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I revtno Gang Member
t Draws Five Years on
Murder Guilty Plea
f (Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG, June 18.—Following
a plea of guilty, Bias Deando, 25.
who resides near Ed couch charged
with the fatal shooting of Eul&lio
Garza eight miles east of Edinburg
on the night of January 19 of this
year, was given a five-year term in
the state penitentiary by a jury in
the seventy-ninth district court be
fore Judge J. F. Carl here Monday
afternoon.
It was brought out that Deando
was a member of the notorious Tre
vino gang of liquor smugglers across
the river and that Garza was shot
four times in the bark and after
being robbed of a large sum of
money, his body was thrown into
the canal by Deando, Trevino and
tn unknown man. Deando did not
b take the stand, but contended him
self with pleading guilty to the
murder indictment and throwing
himself on the mercy of the court
tnd Jury.
Rogers Kelley, assistant district
attorney, represented the state,
while Attorney Lee Minter of Edin
burg appeared for. the defendant.
Guadalupe Esquivel, charged with
the murder of Cipriano Hernandez
in Hidrleo county in February.
1929. is slated to go cn trial before
a Jury in the seventy-ninth district
court Tuesday. Esquivel is accused
of killing Hernandez by cutting him
with a knife and striking him on
the head numerous times with an
iron loaded quirt. The bodv was
found in a ditch.
A special venire of 75 have been
summoned for the trial.
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2000 ARE EXPECTED AT
JUNE 19 CELEBRATION
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. June 18—The Val
ley's first “Juneteenth celebration'’
was expected to draw 2000 negroes
j to Pair Park here tomorrow and ar
! rangements for the observance were
beir# completed late today.
John T. Floor? manager of the
Valley Mid-Winter fair was to de- j
liver an address, filling a space in the
program which had been assigned
to Mayor Sam Botts. Mayor Botts,
with his family, left Harlingen Mon
day on a vacation tour.
George Washington, negro in
j charge of arrangements, said events
of the day would Include baseball i
games, auto races, speaking and a
monster barbecue at noon.
MucDONALD INSISTS
HE WILL VISIT U. S.
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LOSSIEMOUTH Scotland. June
18 — < r>—Premier Ramsay MacDon
ald. denying reports he had aban
doned his intention of visiting
America, indicated today there was
no question he would make the trip.
"It Is just a question of when
T :hall go.” he said. “I believe a
tremendous amount cf good worV$
could be done with a visit to Amer
ica.”
C AT SMOTHERS BABY
OTTAWA. 111.—A cat smothered
the year-old baby of Mrs. Ed'th
Gorman as it slept in its cradle.
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HIS FROZEN FEET
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AT 85 IN SHADE
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PUZZLE POLICE
EVANSTON. 111.. June 18.—(.T~
It was 85 in the shade of the
police sergeant's desk yesterday
when Phtllip Milliken of Lelpsic.
Ohio, entered, suffering great
liain.
Milliken parked a crutch on the
desk, mopped the perspiration
from his brow and gazed across
the intervening space it Sergeant
Bert Kinder, upon whose feature.,
the breeze of two electric Ians was
concentrated.
"My feet ere frozen." said the
man from L-ip-ic. fanning him
self with his hat.
"Ridiculous,'’ said Sergeant
Kinder.
"You have no conception of my
suffering.' said Milliken. 4 D:d you
ever have frozen feet?"
“Surely," thought the sergeznt.
“I must humor him."
4 How did you freeze 'em? In
an icebox?" he inauired.
"Oil. no,” said Milliken “ Twas
in a blizr o 1 while hunting Even4
r-ten is torture."
Th*4 sergeant sent Milliken to
tiie hospital, convinced he was
uffrnng from something. Later
he called to inquire what really
was the matter
“Frozen feet,” said the doctor.
"They were frozen some weeks
ago in Canada. 'Hie hot weather
make- them hurt."
"Well. I declare," :-ald Sergeant
Kinder, turning the fan on h’jh.
44 W lin’d 'a' thunk it."
AMERICAN PLANE CRASHES TAKING OFF FOR ROME
The uieeii t-msn, American plane piloted by Lew\s A. Yancey and Roger Q. Williams cracked up on
the beach at Old Orchard. Me., as it attempted to take off for Rome. The pilots were uninjured.
The French plane ”Yellow’ Bird” soared away for Paris a few minutes before the American ship crashed.
(Associated Press telephoto from Boston.)
TEXAS TRAPSHOOT
TOURNAMENT OPENS
SWEETWATER. June 18.—r/P*—
The state championship contests
m 16-yard singles and the doubles
were on the program today of the
Texas trapshooters tourney.
E. F. Fosgcrd of Waco won the
Sweetwater invitation shoot yester
day, with a score of 194 out of a i
possible 200. J. F. Barnes of Waco
and F. W. McNeir of Houston tied
for second with a score of 193. D.
E. Rogers of Houston won the class
B event.
In the first leg of the doubles.
! H. E. Woodward was high man with
47 out of a possible 50.
MEXICO POLICE
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Inspector at Monterrey
Slated to Fly Here
Th*s Afternoon
Big Boy Burns
Ctiy’s Nationally
Known Gorilla
Dies in Hire
Brownsville's foremost denizen
is dead, the victim of a blaze at
a Fort Worth amusement park
Sunday night.
Big Boy. W. A. 'Snake* King's
fair*us gorilla, was seared to
rieai i by licking flames amid
blood-curdling shrieks of baffled
i age as he tugged and strained at
Hie heated bars .f his all-steel
rage. People in it neighborhood
were chilled to x>ne as Big
Boy's cries rang o.
There are few pec ' Browns
■ ille who have not Big Boy
as he rested between v seasons
at Snakeville. He is * to have
iiecn the only gori' f, lived
more than 30 days i> vity in
ihe United States. ioy not
nly lived, but he thr. on the
Valley climate. Whei he was
brought here from th. Belgium
Congo he weighed 280 pounds.
When recently changed to an all
steel cage constructed here for
him. he tipped the beam at 364
pounds.
Debut At Convention
He marie his debut In the United
Slates at the democratic national
convention In Houston. He was
* lewed by swarms of the great and
u.ecr great. Tex Rickard, who
. as present and who acted as a
furch?. ins agent for a circus, al
though tills is not generally
known, war. sa'd to have offered
King a nricr of five figures for
the peril la.
Since then Kmg has had many
l ttt*nnc offers for th* thick-set.
close-eyed boast.
He was the object of much
■l,:dy here by sc>entif>c men. He
offered them a first-hand oppor
'.Ity to sound out ih* Darwinian
hrory from a live specimen. This,
[■tin:: stages, is the reason he did
• tskc the flattering offers made
r*r Bir Boy Kmg expected he
■suM eet more money from a
scientific body.
Never Turned
Big Boy. although extremely
nteiigent. was never tamed in any
•*ns’ o fth* word. He injured a
lrgro at Galveston when being
aken off the boat, he injured
'apt. Frank Brodbeck. noted nat
:ralist, and recently attacked a
)3v at Fort Worth. The gorilla
t reated to be 18 or 20 years of
:ge. bore large scars that he prob
■b’y obtained in jungle battles in
he Eelcian Congo.
Big Boy. desDite his brutal
ilrmgth and crude features, was
■ fastidious diner. He could suck
*n egg with the finnesse of a tea
tend.
His skin has been ordered
uounted. if It was not too badly
lameged.
Co' Juho Cejudo. general inspe>
ter o 1 police at Monterrey Is sched- j
u’ei to arrive at the municipal air
port thr. afternoon on a Corpora
tion Aeronautica de Transposes '
plene.
Gen. J. H. Serrano. commander of [
the Matamorcs military area, e^d i
Luis Co’sa, Mexican customs offi
cer in charge at the airport. w*P
meet Col. Cejudo. who will be taken
lo Matamoros where he will r^pen !
several days visiting. m
Gen. Serrano and Col Cejudo are
close personal friends, both bavin:
been captured by rebel forces at
Monterrey during the recent revo t.
Beth later escaped and rejoined1
th*» federay army at Chihuahua.
Customs Officer Colsa is an old 1
friend of Co!. Cejudo. The'- been nr
•’orua'nted when Col. Cejudo was a
vp-cd lieutenant in the garrison
. ' Mptamoror. in 1008
Cel i said the visit was a nrlvatc
one. and that no official husinerc > 1
'-op'd be transacted during the co -
cnel's stay here.
*^e!ly Field Flyer
Hops to Ci egcr. On
Dawn-to-Dusk Trip
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EAN ANTONIO. June 18—!
1 leut. .John S. Griffith, pursuit in- |
structor at Kelly Field, hopped off ;
frcr.i Kelly rield at 2:40 a. m. to
day for Seattle, Wash., trying for
a dawn-to-dusk flieht record.
The air line distance is about 2200 !
miles. Lieut. Griffith hoped to !
rca-h his destination at 10 p. m.. 1
central standard time. He was fly
inc r P-l-B pursuit plane.
No special rrran cements were
made for the flight. It was au
thorised under the regular cross ' 1
country training schedule end did '
net require a permit from Wash-1
inc‘en.
Fire stops were planned for re
fueling and re-servicing, at El Paso.
Tucson. Arir. March Field. Ca!..
Crissy Field. Cal., and at Medford.
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KENT CONVENES COURT J
IN WILLACY COUNTY c
'Special to Tire Hera Id >
RAYMOND VTLLE. June 18 — in
Judge A M. Kent, just returned
trom a vacation of several weeks In 1 ?!
Minnesota, arrived here this morn
mg and immediately opened the Is
regular term of civil district court. a
Hearing of a contest on a road
bond issue was scheduled for trial, j h
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SLICES OFr WIFE’S EAR
BURNHAM. 111.—Pursuing his cl
wife with a butcher knife. Adolph a
Card man cut off her ear before she tl
escaped. i ei
ItsGiilcBPIa
to use *
FLY-TOH
It> so cast and eonvec
other insects with FL
fragrant spray goes hi)
into cracks and comers,
yet ia absolutely harm!
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LOPtC AT MIUCN IWJ
seawch »v was
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i wo Men Fined $50
Each on Guilty Plea
Of Pistol Assault
Anacleto Trevino and Felix Es
ad. charged jointly with assault
ig each other with a pistol, were
ned $50 each and coats Monday
fternocn in the county court of
ameron County at Law.
The fight, testimony showed, took
lace Saturday night at a dan;e
car Santa Rosa.
According to reports of the alter
itiou. one of the men was beating
le other with a pistol when the
ittcr suddenly grabbed the gun
nd fired two shots. He then threw
tc gun down and fled. The ortg
tal owner then recovered his gun
nd fired several more shots.
Both pleaded guilty to the
large, and as the state was un
aie to produce any eye-witnesses,
le case was disposed of by fining
ich of the offenders.
lent to kill flies and
Y-TOX. The clean,
;h up in rooms and penetrate*
and kills every insect it touches,
ms to people. >
HOOVER SIGNS V
CENSUS BILL i
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Measure Provides For Re
apportionment Of ]
House ’
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looded with applications from all
>arts of the state.
While Crcager’s office would not
Usclose the name of the man rec
mimended from the Brownsville
listrict. it was stated that he had
wen connected with two previous
rensuscs and stood high in repub
lean ranks here.
All of the recommendations were
nade on the supo6ition that the pre
vious line-up of districts used by
he census bureau would not be
rhanged by the bill signed by Presi
ient Hoover today.
Based on the 1920 census. Texas
vill get at least two congressmen,
ringing her total to 20. With the
p-owth of Texas, however, it is
irobable that three or four congress
nen will be added to the Texas rolls.
ROBS CHURCH ALTARS
ST. LOUIS. Mo—Mrs Kate Kel
uun was arrested for stealing aftar
vessels in five churches.
COURT NOW HEARING
ASSESSMENT FLEAS
Complaints on rained a-xsfcmr* ■
are now being board by the bear a
of equalization of Use Cameron
county water improvement diairr*
No. < The board has beets ms ter
tian two days The meetings are
being held In the district It office m
the Cromark building.
The board set the aascuoMni* at
a meeting June 3.
ONE KFiZedIn TWO
GERMAN AIR CRASHES
BERLIN. June l*.—.fs—Dh
patchcs to the capital today report»
ed two air crashes In Germany, with
one death
In Leipzig the aviation student
Ben no Hacke during an examinat ion
flight crashed from an elevation
of 500 feet totally demoitahifi | the
airplane. He was killed
WASHINGTON. June 18.—i/P*— '
President Hoover today signed the ,
census and reapportionment bill.
The new act has a two-fold pur- ,
pose; provision for the regular de- '
cennlal count of the population and
the setting up of a plan for reap
portionment of the house of repre
sentatives. This will be the first
reapportionment since 1910.
The census count will be for the 1
calendar year 1930 and the house
members will be apportioned upon
it.
A number of states will gain ad
ditional representation while several
other tsates will lose seats.
The size of the house will be re
tained at lta present number. 435
members.
Disposition of the census-rcappor
tionment question was one of the
major tasks listed by President Hoo
ver for the special session. This,
and farm relief now have been acted
upon. Of the others, the tariff bill
is pending before the senate finance
committee, and the senate has re-,
fused to approve a resolution to
postpone operation of the national'
origins clause of the Immigration
act.
The census act also provides a
continuing arrangement whereby all
future decennial census and reap
portlonments will take place auto
| rustically without further enactment
j of law unless the present statue si
j repealed or superseded.
An army of 100.000 workers, chos
en by the director of the census,
will take the population count be
ginning early In May. 1930. The 1
task must be completed within two
weeks in the cities and one month
in the rural sections and a report
must be made to congress the fol
lowing December.
The act. in addition, authorizes a
census of unemployment, agricul
ture and irirgation in the United
States and its possessions The ;
work wrill cost in excess of $39,000 -
000.
BREADWISE
VALLEY HOUSEWIVES ‘
are depending more
and more on
BUTTER-NUT BREAD
to complete their daily menus.
It is obtainable in two shape?, 4
the Cottage Loaf and the Duplex
I,oaf. One or the other is bound I;
to please. Butter-Nut freshness ... 4 ■
quality . . . and purity makes it If
superior to any other Valley bread. /t j
Hundreds of Valley women have *+• ;
rendered this verdict. Just aay j
Butter-Nut to your grocer. He is * j
ready to supply you.
the ^
DUPLEX COTTAGE
loap loaf
Baked by VALLEY BAKING COMPANY
W. L. TRAMMELL. Pres If AIM IMiE*
CREAGER MAKING
APPOINTMENTS
R. B Creager of this city, in his
capacity of national republican com
mitteemen from Texas, has been
making recommendations for ap
pointments of census supervisors in
the 29 districts in Texas
This work pjractically has been
completely, it was announced at
Creager's office this morning, but j
the names of the men recommended
were withheld pending an investiga
tion by a census bureau representa
tive.
Following announcements in the
press that Creager would make the
recommendations, his office was
A. TAMM
Blue Printing and
Supplies
Harlingen, Texas
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ODAl no home or business office is thoroughly modern
unless it is equipped for the use of gas. Not only does
gas in your home give you added comfort and convenience—
it will help considerably in renting that spare room or apart
ment this fall. We will be glad to have you compare the cost
and convenience of gas with the fuel you are now using. Let
us install your yard line — today! |l
4*1'* Hi
You will find Rio
Grande Valley Gas
Company stores and
service in almost every
town in the Valley.
Complete line of gas
appliances.
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