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FIVE HUNDRED Valley boy
scouts are counting the days to
August 7.
Beginning that day and continu
ing ten days to Aug. 17. the annual
encampment is to be held at Camp
erry on the Arroyo Colorado near
Rio Hondo.
Last year about 250 boys enjoyed
this period of recreation and educa
tion. There now are more than 1000
scouts in the Valley and, counting
the scoutmasters and other adults
interested in the work, there are
, 1300 persons engaged. ,
Tom Murray, Valley scout execu
tive and director, says the encamp
ment is going to be “bigger and bet
ter” in every way.
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There will be a real course of in
struction for the Scouts and a pro
gram of entertainment that will fill
all the hours.
Safety instruction is in charge of
W. C. Jones and Solon Ayers will
direct athletics. Harvey C. Stiles
will conduct classes in nature study
and J. D. Denson will teach rope
making. B. Flemming is taxidermist;
Bud Bohner, swimming. •
These are only a few of the sub
jects to be taught in the ten-day
Scoutcraft college.
W. Edward Perry will be assist
ant director under Murray and
camp management will be in charge
of the following committee: W. H.
Moon, McAllen; A. G. Mclnnis,
Brownsville; E. C. Bennett, Harlin
gen; I. G. Cook. McAllen: Burt
Coleman, La Feria; Frank Tappan,
Mercedes and Ralp Scott, Raymond
lTphysicians at the camp will be
Dr. R. E. Utley, .Harlingen; Dr. R.
J. Mahone, public health officer.
Hidalgo county, and Dr. W. B.
Primer, head of Cameron county
health unit.
Sergeant Rowe of Fort Brown is
first aid and health specialist and
Sergeant Renfro in charge of fcom
missary.
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FUTURE LEADERS of the Valiev
will be among the boys who attend
this encampment.
Men who will direct the affairs of
this section and the state will grow
from these scouts—and the associ
ations and instruction received dur
ing these ten days will play an im
portant part in their development.
But the good time alone will be
worth all the work and worry.
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PERSONS LIKELY to be wanted
by the police are warned to fight
shy of Hal Eustace, Brownsville
Herald sports editor and reporter.
And it is suggested that prize
fight promoters in search of cham
pionship material look this boy
over.
A prisoner, being questioned at
the police station and impatient at
restraint, watched his chance and
made a break for liberty—the chas->
was on.
The fleeing prisoner, leading, ran
into the home of Dr. Jose A. del
Castillo, through the house and out
into the back yard. Here a high
fence confronted him and a bark
ing dog drew his mind from the
task of scaling it.
Eustace and Officer Lerma, close
aa the heels of the prisoner, rushed
, lnt0 the back yard, running a dead
heat. The prisoner, abandoning the
idea of scaling the wall, dodved past
Officer Lerma and—
Bam!
-he man was picking himself up
from the ground after having run
full tilt into Eustace's sturdy ri^ht
SNow there is talk of issuing a
ial officer's commission to the
rter, unless—
Developers of prize fighters mi^ht
find this of interest. 5
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RANGER CAPTAIN BUI sterling
and his trick pinto ponev are go
ing to New York and it is an even
(Continued on page 9.)
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 r.24c
REPORT REDS
SOLDIERS ARE
DRIVEN BACK
Situation Cont i n u e s
Unsettled As U. S.
And Other Powers
Watch Progress
LONDON. July 18.—(JP)—The
Daily Mail today published a report
from its Peiping - orrespondent of
rumors in Chinese quarters there
that Soviet t-roops had been re
pulsed in an attempt to cross the
Amur river, which forms the north
ern boundary of Manchuria.
PEIPING. China. July 18.—UP'—
Japanese news agency dispatches
from Harbin state Russian forces
are being massed at Pogranichinaya
and Manchuli along the Siberian
Manchurian frcntier.
The transportation of Chinese
troops to the frontiers also was re
ported being rushed.
The Russian consulate general in
Harbin has been closed and the
staff is preparing to leave.
TOKYO. July 18.--OP)—Although
the Japenese government is main
taining an attitude of watchful
waiting on the Manchurian situa
tion since Russia broke with China,
it was indicated today there was a
possibility of Japan’s making repre
sentations to both China and Rus
sia with a view to the maintenance
of peace.
TOKYO. July 18.—Foreign office
spokesmen commenting today on
the rupture between Russia and
China said the new Soviet note did
not necessarily mean war but did
indicate a Russian determination to
insist upon its interests and rights
under the Peiping and Mukden
agreements.
At the same time the spokesman
added:
“We do not at all exclude the pos
sibility of open war between the tw’O
countries, as loss of the Chinese
Eastern railway must be a matter
of life and death to Vladivostok.”
Russia's break in diplomatic re
, lations wTith China caused undis
! gvised surprise and annrehension in
i official quarters. It had been
j thoucht Nanking’s note was suffi
ciently conciliatory to prevent any
abrupt action.
Fear w’as expressed that the
breach, esoeciallv withdrawal of
Russians from China, would be a
prelude to actual hostilities. Par
ticularly concern wras expressed at
disruption of facilities on the Chi
nese Eastern railway at its con
nections with the Trans-Siberian
railway, the principal mail link be
tween Europe and the Orient.
“White’s” Join China
Official intimation as to Japan's
(Continued on page 9.)
N. Y. COTTON OPEN
NEW YORK. July 18.—Cot
ton opened steady: July 18.45: Oct.
18.91; Dec. Jan. 19.19', March
19.40; Mav 19.48.
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Labor Plot Seen In
Explosion Wrecking
New Store Building
HAMMOND, Ind., July 188.—
—A terrific explosion today de
molished the Goldie department
store, new building in the foreign
section of town, with estimated
damage of §300,000. Police said
they believed labor trouble re
sulted in the explosion.
The explosion lifted the roof of
the three-stpry building and
caved in the walls, reducing it to
debris. Nearby buildings were
slightly damaged, and windows
for several blocks around were
shattered. No one was injured.
It was the second major ex
plosion in Hammond in two
years. The State Theater, a new
52,000,000 structure, was demol
ished shortly after it was com
pleted about two years ago. Win.
Kleighe is now serving ,a prison
sentence for his part in the bomb
ing.
OLD RESIDENT
OF CITY DEAD
■ —
Emilio Champion Succumbs
To Illness Resulting
From Heart Trouble
Emilio Champion, 71, native of
Brownsville, and a resident here
nearly all his life, died at 1:30 a.
m. Thursday as a result of heart
trouble which became serious about
two weeks ago.
Mr. Champion, among the oldest
residents of the Valley, was widely
known throughout this region and
in Mexico, where for 20 yeares he
was manager of the Fernandez
plantation in the state of Vera
Cruz.
Bom in Brownsville, he resided
here until 1887, when he went to
the Southern Republic as manager
of the plantation. He returned. in
1907 and had lived here ever since.
Mr. Champion issurvived by
three sons, August, Ephriam and
Oscar, all of whom live in Browns
ville, and a daughter, Ida, who is
living in Mexico City.
Services will be held at 9 a. m.
Friday at the Immaculate Concep
tion Church, preceded by special
rites at the home of August Cham
pion.
Pallbearers wil • Ibe Frank Rabb,
J. A. Cobolin, Manuel Cisneros, F.
B. Guerra, E. Garibay, Emilio Kow
alski.
MacDONALD RUSHING
DISARMAMENT ANSWER
LONDON. July 18.—{tP\—Premier
Ramsay MacDonald told the house
of commons this afternoon he was
doing his jtmos to expedite naval
disarmament negotiations with the
United Stat< so as to be able to
make an announcement ~n the sub
ject before parliament rises at the
end of the month. The premier
said, however, he was not sure this
would be possible.
INJUNCTION
IS GIVEN TO
R. J.JOEBERG
Owner of Ranch Says
Commissioners Held
Hearing Without
Notifying Him
The struggle by the commission
ers’ court of Willacy county for a
road through King ranch to Red
Fish bay was lengthened Thursday
as a result of- Judge A. M. Kent's
action in granting a temporary in
junction restraining the court from
building a road over or through
property owned by R. J. Kleberg.
Sr., one of the owners of the King
ranch.
The petition was granted on the
grounds that the court, in recently
appointing a jury of appraisers to
lay out the road and assess the
damages merefor, acted without
jurisdiction in that no legal notice
was given to the plaintiff, R. J.
Kleberg, Sr., as to a hearing, be
fore the defendants, as to laying
out of the road as provided by the
laws of the state.
The petition further alleges that
since the defendants have attempt
ed to deprive the plaintiff of his
property without due process of
law. he has been deprived of the
rights given to him under the con
stitution of the United States and
the state of Texas; that no public
necessity for the road existed in
that a public road from Lyford in
the county to a point near the Ar-1
royo Colorado, already exists.
Further allegations were: that;
the road the court attempted to
open is primarily to allow access to
the shores of Laguna Madre and
that there are no citizens located
upon the lands of Share 64 of the
San Juan te Carricitos Grant in
Willacy county who have petitioned
the defendants for a road of any
kind; that there being already a
road affording access to Laguna Ma
dre. there is no need for another;
that Willacy county alraedy has
obligated itself to pay various and
sundry obligations for the construc
tion of roads and that the obliga
tions can not be met without an
additional levy or increase in taxes
on the citizens and property own
ers of the county; that the con
demned road was. laid out against
the wishes of the majority of the
people in the county.
WHEAT PRICE DROPS
IN OPENING TRADE
CHICAGO, July 18.—uP)—The
grain markets took an unlooked for
tumble at the opening of trading
today, wheat prices dropping from
1 7-8 to 3 7-8 cents a bushel large
ly because of weakness at Liverpool.
The decline was quickly made up.
however, upon receipt of the day's
increment of bad weather news
from the northwest. Quotations
fluctuated irregularly during the
first hour.
Pt. Isabel Towers To Topple Thursday
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Expect Steel To Be Used For Firearms
(Special to The Herald)
POINT ISABEL. July 18.—The
old steel radio towers, a landmark
here since 1914, were to crash to
earth today.
Workmen for C. F. Porter, San
Benito contractor, began cutting
through the lower portion of the
towners early Thursday morning.
The steel frames were scheduled
to be toppled from their upright
position about 2 p. m.
The towers were abandoned
about five years ago when stat
tion NAY was removed to Fort
Brown.
The towers are made of high
grade steel and it has been sold
to a smelting company in tionter
rey. It is probable that it will be
recast into firearms, Porter states.
(seeks DIVORCE j
Associated Press Photo
Mrs. Nathalie Sedgwick Colby,
wife of Bainbridge Colby, former
secretary of state in the Wilson
cabinet, is in Reno, Nev., where
she plans to seek a divorce.
BARRY MILLER
IS CANDIDATE
Will Make Announcement
For Governor's Race
Next March
(Soecial to The Herald)
AUSTIN, Julyl8.—Lieut. Gov.
Barry Miller announced Wednes
day he w'ill be a candidate for gov
ernor next year .
He will delay his formal an
nouncement and campaign until
after the close of his term as grand
master of the Odd Fellows, next
March, he said.
He will seek the democratic nom
ination for governor, indicating in
his preliminary statement harmony
and political peace w’ithin the
party will be stressed in his cam
paign.
“Texas has had enough politi
cal controversy in the last year to
entitle it to a rest,” he said.
Miller's definite statement, long
foreshadowed by political develop
ments, brought into the race the
second of the two Dallas men who
have been pitted against each oth
er in political affairs, Senator Love
having announced two weeks ago.
Others who have announced for
the office include Former Mayor
Oscar F. Holcombe, Houston; Rep.
T. N. Mauritzs, Ganado; E. G. Sen
ter, Dallas, and Miss Kate Daffan
of Ennis. Former Sen. Earle B.
Mayfield is regarded as a prospec
tive candidate, and recent reports
have said that Mayfield's entry in
to the race would bring in also For
mer Gov. Pat M. Neff, as aspirant
for a third term to combat May
field.
'
Harlingen Woman
Hurt on Highway
When Car Upsets
Hazel Cummings, Harlingen resi
dent, was reported Thursday re
leased from the Mercy hospital,
where she was taken late Wednes
day after, the coupe she was driv
ing turned over on its side in a
ditch.
The wreck occurred about 6 p. m.
within a block1 of the hospital. Two
others were reported in the car
with her,, but they were not hurt
enough to require treatment.
She was driving toward Harlin
gen when the car slipped from the
road and overturned.
500 ABOARD
FAST FLYER
IN COLORADO
All Were Asleep When
Cars Fall In Raging
Torrent; Rescue Is
Hampered By Water
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
July 18.— (AP)—Reports from
Limon, Colo., 80 miles east of
here, say eight bodies have been
brought to that place from the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific wreck at Stratton.
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A cloudburst loosing seven to
eight inches of water in the region
last night swelled dry creeks to
raging torrents and flooded low
lands. The water was slowly re
ceding from higher ground this
morning. Roads were washed out
in every direction and highway
bridges went out before the tor
rent.
DENVER, Colo., July 18.—(A5)—
Twelve persons were reported to
have been killed when Rock sland
passenger train number 5, west
bound from Chicago, plunged into
Landsman creek, three miles west
of Stratton, Colo., 150 miles east of
Denver, about 3 a. m„ today.
According to a report received by
the Denver Post, the train plunged
through a weakened bridge, and
two of the cars on the all-pullman
train were submerged in the creek
bed.
First reports stated twelve per
sons were known to have drowned,
and there were reports this number
probably would be augmented.. At
least twenty passengers were de
clared to be missing.
Heavy Rains
The creek, ordinarily a dry wash,
had become a raging torrent dur
ing the last 24 hours as a result of
extremely heavy rains during that
period.
All physicians at Stratton, and
Burlington, as well as Limon, Colo.,
were rushed to the scene and
wrecking crews were dispatched
from Colorado Springs.
Morris Gest, theatrical producer
of New York, to Denver, was said
to have been a passenger on the
train.
High water hampered rescue
work. One coach in which the vic
tims were trapped, was submerged.
A highway bridge paralleling the
railroad bridge was washed out.
Ambulances and doctors were de
layed reaching the scene due to the
high water.
500 on Train
Only the train crew members
were awake when the train plunged
into the torrent. Approximately
500 passengers on the train were
asleep in their berths.
The train, a through passenger
from the East, carried 20 coaches,
four of 'hese, including the baggage
car and locomotive, went into the
creek. The heavy load on the train
was accounted for by railroaders
as due to summer tourist travel.
An automobile road which paral
lels the railnrd for some distance
was five feet under water at the
scene of the accident. This heavj
flow prevented anyone at once
reaching the accident.
CHICAGO, July 18.—{/?>—West
bound Rock Island train No. 5
wrecked this morning near Strat
ton. Colo., left Chicago at 11:30 p
m.. Tuesday.
It consisted of 12 steel cars anc
G pullmans. The train was knowr
as the Colorado Express.
Official reports received at head'
quarters o»' the Rock Island linei
here said the wreck occurred a
3:55 a. m.. three and one half mile;
west of Stratton.
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Federal Depository
Sends Five Million
To Florida Bankers
TAMPA, Fla., July 18.—<VPt—
Five million dollars in cash, sent
here from the Atlanta Federal Re
serve Bank, and promise of a
Federal Reserve official of “all
the money needed to meet the
situation,” today bolstered Flori
da bankers and business men in
thier efforts to restore public con
fidence in the banking institu
tions of the state, of which 15 in
this section closed yesterday.
Twenty-three banks have closed
in the last two weeks.
Federal authorisation for two
$1,000,000 currency depots in the
state—one here and one at Miami
—also was expected by local bank
officials to aid what they said
was increasing confidence of de
positors in banks of this section.
Comptroller Ernest Amos said
he believed th- primary cause of
the failures was “unnecessary
withcVawals propaganda, and a
financial depression through the
state which has been accentuated
by the effect of the Mediterranean
fruit fly and quarantine.”
The $5,000,000 to be used here
was sent to the First National
Bank of Tampa, a member of
the Federal Reserve.
JESTER CASE
TRANSFERRED
Forgery Hearing Against
Deputy Sheriff To Be
Heard In Brownsville
(Special to The Herald)
..SAN BENITO. July 18.—Examin
ing hearing for S. M. Jester, dep
uty sheriff charged by complaint
with forgery, was transferred to
Brownsville, and will be held 10
a. m. Friday before Justice of the
Peace B. L. Cain, J. O. Scrivner,
county hide and cattle inspector,
filed the complaint last Saturday.
The hearing had been set for
Wednesday afternoon before Jus
tice of the eace L. M. Valdetero
here, but was transferred when the
contention of the defense that jur
isdiction in the case was in
Brownsville was agreed to by the
state.
j Elks Initiate
Largest Class;
Plan Big Fete
The largest attendance since re
organization. featured the regular
meeting of the Elks club Wednes
day evening a> whit\« time six new
candidates were initiated. One new
member was received by demit.
Plans for holding a ladies night,
July 26, were discussed.
The new members taken into the
lodge are W. R. Smith, August
feiffer, Donald Oraspn, Alex H.
Kleinberg, Dudley P. South and J.
E. Harrington.
Approximately 60 Elks attended
the meeting. A billiard tournament
was conducted simultaneously with
the iniations.
MAN RECOVERS FROM
ACCIDENT INJURIES
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, July 18. —Pease
Meadows, truck driver for the cits
of Harlingen, injured Wednesdaj
i when his truck overturned on him
is reported improving at the Val
ley Baptist hospital here,
i His righf leg was broken when he
; was caught underneath the truck
; but no other serious injuries were
suffered, physicians state.
OFFICIALS IN
DRIVE AGAINST
GAME DEVICES
Manufact urers And
Operators Will Be
Investigated After
Woman’s Arrest
Extensive operations in the Valley
of a punch-board syndicate were
under investigation of city, county
and federal oficers Thursday fol
lowing indications of such a combi
nation at a trial before Corporation
Judge A. A. Browne Wednesday
afternoon.
Reports that punch board and
other forms of gambling are being
practiced at cigar stands, confec
tioneries and other counter places
o fbusiness, fell under the investiga
tion of state officials at the sams
time.
Assistant County Attorney Bas
com Cox said Thursday that no
action wil be taken by his depart
ment unles complaints are filed. Ha
stated that reports had been re
ceived by his department of puiy h
boards some time back, and oper
ators had ben warned to remove
them or face charges of violating
the state lottery laws.
With a city ordinance prohibiting
the operation of the punch board
games in Brownsville. Judge Browpe
announced Wednesday that the
maximum fine of $50 will be as
sessed in every case brought into liis
court.
Woman Warned
His decision to bear down on vio
lators of the punch board law came
following the trial of a Brownsville
woman, who had a punch board at
a smal grocery store. She was' re
leased without penalty, but with a
warning.
The woman said she did not know
that operation of punch boards was
illegal, and declared that there were
many of the deviqes in use in cer
tain sections of Brownsville. At the
same time she brought literature
sent out by punch board manufac
turers, disclosing the “system” of
getting around the law.
The comnany asks the addresses
to relay detailed information about
the terms and conditions and meth
(Continued on Page 111
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THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.
Light to moderate winds, mostly
southerly. ' . .
For East Texas: Not received in
time.
RIVER FORECAST
The river will continue to tall
from Mission down during the next
few days, and remain practically
stationery elsewhere.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chng. Rair
Eagle Pass ..16 2.4 0.0 .00
Laredo .27 -0.8 -0.2 .00
Rio Grande ..21 4 3 -0.2 .00
Mission .... 22 4 9 -0.7 .00
San Benito . .23 10.0 -0.6 .00
Brownsville .18 6.6 -0.7 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteoro
logical conditions:
High .4:48 a. m.
Low .8:14 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today ...7:23 p. m
Sunrise tomorrow .*....5:43 a. p*