Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald (Harlingen, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 46, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 26, 1940 Page: 2 of 37
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Sunday, May 26, 1940
VALLEY SUNDAY STAR-MONITOR-HERALD
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BRITISH PREPARE FOR EXPECTED NAZI ATTACK
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Gift To School From
Elsa-Edcouch Graduates
Brunch Bridge
Alamo Event
Factories To Work Full Time This Sunday
For First Time Since World War
DAR Rio Grande
Chapter Luncheon
Is Scheduled
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Valley Youth Plans
To Visit In Valley
Similar Events Are
Set Thursday
EDCOUCH—As a gift from the
graduating class to the Edcouch-
attempts to pierce the high spot
on the log
Then with another pipe, filed
Lee
Murray,
included:
Frances
The entire program this year will
be conducted at Rose Lawn cem-
etery, instead of at a local church
and at the cemetery too, Rev. Fred
Hamner and O. C. Emory, mem-
bers of the arrangements commit-
tee for the observance, revealed.
The program will open at 9 30
a. m. with the high school band
providing music during the assem-
bly period. The group will sing the
national anthem, and Rev. Hamner
will offer the invocation Bill Doyle
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Charles C. Sperry of the Texu
Predatory Animal Control Associa-
Faidley. Curtis McClaugherty. Floyd
Saufferer. Chai les Williams
Faculty guests included Mary Al-
ice Gay and Hoke McKim. senior
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Oklahoma Students Given 2,000 Mile Trip
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Texas Golf Pros
Seek Big Purse
Dysentery Toll Is
Placed At 44
ville for two years and nine months.
He was an agent here for the La
Salle Extension University, and op-
erated a small cigar store on Eliza-
beth street.
Surviving him here is the widow.
Mrs. Roberta B i|owe.
Minyard.
Elsa;
the city, doctors, nurses, and the
Latin American Garden Club group
Ramsey urged all those who cannot
afford to pay for medical treatment
to take advantage of the clinic, and
said for those unable to be moved
help would be sent from the clinic.
Illustrated Sermon
Another Sunday memorial
j vice will be that conducted at the
Four Square Gospel Church on the
highway east of Donna Rev. C. O.
Jefcoat the pastor, said that Rev.
. IT 1 a i a . tsar4•* rs rd Irvsevo'M
All members of Uid Texas PGA
and amateurs with a handicap ot
five or less are eligible for the
Open tournament.
TO LEAVE MONDAY
EDINBURG—Mr. and Mr*. J. J.
WEEK TO SEE
WAR DEAD OF
AREA HONORS
Carr were guests. Mrs. H. M. Wood,
and Mrs. G. I.
winners of high scores.
A salad course was served.
Montevideo. He will receive his mas-
ter’s degree from the 1
CHARLES T. A. HOWE
BROWNSVILLE—Charles T.
Howe. 55. died here at 1:30 a m
Saturday after a short illness. The
i body will be forwarded to Green-
| field. Mass. for burial, by Darling
Funeral Home.
Mr. Howe had resided in Browns-
as a river huckster and coal col-
RANGERV1LLE—Mrs. H B Row-
(len was honored with a shower
given this week at the home ot
her mother, Mrs. C. D. Minor.
Games and contests were enjoyed in
a setting that noted the pink and
blue theme and refreshments were
served.
Enjoying the afternoon with the
honoree were Mesdames Morris
Holbert. C H Holbert. C L. Kaig-
ler. S. T. Minor. H. F. Minor. Mike
Buffo. S B Izard. J. L. Izard. Wil-
born Peters. J. M. Passmore, and
E C. Wallace and Miss Jemma
Buffo.
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DENTON—Mis* Arnetla Stewart
of Brownsville, music education
major and student of piano, gave
her senior recital Monday evening
Mis* Stewart opened her program
with Beethovens “Sonata Opus 10.
No. S" and two of Brahms' compo-
sitions. Following “Footsteps In the
r" and "Garden in the Rain”
by the chapter among outstanding by Debussy. Miss Stewart played an
high school graduates recently , nncinal composition, “Brownsville
Installation of officers will com-
plete the program feature.
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The first step is to locale logs
I This is done from barges pushed
by a rugged tow-boat Littrell
| built. This particular phase of op-
MISSION — Graduating members
of the Dunlap Club were honored
Wednesday evening with a dancing
party when the club entertained at
the ' home of Mils Dorothy Bal-
thrope.
ATTEND GRADUATION
BROWNSVILL E—Mr. and Mrs S
I. Benavides. Sr., left Saturday night
by rail for Mexia to visit Dr. and
Mrs S I. Benavides. Jr, there. They
will gn to Commerce on Monday
to attend graduation exercises al
East Texas State Teachers College
where a son. Anthony Albert Bena-
vides. will receive the degree of
bachelor of arts.
officers were named:
Floyd Saufferer, president; Cur-
tis McClaugherty. secretary: Cor- j
enne Burke. Kathlyn Mitchell. Bob
Hughes, Elnnra Gafner and Lowell
McClaugherty, program committee j
Annual meeting date was set for
a few days after Christmas in order
that all ex-student* might attend
the annual gatherings.
BEAUMONT-0P>—Texas’ profes-
sional golfers will be shooting for lain, will be in charge of the ser-
$3,000 In prize money in the annual vices at the grave. An American
state PGA Open tournament at the
Beaumont Country Club July 12
and 13.
The PGA test will be preceded by
a pro-amateur tournament on "uly
11 and will be followed by the an-
nual Texas Cup matches on July
Delighted with borderland were the students of New Liberty Consolidated School,
located near Sayre, in western Oklahoma, who paused in Brownsville Saturday while
on a 2,000-mile trip that had carried them as far west as New Mexico.
and Rev. J. Beaty Smith of San
Juan will read “Flanders Field"
Rep. Homer Leonard of McAllen
will introduce Sen Kelley for th*
principal address.
After the address, the Legion post’s
firing squad, nf which H. H. Roth*
is captain, will fire a salute to th*
veterans nf all wars who are buried
at Rose Lawn.
To Decorate Grave*
Decoration of the graves will fol-
low’. with members of the local Son*
of the Legion squadron taking
wreaths to the marked grave* of
war dead The youths will stand
at the graves while taps are sound-
ed
Business firms w ill close their
doors for observance of Memorial
Day at Mission where Fred H Mor-
gan Post nf the American Legion
and its auxiliary will conduct a pro-
gram at the legion hall at 10 a m.
followed by a service at Laurel Hill
cemetery at 11 a. m Graves will
be decorated The public is invited.
San Benito legionnaires hope to
inaugurate a senes of annual Sun-
day church service* in memory of
war dead. A special program has
been arranged for the morning
service Sunday at the First Meth-
odist Church. Legionnaires and
I others will attend in a body. The
war veterans also will decorate th*
graves of war dead Thursday.
EDINBURG-Terry B Bentley,
who is a student at Harvard Uni-
versity is to arrive in early June to
visit hi* mother. Mrs. Terry Bentley,
and attend the wedding of hi* sis-
ter. Ruth, and Cecil Roberts of
Pharr.
Mr. Bentley will sail from New
York June 14 to conduct a tour in
South America, principally in,
Bueno* Aires. Rio de Janeiro, and
Montevideo. He will receive his mas-
ter’s degree from the Harvard tlon- after «tudy;ng the food habit*
school of law and diplomacy this ot crippled coyutes, says that two
year and will study for his doctor’s of the maimed creature* will de-
degree at th* University of T*xa* stray as much livestock as tor**
next y«M. i sound coyotaa.
The leaders of Britain’s new dictatorial system, who have pledged
the nation to fight to the last gun *
the last sovereign and the last man.
also turned intense pressure upon
organized labor.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
in a letter to the trades union ex- j
ecutive council, demanded a “su-
preme effort" by w’orkers to defend
the country and win the war. telling
them of the gravity of the situation
“deepens hour by hour.”
Conscription Endorsed
The conference endorsed the na-1
tion's conscription of labor and
flag will be placed on the grave of
each dead veteran.
State Senator Roger* Kelley of
Edinburg will address the annual
Memorial Day gathering in McAl-
len next Thursday morning, officials
of the American Legion post an-
14 between the state’s leading pro nounccd Saturday,
and amateur teams. I
The first 36 holes of the 72-hole
PGA Open play on July 12 also
will serve as the qualifying ot
Group Of 22 Spends i
Saturday In Surf
At Del Mar
Visible Precaution*
More visible and audible are the
precautions against invasion, the
calling up of the tw’o-millionth man.
scores of arrests which have result-
ed from the government s drive on
“fifth columnists." harsh censorship
which takes away the news of the
mighty battle of Flanders, and calls
from the nations leadership for
“confidence."
Saturday military men described
the situation on the channel edge of
the continent as "very grave and
very confused" but held out hope
that a joint Allied action would beat
back Germany’s iron cavalry and
rip apart the base nf the Reichs-
wehr salient which stretches across
northern France to the Straits of
Dover.
With
property and promised th* army the
work would be forthcoming to make
“the arms and munitions you need.”
The labor ministry set up a sup-
ply board to mobilize industrial
manpower under the totalitarian
law, adopted this week.
The change from a nation of quiet
green fields and peaceful towns be-
comes complete on Sunday, when
Britain works and prays. For the
first time since the World War. fac-
tories will hum on full schedule
while churchgoers, at the express
command of their king, implore God
for a victorious peace.
That will be the first real effect
of the totalitarian legislation of last
week which uprooted tradition and
put every Britnn and all he owm*
•t the command of the endangered
state.
Members of the graduating class I their necks,
greetings.
Apparently it was the haphazard.
the Wednesday Fridge Club this *
week at her home in Roma when g]sa hlgh school, seniors sponsored
Mrs. Frank Lockhead and Theo , orRanizatlon of an alumni orgamza-
---- „— ” ** • tion at a banquet held this week
down to a sharp edge, the pro-
guer plugs the log. much as on*
would a watermelon. From the
plug, about an inch and a half
in diameter, the type of wood is
determined. If the log is deemed
worth raising, then the real work
begins.
The log is speared by a spud,
or harpoon, the shank end of
which fit* into a length of pipe.
A cable, attached to a windlass,
passes through a hole in the cen-
ter of the spud, just below the col-
lar. and by this means the log is
raised.
Then after the log has been
brought to the surface, it is 'wor-
ried" to the nearest bank to re-
main until Littrell picks it up on
his return trip at the end of sum-
mer operation* and brings it to
h s sawmill near this little Owsley
county town in eastern Kentucky.
The log-salvaging business isn’t
as profitable as it once was. Influx
of cheaper lumber to compete
with Littrell’* seasoned oak has
cut into his market.
have part in a preliminary service.
Mercedes will be active both
Sunday and Thursday All member* ,
of the legion and auxiliary will
‘attend services at the First Meth-
odist Church Sunday morning when
Rev. J. W Albrittrn will preach on
Mr*. Faris*; L. L. Weaver. »chool the subject, “Have They Died In
board member and Mrs. J. C. Land- Vain?” The services begin at 10 30
I a. m.
I All ex-service men and auxiliary
| members at Mercedes will meet at
the city hall at 915 a. m. and go
in a body to the various cemeteries
for decorating graves of war dead.
Rev. Charles Tucker, pastor of th*
Presbyterian Church, assisted by
Dr. G. G. Eddy, legion post chap-
Boys Under Conscription
Age Called Up; Effect Of
Dictatorial System Felt FRENCH OUST
15 GENERALS
FOR FAILURE
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By Combin* Floor Of Large River
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For Lost Logs; Soaking Improves
AP Feature Service
BOONEVILLE. Ky —John Lit-
trell earns a summer livelihood
combing the floor of the Ken-
tucky River for lost logs.
The logs were lost many year*
ago off rafts when the stream was
a busy lumber trade channel. The
years under water have improved
som* types, particularly white
oak which hardens with each un-
der-water year. Softer woods—
pine and sycamore—soften, and
walnut shales off if soaked too
long.
Littrell began his strange “fish-
ing” business after his enterprise*
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month of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. j u<)p ended jn ie25
Wm. Drummond, was named hon-
oree at a coffee given Wednesday
morning by Mrs. Bascom A. Spillar
and Mrs. John H Clopton at the
of'"marigold» and pastel. eration is called "proguing ”
while the centerpiece of the length of pine.
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Valley Memorial Services To Be Staged
Kentcky Man Earns Summer Living CLINIC OPENS
IN HARLINGEN
Roll call of classes from 1935 to
1939 was carried out. Clovis Shep-
herd accompanied by Julia Hill
played saxophone solos. Bob Hughes
j made the talk presenting the Alum-
ni Association as a gift and Supt.
Joe Wilson accepted in behalf of
Edcouch-Elsa high school graduates,
past and future.
Ex - students who were guests
Elizabeth Yarbro, Elsa.
Gilman. Edcouch.
Florence Molder. Edinburg; Fairy
Edcouch; Evelyn
Earline Willeford.
Edcouch; T L. George. La Villa:
1 Dorothy Moore. Kathlyn and June
Mitchell. Opal Hughes. Elnora Gaf-
ner. and Earline Thomas. Edcouch;
Janett Lugg, Garnet Bell. Edna
Merriman. Elsa: Ruth Vitteto*. Ed-
couch. Rowena Sims. Ed nburg.
Louise Peterson. Edinburg. Maurice
land Cocknll, Mrs. Wm. Geo. Me- j
Kav. Mrs. Richard H. Darrell. Mr* |
O. D. Wells. Mrs. Chas V. Brumley.
Mrs. Thomas D Roberts, Mrs. Dan
Searcy, and Mrs. Melton, all of Fort
Ringgold, and Mrs Drummond. Mrs
Leonard. Mrs. Florence J. Scott. Mrs.
Fred A Hornaday. Jr., and Misses
Shirley Brooks and Robin Brooks.
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We can usually struggle along
i without most of th* things w« want
who were present were:
Julia Hill, Corennc Burke. Shir- _
Icy Beaver. Marji* Graves. Marie joyous cunfusion of a ship's arrival.
J? V Pv*rhue- Safah Actually, it was the well ordered
Bob Hughes. Ra> brn maneuvering of a motion picture
Lowell . IcClaugherty. I company. "Honolulu’’ was the boat
deck setting at Warner Bro*. stuGiO.
The arrival scene was being filmed
for the pictur. ' Til Wc Meet
Again."
The men and women wearing he
gay colored lets know exactly wha’
they were supposed to do. and when
they were supposed to do it. All but
one of them—a dark haired slip of a
girl dressed in white. She seemed
lost Shed start one way. then turn
and run in the uther direction
“That little girl in white worries
me." a tall atmosphere actor con-1
tided to a -umpanion. “She’s all i
mixed up. and if somebody doesn’t'
put her wise, the director is liable
to crack down on her."
His companion looked at him odd-
ly “You’re new to this compary
aren’t you? Well. I wouldn t worry
about that little girl She's Merle
Oberon, the star of the picture."
bathe in the surf and catch-up with
the sun tan.
The entire trip cost them very i tend
little. The operating expenses morning at the First Presbyterian
were paid from money earned the Church where Rev. Archie Reed,
ALAMO—Mrs. M. Mannering as-
sisted by her daughter. Marie, en-
tertained with a brunch bridge
Thur<day morning in honor of her
daughter. Glen. The guests wer*
classmates of the honoree in the
graduating class. The class colors
of blue and white were carried out
with blue plumago and shasta
daisies placed about the rooms and
on the snowy breakfast table.
The guest list included Misses
Alta Marie Smith. Betty Platt,
Louise Sorensen of San Juan. Ella
Beth Melton. Ruth Elizabeth Bol-
ling Erline Murphy. Eva Lucas. Ida
Frances Fams of Pharr and Janett*
Van Denbark. Mary Lnuise Kastler,
Lois Cowley *nd Glen Mannering
of Alamo.
Loj* Cogley received high *cnr*
award and Louis* Sorensen second
high.
G. DE LA VINA
EDINBURG—Gustavo de la Vina.
27. member of a pioneer Edinburg
family, died here Saturday at 4:35
p. m. after a long illness.
De la Vina had been a teacher at
Roosevelt school. McAllen, the past
four years. He was born in Edin-
burg in 1912. was graduated from
the local high school, received hi*
Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas
A. and I. College, and later attend-
ed National University at Mexico
City.
Funeral services will be held here
from the Buen Pastor Methodist
church. Sunday, at 5 p. m., with
Rev. Raul Saiizar officiating Burial
will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park,
under direction of Skinner* Mor-
tuary.
Surviving are the parents. Mr. and
Mr*. P. de la Vina; the wife, Mrs.
Irma de la Vina; a son, Gustavo.
Jr.; three brother*. Juan. Jose and
Robert de la Vina; two sisters.
Misses Irene and Ernestine de la
Vina; and other relatives, all ot
Edinburg.
La* Palmas Bridge Club met Hughes, president of the Se-
Wedncsday afternoon at the home . njor c|asSt was toastmaster and also
of Mrs John A
! scores were won
Mrs Keach and
FOXY FURS—Valued al
$4,000. this collarless hip-length
spring jacket designed by Dein-
Bacher has four platina fox
skins worked together to em-
phasire spine line markings. Re-
verse treatment In sleeves eli-
minates shaggy shoulders.
ammunition and airplane
factories working throughout the j
weekend with the greatest activity '
of the war. 326.259 more men were i
called to arms to aid the hard-press-
ed British expeditionary force and
HARLINGEN — Memory nf war
dead w-ill be honored by Valley
citizens at program* to be held
during the coming week, some
sendee* being *cheduled Sunday
while others will be held Thursday,
Memorial Day.
The Hidalgo County Forty and
( Eight is sponsoring a memorial
service for war dead at the People’*
Church in San Juan at II a. m.
Sundav. Legionnaires will enter th*
church in a bodv at 10 50 a. m.
Rev. Beaty Smith, pastor, will
preach a memorial sermon and
there will be special music from a
L a
Gay Cruise Setting In
‘ ’Til We Meet Again’
A ship was docking at Honolulu
and a gay welcoming crowd was on
class sponaon, Supt. Joe H Wilson, hand. Men and women, some of
C. A. Whittle. Mrs. Fern Lane; and them decorated with flower*, all
Miss Elizabeth Gilbert. | wearing bright colored lets about
waved and shouted
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LONDON——Britain Jarred Int® militancy from it* centuries-old . .
groove of ease and empire, called Saturday night upon It* peace-born \\ CVgcUld Organizing
generation, boys of 18 to 19'i. to fill the gaps in home defense forces j NTzvvir
against the danger of Invasion. Uvlcllat>
The war office asked for volunteers from the age groups Just under
the conscription range after German bombs thumped on English soil
•ver a 20®-mile stretch of coast and while German gun* echoed from
Just across the channel.
Recruits guthered by Saturday night’s call will have to enlist for
the duration of the war in home defense battalions. When they reach
the conscription age of 20. however, they will be transferred tn training
units for service in the field army, wherever it may be. Now it is
fighting with th* French and Belgians in Flanders.
The volunteer* for home defense battalions are distinct from the
thousands who are enlisting as “parashoots” to defend Britain against
parachute invaders.
rm. - __—...Horn u hr. hnVA !
Nattinger, Ruth Overhue. Sarah l
Williams, Bob Hughes. Raybon i
Thomas. Lowell McClaugherty.
John D Brown. Jam.*s Roser, Col-1
lins Stovall. Melvin Odom.
BROWNSVILLE — Visiting the
Valley is just about a* fine a grad-
uation present as anyone could
want. New Liberty Consolidated
school students of Sayre, Okla,
opined Saturday.
Traveling in an ordinary *chool
bus. the Oklahoman* paused here
on a 2.000-mil* odyssey that had
carried them as far west as Carls-
bad. N. M , and the Pecos.
They crossed the Mexican border
three times: Del Rio, Laredo and
Brownsville.
And on Saturday, the students •
headed their bus to Del Mar beach, j
along the Gulf of Mexico coast to in voice choir and solos from H D.
Munal.
Weslaco legionnaires plan to at-
services in a body Sunday
past school year out ot play*, cake | the pastor, is a war veteran,
walks and other projects. i
They left Sayre last Monday, ana
expect to return possibly Monday
night. The group, which included 1
22 students and four adults, spent
Friday night at Palm Court* here : . . . , . . .
I Els>* Jefcoat. co-pastor and known
Spending the same n.ght at Palm as „the prcacher- wtlI <ive
Courts was another traveling stu- an illustrated on ..L„t v>
d<’nt party. The second group for(fet» children in costume* will
which included 22. hailed from
Fairy, Texas. They headed north-
ward early Saturday.
The New Liberty school group.
' which doesn’t plan to leave the
HARLINGEN—As doctor* esti-
mated a known 44 had d.ed from i M.E. Fams, superintendent, and
the effects of a dysentery epidemic
prevalent here since early April,
the city made plans Saturday to |
I stamp out the plague.
Mayor Hugh Ramsey said a clinic
' will open Monday at 2 p m. at the
■ Alamo school on F street for sick
children nf parents who cannot af-
ford to buy medicine or services of
doctors.
Meanwhile a survey, although
only partially completed, had shown
"a considerable number of cases '
in Latin American quarters, and
Mayor Ramsey said every effort
would be made to stamp out the
dysentery.
Plans were also afoot to provide
sleeping places for babies protected
with screen wire, the work to be
done by NYA labor. This plan was
to be carried out on the assumption
that existence nf the dysentery
might be connected with prevalence
nf flies and ether insect* in un- Texas’ professionals for the Nation-
al PGA tournament. In this first
Clinic at the Alamo school is to round pro* and amateur* will be
be opened with the cooperation of segregated in pairings.
For the final 36 holes on July 13
the pros and amateur* will be
grouped in threesomes according to
scores in the opening round.
In the Texas Cup matches, dou- j of McAllen will offer a vocal solo,
bles will be played in the morning ‘ -—**•-
and singles in the afternoon. The
pro team will be comprised of 10
low scorers in the qualifying round
for the National PGA. The 10 ama-
Cdiver and Neville Haynes plan to teur opponents will be selected by
leave Monday for Alpine where th* amateurs themselves and sport*
Mr. and Mrs Oliver will visit for ; writers,
two weeks and Neville will spend
the summer. Neville plans to at-
tend New Mexico A. and M. Col-
lege at Messilia Park. New Mexico,
next fall.
Spillar home.
glidTl’s Gwe^“u^d“in ’the living I The crew uses a 20 to 30-foot
room while the centerpiece of the length of pine. One end is a
refreshment table was a silver vase spike with which the operator
of giant zinnias. The table, covered
cloth, was set with silver and crystal
service. Mrs. Wm Drummond and
Mrs. J. S Leonard served.
The guest* included Mrs McFar-
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fill the ranks of the navy and Royal
Air Force.
(Her 2.000 000 Mobiliied
This registration of 27-year-olds |
pushed the number of men under ;
mobilization past the 2.000.000 mark.
Early morning German bombings i
from the North Riding (district) of
Yorkshire to Fast Anglia and Essex
covered more than 200 miles of Eng-
lish const, injuring 11 civilians and
awakening the nation fully to
awareness it is bearing the weight
of war.
While the Yorkshire bombing*
were believed aimed at steel fac-
tories. the raids further south were
considered intended to shake the
English morale, but there was no
sign of the loss of quiet confidence
that is the hall-mark of the Briton.
Deprived by a new censorship
edict of even the names of places
where his army is fighting, the man
in the street accepted the situation
with the view, “there’s a big battle
on at last and the French are going
Iq give ’em what-for. 'then it
comes, the news will be good "
"Local defence volunteers" flock-
ed from towns and farms by the
thousands to give their spare time
as "parashoots" against German
parachutists.
Bv nightfall it was estimated near-
ly! 400.00(1 had registered
LEAVING SUNDAY
MISSION — Mr* J. S. Rodwell of
Fort Bliss. El Paso, leaves Sunday
to return home after a visit of
several weeks with her parents. Mr.
•nd Mrs. William Drummond, in
Rio Grande City and with oth'.*
relatives ua Mission, her former
home
McWhorter were | at the hl((h ,€hooi cafeteria. Mem-
bers of the class of ’40 were hosts.
Spring blossoms in multi colors
decorated the hall.
Bob Hughes, president of the Se-
___________ ____________________1 „j
Pope. Jr. High , was chairman when the organiza-
by Mrs Pope and |jon wag carried out. The following
refreshments of' —
salad and cake were served.
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Shower Courtesy
Honors Mrs. Rowlen
4
McALLEN—As the last business
meeting • t _■ club season mem-
bers nf the Rio Grande Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Rev-
olution will lunch Monday at 12:30
p m at the Casa de Palmas Hotel.
The season will be formally closed
June 14 at the annual Flag Day
breakfast in which all Valley chap-
ters will participate.
Mr*. J. G. Decker will report on
good citizenship awards distributed I Snow
I original composition.
Herald.’’
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a junction and cut off the German
salient.
Between the main Allied forces,
their advance guards struck again
and again into the German spear-
head thrust westward to the sea and
pointed toward the British Isles.
Communications Harassed
The Allied advance units harassed
the German line of communication.
The outcome of the Flanders bat-
-------------------------------- tie depends on the Allied effort to
ZHninri I A D V <dns<‘ the breach and pocket the
w J Dll W J jOk T Germans on the coast.
- j The gap brtwcen the northern
and central Allied armies, originally
I described as extending from the
• Somme to Arras, now is bounded
l by the Peronne and Bapaume sec-
tors.
The northern Allied force consists
of French. British and Belgian
(here one word was censored > troops
holding a 170-rrile line starting i
(here another word was censored)
somewhere ia Belgium and circling
south and west through Valencien-
[ nes. Cambrai. Bapaume and St.
Omer to the sea
The central French army main-
tained a 200-mile front on the Som-1
me and Aisne Rivers across North-
ern French. (Here four line* were
censored).
The German* fought on a winner-1
take-all basis along the Channel
coast, running the risk of complete
disaster if they should fail to con-
soLdate their corridor position
Until now the light mechanized t
German forces and infantry had j
formed the spearhead. The move-1
ment of heavy forces from the rear
indicated the crucial struggles was
I near.
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House Guest
Is Honored
By Coffee
RIO GRANDE CITY—Mrs James
S. Rodwell of Fort Bliss, guest this
. A® • *_ — TV ft — n Aft**
Wm. Drummond, was named hon-
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