Valley Morning Star from Harlingen, Texas • Page 6

VALLEY SUNDAY STAR-MONITOR-HERALD Page Sunday, June TEXAS READY TO REGISTER MEN TUESDAY Leon Henderson-Amcrico's Professional 'No Man 21-Year-Olds To Be Taken By Draft AUSTIN throufthout Texas ire ready for the felective service rejnitralion on July 1. 1941. General J. Walt Page, state director, announced Saturday To be registered mere and aliens reached their 21sf birthday on or before July 1. 1941.

and subsequent to October 16. 1940 provided they had not previouilj By SIGRID ARNE AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON '-eon Hender- son. the new is looks more like an amateur golf champitm than a brilliant economist He-s been in and out of New Deal agencies for more than eight vears. has a sense of humor along with a casual vocabulary of slang. He's thought by many to be the liveliest idea man in the whole entourage.

Henderson established himself as an Idea man back in the winter of 36-37 when he predicted the slump in the market that came the fol- lom'ing autumn. But he grins about nnw- savs. I the prophecies now. He says, guy who made a the first time out. So I'm retiring from registered.

lo ith the local board at their place of residence or wherever they happened to be on July 1 between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. Ansmer All Questions "The registrant must ansmer all questions asked b.v the registrar for notation on the registration the announcement said.

It added: must give his full name, include middle name, if any. and should have with him papers of An Old Hand He's Tackled the subject of prices from many angles in the past 20 years. President's recent order HBve him the job of Director of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply but already it's shortened to The title covers a great many duties but they all boil domn to this; Henderson is supposed to keep prices down. It's a ticklish business. There's talk now of a neu' law lEON HENPFRSON Don't Build Ships Out Of I rozen It's much more important to be sure that we have enough of everything- both for the defense program and for civilian needs.

Henderson explains, don't build ships out of frozen Recently copper prices began to spiral upward. He talked with INCOMES FOR Ratings Of 32 Texas Post FARMS HIKED, Offices Readjusted By U.S. Total InrolT. Adrancamant And RaducHon Fil-st Five Months Of Oil 1 cm Listed Fotif WASHINGTON- Farmers received a total cash income, including government benefit payments, of other defense chiefs, and the gov -1 j3 544 ooo.OOO during the first five ernment began to buy South of 1941. or $307.000.000.

more American copper. That brought corresponding period the prices down. last year, the agricultural depart- Zinc is beginning to look men! Saturday. That could send prices sky-rock- Income from farm marketings was eting. So Henderson talked around placed at $3.240,000.000.

or until now a new, big smelter is OOO more than a year ago. Government payments totalled $304.000.000 compared with $385.000.000 for the WASHINGTON The Postoffice nt ts tnn.iuncM that in the annual readjustment of salarus effertivt changes in the ritings of ie in TetaJ changes involve advancement of second to fjii of third class to second class, and fourth cl. to third well reductions in classification in some instances The first-class office must have annual of at le $50000 The minimum salary for the postmaster 41 IS $3.200. with higher salaries for 10 bim the precise power identification showing it to be his needed. But while the talk scrap, second hand machine tools trie name.

goes on Henderson has announced and coal. "It IS particularly important that msximum prices for a few mate-1 So far. no producer has eon- the registrant describe his place of necessary to the defense pro- tested the prices set. If they do. them to come to to viefend higher in an open hearing.

under con.struction. Started Early Henderson began in the first World War to study prices. In the war department's ordinance accounting department then, he still shivers when he thinks of that peruids inflation, and says with irritation that the prices cost this government 15 billion more than necessary. After the war. he went to teach ectmomics at the University of Penn.sylvania but kept right on worrs'ing about those World War prices.

He on to Carnegie Institute to work on consumer credit problems, and then to Russell Sage for more work on prices. When the NR A came along he be last year. The department predicted that the farm cash income for the full year would amount to about $10.700.000.000 compared with $9.123.000.000 last year if the present favorable production, price and market pros- dollars pccts continue. Such an income w'ould be the largest since 1929. The sharpest income gains were reported for cotton and cottonseed and livestock and livestock products.

The department said that farm income by major classes of products for the five-monlh period of 1940 higher-receipt offices. A second-class office must have receipts of at least $8.000 annually. The minimum salary for the postmaster is $2 400 for offices with $8.000 to $10.000 receipts, and the maximum is $3.000 for receipts of $33.000 to S40.000. A third-class office must have receipts $1.500 annually. The postmaster's salary starts at $1,100 and goes as high as $1.600.

Fourth class offices hav? receipts less than $1.500. Postmasters receive no salary. "Their compensation IS based entirely on receipts. In to first Borger. Brenham.

Yoakum. to second Third to second Forte torium Femlnete. ARMY RECRUIT DRIVE SLATED and 1941, respectively, was as fol- south Antonio. Burnet. Dojrten.

Deo- low'i; research director Grains $376.000.000 and $253.000 He in.si.^ts that keeping prices about he's the price 000. cotton and cotton seed $64.000. residence in detail as well as to give full particulars as to the address at which he would read- llv receive mail sent to Major Reqairementi Pointing out that these major requirements applied to registrants who physically able to present themselves to proper registration places. Genera! Page said that special provisions had been made to register the sick in hospitals, persons confined to asylums, jails and similar institutions and persons sick but not in hospitals. Persons in the latter group should have a competent person get au- thoritv from the proper local board to register them.

General Page said If any young man was in doubt to hether he should register, he should consult the proper registration officials and follow their advice, the director declared. gram. Like steel aluminum, zinc I Henderson is thinking of asking! down in not just freezing them, i czar of these United States. BURIAL GROUP Pioneer Family Of Valley Raffles Off One Of Largest IS CHARTERED Oldest Ranches On Border; Guerra Heirs Split Land Cllf. Fttond to third Fourth to third Aale Joshua Keller.

Mata- Will Be McAllen Soon McAI.LF.V—The armv i m.tbile re. cruiting unit will arrive July 2 to stay here dur ng the tion of the annual July Fourth otie celebration. The large auto trailer which formi the unit's headquarters will be trail, located jo that visi' for the celebration rn.iv insptet Sergeant Edward J. Volkmaiui, 000 and $118.000.000, fruits $98,000.000 torda. Fortland.

Salman City. vegetables Warran. Wamart and $119.000.000. 000.000 and $230.000.000. tobacco $76.000.000 and $63.000.000.

meat $007.000.000 and $1.168.000.000. dairy products $615.000.000 and $711.000.000, and poultry and eggs $255,000,000 and $311.000.000. Third to fourth Valant Barry -Caddo. Idakm. Farmers, Too Maitin-Nelson Firm atcai le a famiij a 11 urdav had disposed of Active In Valley POLICE CLAIM PROBE MEAGER No Search Made For sute.

Joss Assailant? McALLEN The Martin-Nelson Burial association was granted a permanent charter by the state Saturday, Scott Martin, manager, announced. The charter was secured three weeks and tw'o days after the firm began its operation in the Upper Valley. Fifteen salesmen are operating for the association in McAllen. Pharr, San Juan. Alamo and laco.

Martin said. Anyone living ithin 75 miles of McAllen is eligi- ble for membership in the company. A minimum of 500 policies are necessary before a permanent charter for operation is granted by BAC FROM MEXICO MISSION Mrs. W. A.

Wolverton has returned from a two-weeks motor trip to Mexico City scenic BATH. Richmond consUble testified Saturday under cross examination at Dr. Merrill points in that section. She wv one wife-murder trial that state of party of six Upper Valley worn- police made no real search for the; to make the trip. assailant the claims fa -1 tally beat Dr.

Luveme Harris Joss MONTERREY March 27. RIO GRANDE CITY Amado Frank C. Bishop. 49. police of-1 Gutierrez, left Monday for Mon- ficer in the little town of Rich-1 terrey to join Mrs.

Gutierrez and mond. said state police been, their daughters. He was accompan- ordered to patrol the vicinity of i jed by Rogerio Lopez. The party the Joss office-home but that a will return early next week. urday had disposed of the vast holdings of one of the oldest and largest ranch organizations along the lower border between seven heirs of the late Deodoro Guerra, pioneer border business man.

cattleman and rancher, who died in 1932 The division separated for the time in more than 100 yean the properties that had been accumulated by the Guerra family, whose early forbears came to Texas while the present state was a part of Origin of the family is lost in the iusty century before Texas became a republic, but Felipe Guerra, grandfather of the present businessmen-ranchers. was known to have been a rancher in what is now 8tarr county, as was his father before him. Dedoro was one his sons and was one of the few members of the family ever to move away from Starr county, where another branch of the family has long been the leading family of that portion of the border. Deodoro moved to McAllen 1906 with his wife. Mrs.

Matiide G. de Guerra, who died in 1939. and the third, Joe. died in Edinburg, his home. Three other sons.

Ramon. istence, was dt.ssolved as a corporation on January 1. 1941. and Ramon rk i Dario Guerra, with their two Guillermo iBill.vi and Dario, and formed a partnership to continue Edinburg: Men To Greet Group The.v’ll Join Mc.Allen Celebration uriBS mots 4 MWf in, the two sisters, Mrs. Virginia Garza of San Antonio and Mrs.

Aurora Solis of Mc.Allen, survive. Partitioning of the vast Guerra and a general merchandise and sale firm in Mc.Allen, the 28.000-acre Nogales Ranch in northern Hidalgo County, the Nogales Ranch I store and farm, about 3 000 head of livestock and city property in been under way for the past nine months. Itr- were revealed by Ramon Guerra ol McAllen. The five and daughters of Deodoro Guerra, the children of the late E. E.

1 Henry i Guerra and the children of the late Joe Guerra, are the bene- of the partitioning. "We took all of the Ramon Guerra explained, "and placed a value on each. Then we divided the total Into different paits. The heirs or their gathered for the drawing, and each accepted the portion drawn by him or In the drawing, the D. Guerra six sons and two daughters were bom to that union.

Three of the estate represented two-thirds of all sons have died within the past few the properties and the years. Modesto and E. S. fGuerra estate one-third I). Guerra "dozen or were gathered around the house.

made the remark that It was funny that the state of Maine w'fmld send cops out and not have them stay they were suoposed to stay." he said under Questioning by IVfense Counsel Ernest L. speed. He replied when asked by Goodspead if your opinirm was arv search made by the stale "In your opinion, would it have possible for an assailant of Mrs. Joss to escape as far as the state police was concerned." he was "Knowing the place as I woi-ld." he answered. The state claims the physician, a Portland.

native, killed his Alahama-bom wufe by beating her head against the walls and stairs in the cellar of their home because of his love for Mrs. Elizabeth Chapman Mavo. 32. attractive tea-room proprietor. Guerra, both of McAllen, had served as McAllen city commissioners, and and Sons.

Inc. one of the oldest its operation. They are operating the store, the Nogales Ranch stores and farm and the mercantile business The D. Guerra and farm is the second largest in the county. Its 3 500 acres being exceeded only by that of Arcadio Guerra, which covers 5,000 acres.

Mode.sto Guerra left no children, and the late Deodoro Guerra purchased widow's interests in D. Guerra and Sons before the latter's death. Mrs Guerra still lives in and operates a store. Operations of the great properties are already under way by the respective croups under terms of the family according to Ramon Guerra. am sure how my father would have wanted he concluded, in that way.

everything was equally and all the heirs are satisf.ed far the family Is ron- cerned, everything But the law firm of Strickland. Ewers and Wilkins of the auditing firm of Harper and Hays of Houston and the surveying firm of r. M. ard of are still trying to complete myriad details so that the novel family settlement ran be put into words and McAllen firms in ex- be made duly legal The Darling Funeral Home BrowntvilU Karl Duddleiton Funeral Home New Classes Red Cross Due At McAllen Clay Hall Funeral Home San Benito Edna Herbert and Ruth Evans of Austin will arrive in McAllen Monday. July 7.

to conduct Red Cross classes in home hygiene and care of the sick. The first class will open a week from Monday at pm. in the high auditorium in McAllen. The two women who will conduct the classes are from Austin. No tuition charge will be made for sessions Until fall they will be held at night according to Mrs.

Frank Suttle. county organizer. She said women who wished to register for day classes, which will in the fall would be free to attend the night sessions. Those ho have not registered may do so at the opening session. Hinkley Mortuary DEPENDABLE iS A WORD that wt atwiyi cortnccf with a number of years.

DEPENDABLE The Howard Mortuary Kreidler Funeral Homes McAiien, Miaaion, Edinburg McALLEN TRAFFIC FINES fines levied in McAllen courts Saturday morning included; Justice of the Peace T. J. Domingo Martinez. and costs violation of the law of the road, and remanded to county jail in lieu of payment; Justice of the Peace Kent Manning's. Alberto Hernandez.

$1 and simple assault. The Stotler Mortuary Donna and Marcadas MRS. YOC.VG ILL McALLEN-Mrs. S. J.

Young Is cr'nfined to her home seriously ill Stotler-Burdette Mortuary Harlingen mortuary service in the Rio Grande Valley begins at Brownsville, where the Hinkley Mortuary has been in existence for over 40 years and where the name Darling has been ever an establishment for 20 years. At San Benito we have Clay Hull who has served there for over -10 years while at Harlingen the Stotler-Burdette Mortuary existed for 10 years Then at Raymondvillt wt have the Karl Duddfeston Funeral Home 18 years and the Howard Mortuary 10 years Coming up the Valley to Mercedes we find the reliable Stotler Mortuary giving continuous attention for over 30 years with the same fine service extended to nearby Donna. At Edinburg wt have the well established Skinner family operating the Skinner Mortuary ................18 years and at Mission, Edinburg and McAllen the have given 29 years of Thotfulness, which is a by-word in the Rio Grande Valley. THEREFORE if is reasonable to believe, that with these txpcrienctd firms behind tho VALLEYWIDE BURIAL ASSOCIATION you can purchase this policy and stcuro your share of DEPENDABLE PROTECTION. And will operate directly under the supervision of the Stato Insuranco Depirtment.

LiTTELL'S LIQUID A CaJn'iiffl Solution for the dttcoalorts of itching that Ireqoeatij Minor Skin Irrfutions. Pricki'r Heat, and the Bites of Kon-Poiionoiis Insects. Locallv it helps to allay the itching of £c- aau. Price 50c per all Skinner Mortuary Edinburg I A few dependable ladies and gentlemen may apply for positions to sell these policies. See any funeral home mentioned in tho margin.

Business men of Edinburg will turn out Wednesday to greet a group of good-will trip- V.KrTtu« pers from McAllen advertising that citv's Fourth of July celebration. Chamber of commerce proernm has been arranged to prom.n.nc* tor which w.ll take place in the downtown district The McAllen group will be accom- McALLFN As manv farmers will be in McAllen July 3 as there of the recruiting unit will be for the annual July Fourth especially invited all young between the ases of 18 and 15 years a pre-fiesta event, a special interested in joining the air corps to visit the station. Enliiitment forms will be on hand panied by a hill-billy band. Meeting Planned For School Band Ttiere will be a free implement show all day. will feature calculated as of particular interest to farmers.

for those desiring to inter the air corps service. The unit is qualified to receive enlistments for nyifig cadets. for enlistment into RI The day's program will be cll- the air are men between maxed with the bathing beauty style show and revue at Cascade Swimming pool that night members of the McAllen H.gh school band should meet at the junior high school of 18 and 35 years, single, with no and an eighth grada or better education The unit is coming to Me.41!en San Antonio. Sergeant Jack Wilkinson and Sergeant N. Guna Will accompany the trailer Sometime during the middle of RETI RNS FROM VISIT LA FERIA-Mrs J.

D. Russell has auditorium at 7:30 Monday returned from a visit of sev'eral Fletcher Glendenning. acting as di- weeks with Mr. and Mrs. H.

A rector in the absence of Hermann at Kerrville. She was accom- Serg. Volkmann said, a fly mg Wren, announced. panied home by Miss Lila Dyer of examining board will cert The band will march In the pa- San who formerly wa.s a McAllen to accent applicatiorg rade for the Fourth of July cele- member of the La Ferta school young men seeking service iB bration and will present a concert faculty. flying corps.

in Archer Park at noon July 4. O.N rrRLOl'GIf fiO TO LVIHANA SAN JUAN-Arthur Hickman Is Mc.ALLEN—Mr. and Mrs. W. visiting at home here, being are leaving Monday for a on a furlough from the Navy Air S' vacation visit in South Bend.

Ind. Corps in Honolulu. ARRIVES FOR I'lSU SAN JUAN Mrs. Luke ton arrived morr fmm i a visit with and frendi at her home town at Mt Pleasant a DMf WAT CALLS FOR action $20.00 For Your Old Range! Htrt's Bash ncms for tvtrjr wift-bujring houaemift! brand new Florcocc Gas Rangt at hifiory making value! Just think how you'll enjoy cooking nith a range like this! Come and sec it here today! show you how easy it is to this or any other Florence Gas Range. a Florence to )ouf nctdt and budget! Reg.

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