Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 2

(Phone 123 for Want-Ad Sendee) Harlingen, Texas, Monday, March 9, I 94 South Of The Border By KENNETH BELDIN GUADALAJARA. Slate of Jalisco, don't throw those over-soft tomatoes too ter down this way. taikx, tout here is news for you who are fretting about tires: There is at last a choice of routes to central Mexico from up north. Just as your footsore ex.plo.nng reporters arrived back in the Jalisco capital from the least accessible corner of this astounding state, wearing a coating of an inch thick, a party of sleek well-groomed Americanos were driving up to a swanky Guadalajara hotel. They had arrived via Laredo, Texas, and San Luis And thereby hangs our tale.

It -seems these smart gringos had decided their tires would deteriorate faster with their cars jacked up than if used loiv speeds to Mexico Included were some youngish fellows keeping in 'touch with, draft back home, "Why hurryT they asked fwhen they'd decided we were really American vagabondeers instead of Mexican hill toffies as appeared to the eye.I have a first, sergeant rush" ing us around soon enough." They had spent several leisurely days exploring those grand mountains and canyons around Monterrey and had fallen in love with Saltillo's painted desert majesty. had gone over to Tampico on the Gull while others had tested around an old hacienda where the hotel man at El Mante takes in a few guests when he feels like it A FEW miles south of El Mante 'they had discovered a new unannounced highway shooting up from the tropics to San Luis and off to Gusdsisjiirau Well sir, any new' road offers a. but a road with Guadalajara at the end of it mi irresistible. Even though 'this one is not quite finished, three out of four American parties arriving over it the last two prooouneed it good even if they couldn't pronounce 'the names of the towns along it. these are quite simple with spellings farther south.

Japanese Cruelty To Captured Filipinos Described By Priest TRAIN WRECK KILLS SEVEN Fatal Barge Blast Hurls Wreckage Far SAYS GERMAN IS LEADER OF LABOR GROUP By DEAN SCHEDLEB WITH THE USAFFE ON BATA AN PENINSU LA Delayed overworked, treated cruelly, Filipinos formed into labor battalions by the Japanese conquerors of Luzon are reported being to an existence comparable in some instances to that of medieval galley slaves. So report members of the little body of patriots who from time to time have managed to elude Japanese patrols in the occupied territory, and make their dangerous way to this peninsula of still tree land here General Douglas Mac! Arthur holds out against the enemy. One of these daring fugitives is I Father Ingal. a chaplain in the Philippine army who was captured while trying to rejoin his unit alter the fall of Manila, Another is a civilian employed at Corregidor island fortress who fell into enemy hands while searching for his family. He is now back on his old job.

Priest Works On Bridge Father Ingal, an unassuming clone perhaps in his middle thirties, was assigned by his captors to a labor squad engaged re- building a bridge. Supervising the job was a tall, blond German wearing a Japanese uniform whom the churchman rec- ognized as a former Maniian. The 5 German gave orders to a Japanese army officer, who appeared to be second in command, i Father Ingal said the work began at dawn and continued until dark, wuth a brief rest period at noon. Every day each worker was given I a handful of rice and told to prc- I pare it himself. The laborers were 1 Bargain sales with reductions of 40 per cent or so were on everywhere in Los Vngeles' Little Tokyo as its Japanese residents prepared to leave on orders clearing specified Pacific coast combat cones of enemy aliens and American-born Japanese.

T. Iloriuchi. proprietor of one of the largest Oriental art stores in the district, posts a sale sign. Alongside another sign reads, are 10b per cent for the United in the Tarascan country, A tundi granted a short time to go to the with a sign reading once asked if that wu the SPELL of Guadalajara, long favored with plenty of mil and service from several directions, it now a lot closer to America tor at least to Texas I by car. Formerly it was 1,153 from the international bridge at Laredo, via Mexico City.

Today Its only miles away. 'Hie grades, on the new road are moderate, and there are less curves to wear out tires. This road will easily save ten. to twelve driving time Mexico City but. southwest of Guadalajara, exclusive of the trips to tlrua- pan and Patacuaro, which add 122 more -miles and some 122 million worth of enjoyment to the drive for those with the hippy faculty of enjoying beauty, (More about these Taracsan towns in the near future.

No doubt the new road will bring a lot more visitors to bask in their charm, and to those who don't care to drive they are as available as ever by rail.) ntOM Mexico City back to the border is only a matter of another 763 miles on the speedometer, miles, that tell a fascinating story After climbing to 8,500 feel above tea level at Kilometre SKI you drop to Xxmiquilpan. climb up past Zifnapan, drop to Jacala. Then, after one mote sharp ascent through the rugged sierra madre it's down and down and past primitive picture-book Chapulhuacanyo tropical Tamazunchale. which tourists pronounce like At this tune of year one is inclined to dally in the tropics, and right new is the time for fascinating explorations on mulebaek Huastecan villages around Tamazunchale, Axtte, Tancanhuitz and tales. Especially recommended for 'those looking for the kind of native that aren't made specially for tourists.

North of Linares you enter the orange then before you know it the earth rises up persistence in the face of hardship to meet the sky and you heave a and cunning in the face of danger sigh and take a last long look at i He became detached from his or- stream to obtain muddy water ioi cooking and drinking but were not permitted salt or allowed to catch the small native fish to eat with their rice. Women Are Orderlies At Japanese headquarters nearbj Father Ingal observed Japanese women in plain uniforms doing the work of orderlies and mess The chaplain asked one Filipino laborer how long he had been in the camp and received the reply that all track of time had been lost. Among the prisoners, Father Ingal said, was a small group of Japanese residents of the Philippines These men, ail able speak, the native dialects, were regarded their captors with suspicion as perhaps not completely sincere adherents to the Japanese East Asia" doctrine. The Filipino account of his experiences varied from that of Father ingal only in its details. A small man of 50 or more.

He was apprehended near Balanga on Bataan Peninsula, and put in service along with other natives hauling artillery equipment, After the long days of forced labor on scant rations, these men were obliged to sleep on the ground near a spot where Japanese gum- fired most of the night, he reported Two Shot As Example He said two laborers, unable from i sheer exhaustion to. perform their work, were shot as an example to I the others. These reports are typical of the stories which slipping from occupied areas have brought to Bataan. To a man, they de- clare that never in a million years of the propaganda they are now employing will the Japanese vince the natives they have come to liberate and develop the islands for the benefit of Filipinos in the i so-called East Asia co-prosperity spheres. Father Inga I success in rejoining his army unit was the reward ol Howard Marshall, AP Staff Man, Dies Suddenly Sunday GRANBY.

Mo. sons, including four soldiers, lost their lives and at least 28 others were hurt late Saturday as two I Frisco passenger trains collided head-on near this southwest Missouri town. The steel-rending crash of the eastbound Will Rogers and a special. carrying 230 recruits from Camp Grant. 111.

occurred on a trestle about 200 yards west of the depot. Twenty-two 18 soldiers and four trainmen suffered injuries requiring hospitalization. A number of others were treated at the scene for minor injuries. Soldiers In Wooden Loach The locomotives remained upright. pinned together in a mass of wreckage on the trestle.

Most of the soldier victims were a wooden coach, the first of the six on the special. At the impact it Jeleseoped the overturned baggage car ahead, crumpled and splintered, pinning the passengers inside. Rescue crews, some working with acetylene torches, labored for about five hours to extricate the dead and injured. Of the Will Rogers, one baggage car toppled off into a dry creek bed. a passenger coach overturned and another left the rails, but did not turn over.

Signal Mix-Up? While some Frisco officials said it appeared that a mix-up in signals caused the collision, Jamc- Hilton, assistant to the general manager of the road, declined to comment, pending an investigation In a hospital at Neosho, Luther Ary, engineer of the special, told newsmen that he had brought the train to a stop before the collision and that the other train was coming i toward him at about 60 miles an hour. He declared be began slowing down sonic distance from the scene because he received a caution light as he entered the Granby block Frank Reed, engineer of the Will Rogers, however, told newsmen last night that he had brought his train almost to a stop at the time of the crash. Physicians, nurses and ambu- I lances from surrounding towns were rushed to the scene. A special train was used to carry the injured soldiers to hospitals at Neosho. and Camp Crowder, A military police guard was established at i the scene.

Twisted metal sections of an oil barge were hurled inland when the loaded craft exploded on Greens near Houston, killing two men and injuring a dozen. Above, some of the twisted metal landed 100 yards inland after smashing the car in foreground. Body of one victim lies covered on rail track. Homma Had Good Reason To Suicide; Muffed Big One Marshall. 40.

one of the state's foremost authorities on politics and govern moot and head of the Associated Press bureau at Austin, died unexpectedly Sunday. The widely-known correspondent succumbed to cerebral hemorrhage at home here shortly after 3 a. m. Highly regarded by newsmen and state officials alike, Marshall was PLANE CRASH KILLS EIGHT toe grandeur surrounding Monterrey, Americans always go for triangle trips In big way. And.

here Mante to Guadalajara to Mexico City to San Antonio) Mexico at long last has not only a triangle, but a triangle with a darned interesting handle. Some day our good neighbors down here will wake up to what they have to offer, and let American automobiliste in on the secret. More Items Seen On Banned Lists gamzation while it was moving I from the Amnula area into positions on Bataan. Discarding his uniform I and all credentials and adopting guise of a typical civilian Filipino searching for his family the overrun northern provinces, he out on foot early January, He first circled captured Manila, moving cautiously and mostly under cover of night then took the road north toward Pampanga province, from where he hoped either to make a land trip around the Japanese lines or. if cut off.

to attempt to cross the tip ol of a Nava! lieutenant and seven enlisted men in the crash of a Catalina bomber into the Columbia river at Tongue Point, Sunday morning was announced by the 13lh Naval District Headquarters Sunday, The announcement said the ship nose-dived while attempting to take off from the water on a patrol mission. The navigator. Ensign H. Garrett, Fort Worth, Tex, was tnrown clear and escaped. Lieutenant Charles R.

Reimann iCW), Shelbvville. went down with the plane, which sank immediately. Salvage were under ay late Sunday. The other casualties: Robert Bryant, aviation metalsmith, first class. Route 4, Box 188, San Jose.

Calif. Marvin Crump aviation machinist. second class, 412 East Edmire street, El Reno. Okla. Ray S.

Campbell, aviation radioman, third class, 2133 North Skidmore street. Portland, Ore. James Davis. aviation radioman, second class, Box 324 Allan. Okla.

Anthony Leszczynski, seaman first class, 3020 West 40th street. Chicago. Henry W. Strickland. seaman.

second class, Box 224, Kentwood. La. Leonard Ruzek. aerographer, 12 Staple street. Adams, Mass.

Texans Will Get Aid Gn Contracts DALLAS The Southwest is expected to contribute more to the manufacture of war E-i bv smaB Major Herbert P. md.cated Sunday in announcing establish three of war, the government already stopped or limited manufacture and sale of new automobiles. refrigerators, radios and boat). Ecrape He had almost reached Calumpit in Buiucan province when he was apprehended by Japanese palroling the site of a bridge blown up by 'the Filipino-American army during lighting in that zone. One evening when he was taken by his Japanese guards to a stream nese moving along both sides in search of him.

He waited all night long neai one bank. The Japanese crisscrossed typewriten and has indicated that, vacuum cleaners and washing mi- bath, he slipped aw av the chines will 'be to this darkness and hid. Crouching in list. midstream, the padre heard Jape- Manufacture of refrigerators is to stop April 30. and radios for on April 22, No definite date for stoppage of civilian typewriter production has been aet, AH industries art due for ItO per cent conversion to armament productioii.

Before March 15. the WPB is expected. to decide the future of companies manufacturing washing machines and limners. Thus ter, rationing programs have been announced for automobiles and trucks, tires and sugar; programs are being drafted for and merit here- of district procurement offices of the chemical warfare service. The office will serve Texas.

Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mexico and Colorado and is in? tended, Major Heist, by moving nearer to the source of supply, to obviate the need of business men visiting Washington in quest I of war contracts. he continued, make for greater efficiency and permit southwestern industry to partici- pate on a larger scale in the manufacture of war material. A few the water methodically, but as Fa- contracts have been made with Six Beigi being issued we still 'the Congo, ther Ingal remarked later. was with me that ferried close inshore in the morning, a waiting their return so 1 could slip downstream and hide he continued Father Ingal and a companion made careful plans ith three to take a Banca across the northern point of Manila Bay and land on the shoreline of Bataan, where, they felt sure they could Tip through the enemy lutes, They cud. various manufacturers in this area, but the industrial resources of this section have hardly 'been scratched as compared with their potential a native Texan, graduate of the University of Texas and member of the Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity, With AP 15 Years Marshall, whose writings on the Texas political scene were published over the nation, was born Nov mber 28, 1901, at Rockwall.

He received his early education in public schools at Grandview and McKinney and had been with the Associated Press 15 years, the last seven as head of the Austin bureau Sandy-haired, bespectacled and ol scholarly disposition, Marshall start- ed his rcportorial career with a Houston trade periodical on graduating from the University with high honors. Prior to his Austin assignment he held various posts in the Associated Press Bureau at Daiuts and was correspondent at Fori Worth and El Paso. Because of a story of special interest to him, Marshall in off hours Saturday searched out political leaders to obtain information on the approaching U. S. senatorial campaign in Texas.

His by-lined article moved out of Austin on the Associated Press wire network at 7:26 p. m. Last Story Saturday Not knowing that he had written 3(J to his last news story, he left the slatehouse pros room in good spirits and spent the evening at nome with his wife and 10-year- oid son, Robert. The first stroke occurred shortly before midnight. An attending physician attributed it to high blood pressure.

Texas chief of bureau for the Associated Press, Frank H. King, who talked to the correspondent oy telephone only Saturday, expressed the shock and sadness of the whole Associated Press staff and paid high tribute to Howard Marshall as one of the finest men of character he had known in 25 years of newspaper work all over the world. faithfulness to duty, his infinite care and attention to accuracy, rot only to detail but to the spirit of fairness, in every word that he wrote, was a never-ending of King said in Dallas, and added: Many Regret Passing exemplified to the highest degree the qualities of a iirst- rank American journalist and Associated Press editor. The high regard ijeld for him was universal among Texas Associated Press member newspaper editors who repeatedly praised his work. passing is a deep shock and sorrow for his colleagues who also were his good Numerous high officials in the state government, including Governor Coke Stevenson, Speaker ol the House Homer Leonard, Chairman Ernest O.

Thompson of the Railroad Commission, President Homer P. Ramey of the University of Texas and others, called the Capitol press room to express shock and sorrow- at death. Besides his idow and son, the newspaperman is survived by his mother, Mrs, Florence C. Marshall of Austin; a brother. Will E.

Mar-, shall of Austin, and a sister, Mrs W. C. Marrs of Rockdale. Funeral arrangements not completed. Laneley Field Plane Missing LANGLEY FIELD, Va A I large Army plane from Langley Field has beers missing on a routine training flight over North Carolina coast since Thursday, and the Army public relations office said Sunday its crew of eight was feared lost Colonel Edgar Hobbs.

Langley Ptold public relations officer, said that search for the plane was I continuing and that there was a possibility that it had been forced down in an isolated section along North Carolina coast or at sea where its crew might have been picked up by a ship, Hobbs did not disclose the type of the missing plane other than to say it was a one. Langley Field has had no word from the plane since it left here at 11 08 m. (Eastern War Time) Thursday. The next of kin of crew members have been notified that the plane 1 is missing. By EDWARD E.

BOMAR Wide World War Analyst Whether General Masaharu Homma actually committed Hara-kiri from chagrin or still lives, the Japanese commander in the Philippines has had ample cause under the severe code of the Samuri to take his own life. While fellow generals were crushing opposition elsewhere in the southwest Pacific, the bulky Homma has been forced by General Douglas Mac Arthur and his intrepid little army to undergo a loss of face unstifferable even to a fully Japanese By what appears from this distance to have been a single major error in judgment, Homma may have contributed substantially to eventual defeat. For forty years. President Roose- A son, BIRTHS weighing nine pounds three ounces, was born to Mr. and Mrs.

Hewitt Harrison of Edeouch at Valley Baptist Hospital at 2:45 p. Sunday. Dutch Not Given Sufficient Help SYDNEY, Britain arid the United States failed to send sufficient help to be- leagured Dutch troops in Java and plans failed the Sydney Morning Herald said editorially Sunday. Dutch loyally carried out (their part of such plans as existed for the common defense of the ABDA area British. Dutch and but did no! receive the help they deserved and they were the paper said.

sent was insufficient to affect the ultimate issue. The United States and Britain were unable to make up their minds that a not should be made to hold Java. again United Nations strategy having to be recast. Surely it is time to try to wrest the initiate from DEATHS BURNS, ARTHUR OSCAR, 49, of Weslaco. Died suddenly at 8 p.m Saturday at his home.

Resident of the Valley 22 years, coming here from Seguin, Survived by his brother, Harry, with whom he lived, and another brother, Charles, of Seguin. Funeral services to be held at Martin-Nelson chapel in Weslaco Monday at 7 p. after hich the body ill be forwarded to Scgum for interment. BIRl), THEODORE. 62.

tourist from Scranton, Pa, wintering at Weslaco. Died suddenly Sunday at 2:15 m. Had been in Valley one and one-haif months. Was retired insurance man. Survived by wife, who was with him; one son, Theodore B.

Bird of Scranton; a brother, Richard of Phoenix. and a sister, Mrs. C. H. Reach of Riverton, J.

The body will be forwarded Monday night by Martin-Nelson Funeral Home of Weslaco to Scranton, Pa for interment. LEAVE ON VACATION A. W. Dodds and children. Mrs.

James Parrish, and Mrs. L. Akin, left Thursday for a two visit at up-state points Mrs Akin and Mrs, Parrish will visit in Houston while others of the party will visit in Brazoria, MARRIAGE LICENSE Felix Mendoza and Aurora Salazar, San Bcmto; Thomas Garcia and Guadalupe Bermudez. Brownsville; Emilo Vasquez-Puente Guadalupe and Jose fa Mora, near Brownsville; Jose G. Garza and Maria Florentina Vela.

Brownsville; Henry May and Mary Mijares. Harlingen, RIO GRANDE CITY Mr. and Mrs. Henrv Sehiffbougher of San Antonio spent the week-end as guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Hendrick Drummond, at the Ringgold Hotel. velt has said, it has been the strategy of American forces in the Philippines to fall back, in event of invasion by a numerically superior foe, into the Bataan Peninsula under the guns of the Corregidor fortification. Plan No Secret That plan could hardly have been a secret to the busy Japanese spy system. Fishermen by the score must have reported in detail on the peacetime field maneuvers staged periodically in Bataan by American and Philippine scout troops, That such maneuvers were held was commonplace knowledge in For even more than forty years, working out detailed plans for the conquest of the Philippines has been a routine exercise for the Japanese militarists. Tokyo knew, of course, that the Philippines were being reinforced last summer and fall, but the Japanese were seady to strike before the arrival of decisive forces bombers, fighter planes and tanks, and before the Filipino reservists could be fully mobolized.

a year or more, in nearby Formosa, Homma had been whipping his 14th Army into shape for the invasion signal. Muffed His Chance Then, with the dice loaded, he proceeded to muff his opportunity for Japanese extremely able assistance, of course, from Mac Arthur and his men. The way things went out at first, i Homma could fairly hiss with grat- ifieaUon. In 48 hours, the Japa- i nese had virtually complete con! trol of the air, having put out of commission the bases for American bombers, along with a large per- centage of the bombers themselves. Beginning December 22, scores ot transports were able to line up off Lingayen Gulf north of Manila, and pour troops ashore with relative impunity.

To the south of the capital, the other arm of the pincer was established, and the jaws of the trap started to close about Manila and MacArthur. But when they clicked shut, the defenders were not there. Homma had left open the route of escape. Once Threatened Landing Had the invaders effected a landing cn the Luzon coast just north of Bataan before MacArthur withdraw al into the natural stronghold had been completed, it now seems clear, the whole remaining defending force would have been threatened with annihilation. This flanking landing was threatened at least once.

Military officials held their breath in late December, when a fleet of transports was repotted off Iba, some 40 miles north of Bataan. It strangely steamed away. apparent error detracts nothing whatever from MacArthur glory. War is notoriously a matter of mistakes and the winner of any campaign is the commander who makes the fewest and best takes advantage of the If MacArthur has made any errors at all. they have been well obscured.

JAPS LANDING ON NEW GUINEA -i (Continued tram 1) headlights, but officials say that arrangements for a complete blackout have been made. There are signs everywhere of I the nearness of war, yet life is- strangely unchanged. The theaters draw crowds, stores are busy and hotels are so jammed that many serve meals only to their guests, who occasionally wait an hour for service. Food is plentiful and liquor cheap, but bars clow at 8 m. Labor Shortage Acute The hotel labor shortage Is so acute that old men and small boys are filling in as waiters and ters.

Women are serving as street car conductors and truck drivers, and few' men of military age are in civilian dress. Gasoline rationing has made the greatest impact upon most Rations of two to four gallons month have driven most of the auto- I mobiles from the highways, with the result that the Melbourne in- 1 terurban station, long boasted as one of the busiest, now ft as a rush hour comparable to a New York subway jam. Many motorists have installed charcoal burning gas produc- 1 cis. which reduce power and necessitate racing the engine, but do save gasoline. Cigarets and matches are expensive and are being rationed.

Many women are rolling their own, Shortage Seen Fruits and dairy products are plentiful, but there is a Shortage ofll blankets and shocleather. Short- I age in beef is anticipated, but 1 ton is cheaper than it has been in i years. Production of luxury goods is prohibited. It is illegal to manu-g facture washing machines and vacuum cleaners. Prod of refrigerators is being limbed the minimum required to fill hospital and army needs.

The results of tea rationing still are not noticeable in cafes and res-if taurants. although newspapers art printing recipes for making a substitute drink from roasted wheat The newspaper shortage has reduced newspaper sizes 68 per cent and papers now' are largely corny) fined to war news. The public seem to take bad news with the same detachment as would a reader in California, and there is little evidence of fear. The much-talked-of four per war profits limitation has not yet materialized. Taxes on big incomes, however, are called the highest in the world, taking 18 shillings out of every pound on incomes over $10 000.

are 20 shillings to the pound.) There is widespread interest in the proposed conscription of men from 18 to 60 for the newly authorized army labor corps. I Printed music dates back to year 1465. OFFICER VISITS RIO GRANDE and Mrs, John Hinojosa, and children. spent the week-end visiting with his family in this city. They returned to San Antonio Sunday Lifuteur-nt I Liuucci at Huuatuo.

VISITING WITH SON MISSION Mr. and Mrs. Lee Franks arrived Thursday from their home in Wichita Fails for a visit of several days with their son, Owen Lee Franks, and Kirs Franks, and with Mrs. Franks brother. Roy Owen, and Mrs.

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