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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 45 . BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY. AUGUST 17, 1929 * SIX PAGES TODAY_ 6c A COP.X
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Estimate Five Million Citrus Trees in Valley
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70,000 ACRES
CULTIVATED IN
FRUIT, CLAIM
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Federal Inspectors
Now Making Survey
Will Give Out Exact
Orchard Count
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Aug. 17.—There
A are approximately 5.000.000 citrus
Y fult trees in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley at the present time, this to
tal representing an increase of
around 1500,000 trees since this
time last year, estimates of nur
serymen indicate.
The estimates were made on the
basis of figures from the larger
nurseries on the number of trees
sold during the year, and estimates
on the number sold by all other
nurseries.
Within a few weeks figuers on the
number of trees will be given out
by federal inspectors in the Valley
on the Morelos fruit worm quaran- j
tien work, as these men have been
making their annual check of the
number of trees in the Valley.
Inspectors Report
The federal inspectors last year
counted the number of trees, and a
report was issued showing the num
ber of trees of various ages, and of
various kinds, the list including dif
ferent divisions on the early and
late bearing oranges and grape-,
fruit.
The total last year was approxi
mately 3,419.000. of which approxi
mately 1.200,000 had been planted
during the preceding twelve months.
The plantings since the last
count was announced to have sur
passed those of the previous year
by close to 300.000, according to es
timates of nurserymen in this sec
tion, as the total is believed to be
around 1,500.000 during the past
year. This will give the Valley a
total of 4.919,000 citrus trees.
The increase in plantings has
brought the total acreage of citrus
in the Valley to around 70,000, ac
cording to estimates.
70,000 Acres in Citrus
The county last year indicated
^iround 50.000 acres in citrus fruit,;
IT and the additional million and a
half trees bring about 21500 addi- j
tion&l acres into citrus, for a total i
of more than 70,000 acres.
The announcement of figures oy
federal inspectors is being awaited
with interest, as it will show the
increases in each section of the Val
ley, and the exact number of trees
up to the present time.
The count is being made every
year, by the federal men for use m
handling the shipping and inspec
tion situation.
RUBIO DENIES ALIEN
INFLUENCE IN RACE
CELAYA, Mexico, Aug. 17.—VP)—
There is no foreign influence in
volved in his candidacy, and he
would tolerate none, Pascual Ortiz
Rubio, national revolutionary party
nominee for president declared in
answer to a question by newspaper
men here.
Ortiz Rubio said his principal am
bition was to unite the Mexican
family and extend the benefits of
the revolution ‘'even to its ene- 1
mies."
EQUALIZATION BOARD
TO MEET AT HARLINGEN
_ (Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Aug. 17. — The
board of equalization here will start
•,'qprtucting hearings on property
Valuation increases August 26. and
continue through August 28.
FINAL GAP IN
HUNDRED MILE
LOOP CLOSED
• (Special to The Herald •
• RAYMONDVILLE. Aug. 17 — •
• The last gap in the "Hundred- •
• mile loop" is being closed. Pat •
• Devine, county engineer of HI- •
• dalgo county finished his sur- •
• vey and the setting of the stakes *
• to grade on the mile and a half *
• of dirt road between the Wil- •
• lacy county line and Hargill and •
• the graders went to work Wed- •
• nesday morning preparing the •
• road for a topping of caliche •
• When this short strip is fin- •
• iahed the loop from Harlingen •
• to Raymondville. to Edinburg. •
• to Pharr, to Harlingen will be •
• complete and it will make a •
• wonderful drive of approximate- •
• ly a hunderd miles all on pave- *
• ment. It will give the residents *
• of Willacy county a paved high- •
□way to every town in the Valley •
as well as shortening the way •
by pavement into Harlingen. San •
Benito and Brownsville by way •
of Raymondville, a distance of •
• eight miles.
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CROWDS THRONG
POINT ISABEL AS
REG A TTA BEGINS
World Record Holder Among Those Present
To Compete; Water Polo Game and Bar
becue at Yacht Club Are Features
(Special to The Herald)
POINT ISABEL. Aug. 17.—\\ith virtually all hotel accommodations
taken, this city was thronged with visitors Saturday who came here lor
the warming-up events of the two-day outboard and catboat regatta.
The major portion of the racing hulls had arrived early Saturday, but
there were still a few more to come. Speedsters from Fort Worth. San
E-Antonio, Houston and other racing
centers of Texas, were busy giving
their motors their final workouts
early this morning.
The Yacht club turning basin was
fairly alive wtih the little craft.
Warm Competition
Races to be staged Saturday for
the outboards included class B, C
and D events. The last of the Val
ley series of catboat races was
scheduled for Saturday afternoon
also.
Saturday however, will be more or
less a warming-up affair for Sunday
events. The largest cash prizes will
be awarded then and the competi
tion is expected to reach white heat
Approximately $1,200 cash awards
will be made.
Valley crafts are well represented
in the outboard races. George Leo
nard of Broamsville has three hulls
entered in the various events.
Record Holder Here
Some of the best outboard racers
in the state are entered. C. D. Loe,
of Shreveport holds a world record
in the class B. five-mile event.
The 8unday outboard dashes will
get under way at 9 a. m. and will
continue through the morning. On
the afternoon beginning at 3 p. m.,
catboat races —111 be staged.
As an entertainment feature, a
water polo game will be staged in
the Yacht club urning basin at 2 p.
m. A barbecue will follow the close
of the events at the Yacht club.
Four New Hampshire
Children Are Burned
MONCORD, N. H., Aug. 17.—
Four children, three under five
years of age, were burned to death
here last night. A fifth, Esther, five
years old. sister of three of the oth
ers and daughter of Marshall
French, truck driver, and the father
were in critical condition from
bums.
The father succeeded in earning
Esther from the flames that had
been his frame house on the out
skirts of the city, but collapsed and
was found lying by the roadside
with his clothing burned from his
body.
Attorney Arrested In
Ponca City Kidnaping
PONCA CITY. Okla.. Aug. 17.—
(£*)—C. F. Hyde, young attorney,
was in the Jail at Newkirk today
awaiting arraignment on a charge
of attempting to kidnap and kill
Samuel C. Collins, former vice-pres
ident of the Marland Oil company
and brother-in-law of E. W. Mar
land. wealthy oil man.
Hyde sought to kill Collins, offi
cers say they believe, to cover up
alleged shortages in accounts, han
dled by Hyde for Collins, while he
was acting as secretary to the busi
ness man.
LEGIONNAIRES GET
NEW UNIFORMS SOON
Members of the legion bugle and
drum corps met Thursday evening
to be measured for the new uni
forms which are to be ordered with
in the next few days. Uniforms will
be similar to those now in use. W.
R. Kiekel. post commander, declar
ed. but will be of better quality.
The uniforms are being ordered
in preparation for the national con
vention at Louisville, to which the
corps will go. _
PANTAGES D
FOR JURY TRIAL
Theatre Ownei ‘Much Dis
heveled/ Last Witness
Testifies
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.— OP) —
Attorneys for Alexander Pantages,
millionaire theater owner and vau
deville producer, today began final
preparations for his trial in superi
or court here on charges of attack
ing Eunice Pringle. 17-year-old
dancer, in his offices on August 19.
Pantages was held for trial by
Municipal Judge Leonard Wilson
yesterday after a three-day prelim
inary hearing In which the princi
pal evidence against him was given
by his young girl accuser. The de
fense elected to reserve its case for
the later jury trial.
The theatrical man was held on
two felony counts, it being ruled by
the court there “is sufficient cause
to believe the defendant guilty
thereof.” The accused man will re
main at liberty, pending trial, on
$25,000 bond. The trial is expected
to be set in a few days.
Clothing Disheveled
Pantages was arrpsted at his the
ater here when Miss Pringle, a
young school girl dancer, who as
pired to present an act on his vau
deville circuit, accused him of at
tacking her in his office when she
went to him to obtain a booking.
She told her story at the prelimin
ary hearing at which she fainted
several times.
W. C. Hale the last witness In the
preliminary hearing, said he ran to
the Pantages office from the bal
cony of the theater where he was
watching a performance. He had
heard a girl’s screams he said. He
declared he found the theatrical
man much disheveled.
"I don’t want any publicity.” he
quoted Pantages as saying when he
and Police Patrolman A. L. Court
ney entered the office,
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Father of Valley
Woman Dies at 94
(Special to The Herald!
MERCEDES. Aug. 17—Word has
been received of the illness and
death of A. B. Jewison, of Popular
Point. Canada. Mr. Jewison is the
father of Mrs. J. T. Wiggins of this
city and the grandfather of Mrs.
John McDonald and Miss Mona
Bannerman. also of Mercedes. He
has manv friends in Mercedes and
the Valley, having spent several
months here in 1926.
He died at the age of 94 and is
survived by many grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. Laura and
Donald McDonald of Mercedes are
among his great-grandchildren.
ONE BOUND OVER IN
HOME BREW RAIDS
Eduardo Flores was bound over
to the grand jury under $100 bond
Friday following a hearing before
U. S. Commissioner E K. Goodrich.
Flores made the bond.
Mounted customs officers testi
fied that they found 51 pints of
home brew and six gallons oT mash
at Flores’ home in Brownsville.
WRIST WATCH MAY UNCOVER
MURDER IN DEATH OF PAIR
BARABOO. Wis.. Aug. 17.—(JP)—An
engraved wrist watch today seemed
to hold the answer to whether the
death of Mrs. James Parillo, 21
year-old Chicago bride, was an ac
cident or a crime.
The initials "N. P. to P. M." en
graved on the watch worn by the
woman when her body was recov
ered from Devil's lake yesterday,
led Sheriff E. C. MueUer to believe
she may not have accidentally
drowned, while on her honeymoon,
but that she may have been slain
by a former suitor.
Her maiden name was Phyllis
Mocerine. The sheriff is of the
I opinion that “N. P.” may be the
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initials of a former lover. This
theory gained support from the fact
that Mrs. Parillo would have be
come a mother within five months.
It was learned she had known her
husband only two months before
they were married in Chicago on
August 3.
Meanwhile authorities are con
tinuing their search for the body
of Parillo. believed drowned, or, if
alive, his whereabouts. The couple,
on their honeymoon, registered at a
hotel here on August 7. They rent
ed a boat the following day and had
been missing until the woman's
body was found yesterday by two
Forest Park. 111., boys who were
camping on the lake shore,
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BRITISH FIRM
IN DEHAND AT
HAGUEPARLEY
Snowden Tells Nations
There Is No Use Go
ing On With Confer
ence
THE H.AGUE. Netherlands. Aug.
17.—(/P>—Philip Snowden, British
chancellor of the exchequer, told
the other creditor nations at the
reparations conference today that
If they could not offer something
substantial toward Great Britain's
request, there was no use going on
with the conference.
The chancellor, who has been de
manding a return to the Spa per
centages in the reparation of repar
ations as contained in the Dawes
plan, repeated his previous state
ment that Great Britain could not
make any further sacrifice.
Hoover Tells Why
He Likes to Fish
MADISON, Va., Aug. 17.— </P» —
President Hoover was formally wel
comed today to the soil of Virginia
by the citizens of this little moun
tain community near his Rapidan
river fishing camp and in a brief
speech in reply explained why he
considered angling a happy pastime
for the chief executive of a paw
erful nation.
Fishing, he said, afforded an ave
nue through which presidents might
escape to their own thoughts away
from the “pneumatic hammer of
constant personal contacts," and
added:
“Moreover, it is a constant re
minder of the democracy of life, of
humility and of human frailty—for
all men are equal before fishes. And j
it Is desirable that the president of
the United States should be period
ically reminded of this fundamental
fact—that the forces of nature dis
criminate for no man."
Raymondville Chooses
Gill As Most Worthy
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE. Aug. 17.—La
mar Gill was presented with a cer
tificate as Ravmondville’s most dis
tinguished citizen at a meeting of
the local post of the American le
gion Friday evening.
Final Instructions to delegates to
the state convention at Port Arthur
were also given at this time to V.
Sabin. S. L. Gill. L. O. Robbins. J.
E. Johnson, and Geo. S. Calder, with
H. V. Standley. C. O. Harris. R F.
Robinson. W. C. Gilbert and Ben
Carroll as alternates.
A report on the Chapman meeting
recently also was given.
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Sun God Refuels
Over Rock Springs
ROCK SPRINGS. Wyo.. Aug. 17.
—(/P)—The biplane Spokane Sun
God piloted by Nick Mamer and Art
Walker, left for Cheyenne at 6 a.
m. today after having circled the
airport here all night.
The Sun God arrived over Rock
Springs at 6:30 last night, some 24
hours after it had taken off at
Spokane, and an emergency refuel
ing plane, rushed from Cheyenne,
made four trips itno a rapidly
darkening sky to refuel the plane,
which apparently had nearly ex
hausted Its gas supply.
INJURED GINNER SAID
BETTER AT HOSPITAL
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Aug. 17.—C. W.
Cherry, injured earlier this week ini
a cotton gin accidcr.t at Lyford. is
reported improving at the Valley
Baptist hospital here.
Cherry suffered a fractured skull,
and three fractured ribs.
Believe Harlingen
Theft Ring Detected
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. A u g. 17.—Be
lieved to be members of a cotton
theft ring which has been stealing
cotton from wagons after It has
been picked and selling it either
in Mevico at the place < utsidc the
Valley, two men were being given
a preliminary hearing Saturday
before Justice of the Peace W. H.
Sharp.
The two men were specifically
charged with stealing 800 pounds
of cotton from a wagon as it
stood In a field near here.
Tbe arrests were made by Dep
uty Sheriff R. L. Longoria. Sher
iff Brown and Milton West, as
sistant district attorney, were here
assisting in the investigation.
Insurance is the Best Way.
Rio Grande Valley Trust Co.
Noted Women Air Rivals
Booked for Another Race
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CU>A F.ELO CH.OSSOIT
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Four of the entrants in the women’s air derby and map of the course.
(By Central Press!
SANTA MONICA Cal.. Aug. 17.—
Again It is to be Ruth Elder versus
Amelia Earhart.
But two years ago. with the first
feminine conquest of the Atlantic
at stake. It was crew against crew,
ship against ship, with men at the
helm.
This time it will be woman
against woman, with the racing air
championship of the world in the
hazard and no men in the game.
And as the starter's gun cracks
for the first national women's air
derby at Clover field in Santa Mon
ica, the eyes of the world will be
on these two as they fight it out in
the long flight to the National Air
Races in Cleveland, where a $25.
000 purse awaits the winners.
This time they won't be alone in
their competition, however. It will
be Elder against Earhart, but it will
also be Elder and Earhart against
an international field of the picked
women fliers of the world.
In it Lady Mary Heath will repre
sent England. Thea R&sche will car
ry the German colors and such fam
ous American girls as Bobbie Trout.
Marvel Crosson. Louise Thaden and
a dozen others will uphold their na
tional honors.
GRAF ZEP PAST
HALFWAY MARK
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Huge Craft Nearing Moun
tainous Region In
Eastern Siberia
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. Germany.
Aug. 17.—(£*)—The air liner Graf
Zeppelin, far over Isolated Siberia,
today, was speeding eastward Just
south of the Arctic Circle, and at
7 o’clock this morning. mid-Euro
pean time (1 a. m., E. S. T.) gave
her position as 64 north and 95
east.
The position given by Dr. Hugo
Eckener to his home port at Fried
richshafen placed the Graf Zeppelin
definitely beyond the half-w a y
mark of her 7.000-mile Journey to
Tokyo on the second lap of her
round-the-world flight.
She was about 200 miles due east
of the Hennisscl river, which ap
proximately marked the half-way
point. The region is a sparsely in
habited one the nearest large town
being Ussudjakt. about 150 mUes to
the north.
Across Siberian Steppes
The Graf was at the headwaters
of the Vlokhina river, a tributary of
the lower Tungusk. She had crossed
the central Siberian Steppes and
was approaching the extended
mountainous region before reaching
the next great river valley. That
of the Lena. Her course was carry
ing her toward the Tyrkmokit
mountains north of the Irkutsk re
gion.
The Zeppelin was far north of the
Trans-Siberian railway line being
about 500 miles due north of Krans
noyarsk.
The time and position given by
Dr. Eckener conflicted with previous
advices from Moscow which had
placed the Graf Zeppelin at 85 de
(Continued on page 34
CHEATING ON THE
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PUNCHBOARD, NO!
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JUDGE FIXES IT
Somebody had been cheating on
the punchboard.
The customers became indig
nant. This was clearly a matter
lor Justice.
They called on corporation
court. They told Judge A. A.
Browne about it Then Judge
Browne told them about it.
All were very surprised to find
out that the punch board was ille
gal in the first place.
The board was confiscated.
POLITICAL RIVALS
SHOT IN DANCE HALL
MEXICO CITY. Aug. 17.—(AV-A
report printed by T,a Prensa says a
group of men fired from the door
ways into a crowded dancehall in
Guadalupe. Chihuahua, killing a
man and wounding several other
persons, including two women. The
gunmen were captured and said
that some of their political rivals
were participating in the dance, for
which reason they opened fire on
all the dancers.
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CHINA TROOPS
ROUT SOVIETS
Fierce Fighting Result* A*
Russians Attack Rail
road Town
PEIPING. China. Aug. 17.—un
official Chinese reports today said
700 Soviet cavalrymen were repul
sed yesterday in a vigorous attack
on Jailainor. a station on the Chin
ese Eastern railway 22 miles south
of Manchuli. Both sides suffered
casualties in dead and wounded.
The Soviet troops were supported
by heavy artillery fire, the Chinese
garrison resisting with rifle and
machine guns, twelve Russian dead
were left on the field, four Chin
ese were killed, and two officers, six
soldiers and ten civilians were
wounded . The Russians remained
on Chinese soil about three hours.
Another official message from
Mukden said that after a heavy
bombardment by artillery Soviet
cavalrymen yesterday attacked the
Chinese defense line at Meiyaotze,
near Manchuli and twelve miles
from the border. The fighting was
said to be continuing.
POLICE INVESTIGATE STRANGE
DEATH OF PHILADELPHIA GIRL
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17.—(ff>—
An exhaustive Investigation was be
gun today by Superintendent of Po
lice Charles Smith to determine the
cause of the mysterious death of
pretty 20-year-old Mary Frances
Morgan, whose body was found yes
terday strapped to a chair in the
kitchen of her mother's fashionable
residence in Narbeth, Pa.
Four belts, one of them believed
to be a man's, bound the girl. Gas
was flowing from a Jet on the gas
range, but the windows and a door
in the room were wide open, and
police said they had found no evi
dence to indicate there had been a
struggle in the room.
Although some doubt existed as
to the cause of the girl's death. Su
perintendent Smith said today he
had practically abandoned the sui
cide theory and was working on the
murder angle of the case.
The victim was found by her
mother. Mrs. Florence Morgan, and
an aunt, when they returned from
a shopping tour. They had left the
house about noon, leaving Miss Mor
gan there alona.
SIX-YEAR-OLD
VICTIM DIES
AT HOSPITAL
Driver Held For In
vestigation As Po«*
lice Test Car To De«
termine Cause
Crashed to the pavement by a
camion driven by Pablo Salazar at
13th and Van Buren streets at 6:15
p. m. Friday, six-year-old Gonzalo
Sanchez died two hours later at th«
Mercy hospital from a fracture of
the skull.
The camion driver was held by
city police for Investigation and id
is probable that charges will be
filed against him. Police were test
ing the camion Saturday in an
effort to determine the cause of the
fatal accident. The driver alleges
that the youth stepped in front off
the car.
Young Sanchez fell to the pave
ment, his head striking the curb. Ha
never regained consciousness. After
being examined at a nearby drug
store, he was rushed to the Mercy
hospital in a city police car. Thera
he died shortly afterwards befora
an operation could be performed.
Funeral services will be held
from the family residence on Jack
son between Seventh and Eighth
streets at 4 p. m. Saturday with in
terment in the old city cemetery.
The youth s father is picking cot
ton somewhere in the Valley and ha
has not been located.
The family lost another child
three weeks ago.
SENATORS CUT
TOMATO TARIFF
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Seasonal Clause Removed
By Body to Mean Loss to
Valley and Florida
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Aug. 17.—The sea
sonal clause as It applied to toma
toes and other vegetables has been
removed from the tariff bill now be
ing written by the senate finance
committee and the tariff on tomatoes
has been reduced to two and a half
cents per pound instead of 3 cents,
the rate contained in the Hawley i
bill passed by the house.
This Information was contained
in a telegram received here Satur
day by Brown White, local produce'
shipper and leader In the fight for
tariff on vegetables.
Removal of the seasonal clause
will benefit the Valley only slightly
but will be important to Florida to
mato growers. The reduction of
half a cent per pound in the tariff
rate will mean a considerable loss to
both the Valley and Florida, ship
pers said.
Under the seasonal clause the tar
iff rate on tomatoes would have
been three cents per pound nine
months of each year and one-half
cent a pound the other three
months.
The seasonal clause was taken off
all vegetables except eggplant and
cucumbers, the telegram to White
said.
Police Follow New
Clue In Girl Slaying
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 17.—{/Pi
Two railroad brakemen today told
police they saw a man who might
have been the slayer of Dorothy
Aune, 12. a short time before th<|
girl's body was found Wednesday
near the railroad tracks in south
Minneapolis.
He was driving a blue sedan, they
told police, and approached neap
the spot near the Milwaukee rail
road tracks where the body wa6
found a short time later, hesitated,
and then swung the car around and
drove away.
j THE WEATHER |
For Brownsville and tne Valley!
Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to
night and Sunday. Light to mod
erate easterly to southerly winds on
the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
In the river during the next few
days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stag* Chng. Bain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2 0 0.0 .00
Laredo ..... 27 -0.3 0.0 .00
Rio Grande . 21 4.7 0 0 .00
Mission. 22 4 6 0.0 .00
San Benito . 23 7.7 40.7 .00
Brownsville . 18 2.3 -0.2 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
bel tomorrow, under normal met
eorological conditions;
High.4:44 a. m.
Low.. 8:30 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today .7:04
Sunrise tomorrow. .. 6:04