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INDEX AT HER Today Cloudy Sailing Rough Yesterday High G5 Low 47 Sunrise 6:50 am Set 6:33 pm-Moonrise 1:13 pm Set 3:51 am (Thursday) High' Tide 2:37 pm Low 5:27 am 4 VOLUME NUMBER 29 ggj JK CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 5 1952 Twenty -Eight Pages Today-PRICE FIVE CENTS' Fiffht in House v--- 1 1 te hWV a 4 'A' If x'-S' Js V- WW A'r'-yKy-Wi-fttV "jRar 5 d5 '2V i Hrl- v' TWO WOMEN FOIL ROBBERY THROW THIEF OUT OF DOOR Two women grabbed a six-foot 180-pound thief In the Electrical Workers Union No 278 offices at 1808 Ayers yesterday afternoon took a money bag away from him threw him out the door and locked it beMnd him They even noted the license number of the pickup ha was driving and calmly notified police Tha women are Mrs Eugene Hendricks wife of the union business manager and Miss Theresa Roquemore office secretary The man an electrician was In the office of Harold Tate assistant business manager to see about a job Tate hnd gone to lunch Mrs Hendricks and Mlsa Roquemore who were in an adjoining office became suspicious because the electrician was sitting near an open safe Mbs Roquemore started into the office and saw him leaving with a bag of money She and Mrs Hendricks immediately gave chase and tore the money bag from his grasp The bag contained $36901 in cash The two women said the electrician appeared drunk but scared until It was all over" City detectives George Connell and Williamson were prepadng to obtain a felony warrant for the man's arrest yesterday sTlernoon He was driving a 1952 green Chevrolet pickup with license number YT 271 SCENE OF BRAZIL'S WORST TRAIN DISASTER the railroad coaches were splintered and telescoped after collision on bridge Lawmakers Send Bill Back to Committee WASHINGTON March 4 (AP)-The House voted 236 to 162 tonight to send the administration-backed universal military training bill back to just about wiping out any chance that the hotly controversial measure can be passed this year Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the Armed Services Com mittee told reporters alter the administration defeat: Thi not going to call up any Interim Bill On Tidelands Held Vital WASHINGTON March 4 Sen O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) called tqr-day for a bill that will postpone the controversy and produce tha mi" He was speaklnfc of ths fight over oil-rich submerged lands along American coastlines 1 O'Mahoney and Sen Anderson' (D-NM) are sponsors of a pending resolution giving the secretary of Committee still can bring the mea-i interior control of the lands sure to the floor for another vote I neath the marginal aeas until at this 1 administration permanent solution to foe problem 120 Killed in Brazil's Worst Rail Accident Truman Asks Tax Bureau Plan Okay Treasury Official Quizzed by Group Cleanup To Continue WASHINGTON' March 4 (AP) President Truman made an lllh-hour appeal to the Senate today to approve his hard-pressed plan to reorganise the Ration's tax-collecting syetem He cal ed the plan a vital step to assure "the highest Integrity" It would abolish the present setup of awarding top tax Jobe as political patronage plums and would put regional officials in tha much investigated Internal Revenue Bureau under Civil Service millions of American people who are now preparing their tax returns are entitled to this progressive Mr Trumart aid Adverse Vote Seen The President advanced his plea in a letter to Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) of the Senate Expenditure! Committee on the eve of an expected adverse vote against tha plan by the committee tomor-iw A majority of committee members have shown hostility to the plan in their questioning of administration witnesses McClellan told newsmen the committee will vote at 9 am tomorrow on a resolution to disapprove the plan Other Developments In other tax developments! 1 A 8enate Investigations subcommittee quizzed Undersecretary of the Treasury Edward II Foley Jr for 80 minutes behind closed doors on questions raised by Sen McCarthy (R-Wis) whether Foley ever asked the Internal Revenue Bureau to "lay off" tax prosecution cases Chairman Hoey (D-NC) indicated ths case probably was closed He told newsmen It was "not an investigation" and ther-e was "nothing submitted and nothing further to be pursued by the staff 2 John Dunlap chief of the nation's tax collectors told ths McClellan committee that a cleanup of known offenders among tax officials has now bean brought up to data but he refused to say no more would bo fired "Would you say your cleanup has been completed?" asked Be Nixon (R-CaUf) "No sir" Dunlap replied quickly "It's a never-ending taslf" Issue Raised by McCarthy McCarthy first bused tha Issue regarding Foley yesterday when he said ns wanted to ask Foley If he had ever tried to Interfere with the Internal Revenue handling of tax matters McCarthy suggested It was "general around the Internal Revenue Bureau that Foley Intervened in tax cases Sorters -RIO DE JANEIRO Brasil March At least 120 persons were killed and hundreds injured today when a crowded express train hurtled out of a blinding rainstorm into the derailed coaches of another train at a suburban station near here Truce Talk Lasts Only 14 Minutes MUNSAN Korea Wednesday March 5 Allied and Communist staff officers deadlocked on supervision of a Korean truce adjourned today after meeting for only 14 minutes Air Force Col arrow UN Command staff officer said "I told them 1 had nothing new at all on ports of entry or neutral nations and that it would be wasting time to repeat what I have said Col COURT WITNESS DIES ON STAND is found1 They declared ths resolution would permit oil companies to continue underwater explorations Noting that the states-versus-feW eral government fight has been going on for 14 years asserted ths Interim contort bill would the controversy 1 and produce tha oil" While Senate Majority Lsader McFarland (D-Arto) declined to forecast when tha issue would: coma to a vote a ahowdow seemed unlikely before next week Olher Issues such as the Japanese treaty ratification are likely to interrupt debate Ae for hie own attitude on tha Issue McFarland told foe Senate he would like to see permanent' legislation agreed upon that tha President would sign but that la' any dent there should be an Interim control measure pemd reference to a presidential signature recalled that President TrUman vetoed In 184S a Mil that relinquished federal claims to tha off-shore lands to 1 foe states A similar Mil has passed the House end to tied up now In the Senate Texas Sens Connelly and Johnson Democrats have submitted an amendment to the Interim resolution substituting for its present terms foe exact provisions of foe House bill tat 7F AP Mlrrphata) a splintering roar Coaches buckled trapping passengers inside Muddy troops and volunteer rescue workers hampered by the heavy rain hacked through the twisted wreckage to bring out bleeding victims and mutilated bodies Rescue work was hampered further by the danger of electrocution from the electric train's power Hne Firemen stood by In case of fire Ambulances from Rio hospitals shuttled back and forth from the wreck carrying the dead and injured The Public Security Department called all available vehicles to help Men women and ehlldron perished in the collision which occurred near Anchieta 20 miles from this city Soma of the dead won swept away In the swirling river swollen by meant rains Others wen strewn shout ths wreckage er dangled from the shattered bridge' -UlM WMhUUIW The Associated Press reported that one of tha survivors a former soldier said tha disaster scene reminded him of a battlefield in Italy during World War Tha toll waa announced by the government-owned Central Do Brazil Railway A spokesman for the Una gave this account: A wooden coach train left the Brasilian capital at 8:80 a bound for Juto de Fora fat the state of Minae Geras 100 miles north of Rio da' Janeiro Seventeen minutes later a crowd-ed steel commuter train left Nova Iguacu SO miles from ths capital Three Can Jump Track The two trains thundered onto the Pavha -River bridge at the same time As they neared each other at the center of the bridge three cam of the coach train Jumped the track and swung across tha span The commuter train plowed through the sides of the wooden cars Joao Santos a laborer bound for work aboard tha cummuter said: It was Uke opening a sardine can I saw bodies being decapitated and others horribly mutilated Screams drowned out the noise of ths Several bodies pierced by grefct splinters fall into the Last Rites Administered The Rev a 1 1 1 Ttvares a Catholic priest from Anchieta administered last rites to about 80 of tha victims Tha spokesman aaid a port a from Japanese government and Army gents showed the three hardest hit towns were Shi-ranuka southwest of Kushforo where more than 1000 houses were demolished and Hamanaka and Klritappu each of which suffered 400 houses destroyed At Klritappu ISO homes were under water A coal mine partly collapsed near tha port cite of Kushlro on southeast Hokkaido with a population of 88000 Eleven fires broke out In Kushlro after 'the shock Tidal waves mashed warehouses and wrecked harbor facilities Fourteen villages were inundated and fished craft swept to sea However an army spokesman for tha Japan Logistical Command Disaster Center at Sapporo capital of Hokkaido aaid the quake apparently not a major disaster" ft did not approach the disastrous 1822 Tokyo earthquake which coat 180000 easualtteg Tokyo itself waa not hit by earthquake leaders conceded in advance that a vote to recommit would probably kill foa bill for foa remainder of foie year and perhaps for several years to come To Halt Senate Todays vote likewise was expected to sidetrack Senate consideration of similar UMT legislation Voting to send tha House bill back to committee were 168 Republicans and 81 Democrats Against the motion were 181 Democrats 80 Republicans and one Independent Among House members voting gainst recommitting the bill Were Rep John Lyle of Corpus Chris ti and Rep Lloyd Bentsen Jr of McAllen In a final effort to gat the measure through administration 1 tarfc pace IMa wHIw Russian Sab Report Slated For UN Council CIUDAD TRUJILLO Dominican Republic March 4 The Dominican Republic's secretary of war said today his country will complain to the UN Security Council that Russian submarines have violated Dominican territorial waters Gen Hector Trujillo Molina said the move In tha United Nations will be made "after conclusion of the official Investigation into the presence of foa (Russian) submarines In Dominican territorial waters without prior permission" The Dominican government announced yesterday that five Russian submarines had been sighted in Dominican waters and at a point 80 miles from Mayagues Puerto Rico In Washington the 8 Navy announced that Rear Adm Marshall Grier commander of foe Caribbean Sea Frontier baa been asked to Investigate and report Henry Edward Barfoot 88 collapsed and died of a heart attack while on the witness stand In 28th District Court about 4 pm yesterday i Longtime county courthouse employes said this was the first instance in their memory that a witness died while testifying Barfoot a foreman for Bert Haas Construction Co was testifying in a suit brought by Haas against Joa Salem local Jeweler over the remodeling of a house at 881 Brooks Drive two years ago Being Questioned by Hale The heart attack victim who Child Killed In Two-Car One person was killed end six others Injured two of them seriously in a two-car' collision at Highway 9 and Navigation Boulevard last night at 11-JO Fatally injured was Perry Lee Jones 14 months old who died of head Injuries at 12:46 this morning Others seriously Injured were Mrs 0 Jones 24 the mother with a fractured right clavicle and possible broken right shoulder and Alvin Brown 27 with possible Internal injuries Jones 22 the driver of the car Larry Jones S-year-old son of the driver and the injured woman and Mrs Alvin Brown 28 wen less seriously injured A seventh passenger In the Jones car Barbara Ellen Mannes 12- yesr-old sister of Mrs Jones was uninjured All seven occu Germ War Is Denied WASHINGTON March 4 (AP)-Secretary of State Acheson today denounced as "falsa nonsense" foe charge spread over the world by foe Communists that tha UN forces are waging germ warfare In Korea Ha challenged Red China and North Korea to submit tha charge to an Impartial investigation by an agency such as tha International Committee of tha Red Cross With tha challenge ha coupled a countercharge that tha Communists are tailing tha Korean peace negotiations There appears to he a serious epidemic of plague In North Korea Acheson said but declared this la due to the inability of foe Communists to care for people under their control and not to a plot" by the UN forces Moscow end nil the Soviet bloc propaganda agencies have been emphasising foe germ war charges for the peat week Red China started foe barrage of accusations and has followed up detailed "evidence" and reports of protest mass meetings Ths original story was that germ-infested 1 were dropped repeatedly from American planes beginning about Jan 18 This has now been broadened to Include foe accusation that bugs wren lobbed across foa fighting lines by artillery shells The United States rather than its UN Allies has been the target 'It was the wont rail disaster in history Hospitals reported more than 20Q persons being treated with casualty totals still mounting Many persona still were unaccounted for The all-metal electric express sliced Into the standing can with lived at 48 Williams Drive Oar-dendale was being questioned by DeWltt Hale attorney for Haau when ha collapsed Jurors witnesses and court sm ployes rushed to Barfoot and carried him to Judge Paul office where Salem Tsoy Abarca oojirt Interpreter Tom administered artificial' respiration until the nrq Department tor crew arrived The crew and Dr Myron Appel worked on Barfoot for half an A Lortncq And sfevet Six Hurl Collision pants of the Jongs car reside at 4118 Timon Boulevard 'The Jones car 'a '1941' sedan was la collision with 1980 sedan driven by 8am Thornhill: 28 of the Highway 8 Motel Thornhill's car was traveling west on Highway and the 'Jones car was making a left turn off the highway onto Navigation Boulevard when the accident oc cured Impact of the collision spun the Jones car several times throwing acme of the occupants including the baby out of the vehicle The Infant was found beneath the auto All of the Injured were taken to Memorial Hospital In private ears Thornhill who received only a cut lip did not enter the hospital Highway Patrolmen LE Goe-sett and Poplin are investigating the accident first violent shock Tuesday morning believing that tidal waves soon would come sweeping in They were right In fact waves 10 feat high still were sweeping In this morning along tha southeast coast of Hokkaido at 15-nrtnute intervals causing mors destruction Two dtvUcns aro or duty In the stricken ana hut Army official! said no aodlar waa Tha 24th Division to on nc Vm Honshu main island' Tha 8 First Cavalry Division occupies Hokkaido northernmost island and tha hardest hit Five railroad trains warn reported derailed and one completely overturned on tracks knocked out of alignment by the heaving oarth All were freight trains Nina road and rail bridges were wrecksd Huge cracks opened In tha oarth at eoma points Mors than 2000 houses won destroyed between Kushlro and Ne-mure on the east coast of Hokkaido an army spokesman at Camp Crawford said Chang (North Korean Communist staff officer) said practically the same thing and we agreed to recess" The staff officers agreed to meet again at 11 am Thursday (a pm CST Wednesday) The Communists Insisted Tuesday that $0000 unaccounted for South Korean prisoners "do not but Red propaganda loudspeakers at foe front flatly contradicted them Between artillery barrages the Red loudspeakers boasted that captured South Korean troops were fighting against tha United Nations and blued thin Invitation to other republican troops: "Come to The UN Command again demanded the Communists supply data on the missing 60000 South Korean troops and include them in any prisoner exchange No progress was made Tuesday The Reds refused to give up their insistence on Russia as a neutral truce inspector despite Allied rejection of that nation Allied Planes Continue Raids 8BOUL Korea Wednesday March 6 Allied fighter-bombers attempting to strangle Communist rear line communications carried the brunt of the Korean fighting Tuesday Ground action waa confined to light patrol contacts with small enemy units across the front In the sir war a flight of Communist MlGa ventured south of the Manchurian border for a ftve-min-uto tangle with 8 Sabre Jets patrolling ever North Korea The Kuaalan-bullt pi a a scrambled back to safety with one MIG dam' aged Allied loisei If any were not announced The North Korean war communique broadcast by tha Communist Pyongyang radio claimed 18 Allied planes shot down and seven damaged In 15 days ending Tuesday but failed to aay when or whore tha act Iona occurred Wanner Light Rains Forecast Weather Map on Page IA Slightly warmer weather and occairtonal light rains are the weatherman's attempts to please everyone In the Corpus Christ! area today be clouds too for thorn who Uke them high temperature will be 70 to 72 degrees The low In foe morning will be 88 high 7B to Occasional light rains are scheduled for tonight Easterly and southeasterly winds of 15 to 28 miles an hour are forecast Sailing will be rough Tomorrow It will be partly cloudy and mild The forecast for South Central Texas Cloudy and a little warmer Wednesday occasional rain Wednesday night Thursday cloudy and mild with occasional rain fresh east to aouUieaat winds on coaat sww SESSION City Council Fails To Act On Gas Rates Almost as much action was postponed as accomplished at yesterday's City Council meeting Higher rates for municipal gas were not discussed But Mayor Leslie Wasserman Jokingly told McCamy director of public utilities no action would be taken for a couple of months because the weatherman had promised a long cold spell which would flood the gas department with money McCamy wryly replied "He told me be 'Warm and Taylor Water Contract Consideration of a cheaper water contract for Taylor Refinery was postponed' officials said because local offleera wanted to discuss ths contract with their bosses first Although the council had promised to net the next time It met on three i zoning change requests made by the developers of Waveriy Estates III on South Alameda at a public hearing last Tuesday the council did not take up the request Owen Cox attorney who led opposition to foe changes left before foe council meeting when told the council act The first item on the typed agenda for foe meeting was tabled for further study It waa McClaugherty'a application to take over tha existing franchise for a "rent-a-car drive-yoiirself' business and for permission to operate 12 two-passenger cars under the name "Herts Arttan Accomplished In accomplished action the council: Authorised the Public Works Department to advertise for bids to be opened March 18 on paving Antelope between Carr iso end Nueces Bay Boulevard Allowed City Manager Collier to contract with foe Texas-Mexican Railroad to lay an R-lneh water line hcroas the Naval Air Base Lina track right-of-way at the Intersection of Chapman Ranch Road (no money will change hands) Ordered Collier to buy Lots 9 and 10 'Block 2 Alta Vista Cliffs for $6071 from Gordon Boone Boone has a 815000 suit filed In 1949 against the city in court for damages resulting ha claims from overflow water from foe city's Proctor Drainage Ditch which A bark (Us sertlNi 31 KILLED BY QUAKE Snow and Bitter Cold Plague Homeless Japs i i i 'll i s' JED COLD THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE? In response to many requests the Caller is doing something about the frequent query "What's the weather like in other parts of the National WEATHER MAP WILL BE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING The map will be ashed to Corpus Christl by Associated Pma Wirephote wire In time for publieatiea in ell editions of the Caller Tha map will be a help to natives who Uke to do their own weather forecast Ing and to visitors who want to knew what tha weather is Uke "hack ANOTHER i CaUet SERVICE Hearing Set On City Airport By SANDY MeCULLAR City Councilman Frank Williamson maybe more talkative about his junket to Washington at tonight's public hearing about development of an airport here than he was to reporters yesterday One of his goals in the nation's capital was to persuade the Navy to drop a clause from its lease to the city of Cud-dihy Field If this clause is dropped the city might be able concentrate on Cuddihy In- they would like to tell protesting cltlsena tonight tha choice of airport site to up to the voters Williamson had "no comment' on his talks with the Navy yesterday Ha returned from Washington during ths morning ami waa foa first councilman on hand (at 2:16 pm) for foe two scheduled meetings He first talked to City Manager Collier then chatted with other members of foe council behind closed doors between sessions Williamson's other Washington project was to talk to Defense Production Administration officials In attempt to get permission to go ahead with construction of tha municipal Memorial Auditorium Collier said Williamson brought bock paper forms which city officials will have to fill out before tha auditorium construction to to stead of Cliff Maus Field Citizens at tonight's 8 meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Building on Shoreline are expected to raise violent objections to Cliff Maus because it is located In a heavily populated area Original postwar plane for airport development railed for Cud' dlhy of Cliff Maua-with CAA prodding After the lease waa written the Civil Aeronautics Authority said it couldn't cooperate (and match local building funds) at CUddihy chiefly because of the restrictive clause This clause would allow the Navy to cancel civilian operations at Cuddihy any time It wanted to Williamson headed tha committee which recommended Cuddihy instead of Cliff Maus Re flew to Washington last week to talk to Navy ofiicialn about foa clause TOKYO Wednesday a 8 Snow and bitter cold heaped misery on homeless thousands In northern Japan Tuesday night and early today In ths waka of one of the heaviest earthquakes of the 20lh Century Despite a terrifying pattern of huge tidal waves collapsing homes derailed trains great earth cracks and swamped fishing villages it appeared tha death toll would be amazingly light Tha latest official 8 Army estimate of dead stood at 81 Japanese Twenty dead and 170 injured were reported hp Japanese police There were no American casualties The almost complete 'col apse of communications In tha hardest hit areas some 650 miles north of Tokyo delsytd an accurata count of dead Injured and missing However the area is relatively lightly populated citizens are wise to the ways of earthquakes And a warning service spread tha tidal wave alarm Most Japanese along the coast took to their heels at the City councllmen have Indicated ff.

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