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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 363 NOOII EditiOll BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929 NOOil Edition * 5c A COPY
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IN OUR
VALLEY
THE BEAUTIFUL, well-kept cit
Vus orchards of Florida, with every
tree apparently personally and in
dividually groomed are mythical—
{there is no such thing in existence.
This is the report of J. E. Bell,
inanager of the San Benito Cham
ber of Commerce, who returned
last week from a trip to Washing
ton. On his way back he went by
Florida.
Valley orchards are better cared
{for now than the average in Flor
ida, Bell says.
The Florida orchards are ragged,
tmtrimmed and yellow from lack of
fertilizer.
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Invasion of the Mediterranean
fruit fly is blamed for the sorry
plight of the orchards there. Many
of the growers have become dis
couraged, others are not in finan
cial condition to purchase fertilizer,
to employ workers to prune and
Cultivate the trees.
This is a sad state of affairs, but
{Just because Bell found Florida
orchards in a poorer state than
*Vhlley groves is no reason why lo
|cal growers should not continue to
^strive for better product by im
proving cultural methods and care.
Valley orchards may rank above
{those of Florida, but there is much
jgoom for improvement here in the
Icare of trees.
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EVIDENTLY the cotton pickers
vi Cameron county have won the
(first skirmish in the farmer-picker
{battle. Fanners announced Mon
pay, after an executive committee
ineeting in Harlingen, that they
^iould pay $1 a hundred pounds.
Previously the price had been set
■t 75 cents. Farmers found the
pickers reluctant to enter the fields
at that figure, especially when just
heroes the line in Hidalgo and Wil
lacy county the farmers were pay
Ing two-bits per hundred more.
And even the increase in price is
Expected to produce sufficient
ers to keep abreast with the
ily maturing crop,
call is broadcast for 1000 to
additional pickers.
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S W MEXICAN immigration
ations causing no little confu
Seems to be a difference of
on among the officials inter
as to the exact date when
;d States citizens must begin
KO comply with the rules.
Saturday it was announced citi
teens living outside of Brownsville
[would be required to secure con
sular permits before visiting Mata
bnoros Sunday. Then Monday it
was announced the permits were
{not required Sunday, but would be
iin the future.
Then all immigration officials
fclong the border seem to have dif
ferent ruling.
At Reynosa nothing has been
heard of any change in the rules.
At Rio Grande City there were ru
mors, but no definite information.
At Roma definite instructions had
been issued but they appeared to
differ from those issued at Mata
moros.
The new regulations are much
ftiore drastic than anything ever
attempted before. Possibly this is
an explanation.
Everything will likely be working
jsmoothly in a few days.
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WITH ACTUAL construction of
the huge irrigation system still
many months away, thousands of
young citrus trees on the tract in
Willacy county to be watered by
Willacy county irrigation district
‘To. 1 are growing and thriving.
Some of the prettiest trees to be
>n in the Valley are on that tract
tere no water is yet available ex
cept that which can be handled in
Water wagons.
On the Engleman tract the same
thing is true. Thousands of young
citrus trees which never have been
watered except from a tank wagon,
are thriving.
Seems to lend weight to the
statement that most trees in the
Irrigated section are over-watered.
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VIRGIL. N. LOTT, former news
paperman, former United States
officer in border service and at
present manager of the interna
tional bridge at Roma, is planning
to take a vacation and attend the
annual convention of Spanish
American war veterans in Colo
rado, after a visit on the Paciifc
coast .
“I never have attended a Span
ish-American war veterans’ gather
ing yet,” he said, “and the ranks
are beginning to thin rapidly. I
intend to be in on this one.” 1
But he’s coming back to Roma—
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Non-Stop Record Plane Due This Afternoon
~ A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
TRADE DROPS
AT LOCAL PORT;
OTHERS OPEN
Brownsville Pers o n s
Must Obtain Cards
By July 25 or Lose
Privileges
The chamber of commerce
Monday sent a telegram to Portes
Gil, president of Mexico, protest
ing the new regulations being en
forced here because they discrim
inate against Matamoros and
Brownsville. A reply was received
from the president this morning
saying the protest had been re
ferred to the secretary of state.
Messages protesting the rules
also were sent to President Portes
Gil by officers of the Gateway
Bridge company and R. B. Crea
ger.
Urging all Brownsville citizens to
obtain local permit cards at once,
L. Lopez Montero, Mexican consul
here, Tuesday was issuing passports
in accordance with the new Mexi
can passport law, which is now in
effect.
“Tourists visiting Brownsville are
complaining about inconveniences
which new regulations are causing
but I can do nothing about it,”
Montero said. He referred to peo
ple who wished to visit Matamoros
on more than one occasion while
here.
“These people have to take out
permits for each time they cross
the bridge,” he said.
“For instance, two gentlemen in
my office this morning wanted to
take lunch in Matamoros, return to
this side, and go back again late
in the afternoon for dinner, but each
would have had to visit my office
again after the first permit was
presented to immigration authori
ties at the bridge.”
Five Dollars for Party
It would cost a party of five per
(Continued on page 4.»
GUARDS WATCH
WEALTHY HOME
Fear Kidnap Plot About
Grandchildren of H. F.
McCormick
CHICAGO, July 2.—(IF)—Private
detectives are guarding the Gold
Coast home of Harold F. McCor
mick while he is host to his daugh
ter, Mathilde, her husband, Max
Oser, and their two small children,
Anita, 4, and Peter Max, not quite
three.
Presence of the guards has given
rise to reports that a plot to kidnap
the children is feared; but at the
McCormick home and at police
headquarters it was stated today no
threats had been received.
John P Stege, deputy police com
missioner, said private detectives
were on guard at the McCormick
home even when the place was va
cant. He had not heard of any
additional precautions being taken
since the arrival of Mrs. Oser, her
husband and their children.
Shortly after their arrival at
New York May 28 from Switzer
land the Oser children were taken
to see their grandfather, John D.
Rockefeller. The children are
beneficiaries under a trust fund of
many million dollars established by
the elder Rockefeller and assigned
to the administration of their
grandmother, Mrs. Edith Rockefel
ler McCormick.
Have The Herald follow
you on your vacation.
Rates by mail, daily and
Sunday:
One month,
in Texas .t. 75c
One month,
out of Texas. $1.00
One week,
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POLICE HD
MAN AT HOME
BADLYBEATEN
One Jailed After Af
fray Tuesday Morn
ing in Victoria Addi
tion Residence
Locario Hernandez, said to be a
Mexican citizen, is lodged in the
county jail on charges of assault
and attempt to muraer and carry
ing a pistol and Jose Salinas is
nursing a scalp wound as the result
of a shooting affair at the latter’s
house at 16th and Van Buren streets
Tuesday morning.
Hernandez, a resident of Mata
moros, came to Salinas’ home. He
entered the room where Salinas was
in bed, officers said. Salinas was
struck over the head with a pistol,
causing a gash in his scalp. Neith
er of two shots fired took effect.
• The man leaped from his bed and
seized a piece of wood. Y. Trevino,
a brother-in-law of Salinas, rushed
into the room at the sound of the
shots. He succeeded in getting the
pistol. The barrel of the firearm,
a .41 Colt, was bent from the blow
that struck Salinas’ head.
Cisto Olgin, an uncle of Salinas,
came on the scene,
and Earl Hanna and City Police
H. D. Lozano and Emilio Lerma
rushed to the scene and placed Her
nandez under arrest.
Salinas could give no motive for
the attack .
Hernandez is said to have been
deported from the United States on
immigration charges but this could
not be verified at the immigration
office.
A crowd gathered about the scene
of the shooting and watched the of
ficers take the bloody, battered
Hernandez to the jail.
98-YEARTERM
BRINGS SMILE
Ocie Nix Found Guilty Of
Having Poisoned 17
Year-Old Wife
BOSTON, July 2.—(flP)—A young
Malta farmer smiled slightly here
last night as a jury found him guil
ty of the poison murder of his 17
year-old wife and sentenced him to
99 years. It was the prosecution's
theory that he killed his girl wife
for $1,400 insurance.
Whether the defendant, Ocie Nix,
would appeal had not been an
nounced. but it was believed a move
toward that act was under way. His
confession to the crime was not
introduced.
Nix was held at Paris today.
Shortly after- the death of his wife,
Vinitia, mother of a five months'
old child, officials here had feared
mob violence and had kept the al
leged slayer secreted for a time.
State witnesses, neighbors, testi
fied in the trial that on June 18,
attracted by screams, they rushed
into the Nix home and found the
young mother in convulsions. Nix
attempted to caress her but she
screamed at him:
“Go away. Don’t you touch me.”
The state chemist at Austin found
poison in Mrs. Nix’ viscera.
SENATE AUTHORIZES
KINGSVILLE DORMS
AUSTIN, July 2.—(A*)—Directors of
the newly-created College of Art
and Industries at Kingsville were
vested with authority to make con
tracts for erection of dormitories, In
a bill passed by the senate today.
TWO MEN ROB BANK
IN OKLAHOMA TOWN
TULSA, Okla.. July 2.—(/P)—The
Bank of Inola, Rogers county, was
robbed of between $500 and $1,000
by two men at 2 o’clock this after- ,
noon,
A
Snyder Takes
Atz Place As
Cat Manager
FORT WORTH, July 2.—(/^—Ef
fective today Frank Snyder replaced
Jake Atz as manager of the Fort
Worth baseball club.
Official announcement of the
change was made by President Ted
Robinson, and Snyder was told to
take charge of the Cats this after
noon in Dallas.
The venerable Panther manager
wasn’t fired, and he didn’t quit.
“We simply had a mutual agree
ment,” the president stated, “and
Atz nodded confirmation. There
wasn’t the least bit of friction, and
all are parting the best of friends.
“I, as well' as thousands of fans,
love old Jake as a brother, recog
nize him as one of the greatest
managers in baseball, major or mi
nor, and know there’s no finer gen
tleman anywhere,” said Robinson
“but for the best interest of base
ball in Fort Worth the change was
necessary.” "
“I have been here too long and
love the Cats too well to say I have
quit,” said Atz. “There’s something
about that I don’t like; I had rath
er it would be understood that Ted
and myself had a mutual agree
ment. I’m not sore at any one. I
am simply tired.”
Snydre came to Fort Worth Sun
day for a conference with Robin
son, but it wasn’t until last night
that final arrangements were made.
Snyder was in Houston at the time.
He left immediately for Dallas and
arrived there at 7 o’clock touay. In
a long distance telephone conversa
tion with the Star-Telegram he
said:
“I am happy to be with the Cats
—they represent the finest spirited
city in baseball, are controlled by a
group of live-wire sportsmen who
will help me in every way. To
gether I think we may yet win a
pennant this season. It’s never too
late.
“I have stepped into the place of
one of the game’s greatest and most
beloved characters. It will be a job
to take his place; I am afraid I
can’t do it in all ways, but I will do
my best to carry on the unparallel
ed work he has accomplished here.”
San Benito Youth
Bitten By Mad Dog;
Serum Is Rushed
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, July 2.—John
Adams, 13, so nof Mrs. Otis Adams
of this city was severely bitten on
the leg by a mad dog in the Mexi
can section here early Tuesday
morning.
The animal finally was run down
and killed, and a rush order was
sent to San Antonio for serum with
which to treat the boy.
The Fidelity Mercy plane of the
San Antonio Drug company was ex
pected to bring the serum in by
nono .
The boy was delivering milk in
the neighborhood at the time he
was bitten.
GOVERNOR S!GNS
SEIZURE MEASURE
AUSTIN, July 2.—The bill
repealing the provision of the
search and seizure act passed by
the 39th legislature placing penal
ties upon officers who make an
illegal search for evidence was ap
proved and filed Monday by Gov
ernor Moody and will become ef
fective 90 days from the date of
final adjournment of the second
called session of the 41st legisla
ture.
It is senate bill 20, a companion
bill to senate bill 21 which repeal
ed part of the evidence clause of
the search and seizure law and ap
proval and filed by the governor
last week.
NEDOSHA, KANSAS
REPORTS 1G4 DEGREES
NEQDESHA, Kan., July 2.—A
temperature of 104 degrees was re
corded by the official weather bu
reau thermometer here today. It
was the hottest day of the sum
mer, ,
ZIMMERLEY
1 ROUTE TO
BROWNSVILLE
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Aviator Will Try To
Reach Canada With
Small Plane In Try
For New Record
Barney Zimmerley and his light
flivver plane are due to arrive at
the municipal airport here late
Tuesday, although no direct word
has been received from the Browns
ville-to-Canada flier since he left
his home at Marshall, Mo.
The pilot had planned to make
short stops at Dallas and San An
tonio and officials at the airport
here did not expect to receive defi
nite word from him until he was
ready to leave his last stop.
Local arrangements have already
been completed for this flight. Oil
and gasoline have been received at
the airport. Zimmerley may be here
several days awaiting favorable
weather conditions over his pro
posed route. Special reports have
been arranged for.
Zimmerley’s effort will be to set
a record for light commercial planes.
He will fly a Barling NB-3 all metal
monoplane weighing 726 pounds and
powered by a 60-horsepower engine.
It will carry only 90 gallons of gas
oline and four gallons of oil on
the 1.550-mile hop.
If successful, this flight will break
the record for planes under 771
pounds by approximately 600 miles.
The record now is held by Harry J.
Brooks, who flew a Ford monoplane
972 miles February 21, 1928.
The Barling NB-3 which Zimmer
ley will use was recently placed on
the market. It can take off with
a full load with a 75-yard run and
can climb to 1,000 feet in 65 seconds.
Its cruising speed is 87 miles per
hour with a top speed of 105 miles
an hour. Landing speed is 37 miles
per hour. The Barling is a low
winged monoplane.
EXPECT 500
AT MEETING
Interest In Arroyo Election
Contests Is In
creasing
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, July 2.—Interest
in the Arroyo Colorado navigation
district controversy was again at
high pitch today, and 500 or more
were expected to attend a mass
meeting tonight at differences in
plans and opinions of the five can
didates for places on the district
board of commissioners will be
aired.
J. C. Myrick, backer of the pres
ent commissioners, who favor
dredging the Arroyo Colorado and
cutting a channel through to the
Gulf, has called the meeting. The
opposition faction, it is understood,
would join the intracoastal canal
project and make Arroyo Colorado
an extension of it.
It recently was alleged by J. B.
Chambers, Sr., that H. J. Goetzke
and G. C. Howell represent the in
terests which are seeking to change
the canal project.
Goetzke declined to comment on
the matter.
Tyre H. Brown and J. R. George
other candidates, also are expected
to be present and give their views
on the proposition.
BOY IS BORN TO MR.
AND MRS. SCROGGINS
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. July 2.—Mr. and
Mrs. Fred R. Scroggins are the
proud parents of a baby boy bom
Sunday night at 11:30 oclock. The
baby weighed 7 1-2 pounds and has
been named John Russell. Mother
and baby are doing fine.
j RICH FAMILY GUARDED j
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Following reports of a kidnap plot, private detectives are guarding
the gold coast home of Harold F. McCormick, shown here at the ex
treme left. With him is his daughter, Mathilde and her husband,
Max Oser, to whom she w-as married in 1923. The children are Anita,
4, and Peter Max, 2. The marriage created quite a stir, Mathilde’s
parents at first frowning on the match.
CREA GER DEFENDS
TEXAS PARTY AT
PROBE IN DALLAS
DALLAS, July 2.—(JP)—The words
"nigger lover” were passed at the
concluding session of the U. S. sen
ate patronage committee’s investi
gation here today by Rene B.
Creager, republican national com
Kentucky Rainstorms
Force 20 Families
From Homes; 1 Dead
LEXINGTON, Ky„ July 2.—UP)—
Storms in central and eastern Ken
tucky late yesterday forced two
score or more families from their
homes and washed away several
bridges. Lightning took the life
of a high school boy.
At Carlisle Brushy Fork rose rap
idly a£ter a heavy downpour and
flooded some 50 dwellings and base
ments of many business establish
ments.
Benjamin Powers, 20, was killed
by lightning at the home of his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dexter
Lindelle.
Damage to crops and outbuildings
estimated as high as $100,000 was
caused at Owingsville ahd in Bath
county, and the licking river was
rising rapidly as the result of tor
ential rain.
Damage at Paintsville was esti
mated at $10,000.
CREAGER DUE BACK
IN CITY TUESDAY
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R. B. Creager, who has been at
tending the republican patronage
probe in Dallas, is expected to re
turn to Brownsville Tuesday by
plane.
If he does not arrive Tuesday, he
will probable return Wednesday by
rail, it was stated at his office.
mitteeman for Texas, who returned
to the stand to deny charges made
by other witnesses. The committee
adjourned finally late today.
Creager also threatened to pros- |
ecute Harry M. Wurzbach, former
republican congressman from Tex
as, for accepting a contribution of
$50 toward his campaign expenses
from E. J. Keudell, San Antonio
mail clerk. Wurzbach was defeat
ed for re-election by a democratic
candidate. He ran without the
support of the state republican or
ganization.
Wurzbach, Creager charged, ac
cepted a $50 check from Keudell
for primary expenses. Wurzbach
was indicted but “excused” on the
ground that the law did not cover
donations for primaries, Creager
said, adding he believed it his duty
to see that thi former congressman
is prosecuted for accepting the sec
ond check.
Beck Testifies
At the morning session, Harry
Beck, Dallas, charged the state re
publican organization was interest
ed only in controlling patronage.
He said the Creager "machine” is
a “pie counter.”
Creager informed the committee
that “Beck is a nigger lover.”
Beck rose to his feet. “That’s
false; untrue,” he shouted.
“I’ve got a picture of you with
a negro,” Sen. Smith W. Brookhart,
chairman of the senate committee,
interjected.
“No, you haven’t,” Creager said.
“No such picture was taken.”
“We have other information , to
substantiate that picture," Brook
hart declared.
“You have been informed of lots
of things and assert them as true
when they are not true,” Creager
replied.
Sen. Smith W. Brookhart, com
mittee chairman, Iowa, announced
“important developments” would ne
cessitate the holding of another in
(Continued on page 44
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WARNING TO
BATHERS IS
ISSUED TODAY
Sheriffs Departm e n t
Finds Nothing Ob
jectionable Yet But
Patrols Beach
Complaints that nude bathers
have been seen at Boca Chica'
beach and others of wild parties arei
being investigated by the sheriff’s
department, “and if we should finti
anything like that ~oing on, it will
mean a heavy fine and at least a
short jail experience for the offend
ers, Chief Deputy Prank Gay de
clared Tuesday morning.
“Boca Chica is a place where hun
dreds of our best citizens find greats
pleasure, and we don’t intend to
stand by and let a few indecencies
drive them away,” Gay said.
“We already have patrolled the
beach between the jetties on Brazos
Island and the mouth of the river,
but so far nothing objectionable
was discovered. We went down
there early and stayed from shortly
after dark until about 2 a. m.
“We found that not more than
half a dozen cars drove up after!
midnight, and these stayed only at
short time. Not more than half the'
occupants of the late cars wentf
swimming.”
Several reports reaching the city
have told of wild orgies on the
beach some declaring men and!
women have gone in bathing Inf
undergarments and less and other#
telling of drunken brawls and ob
scene language that disturbed tha
peace of the beach.
“The sheriff’s department there
fore sends out a warning that any
party so conducting themselves
must suffer the consequences,” Gay
said.
Prohiibtion Agents j
Arrested; Accused
Of Aiding Runners
NEW YORK. July 2.—(/P)—Two
federal prohibition agents were un
der arrest today accused of convoy
ing a fleet of liquor trucks on Long
Island.
The agents, John J. Kerrigan and
John J. Calnan, were held in $3.
000 bail, each after Deputy Sheriff
William Lindsay of Peconic, N. Y.,
told a United States commissicnef
he found them escorting a caravan
of five trucks through Riverhead,
N. Y., on the night of June 19.
j THE WEATHER |
For Brownsville and the Valley f
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednes
day. * 'i
For East Texas: Cloudy tonight
and Wednesday; thundershowers
and cooler in northeast portion to
night.
Light to moderate southerly
winds on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be a slight to moder
ate rise in the river from Rio
Grande City down Wednesday and
Thursday.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Staee Stage Chng. fill*
Eagle Pass .. 16 3.2 -3.9 .00
Laredo . 27 2.9 +3.6 .00
Rio Grande . 21 5.3 -1.1 ȣ|
Mission. 22 6.8 +0.2
San Benito . 23 10.3 +1.9^fl
Brownsville .
TIDE TABL
High and low tidej
tomorrow, under
ological conditio*
High.