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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, January 13, 1956
JUST A 'DRIBLET
‘Only’ $200,000
Left Moody Heir
WASHINGTON. Jan 14 A—Mrs
Clark W. Thompson, daughter of
the late W L. Moody Jr., fabulous
Galveston financier, said today her
father left her “a little driblet of
$200,000" but that she does not
intend to try to break the will.
In a copyright story by the said.
Washington correspondent of the
Houston Post, the wife of the
to break the will. The will cuts
out any member of the family
who files suit to break it
"This would mean that if Wil-
liam (W. L. III1 loses his suit,
his daughters will lose their in-
heritance, too." Mrs Thompson
$400,000,000
Texas congressman said she and
her husband will testify in the
court case initiated this week by
a brother, W L. Moody III. San
Antonio oilman and rancher who
received only $1 in the will
There are realistic reasons for
the Thompsons not wanting to try
The elder Moody died July 21,
1954 I nofficial estimates of the
estate have ranged as high as 400
million dollars An inventory filed
in probate court at Galveston
placed the value at $53,300,000.
The lone surviving son last Mon-
day filed two Galveston court pe-
titions serving notice that he
intends to contest the father's
will and intends to file suit de-
manding an accounting of the
estate of the mother, Libby Shearn
Peron's Nelly
In Paraguay
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Jan 1 she solicit accounts for his
14 (P-Nelida (Nelly) Rivas, the banksoucit .accounts for new
shapely 16-year-old once described
as the darling of ex-dictator Juan
D. Peron, turned up today near
the Paraguay an border
Moody, who died in 1943
in the interview with the Post
correspondent, Mrs Thompson
said her earliest recollection is of
a little penny bank and that at
1 the age of 8 her father suggested
"But I made up my mind a
long time ago to live my own
life,” she said.
::
She and her parents, who were
with her, were reported seking to
set up a new home in Paraguay.
Nothing has been heard of Nelly
since she rocketed into the lime-
Family Rift
Moody, whose financial empire
included about 50 corporations,
left $250,000 in cash th the oldest
daughter, Mrs. Mary Moody
Northen. $200,000 to Mrs Thomp-
son. and $1 to the son Mrs.
light shortly after the ouster of
President Peron in September. The
authorities who deposed Peron said
he and Nelly had lived a •'marital
life" in the presidential palace $100,000. The Thompsons'- daugh-
Northen also was named head of
all Moody enterprises Clark W
Thompson Jr. of Houston received
SUSPECT AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY — Joseph J
(Specs) O'Keefe, 47, (left) one of 11 named by FB1 as the
gang that pulled the million-plus Brinks robbery six
years ago, walks with Dist Atty. Garrett H. Byrne who
will lead the state's case against the suspects. The pair
were on their way to the grand jury room where O’Keefe
told what he knows about the nation's biggest cash rob-
bery (PP)
BRINK'S CASE CLASSIC
Budget Due
In Congress
On Monday
WASHINGTON. Jan 14 i.-Pres-
ident Eisenhower is sending his
annual budget to Congress Mon-
day and he has said it will be a
balanced one.
He also has said he expects the
current budget to be in balance by
the end of the fiscal year, next
June 30.
On the basis of the President's
State of the Union message and
other official statements, it seemed
certain today that the new budget
to be delivered Monday will pro-
vide for: spending of between 65% j
and 66 billion dollars in the next
fiscal year starting July 1; and
income of at least that much
The actual budget figures are
secret until submitted to Congress
Eisenhower is expected to revise
his estimates for the current year
to predict a balanced budget by
June 30 with spending at about
I 6412 billion dollars, or some three
quarters of a billion higher than
previously forecast.
. The President expects a balance
to be achieved this year and next,
even while spending is going up.
because of higher revenues from
the. expanding economy.
If a balanced budget is achieved
this fiscal year it will be the first
time since 1951 that the govern-
ment's outgo has not exceeded its
income.
Red Chinese Boats
since she was 14.
Last September police said they
ter. Mrs. Libby Walker, Galveston,
received 525.000
raided Nelly’s home here and re Mrs. Thompson indicated the
rift in the family came at the
'Continued from Pg. 1-4) leath in 1973, was wiped out by Strafed by Planes
a hired killer. ; TAIPEI _
the Brink’s rob- TAIFEl Formosa, Jan. 14
As in the case ot the Brinks To: Nationalist planes today strafed
and "heavily damaged" two Chi-
but also his '10 alleged associates
ported finding $22,000 in cash and
$23,000 in jewelry some of it once-
owned by Perons late wife Eva
They released two letters from
Peron expressing a wish that Nelly
might join him in exile He was the war . .
then en route to Paraguay, but
now is in Colon. Panama
time of her mother's death
"We had some slight tilts before
but nothing major." Mrs. Thomp-
son said "Then mother died during
"Her last will was very different
from those wills she had drawn
The story made a big splash in
the Argentine press and elsewhere
but within a few days the curvy
teen-ager vanished Not even the
police seemed to know her where-
abouts. They said they were cer-
tain, however, that she had not
herself before she became so very-
ill. It was a very strange will
drawn up in very strange circum-
These were indicted as Stanle bery. no identifiable money from
Arthur Gusciora, 36, an inmate of | the Danvers job has ever appeared.
Western State Penitentiary in Pitts- A federal grand iurv investiga-
L L: . A ICUSI dEU Jul. 1IY Coled
burgh: Thomas F Richardson. 48. tion late in 1952 and early 1953
of Weymouth: James I. Faherty. ailed to report Brink’s case in-
dictments after witnesses proved
hostile and contempt proceedings
against them were futile.
It was in June, 1954, that
O'Keefe was ambushed. That same
night, in a park in the same gen-
eral section of the city, a man
44. of Boston. Henry Baker. 49
of Natick: Adolph Maffie. 44. of
North Quincy: Joseph F. McGin-
nis, 5°. of Boston: Vincent J. Costa,
41. of Pembroke; Michael V. Gea
gan. 47. of Milton: Anthony Pino,
| 48, of Boston, and Joseph S. Ban
stances My mother was a very-
sick woman The will was signed
in the middle of the night. Two ment.
night nurses acted ’as witnesses. The 45 indictments returned
You should see her signature" against the 11 variously ranged
Mrs. Thompson's businesstrain- from charges of armed robbers
ing came rl and breaking ana entering to con-
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field. 45, of Boston, who died of _ _
natural causes a year ago. Mc- "° had been quizzed in the Dan-
Ginnis was named in every indict-
vers robbery case was shot to
leath But a medical examiner re-
ported later he was a suicide.
a In July, his friend Carlson was
questioned by tlie Suffolk County
district attorney Soon after, July
15. Carlson, a bookie but also a
a-week, I thought I was wealthy.”| as greater, the actual cash taken
She recalled that when she was | from the Boston Brink’s Money Ex-
a child of 5 her father organize.: I press Headquarters is conceded to
Galveston’s City National Bank top-them al
now the Sloody National. . For in otncio rc obe Tea the loot
Daddy had me out trying to included substantial lots of securi-
get accounts for his new bank ties which the robbers would not
she said I had good luck Of negotiate. The Brink's robbers took
course, 1 didn t do anything fabu- $1,557,183 in checks, money orders
lous. but I helped When I look and other securities in addition to
back at the things I was asked €1 913911 each
to do—well. I just never would - Earlier notorious thefts and rob-
ask my children to do them . . .beries included:
family man fond of his wife and
young children, left his apartment
'or a brief errand. To this day.
h. has never returned. Days later,
his automobile reappeaed myster-
iously near his home, with Carl-
son's smashed glasses on the seat
get accounts for his new bank'
"We were given little bits 1878-$3.000.000 in cash and se-
now and then on birthdays and cunt.es robbed bv armed men
Christmasr.but really, surprisingly , from New York's Manhattan Ban.
Very little 1921-2.400.000 taken in ma
Girl, 3, Falls From
Car, Fractures Skull
truck robbery in New York by a
gang led by notorious Gerald Chap-
man—later executed for killing a
policeman.
1924—$2.000.000 in Federal Re-
serve cash and securities taken in
Plane Crash Puts
Sheriff on Trail
Of Bad Checker .
FRIONA, Tex, Jan 14 (P—L. L.
Hanna, 25, Bovina, Tex , today
cracked up a new plane he had
just bought at Wichita, Kan . and
Sheriff Charlie Lovelace of Far-
well, said Hanna faces check
charges fn several Texas and Okla-
homa cities.
Sheriff Lovelace said Hanna is
unconscious at the Friona hospital
but that his injuries weren't be-
lieved critical. He will be jailed
when doctors release him, said
Sheriff Lovelace, who gave this
account:
Hanna gave a check for $1,000
as a down payment for the Cessna
he bought from the Yiniling Air-
craft Sales Co. of Wichita. He flew
it to the Benger Air Field here
, where it nosed over while landing.
Hanna doesn’t have a pilot’s license
but learned to fly while working
at the field. The plane was badly
damaged when it noseo over on
its top The sheriff said Hanna is
wanted on bad check charges at
Amarillo, Muleshoe, Plainview, *
Friona, Altus, Okla., and ir Kansas.
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nese Red gunboats and slightly-
damaged several others off
Swatow, air force headquarters re-
ported
A communique said one flight
sighted six gunboats north of
Namoi, a small island near the
port of Swatow which is opposite
Formosa A second flight spotted
three gunboats near Tungshan Is-
land farther south.
The gunboats opened up with
antiaircraft fire as the planes at-
tackled, the communique said Two
gunboats were reported raked with
heavy fire and the other sprayed
with bullets, the air force added
It was the first clash between
Nationalist planes and Communist
naval guns reported since Dec 19
Safe in Jail
On August 1, 1954, O'Keefe was
captured and safely jailed on an
old charge. According to him, two
separate attempts were made to
kill him.
As the month drew to a close,
a mystery gang operating with
Brink’s gang techniques, marched
into the Suffolk County jai!
through locked gates and doors
and removed Trigger Burke be-
fore he could be brought to trial
on an arms-possession charge
Not until this week did the
Brink's case erupt again.
Close observers of every stage
xf the case are two insurance com
sanies They paid Brink's losses
a stickup of an eight-car Milwau-
I Hope Edwards: three-yearold kee Railroad special train a'
daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Rondout, Ill.
M. Edwards of 1626 N 5th St 1930-$2,268.000 of which $25,000
suffered a skull fracture Saturday was cash, the rest in securities,
afternoon when she fell out of a seized from Lincoln. Neb . National
| moving automobile. | Bank and Trust Co, in a holdup
The accident occurred about 2 p by seven men
m. in the 1900 block of North is Armored Car Holdup
St Mrs Edwards, the driver, was 1934—$427,000 in cash robbec.
■ the only other person in the car from an armored car outside Rube
at the time Ice Corp., in Brooklyn, N.Y., by
Mr. Edwards said that the child 10 men with submachine guns
had been in the back seat. He said 1952-$2 350,000 reported taken by
he didn’t know how the door be- house breakers from. Reno Nev
came unlocked, home of Lavere Redfield, who
The baby was admitted to St. said burglars took a 400-pound safe
Ann Hospital at 2:30 p.m She was that contained $250,000 cash $100
restless and her stomach was up 000 in jewelry and $2,000,000 in
set Saturday rught. but apparent- securities
ly she had no concussion. Edwards The great Brink’s robbery was;
said committed smoothly and without |
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A handicapped man selling
needles in Abilene was appre-
—hended by eity police Saturday.
The man was conducting sales
in the 1300 block of Briarwood
and said he was from the re-
A habilitation center The rehabil-
itation center said it did not
authorize solicitations of this
type
Police Capt. W D McDonald
spoke to three persons in con-
nection with the case
All were released after con-
ferring with Capt McDonald
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| bloodshed Jan. 17. 1950. But even I
then there was violence—the vio-
. lence of a death threat in the pis
I tols aimed, at five Brink’s employ-
es surprised while they counted
and classified money collected
from greater Boston firms to be
deposited in banks
While the perpetrators of that
Blizzard Kills Eight
On Japanese Island
HAKODATE, Japan, Jan. 14 -
A 40-mile-an-hour blizzard from Si- |
beria whipped across Hokkaido to-
day, battering coastal fighting
boats
The newspaper Asahi said 8 per
sons were killed and 24 missing in I
crime faded from police sight and
outwardly the pattern of smooth
, ness was maintained, it was stained
with the inevitable later violence
which seemingly must follow a nine small boats with perhaps 40
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The Japanese coast guard re-
ported one fisherman drowned and
! crime of such magnitude crewmen missing off the southwest .
Spec's Blood ■ coast.
Blood was shed—the blood of Four patrol boats were ordered
"Specs" O'Keefe, himself, who cut to search for them
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bush bv a hired gunman, identi- - ni T 1
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But according to O’Keefe, who
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In Matador Crash
MATADOR. Jan. 14 P—Two per.
shed followed
For the men who divided the sons were killed and two others
$1,218,000, and according to O' seriously injured near here tonight
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$60,000 in the division, were play-
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