The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 233, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1954 Page: 3 of 24
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Jury to Get $109,000 Suit
Against D
: Arguments in a $109,250 damage
■ suit against O. D. Dillingham, Abi-
: lene creamery executive, are ex-
■ pected to be heard Thursday
morntag in 43d District Court
here. It is due to go to the jury
about noon. -
The trial got underway here
Monday morning.
’ Dillingham is being sued by Leon
Bridwell, who formerly managed a
farm for Dillingham in Runnels
County.
The suit was filed aa a result
of an automobile wreck in which
Bridwell waa involved.
He alleges that he was driving
a truck belonging to Dillinham,
which overturned three times, re-
sulting in injuries that permanent-
ly disabled him.
The accident occurrred Nov .7,
1952.
. Bridwell alleges that Dillingham
failed th keep the truck in proper
working condition, and that it was
unsafe. Dillingham baa denied the
allegations.
Wednesday morning the jury
heard Dr. C. E. Patterion, Dal-
las brain and nerve specialist, state
that Bridwell could never do any
hard work or heavy lifting again.
Dillingham’s attorney, Davis
Scarborough of Abilene, put on
five witnesses Wednesday. They
were Dr. J. M. Hooks, Abilene or-
illingham Today
thopedist; Hoyt Hasel, auto me-
chanic Mor Banner Dairies: Dan
Dillingham, son of the defendant;
Dillingham himself; and Jake Hai.
ley, foreman of the Banner- Dair-
ies auto shops.
Dr. Hooks, who treated Brid-
well. said he did not consider the
eman’s spinal column permanently
injured and believed he could per-
form ordinary labor. Dr. Hooks ex-
hibited several X-rays to the jury.
Hazel testified that he had made
Eisenhower
Says Indochina
Battle Critical
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 un—Presi-
dent Elsenhower said today-end
then backpedaled on it a bit—that
the battle against communism in
Indochina is critical in that there
is some evidence of a lack of en-
thusiasm for it.
Hours after the President made
the statement at a news confer-
repairs to Truck 247, belonging to
Dillingham’s Banner Dairies, the
one in which Bridwell was alleged-
ly injured.
Hazel described breaks in the
front springs of the truck, after it
was overturned. The springs and
bolts were brought into the court-
room and introduced into evi-
dence.
Jake Hailey testified that he had
gone after the truck involved in
the crash. He said it had two
springs broken and the tie rod
bent.
He said the truck waa in good
condition when it left the shop,
and surmised that the broken
springs may have resulted from
the truck leaving the roadway.
Dan Dillingham testified that he
had issued an inspection certifi-
cate for the truck, but that the
truck got away from the shop
without IL He said it waa later
mailed to Bridwell.
The defendant, Dillingham, said
he had taken care of Bridwell’s
2A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
S-A Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, Feb. 4, 1954
NO PROBES, PLEASE
Overseas Offices
Ask to Be Spared
Mrs. Robertson's
Rites Set Today
At Sweetwater
SWEETWATER, Feb. 3 (RNS)
— Funeral for Mrs. J. B. (Dovie
L) Robertson will be held at 1 p.
m. Thursday at the Evangelical
Methodist Church here, with the
Rev. Ray Seay, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Hylton Ceme-
tery with the Eastern Star in
charge of the graveside service.
Cato - Spencer Funeral Home of
Sweetwater la in charge of funeral
arrangements.
Mrs. Robertson died at 5 p. m.
Tuesday at Levelland, where she
was visiting a daughter.
Survivors include two daughters,
Mrs. Walter Storey of Artesia, N.
M., and Mrs. Arthur Payne of
Levelland; one aon, Truman Ro-
bertaon of Hermleigh; 13 grand-
children and 16 great-grandchil-
dren.
Pallbearers are Ed Kinard, C. C.
Kinard, C. E. Waggoner, Nolan
Cave, Duel Moore, and Millard
Hunter.
ence, the White House said Eisen-
hower waa referring to persons in
Indochina who haven’t committed
themselves to the fight against the
Reds and that he didn’t want to
reflect on the fighting forces or
government leadership.
With the Communists pushing a
new attack, the Chief Executive
waa asked at the news conference
whether he considered the situa-
tion in Indochina critical at this
hospital expense! st the Winters
Hospital, and had paid for medi-
cine and doctor’s bills.
He testified that he paid Brid-
well’s salary until May 29. 1953,
after his injury in November of
•52. He. alleses that he paid Brid-
well a total of $1,622.58, after his
injury. ■,
He denied that he told Bridwell,
after his injuries, that he couldn't
keep him in his employ.
Mrs. Bridwell, wife of the plain-
tiff, appeared briefly on the wit-
ness stand Wednesday afternoon.
Judge J. R. Black excused the
jury until 9:30 Thursday.
Bridwell is represented by Und-
erwood and Petty of Ballinger, and
W. G. Bedford of Winters.
- Auto Stolon Here
: Found Near Seymour
A 1949 Mercury stolen Tuesday
night from the used car lot of
: Huie Lamb Motors, 1542 Pine St.,
- ■ was found abandoned on U. S.
: Highway 277 about IS miles from
. Seymour by sheriff'! officers Wed-
: nesday, Abilene police were inform.
, ed. The auto waa taken by officers
to a Seymour garage to be stored
temporarily.
Melody
Shop
466 Pine
4-4848
time.
It's been that way ao long, Ei-
senhower replied, that it’s hard to
point out when it is more than
normally critical.
He went on to say that in any
such situation, the heart and soul
of the population becomes the big-
gest factor in success or failure.
He said be meant by that that if
the Vietnamese want to be free,
and believe they will be free
through the kind of war in pro-
gress, then there probably will be
success.
If it goes the other way, there
probably will not be success, be
said, so the situation is critical
in the sense that we have had
some evidence that there is a lack
of the enthusiasm we would like to
have there.
U. S. Returning
10,000 Workers
EL PASO, Feb. 3 un—The De-
partment of Labor began return-
ing today 10,000 farm workers to
Mexico through El Paso and Juar-
ez.
They are part of 45,000 braceros
to be repatriated all along the bor-
der to satisfy terms of the U. S.
—Mexico migratory labor agree-
ment that expired Jan. 13.
Four-fifths of Bolivia’s 3,054,000
people live at altitudes above 10,-
000 feet
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Movie Thief
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3 un—Police
aay a handsome ex-convict,
trapped with Lucille Ball's help,
financed four years of high living
by roaming the studios in the guise
of a writer and swiping 330,000 from
stars' dressing rooms.
Suave, mustached Kenneth Dart-
ing, 31, who lived in a $25-a-day
hotel suite, is in jail today on sus-
picion of burglary. He talked free-
ly of toeing $8,700 gambling at Las
Vegas, Nev., and of vacationing
in Canada and Mexico.
"I don't mind going up the river
again," officers quoted him. "I’ve
really been living for the last four
years.”
Police said he admitted stealing
from Miss Ball and her husband,
Desi Arnas, Ozzie and Harriett Nel-
son and Joan Davis. He recalled
taking 332 from Mrs. Nelson’s
purse and $50 from Miss Davis’
while they were rehearsing shows,
they said.
Darling, arrested last night, was
surprised by Miss Ball in her hus-
band's dressing room, police said.
“Brother, can she scream! I got
out fast!” police quoted him.
Miss Ban identified a police pho-
to of him, and it waa circulated
through movie and TV studios. Yes-
terday Bill King, chief electrician
at general service studios, recog-
nized him and called police. Two
detectives said they found him
looking over a dressing room. He
ducked out a back door into the
arms of two waiting policemen.
Detectives said he admitted near-
ly 500 studio thefts to the four
years, his take running as high as
$500 s day and $16,000 a year.
He said he roamed through mov-
ie and TV studios without Interfer-
ence merely by dressing well and
carrying a script tucked under his
arm
Henry F. Winslow,
Sweetwaler, Dies
SWEETWATER, Feb. 3. (RNS)
—Henry Francia Winslow. 91, res-
ident of Sweetwater for the past
three years, died at 5:39 a.m. Wed-
nesday in Sweetwater Hospital.
Mr. Winslow waa ben Jan. 14,
1863, in Montgomery County He
moved to Sweetwater three years
Funeral will be held at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday la the Voca Community
Church (near Brady). Burial will be
in the Voca Cemetery under the
direction of Cate-Spencer Funeral
Home.
Survivors include three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Rita Corbell of Clifton,
Ariz., Mrs. James Darley of
Sweetwater, and another daughter
of Lordsburg, N. M.; two sons,
Tom and Chester Winslow, both
of San Antonio.
AT C-CITY TONIOHT — Dr. Ed-
ward N. Jones, Texas Tech presi-
dent. will be principal speaker
tonight at the annual Colorado
City Chamber of Commerce ban-
quet.
ABILENIAN SAYS
‘Phantom’ Strikes;
Flees Alter Knock
The “phantom” struck again In
Abilene Tuesday night, police
said Wednesday.
A note reading "From the phan-
tom" waa left on a door at 1128
Orange St. After the “phantom”
knocked, he left before the door
waa opened, police said. R. F.
Pickens, who lives at the address,
came to the police station to re-
port the visit by the “phantom.”
Police speculated Wednesday
night that the “phantom” possibly
was fairly young.
They recalled that several
weeks ago the “phantom" struck
twice — on that occasion using
notes tied to rocks. One rock was
pitched through a window and the
other onto the porch.
One of the notes said "You're
next." It waa signed "Mr. X," po-
lice said.
Father of 10 Dead
HOUSTON, Feb. 3 on—Roy Pen-
nington, 54, was found dead, ap-
parently of suffocation, in his
smoke - filled house today. His son,
Ray, 14, found the body on a bed,
covered with a quilt. Pennington,
father of 10, had spent last night
alone in the house. Mrs. Penning-
ton and six of her children were
visiting relatives.
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Soldier Gets We
in Dallas Trial
DALLAS, Feb. 3 un—Donald Sut-
Cliffe, 22, an AWOL Michigan sol-
dier, suddenly changed his plea to-
day to guilty to rape and robbery
charges and received a life sen-
tence. 1
Ten jurors had been selected to-
day when the Detroit man changed
Ma plea on the robbery charge.
Two more were chosen quickly so
the full 12 could hear the guilty
plea to the rape charge.
Sutcliffe was charged with rob-
bery of a young Dallas husband
and rape of UM victim’s wife. The
couple said Sutcliffe forced them
to driye from Dallas to central Ar-
kansas Dec. 10. .
The couple, in the courtroom to-
day. both said they thought the Ute
sentence was “proper."
Rep. Teague Files
CORSICANA. Feb. 3 mn—Rep.
Olin Teague of Bryan filed today
for renomination in the 6th Texas
district He is theronly candidate
thus far.
27.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 UP — A
four-man advisory commission on
the government's overseas infor-
mation program recommended to
Congress today that the new Unit-
ed States information agency "be
spared further special investi-
gations by congressional commit-
tees."
The advisory group urged con-
gressional investigators to with-
hold their fire on the grounds that
the new agency “is off to a good
start" and should be given “an op-
portunity to prove itself."
The government’s information
network, which includes the Voice
of America, has been the target
during the past year of aeparate
investigations by Sen. McCarthy's
(R-Wis) subcommittee and a for-
eign relations investigating group
headed by Sen. Hickenlooper (R-
Iowa).
Apparently with these investiga-
tions in mind, the advisory com-
mission in a formal report sub-
mitted today to Congress said:
"Some of the investigations
which this agency has undergone
in the past year have produced un-
favorable impressions abroad on
the very persons to whom the pro-
gram Is directed.
“The information program is due
for further attention frorn our sub-
committee.” -■
He said Theodore C. Streibert,
who heads the information pro-
gram, “has had six months to
house clean it” and he still intends
to call Streibert as a witness to
explain whether the agency is "hir-
ing people who couldn’t paaa se-
curity clearance.” McCarthy con-
tends this happened when the Dem-
ocrats ran the program.
"It ia recognized, of course, that
congressional investigations are of-
ten needed for the sake of security
and economy; yet it should be re-
membered that the personnel of an
agency that to constantly under at-
tack or subject to the threat of
periodic attacks necessarily be-
come cautious, anxious, dull, pro-
sale and inefficient in their work."
The report waa signed by Chair-
man Erwin D. Canham, editor of
the Christian Science Monitor;
Ben Hibbs, editor of the Satur-
day Evening Post; Philip D. Reed,
board chairman of the General
Electric Co., and Justin Miller,
board chairman of the National
Assn. of Radio and Television
Broadcasters.
"No comment,” McCarthy said
when he learned of the report. But
he told a news conference:
Yarborough Says
Cities Handcuffed
WACO. Feb. 3 Un-Ralph Yar-
borough asserted today the state
waa handcuffing incorporated cities
with their financial troubles. -
"The incorporated cities of Tex-
as are the governmental step chil-
dren of the state and will remain
so until the handcuffs of restricted
taxation powers and Austin-control-
led self government are unlocked,"
Yarborough told the Lions Club at
their noon luncheon.
Yarborough, an Austin attorney,
was beaten for governor in 1952.
He said nothing on his political
plana today.
He asaerted the state keeps in-
corporated cities and towns in a
straight jackal so about all they
can do ia to raiae the property
taxes on the over - burdened home.
owners to get more needed reve-
nue.
“The higher taxes are not the
fault of conscientious mayors and
commissioners; who are merely
scapegoats for a alate political ma-
chine." he said.
Trailer Missing
F. A. Lowe, 618 Walnut St.,
told police Wednesday afternoon
that a two-wheel trailer waa miss-
ing from his place.
Meeting Willi Red
China Is Studied
BERLIN, Feb. 3 in Diplomatic
sources said tonight the three
Western Poweri are studyins a
proposal to meet with Communist
China in a seven-nation Korean
peace conference.
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Abilene’s Prescription Drug Store
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ABILENE, TEXAS
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