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COOLER
TONIGHT
VOL. LXXV, NO. 205 Associated Preu (AP)
The Abilene Reporter-J2ems SUNTAY
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOI IR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES" .Byron
ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1956—SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES IN SIX SECTIONS
PRIC E DAILY 5c. SUNDAY 10c
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POLIO POLICE
Reds Imprison
AP Newsman,
, Wife as Spies
BLOCKADE EFFECTIVE — Junior High School students Susan Irwin (left) and Sherry
Johnson set up an effective polio blockade for this passerby at North 1st and Poplar
Sts. He paid off and got a “polio pass.” (Staff photo by Don Hutcheson)
Enthusiastic Polio Police
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$7,173 in Blockade
“Polio -police" who fanned out
over the city Saturday netted $7,-
173 78 for the 1956 March of Dimes.
Heading for a goal of 97,500, the
corps of blockade workers fell
short about 9320 However, the 1956
figure is about 91.000 more than
was raised last year in the block
ade.
Funds contributed to the workers
raised the entire March of Dimes
fund to approximately 917.000
Woodrow F. Watts, campaign treas-
urer, said Friday night that the
fund, prior to the blockade, stood
at about $10,000.
Joe Grba, chairman of the block-
ade, said Saturday night he was
"pleased and tickled to death with
the whole setup." He said there
was no confusion, it was a perfect
day and everybody did a swell job.
He cited the junior high school
girls, who, be said had a "picnic. ‘
Several clubs used more working
material than their "Polio Police"
armbands and pails. The Jaycees,
located in front of the Coca-Cola
Building, had a public address sys
tem, record player and blinking
lights.
Elmwood West Lions Club solicit-
ed the most contributions, a total
of 9530.31. The Cactus Lions Club
was next with 9507 05.
Other clubs and their collections:
South and North Junior High
Schools, 5384 25; Rotary Club
5238 33; Optimist Club, $470.35;
Wah-Wahtaysee, McMurry College,
$490.26; Abilene Lions Club, $387.64;
Key City Kiwanis Club, 3440 46;
Alpha Omicron, 3211 89; ACC Kit-
ten Klub, N. 13th and College Dr.,
$327.63; Kitten Klub, Pine St. and
Ambler Ave., 9281,51; H-SU Cow-
girls. N. 8th and Grape Sts., $204.-
37. Cowgirls, N. 8th and Hickory'
Sts., 5409 03; Civitans, $247.89;
Abilene High School, 5290 74; Jay
cee-ettes, $301.79; Abilene Jaycees,
8384 35; Abilene Kiwanis Club,
9296 39; Exchange Club, $505.89;
Lincoln Junior High, 9231 21; and
Circle K Kiwanis, who worked one-
half day, $93.44.
IKE SILENT
‘Brink-of-War’
Dispute Rages
Driver Badly
Hurl as Auto
Overturns
Three Abilene men were injured,
one seriously, about 3:30 p m. Sat-
urday when their car overturned
24 miles southwest of Abilene on
U.S. 277.
The injured were identified by
the Highway Patrol as Lonnie Nor-
man Roark, 28, of 1604 N. 18th
St.; Lester Lee Qualls, 17. and Ver-
non Long, 26. Addresses of Qualls
and Long were unavailable.
Roark was reported t be suffer
inf from a serious head injury at
Hendrick Memorial Hospital.
Qualls and Long were given
emergency treatment at the hospi-
tal for minor injuries and released
A Spill Funeral Home ambulance
from Winters brought the trio to
the hospital.
Highway Patrolmar M. L. Bate-
man who investigated the accident,
said the car in which the men
were riding was owned by Qualls,
but that Roark was driving. He
said they were headed south and
apparently Roark was attempting
. to pass another car when he lost
control. The auto overturned twice
and was heavily damaged.
Bateman said the accident occur-
red an a straight stretch of high-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 UP -
Democrats launched fresh attacks
today on Secretary of State Dulles'
statement that this country had
averted war by going to the "brink
of war," but Republicans rose to
his defense.
The White House remained silent
on the controversy, which grew out
of a Life Magazine interview
quoting Dulles that Red China had
been blocked three times by going
"to the verge without getting into
war."
Dulles said this policy of "deter-
rence" had worked successfully in
the Korean, Indochinese and For-
mosan crises of 1953 and 1954. He
called it "a necessary art,", and
said "if you are scared to go to
the brink, you're lost."
‘Russian Roulette’
In Chicago, Adlai E. Stevenson
said in a statement Dulles is
"willing to play Russian roulette
with the life of our nation." Steven-
son, a candidate for the Demo-
cratic presidential nomination,
added that the art of diplomacy,
"especially in this atomic age.
must lead to peace, not war or the
brink of war ”
Sen. Humphrey (D-Minn), speak-
ing out for the third time in three
dais in criticism of the article,
called on President Eisenhower "to
tell the world that the United
States has no intention of conduct-
ing its foreign policy by bringing
us and the world, to the brink of
war.”
But Sen. Knowland (R-Calif) con-
tended Dulles "is not advising that
we go to the brink of war as a
policy."
He said Dulles meant only that
potential enemies may restrain
themselves if they realize there is
a point beyond which the United
States cannot be pushed.
Praise Policy
Seven Republican House mem-
bers who toured last fall behind
the Iron Curtain issued a statement
praising Dulles' foreign policy as
"the nation's best guarantee for
maintaining peace.”
Evangelist Billy Graham, who
talked with Dulles before leaving
on an evangelistic tour to India.
said he thought Dulles "has demon-
strated that he is a man of peace."
Graham said the magazine article
was mentioned casually during the
conversation, but he did not recall
the exact reference. ■
The article also had repercus-
sions overseas. In Vienna, the
Communist paper Volksstimme
said Dulles' statements were "a
virtual refutation of claims the
United States would never touch
off an atomic war."
The Soviet newspaper Izvestia
referred to "the peculiar theory"
of Dulles "on constantly keeping
international tension 'on the verge
of war.’" and said it "cannot be
regarded as other than open en-
couragement of bellicose state-
ments of American generals and
admirals."
There were indications that Brit-
ish Prime Minister Anthony Eden,
due here late this month for a
series of high level discussions,
will seek to find out whether an
Eisenhower "peace policy” or the
“brink of war" theory is guiding
United States actions.
VIENNA, Austria, Jan. 14 W—
Radio Budapest announced tonight
Endre Marton, a correspondent of
The Associated Press in Commu-
nist-ruled Hungary, has been sen-
tenced to six years in prison on a
charge of espionage. His wife
Ilona, who worked for the United
Press there, was sentenced to
three years, the radio said.
The Martons arc Hungarian na-
tionals. Marton, 44, had been a
part-time- correspondent for the
AP in Budapest from 1947 until he
was arrested-apparently last Feb-
ruary. Mrs. Marton had written
for the UP about the same length
of time. They were accused of
spying for the U.S. Intelligence
Service.
Radio Budapest said the Martons
and three other Hungarians were
sentenced by a Hungarian military
court. No date of trial was men-
tioned.
Of the other defendants. Bela
Koposi was sentenced to life in
prison, Arpad Ferenc to 15 years
and Balasz Cornel to eight years.
All were reported found guilty of
espionage.
The broadcast said Kaposi and
Cornel were employed by the
American legation in Budapest be-
fore their arrest.
Marton dropped out of sight 11
months ago The last telephone
contact with Mrs. Marton from
Vienna was June 19. Soon after
that, reports circulated that she
too had been arrested.
IT’S A GIRL
FOR SAM VI
Shades of Texas history!
A daughter was born here In
Abilene at 12:29 am. Saturday
to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Houston.
Sam, a band director at
Stephenville High School, is no
known relation to the Houston
everybody remembers, bow-
ever.
But he does have a distinc-
tion. He's Sam G. Houston VI!
His father, Sam G. Houston V,
lives at 1912 Beech St., in Abi-
lene. Sam Sr. who is really
Sam Jr. 'now we're mixed up)
says this is his first grand-
daughter.
Sam Jr. (the VI) graduated
from Abilene High School and
went to Hardin-Simmons Uni-
versity, where he got his de-
gree in 1949.
His first child, weighed in
Saturday at 4 pounds and
three-eighths ounces at Hen-
drick Memorial Hospital.
$200 Reward
For Arrests
Russians Announce
New Five Year Plan
MOSCOW, Sunday, Jan 15 —
The Soviet Union unveiled today
its sixth five-year plan. It calls
for tremendous boosts in heavy in-
dustry with special emphasis
placed on an increase in production
of atomic energy.
Farm output was also stressed.
The huge Soviet farm collectives
are called upon to increase pro-
duction by 100 per cent
The new goals were announced
in advance of the 20th Congress of
the Soviet Communist party next
month, when the party will be
asked to approve the new five-
year plan.
Cooler Air,
Dust Slated
Here Tonight
Two cold fronts are due to arrive
in Abilene over the weekend, but
neither is expected to bring severe
weather to Texas.
The first front, a slowpoke which
had pushed down to the Texas Pan-
handle Saturday night, was to move
through Abilene early Sunday, but
weathermen here said tempera-
tures would be affected very little.
Highs of 65 to 70 were forecast for
Sunday.
A stronger front, located Satur-
day night over Nebraska, is expect-
ed in West Central Texas Sunday
night, and will push temperatures
down to 35 to 40 degrees early Mon-
day. The mercury is expected to
get no higher than the 50s Monday.
A low of 45 was forecast for Abi-
lene Saturday night.
The second cold front was expect-
ed to stir up some dust in the Abi-
lene area, but it carries no mois-
ture.
By early Saturday evening the
first front had passed Amarillo and
was moving toward Lubbock.
Visibility at Dalhart was limited
to about three miles as the cold
front moved through. Winds also
kicked up swirls of dust around
Lubbock
Al Corsicana
CORSICANA, Jan. 14 UP - The
Union which has called a strike
against the Oil City Iron Works
offered a $200 reward today for the
arrest of those responsible for
violence which brought in three
Texas Rangers,
Mayor Walter Erwin denied
charges he had not consulted other
local officers before asking Gov.
Shivers for Ranger protection
yesterday.
"If throwing incendiary bombs
at citizens’ homes and firing shot-
guns through their windows is not
enough to merit this action, I
honestly do not know what would
merit it,” the mayor said.
All was quiet at the Iron Works,
where United Steel Workers Union
pickets patrolled. Ranger Capt.
Bob Crowder said 140 employes
are on strike and 50 at work, but
the plant is regularly closed Satur-
days And Sundays and did not
operate today.
J. J. Robinson, union district
representative who made the re-
ward offer, said:
"We are just as eager as the
company to catch these hoodlums.
They were not union men We don't
want violence any more than the
company."
Robinson also said the union
welcomes the Rangers.
Man Injured
Near S’water
SWEETWATER, Jan 14 - An
unidentified man was unconscious
in Sweetwater Hospital late Satur-
FEW DAYS APART
Couple Hospitalized
Southeast Colorado
Has Earth Tremor
LAMAR, Colo., Jan. 14 —An
earth tremor described as ' fairly
sharp" was felt in this southeast-
ern Colorado community today.
THE WEATHER
WINNING SMILE — Little Jane Marie Frey, 11-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Frey of Olfen, cap-
tured the hearts of the crowd as well as both the grand
and reserve champion Southdown breeding ewes at the
Ballinger FFA and 4-H Club Livestock Show Saturday.
Jane, a 4-H Club member, poses here with her grand
champion. See story and pictures, page 9-D. (Staff photo
by Duane Howell)
10 DAYS TO SAY NO
Ike Notified Name
• Okay on NH Ballot
day night after having been found
injured in a one-car automobile ac-
cident on U.S. Highway 80 eight' sional districts.
CONCORD, N H, Jan. 14 —A
telegram was sent late today to
President Eisenhower in Washing-
ton advising him that "petitions
which appear to qualify" his name
to be placed on the ballot, March
13. in New Hampshire’s preference
primary have been filed.
The message was sent to the
White House by Harry E. Jackson,
deputy secretary of state of New
Hampshire, after he accepted peti-
tions filed by Maurice Grant, Man-
chester automobile dealer.
Earlier Jackson had ruled one
of two petitions filed by Grant was
invalid because it lacked the nec-
essary 50 valid signatures. Grant
then filed a new petition with 56
signatures which were ruled valid.
A second petition with 76 signa
lures was ruled valid earlier by
Jackson.
In order to enter a person's
name as a candidate the petitions
must have 50 valid signatures from
each of the state's two congres-
Rivers Oul
In Same Area
Of 1sf Flood
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 m-
North coastal California, already
drenched beyond the saturation
point, was hit by a new series of
floods tonight as heavy rains con-
tinued to pelt down.
The new flood area ranged from
the San Mateo Peninsula, south of
San Francisco, north to the Ore-
gon line.
The rains, which started last
night and dumped 3% inches of
rain here in a day, were expected
to continue through Sunday night
as far south as Paso Robles and
Fresno.
Both the multiforked Eel and the
Mad rivers were out of their banks
at places again in Humboldt Coun-
ty, where Christmas-week floods
caused unprecedented devasta-
tion.
However, Weather Bureau men
and disaster specialists who were
alerted to move swiftly into criti-
cal areas did not expect—for the
time at least-that the row floods
would reach the severity of those
which swept the region three weeks
ago.
Mindful of the devasting De-
cember floods, which cost 62 lives,
500 million dollars and flooded a
million acres, Army engineers and
Civil Defense officials throughout
northern California were on a con-
stant standby alert again tonight.
Bombing 'Tip'
Branded Hoax
After Search
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 14 UR
—A telephoned tip of a threat to
bomb Middlesex County ja" : 0
was branded a hoax by officials
after a thorough search of the in-
stitution housing some 100 prison-
ers, including Joseph (Specs)
O’Keefe, key witness in the solu-
tion of the Brink’s robbery.
Sheriff Howard Fitzpatrick said
the “thing appears to be a com-
plete hoax." He told that to news-
men after scores of police searched
the building and area for more
than 90 minutes.
Nevertheless, he ordered in-
creased watches in the building
and surroundings.
The bomb scare climaxed a day
during which a Brink's employe
received two telephoned threats.
In the jail threat, police shut off
the area around the old red-brick
building, ordering traffic and pe-
destrians out of the congested sec-
tion.
The telephoned tip was made by
a man to Boston police. He told
Police Lt. Herbert F. Mulloney:
"I'm going to give you a little
information. I'll say it once and I
won't repeat it. Don’t interrupt
me.
“They are going to plant a
bomb on the roof of Middlesex
jail. It will be a big one, about 35
sticks of dynamite. It'll be soon
tonight.”
The man hung up
press secretary James C. Hagerty
said there would be no comment
on the telegraphic notification over
the weekend.
"We probably will take a look
at it next week," be said when
informed the telegram had been
sent to the President by the New
Hampshire deputy secretary of
state
In Illuois, Eisenhower's name
will be entered in the primary
Monday.
Illinois Petitions
That will be the first day for
filing petitions for a place on the
ballots for the April 10 vote.
Gov. William G. Stratton's office
said today Eisenhower's petitions,
which required from 3,000 to 5.000
signatures, were completed and
that Stratton will present them in
person to the secretary of state's
office Monday afternoon.
The presidential primary voting
is not binding on convention dele-
gates. %
Adlai E. Stevenson will enter on
the Democratic side. Sen. Estes
Kefauver of Tennessee, the lone
Democrat listed on the presidential
ballot in this state four years ago,
has not said whether he will file
this time.
The President's name will ap-
pear on the ballot at the first-in-
the-nation primary unless he sig-
nifies his desire to withdraw his
name within 10 days.
In Washington, White House
miles east of here about 9 p m
His condition was very serious
Doctors were working on him in
the emergency room.
Highway Patrolman) Herman
Seale tentatively identified the man
as Howard L. Mitchell, 28, of Chili-
cothe. -
The eastbound 1955 Oldsmobile
jumped a barrier, went over to
the north side of the highway 400
feet off the highway into a 12-foot
deep creek, Seale said.
Weatherford Man
Seeks Senate Post
State Rep. Floyd Bradshaw of
Weatherford announced Saturday
that be will run for the State Sen
ate in District 22, composed of Cal-
lahan, Clay, Denton, Eastland,
Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Park-
er, Stephens, and Wise Counties.
Bradshaw has served four terms
from Parker and from Jack. Park-
er, and Wise Counties. He served
on the Insurance Committee of the
House for the last two terms.
He is seeking the position now
being held by Mrs Wayne Wagon
siller of Bowie, who is filling out
the unexpired term of her late
husband.
NEWS INDEX
SECTION A
Solution of Crime Classic
Even Surprised Neighbors
lieve her husband had done any-
thing wrong. /
There were some whom their
neighbors viewed with lifted eye-
brow, knowing of one-time police
questionings. One of these was An-
thony Pino who might have been in
Italy- instead of under arrest to-
day if he had not successfully
fought deportation.
And there were others who had
been unable to keep clear of the
law.
BOSTON, Jan. 14 W—In an era
of youth in crime, the exploit of
boldest imagination, most expert
execution, and biggest money-haul
—the great 1960 Brink's $1,218,211
cash robbery, is charged to 11 men
who at the time were mostly near
middle-age.
Six years ago, they averaged 40
years old.
Neighbors in scattered Boston
suburban real estate developments
heard with shocked unbelief the
news this week That the quiet
householder next door, the man
whose little girl played with theirs,
the amateur gardener, the church-
goer, the friendly man who wor-
ried lest his power lawn mower
disturb hers—that these had been
seized as the perpetrators of the
nation's greatest cash robbery.
These were men with criminal
records. But they had mostly
sought at least outwardly these
middle-income lives of respectabil-
ity whose reward is obscurity.
They had engaged in such various
occupations as bartender, liquor
store operator, chauffeur and truck
driver, self-employed vending ma-
chine operator, pool room manag-
er. diner operator .automobile
and truck selling, and longshore
man—a trade which at different
times attracted three.
Can’t Believe It
True, one of the number had re-
cently experienced some trouble
with the law but not of a nature
to indicate current wealth. He had
served time for not paying 1944-
45 federal income taxes, and a tax
lien had been placed on his $13,000
home When FBI men Thursday
came to take him away, his young
son—not understanding-rushed to
a phone to call police.
One incredulous wife said
through tears she would never be-
Obituaries
Oil news
.......5 3
...10-11
U.S. MANEF A SEC
ABILENE AND VICINITY - Partb
oudy Sunday and Monday, Mild Sunday
as night and colder
Hih "ohaly in the
With Same Aliment ==*
. Monday, High Sanda
basement floor and her father on ^ nisht 3 to 40
An Abilene couple, Mr. and Mrs.
M. E. Bourland, 1809 Oak St., de
clara It’s not something they
“et,” but they are both in Hen
drick Memorial Hospital, suffering
fiom almost the same ailment.
Mr. Bourland, 54. entered the
hospital Jan. 4, plagued with a kid-
ney aliment.
Mrs. Bourland, 55, entered the
hospital Wednesday and had sur-
- gery Thursday for a bladder con-
dition. She became ill after her
husband entered the hospital.
Their daughter, Mrs Charles
Marshall of Cactus, Tex., says that
vat first her mother was on the
the third floor. "I thought I'd run
off a pound or two walking back
and forth, but it just increased my
appetite," she declares Mrs. Bour-
land is now on the third floor just
down the hall from her husband’s
room.
Mrs Marshall said that competi
tion has developed between her
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
cloudy and colder Sunday night
wa *-PT
er Sunday and Sunday might:
generally fair, warmer Panhand
South Plains in afternoon
TEMPERATURES
Saturday A.M. Saturd
parents, and she is the "runner" in #
matters of length of sitting-up €
time, progression, etc.
Mrs. Bourland said the nurses me
are sometimes confused She cited
an instance in which a nurse had in#
written on a chart, "Mr B-- oops,
Mr. and Mrs. Bourland.” M
mari
sass
P.
Iratures for N hours
nperatures same date
IM; sunrise today
5:56.
1 # is RE %
Newspaper Strike
Ends In Detroit
DETROIT, Jan. 14 UP — The
eighth — and last union — came
to terms tonight with publishers of
Detroit's three strike-shut metro-
politan daily newspapers. It was
the 45th day of the shutdown. Pub-
lication Monday afternoon ap-
peared probable.
SECTION ■
Sweetwater Grows
1
Abilene AFI VIP Quarters 1
City Hell Beet ........2
Book news ...........5
Editorials .........6
Business Outlook .....7
Amusements, theaters , 8-9
SECTION C
Seeing Double .......1
Pion cherity bell .....3
Fashionably Speaking.....4
Worth Bough’s exhibit .... 5
Fashion Festival .......9
Abilene Detebook ......7
Abilene Newcomers ......8
Hollywood Beauty ......*
SECTION 0
Starts 1-2-3
Form, markets . , .......9
Church news ..........10
Redie, TV legs......2.. 10
Indicted
It was one of these, Joseph J
(Specs) O'Keefe, who collided not
only with the police but alee with
his alleged partners in crime over
division of the loot. And it was he
who was taken from jail Friday to
talk to a Suffolk County grand
jury which promptly voted indict-
menu against not only O’Keefe,
see BRINK’S, Pg. MA, Cols, H
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