The Brownsville Herald from Brownsville, Texas • Page 2

PAGE 2 Counterfeiting Increases In U.S. WASlttNGTON Senate crime investigators studied reports today that counterfeiting and illegal narcotics traffic both ars on the upswing in the United States. In testimony released yesterday, federal officials reported that phoney money IB 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. 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 two brothers, Paul and Bill, both of Harlingen. RAMON SOUS, JR. HAR I N--Funeral rites for Ramon Sob's, three-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs.

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

WADE BUSS Service Chief U. E. Baughman and Commissioner H. J. er 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 counterfeiters are specializing in $10 and 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 put false OPA stamps He said their operations are centered mostly in Chicago and New York. A SPECIAL Senate crime Investigating committee headed by Senator Kefauver already 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 far, that there is a link between the big criminal rings. The group is seeking to disclose the interlocking operations. Baughman testified that the Chicago-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 bills. with counterfeit COMMISSIONER A 1 i said his narcotics agents had broken up a New York-North Carolina ring which was "flooding North Carolina" with 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. Also in the field of gambling EDINBURG--Funeral arrange- operations, Life Magazine said in iments are pending at Skinner Mortuary for Mrs. Wade Bliss.

54, Edinburg, who died at Grandview Hospital here Tuesday night Mrs. Bliss, a native of San Antonio, had lived here for the last 29 years. Survivors are her husband; a son, Wade H. Bliss, of Edinburg; and two daughters, Mrs. Donald Cayken of Edinburg and Gloria'Moors of Alamo.

F. Z. BISHOP CORPUS CHRIST! Funeral rites for Francis Zion Bishop, 70, well-known Valley real estate developer, were held Sunday in the first Texas town he de- tn 1010. Mr. Bishop died last In Corpus He was born in Mulberry Gap.

and came to Texas when he was 17. He also built the town of Los Angeles, and had been active in the Winter Garden area. sre two daughters, Miss Ruth Bishop of San Antonio and Mrs. C. F.

Melick of Washington, D.C.; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. its current issue that U. S. bookmakers are making an annual profit of $6,000,000,000 more than the combined profits of the nation's 100 largest manufacturing companies. The magazine said this country today is "the gamblingest nation that existed," wagering a total of almost $30,000,000,000 a year.

Alert And Alive BROWNSVILLE Deaths Persons Injured Z8 Total accidents Total damages 132.488 Average of Damages $178 VALLEY DEATHS Hidalgo County 33 WUFacy County 4 Cameron County 12 Starr County 3 Total Last fatal accident: McAllen, June 11. 41 Near I I BISHOP'S PRINT SHOP 1015 St. Marine Calendar THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD. BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1950 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 expenmntal stage, the craft, described by its makers as the world's largest helicopter, was designed to carry passengers, haul freight and spray crops (AP YYirepnoto.) ttllii From The Public Record IMMMfr -MMM Weather 24 Hoar Hlth Amartllo $5 Atlanta 84 Big Sprinns SO BrownavUle 90 Chicago Christl Del Rio 92 Denver Des Detroit 73 El Paso 101 Fort Worth Houston 80 85 Jacksonville. Fla.

Karuas City, Mo. Memphis 94 Mexico City. D.F. Minneapolis Monterrey. Mex.

New Orleani New York North Platte. Nebr. Oklahoma City Ptttsbursn. 82 83 97 BO 06 33 88 88 San Antonio si Shreveport 92 "Washington, D.C. 87 Low JLait h'lebt 67 70 70 75 63 75 72 55 87 82 13 75 73 70 7i 74 57 75 71 80 73 14 65 Hoar .02 .04 GRANDE BULLETIN Flood 24-hr Stan Cnnr Rain Laredo 1.2 Rio Grar.de City 1.9 Hldalco 3.0 Mercedes 4.4 Brownsville 0.9 RIVER FORECAST: The river will not changr materially the next three days.

TIDES TOMORROW High 5:41 a.m. Low 9:47 p.m. Sunset todar 7:33 Sunrise tomorrow BAROMETRIC PRESSURE: 39.94 inehts zt 9:45 a.m. HIGHWAY WEATHER MEXICO Highway Arrivals MV BILL PHIL MtCir'ty Ship- Pine agent. la Port LEV IIL yacht.

MV CAROL ANN McCarty Ship- Pine aient. Droarturei MV HALIFAX McCarty Shipping issent. TUG PEMEX It and Barst 473 (Mex). Phllen Shlppinc ajrcni. MV ROATAN McCirtJ 8hip- Dlnc uens.

Due In MV TENNESSEE J. E. Eldman, asent. MV DENMARK McCartr Shlppins MV ORO VERDE a McCarty Ship- pine asetu. weather: Mexico City to Monterrey and Matamoros--local showers.

Monterrey to cloudy, clearing. Laredo--partly FLYING WEATHER VFR conditions today and Friday. PORT ISABEL--Only Jish production on the coast during the 24-hour period endlnc at 8 a.m. Tuesday ttas in the vestcn-FretDort area. A total of 2,000 of eroupcr, 13.000 barrels of rert snapper, and 351 SarrsU of shrimp were reported in that Brownsville Man Is Charged In $100 Forgery James Edward Anderson.

20. of Brownsville Wednesday 2. charged with forgery. Anderson was 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 Court House MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Eieno Trevlno, 31, and Teodora Salinas, 20; John Keredia. 19. and Ampa.ro Garcia. 23; Gale D. McClanahan.

22. and Mary Ellen Keyes, IB; William Keller, 25, and Dorothy Denton, 30. DIVORCE PETITION'S ON FILE Mully R. Panclera vs. Ensil Lee Pinclera; Georslna Gutierrez Campos vs.

Cenen Campos. SUITS ON FILF, The A a Company Arthur Binder suit on iworn note. TSC Dock Strike Here Lasts 45 Minutes The Banana Longshc jmen's Union, local No. 1685 went on a 45-j minute strike at Port Brownsville Wednesday in a dispute over toilet facilities. People And Events Commander Dan McXeilJ, U.

Navy, is visiting here with his brother, J. C. The commander is stationed in Washington, Union spokesman E. E. Cockrill said all banana longshoremen quit work while unloading the SS Halifax because they had been locked 3ut of a dockside toilet constructed' by the Navigation District only last week.

L. S. Bourne and Sliss Nannie Bourne left this morning for Lawrence, where they will spend the summer with their sister, Mrs. Ellen Copenhaver. Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Dye and daughter, Nona Lee, were to leave Mr. Cockrill said the strike be- today for month's vacation trip gan at 10:15 a. m. and ended at Hi to a.

m. when the comfort station was repened by port officials. H. N. Ferguson, assistant general manager for Port Brownsville, said the toilet was locked up because it needed cleaning; Mr.

Cockrill, dock business agent for the union, charged that more! 200 men worked yesterday as well as today without toilet facilities. He said port officials demanded that the union provide a porter for cleaning the facilities. He asserted the toilet is open to the public and that its maintenance is a port responsibility. "We will take further and 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 maintenance of the toilet facilities. Orleans Chicago, 111., and Muncie, Anderson, and Valparaiso, Ind. Trucks (Continued From Page One) group of approximately 40 new 1950 pickups headed for the Matamoros area. I started investigating and as a result we have picked up six of the vehicles already In Matamoros.

"Steps are being taken to locate some of the others that may have slipped by into Mexico. After I the interior of received the information from the consul, I got a confidential report from from the Matamoros Customs Chief Sr. Cristo Lapierre on the same ALFONSO ROCHIX, chief of J. B. VEHICLE TRANSFERS Keiiy to Indaleclo Ceballos.

Diamond Valley Buiclc to Araeni Kal- mct. '45 Buiclc: Manslce Motor Co. to McKee. M8 Ford: Don Hcckaday to Felipe Saldlvar, '37 Cbev; EasterJins and Van Trne to Louis Donoro. '47 Chev; Plp- kln Motor Co.

to Jose Oarcla. Ford; Hollon Motor Co. to Rxiy Maston, '47 Ford A. F. Ellas to Refuglo Mfdlna.

'36 Chev. (Continued From Page One) arated from the Brownsville Independent School District last fall, following a public vote. Four trustees are members of both the junior college and independent district trustees' boards. They are Jack Wiech, James Pace, Leonel Garza and Dr. Charles Calderoni.

AH were at the meeting Wednes- dlay night as well as the other members, Fred Rusteberg, Cleve Tandy and Humberto Garcia. IN 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 board pay 50-per cent of the present group hospitalization program which TSC teachers and ice or tne toilet facilities cmer or Meanwhile Dave Schultz, repre-, ederal Judicial police here sentative of the Confederation of Tabasco, banana cooperative in 1'exico, said that over 800 banana boats have arrived in Port Brownsville in the past four years and Jiat less attention is given to this segment of port business than to any other. NEW VEHICLES Mrs. Marie McCarty. '50 R.

T. BaJlard. '50 Ford; Tipotex Motor '50 Ernesto Perei Electric Co. '50 Ford. Wabash Railroad Co.

'50 Gulf Coast Ice and Storage '50 Studebafcer. CORPORATION" COURT Overpar'ilDu: Lillian Kemp. $1: O. E. Owen Carlos Nenque, SI; Robert K.

Vencill. M. B. Putsenat. SI: Bernabe Salazar.

jl: Frank G. Parker, $1: Robert Reeder. William R. Thorton, si: H. L.

Jandeves. SI. Runnins stop sien: Roberto Leal Ba.111. $3. Drunkenness: SUverlo QuintanUls.

JIO: Luis L. Gonzales, StO: Giro Moran. Richard Salinas. $10; Mlsutl T. Martinez.

$10: Guadalupe G. Vesa, no: H. A. Alexanderson. Speed- Jaeinto Coloneo.

J10: Jack A. Boucher. JIO: Edward M. Brown. S10: C.

E. Rosers. Dnvlns license: Jose L. GasonTce. $10: Francisco M.

Aeuilar. $10; Enrique W. Ramirez, 510. Disturbing the peace: Guadalupe Herrera. $10.

Permitting unlicensed driver to operate motor a Rarairer. JIO. Hospital Reports MERCY HOSPITAL Admissions Geronimo Cavnsos. Mrs. Hernandez.

Baby Raauel and Mrs. K. Sealey. employees privately. are Mr.

now oaying White" told for the 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 illegai for a junior college to carry group life insurance programs, but that the law permits group hospitalization and surgical programs. 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 consider the matter after study of the budget. Free work in the college veterans' vocational education de- discussed. Maurice the depart- 550 veteran Pipkin, director of ment, under which Joe Cortlnas.

Mrs. Grace a Miss Berta Tapli. Mrs. Evrlyn Cooksey. Mrs.

B. de Leon. Mrs. R. W.

Pitts and Mri. A-ilta Found. Pa ne) Recreation Board preparations to land, then was! heard from no more. Plans Meeting In Harlinseii Bad weather conditions prevail- ed on both occasions in this area of sudden, strong storms. Tugs of the British-owned Bahrein Petroleum Company and local launches today were scouring the crash area for more sur- Gene McCullouch at -1 p.m.

today vivors. A U. Air Force rescue to discuss the. progress and needs of the HARLINGEN creation Board members trainees are learning trades like arc welding, machine shop, auto and furniture repair, appeared before the board. James Pace said he had heard criticisms of competition from private business in Brownsville regarding the free work done in some of the vocational classes, especially in furniture and automobile repair He said he thought the board should vote to discontinue the free outside work phase of the program.

Other trustees disagreed, sayin Harlingen a practice work was the only nbers were to! means of on-the-job training in meet in the office of Chairman certai Hnes. plane also aided in the search. The plane was lying in about 30; gram. feet of water. Searchers Five Lockliead Again Chairman Of Red Cross Here Colonel Frank Lockhead has been reelected chairman of the Brownsville chapter.

American Red 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. Stelner, Mrs. Dwight Taylor the Rev.

John G. Wallenburg and W. O. Washington. also is conducting an investigation mto the matter, he said.

In the meantime, stricter vigilance has been ordered to see that all provisions of the 1948 presidential decree banning so called "luxury items" from Mexico, is carried out. Gilts Given To Cameron 4-H Boys Nine Cameron County 4-H Club boys are to be presented gilts Saturday under the Sears Foundation pig program. Boys to receive pigs are Carlisle Ford, 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 litter and next pig must raise a year return the choice gilt or 315 in cash, to be presented to some other -i-H Club boy, according to terms of the Sears Foundation program. Youths raising litters this year from pigs received last year are Pat Mills, Roy Renfrew, Barrel Wyrick, Ramon Carrizales, Robert Floyd, Jimmy Baytes, Craig Weigand, and Norman Moore. County Agent Frank Brunneman and Assistant County Agent Kenneth M.

Shackelford elect the winners. Count Remains At 69 In Valley Polio Wards the Valley's in remained at 69 Patient count two polio wards today. Both the Edinburg and the Harlingen treatment centers reported no admissions or dismissals Wednesday, Nitro Explosion Fails To Halt Oil Well Blaze BIG SPRING The furiously naming oil well 25 miles northwest of here shows no signs 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 the fire fighters. The explosion had little effect on the fire. Brown and white eggs have the same nutritional value and the same cooking qualities. Record Relief for SOUR STOMACH heartburn, iadigestioa.

Stili oaly lOc TUMS FOR THE TUMMY Most valued of all gems is the ruby. 206 Pas American State Bank Builuinj INSURANCE FOR ALL YOUR NTSEDS Johnson AndlBradley Plan Manila Slopoff MANILA Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and General Omar Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs 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. FT ftp AT Tn IP ITTP IliUKAL I For FATHER'S DAY SUNDAY, JUNE 18 Honor fathers with a fitting flora! tribute MclNNIS FLOWERS 1241 E. Elizabeth Phone 2-4881 summer recreation pro-i the bodies of most of the missing still were trapped inside it.

Early laghan, recreation director, today a crane barge was moored' sixth THE BOARD voted to reaffirm policy of giving priority to re-i ir of property of schools, chart t-1 a ie institutions and in of the ooara members i the vocational classes. "If these repair hear a report from H. C. The! over the effort to intact. submerged hulk lift it from the on: member, is out of the city.

Also wattrjto be discussed is volunteer help on the playgrounds. Last night's disaster brought The members have been visit- more than 100 the number of, ing playgrounds to determine cur- persons dead or missing in French'rent needs, air crashes in two days. Of these, free work for practice for out- sidcrs. It's like a free haircut in crash offi 46 died in the first crasn ou -r -i Bahrein Tuesday. At least 39 JLUUieraU arc dead or missing' from last NEW! HURRICANE-PROOF, INSULATED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION Suitable for Homes and Commercial Work CONTINUOUS DEMONSTRATION SUNDAY, JUNE IS at abut 2KW Nevada the greatest area of night's crash unauryeycd public land of any! Another 16 are missing from a jFrench military plane which dis- apearcd while on a flight eon two cities in Madagascar.

A hreo more persons were killed yesterday in the crash of a private plane near Constantlne, North Africa. i Will 39 Fict Lone 8 Fnt High lifttd Into in 3 Minutes! Mile East of 14tk Street on Boca Chica to 1 Vcd Road Next to Mr. New on Follow tKe MYERS CONSTRUCTION CO. Brown.vill. New Talent Show Is Slated For Theater Here i The Grande Theatre's new ulent i show starts tonight at 9 p.m.

The talenl show, under the: direction of Louis Garcia and "Cotton" Marr. be JieKi each Thursday. Persons! wishing to participate are asked to contact Barney theatrvj manager. i Elects Valley Women Officers HOUSTON Mrs. Carl Blasig: of Mercedes is the new president of the Texas district.

Lutheran Women's Missionary League, which held a one day I meeting here yesterday. She replaces Mrs. O. Rast; of Austin. The some 300 delegates! also elected Mrs.

A. Alpcrs. vice' president: Mrs. H. secretary; and Mrs.

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