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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 238 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1929 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPYjlp
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UN OUR
‘VALLEY
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WITH THE CLOSE of the citrus
season coming Saturday, prospects
are bright for an even more suc
cessful deal next year—and this is
considered the most successful in
the history of the Valley.
Included in favorable protents
for the coming season is announce
ment of M. A. Vidal of the Texas
Trading Co. that he expects to
market 500,000 boxes of Valley
grown grapefruit in England next
year.
Englishmen are just acquiring a
taste for grapefruit, introduced to
them through the demand for it
from American tourists over there.
And, while shipments in the past
have been largely from Florida and
British Honduras, our friends across
the sea already are learning that
Valley fruit is superior in many
Ways.
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Mr. Vidal announces orders al
ready are booked for 100.000 boxes
by his firm alone. He expects to
greatly increase this volume before
the next shipping period begins.
Other firms likely will add to the
grand total and other countries,
just learning to eat grapefruit,
offer outlet for additional quanti
ties.
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OTHER FACTORS which point
to a good season are the mild win
ter and consequent prospective
heavy yield.
Also many trees will come into
bearing for the first time and
young and old orchards are report
ed to be putting on a heavy crop.
More than 2000 cars of fruit have
been shipped this season. Pros
pects are bright for this to be more
than doubled during the coming
shipping period.
Orchardists, learning that proper
care pays large dividends in in
crease returns, are giving their
trees better attention, according to
agricultural workers.
This means better quality fruit,
fewer culls and a more favorable
market.
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SAN BENITO, following talks be
fore service clubs there by Jack
McDermott, division traffic man
ager for Texas Air Transport. Inc..
is looking into the possibility of
building an airport.
Makes the fourth or fifth Valley
city to consider the project.
McDermott told the city commis
sion that the town was ideally
located for a port, that the level
surrounding territory made secur
ing and preparing of a site a com
paratively easy problem to solve.
“You can’t build an airport on 40
acres,” he told that body.
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MYRON F. WARD, manager of
the Harlingen Chamber of Com
merce, attended that Corpus
Christi district meeting early in
March on the question of South
Texas publicity.
Forty South Texas counties are
proposed to be included in a rather
elaborate campaign.
Ward heard enough at the Cor
pus Christi session to convince him
that it is essential that the Valley
counties—Cameron, Hidalgo and
Willacy—should be represented at
the general meeting at the Gunter
hotel, San Antonio, at 1 p. m.,
April 11.
The plan for the general meeting
contemplates that ten representa
tives should be present from each
of the forty counties.
They would give a total of 400, if
each county has 100 per cent rep
resentation.
Ward does not believe San An
tonio should be the controlling
factor.
Nor does he believe Houston
should be.
But thinks both cities should be
‘•in’’ strong—each balancing the
other to the benefit of the remain
der of^the district.
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They’re talking in terms of a
million dollars fur this publicity
campaign.
That may be possible—and again
it may not.
It is possibly that south Texas
and the Valley section may not be
exactly ready to pledge the figure.
But that all will be discussed at
the San Antonio section.
Get your ten delegates ready,
counties of the Valley.
HOUSTON FERTILIZER
PLANT RAZED BY FIRE
HOUSTON. March 29.—(/P)—A
city project started eight years ago ,
and completed last December went
up in smoke last night with an ,
estimated loss of $75,000. It was j
the new fertilizer plant. 1
The fire started when a belt i
Jumped a rotary dryer.
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AUSTIN SUIT ATTACKS
WILLACY WATER BONDS
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Returns Not Sealed, Cameron Says
SHOOTS DRY KILLER OF MOTHER
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Terrorized when his mother was shot to death at Aurora, 111.,
Gerald De King. 9, above, seized a gun and retaliated by shooting
Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, leader of the raiding party, in the leg.
Below is a view of the De King filling station at home at Aurora,
where the raid took place. Smith declared he shot Mrs. De King
when she reached behind a telephone stand as if for a gun. The
deputy and his raiders, armed with a search warrant, had been re
fused admittance to the house.
Long-Awaited Clash
Looms as Federals
Near Rebel Forces
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fBy The Associated Press)
Only 17 miles today separated federal and rebel outposts in the state
of Chihuahua and a long-awaited major clash seemed near at hand as
the government continued crowding the insurgents into northwestern
Mexico.
While the rebel leaders insisted an advance on Mexico City is con
BREAK RECORD1
ON SHIPMENTS
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New High Mark Attained
Thursday With Total
Of 323 Cars Loaded
The record for fruit and vegeta
ble loadings in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley was broken again
Thursday, when the Missouri Pa
cific and Southern Pacific reported
a total of 323 cars loaded, exceed
ing by one car the former high rec
ord established Tuesday.
For three successive days the
loadings have exceeded 300 cars
daily, the total for the three days
being 946 cars, breaking all former
records on either daily loadings or
for a three-day period.
Loadings were heavy at all points
in the Valley, railroad officials re
ported. An ample supply of refrig
erator cars was on hand, and ad
ditional cars are being brought in.
Approximately eight miles of re
frigerator cars have been used to
handle the shipments during the
past three days, rail officials stated.
Loadings Thursday included 8
cars of beans, a new season record
for that commodity; 50 mixed vege
tables; 10 beets. 38 carrots, 21 beets
and carrots, 114 cabbage, 26 onions.
(Continued on Page Ten.)
•tempiated and General Calles is
leading his troops into a trap, the
federal authorities announced the
government pursuit was in full op
eration both in central and western
Mexico.
While the main Calles army was
advancing on Jimenez, important
rebel stronghold, federal reinforce
ments for Mazatlan on the west
coast were nearing that city, with
federal cavalry advancing north
ward in pursuit of the insurgent
forces which failed to capture the
place early this week.
The federal forces are advancing
in two columns to recapture Culia
can from the insurgents.
Activity has developed in Sonora
near the American border, one
rebel force of 500 men leaving for
an unrevealed destination while
others are in the field to disperse
federal horsemen reported in the
mesquite.
FEDERALS FIND NO
REBEL RESISTANCE
MEXICO CITY, March 29—.UFi—
Mexican government troops ad
vanced on two fronts today finding
little rebel opposition to delay their
progress. Mile after mile of de
stroyed rail lines, however, made
going arduous.
In the north federal cavalry un
der Gen. Benigno Serrato. occupied
Escalon. former insurgent headquar
ters, after a fight in which two
federals were wounded and four
rebels killed. Another federal ad
vance guard cut in near Jimenez,
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WESLACO BOX
COUNT BARRED
BY LAW, CLAIM
Open Envelope Viewed
By Commission e r s
In Session, Court Is
Told By Lipscomb
AUSTIN, March 29.—(yP)—Details
of the canvass of the vote of the
November general election in Hi
dalgo county were recited in dis
trict court today by County Judge
A. W. Cameron and members of the
commissioners’ court.
They stated the Weslaco returns
were not included in the count be
cause the envelope enclosing them
was unsealed and they understood
the law, and were so advised verb
ally and in writing by the county
attorney, was mandatory in forbid
ding them from considering returns
improperly made.
W. L. Lipscomb of Edinburg,
county commissioner for 19 years,
said this was the first time in his
experience on the court it had been
necessary to reject returns because
of irregularities. He said the en
velope' bearin gthe Weslaco returns
was passed around by the commis
sioners, after Judge Cameron had
called their attention to the un
sealed flap.
“That was your conclusion after
examining the envelope?” asked J.
R. Dougherty of Beeville, attorney
for Judge J. E. Leslie and others
who were resisting the injunction
sought by Gordon Griffin to pre
vent, Mrs. Jane Y. McCallum from
opening th eHidalgo county returns
as certified by the commissioners’
court.
“I decided that it had never been
sealed.” Lipscomb replied. “I ex
amined it closely and turned it over
and looked at the flap.”
FARM AID BILL
TAKING^ FORM
Board, Stabilization Agen
cies, And Revolving Fund
Thiree Main Points
WASHINGTON. March 29.—<&)—
Based upon the bread, general sug
gestions for farm relief laid before
the country in the campaign speech
es of President Hoover, a farm aid
bill, is beginning to take form in
the house agriculture committee.
A farm board, price stabilization
agencies and a revolving fund ap
pear to be the three points that will
form the foundation upon which the
agricultural aid structire is being
reared. The details of the super
structure are coming to view as the
hearings proceed.
As an indication of the firmness
with which the committee has
seized upon the idea of a farm
board, witnesses are being requested
to confine their testimony to sug
gestions as to how such a board
should operate. Other testimony
largely appears incidental to the
farm board and stabilization ideas.
Two definite details seem to have
been determined in connection with
the stabilization corporations, both
in line with suggestions by co-op
erative leaders yesterday. They
urged that if stabilization corpora
tions were to be formed, the farm
board initiate such steps only upon
the appeal of the marketing agen
cies for action. The other phase
that appears likely to be written into
the bill is a provision that stock
holders in the stabilization corpora
tions shall be members of the co
operative groups.
RAILROAD PERMIT ASKED
WASHINGTON, March 29.—(A1)
—The Clinton. Oklahoma and
Western, a subsidiary of the Atchi
son, Topeka and Santa Fe, sought
permission from the Interstate
Commerce Commission today to
build nine miles of railroad from
Heaton to a point in Gray county,
both in Texas. The parent com
pany will finance the expenditure,
the petition said.
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CAESAR’S GALLEY
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SEEN IN LAKE BY
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS
NEMI, Italy, March 29.—(VP)—
The stern of a Roman galley
which cruised Lake Nemi,
“Diana’s Mirror,” in the days of
Christ, could be discerned
through the semi-limpid waters
of the lake today as pumps low
ered them to their level in the
days of the first Caesars.
From what was visible of the
galley it could be seen that
nineteen centuries under water
had damaged it considerably, and
that probably there were left
only traces of the elaborate orna
mentation which archaeologists
wished to study.
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CONGRESSMAN
M. A. Michaelson of Illinois
Given 24 Hours to File
Bond In Liquor Charge
CHICAGO, March 29 — f/P) —A
warrant for the arrest of Congress
man M. A. Michaelson was issued
today by United States Commis
sioner Edwin K. Walker.
The complaint against the Illinois
representative was signed by Frank
L. White, prohibition agent, follow
ing the arrival of an indictment
returned last October at Jackson
ville, Fla.
Bond was set at $2,000 and it was
understood Congressman Michael
son would be given 24 hours to sur
render and file bond, pending a
hearing on removal proceedings. He
was charged with possession and
transportation of liquor, and im
portation of liquor without payment
of revenue. The latter charge is a
felony and carries with it a max
imum penitentiary sentence of two
years and a fine of $5,000 in case of
conviction.
The charges resulted from th#
confiscation of a suitcase of liquor,
part of the congressman’s baggage,
brought from Cuba after a tour of
the island. It was said the baggage
bore an “expedite” order, which as
sured the congressman freedom of
the port.
Having passed the Key West cus
toms men without inspection, he
proceeded to Jacksonville unmolest
ed and was standing in the railroad
terminal when the suitcase in his
hand began to leak. A state officer
seized it and turned the matter over
to federal agents.
Salazar Is Given
One Year Sentence
On Liquor Charge
Manuel Salazar was sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary and
Jose Chapa and Anastacio Casa
nova. indicted with him on a liquor
charge, were acquitted by a jury
in the criminal district court Thurs
day.
The three men were arrested at
Harlingen several weeks ago charged
with transporting liquor, and 28
quarts were seized. They w7ere al
lege4 to have attempted to make a
delivery in that city, but did not
know tiie address of the consignee.
Court recessed following comple
tion of the Harlingen case and no
further jury cases will be called un
til April 8.
VALIDATION OF
DISTRICT IS HIT
IN COURT SUIT
A. F. Smith Seeks To
Prevent Approval of
Bonds or Issuance
Of Permit
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(Special to The Herald)
AUSTIN, March 29.—Suit was
filed Thursday by A. F. Smith of
Travis county in 53rd district court
attacking legality of the $7,500,000
bond issue of the Willacy County
Water Control and Improvement
District No. 1 and attacking the
validating law passed in the recent
session of the legislature.
The suit seeks to restrain Atty.
Gen. Claude Pollard from approv
ing bonds of the district, to restrain
the state board of water engineers
from granting water rights to the
district and to restrain the direc
tors of the districts for any steps
toward carrying out the purposes of
its creation and validation.
Smith recites he is the owner of
553 acres of land in Willacy. He
also alleged there already exists a
district known as the Union Irri
gation District, within the area.
The Willacy district was organ
ized in January, and the bond is
sue carried by an almost unani
mous vote. The district comprises
approximately 130.000 acres, and is
the largest irrigation organization
in the United States. In listing
the lands to be included, propon
ents of the district eliminated the
holdings of all who Objected to
inclusion.
Contracts for construction of the
system were awarded to the Trin
ity Farms Co., and several crews
are now at work. The plan is to
utilize only flood waters from the
(Continued on page ten.)
officersLain
IN LOS ANGELES
Son Is Key Witness In Al
leged Framing of City
Councilman
LOS ANGELES, March 29.—f/P>
—The mysterious slaying of Jack
Crawford, 42, former policeman and
father of Donald Crawford, a key
witness for the prosecution in the
trial of eight persons charged with
“framing" the arrest of Council
man Carl I. Jacobson on a morals
charges, was under investigation
here today.
Craw'ford was slain in his home
last night, on the eve of his son’s
scheduled appearance on the wit
ness stand. Police were told a man
known only as “Evans" had warn
ed the elder Crawford he would be
killed if he allowed .Donald to tes
tify. The prosecution alleges Jac
obson’s arrest wras “framed” by un
derworld characters.
Donald told police a strange man
had offered his father $5,000 if the
parent would persuade him, Don
ald. to leave Los Angeles.
Petal Plucking Complex
Leads to Divorce Court
CHICAGO, March 29.—<£*>—
The flowers that bloom in the
spring, tra, la—especially daisies—
have caused trouble between the
Walter Martins.
Mrs. Martin told Judge Joseph
Sabath so in seeking a divorce.
Her husband, she said, had a
petal-plucking complex. Seeing a
daisy, he would take it and pull
its petals one by one, chanting
the old refrain: “She loves me,
she loves me not.” If the last
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petal happened to be a “not,”
Mrs. Martin suffered, she said.
When daisies were out of sea
son, Judge Sabath was told, Mar
tin wrould recite the ritual to the
petals of some other bloom. Once,
according to his wife, he got hold
of a double chrysanthemum, and
spent a long time denuding it of
petals, only to find it came out
“not.” Mrs. Martin complained
she was unable to convince him
of the flower’s inaccuracy.
The court cited Martin for con
tempt, because he had failed to
pay alimony.
Attorneys Fight
After Testimony 1
of Commissioner
Dissolution of the temporary injunction to restrain j
the Harlingen city commission from completing the pur
chase of the Arroyo Country Club park and airport site j*
and a brief exhibition of fisticuffs staged by opposing at- 1
torneys marked the finale of the injunction suit before 1
Judge A. M. Kent Friday morning. 1
The fistic affray in which P. G. Greenwood, one of the ||
attorneys for the plaintiffs, and Lloyd E. Stiernberg, attor- m
ney for the city of Harlingen, participated, came during ■
the argument to the court relative to testimony of a mem- 1
FIGHTS BACK
Huey P. Long, Louisiana's
youthful governor, came back
fighting today in his own defense,
claiming Standard Oil interests
were at the bottom of attempts
to impeach him.
LONG CHARGES
STANDARD OIL
.Youthful Governor Claims
His Tax On Oil Brought
Case Against Him
BATON ROUGE, La., March 29.
—(tP)—The Standard Oil company
today was drawn into impeachment
proceedings by Governor Huey P.
Long, who charged its agents insti
gated the accusations from official
misdemeanors to a plot to murder
against which he must defend him
self Monday night before the house
of representatives sitting as a su
preme grand jury.
In 3 signed statement. Governor
Long charged the oil company was
attempting “to tear the state wide
open and to remove the governor
from office who dares to mention
that anything can be done with
them.” He accused the company
with spending ten thousand dol
lars in opposing his proposed tax
on oil, saying “money was turned
loose in sluices in Baton Rouge.”
He denounced the newspapers as
Standard Oil publications with
their pages covered “with every
imaginable lie and villification.”
“They (Standard Oil company)
have stormed the state house where
the weak-hearted feared even for
the life and safety of my supporters
and myself,” he asserted. “By some
process, known only to them, they
have been able to either take over,
to beat over or to buy over, some in
whom I reposed respect and confi
dence and for whom I yet indulge a
charity.
“This is the third time in my yet
young life in which this nefarious
corporation has been able to drag
me before the bar to fight for my
own liberty and political preserva
tion. all just because I fought down
the line until they were compelled
to submit to right,” declared the
governor. “What I proposed was a
tax on the business of the Standard
Oil company to make and sell
lubricating oil and gasoline in Lou
isiana. That form of tax has been
and is now paid by nearly every
merchant, doctor and lawyer and
by nearly every business in this
state. So I proposed that out of
the same one hundred millions of
dollars made by the oil trust i*i this
state, that they pay the state a wee
bit so that we might help these un
fortunate human beings who are
suffering and dying because we
cannot help them, and in order
that we might give relief to schools
that cannot run without some help.
“But, no sooner had this bill hit
the legislature than the oil trust
woke up and shook this state from
one end to the other like a toy.
This nefarious criminal element
and its newspapers began imme
diately to say that if I did not draw
down this proposition that I should
be impeached. ‘Impeach him,’ was
their cry. ‘Hell is not hot enough
for the man who tackles us,’ is the
warning this nefarious corporation
gives to public officials.”
Friends of the accused governoi
circularized the capital with print
ed dogers; calling on the legislators
to stand by the governor and crush
the “money ring.” Supporters ol
the impeachment move urged theii
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*Der oi tne narnngen ciiy ■
commission. The lie was I
passed and an exchange of I
blows followed. The com- I
batants were separated im- 9
mediately by other attor- j ]
neys and Ferguson Groves,
court bailiff, and the argu- j f
ment proceeded without 11
further interruption. j
Each combatant struck the other 9
in the face, but neither Showed II
marks of their brief bout. ||
When the lie was exchanged the II
crowd in the court room, which had H
been listening for an hour to the M
arguments, suddenly came to life, !S
and craned forward to witness the ■
battle. Order was restored as soon M
as the belligerent attorneys were I
separated. B|
As the case now stands the in- Q
junction has been dissolved and the F
case will go to trial upon its mer- 31
its, probably at the next term of H
the district court. In this action M
both the legality of the ordinance b
and the validity of the warrants |||
are expected to be attacked. 9
Hearing on the injunction action
started Thursday afternoon, and all M
testimony was completed before the I/I
court recessed. Arguments were j|l
presented Friday morning, the 111
court handing down its ruling 9
shortly before the noon recess. I]
Testimony of D. D. Korton, city fj
secretary and treasurer, was to the
effect that the warrants were signed I j
by Mayor Sam Botts and himself ]
on the night of Thursday, March 21, |
in the office of S. Finley Ewing, I 1
concluding the deal for the pur- 1
chase of the parksite. He stated 11
he believed the warrants were hand- 11
ed him by Lloyd E. Stiernberg. He I X
saw the deed to the land in Ew- 11
ing's office. I
Mayor Sam Botts asserted that §
negotiations for the tract had been | 9
under way approximately two (I
months. He said that the meeting S
of the city commission at which the i
resolution and ordinance were [ §g
passed had been open and that sev- w
eral persons had entered the room. 5
The meeting was held at the city H
hall. m
A judgment against the land in L
the amount of approximately $60,
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Four Uninjured As I
Army Blimp Crashes i
Near Jersey Coast I
LAKEHURST, N. J„ March 29.— ■
f/Pi—An army blimp was a tangle |fl
of wreckage today as the result of H
its rude reception by Jersey coast |H
winds while on a visit from Lang- B
ley Field, Va. ■
The army non-rigid dirigible H
TC-5 was torn from the grasp of a 18
ground crew of 100 and hurled H
nearly a mile by a gust of wind H
that struck it while it was being B
walked into the hangar. H
Captain John McCullough, com
mander of the blimp, and a seaman H
of th landing crew were slightly H
injured by being knocked down a Jf|
the ship blew away. flj
Warrant Officer Lassiter and fl
three soldiers wre aboard the blimp. B
They escaped uninjured whn the fl
ship, relived of its helium gas, came H
down near the Lakehurst railr^''-* !§|
station. fl
THE WEATHER I
For Brownsville and the Valley: §P
Partly cloudy tonight and Satur- fl
day; not much change in tempera- fl
ture. Light variable winds on the J§
west coast becoming southerly and fl
increasing. fl
For East Texas: Partly cloudy fl
tonight and Saturday; warmer in |jj
west and north portions tonight, fl
Light to moderate westerly to H
southerly winds on the coast. 8
RIVER FORECAST fl
There will be no material change ’
in the river during the next few fl
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr. fl
Stage Stage Cbng. Rain fl
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.7 0.0 .00 fl
Laredo . 27 -0.3 0.0 .00 fl
Rio Grande . 21 4.6 0.0 .02 fl
Mission. 22 4.7 -0.1 .00 fl
San Benito . 23 9.6 -0.4 .00 9
Brownsville . 18 4.2 -0.8 .00 fl
TIDE TABLE 3
High and low tide at Point Isabel fl
tomorow. under normal meteor- fl
ological conditions: I
High . 8:38 a. m. 1
Low . 12:20 a. m. 1
MISCELLANEOUS DATA 1
Sunset today . 6:45 a
Sunrise tomororw . 6:23 fl