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DAILY AVERAGE NET PAID CIRCULATION FOR PIIIOI INDINC IK. 31, 10,207 SUBJECT TO A.I.C. AUDIT DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE WEATHER POSSIBLE SHOWERS One Of The Soulhivest's Leading Independent Neivspapers S7TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE- NO. 142 DENTON, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1960 36 Pages In 3 Sections PRICE TEN CENTS SUSPECT IN BOMB CASE IS PROBED Investigators Look For Connection With Cubans. Gamblers NEW YORK (AP)-The mystery ol Julian Frank deepened Saturday.

a i suicide or possibly murder when the young attorney, who had almost $900,000 in life insurance, went to his death in an apparently bomb-Masted airliner Jan. 6 in North Carllina. Investigators knew he had trou- blas, financial and legal. Two complaints wiMi the district attorney's office alleged he misused funds. If woven, the charges could have led to disbarment.

He had reason for despondency. But could his financial deals have made him a target of foreign intrigue or of underworld plotters? Invesjgators were not ruling out possibility. CUBANS Was Frank involved in behind- the-scenes deals with Cubans? If so, were they with forces friendly to or opposed to the new regime? The FBI, mum on its probe, reportedly was delving into possible Cuban aspects in questioning those who knew Frank. Among ('nose killed in the crash was Carlos Ramos, vice president of the Continental Bank of Cuba. Whether they knew each other or were together was not determined.

Was Frank beholden in some way to gamblers or mobsters? Had he aroused their enmity? Why had he visited Las Vegas recently? BOMB THEORY Authorities leaned to the theory that he carried a bomb aboard in a small blue valise and took his own life--and those of 33 others aboard the New York to Miami flight--as a way out of his problems. As a lawyer, he almost certainly knew the life insurance would be voided by suicide' and that his family would not benefit. FREIGHT CARS STACKED UP A northbound Louisville and Nashville freight train crashed through an open switch south of the Stanton, railroad station Saturday morning, and stacked up a five-unit diesel and 25 of its 96 cars. Several of the cars crashed into the south platform of the depot. FBI agents and railroad police were investigating possible sab- otoge late Saturday.

WERE THEY AWARE? How Did Passengers Act In Doomed Florida Plane? By FRANCIS STILLEY NEW YORK (AP)--Were the plane passengers gripped by agonizing, paralyzing fear in those last few minutes? Did they sense death lurking ahead in the rainy darkness? Perhaps they were never aware of anything amiss. But if they were, did they respond to the situation with shattering panic or with calm courage, trusting in the veteran plane crew to save them somehow? No one can say now. All the 29 passengers and 5 crew members aboard the National Airlines DC6B are dead. There is, however, considerable evidence to indicate that passengers and -crew alike knew something was wrong--terribly wrong. Seemingly too they had reason- to believe.that -a crash landing was in prospect, perhaps in the Allan tic.

What was it like, on that flight to eternity? These are the known facts: In the beginning, at New York's Idlewild Airport, there had been some grumbling because of a delay in taking off. There were 105 passengers who had booked passage on a big new Boeing 707 jet. But the jet was found to have a cracked windshield. To be on the safe side, the airline took it out of service and substituted two smaller cralt, a jetprop Eleclra and a piston-engined DC6B. The passengers crowded around the ticket counter and were reas- BOMB SUSPECTED Was Naturopath In Gulf Crash? DALLAS (AP) Dr.

Robert Vernon Spears, Texas naturopath and a central figure in the probe cf a National Airlines operated plane that crashed in (he Gulf of Mexico, had a criminal record dating back to 1927. He was presumed 'to have died in the Nov. 16 crash that claimed 42 lives. However, testimony given Saturday at a probe in Miami, implied that Spears may have not been on the plane. Julian Blodgett, chief investigator for the attorney's office in Los Angeles, said there was evidence that Spears might have had someone else travel for him lo collect- a large insurance policy for his 30-year-old wife.

Testimony also implied that the crash might have been caused by bomb aboard the plane. Dallas police records show Spears served time in Leaven- worlh Federal Prison in 1927 for mail fraud. He subscrnicnlly served terms in Missouri for for- 1 gery, in Ohio for larceny, in Ontario, Canada, for.false pretenses, in Florida for false personation, in Oklahoma for second degree robbery and in Maryland for forgery. They 65-ycnr-old naturopath was charged in a three-count indicl- menl returned by the Dallas Cminly Grand Jury in March, lilM, for conspiracy' lo commit to commit abortion, and abortion. At the time of the plane crash, Spears was free under bond on Ixis Angeles charges of conspiracy to commit abortion.

Spears was former president of Assn. and a central figure in a March, 1957, probe by the State Legislature into the association's lobbying The investigation grew' out of the arrest of former Rep. James E. Cox of Conroe, who was convicted of consenting to accept a $5,000 bribe Harmon of president of the state association. Spears i the Fifth Amendment when he was questioned during the investigation about he had ever lived in Baltimore.

Spears said the question had nothing to do with the investigation of naturopathic activities in Texas. from Dr. Howard San Antonio, then signed on a' first-come, first-serv basis. Those in a big hurry to ge going were put'on the Electra, 7 of them. SEATS RELINQUISHED The 29 others, either in the con fusion or from Jack of any concern over a fast gelaway, stragglec along and were sent oul lo boarc the DCGB.

In three cases, person, assigned to the Electra relin o.uished their seats and look the DC6B. One of them may have been Ju lian Andrew Frank, 32, an at torney with a wife and two chil dren at home in Connecticut. Anc Frank, according to congressional investigators, may have been carrying a 'bomb. ft developed later that he wa? in trouble for alleged shady--finan cial dealings. It also developed that he had insured himself for nearly $900,000.

At any rate, the Eleclra finally took off shortly after 11 p.m. on Jan. 5, and at 11:51 il was followed by the DC6B. VACATION, BUSINESS The passengers settled back comfortably; anticipating the plea sure of a vacation in Florida or profitable business trips. The sleady drone of Ihe four engines hummed a lullaby of the sky.

There was no fear, no wor- It was now 2:31 a.m., Jan. 6. The pilot, Capt. Dale Southard, an expert flier who had been a A'orld War II bomber pilot, swilcheri on his radio Iransmiller and spoke. "Over Wilmington, WEATHER 300 feel.

17 miles N.C. "Estimated Next check point south of Wilmington, time 0302 a.m.). Gateway next (the (3:02 check DENTON AND Mostly cloudy today becoming partly cloudy tonight and Monday. Cooler. NORTHWEST TtXAS: Occasional snow today becoming partly cloudy laic today and Monday.

Continued cold. SOUTHWEST TEXAS; Pally cloudy and cool today and Monday. TEMEPRATUKES (Experiment Marian Report) Hish FrUay Low Saturday 31 Hllh Saturday 40 Kith year aio 44 Ltw year 19 Sun sets today Jl 5:47 p.tr.; rises Monday at 7,31 a.m. RAINFALL Iruhel) Ei. Ita, ft-C Cavgi None for 24 Hours Ending At.

5 p.m. Nbno 5.76 Tl-i! Month 3M 1,99 January Average 1.99 This Y(ar .01 YMf .01 loint, 127 miles south of Azalea). )n inslrumenls to Colefield." WEATHER CONDITIONS This was to say thai because of weather conditions, Southard had jecn flying by instrument naviga- ion to the check point before Wilmington. "In and out. On lop for the first time over Carolina Beach." The plane had been playing hide and sock with the clouds, and now was above Ihe cloud layer.

What happened Ihen? One can only guess. Perhaps it was this judging from parts of the jig-saw being slowly pieced together: In few moments a shuddering boom rocked the plane. Passengers snapped and began to glance about with startled eyes. They and the two stewardesses Sec PASSENGERS, I'litff 2 The Money thai slips through your will paj Ihe loan that pays your Complete personal loan service. Industrial Credit Coin, pany, over llnssells, (Adv.) Contractor In Hospital After Bullet Wound What-apparently started as a family disagreement ended in gunfire Saturday and left a Denton contractor in -Flow Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound in the stomach.

He is R. S. Jeffery, about 38, of 621 Hennen Dr. He was reported in fair condition Saturday when he went to the hospital surgery room shortly after 7 p.m. Jeffery's 16-year-old son, Randy, laler signed a statement describing the shooting, which occured at the spacious family home across Highway 24 from the TWU campus.

TWO FEET In the statemenl, Randy said his father was shot once through the stomach wilh a .22 calibre pistol from a distance of about two feel. Randy ialer told a Record- Chronicle reporter that the shooting followed a discussion over. Sandy's having to stay home Saturday night as punishment for a minor incident. In the signed statement, Randy said he got the gun from his father's room. The rest of the family Mrs.

lottery and Randy's older sister ind younger brother and sister vere in the den at. the time of the hooting, his statement said. Poice found an empty .22 shell in a hallway. WENT TO CHURCH Young Randy and his older sis- er left the house after the shooing, the statement said, and went 0 St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 200 N.

Elm. Police Chief Andy Anderson picked up Randy at the ihurch. After he signed (he statement at- lolice headquarters, Randy stayed vith Ihe Rev. Thomas J. Talley, eclor ot Ihe church.

No charges had been filed late Saturday. Randy signed the slalcment in lie presence of Police Chief An- lersnn, a Denton clergyman and 1 Record-Chronicle reporter. ADENAUER ADVISES VIOLENCE West Germans Told To Beat Up Anti-Jew Swastika Smearers BONN, Germany- (AP)--Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer advisee West German citizens Saturda night to beat up anti-Jewish hooli gans they find smearing walls with Nazi symbols. Such punishment on the spot what the hojligans deserve for dis gracing Germany and causing a wave of haired for Germans abroad, Adenauer said in a radio TV address. He told German Jew.

they have nothing to fear, that he personally guaranteed, the power of the German state stands behinc them. Nazism has no roots in West Germany a its incorrigible followers are few, Adenauer said He pledged that the movement will never make a comeback. The anti-Semitic incidents have been strongly condemned by the whole German people, the 84- year-old executive said in speech relayed by all West German radio and TV stations. There was a marked lapse across Germany in the rash of vandalism that, breaking out at a Cologne Christmas Eve, has spread to far corners of the world. None has been reported on German soil for 48 hours.

German authorities speculated that bitterly cold weather, with overnight temperatures as low as 18 degrees below zero, keep swastika smearers indoors. One town singularly free of the manifestations throughout is Braunau, just across the German frontier in Austria, where Adolf Hitler was born in 3899. "All quiet here," the Braunau police chief said. Adenauer told the German people that most of the incidents, in Germany and elsewhere, seem "due to hooliganism without any political background," but" the Cologne outrage "appears to be of a political nature." Two 25-year-old men, members of the radical rightist German Riecli party, were arrested for desecration of the synagogue with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans. They were jailed for trial Feb.

4. The German Reich party, well- heeled but with little influence politically, has disclaimed anti- Semitic sentiments and expelled the two from its ranks. Adenauer said the possible political background to the Cologne must be clarified and (he consequences drawn. He evidently referred to his government's investigation of the possibility of banning the Reich party. New Red Effort May Jeopardize Berlin Agreement Box Of Bones Not Related To Virginia? By CHUCK GREEN Record-Chronicle Staff Writer Two Demon law enforcement officers who have spent many hours working on the Virginia Carpenter case said Saturday they think the box of old bones found in East Texas has no connection with a long-missing TWU coed.

Miss Carpenter vanished more than 11 years ago--on June 1, 1948--when she arrived on the TWU campus to start summer school. The case was re-opened recently when a man found a of old bones on an aban- 1 doned farm near Jefferson. Fefferson is 50 miles west of Texarkana, Miss Carpenter's iome when she disappeared. Denton Police Chief Andy Anderson and Denton County Sheriff Vylie Barnes think the bones- even though they match the bones of a girl the same size and weight as Miss Carpenter--are just another blind alley among many blind alleys in the case. But the investigation will con- Anderson said, until some- definite is established about he Anderson' who went to the Vlarion County farm with Texas Kanger Lewis Rigler a cemetery is located very near farm.

"The people who once lived on jie farm had a son who was studying, biology or was studying to be a doctor," 'Anderson said Saturday. "I think the bones either vashed out of a grave or, were dug up." Anderson didn't name the peo- ile who once lived on the farm, iut he did say they reportedly had Sec LONES, Page 2 L.S.U. DEAN'S ALIBI PROBED BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Officers said Saturday night the have been unable lo find a "Mr whom Dr. George H.

Mickc claimed he met several hours be fore Dr. Margaret McMillan wa clubbed to death. Dr. Mickey, suspended dean the Louisiana State Universit; graduate school, is charged will murder of the 39-year-oli jiology professor at LSU's Nev Orleans branch. Her body wa found early last Sunday on a lone ly country road miles soutl of LSU's Baton Rouge campus.

Sheriff Bryan Clemmons ant Ally. J. St. Clair Favrot said in a statement that Dr. Mickey claimed he met a governmen official on the night of Jan.

9 to confer about fellowships alloltec to LSU under the National De fense Education Act. The man was identified by Dr, Mickey as a representative of the graduate fellowship seclion of Ihe U.S. from Department Washington, of Education D.C. Mickey said the representative's name was "Sharon, Sheridan, Sherrill or some similar name." Dr. Mickey said he met the man at 5:30 p.m.

and three hours later took him lo the local airport where he hoarded a plane for Houston. The statement by Clemmons and Favrot said an intensive INSIDE TODAY'S PAPER THE OF CLARA, (lie woman whose car got stuck on Ihe railroad tracks, is finally cleared up. Page 10, Sec. 2. WANT TO A SOME EXTRA MONEY? The free-lance writing field has never been riper, says a man who knows.

Page 5, Sec. THE ROLE OF TIIK CRITIC in Ihc field of music and drama is oflen questioned Just, what role do newspaper critics attempt? Fine arts writer Iiol Porter discusses thai loday. Page 0, Sec. 2. ANOTHER DENTON GROUP has endorsed the Jan.

3011) bond issue (Pnije 1, Sec. 2). Slill another group has made plans to make certain cverbody knows whnt's at slake (Page 3, Sec. I). And still another municipally i group has ils constitution ready (Page 2, Sec.

t). I'atfc Soc. Amusements fi-7 2 Honks 4 1 Classified 2 Eclllorlnls 4 Kiimlly Weekly 1-10 Fin MI Nt'ws f'srfe Sec. Persons, Places Thliixs Oil News Sports 6-7 TV I.OR 9 Town Topics 2 Wdtnrn's News 2.5 2 1 2 1 check had failed to find any trace of such a person. Dr.

Mickey's wife, Favrot said, backed up his statement thai he was at his home after 9 p.m. Favrot said that Dr. McMillan, whose time of death has been set at 12:45 a.m. Jan. 10, could have been beaten several hours earlier.

Denton Man Found Dead In Garage A longtime Denton County resident was found dead Saturday in a parked car in the garage of his home, 1108 Congress. Police said a .22 calibre pistol was next to the body. He was Marvin Henry Hare, 74. police said he had been shot once tlirough the head. He was found about 1 p.m.

Denton Peace Justice Jim George held a private inquest would not make public the death verdict. Mr. Hare was born in Elkin, N.C., Sept. 11, 1805. He was a member of the Plainview Baptist 'Church and Woodmen of (he World.

He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Fannie Elizabeth Smith, formerly of Plainview; one son, Wayne (Buddy) Hare of Krum; two daughters, Mrs. Martin Neeley of Gatesville and Mrs. Jim Young of Fort Worth; and one sister, Mrs. Will Bird of Elkin, N.C. Mr.

Hare, a county resident for 70 years, had lived in Denton 12 years. He had been a fanner and real estate man. Funeral services will be held Honday at 2 p.m. at the Plainview Baptist Church. The Rev.

H. M. iiek, pastor of Denton's Highland Baptist Church, will officiate. He will be assisted by the Rev. Cecil Phreadgill, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Pilot Point.

3urial will be in Plainview Ceme- ery under direction of Schmitz- Floyd-Hamlett Funeral Home. West Eyes Tough Stand Of Soviets WASHINGTON (AP)-- So- "viet Premier Nikita -Khrushchev is mounting a new pressure campaign aimed at forcing President, Eisenhower and other Western leaders 'to abandon their protection of West Berlin. His maneuver could break down the one solid agreement on a major issue which was reached by Eisenhower and Khrushchev in their meeting last September at Camp David, Md. This a provided that Khrushchev drop his threats to deal with the Berlin problem by independent action. In return, Eisenhower would specify that he realized negotiations for a Berlin settlement could not be dragged on indefinitely.

This cleared the way for agreement on a summit meeting at Paris beginning May 16. Berlin will be one of the main issues discussed. But it is now becoming clear that Khrushchev does not intend that the discussions will be free of pressures. BUDAPEST In a Speech in Budapest last December, in a rambling New Year's Eve talk with diplomats at the Kremlin, and most importantly in his speech to the Supreme Soviet last Thursday, Khrushchev has hammered the theme that he wants a settlement on Berlin and the signing of a German peace treaty. He has implied hn does not intend to wait long beyond May's summit meeting to get these results.

All this seems to indicate that Khrushchev's tactic of backslap- iing cordiality and avoidance of which he practiced so assiduously last fall, is now giving way to a tougher stand. In SHIFT FORSEEN the State Department, this shift was foreseen. As the time tor bargaining neared, Khrushchev has been expected to use a combination of threats and prom- ses, to hold out offers of peace and disarmament and to brandish lis nuclear rocket power. REMEMBER WHEN Denton County farm laborers worked 12 to 14 hours a day? Candidate Says He's Hiding Nothing In Shooting Case Charles W. Morrison, a candi date for place on the Denton bounty Commissioners Court says ic has "nothing to hide" in con leclion with the machine gunning of a car in Dallas almost two years ago.

Morrison was convicted of as sault with intent (o murder and llegal posession of a machine gun nfter he was found guilty of firing burst from a foreign-made machine gun at his wife's car in Dalas on May 26, 1958. Morrison's wife was not injured in the shooting. He later wenl his home near Bartonvville in Southern Denton County. He sur- the next morning to Denon County Sheriff Wylie Barnes, a ong-timc friend of the Morrison amily. Morrison filed for election lo the 'recincl 3 Commission spol on Dec.

4, 1959. He will be running ngaih'st W. T. (Tip) Hall Sr. pros nl chairman of the Denlon Inde- 'endenl School District Board of Education.

John Thompson, the present ommissioner from Precinct 3, has ot yet filed for re-election, accord- ig In W. C. Boytl Ihc Denton County Democratic Executive Committee. Feb. 1 is ic filing deadline.

The candidates will first face otcrs In (he May 7 Democratic rimary. In January 1959 Morrison WHS est Ot The Western On The Conn Vest Show, 1:30 P.M., KDNT, AM KM. (Adv.) given a five-year suspended sen tence on the assault charge afte he told Dallas Judge Joe E. Browr he didn't intend to kill his wife- he just wanted her to stay homi and take care of the three Mor rison children. Morrison and his wife, now divorced, were estrang ed at the time.

In August 1959, he was given a two year sentence on the illegal possession charge, which is a vio lation of the federal firearms act He was released on a $2,000 appeal bond. Morrison said Friday both charg- FEMME FIGURE FOULS UP FINE DETROIT (AP) Patrolman Raymond Bravier of suburban Dearborn got most of Ihe figures righl, but missed an important one and lost a court case. He that Joan Molley, '27, was going 50 miles an hour in a zone. He fig- ured'lhat 10 miles over the limit and gave her a ticket. Bui the girl pointed oul to Municipal Cctirt Judge George Martin that Bravier missed one figure.

"Look, your tumor, on the traffic ticket he has me marked ns a male. The judge dismissed the and suggested Uravier study figures for while. es are now setlled and has nothing to say. "I think everyone in my precinct knows about it," Jie said, "and they are still backing me." NOT SERVING TIME "I didn't have lo serve time on either of the two charges," Morrison said. "I guess everybody has their breaking point and that happened when I reached mine," the gray-eyed brown-haired Morrison said.

Morrison said (he car he shot up was paid for by him. He said he replaced it for his wife, gave her their house and "a healthy cash settlement" when they were divorced. Morrison, in the land clearing and tree repair business, said the court bailies cost him more lhan $7,000 in legal fees and "just about ruined me" financially. "Since then I have built my business back up and am financing ny own campaign," he FAIll SHAKE "I've got nothing to hide about his," he repeated, "although I ivas hoping it wouldn't become nrl of Ihe campaign. All I ask," ic told a reporter, "is that you give me a fair shake in the papers." The question was brought up by Record-Chronicle reporter who ecognized Morrison's name in a lolltical advertisement carried in 'riday's paper.

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