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    "ocrText": "COPY\nlty dear Friend:\nI an glad to lonour of your interest in the tarue facts\nconcerning the reburial of an American soldier.\nMy part in this matter was small, but I know that\nyou would like to have the facts concerning it.\nOn January 11 at 8:49 a.lle, I received a wire from\nthe President of the GI Forma at Corpus Christi saying: \"In direct\nconversation, the funeral home manager, T. Kernedy, stated that\nhe would not arrange for funcral services and use of hio facilities\nbecauso, he said, tother white people object to use of the funeral\nhome by people of origin'.\"\nUpon receipt of this wire, I telephoned the Congrossman\nfrom the District and asiced him to ascertain the facts for na if it\nwas possible to do so. Ho assured ma he would place a call to certain\npeople in Three Rivers and give me a reporte At noon that day I\ndiscussed this with some of my colleagues in Congress and with sono\nofficials in the Department of the Arny chazged with the responsibility\nof roburial for World War II voterans. At 5:30 that afternoon, I c heciced\nagain with the Congressman and found that ho had been unable to ro-\nceive a report from Three Rivers.\nI then placed a long distance telephone call to Texas\nand talked to taro disinterested, objective persons who were faniliar\nwith the facts. They told me (1) that the newspapers in Texxas had\nalready carried an Associated Pross story saying, a A fineral home\nat Rivers, has refused to allour the body of a Latin-Acerican\nsoldier in action to enter the hone because the whites von't\nlice it. The soldier is Felix Longoria, lidied in the Millippines\nin 1945. The body is en route home. T. W. Rennedy, manager of the\nRice Funeral Hone told a Corpus Christi Caller-lines reported Monday\nby telephone that twe just never malce a practice of letting them\n(Latin Apericans) use the chapel, and we don't want to start now. Host\nof then don't vant the chapel service'.\" and (2) they had both checked\nthe facts and found this to be taruo.\n[13 of 18]"
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