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-— 1 - -———^ ..— ———————^^— " ■ I———i I" II ■ I p|»j| See the new BULOVA j C“ W Bnmmsmlle r. 4- ‘ -- THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASE D WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS-—(/P) (_ -—A-_____-_________ ,, - ~ THIRTY-EIGHTH YEaR—No. 64 NOOfl Edition BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1?29 NOOII Edition 6c A COPY EM ora ¥ ALLEY VALLEYISM: If knockers would tell whole truths instead of half truths they would not be a menace.—A. K. Black, Brownsville. • • • AUGUST WEATHER in the Val ley Was • unusual:* But not in the sense that •‘un usual” generally is used in section where it is customary to brag on climate. In Florida or California a hot day. a prolonged rainy spell or a drought is always •'unusual." August weather in the Valley was unusual in the opposite direction. It was cooler and less dry than us ual. W. J. Schnurbusch, meteorologist of the local weather bureau says that the mean temperature for the August just past was 883.6 degrees, whereas normal for the month Is 83.9. The monthly summary also reports 3.29 inches of rain for Aug ust and normal is 2.55. • • • THERE IS A serious shortage of cotton pickers in the border coun try. according to the Laredo Times. Thousands of acres of cotton are open in Webb. Duval. Jim Wells and Nueces counties in which there never has been a single picker, this paper says. The answer? ESkutation of thousands of Mexflkn farm laborers. The Valley escaped this condition ! this year principally because most 1 of the cotton m this section open- j ed rapidly and the season wasi about over before there was a de- j mand for pickers in other sections ' At that, the production was re duced somewhat because of a lack j of sufficient laborers to gather the last scattered crop. The remedy? Modification of immigration laws] rather than more severe restric tions. That or-what? • • • CORPUS CHRISTI councilmen have ordered engineers to prepare field notes for extending the city limits to Include about five square , miles of additional territory and to take in several hundred new resi dents. There at one time was talk of ex tending the city limits of Browns ville to take in the municipality large areas which should be includ-I ed. Nothing has been heard of the plan recently. • • • LOS EBANOS IS NOT a post of - fice. It is merely Brownsville's finest outlaying subdivision. But mail addressed to Los Ebanos. Texas, from away up at I Toronto, Canada, is delivered just the same. A card was mailed at Toronto >n August 23, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Smith. Los Ebanos. ' Texas. A postal employe some - where along the route had pen liled on the card “try Brownsville, Texas.” Somebody followed that ldvlce and the card was delivered • • • BROWNSVILLE CHILDREN can' ittend public school in safety. Special policemen have been itationed at the schools to enforce] gieed law's and the legal limit past1 chool houses Is 12 miles per hour Lieutenant of Police John Arm strong says eve ? speeder caught, at a school will receive a tag Corporation court Judge A. A Browne has announced that every person who receiv es a tag will pay j a fine. Not much of a loop hole there. Either obey the law or take the consequences. No Brownsville child was injured; last year while en route to or from a public school. Police and school officials are jealous of that record and hope to maintain it again this year. G. W. Gotke, superintendent of the system, has cooperated with the city officials by arranging ar rival and departure hours at times \ least dangerous to the pupils. Slow Irigns are to be placed in «treets4fcbout the schools and they j mean what they say—take it from the Brownsville police department • • # NOT ONLY IS grapefruit being j bottled in liquid stale—grapefru.t: juice—is now be carbonated. A California concern is bottling carbonated grapefruit and orange juice drinks. There is going to be an enormous! demand for bottled grapefruit and orange juice in a short time. The Valley is in a position to meet a part of this demand and come live Valley citizen is going to make a fortune out of bottling juice of cull fruit. Once Valley fruit juice comes (Continued On Page Ten) v v v ♦> v v v ❖ v ♦> ♦> ♦> ♦♦♦ <• »> •;« ♦> <♦ ♦> \Hehns Slated to Die in Chair Tonight GOVERNOR NOT TO INTERVENE IN EXECUTION Meanwhile. Another in Famous Santa Claus Robbery Waite De cision On Appeal HUNTSVILLE, Texas. Sept. 5 —Unless some extraordinary act of clemency intervenes. Henry Halms will go to the electric chair here shortly after midnight tonight for his part In one of the most spectacular robberies ever attempt ed in Texas, the Cisco “Santa Claus” bank robbery of 1927. Sentenced to death for robbery with firearms. Helms has run the gamut of devices to escape the chair. The court of criminal ap peals refused to alter the Jury’s de cision. another jury recently refused to save his life by declaring him in sane. the judge refused a rehearing and yesterday Governor Moody an nounced he had washed his hands of the,case and would not interfere. Kidnap Two Girls Helms and his three comranlotY, probably were the most unloue bank robbers who ever operated in Texae when they entered the First Na tional bank of Cisco. Texas, Dec. 23. 1927. Marshall Ratliff, one of Helms* companions, who also is un der death sentence, headed the quartet disguised as Santa Claus to disarm suspicion. Scooping up the bank’s funds they fled, kidnaping two little girls who had approached to make friends with the Santa Claus. Officers opened fire or. them as they were leaving, but the bandits used the little girls as screens, shooting around and over them Nit Bedford and Geoj-ge Carmichael. Cisco police officers, were killed In the battle, and L. E. Davis, one of the bandits, died later of wounds. Ratliff Appeals The quartet escaped and released the girls unhurt, The bandits were pursued, however, and captured. Ratliff at present is appealing his death penalty, and Robert Hill fourth member of the party. Is serving a 99-year sentence on a plea of guilty of robbery with firearm?. COOL AT PAMPA PAMPA, Texas, Sept. 5.— Light wraps were donned here to day as the first cool weather of the season sent the thermometer down to 50 degrees. The sky was cloudy. SPANISH IGUA N A * * *• FOUND IN TREE * * * BY OLMITO LAKE Hey! Hey! H-E-Y!! Step righ up folks; get In close. The grand pifawmance begins on the next line. Here we have on our right the only Spanish Iguana ever captur ed in the wilds of Olmito. Snatch ed from its perch on a tree in the vicinity of the lake by T. B. Hel muth. It is two and one half feet long, green In color and has lacey frills on its back. “The encyclopedia says It lives in trees, is herbiferous and makes excellent food, often attaining a length if five and six feet. Evi dently the one captured in Olmito is quite young.” There is much conjecture as to how the giant lizard got this far north as its native land is in the tropics of Central and South Amer ica. The iguana !s now on display at the Olmito filling station. WIFE, REFUSED USE OF CAR, SMASHES IT WITH HAMMER (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN. Sept. 4—A disa greement between a man and his wife here over the use of their au tomobile resulted in the automo bile being practically demolished by the wife, who took a large hammer to accomplish the Job. The two, according to the story told police, had disagreed consider ably over use of the automobile and at the time of the hammering, the husband was preparing to leave in DEATH ENDS BRAVE COUPLE’S TRY Mr. and Mrs. E J. Devereaux of New York smilingly posed for this picture at Camden. N. J., just before taking off on flight to 3oston tn Philadel phia- Be* ton -Cleveland air derby. Devercaux's plane cracked up in an attempt to land at control station in Boston, killing Deve reaux and Edward Reiss, a passenger, and seriously injuring Mrs. Devereaux. Holy War Urged Upon Arabs By Propaganda — J JERUSALEM. Sept. 5.—(JP)—Moslem Arabs throughout the Holy Land and bordering states are being called upon by inflammatory propa ganda to revolt and move against the government of Palestine. Floods of this propaganda were said here today to have emanated from Jaffa. Haifa. Egypt. Damascus. Beirut and Aleppo, and have been instru mental in renewing discontent. * One o fthe proclamations in cir culation among the Arabs heralded a fighters* holy war'' and called upon all A9rabs to help Arab in surgents in Palestine, whose con dition was described in blackest terms. Jerusalem Quiet Although Jerusalem was quiet to day Brititsh troops continued their incessant clashes with the bands of tribesmen who penetrated the Pal estine borders. One automobile which attempted to cross Allenby bridge from Transjordania to Pal estine was found to contain 14 rifles and 1.00 rounds of ammunition. British military authorities im mediately dispatched amored cars into Amman in an attempt to cout off the Palestine Arabs’ source of arms and ammunition at its source. Chiertians Killed Reports persisted despite official denial skirmishes with Bedouins had occured near Beersheba in which six native Christians were killed. Jews, who hailed the first pro clamation of the high commission er. Sir John Chancellor, as aiding their cause, were not so joyful to day over a second proclamation by the high commissioner, which an nounced constitution of special courts presided over by Bntisr. judges to try criminal cases among both Jews and Arabs growing out of the recent disturbances. BRECKENRIDGE MAN NEW DENT MANAGER (Special to The Herald* MERCEDES. Sept. 5.—P. S. Wright of Breckenridge has been named successor to Billy Duckett as manager of the Mercedes, Weslaco, and Donna motion picture houses of the Dent Theater corporation, it is announced. Duckett will take charge of a theater in Vernon. Wright was assistant manager of a Publix theater at Breckenridge be l fore assuming the Valley post. the car. His wife came out of the 1 house with a hammer, and the hus band started up the alley without waiting to see what was going to happen. The woman used the hammer tellingly, breaking everything in the way of a light or glass on the car that would break, smashing the spark plugs and other parts of the mech anism. and otherwise demolishing the car. which was a practically new sedan. IRRIGATION VOTE CALLED — Engelmen Tract To Decide $875,000 Bond Issue For System Saturday (Special to The HcraM) HARLINGEN. Sept. 5.—Residents of the Engleman tr.\ct. which is in cluded In Hidalgo county water im provement district No. 6. wiil vote on a bond issue of $875 000 Saturday of this week, according to A. Tan v of this city, engineer for the dis- , trict, the funds bc«^g to install an J irrigation system. The tract in question is known as I the Engleman tract, and consists of 10.000 acres of land, all being high- j ly developed. Work on the irrigation system , was started several montns ago, and about 3.000 acres of it is already under irrigation, with a portable «ump being used, taking water from the Donna drainage iitch. Permit for irrigation of the 10. 000-acre tract has been secured, and ) two reservoirs, with a storage ca- i pacity of about 15.000 acre feet are I to be provided. One of these is ] about finished. Work up to the present time has been financed by the development company. Tamm pointed out. The pumping plant of the dis trict on the Engleman tract has been practically finished. The system will be complete . ith concrete line and pipe system ca nals. no earthen canals being in cluded in the plans. R. W. Briggs of Pharr is doing the concrete work on the tract, and Tom Hester of Donna is doing the earth work. Bids are to oe a ktd soon on eight miles of pipe line on j the tract. SAN BENITO DOCTOR NEARING RECOVERY (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN. Sept. 5 —Dr. S H. i Crews of San Benito is reported con ! siderably improved at the Valley i Baptist hospital here, where he has I been confined since an operation re cently. — DROUTH BROKEN WICHITA FALLS. Sept. 5.—(.Pi Breaking a prolonged drouth and giving the first taste of autumnal temperatures, rain averaging about three-fourths of an inch was re ported today from many parts of West Texas and southern Okla homa. The precipitation here was .73 inch. OFFICIALS SAY 8 PASSENGERS DIED IN CRASH Railway Agents Deny Circulating Report; Wreckage of Plane Not Found LOS ANGELES. Sept. 5.—<>P)— I The chief dispatcher of the Santa Fe railroad at six-thirty this morning told The Assaciated Press he had Just talked via telegraph with the Santa Fe agents at Perea and Gallup. N. M.. and that both denied having circulated a report the T. A. T.’s liner City of Cali fornia had been wrecked in the Black Wash country of New Mexi co. H W. Beck, western traffic man ager of Transcontinental Air Transport, informed of the agents* denials, told The Associated Press that yesterdays reports, upon which official statements had been issued, had been given T. A. T. by tne Santa Fe and received by the Transport company as authenti cated by Santa Fe and Western Union. LOS ANGELES. Sept. 5.—All the flying resources of the western lines of the Transcontinental Air Trans port were marshalled today in an effort to locate its air liner City of San Francisco, whose loss, together with the Hves of its five passengers and htree crew members, some where on the treacherous wastes of the Arizona-New Mexico border, was announced by company officials. With communication lines dis abled by the same 6torm which caught the air liner In its grip, and with roads made more than ordi narily impassable by rain, searchers had been unable to find the wreck. Reports Confusing Official reports, saying the five passengers and three crew members hn! died in the wreckage, issued in Washington, D. C.. by Colonel Paul Henderson, executive vice president of the T. A. T, and made public here by H. W. Beck, western mana ger of the concern, indicated the liner had fallen about 23 miles south of Gallup. N. M. Just before midnight last night, however. Beck announced men from Winslow, Ariz . had not been able to locate the wreckage and that there war doubt as’ to its exact lo cation. Advices from Albuquerque said an undertaker, sent from Gallup to ward the reported location of the wreck, had been unable to reach it because of washouts. The under taker reported the location given wrs so difficult to reach burros probably would have to be used. Last Seen Tuesday The plane was last seen Tuesday morning while on its way over New Mexico and Arizona to Los Angeles. Aboard the city of San Francisco when it left Albuquerque were: Mrs. Corina Raymond, wife of George B. Raymond. Glendale. Cal. Ravmond is a clerk in the T. A. T. offices here. A S. McGaffey. 712 Cooper ave nue. Albuquerque. William Henry Beers. 42a Fifth avenue. New York City. Harris Livermore. 21 Beaner Place. Boston. M M Campbell. 1183 Herschel avenue. Cincinnati Members of the crew’: J. B. Stowe, chief pilot E. A. Dietel. co-pilot. C. F. Canfield, courier Reports that anothre plane car rying two men from Albuquerque to Los Angeles had crashed in the rime general vicinity as that where the City of San Francisco was lost complicated the situation. Whether Indians who had reported finding airplane wreckage in that area yes terday had referred to the air liner or the plane carrying the two men could not be determined here. No Wreckage Found Beck’s announcement no wreck age had been bound followed an of ficial T. A. T. statement made by him earlier in the night with au thority from the St. Louis general offices, which said. The T. A. T. plane lost Sept. 3 between Albuquerque and Winslow (destination of the liner) was Just reported found by a mail carrier 23 miles south of Gallup in the Black Rock wash country. The mail car rier's report, delivered to a Santa Fe agent, and authenticated by the Santa Fe and Western Union, states that apparently the plane was struck by lightnin gand all passen gers killed T. A. T. men from Winslow are p.acedeing immediate ly to the scene of the accident to make a thorough investigation. It is impossible to make a more de (Continued on page ten.) PAY TRIBUTE TO ‘MAGELLAN OF AIR' Associated Press Photo Completing his circumnavigation of the globe. Dr. Hugo Eckener came to New York to receive its acclaim. He is shown on the steps of the city hall with Mayor Walker and Lady Drummond Hay, only woman passenger on the Graf Zeppelin in its globe girdling epoch making voyage. Gangland Slays 2 *Cheap9 Racketeers CHICAGO. Sept 5.—UP)—A double murder, the fifth outbreak of gang guns in Chicago within a week, was committed today in the shadows of Jacob Riis park. One of the victims was a well known west side hoodlum, bomber, ter rorist. and “muscle man.'* He was Cy Cawley. The other, unknown to police, was identified after con-: siderable confusiono as Eddie West cock. In the hands of the two murder ed police found a dime and a nickel —gang symbolism that the victims were “cheap.” Cawley. 25, has been picked up and questioned in connection with many of Chicago's recent crimes. Husband Not Sorry For Double Murder EL PASO. Sept. 5.—PF>—Harrison 1 Waitt felt no remorse today for hav ing slain his wife and her intimate. Gordon Rose, with an axe as they lay sleeping in the Waitt home Dis trict Attorney E. B. Elfers had an nounced he would file murder com plaints against the husband. Waitt. like Rose, a soldier at Fort I Bliss, probably will not be prosecuted for hacking his wife’s paramour to death, as the act involves the “un written law.” but hJ must answer for her death. Elfers said, adding two charges would be lodged Declaring “I have no regrets; I woud do it again,” Waitt sought to Justify his act. PLANE DELAYED BY BAD WEATHER WICHITA FALLS. Sept. 5.—UPV~ The Safeway plane which left Tulsa, Okla., yesterday afternoon for this city carrying two passengers and a crew of two, landed at Oscar. Okla.. last night, because of bad weather. NEED OF RAIN IN EAST ACUTE Unprecedented Heat Ag gravates Water Shortage And Fire Menace NEW YORK, Sept. 5 —(Jt—Rain to fill reservoirs, extinguish forest fires and cool blistering city streets was an acute need throughout east ern states today. Four days of unprecedented heat which set new temperature records for £Si*ember aggravated the wa ter shortage and multiplied diffi culties of forest fire fighters. The highest temperatoie reported yesterday was at Springfield. Mass.. j where the mercury reached 99 78 de I grees. Other parts of New Eng | land enjoyed relief from the record breaking temperatures at Tut. day In New York City the mercur went to 94 for the second consecu tive day. One death and numerous prostrations occurred. Outlying dis tricts suffered a water shortage as a heavy demand caused low pres 1 sure in the mains. EXPERTS SURVEY PROPOSED ! NICARAGUAN CANAL ROUTE By CECIL B. DICKSON Assciated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.(A>)—A picked engineering ba talion num bering 400 officers and men today was ordered by Secretary Good to duty in the central American Jun gle to survey the route of the pro posed $1,000,000,000 Nicaraguan ! canal. Upon the report of these engin | eers largely will depend the dec , ision of the American government as to whether it shall undertake the stupendous task o) constructing a canal stretching 183 miles through tropical mountains and forests from the Atlantic to the Pacilic oceans. Government eng ; * , ineers estimate it would require 1( years to complete the project which would give the United States, with the Panama canal, tw: of the most important waterways in the world. The survey was approved by con gress last spring when it was i brought to its attention that th< ! Panama canal with its present fa i cilities probably would be ova burdened soon if the annual ton nage continued t,o increase. Thi commercial tonnage that passet through the canal in 1928. exclu slve of government vessels amount ed to 29.000,000 tons, while the ca pacity Is not greatly in excess a 30,000,000. BROWNSVILLE KEY CITY IN FASTSERVICE Mexico City To Be I Just 48 Hours From New York; System Nation-wide Beginning Sept. 8, Brownsville will be the international pin in the larg est rail-air schedule hook-up yet made in the United States. It was announced here Thursday morning by local officials of the Mexican Avi ation company. This tie-m is expected to materi ally inciease traffic through the lo cal airport to and from the large centers of the United States. The merged sch'dule was formulated by the Southern Air Transport sys tem. It will better the time formerly possible, making Mexico City as close to Now York as the Texas bor der has been in the past. The fastest train time between Mexico City and New York is 100 hours and 10 minutes. This air-rail 1 agreement reduces this time to 48 hours. It is 48 hours by rail from Brownsville to Mexico City alone. Service to All Points Lines hooked in the schedule are the Southern Air Transport, the Universal Air lines, both subsidiar ies of the Aviation corporation, the Mexican Aviation company, the Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad and the New York Central railroad. •Through agreements with other air and rail lines similar fast service is available to Boston, Montreal and . other points in the East; to Los An geles. San Francisco, Seattle, and other poh^j in the Far West and even faster service to Kansas City, St. Louis. Chicago, Rochester, St. Paul, Minneapolis. Cleveland, Ak ron, Columbus, Indianapolis, and other points in the Middle West, as well as to Washington, D. C. and Baltimore officials said. This air-rail hook-up is both the first international one and the big gest by far that has yet been an nounced. • they said. Among the railroads which are parties to the service are the Burlington, the Bal timore and Ohio, the Norfolk and Western, the Pennsylvania, the New York Cent ray. the Santa Fe and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Many Lines I'sed “Other air lines which have co operated with the Southern Air Transport System to make possible this firs' co-ordination of air and rail lines into an uninterrupted service.’’ it was said, "are Pan-Amer ican Airways, through its Mexican subsidiary, the Central Air Lines, a Jtvision of the Universal Air Lines system, the Universal Air Lines proper: the Northwest Airways, the Stour Air Lines and the Western Air Express." A through ticket to each point id being worked out. officials stated, which will be handled by both rail roads and air lines. Traveling the air mail route from Mexico City to New York,” ac cording to officials, “a passenger will leave Mexico Citv at 7:45 a m. for Brownsville over the line of the Mexican Aviation company, and will arrive at Brownsville in time to catch the T. A. T. flying service plane there for Dallas or Fort Worth ’ Time for a Show As the plane will put him into Dallas at 7:20 p. m. he will have time for a leisurely dinner and a show’ before boarding at 11 o’clock the • Kci” Limited1’ of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad for an overnight night ride to Tulsa. Okla. Arriving at Tulsa at 7:59 a. m , after breakfast on the train, he will have ample time to catch the Central Air Lines plane at 8:30 for Kansas City, where he will arrive at 12:05 a. m, (Continued On Page Ten) [ THE WEATHER ' ■■ i ii wm mr-—m-— For Brownsville and the Valley: Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Moderate to fresh souther ly winds on the west coast. For East Texas: Not received in time. i - RIVER FORECAST There will be no material change >! in the river during the next 24 to 48 hours. Flood Present 24-Hr 24-Hr Stage Stage Chn* Rain Eagle Pass . 16 2 6 0 0 .00 Laredo .27 -0.4 *0J .00 Rio Grandfe ..21 4.6 -0.1 .00 , Mission ......22 5.2 00 .00 San Benito ..23 8.8 -1.0 .00 Brownsville ..18 4.4 -.05 .00 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isa ! bel tomorrow, under normal me i teorological conditions: . High .5:17 a. m.; 6:00 p. m. . Low . 11:26 a. m. rvfISCELLANEOCS DATA [ Sunset today .6:4? Sunrise tomorrow .6:11