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VALLEY’S JULY
CONSTRUCTION
SHOWS SPURT
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Building Work In Pro
gress Reveals Wide
Variety of St r u c
tures Rising
(Special to The Herald)
BAN BENITO, July 27 —July
building in the lower Rio Grande
Valley was started off with a rush
that promises to give the section
a good showing for the latter half
of the year.
Development, headed by 1. pid
construction work in the many new
sections being opened, includes such
structures as canning factories,
packing plants, ice factories, cotton
gins, schools, business locations of
various kinds, houses and other
buildings.
Construction work running well
into millions is being started. Plans
are being completed on a $35,000
building at the Valley fair, to be
used as a home states club. Con
struction work on an airport at
San Benito is expected to start,
following closing of a deal with
the department of commerce.
The Central Power & Light com
pany is starting ice plants at Mer
cedes and Elsa, the Mercedes plant
representing an outlay of approxi
mately $150,000.
Work has been started on a $50,
000 packing plant of the Texas
Citrus Growers’ exchange at La
Feria. and another such plant at
McAllen is contemplated. An or
ganization of growers of citrus in
the Edinburg and McAllen sections
is planning a smaller and less ex
pensive plant at McAllen.
School Building
School builr .r_g is on the upgrade
again, with contract awarded at
Harlingen for a $300,000 structure,
and buildings to cost a similar
amount being planned at San Be
nito. Mercedes is planning a bond
issue election in the sum of $200,
000 or more, and contract for the
construction of two smaller build
ings costing a total of $30,000 at
Weslaco has been let.
At Rio Grande City c*nsiderable
municipal work has been done, and
the Central Power & Light company
has done improvement work.
Construction of a large filling
station at Mercedes by the Hum
ble Oil & Refining company is to
be started.
The store of 1- H. Buck near San
Benito, which - as destroyed re
cently by fire, being replaced by
a larger and more expensive struc
ture. At McAllen remodeling work
has been started on the Texan The
ater building.
Stores Going Up
A number of stores are being j
built in the smaller cities of the
Valley, including Elsa, Hargill, San :
Perlita, and others in the newly de- j
veloped sections.
Construction work will b~ under
way soon on two new stores for J. j
C. Penney company, one a McAl- |
Jen and one at Weslaco.
Brownsville building which is be- !
Ing started will include construc
' tion of a railroad spur to the mu
nicipal air field, an' expenditure
of $100,000 or more in buildings at
the air field. The runw:;-s will be
paved, and other improvements
there.
Construction work on a brick bus
iness building in San Be 'ito for
W. L. Kilgore l as been practically
completed, while a warehouse built
by August £hrhar..t for the Ford
Motor company is nearing comple
tion.
A large two-story duplex is being
built by Walter F. Chambers, end
remodeling and enlargement work
on a business building for Joe Bal
lenger in San Benito is nearing
completion.
Nurses’ Home
In addition to construction on the
school building in Harlingen,
sketches are being drawn for a
building for the Jones Storage and
Transfer company, and remodeling
work on the Johnson buildirj is
nearing completion. Construction
work on a nurses’ home at the Val
ley hospital is well under way.
An addition to the Sharyland
school building near Mission is be
ing built at a cost of $25,000. A
canning plant i- contemplated at
Mission, by W. H. Lowry, Pharr
fruit and cold s'.vrage plant opera
tor.
Construction work on a Christian
church at Mission is to be started
soon..
Willacy county building has pick
ed up considerably. Raymondville
recently voted $20,000 in bonds to
purchase a site for an emergency
landing field.
Canning Plant
A $50,000 canning plant has been
itarted at San Perlita, new town
near Raymondville. The latest pav
ing contract awarded in the county.
• $350,000 Job, to F. P. McElrath of
Harlingen, is being held up pend
ing outcome of an election contest, j
and election having been declared ,
void by District Judge A. M. Kent
recently.
Railroad construction work in
cludes two or three new stations,
and an extension track of the Mis
souri Pacific from Edcouch to Wes
laco. About three miles of this
track has been built.
Work has been started on approx
imately $500,000 worth of paving in
the Alamo district in Hidalgo coun
ty,, W. L. Pearson & Company of
Houston having the contract.
CAMP OF S. C. V. TO
FORM AT McALLEN
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN, July 27.—Captain C.
E. Gilbert, adjutant-in-chief in
charge of organization for the Sons
of Confederate Veterans, announc
ed Friday that a McAllen camp of
the order would be organized in
the near future.
Captain Gilbert stated that ap
proximately 30 applicants for mem
bership had signified their intention
to join the local camp and that
he expected to see a large organi
zation here.
It is expected that additional
members will be added immediately
upon organization of the camp.
STOPS BIGAMY AT ALTAR
MIDDLESBOROUGH, Eng. — As
Mi6S Ruth Cragin reached the altar
to marry Charles Matthews she
was informed that he already had a
wife*
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South Eagerly Awaiting
Gastonia Strike Trial
Among the 15 persons charged in e onnection with the slaying of the
Gastonia, N. C., chief of police ar e George Carter (left), Louis Mc
Laughlin (right) and Fred Erwin B eal (below), southern organizer for
the National Textile Workers’ Uni on.
GASTONIA, N. C., July 27.—It>—
One of the most sensational labor
disturbances in southern history
will culminate in the trial of 15
men and women July 29 on a
charge of murder.
Leaders in the movement of the
National Textile Workers union to
gain a foothold in the South will
go to trial on a charge of murder
ing Chief of Police O. F. Aderholt,
June 7. The outcome is causing
much interest in the South, which
always has feared northern labor
methods.
On April 22 the union, which is
assisted by various communistic or
ganizations, called a strike at the
Loray cotton mills. There was
some trouble, and troops were called
out.
After several weeks the union
and the International Workers’ re
lief established a tent colony for
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some 156 strikers and their fam
ilies. Armed guards were posted
about the camp.
On June 7 there was a disturb
ance at the camp. Chief Aderholt
and Patrolmen Tom Gilbert, A. J.
Roach and two other officers went
to the camp to investigate. _
They were stopped by guards,
and in the excitement that ensued
someone discharged a shotgun
loaded wdth bird shot at the of
ficers. The chief, Gilbert, Roach,
another officer and Joseph Har
rison, a union organizer, were
wounded.
The chief died the next day, and
approximately 75 strikers and strike
leaders were arrested. After inves
tigation 'and preliminary hearings
held in Charlotte 15 men and wom
en were held on charges of mur
der growing out of the death of the
chief, and six persons were held in
$750 bond on charges of assault on
the living officers.
The defendants in the murder
case are Fred Erwin Beal, southern
organizer for the National Textile
Workers’ union; Vera Bush, union
worker; Amy Schechter, director
of relief work for the International
Workers’ relief; Sophie Melvin,
striker; K. O. Byers, camp guard;
William McGinnis, strike leader;
Louis McLaughlin, camp guard;
George Carter, Mizpah, N. P., camp
guard; Joseph Harrison, Passaic,
N. J., union organizer; J. C. Heaf
ner. striker; Robert Allen, striker;
N. F. Gibson, striker; K. Y. Hen
dricks, striker; Del Hampton, camp
guard; Russell Knight, striker.
The case will be called as the
only item on the docket of a spe
cial term of the Gaston county
superior court wi+1 Judge M. V.
Barnhill of Rocky Mount, N. C., as
signed by Gov. O. Max Gardner to
hear it. The defense plans to ask
for a change of venue, and if grant
ed it is expected that the case will
be moved to Charlotte.
The defense has retained among
its counsel Tom P. Jimison, labor
attorney of Charlotte; John Ran
dolph Neal of Knoxville, Tenn.,
who gained considerable fame in
Scopes evolution trial at Dayton,
Tenn.; Frank Carter, former su
perior judge, and a number of lesser
known lawyers.
As one move in their defense at
torneys for the accused strikers
have secured the indictment of Pa
trolmen Gilbert and Roach in the
Mecklenburg Superior court on
charges of being drunk and disor
derly a few hours before the shoot
ing.
LAREDO LAWYER MAY
RUN FOR GOVERNOR
, DALLAS, July 27.—(£>)—'The Dal
las News said today that Dallas
friends of District Attorney R. L.
Bobbitt of Laredo, formerly speak
er of the house, regarded it as
“practically certain” he would be a
candidate for the governorship
next summer.
Mr. Bobbitt was here yesterday.
The paper said he declined to “deny
or affirm” reports he would run
and smiled “broadly” when ques
tioned.
The News also said District At
torney William McCraw of Dallas
probably would seek the office cf
state attorney general.
SHOT DEAD AT SEA
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. — A. J.
Kinzen wras found shot to death in
his cabin on the liner Abinsi and
was buried at sea.
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ROADS TO LINK
IOWA COUNTIES
Elaborate Paved System Is
Planned to Connect
Rural Towns
By E. E. DUFFY
Iowa plans to place a paved road
between every county seat and
town.
This calls to mind the early
highway problem of deciding where
the road building program should
start. Practically all states saw the
wisdom of first paving the main
routes which carried the most traf
fic, with improvements to be ex
tended to secondary roads later as
finances would permit.
Being possessed of three million
miles of roads, the United States
was indeed faced with a trying
highway problem when the automo
bile began its domination. Al
though good progress is being made
it is only natural that some impa
tience has been expressed because
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proved roads.
Several traffic surveys conducted
by states in collaboration with the
Bureau of Public Roads have re
vealed that a quite small percent
age of highways carries most of the
traffic—in Ohio about 60 per cent
of the traffic travels over one
eighth of the roads. The township
highway system containing about
three-fifths of the state’s roads ac
commodates but an eighth of the
vehicles.
In considering the placement of
highway building funds, it must be
borne in mind that only slightly
more than one-fifth of the total
population is on farms. Along
with this, it must be remembered
that the highways connecting cities
and towns usually pass through the
most populous rural regions. Un
deniably, more can be accomplish
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so designated because they carry
the most cars.
Clearly, when Iowa’s county seats
and towns are all connected every
rural resident will have easy access
to a hard surfaced road.
NEST IN LETTER BOX
OTTUMWA. Id.—A bird has built
its nest in a local letter box.
OLD BOOKS ARE
KEPT BY MONKS
St. Benedict Library Has
Treasures Copied 1400
Years Ago
MONTECASSINO. Italy, July 27.
—(A5)—Delegates to the World Con
gress of Librarians at Rome, includ
ing many of the leading librarians
of the United States, saw some of
the most wonderful books on earth
when they visited here the monas
tery founded by St. Benedict just
1400 years ago.
During the dark Middle Ages,
when barbarians were sacking li
braries and internal feuds were in
tent on burning them, the Bene
dictine monks of Montecassino pa
tiently copied immortal works and
thus preserved for today priceless
books that would otherwise have
been lost forever. Among them are
“The Golden Ass” and the “Meta
morphoses” of Apuleius; the History
and Annals of Tacitus; Cicero’s
oration “Pro Cluentio” and his es
says. “Renublica” and “About the
Laws,” “The Nature of the Ood^.
and Ovid's “Fasti.”
The oldest grammar in history
was also preserved intact by the
Benedictines. This was Varrones
“Latin Language.” Montescassinc
kept unharmed the only original
copy. Upon this all grammers, J
down to the English grammar
taught in American schools, have in
part been based.
The work of the Benedictine
monks in preserving priceless books
of the church has been even more
remarkable. Original works of St.
Jerome, St. Augustine. St. Cyprian
and St. Ambrose; the most ancient
papal decree, that of John VIII;
the oldest text of a decree by Gra
tian. famous codifier of laws, have
all been saved from the depreda
tions of time and of men by the
Benedictine brethren.
Among the visiting Americans
were Herbert Putnam, librarian of
congress; Andrew Keogh, librarian
of Yale university" and president of
the American Library association
and William W. Bishop, librariata
of the University of Michigan, j
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