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MERCEDES TO
, HAVE BIG DAT
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American Legion to Stage
Rodeo and Barbecue
On Labor Day
(Special to the Herald)
MERCEDES. Aug. 24.—<A*>—The
J’. A. Garcia poet of the American
Legion of this place will stage a big
barbecue and rodeo In Mercedes on
labor day, according to Herman
Sugg, post commander, plans for
the big entertainment are nearing
completion.
It is understood that the enter
tainment will be held south of the
city at some point near the river.
Crack broncho riders, bulldoggers.
And rope throwers of southwest
Texas are expected to be here to
compete for the prizes. Present
plans call for -i big barbecue at noon
time, the rodeo to follow from 2
to 6 o’clock. Efforts are being made
to secure Cspt. Bill Sterling. Texas
ranger, and famous master of cere
monies, to direct the event
As an added attraction the Rio
Pico Kennel cli will stage special
greyhound races at the track across
the river Labor day night.
SANBENITO IN
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are said to be general over the Val
ley. , a
Brownsville had the best ap
proaches, scoring 100 out of a possi
ble 150 points. Her nearest com
petition along this line was Wes
laco with 95 points to her credit.
Edcouch and Raymondville were
lowest on this score, having 20 and
22 points, respectively.
The judges also held that
Brownsville's business district show
ed a greater improvement than that
wcf any other Valley city, one scored
109 1-2 in this -cspect. Harlingen
was second with 107 1 2.
Alamo and Edinburg tied for first
honors in school grounds. Each
scored 50. Brownsville was accred
ited with 42 joints.
The local church grounds also
showed the way to the remainder
of the Valley. Grounds here were
given 47 points. Harllnge:. was
close behind with 45.
Tie in Parks
Brownsville and McAllen tied In
the matter of parks. Each were
given 80 points by the Judges. San
Benito and L-. Feria tied in second
with 70 each.
The local residence section and
that of Harlingen tied for first
honors. Each weer rated 130 points.
Edinburg. Alamo and San Benito
bad 125 points -ach in second.
On the score o! general appear
ance. Brownsville. San Benito. Har
lingen and McAllen were tied with
60 points each. Donna rated low
est with 20.
The final inspection :>r this year
will be made during December of
this year and the cup will be award
ed during January 1930.
Galveston Attack
Planes at Louisville
LOUISVILLE. Ky. Aug. 24.—(AV
Eighteen army attack planes and
one transport plane hopped oil from
Bowman field here at 9:35 a. m. to
day for maneuvers over the city be
fore leaving for Dayton. Ohio.
The fliers plan to stay over night
to Dayton. They are on their way
to the national air races at Cleve
to::d.
a The squadron is in command of
Major John H. Jouett, and arrived
here from Galveston. Texas, yes
terday. MaJ. Jouett. while here, vis
ited a cousin he had never seen. E.
8. Jouett. vice-president of the Lou
isville and Nashville railroad.
POULTRY
CHICAGO. Aug 24.—(IP)—Poultry
steady, unchanged.
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure was relative
ly high over the extreme northwest
ern states and the states immedi
ate east of the Mississippi river this
morning, and relatively low from
Arizona ad New Mexico orthward
to south-central Canada. Consider
able cloudy and unsettled weather
prevailed throughout the country at
the morning observation, but show
ers were mostly light and widely
scattered since last report, except
for general lains in the northwest
ern states. Temperatures were un
seasonably high in portions of the
northwest yesterday, and generally
above normal practically through
out the great central valleys and
the eastern states this morning.
WEATHER EULLETIN
First figure lowest temperature
last night; second highest tempera
ture yesterday; third, wind velocity
at 8a . m.; fourth, rainfall past 24
hours.
Abilene ..72 98 — .00
Amarillo .68 94 — .02
Atm a.72 90 — .00
Austin .74 94 — 1.16
BROWNSVILLE 78 92 — .00
Chicago .66 74 — .00
Corpus Christi ..76 88 — 0 .0
Dallas .74 94 — .00
Del Rio.76 93 — .00
Denver .64 88 — .00
Detroit .62 86 — .01
Dodge City .. ..68 94 — .00
El Paso .70 90 — .00
Fort Smith.74 94 — .00
Galveston .76 84 14 .00
Helena .60 90 — .00
Huron .66 9o — .00
Jacksonville ....74 88 — .oo
Kansas City ....74 P4 — .00
Louisville ........68 92 — .76
Memphis .74 90 •— .00
Miami .80 86 — .00
Montgomery ....7' 94 — .00
New Orleans .. .78 88 — ,00
New York .68 78 1* .10
North Platte .. .64 92 — 0.0
Oklahoma City ..74 98 — .00
Palestine .72 92 m JDO
Phoenix .78 98 ^ .00
Pittsburgh .62 76 — JS 2
St. Louis .70 88 — .18
St. Paul ..64 86 — .00
Salt Lake City ..62 82 — .00
San Antonio ....72 94 — .00
Santa Fe .56 80 •• J00
Sheridan .56 94 «• JD0
Shreveport .76 90 mm J00
fw' Da .74 92 .00
VIck. burg .72 88 — JO
Washington .....70 84 — SO
WUliston .64 100 — .00
Wilmington .72 86 — .00
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COTTON OPENS
little chan )
Business Chiefly Is In Eve
ning Up Old Com
mittments
NEW YORK, Aug. 24—(JV-The
cotton market opened steady at a
decline of 1 points to an advance of
4 points and arcs quiet during early
trading. There was continued un
plersant-crs with reference to wea
ther in the southwr'* and business
was attributed chiefly to evening up
of old committments. Prices work
ed off under liquidation with De
cember selling down to 18.70 by the
end of the first half hour when the
market showed net declines of 3 to
f points. A
Futures dosed steady 3 to 10
points higher; spot quiet; middling
18.70.
NEW’ YORK OPENING
NEW YORK. Aug. 24.—(AV-Cot
ton opened steady; Oct. 18.45; Dec.
18 74; Jan. 18.81; March 18.99; May
19.09.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 24.—<**>—
The cotton market opened quiet,
first trades showing advances of 1
to 3 points in response to relatively
steady cables. Continued absence
of rain in the drought section stim
ulated buying, but it was absorbed
bv realizing at a small net gain.
Profit-taking persisted throughout
the first hour, carrying October
down to 18 38. December 18 63 and
January 18.72. or 7 to 8 points be
low the previous close. At the end
| of the first hour the market con
tinued quiet with operators await
ing weather developments.
NEW ORLEANS OPENING
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 24.—'JV
Cotton opened steady. Jan. 18.77:
March 18.93-bid; May 19.01; Oct.
! 18.43; Dec. 18.65.
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LIVERPOOL SPOT
LIVERPOOL. Aug. 24—<PV—Cot
ton-spot quiet; higher; American
strict good middlnig 11.16; good
middling 10.76; strict middling
10.56; middling 1036; strict low
middling 10.11; low middling 0.81;
strict good ordinary 9.41; good or
dinary 9.01. Sales 6.000 bales. 2.400
American. No receipts. Futures
closed quiet md steady; Otober
9.93; December 9 90; anuary 9.91;
March 9.97; May 10.00; July 10.00.
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Freight Rate Slash
Causes Wheat Loss
CHICAGO. Aug. 24—Slash
ing of ocean freight rates on south
ern hemisphere wheat destined for
Europe led to an early setback of
wheat values today. However, gen
eral buying of future deliveries en
larged on the downward swing of
the market here, and a brisk rally
ensued.
Opening 1-8 to 21-8 cents down,
wheat later recovered fast. Com.
oats and provisions tended upward,
with com starting at 1-4 cent de
cline to 1-4 cent gain, and susequent
rising all around.
NEW YORK. Aug. 24.—(AV-For
eign exchanges irregular.
Great Britain, demand 4.84 3-8;
cables 4.84 13-16; 60-day bills on
banks 4.79 1-2.
France, demand 3.91 1-8; Italy
5.22 1-2; Belgium 13.90; Germany
23.79; Tokyo 46.65; Montreal 99.32
13-16.
NEW YORK. Aug. 24 —(&—Gov
emment bonds: Liberty 3 1-2, 32
47, $97.16; 1st 4 1-4, $98.31; 4th, 4
1-4, $99.5.
Premier MacDonald
Flies To London
ELGIN, Scotland, Aug. 24.—(JP>—
Prime Minister Rar -ay MacDonald
left here by airplane at 9:20 a. m.
for London, where he was expected
to arrive at 3 p. m. (10 a. m. E. 8.
T.) Unexplained important business
was the cause of the trip.
BRITISHERS TO
LEAVE HARBIN
Soviet Advance on Rail
Center Appears
* Imminent
LONDON. Aug. 24.—(A*)—A Peip
ing dispatch to the Dally Mail to
day said the diplomatic body there
was considering ordering evacuation
of all nationals from Harbin. Man
churian railroad center. In view of
continued reports of a Russian ad
vance against that city.
Anticipation of serious trouble in
i the event the soviet Far Eastern
army moves against the railway seat
was held here to be back of their
deliberations. The soviet advance
has been reported as imminent for
the last two or three days.
The London Times, summarising
events of the past week editorially.
today seemed doubtful peace would
be maintained and thought the
hopeful tone taken by Tokyo could
be discounted by the fact it was to
Japan's interest to see that war was
averted. The Times suggested Ja
pan's wishes were father to the
thought.
Other Far Eastern dispatches con
tinued to refer to the probability of
soviet attack and violation of the
Manchurian frontiers but there
were no trustworthy reports that
the advance actually had begun.
Among scanty advices seeping in
from the frontier was a dispatch to
the Mail which said Yen Hsl Shan,
governor of Shansi province, has
collected materials for construction
of an arsenal at his capital. Tia
Yuan Fu. and that Feng Yu Hsiang,
erstwhile •'Christian general." was
stated to be receiving munitions.
The inference drawn from the re
ports was that President Chiang Kai
8hek had failed to achieve the na
tolnal unity he sought.
2 MEN SLOG
TEXAS WOMAN
Beaumont Police Work On
Two Meager Cluea Aft
er Attack
BEAUMONT. Texas, Aug. 24.-TA1
—Seeking two men who slugged
Mrs. Sadie Klnitment. robbed her of
$40 and threw her from an automo
bile. officers had only an ephemeral
clue based on telephone calls today.
The calls received by two ambu
lance companies requesting that
they send machines to the place
where Mrs. Klnitment was found
unconscious were traced to a ga
rage. but from that point on the
t. 11 had been unproductive.
On her way home from a library
yesterday. Mrs. Klnitment accepted
an invitation of the men that she
ride, but near her home they de
clined to let her leave the automo
bile, taking her instead about five
miles lr*a the country. There they
demanded her purse. Refusing, she
waa struck. The woman said she
remembered nothing more of the
Attack.
nHOWER
I S1DEUCHISB
TEXAS
William Haines, gravitating be
tween a college campus, as the scion
of aristocracy, and the prize ring,
as middleweight champion, plays an
exciting and romantic dual role in
"The Duke Steps Out," Metro-Gold
wvn-Mayer’s filmization of Lucian
Cary's famous Saturday Evening
Post novel, which comes Sunday to
the Texas theater.
On the campus he's a debonair
student from a famous family, care
fully hiding his other identity as
“Duke” Wellington, the fighter. The
result is a blend of college and prize
fight drama that offers many a
thrill, a deal of clever comedy, and
a pretty love story to bind It all to
gether. Joan Crawford is the hero
ine.
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W. O. Rozell
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NEW YORK GIRL
WINS MARATHON
Martha Norelius Shows She
7s Real Star to Win
Toronto Event
TORONTO. Ont.. Aug. 24—(A*V
Victory in the Wrigley ten-mile
marathon swim made Martha No
relius $10,000 richer today and
provide beyond question her right to
front-rank position among women
swimmers at almost any distance.
The New York girl who turned
professional earlier in the year out
swam a field of 45 women from the
United States and Canada in the
annual Wrigley event yesterday, a
little more than a year after she
won the 400-meter Olympic cham
pionship for the United States at
Amsterdam.
Hitherto regarded as much better
at shorter distances. Miss Norelius
surprised experts by her stamina as
much as by her speed. She covered
the 10 miles—five times around a
two-mile rectangular course in Lake
Ontario—in 5 hours, 24 minutes, 22
seconds, nearly 10 minutes- faster
than Ethel Hertle’s winning time in
the first Wrigley marathon for
women last year.
Second place and $3,000 went to
Ruth Tower (Mrs. George Corsan>
of Denver: third place and $1,000 to
Mrs. Evelyn Armstrong of Detroit,
mother of two children, one of them
only six months old Seventeen
year-old Leah Riley of Keansburg.
N. J.. won $600 for finishing fourth
and Mbs Herlthe $400 for fifth
place. There was only one other
finisher, Dorothy Widmer of Seat
tle. Wash. The first five to finish
automatically qualified for the 15
mile ope. marathon to be held here
next Wednesday.
JEWS CLASH
(Continued From Page One)
pondent of the Berlin Vosslche Zei
tung.
The assault came as the climax
to a day of unrest in which there
had threatened continually a clash
between the Jew’s, firm in their
conviction of right to use the Wail
ing Wall for worship, and Arabs,
assembling by the thousands for
their Friday prayers at the Mosque
of Omar.
Arabs previously stoned a group
of aged Jewish worshippers who
assembled at the Wailing Wall, and
assaulted the Jews, one near the
American colony and another at
Motza. A Russian Christian, who
was mistaken by the Arabs for a
Jew. was severely beaten up in the
old city.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt. Aug. 24.
(&)—It was understood here today
a batallion of troops was being dis
patched immediately to Palestine in
connection with rioting about the
Wailing Wall at Jerusalem.
4 TAKE RESERVE
OFFICERS’ EXAM
Four Valley men took Reserve Of
ficers Corps examinations Friday at
the office of the Boca Chica Beach
company’s office in the Merchants
National bank. The examinations
were conducted by Col. Sam Rob
ertson and other reserve officers.
Three of the men were making
application for admittance, while
one was seeking promotion.
I Jones Transfer & Storage Co. Inc.
Distributing, Storing, Moving, Crating
'v and Shipping
Daily motor Freight and Express Service
between all Valley points
Bonded Warehouses at
Harlingen — Edinburg — Brownsville
NOW HE NEVER WILL
LIVE IN CALIFORNIA
Famous Writer Tells How Boasting Cousins With Their
Belittling Comparisons Turned the Missourian
Against the Golden West
BY WINIFRED BLACK
-No.” said the woman from Missouri. “My brother wouldn’t go to Cali
fornia with me—he never will go to California, not unless somebody car
ries him there when he Is unconscious.”
And then she told us about it.
‘My brother is the best fellow in the world,” she
said. “He’s made quite a success at things you
know, has a big factory and a big payroll and a fine
big house beautifully furnished, and a couple of cars,
and a nice yacht of his own.
“He’s a member of the two smartest clubs In St
Louis, he’s on the board of directors of this, and the
board of driectors of that, his wife is always ‘among
those present' at the best social affairs.
“His son is succeeding to the business. He mar
ried the prettiest girl In St Louis, and my brother’s
daughter is married and happy.
“We all think brother has done pretty well.
“But last spring two cousins from California came
to visit at his house, and my brother and his wife
took the California cousins here, and they took them
there and they took them everywhere.
“And nothing was ever as good as California.
“The hotels were not right, the boulevards were al right for—St. Louis,
the residence districts were well enough—but they were not Los Angeles.
My brother has a magnificent black walnut tree in his side garden.
“That tree is one oi the sights of 8t Louis; it has stood through the
TAX RATE IS
HIKED 4 CENTS
Combined County and State
Rate For Cameron
Remains Same
AUSTIN. Aug. 24.——Texans
will pay four cents more on the
$100 taxable values this year as a
result of the automatic tax board's
action ^yesterday in fixing a state
rate m 68 cents. It was 64 cents
last year.
The levy was computed as fol
lows: Ad valorem for general fund
purposes. 30 cents: school fund, 31
cents and Confederate pensions sev
en cents.
The general fund drew 22 cents,
the schools 35 cents and the pen
sions seven cents last year.
The ad valorem for general pur
poses was increased to meet de
mands made by appropriation bills
passed by the 41st legislature. Al
though appropriations were less
than two years ago. Governor
Moody said the bulk of the expen
ditures would be made during the
first year of the biennium, necessi
tating the eight-cent increase for
that source.
The school levy was decreased
from the maximum permitted by
the constitution for the first time
in many years. It had been 35
cents since 1918, when the consti
tutional limit was raised from 20
cents. The 31 cents, together with
the $3,000,000 surplus in the school
fund and its share of the four-eent
gasoline tax, will give each child
of scholastic age $17.50 for the
year.
With the state tax rate definite
ly set at 68 cents, the Cameron
county rate for this year is set at
$1.46 on the $100 valuation, a reduc
tion of four cents over the rate
for last year, which was $1.50.
Cameron county commissioners
announced August 16 that the com
bined state and county tax would
remain at $2.14 for this year, the
same figure assc sed last year. At
that time an increase of eight
cents in the state ate was expect
ed.
The commissioners announced
they would absorb any increase In
the state rate by reducing the coun
ty rate the same amount and hold
the combined rate at the :.me fig
ure.
•cyclone and through the Winter
storms, and It's tall, strong and
graceful. Brother loves that tree
almost as much as he loves one of
his own children; he showed the
tree to the California cousins.
“ 'Yes,* said one of the cousins,
'it is a good big tree for this part
of the country, but did you ever see
a California redwood?'
*“Or a eucalyptus.’ gasped the
other California cousin.
“‘Or a madronc,’ said fhe first
California cousin.
‘ And then she said, ‘Oh. cousin,
what a pity it is you didn't come
out to California and settle there.
Just think what you could have
had by this time!’
“My brother didn’t eat another
bite of dinner and he changed his
plans right then and there. He
has sort of been thinking of going
to California, but now he says he
never wants to hear the name of
it again.
"And yet they say California
really is
“Yes,” breathed a big man who
looked as if he might raise apri
cots or prunes or something when
hr was at home, and have a swim
ming pool in the garden and a tree
house for the children and two or
three neat-handled Chinese for
house men.
“Yes,” breathed the big man.
"California Is—California—but some
Californians really ought-”
“That’s right,” said the woman
from Missouri, "they really ought
And do you know I think they
really ought, too—don’t you?
Senator Tyson Dies
In Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24.—(jV)—
United States Senator Lawrence D.
Tyson, democrat, of Tennessee, re
cipient of the Distinguished Service
mc.’al for “exceptionally meritorious
and disi iguished service” during
the wo 4 war, died early today in
the Manresa Manor sanitarium,
Stafford, near here, at the age of
58 years.
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SPOKANE HAS
MENACING FIRE
Dozen Houses Burn Before
Fire Department Con
trols Blaze
SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 24.—WV
A mass of glowing embers covering
damages estimated variously from
$350,000 to $500,000 was all that re
mained here today of a dozen dwell
ing houses, an apartment dwelling,
a sanitarium and the storage and
fuel yard of the McGoldrick Lum
ber company. They were destroyed
when a blaze started last night In a
a
lumber pile and soon was whipped
Into a conflagration by a gale-like
wind.
Every piece of flre-flghtlng equip
ment in the city, but five, fought
the blaze for six hours before it was
brought under control.
Industrial property, including fac
tories and warehouses, worth sev
eral million dollars, was menaced.
Three firemen were treated for In
juries.
Twenty patients In the Payne san
itarium, razed soon after the fire
started, were taken from their beds
just as the first tongue of flame
was licking the sides of the build
ing. Children In a nearby orphanage
were taken to safety but a shift in
the wind saved the building.
STILETTO IN HER BRAIN
LYONS. Prance.—Henri Durevier
killed his wife by driving a stiletto
into her brain as she slept
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Open Minded
Where there is an open door, there’s
an open mind — one that catches the
other point of view and weighs it as
carefully as its own.
The Merchants’ National officers are out in
the open—available to everyone—always. The
open door symbolizes the spirit of the institu
tion — a desire to be a real friend as well as a
sound bank.
Capital—
Originally paid in $100,000.00
Increased from
Earnings .... 150,00000 $250,000.00
Surplus fund earned . 250,000 00
$£00,000.00
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