Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 177, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1950 Page: 5 of 8
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Trio Held After
Attempt To Peddle
|$200,0M Bogus Bills
\KW YOHK. Jan 27. <INSi—
h h i c* nwn who attempted lo jmkI-
[. u* J-OO.ihmi hi bogie. money for
iitMNW in cash, win- held by po-
, «• today following then aeuuic
M*t i **t service agents who
|j .*«l .u “interested buyers for
it. Far East.”
I A fourth in a n, idcntilM'il as
>mi J. Stamm. win jailed in
|. Angeles and federal authnri-
and police expressed belief
k, nationwide counterfeit ring
Ii ;lit lie involved.
I'li*- Now York trio wan arrested
Secret Service agents mimed-
itcly after they cloHt-d the deal
Li ytlMMMi iii cash.
I'" I lie - Oil III*- (JtMMMkl III Imgim
: * ney wan carried in two suit-
aiul win in ten and twenty
p i Ur lull*
They said the men, nil of whom
;i . i police records, told the prun-
ive buyer* that the suitcase*
o'airied $300,000 in counter-
• it money for which they de-
i mded siiti.ooo m cash.
The Secret Service Agents,
rATER DAILY I
riw
who came to New York from Lee
Angeles to set the trap, objected
to their pure demands and offer-
ad $40,000 -a price which th*
trio accepted.
When tne bogus money count
revealed that the trio had at-
tempted to short-change the "buy-
ers.” one federal agent comment-
ed
”1 guess there’s no honor a-
uiong thieves.”
The trio, chsrged with the un
lawful poKM-kslon and attempting
lo sell counterfeit money, was
identified as Anthony Chiarclla,
Vincent lUlinis.ino and Anthony
I'letarameilo, all of New York.
Blames Modesty
For $115 Loss
TULSA. Ok In . Jan. 27 UNSi—
A Texan blamed—of all things—
modesty today for the loss of
(115.
Salesman Flunk M Denham.
Jr. of Wichltu Falls, Texas, told
police he was taking a shower In
Ins holel room yesterday when
it woman entered the room,
snatched his billfold and fled. He
explained:
"I would have chased her but
I didn't have a stitch of clothes
on.”
THE FIRST
Gladewater Ex-GI
Dedicates Life To
Religious Work
4-Yoor-Old Boy
Darts In Front
Of Cor; Is Killod
HOUSTON, Jan. 27. HB-A four
year-old boy, hurrying home from
tlia store with a loaf of bread
under his arm, dartad in front of
a car yesterday and was killed.
James Shelton Rountree was
pronounced dead on arrival at
a hospital of a massive cerebral
hemorrhage from a basal skull
tract ure.
The boy’s mother. Mrs, Ruth
Rountree Lindblom, said she did
not know that James and his
brother, Ben, 7, had left the
house.
Jack Edward Schraeder. 29,
driver of the ear, said he did not
see the child before the accident.
“I felt the car run over some-
thing," he told investigating of-
ficers. "Another child 'Jamas’
brother' was standing on the
corner screaming.”
Mixed Drinks Tax
In Taxas Sought
AUSTIN, Jan. 27. 4R—A spokes-
man for the Texas Liquor In-
dustry today proposed a legal-
izing of mixed drinks with a
five-rent levy on each drink.
The proposal was made in a
telegram from W. F Derrington
of Houston, secretary of the Tex-
es Retail Beverage Association,
to Gov. Allan Shivers.
Herrington said that the tax
"will raise a great deal more than
the amount of revenue needed
by the state. . .**
The governor has called a spec-
ial session convening next Tues-
day to raise money to provide
for the state's hospital system.
Five Children
Burned To Deoth
LAWTON, Okie., Jan. 27 'INS'
—A young mother today blamed
gas stove for a fire
lighted |
len swept her two-room home
a
wind
at Lawton, killing her five small
children.
The victims, three girls and
two beys, ware the children of
Mr and and Mrs. Claude D.
Young. They were:
Judith Aileen, •; Patty Louise,
8; Phyllis, I; David, 20 months;
and Denny, 2 months
The 22-year-old mother said
she left the house yesterday for 1
five minutes after lighting the I
stove in the kitchen.
She was badly burned on tioth
hands when she vainly tried to !
enter the baming house to rescue !
the children.
North Texas State College, Den-
ton. Sunday at 2 p. m.
The Rev Philip Walker, pastor
of the First Methodist Church of
Denton, will uelivet the winter
commencement address on "Des-
tiny Has a Claim." Thirtv-five
matter’s and 295 bachelor s de-
grees are scheduled to be awarded.
Bachelors degrees will be
awarded to Gladewater persona as
follows: Donald E. Buckles, son of
4. and Dolores Smith, daughter of
Mr and Mis. Gilbert A. Smith of
Route 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Buckles of Route different trains
MECHANICAL AOE ADVANCES
FORT WORTH IP—Juke boxes
are used in the Texas & Pacific
railway station here to call trains.
A clerk makes the selection and
a baritone announces the first—
and later—last call for any of 19
2 Gladewater
Students To Get
Degrees At NTSC
Two students from Gladewater
are among a record group of 300
candidates for bachelor's and mas-
ter's degrees to be awarded at
SEE OR CALL US FOR YOUR
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1109 W. Upshur
Phone (32-W
50
GALLONS
OF
ESSO EXTRA
GASOLINE
SOLD AT OUR STATION
SATURDAY, JAN. 28
(The price of this gasoline)
WILL BE
DONATED
TO THE
MARCH OF DIMES FUND
CHARLES WELLBORN
Ah Charles Wellborn ol Glade-
water patrolled the mountains of
i Win Id W..I II with
11,1 Army 10th Mountain Divis-
ion. his religion "just didn’t mean
imn Ii one way or the other."
Hut in I94H he turner! his back
on the life in which religion had
no part and dedicated himscH to
teaching Christianity.
It was. not until he had re-
entered Baylor University to con-
tinue his prewar studies in politic-
al science that the full import of
religion as a way of life hit home
Wellborn's conversion followed,
and he joined the Baptist Church
ill Warn
After graduation, he served for
a ycai as instructoi in political
science ,*t Uavlor and in 1947 en-
tered tlie Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
Now with all the evangelistic
energy at Ins command, lie is de-
voting his emmary week eniis to
commuting from Fnrt Worth to
Atlanta, tia . by plane for broad-
casts over tlie Bajrtist Radio Hour,
currently siwakmg on the regular
Sunday broadcast at 2:30 p m.
During the summer ol 1947, he
liegan to sjirak in youth evangel-
istic cainjMiigii*. climaxed by city-
wide meetings in Houston. Dallas,
arid Fnrt Worth.
This decided him on a minister's
career, ami in September he entor-
ed tlie Baptist Seminary at Fort
Worth. Hr graduates this June HU
watchword ia action now for
Christianity, and the theme of hu
radio broadcasts is “Tune (or De-
rision "
FltOM THE PRICE Or EVERY OH. CHANGE SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY. JANUARY 2B 29 WILL RE DONATED
TO THIS rUND.
Si Bonaventure 32. Niagara 4(
H St Francis 4«
Villanova 107, John Marshall
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Heckle) *>fl, Unlv. of Mexico 31.
Mi sis-ippi Southern 39, Louisi-
ana Tech 91.
Fad Texas Slate 4H, Midwest-
ern 3k
Emporia Tchrs, H3, Washburn
43
Bradley W, Tulsa 48
Kentucky 3k. Xavier 47.
ADMITS SLAYING MOTHER
CHICAGO. Jan 27 IP A 14-
\ ear-old hoy has admitted that
sliot and killed his mother Ih?-
r an ii he scolded him for play-
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Greep, J. Walter. Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 177, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1950, newspaper, January 27, 1950; Gladewater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1008337/m1/5/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lee Public Library.