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intensify in the next 24 hours and
month for the year beginning July
the "final budget decisions were.”
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FREEZE DUE
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claiming that East Berlin is part
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Charges Due
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U.S. SOLDIERS
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Gripped
By Cold
Worst Blast Of
Season Recorded,
More To Come
UN DELEGATES
TO RESUME VOTE
WEATHERFORD U-The sher-
iff’s office said today "some kind
Alliance about major new cold war
front which, he said. Russia’s
Dulles late yesterday returned
to Washington from Paris. For
four days he had conferred there
with leaders of the North Atlantic
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of "sovereign" East Germany, de-
manded that their courts try the
men. The Russians, however, abid-
' ed by the four-power rules long in
use in divided Berlin and returned
the soldiers to U. S. authorities.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (m - Six
young persons burned to death ear-
ly today when fire swept through
a four-room frame bungalow three
miles southwest of here.
Firemen, who thought an explod-
ing coal oil stove may have caused
the blaze, said the bodies of the
six had been removed. 4
Robert McDaniel, 44. who was
tai hospitals, arrived today and
was taken through the foggy dawn
to the maximum security ward for
the criminally insane at nearby
Rusk State Hospital.
Pierson, arrested last week in
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LONDON ( - Death-dealing
blizzards raged over Scandinavia
today while the coldest night of
the winter. brought choking fogs
and traffic chaos to Britain.
Five persons lost their lives in
Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
Eight ships were trapped by ice
packs in the Gulf of Bothnia, be-
tween Finland and Sweden.
The hangar suddenly became a
holocaust of flame and more than
50 men inside the huge structure,
many of them in the operations of-
fice and other offices located in-
side the building, ran for safety.
The burned bodies of the two |
dead inside the hangar were re-
moved from the operations office
area. Lt. Chapman’s body, its head
crushed, was thrown or fell out
before the runaway jet reached
the hangar.
In its tempestuous trip, the jet
rammed a huge hole through the
midsection of a patrol bomber out-
side the hangar.
The Air Force opened an inves-
tigation.
B’
dren and some other relatives, es-
caped the blaze and managed to
save his 6-year-old son, Wayne
See FIRE, Page 2
prospect for much of Ohio, West
Virginia, weatern and northern
Pennsylvania and New York State.
CLEVELAND I - A man who
couldn't remember where three of
his 24 children live was given an
one-year suspended sentence to the
workhouse today for non support of
two children.
Eizglin Subber, 47; a city labor-
er, was ordered to pay 880 a
month to support the two children
of his present wife and 88 a month
until 81,000 has been repaid on re-
lief allotments.
Asked by Juvenile Judge Albcrt
A. Woldman why he didn't support
the two children, aged 4 and 2,
Subber replied.-'—-
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gter
by train. He wore a gray hat and
topcoat over a business suit. He
was unsmiling and quiet.
Pierson’s handcuffs linking him
with an officer attracted some at-
tention from the small crowd at
the station, but few knew who he
was.
Pierson made the second of his
two breaks for freedom in 1952
from Austin State Hospital to es-
injured in a head-on crash of two
cars at Burleson near Fort Worth
See DEATHS. Page 2
depending on the site of the fam-
ily, along with flour, rice, pota-
toes, onions, green beans, milk,
GAINESVILLE (AP—The
near-nude body of Mrs. Bil-
lie Marie Brown, 23, was
found in her blood-splatter-
ed apartment early today.
Apparently she had been
hacked to death with a meat
cleaver.
HUSBAND ARRESTED
About two hours later her hus-
band. W. T. Brown, 25, was ar-
rested at the home of a relative
in Dallas at the request of Gaines-
ville officers.
Sheriff O.E. Whisnand said dep-
uty sheriffs and a Texas Ranger
were sent, to Dallas at once to re-,
turn Brown.
No charges have been filed.
Whisnand said Brown was re-
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The season’s worst blast of arctic
cold spread across the Midwest to-
day and headed toward the eastern
seaboard.
M DEGREES BELOW
The mercury nose dived to -48
degrees at Bemidji and Big Fails,
Minn., coldest of the season. Bis-
mark. N.D., had -30. Minneapolis-
St.Paul shivered in -30 cold, a rec-
ord low for the date.
Chicago had a low of 2 above,
coldest of the season, with a fore-
cast of 5 below for Tuesday night.
The U.S. Weather Bureau in
Washington issued cold wave warn-
ings for the Ohio Valley, West
Virginia, most of Pennsylvania,
and New York State.
The sub-zero cold now over much
of the Midwest was expected to
near Austin, was arrested Friday
at a psychiatrist’s office.
Pierson was a student at the uni-
versity 20 years ago when he killed
his parents. He gave several rea-
sons for the slayings.
Deputy Chief Matthew Solenski
of the Syracuse police said Pierson
had agreed to return to Texas and
that he told officers: "I’m not
sorry I was picked up.”
Pierson previously fled the Aus-
tin hospital in 1938 and was later
arrested in the Midwest.
Travis County Diet. Clerk O. T.
Martin Jr. said last week the in-
dictments against Pierson for the
murders were still on the books
and Pierson would be subject to
prosecution if ever judged sane.
At the time of Pierson’s escape
in 1952, Dr. R. C. Rowell, then
superintendent of the Austin State
Hospital, said he believed Pierson
was sane.
yesterday, .
The handsome student pilot took
off from Phoenix last Monday on
Ms first cross-contry solo flight,
to Tucson. That afternoon he ran
Whisnand said the Dallas sister
had called Gainesville relatives
and said Brown was “acting ne-
culiarly." They checked the hos-
pital where Mrs. Brown worked
as a nurses' aide and found she
had-not reported for work.
BODY FOUND
Mrs. Brown's body, clad only in
underwear, was found about 7
a.m. by an uncle, Ralph Clodfelter,
who came to the apartment to in- -
vestigate. Police said his visit fol-
lowed a phone Call from Dallas.
Justice of Peace Cari Burchfield
, tow targets, he said.
How did he manage to stay
"Well, I have nine in Portugal,
four in Trinidad, three in Gary,
Ind., and three by a former wife
here in Cleveland."
"That is only 21,” Judge Weld-
man told him.
"Judge, I know Ive got 24 chil-
dren, but I can't remember where
those other three are,” Subber de-
dared.
Authorities said Rubber is living
with Ms fourth wife.
Slain,
ter and scuored around in the
mountains for any sign of water.
And what happened when the
temperature slid into the 86s at
the Rev. Chester Stevens, 39, was
shot six times in the head and
chest with a .22 pistol.
Officers declined to discuss de-
tails of the case. •
"We expect some kind of charges
to be filed some time later today.
Deputy Sheriff Billy Roe said. “We
have a deputy and the district at-
torney in (Denver City) Yoakum
County now. They are investigating
as to what sort of charges should
bo filed.'*
can privates today of disorderly
conduct charges based on their ar-
rest to the Soviet sector of Berlin.
The court ruled that Willie J.
Holden, Poplarville, Miss., and
Richard L. Calhert Kansas City}
Mo., wage innocent in a brawl
which fed to their arrest by Com-
munist East German police and
their subsequent release by the
leased about three months ago
rulers have opened in the Middle from the U.S. Public Health Hos-
East and Asia. pital in Fort Worth where he was
Violence
Toll High
By THE ASSOCIATED PREM
A bloody pre-holiday weekend in
Texas took 33 lives by violence.
Twelve other violent deaths oc-
curred Friday before The Asso-
ciated Press count started at 6
p.m.
Two auto crashes Sunday killed
seven persons, three in one acci-
dent and four in the other.4.
The four died in a head-on crash
of an auto and an oil field equip-
ment truck near LaGrange. Killed
were Woodrow Davis, 27, the truck
driver; his wife, 25; Norman Dai-
One reason for the increased for-
eign aid undoubtedly is that the
Soviet government, despite hopeful
hints at the summit conference in
July, now gives every evidence of
carrying on unrelentingly the cold
war.
The last few days brought a
further development of Russia's
plans and strategy along these
lines:
WORLD
peaches, salt, macaroni, turnip
greens, tomatoes and margarine.
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Jet Runs
Wild, Kills
3 Navy Men
By ODELL HANSON
LINCOLN, Neb. I_A Navy jet
fighter plane, warming up on the
flight line, ran suddenly wild under
full power at Lincoln Air Force
Base yesterday.
The result:
—Three Navy men killed.
—A huge wooden hangar levelled
by fire.
—Six aircraft destroyed com-
pletely. another damaged.
—Losses running into the "mil-
lions of dollars.”
One of the dead was the jet
plane's pilot, Lt. (JG> Vernon R.
Chapman Jr., 25, of Grand Island,
a Korean war veteran but of late
a "weekend warrior” as a Navy
reservist.
The other victims, whose bodies
were recovered from the hangar
ruins, were:
Air Controlman l.C. Kenneth C.
Newman, 24, of Lincoln.
Air Controlman 3.C. Hubert Lee
Tracy, 29, of Lincoln.
The F9F jet fighter plane with
Lt. Chapman in the cockpit struck
three aircraft in its wild, careen-
ing run outside the hangar. With its
exhaust still spewing flames at full
force, the craft plowed its way in-
side the hangar, crashed through
another aircraft and Into still an-
other.
EVENTS
A Streamlined Report
Of important News
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON (—Russia is ap-
parently. trying to put nations
friendly to the United States on
the spot wherever possible.
The purpose presumably is to
try to demonstrate that for coun-
tries vulnerable to Soviet power an
alliance with the United States is
a hazardous association.
This strategy is one of the prob-
lems of cold war planning with
which Secretary of State Dulles
PHOENIX, Arte. •--Five days
or water. Thats the
. aa
Winter will not arrive offici-
ally until Thursday, but Den-
ton will get another hard
freeze tonight, according to
the U.S. Weather Bureau in
Dallas.'
A low of between 18 and 24
degrees was forecast for to-
night, with cold weather con-
tinuing Tuesday.
Temperatures dropped to a
low of 30 degrees here this
morning, after hitting a high
of 58 degrees Sunday.
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tan be given an opportunity to sot
up a new state.
That would take away almost
half of Western Pakistan's terri-
tory. Pakistan is an ally of the
United States and a key nation in
the chain of alliances across South-
east Asia and the Middle East.
2. Moscow finally agreed to ad-
mit 18 countries to the United Na-
tions. including a dozen it had
vetoed when Nationalist China
vetoed Outer Mongolia. But the
Soviets vetoed all efforts to admit
Japan, an ally of the United States
and an anchor of the American
defense system in the Western Pa-
cific.
3. In the Middle East, the Soviets
condemned Israel for a raid on
Syrian military positions a week
ago. The Soviet position was paral-
See FRIENDS, Page 2
The body was in a doorway be-
tween the living room and bed-
room of the tiny apartment with
a bloody meat cleaver on her
chest. Numerous largo gashes
See WOMAN, Page 8
A ukulele-playing chimpanzee of the Bertram
Circus’ chimp jazz band, looks on in wonder as
Calvert toots the trumpet. Calvert and the d
went through a rehearsal for a special perfon
which will be held in London for Queen klizabe
Howard M. Pierson, center, who escaped in December, 1952 from a Texas insti-
tution where he was sent for the murder of his father, former Supreme Court
Justice William Pierson, and mother, is shown being booked at police headquarters
in Syracuse, N. Y., after he was arrested on information supplied by authorities
in Austin, Tex. He is flanked by Det. Francis Garn, left, and Det Sgt. Francis
Ryan. (AP Wirephoto).
AT RUSK INSTITUTION
BERLIN ( - A six-man U. S. syracuse, N. y„ arrived at 7 a.m.
Army court acquitted two Ameri- .
Sherif Lloyd Chamberlain.
IN DENTON
Mrs. William Pierson. to death
HOUSTON (n—A north Houston
couple, who friends said had been
celebrating their ninth wedding
anniversary, were found dead
yesterday in a tourist cabin here.
Mr. and Mrs. Collin Andire.
parents of three children ap-
parently died of asphyxiation when
two gas heaters burned up the
oxygen in the tightly closed cabin.
Anding, 42, was a mechanic for
the Houston Shell and Concrete
Co. His wife, Dorthy, was 25.
W. G. Hopkins, the motel mana-
ger, said the couple registered
about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
He said he knocked at their
door about 5 p.m. to find if they
wished to stay another night. Get-
ting no answer, he entered the
cabin and found both bodies on
the bathroom floor.
1. At Kabul, Afghanistan, Soviet
Premier Bulganin endorsed an A- A A .
ghanistan demand that five m Oil Anniversary
lion tribesmen in Western Pakis- J
DENTON AND VICINITY: Fair
and a little colder this afternoon
and tonight. Continued cold
Tuesday. Lowest tonight 18-24.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Stetten Report >
of charges*’ probably would be
filed today in the fatal shooting of
a Baptist minister Saturday. “
—_____________ Walter Vaughn, 47, of Denver
Asked by the judge where they city in far West Texas. has been
_________ held in jail without charge since
without fogd_
story of a young pitot who hiked
out of the desert after search
planes had almost given up.
Just "an unpieasant ex-
De Castro, who was strong enough —jet pl
i young niece and nephew chine g
them as he arrived home “The
hours earUCr. -
Dulles said the NATO session
has led the free nations of Europe
to feel "more than ever secure.”
He did not explain why he thought
that was true, but the Paris meet-
ing reaffirmed Western unity and
made plans for a more effective
West European radar warning net-
work.
Dulles had no comment on the
disclosure Saturday that the ad-
ministration has developed a new
five-billion-dollar foreign aid pro-
gram to present to Congress next
-______ ...-,gle, 21, Texas ARM student from
beans, soup, sugar, orange drink, Houston; and Richard Burlin, 20,
oranges, one to three chickens, another ABM student, from Tam-
....... pa. Both vehicles burned.
Three were killed and 5 others
Crossword puzzle fans can sharp-
en their pencils and get set for a
daily crossword put
Secretary of Defense Wilson and treated for a mental disorder.
Z_______ a., ________ Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker
phrey returned together a few said Brown was arrested at th
home of a sister.
the comic page.
The daily crossword puzzle will
appear in addition to the Coin-
word Puzzle which is printed on
Friday and Sunday. No prizes are
offered for the daily puzzle.
/ Answers to each daily crossword
puzzle will appear the following
day. The puzzle will be a regular
feature of the Record-Chronicle.
The special crossword puzzle-
the Coinword Puzzle—offers a cash
prize up to 8300 for the correct
‘ solution this week. Puzzles which
appeared Friday and Sunday
should be delivered or postmarked
by Tuesday midnight to be eligible
for the prize money. The winner
will bn announced Friday.
cape being sent to Rusk.
The. 41-y ear-old former Universi-
i ty of Texas student was picked up,
at Syracuse last night by a high
school buddy. Texas Ranger J. L.
Rogers, and Travis County Deputy
living in the house with his chil--- WEST VIRGINIA
Readings as low as 5 below were
expected in southeastern Ohio,
West Virginia and western Penn-
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. rises Tuesday at 7:27 a.m. Fish-
Bee PILOT, Page Bling good today and best Tuesday.
"The first two days were the
hardest. I was hungry—boy, I was
hungry. But I never did get terri-
bly thirsty. I did have to learn to
breathe through my nose after my
throat and mouth dried out.
"I looked everywhere for water.
I dug in the sand, searched for
barrel cactus that might have wa-
out of gas and landed on a deso-
late Air Force gunnery range at
the other end of the state, hope-
lessly lost.
For the first three days he jukt
"sat and waited Overhead—too
l. He said he did not know what ordered an inquest. He said Mrs.
the "Einal hudaet deniminne were" Brown apparently died several
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U.N. delegates, split over a lottery
scheme to decide a deadlocked
Security Council race, sought final
instructions today from their home
governments before resuming vot-
ing tomorrow . , 1...
Assembly leaders still hoped to
adjourn their 1858 session by to-
morrow midnight.
Todays balloting was canceled
at the request of the United States,
which is backing the Philippines,
and of Britain, which is supporting
Yugoslavia.
The two big Western powers,
which have endorsed the split-term
draw proposed by Assembly Presi-
dent Jose Maza, asked for the addi-
tional day to give governments
more time to decide their stand.
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SAAR VOTERS
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SAARBRUECKEN, Saar u -
Voters of the strategic Saar Valley
took another tong stride yesterday
toward reunion with West Ger-
many.
The German-speaking Saarland-
ers—90.4 per cent of those eligible
to vote—turned out to elect a Par-
liament dominated by three big
pro-German parties. '
The three .groups, the Christian
Democrats, the Democratic party
and the German Socialist party,
are pledged as a coalition to make
this 991-square-mile frontier indus-
trial basin the 10th state in the
Bonn Republic.
NEW YORK ( — Six masked bandits assaulted two Santa
Claus workers at the headquarters of the Volunteers of America
today, but failed to get 83,000 tocked in a safe.
William Jones, 63. and John T. Malone, 28, were loading a
truck with sidewalk chimneys used by the organization’s curb-
stone Kris Kringles for collecting coins, when the sextet ap-
proached.
One waved a gun, told Malone to give them the safe com-
bination "or well shoot you on the spot."
"Shoot me. I don’t know it.”, Malone replied.
The frustrated bandits tied the pair up and fled.
see his bright red Aeronca
mes fired fockets and ma-
sylvania and as low as 10 below in
central and northern New York
State.
Subzero r adngs were common
today over the north central por-
tion of the nation and southward
to southern Nebraska, northern
Missouri and northern Illinois.
NORTHERN TEXAS
Below - freezing temperatures
reached southward Into the Ohio
Valley and northern Texas. Only
the southern tips of Florida and
Texas escaped. A balmy 68 was
recorded at Key West, Fla.
In the frigid region, Bemidji,
Minn., reported the morning’s tow
reading of -31. Moet of North Da-
kota, eastern South Dakota and
Minnesota were in the 20-below-
zero bracket.
Snow flurries touched the upper
Great Lakes region.
Occasional fain, drizzle and fog
plagued the Southeast. •
Sunday with distribution of 80 nags
of groceries to needy Denton and
Denton County families.
Expressed in the words of Tom-
my Epting, one of the 20 Jaycees
distributing the groceries Sunday,
the feeling of the organization
was summed up in the statement,
"It really enriched my Christmas."
Epting said that a couple of
cases in particular brought home
with all the vigor- and realism be-
hind the Jaycee Drive, what the
drive means to the 80 families
receiving the groceries.
"An elderly couule out in the
county were surprised to receive
the groceries,” said Epting. "They
had no idea we were coming, and
the husband. bedridden for a cou-
ple of months, couldn’t express his
appreciation enough.
"And in another case, we de-
livered a bag of groceries to a
widow’s house. She broke down
and cried like a baby, she was
so pleased,” said Epting.
"Seeing the faces of youngsters
and their parents, and what the
groceries meant to them," Epting
said, "Well, my Christmas has
taken on • new meaning. It's been
enriched from this experience.”
Epting said the total Mile of
Dime drive netted a contribution
from Dentonites of 8778.36, includ-
ing 831 that was mailed to the
fund and received in the Record-
Chronicle office.
"It wasn’t as much as we hop-
ed it would be,” said Epting, but
at least there are 80 people who
have felt a touch of Christmas
from our work.” Last year the
drive netted over 8800, and 100 bags
of groceries were distributed.
Contained in each of the bags
Denton County's condemnation
commissioners reported condem-
nation procedings on five tracts
of land to commissioners court
this morning during the court’s
regular session.
One tract. which is owned by
Clarence Maxwell, is located on
Oak Street, while the remaining
four tracts are located on High-
way 77 south of Lewisville.
On the Highway 77 tracts, con-
demnation commissioners offered
Martha H. Hoxsey 85,056 for 14.36
acres of land, 8140 on .71 of an
acre for a permanent Msement.
and 850 for seven temporary ease-
ments; A. V. Steelman, $1,680 for
.78 of an acre; A. L. McCann,
81,780 for .56 of an acre; and W.
T. Anderson, $150 for .15 of. an
acre.
The offers, in several cases, in-
cluded damages.
The right of way is being pur-
chased by the county on the four
miles of Highway 77 from Lewis-
ville south to the county line for
access road purposes along the
highway.
During the condemnation pro-
ceedings Friday, the commission-
ers offered Maxwell 83.850 for
1.63 acres of land, which was 8100
more than the county's initial
offer. Maxwell accepted the offer.
Although there were no indica-
tions today as to whether or not
either side in the suits planned
appeals. County Judge Jack Gray
said the appeals, if any, must be
made within 10 days.
The county commissioners re-
ceived a letter this morning from
the Denton County Farm Bureau
stating that a resolution was pass-
ed during the 1955 Denton County
Farm Bureau Convention endors-
ing the court's program of pre-
venting plowing on or dropping
dirt or trash on improved roads.
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