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IJ. C. ENGLEMAN. JR., has some
positive ideas about correct irriga
tion and cultivation methods for
citrus growing in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley—ideas developed in
19 years of experience in this sec
tion.
And he appears to be well on the
road to proving the correctness of
his ideas.
As developer of Engleman Gar
dens. an 11.000 acre tract in H’dalgo
county north of Elsa and near
Edinburg, he has in the past two
years planted more than 200,000
citrus trees.
Anyone who views the long rows
of trees set In symetrical patterns
I and extending for miles ill every
I direction from his club house can
1“ not help being convinced he knows
what he is about.
Every tree in that vast orchard,
many rimes the largest in the Val
ley. has the appearance of having
been hand picked and hand
groomed. lr fact, after a drive
over the vact a person wonders if
the tre» have individual names.
Every one of the hundreds of
thousands of ‘reec has a beautiful
“greasy" dare green color which
beepeekn health and well-being.
an*
Engleman sums up his theories—
which he has put into practice on
auch a large scale—in Just a few
^B words
|Hj A little water and a lot of work ’
i® But there is a little more to It
ir^L than that.
Deep tilling—down 30 inches be
the surface—is one of ln> net
moisture to pc net rate. p:e
|^^w]fents forming a hard pan just un
I ider the surface soil and consequent
wearing out of the few inches m
top dirt.
Also permits the root system of
the tree to peuetrate to greater
depth and to spread further, max- j
5ng it healthy and strong. Constant |
working is another rule.
And “a little water.”
That is one of the cardinal rules
Engleman lias adopted.
So far every tree on the place
has received only water hauled to
It with water wagons.
"The principal cause of yellow
I and sickly looking orchards in the
Valley is too much water." he says.
And he gives his trees only mod
erate drinks, but sees that It all
goes Into the soil instead of stay
ing on top of the ground to be
lapped«up by wind and sun.
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Engleman takes pride in the do
main he has carved from the brush
in only a little more than two
years. Thinks so well of it he has
planted a private orchard of 540
acres ard picked a beautiful site j
on the side of a storage reservoir
for his future home.
"Some day in the not distant !
future this is going to be the most
beautiful tract in the entire Val- j
ley," he says. And the progress he
has made in two years adds con- I
i viction to the statement.
"This is the place you are going i
to choose to which to bring your 1
visiting friends when you desire to
show them the Valley," he says.
It already is worth a drive to
see. When he has matured his |
plans it will be a real "show place." j
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• Two years ago this soil on i
i which you stand was in the native
I brush, he told his guests Tuesday j
f evening when he was host to Val- J
ley business men. bankers, news- <
i pajiermen and chamber of com- ,
aierce executives.
"Now it is traversed by a paved I
highway; a high line supplies elec- j
trical energy for lighting and pow
er; the laundry wagon, the icej
wagon, and the grocer s delivery j
now include this tract on their
routes. *
He tells of several millionaires
1 purchasing orchards on the tract
and planning their winter homes
there. Officials of General Motors
landed there last week in an air
plane to inspect tracts they own.
And that was not the first plane
o bring owners to the tract.
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DISCOVERY of the Mediterran
ean fruit fly as far north as Jack
sonville indicates that the United
• v States quarantine against Florida
viurfnight not prove as effective as it
j should.
The first quarantine regulations
permitted the shipping of fruit and !
vegetables from areas where no In
festation had been discovered. Of
course, such shipments were to be
inspected, but Inspectors mighf
easily miss an infestation in a
large shipment.
Yet under the federal law the 1
state of Texas is prevented from
declaring a rigid embargo against
Florida products. And the Valley j
is prevented from asking for a 1
permanent embargo.
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VALLEY water districts decide
lo oppose granting by the State
Board of Water Engineers a permit;
(Continued on page twelve)
AS SUBWAY HIT ELEVATED TRAIN ~
Pour : ! arid a score were injured when train
ran Into a wooden elevated train on the New York elevated in the
Bronx. Upper photo shows wooden car on end of elevated train
crashed into by front car. shown below, of steel subway train—both
using same track at this point. Subway motorman. trying to avert
wreck, was mortally injured In his cab. Firemen climbed up to
elevated structure to rescue passengers in the burning wooden ear.
Propose Substitution
In Farm Bill as Means
Of Controlling Crops
WASHINGTON. May 2.—i.Tv—Substitution of a single jjowerful gov
ernment operated corporation for the commodity stabilization agencies
t rovided for in the farm relief bill was proposed today by Sen. Wagner,
democrat. New York, as a means of controlling surplus crops.
Describing the bill in its present form as a "mockery" and a "dressed
PEOPLE SHIVER
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DESPITE PROOF
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OF STATISTICS
"B-r-r-r-r!” shivered the man
who trusted his senses. “I'll bet
this is the coldest May 2 in
Brownsville in fifty years.”
“Not at all. Not nt all. declaied
ihe statistical demon. May sec
onds in 1924. 1921. 1918 and 1911
were colder than the 63 degrees
experienced this morning. Fur
thermore. on May 12. 1895,
Brownsville experienced a tem
perature of 41 degrees.
"The trouble with you is that
you trust your senses too much.
The probable reason for your rash
statement above was the relatively
hot April just experienced and
the extremely low dew point of 33
reported here this morning. Com
ing directly on the heels of the
warm April, the chill is naturally
emphasized. The low dew point
makes for extremely rapid evap
oration of perspiration. That
probably explains why you are
shivering."
The man continued to shiver as
he watched the statistical demon
down the street. He knew he was
cold but figures were figures.
Heavy Snow Blankets
St. Louis As Storm
Also Sweeps State
ST. LOUIS. May 2.—<**—A heavy
snowstorm struck St. Louis and
portions of Missouri and Illinois
today, demoralizing traffic, dis
rupting telephone communications
and sending temperatures tumbling
below freezing. More than three
Inches of snow had fallen here be
fore 8 a. m.
Reports reached St. Louis that
there had been a destructive tor
nado In southeast Missouri, but the
storm had so paralyzed telephone
service It was impossible to estab
lish communications with that reg
ion.
Mip scheme to satisfy campaign
1 slogans, he claimed an Interest in
farm legislation as a representative
of a state which produces crops
valued at S260.000.000 a year and Is
the largest consuming and taxpay
ing commonwealth in the country.
If stabilization is the intention of
| the administration, he argued, it
should be frankly faced with a di
rect plan of execution and not
: through complex machincrv and
red tape.
He contended the debenture plan
was not workable and the Norris
amendment providing for reduction
of rates whenever over-production
i is threatened in an affected crop
j did not improve it.
Asserting that many farm lead
ers themselves admit the larmers
will not join cooperatives, he de
clared the whole farm relief plan
! embodied in the pending bill is
bound to fail because it intends to
set stabilization corporations ujion
i the cooperative structure.
JITNEY-JUNGLE HEAD
VISITS AT HARLINGEN
HARLINGEN. May 2—W B
i McCarty, president of the Jitney
Jungle company. Inc., of Jackson.
Miss, the parent organization and
: head of all Jitney Jungle stores, is
, a visitor here at the home of his
i brother. Nick McCarty, manager of
the Valiev Jitney Jungle stores.
Mr McCarty expects to be in the
Valley several more days
ROUTINE BUSINESS IS
TRANSACTED AT MEET
i HARLINGEN. Mar 2—The Har
| lingen city commission transacted
routine business in an • executive
session held Wednesday night. It
is understood plans for establish
ment of an airport here were dis
j cussed.
INDIVIDUALISM 'IS
HURTING OIL INDUSTRY’
DALLAS. Texas. May 2.— J3'—
The petroleum industry has suffer
ed from an acute case of individ
ualism. according to Mark Requa.
San Francisco engineer and the
sole honorary member of the Amer
ican Petroleum Institute. He at
tended an informal meeting In Dal
i las yesterday of a group of oil men.
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8 Dead In Second Arkansas Storm
FOUR KILLED
IN ONE HOME
AT WHEATLEY
Scores Made Homeless
While Many Spend
Night in Wreckage
Made By Tornado
WHEATLEY. Ark.. May 2.— ^
Nine persons are dead and more
than a score injured with prop
erty damage estimated at from |
$250,000 to $300,000. as a result of
the tornado which struck this sec
tion last night.
The dead are Mrs. David Edwards i
her son. Herman. 17. and two
daughters. Pauline, ft. and another. I
3 years old: Mrs Hansel Dosier and
Miss Grace Coffee. 16. a visitor
at the Edwards home, and three un
identified negroes. The white per
sons killed were on a ranch five
miles northeast of here and on an
adjoining farm. Th negroes were
killed near Birnley.
Scores of families were made
homeless and many spent last night
in homes partly wrecked.
Forty-four houses were partly
wrecked and 14 weer demolished
Albert Evans of St Louis, midwest
director of the Red Cross, arrived
hcer early today and took charge
of relief and rehabilitation work.
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GEORGIA GROUP
TO WASHINGTON
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Invasion Has Brought South
ern Patronage Control
Fight Up Again
WASHINGTON. May 2—T.—In
vasion of the national capitol by
a group of Georgia republicans and
democrats prominent In the Hoov
er campaign last year has brought
the whole southern patronage con
trol fight Into the open again.
Apparently the Georgians are
' here intent on obtaining a show
down as between the organizations
set up by Howie A Mann, who di
rected the president’s campaign In
half a dozen southern states, and
the group of party leaders here
who have been designated general
ly. though unofficially, as the ad
j ministration committee on patron
! age control.
There is much conjecture
whether the president himself will
take a hand in the controversy, or
whether the old Mann organiza
tion is to go down before the new
machinery’ set up under the direc
tion of Postmaster General Brown
in consultation with Walter New
ton. administrative assistant to
| the president, and James Francis
Burke, general counsel of the re
publican national committee.
After a talk late yesterday with
Mr. Newton, the Georgians had an
engagement today to discuss the
situation with the postmaster
general.
W. A. Tarver Accepts
Life Insurance Post
Succeeding Cousins
CORSICANA, Tex.. May 2
W. A. Tarver. Corsicana lawyer,
wired the Corsicana Sun today
that he had accepted an appoint
ment as state life insurance com
missioner. succeeding R. B Cou
j sins, resigned.
Mr. Tarver, who Is in Austin,
said he would assume duties of
the new office before returning to
his home in Corsicana.
ELECTRICAL STORM
HITS RUSK COUNTY
HENDERSON. Texas. May 2.—i';P>
Rusk county today was taking stock
of damage wrought yesterday by
one of the worst sand and electrical
storms In Its history. Cotton and
com crops suffered the greatest
damage. A part of Henderson wa«
in darkness during the night, due
to broken elcctrica Hines.
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230 MAKE USE
OF AIRPORT IN
INITIAL MONTH
Total value of exports from the
Brownsville airport during the
month of April were S193.648
which according to officials, is
in excellent report for the first
complete month of operation.
During that period 99 planes
entered the United States from
Mexico and 230 passengers ar
rived at the local airport.
CINCO DE MAYO”
FETE PLANNED
Brownsville Bodies To Take
Part In Matamoros
Celebration
As in the years past, the Junta
Patriotlca and Avuntamento of
Matamoros have invited the civil,
and military authorities, societies |
and citizens of Brownsville to takej
part in their elaborate Cince de j
Mayo celebration. It is expected j
that a large number of Brownsville
people will attend the afternoon;
program Sunday.
Civil and military authorities, i
school children, citizens, etc, of
Matamoros will take part in the j
festivities. A program has been ar-,
ranged to begin at dawn and to
last until 11 p. m. At dawn the,
national colors will be raised over j
all public buildings, salutes fired
and bands will parade through the
principal streets of Matamoros. At
12 noon this will be repeated.
A committee from the Ayunta
mento and Junta Patriotica will
welcome visitors from Brownsville
at the international bridge at 2:30
p. m. Individuals as well as repre
sentatives of societies are expected
from the American side of the Rio
Grande. After the wlcoming cere
monies. all celebrants are to gather
on the main plaza at 3:30 p. in.
Interspersed with band music, the
following program will be presented.
Lecture on the battle of the Chico
de Mavo. by C. Andres Cedillo.
Patriotic address by C. Pedro Sa
enz Gonzales.
“With the Colors.” sung by school
children under Mrs. Albertina H.
de Xicotehcasti.
“The Fifth of May " recitation by
Laureano Cantu.
Physical exercises by girls of the
‘Mexico” college.
Recitation by Magdalena Garcia
of the Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez
school.
Song by school children, accom
I panied by band.
Physical exercises by children
from the Josefa Ortis de Dominguez
land Josefina schools,
j The national hymn, sung by all
| present to band accompaniment.
At 6 p. m. the flags will be low
i ered over the city.
Prom 8 until 11 p. m. there will
| be a band concert on the main
I plaza.
j The C nco de Mayo celebatrion
is one of Mexico's largest patriotic
events. It is in celebration of the
Mexican army's victories at Puebla
; on the fifth of May, 1862. over the
French invaders.
At that time three countries
wished to intervene in Mexico. Set
tlements were made with two of
them but France refused to agree
to terms and shipped troops to Vera
Cruz. They were from the crack
i militarv organizations of Napoleon
III. Confident of their ability, the
I troops under Count Lorencez began
their march upon the Mexican en
j trenchments at Puebla.
In four columns of 1.000 each the
j French stormed the Loreta and
i Guadalupe hills but were repulsed
each time with heavy losses by the
Mexicans under Gen. D. Ignacio
Zaragoza. This marked the failure
of the French intervention as the
{trooos departed soon afterward.
The Cinco de Mayo celebration
} is outshown only by the Mexican
i patriotic demonstration cn Septem
ber 16. which corresponds to the
American Fourth of July.
Cinco de Mayo celebrations also
l are expected to be staged in several
| Valley towns, including San Benito
I and Raymondville.
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600-BARREL WELL
BRYSON. Texas. May 2.—f/FV
The Panhandle Refining company
and Morrissv’s well, drilled on the
! J. M. Daugherty property a mile
land a half northwest of Bryson.
[Jack county, came in yesterday for
lan initial flow of 600 barrels dally.
co ro
MEET FRIDAY
FOR DECISION
Proposal To Call Sec
retary Argued Two
Hours; Borah Wants
To Hear Him
WASHINGTON. May 2.— ^—A
proposal to call Secretary Mellon
for questioning regarding his right
to head the treasury department in
view of an old statute forbidding
the treasury secretary to engage in
trade or commerce was discussed
for two hours today by the senate
judiciary committee but no action
was taken.
The committee decided to meet
again tomorrow.
Introduction of a disposition
made by Mr. Mellon in an old law
suit in which he told of his inter
est in a transaction of the Alum
inum Company of America of which
he is a stockholder has raised the
point as to whether the committee
is to examine the secretary for vio
lation of the law or whether it is
to confine its Inquiry to an inter
pretation of the law.
Sen. Borah, republican, Idaho,
has asked the committee, if it is
to hear the evidence of Sen.
Walsh, to make the inquiry an open
one and give Mr. Mellon opportun
ity to be heard.
LESLIE FILES
APPEAL BOND
First Step to Speed Action
In Griffin Contest In
Taken At Austin
AUSTIN. May 2—Appeal bond
has been filed by Judge J. E. Leslie
to take the decision of 53rd district
court sustaining Gordon Griffins’
suit for a recanvass of Hidalgo
county returns in their rare for dis
trict judge. The case will be taken
on appeal from the district court
to the third civil appeals court here.
Attorneys informed the district
clerks office the aopeal will be
pressed and thev will not wait the
full 90 days before filing it.
Storms Jump About
To Cripple North
Texas Power Lines
TEXARKANA. Ark . May 2 — '/T
—A series of storm which jumped
about the Texas-Arkansa* line late
yesterday and early today crippled
communication and plunged several
I towns into darkness when power
lines were broken.
High winds swept Atlanta. Texas,
most of the night, hurling trees
through telephone wires. A repair
crew was at work today north of
Texarkana on transmission lines of
the Southwestern Gas and Electric
company, which were broken at the
Red river, makmg several towns
dark. •
A several thousand dollar prop
erty ioss resulted at Maude. Texas,
when the gale fanned a smouldering
sawdust pile into flames, the fire
burning out the saPWdust conveyor
of the Bell-Tex sawmill. Firemen
working against high winds, saved
the main structure.
HOOVER DISMISSES
NEW YORK ATTORNEY
WASHINGTON. May 2.—t.*V
W’illiam A. Degroot. who has re
peatedly refused to resign as Unit
ed States attorney for the eastern
New York district, has been sum
marily dismissed from office by
Pres. Hoover.
He Ls the third district attorney
forced out of office since Atty. Gen.
Mitchell undertook to comply with
the president’s desire for Increased
efficiency in the government ser
vice.
PRISON BOARD MEMBER
AUSTIN. May 2 —UP)—E. H. Astin
of Bryan, has been appointed a
member of toe prison board. Gover
nor Moody announced today.
TORCH SLAYER
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Police said Earl F Peacok. 22.
confessed he tilled his 20-vear
oid estranged wife and burned
her body with kerosene. (Pic
ture by telephoto from New
- * York. 1
NEW ORDER IS
i TO ALIEN
Immigrants May Establish
Lawfulness of Entry If
No Record Kept
By HARRY L. SEXTON
(Special to The Herald*
WASHINGTON. D. C.. May 2 —
A general order governing the
registry of aliens, whereby they are
permitted to establish lawfulness of i
entry where no record has been
kept, has been issued by the Bu
reau of Immigration of the Depart- j
mnet of Labor and will go Into
effect July 1.
The order is expected to result
in the legalization of entry of a
large number of aliens along the
lower Mexican border who took up
their residence on the north side
of the Rio Grande prior to 1921. j
A registration fee of 520 is pro
vided.
The new order provides that
where an alien entered the United
States prior to June 3. 1921. and
there Is no record of his admission. I
he is entitled to apply for the
legalization of his entry. If an
alien has been out of the United
States for a period of less than
six months since June 3. 1921. the
immigration authorities will not
consider this a break in his resi
dence in this country. The alien
making application for registry
should submit such application to
the immigration office nearest his
residence, the bureau stated.
An applicant claiming he entered
the United States prior to June 3
1921, and that he has resided in
the United States continuously
since such entry, shall be required
to support his claim by the sworn
statement of at least two credit
able witnesses who are American
I citizens.
Where the applicant has absent
ed himself from the United States
(Continued on Fage Twelve)
Fate of Reparations
Conference Will Be
Decided By Schacht
( PARIS. May 2—4/Pv—The fate of
: the conference of experts on rep
arations. seeking to effect a settle
I ment of Germany's ponoerous
post-war dbt problem, should be
known definitely today or totnor
j row.
If Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. German
i spokesman, returning to Parts from
, Berlin today maintains the same
| attitude which made failure of the
conference imminent almost two
weeks ago the experts will have
only quickly to finish their final
report and go home.
If on the other hand his stay
at Berlin has put him in a posi
tion to make new suggestions merit
ing serious consideration of the
representatives of the creditor na
tions negotiations probably will be
resumed. ^ - — ——-- —*
TWO MEN WITH
PISTOLS SLUG I
HOI OWNER
Brother of Convicted
Killer Carries Girl
Away In Car As She
Screams For Help
CHICAGO. May ? —< f»—Mu* Ro- I
salie Rizzo. 20-vear-old telephone
operator, was kidnaped from a
rooming house where she lived to
day. Two men forced an entrance
to her room with revolvers, slugged
Allen Ferris, owner of the- home,
and a roomer when they attempted
to interfere, and earned the scream
ing girl away in ar. a v:* ©mobile.
Mrs. Ferris told police one of th#
abductors was John Rooney, who
she said was a brother of Eddla
Rooney, recently convicted of mur
der The Rizzo girl had been out
early last evening with Rooney and
another man and had returned with
one eye blackened. She told Mrs.
Ferris Rooney had told her atm
"knew too much about him *
When the men called today and
demanded to see Miss Rizzo, fVr
riss ordered them cut. Another
roomer. Julius Greenfield, came to
his aid. and both mere clubbed
down.
Two Brownsville
Women Injured As
Automobiles Crash
Mrs. J. L. Bounk West St.
Charles street. Mrs O W Gotke and
small daughter Gertrude of Haw
thorne Ave . are the victims of body
bruises today as a result of an auto
mobile accident yesterday about
p. m at Went Fourth and Lew
, streets. All three are resting easily
today, it was mid at their home*.
The accident took place when a
I coach in which Mrs. Bocsrus mms
1 riding collided with a sedan hi
| which Mrs. Gotke and her daughter
1 were returning from the down town
| section. The Boggus car was com
ing off West Fourth street and the
| two mad** a head-on collision. The
(Gotke car was overturned and badly
wTecked. The B^gus car waa not
I «o badly damaged
Mr. Gotke. superintendent of
Brownsville schools, reported before
noon today that his wife and daugh
ter apparently have recovered from
1 the shock after spending a rather
r restless night. Mrs Boggus a'.sa
said that she was feeling better to
day.
PAVING ORDINANCES
MEET WITH APPROVAL
_
SAN BENITO Mar 1—The San
i Benito city commission in an ex
ecutive session last night approved
paving ordinances on projects al
ready undertaken. Members aaii
no other business was transacted.
For Brownsville and the valley:
Partly cloudy to fair tonight and
Fridav with rising temperature.
For East Texas Fair tonight; not
: so cold in extreme northwest per*
i tion: light frost In northeast por
i tion: Friday fair and warmer
Moderate northerly winds on the
coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will bo no material change
in the river during the next few
da vs.
Flood PrnwitM-Rf Mtr.
Stag* St««« Cti.Bg. Baia
Eaglr Pass .. 16 2.3 0® JO
Laredo 27 -04 0.® .00
Rio Grande .21 3 4 -0.1 .f®
Mission . 22 3 6 00 <M
San Benito . 23 6.® -OS JB6
Brownsville . 18 13 -0.4 .0®
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa*
bel tomorrow, under normal met* §
eorological condition,:
High . 12:4® p. an |
Low .. 4 20 a. m
MtSCEf.LANEOI/S DATA
Sunset, today ..
jSunr^o tomorrow ......,.., # „ ^ j ^ jB