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W*£jsw asr* WM**4V4'I'S"" lllv l VHM 1 THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASE D WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(A>) s.. - »•«•« THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 313~ BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY 6e x COPY | IN OUr| PEDDLERS OF FAKE advertis ing are going to find hard sledding in McAllen in the future. The 8hamber of Commerce has appointed a committee which is to pass of the merits of all advertising propositiohs. good and bad alike, not all of them will be rejected—If the idea has merit the committee will say so and this endorsement will almost assure success for the venture. Merchants and business men are expected to refuse to take any part in an advertising proposal which has not first received the support of this committee. This method has been tried in many cities and is the most effec tive method of curbing solicitors of advertising fakes. • • • The knowledge that such a sys tem is an existancc will operate to keep many of the fly-by-night solicitors out of McAllen and as the fact that this method is being persued gains general circulation over the country among the per sons engaged in promoting such schemes, the work of the committee will be reduced. McAllen’s policy might well be adopted by other Valley towns to the benefit of the entire section. Soon thousands of dollars which have been leaving the section In the pockets of these promoters would be staying in Brownsville. And think of the valuable time that will be saved to Valley busi ness men. They won’t be required to listen to the roseate pleadings of these solicitors. • • • BROWNSVILLE CAN easily gain the reputation of being the “clean est town in Texas,” Dr. W. E. Spivey . j thinks. His plan is merely that the city » be given a thorough cleaning in the Si! i ’> next six days. When doctors arrive next Sunday and Monday from all parts of Texas they will find the town spotless, tors notice these things more rmn most folks, Dr. Spivey thinks. The members of the medical con vention will return home and tell their fallow townsmen how clean Brownsville is nd there you are— Brownsville becomes known as the cleanest town • • • But to obtain this very desirable reputation quite a bit of house cleaning is needed and Dr. Spivey suggests that the citizencrv* be about the business. Yards should be cleaned—front and back—houses washed and painted where needed, weeds and trash should be removed from va cant lots, alleys be cleaned and streets be thoroughly cleaned. The street sweeper now in eper- j ation does a good Job but the paved streets would look better if they; could be thoroughly washed" before the doctors arrive. It might be a good idea to leave a part of this job until the doctors arrive. Men at work washing streets cculd not help attracting the attention of out visitors who think so highly of sanitary conditions. Trash and rubbish niles should receive the careful attention of ir owners. If they have no own then there should be some con ed move to accomplish their »val. .siblv citv authorities would in this laudable undertaking, the citizens in general will d to bestir themselves if the mpaian is to be effective. THIS DOESNT * MEAN that Brownsville as she stands today is , In a disgraceful condition—not at | all In fact she probably ranks prettv well as is. But this merely means that a little extra attention in brightening up the dark cor-1 ners Till result In making more conspicious our civic pride. Pretty yards well kept and clean houses always are a good sign of a wideawake, progressive citizenship Dirt breeds disease—doctors war on disease and like folks who help them In the fight. WE ARE IN RECEIPT of the folowing clipping from J. F Boory. It tells some of the things that can be accomplished by co-operative marketing organizations. The poultry associations of the Pacific Coast paid private brokers In the East 60 cents a case to mar ket eggs. This was when each as sociation acted individually for it aales company sold 1.200.000 cases at a cost of less than 24 cents a case. Thus they reduced the cost Of selling for that year by $432,000, cents a case. Before the Cali nia Fruit Growers Exchange was develooed to imorove citrus marketing by cooperation, the cost of selling by local groups was 35 cents a box. But in 1928. Cali fornia growers sold the 1928 crop of 19.493.237 boxes of citrus for $96,582,408. f. o. b. California points. .This was $4.95 a box. In the first place, this was a price of Si a box more than was *»vcr given before for a crop of that size. In the second place, the cost of selling was only 8.34 cents a box. or 1.7 cents a dollar of value With the 6 cents • box spent additionally on adver t (Continued on page two.) j 300on Hand for Opening R.M. A. Session SAN BENITO IN FESTIVE GARB FOR VISITORS Merchants Open State Convention at Bap tist Church; Mayor Extends Welcome (Special to The Herald) SAN BENITO. May 13—More than 300 strong. Texas members of the Retail Merchants association opened their state convention here Monday morning, adhering closely to the program outlined. Merchants began pouring into San Benito from all parts of the state Sunday. Valley associations made the trips en mass Monday morning. A festive, holiday note was in the air about San Benito. The convention got under way of ficially at 8 a. m. with registration of delegates at the Stonewall Jack son. Approximately 300 members of the credit association placed their names on the lists. The Valley was well represented. The convention was called to or der at 9:30 a. m. at the Baptist church by L. W. Bevan, president of the state organization. Follow ing an invocation by Rev. F. M. Da vis, Presbyterian minister of San Benito ,a songfest was indulged in by the entire gathering. Old time fa vorite songs were sung. The presi dent took the chair at 9:55 a. rz. He was followed to the stand a mo ment later by Mayor Scott Brown of San Benito who delivered the ad dress of welcome to the Valley visi tors. Brown's hearty greetings on be half of the Valley citizenry was an swered by Ira L. Rupley. president of the R. M A. at San Antonio. The merchants mingled together freely during the opening hours, making many new acquaintances. John E. Phillips, president of the Associated Retail Credit Men of Texas, was introduced by C. E. Dinkle. president of the Texas Re tail Credit Bureaus. Routine business in the form of reports followed for an hour and a half. All reports reflected good con ditions over the state, the visiting merchants stated. E. L. Womack of McAllen w<*3 un able to attend the session and his speaking time was taken up by (Continued on page ten ) INVESTIGATION i MAY BE HERE Brookhart Say* Patronage Hearing Likely Will be Held at Dallas WASHINGTON. May 13.—f.T —A resolution to increase money allot - ed to the senate patronage com mittee from **000 to $!*onn was introdued today by Chairman Brookhart. republican. Iowa, indi cating the committee plans to re sume its inquiry into disposition of federal appointments in the South. Brookhart has indicated the work of his committee had been ham pered in recent months by the lack of sufficient funds and saH import ant evidence bearing on the situa tion in Texas recently had come to his attention. If the senate takes a recess next month it is the tentative plan of the committee to go to Dellas to hold hearings and to collect testi mony from witnesses who have in diacted a desire to give their views of the methods used by the Texas republican organization under R. B Creager. national commttteeman. The committee also has unfin ished work in several other south ern states. PEACE BETWEEN MEX., CHURCH APPARENT MEXICO CITY, May 13.—^^— Feeling is growing In Mexico that a healing of the estranbement be tween the Roman Catholic church and the Mexican government will develop from negotiations which the two seem on the verge of beginning. Announcement has been made here that Bishop Antonio Guizar Valencia, of the Chihuahua diocese, has arrived in Rome to confer with the Vatican regarding a settlement. REPARATION MEETING ENTERS 14TH WEEK PARIS May 13. (jPV—The ex perts' conference on reparations en tered its fourteenth week today with the creditor nation delegates mark ing time, awaiting return of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, German spokes man, from Essen. TWO COLLEGE TRAGEDIES Finding of body of Walter : Treadway Huntington. 20. Har vard junior, son of wealthy Windsor, Conn., widow, with a shot through the head in a swampy field near Windsor, has baffled police, unable to discover motive for crime. Jewelry and money were found on Hunting ton's body and early investiga tion revealed no clue that he ! was victim of vengeance. • Wrestling playfully with a po liceman in an attempt to wrest his revolver away to “scare” two passing girls. Ed ‘(Cowboy» Hill. New York university football fullback, was accidentally shot and killed. Policeman was sus pended from duty pending in vestigation of case. District at torney. however, declared Hill was shot accidentally. i*___ PASSION PLAY BEING LAUDED Company to Give Final Per formance at Harlin gen Tonight 'Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN. May 13.—The Pas scion Play is to be presented for the last time at the municipal audi torium here at d p. m. tonight. The production which was drawn larger crowds to each succeding per formance is epexcted by the pro ducers to draw the record house of the engagement at this farewell presentation. Following the performance to night members of the cast are to return to Chicago for a period of rest in preparation for the next presentation at Seattle, Wash.. where it is scheduled to play for nine days. The original engagement j there was for one week but has been ! increased, according to the pro ducers, because of the great interest being manifested in the present*- ( tion on the Pacific coast. Valley people who have witnessed the production are well pleased with its handling, reports reaching the officials prove. “We are receiving high praise for the reverential handling being given this Intensely religious production.* said Clarence E. Cramer, of Chicago, in charge of the company here. “The reserve of Beresford Lovett in his interpretation of the role of Christ, the soulful* presentation of Maude Fealy in the role of Mary Magdalene and the forceful por trayal of the character of Judas Is cariot by J. W. Bayley are compli mented on every hand. Other mem bers of the cast are receiving praise for the handling of their roles." Two performances were given Sunday, matinee and evening, to in terested audiences. Slight delays occasioned ih the premier presenta tion had been eliminated as the stage hands and scene shifters be came better acquainted with their tasks. The lighting effects were bet ter handled and additional equip ment enabled the producers to pre sent better effects in all the scenes. The Sunday performances moved forward with convincing smooth ness. The Valley chorus and orchestra, with the assistance of Dorothy Det weller as soloist, and under the di rection of Harold Loring. continued to furnish an inspiring background of sacred music for the play. These organizations were complimented by Mr. Cramer as the best he had ever been able to organize at a city where the production was to appear. The chorus received preliminary train ing under Mrs. S. R. Jennings here and the orchestra was organized by Joe Lyday. FEDERAL COURT OPENS MONDAY Grand Jury selected and Civil Docket Set in Morning Session The regular May term of the fed eral dstrict court got under way here Monday morning with the selection of the grand jury and the setting of the civil docket. The court room was crowded with spectators, venire men. witnesses and court attaches. The halls of the federal building, were lined as well as the sidewalk in front of the building The docket confronting the court is said to be one of the largest in recent years. A number of cases are expected to be brought up from other divisions of this district than the Brownsville division. Judge J. C. Hutcheson. Jr., ar rived shortly before 10 o'clock and lost no time in getting the wheels of hts court into motion. A grand jury was appointed with Ralph Schmeller as the foreman. Judge Hutcheson. In his charge to the grand jury, outlined their duties as compared to other fofrns of state and local juries. The general tenor of his charge was to return indict ments in all cases where violation of the law seemed to have been committed. “You are not convicting a man by returning an indictment against him.” Judge Hutcheson said. Speed in returning the indictments was urged by the judge. He expected the grand jury to keen ahead of the court. The grand jury has about a day’s start on the court. The charge to the grand jury did; not contain any words in regard to the Hidalgo election affair or the deportation wrangle as was expect ed in some circles. No civil cases will be tried during the first week. The court attaches began arriving Sunday. Those now here are: H. M. Holden. U. S attorney: Capt. R. A. Harvin. U. 8 raaishal; W. H. Myers, chief deputy marshal: L. C. Masterson, court clerk: Howell Ward. W. H McGregor and R. F. Wiseheart. assistant U. S. attorneys: Mrs. Kate Owens and Caroline Le Cand of the district attorney's of fice: Mrs. Malley H. Sharp of the marshal's office; and Muss Mildred Anderson of the clerk's office. AUSTIN. May 13.-4^.—Directors of extension in some of the coun try's best known colleges and uni versities were here today attending the 14th annual conference of the National University Extension asso ciation. Brownsville Infant Will Live After Swallowing Pin -— Catherine Gay. 7-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gay, W Washington avenue. *was rushed to Houston specialists by automo Dlle at noon Sunday after she had swallowed an open safety pin. Reports from Houston this morning inform that the child is rest ing easy after x-rays made last night. The pin had pass d into the rot's stomach, but it is believed that she will recover. She was playing shortly before noon when suddenly it was discov ered that she had swallowed the pin. As quickly as possible, prepara ions were made to rush her to Houston, where she was put under the rare of specialists. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gay. D. P. Gay and the child's grandmother iccompanied her on the hurried trip. --- * 4* HOOVER TAKES ! STEP TO CURB G. 0. P. BREAK Senators Borah and Fess Have Confer ences With Presi dent on Farm Relief WASHINGTON. May 13.—(AV Republican leaders today abandoned suggestions for an all-summer recess and determined to mold the party majorities in congress into working I shape for early decisions on the j farm relief and tariff issues. President Hoover took the initia tive yesterday in bringing his scat tered forces in the senate together. Inviting Senator Borah of Idaho to luncheon, and the critic of the Id ahoan. Senator Pess of Ohio, to dinner at the White House. Today Senator Watson of Indiana, republican leader, put his foot down on talk of an all-summer recess al though he announced a willingness J to consider a recess of three weeks or a month beginning early next month after the house completes the tariff measure and while it is under study of the finance commit- i tee. M.\ Hoover is disturbed over the party break in the senate which was brought into the open when Senator Pess. republican whip, made public a letter condemning Senator Borah •’and the other pseudo republicans’’ j for failing to support the Hoover views on farm relief. WASHINGTON. May 13—(&>— Tariff schedules proposed by the house ways and means committee on building materials and sugar are (Continued on page ten.) NEW FARM AID FIGHT LOOMS _ ! House Angry Because Sen ate Initiated Export De Benture Legislation WASHINGTON, May 13.—/^— More than a score of amendments to the farm relief bill remained to be acted upon today by the senate. None embodied threats of pro longed controversy. * however, and Chmn. McNary of the agriculture committee was hopeful it could be passed today. The immediate future of the bill and the possibility of completing congressional action on It In time to apply farm relief machinery to this year’s crops was heavily clouded, meanwhile, by the likelihood of a controversy between the senate and house over the right of the former, under the constitution, to initiate! export debenture legislation. Ordinarily, the senate bill, after passage, would be sent to the house and. with the measure passed by that chamber, be submitted prompt ly to a joint committee for adjust ment of differences. But the prin cipal difference between the two farm bills Is the bitterly disputed debenture section adopted by the senate, which Pres. Hoover opposes and the house omitted from the measure It passed. House leaders have taken the po sition that the debenture plan falls within the classification of revenue legislation, which can be originated, under the constitution, only by their chamber. In that ground, they have threat- j ened not to receive the senate bill, a procedure which would prevent submission of the two measures to conference until the constitutional controversy had been settled. Negotiations looking to a smooth ing out of this difficulty have been in progress for some days between the house leaders, on one side, and Sen. Watson of Indiana, republican leader, and Chmn. McNary, on the other, but thus far without result. The senators, both of whom sup ported the administration in oppo sition to the debenture section, have; sought to induce the house leaders to agree to receive the senate bill, despite their constitutional objecs tlons, and let the joint conference settle the debenture dispute. HIGH WATERS MENACE OKLAHOMA LOWLANDS OKLAHOMA CITY. May 13. MPV Flood waters from heavy downpours continued to manace Oklahoma low lands today after having caused one death, damaged crons and interfer ed with highway and railroad traffic over the week end. The body of John L. McGehee, county commissioner of Noble coun ty, was found yesterday in the swirl ing waters of Squaw creek, south east of Red Rock. “WHO COULD RESIST HIM?’’ SAYS INA Ina Claire (left). Broadway stage star, wedding John Gilbert (right), great lover of the movies, at Las Vegas. Nev., declares: “Well, after all, who could resist him?” They met only a month ago, when Ina came to Hollywood to make a talkie. Florida Fruit Sold Here Inspected for Mediterranean Fly - •£-:_ Two cases of Florida grapefruit found on sale in the city market here this morning was insj>ected by G. F. Wilson, local representative of the state department of agri culture. and a half dozen fruits with suspicious markings were seized for further examination. The fruit was cut open this afternoon and no in fection was found. The fruit was shipped in before the state quarantine against Flor ida products had been declared and cannot be seized unless it is found to be infested. Wilson said. Wilson is in charge of the quarantine en forcement in this section. The fruit was shipped here by a San Antonio commission house and owners of the stall who had pur chased it explained that they bought it only because they believed the supply of Valley fruit exhausted. The fruit cost $5 in San Antonio and the purchasers paid $1.08 per box to ship it here by express. Val ley fruit can be purchased for about $3 per box. T. E. Townsend. federal inspector in charge of the Valley Morelos fruit fly eradication campaign in the ab sence of P. A. Hoidale. said he had no instructions to inspect Florida fruit in the Valley and that he sup posed the fruit on sale here had been shipped into Texas under condition which comply with federal quaran tine in Florida. T. C. M. MEETING BEGINS BRECKENRIDGE. Tex., May 13. —<4*)—Meet mgs of the state boards of the Woman's Missionary society and the conference on evangelists here todav preceded the formal opening of the forty-fourth annual Texas Christian Missionary conven tion here tonight. . .. ■ H— - MAN ATTACKS MOTHER OF 4 Officer* Seek Person Who Left Woman Gagged and Bound to Tree HOUSTON. May 13.—<JPy—A white man who early Sunday attacked the mother of four children and left her gagged and bound to a tree about eight miles from Houston on the Humble road was sought by officers here today. The woman said she had been to Houston and had returned home about midnight on the bus. Soon after retring she heard a car stop in front of the house, she said. “The next thing I knew a man, came in the unlocked back door and poked a pistol at me.” the woman said. She ran about a quatrer of a mile before the man overtook her. She lost unconsciousness and knew nothing more until she was revived at a Houston hospital, she said. 500 EMPLOYES WALK OUT OF FACTORY - GREENVILLE. S. C . May 13.—*^ —More than 50 employes of the New England-Southern Manufac turing company, near here walked out in protest against the discharge of an employee for soliciting funds in the mill to aid striking employees of the Brandon corporation here. ..j-- - PREXY ISSUES NOTICE AFTER COURT ORDER Board President Says Charges of Mora! Turpitude are Re* suit of Conspiracy DES MOINES Iowa! May 13 —jp> Des Moines * university, ordered closed “until further orders'* by the board of trustees following student riots Saturday night, was reopened today by issuance of an injunction restraining invocation of the order of the board. Dr. Harry C. Wayman. president of the university, was notified of is suance of the injunct km by tele phone and without watting for for mal serving of the district court's order summoned the stiadenta to return to their classes Earlier In the day. Dr. Wayman. who, with the remainder of the fac ulty had been released by the trus tees. said he 'Would carry out to the letter the order of the trustees suspending all classes and lectures In the university until further notice from the trustee board. Application for the injunction was mad* by six students of the univer sity and asked that the president of the school and its board of trustees be restrained from closing the uni versity during the remainder of the current semester and from taking any action which might interfere with the regular operation of the university. The petition further de manded the defendants be restraint ed in any way from limiting the de gree of instruction or limiting: the granting of credits The disorders of Saturday came to a head after a meeting of the trus tees called to Investigate chargee of some of the students involving Dr. T. T. Shields. «l. Toronto, president, and Miss Edith M. Rebman. 40. sec retary of the board. In the back ground also were reports of a fun damentalist-modernist controversy and contentions that the board had imported Canadian student- to spy upon members of the faculty. Dr. Shields and Miss Rebman were said bv their accusers to have reg istered together in a hotel suite. The trustees found the charges “without foundation." Dissatisfaction among the student body Increased, and a second meeting of the trustee* fol lowed Saturday night. Students bombarded the adminis tration building, in which the trus tees met. with eggs and other mis siles. Police were called to dis perse the rioters, snd Dr. Shields and Miss Rebman were escorted to the railroad station tinder police guard to return to their homes. The order suspending all dames was issued. Max dchtapf. a Mew York trustee, said: “Until such time ms the board re ceives some Indication that the stu dent body has rxeprteneed a change of mind from their rotten egg and broken window state of mind, there would not seem to be any profit i in continuing efforts to cultivate their minds to the end of Issuing diplomas and confering degrees*" APPEARS SWISS NOT IN FAVOR DRY LAWS GENEVA. Mur 13 —44P1—Sarttaer land. it appeared today, b not in fa vor of even the most modified pro hibition. In balloting vesterdav an initiative bill to authorise local op tion as to prohibition of hard Honor* was beaten hadlv. Every one of the 24 Swiss cantons rejected the meas ure. LATE BULLETINS TILLOTSON BILL TO BE CONSIDERED AUSTIN. May 13.—(AP)—Whether the house will adopt a 2' per cent reduction in automobile registrations as proposed in a bill by Rep. ard Tillotson. Sealy. or insist on a more drastic cut. will be determined to morrow when the Tillotson measure is given consideration of the floor. The hill was set today as a special order of business. REBECCA ROGERS GOES TO TRIAL TODAY LA GRANGE. Texas. May 13.—(AV-Rebecca Bradley Rogers went to trial here today for the robbery of the Fanners National bank at Buda. Texas, without her attorneys having made any attempt to delay the pro ceedings. DIXON AND MASON TRIAL POSTPONED COLEMAN. Texas, May 13.—(AP)—Trials of Dennis Dixon and Robert Mason, charged with murder in the death of Elgie Leslie during a filling station holdup here, which originally was set for today, has been post poned until Wednesday and a special venire of 100 men summoned. THIRTEEN BURNED IN GAS WELL FIRE BORGER. May 13.—(Ay—’Thirteen men were in a hospital here today suffering from bums as a huge gas well in the Barger oil field roared in flames. The fire started, accidentally, at noon yesterday. An entire crew, preparing a gas leak, was burned. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES BESET BUNION BOYS FORT WORTH, May 13.—(AP)— Financial difficulties, which have be set the "Cross Country Follies” with C. C. Pyle's international foot race, were temporarily sidestepped today, when members of the company left Fort Worth for Breckenridge. The bos fare of $75 was guaranteed by cit izens of Breckenridge, where the show is to play tonight. LEADERS DECIDE TO REFUSE SENATE FARM MEASURES WASHINGTON. May 13.—iA*)—Holding the export debenture plan of firm relief constitutes revenue legislation and under the constitution therefore should originate in the house, republican house leaders today decided to move to refuse to accept the senate farm masure after its ap proval by that body. % * 4, THE WEATHER j For Brownsville and the Valley: Partly cloudy to unsettled thla aft ernoon and tonight, probably atth thundershowers; cooler: Tuesday partly cloudy and somewhat cooler. Moderate to fresh southcrl) wtada today, shifting to moderate north erly tonight and Tuesday. For East Texas: Partly cloudy to night: thundershowers in extreme' east portion and near the coast somewhat cooler; Tuesday partly cloudy: warmer in northwest por tion Moderate south to north west winds on the coast RIVER FOREC%ST Moderate to heavy raim In the Pecos watershed and at Eagle Plan and Laredo during the last 48 hours, in the absence of any move rains, will cause a slight to mod erate rise In the Rio Grande from above Rio Grande City down dur ing the next few days. Hood Pr*amt W-ltr. H Hi Stag* Rian* Chug- Ra'i Eagle Pass . 16 287 -08 « Laredo . 27 2.0 *23 .71 Rio Grande . 21 3 2 00 JM Mission . 22 3.1 -01 .00 San Benito . 23 5 8 -0.3 .00 Brownsville . 18 v0.7 400 J8i TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isa bel tomorrow, under normal met eorological condition: High .. 10 28 a. r Low .. 1:15 a. ak MISCELLANEOC* DATA i Sunset today .... • 7 flt I Sunrise tomorrow .5:44 a ! - i