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THE WEATHES Showers Dfuiis i VALLEY SUNDAY MONITOR-Gerald io Vol. 4. No. 39 at Hsrliaffem csm Cents FINAL HARLINGEN. McALLEN, BROWNSVILLE.

TEXAS SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1941 THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY BRITISH AND NAZIS IN MAJOR BAHLE 4 Gerald Mann To Seek Post Smrise Services Highlight Observance Today Of Easter; All Churches Offering Something Special EASTER SALES 15 PER CENT AHEAD OF Heavy Turnout Expected At Area Churches; Mercedes Dawn Ceremony Rated Tops mAmi TEXAS RACE NOli Looms QUICK THINKING SAVES EASTER FOR ONE TOWN elaborate Easter Day celebration is in the offinR for Valleyites beginninf; in numerous communities with sunrise services and continuing with sjx'cial sermons, musical frograms and rites to commemorate one of Chriitianity's greatest Resurrection of Christ. Foster egg hunts for the kiddies were on schedule in many cities ir ia Vi 1 cr churches, organizations with the major community party slated an epochal political race in Texas. til X-Jtrittrl, by San Benito Lions Club with two annual egg hunts. Site forAttorney General Gerald C. Mann hunts will be at the Fred Booth school for the Latin-Americans anjj at the athletic field, both starting at 2 p.m.

Sunday. Among outstanding musical programs during the day will be the presentation of many cantatas churches. The combined choirs of the First Methodist Churches of Harlingen and Brownsville will ywr-old attorncv sencn.1 was mi.de Brownsville at 8 pm. The choirs will sing The Seven Last Words of by Dubois. Among others will be of at the First Presbyterian Church in Mission: "Eastrr at the First Baptist Church in Raymondville; 'The Mystery of at the First Methodist Church in ixiinburg excellf'nt Easter busmess, characterized by one Valley merchant as a Light business, was revealed Siturday in a survey conducted among firms in three Valley cities.

In practicali'T every instance. "Glory of the at Christian nerchants contacted in the cross- churches in San Benito and Browns- Dies, Many Others Hinted what may be 1 epoch Attorney Saturday announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat vacated by the death of Morris Sheppard. The ananouncement bv the 34- fcction of firms at Hailmgen, and leparated portions of Valley, tramated 1941 Easter week business as good or better than 1940's excellent business. Better Estimates of increase ranged from 10 per cent up to 50 per cent and over, above Eastrr of 1940. the sur- revealed: with the three-city average for all types of business contacted probably amounting to 15 per cent oy conservative estimate.

Florists reported business even better than phenomenal Eas- ville and Words tn Christ" at the McAllen Methodist Church. services were slated for McAllen. Harlingen, San Benito, Brownsville with an elaborate pageant planned at Mercedes at Sun- Hill, four miles north of Mercedes. Most of the programs were to be held in-doors and the pageant will not be presented if it rains. said, ttaymondvllle Rev.

Milton E. Cunningham of the First Baptist church will preach on Lessons from the Resur- ONLY U. S. HAS CALM EASTER Dawn Services Over Nation Slated By The As-sociated Press Easter in America after the funeral services frr Sheppard at Tex arkana and as the capital seethed with rumors that Governor W. Lee O'Danicl, Rep.

Martin Dies of Orange and others would soon toss their hats into the ring. ('ould Serve Better In a statement. a few years ago one of the ranking football stars at Southern Methodist he thought he could be of more service to Texas as than as attorney general. Mann said nothing about resigning his present office. am going to be a candidate for the United States Mann "Our loss of Senator FREDERICKSBURG.

Saturday night almost halted the century-old custom of bunny which tell Frcidericksburg children that Easter is at hand. Since pioneer days, Easter- eve fires have burned on surrounding hills. Taking his dyes from bluebonnets. wine cups, daffodils and other wild the Easter bunny is said to boil his ecus and color them over the fires. Rain late Saturday threatened the tradition until adults carried huge stocks of old automobile tires to the hilltops.

Fredei icksburg children went to sleep Saturday in the knowledge that the Easter bunnys fires promised colored eggs with the dawn. A. ASHHEIH, BROmiSmiE PIORDIES i Funeral Services Are, Set For Sunday world at war finds cannot soon be repaired but I shall do mv best to live up almost observing to the standard set by all the il- at the morning serv'ice and Christendom most joyful men have served HOT AUCTION ENDS VALLEY STOa SHOW Tredway Takes Top Honors Saturday See Pictures on Pages 7, 8. and 9 Battle Of Greece Hits Peak Easter Morning As Invaders Are Halted Russia Sharply Tells Hungary Move On Yugoslavia Is Disliked By Her By The Associated Press The battle of Greece appeared to be reaching major proportions this Easter morning as reports reaching Bern, Switzerland, from Sofia. Bulgaria, told of a engagement between British and German armored columns on the plain between Bitolj tMonastir), Yugoslavia, and Phlorina, the western anchor of a Grcek-British defen.se line.

These reports followed an announcement by a Greek spokesman that Germans, complete with tanks, armored cars, motorcycle machine- gunners and motorized infantry had slashed against the northwest flank of the defense line between Phlorina and Vanitsa Friday only to be repulsed on a 12-mile front. The Sofia reports said fast moving columns of Germans and British, supported by dive bombers and fighter planes, had in a fierce struggle. Such a battle is one of the first of its kind to be reported in this war on the Balkan peninsula. No details of the meeting w'ere included in the reports. An earlier British report reaching Bern said armored car patrols, scouting in the Bitolj region, had destroyed a motorized German infantry unit without losses to themselves.

Yugoslav resistance was reported stiffening, especially north of Zagreb, south of Nis, near the Rumanian frontier and in the mountains northwest of Tetovo. The German radio, however, said 14 Yugoslav divisions have been Germans declared the Yugoslav campaign was about completed, but said nothing of the fighting in Greece and Southern Yugoslavia. The Athens radio declared a strong Yugoslav force was hastening southward from Central Yugoslavir ler business, when the season fol- cantata, di- in traditional fashion. lowed a mid-January freeze disas- rected by Stanley Addington will Sunrise services at trous to many flowers and plants. presented by the choir.

Nearly all florists contacted Satur- Following the worship service at day stated intention to work congregation will assemble at great deliberative throughout the night and probably Cavalry Lutheran church. up to noon Sunday, filling indi- ridual orders as well as pre-church orders. Corsages were much in demand, far more so than wual, while the calls also unusually numerous for potted plants. Estimates of increase over IMO Easter business ran as high as 25 per cent. Clothing stores also reported decided pickup over a year ago, with the home of the minister.

Rev. M. general clothing stores as well as special Min.hopjand men 5 stores nearly aU reporting Two sunrise were sched- in some cases 25 to 50 per cent. Shoe stores reported sales increases from 10 up to 25 per cent. Beauty shops were doing an excellent business, with gains of 10 per cent and up reported.

Groceries Rushing stores and meat markets were among the big gainers, especially in the markets where un- tttually large demand for poultry and Easter hams jumped sales from services at Arlington Cemetery in Washington, in Hollywood, and many other placcs, church services with the ancient hymns customary to the day and sermons on the risen Christ and the usual L. Koehneke for an outdoor basket fashion parades, with bright color? qucnces. lunch, and egg hunt for the chil- gleaming in the bright spring sun- drer. and a fellowship meeting. shine predicted for much of the Children's classes of the First country, filled the schedule, Presbyterian church will present Capital Is Jammed a program at 10 a.m.

and all par- Ten5 of thousands of Easter visitors jammed the national capital. To its day was added the opening of the annual cherry blo.ssom festival. Connecticut avenue in Washington. Fifth avenue in New York, the Boardwalk at Atlantic City, were as usual the focal points of the fashion world, with their promenades of new spring styles, top hats and walking In Rome, capital of the Catholic world, as well as capital of a belligerent nation, the bells of the 420 churches proclaimed the end of Lent Saturday. But because of wartime conditions, the Easter mass customarily celebrated by the pope.

sixth annual Valley Fair Livestock and Poultry Show came to a conclusion Saturday with one of the best dairy days ever held in this section and with a spirited auction in which the grand champion of the beef division. First Major Candidate judged the day before, sold for 43 1-2 Mann was the first of the polen- i per pound. J. Tredway, successful San Texas in that body. the help of able and devoted assistants I have given my best in the attorney office.

We hnve performed our duty without fear of priliti. al conse- ents have been sent special invitation to attend this service. Brownsville At Brownsville churches plan- Easter with uled, a Christian Young at the Central Christian church and C'oi. WESLACO MAN ROAD VICTIM tial candidates with acknowledged large state-wide followings to come out the office. Other announced aspirants included A.

E. Harding. Fort Worth, attorney and former member of the legislature, and Virgil E. Arnf-ld, attorney of Houston and also a former state representative. A report from a source close to Congressman Dies was that he intended to run regardless of who might oppose him.

Another report was that Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson of Austin. ontinurd ol. 20 to 50 per cent above last Easter. T-i IVTii Vt inP7 cancelled.

Pope Pius XII plan- Some markets even reported gains 1 a i ned to make a world-wide peace Nazi Sailors Burn FDR, Churchill In Effigy At Tampico in excess of 50 per cent. Grocery stores generally reported increases ranging in the neighborhood of 15 and 20 per cent over 1940. Only in drug stores and variety itores were sales reported not too much above nearly record Easter business. For the most part, however, two types of business firms reported this Easter as good or slightly better than a year ago. Some items fell off but others gained to bring the total volume up, these stores reported.

The shopping crowds Saturday night were good natured and order- l.v. Up to a late even the usual Saturday night drunks uvre missing no serious traffic mishaps had been reported. Killed Saturday appeal by radio at 5 a. m. CST.

50.000 In Chicago TAMPICO. A large crowd watched a group 50 Ger- Martinez. 33. of Some 50.000 persons were expect- mans comprising residents and form- near W'eslaco, became the to attend a dawn service at Sol- er sailors of the liner burn 22nd traffic victim of 1941 near here diers Field in Chicago. A throng in effigy President Roosevelt and about 10:15 p.m.

Saturday night, in of 25.000 was expected at a similar Prime Minister Winston Churchill one of a series of four Hidalgo ceremony in an old Moravian bury- It coincided v'ith the celebration county traffic crashes which late ing ground at Winston-Salem, of Saturday in Holy Week the 178th such service to be held when ihroughout Mexico. Saturday night sent two seriously injured persons to the County-City there. Hospital at Edinburg Serv'ices were planned for Fort and kept Hidalgo and Benning. for all sects represent- tate ofHcers busy most ed among the 40.000 soldiers there of the night. One hit- i In Hollywood, attendance ap- run driver was sought.

1 proaching a was foreseen for Martinez was riding in rear end the hundred or so sunrise serxices Peace Plea Relayed In America of a pickup that was in collision with a coupe driven by Eduardo Rodriguez, 24. of Weslaco. The pickup was driv'en by Tobias Gonzales. 36, Weslaco, and was also occupied Peace Plea by Lila Amaya. 23, and Angelita Ulic 5 IT iCtt Morena, 32, both of Brownsville.

It was misting rain and the Donna- Weslaco highway was slick. The NEW YORK net- 1 Amaya woman was taken in a Mar- relay in this co.intry of Pope tin-Nelson ambulance from Weslaco await removal to Monroe. for early morn plea for peace, to the hospital at Edinburg, where trial on a charge of assaulting a fed- delivered from the Vatican along 5he being treated late Saturday eral officer. the apostolic benediction, will night for shock and po.ssible skull Steele was arrested here Wed- be included in the schedule of spe- i fracture. Riding with Rodriguez in nesday on a charge of being a cial ea.stern broadca.sts for Sunday.

the coupe was Israel Gonzales, 24. fugitive from Louisiana. Unted Transmission is to start around 5 Weslaco. The Amaya woman was states Commissioner Frank Y. Hill (Continorrf nn Pifr Col.

K) Officers At Laredo Arrest Band Leader LAREDO E. Steele, orchestra leader, was bound over under $3.000 bail Saturday to burn effigiis of Judas Lscariot. Texas Oil Is Hiked AUSTIN The permissive flow of oil from 96.123 wells increa.sed 3.416 barrels to an average of 1.379,169 barrels daily for the week ended Saturday. m. over NBC.

CBS and MBS. with MB planning a repeat from recordings at 9 .30 a m. inflation Check Opinion May Hold Down Prices WASHINGTONLeon Hen- -derson. chief of the newly-created office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, indicated Saturday he HS counting chiefly on piib- the only one injured. body is at Martin-Nelson rtuary.

We.claco. Inve.stigating were Hidalgo Patrolmen Truett Jordan and Walter Lysinger, State Patrolman W. B. Dixon, and Assistant District Attorneys Jack Ross and Joe Chapa In a hit-run case on the Weslaco- Elsa highway about 9:15 p. m.

Sat- (Conlinnrd Col. S) Dies Of Gun Wounds held pn examining hearing Saturday. Tobruk Battle RAF Smashes Planes, Tanks In Libya Happy Ending For A Of A Real, True Story CHREVF.PORT. La. ifl'i Here's a story that may well be termed a weeks ago Robert EL Adams mourned the disappearance of his whole week's pay.

He himself a A happy ending came day, when he found the his cork leg. Adams said he apparently had put the in his trousers pocket in which there was a hole, and tne money fell through into the articicial limb. Benito dairyman, took a share of the honors in the dairy judging which took place Saturday. He not only had the grand champion male and grand champion female but also the grand champion male showing three daughters. Emphasizing showing was the fact that it was required to show only three daughters in the third classification but the San BC) nitan showed six.

He has a herd of Jer.seys. Valuable Pointers Those attending the judging got many valuable pointers from E. R. Eudaly, Texas A. and M.

College extension service dairyman, as he did the judging. "Because a bull gets a blue ribbon doesn't mean much unless he produces good Eudaly ribbon bulls often sire blue ribbon daughters you can see that looks don't count for everything in crowd was by far the largest of the show and it admired the Jerseys. Ayshires and Guernseys exhibited for Dairy Day. Coming in for a large share of attention was CVairylike Lad Roy. owned by the Cameron County Breeders Association.

He has been named a superior sire by the American Jersey Cattle club and was on display with a large number of his daughters. Auction Is Climax Climax to the show was the auction at which the grand champion Hereford calf belonging to Lewis Oaks of Lyford was sold to the i Southwestern Packing Company oi ADOLPH ASHUEIM BROWNSVILLE Adolph Ash- I heim, vice president of the First National Bank of Brownsville and who spent 42 of his 72 years as an active official of Brownsville banks, died at his residence, 1250 East Washington Street, at 6 Saturday night. Mr. Ashheim was taken ill with a heart ailment several weeks ago, since which time he had been confined to his home. Funeral Sunday The funeral will be held from the family residence at 4:30 Sunday afternoon, with burial at Beth-EI Cemetery.

Services will be conducted by Sam Perl, lay leader of Temple Beth- EI of Brownsville. Mr. Ashheim was born in Brownsville on September 16, 1869, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Ashheim who came to Brownsville from New Orleans during the Civil He received his education in 'the Brownsville public schools, completing it in New Orleans.

As a young man he became connected with the Brownsville post- office, as a clerk, serving as assistant postmaster for several years, and during the McKinley administration he was appointed postmaster of Brownsville, in which position he served for one year. Resigning as postmaster, he was elected cashier of the old First National Bank of Brownsville, at that time headed by the late James A. Browne, Sr. this was on May 1, 1899. He served as cashier of the bank for sA eral years when he was elected an active vice president, which position he held until he resigned Marcn 15.

1914. to organize the State Bank and Trust Company, (Continnrd on Col. Arizona Editor Sees Military As Post-War Police vast military power America is now developing is going to be used. William R. Mathews, editor and publisher of the Arizona Daily Star, world traveler and observer, de; Harlingen for the premium price of Saturday in an address at the closing session of the 14 annual Southwestern Journalism Congress.

I future may be in the building of a great American empire which may stretch from the British Isles to said Mathews. fleet will take up the policing of the oceans of the world. If it does not, the German fleet on Pare Col. US Forces Approach Million And A Half American land, sea and air forces attained Saturday a combined I approaching a million and one half men. Official muster rolls showed grand total of 1.479.359 officers and men on active service with the army, navy and marine corps.

Inclusion of more than 25.000 coast iiuardsmen, who in wartime operate under navy orders, would swell the figure past a million and a half. Iraq Fort Captured NEW Rome radio Saturday night reported that Iraq troops have captured the fort of Ruiba. in Iraq, from a force of British troops. The broadcast was heard by NBC. So Now You Owe Uncle Sam $480 CAIRO.

British and German-Italian armored patrols clashed Saturday in a R. Wofxls. 82. of west and southwest of -------------------------------------------------------Weslaco, died at pm. Saturday Tobruk while the RAF announced i i -i 'Ti at County-City Hospital, of gunshot nearly 100 Axis tanks PubllC Debt HltS That 1,813 ailll 1J UlOUpin b.

O. opinion to orevent unwarranted wounds suffered about an hour vehicles in a single es earlier here. Constable C. D. Carna- heavy swoop on the road from He nress confereme his han Saturday night was proceding Ain El Gazala to Tobruk.

bignert weapon of enforce- with investigation would be moral support stances surrounding death of the the community, presumably aged man. bv chilling public attention I price hikes which appeared to DIES WONT TALK Without adequate reason. AUSTIN Congressman Mar Twenty-five Axis planes al.so were destroyed in a sharp series of fights, 21 of them being hit on or over Derna airport Thursday night, the RAF added. Reports from the Libyan desert the contact between ground Bevond that Henderson was i tin Dies was noncommittal Saturday vamie about what means would be nicht when asked by friends here forccs h.id not yet dp-eloped imo sr: inflationaiy nsei. I ington last the Germani are striving to bomb.

WASHINGTON Public debt amounted to $480 per capita or $1.813 for the average family in the United States at the start of the current fiscal year last July 1. Reporting this Saturday, the census bureau said the states smaller divisions of government, $16.720,000.000. and the federal government $42 SUte and local government debts accounted for a per capita obligation of nearly $154, a decline of $3 since 1932. The federal debt on July 1 was equal to $326 per capita. However.

it now stands at $47,167,000.000. or about $356 per capita, and defense expenditures will add billions to the total. The obligations of state and local governments increased only 000. or 3 4 cent, be- said. compared with an increase of $9.307.000.000 or 91 per cent between 1922 and 1932.

The per capita burden of such debt thus decreased 2.2 per cent in the last eight years, while the ratio of debt to income per capita declined 44 per cent. State and local governments collected $70 per capita in taxes last year, the bureau said, compared with $39 paid to the federal gov- and all German efforts to check the drive. Hungary, which plunged her army into Northern Yugoslavia in the wake of the German attack, announced penetration of the Yugoslav line between the Danube and Tisa Rivers and capture of the cities of Subotica and Sombor. NAZIS HURLED INTO RETREAT But the Hungarians got a rude Hardy Greeks Claim shock in Moscow. Russia Warns Hungary Tass, the Soviet news agency, said the Hungarian minister announced the invasion and expressed hope that Russia would recognize it as a just one.

Andrei Y. Vishinsky. Soviet deputy foreign commissar, replied in effect: like it at Vishinsky noted that Hungary made a bad by warring on Yugoslavia just four months after pleding eternal friendship for her, and remarked: is not difficult to realize what would be the position of Hungary should she herself get into trouble and be torn to bits since it is known that there are national minorities in Hungary, Reference To Pact This was a scarcely-veiled reference to acquisition of the Carpatho-Ukraine from the remains of Czechoslovakia and part of Transylvania from Rumania. The former is particularly fraught with possibilities because Russia regards Ukrainians as her own. Coincidentally.

premier, Gen. Dusan Simovic, was reported to have left on a missfon, presumably heading for Moscow. It was recalled that Red Star, organ of the Soviet army, said three days ago that the recently-signed Soviet-Yugoslav friendship pact was the more valuable under the new conditions because the Soviet Union always fulfills its international With these overtones of possible sensational developments in the future, there was this additional news of the fighting yesterday: The British radio, heard in New York, reported a fierce battle was being fought in the Phlorina area I between the defenders and the Ger. mans who crossed the Greek fron- 1 tier at Bitolj (Monastir) gap, 16 I miles away on the Yugoslav border. Details were missing, but it apparently was the same action which the Greek spokesman proudly announced.

The RAF was reported to be bombing and machine gunning bridges, roads and tunnels along the I Nazi line of advance. British dis- patches also said armored car pa- K'ontinnrd on Col. 7 Saturday Wins hardy Greek armies of the allied left flank have battered a heavy German attacking force and thrown it into retreat in the first real test of the Greek- British line of defense thrown up across northern Hellas, the government announced Saturday night. On a 12-miIe battle front, German panzer divisions tanks, armored cars and machine-gun mounted by motorized infantry, broke against the Greek lines. were repulsed and retreated, suffering the Greek official spokesman announced.

This action took place Friday and, from the tone of Saturday Greek high command communique, it appeared the Germans had tried no main lunge at the line since. The Athens radio reported Saturday night that German er columns are in contact wtih the central front held by the main Greek and British forces. forms a powerful against which the Germans will have to give the announcer declared. The Greek ministry of public security broadcast a report that 20 civilians were killed and 40 wounded in German raids on Piraeus Friday night. An Italian attack north of the Viosa river in Albania was beaten back, the Athens radio said, with heavy losses for the Fascists.

bayonets worked havoc among the Italians who left dead and wounded in front of our lines before the radio said. Cherry Tree Late LYNCHBURG. Va Director George H. Reed complains that he understand why Japanese cherry tree buds in Riverside Park open later than those in Washington. must be political pull," he said.

Avalanche Of Snow Buries At Least Two Boys In Washington NORTH BEND, roaring avalanche of snow fell off a nearby mountain at sundown Saturday nirbt, buryinir at least two high boy hikers and seriously injuring another. A rescue partv numbering more than 100, including CCC enrollees and Ftate patrolmen, frantically dug in the deep xnow for the missing boys. The snow, which M3LS about 50 inches deep over the mountainside, piled up about half-way down the 5.500-foot McClellan Butte, 12 miles east of here. Dublin To Celebrate Easter Uprising This capital will witness Sunday the greatest military parade ever held under the direction of the Irish government As part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Easter week uprising in 1916. 2.5,000 are ex- i In march down once-bloody All street past the general post office where independence was proclaimed 25 years ago.

U. s. Is Good 1 tween 1932 and 1940, the bureau 1 ernment. predicted Saturday the "most Easter weather in perhaps ten years for the eastern third of the country. They said weather made to order for fashion skies and temperatures ranging from 15 to '20 degrees above indicated for an area extending from the Atlantic seaboard into the midwest.

Further west prospects were not quite as favorable. Although no general bad weather was indicated, showers were forecast for of the central west, the southwest and Rocky Mountain regior- Morale High morale of the United States Army at the highest after a hard Genera! George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, said in an interview here Saturday. PROTECT FLOWERS appeal to Texas i motorists to assist In preservation I of wildflowers. vines and shrubs along state highways was issued i Saturday by the State Highway 1 Department.