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Vol. 4, No. 23
HARLINGEN, McALLEN, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1940
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Italy To Take Suez?
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Miller To Sign Final
Papers Monday
Gravest Crisis Of War
Indicated Now
Swingmaster Victim
Of Auto Crash
Italians Making Final
Stand At Bardia
Pun-Lovi«g Felons
Stage Play At Pen
Nazi Guns Fire On
Kentish Coastline
Growers Warned To
Expect More
Edinburg Hunter Dies
At Monterrey
Reason For Calling
Out Men Vague
War Material Seized
In Saturday Drive
Heaviest Rains Since
1939 Hit Area
VALLEY RIVER
BRIDGE SOLD
ASK ENVOYS
BE RECALLED
FOR SPYING
AIR INVASION
IS EXPECTED
GREEKS TAKE
NEW HEIGHTS
PORT ISABEL
ISOLATED BY
HIGH WATER
RAINS SLATED
TO INCREASE
FRUIT PRICES
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NEW YORK—Former Pres-
ident Herbert Hoover declared Sat-
urday night that employers and
employes in essential war indus-
tries should waive their respective
rights of lockout and strike “in
favor of arbitration.”
ROME— (/P) —The Suez, as the
vital point in the Mediterranean,
“will be reached by Italian troops”
despite “the violent shock” in Libya,
the Fascist weekly Relazioni Inter-
nazionali declared Saturday.
describes it as a “colossal collec-
tion of scintillating songs, gorgeous
WASHINGTON— —Plans are
being worked out. draft headquar-
ters said Saturday, to employ con-
scientious objectors to military serv-
ice on reforestation and soil con-
servation projects.
Finn Ship Arrives
NEW YORK— (jP> —The Finnish
freighter Carolina Thorden. pock-
marked with the machine-gun bul-
lets of a Nazi warplane and carry-
ing the rescued crew of the mined
Greek freighter Dionssios Stathaos,
dropped anchor in the lower bay
Saturday.
Vegetables Helped
Vegetable crops were expected
to benefit and range lands to be-
come covered with verdant grass
for grazing.
“This is a good time of the year to
stop, look and listen instead of
shipping out fruit in great quanti-
ties and the enforced harvesting
holiday will do the market a lot of
good.” said William A. Brunton,
sales manager for the Rio Grande
Valley Citrus Exchange at Weslaco.
We have always felt the demand
was going to come after the first
of the year or after February 1.”
The exchange has sent out bulle-
tins to its member associations ask-
ing them to be very cautious in
the harvesting of fruit not only to
prevent a heavy movement to mar-
ket but also to prevent trouble
which usually develops when wet
fruit is shipped. Decay sets in much
BUENOS AIRES—(/Pl—Three pigs
flying swastika flag- were set loose
on elegant Florida street Saturday,
NEW YORK—(Ah— Princess Mary,
of England, president of the British
Girl Guides, will make her first
trans-Atlantic radio broadcast at
9:45 a. m. <CST) Sunday over the
network of the Columbia Broad-
casting System.
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Best Since 1929 Predicted As Money Flows
In Steady Stream; Defense Program Aids
British Shoot Down
144 Italian Planes
Maximum Production
Sacrifices Urged
CRASH KILLS
VALLEY MAN
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IN MATAMOROS
By IRVING PERLMETER
WASHINGTON — (7P)— Like
men who purchase equipment
for fighting a catastrophic blaze
Vitally Interested
The German spokesman.
ed up the pigs but could not learn music,
who loosed them.
DOVER. Eng.—(/Pl—The big Ger-
man guns of Cap Gris Nez opened
fire across the Straits of Dover Sat-
urday shortly after 9 p. m. (2 p. m.
CST). breaking a week's silence.
The shelling was heavy. Towns
on the Kentish coast were shaken
by the crash of the shells, coming
at 3-minute intervals for a quarter
of an hour.
the place
pendent candidate,
had claimed victory.
Committee of five Tamaulipas
congressmen had watched the elec-
tion. and Saturday made their re-
port to the congress in special ses-
sion. held by Attorney General
Jacobo Martinez, provisional gov-
ernor in absence of Governor Marte
R. Gomez. The congress Saturday
declared De Leon the winner, is-
suing certificate signed by Marti-
nes.
LONDON—(rP)—The British, using
Adolf Hitler's own blitzkrieg tac-
tics. knocked out “at least” 144
Italian planes in the first 12 days
of their North African offensive
while losing only 13 of their own.
the air ministry news service re-
ported Saturday night.
Eighty-eight of the Fascist planes,
the news service said, were shot
dowm in the air and 56 destroyed
on the ground or captured. Pilots
of five of the 13 British planes lost
were reported safe.
Is Given Foreign Ships Tied Up Here
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INVASION WEATHER
DOVER. England— (/Pi —Search-
lights from both sides of the Strait
of Dover swept the starry sky Sat-
urday night. Parachute flares gleam-
ed over the French coast Mist
curtained the waters of the Eng-
lish channel off Calais and Cape
Gris Nez.
MATAMOROS — Federal troops
were stationed Saturday night out-
side the Matamoros city hall, to pre-
vent possible disorder, after being
called by Mayor Francisco Zarate.
No disorders had occurred in the city
Saturday, and exact purpose of the
troops was not disclosed.
Agrarians of the vicinity, however,
had supported candidacy of Antonio
De Leon, declared by state congress
of Tamaulipas Saturday to have been
elected mayor of Matamoros in De-
cember 1 election. Whether fear of
possible agrarian coup d'etat was
cause of the presence of the troops
was not revealed. ’
Mayor Zarate had unofficially
backed candidacy of Tomas Saro.
supposed to be PRM candidate for
De Leon was an inde-
Earlier Saro
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Sheriff Pleads For
Safety On
Roads
■pDINBURG-An appeal to Val-
ley drivers to remove the
sting of death from their Christ-
mas celebrations came Saturday
from Hidalgo county’s sheriff,
R. T. (Bob) Daniel.
In a warning against holiday
traffic accidents, the sheriff point-
ed to the excessive death toll on
Valley highways already this year
—now standing at 83—and claim-
ed that serious attention should
center on safety during the light-
hearted Yule period.
Pavements Slick
Especially in view of week-
end weather conditions. Daniel
said extra precautions should be
taken by all drivers against acci-
dents on slick pavement.
“Let’s pay some attention to
the children, too.” he urged.
‘Thousands of them are out of
school for the holidays, and their
safety is our responsibility if we
are going to drive our cars.” Dan-
iel expressed the hope that un-
Money Flows
But Inflation Is
Not Expected
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LONDON—An undetermined number of Londoners who had been
holding parties to celebrate the coming of Christmas were killed Sat-
urday night in a tenement house smashed by a German bomb.
In the street outside lay bits of tinsel and a star from atop a Christ-
mas tree. Amidst the rubble of furniture, bricks, children's toys and
Christmas decorations lay bodies in*
their respectable "Sunday best.”
Men and women who a little
while before had been singing
carols and exchanging Christmas
puddings and candy stood dumbly
about the ruins.
Like "Hammer Blow"
“It came like a hammer blow,” ’
one man said. “My wife and I were
out in the kitchen fixing some food
Inside they were singing ‘God Rest
Ye. Merrie Gentlemen’ and laughing
and shouting. Suddenly we heard
that awful whoosh of a falling bomb.
Thank God my kids are with their
grandmother in the country.
“There’s what’s left of the party,”
he said with a gesture at the broken
homes.
There had been parties all around
the district, some in air raid shel-
ters and others in homes. When the
sirens sounded most of the people
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j^USTIN—(/P)—Adding to the Yuletide illumination displays is
a brilliant comet which will be visible to the naked eye from
now until January 13, flaring brightest about January 1.
Dr. Otto Struve, director of the University of Texas McDonald
Observatory, reported Saturday the comet will be visible just
after sundown immediately above—and its tail pointed away from
—the western horizon.
Texas and University of Chicago astronomers have arranged
three sets of cooperative observations bearing on the comet which
has been dubbed Comet Cunningham after its discoverer, a Harvard
University astronomer.
As Christmas Celebrants Killed In Night Air Raid
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BRITISH RUSH Tenement Packed With Poor Celebrating
EXTRA FORCES Holidays Leveled By Huge Bomb
ently was shelved when Miller
able to purchase control of
present structure.
New Construction
Concurrent with his bridge
nouncement. Miller revealed that
plans have been prepared and are
ready for submission on to the gov-
ernment for building new accommo-
dations for the customs, immigration
and public health services at Hidal-
go. As soon as these planes are ap-
proved. construction will begin.
The new suspension bridge which
cost about $120,000. was opened for ‘
traffic onh a week ago Workmen
are still putting finishing touches
on the bridge sidewalks. The new
bridge replaces a pontoon bridge
which has been in use more than a
! year, since the old suspension bridge
fell into the river. The old bridge
fell on November 12. 1939, killing
one motorist who was driving across.
Since the new’ bridge opened, traf-
fic bet wee Mexico and this country
has increased 3q per cent, bridge
•uthonties have reported.
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McALLEN—Sam L. Miller of Mc-
Allen announced Saturday that he
had purchased a controlling interest
in the Valley Bridge Co., which has
just completed a new suspension
bridge across the Rio Grande be-
tween Reynosa and Hidalgo.
The announcement confirmed ru-
mors which had been heard con-
cerning the transaction for several
weeks but not previously authenti-
cated.
A contract to purchase controlling
stock of the bridge company was
executed 10 days ago. Miller said.
Final legal papers closing the deal
will be signed Monday.
No Sellers Named
Miller made the announcement
from his home herfe. where he has
been confined with a mild attack of
influenza. The former bank presi-
dent declined to reveal names of
the stockholders from whom he pur-
chased his interest.
Miller’s interest in the interna-
tional bridge at Hidalgo is of long
standing. Earlier this year he had
announced his intention of seeking
permission tn build a self-liquidat-
ing bridge adjacent to the present
structure which would be donated to
the state highway department as a
free bridge after investors in the
project had been paid back out of
tolls.
Miller went so far as to obtain title
to land adjoining the present bridge
site and to revive an old company
formed some 15 years ago which
owned a bridge permit, granted by
congress but never utilized. His
plan for a competing bridge appar-
was
the
MADERA. Calif—i/P»—Hal Kemp,
the swingmaster, who aspired to be
a symphony conductor, died here
Saturday.
The 36-year-old bandmaster died
from pneumonia which developed
from injuries he received in an auto-
mobile accident near here Wednes-
day.
It was Kemp’s orchestra that the
Duke of Windsor often danced to in
London clubs when he was Prince
Wales One night the prince
played the drums in Kemp's band.
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By HARRY FOEHNER
HARLINGEN—The Valley is all
set to reap big dividends from this
week's rains although suffering
temporary discomfort from the
dreary drizzle which persisted far
into the night Saturday w?th pros-
pects for more Sunday.
Although the rains held up
harvesting of fruit intended for
holiday gift packages, thus depriv-
ing many of their Christmas grape-
fruit and oranges, there already was
a noticeable reaction in the markets
to prospects for curtailed supplies
for at least a week and possibly two.
Shippers with fruit in their houses
were already reporting better
prices.
WASHINGTON —(/P)— The new
defense high command Saturday set
as its goal maximum production “in
every field which can contribute to
victory” and asked for cooperation
of “every element in the American
community.”
The expression of purpose was
made by William S. Knudsen, direc-
tor of the office for production
management of the defense com-
mission, in a statement at the close
. of a day which saw these concrete
steps in the rearmament program:
Extension of the export control
system to 15 additional items, in-
cluding chemicals useful in produc-
tion of war gases and aviation gaso-
line.
ATHENS — </Pi— Greek forces
pushing deeper into Albania have
captured new fortified heights in
the Tepeleni-Klisura sectors and
have taken 300 prisoners and a
quantity of war material, a gov-
ernment spokesman reported Sat-
urday night.
He declared the Greeks also
were continuing their advance in
other sectors, especially in the
coastal region toward Chimara.
Important Italian positions also
were taken in the north beyond
Pogradetz, the spokesman said.
Concrete Forts Fall
“Fascist positions on the moun-
No, chivalry is not dead these (fays. But it’s changed.
Sir Walter Raleigh threw his cape in the mud for a
queen to step on, but the 1940 Sir Walter Raleigh picks
up his queen and carries her through the mud and
water. For example, note the couple above, photograph-
ed on Harlingen’s main street Saturday during the rec-
ord rain. (Photo by Jack Purnell.)
of the opinion that there is no real
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CAIRO. Egypt—(/P)—The British
moved more reinforcements Satur-
day to Bardia. besieged Libyan
port where the Italians are making
their first real stand against Brit-
ain's 13-day-old North African cam-
paign.
The town now has been cut off
for two days with the best part of
two Italian divisions inside and
British guns turned on it from land
and sea. Field forces are reported
officially to be striking beyond
that smoking stronghold toward the
important Fascist base of Torbruk.
clearing areas to the west and
northwest.
Fight To Finish?
Whether Bardia's beleaguered
Italians intend to fight to the fin-
ish or surrender is a question to
which there was no answer so far
from British military sources.
The Fascists, it was pointed out.
may have instructions to hold on
as long as possible to give Mar-
shal Rodolfo Graziani time to re-
organize his scattered forces far-
ther west—at Tobruk, for instance,
which has strong defenses.
Bardia also is strongly defended
and British headquarters indicated
RECORD RAINS CAUSED BY GULF STORM
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Nazis Hint War With U. S. If Britain DEFENSE GOAL Moderate Disturbance Located
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As Downpours Close Valley Roads
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HARLINGEN — A steady down-
pour which has already exceeded
all other rains since the 1933 hurri-
cane continued to fall at midnight
Saturday as the U. S Weather
Bureau said a moderate tropical
disturbance located in the Gulf of
Mexico was to blame and raised
storm warnings from Brownsville
to Corpus Christi.
So heavy has been the rain dur-
ing the past 72 hours that Saturday
motorists were warned against try-
ing to reach Port Isabel. The high-
way between Los Fresnos and the
port is under several feet of water.
Later Saturday water covered the
highway between Los Fresnos and
Barreda. and travel was impractical
over that route.
Continued rainfall was predicted
for Sunday and Monday. No change
in temoerature is expected.
Storm Warnings Raised
The weather bureau advisory
read: "Northwest storm warnings
ordered 9 p. m„ Brownsville to
Corpus Christi, and small craft
warnings indicated north of Cor-
pus Christi to Port Eads. La. Dis-
turbance of apparently moderate
intensity located in central portions
of the west Gulf of Mexico, appar-
ently moving slowly eastward or
east-northeastward will be attended
by strong northwesterly winds on
the Lower Texas coast and fresh
to occasionally strong north and
northeast winds on the upper Texas
and Louisiana coasts tonight and
Sunday.”
W. J. Schnurbusch. Brownsville
Weather Bureau chief, said barom-
eter reading was puzzling. Although
high Saturday night, it had climb-
ed and dropped erratically during
the afternoon. He indicated the
storm was similar to a summer dis-
turbance. He said it was of mod-
erate intensity.
Port Isabel residents were ad-
vised to stay at home as strong
winds and unusually high waves
accompanied the rain there. Per-
sons living on piers moved ashore.
All boast were tied up in the
channel as the weather became
worse Friday night Only incident
English Prepare For
Parachute Troops
By DREW MIDDLETON
LONDON—</Pi—Expectation of a
new. formidable threat of invasion
from the air was widely supported
Saturday night by responsible mil-
itary ..nd air sources who declared
that Germany would send over an
enlarged Luftwaffe and thousands of
parachute troops in an attempt to
beat Britain to her knees before
spring.
The air correspondent of the well-
informed Sunday Times said that the
“new threat as forecast by Lord
Beaverbrook comes more plainly
from the air.” an opinion backed by
neutral and British air sources. Lord
Beaverbrook, minister of aircraft
production, warned Britain this
week against letting down her guard.
May Come By Night
These sources suggested that the
comparative immunity of night
threat of inflation.
In general, here are their tenta-
tive conclusions:
1. There will be slightly higher
prices and greater mass spending
power in terms of dollars (al-
though those dollars may not buy
as much as at present).
2. After a decade of depression,
the country can stand such a mftd
inflation, if it can be cal'ed that;
perhaps ought to have it.
3. If real inHation threatens, it
can be checked.
Over-simplified, what causes an
inflation is this: When money is
plentiful, a large number of would-
be buyers bid against each other
for a desired article and boost the
price. The seller, naturally, will
take all he can get.
May Force Savings
One of the methods tne economists
have discussed for preventing this
situation is government compulsion
to force people to save part of
their money instead of spending it.
In England, this method is prac-
tically in operation already, except
that moral and patriotic pressure
has been substituted for government
edicts in coercing the people to
save.
Usually, this method has been
defined as a law requiring citizens
to put a portion of their earnings
in the bank each week or month.
Pv LOUIS P. LOCHNER
BERLIN—(ZP>—An official spokes-
man of the German foreign office
Saturdav that Britain's
minister of shipping was "inciting!
America tn commit a warlike act”
against the Axis and. in carefully
chosen words, added that the
United States’ reaction "is being
awaited by Germany with extra-
ordinary interest.”
The occasion for this solemn and
emotional statement was a press
conference weighted with gravity;
the reason, an interview given the
American press in London Friday
by Ronald Cross, the British ship-
ping minister, who suggested assign-
ment of the British of the German
and Italian ships which are tied
up in neutral United States harbors.
In an |
aside, added: “The Reichs govern-
ment is therefore centering its en-
tire attention upon this (United j
States) reaction.”
(Informed but unofficial political;
sources in Rome said delivery of
Axis ships to Britain by the United
States would be “unfriendly” and
"unneutral” and expressed confi-
dence it would not happen.)
Nearly coinciding with the for-
eign office conference, it was an-
nounced officially that the German
government has asked the United
States state department to recall
three members of the staff of the
United States embassy in Paris on j
charges that they helped a British
officer to escape.
These three are Mrs. Elizabeth
Deegan, formerly of Asheville,
N. C., a receptionist who recently which may never develop, admin-
was detained for several days of
German military occupation au-
thorities in Paris; Cecil M. P. Cross,
istration economists are devising
methods of combatting inflation
j from the multi-billion dollar de-
fense program, although saying they
do not expect it.
Officials Not Alarmed
Admittedly, the current situation,
with the government putting un-
precedented sums of money in cir-
culation in the acquisition of wea-
pons, contains elements tending to
increase prices. .
study, however, the professional
Navy Orders Placed
Placing of navy orders totalling
$284,218,700 for submarine chasers
and auxiliary vessels, included were
four ships designed for placing anti-
submarine nets at entrances to
strategic harbors.
Selection of a site at Tulsa, Okla.,
for a plant which will assemble
planes from parts made in automo-
bile factories. Similar plants already
have been allocated to Omaha, Neb.,
and Kansas City, Mo.
Award of a $6,756,399 contract to
the Hercules Powder Company of
Wilmington, Del., for operation and
equipment of a powder bag loading
plant near Pulaski, Va. This plant
will operate in connection with the
$36,000,000 powder plant the same
firm is building for the government
at Radford. Va. ,
“Recognize Full Crisis”
Knudsen asked the American
people to recognize “the full gravity
of the crisis” in the world and
“figuratively to pull off their coats
and roll up their sleeves and give
their concentrated, undivided at-
tention to one thing—the swiftest
possible production of means of de-
l fense.”
He said “the contest which pro-
duced this crisis is irreconcilable
in character and cannot be term-
inated by any methods of appease-
ment.”
“Both the future security of
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to ports of year-to-year gains came
After prolonged ! Irnm industrial and military train-
the professional centers, where government pay-
EDINBURG—Badly injured when
the car in which he was returning
from a Tampico hunting trip
plunged off a highway embank-
ment 25 miles south of Monterrey.
Joe Baldridge, 34-year-old Edin-
burg finance firm operator, died at
a hospital in the latter Mexican
city Saturday morning.
A. Y. Baker, Jr., and Tommy
Faires, both of Edinburg, who were
with Baldridge, sustained only
minor injuries.
Baker and Faires will return to
Reynosa by train Sunday afternoon,
they informed Baker’s brother,
Gillespie, of Edinburg, Saturday
by telephone.
Baldridge’s body remains at Mon-
terrey.
By The Associated Press
Big Christmas shopping crowds rolled up substantial trade gains in
war-time spending splurge at busy industrial centers, a nation-wide
i survey showed.
Many merchants reported the best Christmas trade since 1929 as
workers from defense-stimulated industries poured their extra pay into
retail channels. Some said the buying broke all records.
Increased factory employment and over-time wages in the drive to
speed defense output augmented the buying power of millions.
*ment figures indicated national in-
come this year had climbed at least
I $4,000,000,000 above the 1939 total.
Jones Is Optimistic
Secretary of Commerce Jesse H.
I Jones said the 1940 holiday retail
, business probably would “shadow
I all previous records.” He credited
■ the defense program with stimu-
lating the industrial upswing in re-
cent months and noted 2.300,000
workers had been added to payrolls
fjre. ' in non-farm jobs since February. .
Latest reports indicated the rising
of employment was still on as de-
fense planners sought to quicken the
productive pace of war plants. Huge
unfilled orders fo^ both U. S. and
British account were held an as-
surance of high factory activity for
months ahead, even without further
boost in armament spending.
Improvement Widespread
Retail trade improvement seemed
to be widely distributed through the
country but the most emphatic re-
came
QC /"’ll ADA tain hei«hts naturally are strong
1 ij \JvAl\U and *ortified a,so by concrete but
these machine gun nests have been
abandoned under the bayonets of
charging Greeks."
Brifish-Greek forces in close col-
laboration were reported to have
struck sharply against Italy by land,
sea and air.
British fliers participated in two
of these, directly in their own at-
tacks at Italy’s home and Albanian
bases and in support of Greek
troops in the front lines.
By air—1?AF bombers based in
Greece were said to have bombed
oil tanks and railways overnight
at the Italian port of Brindisi, across
the Adriatic Sea from Albania, set-
ting off “large fires” and “several
explosions.”
Also, the RAF reported attacks
COLUMBUS. O.—</P>—"Stars in
stripes of 1940"—that’s the name
some pun-loving prisoner has se-
lected for the annual Christmas
play at Ohio penitentiary. bombers over Britain probably may
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Driver Is Blinded
The accident took place, the
brother was told, when the Edin-
burg car met another at a narrow,
gravelled curve on the highway.
Blinded by the lights of the ap-
proaching car. the Edinburg driver
moved his car too close to the edge
of the road and it tumbled over
and down the embankment. How
far it fell u’as not learned.
One of Baldridge's ears was al-
most torn off and he sustained other
head injuries.
Wait 2 Hoours
The men were forced to wait for
more than two hours on the high-
way before a passing Monterrey-
bound motorist picked them up and
took them to that city. A few
moments after a doctor at the hos-
pital began to treat Baldridge, the
Edinburg man died. He had never
lost consciousness.
Among his survivors are Dair
Baldridge of Edinburg, prominent
produce shipper, and Ray Baldridge,
who operates a recreation hall here.
There are several other brothers
and sisters, in addition to his moth-
er. who resides at Lyford but who
was visiting in Edinburg at the
time news of the fatal accident was
received.
No local funeral arrangements
had been announced.
The party of three Edinburg men
had left last Monday on the Tam-
pico trip. They were due to ar-
rive here on the return trip Sat-
urday afternoon, having planned
to reach Monterrey early Saturday
morning.
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Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald (Harlingen, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 23, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 22, 1940, newspaper, December 22, 1940; Harlingen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1327189/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .