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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 240 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1929 TWELVE PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
ONE HUNDRED >.
Canadians, cros.sing the United
States from north line to the
south line, are scheduled to reach
the Lower Rio Grande Valley Sat
y morning.
^•■imeron county will entertain
Vm visitors Saturday.
Hidalgo county will have its fling
at the northerners Sunday.
Since there are many former
Canadians in the Valley, probably
there will be some reunions of old
friends.
They will be entertained and will
entertain, since they are bringing
their Scotch with them.
Not the Scotch that is perhaps
most familiar down here, but a
Scotch kilted band.
From forty to fifty cars are being
a.ssembled to give the visitors a
view of Cameron county. Each
county will supply cars for the day.
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WHILE ON THE SUBJECT of
visitors and cars, there's a matter
that has not been given very much,
if any, attention. And it is im
portant.
Down here in the Valley we do
ourselves proud, so to speak, in
gathering automobiles for the en
tertainment of visitors who come in
groups, large or small.
What about the individual tour
ists who come clown here to spend
a week, two weeks, a month or a
season.
What are we doing to entertain
them9 What do they do to enter
tain themselves.
Who pays them any attention?
Who gives them any mind? Who
digs tin a car for them to sec the
Valley?
Is there a "tourist clay” once a
week, or once in two weeks, on
which occasion tourists who are
here ‘‘on their own” ere invited out
for a view' of the Valley?
The chambers of commerce might
give that some thought, if so
minded.
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HIS NAME is Burton JDavis.
Back in 1915, if memory as to
dates serves correctly, he selected a
broiling August clay for a hike from
Brownsville to Point Isabel.
He made the trip all right, but
next day went to bed with the
worst case of sun blister on ex
posed arms ever seen here. And
«led abed for a week.
was a reporter on The
ownsville Herald.
Considerable water has gone over
the dam since 1915.
Now he is in New York City.
Writing. With him. also writing,
his wife, red-headed Clara Ogden
Davis, formerly of Fort Worth.
She has just completed a book.
••The Woman of It.” a story about
a woman governor.
And together they are collaborat
ing on a mystery story, also to be ;
published in book form.
Older residents of Brownsville
will remember J. Burton Davis. He
has since dropped the first letter, j
An Invitation to them, while in
Texas, to take a job took them to
New York. They stuck—and are ,
making good.
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GEORGE R. TAIT. capable man
ager for the Brownsville district cf
the Southwestern Bell Telephone
company for the pest two years, is
going up.
He has been given an important .
aopointrr.ent in the development
engineering department, with head
quarters at San Antonio.
He will have all south Texas as
his territory.
George Tait is the type of util
ity official who. when asked some
thing out of the usual, replies “it j
can be done.’’
And nine times out of ten does
it. And when one comes to know
him and hears him say. ‘ it can t
be done.” It »*ay be put down as
being just, that way.
George Weber, manager of the
Corpus Christi district, again as
sumes direction of the Brownsville
district pending decision as to the
future.
Weber is a veteran, with S2 years
of service in South Texas with Bell
Telephone.
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THE CORPUS CIIRISTI Caller
is much interested in Brownsville s
airport developments, as reported in
the press from day to day.
"The Crow s Nest,” the interest
ing first page column of the Caller,
lias. to say:
jfrrownsvillc. almost - overnight,
beco.ne one of the most irn
port.in’.airports in the Southwest.
Much k its success has been due
to its natural location, on the inter
national border. But not all. by
any means. Brownsville has built
a model landing field, at a cost of
around $200,000. and equipped it in
accordance with the best stand
ards. It will be the terminus of
three air lines, all of considerable
importance.
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"NEXT SATURDAY Brownsville
will see the inauguration of air mall
sendee between that point, and
Mexico City. It v ill be the term
inus ol the line from Chicago to
the Mexican border: and the term
inus of the line from New York
and Washington via Houston. At
the same time the line from San
Antonio to Laredo will be discon
tinued. and the mail planes routed
from San Antonio to Brownsville
A passenger line from Dallas. Fort
Worth. San Antonio to Brownsville
Is projected, and there are rumors
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e RE AG ER RAPS WURZBAGH
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Bexar Man Held In Murder Of Mason Sheriff
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BY OFFICIALS
A. T. Murray Found
Slain In Highway;
Had Answered Call
To Arrest 2 Men
MASON, Tex., Mar. 1.—UP<—
Ofilio Herrera was charged with
murder today in connection with
the death of Sheriff Allen T.
Murray, whose body was found in
an isolated lane near here yes
terday.
District Attorney F. II. Mam
mon who preferred the charge,
said Herrera and another man
were seen talking to Sheriff Mur
ray shortly before his body was
found.
SAN ANTONIO. March 1.——
Ofilio Herrera. Bexar county resi
dent. Friday was held in the Ma
son county iail in connection witn
the slaying of Sheriff Allen T.
Murray of Mason. Thursday, near
Mason, while a search for a com
panion of Herrera continued, ac
cording to District Attorney F. H.
Hammond of Mason.
District Attorney Hammond told
a representative of the Light by
telephone that a charge of murder
had been filed against Herera who
was arrested Thursday night eight
miles from Mason on the Brady
road.
Herrera was arrested when in
formation was brought to Deputy
Sheriff Tom Baker of Mason that
there was a car stalled on the
Brady road, according to the Ma
son county prosecutor, who said
Herrera veas believed to have had a
companion with him. The suspect
made no statement.
Deputy Sheriff Baker found nis
superior dead when he responded
to a report that a drunken man
was lying in the road by his car in
a lane near Mason. The sheriff
had been last seen when he left.
Mason to search for two men whos*
arrest had been requested by offi
cers of Laurel Valley, village near
Mason.
Martin Lively and Walter Irvin
ol Brady, drivers of a gasoline
truck, after the discovery of the
sheriff's body, told officers of hav
ing seen the sheriff talking to twTo
men in the lane. There was a small
gray coupe and the sheriff's car
stopped in the lane, they said.
HAMER AIDS HUNT
MASON. Texas, March 1.—c/P>—
Captain Frank Hamer of the Texas
rangers arrived here this morning
to assist officers of Mason and sur
rounding counties in running down
the slavers of Sheriff Allen T. Mur
ray. whose body was found in a
lonely lane near here yesterday.
FIGHT OVER TRUCKS
IS WAGED IN SENATE
AUSTIN. March 1.—UP)—A fight
raaed in the senate today over the
certificate of convenience and ne
cessity clause of the proposed law
regulating motor trucks.
An amendment to the Woodward
bill, offered by Senator A. J. Wirtz
of S^guin. would in effect kill the
convenience and necessity provis
ion. Wirtz charged the necessity
and convenience douse would cre
ate private truck monopolies over
public roads.
Senator Ed Westbrook of Sher
man took issue with Wirtz’ assert
edly anti-monopolistic statements,
saying it was the money of this
country right used which made the
nation.
ARIZONA HAS PROPOSAL
IN DAM CONTROVERSY
SANTA FE. N. M.. March 1.—(/F)
—The Arizona Interstate Water
Commission today placed before the
Colorado tri-state Boulder Dam
conference a set of proposals de
fining Arizona's position with re
gard to allocation of waters from
the Colorado river among the low
er basin states of Arizona, Califor
nia and Nevada.
Arizona proposed to divide the
8.500.000 acre feet as follows:
Arizona 3,500,00 acre feet; Cali
fornia 4.700.000 acre feet; Nevada
300.000 acre feet.
COMPROMISE ON DRY
FUND IS IN PROSPECT
WASHINGTON. March 1.—.m—
A Compromise between the senate
and house on an increase in pro
hibition funds was in prospect today
as senate conferees in the dispute
offered to accept a $3,000,000 in
crease in place of the $21,000,000
previously voted. The house has
proposed an increase in dry funds
of $2,724,000.
TROTZKY SERIOUSLY ILL
CONSTANTINOPLE. Mar. 1.—<7P>
—A report worthy of credence today
said that Leon Trotrky was so seri
ously ill that local soviet doctors are
unable to treat him and a specialist
from Berlin has been called here.
LATE BULLETINS
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FARMER CONVICTED FOURTH TIME IN SLAYING
WAC'O, Texas, March 1.—(TP)—For the fourth time in five years. Clar
ence Johnson. Moody farmer, was convicted today of murder for the
shooting of his father-in-law, Bruce Porter, at Johnson’s home near
Moody in 1922. The jury recommended a five-year sentence. In the
three previous trials, sentences of 60, 40 and five years were returned.
Each time the conviction was reversed on appeal.
HIGHWAY BOND ACT REFERRED TO SENATE SUB-COMMITTEE
AUSTIN. March 1.—(TP)—The house committee on constitutional
amendments today referred the state-wide highway bond issue proposal
as passed by the senate to a sub-committee. A resolution similar to the 1
senate drafted was rejected by the house committee some time ago, but
ordered printed on a minority report. The vote was D to 6 to refer to a
sub-committee.
DALLAS RESERVE REDISCOUNT HIKED TO 5 PER CENT
WASHINGTON, March 1,—i7P>—'The Dallas Federal Reserve bank has
increased its rediscount rate to 5 per cent on all classes of paper of all
maturities effective March 2. 1929. The previous rate v.as 4 1-2 per cent.
NEW ORLEANS HEARS COWBOY BAND ON INAUGURAL TRIP
NEW ORLEANS. March 1.—(TP)-—ISoutherners got a taste of the breezi
west when Texans aboard the Texas Hoover special train arrived here
today. The Simmons University Cowboy Band, in full regalia, paraded
down Canal street and gave a concert in the Roosevelt hotel.
FRENCH PARLIAMENT RATIFIES KELLOGG PACT 570 TO 12
PARIS. March 1.—(TP)—The French parliament today ratified France’s
signature to the Kellogg renunciation of war pact by a vote of 5i0 to 12. j
BILL TO PERMIT INTERSTATE GAS LINE SIGNED IN OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 1—(TP)—W. J. Holloway, acting governor,
today signed the senate bill repealing the law which since statehood has
prohibited the piping of natural gas outside's Oklahoma's borders.
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YOUTHS FACE BURGLARY CHARGE IN BANK ROBBERY
j CAMERON, Texas, March l.—wPi—Charges of burglary were filed to- ;
day against Leeland Childs, 21, and Carl Altenburg, in connection with
the robbery of the Buckholts State bank of $300 Wednesday night.
HUNT ANNOUNCES APPEAL; ADMITS RAVING WAS SHAM
DALLAS, Texas, March 1.—(TP)—Dewey R. Hunt, sentenced to the elec
j trie chair by a jury for murdering Sam A. Cole, street car motorman, will
appeal his case. Docile as a lamb. Hunt today told officers they would
I have no more trouble with him and that his mad ravings when he was
j *aken to the court room had been a sham.
VICTIM IN CAR
I ACCIDENT DIES
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Mrs. F. B. Rhoe, Hurt In
Auto Crash on Highway
Dead At Hospital
HARLINGEN. March 1.—Mrs. F.
B. Rhoe, 54 years old, injured in an
1 automobile wreck on the highway
, between here and San Benito sev
j eral weeks ago, died at 11 o'clock
! Thursday night at the Valley Bap
tist hospital.
Seven other people were injured
in the crash when two automobiles,
one driven by Mrs. Rhoe, crashed
head-on. Mrs. Rhoe, however, was
the only one severely injured. She
j had been at the Valley Baptist hos
' pital for the last two weeks, and
was reported well on the road to
i recovery, when she suffered a re
lapse Thursday morning.
Death is believed to have been
the result of complications follow
ing a fracture of the skull. Of the
seven others injured in the accident,
ail were released after examination
at the hospital, having sustained
only minor bruises.
The body of Mrs. Rhoe will be
sent to Crete, 111., her home, for
i burial tonight by the Thompson
j mortuary, Mr. Rhoe, her husband,
who was injured in the accident,
will accompany the body.
CHARGES OF MURDER
ON HIGH SEA FILED
HOUSTON. March 1.— CP) —A
charge of murder on the high seas
was filed today against John B.
Fikes, oiler on the steamer Endicott,
United States shipping board ves
sel, due to dock here March 8. It
was the first such charge to be filed
| here in 11 years.
Fikes. reported in irons aboard
the ship, is accused of slaying Geo.
A. Leonard, ship steward. February
1, while the ship was docked at
Havre, France.
NEWSPAPERMAN VISITS
Brad Smith, editor of the McAl
len Press, was a visitor in Browns
ville Thursday. While here he in
spected the municipal airport.
Lindy Believ
Anne to PiL
MEXICO CITY, March 1.—(P)
—This capital was inclined today
to the belief that Miss Anne
Morrow might be an aviatrix be
fore she became Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh and might be able to
take her turn at running a honey
moon plane.
There is nothing new to indi
cate when her marriage to the
transatlantic flight hero will take
place, but friends see in events of
the past two days possibility that
Colonel Lindbergh is teaching
her to fly.
Miss Morrow’s known enthus
iasm for the air and the quick
f
HEAT OF CHORUS
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GIRL’S BLUSH IS
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RECORDED 5-100F
NEW YORK, March 1.—<7Pj—All
instrument so sensitive it can
measure the blush of a Broadway
chorus girl is one of the achit ce
ments of science during the «ist
year.
In one of a series of demon
strations arranged by the Amer
ican Institute, Miss Joanna Al
len of a musical show sat before
a device resembling a small au
tomobile, and blushed. Dr. E. E.
Free, ciiemical authority, who
conducted the demonstration, re
corded the blush at five one
hundredth of a degree Fahrenheit.
Miss Allen’s blush was classi
fied as a “slight" one, scarcely
sufficient to deepen th color of
the cheeks. Dr. Free said in a
series of tests a wide range of
temperature changes had been
noted in blushes, some readings
showing 100 times as much actual
rise in temperature as others.
The blushes of blondes, he said,
were hotter than those of bru
nettes.
Death Term Given
Slayer of Dallas
Trolley Operator
DALLAS. March 1.—/.■?)—For the
third time in two months a Dallas
jury assessed the death penalty
last night when Dewey Hunt was
sentenced to the electric chair for
the murder of Samuel Cole, street
car operator, last November.
The jury, apparently overlooking
Hunt's plea of insanity, found him
guilty on the first ballot last night.
The state introduced witnesses to
connect Hunt with the crime cn
circumstantial evidence.
Strapped to a chair, a gag cov
ering his mouth, the burly defend
ant could do no more than roll his
eyes when the verdict was read.
He was trussed up on the opening
day of his trial when, his ravings
threw the court room Into confu
sion.
Cole was shot to death at the
controls of his car the night of
November 3 when resisting an at
tempted holdup.
ed Teaching
ot Aeroplane
ness with which she submitted to
“army medicine" yesterday after
her crash of Wednesday lent
foundation to indications that
she wishes to handle a plane her
self.
Cuernavaca with its lazy beauty
will draw the aviator and the
Morrows again this week-end.
Colonel Lindbergh and Anne will
return to Mexico City on Tues
day. Further definite assurance
has been given in authoritative
sources that there will be no
secret wedding, as some had sug
gested on this second trip to the
Morrow country home.
16 SLAIN TO
AVENGE DEATH
OF AMERICANS
Mexican Troops Re
ported Trailing Last
Of Kidnapers Who
Killed Engineers
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MEXICO CITY, March l(LvH—
Sixteen Mexicans have paicA with
their lives for the alleged murder
of W. M. Underwood and G. C.
Aiesthorpe, American mining offi
cials. in the state of Guanajuato.
Two others, held as prisoners,
today faced summary action by
court martial, and probable execu
tion for their part in the slayings.
Troops were in pursuit of the re
mainder of the band.
The military commander of the
state of Guanajuato reported to the
chief of the presidential stalf here
that federal troops yesterday en
countered the bandit group which
kidnaped and killed the two Ameri
cans and in a two-hour battle
killed ten of them, capturing two
others. Six others were killed in a
previous battle.
One federal soldier was killed in j
yesterday's encounter.
Aiesthorpe and Underwood were!
kidnaped from their bunks at the:
Guanajuato mines and reduction in!
northeastern Guanajuato Wednes-j
day of last week. A ransom of $7,- j
500 was demanded for their release, j
This was paid to an intermediary
and was being carried to the ban
dits when federal troops attacked
them, killing six.
Presumably in retaliation for the
attack the two Americans were i
killed, their bodies being found
near the scene of the battle by pur
suing troops.
ANTI-SEINiNG
BILLJSPASSED
Measure Now Before Gov
ernor After Stormy
Session In House
(Special to The Herald)
AUSTIN, March 1.—The Holbrook
fish bill, designed to close the coast
al waters of Texas to seine fisher- !
men alter January 1, 1930, was!
passed finally by the house late
Thursday night and sent to Gov:;- i
nor Moody for his signature
The measure does not prol ; ,t the
use of trammel and gill n^is. but
does prohibit drag seines and trawls
except small bait seines.
The bill was attacked in both
houses as sounding the doom ofthe
commercial fish industry and the
destruction of the property of those
engaged in this industry, it was re
vealed that commercial fishermen
have paid in about $50,000 taxes on
12,000.000 pounds of fish taken an
nually.
Representative L. M. Kenyon of
Galveston, led the fight in the
house, though the bill was spon
sored by the senator from his dis
trict. He charged it was fostered
by rich sportsmen who wanted pro
tection at the expense of 5.000 per
! sons engaged in the industry. Rep
j resentative C. S. McCombe of Dal
: las also spoke against the measure,
the fight for the bill being led by
I Representative Hill A. Sanders of
Nacogdoches.
Proponents of the measure stated
that all varieties of fish are disap
pearing rapidly from the coastal
waters of Texas: that the bill was
in the nature of a conservation
measure, and that prohibition of
seining is necessary to preserve ma
rine life on the Texas coast.
No definite announcement has
been made by Governor Moody, but
he. is expected to sign the measure
Friday or Saturday.
Mission Electing
2 Commissioners;
Expect Big Vote
MISSION. March 1.—A heavy
vote is being polled here today in
the election at which two mambers
are to be added to the city commis
sion. The additional members were
provided, m a new charter recently
adopted.
Candidates are Albert McHenry,
said to have the support of Mayor
G. F. Dohrn and the present ad
ministration; Jack Frost and Roy
Buckley, said to be the candidates
of those who oppose Mayor Dohrn
and the present regime.
Present commissioners are Geo.
Cavazos and R. R. Stephens.
LAST CABINET MEETING
WASHINGTON. March 1.—(AP)—
President Coolidge today turned his
attention to the last meeting of his
group of official advisors, the mem
bers of his cabinet. Twice each week
throughout his administration, with
the exception of those times that
the chief executive has been away
from the city, he has discussed the
affairs of the nation with the ten
men who head the government de
partments. Today's session formed
their last gathering for the consid
eration of government business.
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Checks Drawn by
Robison on Land
Fund Under Fire
AUSTIN, March 1.—(TP)—Cancelled checks drawn on J
a one cent an acre fund collected from purchasers of pub-j
lie lands to pay expenses of revaluing the tracts and gifts
received by Commissioner J. T. Robison, were discussed
before the committee investingating the land office yes
AWAIT ACTION
ON BARRICADE
|
Fence Over Concrete High
way Near Santa Rosa
Still Standing
Action to be taken by Cameron
county in connection with the
fence and barricade erected across
the concrete highway west of Santa
Rosa on the line between the Cantu
tract and the property of the
American Rio Grande Land & Irri
gation company will be decided to- j
day.
County Judge O. O. Dancy, who
went to Austin Tuesday, returned !
to Harlingen Friday morning, and
is understood to be investigating
the legal phases involved.
County Engineer W. O. Washing
ton. who made a trip to the west
end of the county Thursday after
noon to survey the barricade, pro
nounced it very substantial af
fair. A heavy wire fence, support
ed by heavy mesquite poles is
stretched across the highway and
is reinforced with a large tree and
stumps.
Investigation revpaled that the
land had been leased by the
American company for grazing
purposes, but whether the barricade
had been erected by the holder of
the lease was not definitely ascer
tained.
At a meeting of Santa Rosa resi
dents Wednesday a committee was
appointed to visit other Southern
Pacific towns and secure a delega
tion to go to Edinburg to request
immediate paving of the three-mile
gap between the end of the Cam
eron county pavement and the
Mercedes base line. This would
necessitate construction of a dip or i
causeway across the north flood
wav.
The barricade, which has been
erected about half a mile east of
the Hidalgo county line, has effec
tually cut off all traffic between
the Southern Pacific towns of Cam
eron and Hidalgo counties, it was
stated.
Rumors are rife in the western
part of the county in connection
with the barricading of the road. It
is understood Cameron county se
cured right of way from the
American company several months
ago. but the legal status of the
counfev could not be determined
until the county judge has com
pleted his investigation.
FARMER IS HANGED
FOR MURDER OF YOUTH
AMITE. La., March 1.—!7P)—Lige
Wall. 56-year-old farmer, was hang
ed here today for the murder of
Percy Roberts, 18-year-old youth.
The defendant’s appeal to the state
pardon board for a recommenda
tion of clemency was fruitless. He
claimed Roberts had wronged his
daughter.
VETS TO INAUGURAL
GULFPORT, Miss.. March 1.—OP)
; —A group of Confederate veterans
from Beauvoir Jefferson Davis Sol
diers’ home left here today for
Washington to participate in the
inaugural ceremonies. This rem
nant of the Confederate army,
dressed in new gray uniforms, but
having the Stars and Stripes will
proclaim to President Hoover they
are for the United States.
FACES WEAPON CHARGE
Pablo Carillo was placed under ar
rest Thursday afternoon bj deputy
sheriffs charged with carrying a
pistol and was lodged in the county
jail. The arrest was made several
j miles down the river.
Runners Relay to Catch
Alleged Valley Robber
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(Special to The Herald)
SAN ? ENITO, March 1.—The
familiar story of two foxes relay
ing in circles to run down a dog
was reversed here yesterday aft
ernoon by W. S. Brock and S. L.
Manley, and as a result R. E.
Randolph is lodged behind the
bars on a charge of burglary.
Randolph is alleged to have
grabbed a wad of cash from the
Barber Plantation office’s cash
register and dashed out. Brock,
cashier and manager for the
plantation, heatedly sprinted out
behind him. Despite strenuous
leraay.
Many checks drawn in favor of |
“self’ or “cash,” ranging in denom- :
inations from $100 to $1,000, signed i
by the commissioner and issued
against the special fund, were in- :
troduced in evidence. The commis
sioner said the money in each in
stance was drawn to defray ex
penses incident to revaluing the
lands, except those issued while he
was in a San Antonio hospital to
pay the bills incurred by his ill
ness.
He said he was of the firm opin
ion it was right and just for the
fund to stand the expenses of his
illness, since he was stricken as a
result of hardships he endured
while in the field appraising the
lands.
Gifts Listed
Gifts which were brought into
the hearing were as follows:
Eighty acres of land in Live Oak
county, from the late George W.
West of San Antonio, which Com
missioner Robison said he later sold
to former Governor James E. Fer
guson for $2,000.
Five hundred dollars from Ira G.
Yates of San Angelo, to apply on
his last campaign expenses, used by
Mr. Robison, he said, to pay a loan
of $500 from Judge R. L. Bates,
obtained during the campaign.
(Continued on Page Nine.)
RATESREDUCED
ON MIXED CARS
New Rule In Effect March
5, Will Aid Valley,
Shippers State
A new/ rate on mixed cars of veg
etables and vegetables and fruit,
announced by the Missouri Pacific
and the Southern Pacific railroads
in January, will go into effect March
5, according to information received
today from the state railway com
mission. The supplement carrying
the new tariff has not been re
ceived.
Under the new rule all commodi
ties in a mixed car will carry the
individual carload rate for each
commodity. The rule has been ex
tended to include fruit with vege
tables, making possible shipment of
mixed cars containing fruit without
adding to the rate.
Valley shippers state that the rule
will effect a material saving on mix
ed car shipments from the Valley
and is expected to, prove an im
portant factor in expanding mar
kets for Valley products.
Under the existing rule the mixed
car carries the highest carload rate
and lowest minimum of any com
modity in the mixture. This has
proved a serious handicap in con
nection with the mixed car business
the Valley shippers have developed.
Under the new rule, regardless of
what commodities are included in
the mixture, each w;ll carry its
regular straight car rate assuring
movement of mixed cars as cheaply
as straight cars.
Establishment of this rate has
been due to the co-operation of the
carriers sewing the Valley, shippers
state. Through the agency of J. E.
Bailey of Houston, general freight
agent for the Missouri Pacific, and
S. G. Reed of Houston, assistant
traffic manager for the Southern
Pacific, acting on the request of
Valley shippers, the rule was ap
proved by the Texas tariff bureau
and submitted to the Southwestern
Freight Bureau at St. Louis, where
an agreement was reached to which
all railroads operating in southwest
ern territory subscribed.
The rate, as it stands now is op
erative only in Texas, but notice
from Washington that the rate will
go into effect interstate is expected
daily.
and determined efforts on Brock's
part the youth began to pull
away from him after about three
blocks.
Manley, ar. electrical contrac
tor, watched the buzzing feet
approach with open-eyed aston
ishment. Randolph whizzed by,
then Brock drew abreast gasp
ing out, “You chase him; I'm
tuckered out-” He did so and
caught the youth about three
blocks later as the long race be
gan to tell on him.
Randolph believes he could
have outrun either of the two
singly.
Bexar County Man De
nies All Testimony
Of G. O. P. Commit
teeman Given in Quiz
/ _
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1.—(&)—
R. B. Creager, republican national
committeeman for Texas, charged
before the senate patronage com
mittee today that Representative
Harry M. Wurzbach, only repub
lican member of congress from
Texas, had violated the penal law by
"collecting contributions’’ for his
campaigns.
Wurzbach entered a categorical
denial of ail oi the charges and as
serted he had "never solicited a dol
lar” in his life.
"In the campaign of 1926,” Creag
er said, "while a congressman and a
candidate lor re-election, Mr. Wurz
bach received contributions for his
campaign from at least four officers
and employees of the United States.
Details Contributions
"On June 23, 1926, Mr. Wurzbach
received a campaign contribution of
$100 from H. Al. Holden, at the time
United States attorney at Houston,
Texas.
“In July. 1926." Mr. Wurzbach re
ceived a campaign contribution of
$100 from S. C. Kvle at the time
district director of the United States
veterans bureau, stationed at San
Antonio, Texas.
i “Oil July 8. 1926. Mr. Wurzbach
received the sum of $25 as a cam
paign contribution from H. F. Gey
er, of San Antonio, Texas, who at
rhe time was a railway clerk of the
United States.
’On July 8. 1926, Mr. Wurzbach
received $50 as a campaign contri
bution from E. J. Keudell. of San
Antonio, Texas, who at the time
was a railway mail clerk of the
United States.
Wurzbach Admits Gift
“On August 16. 1924, Air. Wurz
bach, at the time a member of con
gress and a candidate for re-eiec
tion, received a campaign contribu
tion of $25 from noy b. Nichols,'
postmaster at Houston, Texas. This,
last contribution was received bv!
Mr. Wurzbach in person in the of-;
fice of Air. Nichols in the federal
building in Houston, Texas. Thial
contribution was bv check on thai
Union National Bank of Houston.’
Texas, the check being numbered
1.493 and I now offer the original
chnck to the committee as evidence.'*
Wurzbach admitted he had re
ceived all of the contributions bun
declared they were unsolicited an eft
: came from men who had given the?’
money voluntarily and were hid*
1 lifetime friends
“I do not understand.” he said,
"that, it is a violation of the crim-j
inal law to accept voluntary contri-1
but ions.”
Creager testified that in October,'
1924. C. K. McDowell, then of San
Antonio, entered into an agreement
with Wurzbach whereby the repre
sentative was ‘to support AlcDowell
for the position of collector of cus
toms” and that he was “to pay
Wurzbach $1,000 as a campaign
contribution.”
“Signed Endorsement”
“Mr. Wurzbach. at the very time,”
i Creager said, “signed a written in
dorsement of McDowell for the po
sition stated and this written In
dorsement was mailed bv Mr. Mc
Dowell to the secretary of the treas
urv, Andrew A fellow. Air. AlcDowell
delivered and caused to be deliv
ered to Mr. Wurzbach nrior to the,
election the sum of $290. Immedi
ately after the election Air. Wurz
bach called unon Mr. McDowell and
demanded the balance of the $1,000
('Continued on pace nine.)
THE WEATHER |
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy to fair tonight and
Saturday; colder tonight with low
est temperatures in the forties if
clear; continued moderately cold
Saturday.
For East Texas: Generally fair
tonight and Saturday; cooler on the
coast tonight; probably frost in
north and southwest portion and
near the east coast; warmer in
north portion Saturday.
Light northerly winds on the
coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
in the river during the next few
days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Chug. Rain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.7 0.0
Laredo . 27 -0.3 0.0
Rio Grande . 21 4.3 0.0
Mission .... 22 3 8 0.0
San Benito . 23 5.9 -0.3
Brownsville . 18 0.9 -0.1
v TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
bel tomorrow, under normal met-,
eorological conditions;
High . 12:15 p. m.
Low . 2:19 a. xn.1
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today..
Sunrise tomorrow .
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