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PAGE 2 THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD, BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1950 Counterfeiting Increases In U.S. WASHINGTON UPi Senate crime investigators studied reports today that counterfeiting and illegal narcotics traffic both are upswing in the United on the States. In testimony released yesterday, federal officials reported that phoney money is being turned out faster than at any time in the past 10 years, while the drug trade is booming, especially in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The testimony came from Secret Valley Deaths And Funerals STEVE GENTLE McALLEN--Body of Steve Gentle, 72, McAllen resident for the past three years, was forwarded to Waterloo, his former home, for funeral services and burial.

Mr, Gentle died Tuesday afternoon at the hospital here. He is survived by his wife; a son, Tony Gentle; and a daughter, Mrs. Rose Brooks, both of Waterloo, la. MRS. WILLIAM R.

O'REAR MERCEDES--Funeral rites for Mrs. William R. O'Rear, 24, Mercedes resident who died in a Shawnee, hospital, will be held at 4 p.m. Friday at Stotler Mortuary. Survivors include her husband William R.

O'Rear of Mercedes; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maddox; Mercedes; and brothers, Paul and Bill, both of Harltngen. RAMON SOLJS, JR. HAR LI N--Funeral rites for Ramon Solis, three-year- old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Ramon Solis of Santa Rosa, were held at the Solis home in Santa Rosa Wednesday. Services also were held at the Santa Rosa Catholic Church. Burial was in La Capilla Cemetery under the direction of Garza Funeral Home of Harlingen. Survivors are the parents; four Olivia, Elida, Juana, and Elodia; and five brothers, Roberto Santos, Adolfo, Alfredo, and Ruben.

MRS. WADE BLISS EDINBURG--Funeral arrange- are pending at Skinner Mortuary for Mrs. Wade Bliss 54. Edinburg, who died a Grandview Hospital here Tuesday night. Mrs.

Bliss, a native of San An tonio, had lived here for the lasi 29 years. Survivors are her bus band; a son, Wade H. Bliss. Jr. of Edinburg; and two daughters Mrs.

Donald Cayken of Edinburg and Mrs. Gloria Moore of Alamo. Service Chief U. E. Baughman and Commissioner H.

J. Anslinger of the U. S. Bureau of Narcotics, and was made public by the Senate Appropriations Committee. They asked more money for their operations.

Baughman said the counterfeit-1 ers are specializing in $10 and 520 bills, and that his men are seizing spurious money at the rate of $100,000 a month. More than $550,000 worth was seized in the first five months of this year. "More and more criminals are turning to counterfeiting," he said, adding that most of them are World War II black marketeers who turned out false OPA stamps said their operations are cen- mostly in Chicago and New York. A SPECL4L Senate crime investigating committee headed by Senator Kefauver (D-Tenn) al- eady has its agents digging into the activities of underworld crime rings dealing in narcotics, counterfeiting, gambling and other rackets. The Kefauver committee is convinced, from investigations thus Tar, that there is a link between the big criminal rings.

The group is seeking to disclose the interlocking operations. i Baughman testified that the Chi-' cago-New York counterfeiting ring has connections with a second criminal group which distributes the bad money across the nation. "Anyone that has a criminal tie in other sections," he said, "apparently can go to these cities and purchase a certain amount of counterfeit notes and then go off to an area and pass them." He added that in recent months the Denver and Seattle areas were flooded'" with counterfeit bills. COMMISSIONER A 1 i said his narcotics agents had broken up a New York-North Carolina ring which was "flooding North Carolina" xvith hypodermic tubes filled with heroin. The Kefauver committee got testimony yesterday from a movie producer, Frank Seltzer, that gambling interests blocked the filming of sequences in Las Vegas, Nev.

for a picture "exposing the race wire service-bookie racket." He said threats and hampering pressure were involved. AJso in the field of gambling operations. Life Magazine said in its current issue that U. S. bookmakers are making an annual profit of 56,000,000,000 more than the combined profits of the nation's 100 largest manufacturing companies.

The magazine said this country today is "the gamhlingest nation that ever existed," wagering a total of almost 530,000,000,000 a year. men's Un-; lnor i on. local No. 1685 went on a 45- pT, minute strike at Port Brownsville Wednesday in a dispute over toilet acuities. GIANT HELICOPTER WHICH CRASHED--The 24-passenger Cierva Air Horse plane, shown during an early test flight in Britain, crashed and burned on another test flight near Southampton, England, killing the pilot and two passengers.

Still in the experimntal stage, the craft, described by its makers as the world's largest helicopter, was designed to carry passengers, haul freight and spray crops. (AP Wirephoto.) I From The Public Record i i i I MMtHM Weather 24 Hoar EJrh 55 Atlanta g4 Springs 90 Brownsville 90 Chicago 84 Corpus Chrlstl 92 Del Rio 92 91 Des Moines 84 Detroit 73 21 Paso irn Fort Worth 94 Houston B3 Jacksonville. Fla 39 Kansas City. Mo 05 Memphis 94 F. Z.

BISHOP CORPUS CHRISTI Funeral rites for Francis Zion Bishop, 70, well-known Valley real estate developer, were held Sunday in Bishop, the first Texas town he developed in 1910. Mr. Bishop died last Saturday in Corpus Christi. He was born in Mulberry Gap, and came to Texas when he was 17. He also built the town of Los Angeles, Tex.

and had been active in the Winter Garden area. Survivors are two daughters. Miss Ruth Bishop of San Antonio and Mrs. C. F.

Melick of Washington, D.C.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Marine Calendar Mexico City, D.F. Minneapolis Monterrey. Mes. ew Orleans New York North Plstte.

Nebr Oklahoma City Pa. 82 83 97 90 66 as Pittsburah. St. Louis 39 San Antonio PI Shreveport Washington. D.C.

Lait Mtht 67 70 70 75 63 75 72 7.S 73 70 IS 74 57 75 71 60 64 69 69 73 6P 74 65 S4 Hour Bain .02 .04 Court House MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Eleno Trevino. 31, and Teodora Salinas. 20; John 19. and Amp8.ro Grcia, 23: Gale D. McCIanahan.

22, and Mary Ellen Keyes, 13: William Keller, 25, and Dorothy Denton, 30. DIVORCE PETITIONS ON FILE Mvilly R. Panclera vs, Emii Lee Panciera: Georuina Gutierrez Campos vs. Campos. TSC Dock Strike Here Lasts 45 Minutes People And Events The Banana Longshi Commander Dan McXi'lll, S.

iNavy, is visiting here with his bro- Gilts Given To Cameron Boys McNeill. The comman- stationed in Washington, L. S. Bourne and'Miss annici Union spokesman E. E.

Cockrill Bourne lefc tms TMTM aid all banana longshoremen quit! Lav rence Kan wl they will vork while unloading the SS Hali-! tml thv sum.ner with their ax because they had been locked; sister, Mrs. Ellen Copenhaver. ut of a dock.side toilet constructed i the Navigation District only! Mf and Mrs 1aul ve nnd ast week. Nona Lee, were to leave Nine Cameron County -i-H Club boys are to be presented gilts Saturday under the Sears Foundation pig program. Boys to receive pigs are Carlisle Ior iFord, Jerry Griffith, Jimmy Norman, Jerry Smith, Lynn McKinney, Richard Smith, Joyce Ray Morrow, John Lee Williams, and J.

D. Baker. The pigs are from litters raised by last year's winners. Each boy who receives a pig must raise a an at 10:15 a. m.

and ended at 11 to NVw Orleans Chicago, itter an(i next year return the Mr. Cockrill said the strike be-; today for a. month's vacation trip a. m. when the comfort station was reopened by port officials.

H. N. Ferguson, assistant gen-, era! manager for Port said the toilet was locked up because it needed cleaning. Mr. Cockrill, dock business agent for the union, charged that more and Muncie, Anderson, and par so, Ind.

Trucks (Continued From Page One) than 200 men worked yesterday as group of approximately -10 new well as today without toilet facili-jl950 pickups headed for the Mata- Val choice gilt or $15 in cash, to ba presented to other 4-H Club boy, according to terms of the Seais Foundation program. Youths raising litters this year from pigs received last year are Pat Mills, Roy Darrel Wyrick, Ramon Carrizales, Robert Floyd, Jrmmy Baytes, Craig tie for cleaning asserted officials de-j moros area. I started investigating as a of the facilities. Weigand, and Norman Moore. the County Agent Frank Brunne- we have picked up man and Assistant County Agent vehicles already Shackelford elect the the toilet is open to Matamoros.

I winners the public and that its mainten- "Steps are being taken to locate some of the others that may have ance is a port responsibility. "We will take further and (Continued From Page One) arated from the Brownsville In dependent School District las fall, following a public vote. Fou trustees are members of both the junior college and independent district trustees' boards. They are Jack Wiech, Jarnes Pace, Leonel Garza and Dr. Charles Calderoni.

All were at the meeting Wednes- dlay night as well as the other members, Fred Rusteberg, Jr iCleve Tandy and Humberto Garcia. stronger action again if those toilets are again locked up." Mr. Cockrill stated. Mr. Ferguson later announced that some sort of agreement between all industries located at the port will be reached on mainten-! ance of the toilet facilities.

i Meanwhile Dave Schultz, representative of thft Confederation ofj Tabasco, banana cooperative in' I'exico, said that over 800 banana boats have arrived in Port Brownsville in the past four years and that less attention is given to this segment of port business than to any other. slipped by into the interior of Mexico. After I received the information from the consul, I got a confidential report from from the Matamoros Customs Chief Sr. Cristo Lapierre on the same mat- ATTr er ederal Judicial SUITS OX FILE The Alamo Company vs. Arthur Binder, suit on sworn note.

chief of police here also is conducting an investigation into the matter, he said. In the meantime, stricter vigilance has been ordered to see that all provisions of the 1918 presidential decree banning so called "luxury items" from Mexico, is carried out. VEHICLE TRANSFERS J. B. Kelly to Indaleclo Ceballos.

"46 Diamond Valley Bulclc to ArserU Kal- 'met. '46 Bulck: Manske Motor Co. to C. McKee. '43 Ford: Don Hocitaday to Felipe Sa-Idlvar.

'37 Chev; Easterling and Van Tyr.e to Louis Donoro. '47 Chev; Pickin Motor Co. to Jose Garcia. '43 Ford: Hollon Motor Co. to Rty Maston, Ford A.

F. Ellas Refusio Medina. '36 Chev. RIO GRANDE BULLETIN Laredo Rio Grande Cur Hidalgo Mercedes Brownsville Flood 14-hr St-hr Cbnr Rain 4.4 O.S NEW VEHICLES Mrs. Marie XJcCarty.

'50 Studebaker: T. Ballard. 'SO Ford: Tipotex Motor '50 Ernesto Perez Electric Co. '50 Ford. Wabash Railroad Co.

'50 GulJ Coast Ice and Storase '50 Studebaker. IX THE ROUTINE business session which took place prior to the close executive session, the board moved to consider further the suggestion made by Hawkins White, Brownsville insurance man, that the ard Pay 50 Per cent of the present group hospitalization program which TSC teachers and Lockhead Again Chairman Of Red Cross Here Brown and white eggs have the same nutritional value and the same cooking qualities. Nitro Explosion Fails To Halt Oil Well Blaze now paying White told for the RIVER FORECAST: The river u-iU not change materially the next three days. TIDES TOMORROW HUh 5S1 a.m. Low 9:47 p.m.

Sunset toda? 7:23 Sunrise tomorrow 5:38. BAROMETRIC PRESSURE: 39.94 inches at 9:45 a.m. ArrlTals MV SILL PHIL McCartr Ship- pins agent. In Port Alert And Alive BROWNSVILLE Deaths 1 Persons Injured 28 Total accidents 185 Total damages Average value of Damages jns VALLEY TRAFFIC DEATHS Hidalgo County 21 WUlacy County 4 Cameron County 12 Starr County 3 Total Last fatal accident: McAllen, June II. Near I I BISHOPS PRINT SHOP 1015 St.

LSV m. yacht- MV CAROL ANN UeCarty Ship- pins aser.t. Departures MV HALIFAX McCarty Shippinc agent. TUG PEMEX 11 and Barge 73 (Mei). PMen Shinpiric agenr.

MV ROATAN McCarty ahlp- pinc scent. One In MV TENNESSEE J. T. Eidman, asent. MV DENMAHK McCarty Shtppiai astern.

MV OP.O VEHDE McCartr Shipping agent. MEXICO HIGHWAY WEATHER MEXICO Highway weather: Mexico City to Monterrey and Matamoros--local showers. CORPORATION COURT Overparkinc: Lillian Keuip. Jl: O. Owen Carlos Nenaue, $1: Robert K.

VencHl, Si; M. B. Putegnat, SI: Bernabe Salazar, $1: Frank G. Parker. SI; Robert Reeder.

SI: William R. Thorton. $1: H. L. Jandeves, SI.

Runninc stop Roberto Leal B.1U, S3. Drunkenness: SiVverio 110: Luis L. Gonzales. SlO: Giro Moran. $10: Richard Salinas.

$10; Mlzuel T. Martinez. S1Q: Guadalupe G. Vesa, SlO; H. A.

Alexanderson. tlO. SpeedInc: Jaelnto Coloneo. SlO; Jack A. Boucher.

SlO: Edward M. Brown. SlO: C. Rozers. SlO.

Driving without license: Jose L. GasOHvee. SlO: Francisco M. Auuilar, $10; Enrique IV. Ramirez.

SIO. Dlsturbins the peace: Guadalupe Herrera. $10. Per- miUine unlicensed driver to operate motor vehicle: Jusn Rarcirez, SlO. Monterrey to cloudy, clearing.

Laredo--partly FLYING WEATHER VFR conditions today and Friday. POUT ISABEL--Only fish production on the Texas coast durlnc the 24-hour period endini at 3 a.m. Tuesday was In the Gal- veston-FrcEport area. A total of 2.000 of trouper. 13.000 barrels of red snapper.

and 251 barrels of shrlmi were reported In that area. Brownsville Man Is Charged In Forgery James Edward Anderson, 20, of Brownsville Wednesday i charged with forgery. Anderson charged in Justice of the Peace Manuel Diaz de Leon's court. He was arrested by Deputy Sheriffs Walter Keller and Ezequiel Cavazos in connection with passing two forged checks here totaling SlOO. Crash Hospital Reports MEBCr HOSPITAL Admissions Geronimo Cavazos, Mrs.

Ramona Hernander. Baby H-aquel Soils and Mrs. W. K. Sealer.

Disimsjalu Joe Cortinas. Mrs. Grace Rousette. Miss Bcrta. TapU.

Evelyn Cookser. Mrs. B. de Leon- Mrs. R.

W. Pitts snd Mrs. Anita Found. employees are privately. Mr.

trustees he was not interested financially in the board's sharing the cost of the group hospital program, as the teachers already have the group policy in operation However, Mr. White pointed out, it was his opinion the teachers would regard the board's sharing the cost as an indication of the trustees' interest in their protection and security. Texas law, Mr White said, makes it illegal for a junior college to carry group life insurance prograros, but that the law permits group" hospitaliza tion and surgical programs. MR. WHITE told the trustees their 50 per cent of the existing hospitalization insurance program would be about $70 a month Cleve Tandy moved the board con sider the matter after study of the budget.

Free work in the college vet erans' vocational education de partment was discussed. Mauric Recreation Board Plans Meeting In Harlingen HARLINGEN Harlingen Recreation Board members were toi mea of on-the-job training (Continued From Page One) preparations to land, then was heard from no more. Bad weather conditions prevailed on both occasions in this area of sudden, strong storms. Tugs of the British-owned Bahrein Petroleum Company and, local launches today were scour-! meet in the office of Chairman i certain Iine sing the crash area for more sur- Gene at 4 p.m. today! TITV vivors.

A U. S. Air Force rescue in trip nrocrr anrf nppric-i i voted to reaffirm plane also aided in the search. Pipkin, director of nient, under which the 550 depart veteran trainees are learning trades like arc welding, machine shop, autc and furniture repair, appeared be fore the board. James Pace said he had heard criticisms of compe private business in regarding the fre in some of the vo cational classes, especially in furn iture and automobile repair.

said he thought the board shoulc vote to discontinue the free outsid work phase of the program. Other trustees disagreed, saying that practice work was the onl tition from Brownsville work done The plane was lying in about 30 feet of water. Searchers believed the bodies of most of the missing still were trapped inside it. Early to discuss the progress and needs its policy oi nf the summer rprrpatinn urn- i of the summer recreation pro gram. i to re pair of property of schools, chant able institutions and churches i Five of the board members will 1 the vocational classes.

today a crane barge was moored sixth hear a report from H. C. laghan, recreation director. Cal-i The I the boys Colonel Frank Lockhead een reelected chairman of BIG SPRING iously flaming oil rownsville chapter, American ted Cross. Other new officers are: Andrew Johansen.

vice chairman; Mrs. J. D. Curtis, secretary- and Ygnacio Garza, treasurer. In a meeting Monday the board of directors decided to hold its monthly meeting on the second Monday of each month.

The new officers and board members will take office July 10. Other directors are Mrs. Tom Barber, Mrs. Martha Cantu, J. W.

Hannah, J. D. Koonce, Mrs. W. McK.

Lambdin. Mrs. Leonard Levy, Manuel Machado, I. Steiner. Mrs.

Dwight Taylor, the Rev. John G. Wallenburg and W. 0. Washington.

The fur- 3 well 25 miles a i northwest of here shows no signs the of burning itself out. The well has been blazing since it blew out Saturday. A geologist was killed in the initial burst of flame over the gas-saturated area. Yesterday a small charge of nitroglycerin was exploded by trouble shooters in an attempt to topple the heavy rotary table from the mouth of the casing. The table had been deflecting some oil and gas downward and hampering the fire fighters.

The explosion had little effect on the fire. Count Remains At 69 In Valley Polio Wards Patient count in the Valley's two polio wards remained at 69 today. Both the Edinburg and the Harlingen treatment centers reported no admissions or dismissals Wednesday. For heartburn, xu, add indigcjuoo. SdUonJylOc TUMS FOR THE TUMMY Most valued of all gems is the ruby.

Johnson And Bradley Plan Manila Stopoff MANILA ()-- Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and "General Omar Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will arrive here by plane tomorrow from Guam. The group is scheduled to leave for Tokyo a few hours later. a barber college. Those boys have got to learn on something. They can't upholster a piece of furniture and feel creative about tearing it apart and upholsltering it all over again." Mr.

Pipkin said a job trainee did not get the same benefits from straightening a car fender and painting it, then beating it up and starting- all over again to repair it, that he did out of actual repair on a car. IBCf 206 American State Bank Building INSURANCE FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS FLORAL TRIBUTES For FATHER'S DAY SUNDAY, JUNE 18 Honor fathers with a fitting flora! tribute MclNNIS FLOWERS 1241 E. Elizabeth Phone 2-4S81 If these repair jobs don't kee Cleve Tandy said over the effort to intact. submerged hulk in an i i i sa.ia, member, Mrs. Herbert''I suggest they be allowed to do is out of the city.

Also free work for practice for out- lift it from the water to be discussed is volunteer help I siders. It's like a free haircut in Jon the playgrounds. Last night's disaster brought The members have, been visit-! (Advertisement) mere than 100 the number of jr.g playgrounds to determine cur- persons dead or missing in French! rent needs. air crashes in two days. Of these, 46 died in the first crash Bahrein Tuesday.

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i.nree more persons were killed yesterday in the crash of a private plane near Constantine, North Africa. 9 Lutheran League Elects Valley Women Officers HOUSTON (JPi Mrs. Blasig of Mercedes is the Carl new president of the Texas district. Lutheran Women's Missionary League, which held a one day meeting here yesterday. She replaces Mrs.

O. Rasti of Austin. Thft some 300 delegates also elected Mrs. A. Alpers.

vicej president: Mrs. H. and Mrs. E. treasurer.

All the latter three are! from McAllen. I New Taleiil SlioH Is Slated For Theater Here The Grande Theatre's new talent show starts tonight, at 9 p.m. The talent under thei direction of Louis "Squeezer" Garcia and "Cotton" Marr. will! held each Thursday. Persons wishing to participate are asked WOMEN theatre, Blessed Relief from Cramp Pains Scortc of happy jirli TOMen finding tfcer naonth they Uer from functional jxriodic pains.

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