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VALLEY I
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CORPU8 CHRISTI and Galves
ton. whether Intentionally or not,
are "hogging” a great deal of the
publicity incident to ginning of
first bales of cotton.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley is
not mentioned in news dispatches
from either town as the section in
which the cotton was grown.
The Corpus Christi story telling
of the bale being forwarded to New
York by airplane does mention that
the cotton was grown at Edcouch.
The Galveston story falls to men
tion the fact that the bale came
from the Valley or any Valley town.
"A special train carrying Galves
ton's first bale of cotton of the 1929
season—,** Is the way the news dis
patch from that town reads.
The Valley Is proud of its abil
ity to annually produce the first
I bale of cotton in the United States.
In the future it might be a good
Idea to see that each "first bale” as
It starts on the race to a cotton
exchange is accompanied by a pub
licity agent "to see that our Little
Nell Is done right by.”
A Corpus Christi newspaper
woman, as representative of the
chamber of commerce there, ac
comDanied the bale from her town
on its flight to New York City. You
can bet she will see that Corpus
Christi gets the publicity.
• • •
MAYOR P. W. McFADDEN of
Austin, a visitor in Brownsville Fri
day and Saturday inspecting the
International airport, recalled his
last former visit to this border eity.
That was 40 years ago, he said,
and he made the trip at that time
aboard a Texas pony in company
with another young man. He and
his companion were engaged in the
wool buvine business at the time.
I ythere was no wool down here
buy” he said, "but it was a
new place to visit, so we visited It.
"Oh my. no. this isn't the same
town we came to at all. In fact,
I can’t find anything that looks
familiar but the Rio Grande and
even that seems changed, with two
large international bridges and all
the water pumped out for Irriga
tion."
• • •
"I had expected to find great
■ changes.” the mayor said. "The
I* development is more wonderful
■ than I had expected.” Commls
Isioners Leo Mueller and Ed 8teck
and City Manager A. R. Johnson
also expressed delight with their
teeeption here and with the city.
A LITTER mailed Ln Brownsville
and read in Chicago that same
day.
Mexico Citv to New York City ln
48 hours—including one night spent
in a hotel and one in a Pullman
berth on a fast train.
An all-air trip Brownsville to
New York City in less than 24
hours.
These are some of the aerial
feats to be accomplished when new
lines are put into operation out
of here.
Southern Air Transport to oper
ate trl-motored Fckker planes be
tween Brownsville and Houston on
the new mall and passenger route
to be established about July 15.
First of the massive new planes,
powered with three 410-horsepower
Wasp engines, promised for delivery
on June 17 and others a few days
later.
An aerial survey of the lighted
aerial way between here and Hous
ten to be completed in two months.
Also from here to San Antonio.
Equipment to be installed in
nine months.
Beacons to be placed every ten
miles and emergency landing fields
every 30 miles. Directional radio
beams to keep the fast planes di
rectly on their course in all kinds
of weather.
The nation taking to wings and
Brownsville playing an Important
part In all of the wonderful de
■ velopments. Feats of fast travel
K to be performed every day which
R a quarter of a century ago would
I have^fceen conoidmiracles.
| BLANKS are being
B made from mussel shells in the
B Valiev—a new Industry for the
{• section.
The plant went into opera;ion at
Mercedes last week and local work
ers are being trained to operate
the machines
At last mussels, growing by hun
dreds of thousands in irrigation
canals, resacas and lakes through- J
out the Valley, are Justifying their
existence.
Many men are employed in gath-I
ering the mussels from the va
rious bodies of water. Girls are
used to operate the machines.
Later finishing machinery to be
Installed and the finished product !
Is to be tried out.
The raw material supply now in
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SAN ANTONIO
PLANES WILL
LEAVE TODAY
38 Ships Carrying Ca
dets And Eight Pas
sengers Spend Day
In City
The 38th and last plane of a
group flows from Brooks field. San
Antonio, by cadet flyers of the Unit
ed States training school zoomed
over the International airport here
shortly after 3 p. m. Saturday, made
a perfect landing, and ended a se
ries of landings that had continued
with monotonous regularity since
10:25 a. m.
The entire squadron made the
Journey without mishap. Several of
the planes, however, were forced
to land at Alice because of fuel
shortage. Otherwise, the trip would
have been concluded in much bet
ter time.
The first plane, with Capt. C. L.
Chennault at the controls, and Ben
Baines, assistant city editor of the
San Antonio Evening News, depart
ed from Brooks field at 7:40 a. m.
Other planes took off at five-min
ute intervals, but due to refuelings
the time of arrivals was delayed to
approximately 10-minute intervals.
Thirty-two members of the per
sonnel were cadet flyers, gaining
experience in a course to earn their
wings. Ten others who accompanied
them Including Captain Chennault
and Mr. Baines, were Instructors and
mechanics.
Thirty-three of the planes were
Boeings and the other five were
Douglas’.
A number of Brownsville citizens
met the cadets at the field as they
arrived and brought them into the
city. They were taken to Fort
Brown for lunch and a rest, and
at 4:30 p. m., they were taken to
Boca Chlca beach where the cham
ber of commerce aviation commit
tee had provided a steak barbecue,
to be followed with a swimming
party. About 25 Brownsville girls
were in the party.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S West. Drew
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I First Bale-Well?
* * *
This Man Could
Have Won But Nev
er Knew of Premium
When other Valley growers
frenziedly set about gathering
what they hoped to be the first
bale of cotton, with many pickers
in the field pulling the lint from
half open boles, Sotero Hinojosa
and two others leisurely picked
away in a good field oblivious of
the prize money within his grasp.
Hinojosa, whose field is on the*
J. H. Fernandez plantation about
six miles out the military high
way, continued to pick until he
was sure that he had a ‘ fat” bale.
When he brought the bale to town
to be ginned he received a sur
prise when notified that his was
one of the first to be produced in
the country.
Had Hinojosa known of the
prize money awaiting he could
have had the bale out Monday,
easily in ample tufte to capture
the prize money, it was said.
He explained that the upper
| end of the Valley had produced
| the first bale so often that he took
it as a matter of course that it
would do so again.
The bale, which was ginned by
the McDavitt Gin Inc., here
weighed exactly 500 pounds, hav
ing been ginned from 1400 pounds
of seed cotton. It was classed
strict middling. It was gathered
from a 40-acre field.
The bale was shipped to Hous
ton and sold there for 31 cents
per pound.
Aviation Official
Killed In Airplane
Crash At Buffalo
BUFFALO. N. Y.. June 15.—«n—
Howard Jones of Wichita. Kans..
aviation inspector for the United
States department of commerce,
and William J. Schults of Buffalo,
pilot, were killed early today when
their airplane went into a dive and
crashed at the Buffalo airport.
Prof Held in Brutal
Murder of Co-Ed;
Had Lived with Her
COLUMBUS. Ohio, June 15.—(£*)
—Confronted at the county jail by
a woman who tdld police she had
rented a room to him which he had
shared at intervals with Miss The
ora Hix of Bradentown, Fla. slain
Ohio State university co-ed. Dr.
James H. Snook admitted to detec
tives tonight that the woman’s
story was true.
The woman was Mrs. M. M.
Smalley. Detectives questioned her
at her rooming house and were told
that a man representing himself as
Howard Snook of Newark, had
rented the room in February for
himself and “wife.” She said he
told her he was a demonstrator for
a salt company.
He answered Dr. Snook’s descrip
tion and the woman was taken to
the jail and Dr. Snook was called
from his cell.
Mrs. Smalley greeted him with
“Good evening. Mr. Snook.’’ and Dr.
Snook returned her salutation.
Shared Room
Thereupon he told detectives that
he rented the room and that Miss
Hix was the “wife” who shared it
with him part of the time.
Dr. Snook said he had turned the
room back to Mrs. fmalley yester
day. explaining that he was trans
ferred to Washington Courthouse,
Ohio, and that he took his belong
ings and those of Miss EL*: from the
place with the exception of a wom
an’s brown felt hat, which was
found in the room. Te identified
the hat as belonging to Miss Hix.
He told Mrs. Smalley, according to
the story both told police, that his
“wife” would remain until Sunday.
He said he had been to the room
several times with Miss Hix, and
Smalley said she had seen the
girl accompany him to the place
three or four times. She said Miss
Hix might have been there oftener.
Mrs. Smalley explained that the
room occupied by the couple was
at the rear of the building and that
they always came and left by a
rear entrance, accounting for the
fact thit she had no more definite
knowledge of how' many times the
girl had been there.
Identify Hat
Some girls occupying another
room in the apartment house ident
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OFFICER KILLS
ROOMER WHO
5HOTWOMAN
Police Declare That
Man Was Crazed
With Liquor When
Affray Started
HOUSTON. Tex., June 16.—W—
The Infatuation of Howard M.
Burnett, 23. for Mrs Jewell Kelly.
28. the wife of Burnett’s "old
friend.” led to the death of Burnett
and Mrs. Kelly here tonight in a
pistol fight that lasted almost an
hour.
After killing Mrs. Kelly, in a
fight with her husband. Burnett
forced a policeman to get in his car
with him and drive him around the
block while he exchanged shots with
a posse of officers. Finally he was
shot and killed by Mounted Officer
Hope. Police said tonight that
Burnett w'as crazed with drink wheD
he went to the Kelly home.
The Kelly's had formerly lived in
Dallas and Burnett, an "old friend
of the family" lived with them
When the Kellys moved to
Houston several months ago Bur
nett came with them and continued
to make their house his home.
L. H. Kelly, the husband, told
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FLYERS DUE IN
PARIS SUNDAY
Yellow Bird Occupanta De
layed In Spain For
Repairs
COMILLAS. Spain, June 15.—(fl5)
The three Hying musketeers of
t France, asleep on Spanish soil be
fore going to Pans, goal of their
flight across the Atlantic ocean
from America.
By cutting across a corner of the
Bay of Biscay the fliers will be over
the soil of France within a little
less than an hour after leaving the
beach at Oriambre.
On their way to Paris they will
stop for gasoline at Cazaux flying
i field near Bordeaux and tnen con
| tinue to Le Bourget field.
Repairs to the Yellow Bird by
Spanish mechanics this afternoon
were minor hut sufficient to delay
; the departure. One trial flight, at
; first though to be the real depar
i lure for Paris, was made.
Arthur Schreiber, Ame rican stow
away, on the big Bernard mono
plane. could not let the occasion
slip by without a celebration and,
as there wasn't time to organize a
formal one last night Schreiber was
invited along with the three avia
tors who have reconciled them
selves to his presence and permit
him to tag along as they go from
one ovation to another.
Lotti said they would take him on
to Paris in the airplane, put him
up at a hotel of M. Lotti. senior, let
him share in whatever festivities
awaited them and when all was
over they would send him home.
Non-Stop Flight
To Canada Will
Be Started Here
MARSHALL. Mo.. June 15.—(P)
—An attempt to establish a new
world's airline distance record
for planes under 771 pounds will
be made the week of June 22 by
Barney Zimmerley. chief pilot for
the Nicholas-Beazley airplane
company here, he announced to
day.
Zimmerley plans to make a
non-stop flight from Browns
ville. Texas, to Winnipeg. Canada. !
a distance of approximately
1,500 miles.
REDS BATTLE
CHICAGO COPS
__
Near Panic Threatens When
Attempt Made to Stop
— Meeting
CHICAGO. June 15— </P) —A'
panic among Saturday afternoon
shoppers on Michigan boulevard
was threatened today when several
hundred communist, attempting to
hold a meeting In Grant park,
fought with police who sought to’
disperse them.
The meeting, called by the
workers’ communist party to pro
test against what the meeting j
leaders termed mistreatment of
cotton mill strikers by authorities
of North Carolina, began shortly I
after 4 o'clock with about a thou
sand persons thronged about a
soap box rostrum.
The communists carried banners
reading: “Defend the Soviet union.”
“Fight the frame up charges at
Gastonia.” “Elect a farmer-labor
president” and “Join the young
pioneers.”
The Young Pioneers’ League, the
Young Communists’ Workers’
League and the International La
bor Defense were among the or
ganizations participating.
The crowd ignored police orders
to disperse, but the meeting was
finally broken up with the arrival
of special police details.
Twenty-seven of the communists
were arrested, including several
women. They were charged with
disorderly conduct.
AUTO CRASH7 FATAL
TO 3, INVESTIGATED
TOPEKA. Kas . June 15 —(.pv—A
coroner's Jury will be impaneled
Monday to investigate responsibility
for an automobile accident here
early today which took three lives.
Richard Wahle, 25. Dallas. Tex.;
Dr. George Sheldon Hogeboom, 27.
Topeka, and Harold Broughton. 23.
former Washburn dollege football
and basketball star, were injured
fatally when the speeding automo
bile in which they were riding
nosed under a house being moved
on tmeks along a city street
DEATH CHEATS
RAY KECH OF
NEW TORY
Speed King Leading
Field At Time of
Wreck; Gets Award
Of First Money
ALTOONA. Pa . June 15.—<j<Pi—
Ray Keech. who flashed from com
parative obsucrity as a dirt track
driver to fame as holder of the
American automobile speed record,
met death on the Altoona speedway
at Tipton late today as he gained
his last racing triumph.
Driving a brilliant race as he led
the field through three quarters of
the 200-mile Flag Day event, the
Philadelphia speed king, winner of
the Indianapolis grind this year,
was killed instantly in a four cor
nered smash up on th* eart turn ©1
the mile and a quarter board oval.
Cliff Woodbury. California racing
veteran, was injured seriously,
while Ernest Triplett of Indianap
olis and Bob Robinson of Los An
geles, the other drivers involved in
the accident, escaped uninjured.
Woodbury was conoscious when
taken from his wreckjd car, doctors
said he had escaped broken bones
and that barring unforeseen devel- ,
opments he would recover.
Traveling 119 Per
Keech's death marred a spectac
ular race in which he and Wood
bury, with Lou Meyer, another Pa
cific coast driver, had thrilled a
crowd of 25.000 spectators. The dls- ]
aster came with sickening sudden
ness. Cheers turned to gasps as the
speeding machines, traveling at 119
miles an hour, smashed up.
Keech had maintained a three
quarter lap lead over Meyer for 150
miles. Bob Robinson, hiked racer
thundering into the east stretch,
led the pack to the turn. His car
struck a hole In the boards and the
machine, out of control, shot to the
top of the saucer, hit the guard
rail, perched momentarily and then
slid backwards into t! : infield. Un
damaged. the car glided out of the
way of the oncoming field. Keech
veered slightly to avoid hitting the
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" LOSES TO DEATH
RAY KERCH
Speed King, killed in Altoona
race Saturday.
MORROW AND ~
GIL CONFER
Settlement of Church Row
Said To Have Been
Parley Subject
MEXICO CITY. June 15.——
United States Ambassador Dwight
W. Morrow today conferred for an
hour with President Emilio Portes
Gil concerning the negotiations now
going on for settlement of the con
troversy with the Catholic church.
While the ambassador declined to
make any statement after the Inter
view. the fact that, after keeping out
of the negotiations for a week, he
has now taken a hand in the matter
led those in close touch with the
situation to believe negotiations
perhaps had entered a critical stage.
It was known that Mr. Morrow
had much to do with bringing about
opening of the negotiations for
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Willacy Road Award
For $389,825 is Let
Pending Court Results
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE. June 13.—
Contract for the construction of ap
proximately 21 miles of concrete
road in Willacy county district
number one was let today by the
commissioners court to McElwTath
construction company of Harlingen,
pending outcome of the election
contest hearing set for Tuesday in
civil district court.
The McElwrath bid was $389,825.
87. The only other bidder was the
W. L. Pearson Construction com
pany of Houston.
McElwrath’s bid was for grad
| Ing. structure and concrete topping
on a road 16 feet wide.
The bid averages $2.03 a square
yard, raid to be among the lowest
figures ever offered on road bids in
the Valley. This was explained as
being possible through the present
condition of the roads, very little
grading on which is necessary, and
| to the general lay of the land.
Funds for the work are provided
in a bond Issue which was voted
April 20.
The proposed road will start at
the Hidalgo county line, go to the
Turner tract, then north and east
to the Lyford city limits to high
way 96. Then it is to be built south
of Lyford and east to the Parker
ranch and the Missouri Pacific ex
tension and southeast to Paso Real
on the Arroyo as far as the funds
of the bond issue will permit.
INVENTOR OF ARC
LIGHT DIES AT AGE 80
CLEVELAND. June 15. — 0P>—
| Charles Francis Brush. 80. inven
i tor of the arc light and outstand
i ing figure as a scientist, humanitar
ian and philanthropist, died at his
home here tonight from bronchitis,
which went into pneumonia.
BABE IMPROVED
ANNAPOLIS, Md.. June 15.—
1 Babe-* Ruth, New York Yankee
home run king, has improved so
much in health in his four-day
fishing vacation on Chesapeake bay
that he hopes to get into the Ath
lectic-Yankee series starting next
Friday, he told newspapermen to
day.
Fort Brown Officers Will March To Matamoros
On Horse Back Monday To Pay Call Of Courtesy
Lieut. Col. Stanley Koch, tem
porary commander of Fort
Brown, will lead officers of the
12th cavalry and other officers
of Fort Brown in a courtesy call
Monday morning on the new
military officials of Matamoros,
who recently arrived there to re
lieve General G. R. Cervera and
members of the 17th cavalry
The Fort Brown officers will
leave the post about 10 a. m. and
expect to be gone about two
hours.
The first visit will be at the
headauarters of Gen. Julio Her
nandez Serrano, who takes the
place of Gen. Cervera as com
mander of the military area in
cluding Matamoros.
\
Next, American officials will
call on Col. Zenon Davila Mar
quez. Sr., and officers of the
43rd cavalry, which recently dis
placed the 17th cavalry.
More Visits'Planned
Captain Vernon M. Shell adju
tant at Fort Brown declared this
will be merely the forerunner of
a number of calls which he ex
pects to be exchanged between the
two regiments, and added that in
view of the staunch friendship
established between the 12th
American and 17th Mexican cav
alries, Lieut.-Col. Koch had de
cided to make the first call at the
earliest opportunity in order that
a like regard may be felt between
the post here and the new neigh
bors.
During the time the 17th cav
alry was stationed in Matamoros.
the two regiments came to know’
each other better through a com
mon interest manifested in polo
and other military athletics, and
often both took part in each
other's field meets.
Col. Marquez has declared that
although some of the regiment’s
best mounts were killed or dis
abled during the recent insurrec
tion. in which the 43rd cavalry
saw' a great deal of service, he
expects to take up polo soon, and
will be glad to allow his’ troops
to compete with the Port Brown
team.
Travel Mounted
Officers of the 12th cavalry
making the call will go mounted.
Officers making the visit r.re:
12th cavalry: Lieut. Col. Stan
ley Koch. Maj. H. L. Flynn. Capt.
C. E. Austin. Capt. Vernon M.
Shell. Capt. Marion Voorhees.
Capt. Perry E. Taylor. Lieut.
Clyde Massey. Lieut. A. K. Per
rialt. Lieut. Reardon. Lieut. J. P.
Willy, and Lieut. Kalakuka.
Maj. Fletcher Gardner, medi
cal corps: Capt. Albert Lobitz.
medical corps: Capt. Brown,
dental corps: Chaplain Capt. Ivan
Oennett. Capt. Will Griffin, vet
erinary corpa
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FARMERS WILL
OPPOSE LAND
COMPANYPLEA
State Engineers To
Decide If Raise Of
Irrigation Rates Is
Justified
^Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. June 15.—Hearing
on the application of the American
Rio Grande Land and Irrigation
company for permission to increase
irrigation charges on lands in that
system will be held in the Valley
on July 22 by the state board of
water engineers. C. S. Clark, mem
ber of the board announced here
late today. The hearing probably
will be in Mercedes.
Clark and A. W. McDonal, secre
tary of the board, arrived In the
Valley Saturday morning from Aus
tin to confer with officials of the
company and Hidalgo county water
district No. 9 relative to the hear
ing which had been tentatively set
for July 8 in Austin. The board
member and secretary will remain
in the Valley for the hearing to be
held in Edinburg Monday relative
to a permit for watering an 88,
OOO-acre tract of land.
The American Rio Grande Land
and Irrigation companv Monday
filed in Austin an application for
permission to increase the watering
charge to $6 flat rate per acre and
$3 per acre watering charge.
The proposed increase in watering
charges will be opposed before the
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DAN DEPLORES
DEPRIEST EVENT
Texas Governor Joins In
Condemnation of Mrs.
Hoover
• Special to The Herald!
AUSTIN. Tex.. June 15—Mrs.
Hoover s reception of a negro con
gressman’s wife in the White House
on terms of social equality was a
“terrible, terrible mistake and will
be severely criticized by a large
part of the people of the nation.”
Gov. Dan Moody commented to
night on a resolution of the Texas
senate which condemned the ac
j ceptance of the wife of Oscar Re
nriest at the White House.
“The South will be resentful of
this incident and I do not believe
even northern citzens will approve
it,” he said.
VIRGINIA ALSO
RAISES PROTEST
8UFFOLK. Va . June 15.—(JP\—A
i statement that entertainment of
! the wife of a negro congressman at
a recent White House tea would
j cost the republican party 25.000
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SEEK CUSTOMS
MEN IN SLAYING
Youth, 22, Latest Victim
In War On Liquor
Runners
PLATTSBURGH. N. Y.. June 15.
—,Vp>_Two unidentified men in the
uniform of customs border patrol
men who brought the body of Ar
thur Gordon. 22. of this city, to a
local hospital last night and then
disappeared were sought) tonight by
the sheriff and district attorney to
Clinton county for questioning.
Gordon, an autopsy showed, was
shot down from behind.
District Attorney B. Loyal O’Con
nell said he learned that Gordon
last night piled 27 cases of beer into
his car at a loading station about a
mile north of the Canadian border
and started for the New York side.
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