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10 THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (fl*)
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR-No. 16 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1929 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY ■ » 5e A COPY,
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VALLEY
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HAVE YOU learned to spin a
yo-yo?
If not you are hopelessly out-of
date and old-fashioned.
This Japanese toy has taken its
place as a major activity of the
present summer and yo-yo contests
appear about to become sport page
headliners. ’
Brownsville’s first contest is to be
staged at the Capitol theater Sat
urday night and youthful yo-yoers
and not so youthful yo-yoers are
said to be spinning them more and
more wickedly.
* • *
There is talk of a yo-yo cham
pionship meet in the Valley in the
near future.
San Benito is having her indi
vidual contest; likewise Harlingen,
Mercedes, McAllen and other Valley
towns.
Now it is proposed to bring all
the champions from these various
contests together into an elimina
tion tournament which would close
with the selection of the Valley
champion yo-yoer.
There also is likelihood of a yo
yo refueling endurance contest, pat
terned after the refueling flights so
popular in the aviation world just
now. -
The champion of the United
States is said to hold a record of
some 5000 consecutive spins of the
yo-yo. Valley yo-yoers talk of spin
ning the little top for several con
secutive days.
A Valley yo-yo king would be a
Valuable asset—or would it?
• • •
A bell-hop from a California ho
tel has become a millionaire as a
Result of his operations in yo-yo.
One day he saw a Japanese valet
Spinning a little top up and down
' a string. He became interested, tried
,/ to do the tricks himself—attained
efficiency and other bell hops want
ed a yo-yo.
An idea—
If bell-hops liked to yo-yo, other
people would also.
He gave the Jap $100 for sole
tights.
The backing of capital was se
cKed, a large factory went into
jsPxiuction.
Now the bell-hop is clipping cou
pons.
• Maybe all that didn’t happen, but
It’s a good story.
• # •
“MY COTTON”—up and down the
String goes the little yo-yo—“js
about eaten up with worms, and I
don’t seem to find time to poison
like I should,” a Valley farmer was
heard to tell a friend on a Browns
Vile street comer.
"That so,” was the companion’s
■remark as he closely watched his
own yo-yo as it descended and as
cended In beautiful rhythm.
*My trees need some attention
but I don’t seem to be able to get
any one to do anything about it,”
and the yo-yos spun on.
Then the conversations turned to
more difficult maneuvers with the
whirring top.
• • *
Just then a mother walked by,
on her left arm was a crying baby’,
who seemed to need attention. In
the mother’s right hand there was
a yo-yo. "Zizz, zizz,” said the little
top as it spun out in front and back
in perfect tempo.
A local theater manager walking
down the street toward his movie
palace noticed a black object whir
ring up and down the front of the
building. Glancing up to the oper
ating room window he saw one of
the men on duty there waving his
arm up and down in rhythm with
the darting object. The man had
made a yo-yo of a large metal
•pool such as film is wound upon.
And he acquired a considerable
•kill with hi* huge edition of the
popular toy.
• * *
CHARLES CELAYA, young
Brownsville banker ,is going to
audit his way around the world.
He has been appointed to the
staff of foreign auditors of the Na
tional City Bank of New York,
which maintains branches in almost
aJBfcarts of the world.
Krier about a year’s training in
the work, during which time he is
scheduled to visit any lands, he is
to be placed in charge of one of
the branches, likely in Spain. And
later his foreign training is to be
utilized in the foreign department
(Continued on page 3.)
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SENATE HOLDS
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‘MINUTE MEET’
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THEN ADJOURNS
AUSTIN. July 19.— m—The
senate held the shortest session
in its history today, assembling
and adjourning within the space
of one minute.
“The senate will come to order,
and I recognize the senator from
Galveston,” Senator Gus Russek
of Schulenburg, said, rapping his
gavel.
“I move we stand at recess un
til 9 o’clock tomorrow,” Senator
T. J. Holbrook stated.
“All in favor say ‘aye’,” Russek
said.
Came two ‘ayes.’
Again Senator Russek banged
his gavel, and the session was
over.
America Sweeps
Single Matches
In Berlin Meet
*
BERLIN, July 19.—{£*>—America
swept both of the opening singles
matches in the inter-zone Davis cup
tennis finals with Germany today.
Frank Hunter defeated Daniel
Prenn, German ace, 3-6. 6-3, 6-4,
6-3, after Bill Tilden had trounced
Hans Mo’denhauer in straight sets.
If the young American doubles
team of Wilmer Allison and John
Van Ryy, heavy favorites, come
through tomorrow against Prenn
and Moldenhauer the invaders will
have clinched outright the honor of
meeting the French holders of the
cup in the challenge.
Laredo Conference
July 24 To Discuss
Train Schedule Plan
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, July 19.—C. W.
Strain* freight and pasenger division
superintendent of the Missouri Pa
cifi lines, in a telephone conversa
tion to J. E. Bell, secretary of the
San Benito chamber of commerce,
and president of the Texas Com
mercial Executives association, an
nounced that conference will be
held in Laredo July 24. on the mat
ter of proposed changes in train
schedules coming into the United
States from Mexico.
The Texas secretaries, Commis
sioner of Agriculture George Ter
rell, the state health department,
and other agencies have protested
plans of the railroad to allow trains
entering the United States to pro
ceed 80 miles before being subjected
to customs and other examinations.
The Valley protested the plan on
the grounds that it would offer op
portunity for introduction of fruit
fly. _;_
Babe Ruth, Lame In
Knee, Forced Out of
Indian-Yank Game
CLEVELAND, July 19.—OP)—Babe
Ruth, who sprained his knee at De
troit two days ago, pulled up lame
again today in the first game of a
doubleheader between the Yankees
and Indians. He was forced to leave
the game after receiving a pass ir
the first inning and going to sec
ond base. Cedric Durst replaced
him on the base and also in righl
field.
WORK ON SANTA FE -
ROAD STARTS SOON
ALPINE. Texas. July 19.—{&
Representatives of the Santa Fe
railway here announce that con
struction work on the Alpine-Pre
sidio gap probably will be started bj
Aug. 10. A final survey is more thar
half completed, and the exact route
of the new rail line is expected tc
be definitely established by Aug. 1
SHREVEPORT FLIERS
IN THIRD DAY TES1
SHREVEPORT, La., July 19.—UP
The endurance monoplane piloted
by Van Lear Leary and William
Currey Sanders began its third daj
in the air at 10:30 a. m. today*
SYSTEM IDEA
IS DIRECTION
WITH ONE CHIEF
Belmont, Disch, Stew
ard, and Whittaker
Suggested For Post;
Decision In Fall
AUSTIN, July 19.—(A5)—The Aus
tin Statesman said today sweeping
reorganization of the athletic de
partment of the University of Tex
as is being considered by a five
member faculty committee which
will report its conclusions to the
board of regents at an unannounced
date in September.
Under a suggested plan a super
director would be placed in charge
of present uncorrelated inter-colle
giate athletics, physical education,
physical training and women’s ath
letics.
Names of L. Theodore Bellmont,
former director of athletics and now
professor of physical education;
William J. Disch, veteran baseball
coach; E. J .Stewart, forer football
coach, and Berry Whittaker, former
head football coach, are being con
sidered as chief of the new athletic
department, the newspaper said ,t
had learned.
Embargo On Arms
Shipped to Mexico
Lifted By Hoover
WASHINGTON, July 19.—<A>)—
President Hoover today issued a
proclamation raising the embargo
on the shipment of arms and mu
nitions to Mexico.
The embargo has been in force
since January 7, 1924, andjvas im
posed by President Coolidge. The
Mexican government recently re
questing the lifting of the emb.irgo,
however, and the president’s action
today revoked the action in 1924 by
President Coolidge.
A statement by the state depart
ment in connection with the embar
go pointed out the Mexican govern
ment had recently sucessfully with
stood another domestic insurrection
and the conditions now in Mexico
no longer required maintenance of
the embargo.
Girl, 12, Shoots
And Kills Father
Attempting Attack
KEYPORT, N. J„ July 19.—{IP)—
Twelve-year-old Catherine Crawford
today shot and killed her father, a
Monmouth county constable. She
said he attempted to attack her.
The shooting ocurred in the Craw
ford home shortly after the mother
had left for work.
The girl has two brothers and a
sister. Myrtle Crawford, 11, was
the onlvpther member of the fam
ily besides Catherine and her father
who was home at the time of the
shooting.
RAILROAD REDUCTION
ON COTTON ALLOWED
AUSTIN. July 19.—(/P)—Authority
to reduce rates bn cotton and cot
ton linters in bales to meet motor
truck competion was temporarily
granted railroads by the railroad
commission today.
A further hearing on the appli
cation of railroads to meet the com
■ petition will be held, it was said,
, the evidence submitted at the first
hearing not having been sufficient
to justify the commission in making
a definite finding, it held.
HOWITZER EXPLODES,
KILLING FOUR MEN
BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 19.—
i (IP)—A field Howitzer exploded dur
ing practice today at Haymasker.
killing four of its crew, including
Captain Erich Viktor. Several sol
, diers were, injure^
| RETURNS j
20 months ot
enforced rest, Rear Admiral
Thomas P. Magruder will return
to active service in command of
fleet base force on the Pacific
coast. He was relieved of duty
in 1927 following articles assail
ing navy management.
DORSET! TO
RUN FOR JUDGE
Willacy County Official To
Seek Post Held By
Judge A. M. Kent
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE, July 19.—R. S.
Dorsett, county judge of Willacy
county has announced he will be a
candidate for judge of the 103rd
civil judicial district in 1930.
A. M. Kent of Brownsville holds
this office at the present time. He
was appointed to the place when the
court was created less than four
years ago and was elected in 1928.
The district embraces Cameron and
Willacy counties.
Dorsett has promised a formal
statement in a few days.
SON OF NEW ORLEANS
MAYOR GETS BEATING
NEW ORLEANS. July 19.—(&)—
Augustus Williams, recorder of
mortgages of New Orleans, today
beat up and threw out of his office
Arthur O'Keefe. Jr., son of Mayor
O'Keefe, when he called on the re
corder for an apology for the lan
guage used by Williams against the
mayor at last night’s open air labor
mass meeting, called in connection
with the strike of street car men.
KELLOGG PACT
IS MENTIONED;
N. Y. REDS MOB
Communist Demon
stration In Front of
China Con s u 1 a t e
Stopped By Police
WASHINGTON, July 19.—(£*>—
Secretary Stimson has called to the
attention of both the Soviet and
Chinese governments the fact that
they are signatories of the Kellogg
anti-war treaty in connection with
reported threats of war between the
two countries.
French Ambassador Claudel call
ed at the state department yester
day, and it is presumed in diplo
matic circles Secretary Stimson
communicated to him for trans
mission through his government to
the Soviet the suggestion that they
should abide by the renunciation of
war doctrine which was adopted as
a national policy by Russia with ad
herence to the Kellogg pact.
Chinese Minister Wu received a
similar suggestion from Secretary
Stimson.
While the state department is
without authoritative information
on the underlying causes of the dis
pute between China and Russia
over seizure by China of the Chi
nese Eastern railway, Secretary
Stimson on the basis of press re
ports feels the entire matter can be
settled without resort to hostilities.
In his steps to avoid hostilities in
the Far East. Secretary Stimson en
listed the aid of Japan, Great Brit
ain and France. Besides conferring
yesterday with French Ambassador
Claudel, Mr. Stimson talked at
length with Japanese Ambassador
Debuchi. Sir Esme Howard, the
British ambassador, has also con
ferred with the secretary on the sit
uation.
Under the terms of the four-pow
er treaty concerningthe Pacific
signed in Washington in 1921, the
United States, Great Britain, Japan
and France are obligated to confer
and consult with one another in a
threat to peace in the Pacific, and
particularly regarding a threat to
their possessions. Secretary Stim
son went beyond this, however, and
took steps to call to the attention
of the two governments their ad
herence to the Kellogg treaties for
the renunciation of war.
VA¥ TTF PAfT
MOSCOW, July ‘ 19.—(TP)—The
acting head of the Soviet govern
ment today told American newspa
permen Soviet Russia had no inten
tion of declaring war on China over
the Manchurian situation.
Citing the Kellogg peace pact, to
which Russia is signatory, Jan Rud
zutak, who in the absence of Alexei
Rykoff, is acting head of the gov
ernment, said Russia thought the
Kellogg pact more precious than
(Continued on page 3.)
Passport Law Altered At
Hildalgo; Unchanged Here
Bulletin on daily changes in
Mexican immigration regulations:
At Brownsville the situation re
mains unchanged
At Hidalgo all restrictions have
been declared off until after
Aug. 15.
Edelmiro Rodriguez, inspector
in charge of immigration at
Matamoros, said he had received
no new instructions and that reg
ulations as propounded in The
Herald ..ednesday and Thursday
would be enfoised here.
These are:
All residents of the Valley must
by Aug. 1 secure courtesy cards.
Until Aug. 1 no passports will
be required of tourists. Arrange
ments to be made after that date
still are to be decided with a pos
sibility that chambers of com
merce will be allowed to issue
identification cards. J this is
not done, tourists will be required
to secure consular passports for
each trip and a charge of one
peso will be mad^
An Associated Press dispatch
from Mexico City Thursday said
chambers of commerce in the
home town of tourists would be
permitted to issue passports for
visitors to the border.
Rodriguez had received no no
tification of such a ruling and it
was believed the dispatch was in
tended to say chambers of com
merce at the border could issue
passports to tourists. No such
regulations will be put in force
here until authority is received
from Mexico City, Rodriguez de
clared.
At Reynosa, where all persons
have been required to have pass
ports for several days past, the
bridge had I.een thrown op:a and
no restrictions were being en
forced. Mexican officials an
nounced this would continue until
August 15, when the passport re
quirements would be put in force.
They warned Unite States citi
zens passports must be secured
before that data.
OBEYING LAW,
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CHILD REMOVES
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BATHING GARB
CHICAGO, July 19.—(/P)—The
Samuel Lubors were given a good
talking to by Judge Jacob Schul
man yesterday, the reason being.
Their little daughter was play
ing in her bathing suit on the Oak
•Street beach. That was all right.
She wandered, however, from the
beach to the lawn, Thfct was con
trary to ordinance number some
thing.
"Hey, there, little girl,” said Of
ficer Edward Smith. “It‘s against
the law to go on the * lawn in a
bathing suit.”
The child not wanting to break
the law, took off the bathing suit.
DAYHOLDUP
NETS $43,000
Bandits Steal Bank’s Armor
ed Car, Throw Guards
Into Street
NEW ORLEANS, July 19.—(A1)—
An armored truck of the Hibernia
Bank and Trust company carrying
$100,000 in cash and checks was
seized by hooded bandits today and
driven off after the bank guards
had been thrown to the street.
The loot contained $21,300 in cash
and $21,283 in negotiable checks,
but $61,720 was represented by can
celled checks of the Illinois Central
railroad of no value to the ban
dits.
The truck was trailed by the ban
dits in a grey sedan until a curve
at Dryades and Julia street uras
reached. Here the bandits began
blowing their horn, and the truck
chauffeur, thinking they wished to
pass, pulled to one side.
Instead, the bandits leaped
aboard the truck, firing two shots,
jerked' the guards to the street,
drove them into a negro restaurant
at the points of a shotgun and pis
tols and escaped up the street in
the truck, leaving the sedan, whicn
had been stolen. The guards fired
as the truck sped away and the
bandits fired back, but all of the
bullets went wild.
Family Is Jailed
As ‘Hex’ Slaying
Probed By Police
KALAMAZOO, Mich., July 19.—
(A5)—Eugene Burgess, his wile and
their son and daughter rrc in jail
here today while officers investi
gated what they said had all the
appearances x a “hex” slaying.
The victim was Mrs. Etta L. Fair
childs, 75, occupant of a home for
the aged here, whose mutilated
body was found in a cistern short
ly before midnight last nigh .
Burgess, officers said, confessed
he had killed Mrs. Fairchilds with
a lead pipe and a hammer because
she "had cast r.:i evil mental in
fluence” over h': family and that
she “could kill people through her
mental process.”
He charged : :rs. Fairchilds’ in
fluence had brought about the
death of his mother two years ago
and that of her husband some 15
yerrs ago.
Burgess’ wife also sought to take
responsibility for t’ie slaying, say
ing she hrd killed Mrs. Fairchilds.
Like her husband, she said the
aged woman "had an evil mental
influence or ‘spell’ over the entire
Burgess family.”
THREE-DAY FIReTs
RAGING IN WARSAW
LONE ON, July 19.—UP)—An Ex
change Telegraph dispatch from
Warsaw today said a disasti us fire
had been burning there since Wed
nesday night in the building of the
army engineers’ stores.
The fuel stores blew up Wednes
day, and the fire since destroyed
the buildings despite tfc: work ol
300 firemen. Many persons were
raid to have fcrrn injured.
LAWYERS CLASH;
JUSTICE FINDS
EVIDENCE LACK
Justice of the Peace B. L. Cain Friday dismissed charges of forgery
against Deputy Sheriff S. M. Jester following a preliminary hearing
marked by sharp disputes between attorneys.
Employment of special prosecution was challenged by Defense Attor
ney H. L. Yates, who after the hearing, became involved in an affray in
SAM YOE DIES
IN CAR CRASH
Former Brownsville Stu
dent Killed In Kan
sas Accident
SAN BENITO, July 19.—Sam Yoe,
21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J.
Yoe of San Benito, was killed in an
automobile accident last night at
Salina, Kansas.
Mr. Yoe is superintendent of San
Benito public schools.
Gayle Van Tine, another San Be
nito boy, was slightly hurt.
Young Yoe’s neck was broken in
the wreck, and he died almost in
stantly.
Only meager details of the crash
were relayed here from Buda, Texas,
where the parents were at the time
of the tragedy. They were notified
last night, and Supt. Yoe left im
mediately for Salina, to bring the
body back.
Mrs. Yoe remained with her par
ents at Buda.
The two youths left the Valley
several weeks ago in Van Tine's
automobile for Kansas, where they
worked for a time in the wheat
fields. They planned to return in
the fall, to attend college.
Sam Yoe came to the Valley in
the fall of 1920 with his parents,
coming here from East Texas, when
Mr. Yoe took up his duties as
superintendent of the Brownsville
public schools.
The family lived in Brownsville
until the fall of last year, Mr. Yoe
being superintendent of schools in
Brownsville during all that time.
Sam was one of the most popular
pupils in his class during his four
years in high school. He was at one
time president of his class, was
editor of the annual of the gradu
ating class, wTaa a member of the
football team, and took part in prac
tically all other student activities.
He was graduated from high
school in 1926.
The past two years the young man
attended the Brownsville Junior
college, where he also played foot
ball, and took part in other student
activities.
He made an enviable scholastic
record throughout his years in
public schools and colleges of the
Valley.
The family came to San Benitc
last summer, after Mr. Yoe had ac
cepted a position as superintendent
of San Benito public schools. A
younger son, Thomas, is with his
parents at Buda.
Funeral services will be held ir
Buda. Rev. Marshall of Brownsville
wil probably oficiate.
Chronicle Offers
Sterling Support
In Governor’s Rac£
HOUSTON, July 19.— (AP).—
The Houston Chronicle today
called upon R. S. Sterling, pub
lisher of the Houston Post-Dis
patch and chairman of the state
highway commission, t- inn for
governor and pledged him its
support in the ev'nt he enters the
race for tb democratic nomina
tion in 1930.
The chronicle was a vigorous
supporter of Oscar F. Holcombe,
announced candidate for gever
•v, in the last mayoralty cam
~"' ign here
'the court house rotunda, resulting
in interference by officers.
Jester was charged with having
forged the signature of a Mrs. Smith
to a $55 check received in payment
for allegedly stolen cattle.
Lack of evidence to convict was
the cause given by Justice Cain for
dismissing the case. Three witnesses
testified for the prosecution.
The defense contended that tha
check was made payable to a Mrs.
Smith, and not to a specific Mrs.
Smith in response to testimony pre
sented by Mrs. Anna C. Smith of
San Benito that she never saw the
check, had not endorsed it and had
not authorized Jester to collect it for'
her.
The preliminary hearing opened
with a tiff between Volney Taylor,
special prosecution attorney, and
Yates for the defense. Yates asked
to know what interests had obtained
Taylor’s services. Taylor refused to
tell Yates individually who had
hired him but said he had no ob
jections to telling the court should
it ask him the question. Yates with
drew his question.
First Witness
The first witness to take the stand
was Romulo E. Garcia, meat dealer
in the Brownsville market. He said
he had purchased cattle from E. W.
Lloyd shortly before the Rio
Hondo man’s death. Jester came to
him shortly afterward and told him
that three of the heifers he had pur
chased belonged to Mrs. Smith and
that unless he paid for them, suits
would be filed against him, Garcia
testified.
The meat dealer stated that he
had already paid Lloyd, but that in
the meantime the man had died.
Rather than go to court, he paid
Jester a total of $105 for the heifers,
he said. The first was a $55 check
made out to Mrs. Smith.
The check was introduced as evi
dence, showing that it had been
cashed and that, it w^as endorsed by
“Mrs. Smith” and S. M. Jester. The
defense admitted that Jester had
signed his name but not the one of
“Mrs. Smith.”
Mrs. Anna C. Smith, operator of a
San Benito boarding house, was
called to the stand. She testified
that she had two head of cattle in
Lloyd’s pasture before his death.
She asked for the cattle several
times but Lloyd gave her evasive an
swers, Mrs. Smith said. Lloyd fin
ally offered to buy her two head of
cattle and gave her a check for $75,
according to the testimony.
(Continued on page 3>
I WEATHER j
THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy to fair tonight and
Saturday. Light to moderate east
erly to southerly winds on the west
coast.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to
night and Saturday; somewhat cool
er in northeast portion tonight.
Light northerly winds on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
in the river during the next few
days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Chng. Rain
j Eagle Pass ..16 2.4 0.0 .00
Laredo .27
Rio Grande..21
Mission .22 4.3 -0.6 .00
San Benito ..23 9.2 -0.8 .00
Brownsville ..18 4.9 -0.7. 00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteoro
logical conditions;
High .5:21a.m.
Low .8:48 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today .7:23 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .. ^.5:50 a. m.