Brownsville Herald, The (Newspaper) - May 24, 1953, Brownsville, Texas Deplore Scarcity Of Ammo WASHINGTON May 23 A Senate Armed reported Saturday that a continuous shortage of some am munition caused a needless loss of American lives on Korean The group headed by Sen garet Chase Smith said the shortage had an adverse fect on military operations and con- to the decision to tight a sitdown war in Korea The report signed by four of the five subcommittee members com- that it is difficult to point responsibility It said the tragic situation came from a combination of errors and tive administration which Involved practically everyone in whom of- has been veiled Miscalculated Aggressors The four subcommittee bers said however that former President Truman and his De- fense and Army secretaries gether with the Joint Chiefs of Staff the State Department and the National Security Council miscalculated the aggressive de- signs of international com- The President and other top of- of the Truman tion were not mentioned by name Defense Robert A and former Army Secretary Frank Pace were subcommittee witnesses during hearings They did not provide the guidance for the military of they said Neither did free world the administration have a terrible accounting to wtw Serving The Rio Grande Valley for More Than 60 True on toward f h tHai It MMM D I I Hidalgo Defeats Bond s McCarthy Disturbs Sen Lehman WASHINGTON May 23 Sen Herbert H Lehman accused President Eisenhower Saturday of letting ism endanger Allied tion In the world fight against communism In a keynote speech at the sixth annual convention of for Democratic Action the New York senator expressed con- cern over the recent verbal ex- change between Sen Joseph R McCarthy and British Labor leader Clement Attlee If the continues to try to achieve unity in the publican party even at the price they take effective action to cor reel the situation when it became obvious to all parties involved committee said it Is tran mitt ing the record of Its gallon to date to the Defense De- with a request for cor rective programs A fifth committeeman Sen Estes Kefauver filed a minority report He agreed with much of the factual Information ta majority report but tired sweeping generalities H also questioned majority state menU that the shortages had a military effect and caused low of life The report quoted Gen B is a direct relation be- tween the of In the ammunition supply points and piles of corpses In the collecting points Matamoros Area To Get Canal System Federal projects among them con struction of small lateral branch to irrigate the entire Ma county farming area ap acres will be built soon Dr Norberto Trevino Zapata Federal representative from this northern district salt Saturday Dr Zapata arrived by plane from Mexico City at the Browns airport Saturday afternoon During a brief Interview he said that the Chavez which to eludes construction of the smal irrigation canals that will take water to small farms throughout the area would he built In this area He added that the machinery for the projects sent by the Secretariat of Hydraulics In ico City would arrive within three days and that hundreds of ers and Matamoros county dents would be given jobs ing the canals and finishing the Matamoros beach highway Many farmers in the ros area are jobless on account of the prolonged drouth The Federal projects would provide ment for them and ease the picture in the area Dr Zapata said A meeting is scheduled at 10 m today at the Matamoros City hall which will be presided over by Dr Zapata A round table discussion of Matamoros lems be ronin event of all the city's labor and other organizations and area representatives will attend A million pesos government credit will be asked by a gation of local farmers it was said the Federal Projects in the Matamoros area this year will be pes hi civic PEDRO had look on when In the HeraM office last nl by he that a Brownsville Anna Gabriel was a tional winner In an con- test on the subject of mfr ircM great deal of research myself I can amure reader her account of our rns h in one of ihi in he was in Conference with the president nt Washington when plans made ami back In time not 10 make with history The Issue Is not between Brit- ain and the United States but between McCarthyism and ica's role of leadership in the free world The two are ent To attempt to reconcile them is to invite disaster ADA members showed more to attack the sin senator than to open a frontal assault on the President National Chairman Francis Biddle in his report on the past year's activity said it was a particular pleasure to report that we have taken an occasional crack at Sen Joseph and shall continue to do so The chief criticism levelled against Mr Eisenhower was that he has failed to exercise ship Lehman contended the internal threat of communism is nothing compared to the external threat of Soviet imperialism and said it will take the unity of all tree peoples everywhere to meet that danger and overcome It Girl Raped Texans Held POCATELLO Ida May Idaho school girl Saturday identified two as men as the assailants who for- ced her into a car assaulted her five times and then left her bound hand and foot on a lonely country road The men were arrested in tello several hours after pretty Barbara Jean Huey of Eden gled free from her bonds and walked to a farm house to report the attack and describe the pair Polic Capt Robert Pugmire said charges of kidnap rape and tying and abandoning would be filed against Vert V McDowell 28 and James H Price 30 both of Wichita Falls Tex He said Dowell had signed a statement ad- all charges while Price had attempted rape The girl said she had just got off a school bus near her Jerome county home when the men pulled up in their car She said they identified selves as FBI agents and said they were looking for students narcotics She told Merchants To Close On May 30 Brownsville merchants will observe Memorial Day day May 30 by remaining ed until noon when they will open for business and remain open until their regular day closing hours Meantime veteran tions are planning observances which will highlight the day of honor for the nation's war dead and deceased veterans Veterans of Foreign Wars plan to decorate the graves oj all veterans with American flags May 24 the flagg to remain on the graves for the week ing Memorial Day The American Legion will hold military and religious services at 7 a m at the City Cemetery including a drum and bugle corps and the firing of a salute to the memory of the war dead Graves will be decorated with wreaths and flags Post Com- manCer Allen Hughes has re- quested that all residents flv their flags at half mast Day in honor of the dead Rosenbergs Have Chance WASHINGTON May 23 Atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg have been told that if they talked their chances of obtaining a commutation from their death sentences would be better it was disclosed Saturday Justice Department sources said the spy team have been informed several times that the confessions of a prisoner are always a factor m determining whether or not the President should use powers They said the Information was 10 the convicted couple President cers that when she close er ruled three months ago tO the CAr tn on to the car to check an address they grabbed her and threw her in the back seat She said ohc vos attached not interfere with the sentence that the bergs are guilty of atomic secrets to RUssia and isen slipping least twice probably three die in Sing Sing while the car was being driven chair miles over Idaho highways and back roads and twice more after she But one department official lh unofficial offer of mor rown nf the auto consideration for more talk i into the desert 30 miles south of effect High School Writer Brownsville Maritime Day Highlighted By Essay Win A high school student's triumph in a national essay contest highlighted Brownsville's observance of Maritime Day Anna Perez Gabriel member of the junior class and daughter of Mr and Mrs Baldomero Perez was among 25 national winners of grand prize awards of the Harding Memorial essay contest The award was announced at a dinner at El Jardin Hotel and presented to the winner by George Mather vice president of the Propeller Club of Brownsville and Port Isabel and chairman of the contest com- here The petite essayist heard breathlessly that her effort had won for her a cruise aboard an Alcoa Steamship Co ship taking In New Orleans future as a port and In- city judges said Propeller Club prizes went to other students in the contest They were Hugh Smith 17 senior and son of Rev and Mrs Harry H Smith 1132 East ferson and Anna Perez Gabriel in a tie for first place each and Wayne Dunn 17 junior and son of Mrs Elizabeth C Dunn 2445 Boca Chica Blvd and James Baytes and son of Mr and Mrs J C Baytes 824 McDavitt Blvd in a tie for third place each were Ele uteri o de la Garza 16 junior and son of Mr and Mrs E de la za and Ola Roberts 17 Junior and daughter of Mrs Myrtle Roberts 70 King St Master of ceremonies at the dinner was M P Hamby president of the Propeller Club Guests included John Kinard and Mobile and Jamaica number of the Venezuela Trinidad and the Sebern dean of Republic or Caracao g Subject of the essay was the American Merchant Marine Means to My The winning paper ex- exhaustive research and excellent discernment of omie factors favoring Browns Herald most College James C of Uie contest tee Homer Hanna Brownsville High School principal Miss Kate Hayes English teacher Mrs L C Perkins high school and Lt commanding officer of the Port Brownsville Upheld As Trunk Line In Air Braniff Lawn Sprinkling Halted By City After Raw Deal Waco Helped By Poppy Sales The Brownville post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars col- In its Poppy Day drive Saturday and voted to give 10 percent to Waco erans relief The post was assisted by the freshmen girls of Brownsville high school Rachel Greenspan won a prize for collecting the most Sylvia pion and Gloria Colunga won each for collecting each Jet Aces Back Home TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE May Jet aces who together have SO Communist out of rean returned to the U.S to show the pilots how to do it Capt Joseph McConnell si of Apple Valley Calif and Can Manuel J Pete Fernandez 21 it Miami Fla landed at Travis Field aboard a four engines trans- port at p.m pdt p.m cst after a nine-hour flight from Honolulu The Fifth Air Force's top two killers are entoure to and a program they fear more than enemy guns a tactical raining tour throughout the U.S McConnell and Fernandez say vyt The board renewed Trans line and that mu through March of Interest is with 1954 The line will continue and East and not with use and other nearby points i terminal and to operate Hawkins White chairman o through Benito to the aviation Corpus Christi Beeville and said We Trans Texas on their commit will cease June 20 said the board re- cognized that Brownsville is a but the loss of Trans Texas was a risk We realized that either the trunk lines or the nmk eeder line and ruled that the trunk lines but est interests of the public didn't fight Trans Texas be served if Braniff and continued to operate here A large delegation from bey have no idea why they were ordered grounded in Korea and called lo Air Force n Washington But they said be- fore leaving the islands early this morning they complained y about being sent home They were booked aboard a com- night leaving for the capital at p.m cst Irom San Francisco airport ng in Washington at cst Sunday McConnell's blonde wife Pearle was on hand to greet her husband when he stepped off the plane here having been flown up from George Air Force Base Victorville Calif by the military Travis Field officers said It was doubtful McConnell would pany Fernandez to Washington on Saturday night's flight as it would be impossible for Mrs McConnell to accompany them on the plane If not they said the or Monda Toil Curbs Sabine Flood ORANGE Tex May 23 Fifteen thousand men women and children who slaved so hard they exhausted the city's supply of ad- tape to cover their blisters apparently saved Orange from be flooded Saturday e of the River bursting into Orange was not gone in fact Col H E Hallock of the U S Army Engil said the situation was stilt critical He said that 600 men rushed In from Ellington Air Force Base will continue patrolling the levee until there is no danger of the flood breaking through But the danger had eased and It was a question of the water ing through the emergency levees over them All but to of the workers after working tion High Crest Didn't Arrive The 8.5 to crest that had been predicted failed to arrive At the river nad 5 feet John W Simmons president of the Sabine River Authority new up river to see why the flood did not reach the stage expected The Sabine is the boundary be- tween Texas anci Louisiana and to the East in Southwest Louisiana the worst flood In a generation continued to rise at Lake Charles Instead of s u b s i d i ng Experts eared it might become Louisiana A total of 30.000 persons had been driven from their homes In Louisiana of them at Lake Charles which can be reached on- by boat Southerly winds kept the flood from pouring down the River into the Gulf of grow a little orse and definitely not Improve before next the weather reau at Lake Charles said Extra Flown In A helicopter left Ellington AFB at Houston Tex with an gency supply of adhesive tape for relief chairman of the Red Cross could be spared by local hospitals four extra shipments had all been put on blisters wiS vas Cameron Is For Issue Complete but unofficial returns Indicated last night that Hidalgo County voters defeated a proposed bond Issue for purchase of rights way to extend Uie Rio Grande flood control program Cameron County supported the issue by a whopping 10 to 1 vote In Hidalgo County the totals rom all 33 polling tabulated by County Judge ton Richardson and County Clerk George Anderson showed yes votes and no votes The proposed bond issue re- quired a majority Richardson said the defeat of the Hidalgo County bond issue apparently doomed the project In spite of favorable vote for a companion Issue In Cameron County Richardson said about would be needed to purchase rights of way and would not be enough to The proposal was defeated y by heavy bloc votes In tht section of the county While voting over the county was generally light the La Joya pre- cinct reported 348 votes against the proposal and only eight votes in favor of it County Commissioner E B of La Joya opposed the Issue He was the only county commissioner to go on record M either In favor of the bond issue or opposed to it Upper Valley Interests ed they would get little benefit from the proposed diversion dam and the extension of floodways Hidalgo gave the bond issue only two yes votes white persons cast against ft The bond issue renewed over- whelming approval hi some pox gave It 228 votes with only 23 votes In op- position Richardson said late last night This Is one time when the ple have spoken that I mean there was the least amount of political pressure and propaganda in his election of all lions I recall The judge said the Issue was left up to the people The com- missioners took no action one way or the other I don't recall any election just like it CARRIES IN CAMERON BY HEAVY VOTE BROWNSVILLE The An- M and children as young as eight years labored to line the Inner side ot the levee She told police that she had nearly freed herself once when the mtn returned and relied her When they left again she aged lo break loose and made her way two and one half miles to the Wyane Hanvood ranch in Power county Ranchers took the attack victim American Falls for medical treatment There she gave that led to the arrest of and Price as they drove along a Pocatello street The Rosenbergs were convicted last April on charges that they conspired to give U S atomic secrets to Soviet Russia They were condemned to death and are now in Sing Death Row pending a Supreme Court deci- sion on their third appeal for a1 review Eisenhower turned down their clemency tcr Unidentified Man Killed On Highway RIO HONDO An fied man about 21 years old was killed when struck by a vehicle Saturday noon on way 803 near Rio Hondo Justice of the Peace Jack penter of Rio Hondo said body was found in the middle of the highway and has had been Justice Department officials thrown about 72 feet by the im- that the President like pact state governor in a case can commute TO CASABLANCA death took office that the would their plea if pita a renewal of the Trans Texas and on a cause Radio Hams Assist Isle Polio Patient ALBANY N Y radio operators play a sentence right up until Paris May 23 former ole in getting vital before Mexican President Miguel Aleman equipment lo a polio patient if the prisoners had not j left Saturday by plane for e Virgin Islands made a special plea blanca Details of his trip to An Albany ham William C T Pike a former rocco were not here nomas learned that the energy commissioner said tubes to operate a in Augusta Me recently that needed He no- is a reasonable inference mod another ham Eugene that he believes the Rosenbergs of Scotia an worked with two separate THEFT BACKFIRES SPENCER W year-old Nicholas County boy ad- separate milled the theft of a to fn have hff wasn't to sakl the two to smoked out U tht he took it from the kwk dam rights of way bond issue carried by nearly 10 to n Cameron County Saturday With 35 out of the county's 41 reporting the vote was for and 218 against Only three out of the 35 boxes reported by 30 p.m day against the Issue The Resaca School box in Brownsville went zero for to five against downtown San Benito 45 for to against and Los Indios eight or to nine against A two-thirds majority was necessary to carry the bond issue proceeds from which were to have been joined with money from Hidalgo and Willacy counties to buy rights of way for the diversion dam The federal government was to spend The six boxes that had not were made of called returns in to County Clerk nrU H D Seago by 10 p.m were No 2 at Las Yescas No 3 nt Los No 26 at La Feria No 28 at Wilson Tract No 20 at Stuart Place and No SO at Alamo School Harlingen Voting Precinct six at the Fourth Ward School in ville open Sot tlis Saturday er won over man-made dikes at nni a Tug Sinks 2 Men Lost MORGAN CITY La May men were visaing and presumed drowned after the tug George R sank in the Gulf of co Saturday off Morgan City the Cuard said Nine others were The Coast Guard said the hoat was owned by Brown and Root Co of Houston Authorities said the tug capsized as it WHS moving an at a Magnolia Petroleum Co well off Eugene Island A Coast Guard spokesman boats In the vicinity picked up nine of the 11 crew members The ether two disappeared and were pre- to have drowned The missing men were Identified by company officials as V J Chandler Houston and John Collier also 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