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Go to Jail or West Texas,
Judge Orders Moonshiners
OKLAHOMA CITY. Feb. 21. —
It’s either jail or some place like
West Texas for a group of Negro
moonshiners in Oklahoma.
Federal Judge Stephen Chandler
offered the choices yesterday of
prison in Oklahoma or a probated
sentence if defendants moved to a
plains state.
The judge commented they were
otherwise good citizens but just
couldn’t seem to refrain from
making moonshine whisky. But he
later said he wanted to correct
any impression that he was ban-
Wishing the Negroes to an '‘exile in
West Texas.”
A court attache offered the
opinion the judge considered it
more difficult to make moonshine
on the plains than in some of the
backwoods areas of Oklahoma.
Gentle Johnson, who lives near
Jones in Oklahoma County, was
given 30 days to decide on a move
Otherwise he must serve a three-
year federal penitentiary sentence.
In other moonshining cases.
Judge Chandler gave Joe Harge
and Lucius Phyffer their choice of
five years in prison or five years
probation in another state.
Another convicted moonshiner,
Amos Taylor, told the court he
wanted to move to Arkansas.
Louisiana or Mississippi on pro-
bation. But Chandler replied:
"Those are good states but I
would not consider probation of
these men if they are going to go
to any state east of Oklahoma.”
Church Growth in Japan Cited;
5 New Members on ACC Board
Churches of Christ in Japan
have multiplied from 11 to 33 and
membership has grown from 250
to more than 1.500 in the past two
terday, B Sherrod, board presi-
dent, announced this morning.
The new members, filling vacan-
years, E W. McMillan told
Abilene Christian College Lecture-
ship audience this morning.
McMillan is president of Ibiraki
Christian College in Japan. He, re-
turned recently from the Far East,
where be represented the Union
Background Story on Page 8
sn ties are Leslie Huff. Waco insur-
ance man: Clifford Rhoden, sales
manager of Western Cottonotl Co.,
who is moving from San Angelo
to Abilene; M. M. Haws, Tyler
contractor; John Bannister, minis-
ter of Sears and Summit Church
Avenue Church of Christ in the
Ibiraki province of Japan and
of Christ, Dallas, and M. Norvel
Young, minister of Broadway
Church of Christ, Lubbock. Huff,
50 Slop Signs
To Be Installed
Fifty "stop" signs for Abilene
street intersections, ordered in Jan-
uary, have arrived.
They will be installed right away,
the Police Department, which had
requested them. said. Locations are
being determined.
In recent months numerous
streets have been paved, causing
heavier and faster traffic on them.
Police Chief Raymond Eakins re-
cently told the City Commission
that "stop" signs are needed along
those thoroughfares.
Installation will be done under
direction of Floyd Willis, the city’s
parking meter man.
The signs arrived from Minne-
sota Mining and Manufacturing Co.,
ordered through Lion Hardware
Co. here.
One way alley signs, also ordered
through Lion, have -not arrived.
U. S. BUSINESS. CAN GUILTY’—Robert A. Vogeler, right, an executive of a U. S com-
munications firm, testifies at his trial in Budapest, Hungary, as an interpreter stands by.
Vogeler has pleaded guilty of spying for the U. S and asked for mercy. (NEA Radio-Tele-
photo).
Vogele
Tears;
Gets 15
opeal Due
Battle on Recall
Of Envoy Ends
WASHINGTON Feb. 21 (—The stives in Sofia were ordered home.
United States broke diplomatic re-
lations today with Communist Bul-
garia.
American Minister Donald R.
Heath and other U. S. represent-
2 Firms and
The break climaxes a dispute
with Bulgaria over Communist at-
tacks on Heath and a demand
from the Bulgarian government
for his recall.
Bulgaria was directed to with-
draw its small diplomatic mission
in Washington.
Its legation here Is headed now
by Dr. Peter Voutov, charge
d'affaires
It is the first time the United
States has broken diplomatic rela-
tions with any nation since the
war. 1
The U. S. decision was commun-
icated to the Bulgarian govern-
ment at Sofia yesterday. Voutov
was summoned to the State De.
partment today and informed of
the action.
He was directed to make ar-
rangements to leave the United
States with other members of the
legation and their families.
After talking with Llewellyn
Thompson, deputy assistant secre-
tary for European affairs, Vou-
tov told reporters “I think the
break is complete.” He said there
are 12 members of the legation
staff, including dependents, and
that all probably would leave early
in March.
Home Here •
Burglarized
Abilene had three burglaries last
night. Loot totaled approximately
$375.
These followed two burglaries
Monday and three during the week
end.
Police Detectives George Sutton
and Joe Ford were working on the
cases this morning but said they
had no suspects in custody.
Burglaries Monday night were
The J H. Manly residence, 1017
Sayles Blvd , where approximately
a $200 loot consisting of guns,
money, clothing and a radio was
taken between 7 and 8 p.m.; Sun-
beam Super Market, 1672 Pine St.,
where about 1140 worth of eigarets
were stolen; and the R G. Starnes
Grocery Store, North 18th and Hic-
kory Sts , approximately #35 worth
of coffee taken.
Jimmy Manly, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Manly, discovered the
burglary of their home Monday-
night, when he returned there. No-
ticing that the house had been ran-
sacked. be checked up and found
the following articles were stolen:
Two .22 rifles, one 16-gauge Win-
chester pump shotgun, one radio,
$7 in cash, a pair of Nocona boots
and a leather jacket. His parents
had gone away from the house,
and the front door was left un-
locked so that Jimmy could enter,
police said. N
Policemen Newberry and Alex-
See BURGLARIES, P. 2, col. 5.
Lighi Shower
Wets Abilene
Light showers splashed down on
Abilene and a number of other
towna in North and South Texas
early today.
Precipitation varied from a trace
at Stamford to a half inch at Win.
ters.
In Abilene, the showers were
heavier in the north and west sec-
lions than on the south and east.
W. H. Green, retired weatherman
gauged 30 Inch in the 900 block
on Hickory St., while the U. 8.
Weather Bureau east of town re-
gistered only .19
The Weather Bureau, however.
Rated total rain for the year at 145
inches, as compared with Green's
130 *
The Associated Press reported
light rain at a number of other
Texas points. In no place did it ex-
ceed one-tenth of an Inch.
Local weathermen said the show-
er front had passed over the city,
and no more rain is expected today.
Mild temperatures are in prospect
today and tonight, with cooler
temperatures Wednesday.
Stamford said wind flurries ac-
companied the light rain there.
Edgar Sanders, Vogeler’s British: dent of the I. T. & T., and the
By ENDRE MARTON
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb. 21
—American businessman Robert
A. Vogeler was sentenced by a
Hungarian court today to 15 years
aide in the I. T. & T. branch other six defendants had confessed
Standard Electric Works, was sen- to charges of terreting out Hun-
tenced to 13 years.
City Pur chasing Clerk Bernard Hu-
ett said that the local hardware
firm has telegraphed Grote Manu-
facturing Co., Bellevue, Ky., re-
i garding the delivery date.
These latter markers are needed
The two ministers became the in ordri to put into effect a recent
only preachers on the 35-member
an ACC graduate, is a member
College Church of Christ in India
Five new members were elected
and five re-elected to the Abilene
Christian College Board of Trust-
ees at its semi-annual meeting yes-
of the new State Board of Educa-
tion.
Please see LECTURES, P. 2, col. 3.
ordinance establishing one-way al-
leys throughout the business area.
in
garian economic and industrial se-
crets on instructions of the Ameri-
Iregory Priest
Beaten to Death
GREGORY, Tex . Feb 21 (—
The Rev. Leonard Potrykus, Rom-
an Catholic priest at Gregory, was
beaten to death in his, living quar-
ters at the church early today.
Deputy Sheriff W A. Kline said.
Kline, who found the bludgeoned
body in the blood-splattered bed-
room, said:
"Father Potrykus died fighting
for his life. It was the most brutal
murder I have ever seen.”
An eighteen-year-old youth who
wrecked the priest's automobile a
short time after the slaying was
being held under guard in an Ar-
ansas Pass hospital. Sheriff Frank
- Hunt said murder charges would
be filed against the youth this aft-
ernoon.
The priest had come to Gregory
about six weeks ago.
ROBBERY
Kline said "There is no doubt
in my mind that robbery was the
motive. The suspect admits steal-
ing the priest's car but says he
doesn't know about the murder.
He hasn't made a statement ”
Here Is the story of the slaying
as related by Kline
"About 1:30 a. m. today a car
hit a bridge between Gregory and
Aransas Pass, two miles from
Aransas Pass. It must have been
traveling at least 70 or 80 miles
an hour Deputy Sheriff M L.
Raeder of Ingleside investigated
the accident This 18-year-old boy
was unconscious He was taken to
the Aransas Pass hospital ,
"Then Raeder checked the car
and found some letters addressed
to a Father Garcia, a Catholic
priest who used to be at Gregory
before Father Potrykus came
here. Raeder came to Gregory to
see me and we went over to the
Catholic Church. We knocked on
the door of Father Potrykus’ living
quarters and got no answer So we
part of his pajamas and they were
soaked with blood. There was
blood spattered all over the bath-
room, a whole pool of it on the
floor. In the bedroom, blood was
spattered up on the wall to a
height of six feet.
" The priest's head was beaten
at the front and back and his face
was badly bruised. The face from
the nose up was very terribly beat-
en. obviously from some blunt in-
strument.
PRIEST ASLEEP
"This is what I think happened:
"I believe the priest was asleep
in bed when the murderer came
Into the room. The murderer hit
him once and the indications are
that the priest managed to get out
of bed, and began fighting for his
life. He died fighting for his life—I
am certain. He lost a terrific
struggle. * -
"Then the murderer was fright-
ened and left without taking any-
thing.
"The first blow the murderer
struck knocked off Father Potry-
kus' glasses. They were at the side
of the bed. The whole bed was
bloody."
The suspect has served three'
sentences at the State School for
Boys at Gatesville. Kline said He
described him as sandy-haired. |
five feet eight inches tall and
weighing about :40 to 155 pounds !
His head was injured in the acci- |
dent but the injury was not con-
sidered serious.
INQUIRY OPENS
Team Failed Me,’
Says No Skipper
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 21. Un—The
skipper of the battleship Missouri
says his team of officers failed him
in his hour of need
"I felt utterly alone as far as
assistance from my team of officers
was concerned." Capt. William D
Brown told a naval court of inquiry
yesterday.
The court Is seeking to fix respon-
sibility for the grounding of the
battleship in Chesapeake Bay Jan.
17.
Brown said be was new on the
ship, and had to depend on his
"team" of officers, but that it failed
him "when I needed it most."
Brown, one of four defendants,
said he received a request Jan. 13
from the commander of the Nor-
folk Naval Base that the Big Mo
run a secret electronic range be-
tween shallow water and the bay's
main ship channel.
"To my great regret," he said,
be didn't realize from his hasty
reading of the request that com-
pliance was optional.
Other defendants are Cmdr. John
R. Millett, operations officer: Lt.
Cmdr Frank G. Morris, navigator,
and Lt. John E. Carr, combat
operations officer.
Home-Building Bill
Passes House Panel
WASHINGTON, Feb 21. (The
House Banking Committee today
approved an administration bill
left.
SEARCHED DITCHES
"We figured that there had been
foul play and that Father Potrykus
had been beaten in his automobile
and thrown out of it somewhere
along the Gregory-Aransas Pass
highway. We went back to the
highway and walked along It for
several miles, throwing our flash-
lights in the ditches.
"So we went to 'Aransas Pass
and went through the boy's things.
There was blood on a cigaret light-
er. The people at the hospital said
it was old blood-not the boy's
blood. We really raced back to
the Catholic Church at Gregory
then. We walked into the church
and searched around the altar and
in all the pews.
"And then we walked 'into the
living quartern. I can tell you I
was really horrified. Father Po-
trykus' body was lying between the
bedroom and bathroom—half in
the one room and hall In the other
"All be had on waa the upper
Baby Sittar Leaves,
Child Burns to Death
DALLAS. Feb. 21. —Gloria
Dean Cole, aged 2. burned to death
here yesterday after she waa
locked in the house by a 20-year-old
baby sitter who decided to go
shopping.
The girl's sister, Marie Cole, age
4. was rescued by a Negro man
who also tried in vain to get Glor-
ia Dean out of the flaming house
After firemen put out the flames,
the girl who was supposed to watch
the two girls while the parents were
working retained to find the house
in ruins.
Bullfighter Does
His Job Too Well
SAN JOSE. Costa Rica, Feb. 21
•—Mexican Bullfighter Gregorio
Puebla was in jail today—for killing
a bull.
Puebla delivered a clean, mortal
thrust on the kill. It waa an artistic
finish that brought the crowd in the
La Solera arena to its feet in a
standing ovation yesterday.
Then the police collared Puebla
and hauled him off to jail.
Bullfighting la legal in Costa
Rica—but the bull must not be
killed.
to set up a $2 billion corporation to
encourage cooatruction of homes
for middle income families
The vote was 11 to 4. Several
committee members were absent
when the vote wss taken and can
record their positions later. But a
committee spokesman said this is
not expected to overturn the ma-
jority favoring the legislation
The Senate Banking Committee
probably will take up similar leg-
islation later this week
Princess Elizabeth
Reported 'Expecting'
/
PREVIOUS APPEAL
prison on spy charges. TwoT The same prosecution announced can intelligence service, ol sabo-
an appeal when Josef Cardinal taging the productive capacity of
Mindszenty was sentenced to life the Standard firm to harm Hun-
imprisonment for plotting against garian economy, and of sabotaging
the state. The cardinal also ap- deliveries to the Soviet Union and
pealed, but the original sentences East European Communiat coun-
in the case were unchanged by tries. , , 1
the higher court . - Vogeler, Sanders and the five
Geiger, Rado and the other de-Hungarians had pleaded guilty to
fendants all are Hungarian nation- the charges and had made abject
statements to the court.
Hungarian co-defendants were sen-
tenced to death.
The defense immediately an-
nounced appeals to a higher court,
and the prosecution hammered
back with a statement that it, too,
would appeal and demand heavier
penalties for the-five-defendants
who escaped the death sentence
The death sentence was meted
out to Imre Geiger, manager of
the International .Telephone and
Telegraph Co.’s Budapest branch,
and Zoltan Rado, former depart-
ment chief in Hungary’s Ministry
of Heavy Industry.
als. The court sentenced the Rev.
United States Minister Nathaniel
Firemen Ram Mine
Picket Roadblock
Istvan Justh, a Roman Catholic
priest, and Kelemen Domokos, ac-Davis had been barred from visit-
countant in the Standard Company ing Vogeler and Sanders during
to 10 years. Edina Doery, a bar- their three months in custody,
maid, was given a five-year term MADE TO CONFESS
Vogeler, 38. assistant vice presi- . .
(In New York. Paul Ruedemann,
a Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey executive who was expelled
by Hungary in September, 1948, |
after signing a sabotage confes-1
sion, commented:
(". . / in Hungary today a man |
can be forced to ‘confess’ because
he sees nothing else to do He is
confined in 1 a dungeon with no
Unattended Woman
Has Baby, Walks
To Police Station
PITTSBURGH. Feb 21 (—
Firemen rammed through a road
block of coal strike pickets today
to put out a fire at a Western
Pennsylvania non-union surface
mine.
State police blamed the fire on
pickets roaming the
ECA Pleads
For $3 Billion
WASHINGTON, Feb 21 —
Paul G. Hoffman, head of the
Economic Cooperation Administra-
tion. told Congress today $3,100,-
000.000 Is needed to pay for Euro-
pean recovery in the 12 months
beginning July 1.
The Marshall Plan chief asked
for $2,950,000,000 in new cash and
authority to spend an additional
$150 million which he said will re-
main from this year's $3,778,000,-
000 fund
Hoffman outlined his spending
plan before a joint session of the
Senate Foreign Relations and
I House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittees. He said the amount re-
quested is necessary to block com-
munism in Europe and maintain
the pace of recovery.
THE WEATHER
U. S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER in REAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY Cloudy to
partly cloudy today tonight and Wed-
nesday Mild today and tonight, turning
cooler Wednesday High temperature to-
day, 75 degrees; low tonight, 50; high
Wednesday, 65
WEST TEXAS- Partly cloudy a few
showers Del Rio-Eagle Pass area cool-
er Panhandle and South Plains this aft-
ernoon Partly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday Cooler tonight
EAST TEXAS - Considerable cloudi-
LONDON, Feb. 21. U—A Buck-
ingham Palace press spokesman,
queried today about a report that
Princess Elizabeth is expecting an.
other baby in August, said: seer, .
"1 have absolutely no information Tomther inerimperatures for 24
either to support or to negative hours ending at 6:30 am 74 and B5 de
(deny) such reports. I just do not tree*
know anything about it."
ness a few showers east and south this
afternoon and in east portion tonight
and near the coast Wednesday Cool-
er Wednesday and in west and extreme
north portions tonight Fresh to strong
southerly winds on the coast becoming
TEMPERATURES
Woven -
Nehru Critic Dies
NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 21. in
Sarat Chandra Bose, outspoken left-
wing opponent of Premier Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru and president of
India's United Socialist Organiza-
ton died last night in Calcutta. He
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TUES. A M.
57
60 ............9.30 .3........60
• ...........10.30 ..........64
M .... 11:30 ......67
58 Midnight Noon T0
Sunset last night 6 29; sunrise today
7:16: sunset tonight 6 30
Barometer reading at 12:30 p.m 2.792
Relative humidity at 12:30 p.m.: 51%.
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 21. Un—A
woman trailed by three children
aged four to seven walked into a
police station yesterday, deposited
a towel-wrapped infant on the ser.
geant's desk and said "I've Juat
had a baby."
Mrs. Mar) Alice Durant, 28, gave
where Josef Cardinal Mindszenty birth unassisted to the child in her
confessed to plotting against the apartment, then walked two blocks
state and where former Vice Pre. lo the station. From there, an am-
mier Laszlo Rajk doomed himself bulance took her to general hospi-
by confessing to treason. The tal. Attendants said both are doing
well, although the baby at first was
in critical condition.
hope of getting out unless he does
confess. He is deprived of food and
brought to such mental and phy-
Jefferson sical exhaustion that anything-
County area—80 miles northeast of
Pittsburgh—in the "No contract,
no work” strike of 372,000 United
Mine Workers.
A fire company from Summer-
ville, Pa., penetrated the road
block and fought the fire Another
company from Brookville was
stopped by a barrage of stones.
Mine Owner W W Carrier said
the fire apparently was set by the
same band of men who visited his
mine yesterday and warned they
would be back if he continued op-
erations
The blaze was in the mine tip-
ple, where newly-mined coal is
prepared for shipment and loaded
onto trucks The pickets upset au-
tos of working miners and caused
other property damage.
State Police Sergeant Marcus
White said 30 troopers were sent to
the scene to prevent further vie-
lence. He estimated 2,000 miner
pickets are touring highways in
the area to close down all non-
union pits trying to operate
Other mine pickets in Kentucky
beat almost a dozen men and de-
stroyed property at operating
mines yesterday.
even prison — seems better than
what he la going through.")
The trial lasted only three days.
It was held in the same courtroom
same prosecutor, Gyula Alapi, con-
ducted those trials. The same pre-
siding Judge. Vilmos Olthy, sen-
fenced Mindszenty to life imprison-
ment.
Under Hungarian law Vogeler
and Sanders could have been sen-
tenced to death. Like Geiger and
Rado, they had been charged under
article III of a 1930 act which pro
vides the death penalty for espion-
age. They also had been charged
with sabotage, another offense
punishable by death. The prosecu-
tion asked the "severest” penalty.
The other defendants had been
charged under an article of the act
which provided for a maximum
sentence of 15 years imprisonment.
Pleading guilty to all counts,
Vogeler had told the court
Worst Forest Fires
WALTERBORO, S C., Feb 21.
(—The worst forest fires in a de-
cade today ravaged thousands of
acres in Southeast Georgia and low-
er South Carolina.
Juror Chosen in Dr. Sander
Trial Yeslerday Dismissed
MANCHESTER. N H , Feb 21
—A British-born juror—the old-
est of nine seated ao far in the
Sander "mercy killing" trial—was
dismissed today after the prosecu-
tion raised a belated challenge
Counsel for Dr Hermann S. San-
der offered no objections to remov-
Ing 82-year-old Albert Baines, a
Baines
Presbyterian—was
"I sm sorry for the detrimental retired Manchester Gas Company
deeds I committed and I ask for employe who came to this country
a mild sentence.” I about 40 years ago.
OKLAHOMA PARENTS PLAN FIGHT
Queen Kissed at Basketball Tilt;
5 High School Students Expelled
BETHANY. Okla Feb 21. V—A
kiss is not just a kiss in Bethany.
It'a the object of school rules
which ban the practice in public.
That’s the big reason five high
school students were expelled in-
definitely yesterday. A court bat-
tle may even be brewing.
Riddell Riggs, 18 stole the for-
bidden kiss Thursday night at a
basketball game as he crowned
pretty 16-year-old Charlotte Mc-
Clain "basketball sweetheart ”
That electrified this town of 2.500
just west of Oklahoma City, where
the Church of the Nazarene domi-
nates. Public kissing is in the same
class with smoking, beer drinking,
school dances and women wearing
shorts. In short, It isn't done
A similar queen-kissing incident
in 1948 resulted in a picture of the
ceremonies being banned from the
yearbook
So anticipating punish-
ment, about 30 students walked
out of classes Fridsy. The rebel-
lion swelled, not just to the no-
kissing rule, but to the entire set
of school regulations.
Now a court fight may be In
the making, for about 250 parents
have taken up the kids' battle
They met last night and charged
the school is ruled by one religious
sect and that students who don't
belong to that faith are discrimi-
nated against.
The church operates Bethany-Pe-
niel College here.
The citizens committee orga-
nized Sunday has retained Attor-
ney Fred L Sikes, who says they
will seek dismissal of the high
*
school principal, Mrs. Alonzo Nor-
wood
‘Tf we can't get any action from
the school board,” he asserted,
“we will go to the state board of
education And if we can't get ac-
tion there, we will go to court."
The board meets tonight.
Notifications that their sons need
not return to school were given
parents of these boys: Jay Strader,
ID, Paul Witherspoon, Robert Hale,
Charles Wiman and Jenell Ellard,
all 16. Only one Is a member of the
Nazarene Church.
Superintendent Harry Edwards
refused to comment on the suspen-
sions. But School Board President
Buford Ingram asserted:
"We're going to clamp down on
thla thing—We’re going to rule it
with an iron hand. '
one of three Protestants -among
the first nine jurors choseA yes-
terday to try Sander on a charge
of murder for pumping air into a
hopeless cancer patient to end her
suffering
After a conference of an hour
and a quarter with defense coun-
sel and prosecutors, Judge Harold
E. Wescott returned to the court-
room to announce
The state has requested the
right to challenge the last juror
seated yesterday. The defense of-
I fered no objections. The request is
granted "
The reason for the state’s re-
quest was not explained.
Earlier. Attorney General Wil-
liam L. Phinney revealed that he
was investigating the possibility
that names of the prospective jur-
ors had “leaked" out before they
were made known by the court.
As the examination of veniremen
resumed, the first two examined
were excused.
With Baines’ removal, eight Jur-
ors remained seated and five more
were to be chosen. Of the eight
picked, six are Roman Catholics.
Court officials had taken unusual
precautions to guard the secrecy
of the 145 prospective jurors.
But during the examination of
veniremen yesterday it was re-
vealed that some had been ap-
proached by persons looking into
their background.
Judge Wescott showed no par-
ticular alarm at the time but At-
torney General Phinney said he
was investigating the situation fur-
ther.
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