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253 Press Harlingen, Texas, Sunday, February 12, 1950 (IV-Associated PreM 5c Sunday Lewis Orders Men To Return To Work OLDISr RESIDENT PASSES With the death, Friday, of Don (Chencho) Rosales, thought to have been 128 years of age, Port Isabel lost one of her two oldest landmarks. Rosales is shown above in front of the Port Isabel lighthouse, completed in 1852, and which he helped to build. Funeral Rites Conducted for Don Rosales Enjoy Today, Tomorrow May Be Cool Persons going to church Sunday morning should find the weather warm with a few scattered ciouds about. But change for the cooler and welter Is due late Sunday night. Fresh to strong southerly winds Worked on Lighthouse are expected Sunday.

High tem- Port Isabel Resident Constructed in 1852 PORT ISABEL Funeral services for Don (Chencho) Rosales, who died in Port Isabel Saturday at 4 p.m. from Our Lady Star of the Sea church, with the Rev. Patrick Casey officiating. Burial was in the Port Isabel cemetery. age was listed in Port Isabel as from 119 to 128 years, with some saying authentic records show he was 128 years of age at the time of his death.

Helped Build Lighthouse He was bom in Matamoros and was brought to Port Isabel when he was about 12 years old. He helped to build the old Port Isabel lighthouse, which was completed in 1852. For many years he had lived alone in Port Isabel and his trips to town became more irregular the past few years. Acquaintances in Port Isabel said he had no conception of money, and would never accept pay in paper money. Rosales is credited with digging most of the water wells in Port Isabel, and 30 years ago, when he was nearly 100 years old, he could dig a well in one day.

Got No Pension Although he was a resident of Texas when the state entered the Union, he never received a pension, on the grounds that he was not a citizen. Funds for his burial were subscribed by residents of Port Isabel, with County Commissioner Ted Hunt and Mayor B.B. Burnell heading the campaign for funds. The two also served as pallbearers. Funeral arrangements were made by a committee of Port Isabel citizens, with the Clay Hall Funeral home of San Benito in tfce rider, charge of burial.

perature Sunday at 82-86, degrees was forecast, but the low Sunday night was expected to be near 50. Cool weather is to continue Monday and the minimum Monday night should be near 40. The forecaster said the wind will shift from the south to the north late Sunday and become strong. Scattered showers are expected late Sunday night. Small craft warnings were hoisted at 5 p.

m. Saturday from Brownsville to Lake Charles. La. Southeasterly winds 20-30 miles an hour Saturday night will increase to 25-35 miles an hour Sunday. 20 Die in Crash Of French Trains PARIS (W Two speeding diesel trains, both jammed with workers, collided head-on early Saturday near the south French city of Toulouse, killing 20 persons and seriously injuring 38.

Both trains were traveling at a speed of 45 m. p. h. when they crashed and telescoped, tearing up tracks and scattering wreckage in all directions. O.

V. Bridges to Run For Mission Mayor MISSION City Commissioner O. V. Bridges Saturday announced his candidacy for mayor of Mission. Bridges will be opposed by Homer E.

Smith who was first to announce for mayor. Smith heads the ticket composed of Joaquin Martinez. Ramon de la Garza, Jack Armstrong, and M. W. Held.

Union Leader Grudgingly Bows To Edict Indicates He Acts Under Duress of Two Court Injunctions WASH INGTON, (UP) John L. Lewis yielded reluctantly to two federal antistrike injunctions Saturday and ordered his 400,000 soft coal miners to return to work Monday. But the United Mine Workers president made it plain that he was acUng only under the duress of the two Taft-Hartley court orders slapped on him earlier Saturday. In telegrams to the district leaders, he said he had but to pass on to them the instructions of the court. Reports from the coal fields indicated strongly that the angry miners would defy the court and continue a strike that has pushed the nation to the edge of economic crisis.

May Have to Prove It Lewis himself told President Truman last Saturday that it was whether the miners could be driven back to work by the of the Taft-Hartley law. If the miners refuse to reopen the strikebound pits, Lewis may have to prove to the courts that his back-to-work orders were not really a veiled signal to continue the strike. He and his union already have paid $2.130,000 in contempt of court fines for defying such injunctions in the past. Offers To Negotiate Lewis followed up his instructions to UMW local offices with telegrams to leaders of the coal industry offering to meet with them here at 11 a.m. Wednesday to resume contract negotiations.

President Joseph E. Moody of the Southern Coal Producers association said his group will try to cooperate with in setting up new bargaining conferences. Moody w'as the only one of the leading industry negotiators in Washington Saturday. Ordered By Court Lewis acted only a few hours after the government proclaimed a national coal emergency and obtained two Taft-Hartley injunctions ordering him to call off the strike and drop alleged contract demands. Federal Judge Richmond B.

Keech signed the two orders only a few minutes apart, following a warning from President Truman that the national health and welfare will be imperiled if the strike is permitted to go on. Strike Forbidden The second injunction contained most of the teeth, It was a 10-day restraining order forbidding a strike until hearings have been held Feb. 20 on the application for an 80-day Taft- Hartley injunction. The other, also obtained under the Taft-Hartley act, limited itself to forbidding miners to strike for certain demands, including the union shop, a for-union- men-only welfare fund, and a contract clause providing that they work only when and Lewis waited more than five hours before deciding to bow to the court. Stresses Compulsion Then he sent a batch of long telegrams to the UMW officials in the fields notifying them that he was to tell the miners to get back to work.

He stressed Tornado Rips Through La Porte; Twisters Hit Three Texas Towns 1 ------------------------------------------------------------Dozen Persons Injured, Many Homes Wrecked As Wind Whips 4 Cities LA PORTE, (AP) An afternoon tornado ripped through La Porte Saturday, injuring a dozen persons and destroying 25 homes. Twisters also hit nearby Alvin, a community near Tyler in East Texas, and a small community near Rosebud, in Central Texas. The tornado here caused damage estimated from $100,000 to $200,000. The Alvin twister caused $75.000 in damage SING HYMNS AT MARATHON PRAYER MEET Bud Schaeffer (foreground), basketball star and class president, leads singing of hymns at Pierce Memorial chapel of Wheaton, college where a spontaneous religious student revival which started Wednesday night was still going strong after more than 36 hours. Some 1500 students and 110 faculty members joined in the prayer service.

Nearly all the students have stepped to the pulpit giving testimony to their faith. (AP Wirephoto). 32 More Patrolmen To Join Drive on Aliens Shivers Calls I Rangers Out of Brownsville Sending of Officers At Klein's Request Deplored, Resented BROWNSVILLE Texas rangers, sent to Brownsville at the request of District Judge Arthur A. Klein, have been withdrawn, Gov. Allan Shivers wired city officials Saturday afternoon.

The telegram came after the city commission, with tempers running high, asked the governor and State Public Safety Director Homer Garrison to take the rangers out of Brownsville and Charro Days The action followed a resolution adopted by the commission, which and the assignement of rangers and asked their recall. Resolution Telegraphed The resolution was telegraphed to the governor and Garrison. Tempers of commissioners at a special meeting Saturday morning cotton the grower said. (He were at the boiling point. They requested his name be discussed reports that rangers had before then something must been sent here the hands be worked of local police were tied by the we had a of supply administration in enforcement of wherein workers were available to homes and farms, but no in-j- juries.

At least four persons were in- jured in the Chapel Hill community. about five miles east of Tyler. Several houses were re- ported blown down. The Central Texas twister hit at Baileyville, tearing down 10 houses and several outbuildings and leaving 38 persons homeless. One person was injured there.

Two Seriously Injured La Porte, in Harris county. Is about 20 miles north of Alvin, which is in Brazoria county. electrical power was knocked out by the storm and four hours were required to restore it. Several dairymen reported losses to their herds. Two persons were injured seriously in the La Porte storm.

Another Ella Dodson, former Negro slave was in a critical condition. She had been seriously ill at her home and was rushed to the hospital after the house was shattered. Her age was esti- mated by friends at 97 to 101 years. 25 Homes Destroyed Police Chief Walter Roberson said at least 25 homes were destroyed here. He said homes received severe or minor damage.

All La Porte public buildings Senator Claims Acheson Keeps Suspected Reds McCarthy Writes Truman Only 80 of List of 300 Fired WASHINGTON (UP) Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy complained Saturday in a letter to President Truman that the State Department had discharged only about 80 of 300 employes who were certified as security risks by a presidential Grower Suggests Conference With USES and Immigration on Labor Problem As the faced the prospect of a short labor sup-1 homeless. ply for the 1950 cotton harvest, 32 border patrolmen, with said 110 rson cars, were expected to arrive here this week-end to join the drive on illegally entered Mexican nationals. The additional inspectors have been transferred from the El Paso district, according to Fletcher Rawls, McAllen, Border Patrol chief for this area.

Rawls said the round-up of aliens started in mid-October, has resulted in a noticeable decrease in aliens illegally working here. quite a few' of those we deport come Rawls said, adding that the patrol is faced with a two-pronged job. that of rounding up aliens and making sure they return. While the patrol stepped up its campaign to clear the section of aliens, a prominent Valley grower Saturday proposed a Valley roundtable conference with USES and Immigration officials to work out a bargaining labor Action Necessary may get along as is until Oil Slick May Lead To Plane Navy Flying Boat Missing Over Gulf CORPUS CHRISTI The Coast Guard said Saturday night that searchers for a missing Navy flying boat had sighted an oil slick about 100 southeast of that flooded streets and yards with a driving rain. of the people are being taken in by neighbors, friends or he said.

sure no one will have to spend the night without Several business district buildings took heavy damages. Damages were extensive in the Negro settlement. Damage Estimate High An early damage esUmate of $100,000 was made by H. B. Harrison, real estate man and former postmaster.

Other residents said later the final estimate may exceed $200,000. The twister, with unofficial wind velocity estimates ranging up to 100-miles an hour, swept into this east Harris county town of 4.000 residents from the southwest. It came on the heels of a thunder and lightning rain storm gambling laws in connection with the Charro Days carnival. Commissioners and Charro Days officials blamed Judge Klein for bringing the rangers here and condemned Garrison for 'listening to Judge Klein without listening to anyone for certain periods under uniform working conditions the farmer would be enthusiastic over the arrangement, even if he had to be prorated at times as to number. proper direction such a caucus would be he said.

"There is no question but Lake Charles, La The plane, with nine aboard, has been missing in the Gulf of Mexico since Friday. A Coast Guard spokesman at New Orleans said the tanker Tennessee had been asked to rush to the spot and mark it with a buoy if possible. The plane, a PBM-5, known as the Martin Mariner, was last heard from at 4 p.m. Friday. Plane Spots Oil The Coast Guard spokesman said a Navy reconnaissance plane out of Corpus Christi, base of the missing flying boat, spotted the Judge Klein was reported out of that the average labor employer is at lattitude 28.40 north and town Saturday.

The Rangers ar- anxious for an improved status for rived Friday after a controversy his employes, and this in itself over locating the carnival on Fort parade grounds, an ar- City Files Damage Suit Charges Elkins Plat Not Given Approval BROWNSVILLE The City of Harlingen has filed a damage suit totalling $25,000 and a petition for an injunction against developers of the Elkins addition in the northern part of Harlingen. The suit seeks $15,000 actual damages and $10.000 exemplary damages, because the addition was allegedly built without complying with ordinances requiring maps and plats be approved before building starts. The injunction is sought to prevent further development until such time as a map and plat are approved, with the streets and lots of the subdivision complying tion of row crops Body Found in River MISSION The nude body of an unidentified man was recovered the compulsion under which he was from the river Saturday morning acting. about three and a half miles south he said, no of here. The body was discovered alternative other than to instruct you and all other agents of our Justice of the Peace Leo Gon -1 union similarly situated to take zales said the body appeared to appropriate action as may be nec- have been in the water about three essarv to insure that the instruc- days.

(Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) Reds and West Swap Charges Bad Faith Claimed In Illegal Embargo would be the basis for Could Present Views The grower also suggested that Rep. Lloyd M. Bentsen, or longitude 93.15 west. He said the plane did not report seeing any survivors or wreckage. Navy fliers here pointed out that oil slicks were frequent in the Gulf because of the many oil tankers in the area, but a check Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Weatherford, 70 and 68. were in serious condition in a Pasadena hospital. Heavy Rains Fall The twister battered its way up Fifth street, then jumped to the Main street business district and on to Fourth and Sixth streets. A spokesman for an automobile firm said over $5,000 in automobile parts were scattered over an area of four blocks by the strong wind.

The storm poured heavy rains on a 50-mile wide strip between Houston and Galveston. The two large cities had intermittent showers from mid-morning on. Gusts of wind up to 50 miles an hour were reported at Ellington air force base, about 10 miles west of here. Nearly two inches of rain fell there in a half hour I understand this w'as done after a lengthy conversation with Alger McCarthy said. Hiss, recently convicted of perjury for denying he gave secret papers to ex-communist Whittaker Chambers.

once was a State ment official. McCarthy ia In Reno for a Lincoln day speech. His letter to Mr. Truman was released through his office here. The Wisconsin Republican did not give names or dates to the president.

But he said Mr. Truman should recall appointing a board to screen State department employes and weed out fellow travelers. Records Not Available the records are not available to me, I know ly that of one group of approximately 300 certified to the secretary for discharge, he actually discharged only approximately McCarthy said. letter followed his statement Friday that there are 57 card-carrying Communists on the State department payroll. A department spokesman challenged him to name them.

The senator did not. McCarty said that the of the department position can be demonstrated by calling Secretary' of State Dean Acheson. Ask on Phone would suggest, therefore, Mr. President, that you simply pick up your phone ard ask Mr. Acheson how many of those whom your board had labeled as dangerous he failed to the senator wrote.

letter was made public shortly after Sen. Karl EL Mundt said that American Communists had spent $1,000,000 to defeat his bill for the control of subversives. are openly bragging about Mundt said in an interview. are telling their followers that they can lick the bill if they can get just a few more dollars. Panhandle and South Plains Get Rain, But Only Teaser By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain spattered dry Texas Panhandle and South Plains farms Saturday but it w'as only a teaser.

Heavier fell in East and South Texas, where moisture was not so badly needed. A 50-mile- wide strip of coast from Houston to Galveston got the biggest soaking. Rain general from the the dust. The only rain strong enough to cause so much as a dent in the drouth fell at Wellington, in the Southeast corner. The fall there measured an inch.

BERLIN. (JP) Soviet Russia and the western powers exchanged new' accusations of bad faith in Berlin Saturday night. Each side charged the illegal embargo Gov. Allan Shivers, both familiar: was being made. Aircraft and a Period ending at 2 p.m.

with the Valley labor situation, be Coast Guard cutter also were dis- Heavy lightning and thunder ac- asked to conduct the conference. patched. companied the rain storm. conference should be sup- The missing plane has a hull --------------------------ported by Valley growers, with full which will allow it to float in- DIES-PLANNING WAKE opportunity to present their views, definitely if undamaged. BOSTON, (U.PJ Leo F.

Curley, 1 dowm and afloat on 38, son of former Mayor James the Gulf find a naval officer declared. Aboard the craft were an instructor, four students, and four (Continued on Page Two) The grower chided Rep. Bent- and equally important, by representatives of the government agencies in w'hose hands the administration of this contract has been he said. M. Curley, collapsed and died Saturday night while preparing for the wake of his sister, who died unexpectedly earlier in the day.

Ochoa's Funds Are Attached Property and Bank Account Held in Suit German trade. Both thp fog of cold war. The U. British and French commandants complained that the Russians stopping scrap metal shipments from West Berlin to Western Germany in violation of their at the Paris sen and Gov. Shivers for their silence on the bracero subject, but said he understood this might be explained by the fact that other with an entiy a serious attempt is being on interzonal made to work out a feasible thickened i gram under cover, with full reporting later.

Time Hill Tell this is the case, maybe it is the best policy, but time alone will Valley Rotarians To Meet International Head Sunday DONNA Rotary International President Percy Hodgson, Pawtucket, R. 1, and Mrs. Hodgson, Other Panhandle reports ranged foreign conference last spring to from a trace at Dalhart, in the restore normal movement of extreme Northwest Panhandle, to goods. .08 inch at Amarillo and .25 at Clarendon. The South Plains fall was just Pecos valley eastward across the as light for example, .10 at state.

More was forecast day night and Sunday. There been a real rain in the Panhandle and South Plains since October. The Amarillo Globe-News calls the situation critical. The newspaper reported a week ago that farmers expected wheat failures and short produc- with city regulations. rain barely Satur- Tulia and .16 at Lubbock.

At Electra, northw'est of Wichita Falls, a slow, day-long rain produced a total. More than a half inch of rain fell at Vernon Saturday morning and drizzles continued through the afternoon. The weather forecast called for colder weather Sunday in settled i Eagle Pass area. are not prepared to accept this situation and expect that shipments of scrap metal duly authorized by proper authorities will continue, as before, to have free passage to Western the three declared in a note. It was the second protest on the subject in a month.

They appeared liable to get same answer from Soviet Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov as be- fore: the scrap was contraband 1 from eastern Germany. tell. As it is, the present situation will arrive by plane at Browns- is causing pronounced distress.

It ville Sunday noon for the inter- ruined our vegetable of Rotarians here deal, and will certainly affect our Mondav at p.m.. President (Continued on Page Two) cnttUde-Riley of the local club said Saturday. Hodgson, a yarn manufacturer and president of Rotary International since last July, will deliver the principal address at the barbecue and program arranged at the athletic field here. Hodgson will speak at 8:30. point to the largest gathering here Monday of Rotarians and Rotary' Anns ever assembled in South Riley said.

Members from all clubs of the 185th district, and visitors from (Continued on Page Two). Rio Grande City Girl Enters Polio Ward EDINBURG A 13-months-old Rio Grande City girl was admitted to the Edinburg Polio clinic Saturday as a suspected sufferer of ihfantile paralysis. If doctors confirm she has polio she will become the fifth new case of the year for the Lower Rio Grande Valley, PERCY HODGSON LAREDO 'IT The office Saturday took over the property and bank account of George Ochoa, dashing border broker charged with murdering two men in a Laredo hotsi last July 31. Under a wrrit of attachment Issued by the 111th district court I the department took cus- tody of $8.000 in U. S.

and Mexican money and $2.500 worth of personal property according to Deputy Porfirio L. Flores. Mrs. Emma Low Tighe, mother of James Lindsay. one of the men killed, sued Ochoa Jan.

19 for $55.000 damages. Ochoa is also charged with killing Henry Whittenburg. McAllen. Most of the assets attached were found 10 days ago in the customs brokerage business now run by his ex-partner, J. M.

Bailesteros. I It was home that Ochoa broke into Christmas morning demanding food and money. Ochoa has been missing since the day of the murders and the search has been directed towards Mexico. The damage suit is set (or trial I March.