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SAN BENITO WILL
BUY PLANE FIELD;
CLOSE U. S. PACT
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, July 25.—Members of the San Benito city commission
Wednesday night closed an agreement witn L. C. Elliott of the airways
division of the department of commerce, for an intermediate airplane
landing field here.
Although no definite contract was signed at that time, members of
Divorced Wife, In
Jail For Perjury,
Ends Hunger Strike
FORGER, Texas, July 25.—(JP)—
A hunger strike, started after she
had been arrested on a charge of
perjury, was ended today by the
divorced wife of a Borger physi
cian after one-day duration.
The woman continued in jail,
however, in default of $500 bond
on the charge which grew out of
her refusal to give up property
gained in a partition suit from her
former husband to a receiver ap
pointed by the court. She was ar
rested Monday in Amarillo.
Bridge to Re-open As
Soon As Orders Come
MEXICO CITY, July 25.—(iT*)—
Renewal immediately of foot and
automobile traffic over the Browns
ville and Matamoros Bridge com
pany’s bridge connecting the twc
border towns was authorized by the
Mexican department of communi
cations today. Immigration and
sanitary inspectors and the customs
service will be installed at once.
M. Verdugo, cnief of Mexican
customs told the Brownsville Her
ald Thursday morning that he had
not yet reecived official orders from
Mexico City for the opening of the
bridge.
Verdugo said he had a force of
men prepared to take their posts at
the bridge as soon as the orders are
received.
General Agent A. S. Gimble of
the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mex
ico railway stated Thursday morn
ing he had not received further in
formation. since the message Wed
nesday notifying him that the de
partment of communications had
ordered the bridge re-opened to
foot and vehicle traffic.
■ the commission told Mr. Elliott that
they would provide a suitable field
for the government to use and im
prove.
Today members of the commis
sion started a tour of the proposed
sites. Before night an option will
be closed on the site which is con
sidered preferable, and steps will
be taken at once to purchase it.
The city commissirn will proba
bly issue warrants to secure funds
with which to purchase the field,
and later will replace these war
rants with bonds, bearing a lower
rate of interest. Such action was
recommended at a chamber of com
merce open meeting held earlier in
the week. At that meeting resi
dents of the city recommended that
the commission take whatever steps
necessary to take advantage of the
government offer.
Mayor J. Scott Brown explained
that all that is required of the city
in the deal is to I -.rnish a suitable
airplane landing field site, and
lease it to the department of com
merce at a nominal sum. The de
partment will put in two airways,
and light the field, at no expense to
the city.
The airfield will be maintained
as a municipal landing field, and
be taken over at any time by the
city, provided the government is
still given use of it.
A tract of about 153 acres of land
will be purchased for the field.
Doctors Concerned
Over German Leader
HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 25
(.P)—Although an official bulletin
tonight stated the condition of
Chancellor Hermann Mueller, who
recently underwent an operation for
gall bladder trouble, was satisfac
tory, The Associated Press learhed
from attaches of the hospital that
the doctors were much worried
about the condition of the German
cabinet leader.
NOW THEY EVEN
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GET SENTENCED
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BY MAIL ORDER
A system whereby violators of
section two, immigration act of
March 4, 1929, who plead guilty
may be sentenced without actu
ally appearing before him, was
been instituted by Judge J. C.
Hutcheson, Jr., of the federal dis
trict court.
He has distributed blank forms
to U. o. commissioners in his dis
trict for taking of these written
pleas of guilty. These forms are
used only In cases where the de
fendant pleads guilty to entering
the United States at a time or
place other than as designated by
U. S. immigration officials.
.Mter taking the plea, the com
missioner makes a recommenda
tion to the judge as to what the
sentence should be. The papers
are mailed to 'he judge and he
passes sentence.
It has been erroneously report
ed that the commissioners pass
sentence on the immigration of
fenders.
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Point Isabel Man
Bound Over to Jury
In Rum Seizure Case
Segundo Vasquez of Point Isabel
was bound over to the federal grand
jury on a $250 bond following his
hearing before U. S. Commissioner
E. K. Goodrich Wednesday on liquor
charges.
Vasquez’ home, near the old radio
towers at the Point, was searched
last Saturday and a quantity of
mescal and home brew was found,
according to testimony of officers in
the raiding party.
Customs Inspectors James H Col
lins, A. A. Champion and Ed R.
McNabb were the officers in the
case.
RODDY NAMED HEAD
OF LAND COMPANY
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, July 25.—H. H.
Roddy has been named president of
Valley Developments, Inc., local
land development organization, to
succeed Wimberly McLeod, re
signed.
Roddy has been vice president of
the organization for some time.
McLeod announced he would be
connected with the McLeod-Hood
company of Harlingen.
JUSTICE LIST
NARROWSTO 12
Believe Moody Will Make
Court Appointment* From
Dozen Names
By RAYMOND BROOKS
(Special to The Herald)
AUSTIN. July 25.—The list of
Texas lawyers from whom Gov.
Dan Moody will select six associate
justices of the supreme court to
complete the new nine member
court, when the constitutional
amendment authorizing it is declar
ed in effect August 24, is believed
to have been narrowed down to a
dozen men. Some of these are
known now with a reasonable de
gree of definiteness.
Judges Richard Critz of George
town and Charles A. Leddy of Dal
las, two members of the present ad
junct commission of appeals which
will be abolished, are said to be
fairly certain of appointment to the
court. They were appointed by
Gov. Moody to the commission.
From Austin three jurists have
been mentioned, with impressive
"background” for the naming of
each to the supreme court. At
least one out of these three, it ap
pears, will go on the bench. They
are District Judge George Calhoun,
who has an outstanding record as
a trial judge in all the big civil
matters in which the state is a
party, and for whom a statewide
bar endorsement was started by the
late Joseph Weldon Bailey; former
Atty. Gen. W. A. Keeling, state
chairman of the bar organization
that supported the nine-member
court amendment; Presiding Jus
tice James W. McClendon of third
civil appeals court, widely-known
appellate judge.
An active campaign has been
started in behalf of Judge Ed R.
Smith of San Antonio, with bar en
dorsements for him from several
cities.
Leon Sanfield of Beaumont, for
mer member of the supreme court
commission of appeals, is being
actively supported. The name of
Sam Streetman of Houston is be
ing mentioned frequently.
Reports have said that former
Chief Justice Nelsen Phillips of the
supreme court, now chief counsel
for the American Telephone and
Telegraph company, might accept
appointment as an associate jus
tice; but there is no indication an
effort is being made to secure his
appointment to the court from
which he resigned.
One member is expected to come
out of west Texas, and numerous
names have been mentioned in that
connection. Among these, though
lacking in confirmation that any
one of the three is actively in the
field, are: Charles I. Francis, Wich
ita Falls; Robert L. Holliday of El
Paso, member of the university
beard of regents; and R. F. Burgess
of El Paso.
Rural Aid Bill Is
Signed; Trip Vetoed
ATOHN. July 25.—TflPj—The $5.
000.000 rural aid bill was signed, and
the resolution proposing a trip of
legislators to Washington in an ef
lOi'D to obtain a veterans* bureau
hospital for Texas was vetoed by
Governor Moody yesterday.
He filed without his signature the
Veatch bill appropriating $2,500 to
rebuild a school building in Cuba
common school district, Johnson
county, destroyed by a tornado.
The rural aid bill was $500,000 less
than one vetoed by the governor,
with all other money bills, at the
conclusion of the second called ses
sion.
In disapproving the Washington
Junket trip the governor said he
did not believe Texas should offi
cially, from public funds, send men
to Washington to lobby before con
gress.
F THE WEATHER j
High barometric pressure, crested
over Alabama, continues to prevail
over the Southeast and the pres
sure also remains high over the
Pacific Northwest. The pressure is
low along the northwest Canadian
border, through the Rocky moun
tain and Plateau regions and also
over New England. Unseasonably
high temperatures have prevailed
over the entire country except New
England and have caused numer
ous thundershowers with precipita
tion reported from Arizona, New
Mexico, Texas, all along the Gulf
border to Florida, the upper Mis
sissippi valley and the lower Lake
region and scattered along the At
lantic coast.
WEATHER BULLETIN
First figure lowest temperature
last night; second, highest tempera
ture yesterday; third, wind velocity
at 8 a. m.; fourth, rainfall past 24
hours.
Abilene.72 92 — .00
Amarillo . 64 78 — .10
Atlanta. 70 86 — .00
Austin. 74 92 — .00
Boston. 66 80 — .00
BROWNSVILLE. 76 90 — .00
Chicago . 70 92 — .38
Corpus Christi ’. 78 88 — .00
Dallas . 74 92 — .00
Del Rio. 74 96 — .00
Denver . 64 86 — .00
Detroit . 68 86 ~ .00
Dodge City. 66 84 — .00
El Paso . 76 94 10 .00
Fort Smith. 68 92 — .00
Galveston . 68 86 16 5.48
Helena . 64 100 14 .00
Huron . 70 94 — .01.
Jacksonville .... 74 88 — .52
Kansas City .... 74 92 — .00
Louisville . 72 90 — .00
Memphis . 72 90 — .00
Montgomery .... 70 86 — .24
New Orleans ... 74 76 — .28
New York . 74 88 12 .00
North Platte .... 68 86 — .00
Oklahoma City . 70 92 '10 .00
Palestine ....... 70 90 — .00
Fensacola. 76 82 — .00
Phoenix . 76 104 — .40
Pittsburgh . 72 86 14 .00
St. Louis . 74 92 — .00
St. Paul . 66 92 — 1.22
Salt Lake City .. 74 96 — .00
San Antonio ... 74 92 — .00
Santa Fe .58 CO — .30
Shreveport . 68 90 — .00
Tampa . 74 90 — .00
Vicksburg . 70 82 — .00
Washington .... 72 92 — .00
Williston . 76 100 10 .00
, Wilmington. 74 88 10 .04
NEW GRAVE MAY
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BE DUG ON OLD
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SITE, IS RULING
A person can remove an en
closure around a grave in order
to dig another grave, provided he
replaces it to the best of his abil
ity, and not be guilty of malicious
mischief, Judge B. L. Cain held
in Justice of the Peace court Wed
nesday.
The complaint was filed by El
vira A. de Castillo against Cata- ’
rina R. de Olvera.
Testimony revealed that a plot
of ground in the old city cemetery
had been bequeathed to the de
fendant by her grandfather, and
the plaintiff came in for half of
the plot also through kinship.
The latter alleged that improve
ments made by her willfully and
maliciously were destroyed by the
defendant, who ordered the new
grave dug where one person al
ready had been buried.
R. Munoz, sexton at the ceme
tery, testified it is not unusual to
dig a new grave where an old one
has been, and that his men had
restored the enclosure in almost
as good condition as it was before.
“I see no intentional w'rong here
end find the defendant not guilty,’'
Judge Cain said.
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SIDELIGHTS
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RIVOLI—SAN BENITO
William Haines, star of “Excess
Baggage,” “Brown of Harvard,” and
other recent hits, returns to the
screen in a distinctly different type
of role in “A Man’s Man,” Metro
I Goldwyn-Mayer’s filmization of Pa
! trick Kearney’s famous stage hit,
' which comes today to the Rivoli
| theater at San Benito, as a sound
synchronized production.
The new story, directed by James
Cruze, who directed “Excess Bag
I gage,” and made film history with
“The Covered Wagon.” is a lilting
satire on Hollywood with Haines as
a youth wtih a correspondence
school complex, and Josephine
Dunn, who played opposite him in
j “Excess Baggage,” as his sweet
| heart, with movie star aspirations.
They get married and then the fun
is fast and furious.
Despite the hilarious comedy of
the story there is a delicate love
romance that runs through it, and
many human touches, some of them
bordering on pathos. Thrills add
to the ensemble.
Such vivid bits as the Hollywood
bungalow party, the showing of
! the premiere of “White Shadow's”
at Grauman’s famous Chinese the
ater, with many famous stars ap
pearing, snapped on the night of
the event specially for the picture,
and other vivid cross sections of the
movie capital aid in making the
affair interesting.
Although essentially a Hollywood
story, it is without any of the ster
otyped “back stage view's” that oft
en mark this type of drama.
The cast is a notable one, includ
ing Sam Hardy of “Diamond Hand
cuffs” fame, Mae Busch, heroine of
“The Unholy Three,’ and others of
note.
TEXAS
Karl Dane and George K. Arthur
are partners in crime as well as
comedy in “Brotherly Love” which
plays today at the Texas theater as
a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer fun fea
ture.
In the satire on “reform” prisons
the famous laugh team are seen as
convicts in a collegiate penitentiary
where they have guards only to keep
paroled prisoners from breaking in
again.
A jail football team supplies the
principal motivation behind the love
interest is the center of complica
tions. Dane and Arthur, as the
prison gridiron gladiators, duel with
touchdowns for her hand and their
football antics are uproarious with
side-splitting situations.
ARCADIA — HARLINGEN
A dramatic phase of Hollywood’s
critical attention to, talking pictures
was uncovered shortly after the
completion of George Bancroft’s
new all-talking picture, “Thunder
bolt,” when that "star announced the
dissolution of a national body of in
vestigators. formed by himself, to
report on opinions reflecting on his
first appearance in dialog films,
“The Wolf of Wall Street.”
Bancroft’s first talking picture was
of vital interest to the star but the
acclaim with which it was received
removed any doubts he mav have
had about his ability to perform in
dialog pictures.
Paramount officials were never in
any doubt about the splendid tonal
qualities of Bancroft’s voice. Ban
croft, however, sought a more com
prehensive verdict and, accordingly,
framed his “national jury,” com
posed of friends in every sectoin of
the country, acquaintances among
leading showmen and 300 persons
who had written him intelligent
“fan” letters. In each case he asked
an impartial opinion.
“No presidential candidate has
ever awaited vote counts with more
genuine interest,” he says, “and my
returns poured in by long distance
telephone, by wire and mail. My
self-created 'intelligence depart
ment’ has been very encouraging.”
WAIT PARLEY
IN FAR EAST
Definite Peace Move Seen
Imminent; Skirmishes
On Border Continue
LONDON, July 25.—(JP)—Official
quarters today awaited definite
word of opening of direct negotia
tions between Soviet Russia and
Nationalist China for solution of
the Chinese Eastern controversy
they felt all but certain hostilities
between the two nations have been
averted.
It was believed possible the direct
negotiations, following preliminary
meetings of whicn first notice was
received yesterday, had already be
gun either at Harbin or Mukden,
seat of the Manchurian capital.
The Russian plenipotentiary, it
was believed, would be either L. B.
Serebriakov, member of the rail
road commissariat who was said to
have proceeded to Harbin, or B. N.
Meinikov, Soviet consul general at
Harbin, or both. General Chang
Tso Hsiang, governor of Kirin pro
vide, Manchuria, was the onlv Clii
nesed mentioned in connection with
the negotiations.
While this hopeful prospect dom
inated interest in the situation Rus
sian and Chinese news sources con
tinued accusations of offenses
against the territory of each nation.
The Chinese most recently charged
seizure of automobiles belonging to
Urga, Mongola, Chinese, and the
Russians alleged Chinese employ
ment of white Russian emigres for
destructive work over the Russian
frontier.
Moscow official reports said 16
of These white emigres had been ex
ecuted Tuesday in the political de
partment of Khabarovsk, adjoining
Manchuria.
LONDON, July 25.—r.F—Reuter’s
dispatches from Tokyo today quoted
a telegram from Manchuli, Manchu
ria, saying Chinese troops had fired
on five Soviet airplanes which ap
peared over the border town ahxit 7
a. m. Later in the morning distant
sounds of firing were heard, but
they died down shortly afterward.
The shooting was believed to have
been caused merely by the excita
bility and nervousness of the Chi
nese troops. The newspaper Nichi
in a special dispatch from Manchuli
said Russian and Chinese troops
had opened fire on each other when
sixteen Russian airplanes appeared
over the city.
Man Shoots Self As
Girl Charges Attack
ST. LOUIS. July 25.—OF—Jack
Gans, 29, former Little Rock, Ark
broker, shot and killed himself in a
hotel room last night as police at
tempted to enter to arrest him on a
charge preferred by a 17-year-old
former beauty contest winner and
chorus girl at the Garden theater.
Fifteen minutes before the shoot
ing. the girl, Miss Murial Doherty,
appeared at a police station with a
tale of being lured Into Gans’ room,
struck with a rolling pin, trussed to
a bed and attacked.
She exhibited bruises to substan
tiate her statement of being struck
on the head and marks on her
wrists of adhesive tape. She told
police Gans offered to accompany
her on a shopping trip but Instead
asked to go to his hotel room to re*
ceive a book.
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fiscal year 1929.
Stanislaus county, California, esti
mates that 27 rents of everv dollar
income is from Holstein dairy cows.
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