Brownsville herald. [volume], March 24, 1929, Page SIX, Image 6

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nTEXAS HIGHLIGHTS OF WEEK.As Seen By Cartoonist
1P0RT ARTHUR TAX RERJNO
BlU. ASSURES SEAWALL
'VALLEY WILL
BUEAK RECORD
f
^ shipments Pass 13,C'30 Car
. Mark; Cabbage Price
To New Low Figure
w
> With 13 000 cars of fruit and
' 'egetables snipped, the peak of the
"novement Is believed to have been
eached. and shippers are now
^ orecasting a total of approxixnate
> y 24,000 cars for the season, sur
• ~~ ——
passing the high record of 21,003
cars attained last year.
Cabbage prices, which held fair
ly firm at the opening of the week,
! dropped Thursday to $8 per ton
with a further drop of $2 Friday.
Shippers are not optimistic over
the outlook for next week, stating
that unless the loadings are held
down it will be impossible to se
cure an advance.
The potato market also has as
sumed “frenzied” aspects at var
ious times during the week, and a
determined effort is being made by
the association members and deal
ers to remedy the situation. A
meeting of all dealers has been
called at the association offices in
Brownsville Monday morning with
: a view of solving the problem.
1 Growers have been accepting of
fers ranging from $2 to $3.50 per
hundred. Shippers are forecasting
a heavy slump when heavy ship
ments begin to move unless the
market is stabilized and competi
tive quoting eliminated.
Carrots continued to hold steady
at prices ranging from 25 to 40
cents in the field with a fairly
i strong demand from central mar
kets. The outlook for the com
ing week is considered good not
j withstanding the heavy movement
from the Valley the past two
weeks. Beets also are holding a
level at 15 to 20 cents, with a fairly
active demand and heavy ship
j ments.
The mixed car movement is
’ gaming steadily at all Valley
points, and the mixtures are cov
ering a wider range as additional
vareties mature. Large quantities
of potatoes are moving in mixed
cars, and reports indicate the vol
ume in mixed cars will greatly ex
ceed that of any former season
Green beans are beginning to
move in straight carloads, W. H.
McDavitt moving the first straight
j car out of the Valley Saturday.
. Beans are holding well at $3.00 to
$3.50, with a strong demand.
JUAREZ CLOCKS SET BACK
JUAREZ. Chihuahua, March 23.—
'.Pi—Clocks in Juarez were set back
one hour today to make them con
form to the time in efect at El
Paso. Texas. Eeretofore, clocks on
the Mexican side of the Rio Grande
have been cne hour ahead of those
on the American side, which is in
the mountain time zone.
RIO GRANDE CITY
FACULTY TARTY
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond P. Swof
ford were hosts to the Grulla Fac
ulty bridge club on Tuesday eve
ning with a two-table personnel.
A dainty vanity was awarded to
! Miss Martha Taggart as high score
for women, and Barney Fritz re
! ceived a very attractive cigarette
j case as high score for the men. The
consolation prize, a framed motto,
1 was presented to Miss Jeanne Dun
; ham.
A delicious refreshment course
was served to the following guests:
Misses Lessie Harrison, Martha
Taggart, Jeanne Dunham, Lillian
Harrison and Suline Bryan and
Messrs. George Smith. Jack Mc
Farlan and Famey Fritz.
♦ • •
PERSONALS
Dr. J. G. Wilson, Brownsville,
official of Health U. S. Public spent
several days this week here,
j Captain and Mrs. Walter Ham
l ilton and Major and Mrs. Herbert
E. Taylor were in Mission Tuesday
evening to attend the Little The
ater performance.
Captain and Mrs. Rossiter Garity
motored McAllen Friday.
Mrs. W. Drummond of Mission Is
the week-end guest of Mrs. Virgil
N. Lott in Roma.
Mrs. Miguel Garcia of Browns
ville was a visitor here Wednesday.
Mrs. E. Owen Scott was the guest
of honor at Mission Civic League
! Monday at which time she gave a
! talk on “Medicinal Value of Valley
1 Plants and Trees.” On Tuesday,
Mrs. Scott attended the executix-e
board meeting of the Valley Fed
eration at Mercedes.
Mrs. Mona Ritz who has been a
natient in a local hospital has re
turned to her home and is reported
as gradually improxdng.
FILIPINO IDEALS
MANILA, March 23.—(P—Cus
toms and modes of life borrowed
from America are destroying Fili
pino Ideals, in the opinion of Dean
. Jorge Bocobo, xvho is known locally
as “the gloo medan of the Philip
pines.” Dean Bocobo is head of
i the college of law, University of
| the Philippines.
DRIVER KNIFED; MAN HELD
AMARILLO. Tex., March 23.—(P)
—C. C. Copeland, 25. truck driver,
was in a critical condition here to
day from knife wounds. Olive
Owens, stock yards employe was
held for questioning. An argument
over grain weights was said to have
preceded the stabbing.
CALL MEET OF
SPUD DEALERS
Effort Being Made By Of
ficials Of Association to
Stabilize Deal
A meeting of all dealers in the
Valley handling potatoes has been
called for Monday morning at 10
o'clock, to be held at the offices
of the Valley Potato Growers asso
ciation in Brownsville for the pur
pose of discussing means and
methods for stabilizing the market
“We want all Valley dealers in
terested in the potato deal to at
tend this meeting,” Fred Latham,
president of the association, said.
“It is necessary that the present
chaotic condition be eliminated if
the deal is to be made profitable
for either growers or dealers.”
During the past week potatoes
have been offered by growers at a
wide range of prices, ranging from
k~ - ~
$2.25 to $3.50 per hundred. Also,
it is asserted that large quantities
of immature potatoes have been
shipped. Every effort to stabilize
the deal has proved abortive, deal
ers assert, and several have ex
pressed the opinion that stabiliza
tion can be attained only through
concerted action.
Association officials state there
is no occasion for the wide range,
and that the market is firm and
the demand strong, and that the
growers will receive profitable
prices if they will aid in marketing
the crop in an orderly manner.
Every phase of the situation Is
expected to be discussed at the
meeting Monday, shippers stating
that if the stabilization effort
proves successful the potato deal
should prove one of the most pro
fitable in recent years.
ANTINARCOTIC LAW
MADRID, March 23.—(JF—A re
cent royal decree put into effect a
drastic antinarcotic law. The Span
ish press forecr ; ttempts by drug
smugglers to switch their activities
to ports which deal more directly
with the United States and South
America.
HIGHWAY BONDS
TO I BIG ISSUE
Writer Expects Governor’s
Race Based Cn Question
Of Using Credit
(By R. W. BARRY.)
(Associated Press Staff Writer.)
AUSTIN, March 23.—(AP)—Texans
seem to be in for what may develop
into an extraordinary campaign
over the proposition of issuing state
bonds in an effort to obtain a con
nected system of state highways.
The pro and con sides are apt to
be pretty evenly balanced and “the
people” importuned by a flood of
arguments for and against the in
novation.
Action of the recent legislature
in refusing to submit the constitu
tional amendment, under which au
thority to issue state securities
w’ould be delegated to the lawmak
[ ing body, served only to add fuel to
: the flames.
R. S. Sterling of Houston, chair -
! man cf the highway commission,
; who initiated a campaign to build
i state highways with proceeds from
a bond issue some months before
the legislature met, has stated that
he has ‘•just begun to fight.”
This might be taken to mean that
Mr. Sterling will become a candi
date for governor early next year
so that he might better advocate
his plan.
Whether Mr. Sterling becomes a
candidate or not, the bond issue
suggestion is almost certain to be
one of the principal planks in
somebody’s gubernatorial platform.
This surmise brings to the sur
face the activities of Lynch David
son of Houston, former lieutenant
governor, one of the most uncom
promising opponents of the state
wide bond issue.
Mr. Davidson has had an ambi
tion to serve as governor. He was
a candidate four years ago and
again two years later.
This speculation brings Lieut.
Gov. Barry Miller into the picture.
He is regarded as a sure entrant
in the gubernatorial marathon next
year, and if he has any decided
views as to whether Texas should
or should net issue bonds for build
ing highways, he has not paraded
them in public.
Houston Officials
Quizzed on Missing
Papers In Lynching
HOUSTON, March 23.— (IP) —
About five months after they had
disappeared it was made known to
day that all the district attorneys
records the lynching of Robert
Powell, negro, were missing.
The grand jury began an investi
gation, Horace Soule, former dis
trict attorney, and Tom Shelly,
captain of detectives, being ques
tioned concerning the missing pa
pers which included purported con
fessions of four cf the defendants.
Soule said that during the trial
of one of the defendants last Oc
i tober the envelope containing the
information was left on his desk
during th° lunch hour and W’hen
! he returned it had disappeared.
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