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Brook-
y cov-
first
Churchill Says War Threat
Lessened by Fear of Atom
STORK NEWS
2 A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS I
J-A Abilene, Texas, Wednesday Morning, Nov. 4, 1953
Tree Fellers Have
Peculiar Tastes
MPABV
LONDON, Nov. 3 W — Prime
Minister Churchill declared today
the danger of war has lessened
because now the Russians—along
with the rest of mankind—fear the
annihilation an atomic conflict
would bring.
In an optimistic review of for-
eign affairs, the prime minister
told the House of Commons he be-
lieved the Russian people and
their leaders have lost their stom-
ach for aggression
Churchill held that the fearful
nature of atomic weapons—hor-
rors which “cast their shadows on
every thoughtful mind”—may
force the human race to keep a
lasting peace. The 78-year-old
prime minister stated:
"I do not find it unreasonable
or dangerous to conclude that in-
ternal prosperity, rather than ex-
ternal conquest, is not only the
deep desire of the Russian people
but also the long interest of their
rulers.”
A few hours earlier, Queen Eliz-
abeth II opened a new session of
Parliament with pledges that her
nation will work constantly for
British-American harmony and an
“early meeting'’ of the Big Four
powers.
In a bell-like, girlish voice the
radiant young queen read from
the throne the speech prepared for
her by Churchill. It outlined the
legislative plans of the Prime
Minister’s Conservative govern-
ment. On domestic is sues the
Queen’s speech called for a giant
slum clearance program, relaxing
of the rent control law and allow-
ing some rent increases to encour-
age landlords to make repairs, in-
troduction of limited commercial
television, continuation of the Na-
tional Service Act and new studies
for reforming the House of Lords.
JURY CAN ASK DEATH
Greenlease Kidnapers Plea
Guilty; Trial Starts Nov. 16
*
KANSAS CITY. Nov. 3 (—Ex-
convict Carl Austin Hall and his
alcoholic companion, Mrs. Bonnie
Brown Heady, pleaded guilty in
federal court today to the kidnap-
ing of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease
and were ordered to trial Nov. 16
Under federal law, even though
they pleaded guilty, only a jury
can recommend the maximum
penalty of death against the pair
who confessed the abduction and
slaying of the son of multimillion-
aire Robert C. Greenlease here
Sept. 28. ________
The death penalty is possible
because Bobby was lured from a
private school in Kansas City, Mo ,
and taken across the Kansas state
line to a wheat field where he was
shot to death.
Workers’ Meeting
Slated Nov. 12
At Lawn Baptist
The theme for a workers con-
ference to be held at the Lawn
Baptist Church Nov. 12. will be
“Using The Weekly Officers and
Teachers Meeting to Train Work-
ers and Reach People.”
The conference will begin at 5 30
pm with associational and WMS
board meetings, followed by supper
and a song service led by Joe
Rucker.
At 7:25 p.m. separate conferences
will be called. The meeting for pas-
tors and superintendents will be
led by Rucker:: adult and depart-
ment superintendents by J. D. Os-
borne: and the young people and
intermediates by Mary Lou O’Rear
and Alene Nichols.
The junior and primary meetings
will be led by Mrs. C. S. Frush
and Mrs. Frank Royal. The lead-
ers for the cradle roll and exten-
sion groups are to be announced.
Rev. M. D. Rexrode will bring
the mesage at 8:05 pm. His topic
will he “Training Workers Through
Churchill stayed away from the
state opening to prepare his own
speech.
Thought Better of Reds
The prime minister said that aft-
er Stalin’s death in March be con-
cluded Soviet leaders were chang-
ing their policy. This, he ex-
plained. was what prompted him
to suggest that the leaders of the
United States, Britain and France
meet with Soviet Premier Georgi
Malenkov.
“It may well be that there have
been far reaching changes in the
temper and outlook of the im-
mense populations, now so large-
ly literate, who inhabit all the Rus-
sias and that their mind has
turned to internal ’betterment rath-
er than external aggression,” he
said.
“We can afford. If vigilance is
not relaxed and strength not suf-
fered again to dwindle, to await
developments in a hopeful and, I
trust, helpful mood.
Need Correct Estimate
“The only really sure guide to
the actions of mighty nations and
powerful governments is s correct
estimate of what are, and what
they consider to be, their own in-
Six babies were born Monday
and Tuesday at Headrick Memo-
rial Hospital:
A girl to Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Petry, 517 Shelton St., st * p. m.
Tuesday.
A girl to Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Johnson, 234 Westridge Dr., at 4
p. m. Tuesday.
A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
D. Stewart, 1617 Fannin St., at
5:23 a. m. Tuesday.
A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
L. Claxton, 3217 Hickory St., 9:25
a. m. Tuesday.
A boy to Mr. and Mrs. F. B.
Daniel, 402 Cottonwood St., at 4:40
a. m. Tuesday.
A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Geral V.
Miller. Route 5, at 10:25 p. m.
Monday.
A girl to Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Partlow, 2157 Cedar St., at 11:47
p. m. Monday.
McCarthy Charges Ex-Convict
Working in U.S. Radar Plant
HAGERSTOWN, Md, (—Author-
ities today were hunting for the
persons who buzzed along the
Smithsburg-Foxville road, felling
four big trees across i.
Deputy Sheriff Leister Isnogle
said the deeds were done with a
portable power saw.
One tree is so big. the Washing-
ton County roads department is
going to use it for part of a bridge
State authorities in both Kansas
and Missouri are waiting outcome
of the federal case A kidnaping
charge on file against the pair in
Missouri is punishable by death in
the gas chamber. Kansas officials
said a murder charge, punishable
by hanging, will be filed there if
necessary.
Hall Shifts
Hall, 34, neatly dressed but hag-
gard and worn-looking, shifted
nervously on his feet as his attor-
ney, Marshall K Hoag, entered
his formal plea before U.S. Dis-
trict Judge Albert L. Reeves.
Mrs. Heady, 41, St. Joseph, Mo.
divorcee, remained motionless and
looked straight ahead as her law-
yer, Harold Hull, answered for her.
Before the pleas were entered.
Judge Reeves addressed each de-
fendant
“Is that your plea?”
“Yes,” each answered quietly.
Hull told the court he had ex-
plained to Mrs. Heady “the full
implications of her plea here to-
day”
‘‘I feel she understands the na-
ture of the plea and its full con-
sequences,” Hull said.
“She is willing to pay the su-
preme sacrifice as her debt to so-
ciety.”*
Describes Vicious Plot
U.S Dist. Atty. Edward L.
Scheufler opened the brief arraign-
ment by recounting tersely the kid-
naping and slaying of little Bobby
The crime, ho said, was carefully
planned and executed and the
boy's life was taken in a “brutal
and cold blooded fashion."
Scheufler emphasized that cross-
ing the Kansas-Missouri line fixed
federal jurisdiction under the
Lindbergh Kidnap Law.
After Bobby was slain, his body
was taken to Mrs. Heady's modest
home in St. Joseph and buried in
the backyard, wrapped in a pastic
bag under a covering of lime. Six
days later the kidnapers collected
$600,000 ransom from the elder
Greenlease.
A drunken spending spree in St.
terests.
“Applying that test, I feel a
sense of reassurance. Studying
our own strength and that of Eu-
rope. under the massive Ameri-
can shield, I do not find it unrea-
sonable or dangerous to conclude
that internal prosperity, rather
than external conquest, is not only
the deep desire of the Russian peo-
ples but also the long interest of
their rulers.”
Referring to the “rapid and
ceaseless development” of atomic
weapons and the hydrogen bomb,
Churchill said:
“These fearful scientific discov-
eries cast their shadows on every
thoughtful mind, but still I believe
we are justified in feeling that
there has been a dimunition of ten-
sion and that the probabilities of
another war have diminished, or
at least become more remote.
“I say this inspite of the con-
tinual growth of weapons of de-
struction such as have never fallen
before into the hands of human
beings. Indeed I sometimes have
an awed thought that the annihil-
ating character of these agencies
may bring an utterly unforesee-
able security to mankind.”
Optometry Board
Limits Advertising
BEAUMONT in—The chairmin
of the state board of optometry
said today that regulations to limit
advertising were only part of a
set of rules and interpretations
sent recently to about 850 licensed
optometrists in Texas.
Dr. Fred Pray declined to com-
ment further on the advertising
issue. He said the board was con-
cerned “not only with advertising
but also with enforcement of eth-
ical standards within the optome-
try profession.”
Pray said the interpretations
were adopted at a meeting of the
board in Austin Oct. 17
He said the board is given cer-
tain powers to take such action in
the laws of Texas relating to op-
tometry.
He said that additional interpre-
tations will follow.
NEW YORK, Nov 3 (—Sen.
Joseph R. Mearthy (R-Wis) said
today a man believed to be Abra-
ham Brothman, who served a pris-
on term in the Rosenberg atom
spy case, is now free and working
in a radar plant.
But an official of the factory in-
volved said it was not a radar
plant, makes nothing having to do
with radar equipment and never
has.
The plant's main work, the offi-
cial said, is making connectors for
gas stoves.
The Senator, chairman of the
Senate permanent investigations
sub-committee, annouced that the
man believed to be Brothman, will
be called as a witness before the
subcommittee tomorrow.
The Senator, chairman of the
Senate Permanent Investigations
subcommittee probing radar es-
pionage, announced the man will
be called as a witness before the
subcommittee tomorrow.
Said McCarthy:
“The moment we heard that
Brothman was free and working in
a radar plant, we called the plant,
the Techni-Flex Co in Port Jervis,
N. Y., and one of his superiors
there said that the Brothman em-
ployed in the plant was the same
Brothman who had served a sen-
tence on a conspiracy charge.”
Atom spy Harry Gold has given
statements to Senate investigators
in which he portrayed Brothman
as a member of a Soviet spy ring
of a decade ago.
Brothman was sentenced to sev-
en years in prison in 1950 for con-
spiring to obstruct justice by get-
ting Gold to lie to a 1947 federal
grand jury investigating espion-
age.
Later, the U.S. Court of Appeals
reversed a portion of Brothman’s
conviction and cut his prison term
to two years.
the Officers and Teachers Meet-
ing”
Simon Home Named
Coleman-Runnels
Draft Board Member
COLEMAN, Nov 3. (RNS) — Si-
mon P. Home of Coleman has been
appointed a member of Texas Lo-
cal Draft Board No. 21.
Home was appointed by the
President s office after being rec-
ommended by Gov. Allan Shivers.
He succeeds J. C. Dibrell of Echo.
Local Board No. 21 serves Cole-
man and Runnels Counties for se-
lective service administration. Oth-
er members of the board are Louie
Newman, Gouldbusk, and H. R
Wiesepape, Ballinger
Louis brought their arrest Oct *
and recovery at half the ransom
Still a mystery is the whereabouts
of the other half. .
Hall, ne'er-do-well son of a Kan-
aas attorney, and Mra. Heady, a
housewife who turned drunkard in
recent years, were brought to the
federal building from the county
jail wearing handcuffs and chains.
After Judge Reeves fixed the
trial date, be commented to the
attorneys
“You realize there's only one is-
sue in the case.’'
It was apparent he referred to
the question should Hall and Mrs.
Heady be sentenced to death.
Girl, 3, Killed
SAN ANTONIO Un—Janie Ramir-
ez. 3, of Gonzales was killed today
when she was run over by an Ice
truck in the street near her home
The driver was Leonard Jackel
Jr., 2*, of Gonzales.
Sove Money Only With
Westinghouse
LAUNDROMAT
The
299.95
"You Cen Be Sure If It’s Westinghouse"
HARDWARE COMPANY
Dial 2-3241
WEATHER DATA
2 Coleman Officers
Complete Training
COLEMAN, Nov. 3. (RNS)—Two
Coleman infantry officers, 2nd Lts.
Fred Cross and Jimmy Hemphill,
last week completed an 11-weeks
infantry training course for newly
commissioned officers at Fort Ben-
ning, Ga. -
Cross was called to active Army
service last summer, and is not
assigned to a regular Army unit,
and Hemphill is a member of Com-
pany B, 142nd Infantry, Coleman
National Guard unit.
Parents of the two officers are
Mr. and Mrs. Coe Cross and Mr.
and Mrs. Wade Hemphill.
The Fort Benning school was to
thoroughly indoctrinate new of-
ficers with their responsibilities
and tasks as an infantry unit com-
mander.
GROUCHO SAYS, "See the NEW 1954
DE SOTO . . . born NOVEMBER 5 . .
weight 3950 pounds .. .at your
De Soto-Plymouth dealer . . . and
tell 'em Groucho sent you!"
Family Accumulates
Long Work Record
WATERBURY, Conn, un — The
Holihans — four brothers and a sis-
ter — don’t change Jobs very oft-
en. They ell work for Seovill Manu-
facturing Co.; and their service
records show that: Henry, a fore-
man. has worked for the company
50 years; Edna, accounting clerk.
47 years, foreman, 45 years; Earl
assistant foreman, 40 years; and
Orion, tool designer, 37 years.
For the 24-hour period preceding 9:30
p m. Central Standard Time Nov 3
Texas Stations: High Lew."
Abilene ...............S3 44
Amarillo.. * 4
Austin ..............
Big Spring .......7. M
Corpus Christi ........78 S
Dallas .............5 54
El Paso ..............T4 “
Fort Worth ...........86 56
Junction .............64 *
Lubbock ...............67 40
Presidio
Bra Antonio
Wichita Falls
.......76
Other Stations:
Albuquerque
Atlanta ...........T7
Chicago «
Denver .............45
Des Moines ..........58
Kansas City --------67
New York .........72
Oklahoma City 91
Los Angeles 57
Seattle 54
Minneapolis a St. Paul 53
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