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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 346 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929 SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY • 5C A COPY
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TODAY, Friday, June 14, is offi
cially the birthday of Old Glory,
the Stars and Stripes, the national
colors of the United States, the em
blem of the greatest nation of all
times.
To many citizens the flag is but
h piece of red. white and blue bunt
ing. a pretty pennant to be unfurled
to the breeze as a decoration when
a convention is being held—a sort
of symbol of welcome to visitors.
But the flag should mean much
more to every person living within
the borders of the United States
and to all her subjects throughout
the land.
. To create a more reverent atti
tude tow-ard the flag, as the emblem
of our country and a guarantee of
the right to everyone to “life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness,”
the birthday of that emblem has
been set aside for education and
renewing of pledges of loyalty.
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The day Is being observed gen
erally through the Valley and in
Browmsville tonight fraternal and
civic organizations and the public
In general have been invited to at
tend a special program at the Elk’s
hall.
The program is being sponsored
by the Elks and the American Leg
ion and is schedu<ea to get under
way promptly at 8 p. m. Twelfth
Cavalry band is to play represent
ing the U. S. army.
During the day Spanish American
war veterans held a flag sale on
the streets and funds realized are
to be used to purchase flags for
the local camp.
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HOT CHECK ARTISTS warned
*>f intention of the local Retail
Merchants association to wage a
campaign for strict enforcement of
the Texas law. are making good
their paper.
Miss Bemadine Price, secretary, j
•enounces six persons have taken !
checks in the past few days.
^The association still holds several j
| others—totalling in the neighbor
hood Of $5,000.
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WHOLESALE deportations ot
Mexican citizens residing in the
United States has caused Mexico to
move to care for those likely to be
returned to their home land.
Meetings being held throughout
the Valley to urge those likely to
be deported to return voluntarily.
Enrique de Selva, engineer of the
Mexican department of agriculture
says he seeks to obtain land grants
in Mexico for nil those who return.
ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION to bo
1 started soon on an irrigation sys
tem which will carry waters of the
Rio Grande to 29.500 acres in what !
up to the present has been called
i “the dry land section.”
Under a bill passed at the last
special term of the Texas legisla- !
ture. Willarv County Water Control I
and Improvement District No. 1 !
will Issue $750,000 in ad interim, or
temporary bonds.
This money to be used to carry
on the work until the $7,500,000 I
issue of the district can be sold at j
a favorable price.
At the same time the order to I
Issue the temporary bonds was en-1
tered by the directors, officers of
the district were authorized to issue I
a block of $850,000 of the perma
nent Issue to put up as collateral:
for the temporary pa tier, in accord
ance with the law. and to assess
and collect a tax of 60 cents on the
1100 valuation in the district to pay
the interest and create a sinking
fund for the Issue.
The taxes to be collected in 1930.
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Officers announce closing of the
tax rolls of the district reveal a
total valuation of $16,458,770 of
which $596,105 Is personal property,
the remainoer being real estate.
This district, when completed
will be the largest in the Valley and
will be the most distant from the
\ source of supply, the Rio Grande.
Large areas already have been
planted to citrus trees and pmnt.ng
Is continuing. In addition to this
grape growing on a large scale is
being planned.
W. A. Harding is developer of a
]tipart of the land in the sys
THE VALLEY and Laredo plan
to Join in protest of plans for a
through train from Mexico City to
St. Louis by way of Laredo.
A meeting to be held there Sat
urday has been called to discuss
t most effective ways of opposing
the plan.
If carried out as planned, the
train would not stop at the border
for inspection as in the past, but
would be inspected enroute be
tween Laredo and San Antonio.
Opponents of the plan fear fruit
Infested with the Morelos fruit fly
might be brought across the border
f and thrown out along the right-of
way. thus providing another way
In which present efforts to eradi
cate the pest along the border
*nicht be defeated.
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New York Bound Plane
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OTHERS GOING
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Galveston Beauties
Auction One Bale;
Corpus Exc h a n g e
Pays $1 a Pound
I The first three bales of Valley
cotton for the season of 1929 were
I on their way to New York today.
! one by airplane and two by ex
[ press for resale on the floor of the j
j cotton exchange in that metropolis. ]
after beoing auctioned at fancy j
prices in Corpus Christi and Gal- j
veston the day before.
The Brownsville bale, ginned at
1 the McDavitt Gin Thursday, was
I shipped by express that night to
Gohlmar. Lester and company.
! Houston cotton factors, for sale
. there. No word had been received
at noon whether the bale had been
! sold.
The first bale, ginned at Edcouch
I at about 1 p. m. Wednesday, was j
1 sold for $1 per pound on the floor
of the Corpus Christi exchange and
this morning was put aboard an
airplane in an effort to beat the
two bales from Galveston to New
York City. This bale weighed 437
pounds.
The Galveston cotton exchange
decided a hot contest between two
bales from Starr county in favor
of the one ginned at Mission and
paid $1,100 for it. This bale wat
grown on the Teofilo Garcia farm
at La Gurlla. The bale ginned at
Roma, and grown by F. P. Lozano,
which arrived one hour and twenty
minutes late in Galveston, was
bought for $453. Both bales were
bought by J. Garrison.
Foreign beauties engaged in the
pulchritude pageant at Galveston,
including “Miss Universe.” bid on
the bales there. The bales were
shipped out Thursday night by ex
press.
RIO GRANDE CITY. June 14 —
Two farmers from the La Gurlla
community in Starr county Thurs
day engaged in a thrilling race for
second bale honors. Teofilo Garcia
winning in the race to Galveston
by a littlet more than an hour.
Francisco Perez Lozano, grower !
of the bale which arrived just a lit
tle too late, is a neighbor of Garcia.
CORPUS CHRISTI. June 14. (JP)— j
Carrying the first bale of cotton j
received here this season, an air-1
plane left today for New York in
an effort to place Its cargo on the
floor of the exchange before a bale
sent by express from Galveston ar
rived.
The cotton purchased at auction
by the chamber of commerce at
$1 a pound. It was grown at Ed
couch by S. L. Hensen and ginned
there Wednesday.
The plane—"Port of Corpus
Christi first bale cotton special”—
was expected to reach Atlanta to
night. after stops at New Orleans
and Montgomery, and New York
tomorrow afternoon.
Miss Fern Heischer. of the staff
ofg the Corpus Christi Times, ac
companied the cotton as a repres
entative of the chamber of com
merce.
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Checks to Robison’s
Family Introduced
In Ouster Hearing
AUSTIN. Texas. June 14.—{/Pi
Legislation today continued to mark
tini- as the house, sitting as a com
mittee of the whole, entered the
second day of consideration of
charges of impeachment against J.
T. Robircn. 68-year-old commis
sioner of the land office.
As a committee, the house en
gaged attorneys to develop testi
mony concerning Robison's man
agemen’ administration, collection
and disbu; ment of the one-cent
an-acre fund provided to pay ex
penses for reappraisement of the
public lands under an c of 1925
and amended in "26. acr?ptance
of gift;, and differences with the
governor, attorney general and re
gents of t e University of Texas as
to the sale of mine 1 leases in uni
versity lands.
If testimony warrants, the aged
nffi/w «H11 h* ritarl tn tha nnaia
fcr trial on charges of impeach
ment.
Checks introduced at yesterday s
hearing, signed by Robison and
pay: ble to physicians and in several
instances to members of Robison's
family, were said by his attorneys
to be in keeping with t'.e law which
provid for an expense fund for
re-appral. .ment of certain state
lands.
One Item for an 1872 automobile
was accounted for as a necessity in
traveling to examine the land for
reappraisement. Other items for
ph*. ' ..ns’ services wer: necessary
because of illness that overtook
P 'jison while engaged in re-ap
praisement work, his attorneys said.
Robison's attorneys objected to
the introduction of a report of a
rec- it joint lr*vc:‘.:jating commit
tee of the land i :fice on the ground
that it represented opinions and
conclusions. Their objection was I
sustained. {
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| VILLA MARIA SEVENTH GRADE j
—Photo by Holm
Members of the seventh grade at Villa Maria Academy. Brownsville,
are: Standing, left to right: Eloisa Marques. Zoila Marques. Ethel
Williams. Louise Williams. Enriqueta Cueto. Laura Grider. Seated,
left to right: Elizabeth Browne, Mary Helen Marron, Bernice La
Roche. Custer Yates. Herminia Rendon.
BROOKLYN DOCK
BLAST KILLS FIVE
NEW YORK. June 14—i7P>—Three
men were killed, two men were
seriously injured and five others
slightly hurt in an explosion in a
Brooklyn dry dock today.
The cause of the blast was unde
termined.
The dead are: Thomas Kennedy.
Christofer Kell yand Philip Bums,
all of Brooklyn.
About 50 men were working in the
bottom of the Robbins dry dock at
the time of the explosion, scraping
[the starboard side of the tanker |
Gulf Penn.
It is believed a leak in one of the
compressed air lines might have
caused a pontoon to explode.
The Gulf Penn, formerly the
Agwihavre. is an American tank
steamer, used in the transportation
of crude oil. and is owned by the
Gulf Refining Co., here.
The tanker was reported not
damaged.
Chairman Announces
Sub-Committees for
July 4th Celebration
Plans for the greatest July 4
celebration in the history of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley went
ahead at full speed today with the
arrival of Jack Robin of San Antonio
interior decorator of wide experience,
who will have charge of decorations
and staging of tthe pageant for the
affair.
Meanwhile. Harry Faulk, general
chairman for the celebratl-n an
nounced a partial list of sub-com
mitttees. which he said, will meet
tonight at the chamber of commerce
for final instructions before be
ginning at once on a program of
such magnitute that it will take
from now untill the day of the
celebration to complete.
Members o: the various committees, ;
not yet completed, have been an- I
nounced as follows:
Publicity: Hymen Plenn, chairman;
R. Roy Ruff. Chas. A. Reil, G. C.
Richardson, Lawrence Olmstead.
Boy Scout arrangements: Jas. L.
Abney, chairman; W. O. Washing
ton, J. W. Allen, C. E. Clegg, Sgt.
Sanderson.
Parade: Bascom, Cox, chairman;
H. M. Wood. Theo. Allen. Max
Shapiro. Ed Taylor. Geo. Dasha.
Joe Calderoni, Lee Adamson, and W.
A. Darling.
Pageant: Mrs. V. W. Taylcr. chair
man; Mrs. H. L. Yates, and Miss
Julia O'Brien.
Fireworks: Wilbur Dennett, John
Fanning. (Others to be named later)
Robin announced upon his arrival
that he had already well in mind
his plans for the staging of his
pageant entitled “The Court of the
Far East’, an oriental festival to be
presented at Fort Brown on the
resaca .
Chairman Paulk said he was not i
yet ready to announce the two stunt
features of the celebration, one of
which will be pure comedy and the
other a real feat which is likely to
draw visitors from over the entire
state.
Pan-American Line
Official Dies From
Air Crash Injuries
HAVANA. June 14.——General
George Taylor. 64. operations man
ager of the Pan American Airways.
Inc., at Port Au Prince. Haiti, and
former United States army officer,
died yesterday of injuries received
in an airplane crash earlier in the
day.
His death was the second in the
crash, E. A. Griffith, radio operator,
being burned to death when the
plane, a Pan American Airways pas
senger mail ship, failed to gain
height as it took off for Havana and
struck some power wiref.
BUILDING AND
STOCK VALUED
ABOUTSpOO
Blaze Discovered Near
Midnight On Second
Floor; Cause Is Mys
tery to Owner
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(Soecial to The Herald'.
LOS INDIOS. June 14 —The gen
eral merchandise stock of the Buck
and Buck store and the two-story
brick building occupied by it were
completely destroyed by fire about
midnight Thursday, entailing a loss
of $20,000.
About $200 worth of show cases
and a small supply of groceries were
rescued. The loss was about two
thirds covered bv insurance.
The blaze started in apartments
on the second floor of the structure
and had spread over the entire
structure when it was discovered by
H. H. Buck, owner of the building
and store.
The apartments were not occupied
and there was no thejry as to the
probably cause of the fire.
A call for assistance was tele
phoned to the San Benito fire de
partment, but the truck sent out
broke down about three miles away
and was unable to reach the fire.
No other structures were damaged.
Stock Worth $7800
The stock was valued at $7,800 and
was about two-thirds insured. Fix
tures were valued at $3000 and the
building, which was arected about
20 vears ago. was valued at about
$9000.
The store was closed between 7:30
and 8 p. m., as usual, and Buck
went to his home about a block be
hind the store building. He awak
ened shortly after 11:30 p. m. and
noticed reflection of the fire on his
bed room walls. He immediately
telephoned to San Ber.ito and
spread the alarm in Los Indios. By
that, time the upper floor was a mass
of flames and the blaze was break
ing through to the lower floor. He
succeeded in getting the front door
open and, wuth the assistance of
neighbors, removed three show'
cases. The third show case was
carried out just before the front
wall caved in. blocking the passage.
Walls Standing
The other three walls of the
building were still standing today
but it was thought they would be
pulled down soon. They are badly
cracked and are thought to be a
menace to life.
The rescued show cases this mom- !
ing were moved Into an emojy
building across the street from the
burned structure and temporary
shleves were being Installed, pre
paratory to reopening the store as
soon as a new stock can be secured.
Buck today said he had not de
cided whether he would rebuild on
the site of the destroyed building.
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. June 14.—A truck
belonging to the McCarty Plumbing
Co. was badlv damaged when it
caught fire here Thursday after
noon at the comer of Fillmore and
eighth streets. The chemical truck j
of the local department extinguished
the blaze.
THOUSANDS PRAY
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FOR SOLUTION OF
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CHURCH DISPUTE
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MEXICO CITY. June 14,—(&\—
Thousands of Mexicans streamed
through the priestless Mexican
churches today, kneeling and
praying for a happy solution of the
national religious problem on con
ference under way at Mexico City.
With arrival of Archbishop
Ruiz y Flores from the United
States last Saturday, for negoti
ations to settle the long standing
controversy, the visits to the
churches increased.
A second conference between
President Portes Oil. Archbishop
Ruiz and Bishop Pascual Diaz of
Tabasco at Chapultepec Castle
last evening was believed to have
advanced the cause of a settle
ment of the problem.
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Mayor M’Fadden
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Ed L. Steck
Austin officials who Friday were visiting the Brownsville Airport
studied it as a model for the air field to be built at the capital city.
The Brownsville port was recrmmended to them as an ideal landing
field.
Austin City Officials
Here Study Airport
As Model For Field
Five officials of the city of Aus- ;
tin were in Brownsville today to
study the Brownsville municipal
airport, after which a landing for
the capital of the state will be
modeled.
The men were Adam A. Johnson,
city manacer; Mayor P. W. Mc
Fadden; City Councilmen Leo
Mueller and E. L. Steck. and W. E.
Seaholm. city electrician.
Mr. Johnson stated that Austin
shortly is to build its own airport
and that plans are now being
drawn. He declared that the
Brownsville port had been recom
mended to the Austin city council
as the one in this section most
nearly approaching the ideal, and
for that reason the committee
made the Journey here.
“We are aware also that yours is
an A-l-A field meeting government
specifications.'* Councilman Muel
ler said.
“The city of Austin recently
bought over 300 acres east of the
Austin Air Service field which we
will use as the center of our new
port." Mr. Mueller said. "This tra*t
was recommended to us by a rep
resentative of the United States
department of commerce and we
are ready to complete our field.
“In addition to studying the plan
of the field, the hangars, etc., we
will again visit the field tonight for
an inspection of the lighting system,
which has been described to us as
one of the best to be found in the
country today.'*
The committee was met by local
citizens at Hotel El Jardin. and
were conducted over the airport by
Mayor A. B. Cole and Commis
sioner Burt E. Hinkley.
Steck to Harlingen
The city officials will spend Fri
day in Brownsville. Manager
Johnson will make a sidetrip to
Corpus Christ! and Commr. Steck
will spend Saturday in Harlingen.
! it was stated.
The visit to the Brownsville air
port is the first step to be taken by
the city council toward constructing
improvements and equipping the
municipal airport for which a site
of 340 acres lias already been pur
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YELLOW BIRD
OVERDUE AT
LE BOURGET
Ship Faring Well But
Apparently Chang
ed Its Course Radio
Flashes Indicate
(BULLETIN)
NEW YORK, June 14.
—l/P)—The International
Telephone and Telegraph
company announced to
day it had received word
over its commercial cables
at 2:45 p. m., that the
French trans-Atla n t i c
plane Yellow Bird was
200 miles off the Portu
guese coast and that it
planned to land for re
fueling in Portugal and to
continue to Paris tomor
row.
LE BOURGET. France. June 14.—
(&*—A crowd numbering at least a
thousand had assembled by mid
aftemoon to await the Yellow Bird
at the famous Le Bourget flying
field where Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh made his dramatic landing
two years ago on his New York-to
Paris hop.
A hundred police reinforced the
regular guards and cleared the fiald
early In anticipation of a gTeat
throng to greet the French fliers.
The field will be guarded this
evening by a large force of addi
tional policemen. The 34th regi
ment of aviation will throw a cor
don around the landing place upon
which searchlights will be trained as
a guide to the eagerly awaited air
men.
There was Frank doubt among
aviation experts, however, that the
plane could reach here in one hop.
Jean Lacoste, hpad of the Hispa
no-Suiza works, makers of the Yel
low Bird's pngine. calculated the
plane had 32 hours fuel aboard un
der normal conditions. Therefore,
aviators said, if the Yellow Bird
felt obliged to change its course to
the Azores because of heavy con
sumption of gasoline, it indicated
the fliers wanted to be able to land
there if the supply seemed inade
quate to reach the mainland.
From the report the airmen were
heading toward the Azores aviation
experts concluded here this meant
the plane probably had been buck
ing a head wind and consequently
was using up more gasoline than
had been expected.
Madame Lotti, mother of Arme
no Lotti. radio operator of the Yel
low Bird, got so nervous waiting for
news of hpr son this afternoon that
she refused to stay in town any
longer and came here with her hus
band and friends, intending to stay
until the Yellow Bird comes in.
M. Lotti said that he was quite
calm, but added:
"I wish ft were over.”
•By The Associated Press >
Wireless reports from two ocean
steamers today indicated the trans
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j THE WEATHER j
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy and somewhat unset
tled tonight and Saturday poss'blm
with local showers this afternoon!
and tonight. Light to moderate va- 1
rinble winds, mostly southerly.
For Ecst Texas: Partly cloudy to
. night and Saturday. Light to mod
erate variable winds on the coast.
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RIVER FORECAST
1 The river will continue to fall
! slowly practically all along during
the next few days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stnre Stare Chrut. Rain
Eagle Pass ..16 2 8 -0.2 .00
Laredo . 27 -0.5 0.0 .00
Rio Grande . 21 5.0 0.0 .00
Mission. 22 4.9 -03 .00
San Benito . 23 9 8 -0.6 .00
! Brownsville .18 5 2 -0 8 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabe*
tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High. 10:41 a. m.
Low.4:26 a. m.; 6 p. m..
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today. 7:23
Sunrise {tomorrow . 5:37
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