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SLIGHTLY
WARMER
je Abilene Reporter
320ms MORNING
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES"—Byron
78TH YEAR, NO. 248
Associated Press (AP)
ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 19 59—TEN PAGES IN ONE SECTION
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 15c
SHOOTING SEQUEL
South Bend
Crash Kills 2 Fire Kills
At Big Spring
7 Persons
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)—Six
small children and their grand-
mother perished early Sunday in
BIG SPRING (RNS) — Two The youth’s clothes were in___- ._____.__.__
persons, one scheduled to testi- flames when he was pulled from a fire which destroyed their four-
ty in court this week were kill- the pickup and Cole extinguished room home.
ad early Sunday morning 8.9 them and wrapped Larez in » Man-
miles west of Big Spring on ket until an ambulance arrived at
State Highway 176 in a flaming
pickup-truck crash.
the scene.
Davis said Cole made all possi-
ble effort to avoid hitting the pick-
up. The collision occurred on the
highway shoulder where Cole had
pulled the truck toward the right
A seventh child. Queen Esther
Pitman, 6. survived when she
heeded her grandmother's warn-
ing to run outside.
The victims were Mrs. Mary
Reeves, 58, and her grandchild-
ren, Wilbur Parker, 10; Terry
Parker, 8: Harold Pitman, 7; Lau-
rel Pitman, 3; Jeannie Pitman, 18
Elizabeth Pit-
Mrs. Flora Larez, 62, former
Big Spring resident who had mov-
ed to Carlsbad, NM, about three
weeks ago, was killed instantly in
the wreck. | Big Spring firemen extinguished
Joe Louis Larez, 18, of Big the flames of the pickup, which months, and Mary
Spring and a grandson of the dead was a total loss. Damage to the man S months, all Negroes block
woman, died about 8 a.m. in a semi-trailer truck was estimated 1 The blaze in the concrete block
Big Spring hospital from burns and to be near $2,000. The front of the home on mile w est of South Be
injuries received in the 4:25 a.m. truck was badly burned, Davis occurred shortly after midnight
accident, said. ine children S mother, Amelia
accident. Parker, 32, was visiting in South
The youth was driving a pickup At the tune of the accident, Bend. She returned home an
east when the vehicle ran off the Joe Louis Larez was taking his hour and a half after the fire,
right-hand side of the road, hit grandmother to Big Spring where Dep. coroner F. Dale Nelson of
loose dirt and swerved across the she was to be a witness in an as- St. Joseph County said the chil-
highway into the path of a semi- sault to commit murder trial dren were born of two unions,
trailer truck, which struck the against Alfonso Rodriguez. . Neither father was located. Mrs.
right side of the pickup. Highway The tanzled chain 0 events be- Parker resumed her first hus-
Patrolman Kell Davis of Big gan Oct. 4 in > tavern shooting band’s name after parting with
Spring said. which resulted in the dea h cf Al- her second mate.
The pickup burst into flames fredo Larez, Joe Louis father, and The survivor said the blaze
but the uninjured truck driver, two others. Rodriguez and Joe started when burning coals popped
Oscar Frank Cole, 40, of Dallas, Villa were involved in the tavern from a stove onto a pile of paper
pulled Mrs. Larez and her grand- fight. and spread rapidly through the
son from the flaming wreckage. Robert Larez, Joe Louis’ brother, room.
------------killed Villa Dec. 28 in Big Spring The fire severed telephone wires
and later that afternoon a shot was in the neighborhood, delaying an
fired into the Larez home. At that alarm to the fire department
time, Joe Louis Larez said the
bullet barely missed him. Rodri-
guez was charged with assault in Ididi 10
connection with the fired shot, and, ,
his trial was set for this week Kentucky family
Funeral is pending for Mrs. La RC HUCAT I Olllliy
rez at Nally - Pickle Funeral tot „ . ~
PIKEVILLE. Ky. (AP) — Five
Arms Hike
Need Cited
WASHINGTON (AP) - A top,. . ,
American negotiator says the Homerher the bodsowastaken. members of an eastern Kentucky
United States can strengthen its in Spring near family burned to death Sunday
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“The only way in which we can S.E Antonio Mrs J 0 Carrasco the victims as Mrs. Alberta Hat-
really bargain with some confi-r E| p SHE 1 M Tor- field, 27, and her four children,
dence is to have the strength - and I E Karen Sue, 6, Jean, 5, Jackie, 4,
backing us up so that we can bar- Ms olemardernander and Deborah Ann. 1.
gain," said William C. Foster, Mey: Neon three sons Ray Judh Keesee said neighbors reported
He is chairman and senior ex- and Louis Larex, all of Big Spring; hearing an explosion
pert of the U. S. delegation at the three sisters Mrs Margarita Cal- 5:15 a. m shortly before the fire
Geneva conference on measures ancha of Carlsbad, N. M., Mrs was discovered. ...__, .
to prevent surprise attack. He tes- Frank Duran of El Paso and Mrs. Mrs. Hatfields husband, Albert
tified in secret before the Senate Juanita Hernandez of I os Angeles, Jr., and another child, 8-year-old
Disarmament subcommittee on Calif.: and 25 grandchildren. Estil, were not home at the time.
Jan. 30. A censored version of his Joe Louis Larez was born June Keesee said he understood the
testimony was made public Sun- 22 1940 in Big Spring and had father had left early to drive to
day. lived there all his life. Funeral is Matewan, W. Va. The other child
Footer said the Soviets are be- pending at River Funeral Home, was visiting his grandfather, who
coming increasingly difficult to Survivors, all of Big Spring, in- lives about half a mile from the
deal with because of their feeling clude his mother, Mrs. Victoria home,
of growing strength “economical- Larez; three brothers, Robert, Al-
ly, militarily and psychological- fredo Jr., and Gavino: and one
sister, Mrs. Domingo Vasquez.
at abou
Mrs. Hatfield’s husband, Albert
Estil, were not home at the time,
he understood the
-C
to
TRAFFIC BLOCKED — Winters firemen extinguish
flames from a station wagon belonging to Mr. and
Mrs. Leroy Muller of Ballinger, which was involved in
a flaming crash on U.S. 83 3 miles south of Winters
Saturday night with a car driven by Charles Earl De-
lano of Route 2, Abilene. All were treated at Winters
Municipal Hospital. Mrs. Muller and Delano were ser-
Car Crash
1 evas
■ ■ o Wa
iously injured in the crash and Muller had minor in-
juries. Mrs. Muller was taken to Shannon Hospital,
San Angelo, Saturday night and Delano was transfer-
red to Hendrick Memorial Hospital. Abilene. His con-
dition was described as “fair” Sunday. (Photo by Ed-
die Little)
Dulles Not Being Counted Reds Claim Spies
9 American-Trained
Out on Chance to Return
MOSCOW (AP)—The Soviet Un-
ion announced Sunday it captured
four men it called American -
By WARREN ROGERS Jr. sons of advanced years. Dulles presidential assistant on foreign trained Turkish spies and killed
WASHINGTON (AP) - Secre-will be 71 on Feb. 25 affairs. another when they tried to sneak
tary of State John Foster Dulles But it seemed unlikely that. 3. If he failed to respond to across the Turkish Soviet frontier
doctors gave him a fighting robbed of full health. Dulles would treatment, he could resign and under the cloak " darkness,
chance Sunday to recover enough ever resume his virtual one-man remain in Washington as a kind
from cancer to stay on the job direction of U. S.—indeed, free of unofficial elder statesman con- me 1am
at least part time. world—international policy, sultant on foreign affairs. 1 en 1 1
In private talks, the doctors Thus, Dulles appeared to be at To those who know Dulles. It
were reported annoyed at some the crossroads of three possible seems inconceivable that he would a
reaction to Dulles' new illness courses: willingly bow out completely at S S O
which already had counted him 1. If the spread of cancer is this time. His whole life has been the sdoe Amares
out of action at this critical junc- completely checked, he perhaps directed at one goal being see “for use against Soviet citizens
ture of world affairs could stay on as secretary for the retary of state who might attempt to interfere
They insisted it was too early remaining 23 months of the Ei- He now faces perhaps the great with their mission of spying "
yet for any worthwhile prognosis senhower administration, delegat- est test of his courage and re- Other material seized included
They said medical science is far ing all but the toughest problems sourcefulness — Soviet efforts cameras binoculars, compasses,
____-...................from powerless in dealing with to subordinates. I hinged to a May 27 deadline, to wirecutters, forged Soviet pass.
LONDON UP — A big step up Now the picture has changed. Band as his plane landed from cancer Perhaps more important- 2. He could resign as secretary oust Allied troops from Berlin and ports amj large sums of money,
in British-Soviet trade emerged With unemployment rising the Los Angeles, ly. they said, no dorter ever but stay on the scene, perhaps by force a showdown on German re- the account added
Sunday as a possible product of Macmillan government is looking Brandt flies or. to Tokyo Mon- would count out a man of Dulles' joining the White House staff as unification. The cloak-and-dagger report
Prime Minister Harold Macmil- for markets, and the USSR is day night for a two-week swing physical strength and will power
an’s mission to Moscow. a much more accessible market through the Far East on the final Dulles’ new cancer, discovered
Diplomatic informants expressed than it
belief the Soviets might repeat ,__, . ___
their spectacular offer of three Largely under British pressure
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• billion pounds-32,800.000.000 poets without objection from its >
Macmillan will arrive in Mos- allies.
cow Saturday. He calls his visit Next, the Soviets have stepped
a reconnaissance trip to sound up demand for plants for the food
out Soviet thinking. Foreign Sec- and consumer industry, which
retary Selwyn Lloyd will travel never were on the embargo list U. »• DFEETMEETIEERMMERCE
with him. In 1956, British shipyards had MARU ENF PAP UNITS (amile
Khrushchev made his trade of- full order books. Now Britain is
fer during his visit to Britain in losing its place as the world’s miMoanMTuekm" clouds and
1956 Although it led to an in- biggest shipbuilder - and many .TEMPERATURES
crease of trade, it never reached categories of ships can be export- 35 1:00 S
the level the British would like, ed to the USSR W.: 300 * * S
ly."
British May Get
Red Trade Offer
Hawaiians Welcome
West Berlin Mayor
HONOLULU un - The shoul-
ders of Willy Brandt. West Ber-
lin’s mayor, were draped with
leis of Hawaiian welcome Sunday
on his arrival for a two-day visit
in the islands.
He was greeted by top govern-
ment and military officials and a
serenade by the Royal Hawaiian
sultant on foreign affairs.
The announcement published in
the Communist newspaper Pravda
1 the captives as "re-
cruits of the Turkish intelligence
services trained in an Ankara
None Gel
Out Alive
In Accident
ALAMO, Tex. (AP) — Two
automobiles crashed head - on
about seven miles south of this
small South Texas town and killed
10 persons, including four children,
early Sunday.
None survived the crash on rain-
slick U. S. Highway 281 a few
miles from the Texas - Mexico
border in the lower Rio Granda
Valley.
Five adults and the children
died in one car. At a Pharr, Tex.,
mortuary, relatives identified them
as
Benito Comacho. 32 his wife
Adelia, 23. and their children
Zolando, 5, Ninfa, 4, and Minerva,
3, all of La Fern Texas.
Antero Ibanez Tovar. 37, of La
Feria.
Delfino Moralez Tovar, 37, of
Harlingen, Tex.
Juana Hernandez, 19. and Linda
Hernandez, 5, believed to be from
La Feria
The 10th victim was John T.
Closner, 42. of Mercedes, Tex.
Highway patrolmen said Antero
Tovar was the other driver.
Tom Handy, who Eves a few
yards from the scene of the crash,
stepped onto his porch about the
time the two cars met.
“It just happened so fast... All
I know was that one car was going
east and one west.” Handy told
officers.
Light rain was falling. It was
about 7:30 a. m
There were no witnesses.
Domingo Cantu who lives near-
by. said he heard “something go
boom real loud," looked out and
saw a man's body lying on the
pavement. He telephoned for an
ambulance.
Muddy, grim-faced rescue work-
ers, using improvised prize bars,
tolled more than an hour to
remove the mangled bodies from
one car.
Some of the spectators, stand-
ing in light drizzle, hung their
heads unable to watch as work-
men removed the broken bodies
one by one and covered them
with a sheet until the count
reached nine.
Only then was it determined
just how many had died in the
crash. Neither car burned.
Closner was the father of eight
children. Highway Patrolman M
L. Dailey of McAllen said the
speedometer of the Closner car
was locked at 80 miles per hour.
a much more accessible market through the Far East on the final vuues new cancer, discovered ■ s enel -6- D
____t was. leg of a round-the-world trip. He Friday when he was operated on IM M I m
is proclaiming West Berlin's de- for hernia at Walter Reed Army EGERS sINCO BEE ■ W
termination to bold last against Medical Center, is adenocarci- -
Russian-directed efforts to have noma, a glandular cancer. It is 1F *II G ■ • r
the divided city swallowed up in a recurrence of the cancer for. I | 11 )
which he underwent intestinal TAll V CELT ■ ■ * 4m.
surgery at Walter Reed on Nov. . . . .
3, 1956. LIMA. Peru (AP)—Land slides! Across Peru, more than 20 and Takdzha Agabala.
THE WEATHER
One reason was that more than Finally, a deal with the Soviets w
40 of the 87 products Khrushchev would give the British extra in- $
wanted to buy were on the North surance against the European
Atlantic Treaty Organization's Common Market The market 5
embargo list of strategic goods, started operating Jan. 1. British 7
Another was that the Soviets industrialists say they are already 66 a
wanted credit for articles which feeling the pinch—because its six and
the British could then sell readily member nations favor products to
only for cash. from fellow members.
AFTER 29-YEAR RULI
He said Closner was traveling
said the arrests occurred in Geor-east and the other car west
gia and Armenia where the-------------
"spies" attempted to penetrate the More Deep Sea
Soviet frontier at night recently. p ■ r L.
It added that one of the intruders, Research Sought
identified as Rexak Chaush, was . .
shot dead The other four were WASHINGTON (AP) - A warn-
listed as Kamela-Gil Riza Aidyn, ing that the United States will
Isa Kamil. Kaya Mamed Omar face serious military, political
and economic hazards unless it
speeds up its deep sea research
came Sunday from a committee
of the National Academy of
A medical bulletin issued by the have killed « least seven persons deaths have been attributed to ~ ,
State Department said Dulles and 25, others are missing in the landslides in the pest few days. Shortage of Food
spent a very comfortable night Andead mining town of Tabladi The largest number af fatalities Faced by Resort
and that his condition “continues ca. __9€Ce DY ResOR
satisfactory ” His pulse tempera Reports from the Rimac River occurred on one mountain road
ture and blood pressure were de- region of the Andes Mountains in- where a mud slide swept away a
scribed as stable. dicate the casualty toll may rise, small bus and a truck, carrying
The doctors have ruled out fur- Hundreds of persons were forced 11 persons to their deaths.---
ther surgery. Radiation therapy is to flee-their mountain Village Heavy rains on the steep Andes shortage Sunday
scheduled to start this week If homes, as torrential : AP Mountain slopes have loosened the A general store has exhausted are more urgent than those of
that does not control the cancer. y e ing a sPen a huge masses of earth, its supplies of staples, outer space.
================== Overhaul of Nation’s Tax
h and low same date last year: 49 acunc . doctor Household goods and domestic
================== System Asked by Solon
Tablachaca was swept away by J 1 W ■ " MOIS Y 1 th ■
flood waters. __
The town of Matucana was WASHINGTON (AP)—Rep. Wil- cents a gallon and a new 4%-cent tax increase before the study is
evacuated when the Rimac River bur Mills (D • Ark) virtually levy on jet fuel Both auto and made
topped its banks and new land- slammed the door Sunday on any aviation gas taxes now are 3 cents He predicted Congress will ex-
slides threatened the area tax cuts or increases this year, a gallon tend Korean War-horn corporate
Three turbines furnishing elec- including President Eisenhower’s The proposed increases in mo- and excise tax rates another
tricity to Lima went out of com- proposal for a l’-cent-a-gallon tor fuel tax income would go into year, as Eisenhower asked. But
mission when debris blocked a 14- rise in the gasoline tax, the highway trust fund and thus Mills opposed Eisenhower's plan
ing an invasion of the Dominican mile-long canal supplying Rimac Instead. Mills, chairman of the would not affect Eisenhower’s for an increase in the permanent
Republic River water to the hydroelectric tax - writing House Ways and new budget standing on precari-
plant here , Means Committee, called for a ous balance at 77 billion dollars.
THE TWO leaders usually iden- The power supply has not failed, brood overhaul of the tax system . for tax reduction in general
tify Trujillo as one of the few re-but the capital’s water supply has which he said is outdated and Mills said, A the moment, I can.
maining dictators in the hemi- been cut. stunts “ — ------------------------------
sphere. Trujillo, in reply, contends One of the flood victims was growth.
his foes have Communist tenden- police Corp. Manuel Gayturo, chief Mills' remarks, prepared for a
Sciences-National Research Coun-
cil.
DYER’S BAY. Ont (AP)—The Calling for an additional federal
30 year-round residents of this outlay of $651,410,000 during the
summer resort, isolated for almost next decade, the committee said
three weeks by snow, faced a food that from the military standpoint
unsolved problems of the oceans
Trujillo May Face Big Threat
By STANFORD BRADSHAW
CIUDAD TRUJILLO. Domini-
can Republic 'AP)— Generalis-
simo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
may be facing the sternest threat
of his 29-year career as boss of
the Dominican Republic.
| 1. A strengthening of the 12,000-
man Dominican army. Some re-
ports say a new military class of
5.000 men has been called up.
Semiofficial sources say 1.000 vol-
untary recruits have been added.
2 A reported increase in recon-
naissance flights by the Domini-
Government officials here are___.....__,_______
wary of talking about it, but they can air force, equipped with jets,
say Trujillo is alert to the danger * Attempts to purchase fighter
of a foreign-backed movement planes from Canada, a transac-
against him. The threats come tion ruled out by the Canadian
from his two biggest neighbors.
Cuba and Venezuela, whose new talks may be under way, how.
leaders have made clear their
hatred for Trujillo and his regime
Dominican exiles may help.
gees Haiti and the Dominican
Republic share the island of
Hispaniola
THE THREAT to 67-year-old
Trujillo comes principally from
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel
Castro.
Castro participated in an abor-
tive 1947 blow against Trujillo He
national debt limit from 283 to
285 billion dollars He favored on-
ly a temporary debt ceiling in-
been cut.
stunts
One of the flood victims was growth.
the nation's economic not see it in the picture during
1959. 1
Cuba and Venezuela are under-
has hinted that Cuba's new gov-
ernment might furnish arms to_____________.__________....
..... . . Dominican insurgents, as repay within the United Nations and the rescue two others
, government. Other arms purchase ment for Trujillo arms sales to
deposed Cuban President Ful-
gencio Batista now in asylum
SOME MEASURES evidently
ever.
4. A Dec. 22, 1958, pact with
Haitian President Francois Du-
valier to curb subversive activi-
here. ,
Venezuelan President Romulo
crease, if any.
Mills predicted the present tax
structure as having been built
mainly during World War II,
when there was no unemployment
of the San Mateo police force, who conference of the Tax Executives . "Tax reduction, as such.com s ...... - ... -------------
was reported to have saved four Institute, followed an earlier sistent with economic ^' , problem and the tax writers were
persons before he was swept away statement by House Speaker Sam should be deferred until budget looking mainly for more revenue,
eirnlene can he more seeurataly ‘‘I am convinced,” he said.
stood to be shaping up plans to persons perore ne was swept away statement by rouse speaker bam .a
assail the Dominican Republic by a landslide while attempting to Rayburn (D-Tex) that Eisenhow- surpt ses more ac ales
— " **" *4---. "—------- . er’s proposal for a boost in the foreseen. On the other hand, 1 do
Organization of American States, Gayturo had left San Mateo for gas tax was unlikely to get much
charging a denial of the princi- the stricken area in order to warn House support
ples of human rights of new landslides Lscamowen . .... .... ___ , 1----------------
A campaign of this kind might Houses along the banks of the should be raised 44 cents to keep tee chairman noted a study on ing an effect on employment,
1— 4 --*----• - i.,— Rimac were demolished and bun- r ’ - —--— al---encte of the hichwav nradram ie —^ “xiis “NA -"
deeds of vehicles were barricaded .
an armed attack might come is in by tons of falling rock obstruct- He
-=-11---41-1, ing mountain roads.
ples of human rights
foreseen, on the outer nano. 1 no “that our war-engendered tax sys-
not see any tax increases in the term has contributed materially to
picture for 1959 either." he added, many of the present difficulties
Eisenhower said the fuel tax The Ways and Means Commit- in specific industries and is hav-
the giant highway building pro- costs of the highway program la economic stability and growth.”
gram on a pay-as-you-go besis. due for presentation 5
. also asked a hike in by Jan. 3,1961. h—. — ---
the aviation gasoline tax to 44 Mills said he is against any gas should be made.
lay the groundwork for a later
military attack. Just where such
te Congress He did not go into detail on
what tax changes he thought
Betancourt is almoat equally as
outspoken A recent Dominican
have been taken here. These in-ties in their two countries, espe- —,-----__________
beinlly directed at political refu-inote accused him of openly favor-jstill problematical.
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