Corpus Christi Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

tee uiiristlime0 COMPLETE LOCAL NEWS CLOUDY WwUwf luiu hnrui VOLUME NO 172 falm4 woiri elsss mil maiur tt rb Mai Mn at Cvrpui Cbtiaii Tnss BnSir Mi Act tt Hindi CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS SATURDAY JANUARY 22 1955 Sixteen Pages Today-PRICE FIVE CENTS Navy Task Force ails for Formosa AIRMEN VISITS Paying Way Opposed Reinforcements Leave Man ilo TAIPEH Formosa Jan 22 (AP) A Niv fast carrier task force left Manila Sav early today ana was reported but not confirmed officially headed toward the troubled Formosan waters which swirled all week with hot air and sea action and Red China's biggest amphibious invasion of the civil war The reported move to beef up 7tli Fleet units charged with the defense of Formosa emphasized Washington reports that the United SLtcs might nid in moving Nationalist troops off outpost' islands threatened by Red invaders PRISON GUARD HOSTAGES AFTER RELEASE five youthful guards shown in office after three-day ordeal Hlrrphatal CHAMPS ON BLOCK Nicaraguan President Tells Rebels To Quit Investigation of 80-Hour Prison Revolt Underway Nationalist warplanes struck back last night and today at Yiki-angslian island invaded Tuesday by the Communists and won after bloody lighting against National lit guerrilla North of Tot'hem Yikiangshan is 8 miles north of the Nationalist Tschen Islands which' are 200 miles north of Fnr-j mow and 13 miles from the China 1 mainland The 33000-ton carriers Essex Yorktown and Kearsargc pulled out of Manila Bay for what a Navy spokesman there termed exercises st a "regular operational area' for their action in holding and I (they) pulled their guns from their threatening with death five guards dungarees pockets slipped out the and six follow convicts clips or bullets and tossed them Spokesman for the negotiating on the table before us we did not committee Erwin Canham ed- know whether the men would By HAM Hl'MMERUN MANAGUA Nicaragua Apparently writing off the Costa Rican revolt as hopeless Nicaragua President Anaslasio Somoza raid pt7lf'DTKnmartin7val mKCC1 attache at the US Embassy here I nid he had no knowledge of the xle 10 to disposition of the three rarrier JJItaiidiwwtaec The Nicaraguan strongman ex- He added that US naval authorities on Formosa had made to Communist but financial help to get there Keating said yesterday he will introduce legislation to pay "all reasonable transportation subsistence and other expenses" Keating said would be tragic for (he men themselves as well as tlieir families if anyone held back because of the Similar Bill Sparkman indicated he might of-fer'similar legislation in the Senate if the executive departments could not defray the cost any other way Sparkman suggested in an inter-' view that Air Force planes might carry relatives of the imprisoned Americans at least as far as Japan or elsewhere near the Chinese mainland He said -he would favor free transportation for all parents and wives "who may want to make the trip" Potter a legless World War veteran conceded in a separate interview that "extreme tor the relatives would make it "awfully to vote against any such proposal Play It Up But if the US government were to give the Red Chinese offer any kind of official standing Potter raid the Communists would be able "to play it up all over the Potter said this might tend to obscure "their illegal action In Jailing the Americans So far the State Department has taken the position the US government can not "in good conscience encourage those who may wish to gp into an area where the normal protections of an American passport can not be But without saying so the department indicated it would not block any of the relatives who may want to take up the Red Chinese offer WASHINGTON IP Sen Potter (R-Mich) said today proposed legislation to pay expenses of relatives to visit 17 Americans imprisoned in Red China would serve only to the fires of vicious Such a bill was proposed yesterday by Rep Keating (R-NYi Sen Sparkman (D-Ala) said he was thinking along similar lines So far the families of only two of the jailed American have accepted the Red Chinese offer to let them come Others Hesitate Some others who hesitated mentioned the expense angle and some obviously had taken notice of an Air Force warning that this government can not "assume any responsibility for your travel In Communist China which must necessarily be undertaken at your own risk" This referred to the fact since this country has never recognized the Red Chinese there are no US" diplomatic representatives in China who might be called on for help should any of the visiting Americans run' into trouble No American has been authorized to visit China in the five years the Reds have held sway there' No Funds At UN headquarters in New York it was reported last night the UN was ready to make travel arrangements for the relatives but a spokesman add the international organization has no funds to pay their expenses Round trip plane fare would come to nearly 82000 The American Red Cross slepped in yesterday and said it would provide up to the full amount of the trip cost to any of the next of kin who may be "authorized by the US government and desire to go BOSTON Jan 22 (AP)-Mas-eachusetta penal authorities were back in full control of ancient state prison today as investigations began into the 80-hour holdout of four long-term hostage-holding convicts The escape-mad inmates surrendered their weapons and their strong-hold inside the prison yesterday to a seven-man civilian negotiating committee in return for "some glimmer of after their long prison terms Massachusetts Atty Gen George Fingold said he personally will prosecute the four who face additional sentences up to SO years no ltor of the Christian Science Monitor said the civic group made "no bargain or with the convicts but promised to try "to get something so the convicts have some hope for the future" Describes Climax Canham whose committee was chosen by the convicts themselves described the tense climax of the discussions inside the grim granite Jail like this: "Until the precise moment when statements whatever on the move-1 vic onhe fl1" In a interview granted after the Costa Rican General Staff announced -in San Jose the capture menta of those vessels Kilmartin added that Rear Adm Frederick Kivetta commander Livestock Show Auction Set Today Caller-Times News Service The champions of the 1935 Nueces County Junior Livestock Show along with ribbon winners of each class of fat livestock and poultry will be sold at auction at 6 pm today at the Livestock Pavilion here A record 281 4-H and FFA prize livestock and poultry projects will be sold by Auctioneer Aubrey Leigh of Alice The auction will conclude the three-day county junior show which has drawn capacity crowds from Nueces and adjoining counties of the Coastal -Bend Nearly 400 livestock and poultry projects have been exhibited by boys and girts and judged by qualified agricultural experts since Thursday Highlight Show Highlighting the livestock show program this morning was a parade featuring 104 units High school bands and marching units decorated floats commercial float entries and farm machinery displays were among tha attractions of the parade A band concert is slated for this afternoon along with a series of kits and demonstrations by Nueces County Home Demonstration Club women and 4-H girls The suction sale will follow The grand champion fat steer of the county show exhibited by Dudley Johnson Banquete 4-H boy will be the first animal to enter the auction ring at tonight's sale Second to enter the ring will be the grand champion fat barrow shown by Kenneth Keltner Flour Bluff FFA boy Third To Enter Chilean Mining Firm Seeks Plant Site Here The National Mining and Engineering Co of Santiago Chile is considering Corpus Chrisli as possible site for a processing and chemical plant for making end use products from ores and cheml- of the last two rebel bases in the northwest tip of the country The feeling in the Costa Rican capital was that the revolt was virtually over y-v Somoza said the rebel appear "in bad In a different situ- alion with no defense against the fighter planes the United Slates turned over to (Costa Rican President Jose) The United States sold four Mustang fighter planes to Costa Rica at the behest of the Organization of American Slates The San Jose government asked the OAS to intercede in the situation accusing Nicaragua of aiding the rebels Nicaragua denied the charge but an OAS investigating commission found that the Insurgents had received help from outside Costa Rica The commission set up a buffer zone over 18 miles of the Nicaragua ivCoste Rican frontier from the Pacific Ocean east in an effort to- keep the rebellion from flaring into open warfare between the taro nations Somoza slid he feels the revolutionaries "should a truce if Figueres offers "Ml guarantees to let the exiles return and prom-toes free choose tragedy or hope "We had talked back and forth for some six hours to try and bring them to choose hope" The convicts among them notorious bank robber and escape artist Theodore Green listed their griev ances for the committee All complaints concerned the medieval facilities of the 130-year-old bastille which is due to be abandoned later this year for a new prison in Norfolk Sold Canham: Barred Door "Teddy Green asked me to step into one of then gloomy dungeons He shut the barred door and turned out the lights in the corridor Then in his tense hard voice he described life In then cells That was about 2 am Friday morning and I have rarely had a more Intensely moving 2 am "And so for three solid hours we sat and listened mostly The convicts complained of their utter frustration but most of all of the horrors of protracted solitary confinement they said "No mawkish note no fain sympathy no disguin of their crimes entered the discussion They freely averred they had a debt to pay to society But they wanted to be brought to trial to get on with their punishment and to whether-way down at the end of the road there might not be year or two of liberty left for them" Ganrds Wont Talk The five hostage guards unharmed clean shaven and refreshed despite their long ordeal of threats and captivity were reluctant to talk about their experience Their spokesman Warren Harrington said "we're tired and that is The negotiating committee singled out for special praise the Rev Edward Hartigan the prison's Catholic chaplain the Rev Howard Kellett the Protestant chaplain and Dr Samuel Merlin all of whom made constant efforts to end the revolt without bloodshed 1 The Green robber-gunman Walter Balben rapist Joseph Flaherty and cop slayer Fritz were returned immedi-RIV) PRISON Page of the Formosa Strait Patrol is in Hong Kong with his flagship the USS Salisbury Sound to a recreational visit to the crew Vice Adm Alfred Pride commander pf the UjS 7th Fleet also is in Hong Kong on a visit and is scheduled to leave sometime after Monday aboard hie flagship the cruiser Helena The attache said he mentioned that so that no fancy conclusions would be drawn from their routine movements A wdl-placed naval source at the Pacific Fleet Headquarters in Pearl Harbor said it would be a "safe assumption" the carriers were headed for the Formosa area Each of the ships carry a 100-plane striking force President Eisenhower was reported preparing to ask congressional approval for such an operation if necessary Ns Withdrawal But Nationalist Premier Yui raid today hit government is firmly to withdrawal from any offshore islands The English-language newspaper China News said President Chiang Kai-shek's government has ordered every outpost island defended at all costa just like Yikiangshan The Nationalists said 720 guerrillas on Yikiangshan fought to the last man against overwhelming Communist air sea and land forces The newspaper also said Chiang has ordered Foreign Minister George Yeh to stay on lit Washington until further notice Yeh wai reported as saying he -was coming home after apparently disappointing talks with Secretary of State Dulles Htt Shipping Hospital District Hearings Set cals the Chamber of Commerce said today The company estimates its annual payroll and expenditure! at such a plant would exceed $2-5 million Copini of a letter from the com' pany explaining its needs have gone to all CofC members who are being asked to assist in the search for a local site A letter from A Holt general manager of the company with an office in Washington DC said the firm needs at least one block of properties a manufacturing" or industrial plant site already in existence with buildings and open space deep water or a site on a deep water port Deep water port siding facilities are needed on or near the property to permit unloading of Liberty size steamers along with storage facilities for stockpiling up to £000 tons of raw ores The company would buy or rent the property Holt said the site could be in the city limits outskirts or within IS miles of Corpus Chrlsti or nearby points that afford the needed facilities along the Gulf Ports from Beaumont Texas to Brownsville Texas is suitable to us Holt wrote we can get these facilities: that is unloading and pier siding on the property and natural gas or plenty of fuel oil German Spy's AF Associate Faces Ouster WASHINGTON The Air Force has accused Col Patrick Hayes of associating with a Gcr- man girl who pleaded guilty to spying for Russia and ordered him to show cause why he should not be dismissed from the service Tlie girl brunette Irmgard Schmidt 24 was described by the prosecution in Germany last month as one of the most dangerous sides in Berlin since World War II The Air Force said there was no indention she got any secrets Iran Hayes formerly an Intelligence officer there but it raised questions of his "judgment and HayCs 47 and listed by the Air Force as married was notified yesterday be could have a hearing before a board of senior officers The Air Force said the outcome could be discharge from the service under other than hon-- nrable conditions The proceeding was described as administrative! balance of the ingredients can be not a court-martial trucked in or by Alice Girl Seriously Hurt By Automobile The grand champion lamb exhibited by Robert Mickan Bishop FFA youth will be the third to enter the sales ring Prize poultry entries including the grand champion capon exhibited by Charles Simnadier Banquete 4-H youth and the grand champion pen of broilers shown by Jimmy' Huh-sucker of the Tuloeo-Midway FFA Chapter will sell jiext After the sale of grand champions of the show the reserve champion fat steer fat barrow fat lamb and poultry will be offered for sale All prime animals and birds then will be sold followed by all choice and good livestock and poultry Prominent among buyers at the 1954 Nueces Junior Show and other previous shows have been civic and service clubs of the Coastal Bend area Many of their purchases have been donated to the March of Dimes drive or to Boys City or some other organization pension of the hospitals and it is estimated that If the hospital district is created the expense to the taxpayers will be 31 to 33 cento on a 8100 valuation the new ruling a board of from five to seven members would be appointed to handle the money for the two hospitals thus relieving the city and Effect Four Counties Sen Shireman said the bill if passed would also affect four other counties in Texas which have a population of 190000 or over which to necessary to have a hospital district created Shireman said that even if action to taken now to institute bill in the next legislature will be a year before the system becomes effective He added however that if such a bill Is to be put before the legislature city and county officials and hospital trustee! should come to a decision this month Shireman stressed this morning that affairs of the two hospitals concerned in Nueces County and CaUer-TImee New Service A nine-year-old Alice girt was struck by a truck and seriously 1 injured this morning while criming the street in the 200 block of Sid bury The child Rebecca Rio of 1426 The Nationalist Defense Ministry South King was admitted to phy-said Us bombers flew out in sicians and Surgeons Hospital six waves during the night against I with a broken Irg and arm facial Yikiangshan Island and Commu- lacerations and possible internal nist shipping in the area injuries X-rays were being taken It claimed a hit on an 8500-ton late this morning City 'and county officials decided today to hold public hearings meetings next week on the advisability of the creation of a hospital district in Nueces County The City Council will met Wednesday and county commissioners will meet Friday to discuss the issue The public is invited to attend both meetings City and county officials state legislators and trustee! of Manorial Hospital and Hilltop Sanitarium the two Nueces hospitals affected met at Memorial this morning to discuss the issue Sen William Shirnman told the group they should make decision this month County Judge John Young explained the proposed legislative bill to more than 50 men including several physicians Ovation of such a district woqld require the approval of the state legislature and the voters of Nueces County City Comity Coetrlbats At the present time Young says- the county and city are each giving Memorial Hospital 8162000 annually for operating expense and debt service Added to this it 8115000 which the county contributes to Hilltop Sanatorium money is not enough for the operating expenses and ex- Motorcycle Officer Ted Green who investigated the accident said the girl was struck by a 1954 pickup truck driven by Gregorio Guerra 26 of 2064 Joslin in Alice hip and said bombs sank two other vessels All planes returned despite heavy antiaircraft fire over Yikiangshan the Ministry said WEATHER ART OR MONSTROSITY Ultra modernistic Statue Stirs Heated Controversy 1 4 By BILL BECKER I "A shameless soulless faceless I sledding come next budget LOS ANGELES W-Ncarly every raceless gutless Other random quotes from those man and his sister posed as opined He introduced a who slipped through guards sta-art critic here today after the hur- resolution asking that the sculpture jtioned by the Public Works De- plans for creating the hospital district be given wide publicity eo that the taxpayers will fully understand -Taxpayers have a vote before It becomes Forecast to Corpus Christ! and vicinity: Cloudy and warmer tonight and Sunday wth occasional rain Sunday Low to tonight 50-54 high for Forecast tow and high to B-j VETER AN EWSM AN the issue will also on the proposition a law he said Ville Losers To Appeal TV Channel Award Awarding of Channel 10 in Cor- his attorneys have studied the ex-pus Christ! Jo KS1X Television aminer's recommendation He said Inc was recommended in Wash-' he did not know if his company ington yesterday but prospect! of will appeal Hughes added that the getting the station on the air in the company would want to consider be sent to the melting pot and partment: near future -appeared dim Mrs Maria Helen Alvarez of Tulsa vice president of Superior Television Inc which also sought Channel 10 announced she would appeal the recommendation of a Federal Communications Commission examiner to award the channel to KSIX This could delay final decision indefinitely Examiner Gifford Irion in recommending that KSIX be given the channel said the applies tions of Superior Television Inc and KEYS-TV Inc should be LIFTS BAMBOO CURTAIN It is time to take stock of Communist China Doak Barnett a member of the Chicago Daily News foreign rfaw has written a series of articles analyzing Red China's emergence as the strongest power in Asia Barnett is eminently qualified to take stock of Communist China He was born in Shanghai He was educated as a youth in China He served as a Marine in China He was the last American correspondent to leave China after the Reds took over He remained In Peiping "as a student" as long as the Chicago Daily News thought prudent and when cafe in Hong Kong wrote the "Behind the Bamboo Curtain" series in-1949 Barnett's new articles are considered the most significant on the major development! in China since the Reds came to power Reed these important articles on Red China beginning Monday in The Times 48-32 66-70 Alice 30 64-68 and Kingsville 50-54 66-70' Sailing weather Winds mostly easterly 15-20 miles per hour tonight and Sunday Highest temperature yesterday and lowest this morning: Cliff Maus Airport 71 35 Chamber of Commerce station 09 45 Water temperature at Port Aransas this morning 50 Sunrise 7:21 am tomorrow sun set 6: 03 pm today moonrise 10:07 am tomorrow moonset 10:10 pm tomorrow Gulf of Mexico tides high 1:06 am tomorrow low 9:20 pm today and 8:51 am tomorrow Rainfall deficiency for 1955 29 of aa Inch ried flurried unveiling of an ultra modernistic bronze statue decorating the new police building They almost had to cal! the police at Its first guarded showing yesterday The only unconcerned people were the four elongated figures in sculptor Bernard Rosenthal's 14-foot statue which he rushed Into place before irate city coundlmen threatened to tear It dowa and melt It up (The group representing a father a young bey a mother and the police department Is dedicated to the protection of the the sculptor said-looks like nobody's family this aide of Mara At least not like councilman Harold Harby's family the matter seriously because of Its investment in the application The examiner's recommendation to the FOC will become final unless an appeal la filed within 40 days Vann Kennedy general manager of Radio Station KSIX said be and the other atoddxdden of the television company were gra- tilled by the Initial derision He said he would have no other statement until he bas studied the opin: ion The examiner's reearaineit-dation which came as a result of Elderly at that it's what they call cu bar-ism ain't Professional "A handsome piece of architectural sculpture" Two high school Councilman Harby for pictorial purposes hung his hat on the mother's squash-melon shaped head and pointed to the figure In her arms: "This is a This was greeted by cries of "no no don't let him do from Rosenthal's French-bom wife Ha-line She described the statue as "the most realistic statue my husband has tver recast into a plaque honoring policemen killed in the line of duty The resolution was referred to the police and fire commission and to City Atty Roger Amcbergh Arnebcrgh taking his first view of the highly burnished statue through dark glasses said offhand he thought the council had the right to tear tt down mce the city had fulfilled its contract with Rosenthal The sculptor who is receiving 810000 for his work promptly declared he will sue if necessary to keep his angular hand-hammered group standing One councilman hinted that the City Art Commission which approved the statues facet tough Hughes general manager I lengthy hearings on the three KEYS declined comment until See XT raja I.