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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 5 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY 5c A COPYji
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"ZIMMERLEY made it!”
That was the word which flew
about town about 9 p. m. Sunday.
Harry Nunn, manager of Hotel
El Jardin, had just received a tele
gram from the flier who took off
from the airfield here at 2:45 a. m.
Sunday.
After a non-stop flight, he landed
at Winnipeg, Canada, 1700 miles
away, at 6:45 p. m., exactly 16 hours
later.
And thus he established a world
record for distance of a continuous
flight in a plane of the type he was
flying, that is, machines weighing
less than 771 pounds.
It was a world record and it
started from Brownsville, Texas.
• • •
Barney Zimmerley, quiet, unas
suming and highly reticent—to the
despair of newspapermen seeking a
story—is the type who are making
aviation history.
While here he won the friend
ship of every person he met and
the best wishes of all of them flew
with him.
“I don’t want too much publicity
now," he said. "Wait until I have
done something.”
He was confident that he would
be successful. He insisted he would
not start until weather conditions
were right and that when he did
start he would go through.
“That thing won’t fly,” a spec
tator said of his queer little craft
in the presence of the flier one
afternoon at the local field.
“Wait until it gets going in this
test and then say that,” Zim
merly replied.
Already holder of the altitude
Record for planes of this type, this
30-year-old veteran of the air now
holds another world record—and
his bride of ten months at Mar
shall, Mo., awaiting his return has
reason to be proud of him.
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EARLY SUNDAY morning as a !
small crowd stood in the glare of
a spotlight playing on Barney Zim
merley’s plane just before the take
off on his successful hop to Winni
peg, a colored youth supplied the
crowd with chuckles with his ob
servations on aviation.
P'Sure is a funny looking ship,”
he said as he cast a critical eye
over the tiny, low-winged mono
plane.
“Why I don* even see no stabilizer
©n it!” he expostulated. The crowd
laughed. Determined to vindicate
himself and prove that he knew
something about it the dusky lad
rushed on to add: “Oh. you know
what I’m talking about. That thing
what the man pushes down to
make the back end ‘strut’.”
Zimmerly himself, supervising the
Installation of a barograph in his
plane, got a hearty laugh out of
this.
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IKE BOLLACK is qualified to
' teach school.
| And he has a certificate to that
fcffect.
The certificate came to light last
‘week in the office of the McAllen
Monitor.
Let that paper tell about it:
“Ike Bollack, Brownsville mer
chant, can teach school again now
if he wants to. We have sent him
his teacher’s certificate. In a catch
all comer of the Monitor office the
other day, which one of the boys
inadvertently disturbed while
sweeping the floor, we found Mr.
Bollack’s teacher’s certificate which
was issued to him in 1892, 37 years
ago, from the Sam Houston Normal
Institute. The certificate bears the
signature of J. S. Hogg, governor,
and ex-officio member of the board
of the normal. We sent the cer-.
tificate to Mr. Bollack and have
learned from him that it had been
. something like 15 years since he
saw it the last time.”
• • •
ATLEE B. AYERS, San Antonio
architect who has designed some of
the Valley's most imposing struc
tures, likes the electric fountain
which has been installed in Wash
ington Park here.
The following is from the San
Antonio Light:
Jrownsville, beautiful Rio Grande
sets an example in civic pride
and beautification for all south
Texas cities, reports Atlee B. Ayres,
architect, who has just returned
from a short visit there. Under the
supervision of Ben Proctor, the city
of Brownsville has constructed a*
beautiful electric fountain in its
city park which is among the most
attractive of its kind in this sec
tion of the country, Mr. Ayres said.
The fountain, about 25 feet in
diameter, spouts water 50 to 60 feet
in the air over a profusion of many
hued lights, resembling the foun
tains of world fairs, Mr. Ayres said.
"It was built at a cost of only $16,
000,” said Mr. Ayres, “and is one
of the Valley’s biggest attractions.
San Antonio could well afford to
follow the example.
4 STATE RESTS
t P DALLAS. 'iefL, o w <>P)—The
state rested its case against H. R.
Armstrong, charged with assault to
murder as a result of an attempted
jail break here on May 18, today
after calling but one witness. Arm
strong already is under a 25-year
sentence for robbery with firearms.
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MANILA, July 8.—(/P)—'Welcomed
to Manila today by thousands of
persons who crowded the pier,
streets and the Ayuntamiento, the
old legislative buildings, Dwight F.
Davis became the ninth American
governor-general o fthe Philippine
Islands.
Mr. Davis pledged his administra
tion to the friendliest cooperation
with the Filipino people and to a
policy of efficient economy.
Despite a steady rain which fell
all morning, thousands crowded the
pier where he was officially wel
comed by vice governor-general
Eugene Gilmore and other notables.
WATER HEARING
IS UP MONDAY
Valley Interests In Austin
Fighting Franklin
Application
(Special to The Herald)
AUSTIN, Tex., July 8.—The J. T.
Franklin hearing seeking water
from the Rio Grande to Irrigate
88,000 acres in Hidalgo county was
scheduled to get under way here at
2 p. m. after having been postponed
earlier in the day.
Valley interests both for and
against the application were on
hand for the hearing. Almost all
of the irrigation systems now in
operation in the Valley are oppos
ing issuance of the permit. Attor
neys for these irrigation companies
say the normal flow of the Rio
Grande will not provide enough
additional water to irrigate so
large a body of land.
The fight is expected to center
on the fact that Franklin has no
facilities for storing the water.
Nearly two years ago the water
board adopted an order refusing to
grant diversion from the Rio
Grande without storage facilities
being provided. Franklin’s appli
cation is based on a presentation
(Continued on page 10.)
Fight Over Hand of
San Antonio Girl
Ends In
SAN ANTONIO. July 8.—(A5)—A
father’s disapproval of his daugh
ter’s suitor, which flared into tragic
action in a running street fight here
Sunday night, today had put one
man in the morgue, another in the
hospital and another in jail, while
police sought a fourth.
Lazaro Vasquez, 40. died of a
heart wound at a local hospital Sun
day. His nephew, Willis Cruz, 36, of
Von Ormy was under guard at the
hospittal.
Joe Gorena. 19, of San Antonio
was in the city jail with a slight
cut on his head. A fourth man
whom Gorena says he knifed, was
the subject of a police search.
COTTON CROP IN
U. S. NEAR HIGH
RECORD OF 1926
WASHINGTON, July 8.—{IP)—The acreage of cotton under cultivation
in the United States July *1 was 3.2 per cent more than a year ago. The
department of agriculture today estimated the area at 48,457,000 acres,
compared with 46,946,000 acres on July 1 last year.
The condition of the crop on July 1 was not announced by the de
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Warrants For
Texas Solons
To Be Issued
AUSTIN, July 8—(/P)—Drastic ac
tion to force absent members to re
turn to Austin so the house may
complete its oranization and begin
the task of considering appropri
ation bills was in prospect today as
the lower branch marked time with
out a quorum.
With only 92 of 150 members pres
ent, Representative J. B. Snelgrove,
Henderson, said he would ask that
warrants be issued tomorrow for the
absentees if a working membership
failed to develop.
Roll call revealing 24 senators
present, the senate was ready to
transact business but was unable to
begin its proceedings due to the
failure of the house to become or
anized. Both houses recessed until
2 o’clock in the hope of beginning
their task of providing for the ju
diciary and educational and elee
mosynary institutions.
That Governor Moody may be
forced to submit a few minor sub
jects other than appropriations bills
in order to KeeP lawmakers busy
while money bills are being consid
ered by the appropriations commit
tees was indicated in a statement of
Speaker W. S. Barron today.
“It may be necessary to consider
a few additional subjects in order
that members of the two houses
may be kept here,” he said after
conferring ^ith the governor.
AUSTIN, July 8.—(J3)—A warn
ing that large interests are prepar
ing to attack the constitutionality of
a statute imposing a franchise tax
on foreign corporations based on
authorized capital stock was sound
ed today by Attorney General
Claude Pollard in a comunication to
the legislature.
Pollard said he doubted the va
lidity of the Texas statute and of
fered his services in preparing a bill
which would remedy defects com
plained of by the corporations. A
Washington statute similar to the
Texas law recently was held un
constitutional, he said.
Should the law be declared void,
the state would lose approximately
$500,000 annually, the attorney gen
eral estimated.
A bill remedying the franchise tax
law was introduced at the second
special session but died on the cal
endar. . *
VAAAVAAV HAMVi* AU AVi WiUUVll WJ AM TT
from estimating that figure at this
time, nor was a forecast made of
production.
The acreage in cultivation July 1
and revised figures for the area a
year ago follow:
July 1 July 1,
State— area 1928
Virginia . 89,000 81,000
N. Carolina .... 1,911,000 1,892,000
S. Carolina ... 2,410,000 2,485,000
Georgia . 3,922,000 9,383,000
Florida. 111,000 101,000
Missouri. 337,000 355,000
Tennessee. 1,122,000 1,145,000
Alabama . 3,389,000 3,643,000
Mississippi .... 4,403,000 4,154,000
Louisiana . 2,216,000 2,052,000
Texas .18,697,000 18,330,000
Oklahoma .... 4,685,000 4,420,000
Arkansas ....'. . 4,064,000 3,834,000
New Mexico .. 132,000 123,000
Arizona (A) ... 226,000 202,000
California. 319,000 223,000
All other states 24,000 23,000
U. S. total -48,457,000 46,946,000
Lower Cal. (B) 151,000 160,000
(A) Including Pima Egyptian
long staple cotton estimated at 67,
000 acres this year, compared with
50,000 acres in cultivation a year
ago.
(B) Not included in California
figures, nor in United States total.
“This year’s increase is six
tenths of one per cent less than
the record acreage of 48,730,000
acres planted in 1926,” the depart
ment commented. “The estimate
relates to acreage standing on July
1, allowance having been made for
any acreage which wras abandoned
prior to that date and for any acre
age replanted and in cultivation on
that adte.
“The increase in acreage has
taken place mainly in the states
from Alabama west, the eastern
part of the belt showing only
slight changes from last year.
“The August 1 production fore
cast will be based on the acreage
in cultivation on July 1, less the
ten year average abandonment in
each state after July 1. The board
will connect no information on
conditions of the 1929 cotton cron
until August 1.” ^
Zimmerly Breaks
Record In 16-Hour
Flight To Canada
WINNIPEG. Man., July 8.—<JF)— to the town of Wilson a distance of
A new world’s non-stop long dis- 600 miles, there was no sight of
tance record for light aeroplanes 1-nd,” said the pilot,
was established yesterday when The route then swung to Cogs
Dwight S. (Barney) Zimmerley flew well, N. D., Zimmer ley’s home town
from Brownsville, Texas, to Winni- where a message was dropped. Over
peg Kansas, Nebraska and a part of
Zimmerley, holder of altitude South Dakota the weather was
records for light planes, landed at clear but rain was encountered in
Stevenson * Aerodrome at 6 :45 Northern South Dakota and North
o'clock, completing (the 1725-mile Dakota.
flieht in 16 hours .to beat the pre- -
vious distance record by 758 miles. FRIENDS HERE ARE
Last year, Harry J. Brooks in a happy*OVER 9UPCESS
plane weighing under 771 pounds. HAPPY UVfcK
flew 972 miles. New found friends of D. S. (Bar
• Zimmerley’s monoplane, equipped ney) Zimmerley in Brownsville were
with a 60-horsepower motor, weighs rejoicing Monday over the success
726 pounds. ful non-stop flight of this young pi
Fog and rain were encountered lot from the airfield here to Win
shortly after the start, Zimmerley nipeg, Canada,
ran into a fog, the engine started The weather was disappointing
to miss, and he could reach an alti- and engine trouble almost put mi
tude of only 400 feet, but the motor early end to the flight, telegrams
became adjusted and from then on received here said,
it worked perfectly. Zimmerley wired to Major Ber
“From Brownsville, the most nard A. Law that he flew a greater
southern point in the United States, (Continued on page 10.)
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Dead Lad’s Mother
Says He Was Victim
Of Boy Blackhanders
SAUGUS, Mass., July 8.—(JP)—
Hysterically shrieking “Patsy has
carried out his threat,” Mrs. Santi
Demore, of Boston today identified
the body of a 10-year-old boy
found in the marshes here yester
day as that of her son, Salvatore.
The boy had been missing for 19
days. •
According to police, Patsy was the
leader of a black hand group in
Boston, which in a letter had de
manded $5,000 from the boy’s father
under threat of injury to his fam
ily. The threat, police said, was
the outgrowth of a feud of long
standing. The first demand was
made shortly before the boy disap
peared. During his absence, two
other letters were received which
contained similar threats.
The identity of Patsy was known
to police and a search was made for
him.
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
ENFORCEMENT
DELAYED TILL
END OF MONTH
—
Immigration Head
Tells Creager Law
In Abeyance; Will
Await Action
All Mexican immigration regula
tions requiring special border pass
ports have been suspended.
At least, they are off temporarily
at Brownsville and there is doubt
that they ever will be enforced at
the port of entry here.
No requirements of any kind will
be made until Aug. 1, Edelmiro
Rodriguez, in charge of the immi
gration sendee at Matamoros, as
sured R. B. Creager Monday morn
ing, and it was believed likely the
regulations would be definitely
changed before that date.
Pedro Chapa and a committee
left by plane Monday morning for
Mexico City to interview President
Portes Gil and other officials re
garding the regulations. They will
seek to have all pa: fport require
ments permanently banned.
One-trip permits have been is
sued for the past several days at the
office of L. Loez Montero, Mexican
consul here, to persons living out
side Brownsville. At the same time
Mexican immigration authorities at
the bridge had been notifying cit
izens of Brownsville that they must
obtain courtesy cards before July 25
or they would be required to secure
the onetrip passports for each visit
to Matamoros.
A charge of one peso was .made
for the one-trip passports and a like
charge was to have been made for
the courtesy cards. Cards issuprl to
citizens of Brownsville were to have
been good for one year from Jan. 1,
1929. and could have been renewed
at the end of the year.
“No one will be required to have
(Continued on page 10.)
PRISON GROUP
MEETS MONDAY
Centralization Committee
Names Houston Man
Chairman
AUSTIN, July 8.—(/Pi—Meeting
for the first time since its creation,
the Texas prison centralisation
commission today named W. A. Pad
dock, Houston, temporary chairman,
and Senator W. A. Williamson, San
Antonio, secretary, preparatory to
a session later today to consider
steps for the relocation 'f the peni
tentiary system.
Paddock, who is chairman of the
state prison board, told members of
the 18 member commission “The
prison board is not going to impose
any ideas and ask that you either
accept or reject them.”
Paddock said members of the
prison board wanted a free discus
sion and earnest cooperation from
the nine members of the senate and
house named with the prison board
to solve the penitentiary problem.
Members of the commission pres
ent of the preliminary meeting were
Fred Horton, Greenville; Lee Sim
mons, Sherman; J. B. H. Holderby,
Fort Worth; and E. H. Astin, Bryan,
members of the prison board; Sen
ators Edgar Witt, Waco; W. A. Wil
liams, San Antonio, and J. W. Stev
enson, Victoria, and Representatives
W. T. Graves, Stephenville; A. H.
King, Throckmorton; Coke R. Stev
enson, Junction, and E. T. Murphy,
Livingston.
BAIL FOR ALLEGED
FUGITIVE REDUCED
NEW YORK, July 8.—(JP)—Bail
for Charles H. Boyles, 68, held as
a fugitive from justice from Ama
rillo, Tex., was reduced to $15,000 to
day. The hearing was adjourned
until Friday when police informed
Judge Rosenzluth the Amarillo sher
iff had telegraphed he would arrive
then with extradition papers.
Boyles asserts that charges of big
amy, grand larceny and jumping
bail bond in Amarillo was a "frame
up.”
FLYERS LEAVE FOR ROME
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Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A. Yancey who are in the monoplane
Pathfinder, reported en route to Rome, after a successful take-off at
Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Monday morning.
PLAN FRUIT
PLANE LINE
Proposal Is to Operate Fast
Air Express For Lower
Rio Valley
DALLAS, Tex.. July 8.—(/PV—Ten
tative plans for the establishment of
an extensive air express system be
tween Dallas and the Rio Grande
Valley and Mexico were revealed
here today by the aviation depart
ment of the Dallas Chamber of
Commerce. The proposed system
would connect with lines to the east
and north from Dallas.
Although the name of the sponsor
was not made public, it was said it
was proposed to have the line in
operation by September.
Demand for highly valuable per
ishable citrus and other fruits of
the Rio Grande Valley and for wild
game which can be shipped from
Mexico to large hotels in the east
and north will assure success of
such a line, in the opinion of the
Dallas chamber officials.
AMPHIBIAN RETURNS
GLOUCESTER, Mass., July 8.—
(AP)—The coast guard amphib
ian plane piloted by Lieut. Leon
ard P. Melka, which accompan
ied the transatlantic plane
Pathfinder to sea and which was
at first believed to have been
forced down because of an ex
hausted fuel supply, returned to
her base here this afternoon. It
was believed Lieut. Melka stray
ed in the fog.
CALL AUTO BARONS
WASHINGTON, July 8.—(AP)
—Four automotive magnates or
their official representatives, are
to appear Thursday before a sen
ate finance sub-committee to tes
tify on the tariff schedules on
automobiles. The men requested
to appear are Henry Ford, Al
fred P. Sloan, Jr., president of
General Motors; W. C. White,
president of the WThite Motor
Truck company, and Mr. Macau
ley, who is also president of the
Packard Motor Car company.
MOODY VETOES BILLS
AUSTIN, July 8.—(AP)—Gov
ernor Moody today vetoed three
appropriations measures provid
ing for support of the state gov
ernment during 1930-31, payment
of miscellaneous claims and ac
counts against the state and
making refunds for illegally as
sessed seat taxes on busses travel
ing on non-fixed routes.
The explanation that appro
priations voted for the legislature
totaled $55,000,000 and that the
general revenue would not ex
ceed $49,000,000 was responsible
for his refusal to sign the mea
sures, the governor said.
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DOPE SEIZURE MADE
WASHINGTON, July 8.— (JP) —
Seven trunks belonging to Mrs.
Ying Kao, seized in San Francisco
by the customs officers, were held
up because secret treasury agents
aboard reported they contained
tins of opium valued at approxi
mately $60,000.
FOUR INJURED
BYSHOCKS I
LOS ANGELES
Excitement Follows
First Intense Dis
turbance In Many
Y ears
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LOS ANGELES. July 8.—(AV
Four persons, two men and two chil
dren. were injured in an earthquake
■which severely shook Los Angeles
and communities within a 30 mile
radius at 8:45 a. m.. today. Those
injured were reported from Santa
Fe Springs, oil town fifteen miles
south of here.
Long Begch, Hermosa Beach and,
Santa Monica, on the Pacific Ocean.'
felt the tremor more than the in
land communities of Pasadena and
Glendale. |
The tremor was an undulating
north and south movement, causing j
chandeliers in some buildings to!
sway like pendulums, rattling win-!
dows and moving small objects, but'
causing no damage.
A second tremor of less intensity,
was felt an hour later at 9:45
o’clock.
In Long Beach the Press-Tele
gram building at Sixth street and
Pine avenue was rocked for more
than fifteen seconds causing the
machines in the composing room to
vibrate while printers were getting
out the first edition.
Other buildings in the city rocked
perceptibly. Considerable excite
ment was created as it was the first
earthquake of any consequence ever
felt there. *
American Flyers
Hope to End Rome
Trip in 50 Hours
OLD ORCHARD, Maine, July 8.—(JP)—The mono*
plane Pathfinder with Pilot Roger Q. Williams and Navi
gator Lewis A. Yancey aboard took off from the beach
here with Rome as its destination at 8:49 a. m., Eastern
Standard Time.
The fliers expected to make the 4,700 miles flight in
from 45 to 50 hours.
The plane took off after a run of about one mile and
headed due south gaining an altitude of about 100 feet as
it left the beach.
The ship then made a wide swing and headed east on
her course until lost in the haze.
me siarr, in contrast to me omer7
two, when the plane Green Flash
was damaged and finally wrecked,
was made in a fog which caused
poor visibility. Williams, however,
took the heavily laden ship from
the sands after a run of little more
than a mile, cleared a steel amuse
ment pier at an altitude of 100 feet
and swung east in a wide circle.
While still within sight of watch
ers on the beach he circled to gain
more altitude and at a height of
500 feet headed towards Cape Sable,
N. S.
The first report as to the plane’s
progress came from Lieutenant L.
M. Melka, pilot of a coast guard
amphibian which was to accompany
the Pathfinder for the first 100
miles.
Twenty five minutes after the
start, Melka messaged the coast
guard station at Gloucester, Mass.
The Pathfinder was making “good
progress.”
The flight was to be not only a
long distance attempt but readings
were to be made by Yancey to aid
Dr. James H. Kimball, New York
meteorologist, in forecasting weath
er conditions over the Atlantic. Dr.
Kimball has been the unofficial
starter of all transatlantic flights,
fliers waiting for a favorable report
from him before taking off.
Mrs. Yancey, worn by the many
nights of little sleep preparing for
the hop off, returned to her room at
a hotel here immediately after the
start and left orders she was not to
be disturbed.
Favorable winds will aid the
Rome-bound plane although some
fog will be met until it is 1,600 miles
out, according to Dr. Kimball. Re
lying on these favorable tail winds
Yancey and Williams had their fuel
load cut from 500 to 450 gallons just
before the start.
Charles Ramsgate, New York at
torney and Williams' business man
ager, said the flier, just before the
take-off instructed him to ship all
the Pathfinder’s equipment to Rome
on the next boat.
GLOUCESTER. Mass., July 8.—(A1!
—Lieutenant L. M. Melka, pilot of
the coast guard plane accompany
ing the Old Orchard-to-Rome air
plane Pathfinder, reported to coast
guard base 7 here at 9:50 a. m.,
(Continued on page 10.)
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair to partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday.
For East Texas: Generally fair
tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy;
unsettled in northwest portion.
Light to fresh southerly winds on
the coast. *
RIVER FORECAST
The river will continue .) fall
slowly during the next itdays.
Flood Present 2l-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Chng. Rain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.8 0.0 .00
Laredo . 27 -0.5 -0.2 .00
Rio Grande . 21 5.9 -0.9 00
Mission. 22 6.4 -1.8 00
San Benito . 23 11.8 -4 9 -00
Brownsville . 18 8.9 -2.9 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 7:13 a. m.
Low . 11:48 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA r®
Sunset today .
; Sunrise tomorrow .
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