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rrd ipplt te grammar papi! sbowrd him an in 40th Yeor No. 207 Prest Harlingen, Texas, Wednesday, December 28, 1949 UP) Press 5c Sunday Greenwood Awarded i Colonial Bonds, City Bond Contract Local Attorney Given Job on Informal Bid Hawthorne Phillips Resigns As City Commission Member Brownsville Reports Say Hell Succeed Van Dresar, Who Will Get Another Post Hawthorne Phillips, a member of the city commission Four Bond Houses Offer for three years, Tuesday resigned effective Jan. 1. To Purchase Issue Even Before Election City commissioners Tuesday night signed a contract with Paul Greenwood, Harlingen attorney, which authorized Greenwood to handle all legal proceedings involved in the proposed forOifotning bond election. fee to be Greenwood in a member of the Johnson and Phillips law firm.

Hawthorne Phillips, a partner In the firm, is a city commis- aioner. When competitive bids were being opened the meeting Phillips asked to be excused inasmuch as law partner had an bid. Be leaving he tendered hia resignation from the city commission, effective Dec 31. which as accepted by the commissioners. The contract Greenwood to draw tip an election order, and gives him all authority In connection with the issuance, sale and delivery of bonds talling 1,190,000 Election all Due Jan.

3 He vvis Instructed to have the election order ready at the next regular meeting of city commissioners on Jan, ,1. An election must be called, City Attorney Jim Sloan explained, not less than 15 days after the rail and not more than 30 days after the election order. Greenwood mas low bidder among four on the contract. He was the only bidder present who did not directly represent a bond house. At previous meetings representatives from major bond houses have appeared before commissioners to explain services rendered by their concerns in handling the election.

Tuesday special meeting had been called for the purpose of awarding the contract to the lowest bidder. Several of the bond houses representatives were making their third appearance. Bid Greenwood, who had not previously attended the meetings, was hand Tuesday night to present his offer verbally. He was the first to appear. After explaining the services he would offer, he handed City Secretary Frank Lucas his bid.

He explained he had been busy at his law office and had not had He had seriously considered In his letter of resignation, sent to City Secretary Frank Lucas, Phillips said: have accepted another position effective as of that date, which by law will preclude my serving as city commissioner. "I have certainly enjoyed I working with the present official of the he wrote, am deeply regretful that I cannot continue to the end of my Mum on New 4ob He declined to divulge the new position at this time, declaring it not his place to make the announcement of his new appoint! ment. From Brownsville, however, came reports that Phillips would be named assistant district attorney in Harlingen, succeeding D. A. VanDresar.

In turn, it was reported. VanDresar would he named to a court position in Brownsville, presumably court reporter. County Attorney F. T. Graham was in Kerrville Tuesday night and could not be reached for comment on the reports.

District Judge Arthur Klein went to Houston and was not expected to return until late Tuesday or early Wednesday. VanDresar. too. could not be reached at a late hour. Elected In I9M District Judge James S.

ham declined any comment, Phillips was elected to the commission in on a pledge of supporting the city manager form of government, A staunch advocate of that system, he was re-elected a year ago for another term. His resignation is certain to cause much comment and speculation in city political circles. For the past year. Phillips, A. B.

Chapa and Stuart Jennings have formed a bloc on the commission, insisting that the city manager be given full authority to administer city affairs, and the mayor act only as chairman of the commission. By sticking together on all matters concerning the city manager question, the trio formed a controlling majority of the commission. Must all Election City Attorney Jim Sloan said Tuesday night the charter pro- vules that any vacancy in the commission shall be filled by special election, to be called by the com- mission. Several possible successors to Phillips were under discussion Tuesday night. J.

W. Kirksey, owner of the Double Cola plant here, was mentioned prominently. IIA THORXE PH ILLIPS Dry and Warmer Forecast For Valley Today Weak Norther Moves In Late Tuesday But Not To Stay Long Becomes Nation Ceremonies in Holland And Batavia Mark End Of 347 Year Rule BATAVIA fAP) The 77.000,000 people of Indonesia snapped their colonial bond with Holland Tuesday and took their place as a new nation in Communist-threatened Southeast Asia. Throughout the chain of islands stretching 3.000 miles between the Pacific and Indian oceans, Indonesians Tuesday night peacefully celebrated their first hours of freedom after 347 years of Dutch rule. Thousands of the red and white banners of the new United States of Indonesia draped the Dutch brick buildings and Chinese shops of streets.

The one tie that remains between Holland and Indonesia is the Dutch crown. They are partners in a union under that crown, but each is free to go her own way. The arrangement resembles that of the British commonwealth nations. Seventh Nation The U.S.I. is the seventh new and independent nation formed since the war.

Others are the Philippines, India, Pakistan. Ceylon, Burma and Israel. In addition, Korea gained independence from Japan, and split into sections along lines of the Russian and American occupation zones. Most of the Indonesian islands were under martial law, a hangover from the turbulent years of guerrilla warfare. Lt.

Col. Daan Jahja. military governor of Batavia, warned that would be dealt with severely. Officials had feared Communists might seek to make trouble. of Indonesians became custodians of their riches of oil, tin.

rubber and spices even as British commonwealth foreigh ministers and U. S. State department officials prepared to study strategy for preventing the spread of communism from China southward. An achievement of four and a half years of intermittent guerrilla warfare and tedious negotiation, freedom came in brief, colorful ceremonies held almost simultaneously in the marble civic hall on Dam square in Amsterdam and in the glistening white Hidalgo Commissioners Court In Row Over Sale of Bonds DISTRICT GOVERNOR Attorney Hugh Sandlin of Holdenville, new district Kiwonis governor for the Oklahoma-Texas division, addressed the Harlingen Kiwanis club Tuesday noon in the Reese-Wil-Mond hotel. In the picture are, left to right, Myrl Johnson, incoming Harlingen Kiwanis president, to be installed Jan.

3. Dave Bennett, president of the San Benito Kiwanis club Sandlin; and Troy McDaniel, Harlingen Kiwanis club president for 1949. (Star Photo.) (Story on Page 3) County Deposit Lost on Way to San Benito Bank Bag With Nearly $215 time to draw up a formal contract as was done by sll other bidders. Greenwood agreed to use a brochure pointing out Harlingen's plans for future development as recently prepared by Chamber of Commerce Manager O. L.

Johnston. Hie brochure is to be presented prospective bond buyers so they may know what to expect in Hsr- lmgen future growth. To nrnKh Greenwood said he would furnish the printed bonds on steel engraved borders satisfactory to the purchaser and to assist the city to obtain a satisfactory market for the bonds. is proposal was offered at a of $4 per each $1.000 in bonds authorized by the voters, be paid for and when the bonds are and Ml responsibility for handling the election was turned over to Greenwood with the signing of the contract. He agreed to do all the legal work incident to the election, and to prepare all pro- ing one of the three commission places in the annual municipal election earlier this month but decided against making the race.

Re-elected were the incumbents, (Continued on Page Edinburg Man Slain In Tavern Pushing a ground mist and thin, low-hanging clouds without rain, a weak norther moved into the Lower Valley late Tuesday afternoon. and was expected to lower palace of Dutch governors' in Ba temperatures to the middle tavia. during the night. I Queen Signs Deed 10:15 am. in Amsterdam Wednesdays high was to be Queen Juliana of the Netherlands back near degrees, however, soberly signed the deed relinquish- according to the U.

S. Weather' ing sovereignty over the greater Bureau, despite the gentle north- part of her rich colonies. In five northwest winds. more documents she transferred The cool front Tuesday Had sovereignty to the United States dropped high of 65 de- of Indonesia and became head of grees only two degrees to 63 at the new Netherlands-Indonesian 6:30 p. m.

union that was approved at The Most Valley sections received Hague round table conference some showers or sprinkles Mon- Nov. 1. day, but none fell Tuesday, and In a short broadcast, the Bureau forecast none for Juliana called the occasion SAN BENITO A bank de- Wednesday. of the most deeply moving events Pjsit SJ, Rains Slight of the times, piercing, as it were, Along with 65. to the very roots of our exist- Brownsville recorded a maximum Tuesday of 68, and Edinburg 67 jn a short broadcast, Queen Ju- degrees.

Harlingen had a low liana called the occasion early Tuesday, Brownsville 0f the most deeply moving events 60 Edinburg 56. Gf the times, piercing, as it were. During Monday night .01 inches t0 very roots of our existence." the Netherlands this is viewed with she said, referring to the strong minority which opposed the grant of inde- Christmas Holiday Brings Violent Death to 78 in Texas National Toll of 568 Is Higher Than Texas City Disaster That Shocked Nation BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Four days of Christmas holidays brought violent death to 78 persons in Texas. Traffic deaths took half of this toll. The rest included 22 deaths in varied causes such as fires and plane crashes.

18 suicides and homicides. The grim count was from Fri- Man Held After Rio Grande City Holdup Foiled Cafe Owner Receives Minor Injuries in Clash With Bandit day morning. Dec. 23 to Monday midnight. Dec.

26. The Texas Department of Public Safety predicted 80 persons would die in Texas in traffic RIO GRANDE CITY vear-old Kentuckian A 25- was being held in the county jail Tuesday in connection with an attempted and saw what happened." stickup at the Mexico City cafe During Squabble Charged County Could Have Saved Money by Delay Sparks Dispute bitter battle of words, in which Commissioner E. B. Reyna called County Judge T. B.

Waite damned climaxed squabble in county commissioners court here over $313,000 road bond issue sold over the judge's protests by the court Dec. 6 to Dewar Robertson and Pancoast of San Antonio, The bond issue, which was not advertised, was sold after a lone bid was submitted by Charles Graham, of Charles Graham and San Antonio bond firm. Judge Waite protested at meeting that the county could have saved $24.000 if it had not been hasty and had received the same lower interest rate accorded McAllen in the sale of that $65,000 city hall bond issue last week. Judge Waite opened Tuesday's meeting with comments aliout the average interest rate of 2.68 per cent given McAllen. The Edinburg Review also carried a front page editorial rapping the bond sale, and intimated Commissioner Reyna introduced Graham to tht court.

llolter Reyna demanded Tuesday to know who had given the story to the newspaper, and Waite said he did. a damned liar if you say I introduced Graham to the Reyna shouted at Waite. not going to bandy words with Waite rejoined. lot of people were here that day cidents during the combined Christmas night, but which was Christmas and New holi- frustrated by the cafe owner. days from Dec.

23 to midnight on Jan. 1. i Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, said R. F.

McKee, county auditor, later said he introduced Graham to the court. The bond issue included $75- Deputy Sheriff R. C. Pena said 000 for the Edcouch-Elsa road the man entered the cafe shortly after 7 p.m. He ordered a bottle the national toll of 568 violent of an(1 then a .25 calibre deaths was higher than the 550 victims of the Texas City disaster of two years ago.

holidays have become a Disappeared Thursday; series of Texas Cities, 9 born said. a week we may Still Not Located automatic pistol and took $35 in cash from the register while hold- district. at interest rates ranging from 3.5 to 3.75 per cent, and for roads in the McCook area, at similar rates. Follows Bitter Talk Commissioner Reyna, La Joya ing the counterman and some 15 jn whose precinct McCook lies, customers at gunpoint. ancj Commissioner Tom Hester of The cafe owner.

Joese Garcia. Donna, in whose precinct lie Ed- was in another room when he saw couch Elsa, voted for the the man holding the people at bay. bond issue Dec. 6. Commissioner of drizzle brought the two-dav total to .20 inches at Harlingen.

San Benito recorded .21 inches and reports from the Brown TAYLOR. Miguel Lugo, 39, heavier rains estimated at more of Edinburg, was shot fats 11 than one-half inch. South of San earlv Tuesday in a tavern a mile Benito, however, where even less west of Tavlor. rain fell, the water district was A murder complaint was filed supplying irrigation water to against Pete Bucntello, operator growers. Tract-Rio Honda section indicated pencjence But she added: Thursday by an employe of the branch tax assessor-collectors office here and the San Benito Bank and Trust C.

H. Holcomb, county tax assessor-collector revealed Tuesday. Holcomb said the deposit, representing $102.71 in cash and SI 12 in checks, had not been found late Tuesday. Consuelo Cavazos, an office ploye, left the county building late Thursday morning, he said, ar- except another one a joyous New holdup man fired two shots G. CaUis of Pharr voted against of makintr horror Garcia when he saw him using jt Commissioner Charles the telephone.

The shots ripped Green. Edinburg, did not vote. pants and he fell to the Green said Tuesday he would have floor playing 'possum. voted for the issue, if at all. When the holdup man attempt- Judge Waite and County Auditor ed to make a getaway.

Garcia nabbed him and held him until the officers arrived. Garcia ceived minor injuries. Sheriff's officers were inves- rying a bag containing the cash and checks which were to be de- is the satisfaction of a nation that posited in the bank, finds its liberty realized, however En route to the bank Miss of the tavern, in Justice of the Peace Sani Bum a p's court. Constable Ned Fails, who investigated the shooting, was attempting to locste survivors of the slam man. 150 Persons Stricken With Polio in Chile SANTIAGO.

Chile About 150 connection with the persons have been stricken by poliomyelitis here and seven have died, official said Tuesday The government urged the public to adopt preventive measures. The S. Government msde avails hie two iron lungs for polio victims. ceedtltg i sale and delivery of the bonds. He agreed to furnish the approving opinion of the attorney general of Texas, which must be obtained, as well as to furnish the marketing opinion of nationally i Continued on Page 2) Oil, Gas Found Near Revnosa New Field Discovery Announced by Pemex MKXIOO CITY Discovery of a new oil and gas field 10 miles south of Reynosa, Mexico, has been announced by Pemex, the government oil administration A statement by Antonio J.

Ber- Pemex director, gave the.se details: the well came in eve with "gas and good quality It is in an ares where fields have generally produced gas The exploration well showed gas at 5,100 feet. Oil was found few feet lower. The new field will be called because it is the closest one yet to that industrial city in northern Mexico. Work In Fields The Edcouch-Elsa-Rio Farms section of Hidalgo county reported about one-fourth inch of rain Monday, but Tuesday irrigation, planting and trans-planting of field crops was going ahead. ground mist and lowering skies extended to the coast: Port Isabel reported that early morning fog and mist during the day replaced light showers.

In only a few spotted sections, particularly alone the coast, did Monday's precipitation affect farming In the mid-V around Mercedes Progreso-1 Weslaco, .76 inches was recorded Monday, but Tuesday irrigation Continued on Page 2 immense the burden shouldered by the young And she pledged Dutch assistance when asked, and declared. countries feel sufficiently strong and resilient to (Continued on Page 2) Hungary Expells American Israel Jacobson Now Held Inside Austria Child for Whom Nation Has Prayed Must Lose Her Hand MEMPHIS Tenn. Little Betty Lou Marbury, for whom the nation prayed, must have her right hand amputated. Her doctor said Tuesday night this move is imperative if her life is to be saved. She has highly malignant lesion in her third ftngei He announced the operation will take place Wednesday, the Commercial Appeal said Tuesday night in a copyrighted story'.

The 10-year-old farm girl herself was undismayed. if the Lord wants my hand, all right with she whispered to her father. Clay Marbury. he broke the news. Thousands of persons throughout the country have prayed that the fifth grader a hand might be spared.

But many ministers added this phrase to their pies: it be Betty csptured sympathy through a letter she wrote the Commercial Appeal Dec. 1 after hearing of the possible amputation. want those who may read this letter to pray that I may not have to lose my hand and that I may soon completely recox er. I beleave the Lord will answer their The Memphis physician made his announcement only after talking with Boston specialists who examined Betty last week. They agreed amputation was the only way to stop the bone tumor.

The arm will be amputated midway between the wrist and the elbow VIENNA. Austrian border guards said early Wednesday that Israel Jacobson has been expelled from Hungary and is being held by Russian troops just inside the Austrian border. XT. S. legation sources said in 1 Budapest Tuesday night that Jacobson, director in Hungary of American Joint Distribution committee.

a Jewish welfare agency, would be released from prison and expelled. They gave no date or time. Jacobson. 37, a XI. S.

citizen, was arrested by communist-led government on Dec. 15, and later accused of being a spy. Another American. Robert A. Vogeler.

a vice president of the Internationa! Telephone and Telegraph company, is still being held by the Hungarian government of charges of spying and sabotage. Mrs. Vogeler is in Vienna, hoping for her husband's release. vazos stopped at the Terry Farris store, and arrived at the bank 15 minutes after leaving the office. The bag was missing when she arrived at the bank, Holcomb plained.

He said that there was only 71 cents in silver, the remaining $102 cash was paper money. probably dropped the bag, which was very Holcomb said. was carrying an arm load of bundles and it could have fallen to the sidewalk without making a The money represents county highway funds, the tax assessor said. The checks were made out to Holcomb. Police have been notified, he said, and the bank has been instructed to stop payment on the checks.

have sickened of making horror days out of Highway officers in the Marshall area sent radio appeals to to stay off Highway 80 except in emergencies because of the heaviest flow of traffic Monday in their recollection. The only fatality reported in that area was Dan Marsh, 75- year-old Negro, killed by a hit and run driver Monday. Other late fatalities included: Lyle Doyle, 39. Kerrville paving contractor, killed in traffic on a farm road in Kerr county Monday. Clyde Brannon.

40, of Kermit. oil company pumper, found shot to death at his home Monday. No verdict has been returned. McKee were opposed to the sale. outburst in court re- day was followed by some bitter conversation re not pulling reporters tigating Tuesday to see if there to our offices making comments was any connection with the re- about Hester exclaimed, cent stickups at Brownsville and been on this court a long Donna, time and we always, until you Monday, Dec.

19, two men held came along, commented at the the night clerk ot the Cameron commissioners he told hotel at gunpoint and fled with Judge Waite. $75 in cash. The same night two I Mileage men held up the Blue Goose Oil not sneaking around be- company in Donna, and made their getaway with $350 in cash. Jimmy Fidler's Hollywood Column To Appear in Star Rita Goes To Clinic To Have Her Baby LAUSANNE, Switzerland Rita Hayworth the Princess Aly Khan was rushed to the Mont- choisi clinic early Wednesday to have a baby. She was taken to the clinic at 3:10 a.

m. accompanied by her husband Aly Khan Their car was escorted by two Swiss police cars. physician. Dr. Rudolphe Rochat.

has been standing by on a 24-hour alert for nearly two weeks. Trash Fire Put Out SAN BENITO Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a As a direct result of the arrests trash box in the rear of the J. of Jacobson and Vogeler the V. S. c.

Penney Co. Store on Sam Hous- govemment clamped a bar. on ton boulevard here Tuesday aft- travel by its citizens in Com- ernoon. Damage was negligible, 1 i mumst Hungary according to the fire department. Staring Monday, Jan.

2. Jimmy Fidler, rated by many as the top Hollywood columnist, will join the Valley Morning Star's stellar array of features and columns. His column of Moviedom news, gossip, comment and opinion will appear each weekday in the Star, Fearless, friendly, always entertaining. Fidler's column is backed by more than 30 years experience as a Hollywood observer. It appears in hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States.

When Fidler first Hit Hollywood in 1919 the town was just coming of age. He entered his picture in a movie contest at Memphis, and won first prize, which was a trip to Hollywood. He began his movie career as an extra, but within a few months he had worked his way to semi-important roles, one of them as Wallace brother in When the studios suffered their first major shutdown in 1920 Fidler was caught in the panic. Down to his last penny he washed dishes in a cafe for several days before he landed a job on a Los Angeles newspaper. He jumped to the Hollywood News as a motion picture editor, later became city editor and then went into the press department of the old Famous Play Paramount hind doors telling something that a not true.

Did you tell the Monitor reporter about the bill that we wouldn't he asked Judge Waite. all the hollering and scraping of feet and gnashing of nothing has come out about the time you went down and looked at the water in the floodway, and tried to bill the county for the Hester charged, why you put that in the Reyna asked. a fine smoke screen tf Continued on Page 2i JIMMY FIDLER his own press bureau. Among this clients were Rudolph Valentino, Janet Gavnor. Clara Bow.

Wally Reid, Gloria Swanson, Constant Bennett, Lilyan Tashman Edmund Low- and many others He began as a radio commentator in 1933 and was engaged by the McNaught Syndicate as a newspaper columnist in 1935. Since that time he has enjoyed a continously mounting success both as a newspaper and radio for his acute analysis of Hollywood personalities, their foibles, prob- as well as the lems. vers Lasky Company ing of in tbe amusement amount In 1923 he worlrt Quakes Still Shaking Tokyo At Least 8 Japs Die In Continuing Tremors TOKYO The earth still shook Tuesday in Tokyo and in the area to the north where at least eight Japanese died in a series of earthquakes which began Sunday. A sharp shock was recorded Tuesday night. It broke electric light wires in one district of Tokyo.

Nearly four hours later another quake of lower intensity rattled window's. The center of the first temblor was in the earthquake zone about 50 miles north of Tokyo. Hardest hit in the series of earth shocks was Imaichi. Seven were killed in that city of 17.000 population. Houses and buildings collapsed.

Nine prefectures felt the quakes. Hundreds were left homeless. A heavy snowfall was adding to the misery of the homeless..