Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 1

Jack Ruby Dies Of Cancer In Dallas Hospital DALLAS (AP) -J a Ruby, the slayer of accused presidential assassin Lee Tarvey Oswald, died of lancer today at 10:30 a.m., CST, hospital officials aid. Ruby died less than a honth after he had been lemoved from the Dallas County jail for what jail loctors had diagnosed as a levere cold. That was on Dec. 9. Later, it was announced hat he was suffering from neumonia and then that he vas a victim of widespread ancer that had eaten intol his lymph glands, pancreas and lungs.

Ruby shot Oswald in the basement of the Dallas City jail before a national television audience. His death was first revealed by Radio Station KRLD and later confirmed by a member of his defense team, lawyer Elmer Gertz of Chicago. Only Monday, it was disclosed that Ruby had made a recording insisting that there was no conspiracy involved in his killing of Oswald. Ruby made the recording se- JACK RUBY DEAD--This is how Jack Ruby appeared during his sanity trial in Dallas, in October, 1965. He had been suffering from wide-spread cancer prior to his death today.

(AP WIREPHOTO). Texas Traffic Toll Hits 40 Texas Toll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Death struck more often among Texas motorists during the New Year's weekend than even the experts feared. The toll mounted to 40 fatalities before the holiday period ended at midnight Monday. started at 6 p.m. Friday, and the Texas Department of Public Safety had predicted 36 lives would be lost.

A headon crash 40 miles north of Laredo on Interstate 35, added three deaths. Monday evening as the grim count drew toward a close. This collision killed Ma- Deaths Down In Nation For Holiday Period By United Press International The nation's drivers capped the bloodiest year in traffic history with the safest New Year holiday weekend in four years--safer even than a comparable non-holiday period. The toll inched toward 450 today with the receipt of delayed reports and deaths occurring from injuries suffered hours earlier but the toll was expected to be well under the record 562 persons killed in accidents during last year's New Year's weekend. At 8 a.m.

CST, United Press International counted 441 dead in traffic, with fires, 1 plane accidents and other mishaps running the total holiday casualty count to 576. The breakdown: Traffic 441 Fires 58 Planes 17 Miscellaneous 60 Total 576 LONGVIEW TODAY Gates. Brelsford. will give the (See TODAY, Page 2-A) By ELIZABETH KING Mr. and Mrs.

Wendell Owens Sr. celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary Monday. The couple was married Marshall. They have two sons, Wendell Jr. and Jerry.

A former Longview resident now living in Tyler, Mrs. H. cretly in Dallas' Parkland Hospital while gravely ill after his brother, Earl Ruby, took a small recorder into the hospital room. A Ruby lawyer, Elmer Gertz, said the recording was part of a 46-minute album that Capitol Records would issue on the assassination. Most of the twice-daily bulletins on Ruby's condition have echoed the word unchanged and the phrase resting "His condition remains essentially unchanged from Sunday," the last bulletin Monday had said.

But it was known that Ruby had lost as much as 10 pounds in weight in 10 days and. a source said over the weekend that he "had given up." Another source said Ruby had "lost his spirit." Jack Ruby, a product of the Chicago slums, was little known outside of Dallas police and entertainment cireles until het stepped to the center of the world stage Nov. 24, 1963, and shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald, himself an obscure man until he had been accused of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy two days earlier, died in Parkland Hospital several hours after he was gunned down in police custody.

Ruby was a 52-year-old semisuccessful girlie show operator when he darted between officers and newsmen in the basement of the Dallas City Hall. and pumped a pistol bullet into Oswald during a transfer from the city to the county jail. He said he did it to spare the President's widow the anguish of having to come back to Dallas for Oswald's murder trial. He maintained he had not known Oswald, and that he was part of no conspiracy. The Warren Commission, appointed by President Johnson to tell the world the truth about 50.

AN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER OF THE FIRST CLASS UNCHALLENGED IN ITS FIELD The Daily News Fair Fair The Wednesday. and and a colder little Temperatures Weather warmer tonight. 20- 97TH YEAR--NO. 140 LONGVIEW, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 1967 24 PAGES 5 CENTS Exiles' Invasion Of Haiti Aborted INVADERS HERDED INTO JAIL-Four of the almost 100 Miami, today by 2 customs agents at right. (AP WIREwould-be invaders of Haiti that were arrested in the Florida PHOTO).

Keys Monday night are herded into the Dade County jail at FROM VIET CONG Record 20,242 Defect Pedestrian First Fatality Of 1967 Charlie N. Thomas, 65, of 1413 Mary Jane Drive, office manager for Terrell Memorial Company on East Marshall Avenue, became Longview's first traffic fatality of 1967 at 6:50 a.m. Tuesday. He was believed to have instantly killed, police said, when he was hit by an automobile driven by John B. Bettenfield of Karnack, an employe of R.

G. LeTourneau, Inc. The accident occurred in the inside westbound traffic lanes in front of 2020 East Marshall Avenue. Investigating officers believed that Thomas was going to mail some letters in a mail box in front of the Holiday Inn. Patrolman Arthur Fort and Bob Braford said that Battenfield told them that he did not see.

Thomas until his body hitthe windshield. He told police that lights of approaching cars, heading east, blinded him. Thomas was taken to Good Shepherd Hospital emergency room by a city ambulance but was pronounced dead on arrival 'at the hospital. Justice of the Peace Charles R. Cashell ruled "accidental death." During 1966, Longview traffic took the lives of seven persons.

Twelve died here in dents in 1965. Funeral services for Thomas will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Charles Woodard will conduct the service and graveside service and burial will the assassination, said Ruby had acted alone.

was lingering doubt, however, in the minds of many on this point. Ruby was aware that his version was not universally believed, and he asked to the end to be given a lie detector test so that the world would believe him. A Dallas jury sentenced him to death after a stormy, monthlong trial in March 1964, but a state appellate court overturned the conviction only two months before his cancer was discovered Dec. 9. A new trial was tentatively scheduled for Wichita Falls in Olds.

a veteran of kills in World War Ir, said the dogfights "lasted no more than 12 to 14 minutes but covered at least miles of that sky." Olds led 14 flights of F4C Phantoms and six flights of F105 Thunderchiefs against a sky full of MIGs above the major MIG air base at Phuc Yen, north of Hanoi. Pilots' reports indicated all the Communist planes shot down were the advanced-type MIG21s, the Soviet-designed delta-wing interceptors which can fly 1,500 miles an hour. Lt. Gen: William W. Momyer, commander of the U.S.

7th Air Force, said he believed the North Vietnamese air force of February but all plans were suspended when Ruby was hospitalized Dec. 8. Dallas Dist. A Atty. Henry Wade had indicated that the state would again seek the death alty.

But defense lawyers said the most Ruby would get upon a second conviction would be five years in prison. Ruby's trial and the subsequent appeals developments were among the most tempestuous in Texas legal history, involving charges of a judge's qualification and a lawer's misrepresentation. Ruby was known to one associate. as a man on a 75 to 100 jets lost about half its supply of MIG21s Monday. The bulk of the force is older.

slower MIG17s. (See RECORD. Page 2-A) search for class. His checkered life began March 25, 1911, in the Maxwell Street Ghetto of Chicago. He was the sixth of nine children born to an immigrant carpenter from Poland Named Jake Rubenstein by his parents.

Joseph and Fannie Rubenstein, -he spent much of his childhood fighting the tough Italian boys from up the street, and learning how to win at the sidewalk games of run-sheeprun and kick-the-can. His sister. Eva (now Mrs. Eva Grant of. Dallas), named him "Sparky." and the (See RUBY, Page 2-A) I One Boatload Of Commandos Escape Capture KEY WEST, Fla.

(AP)band of heavily armed Latin exiles and American adventurers was arrested in the Florida Keys Monday night, apparently squelching a vest -pocket invasion of Haiti. However, one of the invasion organizers said today that a boatload of commandos got away. Rolando Masferrer, a former Cuban senator who hoped the invasion might eventually lead to the overthrow of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, said 50 men were aboard the ship. "It's in international waters," said Masferrer, who had tried and failed to launch; a Haitian invasion in November. "Nothing can be done about it." Masferrer, arrested with dozens of uniformed commandos at a beachfront home in the middle of the Florida Keys, said the ship was to have rendezvoused with two other loads of invaders on a Haitian shore this week.

Joining forces with rebels inside Haiti, the commandos pected to oust Haitian dictator Francos Duvalier within a week, Masferrer said. Father Jean Baptiste Georges, former education minister under Duvalier, was to be made president. Thirty days later, said, he would have an army strong enough to invade Cuba, striking across the narrow Windward Passage that sepa(See EXILES, Page 2-A) Ford Claims '68 Cars Cannot Meet Proposals riana Valdez, 39, of San Antonio, one of the drivers, and two companions-Olivia Martinez Castillo, 49, of Monterrey, Mexico, and Amparo Valdez, 53, of Laredo. Five others suffered serious injuries. It It was Monday before authorities were able to identify all five of the dead in the state's worst accident, a flaming crackup of a car which ran off Interstate 35 south of Hillsboro.

The victims were Dorothy Gabbert, 29, her son Russell, 11, and daughter Joy, 9, of Hillsboro, and James Ward, 29, and Danny Webster, 14, both of Dallas. Other deaths near the end of the holiday period included: Benjamin T. Kennedy, 49, of Gilchrist was killed Monday night as two cars collided on Texas-87 on Bolivar Peninsula. Two other persons. were injured seriously.

A big tractor-trailer truck hit and killed Charles E. Boyer, 38, a laborer, on a Fort Worth freeway Monday night. Buster Shelley, 54 and his wife Brunette, 59. of Houston perished late Monday when another vehicle struck their automobile from behind and flames erupted from the broken gas tank. The accident happened near Prairie View College on U.S.

290 in Waller County. Fair, Low Of 20 Forecast In Area Brisk winds from the north carried the chill air from the snow covered Great Plains over Texas today, shoving the temperature down to near zero in the Panhandle and below freezing over half the state and to 36 degrees in Longview Tuesday at 5 a.m. The forecast for the Longview area through Wednesday calls for fair skies and colder temperature Tuesday night and a sub-freezing-20 degrees by early Wednesday morning. Fair skies with a slight warmling are forecast for Wednesday, high temperature was 65 degrees at 3 p.m. and the noon reading Tuesday was 43 degrees.

The wind. was from the northnorthwest at 15 miles an hour and. barometric pressure was falling slowly from 30.21 inches. "How To Cut Taxes" begins today on Page 6-A. DETROIT (UPI) -Ford Motor Co.

told the federal government today its 1968 model cars could not meet five of the government's proposed safety standards. Ford was the second big auto maker to complain that some of the standards were impossible to meet. General Motors the industry leader, told the government Saturday it could not meet five of the But the two big firms agreed on Caly three standards as allegedly, impossible to meet, including one specifying how a' ar should protect its occupants in case of a wreck. "We believe that some of the provisions of these proposed standards are arbitrary, unreasonable or impracticable," Bill Scott, Ford automotive safety director, said in a letter to Dr. William Haddon administrator of the National Traffic Safety Agency.

Congress established the agency to administer a new law giving the government power to set up mandatory safety standards for cars. Ford said "the great majority" of its 1968 models could conform to 10 of the 23 standards proposed by Haddon. It said Ford cars could meet seven other proposed standards (See FORD, Page 2-A) SAIGON, South Vietnam U.S. officials announced day that a record 20,242 Cong defected in 1966 with biggest surge coming in nal two months of the year. A U.S.

spokesman said 1966 total was nearly double 11,124 who left -the follow in Village Cemetery Village, Wednesday noon. Thomas was a member First Methodist Church. Survivors include his Mrs. Minnie Lou Thomas Longview; his mother, Mrs. rie Thomas of Longview; ter, Mrs.

J. E. Terrell of view; and a son, Clyde Thomas of Village, Ark. (AP) ranks during 1965 and was the! to- highest number in the four Viet years since South Vietnam hethe gan the Chieu Hoi Open Arms the fi- program to win over Viet Cong adherents. the In combat developments, only the minor ground skirmishes were Communist reported.

In the air there were more bombing strikes against North Vietnam, two raids by B52 heavy bombers in South Vietnam and a third in the ilitarized zone. Jubilant U.S. pilots told a news conference in Saigon how they knocked seven in of North Vietnam's fastest M- after- IGs out of the skies north of Hanoi in less than 14 minutes Monof the day afternoon. "We outflew, outshot and outwife, fought them." said Air Force of Col. Robin Olds, 44, of WashingCar- ton, D.C., the husband of former a sis- movie star Ella Rains, who led Long- some 80 jet fighters and fighter(Jack) bombers in the biggest air battie of the war.

NEWS BRIEFS TOKYO (UPI) Communist North Vietnam today: rejected Britain's peace talk offer and reiterated its demand for the Viet Cong to 1 be included in any negotiations. -NEW YORK (AP) Hugh F. Winterhalter, son of orchestra leader Hugo Winterhalter, 33, was killed in Vietnam Dec, 29 while on his second tour of duty there. He will receive a military funeral at Arlington National Cemetery Friday, his parents said. LOS ANGELES (AP)Three persons died and 10 others were injured in a fire which swept through a fivestory hotel catering mainly to older persons, authorities report.

HONG KONG (UPI) Red Guard youths marching on Peking by the tens of thou- Royal Scandal Puts Queen In Dilemma LONDON (AP) Queen Elizabeth II was caught up in a crisis of conscience- today over her first desire to marry the mother of his illegitimate son after his wife divorces him. An announcement Monday by attorneys for the Earl of Hare- 04 EA LA NAMED IN ROYAL DIVORCE -Patricia Tuckwell, an Aus- wood. 43 and 18th in line of succession to the throne. came as a bombshell to the British and uncovered one of the best kept royal statement secrets. said Hare.

wood's Austrian-born countess. is suing -him for divorce on grounds of adultery with Patricia Tuckwell, a dark-haired Australian divorcee who once worked as his secretary. The attorneys said the earl would not defend his wife's suit, that- he and Miss Tuckwell would wish to marry if and sands today claimed to have turned mainland China into a "great school of Mao Tsetung's thought." WASHINGION (UPI)Columnist Drew Pearson says he has rejected a proffered out of court settlement of the $2 million libel suit brought against him by Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn.

Dodd denied that he authorized any such offer. MEXICO CITY (UPI) Lynda Bird Johnson and actor-boyfriend George Hamilton were believed to be in hiding in Mexico City today. NEW YORK (AP) The American Telephone Telegraph the world's largest. corporate enterprise, reported today record earnings and net income for the 12 months ended last Nov. 30.

when they are legally free to do so," and that Miss' Tuckwell had a son by him in July 1964. That put the queen in a predicament. Under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772. all members of the royal family descended from King George I must have the monarch's permission to marry, And the Church of England which the queen is temporal head and "Defender the Faith" is opposed to the remarriage of anyone the whose. partner is still living, key factor in Princess Margaret's decision in 1955 not to marry Group Capt.

Peter Townsend. Sources close to the court believe church leaders may advise the queen against consenting to her cousin's remarriage. This situation seems to be tralian who once modeled under the name of "Bambi" without precedent," said Cyril Smith is the woman named as respondent by Lady Hare- Hankinson, former editor of Dewood in her divorce action against Lord Harewood, cousin Brett's Peerage. "As far as I of Queen Elizabeth IT and 18th in line for the throne of Eng- know, nobody so closely related land. Through his lawyers, Lord Harewood achnowledged her to the sovereign has been dias the mother of a son Mark, 2 and born at vorced and I cannot think of any his house in St.

John's Wood, London. In his statement, made person within the Royal Marpublic today, he said he would not contest the divorce. (AP riages Act who has been named WIREPHOTO by cable from London). as a 'guilty.