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CHEERY EARFUL
More than an Inch of rain fall
ing in Laredo last night broke a
three months* drought there, and
weather predictions Indicate that
rain which has been falling to the
north will reach the Valley with
in the next 36 hour*.
rwm viaa-u m Brownsville, Texas, Friday, august 19, 1932 eight pages today 6c a copy
MOLUSON COMPLETES WESTWARD HOP
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Roosevelt Refuses to Dismiss Walker Charges
CURTIN PLEADS
IN VAIN THAT
IS NO EVIDENCE
Cwurl for Walker
Soya No B*»*» For
CWfti Shown
lAuiftii «*««uns
mmm «f On*.- * 7 mrnwmm
"Puddier Jim”
Ready to Plead
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wAU Child Dw»;
Fwtral la Friday
Valley Officers To j
Hirt at Mercedes
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CANDIDATE FOR 1948 OLYMPICS
W h • couple of aquatic champions for parents. 17-months-old
Umar *:*f« surety should be a star of the Olympics of 1SWS Here you
am fear m tsaanthg with tour mother, lira. Martha Noreiius Wright, for*
met mvM 'ihfpUMi aatmmer. at White Sulphur Springs. W. Va.
1 t.a*>r » lather is Joe Wright, the famous sculler from Toronto. Can.
FARMERS DRAW
LINES TIGHTER
Swat City Livestock Receipts
Arm Reduced by Fifty
Per Cent by Embargo
PIOL'X CITY. AuC
p’xiAifcg farmers ugmcnted their
tmm tsdai' to Ufhica their gnp
«a Awa City—key point la their
war” for tugher prices.
«•* aweuat m Daaota City, flee
a.os awta of or re. roved their
rnjipfl and an* patraoixm rasa*
1> «diag iota haws CUf from us*
aimi'ih today".
MS aw JbMi'-h Dakota ! sneers were
also pororuof tar Highway* but
Araet a pcaaihlt mac shea »lai
ludcm, If sued dismet attorney a*
Paaua »*».-• brcaa aa avrsiifa*
lam «nu» the stoppmc of trucks t»
larmwra Pbertff Jana Joimuao ©i
MbteMmaha gotibijr rapaewed the
take; Inal interstate cox merer
•as being mertrmd with lo to*
lauoa of icOrrai law. I
ICirasiwzi .«* Ur pa art jif farm
ers 41 Fyaai'J sad Woodbury
ewaatod m lows screed lb eoxJer
owns with auihoctius to swvt
wy ts the ftua'.y knee sod cua
utkat mnr picketing after having
we send the number of truck* en
taring the city tram, several kaa
drad lo two m 24 hours.
Thu featrxuae on highway
usttMTUkn has reduced the
uneasecb leemptt at Pious dry
•as *, >«rds met than hak Many
fsnmi'ts warn ahtipptaf m ml now
ever, and at Dr» Mamet W. a
Fraser of the United Plate* de
psnauat or agncuJture said a
s&a'swl tacreasr In marketing at
e.".aas abjMmx to Paoux City was
appaimi i
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Oklahoma Murderer*
Go to Electric Chair
U ALESTfJt Ofel* . A tig. 1*. |
Two com vied murdrtert from
the **tmnr' penally m STeieSrk j
ciutar at state* prtwis today.
f Leer. W>-y«er-oid farmer,
•be kited hB brcKhrr-m-iav. Tam
Mcttesili1 and Mr* McDonald al
*ted.y brrauae he was not served ‘
tnaugn pie at tastily dinner, vent
ae hi* death protest tne he had not
mtmnm4 “» square deal*
The negro, Fillmore Davit, was
mm teed at slaying Ouy Jams.
itisiCaC county mmmiheTii? when
;te offing soiurfet ta amst him on
* gsa^ine IfecfV eharff
Boca Ciega Fishing i
It Said Excellent
Fsfemg la ease Dent at Boca Ctega.
tisoot B miles southeast of here in
Mean*. according to a Valley patty
which returned from there Thun- !
hecfMh were found In abundance
a» wn motetThe party ate took
Thorn in nete Art
Conte*. Jack ©note*. id Brady.
Thm Brady. Ed Brady. Jr. Spike i
•meor, A O. Brown and Chat
Itete AS are resident* of Sac
Sena* esocpi Bpscer who B of |
Brotrrtmffle and Leslie wao resided ;
m Bannaim i
‘Flying Boudoir* Is
Approaching Record
CURTISS FIELD. N. Y. Aug
1». of*—Mrs. Frances Marsalis and
Mrs. Louute Tliaden approached a
new endurance record for women
w their Flying Boudoir” today
and indicated they would go on
several days.
At 7 a. m. (Eastern Standard
tune> today they had been in the
air 114 hours The record is 122
hours and If they remain up until
3 p m. they will have equalled it
To art an official new record they
must sun**** the old one by at
least an hour.
The sky* was clearing today aft*
er hours of fog and intermittent
rain.
LONE MAN HOLDS
OFF ROBBER DUO
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Ice Pick Proves Effective
Weapon In Hands of
Raymondville Man
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• Special to The Herald)
RAYMOKDVILLE. Aug 19 —
Ab..:*.y to handle the Ice pick which
he earned in his belt saved the life
of Doc K Bowman and undoubted
ly saved the ronu ms of the sale c!
the Raymond wile Ice company •
when two men attempted to hold
up Bowman.
Bitering the office after hearing
auspicious sound . Bowman was at
tacked by u man hiding behind the
door. Grabbing the let* pick from
tus belt. Bowman plunged it to the
h-lt m the body of his assailant, the
man failing, across the table In the
office.
As he readied up to turn on the
light, a second bandit struct at
Bowman with a knife, apparently
gpnnfinf up from in front of the ;
safe.
Bowman wrestled with this sec
ond assailant until lie lost con
setoueaess. receiving several severe t
cuts. He faintly remembers see
ing this man carry a suitcase from
the office.
When he revived Bowman called
officers who were unable to find
any traces of the would-be robbers.
The knob of the sale had been
knocked off. but the door was un
opened. Bowman arms able to oe
about this morning.
Prior to tlie attempted robbery he
had noticed a coupe containing two
men and a roman driving past the
plant.
Doug Fairbanks To
Hunt Tigers In Orient
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 19—OV
Douglas Fairbanks began prepara
tions today to go to the Onent
to hunt long-halted tigers. He will
sail neat Thursday from Saa
Francisco, expected to rt . China,
Japan and Manchuria.
He will take a camera to photo
graph highlights of his jaunts but
a not certain they will be in
corporated in his next picture.
Cameramen Chu'k Lewis, Ken
Davenport and Allen Boon will
accompany the screen actor. Ha
wife, Mary Piekford. a remaining
a’ home to make anot r picture.
If she completes it in time, she
plana to mee t Fairbanks in Russia.
PROMISE OF
RAIN RAISES
VALLEY HOPE
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Much Needed Moisture
Predicted Within
36 Hours
Rain, which is needed in the Val
ley now in order to make possible
fall planting is predicted within the
next 36 hours. W. J. Sehnurbusch.
meteorolor-st in charge of the,
BnaaniOi weather bureau station,
announced today.
Mr. Sehnurbusch said indications
point to thunder showers over the
Valley within 24 or 36 hours. The
showers may be general, he said.
Ram is badly needed in the Val
ley, accordir ' to produce dealers
and farmers. The ground is so dry ,
and hot now that it is impossible
to plant seedbeds or crops, and a
general ram is needed both for th*
moisture and to cool out the
ground.
There has been no general rain
in the Valley in more than month.
The water situation in the Valley
became brighter the past day when
the Rio Grande came up. W.ver
is being turned into many resacas
and lakes which we* getting low.
and some irri rating* % being. done |
at different places In the VaUfy.
VICTORIA PROPHET
PREDICTS RAIN #
From the recognized weather
prophet of the Victoria. Tamauii
pas, highway department, 84-year
old Santxgo Gonzalez, comes the
cheerfuj news that there will be a
general nun in South Texas and
northern Mexico on Aug. 24.
This informat.on was brought
back to Brownsville by local peop«e
who were in Victoria 'recently, and
who went t the highway depart-j
ment to find out about the weather.,
They were referred to venerable
Prophet Gonzalez, who said there
will be no ram until Aug. 24, but
a general rain then.
He prophesies by instinct.
Local Prisoner
Is Identified
The Brownsville man held m
connect.on with the Santa Rosa
shooting Sunday was identified
here Friday by a San Anton-o of
ficer as a man wanted there in
three burglary cases and one felony
theft.
The San Antonio officer recog
nized the man by s.ght but took
fingerprints to be used for positive
identification. According to the
officer, the man jumped bond on
the alleged offenses in San An
tonia
The prisoner maintained that ;
the cases had been dropped against
him.
The Brownsville man was taken
into custody early Sunday morning
at Santa Rosa prior to the fatal
wounding of a man identified as j
Ed C nance by Nightwatchman
Boynton Flemming. He was not
near the scene of the shooting,
but officers have held him in cus
tody believing he was implicated
in the affair.
Seizure of Swanson’s
Furniture Threatened
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 19.
Nearly $50,000 worth of Gloria
Swanson's furniture is going sud
denly out of her Beverly Hills home
unless someone enters court with a
$28,000 bond today.
Alleging a $14,000 debt, W. J
Saylor. Ltd., dealer in expensive
chairs, tables, beds and so forth,
filed a suit which sent deputy sher- j
iffs to the mansion witn a writ of
attachment.
They found a lone caretaker. Miss
Swanson being in England with her
new husband. Michael Fanner. The
caretaker accepted the writ and
thereafter was no longer alone for
a deputy sheriff remained to keep
a constabuiar eye on the many rich
whatnots.
Diamond Vet Dies
WATERBURY. Conn., Aug. 19 —
UP)—Baseball has last another of
its old timers—George “CSmdy'
Lachance, first baseman on the
1903 worlds championship Boston
Red Sox.
The veteran player, who began
his professional career as a catcher
with the Portland. Me , club of
the old New England league in
1891. died last night at the age of
63 years after a year's illness.
RECORD CLAIMED
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 19. i.P*—
Playing 17 opponents simultan
eously. Nathaniel Rubin of De
troit. worlds Junior checker
champion, defeated them all in 15
minutes. 48 seconds in an exhibi
tion yesterday for what he said
was a world record. Afterward, he
was able to reconstruct each game
played.
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Health Unit, Farm
Agents Are Backed
At Budget Hearingj
A staunch defense of the county health unit, the
county farm agent and the county demonstration agent by
a group of about 50 representative Cameron county cit
izens featured the hearing on the county’s tentative budget
held before the commissioner’s court Friday morning.
NO DETAILS OF
CONDEMNATION
U. S. District Attorney Says
Unaware of Status
Of Proceedings
Papers requesting his office to act
in condemnation proceedings
brought by the war department for
the Point Isabel-San Benito Navi
gation district to acquire title to the
Ups of Brazos and Padre island?,
may have been received by his of
fice but have not come to his at
tention it is reported in Browns
ville from the Houston office of H.
M Holden. U. S. district attomev.
Mr. Holden is reported to have
stated that he had a general knowl
edge that the condemnation pro
ceedings had been asked, but re
iterated that he knew nothing of
what had been done or what would
be done.
Notice was received this morning
by the Brownsville Navigation dis
trict from Col. John J. Kingman,
corps of engineers, that the con
demnation proceedings had been
requested by the Point Isabel Navi
gation district on the grounds that
“they have undertaken to secure
these lands and have beer, unable
to obtain them by purchase and
acquire a valid title thereto."
Z. A. Rosenthal, member of the
Brca-nsviIIe Navigation commission
stated in comment that the Browns
ville district stood ready “to observe
all of the requirements of the con
tract entered into between this dis
trict and the Port Isabel district on
May 23. under terms of which the
Brownsville district agreed to turn
over title to the tips of the islands
to the government when 143.000 was
made available to the Brownsville
district."
“We are ready to do everything
in our power to get wcrk started on
the pert, and if the condemnation is
the quickest way to get the work
going, we are for it", Rosenthal said.
Hold Houston Man in
Omaha Murder Case
OMAHA. Aug. 19. (iP—Detective
Inspector Ben Danbaum today an
nounced that bullets tired from a
gun taken from a Texas man. un
der arrest here, correspond with
those found in the body of Angelo
Sivigliano. former Kansas City
racketeer, slain Saturday mght near
Glen wood. Iowa.
Danbaum said he would turn the
man. Archie M. ‘ Buddy’’ Jenkins
of Houston. Texas, over to the Glen
wood authorities at once with a
recommendation that he be charged
with Sivigiiano’s murder.
Jenkins. Danbaum said was once
questioned in Houston about a
murder which Sivigliano was sus
pected.
Renowned Methodist
Cleric Died Thursday
NEW RICHMOND. O. Aug. 1§.
—OP*—The Methodist Episcopal
church lost one of its greatest
leaders las: night by the death 01
Bishop Ear! Cranstcn. 92.
Retired l« years ago. the bishop
had been in failing health several
months. He died at his country
home near here on the Ohio river.
His wife and a few friends were
at the bedside.
Bishop Cranston was chairman
of the commission to reunite his
church w:th the Methodis* Epis
copal Church. South, and was au
thor of a book on the subject, en
titled ‘Breaking Down the Wails.”
In a Daze, Officer
Forcrets Robbery
SAX ANTONIO, Aug 19. 0F—
Lieut. Herbert C. LJchtenberger tes
tified in his court martial trial Fri
day that he was in a complete
care on the day he is aliered to
have held up the Sc hertz Stale bark
and did not . remember anything
that happened even when he read
of the holdup in the newspaper the
next morning.
Lichterberger told of excessive
drinking for about a week preceding
the robbery.
He said that on the morning of
February 16. the day following the
holdup, he read of the hokiup in
the papers but did not recognize
any of the events and did not con
***ct himself with the robbery.
e The budget car.: ones closely xntn
the budget far the previous year but
shows a reduction of approximately
$40,000. The budget was submitted
as an “outside'* limit by Co. Auditor
H M. Skelton and he stated that in
his opinion it should be cut further
in order to get inside of anticipated
revenues. "The total of this tenta
tive budget exceeds anticipated rev
enues and no doubt will require ad
ditional curtailment." he said.
Skelton Favors Evaluator
The gathering was called upon
for suggestions as the auditor read
over the proposed figures. The
first figure to be questioned was
that of the tax evaluator. Fred
Sellers, who has been active with
the Taxpayers League, asked if this
post was necessary. Most counties
of this si2? have such an officer,
he was told. If an evaluator is not
used, it would be necessary to ux
several more clerks in the office of
the tax assessor. Skelton said. Sell
ers favored abolishment of the
evaluator poet and giving the dut
ies to the assessor.
The health unit budget of $10,000
was the next item to come under
fire. Sellers again took the floor
and stated that in his opinion the
health unit was not operated ef
ficiently—that i. had two and oa
sibiy three administrative beads.
He favored a more compact organ
ization and was backed in his
opinion by E. Nordman of La Feria
Commissioners J. F. Baughn and
H. M. Paf.ee answered several of
Sellers* queries. Two other tpeak
»Continued on Page Twci
MAN SHOT AND
LIQUOR T i
Border Patrol Has Run-In
With Three Near
Progreso
(Special to The Herald t
WESLACO. Aug. 19—Two Bor
der Patrol inspectors, accompanied
by one Texas ranagr. exchanged
some 15 or 20 shots with a party
of three alleged liquor runners at
4 this morning, and when the
fusillade was over Miguel Navarro
of Weslaco was dead and Jose
Sandoval and Anselmo Torres wera
prisoners, along with a varied
assortment of Mexican liquor.
Sen. Border Imp. John Saul.
Insp. C. L. Austin and Ranger
George Ingram encountered tha
trio near Progreso, and called on
them to stop.
According to the reports of the
officers, one of the men reached
for his gun and the battle was on.
Navarro's body was reported to
have been virtually riddled with
bullets.
Liquor of various kinds and var
ious sizes w*s seized by the offi
cers following the attack.
Charges of smuggling and of
transportation of liquor were filea
against Sandoval an. Torres be
fore U. S. Commissioner H. V.
Watts at Edinburg.
Curtis Reaffirms
Faith In Prohibition
TOPEKA. Kas.. Aug. 19.—JP
An unqualified endorsement of the
Eighteenth Amendment was made
by Vice-President Charles Curtis
ia his acceptance address yester
day at the official notification of
his selection again by the Repu: -
can party as the running mate of
President Herbert Hoover.
The vice-president's statement
on prohibition brought cheers from
a crowd of more than 5.000—most
ly Kansans—who gathered on the
shaded grounds of the state hou*e
in a citv where Curtis first hela
public office nearly 50 years ago.
Star Football Player
Joins Ranks Benedicts
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19. —
■Hie marriage of Garrett Arbelbide,
star end of the University of Sou
thern California football team, and
Loma MacDonald at Yuma. Arte
last week, was announced here last
night. The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Farrell MacDonald.
Miss MacDonald was introduced
to Arbelbide by her father, a mo
tion picture actor, after a football
game Arbelbide. who graduated
i last June, will become coach of the
■ Modesto. Calif., junior college foot
1 ball team shortly.
TOO TIRED TO
GO ON, BRINGS
PLANETOSTOP
First Westward Solo
Hop Is Completed
Across Atlantic
ST. JOHN. N. B., Aug If. J*—
Capt. J. A. Mollison. who landed at
Pennefleld Ridge today, completing
a transatlantic flight, telephoned
airport officials here this evening
that he would go on to New York
tomorrow.
ST. JOHN. N. B. Au*.
Capt. J. A MoUison completed the
first westward solo flight across
the north Atlantic today, bringing
down his small sports plane to a
perfect landing at Pennell* id Ridge,
forty miles from here. He had
plenty of gasoline left to go on
to New York, but he was too Urea
to do any more flying.
He had been at the controls of
his “The Hearts Content-* for morw
than 24 hours, sitting on a bant,
uncushioned sent pushing his fly
ing gasoline tank across more than
2,000 miles.
He had intended to stop at
Harbor Grace for fuel, but he got
better mileage than he expected
and passed by Harbor Grace with
out stopping.
At 5:05 oclock this morning ho
wheeled over the airport at Hali
fax, 100 miles east of St- John,
headed west. Then for & time ho
was lost to sight in the fog wofcn
blanketed the Bay of Punday re
gion.
it was 11:4s a. m. EAT. when
he landed at Pennefield Ridge.
**1 was too tired to go on.* ha
said over the long distance tele
phone. "I passed Harbor Grace arc]
| Halifax this morning c id went
over St. John at noon.
“I hoped to get on to New York,
but when I got this far I was so
tired that I Just couldn't go on.**
All through the night, he said,
he flew through clouds and heavy
mists. During the last 18 hours tha
weather was especially bad.
MOTHER STAYS
AWAKE TOR NEWS
GLASGOW. Scotland. Aug. 19 —
f/P)—Captain J. a. Mollison s oth
er, Mrs. Bulimore. was delighted
to hear that his plane had been
sighted over Halifax this morning.
“That's wonderful” she said,
“my heart is oontent I haven't
slept a wink since he started. Tha
strain of waiting was terrible but
I had every confidence in him -
Captain Mollison was born hera
in 190o. went to school here an®
never has been in America before.
"WONDERFUL!"
SAYS MRS. MOLLVSOV
LONDON. Aug. 19.—Amy
Johnson, aviation record holder
and wife of Captain J. a. Mollisat*
i *_as seated at luncheon with
I friends in a west-end hotel today
when word was brourht to her
that a plane like that in which her
husband started on his trana—
Allan ticfllght had been seated
• over Halifax.
t * Oh. she cried. Tin sure ita
Jim." but she was nervous and it
apparent she was not certain.
She and her friends went up
stairs to her suite where confirma
tion was brought to her a few min
utes later.
*Isnt it wonderful?- she
"I knew Jim would do it I feel
much easier now. I know the re
am journey u not easy but in
comparison with the outward trip
> whL*V^d' \ d°a t kno,r exact.
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markets
A T GLANCE
_ L >i:w YORK
heavy; imrm imni#.
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a^°e"<1S; etror**i rails a gam
Curb: irregular; utilities firm
rrareign exchanges: irregular.
} Japanese yen at oeg low.
Cotton: lower; easier stock
»nd wheat markets; or'-hem
selling.
Sugar easier; more liberal
•pot offerings.
Coffee: higr.er; firm spot mar
ket.
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CHICAGO
Wheat: easy; hedge selling
Winnipeg; increased northwest
receipt.
Com: barely steady; sympathy
easiness wheat; forecast show
ers south vast.
Cattle: fully steady.
Hogs; higher.