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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 77 NOOII Edition BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1929 NOOn Edition 5c A C0PY
IN 0U1
VALLEY|
ROTARIANS, Kiwanians and
Liens of Brownsville were sched
uled Wednesday to publicly and
personally demonstrate to mem
bers of the Brownsville high school
Eagle football squad the esteem in
which they are held.
The luncheon clubs planned to
make members of the squad real
ize that members of the organiza
tion are actively and especially in
terested in their progress and that
everyone is counting upon the team
to accomplish great things this first
year in Class A competition.
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Remembering the comparative
ease with which the Eagles ran
rough shod over all opposition last
" year, Brownsville citizens, all of
them, are expecting to see the local
grldsters return from the field of
battle bringing district, bi-district
and possibly even state champion
ships.
“Yea, team, hit that liner
Brownsville to a man is behind
you.
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AGITATION of the Box bill,
which would place Mexican immi
gration to the United States on a
quota basis, along with the Euro
pean nationalities, has caused the
Mexican government to place a
higher valuation on her own work
men*^The Crow s Nest, page one
eoluiw of the Corpus Christ!
Cal!§& points out.
, The writer of this column says:
“While 42,000 Mexican workers
have immigrated to the United
8tates this year. 65.000 Mexicans
have returned to Mexico from here,
a dispatch from Mexico City statoi
that Mexican government figures
•how.
“The tide of Mexican immigra
tion to this country has been stem
med by measures undertaken by
the Mexican government demand
ing presentation of • signed con
tract before the worker is allowed
to leave Mexico.
“Agitation in this country on the
Box bill and the fact that Ameri
can immigration authorities have
been taking strong measures to de •
port Mexicans who have been
maintaining alleged unauthorized
residence in this country resulted
in a reversal in the attitude of the
Mexican government regarding
Mexican laborers coming to the
United States.
“Where formerly the Mexican
government showed no concern
•bout Mexican citizens leaving the
country, it has decided that Mex
ico has need of her citizens., and
those who contemplate leaving the
country must show where they are
going and why.”
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114-YEAR-OLD
LAD FROZEN’
.
Efforts Made to Re
I vive Him With Pul
motor of No Avail;
Funeral Today
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Sept. 18—Jesus
Perez, 14-year-old orphan boy. was
r' trocuted late Tuesday when he
>' .cied under a small cottage here
and came in contact with a wire
carrying 220 volts of current.
Efforts were made to revive the
boy by using a pulmotor but wi*h
out avail. Doctors said ne n ight
have been dead not more ilian 15
minutes when found or that In'
may have been dead an nour and
a half. Hls playmates had not seen
him for more than an hour.
The boy was found under a small
cottage near the ice plant of the
Central Power and Light Co., the
cottage being one of a number built
by the company for its employes.
He was in contact with the wire
when found.
The boy lived with three sisters
in one of the cottages, which they
had moved into while an older
brother was working for the com
pany. This older brother has not
been employed at the plant for
some time.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed Wednesday morn
ing but it was likely buna! would
be some time during the dav.
Donna Faculty Club
Elects New Officers
• Special to The Herald*
DONNA. Sept. 18—The Faculty
club of the Donna school, system
met Monday night and elected their
officers for the coming year. Tom
Moore was elected president of the
organization. The other officers
elected were Miss Bernice Clark,
vice president, and Miss Ona Ruth
Ewing, secretary and treasurer. The
new president appointed Miss Mary
T. Chumbley. chairman of the per
manent social committee for the
coming year. Meetings will be held
the last Thursday in each month.
Mr. Moore outlined briefly his poli
cies for the coming year.
The purpose of the faculty club
Is to promote social Interests be
tween the members and to bring
entertainments of an educational
nature to Donna.
STUDENTS FORM
50-PIECE BAND
Orchestra of 25 Members
Also Planned For Ray
mondville Band
(Spectial to The Herald!
RAYMONDVILLE. Sept. 18.—
Much interest is being taken in
the organization of a 50-piece band
at the local high school. The band
is to be under the direction of Wal
ter W. Grayson, one of the best
known band leaders of the Valley.
The band practice is to be made a
part of the regular curiculum of
the school and one hour a day will
be devoted to practice. Enough
students have registered to assure
the band's success. The school
board will assist in furnishing of
larger instruments by either pur
chasing or renting same for the
students.
Supplementary io the band, an
orchestra of about 25 pieces will be
formed and it is planned that the
members of the Boy Scouts will or
ganize a drum and bugle corps and
secure instructions in this class
also.
Mr*. Pantage* Await*
Defense Plea Answer
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18.——
Attorneys in the second degree
murder tria lof Mrs. Lois Pantages
today awaited Judge Carlos S.
Hardy s decision on the defense’s
plea for admission of evidenc/.
which it was promised, would show
ener, died of asphyxiation rather
than injuries received in a collision
between his motor car and that of
the theater magnate's wife.
In arguments on the plea yester
day during which the jury was ab
sent from court room, the de
fense contention that the Japanese
died of asphyxiation while under
going an operation was ntt by the
prosecution with the statement the
plea was immaterial as the opera
tion was ncv'ssary because of Role
umoto's injuries.
j HONORS GEORGE !
Associated Pres* Photo
With national and state officials
present, the Foshay building.
‘ a Washington monument with
windows in it." will be dedicated
in Minneapolis.
BECKY’S CASE
FACING JURY
Defense Plans to Close Plea
For Acquittal of Former
T. U. Co-ed
NEW BRAUNFELS. Tex.. Sept.
18—t-Pv—The case of Rebecca Brad
ley Rogers faced a jury decision
after six hours of argument by
counsel.
Otis Rogers. 27-year-old husband
of the former Texas university
student, and her chief lawyer, de
cided to make the final plea for
her acquittal, based on the conten
tion that insanity, the consequence
of heredity and disease, led her to
wrest $1000 from the Buda. Tex.,
Farmers National bank with a pis
tol in December. 1926.
The state's picture of her as a
harassed woman who became a
criminal to pay off her creditors j
was ready for painting by three
prosecutors, one of whom. J. Lee
Dittert. recently appointed assist
ant district attorney, never before
had talked to a jury. District At
torney Fred Blundell, prosecution
ace. saved himself for the last to
meet Rogers, who had two former
classmates of himself and Rebcca
as aides.
Introduction of testimony was
completed late yesterday, and the
judge charged the Jury after over- J
ruling a defense motion for in
structed acquittal.
Harlingen Accident
Victims Improving
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Sept. 18—Miss
Fay Calloway, 16-year-old school
girl of Raymondville. injured in au
automobile crash on the highway
near La Feria Saturday, was re
ported to be slightly improved Wecl
nesda ymorntng, although in a se
rious condition.
Raymond Chaney, whose arm
was badly mangled in the .same
collision, also was reported well.
Ventura Amaya, hurt In a crash
south of Sebastain Sunday nignt,
was reported to be well on the road
to recovery.
All three of these persons are in
the Valley Baptist hospital here.
Cruz Hernandez, shot three times
by a mysterious assailant In an
affray near Stuart Place Monday,
though in a serious condition, was
reported to be improving. His as
sailant escaped across the Rio
Grande, officers believe.
Middle-Aged Jury
To Try Wife Slayer
WHITE PLAINS. N. Y., Sept. 18.
—UP)—A jury of married men and
widowers, most of them middle
aged and many of them fathers of
daughters, will try Earl Francis
Peacox. for the killing of his 20
year-old wife, Dorothy.
Premeditation, proof of which is
necessary to support the first de
gree murder charge against the
21-year-old radio mechanic, was
indicated as the keynote of the
opening statement of the proee
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FIRE DAMAGE
3 MILLIONS
IN CALIFORNIA
Giant Oil Field Blaze
Burns Scores Of
Homes and Takes
One Life
VENTURA. Calif.( Sept. 18.—vP)
—The most disastrous fire in Ven
tura county’s history was surren
dering reluctantly today, leaving
25,000 acres blackened in the tri
angular mountainous oil field sec
tion bounded by Ventura, Ojal and
Santa Paula. Damage stood at be
tween $3,000,000 to $3,500,000. and
one death was laid to the fire.
Flames still raged near Santa
Paula, in Wheeler canyon. Canada
Larca, at the head of Santa Paula
canyon, and in several smaller can
yons near the E. L. Doheny mansion
at Ferndale. where the blaze start
ed two days ago from a broken high
tension wire. Property destroyed in
cluded 126 oil rigs outside the main
Ventura Avenue field, which was
not touched.
Schools Suffer
Scores of homes were burned,
along with scattered oil field equip
ment, and many automobiles aban
doned on impassable roads by flee
ing residents were lost. Five small
school buildings were consumed.
The fire indirectly caused one
death. Norman Beems, national
forest service official, riding a mo
torcycle along a smoke-choked
highway, collided with a fire truck.
He died in a hospital. Seven men
were burned, more or less seriously.
Homes Burned
Citrus groves and walnut orchards
suffered unestimated losses, as the
heat caused leaves to curl and fall
and unpicked fruit and nuts to
drop.
Two hundred and fifty persons,
chiefly oil field workers and their
families, were homeless. Houses in
the path of the flames in many in
stances were erased from the land
scape. with only ashes remaining.
At other points portions of homes
still were standing.
Eleven oil companies suffered the
most severe losses.
Republican Regulars
Win In Tariff Tilt
WASHINGTON. Sept. 18.—OP,— '
Republican regulars of the senate
stood victors today after the first
test of strength on amendments to
the pending tariff bill.
The issue was drawn on one of
the less controversial of the many
amendments prepared by members
of the finance committee, who
drafted the bill and have the right
of wey in proposing changes in its
provisions.
The amendment, requiring that
imported articles be marked in a
‘reasonably conspicuous place" ex
cept in the event such marking
would cause injury or involve ex
pense which would be "economical
ly prohibitive of importation,” was
adopted by a vote of 40 to 32.
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Soviet-China Peace
Prospects Are Dim
MOSCOW. Sept. 18.—(^—Pros
pects for peace in the controversy
between Russia and China in Man
churia semede today, after many
attempts at negotiations and ex
changes of notes, to be even less
bright than at the beginning of the
dispute over the Chinese Eastern
railway seizure.
There has been no diminution of
border raids by Chinese soldiers,
aided by white guards, along the
Siberian-Manchurian frontier.
La Guardia Foe of
Walker In N. Y. Race
NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—(^»*—
Representative Fiorello H. La
Guardia Is the republican candidate
for mayor as the result of his de
cisive defeat of William M. Ben
nett in the city primaries.
La Guardia will be the principal
opponent of Mayor James J. Wal
ker In his campaign for reelection
this fall. Mayor Walker was re
nominated by the democrats with
out opposition.
Vare Holding Lead
As Candidates Win
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 18.—UP)—
United States Senator-Elect Wil
liam S. Vare still had a tight grasp
on the leadership of the Philadel
phia republican organization today
despite efforts of the republican
league to unseat him.
Candidates slated by Vare for
nomination for county offices swept
to an overwhelming victory in yes
terday's primary election, the real
fight being for control of party
machinery.
| INTERNATIONAL AhTdERBY PLANE {
Here is the official plane in the International Air Derby from Mexico City to Kansas City, now on its
way to the Mexican capital to take its place at the head of the speed flight starting September 23.
The ship is a Lockheed-Vega owned by the Independent Oil & Gas company of Tulsa and piloted by
Tom D. Park, manager of the Independent’s aviation department. The picture also shows Mr. Park
and the itinera *y of the race.
MIL! WORKER
IS FLOGGED
Union Headquar ter* In
King's Mountain Report*
ed Dynamited
CHARLOTTE. N. C., Sept. 18.— j
(/Ft—Cleo Tessner was taken from
an office maintained in Kings
mountain by the National Textile
Workers union during last night
and flogged, it was learned today.
Tessner came to Charlotte and
reported to officials fo the inter
national labor defense. City Clerk j
C. G. Dllllng of King's Mountain
told The Associated Press in a
long distance telephone conversa
tion he understood a store building
maintained as union headquarters
had been wrecked by a dynamite
explosion last night. He was await
ing reports from the chief of police.!
Giant Railroad
Merger Sought
WASHINGTON. Sept. 18.—(/P)—A
proposal for a two billion dolla:
railroad consolidation, linking port?
and industrial centers along the
north Atlantic seaboard, was in
jected today in %' the already com- j
plex merger situation confronting
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion.
Put forward by L. F. Loree. presi
dent of the Delaware and Hudson
company, the proposal embraced 16
railroads in eastern and fiew Eng
land states and would form a com
prehensive terminal system of tre
mendous size.
—
Reports of London
Naval Meet Denied
LONDON. Sept. 18— <7Pi— High
British official quarters today
heard with surprise reports print
ed in London and New York that
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon
ald had invited Japan. France and
Italy through their respective em
bassies to participate in a five
power naval conference in London (
in January.
It was stated the report was un
true and that no decision had been
taken to issue such invitations ut
present.
Populace Flees
Erupting Volcano
FORT-DE-FRANCE. Martinique.
Sept. 18.—(/Pi—Fear of eruption of
Mount Pelee continued today
among the fleeing population of
Saint Pierre. Mome Rouge ■ and
Precheur where a rain of ashes has
accompanied renewed activity of
the volcano which in 1902 caused
the deaths of 40,000 people and de
stroyed St. Pierre, chief commercial
center of the island.
LINDBERGH AND ANNE
READY FOR LONG TRIP
WASHINGTON. Sept. 18.—(jfV
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh ar
rived at Bolling Field here this
forenoon on a flight from Roose
velt Field. New York, enrotue to
Miami, Fla.
He was accompanied by .Mrs.
Lindbergh. At Miami he will sta*t
a M-day air journey to Central and
South America.
Columnist’s Charges
Start Topeka Dry War
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TOPEKA. Sept. 18.—<7P>—'The !
storm of public discussion and of
ficial investigation aroused in this
capital of the first prohibition state 1
by a statement of Jay E. House
Philadelphia newspaper columnist,
that he was served liquor in 13 cr
14 Topeka homes visited by him
last winter and that an average of
four drinking parties to the city ,
block was maintained nightly, ap- j
peared today to have been a temp- j
est in a teapot.
In a letter to A. J. Carruth. Jr.,
managing editor of the Topeka
State Journal, read before a group i
of investigating state officials yes
terday. House, a former mayor of j
Topeka, termed his statements “fol- j
de-rol.’’
The charges which so stirred the j
city and the state were made by !
the Philadelphia writer in a let- I
ter to the Rev. J. J. McClellan, su
perintendent of the Kansas ami- j
saloon league. McClellan published
the letter, and Gov. Clyde M. Reel
ordered Atty. Gen. William A.
Smith and Shawnee county offi
cials to ascertain whether any
thing in House’s charges warranted
criminal prosecution.
Four of six witnesses questioned
denied there was any liquor, to
their knowledge, at social functions
which House attended here last
winter. The fifth witness was non
committal. and the sixth said there
was some liquor. All denied any
liquor was served by the hosts. The
witnesses included hosts and guests
at some of the functions at which
House was entertained.
After listening to their contra
dictions of the Philadelphian's ac
count of his entertainment here
and hearing House's own letter
read. Smith indicated th cinvesti
gation would be dropped.
Carruth termed House “a great
big bluffer."
DONNA SENIORS ELECT
PRESTON AUSTIN HEAD
(Special to The Herald)
DONNA, Sept. 18.—The senior
class of the Donna high school has
held its election of officers for the
year. Preston Austin was elected
president. The other officers de
cided upon were Miss Lucille Guin.
vice president; Miss Mildred Young,
secretary, and Miss Schlensig,
treasurer.
Miss Irene Henderson, head of
the department of English, was
chosen to be their sponsor. The
senior class has a membership of
33.
Need of Train In
Argentine Wheat Aid
CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—(fp)—Re
ported need of more rain in Argen
tina. together with combined un
favorable crop advices from Aus
tralia, tended to make wheat prices
here average higher early today.
Opening unchanged to 1-2 cent
higher. Chicago wheat afterward
reacted somewhat at times. With
frost reports numerous, com and
oats showed relative firmness, corn
starting at 3-8c to 7-8c advance,
but subsequently sagging. Pro
visions likewise scored mins.
FLAMES MENACE
isolatedtown;
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Fires Burn Communication
Lines, Halt Traffic
To Vancouver
PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept. 18.—<7Pv—
Stevenson, town of 800 inhabitants
30 miles northeast of here on the
Washington bank of the Columbia
river, was the center of forest fire
activity in the Pacific northwest
today.
Defeated on two other fronts, at
Yacotl in Washington and Estacada
in Oregon, 30 miles north and 35
miles southeast of this city, re-.
spectively. the sweeping red menace
was advancing on Sevenson from
the north, east and west.
Stevenson was virtually isolated,
fires having burned out telephone
and telegraph lines and halted traf
fic over the north bank highway
between that city and Vancouver, j
About 125 volunteer fighters were
able to proceed to Stevenson by way
of the Bridge of the Gods from
Hood River. Oregon.
Scores of fires were report*'!
burning in the vicinity of Steven
son. Property loss in the vicinity i
of Stevenson was said to approxi-1
mate $400,000. not including the de- ;
struction of standing timber.
Yacolt. seriously threatened Mon
day night when fires swept per
ilously close to the outskirts of the |
town, was declared out of dangei,,
but a train of flat cars was kept
handy to move the population
should an emergency arise.
Estacada. also seriously endan
gered Monday when the La Dee fire j
in the Mount Hood national forest’:
broke away from two hundred!
fighters after sweeping 20,000 acres.
and destroying at least ten farm
homes in the La Barre community,
had settled down to its normal bus
iness routine today.
FACULTY ENTERTAINED
BY MISSION P.-T. A.
i Special to The Herald)
MISSION, Sept. 18.—A reception
was held here for the teachers this
week, sponsored by the local Par
ent-Teacher association. Mrs. C.
D. Eppright presided. The program
consisted of readings, and vocal and
Instrumental solos. The principal
addresses were made by the Rev.
Claude D. Peake. Chamber of Com
merce Secretary A. B. Ewing, Ty
Cobb and Superintendent S. L.
Hardin. The high school band
played.
LAWYERS GATHER AS
CIVIL DOCKET SET
Lawyers from all parts of the
Valley gathered in the civil district
court Tuesday for the setting of the
docket. A large number of the
cases were set in the all-day ses
sion .
Judge A. M. Kent is on the
bench.
NOTED J!
TO STAY HERE
MONDAYNIGHT
City Definitely Select
ed A* Refuel Point
In International Air
Derby
Designation of Brownsville as an
overnight stop for the Mexico City
Kansas City air derby September
23 became a certainty Tuesday as
preparations for senicing the
planes hare was completed by 8.
B. Myers, traffic manager of the
Independent Oil and Gas company,
which is furnishing fuel and oil
for the plants at all points along
the route.
The itinerary which is being laid
out shows stops at Mexico City,
Tampico, Brownsville. San Antonio,
Dallas, We* oka. Muskogee and
Tulsa, Okla.. Joplin, Springfield
and Kansas City. Mo.
Charles H. Hopkins, director of
public relations of the Independent
Oil and Gas company, who arrived
here Monday in the official plane
which is to pace the race and carry
the official observer, with Myers,
took off Wednesday morning for
Tampico. Arrangements for serv
icing are to be made there, and
in Mexico City, where the group
will remain till the beginning of
the race. Refueling arrangements
have already been made at all
northern points.
Noted Fliers Enter
Announcements of entries In the
race have not been made, but Hop
kins stated unofficially that Earl
Rowland, winner of class A event
in the transcontnental derby in 1928
has already signed up, as has Mrs.
Florence Barnes, well known wom
an flier, who is to be furnished
with a special ship by the Travel
air company. Among the tentative
entries are “Speed ’ Wells, first in
Scatle-to-Cleveland derby this
year; Capt. Frank Hawks, holder of
the transcontinental non-stop rec
ord, and Art Goebel, winner of
the Dole prize. It is understood
that the Lockheed Vega plane
which took first place in the class
C transcontinental derby in 1928 is
also to be entered though the regu
lar pilot will be unable to compete.
The race is sponsored by the air
corps reserve officers association
as a feature of the air circus and
pilots' reunion in Kansas City Sep
tember 21 to 29. Fliers are to take
off from Mexico City September
23. stopping at Tampico en route
to Brownsville. t
Parks here Before
Racers are expected to pass
through here on their way south
the latter part of the week.
The plane in which the Inde
pendent party are making the trip
is a Lockheed Vega, holder of first
place in the Des Moines, Memphis
and Tulsa speed tests this year. It
is piloted by Tom D. Parks, who
visited Brownsville at the opening
of the airport as pilot of the plane
in which the mayor of Tulsa and
a party from that city made the
trip.
Mr. Hopkins has been advised by
wire from the International derby
headquarters at Kansas City that
seven planes have definitely signed
up for the race, and that seven
other planes are tentative, pend
ing their formal entry.
The Bell service company of
Brownsville will be the local rep
resentative of the Independent Oil
and Gas company for refueling the
planes.
j THE WEATHER j
For Brownsville and the Valley t
Cloudy to partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday, probably with local
showers tonight; somewhat cooler
tonight. Moderate northerly winds
on the west coast.
For East Texas: Generally fair
tonight and Thursday, except part
ly cloudy to unsettled In Lower Rio
Grande Valley. Light to moderate
northerly to easterly winds on the
coast.
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RIVER FORECAST
There will probably be no mate
rial change in the river during the
next 24 to 48 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Chng. Rain
Eagle Pass .. 16 4.0 -2.0 .00
Laredo . 27 3.3 -04 .00
Rio Grande . 21 11.0 -0.7 .01
Mission. 22 11.5 0.0 .00
San Benito . 23 17 8 -4.8 -56
Brownsville .18 113 +5.8 .13
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
bel tomorrow’, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High .4.06 a. m.; 3:49 p. m.
Low.9:51 a. pi.; 9:55 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today...
Sunrise tomorrow .