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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.—</p)—
The report of Dr. Alexander O.
Goettler, who made a chemical
analysis of the vital organs of Wil
mer Stultz, transatlantic flyer kill
ed with two passengers in an air
plane accident last Monday, de
clares “the man was very drunk
at the time of his death.”
The Nassau county prosecutor’s
office announced Dr. Goettler's
findings today. He made the analy
sis at the order of county officials
who investigated the accident.
Assistant District Attorney Phil
lip Huntington said Dr. Goettler's
report said there was a “large
amount of alcohol in the stomach
and brain,” that there was ‘‘alcohol
in the liver and kidney” and “the
conclusion is that the man was very
drunk at the time of his death.”
Stultz and his companions were
killed when his plane went into a
tailspin while he was “stunting” at
an altitude of 300 feet near Roose
velt field.
The district attorney’s office an
nounced it would commence a cam
paign against drunken flying at the
Nassau county fields, although the
announcement said there was little
intoxication on the part of pilots.
GALA DRESS FATAL
STERLING. 111.—A filmy dress
donned by Ethel Reardon for a
birth**; y party caught fire and the
child burned to death.
Spotted Showers
Fall on Holiday
Over Valley Area
Local rains well spotted over the
Lower Valley were indicated in
weather reports Friday morning,
with a fall of .42 inches at Browns
ville and .37 at Mission. •
Light showers began here, at about
10:30 a. m., Thursday, and con
tinued throughout the day and
night, with a brisk shower Friday
morning, though the precipitation
Thursday was not very heavy.
While showers fell in most parts
of the Valley, there was no general
rainfall, acording to W. J. Schnur
busch, chief of the weather bureau.
No rain was reported from Los
Indios.
Temperance Board
Gives Bishop Vote
Of Full Confidence
LAKE JUNALUSKA. N. C., 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.”
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| 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.