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| _____w xi | See the new BULOVA L All 0 A A C Strap Wrist Watches VlL & uAO With the New Industrial Plant Burning Equipment opyipj ■ I A fine line Ioediea I , Complete Systems Installed Dust-Proof ■ ! A1 * ... • Movement I Alamo Iron Works ve are Brownsville — Corpus Christi Valley Agents _San Antonio — Houston -- - J THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(A*) 1_ THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 22 NOOD Edl'tiOll • ’ BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1929 NOOIl EdltiOII * 5c A COPY — ___________________ , ' i l IN 0U1 VALLEY MOVING PICTURE news reels fere full of Brownsville and coast Country stuff these days. At a total cost of $21 to the chamber of commerce, publicity worth thousands of dollars has been secured. It couldn't De bought. First came Barney Zimmerley fend his non-stop flight from \Brownsville to Winnipeg, Canada. Pictures of the flier and his ship were made in front of the hangar at the municipal airport; then the start was photographed in the light of flares. A few days later the command ing officer and his staff from the Matamoros, Mexico, garrison paid a courtesy call on Lt. Col. Stanley Koch and staff at Fort Brown. .This was photographed. Bird Island furnished a beauti ful strip of film depicting bird life along the coast. John Shary and the Port Isabel company furnished a boat for this trip and shots of tarpon fishing wrere made at the same time. Here the cgast country gathers fame. * * * Seme ten days later Captain Wallace Reed and his well trained crew of coast guards performed for the news recorders, giving matinee and evening presentations. Regular water drills were pic tured in the afternoon. Atu night flares lighted a life savijf drill. day later half a dozen Browns ville beauties clothed in pretty bathing costumes went crabbing along the coast near Point Isabel. A live crab thrown into the boat with them caused a considerable commotion and the camera record ed all their antics. And the final shot was when the radio towers at Foint Isabel crashed to the ground, showing the march of progress. • * • SO-CALLED advertising schemes costing thousands of dollars are presented to the chamber of com merce almost daily. Most of them are not worth as much as one of these news reel shots. And the news reel publicity will continue. Camera men for Para mount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, In ternational News and Fox News ail have left their address and have asked that they be notified by wire when anything out of the ordinary is about to occur. They will be notified. * * * VALLEY FARMERS rank with the most skillful in the land. One of ten master farmers in tho state of Texas has been a Valley farmer for the past two years, and now the Valley has two fine candi dates in the race this year. Master farmers are selected by j the Progressive Farmer and A. & M. college from nominations made by county agricultural agents. M. F. Orr of Lcs Fresnos was Cameron county's master farmer in 1927 and I. B. Corns of Stuart Place was selected one of the ten outstanding agriculturists in the state in 1928. The Valley candidates this year are Fred E. Appleby of Donna for Hidalgo county and H. H. Whipple Cf Los Fresnos for Cameron county. Orr and Corns assisted in selecting Whipple. JOli>r W. KIRKPATRICK. Hi dalgo county agent says of his can didate for honors: “Mr. Fred E. Appleby is a young man farming 16 acres of land which he owns, and he rents 40 j acres besides. He has hogs, cows, chickens, a fine citrus orchard and raises truck besides. “He is developing a splendid place and I believe will make a very ex cellent showing in the contest. He plants 25 per cent of his acreage each year in cowpeas for the pur pose of soil building. He makes very good records of the work he has* done and has excellent home surroundings. “He is a very good citizen, taking interest in the affairs of his com munity, and is a well rounded character. “I believe he is following the lines i of agriculture that will mean suc cess in the Valley.” * * « Mr. Whipple, Cameron county's candidate, has lived for the past 14 years on the same 60-acre farm in (Continued on page 104, NEW GRAVE MAY * * * BE DUG ON OLD * * * 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,. Muncz, 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 wrong here ond find the defendant not guilty,*' Judge Cain said. ROBIN IN AIR Plane Still Going With An geleno Record Bettered Ey 40 Hours ST. LOUIS. July 25.—(AP)—Dale • Red” Jackson and Forest O'Brine spent another night aloft in the St. Louis Robin and at 6:17 a. m. today had passed the 287-hour makr. It exceeded the former record for sustained flight by more than 40 hours. Preparations were under way for refueling. Only the wearing out of the mo tor will cause Jackson and O'Brine to descend from the atmosphere whioh has been their home for ap proximately 12 days and which has brought them at least temporary fame as the pair who set a new en durance flight record. They eclipsed the old marl: of mere than 246 hours set by the Angeleno Tuesday. While Jackson had been confi dent before the flight started that if they set a new record they would go on and double the old mark, Ma jor William B. Robertson of the Curtiss-Robertson company, spon sors of the flight, was not so opti mistic. Yesterday he remarked on the increased life of an airplane motor compared with ten years ago and said, “it looks now as if the motor will function well up to 300 hours, maybe longer. I hope it does, but I shall not be surprised if it reaches its limit around that fig ure.” Lose Weight That the men would lose weight on the long flight seemed foregone. Dr. A. C. Leggatt. flight surgeon at the field, said he expected Jackson to lose 20 pounds and O'Brine about 10. The latter weighed 1381-2 at the examination before taking off while Jackson tipped the scales at 154. In a note asking about the sound Oi the motor, Jackson said he couldn't tell how it sounded. "We sleep by it, eat by it, wake up by it, and ch, do everything by it and around it and behind it. When we get through up here we will need a motor at home to sleep by.” Ask for Newspapers Congratulatory messages poured in at the field at such a rate two stenographers were assigned to weed it out as all of it couldn’t be taken aloft. The fliers demanded newspa pers, however, when the refueling plane failed to carry them along on onetrip. The flight has cost more than $10,000. it was estimated yesterday, including more than 2400 gallons of gasoline and 110 gallons of oil. The mileage mark was around 17,000. Good flying weather has been the Robin's part since being aloft, one shower of about 5 minutes’ duration being the only unfavorable period. BITTER AND EGGS CHICAGO. July 25.—(AP)—Butter higher; creamery extras 42 1-2; standards 42 1-4; extra firsts 40 1-2941 1-2; firsts 39@39 1-2; sec onds 37938 1-2. Eggs higher; extra firsts 33933 1-2; firsts 32 932 1-2; ordinary firsts 2993^ EXPENSE FUND FOR CHAMBERS BEGINS TODAY - - % Also Pass Appropri ation of $7500 For Public Health Work In Cameron County Application of the Harlingen chamber of commerce for $300 a month salary and exenses for the chairman of the Arroyo Colorado navigation district, was granted Wednesday afternoon by the Cam- I eron county commissioners court, to go into effect immediately. The action was taken by the com missioners following receipt of a communicatioon from Myron F. Ward, secretary of the Harlingen chamber, in which he notified the commisisoners that at the last meet ing of the navigation committee, it was decided that J. X. Chambers, chairman of the navigation district, needs that sum to carry c« his duties. Little discussion marked the ac tion of the commissioners in grant ing the request. After the letter was presented, the motion was made by Commissioner J. F. Baughn. and the order was signed by County Judge Oscar C. Dancy, Commissioners Baughn, A. V. Logan, Sam Bell and H. M. Pat lee. . . The meeting of the commissioners canvassed the returns of the recent constitutional election. The commissioners also passed an order appropriating $7500 of the county funds to match $12,676 of the United States public health service for rural sanitation demonstration. The $7500 will go towards the sup port of the work for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930. Houston Test Plane Dodges Thunderstorm IIHOU5TON, Tex., July 25. {JP) A thunderstorm was brewing on the Gulf coast today as the monoplane Billion Dollar City dipped and turned high above in its dogged pursuit of a refuelling endurance flight record. Prepared for its possible storm test, the plane at midnight has been in the air more than 178 hours and the pilots, Glenn L. Loomis and Joe Glass, held fast to their decla ration that they would attempt to stay up long enough to beat what ever mark the St. Louis Robin may set up in Missouri. The Billion Dollar City weathered a slight thunderstorm two days ago. Two records, recent but now al most forgotten, were surpassed by the monoplane yesterday. The Bil lion Dollar City sailed past the “Port Worth’s” 172 hours and 33 minutes record at 6:22:54 p. m., and the City of Cleveland's achieve ment was beaten at 7:50:54. The City of Cleveland stayed aloft 174 hours and one minute. The Houston plane took on gaso line, oil and food for the fliers without incident through last night. Crowds watching the plane were growing. Rural Aid Bill Is Signed; Trip Vetoed AUSTIN, July 25. —OP)—The $5. 000,000 rural aid bill was signed, and the resolution proposing a trip of legislators, to Washington in an ef fort to obtain a veterans’ bureau hospital for Texas was vetoed by Governor Moody yesterday. He filed without his signature the Vcatch bill appropriating $2,500 to rebuild a school building in Cuba common school district, Johnson i county, destroyed by a tornado. The rural aid bill was $500,000 less ' than one vetoed by the governor, with all toher money bills, at the i 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- 1 gress. Doctors Concerned Over German Leader HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 25 (£■>—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 learned | from attaches of the hospital that j the doctors were much worried about the condition of the German j cabinet leader, 1 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 with 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 WAIT PARLEY IN FAR EAST Definite Peace Move Seen Imminent; Skirmishes On Border Continue LONDON, July 25.—OPj—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 ol Kirin pro vide, Manchuria, was the onlv Chi neses 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. tne 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 commission 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 1s to furnish a suitable airplane landing field site, and lease it to the department of com merce at a nominal sum. The de partment v/ill put in tw?o 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 150 acres of land will be purchased for the field. Divorced Wife, In Jail For Perjury, Ends Hunger Strike BORGER. Texas. July 25.—<7P)— 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.—(/P)— 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 w’ill be installed at once. M. Verdugo, chief 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. LONDON, July 25.—(.4s)—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 ajmt 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 b/ 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. BOWLING AT 105 BOURNEMOUTH, Eng—Bening Arnold engaged in a bowling match on his 105th birthday. i-1 “Chatty, The God- | dess of Gab” j Beatrice Burton’s Latest Novel Starts Friday, July 26 | In (Ehf Snramsufllf HeratJ Get advance chapt e r s from your newsdealer and start this absorbing story | of the gossip by the au thor of • j “Sally’s Shoulders” Man Shoots Self As Girl Charges Attack ST. LOUIS. July 25.—UP\—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 cn 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. STATE TO OPEN TESTIMONY AT SANITY TRIAL Sister of Defendant Only Witness Called Thursday Morning; ‘Fires’ Attorneys GEORGETOWN, Tex.. July 25.— (/P)—After calling one witness, Mrs. J. R. Sullivan of Corpus Christi, sister of the defendant, the defense in the Harry J. Leahy sanity trial rested this morning, and a recess was granted state's attorneys that they might arrange their list of wit nesses. Mrs. Sullivan, who followed to the stand several witnesses of yes terday who testiifed regarding Leahy’s condition, said that at the age of 20 the defendant suffered a severe case of fever and was deli rious and highly nervous. In Oc tober of last yea** she testified that sh® noticed a chance had come over him and this had increased his nervousness. On cros sexamination Mrs. sum van said her father and mother were old an dvery feeble and were unable to attend the trial. A brief, but turbulent fist fignt, and a dramatic moment in which the defendant sought to discharge his attorneys marked the first tes timony in the sanity hearing of Harry J. Leahy, under sentence of death for the slaying of Dr. J. A. Ramsey of Mathis. The fist fight occurred while at torneys were examining the first witness, Miss Amarda Davidson of Taylor, whose affidavit that she believed Leahy insane won the de fendant a stay of execution and a sanity trial. Miss Davidson, an attractive smartly dressed woman of 30, testi fied she had known Leahy for eight or nine years and that his acts since his conviction, as well as his letters, had indicated his mind was imbalanced. H. N. Graves, of the prosecution, on cross examination asked Miss Davidson whether she knew that Leahy was married and yet received lc’.ters f-cm him and went on to ask her who had told her what to say from the stand. A carbon copy was produced which Miss Davidson identified as a transcript of what she had told defense attorneys she would testify. E. B. Simmons of San Antonio then took the witness on redirect examination and attempted to show that the paper in question was a transcript of what she had told at torneys she would testify and that the woman declared that “she had a right to tell the attorneys what she would testify and to refute the dirty insinuations made here.” Every attorney in the case was on his feet instantly and Graves advanced upon Simmons. ‘.‘If the court cannot control this man,” he said. “I can,” and he swung vigorously at Simmons’ jaw. In the melee that followed many glancing blows were struck, but no damage was done and Sheriff Louis Lowe soon had order restored. TILDEN AND COCHET PAIR IN CUP MATCH PARIS, July 25—UP)— Staged j with all solemnity in the presence j of diplomats, the draw for the Davis Cup challenge round between France and America resulted today in George Lott being paired with Jean Borotra and Big Bill Tilden with Henri Cochet for the opening two singles matches tomorrow* at I Roland Garros stadium. There was a slight tendency to lengthen the odds but with plenty of American ' money in evidence, the figures were no more than 2 to 1 against the chances of the United States. RED CROSS TO HOLD LIFE SAVING SCHOOL (Special to The Herald) MERCEDES, July 25.—A school of instruction in life saving will be conducted at the Cascade Pool, Mc Allen, July 29. August 1, and August 4, by the Hidalgo County chapter of the American Red Cross, according to announcement of Mrs. J. J. Mur ray of Mercedes, secretay-treasurer of the Hidalgo County chapter. Classes will be supervised by Tom Murray, Valley Boy Scout executive, assisted by Miss Yula Mighell of San Juan. They will be held at 7:30 p. m. on the first two davs of the schooL NOW THEY EVEN * * * GET SENTENCED * * * 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. 3. 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. After 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 xhe judge and he passes sentence. It has been erroneously report ed that the commissioners pass sentence on the immigration of fenders. E1GHTHSN00K JUROR SEATED : Talesmen Questioned hi Dej tail For Co-ed Slay | ing Trial COLUMBUS, O.. July 25.—(JP)— i Exhaustive questioning of prospec tive jurors was resumed today as at torneys moved slowly toward im panelling the 12 persons who will decide the fate of Or. James H. Snook, former Ohio State Univer sity professor, for the hammer mur der of Theora Hix, 25, his co-ed mistress. The eighth tentative juror was seated when both the state and de fense accepted Elliott P. Rexford, 26, a chemical analyst. John F. Sei del, defense counsel, asked Rexford if the presence in court of the par ents of Miss Hix would affect hij decision, and when the talesman an swered in the negative, the question was extended to include all the ju^ rors. A woman who said she was op posed to capital punishment wa3 excused by Prosecutor John J. Ches ter, Jr. Four women tentatively seat ed'on the jury said they had no ob jection to the death penalty. Louis C. Devis, painting contrac tor, was seated tentatively as the ninth juror. 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 I 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. Five Injured In Taxi Explosion SAN ANTONIO, July 25.—<JP)— j Five persons were in hospitals today sufering from burns, as a result of the explosion of a taxicab, following a collision. The injured were: Fred Fest, city motorcycle police man. Harold Owens. David Rodriguez. N. E. Todd, driver of the taxicab. Eddie Garza. Todd’s injuries, hospital attend ants said, were serious. The taxicab and another car. po lice said, collided at a street inter section. and the taxi turned over. A small crowd gathered, and Motorcycle Oficer Fest responsed to a call. Suddenly there was an explosion, and burning gasoline was thrown over the officer, the driver of the car and three bystanders. Police advanced the theory that seme one struck a match. WINDOWS RAIN GLASS: MOTIVE PUZZLES COPS Thousands of Persons In Business Area Escape Unhurt In Mystery Explosion CHICAGO, July 25.—(<P)—The Loop, billion dollar heart of Chica go business, was rocked shortly be fore last midnight by a bomb ex plosion. No one among the thousands of persons who were in the south end of tlic Loop at the time was hurt, a circumstance which police re garded as miraculous, for glass rained from upper story windows for many minutes. The bomb had been placed in an alley entrance of the Davis com pany department store, less than 35 feet from Jackson boulevard swarming with homebound motor ists, and about midway between two Loop arteries, Wabash and State streets. Philip Iwanski, garbage collector, came upon the bomb, so neatly packaged- lie believed it to be a bundle someone had dropped. He • picked it up and one end of it was warm. He thought it contained sandwiches, and he put it carefully back where he found it, and walked away. A moment later, he told po lice. he decided to retrieve the package “before someone else did.’* As he turned, the bomb exploded. Only a few minutes later a bomo exploded on Twenty-second street, between Michigan and Wabash avenues. Windows in the Equitable Trust company building on Michi gan were broken, and 20 operators in the Calumet Exchange of the Illinois Bell Telephone company were momentarily panic-stricken. There was no motive for either bombing apparent to police. 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. FAMILY PERISHES IN DESERT BLYTHE. Calif., July 25.—(A*)— How a family of seven perished of thirst on the scorching desert south of here after having drunk the wa ter from the radiator of their dis abled motor car has been revealed to the police of Blythe by six Mex ican youths. The ’.ays reported the bodies of the victims, believed to be Mr. and Mrs. Enrique Armenta and their five children, were found scattered in the vicinity of a disabled auto mobile near a seldom used desert road 33 miles south of Blythe. Nine heat deaths in four days were reported from the Imperial Valley. i WEATHER .„—.__ i For Brownsville and the Valley: Partly cloudy to unsettled tonight and Friday, probably with local showers. For East Texas: Partly cloudy to night and Friday, scattered show ers in the southeast portion. Light to moderate southerly winds on the coast. RIVER FORECAST There will be a slight rise in the river from Mission down during the next 12 to 24 hours. Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr. Stage Stage Cling. Rain Eagle Pass .. 16 2.3 +0.1 .00 Laredo . 27 -0 9 0.0 .00 Rio Grande . 21 6.4 -r2.5 .10 Mission. 22 3.8 0.0 .00 San Benito . 23 7.4 +0.7 .00 Brownsville .18 2.G -0.3 .00 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isabel tomorrow, under normal meteoro logical conditions: High .7:24 a. m.; 6:24 p. m. Low. 2:22 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS DATA Sunset today . 7:21 Sunrise tomorrow . 5:53