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

4" A II Today Sailing Yesterday's Higli 87 Sunrise 6:31 a Sloonrise 5:09 pm Warm Choppy Low 71 Set 5:55 pm Set 6:42 am Thursday Low 8:12 am and 9:06 pm INDEX News Editorials Sports Comics OU Amusements Markets Page 15A Page 2B Page SB Page 8B Page 9B Page 10B Page 12B High Tide 3:12 p-m VOLUME 71-NO 236 ttt pa (HIM AM at Man UTS CORPUS CHRIST1 TEXAS WEDNESDAY MORNING Oct 21 1953 PaMMaS sverr Sar IM ky Iha CaUtr-Timn rubllihing Co Thirty-Four Pages PRICE FIVE CENTS CMPM CfcrtKi IMM Prisoner Changes Shivers May Delay Calling Legislature To Return Home Virginia Man Volunteers To Come Back to Allies RAIL STRIKE VOTE ORDERED WASHINGTON Oct 30 (AP) Leaders of IS unions today ordered a strike vote among one million non-operating railroad workers to back up demands for improved fringe benefits It was also announced that tho unions have asked tha National Mediation Board to step into the five-month dispute Use of Deficiency Fluids For Drought Aid Sought AUSTIN Oct 20 (AP) Gov Allan Shivers said today a special session of the legislature may be delayed several months or avoided if he can use his 5200000 deficiency appropriation to finance a Texas hay program for drought-hit farmers and ranchers governor said he would ask Atty Gen John Ben Shepperd immediately for an opinion on whether he can: I legally turn the appropriation over1 "I to the agriculture commieekiner none for 12 1 Shepperd said he would have an opinion in the matter tomorrow pc for 12 PANMUNJOM Wednesday Oct 21 (AP) Without coaxing an American war prisoner changed his mind and asked to be returned to the Allies today as the Communist high command fumed at the failure of Red persuaders to woo back 22400 Chinese and North Korean prisoners While the Red leaders in a note of complaint sought to blame the United Stales for an unsuccessful Communist showing in the prisoner talks Fo- rAttmnN TAKLE Dulles Bluntly Galls Red Hand CLARK WELCOMED Gen Mark Clark responds to the plaudits of some 300000 New Yorkers lining the streets and in office buildings of lower Man-hatten yesterday as he moves in a caravan up Broadway The city gave the former Far East commander a traditional ticker-tape parade The general plans to retire Oct 31 after 40 years of service (AP Wirephoto) WASHINGTON Oct 20 Secretary of State Dul les today assigned a special envoy to open preliminary peace talks with the Chinese and Korean Reds in Korea beginning next Monday A few hours later he bluntly notified the Kremlin that a new Western proposal for negotiations on Germany constitute in the government view a critical test of Russia's Intentions about deal morning The fund would finance the program for one and possibly two months Shivers estimated It can be done a special session could be delayed until that money is used the governor aid would give ua a chance to try the program out and then take a look later at whether a special session was needed for continuing it" Only Alternative If the appropriation cannot be used for the bay program the governor said a special session is the only other answer The developments were disclosed al a press conference following an hour-long meeting of the governor with Agriculture Commissioner John White and three officials from the Extension Service of Texas AAM College Director Gibson Assistant Director Williamson and Associate Director Prewit are in accord that a minimum of 70000 tone of hay are available in Texas at the present time possibly 100000 tone and It will take 40000 tone a month to supply the drought counties" the governor said big question to the amount local farmers and ranchers can afford to pay for the hay" he UN Arab-Israeli Inquiry Okayed Lodge Says Disturbed By Truce Violation Reports UNITED NATIONS Security Council decided today to inquire fully into Arab-Israeli border incidents including the recent killings at Oil Ill-Fated Plaiic Scant MONTERREY Mexico Oct SO Hope for 13 pereone mining einee a plane craeh northeaet of here waa virtually abandoned today when none of the dozen had appeared Among those mining was Clifford 8 alley managing editor of the San Diego Union E- Roger of American Airline laid he was certain" that he had helped Safley to board the plane which enuhed while taking news men and officials to the Falcon Dam Rogers operations manager for the airline nld a man fitting Safley' description mined the plane to which he was anlgned Rogers helped him find a place on another plane Safley had planned to return to Mexico City after the meeting of the Mexican and president at the dam but ha has not been reported since the efrash Ought Ill-Fated Plane? Safley had been staying in Mexico City with hie wife He went on the special train to Monterrey and was assigned a peat in one of the score of planes flying the specters passengers to Falcon But Rogers said the man he aided knew little Spanish and did not answer whan his name and number ware called in Spanish Therefore he mined the anlgned plane and had to take the later one which enuhed Gerald Mokma 8 consul here waa told late today that rescue parties had reached the scene of the craeh He nid military officials told him they hoped to get the bodies out late tonight Mokma uid he waa not told bow many bodice were aboard the plana Scone Not Reached Officials at Corral vo nearest town to the wreck said later the ground parties had not reached the scene Instead they said the crews had abandoned efforts to reach it from the Cerralvo side They were reported returning to Monterrey to make an effort to get to the crash from the other side of the mountain Rescue headquarters here said there waa no chance of getting the bodice out tonight Many of those originally reported aboard the no formal passenger list waa have shown up In the 18 hours since the crash But those still un reported include the three-man crew three Mexico City reporters two newsreel cameramen a member of the National Symphony Orchestra and two employes of the government Fine Arte Institute Whether they were actually aboard the plane was something the rescuer hoped to learn Rains Hamper Search Meanwhile officials tried to make up the passenger list by a process of elimination They compared the passengers taken on other planes with the list of passengers on the special plane However this lint was full of errors One newspaperman given the list by officials found his own name among those supposed to be killed The ground search crews reported that heavy rain and high cllffe in the area hampered their Pilots Sought After 2 NAS Planes Crash Two Navy F8F Hellcat fighter planes attached to ATU-101 at tha Naval Air Station crashed yesterday in separata accidents in the Baffin Bay ares and search parties fanned over tha vicinity tart night in search of the pilots A Navy spokesman sold there was some hops that one of ths pilots would be found alive The first crash occurred shout 10:55 am whUs ths FBF wss on routine gunnery practice The plane plunged into- the water eight miles southeast of Griffith Point in the northern caps of Boffin Bay about SO miles southeast of Corpus Christl A spokesmen sold tha pilot wss not seen to leave tha plane The second crash occurred at Idl pm when an FtF mi a routine Instrument training flight bored into sn inland marshy ores shout 17 miles southwest of Griffith Point Witnesses said the plans buried itself "quite deep" in the marsh The wreckage wss found but no Information as to whether the pilot was inside the plane was available last night A spokesman said the search for tha pilot was continuing He said there is sn "outside that he bailed out before the plane crashed into the marsh Churchill Asks Soviet Cooperation LONDON Oct 30 (B Prime Minister Churchill appealed to the Soviet Union today to co-operate for pence The Soviets almost at the same time reopened criticism of Churchill thereby throw Ing fresh doubt on the chances for Four-Power meetings In the House of Commons Churchill expressed hope the Kremlin would accept the West' bid for a Big Four conference of foreign ministers ea invaluable step toward reducing world tension'" He also reiterated hie wish for talks on a top level involving himself President Eisenhower and Premier Malenkov He sidestepped an answer on whether he might go alone to Moscow Four-Month Absence Churchill appeared in the House for the first time In four months He flashed a smile aa and some gave him an ovation He expressed regret ha had been unable because of ill health to go to a Bermuda conference with Eisenhower and Premier Lanlel of France Now ha noted Soviet Russia has been Invited to a foreign ease ion at Uigano Switzerland Nov think such a meeting would be an invaluable step toward a reduction of international- tension and a solution of msjor European he said hope Mr Molotov (Soviet foreign minister) will accept He eatd however is as well to remember that there is a limit to what can he done by one government" This referred to opposition to top-level talks unless the Russians concede some points on tower levels Attack on Churchill Almost as If by design the Soviet press carried a hitter attack on Churchill today A year or more ago the Moscow papers frequently described Churchill as an archr criminal or worse hut recently they have refrained from attacking him Today Red Star Soviet army newspaper said Churchill In a recent speech sought to issue an ultimatum to France on ratification of the treaty for a European Defense Community is considerable evidence of anger with Churchill AP Correspondent William Ryan reported through the Moscow censorship attacks ere one more indication of the Soviet attitude toward recent Western approaches toMoscow TIMON CASE Judge Offers Lawyer Pick Of Quiet Jail By BAY BROWN County Judge John Young hearing tho Tlmon codicil ease in prv bate court yesterday threatened to send Tarlton attorney and executor of the Walter Tlmon estate to county Jail for contempt of court Tha incident occurred when Tarlton participant In many a stormy court scene exclaimed "Thera a damn when Dave Ooover attorney for Dudley Tlmon made a statement that Luther Jones Jr attorney is presently employed by the Tlmon estate executor is tha first and last warning" Judge Young told Tarlton shaking hla finger at him outburst I Iks that and you are going to Jan" "I'll pay a won't be any fine go to Jail!" Lawyer Apologises Tarlton apollgized to the court and again apologized when Judge Young stepped down from tha bench at tha dose (ft tha afternoon session Tarlton told the court that Jonea was a friend and former associate of hia but that he waa employed by the executor of the Tlmon estate only to resist a motion fllad some time ego seeking to require the executor to file bond Judge Young later said that Ooover waa in his statement probably by inadvertence but there are lota of ways to correct It other than by an outburst like There have been numerous out-burets accusation! and recrimlno-(tone in hearings on the various tults filed In connection with the lata Walter Timon public official and political leader and hla estate in the left few years Yes-terday'e outburst waa the first that has occurred in a court presided over by Judge Young and was the first that hsa occurred in a hearing In which Ooover has been a Jlril In (Juration client a nephew of Welter Timon seeks admission te probate of a codicil to hla uncla'a will The codicil limits the inter- Hm MmK fas IS To Get Estimates The governor related that the AAM Extension Service had agreed to contact local committees set up by the Production Marketing Administration to get their estimates of how much the farmers and ranchers in their area could afford to pay The survey waa expected to taka about 10 days Shivers said If the attorney general decides he cannot use hie 1300000 fund for the hay program he would wait until the price estimates are in before making any further recommendation aa to when the money might come from The emergency fund ordinarily to used to supplement department appropriations that prove Inadequate between meetings of the legislature The governor said he had asked White to represent Texas at a meeting in Kansas City Thursday of agriculture commissioners of the drought states tog with the free world These fart paced developments designed to feel out Communist readiness to do business on concrete issues highlighted a day of great activity for Dullea in the wake of hie return yeatenay from the Western foreign minister! meeting in London Summary Proposed Tonight at the Herald-Tribune Forum in New York Dullea summarized the significance of the proposal to Moscow for a foreign ministers meeting on Germany Russia's reaction he said will show whether Russia "is willing to hava a meeting on terms which will provide an actual testing of Us intentions in terms sufficiently concrete to be significant We hope that tha answer will be affirmative In any event ft will he revealing" Dullea opened hia news conference by announcing the dispatch of an envoy to Panmunjom to talk about arrangements for a conference on Korean peace Dean to Korea Hi taak force leader for this diplomatic encounte with the Reds ho said will be 65-year old Arthur Dean former taw partner of hla In New York A month ago Dulles delegated to Dean tha principal responsibility for achieving a Korean settlement if poeeibta Dean will leave by air tomorrow and meet with the Rode Monday Dullea announced that they had accepted an American projxjsal for tho session and ha called this one more practical step toward a Korean settlement Thera la a growing feeling among officials here that the Chinese Reds probably want a Korean conference of some kind and that despite bitter differences over the question of what nations should attend Dean and the other negotiators will succeed In arranging for a full dress conference The Rede served notice in a message which Dulles received today through the Swedea that they will insist on Ineluding neutral nations in the talks Dulles said Dean cannot prevent them from bringing up the subject but that the United States position is that the Sueitkm has been decided by a nited Nations ruling excluding neutrals New Developments In response to questions Dulles brought out these foreign policy developments end views: I The foreign ministers meeting in London agreed that in dealing with Russians it was Important to taka one step at a time and to avoid detracting in any way from a proposed meeting with the Russians on Germany by injecting other matters into the situation Dulles thus made clear that the Big Three proposal for foreign ministers meeting at Lugano Switzerland Nov had priority over British Prime Minister Catena a back wa liah and Czech members of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission ended their strike In or- der to question ths American war prisoner An Indian spokesman said the two Communist delegations hod agreed to attend an NNRG session at wh(rh the American will be questioned It was not immediately char If the Poles and Czechs who walked out on Indian Swiss and Swedish members Monday were back to stay or would resume their boycott later Virginia Stan An official Indian spokeiman Identified the American as Edward 8 Dickenson of Big Stone Gap Vs Dickenson was the first of S3 Americans held in tha neutral sons under Indian custody to ask for return to ths UN Command Ths Indian spokesman said ths American soldier requested tart night that he ho sent horns -A committee of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commlsstan validated" his request this morning and announced Dlcksnsoa will ha turned over to the UN Command this afternoon The validation for the Virginia soldier lasted shout 10 minutes Ths Indian spokesman said Dickenson was calm throughout ths ceremony He appeared before a hoard composed of one representative each from India Poland Czechoslovakia Switsartand and Sweden "Do you wish to he repatriated the committee chairman naked Dickenson Answers Yes I do" Dickenson answered quietly we will do everything possible to comply with your wishes" ths Indian chairman sold A reliable source gave this ae-count of how tha prisoner mads ths switch: About 10 o'clock tart night Dickenson complained of illness end asked to go ths hospital from tho stockade When he reached there he asked for sn officer An Indian non-commissioned officer asked the prisoner is wrong with you?" 'Nothing's wrong with ms" tho American answered want to bo repatriated" you sura you went to bo he waa asked Yes I want to go horns" ho answered Named ae 'Balky Dickenson corporal at tho time of hla capture was lilted by Washington Aug 11 among soma 100 Americana ths Rads had not accounted for up to that time La- A tarfe gular capital Improvement and a i program as well as to meet normal operating expenses Proposed in 1963 Ths city in ths spring of IMS proposed a SO percent Increase in gas rates but withdraw plana in the face of stiff opposition There has been no outward Indication of what kind of reception ths public will give ths currant proposal At last week's masting no out for or against the Increase Under the proposed rate schedule all consumers will fall under a general rats except schools and churches and Central Power Light Ch which usee 14H percent of the city's total gas consumption t-iuna a tors ms (ae mhm proposed rehabilitation This was part of keynote speech to the Bundestag the lower house after he announced formation of a new four-party coalition government to rule for ths next four yean Hesmade another bid for world race and an end to the East-West arms race through security pact between Russia and tha European Defense Community Than speaking with ths greater authority given him by his election Sept he urged speedy ratification of ths stalled European pact as the way to independence and peace for ths German people He pledged hla now government to the wish of the voters" A tack res Public Hearing on Gas Rep Lyle Levels Sights Rate Hike Slated Today On Sonic Investigators Oct 20 (AP)-Th American delegate told the disturbed by reports of truce He said the council must act these reports are confirmed by MaJ Gen Vagn Bennike Den-mart chief of staff of tha truce supervision organisation in Palestine who la coming here to report on tha situation should not take the law into their Lodge said A nid last Wednesday by Israelis on the Jordan village of Kibya killed 66 Arabs Jordan charged the raid was carried out by Israeli armed forces but Israel denied its army was involved Israel said the raid waa in retaliation for the killing by Arabs of an Israeli mother and two children Abba Eban Israeli delegate informed tha council it should consider by Arab states of tha general armistice agreements and of Security Council resolutions relating thereto" He charged that regular and Irregular Jordan forces attacked civilians In Israel and that brutal assaults by raiders from Jordan were made on lives end property in Israel The Council met in urgent session yesterday at the request id the United States Britain and France to discuss in item listed aa Palestine Question" Charles Malik objected that tha Western Powers should say what they meant Ha proposed the Council accept a wording in effect condemning Israel for the Kibya raid Tha Council tangled for more than thres hours yesterday and succeeded only in asking Bennike to coma here The meeting today wee delayed 40 minutes while delegatee tried to persuade Malik to accept a compromise wording put up by Alexia Kyrou Greece with approval of tha Western Powers He accepted ft after talking with delegatee of other Arab countries This provided that tha Council would discuss tha situation aa follows: The Pal ratine question compliance with and enforcement of the general armistice agreements with special reference to recant acta of violence end in particular tha incidents at Kibya Oct 14 and 18 report by the chief of staff of the truce supervision organisation" Scattered Showers Forecast for Today Weather Map on Page ISA Scattered showers this morning and a possibility of a few thundershowers on Thursday waa forecast by the 8 Weather Bureau hut night High temperatures expected to day will be 88 to 33 degrees wilh a low of TO to 74 degrees forecast Winds win be south and southeast at 16 to 35 milts an hour with gusts up to SO miles sn hour Winds will diminish tonight to I to 13 mile an hour Tha forecast for South Central Partly cloudy and mild widely scattered showers Wednesday: Thursday scattered thundershowers cooler in northwest and extrema north portions fresh southeasterly wind on tha Kibya Jordan Henry Cabot Lodge Jr council the United States is violations along the border AF CONFIRMS P-51 MISSING TOKYO Wednesday Oct 31 (AP) Tha 8 Fifth Air Force acknowledged today that a Mustang P-51 fighter plane belonging to the South Korean Air Force waa missing hut failed to confirm reports the plans had been flown to North Korea Monday by a defecting Korean pilot There was almost no doubt that the report was true But the American Air Force did not feel it should break tha had news before it waa announced by the Republic of Korea something what someone did or aid wrong And they are wasting the opportunity for greatness and bigness in tha present practice of better living" McCarthy Is Target Lyle who was Introduced by Buster Bhely mentioned no names in his speech- but It definitely pointed toward congressmen such as RepuMIcan Sen Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin who has been investigating Communist activities in tha federal government Lyle also said that the Congress has received requests for Investigations from people throughout tha nation had as many as 160 requests for investigating commit tees of five men If these committees were set up he' said hove anyone left in Lyle recalled a speech made on the House floor by one representative asking for investigation of tha "thousands of Communists" crossing the Rio Grende into the United Slates Then he added Thera are more Communists in one block of New York City then there are in the entire Southwest" All Types Asked Communistic activities are not alone in investigation requests had requests for ell kinds of Investigations how old people get along why people vote" A good answer to tha vote ques tion ho said probably that nt to vote" they Just we Speaking on foreign policy Lyle ala that einee the world has shrunk to a miniature globe through scien tific progress it would he a good Idea for the President to announce that then will be no foreign po licy hut an American policy for dealing with tha rest of the world Mbh 1 Sack ram Mis sscUm Small Tornado Hits Amarillo A public hearing on raising gas rates sn average of 8311 percent will be held by the City Council whan it meets in regular session st 8 pm today in City Hall An ordinance setting up a new rate structure will be up for second reading The ordinance passed first raiding last week The third and final reading st next week's meeting would put the Increase Into effect early next month Zlnder A Associates Inc a Dallas utilities consultant firm was hired by ths city to make a study of ths gas system following a recommendation of ths Gas Advisory Commission In its report the Dallas firm recommended that ss revenues be Increased to provide at least (315-000 mors annually to finance re This wss taken as an indication ths Germans would demand that ths occupation by ths United States Britain and Francs ha ended although ths pre-condition of Wert German membership in the European Defense Community had not been fulfilled Earlier in a parliamentary speech Adenauer said that the Wert Germans expect to get their independence through the Bonn peace contract "After all ths German people have dons to clear the way for ratification of the EDC our people would not understand if they did not receive their promised independence" he eeld Germans Impatient Over i i Europe Army Pact Delay By srENCER PEARSON Rep John Lyle tore Into some investigating congressmen in a speech yesterday at the Lions Club's weekly meeting on the Whits Plasa Hotel Deck don't like to talk about my colleagues" Lyls said moat of them are fine and sincere men they have the Idea they must find something discover sometime Wednesday Earlier Dalhert received a shower measuring inch Widely scattered showers were forecast Wednesday in the Panhandle South Plains and tha Pe-coa Valley eastward with no important temperature changes Early Tuesday a blanket of fog cut visibility to zero at some Central Texaa points but wee soon chased away by sunshine College Station and Austin wera reported completely ahut in at 6:30 am Visibility at Sen Antonio dropped to a quarter of a mile at one time end Waco reported one-eighth mile visibility By The Associated Press A small tornado tore into the Northeastern outskirts of Amarillo late Tuesday as a slow moving cold front edged closer to Texas Five persons were injured in a trailer court as the twisting winds tossed their trailers about High winds also buffeted other parts of the Panhandle and West Texas but no damage BONN Germany Oct 30 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer strongly hinted tonight that the Wat Germans will try to regain their independence by other mesne if the European Army Fact is not ratifiad Ha told reporters ths Germans era impatient over delay to ths six-nation European defense community project because ft is putting off the day when the occupation will and Ths Bonn-Allied peace contract Is not scheduled to go into affect until ths EDC treaty is ratified If ths EDC comes to nothing Adenauer said tha Cermans will to take the Initiative" waa reported Rain that had fallen off and on during tha day at Amarillo turned into a downpour following the term Several other email houses wera unroofed Earlier in the dey another twister hit in aouthesstern Colorado north of Amarillo causing considerable property damage but no injuries As tha cold front drifted Into Texaa it set up the circulation of storms In tha Panhandle However tha Weather Bureau aid it was likely tha front would dissipate a great deal by the time it passed through tha Panhandle ti bASMSSMUUUUi SSMS IASI NnoraAs rn iAAAArtAA6Uh ASSI i A A.