that the
arrest of four suspects in the old
killing is imminent.
Police records ol the case dis-
closed Miss Wunsche had been
employed as a housekeeper in
Houston, while Stone worked for
the Hughes Tool company here. |
Both had gone to their homes
lor the weekend two days before
they were killed. At 8 p.m. the
night of May 5. Stone drove by the
girl' home and picked her up, re-
portedly to return to Houston.
A passing motorist discovered
the girl's body the next day. torn
by a blast between the shoulder
blades, laying face upward in the
road a Isold a mile north of Al-
dine Stole shattered body was
found sprawling in his fathers
car three miles away.
Dunlap lalwrits Problem Of Urn
Rebellious Texas Hwigwivw
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2. lU.W—|
John R Dunlap, new internal rev-
cuot commissioner and a hard man
.in lax dodders, today Inherited the
problem of the rebellions Texas'
1 housewives.
II was all pretty flowers and
smiling faces yes.erda.v as Duniup
was sworn in by a fellow Texan.
Siipicme Court Justice Tom C.
Clark, and received congratula-
tions from Speaker Sum Rayburn,
also a Texan.
Hut today the handshaking was
over, and Dunlap. 47. began what
many people consider the job of
the nation's most disliked man.
He's responsible for collecting i
more than 860,000,ORB,0000 ‘B» in
taxes this year.
He faced congressional blasts |
about alleged irregularities among
some federal tax collectors—and
promised to fire anyone who fails
to maintain proper standards of
integrity. Three of the bureau's I
former district col lectors—in New 1
NAMES IN THE NEWS—Alexander Harmine. left, former Soviet
brigadier general in military intelligence, testified before the sen-
ate judiciary subcommittee that Stalin's brother-in-law was among
the founders of the Russian council of the Institute of Pacific
Relation.s With handkerchief in hand and tears streaming down
Ids checks. Lt. Gen. Albert C Wedemcycr stands on the Presidio
parade grounds in Sun Francisco. Calif., during the traditional
"Ruffles and Flourishes’' as he officially ended his long and dis-
tinguished career in the United States army. 'Acme Telephoto*
Police theorized from the posi-
tion of th" two bodies that the
two were approached by their
slayer or slayers as they sat in I
the car. Stone was killed in the I
car. Miss Wunsche was carried
away, it was believed, and was
shot' when she attempted to es-
cape some three miles from the
car.
A short time after the double
killing, five persons were charged
with murder and the grand Jury
investigated, but returned no in-
I dictments. |
___ It was said today that one new
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diuretic. UkH aupc—fully by million fur
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continent darted fronti W York
Un fltub uut waste. Get tx«n's I>|Ue todairl for Boston oil Jall 1 I t>« a
His Smoke Curls
Housework . J
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ARE YOU COVERED?
IS YOUR PERSONAL PROPERTY
PROTECTED?
Our Residence and O-itside Thaft Policy covers your
personal property and household goods against bur-
glary. robbery, larceny, mysterious disappearance, end
vandalism both at home and away, and it costs so little.
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McWilliams building
York, Missouri and Massachusetts
—arc being investigated by the
justice department. \
The bureau also bus taken the
rap for letting mobsters and gumh-
lers "get away with murder" by I
filing loose Income tux returns.1
Duniup alreud.v hud his finger on I
thut problem. He has been head of J
a special division to crack down !
on tax-dodging racketeers.
But Dunlup's toughest problem
wus the group of housewives in his
own state They have defied the
government by refusing to deduct
social security taxes from the puy J
of domestic employes.
The bureau has written the
women that they have one more
chuncc to obey the law. After that,
the government will move to scire
property—maybe even a garden
hose left tying around the yard.
It is normal procedure in tax col-
lection cases to take over property
for sale at auction to raise money
for delinquent taxes.
Attractive Red Head Arrested Fer
Impersonating Air Force Officer
AUSTIN. Aug. 2 <U.P>—An at-1 answering. “It was » major."
. • ■ i. ____l____A ......Lmmhm .»• tiro tliiiii.
tractive red head who parlayed a
«lii) tongue into a four-day “joke"
on the air forces was held in the
Travis county tail today under
$1 olio i Kind
She was charged with imperson-
ating a lieutenant in the women's
air forces.
The 28-year-old woman, identi-
I nt* S t*»lI *01(1 WRMfHtll# lUvilii ill*
fie<t as Madelo Frances Evans, said custody, she was carrying a tem-
i........»« hoc fniir./iflv tiliiv :it Duriirv IlfiL'strnm 1(1 (‘fit if iciitloil
she meant her four-day stay at
Bergstrom air force base as a joke.
But senior officers at Bergstrom
weren't laughing.
"This," said one of them. "Is
very embarrassing."
Col Ben W Lichty. base com-
mander at Bergstrom, was credit-
ed with pulling the rug from un-
der Madelo’s gag.
He personally gave the order
porary Bergstrom identification
card issued "pending receipt of
orders."
"Some friends, she explained,
fixed it up for her.
Madelo wasn't wearing a uni-
form Instead, she was neatly
dressed in a red skirt and a tan
blouse with an air force ornament
pinned near the shoulder.
When she arrived Saturday ul
He personally gave tnc oroer wnen sue arriveu .xmiiu.
I for agents to quietly take her into Bergstrom, she was show n the
custody as the slim gnl with the "customary courtesy” and given
easy smile chatted from a tele-j one night's lodging In the nurse-
phone booth at the officers’ club.' quarters After that, she moved
Nn.' had I dden the eight miles •■->■•-•--■1- *-•- a—•*- ...K..n. .h..
HOLDING HIS curved * igaret hold-
er, North Koreun lien. Nam II.
f duef Communist negotiator in
■ Kaesong, stands outside router-
ence room, where chief issue is
buffer zone— present battle line or
J8th parallel. (IntrinaluniaH
from Austin to the base after or-
dcring a staff car sent in as trans-
portation
The |>crt red head had seen
Lichty originally when she talked
her way into Ins office on grounds
of obtaining information about the
W\J?. 1 "any nusoano, sue mpstHn-u,
She wanted to go in as a Ueu- “is going to he shipped out soon
tenant." Lichty explained. I hope someone—the Red Cros: or
Tin- colonel said he regarded her somebody—can get me out of this
at first as a "nice young gal try- The charge of impersonating a
tug to get along in the world." federal officer was filed with Jus-
But th< A Madelo volunteered tier of the Peace Travis Blukrslee
that she hitch-hiked in an air force in the absence of United States
plane from Biggs air force base Commissioner Robert N. Sneed
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voluntarily into Austin where she
was staying in an apartment.
The woman said she married a
Biggs air force base sergeant two
weeks ago at Lais Cruces. N. M .
She told her husband, she said,
that she was n lieutenant in the
WAF
"My husband,'' she explained.
at El Paso
"What did you do." she was
asked, "talk some young second
lieutenant into flying you?"
"Oh, no." she was quoted as
Sheriffs nflievis said she was
u model prisoner.
She had made only one request
—that the chaplain be called to
see her.
COTTON PICKING DISC JOCKEY-Ed Boll Weevil" Kean
Harlingen. Texus. disc Jockey, pauses for a moment's rest dm mu
his attempt to ptek a bale of cotton in one week. Keane, who
t>ousted on his program that anyone could *lo a bale a week, was
challenged by veteran cotton men who have offered $1500 in
prizes if he makes good *Aeme Telephoto*
Hobbyist DLcovors
29 Ancient Coins
CORPUS CHHIHTI. Aug. 2 <U*'
!_A 82-year-old research hobby-
ist toduy repoi led the discovery of
2t» ancient silver coins and a I2.V
loot ««pp*r*bottoiat<i bout burifil
in a clay bunk on historic padre
, island.
! Louis Hawaii, who lias explored
the island fot 22 years, said he be
lic-ves the coins and boat IM-Umgcd
to the Spanish Honquemr Cortez,
whose fleet was driven into Padre
island hv a gulf of Mexico storm
"back in the 1500V
Dr J Armstrong Price, geol*.
gist at the University of Texas,
was notified or the find and plan-
end to examine the relics today to
determine tlietr authenticity.
Hawaii refused to pinpoint the
cl.iv bank where he said the reins
were found, but Indicated it was
in a section of the Island not fai
from Corpus Christ!.
One coin was of fourteenth cen-
tury vintage. Hawaii said, and was
marked "one quarter" He said it
apparently was minted during the
i i-ign of Charles I
A spokesman at the Bergstrom
public information office said the
flight—as well as Madelo—was be-
ing investigated.
"A lot of rules will probably lie
tightened up," be added. "Plane
rides, ear pool this won’t ever
happen aguin.” be said.
At the time she was taken into
$ Million Smile
Missing Airlift Is
Thought Sighted
EDMONTON. Alta Am 2 UP
Two Royal Canadian an large
cu reh plum*- left Whttelioi-c.
Y T , todai to investigate report;
tii-it wreckugc of a large -ilvei -
colored" aircraft bad been sighted
and mat !»*» thut of the CPA Ko-
rean .orbit plane missing since
.lull 21 wi.ii :iK ihtsoiis .dsiard
Res* ue licadquai ters of the
HCAF Northwest An conunand
Here reported that two tran-|Mnt
driv.i- traveling the Alaska high-
wav hail ie|MirtCfi “What they pro-
sinned t*i Ih* a large, silver ail
. craft on the -ule uf .* mountain
The scene was 35 to to mile
ulit! .mil lightly east of Sling,
Y T neat the junction nt tin
Kovden. and Wold rivers Snag
i 2tat mil.' northwi-it of White
horse.
An RC’AF s|H>kcsmati aid the
man.no . of a reportei station at
Koydetti d o reported the wreck
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Burris, Emma Dean. Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 113, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1951, newspaper, August 2, 1951; Gladewater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1021506/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lee Public Library.