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    "ocrText": "SERVICES BRIEF AND MOVING\n(\nArlington Cemetery Rites\n&\nHeld for Private Longoria\nBy DAVID BOTTER\ncrimination\"-eve in. death-\nand friends in Three Rivers and\nWashington Bureau of The News\nagainst Pvt. Felix Longoria was\nCorpus Christi.\nstill a subject of dispute as the last\nThe women wept quietly at the\nARLINGTON NATIONAL CEM-\nETERY, Va., Feb. 16.-They buried\nsweet notes of \"Taps\" echoed over\ngrave as Mrs. Beulah Walton, a for-\nlittle Felix Longoria Wednesday on\nthe rolling knolls and around the\nmer San Antonio resident, held an\nwhite marble tablets that mark the\numbrella over Mrs. Longoria's\na quiet Arlington hillside while dip-\nfinal resting places of Americas\nbared head. Little Adelita was cu-\nlomats of two nations stood in bare-\nwar dead.\nrious, understanding but little, even\nheaded tribute to a simple Texas\nHis fur-coated widow, Beatrice,\nas her mother laid a picture on the\nboy they never knew.\nsaid there had been-that she was\ngrave of the mustached boy who\nThe President of the United\ndenied the use of a funeral chapel\nhad been her father.\nStates sent his military aide-a\nin the home town of Three Rivers\nIt was a mass burial for nineteen\nblunt-spoken man who said he was\nfor his reburial-because he was a\nwar dead. But the diplomats and\nthere because of \"the stupidity of\n\"Mexican.\"\nAmerican officials were there spe-\nthat undertaker.\"\nThe undertaker, T. W. Kennedy\ncifically for the Texas boy.\nAnd the i Mexican ambassador\nJr., said there had been a mis-\nJusto Sierra, first secretary of\nsent flowers for an American Army\nunderstanding, no discrimination.\nthe Mexican Embassy arrived with\nprivate whose burial had become a\nBut in the resultant dispute and\n1\nhis government's floral tribute\ncontention, with Latin-American\n&\n\"cause.\"\nborne by Mexican army and navy\nIt was more attention than the\ngroups in South Texas taking, the\n8\nofficers. Nearby stood Paul J. Rev-\nissue as a basis for crusade, ar-\nI\nshort and stocky fellow from Three\neley, head of the State Depart-\nrangements were made to bury\nS\nRivers, Live Oak County, could\nment's Mexican affairs desk.\nhave reasonably expected.\nFelix Longoria in Arlington.\nGen. Harry H. Vaughan, Presi-\nFor Felix Z. Longoria had been\nThe services were impressive,\ni\ndent Truman's blunt-spoken mili-\na pretty regular sort of a Latin-\nbrief, militarily moving.\ntary aide arrived early. He told re-\nAmerican in a South Texas county.\nFelix Longoria's family was here\nporters he was there for the burial\nHe had married and had a cute lit-\nhis widow, their charming 8-year-\nof \"that Longoria boy from Texas\ntle daughter when he was drafted\nold daughter, Adelita; his mother,\nwhich got all that unfavorable pub-\nat twenty-five. He shipped out\nMrs. Guadalupe Longoria Sr.; his\nlicity because of the stupidity of\nwith the 27th Division and in June,\nbrothers. Lupe, Alfredo and Al-\nthat undertaker.\"\n1945, Japanese small arms fire\nberto: his sister, Carolina; a sister-\nSen. Lyndon B. Johnson, who ar-\nkilled him on wooded Luzon.\nin-law-sent by air liner with funds\nraised by Latin-American groups\nSee LONGORIA, Page 19, Col. 2\nWhether there had been \"dis-\n[2 of 2]"
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