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^ 7 m Lawn Mowers ! IRRIGATE T* Garden Hose — Sprinklers alamo centrifugal Grass Shears — Trimmers . ... . w h pllfo„„ r Alamo Iron Works ! W. H. Putegnat Company Brownsville - Corpus Christl a J | ' W ■/ Urownsville, Texas , , „ San Antonio — Houston THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 268 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1929 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY 5c A' COPY; m our VALLEY WITH THE CLOSE of the citrus •eadon 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, j And, while shipments in the past ; have been largely from Florida and British Honduras, our friends across | the sea already are learning that I Valley fruit is superior in many ways, • * • 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. • • • 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 Jjavs large dividends in in creased returns, are giving their trees better attention, according to agricultural workers. This means better quality fruit, fewer culls and a more favorable market, • • • 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 wsa Weally located for a port, that the level surrounding territory made secur i Wig 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. • * * 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 x 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 dfjthe district. ^ • They’re talking in terms of a million dollars for 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.—UFi—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 the new fertilizer plant. The fire started when a belt Jumped a rotary dryer, * > * Returns Not Sealed, Cameron Says SHOOTS DRY KILLER OF MOTHER 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. Strike is Ordered Against Texas and Pacific Rail Lines TEXARKANA. March 29.—</P)—Local heads of the four big railroad brotherhoods had orders today to go out on strike tomorrow at 6 a. m. against the Texas and Pacific railroad. The order was signed by Fred Barr, vice president, and W. J. Brown, general chairman. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; BREAK RECORD ON SHIPMENTS 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- i 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 liandle 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 Tea.). i £D. A. Mackenzie, vice president, and C. H. Smith, general chair man. Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen; E. H. Kruse, assistant grand thief engineer, and R. Wie sen, general chairman, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; and J. A. Gannon, vice president, and R. R. Nicholas, general chairman. Order of Railway Conductors. Texarkana members of the four brotherhoods understood their | leaders and the heads of the Texas and Pacific were in session in Dallas today seeking to prevent the strike order going into effect. The strike order as received here directed the men involved to “peacefully withdraw from the service.” It came to the grievance committee which will handle the situation in this area. The grievances included removal of terminals from Longview and Marshall to Mineola and Shreve port with consequent losses to rail rcad men who had purchased homes or had other investments at those points. Approximately 200 men in Tex arkana would be affected by a strike. RAILROAD PERMIT ASKED WASHINGTON. March 29.—UP) j —The Clinton, Oklahoma and ; Western, a subsidiary of the Atchi I 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 ; panv will finance the expenditure, i the petition said. w || 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.—</P)—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 thg en velope bearing the 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 the Hidalgo county returns (Continued on Page Ten.) SLAIN MAN’S WIFE WITNESS Testimony Contradicts That Given By Alleged Slayer And Wife TYLER. March 29.—<7Pi—A trim woman in black was the central figure on the wiln ;ss stand here today in the trial of Leys Wilson. Ttoup garage man on charges of shooting tod eath the Rev. Fount Wb'xace of Troup last April. She »as Mrs. Fount Wallace, the wid ow. Patsy, Mrs. Wallace's little girl, was in her mother’s arms as the witness entered the court room. Court rules precluded her remain ing with her nut her. The curly haired girl therefore sat still in the court room for about a minute, and then rushed back to her mother :n the witness chair. The young ster finally was carried sobbing from the court room. She had been told • daddy was coming back" after her mother finished testifying. Mrs. Wallace ga\e contradictory testimony to that of Mrs. Loys Wil son on the stand yesterday in re gard to two asserted love trysts be tween Reverend Wallace and Mrs. Wilson. She said she was with her husband most of the day Jan. 26, 1928, when one of the meetings was said by Mrs. Wilson to have taken place. Mrs. Wilson had testified that was the only time she had in timate relations with the preacher after a reconciliation with her hus band. Mrs. Wallace gave an account of all the actions of her husband, after a Baptist rally here ended in mid afternoon that day. She remem 1 bered April 4, 1927. she said, be cause that was her mother-in-law’s birthday. That was the first time Wallace entered the Wlison home 1 at night when Wilson was away, Mrs. Wilson had testified. Mrs. Wallace recited that she and her husband came to Tyler from their home at Troup April 2. and did not return to Troup until 10 o’clock that night. Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Wallace, par ents of the slain minister, were re called to the stand to testify they too remembered their son staying at their home until some time in the evening April 4. Rev. H. H. Wal lace said his son did not leave Ty ler for Troup until between 9 and i ll o'clock at niehU CAESAR’S GALLEY * * * SEEN IN LAKE BY * * ¥ I ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEMI, Italy, March 29.— 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. COURT BILLS CONGRESSMAN M. A. MichaeUon of Illinois Given 24 Hours to File Bond In Liquor Charge CHICAGO, March 29 — (/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 rasulted 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. VALIDATION OF; DISTRICT IS HIT IN COURT SUIT A. F. Smith Seeks To Prevent Approval of Bonds or Issuance Of Permit (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.) LIFE IMPRISONMENT FORT WORTH, March 29.—(iTO— Sentence of life imprisonment was pronounced today by Judge George E. Hosey upon S. H. Newton. Wea therford contractor, convicted of killing J. P. Arnold last October. LIQUOR SALE FORBIDDEN BUCHAREST. Rumania, March 29.—(jp)—The Rumanian govern ment today forbade sale and con sumption of alcoholic beverages throughout the kingdom on Sun days. --,==fl LATE BULLETINS ^E^ANE WAKN^CrmENS T^AVE TOW^ ^^jss-sssj^s. -<—■assess. the rebels near Cananea, Sonora, today appeared over Tnnete camprnent,"dUlributint; pamphlet. s.f ,d by Govern^£Cn tame-’ revolutionary leader, which warned all citizens to leave the diately. It was driven off by federal airplanes. WISCONSIN ATHLETE BREAKS TEXAS RELAY RECORD MEMORIAL STADIUM. AUSTIN. Texas. March 29^^“T^e “Jf annual University of Texas relays got under way herei at, L15 p. m with field event trials. With the shot put still uncompleted Behr oi Wiscon sin had broken the meet record with a heave of 48 feet, 5 4 inches. MAY ASK HOOVER TO APPOINT STRIKE MEDIATION BOARD DALLAS. Texas, March 29.-r(AP)-J. A. Somerville, vice president In charge of operation of the Texas and Pacific railway, today asked Pru dent Herbert Hoover to appoint a. special board of ^k^nconsider and report on the dispute between the road and its employees which re sulted in a strike order effectiv at 6 a. m. tomorrow. UNDERTAKER GIVEN EIGHT-YEAR PEN TERM HOUSTON, March 29.—i/P)—Lo Weadock, undertaker, charged with perjury in connection with a bill submitted for the burial of James Col lins, was found guilty by a jury today and assessed eight years in the penitentiary. REPORT THAT GOVERNOR OF CANTON WAS EXECUTED DENIED NANKING, China, March 29.—(AP)—The nationalist government to night officially denied reports that Li-Chai-Sum, governor of Canton had been executed. CATHOLIC PRIEST SHOT BY FATHER OF BOY BURGLARS CHICAGO, March 29.—UP)—A Catholic priest was shot three times and probably fatally wounded today by the father of two boys whom the priest had had arrested for burglarizing his church. CANADIAN LEGATION STUDYING SCHOONER SINKING WASHINGTON, March 29.—(AP)-rThe Canadian legation now has before it the coast guard’s preliminary report on the sinking of the rum runner I’m Alone for its consideration with that of the British consul at New Orleans. % Attorneys Fight After Testimony of Commissioner Dissolution of the temporary injunction to restrain the Harlingen city commission from completing the pur chase of the Arroyo Country Club park and airport site and a brief exhibition of fisticuffs staged by opposing at torneys marked the finale of the injunction suit before Judge A*. M. Kent Friday morning. The fistic affray in which P. G. Greenwood, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, and Lloyd E. Stiernberg, attor ney for the city of Harlingen, participated, came during the argument to the court relative to testimony of a mem i n i 1 TT 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 CH ARGES STANDARD OIL Youthful Governor Claims His Tax On Oil Brought Case Against Him — BATON ROUGE, La.. March 29. —UP)—'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 a 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 iji 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 governor circularized the capital with print ed dogers, calling on the legislators to stand by the governor and crush the “money ring.” Supporters of the impeachment move urged their (.Continued on Page Ten.) ,ber of the Harlingen city commission. The lie was passed and an exchange of blows followed. The com batants were separated im mediately by other attor neys and Ferguson Groves, court bailiff, and the argu ment proceeded without further interruption. Each combatant struck the other in the face, but neither showed marks of their brief bout. When the lie was exchanged the crowd in the court room, which had been listening for an hour to the arguments, suddenly came to life, and craned forward to witness the battle. Order was restored as soon as the belligerent attorneys were separated. As the case now stands the in junction has been dissolved and the case will go to trial upon its mer its, probably at the next term of the- district court. In this action both the legality of the ordinance and the validity of the warrants are expected to be attacked. Hearing on the injunction action started Thursday afternoon, and all testimony was completed before the court recessed. Arguments were presented Friday morning, the court handing down its ruling shortly before the noon recess. Testimony of D. D. Horton, city secretary and treasurer, was to the effect that the warrants were signed by Mayor Sam Botts and himself on the night of Thursday, March 21, in the office of S. Finley Ewing, concluding the deal for the pur chase of the parksite. He stated he believed the warrants were hand ed him by Lloyd E. Stiernberg. He saw the deed to the land in Eut ing’s office. Mayor Sam Botts asserted that negotiations for the tract had been, under way approximately two months. He said that the meeting of the city commission at which the resolution and ordinance were passed had been open and that sev eral persons had entered the room.; The meeting was held at the city1 hall. A judgment against the land in; the amount of approximately $60, (Continued on Page Ten.) Four Uninjured As Army Blimp Crashes Near Jersey Coast LAKEHURST. N. J.. Maroh 29.— (JP)—An army blimp was a tangle of wreckage today as the result of its rude reception by Jersey coast winds while on a visit from Lang ley Field. Va. The army non-rigid dirigible TC-5 was torn from the grasp of a ground crew of 100 and hurled nearly a .mile by a gust of wind that struck it while it was being walked into the hangar. Captain John McCullough, com mander of the blimp, and a seaman of th landing crew were slightly injured by being knocked dow-n as the ship blew away. Warrant Officer Lassiter and three soldiers wre aboard the blimp. They escaped uninjured whn the ship, relived of its helium gas. came* down near the Lakehurst rai?r,~~ station. -I THE WEATHER For Brownsville and the Valley: Partly cloudy tonight and Satur day; not much change in tempera ture. Light variable winds on the west coast becoming southerly and increasing. For East Texas: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; warmer in west and north portions tonight. Light to moderate westerly' to southerly 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 Chng. Rain Eagle Pass .. 16 2.7 0.0 .00 Laredo . 27 -0.3 0.0 .00 Rio Grande .21 4.6 0.0 .02 Mission. 22 4.7 -0.1 .00 San Benito . 23 9.6 -0.4 .00 Brownsville .18 4.2 -0.8 .00 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isabel tomorow. under normal meteor ological conditions: High ..8:38 a. m. LowT . 12:20 a. m. , MISCELLANEOUS DATA Sunset today . 6:4?