Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald (Harlingen, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 48, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 9, 1940 Page: 12 of 36
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Sunday, June 9, IMO
VALLEY SUNDAY STAR-MONITOR-HERALD
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Moody Still Big Question In Texas Politics; First Primary Is Near
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Forecast In Mexico
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Days scheduled in Harlingen for the month
of June.
DEMO CHIEFS
SET MEETING
FOR MONDAY
Site Will Be Chosen
For Convention
city, and some
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WATER MAIN
PLAN OKEHED
Annual Celebration
Plans Pushed
NOW! You Can Have New
Beauty In Every Room—
-ECONOMICALLY.
STATE LISTS
CASH BALANCE
Deficits Shown For
Three Funds
See the valuable merchandise to be sold
at auction now on display at 212 W. Jack-
son street . . . and keep Wednesday open
for Harlingen’s first Auction Dollar Dry
—Wednesday, June 12th—3.30 P. M.
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carrying charge
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by Cavett’s Central Drat Store
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On 100 Beautiful Patterns
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6-sheet family site! Has Swirl-
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DAY TO BE IN HARLINGEN!! Because
Wednesday is the day for you io convert
your Auction Dollars into valuable mer-
chandise!
And, if you don’t have a lot of Auction
Dollars on hand Wednesday, remember
that there are two more Auction Dollar
steaks after he had all his teeth
pulled. Robert M. Cross, an auto
mechanic, charged in filing suit for
divorce. The couple had been marri-
ed since 1916
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WPA $25,000 Project
Will Start Soon
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a southeast English town Poor Americans May
Be Left Behind As
Rescue Ship Leaves
RETURNS TO HARLINGEN
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Hopper has returned to her home
at 30# E Taylor after vacationing)
for a month in San Antonio and
Kerrville.
Hardeman County’s
Transfer Is Voted
WASHINGTON —44*— Transfer
of Hardeman county. Texas, from
the Fort Worth division to tha
Wichita Falls division of the north-
ern federal judicial district of
Texas was approved in a bill sign-
ed Saturday by President Roose-
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$200 each for the minimum fare.
individuals had interfered unfairly Tough Steaks Hard
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Texas Army Plane Crash Being Probed
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(Washable Patterns Ineluded)
Here, truly, is the wallpaper “buy” of
the season! More than 100 patterns from
which to choose ... for any room you
might care to paper at this sensational
price . . . including many washable pat-
terns!
BUT REMEMBER! . . . this sale is for
ONE WEEK ONLY! Come in Monday
or as early in the week as possible. Al-
though we carry a complete stock in all
patterns this low price will close out our
stock rapidly.
We Give
British Expeditionary Force, wounded in the Flanders
inferno during which his truck convoy was bombed, is
shown w’ith nurses at a hospital “somewhere in England.”
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tion concerning the thefts Their
mission was fruitless, however, since
nothing could be learned from po-
lice officials there.
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World war period is being awaited
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Border‘Gold Shirt’ Source Claims Neither English Town
Avila Camacho Nor Almazan Will Win
former military commander in the I4ia}i Court Rules
Oil Company Wrong
NEW YORK—State Supreme
Court Justice Samuel Rosenman
ruled Saturday that the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana and five
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with the competitive business of
the Pan American Petroleum and
Transjxirt Company, and ordered’
them to pay damages-which the pUrposely served him with tough
plaintiff originally set at $50,000,000 -<•— -h h>.
The amount of damages to be
paid was not specified in the de-
cision. being dependent on an ac-
counting of profits since April. 1933
—A lone German raiding plane
and a British ground crew engaged
in a spectacular duel in the glare of
searchlights late Saturday night
while thousands of townspeople
looked on.
Searchlights picked out the Nazi
craft which roared in at an altitude
of only 500 feet. Then the ground
defenses blazed away.
Machine gun bullets spurted sky-
ward. The German answered with
a stream of tracer bullets directed
at the searchlights.
Anti-aircraft guns joined the at-
tack with numerous bursts and the ________
i raider made off toward the French either at Galway on the west coast,
coast
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Hie deadline for candidates for
state office to file was midnight
last Tuesday The same hour also
was the deadline for candidates for
district offices in districts of more (’n tn the state office and then to
than one county.
The closing for district office
candidates in districts of only one
county, and also for precinct and
county candidates, is June 15. next
Saturday.
If Moody’s name is finally in-
cluded. there will be nine on the
ballot in the gubernatorial bracket,
compared with 13 twn years ago.
The most entries. 1R. will be in
the contest for the railroad com-
mission seat of Lon A Smith, who
is retiring
Reply to Governor W. Lee O'Dan-
DUBLIN—At least a hundred
homebound Americans, faced the
prospect Saturday of being left be-
hind because they lack money for
passage to the United States on the
liner Washington.
The ship arrived at Bordeaux Fri-
day night and is scheduled to sail
for Lisbon. Portugal, Saturday
night, and from there to Ireland
sometime next week. It may call
Bv HOWARD C. MARSHALL
AUSTIN —(4*i— With the first
Democratic primary only 49 days
distant, the number one political
question in Texas Saturday con-
tinued to be:
Will red-headed, dynamic Dan
Moody, twice governor but for the
last 10 years engaged in the private
practice of law in Austin, once
more campaign for the office which
none has ever held three times.
A meeting of the state Democra-
tic executive committee here Mon-
day for the triple purpose of select-
ing a site for the fall*state conven-
tion. certifying candidates for the
primary ballot and passing on any
requests for referenda on contro-
versial matters, was of secondary
interest.
Statement Due Monday
Moody said he would have no
statement before Monday His name
was filed by friends, which met
legal requirements regarding fil-
ing. but the committee would not
certify it if Moody requested it not
to do so.
Mineral Wells. Houston and San
Antonio have asked for the Sep-
tember convention, and Amarillo
and Dallas may make bids Monday.
E. B Germany of Dallas, chairman
of the executive committee, report-
ed.
The convention will declare the
nominees nf the party, draw a plat-
form for them to run on against
the representatives of other par-
ties and select a new executive
committee
No Petitions Reeeived
Germany said he had received no
formal petitions for referenda, but
expected one on the subject of a tax
on gasoline at the refinery in lieu of
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AUSTIN—'4h—The State of Toxas
had an overall cash balance of near-
ly $21,252,000 in its treasury at the
end of May despite deficits in three
funds amounting to $24,613,000. the
treasurer's office reported Satur-
day.
Unpaid warrants totaled $29 390.-
000 as against a cash account ot
$50,642,000 on deposit with banks.
Funds containing deficits were
general revenue with $22,059,000;
confederate pension with $1,833,000
and state old age pensions with
$720,000.
Among accounts with large bal-
ances were the available school
fund with $1,765,000; state highway. R
$10,352,000; permanent school fund.
$8 143.000; county and district high-
way indebtedness. $7.639 000; high-
way investment. $1,261,000; highway
motor fuel tax. $3 906.000. road
bonds, $1,083 000; series two of re-
lief bond sinking funds. $1,219,000,
and teacher retirement savings, |l,-
127.000.
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the police with what he believes
is a "hot tip." leading the law to
further investigations. Ordinarily
i most of the informants are resi-
dents of Mexico, bearing unfound-
ed rumors. Frequently, however,
the reports have given the police
clue which defies their pursuit
once it goes across the Rio Grande.
Cannon said state and county po-
lice from other Valley counties are
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tures above and many
nore? Get 13.7 aq. ft.
shelf area . . . S-year
Protection Plan! See
it today! Compare
others up to >40 more!
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and the sheriff s department in try-
ing to apprehend the car thieves
whom they are certain drive the
cars across the border.
Recently, it was understood that
I state police from Tamaulipas prof-
fered their assistance in trying to
stop the current wave of thefts by
apprehension of the auto thieves
across the border with the cars. It
is their opinion that the cars are
taken some place and reconditioned
and repainted before being driven
to the interior
' Chief Cannon pointed out
McALLEN—The 1M0 edition of
the McAllen Fourth of July cele-
bration. one of the oldest festivities
in the Valley, is rapidly being whip-
ped into shape, General Chairman
George Chapapaas announced Sat-
urday.
The various chairmen this week
met with their committees, and an-
nounced generally that "all the pre-
liminaries are out of the way.”
19 Flyers Entered
Al Weir, chairman of the Air
Show committee, said 19 Valley
and out-of-Valley flyers would par-
ticipate in the air carnival. Also,
he said. Bramff Airways has been
invited to send from Brownsville
one of its new 21-passenger Doug-
las DC-e transport planes.
Four Class AA Valley high school
bands will participate in the cele-
bration. in addition to the Pan
American Airways drum and bugle
corps. Chairman John Gregory ot
the bands music committee an-
nounced.
Fireworks Display Set
Chairman Bob Miller of the Bath-
ing Beauty Revue committee said
several new and novel acts were
being planned for this year s show
An orchestra and a floor show
will be secured for the dance at the
Club Royale. Dance Committee
Chairman O P Martin said
Large quantities of fireworks have
been ordered for the gala display
the night of the Fourth, according
to Dr. F G. Sigrist. chairman of the
fireworks committee
or at Cobh tn the south. i a
The men and women and their j
families, likely to be left behind
unless something is done are poor with the local division
working class people whose fam- « rtenartment in try-
ilies have grown so rapidly that
McALLEN—Investigation of ru-
mors concerning the whereabouts
i of the 21 stolen Hidalgo county
autos consumes most of the police
{officials’ time these days. Chief of
Noah Cannon said Satur-
Almost daily someone approaches
j to be carried in a
man's hip pocket."
The invention of Dr. Walter W
Jetter. of Taunton (Mass.) state hos-
Hr estimated that the city’s share
of expense in the project will
amount only to about $2,000 in cash,
is allowed on city
I pital. weighs only four ounces.
filers complied with specifications CHv Manager Roberl Rnnyon said
Sat ird-y he IlM received word a
water main project the city is seek-
ing has been approved by the dis- •
trict WPA office at Laredo.
The proposed project will be sent
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LEADS TOWARD MEXICO
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fact that after a car is in Mexico
for 72 hours without being properly |
bonded, it is subject to seizure by
the customs Only one such in-
stance has been reported, causing
local officials to believe the cars
have a distributing agency working
with them in Mexico. these troubles will disappear Sold
Recently two county officers w'ent
to Monterrey in search of informa-
Alcohol On Breath
Easy To Find Now
NEW YORK —(4*>— A new and
simplified apparatus fnr the chemic-
l al determination nf alcohol in
I breath was described Saturday to
the American Society of Clinical
Pathologists by a Boston
who said it was "compact enough
traffic police-
"That has been the plan for some time and both candidates know
---------------------—----- but they can do nothing." he con-
* tinued.
“Just who the provisional presi-
dent will be is unimportant, because
the Cardenas administration will
still be in power.”
A national news weekly magazine
recently reported that President
Cardenas would appoint Sanchez
Tapia in his stead. Sanchez Tapia.!
tion. Requests for referenda on pro- j
hibition and the sales tax also might
be presented, he added
There has been little agitation
recently for referenda and capital I
opinion generally is that there
probably will be none.
The executive committee
certify to county committees for
printing on the primary ballot the
names of 50-odd candidates fnr state
offices. It might have to make a
decision or two on whether late
Federal District, withdrew several
months ago from the presidential
race.
The election is scheduled for Sun-
day, July 7 The ne-A prtSMlMg is
to take office in December for a
six-year term
An extraordinary session of the
Mexican Congress is expected to be
called this month, and the Gold
Shirt sympathizer said Cardenas
may declare an emergency at that |
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The Gold Shirt organization
headed by the exiled Nicolas Rod-
riguez. ciaim conservative policies
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REYNOSA. Mexico—Neither Manuel Avila Camacho nor Juan An-
dreu Almazan will be the next president of Mexico, a person closely
identified with the "Gold Shirts' declared here Saturday.
To prevent a rebellion or possible loss of control by the administra-
tion. President Lazaro Cardenas will decla-e a state of "national emer-
gency" and appoint a provisional president to succeed himself, this source
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the present tax at the filling sta-
Washington for final approval.
Total cost of the proposed project
he said is a little under $25,000
About 4.000 feet of 14-inch pipe, now-
located near the river and not in
use since a change in the river |
bed. is tn be dug up and installed . . . ,
nn T ctrppt and are vigorously opposed to the
on Le%ee street. J ’ Cardenas administration.
It will replace eight-inch and ,
four-inch mains there, and will af- I
ford better fire protection along
that street. Mr. Runyon said. The
pipe removed along Levee street
will be located in other parts of the
new- pipe will be
purchased and laid in different lo-
cations.
Water mains tn serve the Browns- i
ville Housing Authority will be in-
I eluded in the project, the city man- ,
________ agcr said.
Geraldine
after credit is allowed on
i equipment that will be used
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