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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1952
Page
1
FBI arrested Capt Manuel Gonzalez in Beaumont on charges of embezzlement tied to Navy ship spares. Assistant chief of the maritime administration's ship and maintenance division named in reports. Director J Edgar Hoover noted broader diversions of rope from mothballed fleet in Washington.
FBI said 170000 pounds of rope were stolen from Beaumont ships amid embezzlement probes tied to Navy and Maritime Commission personnel. Former commander Gonzalez supervised ship repair. Emile Schmidt, rope buyer, was arrested in New Orleans. Eight arrests total. value of losses not yet estimated.
Baytown student Headfellow selection draws from Texey faculty committee. The event, part of a campus special, honors outstanding student leaders including WIGGEN, son of Mr and Mrs Wisten, a junior at Nettity of Texas, preparing for an ROTC summer at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
Skimmed OCR fragments mention people in Denver and Louisiana locals, hospital, post cards, a plane, quotes of laughter, a general station, and scattered phrases about events and people. Details are unreadable and many names appear garbled or incomplete.
Two federal narcotics agents were stabbed during a buy attempt in Houston. Suspect Wilber Moore, 24, was arrested after a knife fight with agents Kruszewski and Hicks. accomplice escaped. Moore faced robbery by assault charges. weapon and dope found at his home.
A Royal Dutch Air Force Thonderjet crashed Thursday into a British Royal Navy mine sweeping launch north of Den Helder between the Dutch mainland and Texel. Fifteen men perished, one British crewman survived, and rescuers saved two others but one died later. The survivor is hospitalized.
Atomic scientists staged the 20th detonation at the southern Nevada proving ground at 5:55 am est Thursday. The blast produced a brief flash, appearing smaller than the prior Sunday’s detonation seen up to 456 miles away. The device, likely atop an 08-foot steel tower, was the eighth in the current test series at the proving ground 75 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Summer heat caused concrete walk slabs to crack and buckle around 2:00 p.m. Wednesday on Decker Drive near Four Corners. A county employee explained expansion joints may be too narrow, a problem seen on several Baytown roads last summer.
On Koje Island June 5 American troops split a POW compound with barbed wire as 3,000 Communist prisoners protested and waved North Korean flags. Brig. Gen. Boatner led the entry to Compound 607, beginning a drive to divide large camps into smaller enclosures to hold about 300 men each, with no gunfire or casualties reported.
A North Korean prisoner of war, one of 17 liberated by American infantrymen, says he was beaten for a week and sentenced by a kangaroo court to death for anti-Communist activities. He describes torture and executions by hard-core Communist commissars on the island camp, carried out under orders to tear down flags, while he was kept in protective custody with lacerations and swollen limbs.
Washington June 5 The House passed a bill to provide 1 billion dollars yearly in benefits to Korean War veterans and others since June 27 1950. Benefits include free schooling loan guarantees Social Security credits and musterout pay. The Senate rejected a price control amendment 54 to 27 and approved extra appropriations totaling 968 million to fund salaries for federal workers.
Baytown woman suffered a severe concussion and extensive injuries after a high speed collision on Decker Drive. Witnesses say she attempted to pass another car on the right, struck a guard post, the car rolled, and ended up on a culvert. Eyewitnesses and responders described the wreck and the other driver Rey Stubbs awaiting police before leaving the scene.
Washington June 5 General Dwight D Eisenhower’s opening campaign speech aligns with Republican policy outlines drafted by Senator Robert Taft allies. The piece notes the campaign will detail positions as the presidential race unfolds, while stressing expectations of concrete proposals on foreign policy, budgets, taxation, and state-federal function balance.
In Washington on Thursday, House members objected to hiring extra inspectors to check postal input for payless postmen. The Texas delegation blocked the bill, prompting moves to recommit supplemental appropriations to committee.
Baytown Jaycees launch their Terrapin Derby fundraiser with entries starting in Cobb County. H. T. Ward named general chairman and Durwood Horn as co chairman for the July 18 event at the ballpark.
Senator Robert A Taft held a slim apparent lead over General Dwight D Eisenhower in South Dakota's presidential primary as unreported precincts due to heavy rain held back results. Officials estimated many precincts still awaited reports, with the vote likely to clinch Taft's victory though rivals questioned possible canvass changes before the GOP convention.
Washington reports the first round of government sponsored steel negotiations opens Thursday with federal officials hoping a nationwide strike pressure will bring industry peace. Presidential Assistant Steelman presides over talks with CIO President Murray and major steel company heads as the wage talks pause. The Senate dives into emergency steel legislation split among Burnet Maybank Monroney, Taft leading Republicans opposing measures and urging use of the Taft Hartley act. Humphrey calls a Senate Labor subcommittee to consider a third bill authorizing government seizure of the steel industry.
Three year old Robert Lon Leach of La Porte died Tuesday night in an ambulance en route to Pasadena hospital. Autopsy pending at Jefferson Davis hospital in Houston after inquest by Justice of the Peace Dave Thompson. His nine month old brother Walter Leach is hospitalized with a similar illness.
Senator Estes Kefauver planned to urge President Truman to stay neutral as he campaigned for the Democratic nomination. He told Abilene audiences he would fight inflation, taxation, waste, and corruption, while supporters and opponents split on his approach to the race. Kefauver expressed confidence Truman would keep to neutrality amid the party’s nomination battle. He arrived after two recent wins reported in the Call.
General MacArthur could be reappointed to a high post if nominated and elected president. Eisenhower stated at his first political press conference that he has tremendous respect for MacArthur’s intellect and military ability. He said there is nothing that would bar him from taking such action.
Washington June 5 The Army said Robert W Grow formerly military attache at the U S embassy in Moscow will be tried by court martial on charges his diary was started by a Soviet agent while on duty in Moscow The court martial will be held at Fort Meade Md sessions will be closed The diary allegedly stolen last summer while Grow was in Frankfurt Germany excerpts were photographed and used by the Communist press to claim the United States urged war against the Soviets The trial followed an Army investigation led by Lt General Edward H Brooks second army commander Brooks led the probe into Grow after he was assigned to the Second Army
Paris June 3 Reds armed squads fought their way into the Renault automobile plant in Billancourt, suburb of Paris, for the second day. They tried to seize the factory after a failed general strike call, clashing with non Communist workers who drove them into the street. About 2,000 Reds seized the plant Wednesday, forcing out workers and executives. they withdrew Wednesday night with no serious injuries reported.
In West Baytown a post office will pick up ballots for the annual office election on Monday. The BEF reminds voters to mail in ballots by the deadline and notes Tanger Views as a local topic.
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