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DAILY RECORD. Vernon. Texas. Jan 17.1972 FROM HUGHES, AUTHOR SA YS Ex-Defense Chief Asked Loan for Brother NEW YORK (AP) Clifford Irving, author of a purported autobiography of Howard Hughes, quotes the billionaire recluse as saying that former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford asked him for a $205,000 loan for Richard M. Nixon's brother.

Clifford, who served in the Johnson administration, denied any connection with the deal is a complete he said when contacted Sunday at his Washington home is not one iota of truth in that statement. It had to be made up out of whole cloth Noah Detrich. a former Hughes aide, said in California that the loan, which was reported in 1960, was made but that a company lawyer handled it and Clifford had no knowledge of it Irving declined in a television interview Sunday to say what Hughes got in return for the 1956 loan But he said the pro is described in his soon-to-be published book which he claims to have put together out of a series of interviews with Hughes. The Dayton Journal Herald today quoted San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli as saying that the loan was a pay- Methodists Plan New Organization DALLAS, Tex. (AP) The initial outline for a projected new organization for women in the United Methodist Church took form here Sunday night.

If plans approved here are finally adopted, the single new organization would be the successor to two present organ- Violent Death Count Led by Motor Mishaps By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Deaths from violent causes in Texas over the weekend picked up rapidly Sunday with motor accidents heading the list. The Associated Press began the grim tabulation at 6 p.m Friday and continued the count until midnight Sunday. At midnight Sunday, the death loll stood at 14 with 7 persons dead in traffic. Here is how some died: Forrest Lynn Moseley. 20, of Corpus Christi was shot to death Saturday night while examining a pistol he was thinking of buying.

The man holding the gun said he did not know it was loaded. Don Leinweber, 22, of Hondo was killed Saturday night when a freight train hit an automobile and dragged it 110 feet along the tracks. An Army helicopter carried two other youths who had been in the automobile to San Antonio for treatment. Three persons died Saturday night in a two-car collision on Texas 105 about 4 miles east of Navasota They were identified as Roosevelt Arrington, 32, of Houston riding alone in one car; Sharon Dabney, 24. of Con- rose.

and A. Hjornebik, 23. of College Station. authorities said Miss Dabney and Hjornebik were graduate chemistry students at the university. Jessie Webb.

24. of Dallas was shot to death early Sunday in a barroom. Dallas officers said they were searching for a 28-year-old man who walked up to Webb and killed him Pete Solis. 50. of Dallas was shot to death early Sunday as he sat in a tavern Police said they had been able to establish no motive and had no suspect in the killing.

Bryan Newman, 26. of Dallas was fatally injured Sunday in a two-car crash on Texas 78 at Garland. He died in Parkland Hospital in Dallas of head and chest injuries State Enjoys Warm Weather By IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS Warmer weather swept up from the Gulf of Mexico today, bringing another, however brief, end to another cold kind of weather that has kept Texans with one hand on their overcoats and another clutching a sports shirt. The warm, moist air flowing up from the ocean brought low cloudiness into northern sections of the state. Temperatures at dawn were in the 30s and 40s expect in the extreme south were readings in the 50s were common The National Weather Service said it would be cloudy to partly cloudy skies across most all of Texas today with somewhat warmer temperatures Today's warming trend followed a weekend of often bitter cold weather across Texas with temperatures slipping to the zero mark In portions of the extreme northern Panhandle.

izations, the Women's Society of Christian Service and Wesleyan Service Guild (traditionally for employed women) They have an estimated membership of 1.6 million in 36.500 local units in the 30 states, and give about $13 million annually for missions and other causes. A constitution for the organization. on the local church level. was adopted by the Division of the United Methodist Board of Missions. The division is the national policy-making body for the Society and Guild, and is one of four major units of the Board of Missions which Is in session through Jan.

23 The proposed local unit constitution was adopted by the Division by an over whelming vote. However, to become official and operative, the constitution and other provisions must be approved by United highest legislative body. General Conference, which meets in Atlanta in April. No name was chosen by the Division for the proposed new organization Kather, local Societies and Guilds throughout the nation will be asked to vote, in a massive name-selection referendum, on four alternatives Under Sunday's action, members of local societies and guilds, and other women in con-, gregations. are to be given opportunity to express a preference As stipulated by the Women's Division in its action last October authorizing new inclusive the constitution keeps a central focus on the mission of the church The new organization on the local level would continue to be related to the Women's Division.

Like its predecessors, it would continue to secure and administer funds, channeling some of the Women's Division for missional work and using others for local mission. The Division approved the proposed constitution on recommendation of a specially constituted 24-member Planning Committee. Deaths of Note Daisy Ashford NORWICH, England (AP) Daisy Ashford. 90, who wrote a best-seller when she was 9 years old. died over the weekend.

Her book. Young has sold more than half a million copies and is still off tor Richard supposed effort to obtain the St. Orleans route and other favors for Trans World Airlines, then owned by Hughes. The loan figured in unsuccessful 1960 presidential campaign Both Nixon and his brother, Donald, have denied that Hughes obtained any favors as a result of the loan. Irving's book has been a subject of controversy since it was announced on Dec.

7. The voice of a man claiming to be Hughes said in a recent distance telephone news conference that he did not know Irving and denounced the book as a hoax Newsmen at the conference said they were convinced that the voice was that of Hughes. Irving says it was not voice because the man had too many memory lapses and talked longer than Hughes can without a break. Irving talked about the loan during an interview with Mike Wallace on the CBS television Minutes" program. The late columnist Drew Pearson first reported the loan shortly before the 1960 election.

Pearson said Hughes made the unsecured loan to Donald Nixon in 1956. while Richard Nixon was vice president, and afterward problems with various governmental agencies were eased. The Pearson story was termed a by campaign manager. Donald Nixon said he had sought the loan through his friend, lawyer Frank J. Waters, then a lobbyist for Hughes, in an unsuccessful effort to save his chain of restaurants.

He said the loan was secured by his mother's lot in Whittier, Calif, Donald said he had never asked his brother to do anything for him or anyone else. He said that a gas station was built on the lot and that it was worth $228,000 when it was finally given in payment for the loan. In Beverly Hills. Dietrich, former head of Hughes Tool and an aide to Hughes from 1925 to 19.57, also confirmed that the loan was made but said Clark Clifford had no knowledge of it it was handled by a lawyer who worked for the Hughes Tool Co." Sinking Crew Rescued PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) A merchant vessel which plucked four crewmen from the stormy Atlantic is standing by as Coast Guard rescue craft speed to the aid of the Liberian tanker Plym some 200 miles southeast of Cape Lookout, N.C.

The Jacksonville arrived Sunday night and picked up the four after the Plym radioed it was taking on water in 10-to 15- foot seas and 45-mile-per hour winds. A Coast Guard spokesman said the 521-foot Plym. carrying a crew of 63. reported the four abandoned the vessel in two lifel)oats, leaving the stricken tanker with just one lifeboat. know how serious the condition the spokesman said late night.

A Coast Guard plane on the in print. It was published when scene reported sighting the ship Miss Ashford was in her lights and no one on deck. This was interpreted by William E. Benswanger the Coast (iuard to mean water PITTSBURGH (AP) Wil- had reached the gener- liam E. Benswanger, 79.

for- ators, causing a loss of power. mer president of the Pittsburgh Pirate baseball club, died Benswanger was named treasurer of the Pirates in 1931 and became president a year later, holding the position until the team was sold in 1936 Gregorio Modrego asaud BARCELONA, Spain (AP) The former archbishop of Barcelona, Msgr. Gregorio rego Casaud, 82, died Sunday at the Religious College of Barcelona. Msgr. Modrego Casaud had been archbishop for 24 years until he resigned in 1966.

Joon F. Plark BRISTOL. Va (AP) John F. Clark. 73, Bristol business and civic died late Saturday tlark was former president of Dixie Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

and was chairman of board of the firm at the time of his death The tanker Gulf Solo also was reported near the area, while the Coast Guard vessel USS Evergreen and cutter Chilula were dispatched to the scene. Body of Woman Found by Hunters WACO, Tex. (AP) The body of Lorena Watkins, 61, was found here Sunday by two hunters, two days after she wandered off from the nursing home where she had been convalescing from a traffic accident. Judge Joe Johnson ruled the elderly woman had frozen to death He placed the time of death as Friday. Temperatures in Waco early Saturday were below 20 degrees.

Slaying Suspect Linked To Killings in 4 States OUTDOOR ADVERTISING works up from the ground In Thailand. An artist works on an advertisement for a film which will eventually brighten a Bangkok billboard. A big thing in several ways, movie advertising has gotten so lurid in the Thai capital that a censorship committee passes oi ads. Cold Air Mass Leaves Midnation By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The polar air mass which socked the midsection with record-breaking low temperatures over the weekend moved into the Atlantic and Gulf Coast states today Brisk south and southwest winds in the wake of the cold air mass caused Midwestern temperatures to jump up as much as 30 degrees over a 24- hour period. The polar air repeated its Midwestern performance by pushing the mercury near the zero notch in much of New England and the central Appalachians.

Freezing extended as far south as the Gulf Coast and the northern third of Florida A second air mass hanging over the Great Basin was keeping the skies clear over the entire nation, with the exceptions of some light rain on the Washington and Oregon coast and a snowstorm on eastern Lake Superior, which dumped three inches of fresh snow on Sault Ste. Marie, in a six-hour period. Early morning temperatures ranged from 17 degrees below zero at Houlton. Maine, to 66 degrees at Homstead Air Force Base, Fla KOUNTZE, Tex. (AP) Dennis Ray Anderson, 25, charged with the slayings of a Kountze antique dealer and her 3-year-old granddaughter, is the object of a four-state investigation into similiar killings.

Hardin County Sheriff Billy Paine said authorities in Houston. Oklahoma City. Hot Springs. and Columbus, Ohio, are seeking possible tieups between killings in those cities and Anderson, a Pearland, Tex. antique dealer.

Anderson and Fred Foy Young, 21, of Houston, are expected to go before a Hardin County Grand Jury today. They are charged with the murder of Mabel McCormick and her granddaughter, Leslie Bowman, Mrs. McCormick was beaten with a hammer and her throat was slit. The child was crammed into a toilet and suffocated. Some $6,000 in antiques were also stolen from the McCormick shop in the Jan.

5 incident. Anderson and Young surrendered to authorities last Friday after flying from Puerto Rico. Sheriff Paine said authorities in Columbus are investigating the rape-murder of Christina Mitchell and her H-month-old baby Scott Mrs. was stabbed with a knife and the baby stuck head first in a toilet and drowned. About $80 in cash and credit cards were stolen in the February, 1971, crime.

The Hot Springs case involved Evelyn Leopoulos, an antique dealer, who was stabbed and beaten. Sheriff Paine said there was evidence of theft in that case, Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Don Schimmels said Sunday his office expects evidence today from Texas Rangers concerning the Dec. 29 slaying of Jewell D. Couser, 54, in that city.

Sgt. Schimmels said the method of operation in the Kountze and Couser slayings are similiar. He said Anderson has been traced to Norman and Oklahoma City on antique business. Mrs. Couser, an antique dealer.

was slain while babysitting for her 20-month-old granddaughter but in that case the child was not harmed. Cash and credit cards were stolen, he said. Paine said Houston officers also want to question Anderson about the murder of Colette Anise Wilson, 13, of Alvin, whose body was discovered late last year near a Houston reservoir RCML Mr. Businessman: The Vernon Dally Record Can Handle All Your Printing Needs and Rubber Stamps Call or come In to see us..