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VOL. LXXII, No. 60
“WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
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ABILENE, TEXAS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1962—EIGHT PAGES
PRICK DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10«
States Rights
Move Opens
JACKSON, Miss. —A militant
states rights group thrust itself into
Mississippi’s torried Stevenson-
Eisenhower Democratic fight and
threatens today to broaden it into
a three-way free-for-all.
Until yesterday the squabble was
between Democrats for Elsenhower
and Democrats for Stevenson.
But now there are strong hints
of a third contender, a states rights
Southerner.
Several officials in the state
party want the State Democratic
Marines, Reds
Use Fists in
'Bunker'Fight
SEOUL. Korea, Aug. 16 ue-U. S
Marines battled Chinese Reds with
fists and grenades in the predawn
darkness today to breaking up the
seventh Red counter-attack against
Bunker Hill on the Korea Western
Front.
The leathernecks captured the
once strongly fortified Red position
five days ago. The Redo threw 400
men against the position in their
latest desperate bid to regain the
dominating height
“We were fist fighttag and there
were loada of hand grenades flying
around,” one Marine sergeant re-
lated.
Four hundred Chinese charged
to within 30 yards of Marine posi-
’tons on the blood-soaked ridge be-
fore dawn, a U. S. Eighth Army
staff officer said. Red artillery and
mortars raked Allied positions in
support of the attack.
Fresh Marines were rushed for-
ward at the height of the battle.
The Roda pulled back less than w
half hour later
Later the Communists traded
shots with the Marines for 10 min-
utes from a distance, but made no
charge.
The seventh Communist assault
on the hill seized early Tuesday by
the leathernecks began with a
platoon charge shortly after mid-
night.
Rod losses were pieced officially
at more than 3,154 dead and
wounded for the fighting which be-
gan a week ago near Panmunjom,
site e fibe Korean truce talks.
Convention, which holds a post-
Chicago meeting Monday, to name
a Southerner as its presidential
candidate. Among them are Walter
Sillers, speaker of the state House
of Representatives and state Rep
Russell Fox.
A key figure in any revival or
a third party ticket la former Gov.
Fielding Wright, who was the
states righters’ vice presidential
candidate in 1948.
Wright has not declared Ma sen-
tlment. At a meeting yesterday of
delegates who went to the National
Convention. Wright made only
guarded comment.
But he asked for the privilege of
addressing the state convention
meeting Monday after Gov. Hugh
White makes a report on the No-
tional Convention.
Wright said he wanted to give his
own report which "will not apply
to anyone but myself.”
Supporters of Democratic pres-
idential nominee Gov.Adlai Steven-
son did not regard Ms statement
as "sounding like he would concur
in the majority report."
Stevenson supporters spent most
of last night lining up support they
hope will crush the states righters
and Democrats backing Republi
can nominee Gen. Dwight Elsen-
hower.
The showdown comes at the Mon-
day state convention, which wil
decide what course of action the
Mississippi party will take in the
presidential campaign.
Traditionally. 44 per cent of Mis-
sissippi voters are Democrats and
practically all were states righters
in 1948, when former Gov. Strom
Thurmond of South Carolina ant
Wright carried this state and three
others.
Hard Luck Arrives in Pairs; ma a sl e. I
Widow Loses Job and Purse eoc KX ill Tri galC
Retracing the path traveled, she 1 Tk^^>^#l^^ JHHH e Cl waval’
hunted for the purse on the ground. - =
It had disappeared.
If anyone finds it, the distressed
lady would very much appreciate
Bad Luck doesn’t come singly
for Mrs. Leona Newton, 40, of 3042
Pine St., a widow.
Last Wednesday she was laid off
from her job at Warren’s Coffee
Shop on Pine St.
Friday about 11 p.m. she lost
her purse containing her only
funds—$12 which she intended to
use for paying a week’s rent.
Mrs. Newton was riding on the
right hand side in the front seat of
an automobile. As the car rounded
the corner at Cedar and North 15th
Sts, the door next to her came
open.
A block further, she remembered
that the purse had been lying be-
side her on the seat. It waa gone.
its return.
The purse is Navy blue cloth,
and contained when lost a brown
leather billfold. Inside the billfold
was the $12. Mrs. Newton believes
the money consisted of a $10 MU
and two $1 bills and about a quar-
ter in silver.
For Austrian Pc
She has no prospects for s new
job before Sept. 1. .
Anybody finding the puree is
asked to call Telephone 5-1153, the O
home of a neighbor, Mrs. Sarah
3 DAYS AFTER CRASH Labor vOr •
Bomb Explodes Despite CIO
5 DENVER • — Gen. Dwight a
Ka ga a gem — Eisenhower will make a deter-
Near Dead Pilot ^^^sass
* " " The Republican candidate's
schedule is being revised to allow
learning immediately whether the him to speak at the annual conven-
bomb which exploded today was the ticn of the American Federation of
one on which the pilot's body had I arer ta New York City opening
been lying. Sept. 15.
an
6-Year Drive for
Treaty Blasted
Stamford Women’s
Father Found Dead
STAMFORD. Aug. 16. (RNS) —
The aged father of two Stamford
women was found dead in a car
near his farm home at Hutto,
Tex.. Friday. He waa W. H. Glen-
benning, 73.
Details surrounding his death
were not knew here Saturday, Rel-
atives here speculated death was
due to natural causes
He was the father of Mrs Clay
Markham and Mrs Weaver Med-
1m af Stamford.
Woman Pedestrian
Hit by Automobile;
X-ray Report Due
A woman, identified by police
as Bessie Owens, 56, of 1402 Cher-
ry St., was struck and injured by
a car shortly after 8:30 a. m. Sat-
urday aa she was crossing South
First St., at Oak St., police re-
ported.
Hendrick Memorial Hospital at-
tendants were X-raytag the wom-
an for possible internal injries, and
a report of her injuries could not
be learned at mid-morning
Police identified the driver of
the car as Lee Beatty, of 1281
Peach St . a baker employed by
Mrs Baird's Bakery
The driver, police said bad the
car almost halted when the wom-
an was ML Beatty told Patrolman
W. E. CUR he saw the woman
and applied Ma brakes, hut too
late to avoid hitting her. The Im-
port knocked her down, but away
from the wheels of the car.
Police said Beatty had turned
Ma car off Oak St. and was headed
west on South First St. The wom-
an. on her way home from the
downtown district, was crasalng
South First headed south.
The patrolman said the woman
was complaining of hurts ta her
hips snd back when taken to the
hospital.
SEOUL Korea, Aug. 16 (H—A
long - expected explosion Friday
shattered the wreckage of a U. N
warplane loaded with delayed ac-
tion bombs—one of them with a
dead U. S flier astride it.
The Air Force said the explosion
—awaited ever since the fighter-
bomber plane crashed three days
before—left "nothing but a huge
hole in the ground.”
The bomb-laden plane crashed
south of Seoul Tuesday after collid-
ing with a jet plane. The jet pilot
parachuted to safety, but an uni-
dentified major flying the second
craft crashed with his plane.
M. Sat. Derral C. Watson of Fair-
field. Ia., who 'heads the heavy
guard thrown around the danger
area, said he made an effort to
remove the major's body Tuesday
night before he knew several un-
exploded bombs were in the wreck-
age
“I got to the plane and found
the pilot dead." Watson said "The
p.ane was really a wreck. The body
was astride a bomb directly under
the cockpit, like a man would be
astride a horse. I tried to pull Mm
cut but found he couldn’t be re-
moved without cutting torches.
'Then I began looking around
with a flashlight at all those bombs.
I realized right away that was no
place for me to be. I got out of
there.”
Watson said there was no way af
Sweetwater Family
Has Food Poisoning
Mr and Mrs. Bob M. Owens
and daughter, Brenda. 5, of Sweet,
water were admitted to Hendrick
FILLS SWALLOWED
Aly, Rita Rush
Baby to Hospital
HOLLYWOOD (— Aly Khan
and Ms estranged wife. Rita May-
worth, rushed loot night to an
emergency hospital, where their
daughter, Yasmin 2%. was treated
after swallowing sleeping pills.
The prince end the actress ar-
rived in separate ears, forgetting
at least for a moment their mari-
tal difficulties
The actress told hospital attend-
ants she did not know how the
child, who has been ill with whoop
ing cough, obtained the pills. After
her stomach was pumped out, Yas-
min appeared to be none the worse
for her experience She wee to the
hospital about 15 minutes.
Meantime, Aly has another dale
to dine today with Rita.
The Moslem prince had a three-
hour visit at her Beverly Hills
home yesterday. He described it
as “most pleasant” but turned
aside reporters’ questions about a
possible reconciliation.
“Let’s talk about something
else,” he said.
The prince bes indicated on
many occasions be is desirous sf
patching up his difficulties with
the red-haired movie star, but she
never has given the reconciliation
talk any encouragement
Arriving by plane Thursday
night the prince went to Miss Hay-
worth's home. When he left at
2:38 a.m. yesterday he seemed de-
jected. He wss s little tote for Ms
lobster newburg luncheon appoint-
ment, but after three hours with
Ms wife end daughter he sold "I
had a lovely time.”
Prince Aly said he intends to
stay here five days. Meantime he
may take to the races at Del Mar.
aear San Diego.
Stamford Pair Hurt
In Auto Accident
STAMFORD, Aug. 14 (RNS) -
Aa onto accident Tuesday near
Etiwanda, Calif. hospitalized a
Stamford woman and her son re-
turning home from a vacation trip
Information received Saturday
Mid Mrs. B H. Baird and her
son, Knox, were injured in a col-
lision of two ears about 40 miles
out of Etiwanda. Their injuries
were not considered serious.
Mrs. Baird to the widow of 0
Stamford grocer.
Toe plane carried about a dozen And Eisenhower's running mate,
250-pound bombs and two 1,000 Sen. Richard Nixon of California,
poonders. Some have not been told reporters yesterday. “Gen.
found and three villages have been Eisenhower will welcome the op-
evacuated until all danger of explo-portunity to appear before labor
ions has passed, Watson said, organisations anytime be ean."
Some of the delayed action Nixon hinted at the strategy to be
bombs dropped over North Korea used in wooing the labor vote. He
do not explode for days. One offi- was discussing the endorsement by
cial has estimated that it will be the CIO Executive Board of Gov.
next Tuesday before the wreckage Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, the
can be Marched safely. Democratic nominee
---------------------------------"While the leadership of the CIO
a a e has endorsed Gov. Stevenson, it
Aslan Dacesne will be s different thing was tar as
Auld I rd no the rank and file is concerned,”
41ualses B err) Nixon declared. "I do not think
leaders in the CIO can deliver the
vote."
DICE TO des Kroll is head of the CIO’s Po-
Puen IV wsuws bWiat Action Committee
END OF BEAUTIFUL FRIEND-
SHIP—Showgirl Gregg Sher-
wood waits in the Detroit po-
lice station following her arrest
on a complaint by auto heir
Horace E. Dodge. Dodge com-
plained to police Miss Sherwood
was attempting to leave Ms
home with three "Jeweled" eig-
aret lighters, but refused to
prosecute. The actress said the
arrest "marked the end of a
beautiful friendship.”
WASHINGTON (—Six years of
effort by the Western powers to
get Russia to agree to an Austrian
peace treaty appeared today to
have reached a dead end.
An appeal by Austria to the Unl-
tod Natfons, probably with Ameri-
can support, may be the next move.
Russia, however, wants another
review of the entire Austrian treaty
question.
The State Department announced
yesterday that Moscow had reject-
ed an abbreviated treaty which the
Western powers proposed March 11
to the hope of ending the ocupa-
tion of Austria and giving that
country full independence.
Efforts to reach agreement on a
full-length treaty of 59 articles, as
compared with eight in the short
form, had already broken down.
State Department officials said
they believe the chief reasons Mos-
cow to blocking Austrian independ-
ence are:
1. Looting—Russia, they say.
has loted Austria on a grand
scale. Peace not only would end
looting, but possibly even mean the
return of some Mined property.
2. Occupation Soviet troops
hold a strategic position In Austria
and officials believe the Kremlin
may never withdraw its troops until
basic East-West issues are resolv-
ed. The Austrian government re-
cently sent a note to members of
the United Nations reviewing the
six-year history of Austrian peace
negotiations between Russia, the
United States, Britain and France.
The note added that, at an appro,
priate time, the whole problem
might be put before the U.N. Gew-
eral Assembly.
Asked whether the United States
would co-operate in such a move,
officials said this government
would favor any action that would
result in fulfillment of Ito obliga-
tions to restore Austrian independ-
ence.
Yesterday’s announcement hod
one extraordinary aspect: It re-
ported Russia’s rejection of the
proponed short form treaty draft
before Moscow announced it.
Normally the State Department ta-
sists on secrecy far a note from a
foreign government until that gov.
ernment makes its own disclosure.
The purpose of this unusual no-
tion presumably waa to focus world
attention on the Soviet position as
<f is understood by American offi-
cials, and in aa simple a form as
possible.
•The Soviet government, reply-
tax after five months and two re-
| minders to the United States, Uni-
ted Kingdom and French notes.”
i the statement aald. “has rejected
an abbreviated treaty far Austria
proposed March 11, 1952, after 258
meetings at which unsuccessful at- .
tempts were made to secure four
power agreement to the Austrian
draft treaty.” 791
____Nixon said he had discussed the
WASHINGTON IM — Sen. John matter with Eisenhower and added.
Bricker of Ohio said today Gov. “We are not going to write off the
Adlai E. Stevenson was “passing labor vote."
the buck" to the states when he While he was here during mid-
sold it was up to them to halt week, former Minnesota Gov. Har-
centralization of government in old E. Stossen said a top labor
Washington. leader, whom be did not identify,
“It should be opparent from his would announce support of Eisen-
speech (at the Illinois State Fair hower. Stassen said the man also
Thursday) that Gov. Stevenson predicted Eisenhower would re-
doesn’t intend to try to stop it celve half the vote of organised
should this country suffer the mis- labor.
fortune of having him in the White Stassen would neither confirm
Houre " Bricker’s statement said, nor deny reports he would serve as
Bricker said states couldn’t do2Laison man between Eisenhower
much about halttag the “I
wave” of centralization because the
government takes about 80 per cent
of ,n tax money collected, "thus
Ira-Ing state and local govern-
ments all but strapped."
t idel headquarters and labor. But he did
say he has talked with represents
tives of labor since the GOP Ns-
tional Convention. Stassen left
Bricker added:
“Gov. Stevenson’s sudden inter-
Memorial Hospital Friday, est in states’ rights should be
Attending physician diagnosed weighed against his record. He has
their cases as food poisoning. ----“— "
They were reported doing satis,
factorily Saturday morning.
Young Iraq King to
Lunch With Truman
NEW YORK ve - Young King
Faisal II of Iraq Ilies to Washing-
too today for a luncheon engage-
ment with President Truman.
The 17-year-old monarch is to
the U. B. on s five-week tour to
promote international goodwill and
to inspect this country’s industrial
and irrigation projects.
Yesterday, his activities includ-
ed a boat ride around Manhattan
and to the Statue of Liberty, a
broadcast to his countrymen from
the offices of the Voice of America,
and a television broadcast
Two Patients Out
Of Polio Ward
Local polio situation looked a lit-
tie brighter Friday when two pa-
tients were discharged from the
polio ward at Hendrick Memorial
Hospital No new patients were ad-
mitted.
Discharged Friday were Deborah
Thomas, 15 daughter af Mr. and
Mrs J D Thomas, 774 East North
15th St.; and Toni Suzane Har-
grove, seven months, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs J. L. Hargrove of
Stamford.
been an ardent New Dealer and
Fair Dealer, and his association
with the Americana for Democratic
Action to well known. They espouse
a political philosophy dedicated to
the centralization of government In
Washington and the eradication of
states’ rights.
FAYS 22 CENTS
Lad Hears of Tix,
Closes His Circus
WASHINGTON on - Amusement
taxes put Larry Aiken's circus out
of business.
Lary. 12. of Terre Haute, Ind .
wrote the Bureau of Internal Rev.
enue that he was staging a success-
ful backyard circus when Ms
father, a government worker, told
him about that major fact of Ufa
early yesterday after a final pri-
vate dinner talk with the general.
Gov. Earl Warren of California.
'Ike Stassen an unsuccessful eon-
tender for the presidential nomina-
tion. beaded into Denver early
today.
He is scheduled to discuss gen-
eral campaign strategy with the
general and his chief advisers
Warren also will work out with
Eisenhower the agenda for the gen-
eral a meeting next Wednesday in
Boise, Idaho, with the 1« Repub-
liean governors of Western states.
Warren has been designated
chairman of that conference by the
other governors.
Eisenhower will make his first
frankly political speech since Ms
nomination, facing across a huge
lawn from the steps of the Idaho
capitol.
His party will no directly from
Boise to Kansas City foe a Thura
day meeting with party leaders and
candidates of seven Western states.
Trier Eisenhower will return to
Denver for a final round of appoint,
meets and probably some fishtag
before be files to New York to
make whet he cells s non-political
address Aug.25 at the American
Legtan convention
—taxes. ---
Larry promptly closed down his, on aa
show, figured up his taxes—taxes ALilanA
* m. *2R *”* EX-Ablene
government a U.S. postal money
order for 22 cents.
“Was going to run 3 more days
till all this came up,” he wrote.
A revenue bureau spokesman
said the government may have to
refund Larry part of his 22 cents
if some of Ms paying customers
were under 12 years old, and thus
exempt from amusement toxas It
plans to write Larry and find out.
Pastor Dies
Dr W. M. Pearce, former Meth-
odist pastor here died early Satur-
day morning la Pampa
He was pastor of the First Meth-
odist Church here when it was built
In 1925 Dr Pearce served as dis-
trict superintendent at Lubbock,
Amarillo and Vernon.
Dr Pearce had been ill for eight
years He had lived in Pampa the
past six year.
Funeral arrangements were in-
complete Saturday morning
THE WEATHER
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY — Partly
cloudy Saturday, Saturday afternoon and
Sunday Not much change to temperature
fays at
B sogrn TEXAS
day Saturday nignt
h change in tempers
calls fresh southerly
Generally fair Sat
and Sunday Not •
‘TIA Moderate to
"RORTA CENT L TEXASG-eratly
‘afr Saturday. Saturday night and Sunday
Not much change in temperature
--------Generally fair Saturday
id Sunday except widely
showers west of Pecos
or evenings Not much
Valley an
change in
Z*M
TEMFENATCRES
Bat
SOCIALITE PLAYBOY CHARGED — Socialite playboy Minot F. “Mickey” Jelke, right,
22-year-old heir to an oleomargarine fortune, ia booked in a New York police station follow-
ing his arrest in connection with an expensive call-girl racket. Also charged in the case were
publicity man Ray Russell, center, and TV bit actress. Erica Eteel, left, who seems un-
concerned about the proceedings. Violation of the Sullivan law waa charged against Jelke
for possession of the two guns on desk in front of him.
■
seriod
**":
*****
Big Lakes Suffer;
Drouth Blazes Or
places were dangerously lew. At
Llano only enough water for 14
day, was believed at hand. Welle
were at new low levels; many had
gone completely dry.
At Baa Angelo, Lake Nasworthy
was at its lowest ebb in history
Wells were going dry and a spring
that had flowed since earliest set-
Wets' memories hod been dry near-i
ly s year,
it was a year ago last Tuesday
Aug. 12, that the San Angelo area
indeio-slendafocrime cam sanu be.arloi thmnini was af any um
day. Only intermiittent showers duringorid War II -
have fallen since. "If this pool is as low next sum-
San Angeloans greeted a new mer as I’m prophesying," said
well Friday on the court house Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selee-
lawn The 40-gallons-per-minute tive service director, “just about
well was brought ta after two other everybody will be to training un-
attempts had ended ta dry holes less they have e most excellent
Dallas’ third heat death ta re- reason for not."
cent days was that of Oscar Wood,Hershey, speaking on CBS - radio
57. who collapsed at the home of a “Capitol Cloakroom” last night.
By The Associated Press
A blaring Texas sun—unhamper-
ed by clouds—continued to kill and
ruin M Texans faced a week end
of more 100-plus temperatures. The
weeka-old beat wave increased the
effects of a months-old drouth.
Thermometers which went to 112
degrees Friday at Seymour to
North Texas and to IM degrees at
Presidio in the Big Bend country
were expected to go higher Satur-
day.
Dallas recorded its third beat
death as both it and Fort Worth
well through their 14th consecutive
day of temperatures above 100 de-
or es. The mercury climbed to 104
in Dallas and 1M to neighboring
Fort Worth The Weather Bureau
predicted the 15th day of such
above-100 temperatures Friday
Meanwhile, the hot, dry weather
was withering crops of all types
in the stole Grassland, and pares who coumpoe at the mum • *
tures were seared as if by flame-friend late Friday afternoon. He added:
throwers: Carelessly discarded el was dead on arrival at a hospital. "We're going to ha re to hunt
arette butts and automobile ex- Several other heat prostration vic- men because we're running out of
hausts were blamed for countless tims are hospitalized. men. The plain truth in that I'm
gray, fires and one,which burned At Waco Saturday, Col. H. R. going to be shorter in less than
over a square mile of cedar thicket hallack. district U. S. Army Engi-
near Dallas Friday. — - ■---------
Fire and safety officials pleaded
with the public to take extra cau-
tions near the tinder-dry grass and
limberlands to the elate
Stock tanks were dry in most
areas snd even the large lakes,
such as Possum Kingdom in Palo
Pinto and Young Counties were
drying up Boot houses and small
boats at Possum Kingdom were
standing high and dry on sun-
heked. cracked mud that once was
the lake bottom Camp owners at
the lake said it was 25 feet below
normal level
Similar conditions existed at
nearly every lake ta Texas. Boat
docks at Phantom Lake near Abi-
lene were 75 yards from the near-
est water City reservoirs ta many
Draft Pool
'Drying Up'
WASHINGTON Un — The nation’s
draft chief says the pool from
which he drawn manpower to run-
ning dry and, within a year, may
I year of men than I probably WM
at any time during the war."
Hershey aald draft calls will be
Mgger during the fiscal year which
began in July than ta the preceding
12 months. The draft and enlist-
ments will bring about 1,200,000 to
the armed forces this fiacal year,
Wells. But under s contract with her estimated... ... .
the Brazos River Conservation andProp osat
Reclamation District Possum Hertney MM2, because veterans are
Kingdom ean release oe more exempt, the rejection rate is higher
water and Korea veterans are released
Ree growers, meanwhile, need after 18 months of duty.
water until October. And Hallock 1
said negotiations were under war ‘Lost Battalion'
neers chief, said water to newly-
constructed Lake Whitney may be
the salvation of a 54,000-aere rice
crop near the Gulf of Mexico
Until this year, coastal rice grow-
ers received summer water from
Pessam Kingdom Lake further up
the Brazos River near Mineral
Mercury Due
To Stay 100
“Dante's Inferno" bad little on
te inan water from Lake Whitney _
to the rice growers, to bo repaid To Elect Officers
beginning Jan. 1 from Possum -
Kingdom f LUBBOCK. Aug. 14 Un—A group
Lake Whitney is about 1 miles of men who spent more than three
west of Hillsboro and 14 miles years in Japanese prison camps
northwest of Waco. .___| were to elect officers of their “Lost
Texans were wondering how long Battalion” Association today.
It could last. A cool front was Meeting hi their eighth annual
headed southward from Kansas, but reunion since World War n were
Texas was net expected to feel it. men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st
The long-range forecast between Field Artillery, Mb Division.
Saturday end August ■ calls for About 450 members of the bat-
Texas temperatures three to six falion were captured on Jan
degrees above normal. That means March g, 1942, . .
temperatures of 95 to 105 degrees They were liberated from Jap
for at least four more days Little prisoner camps in 1945,
About 450 members of the bat-
Abilene Saturday with the current .„ ------------------pItues canny _
beet wove expected to go into its chance of rain was seen ta the The three day reunion closes to-
141k straight day of mercury read- forecast I morrow.
ings of 100 degrees or more.
The high temperature Friday
was 105, sed the weatherman
promised high readings Saturday
and Sunday
Abilenians may as well try to
keep a cool head shout the bet
weather since an extended five-
day forecast for West Texas pre-
dieted Friday that continued hot
weather was on the calendar with
ao relief expected.
There have been only two looser
I morrow.
Explorers Argue
Over Cave Rescue
periods of consecutive days of 100-
degree plus temperature in the
Abilene Weather Bureau’s 66-year
history Those periods were from
Joly 27 to Aug 14 1937, and from
July 30 to Aug 14. 1943
The current 13-day stretch goes
down as the third longest
Abilene wasn't burned quite as
badly as some other West Texas
towns Friday
At Sweetwater the Friday high
was 147 degrees, making the 13th
straight day that the mercury has
gone above the century mark. It
wm also the 48th day thla summer
. that temperatures have reached
"1100 or better.
ho
LICQ-ATHERY. France (A—Four
survivors of an ill-fated cave ex-
riming expedition prepared today
fir the painful ascent from the
Pierre St. Marita chasm after
burying one of their comrades
1,15% feet below the surface
To hoist them twin hand winches
and double ropes were readied by
reseve workers above ground.
Handles for the winches had been
forged in thla little Pyrenees
mountain town.
At the last moment, differences
arose between thoM at the surface
and those underground on the
exact way to which the dangerous
ascent should be made The argu-
ment may delay the start for sev-
oral hours, it WM feared.
Apparently the four survivors
were reluctant to trust themselves
to ite same device that cost the
life of Marcel Loubens, one of
their expedittoe mates.
Loubens. a 33 - year . old
industrialist who made eave ex
ploring a hobby, died Thursday of
injuries suffered when a steel rope
that was pulling him to the sur-
face snapped, plunging him 120
fret to a narrow ledge.
His four mates buried his body
under a pile of stones deep in the
chasm after a conference with
workers on the surface. * was de-
eided that hauling the body to the
surface might dislodge rocks from
the chasm side, endangering the
survivors below.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 60, Ed. 2 Saturday, August 16, 1952, newspaper, August 16, 1952; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1648964/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.