The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 5

Smuggling Ring Czar Is Being Sought in Dallas Area fill DALLAS. Feb. 1 2 A i i a 111 i i rt-di DALLAS, Feb. 32--UP--Authorities Saturday sought a Mexican narcotics czar believed to be the brains of a smuggling ring which did $1 million monthly business in Mexico, Texas, New York and Illinois until it was smashed by customs agents. Al Scharff, U.S.

customs apcnt- n-charge for eastern Texas, an- ounced the ring had been broken Saturday. He said it was the argest that customs agents have mashed in eight years. Twelve members of the hava boen arrcnted, Scharff said, but 'the group'a mastermind, a Mexican national, is still at ring Scharff said hs is believed to be holed up in Mexico. Ex-Convict ArrPoted ting 1 Felix Stone Ramirez, 34- year-old ex-convict, in Dallas. Ramirez was described as the "station" or middleman for the ring.

Ramirez said "he had done time More U. S. Aid For Egyptian Dam Seen NEW YORK, Feb. 12 m--Eugene Black, president of the for Illegal possession of marijuana but denied any part In the Inter- nationa! operation. His arrest ended an 18-day watch during which customs agents and local authorities maintained around-the-clock surveillance.

Most of the ring's members have been charged with smuggling and conspiracy to smuggle. Eight of Bank, naid today the United States will probably offer Egypt more aid In financing conatructlon of the high dam on the Upper Nile River. Black arrived by plane from Cairo where he negotiated a tenta- arrests were made in Houston, World two in Laredo, and one In Federal operation officers disclosed the to newumen after ar- agreement with Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser to grant Egypt a World Bank loan to help build the huge Chicago. Scharff said that the first arrest was made about two months go. Automobiles Confiscated In making the arrests, Scharff and his agents confiscated some against them.

One is a 32-year-old woman, Scharff said. The man arrested in Chicago was described as a top figure in Chicago's narcoUcs trade. At the time he was picked up he wai Irea on bond on a murder charge, the agent said. The other member of the gang, a San, Antonio resident, also had not been arrested. Breakdown Given Scharff said the gang smuggled something like 500 pounds of finely processed marijuana a month into he United States from Mexico for thfi past Hix or eight months.

On occasion, Scharff said, the several automobiles. The agent said the names of the others arrested would not be revealed until I indictments have been returned 40 to 50 pounds of marijuana and fiang would trade their marijuana New York for heroin, then ransport it back to Texas. The one-pound bags sold wholo- underworld. Heroin brings per grain, per ounce, Scharff said. TTM China Hikes Steel Production duce more than four million tons of steel a year by tho end of 1957 and 10 million by 1962.

"Not only Is tho rate of growth Taster than that in any capitalistic' country, but the technique of steel smelting is pressing hard 'on the contained enough marijuana for 1,920 clgarets. Marijuana cignrets retail lor from to fl.25 in the 1 CO IL BLUFFS Iowa 12 tn-Four persons were killed and two Injured, one critically, last night in a two-car collision Highway 6-1 about two miles north- cafit of Chief Deputy Sheriff Wayne Moser identified the dead as Mrs. Reu ben Sales, about 40, Council Bluffs Donald E. Bonham, 1:3, Edwin sen, 19, all of Omaha. Mrs.

Sales husband, 54, was reported In poor condition in a Coun- The Cilveston News, Monday, Fabrtiiry 13, 1956-PACE I Snow, Rain Taper Off Over Nation cil Bluffs hospital and their 2 year-old son, Mike, was reported In good condition. Moser said the Omaha car driven sale in Mexico for $50. 'Each bag steel or tools were given. heels of the highest international Mikkelsen, either had comi- onto standards," the broadcast said. jlhe highway from a side road or No current production figures making a Urturn whim the Sales car-struck it broadside.

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SIZE LONG GRAIN CONVERTED Fluffy RICE 14-0z. PKG. i 28-Oz. PKG. 23' 44 BLUE LABEL A A COOKING AND SALADS A 2 2 MAZOLAOil DOG FOOD TALL CANS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Snow and rain which whitened drenched much of the northern ha of the nation Saturday tapered Sunday.

Them were only Hurries in th Great Lalies region which ffen Jy was lightly mantled Saturday although a heavy fall around Chicago area ranged up to inches. The same storin continued spa terinff the East and New En with snow and rain but preciplt tlon was generally less than a inch and expected to and by nigh fall. There was continued light pn clpitation In the Pacific Northwes which got around a half inch rain Saturday. Another low pressure area, mov ng southwestward out of Canada brought enow to border section of Montana. It was expected bring colder weather to the North ern Plains.

Temperatures were moderate I most sections, birt North Dakota in the path of the new cold, ha subzero readings. It was 7 beloi at Grand Forks early Sunday. Under cloudy skies, Chlcag scraped away at a heavy blanke of snow which snarled traffi Saturday and was blamed for least four deaths. The heaviest fall was In souther suburbs and around the tip of Lak Michigan where amounts range from 10 to-16 inches. Snow or rain, or a mixture, g-arv the East these precipitation figures: Boston .76 inch; Buffalo, .90 Now York Pittsburgh .78 Portland, Maine .41, and Washing ton .18.

Across the southern half of th nation Sunday, the weather wa mostly iunny with seasonal tern peratures. Florida' expected tern peratures in the 70s. Anderson Urges Speed On Missiles WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 UP --Sen. Clinton P.

Anderson (D N. urged the administration Sunday to act swiftly to put the missile research program 01 'crash" basis under unified direc tlon 'to match Russia's a strides." Anderson, chairman of the Join Congressional A i Energy committee, said there should be single missile research chief witl a "great deal of authority" to pus! the program "around the itlock' seven days a week. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Arm.

chief of staff, said, however, tha inter-service competition is "good and may lead to faster progress He said both the Army and AI Force already are pressing devei opment of a intermedl ate missile. He Shnns Controversy Taylor declined to be drawn into current controversy over the state of missile development, say- only that "we must get on with he missiles and all other programs as rapidly as possible." The Army chief, who was interviewed on the CBS television program, "Face the Nation," said the side which wins the race to devel- ip an intercontinental ballistics missile would have a. "great Advantage" in the Initial phases of a war. Defense Secretary Charles E. Vilson said recently that he plan? name a missiles czar but that still had not decided on the or the job.

Wilson said the man he finally chooses will have full authority to act in his name. Hn.ssia Probably Ahead Anderson, Interviewed on the VBC-TV program, "Youth Wants Know," agreed with recent by other Senate Demo- rats that Russia is "probably ahead" in developing a ballistic missile with a range. He suggested that some "brilliant genius" like Adm. flyman G. Rickover, the Navy's atomic es-j iert, be assigned to coordinate all U.

S. work in the missile field. The director, he said, should IH.VR authority to draw personnel rom the Atomic Energy Commis-! ion and other agencies and to liminate "hickpring" among services. J.S. Warships On acific Maneuver I ABOARD USS MT.

MCKINLBY, i londay, Feb. 13 Hi--U. 3. war-! hips and Marines from Japan and 'kinawa joined forces today for! atomic-ase as.iault against lack volcanic sand beaches of' wo Jima. More than 40,000 American ser- iccmen, 70 warships and 360 land- craft are participating in the maneuver.

The and Okinawa- ased components wheeled ip.to ombined force after i i eavy seas and high winds. Pitch- and rolling seas dumped food men's laps during Sunday meals nd sent unsecured equipment angmg bulkhead to bulkhead board this command ship. First assault waves of combat- Marines--battle-loaded with ties, machine guns and light mor- ars-are scheduled to hit Iwo caches Friday morning 15 minutes ftcr simulated atomic blasts. Tho "te Is just two days short of attor Marines of the 4th and th Divisions hit Iwo in one oF the loodlcst battles of the Pacific war. ladioaclive Snow 'alls In Japan NIIGATA.

Feb. 12 in-Scientists at Nllgnta Unlvrrsily sny "highly rmlloactive" snow foil here' Kel). 2 and 3. They a i It to lingering effects of Russia's latest thermonuclear blast. I unto TOMORROW IS VALENTINE DAY the key to his heart Swank Set Smart -new ideas in cuff link and fie bar sets to him on Valentine Day.

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