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Examine Plane from
Which Navigator was
Hurled to Death ;
EL PASO, Tex., July 14 (UP)—■
A Higgs Air Force Base board
of officers today examined the
B-2!) plane from which 1st Lieut.
Walter H. Hilbert, 32, navigator,
was hurled 5 miles to death yes-
terday when the plane's astra
dome blow out. The accident oc-
curred near San Diego.
Lieutenant Hilbert was not
missed for a few (ninutcs by his
crewmen after the accident. Capt.
R.L. Bill, first pilot, of the bomb-
er said the first indication he
had of the bomber, was a noise
and "popping" sound which indi-
cated that the cabin air pressure
was changing.
B-2!) have pressurized cabins
to make the high altitude flights.
Lieut. Albert J. Trower, who
was instructing Hilbert in radar,
dff'covfred the navigator was
gone.
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Former Mexiaifc
Dies in Galveston
Word has been received in
Mexia of the recent death oT P.
• W. Box in Galveston. Mr. Box
was a former citizen of Mexia.
In the early 1920's he was man-
ager of all local theaters. At that
time they were the National,
Palace, Opera House and the
American.
For the past 20 years Mr. Box
has been in the hotel business.
At the time of his death he was
managing supervisor for the Mil
ner Hotel Chain, with home of-
fices in Detroit.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Nelle Box of Houston; a j
brother, Rowland Box of Roswell,
New Mexico; and one sister, Mi^sJ
Jettie West of New Mexico.
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William A. Wilson, above left, Executive Secretary of the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce, is pictured explain-
ing the points of a well balanced program for the Cham-
ber of Commerce during the recent Community Clinic
hold here. Sid McKinnon, Secretary-Manager of the
Mexia Chamber of-Commerce, is shown at the right. More
than flour hundred local citizens attended'the Clinic and
gave suggestions for various projects for the Cham-
ber of Commerce m Uie future. The results of the Clinic
are being tabulated and will be announced in the near
future.
FBI Agent- Arrests
Army Deserter in
Oletho Monday
R. L. 'Dick' Johnson of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
accompanicd by Charlie Shrove,
Sheriff of Limestone County, ar-
rested Pvt. Sty res E. Lenox, 23.
at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James Green Lenox of
Oletha Monday morning. Lenox
was charged with desertion from
the United States Army.
Johnson explained that L< nox
was a deserter from Kessli r
AF Bas6 at Biloxi, Mississippi.
He pointed out that the man ab-
sented himself from duty at that
base in November of 1947.
Three Immigrants
Charged with Gold
Smuggling into U. S.
EDINBUnG, July 12 (UP)
Three immigrants, two of them j
aliens, were arraigned before a
U. S. Commissioner today on j
charges of smuggling gold into ,
this country from Mexico.
Charles Kurt Wajnryh, 23.
Felix Klaberg. 36, and Jacques '
Bormen, 28, told their story after
customs officers had brought high
ranking agents to the lower Rio
Grande Valley to join Secret Ser
vice Agents in questioning the
trio.
The three men, questioned as
to how 2<i pounds of gold bullion
and Mexican gold 50 peso piece.-;
came into their possession, said
they had been in Mexico on busi-
ness and pleasure trips.
Attempted Assassination
Of Italy's Commie Boss
Sets Off Civs! Disorders
ROME, July 14- (UP) A Sicilian law student shot and
seriously wounded Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's Communist boss,
today, and his act set all Italy aflame with Red protest de-
monstrations.
In Rome, the worst civil disorders since the war broke
out, and at least 22 persons were injured in the first few
hours after Togliatti was shot.down as he left the Palace of
Parliament by a side door. Police fired into the air to dis-
perse a crowd storming the foreign office with shouts of
| "assassins."
The Communist controlled National Labor Federation
proclaimed a nationwide general strike tonight for an in-
definite period. In Rome, Milan, Genoa, Turin and other
large cities workers left their jobs without awaiting the
j— national strike call. Buses
| halted in the streets and
drivers walked away.
[ Communist and left-wing So-
l cialist newspapers — the only
I nnes published here today as
printers walked out of the others
TOPEKAi Kan.,- J*o!y 14 ('■• ) !_. demanded the overthrow of
- S"n. Arthur Capper, white- j the anti-communist government
I,aired, grand old man of Kansas 1 "to save the country from Civil
honored by i ^;'1 - ,.
Troops and police
Jester Proclaims
Statewide 'Clean-up,
Fight Polio Week'
AUSTIN, July 9 (UP) — Gov-
ernor BeaiU'ord H. Jester an-
nounced today that a state-wide
"Clean-up and Fight Polid Week"
will be held July 12-17.
Jester suid the week will be
held in cooperation with the Tex-
as Junior Chamber of Com-
merce's clean-up campaign. He
added that every Tex^s com-
munity was urged to work to-
gether to halt the high incidence
of polio in Texas.
Miss Jean Grimes Becomes
Bride of G. W. Turner Jr. j
In Double Ring Ceremony
Senator Capper
Honored on 3rd
Birthday Todcy
Republicanism, wa
the home folks today—his 83rd
bii thdav.
lie, in turn, was host at the
list Annual Public 'Party given
at a city park for thousands ot
children. The annual event has
linen e; lied the nation's biggest
j annual birthday party.
I Capper is retiring from the
I li. S. Son'i after hi.- term end- j
, in;; n ■ t. Jan:1.try, rounding out j
j 30 years .• • vi#e. It is the longest I
Senate tenure of any member of j
j his party and followed four years j
j as Kansas, governor.
North Carolina
Battles Against
Polio Outbreak
Last Rites Hel<^ for Iniant
Last, rites were held
morning at Tehuacana for the in-
fant son of Mr. and Mrs. .face
Floyd, Jr. Among the survivors
are the grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Phillips of Mexia. and
Mr. and Mrs. Jace Floyd, Sr., of
Tehuacana.
fantile
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North Carolina buttled tod >y
ninst the worst outbreak ol in-'
paralysis in the stale'.,
hiitory. Reports of new eases
Monday | averaged between I.) and 20
i very day.
Yesterday 31 polio eases were
reported to the state noard of
health to bring North Carolina's
t.ota.1 for the year to 468, accord
ing to state health otiicer Dr. J. j
W. I!. Norton.
$5,000 Maximum Coverage
POLIO POLICY
At « Total Yearly Cost ol
$500 per FAMILY
($6.00 First Year)
HUSBAND, WIFE and CHILDREN
(Regardless of the Number ol Children)
Policy Provides
1. $5,000.00 MAXIMUM COVERAGK for EACH member
of immediate family—Husband, Wife, children (re-
gardless of how many).
2. HOSPITAL ROOM including Iron Lung and other
apparatus used.
3. DOCTOR'S BILL while at hospital and after leaving
hospital.
4. NURSING CARE while af the hospital and after
leaving hospital.
5. TRANSPORTATION to Hospital by ambulance, train
or airplane.
6. BRACES or CRUTCHES prescribed by doctor.
OLD LINE LEGAL RESERVE
Stanford & Richardson
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and police throughout
the nation were alerted as Pre-
mier Aleide Do Gasperi, who
| called the attempted assassi-
! nation "the worst thine that
j could have happened." prepared
to take firm measures against
disorders.
Public buildings were heavily
1 guarded. Armed police in jeeps
| patrolled the streets of the large
j cities. Troops were alerted for
swill, movement to any danger
points.
Togliatti, who underwent a 55-
! minute emergency operation at
| Rome's Polyclinic Hospital, was
jiepoi'ted "out of danger" for the
fnne being. He had received
about, three quarts of blood in
repeated transfusions before and
after the operation performed by
Dr Piero Valdoni.
Vatdbni' said one of four bul-
lels fired by 25-,year-old Antonio
B.illante I)i Durczzo grazed Tog-
■ Haiti's head behind the left ear,
cau ing a slight wound.
Another huliei entered his left
side and went through his body
out did not. strike any vital or-
| gun's. A third entered his left
] side, lacerated the lobe of the
I left lung, and lodged in his back,
j The fourth bullet apparently
missed Togliatti.
The would-be assassin, who
i came to Home three days ago
i from his home at Randazzo. Sici-
!v. said he was not connected
with any political party and had
| not motive except his personal
i belief that Togliatti was "an
j enemy of the country." He was
| seized by police an instant after
lie had fired on Togliatti.
Calvary Baptist
Hold Attendance
Race During July
.The Sunday School of Calvary
Baptist Church will conduct an
unusual program during the
month of July. Each of the seven
departments have selected the
and will enter that ear in a speed
name of some make of automobile
race with all the other depart-
ments. The miles per hour speed
will be determined by the per
cent of the departments enroll-
ment present on each Sunday.
After the race is over the en-
tile Sunday School will have the
annual picnic and fellowship
meeting.
The schedule of the race, the
entrants, and passengers will be
posted on a bulletin board and
supervised by the Superintend-
ent, Mr. W. 11 Spurgeon and his
assistant, Mr. H. N. Taylor.
Seven from Area
On Week's Scout
Trip to Arkansas
Five Senior Girl Scouts, one
leader, and the Executive Direc-
tor of the North Central Texas
Area have returned from a
week's trip camp with Senior
Scouts and adults of the East
Texas Area. Those attending
; troni this area included: Jo Ann
Kjnard of Hillsboro, Louan Hex-
ley, Carolyn Cauthen, Ann Jen-
kins, Mvra Johnson from Temple,
Mrs. Ann Bentlev, Mexia leader,
and Mrs. Ethel e! Hall, Executive
Director.
This group joined the other
groups from the East Texas Area
at Daingerfield .State Park,
spending the first night in. their
Girl Scout camp. The next day
the entire group of twenty-three
people left for Texarkana's Girl
Scout Camp at Mena, Arkansas,
taking with them a trailer loaded
wits, cots, bedrolls, cooking uten-
sils, groceries, and general sup-
plies. At the camp in Arkansas
the girls and adults slept in the
loft of a huge barn and built an
out-door primitive kitchen in the
woods back of the barn. Practi-
cal lv all of the meals were .cook-
ed in this kitchen by the girls
themselves.
Some of the activities of the
week included a trip to Hoi
Springs where they visited a
quartz mine, crystal cave, Alli-
gator farm, look-out tower, and
a guided tour through the Hot
Springs Hospital, several scenic
mountain drives. swimming,
huckleberry and blackberry
picking, sing-songs, and a joint
eampfire with the lirls in Tex-
arkana's Girl Scout Camp.
This- .{rip was approved by the
National Organization of Girl
Seojtits and was directed by Miss
Mary Ellen Rawley, Executive
Director of the East Texas Area.
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Dr. Lepon, Houston
Meat inspector Fired
HOUSTON, July 13 (UP) —
Dr. E. L. Lepon, who was fijed
late yesterday as City Veterina-
rian in charge of meat inspection,
said today he would "demand"
a public hearing of the charges
against him.
Lepon was dismissed in the of-
fices of Dr. Fred K. Laurent/.,
City Health Officer. The action
came after the Harris County
Grand Jyry had made public a
report by State Health Depart-
ment official J. F. Lakey in con-
nection with the recent Grand
',Jury investigations of a horse
meat racket here.
Lakey charged that Dr. Lepon
I was "derelict" in performance of
his outies, and that he had, on
numerous occasions, attempted
to hinder investigations of Lakey
and his aides.
In a quite ceremony marked
with simplicity Miss Jean
Grimes, daughter of Mrs. Jennie
Kykendell, became the bride of
G. W. Turner, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. Turner Sr. The wed-
ding took place Friday evening,
! July 2, at the First Presbyterian
| Church.
I Rev. A. W. DeGuire read the
double-ring ceremony in the
presence of relatives and a few
close friends.
The vows were exchanged be-
fore the altar which contained
a white open Bible flanked by
lighted candles.
The bride was attended by her
mother, Mrs. Kykendell, and the
bridegroom was attended by his
brother-in-law, Gordon Tyner.
The bride rhose a charming
costume of white and pink
Bemberg sheer, with which she
wore gold accessories. Her cor-
sage was pink carnations.
Mrs. Turner received her high
school education in Lancaster.
She has recently moved to Mexia,
with her mother, from Dallas.
The bridegroom U a graduate
I will demand a public hear-j of Mexia Hi ?h School. He spent
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Report Shows Polio
Is Attacking More
Teen Agers, Adults
NEW YORK, July 12 (UP) —
| Infantile paralysis is striking
| down more teen agers and adults
and fewer infants, a world-wide
survey of the disease showed to-
day .
The report came from Dr. Al-
bert S. Sabin, professor of re-
search pediatrics, University of
Cincinnati, at the opening of the
First International Poliomyelitis
Conference here.
He disclosed that the trend to-
ward the older groups is stronger
in such cities as Copenhagen,
Berlin and London, but that -the
age group affected by the disease
also is on the increase in the
United States.
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Livestock, Wholesale
Meat Prices Soar
CHICAGO, July 10 (UP)—
Livestock and wholesale meat
prices soared this week to the
highest levels in U. S. history,
Department of Agriculture offi-
cials said today.
They predicted the latest up-
surge would send retail prices to
new record highs within a "very"
short time.
"Only a stiff consumer boycott
can head off the spectaculai
spiral," one official said.
Life Sentences
For Two American
Soldiers Approved
SENDAI, Japan, Jui.v 10 (UP/
— The U. S. Army Judge Advo-
cate General announced today
approval of life sentences *of
Pvts. Ralph Howell of Tennesee
and Robert O. Otwell of Farm-
er's Branch, Tex.
They were convicted of kill-
ing Niwazo Hasebe with a club.
Otwell also was found guilty of
striking 'and injuring Yotaro
Yagi. Tney were tried by a mili-
tary court Feb. 25.
ing and I will ask that the Grand
Jury try to prove the charges it
made against me," Lepon said.
He also asked that Lakey, head
of the State Bureau of Foods and
Drugs, appear at the public ses-
sion.
"All I ask is a fair trial," Dr.
Lepon said ... "I have been
silent all this time. I want to de-
fend myself before the people
of Houston."
M. T. McCullough, attorney
and spokesman for Dr. Lepon,
claimed La key's report — ad-
dressed to State Health Officer
Dr. George W Cox - dealt, only
in "glittering generalities." He
told reporters the Grand Jury had
tailed to inflict the veterinarian
because it "had nothing against
him -- and the Grand Jury
knows it."
MeCullough added he was con-
sidering filing libel suits against
Lakey and "others connected
with the case."
Dr. Lepon said he would file
his appeal for a public hearing
with the Civil Service Com-
mission within the required 30
days.
The public hearing received
full endorsement of Grand Jury
foreman Gus Dilunar and Lakey.
Permission Refused
Father to Talk with
AWOL Son in Russia
WASHINGTON, July 12 (UP)
- Col. James M. McMillin was
revealed today to have asked
and beert refused permission to
go to Moscow to talk with his
soldier-son who we#t AWOL
with a pretty Soviet woman
agent.
Informed sources said the colo-
J nel, whose home is in Boulder,
I Colo., first appealed to the State
I department to let, him interview
j his 21-year-old son, Sgt. James
j M. McMillin ,Jr. The department j
! turned'him down, reportedly on j
| the ground, that Russian officials]
j would never permit the inter-
• view and the trip to* Moscow !
! would be .in vain.
Later, it was said, Col McMllin i
! asked the department to send an !
American official of the U. S. •
| etVibas'f.y'to' talk with his boy. The 1
[ department agreed to this ar-
rangement. But Russia refused.
Soviet spokesman advised the
State Department that young
McMillin did not want to see any
Americans.
Last Rites Held
HOUSTON, Tex., July 14 (UP)
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow for J. D. Smith, 14,
I who drowned in the Brazos
i River near Richmond yesterday, j
The youth had gone on a pic- |
nic with his parents, Mr. and '
| Mrs. Clyde Smith, and neighbors. !
| Smith told police his son waded
I out into deep water looking for
a good fishing hole.
three years overseas with the
3Gth Division, 142 Infantry, and
returned in August 1945. He at-
tended Jewelry School in Kan-
sas City, Missouri, and is now
employed in a local jewelry
store. Following the ceremony,
Mr. and Mrs. Turner left for a
short honeymoon in Galveston.
On their return they will be at
home at 304 East Rusk.
Plans Completed
For Ninth Annual
Fruit Festival
STEPHENVILLE, duly 12 —
(UP) — Program details have
been completed for the ninth an-
nual Texas Peach and F'ruit Fes-
tival here July 31.
Hugh Wolfe, President of the
festival, said exhibits for women
and girls, as club members and
individuals, were emphasized
this year.
Free cold storage will be of-
fered here for exhibitors with
fruit which ripens before the
show.
Boatner to Take
Post at A&M College
COLLEGE STATION, Tex.,
July 14 (UP)—Col. H. L. Boatner,
who served as a Brigadier Gen-
eral in combat command during
World War II, will become com-
mandant of cadets and professor
of military science and tactics
at Texas A&M College Aug. 15.
The announcement came to-
day from President Gibb Gil-
christ, who said Boatner will suc-
ceed Col. G. S. Meloy, Jr., who
will enter the general staff and
command school at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Miss Barbara Ann Price, above, the sixteen year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Price, of 200 East
Hopkins, was chosen for the scholarship to Westminster,
awarded by the Lions' Club. Miss Price was valedictorian
of the 1948 graduating class of Mexia High School,
secretary of the student council, flag bearer ior the
Black Cat Band, society editor of the Black Cat paper,
and office assistant to Principal L. C. Woods. Miss Price
has also received a scholarship to Mary Hardin, Belton.
Dillon's Announce
Birth of Daughter
Mr. and Mrs. Jan J. Dillon an-
nounce the arrival of a six pound
eight ounce daughtei. at a local
hospital. Monday, July 12. The
baby has been named Cheryl Pa-
tricia.
The maternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. (', R. Mathis. The
paternal grandfather is Mr. Eve-
rett Dillon, of Encino, California;
Mrs. DilJ.in is a granddaughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Stewart.
No Applications
DALLAS. July 12 (UP) —Dud-
ley K. Woodward of Dallas,
chairman of the University .of
Texas Board of Regents, said
today that no applications had
been reeieved lor the presidency
of the Texas College of Mines,
El Paso.
Report New Floods
Threaten Rail
Transportation
MEXICO CITY. July 14 (UP)
New floods from the Rio
Grande River in the Matamoros
area threaten rail transportation
from that city to Monterrey, it
was reported today.
1 An official government bulle-
tin said the water had risen more
than eight inches over the right-
of-way but that train service
was continuing. An unofficial
report said it had been suspend
ed.
| 89 Polio Cases This Week
! AUSTIN, Tex, July 14 (UP)—
[ Polio cases rocketed to 89 this
' week, the heaviest attack of the
disease for any week this year,
! st'.t.' health officer George W.
Cox said today.
fcir the w'eek ending July 10,
i I he new high of 8!)'cases-pushed
j the total for 1948 to 736 cases.
Escaped Convict
Kills Deputy
Sheriff in Houston
HOUSTON, July 14 (UP) —
Police held an escaped convict
here today after a wild shooting
spree early this morning-that re-
sulted in the death of a deputy
sheriff and left another man se-
riously wounded, ". ■'■
Dead was Deputy Eddie Schaf-
ner, 31, a bailiff in Justice of the
Peace Court. He was shot once
in the forehead as he sat in a ra-
dio telegraph tower in a lonely
section of south Houston, and
died in a hospital five hours
later.
Schafner had gone- to the tow-
er to wait for his wife, employed
as a telegraph operator, for
Southern Pacific Lines, wpp was
off duty at 2 a. m. as they sat at
la table. Mrs, Schafner later told
j police, the door suddenly open-
' ed and the convict stepped in.
Without a -word, Mrs. "SCh&fner
said, he started shooting:" Schaf-
ner fell to the floor. Mi's. Schaf-
ner escaped injury.
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Meat Prices Zoom
CHICAGO. July 12 (UP) —
j Wholesale meat prices shot uc in
1 a "semi-runaway" marxti at
1 New York today and hog prices
rose sharply at major cornbelt
terminals.
NEW ORLEANS, July 12 (UP)
— Pres. Romulo Gallegos of
Venezuela, here on the last leg
of a goodwill visit to the United
States, faces a full round of ac-
tivities today starting with a
two-hour tour of the Port of
STATE LAND COMMISSIONER
MAYFIEID WILL
.. . return the State Land Office to the
people; obtain adequate and just bids for
icascs and royalties on public lands;
afford larger income for permanent
school fund and general fund; make it
possible for ex-service men to buy the
better farm sites and grazing land; and
give YOU a square deal.
Homer Tomlin, cigar Jammed firmly in his mouth, proud-
ly takes the undersized watemelon from Jim Cham-
tiers. The watermelon was Homer's prize for missing
twenty-five consecutive snots out. ol' twenty-five tries
during a recent contest at the Groesbeck-Mexic. Gun
Club. After the above picture was m.iflr Homer made a
second trip to the shooting grounds, this time with his
trusty l(J-griuge, but from reports ihat have drifttd m
he had the same ill-fortune, missaiig twenty-five. Jim
the son ot the landowner where Lht club is loiated, ex-
plained to the photographer that much larger melons
are grown on his father's land. He explained that the
one used for Homer's prize wttts a bit young.
To the Men and Women VOTERS
of Limestone County:
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I
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iiks
With the constant official duties to
perform as your Sheriff, it may be that I
have not seen you to personally solicit
your vote for Sheriff on July the 24th. I
want you to know that I have done my
best to see you, and if I have missed
this opportunity, it has been because
the demands in the interest of public
service have limited my time.
I have done my best to fill this office
with impartial conduct of its affairs. I
shall continue to do this without fear or
favor. I am sure that you recognize that
I have given my full support to the en-
forcement of the law, which I shall con-
tinue to do in the future.
With an abiding faith in the voters that they will continue me
in this office for the service I have rendered, I am
Most Gratefully Yours,
CHARLIE SHREVE, Sheriff,
Limestone County, Texas.
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