Brownsville herald. [volume], November 08, 1929, Page TEN, Image 10

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PROMISE BEST
HIDALGO FAIR
Night and Day Performan
ce* With Citrus Grade
Exhibit Feature
ia®SSSION* Nov* 8—starting at
10:00 a. m. Armistice day with a
grand parade, the gates of the Hi
dalgo County Fair and rodeo will
swing open on their eighth annual
celebration. Preliminary prepara
tions are all completed and as the
starter's whistle moves the long pro
cession every detail will have been
finished to present to the Valley
what the management promises to
be the best in its history.
A last minute rush for booths and
space have taxed the capacity of
the buildings and grounds. Evers*
available location has been filled
and several exhibitors have had to
resort to tents to house their dis
plays. The grandstand, the rodeo
pens and chutes are all in readiness
for the big rodeo.
Grade Exhibit
E. W. Halstead, in charge of the
citrus exhibit, announced today
“with the addition of the Govern
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LAST TIMES TODAY
MILTON SILLS in
“BURNING DAYLIGHT”
Also
COMEDY and NEWS
Admission 5-10-15
Coming Sunday—
MARY PHILBIN in
THE LAST PERFORMANCE”
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The Valley’s Perfect
Talking Picture Theatre
SAN BENITO
4 DAYS STARTING
SUNDAY
Four Walls
No Longer
Hold the
Drama
J
Worldfs
mightiest girl
and. music
•how glorified by the
diking screen.
Radio Pictures
Present
FLORENZ ZBEGFELD'S i
RIO
RITA
AH Talking-All Singing
Musical Spectacle
*ci:h
dEBE DANIELS
JOHN BOLES
Bert Wheeler—Robert TooIkt
Dorothy Lee—Don Alcarado
New songs by Harry Tierney and
Joe McCarthy—Gorgeous scenes
In Technicolor.
Directed by
LCTHER
REED
f I t u, - - -
First Valley Showing
Opening With a
midnight MATINEE
Saturday 11:30 p. m.
ment's grade exhibit, and several
shippers that have come in at the
last minute for space to show their
packs, we are going to have the
largest array of citrus ever assem-1
bled in the Valley. I believe that
this feature alone will be worth
the visitors time at the Fair.” he'
added.
With the putting in of the Gov
ernment’s exhibit, every phase of
the citrus industry will be on dis-;
play. From the sour orange seed
to the wrapped and packed boxes
ready to load into the waiting re
frigerator car, all will be shown.
Three-Day Event
The fair and rodeo is scheduled
for a three dav event, November 11,
12 and 13. The program calls for
day and night performances on each
of the three days. The ’ -gion has
been untiring in its efforts to pro
duce a real exhibition and every
thing promises tnat the celebration
will be a success.
Norris On Duty In
Spite of Injuries
WASHINGTON. Nov. 8—/.Pi—Al
though suffering from injuries re
ceived in an automobile accident.
Senator George W. Norris of Ne
braska, today clung to his accustom
ed place as an active leader of the
democratic-independent republican
coalition in its fight against the
proposed tariff bill. The Nebraskan
received injuries which he himself
described as “painful but not ser
ious.” when knocked to the ground
by an autc#««cbile late yesterday as
he was walking from the capitol to
the senate office building.
Kentucky Police
Fight Fatal to 2
WINCHESTER. Ky . Nov. 8——
A gun fight between three members
of the Winchester police department
and a man whom they had been
called to arrest resulted in the fatal
shooting of two men here yester
day.
Patrolman P. Lloyd Faulkner. 65,
died an hour after he was taken
to a hospital, and Mike Wills. 54.
former railroad contractor, who bat
tled the officers, succumbed shortly
aPcr he fell, pierced by nine bul
lets.
Heavy Snow Reported
In Mid-west States
DENVER. Nov. 8— (JP\ —Snow j
which vsterdav laid a whiie blank
et over five western states, rang
ing from three inches to two feet
in depth, had stopped falling over
most of the territory this morning. I
and prophecies of rising tempera
tures and clear skies promised a
respite from the biting tempera
tures which swept down out of the
rocky mountains three days ago.
SNOW IN PANHANDLE
BORGER. Tex., Nov. 8——An
inch of snow greeted Borger this
morning. The themometer stood at,
28 degrees, the lowest mark of the
season.
NOW SHOWING
THRILLS — MYSTERY
AML ;
ALSSO
THE COLLEGIANS
—In—
“JUNIOR LUCK”
Movietone News
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300 VICTIMS OF
VOLCANO FOUND
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People Killed By Molten
Lava Or Asphyxiated
By Gases
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala,
Nov. 8.—{A5)—Overwhelmed by molt
en lava or suffocated by asphyxiat
ing gases, scores of the 300 or more
victims of Monday’s eruption of
Santa Maria volcano have been
found in their homes or along the
roads near El Palmar where they
perished.
The full story of the disaster has
begun reaching Guatemala City
through relief workers who brought
aid to the thousands of persons in
the affected region. In all eight
coffee plantations were destroyed
and most of their inhabitants kill
ed.
The bodies found in ruined homes
and along the roads give mute evi
dence of the horror that had over
taken the population. Some of the
dead had been caught in the fields
bv the molten stream of lava while
others had been ashyxiatcd in their
barricaded, homes.
One of the most tragic spots was
a grove of trees where fleeing in
habitants had sought refuge, some
of them climbing into the highest
branches, only to suffocate and
burn.
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Moody Asks Board to
Keep Loan Promise
AUSTIN. Nov. ft——Governor
Moody today was waiting a reply to
his telegram sent the federal farm
board at Washington calling on it
to make good its promise to lend
as high as 16.35 cents a pound on
cotton F. O. B. Galveston.
Many Texas farmers, taking the
board at its word, stored their cot
ton with the intention of applying
for a lean, he said, and now cotton
has gone down from $5 to $7.50 per
bale and was selling at less than
16.35 cents a pound and the farmers
had learned the machinery for ob
taining the loan had not been set
up.
Theresa Walton Goes
to Minnesota School
DALLAS. Tex., Nov. 8—UP)—Ex-|
pressing his happiness over his ac
quital, which he said he had felt
would be the outcome of his trial,
Judge R. H. Hamilton, freed of mur
der charges in connection with the
death of his son-in-law. Tom W’al
ton. Jr., spent yesterday afternoon
and last night here with his brother. |
Dexter, before returning to his
home in Amarillo.
His children, arter more than a
week in court at Weatherford, plan
ned to return to school. Helen to
Austin. Robert to his post as in
structor at the University of Min-;
nesota. and Theresa Hamilton Wal
ton. his widowed daughter, with her
brother to Minnesota.
Attorney Out to
Clean Up McCamey
McCAMEY. Tex, Nov. 8 — m—.
Citizens of McCamey looked to their
new district attorney. Edward Yar
brough. today, for further develop
ments in his announced clean-up
campaign in Upton county.
In a statement. Yarbrough assert
ed that nearly every hotel and room
ing house in McCamey was a dis
orderly house, “having as many
lewd women as guests, and some of
them permitting bootleggers to sell
liquor in their places of business.”
He also made charges against drug
stores dealing in liquor.
Car License Sole
Clue In Bank Theft
JEFFERSON. Wis.. Nov. 8—//P>—
Authorities today had nothing more
tangible than a license number and
incomplete descriptions on which to
basetheir search for five men who
base their search for five men who
bank yesterday of approximately
$105 000 in cash and securities.
The number, apparently issued in
Ohio, and the descriptions led the
sheriff to wire the bureau of crim
inal identification at Columbus.
CHINESE NATIONALIST
ARMY DEFEATS PEOPLE
SHANGHAI, Nov. 8—/*>—'The
Kuomin News Agency, organ of the
Nationalist government, tonight
stated that Nationalist forces had
scored a sweeping victory against
the rebelling Kuominchin or “peo-!
pies army” along the entire battle >
front in Honan Province paralleling i
the Kinham railway and also along
the Lunghai railway.
SEE AND HEAR THE “IT” GIRL
ADDED—
All Talk
Comedy
“THE CRAZY
NUT”
Mermaid
Comedy
All Talking
I Laughing
“FARO
NELL’*
Paramount
News
CLARA
BOW
IN
“THE SATUR
DAY NIGHT
KID”
A PARAMOUNT
ALL TALKING
PICTURE
Hear her yourself, the
plucky. spunky, slangy
loveable little shop girl. The
"It" girl in her greatest
talking hit.
— NOW SHOWING—
At Your
AT ARCADIA
Margaret Wycherly and Leila
Hyams in "The 13th Chair,” at
traction at the Arcadia in Har
lingen.
Loomis to Testify
About Booze Party
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—(V— A
railroad president's account of the
now famous Fahy dinner for mem
bers of the senate at which Se
nator Smith W. Brookhart says li
quor was served is to be on Monday
before a grand jury investigating
conditions i nthe national Lehigh
Edward E. Loomis of the Lehibh
Valley railroad, who Brookhart says
sat next to him and took a drink,
has informed United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover he will appear in
answer to an informal invitation
which the prosecuting officer had
extended to him.
Borger Woman Shot,
Husband Kills Self
BORGER. Tex., Nov. 8—f/T)—Mrs.
Virgie Farthing died today of
wounds inflicted yesterday by her
estranged husband. Jim Farthing,
just before he took his own life.
The woman was shot three times.
Failure of Farthing to effect a re
conciliation with his wife was be
lieved to have been the cause for
the shooting which occurred at
Phillips, near here.
. The Valley’s Perfect
Talking Picture Theatre
SAN BENITO
LAST DAY
Also
ALL-TALKING COMEDY
MOVIETONE NEWS
Mtmaim
BROWNSVILLE
BARGAIN NITE
10c Each
‘TAKING A CHANCE*
With
REX BELL
Mickey McGuire
Comedy
Austin-Houston Road
Gap Will Be Closed
AUSTIN, Nov. 8—A 20-foot con
crete highway from Hempstead to*
the new state highway bridge over
the Brazos river to replace the only
remaining mud gap on the Austin
Houston highway, will be placed un
der contract by the state highway
commission Nov. 25-26, it was an
nounced. This will connect up more
than 77 miles of unbroken concrete
paving.
Police Study Note
In Inventor’s Death
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8—-(IF)—An
undelivered note written by P. F.
Vauchelet, 28-year-old Hollywood
inventor, indicating he had urgent
ly sought help from an attorney
before he died here Tuesday, occu
pied the attention of police today
as they attempted to clear up the
mystery veiling the cause of his
death.
5 Reported Dead In
River Works Blast
WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 8 —
Five men are reported to have been
killed in an explosion at 3 o'clock
this morning at the Swift river pro
ect of the Metropolitan Water sys
tem in Coldbrook.
THE LAST REAI
BULL
FIGHT
of the
SEASON!
i
at
REYN0S>
4:30 P. M.
SUNDAY
Nov. 10
6 BULLS /»
FOUGHT
To a Finish
Famous Matators
Remigio Gonziles
and
Lorenza Ga za
Will Kill Four of he Bulls
Miss Rataplan
Only Lady Matidor and
Her Troupe of C«mic Bull
Fighters, Will Take on the
Other Two.
Popular Prices
General Rin{, Shade
$2.50
General Ring, Sun
$1.50
PHONE 1438
FOR
PAINT - WALL PAPER
BRENUN WINDOW SHADES
GOLD SEAL CONGOLEUM
INLAID LINOLEUM
United Paint Stores Co.
843 Elizabeth
KIDS and COOKING j
Two big problems in nearly every woman’s life — Kick and |
Cooking. It is necessary that the children be clean, well-fed fl
and neatly clothed. You may not realize it, but your Jitney fl
Jungle does play a big part in helping mothers. Women who fl
trade here can save enough on their groceries to buy extras for S
the children. Some of our customers have bought the Fall out- I
fit with money saved by buying here. Did you?
“JITNEY JUNGLE SELLS FOR LESS” I
The following Specials good in Brownsville, San Benito, fl
Harlingen and McAllen, Saturday, November 2, 1929. I
Shortening5^"4!’11:59‘ 12%
FLOUR" 51c
COFFEE .45c
MIL KCAT:!r."n:91.41/2c|
SNOWDRIFT r 20c
Co Flakes 7V2c
Peanut utter 22c 1
PINEAPPLE 13c
r* A TCITD VANCAMP’S 1 *7 _ I
V/AlOUr 14 oz. Bottle. I I Cl
Tomato Juice'!1!! 15c I
11A TF Q dromedary 1 or I
1/ £ LlO 10 oz. Package. X %/C I
G( >LDDUST l^kAGE25c|
Rice KrispiesKtr c 11c
D|P1/'| 170 LIBBY’S DILL «> ■»
r K/ElLCiiJ No 2/a Cn 4.C|
MINCE MEATTtr„15c |
SALMI IN .12c
_ INJUR QUALITY MARKETS
CHUCK ROAST, per pound.20c
BACON, Sliced, per pound.34c
STEW MEAT, per pound. 17V2C
WE WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY MONDAY, NOV. 11TH
ARMISTICE DAY
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Brownsville San Benito Harlingen McAllen