Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 1

WEATHER Cloady and hot with Mattered ibtmen, Additional weather on page S. alley morning tar TODAY'S IM III OtCKfXSOS VllutMr m- fslM tUra Al lUai tu tt tattica 39th Yaar No. 15 Harlingen, Sunday, September 26, 1948 Praaa Sc 10c Sunday Russians Demand Control Of All Water Users Have Grand Jurors Lots Of Hopes But Blamed vote Report I i Transportation From West Moscow Reviews No Action Visible ey By HUNTER 08BORNE Robert A. Runyon, County Dem- Aa tha river continued to go down gradually Saturday, Val- Cameron Cotinty Grand In a general survey of those most actively Involved or en- gaged in worked them out indicated the situation was about as fol- -tb ---------------------------------------------W t-t- of prayerful hopea-no immediate action in eight. for not taking futher action by re- No.

1 was that legal con- turning indictments. ferences on Friday and Saturday ttJn opinion Runyon development of a "there was plentv of evidence of definite program to determine and fraud but the jury Ucked establish i a 11 all diversion tile courage Qf returning indict- rights on the Rio Grande, ments. I believe there was evidence Participating in these discus- enoUgh brought before the body to sions will be: Frank Clayton oi secure indictments and I believe the International Boundary and tnat gC a long way toward Water Commission, Spencer L. doing away with Baird of the U. S.

Bureau of Runyon said he expected to call Reclamation, General Manager J. a meeting of the County Demo- 11 arj Trnrr'iin f'amnaitrn Sturrock ttle Texas ater cratic Executive committee for Aboard run. an a Train conservation association, a repre- frrjdav to discuss the whole elec- President Truman campaigned flf von- of 1 attorney gen- tion situation, with a view toward other outsiders possibly, clearing up any irregularities in President Gets Thurmond Dare Entering Texas where States into Rights Democrats and Vernon Hill, Mission lawyer, the future. are on the ticket but ignored for who the Valley'. In --------the time bung a challenge by water Conservation association.

their presidential candidate that 0 Murray, as immediate past he duck" civil rights issues Hm wu retained Saturday for chairman, said he believed it is As his train rolled through est purpose of reporting to the tme counl-v, to president received but lhe board of governors all correct any election findings and recornmenaations of 1 Talks And Gives Settlement Basis LONDON Russia Sunday demanded control over all. at! rail, water and highway transportation between Berlin and th western zones. A Moscow radio broadcast quoted a Moscow dispatch of the a ficial Seviet news agency which said it had been authorized of Texas the had on a graphic challenge from Gov. the conferees, President A. L.

Aside from the question Strom Thurmond of South Caro- Thf. actuai taking or there is a more llni. Of suits into the courts is up to Thurmond asked the chief exec- tadlvWua) irrigation districts or a the he utive ami Democratic presidential Qf them, he indicated, since 8pe no solution unless and until candidate to discuss during his $-CA lncorporated and can- wholf bid for Texas' 23 electoral votes not 8Ue or be gued active and personal mterest in the issues as fair employment Sptcial attention' will be given government, be they practices, racial segregation, and during the deliberations as to how state or national, tide Ian oil. to go about finding out just what Cream Of Oop A copy of Thurmond telegram a nparian means or is, "The grand jury has criticized where it begins and ends. Much the election judges for the manner are quoted as saying at time win be devoted also to de- in which the election was con- Loi Angeles 1 do not believe any- Cidmg what new Texas laws, if ducted in some Runyon body going to win this fight by are needed to clear up dozens said, it may be true that running away from the record, or 0f tangles and angles growing out some judges did not quite measure ducking I sincerely trust Qf over-lapping, state-granted di- up to standard, but as a whole I that you will not duck any of version permits and other brain- think we had the cream of the these issues while in the puzzlers, such as: crop of the citizenship of the Republican Unanswered Questions county serving as judges of the The president's campaign train An exact definition of had entered Texas at El Paso.

ficiai and how it is hooked There was one point on P-TA PARUEY Mrs. W. W. King of Harlingen, left, president of the Cameron-Willacy Bi- County Council of the Parent-Teachers association, reviews the local P-TA program with Mrs. J.

W. Christian, center, secretary of a Corpus Christi P-TA, who attended the all-day joint meeting of the Bi-County and Harlingen City Council P-TA Saturday in Harlingen High school Right is Mrs. Ora Walk, president of the city council. (Star Photo by Purnell) Mexico Official Says Embargo Will Be Lifted BROWNSVILLE. Eduardo Bustamante, under-secretary of finance for Mexico, Saturday told local cotton men that which cotton embargo will be lifted on There in a speech he Interpreted Up with other water rights.

both Runyon and Murray Oct. 15. the written word of Rep. Dondero When does a right result from that it is difficult to get com- Gen. Francisco Aguilar, Mex(R-Mich i as meaning Republicans uninterrupted and unmolested Patent men and women who are ambassador to China, and in Congress want to put control pumping from the river and what willing to give the time and effort Rodrigo Gomez, assistant to the of electric power in the hands of is it? necessary to conduct an election, director of the Bank of Mexico, 4, What, actually, is "normal little Interest Shown arrived at the Brownsville airport voii wfth hilfh an? When irrl- Democratic Executive com- Saturday afternoon aboard you with high prices.

gated land in a and mittee is made un of one renre- airplane of the minister of finance. He read parts of an article he who 7 is maue up oi one repre- sentative from each of the 36 pre- ine was route to om- twn Tnim in the Murrav said, cago on a personal business trip, two weeks ago, Mr. Truman said which is junior? committee appoints the ore- When asked about the devalua- present laws let the government The above are only a few 7 of the siding judge in each precinct in tion of the peso, and whether he tines to get power from twisted limbs in the water rights the Primary elections In the thought the government would set public dams to the users at the forest into which most old legal election this July there was so exchange rate soon, Busta- lowest possible Then he lights and tenderfeet dare not little interest or concern over who mante declined to comment. 0th'rs on committeeman from each He eyplained that the Mexican SSTSU Um' precinct that in about half of the government had set Oct. IB as the nt i (inn Seek Agreement precincts no names appeared on deadline by Mexican indus- I iftuttf-nant Manimid 2 that negotia- the ballot for this office.

trialists could make their cotton Mtimatad the at I 2 00 ff undertaken shortly "Yet these men appoint your purchases before the embargo was Amona the Texars who met Mr to bring about an election judges. Yes, unquestion- lifted. He added however, that the i v. ho met Mr. agreement or contract which will ably people want fair elections, government recently has raised Truman at El Paso were House 1 retem.iy nan rmseu state position on Berlin to "clarify the false created by the world press and by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin in a speech to Parliament last week.

Speculation immediately arose here as to whether the broadcast might reflect the stand taken officially by Russia in notes handed Saturday to the Britain and France. Still Held These notes, replying to the western note on the Berlin crisis, had not been made public. Red Declares U. S. Plotting Waron Soviets Paso assure the Valley of "interim sup- but they are not willing to assume the export tariff from 2 per cent Jer Sam Rayburn of water from Marte R.

any responsibility to get them. tol rpercenton thevalueof cot -1 and Attorney General Clark. Gomez reservoir between now lt pw ceni on ine vwue oi nresident told FI voir oeiveen and Begged To Sene ton exported, and offered no hope me president toio me raso the time Falcon Dam is completed, paople he hopes next year Ray- about five years hence. i burn again will be speaker. a small committee from WCA common for the Gov.

Beauford Jester also to travel to El Paso, soon fbeg iLrnd the chief executive at El after the confering lawyers have at an Paso and clambered onto the and discuss the matter of Again il 11 not for Matamoros would be declared a train with the others to start the more water from Gomez with election to arrive and promis- free zone. To this, Bustamante trip across the state. Commissioner I awson of ed help not show and on said that he 00 not on Two-Nation Welcome IBWC or the spur of the moment the elec- the possibility but that he did not It was a two-nation welcome With Voiw. tion judge would have to go out and know of any move to make Ma- SPANISH-SPEAKING P-TA Mrs. A.

W. Lightfoot of Beaumont, P-TA state officer, left, shows to Mrs. J. B. Vallejo of Harlingen the new manuels published in Spanish by the Texas State P-TA on the procedure and objectives of Parent- Teacher associations.

Mrs. Vallejo is president of the recently- organized P-TA of Harlingen's new West Ward school. Mrs. Lightfoot was discussion leader at the P-TA bi-county and city councils conference Saturday. (Star Photo by Purnell) have other business be doing, but they they serve because Mayor Dan Ponder of El granted quotaVfiom Gomez afre'ady an indirt Paso was on hand along with all oracticnl Certainly this is not an indict- Mayor Villareal of Juarez, across and purposes -the delegation people who the border in Mexico.

preparedTo Xr to Mr. Truman is the first Demo- buy water instead of asking or cratic presidential candidate to beggina for it. make a campaign in Texas, where The committeemen will go to no one 23 electoral votes are the prize Col. Lawson with the plea that he At this November. assist in drawing up a contract right thinking persons w'ant Texas went Republican by 26.000 which would assure adequate daily to see negligence and misconduct when Herbert Hoover was elected supplies when they are most in handling our elections.

There is in 1928. But otherwise the Dem- needed. One suggestion is that out- too much at stake. But, if un- ocrats always have figured it lets from Gomez be enlarged to wittingly, such negligence safely in the solid South. No Sunday am oros a port of entry for a free zone on the border.

Four More Added To U.S. Red List P-TA Council Told To Watch Law-making Affecting Schools PARIS (U.0 Soviet Deputy Fc eign Minister Andrei told the United Nations Assemfe Immediate interpretation of Saturdav that the U. 3. Is plottfc Russian stand was compli- an war cated by the fact tha, all of tns jn a one-hour speech, he al conferences and exchanges on Ber- the U. S.

of "helping lin had been kept secret. The number of western European cot western powers themselves had tries to prepare for never publicly stated their posi- Then he introduced a resoluti tion. calling on the U. Great Brlta Makes Demands Russia, France and Cuba to The broadcast said that Russia: arms by one-third within one ye 1. Demands control of all air, and to outlaw the atomic bomb rail, water and highway transpor- He called for the creation of tation, commercial cargoes and international bodv "within passengers between Berlin and the framework of the Security Counr western occupation zones.

to oversee arms reduction a 2. Cannot agree to any exten- atom control measures, sion of the functions of the four- Names Names power financial commission which Vishinsky cited high U. 8 would result in that body's emment officials by name as arc vention into the regulation of itects of "flashy, colored plans money circulation in the Soviet use American aviation and zone as a atomic bomb for the destructi For Trade Control of such Soviet cities as Moscc S. Consents to the wish of the Leningrad, Kiev, Kharkov a governments of Britain, France Odessa," and the U. S.

concerning the The Soviet spokesman named I establishment of four-power con- following Americans as "leadei trol over trade between Berlin of the campaign for a new wi and the western zones and Berlin Defense Minister James Forrest and other countries. Army Kenneth C. Roys This trade control would apply styles Bridges (R-NH), chs to the issuance of licenses, man Semite Appropriatk removing differences which existed committee and Gen. George on this said. The article reviewed the entire man of Strategic Air for history of the Berlin crisis.

It Secretive Activities said the dispute and the Soviet Vishinsky also delcared that 1 blockade of Berlin stemmed from Anglo-American combined chiefs the western decision to staff, created during the war, create a separate West German still engaged in act! state and institute a currency re- ties directed against the intere form in Berlin. of Review Conferences i named American It reviewed the first Moscow conferences on Berlin and then 1 that negotiation r.ferred Bradley Adin four more organizations to the co-sponsored by the A. Bi Justice original list County council and the Harlingen the extent we should'apply the rod of subversive groups, the loyalty council Mrs. W. W.

King is presl- hour 500 and "here it will do the most good. We review board disclosed Saturday dent of the bi-county, and Mrs. The president had no major second be doubled should awaken the citizenry from alk is president of the city speeches billed for the state Sun- at least. the lethargy into which they have The four were labeled council. day and the schedule called only Want Site Set fallen.

We should discard our and listed by the board as M. H. Connelly, superintendent for a breakfast at Uvalde with Hope No. 3 was that IBWC will of indifference and become the American Committee for Eur- of Harlingen schools, welcomed the former Vice-President John Nance find it possible to make up its active in the affairs of our com- opean Relief, the delegates. Mrs.

Harvey Richards Garner and some meetings with mind, in the reasonably near fu- We should commend those lean Council of Soviet Relations, and Mrs. George Gray were hos- partv leaders and officials at a ture, as to what diversion site it judges and clerks who have the Communist Political associa- pitality chairmen. Mrs. Byron San Antonio hotel. approves on the Rio Grande for a (Continued on Page 15) and the Radio Foun- Campbell of San Perlita was rank- said that negotiations referred PT! from Moscow back tha four ud Gen Hovt commanders in Berlin hsJtsd respectively chiefs of arr because the western powers navft1 and aip gtaff shifted the conference scene back British representatives on to Moscow.

combined organization were nan It said the Moscow talks broke Henry Moore, Gen. down on three issues, and then william D. Morgan and Air The roots of A. work should be in the home, but Its branches Shal a' Medhurst. should spread into the doings of municipal government and the legis- trade eon- lature, Mrs.

A. W. Lightfoot of Beaumont said Saturday in address- He charged that i 11 f. the Anglo-American deeply involved in furious ai All of the above clearly show, il planes tor an attaclt on the us the real attitude of the Soviet government subject to the regula- tion of the aituation in Berlin on; vlahiniky appeared calm but ing Cameron and Willacy county Parent-Teacher association coimcil members in Harlingen High school. WASHINGTON Attorney Mrs.

Lightfoot, state chairman of A. committees, was discus- General Tom C. Clark has added sion leader at the all-day meeting-------------------------------------------------- But before he gets out of the government sponsored irrigation state Tuesday morning, he makes and drainage project for the Val- Tokvo 0 6 CoiH 0 23 stops and something like 17 ley. I speeches. The choice to be made has nar- For Trial In an area where water is im- rowed dowm to possible points SAN FRANCISCO Mrs.

Iva port ant Mr, Truman said that in One is at Garza ranch, not far Togui 32, known as 1933 the Democrats the above Rio Grande City, which to millions of GI's reclamation program out of moth- would be the starting point for and veterans, returned to her na- balls and put it into the so-called Line tlve U. S. Saturday to face trea- dation, Inc. Hardin-Simmons Gets Oil Industry Gift ABILENE (UR) Dr. Rupert ing officer present from the 10 th district.

She is vice president. Work Outlined Mexico Air Line Gets Big Boost U.S. Ruling mutually acceptable basis. bitterness surpassed that of In these conditions it depend speech to on the governments of the I (Onerai Assembly in 1947. Britain and France v.

hether He then limited his accusation tiations on the above subject will organizations be disrupted or whether satisfac- individuals, but Saturday he 1 tory agreement will be reached by the drive for war now the USSR, the U. Britain and headed not France BROWNSVILLE Aeros Trans- GOVGrniTlGnt portes, Mexican cargo airline. Sat- Other A. representation urday had with a long I from Stuart Place, La Feria. stride at beginning operations from yV 0 flCw lS V36l Fresnos, Santa Rosa, Lyford.

Brownsville through Monterrey and Brownsville and Ravmondville. Torreon to the Pacific coast of distance honors w'ent to Mrs. Mexico. Heretofore air carriers N. J.

W. Christian came from from Mexico, in effect, have been Higher Pay now only by from the family of retired po cians and statesmen. but 1 by persons holding high offi posts the of tl. Britain, France and other Quotes Budget To back up his charges, quoted American btxlfet figu charging that the U. S.

is Roosevelt, a In the West. That, he said, was because the wdth practically all flow' reaching son charges for aid and Richardson, president of Hardin- Christi, where she Is secre- barred from crossing the Wrder WASHINGTON, (U.F5 The poses this year than In 1M7. people elected in Franklin D. the proposed Mission reservoir by comfort to the during her Simmons university, announced tarv of the Fisher school A. to use the Rio Grande Valley In- government worker in Washington a progressive increai president interested gravity.

wartime broadcast from Japan. Saturday a gift to the Baptist Mrs. Clyde Rainey was another temational Airport in higt the U. S. military budget.

This project is highly favored The Los Angeles-born daughter school from the American petro- Corpus Christi visitor. a CAA ruling. Then he introduced his th I by the Reclamation Bureau as a of a Chicago grocer stepped off leum industry which will pay for substitute for its originally pro- the gsngplank of the army trans- recently-completed dormi- posed Line Plan" which port General Hodges from Tokyo torv. contemplated bringing the U. S.

Showery Sunday Expected More scattered showers were predicted for the Valley Sunday in the Brownsville Weather Bureau Mrs. Lightfoot traced successful than person employed 4 nru iic uiirouww uu Friday examiner Pfeiffer rec- point resolution, calling for: 1. A one-third reduction of share of impounded flood directly from Falcon Dam to Mission reservoir. The high-line proposal, howv ever, has still (Continued On Page Two) Funds For Children To Be Collected U.S.-Born Princess Seeks To Void Son's Marriage UNIONTOWN, Pa. (U.tt Anf Attorney E.

D. Brown, of Union- A. work to a well-scheduled the The anlaysia was based I I I I I home life and urged that each JS" 0 e8 on a survey of 1847 earnings and rg land, ra. aj aid to -T. A.

unit have a home and otter worlang conditions the Bri1 committee, inasmuch as i lj i The so-called gal" -nee and Ouna within one good student teachcr relations sver.ge, almost twice the salary step 'tn a general item from good child-parent rela- of the girl in private diaarmament. moros airport unsafe for Dv 3 ao aialntt tl 300 a the Prohibition of atomic weai tions, the state worker contended. operations the dispatch added. Purely aggressive. She urged that A.

members, r. bureau said. attend the meetings of their local According to M. Longnecker, The average man in government Establ.shm.mt of mn inte school boards, to acquaint them- Jr Brownsville Chamber of Com- in the Washington metropolitan area tional arms reduction and a tion forecast Saturday night. Clouds but no great change in temperature were expected.

The Brownsville temperature Saturday only climbed to 87 degrees Funds for the Crusade for Chil- Except for Laredo's 91 and San An- dren. United Nations sponsored Taxis, 89, that was the highest organization set up to care reading listed from the stations re- homeless children all over the John Purcell Fitzgerald, 49. and gerald in porting to tne alley office. world, will be collected Tuesday model Eileen Simmons, 30, to Elk- After their and Wednesday in the lobby of the ton, last June 21. American born Hungarian prin- towm, was named by the court as selves i break up the a master In the case.

Brown will tions of their schools. She advised cess Is trying to marriage of her to haired New York model, It revealed here Saturday. Princess Lida of Thum Hungarian acquaint with the financial opera- teen trying for airline has draws annual pay of 3 200 against control board under the Seci a year to move $2,600 for the man in private en- the big-power a their base from Matamoros to terprise. permits any big nation to red- hold a hearing at his office the A. members to fir as- Brownsville.

rule a majority. was Saturday. certain what the school board is ri a Mexico, by presidential decree, Chlfl 6 6 u- s- Secretary of State Ge The princess was born Lida doing and can do before anv and Nicolls, niece of the late J. V. A.

unit assumes a project. The designateo Mrou-rsvilie as an C. Marshall and Secretary Ernest British For Bevin did principalities, Thompson. Vniontown coal project may be a duty or a dtn.II- immigration of- navkiNG The Chineae reject the arms-cut pian. but for revealed the elopement of her son.

She met and mamed Lord cation of what the school board is urt me 1 Los Angeles in 1899. doing, Mrs. Lightfoot pointed out. taapector. 0 110 Plane Crash Fatal To Twc Texans WACO 0J.R) A plane crash early of German Saturday claimed the life of one Myrlin Johnson is local chair- divorce.

she married Prince Victor of Thum and Taxis. Affect Every Child A considerable amount of pend- official airport of entry and has Reds Win Tsinan cation of what the school cugtoTO rf- NANKING. UK flciala and quarantine government antly Saturday night the Commu- nist capture of Tsinan in a mili- Arcadia theater in Fitzgerald, heir to a coal for- He died in 1928. ing legislation will directly affect RoSS C. Sterling tary reverse which shook General- during a showing of tune, is the princess' son by mar- The and Fitzgerald live every school child, Mrs.

Lightfoot 9 iaaimo Chiang Kai-Shek regime a film dealing with the problems riage to an Irish lord. In an imposing home in Union- said, in urging that the A. Critically III to its DayHgtlt MlVI fig Lida, who married a town, the same home In which investigate and voice their opi- FORT WORTH (UJn Rosa Shaw Time ComeS To End who was Princess Hungarian It was predicted that forces, variously governor of NEW YORK The hour w'ho married a town, the same home in w'hich investigate and voice their prince after she di- she barricaded herself 20 years nions on legislative matters. It McGregor man and critically In- man of the drive and E. C.

Breed- vorced the Irish nobleman, filed ago when she tried to dodge does not do any good to have g. g.Aemor timated at 220,000 to jured another love treasurer. annulment action August 12. nine process servers during a probe that will Texas through some of most would strike next at Suchow, 170 disappeared last April The death victim was Lawrence Manning the booth in the lobby days after she was named guard- into her uncle's coal empire. explain the workings of new legis- turbulent modern days, lay critic- mile south of Tsinan.

It is major Sunday. Raymond Nelson 24. Injured was will be members of the Fine Arts ian for her son. She told the court Friends said her son met Miss lation after it has become ally 111 in a Fort Worth hospital government base and the last im- Daylight-saving-time offic John Lewis Kemper, 29. Both men club, of Mrs.

J. J. Willing- her son was unable to handle his Simmons during a trip to New she The time for stitdv and Saturday night at the age of 72. portant city barring the route to ends at 2 a. m.

Sunday in were student 4 ham is president. i (Continued Page 15) Sterling, a wu placed the Yangsze time.