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'
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told a different story from Mrs.
Worden about the fatal shooting
of Worden Oct. 22 on Padre
island along the Texas gulf
coast.
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. ;
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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.
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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
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. 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
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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.
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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
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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
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