Laredo Times (Newspaper) - January 9, 1949, Laredo, Texas Jews Shoot Down 5 British Planes TWO LAREDO MAYORS here when the Mayor and City Council paid a courtesy visit u the new Mayor and City Council of the sister city of Nuevo are LAREDO MAYOR HUGH CLUCK and NUEVO LARE DO MAYOR JUAN DE DIGS BLIZZARD AGAIN MENACES DEVASTATED WEST STATES new blizzard raced from Wyoming through the Dakotas tonight in the path of the Wests most crippling storm in history and a cold wave spread over North Central The western area has not Business Given Assurance OPA Not On Agenda Democrats seeking an answer to high prices assured business to there will not be another wartime At the same time one party leader called for an investiga tion of middlemen to see if they are keeping the cost of liv These developments came as President Trumans Capitol Hill Lieutenants confidently oiled the legislative machinery for a quick drive to write into law major parts of his economic pro gram aimed at jobs and continued production But Democrats appeared far from certain new price controls would be even on thr se and standby basis called for by And a noisy bipartisan pro test came from some farm state lawmakers over the endorse ment by the presidents econo mic advisers of flexible farm price which might per mit declines in price floors next They said the President him self is committed to full parity for Olivares Rites Slated Sunday Funeral services for Cornelio merchant who died Friday at at his 1510 San will be held Sunday at The funeral will be from La redo Undertaking to Gua with interment in the Catholic Deceased was born in Aguas and had re sided in Laredo for the past 37 Survivors include his Maria Olivares his bro Francisco and Felix Oli and one Antonio Oli Killed In Crash 8 man was killed and five persons were rushed hospital here late last to a night after a Greyhound bus had crashed into a semi trailer 12 miles West of yet recovered from the disastrous storm which raged for three days earlier this Many communities were still snow bound and many persons were still unaccounted for or ma The Chicago Weather Bureau said the new blizzard would hit and run in contrast the big blow which remained virtually stalled over the northern Rocky Mountain and Great Plain states until it exhausted There were 22 dead in the wake of the old Temperature Falls The new blizzard swept down from Canada into Wyoming and Montana and pushed high drifting and sub zero temperatures eastward into the Temperatures in the fell 10 to 15 degrees in six hours today as the storm A cold wave warning of tem as low as 10 and 13 degrees below zero was issued of 30 to 40 miles an hour with for parts of Wisconsin and Winds light snows but heavy drifting forecast East and South of the new storm mercury will fall sharply from the 40 to 50 degree unseasonable temperatures prevailing the past two the Weather Bureau Rescues Underway The new blizzard struck in some places only two days after the old Rescue rations were still In about 20 planes made mercy flights today to drop food and supplies to areas and rescuers pressed their search for rural residents still unaccounted for or The economic loss of livestock killed in western areas was yet but thousands of cattle and sheep or starved to In warning of the new bliz weather forecasts carried a note of Warn all stockmen and others to take the necessary precautions in Western ka as soon as possible and through the eastern part of Ne braska by the Omaha weatherman End Visit Here Hilda Rendon de Pala and little son Alfredo left on Saturday afternoons plane to return to their home in Mexico They had been visiting for the past three week with los and Fi dencio Rendon Nuevo La Heaviest Crossings Of Mexico Tomatoes Are Recorded Friday As 87 Trucks Enter Fridays crossings of Mexico tomatoes into Laredo were the heaviest thus far this 87 truck loads totalling Chief Customs Inspector Leopoldo Customs and Bureau of En and Plant Quarantine inspectors worked up until m clearing all ship ments that werp waiting at the international Heavy movement was continuing Satur day and Fridays figures made a total of pounds for the first seven days of Added to the quarterly total of pounds through December it made a season total of DREW PEARSON ON The WASHINGTON MERRYGOROUND DREW PEARSON TRUMAN AT HEART IS A SENTIMENTALIST DUTCH COPY JAPANESE SNEAK AT TACK CAPABLE SENATORS FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE WASHINGTON Beneath all the official crust Harry Truman is a It was this sentimental side that impelled him to slip up to Speaker Sam Rayburns office after the formal opening of The President wanted to a moment of close to his heart The story goes back to a fateful afternoon in 12 Harry then Vice hustled over to Rayburns for a legislative A few others were called in Majority Leader John Congressman Lyndon Continued oa 11 Strafe Israeli Bases LAKE Arthur Is neli representative at the United Nations Security Coun refused tonight to transmit to government sharp protest against the down of five British warplanes by Israeli fliers and craft Lonrie said the protest wu improperly ad TEL UP UP The govern ment announced today that four British planes and a fifth plane not definitely id were shot down yes by Israeli fighters over Southern A British Air Ministry com issued in London in that the fifth plane shot down also was It sail four Royal Air Force Spitfires and one Tempest were and charged Israeli planes had attacked the British aircraft over Egyptian The Israeli spokesman accused the British aircraft of strafing Israeli position in the and charged also that 12 British planes flying in formation and carrying attacked four Israeli fighter The Israeli spokesman assert ed that al the attacks occurred over the in the area of which is on the Palestine Pilot Captured One British pilot parachuted into Israeli the spokes man was This who was identified as RAF Flying Officer Timothy John admitted that he had been briefed for an armed connaissance over the Negev according to the Continued on Page New Model Cars Due In few Weeks Emphasize Style public will see a mo del automobiles in the next few all emphasizing a new styling trend that began soon af ter the Shown to dealers and indus try writers this week were the new 1949 Chevrolet and Stude baker Next week ler will announce details of the new De Dodge and Plymouth units to be public ly introduced some time in Fe That will leave only Packard and Hudson to disclose what if any design changes are to be made this Packard observes its golden this which built a single buggy in 1899 expects to assem ble close to vehicles this That will compare with units last Some guesses are that new Packards will appear around Audie Murphy Weds Actress Saturday LOS 8 hero Audie Murphy of and Ac tress Wanda Hendrix will be married tonight at Christ Me Unity in North Holly Mouse On Binge In Boffle 8 a dark corner of the small police janitor Clarence Lane found a near empty whiskey In the bottle was a The mouse was It had been in the bottle so long it had grown too big to get Land broke the but the mouse was in a The mouse stayed in the po lice station t3 sleep it of ASSOCIATED SERVICE 67th YEAR 181 JANUARY FINAL EDITION 54 PRICE 15c Acres In Starr Are C A f First Sei Title to acres of Starr County the to be required for building of the Falcon has passed to the United tales of subject only to harvesting of growing crops by the former Resident Engineer Loyd of the Internation al Boundary and Water Com mission at Fort an District Judge Allen signed the Declaration of Taking in Houston ordering all claimants to sur render forthwith complete and exclusive possession of the lands to the for the and its agents to pro ceed with such public works as have been authorized by In connection with these con proceedings filed in the Brownsville division of the district court of the United States for southern district of a Treasurers check for was deposited to cover estimated compensation to own Hundreds of Owners There are actually hundreds of The heirs of Joa quin Chapa owners of one small number The land begins with the nor thern half Portion 58 and Continued on Page Police Department Wars On Speeders 29 Are Arrested The local police department is out to stop traffic Local motorists arrested the past few days for viola tions in a safety campaign being conducted by the force total Police Chief Dave Gallagher announced this Arrests include 17 for speed 6 for driving and lour for Chief Gal lagher Fines range from five to twentyeight dol Mdre arrests are expected as the department continues to wipe up the traffic incidents that caused the deaths of 11 ci in Webb County during thf past Fourteen men have been assigned to traffic de Chief Gallagher To Mexican Capital Manuel Gonzalez dis representative of the Grey hound from San Anto on after noons flight for a visit to Mexi ico Gonzalez To Leave Hugo Pedro of Nuevo former governor of the state of is leaving on the Sunday afternoon flight or a visit to Mexico A Thought A Day my heart Is not nor mine eyes lofty neither do I exercise myself In great mat or In things too Ugh for Uncanny Weapon Finds Target From Then Attacks It military scientists appear to be working on the idea of a thinking guided missile that will identify the intended target from a then attack it A hint of this uncanny flying monster with a brain was con in a glossary of guided missile terms made to night by the Research and De velopment The thp project was merely this to saying active a system of homing guidance wherein both the for il the and the receiver carried within the The definition seemed re late to which some lists have it is as follows A guided missile it could be a rocket plane is fitted with a television set and a picture of an intended an The missile is launched in the general direction of the when it arrives at a point where the pattern of the pic ture matches what its television eye the homes in on the target This explanation is vastly over Involved are thousands of complex electronic elements actuating computing devices which cake but complicated reckonings link roe eye and the brain of the missile to its controls relay back to the base from which the missile was launched informa tion on where it is and what it This uncanny and awesome weapon is only one of a number of gui ded projected or in ex Chiang To Take Indefinite Vacation In Formosa Soon Solons To Investigate Acheson Low Firms Tie To Reds Acheson appear ed certain today of Senate confirmation as Secretary of State despite Republican plans to investigate his law firms connections with the Communist government of A group of GOP senators also indicated they may question Acheson on his association with Alger Hiss who is now under in for perjury in tion with the Communist spy in The latter was Ache I sons administrative aide for a Power Alexander Wiley a member of the Senate Foreign Boiler Unit Here For Laredo Power Plant A huge boiler unit to furnish steam for the kilowatt tur bine and an evapora tor unit cleared customs into Nuevo Laredo for ex pansion of the light and power plant across the Andres Lasaga president of the Junta Federal de Mejo ras reported that this equipment is for use with a new kilowatt Westing house generator which was being shipped from up north this past with arrival expected by the middle of the coming also reported receipt of new plans for expansion of Nuevo Laredos water plant These were prepared by the Ministry of Junta con its work of building and repairing The old mar ket place along the orl built for a border sta tion when a new international bridge was planned just a short distance downstream from the present is being rapidly converted into a bus Mexico Orders Return Of Stolen Arms To DEAN ACHISON Relations said he be the Senate should find out whether President Trumans new appointee is soft on Commun Sow Confirmation committee chairman Tom Connally predicted confirmation without much opposition The committee will consider the appointment next A twothirds vote in the Senate required for confir The 55yearold mat was named to sue MEXICO Mexican Navy Ministry or dered return of 32 cases of small stolen from the ceed ailing arsenal to the United Marshall on inauguration Tru Navy Minuter David Coello Ochoa said last night the arms shipment was turned over to the FBI in San by order He said a Mexican embassy of in the United States bought the weapons from private sour They were loaded aboard the Mexican warship Rio Papa in San Francisco in broad he When it was learned that the weapons had been the minister the 32 cases of arms were disembarked by order Genoas explanation came after publication in a local newspaper of charges that the extraterritoriality had been PERISCOPE We wish Bobby a ju at a very happy birthday A din hack to yesterday to extend Delated greetings to via Dora Alicia Espar za and Elena Varela on their Hearty congratulations to and Gibson who chalked up another wedding an Bunn returning to Mexico Citr en Saturday after noons following a holi day visit Leyendecker re a bid to the Inaugural Ball for President and Har ry Truman January SO in the Na tional Guard Armory in Wash And BUI Hall was all smiles Saturday morning after recovered missing 15 YEARS AGO Dryden opened new law offices in Building Delegation headed Robert Rosenbaum waited on the Encinal highway for cham ion driver from Wash to Mexico Hiss Kathleen DaCamara was in San Antonio And Murt Culli nan wu visiting from Bruni man firmly squelched reports that the changeover presages a Continued on Page Aftoso Vaccine Work Stepped Up MEXICO Jaa The Joint commission against foot and mouth disease will step up its vaccination work in the di rector of the commission said to Oscar commission tor and undersecretary of agri said the tempo of the commissions work will ened by increasing the number of field crews injecting cattle with the aftosa Vaccine production for the month of December was doses of which one million were administered to sick or endangered Flores pointed out that the 11 labor of the commissions laboratories in starting ar scratch last May and achieving the December production rate in only seven months would be of little value if more of the vaccine is not administered to Volpt Hospital who has been ill it Mercy Hospital for the past 11 is scheduled to return to his 818 Sunday He is reported much but will have to re main in bed for some highly placed source said today that Generalissimo Chiang was sched uled to leave short ly to take an indefinite va cation in Chiang probably will leave within next three this source It was not known whether the generalis simo his resig nation before his the source During his vacation Chiang A usually reliable source said to day the Chinese government had asked the United French and British govern ments to attempt to mediate tht civil Ambassadors for the three powers here were asked to re lay the request to their gov this source The three ambassadors were called to the Foreign Office by Foreign Minister Wu TeChen late None of the three nor foreign office officials would comment on the sub ject will cease his active direction of national affairs and hand over the reins of government to Vice President U the Leaden Vice President Li Is known as one of the leaden of the go verment move to seek peace with the Communists which Chiang enunciated in his new years In that speech Chiang indicated he was pre pared to step down to the cause of Another reliable source said preparations already were un derway in Formosa to receive Chiang and that a house now was being renovated for his Chiang originally intended to step down as soon as the Communists indicated they were prepared to join in peace the report His reported decision to step down even though the Com have unofficially re the peace offer was for ced by the polite of several of his field com manden according to the re Behind The By RAX TUCKER BETTER TRAINED ARMIES FORECAST THAT CMT WILL BE DEFEATED Every weekend this veteran Washington newspaper corres pondent devotes his column to answering readers of general interest on national and International policies and per questions may be sent direct to Ray Tucker at 6JM Bitterest WASHINGTON R of want to know whether there Is any chance that Congress will enact a Uni versal Military Training Law at the current He wonders whether present rela tions with Russia will not make the Legislators more willing to set up such a now that the elections are past Answer I do not think then Is any possibility that Congress will establish compulsory mi although one Continued on Pago 17 C Martin Ill CoChairman Laredo appointed by President vin Hansen to head the Polka Committee for the coming Washingtons Birthday has named Sheriff C to serve with bins as Chief Gallagher and Sheriff Martin and appointed aj number of members of San Antonio Police and Commissioner Raymond and SanAntonio Police Chief Fred Palmer were SHERIFF MARTIN tain Marvin district chief of the State Highway Paj stationed at will be on the from ties Sheriff Taylor Sheriff Ma r n ez Sheriff Arthur Knaggs Nuevo Laredo Croup The Nuevo Laredo contingent Continued on Page Partner Nabbed With Dope NEW A Wall Street importer sj Park Avenue address was ed possessing wortH of pure narcotics agenti reported They said Ralph was the biggest smuggler of co caine in the western phere and longtime associate oi Charles Lucky Jimenez was arrested last night oh a Broadway street cor ner shortly after his arrival by plane from Police Boylan worth of cocaine found on him had been picked up from a subway station Uncle Bud Says KM W KM tMt she to Uty VINSONS PROPOSED TRIP TO MOSCOW BLAMED ON DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHIEFS UP Secretary of State George Marshall blamed Democra tic Party campaign rather than President Tru for the illfated attempt to Send a special mission to Premier Josef Stalin last fall It can be disclosed today that Marshall stopped the proposed trip of Chief Justice Fred Moscow at the last Vinson was ready to u to halt en route in where Marshall wu attending the Un Nations General Marshall was annoyed at the proposal because it worried western European countries that the United while prose cuting the cold was going behind their backs to make a deal the But Marshall was more indig nant at the publicity the affair was He was indignant to learn that the Vinson Mission had Marshalls version of the lite On S Marshall received ia Paris from word that the President wanted to talk to him on the American sy There was no word about the subject Marshall and his Marshall went to the embassy code room in Paris for the Lovett Invited Meanwhile in Washington Un der Secretary of State Robert who has now with was asked to n to the White House to M j
