Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 69, No. 277, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 27, 1958 Page: 1 of 12
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Friend Sees Armed Pair, Hears Shots
Police Won’t Comment
Lone picket stopped 60 Safeway trucks at NE 36 warehouse.
Don’t Go Near the Water
Swim Suit Has
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Saturday.
Flight to Florida
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2-Week Flight Over?
Venezuela Hunt Starts
flight to Miami. I know that if I
union.
For Transocean Balloon
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into the bathroom with him, lock-
were at the international airport der patrol.
Stakeout
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Pays Off
As Cityans Celebrate
arrival at Blackwell General hos-
saying the balloon had landed in
gan said Hatfield's car was
era owner, also was a witness
to-work move hinges on a mem-
struck by a vehicle driven by
whether there was any connec-
tion between the two deaths.
What’s inside
The nine struck dailies may be
Danes Lead in Easing
BULLETIN
Controls on Currency
a large section of the state Sat-
TV So* Stolen
Six burglaries were committed
Related news Page 9
mas gifts—broke into the home
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When he arrived here he caught
the Orlando Sentinel-Star and re-
porter Sumner Rand went to see dryer.
from 1932 to 1944,
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College Chief is ‘Fine,’
Regrets Missing Reports
Cuban Pilot Escapes
In Government Plane
On Possibility of Link
With ‘Suicide’ of Pal
Safeway’s
Plants Hit
News Tieup
Near End
New York Pact
Due Sunday Vote
Tenkawa Crash Fatal
State Holds Car Toll
Only Drunks Busy
Crime Takes Holiday
Robbery Suspect
Nabbed at Club
This puzzled Collins. He said
"I can't understand why I didn’t
pital in Memphis, Tenn., an in-
stitution for treatment of chil-
dren suffering from leukemia.
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Cause for the truck tieup wasn't I
clear immediately, but it appar-
ently stemmed from a strike
Crespo refused to reveal the
name of his sergeant-mechanic
About the only other element
who just haven't gotten into the
MIAMI, Fla. ( — A young
Cuban air force pilot flew a
B26 bomber to Miami and exile
Democrat Is Dead
PASADENA, Calif. (UPD -
Thomas F. Ford, 85, Democratic
Fitzgerald said the RWDS un-
ion official who placed him at
the warehouse here had gone on
to Tulsa and other Oklahoma
cities to set up similar situa-
him.
Rand found Collins in the hotel
barber shop getting a hair cut.
The stocky Mooter with gray
tions.
"There is no dispute here,'
(See STRIKE—Pago 1)
The Weather: Clear
Skies clearing slowly during the
day. Colder tonight. Warmer
Sunday. (Details, Page 18).
HOURLY TEMPERATURE
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if terms are accepted by the in-
dependent newspaper mail and
deliverers union.
Asher Schwartz, union attorney,
said union officials are confi-
dent the terms will be accept-
able to the membership.
to meet Crespo, but they did not
get to him, the Herald said. Po-
lice shooed them away.
and Friday morning. Two more
have been reported since.
One thief—perhaps disappoint-
ed with the quantity of his Christ-
Tbe Small World cast off from
Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the
Canary islands, 65 miles off the
coast of Morocco, on December
12. The goal was to drift with
the winds to Barbados, some
3,000 miles away in the West
Indies federation.
Pedernales is about 3,450 miles
from the takeoff point and 300
miles southwest of Barbados. If
the balloon followed a straight
course from the Canaries to Ped-
(See BALLOON_Page 1)
to bomb cities and kill innocent
women and children.”
First Lieut. Jose A. Crespo, 24.
said he forced his mechanic to
accompany him.
"I put a gun to his head when
we took off,” Crespo told the
Miami Herald, "and then made
him sit in front of me on the
Planes used in previous such
defections were impounded and
returned to Batista.
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By Strike
Puzzled Officials
Keep Groceries
Going to Stores
didn’t worry about me. I don’t
know why they worried this
time.”
While Bogan was posted inside I
the club and the others on the
outside, a dispute stated among
some of the revelers and one
man pulled a knife on another.
The officers were forced to in-
tercede and, as they did. Clay
entered the club through a back
door.
"Upon observing us, he wheeled
around and attempted to escape
outside, but we caught him," the
officers reported. “After he was
brought to headquarters, he ad-
mitted the East Side market
robbery, but denied any others."
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (P—A wealthy ex-night club
owner who was a witness before the state senate rackets
subcommittee earlier this year, was found murdered
ing himself in.
The assailants fled. The young
Italian then took the elevator to
Jack Hammond, manager of Safeway store at
NW 39 and MacArthur, loads carton of bread into
before the rackets subcommit-
tee.
the street in search of a police
car. He found one and attempted
to tell the officer what had taken
place.
The patrolmen thought he was
speaking Spanish and radioed for
a Spanish-speaking officer. It
soon became apparent that Ac-
quaro was talking Italian, so an
Italian-speaking officer then was
called.
Officers then went to Mirabile’a
suite and found his body in the
bathroom.
Investigators said a close friend
kawa. Burns suffered cuts on bis
leg and possibly a broken shoul-
der. A passenger in the Burns
auto, Bill Barker, 16, also of
Tonkawa, was not hurt.
376 Ara Killed
In counting its highway dead
since start of the long holiday
weekend that will close Sunday,
Oklahoma reported the following
She said she plunged back
into the water and waited for
her sister to bring her a towel.
Mrs. Dibble said then she ran
to her car with the towel
wrapped around her. ,
Named as co-defendants in
the law suit were Joseph W.
and Juliette Chadwich and Ida
Mae Le Roex, partners in the
Juliette shop.
JAMES DIBBLE, the plain-
tiffs husband, said "this is a
big joke to everyone around
here except my wife.” »
"All we wanted,” he added,
"was for the store to refund
the money we paid for the suit,
but they refused. We turned the
case over to our attorney.”
Dibble said the new bathing
stit never got wet until that
first trip to the beach when
"it became quite transparent.”
Venezuela.
The civil aeronautics authori-
ty said, however, that it. had noth-
ing to confirm the report. It was
supervising the search by nr.
After searching for only an hour
or two, the plane was forced by
darkness to land at Maturin, 60
miles west, of Pedernales.
14-Day Flight
terrorist organization. He
testified that he had never
heard of the Mafia until he
came to this country many
years ago from Sicily.
Police were summoned to Mira-
bile’s suite Saturday by Filippo
Acquaro, 22, a protege of the
victim whom he brought here
from Italy and who speaks only
Italian. Officers said Acquaro
gave this account:
He was awakened at an early
hour by a sound. He went into
the living room and found a
woman with a large knife and a
man with a gun, both about 30
years of age, in Mirabile’s com-
pany.
The man forced him back into
his bedroom and the woman
lunged at him with the knife.
The man then knocked him down
with the gun butt.
Minister Quoted
The report gained strength
when minister of communications
Oscar Machado Zuloaga was
Investigating officers said Tony Mirabile, 64-year-
old prominent member of San Diego’s Italian-American
colony, had been shot and stabbed to death. The body
was found in his third-floor suite at the Palomar apart*
ments, which Mirabile owned.
In his testimony before the state senate subcom-
mittee, Mirabile was asked particularly about the Mafia
society, but he denied any knowledge of the Sicilian
delta.
The amateur radio operators
reported that the balloon and its
four passengers had landed near
Pedernales, a Venezuelan port on
the Atlantic at the northern edge
of the wide delta. The town is
just 20 miles west of the tip of
Trinidad in the British West In-
dies.
they would clear slowly through
the day.
Temperatures Saturday night
are to be in the 20s and lower 30s, '
with a low of 25 expected here.
an armed robbery suspect who
officers claim may clear up a
string of city holdups over the
last two months.
Ollie James Clay Jr., 24, of
908 N Kelley, was jailed for in-
. vestigation. Police claimed he
admitted at least one armed
robbery, the Tuesday holdup of
the East Side market, 632 NE 2.
Officers L. L. Filson and H. V,
Gear, who made the arrest along
with state crime bureau agent
T. Bogan, gave this account:
Clay was implicated by anoth-
er robbery suspect who already
was in jail for questioning.
"We got information Clay was
frequenting a private club, so we
arranged with the proprietor for
a stakeout,” the officers said.
converting currency in western
European countries.
In its place will be the Euro-
pean Fund and Multilateral Clear-
ing System (EMAY worked out
in August of 1955. It was de-
signed then to become effective
when currency regulations were
relaxed.
The EMA provides for the
creation of a European fund for
limited short-term currency cred-
its, the announcement said. It
also will act as a during house
for settling trade balances be-
tween members.
a train to limber my legs around
a station.” •
The college president said, "I'm
sorry I caused all this worry in
the press, to my family and
friends.”
He added: "I went around the
Crespo said he took off from
Camp Colombia —Batista's mili-
against a Big Spring, Texas, Safe- — - —
way store by the Retail-Whole- personal car to keep merchandise flowing.
NW 10 and Western.
Only one criminal offense was
on the upswing. Public drunks
were hauled to the city jail by
the carload. This had been ex-
pected Wednesday and Thursday,
but officers indicated there has
been no letup in guzzling since.
Eighteen guzzlers—apparently
trying to wash down their Christ-
mu hangovers—were booked at
the police station Friday night
for public drunkenness alone.
Burglars Still Busy
Officers don’t expect a decrease
In this incidence soon, what with
New Year eve only three days
away.
But authorities—appreciative of
the slump in major crimes—let
nothing them dismay regarding
the city’s lack of sobriety. The
line of drunks filing in and out
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sale Department Store union,
AFL-CIO.
Picket Is Cityan
R. E. Templeman, division
manager for Safeway here,
thought the lone picket here was
from Big Spring. But the picket
identified himself to a reporter
as J. J. Fitzgerald, a member of
the Oklahoma City Teamsters
day, 3; and Saturday, 1.
Last year, six were killed on
December 24, 11 on December
25, seven on December 26 and
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (P.
The Danish government made
the first move Saturday in what
appeared to be a general shake-
up of the currency in western
Europe.
The government announced the
krone would be made more easi-
ly convertible into dollars effec-
tive Monday. It said the British
government making the same
move with the pound at that
time.
The idea behind easing curren-
cy exchange is to encourage more
trade around the world. At pres-
ent most European governments
exercise controls over the amount
of their money they will permit
to escape into dollars and other
hard cash.
The Danish announcement said
the government was acting in
with her 17-inch teevision set.
Officers Saturday were hunting
a burglar with ducktails or a de-
manding wife who brake through
the window glass of a car be-
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STATE TRAFFIC DEATHS
1958 to date, 651; December, 37
1957 to date, 693; December, 68
later Saturday night.
Hundred’s/of Miami's Cuban
colony and a few agents of Cu-
ban President Fulgencio Batista
The light rain Monday is ex-
pected from a-low pressure sys-
tem that may develop in the
Panhandle and move east.
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Sports .................
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European Economic Cooperation.
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and saw that Mirabile was
wounded. Mirabile was able to
world a few years ago and my # Beverly Bliss, 25 NE 10, early
family didn’t bear from me for Friday morning and made off
weeks and weeks then and they
. MUSKEGON, Mich. (UPD-
An attractive 25-year-old
mother of four who said
her new bathing suit was fine
until it got wet has filed a
$2,500 damage suit against a
Muskegon store.
Blonde Mrs. Donna Dibble
charged that the swim suit be-
came transparent the first time
she went swimming at crowded
Muskegon State Park beach
July 29, 1957. ,
"I was humiliated, embar-
rassed and publicly disgraced,"
the trim housewife contended.
SHE CHARGED "you could
see through the wet bathing
suit,” but said she did not
realize it until she left the
water and other bathers be-
gan "calling and staring and
pointing at our plaintiff in a
shocked manner."
TV Star Due
To Visit City
Danny Thomas, well-known
movie and television personality,
was scheduled to arrive in Okla-
homa City by train Saturday aft-
ernoon for an anti-leukemia fund
campaign.
Thomas, who was to be met
by civic leader B. D. Eddy,
Mayor Street and other officials,
scheduled a press conference lat-
er in the day.
Thomas is conducting the drive
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Sun to Blot
Up Sooners’
Drippy Sky
With light amounts of rain or
drizzle reported overnight from
several state points, the weath-
erman predicted Sunday will be
mostly clear.
He sees the chance, however,
that light rain will return to the
state Monday.
Heaviest precipitation reported
from scattered showers Friday
afternoon and night was .10-inch
at Ponca City. Tulsa reported
,05-inch, McAlester, 01-inch, and
Oklahoma City and Enid each
reported traces.
Skies were still overcast over
cNeuciponerppeesidn aal“Lon2 hair looked fine and was in jovial congressman
the route. spirits. diedathiebo
NE 36.
Templeman was of the opinion
that about 60 drivers who are
members of the Teamsters union
had wanted to continue work, but
had been ordered by Teamster
officials not to cross the one-man
picket line.
Employes Switched
Templeman said organized
clerks here have voiced no griev-
ance with the company and that
all are at work.
Non-union employes in the Safe-
way milk department were
switched to the Safeway trucks
to move perishable merchandise.
Store managers from through-
out the city were called in with
their cars to move out a car-
load of bread that arrived over-
night.
Templeman said Safeway at-
torneys were drawing up a law-
suit to be filed in district court
during the morning, asking the
court to prohibit the picketing.
'No Dispute Hero'
An effort to reach officials of
the Teamsters union was unsuc-
cessful. Templeman said, howev-
er, the unheralded pickets are
marching against Safeway stores
in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkan-
of the jail tank is as common as
traffic problems to city police, « iuge ——. - - -- —
one pointed out, urday, but the weatherman said
CARACAS, Venezuela Im — Aerial searchers tried
Saturday to pin down unconfirmed reports from ham
radio operators that the British balloon Small World
had landed in eastern Venezuela after a translantie
flight. The air search began Friday over the jungle
---------------------------1 area of the Orinoco river
Six burglaries were committed Sunday highs are to be from 55
here between Wednesday night to 65, with 58 forecast for tbs city.
He said he ws taking orders,
by direction of Teamsters union
officials, from the business agent
of the Big Spring RWDS union.
The picket set up his patrol at
the Safeway warehouse, 313
derscored the broad scale move-
ment in Europe ' to make
currency exchange easier by con-
firming the European Payment
Union will be junked.
The EPU was set up in 1953 as
a financial clearing house for
Youth Hurt in Riot
After Teen TV Show
POTTSTOWN, Pa. mA near
riot erupted early Saturday
among a crowd of boys leaving
Dick Clark s Teen-Age Record
Hop. One youth was reported in
critical condition with stab
wounds.
Police said they believed the
nationally known television per-
sonality had already left Iba
eve, when two masked gun-
Officers declined to speculate men held up a drugstore at
mitted since Christmas
ORLANDO, Fla. IP—Dr. M.
Earle Collins, president of Mis-
souri Valley college who was re-
ported missing on a trip to Or-
lando from Marshall, Mo, ar-
rived here early Saturday by
bus.
Collins, 55, arrived bright and
cheerful but contrite over having
caused reports that he was miss-
ing.
He had come by train from
Springfield to Jacksonville where
he spent the day resting. Satur-
day morning he came here by
bus to watch bis college’s foot-
ball team play East Texas State
in the Tangerine bowl.
He bad been reported missing
when he did not return home
after Christmas eve church serv-
ices. His. wife reported the situ-
ation to police, but a son-in-law,
Jaimie Hogue, said there was
nothing to worry about.
up in the same period last
year in Oklahoma.
The state was one of the bright-
er spots in the national traffic
picture, where an all-time record
of highway blood letting appears
likely.
State Youth Injured
Killed in Tonkawa Saturday
was Ray Alton Hatfield, Fort
Worth man who was driving west
on U. S. 60. He was dead on
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An auto carrying two teenagers crashed into the
car of a Fort Worth, Texas, man in Tonkawa early
Saturday, killing the Texan and pushing Oklahoma’s
Christmas weekend traffic toll to eight. . the ground floor and ran down
Although the highway carnage was sobering
enough in the state, deaths were far below the 27 marked
wnahesaayfodatrsdadk back - the streets by Monday
for contributions to St Jude hos- co-operation with most other
members of the Organization for
Acquaro then heard four shots, return to cuba 1 would be killed."
He returned to the living room
Robert William Burns, 17, Ton- bership vote Sunday by striking
- deliverers.
A single Teamsters union pick- 1 38 238
et stopped 60 grocery trucks at |
a warehouse of Safeway Stores 4
Inc. here Saturday, but mana-
gers and other company em-
ployes kept merchandise flowing
to stores where business con-
tinned as usual.
Similar strife was reported in
Tulsa, where two pickets were .
posted at a warehouse. V/
___— . . tary stronghold in Havana-
Friday night “because’I don’t like about 2:30 p.m.
The plane carried no bombs
but it mounted eight .50-caliber
A police stakeout at a private
club here Friday night yielded quoted in Caracas newspapers as
holiday swing are Oklahoma
hear the paging. I always get off City's burglar fraternity.
machine guns. N
Crespo's lawyer in Miami, Jack
King, said a hearing will deter- ,
mine whether his client will be
admitted to the United States.
The young pilot said he had
been ordered to bomb Cuban
cities in the government’s fight
against rebel forces and decided
to get out. His parents live in
Havana, he said.
Cuban sources here said they
never had heard of such an order.
Immigration dficlals declined
comment
The plane was left parked at
the airport, presumably awaiting ■
action by immigration or the bor-
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" Nationally, 376 persons have
died from traffic accidents since
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PARIS ( — The French
government Saturday night
devalued the franc to 493.7
to the dollar to establish a
new “heavy franc.” Steps
were also taken to improve
the convertibility of the
franc in international trade.
Similar convertibility
moves were made by Eng-
land, Germany and Den-
mark.
The peace formula to end the
strike, now in its 18th day, was
announced Friday night by the
nation’s top federal mediator,
Joseph F. Finnegan. He ex-
pressed himself as "mighty
pleased” by the package settle-
ment granting wage increases
and other concessions.
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