Valley Star-Monitor-Herald (Newspaper) - January 28, 1940, Brownsville, Texas Attend The Valley Mid-Winter Fair Today Then Turn Out For Brownsville's Chorro Day Celebration Feb THE WEATHER Warmer The Partly cloudy and warmer day Monday partly cloudy warmer Gentle variable winds becoming southerly Sunday night VALLEY SUNDAY MONITOR 10 Cents FINAL EDITION All news of the World and the Valley Best ures and World's Best Comics THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY HARLINGEN McALLEN BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SUNDAY JANUARY 1940 FLORIDA Dr Johnson's Explanation Of Sex Case Delayed HIS NURSES ARE CHARGED 4 Illness Of Prober Postpones Case Pictures In Adjoining Column AUSTIN Dr W J fon aging of the Insane hospital at San Antonio was required Saturday to wait un- til next week to begin presentation of his defense against charges that he made sexual advances toward women employes Adjournment of the sensational hearing until Monday was ed by the Illness of Frank Davis one of three members of the board of control which is conducting it Harry Knox Jr board chairman laid the Inquiry would be ed Monday even If Davis is unable to attend Case Draws Many The senate chamber has been ed for each session since the start o testimony Thursday Saturday's disappointment was the second for the wowd Proceedings Friday morning were cut short at the re- quest of counsel for Dr Johnson Direct testimony against the ried hospital head was completed late Friday Seven young women some barely out of their teens accused the bald physician of fondling them and discussing sex- ual subjects with them Dr tJohnson who will testify probably Monday claims the charges are baseless and that there is a conspiracy to remove him as hospital superintendent The board of control membership changed January 1 with Governor W Lee selection of Knox to a vacancy Davis also is an appointee of but the ernor has any for actions of that or any other board Beautiful One former nurse it the hospital gratified the superintendent i her in effect that it a girl did not have sexual relations she would be missing one of the most beautiful TELLS ADVANCES OPENS WEEK OF FESTIVITY Sunday Events Start Full Program Other Charro Day stories and pictures will be found on pages 2 6 7 8 and 10 EL PASO POLICE ARE SAVED FROM MAJOR SACRIFICE EL PASO Paso's policemen who volunteered to a man to attend a girlie show and watch for obscene pets will not be required to make the rifice after all The show following official test against the disgraceful ure of advance publicity detoured around El Paso Saturday and ket sellers were refunding money from advance sales Police Chief Robey called for volunteers to attend the show as VALLEY FAIR WILL EXTEND Sunday Program To Be Best Yet Related stories pictures and lists will be found on pages Z 7 8 10 and 11 Lucy Robinson of San Antonio 20 testified before the State of Control that Drv W J Johnson superintendent of the San Antonio State Hospital for the insane had made Improper advances toward her while ing for a job BROWNSVILLE PIONEER DIES Mrs Fairbanks 63 Is Widely Known BROWNSVILLE Funeral vices will be held Sunday afternoon for Mrs Margaret McAllen things in lite Another said the banks G3 well-known pioneer physician suggested she rent a Of Brownsville and the Valley room not in her own name and I Fairbanks died 8 a m Saturday at her Brownsville home after a lengthy illness he would for it A third former employe said that on several occasions when she went to Dr Johnson's office to seek Services Sunday close kissed her attempted to be at the Episcopal dent's advances Attorneys for the superintendent sought to show that all Ihc witnesses tion CIO Vice President Roosevelt NEW man vice president of the CIO and head of the powerful Amalgamated Cothing Workers Union gave his unqualified endorsement to dent Roosevelt by took a stand in open opposition to his chief CIO President John L Lewis Mrs Fairbanks was born garet Elizabeth March 29 Texas Post Officer Heads Ninth Corps SAN at Fort Houston con- firmed Saturday that Maj Gen Walter commander of the second division has been appointed to command the Ninth Army Corps which will be organized for ex- tensive maneuvers in the south about April hns made her home here since She was married to James B Allen in 1903 Four children were horn of the union all now ing Mr McAllen died in 1917 BROWNSVILLE This j censors the response was so border city will great he announced the men cares to the wind Sunday would draw lots to see who at- business and cold weather let out i tended its beard and launch upon a week ol gaiety dance music and general festivity that goes under the name of Charro Days The fiesta proper is not scheduled to get under way until Thursday February 1 Events But there are so many events on the card that from Sunday afternoon on until the sun sets the following Sunday Charro Days will be in the air the people will be out in costume and the celebrating will be on In fact visitors to Brownsville for the annual fiesta were arriving before the end of this week and those who are to take part in its various events were coming ahead of time ning to arrive with their motors and boats in preparation for the speedboat regatta rodeo performers were dropping in to town and many others were on hand This will be the third annual Charro Days Fiesta in Brownsville The fiesta was started in 1938 and immediately captured the fancy of people in the state And last year thousands crowded into ville to see it and to take part in it The fiesta has part of its wide appeal in the fact that most visitors buy at least a Mexican hat fancy themselves in costume and become a part of the show Sunday's event will be the enade and Dance of the Fleas at the patio of the El Jardin hotel which event is a sort of advance showing of costumes staged partly so everybody can take pictures of everybody else Then events follow in rapid order the Royal Court of the Brush ing a session whenever there is a threat of things lagging a bit The Court of the Brush will lenge the freedom of the press when it calls up local newspaper editors Tuesday to give cause why they should not be fined for printing too much about the cold wave The first costume ball on the 18th Annual Valley Mid-Winter Fair will swing into its fifth day Sunday with a full program on deck for visitors Fair officials decided Saturday to extend the fair through Monday and Tuesday due to inclement weather which cut attendance on the first few days Full program will be ar- ranged for Monday and Tuesday in to Sunday Opens At 8 A M Entrance gates and main exhibits will open at 8 Sunday Sidney Kring fair manager said night Tine State championship Weslaco High School band will play a free concert in the auditorium at p.m The band under direction of William will give an hour's concert according to tion Saturday night This band the other war But he cautioned the British in an address on the progress of the con- any relaxation ing instead it is a time to dare and To Nazi assertions convoy system was Churchill replied that out of ly ships convoyed to and from this island only 15 have been lost He said half of Germany's sub- marines had been destroyed and new building had fallen far short of what we originally estimated He charged Germany with shameful records in the conquests of and Poland from which he said we can judge what our own fate would be should wo fall into her clutches NAZIS WEAKER THAN GERMAN NATION Churchill Says Allies Far Stronger MANCHESTER England Winston Churchill Saturday praised Nazi Germany as a weaker foe than the Germany of in the opening day parade Race drivers were I 1814 while the Allies are far ahead i and drew much favorable comment Race drivers were stoate Mississippi will take up her ting on the irrigation canal bani at 1 p.m and promises a general Valley rain Hames Carnival will open up at 1 p.m with shows for all The monkey show with the carnival has been drawing considerable com- and a free Big Bertha elephant art is offered twice daily on tho midway All exhibits including the home demonstration and 4-H girls are 10 be removed Wednesday morning Sidney Kring said Saturday Big Crowd Boos The Drunkard's a comedy play presented by the ley Theatre Group was presented for the second and final time in the auditorium Saturday night A large and enthusiastic audience cheered and booed the ters during the performance Midget auto races held sway ing the afternoon and will be staged again Sunday Monday and Tuesday Pete McNamee general on Paite 2 Col 1 Requirement Change Urged On Navy Bids WASHINGTON fP In 1919 she was married to tary Edison urged Saturday that G D Fairbanks of Brownsville I Congress alter the present her that navy contracts go to the who her bidderS a which he said was adding untold lions to the cost of new warships Survivors Listed Surviving besides the husband Airs children are two j Mrs Pedro A Chapa of Mexico City who Brownsville shortly arrived in Secretary Reports before her j Income Payments Up WASHINGTON Secretary Hopkins announced Saturday that mother's death and Mrs William of Brownsville and two sons Eldred E and Argyle A both of whom reside on the ranch near Linn in Pallbearers will be Junie j over 1938 Uni Augustine Andres 1 to Frank Armstrong George 1 gnat Jr Joe Bollack Louis Brulay and Alfred Sunday Fair Program Today's Biggest Of All Programs For Fair Valley Mid-Winter Fair 8 Mid exhibits open 1 Carnival opens Miss Mississippi takes her scat on the Irrigation bank to Adams Musical Family will give a free concert In races will start in front of the grandstand Sixteen crack drivers will risk their lives for first place money in eight feature races 3-30 State Championship Weslaco High School band will give a free concert In the auditorium This group Is under direction of William Krauledat Big Bertha elephant act on the carnival midway Herbert mounted on Dorothy Herbert's horses will give a free horse act on the tractor midway 6 Hames Carnival Exhibits all open Herbert's horse act Free attraction on the tractor midway REDS ROUTED FINN'S CAPTURE ARMS HELSINKI The beaten fragments of four Soviet divisions once strong were reported by Finnish couriers Saturday night Mystery 2 Weslaco Killings Suspiciously Similar Same Murderer May Be Behind Both similar in many respects two mysterious deaths occurring here recently still puzzled investigating officers Ur Carlos Castro Weslaco carpenter who died of blows which crushed his skull T W Adamson 69 ol Brownsville who had been working in Weslaco and who died of what appeared to be a terrific beating here are the two victims of what may have been murderous Officers are asking themselves this Did the same man or men assault both Castro and Strangely Similar Carstro who died in an Edinburg hospital January 11 without ing the source of the blows he re- early on the morning of uary 8 and Adamson who regained consciousness before his death uary 23 in a McAllen hospital long enough to murmur that three men beat me were both in the building business Adamson being a building contractor and Castro a carpenter Both incidents happened in Weslaco both happened this month both bear the aspect of sible murder both men apparently BEGINS STATE PARLEY were beaten Officers considered two possible sources of the blows fatal to Castro They surmised that he might have been struck by an automobile while to be scattered in headlong flight j manager and starter said Saturday leaving the snows and icelocked lakes and rivers with thousands of dead and wounded The casualties and heaps of abandoned war materials were the price paid in a futile endeavor to outflank the Mannerheim line to Continued oti Z Col 6 cut behind it by encircling the en shores of Lake Ladoga When the whole story is told f the Finns said it will show the Head Urges Forcing worst disaster of the Russian night Johnny Herbert mounted on othy Herbert's world-famous ing and jumping horses gave bitions at and 9 p.m Saturday on the tractor midway and is ed the same time Sunday Czechs To Aid Reich PRAGUE Karl Hermann Frank protectorate secretary of Methodist Minister Dies In Auto Crash CLOVIS N M of the Nazi black shirts that it was prec 51 former Methodist their duty to force Czechs if ter ot Lubbock Texas was fatally j sary to help toward the victory injured near Lariat Texas late of the Saturday when an approaching car I In Wreck Are Worst to the side of the highway Finds Texan Digs Up Gold Near Odessa ODESSA Smith tourist camp operator said lor day night he and a partner had in buried and gold pieces within 15 miles of here Smith sent a telegram to tT S Attorney Clyde Eastus at las sr.ying shall we bring in Rumania To Ask Aid Of Entente Nations Rumania high authorities said Saturday night will her Balkan entente partners Greece Turkey and Yugoslavia to promise her military support in case of attack by either Germany or Russia Otherwise the Rumanian government was understood to have indicated it would be forced to seek an agreement with Adolf 000 in buried treasure in gold pieces or will you come and get it He would not elaborate than to say he and his partner L E Smith could go right to the ure Joseph Stalin Hitler Cracks Again BERLIN The government intensified its war against ganda calculated to undermine man morale by admonishing law enforcement Saturday to deal severely with all caught foreign broadcasts in de- fiance of a wartime decree 4 Hours Gone With Wind Data Announced HARLINGEN Gone With The opening a week's ment Thursday February 15 at the Arcadia here will be seen in its entirety just as at its world premiere in Atlanta Manager Jack King said Saturday He added there would be no er showings in the Valley or in Texas at less than road show prices Churches Plan Aid For Paralysis Fund churches will observe January 28 Infantile Paralysis Church Sunday to the President's day Ball series with appeals for funds to be made from the pulpits Many pastors were scheduled to take as their sermon subjects the need for aid to crippled and maimed children Virtually all tions have endorsed the Infantile Paralysis Campaign Mrs P J well was to work in her auto Saturday morning when railroad switch her car and rolled it 100 feet Train crewmen jumped to the cue Mrs Maxwell stepped from the wreckage the sole damage to her being a roiled shoe a run in her stocking OIL WORKER SHOT ODESSA Wade Braddy 24 oil worker was found shot to death in a tourist cabin here Saturday on Pure J Col t AFTER TRIAL Hidalgo Relaxes As Montague Freed Both the tion and the defense rested here Saturday literally speaking The most dramatic criminal trial in the county's contemporary lory was at an end and the house in which a buzz of ment had continued for 11 en days while the state's charges of murder against Dr L J gue prominent Edinburg physician were being heard joined in a sub- siding sigh Dr Montague was acquitted in the death of his wife Velma by a jury which required only one ballot and 11 minutes time in which to reach its decision Friday night District Attorney Tom Hartley who the state's prosecution said simply It's all over We did ou He had word of dation for the jury despite the and recognized that he and his staff faced one of the most tent batteries of defense attorneys ever to represent one side in a trial here Lieutenant Governor Coke Stevenson of Junction served as counsel defending Dr Montague Since the state has no appeal from such a verdict legal action in the case is at an end Dad 107 Whips Son 77 be for evening performances and 75 cents for matinees except Sunday when the price will be charged both afternoon and night Seats will be reserved for all performances with ticket sales opening Feb 1 The picture runs fcur hours should be seen only from the beginning Mr King said Performances will begin at and p.m PORTLAND Ore The troubles of John son Ridgley with his oldest boy a stripling of 77 over a estate were settled in court The son William S Ridgley petitioned to be appointed ian of his father who inherited the from his daughter Ridgley senior pretested his son was too advanced in age and tally and emotionally ent Three alienists testified the elder Ridgley was mentally alert and capable of choosing his own guardian and Circuit Judge George Tazwell approved tion of a daughter Catherine Durham Gross A bank will handle his financial attain Reciprocal Program Favors Working Man labor de- spokesman told Congress Saturday that the controverted reciprocal trade agreements gram had created many more jobs in this country than it could con- have displaced and had operated very much in favor of the American workman CHILD LAW HIT Texas Con- gress of Parents and Teachers is mapping plans to ask ratification of the child labor amendment by the Texas next year President To Speak Here Today 70 delegates from all sections of the state ed the first day of the convention of the Lone Star District national Association of Clubs uled to continue through Sunday noon President Speaks M Abbe Strunk San Antonio president of the Association will head the speakers at the day morning business session when delegates choose the next tion city Other speakers include Wayne Wood San Antonio district governor Van R Wiggins Harlingen editor and publisher William Arlitt San Loraine Brockman San Parr Krumb ton past district governor and Sherwood Johns of the Harlingen club and Captain G E Schauer of the Texas Highway Patrol Saturday program included tration of delegates and guests who numbered some 150 at the Field House dance Saturday night conducted tour of Brownsville and Mexico golf at the municipal course here a tour of the Valley Mid- Winler Fair and the Friendship Hour at the Madison Hotel quarters preceding the dance Sunday Bir Day The Sunday activities will open with a breakfast at the Madison Hotel followed by the business sion beginning at Charles Gerson president of the Harlingen Club labeled the first day of the convention a complete and said the delegates looked for- ward to a program of interesting and instructive talks at the day closing session Florida Crop Toll May Up Prices JACKSONVILLE Fla Emergency Sunday and packing operations were ordered through most of the Florida citrus belt Saturday night as the lowest temperatures of a cold spell of record duration were forecast for Sunday the state Damage to citrus and vegetable crops was already heavy In some sections from this morning's sub- freezing onslaught the frost warning service at Lakeland said temperatures would be from one to six degrees lower Sunday E S Ellison meteorologist in charge of the Lakeland weather bureau said there probably would be considerable frozen fruit day morning and some tree age HARLINGEN Warmer weather is forecast for the Valley Sunday but citrus and vegetable men in Florida and truck crop growers throughout the south still worried as the record cold wave not only continues but gels worse Crop damage been high and if temperatures drop as low day morning as predicted a major portion will be wiped out bringing record prices for the Valley which so far has found citrus and table damage not as high as first feared Florida citrus and vegetable growers their crops already aged by severe cold kept fires burning Saturday night as the bureau predicted another onslaught of freezing temperatures said the Associated Press Prepare For Worst Growers reporting their so far as spotted and not general prepared for the worst with smudge pots big stacks of wood and other means of heating to save their crops and valuable trees Weather colder by from one to six degrees than Saturday ing's lows was forecast for Sunday morning Reading below freezing were pre- for most sections of the state including the rich around the Everglades and the lands district south of Miami Relief was promised day with slowly rising tures Much warmer was cast for Monday In peninsular Florida tures ranging from 10 to 22 in the extreme north 22 to 26 in the tral section and 27 to 28 in the southern portion were forecast In extreme northwest Florida it was expected to slide as low as seven to 12 above in the interior Damage Unknown No official or even estimate of citrus damage was able Growers said much depended on weather the next few days At Winter Haven in the rich Polk citrus belt unofficial damage on Col New Chinese Regime Completion Is Near TSINGTAO China a three-day conference with heads of the Nanking and Peiping regimes Wang left by plane Saturday for Shanghai where a political council will complete next month organization of the new central Chinese government of which he has been named head by Tokyo A statement issued after the con- ference said the council would be formed by Wang's Orthodox party and the local ing Peiping and the golian regimes Bonham Family Eats Fish From Pond Ice Frank Wright's family had catfish Saturday night but it wasn't caught the usual way hook with a worm for bait Wright who lives north of town went to a pond Saturday to break away the ice so his stock could get water Frozen in a chunk of the ice wai a two-pound catfish Report Subs Near America Discounted The Whila House said Saturday in response to inquiries that reports of German submarines operating off the coast of South America and within the j American neutrality zone lacked confirmation in official Washington quarters Pay Poll Tax Sadler Warns Texans Of Tax Threats For Valley Tax Payments 2 SAN ANTONIO Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler mored a probable candidate for ernor Saturday night urged to pay their poll tax because 1940 offers us a glorious opportunity to weed out the unnecessary and super- in our political and economic lief Outspoken critic of Gov W Lee O'Daniel and the sales tax that ed in the last legislature Sadler told Texans move was on the part of the rich powerful the self- ish and the unprincipled to dump into the milk bottle of your baby and the flour bin of your kitchen the most abominable and ful sales tax ever proposed to a free people The address predicted the Fame group with the same political ideas would be back this summer and the answer to the sales tax would lie with the who paid their poll tax midnight
