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wette EVENING CLOUDY FINAL "WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES" VOL LXXV NO 190 fwiii ntr4 Vrtu (P) ABILENE TEXAS SATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 31 1955 PAGES PKICfc DAILY 5c SUNDAY 10c Abilene Man's Death Ruled As Accidental MgOTim COME ON TRY IT! Prize Crossword Now Worth $375 The Abilene Reporter-News Prize Crossword No 48 The correct solution is worth $250 plus $100 bonus if winner is a regular subscriber by mail or carrier plus a $25 bonus if submitted on a post card You have until Tuesday night to submit vour answers Correct solution and winners will be announced the morning and evening editions neat Friday 4 Mail your solution (clip it along the dotted border and make certain each letter is legible) to: "Crossword Puzzle Editor The Abilene Reporter-News 0 Bos 30 Abilene Complete rules will be found on Page 3-A "H-Bombs Not War Deterrent' miiimii saaeiAasiesaasaa aaa PUZZLE occasions of violating the spirit o( Geneva Tiie West has countered that tha bitterly anti Western speeches which Bulganin snd Russian Communist party boss N'kita Khrushchev mude on their i scent South Asian tour violated the Ge- neva spirit Asked about the prospects for peace in 1956 Bulganin said In tha interview that cooperation and trust are a fully attainable aim in our After giving his views on war and peace the Soviet premier conveyed "to the American people cordial greetings and best New Year's i 5 31EAGER A board serves as an apparent brace for a remaining section of the rear wall of Hardware Store in Throckmorton The wall collapsed on a repair and tool shed during a $50000 fire which destroyed the store and damaged an adjoining implement company Friday morning Six persons were injured (Staff photo Jiy Don Hutcheson) Nam eeeoesososeoeooaeoaeeoooeoaseeeeoeoeoeeesaOs in i I AddrCSI aoeeoeooaoeooaooo eases toe s-PfetoM-tiiiiaiii i City Slata naaMaaiaia If yea arc est already a subscriber fill ia the ardar Mask 1 Please atari I THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS I Meralag aid Sudsy Evealag aad Sudsy Crossword Clues Dionne Quints and Parents Talk It Over End Dispute Said Yvonne: "1 do approve I hupe things will work out well and 1 think they will" Cecile: "We all agree with the statement" Annette: "We are etneere about it" A verdict of accidental death has been rendered In the fatal shooting of Dennis (Ike) Malone 47 Abilene man who was found dead in his wrecked station wagon Friday afternoon alwut 23 miles southwest of here on Highway 277 Justice St Joint returned the verdict Saturday morning Malone former operator and owner of the Malone Safe and Lock Co had been discharged from Hendrick Memorial Hospital Friday morning Shot Through Head He was found Riot through the head with a 30-30 ride in his station wagon The vehicle was wrecked in a gravel pit located about three miles oast of Highway 277 When the car was found the motor was running wide open and the rear wheels of the vehicle were spinning in sand according to Taylor County Sheriff Ed PowelL The dead man was found by Herb Sweeney of the Blair community near Merkel Those who went to the scene were Powell Deputy Pete Petty St John and Highway Patrolmen A Cocker Womack and Maurice Cole Rifle Slslre Here is an account of tiie story according to the officers: Bert Young who lives about three miles from the gravel pit reported his 30-30 rifle stolen from his house Friday afternoon He saw a man leave his house with the gun and drive off in a 1930 Ford station wagon Whilt Young was giving information conceiving the burglary to Sweeney broke into the con versa lion to say he hed found the man dead in the station wagon Sweeney was calling from the gravel company office Car Hilo Bask Malone apparently had turned off the public road onto the private road leading to the gravel pit Sheriff Powell aaid He added that (ho tires had dug kite the ground as if the car were traveling at a high rate ef speed The vehicle rammed into the gravel pit hit an embankment and began spinning into the sand Funeral wu pending Saturday morning at Kiker-Warreu Funeral Home Malone was born on July 12 1908 i Blanco County He had lived in Abilene about 13 years and owned the Malone Safe and Lock Co un-last September Survivors include one daughter Martha Darlene Malone ef Wheat-man Okla his foster mother Mrs Dora Malone of Oklahoma City and ore lister Airs Peoples of Stillwater Okla Stale to Gel Bit Varmer By THE ASSOCIATED FRES Warmer temperatures returned to Texas Saturday and the weather man said the trend will continue at least through Sunday Skies were clear at dawn through most of East Texas but a cloud cover blanketed the west No rain fell and none was in prospect Temperature dropped to freezing during the night as far south as a line from Waco lo Lufkin but some spots to the north of that line escaped freezing readings The Weather Bureau predicted temperatures would drop to freez ing or below in most of North Texas again Saturday night The coldest spots were Dalhart and Texarkana The temperature at both towns dropped to 25 degrees during the night Other minimum temperatures in eluded: Wichita Falls 26 Dallas 28 San Antonio 41 Corpus Christ! 44 Houston 37 Laredo 46 Austin 36 Galveston 42 Waco 31 am Brownsville 49 Man's Vigil Ends SANTA FE A sorrowing retired Nebraska contractor who kept a five-day vigil at an inn here after his wire disappeared Monday arranged Tor her funeral today Tha body of Mrs Elizabeth Roberts 64 a prominent Lincoln soda leader was found yesterday Near her body at the bottom of a shallow arroyo was an empty bottle labeled "take one at bedtime BARGAIN RATES Pay for vour Abilsno Reporter-New by the year at tha reduced prices now In affect Call or tea vour corner or agant today Yog save money TLITS ACROSS: 2 Young fellowa To prohibit 7 Native o( Arabia of somewhat technical nature might be given to medical atudenta sooner or later a alipshod clerk will probably hia employer down 11 Hat a definite number of legs of course 12 Soma folks enjoy telling about one they have had 13 Pronoun IS An understudy might welcome this 17 Salt water IS To do so is to cut in a particular way 22 A return in settlement of something 23 It's no easy task to demoralized troops MOSCOW Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin said today the people of the world "want the Geneva spirit and with it the hopes for peace and better and therefore it wiO not be He declared it was wrong to believe that possession of powerful weapons such si the H-bomb by both East and West could be 100 per cent effective la preventing another big war He asserted another summit conference of the chiefs of the big powers "can be These and other statements were made by Bulganin in a series of answers to written questions from Charles Shutt head of tiie Washington bureau of the Telenews Agency The agency is affiliated with Hears! Metrotone News and furnishes newsreel films to television stations The text of the questions and answers in the form of a New Year's statement was handed out to foreign correspondents by tha Foreign Ministry and broadcast by Moscow radio Last January Telenews obtained an Interview with Georgi Malenkov then Premier under similar circumstances In that Interview Malenkov called for diplomatic negotiations to settle Far Eastern disagreements On the possibility of an H-bomb war Bulganin said today: "It is wrong to assert that inasmuch as East and West possess hydrogen weapons the possibility of a thermonuclear war is automatically excluded" Cnrrent Soviet IJoe Bulganin in his answers plugged hard for the current Soviet line that Russia still adlieres to the spirit of last summer's Big Four summit conference in Geneva The Russians have accused the Western Big Three on various Mamie lo Fly lo Key West KEY WEST Fla '-President Eisenhower closes out an eventful 1935 today hopeful the new year wiU bring restoration of his health Mrs Eisenhower will fly to Key West to be with the President as the old year bows out They planned a quiet observance Mrs Eisenhower is to arrive aboard the presidential plane Columbine III accompanied by her mother Mrs John Doud of Denver and Mrs Howard Snyder wife of the President's physician Maj Gen Snyder arrived here Wednesday with Eisenhower The group plans a quiet New Year's Eve dinner at the President's quarters on the naval base Mrs Eisenhower is expected to return to Washington Monday or Tuesday Euenlwwer probably will be in bed tonight before 1936 arrives in line with his program of getting plenty of rest while recovering from his Sept 24 heart attack justly famous winds swooped down oa him Next morning the sheep herder stepped out of his trailer lo find that the wind had blown away the sack and left the flour hanging on tho A Canadian won one of three honorable mention awards for 1955 Vernon Chametski of Box 142 Prelate Saskatchewan sent in this whopper: "Recently a friend of mine asked me about the height ef the big pool grain elevator in our town 1 told hint 1 didn't know how high it was but I did know of a carpenter who dropped his hammer while working on the roof When he went down to get it he found that the handle had rotted off while it was Conrad A Johnson of (ISIS KW Couch St) Portland Ore drew on hix native Kentucky for his honorable mention tale He told of returning to his borne state after being gone for 30 years "I wanted to lay a wreath on the graves of my dqpartod relatives? NO 48 CLl'ES DOWN: 1 Descriptive of ideas that are yet to be fully developed 2 Must keep a good stock of flour of course 2 Miserable and mflanchoiy 4 With tlowers in it it should look all the prettier Short for Nathan 10 For a heat wave one should have such clothing 11 You can buy them in cans 14 In certain circumstances can sometimes he of poor taste 15 Tapering block 17 children may appear to be a bit underfed IS Owing to an emergency arising a factory manager may find it necessary to a lot of men 20 For each 21 With which to open a lock It said General American tried to disguise a gift of $135 to Noad that the firm gave his wile a $4750 radio while Noad was investigating the company and paid a bill of 80 for "entertaining ex aminers and meals for Bill Noad Tlie state alleged that Blanchard and Butler were guests on a weekend deer hunt at the ranch of a company director and that they received from firms merged with General Amer lean The suit contends that when Blanchard and Butler assigned Noad to investigate General American their Intent "was not for William Noad to muke true and unbiased The petition stated that Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Goebel planned to order an examination of the company in late 1953 or 1954 It said Erwin and company officers Hulpii Stokes Houston Odom and Connie Schuchard a scheme" to prevent an examination and sent Schuchard to Kentucky He hired John Keck a district judge and a General American Insurance agent end Wade Hall an insurance man in Kentucky to exert their political influence lo call off the Investigation the suit claims "John A Keck and Wado Hal were successful" the petition Mated i The suit says Keck was to he paid $100 per month by the firm and Keck and Hall were given general agency contracts and were to receive a percentage of all the business written by General American in a portion of Marie the fourth surviving qnint wu unable to make the 350-mile auto trip from Montreal because rite is convalescing from a recent illneu The other three uid they were certain Marie agreed The fifth sister Emilie died In August 1954 The family trouble became known when none of the four listers returned home for Christmas Dionne said Tuesday it wu the find time they had not spent Christmas at home and that they had not sent the family a card nor telephoned The quints' brothsr Olive Jr If year-old airman drove them to Callander from Montreal "Mrs Dionne and I stayed up all night waiting for the girls to arrive from said Dionne "The girls were tired from the long trip but we gathered under the Christmas tree and exchanged Trust company executive XL Edwards said earlier in Montreal tiie three sisters were "going to see their parents to prove there is no question of them drilling way from their Edwards advise the 21-year-old girls In handling the $600000 fortune built up from photographs and advertising endorsements Slate Violent Death loll Climbs to 142 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The pace ef violent deaths slowed mercifully in Texas Friday and in Saturday's first hours but the heavy weekend traffic lay ahead The state's violent deaths since midnight Dec 23 totaled 142 of which 71 were blamed on traffic The Department of Public Safety predicted 204 deaths in efl including til in traffic during the 11-day holiday period ending at midnight Monday Homer Gasrison DPS director ordered 121 more officers inis service to help the under-manned and tiring patrol force The men were reassigned temporarily from the department's ether poets 30 Persons Die In Auto Crashes By THE ASSOCIATED PRFS9 The nation' New Year holiday traffic toll rose today at a much lower rale than that of Christmas record tally of 600 deaths Only 30 highway deaths had been- reported before neon compared with si at the same hour a week age The counts both weekends began at 6 pm Friday Three deaths ia fires and one ia another type of accident made the current over-all toll 34 Highway deaths by states included: New' York 6: Ohio 4 Maryland 3: California Louisiana Massachusetts Michigan Washington and Wisconsin 3 each and Illinois Kentucky New Jersey New Hampshire and South Dakota 1 each ABILENE 1955 TRAFFIC SCORE CsflMCMtivs ZnHiIm days 31 Fatalities ia 1933 6 Accidents Friday 9 Accident ia 1951 1911 tajarad Friday 1 lajared ia 195S 319 Johnson lied "hut to my surprise when I got to the cemetery I sw nothing but holes where the graves had been I inquired from an ancient relative if they had moved tiie bodice 'Nope' he Mid they buried a revenouer in that cemetery by mistake and they all got up and walked off' Hardly a year goes by that a Texan doesn't place high in the parade of falsehoods but in lieu of a Lone Star winner this year there's a story about Texas told by a woman now living hi California Mrs Pennington of Box Sharp Park Calif says it gets so dry in Texas that the water is wet mi only one side "We have a feiry boat In Texas that runs across the river but it has to haul water most of the time to keep Sirs Pennington aaid "Wo aven have to run the welie through tho wringers to get enough moisture to wash behind the kids' Conspiracy Suit Cites Examiners NO TEXANS PLACE NORTH BAY Ont 'P The Dionne quintuplets and their parents say there was a midunder-standing between them but it now has been ironed Three of the four surviving quints drove to theii home yesterday to see tlieir parents alter (Niva Dionne their father said they had been "drifting away" from the family lie Mamed so-called outsiders for the trouble A statement issued a few hours after they reached the family home in nearby Callander said: "This afternoon we all discussed this trouble we have been having and we now feel it was all due to a misunderstanding There was a misunderstanding somewhere and it has been ironed Dianne telephoned the statement to the North Bay Nugget and each of the girls approved it "We all seem to understand each other better now" said Papa Dionne "Everybody feels happy about the reconciliation We are also sure there will be no further misuiderstanding such as has taken place recently" Black-Eyed Pea Award Revealed TAYLOR Dec 31 iJP-The National Black-Eyed Tea Assn said today the citizens of Centerville in Leon County had been given the "friendship for the black-eyed pea award" Elmore Torn who founded (he association recently said an annual award would be made "to recognize an individual organization and community which has been outstanding at some time In paying homage to the plain and wholesome hlack-eyed pea" Torn said Centerville received the award for the organization of the annual black-eyed pea festival in Leon County first held in 1937 Jet Pilots Claim 3 Acres on Noon DALLAS IP-Three acres of the moon were claimed yesterday by threeiJet pilots from Ferrin AFB in Grayson County The three formally filed deeds to their properly one acre each In the moon's northeast quadrant with Dallas County Clerk Ed Sieger Filing (he were Lts John Trimble of Fllinan NJ Edward Lewis Jr of Honolulu and George Wish of New York Steger said the deeds are legally filed and that it appears the pilots' have a legal claim ACC Store Burglarized About $63 was taken from the cash register of the Johnson Variety Store 1726 Campus Court in a burglary of the store late Friday or early Saturday morning Entry was gained when a rock was thrown through the glass oi the front door Detective George Y( Sutton said Saturday morning The burglary was discovered by Mm A Harbin who operates the store for owner Percy Johnson She opened the store at 8 a Sat urday Mrs Harbin told detectives she wu present at the store until 10:30 pm Friday Apparently no merchandise had been taken Sutton said CAB Changes Mind The Civil Aeronautics Board revised an earlier order in ruling yesterday that Trans Texas Airways does not have to serve Fort Worth on all its flights to Dallas IHE WEATHER rs di virT nr mwwrnrE WKAIHtE BIBttl AM1TNF AND VICINITY- Partly rlwil Cut n-rtiniirti ml The huh XiMn Mwaiur auhl Hw lull 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its own insurance examiners conspired with a large Insurance company to defraud the public by representing the firm as solvent when it wasn't The state aued the examiners and 45 officers of the defunct General American Casualty Co of San Antonio for SdMOooo The suit accused the examiners of accepting gifts from the firms The state receiver for the company also charged that political influence blocked an investigation planned by Kentucky insurance commissioner General American thrown into receivership July 16 1934 operated in Texas and nine other states It had 120000 policy holders Claims against the company number 37000 The suit alleged "a conspirary beginning in 1949 and continuing until June 17 1954" designed "to defraud the public and the parties represented by the receiver (the The suit said money recovered by the action would be used to pay the creditors State officials named were Larry Blanchard chief examiner for the Insurance Department Robert Butler assistant chief examiner ud William Noad of Dallas County and Let Ffcfferkorn of Caldwell County examiners for the department The state claimed the four assisted In "the making of and-or aided In the mekiug of a false examination Report of the financial arfalre of General American Casualty Co as of June 30 and "willfully and malidoiuly violated their duties as examiners In show ing a condition of solvency when bay knew that It was By ROB O'MEARA BURLINGTON Wit Ragging tiie Burlington Liars' Club top award for 1955 was a breeze for a Westerner and his story of a Big Montana blow and a sack of flour Judges of the world-famed phony tale club long accustomed to big winds gave the nod end temporary possession of a gold-plated medal" to Claude Yerkes of Box 122 Kal-tspell Mont Hulett the organization's founder snd president ssys Yerkes fold about sheep herder who lived in a small trailer house and had his provisions brought out by the owner of the sheep "On this particular occasion" Yerkes said "the provisions included a 100-pound sack ot flour for which there was no room in the trailer so the herder drove couple of stout nails in the wall and hung the sack ef flour oa them Just outside the trailer door During tiie night on ef Montana's.