Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 4

Russia Promises Germany To Spare Rumania; Nazis Seek New Treaty PLEDGE SEEN TO AID CAUSE IN RUMANIA iCONfUflUX Confucius say time spent In getting even would be better spent in getting ahead. Ralph Guenther, Pharr. Confucius say live of great men oft remind us; tf we make our lives like theirs, on departing leave behlxKi us, lawsuita to engage our heirs. Confucius say Confucius say you are the in the wheel of progress. Mra Ray Alexander.

Sebastian. 27 KILLED IN VALLEY CRASH Splashing Way To Health Non-Aggression Pact' Confucius say the nice thing! worry why black hen lay Being Sought about telling the truth is that you have to remember what you say. Mrs. W. A.

Tippit. San Benito. white egg. get the egg. C.

A Scott, Harlingen. Confucius say no man ever made a glass eye that could see when you are best protected. Mary Reuben Deville, Edinburg. Others In Hospital And May Die (Contfnned from Page 1) Confucius say today is the tomorrow that we anticipated yesterday. Dewey Scott, Harlingen.

Confucius say the man w'ho is waiting for something to turn up might start on his own shirt sleeves. Mrs. T. C. Crossett.

Harlingen. Confucius say there has been many a man who could have made a success, but made a failure because he couidn take a Har- Confucius say it is better to appear dumb than to speak and remove ail doubt M. McClure, HarUngen. Confucius say things that hurt, teach. Betty Jane McClure, Har- Confucius say a mirror is concerned only With externals.

Dons Lewis. Lyford. anxious to avoid a aoutheastem battlefront and determined to strengthen her economic ties with the Balkan nations, has obtained from Soviet Russia a definite pledge to spare Rumania, an extremely well-informed aource told the Associated Press Thursday. The pledge, which probably will be documented soon, may enable Nazi diplomats to wean Rumania away from the French-British Allies and steer her into a non-aggression pact with Russia. Thera ware unmistakable avi- dances that negotiations of soma! little cnticisnu Jack Cox.

sort were in progress between Mos- Imgen. cow and Bucharest, Grerman. Russian and Rumanian sources denied the secret negotiations were centered hera but there were indications that Berlin w'as, at least, involved to soma degree. CaouBeot Is Eefnsed German officials and spokesmen at the Rumanian legation here have Ungen. declined to comment Other tvell- informed persons, however, hint that something is in the wind, and one want so far as to say Thursday the current week would political foundations for Germany's militapr The Rumanian question, this informant said, was a factor in the situation.

The German press, reflecting the trend of Nazi diplomacy, used the new Finnish-Russian peace as a tool with which to away at the small neutral nations of i southeastern Europe, urging them to cut loose from the Allies while they can. Charging that Britain and France i have the Czechs. Poles and Finns empty promises of Adolf Beobachter advised small countries to examine, in their own interests, tile difference between the Russian- Finnish peace terms and original demands upon nnlaiui. Same could have had peace with Soviet Russia much more the ter saiil however, it has learned the same lesson" iwhich Czech o-Slovakia and Poland had to learn.) are the newspaper went on, tee whether other lands finally will take the bitter lesson to heart" On the home front a decree by Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering. economic dictator, called upon the German people to make Hitler a "gift of old metal" on his 51st birthday, April 20.

Confucius say if man find he has lion by tail, he had better hold on until he can turn loose mrith impunity. Bobby Scott, Harlingen. Confucius say success is a long hard climb. Are you master of your future? Mattie Sue Deville. Edinburg.

(Continued from Page 1) tual eye-wiinesses to the crash have been discovered so far. They arc E. L. Simmons of Weslaco and G. W.

Cook of Alamo. Cook driving along immediately was behind the truck, ht tesufied at the inquest conducted by R. L. Savage of San Juan, and was passing Tower Road intersecuon when he saw the train hit the truck. About 100 yards behind Cook VLas Simmons.

He too saw the teriffic collision and was stunned when he realized many lives had been snuffed out while he watched. John Boeye of McAllen and Frank Berry of Mercedes were riding along about one-half mile behind the train. Boyc said that bodies were still rolling along the right-of-way and the tram was still moving when they ar- Confucius say if sons would fol- nved. None of the several scora denlial district in order to prevent accidents on the highway. It was estimated 5,000 people had gathered within an hour or an hour and one-half after the crash.

Despite the increased hazard, no automobile collisions were reported anywhere along the highway. Confucius say courtship make man spoon, marriage make hup fork over. M. M. Schalz, Sebastian.

low in their pioneer fathers footsteps they must step far. Mrs. L. D. Nichols, Mercedes.

Confucius say people that are always finding faults in others never have time to see their own and should sweep under their own bed before you go peeping under your neighbors. Grace Bruton, Harlingen. 1 Alamo residents and others who reached the scene immediately afterw'ards were able to render any material aid to the injured because of their aevere injuries. Spectators were particularly hcrnfied when they saw portions of human bodies lying along the railroad tracks and the right-of- way with the clothing and flesh still burning. There were two particularly gruesome Sights.

One was the torso of a man, minus the legs, arms and head. First spectators at the scene hurriedly found a large piece of paper and covered this body. About half way betw'een the crossing and the last coach of the train, a arm from the down was lying between the rails. The shirtsleeve and jacket sleeve were still on the arm. It was reported later that Jose Ramon, driver of the truck, was definitely identified by matching the arm to the body.

body had been taken to McAllen while the arm was Uken to Weslaco. COnON CROP HIKE IS SEEN Larger Demand To Be Felt This Year Confucius say perhaps better to let the cat out of the bag than drown same. Mrs. Fay George, San Benito. Confucius say grit wins and polishes.

Confucius say one day leaches the other. Mrs. W. M. Wilmoth, Harlmgen, Confucius say a quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

Confucius say consider the course of the gossiper, like the man did that the mule kicked. Just consider the course and forget all about it Mrs. Thomas Moore, Harlingen. mTHE ALAMO FIRE department was called to extinguish the flames in the demolished truck after Engineer Al R. son brought the train to a halt about two blocks west of the fatal intersection.

'Wilson and Fireman J. I. Garrett testified at the inquest that the flames w'hich leaped from 1 exploding gasoline tank of the truck were so fierce for a few moments that they were forced to leave their seats at the windows of the engine cab. Both men as as Conductor Waite were surprised and shoc'Ked at the result of the collision. STOCK SHOW OPENS TODAY (CoBtiBoed froBi Fage 1) Confucius say when wheels go around whole community progresses.

Sam Magee, Donna. Confucius say son.e people seem to think that safety should step up and make low to them. Eddie Joe Deville, Edinburg. College at Kingsville, will do the official judging. A large arena has been erected front of the ahow bam at the vaca.it property near the Rural Electniication office here.

Banquet Is Tonight Friday night the FFA boys of the Valley will staec their annual banquet at the high school cafeteria, and at 8 p.m. the livestock Instituta will get under way. Spirited bidding is expected at the auction slated for Friday at 10 a. m. Auctioneers will be R.

S. Parker, J. Haggard and F. E. Snowden.

A large number of buyers from all parts of the Valley have indicated they will attend the auction. Chairman Eldon Smith said Thursday. Prises Are Offered In addition to the prizes for grand champion and division winners, an attenaance prize will be awarded to the FFA or 4-H Club group with the largest representation. Prizes will be awarded in the dairy cattle division on the blue ribbon basis, since the score card system of judging will be used. Breeder hogs wdll also be judged on the score card basis.

Market hogs w'lll be selected on a comparison basis, with two championi to be selected from this division. Prizes amounting to $300 w'ill be awarded winners in three entered by FFA and 4-H Club boys. Other animals will be entered by ftockmen for purpose of exhibition only. Prizes will only go to boys, according to Carl Blasig. secretary- xnanager for.

the livestock show. Confucius say in modem home regulate everything but children. Confucius say he that burn candle at both ends have short life, but is pretty well ht up. Mildred Shafer, San Benito. Confucius say the difference between a statesman and a politician is a statesman says he belongs to the state and the politician thinks the state belongs to him.

R. M. Jones, Harlingen. PILOT FIGHTS MIDAIR BATTLE The Winner Newspapermen were highly complimentary of the assistance given them by Albert Jensen and Miss Mary Ann Wall of the Citrus Association, telephone operators, ambulance drivers and morgue attendants and particularly hospital attendants and investigating officers. Complete cooperation of the hospitals, morgues and officers enabled the accurate compilation of the death list and identification of the injured and the victims.

Condactor obi B. Waite, of Mission held his train at the scene of the crash until he determined definitely that he and other mcmbera ef the train crew could render no further assistance. Not untU all of the dead and injured had been removed and the wreckage of the truck removed from the railroad and the front of the engine did the train continue to Mission. Mrs. E.

J. Wsltmsn. Wins Third ConiMt With Confucius Saying E. J. Waitman of Harlingen is the winner of the third week's Confucius Say contest conducted by the Valley Morning Star, it decided early Friday morning.

She wrill receive $5. Mrs. saying was; say man of few words have less to take The contest continues on and since entries have been heavier each succeeding week another $5 will be awarded next Friday morning. All you contest fans shoot in your entries for the fourth week. Engineer Al R.

Wilson testified at the inquest that he did not see the truck in front of his tram. He said his fireman, J. 1. Garrett, yelled to him that going to hit and that ha jammed on the emergency brake without taking time to look for himself. The impact followed within a few seconds.

He said his train was travelling about 45 miles per hour at the time of the crash and that when the engine struck the truck, sounded like hitting a bunch of empty oil drums. Then the flames flashed past the engine cab. (Continued from Page 1) was unable to control the plane and had to land." Body la Bought The pilot, an instructor for the Standard Ilying School at Floyd Bennett Airport in Brooklyn, said the man went to the field Thursday znoming to take a lesson. When the land plane hit the water it began to settle, Rosemarin said. He pulled himself out of the cabin and straddled the fuselage, from where he was picked up with- In a few minutes by the tug Osprey.

The other man was still in the cabin. Captain Harry Pahlke of the lighter Ruth told police he saw something that looked like a body fall into the as he began raising the plane with a boom. AUTHOR AWARDED CHICAGO Elgin Groseclose, of Washington, author of the novel night won the ll.CKX) annual award of the Friends of American Writers' ilomliiKJ MELlOmfESS lear heads au for Calvert engine in flame after the collision. Wilson related, forcing both him and Garrett away from the engine cab indows. He said he estimated I that the train traveled 700 feet after the collision.

After he brought the train to a halt. Wilson stated. he saw three bodies removed from the pilot cf the engine. He thought two of them ere women and one was that of a man. He said he backed the engine from the truck, had been jammed against the engine pilot so tightly that it traveled the entire 700 feet, and the Alamo Fire Department arrived i to exUnguish the The truck was practically destroyed by the fire The train conductor was Tom B.

Waite, of Mission. The train was en route from Harlingen to Mission at the time of the collision. Ross said he did not expect that charges would be filed in connection with the tragedy. Jose Ramon, driver of the truck carrying the 42 fmit pickers to green orchards of the Lower Rio Grande Valiev, turned his truck from U. S.

83. the Valley i northward into Tower road at a point where the road i both U. S. 83 and the railway north the point where Ramon turned from i Movies Of Heart Action Shown First Time the highway. Death turned his cql-' ton exports at the highest Itvel' since 1933.

federal farm officials predicted Thursday this season's demand would exceed the 1933 crop upwards of 2.000.000 bales, in excess of last crop will be drawn from a record surpl-js of about bales on hard at the beginning of the marxeting season. Agr.cnlrure department cotton ex' perts said there were prospects that combined domest.c consum.ption and this season 'which ends J-Jly might total 13.600.000 bales. compared 10.225.000 in the pre- vnous season. Production last year was about 11,600,000 bales. With a nurse as a back-seat driver this crippled youngster in the North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital is having a splash in a chemically treated swimming pool.

The sustaining apparatus is a home made affair doing its share to mend young patients. The hospital, said to be the only state owned and operated orthopedic hospital, is open only to crippled orphans or children of indigent parents, black or white, and haa become a model for study by other states. The Star: A Hean Mexico Valley Gets First Snow In Years MEXICO fell Thursday night in the Valley of Mexico for the first time since January 19, 1906. A cold wave of unusual struck the city bringing rain that was followed by snow. tragedy brought sorrow to at least four communities in Starr county.

Relatives streamed through Martin-Nelson Funeral Home and Kreidler Funeral Home in McAllen, where most of the bodies were taken, all day long Thursday. Many of the persons visiting the mortuary left with sighs of relief when they found that none of their relatives were among the mangled and burned bodies stretched out for identification if possible. Some of the victims lived near Rio Grande City. Roma, El Sauz and Garceno. One of the men lived al Sinton.

Another one or two lived at Donna. Sparing the relatives as much as possible. Justice of the Peace R. Savage explained to them that they must be verj' careful in their identification and that he ciuld not permit the removal of any body until it positively identified. human cargo of laborers into shambles of death, the like of which no Texas highway has ever The pounding drivers of Train No.

113 tore into the center of the truck, sr Etching it bodily the road, dumping its cargo of humanity ter-skelter onto the right-of-way and mangling most of them horribly. some of them beyond either description or identification, finally coming to a halt two blocks west of the intersection. The truck still impaled on the engine piloL Between the truck and engine, two men had been crushed into formless pulp, so unrecognizable that except for the number of arms and legs, it was difficult to tell w'heiher there had been one man or more. Trapped beneath the firebox of the steaming locomotive was the body of a third, its clothing burning fiercely and the reek of searing flesh nauseating the running hundreds of spectators who hurried to the scene from all parts of the Valley as news of the disaster spread. Saw 18 Bodies At the crossing, this correspondent, one of the first at the scene.

NEW motion pictures revealed Thursday for the first time how the muscles of the heart work. In a movie which would be a feature on any screen EXr. C. Landis of Columbia University, ed scientists attending the federated biological meeting how the heart and lungs keep up their work despite extensive injury and the effects of drugs. To make the film Dr.

Landis removed the heart and lungs of a dog and kept them alive and acuve in a special glass chamber similar to the "glass devised by Dr. Alexis Carrcll of the Rockefeller institute. Then he photographed the lungs breathing and the heart beating at camera speed of up to 3.CXX) exposures per second. These pictures, when slowed dow'n to normal speed of about 12 exposures per second, showed that ventricles, or blood cavities of the heart, vibrato with a corkscrew-like action as they pump blood throughout the body. They also showed that the heart must have a resistance to against.

Isolated hearts, unless connected with a device to pump blood, will quit promptly. Dr. Landis. Dr. G.

K. Moe of Wheaton College, Norton, and Dr. M. B. Visscher of the University of Minnesota, told members of the American Physiological Socien' that such pictures now make it possible to study accurately the beharior of the heart, the effects of disease and the changes produced by varioua which has been impossible before.

Until now such changes in normal heart could be studied after death, but not actually occurring. BEST? dm nusMwrs KSmOK at first one mound of burned flesh and then another. As the sorrowing relatives iden- tified their dead. Justice of the counted 18 bodies within a hundred Peace R. L.

Savage of San Juan. feet of the crash. Only four bodies! conducting the inquests, permitted The facilities of McAllen Municipal Hospital were taxed to the utmost to take care of the 17 injured and several dead which arrived at the hospital a half- hour after the crash, but despite the difficulties the doctors ahd nurses worked rapidly, singllnff out the most seriously injured for first attention and giving them the benefit of all the care possible. Within a few hours all of the injured bad been given medical treatment and had been put to bed. Hospital attendant! late Thursday night were afraid that three of four others of the injured were critically hurt.

A HUGE CROWD that assembled at the scene within a half hour after the crash completely blocked traffic on U. S. 83 to such a point that county and state patrolmen routed ail traffic south of the highway through the Alamo resi- 'p'OR THE SECOND time in three days a major story attracted reporters and photographers from all the newspapers of the Valley and the magnitude of the Weslaco explosion of Tuesday and Thursday crash kept them busy throughout the day as as far into the night in order to clear up details which had to be passed by during the hours immediately following the crash. The telephone company reported a big surge of business both after the 'Weslaco explosion and the crash Thursday mommg. occasioned both times by the fears of friends and relatives up-slate that some of their acqoaintances showed any sign of movement or life.

One victim lay at the edge of Tower road, his legs crumpled beneath him. He as vomiting. He lifted his hand piteously for help, then collapsed. A few moments later, two Catholic priests appeared as if from now'here and began their last ministrations to the dying. The victims strewn along the right-of-way on both sides of the railroed, mostly between the railroad and the highway on the south.

A few were found north of the tracks. All of the victims were horribly hurt The dead were minus arms, legs. One man cut in two at the waist. Another was minus his legs. The head of a child was found and the body nowhere in the vicinity.

Every victim w-as tn individual story of terrible death, merciful in its suddenness. Late Thursday afternoon. 20 bcKiies were being held in Mc- morgues, four w-ere at Weslaco and two in Edinburg. The almost hopeless Usk of identifying the dead proceeded slowly as weeping relatives or those who thought their relatives might be among the victims streamed through the mortuaries, anxiously peering them to be removed for Most of the bodies ere being mov- ed to Starr county as soon as all questions as to identity had been removed. 18 In Hospital Meanwhile, at McAllen Municipal Hospital.

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