Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 8

PAGE 8 VALLEY MOFNTNG STAR Thursday, October 13. 193? Jersey Is Beset By Conflagration BELOW! by jimmy GLASSCOCK pONGRATULATIONS: gen's delegatitm to the Oklahoma-Texas district convention of the Kiwanis Club ran into hard luck en route to they came home with the bacon, even though some never reached the conclave Richard Cnss, club president was elected lieutenant governor of division No. 2, embracing South Texas clubs, a post former- BIG CONTAINER IS DESTROYED IN EmOSION Severe Heat Hinders Fire Fighting Grapefruit Season In Full Swing LINDEN. explosion of undetermined origin destroyed a 1.680.000*gal Ion crude oil tank Iv held by Robin Pate of Browns- Wednesday, fire to a dozen more. and turned an acre of the Cities Much credit for election Service Refining Company's goes to Joe Wright, the genial village" into a roaring mass of sewing machine man who handled flames.

ihe campaign. The intensity of the heat, which Roger Dunn. Glenn Scheupbach routed employes of a company a and Walter LiOehan were injured ouarter mile when their car was struck by an- fighting efforts other rsachine near Crockett, Tex a nd still MORE: Members of the National Association of Food Chains yesterday elected H. E. Butt.

Harlingen, head of the South Texas Piffly Wiggly stores, a vice president of the organization. The association is meeting in hicago. An attractive new sign, incidentally, uas installed yesterday at the Harlingen store. a TRAFFIC EXPERT: Vernon Engberg. the new traffic expert, was a Texas high- blocked fire Flames continued to as high as 200 feet in the air as firemen from five towns and nearby factories sought to gain control.

Succe.ssive explosions set fire to the other dozen tanks which contained crude oil. furnace oil, refined oil and ga.soline. Company officials were unable to estimate damage, and reported there were only minor casualties Two employes were cut and burned while fire fighting A company spokesman said prox mately 300 were working at the plant at the time of the first explosion. Sixteen years ago last June, the then owned by the way patrolman in the Valley eight Warner-Quinlan Company which He rode the Valley has been taken over bv Cities Serv- years ago thoroughfares for several months before joining the Texas Motor Transportation Association as a field man Later, he served as advisor to the Grande Valley Safety Council Engberg. because of his kindness.

broke a highway department rule one cold night a few years ag when he was patrolling in the Valley A college student on route from ice. destroyed wuth a $,3,000,000 loss, a Cities Service spokesman said. Firemen said wind was blowing the flames in the direction of a 2.100.000-gallon capacity vat. and expressed fear that if it exploded the fire would spread to the entire tank field, causing acute danger to tanks of the adjacent Sinclair Oil Company. Clustered around the burning acre are plants of the Standard Oil WORLD VETERANS TO SOON Round-up Scheduled In Brownsville Birthdoy Ride For Mrs.

FDR Miss Ida Dodd, above, Harlingen, is shown digging into one of the Valley's delicious grapefruit as the new season swung into its second month. Health authorities reveal the interesting fact that if every person in the Valley ate the amount of grapefruit required for a balanced diet there would be little sickness. At any rate it seems to be doing allright by Miss Dodd. Photo.) to Pharr reached as far conrjpany. Sinclair, the American as Edinburg and faced the pros- Cynamid Company.

American Grasped of spending the night there chemical Company, and the in the cold, open air. But Engberg put the collegian Ph his motorcycle, and transported him to Pharr. General Aniline Company. CTILL SOARING: Goodwin, the 'human Jimmie is still doing parachute jumps from airplanes and looks as healthy as when he thrilled Valley spectators in Harlingen and Mission last Winter. latest exploit occurred at Amarillo.

His picture was front-paged in an Amarillo paper. His bat-wing jump is a thrilling. frightening affair. When Jimmie made his jump here, he invited me to go along in the big tri-motored airplane. The big ship climbed up to around feet in the fast fading twilight.

buckled in his batwing paraphernalia, was extremely calm. He asked for a cigarette. so I gave him half a pack. I was to hold the cabin door open, so he could jump out. That proved a tough job.

shoving the door hack against the I slip stream. Jimmie sat on the door step, waved a goodhse, and plummeted toward the brown earth. 1 was halfway down with him, for a imaginatoin. of grabbed the seat in a death-lock. The became a speck in just a flash, hut he loosed a trail of flour after he spread the wings, and you could follow his descent.

That night, he and the rest of his crew ate a healthy dinner, entirely unconcerned by the day's hair-raising events. AROUND TOWN- Francis, the Harlingen Chamber of Commerce agricultural agent, Ralph Bledsoe, the city building inspector. and others in charge of the pr- ject. worked mighty hard for of the at Fair Park yesterday Carl Stevens came out w-ith several packages nf cigarettes and a Horses Are Slain By Electrocution, But Riders Safe AMARILLO. story ff a freak accident in which two riders escaped death when their vice-president: horses were electrocuted was told secretary, and here Wednesday by M.

Hancock and W. B. Harris, both of Hereford Hancock and Harris were horseback riding on place near Hereford Approaching a pool of I water, they decided to ride through it instead of going around. As the front feet of the horses went into the water both animals fell I and both riders were throw-n clear. falling on the ground beside the pool.

Both horses were and Harris received an electrical shock w'hen he tried to unbnddle his mount. Examination of the locality revealed that an electric wire had blown down, charging the water with electricitv. BROWNSVILLE Officers for Franklin Dodd was lected prosi- five Brownsville high school or- dent of the Jun or Public Forum: ganizations were announced here James Thomas, vice-president: Marjorie Wilson, sccretary-treasurer. Thr group will study pc rliamcntary procedure and discuss current developments in the news. The Junior Forum is made of the Social Science Club, and sponsored by Miss Grace Edman and Stillwell.

Off cers of the Home Economics Club are Harriet Hard'n. president; Marjorie Wilson, vice-president; Frnnc''s Clark, secretary, and Barclay Bogol. parliamentarian. Committee chairmen were appointed as follows: Mary Katherine Hillyer. publicity: Marie fmance; Priscilla Robins.on.

library: Joyce Gregory. Marion Smith and Jean nc. Spo-is'-rs were Myrtle Jennings and Miss Alvis Wool rich. Wednesday by sponsors for these cxtra-curricular activties. Betty Sauber was elected president of the Commercial Club; Marjorie Winans vice-president; Jean McMinn.

secretary. The group will study occupations open to women. Marjorie Winans was elected president of the National Society: T. Smith was elected Carlton Perkins. Tony Armendariz.

treasurer. John Griffin was named president of the Science Club; Jor Hahn, vice-president; Katherine Myers, secretary: and Gene Parker and Mike McManus, sergeants-at-arms A. J. Carol and Andres de la Garza talked on cameras and films at a meeting held Tuesday. BROWNSVILLE-Annual Round- Up of Valley World War veterans will be held Thursday at 8 m.

at the El Jardin Hotel here. Bascom Cox. chairman of arrangements. Slid Wednesday. The round-up is sponsored by the local post of the American Legion.

Col. W. E. Talbot, manager of the Chamber of Commerce here, will be principal speaker at the gathering. Other speakers will include Herbert Davenport, Major B.

Galbraith. who assisted in forming the first American Legion Post in Paris. France; W. T. Burnett, postmaster, and R.

O. Mackintosh. Mrs, G. W. Johnson, president Of the local American Legion Auxiliary.

w'lll speak on her recent trip to the national convention of the American Legion in Los Angeles. Program at the round-up will be presented by the Auxiliary. Chairman Cox said more than 200 members and wives are expected to attend, together with groups from San Benito and Harlingen and other Valley Music will be furnished by tm band and the cal KGFI hill billy band. The committee on arrangements includes James L. l.ee.

T. Adam- n. Henry Bell. Kenneth Faxon, Arthur Hipp, Frank Harding, William R. Kiekel.

Joe Lindaberry. E. E. Mockbee. Robin M.

Pate. Alfred Price. Tom StevenS' Henry M. Skelton, and W. O.

Washington. 2,657 Italians Die In Spanish Fight ROME Italy, whose iorces being withdrawn from Spain'j; civil war, announced Wednesday that 2.657 Italian officers and men had been killed in the conflict "from the beginning of operations in Spain until October 10. and that an additional 273 Legionnaires had died from service Causcs. communique listed a total of 12,147 officers and men as killed, wounded, and taken prisoner in the war. TEXAS MEETS fifty-seventh annual convention of the Texas Christian Temperance Union opened here Tuesday for a three day meeting with more I than 200 attending.

BROWNSVILLE HOUSING UNIT WORK SLATED $55,000 Project Being Rushed Is Olebratinf her fifty-fourth birthday. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt took a morning canter on her favorite mount, along the Virginia shore of the Potomac River at Washington. With her is Major Henry Stewart Hooker, family friend.

liliali ranee Takten Out On LOS Castil- lo Locket, a relic associated with! Christopher Columbus, has been in-' siired by Lloyd's of London for SIOOOOO. the A Beaman Agency and Nicholas A. Kovach, custodian, Wednesday The locket now' reposes in a Los Angeles bank vault. It has been credited with containing a bit of dust identified as emains of Co- lumbus when discovered in a leaden casket in 1877. The casket w-as found during repairs to the Cathedral Church in Santo Domingo.

West Indies, to which Columbus' i remains were removed from Spain I in L5.37. History of the locket is traced I by its former owner. Johb Boyd Thacher. once mayor of Albany, N. in his lengthy life of Columbus.

published in 1904. Heirs of Thacher. who died in 1909, gave custody of the to Kovach, a rare-book dealer, in 1937. with the idea of winning recognition for it and possibly establishing it in a national shrine. Thachcr's widow, wh died in 1927.

willed his valuable l- lection to the library of With this collecti went the locket, but the Thacher heirs, in three litigation to cancel the wh- le bequest. won back the locket in 1932. SummerColds Cause the to slop up. relief. Use it and BREATHE FREELY in 2D vour menev birk.

Price SI 00 at CENTRAL DRUG Walgreen Agencv 108 W. Jackson BROWNSVILLE Cr.Innel W. Talbot. chamber of commerce manager, returned here this week from conferences with insurance and bond companies at Dallas and met Tuesday afternoon with the Brownsville Housing Authority for discussion of fmanc al problems connected with the $.550,. OOOo slum clearance pr ject here lonel said he conferred with insurance and bonding companies '-n nancing the city's S.5.3.- 000 part of the proposed housing project.

He said three and one-half per cent mortgage bonds would be issued against the local If constructed The City of Brownsville has agreed to underwrite bonds, to be el.sew here Charles Burton, chairman of the Brow Housing rity. said at the Tuesday meeting th.it a new' plan to a nat nn-wide syndicate to invest in government-backed bonds of this type has been presented. and is now under consideration by Nathan Strcaus. chairman of the United States Hous.ng Authority The auth -nty tr accept the suggestion of the federal nuthority that the special j- ect application be increased to approximately $593.000. To Stop Constipation Get at Us Cause! If constipation's got you doxn so you feel heaNT.

tired and dopey time you did something about it And something more than taking a physic! You should get at the cause of the trouble. If vou eat only the things rnnst people do. the chances are that a very simple fact causes your con- don't get enough And "bulk mean heavv food. It means a of food that consumed in the body, but leaves a soft mass in the intestines and helps a bowel movement. If this is your trouble, eat crisp crunchy All-Bran for brr'akfast every day and dnnk plenty of water.

All-Bran con- tams'both and the tinal tonic, vitamin And not a drug, not a medicine! Made by Kellogg's in Battle Creek. Sold by every grocer. ANNUAL MUSIC MEET IS HELD Valley Singing Unit Holds Session Roll Announced Honor Students of School Given LOS honor roll of the Los Fresnos schools for the SANTA ROSA Annual all-day music session of the Rio Grande Valley Singing Convention was held here Sunday, singers from Fal- Harlingen, Raymondville. Santa Rosa. Olmito, Weslaco, Lasara, Edcouch and other tow'ns participating Joe R.

Pierce, Raymondville, Gold Seized Five Are Accused in Smuggling Case S'AN ANTONIO Federal filed charges her? Wednesday against four men in connection with seizure of nearly $6,000 in il; legal gold. Those charged were Jose Borjc. 22. and Jorcg Solo, both of Mexico City, and Armand Fredlander. 39 and W.

E. Smith, 31, both of Houston. Borge and Soto were charged with bringing a nine-pound bar w-orth a session with humidor after punch board Vernon Booth St 11 wants to know who wrote Liebestraum A man from Florida tw'e missed his that the Valley's grapefruit still too green and should be shipped until really ripe "No said a young lady to an elderly man who had just congratulated her for what he thought was her marriage to the young man with her. president of the said. Special music was furnished by about $5,000 into the United Stales the Negro Orphans Home near from Mexico illegally.

They were Combes, and by Gordon placed under bond each first SIX weeks as announced this Quartet, the Barnett Family, Miss FriedJander and Smith were charg- week is as follows: Hayes of Raymondville. W. D. Nunn cd with conspiracy to possess First grade, Sammy Brooks. Mr.

and Mrs. J. L. El- smelted gold valued at $685 the Evangelina Portugal, Guadalupe: the Wyrick Brothers, and oth- i purpose of disposing of same Fried- Second grade. Jimmy McLeaish.

various sections. bond set at $1,000 and The next session of the convention will be held at Raymondville April, exact date and place to be announced later. Pierce said Clark William, Lasara. was named temporary secretary for the Sunday meeting in the absence of J. Mil Auld, Lyford.

i Marjorie Hinkley, Marilois Barr. Shirley Ann Oliver. Mary Petrie: Third grade, Delia Gonzalez, Billy Joyce Pederson. Elida Montemayor, Charles Laasko, Pace, Fifth grade, Geraldine Watson. at $685.

Violet Petrie. Sixth grade, Irene Stubblefield. Mary Beth Grabill. Mary Coots; Seventh grade. Jim Graybill.

Leon Hinkley; Eighth grade. Hazel Lipe; Ninth grade. Harold Graybill. Chalmers Whlliams; Tenth grade, Barbara Jean Goates. Dorothy Henry, Veta May Ferguson; Ele- grade.

Govic Waller, Robert Schaffer, Evelyn Kyle. Helen Macomb, Dons Mane Pederson. Stenographers Go Under Wage Rules WASHINGTON Elmer wage-hour administrator. said the new wage-hour law' would apuly to maintenance workers. watchmen, clerks, stenographers and messengers In his first interpretative bulletin concerning general applica- the law', Andrews said these types if workers must be considered as engaged in processes or occiqiations to the product of gixids moving in ler lt 'e commerce.

Sesruin Celebrates Coming SEiGUIN. Featuring coming day" for more than a thousand former residents of and intelligent conception Segum. citizens here Wednesday swung into the final dav Democracy Chair To Be Established Fla- Dr Lua Spivey, president of Florida Southern College, announced Wednesday a chair of Democracy w'ill be established in the institution to combat anli-American trends. Communism. Fascism and other forces are fighting aggressively for expansion, and democracy in the United States must be equally Dr Spivey said.

We shall bring to our campus a teacher to giv'e student a Harlingen Youth Taken to Houston HARLINGEN Sam Baker. 16 Mr. and Mrs Sam Baker. of the centennial celebration, climaxed Wednesday night w'lih the crowning of Miss Helen Eliza- bet'n Schroeder as queen of the celebration at a pageant. Lrd bv- Maynr Roger W.

Moore, day. will be buried a parade filed through the main Wednesday streets, lined by thousands of in- spectators, as a highlight of festivities. Judge Ireland Graves of Austin, grandson nf John Ireland, former Texas governor and native of Segum. was the principal speaker at homecoming ceremonies. SERVICES PLANNED AMARILLO i Waldrup.

23-year-old Pampa truck driv'er who w'as killed in a freak accident near here Tues- at Wheeler following funeral services at Allison. How To Hold Loose FALSE TEETH PRICES GOOD FRIDAY and SATURDAY beans SPICED GEBHARDTS 3 cans for SOAP WHITE KING TOILET 3 ban -n Harhngen. was taken to Houston by tram Tuesday n.ght in a seri- cius condition, following an appen- APPLES BOTHER CITIZENS SEVIERVILLE. Tenn officials have just about decided lo have the old apple tree which no cect at Valley Baptist Hospi- u-is stood in the oublir hlV fv A I t' n.is siooQ in inr puoiic square here not nour plate odor L. i years cut down.

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