Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 1

Jwf he MILD EVENING WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT Byron VOL LXXVI NO 108 Auociatmd Preu (tf) ABILENE TEXAS WEDNESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 3 TWENTY-SIX TACKS IN TWO SECTIONS PRICE DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c WwfJrrMjMV 4f Washburn WHERE IT RAINED Fort Worth Boy Kills Stepfather Car-Bomb Trial Conduct Rapped Pravda Says Tilo-Soviel Links Grow LONDON said today that relatloni between the Yugoslav and Soviet bloc Communist parties are getting better and Is growing in scope" The statement by the organ of the Soviet party took on special significance because of the talks now going on In the Russian Crimea between Presklent Tito of Yugoslavia and Kremlin leaders Tito mode a hurried flight to tho Soviet Union for the talks after reports of differences" between Belgrade and Moscow Many Westerners believe he went to back up Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev in a power struggle with former close associates of Stalin who' re-jrjfjportcdly think Khrushchev and 'Premier Bulganin are loosening controls on the satellites too much rravdn also praised Tito's foreign policy particularly his support of Egypt's nationalization of the Sues Canal and his opposition to the outlawing of the West German Communist party applause for Yugoslavia appeared to Indicate that the issues which brought Tilo to 'Russia might be near settlement FORT WORTH (A-A 12-year-old Junior high school student told officers a story of years of fear and beatings which ended last night when he fatally ahot his step-father Robert Ennis 46 a mechanic waa ahot to death aa he stood in the kitchen of his trailer bouse reaching for the refrigerator door His stepson Billy Raney told detectives and a Star-Telegram reporter how ho lay on the living room couch holding a JO pistol in both hands mid pumped three bullets Into Ennis waa going to the refrigerator for some or maybe some more when I shot him the first time" the boy said grabbed his middle and asked why I did it before I shot him twice more" ABIUENE Municipal Airport 01 Total for Year B45 Normal for Year 1790 ANSON Shower ASPERMONT BO Shower BIG 6PRING Trace COLORADO CITY 42 HAMLIN Shower ILSKELL a Trace MERKEL AS RISING STAR Trace ROTAN oo oe IHIIMIloi Trace ROCHESTER hiTtici STAMFORD Trace SWEETWATER 47 Lake Trammell XI Lake Sweetwater 40 WINTERS Shower STATE RALN'S BEAUMONT 29 CHILDRESS Trace HOUSTON LUBBOCK AS MIDLAND Traeo PALACIOS Traeo WICHITA FALLS Trace SAN ANGELO A2 02 mother Mrs Helen Ennis 40 said she waa lying on a bed in the rear of the trailer at the lime of the shooting The boy gave a (Mailed account of the shouting to detectives got home about dark and my wao already home from work He waa drunk At least 1 could tell ho had been taking a few drops" Billy said his stepfather was cursing his mother He said he know what his father was cursing about was tired of him beating us up likt ho had been doing all these years I was In the bark room studying and ho cams in there mumbling and hit me when I asked what he wo saying" The boy said Ennis walked out the back duor turned on tho radio while he was outside and that made him mad" Billy said got up and stormed bock in thp house and started hitting Mom with a mop" Billy said he hod obtained the pistol from the living room where it was kept while Ms step-father was still out of the house knew he was going to start beating Mom again" he said "ao 1 got on tho couch on my stomach and held the gun in both hands" AH three bullets struck Ennis In the lift chest lie fell dead to the living room Billy was not held ROY BLUFFS Donald Wilson 14 of Oakdale La bluffed Curtis Allen Recmcs left 41-year-old escaped convict with an empty single action shotgun Wil-son fired a warning shot over head then stalked him with the empty gun (AP) NEWS INDEX Western diplomats in London meanwhile said Khrushchev has asked Tito to Join a new com inform -type lineup of Communist states Quoting Yugoslav aources the Western informants reported Tito's Initial response was cool-either negative or perhaps inconclusive The old Cominform the Red propaganda bureau founded after World War II with the pim of promoting world Communism was dissolved last April The action was seen as a move to appease Yugoslavia which was expelled from the Soviet bloc during the Stalin-Tito feud of 1918 HARRY WASHBURN faces aew trial SICTION A Women's newt 45 8rif4 2 SECTION Obituaries 2 Sport 45 Editorials i 6 AmuMmantf 7 Cornice Radio TV logs 11 Big Spring Man Slain in Affray AUSTIN The Court of Crim-iPfi inal Appeals today reversed Hurry Washburn's conviction to the1 car-bomb slaying of his former mother-in-law at San Angelo Washburn was given a life sentence Dec I at Waco on conviction of slaying Mrs Helen Harris Weaver The trial was hrld In Waco on a change of venue The Criminal Appeals Court or dcrod the case remanded During oral arguments before the Court of Criininul Appeals Washburn's attorneys accused the stale of using prosecution" to win conviction Cliff Tuppvr San Angelo attorney said the question of Andrew Nelson serving life as an habituul criminal by Dist Atty Tom Muore of Waco was prejudicial" Nelson refused to answer questions during the trial claiming fifth Amendment immunity The state charged he bought the dynamite at Rosenberg and showed Washburn how to detonate it a few days before the San Angelo blast Mrs Weaver was killed Jan 19 1955 when aha turned the ignition switch of a family automobile and caused an explosion of 10 sticks of dynamite Officers said her husband waa the Intended victim The court unanimously approved an opinion by Judge Ernest Belcher knocking down the state's claim there was no error because Nci son hod been granted Immunity state's contention in this respect can not be sustained because the record shows only an offer of immunity by tho prosecuting attorney fails to show approval by the trial Judge Belcher's opinion said He added that no time did tho state move tlie court to direct or compel Nelson to answer any of the questiona" court's withdrawal of the questions from the consideration of the Jury could not have been effective when the testimony cor-roborating and supporting the matters embodied In a number of them waa later over (Washburn's) objection admitted in evidence" Judge Belcher said in ordering a new trial Washburn's attorneys bad spe-dfically claimed error by the trial court In permitting the state to call Nelson to the witness stand in the presence of the Jury and requiring him to claim his privilege against self-incrimination aa to Negro Slips Through Pickets in Beaumont BIG SPRING Oct fRNSI-ishat Hugh Emmett George 27 of Big Cross Spring was fatally wounded about 12:15 am Wednesday during an altercation at a drive-in two miles west of Big Spring on Highway ao He died about 2:56 njn hi a Big Spring hospital Funeral arrangements art pending at River Funeral Home The drive-in Is owned by Olton Richard (Bud) Crass 24 Sheriff Jess Slaughter said the shooting occurred after the drive-in had dosed for the night George was was Big waa Co Ib Stamford The by office son with a 42 caliber pistol told officers that George causing a disturbance George who had been living in Spiring for the past six years an employe of Cabot Carbon waa bora Jan I 1929 In si tooting is being investigated Sheriff Slaughter and the of District Attorney Guilford Jones Survivors Include Ms wife one Ricky Don George two stop-sons Marbil Roy and OrviUo Ray Morris his mother Mrs Minnie Georgo of Big Spring one brother George of Artosia Calif and three sisters Mrs Skelly and Mrs John-of Artosia Calif and Mrs Crawford of League City Tex Clear Mild Weather Due A coed front which triggered light rains in tiio Abilene area Tuesday hod dissipated by Wednesday morning Both Wednesday and Thursday are expected to be clear and mild with a temperature high of near 90 The rains did little more than settle the dust except in Sweetwater where XI inch waa recoded Wednesday morning total rainfall for the year stood at 056 inches aa compared to the normal of 17A0 Sweetwater received 47 Inch of rain between 3 and I pm Lake Sweetwater cauglit jo and Lake Trammell 47 A few scattered showers were reported as well as traces of rain several places Before the Tuesday shower the last measurable rain which Abilene received waa on Aug 19 when 46 inch fclL September 1956 went down aa the driest on record with only a trace of rain recorded on aix days Tuesday's high temperature was 90 the low Wednesday morning 56 Truck Runs Over Baby Only Bruises GRAYSLAKE 111 (A A 14-ton truck noisily headed (or tho road yesterday after an excavation Job for a new house next door to the home of Mrs Jeanne WahL She said she started screaming she saw a front wheel of the truck run over her daughter The middle set of double wheels also rolled over the baby Mrs piercing screams were heard by the driver Joseph Cronus He and a helper ran the child A neighbor drove Mrs Wahl holding Karon to the office of Dr Jerome Burke to Grayslake a town of about 3000 about 40 miles northwest of Chicago Burke found the child bruised from the waist down He said her skin showed marks of tire treads Sand and gravel from the shoulder of the rood had been driven into her skin Burke had X-rays taken but he said the pictures showed no fractures Later Karen was examined by doctors to Condcll Jdomorial Hospital to nearby Libertyville TODAYS MARKETS to take it dear to the Supreme Court if we have IL Morgan NAACP spokesman said of the Tyler case what I expected them to do" Slate Atty Gen Shepperd said we're ready for anything they try" he added The 'state la asking Dial Judge Otis Dunagan to make permanent the temporary restraining order he issued Sept 21 which stops all NAACP operations In Texas The state says the NAACP has not complied with Texas laws Thurgood Marshall NAACP spokesman says it Is the greatest crisis ever faced by the organization Both aides Indicated the Tyler tearing waa a big test whether the NAACP could continue it attempts to crack the color line The pickets at Houston included members of the White Citizens Council but most of them said they were not members but were sympathetic to its anti-integration aims There were no incidents Clement spoke at a dinner honoring' Dr Marcus Uvingston of Houston for his work in behalf of tho state of Israel and Zionism Ex-Abilenian Dies af Hamlin Dillard Snow 67 of Rt I Hamlin a resident of Taylor County for 56 years before moving to Jones County in 1953 died et Ms home Tuesday at 11:20 pm Mr Snow was born Oct 10 1888 in Marion County Ark and came to Taylor County in 1897 settling on a farm on Rt 5 Abilene Ho moved to Jones County In 1953 lie was a retired farmer He served in the Army during World War I enlisting in June 1917 and receiving his discharge in 1919 Following his discharge he married Lucille Chamberlain of Goree and the couple returned to Taylor County Funeral waa pending Wednesday morning Arrangements wlO be announced by tho Laughter-North Funeral Home Survivori include his wife three son Seldon of Alamogordo Dan of Rt 8 Abilene and James serving in the Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USJ5 Hornet three daughters Mrs NcQ Grcybeck of Pittsburgh Pa Mrs Wilodine Levitt id Csss Lake Minn and Mrs Charlene White of Fort Worth three brothers Dayton of Colorado City Zclmcr of Denver Colo and Deskln of Corpus Christ! three sisters Mrs Hester Hughes and Mias Viola Snow both of Merkel and Mrs Alda Spears of Riverton Wyo BEAUMONT UB Despite strengthened anti-integration pick eta at Lamar State College of Technology at least one Negro attended college today By 1:45 am pickets were posted at dvery entrance to the school State and local officers continued to patrol the area No violence waa reported One Negro youth who arrived to attend classes this morning was approached by a group of pickets who urged him repeatedly not to go on the campus should I do?" the youth asked An unidentified white bystander answered you have a right to go to school" and (hen accompanied the Negro to class The pickets made no attempt to stop the pair Pickets tost night stopped and turned away three Negroes from the school The state picks up today at Ty lcr when it left off last week trying to prove the NAACP has no right to do business in Texas At Houston about 25 pickets paraded In front of the Shamrock Hotel last night is Tennessee Gov Frank Clement spoke Officials of the White Citizens Council of Houston said the denyxistration protested Clement's recent action in ordering out National Guard troopa during the school Integration disorders at Clinton Tom wa lose here we're going NEW YORK The stock market moved higher in early trading today with gains of I to points appearing with some frequency throughout the list Steels aluminums rubbers and papers were in the foreground Activity was heavy Outstanding performers Included Lukrns Sled up 5 on news of a planned stock split and dividend increase International Paper added Stt Gulf Oil "2 and Alcoa 2 Chrysler was up as the auto Industry predicted a sales boom for the new 1957 models Sandlin on Ike Panel AUSTIN Texas Democrats for Eisenhower Chairman Smith yesterday named George Sandlin of Austin to contract the campaign in Texas with Weldon Hart former aide to Gov Shivers Sandlin will be director of organization lie is the immediate past chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee Demo Panel Studies Legality of Primary KHT WOHTH AFl nil Xjxei aba I AHi aaahlrr TOUT WORTH Caltb lTM ealtb Sail ami n-4ks aburnter ralvn and alockm-nlvra aad mrSiua lulbr at (and to rtwk-a alra and irenrUnaa iyoa-23au: cnmmm and mrdlum luM-U00i fat t-nwa SSS-II Hi bulla BMMIM) mud and chiura bunhtrr ralvn 1 400-17001 eoanmua aad Sirdium 1000-1130 lion TOO: bon 4MB Inwar: anwo alradr amrr: ehalra bulrber boaa rat dcalrabw 4 Ml 3 KM Surplus Cotton EDINBURG Tex (A-The Hidalgo County commissioners voted yesterday to authorize the use of county labor to cut down cotton stalks that' have grown along roadsides Tho stalks sprouted from seeds that blew off cotton trucks during tho growing season Miller Elated AUSTIN The reception given Estes Kefauver through Central Texas Monday is evidence that Texas Democrats mean business" Texas Democratic Campaign Chairman Tom Miller said yesterday- He said "Kefauver drew twice as big a crowd in Waco as Vice President Nixon did in Houston Shepilov Sees Suez Solution Mma xxni amn Wfil atwvp atndy: mrdium to oaod abuahtrr birlM liMt-llon: aiauahirr rwta 250-S30 tordmm to loud (redrr lamka 11M1EW Committee will find a practical way to hold Democratic primaries to select the Democratic candidate for the US senator" He said it is the best method to insure the election of a senator approved by the majority of the people Martin Dies rongressman-at-large said he would run Potential candidate Ralph Yarborough who lost to Daniel to the gubernatorial primary has not spoken yet Others are waiting Twenty-nine entered the last special election for the UR Senate to 1941 when Lee O'Daniel won Adlai Tours Pennsylvania While Ike Goes to Series Man Badly Burned HOUSTON IA A Galveston County road employe Elliot May-cux 56 was seriously burned yesterday when his truck carrying 3500 gallons of hot asphalt overturned near Ellington Air Force Base OF ABILENE FOLK Butler Raps Ike's Speech WASHINGTON (A Chairman Paul Butler of the Democratic National Committee challenged President Elsenhower today on the question of who killed a school Bid bill and said Eisenhower "made no effort to win Republi can support" for "No amount of presidential or story" Butler said in a statement keep American voters from recognizing that 119 Republicans representative voted to have no school bill at all in preference to passing a Democratic school bin" Eisenhower said in a speech Monday night at Lexington Ky that Democrats in the House were responsible for killing Ms administration's proposal to provide federal aid to the states lor school construction UNITED NATIONS NY (A -Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov arriving today for the UJ4 Security Council debate on the Sues Canal declared he la convinced we shall be able to find a reasonable solution to the problems troubling us1 The Soviet diplomat said tills could be achieved negotiations on a basis of equality and fairness and by means of correct combination of the interests of Egypt as a sovereign state and the interests of Ml other states using the canal" Shopilov and six other foreign ministers including Egypt's Mahmoud Fawzi win tote part in the council debate opening Friday Egypt ia not a member of the 11-nation council but was invited to participate aa an Interested party Private huddles were being held at the UN in advance of the Friday debate Selwyn Uoyd of Britain end Koca Popovic of Yugoslavia were already on hand Paid Henri Spaak of Belgium Christian Pineeu of France and Fawzi were expected during the day and Secretary of State Dulles by Friday or sooner By FRANK MANITZA8 The Associated Press A State Democratic Executive Committee legal panel met to Austin Wednesday to complete plana on Its still vague UR senatorial primary James Ilart of Austin former State Supreme Court Justice will officially bid for the seat now held by Sen Daniel with a statewide telecast Wednesday night State Sen Searcy Braccwell outlined his basic principles' Tuesday night while Republican Thad Hutcheson of Houston waited to hew from acting Gov Romscy Hutcheson asked Ramsey to call the special election Immediately for Nov 0 general election day No election date was set by Gov Shivers before he left for his hunting trip to Alaska He acknowledged receipt of letter of resignation Jan 15 or when a successor is elected and qualified" but aakl he needed legal advice The legal subcommittee Is studying a brief prepared by Gay-nor Kendall Austin attorney and former assistant attorney general Its recoihmendationa will go to the main committee which meets in Austin Thursday to decide if and when to hold a primary to select a Democratic nominee for the race One Mg item win be that of financing Sana officials have laid the money will not be a problem but a questionnaire was sent to county committees asking for volunteer help A committee source sail toe replies so far were fa vorable but not enough have been received to determine what the local thinking Is Estimated cost of the first and runoff primaries ia $500000 an official said Hart said he would enter the primary one is held I hope the Democratic Stato Executive By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Democrat Adlai Stevenson carries his presidential campaign into Pennsylvania today while President Eisenhower planned an only slightly political Jaunt to New York for the opening game of the World Series The presidential flight from Washington today was billed as Con-political but the Eisenhower motorcade routes from the airport to Ebbets Field and back were carefully outlined in advance would think" Press Secretary James Hagorty said would get some enwds" With the Nov 6 presidential election a little less than five weeks away Stevenson kept up his intensive campaign schedule and added a nationwide television speech tonight Speaking in New Jersey yesterday he charged that Republicans have given the nation empty words" instead of action In Important fields and continued to blast Eisenhower and tho administration at every stop in his six-county tour Vice President Nixon yesterday carried the Republican flag into Manchester NH Hartford Conn and Syracuse NY' where he charged that Stevenson has topped world's record for dema terday It had learned Eisenhower will make a major campaign ad' dress hi Miami between Oct 28 and Nov 1 White House sources did not confirm this and a spokesman said Eisenhower's political schedule Is completed only up to Oct 18 Both Stevenson and Nixon continued the argument yesterday over which party best represents the man" Stevenson speaking in Jersey City charged that historic function of the Republican party is to represent the economic and social philosophy of the woll-todo and the privileged of the Mg corporations the big Interests the Republican party is not a fit instrument to govern a nation that wants to moke progress for tho benefit of ordinary people" Nixon speaking in Syracuse said charges that Republicans are "against the little had been mode earlier by Stevenson Kefauver and former President Truman and added: charge must be met head-on and nailed for what It is a fake and vicious idea Those who would divide America into classes are bringing to this land ideas which do not belong here and are rendering a terrible disservice to our country" goguery" Sen Estes Kefauver Stevenson's vice presidential runping mate turned up in Loa Alamos NM site of a government atomic center with a sharp attack on GOP handling of atomic policies Stevenson Mt at both Eisenhow er and Nixon yesterday in referring to Elsenhower's recent use of the term nonsense" to describe Democratic claim that they are the party of the man" Calling such talk Stevenson went on to Include Nixon in his broadside by adding: do hope the vice presidential taste for extreme and loose language not becoming contagious" Aides said Stevenson's strategy is to draw Eisenhower into further campaign exchanges In line with that Democrats bought 15 minutes of TV time tonight for a Stevenson reply to Eisenhower's Ohio and Kentucky speeches Monday There was evidence Eisenhower'! own campaign schedule is steadily expanding The White House said yesterday he wifl make a campaign appearance in New York later this month There was speculation he would make a major speech The Miami Daily News said yes Family Album CAVALRYMAN Ifis memories with World War I are concerned with a picnic which was held to Fair Park for returned servicemen but when World War II canw along ho went into service with a lochl National Guard unit and served to the Pacific under Gen Douglas MacArthur This picture was made to Haskell where he was born Tho first train ride he remembers was -when tiie family moved to Jones County to 1914 Ife moved to Abi- lene about four yean later His first grammar school to Abilene was an old six-room frame build- tog Later he attended Abilene High School and was attending school there at the time the old building burned He spent a abort time to Abilene Christian College but the depression caught him and he dropped out of school though that did not prevent his working his way up with a company here cept hi present post' If Ms like-He had a promotion awaiting him ness isn't stamped in your when he came back from service memory please turn to Page 2 A but later left the company to ac- for a more recent picture THE WEATHER Water Panel Meets VJl DPtITNKn nr row 31 EEC'S HEAT AIUIENC AM Into allmn AND V1CINIT' mild (fill iilrmuas tunliM ud Ttuindur HIM Mil dors HIT tow WwtoMdw NOHTHViwniAL AND WEST Eirtly rlnurir through mradur with lw led llrnnnn and wcnlni IhundmlKiw-n No important Icmpm-aiurr i-nanm WH'TH CENT HAI AND EAST TEX rUy rlnudy through ThuiMlar with wn AUSTIN Un-State Son Park-house of Dallas yesterday said the Legislature-appointed Texas Water Resources Committee will meet here tomorrow and Friday to complete softie of Its proposed water I bills Muttrrrd shown and thundnahowna Important Irniporatiuw rhantra UanJa lu modarata mud! aualhaaal wiada aa Un HufraadJwMoc SMoar Nrio4 is it.