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Fair Progrniii I WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1941 ValUy and Willacy County Day tttent'-n cnlled to: Valley Garden Club Flowprs Milifarv Fvkihit i Slock Show. Fruit Exhibits Community and a 11.01 a.m. Exhibits, Commercial Exh ts. and Automobile Show. Gates open.

Fair V.llrv whc to maKc the Lower Valley of the kfo Judk.ng of Exhtbita and entriej. Livestock Show, Flower Citrus. Poultry Swme. An A Photographk HoJl Detr Exhibits judged on Tuesday. NovemLr 25 rlh Farmers Institute.

Municipal Audtlorium-Tv for Valiev Farmer, and 1 cash given away as attendance i McDtwiaid, State attendance prizesr Program: J. E. Commissioner of Agriculture; prominent Citrus grower: John Sharv. pioneer developer; Dorsey Coti. Citrus Cash buver: Wart, Edmburg Junior CoUege; Lon C.

Hill, presi- Jcnt A L. and Citrus grower; F. M. Vining. mccess ul a ey farmer; Clifford Scott, director U.

S. Citrus Laboratory, W. H. Friend. Supt.

Texas Experiment Slat -n. Jna Horticulturist Experiment Station: B. McLeatsh Mgr. G. Citrus Exchange.

Musical numbers Stanley Addmgion and Sol Zimberoff. liiiittry Exi ibit-Wrapons Division Cavalry Brigade, Ft. McIntosh Texas 150 will be stationed on Fair Grounds for duration of Fair. Talky ilo mino Firsl In In Adverllsing First in Circulation Vol. No.

180 HARLINGEN, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1941 SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY pm. 1:30 pjn. m. 1:00 pm. Bill Hames Free acts.

Concert Raymondville High School Band. Front of Municipal Auditorium. Free Picture Call To Texas Vi.eual Education Company. Austin. Death Circus Grandstand, under Oscax and his death drivers.

VALLEY FAIR OPENS TODAY Nazi Smashes Halt British Libya Drive THURSDAY (Thanksgiving Day) NOVEMBER 27 Starr County Day Special Attent. in Called To: Valley Garden Club Flower Military Exhibit. Livestock Show, Fruit Exhibits, Commercial and Community Exhibits, and Automobile ilW am, im. 11J0 p.ai. 1:00 pm, Gates Open.

Community Thanksgiving Baptist Church. Harhngcn. Activities suspended on grounds until 12 noon in observation of spiritual services throughout Valley. Association officials urge attendance to Thanksgiving service. Bill Hames Free act on Midway.

High School Band. Front of Municipal Municipal best performers under the di- recuon of Ruth Mix Cragg, Howard Cragg and B. H. Jones. Grandstand.

1:30 pjn. Band Concert. Auditorium. pm. Free Picture Show: Call To Arms.

Auditorium. Texas Visual Education, 7:30 p.m. Under the by Ruth Mix Cragg, Howard Cragg, and B. H. Jones.

1:00 pm. Valley FiCsta Auditorium. Presenting acts from every Fiesta in Valley; Charrc Days, Browmsville; ArmisUce Day. San Benito: Tarpon Rodeo, Pt. Isabel; Onion Fiesta.

mondville; Weslaco. Citrus. Vegetable and Flower Style Show; Dia Grande. Donna; July 4th, McAllen; Texas Citrus Fiesta. Mission: Orange Festival.

Edinburg; and Exposition. Mercedes. Under direction of Harry Homby, Manager San Benito Chamber of Commerce. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 28.

1941 Hidtlgo County and Boy Scout Day S( hooL AU School Children Free ALL BOV SCOUTS IV UMFOR.M ADMITTED FREE Special Attention Called To: Valley Garden Club Flower Show, Military Exhibit, Livestock Show. Fruit Exhibit. Commercial and Community Exhibits, and Automobile Show'. Gates Open. Valley Federated Music Clubs Preeenting Valiev Best Musical Talent Bill Hames Free acts.

direction of Ruth Mix Cragg. 800 am- m. pjTi. 200 pm. 1:00 pm.

1:10 p.m. 300 p.m. 7:06 p.m. 7 JO pm. 10:30 jfiL Howard Cragg, and B.

H. Jones. Formal Opening Valley Xmas Shopping Season. Jackson Street, Harlingen. Santa Claus will come to town in Airplane.

Free candy and gifts to children. Valley invited to visit downtown business area to view decorations. Band by San Benito High School Band. Front of Auditorr-im. Free Picture Call To Auditorium.

Texas Visual Exiucation Co. Band Concert by Championship Weslaco High School Band. Front of Circus of under lights. Featuring Oscar Abraham and his Death Drivers. Defense Contract by Walter E.

Dickerson, Deputy Co-ordinaior, Division Contract Distribution, O.P.M. Valley Firms interested in defense contracts may secure valuable information. Free Fireworks Display. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 29.

1941 Cameron County, and "Up-State" Visitors Day VALLEY DELEGATION DAY Special Atteniinn Called To: Valley Garden Club Flower Military Exhibit. Live- sv-ck Show. Fruit Exhibits. Commercial and Community Exhibits, and Automobile Show'. 8 00 i.m.

Gates Open. 16:00 a.m. Auction Livestock. Auction ring north of Bams. 11:00 a.m.

Bill Hames Free acts. 1:80 pm. Welcome ceremonies for Visiting delegations from all Valley cities. Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Houston, and other State" by Ruth Mix Cragg, Howard Cragg. and B.

H. Band Concert La Feria High School Band. Front of Municipal Auditorium. Free Picture Call To Auditorium. Texas Visual Education Co.

Rodeo-Presented by Ruth Mix Cragg. Howard Cragg. and H. Free Transparent Picture Valley scenes taken in color by members of R. G.

V. Camera Club. Muni- cipal Auditorium. 16:30 p.m. Street 2 00 m.

2JD pm. pm 7,30 p.m. 1:00 pm. BRITISH SEND MAiniirillEN moAracKS Red.s Claim Victories In Russ Fight By The Press German armored forces, now confronted by the lencihening columns of British Imperial infantry which had substantially taken over in the campaign to the Axis forces I Libya, were on the offensive at several points Tuesday night. Whether this represented a final convulsive before pro.spec- British envelopment or whether it represented a turn in the battle against the British and the loss of initiative in important areas was iu)t known.

In any event, however, field dispatches passed by the British military ccn.sorship made it clear that Axis detachments, although weakened. were showing such power as to raise the possibility that the "howdown for Libya might be weeks in coming. Battle Of Tank.s Ends Word that the had passed to ihe attack in some scctois. and i indeed had been in such action in those sectors for 48 hours, came ''oincidentally with the inconclu.sive end Ttf the lirst of the Bnt- great battle of blanks -during which the had swept back and forth tcro the like fleet en ti at i Such steel land ships were action, but the numbers had been far diminished by heavy losses on both sides and the course of the struggle thus changed; the British reverted mainly to ancient practice the rifle, the bayonet, the block; ade and appeared to be cutting Iheir way forward generally. In the Russian campaign, me.ui- le.

Soviet that southern Red army holding the approaches was continuing a major counter-offensive which already had driven the Germans back as much as 60 miles in some above and to the of Rostov on the Don River. Reds Counter Russian counter-action on the northern flank likewise was claimed to have resulted in the recapture of part of the town Tikhvin, cast of Leningrad, and to have regained strategic positions near Leningrad itself. the Red center defending Moscow, however, the Russian position was slightly worse, for the German 'push from the north was acknowledged to be slowly from a point about 56 miles away according to Russian accounts and ithin about 30 miles, or less, by Berlin's version. The Soviet government acknow- Lniled Mine Workers, and Bcn- ledged that the Russian armies had jamin Fairlcss, president of the lost 2.122.000 men in killed, leound- I Uiiited Sutes Steel Corporation, ed or missms since start of the but put German casuai- 'ties at 6 000 000. brought about a weeks strike in Forum Set With Noted Speakers Record Crowds Predicted As Weatherman Promises Fair And Warmer Weather One of the outsiand in the home demonstration department of the Valley Mid-Winter Fair was the 4-H club which won first place for Cameron county club girls.

Seated in front of me mirror is Miss Ruth Jane Willcox of Harlingen. Health giving foods are the cosmetics in this (Star Photo). Drastic Anti-Strike Bill Being Drofted Far Debate Stiff Penalties In Bill Which Has Backing Of Roosevelt W.ASHINGTON I.a'gislation to stop by invoking compulsory arbitration enforced by stiff penalties took shape in the Acting Chairman Ramspeck of the House labor committee he hoped to have a reaoy by Friday and disclosed that It sprang from a conferrnce between President and 11 Hou members at the House Mondav night. Neither he nor any nf the other conferees would say definitely the President had recommended or opposed such a far- reaching but Rams peck, in an.swer to a question, predicted that the chief executive would sign it. Although details remain to HEAVY QUAKE IS RECORDED Center Is Sought By Seismologists FAIR FACTS COAL STRIKE HEARING SET Other Strike.s Block Defense Work in By The Press The three-rnan arbitration board the captive coal mine dispute will gather in New York for the opening of its proceedings Wedncs- da.v.

Dr. John Stcelman, director ot the federal conciliation worked out. Ramspeck outlined the program thi.s w'ay; When a strike or other labor stoppage threatened in a defense plant, the dispute would go through the succe.ssive steps of a norma! collective bargaining, conciliation, mediation. and. finally, at the discretion of the President himself, compulsory arbitration.

Penalties Are Stiff That would mean, he said, that both side.s would be bound in advance to accept an arbitration decision. If the workers refused. they would lose their rights By The Associated Press A violent earthquake, hich some seismologists said was the greatest ever recorded on their instruments, occurred Tuesday in an easterly direction from New York. Its epicenter was not determined, but Dr. Frederick Pough of the Museum of Natural History it might possibly have been in the vicinity of Iceland, where S.

armed forces are stationed. In Lisbon. Portugal, where the bp quake was felt and slight damage was done, Amorim Ferreira, director of the City Observatory, said it was the most reco.i’ded since the disastrous quake of 1755, which took lives in Lisbon. Seismograph Is Broken The Lisbon seismograph was brok- HARLINGEN The weather man benignly promised and weather for opening of the 19th Valley Mid-Winter Fair at 9 m. Wednesday at the fair grounds where army, carnival and concession tents mushroomed overnight and exhibit booths blossomed forth with festoons of vivid colors after more than a year behind the drab darkness of closed doors.

The gates were due to open at 9 a. m. and the opening ceremonies were scheduled to take place at 9:30 a. m. with Van R.

Wiggins, president, and other fair officials participating in the brief rites for what promises to be one of the most interesting expositions in local history. Opening day of the fair will be dedicated to the growers of the Valley and Chairman Moulton Cobb announced an imposing array of speakers for the Farmer's Institute to be held in Fair Park auditorium beginning at 10 a. m. E. McDonald, state commisioner of agriculture, arrived well in advance of the fair opening, having come here Monday, and be one of the speakers at the farmers forum which will, however, feature many subjects of practical use to the growers of this area based on information gathered by experiment station workers, growers, shippers, county agents and others.

The list of speakers announced by Cobb includes E. Marvin Goodwin, Mission grower; D. W. Cott grower; John Shary. Mission developer; Lon C.

Hill of Corpus Christi. president of the Central Power and Light Company; R. P. Ward, president of Edinburg Junior College: F. M.

Vining. successful Weslaco grower; W. H. Friend, superintendent of the Valley experiment station: C. Scott, chemist an charge of the U.

S. fruit and vegetable products laboratory at Weslaco: John experiment "tation horticulturist and R. B. Mc- Leaish. Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchange general manager.

The institute will have a noon recess and resume sessions at 1 p. m. Sol Zimberoff of Harlingen will entertain with violin solos. Stanley Addington of sing and $100 of attendance prize.s will be awarded. Judging Due Today Judging of the hom" demonstration club and 4-H club booths took nlace Tuesday, but judging of the livestock, flower show, citrus, poultry, swine, art and photographic exhibits will take place Wedne.s- Weather for Wednesday: Fair and warmer.

Tickets: Season tickets with in-out privileges. $1.10 including war lax, on saie at gate and office. One trip tickets 10 cents for children. 25 cevts for adults. Cars: Automobiles allowed to enter only at south gate.

East gate reserved for taxis, ambulances and delivery trucks but outside parking space available. Argentina Dog Food Barred As Too Good NEW Argenune meat already in an argu- I ment with United States officials on the whether some earlier meat shipments were good enough, have new troubles now over allegations that the latest consignment is under the Wagner Act and if the John KS, president of the employer.s were reealeitrant. might take over the SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1941 Nitional and Harlingen Gunnery Sckool Day All In MiiiUry Uniform Admitted Free Special Allenticn Called To: Valley Garden Club Flower Show-, Military Exhibit. Livestock Show', Fruit Exhibits, Commercial and Community Exhibits, and Automobile Show'. Gates Open.

Activities suspended in Fair Grounds for valley Church services. Hill Countv Grounds. All Former residents of Hill County. Texas invited to bring ptcnic basket for dinner spread. Bill Hames Free acts.

Addres.s~Hon. Olin Culberson. State Railroad Commissioner. Auditorium. Rodeo-Presented by Ruth Mix Cragg.

Howard Cragg, and B. Jones. Grandstand. Band Harlingen High School Band. Front of Auditorium.

Militarv before Brig. General J- Wajt Adj. General of Texas. Grandstand. iiM 26, 24.

and 31, Texas Defense Guard. Over IIW men from 14 Companies pre.sent most ever staged in Valley Under Majoj- J. Major Fd Mockabee; put lo.s.«cs in materiel at 7.900 tanks, 6.400 planes. 12,900 guns; but again this claimed that the had lost than 15,000 lank.s, 13,000 planes and 9,000 guns. In Libya the battle was settling down to one principally of endurance.

On his right beating the captive pits owned by the steel firms. Union Shop Is Issue The i.s.«ue is ail the miners be compelled to join the union. The UMW calls this a while Roosevelt calls it a The men returned to work Mon- govcrnmcnt plant. pretty drastic, all right." Ramspeck commented. strikes in defen.se industries during the emergency unle.ss 8 00 a B.tX) a m.

12:00 noon 12 30 pm. 1:00 pm. LOO p.m. 1.130 pjrti, 4DO p.m. forward in the bloody battle area day pending the arbitration findings, to which both sides in the controversy have committed themselves.

Serious Labor Tie-l'p While anti-strike legislation took shape, there were continued w'ork Erw in I Stoppages about the nation. Air- craft production was curtailed by around Rezegh just below Tobruk on the Mediterranean Sir Alan was sending up heavy 'reinforcements of infantrym-en, depending upon his superior communications to break the Axis forces under the German General Rommel. management wants to turn over miles in an easterly direction plant to the government or un- from D. C. the workers want to their under existing In the case of the workers, he it would mean that their collective bargaining rights under the Wagner Act would be cancelled it (C'ontinurd on t.

Col. K) All Americans Told To Leave Japan Now Brow'nsville; and Major While Berlin claimed that Rom- a strike of 8.500 AFL machini.sts in also was bringing up ihe St. Louis area. The strike grows Cairo reported there was no sign yul of a jurisdictional row, that he was getting new support of Joseph Keenan, labor relations consequence. expert of the Gffice of Production Briti.sh Position i Management, said in St Louis that The British thus appear- the strike was most important ed the more favorable, in view of and labor tie-up anywhere the fleet command of the Mediter- in the ranean, but the quick and decisive victory that had been so eagerly sought in London did not seem in sight, While Sir Alan's columns of the right were inching forward toward i TOKYO (Wednesday The United States consulate of their sockets, urged all Americans to leave Japan promptly.

Similar advice reported giv'- en to Americans It was disclosed that departure of the Japanese steamer Tatula Maru. scheduled to go to Los Angeles and Balboa, C. this month, probably would be delayed until December 2. enabling more Americans to depart aboard her. dav morning.

The Weapons Troop of the 56lh Cavalry under command of Lieutenant Muckclroy arrived from Fort McIntosh at Laredo late Tuesday afternoon and pitched camp near the tennis courts. This fully mechanized troop w'ill give a daily exhibition at the fair, presenting a section of a day in a soldier's life and acquainting the public with en bv the shock and the epicenter of the latest weapons ViVkmr I could not be estimated. .30 and .50 caliber ma- icny OCUQieS U. At St. Louis, Rev.

James B. mortars and 37 millimeter anti-tank cannon. Raymondville Band Plays The Raymondville high school band will plav first day of the fair while the Bill ftames will present a free midway act. A free picture show' is scheduled in the auditorium at 5 p. m.

and at 8 o. m. O.scar Abraham and Death Drivers perform death ddfying stunts in front of the grandstand. The exhibit booths already installed night gave hints of probably the greatest fair in history of the Valley with a range of interest calculated to hold the attention of people in ev'cry walk of life. Livestock was being moved into pens, were being completed, w'ere feeding the working hundreds, trucks w-ere unloading supplies and there wa.s the general hustle and bustle at- the opening of a fair.

Hos- Fair Manager Harrv Ratliff that the home demonstration club wounded condition, suffered exhibits Judged Tue.sday. the flower when a shotgun he was cleaning show, fruit exhibits, community disdiarged at the C. W. Spang- exhibits and numerous other atlrac- residence west of here on the tion.s had all expectations i Feria highway, and that with the weather man apparently favoring the exposition, that a record attendance in sight. Elwane, S.

J. of St. Louis University, described the quake as very His calculations placed its center 3370 miles east-northeast of St. Louis in the Atlantic Ocean betw-een the Azores and Madeira. and said our determination is correct, it should have been almost destructive at Rev.

Victor C. Stechschulte of Xavier University, Cincinnati, placed the quake near the Azores, and Georgetown University placed it Seen Anything Like Father Joseph Lynch of Fordham University in New York, w'ho like Dr, Pough estimated the quake occurred 2700 miles from New York, the Fordham seismograph recorded the biggest shock since the instrument was set up in 1910. In London, an official of the West Bromwich Observatory said all my eitperience I have never seen anything to the shock recorded there. The tremors threw the instrument's levers out too good. The frozen shipment of frozen meat under provisions of the new trade treaty permitting importation of Argentine meat for dog food arrived in New York last week, to meet rejection by Department of Agriculture inspectors who classed it as fit for human consumption and therefore barred.

Supplies To Africa VICHY. Unoccupied French commentators said Tuesday that it was considered highly important that United military supplies have been gcing to the Free French forces in North Africa, as disclosed in Washington, Monday. The Petain government officially was silent, however, while awaiting to hear from the French ambassador in Reports persisted Tuesday night that the government might take some definite position shortly on the anti-Com in tern pact. Laredo Soldier Shot While Cleaning Gun HARLINGEN Sergeant C. A.

Foreign Interests Probe Requested Represent. ative Dondero requested the Hou.se judiciary committee Tuesday to investigate reports that foreign interests sought control of! promised Tuesday public utilities in the United States. I Capt, C. V. Kern.

The shotgun slug tore through Sergeant Oliver os' hand and arm near the MURDER SOLUTION DUE of the J. C. Franklin murder case noon of Thanksgiving was by Detective State And Civic Officials Launch Safety Drive For December's Traffic Bo'ntwn. J6th Batiauon. Major and Worst Traffic 'Toll Month With Staggering Of Death wmmandi 'cimpofad of men from Harlingen.

Raymondville. In of men from Ft. Isabel. San Benito and two companies Major Lloyd Bcntsen of men from Donna. Pharr.

Alamo. Mission. McAllen and Exlinburg. Free Picture Texas Visual Education Co. Death AUSTIN i State and civic ufficers Tuesday laid plans to cheat death dairy of as many traffic victims entries as 30 m.

8:00 p.m_ his Death Drivers. 12:00 Closing Act on Midway. Call To south, his extreme left still appeared to be sweeping unhalted, along line far to the toward thv Gulf of Sirte and during the day announced the capture of the town of above the Oasis of Gialo. This thrust, which had earned i possible, more than 200 miles from its start- Meeting with Governor Coke R. point about Giarabub near the the officials mapped an Egyptian frontier, seemed I'estrain- all-inclusive safety campaign for and Briti.sh informants said that if worst traffic toll month.

Nose Found And SeM'ed Back DE.S MOINES. combed the wreckage of an airplane for half an hour Tuesday finding the severed nose of Henry Clergy. 44, of Des Moine.s, and rushing it to a hospital where It was back in place. His physician said it wa.s impossible to determine whether the operation a suc- Ahraham and r.gypuan nuiiut-i, itcsiioiu- aix-inciusivc saieiy campa Grandstand. Featuring only by the problems of supply December, normally the NOTirr: H.rll«,cn ounnrry Uui by GuJi OU CorporaUon.

those problems could be adequately met it would almost certainly reach the sea and thus cut off nortlrgrn Libya and block exit.to the west. The reason for the campaign was a 10 per cent increase in the state's traffic deaths for the first 10 muiitiit and a possibility that more Texans might die on the roads in 1942 than ever before. The increa.se over last year w'as 13 per cent in September, but slid back to 10 per cent in October when 159 fatalities were recorded. The national increase w'as 18 per cent for 10 months. Yet the decrease in Texas held small encouragement.

Col. Homer Garrison, safety department director, predicted 195 per.sons would die in traffic crashes December Garrison. Dewitt C. Greer, state highway engineer; L. A.

Woods, supcrmtendent of public instruction. and George Clarke, managing director of the Texas Safety Association, met with the governor to evolve the initial steps for campaign. Further details will be announced later by the individual agencies and the safety association which the governor named as the coordinating agent In a proclamation the governor said: It is of small consolation that the increased death toll parallels a like increase in nulcagc traveled, a factor attributed to the defense program. fact remains that the slate and nation can ill afford this appalling waste of human material resources through traffic particularly in this period of unlimited national emergency. unu.sual times require uuuAual safely Troops Welcomed In Dutch Guiana PARAMARIBO, Dutch Guiana United States troops have reached this Netherlands South American colony and have received a and simple the I official Netherlands Indies News Aneta.

reported Tuesday night. The time t.f iheir arrival, their numbers and Uieir deployment were kept secrtiU.