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the reports at his home at night.
Long said the arrangement be-
tween him and Thomason had its
origin at a New Year's Eve party
in the Abilene Club the night of
Dec. 81, 1952, Long’s testimony was
that Thomason asked Ms as-
sitance in getting faster service on
credit reports from the company.
Long said he told Thomason that
reports on Midland residents were
prepared in the company’s El
Paso office. Afterwards, he men-
tioned the matter to the manager
of the Abilene office under whom
Long was working. %
His testimony continued that on
one Sunday in January, 1953, he
flew to Midland at Thomason’s ex-
pense. Thomason met him at the
airport and they went to the field
office of one of Thomason’s house
ing projects. While there they dis-
cussed Long’s making the credit
reports and Thomason told him be
would have a girl in his office sup-
ply the necessary information.
Long identified seven credit re-
ports that had been introduced in
evidence as being ones he made.
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, May 12, 1954
SWEETIE PIE
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New Breck Church
Expands Program
BRECKENRIDGE, May 12. -
(RNS) — The St. Paul Methodist
Church, which was argantoed to
1950, will expand to “fulltime”
activities, beginning with the new
conference year June 1. The offi-
cial board of the church has ap-
proved a budget to provide for the
complete program.
A fulltime pestor will be ap-
pointed at the annual conference
June 13, allowing this to become a
“station” church.
Rev. James R. Holdridge has
been pastor of the church for the
past two years, serving also rural
churches in the Eolian and Gun-
sight communities on appointed
Sundays. These three churches
have composed the Breckenridge
Methodist Circuit.
J. A. McClenny is chairman of
the official board. Total member-
ship of the church is 100.
He said he made approximately
80 or 90 reports and was paid $3.
each for them. He also identified
photostatic copies of checks, both
signed by Monty Don Thomason,
one for $120 drawn on the Quean
Homes bank account and one lor
sat on the Blue Ribbon homes ac-
count. Both accounts were in the
Midland National Bank.
On cross - examination by De-
fense Attorney Devis Scarborough,
Long said he was unable to state
definitely whether he told Thoma-
son that he was not doing this work
legitimately hi line with his em-
ployment with Retail Credit Co.
He said he sometimes did some
of Ms regular work at home at
night but that be had never col-
lected money from his employer’s
customers more than once or
twice.
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Other government witnesses
Wednesday included Thomas E.
Sartor of El Paso, branch manag-
er for Ratal! Credit Co., and L. F.
Hardy, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., divi-
sion head for the firm.
Nose Store November, 1952
Sartor testified that the seven
credit reports introduced in evi-
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dence were not made by his com-
pany, pointing out that he could
readily identity genuine reports by
the initials of the Investigator mak-
ing them.
Hardy said from the stand that
* Thomason had an account with Re-
S tail Credit Co. from Feb. 13, 1950,
7, until Nov, 21, 1952. He said that
1 during this period the company
m. prepared 262 credit reports for
Thomason but none since Novem-
ber. 1952.
ON THE BLINK
Call Us For Efficient
SERVICE
FRALEY AND CO.
Phone 4-8036
James G Byus, cashier of Mid.
land National Bank, took the stand
to identify copies of the checks
Long received far the work he did
far Thomason.
Clyde Harris, loan guaranty of-
ficer with the VA regional office
to Lubbock, was the first witness
to take the stand. He identified the
credit reports received from
Thomason and said the VA relied
on these reports in approving the
loans for veterans.
Mrs. Cranfill
Dies at 90
Mrs. J. B. Cranfill, M, Abilene
resident for about 46 years, died at
Hendrick Memorial Hospital at
9:45 p.m. Wednesday. She had been
ill for a number of weeks and in
failtag health for a couple of years.
She resided at 1226 Peach St.
Mrs. Cranfill was born in Parker
County on Dec. 21, 1864. Her maid-
en name waa Belle S. Kirby. She
was married to J. B. Cranfill in
UN near Weatherford. He died
here in 1943. Two sona, Pat and Al-
vin Cranfill also preceded her in
death.
She was a member of the Locust
St. Church of Christ.
Funeral will be held at 1 p.m.
Friday at Laughter-North Memorial
Chapel.
Burial will be here in Masonic
Cemetery where her husband and
sons are buried.
Survivors include five sons, D. M.
of 1418 Washington Blvd. Silas of
Bantow. Harry of Loraine, J. I.
of Fort Worth, and Leslie Cranfill
of Denison; one daughter, Mrs. E.
C. Wood of Sweetwater; 24 grand-
children; M great-grandchildren;
and several great-great grandcihl-
dren.
Tech Exes to Meet
At Sweetwater
SWEETWATER, May 12 (RNS)
— Texas Tech ex-students from
Snyder, Colorado City and Sweet-
water will gather here Saturday
night for a buffet supper and to
view a film of the UM Gator
Bowl football game.
The affair, to begin at 7:30
p. m. Saturday in the Blue Bonnet
Hotel, will feature a film of the
Texas Tech - Auburn football
game last New Year’s Day in the
'Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla.
The film will be shown by L. C.
Walker of Lubbock, executive sec-
retary of the Tech ex-student as-
sociation.
An English chemist. Sir Hum-
phry Davy, invented the safety
lamp used by miners in 1815,
njoy living outside!
MCCARTHY
(Continued from Page M)
vestigation of alleged Communist
infiltration.
Adams, an intense man with a
low, sometimes husky votoe, said
the Jan. 21 meeting with Brownell,
Sherman Adams and others was
held because the McCarthy com-
mittee waa demanding the Army
produce members of ita Loyalty.
Security Screening Board for ques-
tioning.
The Army counsel said hs was
sure this would violate presiden-
tial directives, and he said he
wanted Justice Department back-
ing for his stand.
At the meeting, Adams testified
were Brownell and Sherman
Adams; presidential aide Gerald
Morgan; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.,
head of the U.S. delegation to the
United Nations; and Deputy Atty.
Gen. William Rotors.
Adams said he told the group
that the demand for production of
the board members “seemed to
be related to Cohn’s anger over
Schine.” And he-said he gave a
long history of “pressure” by Cohn
on behalf of the ex-committee side.
When, he said, Sherman Adams
asked if he had a written record
of all this, he replied that he
didn't and the No. 3 man at the
White House told him he should
prepare one.
Adams said it also was decided
he should call on Republican mem-
bers of the McCarthy subcommit-
tee—the Democrats were boycot-
ting it at that time—and explain
why Loyalty-Security Board mem-
bers shouldn't be subpoenaed.
He said one of the White House
aides, Morgan, went with him
him when he called on Sen. Dirk-
sen (R-ID). Adams said that dur-
ing the call he outlined “how the
Cohn-Schine situation caused an
ultimatum to be issued” by Mc-
Carthy in the matter of subpoena-
ing board members.
Adams Won’t Comment
At the White House, Sherman
Adame declined comment on the
testimony.
McCarthy, who looked at a news,
paper with an I-couldn’t-care-less
attitude during much of this testi-
mony, told reporters after the hear-
ing:
“Many statements that Adams
made are completely and provably
untrue."
Cohn nodded agreement.
Precise to the point of primness
in his speech, Adams said the lan-
guage that poured out of the 26-
year-old Cohn, and the "abuse"
hurled at both McCarthy and Ad-
ams, was "an experience similar
to none which I have had in my
life."
It began, said Adams, at a lunch-
eon in Gasner’s restaurant.
He said he brought up the Schine
case himself, hoping McCarthy
would tell Cohn then and there to
drop it.
Instead, Adams said, Cohn un-
leashed a torrent of abuse "first
at me, then at Sen. McCarthy.”
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