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— .___________.... . ..... -..' • ^'&Mi¥s ®ljf 1kmsm\Sk - - the VALLEY FmST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORTY-FIRST YEAR—No. 196 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933 SIX PAGES 5o A COVt •%. . IN OUR I |VALLEY| IN PRINCIPLE THIS SALIE tax idea with which our state legis lature i& flirting, seems to ui to be sound in that we pay taxes ac cording to our respective abilities to pay, and pay as we spend. But—It would appear to us that , the idea of a STATE sales tax is I all wet. The sales tax should be a federal j tax. affecting all citizens of all; states alike. Let Texas establish a sales tax and what will be the inexitable re sult? We see huge mercantile establish ments erected right across the state line. We see our citizens going to Oklahoma, to Louisiana, to New Mexico, to buy their automobile^. In effect, a slate sales tax is in evitably iouig to be a discn mina tory tax which the people of Tex as will pay and which the people of these bordering states will not pay. It will drive business from the state right when we need to hold what business we nave and to make every possible effort to get more business. Let's have the sales tax. if that t what ft takes to get the money, but let's have it to raise money for the federal not the state government. • • • THERE IS A CERTAIN HY 1 stena pervading legislative circles now a days— Not only in Texas, but everyhere. As a people we are chasing all manner of wills of the wisps. Grabbing every new idea fha'. come* along. Without stopping to think that new idea through. There s this matter of issuing fccrip ior local purpose*, lor example. That scrip is only good as it can i>e spent. It is finally going to end up in the hands oX your merchants, And what they are going to ao | with it, nobody knows. The merchants greatest expense | la not his payroll, it is the cost ol hi* goods and his other overhead j expenses. Tor which he could not pay m tills wholesaler in St Louis will not take it. The scrip will go so lar, then atop, and the merchant in whose place of business it *tops. Will be holding the sack. • • • TWOULD SEEM TO US THAT right now is the ume to be con centrating our el torts along those line* which have been proven salt and sound. • • • WU DONT KNOW, BUT WE have decided thoughts— Along the line that there are too I many hog* in Brownsville. This thought has been born m on our consciousness— During the , ut lew night*— By the yowling oi a select bunch of unassorted curs— Which has been making our y-rd. right under our window in fact, The scene of their nightly con claves. And from a lew telephone calls we have l ad. we gather that otner* in Brownsville. Are similarly beseiged. • • • IMPORTANCE OK WORKING out some plan whereby the unem ployed of the nation may be given an opportunity of helping them aelve* i» brought out in recent mess age to thr legislature from Go.'. Ferguson. The message point* out that i*d eral RPC unemployment funds will not be available much longer to states which have themselves m~de no relief appropriations. In other words, the federal gov ernment If not going to put money into Texas if Texas is not putting Bojptof its own money m the same (Once *e get started on this 1olc proposition there is no end. We must get some sort of a work able proposal into action which will end this endless chain ol temporary expediencies. • • • NOW WE READ THAT JAPAN will withdraw from the League of Nations— Unless the league cooperates— By doing what Japan wants to do. not what the rest of the nation^ comprising the league. Might want to do Remind* us of cooperation down here in the Valley. Or any other place for that mat ter. Those who scream the loudest for it. . .. Mean that you should cooperate. By putting in with their pet acheme*. And when you try to mind your own business. And put through one of vour acheme*, Which they don’t like. You are not cooperating. That* the way it goes. 9 House Votes ProhiRepeal; Issue Now Goes to States BITTER FIGHT FOR JEHOL IS SAID CERTAIN China Raises Fund To Oppose Jap Invasion PEIPING, China, Feb. 20. UPh The whole powder magazine of north China will explode if Jehol is invaded. T. V. Soong. the fi nance minister, said tonight short ly after hts return from Jehol City. ‘Outwardly everything seems calm. ' hr said. but the limit of endurance has been reached and if trouble comes I am sure the people of north China will prove as pa triotic as the people of the south showed themselves to be last year at Shanghai. •'As an illustration, when I brought up the question of finan cing the defense of Jehol in con versation with the northern bank ers. it was not necessary to make any appeal for money. Without hesitation they subscribed an amount which I named as sufficient to cover the minimum requirements ol the coming months ‘ TROOP STREAM MOVES IX JEHOL CHINCHOW Manchuria. Feb. 20 <j$*►—A stream of troops toward the Jehol border made it apparent today that the great Japanese drive to wrest Jrhol province from Chinese rule was immenent. Military traf fic choked the Mukden-Chmchow railway. It looked as if the actual cam paign the most extensive opera tion since Sino-Japane.se hostilities began a year and a hall ago. would begin this week May Begin Tomorow <A foreign of lice spokesman in Tokyo said he would not be sur prised if the campaign began to morrow—the day the league asscm (Conunued on Page Six) Strawberry Crop Moving A newr crop is beginning to move [ fror. the Valley. The first shipment by truck, was sent out recently, and soon a con- ! siderable movement both by rail! and truck is expected to be under . w*ay. Some increase in acreage this j year over last was reported. $1,788,666,009 Paid To R. F. C. Borrowers WASHINGTON. Feb. 20. P>— The Reconstruction corporation has trnid out 11.788 666.009 to borrowers and received repayments of $347. 237 ill. These totals were shown today in the corporation's report detailing figures up to Jan. 31. The loan au thorizations amount to more than $2,000,000,000 Barred Lover Sought As Slayer of Couple FREDERICKSBURG. Feb. 20. iJp* —The parents of a 17-year-old girl t ere slam on a farm near Lucken bach last night after they refused to permit a man to visit their daughter. Severo Vareal a % lus wife. uoth a brut 50 years old. were shot down about midnight after a young men loitered about their home five hours. He had expressed the intention to marry their daughter Alucia Vareal. CruhKilU Five TIMMINS. Ont., Feb. 20. <>P>— The pilot and four passengers, two of them women, were killed yester day when an airplane crashed cn the frozen surface of Lake Tenn gami, near here. Word of the acci dent r. ached here today . T. e depd. H. R Cleeg. mlot; Gordon Komgsburg. Norton Abra hams. Loiine Buckman. and Alma Tario, all of Schumacher, Ont* Valley Now Is Garden Of Blossoms Fear that the bloom of the Valley s citrus trees was damaged by the cold recently has been practically dispelled during the past few days. The citrus trees from Browns ville to Mission have blossomed out to the fullest and now pres ent the picture of a beautiful citrus garden along the highways and elsewhere in the Valley. Experts declare that most of the bloom on the trees now is that which was Just getting ready to open before the cold came, and that the freezing temperatures had little effect on It. RIO GIVES UP VICTIM’S BODY Second Drowned Man Sought Week After Boat Overturns 'Special to mie Herald) DONNA. FPb. 20—Body of Abf lmo Torres. 30. resident of Rio Bravo Ranch on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande south of here, was found floating in the river early Sunday morning about four miles below the spot where he was drowned a week ago. Nearly a hundred men continued their day and night patrol of both banks of the stream in search of the body of Billy Brewster. Jr., son oi former Deputy Sheriff Billy Brewster. Sr., who drowned with Torres. According to a woman living on the south bank of the river and who claimed to have seen the men drown, the light canvas boat in which they were crossing the river collapsed beneath them They sank and were seen no more Three days later, the boat, up side down. was found three miles downstream from the place where the men disappeared. Justice of the Peace Max Maulc of Pharr returned a verdict of ac cidental death by drowning Sun day morning in the death of Torres. He stated the condition of Torres’ hands indicated the man's body liad probably weighted the boat down until it probably was over turned by boat crews which have been dragging the river bottom for the bodies. The river is lighted at night with big searchlights south of the Donna pumps as watchers continue their vigil. Torres’ body was dis covered m the light beams as it floated downstream before dawn Sunday. French Minister Sees Debt Parley PARIS, Feb. 20 i.T,'—Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour said today that he expects debt nego;ia tions with the United States will oe resumed after March 4 He refra: l ed from indicating what form the new negotiations might take, but he made it plain that the matter will be taken up with the Roosevelt administration. Maj. Gen. Johnston Succumbs In France NICE. France. Feb. 20. (/Pi—Maj. Gen. William H Johnston, retired, chief of staff of t' American army oi occupation in Germany follow ing the World war. died last night in his home in suburbs. Gen. Johnston was commander of the 91st division during the war. He wa« 71 years old. Trade Favorable WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 (.$>,— The United States maintain°d a favorable trade balance in Janu ary when i** exports amounted to $120,000,000 and imports totaled $96,000,000, leaving a balance in fav or of this count rv of $24,000,000. Both e-.oorts and imoorts were lower than January of a year ago and less than m Dsosubsf• RAISE WAGES FOR RECOVERY SAYSWRIGLEY Gum King Will Raise Salaries Of His Employes CHICAGO, Feb 20 (JP,-Philip K. Wrigley says he believes a re turn to prosperous conditions in this country can be quickened by the payment of larger salaries to the workers. Get More Money Mr. Wrigley. who is president of ! the William Wrigley. Jr., company and owner of the Chicago baseball club of the National league, ex pressed the belief in discussing his recent announcement that em ployes of his Chicago firm, as well ac the Wrigley Canadian subsidiary, are to receive more money. He qualified It by saying the Increased payrolls should be confined to such companies as are able to grant raises in pay without imposing strains upon tlieir financial status. "If improvement is to be felt in a host of lines'. he said, “the work ers must have more than enough to cover the bare necessities of life, i They are the great consumers of products. If we pay simply enough lor them to live on we cannot halt the downward trend In general business conditions. •Workers Use Money’ “It is the workers who put money into circulation, but unfortunately they are the first to feel it when a price cutting panic hits any in dustry. In some cases wages are slashed when there is no pressing, immediate need for it. and that should not be. I believe there are enough concerns, even in times such as these, which might be able to increase their workers' pay and continue to operate at a profit, We are going to try It.” Last Rites Held For Jim Corbett NEW YO!»*r Feb. 20 <4>> — Friends of his lighting days, cele brities of the ring and stage, mourned in tiny St. Malachy’s church today as funeral services were sung over the body of James J. Corbett, first of the Marquis of Queensberry heavyweight • cham pions. After a solemn high mass of re quiem at 11 a. m.. the body was taken to Cyrpress Hills cemetery for interment, to rest not far from his home in Bayside. L. I . where he died Saturday after a long ill ness. 12 Lose Lives As Steamer Goes Down GIJON. Spain. Feb 20. ppi—The coastwise steamer Pena Castillo loaded with lumber, sank yesterday near the Spanish port of La urea, with the loss of twelve lives. Only one of the crew was saved. It was believed the vessel sank during storms which have been sweeping the coast. Murder Probed der of Tommy Reis. Galveston des Brazoria county grand Jury today began an investigation of the mur der of Tommy Reis. Galvesotn des perado, slain by two fellow con victs on Retrieve state prison farm near here February 12. Six convicts from the farm were brought as witnesses. They came in a wagon, flanked by guards, be cause the roads were too muddy lor travel by automobile. Rasco Funeral Held The body Warren Ellis Rasco, 6 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A Rasco. was interred in Buena Vista cemetery Sunday afternoon following services at the Central Christian church at 3 p. m. The boy died Sarinda> at the family residence. He is survived by his parent*, two *i*ters and a brother. _ 13-YEAR-OLD ‘EXPERIMENT UP TOPEOPLE House Duplicates Senate Work By 289-121 Vote WASHINGTON. Feb 20. (**»_ The 13 - year - old constitutional amendment fbr national prohibi tion went back to the states for a new decision today, on a 289 to 121 vote m the house of representa tives. Cheer*. Greet Vote Duplicating the senate ate ion last week, when It favored submission of a repeal amendment to state conventions by a 63 to 23 vote, the house acted before being in session an hour and a half, cheered on by part of the galleries and in the face of ominous silence on the part of others there. The latter represent ed many of the prohibition or ganizations, which served notice at once through the Anti-Saloon League that the issue would be • fought to a finish in state capi tals." The vote was sixteen more than the two-thirds required. Speaker Jo?fh N. Garner was greeted with cheers and applause on announcing the outcome. •State Functions' Immediately. Chairman Sumners of the judiciary commifte and others moved for a federal law setting up the machinery for state conventions. A hard road was in front for till* effort, however, as Mr. Garner and others on other sides of the capitol have express ed the view that calling ol the con ventions is a state function. There was a wild outburst as Speaker Garner announced the re sult of the vote stilled only by the pounding of his gavel. On both sides of the aisle, wets shook hands and beat each other on the back. Pioneer Of Hidalgo County Is Buried (Special to The Herald) DONNA, Feb. 20—Mrs. T. J. Hooks, 75. one of the first Anjlo Saxon settlers in Hidalgo county, was buried here Saturday. Many old-time residents attended the last rites. The city of Donna was named for Mrs. Donna Fletcher, a daughter of the decendent. The family has been near Donna since 1902. She is survived by many rela tives. including a sister. Mrs. N. K. Holler; and the following children: B. H- Hooks of Ddinburj, Mrs. Donna Fletcher of Donna. Mrs. T. B. Waite. Jr., Mission. Mrs. J. W Neill of Yoakum .R. R Hooks of Mission. Denton Hooks of El Paso and Grover Hooks of Donna m addi tion to numerous grandchildren. Wounded Robber's Pal Eludes Posses TYLER. Feb. 20. i>F<—A badly wounded robber was in the jail hospital ward here today and offi cers were trying to capture an ac complice who escaped after the *3. 200 holdup of the Arp State bank, 20 miles southeast of Tyler. A pair of gunmen entered the bank just before closing time Sat urday and fater hurriedly collecting available cash, fled in a stolen autmobile. They kidnaped two o:mk employes, using them as shields in the running gun fight that develop ed. Texan Convicted UVALDE. Feb. 20. .^—Convicted of murder for the shooting of his wife. Lawrence Latta today faced a two-year prison sentence adminis tered by a jury in district court here. Mrs. Latta was slain last March 8 at Del Rio and the case was trans ferred here on a change of venue. Latta claimed she was shot acci dentally. ‘DON’T BE STINGY, GIVE ME HUNDRED’ ITALIAN MANDS Zangara Pleads Guilty To Four Counts, Says Only Regret Is He Did Not Kill President-Elect MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 20—(TP)— Giuseppe Zangara today was sentenced to 80 years in prison for his attack Feb ruary 15 on President-elect Roosevelt, Miss Magaret Kruis of Newark, N. J. Russell Caldwell of Coconut Grove Fla., and William Sinnott, New York policeman. He was sentenced to 20 years on each of the four charges which were attempts to murder, getting the max imum sentence in each case. Zangara may yet be tried for murder. His pleas to day did not cover the case of Mayor Anton Cermak of — ZANGARA F. D. WRITES TO MIAMI HEROINE Little Woman Who Spoiled Gunman’s Aim Thanked By Roosevelt NLW YORK. Feb 20. 'Pi—A little woman who refused to quail before an assas.is today had the public thanks of the president-elect of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt made public yester day a letter to Mrs. W. F. Cross of Miami who was credited with dis turbing the aim of Giuseppe Zan gara by grabbing his hand when lie fired at the presidential party. The letter said: “It is hard for me to find words to convey to you my appreciation of your heroism and my gratitude for your prompt and courageous ac tion in attempting to prevent the tragedy which occurred last Wed nesday evening. "How much greater and sadder a tragedy was averted by your un selfish courage and quick thinking of course no ont. cai * tiinat now aopears that bv divine provid ence the lives of all the victims cf the assassin's disturbed aim will be spared. “You should always have a ] and conscious pride in the part you played and I rejoice m this fine ex ample of forgetfulness of self and cool courage." ^ Chicago and Mrs. Joe H. Gill of Miami, who are in a hospital here. After the sentence was pronounced Zangara said "Judge, how much you give me?” Zangara held up hia fingers—, eight of them. “Yes.” said the judge. “Oh, judge, don't be stingy. Four times twenty is eighty. Give me a hundred years." He laughed as he was hastily led from the court by two depu ties. Victims Recovering He wa.s taken back to the Dade county jail. Zangara was sentenced after he reiterated to the judge he was sor ry his attempt on the life of Pres. elect Roosevelt was unsuccessful. The most cheering news since they were shot came from the bed sides of both Mayor Cermak and Mrs. Gill. Dr. Frederick Tice, Chi cago heart specialist, who arrived only this morning and went im mediately into consultation with the attending physicians, said: “I believe we may look forward to the full recovery of the mayor." Mrs. Gill's husband said her recovery “is just as rapid as we could ex pect. Today's condition is very en couraging.” “The man in unquestionably sane.” Judge Collins said as he left the bench when court recess ed. Disdaining any attempt to plead that he was insane as he walked up to the president-elect's car last Wednesday night and wounded fife persons when his aim at Mr. Roose velt was diverted by spectators. Zangara proudly insisted he was sane and told Judge Collins he could do what he wished in the case. ‘No Like Capitalists' Taking the stand to relate how he conceived the idea to kill the president-elect, Zangara told the court 'I suffer all time from my stomach. I no like the way capi talists take all money. When I read in paper the president come here I decide to kill him." The assassin, however, said he did not wish to shoot Mayor Cer mak and the others. He said he decided to kill Mr. Roosevelt ‘‘and make him suffer." The four 20 year sentences are to run consecutively, giving him a total of 80 years in state s prison. Negro Attacker Is Lynched by Citizens RINGGOLD. La.. Feb. 20. (JP>— A negro who kidnaped a bank cash ier and his wife in an attempted robberv and killed the ma* for de fending the woman against attack was lynched bv a band of angry citizens at the scene of the slaying yesterday. Officers said the negro, identi fied as Nelson Nash, 24, of Lees ville. La . early yesterday entered the home of J. P. Tachelor, 50, cash ier of the Ringgold bank, and forcea Bachelor and his wife to take him to the bank and open the doors. _i Bandits Get $3,000 SHIRO. Feb. 20. {IP,-Burglars burned into the vault of the Farmers State bank here last night and obtained $3 000 in cash and $1500 in bonds, it was discovered today by P. B. Parten, cashier, when he opened the bank. They broke through a window and cut a hole in the wall of the \ault with acetylene torches. No | clue as to their identity had been I found, officer* said. (MERTON'S INDICTMENT DISMISSED Tucker Get* Term Anil Fine; Longoria9* Suspended if E. J. Tucker, vice president and cashier of the closed Merchants* National bank, was sentenced to 15 months in the ndustrial Reforma tory at Chlllicothe, Ohio, and fined $1,000 here Monday morning by Fed. Judge Boynton when the for mer bank official pleaded guilty td the first six counts in the 12-bill In dictment against him. Benito Longoria, assistant cash ier. pleaded guilty to the sam§ counts and was given two rears suspended in the Industrial Re for ma ton, and fined $500. Laanberton Gaae Pinmlw*il The government dismissed as t0 P. M. Lamberton, who was jointly *1 am very glad that the in dictment* against P. M Lam berton were dismissed by tha government this morning.’* John M. Young, receiver for tha Merchant* National bank stated to The Herald, "as in my opinion there was no intent evidenced by Mr. Lamberton which would support the allegations made in the indictments.” Mr. Young as receiver for the bank worked with the govern ment agent* who secured the evidence on which the Mer chants Bank indictments were based. indicted with Tucker, Longoria and John Gregg, president of the closed institution. In addition to the sentence fof Tucker, he was given a two year suspended term to begin at the ex piration of the 15 months sentence. The case opened with the govern ment, represented by Asst. U. JR. Atty. Carlos Watson, moving to dis miss as to Lamberton and dismiss ing the last six counts of the in* dictment as to Longoria and Tuck er. The first six counts against these defendants alleged false reports to banking authorities. Watson opened by generally re viewing the case, saying the alleged false entries were made bv juggling accounts between the teller’s cash and sundry bank accounts in order to cover excess loans to Gregg. Wat son said these Irregularities had been traced as far back as 1922. Loyalty Brought Out Harbert Davenport, counsel for Longoria, then spoke for his client. Gregg, the attorney said, befriend ed Longoria as a youth and was In strumental in his education at the University of Texas. Because of this and their later association in the bank. Longoria was extremely loyal to the bank president. Dav enport asserted. He knew of the items being juggled and on several occasions started to report them, but was restrained by his fidelity to his friend. Davenport staled. “He has thoroughly learned hid lesson." and has been punished al ready. the attorney stated. He pointed out that Longoria was a Mexican citizen and that his ap plication for U. S. citizenship had been stopped because of his indict ment. Received Ho Profit’ H. B. Galbraith, attorney for Tucker, spoke briefly, reviewing the former bank officials life and hia association here with Gregg. Tuck er, Galbraith stated, did not profit m any manner from the false en tries to which he had pleaded guilty. The Brownsville man had repeat edly called Gregg’., attention to tho excess loans, the attorney declared. Galbraith said Tucker was entire ly honest but was driven into the acts by the strong will of Gregg, “a man who was quite autocratic in h:s maimer of handling fhe bank.” Tucker then spoke for himself, stressing the fact that he had to work for a living almost from boy hood. The former bank offi'ia! said he came here from Mississippi in 1913 and became associated with the Merchants National. He stress ed the fact that he was not very ex perienced as a banker and ttm he learned most of his banking from Gregg. *Barrly Noticeable’ “The changes in the cash items ; (in Gregg s accounts) came so grad ually that they were barely notice able." Tucker said. The defendant declared that he always though (Continued from Page Six) Hidalgo Names Its Election Judges (Special to The Herald) EDINBURG. Feb. 20—Appoint ment of judges to hold the Demo cratic primary in Hidalgo county on February 25, in which will bo selected two men to enter a run off primary for Speaker John N, Gamer’s place, was made by th# county executive committee Sat urday. The two winners In the primary will enter a runoff primary on March 15. The winner of the run off will be designated as the Demo cratic nominee and he will oppos# Carlos G. Watson, republican can | didate, in the general election set ! for April 22. * — . A. Hinojosa Dies 'Special to The Herald) RIO ORANDE CITY, Feb. 20.— ' Funeral services were held her# Sunday afternoon for A. Hinojosa, 59, senior member of A. Hinojosa & Sons of this city, who died IS a McAllen hospital Saturday aft ernoon. Long a prominent 8tarr county merchant, Hinojosa was widely known throughout the lower bender counties. He is survived by his wife, his mother, three children and eight brother* and atater* .