Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 28

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Caller-Times Sat Dee 24 1966 5 New York Murder Terms Commuted Litton AMC Deny Merger Report Diimifuied As Rumor Only Ry Both Companies But Madeline vowed: the jurors don't believe my story guilty Ell and I will mile and find us walk the last to the plot to rob Mrsi Reic Shonbrun made an attempt from the witness stand to exonerate Madeline He declared: liirschl and I murdered this woman Madeline had nothing to do with it It's an act for which I'm willing to pay" ALBANY NY (AP) Gov NcLson A Rockefeller commuted the prison sentences Friday of five convicted murderers including the notorious Madeline Webb and two Swedish nationals who he said would be deported to their homeland In a traditional gesture of nf Christmastime clemency Rock- Roy Abernethy president of atted to make ajj fiye DETROIT (AP) Both American Motors Corp and Litton Industries Inc denied Friday there is any substance to rumors they are planning a merger It was not to be The jury condemned Shonbrun and Cullen to death but recommended life imprisonment for Madeline At the verdict she wailed I do it!" VETERAN OF 3 WARS Officer Relatives Holidays later was commissioned as a used to move figures and 600 or more light bulbs According to Aldridge this year it took him 10 days to prepare the display Most of the figures were made by Aldridge himself ELABORATE CHRISTMAS DISPLAY This Christmas display at the home of Billy Aldridge Jr 402 Delaine won first place in the more than $25 category of the Jaycee Christmas Lighting Contest The display includes 20 electric motors fighter pilot and saw duty in In' When the Ar Force was made a separate branch of the service Reed became an Air Force pilot He served a tour of duty DEATHS AND FUNERALS thei a lighter pilot in the Korean eligible for parole in January Besides Miss Webb they are Gunnar Janssen Sven Hallberg Enrique Nunerfarda and Richard Miller Rockefeller's office said the governor acted on recommendations of the State Parole Board The Webb case involving the murder of a wealthy widow attracted wide attention in the early 1940s Miss Webb an ex-Oklahoma model and showgirl was con victed of first-degree murder for having lured Susan Reich to a New York City hotel room where she and three men bound and gagged the woman and robbed her of her jewelry The woman died of suffocation Miss Webb now 53 has been serving a life sentence at West-field State Prison for Women at Bedford Hills Rockefeller said the consul general of Sweden had applied for commutation of the life sentences of Jansson and Hallberg and that Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander had written to the governor expressing a strong desire" for their return to Sweden Jansson now confined to Attica Prison and Hallberg at WallkiU Prison wre convicted of first-degree murder in the 1949 strangling of an elderly shookeeper in New York City Nunez-Garcia 31 is serving a sentence of 20 years to life in WallkiU for murdering his wife in 1956 Miller 37 also is serving a 20 years to life sentence in WallkiU for the 1956 slaving of an automobile salesman in Jefferson County Like many young girls before and since Madeline Webb Timil hopefully out of the sticks to III 1 1CI XI Jill stake her brunette good looks j-n against the harsh pitfalls ofl)011(J JlllU 13C1 Aii Force Visiting Over A former Corpus Christi mini fy hls wife Patricia and two of three children are staying at the home of Reed's sister and brother-in-law Mr and Mrs Harry Hamon 3614 Since January 1965 Reed has been assigned to an air base in Okinawa and spent part that time leading a fighter squadron on raids over North Vietnam On SAM Raid Included in Reed's 31 combat missions over North Vietnam in the summer of 1965 was the first attack by US planes on North Vietnamese surface air missile (SAM) site Reed graduated from Corpus Christi High School and went into active duty with the Army when his local National Guard unit was called up in 1940 He Sgt Julius Greathouse twn sisters Mrs Victoria Gonzalez and Mrs Lupe Vil- both of Corpus Christi Sgt Julius Greathouse Jr -4 ua hrnlhm Rjn-nal nt Unite w-no was killed in Vietnam Dec two brothers Bernal of Houston and A was a 1965 graduate of Ray High School and a member of Alameda Baptist Church She was born at Minneapolis Minn Surviving are her parents two sisters Jacquelyn and Jill Jack- Bernal of Corpus Christi and 19 grandchildren American Motors said in De trait reports have more status than a rumor" and added: is nothing them" A Litton spokesman said Beverly Hills Calif that Litton is not talking to American Motors about a merger is not buy ing American Motors stock am there is no foundation for the rumors Net Interested To this the company added in a formal statement: has no interest in acquiring Amer can Motors' Litton is a $l-billion firm wit major operations in space ant defense work and industria' production Rumors have persisted re cently that AMC which had ass of more than $12 million in ts 1966 fiscal year might be in the market for a merger Credit Low These were fed by the com pa' nv's annual statement which showed AMC had used up but $4 million of a $75-million ine of credit it had negotiated with 24 banks Robert Evans AMC board chairman and its largest ind: vidual stockholder has said repeatedly he would like to see the firm diversify its operations now confined to the automotive and home appliance field Can Survive But Evans said on Nov 21 when the prelim narv financial report was made public there was no question of the company's ability to survive The nation's fourth-largest I automaker AMC announced last month it was inaugurating a cnst-cuttin? program an would lav qff an undisclosed number of both office and production workers Its auto production centered in Milwaukee and Kenosha Wls will be shut down all of next week It discontinued for thLs week production of Ram bier American bodies at Kenosha The move AMC said was to balance production with sales AMC's worldwide sale of cars in fiscal 1966 came to 345886 cars compared with 412376 the previous vear when It had a nrofit of $52 million 17 will be at 2:30 pm Tuesday at St John Baptist Church The Rev Harold Branch pastor will officiate Burial with military honors will be in Rose Hill Memorial Fark undcr the yesterday in a Shreveport La 'c Jackson of Pasadena direction of Jackson-Flowers Fu-nursing home after a brief ill- Tac neral Home ness Among survivors are his wife and parents Julius Greathouse Mm Emma Pierce Mrs Emma Pierce 83 of bmh of Corpus Christi and 2406 Sarita died about 1 pm her grandparents Mr and Mrs I Texas A native of Portersville Pa I Herman A Schraeder she had been a Corpus Christi' Aus-lm of to resident since 1945 She was a Funeral services will be at 5 MORE FLEE LEAKY JAILS OF BRITAIN LONDON Five more prisoners left leaky jails Friday as the inmates apparently joined in an impromptu Christmas rush homeward The new escapes brought to 13 the number of prisoners who have skipped in a little more than 24 hours The five prisoners In their early 20s escaped from Drake Hall Open Prison near EccleshalL The Home Office cracked down on several prison officers Or allegedly contributing to the escapes by negligence Home Secretary Roy Jenkins stung by a government report Thursday that there wasn't a single secure prison in the country ordered an immediate shakeup of the prison service He said he was shortening his own Christmas holiday to see to it Sr and Mrs Ollie Mae Great-house of 1213 Stillman member of St Luke's Methodist 2 pm today at Baker Funeral il 'Church and a lifetime member Mrs Etnei I ack )0f the Eastern Star Lodge 354 Mrs Ethel Pack 80) Funeral services will be at 2 died early Friday morning atjpm Monday in the Dunne-Lang-the home of a son James Fack jham Funeral Chapel with the In Bishop after a sudden illness'' ipci Rev Clifford Zirkel pastor War Led Squadron In January of 1965 Reed was assigned to Okinawa Between June 20 1965 and Aug 20 1965 Reed was commanding officer of the 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron engaged in combat operations over North Vietnam According to Reed during this time his squadron was operating from a base someplace in Southeast Asia Security requirements prevent him from saying where On July 27 he led his squadron on the attack of the SAM site which was located about 20 mites from Hanoi that time it was the first time we had attacked a SAM site and it also was the closest to Hanoi that we had Reed said Planes Downed were met by the heaviest concentration of automatic weapons fire I have ever Reed said Two of the planes in his squadron were shot down Reed's wife and two of his on Okinawa in combat squadron commander Reed's job hen" to the under her husband's One of her duties was informing of men shot raids 1965 Reed re-as director Chapel in Gonzales for Herman A Schraeder 76 a Corpus Christi resident the past three years who died Thursday after a long illness Burial will be in Gonzales City Cemetery Pedro Alvarez i Mrs Pack had lived in Bishop'0 st- Methodlst Burial will be in Ross Hill 1M hn j--'iing since 1963 moving there from jiemorial Park San Antonio She was a resi-j Survivors include one daugh-j dent of Sinton from 1922 to 1939 'tej Mrs Rulhann gillimek of' Funeral Mass will be at 9:30 Funeral services will be at 2 Shreveport one brother Jamesiam today at Corpus Christi Marshall of Butler Pa and cathedral for Pedro Alvarez three grandchildren 1(4 0f gn Waco who died Thurs- Miss Elizabeth McMorrow! day after a long illness GEORGE WEST (Sp) -Miss I Burial will be in Rose Hill Elizabeth McMorrow 83 died Memorial Park under direction pm Monday at the First Bap tist Church in Sinton with the Rev Carl Schlomach pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bishop officiating Assisting him will be the Rev Bill McDaniels pastor of the First Baptist Church of Sinton Burial will be Dunne Funeral' of Maxwell Service Thursday in El Paso She was the last survivor of the Pat Me Held in Jail Sheriff's deputies yesterday arrested Juan (Sunday) Olvera 32 who disappeared before his scheduled second trial for murder Oct 24 Chief Deputy Joe McMurray said Olvera without resistance" at the home of his mother He said he and deputies Henry Trujillo and Harry Lawrence went to the house at turned to Okinawa children were living while the pilot was As wife of the it was Mrs to act as wives of pilots command mast unpleasant the wives down during the Operations Director In August of in Sinton Cemetery under direc-j Morrow family pioneers of Live tion of Goodwin Funeral Home County Miss McMorrow had lived most Celestino Bernal 'of her life In the Gussettville Celestino Bernal 58 of 1614 Community near George West Broadway into a complex metropolitan setting this little country girl was a natural and easy prey for worldwise and unscrupulous characters" sychiatrist once said of her this defendant never grew Madeline now 53 came from Stillwater Okla a graduate of Oklahoma determined to become an actress That was in 939 Behind her was a brief marriage and divorce Her parents were well-to-do and respected But she wasn't quite enough nor talented enough and she never made it on Broadway A promised part in a play failed Occasionally to materialize Willie Frangrr A H1 TIVOLI Willie George Fran- ger 77 died Thursday night in 1 11 nGDlirfllfi a Port Lavaca hospital after a 111 Accidents long illness Funeral services 11:15 am Saturday at St The Rosary will be at 7 pm Sunday in the Brice Funeral Chapel in Three Rivers Funeral services will be at 9:30 am Monday at the St George Catho- Mary's Catholic Church in Victoria with the Rev Gerald Church in George West Bu- bertus assistant pastor official about 8:15 a local hos-ong illness He had been a Corpus Christi resident 41 years and was a native of Mexico He owned and operated the Bernal Barber Shop and was a member of the St Joseph's Catholic Church Maxwell Dunne Funeral Service will announce funeral! I rial will be in the Gussettville Cemetery Miss Linda Jackson Funeral services for Miss Lin- Twenty-fifth and Buford an anonymous tip" Olvera was being held in county jail last night without bond He is charged with the April 8 shooting death of Simon Garcia 59 at the 1-2-3 Bar on Agnes Judge Paul A Martincau declared a mistrial in the case Sept 15 after a jury reported it was hopelessly deadlocked A second trial was scheduled but Olvera disappeared Judge Todd on Nov 21 ordered a $4500 bond pasted for him by Mora Jr and David Rangel forfeited of operations of the 18th Tactical Fighter Wing He held that Essition until returning to the nited States earlier this month With the Reeds in Corpus Christi are a son Douglas 19 and a daughter Patricia Kay 17 both of whom graduated from high school in Okinawa last year A second son Jack 23 Ls with the Peace Corps in Kenya After the first of the year the Reeds will go to Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas Nev whore Col Reed will head Fighter Weapons School ing Mrs Gertrude Shirar KENEDY (Sp) Miss Gertrude Shirar 80 died in a local rest home at 7:45 am Friday where she had lived more than years She was a native of Salinas Kan and came to Runge in 1891 but had lived in Kenedy 43 years Funeral services will be at am Saturday at Eckols Chapel with the Rev Brent Fisher officiating Burial will be in the Survivors include his wife El-j jj dj vira four daughters Mrs Em- and rS- ma Frien of Charleston NCJ0 5 Mrs Elvira Cantu Misses P- today at Alameda Baptist Olivia and Estella Bernal all Church Miss Jackson died yes-of Corpus Christi: five sons Gil-jterday after a long illness bert Bernal with the Army Burial will be in Seaside Meat Ft Carson Colo Celestino morial Park with Cage-Mills Bernal Jr of San Antonio I Funeral Home in charge Max Raul and Richard! Miss Jackson moved to Cor six 10 Strange Illness Hits Ammunition Plant Workers BURLINGTON Iowa ID -Workers on a secret project at the Iowa Army ammunition plant here are being stricken by minor but mysterious illness The unsolved malady has been going on for about six months but only came to light Friday when an employe 18-year-old Jacqueline Allen was taken to a Burlington hospital Ammunition plant officials said she was one of nine workers who became ill while work ing on a classified production line Miss Allen was treated at the hospital and released Authorities refused to say what sort of work is done on the production line but said several em ployes have fallen in in past weeks Operations were suspend ed twice while ventilation in the area was increased Persons affected become dizzy but soon recover officials said Plant spokesmen added similar work is done at other ammunition factories with no trouble reported Burlington is in southeastern Iowa along the Mississippi Kennedy Leg Broken While Skiing SUN VALLEY Idaho ID The front bedroom of a home Joseph Kennedy 14-year-old son: at 401 Villa Drive was damaged Four persons were Injured yesterday in four separate accidents in the city After a two-car accident about 8:15 pm Mrs Albert Trevino 59 of 2611 Goliad was admitted to Memorial Medical Center She was being treated for a fractured right arm and a laceration on the head Officers said the accident occurred at Old Brownsville Road and Padre Island Drive Mrs husband was taken to the hospital but did not require treatment A short time later Mrs Lupe Prigo 42 of Beeville was treated and released at the hospital after an accident at Baldwin and Leopard A rearend accident involving three cars about 4:05 pm in the 4500 block of South Alameda sent Mrs Mary Madson 24 of 514 Pennington to the US Naval Hospital She was released after treatment In another three-car rearend accident about 4:15 in the 3100 block of Tarlton Theresa Pena 34 of 1818 Sherman and Guadalupe Quartuche Jr 26 of 618 Bluntzer were treated and released at Memorial Officers said they were in different cars Bernal all of Corpus Christi: 'pus Christi five years ago and Runge Cemetery she worked as a model chorus girl and clothes designer By 1941 she had fallen in love and was living with Eli (Eddie) Shonbrun an emaciated 110-ound nogood a wife deserter who made a living extorting ewels from wealthy and indiscreet women worshiped her" Shonbrun! was to say later On March 2 1942 the wealthy 226-pound rolish emigre Susan leich was lured to a hotel by a elephone caller who Identified herself as a friend Madeline Webb Mrs Reich was met by Shonbrun and a pal John Cullen Madeline Shonbrun and Cullen went to trial for their lives in May 1942 prosecuted by Assistant Dlsl Atty Jacob Grumet now head of the State Investigation Commission Madeline's mother Vera Webb hastened to New York to a her daughter She was accompanied by an old friend attorney James Springer who undertook Madeline's defense Star witness for the state was Shonbrun's uncle Murray lirschl who claimed he was by fire yesterday A fire department spokesman said the fire apparently started near a bed in the room about 8:30 pm Slight smoke damage was reported throughout the house owned and occupied by William Lear Old-Time US Naval Aviator Sees Youngsters Get Wings of Sen Robert Kennedy NY broke his leg Friday in a fall and tumble on a Raldy Mountain ski slope The Kennedy boy was wheeled into Sun Valley Hospital for surgery conscious and able to smile at jokes from the family that surrounded him get a cast" Sen Kennedy cracked aR sign it" The youth suffered a a break just above the ankle caused by pressure of tight ski boots in a fall He tumbled on Warm Springs International Run on the back side of Baldy shortly before the chairlifts closed for the day at 3:30 pm Cmdr Anthony Feher (ret) Cmdr Melvin A Feher thejsaw the dawn of aircraft became the 93rd 1 Air Advanced Training Com- rier operations and was the mand staff aviation safety of- third naval aviator to land aboard the USS Langley the Melvin Feher is the nation's first aircraft carrier daughter of Mrs Clyde tang-ford 115 Oleander Started In 1993 The senior Feher who enlist aviator 50 years ago was yesterday as five more jjr's were awarded aviators' wings the Naval Air Station The pioneer Navy flyer witnessed the aviator designa The junior Feher recalled that while he was in flight training his father a test pilot became the first aviator to hook his Home on Army Leave Pvt Stanley Rudcwick III son of Mr and Mrs Stanley Rudewick Jr of 5008 Moravian is home on leave from hi Hood where he is stationed with the Army He is a 1966 Carroll High School graduate and enlisted in the Army In September sent at to a dirigible and climb tion ceremonies in the office of ed in lhe Navy ln 1903 started Itear Adm A Macphersonlfljght training in Pensacola a0oar0 plane chief of Naval Air Advanced pja jn igjj He was commiS' Training biama! a l-rfinniimrl tils ani sioned and received his wings in 1916 During his flying career he Feher now a Philadelphia Pa resident is visiting his son Lubbock Ranger Now a Captain AUSTIN Ranger Sgt Jim Paulk of Lubbock has been promoted to captain effective Feb 1 Homer Garrison director of the Department of Pub lie Safety said Friday Paulk will replace Ranger Capt Raymond Waters of Lub bock who is retiring Records Made Public In Bayfront Park Case In the operation a bi-plane with a hook on its upper wing would fly beneath a moving dirigible and clamp his plane to a trapeze device suspended beneath it The pilot would then climb into the balloon aircraft leaving his plane suspended In World War I Feher was chief flight instructor at Pensacola and in World War II was Bank Employe Faces Charges After Burglary SAN ANTONIO (D-Mrs Irene Whitmire 23 an employe of Brooks Field National Bank was charged Friday with conspiracy to commit burglary in the taking of $31000 from the Brooks Air Force Base branch of the bank last weekend She was arraigned before US Commissioner Frank Baskin Bond was set at $12000 Glen Seawall 26 of San Antonio was charged with burglary of the bank after being arrested Wednesday after a chase through San Antonio at speeds of more than 100 miles an hour He is being held on $30008 bond not agree to that County Judge Noah Kennedy fore its records were a private yesterday ordered Edwin Singer to show certain records of the Foundation for Sciences and Arts to the attorney for Wayne Johnson who is fighting the city's attempt to lake land for matter But Kennedy overruled the objections "This corporation has no secrets to keep particularly but we don't see why we have to have people going through could not remember the details our private records Coover Hyan attempted to question Singer said the original proposal for the park from the foun-cilmen at a meeting at the Corpus Christi Country Club in October 1963 He said there were several other meetings hut he said Ryan the operations officer for a patrol squadron in the Atlantic Most Deck Landings His last assignment before retirement in 1949 was as executive officer of the Mustin Field Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Philadelphia When he retired he held the- record for total carrier landings and flight hours Designated aviators yesterday were 2nd Lieutenants Vincent Diloreto John Halbig and John McEncroe all of the Marine Reserve and Lt (jg) John Mu-sltano and Ens Dennis Detloff of the US Naval Reserve All are from NAAS Kingsville In addition Marine Lt Col Richard Hawes Jr was presented the Navy Commendation Medal for services in the advance party of an attack South Garrison said Ranger William Wilson of Austin will succeed Paulk as sergeant of Ranger Co at Lubbock Highway patrolman Sea-holm of Austin will move into job as Ranger in the Austin area Paulk a Royse City native joined the Department of Public Safety in 1937 He was promoted to the Rangers in 1947 and was stationed at Temple and Abilene before transferring to Lubbock ln 1956 Garrison said Waters who is retiring for health reason's a man who literally has given his life to his profession He is one of the most outstanding law enforcement officers and public servants that I have ever had the pleasure of working Waters has been Ranger captain at Lubbock since 1951 Singer about whether he supported any particular candidates in the last city council election but Young protested this was Singer's personal Information Kennedy agreed got enough here without getting into politics" he said Singer completed his testimony at 5:15 pm and Kennedy recessed the hearing until 9:30 am Jan 4 Yesterday morning Assistant City Manager Marvin Townsend the Bayfront Science Park Singer chairman of the foundation testified three hours afternoon in a hearing on a writ of possession filed by the city against Johnson for three parcels of land Singer obtained the certificate of incorporation charter and bylaws of the foundation from the foundation's attorney David Coover and presented them to Johnson's attorney James Ryan for examination Coover and Assistant City Atty Robert Young protested that the foundation was a nonprofit organization not directly a parly to the case and there- questioned Singer length concerning the foundation's agreement with the city to obtain land for the park Singer said he could not remember many of the details of meetings and talks in the initial planning of the park three years ago Ryan asked Singer where the foundation received its funds but Young objected successfully that the question was not material will stipulate that Airline Sets Boarding Record at Love Field DALLAS ID American Airlines set a one-day boarding record Thursday at Dallas Love Field with 4506 passengers This was announced Friday by Bob Frederick Dallas manager for the airlines The figure broke a record set Wednesday of 4409 boardings The previous record of 4325 was set last July 1 the city has nol contributed to testified on plans for the park the corporation" Young said' and ordinances passed by the But Ryan replied will city related to It PIONEER FLIER ADMIRAL DLSCL'SS FLYING Rear Adm Macphennn (I) and retired Cmdr Feher Vietnam by Macpherson squadron at Chu Lai.