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S? ®he Herald IHE' Brownsville Texas V0 _____ ______ BrovMTiii* — corpu* chi-uu THE VALLEY FIRST FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(/P) 8*n Aston!* — Howto. k ~ - - - ——■ i ■ .1 - m ===== ' ==.,.■ ■— i ■ ■■ ■■■ ,a iJV-RTY-SIXTH YEAR—No. 317 , . BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY', MAY 23, 1928 TWELVE PAGES TODAY 5c A COlty / . I- ---— - ■■■■-- 11 1 ■ =====^== -=^^^^ssaaa^^=aasga=^=as=aa^ p f; W OUK ' iV ALLEY ••nr. Wit r b,'— -— t*ha "THERE'S • reason." ** t* ^Cr ***• on**P*cted slowness of the ]«tato market of the rapidly fading *Mr print. Every reason under the moor ha7 given heretofore. And now one if Qomts out of New York City that | g teems to answer the question; In Itai fart, to be the reason. >ta! It came in a circular letter, writ t tv>n by a New York produce di*trib i*®® Itor, a ropy of which ha* hern re reived by Cleve Tandv of Browns « Here it is: "The fashion of the dav ;* to be I lender. Everybody is striving to l' *;hieve a sylph-like fo'-m. * *“The craze is not confined to ** ng folks; the older ones, who ®l yn jild know better, are forever fm m. ng to fight off obesity. r,No. Hitatoes nre genera.1y credited Tv'*’ A adding fat. In mat" home’ »M ruled off the table. l* Second • • • • TH THOUSANDS of people in id 0t :5S led by the same thought, it is ms hir I to have a harmful effect on roue'll sumption. Potato grower* will *18imply have to abtd.* tbeir time and 'j ji'.’ait for a change in the f;rh "H. ?* “A few years hence the plump 1 •'"maiden may be the preferred type; 1 whereupon potatoes will once more I become popular.” . • • • i NOW, WE’LL WAGER a lot of growers out in El Jardin and L< Fresnos and nearer Brownsville never have thought about that bus iness of fashion having anything to . do with the consumption of pota ► toes. But the New Y >rke-'s interpreta tion of the situation may have a lot of foundation to It. Then it seems to be up to the potato men generally, not only in Texas but in Wisconsin. Nebraska, t'olorado. Florida nnd el*-<*where to dig into a potato, ascertain its prop erties, or the effect upon physical well being, thus to show how it will do one good, instead of harm, to eat potatoes. Perhaps we can have an "Eat More Potatoes Week,” thus adding one to j the thousand and one different "weeks'* over the rountrv. Anyhow, the New York produce F man's thought is worth some ponder « ing down here in the Lower Rio ■ Grande Valley of Taxas. • • • | THE MEANTIME, the Cameron eounty potato districts have shipped Home 1400 carloads of potatoes this season. At prices ranging from two and a quarter to about four and a half J>, cents per pound, with much of it going at around three rents. About 25.000 pounds of potatoes to the ear. f Which means that Cameron county, said to be tha premier potato eountv of tha nation, this year has shipped about 35,000.000 pounds of potatoe*. That’s about a pound for every » third citizen in the United States. ' If the figures are r gbt. the grow N<*rs of this eounty have received Ml somewhere around $1,000,000 for their potato crop. They have spent around I150.M0 o'c for seed potatoes. thi Which leave* a gros* profit of th« $R 50.000. Out of that rome* the •Piplanting. harvesting and other labor ,toeosts. cost of sacks. Interest on leans, ^.ind *o on. Now that we’ve carried the fig ._ares thus far. well leave it to the growers themselves to determine * hr profit of the crop. it • • • "*^'vRS. NAT W ETZEL is quite proud her membership to the Women’s eertising club of Houston. _^^_"as just recently been added to 7 list of members. •*?"rd attended the "Torchbearer . B Sin*-^,, gjV(.n hy the elub. to honor Vim- Mellie Esperson Stew.irt. at jllii Hotel. Houston, the evening o' A 1* •^Pre were five point* to th" rd tr Mrs. Stewart. lit® try were: WJ,0 j„ of unimpevrhnhl" jf^ipr^who is outstanding in hrr jet_ .tess or profession. A <<Wprr who ha* niade a valuabW • ••Tibution to the eronem I r * rnltural development of the - oi munity." -One who has «ervod her commun ity unstintingly-’’ . -One who has added to Hou-toi 1 prominence in the state nnd nation.’’ L • • • B HERE IS THE WAY Colonel Ben t Gordon W hitehead, veteran editor of r the Rio Grande Sun, Thnrr. write, * .bout the Illinois nieme at Alamo: LI -Thursday was IIIhici* day. T -Ebenezer Camp at the west end »• , Alamo was filled with beautiful & Womanhood clad.ators^ f #1anv a rooster had been left * gBLdower because fried chicken wn« 4tnte flower that day, and there pis» plenty of it. garnished with Ppii trry pie* W ’.They gathered from all part* of l *Tt. % .nd every one who registered Mai ;H hpr or hi* Illinois name. T4jt „, the largest crowd that i f rr .gsemhled at an lllinots * pie in the Valley. F S. Brodia. wa« to tell what he 'emeaiber _s about the Black Hawk wr.r. wa* Stable to get their. T-re trouble. jgo 4 M. Kent of Brownsvlle wa* v Aiding court and reuldn't tell about oo-vpaths around Chicago which V been filled up.” and so on _ Lt"'Colonel, how could Judge p. 0,t be expected to kn«w about Chi *o cow path«* te •• *• • Cornhuaker. I- • r . l L BLASTS IN 3 OTHER MINES ADD TO TOTAL 164 Bodies Taken Out Of Mather Shaft; Search Continues for 33 Still Lost ' Ry Thr Associated Press) Indications were today that 221 workers had lost their lives in four mine accidents since Saturday, as follow s: Malher. Pa.—Coal mine explosion; I til known Head; 3.1 missing. 1 ukon, W. Va.—Coal mine explo sion; 1.1 known dead; i missing. Harlan. Kv.—Coal mine explosion; 7 dead; I missing. Kimberly. Nev.—Copper mine rave in; four dead. Rescue Work Is Slowed In Mather MATHKR. Pa . May 23.—</P»—The bodies of 1C4 victims of the Mather mine disaster had been recovered ,*rom the explosion-swent workings today, as rescue men continued their search for 33 missing men. One hun dred And fifty two of the bodies were identified, five unidentified, and sev en held at the bottom of the main haft to he. brought to the aurface I later in the day. Rescue work wa« slowed up to a i .rrcat extend when rescue men were [affected by odors in the underground workings. Many of the bodies recov (Continued on page ten.) 49 GALLONS OF LIQUOR TAKEN j - Customs Men Capture Pack Train Near Point Isabel A pack train carrying a cargo of 43 gallons of liquor was captured early Wednesday morning by Mounted In spectors of Customs R. L. Campbel. i Alphonso Champion and W m. Shears | near the old wireless station on the : outskirts of Point Isabel. I Two Mexican nationals were placed ; under arrest and two others escaped. | The entire train, including four | horses with pack saddles, was cap i tured. The cargo consisted of four 5-gal | Ion carboys of mescal, 205 pint bottles ! of mescal and 24 quart bottles of j hahanero. The Mexicans swam their horses across the flooded Rio Grande at -nmc point near the old oil well, and followed the trail over the sand •idges to Point Isabel. The officers surprised the train while the four were unloading the cargo. Two of I he Mexicans jumped onto two of the horses from which the liquor packs ' had been unloaded and escaped into the darkness. Officers had received a tip that a large consignment of liquor was to be crossed to Point l<abel, and the trio of ru>toins men left Rrownsville about 6 o’clock Tuesday night. They Vnew the trail the smugglers gener ally followed and lay in wait for the e rgo rear the old wireless station. The smugglers reached their destina tion about 2:30 Wednesday morning, and were unloading the liquor when ihe officers surprised them. The Mexicans were brought to Rrownsville and placed in the county ail. The horses were equipped with be typical Mexican pack saddles, each hor-o carrying approximately 12 gal lons of liquor. The haul was one of |thc largest made on the lower border i in recent months. Merchant Marine Act Signed By President WASHINGTON. May 23. — (A>> President t'oolidge has signed the Jones-W hite marine bill. The measure, which was sent to the White House in the same en velope with the McNary-Haugen farm relief hill, authorizes a big re placement program for the govern ment merchant marine, requires sanc tion cf but five of the seven members of the shipping hoard for the sale of I vc-sels to private operators, doubles the ousting $123,000,000 construction l<>an fund of the board, and liberal izes the ocean contract mail system. PENSION INCREASE SIGNED WASHINGTON. May 23. — (JF\— President (colidge signed today a bill raising the pension to civil war w idows from $30 to $40 s month. GRADUATING CLASS OF THE WESLACO HIGH SCHOOL FOR 1928 * —Photo by Sheldon Studio Pictured her* ire th% 43 seniors of tbe Weslaro high school of 192« who were to receive diplomas from that institution. Left to right, they are: First row, Nell Whitehead. Pauline McCalap, Vary Lillian Wars: Second row. Norma Van Vliete. Joy Wilson. Thelma Hendrickson, Estelle Wiessinger. Mildred Meek; Third row. Jane Stebbins. Mavin Mirtin. Irene Richardson. Lucille Griffith. Eloce Music, Eula Mae Simms: Fourth row. Jewel Watson. Julia Lee Board. Lila Yarbrough, Katherine Stolz. Elizabeth Whitson. Elizabeth Moore. Honora Griffin. Lela Bell Simms. Hazel Bennet; Fifth row. Garland Carr. Kenneth Fiandt. lrvin< Ault, Fields Hampton. Floyd W'hitaker; Sixth row, Conrad Voight, J. A. Emery, Edward Eniss, R. B. Farris, J. H. Head, Angel Gonzalez. PAVING BIDS ON MILITARY ROAD CALLED Southmost Road Also Included In Projects Listed for Immediate Construction Contracts for paving the military and Southmost roads will be award ed Thursday. Jure 21. An order issued Tuesday by the Cameron county commissioners court calls for bids on 46.8 miles of pav ing. including the projects in all precincts of the county. The notic" published on May 14. calling for bids on June J3 in all precincts other than the Brownsville precinct was formally rescinded, nnd all projects will he covered at one letting. The military road from the Brownsville city limits to the west line of precinct No. 2. approximate ly 9.4 miles, will be the first con struction in the Brownsville pre cinct. Completion of this road will he followed by paving of the South most road from Brownsville city limits to Southpoint, approximately 7.2 miles. The two projects make a total of lfi.fi miles in the Browns ville precinct. The military road will be 18 feet in widthh, the South ! most road 16 feet. Grades and structures on both roads were completed several month' ago. and the grades are in excellent shape for paving. As railway dumps will be available in close proximity to both roads the paving is expect ed to be completed in record time. Paving projects in other precincts include; Point Isabel-Los Fresnos Precinct —Old Alice road from state highway No. 100 to the San Jose ranch road, approximately 4 miles; Paredes line road from state highway No. 100 to San Jose ranch road, approximately 4 miles. San Benito Precinct—Bluetown and military roads from end of prea (Continued on page three.) *• 'i 4 1 c "■ ,*gr* eF* • ..r.. **.*»,. , •*- *. -m WK'.r' ..... ' i *- * Leaders Doubt Ability To Pass Act In Congress I WASHINGTON". May 23.—f/P>— President Coolidge today vetoed the McN'ary-Haugen farm relief bill. Thus for the second time in as PLAN BORDER AIR SERVICE Begin Northern Route Soon; Rio Grande Lane Later ST. LOUIS. May 2.'L—Inaugu ration of a twice-a-day passenger service between St. Louis and « hiia | go, and later establishment of routes to Omaha and the Mexican border, was announced today by the Robert son Aircraft corporation. With four fourteen-passenger, all metal, tri-motored airplanes ordered, the corporation, which has expanded its capitalization to a million dollar*, expects to start the Chicago service about August 1. Service to Omaha will start as soon as the air mail route can he lighted, probably about, six months hence. Negotiations are also going forward to establish a line to Dallas and the border, and the company hope* later to establish a line to Mexico City. Arnold Stifel, who will head the com pany. raid. The Omaha line will connect with passenger lines to the Southwest at Kansas City and the West at Omaha The Chicago route will link up with passenger service east. Waiting stations at each terminal ere planned, with restaurants for the convenience of the p»-«*ngerx, a? well a* express, pasesnger and in surance offices* - , * .A. _ . -- t. .. , many years Mr. Coolidge has dis approved a.farm plan embodying the equalization fee machinery for sur plus crop control. Whether there will be any farm relief enacted this season now is up i to congress. The house and renato have a choice of repassing the bill without the equalization fee. in the hope of winning presidential favor, or of attempting enactment of the measure as it stands by over-riding Mr. t'oolidge's veto. There is much doubt that, the lat ter couri^e would prove successful. The president vetoed the bill on | the grounds of constitutionality and because the "so-called equalization fee and other features of the old measure are still prejudicial in my opinion to sound public policy md to agriculture.” The veto draws the issue between the president and the farm group in congress more tightly than it ever has been and, unless some further artion is taken at the capitol, will place the agricultural question fce tore the coming presidential con ventions as an outstanding contro versy. Frank C. Low den is one of the hill’s most outspoken champions. Vice President Dawes favors it and Senator Curtis of Kansas and Sen ator Watson of Indiana have voted for it. Secretary Hoover has been regard ed as standing with the president on farm relief. The senate would have to muster a two-thirds vote to pass the hill over Mr. Coolidges veto. This ses sion the sena'e passed it by a vote of 53 to 23. or slighlty more than the necessary two-thirds. In th» hou*c the measurs was approved, 2044 to 121, or slightly Dss than two-thirds. Its consideration in both houses was enlivened by a discussion of its j possible effect on the forthcoming 4 presidentail campaign, the names (Continued on page ten.> i MOODY IDEAS IN PLATFORM OFFERED DEMS Minority Reports Are Made By Johnson And Colquitt; Tol eration Included BEAUMONT, Texas. May 23.-H*’) —A platform containing the prohi bition principles promulgated by Governor Moody's harmony demo crat* was reported to the state dem ocratic convention Wednesday by the platform and resolution* com mittee, headed by R. R. Sterling of Houston, chairman of the state high way commission. Minority reports were prepared by Highway Commissioner Cone John son. who deserted the Tom Love ultra dry camp yesterday for the victorious Moody group. and by former Governor O. R. Colquitt. No action had been taken on the reports. Mr. Johnson's report * recommend ed that the “constitutional” or Love democrats’ stand on prohibition be adopted in preference to the Moody principles. Mr. Colquitt'* report contained a resolution seeking to instruct the Texas delegation to the national con vention against Governor Smith for pre; ident. The majority platform report called fo£ religious toleration and freedom and urged that no person be discriminated against because of bis religion. The republican party was scourged, especially for its high tariff policy. This r*nort recom mended remedial agricultural legts I lation. Resolutions mere offered in me moriam to. Wiliiam J- Bryan, com mending Jesse H. Jones of Houston for his service in the national councils and offering him as “suit able in every way for the highest office within the gift of the peopie, I .^Continued on page ten> ■-.. —- 1 80-ACRE ‘PATCH’ IN * * * ASPARAGUS NEW * * * WILLACY ‘STUNT’ RAYMONDVILLE. May 23.—W. A. Harding is having eighty acres planted in asparagus this week, which is probably the biggest as paragus patch in South Texas. The patch is located seventeen miles west of here, near Hargill. on what is known as the Mestenas tract. Tom Ogilvie. a veteran asparagus culturist, has charge of the work, and he states that conditions here are better suited to the culture of asparagus than in any place he has ever seen. The seed bed was put out last July, and Mr. Ogilvie states that he expects to get a good crop within one year from this planting. Usual ly it requires a period of three, years between putting out the seed bed and harvesting a crop, but the plants will continue to grow for years. Mr. Ogilvie is now harvest ing asparagus from a small acreage on the Mestenas tract, which he put out last October, and his experi ence with this small patch has shown him what he may expect here from his new venture. W. A. Harding is enthusiastic over the outlook for asparagus here, and states that His big tractor will be put to work this week pre paring a 1000-acre tract, which will he planted to asparagus next Janu ary. —— C.OF COX'S EXTENSION OF CITYLIMUS Commission Plan For Taking In New Ter ritory Presented To Body By Mayor Pirn of the city commission to cal' election for the purpose of extending the boundaries of Brownsville to in clude “about fl.frW.OOO additional property values and l.lWO citizen* was approved at a meeting of the Brownsville Chamber of Commerce directorate Tuesday night and a committee of five was named by President Z. A. Rosenthal to confer with the city commission in refer ence to plans for the extension. Mayor A. B. Cole appeared before the meeting and nresented a map with possible boundaries of the pro posed extension marked out out ex plained that it was merely a sug gestion and that th" city commission realized fixing of the new line wou d be difficult and that they would wcl (Continued on page three.) GOP Seek to Pass Small Bills Over Coolidge’s Vetos WASHINGTON. May 23 -Lit tle bills were vying with big bil's tor congressional attention today as fu ther attempts got under way to pass them over presidential vetoes. Of an even dozen of the little fel lows which President Coolidge has seen fit to disapprove, two stood vic torious in thp house today despite thfir unfavomhli* reception at the White Houfe and now muat be passed hy th» senate by a two-thirds vote to become law. . . The warfare over these secondary pieces of legislation was started yes terday in the hou^e when, with the aid of manv republican stalwarts and by big margins, it passed over execu tive vetoes a hill providing salary in crease for postal employes engaged in night work and another allowing rent, fuel and lighht to fourth class postmasters. As if to even the seore, the presi dent shot hack two more measures to the senate at a night session with his stamp of rejection on them, the more important of the two being the dis abled emergency officers retirement hill which ha* been hanging around the hall« of congress almost since the end of the war. The other bill would t reale a rank of bandmaster in the army. NEW FIELD HONOR* FLIER WASHINGTON. May 23.—The new air corps training center at San Antonio will he named Randolph Field in honor of Captain W’illiam M, Randolph, a native of Texas, who lo*t his l»fe in an airplane crash at Gor man. Texas, last February, INSTRUCTIONS AGAINST N. Y. LEADER FAIL Platform Amendment Offered By Oscar Colquitt Is Voted Down 511 to 203 BEAUMONT, Tex., May 82.—UPhm Radical anti-Smith force* of TexaS were defeated 511 to 203 at the atatiB democratic convention Wednesday o% a proposal to instruct the Texaa Na* tional delegation against Govarna* Smith for president. The proposal waa in an amendment by former Gov. O. B. Colquitt, to th* majority platform, which declared only for prohibition and president*!! condidates in harmony with it. The convention defeated an amea4|r ment hv Cone Johnson, old datneS rfatic war horse, to instruct againdl all “wet” candidates. Theconv ention had not yet reach* ed the dispute over the method ©! choosing the national delegate^ Smith leaders are fighting to permit each congressional district to choovi its own delegates for a “true test*' «S the popular will. After an executiva session oif thd Ball resolution the committee ei permanent organization returned 4 report recommending that the tena porary convention organisation bead! ed by Chairman W. L. Dean be mad! permanent, hut withheld a report a! the Ball resolution on the metboa ready to select delegates. The chairman of the committee, 4L H. Menefee of MadisonviUe, »a!<§ the report would be made when convention had heard the report the platform committee and wa# ready to select dleegates. Without a dissenting voice tb! convention then voted to make tlJ temporary organization permanent Richard Fleming, secretary of *{*€ state executive committee, read 4 communication from the national es» ecutive committee fixing the mimhef of delegates at large ao that Ter J would have eight. A motion to elect an equal name her of men and women as delegate! at large carried easily. Tom Ball of Houston then moved that Texas elect ll^men and 12 won <?n delegates at large with one-smS of a vote each, instead of four m*! and four women with a half votl each. The motion waa adopted. A substitute motion to limit the delegate at large slate to eight a! the national body urKRd, waa voteii down. ( olonel Ball moved that each diee trict be represented by two dele* gates and two alternates or font delegates as the district might choose. A storm of disapproval from the floor led him to witndravt the motion. Myron Blalock then moved :hsi (Continued on page ten) San Benito Gets Merchants Meet (Special to The Herald) FAN BENITO. May 23.—This city) was successful in its efforts to gen w* l929 st«l« convention of Retail Merchants’ association, in a tele* gram received by J. F. Belt* here a* noon today announced. San Benito sent a large delegaq PW»Wt convention, i*# ichita rails, and was supported bw delegations from lal the other citie! in the Volley in effort* to get toq next meeting. _ j For Brownsville and the Valley/ r*ir tonight and Thursday; not much change in temperature. Light to moderate northerly winds on thf coast. RIVER FORECAST There will he a slight to modere ■te rise in the river at San Benito and Brownsville during the next 34 to 34 hours, hut no material chang! elsewhere. Flood Present 24 Hr. 24 Hr. Stags S-ags Cling. Rate Eagle Pass .. 14 3.1 -O.t .40 Lared** . 27 *'3 ~T.5 .OB Rio Grande .. 21 1*1.0 +3.2 .OB Mission ..... 2” 2.5 +2.1 .40 San Benito .. 23 Brownsville ..1® —1.4 .4(| TIDE TABLE ’ H gh and low tide at Point Isabel tomorrow, under normal meteorologi eal conditions: High 10700 a. nu Low.12:53 a. m. m ...— MISCELLANEOUS DATA Sunset today .••• 7;1| Sunrise tomorrow Mgs*3:4!