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bill clients, the county clerk said, government in October of 1949.
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Although no fee is charged by
Barnett's office for voting by ab-
sentee ballot, some notaries public
Ike Opposes
Red China As
Member Of UN
However, he said that "We nev
er conduct a parallel investiga-
tion” in a field being investigated
by persons he trusts. He said he
has confidence in Clark, former
Far East commander who is now
president-of the Citadel, a mili-
tary college at Charleston, S.C.
McCarthy, during the hearings
By SCOTT BROOKSHIRE
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
job. The scales for all plants range
from $1.58 to $2.40.
President’s Eisenhower’s order
that a fact finding board be set up
is the first step toward invoking
the Taft-Hartley law's injunction
provision. The board would report
in 15 days, after which the Presi-
dent could seek an injunction for
an 80-day cooling-off period.
Voters who expect to be out of
the county on July 24 have until
July 20 to secure absentee ballots.
The deadline is set in the election
code and not by Barnett.
more income, Keith told the Com-
mission, "A telephone company,
as a public utility, can not realize
more than a fair return on a fair
value of its property.”
The ordinance that put the tele-
phone company here with the rates
now in force was passed by local
Dentonites were in for at
least two more days of 100-de-
gree-plus weather today after
the mercury climbed to 102
Tuesday for the hottest day of
the year.
The U.S. Weather Bureau
said little change is due for
the Denton area either today
or Thursday.
Tuesday’s 102 reading mark-
ed the third time this month
that the mercury touched the
100-degree reading. This morn-
ing’s low was 71.
iff’s office, disclosed that
Ann had been raped.
Bloodhounds were taken
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: the car when the shot hit her dress
and the-stove. Mrs. McNair’s hus-
band was in Fort Worth where he
is employed.
Officers from the sheriff's de-
partment said the bullet they dug
from the stove was a .22 caliber
"short.”
Mrs McNair, who said she has
never been threatened, said Tues-
day she was not sure whether the
car was a Ford or Chevrolet.
"Both times it was a good bit
before I could calm down — and
when I finally looked out I couldn't
see anything,” Mrs. McNair said.
As for knowing who shot at her,
Mrs. McNair said she-gave infor-
mation of that type to the sheriff’s
deputies who investigated.
Deputies as the department this
morning said several suspects had
been questioned but ro arrests had
been made.
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Intake System
Prior to a special meeting of the
City Commission Tuesday night to
hear discussion on telephone rates.
Commissioners were brought up to
date on plans for constructing an
intake water system for Denton at
Garza-Little Elm" Dam
City Engineer Grady Creel told
Commissioners that he and other
civic officials made a trip recently
to the Fort Worth office of the
U.S. Corps of Engineers for a con-
ference on obtaining easements to
She said she recognized the car
so she moved from the window and
walked across the room. She was
Equalization
Board Holds
Public Hearings
Fourteen taxpayers in the Den-
ton Independent School district ap-
peared before the system's tax
equalization board, in its first day
of public hearings'Tuesday.
Only about five persons had con-
sulted the board by noon today,
the tax assessor-collector's office
reported.
The board will sit in public hear-
ings daily through Friday to con-
sult with citizens whose property
evaluations were raised by the
board this year.
The three-man board will meet
taxpayers from 9 a m. until 5 p.m.
at the tax office, 203 Cedar St.
Only 538 notices of hiked evalua-
tions were mailed this year.
underestimated this grim determin-1
ation. Pete didn’t get the money.
Yesterday, when they returned
from a Fourth of July weekend
trip, the telephone rang and the
Stepfather picked up the receiver.
“Hallo, Papa,” he heard. "Papa,
here I am."
It took some time for Papa to
figure out what was going on. Fin-
ally an immigration official got on
sleeping hi shower mm i
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MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — Judith Ann Roberts, blu-eyed, 7- ...
year-old daughter of a Baltimore attorney and labor leader,.
was kidnaped from the home of her grandparents here to-
day, raped and beaten to death.
Police found the child’s' nude and brutally battered body
in a clump of bushes off fashionable Bayshore Drive five
hours after her mother, Mrs. Shirley Roberta, reported her
missing.
She had been beaten on the head with a heavy instrun !
ment and a piece of gauze waa knotted about her throat.
Her flimsy seersucker nightgown, white with red polka dots,
lay eight feet from the body.
Judy Ann’s body waa caked with blood and dirt, in-
dicating she put up a fight for her life.
Police said the killer sneaked into the home of the ’
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rosenberg, about 1 a.m.,
stole the keys to Rosenberg’s car and took the child from
the studio couch in the living room where she was sleeping.
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shot at it has been from the same
car—a black Ford or Chevrolet,”
Mrs. McNair said.
MYSTERY SHOT—Mrs. C. T. McNair of Justin holds a
skirt she was wearing Tuesday morning when she said
unknown assailants fired a .22 caliber bullet at her as
she as standing near the stove, also pictured, at her
home. The bullet entered the window, went through a
fold of her dress, and struck the stove, according to Mrs.
McNair. The bulled was found imbedded in the stove at
the point pictured where enamel is missing. (Record-
Chronicle Staff Photo by Mary Ann Jennings)
WOMAN RELATES STORY
told the
day.
“I was sitting in the
। standing by the stove trying to
! look out and determine who was in
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Truman’s gall bladder and ap Into his dispute with Army offi-
pendix were removed June 20. j See CIA PROBE, Page 2
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NEW YORK UP - For 14-year-
old Peter Devlin Smith there is no
place like home, even if this home
is in hot, muggy New York.
His parents, however, thought it
would be a good idea if the boy
spent the summer in Norway,
where he goes to school.
This idea Pete didnt like at all.
And the tall, blond boy had made
it quite clear.
“If you don’t send me passage
money to come home, I’ll stow
away,” he warned in a letter. But
his mother and stepfather, Nora
Kidnaped Girl,
ferring with a woman client seek-
ing a Florida divorce, when the
child’s disappearance wa,
reported. He returned home a fev
minutes after police arrived.
Roberts is a member of the Bal-
timore law firm of Roberts. Gilbert
and Rocklin. Before joining the
partnership, he was president of a
Baltimore local of the United Auto
| Workers and was at one time an
international representative of that
union..
Homicide Detectives 1. I. Whit-
man and Charles Sapp said there
was no indication that any attempt
had been made to coll-ct a ransom.
Mrs. Roberts told police she and
her husband were in moderate •
circumstances and not likely tat-
gets for a ransom kidnaping
An examination by Dr. Ben Shep-
pard, medical expert in the sher-
volved, Eisenhower said, since the
U.N. was created to be a world
peace force for justice fairness
and right in international affairs.
Obviously choosing his words
carefully, the President said- this
country joined the United Nations
under a solemn treaty, and that
abandoning treaty obligations is a
step to be taken only after a most
careful study of the consequences.
There is a question, he went on,
whether more good would be ac-
complished by pulling out of the
See IKE, Page 2
telling a Rqpord-Chronicle reporter
how unknown assailants had fired
a small bore rifle or pistol into
her home for the second time in a
week.
The shot fired st the frail Justin
housewife Tuesday flashed past a
chair Mrs. -McNair had just left,
ripped through her skirt, and
slammed into s stove where it
was imbedded when officers sr-
rived from the Denton Sheriff's
Department to investigate.
“I don't know who fired the shot
Absentee balloting — often an public, county clerk or a deputy
indication of how much interest an [county clerk.
who this fellow was. The fellow
said, 'it's none of your damn "zusi-
nesr.’
"He had a sawed-off pistol in his
hand. I tried to kid him along. He
had the gun pointed at my side.
While sitting there I dropped my
hand down into my bag and pulled
out a Colt 38 which I kepe there.
“I got the gun out. Then the
engineer thought of some reason
to turn on the switch and aaked
the fellow to reach up and turn it
on. The fellow did. I shot him in
the hip. He still had the gun.
“He aagged a bit I let him have
it again, a little higher."
See SHOOTING, Page 2 1
MISS DIXIE — Jo Ann Caudill
of Louisville, Ky., 18-year-old
honey blonde with a peroxide
streak in her hair, was crowned
Miss Dixie in Daytona Beach,
Fla. She's 5 feet 4 inches tall,
weighs 120 pounds, has a 36-inch
bust and hips and 24-inch waist
She plans to major in voice at
the University of Kentucky this
fall. (AP Wirephoto)
Hoover Group
May Probe CIA
WASHINGTON (- Sen, McCar-
thy (R-Wis) says he will turn over
to an arm of the Hoover Com-
mission evidence he contends will
show Communists have wormed
their way into the Central Intel-
ligence Agency.
On his return yesterday from an
18-day vacation, McCarthy told
newsmen "I would be glad“ to
supply this information about the
supersecret espionage agency to a
Hoover Commission “task force"
headed by retired Gen. Mark
Clark.
He insisted this was not an an-
nouncement that his Senate Inves-
tigations subcommittee was "drop-
ping plans be had announced pre-
viously for a probe of CIA. “We
are not going to forget about the
situation,” he said.
buckled themselves into-an Ameri-
can Airlines DC6 as it was being
prepared to 1 leave the blocks at
Cleveland Hopkins Airport.
Then a 280-pound, 15 year-old
boy in a leather jacket and denim
trousers lumbered up the loading
ramp and into the cockpit. Waving
a broken, unloaded revolver, he
ordered Capt. William F Bonnell
to "fly to Mexico or be shot.”
The pilot dug into his fligi bag
and whipped out his own revolver
McNair said.
The McNair home is about four
blocks' south from downtown Jus-
tin and is on the east side of the
highway and railroad tracks that
i pass through the Denton County
town.
"First thing I knew this bullet
hit about a foot and a half from
my head and stuck in the door
facing,” Mrs. McNair said as she
showed the spot to neighbors
Tuesday.
"That day I just ran in the
house and sat down on the couch
I was so scared,” Mrs. McNair
said.
Later she called Justin Constable i
A B. Boyd.
“Now about this shot that hit
my dress about 11:30 this morn-
ing,” said the Justin woman Tues-
Chronicle Tuesday.
' "That day I was sifting on the
front porch when I saw this car
come along the highway,” Mrs.
He and 13-yearold Jon Erie Jo- I
hannsen decided to come over. So I
they walked aboard the Norwegian |
American Line flagship Oslofiare i
on the erew gangplank, and thAt I
was it. , a 22
“I traveld on that Mr MM,
you know,” Pete said.
He had with him $io and a hag
containing pants, shirt, shoes.
tribution proposal. # r •si
Representatives of the telephone ( If I A 111111/1
company said that such a proposal Uly I •MIIM
soon be made. •
In presenting tht argument for
tion’s entire supply of fissionable
uranium-235 for atomic weapons
struck today at plants here and in
Paducah, Ky.
Ignoring the possibility of a
Taft-Hartley law inunction, the
CIO chemical workers union posted
pickets at 5 a.m., three hours be-
fore the appointed hour of the
strike. Some 4,500 production and
maintenance workers ate affected.
Carbide & Carbon Chemicals
Co., which operates the plants fo
the Atomic Energy Commission,
ordered in supervisory personnel
to keep the plants in production.
Police said construction and oth-
er workers passed through the
picket lines without incident.
The chemical process for produc-
tion is so complex officials hsve
said it might tske a year to get
the plants in operation again once
stopped.
President. Eisenhower issued sn
order yesterday for a fact-finding
board to investigate the wage dis-
pute. But union officials said they
would ignore the President’s ac-
tion.
The strike was ordered in sup-
port of the union’s demand for a
15-cent hourly pay raise. The de-
mand was scaled down from 21
cents after union members reject-
' ed a 6-cent raise recommended by
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. In — CIO i president of
workers who heip produce the na- AFL worker
clared with M emphais today... said M„. McNair Tues-
A moral guestion therefore is in- day,or who fired the shot last
week.” -
“But both times I have been
plea from representatives of the
Texss Telephone Company to
raise local telephone rates by $124,-
000 per year.
The Tuesday meeting was called
especially to hear the rate ques-
tion as presented by company at-
torney Joe Keith and company
president E. H. Dsnner.
After a two-hour discussion of
the increase as a lump sum, Com-
missioners approved R. B. Gam-
bill’s motion to table action until
the company presented a rate dis-
AUSTIN lift—Jimmy N. Shaver,
accused slayer-rapist of Chere Jo
Horton, 3, of San Antonio, was
election holds — is off to a slow
start in Denton as compared to
1952.
By noon today County Clerk A.
J. Barnett had received 18 absentee
ballots and had mailed out 24
more to Denton County voters who
had requested them.
Although no figures for this same
date in 1952 are available, 102 per-
sons cast absentee ballots in the
1952 general election. However,
that was a presidential election
year which always draws more
voters than state and local ballot-
ing.
Any voter registered ih Denton
County who will be out of the area
on July 24—the Democratic pri-
mary — is eligible to secure an
■absentee ballot, Barnett said.
It isn't necessary for voters to
secure the ballots in person. Bar-
nett said the balloting can be han-
dled by mail if the voter encloses
his poll tax receipt.
After that Barnett's office mails
The shooting started on June 29, a presidential, panel.
-- -- ..... Record- Another 4,500 workers represent-
ed by the rival AFL Atomic Trades
and Labor Council also rejected
the presidential panel’s 4-cent rec-
ommendation after parallel nego-
tiations for a 19-cent raise.
Members of both unions author-
ized a strike call, but Jess Haman,
OKLAHOMA CITY W — Sen.
Robert S. Kerr (D-Okla) today was
forced into a runoff election against
former Gov. Roy J. Turner in Okla-
homs’s bitter primary- election for
the U.S. senate despite a lead that
held solid throughout counting of
nearly all the ballots.
State Sen. Raymond Gary, Mi-
dill, and William O. Coe, Oklahoma
City attorney, landed in the Jul
27 runoffs for the Democratic gov-
ernor’s race, leaving the other can-
didates far behind Gary held a
small lead throughout tabulations
in yesterday's primary.
Mrs. Willie E. Murray, wife of
Gov. Johnston Murray, trailed far
out of the picture in seventh place
among the field of 16 candidates
Murray is barred from a second
consecutive term by the state con-
stitution.
Kerr’s lead mounted to about
20,000 votes but the combined tal-
lies of Turner and seven other can-
didates kept him below 50 per cent
of the total.
Returns from 2,656 of the state’s
3,155 precincts gave Kerr 193,850
votes and Turner 172,934.
Voting was held in five counties
under martial law and plainclothes
officers were assigned in five
other counties by Murrsy to watch
for election law violations. No
trouble was reported anywhere.
Murray flew into the five martial
law counties during election day
for a first-hand observation of
voting conditions. Charges of sell-
See KERR, Page 2
“It was understood that rates at
that time might not be adequate
now,” Keith said.
Keith backed up his statement
with several examples of how
prices, costs, and expenditures had
changed since 1949.
“Since 1949 we have cut em-
ployment of telephone operators in
half here," said Keith, “but wages
dropped from about $8,00(7 to
about $8,000.“
Referring to the entire payroll
in Denton, Keith told the Commis-
sion that since 1949 the plant em-
ployed 26 fewer employes — but
said that the plant payroll now ex-
ceeded the payroll in 1M.
Keith said that the cost of doing
business also prevented his client*
from getting a "fair return” on
their investment.
Keith said taxes such as proper
ty taxes snd street rental taxes
had increased altogether $40 per
cent since 1949.
Income taxes are taking 52 per
cent if we make over $25,000 a year j
as a corporation " Keith said.
“Actually, we have to make
$2 19 to clear a dollar,” Keith em
ph a sized.
Keith told the Commission that
See PHONE, Page 2
JUSTIN — "I’m still not scared
enough to leave,” Mrs. C. T. Mc-
Nair of Justin said Tuesday after
President Spikes
Withdrawal Hint
Of Sen. Knowland
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON Uh—President Ei-
senhower delivered a scorching de-
nunciation of Red China today and
said he is unalterably opposed to
»admitting the Peiping regime to
the United Nations
However, he told his news con-
ference that proposals to pull the
United States out of the U.N., if
the Reds should get in, need very
careful study. He said he is not
raedy to ssy that course should be
taken.
Eisenhower expressed doubt that
Congress would give serious con-
sideration to the passage of legis-
fation for an automatic U.S. with-
drawal.
Commenting that the Chinese
Communists are even now at war
with the U.N., the President asked:
How could the United States, as
a self-respecting nation, say that
the Reds should be admitted to the
world organization?
A few hours ahead of the Presi-
dent's meeting with newsmen. Sen.
Knowlsnd (R-Calif) hsd expressed
hope that Eisenhower would prom-
ise to recall Congress to deal with
the situation that would arise if the
U.N. should admit the Chinese
Communists.
Knowland hinted that such a
pledge might forestall a move in
Congress for automatic withdrawa
legislation. Eisenhower was not
asked about Knowland’s latest
view.
The Californian headed a group
- of GOP congressional leaders who
called on the President for their
weekly conference just before the
news session. Participants said,
however, that the touchy situation
on China and the U.N. did not
come up.
The President told .newsmen he
believes 95 per cent of the Ameri-
can people share his unalterable
opposition to the admittance of
Red China, under present condi-
tions.
At the Geneva conference, he re-
called, the Communist Chinese ex-
coriated the U.N. and demanded a
repudiation of the U.N. position.
*The Communist rulers in Red
Chins are today at war with the
U.N., h added, having been la-
beled aggressors by the U.N. Gen-
eral Assembly in a declaration
which has neyer been modified.
The Communists sre occupying
northern Korea snd have backed
up the enslavement of additional
peoples in Indochins, and are
guilty of the worst possible diplo-
matic conduct, the President de-
the phone and explained. Yes,
Pete waa here waiting to be picked
up .
and Kendall Smith, apparently had pie explatawd* .Manhnsian home,
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AFTER THREAT ON PLANE"m"
Truman Reported
placed in the Travis County jail
here about midnight.
Shaver. an airman, was brought
here under heavy guard.
Sheriff Owen Kildav said the air-
han was moved to a jail between
here and Austin after he received
reports that a mob was planning
to storm the county jail and lynch
the airman.
San Antoniq police Capt. W. A.
Cain also heard reports of the
threatened mob action against
Shaver.
Kildav said, "I wanted to get
him out of here. We don’t want
any mob trouble. You never can
tell about those things. There could
have been trouble if we hadn’t got-
ten him out of here.”
Shaver is charged only with the
murder of the pretty child whose
r«.ped body was found early Sun-
day near a gravel pit south of
Frio City Road.
■pot where the car was found,
given the scent of Judith Ann’s
bloody nightgown, and fanned out •
in search of the killer. '
The Roberts family left Balti-
more last Saturday for Miami on
theft- annual summer visit with the
Rosenbergs. Other members of the ""
family sre Roberts’ son, Jimmy,
by a former marriage, and another
daughter, Betty, 4.
Richard Gilbert, one of Roberto*
law partners, said it was a combi-
nation business snd pleasure trip.
He said Roberts planned to obtain
some depositions in Florida in a
case on which he was working.
Weather
Ready To Leave
Hospital Soon
KANSAS CITY i — Former
President Truman, recovering
from a major operation, should be
able to leave the hospital in a few
days. -
A Research Hospital spokesman
said Truman showed considerable
vigor yesterday and although he
still is on a soft food diet his doc
I tors feel thatfhe can return home
an hour later at a hospital with
bullet wounds in his right hip and
chest.
"What the hell could a guy do?, ’
asked the pilot later yesterday,
after he brought the flight to St.
Louis, where it stopped over briefly
enhoute to Fort Worth, Tex , and
Mexico City.
Capt. Bonnell, a Clevelander,
said:
"I had a maniac on my plane.
We had women and children. . . .”
At first he thought it was a joke,
he said. "I asked the flight en
gineer and copilot if they knew
* Mrs. Rosenberg was awak- 1
ened by the sound of the car
roaring out of the driveway.
She discovered the child was
i gone and the front door
standing open.
Police were called at 1:10 a. m, !
Four hours and 10 minutes lateri
they found the Rosenberg car
abandoned in the strip of sandi A,
land between Bayshdre Drive ahd
the shore of Biscayne Bay. Its
wheels were mired in the sand an
tire marks showed the driver tried
frantically to get it out. •
Judith’s body was found a block
from the car.
The child's father, James Rob-
erts, was away from home con-
DENTON AND VICINITY: Glear
to partly cloudy and hot through
Thursday with a few isolated
thundershowers.
Denton .County rainfall to far
this month: .11 inch, so far this
year: 12.77 inches. Sun sets today
at 7:40 p.m.; rises Thursday at
5:28 p.m. Fishing today and Thurs-
day: DOOT. * -- .
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report) .
High Tuesday ........... 102
Low today ................ 71
High year ago ........... 101
Low year age.............. 77 -
Slain In Florida
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I saw this same car,” Mrs. Me- ! ■ C
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On Slayer’s Tract
build the Intake system.
A contract already haa been
made with the Federal government
that gives Denton access to 21,000
acre feet of the water that the
lake will hold.
“We will have to accept the
easements on a 50-year basis,"
Creel told the Commission, “and it
will take six weeks to get negotia-
tions completed.”
“They tell us it will take two or
three months to build the intake
system and the Corps of Engineers
See INTAKE, Page 2
HOUSTON SENDS
6MR. MILLION’
ON U.S. TOUR
HOUSTON (F) — Houston's
"Mr. Million,” was on his way
around the country today, visit-
ing mayors in the 11'cities in
the million-plus population
bracket.
Barney McCasland Jr., an
oil company geologist, won the
trip and about $10,000 in prizes
Saturday when he was named
the millionth resident of metro-
politan Houston.
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