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«7. •-!!1„. f ....~.J!='==aaM^— » T,„ph0« 5^4 , Special Attention I 111 add- ^ A fill |) uuu7 y£!rAl«» | ' iCU ‘1’’V 1 ■/ i£ ] lE Alamo iron Wwk. I I ^ I Biowarille — Corps* Chrlatl Alur. Hov r. rAKJiKjr fr> Iwr ln I San Antonio -* Hooston ; ^ ANP URY cleaningVA^iwc. |_THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—</P)... . ..... Jf THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 46 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1929 THIRTY-SIX PAGES TODAY 6e A COPY ) I m m oue j! VALLEY VACATION DAYS are rapidly drawing to a close. Youngsters who for the past three months have been living outdoors and through their contact with na ture storing energy and ambition, soon will be back in their school classes. Valley schools practically all an nounce new courses, added faculty members or other improvements. Many of them will be using new school buildings or additions to old buildings. This spirit of progress is giving Valley schools an enviable reputa tion throughout the land. Valley schools are one of the fac tors which cause many people to de cide to make their home in this section. The men at the head of these Institutions deserve a place in the Incut rank of Valley builders. TWO 12-YEAR-OLD Valley boys are qualified Red Cross life savers. They are Billie Clark of Weslaco and Jack Nelson of McAllen. The boys won junior awards last week in life saving tests conducted at the Cascade swimming pool in McAllen by Tom Murray, Valley Boy Scout executive, and Miss Mig hell of San Juan. Eight others qualified at the same time for the title of life savers: Glenn Commons, Mercedes; Eric Daube, Malcolm Taggart. Louise Herman, McAllen; Tom Watts, John Duncan. Donna; Mildred Reichert, Ban Juan. • • • OUT AT CAMP PERRY, Boy 8cout camp on the Arroyo Colo rado. there is a lull today after the storm, but the lull Ls only like that j in the center of a hurricane. The atorm will break anew Tuesday. More than 125 Boy Scouts Satur- ; day ended a ten-day outing and broke camp to return to theu homes. These are to be replaced Tuesday by the second contingent. Equally as many and possibly more boys are expected to be on hand for the sec ond encampment. The ten days Just passed were days of intense activity in and around the camp. More than 500 awards w’ere earned in the va rious courses of scoutcraft taugnt during the ten days, an average of feur awards for every boy attend ing. In a court of honor held Friday Eagle Scout badges, the highest award of the organization, were given to Harry Turpin. Troop No. 1. fjft. Benito; Carl Griffin., Troop 1W. 1, La Feria, and Walter Sib son. Troop No. 1, Santa Rosa. Happy, healthy and sun-tanned, these boys will carry the lessons of this ten-day outing through life. » m • RIO GRANDE VALLEY farmers are a modern lot. Residents of the M road section north of San Juan, have petitioned the Central Power and Light Co. tj build a power line through that neighborhood. All of them have, agreed to use current. A larger per cent of Valley farm- ’ ers use electricity in their homes than in any other section of the country, a recent public utility sur vey disclosed. And the survey also showed that the current was used for more than lighting purposes. Electric refrig eration. cooking, radio and various! labor saving devices are popular In the fsrm homes, it was found. • • • SOME OF THE FASTEST out board motorboats in Texas are com peting in a series of events out a*. Point Isabel today. In Saturday s events Robert Sex ton placed third in the free-for-all 10-milc event. Otherwise up-stater copped all the honors and money.: Local racers are hoping for better hick In the closing races. • • • BATHING BEACHES were stil!1 doing business at the same old statu*' -on Padre and Brazos fcfcnL and along Boca Chica.i Rosas were reported to be in good; condition. Indications were for a thrilling Week-end in the Valley. • • • SIXTH VALLEY TOWN to have] » talkie theater. Announcement was made during the week that the Empire at Mer-I cedes, a Dent house, would be re modeled into one of the prettiest] movie houses in this section and that talking equipment of the lat-l est design would be installed. Talkie houses now in the Valley! Include the Capitol at Brownsville,! the Rivoli, San Benito, the Arcadia, Harlingen, the Ritz, Weslaco, anti the Palace. McAllen. All are Dent theaters except the San Benito house. Valleyites. returning from visits to Houston. San Antonio and other up state cities, complain they fount: only pictures which already had been shown in the Valley houses. Indicates Valley theater manager? “know their stuff" and do it. Welcome to the Empire. • • • Sale of Dent theaters to Publix wont change policies of Valley juiuses in the least, managers de stine high grade movies to be (Continued On Page Eleven) . * w • » * « 120,000 BALES COTTON WILL BE VALLEYS TOTAL Hidalgo County Leads With 43,600 Bales As Pickers Begin to Move North: Cameron County 10,000 Bales Behind _ r- - (Special to The Herald> SAN BENITO, Aug. 17.—With ap proximately 93,000 bales already ginned, the Valley cotton crop will | reach a total of between 115,000 and ; 120,000 bales, in the opinion of D. G. Boyd, vice president of the Valley Gin company. The final figure would have been even higher if sufficient pickers could have been kept in this section to gather the last of the crop rap idly, in the opinion of this author ity. Approximately 7,000 bales were put through the gins this week, It is estimated. Of the total ginned to Saturday night Hidalgo was leading with about 43.600 bales, Cameron county gins had handled about 32,200 bales, Willacy county "14,000 and Starr county 3,200. In Cameron county it is estimated that only a little over 10 per cent of the total crop remains to be gath ered. and the picking will drop off rapidly from now on. Picking is a little later in Hi dalgo county, and Willacy county still has considerable cotton to be turned in . Showers today caused some gins to stop, and in parts of Hidalgo county there were heavy showers Friday morning. In the Alamo sec tion a drenching rain fell Friday, and other parts of that county re ported heavy showers, with some rainfall in Cameron county. The rain now will serve only to lower the grade of cotton, and slow up picking, as the crop is already made. Farmers in the Valley report some difficulty in securing pickers, due to the fact that there has been a rush of labor from the Valley to the sections where picking is Just starting, north of here. Pantages Executive Ordered to Jail LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.—<i«P>— After filing a formal information charging Alexander Pantages. the ater magnate, with a criminal at tack on Eunice Pringle. 17, dancer, District Attorney Buron Fitts to day announced that Roy Keene, an executive of the Pantages theater system, had been taken into custody as a material witness in an alleged attempt to bribe witnesses to alter their testimony in the case. Fitts said Keene made a state ment that "puts the theater mag nate right on the spot.” Keene was ordered held in Jail pending inves tigation. He was named today by Fred Wise, a witness at Pantages’ preliminary hearing, as the man Wise saw in Pantages’ private of fice shortly after the alleged attack there on Muss Pringle on Friday, August 9. Wise said Keene tried to bar him from the room whither Wise had gone when he heard the girl scream. PROHIBITION AGENTS ARREST STATE SENATOR CHICAGO, Aug. 17—(jP)—Fur ther activities of prohibition agents in the vicinity of East Chicago. Ind.. were seen today in the arrest of State Senator Demeter Szilagyi on charges of liquor law violation. Szilagyi, who Is 51 years old. is a laundry owner and has title to much real estate in East Chicago. The dry agents declare liquor was purchased in a building owned by him. RUSSIANS ABANDON FLIGHT TO AMERICA MOSCOW. U. S. S. R.. Aug. 17.— UPh~'The attempted flight from Moscow to New York of the Russian military plane "Land of the Sov iets" lias been abandoned. The crew is returning here from near Irkutsk. Siberia, where the airplane was forced down. SANGERS HURT LNCAR WRECK Pioneer Department Store Head And Wife Injured At Bassett TEXARKANA. Aug. 17.—<AV-W. W. Sanger, a pioneer Texas depart ment store operator, and his wife, of Sun Antonio, were Injured ser iously in an automobile accident at Bassett. Tex.. 30 miles from here, this afternoon. Examination at a hospital here revealed that three of Sanger s ribs were broken and that he was cut and bruised severely. Mrs. Sanger received a broken wrist and prob ably internal injuries. Both were expected to recover . A tire blow out caused the ma chine to overturn and plunge into a deep ditch. Sanger said. His wife was pinned underneath the wreck age. The Sangers were enroute to New York for a vacation, having left Dallas this morning. DALLAS. Aug. 17.—<;P>—Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sanger, injured in an automobile accident at Bassett, Tex., today, had been staying here two days visiting Mr. and Mrs. I. L.. Sanger and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sanger. The injured Sanger is a brother of J. W. and L L. Sanger. Court Fight Over Jitneys Apparent NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 17.—</P> The court fight over the operation of jitneys during the strike of union street car men overshadowed all else today in the controversy be tween the public service and the union which has experienced two major flares of violence since July 2. To test the legality of the police action against operation of the -courtesy” jitney with a tip, coun sel for Charles S. Upton, a driver obtained an order from Judge Mark M. Boatner in civil district court citing city officials to appear next Thursday and show cause why the jitneys should not continue. Act ing Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley and Theodore Ray. superintendent of the police were cited. Recover Husband's Body From Lake BARABOO, Wis.. Aug. 17.—(><P;— Devil’s lake today gave up the body of James Parello, missing assistant taxidermist of the Field Museum of Chicago, but its recovery served only to deepen the mystery sur rounding the death of his young bride. Her body was found in the lake yesterday. Following an autopsy. Madison. Wis., doctors were unable to say whether she died from external vio lence or drowning. Officials, how ever. expressed belief tonight, how ever, that both Mr. and Mrs. Par ello were victims of accidental drowning. ADMINISTRATION STRIPS TREASURY MEXICO CITY, Aug. 17.—— The administration of Gov. Mar garito Ramirez ft only 1,000 pesos in the Jalisco treasury upon being ousted by the federal government. El Universal's correspondent in Guadalajara reports. Gov. Jesus Cuellar has instituted a series of economies in an effort to better the condition of the treasury. MATAMOROS HIGHWAY BOOMS REAL ESTATE CIUDAD VICTORIA. TAMAULI PAS, Mexico. Aug. 17.—iiP)—Initia tion of work on the highway to Matamoros has brought a real es tate boom here and plans are un der way for construction of hotels, and other accommodations for the flood of American tourists to follow completion of the road. TEN HURT AS RACE CAR LEAVES TRACK SPRINGFIELD, HI.. Aug. 17.—W) —Two entrants and eight spectators were injured in an automobile race at the Illinois State Fair here today. W. H. Pin grey. Cedar Rapids. Iowa, one of the drivers, was not expected to live. It’s Worth It—Insure It. i Rio Grande Valley Trust Co. PREJUDICE ALLEGED IN NEW TRIAL MOTION FOR SNOOK COLUMBUS. O.. Aug. 17.—(/P>— Unfairness and prejudice cm the part of the jury, the prosecutor and the trial judge was charged by attorneys for Dr. James H. Snook, condemned slayer of Theora K. Hix, his co-ed paramour, in filing a motion for a new trial today. Editorials and news articles in the Columbus papers. Irregular conduct on the part of the jury, the "brutal antics" of Prosecutor John J. Ches ter. Jr- and Judge Scarlett's al leged error in handling the trial all worked to detriment of Dr. 8nook. the motion charged. “The sequestration of the Jury was without value in securing a fair trial.” it said. The Jurors were permitted to go to the theater and to baseball games, mixing with the multitude. “One of the Jurors was taken to the county jail at night for an in spection. and the merits of the case were discussed in her presence. Some of the Jurors previously had expressed opinions and a desire to convict regardless of the evidence.” 3 LIBERATED THROUGH CELL OF ATRUSTY Prisoners Dig Way to Freedom; One Held In $75,000 Robbery Of Messenger OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla.. Aug. 17.——Russell Gibson, held in connection with the robbery of an Oklahoma City bank messenger several weeks ago. in which $75,000 was taken, escaped from the coun ty Jail here late today. Officers said they missed Gibson and two other prisoners about six o'clock. A search of the jail re vealed they had dug from their cell to the cell of a trusty. From this cell they apparently slipped into a corridor and out of the door. While no one was found who had seen the trio leave the Jail, county officers said they believed the men had had outside aid. and that it was probable they fled in a car aft er leaving the JaU. Kermesse Being Held By Local Church A kermesse that will continue through Monday, opened this after noon at the Lady of Guadalupe church In Victoria Heights. The kermesse is being held by Father Carlos Cerodes. rector of the church. The proceeds will be used to pay part of the $6,000 church debt. Close to 2.000 people were visitors aaturday night. A beauty contest Is being held, and a close race is being w^aged. The elading candi dates are: Miss Enrique ta Tamayo, who leads with 1.054 votes. Miss Berta Cuellar is second with 727. Miss Thelma Brice occupies third place with 257 votes and Miss Ernestine Givens holds foul h place with r total of 100. The contest will close Sunday night at 11 o’clock. An orchestra organised by the parlshoners played Saturday night Mentors Flock To Coaching School DALLAS, Aug. 17.—(/Pi—Anxious to learn the game’s finer points from the two master tacticians, Knute Rockne and Glenn S. <Pop> Warner, football mentors from al most every state m the union con verged upon Dallas tonight for the 10-day coaching school which opens Monday at Southern Methodist uni versity. If registration reaches the anti cipated 300, all records for enroll ment in a coaching school will be shattered. Warner, Leland Stanford wtard. has been here since Friday. Rock ne, of the Notre Dame Ramblers, is expected to arrive Sunday. Both will lecture dail. during the 10-day session. Wightman-Wills Team Is Broken NEW YORK. Aug. 17.—The break-up of the 1928 national cham pionship women'r doubles combina tion of Helen Wills and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman of Brookline Mass., was revealed today with an nouncement that Marjorie Morrill. Dedham. Mass., will be Mrs. Wight man's partner !n the title tourna ment at Forest Hills next week. With Miss Wills and Mrs. Wight man not defending their 1928 title, the threat of a British monopoly of doubles honors Increased as this pair was - considered about the strongest that could be put together in this country. PILOT KILLED WHEN •CHUTE FAILS TO OPEN YAKIMA. Wash.. Atlg. 17.—<JP)— Robert Moore of Marysville. Ore gon. was instantly killed here to night when his parachute failed to open after a Jump from an air plane. ~ ' 1 ■ f ' 11 ’ " * I SUSPECT HELD IN BRUTAL MURDER OF YOUNG GIRL { One man. the proprietor of a shoe store, has been held following a city-wide search at Minneapolis for the slayer of Dorothy Aone. 12, whose bodv was found, horribly mutilated, in a gunny sack in a lonely part of the city. In photo William Stokes, iceman, is showing police where he found the body. Top left, Andrew Aune, father, and right, Eilif Aune. brother of the dead girt; right, Dorothy Aune. . . ._St • • • ZEP MESSAGES REACH TOKYO Graf For First Time Estab lishes Connection With Flight Goal TOKYO. Aug. 17.—(/P)—Thrilling the imaginations of the ancient Or ient and eating up the miles over the wilds of Siberia, the airliner Graf Zeppelin today for the first time got into touch with the goal of its perilous flight from Friedrich - shafen to Tokyo. Powerful Japanese wireless sta tions at 9:40 p. m. (7:40 a. m. E. S T.) picked up the position of the dirigible in the heart of Siberia rushing on to Tokyo with a follow ing wind which enabled Dr. Hugo Eckener to cruise with three motors. At that time, the Graf was esti mated to be 2.270 miles from Tokyo, or three-fifths of her total run, a distance it could cover in 48 hours in maintaining speed of 60 miles an hour. At 9:40 p. m. the Graf reported to the government wireless station at Ochiishi. Hokkaido, that she was in 63.30 latitude north and 107.3C longtitude east. This was about 750 miles from Vakutsk, Siberia, over which Dr. Eckener was expected to pass on his course to Trkyo. From Yaku tsk to the northern tip of Hondo island, the principal part of Japan, by the western end of the sea of Okhotsk and the Island of Sakhal in. was roughly 1,600 miles. MESSAGES SAY GRAF AHEAD OF SCHEDULE NEW YORK. August 17.—— (Copyrighted article for the New York American and allied Hearst newspapers say that the Graf Zep pelin. on the Hearst Zeppelin round the world flight, will reach Tokyo sometime tomorrow night (New York time) or Monday morning (Japanese time). The dirigible, flying at a speed of 102 miles an hour, is far ahead of the schedule set for it by Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the ship. At last, reports it was flying toward Yakutsk, Siberia. Earlier reports held that the Graf Zeppelin already had established radio communica tion wth Otchisi, Japanese station on the northern island of Yezro, Japan. SUIT OUTGROWTH OF KILLING DISMISSED DALLAS. Tfex.. Aug. 17.—(JF)—A suit for receivership, which grew out of the fatal shooting of R. B. Truett by his partner, G. A. Epro son, was dismissed here today by the voluntary action of Ernest Ep roson. another partner in the firm. G. A. Eproson has been charged with murder. SENORITA JAILED * * * FOR DISREGARD * * * OF PORTES GIL MEXICO CITY, Aus. 17.—MV Senorita Aurora Gonzalez San chez has been Jailed on charges of lack of respect to President Portes Gil and the police au thorities, preferred by her broth er-in-law. Ramon Uribe Flores. He alleges she refused to allow his wife to return to his home and that when she threatened to call the police she said that neither the police nor the president him self meant anything to her. Uribe Flores made good his threat. The couple had gone to the Gonzales Sanchez home for a party and it was when the party broke up and Uribe Flores wish ed to take his wife home that the trouble started. SCHOOL TAX IS NOT ADJUSTED Board Fixe* Ad Valorem Duties and Pension Allotment AUSTIN, Aug. 17.—(AP)—The au tomatic tax board agreed to levy 30 cents on the $100 for ad valorem purposes today, and fixed the con federate pension allotment at sever cents, the constitutional limit, but failed to agree on a rate for school purposes. The ad valorem rate for the past year was 22 cents, and the consti tutional limit 35 cents. The levy for school purposes was 35 cents, the constitutional limit, making tl rate 64 cents for the past year. Should the levy for school purposes be left (Continued On Page Eleven) MANY THRONG AUNE FUNERAL Police Far From Solution Of Kidnaped Victim’s Death MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. Aug. 17.— (A*)—While funeral services were held today for Dorothy Aune. 12 year-old victim of a strangler as sailant. police continued to check every possible angle of the case, but tonight apparently were far from solutions. Thousands crowded the streets near the Lutheran church of Our Redeemer as Rev. Haldor Hodne in toned the last services for the little victim and more than a score of detectives mingled with them In the vain hope that the slayer might haunt the scene. Great banks of flowers were piled high against the little casket during the services, many coming from strangers to the Aune family, riea For Swift Justice As Rev. Hodne pleaded for swift justice for the girl s slayer, analysis was being made of the latest clues unearthed, certain impressions, in cluding a child's hand print found in dust in the basement of a store undergoing repairs a short distance from Dorothy's home. Police also were questioning two workmen who had been engaged in remodeling the store last Tuesday when the girl was kidnaped, at tacked and slain and who were still at work when police took them into custody today. Five Held in Jail Authorities also obtained their first definite description of the au tomobile from which the child's body is believed to have been thrown beside railroad tracks early Wednesday morning. Two railroad men said they saw the car. a faded blue sedan, turning around In the street near where the body was picked up just a few minutes before the gruesome find was reported. (Continued On Page Eleven) SUN GOD ON CLEVELAND HOP AFTER REFUEL IN NEBRASKA NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Aug. 17.— (JP)—The endurance plane Spokane Sun Ood left here at 8:15 p. m., (central standard time) for Cleve land after taking on a final supply of fifty gallons of gasoline. Pilots Nick Mamer and Art Walker plan ned to make Cleveland in one jump, flying by; way of Omaha and Chi cago. Three sujcessful contacts were made by the refueling ship and the final contact gave the Sun Ood a full load of 400 gallons of gasoline, It was said. Pilots Vernon Bookwalter and Neil O'Connell of the refueling plane will remain in North Platte overnight, taking off tomorrow morning for St. Paul, Minn, where they plan to await the return of the Sun God on its round trip trans continental flight. Difficulties encountered In refuel ing the endurance ship at high al titudes over Wyoming were not ex perienced here. The altitude at North Platte is approximately 2.000 feet lower than at Cheyenne. In a late note dropped on the field, pilots Mamer and Walker made an urgent request for eye wash. GOODS WORTH 45,000 PESOS CONFISCATED Pitched Brittle Lasts Ten Minutes in La Carreta Ranch Seiz ure Friday One of the largest smug gling rings operating along the lower Rio Grande is be lieved to have been broken up by a series of raids and seizures by Matamoros cus toms officials which result ed in confiscation of goods valued at 45,000 pesos. A gun battje accompanied one of the seizures. The seizures reported to Mata moros officials Saturday were ef fected Friday at “La Carreta" ranch * and Cruillas. about 75 mUes from Matamoros on the road to Ciudad Victoria. Customs officers headed by Lerdo Gonzales, chief of the Matamoros force, made the first seizure near Cruillas. a small town in the vicinity of San Fernando. There they came upon an old man guarding a cache of silks val ued at 20,000 pesos. He offered no resistance and was taken Into cus tody with seven bundles of silks loaded on pack horses. The man is being held for investigation of the smuggling ring that is believed to be operating In the vicinity of Matamoros. He was brought to Matamoros Saturday along with the silks. Officers participating In the seiz ure besides Gonzales were Mounted Inspectors Santos Cuellar. -Ismael Ramirez and Carlos Gonzalez. Brisk Gan Battle A brisk gun battle preceded the seizure of 45,000 rounds of ammuni tion near the “La Carrela" ranch early Friday morning by customs officers headed by Mounted Inspec tor Epigmenlo Mungia. The offi cers surprised a party of eight men leading a train of packhorses. At the order to halt, the men answer ed with a volley of shots. The offi cers returned the lire and a skir mish which lasted ten minutes took place. No casualties resulted and the smugglers took to their heels In the brush, abandoning their cargo. All of the ammunition runners escaped. The customs men brought the ammunition, valued at 25,000 pesos, to Matamoros Saturday. It was of various types and calibres. Other officers in this patrol were Rafael G. Garza. Jesus E. Garcia and Pedro Gracia. Hoover Is Given Welcome to Virginia i MADISON, Va.. Aug. 17.—<A*)— President Hoover came down from his retreat in the Blue Hidge moun tains today to be adopted as a neighbor by the sturdy mountain folks of this section and to receive a formal welcome to Virginia from Governor Harry Flood Byrd. As a further mark of esteem for their distinguished week-end citi zen. the assemblage of several thou sands with a rousing cheer, • yea.’* voted to name for Hoover one of the entrances to the proposed Shenandoah National Park. Oil Stock Share o Kidnaping Motive PONCA CITY. Okla.. Aug. 17.— (A5)—Five hundred shares of oil stock, ordered for himself by F. C. Hyde, Ponca City attorney, on the account maintained by Samuel 8. Collins, wealthy oil man, with a New York broker, provided the mo tive for Hyde s alleged attempt on Collins' life, officers said today aft er discovering the stock in mail turned over to authorities by the postmaster here. COTTON ARBITRATION LONDON. Aug. 17.—(AT—The of ficial board of arbitration in the dispute in the cotton industry of Lancashire will begin deliberations Wednesday. 1 THE WEATHER 1 West Texas: Generally fair Sun day and ‘Monday. East Texas: Generally fair except probably thundershowers on the west coast Sunday and Monday. Light to moderate southerly winds on the coast. Oklahoma: Fair Sunday; Monday partly cloudy. New Mexico: Sunday and Mon day fair, except thundershower* north central portion, cooler ex treme north portion Sunday. Arizona: Sunday and Monday generally fair, except poeslble thundershowers.