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I THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 228_ f BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1929 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY
I IN QU?
GALLEY
» JARDINE, secretary of agri
re in President Coolidge’s cab
ia mindful of the fact that
is a family for whom he must
de.
has found that his work as
tary of agriculture must end;
it does not provide sufficiently
lis needs.
refore he will retire from the
et, along with the administra
• a year or more Florida has
id the services of Mr. Jardine.
it is, the fruit and vegetable
trs of Florida see in Mr. Jar
the making of a leader who
help them to solve their mar
l problems.
Mr. Jardine has accepted, and
five those growers the benefit
i scientific experience,
iry now and to often the Flor
’rowers break out with some
new.
s is one of those occasions.
» Lower Rio Grande Valley
day will take a tip from Flor
and from California.
• • •
E LOWER Rio Grande Valley
coming one of the most talked
ctions of the United States.
» people of the Valley know
♦ii>* have an extraordinary
ry.
I the process of acquainting the
inder of the country with the
has been somewhat slow.
is gathering momentum, this
ding of the fame of the Vai
s writer recently has been
rn among visitors to north
i, coming from more northerly
B.
mention of the Valley almost
ut exception, among informed
ns, brings forth a wholo host of
ions.
i invariably they express them
i as determined to visit the
y at the first opportunity.
e e e
OWNSVILLE seems about to
, in” for the first time on the
that it is located on the Rio
Jo, and right up against a for
nation.
it a year ago it was. or some
less. that Brownsville voted a
issue of $100,000 for establish
of an airport.
» vote was almost unanimous, j
rvew se there were misgivings i
lifts quarters.
ports were quite a new thing,
what might be expected in
rial returns from such an in
ient was quite uncertain,
a few weeks’ time there have j
developments which show con
,-ely that Brownsville made no
k*.
iwnsville is about to become an
inge point for international air
.
itain Ira Eaker of "Question
’* fame is soon to attempt a
to dusk flight from Browns
to Panama.
Possibly Colonel Lindbergh will
make the initial flight in the
: Brownsville to Mexico City mail
plane.
• • •
j FOR SOME YEARS the United
States has been importing black
strap molasses and other hydro-car
a>ons for producing alcohol.
Their value has been something
pilke $40,000,000 annually,
i No«r someone has discovered (hat
cactus of the southwestern states —
and some sections that are far from
being dsserts—will produce this
aame alcohol.
I So that if factories for the pur
pose are developed they will keep
within the United States $40,000,000
0 vear now going out of the country.
It is declared that the necessary
alcohol can be produced even more
•cheaply from this cactus, which
groin! wild.
If the plans are carried out, they
will add a new industry to a section
of the country greatly in need of
(industries.
Recently, in Illinois, they have
been manufacturing newsprint paper
from corn stalks.
Why not alcohol from cactus?
El Paso, Albuquerque, Tucson, San
Bernardino and Pueblo have been
suggested as points where such
plants might bo built.
And on© might add Brownsville
and all the other Valley towns.
. • • •
A RESTAURANT OWNER bought
four and a half dozen grapefruit,
paying 85 cents for the lot.
This is equivalent to 54 grape
fruit.
He retails the fruit at 15 cents
per half grapefruit.
If all the fruit is edible, that
should bring him a gross return of
$16.20.
Rather a healthy profit, isn’t it?
But then, how about tho overhead?
W© refuse to include tho cost of
sugar, inasmuch as we deny that
Valley grapefruit needs sugar.
However, there’s light, heat, rent,
Insurance, waiter service, towel
supply, depreciation, hapery, and so
on and on and on. ad infinitum.
• • •
MAN WANTS but little her© be
low, but usually that little includes
a cook stove.
Perhaps that’s why the Tex-Mex
of Brownsville, pioneer
'k-nn/porters by air of fresh salt
V fish from Mexican shores to
f garnsville. sent a cook stove to
I fishing camp, near the Soto la
im*, about 130 miles south of
■ |ivtll(.
^i^ithat stove by airplane. That
Mtinued on page two.)
MEXICO’S HERO
m
■—i
Mexico’s new air hero is Col.
Alfredo Lexama, who is hailed as
the successor to the place left
vacant by the death of Emilio
Carranza, “Mexico’s Lindy.” He
recently set an altitude record
by flying 24,000 upward. Le
zama lost consciousness and fell
200 meters before he recovered
enough to make a safe landing.
HIGHWAY I
PRISON BILLS
AWAIT ACTION
Most Important Mea
sures of Session Will
wS Durin‘
By R. W. BARRY
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
AUSTIN. Feb. 16.—No one
will hazard a guess on the probable
outcome of the state-wide highway
bond issue proposal and the several
bills drafted to centralize and con
centrate the penitentiary system,
which will get action in both
houses this week.
Tho status of the resolution which
would submit-to voters a constitu
tional amendment under which bonds
rot to exceed $175,000,000 at any
time could he issued to build high
ways and reimburse counties for
roads already on the state system,
is not as uncertain as the prison
legislation.
Back Highway Plan -
There has been a change of senti
ment on the bond issue. Governor
Moody’s contention that tho people
should be given opportunity to de
cide the matter at the polls has
won support for submision of the
constitutional amendment from some
legislators who personally are not
in favor of the bonds.
It will require a two-thirds ma
jority in each the senate and house
to submit the proposed amendment,
and the governor claims that at
least 21 of the 31 senators will vote
for it.
Both the bond issue resolution
and senate bills bearing o~i prison
reorganization are set for special
order in the senate for Monday, with
the bond issue holding first place.
Representative Young, ro-author
of the bill providing for prison con
centration on tho seven farms below
(Continued on page »wo.)
LAW AIMED AT
(DESIRABLES
Propose Deportation
Of Aliens In Li
quor Traffic
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—(^V
Providing for deportation of alien
gunmen and liquor law violators, the
senate deportation bill was passed
by the house today and returned to
the senate for agreement to amend
ments.
The measure as passed by the
house was changed materially from
its senate form. It now would order
deportation of persons found under
aliases and put in this clasa vio
lators of the white slave, narcotic,
prohibition and emigration laws and
those who are habitual criminals.
The two principal changes made
in the house would provide for the
deportation of aliens convicted of
carrying weapons or explosive
bombs, and of those sentenced to a
year or more for transporting, sell
ing or manufacturing liquor.
According to the records of the
federal court here, enactment of the
amendment to the deportation bill
will affect approximately 20 per cent
of those convicted on liqour charges.
Many of the persons convicted in
federal court here are aliens, but
under the present law, violation of
the prohibition statutes is not a de
portable crime. i
District Votes $1,600,000 Bonds
LA FERIA WE
CONCRETE AND
DRAIN SYSTEM
Issue Authorized By
Vote of 309 to 127;
Improvement Plans
Are Completed
LA FERIA. Feb. 26.—By a vote of
309 for to 127 against the voters of
the La Feria irrigation district Sat
urday authorised issuance of bonds
in the amount of $1,600,000 to fi
nance concreting of the canal sys
tem. construction of drains and oth
er improvements.
Santa Rosa was the only section
returning a majority against the
bonds. The vote of the four polling
places was: La Feria 165 for to 15
against; Wilson Tract, 87 for, 11
against; Bluetown 13 for, 2 against;
Santa Rosa, 44 for, 99 against.
The heavy vote waa the direct re
sult of «n aggressive campaign wag
ed by the proponents of the bond is
sue, who urged a decisvie majority
to enhance the value of the bonds.
Plans Completed
Plans for the improvements con
templated have been practically com
pleted by A. W. Amthor, district
manager. They include concreting of
the entire distribution system and
construction of an efficient drainage
system to handle surface waters.
Bonds will be sold to finance the
work as it progresses, directors state.
The improvement program is expect
ed to extend over a period of three
years, work to get under way as soon
as the first bonds are sold. The first
(Continued on page two.)
RAIN FORCES
LINDY DOWN
Flier Safe Near Hat
teras, Washing
ton Informed
RALEIGH, N. C.. Feb. 16.—WV
The “Lone Eagle” tonight nested at
the Hatteras inlet coast guard sta
tion, awaiting better weather.
Forced down on the beach fifteen
miles south of Cape Hatteras this
afternoon by fog and rain. Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh added another
to the anxious periods of search
marking several of his recent flights.
For the second time in two days
friends, officials and fellow airmen
were anxious when the flier failed
to appear in Washington on his re
turn from inaugurating the air mail
route to Panama.
The colonel left Charleston, S. C.,
at 6 a. m., en route to Washington.
He was due in the capital about noon
and after he was an hour or more
overdue an intensive search was
started by the government lighthouse
service and other agencies.
At Cape Hatteras station and at
the office of the commander of the
seventh district coast guard at Eliz
(Continued on page two.)
Woman’s Body Is
Found In Creek
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 16.—(IP)— Po
lice, who today believed they at last
had discovered what became of Mrs.
Ella McDowell Rogers, tonight found
that they merely have a new mystery
on their hands.
The body of a woman was found
in a creek in Cherokee Park near
the fashionable apartment from which
Mrs. Rogers, a pretty 31-year-old
widow, disappeared Oct. 7. When the
body was first dragged from three1
feet of mud and water several per
sons declared it was that of Mrs.
Rogers.
Closer examination revealed that
the victi mwas a woman about fifty
years old who wore false teeth.
The body tonight was identified as
that of Mrs. Bessie Mahoney, of
Coke Station, near here.
*Gingham Girl* Who Shot
Rival is Freed by Jury
SOMERSET. Ky., Feb. 16.—<;py—
A jury here today acquitted Mrs.
Ida Cross Perkins of murder for
the killinc last August, of Mrs.
Pearl P cker Owens. Louisville,
whom Mrs. Perkins found sitting
beside her husband, Logan Perkins,
in a train coach.
The verdict was reported twenty
minutes after the case was given
the jury.
Spectators who had listened to
the defense plea for freedom for
the “Gingham girl," who had killed
the “girl who glittered with gold
and diamonds,” expressed surprise
that the jury was out so long.
The small town mother of two
children who ki”ed the city wo
man she accused of breaking up her
homo, won her freedom, however,
only after hearing the common
wealth's attorney, describe her as
* cold-blooded murderer. Sandus
ky Did the jury he believed the 27
year-old defendrnt and her hus
band, who is circuit cle.*: at Whit
ley City, Ky„ plotted the killing
and that Perkins gave his wife the
weapon, *
i V
SUSPENDED GOV ERNOR OF OKLAHOMA FACES TRIAL
TT:v V' ' "m ~ ...' — • '' ' ■■ ■;
First photo of a scene in the Oklahoma senate court of impeachment where Henry S. Johnston, sus
pended governor, is on trial facing 1! ar.icles. At left is shown the defense, with Johnston, third
(wearing glasses). At right is the board of managers of the house of representatives in charge of the pros
ecution. John Head, chairman of the board and the investigating committee that preferred the charges,
is seen reading his notes.
DEMAND PROBE
OF PATRONAGE
Senate Committee To(
Reach De c i s i o n
Early In Week
WASHINGTON, Feb.- 16.-0P>-Ex
tension of authority of the senate
postoffice investigation committee to
permit it to inquire into disposition
of all federal patronage will be pro
posed next week in response to a
request today by Chairman Brook
hart.
Senator George, democrat, of Geor
gia, author of the resolution order
ing the inquiry into the disposition
of potsmasterships, announced he
would ask for the general patronage
investigation.
Brookhart made the request after!
hearing a demand today from Rep- j
resentative Wurxbach, republican, j
Texas, for an investigation of the
charge that R. B. Creager, republi
can national committeeman for Tex
as, had ‘protected Texas hotels from
dry raiders,”
FORT WORTH, Feb.
Leonard W’ithington. organization di
rector of Texas republican state head
quarters, tonight characterized as■
“recqness charges unsupported by!
evidence” the testimony of Congress-1
man Harry M. Wurxbach. Seguin. to-1
day before the Brookhart committee j
investigating southern patronage.
Wurxbach told the committee that!
federal appointees had in some in
stances made promissory notes to
swell the party’s fund in Texas.
“Congressman W’urzbach’s state
ment that if# the contributions had
been made in cash they might have
been voluntary but that men do not
voluntarily undertake a legal obliga
tion is so ridiculous that it is laugh
able. These notes are just exactly
like those signed by donors to col
leges, hospitals, churches and in other
financial drives. In fact all our
funds are raised in a similar manner
to a Red Cross or community chest
drive. Practically every heavy con
tributor to the fund, including
Messrs. Creager. Nolte. Bullington,
Thomson, Maverick, and other party
officers, has contributed through the
notes, c • pledges, and none of these
have been candidates for office.”
Radio Utilized
In Search For
Missing Boys
TYLER. Texas. Feb. 16.—l/P)—
Texas radio stations were enlisted
tonight in an effort to find Calvin
Cunningham, 12, and Melvin Eddie,
14, who disappeared from the state
orphanage at Corsicana Feb. 4.
Other boys at the orphanage said
Cunningham told them Eddie was
taking him to Tyler to visit hi*
mother, Mrs. Edith Cunningham, as
sistant nurse at the general hos
pital there. Nothing has been heard
of either boy since their departure.
Mrs. Cunningham, fearing her son
has been injured, is prostrated.
MONARCHISTS TO MEET
BERLIN. Feb, 16—(AT—Reports
are circulating in Berlin emigre cir
cles that plans are being made for
a big convention of all monarchist!
with a view to union of Russian,
German and Hungarian monarchists
to be held in Budapest in April.
FACES SERIOUS CHARGE
PARIS, Tex., Feb. 16.——B. F.
Rice, a farmer, was charged today
with statutory offense against hia
granddaughter, alleged to be under
16. Riee waived preliminary bearing
and was released on |3,000 bond.
34,594 Cross Bridge
To Shatter Records
Here in Week Period
Thirty-four thousand, five hundred
and ninety-four people crossed over
the international bridge here in one
week!
When officials of the Gateway in
ternational bridge uniting Browns
ville with Matamoros called it a day
at midnight, all records for oqp or
dinary week of travel to the border i
city across the Rio Grande at this
point had been shattered.
During the seven-day period end
ing last night 34,594 people, men.
women and children, nearly 5,000 a
day. had been attracted from the
United States to the historic little 1
city by the lure of foreign climes—
and possibly some—by foreign
wines.
And as the clock struck midnight
the tired customs guards, health of
ficials ahd agriculture inspectors on 1
duty at this bridge breathed a-weary
sigh of relief, to rest for a few
(Continued on page two.)
STARKS
IN DOPE PROBE
Alma Rubens Secures
31 Prescripti o n s
For Morphine
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.—(JP)-Al
ma Rubens, film actress, today was
in a precarious condition from a
surgical operation yesterday, while
federal and state agents were com
pleting investigation of a narcotic
case in which she is the central fig
ure.
Thirty-one prescriptions for mor
phine sulphate, all of which was giv
en to her between Sept. 21 and Oct.
17, last year, state narcotic agents
said, were in the hands of agents of
the board of medical examiners here.
The morphine of these prescrip
tions was handed to her in viola
tion of state laws, the office of the
state medical board announced, by
Dr. L. Jesse Citron, of Beverly Hills.
Meanwhile, reports of special in
vestigators have been submitted to
the division of the internal revenue
bureau at Washington. D. C. Dr.
Citron did not make himself avail
able to the press today, but. last
night told reporters he did not know
Miss Rubens was an addict “when 1
took her case, and when I learned
that she was an addict I dropped
the case.” He said the prescriptions
were forged.
Miss Rubens is the wife of Ricardo
Cortes, film actor.
SPANISH DICTATOR
EXPECTED TO RESIGN
I
■
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, Feb. 16.—f/P)—Word that the
five-year dictatorship of General
Primo de Rivera soon may end was
received here today from court quar
ters of Madrid and persons close to
the prenrer.
Primo de Rivera and his govern
ment showed strength in repressing
the recent revolt of sections of the
Spanish army but signs indicate that
the premier may bow to a growing
demand that Spain he restored to a
constitutional government.
Advices received today said the
exact date of the change is not
i known as yet, hut that it is believed
to be imminent.
FRAUD TRIAL
OPEN MONDAY
McCloskey Case To
Go Before Dis
»
trict Court
.
AUSTIN, Feb. 16.—(A*)—Augustus
McCloskey of San Antonio, sched
uled to take his scat in congress
March 4, will go to trial in criminal
district court here Monday on in
dictments alleging alteration of
election returns.
McCloskey, his secretary, Charles
Rameirez, and Elmer Wernette, also
of San Antonio, were indicted as a
sequel to the close race between
McCloskey, democrat, and Congress
man Harry M. Wunback, republi
can.
Dave Dewhurst of San Antonio,
clerk of the county commissioner
court, is under bond as the princi
pal state witness.
The indictments allege that the
election returns wera altered prior
to canvass of the Bexar county vote
by the county commisioners. It ia
charged that returns approved by
the court do not tally with unoffi
cial returns filed by election offi
cials with the county clerk.
Kills Mother’s
Lover; Pleads
Unwritten Law
EL CENTRO, CaL, Feb. 16.—(A5)—A
mother’s story of a clandestine ro
mance with an Imperial Valley ranch
er which led to his slaying by her
son, Martin Ray Kilgore on the plea
! of “the unwritten law," was related
| from the witness stand here today In
the university student's trial for
murder.
Mrs. Ray Kilgore told of a letter
she wrote to F. A. Bartley, which fell
into her sop’s hands while he was
visiting his parents during a holiday
vacation from his classes at Stan
ford University.
Kilgore confesed to shooting Bart
ley from ambush near here Dec. 23.
claiming the rancher was attempting
to break up his home.
MANY EVENTS
ON SCHEDULE
FOR AIRPORT
Brownsville Occupy
ing Limelight in Avi
ation News; Plan
Second Celebration
Brownsville and its municipal air
port Saturday were occupying the
limelight in the aviation world.
The day's announcements includ
ed:
Designation of the Brownsville
airport for the hop-off of Captain
Ira C. Eaker, of “Question Mark"
fame, who on March 10 will essay
a dawn to dusk flight to the Panama
canal zone.
Announcement of the awarding of
the American air mail from Browns
ville to Mexico City, via Tampico
and Vera Crus, to the Pan-Ameri
can Air Lines, Inc., of which the
Mexican Aviation company is a sub
sidiary, the service to start March
9.
Announcement by the Mexican
government that the Mexican air
mail from Mexico City to Browna
| ville, via Tampico, would be forra
I ally inaugurated February 23.
The rapid succession of announre
j ments had Brownsville residents “up
in the air.”
Plan Celebration
Chamber of commerce officials
Saturday afternoon were diWfcsstng
plans for a second celebration, to
provide the proper setting for the
inauguration of the American air
mail and Captain Faker’s hop off.
The first celebration, for which
practically all arrangements have
been completed, will be staged Feb
ruary 23 and 24, when the Mexican
air mail will b« opened. Dis
patches from Mexico City indicate
that the huge tri-motor, 14-pnsenger
plane, which will carry the Mexican
air mail, will be crowded to capa
city with Mexican officials who will
attend the celebration as guests of
Brownsville and Matamoros.
The celebration February 23 and
24 is expected to attract thousands
of Valley and south Texas residents,
and will he attended by a large
number of American and Mexican
officials.
No definite announcement bad
been received by the Mexican gov
ernment up to Saturday afternoon
(Continued on page two.)
KELLOGG OK’S
ARM EMBARGO
But Say* Presid e n t
Should Be Able To
Revoke Act
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—W—
Secretary Kellogg today told the
bouse foreign affairs committeo
that he saw no objections to the
principle of the Porter resolution to
empower the president to place an
embargo on arms and munitions
shipments to belligerent nations.
The secretary, however, suggested
several revisions.
He proposed a provision to au
thorize the executive to impose em
bargoes against any number of war
ring countries to prevent an un
neutral act from being committed
by this country. Power to revoke
as well as impose embargoes, he
said, also should be given the presi
dent.
Apparently referring to the Cap
per resolution to authorize the
president to declare as aggressor
a violator of the Kellogg anti-war
treaty, the state department head
said it would be an unneutral, act
for the president to name which of
two countries at war was the aggres
sor. He said that for the president
to declare embargoes against all
warring nations would not be an act
in violation of neutrality.
The Porter proposal, the secre
tary continued, would involve the
neutrality policy of the government.
If it were enacted, he said, the
(Continued on page two.)
Demands $50,000 Heart
Balm from Tamale Man
AMARILLO, Tex*- Feb.
Habib Kahn, who claims to be an
Afghan prince, but who Amarillo
residents know as a vendor of
uhot tamales” was named in a $50,
000 breach of promise suit filed
here today by Miss Imogene Smith,
daughter of a Greer county, Okla
homa, farmer
r
Mias Smith alleges in the peti
tion that Kahn broke hit betrothal
with her after a trousseau had
been obtained, at hit expense, and
after they had been photographed
for their passports to Afghanistan.
Kahn announced recently he in
tended to return to Afghanistan to
modernise his natiTe land.
FOUND UNDER
BUSHES NEAR
BODY OF MAN
Several Suspects Be
ing Held While Of
ficers Investigate
Fingerprints
MARSHALL. Tex.. Feb. 16.—<AV
Finger prints of five persons, in
cluding twor women, were taken by
Bertiilion experts today for com
parison with those on an iron bar
found near the body of H. B. Al
ston, 30, beaten to death in a ceme
tery in the heart of the city last
night.
Statements by the widow and
friends of Alston that he had no
known enemies have caused investi
gators to return to tho theory that
robbery was the motive for tha slay
ing' t hey believe Alston was beaten
to death by a man well known to
him, as he would not have entered
the cemetery with a stranger.
Alston's body was found by Ed
Ross. 17. while walking through the
cemetery. The head was crushed.
; One of the suspects held was said
I to have been seen to throw a bloody
I handkerchief in the basement of the
1 railway station.
The body was sent today to Tyler,
Alston's former home, for burial.
Several suspects are hela. One of
them is said to have been seen to
throw the handkerchief in the baa**
ment.
Alston's head was crushed and hia
body laid along side of a tombstone.
It was found by Ed Rose. 17. while
walking through th» cemetery, situ
ated in the heart of the city.
The body today was taken to Ty
ler, Texas, Alston’s former heme,
fox burial.
Fired to Defend
Life, Slayer Says
TEXARKANA. Feb. 16—(AV-Cato
Barfield took tha stand today and
pleaded self-defense in his trial at
New Boston, Tex., for tha slaying
of Ray Palmer hero last September.
Barfield denied that he had shot
Palmer while the latter was reclin
ing on a bed, as the state has sought
to show, but said Palmer was ad
vancing on him in a threatening
manner when he shot him.
The witness testified that he and •
Palmer came to blows, then Palmer j
accused him of informing officers •
about Palmer’s alleged part in the N
robbery of a store at New Boston. ,
Barfield said that Palmer used '
brass knucks ar-d beat him severely, j
Fearing for his life, Barfield said, •
he obtained a gun. He said that
he had no idea of killing Palmer,
but that the latter was advancing
on him when he shot.
Barfield testified for two hours
before court adjourned. Monday at
torneys will present arguments and
the case is expected to go to the
jury late Monday afternoon. The
state is demanding the death pen
alty.
Children See
Father Suicide
PALESTINE Tex Fab. 16—MV
Four small children of William
Thompson, 39. tenant farmer, looked
on today while Thompson shot and
killed their mother with a shotgun
and then took his own life with the
j weapon. The shooting occurred at
I the Thompson farm north of here.
The oldest of the children, 10, told
officers his father had been acting
“queeriy” fop several weeks. He said
i Thompson had a hallucination some
! one was going to break into the
| house and harm him and had been
| sleeping with bis clothes on and the
gun by his side.
BODY OF MAN FOUND
MOBILE. Ala.. Fch. 16.—M»V—The
body of a man found near Oranr*
Groven. Mias., last Saturday with
bullet wounds In the bead has been
identified as that of Fr»d D. Bur
ton. wanted for attempting to kill
Policeman John Fleming at New Or
leans. December 24, 1925. Burton
Is said also to have been wanted at
Amarillo. Texas.
GIRL BURNED TO DEATH
DALLAS. Tex.. Feb. 1«.—fiV)—
Throwing kerosene on a cookstova
fire, when a younger sister com
plained of being cold, resulted In
death to Miss Gertrude McGown, 16,
at a hospital here todav. The acci
dent happened at the McKown horn#
at Lisbon, Tex., and the house was
destroyed by fire.
L “ 11
WEST TEXAS: Generally cloudy,
colder in north portion Sunday;
Monday, unsettled, colder.
EAST TEXAS: Increasing cloudi
ness. warmer in south portion Sun
day; Monday, cloudy, colder in north
and west portions. Moderate to
fresh southerly winds on the coast.
LOUISIANA: Fair, warmer Sun
day; Monday, Increasing cloudiness.
Light easterly winds on the coast.
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