- : .■— Any Kmd ';3»tl ggp rUmpS For Any Duty : Over 45 Years Experience In Solving Pumping Problem* Alamo Iron Work* Brownsville — Corpus Christ! San Antonio — Houston !■ . . .. j jTHIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No, 2 _NOOII EdltiOII BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1929 NOOI1 EditiOII * 6c A C0PY m our VALLEY | THE WEATHER proved the greatest enemy to the Fourth of July celebration in Brownsville. Showers in the morning kept many people out of town for the early festivities. Better indications at noon encouraged many to leave their homes for this city. A goodly number were on hand for the parade. By night fears of rain had been dispelled and everybody turned out for the beautiful water pageant and fireworks display on the banks of the resaca in Fort Brown. There were from 20,000 to 25,000 people in the ampitheater when the program started. But midway of the presentation a few drops of rain fell and, fear ing a deluge, about half the throng left. • • • Those who remained witnessed one of the most elaborately staged and costumed presentations ever attempted in this section. The stage setting was elaborate and colorful, the floats on which ; the various princesses rode by the throng on the way to the corona tion ceremonies were unusually well done and the costumes had an appearance f richness and authen ticity which added much to the appearance of the beautiful young women who had been selected to represent the various countries. Then came the coronation with colorful ceremonies in which weil trained dancers and singers played an important part. A public addres sradio system of loud speakers to carry the voices of the singers across the resaca would have made the presentation much more effective, the voices being lost by the great distance across the body of water. There was a mild panic for a time when the few drops of rain JfH. Failure on the part of a large ■number of persons to note carefully where they had parked their cars caused the confusion. By the time they all had discov ered their automobiles the rain had I ceased. > Policing of the post and parking arrangements were handled by the Twelfth cavalry in a highly com mendable manner. Despite the large crowd there was no confusion. •This portion of the work was in charge of Captain Marion I. Voorhes. • • • The day a sa whole was a huge success with the exception of the unfavorable weather. Harry Faulk, general chairman of the day and his large corps of assistants de serve high praise • for the manner in which the entire program was managed. These included: Boy Scout ar rangements: Jas. L. Abney, chair man; W. O. Washington, J. W. Al len, C. E. Clegg, Sgt. Sanderson. Parade: Bascom Cox, chairman; H. M. Wood, Theo. Allen, Max Shapiro, Ed Taylor, Geo. Dasha, Joe Calderoni, Lee Adamson, and W. A. Darling. Pageant: Mrs. V. W. Taylor, Chairman; Mrs. H, L. Yates, and Miss Julia O'Brien. Fireworks: Wilbur Dennett, John Panning. • • • COTTON PICKING, with the usual first bale excitement, start ad in the Valley three weeks ago. But the first cotton to be shipped by water is to leave Corpus Christi Saturday. One hundred bales of new crop cotton—all grown in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, of course—will be loaded aboard the Jean Weems, aie.Timship now in that south Texas ?2rt. The vessel sails Saturday for it* Carolinas. COMMEMORATING a quarter of a century of successful service to the citizens of the Valley, the Frontier Lumber company has mailed to its friends and patrons an illustrated folder printed in two colors. The front page depicts the prog ress from ox-cart to airplane trans portation which has taken place in the Valley and throughout the na tion in the past 25 years. The two t center pages give a short history of the establishment and develop ment of the company and carry pictures of L. K. Morris, the found er, and the present plant of the company at Tenth and St. Francis streets. The back page contains pictures of the Southern Pacific passenger station in Brownsville, the Gateway bridge, the Presbyterian church, the State National bank, the Missouri Pacific station and the El Jardin hotel as “a few buildings for which the Frontier Lumber company has furnished the lumber and building material.” • rTP POLICE RIDE NEW ORLEANS CARS ARMED Hand to Hand Fight ing Results In Two Dead and Several Hundred Hurt NEW ORLEANS, July 5.—(/P)—A hail of brickbats greeted the first street car to be operated in New Orleans since the carmen’s strike started last Tuesday and after 20 minutes of operation it was returned to the barn. The car was manned by operators and was guarded by a squad of police armed with sawed-off shot guns and pistols. Strikers and their sympathizers hurled bricks at the car as it went through Canal street but no serious injuries was reported. A part of the track was tound torn up early this morning on Canal street and a large dismantled steam roller was stalled in the middle of the tracks on Carrollton avenue. When workmen attempted to re move it they were chased away by a crowd of men with sticks and bricks. Fierce Fighting NEW ORLEANS, July 5.—f/P)— After a night of fierce hand to hand fighting between strike sympathiz ers and workers in which one man was probably fatally shot and more than 200 slightly hurt, New Orieans public service inaugurated the op eration of street cars on eight desig nated lines today with crews un der protection of policemen armed with pistols and sawed-off shotguns. Three patrolmen accompanied each car taken out of the barns while heavy details were assigned to the car barns where the workers are housed in an effort to prevent further outbreaks of open warfare between strike sympathizers and several hundred street car opera tors brought into New Orleans last night. Brickbat storming and pistol fir ing in riots at the Canal street and the Arabella barns caused 71 arrests but the men weer freed of charges of disturbing the peace late in the night when hailed into court. Scores who participated in a battle of a thousand men and police at the Canal street barn when the com pany sought to transport a hundred workers to the barn suffered lac erations and contusions that re quired hospital treatment. Joseph Morliriero, a striker, who fell with a bullet wound in the neck during the general battle which lasted for a quarter of an hour, was not expected to live. The disturbance at the Arabella barn was quelled by an army of policemen who emerged blood smeared after a 45-minute round with the rioters. Stones, bricks and other missiles hurled by the mob and free use of police sticks ac counted for the major part of the injuries and broke out windows in the car barns, though fists figured in the clashes. Public service officials decided to dump into the Mississippi river sev eral car line switches they found solidly cemented rather than risk opening the boxes. The flame was fanned into huge proportions shortly after union offi cials transmitted to public service their rejection of the ultimatum by the company that the strikers must return to work last night by 6 o’clock under the terms of the company’s proposed contract or the street cars would be manned and operated without them. The union men declare! the con tract failed to grant the proper rec ognition to the employes organiza tion in that the union was not given a voice of arbitration on suspensions and dismissals of workers. Canadian Showers Bring Upturn Of Wheat Valuations CHICAGO. July 5.—(/P)—Wheat advanced quickly today after an ir regular start. Showers over drought districts in Canada together with sharp setbacks in wheat auotations in Liverpool, caused transient uncer tainty, but comprehensive adverse crop reports from Canada were scon more than offset. Opening at 7- 8c down to 7-8c up. Chicago wheat later scored decided gains all around. Corn, oats and provisions were likewise firmer, with com starting unchanged to l-2c higher and subsequently holding near to initial figures. I., .-■ - - ■■■■■ —■] « Monoplane Passes 160 Hours In Air; Continues Flying CLEVELAND, July 5.—(JP)—The monoplane City of Cleveland, in which Roy L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb are seeking to break the refueling endurance flight record of 172 hours, 32 minutes and one second, had been aloft 160 hours at 10:30 a. m. today. SLAYiNGlAiD TO DRY AGENT Raider In Jail After Farmer Is Killed In Rum Raid SHAWNEE, Okla., July 5.—(/P)— Following a gun fight w’ith two farmers during a liquor raid in which one of them was killed, Jeff B. Harris, federal prohibition agent, today was in the county jail at Tecumseh, Okla. James Harris, one of the farmers, died at midnight after accusing the officer of ordering him to throw down his gun and then shooting him. The officer denied this, saying that while he was looking into some chicken coops on the Harris farm, he saw the farmer coming toward him with a shotgun. Oscar Lowery, 34, brother-in-law of James Harris, started to run, and as he thought he was going after a gun the officer said he shot him. Lowery is in a critical condition. Harris fled to some bushes along a creek, the federal agent said, and as he approached, came out of the bushes, ready to shoot. He fired, the officer said, as he saw the gun. Three other federal officers who participated in the raid were ar rested, but released. Randall Pitman, Pottawatomie county attorney, said murder charges would be filed. FLOODAREA RECLAIMED Dallas Industry Takes Ad vantage of Land In undated DALLAS, Tex., July 5.—(JP)—Dal las sees an industrial renaissance in the reclamation of 10,000 acres of land near the geographical heart of the city. It is costing $11,000 an acre to reclaim that area in the Trinity river bottoms, where floods have forbidden industrial expansion. En gineers estimate that $25,000,000 will be spent in improvements within five years after this project is completed. Until $11,000,000 in bonds was voted to reclaim the Trinity’s basin, Dallas industry had been forced to stop at its edge. Once each 20 years, for the last 80 years, the river flooded these 10,000 acres. That area always has separated Dallas and Oak Cliff, a suburb of 70,000. Now the river in Dallas’ business area is being shortened by 28 miles.. A new channel is being dug be tween levees, 30 feet high and 156 feet thick at the base. Altogether, 25 miles of levees and 15 miles of new channel are being constructed. Once completed, seven new bridges will open added highways between Dallas and Oak Cliff. The reclaimed district borders on the railroad cen ter, so trackage facilities for new factories will be available. The pro ject is to be finished within a year. Billboard Laws Are Discussed By City Commission Discussion of the billboard ordi nance was underway Friday morn ing at the regular meeting of the city commission. Owners of bill boards in Brownsville appeared be fore the group. Working out of plans satisfactory to all was under way. Bids on sewer werk were sched uled to be opened. SUITOR KILLS GIRL KEWANEE. Mo., July 5.—(JF)— Irma Hendershott, 16, daughter of William Hendershott, a farmer, was shot and killed in the yard of her home near here late yesterday by Claude Mayberry, 23, a suitor, who then was slain by the girl’s father as he attempted to commit suicide. < WOUNDED MAN WAS TREATED BY PHYSICIAN Huge Liquor Haul In Raid Totalled 117 Bottles of Mescal, Brandy Three men were in jail here Fri day charged with violation of the federal prohibition laws and officers expected to make two additional arrests during the day, following the raid in which United States of ficials exchanged shots with the al leged rum runners at Tomates Bend late Wednesday night. One man was known to have been wounded in the affray and officers have learned that he was treated by a local physician Thursday. He was removed by friends’ but officers believed he would be apprehended during the day. The man was shot three times through the arm, the doctor informed officers. The men in jail are Matias Tre vino. Antonio Grenada and Felismo Sanchez. A large quantity of liquor was seized by the officers after the gun battle, consisting of 117 pints of mescal, 3 quarts of tequila. 12 quarts of brandy and 10 gallons of mescal in two five gallon cans. Officers engaging in the raid were R. L. Campbell, E. R. McNabb and A. A. Champion of the customs ser vice, Wm. Thompson, immigration border patrol inspector and E. Ca vazos, deputy sheriff. A 45-automatic pistol was found Thursday at the scene of the battle by officers. It was lying near a large pool of blood and officers be lieved it was the property of the man who was wounded. Oficers reported that the alleged smugglers opened fire on them when they were halted. The Fourth of July was unusually quiet throughout the county. Sheriff Frank Brown reported Friday. Only three arrests were made during the day, three women hav ing been placed in jail here on charges of vagrancy. Legislature Enters Fifth Month’s Work Of Watchful Wait AUSTIN. July 5.—(A*)—Entering upon its fifth month’s work for this year, the 41st legislature continued its “watchful waiting” today. Both branches wTere waiting for a quorum, with little likelihood of one materializing before Monday, if then. The house has been without a quorum since last Monday. Mem bers began leaving then In anticipa tion of sine die adjournment Tues day. not anticipating a third called session. The senate Is organized and ready for business, but cannot turn a wheel until the house organizes. The house will meet from day to day until a quorum shows up. Huntsville Guard Takes Two Escaped Convicts to Prison R. S. Cloud, guard at Huntsville penitentiary, left Brownsville Thurs day morning in a bus returning two prisoners captured recently by Dep uty Sheriff Ezequiel Cavazos, Jr., here. Amado Garcia alias Ricard Vas quez, sent up from Sinton on a mur der charge sentence of 25 years, was one of the men. He was arrested here June 27. Manuel Martinez alias Antonio Lopez, was sentenced to 25 years from Houston on assault and in tent to murder charges. He was captured June 29. ,t ACCIDENT VICTIMS ARE RECOVERING (Special to The Herald) MERCEDES, July 5.—Mrs. C. S. Vermillion and daughter, who were injured in an automobile accident near here Wednesday night, axe in the hospital recovering, it was re ported. They were on their way to visit H. J. Koontz in San Benito when the accident occurred. ■ .. ■ ■ - —1 AUTO WRECKS CONTRIBUTE LARGENUMBER Casualties Less Than Year Ago; Blast Deaths Fall; Drown ing Takes Toll CHICAGO, July 5.—(Jn—America surrendered 159 lives to the obser vance of its 153rd birthday anniver sary yesterday. The Fourth of July death lisfi this year was 46 under 1928, the re duction being attributable chiefly td the decrease in the number ofl deaths from drowning and from the beat. In only one division did the 1929 fatalities exceed last year'a that was in automobile accidents with 70 this year as compared with 54 last. Fireworks in themselves con tinued to play a smaller part in the nation’s independence day ccath roll. Only seven fatalities irom this cause were reported this year as compared with 11 in 1928; and two* of them resulted from a fireworks factory explosion and fire July 3. Drownings were responsible for8 the largest loss of life, as they wer# last year; but even so, there were 35 less deaths from this cause than a* year ago. Automobile fatalities, on the other*., hand, bounded upward from 54 lasti year to 70. Middlewesl Contributes Nearly one-third of the country’s total toll was taken by the middle west. The middle Atlantic states which last year led the country lri deaths with 68, had 30 less yester day. although more than half the deaths from fireworks in the coun try occurred In that section. The northwest and the mountain states had the smallest death lists, each section reporting three. Temperatures generally were low er throughout the country yester day than was the case July 4, 1923, when 12 deaths resulted from heat alone. So far as reports to The As sociated Press showed, there w?.S only one from heat, that in Chi cago. Last year airplane accidents took four lives, whereas yesterday only one death occurred from this cause, A year ago, too, there were three deaths in automobile races. The only death from that cause reported, this year was at Pompano. Fla., where a driver was killed after he had crossed the finish line in third place of a 10 mile dirt track race. Stricter Laws Stricter laws regulating the sale and use of fireworks was credited with keeping the number of deaths and iniuries from this cause dawn. In Michigan, particularly, enforce (Continued on page 9.) HOME TOWN GREETS CONQUERING GOLF IDOL Mayor I. N. Ragsdale (left) headed a cheering throng of Atlantans who welcomed Bobby Jones home after his victory in the national open golf tournament at Winged Foot club, Mamaroneck, New York, 15 HURT IN TRAIN CRASH Passenger Train Backs Into Side of Accom modation ST. LOUIS, July 5.—(/P)—Fifteen persons are known to have been in jured at 7:25 a. m. today when a Burlington passenger train iiom Kansas City backed into the side of a Frisco accommodation train at the union station here. Five of those hurt were suffering from frac tured skulls. Two wooden coaches, both with St. Louis county residents on their way to work in the city, were pushed off their trucks and overturned when the observation car of the Burlington train smashed into the side of .the Frisco local. Ambulances took 15 persons to city hospitals many other passen gers suffered minor cuts and bruises. All injured were occupants of the two Frisco coaches. The side of one coach was smashed by the collision. Detroit River Rum Runners Captured After Short Battle DETROIT, July 5.—(^—Attempt ing to run the rum blockade in the Detroit river at 1 a. m. today, four men were arrested and their liquor laden boat seized after coast guards had fired several shots at them. One of the four arrested was shot in the leg. A fifth man, believed to be wounded, escaped by swimming into Canadian waters. The rum runners were discovered between Ecorse and Fighting island about 300 feet from the former shore by a coast guard boat under comigand of F. T. Hagglove, chief boatswains mate. As the govern ment veSsel gave chase the rum run ners attempted to ram the boat and then cut loose from a lugger which was loaded with 300 cases of beer. The coast guards followed, firing about 20 shots, one of which finally crippled the motor of the retreating vessel. FLYER DRUNK, DOCTOR SAYS Viscera of Transatlantic Pilot Killed In Crash Are Examined MINEOLA N. Y., July 5.—)—Bishop James Cannon, jun ior of Richmond, Va., has the full confidence of the' board of temper ance and social service of the Meth odist Episcopal .church, south. The board of which he is presi dent. so declared yesterday in tak ing cognizance of published reports that Bishop Cannon had purchased, sold and otherwise dealt in stocks and market securities. Editorial condemnations of Bishop Cannon’s dealings were ascribed in a resolution adopted by the board to the efforts of‘the “wet press” to discredit “a great and influential leader of the prohibition forces of the nation.” fc ' | THE WEATHER | For Brownsville and the Valley: Mostly cloudy and unsettled to« night and Saturday, probably with local showers. For East Texas: Partly cloudy to night and Saturday; probably thundershowers in southeast por tion. Light to fresh southerly winds on the coast. RIVER FORECAST The river will rise to a moder ately high stage at Rio Grande City by Saturday morning and reach half to two-thirds bankful from Mission down Saturday night, Sunday and Monday. Thursday, July 4 Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr. Stage Stage Chng. Rain Eagle Pass .. 16 3.2 +0.1 • .18 Laredo . 27 0.8 +0.2 .35 Rio Grande . 21 7.4 +1.9 129 Mission. 22 8.8 +3.0 00 San Benito . 23 10.4 -0.4 .00 Brownsville .18 5.8 +1-4 .00 Friday, July 5 Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr. Stage Stage Chng. Rain Eagle Pass .. 16 3.0 -0.2 .00 Laredo . 27 9.0 +8.2 .45 Rio Grande . 21 10.0 +2.6 .10 Mission. 22 8.9 +0.1 .37 San Benito . 23 14.4 +4.0 .00 Brownsville .18 7.8 +2.0 .19 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isabel tomorrow, under normal meteor ological conditions' High .5:08 a. m. Low.9:09 p. m, MISCELLANEOUS DATA Sunset today. 7:26 Sunrise tomorrow . 5; Christian Endeavor Convention Upholds Hoover Dry Stand KANSAS CITY, July 5.—MV The Christian Endeavor went on record in its annual international convention here last night in favor of President Hoover’s stand against lawlessness. A resolution adopted by the great gathering of young Christians declared “we believe his (Hoover’s) leadership in this matter marks a new era in the progress of la wobservance and enforcement.’’ The resolution also declared the “18th amendment constitutes the greatest moral reform in the cor porate life of the nation within the present century and it is a notable effort to free people from the age long curse of the liquor traffic.’’ The resolution repudiated what it termed as “veiled suggestions” that youth in educational institu tions is flouting the 18th amend ment in great numbers, and affirm ed the “overwhelming majority of students are law abiding and ideal istically inclined.” EXAMINING TRIALS FOR BOYS SCHEDULED SAN BENITO. July 5.—Examin ing trial for five boys implicated in a series of robberies here re cently will be held before Justice of the Peace Valdetero Friday. Approximately 17 robberies in San Benito and Harlingen are charged i to the. youths.