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; GGEORGE ACCLAIMED Populace Greets Ruler On His Recovery From | Illness LONDON, July 2.— </P) —King George, his face shining with hap piness and renewed health, came home to Buckingham Palace at noon today to the acclaim of one of the greatest popular demonstra tions of his reign. Leaving Windsor Castle an hour earlier with Queen Mary in a clos ed motor car, the royal pair chang ed to an open landau with resplen dent livery at Albert Hall, Kensing ton Garden, and from there on rode between throngs of applauding thou sands. At Buckingham Palace one of the largest crowds ever seen outside its gates had gathered, and their ma jesties after entering reappeared on a balcony to respond to the mani festation. As his figure, remarkably straight and military for ’all the travail <?f the past few months, was seen on a little platform the palace bands started to play the British national anthem. “God Save the King ”. The music stirred the throng to tumultous enthusiasm cheer after cheer coming from thousands of throats, while hands waved hand kerchiefs and flags. King George removed his tall hat and smiled and waved at the crowd, with Queen Mary, who fairly beamed her pleas ure, he pointed out groups in the crowd. TURKISH PRESIDENT MAY VISIT AMERICA WASHINGTON. July 2.—UP)— Prospects of a visit to the United States by Ghavi Mustapha Kemal Pasha, president of Turkey, are be ing widely discussed in diplomatic circles in connection with the visit here of Dr. Refik Bey, Turkish mnister of public health. Dr. Refik Bey has spent more than two months in the United States under auspices of tne Rocke feller Foundation inspecting health and social service Institutions. Several years ago President Kemal made plans to visit various European capitals and it was re ported he might come to the United States. COUNTY FEE PROBE GROUP COMPLETED AUSTIN. July 2.—(/PI—Personnel M the joint legislative committee that will investigate amounts re ceived by county officers in fees and Ealaries was completed today with appointment by Speaker W S. Bar ron of the three house numbers. Representatives George O. Purl and Jack Keller of Dallaa and Carl Rountree of Lamesa were appointed fro mthe house. The senate mem bers are Senators Walter Woodul of Houston, and Pink Parrish of Lub bock. STOP THAT ITCHING Use' Bias Star Soap, then apply Blue Star Remedy for Eczema, itch, tetter, ring-worm, poison oak, dan druff, children’s sores, cracked hands, sere feet and most forms of itching skin diseases. It kills germs, •tops itching, usually restoring the akin to health. Soap 25c; Blue Star Remedy. $1.00. Ask your druggist. ►—Adv, * On your trip to ►the vacation lands of California Low cRpund-Trip Fares Make It Inexpensive , J^ound £)jrect Route tgj Fastest Limited * rip Trains give you more time for rest $8620 and pleasure. S* Palatial, luxurious, complete trains suchi as “Sunset Limited” and “Ar gonaut” contribute to comfort and enjoyment. * ' Stop-overs let you visit many inter esting points without additional ex pense, — yes even includes Old Mexico. ^ Diverse route privileges, give you many optional routes returning, — Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake, Colo rado, Etc. And while on the Pacific Coast, when you go by. Southern Pacific ▲ you get to see all of most interest ing California. k Send or ask for descriptive literature I ^F which also gives costs of trip, routes, etc* I them Pacific I LINES Ex-Convict Editor Lays His Rearrest To ‘Woman Scorned* LI.IIIMI ■ .. ■ CHICAGO, July 2.—“. . . and then that fearful hand, the police, issues from the shadow, and sud denly tears off my mask!”—Jean Valjean. Robert Elliott Bums, escaped convict who became editor of a Chicago magazine, scorned a wo man. And now, a modem Jean Valjean, he’s* scheduled to go back to a Georgia chain gang. Seven years ago a sledge swung by a fellow prisoner, a giant negro, struck off the shackles riveted around Bums’ ankle and he escap ed from the road camp where he had been sent for his part in a $4 robbery, from which his share was $1.33. He had drifted down south after discharge from the army and, with two chance companions, rob bed a grocery. In the pursuit that followed the breaking of the shackles he outwit ted guards and bloodhounds, and reached Chicago penniless. He got a job in a packing plant at $3 a day. Then he stepped up to a $40 a week job figuring beef averages and rented a room at 6444 Ingle side avenue. “That’s where I met the woman who caused all the trouble," he says. Mrs. Emily Pacheo, 14 years his senior, became Mrs. Robert Burns. She had learned of his secret, de clares Burns, and threatened to ex pose him unless he married her. Although she is suing for divorce, Mrs. Burns denies she sought re venge by “turning him in.” “I still care for him too much,” she says. “He told me his history right after we were married. I’ve never told a soul.” His courtship, she says, was ar dent. Bums had the idea for his real estate magazine and worked nights to get money to start. Soon it was a going concern and he had won the confidence of prominent bus iness men. His income from the magazine alone was estimated at $20,000 yearly. Then he met Lillian Salo, 22, of Minneapolis, pretty violin student. They fell in love and Bums left his wife. Soon after that two deputies from Georgia walked into Bums’ office. “We want you,” they said. “I knew he was married,” said Miss Salo, “and we were waiting for him to get a divorce. I didn't wait for him.” As for Burns, former Brooklyn newsboy, he has his own protective philosophy. A motto on his office wall sums it up. Burns’ plea against extradition, bawd on his record since escape and his war service (he took part in four major battles and claims a citation), was refuse by Governor Emmerson. Now he has voluntarily agreed to return to Georgia and serve out his sentence. CONDITIONS SERIOUS WASHINGTON, July 2.—(^ip)_ Conditions in Haverill, Mass., were described as “serious” today by Raymond V. McNamara, HaverhM shoe manufacturer, in urging a higher tariff on imported shoes. HAVANA.—The city’s last hack is gone after a valiant struggle. It disputed the right of way with a taxi, its motive power, a horse, was seriously injured. The hack, built in ’89, was wrecked. Jacinto Baldez. 76, the driver, escaped. Robert Elliott Burns (left), esc aped convict who became a pros perous editor in Chicago, blames h is wife (upper right) for his re capture, saying she reported him .after he fell in love with Lillian Salo (lower right). Claim of Youngest Vet Is Aired Again NEW WEATHER ARRIVE Force Enlarged At Local Bureau to Care For Air Services Two observers have been added to the personnel at the local weather bureau to care for the additional work incident to the instituting of the airline control station, which is expected to be in full operation in about two weeks. Victor V. Phillips, who arrived Sunday from Groesbeck, is an ex perienced observer in all lines, but especially in upper air work in ad dition to general routine, and will have charge of the greater part of the work at the airport, according to W. J. Schnurbusch, chief of the weather bureau, who will direct op erations at both offices. Lee Bender, a recent graduate of the University of Texas, comes here with the rating of a junior observer, and will have routine work in the Brownsville office. It is expected that the subsidiary office at the airport will start op erations as soon as quarters have been completed, probably within two weeks. This office is a link in the chain of stations being placed by the federal government along im portant airways, and is the first established in Texas. A second is to be established at a later date, possibly Dallas. Two rooms are being prepared In the administration building at the airport for the occupancy of the subsidiary station, while instru ments will be supplied by the gov ernment. % Cameron Courts | Suits filed in the District Courts: Guillermo Esparza vs Herlinda M. Esparza, Divorce. • John V. Clark vs. E. J. Tucker, debt. 28TH DISTRICT COURT Hon. A. W. Cunningham, Judge No orders. 103RD DISTRICT COURT Hon. A. M. Kent, Judge No orders. COUNTY COURT Hon. Oscar Dancy, Judge Suits filed: None. COUNTY COURT AT LAW Bon. John Kleiber, Judge No orders. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Furnished by Valley Abstract Co. Cameron County Port Isabel Irrigation Co. to James Hodgson, Jr., south 5.37 acres, block 2. Bayview Citrus Groves subdivision, plat 8-13, $8055. Los Ebanos Estates. Jnd., to James B. Marsh et ux, farm block 1, Los Ebanos Prop, Share 19, E. S. grant, 5.87 acres, plat 8-12, $5870, etc. F. N. Booth to Eulalio Gonzales, lot 4. block 29. Fourth addition, 6an Benito, $148.75. F. N. Booth to Juan Rodriguez, lot 5. block 30. Fourth addition. San Benito. $127.50. M. D. Kennedy to Domingo Pena, lot 40, block 13, Garden Parks sub division, Brownsville. $264. T. D. Crawford et ux to W. D. Christie, 38 acres. Homeville tract, La Feria grant. Rancho de Santa Maria, plat, 4-23, $10. etc. C. S. Thomson to William D. Eminger et ux, south 10 acres of southwest 20 acres, block 7, Cantu tract, La Feria grant, plat 4-45, $$000. D. C. Beck et ux to M. V. Boat right et ux. 5 acres out of 0.7 acres, block 21, F. Z. Bishop subdivision. $10, etc. Hidalgo County Morgan Olson to D. S. Smith h'sler, south one-half lot 41, Santa Ana subdivision, $750. J. L. Black to W. H. Giles, lots J » — » "■ " ' KANSAS CITY, July 2.—(JP)— The birthdate of Gilbert Van Zant, 77-year-old Civil war veteran, may settle history’s argument over the question, “Who is the youngest old soldier?” In youthful age he outranks Maj. Gen. John L. Clem of Washingtonr heretofore generally regarded as the youngest surviving recruit of the union army. Mr. Van Zant was bom December 20, 1851, while General Clem’s birthday was Aug ust 13 the same year. The Kansas City veteran, who lacks 10 years of looking his age, enlisted as a drummer boy in Port Williams, Ohio, in 1862 before he was 11 years old. General Clem's service dated from May 1, 1363. For bravery under fire, the 79th Ohio Volunteer infantry gave young Van Zant a mounted gold; and silver drum at Nashville. He started on Sherman’s march to the sea, but that experience was side tracked by his appointment as a dispatch carrier near Atlanta. Soldiers called him “little girl.” Superior officers liked the lad so well that an interview with Presi dent Johnson was arranged after the war. Tl\e executive, who marveled at the lad’s extreme youth, gave him a choice between an army com mission or the pony he had ridden to deliver dispatches under fire. Van Zant took the pony. His army discharge, issued in 1865, described him as 13 years old and four feet tall. He does not greatly exceed that height today. “I have been asked many times why I am not larger. “My only answer is that probably I was scared out of three years’ growth during the war.” MAMORONECK N. Y.—Two well known gentlemen ran into each other Saturday in the lobby of a hotel. “Oh, Al!” said Bobby, “I’ll be a bit late. Mrs. Jones and I are going to church.” And Al re plied: “That’s all right, Bobby. “Mrs. Espinosa and I are going to church too. I’ll be late myself." And thousands waited for the start of the playoff for the national open golf title. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — John Coolidge of New Haven, alumnus of Amherst and rising young rail roader, is enrolled in the Harvard summer business school. SPRING VALLEY, N. Y.—Mrs Rosa Peters, 44, and her 17-year old daughter have been graduated together at the Spring Valley high school. Mrs. Peters, wife of a Con gregational minister, took a four year course in order to qualify for a position as music teacher in the public schools. BANGOR, Me.—Salmon seem to be obliging in Bangor Pool. Lath rop Caldwell of Brewer says an eleven-pounder, unhooked, leaned right into his boat. 9, 16 and 15, block 65, Mo Tex, $8000 W. H. Stevens to Jas. Wm. Clif ford. lots 111 & 112, Hoit, $9025. I. D. Hedges to Paul Koch, lot 1, block 142, Edinburg, $3365. H. A. White to W. A. Harding, lots 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, block 66, Mo Tex, $1000. J. T. Hatch to Lucile Hatch, north 5 acres, lot 31-12 west addition Sharyland, $10, etc. I. D. Hedges to T. M. Hartman, lots 7, 8 and 9, block 183, Edinburg. $1237.60. Rose Ruthven King, et als. to Ed win M. Ruthven, all int. in Dora Adeline Ruthven estate, $1, etc. D. S. Smithhisler to M. F. Butler, south one-half lot 41, Santa sub division. $1060. J. F. Ewers, to E. H. Harding, lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16, block 83, lot 16 block 66. lot 8 and 9 block 67, Mo Tex, $10, etc. SHIP INSECTS TO AUSTRALIA Investigators Find Bugs Which Will Destroy. Prickly Pears UVALDE. July 2.—(/P)—Thirty five cases of insects have Just been shipped from Uvalde consigned to Australia where they are to be lib erated by the government in an ef fort to destroy the prickly pear. The shipment, valued at $3,500, weighed 6,894 pounds, and the ex press charges to San Francisco amounted to about $565. A number of smaller consignments have been made in the past. For several years the Australian government has maintained inves tigators in this section to experi ment with insects which live on the prickly pear. The climate of this section is said to be quite sim ilar to that of Australia where mil lions of acres of land are covered with dense prickly pear growths. These growths are so thick in some sections that a rabbit cannot get through, according to R. C. Mun dell,.in charge of the work here. In the experiments here insects are caught and investigations con ducted with various kinds of vege tation to ascertain what they eat. Insects found which eat. nothing but prickly pear are placed’ in ven tilated cases for shipment. They are fed on the pear after their cap ture and until released in far-awai Australia. Three distinct species are being shipped at present, the most numer ous being the bettle-Iike ' insect known to the scientific world as “Moneilema ulkei,” which devours roots and tops of the plants. An other, the “Asphondvlia,” destroys the prickly pear seed. The third is known as “Caterpillar militara," of which there are three species. In recent years several thousand acres have been claimed in Australia by the “insect” method, according to Mr. Mundell. Insect investiga tions are under way in other sec tions of Texas and in Arizona and New Mexico. Samuel Berek of Fremont, Neb., attended a Lutheran college and a Catholic university. Now he plans to enter Hebrew Union college and study to be a .abbi. - ■* '■ —AJ. .... - — - - fcj 1 Weekly Cable Review { Debts and disarmament, the Siamese twins of the international politics, drew most of the attention again last week in the world show booth. As the time for payment of Frank’s $400,000,000 bill for Amer ican war stocks approaches, the French parliament, faced with dif ficult debates on ratification of the American and British debt settle ments, has grown restive. This broke out finally in a request trans mitted to Ambassador Claudel at WasMngton by Premier Poincare for unconditional postponement of maturity of the war stocks bill, Sec retary of State Stimson’s reply gave little hope of favorable action by the United States, which few French statesmen had been san guine enough to expect. A cabinet crisis was feared. In London Premier Ramsay Mac Donald threw something of a dam per cn hopes for early progress on the disarmament problem, declar ing “we are not going into a peace conference without such prelimi nary preparation as will avoid the failure of 1927.” British statesmen understood this was also the attitude of Washing ton. Prof. Webster, who holds the chair of international politics a tthe University of Wales. suggested Great Britain relinquish her West Indian naval bases to advance a better Anglo-American understand ing. Germany celebrated the tenth anniversary of her extreme preoc cupation with debts and disarma ment by a day of national mourn ing for the treaty of Versailles and of protest for the “war guilt lie” embodied in it. There was brief flurry in Berlin when the reichstag failed to pro long the defense of the republic act under^ which the former kaiser was excluded from Germany at the pleasure of the government. Officials calmed the excitement by pointing out the government had other w’ays of preventing the return of the ex-kiaser, who' would be obliged to apply for visas and other papers like any private individual. The world had a thrill when Ma jor Ramon Franco and three other Spanish aviators, missing for eight days on a round-trip flight from Spain to New York and almost given up for lost, w^ere picked up by a British airplane carrier southeast of the A"-.es. They survived a week of storms, hunger, fatigue and nervous tension without being much the worse for it. Manchuria furnished a back ground for a new cabinet crisis in Japan. The ghost of the assassin ated war lord. Chang Tso-Ling, arose to trouble the conservative ministry of Baron Tanaka. Polit ical observers forecast the resigna tion of the conservatives and the advent to power of the liberals. Citrus Expert In California Taking Course In Methods DONNA, July 2.—Capt. W. R Gwathmey, manager of the Grovi Development Co., has gone to River side. Calif., where he la attendin# a summer course in citrus culture conducted by the University of Cali fornia. Capt. Gwathmey, who was in terested in citrus in the British West Indies before coming to thi Valley three years ago. has beer studying Valley methods since hi* arrival here. _. - Every Bank b Has Personality A bank's personality becomes evident in the way it serves its patrons. The Merchants’ National Bank believes most people select a bank in the same way that they choose their friends — on the basis of personality and reliability. 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