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2^IBTY-EIGHTH YEAR—NO. 192 _BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1930 EIGHT PAGES TODAY _Be A COPY
IN OUR
VALLEY
I*™** By CHARLES HALLmmmJ
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* HOW ABOUT IT?
What I have done is due to
patient thought:*
—Sir Isaac Newton.
j? - 31ier® 1* a lot less drinking
the higher circles of society
| now than there has been.-'
—Henry Ford.
“Spring is the boyhood of the
year. *
—Tennyson.
I can never have anything
but the tenderest feeling toward
Hollywood:
—Adolpe Mcnjou.
"Women endanger their health
py eating foods which they
fondly nope will cure whatever
i* wrong with them -'
—Dr. Morris Fishbeln. health
authority
Brownsville and the valley
I today pause to observe San Jac
* Into Day, the anniversary of the
tile near Houston, which led to
xas independence from Mexico.
In the city, schools and banks
losed and at Edinburg a cele
is planned, according to an
cement made today.
America has long been known as
the melting pot of nations.
With Texas founded and built by
men from every 6tate in the Union.
Mil* state might well be called the
remelting pot of the nation. That
is one reason we have such fine
people in this state. And in the
Valley they are gathered from the
four comers as probably in no other
ppet in the United States.
• # •
rXAS Is taking a holiday, but
the business of the nation as a
whole is continued. It is today
that the Omnibus bill of $111,000,000
is expected to be Introduced. In it
is the Valley’s port project.
This has caused many who other
wise would be resting easily to await
today’* issue of the daily papers to
see if the project has started on its
way to the president for signature.
Its passage through both houses Is
generally conceded by those supposed
to know.
• • •
CAPTAIN W. W. Sterling, who has
Just returned from New York
I where he was a Judge in a rodeo,
is a great friend of Irvin S. Cobb.
famous writer.
He was with him much while there,
and he said Cobb kept asking about
Texas Wanted to know how many
inhabitants it had. When told about
5,000.000, he answered that from
the noise he has been hearing late
ly he thought there were at least
5,000,000 real estate men.
He intimated that he is planning
a trip to Texas with Houston his
destination. Captain Sterling says
he is going to get him to come down
and visit the Valley. That will be
a move well worth while
• • •
WHAT now seems will be the next
fad to sweep the country Is glid
ing.
With a glider club planned for
Brownsville, it is said the whole
nation is threatened with taking up
the sport. One reason for this is
that the light machines can be han
dled by anyone who can ride a bi
cycle and that they are almost fool
jjteof. That is unless some beginner
Bes a notion to loop the loop, or
|5nething else foolish.
The altitude record in a glider is
about 9.000 feet. And It is thought
that the stage will soon be reached
when the flier can stay up indefi
nitely. Germany is paying much
attention to it, and it is said that
Uncle Sam favors the sport in order
to eep the youth of t!i* nation air
minded. Some have even said that
Germany is thus seeking supremacy
of the air.
It may be that soon in the Valley
glider stories will be comparing with
our fish stories.
• • *
Speaking of fish stories,-it
Is reported that E. C. Bacon kill
ed a bird on the wing with a pis
tol. The engineer of this column
would never have believed It at all,
if he had not seen it himself. Some
thinss these land men tell you are
true8 despite what Wisconsin and
D'But'af*joking aside it might not
hr a bad idea for Governor Moody
♦a Diace Mr. Bacon on that com
mittee of Texans on the Wisconsin
matter It was he who convinced
John Newman, if we remember cor
!v
*vw~* • • •
Whisper it. customers, but we
are about to get our street signs.
2 a Rosenthal called up Sat
,ftV «nd said he wanted to answer
letters. Said he is advertising
®“T b,d* Wanted to know if that
I ^ answer enough. We ll say it
. . •
FOUND ON the wires
Lakewood. N. j. — Nickels, in
ctead of dimes, are the latest
from John D. Rockefeller. He
«,c_ed out several to children after
r^ter sendees in the First Baptist
C38jaTEMALA CITY - This city.
jBkl of the Guatemalan republic,
<*Antirely without stairways. Earth
are the reason. Second and
?Ktrd stories were abandoned when
•SfUy «s rebuilt atrer a dlsas
tbe miake In 1916.
trwFV? vORK — Long Island is
..Jilted over the possibility of be
lief covered with waving palm trees
f?«n sir Arthur Rostron. com
0f the transatlantic liner.
?*Sngaria. is inclined to think that
westward movement of the
if stream will make the island
finical in nature. Dr. Frank L.
arrant, Brooklyn geologist, doubts
fhat the course of the stream is
chanf1™
VALLEY PORT
PROJECT HITS
HOUSE FLOOR
Action I* Expected
Friday With Easy
Passage Seen
(Special to The Herald.)
WASHINGTON, April 21—Car
rying an appropriation of $2,158 000
for the Lower Rio Grande Valley
port project, and providing $150,
000 annually for maintenance, the
rivers and harbors bill was report
ed in the house today. Under the
terms of an agreement earlier in
the week it will be taken up by the
house Friday. April 25.
Practically no opposition is ex
pected in the house, but there will
| be some controversy in the senate
over the proposed Great Lakes to
the Atlantic waterway projects,
Northwestern senators favoring the
St. Lawrence route and Eastern sen
ators advocating the all-American
route througn the Erie canal. Sen
ate leaders assert they will not per
mit this controversy to jeopardize
the general bill, and that in the
event senatorial differences cannot
be composed the proposed water
way will be removed from the bill
and taken up in a separate meas
ure.
The Opposition
So far a* can be ascertained there
is no opposition In either the house
or senate to the Valley project. It
was among the first project* in
serted in the bill and received the
unanimous vote of the committee.
The Valley port appropriation is
conditioned upon a contribution of
$2,425,000 and certain real estate
by the local interests. The bill
carries every proviso requested by
Congressman Garner and the
Brownsville and San Benito-Polnt
Isabel navigation districts, assur
ing no duplication in the cost of
constructing the inner channel
from Brazos Santiago Pass to Long
Island, and granting the districts
permission to widen the inner
channels at their own expense, if
deemed necessary.
The Valley project, the largest in
the bill for the Gulf coast area,
ranks ninth among the 160 projects
for which specific appropriations are
made.
The bill carries authorization for
a survey of a “waterway from Har
lingen, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico
by way of the Arroyo Colorado to the
Liagur ~ Mad re and cut across Padre
Island or such other route as may
be deemed advisiable.” The cost
of this survey will be met from the
regular War Department appropria
tion for this purpose.
No Action
Army engineers stated today that
no action had been taken on the
application of the Arroyo naviga
tion district for permit to cut across
Padre Island opposite the mouth
of the Arroyo Colorado and that
they are awaiting the final report
I of Major Fox of Galveston who is
securing data on tides within the
Laguna Madre. It was stated that
the decision of the engineers woul$
hinge upon the probably effect this
cut would have on the tidal flow
through the proposed ship channel
at Brazos Santiago.
The bill carries the following pro
visos which were inserted by un
animous vote of the committee for
the purpose of clearly Interpreting
the government's requirements:
“Provided, that no expense shall
be incurred for the acquiring of
anv lands required to be donated
to the United States for the pur
pose of this improvement or for
other purposes.
Direct Route
“Provided further, that the chan
nel from the inner side of the Pass
to Long Island and thence to the
turning basin near Brownsville
shall be situated entirely within
what Is known as the Brownsville
navigation district, and shall take
the most direct practicable route
toward Brownsville: and
"Provided further. That if both
Brownsville and Point Isabel chan
nels and turning basins are con
structed the total amount to be
contributed In cash by local inter
ests shall be in the sum of $2,425,000,
thus avoiding duplication of the
expense of constructing the chan
nel from the inner side of the Pass
to Long Island, estimated at $200.
000; and
"Provided further, that the width
of any or all inner channels may be
widened provided such proposed
widening meet* the approval of the
chief of engineers and all expense
incident thereto is paid by the local
interests.”
Chicago Triple Slaying Held
Retaliation in Gangsters ’ War
CHICAGO, April 21.—The
Blue Hour saloon, no stranger to
gang murder, saw a tripple slay
ing Easter morning.
One man entered the speakeasy,
tossed a bill on the bar and or
dered beer. Two minutes later he ran
out. the beer untouched, change
from his dollar bill on the bar—
and three dead men on the sawdust
floor.
Walter Wakefield. "The Fibber",
lay dead behind the bar. A bullet
had struck him in the back of the
head.
Frank Del Re. sometimes called
Frank Dire. 33, also had been shot
in the back, apparently as he
sought to flee.
Joseph Special. 28, partner of Del
Re in the operation of the grog
t, lay dead in front of the bar.
He had been shot in the chest as
the assassin turned to meet his at
tack. In one dead hand Special
clasped a knife. In the other, grip
ped like a club, was the bust of a
plaster saint.
Detectives saw the murders as a
score against the A1 Capone gang,
for the three dead men were Cap
one disciples. They saw the crime
both as a refutation to the reported
“peace agreement" in gangland and
as a challenge to the Capone over
lordship.
There were political and labor
racketeering angles, too. the racket
eering possibilities being regarded
as particularly significant in view
of persistent word lately that Cap
one had ambitions to "muscle” into
labor organizations.
Texas Observes Anniversary
Of Battle of San Jacinto
Edinburg Joins Celebration Over State In
Commemoration of Day on Which
Texas Won Its Freedom
(By The Associated Preea.)
Renewing its ties with a heritage of heroism from its patriot founders.
Texas halted Its tasks today to commemorate the 94th anniversary of
the battle of San Jacinto, which freed it from Mexican rule.
On the sacred Tfxas day, Texas soil was prepared to receive the state’s
first governor, with the reburial In the state cemetery In Austin of the
body of James Pinckney Henderson.
The body was brought from the Congressional cemetery at Wash
ington, where It had rested since Henderson died on March 4, 1858. while
TO BECOME BRIDE
Alexandra Van Rensellaer Dev
ereux. above, one of Philadelphia’s
prettiest debutantes, is to be mar
ried soon to Rodman Wanamak
er. 2d. millionaire aviator and son
of the late Thomas B. Wanamak
er- Miss Devereaux made her so
ciety debut in 1928. is a graduate
of the Foxcroft School in Middle
burg. Va., and expert horse
woman.
AIRMAIL USED ~
FOR TOMATOES
Harlingen Ships First Air
Crate From Valley
To Pittsburgh
• Special to The Herald.i
HARLINGEN. April 21.—The first
crate of tomatoes ever shipped out
of the Valley by airmail left Har
lingen Monday, addressed to I.
Cohen and Son. Pittsburgh Pa.
The totatoes were handled by A.
D. McMinn company, Harlingen,
and the shipment will cost Cohen
approximately $63. according to R.
W. Daniels.
The tomatoes, weighing 35 pounds
were mailed in Harlingen, brought
to the Brownsville Municipal air
port. and placed in a plane there.
This is possibly the first shipment
of vegetables ever to leave the Val
ley by airmail, Mr. Daniels dis
closed Monday, and is definitely
the first tomatoes to be expressed
by plane.
April May Set Mark
In Local Air Travel
Air travel Monday was heavy, ca
cording to Mexican Aviation com
pany officials here, who stated that
planes arriving and departing were
loaded to capacity.
Among those traveling by air
plane were W. Sheldon, of New
York, routed to Tampico: Bryl and
Rose Buckley, Tampico, returning
to Tampico from Brownsville: W.
E. Edmundson. C. A T.’s local man
ager. to Mexico City: G. E. Tail
man. Mexico City, to Mexico City;
E. W. Jarman, FOrt Worth oil man.
to Mexico City; Mrs Kenneth Hoff
man. Tampico, to Tampico: V. R.
Garfies. New York, to Tampico.
"Air travel is increasing every
month.” authorities here said Mon
day. "We expect to have a banner
month in April.”
i serving as United States senator
from Texas.
Services were planned in the state
senate chamber of the capitol, with
Judge O. 8. Lattlmore of the court
of criminal appeals delivering the
oration. Henderson served as at
torney general and ambassador from
the republic of Texas to England.
All state departments in the capi
tol were closed for the day.
Thousands at Battlefield
At the battlefield of San Jacinto,
near Houston, thousands of Texans
Edinburg Celebrates
Edinburg, in the Rio Grande
Valley, planned a valley-wide
celebration, including an address
by J. Frank Dobie, University of
Texas Instructor, authority on
early Texas life and author of
books on Texas cowboy folklore.
gathered on their annual pilgrim
age to lay wreaths on the graves of
tlie fallen heroes.
Relation of the story’ of how the
800 Texans under General Sam
Houston, with cries of • Remember
the Alamo and Goliad.”—where
Texas patriots Had been slaughtered
—surprised General Santa Anna
and his soldiers at their siesta hour
with a sudden victory—was on the
program arranged by sons and
daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Speakers on the program included
Clarence R. Wharton, relative of
John A. Wharton, one of the heroes
of San Jacinto: and W. E. Kendall,;
grandson of General Sidney Sher
man, who vommanded tlie left wing
of the Texan troops in the victory.
Chimes In the tower of the main
building at the University of Texas,
in Austin, were attuned to the
strains of "Come to the Bower.” the
song which according to tradition, j
Texas soldiers sang before the Bat- 1
tie of San Jacinto.
Moody to Speak
San Antonkrs annual Fiesta de
San Jacinto occupied the attention
there, with the historic Battle of
Flowers at noon, after which Gov
ernor Dan Moody was on the pro
gram for an address at a luncheon.
In the afternoon the annual pil
grimage to the Alamo was planned.
Patriotic, civic and fraternal or
ganizations Joined in preparing the:
ceremony of laying wreaths there
honoring heroes who died in the
Alamo's defense. j
Beaumont’s celebration took the,
form of a fiesta opening the Eva
dale bridge, replacing ferry service!
which had been in use in the Neches |
river between Texas and Louisiana;
since the days of the Texas repub- j
lie._
City Opens Dog Campaign
■i
All Fidos to Face Firing Squad Unless Tag
Shows Vaccination for Rabies
It's going to be bad going for Fido. Bulger or Chocolate Drop from now
on unless said canine has documentary evidence that he has been im
munized against hydrophobia. The city health officer has ruled an em
ergency against rabid dogs in Brownsville.
All dogs running at large not wearing tags indicating vaccinatior. are
be incarcerated for a term of three days during which time the owners
may appear to go on the pet’s bond and have him immunized. Failing
in that, owners are advised that the pups will face the firing squad for
SEEK PARENTS
Pharr Official* Find Boy
Strayed From Home
(Special to The Herald.)
PHARR. April 21.—The clock toll
ed two-thirty. The town had long
been asleep.
A ragged little urchin ol about
ten mounted the steps of the Hotel
Pharr and entered. He spied the
push under the legend "Night Bell"
and rang It.
The night clerk emerged to find
him in tears. When questoned It
was gleaned that his home was In
San Antonio and he had run away.
He was frighteend and sleepy.
He first said that he had gone
down to the golf course and that
when he returned his mother and
father were gone. Later he decided
that he had no parents. “I ain’t
nobody's and nobody don't want
me”, he sobbed. The clerk put him
to bed.
The next morning, before he
awoke, the proprietor sought out
the city marshall in an attempt to
find his parents. He was panic
stricken and declared that he did
not want to go back. He said his
parents made him work. At noon he
disappeared and was found half an
hour later in a field over a mile
flW&V.
Officer Merle Kelly bought him
new clothing and is holding him in
an attempt to locate his parents.
The boy himself was either too
frightened to assist wMth informa
tion or would not.
He had stayed in the Municipal
Park opposite the hotel from the
time the golf links closed until two
thirty.
i summary «xecuuw
"Woof. woof, and please. Mr. Of
ficer, I had that blamed tag only
yesterday, but somehow I must have
misplaced It in my business suit."
may be the appealing note in the
eyes of stray little dogs. But the
law will take its course. "Vacci
nate," soy the city powers.
A written certificate of vaccina
tion from a veterinarian, giving ac
curate description of the dog. date
of immunization, name and address
of the owner, is required.
A copy of the certificate must be
immediately furnished the chief of
police containing the number of
the metal tag which shall be at
tached to the collar of the dog at
all times.
During the three-day period of
grace the animals will be impound
ed bv the city a board-and-room
bill of 50 cents daUy will accumu
late.
A veterinarian should be called
immediately to take care of the
animals, city offiicals warn.
If You Must Bellow
Don’t Pick Brahma
It is safe to bark at a dog and
meow at a cat. but when one bel
lows at a Brahma bull, it is advis
able to be prepared to do something
and do it quickly.
This is the advice of Joe Cobol
ini and Harry Richardson, who ex
perimented over the week-end.
The two Brownsville men were
east of town on the flats, and when
a herd of Brahmas filed past in a
dignified manner. Joe Cobolini
bellowed lustily.
Apparently, the bellow had all
the earmarks of a challenge, and
the head bull stopped, snorted and
started in pursuit.
Both men were safe and sound
Monday, so it is obvious that they
escaped successfully.
VALLEY LAND
VIEW JURY
IS AD ON
Moody and Kohler
Join Hands On
Controversy
AUSTIN. April 21—{^—Governor
Moody said today he would grant
the request of Governor Walter
Kohler of Wisconsin to appoint a
committee of Texans to act with
a similar delegation from Wiscon
sin as a "Jury of view* to Inspect
the Rio Orande Valley and other
Texas lands affected by action of
the Wisconsin State Realty board
in refusing permits to certain agen
cies to sell land there.
"I am pleased Governor Kohler
has agreed to send a committee to
Texas to make a first hand In
spection In order to fairly estimate
the productivity of Texas lands,”
Governor Moody said.
"I shall appoint a committee of
Texans to serve with the Wisconsin
delegation and I feel oonfident that
the differences created by Wiscon
sin's action toward Rio Grande
Valley lands will be definitely ad
justed.”
Moody Wires
Herald
The following telegram sent Koh
ler: “I am gratified to learn from
newspaper reports that you will ap
point a committee of citizens of
Wisconsin to meet with a committee
of Texas and consider the situation
created by action of the Wisconsin
real estate brokers board concern
ing the sale of Texas lands to citi
zens of Wisconsin. It is hoped that
this committee will come to Texas
and Join a committee of our citi
zens for an Inspection of the Rio
Grande Valley and other sections
of the state. If the committee will
go to the Rio Grande Valley, it will
see the greatest vegetable and citrus
fruit country on the North Amer
ican continent. The development of
this section of our state is properly j
described by the name "Magic Val- !
ley”, which we give it. I want
to invite and urge you to personally
accompany the committee to Texas.
The people of Texas would be de- ,
lighted to have you visit our state,
and w-e will show' you a most un
usual development of a splendid j
country.
*Sigr.ed> Moody.
Florida Sheriff
Is Shot to Death
BLOUNTSTOWN. Fla., April 21—
wP—Sheriff C. D Clark of Calhoun
county was shot to death on a l
street here today by J. T Black- j
well, employe of the lederal gov
ernment.
Deputy Sheriff McClelland said j
Blackwell, apparently without warn- j
ing. drew a pistol as Clark passed
him on the street, and fired five
or six times at his bark. Three of
the bullets struck the sheriff, kill
HE’LL TRY SUIT
Judge W. Lee Estes, above, of
Texarkana, will hear the *1,000,
000 libel suit of R. B. Creager.
below, national Republican com
mitteeman from Texas, against
Collier's Weekly. The suit, based
on magazine articles relative to
Creager * part In Texas politics,
is scheduled for trial May 5, at
Brownsville.
GEORGE WINS
MEXICO TITLE
Brownsville Golf Shooter
Takes Tampico Match
In Amateur Play
J. M. George, Brownsville, won
the International amateur golf
championship of Mexico by taking
first place at the Tampico tour
nament which came to a close Mon
day.
Mr. George, accompanied by G.
C. Richardson, returned to Browns
ville by plane at 1 p. m today.
He won the championship by de
feating J. H. Miller, Tampico. In
the finals 2 up and 1 to go.
The local man was presented with
a silver cup as a token of his vic
tory. it is said.
The match at Tampico was mark
ed by an intense rivalry between
Tampico and Monterrey. During
the tournament between Browns
ville country club and Monterrey
recently. Mr. George was invited to
participate in the Tampico play
under the colors of the Monterrey
club, but instead Tampico officials
extended a special invitation to the
Brownsville club to attend.
Mr. George and G. C. Richardson
were the only two men from
Brownsville to travel south, how
ever.
“The winning of this tournament
by ‘Chief’ George means excellent
advertising for Brownsville and the
Valley." Mr Richardson said Mon
day “The report* will be circulat
ed all over Mexico and the United
States."
Explosion Calls Out
City Fire Department
Explosion of an oxaoetylene tank
on the back end of a car called the
fire department to the home of H.
Lupton, 1611 Garfield, about 2
o'clock this afternoon. No damage
was done, the department extin
guishing the flames quickly by the
use of chemicals.
The car was parked in the yard
of Lupton’s home and no reason
could be ascertained for the explos
ion of the tank, which suddenly
burst into flames.
Fire chief T. P. Serran made
another run Monday morning to
the resaca where divers were search
ing for the body of Daniel Garcia,
13, believed drowned.
— - ..
Parley Envoy* Ready
To Sail for Home
LONDON. April 21—</P)—An
nouncement was made at St.
James palace this noon that the
last plenary session of the Five
Power Naval conference would be
held at 10:30 a m. tomorrow. The
treaty drawn up here, a three
power limitation pact with some
five-power sections, will be signed
at that time.
On the strength of the announce
ment. the American delegation hap
pily concluded their sailing arrange
ments for the trip back home aboard
the Leviathan, which may be held
at Southampton until Wednesday
morning for them.
Five Picnickers Die
After Eating Pork
PLACER VILLE. Calif., April 21.
——Trichinosis, caused by eating
Improperly prepared pork, today
had claimed the lives of five mem
bers of a picnic party at which
homemade salami was served sev
eral weeks ago.
Two of the victims died yester
day. They were Irene Ma&r, 25,
and Louise Wunschell. 16. Others
who died from the disease were
Mrs. Louis Wunschell, 45; her
daughter. Frieda. 13. and George A.
Wunschell. her brother-in-law, sev
enteen other persons were made
*1L
Resaca Searched
For Boy’s ody
Daniel Flores Believed Drowned in 15-Foot
Waters of Joe Wells Resaca; Divers
Fail to Locate Youngster
thving parties this afternoon are searching the 13-foot waters of Joe
Wells resaca few the body of Daniel Garcia. 13, believed drowned about
noon Monday while fishing or swimming in the lake.
Crowds lined the shore* of the resaca while men from boats dived into
the waters looking for the youth's body. Early report* were that if the
divers failed, dragnets will be used
First information of the drowning was spread by a frightened little
boy's running down Fourteenth street crying that his companion had
IRVINS. COBB
PLANS VISIT
Ranger Captain to Rope
Writer atid Bring Him
To Valley
While the Valley Is busy inviting
men as A1 Smith, Arthur Brisbane,
Governor Kohler and Governor
Moody to the Valley, W. W. Sterl
ing. Falfurrias. State Ranger cap
tain. intends to add another nation
al character to this list.
This is none other than Irvin
Cobb. While talking to the famous
humorist in New York. Mr. Cobb
said he wanted to “get down to
rexas as often as he can", and In
timated that he expected to visit
In Houston some time in the near
future.
“When he gets to Houston, I will
have to go up and get him and
bring him on down to see the Val
ley and cow country area of the
Rio Grande border", Captain Ster
ling said.
The Ranger captain visited with
him while he was Judging a rodeo
In New York. Another Judge in the
contest was a Mormon bishop from
Canada. He said Cobb could not
get through remarking about the
co-incident of a Mormon bishop
find a Texas ranger being on the
same committee in New York.
DEATH LIST
SHORTER
ABILENE. April 21—(&>— Two
children were dead and Mr. and
Mrs. Harve Smith of Thrifty. Brown
county, and Mrs. T. E. Brice of
Coleman were in a hospital here
in a critical condition and two oth
er children were hurt as the re
sult of an automobile-bus accident
south of Lawn, 30 miles south of
here, yesterday.
The accident occurred when a
Brown wood - Abilene bus st arted
around a string of cars and collided
with the Smith car. The group was
returning home after visiting Mrs.
Brice and Smith’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. H Smith at Jayton.
The dead were a four-year-old
eon of the Smiths* and Dink Brice,
seven years old. Bobby Smith. 2,
and Levera Smith. 8, were the chil
dren hurt.
Playt Hero
DALLAS. April 21—/.**—P. C.
Rogers of Sherman, telephone com
pany employe who had come to
Dallas to attend a safety training
course, today was the hero of a
practical demonstration In which
he snatched Isaac Davis. 13, from
possible death under the wheels of
a street car.
When the youth started to run
across a street yesterday, he slipped
and fell in front of the trolley car.
The motorman quickly lowered the
front guard, but it fell on the boy.
and he rolled under it.
Rogers ran to the front of the
car. braced himself with one hand
and grasping the boy with one hand
ran with the car. holding the youth
clear of the wheels until the car
could be halted.
Train-Auto Collision
QUANAH, April 21—<;p>—Leo. H.
Smith. 33. was killed and R. L.
Hooker. 26. was injured seriouslv
yesterday when Smith drove his
automobile into a moving Orient
freight train at a grade crossing
near here.
Smith, for 15 years chemist of
the Quanah cotton oil mill, and
Hooker, employe of the mill, were
en route to Wichita Falls to at
tend a church mass.
Missionaries Held
Under Death Threat
SHANGHAI. April 21.— (JP) —A
letter received here from one of
sixteen American Catholic mission
aries. who for weeks have been
held prisoners in the Klangsi prov
ince city of Kanchow. said that
Communist and bandit besiegers
had threatened “when Kanchow
falls, to kill every foreigner with
in the walls for robbing us of our
prize."
Although the walls continued to
halt them, the Reds, according to
the letter, dated April 4. had noti
fied Kanchow authorities to cap
ture the city- Defense of Kanchow.
the missionary said, continued un
changed with no Immediate danger
of its capture.
Meanwhile, the Reds have with
drawn part of their forces from the
siege and "while awaiting Kan
chow's fall are plundering the sur
rounding country."
been drowned in the resaca. He
was lost in Che crowd, or had gone
to his home, before his name was
learned or he had given the victim's
name.
The fire department rushed to the
resaca with a pulmotor when the re
port of drowning was spread.
Young Garcia lived on Van Buren
street between 18th and 19th street.
Joe Wells resaca is outside the
city limits, east of town.
Thousands Homeless
In Wake of Typhoon
MANILA. April 21 .—OP)—Crippled
communications today brought fur
ther evidence of the toll taken Fri
day by a typhoon which swept over
14 towns of the Island of Leyte,
demolishing the communities of
Tolo6a and Duiag. Thousands were
homeless and many believed dead
or injured.
The typhoon, of small area but
unusual intensity, came as a sur
prise since such storms rarely oc
cur at this season in the Philip
pines.
Governor De la Cruz of Leyet
wired the American Red Cross here
48 hours after the typhoon struck.
"Please secure immediate aid tog
thousands of homeless people, es
pecially food, clothing and building
materials.”
He described cocoanut trees as
standing like candles with their
tops blown off. The entire crop was
destroyed, he said.
23-Story Church Is
Opened in New York
NEW YORK. April 21—'/Pv—With
ft dance orchestra playing a syn
copated arrangement of the pil
grims' chorus from “Tannhauser."
New York's moat modem church,
housed In a $3,000,000, 23-stary
apartment hotel, opened its doors
to Broadway last night.
The Rev. Dr. Edward H. Emmett
Introduced the orchestra of Paul
Bpecht—a complete Jazz orchestra,
save for drums—in Manhattan con
gregational church, In the new
Manhattan Towers hotel, at 78th
street and Broadway.
The orchestral numbers were in
terspersed with the regular events
of the church service—a short ser
mon, prayers, selections by the
choir, and offertory duet. The
choir sang typical Easter music.
More Potatoes Asked
For Today’s Market
With today’s rise of twenty-five
cents per bushel in the price of po
atoes. Valley growers are given the
opportunity of marketing their po
tatoes steadily within the next few
days according to Fred Latham, of
the Rio Grande Valley Potato
Growers’ association.
Marketing of 125 to 150 cars per
day, to keep up a steady movement
of produce from the Valley and
maintain a constant supply for the
market, is desired. Mr. Latham
stated, and Valley growers may ar
range their harvesting and shipping
according to this demand.
STAR IS MARRIED
NEW YORK. April 21.—'<*»>—Paul
ine Frederick, stage and screen star,
was on a honeymoon today as Mrs.
Hugh Chisholm Leighton. Mr.
Leighton is her fourth husband.
They were married yesterday at the
home of the bridegroom here.
i WEATHER {
For Brownsville and the Valley :
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday;
not much change in temperature.
For East Texas: Increasing cloudi
ness tonight; somewhat warmer In
southwest portion; Tuesday partly
cloudy.
Light to moderate southerly to
easterly winds on the coast.
DAILY RIVER BULLETIN
There will be no great change In
the river stages all along during the
next 24 to 36 hours, except that it
will show a falling tendency In the
absence of any rams in the water
shed.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chn*. Bain
Sunday. April 20th.
Eagle Pass 16 1.7 -0.2 .00
Laredo 27 -1.0 .0.0 JO 0
Rio Orande 21 5.6 +1.1 .00
Mission 22 5.6 -0.6 .00
San Benito 23 91 +5.1 .00
Brownsville 18 -1.2 0.0 00
Monday, April 21st.
Eagle Pass 16 16 -0.1 .00
Laredo 27 -10 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 4.8 -0.8 .00
Mission 22 6.0 +0.4 .00
San Benito 23 9 7 +0.6 .00
Brownsville 18 3.2 +4.4 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteoro
logical conditions:
High.1:30 p. m.
Low......4:56 a. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
I Sunset today . 8 58
Sunrise tomorrow . * 'y|
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