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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—NO. 241 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1930 TEN PAGES TODAY 6e A COPY
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IN OUR
VALLEY |
tea BY C. M. HALL >s^
HOW ABOUT IT?
“I should like to be known as
a former president who tries to
mind his own business.”
—Calvin Coolidgc. >
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“Every man who does not do
his best commits the unpar
donable sin.”
—William Lyon Phelps.
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! “I have been through five
business depressions. They all
act alike. The men who, if busi
jrVss fell off 66 per cent increas
iBfd their selling effort 75 per
cent, managed to pull through,
*s if there were no depression,
and the efforts of such men
tend to shorten the periods of
depression."
—Thomas A. Edison.
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“America is rebuilt every 40
years”
—A. F. Dickinson, president of
a national limestone company.
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“He who is taught to live ;
i; upon little owes more to his
father's wisdom than he who
has a great deal left him does
11 his father's care.” 5
—William Penn. j
BACK again with hand on the i
throttle, the engineer of this
column rises to remark that if
there is anything better than a nice
vacation It is that of getting home
again.
Vacations are fine except they are
not properly named. It is an en
durance contest which takes your
mind off your work and therefore
rests you with a change of activity.
But it is well and good for every
live person has to br doing some
thing all the time.
Probably one of the greatest sum
mer needs of the nation today is a
place to recuperate from vacations.:
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BUT how good the Valley looks
when you roll into it at Edin
burg. Really there is no place
like it—except that right now we
probably need to all take one day
off and cut our weeds. Tins writer
almost had to call signals to get into
his own front yard. That is what
the rains have recently done.
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MOST deplorable accident oc
■jPJt curred at the Brownsville air
jx>rt yesterday. E. J. Snyder,
crack pilot of the Pan American
company, was hurleo 150 feet to
his death in demonstrations for the
Brownsville Glider club.
The breaking of a strap is said to
have been the cause of tire accident,
which was viewed by the largest
crowd at the airport since Lindbergh
visited the city, and one which ri
valled the gathering of that day.
The Incident brings to an untimely ,
end the life of a vigorous young
man, admirtd by his associates, but
it does net mean that gliding is a
dangerous sport or occupation. Sny- j
der’s death is deeply regretted and
sincere sympathies are extended his'
relatives and friends, but figures
show that gliding accidents are still!
less frequent in ratio to that of
automobiles.
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LKS, the Magic Valley is getting
more and more before the pub
lic eye. Its fame has finally j
saturated into the smaller real es- i
tate offices of Arkansas. Now please '
let none shoot us for that, but it is;
true. The engineer of this column,
dropped into a number of such of
fices, and told that he was from
Brownsville.
From several he got the following
response:
“Let’s see that is in what they call
the Valley, isn’t it?"
“Is that in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley or the Magic Valley?"
Now that is what we get for hav
ing two names.
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AT the time of our leaving, it seem- ;
ed that the senate was Just ready
to vote on our port project, but
on our return we find the solons are
•till lagging on the tariff. Guess
®e will have to write John Garner
Cbout it.
But the Brownsville navigation'
district certainly did nobly in voting
the $1,500,000 additional bond issue
—and the city has a population of
#22.050.
We told everybody in Arkansas
[ that we had 25.000, but they won t j
find out the difference until we '
catch up with the figure.
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ANIMATED Annie says that travel I
by automobile is again popular- j
izing the packing of your lunch !
along, which generally died out
about the time women quit wearing
sun bonnets.
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IilTHILE we have been shooting
W somewhat at Arkansas as we
come down this column we are
going to tell you why. High up in
, the Ozarks things move slowly. It j
because everything is so pretty,
and the people so contented with \
' their lot in life that they do not
want to change St one bit. They |
have fine things, too. But we must,
admit that we want a little more
' action in life than getting up in
the morning and having before us j
' onl” to wonder what we will have;
fo^flfcmer. and where we will go
that afternoon
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we were gone Hunter Os
ie, fireman on this editorial j
of which we are engineer,
[the throttle. Hunter did a 1
[ Job of it. too, we think.
i.d to have done so because
(nice things about the en
PDJever notice that a news
people, which, or who, is
saying nice things about peo
*4| always generally liked for
j reason or other.
San Benito Graduating Class
Top row. left to right: Harmon Maley, C. C. Woods. Jr., Henry Wachsmuth, Herbert Theime. Harry Hollon. Lloyd Wright, Benny Hinkly, Rob
ert Carr. Robert Salter. Lonie Moses, A. F. Chalk. Leland Parsons. Hubert Foster. Eddie Turvey, Roy Miller. Cehter row: Jack Lomax. Sche*r
King. Lorme Wells. Maurlne Tipton. Mary Elizabeth Phillips. Katherine Jones. Willie Bryant, Mildred Hommel, Lucille Hagerdorn, Gladys Mills,
Claye Breedlove. Iris Snow, Helen Tandy, Emily McMillan. Bernice Worley, Angelita Cabaza, Bill Hewlett. Bottom: Jack Skoan. Ruby Audrey
Kennamer, Zora Neiderjohn. Dolorese Morgan. Gillie Wallace. Jove Haynes. Illione Morrow. Lucille Ehlers, Dorothy Glyn Ward. Helene Taylor,
Virginia Goolsby, Pauline Walters. Lois Cook. Lillian Turner. Mary Alice Decter. Laurence Bowen. Seated on ground: Raymond Hewlett, left,
Otho Brown, right. Graduates not in picture: Barbara Dodds, Fred Booth. Estelia Hendrickson, Anna Louise Craddock, Margaret Barber. M. F.
Marchbanks, Orville Hoover.
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TOM BALKS AT
PARTY PLEDGE
AUSTIN, June 9— P — Senator
Thomas B. Love of Dallas today
told the State Democratic Execu
tive committee, meeting to certify
ca ididates in the July 26 primary.
IMt he would not support Mrs
M:riam A. Ferguson of Austin, or
John Put nan. of Houston, candi
dates for governor, or R. L. Henry
of Houston, candidate for United
States senator, in the event they
obtained the nominations to the
respective offices they sought.
Love made his declara'ion before
the committee after it had consid
ered a resolution which would have
required candidates for state of
fices to pledge themselves to “vote
for and support" all of the no
minees of the primary elections.
Love's dramatic appearance be
fore the committee came after Lieut.
Governor Barry Miller of Dallas
and Jim Young of Kaufman, can
didates for governor, declared they
stood ready and willing to subscribe
to any pledge that might be prom
ulgated.
Questioned Mercilessly
Hardly had Love come to the
speaker's stand from the rear of
:I»e hall, than several committee
rr.tr. were on their feet asking
permission to question him. The
leader withir the democratic ranks
of the movement in Texas to bolt
the nomination of former Governor
Alfred E. Smith fo New York for
president in 1928. was put through
a merciless examination.
He had Just started to read a
prepared statement of his attitude,
when R. T. Craig of Athens, hold
ing the proxy of Tom P. Faulk of
Atnens, stopped him to ask point
blank:
• Will you support Mrs. Ferguson
for governor if she is the nominee
of the July 25 primary?"
"I will not.” Love answered.
Doesn't Want Votes
“I do not want the votes of any
men or women that might be ob
trired on some sort of expressed
or implied misunderstanding,” Love
shouted.
Love 5 a id he would not vote for
ar’ candidate who favored “the
destruction and nullification of the
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BOMB EXPLODES
LAHORE. India. June 9—(<P>— A
bomb exploded at a public meeting
at Lyallpur. Several police officials
were present. None was wounded,
but 24 persons belonging to the
Youth league of the All-India Na
t.onla Congress were arrested.
CHINESE SHIP SINKS
SHANGHAI. June 9—0’—One
hundred passengers on the Chinese
steamer Litung were drowned today.
The Yangtse river vessel struck a
rock off Tungchow on the north
shore of the river's mouth and sank.
FIRE ROUTES SLEEPERS
ENID, Okla , June 9—/P>—One
man was overcome by smoke and a
score of others were routed from
beds in a rooming house and four
business establishments were des
troyed or damaged by fire here to
day. ^___
Final Tariff Vote Expected
Last of Week With Port Next
WASHINGTON, June 9—'**>— j
With the outcome still in doubt, 1
th< senate is expected to reach its
Ion? awaited final vote on the j
tariff bill before the end of the ;
week. The rivers and harbors bill
is next on the legislative program.
A last meeting of the conferees
was called for today, for the pur
pose of redrafting the watch para
graphs to meet points of order
raised against them from the dem
ocratic side of the senate chamber.
The* expected to submit their re
vised report sometime before the
close of the day.
The two sections of the report—
ore including most of the rate sec
tions and the other the flexible
provision am. the lumber tariff—
will be merged tomorrow. They will
be debated collectively and disposed!
of with a single vote.
Republican leaders today claimed
enough votes to pass the bill by
a narrow margin. They awaited an
announcement of the position of
the two senators from Pennsylvania.
Reed and Grundy, republicans.
Neither had made known how he
would cast his ballot, and in the
event of both opposing the meas
ure. it was believed it might be
defeated.
There was much speculation, too.
as to the fate of the measure at
the White House, if it is approved
oy Congress. It was announced last
week President Hoover is keeping
an open mind on the question of
approval or veto. Before he reaches
a decision the measure will be In
vestigated by the usual deparment
ai agencies.
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Oil Hopes Rise as Reports
Of Valley Tests Are Made
Brownsville as an internationally famous oil port is the latest picture
to be painted, with important developments in oil fields around Roma
reported today.
Two wells are under way which promise to be producers of high grade
oil, and particularly gratifying in its showing is the Texas Company well
No. 1-B Guerra, five miles northwest of Roma, which has tapped a sand
at 3,724 feet, and cored to an oil sand of 125 feet total thickness, which
authorities state, is of unusual depth. It is believed that the well will
develop Into a producer of high grade oil.
TWO HURT
Harlingen Man Arrested
After Crash Here
W. R. Owens of Harlingen was
under arrest and two persons were j
in the Mercy hospital today as the
result of a wreck at I2th and Madi-1
son streets Sunday evening.
The people in tire hospital were ,
Cresanta Camero and Jo e Molina
youth. The woman was severely \
shaken, cut and bruised and an X- ■
ray was to be made Monday to de
termine whether her skull was frac
tured. The young boy was severely
cut and bruised.
There were a number of other
children in the light car with the
woman at the time of the wreck.
Her automobile was almost totally
demolished After spending a night
in jail, Owens made $750 bond Mon
: dav morning.
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Eye Trainer Called
Heart Snatcher in Suit
CHICAGO. June 9.— —Miss
| Caroline Brown conducted an eye
■ training clinic.
But she also trained the heart. J
Miss Lola Alwood charged today in
' a suit for $100,000 alleging Miss
Brown alienated the affections of
her husband. Lister Alwood. an of
ficial of Montgomery Ward & Co.
Mrs. Alwood charged further she
j was induced to take “eye training"
t by her husband, only to be advised
by Miss Brown that the “chemistry
I of her body" showed her to be mis
; mated.”
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Bonds Paid Off
During a meeting of the county
commissioner’s court Monday morn
ing an order was entered for the
payment of $11,000 flood control
bonds, due March 1, 1932.
County Judge Oscar C. Dancy said
today that the county had already
paid bonds due in 1931. and that
the next bonds due are not until
1933. , ..
The opening of the bids for the
construction of new jail addition
and work on the courthouse will
not be until 4 o’clock Monday eve
ning. the hour being postponed, the
judge said.
During the meeting today first
protection bonds totalling $150,000
were purchased and placed in var
ious sinking funds, and money plac
ed in construction bonds. The bonds
were bought at par and accrued in
terest.
» Across the Rio Grande, at Ran
cho La Pescada, four miles from
Cchoa on the banks of the San
Juan, and midway between Camar
go and Aldamas. seventeen miles
from Roma and Rio Grande City a
well Is being put down on the same
structure as the Roma wells of the
Texas company.
To Drill In Today
Drilling is being done by the San
Juan Drilling company of McAllen
and the weil is situated in the tract
of 110.000 acres of the national pe
troleum reserve of Mexico. Early
last week a cere was taken, giving
five feet of fine quality oil sand.
Cosine was Immediately set at 3.540
feet and the well is to be drilled in
today. High hopes are entertained
by company officials for the success
of the well since it is only 500 feet
from that drilled three years ago by
the Mexican government and lost
through a series of accidents. The
old well is still running a good
quantity of oil of high grade when
its valve is opened.
Starr county district has had a
number of wells drilled in the past,
but with inadequate equipment and
insufficient depth.
Big Pay Sought
Both of the wells being drilled
now are of sufficient depth to pene
trate the Mount Selman formation,
and it is hoped by oil authorities
that "big pay" will be encounter
ed at this level, or deeper.
These wells, and others to be
drilled when the field is in full
production it is believed will make
of Brownsville one of the most im
portant oil ports in the world since
the oil being produced already by
Texas wells at Roma is of highest
grade pariffin base and naturally
so pure that it can be burned in
automobiles without refining.
A unique feature of the situation
is that pipe lines from the districts
on either side of the river will bring
oil to Brownsville by gravity.
In addition two wells are dril
ing at Los Aldamas about ten miles
up the river from Ochoa Tamauli
pas and near Cerralvo Nuevo Leon.
Both fields if brought in are also
looked upon as tributaries to
Brownsville.
Carol and Ex-Wife
Talk Thing# Over
BUCHAREST, Rumania, June 9—
—Proclaimed King of Rumania
after five years of exile, King Carol
II today was busy consulting poli
tical leaders and in picking up
the threads of life once more in
the capital of his fathers.
The most vital of Carol’s prob
lems was th relationship between
him and his former wife. Princess
Helen, mother of nine-year-old
Michael, former king and now back
in the nursery.
Carol had an interview with
Princess Helen last night, and it
is understood it was decided for
t;v present at any rate neither
would apply for annulment of the
decree of divorce granted Princess
Helen two years ago.
Putnam Would Set
Bootlegger# All Free
AUSTIN, June 9-h>P>— Frank
Putnam of Houston, candidate for
governor advocating replea of the
prohibition amendment, said today
he would end state enforcement of
prohibition in Texas if elected.
“If elected governor I will quick
ly end state prohibition enforce
ment In Texas and hasten repeal
of radical amendment of the Dean
act. by pardoning the 650 or more
men and women now in state pris
i cms for breaking this law, and bv
declaring my purpose to pardon all
who thereafter are convicted under
i it," he said.
RINGER OF FIRE
ALARMS FINED
Sam Klahn. former city employee,
was fined $200 in city corporation
court Monday morning when he
| pleaded guilty to pulling false fire
alarms. Gonzalo Gonzales w-as
fined $100, but this was suspended.
Imposition of sentence upon Ysnael
Perez was held up until Tuesday,
but Judge A. A. Browne told Perez
he was inclined to fine him $200.
Gonzales and Perez blamed
Klahn. declaring that he ordered
them to pull the false alarms.
Additional arrests are expected to
follow in the near future according
| to police.
All three of tlie men signed con
fessions.
The police plan to continue their
vigorous activities against the false
alarm pullers An epidemic of -lice
alarms has been raging for the past
j several months
In an effort to curb this danger
ous practice the city commission re
cently passed an ordinance making
the offense punishable by a $200
fine. City Manager Z. A. Rosenthal
; also has authorized a $53 reward for
the arrest and conviction of any
person maliciously turnin'; in false
| fire alarms.
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MORE MOB ARRESTS
CHICKASHA, Okla., June 9—(Jf)
l —Twelve men were arrested here
! t<x ay on a federal charge of con
j piracy to destroy government pro
i peny in connection with the burn
ing of a national guard truck on
the night of May 31 when a mob
stormed the Grady county jail and
fatally injured Henry Argo, negro
assault suspect.
murdererHescapes
CORPUS CHRISTT, June 9—(/P)
—Jesus Crevantes, convicted mur
derer, today was the object of a
search after he left the Nueces
county jail last night.
Assessed a four-year sentence at
the end of his trial three weeks
agr> Cervantes was a trusty here
pending his transfer to the state
pneitentiary.
diplomasTawarded
AUSTIN, June 9—(JPi— Degrees
were conferred here today by the
University of Texas on approxi
mately 600 students at the annual
commencement exercises in Greg
ory auditorium.
DIES OF BURNS
LAREDO, June 9—'/TV—Bums re
ceived near here Saturday when a
kerosene stove exploded proved
fatal last night to Mrs. Enriqueta
Limon de Rodriguez. 25, wife of
! a rancher.
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CONSUL NAMED
LAREDO. June 9—<JP)-*AleJandro
i V. Martinez, former assistant consul
general at San Francisco, took
! charge of the Mexican consulate
; here today. He succeeded Rafael de
la Cojina, transferred to New Or
; leans.
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WICHITA, 109,832
WASHINGTON. June 9—<&—'The
; state of Kansas won a second city
of more than 100,000 population
when Wichita reported a 53.4 per
| cei.t increase in the 1930 census,
' population 109.832.
REPORTER SLAIN
CHICAGO. June 9'4JV- Jacob
lirgle, a reporter for the Chicago
Tribune was shot to death in the
midst of a crowd of race fans in
the Michigan boulevard tunnel of
:J e Illinois Central Railroad today.
GALVESTON SELECTED
AUSTIN. June 9—S’—Galveston
! today was selected by the democrat
ic executive committee as the 1930
*tate convention city. The conven
tion will be held September 9. Gal
veston competed with San Antonio.
Mineral Wells and Austin for the
meeting.
REGISTRATION
OF DELEGATES
AT HIGH MARK
Convention Attendants
Taken On Tour Of
Valley Today
<8pecial to The Herald.)
HARLINGEN. June 9.— With
delegates arriving hourly to attend
the state convention of Business
and Professional Women’s clubs In
session here today through Wed
nesday, indications wer^ early Mon
day morning that registration of
delegates and visitor* would reach
well over 200. An unusually heavy
registration two days before the
opening of the convention today
had brought early attendance Sun
day to 150.
Nine clubs of the Valley Federa
tion of Business and Professional
Women including Brownsville. San
Benito, Harlingen. Edinburg, Mc
Allen, Raymondville, Mercedes.
Weslaco, and Donna are playing
the part of hostess organizations,
out business sessions of the con
vention are to be held here in fair
perk auditorium.
Among the outstanding officers
of the state organization who are
to be on hand for the program to
night at the auditorium are Mary
Jane Higgins of Ft. Worth, state
pTsident; Miss Mary O. Lilyer
strom. Beaumont, recording sec
retary: Miss Rhoda Murray. Ft
Worth, corresponding secretary:
Miss Ann Stallworth, Cameron,
tr* usurer; Miss Daisy H. Lake.
Temple, second vice president of
the national federation: and Miss
Okie Mooty, Temple, editor of Tex
as Woman.
Miss Marion MoClench of Ann
Arbor. Michigan, national federa
Lor president, will also be present
fo*- the program tonight at the
auditorium.
The early arrit'al of delegates
found Valley club hostesses ready
to greet them and every provision
readv for their entertainment.
Saturday, hostess committees be
gan placing flowers in hotel rooms
and leaving their cards for each
of the clubs assigned to their care.
They will be responsible for their
accomodations during the con
i vent ion.
Trpg i« first visit of most of
the women delegates to the Valley.
Their enthusiastic comments in
dicate that all their anticipations
of the “Magic Valley" are being
realized. They have complimented
the hotels, the transportation ser
vice. the cooperation of Valley
people in furnishing automobiles,
and in particularly, the Valley-wide
feature of the convenlton.
240 At Point Isabel
Sunday, most of Harlingen and
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Shots Fly at ‘Singing Bee’
Wife of Officer Fatally Wounded When He
Tries to Search Car for Liquor
EUPORA. Miss., June 9.—<JF)— A Justice of the peace was charged today
with killing his wife in the confusion precipitated when he attempted to
search a car for liquor at a Sunday “singing bee“ near here. Three others,
including another woman, were wounded in a fight which attended the
justice's action.
Lee M. Ferguson, the Justice of the peace, was freed on his own recog
nizance on a manslaughter charge.
Information gathered by Sheriff John W. Gary- was that Ferguson,
INTERFERENCE
WASHINGTON, June 9—</P>—
Charles McK. Saltzman, chairman
of the radio commission said today
i he had received no complaint with
reference to S O S signals which
' disrupted a chain broadcast Satur
day night by former Senator James
A. Reed of Missouri.
Senator Dill of Washington, au
thor of the radio act, was planning
; to bring the subject up in the Sen
j ate, however.
Reed s speech was being broadcast
! from Sedalia. Missouri, and the in
terruption came as he was denounc
ing what he termed the “radio
trust."
7 Die in Explosion
OAKLAND. Calif.. June 9 — T*
—Seven men are dead and one is
in a hospital at Livermore, as the
result of an explosion in the Hetch
Hetchy tunnel near Calvareras
Dam in the Alameda County Hill6.
A shot of dynamite in the tun
nel some time Sunday opened up a
stream of water and evidently blew
into a pocket of gas. The gas was
not ignited at the time, but ap
parently seeped into the long pas
sage and accumulated there.
Investigators believed a spark
last night from an electric tram
or a pick set off the gas.
War Dead Honored
TORONTO June 9—OP—A wreath
was laid today by Leo. V. Young
worth of Los Angeles, imperial
potentate o: the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, on the cenotaph in
City Hall plaza which honors Can
ada’s war dead.
The ceremony followed a welcome
by the 'mayor to the 30.000 Shriners
from the United States and Canada
nere for their annual convention.
The official party Journey from
the cenotaph to the Canadian expos
ition grounds, where 12.000 Toronto
cadets and 2.000 girls staged a
"Young Canada” parade.
I wiui two weosier count; sneriii s
deputies, arrived at a church near
here as the choral gathering was
ending, and attempted to search a
car owned by Tom Brown Elkins,
19.
Elkins protested, and a struggle
ensued, in which shots were fired,
and a number of men joined in.
Elkins was shot through a lung and
critically wounded.
Clubs and pistol butts were
brought into play. Mrs. Ferguson
ran into the thick of the fray. A
bullet struck her. and she fell fatally
wounded.
Sim J. Sewalt, 65. a bystander,
was shot in a knee, while T. D.
Castle, 18, and Archie Morris, 23.
suffered bruised eyes and heads.
A stray bullet struck Mrs Floyd
Cooper, 23. wounding her painfully
in the right leg.
Elkins was taken to a hospital at
Houston. Mias., where his condition
was described as critical.
Witnesses said that Elkins and a
friend. Watts Bowen, were seated in
the Elkins car. waiting for friends
who were emerging from the church.
Elkins demanded a search warrant.
Four Drowned When
Auto Falls in River
SOUDERTOWN. Pa . June 9—UP)
—Four persons are believed to have
drowned when an automobile plung
ed into 50 feet of water in an aban
doned quarry one mile south of
here last night. Today the bodies
of two women were recovered from
the water. Floating on the water
were straw hats of two men.
A wire cable guarding the quarry
and a post were broken and auto
mobile tracks from the road to the
edge of the quarry Indicated that a
car had plunged over the side and
dropped 30 feet into the water.
Ocean Hop Delayed
DUBLIN, Irish Free State, June
9—'IP)—Captain Charles Kmgsford
Smith decided this afternoon not
to attempt a start of the Southern
, Cross Atlantic flight tomorrow
j morning owing to unfavorable
• weather forecast*.
LOCAL AVIATOR
FALLS TO DEATH
E. J. Snyder Killed in Glider Clpb Accident
kWhile Wife and 1,000 Spectators
Stand Horrified At Crash
Catapulting to his death as a safety belt of his glider snapped. E. J.
Snyder, 33, superintendent of flying of the Pan American airways, fell
200 feet to the landing field of the Brownsville Municipal airport before a
crowd of 1000 horrified spectators Sunday afternoon at 5:40.
Following announcements Saturday and Sunday that exhibition glider
flights would be given by members of the Brownsville Glider club, the
largest crowd since the arrival here of Col. Lindbergh gathered at the
airport Sunday afternoon. The exhibition was scheduled to begin at
CREAGER‘QUITS’
DEMO. CONTEST
G. O. P. Leader Expresses
Regret For Prank
Of Jokesters
SAN ANTONIO. June •—(AT—R.
B. Creager of Brownsville, republi
can national committeemen from
Texas, paused here long enough yes
terday to regret the Democratic par
ty's sense of humor and to reply to
Senator Smith W. Brookhart, as he
was enroute to Georgetown.
Today he was due to receive an
honorary LLB. degree being con
ferred upon him by Southwestern
University at Georgetown.
In a telegram to D W. Wilcox.
chairman of the Democratic state
executive committee, Creagor asked
that his name not be printed in the
Democratic primary ballot according
to a petition filed with Wilcox.
Not Proper
“I appreciate the compliment,”
Creager said, “but take it for grant
ed this was intended as a Joke. I
am a republican, and it goes without
saying it would not be proper for
my name to appear on a Democratic
ballot.”
He took another slap at mator
Brookhart. republican, of Iowa, for
Brookhart s demand for an investi
gation of an alleged liquor party in
a Dallas hotel when Mrs. R. L
Works of Brownsville, a member of
the Creager party there, took a dis
infectant in her mouth instead of a
harmless mouth wash.
“The mans vicious mendacity is
almost beyond belief,” Creager de
clared. “In his latest diatribe he is
guilty of the unforgivable sin of
dragging in the name of an inno
cent woman.
Insinuation False
“The Dallas incident to which he
refers was an innocent one. reflect
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"’p. m. DUL necessary repairs on the
glider necessitated a delay of an
hour and a half. The crowd in
creased during the time.
Work on the glider was finally
completed, and the machine carri
ed to the field. Several member*
of the club had intended making
flights, and Snyder, one of the
best airplane pilot* In the south,
requested that he be allowed to
make the Initial flight, for the
local glider club.
Sought Record
“I want to make a record flight,
if possible, and make the people
glad they waited,” he is said to
a.we stated. ‘ Puli me with a power
ful car, and open It up”
A Packard sedan was obtained,
and the long cable attached. Glider
controls were tested and reported
satisfactory. The crowd, talking
noisily, was ordered off the field
and onto the platform. On the ad
joining road, hundreds of car* wer*
iiiicti up, filled with spectator*.
The car started at a signal, and
the glider was released. It soared
upwards, gaining altitude rapidly.
It was under perfect control.
When it reached a height of ap
proximately 150 feet the right wing
Upped, and instead of following the
car, the glider tailed to the right,
cable still attached. It continued to
scar. When it reached an altitude
of around 200 feet, the towing cable
was released. Apparently Snyder
e\i)erienced difficulty in releasing
I the cable, but airport officials said
Monday that this was not true.
The glider was free, but It wa*
I tipping dangerously. It was banked,
turning to the left.
Hurled Through Spar*
Suddenly a horrified shout arose
from the audience.
Snyder was hurtling through the
air, head over heels, his body de
scribing a parabola. The glider
quivered, an- then began to fall
slowly. The crowd was stunned in
to silence. A baby cried, the only
sound. The pilot did not fall
st.tight down, but was hurled clear
of the plane, like a rock from a
slingshot.
His arms were waving, his fing
ers opening and closing, like a
G’-.wning man clutching for a
strew.
His body fell directly on the
gravel runway, a dull and sicken
ing thud being heard over the
or tire field as it struck. He hit the
ground once bounced several feet
i into the air. and then slid along
; toe gravel face downwards a hun
i dred feet, leaving a trail of blood.
His sliding body was enveloped in
dust
A moan went up from the spec
tators. a woman fainted, as the
s.rer. from the Airport ambulance
was heard. The ambulance was on
the scene almost immediately,
reaching the bodv within a few sec
oi>ds. Mrs. Snyder, his wife, an
expectant mother saw the fall.
Dr R. L. Works rushed to the
scene, and pronounced Snyder dead.
He was killed instantaneously, he
s^id. The body was badly disfigur
ed. disemboweled, and his brain*
scattered about.
Snyder Favorite
An Inquest was held before B. L,
Cain. In which it was stated thaij
thf fall was around 30 and 40 feet.
CoL Gilmore said Monday that the
fall was approximately 75 feet.
Pl ots who witnessed the scene
claimed Monday that glider was
at least 200 feet, possibly more, at
the time.
“Snyder was a beautiful char
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1 WEATHER (
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday,
probably occasionally unsettled.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to
night and Tuesday becoming un
settled: probably local thundershow
ers in northwest portion tonight and
in interior Tuesday.
RIVER FORECAST
There will a a slight to moderate
rise in the river from Mission down
during tlie next 24 to 48 hours.
Flood Present 44-tit 44-Hr.
8*aga ‘tfage r'hng. Rata
Sunday, June 8tb
Eagle Pass 16 19 -01 .00
Laredo 27 -1.8 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 6.4 0.0 .00
Mission 22 7.5 0 0 .00
San Benito 23 13 0 -0 3 .00
Brownsville 18 86 -0.8 .00
Monday, June 9th
Eagre Pass 16 35 -1.6 31
Laredo 27 -1 8 0 0 .00
Rio Grande 21 8 2 41.8 .00
Mission 22 7 7 -0.2 .29
San Benite 23 12.8 -0.2 .00
Brownsville 18 8.4 -0.2 .00
TIDE T%BLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorol
ogical condiions:
High . 5:15 a. m.
Low . 8:53 p. m,
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 7:21
Sunrise tomorrow . till