Corpus Christi Times (Newspaper) - March 17, 1951, Corpus Christi, Texas COOLER C I Weather VOLUME 219 FINAL EDITION Entered ai second clam mall matter pan at Corpus Chriatt Texas under Act ol March 3 1871 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS SATURDAY MARCH 17 195 Published every afternoon by me Publishing Co Fourteen Pages FIVE CENTS Maragon May Be Figure in New Inquiry Investigation of Sales of Army Surpluses Warms Up WASHINGTON March 17 AP The needle of a House investigating committees compass pointed back to day to George Dawson a Briton said to have made SI00 million in the resale of U S Army surplus property Investigators for the House committee were seeking to learn if this is the same George Dauson linked by Presi dential Military Aide Maj Gen Harry Vaughan with John Maragon onetime White House familiar Maragon was con victed of perjury after a fivepercenter probe in 1949 by i Senate committee SIDEWALK Joe Farley weeps as Betty his seeingeye dog overcome by smoke in a Los Angeles apartment house fire gets first aid from Lawrence Mc Carthy Farley also caught in the fire groped his way through dense smoke 4o freedom Betty was carried out given artificial respiration and oxygen After this picture was made Betty got up wagged her tail and went to Farleys side Wirephoto UofT REGENTS DISCUSS CHARGES AGAINST AYRES AUSTIN University March 17 Legislature Ayres did not attend of Texas board of re gents discussed legislative charges against Economics Professor Clar ence E Ayres for two hours today and recessed until pm with out taking any action The House of Representatives asked the board to report within 30 days on charges Uiat Ayres ad vocates socialism Ayres has re plied that he does not consider himself a socialist and has never been a member of the Socialist Party Vice Chairman David Warren of the board said ithad spent most of the executive session discussing the Ayres matter Warren said most of the discus sion in the board meeting was up on the wording of a statement to the Peron Forces Grab La Prensa BUENOS AIRES March 17 AP La Prensa one of the worlds great newspapers ceased to as an independent organ last night It passed into the control of a con gressional committee dominated by supporters of President Juan D Peron A resolution ordering a joint sen ate and house investigating group to seize thenewspaper chief ciitic of the Peron regime was through a special session of the Perondominated congress yesterday in less than eight hours The 81year old morning paper in the Spanishspeaking world has been silenced for 51 days as the result of a combined boycott and strike by government controlled unions Whether the committee of six deputies and three senators start ing work next week would try to reopen La Prensa was a question still unanswered Also open to speculation was the fate of La Prensas 1800 employes of whom 1300 have expressed loy alty to EditorPublisher Alberto Gainza Paz He could not be located for com ment Gainza Paz has been charged with violating state security but details of the charges have not been forthcoming from the authori ties and no trial has been set The resolution calling on the con gressionalcommittee to seize La Prensa to probe its affairs includ ing its financial structure was seen as a move only one step short of outright expropriation the board meeting The board spokesman indicated a statement woulJ be forthcoming later today BB Gun Used To Keep Gorilla From Scratching ST LOUIS March 17 AP Phil a 400pound gorilla gets shot with a BB gun every time he scratches an itching left heel Its for Phils own good explains Zoo Director George Vierheller Attendants cant get close enough to the gorilla to treat a selfin flictedwound properly So armed with the air gun theyre main taining watch 24 hours a day Senate investigators introduced a 1948 letter from Vaughan to Gen Clyde Hyssong then on duty in Europe It said in part This will introduce my good friend Jolin Maragon who is rep resenting George Dawson and Company and who is interested in purchasing materials from the Foreign Liquidation Senice Vnughan told the Senate com miUce he knew nothing of Daw son and was only doing Maragon a favor Rep chairman of the House group said last night his committee wants to question Charles Poletti former U S mili tary governor in Italy and one time lieutenant governor of New York and Paul Griffith former as sistant secretary of defense A government witness testified yesterday that Poletti and Griffith represented firms connected with resales of surplus material at fabu lous profits Bonner also said subpoenaes had been issued for Morris Klein of the Oakland Truck Sales Co of Pittsburgh and others Bonner did not name But he said Klein and the oth ers are all in Europe now press ing damage claims resulting from a recent Army freeze on further transactions in scarce surplus equipment The materiel for military The House committee said much WELCOME TO Korean youngsters surround an unidentified Third Division GI as he walks down a street in Seoul Thursday Only the very young Committee Asks Contempt Action Against Costello BULLETIN WASHINGTON March 17 Senate crime in vestigating committee today asked the Senate to cite rack eteer Frank Costello and big time gamblers Joe Adonis and Frank Erickson for contempt NEW YORK March 17 AP Racketeer Frank Costello who claims he is too sick to testify be f re the Senate crime investigating committee was examined today by a committeenamed physician Results of the check were not disclosed iimiediately The reputed underworld boss who has twice defied committee at tempts to quiz him was ordered examined yesterday after he balked for the second time claiming he has cute laryngitis Doctor and Investigator A doctor accompanied by Com mittee Investigator Frank Ahern nouse committee said much TJnitpH NalinncrnmmanrW irnnRl trv will in 9 nnn went this morning to Costellos of the materiel conies from bil 4 A conimandtr jeeped to Within 2000 Westside Manhattan penthouse lion worth of surplus turned ovei 5dLof thc llne soulh of Chunchon More than 200 and very old were left in the battered South Korean capital to greet the United Nations troops on their latest entry AP Wirephoto MArthur at Front Things Going Well Yank and Red Jets Both Crash in Aerial Duel TOKYO March 17 MacArthur paid a Army froze the surprise visit to the fighting front inKorea today and Itary use found everything goingwell urge to Wrhen Phil gets an scratch his heel the attendant stings him with a shot from the gun Phils temptation to scratch is powerful even in his sleep But where the physical checkup ws I to the West German governmen made They said the results would be given later to Committee Coun sel Rudolph Halley at the Federal Building The committee adjourned over the weekend yesterday after a tur bulent session which wound up with the arrest on perjury charges of a former convict witness Louis Weber But the arrest which came yes erday with three witnesses testi fying almost simultaneously today appeared as only a prelude to form er Mayor William ODwyers sched how he ducks his head andI stops uled quizzing Monday reaching for the heel when he Is threatened with the gun The 11 yearold animal tried to hide be hind objects in the cage at first but cant get out of range of the gun The gun watch was set up yes terday Building Collapse Kills 5 in Italy March 17 least five persons were killed and nine others were injured today when a former school building housing bombed out families of WorldWar collapsed Authorities said about 20 fam ilies were livingin the building They expressed fearadditional vic tims of the cavein would be found in the debris N Meanwhile reports in two Chi cago newspapers the Tribune and the SunTimes said Gov Thomas E Dewey of New York would be called before the commit tee to share the spotlight with CDwyer In special dispatches from New York the Chicago papers said Dewey would be questioned about gambling at Saiatoga Springs an upstate resort near Albany Report Called Untrue Deweys secretary James C Hagerty termed the story wholly untrue Halley said there has been no decision to call Dewey and that such an idea is not being actively considered He said there has been j no change in plans since Commit tee Chairman Sen Estes Kefauver DTenn announced yesterday that we have no intention of calling the governor in 1947 to bolster the German econ omy Bonner named Dawson on Wednesday as the ringleader in the operations Rep Curlis RMo said the committees preliminary information indicated Dawson had profited by million Surplus Property Sales Frozen FRANKFURT Germany March 17 AP U S officials today investigated sales of U S Army surplus equipment in which big European operators are suspected of reaping fabulous profits Some of the American equipment is believed to have gone to help arm Russian satellite countries The West German government acting on U S request froze all property in the hands of STEG the German state corporation set up to dispose of Army surplus Records of one Frankfurt company dealing with STEG were seized in a raid by police yesterday on a warrant issued by the U S dis trict court here 000 Chinese Reds were massed along that line for a last ditch defense of the base they must hold to stay below Parallel i8 MacArthur returned to Tokyo Saturday night In the air an FSO Shooting Star jet and a Russiantype MIG jet collided Saturday and plunged to the ground Both pilots were pro HUGE TASK First Steps Taken To Bring Seoul To Life By J1H BECKER SEOUL Korea March 17 CAP American and South Korean offl Icials today took the first step Mild Norther xpecfed Here MAYBE A MJLLION Auction of Unmarried Men To Rich Women Advertised MIAMI Fls March 17 an advertisement offering a Details of a fantastic purported plan to auction off unmarried Mia unique proposition for single men after two applicants phoned and mi men as husbands for wealthy thev had been asked frankly if women reported by y wanted to marry for the Miami Herald today The newspaper said it investigat Fulbright Determined To End RFC Investigation WASHINGTON March 17 AP Sen Fulbright DArk said today he plans to end Monday his probe for cases of influence wielding in Finance Corporation loans The chairman of the investigat ing senate banking subcommittee turned his back firmly on an offer of additional funds from Congress to keep the inquiry going Will Try to Override However the three Republican members of the subcommittee said they will try to override him in a showdown vote possibly later next week They contend some sensa tional developments turned up dur ing the inquiry have not been fully explored Fulbright insisted the committee ul completed its work It has amply proved that political fa voritism has tainted RFC affairs and that an influence ring in volyed has White House contracts Fulbright said To belabor the point further could only serve political ends he added Fulbright told reporters he will renew in a Senate speech his plea that Congress launch a followup inquiry into the morals and ethics of other government agencies and Congress itself He said he will also urge again the creation of a nonpolitical commission of distinguished citizens and congressional leaders to con duct that inquiry Predicts Surprise A really impartial study of the ethical standards of the senate would surprise the people by show ing howgood those standards are sional group conducted the study and made such a report Im afraid it would bo called a whitewash It might be considered suspect money Reporter Richard Rundell wrote in a front paje story that he went to the Miami Beach address in the ad and was told by a man who identified himself as Stan Farber I specialize in handling unique propositions This is the dilly of them all I represent an organiza tion which is frankly gathering a group of eligible young men for sale to wealthy women as hus bands Farber was quoted as saying the sale would be in the form of a series of sealedbid auctions to be held at a large Miami Beach hotel in two or three weeks get 10 and the bridegroom would keep the rest Farber explained He said he had received 127 applications since the ad appeared in the Herald Thurs day Farber was quoted as explaining that there are laws against sale of human beings as chattels but none that we can find against fi nancial arrangements leading to marriage Rundell said he asked Farber how much an individual applicant Fulbright said But if any congrcsmight bring at the auction and Search for Missing Boat Continuing The air search for a trawler overdue from Galveston with two men aboard is being continued to day The trawler Helen C left Gal veston last Saturday with report edly a twodays supply of food Air search missions began Thurs day after the vessel was first re ported overdue A Coast Guard Cata lina plane based at the Naval Air Station began flying a search mis sion at 7 am today The plane is i expected to remain out until near1 Central Texas by nightfall ly sunset if visibility holds good I Amarillo Has 26 Degrees Bill Kady is skipper of the Helen C His wife lives at Aransas Pass Kenneth Cabbiness 20 who com pleted the crew was scheduled to go on trial in 36th District Court at Sinton Thursday Judge W G Gayle postponed the trial indefin itely Cabbiness is charged with murder in the performance of an illegal act in the death of three men at Aransas Pass on Nov 18 ihf sumed during dead The collision came Seoul back to life The South Korean capital bat tered almost beyond repair still is sprawled in the filth and de privation of war after three days of liberation almost as if it were too weary to try to rise a dogfight between three I No Normal Activity Fifth Air Force Active Fifth Air Force warplanes flew 733 sorties single flights by dusk shooting up Communist transport and troops A norther forecast to arrive AP Correspondent Bill Barnard early tonight is expected to drop1 reported from the central sector temperatures tomorrow to a lowthat American forces northwest of of 50 degrees The weatherman Hongchon Saturday threw back a predicts a high of 70 tomorrow companysized attack by Chinese The norther is expected here J Shooting Stars and three MIGs Only a handful of the citys once south of Namsi in northwest Korea j huge population remains There time between 9 pm and midnight Forecast is cooler weather with a few showers and considerable cloudiness tomorrow morning be coming partly and cooler tomorrow afternoon Small Craft Warnings Sailing weather will be Vough be fore southerly winds of 20 to 30 miles an hour shifting to northerly early tonight with a velocity of Reds This was near the area visit ed by MacArthur are no stores or shops or activity of any kind The first toddling attempt aimed at reviving the broken city today was made by American Army of ficers Army civil assistance ad viser and South Korean officials They made surveys of the water supply which is not in operation now and of the power plant which has no power To put them back in order will be a mammoth task Correspondent Nate Polowetzky i but men say it can be done leported there was virtually no conj tact with the enemy Saturday on the eastcentral front Correspondent Tom Becker re ported from Seoul that U S and South Korean patrols probed vig orously north of the Han River iall along the western front ensorsp we urer lo to 25 miles an hour and dimintails from the three sectors ishing late tomorrow Small craft warnings are displayed Highest temperature yesterday was 82 degrees followed by a low of 66 The norther brought snow to the upper Panhandle and dropped tem peratures sharply as far south as Wichita Falls and Abilene earlv Loday The U S Weather Bureau at Dallas said moderate freezing could be expected for the upper Red River Valley and the Pan landle tonight but a cropdamag ing hard freeze was not indicated Strong winds whipped the weath er front into Texas from north Censorship withheld further de Earlier dispatches however See KOREA Page 14 eastern Colorado Cold blustery breezes are expected to extend into Big 4De Still Deac Mifies locked PARIS March 17 AP The deputy foreign ministers met for nearly two hours today but wound up their second week of discus sions still unable to agree on what subjects should come before a Big PECAN TREE SALE BRISK Approximately 400 pecan trees were sold this morning in the last of a series of sales sponsored by The CallerTimes One hundred trees from six to seven feet tall and selling for S395 were sold within ap proximately half an hour after the sale started The remain ing trees of the Schley and Stuart variety and measuring from three to four feet are selling for The sale is to continue until the trees are sold today with the likelihood that all trees will be gone by early this after noon Immediate steps were taken to feed the few tired shellshocked people who remain and the bun dleladen refugees who undoubtedly will stream back into their city Seven carloads of rice have been shipped by train to Yongdungpo Officials say be coming in Seoul suburb enough rice will regularly to feed everyone for a ong time Rice Ships Unloaded Ships loaded with 77000 bags of are being unloaded at Inchon larbor and trucked into the flat ened capital the officers said South Korean officials will dis rjbute the food at stations through See SEOUL Page 14 St Patrick Honored Here A bright note to the somewhat gloomy weather this morning was added by Corpus Christians who oined in the traditional observance of St Patricks Day by the wear ing of the green Over at the courthouse many jeople wore lapel ornaments of iny shamrocks Green ties and sox also were the vogue for men while many women wore entire en embles of green A 3by5foot white flag featur ing a large green shamrock in the center caused considerable com ment today as it flew from a flag pole at Flints Radiator Shop 325 South Water The St Patricks flag was designed and made by E L and J L Flint two brothers who operate the shop Our ancestors came from Ire land so we thought it would be nice to make the flag in honor of St Patricks Day they said Their name originally was OFlint but they dropped the they explained Navy TBM planes from yesterday unsuccessfully Sunday morning becoming partly j Davies said these Two NAS searched the area north to Gal vestor and out to 50 miles off shore A light plane searched southwards to Baffin Buy Chief Aviation Pilot F B Wright is pilot of the Catalina patrol plane today searching the Gulf of Mex ico between Baffin Bay and Pala cios and out to 80 miles from shore The copilot is Lt A Han cock Four other coast guardsmen complete the crew our Foreign Ministers Conference They agreed to meet again on Monday for the 13th time in j an effort to get together on a Big Dalhart reported light snow atFour agenda am with a temperature of Conference officials said the wes 32 degrees Amarillo had 26 dejtern deputies were unable to get See WEATHER Page 14 j any concessions today out of So viet Deputy Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko Ernest Davies chief British dele gate said Gromykos apparent aim was to commit the Western Pow SING IRELANDS PRAISES WEATHER Forecast for Corpus Christ andjers now to demilitarization of Gerl vicinity Cooler with a few showjmany and a reduction in arma ers and considerable cloudiness merits by the Big Four powers Its St Pats Day And None May Forget By ARTHUR EDSON ilation WASHINGTON March 17 about that of North Caro morrow 70 U S Train Stranded BERLIN March 17 AP The American military train from Bremerhaven to Berlin was Icti stranded quoted him as replying You might bring and you might bring a million Its entirely up to the biddem der today by East German the Soviet zone bor the refusal of thr railway system ic provide a locomotive for the re mainder of the journey U S au thorities announced were matters cloudy and cooler Sunday the ministers themselves could noon decide Low for tonight 50 high for Gromyko asserted that demilitar ization and reduction of arms were Sailing weather Rough souther mentioned only casually in the Wes ly winds 20 to 30 miles an hour tern Powers draft of an agenda shifting to northerly early tonight lThis wasnt any different than what bunday north and northeasterly 15jne had been Saying before to 25 miles an hour Diminishing late Sunday Small craft warnings jrc displayed It was reported that Gromyko again accused the Western Powers and its blessed St Pats A proud but bitter history day again with parading and aIreland has A history of extreme wearing o the green and Irishpoverty of gigantic emigrations men everywhere saying how great Irishmen are And every congressman of eternal bickering if not down ever had an ancestor who ever put his foot on the ould there are many of be adver tising that fact at length The Swedes come over here The Germans come over here The French the Italians the Austrians i right fighting with the English who From the start the Irish camo jof deliberately preparingto unithe Poles and the Afghanistanians Highest temperature yesterday cash a new wa against tne East jcome over here 2 lowest temperature this mornjat todays session Irish Nov 2 fiG Sunrise am tomorrow unset pm today moonrise St rOt CortlGS FlTSt pm tomorrow moonset im tomorrow WATERLOO N Y March 17 j always Port AransHs im tomorrow oniorrow Soc Pago 14 Aeather data high tide low tide 6 to this country Dark Hint Edward F Roberts who wrote Ireland in America claims the Irish never got full credit for the part they played in the revolution ary war Roberts darkly gives his reason for this omission The his tory books he says were written Never Forget by men of English origin After a generation or two the But the Irish did their bit and old country is forgotten imuch more Roberts says And it I Rut not with the Irish no accident that on March 17 j with the Irish Why must theIrish 1776 George Washington himself be so Irish j announced the password was st AP Ils Patrick 1 Kellys Olsti No one knows for certain the Patrick am birthday anniversary today butjanswcr to that question But rather celebrate for St Pat may go far back into the history Year after year the Irish poured in But the great emigration was for additional So he delayed his birthday party of Ireland a country about the i thc result of Irelands greatest of until tomorrow size of South Carolina with a Sea ST PAT Fngo 14