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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 342 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY • 5c A COP\ I
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TUNG NUT culture rapidly is
becoming a new industry in Florida.
John C. Roberts of the Roberts
Realty Co., Weslaco, thinks there
are possibilities for growing the nut
extensively in the Valley.
‘ About a month ago I was talk
ing with a real estate man from
Florida and he informed me tung
trees would grow here as well as
in Florida.'' he writes, and sends
along a copy of the Florida Realty
Journal containing an article on
tung nut culture.
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This article says:
' The first modern tung oil plant
In the world to extract oil from the
tung nut is operating near Gaines
ville and Realtor B. F. Williamson
is the promoter of the tung pro
ject in the state.
"Tung tree groves arc being
planted rapidly in Florida. About
4.noo acres are already under culti
vation with an additional 1.000
acres prepared for seedlings.
"The United States spends $75.
000.000 yearly for paint oils of
which tung is the best." Mr. Wil
liamson says. "Tung oil produces a
waterproof film that Is more last
ing and more resistant to weather.
It is the basis of all waterproof
paint and varnishes. It is grad
ually finding its way into many
other articles, such as linoleum and
oil cloth. Wherever durable water
proofing insulated coating is desir
able. tung oil is growing rapidly in
favor.’’
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TODAY is June 10
Day after tomorrow is June 12.
Then an announcement of great
import to Brownsville la to be
made.
On that date, according to W. L.
Morrison. Pan-American Airways,
Inc. will announce a definite deci
aioi concerning the permanent
^Sation of its northern terminal.
TUntil that date nothing can be
done but wait.
Brownsville citizens are confident
the lease contract on the municipal
airport offered the officials of the
air mail and passenger line oper
ators will be accepted.
In the meantime Harlingen citi
zens express confidence an offer
made by that city will be accepted.
8omebody Is going to be dis
appointed.
June 12 will decide.
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THE FEDERAL BUILDING hi
Brownsville Is antiquated and fails
utterly to serve the needs of the
thriving city which has been de
veloped on the banks of the Ric
Grande.
This is the substance of a brief
which will be filed in Washington
with a plea for an appropriation of
$500,000 to erect a structure in
keeping with the needs of Cameron
county and the Valley.
The present postoffice and United
8tates district court structure was
pointed to with pride when it first
was erected here more thdn 38
years ago.
But in the past 38 years there
have been marvelous changes in
this section and in the city.
The government offered to spend
HO .00 in remodeling the structure.
But the building already had been
enlarged once at a cost of $30,000
only two years before.
The petition points out it is not
good business to continue to spend
money on adding to a structure
which will of necessity have to be
replaced in a few' years. Now is
the time to erect an adequate
structure which will provide for
future growth of the city, the sec
tion and consequent enlargement
of federal seniors.
The argument of sound business
should be effective
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A PROSPECTIVE TARIFF of 3
cents per pound on tomatoes im
ported to the United Stages from
Mexico bids fair to do big things
for the Valiev tomato crop.
Valley shippers, foreseeing a
strong demand for the Valley
grown product, are urging early
planting and large acreage.
They say June 15 is late enough
to plant the seed; that by an early
f strong plants will be secured.
jtwinter crop of tomatces they
will prove inexpensive ro grow
and should, on conservative esti
mate. produce a return of $300 per
acre.
A development which adds
weight to this advice is that inter
ests formerly financing Mexican
tomato plantings are planning to
transfer thrir activities to the Val
ley.
POLA NEGRI AND HER
HUSBAND TO SEPARATE
MONTE CARLO. June 10.—< P>—
Pola Negri and her princely hus
band Serge Mdivani seem to have
come to the parting of the ways.
Friends say the trouble which
has culminated in her suit for di
vorce started three mont{is ago
when they came to France. The
• prince wanted to go to Monte Carlo;
Pola didn't
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EDINBURG MAN
SEEKS P
ON IRRIGATION
Commissioners Court
Announces Planned
Action on Control of
Tick Spread
The Cameron county commission
ers court in session Monoday unani
mously approved a resolution pro
testing the granting of a permit to
J. T. Fhmklin. Edniburg. to irri
gate 88.000 acres of land in Hidalgo
county, and ordered Judge Oscar C.
Dancy to file a copy of the resolu
tion with the board of water engi-|
neors who will meet June 17 in Ed
inburg to hear the application.
The resolution, moved by Commis
sioner A. V. Logan. San Benito, and
seconded by H. M. Pattee. Point
Isabel, read as follows:
Resolutions
“Whereas, the citizens of Cameron
. county have Invested millions of
1 dollars in water district and other
j improvements for the purpose of
irrigating the arable lands of Cam
eron county, the value of which
lands of Cameron county, the value
of which lands is based solely upon ;
an adequate water supply for the
purpose of irrigating said land; and. |
“Whereas, it is a fact and a mat
ter of common knowledge in what is
known as the Lower Rio Grande
Valley of Texas that during the low
flood period of the Rio Grande river
that there is not enough water to
supply the needs of the lands al
ready in cultivation in the districts
of Cameron county, as well as in the
districts of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley of Texas; and.
“Whereas, the investments, the
very existence of our homes and the
welfare of the citizens of Cameron
county will be greatly Jeopardized
by the granting of the application
of J. T. Frankli nof Edinburg. Tex
as. for a permit to irrigate approx
imately 88 000 acres of land out of
the ordinary flow of the Rio Grande
river, until an adequate supply has
been provided by storage dams on
said river; and.
“Whereas, the destinies of our
people are at stake in this matter:
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i STAGE STARS I
FOUND SHOT
Margaret Lawrence Apart
ment Scene of Tragedy;
Suicide Pact Seen
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NEW YORK. June 10—
Margaret Lawrence, stage star and
widow of Wallace Eddinger. was
| shot to death in her apartment
I yesterdy.
Sprawled beside the bed on
which her body was found was the
j body of Louis Bennison. stage and
screen actor. Both had been shot
through the left breast. On the
| bed was a pistol.
Police said Bennison had shot
Miss Lawrence and killed himself.
A suicide agreement was hinted In
two notes found in the apartment,
One note said: "The sunset has
a heart. Look for us there." The
handwriting of this note was iden
tified as that of Miss Lawrence. It
was signed "Tianna."
The other note was unsigned
and read: “Please notify Mr. Mus
sen at the Lambs club at once."
The bodies were found by Mrs.
Gertrude Chalair. a friend of Miss
Lawrence, who let herself into the
apartment after no one responded
to her ring. Miss Lawrence was
in a night gown. Except for bare
feet, Bennison was fully clcthed.
Empty liquor bottles and glasses
were strewn about the attractively
furnished apartment.
Bennett Mussen. author and ac
tor. identified the pistol as one be
longing to Bennison by the initials
“L. B." on the handle. He said
the actor was subject to a suicide
mania.
Miss Lawrence was in her for
tieth vear. Bennison was 45 years
old
i SAN BENITO HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES ~J
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—Photo by Holm
Members of the 1929 graduating class of the San Benito High School: Grace Irene Atkinson, Christine
Ferguson Bowie, Norma Marie Casev, Dallas Critchett. Nina Deal. Margaret Harper Fleming. Jeannette
Elizabeth Gay, Mary Carolyn Gilbert. Ruth Geraldine Gilbert. Ruth Aline Goates. Ruby Goode. Mary
Nell Hughes. Margaret Jane Low. Lydia Elizabeth Johnson. Sally McCain. Margaret Mvrick. Elizabeth
Nomenson. Maud Margaret Nosier. Minnie Elizabeth Olson. Nell Iantha Sanders. Lorraine Greta Side
rius. Thana Louise Smock. Mildred Claudine Sowders. Ruth Octella Sparks. Bertha Mae Spencer. Delsie
Jeanette Taber. Ida Lozone Thacker, Josie Wells, Gretcha Eloise Yoder. John F. Alexander. George Horace
Branham. William Bom Braoks, Derrell M. Carter. James Ernst Dodson. Damond Auda Crockett. Marion
Edward Forsman, Bernard Antoine Gobar. George Franklin Griffin. Dale Laveme Horkman, Robert Burke
Lawton. Jack Hartman Lebowitz, T. P. Littlefield. Clifford Byron Miller, Myron C. Miller. Lee A. Murphy.
Jr.. Bennie Colman McWilliams. Melvin Dale Ohmart. Alonzo H. Perez. Willis K. Sealey. Edwin Howard
Smith, Joe Taylor, Gordon Hailey Thomas. Charles O. Thompson, William D. Todd. Charles Elmo Whitt,
Lloyd James Wright.
Mexican-Catholic Parley
Expected to Bring Accord
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BORAH HURLS
HOOVER DEFI
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Farm Debate on Debenture
Waxes Bitter; Campaign
Details Brought Up
WASHINGTON, June 10.—UP\—
The republican quarrel*over farm
relief in the senate flared forth
in a bitter exchange today when
Senator Borah, of Idaho, challenged
President Hoover’s opposition to the
export debenture proposition, and
Senator Allen, of Kansas, asserted !
the Idahoan had failed to advocate
the plan before the republican
convention last summer.
Reading from the republican
he helped tof rame. Borah de- >
dared it pledged the party to place
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Three Men Injured
In Highway 4Wreck
West of Harlingen
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(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. June 10.— Two
men were sent to the ValleyBaptist
i hospital here seriously injured, one
of them perhaps fatally and another
is confined to his home in San
Benito as a result of an automobile
crash on the highway west of here
Saturday afternoon.
R. E. Krueger, an employe of the I
Hayes-Sammons Hardware com- j
pany. of Mission, is believed to have
a fractured skull. He received
other injuries. Benton, also an em
| ploye of Hayes-Sammons Hard
| ware company, and a companion of
! Kreuger In the crash, was painfully
though less seriously injured.
C. E. Flemming, traffic manager
of a San Benito produce firm and
driver of the other car in the crash,
suffered two broken ribs.
The cars were badly wrecked.
Hospital authorities said Krueger
was resting well and that his con
dition was improved. Bentson had
returned to his home after receiv
ing treatment,
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SUCCESSION OF
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CRASHES UPSET
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SABBATH NAPS
Residents in the vicinity of Fifth
and Levee streets are beginning
to despair of their Sunday naps.
A week ago Sunday two cars
crashed and upset the Sabbath
day snoozing.
Yesterday about 3:25 dozing
citizens were aroused by a re
sounding crash which was heard
for two blocks in every direction.
About 100 persons who arrived
found a Missouri Pacific Trans
portation company bus on the
lawn of the Stillman residence at
the comer of Fifth and Levee.
The bus was in extremely close i
contact with a large tree.
Louis N. Rico, driver of the bus.
said his vehiqje landed on the
lawn as a result of his efforts to
avoid hitting a sedan, occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Wright, which
was crossing Levee south on Fifth
street at the time. The bus had
been traveling west on Levee.
Lieut, of Police Armstrong who
Investigated, found that the brakes
on the bus had been applied about
22 yards from the comer.
All four wheels of the bus had
cleared the curb as a result of the
impact. It was removed from the
lawn by a tow car later
Wright, who was driving the
other car., is foreman of the
Brownsville Jerald composing
room.
There were no passengers on
the bus at the time of the crash.
HARLINGEN WOMAN
HURT IN STOVE BLAST
•"Special to The Herald'
HARLINGEN. June 10— Mrs O.
H. Coles was severely burned about
the arms and shoulders here when
the oven of a gas stove exploded,
setting fire to her clothes.
She had left some food to be
cooked, it was reported, and the
oven burner became extinglished.
When she opened the door the
gas filled oven was ignited by flames
from other parts ol the stove. Her
husband extinglished the burning
clothes, saving her from possible
i serious injuries, it was reported.
NO CHANGES IN
LAWS, GIL SAYS
Evangelist Holding Meeting
Here In Mexico City
Seeking Pact
MEXICO CITY, June 10.—t/P)—
Conferences beginning today be
tween President Emilio Portes Gil
and emissaries of the Roman Cath
olic church were expected generally
to bring an agreement pemittfttf
rp-opening of Mexican churches.
While the president said Satur
day the Mexican government would
consent to no change in its relig
ious laws, clauses of which led to
the Mexican Episcopate suspend
ing services in the churches almost
three years ago. it was felt a dif
ferent interpretation might eventu
ate in the next few days which
the church bishops would find ac
ceptable.
Rev. Francisco Olizabal, founder
of the Mexican interdenominational
church who has been holding a re
vival in Brownsville for the past
six weeks, is In Mexico City with
the object of placing the cause of
his church before President Emilio
Portes Gil.
Olizabal. along with representa
tives of other creeds, are seeking
to have the strenuous religious reg
ulations in Mexico modified.
Olizabal came here six weeks ago
and has attained considerable note
as a •‘healer." Since coming here,
he has gained such a following
that a $10,000 church is being put
1 up for him at Second and Jeffer
j son streets through donations.
SENATE GROUP OKEHS
HOOVER PROHI PLAN
WASHINGTON. June 10.—</P>
The Jones resolution to carry out
President Hoover’s recommendattor
for a join congressional committee
to study the reorganization of pro
hibition enforcement agencies waj
ordered favorably reported to tlu
senate today by its judiciary com
mittee
VIKING PATH
RETRACED BY
EUROPE PLANE
Ship Is Moored In Ice
land After It Had
Run Out of Gasoline
In Air
BULLETIN
COPENHAGEN. Denmark.
June 10.—(API—Captain Albin
Ahrenberg, rommander of the
Swedish plane Sverige was ad
vi«ed today not to continue his
flight from Iceland for the pres- ,
cnt as weather condiions on the
coast of Greenland were very
unfavorable.
REYKJAVIK. Iceland. June 10.—
f/PV—The Swedish transoceanic plane
Svirge. which started on a flight to
New York from Stockholm yester
day. was safely moored at Skap
taros. southeast Iceland, in good
condition today.
The steamer Erja Reykjavik
reached Skaptaros this morning and
reported the Sverige only lacked
gasoline. The Danish government
vessel Fyllia was expected this
afternoon with fuel and the Swed
ish airmen hoped their machine
would be ready for the 150-mile hop (
to Reykjavik later in the day.
Weater conditions were good.
Reykjavik was the scheduled sec
ond landing place of the Sverige
which was retracing the old Viking
path to North America, and there
was much ahxiety in the city when
the fliers failed to appear.
At length word was received that
Captain Albin Ahrenberg and his
companions. Lieutenant Axel Flod
en and mechanic Hans Ljunglund
were safe.
Crowds waiting at the landing
place last night in anticipation of
the plane's arrival heard the story
of its struggle with storms directly
from the wireless operator on the
plane. After w’hat seemed a long
silence the operator tapped the
words that the Sverige hand landed
safely. Even then it was some
hours before the exact place of land
ing was learned.
STOCKHOLM. June 10.—</P>—
Captain Albin Ahrenberg and his
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AWARD BEAUTY
TITLE TONIGHT
Miss United States Will
Get Crown; Foreign
Entries Wait
GALVESTON. June 10 (SP>—
Thirty-four hearts beat quicker to
day as the hour approached tonight
upon one of the north American
entries in the International pageant
of pulchritude here.
Not an event was scheduled on
the official program today, and the
girls spent mast of the day resting
i for the contest tonight. Yesterday
all the 44 beauties. American and
foriegn, were paraded along the sea
wall in bathing suits, before thous
ands of spectators.
The foreign girls had nothing to
| do today or tonight but see which
| American beauty would match looks
1 with them in the competition to
j morrow night for Miss Universe,
the choicest plum in the pageant.
Willett L. Roe. manager of the
huge spectacle, praised the game
ness of the beauties in going
through with the bathing suit re
vue yesterday despite the extreme
heat. Some 10 girls fainted after
the parade as a result of the sever
est temperatures of the year.
Miss Roumania, Magda Deme
trescu. Miss Philadelphia. Ethel Mae
Moody, and Miss Tennessee, Willie
Taylor, were the most seriously af
fected, but they appeared little the
worse for their experience today.
Most of the girls were revived in a
i few minutes. • Their floats were
without tops, and many of them did
• not think to carry an umbrella,
i An estimated crowd of 50.000 wit
nessed the parade, which required
more than an hour. The route ol
1 the parade was between two and
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| COL. JOHNSTON j
Commander of Fort Brown for
five years, veteran army officer,
whose body is on its wav to Ar
lington for burial in the na
tional crmet/ry. He died Friday
afternoon
COL. JOHNSTON
RITES SIMPLE
Many Friends View Body
In State; Burial To Be
At Arlington
Last rites for Col. William T.
Johnson, commander of Fort Brown
since 1925, were held at his quarters
Sunday afternoon at 4 p. m. when
Capt. Ivan L. Bennett, post chap
lain. conducted a simple funeral
ceremony tribute.
The services were brief. A short
prayer after c saplian Bennett’s
short discourse on the many virtues
of the commander, concluded it.
The remains, accompanied by the
Colonel's regiment, troops of the
12th cavalry, were then transported
from the quarters to the Missouri
Pacific station, where the commit
ment sendees were held.
Burial Wednesday
A guard of honor remained with
the casket until the train depart
ed at 9 a. m.. carry ing the body to
its last resting place at Arlington
National cemetery. Arlington. Va„
where burial probably will take
place Wednesday afternoon.
The colonel's body was brought
back to his quarters from Hink
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i Gasoline Explosion
Destroys Menchaca
Store Here Sunday
An explosion, caused by striking a
match near a 20-gallon can of gaso
line. resulted in an almost total loss
of the small grocery store operated
by Estanislado Manchaca at 6:52
p. m. Sunday.
The store was located at Eighth
and Jackson streets. Alarm was
turned in at box 466.
The entire building roared into
flames after the explosion, but
neither Menchaca nor a clerk who
were in the building at the time
was injured.
The fire was well under way by j
the time the firemen arrived, de- ;
spite a fast run. Stations number
one and three made the call. Two
water lines were run.
The loss has not been estimated.
ESCAPED CONVICT
CAPTURED BY DEPUTY
Manuel Tijerina, alias Jose Flores,
said to have been convicted in La
redo, Texas, on charges of theft
and sentenced to ten years in the I
state penitentiary, was captured
here Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Eze
quiel Cavazos. Jr.
The captive is said to have serv
ed two years of his sentence and
to have escaped from Huntsville
eight months ago. He told officers
he had been in Brownsville two
months. He will be returned to
the penitentiary today or tomorrow.
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CITY OFFICER
OF SAN BENITO
HELD IN JAIL
One Man Killed In
Dance Hall; Other
Shot to Death in Hi*
Home
Cameron county peace officer*
Monday were seeking one man a*
a slayer and shaping evidence a
gairvst another held in jail here as a
result of two killings over the week
end.
Emelio Vega. 27. was shot and
killed at a dance hall in San Benito
shortly after midnight Sunday and
Manuel Reyna about 40. was called
to the; door o' his home on the
Brown* Tract >ast of Rio Hondo
and murdered shortly after 8 p. m.
Sunday
Jesus Cantu is being held in Jail
here In connect .on with the killing
of Vega at San Benito and officers
are seeking the slayer of Reyna.
Called to Baile
Cantu, a San Benito city pollee
man. says he was called to the baile
hall in Old Gardens at San Benito
by Mari Lopez and asked to put two
men off the floor. He said he made
them leave the baile once, but that
; they returned later. According to
his story, when he sought to make
them leave the dance the second
time, one of the men grabbed him
by the arms and the other made
a move to draw a gun. Vega was
shot through the chest near the
heart and died in a very short time.
Only one shot was fired.
Immediately after the shooting
l Cantu was arrested by Ernest Cor
kill. San Benito policeman, who
called Deputy S M. Jester. The
man was brought to Brownsville
and lodged in jail to await an ex
BenitocO XaHRht meGoETAOI A
amining trial to be held at San
Benito this afternoon before L. M.
Valdetero. Justice of the peace.
Valdetero was called to the scene of
the shooting Sunday morning but
did not hold an Inquest. He said
he considered this unnecessary as
there were several witnesses to the
shooting
Vega is reported to have been a
sober and industrious young man
and very popular with San Benito
citizens. He was employed at a
dairy.
Shot at Home
The wife of Reyna told officers
investigating the shooting on the
Browne tract Sunday evening that
her husband was removing his
clothing preparing to retire for the
night when someone began to shout
his name in front of the house.
She said Reyna went to thp door
and that as he stepped outside he
was shot.
Two loads of buckshot were fired
into the body of the man at close
range.
The belief that this shooting was
the continuation of a feud which
has been going on between two
groups on the tract for several
years, was expressed bv those fami
liar with the circumstances.
i THE WEATHER
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For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair or partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday. Light to moderate winds,
mostly southerly.
For East Texas: Increasing cloud
iness tonight: Tuesday partly
cloudy. Light to moderate easterly
to southerly winds on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
The river will continue to fall
slowly practically all along during
the next few days.
rtood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stare Stage Chng. Rain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2 6 -0.1 .00
Laredo . 27 -0.4 0.0 .00
Rio Grande . 21 5 8 -0.7 .00
Mission. 22 6.3 -0.5 .00
San Benito .23 117 -0,1 .00
Brownsville . 18 6.6 -0.3 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabe.
tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 8 35 a. m
Low . Midnight
MISCEIAANEOUS DATA
Sunset today .7 21
Sunrise tomorrow . 5:37