Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 28, 1951 Page: 8 of 8
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Sweetwater, Texas, Wednesday, February 28,1961
in»U«i Railroad
Worker Held For
ible Killing
HAMLIN. Feh 28 (UP) — A
railroad section worker was held
on charges of beating his wife
and young daughter to death
with a hammer after unsuccess-
fully trying to burn them in bed.
william K. Jones, 58, Hamlin,
detailed the crime in a statement
to District Attorney John Wil-
loughby, who quoted him as say-
ing the slayings climaxed a fam-
ily quarrel Monday night.
The longtime Santa Fe railroad
employe was jailed at Anson.
Willoughby said Jones went
early yesterday to the door of
the bedroom where his wife.
Mamie Elliott Jones, 55, and
their daughter, Lela Maude, 12,
were sleeping.
He tossed a container of gaso-
line onto their bed, the district
attorney said, and ignited the
fuel with a lighted match.
Willoughby said the mother
and daughter leaped from the
bed and fled to the kitchen,
where Jones cornered them with
a carpenter’s hammer.
. Mrs. Jones apparently was kill-
ed first, then the daughter. Wil-
loughby said. Jones then called
the telephone operator and ask-
ed her to summon the fire de-
partment and an ambulance.
The prosecutor said both moth-
er and daughter died from the
hammer blows, although both
showed signs of burns.
Hit And Run Case
At Rotan Brings
Probated Sentence
ROBY—James C. Kingery of
Aspermont, drew a two-year pro-
bated prison term after pleading
guilty to hit and run charges
growing out of the injury of a
Rotan woman, Mrs. Alva Pal-
mer, in Rotan last July.
Mrs. Palmer was hospitalized
several days after the accident.
H. F. Gruidstaff, Rotan attor-
ney, represented Kingery in
Judge Owen Thomas 104th court
in Rotan Friday. Kingery was
billed by the grand jury in the
October term.
INJURED CHILD DIFS
ODESSA (UP) — Sudan Kay
Showen, 4, died Tuesday from
injuries received in an automo-
bile-truck coliision which al-
ready had cost the lives of her
parents and brother.
Mr. and Mrs. John Paine Sho-
wen, of Odessa, age 35 and 23,
respectively, and their five-year-
old son, Robert, were killed in
the Sunday crash on U. S. High
way 80.
March Expected To
(onie In As lamb
By FaltrA Praia
The weatherman today sched-
uled a lamb-like entrance into
Texas for March.
The last day of February, the
Weather Bureau said, would be
cloudy in East Texas, fair in
West Texas. Slightly cooler
weather with no attributes of
the traditional “lion-like” March
entry was slated tomorrow.
At mid-morning, a minor cool
front had moved into northwest
Texas and to a line extending
past Wichita Falls, Abilene and
San Angelo. Behind the front,
Amarillo recorded a reading of
38-degrees and Lubbock 41 at
8:30 a. m. in front of a cool mass,
mid-morning temperatures were
generally in the high 60’s.
The cool air mass was expect-
ed to drop temperatures in the
entire west portion and the
northwest portion of East Texas
this afternoon and the northwest
and north central portions of
East Texas tonight Tomorrow,
the weatherman said, would be
cloudy and cooler in the north-
east portion of East Texas.
'No Meal' Club
Meeting Thursday
Mrs. W. E. Kirkpatrick of
Sweetwater, who recently head-
ed a group of housewives who
organized an effort to get house-
wives to protect meat prices, said
Wednesday that the organization
will have a public meeting
Thursday night at. 7:30 at the
county court room.
“Everybody is invited and urg-
ed to attend,” she said. “We need
to appoint some committees to
help answer the mail. I’m getting
letters from everywhere—mostly
from California. Some agree with
us and some disagree. There are
two sides to the questions, we
realize. We haven't cut the price
of meat but wt’ve got people to
thinking and shopping.”
MARKETS
LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH, Feb. 28 (UP)
(USDA) — Cattle 1100. Most
slaughter classes slow, weak,
spots lower, bulls steady, Stock-
ers unevenly lower. Commer-
cial and good slaughter steers
and heifers 29-33, few choice to
35. Beef cows 23.50-27, canners
and cutters 17-23. Bulls 23-29.
Medium to choice Stocker steer
yearlings 28-35.
Calves 300. Slow, weak to low-
er, some Stockers sharply lower.
Good slaughter calves 31-34, odd
heail choice to 35, common and
medium 25-31, culls 20-25. Medi-
um to choice stocker calves 30-40,
few lights higher.
Hogs 800. Butcher hogs 25-50
lower, sows weak to 50 lower,
feeder pigs steady. Good and
choice 190-290 lbs. 21 to mostly
2125, a few 21.50, good and
choice 100-185 lbs. 19.50-20.75.
Sows mostly 17-18, a few to 18.50.
Feeder pigs 15-19.
Sheep 400. Slaughter lambs
steady to weak, other classes
scarce. Good milk fed lambs 37,
few good heavy wooled slaughter
lambs 36. Good and choice shorn
slaughter lambs No. 2 pelts 31.50
Medium and good No. 3 pelt
slaughter lambs. 28.
PRODUCE
FORT WORTH, Feb. 28 (UP)
— (USDAI — Wholesale deal-
ers egg and poultry prices de-
livered Fort Worth.
Eggs, market weaker. Cur-
rent receipts, cases returned
10.50-11.30, few best whites 11.50-
12.50.
Live poultry market steady.
Per lh heavy hens mostly 27-28
cents. Light 21-24 cents. Roosters
11-13 cents. Fryers best 28-31
cents.
M'Sway
Phone S841 Show Bain or Clear
Show Open 6:30 P. M.
First Show 7:00 P. M.
Last Day
A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
Also Two Re«*l Comedy
SUNDOWN
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“Don’t Drive at Night-
Stop at Sundown”
Phone 488S
or 4886
Highway 80-84
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The Kilman’s
Sweetwater. Texas
ALLIES-
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Korean troops into the unchar-
tered mountain wilderness of the
east-central front. In their ad-
vance they seized hills six miles
west to five miles riorth of Pang-
nim.
Patrols Hit Seoul
UN forces on the western
front sent two patrols splashing
across ten Han River into Seoul.
One met minor opposition.
At the same time, South Ko-
rean raiders were disclosed be-
latedly to have struck new
blows against both enemy coasts
far north of the front.
A small force of Republican
troops seized a fifth is-
land yesterday off Wonsan, east
coast port 80 miles north of the
38th parallel, under the heavy
guns of an American naval task
force. The island was Hwangto.
Commander Killed
The enemy dead included a
North regimental commander.
An estimated 160,000 UN
troops, including seven U. S. Di-
visions, faced some 150,000 Chi-
nese and North Korean Reds
i across a shell-torn no-man’s land.
! It is the first time since Red
China’s intervention that the
allied forces have outnumbered
i the Communists. But the Reds
| have uncounted reserves farther
north.
On the east-central front, U. S.
| 7th Division troops pursued brok-
J en remnants of the North Ko-
J rean 3rd Corps north and west
i of Pangnim after cracking the
] enemy’s main line of resistance
I in a surpries attack yesterday.
Command officers said the dis-
| organized Reds were surrender-
ing more readily. Fourteen gave
up yesterday to one regiment
I alone.
Constable Charged
With Obscene Letter
HOUSTON, Feb. 28 (UP) —
Dale Richardson, the former ax-
swinging constable of La Porte
who received national publicity
on his one - man war on mar-
ble tables, was under federal in-
dictment today lor sending ob-
scene matter through the mail.
The indictment was returned
late yesterday by a federal grand
jury and Judge Allen B. Han-
nay immediately issued a bench
warrant for his arrest and fixed
a bond of $1,000.
The obscene matter, which Ri-
chardson is accused of having
mailed on Sept. 14, 1950, was
addressed to Nat Terence, pub-
lisher of the Houstonian, a week-
ly newspaper which has had
some strong things to say about
the ex-constable.
The offense carried a max-
imum ct five years imprison-
ment and a $5,000 fine, or
both.
Richardson said "1 knew they
were investigating men.” he
said, "but I told postal auth-
orities 1 would get me a hand-
writing expert and prove 1 didn't
write the letter.”
PAY HIKES-
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doesn’t, he plans to issue further
orders wherever necessary to
make sure that it does.
Beginning July 1. the retailers
will have to post the ceiling
prices applicable to them under
this order. Those schedules will
provide a yardstick for the price
controllers to determine whether
retailers are selling for more
than a normal amount above
cost—“normal” being the pre-
Korean margins.
ARTILLERY-
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cavalry, which looked like the
last fantastic charge of the de-
feated North Koreans, we ex-
pected the infantry attack
would be easily repulsed,” Hen-
ning said. “But we were up a-
gainst the Chinese, not North
Koreans, and no matter how
many we s’aughtered, more just
kept pouring down on us.
“As long as the ammo lasted,
we held them at bay. But us one
battery after another fell silent,
another hole was made for the
Chinese to rush trough. The
infantry fell back. I ordered
what artillery was out of ammo
to withdraw while those able
to fire kept on the bombard-
ment.
“Firing batteries leapfrogged
back, with one unit providing
some artillery support all the
time,” Henning said. “The
withdrawal at night under black-
out conditions and under small
arms attack by the enemy, over
a road which the artillery could
barely negotiate under ideal
conditions when it moved north
eight clays earlier, was made
without losing a man or any
equipment.”
Sn Angelo Dendf
Trial New End
SAN ANGELO, Feb. 28 (UP)-
—'The murder trial of former
district attorney O'Neal Dendy
was expected to reach the jury
today following less than two
day’s testimony.
The state rested its case yes-
terday after calling only seven
witnesses including Mrs. Ray
Elmo Canada, widow of the slain
man.
Mrs. Canada testified that her
husband was fatally shot on
Jan. 16 as he approached the
home of A. T. Owens where
Dendy had driven up a few
minutes earlier.
She said Canada, a tenant on
one of Dendy’s farms, was some
15 feet from the house when the
first shot was fired and was
less than 10 feet from the door
when he was shot in the stom-
ach.
But Owens, a witness for the
defense, said Canada knocked
on his door then grabbed Dendy
by his shirt front and shouted
“I’ve come to get you."
Owens said Dendy then pulled
out a pistol and shot twice, the
first shot going wild.
Fred Rvmer, state chemist
from Austin, testified for the
defense that the gun had been
held about four inches from
Canada when the fatal shot was
fired.
Manufacturers For
Sales Tax Program
DALLAS, Feb. 28 (UP) — The
president of the national associ-
ation of manufacturers today
advocated a sales tax at the
manufacturers’ level on all but
food products as a method to
balance the national budget and
halt inflation.
VV. 8’. Ruffin, Durham, N. C.,
textile manufacturer, said the
nation’s manufacturers general-
ly agreed a “pay - us - we - go”
plan involving the excise con-
sumption tax would curb in-
flation.
“The inflation spiral is the
worst enemy facing this nation
today,” Ruffin declared.
He said that [trice and wage
controls are “methods of getting
at the symptoms of inflation —
not a cure."
Ruffin, in Dallas as part of a
500,000 - mile tour of the nation,
said the only other “inflation
stopper” besides the excise tax
was increased production.
A-Bomb Effects
Film Is Shown
"The Medical Effects of the
Atomic Bomb,” a film depicting
the probable results of an ato-
mic disaster in (lie United States
was shown to the Sweetwater
Jaycees Wednesday.
The narrator of the picture
stressed the preparedness for
such a bombing is the only safe
line of defense to be taken by
the citizens.
Dr. Fred Dinkier was in
charge of the picture.
One new member, Dr. E. A.
Taffer, was inducted into the
Jayeee Club by Robert Whe-
eler.
News Notes
ConwUM
In the Reporter’s account of
a burglary at the Santa Fe Har-
vey House Tuesday morning, it
was reported that Mrs. Minnie
Hall, waitress at the cafe, was
sleeping when the thieves car-
ried the cash register outside.
Mrs. Hall said that she had re-
ported that she was sweeping,
not sleeping when the burglary
occurred.
rendition Improves
George Conley is reported
much improved at his home, 505
East Broadway, after having
been ill for the past week or
more. He is display manager of
Levys’.
Passengers Escape
As Plane (rashes
TULSA, Okla., Feb. 28 (UP)—
Thirty passengers credited a
coolheaded pilot and hostess to-
day with saving them from a
fiery death when their Mid-Con-
tinent airliner crashed at the
edge of Tulsa’s municipal air-
port.
One of the Convair’s two en-
gines cut out just after he took
off yesterday, forcing pilot ('apt.
P. C. Walters to belly-land the
craft in a level field one-half
mile northeast of the runway.
Fire broke out immediately af-
ter the plane scraped to a halt,
but Walters and hostess Cecilia
Little calmly directed the pas-
sengers out of the craft.
No one was killed, hut the
pilot and co-pilot, Forrest Hull
of Kansas City, suffered shock
and bruises in the smash-up.
They were hospitalized for ob-
servation along with three pas-
sengers who suffered shock.
3 Die In Plane
ATHENS, Tex., Feb. 28 (UP)
— Three Houston men were kil-
led todpy when one wing of their
light Navion private plane ap-
parently came off in flight and
the plane crasher into a heavily
wooded creek bottom eight miles
north of Athens.
The Henderson County she-
riff's department said the men
were identified as Thomas
Price, 2524 Shakespeare St.
James L. Newdin and W. A.
Dickson, all of Houston.
Valley Will Be Glad
When Wild Geese Go
EDINBURG, Feb. 28 (UP) —
Canadian geese, w'hich winter in
the Rio Grande Valiey, are due
to head north again in about
one w’eek but it won’t be too
soon for valley vegetable grow-
ers.
The geese, normal consumers
of the valueless wild cranberries
were deprived of their usual
fare by a January freeze. So
l hey turned to such choice bits
as Broccoli, Cabbage* lettuce,
alfalfa and oats.
Landowners north of here
kept the geese from their vege-
table fields by firing rockets at
them. But the geese immediate-
ly headed for oat fields.
The high - priced broccoli was
the birds’ first choice for food.
CASUALTIES
WASHINGTON, Feh. 27 (UP)
Names of two Texas soldiers
killed in action and a third who
died of wounds were included
today in Department of Defense
casualty list No. 237 for the Ko-
kean war.
The list:
Army, killed in action: Pfc.
Robert L. IJertolio, Port Neelies:
Cpl. Jack E. Burnett, Wichita
Falls.
Died of wounds: M/Sgt. Ese-
quiel H. Ramirez, Sierra Blanca.
PURGE
THOSE PLUGS
Let us check your spark
plugs. We’ll clean out car-
bon deposits . . . see that
the spark-gap is set right
. , . replace worn plugs. A
purge like this will spark
better car performance.
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FRENCH CABINET TO QUIT
PARIS, Feb. 28 (UP) — Pre-
mier Rene Pleven announced
after a two - hour emergency
session with his ministers today
that his middle - of - the - road
government will resign. He
said he would explain the rea-
son in a statement to the na-
tional assembly.
SMITH DENIES CHARGES
JEFFERSON CITY, Feh. 28-
(UP) — Gov. Forrest Smith re-
pealed today denials that gam-
blers contributed to his cam-
paign expenses, hut other than
that had no comment to make
on the kefauver crime commit-
tee report.
Beware Coughs
following Flu
After the flu it over and gone, the cough
that follows may develop into chronic
bronchitis if neglected. Creomulsioo
relieves promptly because it goes right
to the seat of the trouble to help
loosen and expel germ laden phlegm,
and aid nature to soothe and heal raw,
tender, inflamed bronchial membranes.
No matter how many medicines you
have tried Creomultion is guaran-
teed to pleas* you or druggist refunds
money. Creomulsion has stood ths
test of many millions of users.
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Soviets Grab Islands
WASHINGTON, Feh. 28 (UP)
—Ambassador John Foster Dul-
les said today that Russia has
seized a group of small islands
just off the northeast coast of
Japan and that the United States
will refuse to recognize the grab.
CASUALTIES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UP)
—Announced American casual-
ties in Korea reached 50,675 to-
day, an increase of 1,543 over a
week ago.
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