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IWant Ads Get Quick Results GY6-2868 VOLUME 62 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE MEXIA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 23. 1961 NBA COMPLETE FEATURE SERVICE NUMBER 69 OPE CONVICTED ROBBERY CITY BEAT Carl Smith was returned to Icxia from Providence" Hospi- in Waco Wednesday and is low in Brown Hospital under ic care of his family physic- He is expected to be hos- Ipitalizcd for another week or pO days and will be on crutches Jwilhin just a few days. Both his jaws were fractured and fhis mouth is still very painful fbut otherwise he is reported i doing line. Meanwhile, local service station operators are continuing to give Carl a helping hand by keeping his station open five days a week from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m.

And the people of Mexia have come to Carl's aid by trading with the service station cperators at his station. Sales are reported to have doubled. Carl plans to be back at work just as soon as possible. Members of his family are operating the station on Saturdays. IK ft Mrs.

Maury Maverick, mother of Senatorial Candidate Maury Maverick, will bo in Mexia Friday morning to meet the people of Limestone county nnd surrounding area. Everyone has been issued invitation to come to the Western Grill at 10 a.m. for col fee and rolls ancl to meet and hear Mrs. Maverick and the lady who will accompany her, Mrs. Lillian Collier, state chairman of the Democratic Ladies Committee in Texas.

M. Davis called to report that a meeting of Travis Lodge No. 20, Knights of Pythias, will be held at Castle Hall tonight at 7:30 and all members are urged to make plans to attend. Mr. Davis is chancellor commander of the lodge.

riul'us Peoples of Tehuacana is one of 14 new directors elected for the Texas and South- WACO (AP) A formoripromptly sentenced him to theito the stand in an attempt loj Sh said Pope was "badly banker and weekly newspiipeismaximum prison term. 'prove Pope insane when ho'hurt after being fired as pros- publisher, who said robbing! Pope published weekly robbed the First State Bank otiidont of the West National banks and making the at the South of last Novein- iBank last August and became ployes pose in the nude "waslira! Texas towns of Giddings'ber. itouehy when 1 questioned him while it lasted," is under, arid Lexington. He had work-j But as the jury filed from'about anything and became a 25-year prison sentence. led at bunks in Dallas, Abilenojthe courtroom, Mrs.

Popeisloppy in "his appearance" It took a federal district other places. into tears. She had testi-1 The San Antonio psychiat- court only 35 minutes Rice could also have finedjfied that she believed her hus-'rist, Dr. Alfred Hill, said Pope day to find Lawrence Pope, $10,000 in addition to the guilty of bank robbery. term but did not.

eral Dist. Judge Ben H. Rice Five defense witnesses band insane since lie job as president wentiTcxas bank. of a lost schizophrenic and that "he Central knows right from wrong but has no regard for other peo- Scoutmaster Kills Self Bound And. Left To Die BELLEVILLE.

Out. (AP) telephone call Monday night between. V-Poliee maintained a tight his son had been kid-j McNevin got the money but fence today on the progress ofjnaped and demanding informed ransom. Williamson, a partner in a paper towel firm, came to the BODIES bodies of three Texans have been recovered from six feet of water after their plane exploded and crashed in a swamp 20 miles east of Batesville, Ark. The victims, Mr.

and Mrs. M. R. Hollis ter of Fort Worth, and Al W. Dart of Grand Prairie, were found by a search party beneath this scattered wreckage.

(NEA Telepholo.) Predident Reportedly Rusking U.S. Military Units To Asia WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy apparently began speeding U. S. military units toward crisis-wracked Southeast Asia today in the crucial hours of a diplomatic showdown witi: Russia over the embattled kingdom of front was made by Kennedy is expected to issue Britain after consultation with western Cattle Raisers Association in Fort Worth Wednesday. Peeples attended the association's annual convention, which has selected Hou- as site of the 1962 convention.

Mexia Will Make Plans For Little League Tonight An important meeting of persons interested in working with the Mexia Little League has been scheduled for tonight at 7 o'clock in the Western Grill, president George Eubanks has announced. New directors will be elected at this evening's meeting, Eubanks said. Other business will include the drawing up of a schedule and the appointment of managers for the leams. Fathers of boys who will participate in this year's little league program are also urged to attend the meeting, Eubanks added. league High School Seniors Schedule Play Presentation TEAGUE (Spl) The Senior Class of Teague High School will present its annual play lonisht and Friday night in the high school auditorium.

''There Go The Grooms" is the title of this year's presentation, which has a setting in a cabin on a lake near the Wichita! Mountains during the month of, June. The play will be under the direction of Mrs. Mildred Diemar and L. C. Williamson.

The cast includes: Joshua McKnight, "Cramp." a retired farmer; Ray Brown; Minnie iMcKnighl, Cramp's spinister daughter; Carol Albright; Sullen McKnight, Cramp's orphan granddaughter. Linda Morris. Also, Pete Harney, an old I cowboy played by Travis Maryie Brackett. Har- jney's niece, played by Lana IMassey, who is presumably in jiove with Suellen portrayed by (Charles Hull; Mrs. J.

Gormley JGroom, "Aunt Bea," an artis- tocratic widow portrayed by Joy Collie; Honeybelle Jackson, Bea's niece, southern charmer played by Rila Mertx; JDarryl McKnight, "Dare." a college senior, portrayed by John Christian; and Eustace Tushinghan. "Groom," played by Tom Joe Peyton. a major U. S. policy statement on the Laotian crisis at a news conference p.m.

est. Meanwhile, the President awaited some reaction from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to an urgent appeal from Britain for agreement to a cease-fire in the civil war ini lorce lf diplomacy fails. struggled to free himself Laos. Given a cease-fire, thej 1One 01 the tightest TWO sets of footprints the United States. It kepi open the road for a negotiated settle- menUind put the next step up to Khrushchev.

Meanwhile the reported niil-j. itary moves underscored nedy determination to dealjMoncla with the Communist threat by their hunt for the kidnaper who roped 10-year-old Tommy McNevin to a tree by the neck ancl left him to die in the snow. The biggest question hung.over Tommy's er, Warren Williamson, 41, a i church elder and father of a json and daughter, who com- Imilted Tuesday night after claiming the kidnaper had designated him to deliver the $25,000 ransom demanded. Police refused to divulge the contents of Williamson's suicide note. But County Attoi ncy prosecutor John Pringle said he had not believed Williamson's siory of the 'ransom notes when he told it to him jTuesday and doesn't believe it now.

Tommy, son of a Cornier alderman and creamery owner, left home Monday afternoon to play hockey ancl was not seen again alive. His body was found Wednesday. Coroner Dr. Russell Scott said the boy from exposure sometime ay night. Bark on the tree was loin where Tommy had McNevin ning and said note in his car police, questioned Williamson Ttiesdax.

That night Williamson's family heard a shot home Tuesday mor-jaml found his body in the base-! pie's opinions." The state rested its ease at midafternoon Tuesday after presenting 20 witnesses. Pope's attorney. Pat Maloney. and Pope himself both told Judge Rice before the sentencing that they had nothing to say. The trial was in U.

S. District Court because the bank at Thornton, 45 miles southeast of here, is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Pope faces a state court trial he found ii'mcnt of their home nammg him go- (fired a shotgun into his Mexia Man To Direct FBI Activities In Capital Jimmy Adams, 1944 grad- agent in charge of Liate of Mexia High School, ha "'been transferred from Minneapolis to Washington. D. by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whore he becomes su- of personnel in the (Washington I Adams, son of Mr.

and Mi s.iterprelor aft Lynn Adams, of Mexia. has! Yale and tl mel in Minnesota and North in a bank robbery the same month at Schule'nburg. The Schulenburg bank was not a member of the FDIC. In both bank robberies, the lone gunman forced employes to pose for nude pictures. Agents of the FBI said Pope told them he intended to use such pictures to silence testimony.

Adolff Muska, insurance sal- mid South Dakota while heUvh esman from nearbv West, LJUVJJ. i t-n ct nit, iiiv; 1 Western powers would accept the Korean a Communist backed proposal for an international conference on Laos. War shut oil to held the position of assistant 26 Pupils Named On Mexia Junior High Honor Roll was with the Minneapolis field division ol the FBI. Adams was in (lie U. S.

Armv during World Wai ami in Japan as an studying University II in- at of his (man's and a Pentagon mfor-j tree and lno bodv imd mc on military moves. ndicH ec child At Hong Kong, the U. a k( i' st ingl to his death. This last-minute move on 11 an 1( 1 Midway and There was a cut on Tommy's Cameron h-. AJ two destroyers suddenly de-j head cut on his Seven i parted for an undusclosed dcs-' (huml)i which oll onk Twenty-six students on the Mexia Junior School honor roll for (he fourth six weeks, Principal Good Program Set This Evening In Worfham School WORTH AM (Spl) in the Wortham area will have an opportunity to see one of the most' 1 controversial films I I I I I IJ, VV I I IV, I 1 1 1 I IV filiation several days ahead of indication he had tried to schedule.

1 hey were believed. off blow perhll fl -oi heading for the waters of hock stick Southeast Asia. i father, Dan, Speculation imm.e a I I Ncvi ruc iV( broke out that other units of- the U. S. 7th Fleet, stationed in the Philippinus- from his 1 Mc- anonymous graders on the anior roll are Cheryl Dillion, Shir- wanliiey anu Sandifer, IVIinnesota.

lie received i Bachelor of Arts degree Master's degree in law from Baylor University. During the I time lie stuilied for his must- Adams was assistant county attorney ol Limestone County in Ii)50. The Mexia man also served in the Texas Legislature, but resigned lo join the FBI. He wt'i't'ihiid previously worked in the FBI in Washington, and prior to being moved to Minneapolis. i.s married to the lion-; former Miss lone Winstorfer f.

I area were moving Formosa south. The Marines were sending a helicopter Sister of Kosse Women Is Buried reported! Funeral services for Wheeler, 79, sister Mrs. T. of Mrs. Cora ever made about communism jance unit of 100 to 150 men to Bullock "and Mrs tonight at 7:30 in the high Udorn, Thailand, 50 miles both of Kosse' were 'Vientiane, cnipiul of Laos.

The in Tcmp GEN. PAUL WAKEFIELD DIES AT AUSTIN AUSTIN CAP) Maj. Gen. Paul Wakefield, state Selective Service director from to 1955, died Hi Kaoor by Olin Miller The driver who is always blowing his horn born a pluperfect fool and had a I backs since. U.

S. House Begins Work On Bill To Hike Minimum Pay WASHINGTON (AP) Talk of compromise echoed around Capitol Hill today as the House got down to work on a bill to increase the present $l-an-hour minimum wage. Despite the insistence of administration spokesmen that they were sticking by their original proposal, backstage maneuvering by both sides made it clear alternatives are being considered. President Kennedy has asked for a 25-cent boo.st in the minimum in steps and added coverage for 4.3 million workers. A powerful coalition of Republican and Southern Democrats is backing a 15- eent raise and extension of new coverage to only 1.4 million workers.

school auditorium. Wortham officials today is- Dumber of American-made; Mrs. wheeler was a sued an invitation to resiclents; available to ihe; Colorado City from where of Meyia, Teague, Lt )s government for she novcd lo 'Academy Vi Fail-field, and other eommutH Llse was being m-; yeilrs shl wns a mi mb( jof the Baptist Church. i Others surviving are her husband; two sons; a daughter; three brothers, Paul Hunt and ice Speights, Janit and Roy Tyner. Honor students in the grade arc Lynn Adams IPamelia Beaver, Bonnie Buck-i Ihanan, Johnny Focke.

Patss'i Fullerton, Olen Harrison, Peg'-! gy Miller, und Hoy I Neesc. Other eighth graders on the honor roll are Ginger Nelson, Carlton Nolancl, Phyllis Rand. Bobby Reed, Jimmv Ross. Glennis Sims, Miller Tailey owa. They B.

Ada' hav son, five; and ere Pope formerly was a bank president, told of visiting Pope in jail at San Antonio after the FBI arrested the quiet- spoken publisher. "When I asked Pope how he felt about what he had done," Muska testified, "he shrugged his shoulders and said, 'It was fun while ii The defense brought only five witnesses Wednesday to the stand. These included Dr. Alfred Hill to continue earlier testimony; Adolff Muska, an insurance salesman of West, who knew Pope for some years; Joe Carter, Pope's 21- year-old son-in-law; and Maj, W. II.

Pope, the defendant's 4O year-old brother. Maj. Pope said his brother "seemed to know he wrong, but'he wasn't very, sorry. He didn't want to have much to do with the family and daughters. Martha Adams, jone and 111,1 one-half years, and Adams, three.

of government for was reported being ities in the Bi-Stone area from ij lo 20. "Operation Abolition," a CANDIDATES CAN JTiandy Teel. Bill Wasson. has Colonel Accused Of Manslaughter In Tower Mishap WASHINGTON (AP) Air Force Col. William M.

seemed banks." to feel persecuted Williams. Louie nn Wofford. Air Forc slaughter 15 of a Now Je een accused by the Pope's son-in-law testified that Pope seemed to have "changed considerably" since the first of two bank robberies. Prosecutor Key Hoffman called FBI agent Lee Golden of Waco back to the stand in rebuttal to clarify some statements made by Mrs. Pope, wife of the 42-year-old defendant.

Mrs. Pope and Dr. Hill testified Tuesday that the Gicldings ol" man- Jan. film by news cameramen, both inside and outside the city! hall in San Francisco the House un-American vitics Committee hearing. It: cites several riots by commun-l ist sympathixers anci other hoodlums.

Mrs. T. REDEEM. POSTERS MANISTKE, Mich. Walter Erwin.

lot eel civic and political leader from Corsicana, will be the guest speaker during the program. She has served as president of Kinsloe House and regent of the D.A.R. in Corsicana. in addition to teaching a high school Sunday School class and working with many community organizations. A special showing of the film was held this afternoon at 1:30 for Wortham school students.

Trial of Catholic Priest Scheduled "Operation Facelift," ored by the Manistee Scout Council, candidate's a chance iW. G. Hunt, both of Orlando. and H. W.

Hunt of Ma)- spon-j' and deem campaign posters 25 to SO cents each. poh-i Mexico City's national pal- to begun in 1692. occupies 0 where Montczuma held court. U. S.

Weather Bureau forecast for Mexia and Bi- Stone area: Fair this afternoon and tonight becoming partly cloudy Friday. A Jiille warmer tonight and Friday. Low tonight near 48 degrees. High Friday near 75. involuntary the collapse i radar tower off the rsey Coast.

Twenty-oinht men i.liecl when Die (i.OOO-ton Texas Tower tumbled into ihe Atlantic during a howling gale. The Air Force first atinuunc- that Banks had bee.n accus- ied of "culpable negligence" dereliction of duty. Two publisher mal. did not appear nor- They were the first defense called as defense at- jlorneys sought to prove Pope 'is insane. Mis.

Pope said her husband I''thinks this insanity plea I legal dodge. He thinks hri is 'ptTlwtly sane and we to think he are insane." Gas Chamber Busy Day and Night and jStarkc, also were accused de-reliction ol duty. of The pink flamingo spends and primping, tendency to baldness The said to be hereditary to some extent. Rodent-Killer Used To Murder Jews Zyklon B14 may be the most ATTCTIM n-i lcltlmnin fi Piece of evidence to AUSTIN (AP) The confront Adolf Eichmann at his trial of Father John Feit, a.forthcoming trial in Israel for Roman Catholic priest, on cl -i mcs committed against hu- charge of attempted rape was inanity set today for Sept. at 9 a.m.! in Criminal District Court 1 here.

(deadly compound The Edinburg priest, 27, was! wi)l bo wheeled indicted in Hidalgo County oni Bl4 originally was u-'ed (Fourth of Six Articles) on human beings. By TOM A. CULLEN In the following years, no Newspaper Enterprise Assn. than 2.5 million Jews A cylinder ot gas labelledjwere put to death by this rodent-killer in the gas chambers of Auschwitz which were worked day and night. The thick-set, brutish Hoess himself watched the first dern- containing on Russian war pri- of It far exceeded his ex- into court, jpectations.

themselves and their staffs relentlessly. Hoess ul the mocking slogan "Arbeit Maclit Frei" (work gives freedom) the main gate "Abandons 2,000 at a tune, on an iron grill here. over a sort of barbecue pit. Jus gas! "Hoess's men then a a e's Inferno: hope ell ye who entei was proud of 8 a( noesss mt tnt poui erl V' llc lai 1 du "J- sonio inflammable liquid over -heads that n.adejthern and set them on fire," Hej ichmann recalls. "The (l es as many as See EICHMANN Page 3 eree'ti'd over of look like bath-houses.

(A more appropriate insci ip-; showed Eichmann how lion would have been that over'corpses were piled, In his reports to Eichmann, a charge of assault with intent! 10 ils ut lil in 1941 Ru Hoess speaks of the gas in the to rape Guerra, American College in Edinburg, 'ion cenip. thought of using while she was at prayer -in church. Miss Maria Arnericai Hoess, the terms of a salesman. 20, a student at Pan tne Auschwitz extermina-jThe beauty of Zyklon B14, he Which of Following is Spelled Correctly? Regime Regiem Regeme (Meaning a social or political system) SM Clawiiied for Comet Aniww MARKET REPORT NEW YORK (AP) stock market opened slightly lower today. American Telephone was up -i, General Motors was off 3 and Chrysler off Fordi moved up Vs.

Smaller losers included Anaconda, Bethlehem, General I Electric, Texaco, New Yorkl 'Central, Pennsylvania Rail-! load, Jersey Standard, Wesle and Santa Fe. EICHMANN ON HOESS "An excellent comrade." beauty of Zyklon B14, he Eichmann, was that ill paralyzed the lungs. Unlike carbon monoxide, it acted soj fast that death came before i convulsions could set in. As a result, there was no livid coloration. The faces those gassed were not contorted, nor was there any evi- idcnce of the victims tearing i dl thu-ir throats.

Eichmann, on the basis of' Hoess' reports, was so cnthusi- about the new gas that 1 he promptly ordered batches i delivered to Auschwitz the Hamburg firm of Tesch Stabenow. Eichmann found Hoess "anj villein comrade anil a I proper fellow," Both drove 1 GATE AT AUSCHWITZ: The sign said "Work Gives.