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(VALLEY
1 FRANK LUDDEN, general man
ager of the Central Power and
Light Co., and friend of the Val
ley, has some interesting informa
ion on Valley topics and other
vise. Revealed interesting stories
>n a trip down the Valley Friday
light from Reynosa to San Benito,
his home town.
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“General Juan A. Almazan. now
•ngaged in leading victorious fed
;rl troops of Mexico against rebel
tous citizens in the state of Son
jra, is owner of the electrical d>c
hibution system in Reynosa,’ Mr.
Ludden revealed.
“When the bridge wTas built
across the Rio Grande from Hi
dalgo to Reynosa it became appar
ent that electric lights were neces
sary to further development of the
Mexican town.
“General Almazan, to secure this
utility for Reynosa, asked the Cen
tral Power and Light Co. if they
would build a modern system there
.for him. We agreed to do this. It
was constructed and now we ave
selling them current on a whole
sale basis.
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As a result of this arrangement
Reynosa has one of the most mod
em electric lighting and power
Bsytems in existence. And efficient
Bervice.
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NOW FOR a little Information
closer home—right in the Valley.
A total of 1000 tons of ice is be
ng used in the Valley each day—
every 24 hours.
Just to be a little more exact,
27,505 tons of ice was frozen in
.Valley plants of the Central Power
fend Light Co. in 28 days.
A little matter of 2,000,000 pounds
of ice per day.
Most of it is being used to ice
perishable produce now leaving the
Valley at an average rate of moie
than 250^ yrs per day.
But thoLjp-ns been a marked in
crease consumption of ice ny
.Valley residents in the past three
years, almost doubled. An indi
cation that the population has
grown rapidly.
Mr. Ludden estimates that 400
tons of ice will be consumed dur
ing the summer mcnihs in Valley
homes. Indicating a reduction of
more than 50 per cent from the
volume of business now being
done by his plants.
The shipping season will slow
to a considerable extent in 30 days
end in 45 days will almost have
<Come to m close.
Then Instead of using 600 tons
fcf ice per day to preserve perish
ables, very little will be used for
that purpose.
Means several of the large plants
!n the Valley will be shut down.
Others now operatng at full capa
city will be operated only to half
capacity.
Huge Icing docks, now beehives
bf activity, will fall strangely
Bilent,
But only for a short time.
Soon the cotton crop wall be out
bf the way and Valley fields again
will be yielding vegetables to feed
the nation. Thousands cf refrig
erator cars will be iced and prob
ably the 1000-ton peak of this
year will pale to seeming unim
portance by comparison of the de
mand in late 1929.
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WITH THE CABBAGE about
marketed, more than two-thirds of
the potato crop on its way to mar
ket, the beet and carrot deal draw
ing to a close and the last of the
beans being picked, it seems that
Valley shipping news is likely to
discuss new subjects in a few days.
And reports cf the growers and
shippers indicate there will be new
subjects to discuss—namely toma
toes and green corn.
Both crops are reported in bet
ter than average condition and
the market outlook is bright. Both
commodities are being shipped in
limited quantities at profit-return
ing prices, but these will be cut as
soon as the shipments grow
heavier.
The cabbage deal, about ended,
has been very disappointing after
a fair beginning.
The potato deal started with a
falling market and apparent disor
ganization, but soon growers ral
lied to the organization, the price
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EL PASO TIGERS ARE
WINNERS IN DIST. 17
ALPINE, Texas, April 20.—(£*)—
The El Paso Tigers track team fin
ished first in the district 17 Inter
ccholastic league meet here today
after 2* hard fi§hc witil Rankin.
The fiijr count was El Paso 60.
Rankin gO. Feiner of El Paso ran
the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds flat
against a strong wind.
AGGIE FRESHMEN WIN
M'KINNEY. Texas, April 20.—(JP)
The Texas Aggie freshmen made
It two out of three from McKin
ney high school by winning today’s
game, 7 to 6,
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Laredo Officers Indicted for
Murder of Newspaper Reporter
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Local Officer Is
Instantly Killed
In Pistol Duel
Deputy Constable R. D. Brown
was shot to death and three others
were severely w’ounded in a gun
fight at the Prietas dance hall on
the military highway Saturday near
midnight.
Frank Stanter, also a deputy con
stable, was so severely wounded that
he is not expected to live and Man
uel and Antonio Flores, brothers,
were riddled with bullets.
According to versions of bystand
ers, three unknown men opened fire
on the two deputies in the brush
near the dance.
The Flores brothers, it was said,
were separated and thought that
each was being attacked. They
rushed into the fight, thinking they
were aiding their brother.
Manuel was struck four or five
times in the leg. Antonio grappled
with one of the three unknown men,
people at the dance said, and he
was shot a glancing shot up through
his chin.
Brown fell almost instantly dead
with numerous bullets in his body.
Stanter was said to have suffered
two or three body wounds.
Officers rushed to the scene but
the three men evidently had made
their get-aw'ay. Almost the entire
sheriff’s department was called to
to the scene and were soon scour
ing the surrounding territory for the
men who did the shooting.
The wounded and Brown were
brought back to the city as soon a.s
possible. Stanter’s condition was
pronounced as extremely grave, but
ti was thought that the Flores broth
ers would survive.
Brown was well known here, hav
ing served as a peace officer over
a long span of years. He ran for
the sehriff’s office at one time.
RECOUNT VOTE
IN HIDALGO CO.
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Leslie Files Bond to Remain
In Office Pending Dispo
sition of Case
AUSTIN. April 20.—MP)—Judge
Geo. C. Calhoun of Travis county
district court today entered judg
ment ordering the county commis
sioners court of Hidalgo county to
meet April 30 and recanvass re
turns of the November general elec
tion, including the Weslaco pre
cinct vote, previously rejected.
The judgment was rendered in
the case of Gordon Griffin, con
1 testing the election of Judge J. E.
Leslie to be district judge of the
93rd district,
Griffin had obtained an injunc
tion preventing Mrs. Jane Y. Mc
Callum, secretary of state, from
opening the Hidalgo county returns
as certified by the commissioners
court, alleging they did not show
the true results.
The commisisoners court had
rejected the Weslaco precinct re
turns because it claimed they were
irregular, the envelope enclosing
them having been unsealed when
received.
Griffin claims that when the
Weslaco vote is included in the
county totals he will have a ma
jority of more than 600 over Judge
Leslie, incumbent without the Wes
laco vote. Judge Leslie had 14
more votes than Griffin, it was
stated.
Attorneys for Judge Leslie filed
a bond of $5,000 so he could con
tinue in office pending disposition
of the case in the appellate courts.
REVISION ON GRAIN RATES
WASHINGTON, April 20.—</P>—
A report suggesting revision of rail
road rates on grain and grain pro
ducts in territory west of the Mis
sissippi was made public today by
Interstate Commerce Commission
examiners, and the commission set
May 27 as a date on which to hear
arguments here on the proposal
from cs rriers and representatives
of the grain producing territory.
OKLAHOMAN ELECTED
WASHINGTON. April 20.—(IP)—
Walter M. Harrison, editor of the
Daily Oklahoman. Oklahoma City,
today was re-elected president of
the American Society of Newspaper
editors at its annual convention.
Washington was selected as the
, 1930 meeting Dlaca. „
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CHURCH OUSTS
TEXAS PASTOR
Split Among Cameron Pres
byterians Follows Charge
Of Heresy
CAMERON, Tex., April 20.—(IP)—
The Rev. H. G. Kenney, Cameron
pastor, charged with heretical
teachings, was notified officially to
day by the Central Texas Presby
tery that he had been ousted from
the local church and disqualified
from holding any other pastorate in
the district.
The Rev. Kenney received a let
ter announcing that he had been ex
pelled and that an unnamed mem
ber of the Presbytery would fill the
pulpit of his church tomorrow.
At the Sunday service, a state
ment “covering the Cameron mat
ter” will be read before the congre
gation. It became known that after
\he meeting of the Presbytery gov
erning board Thursday in Clifton,
Kenney was asked to sign a certain
prepared statement provided he had
no mental reservations in the sign
ing.
Kenney refused to sign, declaring
he had mental reservations. He will
be allowed to file his exceptions and
appeal the judgment to the synod,
although his Cameron friends stated
an appeal was unlikely.
The charges have brought about
a split in the church, one estimate
being that most of the membership
was on the preacher’s side.
A number of leading members
planned a meeting, possibly tomor
row to outline a course of action to
aid the preacher.
The Rev. Kenney already had pre
pared his sermon for tomorrow.
No hint of the presbytery’s ac
tion had been divulged. Members
had been led to believe that the
Presbytery board was debating
whether to actually summon Ken
ney for trial on heresy teaching
charges.
The Rev. Kenney was called to
the Cameron church about four
years ago from West Virginia. He
came partly on the recommendation
of John W. Davis, former demo
cratic presidential candidate, in
whose church he had been pastor.
He was influenced to locate in
Texas largely cn account of his
health. He is married and has two
small children.
This afternoon, he gave the keys
to his study to a church trustee
although he and his family still
occupy “The Manse.” Presbyterian
terminology for the pastor’s home.
Rev. Kenney probably will issue
a formal statement to the press
after the document prepared by
the Presbytery “covering the en
tire Cameron matter” is read Sun
day. He had made no plans for
the immedate future.
TEMPLE, Tex., April 20.—(JP)—
Other than to say he was “out of
the Cameron pulpit for good,” and
that he did not think there would
be a trial, the Rev. H. G. Kenney
ousted Presbyterian pastor, declined
to be quoted In a telephone inter
view with the Temple Telegram
tonight.
“I will have a complete state
ment to make later.” he said. “My
plans for the future have not de
veloped."
A secret hearing on charges
against Rev. Kenney, accused of
heresy by church leaders, was held
here in January. . I
Five Killed As Twisters
Hit Southwestern States
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BODY FOUND
AFTER MONTH
OF SEARCHING
Prosecution Refuses to
Announce The o r y
As Pair Are Held In
County Jail
LAREDO, Tex., April 20.—(JP)—
Two Laredo police officers were in
dicted today for the murder of
Harry Williams, 24, newspaper re
porter who disappeared from here
on the night of Jan. 19, 1929, and
was taken from the Rio Grande a
corpse about a month later.
Raymond J. West, 24, constable
here for eight months, and Tomas
Hernandez, motorcycle officer with
an eight-year service record in La
redo, named in the murder bills by
the Webb county grand jury, were
held in jail tonight.
The indictments contained three
counts, charging that Williams was
choked to death, that he was beat
en over the head and that his body
was thrown in the river. Prelim
inary hearings for officers have not
been set. District Attorney R. L.
Bobbit refused to announce the
(Continued on page eleven.)
ADMITS SWEETWATER
TO SCHOOL LEAGUE
ABILENE, April 20. — (JP) — The
executive committee of the Oil Belt
football district, No. 2, of the In
terscholastic league, today admit
ted Sweetwater to membership and
adopted a schedule of 45 games.
Ten schools comprising the district
are Abilene. Big Spring, Brecken
ridge, Brownwood, Cisco, Eastland.
Mineral Wells Ranger, San Angelo
and Sweetwater.
KANSAS CITY, April 20.—(^Pi
Ferocious spring twisters and flood
waters had killed at least five per
sons, injured more than a score and
caused uncounted thousands of dol
lars in damage in the southwestern
states tonight.
A tornado that almost wiped out
Reece, Kan., killed one man and
injured at least four persons. A
Kiowa Indian was killed by a storm
southwest of Carnegie, Okla., and
an Indian couple lost their lives in
the debris of their home near Moun
tain View, Okla. A baby died in
her father’s arms at Sand Flatts,
Texas.
The body of a man was reported
floating in the flood waters of the
Walnut river at Winfield, Kan.
Tornadoes struck this evening in
haphazard fashion over a wide area.
Many buildings were flattened at
Reece; two twisters left a trail of
wrecked farm property and injured
two persons west of Fort Scott,
southwestern Kansas; another
skimmed along the Missouri-Kansas
border there counties while its twin
swept a sizeable area 30 miles to
the east, injuring a dozen persons.
A seven-mile path of destruction
was cut by another in northwestern
Arkansas, while northern Texas and
southwestern Oklahoma today were
recovering from previous elemental
capers.
Farm families sought shelter in
cellars and in several instances saw
their homes torn apart. The twis
ters missed the centers of popula
tion. Aside from Reece, Kan., the
town of Bolivar, Mo., perhaps was
hardest hit. Nine persons were in
jured there and 40 houses were de
molished or damaged.
Southeastern and eastern Kansas
lowlands tonight were under flood
w'aters of the Verdigris, Neosho and
Kaw rivers as well as many small
er streams. Southwestern Kansas
had minor damage from the Wal
nut and Arkansas rivers, while most
of western Missouri experienced
flood griefs. Most streams were ex
pcted to recede without doing great
damage unless further heavy rains
fall.
Virtually the entire southwest felt
heavy rains and electrical storms in
the last 48 hours. Hail fell before
the tornadoes in western Missouri
late today. Colorado and Wyoming
reported heavy snowfall.
West’s Water Suppiy
One of Major Issues
For Called Session
By RAYMOND BROOKS
AUSTIN, April 19—Priority in dividing up West Texas’ inadequate
water supply has been added as one of the major public policy questions
f for the legislature's special session which will open next Monday under
call of Gov. Dan Moody.
This, along with the prospect the lawmakers will go on at least one
junketing trip—to the East Texasv
Chamber of Commerce convention
in Bryan—increased the likelihood
a second called session will be
needed to dispose of the half-dozen
big items yet to be acted upon this
year.
Among subjects which will be
given the legislature are:
Prison rebuilding and central
ization.
Appointive boaord to regulate
public utilities.
Civil service.
Water priorities policy for state
permits.
Reorganize educational system.
Tax survey report.
Blue sky law.
All appropriations.
Highway financing, gasoline tax
and motor fee reduction.
Possible liquor law enforcement
measures, as petitioned by every
Women’s Christian Temperance
union in the state.
Transcending many of these in
possibilities for political fireworks
is the report to be made by the
joint legislative committee which
investigated conduct of the public
land office by Commr. J. T. Robin
son, in connection with University
of Texas land leases.
That testimony has been com
l Dieted. The report of the commit
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tee is understood to be in process
of completion. What its findings
will be have not been disclosed or
hinted by Chairman E. T. Murphy
or any member. Com. Robison is
“standing pat,” after having testi
fied extensively; and he apparently
won what may be termed an ex
pression of confidence when his
(Continued on page eleven.)
GRAF ZEPPELIN TO USE
LAKEHURST STATION
WASHINGTON, April 20.—(JP)—
The navy department today au
thorized the German airship Graf
Zeppelin to make use of the facili
ties at the naval air station at
Lakehurst, N. J., on its trip to
American, planned for this year.
TEXAN DIES AFTER
CRASH NEAR ABBOTT
HILLSBORO. Texas, April 20.—
UP)—D. P. Yarbro. whose back was
broken in an automobile wreck near
Abbott, Texas, last night, died in
Hillsboro today.
Nimrod Gorth, whose back was
also broken, and 3. L. Adams, who
received a broken neck and suffer
ed complete paralysis, were not ex
pected to live, ,
ALMAZAN IN
FINAL DRIVE
ON REVOLTERS
Loyal General Takes
5,800 Troops And
Leaves Juarez For
Sonora Front
JUAREZ, Mexico, April 20.—(/P)—
Gen. Juan A. Almazan and approxi
mately 5,800 federal troops left
Juarez tonight on the start of their
drive against rebel forces in Son
ora.
They will travel from Juarez to
Casas Grandes by rail and go from
there through Pulpito pass into
Sonora by truck. Their final des
tination, though unannounced,
probably will be Agua Prieta or
Nogales.
A flat car loaded with gasoline
drums was attached to the train to
(Continued on page eleven.)
MEET CALLED
IN EMBARGO
_
Growers, Secretaries And
Officials to Discuss
Ban Tuesday
A meeting at the Harlingen city
hall at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday for the
purpose of thoroughly going into
the situation here in regard to the
embargo placed on Valley citrus
has been called by G. C. Richard
son, president of the Valley Secre
taries association. The secretaries
and prominent growers will con
fer with officials from the U. S.
agricultural department in an ef
fort to take some definite move to
ward relieving the situation.
Richardson has issued blanket
invitations to the secretaries and
growers urging them to bring all
interested persons to the meeting in
order that it will be representa
tive of the Valley.
An absolute embargo was de
clared on Valley citrus Saturday
morning, by M. H. Ford, acting in
spector in charge of the Mexican
fruit fly eradication project in this
section. In doing this he followed
instructions wired from Washing
ton. i
The wire said: i
“Hold all fruit in storage in Val
ley for possible processing or de
struction, until further informa
tion indicates freedom of any such 1
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.”
Al Smith May Break With
Tammany Over New Chief
NEW YORK, April 20.—(JPh
After three members of the big
four of Tammany Hall washed
their hands of the problem, the
executive committe of the New
York county democratic organ
ization announced today it would
elect a successor Tuesday to the
resigned chieftain, Judge George
W. Olvany.
Former Governor Alfred E.
Smith told a sub-committee of
seven yesterday that since district
leaders were determined that the
new chieftain should come from
their ranks, he believed the excu
tive committe was capable of
handling the choice. Today sur
rogate James A. Foley and Sen
I a tor Robert F. Wagner also re
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fused to help. That leaves
Mayor James J. Walker, whose
prestige has mounted tremen
dously among the Tammany
Braves since the supreme court
ruled for the city in the nickel
fare fight, as the last of the big
four who has not yet been con
sulted. He will meet the sub
committee Monday.
The refusal of the former gov
ernor to assist under the terms
that a district leader be appoint
ed was regarded by political ob
servers as the long-expected break
between Smith and the political
organization that brought him up.
Some believed Smith’s choice for
the leadership was Senator Wag
ner.
Trusties Attack
And Beat Jailer
As Convicts Flee
Severely beating Jailer A. Bassler over the head with
a milk bottle and yanking out telephone wires as they
rushed from the Cameron county jail, eleven prisoners
completed a well planned jail break at 9:05 p. m. Sat
urday.
Three trusties, Felipe Davila, Emiliano Padron and
Guillermo Martel, were believed by officers to be key
men in the plot. Jailer Bassler went upstairs in his line
of duty and one of the men unexpectedly hit him across
the head with a ring of keys. They then attacked him
ODD SUIT
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One of the oddest damage suits
on record, in Los Angeles courts,
has been instituted by Loretta
Rush, girl diver, who is suing
Glen E. Lockridge for “loss of
courage.” She asserts that aft
er an auto accident for which
she blames him she no longer
could summon up courage to do
difficult dives. She is at left and
her sister, Edna, also a diver, at
right, in court.
POLICE SEEK
BANDIT’S PAL
r
Tony Corona Faces Robbery
With Firearms Charge
In 22 Cases
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HOUSTON, April 20.—(#5—'Tony
Corona, alias Carl F. Blackburn,
was facing charges of robbery with
firearms in 22 cases, but police, dis
satisfied with his blanket assump
tion of responsibility for more than
a score of holdups, had broadened
their search tonight for two, and
possibly three, confederates.
The latest developments in the
case involved a woman and a man
with an arm in a sling.
Belief that it was a confederate
of Corona who engaged police in a
gun battle Thursday night, despite
his statement to the contrary, was
strengthened when it was learned
that a man answering the descrip
tion of the robber in one of the
holdups had been located in a house
near the scene of the “job.”
:with a milk bottle which was
broken over his head.
Jailer Bassler recovered suffi
ciently to stagger down the stairs.
Other prisoners rushed down be
hind him. With blood streaming
from cuts on his head, Bassler
turned on the men and forced them
to return to their cells. He then
gave pursuit to the fleeing men and
captured one of them.
Efforts were being made to reach
the outside by telephone when the
telephone wires were snapped. The
man on the telephone was able to
gasp out only the first words of his
message and the* the line went
dead. Those on the other end of
the wire immediately rushed to the
jail but the eleven men had dis
appeared.
The majority of the men escap
ing were serving one year terms on
Dean law violations. Those in this
class were Juan Rodriguez, Emilio
Perez, Pedro Roscendes. Aturo Car
dosa and Manuel Salazar. Julio
Moreno was awaiting trial. Vir
gelio Rodriguez was awaiting ap
peal of a two-year sentence assessed
in connection with robbery of the
Patteson Motor company here.
Emiliano Padron was serving out a
fine.
Guillermo Martel and Filipe Da
vila were federal prisoners.
Most of the. escaped men are
well known to officers and it was
expected that they would be re
captured soon. Three, however, it
was believed, would make a break
for Mexico.
Federal, city and county authori
ties were scouring the entire sur
rounding country Saturdav night
in the known haunts of* the Jail
breakers.
The break showed evidence of
being well planned and officers
were inclined to believe that it
has been in formulation for some
time.
Immediately after the delivery
the cells of the remaining pris
oners were completely searched.
Nearly all of the remainder de
clared they were not aware of the
break and claimed to have been
a^ time of its execution.
, j e, e*even> t>wo of whom were
federal prisoners, then rushed down
stairs, out through th© cookroom
and into the backyard. They at
tacked other men iD the jail in their
headlong break for liberty. Boxes
and other material had been piled
high along side the prison wall and
the escaping men used these to aid
them in scaling the barrier.
Jose Chica, serving a year on a
Deal law violation, who left his
brother, Juan Chica, in a cell on
an upper story, paused long enough
in his flight to yank down the tele
phone wires, cutting off commuri- j
cation with the outside.
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Redfish Bay Road
Closed Following
Dispute In Court
(Special to The Herald.)
LYFORD. April 20.—The road to ■
Redfish bay has been closed by the
King ranch interests. This action
was taken Saturday when the
county commissioners court voted
not to accept the right of way of
fered free by the ranch in pref
erence to another route designated
in a bond issue.
The old road over the private
lands has been used for many years
by hunters and fishermen. The
King ranch offered the old right
of way and a large acreage at Red
fish bay free but the court held
that they had no right to change
the designated right of way called
for in the bond issue.
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THE WEATHER '
WEST TEXAS—Generally fair
Sunday and Monday; cooler Sun
day. :
OKLAHOMA—Partly cloudy, cool- ,
er except in extreme north portion
Sunday; Monday, generally fair. j
EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy with
scattered thunder showers probable
in east portion, cooler In the inter
ior Sunday; Monday, generally fair.
Variable winds on the coast, prob- ,
ably becoming northerly. ^
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