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j> j THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ^FORTY-FIRST YEAR—No. 185BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1938EIGHT PAGES TODAY 6c A COPY IN OUR VALLEY I CROP LOANS WILL BE AVAIL able after March 1, according to announce me.a by the Department of Agriculture aa published in Mon days Herald. Last year the maximum loan allowable to any grower was $400, and the chances that this limit mill be cut down this year on ac count of the larger number of ap plications expected. Because of this limit, because the crop loans mill not be avail able until March 1, and because they will be available only for the purpose of planting, cultivating and harvesting one particular crop. In Our Valley would point out that farmers in need of lunds lor general operations should not neglect the loans available througn the Agricultural Credit corporation. Loans from The Credit corpora tion arc available for general pur poses. may be used just as you would use money borrowed from a bank back in the good old days. Chances are that money deriveu from this source will be more generally useful to Vaiiey growers than that which may be borrowed from the federal seed loan bureau. Our advice probably is not worth much, but such as it is. here it is— If you have an application in with the Agricultural Credit corp oration, leave it there. It may take longer to get It through, but it will be worth more to you after you have gotten it. • • • VALLEY SHIPPERS AS A class are a bunch ol darn good fellows! That's the conclusion members ot the Heralds editorial stall gleaned— Alter talking to some hall dozen ol them. Over the phone yesterday about the hike m cabbage price. Not a one but expressed the hope— That the price could be pegged to $6 and kept there. And pushed higher. Also, not a one but was ilad tMt the growers. Were taking the bit and were organizing. To peg the price and keep it pegged. And not a one but hoped that the growers woulo stand pat. On their determination not to sell for less. • • • ONE BILL NOW BEFORE M tigress will bung joy— To the small home owner when passed. And pas.-ed it will be. if not at this session. Then at the special session to follow. It is by Sen. Joe Robinson ol Arkansas, And would make R FC. loans available to home owners. To retire outstanding indebted ness against their properly. Which loans would bear 3 per cent interest. Passage 01 that bill would take.a mighty load from the home owner, i And would take another might, loan from various and sundry concerns. Which would receive the money ' due them. Looks to us like such a procedure would do more to bring stability and peace of nnnd. To that nation as a whole than anything which has been yet pro- j posed. a a a TALKED TO A BU&1NE&S MAN ! yesterday and he volunteered Lie information tliat things are fine. Why? Because he had been able to keep on the Job every single employe. Burr! Their wages had been cut, bui they still had .tobs and they arc going to have tobs just as long as that man stays in business. Profits? No, he had gone in the hole a little* bit. but—he had kept his men or. the job. AH of u* have not been able do that, but well wager this, that losses have weighed less heavily on the mind of the average busi neat man than the welfare of he? ejjtntypvees. JU we have talked to them, in , all walks of business, up and down the Valley, their mam concern has been to keep their payrolls up, to 1 keep their men employed. And the employees, on the other band, have been muchly concemeu over the way in which the "old man" was making the grade. Its fine, just fine, an attitude of this sort. And its the attitude that is going to pull us all through. • • • ANOTHER GOOD CROWD IN a Brownsville store Monday, and In a Bar. Benito store on the same day. Men and women buying things. You are right, the event was advertised m The Brownsville Herald. And the advertising was read S3 j 7.150 homes in the Valley, homes that have the purchasing power to BUY a newspaoer. and by the same token have the purchasing power to buy what you have to sell. i Truck Growers Warned to Protect Crops Tonight Valley Farmers’ Association To Avoid Picketing Violence BRITISH SEEK TO MAKE LUMP DEBT PAYMENT $2,000,000,000 May Be Offered To Clean Slate LONDON. Peb. 7.—(A>i— Reliable sources put their stamp of authori ty today on reports that Great Britain would seek to 'ettle tne American war oobt immediately with a single payment. The new British debt commission was expected to offer flat payment of about one-third ot the sum now allocated for settlement in the next 50 years. S2.000 OOO.(HH) Payment The plan, frequently suggested in tlie past, appeared to have emerg ed from the Held of speculation simultaneously with the arrival of Sir Ronald Lindsay. British am bassador to the United f tates. Sir Ronald came here to enlight en the British cabinet on the debt views of Pres.-Elect Roosevelt, with whom he talked recently on plans for the forthcoming debt conference in Washington. The proposal for an immediate settlement of the debt, as explain ed in well-informed quarters, would mean an offer of outright pavment ot $1.250.000.000 to $2.000.000 000. The present outstanding debt is about $4,302,450,000 Great Britain has paid $2,007.348 298 Most oi this belore the 1923 British debt commission obtained the new fund ing agreement under which $4 600.000.000 was to be paid over a period of 62 years. This plan would be literally in line with the declaration oi Neville Chamberlain. British chan cellor of the exchequer, who as serted that any agreement reached with the United States must be final Float Bonds in l’. S. A flat pavment could be financed by flotation of British government bonds in the United Sta’es. there • Continued on Page Seven* Texan Slated As R. F. C. Head MIAMI Fla. Feb. 7. ■4'—Jesse Jones of Texas appears destined to j head the Reconstruction Finance corporation under the Roosevelt administration. Through thus giant agency and its billions of credit. Mr. Rooe.'-'vplt is looking for a strong hand in his ! plans for assisting the nation on the 1 upward swing which he believes will * result from his “new deal ’’ Selection of Jones for chairman ship of the board means the dis placement of Atlee Pomercne. Ohio democrat. The latter's appointment by Pres. Hoover was blocked to gether will all other nominations by this session of the senate. Two-Story Residence Damaged By Flames Fire of undetermined origin j swept through the two-story frame J residence of Mrs. James Lagrt). Thirteenth and Jackson streets, j late Monday night doing damage roughly estimated at $1,500. The blaze was so intense it took fire men four h :rs and 50 minutes to put it under control. The loss was covered by insur ance. The alarm came in at 11:10 p. m. and when the firemen arrived they ; found tnat the blaze already had a rood headway, apparently starting in a clothes closet and traveling to the second floor up a stairway. There was no one in the house af the time the blaze was discov ered. according to firemen. Minister Reported Attacked By Workmen VIENNA. Feb. 7. C/P—An uncon firmed report from Bucharest to day said workmen had attacked a train carrying the Rumanian minis ter of transportation. Aduard Mir to. Rocks and pieces of metal were hurled through the window’s and the minister was slightly injured, it was said. i --- Dutch Mutineers Flee Submarines, Planes, Warships _ BATAVIA, JAVA, Feb. 7—</P)—Chased by war ships, submarines and flying boats, the fugitive Dutch cruiser de Zeven Provincein, with native mutineers in control, was west of Nias island today, making for the Java naval base at Sourabava. WILLACY ASKS CAMERON AID Seriousness Of Breaks In North Floodway Are Brought Out The seriousness of Cameron coun ty breaks in the north floodway in rpgard to Willacy county was em phasized by the Willacy commis sioners when they met with Cam eron commissioners here Tuesday. The visiting commissioners wished to work out some plan whereby they could be assured that the breaks would be closed as soon as possible. This work is now being done by hand labor through R. F. C. relief funds of Harlingen and Willacy county. The Willacy commissioners sug gested .hat tunds paid Cameron by Willacy from an old judgment be applied on this work Tins the Cameron commissioners held, could not be one as the lund is a con stitutional one which must go in to the interest and sinking fund. However, the visitors were assur eded that the work would be prose cuted as quickly as the financial condition of Cameron county will permit. There is a possibility that some funds can be obtained for the state highway department, it was indicated. It is expected that around S3 000 in R F. C. relief labor can be used on the work and this is be ing dine. That will not be quite enough to complete the neccessarv work. •Judge a W Cunningham of Cam efron county declared that there should be some central governing power over the entire Valley flood control system and expressed hop® that the federal government will take over the system. If thus is not done, he said. Cameron, Willacy and Hidalgo should band together to see that the floodway system ’s controlled as one unit. As the work is now done, each county handles its own work with little cooperation throughout the system nfultim;. This suggestion met with the ap proval of the visiting commission ers and some steps along this hne may be taken within the next few weeks. The two courts were to continue their joint deliberations Tuesday afternoon. Valley To Send Tariff Envoy • Special to The Herald* SAN BENITO. Feb. 7 —Shippers of the Valley met here this morn ing and discussed ways and means of raising funds to send W. T. Hodge, of Harlingen as their rep resentative to Washington to ap pear before the Tariff Commission Feb. 13. when a public hearing will be held to obtain a reduction in the tariff on fresh tomatoes imported into the United States from Mex ico. The Valley shippers met first on the matter at Harlingen last nigh:, and discussed it, the charge being made that the efforts to get a cut in the tariff are being supported by the Wells Fargo Express Co., and the Southern Pacific Lines, which handle much Mexican tomatoes. The present tanff of three cents a pound on tomatoes was obtained by the Valley and Florida after a long and bitter fight before the house and senate while the tariff bill was being drafted. Poison Kills Woman HOUSTON, Feb. 7. <JP>—Miss Velma L. W’heat. 24. died in a hos pital here today from the effects of two poison tablets she took by mistake Jan. 30. She mistook the tablets for a mild sedative. : The ship, on which the natives, mostly Sumatrans, kidnaped eight of their Dutc-h officers after a dispute over pay, was proceeding at a speed of seven knots, ap parently economizing on fuel. The government steamer Erid anus last night replaced the gov ernment vessel Aldebaran, whicn was running short of fuel. In chase and there was little fear new that the Zeven would escape. The commander of the Dutch cruiser was ashore when the natives 6tole his ship. He im mediately put out alter them in the Aldebaran. In the meantime, flying boats entered the race, taking on fuel at Priok Harbor and proceeding under secret orders. Two subma rines and the mine la>er Gouden Leenu also jained the pursuit. Additional wireless messages from the Zeven indicated that the mutinees were going to adhere to them promise to bring the cruiser into Sourabaya Harbor. Relativity Theory i Support Is Found CHICAGO. Frb. 7.—UP)— On more bit of evidence favoring Einstein's relativity tlvory tha» space is curved near the sun de veloped today in a report from the Dearborn observatory of North western University. This evidence was collected at Fre.vburg. Maine, during the tot*! eclipse of the sun pn August 31 last. It shows that the sudden drop in temperature during a total eclipse does not appreciably refract or bend, the beams of light com ing from stars near the sun's po sition in the sky. Aged Brownsville Native Is Buried Funeral services were to be heid at 4 p. m Tuesday for Antonio Villarreal. 73-year-old Brownsville native who died al the family home. 1304 Monroe street, Monday night. The decedent was well known over thus section, having lived u* Brownsville all of his life. He -s survived by five sons. Jesus. Daniel j Ramon. Frnesto and Arturo, in addition to other relatives. ' ‘ ' Storm Warnings NEW ORLEANS. FVb. 7 — p._ i Announcing the approach from the west of a severe cold wave which may bring a 40-degree drop a , far south as New Orleans. Dr. I M Cline of the weather bureau today issued storm warnings post ed along the gull coast area from Florida to Texas. Three storm warnings were is sued by the bureau, dealing with a cold wave moving across Texas and Arkansas and cautioning small craft of squally weather in the j gulf. I MEETINGS TO TAKE PRICE ACTION SET Differential Again Held To Blame In Troubles The Lower Rio Grande Valley to day was proceeding with the or ganization of farmer and shipper units throughout the section in its move to bolster up the prices of its vegetables and the belief was expressed by farm leaders in both counties that this can be done with out violence. Minimum Price Set Approximately 300 farmers as sembled at Weslaco last night and set minimum prices of $6 a ton for cabbage and 20 cents a bushel for root vegetables, the same as had been done ai a meeting in San Benito last Saturday. A resolution was adopted at the Weslaco meeting placing all those present on record as refusing to sell for lower prices, and plans weie discussed for the formation of (Continued on Page Seven) COLONELKENT ARRIVES TODAY Col. Glover’s Successor Takes Command At Fort Brown Col. Guy Kent, successor to Col Francis W Glover, as commander of the 12th cavalry and Fort Brown will arrive bv automobile from San Antonio today. Col Kent was born in Wyoming Oct. 15. 1877. Hr entered the mili tary academy. West Point, as a ca det on June 19. 1897. completed his fcur years in the academy and was commissioned as second lieutenant in the regular army, 1st Cavalry. Feb. 18. 1901. He was promoted to first lieutenant of the llth Cavalry on Aug. 2. 1906. was transferred back to the 1st Cavalry March 28. 1907, transferred to the 9th Cavalry Dec. 4. 1915. and promoted to cap tain on July 1. 1916; promoted to major (temporary! from ougust 5. 1917 to June 2. 1918 and nromotci to major «permanent i July 1. 1920. promoted to lieutenant colonel rn Oct. 5. 1920; he was transferred to the field artillery on May 1. 1928 and remained there until April 30 1927 when he was transferred back to the cavalry; he was transferred into the inspector general's depart ment January 15. 1929. where he remained until his recent assign ment to the 12th Cavalry-. He was promoted to colonel, cavalry while still on duty in th** inspector «o»n eral's department, Jan 13. 1932. Col. Kent, while on dutv at hesd ouarters. Eighth Corns Area. San Antonio. viisted Fort Brown in 1931. to make a general inspection of this nost. Col Glover one of the most pop ular Commanders of Fort Brown, left last night 'or his new station at Charleston. South Carolina. Battle in House of Death Lighted by Flashing Guns NEW YORK, Feb. 7—i/P)— A battle in a house of death, where only the blue spurt of bullets light ed the pitch-darkness, won high praise today for two detectives who got their man—and four more. One man was killed last night and five persons wounded before Detectives George Seelandt and Michael Petrizzo. fighting through an ambush, dragged Pasquale Russo from a ramshackle house in Brook lyn and charged him with homi cide. They had been seeking him many weeks for the slaving of Anthony D Antonio whose body was found wrapped in a blanket on a vacant lot. Russo, they said, had paid D Antonio $80 to find him a bride and then had killed D’Antonio be cause the girl wasn't up to speci fications. Last night the detectives went to the third floor of the big house, looking for Russo. As they pounced on a man believed to be him. the house echoed with shrieks and an gry clamor. In a chair on the third floor. Russo's mother, aged and blind, rocked back arid forth, screaming: ‘ Don't let them take my son." Then the lights went out. Bul lets spat against the walls. Unseen hands lunged with knives at the two policemen. Grasping the pris oner. they fought down rickety stairs, their revolvers cutting flam ing scars In the darkness. TEMPERATURE EXPECTED TO HIT 28 HERE Cover Young Crops, Protect Citrus Tonight Valley truck and citrus growers were warned by the weather bu reau and farm experts today to prepare to protect truck crops and citrus orchards from temperatucs ranging from 28 to 32 degrees in the Valley tonight and tomorrow. The weather bureau pred.cts freezing temperatures for the Val ley, although a prediction of cloudy skies tonight offers some hope for growers to escape serious damage. State Get* Cold The cold wave is expected to reach the Valley from up-state latr this afternoon or tonight. Sub-z^o temperatures were reported this morning from several up-state cit ier. and temperatures were drop ping at the rate of 30 degree within two hours in central and south Texas as the wave sweeps toward the coast. Storm warnings also have been issued for the Texas coast. Farm experts estimate that prac tically the entire Valley spring to mato crop, about three-fourths of the potato crop and the bean crop is threatened tonight by the cold wave. Much of the citrus, also, is in bloom and a temperature of 28 degrees, unless the trees are pro tected. will result in delaying the Valley citrus crop. Cover Plants I’p W. E McDavitt. Brownsville pro duce man. advises growers to cover with soil young tomato plants at a distance of about even- foot. Young potatoes, where the ground is drv enough, should be covered with a plow. Little hope is held for beans and the older tomato plants if the tem perature falls below the freezing point. Much of the Valley’s bean crop is nearing maturity. Mr. McDavitt re ported. and some bean picking is to get underway next week, pro vided f ey escape the cold weather. Citrus growers are urged to resort to smudging, where possible. ZERO WEATHER GRIPS TEX AS i Bv The Associated Press t Temperatures close to the zero mark over most of north Texas fol lowed today in the wake of a fur ious onslaught of winter which started in the Panhandle and swept southeastward, accompanied by sleet and snow. Balmy weather of the last four weeks cave way quickly during the night as a strong wind whipped down from the Rocky mounta-rs and laid seige to an ever-increas ing portion of the state Tempera (Continued mi Page Seven! Chinese Fear Capital’s Fall PEIPING. China. Peb 7.—(/Pi Fearing the much heralded Jap anese military campaign in the north this spring would threaten this ancient Manchu capital Chi nese authorities were transferring 3 000 cases of art treasures today to Shanghai and Nankins. Peiping is only about as far ft cm the southern Jehol border a» is the American capital at Wash ington fron Baltimore Jehol City capital of the Chmese-administere.1 province which the Jaoanese In tend to occuoy before summer, is only about 100 miles northeast of Peiping. On the ground floor, amid strug gling. gasping foes, the detectives lost their prisoner. Battling slowly forward, they crashed through a window to the street. There, reinforced by other police men. they dashed back inside, tur ned on the lights, and found Russo beneath a bed. His brother Antho ny. also arrested, was charged with homicide, too, and three suspects in the ambush were accused of fel onious assault. In the basement the police found Louis Marciano, a tennant. dead of many bullet wounds. Another man was wounded in the wrist, the two detectives suffered minor injuries in the street a 12-year-old boy was found slightly wounded by a bullet. « GETS MILLION Audrey Nancy Campbell, Chi cago debutante, above, has won her court action for control of her millnn-dollar share in the estate of her mother. Mrs. Nancy Latnrcp Carver Campbell, a daughter of Levi Leiter. pioneer Chicago merchant. U. S. SHIVERS IN COLD WAVE Zero Weather Extends From Canada To Texas As Records Fall fBy T1 Associated Press) A biting gale and blinding snow storm swept across the midland plains Tuesday, trailed by the sharpest sub-zero wave ot several seasons. ' The mercury plunged 30 and 40 degrees below zero along the frozen Canadian border states. A vast black area on the weather map from Pocatello to Pittsburgh and from Corpus Christi to Dulutn denoted an almost solid area of snow and ram In that great ex panse onlv a tiny oasis around Dodge City. Kas.. was marked • clear.'* A blizzard blocked trams and highways in Kansas. Missouri. Ok lahoma and North Texas and air ciaft were erounded through most of the prairie states Street car and riotor traffic was demoralized and motorists were stranded in Kansas City and Chicago. Oklahoma City children were told by radio to stay home from school. Bemidji. Minn . a' 41 degrees be low was the coldest m three years cr.d thermometers at Moran, Wyo. iii the uplands below Yellowstone park, recorded a new low at 5o below zero. The east had not vet felt the blast, but awaked the predicted crop to the zero regions Wednes day. More than 7 inches of snow fell overnight at Chicago, where the temperature was a genial 22 above, and heavy snow was to continue all night while the mer cury recedes to a predicted sub zero range. Only south central Texas and the gulf coast escaned the freeze but those sections were still m danger. Typical temoeratures in the com zone ran: Bismarck. N D -3o, Cheyenne Wyo., -22; Duluth -30; Farimont. vlinn.. the warmest u: the state at -20; Pampa. Tex . -10; Amarillo -8: Kansas City -7: Wich ita. Kas. -10; Omaha -14; De* Moines -8; Sioux City. Ia.. -lb’; Aberdeen S. D, -31; Rapid City. S D . -25: Jamestown N. D , -37. Norfolk. Neb. -21; St. Louis 17 above: Chicago 22 above; 27 above at Detroit. Many Farmers Not Eligible For Loans DALLAS. Feb. 7. i.-Pt—Report> from the regional crop production loan office here revealed today that approximately 800 farmers in Texas Arizona and New Mexico may not be able to avail themselves of 1933 loans, extension of which was au thorized Monday Regulations V I ;g drafted were exepcted to denv credit in 1933 to those borrowers who last year “did not show a cooperative spirit in payment of loans.” Owen Sherill. manager for the three southwestern states, said *hat about 2 per cent of the 40.000 bor rowers last year failed to make sat isfactory adjustment of their loans. Statesman Dies GENEVA Switzerland. Feb. 7. •..■I’* —Count Albert Apponyi. Hungarian statesman, died here today after a i brief illness. He was 87. WASHINGTON KEEPING EYE ON BIG SHOT Drake Estater Kept In Prison Awaiting Deportation LONDON, Feb. T—Wash ington authorities are showing a decided interest in Oscar M. Hart zell, who is being deported to America today as an undesirable alien, allegedly having perpetrated a fraud on persons in the United States while he resided in England. The activities which resulted in his deportation were connected with the prosecution of claims to the so-called Sir Francis Drake estate. Now in Prison The state department at Wash ington has inquired of the con sulate here which ship he will sail on and when he will arrive in New York, but there was no in dication as to why this informa tion was wanted. Hartzell will be taken from Brixton prison to Ply mouth tomorrow and placed aboard the steamer Champlain which is due at New York on Feb. 15. He us leaving behind a life which aroused the envy of man> of his acquaintance who thought him fortunate in his fine apartment, his car and chauffeur and his ability to dme in London's best restaurants. The consulate has been working on the so-called Drake estate af fair for years, mainly through Consul N. P. Davis and Vice Con sul Guy W Hay. It was on infor mation provided by the consulate that the British authorities acted. ‘Perpetrated Fraud* The consulate is giving its ver sion of the situation in a letter addressed, among others, to Amer ican chambers of commerce and to many individuals throughout the United States who have been inquiring about the alleged Drake estaiie. The letter follows • "You will no doubt recall prev ious correspnodence with this of fice or with Scotland Ya^ rei. ativc to the activities of one Oscar M. Harizell and his agents in col lecting funds for the prosecution of claims to the so-called Sir Francis Drake estate, : nd will therefore be Interested to know tContinued on Page Severn Machine Gun Bandits Kill Police Sergeant INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. 7 /Pi—A machine gun in the hands of one of a group of five bandits dealt death this morning to Police Sergeant Lester E Jones. Two fellow offi cers exchanged shots with the ban dits as they fled without loot after killinw the sergeant. The five men were holding up the garage of the People’s Motor coach company, city transportation lint, when Sergeant Jones and two pa trolmen reached the garage in re sponse to a report of trouble. Kaiser Denies He Holds Throne Hope DOORN. Holland. Feb 7. iP—Re norts that the former kaiser Wil helm TT. in exile here for fhe past 14 rears was awaiting a call to re turn to Berlin as a result of the establishment of a riehtM govern ment there, were officially denied todav. An investigation of reports that Wilhelm’s baggage had been for warded to Berlin disclosed that onlv some packets for charity purposes were sent to Germany. Gamer Move** To Block Tariff Bill WASHINGTON Feb 7. '/!>)— Speaker Garner announced todavt the house democrat«■. would caucus tomorrow to formulate plans to block consideration of the Crowther bill to raise tariffs on products from countries with depr?ciated curren cies. Two Men HeM In Attack On Girl HOUSTON Feb 7— Two iron, one 55 years old. were heta j today after a 22-vear-old girl re [ ported she was crlmmallv attacked by one of them last night. Blast Injuries Fatal DALLAS. Feb. 7. l/T>—Clarenoe Driggers. 26 injured seriously by an explosion in a storm eewer ve« terdsv. died today. A fellow work er. William T. Hughes. 36. was kill ed instantly bv the blast, Three other men who were injur ed were reported recovering.