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    "ocrText": "BKIEF AND MOVING DALLAS\nNEWS\nArlington Gemetery Rites\nHeld for Private Longoria\nBy DAVID BOTTER\nfor his reburial-because he was a\ndent Truman's blunt-spoken mili-\nWashington Bureau of The News\n\"Mexican.\"\ntary aide arrived early. He told re-\nARLINGTON NATIONAL CEM-\nThe undertaker, T. W. Kennedy\nporters he was there for the burial\nof \"that Longoria boy from Texas\nETERY, Va., Feb. 16.-They buried\nJr., said there had been a mis-\nwhich got all that unfavorable pub-\nlittle Felix Longoria Wednesday on\nunderstanding, no discrimination.\nlicity because of the stupidity of\na quiet Arlington hillside while dip-\nBut in the resultant dispute and\nthat undertaker.\"\nlomats of two nations stood in bare-\ncontention, with Latin-American\nSen. Lyndon B. Johnson, who ar-\nheaded tribute to a simple Texas\ngroups in South Texas taking the\nranged for the Arlington burial, and\nboy they never knew.\nissue as a basis for crusade, ar-\nMrs. Johnson, and Rep. John Lyle\nThe President of the United\nrangements were made to bury\nof Corpus Christi stood not far\nStates sent his military aide-a\nFelix Longoria in Arlington.\naway as the family gathered at the\nblunt-spoken man who said he was\nThe services were impressive,\ngraveside while a Catholic chaplain\nthere because of \"the stupidity of\nbrief, militarily moving.\nsaid the military rites of burial.\nthat undertaker.\"\nFelix Longoria's family was here\nFelix Longoria's grave was just\nAnd the Mexican ambassador\nhis widow, their charming 8-year-\nover the hill from that of the late,\nsent flowers for an American Army\nold daughter, Adelita; his mother,\ngreat Gen. John J. Pershing, on\nprivate whose burial had become\na\nMrs. Guadalupe Longoria Sr.: his\ngrounds that belonged to the Po-\n\"cause.\"\nbrothers, Lupe, Alfredo and Al-\ntomac River home of Robert E. Lee,\nIt was more attention than the\nberto; his sister, Carolina; a sister-\na bugle call from the white marble\nshort and stocky fellow from Three\nin-law-sent by air liner with funds\nsarcophagus that holds the remains\nRivers, Live Oak County, could\nraised by Latin-American groups\nof the Unknown Soldier.\nhave reasonably expected.\nand friends in Three Rivers and\nThe army's band played a dirge,\nFor Felix z. Longoria had been\nCorpus Christi.\nthen \"Nearer, My God, To Thee\"\na pretty regular sort of a Latin-\nThe women wept quietly at the\nand Chaplain Ernest Pearsall said\n(\nAmerican in a South Texas county.\ngrave as Mrs. Beulah Walton, a for-\nthe Catholic service, praying:\nHe had married and had a cute lit-\nmer San Antonio resident, held an\n\"Eternal rest unto them, oh Lord,\n1\ntle daughter when he was drafted\numbrella over Mrs. Longoria's\nand may perpetual light shine upon\nS\nthem\nat twenty-five. He shipped out\nbared head. Little Adelita was cu-\nwith the 27th Division and in June,\nrious, understanding but little, even\nThe flag-draped steel casket was\n1945, Japanese small arms fire\nas her mother laid a picture on the\nunsheathed. The folded flag was\n;\nkilled him on wooded Luzon.\ngrave of the mustached boy who\npresented to Beatrice Longoria, and\n/\nWhether there had been \"dis-\nfrom across the knolls came those\n:\nhad been her father.\ncrimination\"-evi in death-\nIt was a mass burial for nineteen\nbugle echoes:\nagainst Pvt. Felix Longoria was\nwar dead. But the diplomats and\n\"Peaceful dreams\nstill a subject of dispute as the last\nAmerican officials were there spe-\nThe salute fired. The band played\nsweet notes of \"Taps\" echoed over\ncifically for the Texas boy.\nagain-\"Onward, Christian Sol-\nthe rolling knolls and around the\nJusto Sierra, first secretary of\ndiers, marching\nwhite marble tablets that mark the\nthe Mexican Embassy arrived with\nThe diplomats and the officials\nfinal resting places of Americas'\nhis government's floral tribute\nand the friends filed by the family.\nwar dead.\nborne by Mexican army and navy\nThey moved on up to the Unknown\nHis fur-coated widow, Beatrice,\nofficers. Nearby stood Paul J. Rev-\nSoldier's tomb, to place another\nwreath.\nsaid there had been-that she was\neley, head of the State Depart-\ndenied the use of a funeral chapel\nment's Mexican affairs desk.\nAnd Felix Longoria, the little\nin the home town of Three Rivers\nGen. Harry H. Vaughan, Presi-\nSee LONGORIA, Page 19, Col. 3\npeace-his \"last full measure of\nfuneral arrangements for Pvt. Fe-\npeople involved in this contro-\ndevotion\" paid, his \"cause\" for\nlix Longoria,' an organization at\nversy,' the resolution continued,\nothers to dispute.\nCorpus Christi had charged that\na\nmaking it doubly necessary that\nThree Rivers undertaker denied\nthe truth be known.\"\nInquiry to Be Sought\nuse of his chapel for reburial serv-\nIf the committee goes into action\nices for the soldier killed on Luzon.\nit would have power to subpoena\nAustin Bureau of The News\nThese charges were denied.\nwitnesses and take testimony. Its\nAUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 16.-A leg-\n\"Without the public knowing the\nfindings would be made in a report\nfacts, injustice is being done to the\nback to the House.\nislative inquiry into charges of dis-\ncrimination in reburial plans for\nthe Latin American soldier at\nThree Rivers will be sought Thurs-\nday in the House of Representa-\ntives.\nRep. J. F. Gray of Three Rivers\nsaid he filed a resolution with\nHouse Speaker Durwood Manford\nWednesday calling for a 5-member\ncommittee to \"learn the truth or\nuntruth of the allegations.\"\nThe resolution said. \"so many\nconflicting reports have been cir-\nculated and continue to circulate.\nsome alleging that discrimination\nhad been shown in the handling of"
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