Laredo Times (Newspaper) - May 9, 1944, Laredo, Texas 4 Thought A Day hU brother li a ana ye know that no murderer gath eternal life abiding 63rd YEAR No. 284 8 PAGES MAY 9, 1944 PRICE 5c Military Pageant Friday o NEWS The NEWS By RAX TUCKER A practical experiment in setting up World War II veterans in the re tail busness will soon be inaugurated in under the auspices of the Committee on Economic Develop headed by Paul president of the Studebaker The results may have a deep effect on all plans for rehabilitating returning troops now and The scheme will be based on several of the most important but least publicized sections of 1767, which has the Senate and should be okayed by the House this These provide that an may borrow a thousand dollars from the Government to build or improve a home to purchase a small business to buy a If he wishes to go into farm he must first satisfy De of Agriculture experts that he has the qualifications for such a and that he has shown reasonable care in selecting a site and the kind of products he will If he wants to open a grocery a or hardware store or similar he must first obtain the approval and assistance of the Department of He pays no interest for the first year and only three per cent Another provision of this act permits the ex-Serviceman to spend a year at some school that on Page 5.) LOVING gas* TO BE FEATURES A High School Military review and pageant will be presented by the Senior Class at Shirley Field at 8:30 Friday May 12. The review will consist of company competition among the various units of the entire battalion of the High School Cadet In the reviewing stand will be the commanding officers of both the Laredo Army Airfield and There will also be other high ranking military officials as well as civic leaders of The judges will consist of military personnel from both The military units will be judged on the basis of and the winning will receive a loving The will include the crowning of the queen of the Cadet She will be attended by six senior girls who were chosen by the Cadet The High School under the direction of will furnish the musical accompaniment for the entire A crowd of 7000 is expected to witness the Slavs Take Berane May 9 - The Yugoslav partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz have recaptured Berane in Montenegro after stubborn a broadcast communique said REV. FATHER GEORGE DOYLE PERISCOPE And a bow to Walter and Anita Stein upon another wedding And on his birthday to now employed at the but soon to begin active duty with the Father Doyle To Church At McAllen Rev. Father George A. who came to Laredo five years ago from Rockport and became assistant pastor to Rev. Father Dan Laning at St. Peter's and later served as administrator of St. Peter's diocese after Father Laning entered the army as a chaplain and was later made assistant pastor when Rev. Bishop M. S. Garriga was transferred to Laredo and made pastor of St. Peter's is next Doyle has been named by Bishop E. B. Ledvina of the Corpus Christi diocese as pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic church at McAllen and will take over his new pastorate May 20. A native of Father Doyle came to Laredo from Rockport and immediately entered into the activities of St. Peter's parish endeared himself to all by his pleasant manner priestly and the announcement that he .is to leave Laredo to become pastor of the McAllen church was received with much He has been very active in all activities of St. Peter's church since his arrival taking a big part in all boys and has served as moderator of the USO chaplain of the Men's Club and Catholic Daughters of America chapter was a member of the Laredo Rotary Club and a mem ber and past chaplain of Laredo Council Knights of Rt. Rev. Bishop M. S. under whom he is serving as assistant pastor of St. Peter's will return to Laredo Tuesday afternoon from San An where he attended the silver jubilee of Rev. Father Go Also arriving here short ly will be Rev. Father George who was ordained to the priesthood at Corpus Christi Cathedral in Corpus Christi last A successor to Father Doyle as assistant pastor of Peter's church will be announced Rev. Father Doyle will be honored with several farewell functions within the next day or was IN THE 49TH COURT ROOM And Lieut. Col. Ralph sending us a number of daily newspapers from Texas To Democrats Gather Name State Parley Delegates THE ASSOCIATED Today Texas Democrats met in county keeping in mind three recommendations made to them recently by the State Democratic That the regulation of the party should be left with the committee rather than the That the state committee favored restoration of the two-thirds rule in making and That the groups send delegations to the state convention at Austin May 23. Today's conventions were held a day after the United States Supreme Court turned down two applications from Texas for a rehearing on the court's decision allowing negroes to vote in Texas An partial survey of last Saturday's precinct conventions indicated that in the areas where the issue was most sharply in a majority of such precincts Texas democrats named uninstructed delegations to the county The issue overshadowed the question of drawing the color line in party To Visit Russia NEW May 9.-(IP)- Eric president of the United States Chamber of Com expects to start on his trip to Russia at the invitation of the Soviet government this He made the announcement during an interview yesterday and said he proposed to visit the battle see collective farming in practice and talk with the Russian Cotulla Major Former Pilot Of History Making Bomber - A Cotulla Major Roy G. is a former pilot of the famed Liberator Bomber which is soon to tour the United States after making aviation in the African and European sectors In the raid on the Ploesti oil fields in Rumania 1943, Major Martin piloted the so low it came back with cornstalks clinging to its It is credited with bringing down 12 enemy planes and dropping a third of a million pounds I of bombs on its many No member of the crew has been killed and only two Mother Of Bishop Jones Succumbs SAN May 9.-I Enid Holland I mother of the Rt. Rev. Everett H Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West died to I day at the Nix Daily Washington Merry - Q o - Rouno By PEARSON Robert S. Allen now on active service with the What has McAllen got that Laredo that they can take Father George Doyle away from us like that? And private to Charlie Come out of that corner slugging we are all pulling for And dipping back to yesterday to salute the Rev. Ben Smith 54th And Major Milton Atkins says thanks to the Zachry Farm for a thousand pounds of onions for the Salvation Army And Reyes Ortiz presenting two Louisville Slugger bats to the American Legion Mexico City Bus Drivers Strike MEXICO May 9-(IP)- Traffic organized to educate the to avoid accidents and jams was ushered in by a two hour strike of union taxi and bus drivers They stationed their vehicles on the most thoroughfares and cros sing causing confusion and de lay in The strike was in protest against the difficulty of getting the strikers obliged them to buy from the black market at prices up to flOO Mexico Produces Penicillin MEXICO May 9.- Mexico will be producing ten million units per day of lin before the end of the pre sent it was announced yesterday by the Ministry of Public Bridge Controversy Clarifying Passes Senate Unanimous A clarifying the present on salary payments Sundays to government employes necessary to keep bridges open between the United States and Mexico and the United States and passed the senate unanimously Monday according to a wire received by the Laredo Bridge The wire was from A. M. secretary of the Bridge Association and head of the Laredo Bridge Company offices The bridge here with eight others closed Sunday for 24 hours because of the salary The bridge companies contend salaries of government employes should be paid by the Gault's wire stated that his commit tee representing the bridge and tunnel owners of both the Mexican and Canadian borders met Monday with Senator chairman of the DETAIL FOR Corpuscle DEWEY FORCES FIGURE HE CAN DEFEAT FDR IF HE CAN CARRY BUT THAT KEY NOTED FOR POLITICAL IS BARKLEY DEFENDING FDR IN WARD PARRIES THRUST ON TAX SEDITION TRIAL JUDGE LAUDED FOR PATIENCE WITH leaking out some of the Dewey visers is after a careful survey of the entire they figure their candidate can win against FDR himself with 17 electoral votes to if Dewey can carry This estimate gives to Roosevelt all of the Border including also the plus Washington and On the other Dewey forces expect to carry all of New most of the middle plus New York is both Democrats and Republicans frankly admit that California is going to be one of the States in the Union They remember how it was plus the of on Page 3; When a soldier is greeted with he has two stripes on his for that is Army English for A may be given to a sol dier for many and diversified du company clerk jeep meohan just to name a The WACs call a corporal a which the soldiers frown They two stripes is a corporal WAC or no Give us the lusty ate finance Senator George named a sub-committee to hear testimony on the clarifying proposed by Senator Wagner of New York in the senate and Congressman Milton West of Texas in the Members of the sub-committee named by Senator George were Senators Taft and The also employed recommendations made by customs The now awaits consideration by the house and is expected to be acted upon before night when the bridge closing deadline Webb County democrats meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the 49th district court room starting at 8 o'clock to elect delegates to the state convention to be held this month in Austin and to attend to any other business that's developed the past two Peter P. chairman of the Webb County Democratic Executive said this morning that the meeting will be wide open and any bona fide democrat of the county will be seated as a No pre cinct conventions were held Sat Webb county like several others in among them Val deciding to do all its business at the county con Webb County has 23 precincts and most are expected to have representation Joe secretary of the says the county is entitled to six voting delegates to the coming state These and alternates will be chosen Leyendecker is expected to name a nominating committee and a committee on resolutions at the start of the As far as can be the questions of whether county delegations should go to the state convention instructed or wide open to use their judgment when they get has not been decided in advance of A majority of Texas precincts went the ed route at precinct conventions last Saturday Other ques tions which came before pre cinct conventions was whether to instruct for Vice President Wallace for as whether to instruct for Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas for that post and whether to instruct to name Governor Coke Stevenson to head the Texas delegation to the national convention in We invite every democrat to come out and participate in the Leyendecker Red Artillery Blasts Enemy t Suicide Squads Clinging To Last Nazi Hold In Crimea BY HENRY C. CASSIDY May 9.-UP)-Russian storm troops fought the remnants of two armies within full view of flaming and smoking Sevastopol today as their rolled up wheel to poured salvo after salvo into enemy suicide squads clinging to the last German hold in the Fortified heights overlooking the port city were stormed front line dispatches German communique said heavy fighting continued and that 56 Russian planes were destroyed over Sevastopol The battle reached its climactic with fighting under way in the immediate approaches to the city and an Izvestia dispatch declared the German force in the Crimea was definitely defeated and pressed back to the Black The Germans were reported fighting clinging to every inch of shore under an incessant artillery but with the Red Army looking down on Sevastopol's famous the end of the battle appeared in In the third day of the offen Red Star reported that Russians had broken through steel and concrete fortifications all along the Sevastopol The Russians were converging from all land sides along an arc within five miles of the The line extended through MacKenzie Heights in the through captured Inkerman in the east to the Black Sea ' coast southwest of Hills overlooking the Black Sea bristled with big powerful fortifications and barbed wire the army newspaper leading the Romanian to believe their positions Earlier in the the Russians held the city 245 days against German An old coastal defense fort overed the entrance to the bay and behind three-storied German defense works were carved in the The Star dispatch acknowledged that the capture of these positions was but said the Russians took the first two hills after a fierce battle and then moved forward to seize a third hill in the depth of enemy The Germans were declared suffering heavy losses under devastating air artillery rages and infantry On a single Red Star estimated 500 Germans Allies Follow Up German Withdrawal Near Palena Area ALLIED May 9.-UP)- Allied forces have followed up a surprise German withdrawal in the mountainous sector of central Italy near 25 miles inland from the Adriatic on the Eighth Army's left it was announced officially A headquarters statement did | not make clear how far the enemy had pulled but it was said that the Nazi troops had demolished houses and a tunnel as they The withdrawal occurred near the hamlet of Letto some two miles northeast of the town of eleven miles east and southeast of and directly south of the Maiella mountain On the Fifth Army's main the Germans yesterday increased the tempo of their shelling south of Cassino's railway station and sent a patrol across a stream to pave Allied positions near San seven miles south of American guns shelled motor vehicle movements in the lower Garigliano Valley west of It is in this sector that the Germans are said to have evacuated all civilians for a depth of 20 After three days of solid day and night pounding of Balkan all heavy and medium bombers were grounded yesterday by poor but fighter bombers claimed destruction of 32 German vehicles and two tank carriers and damage to 39 vehicles in strafing attacks of Spitfires demolished a German headquarters at in Yugoslavia and also attacked shipping off the Yugoslav coast and way traffic in Two Allied planes were Forces 2000 American Bombers Carry Air Offensive Into 25 th day May 9.-(#)-The American Air Force based in Britain hurled nearly 2000 planes at Europe today in the 25th day of the air smashing at railroads and airdromes in Belgium and A great fleet of flying fortresses and Liberators and their fighters struck 10 separate targets in the three airfields and three railroad yards handling German war setting the pace for a series of widespread Judging from Channel today may be the heaviest day yet in the huge air It was the 15th straight day of heavy bomber operations and the third time in as many days that 2,000 including all had been in Only a few hours previously strong formations of RAF night bombers ripped up airfields and other military targets in France and At the German radio warned that enemy formations were over southwest Germany and then announced they had but shortly after noon a. m. Central War the entire German network left the indicating that the day bombing shift had attacked the perhaps Berlin third straight Tremendous aerial activity continued over southeast costal districts throughout tho with nearly every type of daylight raider seen in the clear skies over the Many formations were seen returning while others still were going over in a veritable non stop shuttle Despite a bright a force of probably 750 Lancasters and dumped between 2,-240 and 3,360 tons of explosives on multiple targets last night with a loss of 10 Returning fliers said most of the German fighter opposition encountered was at Haine St. where one Halifax of a Canadian bomber group was attacked three times by Wins Award May 9 - - Dr George Oliver of New director of research for the Carbide and Carbon Che mical Corporation today was named by the American Chem ical Society as tho winner of tho Willard Gibbs Medal for out standing work in Sellers Files May 9.- Attorney General Grover Sell appointed to the office last December by Governor Coke R. is a candidate for his first elective Sellers formally announced his candidacy for democratic nomination and paid the filing fee He became Attorney General in succession to Gerald C. Mann who Mexico Rail Workers Told To Reach Agreement MEXICO May 9-(IP)- General manager Ortiz of the National Railway of has given thu mutually hostile factions in the railway union two time in which to adjust their differences and ask for modifications in his new rules curbing the power of their He made no promises as to whether their request would be met. Japan's Far-Flung Suffer Heavy Aerial Blows BY RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ Associated Press War Editor Japan's far-flung forces were pounded by heavy aerial blows the length of their Pacific defense were set back in their faltering Indian campaign and were repulsed by a sharp in China's northern Honart The Wake area in Dutch New Japan's closest base to the new Allied airfields at was blasted with 295 tons of an Allied communique reported while other planes ripped enemy defenses in the Schouten Islands 140 miles farther northwest for the third time in 24 Fighters from Hollandia's airfields assisted by downing nine Japanese Other Allied planes pounded targets off New Guinea's west tip and hit New from Page 2) Sinatra 111 NEW May 9.- - Frank radio and screen singing star who is suffering from a throat infection and with a was reported in a comfortable condition today in Mount Sinai Nass Heads Elks May 9-(IP)- Harry A. Nass of San Antonio was nominated as 1945 state president of the Elks late yesterday when 600 Texas Jilks mot In convention Nass was vice president of the Southwestern District last Join Doughboys May 9-VP)- More than 2,000 applications for transfer to the infantry have been received since the army's announcement last month that enlisted men under 32 in this country could make the switch order to join the doughboys in fighting the enemy at close Extent Of Retribution From Germany May Be Hot fssue By DeWitt MacKenzie Associated Press War Analyst The question of how tough the Allies should be in exacting retribution from Germany for her bloody attempt to enslave Europe and dominate the world bids fair to become a hot issue as we approach the climax of the The history of the last war Is beginning to show signs of repeating itself in this Then the determined cry of the and must finally petered out altogether as the conflict Today again there are schools of thought in Allied including the United States and which advocate that we shouldn't be too harsh on The argument for leniency is the old and familiar one that the German people as a whole aren't responsible for the acts of the This has cropped up in a somewhat sensational way in the international labor conference at where the subject is being threshed out with considerable The pro and con of this have been epitomized by President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and Jan Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia will not argue that Hitler should be said Mr. we can't argue that on Page 2.) Two Austin Boys Found Dead In Ice Box May 9.-(IP)- Two young boys who had from their home here since Sunday afternoon were found dead today in an icebox stored in the garage of their They were Dannie 7, and Dan 9, sons of R. D. Police who were investigating said apparently they had been but no inquest had yet been Yesterday city and county officers made a wide search for the missing after Edwards notified them the lads had not been seen since 2:30 P. M. River police searched the and State Guardsmen were called out to search the rugged hills west of Lake Age Limit Lowered May 9-(IP)-Adding to her manpower for the Britain has reduced the age limit of troops for overseas service to 18 six The previous limit was 19 Consul Says U. Mexico Must Plan Postwar Trade SAN May 9-(IP)- It is imperative that Mexico and the United States plan postwar trade in order to prevent a depression for both A. ed Mexican for eight states with headquarters declared who assumed his duties yesterday following almost three years as consul general of stressed the need of immediate action in laying the foundation for trade ' both nations hava have more business than tha traffic will bear he the conflict ends the Americas - especially the United States and Mexico build mutual trade relations to check any schism in understanding and to construct a bulwark against Pan-American tion of the human values will accomplish To Decide Pay May 9-(IP)-Prima Minister Winston Churchill announced today that a Royal Commission would be set up to consider equal pay for equal work by the men and an issue applied to produced a bitter parliamentary debate last Phil Baker Weds BEVERLY May 9.-(IP)- Newest newly weds of the film colony are Phil accordian radio quizmaster and screen and his third Irmgard 45, and Miss 25, were married REGENTS TO MEET May 9.-(/P)- Texas State College for Women regents and college officials will meet in Austin Thursday ana Friday to submit budget requests for the next We Congratulate New Members Of The Stork Club Mr. and Mrs. Homero real of 2611 Santa Ursula nue announce the birth of a SOU at Mercy Hospital 704559
