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...King Ranch employes near the scene were arrested on suspicion. Caesar Kleberg, manager of the southern division of the Ranch, Cousin of Robert Kleberg, head of the Ranch, and of Richard Kleberg, U. S. Representative from Corpus Christi, announced that he hoped the disappearance of the Blantons would be cleared up even if Kleberg employes were involved. That helped no more than search by air, auto and horseback which went on for a week...
Down an Episcopal church aisle in Corpus Christi, Tex. this week was to march a Jewish rabbi bearing a Menorah or seven-branched temple candelabrum. An Episcopal rector was to read from the Reformed Jewish prayer book. The rabbi in turn was to pronounce the solemn syllables of the King James version of the New Testament. Cheek by jowl in the church pews would sit Episcopalians and Jews of the only U. S. town named for the sacred Body of Christ...
...Corpus Christi's interfaith venture, probably unique in the U. S., owes much to the calibre of its brotherly shepherds. Rector Munds, 44, is president of the city's Community Chest, its Planning Commission, and chairman of the Boy Scouts. Rabbi Wolf, 30 next month, is a Rotarian, member of the Civic Music Association, chairman of the county Red Cross...
...boom as U. S. starting point of the new Pan-American Highway. Brownsville, once headquarters for Confederate blockade runners, is now a market town for the Lower Rio Grande's fruits & vegetables. Once a smuggling port known as "Colonel Kinney's Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort. Port Arthur, founded by John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, and Beaumont, birthplace of Athlete Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, form the world's biggest oil refining...
...Church and provided for full Catholic education of Catholic children. But Hitler let his young hotheads flout the Concordat to such an extent that by last month it had broken down completely. Though he took candle in hand and marched devoutly in one of the many well-attended Corpus Christi parades last month, Vice Chancellor von Papen seemed no longer persona grata to the Church. On his last visit to Rome the Pope did not deign to receive...