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VALLEY SUNDAY
THE WEATHER
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Fair, Warmer
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HARLINGEN, McALLEN, BROWNSVILLE, SUNDAY, FEB. 12, 1939
No. 76
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Secret Ship Making
Test Flight
Donna Unit Is Named
In New Suit
Association
State’s Plan
CITRUS MEN
GET WARNING
Return To Power Is
Asked By Party
PRESS FIGHTS
BOND ACTION
Weather for the Valley
Sunday will be fair and
warmer. There will be no
material change in the river
during the nertt 24 to 48
hours.
Thousands Expected
To Attend Event
State Raps Federal
Cotton Policy
N a r c o t i c Situation
Called Alarming
Spending Acts Are
Buffeted Anew
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WESLACO Claim that the
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Enforce Rules
ANOTHER FIRM BRITISH, FRENCH NOD
FACES CHARGE
OF VIOLATION
Radio Address Tells
Of ‘Confusion’
Charles K Deval! of Mount Ver-
non voiced the opinion Mavse would
mak* a "crackerjack" highway com-
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| other than those from the Valley individually do a'l they mu’d IB
means, in a physical world.
matter behaves when conditions are
right for “the law” to act is the
way the scientist confirms the ex-
istence of the hypothetical law.
PEGGED PRICE
LEADER HITS
‘SCARE PLAN’
posed bill, which w-ould
the present 7 000-pound
chance to state their cases
Kelley declared, in letters receiv-
ed here Saturday, that those favor-
ing increases will be given a chance
. to offer rebuttal testimony at the
I hearing
The initial hearing was conduct-
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was over peace negotiations or
plans to continue the war was not
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HARLINGEN Another Valles-
firm was added to the list of in-
dividuals and organizations charg-
ed with having violated some regu-
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Brownsville Prepares For Charro DaysfDR IS SAID
MW FESTIVE MOOD 125 HEAVILY LOADED TRUCKS ROAR OUT OF VALLEY AREA ™ERED
price plan for grapefruit when a
complaint was filed here Saturday
naming Rogers and
Donna as violators.
The Donna firm is charged with
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of spirit “I know in whom I have Ionia turned their military might
believed and am persuaded, that Saturday against Valencia
He is able to keep that which 1 I efforts in
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of the 62 Cardinals
session held while
were passing
Saturday** “safest driver” was
the operator of a dark Chevrolet
sedan bearing the license number
650-574.
He was observed by state pa-
trolmen near Weslaco, and fol-
lowed for s<ime distance. Patrol-
men said he kept within speed
limit*, made proper hand signal*,
observed all stop signs, and other-
wise observed the laws of the
road.
This driver is entitled to two
f;ee tickets at any Valiev Inter-
state theatre, upon presentation of
his drivers license at any box of-
fice for one week from today.
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FALHRR1AS—One hundred
twenty-five heavily loaded trucks
rn route from the Lower Rio Grande
Valley to markets in north Texas
and adjoining states roared through
here Saturday without molestation
or detention hv weight inspectors
of the department of public safety.
An unusually heavy movement
nt Valley citrus fruit by motor truck
was rxpr< trd all night Saturday anti
Sunday, as virtually every Valley
pa< king shed was loading as many
as a half dozen trucks for the high-
way haul to market.
At Edinburg information was that
trucker* moving out of the Valley
section with citrus were being
weighed only at San Antonio, and
that when they told weight in-
spectors they were loaded in the
Valley they were permitted to go
through without fine.
Leniency of inspectors came as
result of an injunction served prior
tn 3 am Saturday on J W Long-
ley. chief of the license and weights
division of the department The
temporary restraining order, issued
by Civil District .Judge Bryce Ferg-
uson in 92nd district court at Edin-
burg late Friday afternoon, was
sought principally on grounds that
weight inspectors unnecessarily de-
layed truckers in weighing, at the
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AUSTIN— iJP — State Agriculture
Commissioner J E McDonald Sat-
urday charged the U S govern-
ments cotton policy was holding
an umbrella over Mexico.”
He was commenting on reports
Will Clayton of Houston was dis-
cussing with Mexican officials a
deal whereby Texas interests would
Jend Mexico money in return for
an option on its cotton crop
“There are 4.000,000 bales of
Texas cotton stored in warehouses
under government loans.” McDon-
ald said, "yet buyers are forced
to go out of this country to get
cotton "
London and Paris see signals al-
ready that Franco wants to deal
with them despite military aid he
received from Germany and Italy.
British and French capital for
reconstruction in Spain would be
the chief inducement The British
market, vital for Spain's exports,
is another
Financial circles here believe
Franco must get foreign money
from London because economic sit-
uations and closed economy sys-
tems make the possibility of float-
ing loans in Berlin or Rome high-
ly problematical.
Thus British “pound diplomacy"
is counted on to turn the scales
against the dictators in Spain.
We see it destroy cour- culture. J E McDonald, and my-
self invite you to suggest any con-
structive efforts for this program
which has the whole-hearted back-
ing of an overwhelming majority of
growers and shippers and citrus
men nf the Valley, as clearly de-
monstrated at the Friday nigh* mass
meeting at Pharr "
W D WOODROOF
Enforcement officer
tory or defeat. ’ from indoniing any man for office ..
All those favoring the increase
who will not be able to attend the
hearing were urged by Kelley to
write senators and representatives
gram.
The complaint and a request for
cancellation of the firm's license
was filed with C E McCormick,
agent for the commissioner of agri-
culture. who set the case for hear-
ing at 9 30 am Tuesday. February
14. in Harlingen. The request for
petition cancellation of license was
filed on behalf of the Growers In-
BROWNSVILLE — This
historic border city is in a
rare festive mood on the eve
of the second renewal of
what is rapidly developing
into one of Texas’ most pic-
turesque and interesting cel-
ebrations — Charro Days
Fiesta.
The colorful costume show, tn
which mono people from Browns-
ville and other parts of the Valley
will appear in costume, and 5.000
men will demonstrate their manly
beards, opens Wednesday afternoon
with a horse show.
From then on until the curtain
rings down on the entire series of
events Sunday night in Matamoros
there will be an almost continuous
round of events most of which are
entirely different from the routine
celebrations held in the country.
For Charro Days is an event like
I no other
The principal feature of the fies-
cept for physical things upon which ta is the enthusiasm of people here
it may act. we could know nothing and in other Valley cities in taking
a hand personally. Thousands of
costumes have been sold and dele-
bout the physical laws of the uni- gations will come in groups from '
verse P ‘ ‘
and find our satisfying proofs of
the literal truth of the Scripture
when it says that God 'the creator
of all things) is love Love of music
is a prerequisite to creating great
music: love of painting, for the de-
velopment of a great painter Ry
observation we learn that love is
the great creative force of music,
painting, literature and the family
life
ley citrus:
"This is official notice to you that
the McDonald minimum price plan
is Mill the law. regardless of vici-
ous propaganda and rumors to the
contrary The orders, rules and
regulations pertaining thereto will
be vigorously enforced, and viola-
tors uncovered and prosecuted.
“You will serve your own best
power of fear, only by watch- interests and the interests of the dustry Committee by Brown and
Asked For Hearing
McALLEN — large delegations i
from the Valley are urged to at-
tend a second senate committee
hearing on the truck load law at
Austin Tuesday. February 14 by
Senator Robers Kelley ut Edinburg
author of the bill.
The hearing is for the purpose
of offering opponents of the pro- I
increase '
limit, a
Criss of Harlingen, committee at-
torneys
The complaint alleges that
Hoffman, manager of the C C. Keith
| Citrus Groves near Mission sold 14
truck loads of fruit totaling over
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ing the dinner at 7 p. m., in the
Madison hotel.
Word was received Saturday by
Keith McCanse. chan man of the
organization committee, that Joseph
Porter, traffic expert of the Port
of New Orleans, had agreed to
come here for an address Also
‘on the program will be William
But they can verify, or ex- ) other Valley cities to take part, all
plode. those theories only by put- of them costumed, all the men
ting them to the test by physical wear.ng beards
Brownsville had a taste of Charro
days Thursday night when the first
costume ball, the Buccaneer ball,
was held, and 400 people gathered
in costume-
Other similar events on a much
more elaborate scale are apart of
the Fiesta program
The first event on the program
is the horse show to ba held Wed-
nesday afternoon at Tucker Field
More than $1000 in cash and tro-
phies will be given away in the
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devotee^ of right justice standing features will be
between
WESLACO-Valley shippers Sat-
urday reported receipt of the fol-
lowing telegram from W D Wood-
roof. administrator of the recent
minimum price regulations on Vai- ^7,. mmimum pnee pro-
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AUSTIN Ranger Captain
J. B Wheatley Saturday described
narcotics distribution in Texas a<
“alarming" and said it was one of
the most perplexing problems fac-
ing law enforcement officials
The veteran ranger said thous-
ands of small outlets for wholesale
narcotic distribution made enforce-
ment difficult.
“There is no such thing as a small-
time narcotic offender.” Captain
Weatley said •'Whether jieddlers
dispose of one cigarette of mari-
juana or one gram of white’ nar-
cotics at a time, they contribute
largely to the support of whnle-
which
Pontiff
Thirty-one
attended the
Prince and Peasant
by the Pontiffs bxly in the Sis- |
tine Vh.'pel. and swore to observe
the constitution which governs the |
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VATICAN CITY —Pope
Pius XI. a tiny figure In the vast. |
still Basilica of St. Peter, the apostle
lay in death Saturday night in the
chapel .of the sacrament, lighted
by 24 candles and w atched by four
noble guards.
His body had b«en borne from
the Sistine Chapel tn St Peter's
with rich, medieval ceremony on
the day he had expected to address
the Italian bishop# nn the 10th an-
niversary of the Latoran accord,
the pact between the Church and
Italian state which gave him the
name nf "the Pope of the concilia-
tion."
The removal nf his bier follow-
ed the first general congregation
of the cardinals, the princes nf the
church, in preparation fnr the con-
collapsed m the Valley was branded , clave which will elect th ■
as “one man's opinion and not the
sentiment of growers, shippers and
business men of this Valley," in a
radin address over station KRGV
here Saturday night by W. D
Woodroof. Fd.nburg. pegged-price
plan administrator.
"It was definitely a setback to the
entire constructive program.”
Woodroof said, ostensibly referring
to the an article on the McDonald
plan by Editor Carl C Magee in
the Valley Morning Star nf last
w eek, “because the newspaper head-
line and account stated the failure
nf the plan as a matter nf fact, not
opinion
“You know the scarehead line
saying the McDonald plan had col-
lapsed had much the same effect
as the now-famous radio broadcast
by the Orson Welles players de-
scribing an invasion of this coun-
try by warriors from Mars It
spread confusion, alarm and doubt
throughout the Valley." he said
Woodroof defended the McDonald
$10-a-ton plan as a success, declar-
ing in the introsiuction to his ad-
dress. •
“The reason I am on the air to
night is to reassure the people, to
brand the accusations as one man’s
opinion, and not the sentiments of
J the growers, shippers and business sale dealers and a day s total sales
men nf this Valley " reaches high proportions
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Injunction Prevents
Inspectors From
Weighing Units
ed in the physical reactions of man the law The Commissioner of Agri-
and beast.
age. initiative and energy* anrf
we know it as a great destructive
thing, by what it does to people So
learn tn fear fear, and to shun
We try tn immunize ourselves
to it. that it may not attack us and
destroy us.
We cannot know that faith in
G<»d destroys fear, except as men
and women demonstrate by their
behavior that faith in God does
destroy fear But as year by year,
in thousands of cases, we see fear
destroyed by faith, we come to
know *hat it is true and we can tell
men with confidence that faith m •
God and His purposes in the world Spanish Frontier) — T> The Snan-
will dispel fear and give serenity . ish Insurgent conquerors of Cata-
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Wagner. St Louis, secretary-man-
ager of the United Fruit and Vege-
table association.
These two men. McCanse »aid.
have the experience and informa-
tion the Valley needs in undertak-
ing the establishment of a freight
league. They not onlv v. ill addn ss
the meeting on the accomplish-
ment* of similar groups in other
sections, but will be available to
assist in answering questions which
will arise at such a meeting.
McCanse said Saturday that the
committee had had excellent res-
ponse to the invitations which were
mailed out Tuesday. He estimates
there will be 300 men at the din-
ner. And most of them, he said,
have expressed enthusiasm for es- .
ubhshment of the league.
NEW YORK —uF>- A n*w secret
twin-motored army pursuit mono-
plane crashed into a tree on the
edge of Mitchel Field on Long
Island Saturday night at the end of
a near-record transcontinental test
flight.
The pilot and sole occupant. Lieu-
tenant Ren S Kelsey, crack test
flier, was saved from serious injury
by the plane's all-steel cabin.
Kelsey took off from March
(Fuld. C I f at 8:12 a in <CST>
stopped briefly at Amarillo, Texas,
and Dayton. Ohio and arrived
i here at 3:57 p. m His elapsed time
of 7 hours 45 minutes was only 16
minutes and 35 seconds longer than
Howard Hughes’ 1937 Rurbank
Calif-Newark. N .J, non-stop rec-
ord-
HARLINGEN — Two outstanding
authorities on traffic problems will
address the organization meeting
of the Rio Grande Delta Traffic
League here Monday night when
approximately 300 Valley business
men will decide the pattern upon
i which the organization will be
built.
The business men have been in-
vited by a group of 30 business
and civic leaders who are sponsor-
have committed unto Him. against
that day."
So we see that God is helpless in
His own world, to prove His case,
except through men and women
who believe in Him. The demon- j
stration of His power over human
life and human behavior, which we
fail to make in our lives, is never
made. Each has his own task to
do; his own demonstration tc make
(C«nua*«d ra<« * C«luu 2)
ed last Tuesday night at Austin,
when about 3.000 persons jammed
the senate chamber.
"Passage of the bill depends on
the people. Unless public senti-
ment and the rest of Texas is like
ours, we cannot puss the bill,"
Kelley said.
He added that the vote on the
measure will be close, and a dif-
ference of one vote might spell vic-
•pHE ONLY way we can know
wuth certainty anything about
the law of gravitation is by a study
of its effect on .natter. Seeing
physical things behave in identical
ways under identical conditions
makes it possible finally for the
scientists to formulate an unvarying
rule of behavior which they call
the law of gravity. The objects
affected by gravity did not make
the law. The law existed and they
^•»acted in conformity with
cannot see. hear, feel or
gravity as an abstract thing
only as it acts upon physical things
that we can know anything about
It and how it behaves
No one can tell us definitely w hat
electricity is All
we can know is
how it behaves
w’hen we harness
physical
Under
conditions
aid of
imple-
ments, electricity
does the same
thing each time
and so we have
come tn know a
great deal about
the behavior of
electricity. Ex-
AUSTfV r Assumption bv »he
state f appmximatelv sjnnnnonnn
addit"”o»l rnuntv r«*d bonds is op-
posed hv the Texas Pre« Associa-
tion ’• hich sdnnted a reso!n*’nn tn
effort in r1os’n<» ■ >” rf
t« v int«>r business meeting h^r*
Sat’irdav
Tho association will hold its regu-
lar 1940 annual convention in I.ub-
boot- Jun** 9 in and 11
•'We believe th 4 such a nlan "
•hr resolution read “would <et a
dangerous nrmodent and conMitutr
an unfair and unlust diversion of
t'lyrs r<>|)« ct<>d fr ”i the motorist
and retard the work nf mm'leting
• hr h!"hway svstem now ir pro-
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Rills hv which the state would
assume the bonds are pending in
♦hr legislature
T">n as«<>f' <tinn ” >« urged by J
V Carroll ' f Houston representing
•hr Toxas Merchants Association to
oppose the fair trad* and arsti-di#-
rrimlnatinn proposals awaiting leg-
islative action
A plan tn hr|p bring '• dusfr’** tn
I Texas through a good will tour nf
eastern industrial renters and the
New V. rk World’s Fair hv a Texas
deh- a’ion headed by Governor W
I.<-e O'Daniel received aoprr.val
An attempt tn have the associa-
tion indorse A G "Pat” Majrse. Par-
is publisher, for chairman nf the
highway commission was abandon-
ed wh<n members pointed out bv»
laws prevented the organization
as peace
i the Spanish civil war
marked time and the Government
stuck to its refusal to surrender. At
least 20 persons were killed and 40
injured in five air raids.
Reports reaching the border said
Juan Negrin. government premier, i
and his foreign minister. Julio Al-
varez del Vayo, had differed with
L O N D ON British and
French recognition of Generalis-
s.mo Frpuciscq Franco’s regime as
lhe legal government nf Spain ap-
parently is the next move nf the
Democracies tn sway the Spanish
Insurgent from Fascist and Nazi
influence.
Informed quarters expressed be-
lief Saturday night such recogni-
tion might be granted next week
Britain and France, seeming now
. . .to accept Franco as the inevitable
Jr.5l,e<! ,UnJ . r in Spain’s civil war. went to
nutbid Italy and Germany for his
favor They want a Spain free of
Rome-B.rlin infuence Iwcaiye
Spain lies athwart vital channels
of commerce and empire for both
having paid less than the minimum__________________ ------
ry~crrlcS££
about electricity.
Scientists formulate theories a-
yy ** vAlv aifirm that there are
laws of right, and justice, and
mercy in the universe, but we can
prove their existence only by their
effects on the minds and hearts of
men. expressed in their physical
behavior. . man commits him- hnrs,. show-
self as a i‘
and mercy. Immediately his behav-
ior reflects those things We know
that they exist, because men ex-
emplify therr.
Philosophers may
scientists may theorize,
conduct of man demonstrates
al! phases of our physical and men-
tal life, the real “proof of the pud-
ding is in the eating ' We put our
theories tn the test in actual prac-
tice. and watch the results That is
a very scientific thing to do It is
the way science makes progress.
We cannot see. or taste, or feel,
or hear, the abstract principle of
love There is no way to prove its
existence in a test tube, or on a
set of laboratory scales. We must
witness the effect it has on the be-
havior of men and. women, before
there is any demonstrable proof
of its existence. In such behavior
we discover that love is the great
creative principle of the universe
By The Associated Press
Republican speakers told
the country Saturday night
that it was adrift with a
“broken down New Deal
party and a bewildered
President.”
The proper course, they suggest-
ed tn speeches prepared for a na-
tional series of Lincoln birthday
dinners, was to return their party
to power in the 1940 election
Because Lincolns birthday anni-
versary fell on Sunday this year,
the annual Republican observance!
were divided Dinners and party
rallies will be held in many other
cities Sunday night notably at New
York City where former President
Herbert Hoover and John Hamil-
ton. Republican National Chairman,
are to speak.
At Saturday nights dinners tha
general keynote was a contention
the administration's policies had
failed at h<»me and a questioning
of it* course in foreign affairs.
- ' ' New-
Hampshire. speaking at Akron, said
the best description of “the ecorv
omics of the Roosevelt administra-
tion" was given years ago by Abra-
ham Lincoln:
•• •You are united in your deter-
mination to break w ith the past but
you are utterly divided among
yourselves as to where you are
doing.’ ”
Bridges, hkc other speakers, de-
clared himself for adequate nation-
al defense, but said appropriations
for defense mud be exjiended only
for that purpose
"L inu-t n t i < a dot ation to a
broken down New Deal party and
a bewildered President who are
seeking to r< pair their political
fence:- by Waling the drums of war
and sounding thr cymbals of inter-
nationalism.” he said
Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio,
at Cincinnati, criticized the admin-
istration’s spending policies
•The present condition nf the
country is eloquent testimony to
the complete fallacy of the theory
that a people can s|>rnd itself into
prosperity." hr said
The only solution seems tn lie
<< nntmurrf nn l‘*f» J. < nlumn II
The above scenes were snapped
on the scene of thr truck crisis
early Saturday morning at Edin-
burg and Falfurrias. In thr top
left photo is shown a state high-
way patrol ear. one nf seven which
was parked at the blockade for
transportation of 25 state highway
patrolmen stationed there. In thr
upper right photo a "fined" driver
is show n exhibiting his receipt.
In lhe large picture a group nf
truckers and interested prrsnns
are shown waiting at Edinburg
fnr wnrd nf thr injunction pro-
ceedings while in the small pic-
ture is shnwn thr sign placed on
thr highway at thr blockadr.
(Staff Photos.)
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WE CAN know the destructive
ing the effects of fear as manifest- citrus industry by complying with
the out-
fl jump-
ing contest between the famed
Mexican cavalry team from Mexico
City and two American Cavalry
teams The show will be repeated
in the evening
The Thursday program opens
with miscellaneous races at Tuck-
er field at 2:30 in the afternoon,
with burros, motorized scooters,
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price and with having diverted fruit
bought for sale tn the government
under its relief purchase program
into regular commercial channels
This makes a total of 15 indi-
viduals and organizations charged
with one kind of violation or an-
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