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• :T « * THE .VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(IF) j_ THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 28 . BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1929 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY] 'in our VALLEY PROFFER of assistance by the Brownsville Chamber of Commerce in efforts to create an aerial freight traffic in highly perishable tropi cal fruits and vegetables has been accepted by the Dallas chamber. In a letter from Roland A. Laird, aviation secretary of the Dallas or , ^ ganization, a conference with G. C. Richardson, the local manager, is suggested. Information given by the local executive will be highly valuable in the work, Laird says. It is revealed that the department of agriculture at Washington has been requested to supply informa tion concerning tropical fruits. * • • The plan, in a nut shell, is to en courage a group of Valley growers to produce rare fruits and vege tables for which there is a demand at fancy prices in northern markets. Most of these fruits and vege tables—papayas and aguacates for example—can not be handled by ordinary methods of transporta tion. , Development of the aerial freight line specializing in this business would provide a splendid source of I income for a number of Valley growers. The products would demand a fancy price but there would be plenty of purchasers. m * * BOCA CHICA, with a paved road all the way, would be as valuable an asset to Brownsville as a deep water harbor, in the opinion of E. B. Mitchell of Mission. Mr. Mitchell wrote to Judge O. C. Dancy following the ruling of the attorney general that the county can build a bridge from the main land to Brazos island. “I sure feel elated over this (the attorney general's ruling) and the interest you have taken,” he wrote. Now if you can get the bridge and the road fully paved, I really be lieve you will have as big an asset to Brownsville as the deep w’ater channel and basin. “You will be surprised what it will do for your city. I send lots ^tourists that way and insist on m seeing Boca Chica. (Mr. Mit 11 is in the hotel business). They return and go back by way of La redo. Nearly always they make a complaint that the roads are bad. They invariably object to the toll bridge. “I suggest that the county build! a bridge and charge ten cents fori each car and five cents per person' until it is paid for and then have it free. This is just a suggestion as I have heard much of it. “I believe if that is done a 25 room hotel with 10 to 20 tourist cabins adjoining can be had mighty quick.” 9 9 9 WHILE SPEAKING of paving: Three gaps in Brownsville paved streets ara reducing the efficiency of the system out of all proportion to the cost of finishing the job. These gaps are on Palm boule vard, Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. All three are on big fills across a resaca. All of the fills were completed several months ago and have had heavy traffic over them. It appears they should be ready for topping. When it rains—as it does fre-; quently—residents of Lcs Ebano;. j Brownsville's prettiest residential section, are forced to travel over a muddy stretch of road to get to town. The only alternative is to drive north from Los Ebanos to the Los Fresnos highway. 9 9 9 All the residents of Victoria Heights and the people living in El Jardin must cross the gap on either Thirteenth or Fourteenth street to reach town. The Thirteenth street fill has been gravelled but is so rough it can hardly be travelled. The Four teenth street fill has a little gravel on it but becomes muddy and slick In a light rain. Mud is carried onto the pavement frdpi the ungravelled fills and the Bfjfer system suffers accordingly, paving of these gaps would cost lime and would greatly increase the efficiency of the system. The residents of the sections served to a man would vote thanks to the city commission for prompt action. • • • AND IT TURNS OUT Mexico has no law requiring Americans work ing in that country to reside there. Which clears away another cloud in the sky. Felipe Canales, acting secretary of the interior, explains that “reg ulations” which required those who earned their living by working in Mexico to reside in Mexico should be considered as a request rather than a demand, and hence any per son not wishing to comply with it would not have to do so. It is not the intention of the Mexican government to create mis understanding or ill feeling over the rule, Canales explains. That will be good news to ap proximately 100 persons in Browns ville and several thousand persons from here to the Pacific along the international frontier. v V V V V V V V v ♦ v V ♦ V ♦ T t ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦**»»» » » Murder Jury to Try Teacher-Lover Completed Boca Chica Paving A Plan to Complete Highway to Coast and Encourage Tourist Traffic (An Editorial) Citizens of the entire Valley are agreed the tourist crop is the most profitable one this section could cultivate. It is agreed that a paved highway to the coast is the most important factor in any plan to attract a large tour ist trade. Pavement extending from Brownsville to Boca Chica beach would do more to stimulate tourist traffic to this section than any other one thing. The road can be paved. It is doubtful if sentiment ever was more suited on any subject in the Brownsville commissioner precinct than it is on the need of a paved highway to Boca Chica. . Here is the plan. Petition the commissioners court to call a special bond election to issue $500,000 worth of bonds for pav ing the Boca Chica and other roads. Vote the bonds and build the road. When the remaining $2,000,000 worth of the $6,000, 000 bond issue is finally sold take up the special bonds with Brownsville’s portion of the money derived from the Scll0« This will cost a few extra dollars in increased inter est, but it will get a paved road a year earlier than it ap pears will be possible in any other manner. The grade is ready for paving except on the end near est the beach, County Engineer W. O. Washington told the Lions club Tuesdav. Then paving could start as soon as the bonds could be voted and sold. The bond market is re ported to be improving and possibly the special Boca Chica edition could be sold at a fair price by the time they could be issued. The chamber of commerce has named a committee to work with the county officials in arranging with owners to solve the problem of a toll bridge from the mainland to Brazos pass. This committee also is instructed to assist in securing additional right-of-way. . , . vVj This all can be done while the election is being held and the bonds are being sold. „ Everybody is agreed that a paved highw ay to Boca Chica would be a valuable asset to the Valley. Then, let’s pave that road.___. Early Part of Scout Drive is Profitable liberal in their gifts, reports by workers to E. E. Mockbee, chairman, l dicated Almost $200 was raised in a preliminary solicitation Tuesday afternoon. CUSTOMS MAN IS * * * FROZEN TO SPOT * * * BY PLANE SHOCK W. T. Biggs, customs officer, has seen many planes. Big planes, little planes, odd planes, mono planes, biplanes — they’re just routine to him. He watches the customs at the airport each day. But he was shocked by a tri motor Tuesday. Soundly shocked. As the plane came to rest after its flight from Mexico City, Biggs stepped up ,o open the door. A spark leaped fror. the plane to his body, freezing him to the spot. The plane was charged with static electricity after a high windy passage and Biggs furn ished the ground for the dis charge. TEXTILE DEMANDS TO BE PREPARED AT MEET CHARLOTTE, N. C.„ July 31.—(A5! Call for a general conference of all organized and unorganized southern textile workers to meet here Octo ber 12 and 13 was issued today by a provisional executive committee named at a preliminary conference held in Bessemer City last Sunday under auspices of the National Tex tile Workers union. The call invited all southern tex tile workers to send delegates to the meeting and gave its purpose as to prepare the demands of the textile workers of the south. ZEP LEAVES FOR U. S. WEDNESDAY EVENING FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, July 31.—UP)—The departure of the dirigible Graf zeppelin on her trans Atlantic air voyage to America, was set to day for 3 a. m., tomorrow morning (8 p. m. Wednesday C. S. T.)^ _ RED SOX WIN FIRST BOSTON, July 31.—M3!—The Bos ton Red Sox defeated Cleveland in the first game of a doubleheader to day, 4 to 0. The Red Sox amassed their total in the seventh inning when Rhyne’s double scored three runs and Rhyne scored on Mac Fayden’s single. * mere were ** wuia-cio m field Wednesday morning, divided into committees of three each, and this number was to be increased to at leas t 42 by Thursday morning, Mockbee said. The business section is being worked at present, but every resi 1 dence in town will be called on eventually under the finance plan being carried out. The city has been divided into 12 districts and workers have been assigned to each division. “Brownsville has lagged in sub scriptions to the scout fund in the past,” members of the committee said, “but we are convinced that it was because of the lack of suffi cient effort to get the money and we are going over the top this time. The money will be used to de fray the cost of operating the four troops here at present, to finance organization of additional troops in Brownsville, to help defray the ex pense of the Valley boy scout coun cil, to assist in paying a debt on Camp Perry, the Boy Scout camp on Arroyo Colorado, and to erect a Brownsville hut at the camp. “This is an investment in citi zenship and we are glad to find the people of Brownsville respon sive to the call,” Mockbee said. Briand Is Given Confidence Vote PArIs. July 31.—(/P)—The cham ber of deputies today gave a vote of confidence to the newly created cabinet of Premier Aristide Briand, the vote being 324 to 136. A “three months truce” in inter nal politics was sought in the tra ditional ministerial declaration of parliament, asking a vote of confi dence for the premier to go to the Hague reparation conference. The Hague conference, which is to put into effect the Young plan, was described as “an essential link in the chain of peace. PREMIER AND DAWES REOPEN NAVY ISSUE LONDON, July 31.—f/P)-*-Premier Ramsay MacDonald had another conversation on the naval disarma ment question with Ambassador Charles G. Dawes at Downing street this afternoon. This was the last in a series of conversations the two statesmen have had before the pre mier starts on his three weeks’ hol iday at his Lossiemouth, Scotland, home tomorrow. T I PROFESSOR IS CHARGED WITH COMATH Dr. Snook’s Attorneys Challenge ‘Array of Jury’ But Judge Ov errules Complaint COLUMBUS, O., July 31.— (API — After five days in which ninety-nine persons were examined, a jury was completed at noon today to hear the first degree murder trial of Dr. James H. Snook, charged with the hammer slaying of Miss Thcora Hix, his paramour and student at Ohio state university. The defense announced it “chal lenged the array of the jury.” The jury was dismissed until the afternoon session and the attorneys clustered about the judge’s bench. The challenge was on the grounds that it would be Impossible to get any twelve persons in Franklin county who had not been influenced in their opinion of the case by newspapers published here. Presid ing Judge Henry L. Scarlett over ruled the challenge and said he thought the jury was as fair as could be empanelled. The jury: Jacob Rehl, public accountant. Frank H. Joyce, blacksmith. Mrs. Helen Lunsford, wife of a telegraph operator. C. S. Baird, retired farmer. Raymond Hann, farmer. W. L. Balthaser, grocer. Paul L. Weaver, wholesale coal dealer. C. F. Butche, carpenter. Clyde Moody, farmer. Edward W. Hoe, salesman. Roy S. Stiffey, engineer. Harold E. Brown, shoemaker and confectioner. Oklahoma Girl Is Hurt As Cars Hit A sport roadster belonging to Larry F. Lightner was badly dam aged about 9 p. m. Tuesday in an accident at he north end of the unpaved stretch of road between Los Ebanos gates and the high school. The rear left fender on another sport roadster driven by Edgar W. Bounds, Jr., w-as smashed in. The accident occurred as bolh cars were headed toward Elizabeth street. Bounds slowed his car down abruptly as he neared the unpaved stretch, and Lightner, just behind, was unable to stop. He crashed Into the rear of Bounds’ car after turn ing to the left, finally halting his car on the esplanade, and blowing out a right front tire while mount ing it. His right rear fender was also smashed in. Miss Esther Scott, Ponca City, Okla., with Lightner. received a slight cut on the leg. Lightner, Bounds, and Miss Bess Lorrance, riding with the latter, were not in jured. HOLDER TO ANNOUNCE DALLAS, Texas, July 31.—VP)— State Representative Ray Holder of Lancaster expects to announce as a candidate for lieutenant governor about January 1. “I am going to make a speech at Hico on August 8,” he explained, “and in that speech I intend to ray that it is my plan to run for lieutenant governor next year.” Pilots of ‘Robin’ Thrilled By «£♦ «$♦ «£» «£♦ ♦** Ovation of Crowd as They Land ST. LOUIS. July 31.—(/P)—After exceeding the old world's record for sustained flight by more than a week, Dale “Red” Jackson and Forest QBrine brought the St. Louis Robin to a perfect landing at 7:31:30 o’clock (C. S. T.), because they wished to attend the funeral services today of George Lea Lambert, killed Monday with a student flier on a practice spin. They asade the sky above St. Louis their home for 420 hours, 21 1-2 minutes, or two weeks and a half.* The fliers’ greatest thrill came, they said last night, as they watched the milling thousands below chum the dust of the field into a sticky gumbo as a hard rain descended about 6 o’clock. A crowd estimated at 25,000 was at the field and easily broke police lines and a fence erected to pro tect the plane. They cheered wildly and jammed about the hangar where Jackson and O’Brine were rushed. Employes of the Curtiss-Robert son company, sponsors of the flight, together wfth police, foiled souvenir hunters and the plane was towed with a tractor to its resting place beside the hangar. Its motor, a 6-cylinder air cooled radial Curtiss-Challenger, will be dismantled for a thorough fac tory inspection. The champion endurance grind was started as a test for the motor, which was brought into commercial produc tion about five months ago. Cheerful Jackson and O’Brine were cheerful almost to hilarity as they discussed their achievement with reporters. Both said they felt fine although O’Brine added he was a "little weak in the knees.” Asked as to the hardest part of the flight, O’Brine replied with l out hesitation "the first 100 hours.” Both airmen praised the plane, Jackson adding ‘‘that old motor sure is a lulu. It would have done another 200 hours.” O’Brine was even more optimistic, "Yen, we could take it up again and break the record.” They were steady on their feet and the long time aloft had not impaired their hearing. O’Brine gained a pound and a half in the air while Jackson’s weight remained stationary at 154 pounds. Obie’s weight was 140 on coming down. Both had pulses of 84, a gain of 10 for Jack son and eight for O’Brine. Earn $31,000 The fliers earned more than $31,000 in their time aloft, includ ing $25,000 from the Curtiss-Rob ertson company. An additional $2800 was received in cash besides (Continued on page 14.) A j As 1,700 CONVICTS STAGED BREAK FOR FREEDOM j Remarkable photo snapped from the air at the height of the riots at Auburn prison. Auburn. N. Y., when 1,700 convicts, led by a group of 50 lifers, stormed the prison walls in a mad break for freedom. Frustrated at the walls, the prisoners turned, captured the arsenal, fired several of the prison shops, which can be seen burning in the photo, and battled guards for hours before being returned to their cells. Four of the prisoners escaped, two were slain, and four guards were wounded in the riots. DRY RAIDER DENIED BOND Undercover Prohibition Man Held For Slaying of Two Farmers OKLAHOMA CITY, July 31.—(/P^ —United States Judge Edgar S. Vaught declined today to allow bail to Jeff D. Harris, under cover man charged wtih murder in connection with the slaying of two farmers near Tecumseh. Okla., July 4. Bond of $15,000 was set for W. W. Thom ason, federal prohibition officer, also under a murder charge in the same case. Immediately after denial of bail for Harris, A. S. Wells, his attorney, announced that without formality of a hearing in federal court on the application of state attorneys to re mand the case to the Pottawatomie county district court, he would agree | to the move if Harris consented. Thomason’s attorney, however, apparently desired to have his client go to trial in the federal court. Harris was charged with killing both Oscar Lowery and James Harris, while Thomason was alleged to have been connected only with the slaying of James Harris. Harris, said Judge Vaught, in making his decision, admitted he killed both men but pleaded self defense. Testimony of Mrs. James Harris as given in the preliminary hearing in state courts conflicts with that given yesterday at the hearing by Jeff Harris, the judge declared. “The question of whether Jeff Harris shot in self defense in the killing of James Harris is one on which the court has his doubts.” the judge asserted. “Thomasons’ testi mony yesterday was that James Harris was shot after he had thrown down his gun.” There is no evidence that Thom ason. fired a single shot in the af fair Judge Vaught declared. MAN SLEEPS IN ¥ ^ ^ EMPTY BOX CAR; * * * AWAKES IN PEN BISMARCK. N. D., July 31.— (JP)—Henry Tracy was astonished and somewhat embarrassed to find himself in the North Da kota penitentiary yesterday. He had done nothing, he assured the warden, to warrant incarceration. After prison records substan tiated his opening statement, Tracy was allowed to proceed with his story. The night before, he had climbed into an empty box car in the local yards. The car, to be loaded with twine, was switched into the penitentiary yards while he slept. France Gets Fruit Of Textile Strike MANCHESTER, Eng., July 31.— (/P)—Lancashire’s cotton mill stop page entered its third day today with prospects slimmer than ever for immediate settlement. A section of the British press is protesting the serious loss to Brit ish industry growing out of the stoppage. Germany, France and Japan were represented in these newspapers as gloating over the opportunities pre sented. The Mail declared north ern France would reap a golden harvest and that orders which or dinarily would go to Lancashire are going to Lille, Roubaix and Tour coing. The paper averred the French textile mills were working at top speed. BALTIMORE MAN MAY BE ITALIAN ENVOY WASHINGTON, July 31.—O’?1!— John W. Garrett, Baltimore bank er, is understood to have been se lected by President Hoover as am bassador to Italy, succeeding Henry P. Fletcher, who has determined to retire from the diplomatic service. TWO DROWN IN VALLEY CANAL Beeville Men Meet Death When Car Plunges Off Mercedes Highway (Special to The Herald) MERCEDES, July 31.—The bodies of Jim McCollom and A. Erringer of Beeville, drowned Tuesday at 7 p. m. when their automobile plung ed from the highway into a canal a quarter of a mile north of here, are being held at the Stotler Mor tuary awaiting the arrival of rela tives from Beeville some time today. Relatives and friends of the dead man are said to have left Beeville last night, traveling by auto. H. Baskin, manager of the Delaware Punch company at Mer cedes, was also in the car, but was rescued from the waters by passers by and Is expected to recover. According to reports of the acci dent, the men were in a small coupe traveling at a medium rate of speed, but failed to make the curve im mediately in front of the bridge, striking the end railing and plung ing into the water. The car was submerged, only a wheel being visible. McCollom has a sister, Mrs. J. W. Hedrick, residing at Edinburg, and is the brother of the sheriff of Bee county. He was in the Valley on a business and pleasure trip with Erringer, a salesman for the Kan sas City Salesbook company. Both were middle-aged men. Baskin for merly lived in Beeville and moved to the Valley recently. Both McCollom’s and Erringer’s bodies were bruised. Coroner W. F. Stedman of Mercedes rendered a verdict of death by accidental drowning. Owners of Boat In Crash Free on Bond ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa, July 31. —(A1)—Blamed for causing the deaths of nine persons when their speed boat Zipper cut its way through the Miss Thriller on Lake Okoboji, Sunday, the two owners and the pilot were at liberty on $5,000 bonds. A coroner's jury, reporting last night, held the trio, John and Milo Hartman, father and son, operators of the Eagle boat line, and Harold Yarnes, pilot, jointly responsible for the crash along with the owners and pilots of the Miss Thriller, Frank Long and Jasper Alexander. Church Head Made Anti-Smith Loans WASHINGTON. July 31.—(VP>— Bishop James Cannon, Jr., chair man of the board of temperance and social service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,-said to day that all loans to the headquar ters committee of the anti-Smith democrats of Virginia in connection with the campaign of 1928 were made by him personally. The statement was in reply tc questions asked by Representative Tinkham, republican, Massachu setts, who inquired as to the source of loans filed with the clerk of the house by the anti-Smith democrat; of Virginia. „ .. w * . Jgj 17-YEAR-OLD BOY MILKING COWSTRUCK Accident Occurred Du ring Thunder Show er in Brownsvil 1 e Vicinity Tuesday Paulino Gonzales, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs* Paulino '• Gonzales of Matamoros, was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning Tuesday afternoon as he prepared to milk a cow in a pasture on the out skirts of the city. The lad’s death occurred during the short electrical storm and thunder shower which struck Brownsville and vicinity about 2 p. m. The youth had just completed herding the animals and had pre pared to milk a cow when the storm broke, striking Young Gonzales and the animal, which also was killed. The field in which he was killed is near the old slaughterhouse, known as “Las Matanzas.” No one was with the youth when he died. His body was discovered by passersby about 30 minutes after his death. Livenciado Jesus Rojas, and Dr. Benito Hernandez, as a coroner’s! jury, returned a verdict of acciden-» tal death by a discharge of light** ning. The Gonzales family Is wd! known in Matamoros. Gonzales’ funeral is to take placa in Matamoros at 4 p. m. with inter-1 ment in the city cemetery. Besides j his parents the youth is survived^ by a brother and two sisters, all or whom lived in Matamoros. Houston Oil Man Killed In Crash HOUSTON. July 31.—(P>—Harry' H. Lee, 53. of Houston, widely f| known oil operator, was fatally in- || jured last night when his automo- ■ bile struck a truck and skidded into 1 a ditch near Deer Park on the La Porte road. ,l| Lee was president of the Yount j Oil company of Wichita Falls and a heavy stockholder in the Taylor Link Oil company of San Angelo. For 25 years he was an operator in, leases and royalties in the Spindle-? 1 top district, the Eldorado, Ark., field and in West Texas. He maintained offices here with{ three brothers, all of whom are prominent in the oil industry. One brother. T. P. Lee, is a widely known republican leader. Trade Over Border Arouses Merchants WASHINGTON. July 31.—(Pi Border merchants are greatly aroused against the “street car" and ‘ ferry’’ tourists who have been dashing across the boundary into Mexico or Canada and purchasing clothes where the tariff doesn’t ap ply. The law allows travelers return ing from foreign lands an exemp tion of $’00 on purchases brought home. It seems some of the citizens who disregard the “trade-at-home" signs have been going across tha border and purchasing dutiable goods under the $100 mark. EDUCATOR DEAD EDMOND, Okla„ July 31.—UP)—J. S. Adamson. 70, former county su perintendent of Grayson county, Texas, died here last night. He had been an educator for man yyears. He was born in Collinsville, Texas. j WEATHER j For Brownsville and the Valley; Partly cloudy to unsettled tonight) and Thursday, probably local show ers near the coast. Light to mod erate easterly to southerly winds oo the west coast. For East Texas: Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; scattered thundershowers near the coast. Light to moderate southerly winds on the coast. RIVER FORECAST There will be a slight to moder ate rise in the river practically all along during the next few days. Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr. Stage Stage Chng. Palo Eagle Pass .. 16 4.8 +1.7 .00 Laredo . 27 -0.2 -0.6 .00 Rio Grande . 21 6.1 +1.9 .05 Mission. 22 4.0 -0.5 .00 San Benito . 23 8.6 -1.0 .00 Brownsville . 18 4.2 -0.5 .75 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isabel tomorrow, under normal meteor ological conditions: High .2:24 *• 111 Low.6:20 P- “• MISCELF ANEOUS DA*A Sunset today . , Sunrise tomorrow .. * .