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m. n_rL-u-gj-xr«rv-u-xj--iii-L Tj-nrxr-u-i_r-iu-i_ - - — -m, tm ur j^nrareiati^ | Lawn Mowers T8J +* * * + _. Pumps Garden Hose — Sprinklers 41 ■ ■ ■ ■ Blf 1/ n ■ h B B^r Over 45 Tears Experience | 1!j III III Llli IIII IF uzzzvzz ——-— THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—</P) —« THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 225 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929 SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY i ■ • .. ■ •■ -- - •■— ........ - .— .. .... •■" - — --— .- - . .—- :— MIN OUR j VALLEY! BAD WEATHER in the Valley eemes in cycles of about a week •part. This is the novel observation of J. E. Ball, secretary of the San Be . »ito Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bell was discussing weather with a land man. The land man 1 was worried, because of the bad weather on Friday, and unfavorable forecasts. “W'eather will be all right by Monday," Bell said. “You probably have noticed that we have had prac tically all of our bad weather this year on Friday . It comes in cycles, •nd usually is back to normal Val ley sunshine by Monday." And it did clear, ar.d the largest | delegation of homeseckers ever to j ■ come to the Valley was greeted with | sunshine Monday. “But Just wait for the first bad Monday," the land man said as they I parted. • • • i ! v*THE VALLEY ought to have An I Mky time getting coaches from other j JTOM of the country, in the opinion { ef Bobby Cannon, roach at Peacock j Academy in San Antonie, and him self • famous football and baseball flayer ia his day. “Seems they would come down Just to live in this climate, and to enjoy all the Valley offers," the athlete said. Bobby was in Harlingen as the guest of Ben Epstein. e • • “I AM LEARNING to be a first class loafer." So sayeth Col. Sam P.obertson, builder of tha first railroad into the Valley, former sheriff, builder of railroads in Franco during the j war, builder of the Padre Island j drive, pioneer and developer. Col. Robertson, who has been back in San Benito two weeks after a trip through western United States •nd British Columbia, said that he | traveled some 14.000 miles by auto- i mobile, *00 miles by canoe, and 200 ■tiles or more by foot. He ha* not entered any active business sineo selling the Padre Island properties several months •go. Col. Robertson said he did not | knew when ho would start back into busineti, but hii fri«nds predict that the Colonel, known far and wide for bis energy and his de velopment of apparently visionary projects, will *oon be back into something again. • • • BROWNSVILLE’S parking and traffic lawa will be rigidly enforced, was the announcement Wednesday by the police department. I Which means that those who have formed the habit of parking their ears in the downtown aection and leaving them for the day will be required to find other parking •paces. Also, the alleys in the business •action will again be open to the traffic for which they were design ed. inatead of being utilised for motor vehielo storage. ‘ And those who persist in parking on the wrong side of the numbered •treats will find tickets in their ear* if detected by a police officer. The business interests of the city will welcome the announcement. Traffic on the downtown streets is becoming so congested that any la.\ ity in enforcement of traffic or parking rules is * handicap to bus iness. see MjX> WHILE the traffic improve ma^t movement is on, why not place •alow’’ signs on St. Charles, Levy, Adams and Jefferson streets at all intersections from Fourteenth to Palm boulevard. Much of the congestion on' Eliza beth street is due to the fact that many persona consider is hazardous to drive on other east and west streets. There are numerous “blind" cor aers. and while the traffic rules of the city giva cars on east and west streets right of way. thero are many i driven who disregard that rule, and crashes are frequent. • • • CONSIDERABLE traffic up the Valley comes in from the highway by way of Jefferson street. Very little of that Valley trafiic continues on Jefferson east of Palm boulevard. Practically all cars turn south when Palm boulevard is reached, run to EUwibeth and then into tha do we town district. Whoa the paving on Palm boule vard to Los Ebanos is completed, traffic from the Paredes Lin# road blso will follow this route unless something ia dona to add greater safety to traffic on Jefferson and Adams. Mach of the traffic now coming In from the Paredes Line highway j guns south on Seventh street to join the congestion on Elizabeth. • • • VERY LITTLE of the traffic from ghst Brownsville reaches the J doi^ltown district over St. Charles •t Levee. The suburbanites have tha habit •f turning to Elisabeth street either at ft'ert Eighth or Palm boulevard. Their abject is to escape the haz (Continued on Page 11) ASKWILBUR OF MONEY FORNAVY WASHINGTON. Feb. 14.—(A*)—A recommendation for a $12,370,000 apropriation to begin the cruiser construction program was forwarded to congress today by President Coolidge. The budget’s recommendation for warded by the president, however, was little more than half of the amount proposed by the navy de partment and Secretary Wilbur was called for questioning before the senate appropriations committee con sidering the navy supply bill re cently passed by the house. Secretary Wilbur was questioned behind dosed doors and afterwards he refused to discuss his conversa tion with the committee regarding the cruiser allowance recommended by the president. The $12,370,000 would be available daring the next fiscal year, begin ning next July 1, and it has been assumed the president would pro pose another appropriation to per (Continued on Page Twelve) 300 BELIEVED DEAD COLD OVER EUROPE Fuel Shortage Grow ing Menace; Many Thousands Suffer ing From Injuries LONDON. Feb. 14.—UP)— Esti mate* of deaths from abnormally cold weather in central Europe along today 40n as high as 300, with other thousands suffering from frostbite and kindred injuries. Apparently worse was in prospect, with suffering acute, particularly in southeastern Europe, from fuel shortage. Mines of Poland and Czechoslovakia were looked to re lieve the situation, but a disruption of railway traffic added even'those countries to those hardest hit. Rivers and tea channels over most of Europe, aave in Spain, were frozen over and choked with ice. Rome, celebrating Ash Wednesday, had a heavy snow fall. In Berlin schools were closed for a week to meet the icy conditions. Temperatures in many cases with out precedent and lower than for 200 years were reported over Eu rope. Meanwhile northern Scandi navia was normal and Iceland and (Continued on Page 11) Hidalgo Protest Killed in House, Move Lincertain (Special to The Herald) AUSTIN. Feb. 13.—A three hour feast of fruitless preliminary wrang ling in the house Wednesday after noon rewarded the Hidalgo county delegation of 200 who protested the house action in closing the Smith Montgomery election contest without hearing witnesses. The protesting delegation scored its point of hearing its petition of grievance read; but the house held, Negro Quizzed After Merchant Slain In Austin AUSTIN. Feb. 14.—(AP)—Willie Adams alias Bishop Adams, negro voodoo doctor, was charged with murder and robbery today in con nection with the death last night of William Glober, suburban grocer found with hi* head crushed and throat cut yesterday. Officer* said Adams had confessed to the crime. AUSTIN. Feh. 14.—</D—A negro voodoo doctor is being questioned by Austin officers about his connection with the killing of Wil liam Glober. Austin groccryman. who died last night after having been found in hia store with his head crushed and his throat cut. Blood was found on the negro s shoes, and a bloody handkerchief and a rasor with blood were found in his home. Glober was struck with a five pound rock found near hia body in his suburban store. When attacked Glober was evidently stooping over a chicken feed sack. The scoop was near his blood-covered body. At the hospital Glober scrawled a description of his attacker. He said he was a negro. RURAL ARTS HEAD IS TO SPEAK IN VALLEY (Special to fhe Herald) SAN BENITO, Feb. 14.—Fred W. Westcourt, rural arts director at the College of Industrial Arta, Denton, arrived here today, for a two-day speaking tour of the Valley. He is scheduled to address rural club boya and girls on plans for beautification of farms. in a final vote, that it could not go beyond its former action in declaring Rep. W. P. Montgomery legaliy seat ed as the member from Hidalgo coun ty. The house sustained this, 74 to 55. Gordon Griffin of Edinburg attor ney for Smith said today a majority of the delegation, variously estimated to number from 200 to 500, returned home last night. “I do not know what our next step will me," he said. "We may consider filing impeachment charges against Montgomery." Consideration of the protest brought to the house one of the big gest and most colorful crowds of spectators in many years. The sen ate knocked off work early and most of the senators visited in the house during the proceedings. The protest carried a resonant de mand that "E. M. Smith and 450 others’ be given the privileges of the floor to air their grievances; t ut the visitors apparently were satisfied with the gallery. There were out bursts of cheering from the visitors, sternly checked by Speaker WT. S. Barron with the warning that unless the visitors refreained from applaud ing the gallerys would he cleared. The threatened invasion by the (Continued on Page Twelve) <: * 150 Down—make* you a "Little Millionaire” with her. You can’t afford to say 1 can’t afford a car when bargains t-uch as the Auto Show "trade-ins" are nightly offered ii\ the XJsrd Car columns of the Watn Ad section of this paper. A road ater for him, a closed car for her—they are all in classifica tion “Automotive", tonight and every night. l-— _ * •-s' FRENCH DEFEND * * * HONOR; BULLETS * * * WILD; DRINK; OK PARIS, Feb. 14.—WP)—The ill ness of Marshal Foch had an un expected repercussion today in a duel between two newspapermen assigned to his home during his illness. Marquis Henri de Sombreul took offense at some remark made by George Chapreau which he con sidered a reflection upon all the newspapermen who had waited pa tiently day in and day out for news of the marshal. A challenge followed and early today they met. De Sombreuil fired into the ground, while Chapreau's bullet went wild. The combatants shook hands then and retired to the nearest cafe to bind their reconciliation with a hot drink. Dr. Daveniere, physician to Marshal Foch, was present at the duel. WAR FOSTERED IY CAUDATE, MEXICO HEARS Valenzuela, Choice of ‘Cristeros’, Defend ed After He Flays Gil And Calles MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14.—WV Campaign activities of Gilberto Va lenzuela, former minister to Great Britain and presidential candidate, today brought charges that he was fomenting rebellion. The charges were vehemently de nied by his adherents. His oppon ents labeled him ‘Captain General de Cristeros”—referring to the insur gent movement in Jalisco. “Cris teros” is derived from their battle cry, “vivo Christo Key,” or “Long Live Christ King.” Publication here of a speech de livered by Valenzuela Saturday at Hermosilio, Sonora, gave some back ground for the charges against him. In that speech he bitterly attacked the government of President Emilio Portes Gii, but even more strenu ously attacked former Ptesident Ca ller. He declared he was not directing his campaign for the presidential (Continued on Page 11) I ~ Relatives of Aged Veteran Sought (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN. Feb. 14.-An aged Confederate veteran, J. D. Herrell from May, Texas, ia here seeking relatives. Herrell. who arrived on a night train Wednesday, said he was to have been met by Frank Car son, his nephew by marriage. Carson is said to be a truck farmer. Local police are endeavoring to locate rel atives of the veteran. a CELEBRATION PLANS NEAR COMPLETION Great Assemblage of Planes To Partici pate In Opening of Mexican Air Mail The largest assemblage of air planes ever seen in the lower border country will be one of the features of the celebration to be held in Brownsville February 23 and 24. marking the inauguration of the Mexican air mail from Mexico City, via Tampico, to Brownsville, was the announcement of Charles Burton, head of the celebration committe of the chamber of commerce. Army, commercial and mail planea from all parts of the South will arrive at the Brownsville municipal airport to participate in the celebration. Practically every type of plane, from the speed one-seater monoplane to the most recent product of the Ford factories—the huge tri-motor 17 place passenger carriers—will be among the number assembled at the airport. Assurances have been received from a number of Mexican and American officials, chambers of com merce and others that they will be (Continued on Page 11) —. i LUIS TURNER ESCAPES PEN Cameron County Slay er Believed Head ed For Border Luis Turner, slayer of Deputy Sheriff Cervero Montalvo at La Feria in June, 1927, and sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary, escaped from the Blue Ridge prison farm February 10. Advices received Thursday from prison farm officials gave no details of the escape. Turner is believed headed for the Mexican border, and officers at all points hsve received descriptions to gether with instructions to watch for him, as it is believed he will endeavor to cross to Mexico. Turner was at one time deputy sheriff, being relieved of his com mission a few weeks prior to the shooting of Montalvo at La Feria. Ac cording to testimony introduced at the trial. Turner was intoxicated and was firing at a dog on the street. Montalvo endeavored to place him under arest, Turner turning his pistol on the oficer and inflicting a mortal wound. He was arested by Deputy Sheriff Ernest Yxnaga. The case was tried in September. 1927, the jury returning a verdict of guilty and sentencing the prisoner to 25 years. He had served approxi mately 16 months of his sentence when he made his escape. Officers who are familiar with Turner’s record predict he will not he recaptured without a battle. He is known to have a number of friends on the south side of the Rio Grande in the vicinity of La Feria, and it is believed he will endeavor to effect a crossing of the river near that point. FIND )0 IES IN HUP IN GARAGE CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—(/P) —Seven members of the Northside gang of George “Bugs” Moran, were lined up against a wall and summar ily executed, and one other was probably fatally wound ed, today by a band of men who invaded the Northside headquarters of the gang posing as police officers. After forcing the men to raise their hands, the gang sters shot them down in cold blood. The heaped b lie* of the victims were found in the rear room of the M. C. Cartage company, 2122 North Clark street, by the police who bad been summoned by a woman living nearby. She was apparently the only person to hear the reports of the sawed-off shot guns and machine guns of the slayers. The assassins pulled up before the Moran gang headquarters in two large automobiles. They rushed into the Cartage company, displaying stars and ordering the eight occu pants to raise their hands. Appar ently the slayers then herded tneir victims into a rear room and, lining them up against a wall with hands above their heads, loosed their gun fire. Seven of the bodies, in gro'.e*que positions where they had fallen, were found by police ranged along the bullet marked and blood spat tered wall. On the floor in an out er room, one other was found still living but probably fatally wounded. The list of dead as givau out by the police follows: Peter Gusenberg, notorious gang ster. James Clark, owner of the garage and brother-in-law of "Bugs” Moran. Arthur Hayes, north side hoodlum. Arthur Davis, west side hoodlum. Frank Foster, Moran henchman. A1 Weinshank, soft drink parlor proprietor. An unidentified man, believed to have been a garage mechanic. The injured man is Frank Gusen berg, brother of Peter, who refused to talk. Physicians said he would die. Today’s killing brought the total (Continued on page twelve.) Fund For Mexico U. Scholarships Planned In Texas AUSTIN, Feb 14.—A bill to give the University of Texas $207,000 to endow scholarships from and to the National University of Mexico, was offered in the senate Thursday by Senator A. J. Wirtx. The fund would be known as the E. D. Farmer international scholar ship fund, and the money would be provided by remitting to the Univer sity the inheritance taxes on the estate of the late E. D. Farmer of Parker county. The bill was ap proved by regents of the University of Texas and would provide for com petitive examinations for students seeking the scholarship. Lindbergh’s Bride-to-Be Is Celebrity; Gets Many Messages MEXICO CITY, Feb. 14.—Mi»* Anne Morrow is learning rapidly what being a celebrity is like. In the light of no more than the reflected glory of h • engagement to | Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh she has received a flood of telegrams and cablegrams of congratulation and f licitation which have nearly over , whelmed her. As plain Anne Morrow, former Smith College student, and daughter of Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow she might attract little more atten tion on a walk down the street than many another pretty girl. But as : fiancee to Colonel Lindbergh 3he is very r. uch in the public eye and seems doe to remain there for some time to come. Many Messages Messages received thus far are from friends, former class mates at Smith College, friends of the family, and many from people whose names she has never even heard—friends and well wishers of Colonel Lind bergh. The messages are from all parts of the world. Ambassador Morro / himself was not spared. Mexican and American friends alike told him how much to bs congratulated he was at the pros pect of the transatlantic aviator for a son-in-law. In Mexico the announcement has V matched the turbulent political sit uation in interest. Everywhere there is the presumption that the wedding will take place in this city. Such is the feeling that ir it is held here it undoubtedly would be a gala cere mony at which every citizen of this capital, from lowest to highest, would feel compelled by friendly interest and enthusiasm to take a part if no more than that of on-looker. Location Undecided Further requests for information from Ambassador Morrow and mem lers of the family as to when and where the ceremony would be held were met with the reply that there (Continued on Page Twelve) New Chief I • • • E. J. Higgins of England Elected Commander of Salvation Army — Edward J. Higgins LONDON, Feb. 14.—(/P>—The Sal vation Army had a new commander in-chief today—its former commis sioner, Edward J. Diggings, of Eng land. The immediate future of the army, however, seemed to depend upon the actions of its deposed head, General Bramwell Booth. Higgins was chosen at a secret session of its high council last night, receiving 42 votes against 17 for Commissioner Evangeline Booth, sister of General Booth. The action followed adjudication earlier in the day of General Booth as unfit, be cause of his health, to continue at his post. General Booth has already taken his adjudication as unfit once to the courts of England and there is nothing to indicate he will not do so again. Some London newspapers to day state positively he will continue his Chancery court action challeng ing the validity of the deed poll of 1904, under which the high council functioned. Elsewhere it was unofficially stated he would refuse the new army head custody of army property and money which remains in his charge as trustee. A court order to com pel him to give in here might be sought in aueh an eventuality. Evangeline Booth, head of the Sal vaMon Army in the United States, to day assured Edward J. Higgins, the newly-elected general, of the united support of the army in Amarica. Commusioner Booth, aiater of Gen eral P unwell Booth, the deposed leader, and long one of the chief fig ures cf the erform movement within the army, spoke at an informal meet ing of he high council today during (Continued on page twelve) ADVERTISING TAX STUDIED Regional C. of C. Bills Before Attorney General AUSTIN, Feb. 14.—</P>—Two bills sponsored by regional chambers of commerce providing a tax for adver tiaing purposes were referred to the attorney general’s department todav by the house cc-.:mittee on revenue and taxation to determine their con stitutionality. Hearings on the measures were heard last night. Representative Kayton objected to the measure in that it provided that chambers of commerce, business clubs and any other organizations should share in tax funds collected by a city coming under th«* provis ions of the proposed law. He main tained many taxpayers were opposed to the chamber of commerce idea and shuold not he forced to con tribute to this organization, Homer D. Wade, manager of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, who spoke in hehalf of the bill, said the authors would not object to an amendment which would place dis posal of funds for exploitation pur poses with a commission appointed by municipal governments. SENATOR LARRAZOLO NEAR DEATH AT HOME ■ ..-.. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Feb. 14.— U. S. Senator 0. A. Larrazolo is near desth at his home here today, accord ing to reports of physicians attending him, a priest was called to his home today to administer the last sacra ment. TEMPTATION TC INTEGRITY, WOLTERS SAYS Nothing Very Wrong In Robison’* Action Guard Head Telia Prboe Body AUSTIN, Feb. 14.—</Ph-One of th« "curses” of Texas is the miserly salaries paid state officers, and in adequacy of remuneration, is a “constant temptation to break doom the integrity of honest men.” Gen. Jacob F. Wolters said today in tes tifying before the committee inves tigating the land office. He said he regarded J. T. Robison, land commissioner. a» “a model of a perfect public servant." Asked by E. F. Smith, attorney for Robison, if he saw anything wrong in Robison’s acceptance of a gift of 92,250 from friends in west Tex- i as to pay off a mortgage on his farm, the money having been raised without Robison's knowledge and turned over to the chief clerk of the land office to pay off the debt,” General Wolters replied that he did not. Explaining the transaction where by land owners were assessed onn cent an acre to pay expenses cf re appraising public lands, Robison’s drawing checks on the fund to re fund the contributors, after costs of the revaluation had been paid, for their pro rata of the unused balance, and some of the payees endorsing and retrning the checks to Robison, Smith asked if he “saw anything wrong with that.’’ ”1 do not see any moral iniquity in the transaction, but under my code I believe, as a public official. I would have retrned the checks,” j General Wolters replied. As attorney for the Texas com pany, General Wolters called on CommissionerRobison last December and asked him to postpone sale of leases on 103.000 acres of land, ad vertised for sale in Janary, he tes tified. “I found him perfectly willing to postpone the sale if under the law ' he could do so,” he said. “He ex plained that he had received a spe cific request for one tract and bo would place it on the market unless the legislature met and repealed the law or he was stopped by injna tion.” Mrs. Dyer Dies; To Forward Body To Palacios, Tex. Mrs. James L. Dyer, wifa of James L. Dyer, employe of the Missouri Pacific, died at the Mercy hospital at 11:30 p. m. Wednesday. Funeral services were to be held at the Baptist church at 4 p. m, Thursday. Rev. E. W. Marshall offi ciating. The body is to be forward ed to Palacios, former home of th« deceased, for interment. Mrs. Dyer was 25 years old. tb^ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. IV Jones, of this city. Besides her par ents and husband, she leaves threw sisters, Mrs. J. M. Gardner, of Brownsville; Mrs. 0. C. McFarland, Houston; and Mrs. G. W. McPher son, California; and one brother, Robert D. Jones. Tampico. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer had reaided in Brownsville for a little more than a year, coming here from Harlingen. Mre. Dyer was a member of the local Eastern Star. Harlingen Flight Delayed By Winds (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN. Feb. 14—Four army* planes which left San Antonio at 9 o’clock this morning, on a cross country flight to this city, turned back because of inclement weather, advices received here say. The planes were in charge of Lieutenant Partridge. The flight will be made at a later date. THE WEATHER For Brownsville and the Valley; Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; not much change in temperature. Moderate to fresh southerly winda on tlve west coast. For East Texas: Cloudy tonight and Friday: occasional rains In southwest portion and on the west coast; somewhat warmer in north east portion tonight. Light to fresh easterly to southerly winds on the coast. RIVER FORECAST There will be no material changw in the river except continue to fall slowly from Mission down, depend ing on the amount of pumping for irrigation. Flood Prseent 24-Hr. 24-Hr. Stage Stage Cling. Rafts Eagle Pass .. 16 2.7 0.0 .10 Laredo . 27 -0.3 0.0 .00 Rio Grande .. 21 4.2 0.0 .00 Mission . 22 4.3 -0.1 .00 San Benito .. 23 7.4 -0J .0( Brownsville • 18 2.6 -0.5 .0( TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isabel tomorrow, under normal meteorologi cal conditions: High.8:35 •- m.; 6:49 p. m Low.1:40 a- m.; 2:10 p. m MISCELLANEOUS DATA Snnsst today . 8:22 Sunrise tomorrow ... .* T;08i