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Poge 2 The Abilene, Texas, Reporter-News
Thursday Evening, April 13, 1950
CHECK AWAITED
5 Women, Girls
Identify Boy, 17,
As Their Molester
Rain Guesser Vet’s Body
Hits (lose
Somebody must have told Bobby
Fincher, 1942 Walnut St., when it
waa going to rain.
He guessed within alx minuter of
the exact time it had rained a half-
Commission Seeks TEXAS CITY
(Continued from Page 1.)
A 17-year-old Abilene boy, ar-
1 rested Wednesday afternoon by po-
• lice, was identified by three local
women and two little girls as the
I one who In the past 10 days mo-
lested them at their homes, City
Detective Joe 1. Ford said
Charges were in the process of
being filed by Dist Atty. Wiley
: Caffey at noon, his office re-
: ported.
Apprehension end identification
of the boy climaxed a drive which
police have been making to solve
the case since the first report of
molesting esme to them on April
2
The boy wss arrested by City
Detectives George Sutton and Ford
at 809 Cypress St.
Mrs. Joe Ward. 1125 North 11th
St., called police at 2:45 p.m.
Wednesday, saying that a boy
whom she hsd let into her home
to use the telephone directory, had
tried to get fresh with her She
gave a description which tallied
with those given in the past 10
days by other women and girls
who reported being molested.
Mrs. Ward told a woman friend
who lives st 809 Cypress St. sbout
what had happened, and gave her
the description.
About 5 p.m. Wednesday the
friend called Mrs. Ward and said
a boy fitting that description was
talking to aome girls at her ad-
dress.
Held at Port
HAVERHILL, Mara , April 13. •
—The parents of a young war hero
today awaited a government In-
aurance check to they might re-
claim the body of their aon which
they left on a Hoboken, N.J., dock
To Trim Budget
inch this morning to win first prize
in the Medical Arts Pharmacy’s
rain-guessing contest.
Fincher won first prize out of T.-
982 entries. His guess was 12 04 a
m., April 13. and by 12:10 this ,.. ..____....,__________
morning it had rained the required its transportation here upon their
more than a month.
Daniel Zombas said he and his
Mrs. Ward notified the police.
who made the apprehension st 809
Cypress St. ______........ .......________
The suspect was identified— so- half inch to make him the winner arrival from Greece, March 10.
His prize was an electric blanket. ■ They have been waiting for the In-
Albert F. Justice, 1258 North Se- surance check for a long time and
cond St., took second place with a don’t know why it hasn't arrived,
guess of 12:30 a. m. He was given a Zombas said.
waffle iron. 1 We haven't any money,” said
Third place winner was Drue Zombas. "We don't know where to
Wallace, Hardin-Simmons Univer-turn for help.
sity, .with a guess of 1:46 a in and “We can’t ask friends who al-
Hal Babb of Dallas won the other ready have been so good to us to
prize with a guess of 2 01, assume the responsibility for
---bringing the boy's body back here
and give it s decent burial.”
Zombas said his son. Staff Sgt.
Themistocles Zombss. wss killed
wife had to leave the body on the
pier because they lacked funds for
cording to Detective Ford—by
Mrs. Ward, aa well ae by Mary
Lou Webb, 1110 North Fifth St.:
Mrs. N. P. Barnes, Clinton Build-
ing. South Second and Cheatnut
Sts.; Alice Jean Martin, about S
years old, and Sue Crews, about
10, also of the Clinton Building;
aa the youth who molested them in
the past few days at their homes.
They have been waiting for the In-
Plans of the City Commission to was not asked to reduce the re-
reduce the anticipated expendi- quest.
tures of the next fiscal year's bud- Cuts will be made also in the
get by about 1195.000 so as to come other departmental requests in or-
within the expected revenues, were der to get the budget down inside
continued last night in a public
hearing at City Hall on the new
budget.
Commissioners did not adopt a
budget during the meeting, but
will do so by the charter deadline,
April 27.
Figures fur the expenditures ori-
ginally estimated in the budget
total $2,283,082, whereas the ex-
pected income is about $195,000
less than that amount.
Commissioners are determined
to reduce the outgo figures in the
new budget sufficiently to keep
them within the anticipated rev-
enue, they have announced.
The School Board was asked by
ten liberty ship owned by the
French government, exploded.
The U. S. Department of Inter-
ior's Bureau of Mines estimated
one point-whether or not the gov-
ernment was liable.
The biggest suits involved were
$50 million by the Monsanto Chem-
ical Company, $8 million by the
Texas City Terminal Railway
Company, and $11 million by the
Liberty Mutual Insurance Com-
pany. compensation insurer for
Ho
CIT
OFF
tures of the next fiscal year’s bud-
der to get
the revenue, Del Green, adminis-
trative assistant to the city mana-
ger, said today.
The new fiscal year begins May
1.
the loss in the series of explosions
which followed at $8,200,000.
About 14 hours after the Grand-
camp explosion—at 1:10 a. m the
following morning — * a
monium nitrate cargo to a hold
of the S. S. High Flyer, also a
liberty ship, exploded
Docks were wrecked and the
shipping channel and slips were
filled with debris as fire and ex-
throughout the
Nobody attended last night’s
hearing except the commission and
some city employes. Neither the | plosion spresd
School, Library nor Park Board city. __
was represented. No protests or The separate suits were pooled
recommendations were made, into one mass trial to determine
Monsanto.
, Judge Kennerly, a quiet, 76-year-
old jurist, heard weeks of testi-
. .... ... mony last year-much of it deep,
the am- ly technical testimony on the na-
ture of the fertilizer.
The ruling is almost certain to
be appealed, first to the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals and then
to the U. S. Supreme Court,
Government attorneys con-
tended the disaster was an “un-
avoidable accident;" that respon-
| sibility belonged to some or all of
the agents that handled the cargo.
IN ABILENE
Lightning Blacks Out Wooten
Hotel: Candles Passed Out
WTUC Has 5 Years
To Serve Mason
The Third Court of Civil Appeals
ruled Wednesday in Austin that
West Texas Utilities Co. will have
until' 1955 to remove utility poles
and lines along Mason public
streets.
This reversed a trial court judg-
ment which had favored Mason in
its suit against the WTUC to force
immediate removal of the poles
and lines.
A law passed by the 51st Leg-
islature demands that cities wait
10 years from date of Incorpora-
tion before bringing suits such as
the one Mason instituted Mason
was incorporated on Nov. 13, 1945
and constructed its own electric
power system to 1948,
The Wooten Hotel was blacked
out, involuntarily, for more than
an hour Wednesday night when
lightening struck electrics! wiring
at 11:20 p m
The entire building, with ex-
ception of a few rooms on the 14th
end 18th floors were plunged into
total darkness, and elevator serv-
ice was temporarily suspended.
Night Clerk Tom Hayes passed
out candles, the only form of
emergency lights available, to
guests who requested them. Hayes
said guests didn't complain about
the inconvenience, but that about
a dozen assigned to rooms on the
top floors waited in the lobby until
elevator service was restored.
Two crews from the West Texas
Utilities Co worked to restore the
power, and the lights were back
on by 12:55 a. m.
Permit Issued
T. A. Russell received a permit
thla morning from the City Engi-
neering Department to build a
frame, one-family residence, 1458
Graham St. to cost $4,950.
Testimony Heard,
Testimony to the workman's
compensation trial of Mrs. Dona
S. Winslett, 726 Elm St., vs. Amer-
ican Employer’s Insurance Co.
was continuing this morning before
Judge T. Whitfield Davidson in U.
S District Court
Mrs Winslett is asking compen-
sation for injuries allegedly re-
ceived while an employe of the
Chicken Shack.
The case to expected to go to
the jury late this afternoon.
Bankruptcy Filed
Joe Stevens Seaboalt, East
to the Battle of the Bulge at the
age of 23.
His body was returned to Haver-
hill in 1947 and buried. It waa ex-
humed a year ago when the par-
ents decided to return to Greece.
They took it with them.
The couple found things too diffi-
cult in Greece and decided to re-
lurn to this country with the body
But when they landed in Hoboken
they had only money enough for
their own transportation to this
city.
Zombas said he and his wife left
the flag-draped coffin on the pier
after informing officials they
would return for it as soon aa they
got the government check.
South 11th St., plumber, filed a
petition of bankruptcy yesterday
before Ida M. James, U. S. Dis-
trict Clerk.
Seaboalt, who has been operating
the Strawn Concrete Pipe and Tile
Co., Strawn, and the Seaboalt
Plumbing Co., listed his assets at
$1,450 and his debts at $17,126.04.
To Plan Jamboree
Plans for the National Scout
Jamboree thia summer will be
made tonight by the Chisholm
Trail Council Jamboree Commit-
tee.
The session, with R H (Bob)
Keller of Abilene, chairman, pre-
siding. will take place at 7.30 p.
m. in the council office at City
Hall.
Organization of troops for the
jamboree will be started. Plans
for pre-jamboree camping days at
Camp Tonkawa are also to be
worked out.
Deep Oil Strike
Near in Taylor
The oil play in western Taylor
County, near the Nolan County
border- not so active to recent
the commission in a conference
Monday night to cut $50,000 from
the schools’ operstion and main-
tenance budget. Schools had asked
$510,000 for that purpose. The
board is expected to report back
to the commission prior to the
time the commission adopts a bud-
get
The Park and Public Recreation
Board was asked in a Tuesday
night meeting to reduce as much
as possible" its requested- $93,822
for parks and $9,560 for recreation.
It also to expected to make another
report before the budget to
adopted.
Request for thia year's appropri-
ation, made by the Library Board
to less than the budgeted amount
for the current year. That board,
which requested $16,835 for the
coming year as compared to the
$18,100 granted in the present year,
Confers With Leopold
BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 13
— Premier-designate Paul Van
Zeeland, who is trying to form a
government agreeable to the re-
turn of King Leopold, flew to
Geneva today for a hurried con-
ference with the exiled monarch.
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MOSCOW. April 13 (n—Pravda I protest was issued three days after
the alleged shooting took place,
and two days after a widely-pub-
licized search began for the miss-
ins plane The sequence naturally
led to speculation to the West
whether the Russians before they
issued their Tuesday protest hsd
some inkling of what had happened
to the missing plane.)
declared today the United States
is trying to cover up the fact that
the U. 8 Navy patrol plane missing
in the Baltic in the same one that
the Russians say flew over Latvia
Saturday. Pravda raid “spies" in
the plane “got a proper lesson."
There to no doubt that the Rus-
sians look upon the missing plane
as the one they charge exchanged
fire with a Soviet plane before dis-
appearing over the Baltic Pravda
said the plane violated Soviet
territory and "engaged in a pur
suit of knowledge over Soviet terri-
tory" 1
(Until today no Russian state-
ments had connected the incidents
of the missing plane and the re-
ported exchange of fire south of
Lepaya, Latvia. The original Soviet
weeks—received a shot in the arm
Wednesday.
The occasion was the encounter-
ing of possible commercial pro-
duction from the Ellenburger at
the Drilling and Exploration Co .
Inc. No. 1-A J. L. McLean, five
miles southwest of Merkel and one
mile west of Blair.
That project—an abandoned reef
test deepened to the Ordivician
formation—took a drillstem test
from 5,482-92 feet.
Tool was open two hours. Gas
appeared at the surface in five
minutes. There was s strong blow
throughout the test
When 630 feet of drillpipe had
been pulled, the oil unloaded over
the crowd block for 12 minutes
At the third stand of pipe from the
bottom. It unloaded again Re-
covery was 1.100 feet of clean oil
and 30 feet of heavily oil and gaa
cut mud There was no water.
Operator waa due to run pipe
this morning to top of the porosity
at 5,482 feet. Top of the Ellen-
burger was picked at 5 472 feet,
rotary measurements.
Location for the prospective dis-
covery to 990 feet from the north
and east lines of Section 73. Block
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(American officials have ex-
pressed the fear that the Navy
plane, which they said was un-
armed, was disabled by guntire
and crashed In the Baltic Search
planes resumed their sweep over
the Baltic today with U. S. officials
still hopeful they may find the 10
crewmen alive.)
The editorial in Pravda, official
organ of the Soviet Communlat
Party, charged that by conducting
the widespread search American
authorities are "trying to hide
their traces.”
"A representative of the Ameri-
can Air Force to Wiesbaden (Ger-
many" said the editorial, "de-
clared on April U for example,
that aa American plane was miss-
tag allegedly during a normal
training flight over Northern Ger-
many and Denmark He was silent,
however, about the fact that the
plane violated the Soviet frontier
and engaged la a so-called ‘train-
tar exercise over Soviet terri-
tory."
Referring to the statement made
by the Americans ta Wiesbaden
that U. S. plane, can fly over the
Baltic if they want to. Pravda
commented
“Facts reject this stupid brag-
ging Facts teach one to reopen in-
ternational law, a, the case
which took place April 8 south of
Lepaya (Latvia) concerning an
American warplane B-29 (super-
fortress? shows.”
Revival Speaker
Discusses New Birth
The New Birth was the subject
of a sermon last night by Dr
W. H. Sims, conducting a revival
at the South Side Baptist Church.
Dr Sima discussed a conversa-
tion between Christ and Nicodem-
us, noting that Nicodemus was
ignorant of the second birth. Just
as many men are today.
Services are held daily at 10
a. m. and 8 p. m.
New York Gets Snow
NEW YORK. April 13. (n—Snow
fell on blooming daffodils in the
New York metropolitan area today,
but melted quickly.
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Livestock
FORT WORTH
FORT WORTH April 13 (A. Cattle 400
alves 150; active, steady: gocA. and
holes 120 ib steer yearlings 28.0; ne
choice fat calves 25 00-31 00, common W
medium 18.00-24.00 stocker calvees and
yearlings 20.00-26.00.
Hogs 700; butcher hogs ate lower
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Sheep 4,800: spring lambs steady to
weak,, wet fleeces considered: shorn
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