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MERCEDES POHTER DROWW _ THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASE!! VETOE BE!m'^^^‘ THE r— ~~ " " ~~ ' —..-■■■■■■. ..1 - -- -■.. 1 —-=—...—.-■—-——■. THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 148 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY Be A COPY IN OUR VALLEY i By CHARLES HALL 6 WHOOPS MY DEAR! Cameron county is to get her >250,000 from the state to complete the hard surfaced road to Point Isabel. Looks like Judge Dancy and his allies have gone and done" the! big thing by way of presenting their requests. But did you know how the tele graphic dispatch read with refer ence to granting the request? It read: “When Congress takes sub stantially favorable action on the recommendations of army engineers further developments of Port bel. tnd then it went on to say that the highway commission will visit Brownsville and the Valley and in spect all state highways of the county. If that dispatch had been about two paragraphs longer and had kept on adding such development prospects, we probably would not have been able to stand the strain. Now' when we get a deep w’ater port Brownsville will be a city of 100,000 within ten years. * m m ALMOST IN keeping with what was said In this column a few days ago about advertising the Valley as a winter resort comes a letter to A. D. Dickinson from Erie, Pa., which speaks loudly toward more advertising of the Valley and Brownsville in the East for all pur poses. Mr. Dickinson, who has just returned from the East, exhibited the following letter with which he Is in accord: "The more I see of the East, the better I think the of the South. I'm just thinking though how much asleep our 'Rio Grande Valley* is when they are not doing a lot of Intensive advertising to reach these people who are leaving here right now by the thousands, and who do not know any place but California or Florida. They have no way of knowing that Texas has the climate they are looking for. We have been instrumental in diverting several. They don’t want our trip, but want to go in their cars so they may stay. Being on the ground here makes one see plainly what an intensive ad vertising campaign would do right now. Honestly, most people here think that one could drive from Amarillo to Brownsville in two or three hours, and they have heard of Amarillo.'*, *■ That should bring out several Ideas. ft ft ft MAYBE YOU already know it, but in case you do not, John Panning, manager of the Publix Theaters, is a former newspaper man. There are also others, who also speak the lingo of the brotherhood here in Browns ville. but Mr. Fanning has a work -! ing knowledge of “Paradise Alley" of Ft. Worth. It is said that more financially crippled newspaper men, who have afterward become famous have passed the night in that spot than any other one can name. Mr Panning has a most interesting ^tory of how Jack London came to W>wn broke, enroutc to gather ma terial for a big story. Mr. Panning loaned him his last quarter. In a! day or two Jack got a check from, Munsey's for $200 and presented the Brownsville man with a suit of clothes and a hat. Newspapers print millions of pages a day in the United States and bar rels and barrels of ink are spread and yet about one half of all that really happens is ever told. It would take something like two hundred million articles a day to do it. • • w THOSE WHO have been studying the stock market claim that not nearly so much money was lost in the big fluctuation the other day as has been represented. That is, yes, and no. It was lost on papev. That is. they lost because they did not sell when it was high. As a result cheaper caU money has resulted. The banks have really just as much money without as many borrowers. Kow long this will last none ran say. but it has been pointed out that the time to build is during times of cheap money. Texas really feels only the slight es tremor of what the market did in the East, but for all that as has been said befo’T the greatest danger lies in lack of confidence. Now that Governor Moody has answered Pres ident Hoover saying he will help in every possible way in the boom idea he has advanced to the nation many public works may soon open. Children Die When Trapped By Flames PHILLIPS8URG. N. J . Nov. 28. —</p)—Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Verenna were suffocat ed or burned to death here today. The dead are: Clara. 13, Charles, 8, and Mary. 6. The children were trapped in a room on the second floor In flames created by the attempt of their mother to kindle a fire with kero sene oil. tSadie. 17-year-old sister who ppt with them, escaped through window Neighbors helped four other children In another room to the street. Rosie. 9. was burned to death in the h<*we in a fire which started similarly May 28. Boost in Valley Citrus Exports Seen CAR PLUNGES I INTO CANAL NEAR ORANGE Contractor Was Well Known Throughout Community BEAUMONT. Tex.. Nov. 26.—UP’ —A man believed to be Charles Do lese of Mercedes. Tex., and a girl believed to be his daughter. Mar jorie. were drowned when an au tomobile in which they were ridln*; plunged from an embankment into a canal about five miles from Orange today. Their bodies were recovered. The automobile was traveling east when it careened into the stream. Letters recovered from the yater indicated the bodies were those of Dolese and his 12-year-old daughter. The bodies were taken to Orange. Dolese. about 45 years of age. had lived in Mercedes for 10 years and was well known in the upper sec tion of the Valley. He was a con tractor. dealing in road work for the most part. He had no other relatives than his daughter and wife in the Valley. Mexico Scorns Idea Of Fighting Ban MEXICO CITY. Nov. 26.—UP)— j A storm of shouts and booes, sprinkled with laughter, greeted | presentation in the chamber last1 night of Deputy Luis F. Sotelo Regii's bill to purge Mexico of bull fighting, cock fighting and boxing The cries were the Spanish equivalent of the American “throw him out” and “throw the bill in the waste basket.” The reception was so noisy the secretary was forc ed to cease reading the bill, which was turned over to a committee. The newspaper El Universal in terviewed various members of the senate to obtain their reaction. Senator Isaac Diaz De Leon said Deputy Sotelo should be buried "standing up" for his foolishness. Senator Esther Estrada said bull fighting had made the Latin race courageous. Sir Jame* Heath Wins Clothes Bill LONDON. Nov. 26.—<£*> — Sir James Heath will not have to pay at least one clothes bill of his wife. Lady Heath, noted British air wo man now in the United States. In an action against the hus band and wife by a London dress maker to recover 239 lb (about $1. 200 > for clothing, the court today gave judgment against Lady Heath with costs. Sir James, however, won his case against paying the bill, re ceiving Judgment with costs. In giving judgment Jiyvice Tal bot said he was clearly of the opin ion that Sir James had not given his wife authority to pledge his crfdit and he had made ample pro vision for her. Sir James recently advertised in London papers that he would not be responsible for further debts contracted by Lady Heath. CAPITAL PAYS FINAL TRIBUTE TO JAMES W. GOOD The flag draped casket on a military caisson bearing the body of James W. Good, the late secretary of war. in the funeral procession as it moved away from the White House grounds lor Union station where the body was placed on a special train for Cedar Rapids. Ia. Hoover Has One Dissenting Vote SCHOOLS PLAN HOLIDAY CLOSE Kiddies Free From Tuesday Until Monday Account Of Fair Visit Appropriate Thanksgiving day programs were observed through out the Brownsville public cchool system Tuesday. Teachers arrang ed programs and were aided in their presentation by school child ren. The schools will let out Tuesday for the holidays. Studies are to be resumed next Monday. All students in the Brownsville schools were given passes to the Valley Mid-Winter Pair for use Wednesday. Any child who wishes to attend this “Educational” day, will be Riven permission, it has been announced by teachers. Infant Brides Flood India Result Of Law LONDON. Nov. 26—(/PHThe Daily Express in a dispatch from Bombay today said infant brides were being rushed to the altar by the hundreds in some parts of India to forestall the law prohibiting child marriage which becomes effective in April. Several child marriages have been solemnized in Bombay the last five days, while in Surat it was estimated 2,000 such marriages have occurred recently. Brides and bridegrooms of between five and twelve years have been a common sight. Even marriages be tween babies have been arranged. ACCIDENTS AND VIOLENCE MAR WEEK-END IN VALLEY % # | (Special to The Herald) M ALLEN. Texas. Nov. 26—A wave 1 of violence swept over the Upper1 Valley over the week-end and when it subsided, one man lay dead and a number of others were in hospit als or had been treated in hospitals for bullet wounds and knife cuts. Joe Holloway, produce buyer of Donna, was fatally wounded when he engaged in a pistol duel with Isidro Balli. a resident of East Don na, about 1:30 p. m. Sunday. Hol loway died at the Medical Arts hospital in Edinburg about 11:30 Monday morning. When the two met Sunday they began an exchange of pistol shots, Holloway suffering a bullet wound through the obdomen, and Ball! receiving a bullet in the shoulder. Deputy Sheriff John Bales was investigating stabbing which oc curred n the East* Hidalgo road about midnight Saturday in which Joe Flynn of Mission received a deep gash in the throat. Two of Flynns companions identified J. D. Brownfield, believed to be from Wes we laco. as the person wielding the small knife with which the wound was inflicted. C. J. Baum. 44. printer, said to be connected with the Tri-City Sim of Pharr, received treatment at the McAllen municipal hospital for se vere lacerations about the upper portions of the body said to have been received in an altercation with Marvin Sharpe cf Pharr in a Pharr hotel. Sharpe was placed in the city Jail at Pharr following the occur rence. E. M. Thomas of Dallas sustained a broken collarbone and three brok en ribs in an automobile crash on Shary boulevard Saturday after noon when another car. said to have been driven by a Mexican, swerved in front of the vehicle in which he was riding with a Mr. Campbell of Mission and forced into the ditch. Agustin Sandoval was injured about the head when a truck on which he was riding with an Ameri can overturned on the curve in Highway 12 east of Mission, pinning him beneath it. He is recovering at the McAllen hospital. South Dakota Chief Says Action Only Delays Agony WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—(/P>— President Hoover today reviewed: accomplishments of his campaign for stable business conditions and: expanded industrial activities and * found much that was encouraging From all sections of the countr.v and from virtually all phases of commercial enterprise have come almost unanimous assurances of j hearty support and cooperation in the chief executive's endeavor to prevent the recent decline in se curity prices from adversely affect ing the general structure of the nation's business. The administration Itself has an nounced plans for a $160,000,000 re duction in taxes, an increase of $175,000,000 in appropriations lor federal building and a budget of ocean mail carrying contracts ex pected to fill the country’s ship-* yards with new construction in less than half a year. Spending Era Seen From industrial leaders, the heads of great railroads and telephone and telegraph companies and the gov ernors of many states, Mr. Hoover has received estimates of construc tln expenditures for 1930, of both a private and governmental nature, well in excess of similar disburse ments iii the present year. In addition, the president has affected an agreement between the leaders of industrial corporations employing millions of workers and the spokesmen of organized labor, under which no programs of wage reductions will be instituted and no new campaigns for increased wages be begun until the present situation is passed. Half Governors Reply The chief executive brought his series of conferences with repre sentative groups to a close late yes terday with a meeting of officials of the leading farm organizations, and simultaneously announcement was made f replies from the gov ernors of nearly half of the states In the union In response to Mr. Hoover’s request that they give his program their full support. At the same time, plans for awarding ocean mail contracts totaling ap proximately $10,000,000 were an nounced. The one dissenting voice was that of Governor Bulow of South Dakota, who said the president’s proposal of expanded road construction would furnish only temporary relief and “postpone the agony " Burns Fatal To Mrs. Slavitchek Mrs. Elizabeth Slavitchek, 83, died early Tuesday morning at her home as the result ef burns which she suffered Nov. 15 when her clothing was ignited by flames from a gas heater. Funeral ar rangements have not been complet ed. Several relatives have arrived for the burial, a number having come before Mrs. Slavitchek's death. She was the widow of Frank Slavitchek. and the mother of Har rv Slavitchek. proprietor of Harry’s Cigar stores, and Miss Bertha Slav itchek. also of Brownsville. GIRLS FORCED * TOEND FLIGHT Misses Plan Second Start In Endurance Test Next Thursday LOS ANGELES. Nov. 26—— Bobbie Trout. Los Angeles, and Elinor Smith. New York, girl fliers seeking to establish a new refuel ing endurance flight record landed their biplane here at 2:55 a. m„ today when their gasoline supply gave out. Sponsors of the flight said the fliers were ordered down when the refueling plane was unable to make contact in the dark. They said another start would be made Thursday. The girl fliers took off at 8:29 a. m., yesterday. A first attempt made last Saturday and a second at tempt Sunday were called off due to difficulties in refueling. Chinese Town Suffers Raid CANTON. Nov. 26—(S’)—Wireless dispatches from Wuchow stated the nationalist army airplane squadron raided and bombed that city and the nearby Kwangsi border this af ternoon, killing many persons, ter rorizing the populace and inflicting serious property damage. The reported bombings of Wu chow seemingly indicate the pur ported nationwide movements look ing toward suspension of internal strife in China has not spread to the trouble Kwangsi area. A body of Kwangtung troops known as the “Ironsides" division separated from the nationalist army, and. cooperating with Kwangsi op ponents of the Nanking govern ment, began a march toward Can ton recently. In dispatches indicat ing a truce had been effected on the civil war fronts in the north no mention was made of peace over tures in Kwangsi. although it was stated the movement for cessation of internal hostilities was nationwide. Two Lives Lost In Stampede From Fire NEW YORK. Nov. 2«—Bo dies of two men were recovered to day from ruins of a construction shack at Long Island City where 200 men stampeded last night when fire swept the structure. Twenty two men were injured. The men were in a second floor locker room preparing to go to work when fire was discovered. They made a rush for stairways which soon were choked. Others leaped from windows, and many suffered broken bones in the fif teen-foot drop. Eventually the tangled mass of men on the stairway was unravel ed. and the remaining men made their way to safety. A short cir cuit mused the fire. Insure the Family Silver ! Rio Grande Valley Trust Co. Beginner Joint Hole-In-One Club VANCOUVER, B. C., NOT. 26. —(A*)—Playing a game Of golf ; for the first time in his life and that with rented clubs, W. B. Swan yesterday made a hole in one. on the 117-yard eighth at Glen Eagles golf course. The hole is an iron shot to a raised green, but Swan, with the ignor ance that is bliss, used a driver, and the ball after many bumps and bounds landed in the cup. I m ..m,mm *0* DEATH CLAIMS DOAK ROBERTS Texas League Magnate To Be Buried Wednesday At Corsicana DALLAS. Tex., Nov. 26—<JV-The body of J. Doak Roberts, president of the Texas league, who died here yesterday, was returned to Corsi cana, his old hometown, today for funeral there Wednesday. It was accompanied by his widow and son and by a host of men interested in baseball and other sports who had known Roberts in his rs years of prominence in sport circles of the state. Messages of condolence, not only to the family, but to the organiza tion which he headed and the sport which he helped to develop poured into Dallas last night when news of Robert's death reached the state and nation. John W. Martin, pre sident of the Southern Association, was one of the first to send expres sions of sympathy. Martin said Roberts death was a great loss to his friends and to the game. Club owners of the Texas league and of other smaller leagues in which Rob erts had taken an interest at one time or another added their words of condolence. Won Eight Pennant; Roberts died of a kidney affec tion which had bothered him for some time. During the last year he had turned the affairs of the league over to J. fclvin Gardner of Wich ita Palls, executive vice-president, and to William B. Ruggles. league secertary. while he fought to con quer the illness that several times brought him very close to death. At the last meeting of the league here he had so far recovered it seemed probable he would be able to Continue his duties. A relapse suffered last week, however, forced him back to his bed, and he grew steadily worse. Roberts was the wily club own er who had won. or shared in eight Texas league flags. He had owned clubs at Corsicana. Temple. Cleburne and Houston For more than a quarter of a century he had been the schedule maker for the Texas league and had given small er nearby leagues the benefit of his advice, serving one year as pre sident of the Texas-Oklahoma lea gue. Trained Many Stars A brilliant roster of stars, head ed by Tris Speaker, developed un der Roberts management, but he used to gain the greatest pleasure in telling how the two mo6t lam ous players he ever owned escaped him. Ty Cobb, who once belonged to Roberts, was told not to report because of an epidemic in his sec tion. Rogers Hornsby did not be come a member of Robert ’ team because Roberts had been told by scouts Hornsby could not l it. Roberts was elected head of the Texas league at the end of the 1920 season and held that position until the time of his death. VALLEY MEET FORGROWERS LATEST PLAN Trade Commissioner In Europe Will Visit Section (Special to The Herald.' SAN BENITO, Nov. 26—Devel opment of the Valley citrus foreign export situation is seen as a pos sible result of the visit here in De cember of Gerold E. Luebben, cit rus fruit trade commissioner In Europe for the U. 3. Department of Commerce. The foreign official, who has recently returned from Europe, is due in Hoston December I and will come to the Valley Dec. II for a two-day visit, J. E. Bell of San Benito Chamber of Commerce has been advised. A meeting of Valley shippers will be called for conference purposes with Luebben. and the export situa tion will be gone into thoroughly, with a possible export corporation to function in the Valley in con nection with the foreign develop ment of the United States citrus Industry as a highlight of the ses sion. It is the business of the Eu ropean official to promote and as sist in operating the foreign ex port end of the American citrus industry, and it is expected that highly valuable Information for Val ley shippers will come to light dur ing Luebben's visit. Ernest L. Tutt. district manager of the United States Department of Commerce at Houston Is ex pected to accompany Luebben to the Valley, and before their arriv al, the date and place of the ship pers’ meeting will be announced from the San Benito Chamber of Commerce. COUNTY W R RIGHTS PASSED (Special to The Herald* AUSTIN. Nov. 2»—Irrigation per- ! mita in Cameron county were grant- ' ed today by the state water board to 1 Edward Hook and Earl C. Samms of New York, Involving 4.205 acres. Roos made application for water rights on 2.400 acres, and Samms sought permission to irrigate 1.805 acres along the Rancho Vijo resaca. j The board yesterday set for a I hearing on December 23 the appli cation of A. F. Parker of San Be-! nito for a permit to divert water to! irrigate 7.000 acres. Hundreds Fleeing Floods In Portugal USBON4, Portugal, Nov. 26.—t?) —Widespread devastation has been caused in Northern Portugal oy floods. Misery and unemployment has been spread to an alarming ex tent . One farmer lost his life when he jumped into a flooded river to save a child. His body was swept away. Rapid evacuation of the flooded districts saved thousands cl lives at Ponte de Barca. Bridges, roads mills and factories were destroyed or damaged and traffic was held up. The plight of hundreds of fami lies who fled in night clothes Is se rious since thousands of tons of supplies were carried away In the floods. CHEYENE TRAIN ROBBERY IS THOUGHT WORK OF SPITE CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 2d— Approximately 40 passengers of the Union Pacific Portland limited were robbed three miles east of here last night by a youthful robber who wrecked the train by pulling spikes from the rails and then, single hand ed. made a thorough-going trip through the train, taking cash and Jewelry from passengers. 81x of the train's eight cars were derailed, and five toppled against an embank ment, but no one was injured se riously. Railroad officials said the robber took amounts ranging from SS cents to $150 from passengers, but an es timate of the total amount he ob tained was impossible. Many pas i sengers continued their Journeys on westbound trains after being brought here on a special train. Unlike the notorious Bill Carlisle, last of the West's widely known train bandits, who once terrorized passengers of a Union Pacific train with a toy glass pistol, the robber last night flourished a heavy revolv er and speeded his work by jabbing it viciously into the ribs of victims Passengers said he was about 22 years old. and had a “very thin face, light brown eyes and a deep and very rough voice." He wore overalls. It was held likely the robbery was committed for spite, as the bandit was quoted by several passengers as saying. 'Tve got a wife and two kids I at home and the railroad won’t give me work.” RECORD MARK ON FIRST DAY ANTICIPATED Coronation Of Queen Feature Attraction Of Night Events (By the Associated Press' HARLINGEN, Nov. 30— Admis sion gates to the Valley Mid-Winter fair had clicked 2.000 times early Tuesday morning, presaging a re cord attendance for the opening day's program of the annual Val ley event. Somewhat clearing skies added appreciably to hopes of fair officials for the first day's turn out. and a steady stream of at tendants during the early hours did not disappoint anticipations. While the majority of booths and Valley displays were in place and ready for inspection, other exhibi tors continued to arrive through out the day from all points of the Valley and were working f verlshiy to overcome the delay occasioned by several days prevailing bad weather. Coronation Tonight The elaborate coronation cerem onies tonight of the Valley Mid winter fair queen. In which duch esses, maids, arvd escorts from thirty-two valley towns will par ticipate. held the spotlight of en tertainment features. The corona tion of the queen, whose identity has been kept a secret, will be fol lowed by a formal ball in the au ditorium here. Following a morning concert bv the Harlingen high school band, Valley Kiwantam. for whom Tues day had been designated Kiwanis Day, gathered for a luncheon and program with a fide representation of members present. A football game this afternoon between Har lingen and Kingsville was expect ed to draw a large crowd to the grandstand. "Follies Revue" Opening also Tuesday afternoon was another major feature of the fairs entertainment program. Er nie Youngs Winter Garden Fol lies of 1929. from Chicago. This revue, direct from successful stag ings m major theatrical centers of the country, is to be presented each afternoon and evening of the fair, with a star cast of vaudeville and musical comedy entertainers. A large band of rodeo entertain ers will open their week's stand Wednesday, and some of the best racing horses of the south have arrived in Harlingen for the first races Wednesday afternoon, for which liberal purses have been put up. Chinese Government Seek League Aid NANKING. China, Nov. 26.—<j?V The council of the Chinese govern ment today addressed an appeal both to the league of nations and to Individual signatories of the Kel logg peace pact to take steps to halt and punish the Russian soviet "invasion" of Chinese territory. The invasion was termed a deliberate violation of the anti-war pact. Hallo way Funeral Services Tuesday DONNA. Texas. Nov. 26—Funer al services for Joe Holloway of this city will be held from the Baptist church at four o'clock Tuesday af ternoon. Mr. Holloway died at eleven-thirty Monday morning in the Medical Arts hospital in Edin burg from injuries received here Sunday afternoon Interment will be in the Donna cemetery. THE WEATHER ! For Brownsville and the Valley: Cloudy and unsettled tonight, Wed nesday partly cloudy. Light to mod erate northerly winds on the west coast. For East Texa&: Cloudy and un settled tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy. Light to moderate northerly winds on the coast. RIVER FORECAST There will be very little change In the river stages during the next 24 hours. Flood Present 24-Br. 34-Hr. Stan* Stag* Cbne. Rato Eagle Pass ...16 2.5 -03 .00 Laredo .27 -0.4 -0.2 .06 Rio Grande ..21 4.6 0.0 .01 Mission .22 45 0.0 .00 San Benito ..23 10.0 0.0 .22 ■ Brownsville .. 18 48 -02 .02 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isabel tomorrow, under normal meteroln rlcal conditions: High.12:21 a. m.; 2:18 p m Low.7:17 a. m ; 8:14 p. m MISCELLANEOUS DATA . Sunset today .. 3 1 Sunrise tomorrow . 6.57