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LINDBERGH TO FLY FIRST AIR MAIL HERE *»££&? SlTT!. £~22L San Antonio •» Houston '' --- THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—</P) i-* MM.<BBnmiMBniBMBHBnHHMMSaii^OnnBHOHMMiMOnnSBSMnMBBnBaMMSSI HIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 238 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1929 TWELVE PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY NP—Wp—p————__ _ __ SIN ©UK I VALLEY E-l__-_J HSOME 4000 LETTERS have accu nulated at the office of Postmaster s 3. W. Dennett for dispatch on the | ^irst air mail pbine to Mexico ffa*. In These letters have been accumu lating for nearly s. year, ib Early last summer, when it was f^lrst intimated thi.t an air mail fa me would be established, the mail Jijegan arriving. 8the line firally was estab a Laredo, the incoming une lagged, and picked up Ith the announcement of line via Bronmsville and os. iville and other Valley vho want to send mail by plane, should send them Brownsville postoffice at rking the mail to hold for airplane. Proper postage slopes should be used. • • • DU WANT to air mail a 1y o yourself? n be done by the first plane, ose your name is John Doe u live at La Feria. ess your letter to yourself, i to the Brownsville postof r the first airplane south, ark it “Via Vera Cruz and ill make the circle, crossing If of Mexico to the West In »ence to Miami, finally find way around by New Orleans, en on back to John Doe at la. • • * VALLEY is to have a $12. corporation. U be the largest development ization yet assembled in this where dollars are rarely of except in millions. Delta Orchards company will name of the corporation, its president will be W. A. g, the Raymondville country ler. corporation will develop and 000 acres of land it owns in w Willacy county water im ent district, which comprises 129,000 acres of land. • • • I COLUMN mentioned a few go that a dump ground In noximity to the park now be eloped by the city, was mar e vicinity. endous amounts of trash m accumulated. Commissioner B. E. Hinkley ly accepted the suggestion, the next day. being calm, i crew of men on the scene r up the refuse condition will, therefore, be ‘ ] > -tially corrects. I |*3ut there still remains the prob f g n of disposing of a sizeable city’s .*.4 cumulation of trasli i An incinerator seems to be the ‘I J ly practical solution. ! fit is a rather expensive improve ment. but is necessary. tfThe city already is forced to lend large amounts of money for Arious things. f Perhaps the cost of an inciner ! I or. somewhere around $35,000, i. n be sandwiched tn somewhere. [JAMES C. BOWIE of San Benito lid A. L. Brooks of Harlingen are e lerffers of their respective cities \ thgTIarlingen-San Benito "get \| /ether" movement. ' teach has long been an insptra I ! in for good in his own city. • • • | THE MISSOURI PACIFIC lines I Ud a mode! hen house on exhibi tion at the last Mid-Winter fair at i * arttngen. J l The house, serving Its purpose at r fie fair, wai to go to some deserv kf l,g poultry man in the Valley. 1 -I so it has been awarded to O D. f finings, a farmer living near San i ftenito. I Jennings has some 800 Ancona 1 I nvs on hand. , fc\nd had been planning to con ^ WAiet adequate quarters for the 1 f’ultry. I Now he will spend that money in f Jherwise improving his poultry p foe rations. k Jennings also grows potatoes. And ► said to realise from 95 to 100 i . ixhete on his 25 to 30-acre potato % ■ reage. I Also, he keeps a couple of cows. , There is a growing demand for ilk. cream, eggs and poultry, in 1 e Valley and for the Valley's . i rkets. 11 Cs this sort of diversification Vi t will help to keep farming in \\ list of profitable vocations. -■% APT AIN EAKER is scheduled to Lfbt his dawn-to-dusk flight from ■fLjwrraville at 4:30 o'clock the p mlng of Sunday. March 10. a rather unearthly hour, as the general public is con ' a food guess that, wea itting. there will be a crowd on hand to wish a quick and successful r the 1330-mile route. i 1 FLIGHT HERE NOT TO BE FIRST When Col. Charles Lindbergh inaugurates the new Mexico City New York air mail through here March 9. it will not be his first flight over Brownsville. The famous Mexico good-will hop went over here. Above is former President Cailes. who brought pressure to bear upon the Lone Eagle to inaugurate the route. The map shows the original plan for the Mexico good-will flight, but Lindbergh de cided In favor of the Brownsville route. Plane is the Spirit of St Louis, in which the hope was made. i ___ Death Sentence of Cisco Bank Robber. Affirmed on Appeal AUSTIN, Feb. 27. (fr)—Henry Helms, given death in Eastland county for his part in robbery of the Cisco National bank on December 23. 1927, lost his appeal to the court of criminal appeals today. The verdict was affirmed. Helms was indicted for robbery of A. Spears, and it was alleged he SLIGHT RALLY MADEBYFOCH Doctor* See But Little En couragement And Think It a Losing Fight PARIS. Feb. 27.— (JT) —Marshal Foch. lighting what his doctors be lieve t& a losing battle with death, his condition last night, A bulletin issued bv his doctors said there was a slight amelioration in the pulmonary symptoms and a reduction in both temperature and pulse. The physicians considered their patient gravely ill. however, and at the termination of their consulta tion refused to make any predic tions. They emphasised that the ameli oration of the pulmonary symptoms noticed overnight gave only the slightest excuse for optimism. It was learned that at one time last night the marshal was critically ill. With the confession of pessimism on the part of the marshal's doc tors it has become known that there optimistic reports over the past three weeks have often been Just for publication in the French news papers. The marshal reads these and it was believed pessimistic stories mleht have had an adverse affect on his will to live. One of his phvsiclans told The Associated Press he saw no hope for the 78-vear-old general and felt he was obliged to recoenlxe that death might come at any time, within hours or days LEBRIX ON FLIGHT TO INDO CHINA CRASHES RANGOON. Burma. Feb. 27.—^ —Joseph Lebrix. French aviator, has notified the French consulate that the plane in which he and Sergeant Major Antonine Palllard were flying from here to Bangkok.! Stam. crashed yeterday. Neither of the fliers was hurt The telegram was dated yester day from Thierik. about 122 miles from Rangoon. The Rangoon-Bangkok flight was the next to the last leg of a nrojeeted flicht from Marseilles to Saigon and Hanoi. French Indo china. which It was planned orig inally to complete in fire days. The flight began February 18. CAFE COLLAPSES: DEAD ATHENS. Greece. Feb 27.—<AV Twenty persons were believed to have been killed today In the col lar** of an upper floor of the Pan elllon cafe on University street. Many were Injured and a number were seiTl buried In the ruins late this afternoon. .obtained $12,400. Spears was an officer of the bank. Two police of ficers were killed during the rob bery. and Helms and Marshall Rat liff. now under death and life im prisonment sentences in two cases brought against him in connection with the robbery, were wounded. The court refused an, application to file a second motiJn for rehear ing by Harry J. lfeahy of Mathis, under sentence of death for murder of Dr. J. A. Ramsey, also of Mathis. Leahy is now in the death cell at Huntsville Cases of Tim Ingram and B. A. Ingram, Eastland county, each sen tenced to ten years for robbery of D. L. Allen, were affirmed The indictment allegrd that Allen was assaulted with firearms and $53 was taken from his person. Good-Will Meeting Of San Benito And Harlingen Planned (Special to Th.. Herald) SAN BENITO. Feb. 27.—With the two chairmen selected, and other arrangements made, announcement of the principal speakers Is expect ed here in a day or two as the last event preceding the San Benito Harlingen good will banquet to be held Monday night, at the Stone- j wall Jackson hotel. From Harlingen comes the report: that more than 100 residents of that j city will be at the banquet, and an equal number of San Benito people will be on hand. James C. Bowie of San Benito and B. M. Holland of Harlingen will be in charge of the gathering, and leading citizens of each town will talk for a few minutes, after which the discussion will be thrown open to * general talk on problems of lowing several accidents recently. Fight Fans! We can’t see that Sharkey - Stribling scrap but we can sure hear it. Be at The Herald build ing at 8 p. m. Blow by blow returns from a ring side telegraph wire will be lustily megaphoned. Hear what your favorite did or didn’t do to his op ponent. Remember! THE HERALD 8 P. M. FAMED PILOT WILL ARRIVE HERE MARCH 9 _ Formal Acceptance of Mexico's Invitation Announced By Head Of Mexican Aviation _ Colonel Charles Lindbergh will pilot the first airplane carrying Mexican air mail from Mexico City to Browns ville on March 9. Formal acceptance by Lindbergh of the invitation extended several weeks ago by the Mexican government was announced Wednesday by George Riht, presidentmf the Mexican Aviation Co., after a conference0 with Lindbergh Wednesday morn ing at Mexico City. The famous flier will be accom panied by ten high officials of the Mexican government, but the per sonnel of the party has not been announced. It is believed Lind bergh’s fiance. Miss Alice Morrow, will accompany him. Announcemen was made by the (Continued on Page Five.) RUNAWAY WILL GO mother Calvin Cunningham Not To Return to Ophan Home* At Corsicana Calvin Cunningham. 12-year-old boy who ran away from the state orphan home at Corsicana on Feb ruary 3. and was finally located on a farm near Rangerville north of Ssn Benito, will not be compelled to return to the orphans home. The youngster, who “hitch hiked” from Corsicana to the Val ley in four days, will be returned to his mother. Mrs. Edith Cunning ham. at Tyler. Texas. Sheriff W. F. Brown announced Wednesday, un less his mother grants permission for the boy to remain here. Several Valley residents have of fered to take the boy and give him a good home with an oppor tunity to go to school and to ma terialize his ambition to work on a farm. Several telegrams were sent the boy’s mother Wednesday re questing that such arrangements be made. In a telephone conversation with Sheriff Brown Wednesday, Mrs. Cunningham said the boy would not be sent back to the orphan home, of which he aopears to have a dread. She stated she would make a home for him at Tyler, where she is employed as a nurse in a hos pital. She 1s the mother of four children, and being unable to make a home for them placed them In state institutions. Sheriff Brown takes great inter est in the boy. “He appears to be a fine, manlv little chap.” the sher iff said. “I hope he secures a good home in the Valley, and I am con fident he would enjoy life here and grow into a very useful citi zen.” In the event no satisfactory ar rangements are made Calvin will leave for Tyler Thursday. TEXAS DAM PERMIT ' WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.—4**— The war department has approved plans of the Texas Oulf Sulphur company for a dam aci-oss the San Bernard river about four miles east of Boling. Texas, for the purpose of Impounding water for sulphur min ing. domestic use. and other pur poses. it was learned here today. TOOIISTS INCREASE POINT ISABEL. Feb. 27 —Evi dence of an increasing stream of tourists into the Valley, rivalling that of 1926. is seen in the large number of cam from all parts of the country coming into this city daily. Prom 15 to 25 cars are observed dally coming Into Point Isabel stop ping. and the occupants camping for a day or two, or longer. "I Hoover Picks 1st Cabinet Member; Donovan Retires ■ - WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—■<£*>—William D. Mitchell, solicitor general of the United States, has been selected by President-elect Hoover to be attorney general in his cabinet, and simultaneously with this develop ment today friends of William J. Donovan said he would not occupy any federal office after March 4. Mr. Donovan, who is assistant to the attorney general, conferred briefly with Mr. Hoover today and was understood to have informed the president-elect of his unwillingness to accept the post of secretary of war or the governor-generalship of the Philippines. He was said to have told Mr. Hoover he considered himself suited only for certain federal poei MADMAN KNIFES' 4 IN YORK I I Slasher Being Held Follow ing Attack During Subway Ruth NEW YORK. Feb. 27.—4JP>—A madman who fell upon rush hour crowds in Times Square subway station with a knife, slashing four persons, was under restraint in a hospital today. The station was packed with a mass of humanity moving slowly toward homeward bound trains about 6 p. m.. when the man sud denly drew a long knife and be ban slashing right and left. Before they could escape. Leon Lavay. 21; Nathan Friedman. 15; Paul M. Thate. 35. and Richard Enthrup. 37. had been cut. Lavay was the most seriously injured. The crowd, thrown into a panic, fought toward exits, leavlrg the maniac standing in the renter of a wide space he had cleared with his knife. A traffic policeman, the first to reach the scene, was unable to sub due the man and it was not until a squad of reserves rushed him with nightsticks that he was beaten into i submission. Police learned the man was John Kipp. 28. a structural ironworker, who came to this country from Germany two years ago. Search Visitors To S. A. Jails After Saw Blades Found SAN ANTONIO. Tex. Feb. 27 — <<P)—Orders that all visitors to pris oners in the city jail must submit to a search were issued by Chief of Po lice Owen Kllday today after dis covery last night of preparations for a jail delivery and the finding of 15 or 20 saw blades in a cell. A youthful prisoner, arrested for investigation in connection with a bank robbery, tipped off Jailer A. Vidal that peculiar noises could be heard at night in the cell in which he was held. Ruperto Trevino, es caped convict, arersted here Monday night, and four other prisoners, oc cunied the cell with him. Police Captain Dave Crux and George Price, turnkey, made an in vest igtaion and found the saw blades Three bars had been sawed through. FURS SEIZED BY U. S. CUSTOMS AT LAREDO LAREDO. Tex.. Feb. 27 —vP>—Fur smuggling from Mexico to the Uni ted State* received a blow here to day when skins valued at $4,000 were ordered held, and two alleged smugglers were remanded to jail in default of $1,000 bonds. A. R. Kahn, deputy collector of customs, revealed the sezure but withheld the names of his prisoners. The fur had been smuggled suc cessfully across the border, he said, and was being expressed to a north ern fur dealer. Among the captured skins were 482 raccoon skins. 112 wild cat. 131 leopard. 207 voyote. 196 fox. 39 badger. 16 skunk. 13 martin and 8 beaver. STOP FUMIGATION MEXICO CITY. Feb 27—OtK— The department of health has with drawn orders for fumigatkm of passenger coaches arriving from the United State* at border point* des tined for the Mexican interior. The orders were issued some time ago due to the prevalence of influenza in the United States ^ • 1,1, • . * !v • , .tions, and that the secretaryship of war was not among these. With a selection of an attorney general decided upon, Mr. Hoover was said to be in a position to com plete his cabinet within a short time. Although Mr. Mitchell is a democrat, he was represented as having voted for Charles Evans Hughes In 1916; for President Coolidge and for Mr. Hoover. The attorney generalship at one time was expected to go to Dono van. who was represented today as being annoyed by the opposition raised against him for this post by certain dry forces and others. He was said to feel he was being look ed upon by these forces and not as an individual whose capacity for organization and administration were to be taken into account. Mr. Donovan is returning as soon as possible to Santa Fe. New Mexico, to wind up his activities as chair man of the Boulder Dam commis sion and as commissioner on the Rio Grande commission. On the 4th of March he will retire to the practice of law and sever his con nection with the government. With the elimination of Donovan for the war secretaryship, the name of James M. Good of Iowa was brought forward as a possible choice. Mr. Good was Mr. Hoover’s western campaign manager Mr. Mitchell was bom in Winona. Minn.. 55 years ago. His father was Justice of the Minnesota su preme court for twenty years. He began the practice of law in St. Paul in 1901. He was regional counsel for the United States rail road administration in 1919 and chairman of the citizens* charter committee of St. Paul in 1922 He assumed the office of solicitor gen eral in June. 1925. The record of the newly designat ed attorney eeneral shows him to have been active in Minnesota na tional guard affairs over a period of years. He is listed as a Presby terian. PASS BILL REQUIRING OK TO MOVE HIGHWAYS AUffHN. Feb. 27.—OfV-The house last night passed the Finn-Woodall bill preventing the state highway department from removing arteries of travel from towns of over 200 in population without consent of the county commissioners court after re jecting a committee amendment specifying that the course of the road could be changed, but a pas sable road should be maintained in the town. An attempt to adopt the amend ment lost by an 82-31 vote. The measure finally passed. 104 to 15. Proponents of the committee sub stitute contended that the state would be deprived of federal aid If the highway department was not allowed some discretion In determ ining what routes should be fol lowed. POSTOFFICES FOR 4 VALLEY TOWNS URGED (Special to Tho Herald) WASHINGTON. Feb 27—Ex penditure of 880.000 for extension and improvement of the federal building at Brownsville and erection of new pos&otflces at San Benito, Harlingen and McAllen was recom mended to the house today by the public building commission Postoffkes at the three Rio Gran de Valley towns would cost WSjOOO each. GIBSON SOLD 8AN ANTONIO. Feb. Tt.-i/Ph Frank Gibson, a catcher and Mat year manager of the San Antonio Bears was sold today to the New York Giants. Gibson, when dis placed as manager by Billy Alex ander. requested to be sent back to the majorib <0 LADY BUGS SENT * * * LAREDO TO WAR * * * ON ONION PESTS COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. —</P>—'Ten quarts of hibernating lady bugs, answering an S O 8 call from the onion fields of Texas, are enroute to Laredo, where they will wage a war against thirps. foe of the aspir ing onion. There was an unusually large crop of lady bugs on Mount Manltou, near here, last fall, and there was no difficulty in gath ering them by the half pint, the pint or the quart. When picked up the lady bugs are dormant, and. to all indica tions. dead. One dropped into the warm onion fields, however, they will come to life quickly and make a dash for the nearest thirps. VERDICT NEAR ON M’CLOSKEY Jury Faces Court to Hear Charge In Vote Fraud Case of Judge AUSTIN. Tex.. Feb. 27.—OP)—A verdict before night was possible to day as the Jury in the trial of Con gressman-elect Augustus McCloskey, charged with the alteration of elec tion returns, entered the box for the last time to hear the charge from the court and final pleas from attorneys. * Judge McCloskey, who defeated Congressman-elect Harry M. Wurz bach of Seguin for re-election, fin ished presentation of his defense yesterday by taking the stand in person to deny all cliarges against him. He also presented four char acter witnesses to testify as to his standing and integrity. In rebuttal the state attacked the alibi presented by the defense by seeking to Impeach the chief alibi witness, the Rev. Robert Small of San Antonio. The Rev. Small had testified that during the time Judge McCloskey was said by state wit nesses to have been sitting by while returns were altered, he actually was on a dove hunt with the min ister. The Rev. Small admitted that he had been convicted on a prohibition charge, but as this was classified as a misdemeanor the court held that it did not impeach the witness’ testimony and ordered the Jury to disregard the matter. J. F. May, Operator At NAY, Is Victim Of Brain Abscess Coxwaln J. 7. May, 24. radio oper ator at the naval station NAY at Port Brown, died of an abscess of the brain at the post hospital Tuesday afternoon at 7 o’clock. May was 111 only a short time, going to the hospital Saturday aft ernoon with a supposedly light at tack of influenza. He took a sud den turn for the worse Monday and his parents at Stafford. Conn., were notified. The body is being held at the H ink ley funeral home pending word from Connecticut. May had been stationed here only a month and a half. He had been in the service six years. J. J. PALMER, WINTER VISITOR, DEAD HERE | Jesse J. Palmer. 66. died here at 9:30 a. m. Wednesday. Mr. Palmer was spending the winter here, and was residing on St. Charles street. He Is survived by his wife, who lives In Pennsylvania, and the body Is being held by Hlnkley's mortuary pending advices as to arrange ments. ESCAPED CONVICT HELD ST. LOUIS Peb. Hsniid E. Quay, 29. who said he was an aviator, is held here by police on charges of issuing two worthless checks for 960. Police said he ad mitted he escaped from the Hunts ville. Texas, prison last November 15. while serving a five-year term for robbery from Houston. He gave aliaea of Prank Pay and Rob THREE NOWON FORCE; OTHERS NOT SERVING Harlingen Constables Alleged To Have Fired On Boys* Car; Extortion Charged Indictments against three former and three present peace officers of the Harlin gen precinct have been re turned by the Cameron coun ty grand jury, the list includ ing Porter Eubanks, con stable, and Strong Boynton and Jesse Riley, deputy con stabjea,, who ars._. chaired with assault To muraer, ana Joe Lucas, former constable, and Fernando Deal and Pe dro C»arcia, former deputy constables, charged with ex tortion. Two bills have been returned by the grand Jury against Garcia. Eubanks. Boynton and Riley aiw alleged to have fired upon a car on a by-road between Los Indloa and San Benito Friday night. The ear was occupied by Robert Condlt. W. J. Morris and James Franklin. Loa Indios youtns ranging in age from IS to 16 years. Officers reported that three bul let holes were found In the car, two through the rear fenders and one through the back. None of the bays were struck by the bullets. The boy* reported the affair when they reach ed San Benito and an Investigation was started immediately by the sheriff's department. Investigation of the case by the grand Jury began Monday and true bills returned. Lucas. Leal and Garcia are charged with extortion, and are al leged to have collected a fine from a Mexican couple who were threat ened with arrest unless they secur ed a marriage license and wese married in accord with American law. One of the defendants was given a hearing In Justice court three months ago and held to the grand Jury, the grand Jury, upon Investigation, returning indictments against three officers. PHOTOSTAT PLANT FOR 1 VALLEY IS INSTALLED HARLINOEN, Feb. 27. — A. Tamm, Harlingen engineer, has In stalled a complete photostat plant In connection with his blue print plant here, This Is the first plant of the kind south of San Antonio, and Is reported to be one of the mbs* complete In the South. Installation of the plant was completed last week, and it has been operating to capacity on rec ords for various Valley firms. THE WEATHER For Brownsville and the Valkjf! Partly cloudy and colder tonight; lowest temperature In the fifties; Thursday fair and moderately cold. For East Texas: Partly cloudy to night; colder in south and east portions; probably frost In south west portion; Thursday generally fair. Moderate to fresh northwest winds on the coast. KITES FORECAST There will be no material change in the river during the next few days. nood Present 34-Hr M-Rr. Sum State Ctasg. Rain Eagle Pass .. 16 2.7 0.0 jOO Laredo .27 -OJ 00 jOO Rio Grande . 21 4.4 0.0 JX Mission .... 22 36 CO JJD San Benito . 23 67 -6.1 jXJ Brownsville . IS 16 -6,4 j30 TIDETABLE High and low Ode at Point Isa bel tomorrow, under normal met eorological conditions: High.7:24 a. m.; 6:06 p, m. Low.13:20 a. m.; 1:23 p to. MISCELLANEOUS DATA Sunset today . 660 Sunrise tomorrow 6:M