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p A ’ THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
O-A Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Evening, August 14, 1951
Germans to Honor Men Who
Tried to Kill Hitler in Bomb Plot
By TOM REEOY , mit sketches for a memorial to be
BERLIN, Aug 13. @ — The men erected inside grim . Ploetzensee
who tried to kill Hitler in 1944 and Prison where the anti-Nazi plotters
failed with their bomb plot have were tortured and executed after,
earned the rank of martyrs. The drumhead trial. _
Ploetzensee is now a prison for
ordinary criminals. In Hitler’s
time it was used for political en-
emies of the Third Reich.
West Berlin city government has
decided to immortalize them.
Artists have been invited to sub-
Col. Gen. Fritz Oster and Adm.
Wilhelm Canaris, head of the se-
cret service, who were held in
Flossenburg concentration camp
until mid-spring 1945 when they
were hanged
Courthouse
Contracfs Let
COLEMAN, Aug. 14. —Contract!
totaling more than $250, 000 for re.
modeling the Coleman County
Courthouse were let here Monday
afternoon by the Commissioners
Court.
Quisle Construction Co. of Fort
Worth took .he general construc-
tion contract for $170,839.
out now: wonder can!
MUsrsjet-strecmedne"
80 Women Await
Powder Puff Derby
SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 14. VP— 1944, in the bomb attempt on Hit-
The annual powder puff derby of ler’s life at his eastern military
women fliers starts nere Wednes- headquarters in Rastenburg They
day, with 80 women in 50 planes are Col. Gen. Ludwig Beck, a
heading for Detroit and the nation- suicide after the plot failed Field
■1 air races
Himmler's Gestapo is believed to S. A McHorse Plumbing Co. of
have slain hundreds of suspects in Brownwood was awarded the heat-
Men the roundup that followed the bomb ing, air-conditioning and plumbing
left e—lnel— 'contract for $59,000.
who entered there seldom left explosion
alive Names of plotters are to be Two West Germans who played Jones Electric Co. of Coleman
The place of honor will go to the opposite roles in the plot now hold submitted a low bid of $9,000 for
four top men of the movement-------* ---M*--n- *---* electrical work.
which reached its climax July 20,
prominent positions. Dr. Josef
Mueller, Minister of Justice in Ba- Fees for Wyatt C. Hedrick of
varia, was jailed in Berlin for font Worth, architect, total $18,-
complicity because of his close ties 867.12.
with Canaris. He occupied the cell The courthouse will be vacated
between Canaris and Oster at Flos- by Aug 25, with county employes
senburg but was liberated by taking offices scattered through-
American troops in 1945. out the city. Construction work will
The other is former Maj. Gen. begin about Sept. 1. and the con-
with tract calls for 210 calendar days
Marshal Erwin Von Witzleben,
The women will make overnight tried and hanged; Count Claus von
stops in Tucson, Ariz Dallas, Tul- Stauffenberg, the man who planted Ernst Otto Remer, credited with tract calls for 210 calendar di
St Louis and "ayne, Ind. the bomb, who was shot the same marshalling the police action which in which to complete the work.
The race will be judged on day he was caught, and Karl Goer- | prevented the putsch leaders from | -------------------
easedtimesand.dandicapediton drier, former mayor of Leipzig, taking over Berlin.'Remer is lead- If you are an adult and weigh
′ Alan, manufacturers adverts hanged later in prison. er of the Socialist Reichspa rtri about 175 pounds, in 24 houra you
Scores of lesser personalities which imitates the Nazis and has give off in heat 85.6 degrees Fah-
of Commerce and the Ninety-Nines, were beheaded or hanged in Ploet- grown to threatening proportions, renheit.
women fliers' organization, are zensee *nd l^e bodies destroyed -----------
If you are an adult and weigh
ed cruising speeds
The Santa Ana Junior Chamber
grown to threatening proportions, renheit.
you
sponsoring the air derby.
buried in nameless graves.
Bus Crash Kills
35 in Icy Plunge
BOLZANO, Italy, Aug 14. (PL
Other top men in the plot were
Grand Jury Clears
Officer in Shooting
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Thirty-five persons were drowned
Monday night when a crowded ex-
cursion bus plunged into an icy
Alpine lake.
Only one passenger, a woman,
was saved. Police said she crawled
through a bus window and was
pulled from the waters of Lake
Resia near the Swiss border by
several men in a rowboat.
The accident occurred when the
bus lost a rear wheel and veered
off the road, plunging down a 25-
foot embankment. It sank in about
46 feet of water.
HASKELL. Aug 14 — Night-
watchman Bob Frazier of Rule
was no-billed by a 39th District
Court Grand Jury here last week
in the fatal shooting of Pete Soto,
53. Haskell County farmer.
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Doug Hosts Tony
HOLLYWOOD Aug. 14 —
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr . is playing
host to Anthony Eden, former Brit-
ish foreign secretary. Eden is
touring the United States, talking
with political leaders He is accom-
panied by Robert Carr. Conserva-
tive member of parliament.
Indian Cabinet Votes
NEW DELHI, India, Aug 14. un
—Official sources indicate today In-
dia will decide at a cabinet meet-
ing Thursday whether to attend the
Japanese peace treaty conference
in San Francisco.
Harriet Quimby was the first
woman in the United States to hold
an airplane pilot's license
Soto died in a hospital here July
29 of gunshot wounds inflicted in
a scuffle in the Rule City Jail 1
Justice of the Peace Bill Ma-
son. City Marshal Tom Rogers and
Frazier became involved in a scuf.
fle with’ Soto as they were releas-
ing him from jail at the request
of his daughters_____
Mason said Frazier fired two
shots when Soto took the night-
watchman’s billy club from him;
and had him hemmed against the |
wall."
Soto had been arrested for
drunkenness.
U.S. Friendship Told
In Czech Balloons
MUNICH, Germany, Aug 14 (
—Two thousand ballons carrying
messages of Western friendship for
the Red-ruled Czechs wafted to-
ward Czechoslovakia today.
The balloons were sent up Mon-
day night from a point in South-
ern Germany near the Czech bor-
der by the American Crusade for
Freedom organization.
Some of the balloting* were de-
signed to explode at 30,000 feet
scattering 2,500 pamphlets each
over Czechoslovakia.
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