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Page 4 THE BATTALION Wednesday, August 8, 1951 Retired Gambler Blasted To Death By Hidden Bomb Dallas, Aug. 8—(A 5 )—Herbert Noble, 42, a self-styled retired gambler who had lived through nearly a dozen attempts on his life, was blasted to death yester day by a cleverly hidden land mine. The silver-haired, much wounded Noble was killed when he stopped his car in front of the rural mail box at the farm home he had made a fortress. When he opened the mail box door, the mine exploded under his car. Mailbox, Noble, Car—Gone “The mailbox, Noble and his car are no more,” said Col. Homer Garrison, director of the Texas De partment of Public Safety. Noble’s death was the third un derworld killing in the last 48 hours. Monday night gangland warfare in Southern California rubbed out Tony Brancato, 36, and Tony Trombino, 31. They were Shot. Their bodies were found slumped in a parked car on a quiet Hollywood street. Both were well- known figures in Hollywood and Kansas City. Noble once blamed “hired killers” for the numerous attempts on his life. An attempt to blow the gambler to bits in 1949 killed his wife. She had borrowed his car and when she stepped on the starter a bomb ex ploded. Killer In Clump Of Trees Texas Ranger Capt. Bob Crow der and Ranger Lewis Rigler said the killer had thrown the switch to set off the explosive from a clump of trees, about 75 yards away. A pair of wires ran from the trees down the side of the road, through a culvert and to the mail box. Rigler, who new Noble person ally, identified the body, which was found near the demolished car. The face was bruised and battered, the arms and legs broken. The explosive charge blew a hole about four feet deep and about five feet across in the dirt road. Near Gate to Ranch The blast was near the gate to Noble’s 1,250 acre ranch in Den ton County where he has lived in semi-seclusion since his wife’s death. The area around the house was flood-lighted at night and a ■pack of large dogs was kept chain- id nearby. Rigler said the killer might have been hit by the flying hood to Noble’s car. The officers found the hood had landed not more than two feet from where the switch was thrown. The Rangers timed the explosion as occurring about 11:35 a. m. However, the body and the wreck age wei-e not found until about 1 P. m. Escape Route Unknown Denton County Constable Sam Gentry said officers had not been able to determine how the killer escaped. He said the last vehicle noticed on the road was a pickup truck earlier this morning. Noble had been beaten, ambush ed, or made a target for bombs at least 12 times before. Garrison said highway patrol men at the scene—near Lewisville, about 10 miles northwest of Dal las — reported some parts of Noble’s body were found 100 feet from the explosion center. He said Noble went to his mail box about 11:35 a. m. (CST) after the postman had passed there about 10:10 a. m. This year Noble had told a Texas House Crime Investigation Com mittee he understood there was a $50,000 underworld price on his head. Earlier Dallas District At torney Henry Wade had placed the figure at $10,000. Noble Relished Publicity Wade had said, too, that he be lieved Noble engineered some of the attempts on his life for publi city. He said the stocky, mild-man nered gambler “seems to enjoy be ing written up in the papers.” The last recorded attempt to kill him was last Mai’ch. Jellied nitro glycerine was found packed in two cylinders of the engine of his pri vate plane. Six days before, Noble walked away when a bomb exploded in an other engine of his private plane. A steel fire wall between the en gine and cockpit saved his life. Noble also had been shot at in his bullet-proof car; wounded ser iously as he stood on the front porch of his Dallas home; narrow ly missed by rifle fire while re covering in a hospital and ambush ed on lonely country roads. Treasury Men Withdraw Cash From Accounts Marshall, Aug. 8 — UP)— Treasury Department agents took more money today from the bank accounts of Marshall housewives who refused to pay social security taxes on their servants’ wages. Tuesday they took $4.14 from the account of Mrs. Zach Abney, Sr., and $4.06 from the account of Mrs. J. C. Quinn. In two days they have taken $44.23 from the bank accounts of ten women. The money is for the taxes and the penalties. But several women who joined the defiant group last March have been overlooked so far. “I can’t understand it,” said Mrs. Mary V. Hicks. “Why, I have a personal account in one of the banks, and there’s enough money in it to pay the tax and penalty and leave six cents.” The women denied that any of them had withdrawn their accounts in anticipation of the Treasury De- partments seizure warrants against their bank accounts. It was reported yesterday that this had happened. “There was enough money to cover every warrant issued,” Said Mrs. Carolyn Abney, spokesman for the housewives. “The accounts must just have been overlooked.” A bank spokesman said this could have happened in the confus ion of the Treasury Agent’s visit. The agents appeared at two Mar shall banks with their warrants. The housewives say that they will ask the Internal Revenue De partment to give them their money back. They claim it is unconstitutional to require them to act as tax col lector by withholding social securi ty taxes from wages of their do mestic servants. USE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADS TO HUY, SELL, RENT OR TRADE. Rates . . . . 3o a word per Insertion with a tfio minimum. Space rate In classified lection .... 60c per column-inch. Send XI classified to STUDENT ACTIVITIES OFFICE. All ads must be received in Stu- Jent Activities office by 10 a.m. on the lay before publication. • WANTED TO BUY • USED CLOTHES and shoes, men’s — women’s — and children’s. Curtains, spreads, dishes, cheap furniture. 002 N. Main, Bryan, Texas. • WANTED • WANTED: Riders to South California. Round trip or one way. Share ex pense. Leave about 25th. Inquire 12 D Project House. • LOST • LOST: Black leather wallet Aug 2, prob ably near MSC. Reward. M.' M. Mul- cahy, M. D., Class ’46, Box 322, Center Point, Texas. RADIOS <& REPAIRING Call For and Delivery STUDENT CO-OP Phone 4-4114 Directory of Business Services ALL LINES of Life Insurance. Homer Adams, North Gate. Call 4-1217. FREE termite inspection and estimate. International Exterminators Corporation Power spraying for flies, mosquitoes, and other pests. Phone 2-1937. • HOME REPAIR • ALL TYPES home repair work—additions, roofing, siding, painting, concrete work, and redecorating. Low down payment and 30 months to pay. For free esti mates call 4-9589 or 4-4236. • MISCELLANEOUS • SUL ROSS LODGE NO. 1300 A.F. & A.M. Stated meeting — August 9, 7 p.nq Film and water melons. J H. Sorrels, W. M. N." M. McGinnis, Sec. Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 S. Main Street Call 2-1662 for Appointment The Last Word ‘Scooped 9 Editor Wants Sympathy \ By PAT MORLEY ' Battalion Women’s Editor ^THERE’S been mutiny . . . mutiny most foul! We’ve been -t “scooped.” This is not just an ordinary scoop, you under stand, dear reader. Get out your biggest hankie, and you’ll soak it with tears of sympathy when you hear our sad story. Like most stories, it has a prelude which must be understood before the enormfty of the siuation can be realized. Each morning - when Mr. Roland Bing, head of Student Publications at A<ftM, places copies of the Bryan papers on our desk, he invariiably remarks in a kind tone, “Now, Mrs. Editor, you may write your column.” Being of even temperment and sound mind (i. e. Don’t want to lose our joib) we smile at this little witticism. Only blushes reveal our Jeaden heart and chagrin when we have been “scooped” by our worthy editorial rivals, Mrs. Donald Burchard, (wife of A&M Journalism Department head) soc iety editor of the Bryan Daily News, and Mrs. Lee J. Roun tree,, society editor and publisher of the Bryan Daily Eagle. The newspaperman’s motto, “Get it right, and get it FIRST” is ashes in our throat at these unfortunate times of crisis in our journalistic career. We stoically chalk up these disheartening revelations, and go in search of tomor row’s news. Last week, however, the last straw fell, the final blow descended, and we knew utter, black despair. (We were really griped.) We open ed a crisp, new edition of a Wednesday Bryan paper to behold with humiliation and frustratBon the scoop of the year . . . ROLAND BING’S WEDDING ANNOUNCEMET. Mildly hysterica], we reached for the phone. After listening to the musical voice of the future bride, Josephine “Jo” Watts, on the telephone, we knew that a girl with such a lovely voice and charming manner could not be responsible for such gross mistreatment of a poor, hard-working college newspaper staff. • Miss Janie Holcomb, second from right, gets best wishes from runners-up in the Miss Texas contest at New Braunfels. The Odessa girl won the chance to go to Atlantic City to compete for the Miss America title. She was Miss West Texas. Left to right are: Helen Marshall, Ama rillo; and Vondal Alford, Tyler, both tied for third; Miss Texas, and Beverly Gay Wren, Ft. Worth, second place winner. No Relief From Heat A. Wentrcek,\ j. M. Mathis Reveal Plans Anita Ruth Wentrcek, petite, blue-eyed brownette who works in the Department of the Dean of Men, will marry James Milton Mathis, a junior in the School of Veterinary Medicine. Their par ents are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wen trcek of Wheelock and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mathis of Gilmer. The wedding will be solemnized in the Harmony Baptist Church of Nor- mangee, August 25, 7 p. m. Anita was graduated from Nor- mangee High School, and later at- tnded McKenzie-Baldwin Business College there. The bridegroom is a graduate of Elysian Fields High School at Elysian Fields, Texas. James volunteered in the Navy during World War II, and spent two years of active duty, mostly in Cuba. The couple have announced their wedding attendants. Mrs. Billie Louise Latham of Houston will be Anita’s Matron of Honor, and James’ brother, Lon don, will be Best Man. Billi^ Louise worked two years in the A&M Agronomy Department, be fore her marriage in June. After their wedding, Anita and James will make a short * and will return to College StaSHr to live in D-6-Z College View. The groom will continue working on his degree, and Anita plans to re turn to work at the Housing Of fice. Dysentery Leads Morbidity Reports Of course, we do not wish to imply that any member of our own department would deal us such a “low blow”. (So, we won’t imply such a thing.) Quite seriously, our congratulations to Roland Bing and his at tractive bride-to-be. We heard (accidentally, you understand) that the wedding will take place August 26, so we’re stocking up on rice. • The biggest smile we saw last week was on the happy countenance of Aggie T. L. Jennings when he came by our desk at Goodwin Hall to report the birth of his son. Tyre’s wife presented him with an heir the night of Wednesday, Aug. 1, at St. Joseph’s. Business Administration major Jen nings and his wife are thrilled, but four-year-old Linda Ann is the most excited member of the family, at home at 405 Jersey St. John Donnis Galloway, Ag. Eng. graduate last June, made Beth Edwina Garlach, ex-student of Hockaday Junior College and University of Houston, his bride in an all-white ceremony in Livingston, Aug. 2. Lt. Joe V. Pike, Jr., June graduate in M. E., and former NTSC student Miss Carolyn O’Glee will marry in Dallas in September. Joe is now stationed at Port Monmouth, N. J. The Maine St. Methodist Church at Cleburne will be the scene of the wedding of Beverly Cumbie, TCU-ex, and Wil liam L. Evans, Aggie E. E. ’49 graduate. The Evans will live in Ft. Worth. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Bryant, B-10-D College View, received some VIP guests yesterday. Mrs. Bryant, the former Dot Jackson, of Rich mond, Va., her husband and daughters Andrea and Angela, were vis ited by the Jacksons, who had come all the way from Richmond to get their first look at their six-month-old granddaughter, Angela. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cecil Vowel of Bryan, have announced the en gagement of their daughter, Cecile Fern, to Ralph R. Krause, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Krause, also of Bryan. Ralph is a senior Business major at A&M. • Florace Kling, A-9-D College View, is the mother of a new son. The S'/z pound boy arrived at 8:15 Monday evening at St. Joseph Hos pital, and was reported by Grandmother Kling to be the “spit and image” of her son Bill. Bill, the new father, could not be here, but left Sunday for Ft. Polk, La., to instruct other reservists in a two-week refresher course in firing small arms. The new baby, with black hair and dark eyes, will soon he home with his mother to meet Stuart, blond and curly-haired one-year-old brother, who looks like his mother. • Don’t forget the square dance at the Grove Saturday night. Erskine Hightower is the caller, and he chants “do-si-do” and Alemonde to the left” to the tune of only the best square-dance records avail able. out there and get stomped to death,” after watching the dancers at the Grove for fifteen minutes last Saturday night, has intimat ed that he could be persuaded to join in the fun. (“If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.”) The popularity of the square dance is unchallegenged, and you’ll see why if you turn out at the G'rove at 8 o’clock any Saturday night. We are sure it’s irresistable, for our Better-half, after firmly refusing for three years to “get Erskine has been teaching square dancing for the past three summers at Aggieland, and is in need of more beginners. There is room at the Grove for several more “Squares,” and so fun’s awastin’. Are You Hot? CILLY QUESTION, isn’t it? But you needn’t be hot. Sell that old Washing Machine or Refrigerator through a Classified Ad in The Battalion, and you’ll have money to buy a new fan or air conditioner. J}0 IT TODAY! CALL 4 5324 and put your ad in The Battalion right away! (Continued from Page 1) When reservoirs are back to a safe level, said Waco city officials, lawn sprinkling will go back on the “even and odd” basis which has prevailed for some time. Un der this arrangement, residents whose house numbers, end in even numbers use water on one day, those with odd numbers on the next. Low Pressure Wichita Falls, in North Texas, had no actual shortage of water, but distribution had become a prob lem. Low pressure in mains kept the fire department on edge, though there hadn’t been any fires. East Texas City To Get Plain’ Water Winnsboro, Tex., Aug. 8—i-^P)— Within a few weeks housewives will find just plain water when they turn on their faucets. Not red water. For a year, the reddish tinge of the water here has angered house wives. Now a new well is being sunk in the northeast part of Winnsboro. Mayor Malvin Cain sized up a sample from a test well sunk at the site and declared: “The analysis of the sample shows only one tenth of one part (of red) in a million parts. I don’t believe anyone will ‘see red’ when a faucet is turned on.” Hot? We have the solution to the heat! Come by and see the cool . . . Summer ^(ach? td ddhirts am -at- The Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” City Manager Frank Wood asked residents to conserve water. Some folks who live in outlying districts around Wichita Falls were having to haul water. The county’s 8,000-bale cotton crop had been hurt . . . and feed crops were lost. A little cooler weather came to Beaumont Tuesday. A high of 96 degrees was two degrees below Monday, and four under the Sum mer record set Saturday. A survey by the San Angelo- Standard Times showed West Tex as county agents in that area gloomy on harvest prospects—ex cept for irrigated crops. It esti mated the Tom Green County cot ton crop loss as upwards of six million bales, and said the situa tion was the same in Scurry Coun ty. A near-loss was reported in cot ton and grain sorghum crops in Sterling, Taylor, Mitchell, and Con cho counties. The survey showed the situa tion with livestock generally bet ter, though many head were being shipped to better ranges, and the stock water picture was getting serious. Heavy insect infestation was reported in Mitchell County, which had more moisture. Abilene’s high Tuesday was 103, one degree under Monday . . . but little relief was sighted. It was cooler at Tyler, too: 101 degrees against three days of 104 and one (Sunday) of 103. Tyler pumps haven’t been able to handle the de mand for water and some parts of the city have been without it. Crops also were suffering. Corpus Christi reported “a 96 degree high today, but feels hot ter.” Dysenteiy and septic sore throat were the major contributors of sickness in the Bryan-College Sta tion area last week, according to the Morbidity Report released weekly by the Brazos County Health Unit. Eleven cases of dysentery were reported in Bryan, with three re ported in College Station. Bryan with a total of eight had twice as many cases of septic sore throat as College Station. The city of College Station re ported two cases of measles and two cases of mumps. Bryan had one case of measles and three per sons with the mumps. Other illnesses reported were diarrhea: Bryan, two; College Sta tion, two; Malaria: Bryan, on« case; Pneumonia: Bryan, two, and whooping cough: College Station, one case. 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