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

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TEXAS SATURDAY MORNING NOV 21 1953 Ilia Cilter-TiMi I ii 4000 Missing in Combat 31 Passengers MAURICE TIIOREZ TOP FRENCH COMMUNIST REPORTED DYING Healers NICE Franre Nov 20 Maurice Thores 54 ailing secretary-general the French OommunUt Party is critically iU or dying according to persistent rumors circulating here Thores who recently returned from treatment in Russia la staying at a walled and guarded villa at Mouglni near here Thores went to Moscow after a stroke In November 1030 and returned to France in April this year From 2 Buses Saved in Snow Action Due in January If No New Dala Turns Up Wintry Onslaught Continues In West Kansas Nebraska LODGE STILL UNDER GUARD lly I WASHINGTON Nov 20 Still closely guarded Henry Cabot Lodge Jr United States embassador to the United Nations was accompanied by a Washington city detective on rail to the White House Lodge's 24 hour guard was for protection against Puerto Rico nationalists New Fork Dally News Service WASHINGTON Nov 20 The Army today an nounccd that about 4000 men now listed as missing in action in Korea will be declared dead" in January if there is no new information about them by then As of now the Army lists the number of its missing in Korea as about 6300 The 4000 who prospectively will be listed as "presumed luSSI 1 lamiaiui lnlll OMAN wIm include who DENVER Nov 20 (AP) A wintry blast lashed the western portions of Kansas and Nebraska today after stirring up blizzards which stalled two cross-country buses blocked roads and closed schools in Eastern Colorado A Continental Trailways System bus with 14 persons aboard bound for Denver from Kansas City was trapped for 13 hours before two snow plows late this morning rammed through ilx-foot drift! on Cll ism ft ALLIES Three Koreans To Get Highway about half mile east of Joes a smell agricultural community of 100 people located 26 miles from the Kansas line and 126 miles cost of Denver A Bother Bus In Snowbank A second Trailways bus east-bound from Denver to Bt Louie and carrying 17 passengers including three small children kidded into a snowbank alongside 8 as the driver Hodges of Evergreen Colo attempted to pass a stalled automobile The bus was freed after about two hours Both buses continued toward their destinations this afternoon A third Troliwaya bin running trim St Louis to Denver was held up for seven hours st Norton Kan until biluard conditions cleared In Western Colorado meantime two Denver A Rio Grande West- By BIIX BARNARD FANMUNJOM Saturday Nov 21 The flight to South Korea of three Korean soldiers just beyond the clutches of pursuing Communists brought a hearing today and an angry protest by the Peiping Red radio The Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission called a session to deal with the case It seemed a foregone conclusion that the three fugitives would get bark eafely to South Ko- To Be DIED times YESTERDAY after collision TWO MESSING Radio-Guided Search Finds 19 Wlioopcrs Only 19 giant whooping cranes were counted yesterday In a radio coordinated Jeep-boat search of the Aransas Wildlife Refuge Julian Howard refuge manager old lest night An airplane search last Friday turned up 21 of tha big white Unto ana three more are due In from their Canadian feeding grounds Howard said he believe the three have yet arrived st the refuge near Auetwell might have missed two of eMlly but think we would have mieaed five of them" said Howard He added that yesterday's search was fair-' DUgh with one search party a radio-equipped Jeep and another In a host equipped with radio Only 26 of the whoopere are In to 21 already accounted for on the refuge toe three en route to Austwell from Canada and toe now famous Crip end Jo qu Or: mattered at Audubon Port in New -leone WRECKED CAR IN WHICH A NAS SAILOR the 1950 model sedan overturned live or six NAS Sailor Killed Wave Passenger Hurt Seriously in Wreck res sometime In the future All old they were former members of the 8outh Korean army who were impressed Into the Rea North Korean army They Mid they were denied repatriation after the truce Two Fought Guards Two of them fought Communist security guards Thursday night at Panmunjom before breaking away across the demarcation line and finding sanctuary with military police The third who had been hiding In a nearby rice paddy hm threa Dean today accused toe Oommun-Peiping radio claimed to res A Naval Air Station sailor was killed and his Wave passer seriously lniured yesterday at 4 in when their seriously injured yesterday at 4 when senger car collided with another at the intersection of Airline and COT CUU1UCU WiUl RUlUICA Mis imwaqwwmvm era trains one canying passen-and the gera and mail and tha other freight crashed headon killing both engineers The accident occurred 6 miles north of Grands Valley Ban Through Switch Tha 112-car freight train appar- and ran ently was unable to stop through a switch witnesses said Tha dead were Fred Kelley (7 engineer of the moll train locomotive and Glenn Amaplger 57 piloting the freight Firemen of both trains were injured The whirling Nebraska storm toft 5 inches of snow st Red Cloud In the south central part of the state and crested bltssards In other sections Grand Island reported heavy snow and drifting Parochial schools in tha city as wall as rani schools were closed Blustery winds swept snow Into toad-blocking drifts in Northwest Kansas Snowfalls measuring 12 inches ware reported st Goodland Atwood and Long Island McCracken had six Inches Motorists Cautioned The highway department cautioned motorists that travel In Western Kansas was "extremely The roods were Iced end the wind-driven enow cut visibility almost to sera The 14 paseengera rescued near Joes were brought to the commit-Mm kark pass (Ms ssstlse Lexington Boulevard then overturned "five or times Showers May Cover Area By Tonight (Weather Map on Page SB) Weather for Corpus Christi will he mostly cloudy today and tonight with scattered thundershowers in the area this afternoon and tonight Highest temperature expected today is 72 to 74 with a low tonight of 40 to 44 Tomorrow will he cloudy to partly cloudy and rather cold Cloudy skies that may spit snow end nun were forecast for most of Texas Saturday The predicted weather fallowed a Friday that was generally fair with clear skies The high maximum was 74 at Brownsville The low of 44 was reported at Dalhart The coldest weather again come In the Panhandle and South Plains areas The only rain in tha stats wsa a light fall of Inches In Texarkana early Friday Winds today win be southeast st 15 to 25 miles an hour with occasional gusts to SO this afternoon Winds wlU shift to northerly st ll to 25 miles an hour tonight and will remain the name tomorrow Tbs forecast for South Central Increasing cloudiness with thundershowers near the coast Saturday clearing and cold in Interior Saturday night Sunday generally fair and rather cold Increasing southeast winds on the coast becoming fresh to strong and shifting to northerly Saturday night 117 Vote Absentee In Bond Election City Secretory Ray Krtog sold toot night that 117 absentee ballots were cast on the $24 million bond election scheduled Tues- day Another'll applications have been asked for and probably will be mailed In Kring said making the possible total of 128 votes This compares to 314 absentee ballots cast In tbs water bond election held Dec 12 1962 In the water bond election 4401 votes were cast Absentee votes ware bout 7 percent of this total If the asms percentages hold In this election voting on the city improvement bonds will be relatively light On the basis of the absentee vote being 7 percent of the total vote as the water bond election there would he fewer than 2000 votes cast Tuesday Tha bond proposal Includes (12 million In revenue-supported bonds for water gas and sewer Improvements and expansion and 513 million in tax-supported bands for street drainage pork public safety waterfront auditorium library and municipal warehouse and service facility Improvements "Vimi Robert Arnold Newman 24 a personnelmsn first class attached to All-Weather Flight NAS Lurana Hammond 30 a Warn pereonnelman tint claaa also st-ached to All-Weether Flight at NAS waa reported in very aerioue condition at Memorial Hospital Health Warning Sounded As Smog Shrouds New York trail" in January men have hern missing for tnoie than year The other 2800 have been missing Ires than a year or else the Army has some report not yet fully explored to Indicate the possibility they are alive The Army said that It expects (o resolve the remaining caeea either by continued study of evi-Obtained denra obtained from exchanged prisoners by recovery of remain on battlefields or from information obtained from other sources American battle deaths for the Korean War are now listed as Nlightly over 28000 and the prospective January action assuming 4000 miming are then declared will raise tha figure above 80000 Families of men carried as 'missing" have been receiving allotments and the pay id the men themselves has continued Accrued pay or other money due toe men will go to their families when the melt are declared "presumed dead" May FUe Claim Forme Also Immediately after a presumptive finding of death to made the Army will notify to Veteran Administration of the action Tha Veterans Administration then Will provide toe dependents with the necenary Information and claim forms for too payment id any government Insurance that may In force Pay and allotments for ths missing men have gone forward under a special act of Congress This act expires Jan SI After tost date families of men still Bated ss missing will not be entitled to allotments unless OongreM should extend the Acts The set provides that upon declaration or official presumption of death a serviceman's beneficiaries may receivs a gratuity equivalent to six months of pay for tha dead men on ths basis at his pay st ths date of his death The Army said such gratuity Sente will be made to bene-It dura after return of tha completed forme to toe Army finance center at Indianapolis Xnd However due to the neceissry auditing of a pay and his records while he is missing several month may elapse before final payment of accrued pay and allowance is mod to beneficior- id All of the missing not declared dead In January will be carried as missing until one full year after their original disappearance or until information warrants a declaration of death or other status 17S Air Farce Men The Air Force with 671 officers and men listed as missing In Korea will mska declarations of presumptive death for shout 170 next month a spokesman Mid Ths Marins Corps said It was not able immediately to estimate how many of Its 493 missing will be declared dead In to near future The Navy lists 78 missing In Korea but no estimate at death declarations was available Immediately Signal Corps Spy Hearings Set Tuesday WASHINGTON Nov 20 Sen McCarthy IR-Wle) announced today the Senate inveetigatlons eub-commlttee will open publlc hearings in New York Tuesday "on Communist infiltration and eubver-slon In to Army signal corps involving Ft Monmouth and related establishments" McCarthy old In etstement that witnesses have been celled to testify both Tuesday and Wednesday of next week and that open hearings will continue "from time to time thereafter" hair In disarray walking in tot sharp chill wind outolds ths prison He wu dressed In tha brown suit he wore at ths trial As early ae 4 :30 an hour before Mrs Heady and Hall pected to arrive curious onlookers began to gather acrou the stmt from the prison Scores of cars were parked in every available along tbs streets leading to penitentiary Last View Many empl ting the killers Today was probably to tost time Hall and Mrs Heady will sm ths outside world Roy Dial at the Naval Hospital STORMS RAKE MIDDLE EAST CAIRO Egypt Nov 20 Gaiee rain and enow plaguing the eastern Mediterranean nationa wen reported today to have earned IS deaths and left at lesit 52 per-eons missing The Weather Bureau forecast some relief by tomorrow thus apparently insuring the area against any smog aerioue aa that which killed 12000 persons in Great Britain a year ago Scores of persona hi Jersey Industrial plants sought first mid for scratchy throats and Irritated eyes School children doubled over with nausea headaches and smog-induced irritations Elderly people with asthma for their very lives gasped It was the worst sm ory In Elisabeth many business places In mem- where led them rather-Alvar ez TV Success Is Outlined had ClntsUy entored the Joint security this despite the trio's story that they had iji kt 71 4ka iwstf fmm sneaked beck all the way from the vicinity of Pyongyang North Korea's capital The Peiping radio charred that the soldiers were forcibly detained in a "serious violation of the armistice agreement" Letter Demands Return Peiping Mid Gen Lea Bang CJifl senior Red Military Armistice Commissioner had written his American counterpart MsJ- Lacey demanding immediate release and return of toe trio The Allied half of a Joint observer team decided to turn the com over to toe NNRC after interviewing the fugitive! Tbs Communist half of the Joint team snubbed toe meeting Pfc John Rudeen of San Francisco who with Pfc Murray Incentive and that this Is good business principle Subsequently the two applied for TV stations In Little Rock Ark and Corpus Christi and acquired the San Diego station with each owning half Wrather said tha Little Rock application waa dropped when others there filed for the channel and It seemed the Little Rock and Corpus Christi cases might be heard by the FOC at the same time He decided to concentrate on Corpus Christi because ha considered It a better market Nation Meantime Wrather applied for and woe granted on hie own behalf a permit for a TV station In Boston which is In tha process of getting on toe air Likewise Mrs Alvarez on her own applied for a Sacramento channel but after 13 days of hearings asked tost her application be dismissed Wrather Mid he became Inter-omm Mrk MSS Ms sutw Hearing tots of attempting to delay and moke a fares of too preliminary Korean peace confer- Dean accused the Reds of In suiting him personally without putting forward anything constructive 'Does it really help you to call mo a warmonger untruthful 1 rogue insincere irrational lack' ing in common sense and frivolous?" Dean naked toe commun-eat delegates "An you trying to terminate these folks?" he questioned The official Peiping radio earlier today accused Dean of looking to delay the talks until time runs out mi neutral nations custody of prisoners of the Korean war who refuse to return to tha Reds It said Dean hod raised questions end accused him of deliberately distorting the Communist proposal Dean said the Communists won trying to haneuver Soviet Russlt Into position where it could completely dominate ths conference Dean mods the statement after the Reds had proposed that the "neutral" nation observers st ths peace conference should be In position to regulate debate This apparently would go further than earlier Red statements which on ths surface would have limited toe neutrals to being observer only Dean eald the new Red statement concerning the neutrals was completely unacceptable He laid that If Russia was the the Communists have In mind It would put toe Soviet Union In toe position of being able to dominate the political conference Dean went on to accuse the Reds of delay and refusing to say anything constructive this nonsense and foldrol from your aide in Just four days at substantive discussions on composition and place" Dean eald "are you trying to make a farce out of these preliminary talks" He accused the Communists of playing for timo until too United Nation General Assembly meets next Tuesday the gate building The prisoners had to walk through an explosion of fluhbulbe photographers took the is pictures of the convicted of tha administration e- Heady Srallce Mr Heady wu dressed In black with a blac cos) and black feathered hat She walked solemnly through ths gate But when her partner followed her aha smiled at him They stood do together In th crowded lobby and chatted briefly At times Mrs Hudy smiled and Hall returned her mile She talked in such low ton even Hall seemed to have trouble hearing her Hall wu bareheaded with Ms NEW YORK Nov 20 (B-The towering skyline of New York vanished off and on today behind an eerie cottony curtain at tha wont smog In year smothered tha Eastern Seaboard It grounded but not planes The New York Health Department said It waa keeping a "close on death reports to sea if the smog had reached tha killer stage Death recorda alwayi lag a couple of days and a spokesman sold there woe no sign yet of a rise in the death rate A alert" waa sounded In New Jersey warning residents to beware the harsh Irritating She waa atm unconscious 'tart night Attendants said she Buffered multiple fractures of tha pelvic bone and other injuries Highway Patrolman Womack said Newman wan driving hie 1950 model sedtn wont on Lexington and attempted to pose another 1950 model sedan driven by Mrs Percy Meadows Kennedy 44 I Louisiana of 541 Womack said Mrs Kennedy began a left turn onto Airline Just as Newman attempted to peas her car The two eon collided and Newman's vehicle careened Into ditch amt overturned or times before stopping about 60 yards from toe point of the cot listen Newman and Miss Hammond were thrown from their car ae It was overturning Womack said Mrs ear did not overturn end cams to stop a ehort distance from the point of the collision She was taken to Memorial Hospital but was dismissed Constable Jewel Rose and Deputy Constable Freed were the first peace offlcen to retch the accident scene Roes notified the Naval Alr Station and turned the investigation over to Womack Patrolman Jordan and Navy Chief George Buffington Justice of the Peace Johnny Roberto of Flour Bluff Investigated the collision Ha said Navy officials told him Newman and Miss Hammond were apparently returning to NAS from a squadron party at Moravian Hall Newman to survived by hie wife and two children boy 8 and girl 11 who redds at the enlisted quarters at NAS His hometown waa not available laat night Sow Moves Out 11 Pigs Move In Lawsuit Is Filed BEVERLY SHORES Xnd Nov 20 The 11 pigs that took Sweet Pea's piece In Mrs Fred Blllerbeck's pig sty got her landlords sued for 130000 damages today The fuss goes beck to Mrs complaints about the odors from toe neighboring corral where Mel Schwab kept his five-galtod saddle hone Lady Jons When she felled to get this town on Lake Michigan to ban llveitock llated last summer by set-Sweet Pea ha retaliated last summer by eet-19 a sow named ier yard Both owners finally relented and sent their animals to the country But still no ordinance against livestock so Mrs BUlerbeck brought the 11 pigs was too much for another neighbor Lewie Peters He filed tow damage suit In Porter County Circuit Court against Joseph Aldens gnd William 8 Josephs who own Mrs Blllerbeck'i house He celled the pigs health menace By PAUL BARKLEY Caller Correspondent WASHINGTON The story of the rapid growth of the Wrather ires television Interest which Alvarez in the past year and a half have acquired two TV stations and half Interest In Superior Television Inc one of three applicants for Corpus Christi Channel 10 was related yesterday during a hearing on allocation of the channel by the Federal Communications Commission Jack Wrather Jr Dallas end Los Angeles millionaire oil man end movie producer told toe story Tha 25-yesr-old Marine veteran of World War II said he became interested in TV through film producing activities and told how he came to purchase Tulsa TV elation KOTV from George Cameron Jr Tulsa oil man who owned 70 percent Interest In "toe elation Wrather said tola tree his first venture tn TV ownership Cinderella Story For Mrs Marla Helen Alvarez pretty 81 -year-old general manager of toe Tulem station It was a Clnderells-llke story Her TV Interests soomad from 15 percent stockholdings In toe summerof 1952 to 50 percent owner of KOTV end 60 percent owner of San Diego Station KFMB-TV and a one-fourth owner of Superior the Corpus Christi applicant Wrather sold after buying Cameron's Interest In KOTV he bought 15 percent held by John Hill paying Cameron $14 million and Hill $400000 New corporations were formed to hold the ownership of KOTV In these transactions Mre Alvarez's 15 percent stock In KOTV was Increased to 50 percent with Wrather end his mother Mrs Mute Wrather Dallas holding toe other half Good BuhImm Wrather Mid Mrs Alvarez was made 60 percent partner because she wee the one who had developed KOTV Into an outs tending station and because of her competence in TV a field In which he wu new He Mid he makes It practice to have people associated with him to have an Interest Greenlease Slayers Taken to Penitentiary Am tallflnm after JEFFERSON CITY Mo Nov 20 W-The Bobby GreenlesM kidnap killers reached the Missouri Penitentiary tonight where they will die together In the gu chamber one week before Christmas Ctrl Austin Hall 54 and Mrs Bonnie Heady 41 were received at the grim grey-walled prison in gathering darkneH at 6:85 pm They arrived In handcuffs and rhaine after an automobile trip from Kansas City where they were sentenced yeeteiflsy In federal court for tho heartleM killing of the fl-yrtr-olc: son of a Kansu City multimillionaire Tha 8 marshals guarding them alighted first with Hall following Then Mrs Heady got out of the car and wu first to enter IRRITATING SMOG OBSCURES NEW YORK SKYLINE from 70 floors up it looked liko this for Wlrepkata) 1 a usa 1 jh.