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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEaR—No. 64 NOOfl Edition BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1?29 NOOII Edition 6c A COPY
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¥ 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
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\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
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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,
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[ 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