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Valley's Highways Bring in $4,000,000 from Out-of-State Every Year
TEXAS AUTOS
SWELL TOTAL
MANY_HMES
(Special to The Herald)
HOUSTON. Feb. 4.—Aside from
the convenience of good roads, the
Lower Rio Grande Vailey has a
"stake of $4,000,000 in annual
business which depends on her
through highways, according to an
analysis of the last official high
way department tralfic census just
complied by the Texas Good Roads
association.
On the trunk routes into Texas’
‘horn of plenty,” the association
estimates lrom the official check
that 2 625 out-of-state motor ve
hicles visit the lower Talley each
week, and—at $» per car—spend
conservatively $682,500 per year
with all types of Valley business
"Only Beginning
Yet tius out-of-state money
which comes to Valley stores, ho
tels. nilmg stations, garages, cafes
and other enterprises yearly is only
a beginning oi the profits to the
community which spring from the
lure of the open road.
The joy of open-air and chang
ing panoramas, and the urge to
see new places, are just as active
in Urn breasts of Texans as in the
natives of Virginia. Louisiana and
Vermont.
So Texans travel, too. m in
creasing numbers as their high
wavs get better and better. And
perhaps, in thinking of tourist
travel, the average man fails to
realize that at border points, motor
cars with Texas licenses make up
three-fourths of the total tourist
traffic.
A Texan can travel a long dis
tance without leaving his native
state Texas is four times as large
as all the New England stales
combined. A Fort Worth tourist
travels farther to reach El Paso
than to reach St. Paul. Minn And
a motorist who forsakes a Pan
handle snowstorm can bask among
the warm orange and grapefruit
groves of the Rio Grande Valley
before he crosses the border to
tour through the colorful 15th
century atmosphere of Mexico.
15.000 Mate t ars
The association's analysis re
ports that more than 15,000 cars
from within the state visit ihe
lewer Valley every- week, spending
in the course of a year more than
$3,500,000 in the sections chan
nels of trade.
In closuig the analysis. Judge W
G. Huggms of Houston, president
o: tlie Texas Good Roads associa
tion. emphasized the fact that this
$4,000,000 annual trade ‘ bonus” to
ihe Valley is the result of roaas
as they are today.
"If we neglect our highways,”
he said, “this trade will drop off.
II we keep on improving them, it
will grow steadily. All alert ob*
servers know that the swin* o:
American tourist travel will be
toward Mexico, as Texas and Mex
lcc improve their highways
"In Texas, the highways largely
have developed themselves. Thar
i.v they have paid the bulk of their
own cost out of revenue developed
through the gasoluie tax. Today
they pay it all in tins way This
special tax of four cents a gallon
gives one cent to the school lund.
or more than $7,000,000 a year. It
gives another cent to reimburse
counties for highway bonds, or
another $7,000,000 a year. And it
pays its own way out of the two
ct nts remaining.
Tremendous. Benefits
“Surely if the highways give
eway iiaJf the revenue they pro
duce. and live on the other half,
they are douig reniartaably well.
As a matter of fact, this leaves
barely enough money to do the
job at aL It would build only one
third as many new roads this
year as were built in 1932.
“The association is trying to
inform the people of the tremen
dous benefits of its road system.
It is telling them of the 100,000
Texas nien. women and children
who gain their sustenance directly
01 indirectly from roods. It is citing
the high percentage of labor ar.d
employment involved in road bund
ing and maintenance It is empha
sising the $51,000,000 Which out
of-stale tourists spend in Texao
yearly.
“In hat. it is mlormiiig the
(Hoplc because when the people
are lulormed they will impress
their legislators at Austin that
they want no change hi the pres
ent distribution of road money—
that they want no more of it
taken away from highways. Tney
will not kill the goose that lays
so many golden eggs "
Squash Shipped
• Special to The Herald)
LA FFRIA. Feb 4—White and
Lawler. Inc of La Fena moved
the first express .shipment of
i-quash from the Valley Saturday
morning to Kansas City. The
squash was purchased from Don
Oroson of Brownsville t sold for
*5 00 a bushel. The firm is build
ing a shed on 14th street in
Brownsville and plans to occupy
It by March i._
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Roosevelt Begins
His Last Vacation
Before Taking Oath
JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Feb. 4.
‘^—Waving a farewell from the
quarter-deck. Pres.-Elect Roosevelt
put out to the open seas at 10:05
a. m. today aboard the As tor yacht
BAR APPLICANT
DRAWS PROTEST
Alleging that the applicant has
an unsavory professional record,
the Bar Association has protested
application of a recent newcomer
to the Valley for admission to the
Trxas bar.
This protest, signed by Sid Eid
man as president of the association,
and James L. Abney. Ira Webster
and Ted Graham as the grievance
committee, has been forwarded to
the board of legal examiners at
Austin.
The protest alleges that the ap
plicant is now under three indict
ments in Oregon and that he was
forced to resign from a bar asso
ciation in that state.
The protest further alleges that
the applicant already has been
practicing law in Cameron county
without a license.
j WEATHER I
1. . -,-1- - J
East Texas ‘east of 100 meri
dian! Generally fair frost non i
east and freezing northwest poi
tions Saturday night; Sunday partly
cloudy.
Moderate to fresh north to north
east winds on the coast.
RIVER FC RECAST
There will be little change in ‘he
river during the next 24 to 36 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Stage Stage Cbang. Rain
Eagle Pass 16 3.8 00 .00
Laredo 27 0.8 0.0 .04
Rio Grande 21 *4.9 . . .00
Hidalgo 22 6.0 -0.8 .00
Mercedes 20 8.6 -1.0 .06
Brownsville 18 9.0 -1.0 .03
• Estimated.
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
Sunday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 3.31 p. m.
Low . 6:19 a. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset Today . 6:16
Sunrise Tomorrow .7:12
WEATHER SUMMARY
A vast area of high presourc,
crested oevr Nevada ‘Winnemucca
30.72). overlies the territory from
Alberta and the Pacific coast south
eastward to north Texas and ih'1
lower Mississippi valley. Another
pressure crest touches the Cana
dian border south of Manitoba and
moderately low pressure occupies a
small area adjacent to western
North Dakota with a trough of low
barometer over eastern districts
which extends from the eastern
Lakes region southward to northern
Florida. Precipitation has been com
mon over the northern Plains, lower
Mississippi, and the Gulf coast
states, and temperature declines oc
curred quite generally except in
the vicinity of the Dakota low
BULLETIN
■ First figures, lowest tempera
ture last night; second, highest
yesterday; third, wind velocity at
8 a. m.; fourth, precipitation in
last 24 hours.)
Abilene . 30 48 00
Amarillo . 24 48 .. .00
Atlanta . 42 60 .. .30 j
Austin . 40 56 .. .18
Boston . 28 44 .. .00
BROWNSVILLE .. 65 81 12 03
Br'ville Airport .... 65 83 13 05
Calgary . 32 36 14 .00
Chicago . 18 34 .. oo
Cleveland . 28 34 10 .00
Corpus Christi .... 56 68 14 20 I
Dallas . 38 46 12 .12
Del Rio . 46 64 .. .02
Denver . 20 32 10 .00
Dodge City . 12 36 12 00
El Paso . 32 56 .. 00
Fort Smith . 36 54 .. .00
Helena . 28 32 12 no
Houston . 48 56 16 .50
Huron . -12 14 .. .0?
Jacksonville . 58 70 .. .50
Kansas City . 10 40 14 14
Los Angeles . 48 64 .. .01
Louisville . 30 46 .. .00
Memphis . 38 50 12 .00
Miami . Ti ns m u
New Orleans . 54 74 42
North Platte . 8 32 10 .00
Oklahoma City .... 28 52 .. .on
Palestine . 42 58 .. .01
Pensacola . 54 68 14 .16
Phoenix . 30 58 .. Oft
Port Arthur . 48 58 10 .50
Rrcwell . 26 50 .. .00
St Louis . 30 46 .. 00
St Paul . -14 14 .. 01
Salt Lake City .... 8 26 .. .00
San Antonio . 48 54 18 .12
Santa Fe ... 2 26 12 .00
Sheridan . 12 40 .. 06
Shreveport . 42 50 14 .02
Tampa . 64 72 18 74
Vicksburg . 42 56 .. .12
Washington . 30 44 .. .no
W’illiston . -10 26 20 .18
Wilmington . 52 66 .. .00
Winnemucca . -6 30 .. 00
Nourmahal lor a 10-day fishing
cruise.
Before departing he disclosed
plans to call in a congressional
committee during the forthcoming
British debt negotiations to discuss
the progress of the conversations.
Fully prepared for the debts talk
at the very outset of his adminis
tration a month hence, he made it
clear he regards the actual nego
tiation an executive function and
will go ahead in that way.
Reaching Jacksonville early to
day. the President-elect drove over
a six mile course through the city
before boarding the yacht of Vin
cent Astor. In the center of the
city he stopped and spoke a word
of greeting through a microphone
Once aboard the yacht, he had
a final talk with demoen tic lead
ers. including James A. Farley, na
tional chairman, and a last inter
view with newspapermen, who
agreed not to trail him on this last
private vacation before he enters
the White House a month from
today.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of t!|
late Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, one
of the guests on the yacht, is a
relative of the president elect.
The president-elect also found
another distant relative here—
Mayor Alsop. In his talk here.
Mr. Roosevelt told the crowd he
had learned that Mayor ALsop's
fifth cousin and his own fifth
cousin had married.
No stop is planned during the
cruise but Roosevelt said one might
be made m the Bahamas to pick
up a local pilot or fishing guide.
No course has been charted for
the cruise.
-We go wherever the fish run,
said Roosevelt.
Vincent Astor was on the bridge
as the yacht pulled away.
The other guests. Kermit Roose
velt. George St. George Tucker,
another distan. relati> ^idge
Frederic C. Keriiuchan, of New
York, and Dr. Heiter. of Mobile,
Ala., circled the President-elect.
Mr. Roosevelt also had with him
Gus Gennerick, his personal aide;
two secret service men and a negro
chef.
He promised to have a daily re
l>ort of progress sent by radio to
Miami where the democratic base
has been established for the period
of the cruise.
Nitfht Travel To
N. Y. Is Arranged
The air mail route of American
Airways terminating here will be
five years old Monday, although
Brownsville was made the border
terminal of the line a little more
than a year after the inauguration,
which was. on February 6. 1928, ac
cording to Fred Wright, local rep
resentative of the company.
Service was begun by Texas Air
Transport, which soon became a
unit of the American Airways sys
tem and its lines merged with the 1
nationwide network of the present
company. Mail service only was
supplied at first as on most ol the
other mail routes of the country at i
that time, but before long passen
ger service was added and a little ;
more than a year ago it was neces
sary to replace the first of these
ships with larger ones to accom
modate the growing traffic
For the first few years the line
was largely an intrastate aliah, j
offering but poor connections to
cities beyond the state boundaries
by air. But in 1932 American Air
ways inaugurated night service on
its line west from Dallas to the
West Coast on a schedule that gave
passengers from here a direct con
nection with the plane lor the
coast. Within the next few days
the company will add a night |
schedule on its Fort Worth to
Cleveland line, giwng direct night
service to New York and this too
will be so arranged that passen
gers from the major cities of Tex
as generally can connect at either
of the North Texas cities.
110 NAMES ON
HIGH SCHOOL
HONORROLLS
One hundred and ten students
of the Brownsville high school
made the honor roll of the term
ending with the January examin
ations. it was announced by school
officials this week.
The honor roll is divided in
two sections, the A roll, grades
from 90 to 100; and the B roll,
grades from 80 to 90.
Honor roll students follow:
“A" Honor Roll
Seniors
Harry Crowe, John Dutro, Rey
riet Clark. Dorothy Earley. Virgi
Sylvester, William Tanner, Har
riet Clark. Dorothy Earley Virgi
nia Henderson, Marie Jackson,
Lois Matthews, Betty Rockwell,
Myrna Summers. Margaret Zehin
der.
Juniors
Bob Riordon. Jack Behnder and
Florence Escott.
Sophomores
Albert Akers, Samnue Gustaves.
Valerie Rosenthal, Bertha Cham
pion, Eiouise Clark, Betty Elfriuk.
Lillian Stunner, Margaret Weinert,
Mary Jane White, Enrique Cis
neros. William Enns. Const anza
Correa and Ea*»eranza Osorio.
**B" Honor Roll
Seniors
Joyce Aveilhe, Frances Ferrell,
Frances Leech, Ethel Mahurin,
Leanna Murphy, Aidma de la
Pena, Henry Bowman. Maurice
Breen, Sam Calloway, Carlos Del
tado. Ralph Dunkelberg. Edwaru
Enns, Henry Valentin, Liiia Flo
res. Bertha Enns. Ellageue Towns.
Jack Larson, Reva Clark. Ruth
Ernst, Mary Lou Liudhe, Judith
Stegman, Katherine Stnngfellow.
Brigitte Weiske.
Juniors
Viola Garcia. Eleno Garza. Bill
Brewster, Irwm Kibbe. Raiuon
Sandoval. James Smith, Joan
Bell, Billie Nuchols, Elizabeth
OBanion. Evangeline Yates. Harry
Stegman. Alberto Ramirez. Luia
I lores, Jose Valdez. John Cooper.
John Me Michael, Lewis Shults.
John Dee Wiech. Beatrice Cham
pion. Elizabeth Canales, Ruth Ta
bor. Richard Rockwell. Blasa
Conde. J. B Shockley. Dalnida
Trevino.
Sophomores
Wiley Bennett. Edward Dunkel
oerg. Ruben Edelstein, Mary Helen
Dunham, Rose Marie Fox' Ro*ie
Ja.ues, June Perkms, Virginia
Runyon, Mary Elizabeth Russell.
Marjorie Elizabeth Washington,
qprothy Hufiakcr. Alma Mac Kis
tler, Jeiue Putegnat, Jane Scan-1
lan, George Andrew, Albert Ct
laya. Alberto Hernandez. Gus
I andegren, Ramon Parra. David
Solis, Robert Wade. Rugh Wil
banks. Jeanne Bach. Paulina Gon
Zulez. Elizabeth Havre. Katie de
la Pena Oscar Acevedo. Edward
Ccbo. Joe Garcia. Morneir Press
ier, Lionel Solts and Andres Vela
Shapiro Leaves To
View Spring Shoes
Max Shapiro, of the Guarantee
Shoe Store, left Friday night lor
I-ort Worth to attend the Texa*
Shoe convention. From there he
plans to go to St. Louis where he
will purchase the latest in spring
loot wear lor his newly-enlarged
store on Elizabeth street.
Deutscher Verein To
Name Officers Sunday
1 Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Feb 4— Annual
election of officers will be held by
the Deutscher Verein, Valley Ger
man society, at its meeting at 2 30
P m. Sunday at the city hall here.
A social gathering will be held
following the business meeting.
The Broad Highway
Why not with the opening of this new
month open a savings account here—set up
a milestone on the Broad Highway of Life?
Start a
Savings
Account
Tomorrow
Capital Stock
and
Surplus
$315,000.00
State
National Bank
Brownsville, Texa«
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ITS POTASH DEPOSITS ALONE
ARE VALUED AT ABOUT
Seventy Billion dollars.
FORTSON CASE
IS CONTINUED
iSpecial to The Herald>
EDINBURG. Feb 4 — Con
tinuances until later terms of court
were granted three defendants in
felony cases Friday, according to
announcement of Dist. Atty. Sid L.
Hardin.
By agreement, the case of Cha-s.
L Fortson. former Hidalgo county
district cleric and tax collector for
the Edinburg Consolidated Inde
pendent School district indicted for
the murder of his brother-in-law
in November last, was continued
until next term.
J. T. Felker, Edinburg citrus ex
pert indicted for assault to murder
in connection wuth the shooting of
Scott Graham. Weslaco developer,
in November last, also obtained a
continuance until next term of
criminal district court.
The third continuance resulted
from the disqualification of Dist.
Atty. Hardin as prosecutor in the
trial of Julian Gallegos, indicted
lor the murder ol Francisco Rosales
at Pharr last year. Former Asst
Dist. Atty. D. C. Hogan of Pharr
was appointed as special prose
cutor by Dist. Judge Fred E. Ben
nett.
A1 Capone Appeals
Freedom Attempt
NEW ORLEANS. Feb 4. (/Pi—
The appeal of A1 Capone, former
Chicago gangster, from the dis
missal by the federal district court
in Atlanta of his application for a
| writ of habeas corpus, was recef, -
ea today by the United States fifth
circuit court of appeals here.
The appeal was accompanied by
a record of the Atlanta case in
which Caoone attempted to gam
freedom from the Atlanta peni
tentiary where he Is serving a ten
year sentence for violation of fed
eral income tax laws in 1926, 1927
and 1928.
Author Attacked
VIENNA. Feb. 4. (/P>—Dr. Rosi
Meller. who writes under the
pseudonym "Frank Mar” was stab
bed four times today by a young
man. apparently demented, who at
tacked him with a pocket knife
shouting, "greetings from the
third Reich'!-' the assailant es
caped
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FARM STRIFE
RESULTS IN
GUN BATTLE
DES MOINES. Ia.. Feb. 4. i.-Pi
One tanner was near death in a
Sioux City. Iowa, hospital and at
least ' ur others were suffering
from gunshot wounds as debt-iad
en agriculturists today continued to
look to legislatures and congress
for relief.
R D Markell, t»8. of Elk Point.
S. D.. was seriously wounded and
his two sons. Harry and Keath,
were shot when they attempted to
run a blockade of 100 pickets neai
Sioux City.
Nile Cochran. 39. said by officials
to have been one of the pickets, was
held for questioning after being
treated for gunshot wounds, and
at least one other unidentified
farmer was kno m to have been
shot.
The shoot mg occurred when the
Markells attempted to transport 1.
000 gallons of milk into Sioux City
in defiance of a price agreement
following the milk strike in north
western Iowa last fall.
Meanwhile, the Iowa legislature
approved a plan to allow the man
ufacture of alcohol from corn to
provide a market for part of the
grain surplus. The senate fo’ljw
ed the house’s action.
Other developments in the farm
situation included:
In Nebraska a new conciliation
farm mortgage relief board con
sidered a plan for the appointment
of county boards of five iarmers.
The senate committees at Wash
ington continued to hold hearings
as the crop production loan bill
awaited the president's signature.
In Oklahoma City Gov. Murray
exhorted the legislature to act
quickly on farm legislation and aid
he h£ cl hoped for relief action
"ere this.” changes in court pro
cedure would solve the problem,
he said.
”You must keep in mind that
these men are not anarchists, not
communists, but American citizens
with their ‘backs to the wall,’ fight
ing for the preservation of thetr
homes and the security of thetr
families,’* fie warned.
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