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_ THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASE D WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(JP) I 8an Antol>1° Hoq'ton
YEAR—No. 290 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929 SIX PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY]
L Y COURT
WESLACO BOX
district Judge Calhoun
Renders Final De
cision In Disputed
Election Contest
AUSTIN, April 20.—(/P)—District
Fudge George C. Calhoun today
endered final judgment in the
lection dispute between Gordon
Jriffin and J. E. Leslie for the of
ice of judge of the 93rd district
n Hidalgo county, ordering county
ommissioners to meet April 30 to
anvass returns of the election, in
■luding the disputed Weslaco box.
County Judge A. W. Cameorn was
istructed by the court to forward
eturns to Mrs. Jane Y. MeCallum.
ecretary of state, who was re
trained by court order from can
assing any except the returns from
he entire county.
Attorneys representing Leslie filed
supercedas bond of $5,000 so their
lient might continue to hold his
>ost until the case has been ap
realed to the court of civil appeals,
mmediate steps will be taken to
omplete the record in the case in
rder that it may be passed on by
he higher court, Griffin’s counsel
aid.
Today’s judgment marked the cli
lax in a dispute which arose No
ember 8, immediately after the
eneral election, when the commis
ioners court refused to receive re
urns from the Weslaco precinct be
ause of the purported failure of
lection officials to seal the envelope
irhich bore the returns.
Judge Calhoun held the Hidalgo
ounty commissioners had acted
arbitrarily in their refusal to re
eive and count the Weslaco box,
/hich Griffin’s attorneys asserted
ould give him a majority of more
an 600 votes.
Governor On Stump Says
He’ll Fight Foes To
Last Ditch
EATON ROUGE, La.. April 20.—
TV—Striking back at his enemies
rom the stump* Gov. Huey P. Long
:as out today championing the
ause of the “poor unfortunates”
•efore the people and answering
harges of his impeachment before
te goes on trial.
“They may put me out, but they
Till have a fight,” he challenged
rom the platform.
“They say I'm a coward, that I
ron’t fight. Well, I've had my share
f fights in the 35 years of my life.
Jut right now I’m too busy watch
tig the state’s millions to soil my
Lands with them bums.”
If his foes want to find out
/hether he carries a gun or not. he
dded, “let them put a gun down
n me.”
The head of a state insane insti
ation “wasn’t fired for politics.”
lovernor Long said. “He admitted
0 me there had been crooked work
mt said his assistant put it over
n him.”
The chief executive attributed his
teak with Col. Robert Ewing, na
onal committeeman and publisher
f the New Orleans States, to a
uarrel he had with Colonel Ewing’s
on in Shreveport.
The governor wanted the state to
istribute free text-books, and the
forth Louisiana city asked legisla
ion to enable them to establish a
mnicipal airport.
“I felt,” said Long, “that if that
ang in Shreveport was going to
eep the children from getting an
ducation they didn’t deserve an
irport.”
Nlaval Board Inquiry
Ordered In Death
Of 4 Navy Fliers
SAN DIEGO. Cal.. April 20.—m
—An airplane collision, which sent
iree naval officers and one en
sted man to spectacular death,
is the subject of an inquiry by a
val board here today.
The planes, both from the U. S.
Lexington, collided at an altitude
1 600 feet yesterday upon their re
-n from gunnery practice. One
ip was piloted by Lieutenant
illiam K. Patterson, a native of
nnsylvania, accompanied by H
Browns. . _
"he other plane carried Ensigns
•bert Bassett, Jr.. McComb. 111.,
Harold R. Sheehan, who en
1 d Annapolis from Massachu
s.
he ships fell into shallow water.
» three officers were killed in
.ntly. Brown died in an ambu
IjlTT NEW SUSPECT
I ,N GANG MURDER
C‘\ LES, April 20.—(Pi—
’ ’es w. Lloyd. 32, said
rrtR Chicago in connec
“. Valentine’s day
PULLN. seven men were
disclosed here
PRINCE WAS
WELL-KNOWN
IN AMERICA
Son of Frederick III
Claimed B y Same
Illness Which Took
Life of Emperor
HEMMELMARK, Germany, April
120.—(/P)—Prince Henry of Prussia,
brother of the former kaiser, died
here today of pneumonia
Prince Henry’, widely known in
the United States for his visit in
1902 to attend the launching and
christening of his brother’s yacht
“Meteor,” at Jersey City, was 66
years old and had been in poor
health for several years.
Prince Henry, the former kaiser’s
only brother, had been suffering
from laryngal trouble for some
months. He developed pneumonia
three days ago and ded at 1:30
p. m.
At his bedside were his wife,
Princess Irene and his son, Walde
mar, and the latter's wife. His sec
ond son, Prince Sigismund, is in
Costa Rica.
The Associated Pres swas informed
by a trustworthy source early this
year that Prince Henry was af
flicted with the same malady with
which his father, the late Emperor
Frederick III was stricken, namely
cancer of the larynx.
M’NARY DEFIES
PRES. HOOVER
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Export Debenture Plan To Be
Written In Farm Aid
Bill, He Says
WASHINGTON. April 20.—(IP)—
Chairman McNary of the senate
agriculture committee announced
today the committe definitely had
decided to incorporate the export
debenture plan in the farm bill
to be introduced Monday irrespec
tive of whether President Hoover
or other administration officials
definitely declared against the pro
posal.
The chairman’s announcement
was made almost simultaneously
with a call at the White House by
Louis J. Taber, master of the Na
tional Grange, sponsor of the de
benture proposition. Taber con
ferred with President Hoover for
nearly an hour.
The chief executive authorized no
statement concerning the meeting,
and all Mr. Taber would say was
he expected “a good farm relief
law before July 4.” The farm lead
er had no comment to offer on th#
president's statement yesterday
urging the farm organizations to
get together and present a united
front during congressional consid
eration of agricultural aid legis
lation.
CAUTION URGED IN
USE OF POST DRIVE
That caution be used with light
ed cigarets, cigars, etc., by those
using the scenic loop through Fort
Brown along the Rio Grande, is
urged by post officers.
This drive has been covered with
straw and other inflamable mate
rial and several near blazes have
resulted from carelessly tossed cig
arets.
The straw is being used in build
ing up the road bed and is said to
be effective in allaying dust.
HENCHMEN TRIAL ENDS
WITH ACQUITTAL OF 13
CHICAGO, April 20.—(IP)—A sec
ond trial of “Eller hencemen"
growing out of election disorders in
the “bloody Twentieth” ward, of
which City' Collector Morris Eller is
the reputed republican boss, ended
today in the acquittal of all 13
defendants. Kidnaping and assault
to commit murder were the specific
charges against the men.
COTTON SPINNING
WASHINGTON. April 20.—(IP)—
The census bureau report on cotton
spinning activity for March today
showed a total of 8.909.996,339 ac
tive spinning hours or an average
of 252 per spindle in place com
pared with 8.221.265,059 or an av
erage of 233 hours per spindle in
i place for February this year.
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Embargo Put on
Valley Fruit in
MoralesFlyWar
An absolute embargo against shipments of citrus fruit from the Lower
Rio Grande Valley was declared in force Saturday morning by M. H.
Ford, acting inspector in charge of the Mexican fruit fly eradication
project of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Plant Quarantine and Control
Administration.
The embargo was placed on or-r
ders from the administration force
in Washington following the dis
covery of infestation in two new
localities.
The telegram said:
“Hold all fruit in storage in Val
ley for possible processing or de
struction, until further informa
tion indicates freedom of any such
fruit from infestation. Final dis
position will depend on absence of
evidence of infestation in district
concerned, date when fruit was
picked and distance of groves from
known infestation.”
An immediate and thorough
cleanup of all orchards, with 100
per cent removal of all ripe and
off-bloom fruit from the trees and
the ground is the only possible
hope to prevent an even more rigid
embargo, men working in the
campaign to eradicate the fly said.
There is believed to be danger that
the embargo will be carried over
into the next shipping season.
The Morales fruit fly has been
found in orchards around La
Feria, in Cameron county, and near
Mission, in Hidalgo county, in ad
dition to the infestation already
discovered around Mercedes, the
inspectors announced today.
So far there have been no speci
mens of the pest uncovered in the
territory between the Merceds in
festation and that at Mission nor
in the territory below La Feria.
However, inspectors point out,
this does not mean that the fly has
not invaded these sections. The
search for it is continuing and will
continue until the entire Valley has
been combed.
Methods of administering the
embargo against shipments will be
decided by Inspector Ford after a
study of the order and after a fur
ther investigation of the situation
in the Valley.
It will be necessary to decide un
der what conditions growers will be
permitted to keep fruit in storage
and methods for destruction of
fruit believed to be menacing the
industry and endangering spread of
the infestation.
The future course to be pursued
in connection with the fruit now
held in cold storage, of which there
is a conisderable quantity, also
must be decided. The order indi
cates that it either must be de
stroyed or canned.
A force of 19 inspectors are work
ing in all parts of the Valley to
day and a report of the condition
of all orchards visited will be made
by them. The degree of coopera
tion received from the growers will
to a great extent determine future
control methods, Inspector Ford
said.
Merchants handling fruit for
sale were warned that all of It
should be kept under screens.
ARRANGEMENTS MADE
FOR SUMMER SCHOOL
Arrangements are being made
here for regular summer school
classes to be conducted for junior
college, high school and junior high
school students.
A survey is being made to deter
mine whether classes will be of
fered to elementary pupils.
The summer school will probably
open May 27 and will continue for
eight weeks. The session will be
in charge of S. A. Caldwell, dean of
the junior college.
MAN IN CAR BURNS TO
DEATH AFTER CRASH
TORONTO, Ont., April 20.—(A*)—
J. W. Barnes, president of the Ese
Manufacturing company, was
burned to death here today after
his automobile crashed into a street
car.
Barnes was imprisoned in his
automobile, but the crew of the
street car and 12 passengers es
caped by climbing through win
dows.
mrs. McCarthy elected
McALLEN, April 20.—Mrs. R. F.
McCarty of Harlingen was elected
vice president of .the ladies auxiliary
of the Associated Master Plumbers
of Texas in their annual convention
here this week. Mrs. George L.
Smith of Amarillo was elected
president.
4.
MYSTERY PLANE
OVER TRAWLER
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No Knowledge in London
Of Any Transatlantic
Flight
LONDON, April 20.—</P)—A Brit
ish trawler fishing about 250 miles
west of the outer Hebrides, or 300
miles w?est of the western Scotch
coast, reported an airplane passed
over it today, flying eastward. Iden
tity of the plane was a mystery here.
The message was received by the
Malin head station in Ireland from
the trawler Shackleford at 8:23 a.
m., (3:23 E. S. T.). It said: “Air
plane bound east passed here this
morning at 5 o’clock. Position is
58.10 north and 14.20 west.”
There was no knowledge here of
any transatlantic flight in progress
and the public was left guessing
what the plane might be doing so
far out in the Atlantic as to be be
yond the limit of any ordinary trial
flight.
At the air ministry it wras stated:
“We have no knowledge of any
flight over the Atlantic. Neither
have we received any news.
NORTH TEXAS
HIT BY STORM
One Hurt When Windstorm
Causes Damage to Reach
Thousands
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PARIS, Tex., April 20.—(JP)—
Damage estimated at many thou
sands of dollars and the full ex
tent of which had not been learned
today was caused in Lamar county
last night by a severe windstorm
which broke with little warning
and raged for a considerable per
iod.
An early check of Paris and sur
rounding communities revealed
that only one person was injured
and this one to a minor degree.
John Rushing, keeper at the Lamar
district fair grounds, suffered a
broken rib when struck by some
object hurled through the air by
the wind as he rushed from his
home toward the stable in which
a herd of fine dairy cattle were
temporarily housed. Today he was
resting easily.
Greatest damage was to property
of the Southern Pacific and the
Texas and Pacific railroads here.
A huge warehouse of the Texas and
Pacific which extended along the
railroad tracks for approxmately a
block was blown to pieces with a
loss estimated at approximately
$30,000, while the round house of
the Southern Pacific was destroyed
with a loss at about $5,000.
Considerable damage throughout
the city was in evidence. Many
small buildings, such as sheds,
shacks, stands and outhouses were
blown down, trees, some of con
siderable size, were uprooted and
windows in business houses as well
as in residences were smashed in by
the force of the wind.
The stables at the fair grounds
were demolished, but a group of
buildings which sheltered a herd
of Jersey cattle here for a special
sale remained intact. It was in his
effort to reach and give assistance
if possible to the herd, that Rush
ing was injured. No other build
ings at the fair grounds were dam
aged.
The storm was general over the
county, but because of impaired
communications in some places a
complete check of property loss or
persons possibly injured was not
made quickly. From Lake Creek
j came reports of small buildings
! blown down, windows driven in, and
I trees uprooted.
RAILROADS TO
REDUCE RAIL
BARGE RATES
Commerce Commis
sion Orders 20 Per
Cent Reduction To
Make Routes Useful
WASHINGTON. April 20.—(AV
Railroads connecting with the In
land Waterways Corporation barge
line on the Mississippi and Warrior
rivers were ordered today by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
to establish a sweeping system of
combination* barge-rail and rail
barge-rail rates and routes for the
utilization of shippers desiring to
combine both water and railroad
facility.
By terms of the order, made ef
fective Aug. 27, rates are to be
established ranging down to 20 per
cent less than existing all rail
rates between the points affected.
The routes over which the contem
plated reduction will apply include
a large part of the entire country.
In general the commission grant
ed almost completely a petition of
the government owned inland wa
terways corporation which operates
on an extensive scale along the
Mississippi river and its tributar
ies. The barge line contended that
unless railroads combined with it
for the making of through rates to
and from principal traffic centers,
the water route could not be fully
useful.
Establishment of rail-barge and
rail-barge-rail rates as ordered
Saturday by the Interstate Com
merce Commission will result in a
saving of freight to Valley interests
on such commodities as can be
moved in and out of this territory
by this means of transportation,
which will be slow.
If the Intracoastal canal is com
pleted to the Valley such rates pro
mulgated for that waterway and
connecting rail lines should result
in a considerable saving on com
modities which could be moved by
barge.
LAWYER TAKESADVICE
AND DRINKS POISON
PHILADELPHIA. April 20.—f/PV—
A statement credited to David
Steinhartv fugitive New York law
yer, that friends advised him to
commit suicide increased interest
in today’s inquest into his death.
Facing prosecution for embezzle
ment of $500,000 in bankruptcy
cases, he drank poison yesterday
while his wife and his attorney. Her
man L. Maris, of this city, sat in
an adjoining room at a hotel and
as Assistant United States Attorney
George Mintzer, of New York, was
on his way from the railroad station
to take him into custody.
GET SIX EARTHSHOCKS
IN BOLOGNA THIS WEEK
BOLOGNA. Italy, April 20.—
Two earthshocks today in Bologna
brought the total to six for this
week.
Most of the shocks have been felt
early in the morning arousing in
habitants from their beds and send
ing hundreds to the open squares in
fear of disaster. The only damage
thus far, however, has been the col
lapse of chimneys.
GOTKE, DAVENPORT TO
ATTEND AUSTIN MEET
Supt. G. W. Gotke of the Browns
ville public school system and Har
bet Davenport, member of the
board of trustees, planned to leave
here Sunday by automobile for
Austin, where they are to attend
the convention of the State Histo
rial association.
REPARATIONS MEET
BELIEVED ON ROCKS
PARIS, April 20.—<£*>—Efforts to
revive the almost dead reparations
conference went on steadily today,
but the prospect looked dark.
The Germans were understood to
be willing to increase their repara
tions offer slightly, but they were
frank to intimate they saw no real
hope of the present conference
reaching an accord.
PRODUCTION INCREASE
DALLAS. April 20.—(A*)—A dozen
wells completed in six West Texas
counties last week increased the pro
duction in that area by 62,396 bar
rel
QUESTION SOCIETY WOMAN
Mrs. Robert L. Brown, prominent society woman of Lexington,
Ky.. was a witness in the police investigation of the death of Arthur
Smith, wealthy Cleveland business man. At right is Joseph Pasco
cello, assistant district attorney, who questioned her.
GUARE ENTERS !
FRUIT FLY WAR;
All Roads Patrolled To
Confiscate Fruit
Shipments
ORLANDO, Fla., April 20.—(.^P)—
The national guard today was co
operating with 72 state plant board
workers in a fight on the Mediter
ranean fruit fly.
The pest, newly arrived in North
America, lias been found only in
parts of three citrus belt counties,
where four companies of the na
tional guard patrolled all roads,
confiscating shipments of fruit.
The plant board workers who
had been seeking new areas of
possible infestation, reported the
pest wTas confined to the three
counties and they were concen
trating their work on extermina
tion.
Dr. Wilmon Newell, state plant
commissioner at Gainesville, is in
charge of the work. Commissioner
of Agriculture Nathan Mayo was
due in the area today.
Commissioner Mayo carried with
him to the affected belt telegraphic
communications from Florida’s
delegation in congress which as
serted that everything possible
would be done in the national cap
ital to aid in the work in Florida.
Meanwhile plans were being laid
in the state for citrus representa
tives to attend a hearing at Wash
ington next Monday, regarding a
possible quarantine against citrus
fruit.
AMARILLO FOLKS
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APPLAUD ‘SPUNK’
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OF MARY GARDEN
AMARILLO, April 20.—«■)—
Citizens of the Panhandle might
not be able to appreciate the
brand of grand opera exhibited
here a month ago, but they know
“spunk” when they see it.
When Mary Garden, in a New
York interview, asserted she was
going to sing here again next
winter despite what Editor Gene
Howe or anybody else said about
her recent performance, she struck
a responsive chord.
A wire to the prima donna yes
terday besought her to sing here
in concert within the next two
weeks and to “name your owrn
terms.” It guaranteed her the
greatest crowd ever to hear an
artist in Texas and promised
every courtesy would be shown
her.
TRAIN HITS TEXAN’S
CAR IN HEAVY RAIN
DALLAS, April 20— </P)—:Berlin
Mooney, 19, blinded by rain here last
night, drove his automobile in front
of a slowly moving passenger train
and was seriously injured. The slow
speed of the train was said to have
saved his life.
NOTED TEACHER DEAD
NEW YORK, April 20—(/P)—Oscar
Saenger, 60, widely known teacher
of singing, died a the Washington
sanitarium in Washington today,
friends were advised.
Airport Contract
Pat Up to Head of
Airways to Decide
Terms of an operation contract for the municipal airport here as pro
posed by the city of Brownsville have been referred to J. T. Trippe, pres
ident of Pan-American Airways with office in New York City, for final
action following receipt of a message from George Rihl late yesterday.
Mr. Rihl, vice president of Pan-American, is in Guatemala City and
ms message ionowea receipt Dy>
him of the counter proposal of the
city after terms of a contract of
fered by the airways corporation
had been rejected by a 2 to 2 vote
of the city commission.
The text of Mr. Rihl’s reply was
not made public, but following its
receipt a copy of the proposed con
tract was forwarded by airmail to
Mr. Trippe in New York City. He
is expected to announce his de
cision by long distance telephone
Monday morning.
The terms of the contract offered
to the city by Pan-American Air
ways, according to W. L. Morrison,
traffic manager of Compania Mex
icana de Aviacion and local rep
resentative of Pan-American Air
ways, included:
Lease of one and a half acres oi
land around the new hangar and
an opportunity to meet any offer
received by the city to lease or sell
the airport.
The Pan-American agreed to:
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4 ARRESTED
ON CHARGES
OF NEGLIGENCE
12 Others Injured As
Steel Falls 11 Sto
ries; Men Hurled
From Scaffold
NEW YORK, April —
Four workmen were killed and 12
were injured today by steel girders
falling from the 11th floor of the
new Western Union building. Four
men were arrested on a charge of
criminal negligence.
Most of the dead and injured
were hurled from a scaffolding at
the eighth floor as the girders,
weighing three and a half tons,
broke from a derrick hoisting them
to the top of the 24-story building.
FINALSFEATURE
DISTRICT MEET
Mercedes, Brownsville And
McAllen Entries Win
In Preliminaries
Preliminary track events in
augurated the second day of the
district interscholastic meet here
this morning when Bellefonte of
Mercedes and Newman of Browns
ville came* through with flying
colors in the century dash. The
same pair along with Champion of
the local high school led the pack
in the 220.
Overstreet of McAllen appeared
the best bet for the finals in the
timber topping events. He won
the preliminaries this morning in
both the 120 low hurdles and 220
high.
Final track events began this
afternoon at 1:30.
Several exhibition events this
afternoon were to feature the day's
program with Coach Claude Daily
of Donna and Hill and Jamerson
of Edinburg Junior college en
tered.
FIND TIME OF MAN’S
ADVENT MUCH LONGER
PHILADELPHIA, April 20.—{JPh
The abruptnes of man’s first geo
logically recorded appearance on
earth was brought out at the meet
ing of the American Philosophical
society today by Dr. James H.
Breasted, director of the Oriental
institute. University of Chicago.
Though the recorded time of
man’s advent has been regarded
generally as around 100,000 years
ago, Dr. Breasted said recent Egyp
tian records show it was “at least
several hundred thousand years ago,
or very much earlier if we follow the
geologists who estimate the length
of the Pleistocene era at nearly or
quite a million years ago.’
STRIKERS OF TEXTILE
FIGHT AGAINST TIME
CHARLOTTE, N. C., April 20 —
(JP>—With strikers at other textile
centers Of the Carolinas fighting a
waiting battle against time, atten
tion remained centered today upon
Gastonia. N. C.
The American Civil Liberties
union last night wired attorneys
here authority to offer a reward
for the arrest of persons impli
cated in the demolition of striliers
food supplies and their headquar
ters building at Gastonia.
treatyratification
IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, April 20.—W—
The state deparment was advised
today that France’s instrument of
ratification of the Kellogg treaty to
renounce war has reached Wash
ington and will be deposited Mon
day in the archives of the Ameri
can government.
NEED AMERICAN OPERAS
CORSICANA, April 20.—(>P)—Need
of truly American operas were
termed the outstanding necessity of
musical America today by Mrs. Ed
gar Stillman Kelley, president of
the National Federation of Music
clubs, in addressing the annual con
vention of the Texas Federation of
Music clubs here last night.
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