Brownsville herald. [volume], December 16, 1929, Page TWO, Image 2

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DEAD SON SEEKS
OIL MILLIONS
$2,000,000 Estate Is Sought
By Many In Queer
Family Mix-up
WICHITA FALLS, Aec. 18—(*»)—
An aged, enfeebled widow, her son
who returned after being declared
legally dead, his divorced wife and
some eight or nine other persons
await the settlement of an amazing
legal tangle In district court at
Oraham.
The litigants are heirs of A L.
Rearden, Young county land owner,
who died in 1919, leaving an estate
valued at more than $2,000,000. but
today worth less than $1,000,000, ac
cording to John C. Kay, attorney
for one of the principals.
The Bearden estate was divided
among 10 heirs, including Mrs. An
::le E. Bearden, the widow, in 1927
after Lee Bearden, a son. had been
declared legally dead by the dis
trict court at Oraham. Lee Bearden
left Graham in 1918 and had not
been heard fro when his*“death”
was made legal.
Oil worth $2,000,000 was taken
from the land. Royalties and lease
rentals went to me heirs and the
affairs of the estate were tranquil
enough until one dav in 1929 v»hen
the loit son appeared In Graham.
He came from California where he
said he had spent the years dur
ing which no word came from him.
Lee sued his children and the
Texas Company for restoration of
title to the land and for accrued
royalties. Meanwhile, the aged mo
ther, through her guardian, sued
for a redistribution of the property.
Further complicating the legal
maze, a second intervenor claiming
to be Lee Bearden’s former wife
and the mother of a 10-vear-o!d
daug iter by him. entered claim for
a share in the properties when the
suit was called for trial before
Judge P A. Martin of Wichita
Fails, sitting as special judge in the
80th district court at Graham.
Judge Martin ordered consolida
tion of the claims, the unified case
to be presented during the March
term of court.
The lands involved are In Young
oounty and the 500 acres on which
oil is produced are in the Olney
field.
SOLDIERS MAY •
BUILD ROADS
Mexican Secretary Of War
Fights Inactivity On
Part Of His Men
_'Special to the Herald'
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 14—Rather
than have his men remain Idle
during periods when there Is no
military activity Secretary of War
Joaquin Amaro would have them
do road work. He has offered the
services of his soldiers for the con
struction of federal highways.
Federal highway construction is
proceeding rapidly. Latest advices
are to the effect that the national
highway, which is to link Mexico
City to the American border at
Laredo, will be provisionally open
aa far south as Valles. State of San
Luis Potosi. 440 kilometers from
Mexico City, by January 1. The
highway is to be completed to Mex
ico City by September, 1930.
Construction of the highway from
Ciudad Victoria to Matamoroa, has
been completed as far as San Fer
nando. half way to the border, and
is expected to be finished within
four months.
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By the Political Analyst
AUSTIN. Dec. IS—It is said Tex
as will fight to defend states’ rights
in railroad consolidation, provided
it can get permission of the inter
state commerce commission to file
its protests.
• • •
A law is under fire now before
supreme court in a test case that
i Is important beyond the question
' involved in the particular case.
A Beaumont title guaranty com
: pany attacks the section of the law
requiring such companies to have
not less than $100,000 capital stock.
• • •
The big question here is whether
the state can deny any man the
right to engage In lawful business,
because he doesn't happen to be
as big, financially, as his competi
I tors.
If the law stands up. some fut
ure legislature, dominated by the
friendship for trusts and big busi
ness easily could legislate the whole
business of Texas into the hands
of a few super-combines.
• • •
Apparently, the legislature could
limit any firm to a certain volume
of business based upon its capital.
But to say that a $90,000 company,
otherwise complying with the law can
not do business because it isn't a
$100,000 company, suggests to a non
legal mind questions of fairness and
sound government policy.
Humor pays, as is shown In the
case of W. E. Reed of Stephens
county, his propensity to crack a
joke upon occasion helped rescue
nun from being sent to prison. The
folks that coulan’t see a Joke haled
him Into court when he jovially re
marked he had butchered a neigh
bor's bull; but his success is con
vincing an appeals court his words
often were for point and not sub
stance sent the case back for re
trial.
m • •
There seems to be a conflict in
engineering technique and in econ
omic practice that has pitched it
self into concrete form at many
places in Texas. Engineers of high
way construction insist that main
highways should skirt around so
as to miss the town and cities. The
people of the state, moire than half
of them in towns and cities, seem
to want the highways to be located
where they will serve the most
people—particularly the home peo
ple that pay for them,
So far no law has been passed to
keep a motorist from slowing down
when he passes through a town.
• • • •
People of the Rio Grande Valley,
seeming to want some color and
action in the governor's race next
year, insist that Sheriff A. Y. Bak
er, muy grande hidalgo de la ha
cienda, in Hidalgo county, shall run
for the office.
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Watch for it.
Hot pups! The wife has gone to see Mother, the
train has just left and as she boarded it, you presented
her with a big bouquet of flow’ers bought at The Flow
er Shop, Brownsville, and your last words were of love.
Already you have been preparing, you go to the
Brownsville Sheet ana Metal Works and get the radi
ator for the car, all leaks fixed, it’s good as new; you
pay them with a Texas Bank and Trust Company
check. For, of course,’ you have a nice juicy account
there.
You then go to the Court House Garage and fill up
with gasoline and oil and have the old bus shined till
it looks like new. At The Brownsville Variety Stores
you buy yourself a nifty shirt and a swell tie, then a
classy pair of shoes at The International Shoe Store.
From there a first class marcel! in your hair at The
Ideal Beauty Shop.’ At McKay’s Pharmacy you buy
a bottle of the best of perfume, which you use pro
fusely. Then you are off up the Valley to see what
you can see.
You drive up and down the streets of San Benito,
but, no, they don’t seem to notice you, so you stop in
at The Flower Shop and buy another bouquet. But,
this one is placed in the vase in your car for attraction.
Then you are off for Harlingen. Perhaps you feel a
bit of guilt, so you stop in at the offices of The Rio
Grande. National Life Insurance Company, while there
and pay that premium that has just about lapsed. You
feel better, but, none of the fairer sex have so much
as looked your way. It must be your suit. True, it is
a bit old. Therefore, you stop in at Foraker Clothes
Shop and buy yourself a real sw’ell suit and then up
and down the street you go, trying to catch an eye.
But, it's no use. So, farther up the Valley you drive.
Suddenly at Weslaco the thought strikes you that
you are hungry, so you, of course, stop at Mistletoe
Creameries, Inc., and buy a whole quart of ice cream.
Not enough, of course, for by the time you have gotten
to McAllen, you have eaten it all yourself.
At McAllen you decide the trouble is with your
hands so you stop at The Marinello Beauty Shop and
get your nails manicured. My! What a neat job of it
they do there.
Then you drive around and around some more,
but, no, they won’t even look your way. So on up to
Mission you go. But, the same luck there—not a rise.
At last you have it when you see the shop of The Mari
nello Beauty Parlor at Mission. Don’t most of the sin
gle fellows these days wear a little paint on their
cheeks? Sure they do. So you have it done there. It
is a masterpiece of work. Just as you get in your car
again, two good lookers pass you and smile and one
remarks, “Doesn’t Grandpap look sweet!”
Bosh! You duck your head and drive like fury to
Brownsville. Upon reaching there you eat the best of
food at The Houston Cafe and^it straightens your tem
per out too.
You drive home; send the suit to The American
Cleaners and Dyers so wifey won’t know that it has
been worn; phone the Sanitary Milk Company to start
the milk again in the morning. Another call to the
Brownsville Battery Company for one of their unex
celled batteries, and you spend the rest of the wife’s'
vacation where you belong—at home.
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