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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene. Texas, Saturday Morning, July 5, IM
APPARENTLY POISONED
Five in Family
All Found Dead
GLEN RIDGE N. J (AP — spa The grandmother left the
Murder and suicide—not a family nearby nursing home where she
Fourth of July picnic—waited for lived to spend the night with the
the Thomas H MacDow ell family family in readiness for the outing
WIND WAS ROUGH
Abilene Fliers Make Good
Time, Spend Night Here
By LARRY DAUGHTREY
sored by Abilene Aviation. The Cisco, landed behind the Petty-
plane has the highest handicap in Elliott plane at El Paso. Mrs.
Derby the race Two others of the Mme Sloan spent the night in Midland,
The Abilene team planned to
Friday.
Police Mid a note had been
The five a drug company sales found but refused to divulge its Path
executive, his Brazilian-born wife, contents 3
their two young sons and his The Essex County physician
mother—never woke from their said MacDowell apparently had
sleep. Police said apparently they swallowed the contents of a bottle
were poisoned.
of barbituates He said he believed
Reporter-News Staff Writer
Abilene’s Powder Puff 1
fliers landed at Municipal Airport type are among 61 entries in the
at 5:57 p.m. Friday, juat six hours race, leave between 8 and 9 a m Sat-
in flying time away from Califor- Pilots in the contest are trying urday, making one required stop
nia. That’s "pretty good,” they for $2,500 in cash and trophies as in Macon, Ga., before the finish
My, for amateurs. I well as prizes in many categories at Charleston.
Jo Ann Elliott and Mrs. Marion Order of finish will be determin- What are their chances of win-
T. Petty plan to finish their sec- ed on a plane . speed handicap nine?,
ond and last leg of the 12th an-basis. , I don’t think we can win
nual all • woman Transcontinen Mrs. Louis Sloan of Dallas, against. all these experienced pi.
lots," Miss Elliott commented
thoughtfully, "but we won’t be
last, either."
in flying time away from Califor-
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As they lay in their night clothes the other members of the family , ■
Friday, a next-door neighbor, re- were poisoned but he could not
tired Police Chief William P. Hig- say how until he conducted an
gins enjoyed an outing between autopsy, %.
the two homes with his son and - | ,
Mrs Louis Sloan of
tal Air Race Saturday by noon in daughter of Mrs. Witt Springer of
*Charleston, S. C.---
-= "It was fun, but so rough,” Miss 1 0 ,
Elliott, co-owner of Elliott s II 3 Government
at Funeral Home here, described the U.S. VVTVI Illltvill
family from Alexandria, Va. rn Ell
A phone call interrupted the Hire Proves Talal
Higgins family affair Worried
members of the MacDowell fam FAJr Derranc
ily were calling from Chester, 10 I UCHI FORCI
N. J where there was a large
family picnic I SMITH RIVER, Calif (AP)-
Would the Higgins see if they Four persons burned to death Fri-
could ana “3 in. MacDow. - % SMinRIVE A Town 10
= Damage in Passing Des Moines Powder Put
Marta, 37, her sister, Jeannette. 9
The body of the grandmother. The fire, breaking out at 4 am DES MOINES (AP)LThe crest Sue
Mrs. Florence E. MacDowell, 79, leveled the ccottage in whichthe of the Raccoon River nood ne of Alt Dut one
lay in another bed with the young Mathews were sleeping, destroyed two major Iowa streams currently curred
er son Robert. 4 Five year old a two-story apartment in which on a
Donald and MacDowell himself the Holbein children were staying south
were in other beds and burned the town library to
Warren stumbled out of the the ground
THE FORCE OF WATER — Members of the Exira, Iowa, fire department
gather to search this house smashed by flood waters on Washington Street.
Exira was one of the hardest hit towns in a southeast and central area deluged
by torrential rains. (AP)
Crest of River Causes Minor
flight. Wind-Vaar
The Derby is the first for both WInOS Up ICOI
women Mrs. Petty, wife of Dr. ...... . , . ,
Preston Petty. 1517 Elmwood Dr.: With Bid Debt
is pilot and Miss Elliott serves as WIIA 9 WVMi
navigator. ___J ... . WASHINGTON (AP) - The
. Fastest portion of the Friday federal government wound up its
hop was from El Paso —just two 1958 fiscal year on June 30 with
hours. , a national debt of $276,444,438,-
The flight was uneventful, Miss 345.81. This was the highest month
Elliott commented, except for the en<j total in a year and a half
turbulent crosswinds at their 11,- That figures out to $1,587.63 for
1000 foot altitude. They are flying every man, woman and child in,
a Beechcraft Bonanza J-35, spon- the nation.
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I A year ago the total direct and
guaranteed debt was roughly $5,-
800,000,000 lower. In the past 12
months the proportion of the debt
borne by each American has in-
creased by 37 08
The last time the debt reached
such proportions at the end of any
month was in December 1956,
when it added up to $276,731,000,-
The death toll remained at 19. also perished-was recovered Fri- Gas
• of the drownings oc-day. Search continues for the
in Audubon County. A 16th bodies of three persons still miss- "
_h Iowa Highway Commission Slow Start
DI - said damage to highways and
paper DlaSiS bridges already has passed the SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP)—Lady
F F 7 two - million dollar mark More Birds were scattered all the way
1 . u ton out A Am A nt than 12,000 cattle were, lost in four from Tucson, Ariz., to beyond
levee systems held and flooding AlliOUTICCINIC T counties alone and 36,000 acres of Abilene Tex Friday night after
was minimized crops were destroyed the first day’s flight in the 12th
A section of four-lane highway Ry narid Beroman Heavy rains of two to four all woman transcontinental air
on Fleur Drive, south of the city. DY AgIIC DCISmGH inches fell at many pants in cen- race
was torn art by the rushing wa VATICAN CITY (AP) - The tral Iowa Friday causing second- At least two of the sr-planes, in
-uthwest low. . . , ary flooding in some of the areas which 117 women are flying, went
Tolna southmestr anasgene % Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore previously hit, all the way nonstop from here to
Jean, in terms of human life, the Romano Friday ripped into Ingrid On the Nishnabotna. the town of Abilene
Nishnabotna River crest rolled on gm g_Ion One was piloted by Mrs Faye
toward the southwestern border of plans to marry again. southwestern corner, had pre- Douthitt of El Centro, Calif., with
the state With unusually strong language pared levees against a 35-foot Mrs. Betty Loomis of Eugene,
—--and sarcasm it said in an edi- crest expected sometime Friday Ore., as copilot
torial: night.Miss Jerri Cobb of Ponca City,
on a rampage—rolled past the body—that of John Parsons of ing.
----edge of the Des Moines Exira whose wife and daughter Rehabilitation work continued,
downtown Loop Friday with rela-
_______lively minor damage
house to tell his disbelieving fern Most of the 400 residents of the Some 250 persons in Des Moines
ily. Ex-Chief Higgins, who was a Del Notre County town turned out and West Des Moines had left
police officer 45 years, called the to save other buildings threatened their homes as a precaution but
tragedy the worst thing that ever by the fire
happened here Two brothers ’ of the Holbein
The MacDowells were wonderful girls Darrell, 11. and David, 6,
people who only Thursday per escaped from the apartment,
formed several small errands for------------------------—-
Most of the 400 residents of the
-- 000.
The fiscal 1958 figures were giv-
his family, Higgins said - J
MacDowell returned from a Actress, Band •
South American assignment for * I - /
the Sterling Drug Co three years Insdy D..L II
ago They settled in this wealthy. Leader bredK UD
suburban community described by
a law officer as a town of "four HOLLYWOOD (AP) Mamie Van
policemen and 8,000 millionaires. Doren and Ray Anthony said Eri-
Mrs. MacDowell liked to putter day that their three-year mig
in the flower garden and kept the riage is on the rocks.
grounds around the modest house They blamed conflicting ca-
tidy. She was attending night "
school to brush up her English. ..
The Brazilian-born boys spoke "We regret very much that we
both Portuguese and English and haven’t been able to make a go of
liked to romp around the neigh it because of our son. Perry 2.
borhood whom we both adore,” the actress
The MacDowells had taken al said
en in the final daily Treasury
statement for the bookkeeping
year
This tabulation gave no reliable
indication of how far out of bal-
ance the 1958 budget turned out
to be
The Treasury statement gives
the cash position of the Treasury,"
which includes items not encom-
passed by the budget, and is cal-
culated on an entirely different
basis.
Top officials have been forecast-
ing a 1958 deficit of 2% to 3 billion
dollars. The exact figure won’t be|
- .. wtia 12-__________________________.„«.„..,----------, known until the next monthly
1.5 A “This precious piece of news Okla., was flying alone in the oth Treasury statement is published
* PAPAS ought to have been published not er.in about two weeks ‘
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WASHINGTON (AP)- The Uni after Lindstrom and Rossellini LEGIII buquerque. N.M., one of five fly
t It said the announcement didn’t was first away
most daily trips to the shore or "It has been difficult for us be- ads tant wrangle in the deserve “the same large head TORONTO AP —Chief Con one o the first to stop for the
nearby mountains during the past cause our conflicting careershave Organization American States lines which top the stories of the stable John Chisholm, 62, head of night She was nesting at Tuc-
few weeks while MacDowell. 49. kept us separated so much of the over its relations win the Domin’ comments of President Eisenhow the metropolitan Toronto police son. Ariz.
enjoyed a company vacation, time ican Republic er and Mr. Dulles on the latest force, was found shot to death Last year’s winner, Mrs Alice
The family affair in Cheater had Mamie leaves Friday night for E , . Khrushchev message." Friday in his car in West End Roberts of Phoenix, Ariz , with
been planned as a summer high Italy where she will make a pic-Last Monday: Dominican Am The unofficial newspaper print High Park Dr Smirle Lawson, Mrs Darline Sanders of Lemon
Gunman Disarmed ===== ====== ====== ======s
Police Officer The actress said that when she treaties with the United States and defend the Mad.bmbig % of his car in a park, ng lot There with Mrs Roberts last year, was
POLICE VITICCT returns from Europe she and An-. These pacts include an atoms- owas one bullet wound in his head copilot for Mrs. Nancy Bird Wal-
1 e atate for-peace agreement and two weddings: a country which con Chisholm was appointed head of ton of Sidney. Australia They
police thony “ill sit down and try to treaties under which this country siders the guarantee and the base the Toronto city force in January, were overnighting at El Paso,
dimly- work out an amicable divorce maintains a missile tracking st a 1 of its social order in the family: 1946. on the retirement of D C Tex
and. property settlement._____________tion in the Dominican Republic as its vital and invulnerable cell Draper He became head of the Positions had been radioed to
t. dis- _ and has the right to establish an Miss Bergman Mid in London metropolitan force when it was race headquarters
air-sea radio navigation station to she planned to marry Swedish the
serve the surrounding Caribbean atrical producer Lars Schmidt as
area soon as it’s legally possible A pe-
The Dominican resolution was tition to annul her marriage to
adopted June 17 after it was her second husband. Italian movie
learned that the U.S. Army’s Gen producer Roberto Rossellini,
eral Staff and Command School awaits the decision of an Italian
---... ,------had not granted a diploma to Gen judge who is a Roman Catholic
Lounge five minutes after reach- called orange size earth satellites Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Jr., son ---------------------------------
Ing the scene No shot was fired and defied the West’s system of of the Dominican dictator e „
and the capture was made before atomic and rocket bases in a In his report to the OAS Council Easy on the Eyes
tear gas arrived. , . speechy ner Diaz spoke of "recent demonstra" CHICAGO (APIA clerk in the
DMA MX was in the tavern Khrushchev went to Leningrad tion oheelity 10 our nation in secretary of states office said it
complained that Tomlin took her with a visiting group headed by ’ ^ nee on was vuny • um eyes sung a ne planned to attend a Police Existence of the confession was
to a car and tried to np off her Antonin Novotny. Communist sideration of military aid to the young womans request for auto Commission hearing into charges .Existence an offical who with
shorts Her screams attracted her Czechoslovakia’s president and Dominican Republic. The conigres license number 342432 The figures that three detectives In suburban ^^etZ ^ngn^ “oh:
friend. Mrs Betty Jo Herrin of party boss. sional debate included references the woman told the clerk, repre Etobicoke had beaten false rob- d sr
Dallas, and night watchman The Soviet Premier told a mass to young Trujillo: high living and sented her bust, waist and hip bery confessions out of three tanburn SC and jam Ga
Gorda Rutledge The three said rally the west is ’ playing with free spending in this country and measurements - 34-24-32 youths * Rothschild hanbeen in prison
Tomlin started fighting them fire and trying to frighten the Sa his expensive gifts to) Hollywood -------------------here * we 1 urn 17oneTHEwas
brandishing the shotgun and pis- viet Union" with its bases figures Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa ... ps no I henreseer to five years on a
=== ============= Waco Girl Crowned Queen =====
attempted rape would he filed said the Soviet Union will con-council in n letter released Fri - 1 ... ■ for June 195 robbery slaving
==--================= At Abilene State School -HHE 7 ==
it useful to enter into any discus- An argument for a new trial,
q ■ • ■ son of the complaints voiced by Ann Smith of Waco reigned as events, watermelon party, talent set for last Wednesday, was post
F IA A I the representative of the Domini Fourth of July Queen at Abilene show, picnic supper st reel dance, poned because of illness in the
5 T0SS1OT TAG can Republ ic in the course of his State School Friday and fireworks display. family of the prosecutor
--- statement concerning various per- Chosen by vote of the student
_ - .... a sonal expressions of opinion made body, she was escorted by her
AAFHLS__IE. AA.S by individual members of the sponsor in the contest, Ed Cour-
Ye IDDOC DV W. InO Congress of the United States In sey and crowned by Robert E.
▼ ▼ PSSLY i ha exercise of the well-recognized Wallace superintendent of the
• " right of free speech school
Lankford began withdrawing the Dreier added the United States Members of her court included
weary units about 3 pm as the intends to stand by all Its agree four
flames were gradually brought ments
under control -----
FORT WORTH (AP—A
lieutenant crawled into a dimly-
lighted tavern early Friday and.
after a furious barefist fight, dis-
armed and subdued a gunman Ybrucho Didlieulac
Several police squads had been AArUSAY KiG CuleS
called, and tear gas had been or , ....
dered, after Bobbie Joe Tomlin, 21. Tmal Safe life r
holed up in the tavern with a DIHGH J0ICHHT3
sawed off shotgun and a pistol ___ ...
U Lawrence Wood brought the MOSCOW (AP)—Premier Nikita
subdued prisoner from Waynes Khrushchev ridiculed whet he
created by merger of the city --------■ I
force and 12 suburban depart-, —
ments last year A native of Dun Former Do iceman
dee Scotland be has been a mem 1 wIurol FUNCTOR
a net Ttrionto lierce" Confesses Slaying
Metropolitan Chairman Fred " P
Gardiner said the chief had been COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)—Charles
in poor health for some time and Paul (Rocky) Rothschild former
had been urged by members of Cairo, .ln policeman, has con-
the Police C Commission to take a fessed to the slaying of a Georgia
leave of absence. . . man for which James E Foster
Chisholm was in his office Fn of Greer, SC. has been sentenced
day morning and told a reporter to death
was easy on the eyes filling a he planned to attend a Police
NOW
FORT WORTH (AP) - The
southwest corner of Tarrant Coun-
ty went up in smoke Friday after-
noon in a Fourth of July grass-
land conflagration believ ed to have
been set by a group of teenagers
County Fire Marshal Mason
Lankford estimated 2,000 acres of
powderdry prairie were consumed
by the wind-whipped flames
An estimated 150 volunteer fire
men from three counties battled
the Maae all afternoon along a
five-mile line south of Benbrook
Lake.
They were successful ia keep
ing the fire away from all build
ings. There were no injuries.
Lankford said four major, sep-
arate fires were involved
All were started along Crowley-
Plover Rd . just north of the John
aon County line, at regular inter
rob from Mustang Creek on the
west to a point about two and a
half miles from Crowley on the
princesses — runners-up in
the contest — and their escorts.
Princesses were Margaret Jones,
Cassie Bell Arwine, Joy Ruth Wal.
Lankford dated ■•''-•I saumuua mi lace and Nancy Franks, escorted
ankiord stated. . . . by Leslie Jones, Henry Green,
pants of a brown mat Ford
which sped away from an Alva Schweikherd reartnen
rado unit commanded hv Fire By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The coronation ceremonies took
chief Al Crown Heavy rains hit "scattered see. place Friday morning during a
Lankford reported registration tions of the country Friday special convocation of the student
of the car was checked out to a The downpairs literally washed body at the chapel auditorium at
15-year-old Crowley hoy. who did out many July 4th outings the school. .
not have a driver’s license Rains fell across the top of the Following the crowning, the
■ He had an all but we are Midwest from North Dakota to queen and her court presided over
working on it - Lankford said add. Michigan Wausau, Wis., had 1.70 the day-long celebration at the
inches of rain in a 24-hour period school which included group
on how the fres were set should and Fargo. N.D. had almost 14 games, races, sporting field
contact the Tarrant County Sher- inches , „ , - —
iff’s office Therainfall in Kansas City ap Voroshilov Sends
r proached two inches
half of The acreagr DIrmea ^ .codv. WyO caught an inch « U.S. Good Wishes
property owned by Marvin Leo- Showers and thundershowers in LONDON (AP) - Soviet Presi.
hard _____the Southeast dropped more than dent Klementi Voroshilov Friday
Raging ahead of a southeast Other properties damaged were two inches of rain in Apalachicola, cabled Independence Day good
wind that hit from 18 to 35 miles parts of the Scaling Rails, Rich-Fla., and more than an inch in wishes to President Eisenhower,
per hour, the flames were driven ardson, Keating, Spears and Mur- Savannah, Ga. | A Moscow broadcast Mid Vor
toward south limits of Benbrook rin ranches. -
Twenty fire departments answer-
“There is no question in our
minds but that these fires were
Heavy Rains Hit
Scattered Sections
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Some of the fires burned out ed the call to the main blaze,
only after reaching the water’s sending * trucks from Johnson,
edge. Parker and Tarrant counties.
________. | A Moscow broadcast said Vor-
The Far West was dry, and fair oshilov expressed "sincere con-
weather prevailed during the day gratulations and good wishes to
te the Southwest and across the the President personally and to
Southern Plains and in some parts the American people on the oc-
of the East. Icasion of Independence Day.”
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