Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 1

WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm. report Paff Z. alley orning tar TODAY'S tUIMIt KM Ma Raskrl ear the captata ihr Htukrl farra charge iritiftf 37th 269 dVAaoaateci Press Harlingen, Texas, Tuesday, May 13, 1947 Los Angeles Killer Claims New Victim Woman's Badly-Beaten Body Found in Grove Where She Had Apparently Been Strangled LOS ANGELES Violent death again in the area Monday With the difcovery of another victim in a cycle that started When the dismembered body of Elisabeth Black flotilla found a vacant lot. The latent victim wm identified by police as Laura Elisabeth Trek tad. 37, mother of three children.

The greying but comely matron's body was discovered in a lonely setting of eucalyptus trees and oil weUs north of Long Beach early Monday. She had been strangled with a flowered piece of cotton cloth. Her head and face brutally beaten and her clothes npped. off. Wot Mutilated A preliminary autopsy examination showed she was the first) victim, the cycle to have been raped.

And although violently beaten, her body was not muti-1 luted as were the others. Mrs body was found I by oil company patrolman Bert Winfield shortly before dawn as he was driving to work. She had bed -The Blonde only a few nr of hor miidrr "'ampled gnm ihowcd she for the fought desperately for her life The body remained unidentified for 'several hours while Long Beach police checked laundry marks on her clothes. These tentatively led to her identification and police located her husband, logman Trelstad. who definitely established the clothes were his triteodtatHinds tried to wife a before he was taken to the pick up her Mrs, Jiadd morgue here to view the victim.

satTi deritit tfemitfh citrus Attended Party Sundae thr irn-, he Wl(, rtrd i part at tha home of. outiv. fit who notuied Sunday and she left at The first daily passenger airline service from the Harlingen 5 30 pm, to go downtown while Valley Airport will be inaugurated Friday when Val-Air Lines. Inri tm returned home to prepare diy- begins daily flights between the Harlinger All-Valley Airport and San they -unf prm me we ner for iheir children, Audrey, 8. grass tmd trailed ner for more than Janet 7 and Tommy, 3.

Antonio. a mile Mrs Judd 'Blonde Tigress Captured After Third Escape im lili Notorious me Ruth Judd Monday Spital for the of free- ith her grove on the dt PHOENIX trunk 1 night Insani dom ture in i Mrs a convieti and WOttld OO Mcrinl floor sue round unlocking do Trailed Ttiroagti Grave After mght of search which Southwestern Bell Workers Reject Final Company Offer Sheriff Smashes One-Armed Bandits Two were confiscated Monday by the eron County Sheriffs department in a raid on a cafe north of Harlingen on the Combes highway, Sheriff Boynton Tlemsng Fleming sa.d tha two slot which took quarters, war. ST Soathwwt- a cafe operated by Joe Brown. em phone Workers union The machines were taken to Brownsville, where they wtre de- Monday what tha Does Not Meet Increases in Cost of Living the mberifii of two women, explain to authorities made tMfef way from a (f ceil down to the s. AIR SERVICE PLANNED-John VanCronkhite, left, seated, vice president and general manager of Val-Air Lines, meets with Mayor R.

J. Kroeger, left, City Manager Bill Briscoe, right, (standing) and Airport Manager W. M. Driskell, Jr. center, in completing final negotiations for daily passenger service between Harlingen and San Antonio.

Yates Stafford, vice president in charge of Vai-Air operations, is seated at the right. (Star Photo by Purnell), if if if if if if molished. and the contents, $203 95. given to the Old Folks Charity home there. The raid was made by Chief Deputy Pal Smith and Fleming.

The raid was set after complaints regarding the banditV reached the department. Fleming said. He added that do not have a big enough staff to patrol all the places which might Tornadoes Rip Northern Texas, Creeks Swollen LENORAH rr Angry tornadoes dipped down and stung the Southwest in least six. and possibly i Bell 'ephone Co. i .4 to end ts ve-sfate area, 1 ti.s sixth week.

s. tre -mi ffer of waga fr, $2 to $4 a rt met-t ci i tu workers ether industri li--- ler of tha federai conciliation aeo ice tinued. Top Hate Offer rates for all tele- Val-Air To Inaugurate Daily Air Passenger Service Here no husband, operator of a iirtfj v'irpn when confronted Kmi)j trucking firm, said his wife by the off jo rh failed to return during the night She was carrying a sack contain. bm he not leave to several grapefruit, stigar for because he had no several clothing whom to leave the children. it rjijeMKmed briefiv The newest victim in the cycle the was taken was under a pepper tree in hark lo s'atm hospital and husband of victim 4.

Mrs. placed lit a solitary Dorothy Montgomery, 36. on sus- J'-nn A. a be- piston of murder. that may have Mrs Montgomery was slam and reived nie -ud.

immediately mutt listed last week and her body gan an of the wac foun under a pepper tree in Mis eight years, southwest Angeles. The hus- fanvirted in ffer tmee- blonde hair now dark- etied and streaked with pey, the slayer was convicted of first degree murder in 1831 for Ann Roi and Hed- ari Samuelsotv, both close friends She the bodies, pSaeed the pieces a trunk and snifjped them to Angeles where stie was arrested after tiying to rlatfn the trunk a hat box. Sc'titeneed to harig, she was saved from i ruling that fMMnramitted Her first Negotiations for the daily service were completed Monday when John VanCronkhite. vice-president and general manager of Val-Air Lines met with City Manager Bill Briscoe and Airport Manager W. M.

Driskell, Jr. The agreement calls for least one daily out of the Harlingen airport rS Meters Bring More Revenue Than Expected Murder Charge Filed Against Daniel Crow harbor these machines, but we are always ready to investigate any complaints." The machine is in itself not illegal, he said, unless it is used for gambling. A during the last 24 pn ne would be increased -s C. Eighteen persons were injured hart, executive vice president of property damage was high the eompany. "Starting wage nado-born rams have caused creeks be increased $3 per week and rivers to flood smaller communities.

Twisters struck North Cowden wh the increase would be $2 Lenorah. the Dalhart are Knott -The companv has made and Ackerlv. all in Texas and FI offer to emi the telephone Dorado, Okla Sunday night, si- dents in South Hale saw Company and union negotia- the storm coming anci dodged into re resumed Monday night storm cellars aHer the company had been Monday, a high wind struck Me- Week-end rams in the Alester and Haywood, Okla. Offi- area again ended a water shortage 5 cials said it was not a tornado, but in the Rio Grande, assuring a plen- that clouds accompanying the wind tiful supply for irrigation districts resembled one. None wan injured, during the next several days.

and property damage Monday was The river crested at Laredo Mon- not high, day with 15,000 second feet. River I.rnorah Hardest Hit level at Rio Grande City was 2,400 h-irdi it hit txvted 1 rtl additional tima second feet while at lower El of the Brownsville had dwindled to a mere three ern Telephone Workers union pro- five feet. I struggling to Dalhart over roads which included a $5 a week Water Conservation officials re- ma(je bottomless by a three inchvv0ce increase. I he company quested a shutoff of water being vveek end ram, farmers reported the union demand for a released for Valley needs from the a cyclone ripped a 20 mile but that some had tried to use the smaller coin. "They probably had just much luck as the people vho put Fleming said.

Laredo Area Rains End Water Shortage a of the talks earlier i 1 bee set for Monday afternoon. Study iv I eenrtliator A. E. f. to the BROWNSVILLE A mu th VanCronkhite said the new serv- chaW against Daniel E.

Gome 2 dam in Mexico, here other price of would or.Kinate a fliEht in N.jj. L. Lytel. project engineer for (day. outbu.ldmK* were under the city parking meters this month Harlingen which would be oper- Will result in bringing into the city a.ed from wisn im utau the present Saturday from Acevedo's court Monday, in con-j the International Boundary Com- i unroofed, windmills downed, andj coi ration.

the death of J. P. i reporh trees up to 25 feet high 4 two meetings gunshot. Lytel said, that the new rise rooted. ri D.

McCowen, Wednesday some wheat was damaged ruII, member of the wage-policy The tornado struck the Dalhart committee of the National Feder- area with complete surprise, re- ation of Telephone workers, reports said. It dipped out of what ported cm developments in nego- looked like rain clouds. tiations. Mn Everett McIntyre rao for Despite rejection by the comber home and the twister picked pany of two union up ard th rev her, i who is pr idmg over the a mud puddle. She scrambled to m-eof' "it appears now she late aftrrwiM'i six week) finally mile? gallom-s by last -minute it she was insane and was 1 to the state hospital, escape in 1939 when Mietf i and Sfie i dummy, placed slipped out of as recaptured six twi and fc Mr ndexl mm.

mm 2 City Policemen Get Promotion band. Thomas F. Montgomery. 45, aboul 000 additional was identified by James Ken- for the remainder of the flights which leave from wounds, Sheriff Boynton Fleming shoqld reach the upper Valley Tues- flail followed the twister and union president, and John nedv as the man he saw driving fiScaj vear cnv Manager William Central Valley airport in Mer- (day afternoon or Mrs. Montgomery car at about Mond.iv cw I i Crow, who was arrested Thursday morning.

the urn, of her death Bnici expected to Wilv, Fw the ahotgun of Glenn ------------Montgomery denied any con nee- Re, a total of S1S000 from the port Brownsville, was being held tion with wife's death declar- meters during the full fiscal year. I The city, Driskell said has Monday afternoon in Cameron her murder had "broken my Unti, the tlme the debt iS wiped to waive landing fees and heU Uxed heart He said that he out. three-fourths of the income w.r« at I numlied by being considered a from the meters is applied on the office space at the air- row debt and one fourth is turned for a Period of six months. been held The refrigerator mechanic was lhe city treasury. flights will begin Friday With intent to murder, Fleming arrested as he was preparing to The monthly income from the at 7:50 an- leave with his body for meters is approximately $3.500 of noun ced.

We will operate as Nephew Jailed I two of the trucks assigned to Maple Hill. where last $500 and the many i ent flights each day David C. Lowe, a nephew of ermg trash from city alleys broke ilwds. Fences Destroyed amount- imanufacturers $3 000, as there is demand for the last Crow's, was also being held down, according to William P. Bris- At the H.

C. Hudson. farm. $1 addition to the As a result. Briscoe said, he sees return flight from San Antonio Cameron county jail Monday, on a coe.

city manager. 'the twister ripped open a aiS0 a better financial condition fctr the leaving at 5:15 Ace- Khmnh- od he did not know board 1:4 other city than originally anticipated. The Val-Air schedules fron voius court the second week in when the trucks could be repaired which seemed to do a crazy ualu from 83 jsaid it had originally been estimated Harlingen wiH operate on the but expressed the hope it would across his yard. His sheds, wa city would not get more than basis of an and a half flight Ht- was returned to Brownsville be soon. and fences were tom and snarled $15.000 from the meters for the time from the Hari.rivn mondvilie.

where he had fn addition to the twpo trash! NTear the East Dalhart full year. This was based on the Valley Airport, the same irs re- entenced eai two city trucks were fhe jus a expectation that it would receive quired for the service on another burglary taken to the shop for repairs Mon- Mrs. Roy Leavitt drove into their Valley airport and charge. FleminK said Lowe is one dav. wind lifted three men no recently escaped Tne trasn removal campaign will lover the car and splintered it.

but Trucks Break Down, had, until Glenns death. ClGSniJD LSQS Id on a charge of assault VlUUllUp dmvn und to half speed Monday when afVn a.nd brtnvl nf thA ed to ffath- of She suffered bruista The latest offer by the union were to be held Jester Not To Greet Wallace In Texas the full income for only three5 tween Central months while it now appears it will San Antonio. the fiscal year. Police Vmicr Monda Of tl a per acti app snt sdenti Prom pj od tjuatiiie eft based nn Texas Governor Jester will be the when Henry A. Wallace arrives here Situroay.

Stuart Chamberlain, of the American Veterans committee at the University of Texas, which is sponsoring the Wallace speech wrote the governor a letter asking a hen Wallace might, be brought to his office. However, Jester one of the said first to denounce the former S. vice-president, and determined origin damaged the said he would not be around when packing shed owned by Otis Suite- Wallace speaks iivan. Monday, to the extent of ent, friends said the gover- $40.000. Sullivan estimated, be nor has no intention of giving the The fsre originated in the office tnflowan the implied sanction of a of the shed about 8 20 am, Democratic party welcome to Texas while SwTtivan was another part of the building, receive the Income for four months The line started April 11 opcr- from the Willacy county jail, later Fire Damages Packing Shed RAYMOND VILLE Fire of un i atmg from Central Valley airport, being recaptured I flying several flights daily, and the Lowe wai be e.

I two a. ne car Harlingen schedule is the first addition to the service. The line is flying North Amer- ican four-passenger, all- service. Briscoe said. It will be'dived into a ditch and a beat- being held Monday to completion although at ing from Mrs.

Leavitt wa afternoon in lieu of $1,500 bond. Sheriff Ret ard Fleming said prison record shows he reduced tempo. metal ships. Three passengers plus reformatory, and later to Pilot are earned on each ry, forBerv chs and the pUnea ennae at ISO miles- w'hlle aa-hour The planes are equipped with all safety devices, including radio, Cost of the new Harlingen-San Antonio run will be the same as the Central Valley-San Antonio runs, $28 for round trip plus tax. Mexican C-C Backs Juvenile Program ed the creeks not hurt Torrential rains accompar West Texas tornadoes.

Bisins and rivers posed a new threat. La mesa and some sui rtan, communities were without eh ctri- city Monday and La mesa was of water as the The Mexican Chamber of of the tornado which struck i Nine Fines Levied In San Juan Court Hughes to Finance Research Center NEW YORK iJB Hughes plans to use his 125-odd millions to establish a foundation for medi Lost in the fire was a grading machine which cost $11 000. or wrre of Peace R. L. Sav day.

Bias Hodrigiif dutrges, the road, aed Rodnguei, on without, a cense. Ouillern similar charge; a charge of loaded tt charge of d.stir 'Three others drunkenness charg it 11 and ni in wo lb Mrs Ray- poison in mond Clapper said Monday in an mistake article in Look magazine Only Nnn-Stop Service The Harlingen and Central Valley airport flights of Val-Air to San Antonio are the only non-stop service between the Valley the Alamo City. may make reserva-, The House lions. Van Cronkhite said, by tele- Electric fans and air conditioning or the will still be the order of the day according to the which forecast Poisons Must Be Colored, Solons Rule WASHINGTON passed a bill Monday to cut down phoning 1R64 was sentenced to a the peril- charges, and Army, he was arrested by the F. I.

in connection with taking a stolen automobile out of the state 'merce pledged its support Monday, the section Sunday. said in January he riJkr.t W. A police ju-; Water cannot be pumped tbl had recovered articles valued atjvenile officer, in his program tojwhen the power is more than $100. said to have juvenile delinquency in stolen by Lowe. the city, 11 I A i iest speaker at a chamber meeting.

Hensley told the group of 'his. plan set, up a city-wide sports program, emphasizing the forma- jtion of competitive bail clubs about Continued Warm Weather Forecast Rogers Lacy, Wife Visit Harlingen I SION WORK! RS II I I IN I I TKt NT PROBE strike leaders, illrnf for an antitrust mv ion of the A meri- and Telegraph Co. Electric a I that Western an offer to a bitrate tha blocking a of telephone service. Henry Mayar, attorney for 17 'le union told got a blunt when they Offered to call off their 36- in 21 Western r- ru In York-New Jersey area and to arbitration. Wt if rn Electric spokesmen said i meeting that they he- fi tre a ise regarded it tha June The meeting South C.

research with headquarters in chances of the putting Phone 1971. or by visiting the Tuesday was held at 305 have borri in Ilarii gen over the week end. left early Tuesday afte I of a relative of Mrs. in Long Would Bar Reds Officer Returns lo State Patrol Job pappy biscuits by port Yates Stafford, vice president Weather Bureau ATHENS A View, of Royal- cloudy and continued warm ist deputies a ked parliament Sat- Valley trdav night to outlaw the Corn- after 'z was fined I on the left riving without a nod were Inocencio charges of driving operator's M- passionate belief that all 10 on "a can wiped out, he will I r'wui establirti laboratories and endow with an over- she wrote Mario Perez asked him the reason for this rbr the ace financial change of pace He didn't were fined is expected to return to the by the er of the ve will whet if is expected, an oil It says white poisons shall be charge of Val-Air operations, Tuesday night Clapper wrote the article colored se they cant be mistaken will confer further with Driskell Monday the mercury climbed to I mur.ist party in Greece and their he is drilling near Santa nf the airplane fnr sugar, salt or baking jon of new serv.ee be-1 a vcarm 90 after a low of 72 de- n. the agenda he brought in and picture jitrees debate Tj.

the producer in his home in Beverly sjght-seemg friends. and entertained Seven Harlingen Mothers Get Tree Babies' Mother's Day Rosidence Buryiary While 200 Others Are Recipients of Meals on the House7 Tlpmitv Tom Late Vegetable Prices on answer directly but talked about last July hen he lay broken and burned in a Angeles hospital after his near-fatal plane crash. He was deeply touched by the fine scientific care of his doctors and Robert A. Lovett Named pnoes were complied Monday ht the I' Market New To Atheson's Post service Wslaco and were telephoned to the Valley Star: WASHINGTON Presidee.t Tru- Carrots. Market mostly sterdy.

man appointed Robert A. Lovett Crates, six doren bunches. $2 25 to undersecretary of state Monday to day. $2 75,, Fifty to 1 25 succeed Dean Acheson amid indi- Babies Green corn. Market weaker, cations that other changes among Bushel sacks, white, and half bushel top diplomatic officials are in the sacks, yell SI.75 to $2, Price to making.

grower. 75 cents to Lovett wealthy New York banker Tomatoes Market weaker. Lugs who served wartime as assistant 6x7 and larger No. 1, 4 to $5. secretary of war for air.

will take mostly $4 No 2 $2 to 52 75 -over the No, 2 State department Price to grower per pound. 4 to 10 post on July 1 if the Senate con-: sanis. his nomination as expected 1 Harlingen was good to its mothers Sunday. Seven women received at the Valley Baptist Hospital. Two hundred of pre- Mothers Day standing, ate the at Phil Grill and the Hi-Way Inn Phil Edie.

manager of the two cafes, did not advertise his plan ahead of time, but told each mother as she ordered, her meal, that it was free in honor of the Howland of Rio a son Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Flores of Rio Hondo, a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Remigio Arreola San Benito, a daughter.

Mr. and Andres Garza of R.o Hondo, a daughter. Another Mother's Day baby, a arrived mi the appropriate to the following families Mr. and Mrs. Edgar George Schwarz of Mercedes, a son.

Mr. and Mrs Joseph Weldon Oatman of Harlingen, a daughter. Mr, and Mrs, James B. Evans of Harlir.gen. a daughter Mr.

and Mrs Lester Burdette Mother's Day Purchases Strip All Flowers From Shelves of Florists Harlingen was probably the most barren towfn in South Texas Monday, as far as flowers were concerned. An eager public stripped florists' shops of every last rose, tulip and lily, carrying them home to the ir mothers for Mother's Day. AI Meyer closed shop Monday, posted a sign reading: help has worked for two days without sleep, due to the rush of arranging flowers for Day. WEI be back Tuesday. Thanks for the cooperation George Pletcher said he sold every flower he had, and drove up and down the Valley trying to buy more.

The telephone strike didn't bother at drove out after the flowers, We could have sold lots more if we'd had he bemoaned. The Western Union Telegraph office revealed that business boomed over Mother Deputy Sheriff Tom Breazealr sob, was born to Mr a- F. on Greer of Ha tne Med- highway Arts hospital 1 have occurred about 5:30 p. A seven pound, five ounce daughter was born Friday to Mr. and Polk, in the Medical Arts hospi The baby's name is Beverly Lou Mr.

and Mrs. J. T. Monk of are the parents of a ughter, weighing seven pounds, nine ounces, bom Satui Jay in the Medical Arts hospital. and Mrs.

Glen Goddard of Boulder. Colo. a son. Robert Paul, weighing seven pounds, 15 ounces, born May 6. Mrs.

Goddard is the former Miss Florence Ellen Cowgill of San Benito. Mr. and Mrs Joe H. Wilson of ina! ti tin the S. Armv, returned dav to ru prewar Job with the Hi.

'i way patrol here. fne war. he was stationed the Patrol for about two nd i irs. He returned a yeas from duty with the U. S.

Army roi e. He ith the Military police. His family, who live at Beltrm, come to Harlingen after ool out, Miller said. Vets Overcharged for Farms, Solons Hear WASHINGTON tJFi I. Dug.

A governor of the Farm Credit LI. Articles taken included uid Monday Mr? A. Davis, 1001 E. are paying high 10 from now Monday be worth less than jimmied the loek on tne irk of fhe loBm granted for of ms car, tak ng a tire and nre tr)f. properties.

He u- if led before a Senate -if a committee in behalf of eon legislation which would enable missing Dili eral land banks to make loans to Harlingen police officers worked farmers. fast in restoring a $20 bill to Mrs. ----------------H A. Davis, 902 EXAMINATIONS TO START Monday 45 minutes after she re- Examinations for Harlingen ported it missing from her purse. High school seniors will A juvei ile was being questioned Wednesday and continue through We- are parents a in connection with theft.

Of- T'tursdav and Friday of fhit J.met Elizabeth, bom ficers working on the ca wr Regular for in tne Mercedes General Btevi- Ray and students in the local i Police Chief Harold H. Croseett. I wUi commence May Police Recover.