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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 271
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GOOD ROADS, bright sunshine
and warm water drew hundreds of
visitors to the beaches at Padre
Island and Boca Chica over Sunday.
More venturesome folk have been
bathing for several weeks in the
surf at both places and a few of
the really hardy ones have been
enjoying a plunge at intervals
throughout the winter.
But Sunday might be said to
have officially opened the season
in the Valley. Hundreds of bathers
were in the water and playing
along the sand from early morning
until late at night.
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In fact a very creditable Easter
showing of ‘‘what will be •worn on
the beaches during the season of
1929” was made in the early after
noon hours.
And it was an advance showing,
for folks at Corpus Christi, closest
competitor of the Valley for early
opening beaches, will not begin to
really enjoy the water for a week
or two at least and it will be fully
30 days before Galveston draws
crowds of bathers.
Possibly Miami and other Flor
ida resorts already are enjoying the
beach season, but out in California,
where the chilly waters of the
Pacific bathe the coast, the most
enthusiastic lovers of the water will
fight shy of the surf until early
May and then their bathing will
be done at mid-day.
The big rush will begin in June.
Come to the Valley.
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THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY,
once considered isolated from all
the outside world, continues to
move closer and closed to other
centers of population.
The remark was inspired by the
I voting Saturday of road bonds at
Alice to finance paving of a road
from there to the Live Oak county
| line toward George West in that
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Li ak already has financed
I her ajrion of the road.
i Conniption of the highway will
open a new route between the
Valley and San Antonio and will
shorten the distance approximately
m 30 miles.
A highway direct to Houston is
under construction and soon will be
a reality. Shortens the distance 50
miles or more to that city.
Il Eventually the highway through
ml Kenedy county, north of the Wil
[ : lacy county line, will be opened,
k shortening distances again.
I Conditions quite different in this
■ day of paved roads, fast trains and
H i airplanes from the day when the
flj few citizens living in this section
I drove horses over indistinct trails
if to the “outside.” Some used oxen.
I ; Or when they boarded a sailing
Ilf vessel off Point Isabel and after
I j many weary days of traveling
I : reached Galveston or New Orleans,
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I BEAUTIFICATION of Valley
!■ highways long has been urged by
l*j citizens.
I C. A. Bradshaw of Corpus
I | Christi. superintendent of main
||l tenance for the state highway de
m partment in South Texas^Jas^an
I I nounced inauguration-tT^a cam
■h, paign which will meet general
K H approval.
U s Announces all signs on right of
V i way will be removed. Also all
I vendors will be moved off.
m A recent tour disclosed many
if violations of state law in these
| l matters, Bradshaw says.
I ; They not only are unsightly but
I I *re considered a menace to traffic.
I | Announcement also is made that
MM portions of the highway now only
| f 16 feet wide will be widened by
il B adding gravel shoulders and top
m I ping these with heavy oil.
■ y Will do much to prevent colli
Ifl sions and encourage greater use of
W | the highway.
I AlDRICHfiETS
|| ATTORNEY POST
K B Moody Says He Appointed
H I Man Not Affiliated With
|| -:| Political Factions
I AUSTIN. April l.—i.P—Oliver C.
HH Aldrich of San Juan, was appoint
Bfged district attorney of the 79th dis
Bfl trict by Governor Moody today. He
■ ■fills the vacancy caused by the
■■death of Samuel H. Woods of Alice.
■ | The district is composed of the
■■counties of Jim Wells, Brooks.
■ ■starr, Hidalgo and Duval. Ald
|B ■rich will soon move to Edinburg to
■■make his home. Governor Moody
■fi Aiferich is a veteran of the World
H^Btrai^nd is not affiliated with
fiyBeither of the political factions in
iilBHidalgo county, the governor said.
|gg| -11 “I turned down both crowds on
■nen they recommended and picked
g|B|ne who was not a partisan in the
^■■campaigns down there,” he said.
America and France
Mourning Death of
Myron T. Herrick
PARIS, April 1.—(/P)—France today mourned the death of another
of the men who helped it through the dark days of the war.
United States Ambassador Myron T. Herrick was another nation’s
son, but this country felt the loss almost as though he were her own.
It is remembered how, when in 1914 German armies knocked at the
gates of Pans and the governments
fled to Bordeaux, he himself re
fuesd to leave his post, though
warned he might be killed.
Death came to Ambassador Her
rick yesterday at 4:10 p. m., after a
sudden heart attack that left him
within an hour lifeless, but with a
smile on his lips. He was 75 years
old.
Shortly afterward Premier Ray
mond Poincare told Colonel T. Bent
ley Mott, assistant military at
t&rfl6!
“Anything that the French gov
ernment can do shall be done. Am
bassador Herrick’s family may ask!
anything they please and it shall be
done.”
Papers Praise Him
French newspapers appeared today
with flaring headlines, “France has
lost one of her greatest friends.”
Columns were devoted to eulogies.
A long procession of automobiles
brought distinguished Frenchmen
together with Americans residing
here to sign the embassy register and
express condolen'>. Madame Foch
personally telephoned the ambassa
dor’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely
ck
President Gaston Doumergue im
mediately after he was informed of
the ambassador’s death entrusted
an expression of condolence on be
half of the nation to Admiral Ve
del, General Lasson, and Jules
Michel, head of his civil cabinet,
who called at the embassy to de
liver it.
Son In America
There was an impression at the
embassy today that the ambassa
dor’s son would take the first ship
to France and arrange to escort his
father’s body back to the United
States for burial at either Arlington
or in Cleveland.
Throughout the past winter ill
ness weakened Ambassador Herrick
but it was believed he was well on
the road to recovery. He spent a
bad night Thursday and his daugh
ter-in-law—his wife died in 1918—
telephoned Friday morning for Dr.
H. Rabeau. Yesterday Mrs. Herrick
was informed his condition wus
critical and she called her husband
in Cleveland over the telephone. An
hour later she called him again to
convey the message of his father’s
death. ,, ,
Myron T. Herrick, diplomat,
statesman, lawyer, banker and
manufacturer, began his career
selling dinner bells, parlor organs
and lightening rods to the farmers
of Ohio. From this humble start
he rose, by virtue of his applica
tion and ability, to the position of
financier, promoter of great rail
(Continued on pfige two.)
‘BUYER’ FOUND
IN LIQUOR RAID
Man Say* He Did Not Buy
Evidence From Mr*.
Lillian Deking
AURORA, HI., April 1.—iff)—The
man who made the “buy” in the
Deking liquor raid case has been
found. He is Philip Johnson, and
he has told attorneys he did not
purchase liquor from Mrs. Lillian
Deking at all.
The shooting to death of Mrs.
Deking a week ago by a deputy
sheriff took place at the Deking
home during a raid made under a
search warrant.
Fairchild told authorities the
complaint on which the warrant
was obtained was inaccurate in de
claring he personally had made the
purchase. He said Johnson, son of
a gas station owner at Batavia. 111.,
had been the actual buyer of the
liquor, using money which Fair
child furnished.
Johnson, who volunteered his
story to attorneys representing Jo
seph Deking, said he did not buy
the liquor at the Deking home, or
from a woman, as the Fairchild
complaint declared. The “buy” was
made, Johnson said, “from a man
in front of 'Stafford's filling sta
tion,” which is near the Deking
home.
Carbary reiteraied his belief
that Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith,
who did the shooting, acted in self
defense, believing that Mrs. Deking
intended to shoot him after he had
slugged her husband. Joseph.
MAN IS REMANDED TO
JAIL ON RUM CHARGE
Hearing was held this morning
before United States Commissioner
E. K. Goodrich for Fortunato Her
nandez, who was arrested near La
Paloma Saturday charged with
having 19 pints of Mescal m his
possession.
He was remanded to jail upon
failure to make bond, which was
placed at $250.
The arrest was made at Hinkley’s
pump near La Paloma bv United
States Customs Inspectors E. R.
McNabb and R. L. Campbell.
The case will come up for trial
in the May term of federal court.
America and France alike to
day were mourning the loss of
Col. Myron T. Herrick. U. S.
ambassador to France, who died
suddenly Sunday afternoon
after a heart attack.
LOYS WILSON
GETS 3 YEARS
Spectators Hear Religious
Hymns As Verdict Is
Pronounced
TYLER, Tex., April 1.—(/Pi—Loys
Wilson, young garageman, who con
tended unsuccessfully before a jury
that his wife’s asserted affair with
the Rev. Founts Wallace justified
him in killing the handsome, 26
year-old preacher, looked today to
the higher courts to overthrow a
three-year sentence assessed him on
Easter Sunday by a jury here.
Within hearing of two religious
services, through which hymns fre
quently were interspersed, Wilson
yesterday received a verdict of
guilty in his trial for murder.
Mrs. Wilson, a choir singer in the
Troup minister’s church, testifying
for her husband, had told a stor$ of
long and extreme intimacy with the
pastor. Wilson himself declared he
slew the Rev. Wallace after Mrs.
Wilson had promised to “put the
preacher out of her life” and later
had, in his opinion, by her acts
showed she had broken the pledge.
Prosecution witnesses submitted
testimony seeking to controvert Mrs.
Wilson’s story of two or three spe
cific “love trysts” she declared she
had with the Rev. Wallace.
Wilson about a year ago walked
up to Wallace, a former football
player in Kentucky and a coach and
civic leader in Troup. Drawing a
pistol, he shouted “brother, prepare
to meet your God,” and shot the
clergyman down.
Tire jurors deliberated nearly 24
hours before handing in their deci
sion—that Wilson wras guilty of mur
der “without malice aforethought.”
VENIRE CALLED
IN ADAMS CASE
Trial Expected To Last
Three Week*; Aspect of
Slaying Changed
DALLAS, April 1.—(/P)—A special
venire of 500 was called today foi
the second trial of V. Ray Adams
farmer of Bartlett, charged with the
murder of Orville L. Mathews, Dal
las banker, here September 1.
Since a previous trial, which re
sulted in a mistrial, Adams hai
been at Liberty under $25,000 bond
Two weeks was required to hear tes
timony in the first trial and it wa:
expected the present hearing woulc
last nearly three weeks.
Development since the first tria
were expected to affect the aspect
of the present case. At the first
trial Adams sought to prove he shol
Mathews after the banker hac
pocketed * $2,000 in election bei
stakes which belonged to Adam;
and a group of friends. Adams sale
Mathews made a “hip-pocket” irtovi
when confronted and ordered to pro
duce the money.
Since the first trial of Adams it
has been proved to the satisfac
tion of a jury that Mathews was th<
victim of a clever forgery allegedly
engineered by Ben C. Richards. Jr.
one of the losing bettors. Richard:
was given three years for forgery
He is at liberty under $3,000 bom
appeal,
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STIR
Rebel Ships l
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ESCOBAR SAYS
LOYAL TROOPS
‘DEMOipED’
Chieftain Claims To
Have Won Great 10
Hour Victory Near
Esc Ion
NACO, Sonora, April 1.—(/P>—
A resumption of the rebel aerial
bombardment of Naco began about
10 a. m. today. Two rebel airplanes
appeared over the federal trenches
and began dropping bombs.
JUAREZ. Chihuahua, Mexico,
April 1.—(A1)—Aided by fifteen air
planes, Mexican rebels led by Gen
eral Jose Gonzalo Escobar, today
claimed to have won a victory in a
ten-hour battle near Escalon Sun
day in which 400 federals ws*e re
ported killed and 1,500 taken
prisoner.
The rebels moved into the terri
tory around Escalon Saturday
night, it was reported at rebel
headquarters here, and engaged
the federal command about noon
Sunday, fighting until nightfall.
A rebel detachment was reported
to be pursuing federal troops to
ward Torreon. General Escobar
indicated in his report that he
W'ould remain in Escalon today but
would start south tomorrow, on the
heels of what he characterized as
“demoralized government troops.”
Among the federal officers re
ported killed in the encounter, de
scribed as “the initial battle of
the campaign,” was General Eulo
gio Ortiz.
Two surprises were accredited by
the rebel commander with having
brought his troops victory. The
rebel general said his march to
ward Escalon had not been expect
ed. The second surprise came, he
reported, when fifteen rebel planes
appeared over the battle field in the
midst of the fighting. Most of the
planes were unsuitable to syn
chronized machine guns and the
pieces were fteed to the floor,
pointing downward. As the ships
new over the battle front they
were reported to have dropped
scores of bombs on federal rein
forcements attempting to come up
from the rear.
ATTACK ON REBELS AT
WESTERN TOWN NEAR
MEXICO CITY, April 1.—<£>>—
The rebel west coast army was be
lieved today to be entrenched at La
Cruz, 64 miles north of Mazatlan,
awaiting federal attack there.
This attack was forming and
General Plutarco Elias Calles. from
his field headquarters in northern
Mexico, notified the government he
believed it would take place either
tomorrow or Wednesday.
First disclosures of fortifications
at La Cruz, a small station near the
Pacific ocean, came when airplanes
flew over the town intending to drop
bombs. The streets suddenly filled
with soldiers, firing wildly. Each of
four planes partaking in the raid
was hit by bullets, and an observer
was killed.
The federals under command of
; General Lazaro Cardenas, and Gen
eral Jaime Carrillo, defender of Ma
zatlan. by abandoning the railroad
; and choosing to advance by high
way, had their advance guard past
the rebel stronghold and were in a
position to cut in from Coyotitan
and attack the rebels from the rear.
In northern Mexico the govern
ment trooDs under General Juan
Andreu Almazan forsook the rail
; road yesterday and took to the
j highway so as to quicken their ad
! vance toward Jimenez, which fed
. eral planes continued to fly over
during the day without sighting
rebel troops.
i No communications were received
■ from General Almazan since the
• description Saturday night, relayed
r here by General Calles, of the fight
, which resulted in the rebel eban
i donment of Rellano and Corralitos.
Nine federals and fifty rebels were
[ killed, with six federals and twelve
(Continued on naae two.)
NO GUNS FIRED;!
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1900 MAKE CAR
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PULLING ‘HILL’
In this day of speed, the auto
mobile, of the vintage of 1900 or
thereabouts, doesn’t cut much of
a figure.
But a car of this date did Sun
day evening. On its way up the
incline to Matamoros, it began
backfiring, with the regularity of
a machine gun. lasting until it
reached the Mexican side of the
bridge.
People in the immediate neigh
borhood rushed to the bridge.
Officers, civil and federal were on
hand; officers on the Mexican
side rushed to the scene, also.
Rat-a-tat-tat, and a couple
more blooeys—it was nothing but
the backfire of the old benzine
wagon making the “giade.”
And that’s the story of a com
motion create'1 Sunday evening at
the bridge. It was not the firing
of guns.
’PHONE OFFICE
HERE IS SOLD
Rio Grande Valley Tele
phone Co. Also Takes Over
Harlingen, Pt. Isabel
Purchase of the Brownsville, Har
lingen and Point Isabel Exchanges
from the Southwestern Bell Tele
phone Co. by the Rio Grande Val
ley Telephone Co and taking over
of operation of the new properties by
the new owners was announced here
today in a joint statement issued by
G. R. Weber and J. C. Paxton.
Mr. Weber is district manager for
the Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co. and Mr. Paxton is general mana
ger of the purchasing company.
E. E. Mockbee, manager of the
Edinburg exchange is to be sent to
Brownsville immediately as resident
manager, Mr. Paxton announced.
The Point Isabel exchange is to be
operated under the direction of the
San Benito manager and the new
manager at Harlingen is to be nam
ed in a day or two.
Mr. Paxton also announced that
plans for extending a cable to the
municipal airport here, made by the
formed owners, would be rushed to
completion.
The Rio Grande Valley Telephone
Co. already owned the exchanges at
San Benito, Mercedes, Donna, Ala
mo, San Juan, Pharr, McAllen, Mis
sion, Edinburg, Edcouch, Rio Hon
do and Elsa. Mr. Paxtcn announ
ced that an exchange would be op
ened May 1 at Los Fresnos. Head
quarters are at McAllen.
“There is probably no other sec
tion of the United States where ex
ist such close ties between a large
group of different towns as is true
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley,”
said Mr. Paxton. “The entire Val
ley is an economic and social as
well as geographical unit. It is es
pecially desirable, therefore, that no
obstacle exist to the fullest develop
ment of telephone communications
all over the Valley. It is generally
agreed that the best telephone de
velopment can b securd by having
all properties in the hands of one
company and under the nntrni of
one management
“Because of thes uus deal
was arranged between tt* two com
panies. and on April first our com
pany took over the three properties
of the Southwesctern Company,
which rill give the Rio Grande Val
ley Telephone Company a total of
fiftee: ion :xchanges in the
Valle;
“Ii tb svn taken over
by our company this time, it is
our intention to continue the tele
phone development along the same
by the* Bell
as
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GALLOGLY AND
HARSH ENTER
GUILTYPLEAS
Sentence Ends Effort
For Verdict After
Two Juries Failed to
Agree
ATLANTA, Ga. April 1.—{SP)—
George (Jimmie) Harsh and Rich
ard G. Gallogly, wealthy former
Ogelthorpe University students, to
day pleaded guilty to murder and
were sentenced to life imprison-’
ment.
On agreement, the action was tak
en immediately after Harsh, mem
ber of a Milwaukee family, had been
granted a new trial following his
conviction and sentence to death for
the murder of Willard Smith, a drug
clerk, during a holdup. At nivpre
vious trial he had entered a plea of
not guilty by reason of mental ir
responsibility.
Gallogly was permitted to enter a
similar plea and receive sentence
after having been tried twice with
out a jury agreement on a verdict.
He was charged with the same of
fense as Harsh. The latter admit
ted the holdup and shooting and
implicated Gallogly as his com
panion, but Gallogly denied he had
participated.
22 INJURED IN
MISSOURI STORM
Train Hits Tree Blown
Across Track; Three
Missing
ST. LOUIS. April 1.—OP)—Twen
ty-two injured, three missing, and
thirty to forty farm buildings
wrecked or damaged was the known
toll today of an Easter storm that
cut a swath through southeast Mis
souri last night.
Searching parties, under direction
of the Poplar Bluff Red Cross chap
ter, today attempted to make their
way over highways strewn with
trees and other debris to hiakfe a
further survey.
Reports indicated the storm, ac
companied by a terrific downpour of
rain and hail, originated near Hoxie
in northern Arkansas and swept
north as far as Bismarck, Mo., a dis
tance of about 70 miles.
The worst damage was in the
Green Forest church community,
three miles northwest of here,
where many buildings were un
roofed or wrecked and eleven per
sons were injured. An inch of hail
was left on the ground.
The Missouri Pacific “Sunshine
Special” which left St. Louis at 6:45
p. m.. struck a tree blown across
the track north of Poplar Bluff. The
train was not derailed, but windows
in several coaches were broken and
passengers were shaken up,
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR GO
TO SPECIAL SERVICE
The annual Easter service of
Brownsville commandry, Knights
Templar, held at the First Baptist
church in San Benito was well at
tended, members from Brownsville
reported.
The sermon was preached by Rev.
Sloan Batchelor, pastor of the Har
lingen Methodist church.
FOUR HIDALGO TOWNS
HOLDING ELECTIONS
IN M1SSII LANE
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n
T. Raymond Finucane (above*,
wealthy Rochester. N. Y., real
estate operator, who was a pas
senger on the amphibian plane,
which disappeared after leaving
Norfolk, Va., for New York.
Robert Boyd (below) was the
mechanic aboard.
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WAR LOOMS ON
LONG CHARGES
|W|| a L m 14*n£1 m i 8p
■ »* if wA a» \ j j | MCT m k. J U 1 g_ m UHI
automobile tour wldch was to cove**
the county before night and^whleftl
Travis District court at Austin ini
his contest for the judgeship of thfll
93rd district against J. E.. Leslie, infcfl
cumbent and over the recommence*!
tion of the house election investf**™
tion committe in Washington#*^ MJ
the department of justice^^^ jj
« At the- mass meeting toffl§b$, PaW|
W&m leaders'Tjredict ther? will be 1
a crowd of 10,000 people, Griffin, |
Dave E. Kirgan, mayor cl Weslaco, |
and Frank B. Freeland, mayor off
McAllen, are scheduled to speak. '-j
The automobile caravan said to ft
contain 100 cars, left Weslaco afcu
10:30 a. m. today going to Mercedes, i
La Villa. Edcouch and Edinburg by #
noon. In the afternoon the tour *
was to continue to Pharr. McAllen, e
Mission and back down the high-'f
wav to Donna.
It was exDected that 300 cars 1
would be in the parade leaving Ed- |
inburg this afternoon.
“This Is merely the beginning.”
said Kirgan this morning. “Con
tests filed in other district races will
be pushed to the limit and every ef
fort will be made to oust other
members of other offices of the ad
ministration declared elected.”
Suits have been filed for practic
ally every county office.
HOUSE COMMITTEE
ASKS INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON. April 1*—f/P>—
The house special campaign ex
penditures committee, in r report
made public today recommended
that the department of justice^
make a searching investigation of
the election in Hidalgo county,
Texas, last November, which it said
was “tainted with wholesale . fraud I
in various forms."
The report said it was the opin-s
ion of the committee that the j
throwing out of returns from Wes- j
laco was “utterly without justifiable
grounds” and the “voting of thou- i
sands of Mexican citizens or ntfc- j
Baker machine paid poll taxes