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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 344 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929 TWELVE PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY
EDCOUCH MAN
GETS HONOR OF
EARLY COITO
Will Parade Bale In
Valley, Then Send
It to Exchange At
Corpus Christi
(Special to The Herald)
EDCOUCH. June 12—The first
bale of the 1929 cotton crop in tht
United States was ginned at the
Edcouch Gin Co. gin here at 1 p. m
today and started* immediately on
a parade through all the principal
Valley towns.
It was to leave the Valley by truck
tonight for Corpus Christi and to be
auctioned off on the floor of the
cotton exchange there Thursday. It
was expected to be forwarded from
ihere to New Orleans, where it was
believed the bale would be re
auctioned.
The bale, said to have weighed
500 pounds, was picked from the
farm of S. L. Henson, three miles
south and two miles east of Ed
couch. Mr. Henson lives at Wes
laco. The cotton was graded strict
middling and the rtaple length was
given as one and one-sixteenth
inches.
The bale was hauled to the gin at
noon from the Henson farm and aad
passed through the machinery one
hour later. Thp pin is managed oy
E. R. St. John of Weslaco.
Those seeking a place 13 aunetlor
(Continued on page
THERE IS ONE point in the
Valiev which ships citrus fruit ex
clusively.
There are 53 stations in the Val
> ley which during the past year
•hipped vegetables but no fruit.
The exclusive fruit shipping
point is Snavely. the site of the
large citrus orchards of L. E.
Snavely. located near Harlingen
This station, according to reports
of the railroads, shipped 166 car
loads of citrus fruit and not a
•ingle car of vegetables.
Shows a singleness of purpose
and reports from the Snavely or
chards indicate the system Ls pro
L ducing proper profits. Here is flne
of the beauty spots of the Valley.
• • •
THE EDCOUCH ENTERPRISE,
entering its third year of exist
ence last Friday, appeared in the
| form of a 12-page special edition.
extolling the advantages of that
! thriving little town at the junction
of the Missouri Pacific and South
ern Pacific Lines.
James Marion Bird, publisher of
the paper for the past few weeks,
explains that the size of the pub
lication was limited only by the
rapacity of the mechanical equip
ment; that merchants and business
firms generally were very liberal In
their patronage. And the adver
tisements which filled the edition
gave weight to the assertion.
To prove that the town is raoidlv
comins into its own. Editor Bird
was able to announce in the edi
tion plans of Joseph F. Byrnes to
erect five brick business buildings,
each 25 by 70 feet in size, on six
adjoining lots he recent lv pur
chased in the business section.
• • •
Edcouch. named for one of the
promoters. Ed Couch. Weslaco
banker and financier, has pros
pered from the day of the first lot
sale.
It has a thriving bank, a rapidly
Increasing number of stores and
during the past season has ranked
atxth in the number of cars of pro
duce shipped by freight.
Byrnes, active vice president of
the bank, announces all of the
buildings which he plans to erect
hav leased.
• • •
T ROWN8VILLE HERALD
Is justifiably proud of its coverage
of news of importance to the resi
dents of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
In the Tuesday edition, a special
correspondent reported that a hear
ing had been set for July 8 in Aus
tin by the state board of water
engineers on the application of the
American Rio Grande Land and
Irrigation Co. to increase irriga
tion charges on that system.
The story camp from Raymond
S. Brooks, special correspondent in
Austin to The Herald.
The Tuesday edition also carried
a special story from Washington j
that the senate finance committee
would open hearings June 17 on
agricultural tariff rates, along with
a statement from Tom Connally.
Texas senator, that he expected few
(Continued on page six.)
Republican Chiefs Threaten to Form New Party
f FACES TRIAL j
R. H. Hamilton, above, prom
inent Amarillo attorney, former
president of Howard Bayne Bap
tist college, faces trial Thursday
on murder charges in connec
tion with the shooting of 21
yrar-old Tom Walton, left, his
son-in-law. Walton's secret
marriage to Theresa, Hamilton's
17-ycar-old daughter, led to the
killing.
MOODY REOPENS
PRISON FIGHT
Message To Legislature Says
Concentration Not
Acted On
AUSTIN. June 12.—(/P)—Gov.
Moody today sent messages to both
houses of the legislature, proposing
that the prison board be authorized
to concentrate the prison system
subject to ratification of the legis
lature. He vetoed the bill passed
during the first called session pro
posing a plan for centralization and
several new bills are now pending.
"In addressing the legislature on
June 4. I intended to open the sub
ject of prison reform for your con
sideration." the message said.
“There seems to be some question
as to whether that subject was op
ened. and it is the purpose of this
message to open for your consider
ation the subject of enacting laws
to provide for the concentration
and modernization of our Texas
prison system.”
‘FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE’
SHOW ORDERED CLOSED
CHICAGO. June 12.—(ffi-wil
liam F. Russell, commissioner of po
lice. today ordered the management
of the Adelphi theater to close the
show Frankie and Johnnie” the
comedy "of the woman done wrong”
based on the one time barroom song
of the same name. The commis
sioner said the performance had
been found indecent bv an investi
gator.
If the show is not closed today,
the commissioner declared he would
ask the mayor to revoke the the
ater's license.
INSPECTION
BILL PASSES
House Okeh Gives Fruit
Fly Work $15,000 And
Doubles Fund
(Special to The Herald )
AUSTIN. Tex., June 12 — Ap-,
propriation cf $15,000 for emergency
inspection work dealing with the
Florida fruit fly was passed finally
Wednesday. The inspection fund
has also been doubled to $25,000
yearly in future.
IOWAN RAYS
HOOVER FARM
RELIEF STAND
Candidates In All
Parts of Nation
Would Be Launched
Under Proposal
WASHINGTON, June 12.——
Selection of a “progressive” candi
date for president and the forma -
| tlon of an active progressive party
was advocated in the senate today
by Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa,
who stumped the West for Herbe*^
Hoover, unless the export deben
ture proposition was approved by
the administration as either a part
of the pending farm relief or tariff
bills.
The suggestion that the deben
ture plan ultimately might be at
: tached to the tariff measure has
, been advanced by a number of
other senators and is known to
have considerable sympathy amen?
house democratic leaders.
Tlie Iowan declared he now de
sired to sav to *‘progress*e mem
j bers of the senate on both sides’*
that if the proposition was re
jected the time “has come to or
ganize for a fight to the finish.”
“If the debenture.” he added, "in
the form I have here suggested, or
in its present form, cannot be put
into the farm bill. I think the bill
should be permitted to pass with
out it.*’
The Iowan took the floor short*
■ after the senate convened at noon
and at about the hour that the
farm relief bill formally was re
turned to the house as a result of
the senate’s refusal to approve Die
' measure with the debenture elim
inated. The representatives offi
cially were advised that the sen
ate had voted 46 to 43 to insist
upon incorporation of the proposi
tion. In the house the measure
was placed on the speaker’s table
to await action, probably tomor
row.
Brookhart ripped intot he admin
istration forces as soon as the sen
ate met. and insisted the time had
arrived for a fight to the finfST!
on the debenture plan.
“In order to make sure that this
be possible ” he said, “we should at
once organize to put up a pro
gressive candidate in every congres
sional district and for senator in
every state, who will fight for this
progarm. And if the bill should be
vetoed, we should follow this with
a progressive candidate for presi
dent.”
WASHINGTON. June 12.—
An ultimatum was delivered today
by house leaders against any re
cess this summer except for per
iods of three days at a time unless
the senate agrees to a definite time
for a vote in the fall on the tariff
bill.
RAILWAY HEADS
ON WAY HOME
700 Superintendents Pass
Through City on Return
From Mexico Meet
Expressing high praise for the
hospitality and scenic beauties of
Mexico, a party of 700. comprising
members of the American associa
tion of Railway Superintendents
and their families, re-entered the
United States here this morning aft
er holding their annual convention
at Mexico City.
The two special trains bearing the
party crossed the Rio Grande this
morning and left for Houston and
St. Louis at 11 a. m.
This was the largest American
convention ever held in Mexico City
and was conducted simultaneously
with the side-trip of Rotarians from
the Dallas convention. The two
meetings taxed the capacitv of ho
tels ta the Mexican capital to the
limit, members of the party stated.
Railroad officials from all parts
of the United States and Canada
were in the group. Several Mexi
can rail chiefs made the trip as j
far as Brownsville with the super
intendents.
Best in Historv
J. Rothschild of St. Louis, secre
tContinued on uage i
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j SANTA MARIA SENIORS |
Members oi the tenth grade at the 8anta Maria Independent School
District are: Lupe Longoria, Cordell OUnn and Ferdie Brandt.
C. of C. Authorizes
Navigation Group to
Ask Postoffice Fund
The board of directors of the
chamber of commerce at a meet
ing Tuesday night unanimously ap
proved a plan to have members of
the local committee who will attend
the navigation hearing at Wash
ington June 18 to appear before
the committee on federal build
ings and present a petition of local
citizens for a $500,000 appropria
tion for a new federal building
here, along with a brief and pic
tures. showing why it is essential.
A letter from Congressman John
N. Garner Tuesday advised the
Brownsville delegation to appear
before the committee which is com
posed of the acting supervising
architect, the assistant secretary of
war, and the assistant postmaster
general.
Gamer said he was arranging the
meetings for June 17 and 19.
The directors also authorized the
purchase of 10,000 Brownsville
folders. A sample in the chamber
of commerce building is on display.
Members of the board at the
meeting were:
A. H. Fernandez. E. J. Tucker. H.
L. Yates. J. S. Ford, Albert Reed.
R. B. Rentfro. W. B. Clint, and G.
C. Richardson, manager.
Young Man’s Fancy?
* * * * * *
Not At All; It’s the Cost of New Marriage
Law "That Brings Greatest Rush for Licenses
No marriage licenses will be is
sued in Cameron county Thurs
day.
Nor on Friday and Saturday for
that matter.
It's the first time, according to
County Clerk H. D. Seago. that
he can remember three days in a
row without a license to wed be
ing granted.
The new marriage law is the
cause of it all. and was designed
to make people "think it over"
and give the objecting parents a
chance to intervene.
Briefly, the law states that a
couple desiring to be mArried
must file "intention to wed'* three
days before a license may be
granted: also that each applicant
must present a certificate that
he or she is free from contagious
disease.
Merry Month
The last week-end before the
new law saw the book pile up a
record. County Clerk Seago said
it was partly attributable to the
fact that the month is June, but
the real motive in the rush, he
believes. Is the desire for couples
to wed under the old free system,
the system which allowed the
girl to slip down from a second
story window, elope with her love
and be a spouse within an hour.
There were 12 licenses granted
Friday and a like number Sat
urday. Monday, the figure drop
ped to 10. and Tuesday there were
eight. Wednesday, they began
coming early and by 10 a. m. four
couples were on their way to the
altar. As the clock went round ,
toward the hour oX midnight, 1
many more were expected to be
Issued to make it the biggest
Wednesday in the wedding license
business ever known in Cameron
county.
Clerk Leaves
The county clerk's office says
they are going to have a lot of
explaining to do on the three
days on which there will be no
issuances, because many young
couples have not read the papers
closely, and when a young man
is eager to wed. he's inclined to
fuss with anybody delaying the
ceremony. Curiously enough.
County Clerk H. D. Seago left
Tuesday afternoon for Illinois to
be gone two or three weeks. He
denied he was going to evade be
ing harassed by disappointed
swains
And now that marriage has be
come a luxury, possibly there will
be more weddings, say the ex
perts who note that the cost has
been itcreased from $4.50 to $9.50.
The .nan must pay $2 instead of
$1.50 for his license fee; $3 for
his physical examination: 50 cents,
for each affidavit, probably an
average of $1.50; and $3 for the
ceremony.
6 Edinburg Couples
File Intentions To
Marry Under Law
(Snecial to The Herald*
EDII4BURG. June 12—Six couples
at noon today had filed inten
tions to wed in the county clerk’s
office on the first day under the
new state marriage law. which was
(Continued on page so.).
AIRPORT DEAL
TO BE DECIDED
in new york:
Announcement on Ter
minal Contract To
Be Later In Week,
Rihl States Here
Announcement of the permanent
location of the northern terminal
for Pan-American Airways, Inc.,'
along the Mexican border will be
made from New York City and pos
sibly on Saturday of this week, ac
cording to George L. Rihl, vice
president, who arrived here at noon j
today from Mexico City, en route I
to New York.
Announcement of signing of a
contract, expected today, June 12.
has been delayed on account of the
death in a plane crash last Satur
day of Lieut. Col. John A. Hamble- I
ton. another vice president of Pan- |
American, in North Carolina, Rihl 1
said.
Hambleton and other high offi
cials of the air mail and passenger
line operators were to have been in
Merida the first of this week and
Rihl was to meet them there to sign
the contract.
Rihl said he had no announce
ment to make at this time. He said
a definite announcement would !>e
made in a few days. He is to leave
here today on the northbound Tex
as Air Transport mail plane, con
tinuing his trip to New York. He
expects to return this way Satur
day or Sunday.
Child, 11, Injured
In Wind and Hail
Storm at Rankin
SAN ANGELO. Texas. June 12.
UV-A 20-minute wind and hail
storm at Rankin, last night caused
$75,000 damage and injured a child.
J. Harris. 11. was hurt, but his con
dition was not believed serious.
The new high school and the
Harlan hotel were unroofed, the
waterworks put out of commission,
an dseveral homes damaged.
Telephonic communication from
here to Rankin. cCamey and Iraan
was temporarily interrupted.
TEXAN ROBBED AND
FORCED FROM CAR
MARSHALL. Tex., June 12.—(T>— |
After accepting a ride from two mo
toiists, Pery Hvnson. 40. was robbed
of S30 and forced to jump from a
moving automobile near here las;!
night, he reported to police today.
He received a slight concussion.
ORGANIZER CHARGED
IN SLAYING OF COP
—
I GASTONIA. N. C. June 12.—Q’ -
i Fred Erwin Beal, southern organizer
for the National Textile Workers
Union today was formally charged
with murder in connection with the
death last Saturday of O. F. Ader
holt, local chief of police, wounded
in a fight at a tent colony main
tained for strikers from the Lotay
cotton mills.
100 JAILED IN
DOC ‘RACKET’
Three Raids on Capone
And ‘Syndicate* Club
Are Revealed
CHICAGO. June 12-^wrhree
raids which the state's attorney’s of
fice described as "a smashing blow
at the dog racing racket.” were ex
ecuted simultaneously last night at
tracks reputedly operated by the
A1 Capone. George <Bugs> oran and
Chicago Heights “syndicates."
More than 100 persons were ar
rested. and among articules con
fiscated were three machine guns.
All those arrested were employes or
track officials.
The places raided were the Haw
thorne Kennel club, ownership of
widen often has been ascribed to
A1 Capone, now in a Philadelphia
jail for gun toting: the Fairview
club, which police say is operated
by George Moran's north side gang;
and the Illinois Kennel club, reputed
to be In control of Homer Ellis, a
■ brother of Oliver Ellis, recently in
I dieted in the slot machine scandal,
j KIP SUES WIFE j
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>1 II I. __ v'
Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander,
daughter of a New Rochelle. N.
Y. negro hack driver, whose mar
riage to young Leonard Kip
Rhinelander, disinherited son of
a wealthy Eastern family, stirred
society for many months, is to be
sued for divorce, it was revealed
today in Las Vegas. Nev.t where
Kip has been incognito.
PUBLIX BUYS
VALLEY SHOWS
Deal Reported Made For
Acquisition og 90 Dent
Theaters
(Special to The Herald'
DALLAS. June 12.—A contract is
reported to have been signed here
yesterday in which the Famous
Players-Lasky Corporation acquire
title to Dent Theater. Inc., opera
tors of 90 moving picture houses in 1
Texas.
The Famous Players-Lasky Cor
poration are operators of Publix
theaters, a nationwide system of
motion picture and vaudeville!
houses.
It also was rumored that Publix
Theaters had gained control of the j
Saenger Theaters, Inc., with head
quarters at New Orleans. This
chain consists of 150 theaters in
Louisiana. Arkansas and East ■
Texas.
Nothing could be learned of the ,
amount involved in either of the ,
deals or of the future operation of
the theaters said to have been ac
quired.
Dent Theaters. Inc., reported to!
have been purchased by the Publix
Theaters, owns and operates ten
theaters in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley, including three in Browns
ville
John C. Fanning, local manager,
said he had no knowledge of the
reported sale.
Dent theaters in the Valley are
the Capitol, Queen and Texas in
Brownsville, the Arcadia and Rialto
in Harlingen, the Palace at Mer
cedes. one at Donna, one at Pharr,
the Rita at Weslaco and the Palace
and Texan at McAllen
The Brownsville theaters were
purchased recently.
SALESMAN KILLED IN
WEST COAST AIR CRASH
VALLEJO. Calif., June 12.——
Jack Byers. 35. salesman, was killed
last night after an airplane piloted
by Forest Davis. 25. went into a nose
dive. 75 feet above the Vallejo air
port. The plane was owned by
Byers, and he was starting on a
short flight with Davis at the con
trols when the crash came. Davis
suffered internal injuries and severe
bruises. Both were licensed pilot*
MEN CALLED IN
FROM OVER U. S.
FOR NEW DRIVE
Action Taken Follow
ing Shootings; Bor
der Patrolmen to Be
Held Responsible
WASHINGTON, June 12.—-TT,—
Two border patrolmen at Detroit
and International Falls., Minn,
will be held personally responsible
for use of firearms if the treasury
investigation should disclose weap
ons were used except in self de
fense or to prevent commission of
a felony.
Assistant Secretary Lowman in
making this announcement today,
called attention to an order issued
a year ago prescribing strict reg
ulations for the use of fire arms
and warning officers of the conse
quences of violations of the regu
lation.
Under this order epproximately
a score of agents w ho shot persons
in pursuit of their duties faced
coroner's juries last year and all
these were cleared.
DETROIT. June 12.—(.4*—Jonah
Cox. customs border patrol inspec
tor. who yesterday shot Archibald
Eugstcr. 21. declared today in a
statement to investigators that twr
of the youth's companions were
members of a rum runner's boat
he was guarding
DETROIT. June 12.—< Two
hundred additional agents rein
forced prohibition and custom
forces in the Detroit area todav.
The agents were transferred from
posts in every part ef the United
States. More than F3 of the num
ber arrived yesterday and took up
their posts with the customs bor
der patrol and prohibition forces.
Officials have declined to reveal
the exact number of agents to be
mobilized here.
INTERNATIONAL FALLS.
Minn., June 12 —<.pv—'The state or
Minnesota indicated today through
David Hurlburt, Koochiching coun
ty attorney, it would resist efforts
of the federal gov.rnmeut to take
lrom it the case of E. J. White, bor
der patrolman who killed Henry
Virkula when he did not obey a
command to stop.
White is held on a charge of sec
ond degree manslaughter, while in
vestigations are under way by state
and federal authorities.
Three reports were before au
thorities today, one holding the
shootin;; of the Big Falls confec
tioner justified, another saying the
killing was “unwarranted” and a
third characterizing it as a “culpa
bly negligent act.”
WASHINGTON, June 12.——
The department of justice has
thrown i«s weight into the treasury
department's campaign to stop the
flood of liquor flowing across the
Canadian border in the vicinity of
Detroit.
Without waiting for congression
al action to unify prohibition en
forcement efforts, which probably
will require many months. Attorney
(Continued on pace six.)
i "THE"WEATHER
. _
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair or partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy
tonight and Thursday; cooler in
northwest portion tonight.
Moderate to fresh southerly winds
on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
The river will continue to fall
slowly practically all along during
the next few days.
Flood Present 24-Hr.24-Hr.
Staxo Stags Cling. Rain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.6 -0.1 .00
Laredo . 27 -0.4 0.0 .00
Rio Grande .21 5.3 -0.3 * .00
Mission. 22 5.6 -0.4 .00
San Benito . 23 11.2 — .00
Brownsville . 18 6.7 -0.2 .CO
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabe.
tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 9:59 a. m.
Low . 2:08 a. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 7:22
Sunrise tomorrow . 5:37
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