Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

rl 1 1 i) Corpus Christi Caller A II Today Mild Sailing Rough Yesterday's High 75 Low 74 Sunrise am Set 1:31) pm Monnrise 8:48 nin Set 10:17 pnu High Tide 6:10 ani and 5:16 pm Low 11:51 am Market Oil Farm Women's News Editorials Sport Radio Comics Page 4A Page GA Page 9A Page 12A Page 211 Page 4B Page 8B Page 10B VOLUME NUMBER 34 Fntared Corpus Cbriatl rtu mtllar al lha peat attic al Tam iindar Um Act (X March 1 ltn CORPUS CIIRISTI TEXAS THURSDAY MORNING FEU HWl PulitlNtuKl very whtokitny morning lsr Out Cailfr-TlRiM Publishing Cut Twenty-Eight Pages Today TRICE FIVE CENTS '4 itJAfrica AFB Waste Totaled $50 Million Audit Shows Kickback IVico-llikc Conspiracy Say we Upsurge 27 r-prrsldcnl stales said Iho Republican nominee Reds Demand Dixie Vole: To Go lo Backers Taft Aide Denies Genera Pa id Slrenjilli on WASiaNOTON Fell Fifteen Eisenhnwcr-f loaders from 11 aoulhoni organized hoi-e today and South in rondy to go in November if the ('or is Gen Dwight Eisenhower "The South in today l'Piidy fur the lirst time in a joint statement said "to give a majority of it 12 rlrrlurai votes to a Republican nominee fur if Hint man he The rtaienieut reren-! to a re- MU NS AN Korea Thursday Feb 28 (AP) The Com mZcredatrong aunrt for the mumsl-s thi-cali-iwo la virtual sitdmvn strike in Korean armis-praaidraual nomination in the pfiat'tice negotiations "Vednesday unless the United Nations Without mentioning Taft'a m2 1 reversed itself and accepted Russia as a neutral truce in-aouthem effort by name the Fieen- spuelor leaders such time" declared North Korean Col Chang the North are striving every way Chun San will be no progress in these The Reds made the statement Okay of Russia to dominate the Republican Party machinery in the South The WASHINGTON Feb 27 (AP) An Army auditor has given C'mifit ess an estimate tliat waste kickbacks and price Ijnostinyv thrmijrh have cost $50 million in connection with air base construction in North Africa A House expenditures subcommittee received the estimate in testimony given last Monday behind closed doors by William Cassidy resident auditor in North Africa for the Army audit agency The committee made it public late today The North African bases are being liuilt by the Army engineers under contract to a group of contractors The total estimntrd cost la Sno milMon hut committee sources any it probably will exceed that Inquiry at Scene Cassidy just bark from an inquiry at the scene testified he found Instances of Failure to require competitive bids on purchases resulting In higher eosls to the government Overcharges ranging from 25 to ltn percent and involving between someone in the One man was killed and two others injured when the car In which they were riding overturned on a lonely stretch of Padre Island bench nesrly seven mile a south of Gulf Pier at 2:45 yesterday All of the men are from Be-vllle They were returning from a fishing trip down tho island MIG APPEAR WORKER BUTTONHOLES REP WOOD (LEFT) AND REP JACKSON your refusal to act as good citizen cost you your job AP Wlirpkata) people of the South Are determined to in again rejecting an Allied plan throw off this old guard Renublt-jto cut the number of neutral na-can voke just aa thev are deter- tion truce inapectnra from aix to Sabre Jets Slioot Down Red Plane SEOUL Korea Thursday Feb orker Says Un-American Hearing Cost Him His Job nriM! About an hour pnsaed when with the minister about to be excused ua'ia a 1:11 iniiiripntioii ns ti truce 111- pei Rep Jackson (R-Calif) broke In mannerer issip-j a si '1e speitor was middled bv Allied -rei comment ment taking exception in one by fjnujs vniiuiturv repatriation! mined to strike off the fetters of four by dropping Russia from the I Red list and Norway from the Texan Included Allied selections Sweden and Swit- The group issuing the Ehcnhow- zcrlnnrt were the other Iwo neu- Ier statement inrludcd 1 1 Is nominated by the United Na- Alvin Jjme Dallas Pr put'll- lions Poland and CzerluislovakiH ran candidate for governor in r'lx also were chosen liy the Reds general counsel of Republican stale' staff officers eonsiucring truce 1 exeriuive DETROIT Feh 27 AP) Sud- national Communist Party leaders di'ti diiniHiiis cnnii out of the: last year Cominuiust inquiry today inelud-i Hefore the hearing had progressing a factory worker's charge that Jed more than a few minutes i committee i siipci vixion and primmer exchange 26 iof Texas headquarters Eli'enlmwer- nut again at 1 am in jjjot for-President Chib join land Coincident with the Eisenhower Communist in-dMi-nie on Rus-jns i- it res iii mm wn palrlation Crnck-it had cost him his job clt had been twice sharply repri- A defiuit minister-witness was niniuled by Committee Ciairman American Sabre jets down one Communist MIG damaged another Wednesday the Red planes made an ap- pesrance in force over North Ko-lelmses to purchasing department for the first time in four days personnel An estimated 1J0 Kpecriy Red to boost prices The Jaekson snid l'b'c 'll Mai-si national di- adjoin t-on- fighters were sighted Allied loss- tack of Control a minister of the cloth is tn riscpnowcr cam- lames Mur- es if any were not told tack of control over Workers pounding treason by including CbdPalS-i tnat lne general conveiirMV nl(M rh Wednesdav (The North Korean army com- mainly Arabs who were charged in his activities" 01 hc will lie no possibility that munique broHdcast by radioooo francs to get their jobs After Glenn came back from upufic in the Midwest I our side will ever abandon the Pyongyang claimed four Allied Excessive drinking loafing and Moscow last year he found he had 'Kept no job His CIO-United Auto Work- there is sny upsurge it has a'1 c'ommandl will not dc-era Union at Grand Rapids inter- probably been the best kept secret V(M those prisons to your side ceded tor him and he got his job of the Ingalls auul whl) b(T forced to go there" back Lodge had pointed to Iowa iiri'-sv- emphasized 11 1 the appearance of nois Imllana Kansas Missouri TJlc 'Rtwjs were equy (snihntlc office and the sellers on purchases of supplies Payment of rom missions on pur workers to receive pay for time not worked A Senate preparedness aubcom- Wood (D-Ga) for speech es" and threatened with expulsion from the hearing room more address from you will result in your said Wood pointing his finger at Crock-ett Crockett had been Interposing a question on "materiality" of Interrogation put to the Rev Hill by Committee Counsel Frank Tavernier Jr He was reprimanded a second time again sharply when ho later interposed a challenge of a question Frequent Consultation All through the questioning the Rev Hill frequently turned lo Crockett for consultation and repented that he refused to answer advice of counsel" and bombers rutting Red rail linos blasting vehicles and turning Oierveny to make his charge that and South Dakota as states where lflHt thc AllinH WPI'0 unreasonable tw si tin he said them is develop nd Pak pr0RIess depeno- ing strength for the general Fore- pil nn tIle Tnit NaHons 'wUn casting a hindslide victory he qsiing voluntary repatriation estimated that Republicans would: Apparently at a dead end the Senate seats officers agreed to refer (lie he lost his job he received short shrift from Committeemen Jackson and Wood The young factory worker button-holed he two congressmen at a recess lie demanded enemy supply areas into blazing mittee headed by flon Johnson (D-Tcxhs) started public hearings on the North African air baae project last week after committee had announced plans for infernos Enow was melting along the 198-mile front Allied patrols crept committee protection for his Job He shouted his demand at Wood refusal to act as a good American citizen before this committee coat you your Wood told him Resi-m-rs did uot reach the vie-tims until about two hours after the accident One of the injured men walked nearly aix miles to neck nid Kkull Cru-tlied Juan Guerra 39 of 901 a a I Granimon was killed iistantly Justice of the Peer A GUleland said death resulted from a crushed skull- Williamson SO of the Ann Burke Apartment and Dun lap G2 z3ox IMS were injured Wit liamson was released from the Naval Hospital after treatment for alight larerationa and cuts Dun Inp was admitted to tho hospital with fractures of two riba Scholl who investigated tha accident for the State Highway Pa trol aald the csr a 1951 model coach overturned lour times pray slble five The car which was driven by Dunlup flipped over near the edge of the water and came to rest nboitt too foot from tha ocean Scholl said Ambulance Bent An ambulance was dispatched to the seeno from the 8 Naval Hospital when attendants were notified of tho accident at 6 Williamson hnd walked part of the way to Gulf Pier when an unidentified man and woman passed going south in a car Williamson flagged thc-m down and tha woman drove bRrk lo the pier to summon nid The man stayed with the victims until ahe returned The State Highway Patrol was not notified of Ui accident Until about 5 body was taken to Dunne Funeral Homo about 7:30 pm His survivors were not known lute last night Idenllflrutlon Slade Positive identification of Guerra was not made until about 8 pm Ilia companions knew him only Douijb giving prisoner of war issue to -Iii? 1 I delegation of the main armistice ItraJ front and engaged In light' public heRringa of its own atartlng ingaiw challenged wbat he said (-onjiniision Ftiday i skirmishes with sms 11 Red unilsl hw-k ww (hi was Logde'a claim that er would aid Republicans in winning Congress control He said November poll of House Republicans showed Taft leading Risen- hower 71 to 54 and on Feb 10 a second poll showed Taft widening i his led to 81 to 37 After $143 Million Taxes On Deal upbraiilcd Ly two Cong resxmen and a Michigan stare police undercover agent told of spying tor seven years on Communist activities Meantime the status of a missing witness a Grand Ripids factory worker who visited Moscow in the spring of 11)51 was reported in douht These were developments on the third day of the Detroit hearing a subcommittee of the Douse Un-American Activities Committee into communism in liie Motor City mid Michigan l'irst Sensations For the fii-st lime in the projected week-long session sensations developed At the noon reerss John Clier-veny 26 an unwilling witness of yesterday bu'st into the hearing i-oom to charge lie had been forced to give up his job because of having been linked with the investigation Cherveny said he had been menaced at his factory place of employment today by 12 men one of whom he said carried a rope and that ha left the plant in fear of ids safety after failing to gel police protection! Earlier in the hearing the Rev Charles A Negro Baptist preacher of Detroit had been on the stand lake other uncooperative fitnesses before him he stubbornly refused to answer questions tourhingwon rnnununisni Attorney at S'lie 'At his side was attorney George Crockett Jr one of the seven lawyers convicted of contempt of court In the conspiracy trial of 11 Sliip Earnings HELL IS LAUDED BY LICHTENSTEIN hearing that a tax advantage wns solely ss a tsx avnider In order to make its claim good Franz denied thnt the Casey group got prior advice from the Ti-enaury Department which guided it In setting up the Panamanian enmpany Casey once testified that it did hut later said he was mis- a key factor In Retting up the Greenwich Marine Cbrp in l'nna-ma to receive rhurtor fees of more than $2 million a year The result arcording to Ren Hoey (D-NC) chairman of the Inquiry group wns UiHt none of the of the Houe hnvej their ear to the gmigid ami are the! beat gauge of public opinion" Tn- galls said know wlint the WASHINGTON Feb 27 people want And aa these House ISen Nixon fR-Cahf) disclosed to-Repiihlicana face their own reelnc-' day the Treasury ia Dying tion fight in Novemher tho man to skim off about $M3RM0 in thejfr prerer to lead the Republican taxes from the earnings of five Bell's sudden announcement ef- ticket is Boh Taft by a 2-1 margin" I war surplus ships a group of pub-feclive April 1 apparently camel Ingalls also expressed grntifjrn- lie figures bought tmd sold at a as a surprise to CufC officials "I tion over the sup- profit of 828 million received his resignation only today for Taft in the ix-delegiie He snnounrrl at a public In- Si ven slate jtb-t named in Florida Lmlgo quiry into tlie denis that the govern- IBI1! ysl'l'lllV withinen't ia acekuig to hi" candidate's prospects in that in cor oration income tuxes the tofonrtder the mat- state jumou1 which would have been Other political developments to- payable If the five L-inkcra voiced had not ben operated un- Son Douglas (D-TII I urged the drr the flag Senate Rules Committee to ap-! $iiki(HMI Investment prove his hill for alvsory presi- A grmp hnn(1o(1 hy Joseph Surplus ter" Lichtenstein said board does not meet again imtil March 13 It can then art on hie resignation and probably will refer the matter of successor to the personnel denlial preference primaries thisl Jeff Eell who yesterday submitted his resignation aa Chamber of Commerce manager last night was lauded by Morris Lichtenstein CofC president Lichtenstein said: Beil has served the chamber faithfully and efficiently for nearly two decades and I think the organization and the entire community owe gratitude for all Corpus Christ) am sure I speak for all of the offleers and directors of the cham th Mm 11 to to 11 he has done for American corporationa involved tnken nn that point ia Pnnn Others In Deal paid any Income taxes The Among those who went Into the deals with Casey and ahared in the profits were tho late Edwnrd Rtettlnhis Jr a wartime secretary of slate Julius Holmes minister at the embassy in London and Adm William Halsey Franz said tlie deal was set up manian company was not liable for taxes lie said $3500011 Raved Yearly Daniel Franz tax expert for the Casey group estimated tliat ereation of the Panamanian company saved about $350 000 a year in corporation Income taxea for three years Nixon told reporters later that as he understands it the government might have to prove that Greenwich Marine was created Solicitations Group Denies Permit for Shrine Circus Lichtenstein snid place will bo hard to the president said Considering Several Offers Bell snid last night he la con- ia niniiima oni sidering cral offers He declined Florida also name delegates by In highly profitable deni to elaborate primary Casey and his asss-aies pill up In his letter Bell said: Douglas said his bill-under for J'1 'L'v'ic have no desire or intention of which people would express theiriull1 lnS retiring but have felt for some advisory preference for prcHidon-8nW pa3 tia" a time It ia Imperative I Beck a lcssjld aspirants who had BOO signii- ar'nt hivoivi'd lnthetax pw year in Mates whicli want them lawyer and fot 15 stiti-a now choose dele- Tr DeinK-ratic niemlaT of the liimsc from Massaehusctls oh- the disriosed Nixon In such a way tliat Individuals Ht did know how-participating would have paid nor mnl income taxes on tiiuir profits These profits however would not have storied for five yean tho period required to pay off money borrowed to buy the ships The Cnsey group snid out before die five years were up Hoey pointed out the $28 million profit made nn their stock sale was taxes at the 25 percent capital gains rate rather than the higher income rate New York Westerlund of Marine members of agreed with Alaska Hill Stymied WASHINGTON Feh 27 (AP) The Senate Kent the Alaskan state hood hill buck to the committee to dav by the margin of a single vote killing in all probability any BaylorBcllon Head Resigns streniious I lures bn nominating petitions cir- Please bo assured of my sincere culnted in 36 is a step in-best wirhes for continued succcse warc nationnl presidential pri- 'n An rat 0n- 1 mary held in all the states on Bill CofC manager here for 18 um lln tn um eu I determine their l-giiity jnd whelh- eeeilings by Tim Senate investigations subcommittee is unraveling the corn- same day under the same rules I i-hnnre for action at this session of Congress to make Alaska the 49th state Standing firm on its policy of barring the use of paid professional promoters in welfare drive here the City Solirltntlona Commission yesterday denied an application by the Coastal Bend Shrine Club to stage its fifth annual circus The ruling came at a special meeting of the group in the council chamber at city hall In other artion the commission denied one other application approved eight others and tabled one for further study The commission cited high pressure selling methods and the meager amount of proceeds going to charity as its grounds for issuing the denial Eatimatcs were that the Shriners would get aa little aa 8 percent of the net with which to do chaiitahle work Netted 3918 Last year the Circus netted the group $291861 with 81500 going to welfare and charity Tlie remainder went to the group's building and general fund: MeRride president of the Shrine Club was advised to eliminate the professional promoters and renegotiate a contract with the circiM with an eye to get-iingmiireproceedsforcharity The way was left open for further applications The circus was scheduled here for May 81-24 with four night performances and four matinees Also denied was an application Catania 4 kart pat IM rrtlua AUSTIN Feh 27 Resignation of Dr Gordon Singleton as president ul Mary Hardin Baylor I'ollrpo lit Dolton wns nil- nuunr-cd here todiy by Dr Itnhim Wilson chairman of the txiard of trustees Stanley Klein a financier and of New York prexident Transport lanes both tho Casey group reasrii for uniting up Delta Homes Swindle Trial Set April 14 Greenwich Marine ri- any t'-dnal taxes were avoided improperly Win Would Owe Taxes If (lie government surceeds in recovering tuxes on the operations of the five tankers a legal question exists ns to wlvi would have to puv them The ships and tint original companies owning nnd rharierlng them hiiva passed into tho hands of firms owned by Stsvros Niar- years succeeded Sidney Kring A I Luling native Bell was graduated from Tfcaa College with a degree in civil engineering While sci-ving as nn officer in World War I he wns wounded Bell began work with the San Saha OnfC in 1919 hem me manager of the Fredericksburg CofC in 1923 and managed the Ran Benito CofC from 1925 until 1934 when he came here Dr Wilson said the resignation wns received deep "I iindcrslnnd Dr Singleton has serepted one of three positions have been offered him and which will he Hiinoiinci-d by the in-j dilution where lie is going at the! proper lime" Dr Wil-on said in' a statement Issued hrie Dr Singleton has been president of the Baptist college for women tmlaysja-l'tj neariv 15 yean I Dr Wilson said the board of tnts- Granted Bases ill Japan wtiM pnihnhlv nxi! Ivwk tn rnnKiifr iii rsijrniition TOKYO Thursday Feb M8 (UP) Japan today The board ai a meeting in nai- ojnnlcil Air Naval and Army forces the right to main-las lust spring had voted eonfi-j aj jn jpan for the defense of the islands as a bar MntoJnnftIer srmoiim ient pbMisriL-r against Communist expansion in the Pacific TriMl of A JnlmMon Sr A JfiliiiM'in Jr of Hoidon oncho a Greek citizen Huhrnmmil-swindling i-hHi-gi-x in connis-tinn1 len ri-i-ords indicate the Niarchos with tlie Delta low-cn-i lioiisinc interests assumed ail tax liability has been set in tin-: when they look iivw the rjup-diatrn-t court at Bryan fur April Three in one of the II Dist Ally said yesterday The district nUorm-y a tliil Wlnilv mil All III D-ivia Gni nt (minty nltoiriey -d III1I 711111 Brazos Oniiniy had nnfitn-d himn I r4 i dial Judge Bnrron of I rt'tlK'lf't I 1 OllcIV Jn tiict Court had mado the mi-i I) Todd Jr deals acknowledged st i'- I1- Jl-' UMT Foe Says Declare War or Get Out of Korea and lot ua attend to our business 'UMT as big on this He said the Truman admimstra- college A Con- A militnry base administrative agreement implementing -the -Japatn-so security treaty was siiRied for the Uni- said today thnt it had tlj Stall Iv Special American Ambassador Dean Rusk months ago thnt A i t--i iiixt it iid AsihiiDl Sen i till Os xne hju! an timiiy in 4 foicca in Japan Until Mid todlv thnt It had UJ Slill( )V Special A nnntlw thnt A hul ii'hinity t4Irmv inH Johnson jAmcrUiin roicos in Japan Until whiml loeaIon and nk t'thi occupiit ion-disarmed country Iecn no change in Stein MinUter Kitain Okazaki pivMWt to defcndltectf agaiiut for amid heated nn preiured to defend iteclf agaiiut The wenlher forecast for Forpus Enh of the two Johnstons were OiriMi and vicinity is for windy rlifin-ed swuvllmg in four rmld wi'h partly cloudy grand July indictment today Highest temperature Judge Harry ('iurol! uf If-mh expected is 76 to 80 degrees with a Pixlru-i Court last -ii tinns-j fou- tomnirow morning f-rird the cases to tlie Briiisj Tomorrow is expected to (iiiitv di i oiut f'lU'iwing a mostly clunilv with cmilinurd mild'1hii inridiitton In i rug in 'ii -h the deti-o i-on-j t-niperntiiia-i ten-led th-d an urprejn In jury1 ini otilained in lo move ttie troverey Dr Wilson been determined jl- i thbonri! Wils1 drtmnifiM wun aini- Donrtl tr change the continue i that there had Nupr tion cuiTupivd mid discredited" wunted it to help increase the size of tlie govei mnenl While the House signed Ren Taft tR-Ohdo) proposed lint UMT be delayed for a Is ait thioc y-ais "I can't see why we Mioulil into start UMT as long as tlie draft WASHINGTON Feb 27 (AP-Rep Barden of North Carolina leader of southern Democratic opposition to universal military training (UMT) told the House today: should either declare war on somebody and fight an objective war or get out of Joining in the increasingly sharp debate on the controversial issue Bnylen criticized the armed services for what he called ex-tmr-ignnre and foolish and asked: we going to turn over more expenditures to them and our young men as Barden contended the American signed Japan nut tty pmtrato from both Independent membera uf xpupei-g affixed in a Foreign Of- (The Pentagon Is across the river in Virginia) For the moat part the opposition held the House fltxir today second day of the debate It will go on the rent of the week with voting scheduled to begin next Tuesday Rep Durham another North Carolina Democrat called UMT a necessary and fair system for bul-working national defense "We can no longer tolerate a system which places the burden of preparing for the defense cl America upon the willing brave and DpIHIW 1'o-t I'Hrliiimenl and nef- iterday morning did not materia- i-LSiir Siiifiir llOUT The signal ures were filed lize iwest tempi-riituie rer-orilcd noon ceremony al tho and lcftwmg now ie taking most vnung men for! Cl 1'' I duly" Taft Connlv two years of active A number of civil S'flN aggresNiim CriticUm Has centered largely on clauses giving legal jurisdiction to American commander over Crimea involving American troops except in "major eases' where tho Japanese government may requeat Jurisdiction A compromise clause provides however thnt Japan- may chooao later whether to remain undor this arrangement or accept tho terms of the North American Treaty Or ganization'a of Form niriin-i! tiio J'hnMuns so I yctci liy wns 34 degrees lARKlv) Fell 27 TheM-e-i-empmiiK vei-p tninr furred to Railing will he rough on south-1 tnii(ient lub rf Liu-rdo nuc-l An editorial and parliamentary Hauls ii nn i-uris mi ly wiikIr of to 30 mile an1 ims of Ihr Demorratii: Party in' out cry wii-i tail'd against the gnv- told an interviewer couldn't vote to do it The bill before the house provides for six months training for lS-year-olda followed by 7' years in the reserves A similar measure has been approved unanimously by tha Senate Armed Services Qunmltw but will not be taken up until tha House ha acted hour Hus afternoon and tomorrow! Wclih Dainty Indorsi-d all Incum-lrmmrnl of rmnici- 8higeru Yo-aftermsm the weather lnireati Mid jbenta tudnv in the April Ishids fur failure to submit the con-The furecast for Routh Central election but delayed taking any trnversial agreement to tha Diet plena ef ivikve to have the Miitij tried in the county their rest-' ilenre Tixid said that early tn January he had asked that tha trial uf tlie two men be set people are "bitterly and over conscientious who volunteer whlla whelmlngly opposed" to UMT and: the selfish reap tha Dur raid he wished the military i ram said atAy on their side of the Potomac Rep Shafer (R-Mlch) blasted T'-xns cloudy and mild Thursday and Friday Moderate to fresh southerly winds on the coast atsnd on tha IT 8 Remits rare i (Parliament) for approval between Tom Cunnally and Price However no cunrericd oppori-DanteL 'tion was raised against basing of.