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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
NO. 238.
McAllen, texas, Sunday, December 8,1935
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5 FAMILIES ARE MAROONED Ml FLOOD
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Mussolini Defies Nations - League To Be Firm
■ DUCE DEFIANT
J ANSWER TO
rTALK OF PEACE msTnvmm Wrimr (3TRUS FTESTA
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Dessye Bombed Again
As Leader Says Italy
V Will Not Relent War
Aims.
PAR|S, Dec. 7. </P)Premier
Pierre Laval of France and
the British Foreign Secre-
tary, Sir Samuel Hcare, an
nounced tonight they intend
to draft a basis for settle-
ment of Italy’s conflict with;
Ethiopia.
|^(By The Associated Press)
Premier Mussolini, While
his giant bombers struck
Again in Africa, defied T)u-
rope Saturday.
■ His rubber-stamp black-
shirted chamber of deputies,
assembled in a hall heatless
^because of sanctions* cheered
II Duce when he declared:
“There is no siege that,can
make us bow. jio coalition
however numerous, that can
turn us from our path!”
The lantern-jawed dictat-
or made it "clear he woukL
go ahead with h& “coion&f
adventure.” £
An oil embargo, he said,
would “gravely prejudice”
1 peace efforts?
JM French officials, after a
^ preliminary talk between
Premier Pierre Laval and-
Sir Samuel Hoare, British
foreign secretary, in Paris,
said an oil embargo undoubt-
edly would be voted by the
league. 4 .
At the war front Italian Ixmilie.V
swung over Iivwsye and the palace
of the eni|»er<y , giving leaden voj -e
to the determination of the Italian
dictator to pursue his campaign .of
occupation in Ethiopia.
No casualties were announced.
Yesterday f>r> persons died, more
than 3<)0 were injured, and ah’
American hospital was damaged by
bombs.
Referring to a -peace appeal’*
made to, .him this morning by Sir
Eric Drummond. . the Rrltsh am-I
jebftss^dw -sirid to have ar»k<-d*.v
■^Urommon front for peace—11 Ducef
sl^in full, ce.s«Miant voice told his de-
puties:
jk "In three? last Tew hours thc-e
appeared a slight Improvement*
In the atmosphere. But I must put
you on your guard against prema-
* ture and ntrswive optimism.
. That appeared to answer, too.
renewed conversations in ' Paris
today w .herein Premier Laval ot
France and the British foreign
minister. Sir Samuel floaty, sougnt
a peace formula almost on the eve
of a Geneva meeting to <j>n*ider
Strengthening of the economic
. blockade' of Italy with an oil em-
bargo. 1
The chamber of deputtea^diplQ-
matk- galleries were filled—buT'the
British and French ambassadors,
F. representative* of the countries
most active in the drive for sanc-
tions. were absent.
Mussolini spoke of the gravity
OTbf the proposed oil embargo, sug-
jHkestlng it would complicate the.
. European situation. and suid he
had made known hi* program foj
, peace, only to meet with sanctions
i ’‘against the ’aggressor’.”
Hi* references to the emtargo
> were less 'belligerent, than the*
spokesmen for hi* government
have used heretofore. They have
ssM It would mean "war" and
~fl*ht.« . \
The renewed ‘activity on the
African front vpro'vided a sUocaio
background to the diplomatic by-
play in London. Rome and g-Prls.
Today the Fascist "rain of death”
was directed at points In the area
already devastated by yesterday’*
Visit. In addition to damaging the
(Continued on Page Two)
m. msM,0LW. 10.000 ARE AT
wmc.°f M ?f FIRST DAY OF
Egyptian Students Riot
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7——A warning against open-
ing “the dike of constitutional restraint” to “the sea of
arbitrary power which lies behind” was given tonight by
Benator Borah of Idaho in a speech which heralded the
approach of a new presidential campaign,
■| The Mahoan, widely regarded as
4 potential republican candidate,.
spoke dver the Columbia Broad-
/|a*ting idjHtwn. He made frequent,
hut unjabelled. references to the
New I tea 1 and was caustic Irv deal-
ing witjh <hls familiar .foe—mono-
poly- He called the latter the
"great evil lurking in our econo-
mic system.’’
4 Calllrig the coming election "an
event tljie most notable In the af-
fairs of the republic.” he added:
"‘We all fee! that the coming
election ! is to be one /of uncom-
mon Interest and of Very deep
significance. We are discussing
constitutional governinent and the
preservajtion of liberty.
"I ask tonight whose liberty?
What liberty? The .man or group
ot' men who hedge about or con-
(rtA my right to engage in or re-
main in busincj* are my master*
and the masters of my children.
''"The power which fixe* .the price
of the thing* I must have that I
may live and clothe and educate
my family shapes my course in
life and delimits my possibilities
a* completely as if I were its in-
dentured servants
"Jf we are going into a fight on
the lines where the battle swings
let us fight for free enterprise
free economic system, free Amer-
ica, . free I from mohopol.y control,
free froml bureaucratic control.
(Continued on Page Two)
PRlCEPLANS
GAIN AS COOP
MOVE FORMED
Growers’ Ass’n Asks
Shippers To Enter In-
to Agreement On
Stabilization.
2SA*
In an effort to stabilize the
prices of vegetables, the Rio Gran-
de Valley Vegetable Growers asso-
ciation has asked shippers to enter
into a *ioopenative agreement and
Homer P. Huntley, secretary of the
growers’ organization, announced
Saturday that virtually every ship-
Per contacted had consented to the
agreement.
An advisory committee of three
shippers is to be appointed by! the
association for the purpose of sta-
bilizing the industry in each lead-
ing commodityTsetting prices when
necessary, and generally working
with the growers' stabilization coui-
mit-tee.
Epch shipper is to contribute *1
per car or car equivalent to the
association, to help defray expenses.
The grower* agree to sell only
to authorized shippers and packers.
Promiscuous selling of vegetable*
to truckers -is to be discouraged—
shipper* are given preference.
McAllen, Primera. Combes. San-
ta Rosa. Donna, Weslaco, Mercedes,
Harlingen, Los Fresno*. La FerU,
and San Benito shipper* signed up
100 percent. In other towns, not all
produce men. were contacted.
' Huntley released the following
list showing the shippers consent-
ALAMO FLOWER,
FRIST SHOW IS
HUGE SUCCESS
f _
Prizes. Award ed To
Winners In One Of
Most Successful
Events Ever Held.
•ALAMO, Dec. 7—(Spl.)—Prizes
were awarded Saturday afternoon
to the winners In the Alamo Com-
munity Flower and Fruit show,
an annual event held under the
auspices of the Ladles Aid at the
Alamo Community church. The ex-
hibit wa8 declared one of the most
•successful shows staged in the his-
tory of the ehtrreh 'wlth a wMe va-
riety of fruit and flowers entered.
Prizes were contributed by a large
number of persons, firms, and
groups in Donna, McAllen, Alamo
and San Juan.
During the two days of the
events, Friday and Saturday, over
37 5 visitors registered in the guest
book.
Awards were also made for the
most beautiful yard with Mrs. M.
J. Borsheim the winner of the first
prize, $5 donated by the Alamo
chamber of commerce. Mrs. W. A.
Tanner was second. She received
a turkey donated by Carroll G.
Brown, J. C. McCreary, who placed
third, was presented a trellis and
paint from the Kautsch Lumber
Co.
The fruit show, with 157 entries,
was under the supervision of the
Rev. M. A. Travis, pastor of the
Community church, with other
commtittee chairman as follows:
L\ C. Merritt, exhibits; P. L. Gross,
entries; J. C. McCreary, judges;
R. P. Waring, commercial exhib-
its; G. L. Cowley, advertising; and.
F. A. Swallow, premiums. Judges
were R. G. Burwell, county agent,
and W. H. Friend of the cltrjis ex-
perimental station at Weslaco.
Mrs. W. A. Tanner was general
chairman of the flower show. She
was assisted by Mra. J. S. Roe,
prizes; Mrs. John Burkhart, pub-
licity; Mrs. Borsheim and Mrs.
Toothaker, children's department;
and Mrs. T. C. Downs, yards.
Circle Two of the Ladles Aid
Event Closes With
Style Show With Miss
Clyde Wilson Taking
Top Place.
(Special to The Monitor)
MISSION, Dec. 7 The Rio
Grande Valley’* Citrus Fiesta end-
ed Its first day here tonight witu
Miss Clyde Wilson, representing
the Valley Mercantile Co., Mission,
taking .first plat e in the citrus
style show. There were 20 entrants
in the gorgeous display of attlre-
memt.
Mitts Wilson wore a sport* dres*.
Second place was * taken, by Mrs.
Bob Euler, representing the Mis-
sion Junior Tuesday club, with an
evening -dress composed of thou-
sa.ids of citrus seeds. Miss Sara
Femat. Roosevelt school teacher of
Mission, was third with a cow girl’*
costume.
Over a thousand people attended
the show which was held at (ho
high school auditorium. It was
sponsored by the Missioft Business
and Professional Women's club.
Honorable mention was given to
Mis* Dorothy Beil Adkins with: a
Japanese costume and to Mias Bar-
bara Russell with a football sul*.
Eveiry feature of the Fiewta ex-
cept the Golden Grapefruit Golf
tournament, scheduled Cor Sunday,
had been presented late SaCmdayf'
for the pleasure of an estimated
10,000 persons who have moved
through the city in a steady stream
since Friday night.
While -not as elaborate as prev-
ious Fiestas, officials of the cel-
ebration were satisfied that the
Valley’s $125,000,000 citrus Indus-
try had been fully “glorified”, and
began making plans almost Imme-
diately for the 1936 Centennial
Fiesta, to be the biggest and most
pretentious celebration attempted
in recent year* in the Upper Val-
ley.
To Mia* Faye- Wilson, .petite,
blornd Durthess of Elsa In the Court
of Grapefruit Friday night, went
the honor of reigning over the
Kingdom of Cltru* during the Cen-
tennial Fiesta. She was selected as
Queen Citrianna IV at the Clowe of
the coronation in Mission High
School Auditorium of Miss Merble
Parr, Raymondvllle, a* Queen Cit-
rianna III of the 1935 Fiesta, and
of Levi Walker, Mission, a* King
Citrus III. Miss Wilson’s alternate
will be Miss Dorothy Gresham
Ducheas of Raymondvllle in the
Friday night ceremony.
King Citrus III, Mr. Walker, was
crowned by Harley Halstead of
Mission, prime minister In the
(Continued on Page Two)
(Continued on Page Two)
Vegetable Prictes
Remaining Strong
Vegetables prices remained strong
Saturday, although the price slump-
ed in bean* and beets. Cabbage
was quoted from $25 to $37.50.
Spinaqh was selling at 60 cents in
the field, and bast* were priced
at from 75 cent* to $1.25 in the
field.
Beans, which shot up to $1.50
and higher earlier in the week,
moved down to u low as 33 cents
at places, but shippers expected the
price to. go up again.
The price of beet* dropped when
four cans went Into Philadelphia,
one shipper reported.
(Continued on Page Two)
Rescue Plane Wings v
Way Toward Valley
ATLANTA, Dec. 7—(>P) —Com-
pleting the find leg of a 9,500-
mile flight south to deliver a plane
to be used *n search for Lincoln
Ellsworth, missing Antarctic ex-
plorer, Russell W. Thaw and jl
mechanic who took off from Cald-
well, N. J., this morning landed
here late today.
The flier and his mechanic said
they planned to spend the nlg.at
at the hangar at Candler field
here to take off "just as soon as
possible but depending on the wea-
ther" for Brownsville, Tex.
Thaw plans to deliver the plane
to the Wyatt Earp, Ellsworth's
supply ship, And then return. Ells-
worth and hi* pilot have not been
heard from since an attempted
flight over the ^outh pole. Thaw-
hopes to make the trip to the
aoubhenmost .part of South Amer-
ica in six day* and then contact
the Wyatt Earp.
CAIRO. Dec. 1—(A*)—Three British police were injured and 60 students of Cairo University were arrested in
rioting .today. ,
Onfe thousand students fought a rock and club battle with police for half an hour at Giza bridge before
they arete dispersed.
Doeerui of police and students were beaten and knocked down in the outbreak of rioting after two weeks re-
spite, bpt no one was seriously injured. ’
Thct police got the upper habd after firing guns over the students' heads and using bird shot against their
le*- T ' • 4 "• - , -
The trouble arose today because the students, returning to the university after their enforced holiday, were
denied permission to erect a monument on the campus commemorating their classmates killed in the recent
outbreofc-
The police at first raised Giza bridge and prevented the students from entering the city, but later they
lowered it and a battle ensued.
U WITHOUT
“VICTIMS” IN
DRAKE TRIAL
None Found To De-
clare They Were
Swindled By Promot-
ers Of Fanciful Claim.
CHICAGO, Dec. 7—(F)—The gov-
ernment was still empty-handed to-
day In it* search for self-declared
"victim*’’ of the alleged Drake es-
tate swindle, after presenting evi-
dence, for three weeks against 41
persons charged with using the
malls to defraud.
A week-end trial, recess found
the records without any witnesses
avowing they were swindled. Per-
sons heard to date . testified they
still hoped their investments would
win them a share In the estate
which the prosecution says was
mythical.
H. M. Drake of Los Angeles, a
namesake of the Elizabethan free-
booter Sir Francis Drake, in a let-
ter addressed to the federal court
yesterday, asked that his claim to
a share be recorded. —
He said he bought $25 worth of
^lr Francis’ estate in 1921, supposed
to entitle him to one and one-
fourth percent of whatever the pro-
motors of the alleged swindle could
realile from their claim on the
titled sea captain's wealthh.
Even five express agents called
as government witnesses revealed
they not only shipped currency
to Chicago headquarters of the
promoters but made donations of
“Insurrection” Law
Held Invalid
j ATLANTA, Dec. 7—(F)—Sup-
erior Judge Hugh M. Dor soy-
held Georgia's old "insurrection”
law unconstitutional today „n
the case of Angelo Herndon,
Cincinnati Negro communist,
but ordered Herndon held for
20 days ’to allow the state an
opportunity to appeal.
Herndon was convicted of “at-
Qempting to incite insurrection"
by the distribution of commun-
istic literature three years ago
ind sentenced to 18 tq 20 years
imprisonment.
He sought his release upder
aabeas corpus.
(Continued on Page Two)
HITCHHIKER IS
BURIED; NAME
NOT LEARNED
Brief Funeral Services
Are Held For Man
Who Lost Life On
The Highway.
Unable to solve the mystery of
his identity, officers Saturday or-
dered the Interment of a 50-year-
old American who wfcs killed Tues-
day when struck down by an auto-
mobile an the Pharr nigh way.
Rev. M. D. Council conducted
brief funeral services at the Martin-
Nelson chapel10 o’clock Satur-
day morning, and interment fol-
(Continued on Page Two)
HARLINGEN IN
HE WITH CITY
FOR ROSE CUP
Each City To Have
Julia Montgomery
Beautification Tro-
phy Six Months.
McAllen and Harlingen tied for
first place in the Rope Cup beau,
tification contest, judges announc-
ed Saturday after a tour of Valley
cities. The cup is awarded annual-
ly by Monthy’* Monthly and the
Rio Grande Valley Secretaries asso-
ciation.
Harry Ratliff, Weslaco chamber
of commerce secretary, declared
that Harlingen will be awarded the
'cup for six months, then McAl-
len will take possession'of the
trophy for the other half-year.
Ratliff tabulated the scores turned
in by judges. The cash award of
$80 is to be divided evenly, $40
gbing to each town.
Mrs. McKee Caton, one of the
judge*, said that the Mc^len
school grounds were much Unprov-
ed and had a decided bearing on
the decision. The city’s parks and
the approaches .have also been
bettered, she said. But the vacant
lot* in McAllen are still an eyesore
and should be cleaned, ahe de-
clared.
Harlingen was commended on
the improvements made in the ap-
proaches to the city. This work has
been carried out In the past year.
Both citiee were complimented on
the con d it on of their streets.
Plans For Merger Of Methodism Made Public
9&PN60#S
OlWJYAMS
FORT WORTH. Tex.. Dec 7—(A>)
—Bishop E. D. Mouzon of Char-
lotte. N. C., here for the fall meet-
ing of the College of ftiahope of
the Methodist Episcopal Ohurohj
Boaith. today made public for the
first time some of the bask* points
of the plan for unification, of three
branches of Methodism.
BMsop Mouzon, senior bishop of
|ft*e Southern efcunrfe. la the repre-
sentative* of that branch on the
three-man commission which re-
cently completed a draft of the
plan, detail* of which will not be
released until Dec. 12.
"I am confident that this new
plan will meet all objections rale
ed against the first plan which was
defeated.” Bishop Mouaon said.
Union of the three Methodist
group*, the Southern and Northern
Methodists, and the Methodist Pro-
testant church, would create a un-
ified church of S.900,000 members.
Bishop Mouzon explained.
The Northern church is the larg-
er of the three with » membership
of ab’out S.OOO.OOi. Southern Meth-
odic rank* negt with 2,743,983j
members. The Methodist Protest-
ant* have only about 500.000 mem-
bers.
The new unification plan calls
for division of the United church
Into jurisdictions. Th* northeastern
jurisdiction would include the New
England states and other states
east of the Ohio and north of the
Potomac rivers. The Southeaster
Jurisdiction would Include *11 states
south of the Potomac and east of
the Mirnissippi rivers except Louis-
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and cept&ble.
Nebraska would be in the 8outh- j The plan anticipates. In other
Central jurisdiction. The Pacific words, that the colored member-
coast states and Rocky Mountain ship would continue Its activities
would be jn the Western Jurisdic- heretofore, except that they
Hon. i would have a jurisdiction of their
Colored jnemberahip of the entire fa*71’ pro4jaWr wleh a colored bishop
church would be in a separate
division to be known as the Cen-
tral jurisdiction. Colored members,
howevA*. would have the aame
rights and privileges tm the white
{membership. They would have the
l in charge.
Foreign branches of the church
would be declared separate Juris-
diction*.
Annual conferences would te
held os at present and the general
"r {right to .—-----------------
Texas, IawMano, Mexico. I where pitch membership* were ac- !fty
■ conference Would be the same ex-
join white congregation* cept that H would have no author-
jurlwllctiomi line*
nor administrative policies of the
jurisdiction.
Bishop* would he elected by each
jurisdiction. The plan calls for
their ejection for Hfe as is now
done.
"Adoptloit bf this plan would he
the church’s first great step to-
ward Christian unity. Bishop
Mouzon said. "(Tvristian forces
must present a solid front if we
are tb break down narrowness and
other evils which are threatening
our civilisation. I believe the
Methodist plan wili teflueno* other
evangejicaj groups to unite,”
HOUSTON AREA
IS INUNDATED
BY HARD RAINS
Firemen And Ambu-
lance Workers Labor
To Bring Families To
Safety._
HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 7.
UP)—With Buffalo Bayou al-
ready out of ita banka and
threatening to bring a repe-
tition of the disastrous 1929
ticod, all forces of the city
and hundreds of volunteer
workers late tonight were
working feverishly to com-
bat the damage of the angry
wfltcr*
Sheets of rain, which be-
gan falling last night, rapid-
ly filled creeks and bayous
and swirled into the low sec-
tion west of Houston Hei-
ghts and in the Airline
Farms community, isolating
hundreds of persons in their
homes.
Rescue parties rowed
boats through the stricken
areas and brought to high
land several hundred per-
sons whose homes had beenr
inundated by the water.
At a late hour tonight the
waters of Buffalo Bayou
were threatening momentar-
ily to invade the city central
water plant.
A force of 25 city employ-
es was working desperately
installing floodgates and
throwing up a barrier of
sandbags-
At 10 p. m. the bayou had
risen to a point ,16 feet above
normal and was rising at
the rate of three feet per
hour. The waters were
within four and one half feet
of the top of the bayou bank.
(By The Associated Press)
Swirling waters of White
Oak Bayou held 65 families
marooned several hours near
Houston late Saturday, as
floods menaced a railroad
bridge in East Texas and
kept highway traffic tied up
most of the day in the cen-
tral portion of the state-
Houston firemen and am-
bulance workers labored
frantically to carry the ma-
rooned persons to safety. A
dozen boats, rowboats and
skiffs, plied back and forth
for hours.
Sixty' of the families lived In the
Airline farms area, three miles
north of Little York, and the oth-
ers in an addition went of Houston
heights called Shady Acre. Their
homes were Inundated as the
bayou, swelled by a steady down-
pour for 12 hours, surged over
its banks at many point* for the
first time since 1#2». ,
Three thousand sand bags were f
rushed to Palestine os six Inches of
rain Jn 48 hours endangered the
approaches to the Internet total-
Great Northern railway bridge at
Cypres* creek, near Spring. Rail-
road officials .ailed on employee
at Minouri-Pacific station* in the
vicinity to join in efforts to save
the brdge and tracks.
The rain, described as the most
damaging since 1117, washed out
flv« smaller bridges In precineti 1
akone, of Anderson county.
' The bridge over the Lktle Rlv.
un highway) 85 south of Tempi!
wsa opened Vfor traffic late in the
afternoon, after having remained!
closed since Friday night. Streams^
In Central Texas still were bank-
fuL Archardiijts reported a large
Wan in pecans beaten from the
trees by the rain and washed down,
stream.
Longview reported 8.18 inches ot
rain, and "still raining.” Three in-
ches Sell at EX Camps Friday
night and Saturday, and Paris re-
ported two inches and unseasonably
rt weather.1 The temperatu-e
58 “
HOLLTWOO
OPV—Film exec
wen they
Yvonne Dionne,
have sprounted
the filming of
legth picture, at
CalLf. Dee. T—
[ves groaned today
that Emilie and
the quintuplets,
w teeth during
first feature-
llander, Qnt
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