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Emerson Fans concrete MIXERS 1*7*11 , No Equal — Erary Contractor .Will Keep You Cool u«» or wants Tb«m Guaranteed Five Year* '*1 1 'e'i 1 n} •* w h p..i a r Alamo Iron Work* W H Putegnat Company Browaav.il. - Corpus ChrUU Brownsville, 1 exas Saa Antonio — Houston 1 THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(&) '-— -^ ==" --.. . ■ .- . .. .. .- .- ' -..- ....- ■ .-.'=.-. ... THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 359 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1929 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY 1 IN OUR VALLEY j DONNA is to have a modem com mon battery telephone exchange housed in its home, a beautiful tile and stucco structure. The improvements to be made by j the Rio Grande Valley Telephone company, owners of the system, are to C06t approximately $40,000. And the expenditure was made necessary by growth of that town, according to J. C. Paxton, general manager of the company. Donna ranks high in quantity of shipments every year and is sur- j rounded by a highly fertile agri- j cultural section which is witnessing a rapid development. • • • THE FOURTH air mail route out of Brownsville will not be estab lished until night flying is practi cal. a letter to Postmaster G. W. Dennett from the postoffice de-, partment indicates. » This route will be by way of Houston to New Orleans and up he Atlantic seaboard. Survey for »eacons every 10 miles and emerg ency landing fields every 30 miles. Arrangements yet to be completed with Harlingen and Raymondville for landing sites. The new’ route will speed mail to I north, east and Atlantic seaboard points. • . . ..NEW MEXICAN immigration regulations bid fair to play hob business and social visits iMJi the border—and to badly trade of places of business < In Matamoros. The regulations are very similar to those Imposed in the past except that all tourists will be required to visit the consul and pay one peso for permission to visit that coun try. The same regulations are to ap }t>ly up at Laredo. Up there offi i cials of Laredo and groups of • Nuevo Laredo business men have been protesting to immigration au thorities that enforcement would ruin them. So far as can be learned these protests have been 'In vain and preparations are going I ahead to enforce the new rulings ‘at the end of a 30 day period of (grace, July 25. t • • The really new portion of the ruling is to the effect that citizens living In Valley towns where there ts no port of entry will be con . stdered tourists and will be required to visit the consul and secure a , passport before each crossing of oe border. | When similar passport reeula ins were enforced more than a ft*ar ago all citizens residing within V miles of the river were adjudged »rder residents and accorded the ‘me courtesies as people living in {'. ownsville and other port of entry question which has arisen In inection with that ruling is “just «re are several of the ports cf ry?” or instance McAllen and Hi go. j^ILL McALLEN citizens be per tted to secure courtesy cards on » strength of the port of entry at ynosa or will only citizens of ialgo receive this courtesy? Mercedes Is another puzzling ex ple. There is no town on the •*rican side of the bridge oppo IRio Rica Will Mercedes, sev mlles away from the river be 1 Hdered the port of entry? I these citizens are given cour / cards by the immigration au k ties of Mexico, what about San “0, Harlingen. Weslaco. Donna / other places near to a bridge, not at a port of entry? | |C “BATTLE" between the ^Crowers and the pickers still |n the offing Cameron county farmers decide they onlv will pay 75 cents per hun dred as the season starts—after Hi dalgo and Willacy already had de rided to lead off with a price of $1. And the pickers had indicated SLfhrv considered $1 25 to $1.50 would Ke about right. # # H CUT FLOWERS from Mexico ■ clty to New York City by air ex I prv2rative films for five weekly I H^w/reel services coming through I Brownsville by air from Mexico I two Items of the many being I handled through here by official I Mexican Aerial Express on planes I nf the Mexican Aviation Co I This service, though in use for I fe_^Continued 9± j •*» *9* Tig* Vgf VSf *i* *** V «* V V ^ ^ "*T ^ ^ - •• Fig/it Looms In Arroyo Navigation Electioni Outstanding Figures . . . « . . . In Laredo.Murder Trial\ Left to right, the principal actors in the trial of two former peace officers for the murder of Harry Williams, newspaper reporter, in Laredo, are: Thomas Hernandez and Raymond West, the accused men; John A. Pope, defense attorney; W. T. Neblett, Jr., prosecution. Robt. Lee Bobbitt, prosecution; Covey C. Thomas, defense and M. J. Raymond, defense. Testi mony in the sensational trial ppened Thursday. CANDIDATES IN SPLIT ON PLAN FOR DREDGING Chamber# States New Candidates Propose Killing Deep Water Project at Harlingen HARLINGEN. Juno 28—0. C. Howell and H. J. Goetzke. candi dates for commissioners of the Harlingen navigation district, en tered the race to oust J. B. Cham bers and J. R George, and thus kill the proposal to construct a deep water harbor near Harlingen on the Arroyo, in the opinion of Chambers, who is the present chairman of the commission. Tvre H. Brown is the third mem ber of the present commission and; the election is being held July 6 to j comply with a law recently passed ; by the Texas legislature requiring! navigation commissioners to be election is being held July 6 to com ply with a law recently passed by ■ (Continued on page 9.) ---—■ I NIX VENIRES NEARING END 250 of 300 Prospective Jur ors Dismissed After Quiz BOSTON. Texas. June 28—<&>— D.fficulty in selecting a jury to try Ocie Nix. 22. Bowie county farmer, on charges of fatally poisoning his 17-vear-old wife. Vinitia. loomed today after elimination of 250 of 300 j veniremen. Nix's wife died in convulsions at the Nix home near here a week ago while he was working In a field. She was buried. An investigation was started, and the body was ex humed. The viscera were sent to the state chemist at Austin who re ported he found poison In the stom ach. The state named three attorneys to defend Nix. and yesterday they filed five motions, all of which were overruled. The last was for a change of venue on the ground a fair and impartial trial could not be obtained in Bowie county. NEW BOSTON. Texas. June 28 —f.T—One juror had been selected at noon today for the trial of Ocie Nix. 22. charged with the poison murder of his wife. Vinitia. 17. J. A. Trapn. farmer, was accepted after declaring he was not opposed to assessing a death penalty. TWO BADLY HURT AS PLANE BURNS, FALLS MITCHEL FIELD. N. Y.. June 28 —(A*)—An army observation plane caught fire 2.000 feet in the air to day and fell to the Meadowbrook Country club grounds, critically in juring Lieut. Maxwell Balfour and Corp. Elmer Berry. They were taken to Nassau coun ty hospital in Minneola. where Miss Viola Gentry, injured in the crash of an endurance plane, lay close to , death, Pilot Dies In Fall Of Endurance Plane; Woman Flyer Hurt -X. - | Late Bulletins j VON EL>I MAKES *0 MAMORONECK, N. Y., June 28— OP)—George Von Elm, amateur from Detroit, scored a sparkling 70 in the second round of the national open golf championship today. It was the best score returned with more than half the field in and gave Von Elm a two day total cf 149 and third place behind Al. Espinosa and Gene Sarazen. TWO FLYERS KILLED RIVERSIDE. Cal.. June 28—<;p> —Lieutenant William C. Plum mer. and Flying Cadet Cyrus J. Wallace were killed In an airplane acrident at March field today. A second plane, piloted by a cadet, scraped the wing of Lieutenant Plummer’s ship, rausing It to crash. BABSF.BALL Philadelphia at New York <N>, postponed, rain. Boston at Brooklyn <N>, post poned, rain. PETF TESTIMONY CLOSED SAN ANTONIO. June 28.—opv— Introduction of testimony in the sanity hearing for John M. iPetel McKenzie, convicted of slaying DetectiTe Chief Sam Street, was completed here today, and argu ments were to he begun this aft ernoon. Just before the case was concluded. McKenzie was led to the jury box where he stood, star ing straight ahead, while Jurors felt of a scar on his head. RESELL KILLED MEXICO CITY. June 28—<7T1—A dispatch to Excelsior today from Durango City said that Alberto de Moras, rebel leader, and nine fol lowers were killed in combat wltn federal troops at San Miguel del Mezouital. Durango. The rebels were dispersed. WESTBURY. N. Y.. June 28.—OF) —A message that she needs blood, to save her life was sent to Roosevelt Field today after Miss Viola Gen try, was critically injured when the plane in which she and Jack Ash craft were seeking a new endur ance record, crashed. Who would volunteer? And as one man tne flying and ground staffs stepped forward. Pilots whose names are often in the papers, office executives and their clerks, grime “grease balls” who oil and tend the engines, not a man on the field but begged for the chance to help Miss Gentry. Doctors said that as soon as pre liminary blood tests were made a donor would be selected and the transfusion operation performed. WESTBURY. N. Y.. June 28—{/Pi Jack Ashcraft, a professional pilot, was killed, and Miss Viola Gentry, known as "the flying cashier,” crit ically injured today as their biplane, in which they were attempting to create an endurance record, crash ed into a tree. Ashcraft’s neck was broken. Miss Gentry, suffering from internal in juries, broken arms and lacerations, was taken to a hospital in Mineola. She soon regained consciousness and asked about Ashcraft, but was not told of his death. Their plane took off from Roose velt field at 8:49 p. m. yesterday, with 116 gallons of gasoline. It is believed their gasoline ran short, and the plane crashed into the tree near a nursery. Henry Hicks, proprietor of the nursery, heard the accident. He said there was no noise from the motor. The gasoline tanks and car - buretor were later found to be dry. Lands on Nose The plane landed on its nose, the motor buried far in the ground. Ashcraft's body was wedged be tween the motor and the ground. Miss Gentry was found on top of the gas tank, with one foot tangled in the WTeckage. She was bleeding profusely and was hysterical. She (Continued on page 9> Idenity of Queen To Reign at Fourth Pageant is Secret Who is the Queen? I Who will reign at the “Court of ; the Far East?” These are two questions which members of the pageant committee refuse to answer as plans near completion for the presentation at Fort Brown of a Fourth of July show which for beauty and color has never before been equalled here. “The identity of the Queen posi tively will not be divulged before the night of the Fourth." Mrs. V. W. Taylor, chairman of the com mittee, said. "We have created a great deal of interest by keeping the identity of the Queen secret, and to let It out Jggygjg detract 119m glamor aod a romance of a pageant already work ed out to the minutest detail. “I can say only that she is one of Brownsville’s prettiest and most popular girls of the younger set. However, almost all people whom I have heard try to guess her name are going to be surprised. “The maid to the queen will be Miss Francis James, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee B. James of Los Ebanos. “I have been assured by prin cesses from all the Valley towns that they have almost completed their costumes for the event. We sent each girl, who will represent an oriental country, plans for her costume, and no two of them will be alike in design." Mrs. Taylor "-—^ _.___._ DEFENSE IN LAREDO TRIAL BEGINS CASE Proprietor of Hotel Says Slain Youth Had Left When Of ficers Returned (Special to The Herald> LAREDO. June 28— Defense tes timony in the trial of Raymond West and Tomas Hernandez on charges of murdering Harry Wil liams. Laredo newspaper reporter opened Friday after the state had rested. Defense counsel asked for an in structed verdict, but the motion was overruled by Judge J. F. Mull ally. The defense then asked that the state be made to show which count it would prosecute. This mo tion was also refused. Maria Alatorre. owner of the Commercial hotel.in which the state contends Williams met his death on the night of January 18. was the first witness for the defense. She said the accused men made two trips to her hotel on the fatal night (Continued on page 9.) GULF STORM IS INDICATED Ground Swells, Low Barom eter and High Tide Re ported At Coast WASHINGTON. June 28.-h/P>— The weather today authorized the following storm warning: “Hoist northeast storm warning 2 p. m.. Galveston to Corpus Christ!. Texas. Probably disturb ance of unknown but probably moderate intensity central about latitude 27 north longitude 95.20 west apparently moving north northwestward. Will rause strong shifting winds probably gales at times on the Texas roast between Corpus Christ! and Galveston to night.” There were some indications of a slight disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico off shore from the Valley Friday morning, out at 2 p. m. there had been no official warning issued by the weather bureau either from Washington or locally. The Indications included large ground swells. 15 to 20 feet high, which were rolling in at Padre Island, a low barometer and high tide. The weather bureau at Washing ton had asked W. J. Schnurbusch. local meteorologist for two special reports today, one sent at 11 a. m. and the other during the afternoon. This also was an indication of a disturbance in the gulf. The weather forecast for the next 24 hours was ‘ mostly cloudy and unsettled tonight and Saturday, probably with local showers.” Several automobiles were caught in the large swells as they broke over Padre Island during the wom ing and were stuck fast In the sand. Captain Wallace L. Reed, of the Coast Guard station reported. No one was injured when the cars were trapped and a number of persons yCocUnuad ou past 04 - I Si Organ ized Protests In Germany Object To Blame for War COMMANDER i IS DUE TODAY General Lassiter Coming To Fort Brown For Inspection Major General William Lassiter, commander of the eighth corps area. United States Army, was scheduled to arrive at the inter national airport about 4 p. m.. to day, it was announced at Fort Brown. Gen. Lassiter will be met by Lieut.-Col. Stanley Koch, com mander of the post here, who will take him to Fort Brown for an in spection of barracks and various buildings. It was planned to have a review of troops, but a wire from the gen eral said that in view of the late ar rival and early departure tomorrow, he did not thing it advisable. Gen. Lassiter's area, including Texas and extending into Colorado. New Mexico. Arizona. Wyoming. Oklahoma, was approximately one fourth of the nations available troops. His headquarters are at San An tonio and he will arrive here from Fort Mackintosh, where he com pleted an inspection. He will be the guest tonight of Lieut.-Col Koch. Officers of the post will pay the usual calls of cour tesy. WOMAN HOLDS UP CASHIER TOPEKA. Kas . June 28.—A woman today held up W. L. Stalons. cashier of the Security Benefit as sociation here, and escaped with the association's payroll estimated at approximately $14,000. after kidnap ing A. J. Perlich. Kansas City, and forcing him to drive her to the scene of the holdup. Stalons. acompanied by Louis Striet. an employe, had returned 10 the association offices from the Central National bank. When Mr. Stalons stepped fro mhis motorcar, carrying the money in a satchel, he was accosted by a woman holding a handkerchief over her face. Believing she was a patient of the association hospital. Mr. Stalons stopped to talk with her. The wom an pointed a revolver at the cashier with the command: "Drop that package, or 111 blow your insides out.” Mr. Stalons attempted to throw the satchel to Streit. but the woman caught it. She returned to re-enter Mr. Perllch’s motorcar, in which she had ordered him to wait at the curb, but he had driven to police head quarters to report the robbery. BERLIN. June 28—<*n—On the tenth anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Versailles with Its charge of blame for the World war the German national today staged organized protests at continuation of “the war guilt He." President Paul Von Hlndenburg headed the signatories to a state ment which termed today “a day of mourning” and respected the asser tion that Germany alone was re sponsible for the war. With the exception of the Rhine land. where an interdiction of the inter-allied Rhineland, where an in terdiction of the inter-allied Rhine land commission interfered, there were demonstrations of protest the length and breadth of the nation. Nationalist opposition in the Reichstag, strengthened probably by the manifestations, prevented pro longation of the defense of the re public act. requested by the govern ment. The defeat will make it legal for former Kaiser Wilhelm to re turn to Germany at expiration of the present act July 22. German newspapers appeared with borders of heavy black mourn ing. and one Berlin organ. Der Tag. surrounded scenes from Danzig. Posen. Kattawitz and Strassburg with borders of chains. A huge sky sign in the west end of Berlin ad jured German citizens to unite in repudiation” of the "war guilt lie.” There was a tenseness in the situ ation which led the government to request that its functionaries, high and low. refrain from Joining in the public demonstrations, the auth orities fearing unpleasant conse quences. President Von Hinden burg himself refused numerous in vitations Xp preside at meetings called to hold the “shameful treaty" up to obloquy. WALL STREET RUMORS M. K. T. TO BE SOLD NEW YORK. June 28 — UPV—'The New York Herald-Tribune says to day that rumors are current in Wall Street that the Alleghany Corpora tion, new securities company of the Van Sweringen interests, is buying the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad. Impetus is given the reports be cause the Alleghany sometime ago acquired blocks of stock in the Mis souri Pacific refuted to be about 175.000 shares, representing an in vestment around $14,000,000. Have The Herald follow you on your vacation. Rates by mail, daily and Sunday: One month, in Texas 75c One month, out of Texas. $1.00 One week, in Texas 18c One week, out of Texas ,.24c | BROWNSVILLE BRIDGE FIGHT IS BROUGHT IN « Mention of Garner In Probe Draw* Fire of Tennessee Senator On Committee SAN ANTONIO. June 28—(**>— Senator McKellar, in the investiga tion of alleged patronage in Texas, today said that R. B. Creager, re publican national committeeman, will have an opportunity to defend himself by testifying. This announcement came follow ing statements made by Henry M. Wurzbach that the republican or ganization attempted to assess him $7300 to put his name on the ballot in 1926". Wurzbach was a repre sentative to congress for several years, losing last year to Augustus McCloskey. democrat. Wurzbach declared he had heard that Creager got $80,000 in retainer fees from Sanger Brothers of Dal las. Carl Hoblitzelle of Dallas, and Lutcher Stark of Orange, for rep resenting them before the treasury' department. “I was informed that the national committeeman's name would not ap pear on the records since he was working through a Houston mouth | piece, Oeorge Hill ” Wurzbach said. — SAN ANTONIO. June 28—0IV-A threat by Senator Kenneth McKel lar. Tennessee, to jail Republican National Committeeman R. B. Crea ger of Texas for “contempt of the senate” today drew' apologies for questions attempting to connect Congressman John N. Oarner, dem ocratic minority leader in the house, with the political machine in Hidal go county, at the senate patronage investigation here. The threat came during the inter rogation of Mrs. H. O. Schaleben. re called today When she told of a reputed combination of Creager and democratic forces in Hidalgo county, (Continued on page a.) i THE WEATHER j For Brownsville and the Valley: i Mostly cloudy and unsettled tonight t and Saturday, probably with local ' showers. For East Texas: Partly cloudy to night and Saturday; probat?;; showers tn southeast portion. Lignt to fresh easterly winds on the coast RIVER FORECAST There will be no material change i in the river during the next few i days. Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr. Stage Stage Chng. Rain Eagle Pass .. 16 2.2 0.0 .00 | Laredo . 27 -0.7 0 0 .00 Rio Grande . 21 4 3 0.0 .00 Mission. 22 4 0 -0.2 .00 San Benito . 23 7 6 +0.2 .00 Brownsville . 18 2.8 +0.3 .64 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isabel tomorrow, under normal meteor ological conditions: High.9:20 a. m.; 9:34 p. tn. Low.1:96 a. m.; 4:34 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS DATA Sunset today.7:26 • Vsknim tomorrow fcf) j