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The Monitor from McAllen, Texas • 8

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The Monitori
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McAllen, Texas
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WALLEN UNIT CITRUSLEAGUE: FORMED HERE Edward Schum a Named Delegate To Central Meeting Dec. Citrus grower of Tuesday evening at the chamber to perfect merce unit of the Texas Citrus effice decided McAllen and to send delGrowers league to the central council meetEdward Schuman was agate McAllen's delegate to ins Dec. chosen the central counell. Leverett T. Leonard, temporary president of the with McAllen Mr.

unit, Schuman war Instructed to go meeting to assist him in reto the presenting McAllen. Mr. Leonard and the temporary secretary, N. C. Ferrell, were meet: tinued in office; till another is held Dec.

11 at 7:30 at the Ins chamber of commerce building. The constitution and by- laws were read Tuesday night, but due to vigorous objection to some of its articles was not adopted, but "left open for revision or amendments. Talks were made by Gordon Grit fin, urging the lif6 and death ne cessity for cooperation, W. D. Rowe, Mr.

Schuman, Moore, Mr. Lewis and others. The meeting was in complete accord in deciding to send a sate to the central meeting and In forming a league of growers. Filipino Paper Milt Plained MANILA UP. -Paper making in the Imports Philippines, $2,000.000 -which worth "or annually the.

product, is being demonstrated at amali mill established by the Insular government. Eulogio Rodriguez, secretary of agriculture and commerce, says thousands of tons of, rice straw, sugar cane stalks and low. grade hen now going to waste, could be made in- paper. To Avert Strike WASHINGTON, Nov. 28--(P) The National Mediation Board will fly to Los Angeles, Saturday night to attempt avert a strike on the acific Electric Railway, an interurban line.

2 November 28, 1984 MCALLEN DAILY MONITOR At Indiana Day Picnie Former Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana (lett) will be one of the distinguished speakers Thursday at the annual Indiana day celebration to be staged in Harlingen. 8. L. Williams (right) Harlingen, is general chairman in charge of arrangements. London Enveloped In Fog On Eve Of Wedding Nuptials LONDON, Nov.

UP) -Fog plunged 1 festive London into darkness today but an official announcement said there would be no change in arrangements for the wedding tomorrow of Princess Marina and the Duke of Kent. Both the princess and duke were up early to take care of a hundred and one last-minute details. The duke has decided against bachelor dinner party, tonight but Instead will dine Marina and his and her parents in a small family party. Thousands flocked into London today, hopeful for a glimpse of Princess Marina and the Duke of Kent tomorrow as, they travel to and from Westminster Abbey, where they will be married. A reception at St.

James' 'Palace in honor of Marina topped prenuptial social activities today. Greek princess -who has no Greek blood Danish and Russian dexeent--met British tic and social leaders at a ingham Palace reception last night. Marina will arise tomorrow at 7:30 and the ceremony at Westminster Abbey will begin! at 11 a. m. (6 a.

m. Eastern ard time). Then the couple. AAA TO SEEK 25 PER CENT CUT COTTON CROP Smaller Than This Increase In Parity Payments Asked. WASHINGTON.

Nov? 29- (P) The AKA Is ready to call on cotton planters to hold their 1935 acreage down to 75: per cent of the 1928-32 average, This 26 per cent cut, which Secretary Wallace planned to ce between and Eastern Standard Time, today, is smaller than the 40 per cent reduction promulgated: for this year, but it is the maximum slash the AAA can make under existing contracts. At the same time, the officials prepared to announce an in payments, which g0 directly to the actual producers of cotton and a decrease in rental payments, which are divided between landlords and tenants. This probably means 1-2 cents per pound will be taken off rentals and added to parity payments. Thus rentals ould stand 2 cents and parity' paymerts at 2 1-2 cents. The secretary's announcement was timed to come immediately after today's report showing that AAA payments to southern ers for controlling production in 1934 totalled $75,969,192 as of November 22.

Under the 1934 program, farm-, ers actually reduced their. acreage 35 to 46 per cent below the ave erage for 1928-32. The AAA would prefer 'to 'ask for next year a reduction larger than 25, per cent because of the large supply of American cotton and the declining export demand. However, it is restricted to this figure under two-year contract with farmers. Pilot Is 'Killed SHANGHAI, Nov.

28- ward R. Dorsey, former Lieuten-' ant in the United. States army air corps, was killed today when his airplane crashed at Hungjao air: drome. Thanksgiving Dinner At The Cortez Hotel IN WESLACO Leaves Nothing To Be Desired Make The Day A Success TURKEY DINNER And All Courses You Need Not Make Reservations As We Are Prepared To Serve You CORTEZ HOTEL Hidalgo County's Finest Hotel Catering To Oil Men WESLACO, TEXAS LA LATEST WORLD NEWS PICTURES LAKE HURON COLLISION. -The stove-in bow of the lake freighter, Edward E.

Loomis, after the collision off Thunder Bay, Lake Huron, with the freighter W. C. Franz, which went to the with four members of the crew of 20 officers and men. Sixteen survivors were taken to Port Huron the Loomis. TOCRATIO Swell- Pl.

and Siamese by Mrs. Virginia R. Cobb of Newton. Mass. which among the entries in the Combined Champion Cat held in New York, sponsored by the Empire Solid Color Cat Society, Red Tabby Society and Near Freezing In North Texas; Cold Hits Middle West By the Associated Press Temperatures hovered around the freezing north Texas early today and many points reported frost.

Lubbock had a low reading of 28 degrees at 7 a. m. Abilene's minimum temperature was 35, one degree under the previous seasonal low. There was no frost at Abilene. The mercury fell to 32 at Wichita Falls, the lowest- since March.

Denton reported a drop to 30, ac. companied by the first freeze and killing frost of the season. It was forty at Corsicana, with temperature down to 36. San tonio had a low mark of about 35 San Angelo's low was 33. Tyler dropped to 36, The weather was clear and crisp over most of the state.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 28 (P) Winter was in the midst of another assault upon the Rocky Mountain and Middle Western states today. blanket of snow covered large portions of Utah. Idaho, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and the Dakotas: Temperatures plung. ed to near: the zero mark in the black hills, while in West Texas residents viewed the damage done by a A heavy rain tell in the Kansas City area with prospects it would turn to snow today.

Many motorists were reported stalled in snow drifts and ditches in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado where six inches of snow covered the ground. Make Business Better use Monitor. Monitor Classifieds Get Results. Pilot Bails Out But Ship Is Lost SCOTTSBORO, Nov. (P) An Eastern Air Lines pilot.

bound for Atlanta from Chicago with mall. balled, out at 5,000 feet about eight miles north here at o'clock this mornine when his motor. went dead. The pilot R. G.

(Bob) Chew hurt his les alightly. In landing. The plane caught fire and burned with its cargo. Chew said fog was thick through. the mountainous sections of Tennessee and North Alabama and he climbed to 5,000 to get above the fog.

The motor went dead and Chew with his parachute went over the side. It was Chew's second time to "bail in the darkness from mail plane with a dead motor. Subscribe for the, Daily Monitor today. Get the latest news first through the only leased 1 wire ice in the upper Valley. return for the Greek Orthodox ceremony at Buckingham palace.

Son Of Pioneer Dies At Home In Roma (Special to The Monitor) ROMA, Nov. At midnight Sunday, after a short illness, mualdo Perez, eldest son of the late Perez, a pioneer Roma druggist, died at the fly home in Roma and was buried Monday with funeral from the Catholic church. Mr. Perez was thirty years of age, a native of Pledras Negras, Mexico, and had lived at Roma since. 1911.

He leaves beside his mother, six sisters and two there, all residents of this place, One brother, Rodulto Perez, is in the drug business left by his father and, another brother, berto, employee of the Starr County Bridge Co. Interment was in the Catholic cemetery. Sharyland Growers To Organize Unit Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Lea: gue will meet at the Sharyland school at 7:45 p. m. Friday for the organization Sharyland unit.

B. F. McKee will be in charge of the session. The formation of the Sharyland Stand-group will mark the organization willof the seventh unit in the Valley. Ellenstein, Newark; Paul V.

Betters, Chicago, executive director of American Municipal Association, and Oscar F. Holcombe, Houston, Tex. pert REGENT on Nov. 16. ANNI then Admiral he abolished the soviet rule Nicholas established by Bels victorious march on Buds on the 18th anniversary recently throughout Hungary.

Kuhn was nation. Admire was mede Regent in Assuming direction of the Hungarian Dis secretary haying too at the March, he is with hie vile and Rendered CLASH- Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, regarded as a leader of the more radical element in the istration, who openly scoffed at the idea of private industry's now taking the lead and who clashed with James A. Mottett. Housing Administrator, to the general effect that private dustry had already started its program.

Later he halted PWA funds in Louisiana, pending of Huey Long's torium there on private debts. In Lead In The Race For Speakership WASHINGTON, Nov. As the race for the speakership of the new house turned the back trail today, most observers believed Representatives Byrns of Tennessee and Rayburn of Texas were in the lead, with Bankhead of Alabama pulling far ahead of a field of dark horses. terrific pace indicates an early; decision, although the actual selection of the winner will not take place until a democratic caucus January 2. Campaigning for Byrns, the democratic leader, and Rayburn, said by some to have support 1 in administration circles, has become intense.

Bankhead is to arrive Monday to get his campaign under way. His chances are generally believed to lie in a deadlock between Rayburn and Byrns. REAT MAYORS CONFER Some of the mayors at the United States Conference of -Mayors by in Chicago, who wore assured President Roastralt that covery in. shows, left to right, seated, Daniel W. Hoan, Milwaukee; T.

Semmes Walmsley. New Orleans: Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York; Angelo J. Rossi. San Standing.

Made: C. THE BAMBINO GOES NIPPONESE- -Japanese crowds have cheered long and loudly whenever Bebe Ruth appeared 011 the baseball field during his barnstorming Far Eastern trip at the head of his All-Stars. Here is a capacity crowd in the Meiji Stadium in Tokyo as the former ace slugger of the New York Yankees wallops the ic: one cf hie hest homers. RANIER GLORIFIED BY WINTER- -Snow arrived early this year in the country's high and already the Rockies are wearing a mantle of white. while cities have had to die of drifts and several lives have been lost.

Here is a part of Seattle. Wash, photographed mighty peak of Mount Ranier, which is 14,408 feet high and is seen blanketed with The mountain is about 76 miles beyond the city..

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