Valley Star-Monitor-Herald (Newspaper) - December 26, 1937, Brownsville, Texas The Weather Fair Today For the Bio Grande Fair Saturday night and Sunday Not much change in temperature Fall Detain Section t Vol 20 A INSTITUTION VALLEY SUNDAY McALLEN E TEXAS SUNDAY DECEMBER 26 1937 Final Edition 10 Cents All the news of the World and the Valley Best ures and World's Best Comics FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS FORTY-EIGHT PAGES U S ACCEPTS JAPANESE APOLOGIES THE LIGHT PEOPLE WILL FIND THEIR OWN WAY THIS IS the Sunday nearest Christmas Day Almost the entire civilized world has laid aside its daily tine and is making festival of the anniversary of the birth of a babe As the ord says of the song of the host of angels on that natal day our softened hearts have been chanting by word or act Peace on earth good will toward men This child never went to school He probably learned to read through the instruction of his re- ligious teachers Hit education as we under stand that word was very meagre He never wrote a book or pamphlet No word of what He said was ever written down un- til after He dead He lived and died in a re- mote country in- habited by simple folk He was looked upon as a dangerous radical by those in They C Him with power at their command Finally they put an end to Him at 33 years of age after three years in the public eye He died No friend survived Him except His mother a little group of women and a few fishermen who had followed Him about and tened as He talked The cold facts of His life as they put Him away Jn his tomb marked Him an a complete failure As we take a look a the the labors and the death of this man let us lor the moment ignore the claim of divinity which His friends made lor Him Let us look at Him as a man man who began a career at 30 and died at 33 During those three years He never had a home He moved about chiefly on foot talking to those with whom He came in contact The stories told about Him said He healed the sick and raised the dead If He did they sickened again later on and died without leaving a ord It must be that what He said later written down from memory by other men is the thing upon which His reputation rests every man who aided in getting rid of Him died in the belief that their conspiracy was a complete success A few ing friends clung to His memory but they appeared to be without much weight If one of them from time to time became troublesome they put him to death also It was all very simple and very final If the people of His country thought of Him at nil they considered Him a complete a fool who paid with his lite for his folly Yet this clay 2.000 years later in every village hamlet and city of a hundred nations people of cation refinement and character gather in His name to do homage to Him as followers of His That fact is the most remarkable fact of all history The world has had its great acters History parades its ders its Caosars and its Napoleons They lived made a deep impression upon their times nm died They are of interest now only to students of history They have no active in- fluence upon the peoples of the world in the year 1937 Yet they were great men of their greatest the world has ever known except one They moved with devastating armies They uprooted nations They dammed the current of history and diverted the stream Their momentary power was im- mense This man never had any army He never wished for one He re- the only man who ever struck a physical blow in His be- half and healed the stricken man He no empire He no government He ly talked i a quiet tone as He walked along the sands of the shore or sat upon a on the THE CLASHING of the armies of the grea military conquerors Sf li stilled The empires which they built have and fallen Bat the quiet voice of this man still speaks down the centuries and lions upon millions of educated and conscientious people hear and are Influenced by it In their daily be- havior This week we will begin a new year That new year is marked by a calendar which divides time at point of the birth of this man To place a man in history we say Turning on Page 2 Col 5 r Checks Indicate Valley Boom SURVEY SHOWS INDUSTRY ON UPWARD TREND Thousands Receive Extra Pay good business conditions which prevailed out the Rio Grande Valley during 1937 and made Harlingen and rounding sections leaders in Texas retail trade was reflected in mas bonuses to employes over this area a survey showed Saturday Surveys made in Brownsville Harlingen and McAllen while far from complete showed that ally every type of retail and sale business as well as the leading industries had made such progress during the year that gifts and bo- larger than usual had been distributed No actual estimate could be made in of those firms in Christmas gifts to em- ployes nor of the amount involved Conservative estimates unofficial I several thousand employes received thousands of dollars In I gifts and extra salaries The Central Power and Light j Company over the Valley followed its annual custom of issuing in- surance policies to employes with the company based on salary time with the company snd a privilege feature of securing additional in- surance at half rate Gives Cash Bonuses Texas Consolidated Theatres in Harlingen Brownsville San Benito Mercedes and eo also distributed cash bonuses Thb J C Penney Store out this section as well as the Wiggly Store and others gave extra salaries to regular em- ployes Among other Harlingen firms was the Snider Packing Company which issued gifts to 27 of its the Grey Service Station and the Pollack Service Station the Madison the Rio Grande Pharmacy Yoder Motor Company The post office staff was likewise treated though not by the government Extra Weeks Pay The C R Anthony Store here distributed extra week's salaries to 18 regular employes and the Junkin Furniture gave each of 10 employes a week's wages which totaled It was assumed that such largess was general among merchants of the Valley A partial survey in Brownsville Flowers Snow For Christmas See Bonus Shows Page 2 Col 6 1 Killed 11 Hurt In Road Crashes Death whittled another notch on a rapidly ing list of Rio Grande Valley fic victims Saturday and brushed at least eleven others as highways were dangerously filled with day motorists Scores of minor collisions red John Hidalgo county WPA laborer was fatally injured on Highway 4 be- tween Alamo and San Juan Friday at p m Mr and Mrs Olsen of Donna told Justice of the Savage at Pharr that their auto had struck a man Friday night They were unable to see him until too close to swerve They stopped and rendered aid body was being held at the Down in the Rio Grande Valley where the beauty and the bloom bask in brilliant sunshine on Christmas day Dorothy Jack Bates is a typical poinsettia blossom from the many thousands now m full bloom bringing the true Christmas color and atmosphere to make this a typical bright and sunny Valley Christmas WORLD VIEWS HECTIC YULE Bloodshed In Holy Land Reported By The Associated Press White-robed choir boys lifting their voices in the vibrant chords of The Herald Angels Sins will carry on the festivity of Christmas in religious ceremonies Sunday in churches throughout the nation The devout continue celebrating the birth of the Christ child in a manger in Bethlehem 1937 years ago There in Bethlehem itself Brit- ish troops stood guard to prevent new violence that last cost 43 lives The irony of bloodshed in the Duke Of Windsor Buys Out Florist For Wife France W The Duke of Windsor practically bought out a floral shop Saturday to celebrate his first Christmas with his bride the former Wallis Warfield Rising late after a Christmas eve dinner with a few friends the Duke went to his private floral shop and purchased nearly worth of orchids violets and out-of-season lilacs With a big smile he ordered the lot delivered at once to the ess at the Villa of Mr and Mrs Herman L Rogers where the sors are staying The couple spent a quiet morning exchanging personal gifts See Yule Crashes Page 2 Col 31 stressed in a sermon D C with President Roosevelt a listener The Rev Peter Marshall 35 preaching his first sermon to the president chose lor his theme the angel's song of Peace on Earth Goodwill Toward Men to which Mr Roosevelt referred in his mas Eve broadcast to the nation Terming the song The Lost Re- iht Marshall las Day in See World Views Page 2 Col 8 Violence Mars Christmas Services In Jerusalem Arabs British Fight JERUSALEM Christian faithful knelt at the birthplace of the Christ Child Saturday in prayer for peace in the Holy Land but even as they prayed British troops moved to quell new violence Forty-three Arabs were killed and more than 20 wounded in battle the past two days in the Tiberias region Three among the British troops were reported wounded Terrorists firing from the ground disabled a Royal Air Force plane and forced it to land Fearful that hostilities might break out elsewhere British troops guarded Christians who trekked to Bethlehem for mass in the Church of the Nuns watched over the cradle of the Christ Child as the procession of worshippers passed through the famed grotto of the church bending low to enter the church door which is only four feet high 7 CITY HEADS ARE INDICTED Buffalo Swindling Is Charged BUFFALO N Y fP of Now York's second est city Saturday awaited Governor Lehman's decision on a plan to widen a municipal affairs inquiry which already has placed nearly half the city council under arrest After an eight week investigation a grand jury asked appointment of a special prosecutor and an extra- ordinary grand jury to carry on the inquiry which they described as a gigantic task The jury's recom- is being considered by the governor x Before adjourning the grand jury The Joan 4 and Jeanine showed its grim holiday mood by LaPointe 7 sisters of Chelsea Mrs presenting 16 indictments resulting Marie Marois 59 Chelsea their in the arrest of seven of the city s grandmother Lena Fradas 38 Lewiston a cousin Fred Coulombe 45 Lewiston Polar Campers Send New Year Greetings MOSCOW The four sian polar campers on a drifting ice radioed New Year ings to the homeland Saturday A strong snow storm and a north wind whipped across their floating home and the thermometer was at 7.6 degrees above zero YULE FLAMES FIVE Horror Ends Gaiety In Maine Village AUBURN Me IP Five persons perished Saturday as flames swept a flimsy lake shore cottage swiftly transforming a scene of Christmas gaiety into one of horror for a family gathering of twenty-five sons Two of the victims were children trapped with others in upstairs rooms as flames spread by an ex- oil heater suddenly the wooden cottage of Mr and Mrs Arthur Ginchereau of Auburn on the bank of Lard Pond Turner six miles from here SPENT IN 1937 FOR BUILDING Valley Boom Seen In 3 Counties BROWNSVILLE The Lower Rio Grande Valley spent a total of on new tion and development work during the year just closing a survey of the entire section just completed here shows This is by far the greatest total since the boom days in the Valley Furthermore the expenditure shows a wider t ige of development in- a vast amount of trial work in packing and ing plants port warehouses and docks and the like Six hundred new homes were built in the Valley during the year the survey reveals It also shows that Dhere was a decided slump in building in the Valley area during the past five weeks although a number of new projects are on the list for the new year Brownsville In Lead In building by cities Brownsville and Harlingen led the Valley with over each McAllen and Weslaco were close on the heels of the others The survey shows that a total of was spent oh processing plants in the Valley this ture being made over practically the entire section The individual projects Plant for Ric Goods Inc at cedes costing an addition to Terrell Garth plant in Mission cannery for R W Apte of Miami in Edinburg remodeling plant in Santa Rosa for Bruce's Juices Inc of Florida remodeling job on cannery at Mission for R C singer of Sugarland Cannery for Alamo Products Co in Alamo costing plant at Weslaco for L Maxcy as Corporation addition in Edinburg to Rio Grande Valley Canning Co plant plant in Weslaco for Christenson Products Co addition to St Clair Food plant at McAllen meat packing plant at Harlingen for Southwestern Packing Co Canneries Built Five thousand dollar cannery addition for Riona Products Co at McAllen addition for Valley Fruit Co at Pharr remodeling job on Citrus Fruit Products Inc plant at Donna 000 juice plant at Mission for Rio i Grande Valley Citrus Association j dehydration plant at j laco for Rio Grande Valley j Association juice plant ad- dition in Weslaco for Rio Grande Valley Citrus Association remodeling job for Bardo Canning Co plant at Weslaco ing plant and processing plant in Lindsay Gardens for R W say cannery addition for Craddock Canning Co at San Be- nito cannery addition for Schmidt Canning Co at San Be- nito packing juice and dehydrating plant at Engelman Gardens for Engelman Gardens sociation Ten thousand dollar cannery at Donna for George R Kelley and J C Dunn addition to Donna Packing Co plant in Edinburg addition to Smith Cannery at Mission cannery in Rio Hondo for inger Co plant at La ma for McClure Canning Co 000 plant in Brownsville for Texas Canning Co addition to Olmito Canning Co plant at to addition to juice plant of Edinburg Citrus Association at Edinburg cannery in or Harlingen Canning Co DIES SATURDAY IS BLOCKADED Chinese Sink Ships Citizens Flee Newton D Baker tary of war during World conflict died in Cleveland Saturday following a heart attack He had been con- fined to his bed since Dec 3 HEART FAILS NEWTON BAKER ON CHRISTMAS War Secretary Dies In Cleveland See McAllen And Page 8 Col 1 CLEVELAND Newton D Baker who as secretary of war mobilized the greatest army in the history of his country died after a heart attack The short eloquent statesman who served in the world war inet of President Wilson had been confined to his bed since shortly after his birthday December 3 He was first stricken several months ago in Syracuse N Y He recovered from thit attack and resumed some of his law tice here As counsel for a number of utilities he recently appeared in court at Chattanooga Tenn in a suit involving the utilities and the Tennessee Valley Authority In the later years of his life he had withdrawn gradually from the multiplicity of interests which he cultivated after leaving public vice living quietly at his home here and visiting his law office frequently Last year he resigned as man of the Cuyahoga county Cleveland Democratic Central Committee A position he had held for 26 years He said then it's up to us men to give the young fellows their Members Of the family had ered at the Baker home for a quiet Christmas The former war son Mrs Baker Mrs Gesn a physician and a nurse were with him when he died Christmas Baby Is Born In McAllen McALLEN The Valley's mas Lee Dean eight pounds three ounces was born here at McAllen Municipal tal Saturday ot 3 a m Mrs Dillard Dean and daughter reported doing nicely via Lee is her first This is the first human age I've ever taken off the mas tree figuratively speaking Of course I'm puffed said Dillard Dean WASHINGTON Jf The ed States accepted Saturday anese guarantees against ment of or unwarranted ence with the rights and interests ot the United States in China The Panay incident which threatened to create serious diplo- matic trouble if not worse between the two countries was considered closed as to its general lines Some technical points chiefly the amount of the indemnification remain to be worked out Secretary Hull in E formal reply to the Japanese note of Friday The government of the United States regards the Japanese account as set forth in the Japanese government's of December 24 of action taken by it as responsive to the request made by the government of the United States in this government's note of December 14 Secretary Hull conferred with President Roosevelt tary Sumner Welles and Assistant Secretary Hugh Wilson before in- his reply The United States continues to rely however on the facts con- findings of the court of inquiry This may be en to mean that this government does not admit the Version of as contained in the anese note but does not intend to pursue the argument further BLOCKADE THROWN AROUND TSINGTAO BY JAPANESE SHANGHAI Sunday The Japanese navy announced today that a blockade had been thrown around the industrial city of tao where three United States craft were standing by to evacuate 300 Americans Japanese land forces pushing for- ward into North China previously had cut off communications be- tween Shantung province capital and Tsingtao which is on See U S Accepts Page 11 Col 1 I Overeating Fatal To Two Men In Matamoros Area MATAMOROS bral congestions following ty Christmas midnight repasts put two residents of this section in graves Saturday Special In- Ramon B Arguelles said Laureano A Garmendi 42 en- gineer died after a festive meal at the home of his cousin brosio Fernandez and Nicolas Espinosa 34 farmer died at the El Capote Ranch 17 miles west of Matamoros early Christmas morning after a holiday meal Both men were buried mas afternoon Progress edition of The Sunday Monitor Herald reviews the Rio Grande Valley's construction and in- bonm 1937 It greatest since the days of 1929 In photograph and story major are The Valley is trowing rapidly It Is well o record its at we move ahead 15 a former state tor a a city master and six former city employes on counts The indictments included charges of perjury ery or obtaining city funds through fraudulent claims Xmas Mail Volume Breaks AU Records WASHINGTON Postmaster General Farley estimated Saturday that Christmas mail this year set a new record Air-Conditioning Had To Be Used In Valley Theatres Christmas Day Where in all the United States does the populace stroll about in shirtsleeves outdoors turn off all heaters day and evening turn on the tem in its Just one guessed it the first the Lower Rio Grande Valley Last night in New York City Chicago even in many southern cities left home clad in warm furs the heaviest of winter heating systems were going full blast to keep them comfortably Last in Harlingen Jock King of the Arcadia theatre ordered the Arcadia's refrigeration and air-conditioning plant into operation because a capacity audience of Valley was suffering from the heat with the heating plant entirely shut down Clad mostly in what would be only summertime in nearly every other section of the country the audience was uncomfortably warm until the cooling plant was placed in operation largely spent Christmas day out- if indoors with springlike breezes blowing freely through opened windows Maximum temperature reached in Saturday was 81 while the minimum only a few degrees lower was 61
