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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexican town
across the Rio Grande from Laredo,
sill eliminate danger of "mad
dogs."
Anti-rabies serum is being admin
istered to every dog in town by the
health board under orders of the
:ity officials.
A charge of 2.25 pesos is being
made per inoculation and all dogs
not inoculated are to be shot.
This is a slightly drastic method
but one which should prove highly
effective. With precautions being
taken In Brownsvilie at present the
menace may be controlled. If it
isn't it might be well to inaugurate
the "Nuevo Laredo method" in this
5ity.
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^VHIT ROGERS, secretary of the
McAllen Chamber of Commerce, the
other day told Lions there of the
need of a national advertising cam
paign for the Valley and intimated
he would bring the matter before
the Valley Chamber of Commerce
executives at their next meeting in
his city on Aug. 22.
This is a matter about which
“much has been said and but litile
done."
The Valley necessarily will make
a genuine effort to attract tourist
traffic some day. When that day
arrives some money is going to be
spent on advertising the entire
lection.
To make this advertising fund ef
fective, a committee of VaUey lead
»rs will be named to select the ter
ritory In which a Valley appeal is
most likely to produce results. Then
some reliable advertising agency is
going to be given the available
money to prepare a campaign and
place it in the leading newspapers
of the section to which the appeal
Is to be addressed.
When that method is followed the
greatest good wUl be accomplished
for the money spent and VaUey
land men and developers who are
most interested will be ready to
contribute to the fund.
• • •
THE CAMERON COUNTY Tu
berculosis association plans an in
tensive campaign against the dis
ease in this section.
Memberships at $1 are to be sold
to provide funds for preliminary
work and it is intended to finance i
«|hospltal as the major aim of the ■
fft ration.
The association, organized at a
meeting last week in San Benito,
has the support of the county
health unit and is affiliated with
the state association.
The organization has an oppor-.
tunity for service which is sure to1
appeal to the public.^
CORRECTION:
The Herald report Monday of the
Point Isabel Yacht club said that'
No. 4. winner of the catboat race.j
was the property of ‘ Don E. Por-1
ter.” This was an error. There was;
no Don E. Porter who had a boat!
in the event. Don E. Currier is
owner of the prize winning craft. |
And Tony Valent was the driver,
I • • •
NOW THE WRITER of In Our
Valley has exposed his ignorance.
The scientists who went to South j
America did not discover anything!
new when they found natives using
Juice of the papaya to make tender,
a tough beefsteak
Citi-ens of Mexico has known this I
•■secret” for many generations.
The Herald was no more than on
the streets than we are informed
that papayas are used regularly
here to make meat tender.
Here Is the method as it was given
to the writer:
Secure the steak—somehow.
Cut a papaya open, spread half
of it on the steak and let it remain
several hours.
Ofe; the steak after It has been,
WSHJf- . ,
Guaranteed result—a tender, de- |
licious steak and no flavor of the
papaya. # . .
TEXAS Is awake to the opportun
ity for profit in dairying.
A group of Brazos county farmers
and Bryun business men last week
cl.arterkl a big bus and made a
tour of dairying centers of Texas
seeking information.
-Having tired of the one-crop
system and of putting all the eggs
in one basket by raising cotton only,
our farmers are seeking a way out.”
O^o. w. Johnson, district farm
agent, said. -Dairying appears to
offer the best opportunity and we
are mailing a study of results ob
Efned in this state.
The party inspected the famous
Jesey herd at Falfurrias. They
also made stops at Taj lor. Austin.
Buda. Round Rock. Kingsville. Cor
pus Christ!. Beeville, Victoria. Hal
lettsville. Brcnham and several oth
er places.
They did not come to the Valley.
They were seeking sections wheie
dairying had attained a position of
some importance. The Valley did
8 qualify.
ut the Valley should have been
sition to qualify. Dairying will
become an important industry here
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La Feria Resident to Face Grand
Jury In Federal Home Brew War
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MRS. HOOVER’S
BIRTHDAY *GIFT
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THRILLS YOUTH
MINNEAPOLIS Aug. 20.—<JF)—
The thrill that comes once in a
lifetime was enjoyed today by
Marshall Newton, son of Walter
H. Newton of Minneapolis, secre
tary to President Hoover.
Mrs. Hoover made the thrill 1
possible for Marshall on his ninth
birthday as he lay on a cot at a
hospital here recovering from am
putation of a leg crushed in an ac
cident recently.
A large package bearing the of
ficial mark of the White House
at Washington was brought to
Marshall by a nurse Opened, the
box revealed a big piece of cake,
a strange looking board with some
pegs stuck In a design formed
by holes, and a letter.
The letter was a personal note
from Mrs. Hoover and explained
the piece of cake was from Presi
dent Hoover s birthday cake and
the board and pegs were a puzzle
which kept Col. Charles Lindbergh
guessing for most of an afternoon.
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20 Naval Planes
Enroute to Races
EL PASO. Texas, Aug. 20.—(JP)—A
squadron of twenty naval planes, ■
under command of Lieutenant Com
mander Homer Wick, took off from
the Municipal airport this morning !
en route to Cleveland. Ohio, to par
ticipate in the .erial maneuvers at
the national air races.
TUCSON. Ariz . Aug. 20 — UP) —
With Midland, Texas , their next
stopping place, eighteen fast pur
suit and two amphibian planes from
the naval base at San Diego. Calif.,
took off shortly after six a. m.
(mountain standard time! today en
route to the national air races at
Cleveland. The planes left the Pa
cific coast yesterday and remained
here all night.
MacDonald Studies
Washington Message
LOSSIEMOUTH. Scotland. Aug.
20.—i.Pi—The Press association to
day quoted Premier MacDonald as
statin? he was studving a message
from Washington which he discuss
ed with Ambassador Dawes yester
dav reearding the disarmament con
versations.
The premier was quoted as fol
lows :
“General Dawes came up to ex
change views with me upon a mes
sage from Washington which I am
studying. It marks a distinct ad
vance in our conversations."
Jury Indicts Man
On Forgery Charge
• Special to The Heraldt
RAYMONDVILLE. Aug. 20.—An
indictment was returned today by
the grand jury here in criminal dis
trict court. Judge Cunningham pre
siding. acainst Celso Rodriguez,
charged with forgery. He is now
in iail. ’ . ...
The court voted to recess until
Saturday, and the criminal docket
will be called Monday. August 26.
LOCAL GROUP WILL
GO TO MEXICO MEET
Seven local people are making
preparations to attend the conven
tion of the American Association of
Engineers to be held in Mexico City
next week.
Those planning to make the trip
are Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Washing
ton. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Banker. V.
L. Conrad. Archie Ruff and Floyd
Smith. They plan to leave Sat
urday by rati.
PLANE FALL KILLS
ONE, INJURES TWO
SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. 20.—<*V
Chester Minear. 30. was killed, and
his cousin. John Minear. pilot, and
Warren Hall, another passenger,
were injured dangerously, last night
when ah airplane went Into a tail
spin and fell in a mud flat at the
edge of Puget Sound.
COMMISSION TO
STUDY PAYROLL
The county commissioners’ court
will meet Thursday as a board of
equalization and for the purpose of
going over the county payroll.
Several large valuation protests
are expected to come before the
commissioner*.
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MAN CHARGED
MAKES BOND
SET_AT $250
Defendant Admits He
Made Beer For Him
self, Friends But De
nies He Sells It
J. T. Simpson of La Peria was
bound over to the grand jury on a
$250 bond Monday afternoon fol
lowing a preliminary hearing before
U. S. Commissioner E. K. Good
rich on charges of possessing home
brew. Simpson made the bond.
The defendant acknowledged that
he manufactured and possessed the
home brew but maintained that lie
did not sell it. In a voluntary
statement, he said that friends fur
nished him with ingredients and he
made the beer. He in turn receiv
ed half of the brew.
Customs Officers James H. Col
lins, Marcus Hines, John Pace, Con
stable J. W. Castleberry and Deputy
Sheriff Ernesto Yznago reported
they made the seizure at the Simp
son home Aug. 3.
Some 207 pint bottles of home
brew, 24 empty bottles, three six
gallon fermenters and a capper were
reported as seized by the officers.
Hague Works On
British Report
THE HAGUE. Aug. 20.—(4’.—'The
reparations experts, who worked un
til alter midnight in an effort to
reconcile conflicting estimates of the
yield in money of the four-power
offer to Great Britain, were hard
at work again today.
What has developed thus far in
dicates there will be two reports
on this problem. The experts of the
four powers will support the conten
tion of France. Italy. Belgium and
Japan that they offered sixty per
cent at least of the amount demand
ed by Philip Snowden. British chan
cellor of the exchequer. The British
treasury men. on the other hand,
will uphold the chancellor's claim
that the offer amounted to no more
than twenty to thirty per cent of
what he demanded.
Seek Identity of
Body Found in Tank
WINK. Texas. Aug 20—<;p>—Au
thorities here are seeking to identi
fy the body of a man found in the
Gulf tank farm yesterday by boys
hunting rabbits.
A bankbook in one of the man’s
pockets was made out to W. H.
Douglas by a Big Spring bank.
The throat was slashed three
times and a razor, closed and in its
case, lay about four feet from the
body.
Death apparently occurred Friday
or Saturday.
Pilot's Altitude
American Record
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.—<&>
Bureau of standards calibrations
today showed that Waldo Water
man. test pilot at Metropolitan air
port in Los Angeles, made an Amer
ican record altitude of 20,820 feet
for commercial type planes on
July 27.
Waterman's record will not be of
ficial until it is confirmed by the
Federation Aeronautique Interna
tionale at Paris.
Shell Shocked Vet
Stabs Benefactress
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 20.—UP)
—Brooding over an imaginary
wrong. Davis Llzarraga. 35. shell
shocked war veteran, stabbed to
death his benefactress. Miss Egle
Ashmun. 34. yesterday as she talk
ed with him in front of the offices
of the American Red Cross, of
which she was executive secretary.
Lizzarrago has signed a confession
admitting the killing.
FIGHTER BURNS IN
WASHINGTON JAIL
TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 20.—</P>—
Billy McVee. a Hoquaim, Wash.,
pugilist, better known as Kid
Ritchie, was burned to death in the
town jail at Toledo, Wash., last
night when fire of undetermined
origin destroyed tbe building.
JUDGE SENTENCES
SNOOK TO DIE IN
ELECTRIC CHAIR
Ohio Veterinarian, Killer of Ohio Co-ed
Sweetheart, Accepts Verdict Without a
Tremor; Defense Counsel Excepts
COURTHOUSE. Columbus. Ohio, Aug. 20.—{&)—Dr. James H. Snook
was sentenced to be electrocuted on November 29 for the killing of his
co-ed sweetheart. Theor\ Hix, by Judge Henry L. Scarlett today after a
motion for a new trial had been overruled.
Looking the judge squarely in the eye. the former professor heard the
pronouncement or aeatn wunout a
tremor. A bailiff laid his hand on
the doctor's arm as if to support
him. but it was unnecessary,
i Dr. Snook never returned to the
chair from which he had arisen to
receive the sentence. As he turned
away from the judge's bench, a
sheriff was waiting, and he was ta
, ken to a waiting automobile and
whisked to the penitentiary where
he was lodged in a cell in death
row.
Judge Scarlett passed sentence
after he had over-ruled a defense
motion for a new trial. Given an
extra day in which to obtain affi
davits to support a charge of preju
dice on the part of “one or more”
members of the Jury when the origi
nal hearing on the motion made up
yesterday. E. O. Ricketts of defense
counsel announced today the affi
davits were not yet in hand. Rick
etts Indicated the defense desired to
make no arguments, and the court,
with an announcement that no more
time would be given, promptly over
ruled the motion. Ricketts recorded
an exception.
Charge Attorney’*
Fee Estimate Low
FORT WORTH. Aug. 20.—t/FV—
Attempt was made today by the
joint legislative committee investi
gating the Texas fee system to show
that the estimate of District Attor
ney R. A. Stuart on the earnings of
his office was too low. Stuart testi
fied the of flee received from salary
and fees between $12,000 and $15,
000 annually.
The committee, of which Senator
Pink L. Parrish of Lubbock, is chair
man. declared that previous testi
mony on the filing of dellinquent
tax suits pointed to an amount larg
er than this.
Negro Charged In
Foreman’s Shooting
CORSICANA. Texas. Aug. 20.—(F.
—Charges of assault with intent to
murder were filed against Ollle
Holmes, negro, today in connection
with the shooting last night of J. E.
Thompson, farm foreman, near
Kerens.
Holmes and Thompson were re
ported to have had an argument
yesterday after Holmes had quit
work before time. Thompson suffer
ed a bullet wound in the wrist and
also was struck over the head with
a gun.
Libel Suit Name*
Mr*. Willebrandt
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 20 —{&) — Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, former
assistant United States attorney,
and the Current News Feature com
pany were named defendants In a
$1,000,000 libel suit filed here yes
terday bv Ous O. Nations, former
chief of the St. Louis Federal Pro
hibition unit.
Nations charges her articles were
intended to make the pulic under
stand he. while in office, had been
guilty of misconduct.
STORM WARNING
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.—<AV
The weather bureau today issued
- the following storm warning:
Advisory 10:30 a. m.. tropical dis
turbance apparently of small diam
eter and of slight to moderate in
tensity. is moving west-northwest
ward in estimated latitude sixteen
degrees, thirty minutes, longitude
sixty-eight, probably will pass over
or slightly south of the southern
coast of Santo Domingo or Haiti
tonight. Caution advised in reg
ion of Santa Domingo, Haiti, Ja
maica and windward passage next
twenty-four hours.
REGENTS NAME
SPORTS HEAD
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Ettlinger Appointed Direc
tor; New Chemutry
Building Approved
AUSTIN, Aug. 20.—UP)—Archi
tect’s plans for a chemistry building
which will cost approximately $1,
000.000 when equipped were ap
proved today by the board of re
gents of the University of Texas.
The contract for the building will
be let October 14.
Appointment of Dr. H. J. Ettlin
ger, acting director of athletics at
the university, as head of intercol
legiate athletics, was another fea
ture of the meeting.
All present members of the pres
ent coaching staff were retained. H.
Y Benedict, president of the insti
tution. said. Fred Walker will re
main as basketball mentor, Marty
Karow and Bill James as assistant
football coaches, and C. J. Alderson
as freshman coach. Selection of
Clyde Littlefield, head football
coach, and William J. Disch. base
ball coach, were previously aftirmed.
The physical training department,
which was divorced from intercol
legiate athletics, will operate under
supervision of L. Theodore Bellmon.
whose aides will be Berry Whita
ker. S. N. Edkahl. Roy B. McLean
and Wllye Glaze, the latter former
ly business manager of athletics.
The salary budget for athletics
during the year will be approxi
mately $50,000. the board decided of
which $35,000 will be devo*ed to in
tercollegiate sports.
Texas Fugitive I*
Jailed In Kansas
WICHITA, Kans.. Aug. 20.—UP)—
Police said today that Henry Hap
ner. 28. arrested here yesterday,
had been identified as a figitive
from the Texas state prison at
Huntsville, where he was serving a
term for highway robbers'
He was said to have escaped by
swimming a river under fire and
to have made his way to Houston.
Plan Adopted For
Pen Arrangement
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. — UP) —
A plan to solve in part the over
crowding in federal penitentiaries
has been agreed upon between Pres
ident Hoover. Secretary of War Good
and Attorney General Mitchell.
CRASH MAY BE FATAL
TO 1; DRIVER HELD
DENTON, Texas. Aug. 20.—<j?V
Frank Ganns was near death in a
hospital here, Mrs. Nell McQuiddy
was in the same hospital for treat
ment of deep cuts and bruises, and
R. I. McQuiddy was in Jail charged
with transporting liquor and driv
ing while intoxicated as the result
of an automobile accident on the
Denton-Gainesville highway near
here last night. All three gave
Maude. Okla.. as their home.
PHILADELPHIA PEN
SURVEYED BY TEXANS
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20.—(7P>—
Members of the Texas prison com
mission, on a prison inspection tour,
inspected Eastern State penitentiary
here today. Under the guidance of
Warden Charles 8ralth. the Texans
were conducted through the insti
tution. The inspection lasted an
hour.
YOUTHFUL DUO
NOT SIGHTED
SINCE MONDAY
Plane Should Have Ar
rived At Halifax At
10 A. M. and at New
York By Dusk
(By the Associated Press.)
Unsighted for almost 2« hours
at noon today two youthful Swiss
fliers were due at Roosevelt field
late this afternoon if the perils of
the hazardous westward crossing
of the north Atlantic did rot bring
them down short of their goal.
Leaving Lisbon early yesterday.
Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher
were seen flying over the village of
Praia Victoria on the i land of Ter
celra at one o’clock Eastern Stand
ard time yesterday afternoon.
Silence then ■ nveloped their ex
phot, and through the night and
the morning hours no word was
heard of them, although several
ships were steaming along the
course tl.ey plrmcd to follow. The
American coast wjl shrouded in fog.
At the speed the Swiss fliers had
maintained up t > the Azores they
should have reached Newfoundland
about four o'clock this morning and
Halifax. N. S., at 10. It had b:=n
their plan to refuel at Halifax if
their gas was but they had
said that if the supply was suffic
ient they might decide to proceed
to New- York t hout landing.
‘Rush Week' At U. T.
May Be Abolished
AUSTIN, Aug. 20.— <;P) —"Rush
Week," anicent institution at the
University of Texas, received what
may prove to be a death blow when
the boards of regents meeting here
placed fraternities and sororities on
a four-year probation and read out
of existence the German club and its
dances and the "Ribbon clubs.”
The University was given com
plete control over membership of
fraternities and sororities, and the
regents provided ‘no person ‘may be
Initiated into a fraternity or soror
ity without the approval of the fac
ulty committee on student social or
ganizations.
A faculty committee was author
ized to report at the end of the four
year probationary period whether
fraternities shall be abolished.
Sun God Arrives
At Butte Field
BUTTE. Mont.. Aug. 20.—//Pi
Nick Namer’s ‘Spokane Sun God”
flew up to the Butte airport at 9:35
a. m. today. ‘He planned to circle
the field for an hour while the pilots
of his refueling ship ate breakfast.
Then he expected to replenish his
supply of gasoline and resume his
journey to Spokane.
EASTERN OREGON
MENACED BY FIRE
SEATTLE. Aug. 20 — (JP) —While
Western Washington had been mo
mentarily freed from forest fires
by rains over the week-end, eastern
Oregon today became a new sector
in the northwest fire menace.
Forestry headquarters at Port
land reported 12 new blazes.
Better Than Law Suits.—Insurance
Rio Grande Valley Trust Company
TOURIST SCRUBS AS RAIN
FALLS FROM FLIVVER TOP
Here's a fellow who took advan
tage of the breaks—the break in
the top of his flivver.
Monday as the rain began to fall,
a somewhat worse for the wear car
stood at Washington and 11th
streets. A tourist sat in the front.
As the rain began to fill the cupped
top over the rear seat, the man
calmly opened his suit case and
got out a towel and a bar of soap.
He then took off his shirt. The
crowd under a nearby awning
watched with increasing interest.
Paying no attention to the occa
sional snicker, the man then bent
over the front seat and opened a
small hole In the car's top. Duc
tng his head under the stream of
water that poured through, he ap
plied the soap generously.
The crowd became boisterous in
Its derision but the tourist con
tinued with his ablutions. Someone
suggested calling a cop but decided
not to when another demanded
“Why be like that?”
The rain halted abruptly with the
man in a literal fine lather. Look
ing a bit perked by this turn of fate,
the man stepped from the car and
continued his bath in a nearby bar
ber shop.
KILLED
MARVEL CROSSON
Miss Marvel Crosson, holder of
the worlds altitude record for
women and a veteran pilot, died
when she attempted a para
chute jump as her plane was
about to crash. The string was
released, but the ’chute failed
to open. She was found some
distance from her plane.
NEW FURNITURE
STORE BOUGHT
Edelstein Purchases Large
Stock of Company At
Eagle Pass
The successful man returning to
the town in which he made his start
is exemplified by Morris Edelstein,
head of the Edelstein furniture
stores, who has Just purchased M.
Risklnd Furniture company,, Inc.,
in Eagle Pass.
Mr. Edelstein got his first experi
ence in the furniture business in
that city when he arrived there in
1906, shortly after coming to the
United States, and started work in
the store owned by his brother, Abe.
He remained there until 1912. when
he came to Brownsville and set up
a small business of his own in a
building located on the site now oc
cupied by his present store.
From this beginning, his business
has prospered until he now has
twelve stores, including the one
just purchased. These are located
in Matamoros, San Benito. Harlin
gen. Raymondville, Mercedes, Wes
laco, Edinburg. McAllen, Mission,
Brownsville and Rio Grande City.
The business Just acquired by Mr.
Edelstein is the largest stock of fur
niture along the border between
Brownsville and El Paso, and is the
largest west of San Antonio. Terms
of purchase have already been ar
ranged, and the deal will be closed
as soon as inventory of the stock
has been taken.
Camion Driver Is
Charged In Death
A charge of negligent homicide
has been filed against Pablo Salazar,
camion driver, in the county court
at law as the result of the deatfi-of
Gonzalo Sanchez. 6. Friday.
Salazar's case will probably come
before the court in the October
term of court.
The defendant's camion struck the
youth at 13th and Van Buren
streets Friday. The boy died shortly
afterward at the Mercy hospital
with a fratcured skull. His head hit
the curb as he fell .
MISS CROSSON .
DIES IN JUMP
NEAR PHOENIX
Body of Veteran Pilot
Found Badly Broken
300 Feet From Her
Plane; ’Chute Fails
PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 20.
—(/P)—With the shadow of
death shrouding their trial,
fifteen entrants of the wo
men’s Santa Monica to
Cleveland air derby took
off from here today for
Douglas, Ariz., 200 miles
away, on the third lap of
their race. The first plane
got off at 8:12 a. m. (M. S.
T.) and all had cleared the
airport at two-minute inter
vals afterwards
The deathh that cast the .shadow
was revealed when the broken body
of Miss Marvel Crosson, 25-year-old
San Diego. Calif., entrant, was
found by a searching party six miles
north of Wellton. Ariz., early today,
a few hundred feet from her splin
tered plane. It was believed engine
trouble developed, forcing her to
abandon the craft as it went into
a tail spin about 1,000 feet in the
air. Draped around her was the
parachute which had failed to open.
Day Heveals Tragedy
Miss Crosson was reported miss
ing last night when she railed to
complete the Journey from Yuma
here. Information from ranchers
who told of seeing a plane fall, sent
searching parties to the cottonwood
bordered Gila . ver. But darkness
prevented the unfolding until dawn,
the tragedy which followers feared
had taken place
Two others of the 20 original
starting planes which took off from
Clover field Santa Monica, Calif.,
Sunday were definitely out of the
race, another was scheduled to take
off from Mexicali, Lower Calif., to
day in an effort to catch ? .i with
the others at Douglas. Ariz., while
the status of the filth was in doubt.
MISS CROSSON HAD
TROUBLE BEFORE START
PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 20.—(JPh
One entrant In the women’s air
derby from Sant* Monica, Calif., to
Cleveland was missing today, two
others were out of the race after
hinting they had been victims of
sabotage, and a fourth lagged far
behind as the result of various trou
bles which beset the contestants
yesterday.
The sixteen r- naming fliers were
here, ready for a flight today to
Douglas, Ariz., while searching par
ties combed the rugged Arizona hills
west of here for Miss Marvel Cros
son of San Diego, believed to have
been forced dowr. in an inaccessible
part of the country. Ranchers in
the area along the Gila river north
of Wellton, Ariz., reported seeing a
plane plunge into a thick aotton
wood grove.
Mrs. Claire Fahy of Los Angeles,
forced down at Calexico, Calif., by
motor trouble., dared the canter
section wires of her plane snapped
as she swoojied dow-n toward the
airport there. Her husband. Her
bert Fahy, Los Angeles test pilot,
who flew to her assistance, declared
the wires had been weakened by
acid.
Dirty Gasoline
Thea Rasche. German avlatrix,
was forced down at Holtvlllc, Calif.,
East of Calexico. Blaming her mis
fortune on "dirty gasoline," Miss
Rasche showed newspapermen a
telegram from a friend warning her
to "beware of sabotage."
May Haizlip, Kansas City entrant,
who left San tcrnardtnc a day late
with the consent of the other wom
en because her plane did ^ot arrive
(Continued on page 8.)
THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy to unsettled tonight
and Wednesday, probably with lo
cal showers. Light variable winds
on the west coast.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to
night and Wednesday. Light ts
moderate easterly to southerlj
winds on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material changf
In the river during the next fee
days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chng. Halo
Eagle Pass .. 16 3 3 +0.2 XX
Laredo . 27 0.0 -0.3 .(X
Rio Grande . 21 4 6 +0.1 .(X
Mission. 22 4.6 -0.3 XX
San Benito . 23 0.0 +0.2
Brownsville . 18 3.5 0.0 .41
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
bel tomorrow, under normal met
eorological conditions:
High.5:23 a. m : 3:17 p. rru
Low.10:54 a. m.; 10:11 p. m,
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today .7:03
Sunrise tomorrow.6 04