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Two men were hospitalized and
two persons wre slightly injured
ON CHILD TORTURE
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SENATE FAVORS
DRAFT EXTENSION
Sugar’s Plight
Saddens Shirley
WEEKLY STOCK
FEATURE STARTS
IN SUNDAY PAPER
Fischer Speaks
At Celebration
116-Acre Land
Transfer Made
the banks are
put old Sugar
Spokesman Says
Moscow May Not
Be Session Site
To give an idea how gentle the
medium-sized black and white
mare is, Mrs. Miller said, “There’s
a branch near Shirley’s house and
of his
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Activity Program Slated
For Recreation Day Here
Four Injured
In Car Crash
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ambulance.
Seven-Year
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TALKS TO END
STRIKE LAUNCHED
confident today they will reach a
contract settlement before a Sun-
day midnight strike deadline.
They kept mum on the trend of
the talks, under a strict secrecy
agreement. But they went back
and forth from negotiating sessions
in high humor like meen without
too many worries.
“Physical Fitness and
in the Making."
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Shirley Miller, 11, Rt. 2, Denton, keeps vigil by her
pet horse. Sugar, while her aunt, Mrs. David Miller,
1320 Mozingo, goes for a trailer to take Sugar home.
Shirley, her cousin, David Miller, and Patsy Farmer,
a girl-chum of Shirley’s who lives on an adjoining
farm, had ridden their horses into town and were oh
Missing TSCW Girl
Assumed Dead Now
plane yesterday. His
wedged under the gas tank and
was instrumental in bringing be-
fore the City Commissioners the
need for an "appropriate building
for the Denton citizens who spend
many of their recreatiof hours
playing dominos and checkers with
their friends."
Dedication exercises will be at-
tended by members of the Shrader
family and city commissioners.
See RECREATION, Page 2
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released with him—Lt. Col. Edwin
Heller, Wynnewood, Pa.; 1st LL
Ron Parks, Omaha; and 1st Lt.
Lyle Cameron, Lincoln, Neb.
Efforts are being made to per-
suade Red China to free 11 other
American airmen captured duringr
the Korean War.
Final details were completed
Wednesday on the transfer of 116.8
acres of real estate northwest of
Denton.
J. Newton Rayzor, formerly of
Denton who now resides in Hous-
ton, purchased the land, the A. D.
Turner farm, from Mrs. R. J.
Wilkins of Denton. .
The land, part of Mrs. Wilkins'
parents’ estate, adjoins the city
limits on the northwest.
LONDON UP—Government and
trade union leaders launched full-
scale negotiations today aimed at
ending Britain's crippling 12-day-
old national rail strike.
Some trade union observers pre-
dicted the stoppage would end in
48 hours.
The 67,000 strikers of the Asso-
ciated Society of Locomotive Engi-
neers and Firemen were repre-
sented by their Executive Council.
On the other side was the British
Transport Commission, managers
of the state-owned railways.
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gether with sports ability.
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DENTON AND VICINITY: Cloudy,
widely scattered showers this
afternoon and tonight, partly
cloudy. Continued cool.
TEMPERATURES
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is at a young, impressionable age.
and needs a chum about her age
to pal with. ,
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Tragedy struck in the young life
of Shirley Miller Wednesday when
her pet mart. Sugar, suddenly
went lame during a trip Into Den-
ton from her farm home on Route
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Shirley, 11, her cousin David,
1330 Mozingo, and Patsy Farmer,
WASHINGTON (—Senate lead-
ers moved today for quick acion
on extension of the peacetime draft
and the separate doctor draft act.
both due to expire at the end of
this month.
But they delayed a decision on
an appeal by President Eisenhower
to rescue the administration’s
broad manpower reserve program,
designed to swell the size of the
reserve which could be called to
active duty at once in event of
national emergency.
bystanders, including his father,
could do nothing to save him.
The pilot was Donald Betts Mc-
Nab, 44, grandnephew and heir of
Gavin McNab, attorney and color-
ful political power in San Francis-
co at the turn of the century. He
had flown here to visit his father
George Betts.
On takeoff, the plane struck a
12,000-volt power line flipped over
and burst into flames.
McNab's passenger, John Mar-
cus, ». was thrown free although
critically burned.
tion should be sent to Moscow to
"feel the way."
Adenauer' leaves for the United
States Sunday.
By DAN KLEPPER
Record-Chroniele Staff Writer
Charges of aggravated assault
on a minor female were to be
filed in the Fort Worth district at-
torney's office today against a 26-
year-old Roanoke woman, a Fort
Worth city detective said this
morning.
Mrs. Mary Fitts, who was ar-
rested by Fort Worth police about
noon Wednesday on suspicion of
beating and torturing a 3-year-old
girl and an 8-month-old boy, has
admitted to Fort Worth 'detectives
that she was taking paregoric and
that she spanked the girl, but de-
nied kicking and beating and burn-
ing the children with cigarettes.
The victims, Barbara Combs
and her brother Aaron, were re-
ported to be in fair condition in
a Fort Worth hospital.
Barbara had so mall burned
places over her body and arms
and bruises on her hips and legs.
The boy had a broken right arm
and several burn marks.
Mother of the two children, Mrs.
Ruth Combs, 23, is employed by
Mrs. Fitts. Mrs. Combs and her
husband, Orval, 25, and the two
children were living on a rented
farm near Keller until May 20
when Combs was jailed for theft
under $50.
Mrs. Combs then went to live
with Mrs. Fitts, her husband,
John, 34, and the four Fitts chil-
dren on the Fitts farm at Roanoke.
The night of May 30 Mrs. Combs
discovered Aaron’s arm was brok-
en. Thinking he had fallen out of
a chair or off a bed, she and Fitts
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two years in a Red Chinese prison camp. (AP Wii
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bottom and take flying leaps onto
her back." Sugar not only toler-
ates the trampolin treatment, she
actually seems to enjoy it.
Everyone was glad today to bear
that Sugar was better. After all,
it would be too bad for something
their horses into town, and were
on their way home, when Sugar, a
10-year-old mare, suddenly went
lame in her right-front leg. At the
time, they were nearest to David’s
home, so they went there, Shirley
leading the ailing Sugar.
David's mother, Mrs. David Mil-
ler. went for help to Shirley’s home
a farm on the old Trinity Road,
south of Highway 34 near Fishtrap
Meanwhile. Shirley sat beside the
stricken pet, waiting for a trailer
to take her home.
"Shirley thought the world had
come to an end," Mrs. Miller said.
"She Just worships that old mare."
Shirley’s father, Cari Miller,
said be thought the mare had
"stobbed" her leg, or hit it against
something in such a way as to
bruise the bone. “It was swollen
last night, but she's doing a lot
better today. Sugar and Shirley
both."
Shirley acquired Sugar nearly a
year ago from her friend Patsy's
father, Frank Farmer. She traded
a pig for her. Since then, the two
have been almost inseparable
companions. Shirley's aunt said
Sugar "is gentle as an old hound
dog. Those kids can do anything
with her—and she never seems to
mind.”
By JAY ROGERS
Record-Chronicle staff Writer
Seven years ago last Wed-
nesday a 21-year-old brunette
from Texarkana stepped out
of a taxi in front of Breck-
enridge Hall at TSCW.
She had just arrived to
enroll for summer courses
at the college, and the driver
reported he left her stand-
ing in front of the hall talk-
ing to some boys in a yellow
convertible.
Department followed clue after
clue, private investigators came
in on the case, and Virginia's
mother, Mrs. Hazel Carpenter,
searched for the missing girl—but
nothing turned up.
See MISSING GIRL, Page 2
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Pilot Dies
Screaming
For Help
LOCKWOOD, Calif. uScream.
Ing for help, a pilot was burned
LOS ANGELES (—Gov. Allan
Shivers of Texas, here for a con-
troversial appearance at Univer-
sity of Southern California com-
mencement ceremonies, says his
topic will be noncontroversial.
He will be the principal speaker
at the USC graduation Saturday,
despite the request of the School
Senate—representing the student
body—that he be replaced.
The governor, his wife, and their
son, John, 16, arrived last night
for a four-day stay. He said his
speech topic will be “The Amorti-
zation of Freedom."
See SHIVERS, Page 1
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52ND YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE—* NO. 260
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Denton Record ■ Chronicle
The Hometown Newspaper for .The Denton, Wise, Collin and Cooke County Area
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Meanwhile, rain and dust still
sprinkled parte Of Texas today —
the aftermath of a chain of violent
thunderstorms thiat swept across
the state Wednesday.
Childress reported light rain and 1
El Paso had visibility cut to four
miles by dust Thursday morning.
Scattered showers were expected
to hit other sections during the
day.
It was a quiet picture compared I
See RAIN, Page 2 ■
severe thunder and rain storm.
Admitted to Flow Memorial Hos-
pital were Ernest L. Worley of
Dallas and Eugene Talley, 75, also
of Dallas.
Worley, who is with the State
Liquor Control Board, was report-
ed in "good” condition this m orn-
ing after he received a head in-
jury and an injury to his right
teg.
Talley, who received a broken
right arm, was admitted to Flow
but was taken to Parkland Hos-
pital in Dallas later Wednesday
their way home when Sugar went lame in her right-
front leg. Shirley led Sugar to her aunt's and waited
on the front lawn for heli
of standing on three legs,
just flopped." A neighborhood pooch looks on with
mixed emotions. (Record-Chronicle Staff Photo)
Lions Club and superintendent of
the Krum Independent School Dis-
trict, reported that the club could
hold the remainder of its sum-
mer meetings at the school. The
members accepted the invitation
unanimously.
Mayor F. W. Fowler, a club of-
ficial, told the Lions that the city
trash haul will be conducted the
second and fourth Saturdays of
each month.
Cecelia Knox, vocalist, and Hen-
ry Ross Jr., pianist, presented the
program, highlighting "My Wild
Irish Rose” and “Thanks Be To
God." The program was arranged
by Supt. Davis. The lunch was ar-
ranged through the efforts of
That was
time Virginia
Supt. and Mrs. Davis, and served terday at a gala celebration. An M
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daughters. 4 ‘
The Denton-Wise County area re-
ceived its full share of lashing
winds, heavy rains and electrical
storms Wednesday afternoon - as
violent storms swept the state,
with rain gauges registering
amounts varying from. 2 % inches
at Slidell to .45 inch at Pilot
Point. Little damage was report-
WORLD
ed. however, and the area appar-
ently “rode out the storm" rela-
tively unscathed.
More of the same on a lesser
scale is forecast for Denton and
vicinity today: Cloudy, widely-
scattered showers this afternoon
and tonight Continued cool. .
AU points reported dazzling elec-
trical displays and high winds, ac-
companied by whiplash down-
pours. A barn at Ramsey's Dairy
at Lewisville, which received a
total of 11 inches, was blown
down by heavy wind-gusts. Several
cars, which had been placed in
the building to protect them from
expected hail, were heavily dam-
aged.
Sanger, Denton, Krum and De-
catur registered amounts in the
top bracket, with readings of 2.
1.58, 1% and 1%, in that order.
I Other readings Included Justin, 1
BONN, Germany (—Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer is prepared to
meet Russian leaders, a West Ger-
man Government spokesman said
tonight. But he added that the
meeting will not necessarily take
place in Moscow.
IDEA EXCHANGE
Th# spokesman Enid Adenauer
has insisted there should be an
exchange of opinions between West
German and Russian experts be-
fore the place and time of the
meeting is fixed.
This exchange of views already
has begun in Paris, he said.
The possibility rose that he
might send his new foreign min-
ister, Heinrich von Brentano, or
suggest that a conference on “nor-
malization of relations" between
Bonn and the Kremlin be held at
some neutral point.
STILL RELUCTANT
A spokesman who relayed to re-
porters yesterday's government
statement on the Soviet invitation
implied that diplomatic and other
relations could be established
whether Adenauer went to Moscow
or not. Close associates say the
79-year-old Chancellor has always
been reluctant to go to Russia him-
wreck.
The four cars, all traveling north
on Highway 77, were piled up at
about 4 p.m. Wednesday, during
heavy rain.
Mrs. Eugene Talley and her son.
Jack Talley, were treated but not
admitted at Flow.
Worley was brought to the hos-
pital by an ambulance which pass-
ed the scene while enroute to Ver-
non. Talley and his wife, who live
at 1010 Gano in Dalian, were
brought to Flow by a Jack Schmitz
and Son ambulance, and their son
parliamentary delega- night by Highway Patrolman Pat
Berkley, who investigated the
Sun sets today at 7:36 p.m.;
rises Friday at 5:20 am. Fishing
good today and Friday. Denton
County rainfall so far this month-
2.24 inches; So far this year: 14.06
inches. This time last year: 11.03
inches. x........
self. . **
The exchange between experts, /A |j
the spokesman added, "will last Illi HWVe 4 6
several weeks." This was a further • •
Indication that no final reply will
estimated 7,000 persons—nearly 10
times the population of his tiny
north Iowa home town—gathered
Wednesday afternoon tea four- inch, and JO of an inch at Lake
car pile-up on the new Highway 77 Dallas. - r . • • r ■
Hickory Creak bridge during a - - -
1 p.m., an old-time, outdoor
campfire custom: “Story Telling.”
2:30, "Playground activities:
races, contests, games." •
6 to 8 p.m., a varied program of
activities: skating, group rectea-
tfon for adults, community singing
and square dancing.
the John Shrader Games eHall,
. one of the day's outstanding
-Created and events. The late John B. Shrader
be sent to Moscow until Adenauer
talks with President Eisenhower
and other Western statesmen in
Washington and New York next
week.
EMBASSY NOTE
It was through the-Soviet ano
West German embassies in Park
that the Soviet note inviting
Adenauer to visit Moscow was re-
ceived Tuesday afternoon. Govern-
ment officials said they would use
this route in replying to the Rus-
sians.
Officials said two ideas are being
actively explored in Bonn:
1. That Adenauer should meet
the Russians when they go there
to the summit Big Four conference
presumably at Geneva in July.
LEWISVILLE — Fifteen appli-
cants — including Mrs. Jean T.
Bradley who resigned in April be-
cause of ill health — have filed
with the Civil Service Commission
in Washington to take the test for
theurosition of postmaster at Lew-
The examination will be held In
Denton at a date to be set by the
commission. The job pays an an-
nual salary of |4.870. .
The list of applicants includes
acting postmaster Joe C. Cobb,
Mrs. Bradley, Arthur D. Hayes,
Edd Painter, Orpha M. Hoskins,
Mrs. Geraldine Crawford, Grady
F. Aaron, James E. Higgins, Tay-
lor Cunningham, Henry L. Sulli-
var, Joe M. Spears, James G.
Earl, Charles A. Moore, Ralph O.
Duncan and Evert P. Bolin.
to welcome him back. aV pe
The captain, one of four Korean Eeiy '
War fliers released by the Chinese Imua
Reds recently, said the celebration Ia d 6a
was "the high point of my life, smaamriz d
it’s terrific." I de
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"I know this (the celebration) ‘ir P
done for me iuiF ad.a
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others who could have been in my L-uraewa onv30wa -.W# 4
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"If you want to do something F Va •
for me, here's what you can do. Lsv
Continue to work for the release meva /
of men still held in the Red pris- Eneea J
ons in China."
He said he knows the United JOYOUS REUNION
Nations win help them as it did haelc ** -
him and the three other airmen “You’re going to stay with me always," Capt Harold
Fischer Jr., recently released double jet ace, told his
6-year-old son, Harold III, as he swept him into his
arms in a reunion at the airport in Fort Dc “ '—
It was the first time father and son had
General Motors Corp. and the CIO _ gt.cemngwn. nyne
United Auto Workers appeared “ 8rl chumofshirrley s.w ridden
— - on an adjoining farm, had ridden
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took him to a Fort Worth hospital
for treatment.
Wednesday morning Mrs. Combs,
the two children, Mrs. Fitts, the
latter's 3-year-old daughter, Mar-
garet. and Mrs. W. T. Duffel of
Fort Worth, Mrs. Combs' mother-
in-law, went to the hospital to
have the baby's arm treated.
Mrs. Combs and Mrs. Duffel
See CHARGES, Page 2
HE GOT HIS MOTOR COOLED
AND UNLOADED BEES, TOO
SYRACUSE, N.Y. w_When Bu Cole found a queen bee and
her many subjects on the hood of his car, he revved up his motor
in the hope the heat would scatter the swarmers.
They only resettled on a cooler spot. So Cole tried to blow
them away by driving around. The blanket of bees caused the
engine to become overheated.
Bees and all, Cole steamed up to a service station operated
by a friend, George Reddick, who cooled the radiator with an in-
jection of water.. Meanwhile, the bees zoomed all over the station.
Before they could alight again. Cole drove off, leaving Reddick
with a honey of a problem.
Autos Financed A Refinanced.
United Finance Company, C-7113.
SWEA CITY. Iowa UR - Capt. ■
Harold Fischer Jr., home after 22
two years captivity in a Red Chi- •
nese prison, says he hopes Ameri- E
cans will "continue to work for m
the release of men still held in •
Red prisons in Chins." M
The Money that slips through year
fingers will pay the loan that pays
year hills. Complete Personal loan
service. Industrial Credit Com-
pany, over Russelr’s.
Today the Mystery of her dis-
appearance remains unsolved, and,
according to a legality, she is of- ~
ficially dead.
TEXAS CIVIL LAW
Article 65:41 in the Texas Civil
Statutes says, in part, any person
absenting himself for seven years -
successively shall be presumed to
be dead, unless proof be made .
that he was alive within that time.
Although she became officially
dead' Wednesday Denton Police
and the Denton County Sheriffs
Department have not filed the
case away.
Chief of Police Harrison said
Wednesday that no new clues had
been turned up on the case—Den-
ton's most baffling mystery—but
the department would investigate
all new dues. Members of the
Sheriff's Department said they
would check out all dues.
EXTENSIVE SEARCHES
Following the disappearance of
Virginia Carpenter, extensive
searches were made by the Den-
Horse lovers will be interest-
ed Sunday in the first of a se-
ries of weekly features to ap-
pear in the RECORD-CHRON-
ICLE when grand champion
quarter horses owned by B. F.
PHILLIPS Jr. will be the sub-
ject of the new department.
TOLD IN WORDS and pic-
tures. the feature will give
background and achievements
of the Dallas oilman's stable,
which is located in Denton
County near Frisco. * • 4
EACH SUNDAY. the Record-
Chronicle will offer a new
story on prize-winning livestock
and animals in Denton-Wise-
Collin-Cooke county areas.
Readers are invited to send in
suggestions for subjects.
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01* Man Weather permitting,
Fred Moore and City Parks in
Denton will be busy with activity
Friday as Denton's first annual
Community Recreation Day swings
into action.
Activities range from Little
League baseball to square danc-
ing — skating to scouting — and
will be open to all ages of all in-
terests. No charge.
At 1:30 a m, in Fred Moore Park
the scouts take over in a series of
contests calculated to test their
By ALLEN BOGAN 1
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer 1
KRUM - The Krum Lions Club 1
will lend a helping hand in the 1
construction of the recreational 1
building for the Krum Young Citi- i
zens Club, its members decided at
their semi-monthly luncheon meet-
ing Wednesday at the school.
Several Lions volunteered to
help lay the tile, which is the ma-
jor phase of construction at the
present time. Jack Buckley, im-
mediate past president of the club,
was named coordinator of plans
to discuss completion of construc-
tion with the Young Citizens and
fathers of the youths. •
A committee of fathers was sug-
gested, in order to coordinate their
efforts with those of the Lions
Club. Members of the Lions* build-
ing and construction committee
are Buckley, Jack Parkey, Loran
Parks and W. R. Givens.
Many members of the Young
Citizens Club. are helping with
harvesting chores at the present
time and cannot get off to work
on their recreation hall, the Lions
were told.
Plans for another Lions Club
youth project, a wiener roast for
Cub Scouts. prospective Cub
Scouts and their families, were
discussed at the luncheon. The
event, postponed two weeks ago,
will be held Saturday evening,
weather permitting, Morris Fer-
rell. chairman, announced. The
outing is scheduled to be held at
the KYCC recreational building
site, but in the event of rain, it
will be held in the Krum school
gymnasium.
W. W. Davis, a member of the
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