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_1 THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASE D WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(/F)
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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—NO. 245 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1930_TWELVE PAGES TODAY _ 5c A COPY
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IN OUR
VALLEY
BY C. M. HALL *=■=>
HOW ABOUT IT?
"Modernism leads to Interna
tionalism; internationalism leads
to communism; communism
lieds to anarchism and anarch
ism leads to destruction."
—Rev. Walter A. Maier of St.
Louis. ;
• • •
s "Women are less troubled by
| disturbing dream than men—
I probably because they have less
work and worry."
faM] —Dr. Bernard Hollander, British
alienist.
• • •
"Death is no more than the
removal of earthly limitations."
!| —Dr. A. T. Bennett-Haines. Eng
lish clergyman.
• • •
"Content—the absolute resig
; nation to things as they are—is
not a normal state of mind. It
Is fatalistic. There is a virtue in
making the best of things, but
that is cheerful acceptance, not
!; content."
—Mary Roberts Rinehart.
WITH the vote on the tariff sched
uled for today, after debating
the matter about a year-and-a
half, and the Valley's deep water
port action scheduled to follow that,
thought all Valley people would
switch from the prize fight to more
important business.
But the fans of the nation can
not stand the nature of Schmeling’s
victory, and today barber shop and
lunch counter chatter is mostly of
the great fiasco at Yankee Stadium
last night.
Listening to it one hears a great
cry for Jack Dempsey to return to
the ring and bring back the heavy
weight title to the land that has
nourished it for so long.
As a head fighter Jack Sharkey
ranks at the pinnacle of the non
thinking type.
He rushed out to finish Dempsey
in the seventh round and woke up
with the crowd all gone. Last night
he had a fight won and either grew
careless, or just plain low down, and
today Germany owns the successor
to Sullivan. Corbett, Fitszimmons.
Jeffries et al.
Sharkey possesses the best pos
sibilities of a fighter m the younger
-^American generation of today, but
f^rfcre is really none in the coming
Tset who can compare with the sec
ond raters of long ago.
Jack Dempsey, or Gene Tunney,
are about the only men who can
bring back Ihe lost laurels and
Dempsey is the more popular of the
two.
Now we have to wait about a year
to overcome Sharkeys foolishness.
• . •
NEW YORK and adjacent cities
almost hated Sharkey beforej
the bout. Today they probably!
have nothing but venom for the1
man who threw away a title, all but,
won.
• • •
BUT down here in the Valley it |
really means nothing in the!
pockets of any of us who wins;
a prize fight, except to those so |
foolish as to wager on one.
But what does mean much is that i
to date one railroad company has
shipped a total of 19.969 cars of
fruits and vegetables against 18,
255 cars last year.
Which means that with the cotton
crop coming there should be much
loose change in the hands of the
people before long.
• • •
rDAY is Friday The Thirteenth.
So lookout—be careful. The
pag9n jinx may get you. So far
we must admit that nothing has
happened except that Brownsville
and the Valley got up and put on!
the left shoe last, and had a few
cats to run across in front of their
cars as they went about their busi- ;
ness. But business of throwing a
little salt, or spitting over left shoul
ders. will overcome ail that, and we
really have nothing to fear.
If the Valley did not put on the
left shoe last, it at least put on the
w|sboe that was left, just for argu
ments sake.
• • •
THIS business o' gittin married in
June doesn't seem to be holding
its own this year.
Over at the court house County
Clerk Seago (also xandidate for re
election* says the wedding fees are
not coming through the window as
fast as they really ought to. consid- i
ering our increase in population
and everything. To date only 25
have taken out the necessary pap
ers.
He couldn't account for this slump
In business unless it is the cloudy
weather affecting the courage of
the men.
Up In Arkansas, where they sa>
it Is a rich man for luck and a pore
man for kids, the Justices of the
peace, toady to the county clerk in
order to get him to direct undecided
couples their way. But the pastors
are being charitable and have not
entered protests or asked for a con
gressional investigation.
a NIMATED Annie says these days
A it seems to her all the eaves
” droppers fall on her party line.
• • •
rLKS. we always have admired j
society editors. All their lives;
they are kept busy telling what
a papular and handsome man some
geek is who has succeeded in fool
ing some beautiful girl. We have
often wondered how they can bear
to write so truthfully about the
brides and such awful stuff about
the grooms.
I vv/That is we never could understand
I Mr until we heard the society editor j
L-Jfctfc the sports editor how Gallant!
/Ox finished when Wykoff won the
hundred yard dash. If she had only
asked what college Fox represented,,
what a perfect world this would be. j
WOMEN’S ROLE
IN HOME LIFE
TOLD AT MEET
Federation Head Says
Increased Power Is
Responsibility
DENVER. Colo., June 13—
The woman as a home maker and
as a moral Influence In the com
munity was pictured here today
before the biennial convention of
the genera! Federation of Women’s
clubs by Mrs. John F. Sippel of
Baltimore, newly reelected president
of the organization.
•Our newly recognized ‘occupa
tion’ as home makers in the census
—r recognition that comes in re
sponse to the appeal of the women
of the nation—carried an obligation
to concern ourselves with all that
affects the conditions of life in
our homes,” she said, "with a quick
ened sense of individual respon
| sihility growing out of a truer es
timate of our power.”
The address, broadcast over a
I'tlonal radio hookup, stressed the
"magnitude of the woman power of
cir time, far transcending our
realization.”
New Demo Chairman
Named in Hidalgo
EDINBURG. June 13—*>!»>—‘The
Hidalgo county democratic executive
committee had another chairman
today—J. F. Carl of Edinburg. He
I was elected at a meeting here yes
terday to succeed Lloyd P. Blood
worth, who resigned last week soon
after his election.
The executive committee announc
ed it expected to have a full ticket
in the field by tomorrow, the last
day for '.ling names of candidates.
S. N. McWhorter, attorney and the
first democrat of Weslaco ever to
announce for county office, today
had his hat in the ring as a candi
date for county Judge of Hidalgo
county.
Judge A. W. Cameron, Incumbent,
is not a candidate for re-election.
He and seven others, including
Sheriff A. V. Baker, recently were
indicted on conspiracy charges by
a federal grand jury at Houston,
after the Weslaco box was thrown
out in the 1928 election.
New Country Club
Memberships Sold
(Special to The Herald.)
HARLINGEN, June 13.—Several*
groups of workers today began sell
ing membcrsips in the new Harlin
gen country club to be built on the
Arroyo and the municipal golf links.
They are being sold at $125 each.
Committees expect to place 100
memberships within the next week
and reach the goal of 200 within
the next two weeks.
Suit Entered For
Collision Damages
NEW YORK. June 13.——StUt
for $350,000 has been filed in fed
eral court here by C. D. Mallory &
Company, owners of the oil tanker
Pinthis. against the Merchants &
Miners’ Transportation Company,
owners of the steamship Fairfax,
which rammed and sank the Pin
this off Boston June 10 with loss
of 47 lives.
Man May Die After
Street Gun Battle
AMARILLO. June If—i/P)—J. R. i
Nicholas, railroad employe, was
siiot three times on a downtown
street today. Nicholas had only a
fighting chance for recovery.
A taxi driver, who was not hit
in the exchange was held by police.
Witnesses said each man fired three
times.
China’s Warfare End
Seen in Late Action
SHANGHAI. June 13.—<4»h-Chi
na’s ever-changing political horizon
today gave indication of pending in
ternal changes which, if carried
through, may Involve cessation of
the present civil war and selection
of new officials for the Nanking
Nationalist government.
NO BEER?
Federal Raid Cuts Off
Big Chicago Supply
CHICAGO.-June 13—One of
the largest sources of Chicago's beer
supply was shut off today after a
raid on a mammoth brewery at 2108
South Wabaah street within a
stone's throw of the Metropole ho
tel. reputed headquarters of the
Capone Interests.
District Chief Alexander G. Jamie
of the federal prohibition forces
said the raid yesterday, made after
weeks of undercover investigation,
resulted in the arrest of one man
and the seizure of 50.000 gallons of
barreled beer. 75 half-barrels and
150.000 gallons of beer in the proems
of manufacture.
Charles Wynert, 30. the only man
arrested, insisted he was merely a
repair man called to adjust machin
ery. Among the books and records
seized at the plant were several
checks signed with the name of
Mike Potsen. Jamie said Potsen
was owner of Colisimo's club.
STATE SPONSORS IN FETE
Twelve southern states will send girl sponsors to attend the third
annual Rhododendron Festival at Asheville, N. C., June 18-20. Cath
erine Hill (left) of Port Allen, La., and Marlon Ward (right* of Jack
sonville, Fla., have been named by their governors to attend.
River Still Rises Slowly
But No Danger Expected
The Rio Grande was still rising slowly Friday morning, with a height
of 17.4 feet, a gain of l.y feet since Thursday morning, according to
weather bureau official W. J. Schnurbusch.
The rise recorded at Rio Grande City during the past 24 hours was 4.7
feet, Mission 2.3 feet, and San Benito an even 2 feet.
A record flood is still predicted by Mr. Schnurbusch, but he added Fri
day that no serious damage will result from the river escaping its banks.
Flood ways have been opened, and the water is pouring into them in large
____tU.
S700 MUCH!
Mother Tucks Kiddies In
Bed By Radiophone
CHICAGO. June 13—(fiP)—A moth
er, 1,200 miles at sea, tucked her
two small boys in bed in their Chi
cago home last night—by radio
telephone.
Mrs. Cohn J. Zolp, aboard the S.
S. Leviathan, talked with the boys.
Junius. 6 years old, and Buddy, 2
years older, just at their bedtime.
Junius was the first to reach the
phone when it rang, and what he
wanted to know right away was
“have you been seasick yet, moth
er?" Next he inquired if tthere
were “any ducks out there.”
Buddy, older and more serious,
made some adult inquiries as to how
the boat was run. Then he told
how lonesome he and his brother
were. Mother promised to “make
you something nice when I get
back.” and with that the boys went
to bed.
It was the first regular radio
telephone conversation between Chi
cago and a ship at sea.
Swinging Club Ends
Reformatory Riot
MANSFIELD, Ohio, June 13—i/n
—The threat of swinging clubs and
tear gas bombs had restored order
«u the Mansfield Reformatory to
day after a second outbreak within
kii than two weeks during which
guards beat the ringleaders of
1,500 howling, milling inmates into
submission.
The latest disturbance occurred
wiring the “big supper" hour yes
terday when the 1,700 prisoners in
tho dining room became noisy,
tipped over tables and hurled their
stools around. Two hundred of the
inmates filed outside, apparently
with the intention of avoiding in
jury rather than attempting escape.
Thirty Mansfield police and Rich
land county deputy sheriffs, armed
with tear gas bombs and riot guns,
augmented the prison guard at the
request of Superintendent T. C.
Jenkins when he feared the situa
tit n might become serious.
The disorder was put down when
guards entered the dining room
and clubbed a few of the ringleaders.
^uau iuu.0, v. auouig, viit ittvt I
down to stay within its banks.
“Water in sight at Rio Grande
City last night (23.1) will cause
flood stages from above Mission to
the mouth of the river within the
next one to three days,” the official
bulletin reads. “Considerable water
will probably also go through the
flood ways, and some water prob
ably through breaks in the levees at
weak places or snarp bends in the
river.”
The river is expected to reach its
highest peak here within possibly
36 hours, it was said. Early Friday
it was within 6 inches of flood stage,
or 18 feet here. At San Benito
flood stage there (23 feet) has al
It is reported that work is being
ready been passed by almost a foot.
d<me on levees on tha Mexican side
of the river.
Weather forecast for Friday and
Saturday predict continued showers
and cloudiness.
Senate Not to Act
On Cannon Matter
WASHINGTON. June 13.——
The senate lobby committee will !
take no action against Bishop James
Cannon. Jr., for refusing to answer !
questions and abruptly leaving the i
witness stand.
The transcript of his testimony,
however, will be laid before the sen- I
ate. and a variety of opinion is ex- I
pressed as to what may be expected
to follow'.
Last Rites Held
For Joseph Jagou
Funeral services for Joseph Jagou,
21, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Jagou.
were to have been held this after
noon at 4 o'clock from the home
of his grandmother. Mrs. R. H. Wal
lace. 1413 Washington, where he
died yesterday morning. Rev. R. O.
Mackintosh of the Episcopal church
will officiate, and burial will be in
the City cemetery.
Pallbearers are to be a group of
friends of the young man: George
Goodrich. Robert Graham. Fred
Ball. Robert Jones. Robert Lack
ner and Carol Crowe.
VICENTE CRIXELL Hl'RT
Vicente Crixell is in Mercy hos
pital for several days* treatment
following an automobile accident
last night about 9 o'clock at Eighty
and Elizabeth streets.
He suffered several severe cuts,
but no serious injury. His car is
said to have run into a tree.
PORT FOLLOWS
TARIFF VOTE
TAKEN TODAY
Debate on Rivers And
Harbors Bill Is
Seen Monday
WASHINGTON. June 13.—</P>—
With the end of the long tariff con
troversy in sight, congressional
leaders are looking forward to an
adjournment a week from tomor
row.
The special session of the senate
for consideration of the London
Naval Limitations Treaty will be
be called immediately by President
Hoover, but the weary senators hope
to join the house membership in
vacation by July 4.
Rivers and harbors legislation
gets first call in the senate after
the tariff bill Is disposed of today.
It probably will not be taken up for
debate until Monday. Chairman
Johnson of the commerce commit
tee is hopeful of speedy action on
the measure providing an outlay of
more than $120,000,000 over a three
year period in waterways improve
ments.
The house bill liberalizing veter
ans relief is second on the calendar
of preferred legislation and it gets
attention after the rivers and har
bors contest Is ended.
Winding up the contest of the
republican proponents. Senator
Watson, the majority leader, said:
“If this bill is passed, this nation
will be on the upgrade financially,
economically and commercially
within thirty days, and within a
year, we shall have regained the
peak of prosperity and the position
we lost last October."
Senator Borah, a leader of the
republican Independents, declared
the bill fell short of the party plat
form to restore agriculture to an
equality with industry.
July 4 Celebration
For Point Isabel
SAN BENITO. June 13.—A big
Fourth of July celebration spons
ored by the newly organized Point
Isabel Chamber of Commerce, is
being planned as the major holi
day attraction in the lower end of
the Valley, according to J. E. Bell,
chamber of commerce secretary.
The San Benito chamber plans to
participate and the cooperation of
Brownsville will be asked In making
a gala event of the day for large
crowds.
No definite program has been ar
rived at yet. but committees will
have a general outline of the day
worked out soon.
Texan Recommended
For New Judgeship
WASHINGTON. June 11—/JP)—
Senator Sheppard of Texas today
recommended to President Hoover
that he appoint Federal Judge W.
Leo Estes of Texarkana to the new
judgeship of the fifth judicial cir
cus created in a bill signed yester
day. Senator Connally of Texas
previously had advised the appoint
ment of Federal Judge Joseph C.
Hutcheson. Jr., of Houston.
Flight Delayed
DUBLIN. June 13.—UP>—After all
arrangements had been made for
the Southern Cross to fly to the
Curragh camp this afternoon, bad
weather again dashed the hopes of
Captain Charles Klngsford-Smith
for a take-off on hts attempted
flight to America.
Captain Kingsford-Smith stated
he hoped to start his westward
transtlantic flight Sunday morning.
MOTHER KILLS BABY
WICHITA FALLS. Ter.. June 13.
—(JP)—Toy Spence. 3. daughter of
Sam B. Spence, district attorney,
was killed last night when she fell
out of an automoible window and
under the wheels as her mother was
backing the car out of the driveway
at a friend’s home. Mrs. Spence
was in a hospital in a*serious con
dition.
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CORALIE 5TANT0N and MEATH MOSKEN
_COPYPI&MT IQ5Q AY CMELSEA MOUSE_ - -
CHAPTER I
It was a stormy night in mid
January. The pavements were
swept by drenching sheets of rain,
and a piercing wind was blowing.
In that cosmopolitan corner of
New York called Greenwich Village
the streets were almost deserted
by 10 o’clock. From behind the
closed blinds of the little cafes and
drinking shops came bursts of
music and laughter.
Halfway down the narrow street,
Bastien Dumont, tumbling down
the steps leading to the Cafe Turc
and pushing open the door, was
met with a twang of a mandolin
and a light, gay tenor voices sing
ing “Funiculi. Funicula.”
Bastien was Anglo-French, one
of a score of struggling artists who
frequented the little cafe. The place
was something like a elub for the
indigent who would sip the wine
of life, but who must have it cheap.
There were two rooms at the
Cafe Turc—the first just below the
level of the street, small and low
ceiled, with the ‘ bar, the coffee
urns, and a reredos of bottles on
the left; the second a few steps
lower still, much larger, equally
low in pitch, with sanded floor and
some dotem tables, big and little,
ranged round the walls. These walls
displayed a collection of sketches,
legacies from various artists.
One night a great man had sat
there and laughed over his wine,
and had turned and drawn a girl's
head on the wall behind him. His
had been a name to conjure with.
At the door the young man
paused, blinking, and expelling a
grateful breath.
"Peste, what a night!’* he ex
claimed. Groping his way through
the blue-gray fog to the shining
counter, he shook the proprietor
by the hand. "What a night!” he
cried in a warm, youthful voice.
"Is Judy here?’
The proprietor returned Du
mont’s greeting and answered his
question in the Franch language,
which the young man had used.
“I have not seen Judy yet, M.
Dumont; but she will doubtless be
here. Chummy is in there.” He
jerked his thumb toward the inner
room.
Dumont passed on. calling out a
greeting here and there to friends
who sat in smoke-encircled groups.
Between the two rooms the man
who was singing to his mandolin
rose and looked at him expectantly.
This was Dan, the waiter and
general factotum of the establish
ment—a lanky being who looked
like a clown in his baggy clothes.
Dumont ordered coffee and
cognac, and. entering the inner
room, was noisily greeted by a
crowd of men at one of the larger
tables. Room was made for him,
and he sat down among them.
• • •
At a table on the opposite side
of the room to the one at which
Bastien Dumont had joined his
friends, two men were sitting. Of
the other tables, most were oc
cupied by groups of twos and threes.
From time to time glances of
curiosity were directed at the two
men. For one thing, they were not
habitues of the place, and it was
seldom that strangera-came to the
Cafe Turc. One of them, however,
was known to several people there.
He was Vincent 8tornaway. a suc
cessful portrait painter, who had
long ago abandoned any pretense
of a Bohemian life. He exuded
prosperity with his faintly pic
turesque clothes, his flowing tie.
his golden-brown beard, pale cheek*
and clear, healthy skin.
His companion was known to
nobody, and various unflattering
comments were passed on his ap
pearance. He was unprepossessing
to a degree, his pallid face being
fleshy and heavy-jawed, his eyes
pale and small and sunk in puffy
bags, his forehead low and square
and livid against a band of coarse
black hair. He had a big, hooked
nose and a thick neck, and there
was a sinister suggestion in the
straight line of his lips, which
were thin and peevish, and con
tradicted all the rest of his face.
"A liberline with a bad temper.”
murmured clever Tony Leigh, the
cruelest caricaturist with the kind
est heart in the world.
“Good shot. Tony!” said another
man. "I wonder who the chap can
be!”
As a matter of fact, Stornaway’s
companion was Bruce Gideon, a
financier, whose portrait the artist
was painting as a present from an
insurance company with which
Gideon was associated. During the
sittings Gideon had shown much
interest in the life of artists, and
the two men had become friendly
to a certain extent.
Gideon had asked Stornaway to
dinner at his apartment on Park
Avenue, and had expressed a desire
to see a real bit of the poorer
0 (Continued on page 8)
BOAT ACCIDENT KILLS
WORLD’S SPEED KING
How Brownsville Ranks
With Texas Cities I
Per
Cent
1930 1920 Gain Gain
1. Houston . 290.811 138.276 152.535 110.3 I
2. Dallas. 261,010 158.976 102.034 64 1
S. San Antonio. 254.562 161.379 93.183 57.7
4. Fort Worth .. 160.892 106.492 54.400 51.2
5. El Paso . 101.975 77.560 24.415 31.5
6 Beaumont . 57.483 40,422 17,061 42.2
7. Austin . 53,118 34 876 18.242 52 3
1 8. Waco . 58.825 38.500 14.325 37.2
9. Galveston . 51.939 44.255 7.684 17 3
10. Port Arthur. 49.107 22.251 26.856 210.7
11. Wichita Falls . 43.607 40,079 3.528 8.7
12. Amarillo . 43.115 15.494 27.621 178 0
13. Laredo . 32.661 22.710 9.951 43.8
14. Corpus Christi. 27.789 10.067 17.722 176.0
15. San Angelo . 25.304 10.050 15.254 151 7
16. Abilene . 23.129 10,274 12.855 125 0
17. Brownsville . 22.050 11.791 10.259 87 0
; 18. Lubbock. 20.612 4.051 16.561 408 8
19. Tyler. 17.089 12.085 5.004 41 3
20- Paris. 16.644 15.040 1,604 10.6
21. Texarkana . 16.602 11,480 5.122 44 6 ! 1
22. Marshall . 16.193 , 14.271 1.922 13 4 !
24. Temple. 15.333 11.033 609 4 1
25. Corsicana . 15,299 11.356 3.943 34.7
Total for first 25 - --
cities . 1.684,789 1.037,799 646.990
Cities from 10,000 to 15.000 by the 1930 census, with comparisons be
ll tween 1920 and 1930 figures, follow:
Per !j
Cent
1930 1920 Gain Gain
26. Denison . 13.851 71.065 *3,214 *18 8
27. Big Spring . 13.731 4.273 9 458 221.3
28. Brownwood . 12.781 8.223 4.558 55 0
29. Greenville. 12.506 12.384 122 10
[ 30. Harlingen . 12.124 1.784 10.340 579.5
31. Del Rio . 11.676 10.589 1.087 10 2
32. Cleburne . 11.466 12.820 *1 354 *10.5
33. Palestine . 11.429 11.039 390 3 5
34. Sweetwater. 10.844 4.307 6.537 150 0
35. San Benito. 10,789 5.070 5.719 112 7 !'
36. Pampa . 10.453 987 9.466 969 2 !
Total for cities of - -.. ..
10.000 to 15,000 . 131,650 88,541 **43.109
•Indicates decrease. **Net gain. Two cities showed decrease of
4,568. Nine cities showed increase of 47.677.
Senate Votes on Tariff
Long-Debated Measure Gives First Change
Of Its Kind in Eight Years
WASHINGTON, June 13.—VP)—One year, five months and six days
from the day it began to take form back in the waning weeks of the
Coolidge administration the tariff bill approached a final vote in the I
senate today with republican leaders confident of passage by at least
two votes.
Meeting an hour earlier than usual to give remaining speakers an op* I
portunity to explain their votes, the debate-exhausted legislators were 1
given but three hours to talk tariff before a showdown vote on the
FOUR KILLED
Tulsa Car Wreck Takes
Many Lives
TULSA. Okla , June 13—</P)— Four
Tulsans were killed and one Injur
ed dangerously in an automobile
wreck east of the city today. A
light sedan In which they were rid
ing crashed into a telephone pole
and was demolished.
The dead:
Henry J. Brousseau, 40, bookkeep
er for an oil company.
Miss Marjoire Denton, 29.
Carl Pratt. 28. tool designer.
Mrs. Carl Pratt, 26.
The injured person was Miss Hel
en Boyd, 27, she may not recover,
hospital attendants said. A sixth
occupant of the car, E. C Hinkefent,
33. escaped uninjured.
nconierence reports at z p. m.
House leaders had announced
that in event of affirmative senate
action they would call up the con
ference agreement tomorrow with a
view to completing congressional
approval before the week-end.
President Hoover would have a
week or more to veto the bill before
the end of the session. Should he
sign it—and administration chief
tains have predicted he will—the
first tariff legislation in eight
years and the twenty-first, revision
since the initial tariff act of 1879
would take effect the following
day.
What It Affects
Supplanting the republican Ford
ney-McCumber act of 1922, the
measure would raise an estimate
revenue of $630,000,000 or $107,000,
000 more than the existing law
based on 1928 importations of 3.218
named commodities and basket
clauses comprising the measure,
changes are made in 1.122. or about
32 per cent of the total. There are
887 increases in rates and 235 de
creases. 75 items transferred from
the dutiable to the free list and 48
now on the free list placed in the
protective category. Over 250 of the
increases are on farm products.
Higher duties on sugar, dairy
products, livestock, meats, grains,
fruits, fresh and canned vegetables,
nuts and seeds, are provided in the
agriculture schedule, which is raised
to the highest general level in his
tory-.
Many of the products given pro
tection for the first time in years
are of first importance. They in
clude brick, cement, softwood lum
ber, long staple cotton, hides, leath
ers. boots and shoes, all now on the
free list. The duty of $1 per thou
sand feet on lumber, however, is
only provisional. It would not be
come operative unless Canada or
Mexico taxed American exports of
lumber.
TARIFF ATTACKED
BY RASKOB
NEW YORK. June 13—John
J. Raskob. chairman of the demo
cratic national committee, in a tele
gram to Senator Joe T. Robinson,
minority leader, attacks the tariff
bill now before congress as condu
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ENGLISH RACE
CHAMP DIES
OF INJURIES
Major Segrave Ends
Career Seeking
New Record
WINDERMERE. England June
13—V>—Major Sir Henry O Se
grave, internationally known sperl
King, died shortly after five o'clocic
thb evening from Injuries he suf
fered when his speed boat over
turned on Lake Windermere.
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MAJOR SEGRAVES
The world automobile speed-rec
ord holder was fatally injured as
lit* high speed motor boat Miss
England II overturned while at
tempting to establish a world speed
record on Lake Windermere.
The disaster overtook the boat
as Sir Henry was testing her prep
aratory to going to the United States
in an effort to lift the internation
al trophy at Detroit.
The speed boat overturned while
making a third spurt at terrific
speed over a measures mile throw
ing out the occupants, one of
whom, Mechanic E. Halliwell, was
missing and was feared to have
been drowned.
Sir Henry himself was picked up
and at first thought uninjured. He
rent to a nearby hotel.
The third member of the crew,
M. J. Willcocks. was rescued In an
injured condition.
Segrave s attempt at a speed rec
ord began auspiciously. Within a
few seconds after her start, the boat
wa- trawling at terrific speed. She
hf.d twice covered a measured mile
ar.d had turned and was traveling
almost at her maximum speed with
ti e roar of her giant engines
echoing from one shore to another
when the disaster took place.
The famous racer held the world
automobile record of 231 miles an
hour. He hoped to rapture the in
ternational trophy at Detroit this
summer.
While pounding along on the lake
at a speed of about 100 miles an
hour, the boat suddenly was seen
to turn over and plunge into the
water. Segrave was dragged from
the wreck by the owners of speed
launches which shot to his assist
ance. He was found to have suf
fered a broken arm. a broken rib
and a fractured thigh.
WEATHER
P**** .
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Mostly cloudy and unsettled tonight
and Saturday, probably with occas
ional local showers.
‘ For East Texas: Mostly cloudy and
unsettled tonight and Saturday, lo
cal thundershowers this afternoon
or tonight in southeast portion
Light to moderate southeast winds
on the coast.
—....
RIVER FORECAST
Water in sight at Rio Grande City
j last night <23.1 feet) will cause flood
stages from above Mission to mouth
of river during the next one to three
days. Considerable water will pro
bably also go through the flood
ways, and some water probably
through breaks in the levees at
weak places or sharp bends in the
river.
Rood Present 24-HLr. 24-Hr.
Stag* Stage Chns Bam
Eagle Pass 16 6.2 +3.3 .04
Laredo 27 0.5 -0.3 .00
Rio Grande 21 22.7 -4 7 .00
i Mission 22 20.1 -2.3 .00
San Benito 23 23 8 -2.0 ..08
Brownsville 18 17.4 tl9 .02
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorol
ogical conditons:
High . 7:45 a. m.
Low. 11:31 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
| Sunset today . 7 .23
Sunrise tomorrow . S:3Z
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