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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 13 NOOn EditiOll BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1929 NOOIl Edl'tiOII * 5c A COPY
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TWEETS FRIENDS
."i5SC*A'--Ss- , 1
Gen. Henri Gouraud, one-arm
ed hero of the World war, who
commanded the Fourth French
army and who now is military
governor of Paris, is attending
a reunion of the Rainbow di
' vision, which was under his
command, in Baltimore, Md.
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| VALLEY |
ROTARY PRESIDENTS and sec
retaries assembled here in the
fourty-seventh district assembly
question the motives of Burt E.
Hinkley, Sr., Brownsville member.
Monday afternoon the visitors
were offered a free ride in a tri
motored airplane by the Mexican
Aviation Company.
The plane was described in de
tail by Charles Burton, and to
quiet fear in the minds of those
who never had experienced a ride
In the air, fte told of the absolute
safety of the airliner.
“There is absolutely no danger,
gentlemen,” Hinkley chimed in at
this point.
All was quiet for a moment when
a visiting official in the rear of the
hall rose to his feet:
“May I ask whether the brother
who last spoke is in the undertak
ing business.”
But most of those present accept
ed the invitation of the Mexican
Aviation Co. and all those who
went pronounced it a wonderful j
experience.
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CAMERON COUNTY has 187.89 :
miles of concrete paving and 173.66
miles of first class road on which
grading and structures have been
iompleted.
Before expenditure of money
from the $6,000,000 road bond issue
was started the county boasted only
S6.63 miles of paving.
The last of the proceeds from the
fourth million of bonds is now be
ing spent—with the exception of
$35,000 reserved by Commissioner
Sam Bell to extend paving to the
site of the proposed deep water
harbor near Brownsville.
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Here is what the $4,000,00 has
purchased:
grading and structures on 322.92
one's of roads.
Concrete paving on 149.26 miles
of roads.
Over half of the concrete is 18
feet wide, a considerable portion
of it is 16 feet wide, some of it is
15 feet wide, and there are two
strips a total length of seven miles
only 9 feet wide.
Until some ‘way has been found
to increase the bonding capacity of
the county there is little that can
be done to continue the paving
program.
When the remaining $2,000,000 of
bonds finally are sold dumps will
be ready to receive paving on a !
number of important highways.
These include the Boca Chica
highway all the way to the beach
and two gaps in the militarv high
way along the river. Money from
the Brownsville precinct will pave
all of the first and a part of the
second mentioned project.
But the road to Rangerville right
now appears to be the key to the
situation.
The Harlingen water district has
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‘MOST USEFUL’
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CITIZEN TO BE
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NAMED BY CITY
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, July 16.—This
<i’ty’s most useful citizen is to be
selected by local organizations, in
a contest being carried on by the
American Legion post.
All organizations in the city
have been asked to submit the
name of the person they consider
the most useful citizen of Harlin
gen.
A certificate of appreciation is
to be awarded the person selected
by Stae Commander Rufus Scott.
SOLONS NEAR
END OF WORK
Third Extra Session of Le
gislature Trims Ap
propriations
AUSTIN, July 16.—(JF)—With the
five major appropriation bills re
duced from $51,161,614 to $47,890,832
—a net decrease of mere than
$3,000,000—the third special session
of the 41st legislature was on the eve
of finishing its work today.
Only departmental and claims and
acocunts measures remained to be
accepted on fre conference commit
tee reports to wind up the appropri
ations. The departmental bil car
ried a total of $10,532,283, against
$12,638, 225 of the measure vetoed
by Governor Moody when he turned
down all appropriations of the sec
ond called session. It was cut
$2,105,842.
The claims and accounts measure
was shaved 52 per cent. It was re
duced from $987,543 to $474,546.
The educational bill, appropri
ating $16,451,282 for suport of the
universities, collebes and schools for
the next biennium, was accepted
yesterday. It was reduced only $45,
263 under the bill rejected by Gov
ernor Moody.
The judiciary bill appropriated
$5,060,485, against $5,056,465 in the
discarded bill; eleemosynary. $10.
372,136, compared to $10,482,836
vetoed; and rural aid, $5,000,000. or
$500,000 less than the bill dis
approved by the governor.
The legislature cannot adjourn
sine die before Thursday if it con
siders seriously the legislation pro
posed by Governor Moody in his
message of last Saturday, wherein
he recommended passage of a law
preserving to the university and
public school funds returns from
minerals beneath state lands.. He
proposed retaining all mineral rights
and as a result the senate yesterday
passed a bill by Senator C. C. Small
of Wellington withdrawing all public
lands fro mthe market.
Harlingen Tot Is
Strangled As She.
Struggles In Chair
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, July 16.—Funeral
services for little Billie Johnson
18-months-old, who choked to death
Monday in an attempt to struggle
loose from a high chair, will be ar
ranged as soon as her father, L. R.
Johnson, arrives from Bryan, where
he is employed at an oil field.
The tot was placed in a chair
with a band around its chest, and
when her mother left the room she
tried to get out of the chair. In
the struggle and band reached the
child’s throat and she strangled.
Efforts to restore the baby at the
fire department proved futile.
The body is at the Thompson
mortuary.
BUSINESS WOMEN TO
DISCUSS HIGHWAYS
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(Special to The Herald'
HARLINGEIN. July 16.—Business
and Professional Women's clubs of
Harlingen and San Benito will meet
tonight at Rio Hondo in a joint
picnic session.
Beautification of highways con
necting the two cities and other
matters of joint interest will be
discussed.
PLANES WERE
OPERATED IN
LOCAL TRADE
Two Other Endurance
Trials Under Way;
Texans Sure They
Will Break Mark
HOUSTON, July 16.—(AP) —
The “Houston — Billion Dollar
City,” attempting an endurance
refueling flight record, landed in
a field about one-half mile south
east of the Houston airport this
morning. The plane had been in
the air less than 20 hours.. The
cause of the landing was not im
mediately ascertained.
HOUSTON, Texas, July 1.6—(/P)—
Determined to bring the endurance
flight record back to Texas, Joe
Glass and Glenn L. Loomis contin
ued to circle Houston in their or
ange and black monoplane which
they took into the air yesterday on
a refueling endurance flight.
To break the record of 246 hours,
43 minutes and 32 seconds the flyers
must stay in the air until a week
from this coming Thursday. The
first cargo of gasoline was trans
ferred to the endurance plane last
night, Lieut. Earl T. Showalter pi
loting the refueling ship.
A secon 1 successful refueling con
tact was made early today by the
Billion Dollar City.
Glass and Loomis reported every
thing in perfect condition.
The refueling was made over the
Bay Shore line. Most of the flying
is above the bay because of the
smoothness of the air there and the
opportunity to cut down on gaso
line consumption.
Brownsville and Valley residents
were especially interested in the
endurance flight under way at
Houston, Tuesday as both the en
during and refueling planes for
merly were operated between the
municipal airport and Soto la Ma
rina to transport fish for the Tex
Mex Fisheries.
Harry E. Stewart, owner of the
planes, spent many months in
Brownsville and has many friends
here.
Joe Glass, pilot of the endurance
plare, is a Texas Air Transport air
mail pilot who for several months
has been making regular flights be
tween here and San Antonio. He
obtained a leave of absence in or
der to make the present test. Glenn
L. Loomis, his companion in the
flight, operates a Houston airfield
and flying school.
Both ships nre Stinson-Detroiters
powered with Wright J-2 whirlwind
motors of 225 horsepower. The mo
tor of the endurance ship has been
thoroughly reconditioned at the
Wrieht factory.
The airplanes were taken from
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Child At Weslaco
Breaks Collarbone
In Fall From Roof
(Special to The Herald)
WESLACO, July 16.—Little eight
year-old Priscilla Grapperhaus
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Grapperhaus, was reported recov
ering Tuesday from injuries received
when she fell from the roof of a
small outbuilding, breaking her
right collar bone. The child’s
father was roofing the Mexican
house, and she climbed to the roof,
lost her balance and fell.
EDINBURG BAND TO
PLAY FOR ELSAITES
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG, July 16.—The Edin
burg Municipal band will play
Thursday night at 8 o’clock at Elsa
as a feature of a friendship meeting
and get-together between citizens of
Elsa and Edinburg. Refreshments
will be served to all those attending
the concert, it has been announced.
The band will give its regular
weekly concert in Edinburg Satur
day night, Director George E. Hurt
said.
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? HOLDS BIG JOBS
(Copyright, Harris & Ewing)
Miss Mae E. Schnurr, appoint
ed to fill the new post of as
sistant to the commissioner of
reclamation, is the first woman
to be given so high a position
in the U. S. interior depart
ment. For five years she has
been secretary to Dr. El wood
Mead, commissioner of recla
mation. She is also secretary
of the international water
commission.
Miss Schnurr is well known in
the Lowor Rio Grande Valley.
She came to Brownsville and
other Valley cities several years
ago with Reclamation Commis
sioner Elwood Mead and other
members of his department, as
guests of W. E. Anderson of San
Benito, member of the inter
equitable distribution of waters
national commission for the
of the Rio Grande.
AMENDMENT
VOTE LIGHT
Little Interest Shown In
Valley; Proposals Are
Favored
The Valley Tuesday was helping
the state decide two proposed
amendments to the state constitu
tion.
At 9:30 a. m. 23 boxes in Cameron.
Hidalgo and Willacy counties had
reported 167 votes and indications
were that at least the morning
vote would be one of the lightest
ever cast in a constitutional elec
tion.
The first amendment, to increase
the membership of the state su
preme court from three to nine
members, and to provide for a con
tinuous session of that court, was
believed to have a better chance for
passage than the second, which
would increase the governor’s salary
from $4,000 to $10,000 a year, the
increase to become effective with
the close of Governor Moody’s ad
ministration.
County officials are of the opin
ion that the recent action of the
governor in vetoing a measure to
increase the salaries of county offi
cials, has greatly injured the
chances of the amendment to pro
vide for a better salary for future
governors.
Proponents of the amendment
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One month',
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COMPETITION
IN RMING
CLUBS TOLD
Corpus Christi Leads
Among Cities Seek
I ing Next Convention
Of Rotary Heads
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The 47th district Rotary conven
tion of presidents and secretaries
opened the last of its two-day ses
sions Tuesday morning in the ban
quet hall of th^lR Jardin hotel af
ter a well rounded day of business
and social activities Monday.
Approximately 100 of the Rotary
heads are in attendance. Election
eering for the next meeting place
has been conducted vigorously by
Corpus Christi delegates and the
bay city is generally regarded as
the next convention city. No oppo
sition has developed as yet.
Vocational service, international
service, community service, boys’
work and informal discussions, are
on the program of the convention
Tuesday.
Monday afternoon the Rotarians
were given airplane rides by the
Pan-American Airways. Later they
had dinner at the Country club as
the guests of the local Rotarians.
Calling names, faces and places,
the convention in business session
Monday afternoon tacitly admitted
that the Rotarians were being out
organized in new territory by the
Lions. District Governor R. L. Bob
bitt in recognizing this fact urged
the Rotarians to make special ef
forts to form new clubs.
A delegate arose from the floor
to ask Gov. Bobbitt: “But Rotary
does not use paid organizers does
I it, Mr. Governor?” “No,” Bobbitt
answered, “and from the tenor of
the international meeting I attend
ed in Dallas I do not believe it ever
will.” Handclapplrg and cheers
broke out at this statement.
Names Towns
Bobbitt named towns in which
the Rotary club had been beaten
out by either the Lions or Kiwa
nis. He declared that the Rotarians
should set up . their organizations
in Gonzales, Harrisburg, Humble,
Lockhart. Luling, Raymondville and
other cities of similar size. Arthur
Mayhew, past district governor, de
clared: “Rotary can be organized
anywhere a Lions club can—but it
j will take a little bit more work.”
He said that due to rigid follow
ing of the classification rules and
the non-use of paid organizers,
clubs with looser rulings were beat
ing out the Rotarians in new terri
tory. However, he declared, his club
is the stauncher and it survives
while the Lions and Kiwanis fall
into disorganization. It was pointed
out that there has been only three
Rotary clubs in its history to lose
their charters. Two of these were
in England and one in Arizona.
Cold Shoulder
Speaking along the same lines,
Louis Fox of Fort Worth told of
organizing new clubs in north
Texas. The Lions and Kiwanis beat
Rotary into that section, he said,
and the Rotary non-paid organiz
ers were given the cold shoulder
by Abilene, San Angelo and other
cities. Fox related the growth of
Rotary in that section and told of
how obstacles were overcome.
A question was asked from the
floor: “Should we help organize
other civic clubs in our respective
cities?” The Lions club was men
tioned specifically. Arthur Mayhew
of Uvalde, past district governor,
gave the opinion that “a Lions
club in a city helps Rotary,” and
said he believed that they should
be encouraged.
Louis Fox told the gathering how
to fight criticism. “Study Rotary.
Have something snappy and logi
cal to come back with when you
hear Rotary criticized,” Fox said.
The afternoon session was opened
with a talk on the aims and ob
jects plan by Marvin Goodwin of
Mission. Goodwin spent most of his
time in a fervent plea to “sell the
plan” to the clubs. He did not dwell
on the actual plan itself. “This plan
is not worth a dime unless the
president’s soul is on fire with Ro
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CLARA BOW TO WED STAGE STAR
Associated Press Photo
Clara Bow, moving picture star, and Harry Richman, Broadway
musical comedy star and night club entertainer, have announced their
engagement. They will marry in the near future.
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Reds Parade Moscow
Streets Protesting
Chinese Militarism
MOSCOW, July 16.-*-(7Pi—Seething with anti-Chinese feeling, Soviet
Russia today entered the last of the three days of grace allowed the
Chinese government in an ultimatum.
Thousands of workers paraded the streets of Moscow until early today
displaying huge red banners and marching to brass bands blaring forth
GUN DISCHARGE
KILLS WOMAN
Edinburg Resident Was
Wrapping Shotgun
When It Fired
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG, July 16.—Mrs. W.
H. Bates, residing six miles west of
Edinburg, was killed Monday aft
ernoon at 4:30, when a shotgun
which she was wrapping was dis
charged, a full charge of buckshot
entering her abdomen.
Mrs. Bates had gone into a little
workshop at the rear of her home
to wrap the gun. which had been
borrowed, for returning it to its
owner. Her husband, in an adjoin
ing room, heard the-report of the
gun and rushed into the shop to
find his wife dying. Physicians
were summed, but Mrs. Bates died
within a few minutes. The body
was removed to Skinner’s Mortuary
in Edinburg late Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Bates is survived by her hus
band, her mother in Lawrence,
Kansas, and a brother in Sidney,
Nebraska.
Truck Plunges Into
Deep Abyss, Killing
11 Honduran Girls
TEGUCIGALPI, Honduras, July
16.—(/p)—Laughing and happy at
the end of a perfect day’s picnicing,
11 Honduran high school girls yes
terday went to their death when
the truck in which they were riding
crashed into a thousand-foot abyss
near Sauce.
Tw-enty-two were hurt, some se
riously. The driver, Luis Medina:
was killed outright. Salvador Cor
leto, minister of public works, was
seriously injured in attempting to
reach the bottom of the abyss to
aid in extricating the bodies.
The girls had been to a spot not
far for box lunch, dancing, and na
tive games.
It was thought possibly the
driver’s attention was distracted at
a dangerous spot in the road by the
I girls’ gaiety behind him.
■ revolutionary airs. rne Banners
and streamers flaunted slogans de
manding a determined stand against
“Chinese fascists.”
A heavy rain did not deter the
marchers, many of whom were sol
diers. In the parks and plazas com
munist speakers made inflammatory
speeches calling for punishment of
the “Manchurian militarists.”
Workers in the audience replied
with testimonials of willingness to
“take up arms in defense of the so
cial fatherland.”
Delay Message
At the foreign office L. M. Karak
han, vice commissar, caused to be
published a statement from the
Chinese charge d’affaires M. Liao
S. K. Liao, giving notice of delay in
translation and transmission of the
ultimatum, which demanded release
of orrested Russians in Manchuria
revocation of “illegal orders”, and
immediate submission of matters
arising from seizure of the Chinese
Eastern railway to negotiation.
The statement said the note w’as
translated into Chinese Saturday
night and filed by telegraph to Nan
king with a request to relay it tc
provincial officials at Mukden, since
there was no direct communication
More than 24 hours were thus lost
in getting the note to the Nanking
government. It was possible, in
view of this, there would be an ex
tension of time allowed in it for a
favorable answer.
Permit Refused
The application of M. Serebriakov
member of the railroad commissar
iat, to the Chinese legation for a
visa to permit him to proceed tc
Harbin to open negotiations on the
question, was refused under instruc
tions from Nanking. (Tokyo dis
patches yesterday said M. Serebria
kov was expected in Harbin July 11
and arrived yesterday by airplane
at Irkutsk, leaving immediately bj
train for Harbin.)
In the absence of Georges Tchich
erin, commissar for foreign affairs
and Maxim Litvinoff, vice commis
sar, the crisis arising out of the
Manchurian sezure of the Chnese
Eastern railway has been handlec
almost entirely by M. Karakhan
vice commissar, and former ambas
sador to China.
RUSSIAN TROOPS ON
MOVE TO SIBERIA
PEKING, China, July 16.—</P)—/
censored telegram today from The
Associated Press correspondent ai
Harbin, Manchuria, indicated Rus
sian troop movements toward the
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POLICE THU
MAN IS KILLER
WHO ESCAPED
Entire Family Slain
By Brutal Robber
In Mexico City; Sus
pect Denies Crime
Believed by Matamoros military
and civil officers to be Luis Romero
Carrasco, hunted throughout Mex
ico as the slayer of an entire family
in Mexico City, a 22-year-old man
was in the Matamoros jail Tuesday,
held under orders of General Julio
Hernandez Serrano, commander of
the Matamoros military garrison.
Major Jesus Monroy captured the
i youth while patrolling the section of
the river south of the city, leading
to Washington beach, at a point
known as La Gutierrena.
On telegraphic request of the
Matamoros authorities a secret ser
vice man from the Mexican capital
is now on his way to the border to
establish the identity of the suspect.
Carried Jewelry
The man held, on being searched,
was found to be carrying a box of
jewelry. Comparison of the rogues’
gallery portraits disclosed a striking
likeness, the oficers said. A scar on
the left thumb, moles on the right
cheek, and a peculiarly formed left
ear were said to be identical in the
man held and the picture of the fu
gitive slayer.
Giving as his name Rodolfo Es
quivel, the young man in the border
jail denies any knowledge of the
crime for which Carrasco is sought.
He says his home is in Aguascali
entes, and he had come to Mata
moros by way of Nuevo Laredo.
Newspaper men were permitted to
interview the suspect, held under
detailed guard, by special orders of
Chief of Police Librado Salinas.
Chief Salinas said the suspect will
be released at once if he is not the
man wanted.
The crime for which Carrasco is
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San Benito Crash
Victim Improving
In S. A. Hospital
(Special to The Herald)
SAN ANTONIO, July 16.—The
condition of Jack White, 20, of San
Benito, injured more than a week
ago when thrown from his car as
it left the Harlingen-San Benito
highway, was reported as unalarm
ing and not critical by the Medical
Arts Hospital here, and by Dr. L. F.
Robichaux, dentist.
Both of White's jaws were broken
when he was thrown to the pave
ment.
He is the son of Ben White, San
Benito farmer, and a nephew of
Brown White, shipper.
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THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair to partly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday.
For East Texas: Generally fair
in the interior and partly cloudy
near the coast tonight and Wed
nesday.
Light variable winds on the coast,
mostly southerly.
RIVER FORECAST
No material change in the river
will be observed during the next 24
to 48 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Cling. Rain
, Eagle Pars ..16 2.4 0.0 .00
, Laredo .27
: Rio Grande . .21
Mission.22 6.1 -0.5 .00
’ San Benito ..2s 11.6 — .00
Brownsville ..18 6.8 40.9 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa*
bel tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
. Highe . 3:23 a. m.
i Low...7:10 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today.7:28
Sunrise tomorrow . 5:48