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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR-NO. 135 BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1930 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES TODAY_8c A COPY
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IN OUR
VALLEY
»ss=B]t CHARLES HALL==^
1
I TREND OF VALLEY
NEWS OF WEEK
Monday—Application made for
permit to build causeway from
Point Isabel to Padre Island.
Tuesday—Good Humor Fiesta
plans announced.
Wednesday—A n n o u n c ement
!; made that Valley ball games will
open March 18.
Thursday— Valley shipments
reach 10,082 cars compared with
7,520 on the same date of the
preceding year.
Friday—Potato inspection made
! compulsory and Mexico issues in
vitation to Valley capital.
Saturday—Ft. Worth aerocade
visits city and State plant Path
ologist pronounces Valley or
chards being nicely cleaned.
GLANCING through the above list
ed subject*, which were selected
at a glance with reference to
developments rather for exciting or
sensational news Valley residents
can ace that the Lower Rio Grande
area is clicking right along.
What this territory will do within
the next five years none can say.
The more we achieve the more bus
iness will pick up on its own mo
meutum and it now looks like our
prosperity machine will scale the
heights in high
• • •
117HICH reminds us that while all
V* are eagerly watching for de
velopments with reference to
the port, we must not forget that a
great Impetus may come out of the
upper end of the Valley. We mean
from oil.
Nothing new to get excited about
But wo talked to Virgil Lott Friday
night and he whispered that the
Texas company's discovery well near
Roma may be a much larger pro
ducer than the fifty barrels now
shown. He said rumors there had it
that the pipe had been shoved past
the pay in an attempt to shut it
off, and it is still making fifty per
day. Foiks if that is true things
will break loose up there some day.
• • •
THE further story is that the sec
ond test now being sunk by the
Texas will tell a great tale for
that vicinity. This is now down
around 700 feet.
It was added that developments
are being waited to let a contract
for a pipe line to the Mirando field,
if production shall warrant it. or a
tank farm will be erected on the
ground If production is not so large.
We hope the best is true.
Fifty barrels per day w-arrants
further exploration, and if a hole
should be opened there which would
spout as much as 3.000 barrels per
day, small towns would take on city
aspects overnight. Oil does things
more quickly than any other whim
of fortune, even if it does not last
as long sometimes. It is one of the
lew business where a man owning
a lease, or good royalties, can go
to sleep one night a pauper and
wake up the next morning rolling
in wealth. It is also true that one
can go broke playing It.
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Brownsville and *he valley
spent a comparat.cely quiet
celebration of the holiday yes
terday. So far as reports Jiad been
received late yesterday afternoon,
not a single fatal accident had mar
red the pleasure of the day. Many
spent it in plcmcing out in the
bright sunshine.
Which reminds us that it is good
to get away from things once m a
while. To get »way from the toil
and turmoil of petty worries of bus
iness and hike it out in the open.
That is one of the 'greatest benefits
of fishing. Another good way to
accomplish the same result is to go
to church. Today is Sunday, you
know.
• • •
BESIDES oil Mr Lott is all for a
real history of the Valley which
he says properly wTitten will be
gin at Mier.
Tlie latest idea advanced is that
of a write-up of the entire Valley,
trhich will advocate it as a winter
fort, which H. E. Dowell says he
will compile and distribute in colder
areas. Not so bad at all. if properly
handled They told newspaper men
of the Valley about it Friday night
at a dinner tendered by Joe Pate.
• • •
SOME of the striking i ews off the
wires today tells of two bell boys
of the Prince George Hotel in
New York being rewarded because
they refused to procure liquor tor
a guest. They were given gold
medals and $10 each by the man
agement at a public reception.
Has the time come under the
eighteenth amendment when we
should give gold medals for obser
ving the law?
rail those who spent their ear
lier days somewhat away from
the bright lights where Satur
day afternoon was a time for a
community baseball game, and coun
try kitchens gave forth certain
gnawing odors of cookies or what
not, there was a little tragedy flash
ed to the world.
A Jacksonville housewife received
a pacing** through the mail. She
had Just read of a bomb being thus
received She telephoned the police.
They advised her to soak it in water
before she opened it. She did and
when she clipped the string she
found a watery mass of cookies from
a sister, whose address she had
temporarily forgotten.
Fr the past few weeks It seems
that the Rio Grande Valley has
more of those kind of days that
J0u read about and seldom ever see
fcwmi gag gpot w§ know of.
QUEEN’S RACE
WAXES WARM
AS DAYS PASS
Rotarian Candidate
Declared Leading
City Field
CAMPAIGNS for the two queens
of the Good Humor Carnival
are waving warm on both sides
j of the Rio Grande.
Reports from Matamoros where
the four-day fete
will be held be
ginning March I.
indicate that votes
are being unblush
ingly bought at a
rapid rate of five
cents each.
Over on the
Brownsville side
of the river, claims
to a lead laid Fri
day by backers of
Miss Eleanor
Richardson, were
declared out of or- ■
der Saturday af-|
ternoon by oacK- — —
ers of Miss Gall Rotary Quern
McDavitt. This declaration is made
in the face of an announcement
made by members of the Lion's club,
that their candidate was leading
after a day of purchasing votes in
the court house. Miss McDavitt is
backed by the Brownsville Rotary
club and her constituents are now
claiming the election,
i Meanwhile backers of Miss Aye
liffe Cobolini are saying little, and .
| whether they are sawing wood to j
spring a surprise could not be as- I
certained Saturday afternoon. Miss
Cobolini is supported by the Kiwanis
club, many members of which are
going about with a knowing smile.
■When the smoke is all dared
away there will be two queens elect
ed, one lrom Brownsville and one
from Matamoros, to lead the re- I
vellers on the four nights.
Further details of the scramble on
the other 6ide of the river are car
ried in both issues. An invitation
has been extended to the entire Val
ley to Join the two cities in the fes
tivities. The international bridge will
be open all night every night.
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House Questions
Hidalgo Resident
AUSTIN, Fez. 22—(Pj—A rcsolu-1
lion was introduced in the House
' today questioning the right of M.
E. O’Neil of Frisco to represent 1
I the counties of Grayson and Collin
, in that body.
The resolution said “it was com
monly reported'' that he had re
moved his residence from the dis- '
trict and was now living in San
Juan, in Hidalgo county.
The resolution was referred to
1 the committee on privileges, suf
lrage and elections.
Paving Discussion
To Be Held in Austin
(Special to The Herald.)
SAN BENITO. Feb. 22—County
Commissioner A. V. Logan of the
San Benito precinct left today in
conpany with County Judge Oscar
: C. Dancy for Austin, to confer with
the state highway commission in
reference to completing the paving
to Point Isabel.
The trip was scheduled for last
week, but was called off at the last
minute.
Several miles of the road remains
to be paved, and aid of the state in
paving it has been pledged.
Laredo’s Gala Fiesta
Ends With Parade
LAREDO. Feb. 22.—<P>—Partici
pated in by American and Mexican
officials and hundreds of others.
Laredo's Ihirty-sccond annual
Washington’s birthday celebration
reached its zenith here today in a
grand street parade. It was the
last play of the celebration.
Thousands of Americans and
Mexicans thronged the route of the
: procession in which gorgeously
decorated floats depicting incidents
of Americas first president's life
were Included.
San Antonio Gets
Humane Club Meet
DALLAS. Feb. 22—•.^—Announce
ment that the annual meeting of
i the Texas humane society would be
' held in San Antonio. April 25 and
26, was made here today by George
A. Lake, president.
Oppose Gas Tax
DALLAS. Feb. 22.—yJPt—Karl
Griffith, general counsel for the
Lone Star Gas company, today
said gas companies of Texas oppose
the proposed tax on natural gas.
pending before the state legislature,
"because it is a tax on a necessity
and because the companies already
are paying two similar taxes.”
Terrell Hearing Trails To
Delinquent Tax Commissions
Corralled Solons Hear of Routes Checks Took ^
In Collection Payments
To Bank Book
AUSTIN, Feb. 22.—<>P>—Testimony today before the house of represen
tatives, hearing proposed Impeachment charges against Comptroller S
H. Terrell, was designed to connect the comptroller with the Texas Tax
Record company, which was alleged to have been organized for the
purpose of collecting state and county delinquent taxes on a commission
basis.
The hearing was resumed after nearly two days idleness while pres
ence of a quorum was awaited. The quorum was obtained after ab
BOILER BLAST
PLAYS HAVOC
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla . Feb.
22—uP>—'Two oil field workers were
killed, two towns were plunged in
to darkness, interurban cars were
halted and a part of the Oklahoma
City oil fields were left without
lights or power when two boilers
exploded late tonight.
W. B. Howell and J. T. Casey, oil
field workers were hurled from the
boilers, where they had been work
ing. by the blast. Casey was dead
when his body was found and
Howell died before he could be
placed in an ambulance.
The blast occurred at the Crom
well-Franklin No. 19 well just as a
large party of eastern capitalists,
who had been on a tour of the oil
fields in various parts of the state,
arrived. They were showered with
rocks and stones, but all escaped
other than minor injuries.
r sentees had been appealed 10 reiuru
or be subject to arest.
Representatives Harold Kayton
of San Antonio, A. H. King of
Throckmorton and W. R. Montgom
ery of Edinburg, for whom war
rants had been issued, came in
voluntarily.
Documentary evidence was of
fered to show that the Texas Tax
Record company had been charter
ed with A. P. Bagby. Mrs. Gladys
M. Terrell and E. J. Martin incor
porators. The capital stock of $4
000 had been subscribed to as fol
lows: Bagby. $1,400; Mrs. Terrell,
f 1.300 and Martin. $1,300. Mrs.
Terrell was the wife of the comp
troller.
Warrant Copies Exhibited
Photostatic copies of comptrol
1 ler's warrants issued to Martin on
Dec. 18, 1928. and April 30. 1929.
and to Bagby on Dec. 31. 1928, for
sendees as employes of the comp
troller's department were exhibit
ed.
Checks drawn by C. R. Park, tax
collector of San Patricio county. '
to the Tax Record company, in pay
ment of commission due the com- j
pany on its contract to collect de
(Continued on page 2> I
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Valley Building Grows
Fast Pace Set in Short Month: Many Fine
Homes Listed in Construction List
(.Special to The Herald.)
SAN BENITO, Feb. 22 —Valley construction work during the past few
weeks is keeping up the fast pace which was set the first month of the
year, and a good record for 1930 appears certain.
A number of fairly large projects have been announced the past few
days in various 6tages.
Plans are being drawn for a $20,000 residence for Dean Porter at
Brownsville. The same architect. R. Newell Waters of Weslaco, is draw
ing plans for Mr. Porters father, R. A. Porter, at Edinburg, to cost
ABANDONED! ’
MARTINAS, Cuba.. Feb. 22—tVPj—
Ten Chinese who said they were
deserted eight days ago at an isol
ated point on the southeast coast
ol Cuba by a band of immigrant
smugglers were brought here this
morning aboard the Cuban gun
boat Havana.
Near death from starvation, the
men were placed in a local hos
pital. They had nothing to eat for
days other than roots and an oc
casional cocoanut.
Officials were told the party
boarded a boat near Havana after
paying $2,000 for safe transportation
to the United States. They were
taken to the place where they were
abandoned and told it was the
coast of the United States.
New French Naval
Body to London Wed.
PARIS, Feb. 22—«k—The newly
constituted French naval delegation
intends to leave for London Wed
nesday with Camille Chautemps.
the new premier, a member.
Chautemps announced today that
while he was going to accompany '
the delegation, foreign minister
Briand would be in charge. Other
members will be Albert Garraut.
minister of marine: M. Lamoureaux.
minister of finances, and M. Dan
ielou, minister of merchant marine.
Argentine Is Goal
Of Mexican Rebel
MEXICO CITY. Feb. 21-H/P)—
Friends of General Roberto Cruz,
one of the leaders In the Escobar
revolution last spring, say that he
is preparing to go to Argentine and
enter the cattle business there.
The general, who led the rebel at
tack on Mazatlan and succeeded in
hiding in the mountains after the
defeat of the rebel armies, is now
in Nogales. Ariz.
Greenville Elects
Mayor by One Vote
GREENVILLE. Feb. 22-^ T>—
Joseph F. Nichols was re-elected
mayor of Greenville today and had
a vote to spare. He polled 1.103
votes. His nearest opponent. C. P j
Nevlll, polled 1,102.
GIRL UNCONSCIOUS
DENTON. Feb 22—Struck by
an automobile Wednesday. Helen
Hare. 7. was still unconscious today.
about tne same.
Construction work has been
started on a $10,000 store and apart
ment building at Los Fresnos for
Gabbert and Dawson, contract hav
ing been let to A. W. Neck of
Brownsville.
L. T. Hoyt is to build a business
structure at Mercedes, part of
which will be occupied by a grocery
store. Waters is drawing plans for
the building.
Misaion C.-C. Building
The Meuse-Argonne Post of the
American Legion at Raymondville
has plans being prepared tor a new
club building.
Plans for a $35,000 chamber of
commerce building at Mission are
being drawn by Harvey P. Smith,
San Antonio architect. Contract
was let during the week to R. W.
Briggs of Pharr for construction
of an $11,000 ward school building
at Mission, on which Stanley W.
Bliss of Harlingen was architect.
A new hotel Is in prospect for
Pharr, as the city will vote on
March 10 on the question of giv
ing the city park to anyone who
will build a large hotel there.
A large tourist hotel is also in
prospect for McAllen, and rumors
are rife In other Valley cities ol
prospects for tourists hotels.
50,000 Garage
Contract was awarded at Harlin
gen to J. N. Meeks for construction
of a $50,000 garage building for the
Hollingsworth Motor company,
plans for which were drawn by
Waters. Construction work on a
garage building for Leopold Ranch,
of St. Louis, lias been started at
Harlingen, R. E. Ewing having the
contract. Cost is about $15,000.
Mercedes and San Benito are
preparing plans for high school
buildings to cost around $300,000
each, with some other structures to
be built. Phelps A: Dewees of San
Antonio are architects of the San
Benito building, which may include
a large gymnasium, and Waters is
architect on the Mercedes building.
Contract has been let and con
struction is to be started at once
on a $30 000 building at San Ben
ito for the Mittanck Furniture com
pany. contract hating been let to
W. N. Morrow.
Clnb at Monte Grande
Construction work on a $22,000
club house house for A1 and Lloyd
Parker, Inc., at the new town of
Monte Grande near Rio Hondo has
been started, E. G. Holliday of
Brownsville being architect and
contractor.
A number of buildings started
in January are nearing completion
throughout the Valley, and more
new projects are in the ofting.
These projects do not include
municipal work, such as paving,
sewers, etc., much of which is go
ing on throughout the Valley, as
well as extensive irrigation work
and other general development.
Curse of Ph araohs Holds
No Fear to Suicides Family
LONDON. Feb. 22—.*»>— Despite
I the superstition of the curse of the
Pharaohs which is supposed to
visit all who have had any share
in the Tut-Ankh-Amen excavations,
j the family of Lord Westbury who
I committed suicide yesterday, in
tend to keep their collection of
mementoes from the tomb includ
i ing richiy jeweled ornaments and
I craved Egyptian Xigure*.
A cousin of Lord West bury, whose
suicide was the latest death in a
series of tragedies which followed
explorations of Tut-Aankh-Amen s
tomb, said today that Lord West
bury had no belief in the ' curse.
of the Ph#raohs." He also added
that Lady Westbury Intended to
keep all the relics from the tomb
which had been gifts from her l&U
son, Richjurd. Betheli* j
TEXAS SOLONS
MAY SWITCH
TO TAX BILLS
penitentiary Medley
May Have New
Tune Added
AUSTIN. Feb. 22—WPi—'Tax meas
ures seemed to be In a fair way of
taking the play away from peni
tentiary reformation in .'-.e fifth
special session of the legislature.
Hearings on proposals to levy on
industries pro:... :d to be more in
teresting than consideration of the
respective bills to centralize the
penitentiary near Austin and not
to concentrate it here.
The legislature had been working
on penitentiary reorganization leg
islation so long that members re
garded it as a sort of old. worn-cut
shoe insofar as new interest was
concerned.
Six Tax Bills
In the form of bills to levy a tax
on sulphur, a tax on natural gas. a
tax on chain stores, a tax on the
aters. a tax on tobacco and a tax
on other things, the legislators had
a batch of revenue producing bills.
Governor Moody’s radio appeals
to the • people at home” could re
vive .penitentiary .legislation and
make it live once more, some ob
servers said.
The opponents of the governor's
plan to build a new industrial plant
near Austin as the hub of the sys
tem were to get busy on the air
themselves.
Three Selected
Arrangements were being made
for Representatives Harry N Graves
of Georgetown and W. E. Pope of
Corpus Christi and possibly Sena
tor A. J. Wirtz of Seguin to get
before the microphone soon in re
buttal.
However, the governor has touched
some of the constitutents as witness
telegrams that fall occasionally on
the members desk from constitu
tents. reading something like this:
• Heard Governor Moody on peni
[ tentiaries last night. Believe we owe
I ie to our state to try to reform the
, system like he suggested. Hope you
i 'll cooperate."
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Chicago Gangster
Killed at Miami
MIAMI. Fla.. Feb. 22—'4s)—M. H.
I DOC" Beddell. 32. Chicago gambler
and gangster, was shot and killed
tonight by Joe Cook. 29, who said
Beddell had alienated his wife’s af
fections and made derogatory re
marks about her. Five minutes af
ter the shooting. Cook, also an al
leged racketeer, walked into the
county Jail, turned his pistol and
made a formal statement of his side
of the case.
Beddell came here from Chicago
in November.
Warren L. Newcomb, justice of
the peace, said Cook, a Miami resi
dent for three years, had been be
fore him twice on charges of mis
treating his wife, that on both oc
I casions Beddell had intervened.
Cook was held without bond.
Justice Newcomb said he was want
ed on a warrant charging wife beat
ing at the time of the shooting.
Ft. Worth Shooting
Claims One Victim
FORT WORTH, Feb 22—<4>>—
One man was reported dying In a
I hospital here and a second was in
' the city Jail late Saturday night as
the result of a shooting earlier in
the night. James Hamey. 32. alias
Maurice Francis Harney, taxicab
driver, was shot in the abdomen and
left wrist by a man who told As
sistant District Attorney Elbert
Hooper that "he shot in self de
fense '
$400,000 Exaggerated
Larceny Statement
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Feb. 22—iJP)
—Refusing to make a statement
other than to term reports of his
alleged embezzlement of $400,000
"exaggerated.” W. S. J. Ranney of
Stockton, Cal., charged with grand
larceny on 23 counts, implied trouble
i existed among stockholders of the
company by which he was employed
at the time of the alleged crime.
Ranney, seemingly little worried,
declined to go into details other
than to say his return to California
might result in an exposure.
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Many Found Buried
In Italian Snows
GOLOGNA. Italy, Feb. 22—(/Pi
Rescue squads tunneling through
the snow tonight had brought out
the bodies of 13 dead persons from
the ruins of the village of Villa di
Mezzo, which was overwhelmed by
an avalanche of snow that demol
ished more than forty houses. They
rescued five injured. Seven persons
arc still missing.
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Condition of Taft
Remains Unchanged
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22—'^P,—The
condition of former chief Justice
Tait tonight remained unchanged,
it was reported by his physician.
Dr. Francis R. Hagner, through the
White House.
NEWSPAPERMAN DIES
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22—(JP>—
; Edward Cutler Easton. 61. chief of
the Washington bureau of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer, died here today
following a relapse from a recent
operation.
Compensation Insurance
J Rio Grande Valley I rust Co.—Adv.
VISITOR HERE
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Woma Mangled
By Fiendish Driver
Mystery Shrouds Motive for Brutal Murder
By Repeatedly Driving Auto
Over Stunned Victim
8ALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 22.— F—Crushed woeattdly bene*": .t the
wheels of her own automobile after she had been brutally attacked la*
the machine on a lonely country road near here, the body of Mrs Doro
thy Moormelster, wife of a Salt Lake physician, was found early today b
a smelter worker returning home from hi* night ahift.
Several thousand dollars worth of Jewelry, including diamond ring*,
brecelets. and a wri.st watch, mere mining from her body, which hau
been almost denuded by the battering of the automobile wheels The
car. splattered with blood, was found by police, parked or a downtown
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HON. THOMAS L. BLANTON
FAMOUS SOLON |
CRAVES CITRUS
Sees Port Here When Told
Garner Stands Behind
Move at Capital
“I’ll be back In congress next
year, and I might be called a walk
ing advertisement for Valley grape
fruit.”
These were the exact words in
the first instance, and the senti
ment in the second, of Judge
Thomas L. Blanton. Abilene, now in
Brownsville for a 10-day stay.
"I’d be in congress now, but for
A1 Smith. My men were not A1
Smith men. so I lost. But I'll be
there next year, and you can bet
your hat on that.”
“If I could ask votes from this
section I might stand an even bet
ter chance." the former stormy pet
rel of the house declared.
Has Standing Order
“I have a standing order with a
Valiev man to keep me supplied
with the fruit. I eat it every morn
ing for breakfast and it is not po
litical soft-talk when I say that it
is the best grown anywhere,” he
continued.
Asked about the local port, he
answered that it was the best thing
that had ever happened to this sec
tion.
“Regardless of how much a port
will cost you, it is worth it." he
laid emphatically, brandishing a
cigar. "Any part of the coast that
can get a port is that much better
off. Shipping rates are lower, you
can market your merchandise and
produce so much eheai*»r that you
can sell your stuff in more places
! in competition with others. You
! are extremely lucky in getting one.
j but you deserve it. I don’t doubt
: in the least that you will get one
1 soon.”
Favor Port
When it was pointed oujt that
Colvin Brown, a representative of
the National Chamber of Commerce
of WTashington, stated here recent
(Contlnued on page Two)
CUPIDS DART
HITS CALLES
FATAL BLOW
Former President Will
Honeymoon In
Europe
MEXICO CITY. Feb 22—T—
General Plutarco Ellas Calles. for
mer president of Mexico, plans to
ow is the time for all good men to
’marry Senorita
Leonor Llorente
within the next
month. It was re
ported here this
I evening in circles
close to the Calles
famllv. The couple
expect t to spend
their honeymoon
in Europe.
Senorita Llorente
Is 28 years old. She
■ resides here with
her mother and
Fiancee studies singing.
General Cades' first wife died in
Los Angeles. Calif., three years ago.
The former president is 52 years
old He married his first wife. Sen
orita Natalia Chacon, at Nogales.
Sonaro. while she was still in her
teens. She was born a Roman Cath
olic. but after her marriage adopted
her husband’s Protestant faith
She died in June. 1927, at a hos
pital in Los Angeles, where she
had gone for a gall bladder opera
tion. President Cades then was un
able to go to his wife’s bedside
of a law forbidding Mexican Presi
dents to leave the country.
Early Spring
WINONA. Minn.. Feb. 22— V—
Breaking up the earliest in eleven
years, the ice went out of the Mis*
sisippi river here today. Only once
since 1909 had the ice gone out here
earlier. That was in 1919 when the
breakup came Feb. 17.
HEADS AGENTS
EL PASO. Feb. 22.—<AV-W. R
Martin of Dallas was elected presi
dent of the Passenger. Ticket and
Freight Agents association here to
* day.
Valley League in Offing
Brownsville Included in Prospects For Four
Town Diamond Loop
“I am certain that a four-team class MD’’ league, composed of Corpus
Christt, McAllen, Harlingen and Brownsville, will operate this season.’’
Harry Wanderling, Fort Worth baseball organizer, asserted here Sat
urday afternoon.
He declared he had obtained definite assurances from the first three
named cities to the effect that they would Join the proposed Gulf Coast
loop and that he felt that Brownsville would enter. Wanderling. an ex
perienced organizer, was accompanied here by A. Magness, veteran player
___—a* manager.
HAT IN RING
I
DALLAS. Feb. 22—uP>— Walter ;
J. Reid of Dallas today announced
his candidacy against Hatton W.
Sumners, incumbent, for the of
fice of congressman from the Dal- i
las district. His platform advocated
modification of the Volstead act
his belief in the right of the people
to amend any law which was op- ;
pressive or ineffective, and his op
position to chain stores controlled
from out of the state.
Peculiar Trees May
Be New Insulator
FORT MYERS, Fla , Feb. 22—/P)
—The interest of Thomas A. Edison
has been aroused recently in the
possibility of producing paper and
insulating materials through devel
opment of a species of wood found
near his south Florida winter home.
The trees that drew the atten
tion of the aged inventor are of a
species generally known as "Punk'
trees. A grove of the variety is
located about 20 miles south of
Fort Myers, where it has grown
! wild for several years on the shores
of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Advertising Pays
CHICAGO, Feb. 22-4/P—Kraft
Phenix Cheese corporation an
nounced today that $2,825,000 would
be spent this year in an advertising
and promotional campaign. $2,000.
000 of this in the United States and
the remainder in Europe, Australia,
Canada and Cuba. . I
Wanderling was sounding out.
Brownsville fans on the proposed
league Saturday and will stay tor
several weeks. The Fort W’orth
man organized the West Texas
league two years ago. He Is enthu-,
siastic over the prospects here.
-This country is ready for or
' *nized baseball. I never saw' fans
more enthusiastic and this section
is without doubt one of the mixt '
prosperous in the state.”
Parks Necessary
Wanderling is conferring with lo
cal baseball men. He favors the <
formation of a league with a $1800
a month per club payroll and a
nine rockie dule. The league would
be operated on a strictly business-,
like bar’? and would not be used
as a farm, although -agreements”
with Texas league clubs would be
probable.
For Brownsville to enter it would
be necessary' to construct a ball
park and raise some S4.000, Wan
derling says.
The organized plans to call a
meeting of interested Valley teams
in the near future.
Extortionist Gang
Reported Smashed
ST. LOUIS. Feb. 22—P—A gang
of extortionists which has special
ized in kidnaping gamblers for
ransom in the St. Louis district
for the last three months has been
smashed, police chief Joseph Gerk
said today.
Gerks announcement followed
arrest yesterday of seven men and
one woman and rescue by police
of the gang's latest victim. Jacob
Huffman, downtown bookmaker who
said his abductors demanded $25,
ooo ransom.
M#U?r a
Except lor evidence* ol a »m*gg«
preceding the slaving indicated bv
tlie erratic counr ol the wheel
marks m the dirt road, and the
prints of a man s shoe* about the
scene, officers declared themselves
without clues as to what happen**-1
between the time the young matron
left her home here at 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon tn her large sedan
and the discovery of her body
She told a maid tn the home that
she had an engagement with a wo
man friend, but would be back tn
time to keep an a point men! with * ,
masseur. Her husband. Dr Frank
Moormeixter. said he talked with
her at six orlock. but he waa able
to five the officers little on which
to work.
Car I sed lo Grind Body ~~
The Slav inf was on a side road
off the Bmgham-8alt Lake high
way. and the officer* were inclined
to believe she had been to the min
ing town perched along the aide*
of a canyon, and was rBurning to
the city with a companion Aa the'
reconstructed the crime her asaaD-x
ant struck her over the head with
a heavy fragment of copper ore and
then threw her body, face down
upon the highway.
Then alter stripping it ol the
valuable jewelry the woman cus
tomarily wore, he la believed to have
driven her car back and forth oter
it. beating It into an almost uniden
tified condition Shreds of clothtn*
scattered along the road, a* well
as the wheel tracks themselves, told
the story of considered brutally.
Dr. and Mrs Muormetstri were
married here two years ago.
Trade Commission
Attacked by Patman
WASHINGTON, Feb ZS-oP*- -
Charging the federal trade census
sion has erased to be a fact finding
body'* and had become a "loophole
finding body ‘ representative Wrtfhl
Putman, democrat. Texas, to a
. statement today, denied making un
warranted charges against the cot
| tcmsetd industry.
His statement was m reply to an
article whtdh appeared in Texas
papers recently, written by Ihovotl
, S Owens, preside!!* of Um OaUa
clearing house associaouon m which
Owens upheld cottonseed manutai •
! turerx ol Texas against the trust *
charges made by Pa*man
Gas Tax Fought By
Texas Communities
AMARILLO. Feb. 22-.P-Muni
cipalities of Texas united today in
protest against a bill pending be
fore the Texas legislature proposing
a two cent tax on each 1000 cubic
feet of natural gas.
Civic organisations and land oom
era in all West Texas were mvitod
to attend a meeting called lure lor
Monday at which mean of fighting
the bill woukl be proposed
Land owners proposed to charter
a speciol tram from Amarillo to
carry a delegation of ettuens from
Panhai.wie cities to Austin to com
bat the proposed legislation
German Observatory
Finds Newest Comet
HAMBURG Feb. 23—-4*—’The
Bergedorf observatory haul aanosn
ced the discovery of a new comet
of the tenth to eleventh magnitude
and apparently relative y close to
the earth because' it moves with
great rapidity.
The comet will be visible tonight,
i but not with the naked eye, gb
degrees south m Omicron m
Ursus Mayor. It appears on photo
graphic plates as a nebula with a
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Sandino Leaving
j MEXICO CITY. Feb 22—UP
Members of the staff of General
AtigusUno Sandino, exiled Blear*
; aguan Insurgent leader today sai l
he and his enure staff, except on*
who was in jail here, would leatu
Mexico City shortly far Mend*
Yucatan, by way of Vera Cmt.
Sandino was said to be planning
to visit various Central American
countries where he has friends.
i THE WEATHER 1
1» — ■ — i
J For Brownsville and the VaOty
Cloudy to partly cloudy, not much
' change in tempera lure. Light to
fresh southerly winds on the west
coast.
For East Texas1 Part:-, cloudy.
Light to fre*h southerly so wester,
winds o nthe coast
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Dat*'
today under normal nieteoroiggBa
conditions:
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Low ...
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
‘ounnac today .. f.Jri
Woman Celebrates
Her 107th Birthday
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Feb. 22—
Wl—Mrs. Catherine English, who
was born on Washington's birthday,
today celebrated her own 107th
birthday anniversary.
Mrs. English, who recently re
covered from a .serious illness. Is
active despite her age. She took
pari m a quiet celebration at her
home among relatives and Xrnendi.