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VALLEY RAILS
ASK CHANGE
IN SERVICE
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, June 17.—Hearing
on application of Valley railroads
to eliminate passenger and reduce
freight tervicjc between certain
points will be held before the state
railroad commission in Austin Mon
day morning, June 26.
Total suspension of passenger ser
vice and reduction of freight ser
vice is sought between the following
points by the San Benito and Rio
Grande Valley railway:
San Benito district: Between San
Benito and Monte Cristo.
Landrum district; Boulevard
Junction and Ohio station.
La Paloma district: La Paloma
Junction and Santander.
Fresnos district: Place junc
tion and Abney.
Rio Hondo district: San Benito
and La Leona.
The road seeks to be relieved of
the obligation to furnish daily
freight service and of all other
freight trains service except when
not less than ten loaded cars are of
fered or in the alternative to be re
lieved of the obligation to furnish
freight train service more frequent
ly than once a week.
The St. Louis, Brownsville and
Mexico Railway Co. (Gulf Coast
Lines), seeks the same eliminations
and reductions in the following dis
tricts:
San Perlita: Raymondville and
Santa Monica.
Edcouch: Hargill and Weslaco.
Monte Cristo: Faysville and
Monte Cristo.
tThree Men to Seek
Arroyo Board Posts
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, June 17.—At least
three men are in the race for seats
on the board of directors for the
Arroyo Colorado Navigation Dis
trict, filings including the names
of A. J. Carpenter of Rio Hondo
and E. Richard Cross of Harlingen.
Joe Penry, Jr., also has stated his
Intention of making the race.
The election will be held Satur
flay, July 1 and filings will be held
open to within three days of that
flate. Filings may be made with any
of the three present commission
ers.
J. B. Chambers, Sr., chairman, and
J. R. George of Rio Hondo have de
cided not to seek re-election while
Tyre H. Brown, although undecided,
is not expected to run.
July 4th Program
Fireworks Arrive
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, June 17.—Fire
works for the Harlingen Fourth of
July celebration arrived Saturday
morning, according to R. P. Bled
soe who is in charge of this part
of the day’s program of festivities.
A number of attractive pieces will
be set off, he said.
Other committee chairmen in
clude Bob Adams, playground ball;
directors of the Harlingen Mer
chants. including Mayor Sam Botts,
baseball; R. L. Chamberlain, bi
cycle race; Reuben Eubanks, mar
shal of the parade succeeding V.
V. Pernoud who will not be in the
city at that time.
Plans for the celebration are be
ing formulated rapidly.
City Briefs !
Lieut. W. A. Goln and Lt. A. L.
Erickson of Ft. Crockett, Galveston,
flew to Brownsville Saturday, plan
ning to return Sunday.
PLATE LUNCH, 15c. The Mecca
—Adv.
“Krinklets” for picnics, 5c—Adv.
Dickey’s Old Reliable Eye Water
cools and clears inflamed eyes.
Doesn’t hurt. Adv. (5)
Mr. and Mrs. M. Wyman of Hous
ton are spending several days in
the city.
Buy Shrimp from the Rio Grande
Pish ‘Co.—Adv.
Now is the time for screening and
painting. Grant Lumber Co—Adv.
R. Weill left for New' York on
the American Airways plane Satin
day and C. Pritchard left for Fort
Worth. C. Christman arrived from
Dallas.
Replace your broken glass with
new window glass from the Grant
Lumber Co.—Adv.
Here for a few days are C. Hor
streser and O. H. Gordon of Hous
ton, who arirved in Brownsville
Saturday.
Mrs. Blackshear’s Pastry Shop
manufactures “Krinklets.”—Adv.
J. S. Brown of San Antonio is a
business caller in the city.
J. Taylor Bennett and son, Lee
B. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Leal
and C. V. Milligan of Houston are
among the visitors in Brownsville ;
over the week-end.
“Krinklets” for luncheonetts.— i
Adv.
W. H. Clay, who has been ill for
the past three weeks, has recovered
sufficiently to leave his bed.
■
“Krinklets” good for teeth and
gums.—Adv.
G. C. Clement, of Glen Ellyn, 111., j
is visiting in Brownsville over the
week-end.
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Choir Plans Program
SAN BENITO. June 17.—Old time
songs will compose a program to be
presented probably in the high
school auditorium Friday night. Julj
7 by members of the Methodisi
choir under the direction of Miss
Maud Nosier. A .
There will be solos, trios, quar
tets and choruses, some of them in
pantomine and costume such as
“Old Black Joe” with cabin scene
and echo. i
Proceeds will go into tile organ j
lund. —"
SPANISH PRINCE TO WED COMMONER
Prince of A»turia»
Because he “wants a little happi
ness in life* the former Prince of
Asturias, heir apparent to the
throne of Spain, before his fam
ily fled, is braving the displeasure
of his royal father, by wedding
Senorita _ Edelmira '* Sampedro,
daughter of a wealthy Cuban,
now dead. So upset over the affair4
Senorita Sampedro
is King Alfonso, that he refuses to
attend the ceremony, to be held
at Lausanne, but the prince’s
mother, the former Queen Vic*
toria, is expected to be present.
The prince is said to have applied
to the Spanish government to be
come a “simple citizen” of the re
public,
THREAT NOTE
IS BLAMED ON
WESLACO MAN
EDINBURG. June 17. (£>)—W. H.
Secoy, unemployed plumber of
Weslaco, was held in jail here today
on a charge of writing a threaten
ing letter in an effort to obtain
$300.
The letter was found yesterday
by W. A. Schueler, operator of a
Weslaco plumbing establishment
when he went to his desk. It de
clared: “The only reason I am do
ing this is so I can leave the Val
ley and go where neither of us is
known.”
The writer invited Scheuler to1
disregard the warning if he thought
he could successfully refute a
charge the writer made at a cost
of less than $300.
CHURCH LEAGUE
RALLY IS HELD
Interest in the district confer
ence of Epworth Leagues of the
Methodist church was shown at a
rally held Friday evening at the
Methodist church in Weslaco when
75 representatives from Valley towns
from Mission to Brownsville were
present.
Weslaco league was host at a pic
nic supper before the rally. Talks
wrere made concerning the confer
ence at Kerrville which opens July
4 and closes July 14. Attendance at
the meeting this year is expected to
be larger than ever before with
about 40 leaving from the Valley in
cluding league members, Hidalgo,
Cameron and Willacy counties.
Those from Brownsville at the
Weslaco rally were Ike Dudley,
Katherine Bader, Pauline Wilson,
Frances Sessoms, Virginia Meyers,
Mary Dudley, Mary Anderson, Ethel
Trimble, Elizabeth and Marjorie
Washington, Clinton Sessoms, Bruce
Underwood, Cecil Faw, Charlie
Kemper and Walter Washington,
Gladys Steack of San Benito ac
companied the Brownsville group.
The next rally will be held at La
Feria, Sunday, June 25. This will be
the final rally before the confer
ence.
WRECK INJURES WOMAN
HARLINGEN. — Mrs. Edward
Carey suffered a cut on one arm
and Mrs. Claude Liston a dislocated
shoulder when their auto skidded
from the highway during a rain
this week.
“Never Give a Sucker a Break”
is the title of a new movie. We
haven’t seen it yet, but we suppose
the plot has something to do with
Wall Street.
Holmes Goes Home
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, 92, retired
justice of the U. S, Supreme Court,
insisted that he didn’t need the
wheel chair with which he was met
on his arrival at Beverly, in his
home State of Massachusetts,
where he will spend the summer,
but submitted to wishes of friends.
(Central Press)
GAME WARDENS
PROBE SEINING
Game wardens of the Valley sec
tion are investigating reports of a
number of persons recently that
state laws regulating various forms
of seining in the waters near here
are being violated.
Sportsmen reported seining re
cently just off Brazos Island, in
violation of the law prohibiting use
of a seine within a mile and a half
of the pass.
Also there have been several re
ports of seining on Padre Island, in
the Gulf, which is in violation of
the state law.
The wardens also were informed
that the gill nets used* in the
Laguna Madre are being dragged,
surrounding schools of trout which
come in. These nets are supposed
to be used as stationary ones, ac
cording to the game laws of the
state.
Prior to the World war, when the
waters of the Laguna were opened
in order to help supply the coun
try's food needs, seining there was
prohibited entirely during a three
months period every year to pro
tect spawn and spawning fish.
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$100,000 IS
DEMANDED IN
PHONE CALL
ST. PAUL, June 17. — (£>)— The
millionaire president of a brewing
company, William Hamm, appar
ently was a prisoner today of kid
napers, who demanded payment of
$100,000 under threat of death.
The police, after making a pre
liminary investigation of the ab
duction, withdrew from further
efforts to find the kidnapers at
the urgent request of the missing
man's family.
Seized Thursday
Hamm was seized Thursday aft
ernoon and the first word of nis
capture was telephoned by the
abductors to William Dunn, a busi
ness associate, at 5 p. m. Dunn
had last seen Hamm at 12:20 p. m.
when the latter started home for
lunch.
“We have kidnaped Mr. Hamm;
you will hear from us later,” said
a voice over the phone to Dunn.
Yesterday Dunn received a note
asking that the money be delivered
in denominations of $5. $10 and $20.
Efforts to talk with the kidnapers
failed and efforts to trace Hamms
movements after he left for home
apparently were futile.
Picture Identified
Authorities turned, to a search
for Verne Sankey, already wanted
for two other similar crimes, after
his picture had been identified by
a taxicab driver as the man who
sent a note to Dunn after the te
lephone call.
The taxi driver said he had been
handed the note by a man who
gave him $2 to make the delivery.
From pictures, the driver later
identified this man as Sankey,
wanted for kidnaping of Charles
Boettcher II in Denver and for a
similar crime here a year ago in
which Haskell Bohn was the victim.
SCHOOL FUND
PROBLEM AIRED
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. June 17. — The
problem of school finances is so
grave that it concerns every citizen
of the Valley, said R. H. Kerns of
Mercedes in a talk to the Rotary
: club at the Madison hotel Friday.
He said that it was a problem
too large for a single school board
to cope with and that at a meeting
to be held in Mercedes Tuesday
night, a committee representing
trustees of the entire Valley will
elect officers. On this committee
are . L. Vogler, Edinburg; J. R.
Adams, La Feria; E. C. Breedlove,
San Benito; J. L. Johnson, Ray
mondville, and Mr. Kerns.
When the trustee organization is
completed, it is planned to seek as
sitance of other Valley groups m
seeking a solution to the present
situation which presents the pos
sibility of schools being open for
less than one semester next year
all over the state.
Additional taxes, preferably in
1 the form of a sales tax, are ad
vocated so that the state appor
tionment may be maintained at or
near its present level.
Mr. Kern, who has teen a school
trustee at Mercedes for 14 years;
also is a good Rotarian, having a
12-year perfect attendance record.
State Per Capita
Study Is Delayed
LUBBOCK, June 17. (fP)—The
state board of education has post
poned consideration of the state
per capita apportionment until July
31, in order to obtain a ruling from
the attorney general regarding ab
sorption of the $4,500,000 deficit in
the state available school fund.
Word had come to the board that
the deficit must come out of funds
for the ensuing scholastic year.
Board members indicated that
should a ruling from the attorney
general call for absorption of the
deficit from the ensuing year, the
matter would be taken to the su
preme court.
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June Brings Many
Brides to County
“June bride” is more than just a
catchy phrase to girls with matri
monial ambitions in Cameron coun
ty. There seems to be a big rush
on to qualify under this classifica
tion.
Through Saturday approximately
50 couples had applied for marriage
licenses at the Cameron county
clerk’s office so far during the
month.
This represents a decided increase
over the regular run of business.
SNAKE BITES WORKMAN
Argo Hernandez, working with a
R. F. C. crew near the pumping
plant here, was bitten by a snake
early Saturday afternoon.
The snake escaped and the work
ers were unable to say v%iat kind
it was.
The man was rushed to the city
physician's office and was treated
there. He showed no ill effects
from the bite. The wound on his
hand bled freely.
CAMERON RECORDS
Marriage intentions filed: San
tiago Llanes and Herminia Mar
tinez, San Benito; Candido Lozano
and Gudalupe Morales, Harlingen;
Antonio Galvan and Juana Leijo,
Las Rucias.
Marriage licenses issued: Preston
R. Crockett and Helen Vance,
Brownsville; Guadalupe Cerda and
Genoveva Gomez, Brownsville; Carl
Zeitler and Mary Holbec, La Feria;
Melquiades Martinez and Dolores
Garcia Balli, La Paloma Groves;
Jack Morgan and Lela Stanford,
Los Fresnos.
MANAGER WANTED
DENVER, Col.—Guy D. Duncan
can give it and Earl Wettengel can
take it, and fight managers might
find a good prospect in either. Both
men are lowyers, the latter Dis
trict Attorney. In a recent libel
case, they got into a hot argument.
As Wettengel turned away from
Duncan, the latter swrnng his right
to Earl’s jaw. The prosecutor dou
bled his fists and was ready to let
fly in retaliation when the judge
ordered them to quiet down.
Newspaper Prexy
Walter D. Allen (*
Members of the National Editorial
association will elect Walter D.
Allen, of Brookline, Mass., their
president, on June 7, when they
meet, at Indianapolis. Allen_is
now vice president.
Presbyterian Men
Plan Beach Picnk
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, June 17.—A pic
nic is to be held soon at Del Mar
by Presbyterian Men-of-the-Church
who met this week at Bowie Chapel.
J. E. Bell, Jim Shafer, L. H. War
burton and C. E. Burk will be in
charge of picnic arrangements.
At this week’s program, Miss
Ruth Manning and Mrs. Johnnie
Conn sang with Mrs. Crow and
Mrs. F. W. Colmery at the piano
while Jim Shafer played the ac
companiments for group singing.
Ladies of the church serving the
dinner were Mrs. Gordon Pelly,
Mrs. C. D. Kirk, Mrs. Taul R Max
well, Mrs. E. L. Barmore, Mrs.
Toynbee, Mrs. J. S. Bates, Miss
Mary Cowgill, Miss Ruth Barmore
and Mrs. Jim Crow.
YOUNG MEDIC
HALTS GUNMAN
AFTERBATTLE
LaFAYETTE, lnd.t June 17. (JP)—
Two policemen and two suspected
robbers lay near death today from
wounds received in a spectacular pis
tol and sub-machine gun battle in
downtown LaFayette that ended
only when an outsider entered the
fray.
The suspects walked into a police
trap laid in a physician’s office
where they sought medical aid last
night. They drew guns, disarmed a
police captain, and emerged from
the building with pistols blazing at
a cordon of policemen. Three offi
cers were struck by their bullets as
they fled into an areaway by the
postoffice.
Here, however, Harry H. Huston,
32, assistant manager of a sanitar
ium who first tipped the police to
their quarry, took charge. He grab
bed a sub-machine gun from a
wounded policeman, ran to a sec
ond-story vantage point and mowed
down the fugitives as they ran.
CHICAGO, June 17. {IP)—The
tables were reversed on two fugi
tive alleged gunman vrhen they
walked into a police trap and were
shot dead without firing a single
bullet themselves.
The men were: John Holland, 25,
who wralked out of the county jail
under mysterious circumstances
three weeks ago, and Cecil Neal, 22.
who vanished similarly from a court
room last Tuesday. Their disappear
ances had led to an investigation by
the state’s attorney.
The shooting occurred last night
in the home of Robert Orzak short
ly after police said two youths had
informed them Holland and Neal
intended robbing Orzak of $3,000
they believed he had hidden in his
heme.
New type trailer now on display,
Langford’s Midget Mill. 7th and St.
Francis. Last word in comfort and
economy. H. C. Groom, designer and
builder.
Beery to Tour
Europe by Air
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TTAVING made and lost two for
tunes since he began work at
14, Wallace Beery, above, has
saved enough once more to quit
worrying and will sail for Eu
rope in July with his wife and
daughter. They plan to stay
abroad three months and see
Europe via a rented airplane.
Valley-Wide Lions
Meet Plans Pushed
HARLINGEN, June 17—Further
discussion of plans launched at a
previous luncheon for a Valley-wide
meeting of Lions and their ladies
here the latter part of June was
had at this week's gathering of the
j local club. The committe in charge
is composed of L. R. Baker, chair
! man, Joe Junkin and J. L. Head.
Transfer of the membership of
R. M. Collins from the San Benito
club was accepted. Transfers ac
cepted last week were Robert W.
Pollock and Dr. G. A. Larsen.
Dr. L. D. Kram and Rev. W. B.
Oliver of San Benito and M. H.
Bean were visitors.
A young wife’s most anxious mo
ment, says a woman’s page writer,
is when she bakes her first cake.
| Yes, and for her husband when he
I eats a slice of it.
10 PER CENT
TARIFF CUT
IS PROPOSED
LONDON, June It. (/f)—A pro
posal for a general ten per cent re
duction in tariffs has been sub
mit ted to the economic commission
of the world economic conference by
the American delegation, it was
learned today.
This topic, presented for consid
eration, was submitted among oth
ers at the request of the chairman,
who asked the various delegations to
file briefs to assist in making up the
commission’s agenda.
Other suggestions from the Amer
icans included:
A continuation of the tariff truce.
Bilateral trade agreements.
Compensation and clearance
agreements.
The economic commission is ex
pected to deal chiefly with tariffs.
Mopac Executive And
Son Valley Visitors
• (Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. June 17.—H. R.
Safford, executive vice president of
the Missouri Pacific Lines, his son,
Robert, and W. D. Cleveland of
Houston, wholesale grocer, arrived
aboard a special car Saturday morn
ing.
The senior Mr. Safford and Mr.
Cleveland were making a business
trip over the Valley while Robert
Safford visited with Woods Christian
of Harlingen.
Mr. Cleveland is head of the firm
of W. D. Cleveland & Son which
has houses at San Benito, McAllen
and Houston.
They probably will stay over un
til Sunday.
Mrs. Indraham Dies
Word has been received here by
friends of the death of Mrs. Anna
A. Indraham of Tryden. New York.
Mrs. Indraham spent the past four
winters here and made a host of
friends. The last two winters Mrs.
Indraham made her home with
Mrs. John Closner.
I
Sue married a
man who thought
her a heartless
[ flirt.
She had to face
jealousy, treach
t ery, scandal.
But she won
I love and happi
ness. She's the
heroine of "Bar
gain Bride," the
dramatic new
serial by Katha
rine Haviland
Taylor.
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