The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 265, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 12, 1954 Page: 2 of 6
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* THE Cl'ERO RECORD. Tuesday, October 12, 1954
News of The Week As Seen Through The Camera
MYSTERY STABBING KILLS TWO
'PRESSURE' CHARGED BY CAPEHART
JOHN H. HILL and R. Emerson Carson (right), both of Charleston
V, est Va., are shown as they testified in Washington before the Senate
Banking Committee. Sen. Homer F. Capehart (R-Ind.), chairman of
the committee, declared that "pressure" was put on him to prevent the
calling of witnesses in an alleged housing scandal. The Indiana Repub-
lican Senator ignored the “pressure" and summoned Hill and Carson
who claimed that they were the victims of a $5,000 foe-solicitation deal’
cm a defense housing project. (International Soundphoto)
| BABY BORN TO PARALYZED PAIR
A "MIRACLE BABY" is what British doctors call Douglas Irvine, shown
.ore being held by his father, John Irvine, while the mother smiles
li ppily from her bed in an Aylesbury, England, hospital. Both parents
are paralyzed frpm the waist down and were married in wheelchairs
in August. lOW. Irvine was injured in a shipyard accident and his wife
u.iS hurt in an automobile crash. (International Radiophoto)
GERM . . . FROM DELAWARE’
INTEGRATION COMPLAINTS result from a “germ that drifted down
from Delaware." Baltimore Schools Superintendent John Fischer
tells a group of mothera He refers to anti-segregation troubles
In Milford, DeL (International Soundphotof
PROSECUTOR LOOKING INTO FHA
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MAX H GOIDSCHEIN (right) teUs reporters in Washington that
rc. as prosecutor, has orders from Attorney General Herbert
Browned. Jr, to work with a grand jury investigating alleged
corrupt-on to ths FHA. Tns grand Jury called Clyds L. Powell,
ousted FJaA off)C|S|i, _ (International fowndaft**'
FLYING BOXCAR AFTER TAKEOFF EXPLOSION'
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FLATTENED LIKE a pancake Is this C-119 Flying Boxcar after It crashed In a barracks construction
project at end of the runway at Fort Bragg, N. C. Two USAF officers were killed and 12 persons
were Injured. The plane exploded In process of taking off. (International Soundphoto)
IN SAN FRANCISCO
BACK ON THE JOB
a tot OF CEOGRAPHY as well as divorce proceedings separates Joe DiMaggto, shown at home In
* “Franciscoand Marilyn Monroe, shown back on the job In her Hollywood stud,Reporters
noticed there were no photos of Marilyn in the DiMaggio'domicile In the studio with Manlin
Billy WilJ*r », .n.1 C.-.I., Ewdl. Sh, ..... . ** -
a scene In her current production.
FHA FIGURE POWELL DOESN’T TALK, BUT OTHERS DO
A MAIN hub around which the Senate banking committee's FHA probe is revolving is Clyde Pow-
ell, ousted FHA officiaL Here are scenes from hea ring in Washington. (International Soundphotos)
Here’s former FHA official Clyde Powell
at the hearing In Washington. Three
timet he resorted to the fifth amendment
to avoid answering the Senate banking
committee’s questions.
Nathan Manllow, president of the American Community
Builders, Chicago, tells the committee that Powet) bor-
rowed $7,500 from him while a big FHA mortgage was
pending. Mantlow's firm built a $58,000,000 apartment and
home development at Park Forest, III.
Architect Albert CasaeD testi-
fies that Powell demanded and
got n “gift" of $10,000 for
“services" Incident to financing
of Mayfair Mansions, an apart-
ment for Washington Negroes
Warden C. Dexter, Silver
Spring, Md„ testifies Powell
bet $100 to $120 a day on horses
over a nine-month period In
1940-41, and once bet $1,500 and
“didn’t havs It to pay."
John Bard, accounting official,
testifies Powell made bonk de-
posits over a 10-year period (to
April 1954) of $1S8J65 m„n
than his salary, that his tax
report showed only salary.
Kills 3 In Feud
BENITO RIVERA MALDONADO, 30,
a Puerto Rican, sits handcuffed in
a New York City police station,
after he had killed a grandmother,
her four-ycar-old granddaughter,
and their cousin, a 14-year-old
girl, in a Harlem apartment, He
used a television set and metal
chair as murder weapons. Police
subdued Maldonado, a boarder in
the apartment, as he stood over
the bodies. A one dollar bill was
placed on eaefi victim. The bills,
he said, were to “ward off the voo-
doo of dead folks that follows you
around." nnternational)
Kevin 3 (left), who is expected to recover, and Brian, 18 months
and Jean, 8 months, both killed. Lieutenant Labadie.
was on duty at the time. (International Soundphoto,
NEW YORK IS HOST TO UN DELEGATES
Sees Red Threat
JOHN E. PEURIFOY, U.S. Ambas-
sador to Thailand and former
Guatemalan envoy, tells a House
subcommittee in Washington that,
despite setbacks In Guatemala, the
Red menace “still continues in
Latin America.” Conceding that
the Kremlin had been successfully
blocked. Peurifoy testified that he
did not consider the "setback a
final defeat” for the Communists.
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR., U S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and
Andrei Y. Vishinsky (right), head of Russia’s delegation, to the U.N,
shake hands at party given for the 1954 General Assembly delegates
at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. The reception was arranged by
New York City’s Department of Commerce and Public Affairs. Some
1,200 persons, about half of thorn U.N. guests, attended. (International)
MRS. F.D.R. MARKS 70th BIRTHDAY
io ngnr censure
RABBI Benjamin Schultz, of New
York, ti swamped by telegrams
and letters from some 15 000 per-
sons anxious to Join his proposed
rally in Washington on behalf of
Ren. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis ).
His plan Includes a protest march
on November 11 against Sc : te
censure of the junior Senator Irons
Wisconsin. ’ (International)
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[he candles c
RCOSEVElT celebrates her 70th tirtb J3y by blowing
n a cake presented to her at the New York heari-
, c.. ,n Association for the Cr ted Nations. She hrd
, at net nome in Hyde Park, N. Y. (I tcrnationelj
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The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 265, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 12, 1954, newspaper, October 12, 1954; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth698934/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.