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1 El Paso Herald -Post The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers VOL. LXXIV. NO. 242 EL PASO, TEXAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1954 DELIVERED PER BY WEEK CARRIER 2 BOWIE HIGH COACHES KILLED FUME 3 WELCOME LEGION COMMANDER- P. Collins, new national commander of the American Legion was welcomed on his arrival here yesterday by a delegation of Legionnaires.

National officers of the Legion came with him for his homecoming celebration at Las Cruces today. Left to right: A. H. Dodson, vicecommander of the Anthony Post: Col. A.

M. Lawrence, past commander of El Paso Post 58: B. J. Van Zandt, past commander of Post 36; Frank Myers, adjutant of El Paso Post 58: Harry EngTroops March, Floats Play to Honor Legion Homecoming Parade Held at Las Cruces By JOE BROWN Herald-Post Reporter SCRIPPS HOWARD LAS CRUCES, Oct. 9.

Troops marched, floats rolled, flags waved, bands played and crowds cheered during the homecoming parade for Seaborn P. Collins, newly elected National Commander of the American Legion, today. The parade wound down the main thoroughfare which was bannered and bedecked and packed with visitors. First came Las Cruces Police squad cars, El Paso motorcycle police and Shrine Motor Patrol. The colors, four American and four service flags, guarded by a soldier, sailor, airman and marine, came next, followed by a special honor guard in chrome-plated hats, white belts and gloves.

Leading the parade were Commander Collins, Mrs. Collins and Mayor Mike Apodaca. Dignitaries in March Crack troops from the Armed Services and American Legion units stepped to martial music played by two Ft. Bliss bands, the Holloman Air Force Base Band, the New Mexico A. and M.

College and Las Cruces High School brand." Dignitaries in the parade included Mrs. P. A. Lainson, National Auxiliary president; Mrs. Celia Wenz, treasurer of the National Auxiliary; Reed Mulkey, national committeeman; Ora Hall, alternate, and Tiny Reed, past national vice-commander.

Department Commander a Sherritt, Department Adjutant Bob Marr, Department Chef de Guere B. Alder; Department Auxiliary President Marcella Davidson, Past Department President Mrs. Winters, national vice-chairman of the poppy program; Department Vice Commanders Earl Youngren, Kern Aldridge and Peter McCartee. Big Guns Roll Units from Ft. Bliss, White Sands Proving Ground, Holloman Air Force Base, Biggs Air Force Base, and Marine reserves from El Paso followed.

Guided mi siles of the Army, Navy and Air Force featured in the parade, were displayed together for the first time." Giant 90-millimeter and anti-aircraft cannon, tanks mounted automatic weapons "showed the Army's hitting power, Commander Collins arrived with Legion dignitaries yesterday. Almost every Southwest and almost every state in the Union had representatives at the celebration. Speak Tonight Both Col. Thomas G. Lanphier vice president of Convair and president of the National Aeronautics and Commander Collins will speak on air power tonight, at New Mexico A.

and 1 M. College Stadium. Colonel Lanphier's speech will be broadcast over a nationwide radio hookup. Joe Quesenberry Post No. 10 is In charge of all arrangements.

R. Mauldin is commander. Thomas Graham of the Chamber of Commercee is overall chairman. Residents of Las Cruces have been preparing for the celebration since Sept. 9.

Commander Collins was elected to the post on Sept. 2 at the National Convention in Washington. First aid stations were provided by the Dona Ana Chapter of the American Red Cross in Las Cruces and the El Paso Office of Civilian Defense. The Memorial General (Continued on Page 9, Col. 1) Another race that's likely to end in a dead heat is the atomic race.

1 FBI Charges U. S. Employe Stole Military Secrets Arrest Worker For Hush-Hush Agency By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. Federal Bureau of Investigation today arrested a veteran employe of the Defense Department's most branch, the code-breaking National Security Agency, on charges of stealing U. S.

military secrets, possibly for "a foreign nation." Director J. Edgar Hoover identified the accused as Joseph Sidney Petersen 40, a former physics teacher at Loyola Univer- -United Press Telephoto Joseph Sidney Petersen sity, New Orleans, who has been employed as a "research analyst" at the National Security Agency since 1941. He was fired from the supersecret job eight days ago, and was arrested at his home in suburban Arlington, today. Petersen was arraigned today before U. S.

Commissioner Earl C. Fletcher at nearby Alexandria, Va. Obtained Secret Documents The FBI charged that Petersen, from March 1, 1948, to Dec. 31, 1952, improperly obtained secret documents' and information connected with national defense "with intent or reason to believe that the information was to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign The formal complaint did not charge Petersen with actually transmitting the information to a foreign power, and the FBI refused to identify the nation concerned in the charges Conviction on the charges carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000. Hush-Hush Operation The National Security Agency, housed in a former girl's school in Arlington County, across the Potomac River from Washington, is one of most hush-hush operations in Government.

the About all that is known about the is it operates a communications monitoring network and a cryptanalysis laboratory, with a view toward up radio messages sent by other nations and breaking their secret codes. During World War II, it was known as the Army Security Agency and for a while after the war it had the name of Armed Forces Security Agency. It is reputed to have from 3000 to 17000 employes. Defense Officers Silent Lieut. Gen.

Ralph J. Canine, head of the agency, withheld on the arrest. The Defense Department said it had "nothing to the FBI announcement. A brief biography issued by the FBI said Petersen was born in New Orleans on Sept. 30, 1914.

He is a graduate of Loyola University and received a master science degree at St. Louis University in 1938. Prior to entering government service in 1941, he taught physics at Loyola and at Ursuline College, both at New Orleans. Gale Sinks Freighter; 11 Crewmen Saved By United Press NORFOLK, Oct. 9.

The 6214-ton American ore freighter Mormackite flopped over and sank in a roaring 50-mile gale yesterday without a chance to get off an sos, survivors disclosed today while rescuers raced time to pick up others of her 48-man crew. At noon the little Greek ship Macedonia and the American steamer Monroe Victory had picked up 11 survivors and four bodies. Droodles Are Coming! Dr oodles are the new, modern, IMPROVED way to waste time and they are catching on from the rock bound coasts of Maine to the sunny slopes of Ava Gardner. They're becoming national craze like alimony. and deservedly so, because Drooling keeps you from worrying.

relieves anxiety and will eventually put all the psychiatrists out of work. Droodles Start Monday In The Herald-Post HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS 8008 lund, national sergeant-at-arms; Paul H. Griffith, past national commander; Commander Collins; the Rev. Albert J. Hoffman, national chaplain: A.

W. McLean, post commander, Post 58: W. I. Tidwell, commander of Post 58: L. E.

Reilly, fthe Anthony Post; Harry H. Dudley, national adjutant; W. A. Berrier, commander of Anthony Post; Sgt. Bob Forman, commander of Post 36: Dr.

Frank J. Devlyn, past commander of Post 36; A. M. Osborn; and Clarence Hughes of Angola, Ind. Roll, Bands Commander COMMANDER AND FAMILY--American Legion Commander Seaborn P.

Collins of Las Cruces, Collins and children, Rex, 10, and Kay, 3. AFL Unions End Refinery Walkout Members of El Paso Building Trades Council Monday will return to work on construction of the new Texas Co. refinery. 1000 members of various unions walked out Tuesday after six boilermakers in a wage dispute with Foster-Wheeler Co. established a picket line.

The boilermakers will continue on strike. About 800 men will return to work. About 200 workers have left El Paso for other jobs since Tuesday. Ted McNabb, business manager of the Building Trades Council, said that an agreement was reached with the boilermakers and the other unions for the workers to return to work. The Texas Co.

is adding a big new unit to its refinery. poster connected with any Wheeler job will work at the plant, Mr. McNabb said. Pedestrian Killed By Automobile DEADLY STREETS Dead This Year 11 Last Year Same Time 12 Injured This Year 730 Last Year Same Time 676 Arias Leandro, 25, of 3910 Fresno street died of injuries at El Paso General Hospital early today after being struck by a car at El Paso street and Paisano drive at midnight. Eloise Clark, 28, of McNary was the driver of the car.

Police reports showed that the Clark car was travelling west on Paisano on a green light. Arias was walking north across Paisano. An A and A ambulance took Arias to the hospital where blood transfusions were given to him. He died at 2:45 a. m.

of a fractured skull and fractures of both legs. Hurricane in Caribbean Heads for Nicaragua By United Press MIAMI, Oct. 9. A mighty hur: ricane barrelled over the central Caribbean with 125-mile-per-hour winds today and the Navy decided it was too dangerous to send hurricane hunter planes into its center again. Hurricane Hazel's center was estimated at about 360 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and was moving, west to west-northwest eight miles per hour toward Nicaragua.

Ail small craft in Jamaica were warned to remain in port. Buryl Baty And Jerry Simmang Die in Car Crash Fred Rosas Injured in Accident; Were Buryl Baty Jerry Simmang Rites Arranged For Judge Feuille Judge Frank Feuille Funeral services for Judge Frank Feuille, of 4004 Chester street, who died in his home yesterday, will be held at 11 a. m. Tuesday in Kaster and Maxon Chapel. The Rev.

B. M. G. Williams will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Pallbearers Named Active pallbearers will be Wynd, ham K.

White, Arthur Schaer and Edmond, Frank, Richard and' Rene Feuille. Honorary pallbearers include Volney Brown, Judge R. E. Thomason, Charles Loomis, Ed Krohn, J. L.

Rasberry, R. T. Hoover Paul Heisig, I. W. Gillett, Col.

George Goethals of Las Cruces and all members of the El Paso Bar Assn. Judge Feuille was 94 and had been a resident of El Paso for eight years. Judge Feuille was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1860. When he was six months old, his family moved to Brownsville. He was graduated from the University of Texas law school in 1886.

From 1890 he was city attorney of Brownsville. Sent to Cuba in 1907 In 1902 he went to Puerto Rico and was admitted the bar of the Supreme Court of the island. He was superior judge and later appointed by Teddy Roosevelt to the executive council of the upper house of the legislative assembly. He was sent to Cuba in 1907 by President Taft where he drafted the law of the executive power of Cuba, From 1910 to 1920, Judge Feuille was legal adviser in the Panama Canal Zone to Gen. George W.

Geothals. He was also counsel for the Isthmus of Panama of the Government-owned Panama Railroad Co. He served as attorney general of Cuba under President Theodore Roosevelt and for a brief time during World War I was acting governor of the Panama Canal Zone. He was admitted to the bar of the U. S.

Supreme Court in 1906. List of Survivors He was attorney for Standard Oil Co. of California, and retired from private practice in New York in 1946, when he came to El Paso. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Rene Granger and Miss Estelle Feullle, both of El Paso; two sons, Fred of Harbor City, and Gerald of Babylon, Long Island, N.

12 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. Three of his grandsons in El Paso are Edmond G. Feuille, who is associated with the Southwest Title Richard A. Feuille, an attorney, and Frank Feuille III, controller for the White House and author of "The Cotton a historical novel. On Way Home Two Bowie High School one injured last night in a 80 East.

The dead are: Buryl Baty, Simmang, line coach. Backfield Coach Fred Rosas dislocated hip and a possible knocked out. His condition critical at Hotel Dieu. The coaches were returning Pecos-Kermit High School football, game at Pecos. The accident occurred at approximately 12:05 a.

five miles east of the El Paso-Hudspeth County line in Hudspeth County. Sgt. James Mason of the State Highway patrol said, "a truck driven by Robert Moore, 19, of Spur was on the wrong side of the Highway and crashed into the car driven by Coach Moore was not injured. His truck, a big trailer type carrying cottonseed, turned over on the side of the road after the impact. Driver Pleads Guilty Moore was arrested after the accident and charged with negligent homicide.

He pleaded guilty today at Sierra Blanca before Hudspeth County Judge Tom Neely. Judge deferred sentence and returned Moore to jail. "I want to get all the facts in the case," said Judge Neely, Moore told Judge Neely, "I guess went to After being returned to jail today at Sierra Blanca he fell asleep on a jail cot. The charge carries a three-year jail sentence. Moore lives at Spur and was employed by M.

M. Copeland. He was hauling cottonseed from Deming to Spur at the time of the accident. An Able Coach J. Warren, Sierra Blanca newspaper editor, visited Moore in jail.

Moore refused to comment. "Moore is a nice looking young fellow," said Warren. "He is the timid type and seems to feel sorry about the accident." Baty was one of the best liked and most able high school coaches in 1 El Paso's football history. He took over the head football coaching job at Bowie High in 1950. That first season his team finished first place in District 2-AAAA.

The next year his team finished fourth and in 1952 his team finished third. Last year it won the district yesterday, championship, giving him a record m. From Pecos-Kermit Game football coaches were killed car-truck collision on Highway head coach at Bowie, and was injured. Rosas received broken jaw. Some teeth was reported as serious but to El Paso after scouting Fred Rosas of two first places, one third and one fourth in his four years at Bowie.

This season his team is one of the district favorites again. He was a graduate of Texas A. and M. College where he played quarterback. He graduated in 1948 and the next year, went to Luling High School with his first coaching assignment.

His team there finished second in its district. A. and M. Graduate Baty, 30, 7620 Vera Cruz road. He is survived by his widow; four-year-old son, Robert Gaines Baty; his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. R. B. Baty Paris, three brothers, Earl and Harold Glenn Baty of and Albert Baty of Wichita Falls; and sister, Miss June Baty of Paris. Funeral arrangements are pending with Rodehaver-Miller.

Simmang was considered one of the best line coaches in El Paso. He graduated from Trinity University, where he played football in 1949. That same year he was (Continued on Page 9, Col. 1) Guinn Rules County's Private Paving Illegal State Constitution would the doing of any work on any private property," Mr. Guinn said today.

"Article VIII, Section 3 prohibits the levying of taxes for anything except public purposes." Mr. Guinn said that if an easement to the property were given to the County, the County would be authorized to do the paving. "There can't be a grant of public property for private use," Mr. Guinn said. "There are no exceptions to it, no matter how good the purpose is.

The work is public property." Mr. Guinn referred to the fact that work done by County Jaborers is public property. Seen Nothing Wrong County Engineer Lee Jones said that he understood that property is public if it is maintained for a certain period of years by the County. "The County has been maintaining that property (the church parking areas and road) ever since have been here, and before he added. Mr.

Jones went to work in the County engineering department in 1942. "They couldn't stop anybody from going in there," he said. "I don't see anything wrong with serving a large segment of the public." The engineer estimated the cost to the County of putting asphalt on the three parking areas and the road at under $500. Case Is Not So "Just maintaining the property for more than 10 years wouldn't give the County a right to it," Mr. Guinn said.

"They would have to be maintaining it under a right as County Attorney Ernest Guinn told County Judge Hugh McGovern today that the State Constitution prohibits the use of public funds for work on private property. El Paso County recently paved parking areas and a road for four churches in the Upper Val-6ley at the request of Commissioner, a public easement. In order to have Wesley Smith. Smith was running a claim on it, you have to assert for re-election in the Democratic right." primary. Asked whether the County had Judge McGovern asked Mr.

Guinn ever made a claim on the church for an opinion after a Herald- Post property, Mr. Jones said, "Who editorial charged that Smith spent would be claiming it? There are about $1000 of County money to gar- a lot of County roads we don't ner votes. have deeds to, but if anybody startIt's Public Property ed to stop them up, they'd have "Article III, Section 51 of the trouble." State Constitution would An El Pasoan's Book Reviewed "The Cotton Road," first novel by a native El Pasoan, is reviewed in today's Book Shelf by Dr. C. L.

Sonnichsen, head of the English Department of Texas Western College. The book published by William Morrow Co. will be released Oct. 20 but will be released in El Paso on Oct. 10.

See the review on page 4. Inside Your Herald -Post U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast: Fair. (Details on Page 3.) Page Amusements Ann Carroll Book Shelf Church News Comics Crossword Puzzle 15 Dr.

B. U. L. Conner Editorials Markets Othman People 14 Radio and TV Programs Sports Women's News and Jerry were not the INSIDE WASHINGTON A Weekly Size-Up by the Washington Staff Of The Scripps-Howard Newspapers WASHINGTON, Oct. those new pledges about keeping Secretary Dulles has no talk the Nation.

There's no plan to in November, to put London into effect. State Department wants to wait and see whether France actually goes through with project this time. It's a reversal of earlier Dulles methods. If the project moves ahead wellthrough French National Assembly confidence vote now scheduled Paris for the end of this monthand if Premier Mendes-France appears to be close to getting final favorable action in the Assembly, there's a chance U. S.

might be prodded into making its commitment in advance of French vote. But right now, we're a burned child that dreads fire. Note: Dulles and his associates came back from London with the impression Anthony Eden's long wait to take over leadership of the Tory Party--and premiership--from Churchill is nearing end. They say Eden behaved like a man already control. Eden's no longer in poor health; showed vigor and stamina the conference (he's 57).

Latest story about Churchill retirement has Sir Winston listening arguments in favor of letting Eden take over and then saying: "Maybe you're right. After all, Anthony can't live forever." MANY GOP CANDIDATES for Congress are unhappy--and irked -that President Eisenhower has refused to make a whistle-stop campaign this fall. "How can we run on Ike's coattails when we can't even get hold they ask. They think handshake, an arm around the shoulder, might make the difference. And they say it's hard to get voters fired up about giving the President a GOP Congress when he's not out battling for it himself.

Here are three reasons advanced by som a of the men around Eisenhower for decision against whistlestopping. 1. He just doesn't like that sort campaigning, feels it's undignified, time-wasting. 2. He doesn't want to go too far (Continued on Page 4, Col.

HELD FOR LOITERING Daniel Hudson 29, of Oklahoma City, and Lonnie J. McCrackins, 25, were seen loitering at Oregon and Franklin streets last night and were booked for vagrancy, States is going slow on American troops in Europe. scheduled to sell this policy to ask the Senate, when it meets Slayer to Return To State Hospital Judge Roy Jackson of 34th District Court is making arrangements to send Henry Early Friar back to the State Hospital for the Insane at Rusk. Judge Jackson yesterday wired the superintendent at Rusk. "If the officials at Rusk don't object, Friar will be sent back until another trial can be held," Judge, Jacksora said.

The judge yesterday discharged a jury which heard testimony on See EDITORIAL COMMENT On Page 4 Friar's sanity. The jury was unable to reach a verdict after deliberating since Wednesday. Jurors reported that only one member of the jury held out for Friar's release. The other 11 jurors wanted to declare him insane. One member of the jury said the group was split six to six when the first vote was taken.

Subsequent ballots were seven to five, nine to three and eleven to one. Judge Jackson ruled a mistrial. A new trial will be held later. Friar was first committed to the state hospital after he was judged insane at the time of the shooting of City Patrolman Warren Mitchell..