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NAVY DAY TO '
BE OBSERVED
OVERVALLEY
Valley business r wUl be ask
M to display nags Thursday in
observance of Navy Day.
The day also will observed by i
social science classes of the
Brownsville schools and other Val
ley schools.
Navy Day was first celebrated in
1922 and was sponsored by the
Navy League of the United States,
a volunteer association of individ
uals who seek to place informa
tion about the United States Navy
before the citizens of the country.
Since that time the official ap
proval and cooperation of prac
tically all patriotic and veterans
associations have been offered in
support of the observation of the
day.
The sponsors of Navy Day sought
to establish at least one day m
ttie year when the people will turn
their thoughts in a special way to
what the navy means to them,
when special articles will be timely
in the press, and when tribute can
be paid to the past and present
services of the navy to the Ameri
can people.
The day selected to hold the
annual observance of Navy Day
was October 27. This day was
chosen for two reasons: The first
is that October 27. 1775, members
of the Continental Congress in
troduced the first navy bill which
called for some twelve sloops, brigs,
etc. The second reason why Octo
ber 27 was the day selected to
celebrate Navy Day was because it
was the anniversary of the birth
of Theodore Roosevelt, who was
born on October 27. 1858. in New
York City. “It is fitting and proper
that Roosevelt should be so hon- ■
ored, for Roosevelt more than any
one man in the history of our
country, adopted, preached and
per sued an aggressive policy with
respect to the building and main
taining of a navy of strength
adequate to our needs and position
as a great world power. As a means
to that end he continually strove
to bring the Navy into closer con
tact with the people from whom
it sprung, by whom it was sup
ported. and for whom It existed,"
th. league declares.
Therefore, the 27 day of October
is observed each year as Navy Day
“with the hope that the people of
this great nation will become bet
ter acquainted with the traditions,
ideals and purposes of their navy.
As Interested parties in this great
federal institution, and uoon whom
its prooer maintenance very large
ly depends, it is confidently believ
ed that the more the people or
the United States know about
their “First Line of Defense." Its
•traditions and paramount pur
poses. the more likelv will It be
maintained In a condition to meet
an? national emergency that mav
arise. Therefore, on this special
day It is sincerely hoped that the
American people will take full ad
vantage of the opportunity offered
to become better acquainted with
the navy as it lx and to give
thought to the honorable se-vices
in the past."
( City Briefs j
The DeMolay chapter of Browns
ville will hold a regular meeting
Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock In
the Masonic Temple. All members
• are urged to be present.
Bov wanted in Edinburg to
handle Valley Morning Star agen
cy. Write The Valley Morning Star.
Harlingen. Texas.
i County Judge O. C. Dancy is in
Austin in connection with closing
the gaps in the Military highway
between the Cameron county line
and Mercedes. He is expected to
return Thursday.
• A Brownsville man was fined $10
and costs in Jus. of the Peace Geo.
Krausses court Wednesday morn
ing on charges of simple assault
Two women were fined $1 and costs
‘Tuesday afternoon far disturbing
the peace.
P. M. O'Brien and sons of Tam
pa. Florida are spending several
days in the Valley.
Here from Corpus Christi on
business is A. P. Ross, who arrived
in the city Tuesday.
Charles F. McCluer is in Browns
ville from Fort Worth for a brief
visit.
W. M. Hunter of Donaldson.
Missouri is spending a few days in
.the city.
• Sail Antonio business visitors in
clude R. G. Crevtcr, J. D Bunden.
H. R. Burks and J. L. Swayze.
C. D. McGregor is here for a few
• days from Celeste. Ho arrived Tues
day.
a
Mrs. I. R. Stahl and Mrs. Ruby
Stahl of Woslaco are visiting in
Brownsville.
Andrew McCurdy of Mission
spent Tuesday in the city.
S. C. Adams is here from Dallas. |
Mancias Rites
Funeral services will be con
ducted Wednesday afternoon at 4
o’clock for Miss Feliciana Mancias.
35, who died at her residence on
12 - 13 Monroe street. Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock. Reigious
services will be in the Immaculate
Concepcion church and Interment
in city cemetery. Delta Funeral
home is In charge. She is survived
by two nephews.
FISH LIVE IN MI D
When certain rivers in South
Africa dry up in summer, a curi
ous kind of fish, called mudfish,
makes Itself a little nest in the
mud and waits for the river to fill
with water again.
Doctors have a much higher
mortality rate than aithcr lawyers
ir clergymen. I
LOOKING TOWARD STARDOM
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From a Brooklyn church club came two young women to Broadway
a few years ago. One was named Ruby Stevens; the other Ruth Fal
lows. Good movie fans will recall that Ruby Stevens became Barbara
Stanwyck, and was grabbed up by Hollywood and starred. Meanwhile,
Ruth Fallows (showrn above* was slowly climbing toward the top;
went from the Follies to the legitimate stage; trouped in stock, and
now g^*ts her first real Broadway break in "Rendezvous.”
j WEATHER j
For East Texas: Fair Wednes
day night; colder in southeast
portion; frost in interior; ns mg
temperature in extreme northwest
liortion; Thursday fair; warmer in
north and west portions.
Light to moderate northerly
winds on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
The river will stand or begin fall
ing very slowly at Brownsville,
continue to tail slowly at Mercedes
and Hidalgo and probably also at
Rio Grande City, and change very
little at Laredo and Eagle Pass
during the next 24 to 36 hours.
Flood Present 2-i-kit i*-Hr.
Stage Stage Chang Rain
Eagle Pass 16 6 4 0.0 .00
Laredo 27 2.5 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 *10 0 *-0.5 no
Hidalgo 22 15.0 -C* .1'
Mercedes 20 15.0 -lu 00
Brownsville 18 17.8 0.0 03
•—Estimated.
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Pt. Isabel
Thursday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High. 1:20 a. m : 2:06 p. m.
Low . 7:35 a. m.; 8:10 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 5:53
Sunrise tomorrow . 6:36
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure was rather
high practically throughout the
western half of the country this
morning, and relatively to moder
ately low from Mississippi and
Alabama northward to the Great
Lakes. Moderate to heavy rains
occurred over a large area of the
cotton belt during the last 24
hours, and snow in the northwest
ern states. It was considerably
colder from Texas and Louisiana
northward to the upper Great
Lakes this morning, and warmer
practically throughout the north
west.
BULLETIN
(First figures, lowest tempera
ture last night; second, highest
yesterday; third. .• ind v oelty ft!
3 a. m.; fourth, precipitation in
(he last 24 hours
Abilene . 36 48 .. .02
Amarillo . 34 52 .. .00
Itiantft . 64 76 12 .00
Austin . 42 74 10 .00
Boston . 48 56 .. .00
BROWNSVILLE ... 52 84 15 .03
B’ville Airport .... 52 86 16 .00
Calgary . 28 50 .. .00
Chief go . 40 60 .. .84
Cleveland . 62 76 22 .00
Corpus Christi .... 50 84 12 .30
Dallas . 40 54 .. .10
Del Rio . 40 60 .. .00
Denver . 3? 44 .. .00
Dodge City . 30 50 12 .00
El Paso . 36 56 .. .00
Fort Smith . 36 54 .. .00
Helena . 38 48 .. .00
Houston . 44 84 12 .01
Huron . 34 52 14 .00
Jacksonville . 70 80 .. .10
Kansas City . 34 42 18 .24
Los Angeles . 64 76 .. .00
Louisville . 54 76 18 .00
Memphis . 46 78 10 .94
Miami . 78 85 12 .00
New Orleans . 68 80 10 4 08
North Platte . 32 50 .. .00
Oklahoma City ... 34 50 .. .22
Palestine . 40 76 .. .18
Pensacola . 70 76 24 1 64
Phoenix . 46 72 .. .00
Port Arthur . 46 82 18 .48
Roswell . 30 48 .. 00
St. Louis . 40 62 14 2.10
St. Paul . 30 42 .. .00
Salt Lake City .... 38 48 .. 00
San Antonio . 42 76 14 .10
Santa Fe . 24 32 .. 00
Sheridan . 32 50 .. .52
Shreveport .* 44 84 12 .36
Tampa . 68 84 .. .00
Vicksburg . 52 80 .. 1 66
Washington .. 58 62 .. .00
Williston . 34 46 20 .00
Wilmington . 68 78 .. .06
Winnemucca . 22 58 .. .00
Movie Sidelights
CAPITOL
A very modem problem in a rural
siting provides the theme for
Charles •‘Chic'' Sale's latest War
ner Bros, picture. "Stranger m
Town,” which shows Thursday only
at the Capitol Theatre, with Ann
Dvorak. David Manners. Noan
Beery and Raymond Hatton.
As the pronrietor of the only gro
cery store in the town of Boils
ville, Nebraska. ‘Chic'’ is suddenly
faced in his old age with the com
petition of a chain store branch.
Tills situation, and the fact that
his granddaughter falls in love
with the young manager of the
chain store, provides a Starting
ixv't .or a story which lias alt the
elements of a real, down to earth
human story presenting real folks.
HIDALGO RACE
DEBATE IS OFF
• Special to The Herald i
EDTNBURG. Oct. 26—The much
discussed political debate between
Sid L. Hardin. Good Government
League candidate for county at
l torney of lildalgo county, and
Judge Charles E Thompson of the
92nd District Court, and candidate
for re-election, will not take place.
Hardin issued his challenge at a
; recent political rally.
Some news reports had quote a
Judge Thompson as accepting.
In discussing the matter today
with a representative of The Her
ald Judge Thompson said “there
has not only been no agreement
as to the time and place for a
debate; but there has been no
agreement on a debate at all.”
Judge Thompson was asked if he
lias declined to accept the chal
lenge of Mr. Hardin for a debate.
! 'I have declined it; 'he said. He
declared that "there is no common
grounds for a debate. Mr. Hardin
is attacking the reoerd of the olo
Baker administration. I am with
him in that. But I am conducting
my campaign on the basis of pres
ent administrations and present
issues.”
A number of conflicting reports
as to challenges, acceptances, times
and places for the purported debate
have been spread over the county
recently.
birth rati: figi ri:s
Berlin's birthrate figure few- 193!.
set at 8 7 per thousand, was the
lowest of any city in the wo-rici
Next came Stockholm, with 10 3.
San Francisco, with 118. Paris,
with 14 4, and London, with 15*
NO SMOKING
Smoking is forbidden to drivers
of automobiles in Czechoslovakia,
as many recent road accidents are
said to have been caused by driv
I ers smoking at the wheel
Not until the end of the 16th
century did the cult of pillar saints
disappear from the earth.
"HOOVER PLANS
WIND UP TRIP
WASHINGTON. Oct. 26 —■P'
President Hoover prepared today to
wind up his < mpaign for re-elec
tion with a series of speeches, be
ginning at Indianapolis Friday
night, that : iay Keep him on th>
road almost continuously from now
to election day.
With three speeches definitely
scheduled for the next five days,
the president was considering pro
posals which would keep him on
the train and speaking platforms
throughout the final 10 days of
the campaign.
He will leave the capital to
morrow night for another swift
dash into the middle west to speak
at the Indiana capital and then
hurry back to Washington to com
plete addresses already arranged
fcr delivery Monday afternoon at
Newark New Jersey, and i.i New
York City that night.'
HLs plans beyond that still are
tentative but his aides are urging
proposals rangin'- from another
tour of the hotly disputed middle
west to a .sweeping transcontinental
swing that would carrv him to his
homp at Palo Alto. California, for
election day.
KILLER TO r
(Continued from Page One)
side of McLelland's garage.” Moye
said. "There had been talk of
contesting the last Donna election
(which was won by the regular
Democratic faction which had been
in control of the irrigation dis
trict) and I wanted to see what
they had to say. But they weren’t
contesting the election. They were
talking of raising money to get
the job done.”
"What Job?” asked Claude Car
ter of Harlingen, special prosecu
tor.
"They wanted to get Hooks,
Weaver and Ridgway out of the
way so they would be out of poli
tics.” said Moye.
"It was their general conversa
tion that they wanted to raise
money to get this fellow to do the
Job. They never said who this fel
low was. They discussed how they
could raise money. It seemed from
their conversation they couldnt
win an election with Hooks, Weav
er, and Ridgway, that they con
trolled politics at Donna and the
job was to do away with them.”
Wanted Weaver Most
"Who was the king bee they
wanted to get more than the
rest?" asked Carter.
"It seems they wanted Mr.
Weaver worst! It seems he was to
be especially taken care of." Moye
answered.
Weaver, Hooks and Rid g way
were members of the regular
Democratic organization which for
four years hard been involved in
bitter fights with the Good Gov
ernment League faction.
The defendants, along with three
others who were granted a sever
ance and will be tried later, were
arrested last February by Texas
' Rangers, headed by Captams Tom
Hamer and Albert Mace, when
| they were tipped of the alleged
plot.
Weaver, Hocks and Rldgway,
described in prosecution testimony
as the intended victims, were in the
court room as today's court ses
sion opened. The defendants sat
together along a bench among
spectators.
The state has called about 40
witnesses and the defense only
two. except for a number of char
acter witnesses.
The second witness was Dan
Singleterry, who identified himself
as a former employe at the Don
na Irrigation plant who had been
discharged by Harry Rldgway,
manager of the water district be
cause he voted the Good Govern
ment ticket in the 1930 election.
He testified mat early In Febru
ary* Cheney. Lepley and Ruthven
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Copr . 1932. The Bay er Co., lac. '
came to his house to talk over
some "big business." Ruthven had
intimated to him earlier that the
"big business was about killing
three or four officials of the irri
gation district, the witness stated
He saw Cheney tne following day
and told him that he would get
someone to kill Weaver. ;1 • li
nes* continued.
Singleterry’ testilied that ue went
to Ridgways office Tr.d told him
about the plot. "I £ 3 not Intend
to help kill Hooks. Ridgway and
Weaver." he stated. The former
district employe then testified to
a train trip to the Guerra gin to
see a man. 8ingleterry made ar
rangements with the man to meet
him the Following day at the gin.
the testimony went.
Would Pay J45»i
Ruthven. Cheney and himsell
met tlie man the next dav and he
;:?reed to do the "job" for $450
$50 to be paid then and $400 ad
ditional at completion of the
"job". Singleterry testified. Rutn
ven wrote the name of the three
men to be killed on an envelope
and Cheney gave it to the man
with $50. the testimony continued.
Ruthven and Cheney told him
i to be careful because Weaver al
ways had a good pistol, and not
to stop shooting until he was sure
| they were dead. Singleterry de
! clared.
A few nights later. Cheney. Lep
ley and Singleterry met at Chen
eys home, it was stated. Cheney
counted out $450 to Lepley who
gave it to Singleterry, telling him
it was for the purpose of killing
Hooks. Weaver and Ridgway, the
star witness said.
Singleterry kept the money, later
turning it over to Ranger Captains
Mace and Hamer, he said.
The witness said he asked Ruth
ven to get a gun and that Ruth
ven got it the same day, telling
him to come to his house and get
~~
it that night. **1 told the ranger?
about It.” the witnes. said.
g.i • leterry testifiec tha whet
ht toic Ridgway of the plot. Ktdg
way wanted to know what he could
do. Then I* was that Cha?. Coy
suggested a man as the mar. to do
the job' aftei Singleterry. Ridg
way and Alfred Baker called on
Coy and told him oi the plot, the
witness stated They told him to
get the gunman in order to clear
the case. Singleterry said. The
witness testified that Hooks. Ridg
wav and Weaver said nothing
about "political” reasons
Luther Lepiey was the next wit
ness. He testified that Cheney,
and Ruthven first talked of eli
minating Hooks. Weaver and Ridg
way and that the five defendants
or: trial later came in on the plot
Lepiey was a hesitant witness
Lepiey was folJswe don th,. wit
ness stand by Ranger Capt. Al
I bert Mace. He testified that he
was called into the case by Capt
Frank Hamer and they had a
meeting near Hargill with Hidg
way, Singleterry and the gunm&n
and one other man.
Arrange for Gun
Mace said he told Singleterry to
arrange with Ruthven for a rifle
tc be delivered to Singleterry at
Ruthvens home that night The
ranger asserted he and Hamer
drove to the R-uthven home that
night and watched Ruthven give
Singleterry the rifle which he pull
ed from under a mattress
As they came near the window,
the ranger said, he heard Ruthven
say: "Tell this man to get those
fellows, especially Weaver.”
Mace identified a gun shown him
in court as the same one Ruthven
gave Singleterry. Returning to
Hargill. Mace said a man gave
Hamer $50 and Singleterry gave
, him $450. The ranger identified
batches of money shown in court
as the ones given Capt. Hamer.
_I
ket behind one man and push that I
man.
Upper end of the district has had
the congressman for a generation,
And a gocd one he has been
But there is no logical reason
why this section.
That furnishes the bulk of the
votes.
Should not elect its man.
Cameron and Hidalgo and Wil
lacy county potential candidates
w ould be doing the Valley a dis- j
tinct service -
If they would and could figure
out some way of leaving the field j
clear to one Valley candidate.
We need and are entitled to a
representative from our end of the
district
The olive contains 24 per cent
oil and the avocado, or alligator
;>ear, 12 per cent. _
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Guzman Rites Held
Special to Tne Herald)
HARLINGEN. Oct. Ji.— Funeral
service* were held here today for
Jose Gusman, who died yesterdav
In the Valley Baptist he pttal rrotn
gunshot wounds suffered about
three week* ago.
Guzman was a laborer and lived
at La FVrla.
He refused to divulge the name
of the man who shot him.
Nervous diseases are much mors
prevalent among brain workers
than among other people.
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Brownsvillr
including rail, also meals and
berth on steamer
RAIL-WATER Cl Cl 2*J “P
Circle Tour
Including meals and berth i
steamer, rail to Galveston, return
ing via rail or vice versa.
Big. magnificent ships from Gal
veston every Saturday. Modem
luxury via thi? MOST ECONO
MICAL route. Radio, deck sports
dancing, motion pictures, etc.
taper ax •.(oaaodaewa* •• abip* aaJf aitgbUr bigkar
Apply to Tourist or Railroad Agent* et
CLYDE-MALLORY UNES
,^\ Geo. J. Horner. O. A.
VU"*V Galveston. Tea.
EVERYBODY READS THE HERALD
Want-Ads
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FILL THAT VACANCY WHILE THIS OFFER IS ON
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Run 5 Consecutive Days
For Only *1.00
THIS OFFER IS GOOD UNTIL SATURDAY NOON, OCT. 29
At this season of the year desirable rooms,
apartments and houses are becoming more
in demand, and this liberal offer will help
you to fill that vacancy. Do not delay . . .
this offer is for a limited time.
If it is not convenient for you to come - to
our office, just phone number 8, and an
experienced ad writer will gladly assist
you in the wording of your ad, and we will
send our messenger to your door to coll'#ct.