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Traffic injuries to date in 1953.. 9
Traffic injuries to same date
England has about 756.4 people
per square mile of area.
It is estimated that one out of
three office and factory workers
need glasses to see properly on
their jobs.
urday night after being shot in
a quarrel at Dodd City in Trav-
is county.
A fire in a tourist court cabin
at San Angelo was fatal Satur-
day to Leonard E. Meridith, 51,
By RAY HENRY
WASHINGTON, Mar. 23 (A)—
Forty-one states will draft 19-
year-olds for military duty next
on a country road northwest of
78 Deathless Days
IN COOKE COUNTY
(Outside Gainesville)
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East and a civilian crew of five, including two women, from Roswell, N. M.,, died in this
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nes and the jury reported it was
ready to return a verdict.
There were some 50 persons
in the courtroom of the more
than 100 that waited most of the
bright Sunday for the verdict.
The mother, sister, father and
the girl young Floyd was to have
married stared anxiously at the
jury as it filed into place.
Sapet received the verdict with
a poker face. He had shown no
emotion during the trial .
The state by testimony of 35
witnesses contended it had linked
Sapet with Alaniz and Cervantes.
In his charge to the jury, Dist.
Judge A. O. Newman told the ju-
rors they must find if Cervantes
fired the fatal shot and if Sapet
was guilty as a conspirator.
Mrs. Floyd had tears stream-
ing down her face as she left the
courtroom.
Floyd indicated he was satis-
fied with the verdict but he said
he did not expect the death pen-
alty the state had sought.
--"That bird committed, a serious
crime,” Floyd said. “Can you ima-
gine anything with more malice?”
Bell said it would probably
be a month or more before Alaniz
is tried. He said a new trial date
would have to be set.
There was a chance a change
of venue would be asked for
Alaniz because of the publicity
given the Sapet trial in Brown
county.
Forty-One States to Start
Drafting 19-Year-Old Youths Weather Calms
Down After Storms
Television on theater screens
is achieved by two processes, one
of which reflects the signal from
a high powered TV tube on the
big screen through lenses, and
the other which uses film in a
rapid developing process where
the film is shown 66 seconds after
being photographed from the TV
tube.
WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight and Tuesday, fair,
not much temperature
change.
Full weather report on clas-
sified ad page.
smashed into an
FORT WORTH, Tex., March 23
(AP)—A 73-year-old turnkey fired
two pistols into a band of seven
escaping prisoners yesterday,
killing three and wounding an-
other.
Chief Turnkey W. P. Foster
thereby stopped the second at-
tempted break in a little more
than a month from the Tarrant
county jail.
Three others in the mob that
rushed the jailer’s office yester-
day morning fled back into the
jail and were beaten into sub-
mission by a Negro trusty.
Ten prisoners fled here Feb. 18. I
One of them, Floyd Hill, Alcatraz
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A car wreck that killed five
persons and an ill-fated at-
tempted jail break which left
three prisoners dead pushed the
weekend violent death toll in
Texas to at least 22.
Ralph Buckingham
Suffers Head njury
Ralph Buckingham, 903 South
Denton street, received emer-
gency treatment for severe scalp
laceration Monday morning at
Gainesville sanitarium and
X-rays were to be made to de-
termine if his skull was frac-
tured.
Buckingham received the head
injury when his car slipped off
a jack while he and his son,
Glenn, were changing a tire at
their home about 8 o’clock Mon-
day morning.
Nine stitches were required to
close the scalp wound.
in 1952
lending agency but is more in-
clined to follow the present law.
This bars any new loans by
RFC after June 30, 1954.
Chairman Capehart (R-Ind) of
the senate banking committee,
in a CBS-TV interview yester-
day, agreed that the present
law should be followed.
in 1952
Earth Tremors
in Turkey Again
ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 23
(A)—Further earth tremors yes-
terday shook down many of the
houses at Yenice and Gonen
which had withstood the heavy
quake last Wednesday.
The Red Crescent (Turkish
Red Cross) reported no further
casualties but said the area in
western Turkey now is complete-
ly unfit to live in.
It broadcast an urgent appe-.l
for 2,000 tents, as a foot-deep
snowfall and continued cold
weather added to the discomfort
of refugees.
Four U. S. Air Force planes
took 10,000 blankets and medi-
cines from Istanbul.
Latest official and unofficial
estimates of dead in the March
18 disaster range from 250 to 300
persons.
Rule, Tex.
Lorenzo Del Rio, 23, was
charged with murder in San
Angelo in the fatal stabbing
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WASHINGTON, March 23, (AP)
—House Speaker Martin (R-
Mass) said today President Eisen-
hower and Republican congres-
sional leaders have agreed to ex-
tend the present rent control law
until Oct. 1.
Rent controls will expire April
30 unless extended by congress.
The present law provides for
rent ceilings on more than 512
million housing units, including
those in critical defense areas
and in cities where local govern-
ments have requested ceilings.
Martin said on leaving a con-
ference with Eisenhower and
congressional leaders that an ex-
tension to Oct. 1 would serve as
notice to the individual states
that after that date the federal
government would step out, ex-
cept in critical defense areas.
The states would have to take
over if they are to continue con-
trols in less critical areas, Martin
said.
Beyond Oct. 1, Martin said,
rent controls would be authorized
only in areas determined to be
critical defense areas.
The House Banking committee
has been holding hearings on
possible legislation to extend
rent controls. All price and wage
controls have been ended.
in 1952
Residents of New Caledonia
use a dead squid tied to a pole to
catch lobsters. The lobsters
“freeze” in fright at the sight of
the squid and are picked up by
divers.
Sapet pleaded innocent. He
claimed he was on a bus bound
from Corpus Christi to San An-
tonio at the time of the shoot-
ing.
Fred Semaan, one of the de-
fense attorneys, accused the
state of “trying George Parr
and not Mario Sapet.”
The bitter political feud be-
tween Parr and anti-Parr par-
ties was an underlying theme in
the week-long trial.
The elder Floyd testified that
the plot was aimed at him be-
cause of his political activity on
behalf of former 79th District
Judge Sam Reams, an anti-Parr
man, who was defeated for re-
election.
Spurgeon Bell, special prosecu-
tor appointed by Gov. Shivers,
said he had notified the Gover-
nor’s mansion of the verdict.
“I think the governor would
be interested,” he said.
Bell declared that he never ex-
pected the jury to return a death
penalty but he did expect Sapet
to get 99 years or life sentence.
The threat of a mistrial hung
momentarily over a deathly sil-
ent courtroom in Brown county’s
old red brick courthouse. One of
the jurors was reported sick and
a doctor was called, but before
one could be summoned, the
juror recovered from what was
described as a “not serious” ill-
THE STORY IS illustrated
with a picture of young Free-
man, and Mr. Phillips writes that
the youngster is the originator of
an idea for a simple rubber
stamp that could easily turn the
tide against communism in this
country if the use of this stamp
in public and school libraries be-
comes nationwide.
In those books written by
Communists or fellow travelers
and/or containing the Commu-
nist party line, this stamp would
leave this identifying impression;
THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK
HAS-------
COMMUNIST FRONT
AFFILIATIONS.
Violent Death Toll Up to 22 To Be Extended
Trinitv River bottoms. He was
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T C. PHILLIPS, editor of the
•• Borger News-Herald, is one
of the, most ardent foes of com-
munism in the Texas newspaper
e fraternity.
He not only writes numerous
anti-communist editorials in the
News-Herald, but he sends out
• to other Texas newspapers, re-
prints of his editorial comment
on communism.
A page of his editorial com-
ment came to this desk over the
weekend. In addition to two of
his usual aggressive anti-com-
munist editorials there appears a
feature story about BEN HAY-
DEN FREEMAN, 14, son of MRS.
BEN FREEMAN, Dallas, and a
grandson of MRS. R. C. WHID-
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states are
Louisiana, a twister unroofed
most of the business buildings
yesterday afternoon and practi-
cally all streets in the town of
less than 1,000 were blocked by
debris and fallen trees.
Near Leesville, La., Sgt. Harold
Gomez of Camp Polk, La. killed
when wind slammed a tree across
his automobile. Nine towns and
communities were struck by high
winds and small tornadoes dur-
ing the afternoon.
High winds caused an esti-
mated $12,000 damage to business
buildings and homes at Jack-
sonville, Ark.
In Northeast Arkansas, a farm-
er, L. A. Gilmore of near Jones-
boro, was carried 40 feet and
slammed into a tree when a storm
ripped the kitchen from his home.
He suffered only a cut finger.
The squall line ripped into East
Tennessee and a tornado slapped
its angry tail at Newbern, Dyers-
burg and Four Points. Several
buildings and homes were dam-
aged.
A small tornado ripped through
a river community west of Flo-
rence, Ala., a whirling, lighten-
ing-filled cloud skipped across
the screen of a drive-in theater
at intermission time, passed the
parked cars of spectators, and
roared away to a nearby airport,
where at least 10 light planes
were destroyed.
Another tornado hit Sky Park
Harbor Airport near Florence
and high winds were reported
as far south as Birmingham.
Near Jasper, Ala., in Walker
county, Grady Tucker, 37, and his
infant daughter were injured se-
verely when their tornado-
wrecked house caught fire.
Tornadoes lashed through Cen-
tral and Southern Minnesota
from Fairmont, Neb., near the
Iowa border, to St. Cloud Satur-
day. At least three persons were
killed and property damage was
estimated in the thousands of dol-
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—The Midsouth was struck by
a series of tornadoes and wind-
storms yesterday, leaving one
dead, at least five injured and
property damage estimated at
more than a million dollars.
The twisters raked across the
" same general sections in Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala-
bama and Tennessee that were
ravaged by tornadoes a year ago
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dollars damage and killing 221
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Stabbines Take Lives
Robert Burns, 23, Leander,
died in an Austin hospital Sat-
quota.
Eleven states—Georgia, Indi-
ana, Maine, Minnesota, Missis-
sippi, Nebraska, Virginia, Wis-
consin and Wyoming — say a
small percentage of their quotas
will be 19-year-olds.
In the following states, over
50 per cent of the listed quotas
will be 19-year-olds:
Arkansas, 940 quota; Michi-
gan, 2,527; New Hampshire, 151;
Nevada, 48; New Mexico, 280;
Rhode Island, 197, and Texas,
2,876.
In the following, about 25 per
cent of the quotas will be 19-
year-olds:
Florida, about 850 quota; Ida-
ho, 248 quota; Kansas, 749
quota; Kentucky, 1,350 quota
and Louisiana, 892 quota. North
Carolina expects to take 700 of
a 1.672 quota; Oklahoma, 500 of
1,300 quota, and Colorado, 100
of 336 quota.
No estimate of the number
was made for Connecticut, Dela-
ware, Iowa, Montana, Ohio,
South Dakota, Utah or Wash-
ington, but each of them will be
taking some 19-year-olds.
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and some
the varia-
morning church services. The
pair overpowered Miles and
freed the other five with his
keys.
They were armed with a length
of china, two knives, a club and
a sharp-edged spoon, but had no
guns.
As they rushed the jailer’s of-
fice in the basement they found
Foster and two deputies talking.
Foster emptied his .38-caliber
pistol. He grabbed another offi-
cer’s .44 and fired it “several
times.”
Baker crashed to the floor
dead. Ford fell at the base of the
last door to freedom. Lesher
tried to run into another office
but fell with a bullet in the back
of his head.
Eubanks was wounded as he
fought to get a gun kept in
desk drawer of the office.
The three others fled tow;
an elevator. The Negro tru
caught them there and beat th
into a corner until officers tc
over.
Two Residences
Heavily Damaged
In Weekend Fires
Damage from two residential
fires in Gainesville over the
weekend is expected to amount
to several thousand dollars.
In a Saturday afternoon blaze,
a house at 505 North Grand ave-
nue occupied by C. A. Carter and
Mansel Norris was gutted by fire
of unknown origin.
The fire is believed to have
broken out in the kitchen and
was burning furiously when dis-
covered by Mrs. Carter about 1
p. m. Four rooms were heavily
damaged, though some of the fur-
nishings were saved. The house
is owned by Robert Swan of Dal-
las.
The home and furnishings of
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Weaver, 1430
Lindsay street were heavily dam-
aged in a fire, which was fanned
by high winds Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Weaver, who was ill in
bed, told firemen that she be-
lieved the fire started when wind
whipped a window curtain into
a lighted heating stove.
Every room of the three and a
half room structure was damaged
and most of the contents burned
beyond use.
The fire was reported at 12:33
o’clock.
er, route 6, Gainesville.
Lee Louis Tischler, 22,
Tioga, also in the car, was
injured.
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tugboat deckhand, was drowned
Friday night in the San Ber-
nard river near Brazoria when
he was trapped in the sinking
boat.
Emmett Ginn, 47, was killed
Friday night when hit by an
automobile as he stepped off a
curb in Dallas.
Houston police questioned
three men in the stabbing of
Harvey Mann, 49, who died Sat-
urday in a fight under a bridge
near downtown Houston.
W. E. Bohannon, 42, died Sun-
day at Borger from burns re-
ceived Saturday in a minor fire
at the Phillips Chemical Co.
plant east of Borger.
Snyder Man Hurt
Critically Today
In Auto Accident
A 49-year-old Snyder man
was critically injured about 11
a. m. Monday when his automo-
bile overturned three miles west
of Muenster on highway 82.
John E. Warren was rushed
to Gainesville sanitarium where
he is reportedly suffering from
internal injuries, though the
full extent of the injuries is not
known.
Marie Hackler, 15, who was
riding in the car with Warren
is also receiving treatment at
the sanitarium for a possible
fractured right ankle and facial
cuts and bruises.
Highway Patrolman Lester
Robertson said Warren was
driving west and apparently
lost control of his car after
braking suddenly when he carhe
upon highway construction
work.
The injured were brought to
Gainesville in ambulances from
Geo. J. Carroll Funeral home
and from Daugherty Funeral
home in Saint Jo.
Three Hurt Sunday
In a similar accident Sunday
evening, three persons received
injuries when the car in which
they were riding turned over
several times on the Marysville
road, a mile north of its junc-
ture with highway 82.
Injured were:
Charlie Schindler, 32, of Pilot
Point.
'Mary Ann Hellinger, 16,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Hellinger of Lindsay.
Joyce Hoberer, 15, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Hober-
mates to death and wounded
another.
Killed in the mishap near
Austin were Robert Franklin
Preece, 14, son of C. A. Preece,
Leander; Ellis E. Preece, 38,
Leander; Ellis’ daughter, Thel-
ma Preece; Loretta Preece, 14,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Preece, Leander; and Robert G.
Trowbridge, Bergstrom A F B,
Austin.
Planes Collide
Those killed in the unsuccess-
ful jail break were Bobby Dean
Baker, 18; Lloyd Leshern, 17,
and William Howard Ford, 20.
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Interviews with Wolcott and
other house sources yesterday
indicated the Republicans gen-
erally agree on wiping out the
agency, but disagree as to when
and how to do it. A senate bill
now pending would abolish
RFC Jan. 1.
To Escape Fort Worth Jail
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By The Associated Press
Turbulent Texas weather that
produced a minor tornado and
sank three boats in a choppy lake
calmed down Monday. The
weather bureau promised a fair,
mild day for the whole state.
The twister dipped into a rural
area nine miles north of Mar-
shall Sunday, destroying a barn
and damaging another. Heavy
rain fell at Carthage, where a
tornado did $30,000 damage in a
residential section 10 days ago.
Waves churned up by high
winds on Womack’s lake north of
Paris sank two fishing boats and
a rescue craft. All six occupants
reached safety, however.
Gainesville received one-fourth
inch of rain in a thundershower
that fell shortly alter aawn
Sunday morning. The storm was
accompanied by considera-
ble wind. The temperature high
Sunday was 77 and at noon
today the mercury stood at 66.
The weekend cold wave brought
the early morning low down to
39 here Monday.
Gusty northerly winds blew
dust and a few light showers fell
elsewhere in the state.
Tornadoes mauled areas of
Arkansas, ' Louisiana, Alabama
and Tennessee.
Lufkin had .70 inch of rain,
Dallas .66, Fort Worth .16, San
Antonio .03, College Station .01,
Beaumont .10, and Mineral Wells
and Tyler each a trace. Dust
lowered visibility at Dallas,
Waco, Big Spring, Lubbock and
El Paso.
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MR. PHILLIPS WRITES fur-
ther of young Freeman and his
ambitions:
Cadet Freeman is only 14
years of age. He was born , in
Gainesville, Texas August 1,
1938. His home is in Dallas,
Texas.
Presently he is a member of
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps in Texas Military Insti-
tute, San Antonio, Texas. The
only Freshman student in the
Senior Literary Society, he is
very active in the speech de-
partment of the school. He is
also assistant editor of the
school newspaper.
His hobbies include politics,
band and assisting in the sci-
ence laboratories. His ambition
is to become a U. S. Senator
which explains his activity
with the Young Republicans of
San Antonio during recent na-
tional elections.
Cadet Freeman likes to re-
mind his friends that General
Douglas MacArthur* also at-
tended Texas Military Institute.
Representative Marshall O.
Bell has incorporated his idea
into House Bill No. 586 now
pending before the State Leg-
islature at Austin. Mrs. J. H.
Hance of San Antonio assisted
Cadet Freeman in obtaining
nationwide publicity for ’the
idea.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 23 (AP)—
President Eisenhower and GOP
congressional leaders agreed
today to let the Reconstruction
Finance corporation (RFC) die
June 30, 1954.
That is the date the govern-
ment’s big lending agency is
due to go out of business under
present law. Some congressmen
want the RFC to be abolished
at the end of this year.
Congressional leaders said liq-
uidation of the agency already
is under way. 1
The decision was announced
by House Speaker Martin
(R-Mass) after the congression-
al leaders’ regular Monday
morning conference with the
president.
Martin said about 50 per cent
of the RFC offices throughout
the country will be closed with-
in 60 days.
The small functions of the
RFC, he said, probably will be
transferred to some other gov-
ernment agency. Details will be
worked out by Treasury Secre-
tary Humphrey and Commerce
Secretary Weeks, Martin added.
Meanwhile, he said, RFC will
grant no loans over one million
dollars.
Earlier, the chairman of the
banking committees of both sen-
ate and house said the RFC
should be kept in existence
until mid-1954.
Chairman Wolcott (R-Mich)
of the house banking committee
said he is not “wedded” to any
one plan for the big government
Veteran Minister,
J. Y. Bullard, Dies
In Pulpit Sunday
The Rev. John Young Bullard,
68, veteran Baptist preacher and
missionary, collapsed and died
here Sunday night while preach-
ing the evening service at Har-
vey Street Baptist church. Death
was due to a heart- attack.
Though retired, Mr. Bullard
was preaching at the church by
invitation Sunday night. The at-
tack occurred about 8:30 o’clock
as he was nearing the end of his
sermon.
Survivors are his wife, four
sons, Frank of Whitesboro, Wil-
burn of Sadler and H. L. and
Aubrey Lee Bullard, both of
Gainesville; one daughter, Mrs.
H. M. Nall, Gainesville; a broth-
er, Ed Bullard of Bellevue; two
sisters, Mrs. Maggie Cox of Mon-
tague and Mrs. Vertie Nall of
Fort Worth, and several grand-
children.
Funeral services will be con-
ducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at
Harvey Street Baptist church
with the Rev. Ray Short of Sher-
man and the Rev. C. M. Thomas,
pastor, officiating. Interment will
be in Dixie cemetery.
Bearers will be Fred Mask,
Henry Mozingo, Virgil Cowgur,
Cecil Graham, Homer L. Massey,
Jr., and Clyde Pike.
Mr. Bullard had been in the
ministry for 40 years and had
baptized more than 3,000 persons.
Most of his ministry had been
devoted to missionary work in
Grayson and Montague counties,
but he had held pastorates at
Bulcher and Dexter.
He was born Sept. 30, 1884 in
Roswell, N. M., and was married
to Miss Hattie Barnes in 1903 in
Montague. They came to Gray-
son county in 1929. He resided
at 722 North Taylor street.
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Two training planes piloted
by students from the San Mar-
cos AFB collided Sunday eight
miles east of San Marcos. One
pilot was killed and the other
glided his plane safely back to
his field.
The base withheld the name
of the dead student pilot.
Desota Maxie, 40, was shot to
death in a Houston apartment
Sunday and a charge of murder
was filed against Earline Shaw,
27.
Fire Is Fatal
Henry Neimann, 72, was found
shot to death at his home in
Houston Sunday. Justice of the
Peace W. C. Ragan said the
man had been in ill health and
returned a verdict of suicide.
An elderly Negro man who
lived alone at Rockdale was
burned to death in a fire that
totally destroyed his home at
midnight Saturday. He was
John Moultry.
Two sailors from Corpus
Christi NAS were killed Satur-
day night when their car went
out of control near Falfurrias.
They were Thomas F. McDer-
mott, Jr., 20, Philadelphia, and
James J. Comons, 22, Logan,
W. Va.
A Dallas man was killed Sat-
urday night when his car missed
a curve southeast of Dallas and
plunged 30 feet into the dry
mishap occurred
; when a car
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Schindler and Miss Hellinger
were treated for slight concus-
sions and head cuts and Miss
Hoberer was treated for facial
and ear lacerations.
They were taken to Gaines-
ville sanitarium in a Vernie
Keel ambulance.
Highway Patrolman Bill Gard-
ner said Schindler, who was
driving, lost control of the car
when a wheel got off the pave-
ment, and the vehicle over-
turned.
Damage to the 1951 Ford was
estimated at $1,100.
The’ accident occurred about
6:30 p. m.
City Mishap
In a minor traffic mishap in
Gainesville Saturday afternoon,
cars driven by Eddie H. Klingle-
smith, 52, of Valley View; and
Mrs. Lizzie Howse, 57, of route
1, city, received minor damage.
The accident was at 1:55 p. m.
in the 300 block of West Broad-
way.
Klinglesmith was backing
away from the curb and the
other car going west on Broad-
way at the time of the collision.
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The guard who stopped
break was W. P. Foster.
Other weekend deaths
eluded:
HEAD CZECH —Antonin Za-
potocky, 68, (above) was
unanimously elected president
of Czechoslovakia Saturday by
the Czech parliament, succeed-
ing Klement Gottwald, de-
ceased. Zapotocky had been
prime minister.
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parole violator charged in a
$250,000 robbery, remains at
large.
Three of those in yesterday’s
attempt had been recaptured
after the February break.
Killed instantly was Bobby
Dean Baker, 18, indicted for
armed robbery. A moment be-
fore his violent end, Baker told
his followers: “We’re going for
blood and death.”
Loyd D. Lesher, 17, held on
car theft charges, also died. He
had been Baker’s confederate in
the earlier break.
William Howard Ford, 20,
jailed for car theft, also was
fatally wounded.
Other slugs hit C. L. Eubanks,
18, held on burglary charges, in
the mouth and right arm.
Foster had a flesh wound in
the left thigh when a gun dis-
charged as Eubanks and another
officer fought for the weapon.
The attempted break began
about 9 a. m. when jail guard
Jess Miles went to the fifth floor
of the jail for Ford and. Eu-
banks. They said they wanted
Austin.
IA 73-year-old turnkey halted
the attempted break from Tar-
rant County jail Sunday at Fort-
Worth when he shot three in- Saturday of Porficio Chapoy, 31.
Wilbur D. Stubbs, 25-year-old
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BROWNWOOD, Tex., Mar. 23
(AP) — A 99-year sentence was
handed Mario (El Turko) Sapet
last night for the “murder by
mistake” slaying that stirred
anew old South Texas political
hatred.
'To convict. Sapet the District
court jury had been charged
that it must find that Alfredo
Cervantes, a Mexican national
who has never been arrested,
was the triggerman, and that
Sapet conspired to kill Jacob S.
Floyd, Sr., but by mistake killed
his son. It convicted Sapet of
murder with malice.
The case was tried here on a
change of venue.
Jacob S. Floyd, Jr., 22, was
fatally shot in Alice last Sept. 8.
Defense attorneys said they
would appeal.
Sapet, San Antonio bar own-
er and onetime deputy sheriff
of George B. Parr, South Texas
political power, and Nago Alan-
iz, Alice attorney, were charged
with conspiring to kill Jacob S.
Floyd, Sr. The indictment says
young Floyd was killed by mis-
take.
Floyd, Sr., is a leader of a
political party in the 79th dis-
trict that opposes Parr. He said
Alaniz told him the night of the
shooting that “a man is waiting
in your garage now to kill you”
and that “Mario Sapet is the
leader of the‘killers.”
tion in available manpower to
fill their quotas.
The actual number of 19-
year-olds the states need to fill
April quotas, the AP survey
showed, varies widely.
Massachusetts, with a 1,262
quota, will need “substantially
all” 19-year-olds, as will Ari-
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month, and two others may
have to, an Associated Press
survey showed today.
For 14 of these 41 states, it
will be the first draft of 19-
year-olds since world war II.
The survey of state selective
service directors also found that
all but two states — Alabama
and South Carolina —• probably
will be taking 19-year-olds in
May. The Alabama director said
it will be June, perhaps later,
before any will be drafted in
his state. The South Carolina
director said he didn’t know
when.
The other three states that
won’t take 19-year-olds in April
are Maryland, Vermont and
Virginia. New Jersey and Ten-
nessee directors said “maybe
not.”
Thirteen states plan to call
19-year-olds to fill at least 50
per cent of their April draft
quotas. Probably the biggest
number will come from Illinois
where the state director esti-
mated the “bulk” of a 3,254
quota would be 19-year-olds.
Pennsylvania will need about
2,500 of a 4,081 quota. California
comes third with about 2,000 of
3,164.
The April draft quota for the
whole country is 53,000.
The present draft age is 1812
to 26. Draft boards have been
taking first the oldest men they
have. Until January state direc-
tors had been ordered to take
no 19-year-olds.
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