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* - - - — ■■ ■ — —— " ■'■■■ — ■■■ ■ ■■■ '■■■”■ - 11 — - ■ — ■ ■—- — ' — — — m Wat HroumsinUe Herald Isrlsj THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASE D WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(flP) _ Thirty-eighth year—No. 83 Brownsville, texas, Monday, September 23,1929 twelve pages today 5c a copy ■ — - ■ - - — -■ . " - - —^=!=====S " ■" ==S=====r=====!—ILIl, ■ WITH A BLANKET of snow just about due, sections north of the Valley are not bothering much about the appearance of weed growing vacant lots and roadsides. Fields are mostly in an uncared for state—except where winter oats and wheat are being planted. But in the Valley it is different. It is spring cleaning time right | now. The Valley soon will be at its j very prettiest. And many towns already have started clean-up campaigns in an ticipation of the thousands of visi tors who soon will be heading this way. Those towns which have not al ready done this might do so with honor and profit to their citizens. • • • With the citrus fruit Just turning a golden yellow on the trees; with winter vegetable crops beginning to spread a carpet of green over the fields; with the cotton stalks of the already gathered crop being cleaned up and destroyed, is it any wonder visitors to this land of sun-1 shine fall in love with it? With the roses in bloom; with summer posies of all kinds still pretty and with the Christmas-time crop of poinsettias just around the comer, is it any wonder the people who soon will be arriving from the frozen north catch a vision of spending the remainder of their lives in the Valley? It Is perfectly natural that desire Is bom. • • • Citizens of Valley towns, of the rural communities, officials of the ^bwns and of the counties can do nrabh to assist in making our visi tors like the Valley. A campaign of yard cleaning, street and alley sanitation, vacant lot weed cutting and general polish ing is needed In the towns. In the country cleaned fields and pretty yards will help. County officials might get some thing done about weeds on some of the roads. m m • "DON'T GET THE IDEA there will be no competition for grape fruit sales in Southern states.” This is a warning to the Valley; from Geo. F. Walker, still up in I Port Stanley, Ont., Canada, but | turning his eyes toward the Valley. "The ducks and geese are going south, so we must follow suit.” is the way he puts it. He and Mrs. Walker expect to start about Oct. 7. • • • Mr. Walker writes: "The growers should not believe that it will be all plain sailing for J our citrus fruit in the southern states because Florida is out of the market. California grapefruit, al though much inferior to ours, has A big hold in the East, chiefly be | cause of their excellent pack and good marketing methods and be cause they supply fruit all the year "Porto Rico and the Isle of Pines should also be back on the market this season. Normally, I see large quantities of it up here, but it was absent this year because of the hurricane damage last year. "Always, however, we can get California grapefruit and orange? in even the smallest towns. "So Valley growers and packers must not be lured into letting poor, immature or bad 7 packed or graded fruit onto the market, or they will suffer a penalty much greater than the offense.’* • • • THE HERALD is a traveling library in Port Stanley. | "The Herald goes farther up here than it does in Brownsville," Mr. Walker writes. You see. Jas. C. Bowie and wife and niece of San Benito are living in a cottage just across the street from us and they get The Herald as soon as we have read it. Then they pass it along tc W. G. Mathes and wife of San Benito who have a cottage a few houses farther along In that way seven of us enjoy it for the price of one subscription (Circulation manager please note —Editor.) "And we are always waiting for it, too. Sunday's paper arrived last night aftd they already have half of it across the street, while Mrs Walker is reading the other half.” • • • THE fort worth AEROCADE fjAfcbeen to Brownsville and is gone. J&iny weather, with clouds and tow visibility, caused a near tragedy When one of the planes overshot the mark and was forced down in Mex I lco. Otherwise it was a success and aviation has received an impetus Itaat will be felt in Brownsville. George White, in charge of trans portation. and Charles Burton. Chairman of the aviation committee of the chamber of commerce, had a big job on their hands but handled it in tip top shape. Both were tired out when the last plane left the field Sunday afternoon, but happy at the opportunity for service. Wm. S. West, as manager of ceremonies at the banquet, and '£• many other Brownsville citizens contributed to the pleasure of the yidton. --'-——I------ "" I I -I. -. II 4 _ I NEW BOARD TO ORGANIZE, SAY TWO OFFICIALS Galbraith Expresses Belief Action* of Commission Legal; Others Disagree “The chamber of commerce board of directors will be reorganized Tuesday night to include the new members appointed by the city com missoin at a meeting Friday after noon. so far as we know and if they want to attack legality of the action let them take it to court." That was the statement of Com missioner J. G. Starck Monday after noon fellowing receipt of a telegram earlier in the day from Mayor A. B. Cole pointing out that the charter requires three affirmative votes to pass a resolution. Commissioner Starck said this position was con curred in by Commissioner J. A. Cobolinl. who voted for the change in the board of directors. Cole was in New Orleans en route to Cuba for a three weeks' vacation. H. B. Galbraith, city attorney, ex pressed the opinion that the Friday action of the commission was en tirely legal and would be upheld in the courts. “Passing of a resolution or an ordinance is merely routine business and the charter plainly states that three members of the commission constitutes a quorum.” He said the same question has been brought up before on matters of Importance and that action of three members of the commission always has been considered legal. He said the language of Art. 5, Sec. 14 appeared to him to be ambiguous. Other attorneys expressed the opinion that the charter requires three affirmative votes to pass a resolution or ordinance and that any action taken without three affirma tive votes is illegal. Members of the board who the action of the commission Friday afternoon sought to remove said they would take no steps to pre vent the new board going into of fice. At the Fridav afternoon meeting of the commission, where the new board was named, only three mem bers were n re sent and one of these voted against naming the new board. The resolution was introduced by Commissioner J. G. Starck and was seconded by Commissioner J. A. Cobolinl. Commissioner A. C. Hipp. mayor pro tem in the ab sence of Mayor Cole, voted against the resolution. _ Cole Says “Hlegal" Authority for Cole's statement that the action was illegal is con tained in Art. 5. Sec. 14 of the amended charter of the city of Brownsville. This section reads: “Legisletive procedure: A major ity of all the members elected on the commission shall constitute a quorum to do business, and the af firmative vote of a malority of all five commissioners shall be neces sary to adopt any ordinance or res olution. The vote upon the passage of all ordinances and resolutions shall be taken bv “Yea” and • Nay and entered upon the Journal. Ev ery ordinance or resolution passed bv the commission shall be signed by the mayor and the person •ff" ing as city clerk or secretary within two days and by him recorded. Board Members The new board had been named to take office at a meeting Tues ^Members of the present board directors which the resolution of the commission sought to oust were Z A. Rosenthal. A. H. Fernandez. Joe Celaya. W. B. Clint. R. B. Crea eer J. S. Ford. Frank Lopez, A. W. RM»d and R. B. Rentfro. t Members of the present board re tained are Jesse Dennett A. D. Dickinson. Jr.. W. B Sellers. *. J. Tucker. Milton West and H. L. Yates. _ _ Proposed new members are R. C. Morris!sam Perl. W AJtaiaA. A. Ashheim. C. P. Barreda. Harry Nunn. E. de la Gara B. L. Kow alski and W. R. Kiekel. I- 1 ; SOLD OUT ! The Brownsville Herald Valley Development Edition . Orders for the Valley De velopment Edition con tinue to arrive. We are sorry but it is impossible to fill any more orders. — WEDDING BELLS RING FOR FLORENCE AND JOHN I • rrr kv. , mm ■ < n—m mm n \ ■ «■»' • .3 — JOHN COOLIDGE FLORENCE TRUMBULL Here they are! The most interesting marriage in the world today is that of John Coolidge, son of the ex president, and Miss Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut’s governor. They will live "simply." they say, in a $78-a-month apartment, until John, through his own industriousness, works his way to fame and fortune. I I SHEARER, WAKEMAN SAYS Shipbuilder Declare* His Role Only to Report Geneva Parley WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 —(JPh~ S. W. Wakeman, vice president of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding cor poration, testified before a senate investigating committee today he had engaged William B. Shearer to attend the 1927 Geneva naval conference for the "purpose of re porting events that happened there.” Wakeman was the first witness today as the committee resumed its inquiry into activities of Shearer, whose suit in New York for ap proximately $300,000, which he alleges is due him for services ren dered the shipbuilders, prompted the investigation. Wakeman testified the three American shipbuilding concerns had employed Shearer for $7,500 to come to Washington and “write articles and make speeches to sup plement the merchant marine pro gram to the 'United States ship ping board.” That was in Decem ber, 1926. Asked why Shearer was engaged to go to Geneva, Wakeman replied: "For the purpose of reporting events there.” Linton L. Bardo, president of the New York Shipbuilding company: F. P. Palen, vice president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company, and Henry C. Hunter, counsel of the Council of American Shipbuilders, attended the conference which sent Shearer abroad. Continuing. Wakeman said the agreement with Shearer was only verbal. He said his company paid Shearer in cash through Mr. Hunter. He added there was no record on the books of his company showing any payments to Shearer. "I hoped that the powers would ! make some agreement whereby the question of this country being at war would be settled once and for all. I wasn't interested in the out come except as it would affect some work our company was carry ing on.” The witness in reply to questions about Shearer's $7,500 "propa ganda'* job in Washington in 1926 I described the latter's duties as “in fluencing public opinion.” STEAMER GROUNDS NORFOLK. Va.. Sept. 23.—GP)— An unidentified steamer was re ported aground early today at Kill Devil Hill, about 70 miles south of Virginia Beach in a northeast gale, League Asks Moody to Study Hidalgo Record McALLEN. Texas, Sept. 23.—Wy—A telegram has been sent to Gov ernor Dan Moody from nine members of the executive committee of the Hidalgo County Good Government league asking that he appoint an at torney general for an immediate investigation of the records of that county to ascertain if there has been a misuse of state funds. The telegram was signed by* Grade Calloway and Dewey Printy of Edinburg, Y. P. Yarbrough and B. 8. Graham of Weslaco, A. A Hughes of McAllen, L. C. Lemen of San Juan. M. E, Burkhart of Alamo, Henry Bergevine of Mis sion and E. J. Kelso of Pharr. AUSTIN, Sept. 23.—(IP)—Governor Moody said today it would take some time to digest the contents of a long telegram received from the Hidalgo County Good Government League asking him to assign an as sistant attorney general to an in vestigation of record of the county. “I have not had an opportunity to study the telegram; it is a long one,” the governor said. *‘I do not know what I will do about the re quest.” Autumn arrived officially Mon day, Sept. 23. at 7:53 a. m. east ern standard time. At a majori ty of places where daylight sav ing time is in effect, the change back to standard time occurs Sunday, Sept. 39. YANK MANAGER SERIOUSLY III Blood Transfusions Resort ed To. Condition Said ‘Very Grave’ NEW YORK. Sept. 23.—(AV-The condition of Miller Huggins, man ager of the New York Yankees, took a turn for the worse, today, and blood transfusions were employed. It was said at St. Vincent's hos pital his condition was “very grave,” as a result of complications from influenza and erysipelas. Huggins was suffering from a bad cold and a boil on his face but not much cause for .larm was felt ntil complications set in last Friday, when he was take nto the hospital on the advice of the Yankee's phy sician, Dr. Edward King. His con dition has become steadily worse since then. Huggins was forty-nine yeass old last March 27. TWO KANSAS TOWNS FEEL QUAKE SHOCK JUNCTION CITY, Kans., Sept. 23.—(AT—Houses were shaken, win dows and dishes rattled and many persons awakened here at 5 a. m., today by what seemed to be a dis : tlnct earthquake shock. No damage ! was reported. MANHATTAN, Kas.. Sept. 23 — (A»>Two earth tremors were felt here i this morning, the first about 4 a. ! m., and the second an hour later. Each tremor continued but a short time but was of enough violence to be felt distinctly. WAGGONER ON WAY TO N. Y. FOR TRIAL CHEYENNE. Wyo„ Sept. 23.—OF, —C. D. Waggoner, Telluride, Colo., bank president, left for New York at 8:30 a. m.. today to face trial on a charge of using the malls in fur therance of a scheme to defraud six New York banks of a half million dollar*. WAS STUDENT IN CLINIC AT PORTARTHUR Doctors At East Texas j City Confirm Story Of Man Found Near Country Club The man found semi-conscious lying face down beside the high way near the Country club Sunday evening was identified at noon Monday as Themo Macque. medical student of Port Arthur. The man regained his memory when he was taken to Dr. O. V. Lawrences of fice for an X-ray. He revealed his identity and this was checked by lo cal doctors with physicians at Port Arthur. They stated the young man had been missing for several days. Aft er the X-ray was taken, he was returned to the Mercy hospital and immediately went to sleep. Pert Arthur doctors said the stu dent came there from New York about three years ago. He was sub ject to attacks similar to the one he suffered here, they said. This, they said, was caused by an un when he was a child. He was picked up and brought to the Mercy hospital about 8:30 p. m. Sunday by two San Benito men. Evidently paralysis had set in and for a while the man was unable to speak. He seemed unable to com prehend questions, although he made an effort to talk. Later he regained his voice but revealed only the sub-conscious working of his mind. There Is a scar on the right side of his scalp that indicates that he has been operated on to relieve pressure on his brain at one time. The scar is old. Doctors who saw him. said that the paralysis is evi dently the recurrence of an old trouble which the operation sought to cure. He is about 5 feet 10 inches tall, stockily built and apparently is a Jew or Syrian. He has brown curly hair, prominent forehead, broad nose, full Hds. rrey eyes and has a heavy beard. The man anpears to be about 30 »r* "Id. There are vaccination re*** on his right arm. Mentions Names In his occasional subconscious talk he has snoke of Drs. Bledsoe. Young and Calendar. He also spoke of "Hope in the diet kitchen” and •Snake Eves”, evidently a porter at the hospital in which he worked. “Joe Grameer” also figured in his talk. Grameer, from what the man murmured operates a morgue. Once he said “A third degree burn. He can’t live. It’s another case for Joe.” The man seemed to be harassed by too much work, and when the telephone at the hospital rang, he would raise up in bed and say he was unable to answer the call. The most of his conversation dwelt on “Snake Eves”. "That no account darkey—he’s been stealing my cigarettes again.” the stricken man said. When asked direct questions, the man was unable to answer "What’s your name?” he was asked. "Name,” he would repeat. “Name?” This was his reply to all direct ouestions. Identification Removed All traces of Identification had been carefully removed from his clothing. The label In his hat had been carefully scratched out. Most of his clothing was new and all tags or possible Identification marks had been taken out. His left side was paralysed Mon day morning. CARDINAL-ARCHBISHOP DIES PARIS. Sept. 23.—UP)—Louis Er nest Dubois, cardinal-archbishop of Paris, died today aged 73. SUICIDE OF TWO * * * CLIMAXES ARSON * * * PLOT OF FAMILY WABASH. Ind.. Sept. 2S.—0P)— An arson and blackmail plot In which an entire family Is alleged to have participated has culmi nated In the suicide of the mother and a daughter and prison sen tences for the father and a son. Mrs. Charles Keaflabcr, 47, and her daughter Helen, 24, were found dead in their farm home near Roann yesterday. They had taken poison. The daughter had confessed to county officers last week she was the writer of un signed tetters to several persons in this vicinity threatening de struction of their property unless restitution was made for fancied wrongs. The husband and father of the family, Charles Keaffaber, 46, and the son, Roy, 25, are held in jail here under prison sentences of one to ten years each. The father and son have pleaded guilty to setting fire to a saw mill at Akron, Ind., last month and a farm building near here two years ago. JESTER FACES TRIAL 1 AY _______ Much Interest In Arraign ment of Former Officer For Swindling Pinal preparations for the trial of 8. M. Jester, former peace officer, on charges of swindling were be ing made by the district attorney’s office and counsel for the defense Monday. The case was due to come to trial in the criminal district court Tuesday morning. The state summoned 14 additional witnesses Monday. There will be j no special prosecution and the case j will be handled by District Attor ney George Westervelt. H. L. Yates will represent Jester. More than usual Interest sur rounds the case, due to the fact that Jester is well known in the county, having run for sheriff dur ing the last election. He was beat en out by Prank Brown and C. A. Manahan. Later he served as coun ty criminal investigator and deputy sheriff. The swindling charges grow out of an alleged collection of money for a third party who testified at a preliminary hearing that Jester did not give her the money nor in form her of the transaction. Ranger Captain Prank Hamer was to have arrived in Brownsville Monday in connection with the case. He served as a ranger with Jester. Stowaway of Yellow Bird Facing Death NEWBURYPORT. Mass., Sept. 23. — UP) — Arthur Schreiber, 22 year old Portland. Me., youth who last June stowed himself away on the trans-Atlantic plane Yellow Bird on its flight between Old Or chard, Me., and Santander. Spain, today hovered between life and death at a hospital, the victiif of an automobile accident. MRS. CLOSNER WITH SISTER WHO IS ILL Mr. and Mrs. John Closner went to Edinburg Saturday, Mrs. Closner being called Saturday. Mrs. Closner her sister, Mrs. W. L. Lipscomb. Mrs. Lipscomb, who was formerly Miss Ada Dougherty of Brownsville, recently underwent an operation for appedicltls, but was considered on the road to recovery when pleu risy developed. She is now said to be in a serious condition. AIRWAYS HEAD KILLS SELF; SHORTAGE FOUND IN BOOKS SHREVEPORT. La.. Sept. 23 — (My-E. B. Redline. 36. president of the Shreveport Airways. Inc., com mitted suicide today by shooting himself with a pistol. The tragedy occurrr 1 near a railway bridge spanning cross Bayou where the Bayou enters Red river In Shreve port Dr. Willis P. Butler, Coroner derided Major Redline committed suicide. Though Major Redline left no note explaining the act, W. K. Han 4 derson. president of the Henderson Iron Works end Supply company, in which coneern Major R?dlinc served as vice president, said some Irregularities had been discovered in Mr. Redline's books. Major RedUne was a member of the official staff of Governor Huey P. Long. He was one of the pioneer promoters of aviation in Shreveport and one of the backe*-* of the recent KWKH endurance flight here. His widow survives. GO .FIRST TO TAKE OFF INAIRDERBY ———■——...—— Fliers Expected Ta Reach Local Airport About 4 P. M„ End ing First Lap f VALBUENA FLTINQ FIELD, Mexico City, Sept. 23. — </P) — Art Goebel, American flier, took off from the Valbuena Flying field as the first racer in the Mexico City-to-Kansas City air derby at 11 a. m., today. His first scheduled stop was Tampico. He was the only American to taka off and was followed at two-min ute intervals by five Mexican army fliers participating in the air derby. They were Col. Roberto Fierro, noted Mexican airman; Captain Luis VerdeJa. Lieut. Carlos Rtbl rosa, Capt. Feliciano Flores and Lieut. Col. Fernado ProaL Pilot Ship Ahead Ten minutes before Goebel hop ped off, the pUot ship began its flight to Tampico. It carried Floyd McKenzie. Thomas Parks and Charles Hopkins of Tulsa, Okla., and W. Lewis of Kansas City. The planes quickly left the Val buena field and disappeared In a blue haze which overhung their lofty starting place. All were ex pected at Tampico within two hours. Up to the time of the departure. Walford Lewis, who was In charge of the entries, had not heard from the other American pilots expected to participate. All efforts to locate these fliers in the United States or Mexico were futile, and it was de cided to proceed with Goebel as the only American entrant. Test for Ships The race will serve not only as an International test of pilots, but also of the ships, two of which were built In Mexico. These were pllot ed by Captain Flores and Lieut. Col. *Proal. They were manufac tured here by the Mexican Avia tion Corps shops and are called Az carate after General Juan Aacar ate, head of the military aviation force. The fliers expected to arrive at Brownsville about 4 o'clock this afternoon. They wiU spend the right there. The fliers In the Mexico City to Kansas City air race were expect ed to arrive about 4 p. m. In Brownsvile and arrangements had been completed to entertain them with a dinner at the El Jardln ho tel here tonight. The second day race was to be started at 9 a. m. Tuesday with stops scheduled at San Antonio, Dallas and Muskogee, Okla. The planes were to be officially timed onto the field by W. L. Pen dergraft, Harry Nunn and J. F. Roberts. These three also will be official starters as the planes leave the field Tuesday morning. Col. T. E. Gilmore, manager of the airport, announced all arrange ments were complete for refueling the ships and for rendering any service needed by the fters. Arrangements for the entertain ment tonight were being handled by Harry Nunn, a member of the chamber of commerce aviation committee, Charles Burton, the 1 chairman, being away on business. Several hours late, but happy over safety of a party of five per sons In the Texas Co. Lockheed plane, the second annual aerocad* of the Fort Worth Association of Commerce left the local airport. Sunday afternoon, flying direct to Laredo. The stop to Monterrey was aban doned when a telephone message from there brought Information that fog was obscuring the moun tain peaks about that city and that heavy rains had rendered the field very muddy. A report earlier In the (Continued on page seven. ) j THE WEATHER For Brownsville and the Valley: Fair or partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not much change in tem perature. Light to fresh easterly to southerly winds on the west coast. For East Texas: Not received In time. RIVER FORECAST The river will continue to fall slowly practically all along during the next 24 to 48 hours. Flood Present 24-Hr. 34-Br. Stage Stage Chug. Bain Eagle Pass .. 16 2.8 -0.2 AO Laredo . 27 -0 2 -0.1 AO Rio Grande . 21 7A -0J AO Mission. 22 9.2 -0.6 AO San Benito . 23 15.4 -1.6 AO Brownsville . 18 11.1 -33 AC TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isa bel tomorrow, under normal meteor ological conditions: High ... 10:48 p. m. Low #•••»•••••*••••»•«*• 1:22 p. m. miscellaneous d*ta Sunset today...3:16 Suniisa tomorrow «....8:13 %