Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 10

alley morning star Page 10 (Phone 123 for Want-Ad REA Accused Of Wasting Cooper In Building Gforpensions Non-Essential Transmission Lines In Nation REPORTS DUE I Island In Caribbean Is Shelled Enemy Submarine TO BE GIVEN SOLONS SOON Commander Rural Administration Wednesday was accused by the House nihiarv affairs committee of wast- nf vitally needed copper on non- transmission lines. While publication of the report vas withbeH until presentation the House Thursday. ive Faddis saiu it not only rnticized REA executives, but luestioncd whether high ranking Jefense officials were the job allowing construction of lines Texas and Arkansas, Wastage Said Found Faddis was chairman of a subcommittee which conducted hear- ngs mto 4he construction of the lEA's Ark-La electric co-operative if a transmission line from Pensacola Dam in Oklahoma to the government aluminum plant at Lake Catherine, Ark. Faddis said the report contained of wastage copper Loth on this Une and an- sther REA line from Kingdom Dam on the liver to Garland, Texas, to serve mm war The Pennsylvanian added that he report was also sharply critical if Krug, power consultant for he War Production Board, and not to Donid M. Nel production chief, or ohn Lord O'Brien.

WPB counsel. 'Three members of the eommit- ee, Representative Fitzgerald ronn.l a r. ember of the sub-com- mttee; S.parkman D-Ala.) and irooks voted against the najority report while two members noted Sparkman said he and Brooks rere preparing their own separate eport while still another report by ritzgerald criticized the hearings as MILES ATLANTIC OCEAN PUERTO RICO mona GUADELOUPE CARIBBEAN SE A SANTA LUCIA ARUBA PANAMAj a PACIFIC OCFAN Located in the center of Mona Passage between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, Mona Island was shelled, presumably by a submarine. A National Youth Administration camp is on the 20-mile square island. Kemberto Cassaba.

assistant head of the camp, reported the attack, but said no damage or casualties resulted. The shells landed far up on the rocky cliffs. US APPROVES RAF RAIDING School Election Is Set April 4 trustees will be elected by the Harlingen independent district Saturday, April 4. The board of trustees this week called the annual election which mull fill the expiring places of S. Grant and E.

M. Crockett Holdover trustees are Dr. N. A. Davidson, president of the board; Mrs.

F. N. Smith. J. Lewis Boggus, T.

D. King and Frank E. Davis, The incumbents have not indicated their intention of running for re-election. Youths Serve In Pacific War Zone and Mrs. W.

O. lark of 'this city, have been ad- ised recently by the IT. S. War Detriment, that their son, Everett lark, of the IT. S.

Army, stationed i the Pacific, is still alive owing to le fact that his name has not been sted among the casualties. Young Clark, who is a graduate Fharr-San Juan-Alamo high 'bool where he was an outstanding and baseball star, enlisted i the U. S. Army almost two years go, being sent to the Far Eastern ar zone a months later. He the brother of Rev.

Newell Clark, inner pastor of the Pharr and La eria Baptist churches and well mown in the Valley. Another Pharr boy in the war me who has recently been heard 'em is Bennie Egly, son of en Egly of this cHy, who is with Ml Asiatic fleet. Young Egly re- wrote his father that he was ell, 'The letter was the first word uectly from, the youth since the outbreak of war. and was a.ted January 6 Young Egly is iso a graduate of Pharr-San Juan- high school, and a former alley athlete. suggestion that the United States might take exception to the British bombing of the Paris suburban area was quashed emphatically by Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles Wednesday.

He told a press conference it was entirely clear that the bombing of factories in Occupied France, factories busily turning out planes and other war material for Germany, was an entirely legitimate measure of war. For emphasis he added that there could be no question about that. He was asked if the RAF bombing raid Tuesday night might mean the end of Allied efforts to coax the Vichy government away from I collaboration with the Axis. He replied that he had no comment to make on the political inference which might be drawn as to British policy. AS to the policy of the United States, he said this govern-; merit's attitude toward relations with Vichy had been made very clear in the last few- days.

Last week Welles disclosed that President Roosevelt had frankly warned Chief of State Pt tain that; if Vichy shipped war materials to i the Axis powers or otherwise aided them beyond the terms of the French armistice agreements it would be classed as an assistant of the declared enemies of the United States. In reply the Petain government gave written assurances of its intention to maintain strict neutrality, particularly where the French fleet was concerned. Welles said, however, that the United States still awaited "further of various important questions. PRIVATE IN AIR CORPS TOO HUGE AT MOORE FIELD MOORE FIELD Why Army supply sergeants get Merlin Vandewege of Lincoln, is six feet seven and one-half inches of answer to that statement. In fact, when the Army starts putting extensions on his neckties.

Tmv will be a special-made man from head to foot. heralded as the tallest man in the Air Corps and from size 14 1-2 shoes to a size 37 shirtsleeve. clothes have to be specially tailored. Private Vandewege, a 215-pound Air Corps photographer, was rolled off the first Army-clothes clad only in khaki tie and hat. "I take a 38-inch trouser leg.

if you explained Tiny. ll wake up screaming, thank said the supply sergeant. Over The Back Fence Los Class Will Present Play LOS FR.ESNOS—Members of the senior class of the high school will present their class play Thursday, March 12. at 8 p.m., in the high school auditorium. A three-act comedy of college life, entitled Royalty from has been chosen by the group.

of the cast mm Dink Paul Leeper, Richard Wa Elviti Pederson, Carl Macomb, Ruby Jean Pederson, Martha Sue Cook, Patsy Weikel, Kyle, Miriam Baker and Hazel Lipe. Miss Alme Goates, senior sponsor, it directing the play. Sa Juan Teachers Attend Model Meet SAN and Mrs. Temple. A.

Sorensen and Russell Ltnnard attended a. meeting at the Harlingen Gunnery School Sunday afternoon, with reference to the building of model airplanes for the Harlingen Gunnery by Valley schools. Lieutenant Reed had charge of the meeting, and he stated that they were gravely in need of model airplanes for use in teaching the men there how to recognize the different planes. It was urged that the boys build planes for the school to scale. Sorensen, who is manual training teacher at the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo high is superintending the building of some of these planes.

Attend Banquet and Mrs H. C. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Arnulfo Martinez, and Mrs.

R. Martinez of Rio Grande City were in Mercedes Tuesday night for the monthly meeting of the Valley and association. Baker is president of the association. Visits Aunt Virginia Guerra of Roma spent the week-end in Rio Grande City with her aunt, Mrs. J.

J. Guerra. Go To Arizona and Mrs Claude McCaulley and small son. left Monday for their home in Clifton, after two visit Pharr with Mr. mother, Mrs.

Mary Eula Risinger. A brother, Grover Risinger of Pharr, accompanied them and will remain in Arizona until June. More Long Staple Cotton Is Needed COLLEGE long staple cotton needed In 'the war effort, the Texas USDA War board said Wednesday in launching a campaign to increase wetsnn of cotton with simple length of and one- eighth inches and over. A survey by county USDA tear boards to determine the amount of pood seed available will be the first step in the campaign. Brownsville Postal Income Shows Gain February postal totaled compared to the same month in 1941, representing an increase of five per cent The pod office sold ftJS375 in defense bends and $4,000 In defease month.

Game Party Is Set For Local Tourists HARLINGEN Game party for tourists of the Harlingen area will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall here Friday at 8 p. featuring cards, dominoes and a program of entertainment, Harlingen Tourist Club officials said Wednesday. A covered dish supper previously arranged for Friday has been post- poned indefinitely, the spokesmen said. Hosts and hostesses for the Friday night party include Mr. and Mrs.

Lanson McCay of Detroit, Mr. and William Bell of Minneapolis, Mr, and Mrs. E. Nafzigtr of Hopedale, 111, Guenther Is Placed On List For Honors PHARR Ralph Guenther of Pharr was one of 81 to make the I fall semester honor roll in the school of business administration at the University of Texas. Sister Goes Home Mrs.

Fay Smith left Monday for Oklahoma City, after a week visit with her sisters, Mrs. E. R. Fraser, Mrs. D.

Shepherd, and Miss Tennie Frank Alexander at Edcouch. Mrs. Smith, who is a federal government employe and recently transferred from Washington, D. to Oklahoma City, was accompanied by her daughter, Nancy, who has been visiting Mrs. Fraser.

Mrs. Frankie Home Mrs. Joe Frankie has returned to her home in Los Fresnos after spending i several days in Houston with her sons. BLACKOUT SET ON ALL SIGNS SAN ANTONIO Instructions to defense councils to permit merchants a reasonable time to take store window blackout precautions came Wednesday from R. E.

Smith, director of the Eighth Regional Office of Civilian Defense. Smith said reports to him indicated the order directing all business lights which cannot be turned off within five minutes be permanently darkened until further notice was being following with splendid co-operation. Situation Different it has been necessary in some sections of the United States to make the order immediately ef fective in every business establishment the situation In the Eighth Region is such that we believe a reasonable time should be given to ail merchants to make arrangements where immediate compliance is not Smith continued. many cases it will be necessary to install outside switches controlling lights in shop advertising signs, and similar devices, and I suggest that state and local defense councils allow a reasonable time for such installations to be made. Will Avoid Hardships The Office of Civilian Defense does not desire to work an undue hardship on any business firm or individual, and the defense situation in our region, at least, is such that we feel that three days can be allowed for making the necessary arrangements to comply with the blackout order.

is understood, of course, that in establishments where some person is on duty continuously at night, who could turn off the lights on short notice, it will not be necessary to turn off the lights permanently at night as directed by the order. The order applies only to lights left burning at night in the absence of those employed in an establishment where they could not be turned of? readily in the event of a blackout Pharr Pupil Makes Honor Roll Ptpllips, son of Mr, and Mrs. E. C. Phillips of Pharr, a ministerial student at Baker University, Baldwin, was one of 30 elected to the dean's honor roll because of his high scholastic standing for the last semester, according to information from the registrar.

He is a member of the debate squad, active in social and religious activities and associate editor of a Methodist publication for young people. (JP) age pension payments, aid to the blind and aid to dependent children expenditures, paid with federal and state funds, still are climbing, State Department of Public Welfare Office reported Wednesday, Addition of 2.183 recipients increased old age pension rolls to 168.262 this month, a record high. The grants averaged $19.39 each and called for an expenditure of $3262.083 half state and half federal funds. The blind assistance rolls rose by 218 to 2.675 and the total March grant of $61,366 averaged $22 94 a recipient. Showing the highest percentage of increase, the children's aid program increased by 2,825 families to a total of 7,371 in March.

An average grant of $2080 per family cost the state and federal government $153.320. Kiwanians Plan Safety Contest HARLINGEN State Patrolman J. O. Musick said Wednesday the Harlingen Kiwanis Club will sponsor a commercial drivers' safety contest for all commercial drivers in the Harlingen area, covering the 1942 calendar year. Musick, Kiwanis Club member and chairman of the committee on safety said a certificate of award as a safe driver would be awarded all commercial drivers who drive regularly and post a non-accident record for the year.

The club will also sponsor commercial drivers' clinic shortly here, which will feature four safety films, including the movie on Several are planned during the year. Records of the state patrol and the safety association will be checked to determine the winners, Patrolman Music said, and that a wreck would disqualify any commercial driver. School Debate Team To Enter Tourney WESLACO Nine members of the Weslaco High School debate team will leave for a four-day trip to Yoakum Thursday to attend a debate tournament for Southwest Texas, Mrs, Fred Robertson, sponsor, said Wednesday. Contestants making the trip will be Helen Frances Pace. Betty Jo Smith, Catherine Farina.

Joan Egloff. Marjorie Sidener, Mildred Brixev. Carl Fitzgerald, Walter Hope Baxter and Alvin Hansen. They will be accompanied by Principal A. Murphy.

John N. Lesko and Mrs, Robertson. Lieut. Commander II. D.

Black, above, of Oradell, N. J-. was in command of the U. S. Navy destroyer Jacob Jones when she was sunk before dawn Saturday off Cape May, N.

J. The Navy announced that Black was among those lost. FDR BEGINS TENTH YEAR WASHINGTON President Roosevelt started bis tenth year in the White House Monday amid conferences with naval and fiscal advisers after he had obserycd the ninth anniversary of his first inauguration by attending morning church services. The chief executive, who took over the national leadership in the dark depression days of 1933 and remained to see his country involved in a world-wide war before his history-making third term was a year old. conferred with Secretary of the Navv Knox and Budget Director Harold D.

Smith. After lunch with Postmaster General Frank Walker he employed the remainder of the day studying war reports and dictating mail. In forenoon he worshipped in St. John's Episcopal Church, a little brown stucco building a block north of the White House. This has been his custom each March 4 since he became President, despite the change in the inaugural date to January 20.

the day he took the oath to begin his second and third terms. Harlingen, Texas, Thursday, March 3, 1942 Peanut Planting Interest Grows WESLACO The demand fa vegetable oils and the blessing which the government is bestowing on increased plantings is resulting in an increased interest in peanut growing in the Valley, according to W. H. Friend, superintendent of tfa Valley Experiment Station. The cotton oil mills and the Farm Security Administration are both interested in getting growers in area to plant peanuts and the ex- dation is co-operating by trying out six of the best varieties under Valley conditions.

Friend said that peanuts should do well under sandy land conditions found in Hidalgo, Willacy ana Starr counties. There is little of this type soil in Cameron county. There is no limit set by the government on the planting of and the FSA is seeking to induce its clients to plant them. Alaska maintains a home for its pioneers at Sitka. Visit In and Mrs Troy Thompson of Paris, Texas.

1 are visiting Mr. broth- er, Albert, and family this week in Edcouch. REMOVAL NOTICE Dr. ANTHONY CALDEIRA OF MERCEDES Announces his new office location at 541 S. Texas Avenue, first building south of Mercedes General Hospital, Mercedes, Texas.

Weslaco Youth Gets Job With Government WESLACO Martin Slice, Weslaco High School graduate in 1939. will leave the Valley sometime this week for Langley Field. to begin work as a model airplane builder in the armv services. Martin received notice from the Academy of Model Aeronautics asking him to report in Virginia after he entered a model 'airplane meet recently in San Benito. Fiery Suitor Given Two Year Sentence DALLAS Mrs.

Florentine Pasarro said Cornelius Costello wooed her ardently and gave her presents. But, she added, she still refused to go with him. So, she said, he threatened to burn her house. The hoi se blazed up on the evening of February 6 and Mrs. Pesarro testified in district court that she saw Costello running along the side of the building.

A jury sentenced Costello to two years in the penitentiary. On Winter Mr. and Mrs. James J. Schradel of Austin, are making their annual winter visit in Santa Rosa where Mr.

Schradel owns property. Visit Santa L. Wentz has returned to his home in Buford, S. after visiting M. Dodson and family at Santa Rosa and looking after property inter- i ests there.

Church Of Christ Books Evangelist BROWNSVILLE Evangelist J. Emmett Wainwright of California will conduct a gospel meeting at the Brownsville Church of Christ from Sunday through March 18. Irvin B. McFadin. minister, said Wednesday.

Services will begin at hi a. m. and 8 p. m. Otto Miller Otto Miller returned Sunday from Henryetta.

where he visited his who has been ill at the home of1 her mother in Henryetta for some time. LIQUORS 122 No. St. WANTED Dead Cows and Will remove them free Phone Collect 443. Harlingen This is a Valley-wide service ANIMAL BY PRODUCTS COMPANY Harlingen.

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