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N. 0. FUTURES
OPEN EASIER
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Bullish Textile Statistics
Do Not Influence Early
Quotations
NEW ORLEANS. March 9.—(3V
Despite bullish textile statistics the
Cotton market opened easy in sym
pathy with unexpected weakness in
Liverpool.
First trades showed declines of
T> to 7 points and offerings con
tinued aggressive after the start
Until May traded down to $20,56,
July $20,60 and October $20.29, or
B to 11 points under yesterday’s
close. Towards the end of the first
hour the undertone was a shade
steadier.
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; N. O. FUTURES
NEW ORLEANS, March 9.—fJ5)—
Cotton futures closed firm at net
advance of 4 to 5 points:
Prev.
High Low Close Close
Mar. 20.51 20.38 20.51B 20.49
May 20.75 20.56 20.70-72 20.66
July 20.79 20.60 20.76-78 20.71
Oct. 20.48 20.29 20.43-44 20.38
Dec. 20.50 20.46 20.43B-50A 20.47
Opening: March 20.40; Mav 20.60;
July 20.66; Oct. 20.31; Dec. 20.35B.
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NEW YORK COTTON
NEW YORK, March 9.—API—
Cotton opened steady at a decline
Df one to eleven points. Active
months sold about 8 to 10 points
Pet lower right after the call under
realizing and local selling inspired
by easy Liverpool cables.
These early offerings were ab
sorbed by renewal of the recent
demand and covering stimulated by
the standard cloth statistics for
February, which shewed sales
amounting to 116.3 per tent on pro
duction, w’ith a decrease pf 4.2 per
cent in stocks on hand and an in
crease of 7.2 per cent in unfilled
orders for the month.
Futures closed steady, I to 6
points higher. Spot steatfcn mid
dlings 21.65.
9- Y. FUTURES
• NEW YU&K, March 9.—(.Fi—Cot
ton future^
Prev.
High Low Close Close
Mar. ... 21.44 21.28 21.41 21.39
May_ 21.47 21.31 21.44-46 21.39
July_ 20.95 20.77 20.98-91 20.83
Oct. (Old) 20.67 20.50 20.66 20.60
Oct. new 20.68 20.43 20.58-60 20.53
Dec. 20.64 20.47 20.62 20.60
t Opening: March 2145; May 21.3E;
July 20.87: Oct. (old*) 20.54; Oct.
(new) 20.47; Dec. 20.02.
I POULTRY
CHICAGO, March 9.—(5P)—Poul
try steady; unchanged.
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LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL. March 9.— UP) —
iCotton-spot quiet; (Steady; Ameri
can strict good middling 11.92; good
middling 11.52; strict middling
11.32; middling HJL2; strict low
middling 10.87: low middling 10.62;
strict good ordinary. 10.22; good or
dinary 9.82. Sales 4,000 bales, 2,300
American. Receipts 21,800, Amer
ican 13.500. FuturA closed quiet:
March 10.80: May 1(W)0; July 10.89;
October 10.70; December 10.67; Jan.
110.65.
BITTER ANfl EGGS
! CHICAGO, March 9.—(JP)—But
ter higher; creamery extras 49 l-4c;.
standards 48 3-4c; extra firsts 48:d)
48 l-2c; firsts 47@47 l-2c; seconds
j45#46 l-2c.
! Eggs unchanged.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGES
NEW YORK, March 9.—(/P)—
1 Foreign exchanges steady:
Great Britain, demand 484 5-8:
; cables 485 1-16; 60-day bills on
banks 479 15-16.
France, demand 3.90 1-4; Italy
5.23 1-8; Belgium 13 87; Germany
23.69: Tokyo 44.38; Montreal
i 99.28 1-8.
} COTTONSEED OiL
NEW ORLEANS, March 9.—(A3)—
Cottonsed oil closed steady; prime
summer yellow 9.35; prime crude
900-912 1-2. March 9.90; April 9^3;
May 9.97; June 1005; Julv in’.l5;
Aug. 10.17; Sept. 10.20; Oct. 10.15.
SPOT C OTTON
NEW ORLEANS, March 9.—^P>—
Spot cotton closed steady and un
changed. Sales 3435; low middling
18.92; middling 20.42; good middling
20.82; receipts 6.S78; stock 320.028.
U. S. BONDS
NEW YORK. March 9.—r.T>—Gov
ernment bonds: Liberty 3 l-2s, 32
47. $97.3; 1st 4 l-4s $99.1: 4th 4 l-4s
$9.17. Treasury 3 3-4s, 46-56, $99.2.
, R. L. Lackner
Jeweler and
Optometrist
Local Headquarters for
$30,000.00
In prizes for pictures anyone
can take. Enter as many as
you wish.
Developing, in by nine—out
by ive; but be sure and buy
your films from us. Fresh
ones on* hand all the time.
Also Cine Kodak Films
R. L. Lackner
110 Elizabeth Street
Phone 644
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Department of Agriculture, United
States Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics and the San Antonio, Texas.
hCamber of Commerce cooperating.
F. O. B. shipping point informa
tion reported Friday, March 8:
Lower Rio Grande Valley Points:
Cool, clear. Cabbage: Haulings
heavy. Good wire inquiry, demand
good, market strong. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms—
bulk per ton round type $25.00-27.50,
few higher: crates $1.60-1.85. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB cash
track—bulk per ton round type
$20.00-22.50, few higher; crates $1.40
1.60. Wagonloads cash to growers
bulk per ton mostly $15.00, few
$17.20. Carrots: Haulings moder
ate. Moderate wire inquiry, demand
moderate, market about steady. Car
loads and in mixed cars FOB usual
terms—bushel baskets $0.90-1.00;
few higher; crates $1.25-1.50; 100-lb
sacks topped around $1.50. Carloads
and in mixed cars FOB cash track—
bushel baskets 80-S0c; crates $1.25
1.35. Beets: Haulings moderate.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand slow,
market about steady. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms—
bushel baskets 80-90o; crates mostly
around $1.25-1.35. Carloads and in
mixed cars FOB cash track—bushel
baskets 70-80c; crates $1.10-1.25.
Corpus Christi-Robstown Section:
Cool, clear. Cabbage: Haulings
light. Good wire inquiry, demand
good, market stronger. Carloads and
in mixed cars FOB usual terms—
round and flat types bulk per ton
very few sales $27.50-30.00.
Primary destinations of Lower
Valley movement deported Friday,
March 8: Cabbage: St. Louis 61:
Houston 58; Chicago 20; Shreveport
8; Memphis 7; 5 each Pittsburgh,
Indianapolis: 3 each Detroit, To
ronto. New Ybrk; 4 Fort Worth; 2
each Dallas. Edmonton. New Haven;
1 each Birmingham, Fairbury,
Cleveland, Lousing, Knoxville,
Greenville, Mi?*.. Springfield, Mass.,
Providence, Winnipeg. Sudbury.
North Bay. Hamilton, Spartanburg.
Peoria, Albuquerque, Des Moines.
Atchison, Little Rock, Moberly, Ce
dar Rapids. Bismarck. Toledo.
Charleston. Mixed Vegetables: St.
Louis 25: Houston 19: New York 14;
Philadelphia 5; 3 each Detroit. Win
nipeg. Fort Worth. Memphis; 2 each
Chicago. Hartford. Jersey City; 1
each Shreveport. Shamrock, Paris,
Tex, Enid. Oklahoma City, Tulsa,
Fort Smith. Kansas City. Fargo,
Trinidad. Lincoln. Cleveland. New
Haven, Great Falls, Denver, St.
Cloud. Minneapolis. Omaha. Fort
Dodge. Dubuque. El Dorado. Alexan
der. Shawnee. Okmulgee. Amarillo,
Dallas. Ashland, Dayton. Washing
ton. Baltimore. Scranton, Schenec
tady. Buffalo. New Haven, Toronto,
Greensboro. Carrots: St. Lotus 16;
6 each Houston. New York: 5 Chi
cago; 2 each Boston. Philadelphia: 1
each Minneapolis. Grand Rapids*
Providence, Brooklyn. Kansas Citv.
Beets and carrots: N*w Haven 1.
Turnips: 1 each Chicago. Fort
Worth. Oklahoma Ci^v. Beets: St.
Louis 15; New York 10: Chicago 6:
Houston 5: Philadelphia 2: Detroit
1. Lettuce: Jersey City 2: Phila
delphia 1. Anise: New York 1.
Parsley: New York 3. Radishes:
Houston 2. Grapefruit: Houston
7: Fort Worth 6: 1 each El Paso.
Holdenville. Coffewille, Omaha.
Dallas. Cedar Rapids.
Carlot shipments of entire United
States reported Friday, March 8:
Cabbage: Texas 131; Florida 63;
Louisiana 2: New York 9: total JJ. S.
203 cars. Carrots: Texas 34: Cali
fornia 12: New York 3; total U. S.
49 cars. String Beans: Florida 20;
total U. S. 20 cars. Mixed vege
tables: Texas 70; Louisiana 23;
Florida 16: California 18; total U. S.
137 cars. Spinach: Texas 102: oth
ers 1; total U. S. 103 cars. Grape
fruit: Texas 12; Florida 111; total
U. S. 127 cars.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Saturday morning.
March 9: Mixed Vegetables 41;
Beets 21: Carrots 32: Beets and Car
rots 18; Cabbage 120: Parsley 1; Let
tuce 2: Potatoes 2; Oranges 1:
Grapefruit 8; total 246 cars. Freight
movement to date this season—Fruit
1474. Vegetables 9032. total 10.553
cars; to same dav last season—Fruit
1142, Vegetables 9419, total 10,561
cars.
Additional F. O. B. information
reported Friday. March 8:
Cabbage: Rochester. N. Y.. and
nearby points: Minimum 10 degrees,
maximum 25 degrees. Clear. De
mand light, too few sales reported
to quote.
Carrots: Rochester. N. Y.. and
nearby points: Demand light, mar
ket dull. Carloads FOB usual terms
—bushel baskets washed $1.65-1.75.
String Beans: Canal Point, Fla.:
V7avm. clear. Haulings decreasing.
Moderate wire inquiry, demand
moderate, market about steady. Car
loads FOB cash track 7-8 bushel
hampers Stringless and Red Valen
tines $1.80-2.00. few $2.25; Beautifuls
$1.25-1.75.
Spinach: Laredo. Texas: Clear,
warm. Haulings light. Light wire
inquiry, demand slow, market
steadv. Carloads FOB usual terms
—bush'd baskets Savoy 40c; cash
track. 35c.
CABBAGE
St. Louis: Fartlv cloudy, 23 deg.
Arrived 8 Texas, on track 12 cars.
Supplies moderate, demand light,
market about steady. Texas round
type bulk per ton mostly $45@50.
Cincinnati: Cloudy. 30 deg. Ar
rived 1 Florida. 2 Texas, on track 11
cars. Supplies liberal, demand
moderate, market about steady.
Texas round tvpe bulk per ton best
mostly $50. Florida pointed type 1
1-2 bu. hampers *1.50® 1.60, poorer
lower.
Pittsburgh: Cloudy. 26 deg. Ar
rived 5 Texas. Supplies moderate,
demand slow, market steady. Texas
*oao^o°™ndutype $2-75@3.00, mostly
$2.85©3.00; barrels packed locallv
$2.75 @3.00. Florida pointed type 1
1-2 bu. hampers $1.50@ 1.75. Carlot
sales. Texas round type bulk ner
ton $50© 52.00. p
Philadelphia: Cloudy, 36 deg. Ar
rived 3 Florida, 1 Georgia, 1 Mich
igan. 1 New York, 3 Texas, on track
36 cars. New supplies moderate,
demand moderate, market steady to
firm, Florida pointed type 1 1-2 bu
STOCK MARKET
REACTIONARY
Prices Rally Briskly At Op
ening But Later Yield
To Bears
Bv STANLEY W. PRENOSIL
(Associated Press Financial Editor.)
NEW YORK, March 9.—(At!—A
complete reversal of price move
ment took place in today’s stock
market, prices rallying briskly at
the opening and then turning re
actionary under heavy week-end
profit-taking and bear selling.
Trading was moderately heavy in
volume, sales aggregating 1,800,000
shares.
Despite the high money rates and
repeated warnings against securi
ties inflation, pools were aggres
sively at work in a fairly large as
sortment of specialties. Radio is
sues were again the feature, the
old stock soaring 19 points to a new
high record at 464, or 96 points
above Wednesday’s low, and the
new moving up to a new high rec
ord at 93 1-4. Both fell back sharp
ly from the highs on the reitera
tion by President Harbord of the
radio corporation that no merger
negotiations with the Western Un
ion company were under way or
contemplated.
The break in the radio issues un
settled the general list, w-ith selling
pressure most effective against the
copper, steel and merchandising is
sues. Many of the early gains W’ere
wiped out, and a fairly represen
tative list of stocks including U. S.
steel common. Anaconda, American
can, International Harvester and
New York Central sold 1 to 3 points
below yesterday’s final quotations.
Establishment of a new low record
for the year by the Canadian dollar
revived hopes of further gold im
ports from that country but this
was offset by the possiiblity of a
further increase in the Bank of
England discount rate because the
recent decline in sterling threat
ened a further drain on Great
Britain's limited gold supply.
MARKETS AT I
A GLANCE
New York:
Stocks iregular; radio soars to
new high.
Bonds dull; convertibles under
pressure.
Curb steady; Fokker aircraft
reaches new peak.
Foreign exchanges steady; Cana
dian dollar slumps again to new 1929
low.
Cotton higher; favorable textile
reports.
Sugar easy; Cuban selling.
Coffee higher; European support.
Chicago:
Wheat higher; low temperatures
southwest.
Corn firm; bullish farm reserves.
Cattle irregular.
Hogs higher.
TEXAS SPOT CLOSE
DALLAS, March 9.—(/P)—Spot
cotton 29.15; Houston 20.75; Gal
veston 20.90.
hampers $1.20® 1.25, few $1.35, poor
er low as 75c.
Chicago: Cloudy, 18 deg. Arrived
9 Texas, on track 34 cars. Supplies
moderate, demand moderate, mar
ket steady. Florida pointed type 1
1-2 bu. hamper smostly $1.50. Texas
round type crates $2.75@3.00, fair,
soft, leafy mostly $2.50; lettuce
crates Savoy mostly $2.25; sacked
per cwt. round type mostly $2.75.
Louisiana pointed type $2.25 per
crate, fair, leafy $1.75@2.00. Wis
consin Danish type sacked per cwt.
mostly $2.25.
Boston: Cloudy, 32 deg. Arrived
2 Florida, 2 Texas, on track 24 cars.
Supplies heavy, practically no de
mand, market very dull. No sales
reported.
New York: Cloudy, 38 deg. Ar
rived 1 New York, 1 Texas, equha
lent 7 cars by beat from Florida.
New supplies moderate, demand
slow, market weak. Florida pointed
type 1 1-2 bu. hampers 90c@1.25,
mostly $1.00® 1.12 1-2; Savoy $1.50;
ied $2.00@2.50. Texas 90 lb. crates
round type few sales $2.50@2.75.
Carrots
Pittsburgh: Arrived 1 California,
1 mixed Texas. Supplies mode
rate. demand slow, market steady.
California crates $2.50@2.75.
St. Louis: Arrived 1 Texas, on
track 10 cars. Supplies moderate,
demand slow, market dull. Texas
bushels best mostly $1.50, poorer
$1.25; crates $2.40^2.50; sacked per
cwt. topped $2.00. Carlot sales St.
Louis basis, Texas crates 1 car $2.10.
Philadelphia: Arrived 2 Texas, on
track 23 cars. Supplies moderate,
demand moderate, market steady.
Texas crates $2.25@2.50, California
crates poor color $2.
Chicago: Arrived 5 California, 2
Texas, on track 34 cars. Supplies
moderate, demand moderate, mar
ket steady. California crates $2.75®
3.00, fair light color $2.50@2.65.
Texas crates $2.25@2.50, mostly
$2.50, few best $2.75; bushels $1.50
@1.65, few higher.
Boston: Arrived 1 California. 2
Texas, on track 23 cars. Supplies
moderate, demand slow, market
dull. California crates poor color
$2.50. Texas crates $2.50®3.00; 100
lb. sacks topped, dirty, few $2.50.
New York: Arrived 3 California,
2 New York, 6 Texas. Supplies mod
erate. demand slow, market about
steady. California crates fair $2.00
@2.50. Texas crates fair to ordi
nary $2.00@2.50. few $3.00.
Beets
St. Louis: Arrived S Texas, on
track 3 cars. Supplies moderate, de
mand slow, market dull. Texas bu.
few $1.50.
Pittsburgh: Arrived 1 mixed Tex
as. Supplies moderate, demand
slow, market steady. Texas crates
$2.50@2.75.
Philadelphia: Arrived 3 Texas, on
track 12 cars. Supplies moderate,
demand moderate, market about
steady. Texas crates $2.25@2.50.
Chicago: Arrived 2 Texas, on
track 9 cars. Supplies moderate,
demand moderate, market barely
steady. Texas crates $2.25@2.50, few
best $2.75; bushels $1.50® 1.65, few
higher.
New York: Arrived 2 Texas. Of
ferings light, demand moderate,
market steady. Texas crates $2.25@
2.75.
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BRINGS FIRST
(Continued from page one.)
from the cabin of the tri-motor he
was greeted by Captain Ira C. Eaker
of Question Mark fame; Captain
Frank M. Hawks, who recently es
tablished a new non-stop transcon
tinental flight record from Los An
geles to New York; Miss Amelia
Earhart, only woman to fly the At
lantic; Colonel W. T. Johnston,
commander of the Twelfth U. S.
cavalry at Fort Brown, a contingent
of 85 army pilots, and thousands of
residents of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley and American and Mexican
officials.
Lindbergh was escorted to the
car of Colonel Johnston and re
mained on the air field to partici
pate in the christening of the “Pan
American,” Captain Eaker’s plane,
in which Eaker will essay a dawn
to-dusk flight from Brownsville to
the Panama canal. Eaker’s flight,
scheduled for Sunday, March 10,
was ‘postponed Friday upon orders
from the war department.
Officials are Passengers
Colonel Lindbergh will be the
guest of Colonel Johnston Saturday
night.
The plane piloted by Lindbergh
carried approximately 500 pounds of
mail, and a short time after his ar
rival a second tri-motor arrived with
another consignment from the Mex
ican capital. The mail was checked
at the airport administration build
ing, and 15 minutes after the ar
rival of Lindbergh the plane of the
Texas Air Transport. Inc., was wing
ing its way northward loaded to ca
pacity with mail consigned to the
San Antonio-Dallas-Chicago route.
Five minutes later the second plane
of the T. A. T. headed due nprth
with the eastern mail, routed via
Houston, New Orleans and Atlanta
to New York.
Follows Easy Route
From Mexico City to Tampico the
route follows through the mountain
passes, but from Tamoico to
Brownsville, 260 miles, follows the
coast line. The distance from the
Mexican capital to Brownsville, via
Tampico, is 490 miles. With favor
able winds. Lindbergh drove h!s
powerful tri-motor at record speed
for that class of plane.
Over 100 commercial and 75 army
planes, the latter from Kelly Field
at San Antonio; Brooks Field at
Houston, and Crockett Field at Gal
veston were assembled on the mu
nicipal airport four miles south of
the city and within two miles of the
Rio Grande. Thousands of automo
biles lines the parking spaces on the
northern and western sides of the
field, and ropes held back the
throngs eager to greet the famous
pilot.
Squadrons of commercial planes
began arriving at the municipal air
port in the early hours of the morn
ing. several coming in during the
night. From 9 o’clock, -when the
first squadron of army planes drove
in from San Antonio, until noon,
the air was filled with the whir
of propellors as the planes, arriv
ing singly or in groups, passed over
Brownsville and came to rest at the
air field.
Colonel Lindbergh expressed en
thusiasm in reference to the Mex
ican air mail, stating that the low
altitude route by way of Tampico
and Brownsville was one of the easi
est over which he had piloted a
plane. In reference to his Personal
plans he was non-communicative.
lindberghThops
OFF AT 5:56, A. M.
VALBUENA AIR FIELD. Mexi
co, March 9.—(TP')—Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, inaugurating the
Brownsville-Mexico Citv air mail
service, hooped off from the Val
buena air field at 7:56 a. m„ cen
tral standard time.
A second tri-motor plane In
charge of Alfred Kent, of the Mex
ican Aviation company, accom
panied the famous American air
man. taking off at 8:05 a. m.
Just as the sun came over the
high mountains which surround the
valley of Mexico. Colonel Lindbergh
maneuvered the first tri-motor
plane carrying 12 mail pouches and
..
nine passengers on to the long run
way at the Valbuena civil air field.
It was the first time that he had
gone up since his “discipline” flight
with Anne Morrow, his fiancee, on
February 28, the day after their
upset.
The plane took the air quickly
and disappeared almost instantly
into a haze of smoke which hung in
the valley. A second tri-motor
plane carrying aviation, mail and
government officials hopped off
nine minutes later. It was planned
that this plane should trail Colonel
Lindbergh to Brownsville after
both made a scheduled stop at
Tampico.
Col. Lindbergh came to the field
in an embassy car with Col. Alex
ander MacNab, American military
attache at the embassy. The col
onel was extremely laconic and
field officials would say nothing in
answer to questions whether he
would pilot the same plane back to
Mexico City on Sunday, as had
been reported.
Of the twelve mail pouches in the
colonel’s plane two were for New
York, while others were for Chi
cago. Cleveland, Oklahoma City,
Dallas and San Antonio.
Just before the colonel’s depart
ure, Mexican military planes from
the nearby Valbuena military field
took off, their machine guns stick
ing with a war-like aspect from the
cockpits. All automobiles going to
the civil field were stopped along
the road and their occupants ques
tioned or searched by soldiers
whose duty it was to prevent any
smuggling of guns from Mexico1
City.
The passengers carried by Col
onel Lindbergh were George Rihl,
president of the Mexican Aviation
company; Mrs. Rihl; Gustavo Mi
reles Espinosa, vice president; Juan
G. Villasana, chief of the civil av
iation department of the ministry
of communications: Jose Chavez,
chief of the air mail division of
the postal department; Jacobo Dala
Vuelta, of the newspaper Universal;
Xavier Sorondo of Excelsior; Ro
berto Castello, chief of the trans
portation section of the postal de
partment. and Mrs. F. W. Broatch.
The take-off was witnessed by
about 200 persons. Regular air
mail by way of Brownsville is plan
ned by the Mexican Aviation com
pany using two tri-motor Fords.
RESUME HOP FROM
TAMPICO 11:05 A. M.
TAMPICO, Mexico, March 9.—UP)
—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, in
augurating an air mail service be
tween Brownsville and Mexico City,
arrived here shortly before 11
o'clock and within a few minutes
was off again for Brownsville.
The colonel left at 11:05 a. m.
(Continued from Page One.)
regiment of artillery be given him
to bombard the city when he
reaches it.
The government statement does
not give the number of troops on
either side but it is understood
General Escobar has between 2,000
and 3 000 men at Torreon and Gen
eral Urbalejo probably 1.000 or 2,
000 at Canitas and Durango.
Mazatlan Menaced
Other government announce
ments related widespread incidents
of the revolt. General Jaime Car
rillo, governor of Sinaloa, had been
forced to retreat before the ad
vancing rebels under General Fran
cisco Manzo. it was said. The rebel
advance guard had come as far
south as Culiacan, about 160 miles
north of Mazatlan, west coast sea
port. Progress of the main army,
some distance behind, was said to
be slow since railroads had been
destroyed.
Reinforcements were pouring in
to Mazatlan continually, however,
and no difficulty was anticipated in
holding the city. (Rebel reports
said Mazatlan already had fallen
to their forces.)
It was said the Atlantic fleet had
arrived at Tampico from Vera Cruz,
had refueled and started out to
patrol the gulf coast to prevent es
cape in that direction of the rebel
general Jems Marla Aguirre. Two
fast boats were being made ready at
Vera Cruz to assist the fleet. The
port of Vera Cruz, officially closed
by the government when the city
was occupied by the rebels, has
been reopened.
LAREDO APPEAL FOR
U. S. TROOPS DENIED
LAREDO, Tex., March 9.——
Separated from revolt torn Mexico
only by the Rio Grande, with but
a small American garrison to pro
tect It from possible cross fire,
Laredo heard today with some
trepidation that Fort Sam Houston.
San Antonio, authorities had de
nied its request that 1,000 American
troops be sent here.
Brig. Gen. Frank S. Cocheu and
his staff, of Fort Sam Houston, the
American army’s Eighth corps area
headquarters, were in conference
with Major Charles S. Williams of
Fort Mackintosh here until late
last night, and it was presumed that
Brigadier General Cocheu came to
inquire into the necessity for pro
tection of American lives and prop
erty, although none of the confer
ring officers would discuss their
meeting.
No information was available here
concerning the Mexican govern
ment’s announcement last night
that Washington had granted per
mission to General Matias Ramos,
Mexican federal, to come to Laredo,
via American soil, from the scene
of the loyal contingent’s decisive
defeat at Juarez, for a reorganiza
tion of forces. The strategy in this
reported movement could not be
understood here as the Mexican
garrison at Nuevo Laredo, this
town’s Mexican neighbor, had left
for Monterrey to join the federal
consolidation there. It was thought
by some that the garrison would
have been detained here under the
Ramos plan.
REBELS AT SONORA
MAY BE BOMBED
NOGALES, Ariz., March 9.—(/P)—
A threatened aerial bombardment
of Nogales, Sonora, revolutionary
stronghold of northern Mexico, by
loyal federals under General Abe
lardo Rodriguez, was looked upon
today as indication that the inter
national border may witnes another
battle.
Rodriguez, who has ben concen
trating fighting planes and loyal
soldiers at Mexicali, border town
and capital of Baja California, has
prepared a landing field for planes
at San Luis, on the Sonora-Baja
California border. Bulletins were
said to have been posted by fed
eral leaders offering jobs to Amer
ican aviators at $250 a day.
Meanwhile, a battle appeared im
minent at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, where
General Carrillo has fortified him
self with 2,500 federals against an
advancing army of revolutionaries
The rebel forces in this sector were
placed at 8,000.
JUAREZ QUIET IN
HANDS OF REBELS
EL PASO, Tex., March 9.—(P)—
Juarez was quiet today following
yesterday’s seven hour battle that
took its toll of Americans and left
the key city of northern Mexico in
the hands of revolutionary forces.
Two Americans were killed and
another wounded during the fight
ing.
Lydia Roberta, 2 years old, was
fatally wounded by a stray bullet
while she was playing in the yard
of her home here. Another Ameri
can, Teddy Barnes, a bartender,
was found dead in Juarez after
the battle. His body lay be
neath slain soldiers near the fed
eral headquarters at the Hotel Rio
Bravo. Another El Paso child, six
years old, struck by a stray bullet,
was expected to recover.
Official casualty lists of the bat
tle were not available but it was
estimated that thirteen federal sol
diers and rebels were killed and
more than a score on each side
wounded.
On this side of the border, 310
Mexican federal troops and their
families were interner at Fort
Bliss under the terms which ended
the battle. The truce was conclud
ed at a conference on the interna
tional bridge between General Mat
las Ramos, commander of federal
troops. General Miquel Valles, rebel
leader, and Brig. Gen. Van Horn
Mosley, commander of American
forces here, after stray bullets had
killed one child and andangered the
lives of other Americans in El
Paso.
General Mosely, backed by civil
authorities of El Paso, tola the
Mexican generals the fighting had
to stop. They agreed to cease hos
tilities after Colonel Kenyon A.
Joyce, United States army officer,
told General Ramos his troops
could withdraw to the United
States and be interned until the
proper authorities could decide
upon their disposition.
The federal troops and members
of their families were in an air
plane hangar at Fort Bliss under
guard of United States soldiers.
Three Mexican officers occupied
officers’ headquarters.
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by E. J. Rhenstrom, and is named
the Alamo City.
Captain Frank Hawks came soar
ing over the field at 12:05, in the
monoplane which he used in his
record-breaking trip across the con
tinent. He was due earlier, but was
delayed by a rainstorm near Hous
ton.
The entire Houston delegation
was delayed by unfavorable wea
ther, according to a telephone call
from Houston, but were due early
in the afternoon, before the arrival
of Lindbergh.
Hawks came down in a roar
of applause. He taxied up before
the official stand as news camera
men and reporters rushed to greet
him. His flying time from Houston
was silghtly less than two hours,
record time between that city and
Brownsville.
Shorty Radeck thrilled the huge
crowrd with his exhibition of aerial
daring. Taking the air in a small
Philco plane, Radeck suspended
himself by one arm from the wings
and came back a moment later
hanging head downward from a
rope ladder.
Miss Earhart. during the morning
took a thirty mintue ride over the
airport, Brownsville and surround
ing country in a Fairchild plane,
property of the Mexican Aviation
Co., with Major Bernard A. Law
| as pilot. After they landed Miss
| Earhart expressed amazement at the
size of the celebration and over the
complete equipment of the airport.
The crowd was estimated at 20.000
just before Col. Lindbergh arrived
and it was packed about 8 feet deep
around the field.
So many automobiles were at
tempting to reach the airport that
the perfect traffic arrangements
broke down and a string of cars
more than a mile in length was
blocked on the highway. Many
thousand cars already were parked
in the reserved space.
With the arrival of Col. Lind
bergh and the christening of the
Pan-American, Capt. Eaker’s plane,
high points in the celebration pro
gram today, all eyes are now focused
on the remaining events of the pro
gram. which is to be climaxed Sun
day with the take-off of Lindy on
the return trip with the air mail to
Mexico.
A program just as attractive as
that presented Saturday is in store
for visitors to the airport Sunday.
At 10 a. *m., Col. Lindbergh will
again turn the nose of his trl-mo
tored plane in the direction of Mex
ico City, where he will officially de
liver the first mail from the United . j
States. At the same time, the
Brownsville - Matamoros-Matzatlan
line to the Pacific coast will make
its first westward flight.
In the afternoon, visitors will see
the same aerial performances and
stunts as were performed Saturday.
These include wing walking, accur
acy parachute jumps, and landing
from moving plane without the use
of parachute, padded suit, or safety*
device: aerial maneuvers by Mex-\
ican and Army planes in formation;'
a dead stick landing by Les Mauldin,
who will kill his motor and effect a
land landing from a distance of 3,000^
feet, and at night a tri-motoreef
Ford plane of Universal Air Line?
will demonstrate landing with tl*
use of parachute flares.
K. C. Hogs Steady; If
! Cattle Are Lower ;[\ 5;
Sheep Trend l
KANSAS CITY. March 9.
Hogs: 1,500; steady; top 10.1
200-225 lb weights; packing
9.00 P 9.75.
Cattle: 300; calves: 50; for
medium weight and heavy
weak to 25c lower; light weight
steers, yearlings and fat she stock
15 @ 25c higher: all cutters, cows,
and bulls steady: vealers $1 higher; ;
week’s tops: yearlings, heavy steers
13.35; vealers 16.00; fleshy white
faced feeder calves 13.50; bulk: fed, j
steers ar.d yearlings 11.59PI3.25; I
Stockers and feeders 10.75 P 12.75.
Sheen: none: for week: lambs 40
f/Pi65c hieher: sheep strong: top fed
lambs 17.00: bulk 16.00P16.85; shorn
lembs 14.50P15.00; wooled yearling
weathers 14.50; best ewes offered
9.00; others 8.25P 8.85; few fpc-din^
and shearing lambs 15.25P15.50.
Chicago Grains Go
Upward But Later
Lose Early Gains
CHICAGO. March 9.—(.V)—Freez
ing temperatures over the winter
wheat belt tended to lift wheat
values early today, but advances
failed to hold well. Livernool wheat
quotations higher than looked for
acted also as more or less of a
strengthening influence here.
Starting unchanged to l-2c up.
Chicago wheat afterward showed
something cf a setback. Com ana
oats likewise firmer, with corn open
ing at a shade to 3-4c advance bid
had a downward slant. \
Wheat closed. 1 5-8c to 2 l-8c net
higher, corn 7-8 to 1 l-8c up; oats I
unchanged to 5-8 advanced and
provisions unchanged to a rise of 12
cents.
LARGE GAIN
NEW YORK. March 9.—(.7=7—'The
Texas corporation today reported
net income of $45,073,879. after all
deductions, for 1928, compared with
$20,079,405 the previous year. This
equalled $5.34 a share earned on the
8.4^3, 354 shares of stock against
$2 73 a share in 1927.
I FLU-COLDS
CAN BE RELIEVED
@ By the Prompt Use of
ABSORBO
Park Laboratory, San Antonio,. Tex,
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There Will Be Greyhound Races
— At —
NUEVA
I MERCEDES
Saturday, March 9, 8:15
ji
!.; Sunday Matinee Races Will Be Run Sunday Night at 8:15
New jMtved road
from Mercedes to
bridge has been
opened.
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