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See the new BIJLOVA j| AV a a e 0 tSnmmsintlc __ THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(/F) r ■ - ' ■■■■!■■ ■■■ - — ■ ■■ ■ ■■■ 1 «»- " " '■ ' THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 26 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY] - , ... - ■■ ■■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ -> Ira oot VALLEY WIVE DOLLARS in cash is being ofifted for the best stalk of cotton by P. D. Lissner, Raymondville merchant. The prize-winning stalk will be used in the Raymondville commun ity exhibit at the Valley mid-winter fair. Here is an example which should receive the attention of other Val ley communities. In fact, if<%ome such action is not taken imme diately Raymondville is almost cer tain to walk off with the high score for cotton. • * • Which brings to mind that the Valley exposition at Harlingen as only a little more than three months away and now is the time for selection of exhibits . J. E. Clark of La Feria, in charge of community exhibits at the fair, has issued a warning to local com munities that now is the time to select cotton, corn and other field crops to be shown at the fair. Also it is now time to arrange for other parts of the exhibit. It might be a good idea to make some special plantings just to provide certain products for the displays. + m * THERE IS some talk of an ex hibit at the Texas State Fair in Dallas. If the Valley does decide to dis play her wares at that exposition thought should be given to selec tion of the products immediately. • * BOB, author of Border Bolts, front page column in the Mission Times, speaks: “Another good man gone UTong. • Our good friend, Editor Pender graft of The Brownsville Herald, has gone “yo-yo.” Last week he de famed his excellent column, “In Our Valley,” in an inglorious at tempt to lend dignity to the yo-yo. After his recent journalistic out burst, I called on Editor Pender graft, expecting to find that dig nitary spinning a yo-yo, but he fooled me—he was out! I can vis ualize many of these yo-yo spin ners demonstrating their childish art in front of drug stores and on corners, on Saturday night asking Dad for spending money.” • * • Now, the only trouble with Bob Is that he wrote that without read ing what In Our Valley had to say about the yo-yo. And thereby he let himself in for an inaccurate statement. In fact what was said about the yo-yo in that column was so far from complimentary there has been 5*gr that makers of the toy might ne a libel suit. So, Bob's apology is accepted. But he had better stay away from the spinning little toys, or “they’ll get him yet.” COMES A STORY from Rio Grande City of how a boatman on the international ferry at that place returned from lunch and found a 200-pound, eight - foot - long gar tangled in ropes under the seat of his boat. The mammoth fish is supposed to have leaped for a minnow and landed in the boat in such a way as to have been unable to get back in the water. But the yarn fails to tell on which side of the river the boat Ufas anchored while the boatman was away having his lunch. It seems that is a rather important part of the narrative. • • • A SURVEY has been made and right-of-way has been secured, ac cording to reports in Hargill, Edi tor Sydney Lackland tells readers of the Hargill Progress in the last edition, and there is every prospect that the two mile gap in the high way between Hargill and the Wil lacy county line will be closed. The Hargill editor has spent con siderable energy and space in his paper discussing that gap and de manding that it te paved. In Our Valley predicted last week he eventually would get results. Watch him. • • * And Hargill evidently seeds a paved highway in all directions. Lis ten to this from the Progress: “All is quiet in Hargill this week after having three shows in two weeks, and it seems right lonesome not to hear the steam caliope send ing up its wail.” * * * VALLEY PRESS FOLK talking a Vfclley Press association. And a move launched at Mer ceJes last week bids fair to result tfj^an organization with its pur pose the serious consideration of problems of the fraternity in this section. The other purpose of the association—fellowship—likely to be taken care of in monthly meetings at some Valley hotel. Ralph Bray, editor of the Mis sion Times, says he has been as sured of liberal support of the idea. * + * There is every reason to believe the Valley can organize a press association which will lead the field —as the Valley does in every line of endeavor. Valley dailies, semi-weeklies, weeklies, semi-monthly and month ly publications are numerous, of high quality and prosperous. REPORT MOHAMMEDANS SLAUGHTER 20,000 PEIPING, China, July 29.—(A5)— A message received here by the In ternational Relief from a mission ary says that 20,000 boys and men of the mountain town of Dangar were slaughtered in a Mohamme dan uprising. m ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ V V V V T V V « V V ▼ 'C T * * ▼ Minnesota Endurance Flight Ends in Tragedy ' " 1 - 1 1 M i i i ■ JC ~ ' —-X — [HALF MILLION MILL WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE Government May Act To Prevent Misery And Depression of Labor Disputes MANCHESTER. Eng.. July 29.— UP)—Half a million cotton trade workers struck this morning, clos ing down 1,500 mills, when employ ers refused to recede from their in tention to cut wages 12 1-2 per cent. The strike was automatic, hav ing been decided upon Saturday. It affected almost the entire Lanca shire cotton industry with the ex ception of a few plants outside the employers’ federation which were still operating. It was the outgrowth of contin ued depression in the textile trade which there weeks ago led to an announcement by employers that a 12 1-2 per cent reduction in wages would be effective Saturday. Nearly every city and town in Lancashire is affected by the strike, which is expected to cause a loss in wages of about £1,000,000 (about $5,000,000) weekly. Mills whose owners are not mem bers of the Masters’ Federation an nounced they could continue pay ing the old wage rate temporarily. They employ only a few thousand workers. The Lancashire wage scales are based on piece work with compli cated lists. There was some feeling some sort of government action still could save the day and prevent the mis ery and financial depression which invariably follows British trade dis putes. In this event the operating spinning section probably would ask for resumption of negotiations on their own account. It is expected the mill owners would meet them half way. Among the mills remaining work ing were those of the Broadhurst Lee company at Manchester, em ploying 1,000 hands, and another of the same firm at Bolton, employ ing 2,000 hands. There were 17 mills working at Bolton, two at ' Preston, and several at Radcliffe and Rosendale. San Benito Mayor’s Father, 71, Dead (Speciul to The Herald) SAN BENITO, July 29.—News of the death In San Marcos of Prof. J. S. Brown, 71, father of Mayor J. Scott Brown of San Benito, was re ceived here Monday. Mayor Brown and his family were preparing to visit his father when word was re ceived. Prof. Brown, who was well known in the Valley through his numerous visits, was a pioneer educator of Texas. He was on the faculty of the San Marcos state teachers col lege from 1903 until his voluntary retirement in 1928. He was the author of several mathematics text books. Burns May Be Fatal To Houston Reporter HOUSTON. July 29.—W. C. Proc tor, 26, reporter for the Houston Press, was in a serious condition at a hospital here today as a result of burns received yesterday when he fell asleep with a lighted cigarette in his hand which set fire to the Proctor , who came here four weeks ago from New Orleans, La., where he was employed by the Times Picayune, was burned from his right knee to his right shoulder. Attendants held little hope for his recovery. Proctor had just finished work ing nine days on the Houston en durance plane story. Services Held For Mrs. Hannah Cooper Funeral services fo rMrs. Han nah Cooper, 81. r^ident of Browns ville fo rthe past seven years, were held Sunday afternoon from the home of her daughter, Mrs. N. R. Quinn, here, the Rev. R. O. Mack intosh of the Episcopal church, of ficiating. Interment followed at 3:30 p. m. in Buena Vista cemetery. Mrs. Cooper came here from Al vin, Texas in 1922. She is survived by two daughters. Mrs. N. R. Quinn and Miss May Cooper, 1314 St. Charles street. Pallbearers included Joe Garza, P A. Ramos, Ralph Derrick, Dale Jones, and Jim Stout. RECOMMENDS U. S. FARM CHAMBER BATON ROUGE, La., July 29.— t'/Pi—Organization of a national chamber to represent agricultural cooperatives in Washington, D. C., was recommended to the American Institute of Co-operation, in ses sion here by C. C. Moser of Dallas, I Texas, president of the American Cotton Growers Exchange and chairman of the institute. PILOT KILLED IN REFUEL MISHAP A T MINNEAPOLIS Captain Crichton, World War Veteran, Dies As Ship Goes Into Spin Over Speedway; Owen Haugland, co-Pilot, Injured. MINNEAPOLIS, July 29— (JP)—The endurance plane, the Minnesota, crashed into the ground at Wold Chamberlain Field at 5:25 a. m., today, killing Capt. P. J. Crichton and seriously injuring Owen Haugland. The two were pilots of the plane. The plane plunged into the old concrete automobile racing track en DENIES ACTION OF U.S. BOARD Chambers Says No Official Advice That Application Disapproved (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN, July 29.—The Ar royo Colorado navigation district has not been notified, officially or unofficially, that the U. S. Army board of engineers had disapproved application of the district to cut a channel through Padre Island, ac cording to J. B. Chambers, pres ident of the navigation board. “Until we receive official notifica tion.” Chambers said, commenting on published reports that adverse action had been taken, “we shall continue our efforts for deep water. In the event our application is dis approved. we mtend to appeal the decision.” Chambers said the only official communication he has received lu connection with the matter w-as from Major Milo P. Fox, U. S. en gineer at Galveston, in which Fox notified him that tidal wave surveys were being made after the recent hearing in connection with Browns ville’s port application. A meeting of the navigation com mission will probably be held within a few' days to discuss the district’s progress. Snook’s Condition Not To Stop Trial COURT HOUSE. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 29.—OP)—Presiding Judge Henry L. Scarlett ruled in his cham bers just before the opening of court this afternoon that there would be no interruption in the af ternoon session of the trial of Dl\ James H. Snook because of the re ported indisposition of the defend ant. Dr. Snook underwent a test Sat urday night involving the drawing of fluid from the spinal cord. Ten men and two women held tentative places on the jury at the noon recess. Just before the mid day interlude, Paul L. Weaver, a coal dealer, took the place of Mrs. Nellie E. McClintock, who was ex cused on the defense’s eighth per emptory challenge. She was the sixth woman to lose her place in the defense drive for an all-man jury. The defense in removing her left unexercised just half of its six teen peremptory challenges. The state still has three left. Aircraft Official Killed in Crash ST. LOUIS, July 29.—(An—George Lea Lambert, 23, vice president of the Von Hoffman Aircraft company and a son of Major Albert Bond Lambert, official observer of the St. Louis Robin endurance flight, and Harold C. Jones. 18, of New York City, a Von Hoffman student, were killed in a crash of a biplane near Black Jack, St. Louis county. Lambert was killed outright and Jones was dead when he reached a St. Louis hospital. Lambert and Jones had taken off from the Lambert-St. Louis field shortly before the accident. Banks Closed. To Protect Patrons JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. July 29.— @—The Broward County Bank and Trust company of Cocoa, one of the oldest financial institutions in the state, and the Melbourne State bank of Melbourne failed to open their doors today. They w'ere placed in the hands of the state banking de partment with the explanation tnat the closings were made to protect depositors. Irrigation Hearing Scheduled Monday (Special to The Herald) AUSTIN, July 29.—Hearings were scheduled for Monday by the water board on application of Edward Roos, New York, to irrigate 2400 acres in Cameron county from the Rio Grande and Rancho Viejo re saca, also on application of A. F. Parker, San Eenito. to irrigate 7000 acres from the Rio Grande in Cam eron county, ^ f ^circling the field just five minutes after the ground crew had picked up a message from the fliers saying “Everything is going fine.” Preparations for making another refuelling contact were under way by the ground crew before the ship went into a spin. Crichton was instantly killed and Haugland was ru6hed to a hospital. The plane had been in the air 154 hours, 40 minutes. The ground crew was unable to ascribe any reason for the crash. Some witnesses believed that the fliers sacrificed too much flying speed to drop what was their last message. They were up only 200 feet when the plane went into a spin. Sixth Attempt It was Haugland’s sixth attempt to set an endurance record, and Crichton’s first. At 12:12 a. m. to day the Minnesota had passed the previous mark of 149 hours achieved by Haugland and Thorwald Johnson last June. On that flight Haugland and Johnson were forced down by motor trouble. Previously, Haugland and Gene Shank had attempted four times to set an endurance record. Hauglapd was taken to Ft. Snell iner hospital. Doctors after a hur ried examination said he apparently had a skull fracture and possibly a fractured jaw. His condition was critical. The refueling ship, Ace High, sis ter ship of the Minnesota, was pre paring to take off with 100 gallons of gas for the fliers when the en durance plane was seen to side slip. Captain Crichton tried to gain alti ture and increase his speed but was unsuccessful, the plane crashing as it swooped over the race track. Ob servers said it fell “like a pancake.” Captain Crichton’s body was badly mangled by the big motor, and there was some difficulty in extri cating it from the -wreckage. Had Flown 11,000 Miles Captain Crichton was a world war veteran and a captain in the army (Continued on oege ten.) Hold Troops Ready To Quell Disorder MEXICO CITY. July 29.—(A*)—A dispatch to Excelsior from Guay mas, Sonora, says troops are being held ready there to embark for Santa “Rosalia, Lower California, in case their aid is needed in preser ving order among employes of the Del Boleo Mining company, said to have adopted a threatening attitude. Red agitators are reported to have stirred the miners to make demands which the company has refused to meet. ‘Robin,9 Completing 390 Hours, Still Up ST. LOUIS. Mo.. July 29.—{IP)—Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brine, fliers of the St. Louis Robin, had competed 390 hours in the air at 1:17 p. m., today and had exceeded the endurance record of the Angeleno by 144 hours, or six full days. The pilots kept the Robin In its: usually wide circles as they added approximately $2 a minute for their time aloft. No indication of when the motor would croon its swan song was ap parent as the airmen went into their seventeenth day. According to Major William B. Robertson of the Curtiss-Robertson company, spon soring the flight, body troubles have not bothered the fliers although the Angeleno and the City of Cleveland were forced down by such causes. He attributed that to the use of welded metal tubing and alloys in the wing ribs and propeller. Officials of the field estimated a total of 60,000 watched the plane during yesterday, 10,000 more than last Sunday, previous to the break ing of the record. There were other attractions, including an airplane race, parachute jump, and an ex hibition of “balloon busting” by breaking toy ballons. Art Goebel Visits Art Goebel, California to Hawaii flier, was one of the visitors yes terday and sent aloft a note, “go to it boys, you are certainly doing a wonderful job. Another great step in aviation. Kindest regards.” Jackson and O’Brine took to task the reporters at the field who are awaiting their return to e'-rth. In a note dropped yesterday, they ob jected to some of the articles in papers ent up to them, especially regarding the use of lights at night { and the newspaper—en's wailing because of sleeping on cots at the field while 01. the “endurance wTatch.” The note read: “Tell those re porters we are not running without lights because we want to. Our bat tery lasts only a little while and then our lights go out. If those birds don’t know anything about this matter’ there’s o excuse for print ing such things. I got a big laugh when they tried to smooth things over about our speed, saying we were bucking headwinds. First time I knew wind blew in circles. “Wide Open Spaces’’ “I can t see what they have to kick about sleeping on the ground. They should be glad to get out in the open and get some fresh air. They can get up and walk around and we can’t. Sleeping on a gas tank isn’t so hot, either. “Lambert field, the wide open spaces, where a man’s a man and a cot is something to sleep on. If they weren’t under a tent I would sure keep them awake all night. They don’t have to stay out here, so why all the crabbing? It isn't going to do them any good 1/ hang ing around. “D. G. J. and F. OB.” Jackson’s father, Henry "Pa” Jackson, returnee’ to his dairy and poultry farm at Faribault, Minn., yesterday to "loo\ after things.” He expects to return Friday. TWO-CENT MAIL * * * MAY BE CARRIED ^ # BY AIR ROUTES - r WASHINGTON, July 29.—(/Pi Assistant Postmaster General Glover said today he believed the postoffice department shortly might have “to consider carrying two cent or first class mail in the air,, especially on long hops over passenger routes -that have no mail contracts but are now oper ating.” FEAR MONGOLS PLAN INVASION Counter Movement In Buf fer State Reported To Be Under Way — LONDON, July 29.—(/P)—Rumors in Tokyo of a Mongol invasion of China as a counter movement to Chinese seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria to day disquieted London international circles for peaceful settlement of the controversy between Russia and China. Mongolia’s connection with the nationalist Chinese government at Nanking has been strained from the Nanking government’s inception and various soviet actions appar ently have presumed upon alliance of Mongolia in any movement against China. The communist spirit is strong in the vast province, which is a buffer between China proper and Siberia. The rumors were accepted in some circles as the reason for other advices from Manchuli, at the west ern end of the Chinese Eastern rail way, that the armies had with drawn to within 12 miles of each other, the ground between being a “no man's land” each promised to respect. The entire situation, however, re mained obscure. Moscow maintain ed a deep silence, with papers there reiterating strides of “atrocities” against soviet citizens in Manchu ria and denying negotiations be tween the two countries for settle ment of their differences were un der way. It was reiterated also that Chinese troops in the neigh borhood of Harbin had mutinied. Leahy Makes Final Appeal of Verdict GEORGETOWN, Tex., July 29 — (/P)—Harry J. Leahy, who for nearly three years has fought doggedly to escape punishment for the torture murder of Dr. J. A. Ramsey of Mathis, prepared today to go, through counsel, before one more court with his scheduled electrocu tion but four days away. Leahy’s lawyers announced appeal from the verdict of a jury here Sat urday holding the convicted slayer sane. Just what form their action would take remained undisclosed, but it was believed here that they would seek a writ of habeas corpus from the court of criminal appeals in view of the fact that a direct reg ular appeal of the finding is im possible ynder Texas law. Thousands Over Nation Seek Relief From Heat NEW YORK, July 29.—(IP)—The country lay under a heat wave today. In various sections Sunday temperatures approached the century mark. The highest point for the day was 98 degrees, which was reported from such widespread points as Albany, N. Y., Baltimore, Phoenix, Ariz., St. Louis and Washington. The mercury stood at 92 in Montreal, Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati, uetroit, mu- - adelphia, Portland, Ore., and San Antonio, Texas. New York City, where the tem perature was 92, was deserted by about 3,000,000 people who sought comfort by jamming nearby beaches and filling highways leaving the city. Seven persons were drowned in the metropolitan area. The drought, which has been vir tually unbroken for a month, gave further cause for alarm to farmers and brought to Canada a forest fire situation which dominion officials believe to be the most serious since 1923. While crops were wilting throughout the Atlantic seaboard states and eastern Canada, and the wheat cron of western Canada was reported hopelessly scorched, pro duce farmers in the metropolitan district faced ruin unless the drought ended speedily. MIDWEST AWAITS COOLER WEATHER CHICAGO, July 29.—(/P)—'The midwest waited hopefully today for the relief promised by government weather forecasters from the torrid temperatures of the past few days. The relief, however, was expected to be slight and brief. Beaches and highways wrere crowded over the week-end by hun dreds of thousands of persons seek ing temporary respite from the un comfortable weather. In Chicago, alone, approximatley 350,000 bath ers crowded the beaches yesterday, while Milwaukee and other lake cities reported large crowds. The week-end holidays, recorded their customary toll of death. Highway accidents were few. but drown ings were greater in number than in any recent previous week end. Thirty-five men were overcome by the heat while marching in an American legion parade at Decatur, 111. Several of them were in a se rious condition today. Fifteen deaths while swumming were reported in Illinois and Wis consin yesterday. Six deaths due to automobile accidents also were re ported. TEXAS TEMPERATURES NOT UNUSUALLY HIGH DALLAS. Texas, July 29.—(IF)— No unusual high temperatures for the season prevailed in Texas dur ing the past 24 hours, the United (Continued on page 10) Find Three Members Of Family Murdered LONDON, July 29—UP)—The sud den deaths of three members of a Croyden family which for months have engaged the closest attention of police authorities today develop ed into a full-fledged murder mys tery with a verdict of murder by poison returned bv a coroner’s jury. The jury found that Miss Vera Sindey, one of the three persons in the same family whose death was connected with the mysterious case died from poison administered by a person or persons unknown. The other two persons who died from poison were Mrs. Violet Ame lia Sidney, mother of Vera, and Ed mond Creighton Duff, who was Mrs. Sidney's son-in-law. Duff die don April 27, 1928, Vera on Feb. 14, 1929 and Mrs. Sidney on April 5, 1929. Wife and Daughter Are Shot by Farmer PORTALES, N. M„ July 29.—{£>)— Walking into a hotel room where his wife was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Ed Barker, B. F. Bouldin, a Portales valley farmer, shot both women to death. No reason could be assigned for the slayings. Bouldin was arrested imediately after the shooting. A coroner’s in quest was to be held today. Bouldin is the father of Maurice Bouldin, assistant cashier of The First National Bank of Portales. Find Choice Liquor On $500,000 Yacht WASHINGTON, July 29.-(/Pi Assistant Secretary Lowman an nounced today that customs au thorities had found 30 or 35 cases of choice liquors concealed on the $500,000 yacht Margo, chartered by Lewis Mendelsohn, seized at De troit Saturday. Mendelsohn chartered the yacht from its Chicago owner, and, after visiting Canada, docket at Detroit. CEREMONY TO HONOR OBREGON’S MEMORY MEXICO CITY, July 29.-^P>—A brief ceremony in memory of Alva ro Obregon, assassinated political leader, will be held by the chamber of deputies Tuesday. Obregon’s name is being engraved in gilt let ters on the wall of the chamber, in the hall of deputies, beneath the names of Francisco Madero and other national heroes. GROWERS WILL HOLD MEETING Proposal of Missouri Pacific On Train Inspection To Come Up (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN, July 29.—Proposal of the Missouri Pacific line to de fer inspection of passenger cars from Mexico connecting with their lines at Laredo until after the cars have entered Texas, will be among several matters of importance which will be discussed at a mass meeting of citrus growers of the Valley at the city hall here Monday at 8 p. m. Protestors of the plan met with the Laredo Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, with Myron F. Ward, secretary of the Harlingen Cham ber of Commerce, L. E. Snavely, Harlingen orchardist; J. D. Ramsey, secretary of the La Feria Booster club, and Whit Rogers, secretary of the McAllen Chamber of Commerce, in attendance. Another matter which will be submitted to Valley growers at Monday night’s meeting is the ad visability of extending the host free quarantine area against Morales fruit fly infestation. According to the Valley men who drove to La redo over the river road, they found numbers of sour orange trees with quantities of fruit in varying stages of maturity, beyond Roma and all the wTay to Laredo. Recommendations covering sev eral such matters will probably be made at the mass meeting. Amendments Behind, Partial Vote Shows AUSTIN. July 29.—OP)—Unofficial returns collected from 69 counties by former Attorney General W. A. Keeling today showed both pro posed constitutional amendments far behind. His figures gave 28,517 for the 39,635 against the increased su preme court membership, and 26,220 for the governor’s salary increase to 37.301 against. General Keeling was chairman of the Texas Bar association commit tee that campaigned for the su preme court amendment. He had telegraphed county clerks for returns as canvassed by the county pommissionres’ courts last week. He stated he hoped to have a complete tabulation tomorrow. Ten Times Spared, Prisoner Must Die HUNTSVILLE, Tex., July 29.—(/P) —Juan Flores, ten times saved from the electric chair by reprieves from Governor Dan Moody, again looks to the state’s chief executive to save him from paying the death penalty tomorrow. “If Governor Moody doesn’t save me I want to get it over with,” he said. “My time is up Tuesday and I hope that Governor Moody will spare my life before midnight Mon darv night.” Flores is under death sentence for the fatal stabbing of Manuel Fer nandez, 15-year-old Mexican youth, in San Antonio. His first execution date was fixed at March 6, 1928. “On two occasions I was so close to the chair,” Flores said, “that the undertaker brought my clothes over to the death house to ‘dress me out’ for the chair. It has been tough on me being so close to death so many times and watching men pass my cell to their death in the electric chair in the adjoining room.” Lawyers Completing Snook Trial Venire COLUMBUS, Ohio. July 29.—f/P)— With the venire increased to 67 by the addition of fifty names over the week-end, attorneys in the trial of Dr. James H. Snook, dismissed Ohio state professor and confessed slayer of Theora Hix, his co-ed mistress, today faced the task of completing the jury to try him for his life. Eight men and three women held places on the tentative panel after three days of examination and chal lenges when court adjourned last Friday and it was believed that complettion of the jury was yet more than a day away. Army Staff to Aid Survey cf Budget WASHINGTON, July 29.—(JPh Back from a week-end conference with President Hoover at his Vir ginia fishing retreat, Secretary Good said today the entire army general staff would devote its energies to the survey of military expenditures desired by the chief executives with a view of effecting economies. _ 3 INJURED IN CRASH MONDAY AT SAN BENITO F. Wedegartner, Well Known Contractor, At Home With Arm Broken. At least 16 persons werd injured, two seriously, iri automobile accidents in tha Valley over the week-end. A crash at noon Monday in which Fred Wedegartner, San Benito contractor, suf fered a broken left arm', severe head cuts and possible' internal injuries, was the! latest of the week-end epi demic of collisions. Wedegartner and his son, San borne, 19, were riding into San Be nito on Palm boulevard, in a coupe, when an automobile occupied by two men whose names were un available, came out of a side street. The cars collided, turning over the Wedegartner automobile, and wrecking the other car which did not turn over. One of the occu pants of the automobile is in the Valley Baptist hospital at Harlin gen, but attaches did not know his name. He is in a serious condition. Young Wedegartner was bruised se verely. * Wrecks at Raymondville At Raymondville, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Manning, their baby, Lester, 10 months old, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Piper and their six-year-old son, Bruce, were injured when the auto mobile in which they were riding,' turned over in an effort to avoid hitting another car, driven by Jose Angel Escobedo. None was serious ly hurt in the accident which occur red at 10 p. m. Sunday. The car in which the two fam ilies were riding attempted to pass the other automobile, it was report ed, and Escobedo’s car suddenly swerved over towards the left side of the road. A coupe owned by C. L. Hill of Fort Smith, Ark., brother-ii*-law of Mrs. Hugh McKenzie, who lives eight miles southeast of Raymond ville, was totally destroyed when a short circuit ignited the car «»boufc 200 yards from the McKenzie home, Mrs. W. R. Kiekel, Brownsville, suffered scalp injuries and scratches, Eugene Halacy, 57, San Benito, sus tained a fractured leg in a head on collision on the Boca Chica road shortly before 1 a. m. Sunday. Traffic Officer E. E. Sadler said the accident occurred in the center of the road about ten miles out and that both cars practically were de molished. W. R. Kiekel is listing freight agent of the Missouri Pacific lines, and was driving with Mrs. Kiekel toward the city at the time of the wreck. Names of two other men with Hallacy were not learned. Still in Hospital Both victims still were in the hos pital here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Brown of Mis sion received painful injuries about 4 p. m., Sunday when their car skidded into the ditch near the Country club as they were coming to Brownsville. Mrs. Brown sustained an injured leg. cuts, bruises on the right arm and a severe shock. Mr. Brown was cut about the head by flying glass. The injured couple were rushed to the Mercy hospital in a Darling ambulance. After being treated by Dr. B. O. Works they were released from the hospital several hours later. Friends took them back to Mission. Bus Accident A Missouri Pacific Transportation (Continued on page ten) j WEATHER j For Brownsville and the Valley: Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. For East Texas: Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday. Light to moderate winds on the coast, mostly southerly. RIVER FORECAST There will be no material change in the river from Mission down, but probably a slight rise at Rio Grande City during the next 24 to 36 hours. Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr. Stage Stage Chng. Rain Eagle Pass ..16 3.1 —1.8 .00 Laredo . 27 1.3 +2.1 .00 Rio Grande . 21 4.4 -0.5 .00 Mission. 22 5.4 0.0 .00 San Benito . 23 9.8 -1.0 .00 Brownsville . 18 5.2 -0.8 .00 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isabel tomorrow, under normal meteoro logical conditions: High... None Low.4:34 p. m. MISCELLANEOUS DATA Sunset today...7:18 Sunrise tomorrow .. 0:55 V