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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 82 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1929 ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
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V ALLEY
HERE IS the “Greater Valley
Edition” of the Brownsville Herald.
A total of 112 pages of proof that
this is one of the most rapidly de
veloping sections of the United
States and destined to become the
leading resort center of the nation.
It has been about two years since
The Herald last surveyed and sum
med up Valley growth in a special
edltoin and some startling things
have taken place in that two years.
For instance, in November. 1927,
when the last previous special edi
tion was published, there were 150
miles of paved roads in the Valley.
Now there are more than 525
miles of paved roads and there are
more miles of paved streets inside
city limits than there were paved
streets and highways in 1927.
• • •
In November. 1927, a concreted
Irrigation canal was all but un
known. It now' is estimated that
50 per cent of all canals will be
concreted within two years and
there are many miles of such
canals in use at present.
• • •
THEN THERE IS the story of
enormous aviation, development,
bringing Brownsville and the Valley
Into touch with all the United
E*'jtes and Central America by
reifclarly operated air mail and pas
t uiger routes.
This edition tells a thrilling story
of the growth of this little strip of
south Texas, which embraces Cam
eron, Hidalgc-, Willacy and Starr
counties.
It will be impossible to read it all
today. Save it for future reference
It will prove a valuable source of
authentic information in the Valley
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BROWNSVILLE and the Valley
welcomes the second annual aero
cade of the Fort Worth Association
of Commerce.
We hope every member of this
group of trail-blazers have enjoyed
every minute of their visit and that
they get equal enjoyment out of
all their stops.
The aerocade is doing a real ser
vice for aviation and for the United
States. As people become air mind
ed and begin to use this newest
mode of transportation the benefits
will be increasingly apparent.
Air mail speeds business; aerial
transportation brings nations closer
together and serves to strengthen
ties of understanding and fnend
ehip.
Brownsville welcomes the aero
cade as a group of men and women
who are speeding universal accept
ance of aviation as a reality.
• • •
MANUFACTURERS RECORD
failed to give the Valley due con
sideration as a citrus fruit and
vegetable growing section in an
article recently.
R. C. Morris of the Frontier Lum
ber Co. here disliked to see the
Valley slighted. Wrote to the editor
and got action.
First the letter was published in
Manufacturers Record and then the
editor asked Mr. Morra for a 600
word story of the Valley and Its
citrus culture. He got the story
and its publication is awaited.
But in the original letter readers
of that publication were given some
Important information regarding
the Valley.
They were told that more than
25.000 cars of fruit and vegetables
were shipped from this section dur
ing the past season; that the Val
ley had ginned more than 100.000
bales of cotton worth over $11,000,
000; and that the Valley produced
more fruit and vegetables than any
similar area in the world.
• • •
Letters of this nature are of more
value than the mere publicity gain
ed for the Valley.
Editors are set right and are
themselves educated.
And this is no slur. Editors—as
a rule—are pretty well informed
persons, and the editor of Manufac
turers Record is exceptional so.
But >his exchange of letters has
drawn his attention to the Valley
Jjf m the future the Valley will
recVive proper consideration at his
hands.
• • •
V. N. LOTT, reformed newspaper
man and at present manager of the
International bridge at Roma, has
Just returned from a vacation dur
ing which he attended the reunion
of Spanish American war veterans
In Denver.
«I enjoyed my trip around the
western loop, but enjoyed the reun
ion of my old comrades more than
anything else in the word," he
wrote.
He writes he was grieved to find
how little attention was paid to
the reunion by Texas papers—says
eastern and western papers carried
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America’s Air Aces! They’re Here Today and Monday
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ART GOEBEL
TED A. WELLS
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MRS. FLORENCE L. BARNES
MARGARET PERRY
FRANK HAWKS
DALE (RED) JACKSON
NATION’S ACES
OF THE AIR TO
BE HERE MONDAY
International Derby Fliers to Rest in Browns
ville on First Night of Race to Kansas City
Air Circus.
With customs entanglements which delayed Art Goebel Saturday
morning smoothed out by otlce from the Mexican government to Mata
moros officials that a blanket permit for derby planes entering through
the Brownsville airport had been granted, everything was in readiness
here for the rapid clearance of ships going south to Mexico City for the
PRISON SITE
NOT SELECTED
Board Meeting At Temple
Endorses System But De
fers Main Issue
TEMPLE, Tex., Sept. 21.—(/P>)—
After endorsing a centralized prison
system supplemented by at least
some of the present farms and
equipped for industrial as well as
agricultural production, the Texas
state prison centralization commis
sion passed over the Important
question of a location for the new
prison here today. The commission
will meet in Austin Oct. 8 for the
purpose of agreeing on a site which
it will recommend to the legisla
ture for the location of the central
ized prison.
A majority of the members of the
commission favored adoption of a
sub-committee report recommend
ing that the new prison be located
In the vicinity of Austin, but Sen
ator Nat Patton of Crockett. Judge
H. N. Graves of Georgetown. Rep
resentative A. H. King of Throck
morton and Representative E. T.
Murphy of Livingston held out for
locating the new structure on prop
erty now owned by the state for
prison purposes.
Possible Split
Madisonville presented a request
that the new central prison be lo
caed There and Huntsville urged
that the Wynne prison farm be
used as a site for the new improve
ments.
Representative King urged that i
a vote be postponed because there
was “a possibility of a split” if a |
vote had been taken today.
The plan adopted was outlined as
follows:
A prison system Including agri
cultural and industrial work for the
prisoners, production to be used by
the state;
The major farming and stock
raising activities and processing of
farm products as far as possible to
be confined to the part of the pres
ently owned state land to be de
. termtned later;
Both on Unit Plan
The centralized prison plant to
be built on the unit plan, part cell
block and part dormitories, along
the lines suggested by Dr. P. A.
Giesecke of Texas A. and M. and
that prison labor be used as far
as possible in its construction,
i In this connection the report
pointed out that Texas is large and
w 1 eventually need prisons in other
sections and that for the future a
| central plant should be in the cen
I ter of the state.
The final recommendation was
, that one million dollars be appro
' priated to start construction of a
centralized plant and that $500,000
be appropriated annually thereafter
for carrying out this program until
completed, or until the appropria
tion was no longer needed.
.beginning of the international air
race on Monday.
Refueling arrangements were
completed here the early part of the
week by representatives of the In
dependent OH and Gas company,
who went on to Tampico and Mex
ico City Thursday to make prepar
ations for servicing of planes at
those points. Airport officials have
promised their co-operation during
the race.
Contestants In the race are ex
pected to pass through here Sunday
morning, so as to reach the start
ing point early enough to allow
grooming of planes before the be
ginning of the contest.
Goebel Here First
Ships are scheduled to take off
from Mexico City c.t 11 a. m. Mon
day, reaching Tampico at 1:15, and
proceeding to ErownsA’le at 2:15.
They should arrive heer at 6 p. m.
and will remain overnight, head
ing northward for the next stop
at San Antonio at 9 a. m. Tuesday.
Art Goebel, first of the racers
to reach here, took off for Mexico
City early Saturday morning. He
is a nationally known race flier,
having won the Dole prize in the
transpacific race. He Is using the
same ship in which he competed
at the Cleveland races, r. Travelair
huU with a 300 horsepower Wright
motor.
Arriving here before notice to
pass race planes •. ithout bonding
and other formalities. Goebel was
delayed a short time clearing hts
ship through the Mexican customs.
FLIERS CONVERGING
ON MEXICO CITY
KANSAS CITY. Sept. 21.—(AV
Kansas City today became the
Mecca for aeronautical enthusiasts
of the country with the beginning
of a nine-day international air
circus. which was ushered in by
the take-off of seven entrants in a
two-day 500-mile derby.
A more pretentious derby, from
Mexico City to Kansas City, begin
ning Monday, is planned as the fea
ture of the circus Reports here
late today indicated Art Goebel.
California-Hawali flier, and other
entrants, had been allowed entrance
to Mexico and were converging on
Mexico City. Goebel previously
was reported held up on the bor
der by immigration officials.
Due to several last minute
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Facts About the Valley Shown in Brownsville Herald Special
$120,260,887 assessed valuations
of four Valley counties.
$290,000,000 estimated real
value. •
$8941,352 gain for year in as
sessed valuations.
• • •
200.000 estimated population of
four Valley counties.
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945,900 acres irrigable land in
the Valley.
520.000 acres under irrigation in
1929.
426.000 acres still available for
irrigation.
New irrigation project* include
approximately 270,000 acres.
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Thirteen irrigation systems In
Valley now operating; many
smaller systems.
Ten irrigation districts organ
ised in past two years, nine of
which have construction work un- .
der way.
$540,000 acres reached by pres
ent canal systems.
Willacy County District No. 1,
on which work is now under way,
financed by a $7,500,000 bond is
sue, will be the largest Irrigation
district in the world, comprising
130,000 acres.
Over 2,500 miles of canals in
the various Valley systems.
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Concreting of canals financed
in all new districts and several of
the old districts.
Within two years over 50 per
cent of the Valley's canals are
expected to be concreted.
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Over 84,000 acres planted to
citrus fruit.
5,118,981 trees in orchards, in
cluding 3,732,749 grapefruit, !,•
320,614 oranges and 75,618 other
citrus.
Over 3.500,000 trees will be In
bearing by 1931.
20.000 cars estimated production
within three years.
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106.000 bales of cotton produced
in 1929.
95.000 bales produced in 1928.
1930 cotton acreage expected to
be increased approximately 25
per cent by clearing of additional
lands in non-irrigated sections.
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At left is Art Goebel, of trans-Pacific fame, who stopped here Friday night on his way:
to Mexico City to enter the International derby, which stops overnight in Brownsville
Monday. Second is Ted Wells, who copped first place in Portland to Cleveland derby
in the national air races. He also is in the derby. Next in the group is Mrs. Florence L.
Barnes, San Marino, California, another derby entrant, who was well up among the
leaders in the first woman’s air derby from Los Angeles to Cleveland.
Next to Mrs. Barnes is Margaret Perry of Los Angeles, who arrived Saturday after
noon with the Fort Worth Aerocade. She also was with the Los Angeles-Cleveland der
by until forced out at Fort Worth by illness. Next is Capt. Frank Hawks, holder of
the New York-Los Angeles non-stop speed record, aerocade flight commander, and at
the right end is Dale (Red) Jackson, whose record of 420 continuous hours in the air
in the St. Louis Robin broke all marks. He is due here with the international derby.
JESTER FACES
EARLY TRIAL
Swindling Charge Among
Cases on Remaining
Criminal Docket
The criminal district court will
begin work on the most important
part of its docket Monday morn
ing. Seven murder and assault to
murder cases still confront the
court.
The case expected to be followed
most closely is that of S. M. Jester,
former peace officer, charged with
swindling. His case is scheduled to
go to trial Tuesday Jester is well
known in the county, having run
for sheriff, served as county crim
inal investigator until the commis
sioners* court abolished the post,
and as a deputy sheriff up until the
Indictment was returned against
him.
The indictment charges Jester
with swindling in connection with
taking money from a Brownsville
butcher to pay for allegedly stolen
cattle. The butcher paid in two
checks aggregating $105. according
to testimony in the first prelimi
nary hearing. It was further
brought out on the stand that the
checks were cashed.
Raphael Cowan and L. Raphael
Cowan are scheduled to be tried
Wednesday on charges growing out
of a deal with a Matamoros land
owner.
Santiago Casares. confessed slay
er of Bob Brown and Frank Stan
ner. deputy constables, will be
brought before the court Oct. 1. ac
cording to the setting of the docket.
Thp following cases are still to
be t ried:
Francisco Rivera, assault to mur
der Zeferino Ruiz; Teofilo Sauceda.
assault to murder Nestor Pena and
Benita Pena: Will Snines. assault to
murder Tom Cobb: Santiago Lon
goria. assault to Murder: Frederiro
Leal, murder of Jose Moreno: Sal
vador Castro, assault to murder
Manuel Ortiz and Maria Chapa
Aguilar and Pedro Garza, murder
of Tlburcio Galvan.
HARLINGEN NEGRO
HELD FOR THEFT
HARLINGEN. Sept. 21—Joe
King, a negro, is being held by po
lic3 heer following his arrest on
charges of theft. He was arrested
for possessing a fountain pen which
a woman said he stole. Other ar
ticles alleged to have been stolen
were found.
RECORD PRODUCEi
CROP IN VALLEY
SEEN FOR ’29-30
Shippers Estimate Acreage Increase to be 20%;
30,000 Carloads of Fruits and Vegetables Set
As New Mark for Market.
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Sept. 21—The beet produce year In the history of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley, with i total acreage larger than that last year,
and with 30.000 carloads or more of fruits and vegetables expected to
move, is predicted by local shippers, and those in other parts of the Valley.
The only possible drawbacks, visioned by some, are the possibility of
bad weather, and a more acute *
shortage of labor, due to deporta
tions.
The Valley shipped approximate
ly 25,000 carloads of fruits and veg
etables last year. Of the expected
increase this year, from 1,500 to 2.
000 carloads probably will be citrus
fruit, and the remainder will be
of vegetables.
Davis Wade, of the firm of Wade
and Newton, which operates almost
30 produce houses in the Valley,
stated that the record crop of the
Valley’s history is in prospect,
judging from the weather, the pre
parations that have been made, the
financial condition of the farmers,
and the condition of crops in other
sections.
Other produce men who were
questioned r.greed with him. al
though one or two of them pointed
out some drawbacks in the way of
labor, especially.
Possible Labor Shortage
"Everything seems to indicate a
good year for the Valley.” Mr. Wad?
said. "It is true that there might
be some trouble on account of a
shoratge of labor, but the farmers
will have to prepare for that now,
and be ready to meet the emergen
cies. I think in most cases the
farmers, especially the small farm
ers. will do most of their own work, i
and will get the crop out econom
ically and satisfactorily.”
Mr. Wade said that he expected
what reduction there is would be
in the large farms, as the labor
shortage would ie felt more keenly
there. "But the small farmer is
the backbone of our vegetable deal,
anyway, and he is going to keep
his laborers because he will em
ploy them the year around.” he de
clared. "Consequently he is going
to get out his crop, and he will
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FOSHEE TERM
Levelland Jury Lenient With
Husband Who Shot
Home Wrecker
LEVELLAND. Tex.. Sept. 21.—
—A Jury late today convicted B. A.
Foshee of the murder of Elmer
Wright and assessed a three-year
suspended sentence.
Foshee pleaded that he killed
Wright. 23-year-old farmhand from
Oklahoma, because of the latter's
alleged intimacies with Mrs. Foshee.
The wife corroborated the story of
her relations with the victim.
Foshee made a short speech
thanking the jury. His wife was
not in the corurtroom. It was
Hockley county’s first murder trial.
The jurors deliberated four hours.
Flier# in Accident
Case Leaving Texas
SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. Sept. 21.—
OF)—Miss Elinor Smith, holder ot
the endurance record for women
flyers, prepared to leave late to
night for New York, while Bert
White, parachute expert, was to
leave for Wichita, Kans.. to answer
charges of fourth degree man
slaughter there Monday. The
charges grew out of the fatal dive
of Miss Helen Williams, 18. at
Wichita last Saturday from a plane
which Miss Smith was piloting.
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MONTERREY IS
FLIERS’ GOAL
FOR LUNCHEON
Near Accidents Mark
Landing At Airport
After Rains Hold
Planes Back
The second annual aero
cade of the Fort Worth As
sociation of Commerce, con
sisting of 18 planes and ap
proximately 70 men and
women was scheduled to be
come an international affair
early Sunday, when, after a
short visit to McAllen, the
party was to cross the border
and fly to Monterrey, industrial
capital of Mexico, for a luncheon
stop.
The flyers, after turning back to
Corpus Christi once on account of
bad weatjifr and finally beating
their way through a severe rain
storm, landed at the international
airport here late Saturday after
noon without mishap, although sev
eral incidents bordered on tragedy.
Although 19 planes left Corpus
Christi and only 18 arrived in
Brownsville, no anxiety was felt by
those in charge of the aerocade as
it was believed the ship had return
ed to Houston instead of coming on
to Brownsville.
Dan Cupid Aboard
Those In the aerocade were thrill
ed by a rumor that Dan Cupid was
a passenger in one of the planes
and that his presence would result
in a wedding at Monterrey Sunday.
The flying visitors were guests of
the chamber of commerce at a din
ner at the Matamoros Cafe In
Matamoros Saturday night. .
They were to leave here at 7:30
a. m. for McAllen. After a brief
pause there the aerocade will con
tinue to Monterrey, spend several
hours and fly to Laredo late in the
: afternoon, remaining there Sunday
! night.
The aerocade left Corpus Christi
i enroute to Brownsville about 2 p. m.
Saturday, but all of the ships ex
cept three returned to the port
there after running into a heavy
rain several miles out.
Near Accident*
The other three planes followed
the Texas Air Transport airmail
plane into the port here and landed
shortly after 3:30 p. m.
After securing a weather report
from Brownsville, the aerocade
made a second start and came
through, the last ship landing a
few minutes after 6:30 p. m. Sev
eral thousand Brownsville and Val
ley people were on hand to see
them arrive.
Intermittent rains during the past
week and a heavy rain Saturday
morning had made the local field
muddy and this was the cause of
two or three near accidents. One
plane ran off the end of the runway
and almost nosed over In the soft
mud. Other planes after landing
on the runways went Into the field
to turn around and almost became
i mired.
A Ryan monoplane piloted by M.
M. Kay came in with the engine
missing badly as a result of the
distributor haring been wet while
flying through the heavy rain.
About 75 miles of the trip down
Padre island was made with the
motor in this condition.
Dinner in Matamoroe
The filers were met at the air
port by members of the chamber
of commerce aviation committee
and other citizens with automobiles
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Mr. Agent. Dr. of Insurance.
Rio Grande Valley Trust Co.—adv.
2 WOMEN ON
SHIP FEARED
FORCED DOWN
Craft Unheard From
Since it Left Corpu*
Christi At 2 P. M.
Saturday.
With one plane of the Fori
Worth Association of Com
merce aerocade, in which'
three men and two women
were riding, missing, plans
were completed in the early
hours of Sunday morning
for two planes to turn back
from here and scour the
country between Brownsville
and Corpus Christi in search
for them.
Arrangements also had been
made for two Texas Air Transport
planes to leave San Antonio at
dawn and join In the search.
One of the planes leaving here
will be piloted by Bill Ponder and
the other by Fred Heyer, both fly
ing ships in the * aerocade. The
other 16 shipa will continue the
regular route of the aerocade going
to McAllen and Monterrey and
Laredo.
One of the searching planes leav
ing here will follow the Missouri
Pacific railroad tracks to Corpus
Christi and the other will fly up
the coast, as both routes were used
by planes in the aerocade.
The ship was one cf four which
declined to turn back to Corpus
Christi this morning when the
other 15 did so because of rains.
The three other planes which
braved the elements landed here
safely.
Local airport officials believed
that the plane must have been
forced down since no word had
heard from It. They considered
that the craft’s occupants would be
mindful of the alarm their falure
to appear would occasion and would
have advised had they alighted
safely and In good order.
One of the first suppositions was
that the ship might have come down
at Houston but telephone calls to
airports there failed to disclose it.
The pilot Is Bert Pidcoke and
the passengers Frost Lynn, chair
man of service for the Texas com
pany, which owns the plan.?; Jack
Hott, manager of the Fort Worth
Association of Commerce; Mrs. Pid
coke, wife of the pilot, and her
sister.
Twenty planes originally were In
the aerocade but one aid not take
off from Corpus Christi because of
motor trouble. Eighteen had ar
rived here early tonight in good
order.
Oalveston, to which it had been
thought barely possible that the
plane had turned, reported it had
not been seen there.
Hamer Comes Here
From Border Case
BORDER. Sept. 21<jn—Officer*
investigating the assassination of
District Attorney John A. Holmea
here a week ago Friday, eliminat
ed two possible clue; today, but
apparently made little progress to
ward the arrest of the gunman.
No explanation of Capt. Franjc
Hamer’s sudden trip to Austin was
given, although Calhoun ventured
the apinlon that the ranger chief
had gone home for clean clothing.
Hamer, It was said, has been sub
poenaed to appear in a case in
Brownsville Monday.
i THE WEATHER
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East Texas: Generally fair Sun
day. except probably local showers
near west cost; Monday partly
cloudy. Moderate northeast to
southeast winds on the coast.
I ORGANIST TO
ENTERTAIN AT
SCHOOL’ HERE
Paul Kennard, well known pipe
organ artist of Brownsville, will
entertain women attending the
Herald cooking school from 2 p.
m. to 3:30 each day preceding
the opening of the classes with
popular and classical solos.
Kennard has been organist at
the Capitol theater, and broad
cast* regularly over KWWO.
The musical diversion will be an
added attraction, and It la hoped
will be a pleasant diversion to
those coming early to secure the
choice seat* at the cooking
clasaca.