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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 49 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1929 « TEN PAGES TODAY. 5e £ COPY
IN OUR
VALLEY
LAREDO ORCHARDISTS don't
like Valley citrus trees—in spite ol
the fact that Valley citrus growers
long ago learned the very best tree
obtainable is grown In the Valley.
Many trees imported from Florida
and a few brought in from Califor
nia have been dug up and replaced
by Valley-grown trees.
Of course good trees—pedigreed
trees, are obtainable from any of
the citrus-growing sections, Valley,
Florida or California.
• • •
But Valley men who have been in
the game for many years see the
hand of a famous Florida nursery'
in the resolution passed by the
meeting in Laredo last week which
requested the Texas state depart
ment of agriculture to admit Flor
trees for planting and which at
We same time frowned on the Val
ley-grown product.
Laredoans continue to declare
they desire the right to purchase
“certified’' trees from Florida, using
that word over and over again as
though it really had a meaning.
“Certified" is a word which the
Florida nursery uses in connection
with ita trees and means that the
nursery stands back of the tree and
guarantees it to produce a high
quality and heavy yield of the va
riety of fruit bought. It means that
and nothing more.
“Certified" trees can be bought in
the Valley. Any number of Valley
nurserymen are guaranteeing their
trees to produce high quality fruit
of the variety named and to bear
heavy crops.
• • •
FLORIDA TREES have been bar
red from the Valley for a long time
because many of the trees shipped
In from that state were found by
federal inspectors to be Infested
with one or more varieties of citrus
pests and because many of them
were of veiy inferior quality.
The state-wide ban against Flor
ida trees, to which Laredo is object
ing. was only decreed on July 23 (f j
this year. The quarantine was put
on only because the state depart
ment of agriculture feared there was !
possibility of bringing the Mediter
ranean fruit fly into the state on j
some of the trees or the wrappings.
If the quarantine had been de- ,
creed merely to help Valley or
chardists sell their trees, Laredo
would be perfectly justified in their I
demand that they be allowed to I
purchase trees where they please.
• • •
But Geo. B. Terrell has said he I
wa#: d not modify the quarantine
onaa immediately—so the propa-,
ganda barrage of the Florida nur
sery seems to have failed for the
present at least.
• • •
CAMERON COUNTY, one of the
healthiest spots in the United
States, is aoout to earn the reputa
tion of being one of the most un
healthy.
All through a matter of neglected
birth registrations.
It appears that the law requiring
registration Qf deaths provides a!
penalty sufficiently severe to assure
all deaths being recorded, while on I
the other hand births are recorded I
only if it is convenient for the doc- \
tor or nurse to do so.
Because of this Cameron county I
shows an abnormally high infant
mortality. It also shows a very
high death rate compared to births.
• • •
Jesse T. Nichols, special agent of
the United States bureau of the
census has been compiling some
records on Cameron county to show
the need for more careful registra- j
tioi. of births. He is working in the
campaign to place Texas in the
United States registration area in
1929 and is interested in Cameron
county for that matter.
• • *
Here are some of the things he
says in a recent letter to County
Judge O. C. Dancy:
“No doubt you will be interested
to know the results of the cheek of
names secured by the scholastic
census enumerators with the birth
certnBates on file with the state
health department.
“According to this check only 25
per cent of the children of Browns
ville were born in Cameron county
outside the cities of Brownsville.
Harlingen and San Benito were reg- |
istered. Of the American births 32
per cent were recorded but only 10
per cent of the Mexican children
were recorded..
“You realize, of course, that com
plete registration is a vital need in
every community, not only from a
public health standpoint, but as rec
ords of age. parentage, and citizen
ship. In future years these will be
very much needed, especially by the
Mexican children."
• • •
Judge Dancy says steps will be
(Continued on page two.)
Fire Drives Hotel
Guests Into Street
GALVESTON. Tex.. Aug. 21.—{A*)
—Fire today drove guests of the
Majestic hotel here to the street
and did at least $10,000 damage to
the hostelry. The cause was un
known. . .
The roof of the building was bad
ly damaged. A barber shop and
restin'ant on the street floor suf
fet^' sses due principally to wa
ter. __
Better Than Law Soils.—Insurance
Bla Grande Valley Trust Company
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Developer Under Bond In Brew War
LA FERIA MAN
HEARD AFTER
FEDERAL RAID
Customs Inspectors
Say They Found 36
Bottles of Beer Hid
den on Fence
J. H. Wehmeyer of La Feria was
bound over to the federal grand jury
on a bond of $250 following a hear
ing before U. S Commissioner E. K.
Goodrich Tuesday on charges of pos
sessing home brew. Wehmeyer made
no deposition.
The La Feria man's home in the
Wehmeyer subdivision was searched
Aug. 3 by officers headed by Mount
ed Customs Inspector James H. Cal
lins. The officers reported finding 36
pint bottles of home brew hidden
under vines on the fence, three bot
tles in ttc ice box, and in addition
59 empty bottles.
Officers in the party were Mount
ed Customs Inspectors Marcus Hines
and John Pace. Constable Castle
berry and Deputy Sheriff Ernesto
Yznaga.
Wehmeyer was not at home at the
time of the search.
Valley Telephone
Head to Open Meet
Some 60 officials and chief oper
ators of the Valley will attend the
two-day convention of the Texas In
dependent Telephone association to
open at the Plaza hotel in Corpus
Christ i Friday.
Ed Mockbce. manager. S. P. Ga
bitzsch, plant chief, and Mrs. M.
Carroll, chief operator, of the locall
exchange will leave Thursday to
attend the convention.
The meet will be attended by of
ficials of the independent exchan
ges throughout south Texas.
A series of routine demonstrations
and talks by experts have been ar
ranged for the convention. Public
relations also will be stressed.
J. C. Paxton, general manager of
the Rio Grande Valley Telephone
company, will make the opening
address. It is entitled "The Manag
er's Responsibilities."
Burning Freighter
Menaces Navigation
NEW YORK. Aug. 21.—<#y—'The
Radio Marine corporation today re
ceived a wireless message from the
freighter Yalza stating that she had
seen the steamer Quimlstan on fire
and deserted about 1100 milles east
of Norfolk. Va.
The Quimistan was well down in
the water, the message said, and
was a menace to navigation. The
shin was formerly a Hcndui^n vessel
but recently was sold to German
interest* to be seranped. It was
hound for Genoa. Italy, from Nor
folk.
Man Shot, Woman
Companion Robbed
FORT WORTH. Aug. 21.—(AV-R.
P. Lary was shot four times by a
man while in a parked automobile
with a woman companion on Morn
ingside Drive late last night.
Three bullets went into his legs
and another struck him in the back.
The man held up Lary’s com
panion. taking $1 and some change,
but did not attempt to rob Lary.
Lary was taken to a hospital by
a man who drove past in his auto
mobile.
WOMAN SUICIDE
IS IDENTIFIED
DALLAS, Tex.. Aug. 21.—<A*>—The
body of a woman, found in a creek
here Sunday, has been identified by
friends as that of Mrs. Ellen Koonce
Elliott. 69. widow of a former San
Antonio judge. Mrs. Elliott had
been acting as a governess for some
time. A verdict of suicide was re
turned.
BALLROOM NOT
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PAJAMA REALM
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SAYS SHERIFF
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Aug. 21.—
(A*)—The realm of the pajama is
the bedroom and not the ball
room, according to an official
pronouncement of the county
prosecutor.
A local casino advertised a
"pajama dance” for tonight. Wo
men's clubs protested, and As
sistant Prosecuting Attorney E. G.
Shoffner issued a manifesto to
Sheriff R. A. Cook, notifyine the
officer he would be within his
rights in preventing the event.
Sheriff Cook promptly an
nounced pajamas were "out” as
terpsichorean attire and he would
halt the scheduled dance.
Promoters of the dance threat
ened to apply for an injunction to
prevent interference by the
sheriff.
NEGRO ‘MILKS'
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RATTLERs GETS
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VENOM IN EYES
SAN ANTONIO. Aug. 21.—<*■)—
' Milking'' a rattle snake no longer
will be a country sport for Jim
Spears, negro employe at Medina
Lake Lodge.
Jim had the scare of his life
Monday, when he attempted to
■ follow in the footsteps of Col. M.
L. Crimmins, snake expert. He
had witnessed a motion picture
film showing Col. Crimmins
•milking" a snake to obtain
venom for the manufacture of
serum.
Therefore, when he killed a
large snake Monday in a shed at
the lake lodge, Jim decided to re
move the venom.
Prying open the mouth of the
dead rattler. Jim was paralyzed
with fear when a stream of the
venom shot into his eyes. He was
rushed to a hospital where it was
explained to the frightened man
that venom is harmless unless it
is introduced into the blood.
BONDS SETIN
HOLDUP CASE
Preliminary Hearing Held
For Two In Robbery
Of Negro
Eugenio Rqdriguez and Manuel
Garcia were bound over to the
grand jury in bonds of $2,000 each
Wednesday morning at a prelim
inary hearing on charges of rob
bery with deadly weapons. The
hearing, held before Justice of the
Peace B. L. Cain, grew out of the
, hold-up early Sunday morning of
Tom Cobb, negro employe of the
Missouri Pacific lines. If convict
ed. the men face a maximum pen
alty of death and a minimum of
five years imprisonment.
Garcia, represented by E. T.
Yates, waived preliminary hearing,
while Rodriguez, not represented,
made a voluntary statement.
Complainant Testifies
Cobb told of visiting a house on
16th street early Sunday morning.
There, he said, three men stepped
from behind the house and order
ed him to their car at the point of
a razor. After driving down the
street for a short distance, the car
stopped and he was relieved of
about $14 in cash, Cobb testified.
Rodriguez in his statement, ad
mitted meeting the negro at the
house. He said that Cobb was or
dered to the car but that no force
was used and that no razor was
drawn. When the car stopped, the
negro dismounted and “made a
move for his hip,” according to
Rodriguez. A knife was then drawn
on Cobb, the witness asserted.
Search Ordered
Rodriguez ordered Garcia to
search the hip pocket, his statement
ran. Garcia also searched the side
pockets and found some money
which he handed to Rodriguez, it
was alleged. Cobb then broke and
ran, the witness testified, and the
two men took in after him for the
purpose of returning the money.
They could not catch him, Rod
riguez stated, so he (Rodriguez) re
turned to the house first mentioned
for he believed that Cobb would re
turn and he could give him back
his money there.
Rodriguez was arrested at the
house later by city police and the
sheriff’s department.
Women Also Jailed
The women at the house were
taken to jail also on charges of
conducting a disreputable establish
ment.
Cobb denied making the ‘ hip
pocket” move, saying that he had
no weapon and he would make no
bluff which might result in his be
ing slashed. After taking his mon
ey, the men gave him a shove down
the street, the negro asserted. Cobb
stopped and the men dashed to
ward him. he said. This occurred
twice, according to Cobb.
Third Man Released
On cross-examination Rodriguez
attempted to show that these
dashes were efforts to return the
money.
A third man in the case was re
leased as testimony showed that he
was only a bystander near the I
house.
San Benito S. C. V.
Camp Is Organized
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Aug. 21.—Organ
ization of the Captain S. W. Bishop
camp of the Sons of Confederate
Veterans was perfected at a meet
ing held Monday night in the cham
ber of commerce rooms at the
Stonewall Jackson hotel
The following icers were elect
ed: Morgan P. Findley, command
er; Dr. W. O. Brown, first lieuten
ant commander; Dr. N. D. Monger,
second lieutenant commander; J. D.
Wren, adjutant: P. F. Dominy,
Judge advocate; Dr. C. M. Cash;
surgeon: J. E. Thompson, quarter
master; Rev. C. E. Marshall, chap
lain; Dr. G. A. Fisher, treasurer; F.
B. Sublett, color sergeant, and F. 8.
Robertson, historian.
V X
GRAF READY
FOR FLIGHT
OVER PACIFIC
»- - -
Eckener Orders Pas
sengers Aboard Big
Craft For Trip To
Los Angeles
TOKYO, Aug. 21.—(/fl—Dr. Hugo
Eckener. commander, and the offi
cers of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin
entrained tonight for Kasumigaura,
naval air station forty miles north
west of here to board the giant
airship for its flight across the Pa
cific. The passengers of the air
ship arranged to follow on a spe
cial train. Before starting her Pa
cific flight the Grafs stores were
enlarged in Japan by 50 quarts of
champagne and a like quantity of
wines, besides a plentiful supply of
whiskey and liquors.
Such part of the liquor placed in
the Zeppelin's “wine cellar as is not
disposed of by the passengers on
the way to Los Angeles will be seal
ed in bond when the ship passes
over American territorial waters.
Refueling was underway and fin
ishing touches to slight repairs on
the balloons were being made, but
generally speaking, the ship was in
readiness for its round-the-world
lap, a trip expected to traverse 5,
400 miles and to occupy about 100
hours.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, the ship's mas
ter. who treats the take-off as no
more eventful than departure of a
ship from New Yor„; harbor, asged
the passengers to be ready to go
aboard at 2 a. m. A full two hours
prior to scheduled departure.
Great Circle Route
He said today he expected to fol
low the northern great circle route
to %attle, possibly along the line
of the Aleutian islands, following
the American roast southward to
the southern California goal.
Japanese weather surveys of the
western Pacific area made by the
meteorological sendee particularly
for Dr. Eckener showed not a single
disturbance anywhere, with every
prospect of an easy trip across
Pacific, which will be the second
ocean crossed by the dirigible.
Thousands View Graf
Thousands of Japanese took ad
vantage of fair weather today to
visit the old German hangar at
Kasumigaura, where the Zeppelin
Is housed, to inspect the craft, the
like of which has never been seen
in Japan before. Most were unre
strained in their enthusiasm.
Meanwhile, Dr. Eckener and his
crew’ continued their round of en
tertainments ;.t the hands of Tok
yo's great, near great and socially
prominent. The officers have been
so showered with gifts they will
have to ship them home in crates
aboard ship, having no room aboard
the Graf itself.
Parents Blamed In
Dance Hall Problem
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—(A>)—
Roadhouses outside city limits and
parental failure to keep their
youngsters from public dance halls
were cited today by the United
States children's bureau as major
difficulties in the “problem present
ed by the dance hall.”
The report based on a survey of
cities In 25 states, showed variance
in the laws for control of such
halls. Echoes of dances long dead
were found In still valid ordinances
prohibiting the toddle, shuffle, griz
zly bear, bunny hug, Texas Tommy,
and camel walk.
OFFICES OF COUNTY
AGENTS REOPENED
• Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG, Aug. 21.—Offices of
Mrs. Etta Ringgold, county home
demonstration agent, and John Kirk
patrick, county agent, are again
open at the courthouse after having
been closed during the agents' va
cations.
FLIER TO SHOW FEASIBILITY
OF DAY COAST-COAST HOPS
TULSA. Okla.. Aug. 21.—//P)—Fly
ing against time In an effort to
prove the practicability of daylight
transcontinental air passenger
transport, Roscoe Turner, opera
tions manager of the Nevada Air
lines, landed in Tulsa at 12:16 p.
m , today on his way from Glen
dale, Cal., to New York.
Turner left at 12:53 after taking
on fuel and headed for Cincinnati,
his next refueling stop.
“We haven't ’ieen making the
time we expected to make,” Turner
said, ' because u,.. to within 100 miles
of Tulsa we bucket head winds.”
Capt. Roscoe Turner, with three
passengeys, took off for New York
at 12:45 v m. touay from Glendale,
Cal., in an attempt to demonstrate
the feasibility o* a daylight trans
continental airplane passenger serv
ice. He planned to stop three times
for refueling.
Captain Turner refuelled at Al
buquerque, N. M., at 7 a. m., and
Cincinnati, with seven minute stops
scheduled In each city. He hoped to
make Tulsa in 11 hours. Cincinnati
in 15. and New York in less than
17 hours and 28 minutes, the rec
ord time of Capt. Frank Hawks for
west to east non-stop flight.
Passengers <<ng the flight were
Fred G. Trosper and Russell Pecht
of Los Angeles, and D. R. Lane of
Berkeley, CaL H. C. Gatty of Los
Angeles accompanied Captain Tur
ner as navigator.
Turner’s ship is a cabin mono
plane equipped with streamline
“pants” over the landing gear, and
stream line motor cowling, and
powered by a 425-horsepower motor.
It developed 190 miles per hour in
testa.
FLYER COMPLETES COAST- TO-CO AST ROUND TRIP HOPj
if ■
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N B. Mainer (right) who completed a coast to coast nonstop round trip over the route shown on tin?
map. using the plane pictured below. Art Walker (lelt) was co-pilot. Refueling was done in the air.
GERMANY GIVES
DEBT WARNING
Refuses to Pay For Cost
Of Disagrcemnt On
Young Plan
THE HAGUE, Aug. 21.—OP)—Dr.
Gustav Stresemann, German for
eign minister, today made an elev
enth-hour effort to save the repara
tions conference by warning the
creditor powers that Germany could
not pay the cost of their failure to
agree on the Young plan.
The German foreign minister, at
a meeting of the six powers who
had called the conference, left no
doubt in the minds of those who
heard him that the German gov
ernment was determined not to suf
fer from their disagreements over
the distribution of the reparations
payments by Germany.
THE HAGUE, Aug. 21.—<P>—
Prance. Italy, Belgium and Japan
made Great Britain a new offer
today in the hope of saving fhe
conference on reparations from
complete breakdown.
The offer was, since there was a
disagreement as to vain on a for
mer proposition, to guarantee that
50 per cent of Britain’s claims for
an increased share of the German
payments would be satisfied.
PARIS. Aug. 21.—</PV—A certain
amount of pessimism over the out
come of the : parations conference
at the Hague was apparent in Paris
today and in some well-informed
quarters suspension of negotiations
over the Young plan by the end of
the week was regarded as almost
certain. These quarters were of the
opinion that the real negotiations
would take place at Geneva during
the September session of the league
assembly.
COAL MAGNATE DIES
IN LEAP FROM HOTEL
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21.—(/P>—
Colonel Walter T. Bradley. 74,
wealthy coal magnate, clad only in
underwear, leaped or fell to instant
death today from his apartment on
the thirteenth floor of the Warwick
hotel.
Henry S. Martin, president of the
coal firm which bears the colonel’s
name, said the colonel had been in
ill health for some time.
Ladybirds
Paso by Mi
EL PASO. Tex.. Aug. 21.—(/PV-Am
Atlantic, waa the first of the fliers i
land at the El Paso municipal airpo
plane crossed the line at the local fi
She was closely followed by Mrs. B
ed at 8:18:46 a. m. Eleven others^
brought their ships to a stop at the
field within a half hour after the
arrival of the leader.
The others arrived in the follow
ing order: May Haizlip of Tulsa,
8:20:53; Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y.,
8:25:49; Louise McPhetridge Tha
den of Pittsburgh, 8:27:3; Gladys
O'Donnell of Long Beach. 8:30:51;
Ruth Elder of Beverly Hills, Calif.,
8:31:33; Vera Walker. Los Angeles,
8:40:49; Mrs. Keith Miller of New
Zealand. 8:41:04; Neva Paris, of
Great Neck. L. I., 8:42:29; Edith
Foltz, Portland. Ore., 8:42:41; Mrs.
Phoebe Omlie. Memphis, Tenn., 8:-j
43:57; and Mrs. Florence Lowe
Barnes of Marino, Calif., 8:47:53;
Margaret Perry. Beverly Hills, Cal.,
8:53:07; Opal Kunz, New York. 8:
58:25; and Miss Mary Von Mack of
Detroit, 9:59:25.
Mrs. Louise McPethridge Thaden
was credited unofficially with an
elapsed time of 6:38:41 hours out
of Santa Mpnica, giving her the
lead for the heavy division of the
race. Mrs. Omlie, leader of the
light plane division, had an elapsed
time of 8:35:24 hours since the race
started. This figure also was un
official.
The racers were to hop to Pecos,
Tex., from El Paso, a distance of
approximately 200 miles, at 11:30 a.
m. From Pecos they fly to Mid
land where they will spend the
night. Official flight record of
elapsed time to El Paso:
Louise McPethridge Thaden,
Pittsburgh, 6:48:31.
Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach,
Calif., 7:01:08.
Amelia Earhart. Boston. 7:19:47.
Florence Lowe Barnes, San Mar
ino. Calif., 7:26:34.
Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y., 7:26:26.
Ruth Elder, Los Angeles, 8:41:23.
Blanche Noyes. Cleveland. 8:57:15.
Neva Paris, Great Neck, L. I., 9:
21:01.
Margaret Perry, Los Angeles, 9:
54:45.
Opal Kunz, New York, (time un
reported >.
Vera Dawn Walker, Los Angeles,
14:19:57.
May Haizlip, Kansas City, 7:46:
44 (unofficial).
Mary Elizabeth Von Mack, De
troit, (not given).
Thea Rasche, Germany, (lap be
hind, unarrived at 11 a. m. M. S. T)
Light planes:
Phoebe Omlie, Memphis, Tenn
8:35:24.
Edith Foltz, Portland, Ore., 9:51:
30.
*£rs- Kelth MUJer. Australia, 18:
31 ’ jo.
The broken body of Marvel Cros
sen, 25-year-old flier, who plunged
(Continued on page 2.)
Slogan Selection
Committee's Task
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Aug. 21.—The Val
ley slogan committee probably will
meet here Monday night, to begin
the task of sifting out the 15,000
slogan suggestions sent in, and to
pick a Valley slogan.
A prize of $250 will be awarded
the winner, and a Christmas pack
age of grapefruit will go to all re
ceiving honorable mention in the
contest.
The committee is composed of
E. Bell, chairman; 8. P.
Sebastian; H. J. Backer
Albert Herbet of San
Baker of Weslaco,
of Brownsvllla
r
Led to El
ss Earhart
clia Earhart. first woman to fly the
n the national women's air derby to
rt this morning from Douglas. Her
•Id at 8:16:14 a. m.
ianche Noyes of Cleveland who land
COTTON BAN ON
BORDERSOUGHT
Officials Propose Step To
Eradicate Spread of
Pink Boll Worm
AUSTIN. Aug. 21.— <;p) —Estab
lishment of a non-cotton zone along
the international boundary between
the United States and Mexico is
advocated by officials in an effort
to eradicate the pink boll worm.
J. M. Del Curto, chief state ento
mologist, and R. E. McDonald, in
charge of pink boll worm activities
for the federal government in Texas
and New Mexico, have gone to the
City of Mexico seeking co-operation
of the officials there. They are ad
vocating a non-cotton zone on the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande
along the border.
George~B~”Terrell. state commis
sioner of agriculture, said it had
been found impossible to control the
spread into Texas of the pinkk boll
worm unless a concentrated move
ment to stop the growing of cotton
on both sides of the border was
started by Texas and Mexico.
Disaster End of
Endurance Attempt
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 21.—</P>—
The endurance monoplane San
Franciscan lay at the bottom of
San Francisco bay today, and its
pilot. Donald Templeman. former
armly flier, was recovering from the
effects of the plunge which ended
his undertaking last night.
Apparently fatigued. Templeman
misjudged his distance from the
ground as he was circling Mills
field in the 36th hour of his flight.
The craft struck an electric trans
mission line and fell into the bay,
a few feet from the shore. Tem
pleman swam out, uninjured.
Company Announces
New Ait-Rail Line
ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Aug. 21.—</P)—
Announcement of a new transconti
nental air-rail route for service
September 1 was made here last
night by officials of the Southwest
Air Fast Express.
Under present plans the
end of the route would
travel via the New York
St. Louis, transfer to the 8.
here for
on the Texas and
Paso, Texas, with th<
Lines completing
Angeles.
MEN
COUNTYJUD s
SELECTED BY
LEGION POST
Honor Given Him Fo*
Outstanding Service
For County, Com*
mander Says
County Judge O. C. Dan
cy was named the “most dis
tinguished citizen of Browns
ville” in a final tabulation of
votes by members of the lo
cal American Legion post,
W. R. Kiekel, post com
mander, announced Wednes
day. W. O. Washington,
the only other man nomin
ated for the honor, received
strong support.
The award was made after both
men had announced their with
drawal from the contest, saying
they considered because of their po- /
sltions as public officials they
should not be chosen.
"The honor was given Judge
Dancy because of the outstanding
service he has rendered to all of
Cameron county,” Kiekel said. "It
was largely because of his unselfish
service to the county, the Valley,
and his state that he was chosen
for the honor.”
The selection was made by Indi
vidual vote of the American Le
gion members after nominations
had been made by civic clubs and
other public organizations. _
Served in Two Wars
At a social meeting of the Amer
ican Legion In the Elks hall Thurs
day evening Judge Dancy will be
presented with a • certificate of dis
tinction” by the Legion and his
name will be sent to Austin where
It will be inscribed with the names
of other distinguished citizens and
become a permanent record In state
headquarters.
Judge Dancy Is a raemb * of the
Legion and of the 8panlsh-Ameri
can war veterans, having seen serv
ice In both wars.
Judge Dancy was characterized
by the clubs nominating him. in
their letters to the legion, as "an
outstanding public man, who exem
plifies devotion to public service,
and honesty In office, without any
co -tderatlon of personal gain.”
Dunng his 10 years in office, they
went on to say more than $10.
000.000 lias passed under his super
vision without a suggestion of scan
dal. or misappropriation of public
money.
Quail! i' it ions Recalled
Further basis for the choice of
Judge Dancy U this honor Is In
the constructive work in the way
of the road system and the flood
control now enjoyed by Cameron
county, most of which has been
built during his admini-ration. All
this has been done, making Cam
eron county rank well with any
county of the ~tate on these lines
while the tax rate has been kept
at practically normal.
His human sympathy and kind
ness to the unfortunate in the
course of his duties as county Judge,
though not so w known as his
administration work. Is also cited by
the clubs naming him as a qualifi
cation, . . well as his leadership In
all public affairs for the good of his
community, county and state.
Man Wanted In Webb
County Taken Her6
Juan Gonzales, wanted on stat
utory charges in Webb county, was
taken into custody at the local cot
ton exchange Tuesday by Deputy
Sheriff Frank Gay.
Gonzales, a telegraph operator,
was taken back to Laredo Wednes
day by officers from that city. Gon
zales came here about a month ago
and had been working at the cot
ton exchange since then.