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TP MEPTOHP MAIL TRIBUNE Tuwdar. IfoTemher 8, 1953 Airtight Alibi Seen For Woman in Slaying Of Husband in Texas Corpus Christi, Tex. (U.R) An investigator said today that Mrs. Violet Canales Worden ap parently has an airtight alibi for killing the husband that held her under a hypnotic spell despite a conflicting story told by "two reliable witnesses." Meanwhile, Portland, Ore., authorities opened two trunks believed to contain effects of the victim, Don Worden, 45, but reported nothing conclusive in the contents. Different Stories Told rmintv Suoerintendent of Identification E. W. Britt said that "two reliable witnesses' Worthwhile Reading... ... . for your whole family in the world-famous pages of The Christian Science Monitor. Enjoy Erwin D. Canham's newest stories, penetrating national and in ternational news coverage, how-to-do features, home making ideas. Every issue brings you helpful easy-to-read articles. 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Mrs. Worden, 42, said she shot her husband, who had hypno tized her out of most of her for tune, because Worden had made her dig a grave, handed her a diamond-studded .22 caliber pis tol and ordered her to shoot her five-year-old daughter by- an other marriage, Maria Teresa. Britt said the "reliable wit nesses" told him they were, walking along Padre island at 5:10 p.m., Oct. 23. They said they saw a woman, pistol in hand, get out of a blue Cadillac. They heard two or three shots shortly thereafter. They paid no attention then, but when they returned 20 min utes later, walking the other way, they saw a second woman, 25 to 30 years old and smaller than the woman who had gotten out of the car with the pistol, and who appeared to be in her 40s. What They Saw The second woman, the "re liable witnesses" said, wore shorts and carried a small shovel. Mrs. Worden had said she owned a blue Cadillac but that she, Worden and Maria Te resa went to Padre island in a station wagon. "I'm not saying it was Mrs. Worden's car or anything else, but that is what they saw,", Britt said. In Portland, Stanley McDon ald, chief of the sheriff's office criminal identification bureau, said "stains" were found on a few items of clothing in the trunks. But Sheriff Terry Schrunk said the few stains did not sufficiently resemble blood to justify analysis without a re quest from Texas authorities. The two trunks were shipped to Portland by Mrs. Worden and were impounded on request of Texas authorities. ; SALE PRICE 9.00 8.00 6.00 5.00 If w ississippi Two star Negro witnesses in the "wolf whistle" kidnap slaying case of Negro Emmett Till were ready to testify today before a grand jury investigating the teen-ager's abduction. A 20-member, all-white Le flore county grand jury recon vened for its second day of re viewing criminal cases with the state's kidnap charges against white half-brothers Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam expected to come up for the first time dur ing the day. Bryant, 24, and Milam, 36 were acquitted of slaying young West Coast Man Sought in Death Of Ex-Racketeer Phoenix. Ariz. U.R) Authori ties today sought a West Coast mobster for auestionine in the gangland slaying of former labor racketeer Willie Bioff. Police officials said they are checking a tip that the mobster arrived by plane in Phoenix about 16 hours before Bioff was murdered Friday by a dynamite bomb rigged to the starter of his pickup truck. Left After Murder The hoodlum left Phoenix a few hours after Biof was killed, according to the tip. Biof is believed to have been the victim of a revenge killing, inspired by his testimony against several men including mem bers of the Al Capone gang in connection with a million-dollar extortion racket against movie studios in Hollywood. Alleged Extortionist Held In another development, police arrested William (Bill) Savoie, 29, of New Orleans, on charges he tried to extort $10,000 from Mrs. Bioff by claiming he knew where to find her husband's killer. Savoie admitted telephoning Phoenix jeweler Ben Rosner. a friend of Mrs. Bioff, on Sunday night and saying he knew who murdered Bioff, police said. He offered to give his information for $10,000, Rosner said. PHONE 2-6241 4 SAVINGS 6.98 4.98 4.98 3.98 Grand Jury Till for an alleged "wolf whistle" directed at Bryant's pretty wife but they were turned over to Leflore authorities to face charges they snatched the Chi cago boy from the home of a relative near here. REQUESTING BATTERY complaint filed against actress Susan Hay ward, Jil Jarmyn shows bruised arm where she said Susan Hayward hit with clothes brush in bedroom fight at home of Actor Donald Barry in Hollywood. (International) Jet Structural Test Tortuous . Seattle, Wash. (U.R) A tor tuous testing program, so stren uous that a $6,000,000 Boeing B-52 jet bomber was reduced to a pile of scrap, is making the eight-jet plane better than the U. S. Air Force requires. The extensive structural prov ing program, now nearing com pletion, has been in progress for more than a year. Every square inch, every rivet of the 350,000 pound global giant was put through a complete and deliber ate torture test to prove its struc tural integrity for Boeing people and its customer, the Air Force. In Boeing's flight test center, a maze of jigs, towers and scaf folding, more than 60 miles of in strumentation wiring and nearly 3,000 strain-gauge circuits were installed to measure and plot the critical strains during each of 160 tests. The B-52's huge wings 185 feet from tip to tip were stressed past the breaking point. One million pounds of load was used in the wing destruction test. The wing tips described an arc of more than 32 feet 10 feet down and 22 feet upward. Actually the plane used for the static testing program was without " engines, instruments, equipment and wiring. It is the structural strength of the 650-mile-per-hour bomber that was tested under actual load that far 'i exceeded anything that might be encountered in flight. More than 12,000,000 man- hours of engineering have gone into the B-52 since this newest and largest USAF bomber first hit the drawing board. As the j planes roll off the production j lines, the testing programs get j underway, pointing toward de livery for service with the Stra tegic Air Command. . State Dental Group Plans Local Meeting The second semi-annual meet ing of the Oregon Association of Dental laboratories will be held at the Jackson hotel here start ing at 10 a.m. Saturday. Nov. 12. I Dr. Eugene Ray will give the welcome message at a " noon luncheon, and business sessions , will start at 1:30 p.m. O. R. Eckersley, executive secretary j of the OADL, will report on na tional certification and its af fect on laboratories and em ployees. The annual banquet will start at 7 p.m., and will be followed by a dance. Benton Harbor, Mich. U.R) Mack White was crossing an al ley to his home when two men slugged him on the head with a pipe. After a closer look at their victim, one of the men said "Sorry, w thought you were somone else." The wound re quired 20 stitches. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Studies ICidnap Charges in Death of Boy Mose Wright, who testified at the murder trial at Sumner, Miss., that Bryant and Milam were the armed men who ab ducted Till from Wright's plan tation shanty, arrived here Mon day from Chicago along with General washday! Big Capacity work out of and Save. 303 SOUTH 1 itiaiLiZlJaL . ...y... 5 - ,. Negro farmhand Willie Reed District Attorney Stanny Sanders was expected to ask the grand jury to return the kidnap indictments against Bryant and Milam, paving the way for a trial in circuit court here, pos sibly during late November! The district attorney said it "more than likely" would be Wednesday before the jury fin ished its "full session." An an nouncement of the jury's decision on the kidnap charge would be made no sooner than then, of ficials said, and possibly not un til Friday when a formal report is made. The 65-year-old Wright, who' gathered up his belongings and moved to Chicago after the Sum ner trial, said he "wasn't afraid" to return here. Till was taken from his uncle's home last Aug.'" 28. Three days later, a bullet pierced, bludgeoned and decom posed body was pulled from the Tallahatchie river. Wright ident ified it as that of Till. Several members of the jury that acquitted the two white men said the prosecution failed to prove beyond a doubt that the body was that of the Negro youth. Wright and Reed, 18, spent the night at the home of friends they are visiting. Officers said they made no request for pro STREAMLINED North Haven. Conn.. U.R) Two teen-age motorcyclists were arrested for going 30 miles an hour on a heavily-traveled park way while lying on their stom achs across the seats. They ex plained, "The wind was against us." GENERAL ELECTRIC ALL THE QUALITY AND AT FAR LESS THAN YOU'D EXPECT TWO YEARS TO PAY ON Buy What Ycu Want at the I : . j .. ' Sftf;V., ;' - G-E ' . J ' ' :2::4S:: ' VACUUM, T - ..'SMVvi' M) CLEANERS AUTOMATIC CLOTHES DRYER Electric Automatic Dryer at a Lower Than Ever Price. Takes the One Year Service, of course, At No Extra Charge. Buy Now A SERVICE OF THE FRONT ST. tection. "I have many friends here, white and colored," Wright said, "and I'm not worried about any thing happening." 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