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THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASE D WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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THIRTY-NINTH YEAR—NO. 137 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1930 EIGHT PAGES TODAY 5c A C0PY
IN OUR
VALLEY I
Bi C. M HALi
THERE is no extra work to be hac
in the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley.
This iact might well oe broadcast
X® an eitort to check the drat ol
TK?eri seeking' work, mostly labor
ers. mto this section of the country
The federal employment bureat
here reports many applications s
day and few jobs to offer. Restaur
ant men report several a day re
questing lood they are unable tt
buy.
These men seeking work havt
drifted mto the Valley hearing tht
general report that this section b
prosperous. It is prosperous compar
ed to the remainder of the country
but there is not a bit of work tha
cannot the cared for by iabor al
ready here.
Sunshine of the past few days if
giving a bit more employment tc
men already here. These have suf
fered some during the past few
weeks. The local slump of employ
ment would soon clarify itself il
the influx of the outsider could Dt
stopped.
BIDS on the Port Isabels $320,000
worth ol bonds were to be open
ed yesterday. It was said this
morning that several were received
The meeting to open the bids went
into executive session and at this
writing no report had been made
Offers for these bonds constitute a
matter ol no little interest to show
the trend of the present day Valley
bond market.
F:ESS reports out of Monterrey
are to the effect that a buy-it
home-made campaign is being
A pened there. Tins is an economy
#nove in an attempt to raise the
of the declining peso. It is
iPiiki that in the campaign special
reference is made to butter, eggs
and similar perishables, and manu
factured products easily obtained.
SEVERAL deer have been reported
killed at the opening of the
season, but so far the turkey
shooters have been rather silent.
This us the open season for mis
taking companions for deer, burn
ers should keep their companions
in the field continually informed of
their whereabouts. A Castroville
hunter was shot yesterday. The »<>;
some hunters fire at a moving ob
ject. men in the brush should
carry a great sign reading: "I am
not a deer ” But even then some
hunter wou’d bob up with a dead
companion and the statement that
he thought the sign read: ”1 am a
deer”.
TKE Valley Mid-Winter Fair will
open Saturday. For weeks now
those directly interested, in
cluding John T. Floore, of both the
fair and the chamber of commerce,
have been working to make it a
success. By somewhat chancing the
policy of business at the fair, that
institution this year has an over
head of expenses less than ever be
fore. Mos’ of the attractions are ob
tained on a percentage basis and
even the coronation ceremonies are
being staged with no expense re
sponsibility attached, so far as the
Association is concerned The fair
t is year should be a financial suc
jl• ’>». This being true, it will be
' ri ,fe than many another fair the
gentry over has done this year.
MANY banks over the country are
closing their doors, and some
business houses are following
suit This, as was here said last
Sunday, is to he expected and is not
a matter for alarm In fact, it was
expected.
ANIMATED Annie says that is
one time one can be glad that
it is the other fellow who gets
the breaks
IN about two more days those with
garaegs on unpaved side streets
will be able to park their cars
inside That is. if it does not rain
again in that tune.
INFORMATION ha." been received
I at this office that during the
past year Arkansas raised a
watermelon that weighed 162
pounds. The report was to the ef
fect tha we mieht inform ourselves
that Arkansas does some thing once
m a while.
Oh bov. you bet your life! And
we bet thev ate it. Thev have not
yet discovered a fit drink to be
made out of watermelon.
ONE trouble about this Red Cross
drive is that they send around
such good looking ladies to ex
tract the dollars, that a poor man
has no: a chance to pet away with
the one dollar he intended giving.
FOR your inform acton. Harry
Friedman, of auto repair fame,
after an exhaustive study, ha?
discovered that if you put only a
little gasoline in your cigar lighter,
the b’arre thing will perform once
:n a while
Fair
He is
mp rcrr vo ter of filmdom In
a few months the title will pass to
a man named Jones.
NEW YORK—A minimum wage
of $?5 a week for working girls is
favored by Mr- Franklin D Roose
ve't. wi'e nf the governor. In a
rhe indlntffj her belief that
Jteb *>o a»"C'int was necessary to
roell the difference between a life
wr~»h ’ivin» and a drab existence
RIADH. Kingdom of the Hedijar
—The modern ship of the desert has
There are 1.500 automobiles
n «Hs kingdom in the heart of
Arabia\ Four years ago there was
none. King Ibn Baud bought the
first.
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QUITS SOCIETY FOR SCREEN
Her father Is a member of Parliament and holds a post in the
British cabinet, but Miss Katheleen Greenwood, shown above in a new
poitrait, is not content with the social career thus assured her. She
had a film test, signed a contract, and now is playing leading roles tn
British talking picture productions Her father is the Right Hon Ar
| thur Greenwood. Minister of Health.
Arrest Ends Turkey Ads
Man of Many Aliases Held FoPowing Probe
Of Turkey and Pecans for $1.50
BRECK.ENRIDGE, I'ex., Nov. 18.—(/P>—An extensive advertising cam
paign for the purchase and sale of West Texas turkeys and pecans, pu;
on here recently by a man said to be widely-traveled and alleged to
have many aliases, has terminated in the promoter's arrest.
Although no charges were filed here, the man was being held for Los
Angeles, Calif, police on telegraphic information that he is wanted there
on a felony charge.
The man protested he had committed no offense, but police received
SPAIN SHAKEN
BY RED RIOTS
BARCELONA. Spain. Nov. 18.—
(/P>—Two striking workmen were
killed and four were wounded m a
pistol fight with police Just before
noon today. Mobs fought with the
officers near the Columbiis
monument
Catalonian authorities had
marshalled thousands o*f civil
guards, police and troops in an ef
fort to prevent renewed outbreaks
of violence on the second day of
Barcelona's general strike.
Not until midnight did the thous
ands of strikers, called from their
jobs In sympathy with a similar
walk-out in Madrid over the week
end. quit the disorders which yes
terday cave this city its most
disturbed dav since September,
1923. when General Primo de Ri
vera became Spanish Dictator.
Thousands of workers ranged the
streets shouting “down with the
government. Up with communism.
Long live the soviets!”
At least one person was dead as
a conseouence of the clashes yes
terday between strikers and police,
while as many as 200 persons were
said to have been injured.
Authorities arrested more than
300
There was some anxietv as to
possible developments from th»
strike, which coincided with similar
j movement* in such widely senarat
i ed places s*« Oviedo where miners
' left *he ni*s. Valladolid, Granada
and Valencia.
Reprieve Granted
Man Facing Chair
AUSTIN. Tex.. Nov. 18 — P —
! Jess Maple of Houston, convicted
(slayer of two policemen and sent
| diced to be executed for the death
| of one of the officers. !a*e last
! nieht was granted a reprieve until
• November 28
Governor Moody issued the stav
a few hours before Maple was to
go to the electric chair in Hunts
: ville prison. The governor an
nounced his decision af*er a con
j ference with Judge W C. Morrow.
presiding Judge of the Court of
; Criminal Appeals.
E. A. Bern* of Houston, attorney
for Maple, had filed witn the
Court of Criminal Appeals a motion
for rehearing and a temporary
j restraining order.
District Judge Whit Boyd of
Houston had refused to issue a
! writ of injunction to stop the ex
ecution of an insanity affidavit.
Maple was charged with the
slaying of W B. Phares and Ed
[ ward Fitzgerald, motorcycle of
ficers. at Houston September 20
after a hold-up of The Touchy
Furniture Comnanv He was con
j victed of the Fitzgerald murder.
The Merchant Is Insured
Rio Grande Valley Trust Co. (Adv.)
-pnotographs and records from the
i New Mexico state penitentiary sct
! ting out that he served an 13-monlh
| sentence in that state for obtaining
goods under lalse pretenses; that
lie escaped in April, 1927, wu* cap
tured in July, 1928, in Los Angeles,
finished his term, and was dis
i charged in April, 1929. New Me.\i
1 co authorities said he had been ar
rested untier various names in Mas
sachusetts, West Virguua, Missouri
and New York.
i His arrival here several weeks
ago was followed by publication in
West Texas newspapers of classified
advertisements signed by • Texas
Turkey Growers' Association, of
Breckenridge. San Antonio. \.»aco
and San Angelo," offering to buy
turkeys at 12 and 14 cents and pe
cans at 9 cents. Simultaneously
advertisements were running in the
newspapers of the north offeiing
turkeys with 10 pounds of pecans
with each for $1.50
The case came to the attention
of L. H. Welch, district attorney
here, when telegrams began reacn
ing the Breckenridge Chamber of
Commerce asking if the company
were responsible. Investigation re
vealed that about 200 money orders
had been received in the postoffice
for the man. Welch said the man,
after being questioned, refused to
claim the money orders and they
still are being held bv the postmas
ter.
The man said he had made ap
plication to the secretary of state
for a charter. He said he was or
ganizing a company and had made
arrangements with a produce house
to handle his turkeys and that only
his arrest ad prevented him carry
ing out all his promises.
Mexican Consulate
Changes Announced
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, Nov. 18 —
^ Enrique Santibaner, consul
genera! of Mexico in San Antonio,
announced yesterday that consul
ates at Rio Grande Citv and Hidal
go would be closed, the one at
Beaumont would be placed under an
honorary consul, and a new one
would be opened at McAllen. The
chances, he said, would be effective
not later than Dec. 31. in accord
ance with a decree of the ministry
of foreign relations in Mexico.
Mexican Tomai
Mexican west coast tomato acre
age is estimated at about the same
as last year, according to a special
report received by telegram from a
I representative of the United States
Department of Agriculture now
, making a survey of truck crops in
Mexico. Copy of this report has
j been received in the Valley from G.
C. Clark of Austin. U. S. depart
ment of agriculture truck crop esti
mator for Texas.
"About 60 per cent of the Mexi
can crop was planted by Nov. 5."
the report continues "Early plant
ings are making good growth and
fields generally are in healthy
BOOZE FLEET
LATEST AIR
INNOVATION
Indictment Charge*
30 Planes Are
Operated
DETROIT. Nov. 18.——Opera
tions of two aerial smuggling syn
dicates whose air fleets brought
liquor and aliens from Canada to
the United States, were revealed
today with the indictment of ten
men by the federal grand Jury.
According to information held by
the government, the syndicates op
erated 30 planes for smuggling
liquor and aliens from Canada to
remote landing fields in the United
States.
Although operations of the syn
dicates were confined for the most
part to the Detroit area, govern
ment investigators said that planes
lanoed contraband in the vicinity
of cities in Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois.
How They Operated
Evidence on which ihe indict
ments were based was obtained by
undercover agents who joined the
syndicates and worked with the
smugglers for weeks.
Investigators reported that 1.800
cases of liquor cleared a single
Canadian airport in one month at
ihe height of the operations, while
correspondingly large amounts were
sent into the air from other fields
across the international line. The
planes operated by the smugglers
were capable of carrying from 15 to
40 cases of liquor on a single hop.
Operators of the smuggling syn
dicates kept up a continual game
cf "hide and seek’ with federal of
ficers. Landing fields were changed
frequently and hidden storage
points were maintained at fields
where the planes landed their car
goes.
Twelve Planes Se.zed
The mtn indicted today included
.two irom Windsor, six lrom the
downriver suburb of Ecorse ana
two who are hs ed with Detroit ad
dresses. They were inciuaed among
the 18 indicted by the giand jury in
a big conspiracy case ia.-.t spring
and todays indictments weie a re
i affirmation ol the earlier indiet
. meats.
Twelve of the planes which the
' syndicate is alleged iO have used,
.were seized by government agt*n.o
during the past eight months.
Celestial Fireflies
Streak Across Sky
j CHICAGO. Nov. 18— .pi—'a.u_!
earth s collision with a swarm of
, celestial fireilies sl.eaked eaiiy
j morning skies today wita a oni
i liant display.
t Astronomers said tire i •» .li had
j entered the path of the L unid:*, a
j large group of meteors, and waxed
I happy over the splendor which they
I said augured well for November,
1933, when they expect another me
I teoric display rivaling that of 1833
I The Leonids appear every 33
years. Astronomers found atmos
pheric conditions last night ideal
for observing them and Dr. C. C.
Crump, secretary of Yer'/ s Ob
servatory, Williams Bay. Wis.. sz^ri
that much of the night was spent
photographing and counting the
! fiery particles which result when
the meteors hit the earth's pro
tective atmosphere and burn them
selves up in the friction producing
a harmless glow. They counted *70
j meteors each hour. Dr. Crump said.
Pioneer Found Dead
In Palestine Ravine
PALESTINE, Tex.. Nov. 18.— T*
—Joe Melton, pioneer Anderson
county citizen, missing from his
home nine miles east of Palestine
since Monday, was found dead to
day in a ravine near his home.
An inquest verdict said death was
caused by natural causes.
Judge Sought
Tt is likely that a special judge to
take the place of Judge O. C. Dancy
will be named by the Cameron
county bar Wednesday.
Judge Dancy is in the east in
connection with the sale of county
bonds and will not be back for
some time.
Fruit Move* Slowly
Rainy weather kept fruit and
vegetable shipments lagging far be
hind those of the past season, fruit
movements totalling 887 car loads
Tuesdav morning, as compared
with 1038 cars to the same date
last year, and vegetable shipments
22 cars, against 168.
Shipments Tuesdav were 17 cars
grapefruit and 1 mixed vegetables.
'o Crop Normal
| condition. There will be some stock
available for shipment in late No
vember and early December, but
, bulk rf the movement will be after
January.
• Rains of Oct. 26 insured suffici
ent water for irrigation water in
rivers. Acreage is no indication _,f
volume of movement. Shippers
and growers anticipate heavy cull
ing since they believe the markets
will not handle inferior tomatoes
Th»y state that thev do not lead
url"*? the market warrants cn ac
count of the large cash investment l
required to cross cars into the
United 8tates."
PRIZE WINNER
The 1930 Nobel prize for physics
was awarded to Sir Chandrasek
hara Venkata Raman, professor
of physics at Calcutta university.
BUREAU DRIVE
CHIEFS NAMED
Campaign Opens in City
Witth Speakers Selected
For Civic Clubs
A series of committee meetings,
and talks at civic clubs will be held
in Brownsville during the re
mainder of this week in launch
ing this city's part of the Valley
Better Business Bureau financial
campaign, the general arrange
ments for which got under way at
a meeting last night in Harlincen.
A. D. Dickinson. Jr.. C. R. Tyr
rell, S I. Jackson. A Wayne Wood
and Gordon Street have been
picked as key men in Brownsville,
and are working with the general
committee, under B M. Holland of
Harlingen, chairman, in getting the
campaicn launched.
A fund of $50,000 is to be raised
to finance the Valley Better Busi
ness Bureau for a period of two
years.
Arrangements are being worked
out today for talks at the service
clubs in the city, and the Browns
ville campaign committee is ex
pected to fc° completed by the end
of the week.
Emphasis was placed at the
meeting last night on the fact tha*
there is only a lull in the attack
of better business bureaus of the
north on the Valiev.
•"They are waiting to see what
we will do.” said Chairman Hol
land. 'They have not dropped the
fight on the Valiev, if we do not
take immediate steos to carrv
through a Bureau, affiliated with
the national organization, to pass
on thn Valley organizations ooera*
ing cu* of here, we mav exnect still
more vicious attacks in the future.
wi*h disastrous resu’ts to the Val
iev. These attacks will not be level
led against the land men only, but
thev will be directed against the
Valiev as a whole.”
Record Number Of
Homeseekers Here
Number of homeseekers arriving
in one week reached what is believ
?d to be a record for the new sea
son Tuesday, with 100 additional
visitors bringing the total for the
week up to 430
Parties making uo a total of 130
arrived in the Valley Monday, and
are sounding the week here viewing
the territory
TEXAS GAINS
THREE SEATS
IN CONGRESS
Hoover Announces
Changes Made
By Census
WASHINGTON. Nov. 18.—/.P—
President Hoover today announced
the reapportionment of the house
under the 1930 census would show
that California gains nine seats.
Michigan four and Texas three.
The census bureau figures, which
will be transmitted for congres
sional action, give other added re
presentations in the house as fol
lows :
Connecticut one: Florida one:
New Jersey two; New York two;
North Carolina one: Ohio two. and
Washington one.
On the basis of the figures. Mis
souri will lose 3 seats. Georgia two,
Iowa two: Kentucky two: Penn
sylvania two. and the following
states one each: Alabama, Indiana.
Kansas. Maine. Massachusetts, j
Minnesota. Mississippi. Nebraska.
North Dakota. Rhode Island. South
Carolina. South Dakota. Tennessee.
Vermont. Virginia and Wisconsin.
Texas Road Makes
Drastic Rate Cut
AUSTIN, Nov. 18.-< P>—Applica
tion ot the Texas-Mextcan railroad
to reduce passenger rates from 3.6
cents to 2 cents a mile was granted
by the Texas Railroad Commission
today.
The rate was allowed to meet
motor bus and private automobile
competition. It extends along the
railroad s route from Corpus Chrts
ti to Laredo.
The Texas-Mexican was the sec
ond railroad to ask the drastic cut
in fares as an experiment to deter
mine whether passenger revenues
could be increased. The Texas
Pacific led the wav with a reduc
tion on its Fort Worth to Big Spring
line.
Since that reduction was grant
ed. several bus lines have cut farts
from 2 6 cents to slightly under two
cents a mile.
Brownsville Opens
Red Cross Drive
The annual Fed Cross drive for
funds started Monday, with 20 lo
cal women canvassing the city and
with permanent headquarters locat
ed In the Cromack building on
Elizabeth street be'ween Eleventh
and Twelfth
Rev. R. o Mackintosh is in
charge of activities this year, and
it was reported that first day’s
contributions were highly satisfac
tory.
The quota that has been set for
Brownsville is SI.500. and the drive
is to continue for one wc"k. termi
nating Saturdav midnieht.
‘Unavoid?Me’ Crash
Injures Ore Slightly
What was -ermed bv traffic of
ficers as an “unavoidable acci
dent" occurred near the country
club M~ndav night about 7 o'clock
when two cars collided and were
hurtled into the dit^h in front of
tha Country Club filling station.
Onp woman was slightly injured
but none of the others were hurt.
Both cars were damaged, and
brought to Brownsville for repair
Mexico Opens Home Campaign
Monterrey Center of Drive Against Buying
Imported Products to Boost Peso
By JACK STARR-HI NT
MONTERREY, Mexico, Nov. 18.—Believing that alleviation of Mexico's
existing economic depression can be effected by curbing imports from
foreign countries, the Monterrey Chamber of Commerce has launched an
extensive "buy native produces" campaign.
It is the theory of the chamber that the low value of the national
silver money is responsible for most of the panic, and that excessive im
portation, causing an unfavorable balance of trade, is resjionsible for
the most part for the silver money decline since the difference in im
BREW BALKS
Officers Shift Tactics To
Dispose of Home Brew
The mezcal and tequila went
down easily, but the home brew
refuses to stay put.
In other words, the sheriff s de
partment is having a hard time
disposing of the home brew ceized
by it. Saturday the officers dumped
load after load of hard liquor into
» sink at the courthouse and broke
the bottles. This operation failed
to work with the homebrew. Every
time the hammer fell on a bottle
of homebrew, the room was filled
with flying glass. The murky fluid
refused to give up without a strug
gle under that rough treatment.
So nothing remains but to take
a half a day off and carefully pull
the cap of each bottle. It will likely
be done some time this week.*
RAILWAY CHIEF DIE*
SACRAMENTO. Cf! , No*- 19
?■—IMsar Van Et'-n, 97 f^rme
vice president of the New York
Central Railroad, died here yes
terday.
pv. U3 OiiU illUdl UtT All
gold.
The chamber of commerce points |
out that whereas eight years ag_>
the monetary stock of national gold I
in Mexico amounted to 400.000.(X,0 j
pesos, it is now only 45,000,000 pe-'
sos. The silver peso at present is,
lower than it has been for many
years, and its price wavers from
day to day making its value uncer
tain and speculative.
Monterrey Center
The campaign is called a "na
tional prosperity" drive by the
Monterrey chamber, which is tak
ing the initiative in solving the na
tional panic, since the heart of na
tional industry is situated in Mon
terrey. The local organization is
ja bianch of the national cham
: ber of commerce, and is highly m
I tluential in national economic
circles.
The drive will be conducted by
spreading propaganda in vast n
mounts. The radio, newspapers,
i theaters, and public places will be
utilized to urge the public to buy
things produced in Mexico. Appeal
will be made to the patriotism of
the people, and It will be pointed
out that the welfare of each indi
vidual may be bettered by boosting
national industry, thereby creating
more work and raising wage scales.
S Benito Acts
0 «obless Men
Work Sought for Jobless But Panhandlers
Xo Get Jail Sentence Decision
Of City Commission
< Special t<* The Herald.)
SAN BENITO. Nov. 18.—Work or jail was the sense of a meeting of
the city commission here Monday evening to consider the problem of the
jobless and floaters. A practical program to give jobs to those wanting
work, but unable to obtain it, and a vigorous campaign to get rid of
panhandlers was outlined.
As tne first step in solution of the problem the commission arranged
to gne jobs to at least 25 men at $1 a day on various city projects, grad
ing streets, cleaning vacant lots, and the Idee.
CHICAGO LANDS
GANGSTER BLOW
Jury Decide* Rock Pile I*
Good Remedy for Men
Of Leisure
CHICAGO, Nov. 18—T—Chi
cago scored today its first victory
in its fight to rid the city of
“public enemies” by means of an
Old Virginia law.
The victory came with the con
viction late last night of James
•Fur» Sammons, one of the original
28 hoodlums named by the Chicago
Crime Commission as “public
enemies ” He faced sentence of six
months on the county jail rock
pile and a fine of $100.
Sammons, who. according to
prosecutors has a criminal career
dating hack to 1899. was led away
to a cell in the Detective Bureau
to await the next move of his
counsel—a legal effort for a new
trial. Judge Edgar A. Jonas in
municipal court, said arguments on
their motion would be heard
November 29.
Many Charges
Sammons was confronted with
another charge, that of burglary
and larceny made in connection
with the siphoning of whiskey from
a warehouse several years ago, for
which he was held under bonds of
$150,000. in addition he is wan+ed
in Baltimore on a robberv com
plaint.
The jury deliberated for six hours
returning a verdict of guilty on
charges based on the Illinois
vagrancy statue of 1874. after a
trial that lasted five days. The
state contended Sammons was guilty
under three provisions of the law.
That he was habitually neglectful
of employment and did not law
fully provide for himself.
That he was known as a thief
wi,v*out lawful means of support.
That he had been convicted of
other crime5.
Capcne Next
Arguing that Sammoni had paid
his debt to society for his crimes
by his imprisonment. W. W. Smith,
one of his attorneys, contended
Sammons had learned the trade
of an electrician while in Joliet
penitentiary, but had been prevent
ed by police harassment from
earning an honest living.
Meanwhile the drive on '•rime
was reported to have taken ano
ther turn, with the grand Jury
scheduled to go into the question
whether Alfonse Capone has had
any influence on the affairs of the
Chicapo Police Department. The
Herald and Examiner said eight
policemen and a lieutenant had
been summoned for questioning.
Unied States Goal
Of India Statesmen
LONDON. Nov. 1R_4P)_A "Unit
ed States of India'* was the goal
held up by speakers at today's ses
sion of the Indian round table con
ference in St. James' place.
The Mahjaraja of Alwar. who is
the ranking ruling prince of India
and one of the most powerful mos
lem leaders, said:
•Federation is ‘he question be
fore us. I am not enchanted with
that word To me The United States
of India' sounds more grand.”
"The problems of India are more
complicated and more momentous
than the problems of any other
country”, he said "Race, religion,
language, government, all add to
the complexities of the nation, but
the United States of India, united
in a common body to work out In
dian national problems would form
the shortest and quickest route to
dominion status in the British em
pire.”
Valley Man Injured
In Street Collision
'Special to The Herald.)
HARLINGEN. Nov. 18.—Aben Ar
rington, 21, was knocked unconsci
ous about 10:30 a m. Tuesday when
the motorcycle on which he was
iiding collided with a truck in
front of the Plaza hotel here. He
was taken to the Valley Baptist
hospital in a Thompson ambulance.
The extent of his injuries had not
been determined a short time after
the accident.
He is an employe of the Humble
filling station here.
Former Solon Dies
EVANSTON. Wyo., Nov. 18.—^
—Former United States Senator
Clarence D Clark died at the home
of his daughter. Mrs. J. H. Holland.
here today. He was 79 years old
and had been in falling health
for *ome time.
n nuuit* ives arc requested by the
commission to refuse handouts to
those coming to the house to ask
for them, but to send them to Uie
central police station, where tney
will be given an opportunity to go
to work, or be jailed as vagrant*
and forced to leave town.
Work Is Sought
In addition to the other steps, it
is likely that A. V. Logan, county
commissioner lor the San Bem'o
| precinct will be a^>ked to use man
power m place of machines on coun
ty projects in the precinct wh# -
ever possible.
The campaign is an outgrowth of
a citizens meeting held recently,
at which a committee composed of
the Rev. W. E. Johnson. J. E. Bell
and Sam Robertson was appointed
to take the situation up with cry
authorities. This committee will
continue to work with the commt«
sion.
Manr Drifters
San Benito, in common with oth
er Valley towns, has been troubled
with many drifters coming In from
other sections, some actually in
search of work, and large number*
of others who are thought to be
hunting handouts.
War on the latter will be a so.
lution of the problem. officii*
think, while the offer of Jobs Is tir
ing made principally to carrv m *r
local workers until the harvest sea
son gets under way.
Mellons Consider
Second Wedalrjj
PITTSBURGH. Nov. !«._cyf*_
Wed in a secret ceremony m^'e
than a year ago. W L Mellon, Jr.
trrand nephew of the Secretary of
the Treasury and member of one
of Pittsburgh’s most prominent
families, and his wife, formerly
Grace Rnwlrv. a'«o of Pittsburgh,
tedav were to decide with other
members of their families whether
p ans for a forma! weddinr cerem
ony were to be carried out.
Announcement of the secret
marriage was made last night
while preparations were being made
for the wedding set for tomorrow.
Mrs. Mellow said she and her hus
band had eloped, and because
j mother and father were anxious
I to have all our friends see me
I married” they derided to go
throuch with the forma! cerfmonv.
•’Then we thought better of it.”
she said, ’and we told them the
i w-hole story today.”
Thousands View Body
At Wichita Falls
WICHITA FALLS. Tex.. Nov. 18.
— •P;—Thousands of persons, re
presenting a cross section of life
and of race, today trouped past the
I casket of J. A. Kemp, capitalist
and philanthropist of Wichita Fails,
who died at Austin Sunday night
after a long Illness.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
at Memorial Auditorium here,
which has a seating capacity of
nearly 5.000. Mr. Kemp will be
! buried beside a daughter in River
side cemetery’.
Several hundred persons were
wai:ing at Union Station before
daylisht today when the body and
members of the family arrived on
a special car. The body was taken
to the home where it lies in state.
Hundreds of messages of condol
! ence have been received by the
I family.
Mrs. Boole Named
To Head W. C. T. U.
HOUSTON. Nov. 18. —Ay-Mrs.
; Ella A. EooV of Brooklyn. N. Y,
was re-elected president of the Na
tional Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, in 56th annual conven
tion here today.
i WEATHER I
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For Brownsville and the Valley:
partly cloudy tonight and Wed.;
not much change In temperature.
Light to moderate southerly wmtti
on the west coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
Jin the river during the next 24 to
48 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stags Chan*. Bain
Eagle Pass 16
Laredo 27 0 3 -0 2 0C
Rio Grande 21 8 7 -0 2 .OC
i Mission 22 9 7 -05 .OC
San Benito 23 15.9 -0.7 .00
Brownsville 18 11.7 -0.6 .OC
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorol
ogical conditions:
High.1:07 a m.; 4:17 p. m
Low ........ 8 23 a. m.; 10:12 p. m
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today 5:4C
‘ rise tomorrow •••••»«••••• 6:53