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Formal Opening
Lamar Underpass
Saturday, Aug. 14
&nt?£iu?al?r Stepnrter
Dedicated To The Welfare Of Sweetwater And Surrounding Area
vltfiTHER
Partly Cloudy, Hot
57th Year Number 184
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SWEETWATER, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1954
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Price Daily 5c, Sunday 10c
TOSSED OUT—Evangelist Dr. Braxton B. Sawyer from Ft. Smith,
Ark., right, who said he wanted to photograph nudist camp to sup-
port his charges that they tend to "corrupt the morals of America",
adjusts his camera as semi-clad nudists look on. Nudists demanded
Dr. Sawyer undress or leave. He refused to do either and was
tossed out of the camp near Battle Creek, Mich. (NEA Telephoto)
IN WEST GERMANY
I
Anti-American Riots
Blamed On Agitators
BREMERHAVEN, Germany,
Aug. 6 —UP— The U.S. Army said
Friday teen-age agitators from
Soviet Germany probably were to
blame for West Germany's first
"* serious anti-American outbreak
since World War II.
An official Army statement said
OIL
round-up
By ALLEN BAKER
Two new oil tests have been an-
nounced near Hylton, another test
south of Roscoe is reported about
ready for announcement, and oil
activities in this area are increas-
ing.
U. S. Smelting, Refining & Min-
ing Co. has finished a new 1.108
barrel per day Cambrian well in
North Dora field.
Two deep wildcat tests one mile
north of Hylton and less than a
mile south of the Hat Top Moun-
tain multipay field are planned by
Jaul G. Benedum of Midland
The tests will be drilled
rotary to 6,000 feet.
"local citizens" believe the hous-
ing riots in which two German po-
licemen and a number of house-
wives were reported injured this
week were "the result of Commu-
nist agitation." No Americans
were directly involved in the dis-
orders.
"The demonstrations may have
been the result of a Communist-
sponsored meeting held at a local
meeting hall. . ." the statement
said. "At the meeting were ap-
proximately 150 teen-age young-
sters from (Soviet-held) Rostock
. . . who were in Bremerhaven al-
legedly to attend a cultural meet-
ing and dance."
Two known Communist leaders
were seen Friday in the residen-
tial district where rioters battled
police in a violent protest against
a U.S. order requisitioning 25 Ger-
man houses.
German authorities emphasized,
however, that they are determined
to go ahead with preparations for
American seizure of the dwellings.
U.S. authorities requisitioned the
houses at the request of the West
German government as the site
for a proposed housing develop-
ment which will release hundreds
of previously - requisitioned apart-
ments to German tennants.
Local indignation was concen-
trated on tactics used by German
police, but there also was consid-
erable criticism of continued use
of the U.S. requisition power so
long after the war.
The requisitioned homes, now
with I h°us'ng 80 Germans, were to be
torn down to make room for some
US Economic
Outlook Seen
As Favorable
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 —UP—
Both employment and unemploy-
ment held steady last month at
about June levels, informed
sources said Friday. They said it
was a favorable economic sign.
The Commerce and Labor De-
partments planned to make public
the July labor force figures in a
joint statement about noon
Employment totalled 02,098,000
last June and unemployment, 3,-
347,000.
In July last year, employment
totalled 02,720,000 and unemploy-
ment, 1,548,000. In July, 1952, the
employment figure was G2,234,000;
unemployment, 1,942,000.
Persons without jobs comprised
5.1 per cent of the total labor force
this June. Commerce Secretary
Sinclair Weeks said last week that
he would guess the percentage of
unemployed would be about the
same in July.
This has been the postwar pat-
tern. Since 1940, the percentage of
unemployed has dropped a few
tenths of 1 per cent three times in
July. It has gone up slightly three
twice.
It was 2.4 per cent in July, 1953,
and 3 per cent two weeks ago.
Unemployment rose steadily
from 1,240,000 last August until
March when the monthly gain was
only 54,000 for a total of 3,725,000.
There was a drop of 200,000 in
April and a further decrease of
160.000 in May.
The number of jobless went up
again in June—by 42,000. But this
was a much smaller rise than the
usual jump in that month when
high school and college graduates
start looking for jobs.
Congress Expected To Approve
Hike In Federal Debt Ceiling
$6 Billion Temporary
Increase Already Voted
No. 1 G. B. Sliger, a quarter
mile south of Goen production, is
330 feet from the north and 2,100
feet from the west lines of section
189-64-II&TC on a 166-acre lease.
It is a south offset to J. D.
Wrather Jr. No. 1 J. P. Hutchins,
recent south extender to Goen pro-
duction in the Hat Top Mountain
field.
The Hat Top Mountain field pro-
1 600 apartment units to be used by
American occupation families.
Mrs. Hollingsworlh
Injured In Accident
Mrs. O. O. Hollingsworth of 200
Lamar Street was painfully hurt
with internal injuries Thursday
nigh in a traffic collision at Broad-
way and McCaulley.
Mr. Hollingsworth was ariving the
car in which he and his wife were
riding. The car. a 1949 Chevrolet
pickup, sustained about $165 dam
ages when a car driven by Wes-
ley Ray Sims collided with it.
Sims was driving a 1949 Stude-
baker which sustained about $100
damage, according to police esti-
mates. Sims, 18, lives at 2100 Bris-
tol.
Mrs. Hollingsworth's injuries
were not considered serious but the
exact extent of them had not been
determined Friday morning.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -(UP)- The administration
seemed assured Friday of congressional authority for a
boost in the federal debt ceiling after a year's delay.
Last minute jockeying in an adjournment-bound Con-
gress will determine how much of a hike can be made in the
$275 billion debt ceiling — and how long the increase can
apply.
Some increase became all but certain Thursday. The
Senate Finance committee cleared the way by approving, 9 j vised
to 6, a $6 billion temporary increase. The action came as j informed sources said Sen, Ar-
the debt climbed to less than $1 billion of the legal limit, ithur v. Watkins (R-utah), senior
effect, I •
Censure Committee
Calls Secret Meet
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 —UP—
A six-man Senate "jury" called a
meeting Friday to plan its study
of censure charges against Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy but most
members were already agreed the
proceedings should not be tele-
Kef a uver
Landslide
The committee said, in
that the national debt can rise to I
$281 billion during the slack pe-
riod between Dec. 15 and March j
15. But it provided that the govern- I
ment debt must be back under the i
$275 billion limit by next June 30!
when the temporary increase ex-
pires.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd <D-Va.) said j
he is confident the Senate will ap-
prove the committee action. Byrd, NASHVILLE, Aug. 6—UP—Sen.
prime mover in the committee ac- j Estes Kefauver, unsuccessful can-
tion which pigeonholed the admin- ] didate for the 1952 Democratic
istration's request for an increase j presidential nomination, claimed a
last year, sponsored the tempora- j landslide victory Friday over Rep.
ry plan. Pat Sutton for a new Senate term.
Chairman Eugene D. Millikin Gov. Frank Clement, who
(R-Colo.) said he favored a pro- became the states youngest gov
posal of Treasury Secreta-
ry George M. Humphrey who ask-
ed the committee for a $10 billion
increase — with half of that total
on a temporary basis.
The Senate committee made its
$6 billion increase an amendment
to the House approved bill which
granted the administration's full
$15 billion request a year ago.
That set the stage for possible
Senate-House maneuvering
If the "Senate approves the tem-
Claims
Victory
Houston School Board
Authorizes Pay Hike
HOUSTON, Aug. 6—UP—
The Houston school board has ap-
proved a 5 per cent pay increase
for 6.000-odd employes, from jani-
„ „ , , , , tor to superintendent, in the IIous-
to" independent school district.
tween 5,042-64 feet and from
Goen between 5,131-133 feet.
No. 2 G. B. Sliger test by Bene-
dum is spotted 1,263 feet from the
north and 2,100 feet from the west
lines of section 189.
These tests have been in the
making for some time.
Second test is 933 feet south of
the first.
Bowie Street Crossing
Across T&P Is Closed
Bowie Street crossing over the
Texas and Pacific railroad tracks
between the passenger and freight
depot is no more.
With completion of pavement for
the underpass and the First Street
traffic adjacent to the T&P, the
Bowie Street crossing has been
closed and the T&P property line
has been sealed up with a curb.
ernor two years ago at the age of
32, just as easily won a new four-
year term by trouncing Gordon
Browning, a three times governor.
Ray Jenkins, special counsel in
the recent Army-McCarthy hear-
ings, was nominated on the Repub-
lican ticket to oppose Democrat
Kefauver but Jenkins reiterated he
did not intend to run against the
former crime-buster in the general
'•lection.
Kefauver, a liberal in the con-
porary increase the House can re- I servative South, called his triumph
fuse to follow suit and send the j L>em°cratic primary proof that
whole issue to a Senate - House I '"U>e state ol Cordell Hull and An-
conference committee. That group | drew Jackson believes in forward
would then be asked to effect a I Poking policies at home and
j abroad.
Sutton had accused Kefauver of
! being an "internationalist" and of
enlisting anti-southern support in
! his quest for the Democratic pres-
idential nomination in 1952.
Kefauver, whose win possibly
compromise.
Firemen Guard
Ruins Of Plant
■
PEKIN, 111., Aug. 6 —UP—Fire-|
men stood guard Friday over the
smouldering ruins of a two-day
distillery fire that killed six per-
sons, injured 38 and burned up al-
most 5 million gallons of whisky.
Damage was estimated at $7.5
million by President Russell Brown
of the rubble-strewn American Dis-
tillery Co. He said, however, that j
the plant, which employs 650 per- :
sons, would be back in operation
Monday.
The fire, touched off by a bolt |
of lightning early Wednesday, was
declared out ol danger Thursday
night. The blaze, once subdued,
erupted into several explosions and
alcohol flames shot high into the
air before it was brought under
control.
The salary boost, voted at a spe-
cial meeting Thursday night, lipped ;
the city from 46th in the nation to I
17th in teacher pay scales. Large enthusiastic delegations
The money, a total ol $1,158,584, from practically every county in
was provided by a special session | the 14lh Senatorial District wiu bf
of the state legislature earlier this
year
maximum salary boost is
Shivers To Meet With
Workers Here Saturday
The
$500.
0
Southwest several miles, No. 1
A. S. Hendry test at Hendry Point
on the northeast shore of Oak
Creek Lake, was coring below 5,760
feet after recovering oil on two
drillstem tests in unidentified
sand.
On a two-hour test between
5,710-22 feet, gas surfaced in 80
minutes. Recovery was 160 feet of
oil, 150 feet of oil-cut mud, and
465 feet of salt water. Flowing
pressure was 330 pounds; 30-
minute shut-in pressure, 2,430
pounds.
Operator cored from 5.722-42
feet for a recovery of 20 feet, no
description.
Earlier the project flowed oil
for 16 minutes, no gauges, on a
drillstem test between 5,343-385
feet in the Gardner lime. Recovery
was 600 feet of oil and 20 feet of
oil-cut mud, no water. The Gard-
ner lime was topped at 5,829 feet
on derrick floor elevation of 2,017
, feet.
McMahon has staked another
test, No. 1-A Henry, about a mile
north of the lake.
United States Smelting, Refining
and Mining Co. has completed an-
other well in the North Dora field
southeast of here and south of
White Flat.
No. 3-A TXL is in section 59,
block 20, T&P.
It finished as a flowing Cam-
ry See OIL Page 8
WEATHER
SWEETWATEK — Temperature,
high, 103 degrees; low. 75 degrees.
Barometric pressure, 30.02, falling.
Relative humidity, 40 per cent,
steady. Instrument reading, clear
to partly cloudy, continued hot.
WEST TEXAS — Generally fail-
east of Pecos Valley through Satur-
day; otherwise partly cloudy with
widely scattered thundershowers.
Not so hot in Panhandle Friday.
! present at the workers convention
Saturday afternoon at 1:30 for Gov.
j ernor Allan Shivers.
The Governor will fly to Sweet-
water from Lubbock and will be
met by many of the campaign
workers at 12:30 p. m.
Shivers will be in charge of the
campaign workers meeting which
gets under way promptly at 1:30
p. m. in the Skyroom.
R. E. Gracey, manager of the
district campaign headquarters in
the old J. C. l-enney building, stat-
ed today that many farmers and
rancers over the area will be pre-
sent in addition to large delega-
ARMY DEPENDENTS ANGRY
Wife Of Colonel Defends
Ban On Midriffs And Shorts
FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. 6
—UP—The wife of Col. John H.
Dilley, now called "Colonel Dior"
by angry Army dependents, Fri-
day defended his order banning
of shorts, jeans and hair curlers
in public.
"My, I would never wear such
scanty dresses," the colonel's lady
said. "There's such a thing as de-
cency."
Dilley, of Kansas City, Kan.,
took full blame for the furor aris-
ing from the order which soon will
be duplicated by Army European
headquarters and affect up to 50,-
000 American women.
"1 wrote that order myself," Dil-
ley said. "I didn't even consult
my wife."
An official spokesman said "in-
appropriate attire can and has, in
some instances, adversely affect-
ed the best interests of the United
States."
"Inappropriate attire" was as-
sumed to mean the shorts, plung-
ing necklines, bare backs and mid-
riffs, jeans and pin curlers which
now are taboo in the Frankfurt
area because of Dilley's directive.
The Army's sudden interest in
atttre is believed to come from
German criticisms of the "taste"
of American women.
tions from every county and town
in the area.
"From one to half a dozen car-
loads of people from every town
and county in the district will be
present to assist in the meeting,"
Gracey said.
Gracey also pointed out that
"wonderful enthusiasm being mani-
fested by Shivers supporters over
the entire district. People have
been calling us wanting to know
what they can do to help in the
campaign," he said.
The meeting at the hotel Satur-
day at 1:30 p. m. will consist of
about 200 to 250 people. "We would
like to have everyone present, but
the Skyroom will accommodate oil
ly about 250 people," he said.
"We are going to organize ev-
ery precinct in the area, and work-
ers from all walks of life will con-
tact all voters in their respective
precincts, giving facts about the
accomplishments of Governor Shiv-
ers." he said.
"We feel that many Shivers sup-
porters failed to vote in the first
primary because they thought their
votes would not be needed. Conse-
quently we are going to impress
upon them the importance of go-
ing to the ports on August 28 and
vote," Gracey said.
POLICE COURT
In Sweetwater police court Fri-
day, three persons plead guilty to
charges of disturbance and were
fined $25 each.
Five automobile drivers were
fined $3 each on pleas of guilty
to charges of driving past stop
signs.
One driver was fined $10 on
charges of driving a car without
an operator's license.
Ed Sinnott Funeral
Services Are Set
At 10 a. m. Saturday
Once famous throughout this
state as a horse shoer, Edward
Francis Sinnott, 77, died at 604
Pecan Street about 2 p. m. Thurs-
day. He had lived in Sweetwater
since he was a youth.
Funeral services are set for 10
a. m. Saturday in Cate-Spencer
Funeral Chapel. Interment in
Sweetwater Cemetery will be di-
rected by Cate-Spencer Funeral
home. Graveside rites will be in
charge of the Masonic Lodge, of
which he was a long-time mem-
ber.
Sinnott was born November 5,
1876 in Brooklyn, N. Y. He learned
the art of malting horse shoes in
early childhood, for his father had
carried on the family horse shoe-
ing tradition. The father owned
a private race track and a string
of horses at Eaton Town, New Jer-
sey.
Wanderlust led the young Ed Sin-
nott westward toward Sair Fran-
cisco when he was young. lie was
making the trip via Dallas, where
he followed his trade for a time.
He stopped in Sweetwater for a
shave and his life-plan was chang-
ed—he liked the friendliness of the
town so well, he later said, that he
decided to stay here and make his
home. He went to work as a prac-
tical horse shoer in the shop of
Waldie and Son.
Later, after a brief experience in
his work in El Paso, he opened his
own shop here on East T'nird Street.
He became famous a'j the only
practical horseshoer iu Texas who
forged his own sho&s, slates, and
tools.
He shod and slated some of the
most famous horse shoes in the
nation while in New York and
handled Texas' most famous ones
after coming to Sweetwater.
The most horses he ever shod in
a day was, he once recalled, 23.
As the heyday of horses passed,
Sinnott continued to operate his
shop for the horses that were still
around. He shod his last horse in
1950.
In 1902, shortly after arriving in
Sweetwater, Mr. Sinnott married
Miss Eddie Citra King, daughter of
the late J. C. King, an early-day
merchant and sheep raiser. They
were married 52 years last July 22,
but Mr. Sinnott was too ill for a
celebration.
Surviving are his wife and two
half-sisters—Mrs. Loretta Brown of
Rye Beach, N. Y., and Mrs. N. J.
Orth of Atlantic Highlands, N. J.
projects him back into the presi-
dential picture two years hence,
said "the people of Tennessee were
offered isolationism in this cam-
paign and their answer at the bal-
lot boxes was a thunderous, no."
Returns from 2,144 of the state's
2.501 precincts gave Kefauver 331,-
617, Sutton 141,271 and two minor
candidates less than 15,000 between
them. For governor, 2,144 precincts
gave Clement 367,475, Browning
152,315 and Judge Raulston School-
field 22,381.
Frog-Man Mask
Blamed 3n Death
Republican on the special commit-
tee, probably would be named
chairman at a secret session Fri-
day morning.
Other members of the commit-
tee, appointed Thursday by Vice
President Richard M. Nixon, are
Republican Sens. Francis Case
(S.D.) and Frank Carlson (Kan.)
and Democratic Sens. Edwin C.
Johnson (Colo.), John C. Stennis
(Miss.1 and Sam J. Ervin Jr.,
(N.C.).
Most members agreed they face
j a long, difficult task that cannot
J really get rolling until the Senate
! winds up its legislative program,
I probably at the end of next week.
; There was some speculation that
| the Senate would recess and re-
j turn to Washington later — prob-
j ably in the fall — when the com-
mittee is ready to report.
Friday's informal meeting was
to decide on procedures for weigh-
ing charges against the controver-
sial Wisconsin Republican. Though
plans were not complete, most of
the six committee members
voiced strong opposition to live
telecasts of the proceedings.
Most thought reporters would be
admitted to the hearings. But
some members were considering
the technique used in the 1951 in-
vestigation of the firing of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur which was
heiri behind closed doors
1
I
with
"frog^m^"* mask" was Warned'"^'" °< lhe testimony distributed
Friday for the suffocation of a 14- to reporters about an hour later,
year-old Fort Worth boy as he \ The special committee was cre-
swam under water at a city park ;
PEAK—At the peak of its second
vertical takeoff, the Navy's Con-
vair XFV-1 hovers over runway
at Moffett Naval Air Station,
Calif. Takeoff was one of a ser-
ies of tests in which the six-
bladed plane made first vertical
takeoff by a fighter plane. (NEA
Telephoto)
pool.
The boy, Charles Bryan Hailey.
suffocated when the rubber and
glass swimming mask jammed
over his nose and mouth and cut
off his air supply. His body was
foiind in three feet of water at
Sylvania Park pool by another
swimmer who stumbled into it.
The air-tight mask was jammed
to the boy's face by vacuum caused
by his inhaling, and pool attend-
ants were forced to cut the strap
to get it off the youth's face.
The mask normally is used for
seeing under water, and fits over
the eyes and nose.
Mild Cool Front
Hits Panhandle
By UNITED PRESS
A summer cool front pushed gin-
gerly into the Texas Panhandle
Friday, bringing a promise of a
little rain and perhaps slightly
lower temperatures.
Weathermen expected the weak
squall line to speed up a little and
perhaps bring some relief to North
Texas over the weekend.
Meanwhile, Thursday's maxi-
mum temperatures ranged be-
tween 106 degrees at Hobart and
Gage, before the squall line reach-
ed there, and 89 at Trinidad, Colo.
Texas' high of 105 was shared by
Presidio and Childress, with Carls-
bad topping New Mexico at an
even 100.
Scattered showers were general
throughout Colorado and New
Mexico, but at no point did they
produce as much as an inch of
rain. Gage got .42 inches in an
afternoon shower while the mer-
cury was dropping from 106 to
78 degrees. Presidio got the most
rain in Texas, a scant .11 inches.
ated by the Senate Monday to con
sider a resolution introduced by
Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt.) to
censure McCarthy for conduct un-
becoming a senator. The group j
will also study some 45 specific j
charges filed by Flanders, Sen. J. j
William Fulbright (D-Ark.) and!
Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.).
New Superhighway
East Of Sweetwater
Nears Completion
The $100,000-a-mile super High-
way 80 east of Sweetwater to the |
Taylor County line is steadily mov-
ing forward on construction work j
with the August 15 completion date •
as a go: '. Resident Engineer Har- '
old Grissom reported Friday.
A considerable part of th; new j
four lane, divided type highway is
open now and the Santa Fe over- ]
pass is open for travel with the
T&P overpass nearing completion.
The two dangerous underpasses |
were built in 1923. They are now
being replaced with 52-feet wide j
overpasses built in a straight line I
with four lane traffic, with a divid-
ing line in the middle.
The two overpasses cost approxi-
mately $600,000.
The 13% mile highway from !
Sweetwater city limits to the Tay- j
lor County line cost approximately
$1,300,000.
The Santa Fe overpass is not fully
completed but it has been in use
since Wednesday. W. O. Crawford,
resident engineer, with offices at
Trent, said that the overpass is 420
feet long.
The T&P overpass at the Nolan-
Taylor County line is 462 feet long.
Eight Are Killed
In Auto And Truck
Crash In Kansas
PLAINS, Kans., Aug. 6 — UP—
Eight persons, including four tiny
children, were killed near here
Thursday night in a highway col-
lision that wiped out two entire
families. Two other persons were
critically injured.
The dead were Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene Elliott and their two chil-
dren, four-year - old Connie Jean
and Marc Allen, aged one and a
half, and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Boyer
and their two children, Edward J.
Boyer, two years old, and Cyn-
thia Kay. five weeks, all of Plains.
All were occupants of an auto-
mobile which collided with a pick-
up truck loaded with cables, cop-
per wiring, and other electrical
equipment. The occupants of the
truck, Raymond Porter and L. L.
Clark, both of Mayfield, were in-
jured critically
The two vehicles collided at the
intersections of Highways 160 and
54 just east of here.
A California family, identified
only as Mr. and Mrs. Sears and
their three children, was sleeping
at the roadside almost at the point
of collision and had a narrow es-
cape, Meade County Sheriff Arlie
Johnston said. Debris from the
truck littered the area where they
were sleeping, some of it falling
on pallets where the children lay,
and the demolished car "wound
up right next to them," Johnstou
said.
LONG-TIME NEWMAN EMPLOYE
Sinnott Did Horseshoe
Work For Race Horses
Ed Sinnott, long-time Sweetwater : about 1,500 acres at that time and
resident who diet? at his home I had 25 to 30 spans of mules. The
here, Thursday loved thoroughbred j various Newman horses and their
horses and vvirked for the New- j race horses kept Sinnott busy. He
first worked for the W. Waldie &
Son blacksmith shop on Locust,
near the present site of Lone Star
Gas Co. building, and later opened
his own shop.
, Race horses wore light shoes of
"He made an affidavit several j finished plates and great skill was
years ago that he had shod New- neded. Mr. Sinnott preferred to
man horses for more than 50 years [ shoe race and harness horses.
mans here for 50 years as a skilled
horse-shoeing mechanic, according
to Mose Newman.
"Mr. Sinnott was a high class
man," Newman said, "and was
skilled in horseshoe work.
and had received more than $15,-
000 for this. Mr. Sinnott was a
most careful and conscientious man
and I'm sure he was underestimat-
ing it."
He came to Sweetwater at about
the turn of the century and located
here because the Newman inter-
ests here had one of the largest
thoroughbred establishments in the
south and It was a fruitful field for
an able man.
The Newman family was farming
One of his favorites was Pan
Zareta. Newman-owned thorough-
bred mare that was never tied on
her record for races won by a mare
in America or Europe. She was
sixth on the list of American
thoroughbreds in number of races
won. In 1915-16 she was at her
height of racing glory.
"The Newmans sold out their thor-
oughbreds in 1918 with the pass-
ing of racing in Texas.
Batchelor Not Ready
For Trial Aug. 16
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 6 —UP—
The civilian lawyer for Cpl. Claude
i Batchelor said Thursday the
| turn-about Korean POW would not
i be ready for trial by Aug. 16.
That was announced earlier by
i the Army as the probable date for
Batchelor's court martial on
1 charges he collaborated with the
enemy while a prisoner in Korea.
But attorney Joel Westbrook
j wrote the Fourth Army's judge ad-
; vocate that new charges brought
I a g a i n s t Batchelor last Friday
"completely alter the complexion
of the case."
In addition, said Westbrook, the
Army has failed to supply data he
requested three months ago, and
also failed to make an adequate
pre-trial investigation of the new
charges.
Batchelor, of Kermit, Tex., was
arrested last February, a month
after he was repatriated and has
been held since in the stockade at
Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
Emilie Dionne Dies
STE, AGATHE, Que , Aug. 6
UP—Emilie Dionne, 20. one of
the famous quints, died here
suddenly Friday.
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