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VALLEY SUNDAY
10 Cents
the weather
Partly Cloudy
FINAL EDITION
THIRTY-TWO PAGES TODAY
HARLINGEN, McALLEN, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1939
• No. 94
JAPAN ENFORCES NEW RESTRICTIONS
Roosevelt Lending Plan Rias ted EARLY ACTION SEEN
FROM GREAT BRITAIN
PROPERTY TAX
Valley Business Shows Increase Over Last Year
BORAH LEADS
AFTER NEW INCIDENT
IS SCHEDULED
CRITICISM OF
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BROWNSVILLE BONDS HELD VALID
With shouts
ROCK LONDON
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ons and gross revenue tax. gave
and woman in the jammed 10..
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air
place.
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The meeting is one of a series of
i tary-tteasurer.
tion.
Weather
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Testimony Heard
On Valley
‘South America
Loans Hit
O'Daniel Forced
To Reverse
DRIVERS’ LAW
IS EXTENDED
Vote Of Confidence
Given Townsend
Licenses Are Good
Until 1942
SOUTH TEXAS
GETS PRAISE
\ OHIO
JUDGE GIVES RULING
ON CONTENTION
Chairman Weir brought up the
ibject. saying he wanted the c<»n-
vlention’s reaction.
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f ur j-rincipl"" in’o their platforms
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South Texas. North Tamaubpa*.
wanner, unsettled. calt»-
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I hysican whose dream of a $200
monthly pension for everybody
f.*i. to be financed from a transac-
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tae organization its birth. F..try
nan
(00-scal auditorium stood and chc?r-
<d when Chairman John Weir ack-
td. / Are You With Townsend?”
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Taxpayers To Meet
At Primera Tuesday
PRIMERA — Tax problems of
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The day brought another thun-
erous ovation for the California
PENSION HEAD
GETS BALLOT
FOR SUPPORT
course that regulation of the
in the Valley will take next
season depends on two decisions that must be made
soon by state and federal authorities.
Leaders of the industry have been pressing the
state attorney general s department for a decision
as to whether the state commissioner of agricul-
ture may regulate fruit that goes into inter-state
commerce. Th.s may also be what Henry A.
Wallace, U. S. secretary of agriculture, is awaiting
before deciding fate of the federal marketing agree-
ment.
Factions within the industry reached a tenta-
t.ve agreement several weeks ago that if the at-
torney general holds that regulation of fruit on
the tree by state authorities cannot be extended
to control inter-state commerce that-they would
join tn ask for termination nf the present federal
marketing agreement which includes a volume pro-
ration clause and ask for a new pact providing
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of
J. E McDonald, state
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Weather for the Valley
Sunday will be partly
cloudy. There will be no
material change in the river
during the next 24 hours.
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POLICE GIVE AID
IN DEATH MESSAGE
WESLACO-Weslaco police Sat-
urday night were attempting to
notify Klare Teegarden. 15. of Wes-
laco. that his grandmother in Kan-
sas City was expected to die soon.
Officers said that they had been
notified that his grandmother was
calling for him.
Late Saturday n ght the youth
had not been located to receive the
message.
BROWNSVILLE — Hector eVga
Hidalgo. 19. Brownsville, is the first
Cameron county resident to get a
belated birth certificate under stiff-
ened procedure of a new law.
The law requires the county judge
tn pass on the facts in a delayed
birth certificate before they are
forwarded to the state bureau of
vital statistics.
Judge O C. Dancy approved Hi-
dalgo's certificate Friday.
Vega was born here November
28. 1920, and his parents did not
obtain a certificate at the time.
In order to get such a certificate,
you must have two witnesses who
can swear to the facts concerning
your birth and one of them cannot
be a relative.
CARNEGIE LECTURES
SLATED IN NOVEMBER
HARLINGEN Dale Carnegie, au-
thor of ‘ How to Make Friends and
Influence People.” will give two
lectures in Harlingen next Novem-
ber. it was announced here Satur-
day by Mrs. Lewi* Boggus. presi-
dent of the HarLngen junior high
school Prrent-Teachers Association,
which is sponsoring Carnegie s ap-
FREIGHT RATE
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AUSTIN—'-e—A week of
technical testimony eon*
demning differential freight
rates in West Texas as unjust
inequitable and discourag-
ing to business development
was concluded here Satur-
day.
The allegations were heard by
railroad commission officials con-
ducting an investigation into Texas
shipping costs by the stat* differ-
ential and class rate structures.
To Resume Monday
Commission Chairman Lon A.
Smith said the hearing would be
resumed Monday with railroad and
trucking interest representative*
expected to defend the current sys-
tem.
Testimony supporting a request
for abolition of differential rates
was given by F R Tanner. El Paso
freight bureau traffic manager, who
was among the last of a stream of
witnesses to appear during the
week.
the food prepared in a
kitchen and distributed to school
lunchrooms.
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holding these meetings would be obviated. On the
other hand, if a new agreement is drawn up. a
hearing and referendum would be necessary and
committeemen chosen later if the industry votes in
favor of the pact.
In case the federal agreement is continued,
there will be presented the question of whether
the state commissioner of agriculture will name a
different group of committeemen than the federal
secretary of agriculture. Although growers must
be nominated for the committee administering the
federal agreement, no such nomination meetings
are necessary for the state pact The state com-
missioner of agriculture may name whom he wishes.
Whether the expense of duplicate administration is
agreeable to the industry is something else that
remains to be determined.
The question of what the attorney general
would rule was still uppermost when the Growers
Industry Committee met Friday. It met principally
to look over the annual report and to ask tor bids
on the pnn’mg but there was some discussion of
the marketing agreement utuation-
PROTESTS
OVER MORE INSULTS
TO BRITONS DURING
ORIENT BLOCKADE
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Children Eat
Poisoned Food
NEW YORK—An intensive
investigation into the food poison-
ing of 368 Staten Island school chil-
dren who ate free lunches of sand-
wiches. Span’sh rice and milk in
15 elementary schools began Sat-
urday under the direction of Mayor
LaGuardia and Health Commis-
sioner John L. Rice.
Dr. Rice said 113 remained in
Boy Kills Three
Teachers, Self
SOFIA '4*’ A fifteen-year-old
boy shot and killed three women
teacher* and then committed sui-
cide Saturday after he was expelled
from school in a southern Bulgari-
an village.
The boy rushed into the teachers’
room opening fire with a revolver
which he truned on himself after-
ward.
He had been expelled from three
other schools during the year for
bad behaviour.
Al! th? news of the World
and the Valley. Best Feat-
ures and World’s Best
Comics.
The Growers Committee likewise held a meet-
ing this week nam ng local chairmen in various
Valley communities for the coming year, indicat-
ing that it plans to remain active in the deal,
discussed the question of a senes of meetings
name a state marketing agreement committee.
Minimum pr.ee fixing apparently was out
the question for next season.
commissioner of agriculture, withdrew the bill
which would have authorized the commissioner to
fix prices on citrus fruits. An employe of Mc-
Donald's department said that the measure was
withdrawn because it was evident that the legis-
lature was so busy that it would nut get around
to the bill. Previously it was reported that McDon-
ald had stated that he would not be able to devote
as much time to the citrus industry next season as
in the pi.st and that he would be pleased if the
leaders in this section j.ot together and controlled
it themselves McDonald's attempt at fixing prices
last season, made hr said at r?que«t of growers
and shippers, was halted by court action upheld by
the supreme court of the state.
said that
obligations
these bonds, the judge said if he
did not hold with the city's claim
that sale of the bonds for less than
' par invalidated them.
City's counter-claim for $39.7601
i paid to plaintiffs under an agree-
ment in 1937 was eliminated by the
judge, who pointed out it was
agreed to and approved by the city
commission.
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AUSTIN —<*•■ The public safety
department has extended private
automobile driver’s licenses *o April
1. 1942
Normally. licenses now h»ld by
drivers would have expired last
April but state police, anticipating
a possible change in the licensing
law by the recently adjourned legis-
- lature. extended them indefinitely
The legislature failed to modify the
law.
Chief Fred Hickman of the high-
way patrol said present licensees
, may <• tr’inue to use their permits
untl 1942.
Because some Texans driving in
other states have had their licenses
questioned. Texas state police have
invited those contemplating travel
in other states to contact patrol dis-
trict headquarters where letters at-
testing the validity of permits, de-
spite the April 1. 1939 expiration
date, will be issued driven.
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STREETS ARE GUARDED
BY SOLDIERS
The Valley Is shown on the "good business" sidre of the nation's chart This map represents current
business conditions as compared with a year ago. It appears in the July issue of ‘Nations Business,
official publication of the United States C hamber of Commerce.
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INDIANAPOLIS r 1
of “We're with Doc Townsend " and
“Down With Traitors.” 10,000 dele-
aate* to the National Convention of
Townsend Old-Age Pension Clubs
took notice Saturday of a threaten-
ed revolt against Dr. Francis F
Townsend s leadershin and enlisted
i i a new crusade to spread their
gospel of economic bliss.
After decrying, with boos and his-
ses. an "insurgent" movement which
Harvey Smith of Covington. Ky.
1 a. said he would promote, the con-
venlmn approved by vote and
cheer.ng plans tor t/he future One
<f ‘he plans is a ,'*1.000.080 radio
f ind With this. Dr/. Townsend told
ne delegates. “We can absolutely
•mpel both major names to put
only for grade and size control The Growers
Committee, which at first opposed only volume
proration and then the entire federal agreement
on the contention that state regulations could be
made to suffice, agreed tentatively to join the
Growers Industry Committee in requesting a hear-
ing on a new federal pact u'ithout volume prora-
tion if the attorney general ruled adversely
There is a well grounded belief that Wallace
has been on verge of terminating the federal agree-
ment for some time due to the dissatisfaction that
has been expressed, principally by means of a
referendum sponsored by the state commissioner
of agriculture, with this pact. It is believed now
that Wallace has been withholding a decision pend-
ing developments in connection with the state
agreement. However, he must soon reach a deci-
sion because new committeemen must soon be
nominated by the industry.
The federal agreement provides that at least
three committeemen must be nominated from the
12 Valley citrus districts before July 20 If the
federal agreement is terminated the necessity for
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WASHINGTON — —
President Roosevelt’s pro-
posal to lend $500,000,000
to foreign countries to pro-
mote American trade
brought a hlast of criticism
in the senate Saturday, even
before the administration’s
n e w lending legislation
reached congress.
Senator Borah <R-Ida ». 73-year-
old dean of the senate, told his col-
leagues that the foreign loans would
he equivalent to turning over "vast
millions of thn taxpayers money
for South American politicians to
play with.”
Ioans In Default
He said that South American
loans were in default of both princi-
pal and interest and asserted that
"in many instances no effort is be-
ing rri.de to pay them ”
Senator Taft <R-Ohio» voiced cri-
ticism of foreign loans and Senator
Lucas <D-I11 i told the senate that
it was "a dangerous practice" to
permit the Export-Import Bank to
make loans to foreign nations with- |
out the express approval of con-
gress
Proposes Two-Year Program
The President proposed a $500.
000.000. two-year program of foreign
loans as a part of his new $3 060.-
cultural income up and stabilize
the industry. As long as the gross
income for agriculture exceeds fac-
hospitals. but that the attacks were tory payrolls, both come down.
Heid declared.
Citing lemon, avocado, and other
industries as examples, he
the scientific discovery of
BROWNSVILLE- Federal Judge
T. M. Kennerly has sliced *1.085.500
off the city’s contention that IL-
881.500 of its debt is invalid.
He eliminated *1.086.500 in Londs
from the suit styled W. J. Mere-
dith. et al. vs. City of Brownsville,
et al. leaving in contention validity
of $795,000 in warrants. Tne amount
of warrants actually involved prob-
ably will be nearer **00,000. Major
R. B. Rentfro states, as many of
the warrants mentioned were au-
thorized but not issued.
Ihe action was taken in a memo-
randum issued last week on a pre-
trial hearing held : Houst< n early
this year. He has ordered attorneys
to draw an order conforming to
his pre-trial rulings, and later it is
expected that a second pre-trial will
be held to simply issues concerning
..he warrants left in the case.
This case was instituted when
bond holders sought to restrain the
city from a system of tax remit-
tances designed to favor both those i
who paid their taxes regularly and
, those who were delinquent. In a
cross-action, the city attacked th?
validity of many of its bonds and
warrants.
Judge Kennerly specifically sus-
tained plaintiffs motion to striae
out defendants claim that $766,500
Refunding Bonds <$521000 issued m
1932 and $209.00U in 19341 were in-
valid.
A similar motion was sustained
regard to the $1511.000 water-
works and electric light improve-
ment bonds of September 1, 1930,
the $150,000 power and water plant >
Pensions In Trouble
Much wrangling over the scholas-
tic ?’ nortionment and the school
tax rate has broken out during the
last few years The legislature at
its rerent «?*«!on attempted to end
the corflt'i by ati’horizin? the
hoard to imoose a lew sufficient
to ray whatever figure is set
The general, old age pension and
confederate nension funds have
hern in trouble for some time The
=cbo >1 fund ha« the enviable record
of being in the black until this year
A $22 per ranita apportionment and
the low tax rate combined, how-
ever. to put it into such condition
that it is exnected to have a deficit
of around 56.000.00n when the fiscal
year ends August 31.
The state department of educa-
fon annarentlv will be able to pay
only $1R of the current apportion-
ment by August 31. In other words,
revenues during 1939-40 will have
to bear the burden not only el
whatever allotment is fixed by the
board of education this summer but
also of $4 per capita carried over
from the present year.
Two Decisions To Affect Citrus llcgiilations
WESLACO—The
citrus fruit industry
street improvement bonds of Sep- sp|et.Uon b C. McElroy of Mar- ir g and collecting duties of all tax-
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.U- i..A— -UA ,f H. . t,x aMessor-collector. will tc
FOUR BLASTS Cameron County CITY’S CLAIM
Birth Recorded KNOCKED OUT
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Uilder New Law
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mild and indications were that the
patients soon would be discharged
Staten Island police sat in during fruit industries as examples,
questioning by health officials of said the scientific discovery
28 persons concerned in handling many by-products in these indus-
central tries had provided growers with
stable annual return for their
traffic.
There apparently were nn seri-
ous injuries, however.
The fnst explosion occurred just
off Piccadilly Circus On’nokers
said a bomb was thrown from a
passing taxi.
It shattered windows for block*
off the circus and brought thousands
of persons rushing out of theatres,
hotels and restaurants of the dis-
trict.
Almost an hour later another ex-
plosion shattered glass and stopped
traffic further down piccadilly and
within 15 minutes two other ex-
plosions rocked the strand.
Two other bombs were found dur-
ing the night One did slight dam-
age to a mailbox and the other
was found in a public check room at
Oxford Circus where it had failed
to go off.
Police and territorial soldiers pa-
trolled the streets carefully through-
out the night
Indignation Mounts
In Ixindon. where public indigna-
tion mounted, most cabinet mini-
sters were said to be convinced that
retaliatory measures were neces-
sary soon tn end the Japanese "in-
sults" at Tientsin.
Prime Minister Chamberlain In
an address at Cardiff. Wales, served
notice on Japan that "No British
government can tolerate that its
nationals should be subjected to
such treatment as we have heard
of in Tientsin and no British gov-
ernment could submit to dictation
from another power as to its foreign
policy.”
Moves Cautiously
The most important elements
which have forced Britain to move
cautiously m the far east have been
th? si ilemate in negotiat.ons for a
British-French-Soviet Russian mu-
tual a-sistance pact and increasing
sign* that Germany was waiting for
Britain to bec< m? embroiled in the
Orient to seize the Free City of
Danzig.
Nevertheless, aroused Britons ex-
pected their government to decide
u|x»n sorie form of retaliation this
week unless Japan showed signs of
greater moderation.
Planes Are Downed
In Tokyo, meanwhile, the Jap-
anese army reported 62 Soviet Rus-
sian or Mongolian planes had been
downed by Japanese fliers since
Thursday on the troubled border
between Japanese-dominated Man-
choukuo and Soviet Russian-domi-
nated Cuter Mongolia.
The Japanese said there had been
six raids on Manchoukuoan terri-
tory between June 17 and June 24
and that further fighting was likely.
They reported only four of th?ir
planes were shot down in the
engagements.
to be made by the Export-Import
BmK, should be spent in this coun-
ts
When the suggestion was criticiz-
ed in senate. Majority leader Bark-
ley <D-Ky> and Senator Wagner
• D-NY>. came to its defense.
Barkley Defends Proposal
Birkley said that defaulted
American obligations were not
those of central governments, but
private loans that Americans took
during “the boom period" of the
early "twenties.
Wagner said the Export-Import
Bank had made a “profit to date" >
and had heiped finance sales of
goods which otherwise could not
have been made.
It isn’t exactly a loan, but a fi-
nancing of exoorts." he contended
Ditter Recalls Pledge
“Th<'re ar? two sides to that mat-
ter." Borah put in.
The question of defaulted South
American loans was touched on
also in a statement issued during
the cay by Rep. Ditter 'R-Penn »
through the republican national
committee.
Ditter said the Presidents loan
proposal was "another attempt to
pluck the American taxpaver to (
save the face of an administration
bankrupt of ideas except to spend
and spend." and. further more was
a violation of a pledge Mr. Roose-
velt made in 1932
pearance here.
The P.-T. A. group signed up
Carnegie Saturday. Mrs. Boggus an-
nounced. with the well-known writ-
er and lecturer scheduled to appear
on the afternoon and evening of
November 23 at the Municipal Au-
AUSTIN —UP>— Governor
W. Lee O’Daniel, who favors
abolition of the state prop-
erty tax, may have to be a
party late next month to an
increase of nearly 60 per
cent in that levy.
The 1938 state ad valorem tax rate
was 49 cents on the $100 valuation
but as a consequence the available
school fund has drifted into bad
shape and a substantia! boost in the
next state bill to property owners
seems inescapable. It may scar to
the constitutional maximum of 77
cents.
Roost Is Seen
Lad year's charge consisted of he
con titutional thirtv-five and seven
c?nt max.ma for the general fund
and confederate pensions respect-
ively and seven cents for schools
The rat? is set by th? automatic
tax board, composed of the gov-
ernor. treasurer and comptroller.
Du? to deficits, there aopears no
chance of a cut in confederate pen-
-ion or general fund ta:;es. The
board of education is expected to
set the scholastic per capita appor-
tionment for the next school year at |
$22 59. in whieh event the school
rate likely will have to b« boosted
to the constitutional limit of
cents.
LECTURER CALLS AREA
GARDEN SPOT
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DENTON -UPi— Long growing
seasons and high yields mark the
south the nation s “number one op-
portunity” instead of its "number
one problem." Dr J L. Heid, sup-
erintendent of the U. S. Citrus and
Vegetable Field Station at Weslaco,
said Saturday.
He lectured at North Texas State
Teachers College where a two-day
conference on chemurgy ended Sat-
urday.
A multiplicity of outlets for the
night as four separate exnlosions
thre v Saturday night crowd* into
confusion and tangled the city's
0C0. li nding program He stipulated
that the proceeds from the advances
Tables Submitted
Tanner submitted volumniout
fables comparing inter-state and
intra-state rates in and out of
Texas designed to show differen-
tials were unfair to shipping in-
terests and nampenng agricultural
and industrial growth
The witness cited numerous tabu-
lations which he said indicated, in
various instances, where rate* on
commodities shipped through or in-
to differential territory wer* sub-
stantially greater than outside of it
Valley Is filed
“The rates west of El Paso and
out of the state." Tanner said at
on? point, “in many instances are
much lower than in West Texas
where dirferentials apply.”
The witness criticized some car-
riers who, he asserted, apparently
were not trying to re-establish
gra.n movements. a condition
harmful to the farmer and cattl*
grower.
Commission officials also heard
testimony to th? effect differentials
worked a hardship on vegetable
and fruit growers in the Rio Grande
Valley.
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crops.
assessor-collector, will be
discussed at the Primera school
LONDON —<JP> - Hundreds of po-
licemen and members of British ter-
■ ritorial armv were rushed into Lon-
don’s busy theater section Saturday
By The Associated Press
Japan intensified her
blockade at Tientsin Satur-
day in the face of indications
that Britain might force an
early showdown in the far
east despite danger clouds
hanging over Europe.
With the blockade of the British
and French concessions completing
its eleventh day. the Japanese
clamped down new restrictions on
river travel from Tientsin to the
port of Tangku. 18 miles away.
Ship Is Delayed
A British ship encount* red con-
siderable delay, one Briton was
h?ld four hours before being allow-
ed to continue to Tangku and others
were searched.
At the electrically-charged bar-
riers surround.ng the concessions
two British subjects reported they
were compelled to disrobe ar.d sub-
mit to search, making a total of 11
such incidents in the last three
days.
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""he deafening vote of confidence
i i th? 72-year-old, tall, vhi’ -hair-
<d Townsend the second of the
invention came after th? uproar
ver mention of Smith and his an-
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General Gen Sagiyama, above,
commander-ln-chief of Japan's
expeditionary forces In North
China, charging Great Britain
had forfeited her rights as a neu-
tral. declared his forces would
follow a “resolute" policy towards
the British concession in Tientsin.
China, until Britain recognizes
Japan's “new order" in East Asia
and cooperates in establishing it.
Area Man Named
In Uni'r Election
BIG SPRING —The Texas
improvement and extension bonds p(lstmastcrs' Association ended its C?meron county and the Valley and
of May 1. 1931. and the *2(>.0U0 convention here Saturday with the tl e possibility of combining assess-
farmer's products wiU keep agri- tembcr , 1930 In C()nnection with
; of Matshall as the next meeting ty
place. I discussed at the Primera
F.urris C. Jackson of Hillsboro, house at 7 30 p m. Tuesday.
Dan J. Quill of San Antonio. Nat
Shick of Big Spring. Ewell Nall of snch meetings being called by tax-
Austin. and Mrs. Mary Rankin of payers interested in cutting tax of-
Bynum were elected vice presi- ftce costs to a minimum, getting all
dents: Harry Nertz of McAllen was taxes based on an equal and reason-
renamed parliamentarian, and W ab.r valuation, and otherwise seek-
Cross-action for th? cost of mak- B- I-una of Dallas re-elected secre- )ng i< lief from the present tax situa-
(CMtinae* en p»t» s. <•!■*> 2> > tary-tieasurer. ; tion.
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