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Name Charles Celaya
To Foreign Post With
Big New York Bank
Charles Celaya, fornjer Brownsville high school football star, and well
known throughout Texas banking circles as a result of recent positions '
he has held, has been named to a post which will probably place him J
among the youngest men in the United States to hold an important po
sition with a bank of major importance.
Auuuuiiceuieni oi ms appointment,
to the foreign auditing staff of the.
National City bank of New York,
one of the world’s largest financial
institutions, was received by Celaya
iiiis week. He expects to assume his
ivikr duties about August 15 sailing
from New York on that date for
Cuba and South America.
He resigned effective July 15 from
the First State Bank and Trust com
pany of Rio Grande City, where he
held the position of vice president
since January 1, 1928.
Started in Brownsville
Celaya began his banking career
In • Brownsville as collector and as
sistant in the transit department of
the Merchants National bank. He
left that bank in 1919 to finish his
high school course and continued
working during the summer months
for the Merchants bank and the
First National. He attended the
University of Texas until 1925 when
he returned to become a teller after
helping organize the Texas State
Bank and Trust comnany, of which
his brother, Joe Celaya, Jr., is
cashier.
In June, 1926, he was appointed
state bank examiner by Charles O.
Austin and was assigned to the Fort
Worth district where he examined
banks for two years. He left the de
partment in November, 1927 to ac
cept the position with the Rio
Grande City institution.
The foreign inspection and audit
ing staff of the National City bank,
which has branches in all the prin
cipal cities of the world, consists of
a group of experts who periodically
inspect and report the conditions of
the branches to the home bank in
New York City.
Will Get Foreign Port
After his assignment of about one
year as auditor on the inspection
staff of the bank, Celaya will be as
signed to a foreign post, probably
in Spain, according to advices re
ceived from the officials of the home
institution. At his foreign post he
will be trained as a foreign exchange
expert, which will place him In po
sition for further rapid advance
meA
Oefaya expects to remain In
Brownsville until August I, when he
Will depart for New York. His first
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stop after sailing will be in the
Caribbean district. His visits of in
spection will.carry him to all the
principal Spanish-speaking countries
of Central and South America,
thence to Spain and other Old
World Spanish-countries in which
the Spanish language is spoken.
“I owe this advancement princi
pally to the careful training which I
received while employed in the
Brownsville banks, as well as to the
experience gained while state bank
examiner and as an executive in
the Rio Grande City bank,” Celaya
said.
Celaya is a son of the late Jose
Celaya, Sr., and a member of a
pioneer family of this region.
Baptist Churches
Of Edinburg Vote
To Unite Members
EDINBURG, July 17.—By vote of
the Central Baptist church here
Tuesday night, union of that or
ganization and the First Baptist
church was assured, the latter
church having accepted the resolu
tion for joining the two bodies last
week.
Dr. Judd B. Holt will serve as
pastor of the united church for the
remainder of the associational
year. The deacons and trustees of
each church will be retained, con
stituting the officials of the new
church.
At a prayer meeting and general
get-together Wednesday night,
plans for Sunday church services
will be discussed.
‘FATHER’ OF 47
DIES AT DEL RIO
DEL RIO, Texas. July 17.—<JP)—
J. H. Wilcox, 76, who adopted and
reared to maturity 47 boys and girls,
has ended his long sponsorship of
youth.
He died yesterday with one of his
foster sons, Cecil Wilcox, 21, at his
bedside. Cecil had been caring for
the aged man, whpse marriage had
been childless.
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OZARKS
$22*40 $39*15 |
. _ , , Good in Pullmans
Chair Cars and ”rM ‘ upon payment of
Coaches Only usual charge
Tickets on sale July 20. Return limited to reach Brownsville
prior to midnight July 29. j
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Tickets—Information
City Ticket Office
Missouri Pacific Station
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SOLONS’ WORK
IS COMPLETED
Third Special Session of
Legislature to End Sat
urday Noon
AUSTIN. July 17.—Although sine
die adjournment has been put off
until Saturday noon, the third spe
cial session of the 41st legislature
had virtually completed its work
today.
With all appropriation bills, to
taling $47,792,935. having gone tc
the governor, as well as the measure
withdrawing from the market un
surveyed public school lands and
beds and channels of rivers, only
miner business remained unfin
ished.
The senate had the Coltrin house
bill making it more difficult for
condemned prisoners to obtain a
hearing before a district court on
a plea cf insanity. Under its pro
visions an affidavit of a sheriff,
county physician or warden or phy
sician of the penitentiary would be
necessary to obtain a sanity trial
for a prisoner. Under the present
law any individual could make oath
that he had reason to believe the
prisoner insane and the court be
compelled to order a hearing.
The house had cleared its deck
and adjourned until 2 p. m. today.
It will be almost solely a matter
of adjourning from day to day until
Saturday in order to save bills in
troduced yesterday and today from
the constitutional inhibition that
they be not considered if introduced
within three days of fi%al adjourn
ment.
Governor Moody has indicated he
would accept the appropriation bills
as repassed with totals more than
$3,000,000 under the measures dis
approved by him at the end of the
second special session on July 2. He
intimated he would veto some Items
from the bills to reduce the total
of all appropriations authorized by
the regular and special sessions of
the 41st legislature to approximate
ly $50,000,000.
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Suits filed in the District Courts:
First National Bank vs. C. M.
Kennedy et al; suit on note.
28TH DISTRICT COURT
Hon. A. W. Cunningham, Judge
No orders.
103RD DISTRICT COURT
Hon. A. M. Kent, Judge
Setting docket, July term.
COUNTY COURT
Hon. Oscar Dancy, Judge
Suits filed: None.
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COUNTY COURT AT LAW
Hon. John Kleiber, Judge
State of Texas vs. Locadlo Her
nandez; unlawfully carrying pistol;
six months in jail.
State of Texas vs. Tomas Solano;
aggravated assault; six months in
jail.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Furnished by Valiev Abstract Co.
Cameron County
Harlingen Orchards Co, to Valiev
Properties, Inc., east 10 acres, block
14. Briggs & Coleman subdivision,
survey 28. plat 4-68, $10, etc.
Valley Properties, Inc., to Cam
eron County Water Improvement
District 1, east 10 acres, block 14,
Briggs & Coleman subdivision, sur
vey 28, plat 4-68. $12,000.
Valley Dev. Inc. to Geo. F. Ward,
et ux, south 5 acres of north 10
acres, block 31, Kemoner Citrus
Grove subdivision. $3,450.
R. Lee Kempner to Valley De
velonment, Inc., south 5 acres of
north 10 acres, block 31, Kemoner
Citrus Grove subdivision. $10, etc.
I. L. Vincent to Talmadge Vin
cent, 40 acres, lot 8, Patrick Jones
subdivision. $1. etc.
J. E. Hibbets et ux by Constable
to Jas. Dick. Farm Mtge. Co., south
20.87 acres farm block 188. share 28.
El Jardin re-s<’b. plat 4-48. $750.
W. D. Hale et al by sheriff to C. R.
Smith, lots 6 and 7. block 206, San
Benito Land and Water Co., sub
division. containing 18 acres, plat
1-25, $600.
Cuates Dev. Co., to Edith M. Ab
bott et al. west 10 acres, block 219,
San Benito Irrigation Co., Espiritu
Santo grant. * $3000, etc.
Teodora D. Vda. de Moreno to
W. G. Mathes, lot 11. block 15, Co
lonia La Palma shown of map of
Combe Reserve, plat 7-20, $10. etc.
W. G. Mathes et al to Mrs. Teo
dora D. Vda. to Moreno, lot 11, block
15, Colonia La Palma Map of Combe
Reserve in and adjoining San Benito
plat 7-15, $10, etc.
Hidalgo County
S. M. Martin to Peter Voth, west
5 acres, west 10 acres, lot 2, block
44. Alamo tract, $625.
Progreso Development Co., to
Lloyd C. Daley, north 5 acres, lot
104.' Llano Grande subdivision, $6250.
Stewart Van Berschot et ux to
John Van Berschot. Jr., lots 9 and
10. block 32. Capisallo district. $8040.
E M. Goodwin to Rose Wandell,
lot 30. block 3. Goodwin tract, sub
division 1, $7471.50.
Progreso Development Co., to Eric
D. Lindberg et ux. east 4.93 acres,
west 9.89 acres, lot 76, Llano Grande
subdivision.
Progreso Develcjnment Co., to Eric
D. Lindberg, et ux. west 4.96 acres,
Pat Joy et ux to Laurie Timmons
Oallicutt. lot 2. resubdivision, lots
15 and 16, block 2, Hammond sub
division. $620.
Mrs. G. M. Terrell to J. L. Erwin,
ot 4 and north one-half lot 3, G. M.
Terrell subdivision, $4,000.
J. L. Erwin to L. B. Ogden, lot 4
and north one-half lot 3, Mrs. G. M.
Terrell subdivision, $4000.
Mrs. E. G. Holmes, et vir to C. O.
Bavless. et ux: lots 1 and 2, block 2,
McColl subdivision, $10,750.
L. R. Walker to South Texas
Lumber Co., lot 3. block 4, McColl
subdivision, $3000.
TAXPAYERS RECEIVE
DELINQUENT NOTICE
EDINBURG, July 17.—Delinquent
tax statements for 1928 are being
mailed from the Edinburg court
louse this week, County Tax Col
lector O. Em Jones has announced.
Be states that the law provides that
those persons not paying delinquent
taxes within 30 days after receiving
notice are subject to suit for col
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BRAVES ‘GET’ UNCLE WILBERT
Johnny Evers, left, and Hank Gowdy, right, of the Boston Braves,
“capture” Wilbert Robinson, rotund manager of the Brooklyn Dod
gers. The Boston bar ball boys are only fooling, but they certainly do
look fierce in their war bonnets.
WETS SEE HOPE
IN PROHI NOTE
Enforcement Message Gives
Hope to Both Sides
Liquor Question
WASHINGTON, July 17.—(/P)—
Proponents of both the wet and the
dry viewpoints have found some
thing to their liking in the sugges
tions bearing on prohibition con
tained in the letter of George W.
Wickersham, chairman of Presi
dent Hoover’s law enforcement
commission, as read to the gover
nors’ conference at New London,
Conn.
Comment was withheld in some
quarters pending a clearer interpre
tation of his remarks on the sub
ject. Among the dry spokesmen
who did comment, the suggestion
that prohibition enforcement re
sponsibility be divided between the
state and federal governments re
ceived the greater emphasis, while
the wets apparently were more im
pressed by his remark about the
possibility of modification.
The sentence in his letter which
thus proved at least partially pleas
ingto both groups read:
"If the national government were
to attend to preventing importation,
manufacture and shipment in in
terstate commerce of intoxicants
the states undertaking internal po
lice regulations to prevent sale, sa
loons, speakeasies and so forth, the
national and state laws mights be
modified so as to become reasonably
enforceable, and one great source
of demoralizing and pecuniarily
profitable crime removed.”
The sentiment contained in that
and preceding sentences favoring
more cooperation in enforcement
efforts by the states brought prompt
expressions of approval from As
sistant Secretary Lowman of the!
treasury, and Commissioner Doran
of the prohibition bureau,, but they
declined to comment on other as
pects of the letter without further
examination.
At the same time, the letter was
hailed by Senator Walsh, democrat,
Massachusetts, a wet, as “an en
couraging sign” that “a new leader
ship may arise which will substitute
a S8ne rather than an unreasonable
and purblind attitude toward the
prohibition question.”
Dr* Clarence True Wilson, gen
eral secretary of the Methodist
Board of Temperance. Prohibition
and Public Morals, was absent, but
Deets Pickett of that organization
said “our own opinion for years and
our statements have been in agree
ment with' Mr. Wickersham’s pro
posal that the detailed police work
should be done by the states and
the ipunlclpalities.”
BELIEVE MAN WAS
ACCIDENT VICTIM
DALLAS, July 17.—(/P)—The the
ory that John O'Keefe, carpenter
and ball player of Hutchins, near
WHERE
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Where does the money go? Where
is the invoice on that last car of
merchandise? Where is that impor
tant letter from Smith Bros.? In
G sufficient or incorrect office equip
ment can cause you no end of wor
ry, time and expense. We have
everything for the offire in ALL
STEEL office equipment. Phone
348 for our representative.
Sporting
Goods.
School gu
Supplies. (D
Stationery
and *
Books.
One Day Service on Stringing Tennis Racquets
HARGROVE’S
Stationery and Book Store
Phone 348 — Brownsville
here, died the victim of an acci
dent and not at the hands of a rob
ber was generally accepted today by
the authorities.
O'Keefe’s body, mangled, was
found yesterday on an interurban
railway right of way near Dallas
His incoherent remarks just prior
to his death first caused officers to
suspect he had been murdered, but
later indications were he probably
fell beneath a moving freight train.
Selecting Slogan
Is Topic at Meet
Of Chamber Scribes
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, July 17.—The ex
act method to be used in selecting
a winning slogan for the Lower Rio
Grande Valley in the present slo
gan contest will be discussed at the
meeting of Valley Chamber of Com
merce secretaries Friday of this
week at Doi^na, according to J. E.
Bell, chairman of the slogan com
mittee.
Bell said that the committee of
bankers and chamber of commerce
secretaries has never worked out in
detail the method of selecting the
prize winning slogan, and that the
secretaries will discuss it, and later
the committee of secretaries will
discuss with the bankers the mat
ter.
The secretaries also will take up
the suggestion of placing a Valley
exhibit at the State Fair in Dallas
In order to compete with the Flor
ida and California exhibits.
The meeting of secretaries was
scheduled for last week, but was
delayed until this week.
Headquarters For
Tourists With Paid
Hostess Suggested
A commjication urging Browns
ville to establish a tourist headquar
ters with a paid hostess, has been
received by the chamber of commerce
from Lee B. James, realtor, who is
now doing land party work in New
York and Pennsylvania.
He states that he has interviewed
about 50 families who have ex
pressed intention of wintering' in
Br.ownsville. James says that many
of the families ask if there is a tour
ist headquarters here.
The realtor writes that Browns
ville is obtaining much publicity
from the airport and that this is re
flected in the number of inquiries
received by his concern.
Whiskery, winner of the 1927 Ken
tucky derby, will come out of re
tirement for a shot at the American
National at Arlington park in July.
A. TAMM I
Blue Printing and
Supplies
Harlingen, Texas
ENGINEERS TO
RESUME STUDY
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Valley Expert* Will Fix
Price For American
Company System
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, July 17—Hearings
by the board of the Valley engineers
named to help arrive at a valua
tion for irrigation properties of the
American Rio Grande Land & Ir
rigation company at Mercedes and
Weslaco will be resumed today or
tomorrow, according to W. E. An
derson, chairman of the board.
Anderson returned to San Benito
yesterday from Austin and other
points. He had been in Austin to
attend the hearing before the state
board of water engineers on the J.
T. Franklin application in Hidalgo
county.
Frank Robertson, manager of the
local irrigation district, and chair
man of the committee of Valley
engineers which conducted the fight
on the Franklin application, re
turned yesterday also.
The board of engineers had been
sitting at Mercedes for several
days, when the sittings were dis
continued so that members could
go to Austin for the hearing. Con
siderable evidence has been pre
sented already by both the Ameri
can company, and the district.
The American company has held
out for a price of $3,000,000 for the
irrigation system. The property own
ers have offered $1,700,000 ior It.
Both sides have agreed to accept
the compromise value placed on
the district by the board of five
Valley engineers, it Is understood.
Court-At-Law July
Term Nears Closing
As All Cases Moved
The last case remaining on the
criminal docket of the June term of
the county court of Cameron
county at law was dismissed at 2
p. m. Tuesday by Judge John I
Kleiber at the direction of the
county attorney because of lack of
sufficient evidence to convict.
The case was that of Antonio
Garza and Josefina Jamka, arrest
ed on a statutory charge. Very lit
tle additional business remains to
be attended to in this term, and it
is likely that after the court has
dealt with recent motions entered,
the court will be adjourned until
the August term.
San Perlita to Have
Express, Telegraph
Office In Few Days
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE, July 17.—Sar
Perlita residents, who have had tc
come to Raymondville to express
packages end send telegrams, will
be able to do these things at home
as plans announced here call foi
the establishment of an express of
fice and a telegraph office.
Owen Johnson has been appoint
ed the new station agent at San
Perlita.
Two Cameron Boys
Will Be Taken To
Reformatory Soon
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Emelio Sanchez, 16, and Amulfo
Torres, 12. Harlingen boys recently
tried In Judge Dancy’s Juvenile
court and ordered to the state train
ing school for boys, probably will
be taken to Gatesville some time
this week, it was announced from
the sheriff’s department.
Two more boys in the same case,
which was on a charge of burglar
izing stores in Harlingen, were re
leased on probation to their par
ents, and a fifth, over the juvenile
age limit, was tried in Justi.f of
the Peate court and bound over
to the action of the grand jury.
Ground Broken For
New Canning Plant
In Willacy County
(Special to The Herald >
SAN PERLITA, July 17.—Ground
was broken here Tuesday afternoon
for the new $50,000 canning plant.
C. A. Austin of Springfield. Mo.
has the contract for construction
which calls for completion in 60
days. Carl Hitchcock of Springfield
will be plant superintendent.
The plant will employ 50 to 75
hands in the canning of vegetables
picking and probably preserving of
onions.
FOUR DIVORCE
PLEAS GRAlfpD
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Judge Kent Disposes Vf
Seven Cases In Rap
id Succession
Judge A. M. Kent Tuesday after
noon cleared the district court dock
et of seven cases, four of them di
vorce suits, in less than tiu '*» hours.
The decree was granted as prayed
by plaintiff in each of the divorce
suits styeled as ’allows:
Matilde Ochoa versus Margus H.
Ochoa, J. W. Goodykoontz versus
Irene Goodykoontz, Ruth Lemmons
versus J. W. Lemmons, and Cm:~
rine Young Keane versus Dan^J.
Keane.
Dean was formerly a captain 51
the United States army and v.as
adjutant at Fort Browm for two
years. The Keanes were married
here in 1922. testimony at the hear
ing revealed.
Other cases disposed of:
C. A. Brown versus M. C. Conklin. j
debt and foreclosure, dismissed at j
defendant’s request.
Mrs. C. C. Hines et vir. versus
V. L. Jeffrey et al„ debt. Judgment
by default for plaintiff for debt,
principal, interest, attorney’s fees
and costs.
Lucile Cook et al versus Thos.
G, Sampson, damages, dismissed by
plaintiffs and costs paid.
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Trust Powers
A distinct honor has been conferred upon
this Bank by the Federal Reserve Board having
granted us fiduciary powers. It gives us the priv
ilege of acting as Trustee, Executor# Adminis
• trator, Registrar of stocks and bonds, Guardian
of estates, Assignee, Receiver, or in any other
fiduciary capacity.
This is the only National Bank in the Val
ley designated by the Federal Reserve Board
to act in this capacity. Our Capital and Surplus
of over $500,000.00 assures capable handling
of all matters entrusted to us.
LET US SERVE YOU
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