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

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will dominate 'Even after that it is doubtful that neat Tuesday's White House talks I will have any news to give out" between President Truman and Lodge told newsmen he is gath President-elect Dwight bower This was indicated in the announcement of the key figures who will sit in on the talks after Truman and Elsenhower first maet alone may ba slated for appointment to Elsenhower's cabinet as secretary of state or secretary of defense Talking with newsmen Lodge emphsatxed lhat hie present job ia to gather Information not to give it out He said most of the things he plana to discuss with administration officials are "top secret" Lodge refused to elaborate but Informant! said presumably one of the first things ns would want to Governor lice Discuss Many AUGUSTA Ca Now 14 President-elect Dwight Eisenhower said today that Gov Thomas Dewey had "emphatically at a policy conference lhat he is not available for a cabinet post in the new Republican administration Eisenhower said in a statement after a four-hour meeting with Dewey that the New York governor had agreed however to be whenever necessary for consultation and advice and for any future work of an emergency On the administration side the list Includes Secretary of State Acheson Secretary of Defense18 Senaletold newsmenheddn Lovett Secretary of the Tressm-vA onything about talk that he Snyder and Mu(uh1 Srcurity Ad-iiifiilxlrator Avere'l Hardman I At Eisenhower's side will he Sen I Henry Cabot Lodge Jr of Manas-1 cliusetts and Detroit banker Joseph AI Dodge Lodge is already gathering "top aerrel" information from the Truman administration In hie role se advance acmil for Eisenhower Dodge Is busy consulting with budget officials No Urgency Contrary to expectations of some officials Lodge showed no immed-ate urgency in getting In touch with the State Department Department officials said tonight that ao far Lodge had mads no move to communicate with top diplomatic officials there After a round of conferences Lodge refused to tell newsmen whom he had seen According to word from Elsenhower's headquarters the general la expected to steer clear of any definite commitments and avoid joining 1 In any major decisions which might be urged upon him by the Truman administration However administration offi-cials said privately they believe ADMIRAL SAYS NATO'S NAVY Confusion New Recall Better Government Takes Petitions For the third time in League late yesterday (Chili) Vetters a package of It was a switch of BGL day in the drawn-out recall Earlier in the week the its writ of mandamus petition Helped Red Publish History Text or temporary character' Dewey himself declined to discuss what went on at the conference at Elaenhower's vacation retreat exrept to any they had "a very interesting discussion of a great many problems" Said Trip Talk l'lanned The governor had said In advance of the meeting that they would talk over the general's forthcoming trip to Korea Dewey also declared before the conference that there was conference inat there was pus- recent Government discuss and study would 'be the" pwsenre secret military i Ruadla and diplomatic files dealing orId wr n-the Korean War I If thj report had leaked out Maj Gen Clayton Blasell told a congressional investigating committee it would have caused ''worldwide" political repercussions The report blamed the Russians for the mass murder of thousands of Polish leaders In the Katyn Forest of Western Russia early in the air It was written by Lt Col John Van VTiet Jr who was shown the graves after being captured by the Germane Bissell said he did not think the Russian would have joined in forming the United Nations if the United States had made public evidence Indicating that the Soviet Union was responsible for the Katyn atrocity Accused Nazis The Russians accused Invading Nail armies of the slaughter A special House committee haa laid th killings at the door of the Communists however claiming the Polish officers and intellectuals were done away with to make way for the post-war Rad regime In Poland The present Inquiry was undertaken to find out whether American officials covered up evidence of Russian and if they did why Bissell testified he received Van VUet'a report In May IMS when he was the top intelligence officer and that he was merely carrying out official policy In keeping it secret The report wee buried for years in the file In February IMS President Roosevelt Prime Minister Church Ill and GenerAUssimo Stalin held their historic meeting at Yalta Bissell said the Yalta Agreement was "a deal" under which the Russians were committed "to break a treaty with Japan to atab Japan in the back whan it would do ua the most good to help us shorten the war instead of letting us exhaust ourselves and than turn on ua" Marks Try League Back to Gty weeks the Better afternoon gave City Secy "recall tactics which closed a confusing battle BGL had asked for a retrial of against Vetters Then City Atty I (Ike) Singer had the district office subpoena the original petitions which had been given to BGL attorney Trimble when Judge Tillman Smith tossed the BGL mandamus petition out of court However the sheriffs office to which Singer had taken the subpoena for serving could locate only five of the seven men named in the single subpoena Thursday One of the five Hassid A Carr brought in five of the 189 petitions The other four said the two men who could not be' located DeWltt Morgan BGL co-chairman and Trimble had the petitions Chief Deputy Sheriff George Connell reported yesterday Cbnncll said yesterday his office try to locate tha men or petitions after the first effort Returned to Carr Then the district offlfcs which had issued the subpoena reported the five petition which eibllity" he would take a cabinet tKh" Jon that they had spent over 200-X marks ($47600 financing pub-Ilcstlon of a world history textbook written by a Communist and heavily loaded with Red post While there was no confirmation the wording of Eisenhower'a statement Indicated he may have been planning to ask Dewey to taka a place In the cabinet GOV DEWEY (LEFT) AND EISENHOWER a stroll along the Augusta National golf course HlrrtiMtl CAN HOLD ON NAPLES Italy Nov 14 The fighting force of NATO now can hold the Mediterranean against any enemy air or eubmarino attack Adm Robert Carney declared today "It would be more difficult the NATO southern Europe commander said "if anyone of our Mediterranean allies were lost to the enemy" He told a news conference that in such a case the enemy would be able to cause greater damage by closer range air attacks "Our shipping of course would suffer losses" he said "Our own airplane strength must be built up Highway Commission To Hear County Plea For Island Road Link Nueces County will make an appeal Tuesday before the Texas Highway Commission for inclusion of a highway connecting Port Aransas and Padre Island Causeway in the state's 1954-55 highway construction program The commission yesterday notified County Engineer Jesse Laurence that the request for hearing has been included on the agenda The meeting is slated for Aus- tin profitable cooperation between the incoming and outgoing administrations may be developed at the conference Big Welcome Earlier In the day the White House announced that Truman has ordered time off for all government employes who can be spared to Join in a big city-wide welcome for Eisenhower upon the general's arrival by plane from Augusta Ga at 1 :20 pm Tuesday Republicans era planning a gala reception Meanwhile Lodge clamped down a tight lid on tho exact nature of hla inquiries as he began probing for data that may help formulate policies of the new Republican administration taking over next Jan 20 Working In hla shirtsleeves In hie Senate office on Capitol Hill Lodge told newsmen The general said: "In the course of our conversation today Gov Dewey emphatically reaffirmed hla purpose of continuing in hie Important poet as governor of New Best Interest of Party "This purpose of course at least for the any thought of requesting him to accept a post in tho federal government" the statement added "This decision on his part he feela to bo In tha best Interests ot the people of New York elate and of the Republican party In the nation "Nevertheless in spite of his preoccupation in his current work he has promised to ba available whenever necessary for consultation and advice and for any future work of an emergency character "In view of hla great abtUtlea and unusual experience as a pub Uo servant and because he la one of the Republican party's outstanding leaders Gov Dewey's availability la more than gratifying to me" term as New York governor haa two more years to run Held I'rraa Conference After meeting with Eisenhower at the Augusta National Golf Club Dewey held a five minute news conference at the nearby Bon Air Hotel and then left for Miami Fla for a vacation The governor was reminded that on hla arrival in Augusta shortly after noon he had Mid there was no poialbillty ha would enter the cabinet Asked whether he had changed hia mtnd since talking to the President elect Dewey replied: "Not at all" Asked then whether cabinet appointments for others had been discussed Dewey said he could not go Into that He said the general f'alama Sack rata ttla SMiiaa The damage was discovered after 9200 copies had been delivered to the High Commission and 1100 of these distributed to American sponsored public reading rooms throughout West Germany The discovery was made by a German government official who after reading the bonk wired U8 aulhorttiea: "What's going on here?" Triers Iarty Member American official! said production of the book was contracted to Arno Peters and bis wife They said that Peters a 36-year-old ex-journalist has' been Identified now as a member of the Communist Party When the story was smoked out by reporters the US High Commission produced two pages of excerpts from the book which It aid proved that: "The editors show very definite and obvioua pro-Cbmmunist anti-Democratic and antl-Catholic prejudice and In a number of occasions anti-Jewlah and anti-theo-logiral prejudices "The tendentious editing la recognizable not only by statements along pro-Communist lines but also by the omission of important names and facta and tha assignment of much spaca to subject Items which do not deserve them under an objective basis" Most Copies Impounded The High Commission has Impounded ail copies of the book it has received but Peters ran oft large printing of hia own for ala in many German towns Tha title la "Synchronoptische Weltgea-chichte (Synchronoptic World History)" The contract to Peters was let In April 1951 when John Me-Cloy was US high commissioner Calwna lank sacs Ms sactlaa BOOST IN GOAL CEILINGS OKAYED Carr had brought In were returned to Carr yesterday afternoon Apparently neither the nor clerk's offices were going to push the Singer subpoena without Singer's prodding Next five BGL Morgan Carr David Coaver Elbert Cox and Marshall Graham-turned up in office a few minutes before 5 with all 189 of the petitions which evidently were still legally under subpoena Morgan said 174 of the peti-tion had new affidavits (Smith threw the case out of court when he ruled the petitions did not have legitimate affidavits) Morgan aid tha BGL had not been able to locate the affiants on the other 11 petitions However he said all 11 were small petitions and there are about 6800 out of 6900 names on tho petitions with new affidavits Change died Morgan said previous rulings Smith had made Indicated the only change needed to make the petitions valid was a change in the affidavits However Vetters did not officially receive the petitions because he said the uncertainty of their status in relation to the subpoena and tha BGL petition for a SAILORS SUPERSTITIOUS Dock Accident Heightens Tension on French Ship The Commissioners' Court of Nuecra County will appeal for the commission to include the 19 mile Island highway in the farm-to-mnrket load building program In 1954-53 Cbmmlsslonere went on record unanimously Oct 81 for asking the highway department to bblld the proposed two-lano highway Dim Road Work Action of the commissioners came after they had been told by Tom Davis district engineer for the highway department that Nueces County was due 88 miles of farm-to-market roads to be built by the department Cost for developing the highway along Mustang and PHdre Islands was estimated yesterday as between $550000 and $800000 by County Judge George Prowse Second Major Ornirrenee Inclusion of the question on the commission agenda 1r the second major -occurrence within a week regarding island roadways Just Thursday pile driving got underway at Port Isabel as the $29 million Cameron County Padre Island Causeway was begun The ultimate hope is that a high way stretching all the way along the two Islands will connect Pori Aransas to Port Isabel perhaps opening one of the greatest pleasure resorts in tha nation Judge Prowse said yesterday that Laurence would present most of the engineering data and figures from traffic surveys before the commission But Prowse will also attend the hearing along with members of the County Cominissio- Capt Dyson chief of atiiff nerH Coin of Naval Air Advanced Training I The fW0 cnunty officials were here' It! and carried with It to the dock a local longshoreman Crewmen and passengers lined the ship's railing to aee how badly George A Hartley 1122 Manchester was hurt As the ambulance went squealing away to Spohn Hospital the onlookers melted away back Inside the ship Slings were fitted to tho rigging and tho first of the caskets was hauled up The decks were empty except for those with work that had to bo dona A feeling of tenseness nervousness was evident aboard tho silent hip Even a person who peak French knew crewmen as well as passengers looking forward to their long ocean voyage Crewmen aboard tha Cavalier de la Salle may have been right A lot of things can happen between here andLe Havre By JOE CARMICHAEL Crewmen aboard the Cavalier de la Salle French cargo vessel may have been right They refused to take the bodlea of two fellow sailors killed In a Brownsville auto accident Oct 28 back to Franco with them It would bo bad luck they sold The bodlea were kept at Delta Funeral Homo In Brownsville awaiting tha next French Lina vessel Yesterday two caskets contain lng tha bodlea of Gerard Rotreau and Claude Marias were delivered to Dock 7 Port of Corpus Christ! to be placed aboard tha steamer Equateur Just before the caskets were to 4 stowed away within view of the Jgrisln pine boxes that ware ill omena in the eyes of French sail-ore tho gangplank slipped Laconey Freed of Murder Charlie in Death WASHINGTON Nov 14 (AP)-The government today authorized celling price hikes ranging as high aa 79 centa a ton on bituminous coal and $139 a ton on Pennsylvania anthraclta to cover incrcaaed labor costs Tho Office of Price Stabilization aid the Increases for both bituminous coal and anthracite are based on the recent boost of $190 a day in miners' wages This amount was approved by the Wage Stabilization Board for bituminous diggers OPS officials said that in event John Lewis Is granted tha full $190 a day pay hike for his United Mine Workers an additional boost In coal ceilings may he necessary-Lewls has negotiated contracts with both bituminous and anthracite operations at the $190 a day rate The Wage Board limited the increase for bituminous coal miners to $190 but this has been appealed to Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam Putnam has scheduled hearings Monday on the appeal Lewie and Harry Moses president of tha Bituminous Coal Operators Association have agreed to attend In the event the government decides not to grant the full amount Lewie negotiated a strike In the mines la considered Inevitable The anthracite wage Increase has been eubmltted to the Wagv Board jman'd was one of imn hut no decision hss been reached I Mavv nlen wv0 died jn a crash 1 C8ter Ja-v calling for support Price officials said they expect of typ4Y2 patrol plane in Washing 01 VB0I1' countv- ctv and this decision probably will follow ton tale late Thursday the line of the bituminous agree-' ment The OPS order permits celling bey Island Wash According to an price Increases ranging from 40 variouH county city and civic groupa der of Fleet Air Wing 4 at Whld- cetane a ta rase mi nii Associated Press dispatch from retrial Vetters did not evert give Met face One eadlaa Leo Anthony Laconey Indicted for the March 14 strangulation murder of hla wife Betty Sue Laconcy was freed by a 106th District Coui-t Jury here yesterday Laconey was freed when the jury which listened to testimony in Laconey'a sanity hearing for four days and two nights an-nounreil after lean than 20 minutes of deliberation it had found him Insane at the time of the murder ane now plauae when the jury's verdict was in the custody of a Navy officer and ehief petty officer At NAS a Navy spokesman raid the Navy will restore him to duty He has been In county jaU ince March Tho end of the bearing waa marked by a flurry of good feeling as Laconey'a attorneys Lawrence Berger and Elbe Brown end Jones were congratulated by the courtroom crowd of some 40 Both Diet Atty Todd and Individuals hia assistant Slim Jones Jr I When the attorneys at 2:15 com-who represented the state at the'pleted their final arguments he-hearing said there is no choice gun at 12:30 pm Judge Harry hut to drop all charges against 1 Carroll gave the jury his written Laroney charge nnd sent them from their Laconey left the box in the 128th Dlstrirt Court-which exploded with a burst of sp-' tornnm tnrk eu mi wrUnn Cloudy Mild Wealhcr Forecast Weather Map on Page 11A ROKs Seize Pinpoint In Long Bloody Fight SEOUL Korea Saturday Nov Throughout the long battle Com-(Red front line positions Airmen Shelton Wash Capt Dyson was on tha Ill-fated flight as an ob-server Ha ia survived by hia wife at the Island base by his parents Mr and Mrs Dyson Dry 'Prong La and by two JCapt Dyaon and Comdr Dy-1 2 ftrtlyu Cldy nd mUd son at Bremerton Wash 1 Is the Weather Bureau's fore- (indinK o( lfVen bodies of cast for today jll men who died in the plane crash Sunday will be mostly cloudy two nights ago broke a 18-hour with a few scattered showers in' the afternoon High today and Sunday will bo between 82 end 86 degrees with a low between 68 and 66 Sailing will be rough on southerly winds 15 to 25 miles an hour this afternoon and Sunday The winda are expected to diminish to 10 to 15 miles an hour tonight The forecast for East and South Central Texas-Generally fair and henrilyi timWMi nivmnir pninula where umbered Olympic peninsula nere CoTd'w't'n whipped up the drawe and hill- aides Conditions and communications! were so bad that a fourth searching! was sent today to check on -15- Lfl Indomintable South Ko-imunist field guns and mortars lnH Hnih1I1( lh resn Infantrymen early today won 'blasted the crest at the rate of back the crest of Sniper Ridge on more than 1000 rounds an hour Field dispatches said nearly 29-000 rounds fell In 23 hours "The Chinese are shooting at a mall precisely definite ridge line could not see what damage their bombs did Fog grounded all other Fifth Air Force planes The South Koreans lost Sniper Ridge for the 14th time early Friday when 700 Chinese surged up the hill and overran Allied bunk-era The Republic of Korea troopa promptly struck back They forced all but a handful of Reds to quit the central Korean front for the 15th time Front reports said the sturdy of Korea soldiers fought through the night and regained that probably covers less area than the Pinpoint at dawn two square city blocks Randolph Details were larking Tbe long and hlexidy fight be-party Ran at 4 am Friday It raged of the front A email Red force by 7:30 a mild Saturday Sunday mo 1 1 the earlier searchera when a group! through the murky day and pilch! attacked one Allied advance post cloudy widely scattered showers I of 25 rame out The fresh group! black night on the slopes of Pin-: lion near Jackson Heights north heavy ground fog reinforced But the Chinese took advantage end somewhat cooler in northwest went to the scene to prepare to point of Churwon on the West-Central In tremendous artillery AP Correnpondenl John Ran- Front Eighth Army troopa alum-' supiwrt GANGPLANK FALL INJURES DOCK WORKER George A Hartley longshore foreman for Richard Bugg Co lies half off the gangplank that fell to the dock with him about 3:30 pm yesterday He was admitted to Spoku Hospital for observation with possible internal injuries bring out tho bodlea Meanwhile Thirteenth Naval District Headquarters named a threemffleer board to inquire into tha crash portion Sunday afternoon Not much change in humidities Moderate south to southwest winds be-I coming moderate to freak mostly laMttherly Sunday doned the position when the Communists threw in reinforcements B26 light bombers dropped Normally the whole panorama of battle is clearly visible but the blinding fog reduced the struggle dolph reported from the front that confused fighting waa underway at 10 pm The South Koreans were still short of the summit bomba through solid overcast on to clght-lims conditions.