Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald (Harlingen, Tex.), Vol. [30], No. 94, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 25, 1939 Page: 4 of 14
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BROWNSVILLE — Joe Junkins
formula for producing ram in Har-
lingen this spring was simple com-
pared to some of the methods used
throughout the world.
Junkin, it will be remembered.’
Each made bond of $750 and was re-
leased.
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them and waving branches from
trees to hasten the coming of the
clouds.
Some places in Russia and Ar-
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Several hundred persons attended the dedication of Shary Build-
ing in Mission. The celebration was sponsored by the Mission Cham-
ber of Commerce. The building marks 25 years in the Valley by
John H. Shary. The building, other than a commercial unit, will act
as headquarters for Shary’s vast interests in the Valley.
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sat beside a lake all day under the
shade of an umbrella, but in Ar-
menia the problem would have been
Spanish-American
War Men To Meet
McALLEN—Veterans of the Span-
ish-American War and their wives
are invited to attend the social
meeting Wednesday night of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars post at
the local I O.O.F. hall. A program
and refreshments have been plan-
ned for the meeting.
NEW PROJECT
SEEN AS HELP i
TO IRRIGATION,
McAllen Heads Plan
Gas Survey Jaunt
McALLEN—Postponement of the
trip to Robstown. McAllen city com-
missioners planned to make Mon-
day, was announced Saturday by
Mayor Horace Etchison.
Etchison said the group would
go to Robstown Wednesday to con-
fer with city officials there con-
cerning the method they followed
to install a municipal gas plant in
that city.
The trip was postponed because
the Robstown mayor and city at-
torney were called to Houston on
, business.
YOUTH IMPROVES
McALLEN— Billy Forsythe, son
of Mrs. Margaret Forsythe at Wes-
laco, is reported out of danger at
the McAllen municipal hospital
following an emergency appendec-
tomy. He was operated Wednesday.
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ing on his part which would have
brought on the beating. He had
made no attempt to enter any labor
organizations, he said.
All three of the men charged in
the case were arrested Saturday by
acts.
City authorities then turned the
matter over to the county attorney, skulls in sacred places, praying to
The city corporation court is not
empowered to handle cases of ag-
gravated assault and battery.
The Ross boy. son of negro pas-
tor here, has given up his employ-
ment at the bowling alley as a
result of the attack. Calandret.
because of injuries suffered in the
beating, has been unable to work,
but says he intends to return to his
post as soon as he is able.
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Meteorologist Lawrence N Des-
pain, official in charge of the
Brownsville weather bureau airport
station, told of the Armenian prac-
tice. recently, and he knowa scores
of others.
In Armenia. when rain is sought
through "magical’’ means, a prea-
cher’s wife is drenched, but in
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and throw the bodies into swamps. ton-
or rivers while m the Malay penin-
sula the graves of ancestors are
j toned.
The Zulu women. Despain con-
tinued, bury their children up to
Calandret says he knows of noth- the neck in the ground, and then
move off some distance to set-up
a dismal wail. The gods are sup-
posed to be moved by the piteous
sight, and melt into tears.
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BROWNSVILLE—Margarito Ba-
rn aripo, Los Fresnos. was treated
here late Friday night after an
oxp'oding cartridge case had ‘ back-
fired’’ to wound him in the right
upper arm.
Samaripo told Chief Deputy
Sheriff Will Cabler that he had
fired a shot at a coyote in his
backyard at Los Fresnos. about 10
p. m. The cartridge case in the .33
calibre pistol exploded, and a sliv-
er of the case tore Samanpos up-
per arm.
Loss of blood from the wound
was considerable, but the injury
was not serious. A small artery was
said p.erced.
BROWNSVILLE-An apparent at-
tempt to terrorize negroes here will
have its legal aftermath in the
county court-at-law Wednesday
when Clair McGee. Harlingen: Ben
Lindsey. Brownsville; and Jack
Rutherford, address unlisted, face
charges of aggravated assault and
battery.
Complaints charging them with
Pistol ‘Backfires’
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Sufficient Water
beating and kicking Raymond Ross
and Ben Calandret, bowling alley
employes, here on the night of
June 18 were filed Saturday after-
noon by County Attorney Jack
Wiech following a two-day investi-
gation. The complaints were sign-
ed by Col. John A. McRay. Browns-
and factory at Ciudad Mante, Ta-
maulipas.
Since graduating from Michigan
State, Mr. Hanselman ha. been
TRIO CHARGED Need Little Rain?
IN ATTACK ON
TWO NEGROES
FLY TO HOUSTON
McALLEN—S. L. Miller and L
J. "Shine’’ Mason left Friday by j
BROWNSVILLE — When Gov-
ernor W. Lee O'Daniel placed his
signature on the amended senate
bill 490 Friday morning, the cam-
paign to assure the Rio Grande Val-
ley of sufficient irrigation water ad-
vanced another step.
Originally a bill appropriating ---
money for the "Red Bluff Proposi-
tion’’ on the Pecos River, senate bill I
490 was amended in the house to
carry with It the $35,000 appropria-
tion for a survey of the Rio Grande
below Fort Quitman. The appropria-
tion also had been the subject of
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County Attorney Wiech said the
defendants were longshoremen.
County authorities previously had
Mr. Hanselman ha- been ordered seven men to appear at a
connected with the sugar industry hearing into the disturbance, in
and for the last eight years he which several negro homes were
was vice-president and general said to have been stoned. In ad-
manager of Compania Azucarera dressing the group, City Attorney
Del Mante at Ciudad Mante. Ralph Dunkelberg told the mon that
The company was entirely Mexi- , he hoped their alleged acts did not
can owned, bu. was expropriated represent "any union.’’ but that if
on grounds of being a public utility. «t did he hoped that the organiza-
and the factory was turned over to tion would not back their alleged
workers on a cooperative basis, he
said.
The factory was seized February
18, and about 8.000 acres of sugar
cane land the following mo ith. It
/as only last .veek. however, that
the matter was formally terminated.
Mr. Hartselman said that the fac-
tory had cost about 14 million pesos.
About 30.u00 tons of sugar were re-
fined at the plant in 1938
Expr- nation of the factory was
unjustified in I Hanselman's
opinion. He sa that the practise
of the Mexican government in seiz-
ing lands and industries would
bring a collapse of private initia-
tive.
Mexico, he said, has potentiali-
ties that have never even been
scratched, but which will never be
realized under the present policies
of the Cardenas government.
Mr. Hanselman has been in the
sugar business in Puerto Rico.
Cuba. Santo Domingo and other
tropical sections. He said that it
will be good to get out of the
tropics after so many years. He
was accompanied here by Mrs.
Hanselman.
The only thin«. that Mr. Hansel-
man lost in the expropriation of the
Mexican sugar factory was a job.
he said. But. he already had a
job anyhow when the Mexican
company was seized.
H» is also vice president of the
Southwestern Sugar and Molasses
company and plans to de ote his
ime now to assist in building that
organization.
I Mr. Hanselman had visited the
Valley before, and noted consider-
able growth along the Rm Grande.
He believes the future holds mar-
velous opportunities for this sec-
tion.
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He told of a $9,000 congressional
appropriation to experiment with
; rain making. It was believed ex-,
cner s wuc >> —» ••• i plosions might produce rain. The
southern “ and ww^rn'^RuMra it s experiment was held in Texas, and
the preacher himself who gets the dynamite as well as hydrogen-ox
- - ygen filled balloons made the noise
A little ram fell, but only that al-
ready predicted or. the weather
maps.
By blowing air upward it would
take 75,000.000 horse-power per
hour to produce one-half an inch
of rain over 60 square miles, he ad- '
ded.
And, by the use of fires and
condensation, it would take to pro-
| duce one-half inch of rain over
One climbs a tree a square mile, 1.100 000 gallons of
■ - ■ oil. or 6.400 tons of coal would be
necessary.
Condensation barriers are im-
practical, and equally expensive.
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ed to ancestors by laying it before y°nd practical comprehension, he
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and unknowable and (2> wishes do
not affect material phenomena.
"That God can make it rain, how-
ever, we do not doubt’’ he added.
Despain debunked the idea that'
battles cause ram. "Most battles
have been fought m regions of a-
bundant precipitation. Prepara-
tions for battles take place in fair j
weather .so that by the time battles
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solved by drenching a preacher’s next ram." he said.
•If 10.000 soldiers were nothing
but blood and sweat, and they
were wholly evaporated, and then
condensed back, the resulting rain
would be roughly one-half an inch
over an area of 13 acres.’’ he said.
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BROWNSVILLE —J. H" selman. can expropriation of sugar lands
house bill 644 passed by its originat- graduate of Michigan State uni-
mg body nearly a month ago and versity in 1907, is back to live in the
sent to the senate. United States aoain after more than
Following the amendment the bill 3C years in the tropics,
went back to the senate, and then Mr. Hanselman, who plans to
into free conference. It then was make his home in the Los Ebanos
passed in the senate Tuesday and in section here, returned to the United
the house Wednesday, just as the States to live as a result o' Mexi-
legislature ended its turbulent ses-
sion.
New Irrigation Provided
Hie survey of the Ri > Grande
from Fort Quitman. about 70 miles
below El Paso, to the mouth of the
river is another move in search of
an answer to the 25-year-old threat
of gradually diminishing waters in
the Rio Grande.
New irrigation projects south of
the International boundary are the
latest of many drains on the waters
of the muddy river. Heretofore most
of the irrigation development has ■ Safety Squad of Mercedes were on
been on the north side of the hand Saturday to check up on any
boundary, and effects on the vol- j infractions of traffic rules and
of water in the river have lations, which especially
stop and slow signs.
__ _ The project was worked out by ,
division of the waters of the Rio ’he city officials and by Valley
The Scout Executive A. H Dreyer, to-
l leaders. H
E. Hager, city secretary, stated that
no fines wcre to be levied Satur-
day, but thereafter violaters will be
penalized for non-observance of
traffic regulations.
It was pointed out by Hager that
property owners who paid the first
half of their 1938 taxes during the
month of January should be sure
to pay the last half on or before the
last day of this month, June 30.
Mercedes is now engaged in a
1 a general
Four Charges Made
On San Benito Man
BROWNSVILLE—C. P. Kenedy
of San Benito, second hand imple-
ment dealer, was bound over to the
grand jury by Justice of Peace
George Krausse Saturday follow-
ing preliminary hearing conduct-
ed by Assistant District Attorney
Arthur Klein. Four charges of
theft by bailee were filed against
Kenedy.
Arrest was made by Deputy
Sheriff Bob Smith. Kenedy waived
examining trial and bond was set
by Judge Krausse at $750 in each
Grande is believed far awav. ----
appropriation by the legislature of
state money it is expected will be
matched by a much larger federal
fund.
IBC Doing Surveying
Some of the survey work already
has been undertaken by the Inter-1
national Boundary Commission, and
even now the IBC is studying a pos-
sible solution to the Valley’s irriga-
tion problems.
A board of engineers meeting now
in San Benito is expected to take street repair job and _ „_______
into further consideration the pro- strect cleanup, particularly of the
posal to impound Rio Grande wa- main thoroughfares. Shell and
trrs ir. the Tx>< Olmns reservoir site sand are being placed on Sixth
above Rio Grande City. street, with an oiling as a final step.
A representative of the
Conservation Association of
Low’er Rio Grande Valley, Alfred A
Tamm of Harlingen, is expected to
work with the engineers. J. L. Ly-
tel;.p?ie^.enginetLfor# Big Season Expected
will also be a member of the group. °
which is made up of IBC engineers At AlerCedeS
and consulting engineers. ------
Gravity Canal Mapped MERCEDES — Three Mercedes
From the proposed reservoir Rins expect to begin operations the
above Rio Grande City a mam grav- latter part of the week, officials an-
ity canal would be built, extending nounced.
to Brownsville and crossing main The best season in years is pre-
canals of all Valley irrigation dis- dieted. The first bale for the Mer-
tncts Water then could be supplied cedes community, ginned by the
these districts without the need for Traylor Gin Company, remains on
pumping equipment. display here.
Th* main reservoir could be fill- The Mercedes Co-operative Gin
ed during the seasons flood stages under the new management of
of the river, to be used when the ^'.'2'urad Kelley
flow becomes a trickle insufficient Lomax Gin Company is the
to supply all the irrigation dis- organization to operate here
trict. served bv the river. Work 11 being completed by all
The proposed survey for which '°^’n‘es tO take carc of the rush
state money was appropriated is
more, however, than a Lower Rio
Grande Valley proposition. The Val-
ley’s fears of a depleted irrigation
water supply are echoed by every
county bordering on the river in
whose development irrigation has
played an important part.
One Survey Completed
A survey already has been made
of the Rio Grande from Fort Quit-
man to its source. The new survey
would supplement the information
obtained from the previous survey,
and might go far toward finding an
answer to the irrigation problem.
Credit for passage of the bill is
assigned by Judge Dancy to Sena-
tor Rogers Kelly, Representatives
Augustine Celaya and Homer Leon-
ard. and other senators and repre-
sentatives from areas extending
ftom the Gulf of Mexico to the New
Mexico line.
Especially was the work of the
El Paso representatives. Hankamer.
Isaacs and Bridges, who do not
benefit from the appropriation, giv-
en credit by Judge Dancy for its
important influence m obtaining
passage of the bill.
ducking, he said.
The natives in Suva, however,
select a pretty girl, cover her with
flowers and then duck her in a
well as a rain enticement, he added
On the other hand, in ancient
India, they stood a black horse
with head toward the west and [
rubbed the animal with a black
cloth until it neighed.
Three men are required for the
rain producing ceremony in Esto-
nia. he said. C
j with a firebrand, another stands on
the ground and beats a kettle and
the third scurries up the tree to
sprinkle water.
In New Caledonia food is offer-
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Swed Is To Sponsor
Good Will Trip
DONNA — Walter Weaver, Jr . Is
visiting in Omaha, Neb, and Chi-
cago, Ill., this week. He also ex-
pects to go to Michigan.
VALLEY
Federal Savings
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THREE ARE FINED
HARLINGEN -Three fines were
assessed Saturday by Judge Men-
ton Murray in corporation court
here. Mack Dunaway, arrested by
Chief E. W. Anglin, was fined $10
on disturbing the peace charge,
vIUte Tea and A. T. Gil-
more were fined $5 each on similar
charges filed by Officer Wes Yon-*
ville.
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McALLEN — Becau<e of the de-
mand for seats on the chartered
bus to tour the Valley next Thurs-
day advertising McAllen’s Fourth
of July celebration, an additional
bus has been reserved for the all-
day trip
Louis Swed. Valley distributor for
Anheuser-Busch Brewery, and lo-
cal promoters of the event, said
Saturday the demand for seats on
the bus by eivie leaders from other
cities necessitated the use of an-
other bus.
Unless local committeemen and
others have reserved their seats by
telephoning Mrs. Nancy Johnson at
1154 by noon Monday the free seats
will be available to anyone inter-
ested. Buses will leave McAllen at
7:30 a m. with all expenses being
paid by the beer distributor. Swed
in addition to furnishing luncheon
for the party at El Jardin Hotel at
Brownsville w-ill also supply cooling
soft drinks en route, but no other
beverage of any kind will be per-
mitted on the buses, the publicity
committee and Swed unanimously
ruled.
Two Anheuser-Busch officials
from St Louis will come here to
join the travelers. The party will
return here at 7:05 pm. "Boop’
Burger’s orchestra will go along to
furnish the music. Broadcasting
from radio station KRGV, Weslaco. I
will be made during the Browns-
ville luncheon.
Sunday, June 25, 1939
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