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Name Charles Celaya To Foreign Post With Big New York Bank Charles Celaya, former Brownsville high school {potball 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 among the youngest men in the United 8tates to hold an important po sition with a bank of major Importance. Announcement of his appointments 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 uiis week. He expects to assume hte 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. 182S. 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 ment. Celaya expects to remain in Brownsville until August I, when he wfll depart for New York. His first + - - - - ■ - -■ - . . . b 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 Unito 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 associations! 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 sendees will be discussed. ‘FATHER* OF 47 DIES AT DEL RIO DEL RIO, Texas, July 17.—(/P)— 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 roan, whose marriage had been childless. I i((f .. . but when you build ^ A t consider the vast re- Js'tt sources and buying / \ power behind this or- ’’ L, —M”! iuRglL 7 ganization — our years ( p of experience in the . ""''HnBl/ building business. Our «f« ^fFSS <nk|n|r>. ability to extend credit jC J-0 Hf*fFj|9 igrH||J»] at fair rates of interest. y , !| |ftJ!r ... the expert contrac- ' a ' / • g 1 jUWuM/ tors and architects to ( i . »tTP MfWflPr® assist you in the de- '14® ft llUffilwV tails of planning your vSS . »• ,fJr| home or other building. I* J:.] « *'myii1W'~ . Any member of our (1Hyfcllt-T? tgi? fr^lwfnf 'Q staff will be glad tc tiP *ri rTTKhtr?, confer with you — No obligation involved, of ^ course. Eagle Pass Lumber Co. Opposite Court House Phone 607 M——— —i '•> . White River Country of the OZARRS $22*40 $39*25 Good in Pullmans Chair Cars and Far.. upon payment of Coaches Only usual charge ’ Tickets on sale July 20. Return limited to reach Brownsville prior to midnight July 29. />,. . Tickets—Information City Ticket Office Missouri Pacific Station > • f|| ; 44A Service Institution* ■' ... '■ • ■ 1 »*•**■ " ■■ ■ 1 1 -* 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 j taling $47,792,935, having gone tc the governor, as well as the measure withdrawing from the market un surveye- 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 % 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.1 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 flwal 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 authorised by the regular and special sessions of the 41st legislature to approximate ly $50,000,000. | Cameron Courts Suits filed In the District Courts: First National Bank vs. C. M. Kennedy et al; suit on note. MTH 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. COUNTY COURT AT LAW Hon. John Kleiber, Judge State of Texas vs. Locadio Her nandez; unlawfully carrying pistol; six months in jail. State of Texas vs. Tomas Solano: agsravated assault; six months In jail. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Furnished by Valley 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. Valiev 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, KemDner Citrus Grove subdivision, $3,450. R. Lee Kempner to Valley De veloDment, Inc., south 5 acres of north 10 acres, block 31, Kempner Citrus Grove subdivision, $10, etc. I. L. Vincent to Talmadge Vin cent, 40 acres, lot 8, Patrick Jones subdivision. $1, etc. J. E. Htbbets et ux by Constable to Jus. 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. cbntaining 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. 8625. 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, Caoisallo 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 4.9S acres, west 9.89 acres, lot 76, Llano Grande subdivision. * . _ . _ . Progreso Development Co., to Eric D. Lindberg, et ux, west 4.96 acres, Pat Joy et ux to Laurie Timmons Callicutt, lot 2, resubdivision, lota 15 and 16. block 2, Hammond sub division. $620. _. Mrs. G. M. Terrell to J. L. Erwin, lot 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. Bayless, et ux. lots 1 and 2, block 2, I 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 house this week, County Tax Col lector O. Em Jones has announced. ! He states that the law provides that those persons not paying delinquent taxes within 30 days after receiving notice are subject to suit for col lection BRAVES ‘GET’ UNCLE WILBERT r -— — - - — - ■ ...... Johnny Evers, left, and Hank Gowdy, right, of the Boston Braves, “capture'’ WHbert Robinson, rotund manager of the Brooklyn Dod gers. The Boston be: 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.—— Proponents of both the wet and the dry viewpoints have found some- j 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 tngto 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 sane 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 municipalities.” BELIEVE MAN WAS ACCIDENT VICTIM DALLAS, July 17.—(/P)—The the ory that John O’Keefe, carpenter and ball player of HutgJUns, near 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 lnterurben 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 Donna, 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 Pair in Dallas in order to compete with the Flor ida and California exhibits. The meeting of secretaries was scheduled far last week, but was delayed until this week. Headquarters For Tourists With Paid Hostess Suggested A comtjjiication 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 60 families who have ex pressed intention of wintering in Brownsville, 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 Blue Printing and Supplies Harlingen, Texas WHERE 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 Supplies. 9 © Stationery and & R Books. * * One Day Service on Stringing Tennis Racquets HARGROVE’S Stationery and Book Store Phone 348 — Brownsville ■>.,v . t , X ' • ‘ v v • ENGINEERS TO RESUME STUDY 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 8c 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 Jhe 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.—San Perlita residents, who have had to come to Raymondville to express packages end send telegrams, will be able to do these things at home, as plans announced here call for the establishment of *n express of fice and a telegraph office. Owen Johnson has been appoint ed the new station agent at San Perlita. J Two Cameron Boys Will Be Taken To Reformatory Soon 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 Justin of the Pea\e 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 GRANTED Judge Kent Disposes of 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 tinhours. 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 Cor rine Young Keane versus Dan J. Keane. Dean was formerly a captaih the United States army and Was adjutant at Fort Brown 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, debt and foreclosure, dismissed at 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. Trust Powers A distinct honor has been conferred upon this Bank by the Federal Reserve Board having granted us fiduciary powers. 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