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$400,000,000 U. 5. Road Work Program Will Be Launched About July 1
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OTHER RELIEF
DRIVES NEAR
HALOKEH
WASHINGTON, June 24. UP)—
Road building on a huge scale will
get under way early next month to
become the first big expenditure in
Pres. Roosevelt’s campaign for re
employment and economic recov
ery.
§400,000,000 Allotted
Allocation to states of the $400,
000,000 highway fund has been com
pleted by the public works board.
Promulgated today were rules for
spending it: thirty hours work a
week with fixed minimum pay will
govern all contracts, no convict la
bor will be permitted, machinery
must give way to pick and shovel,
the actual projects must be widely
scattered.
The road money will be available
on July 1, when Pres. Roosevelt re
turns. He expects to be able to
approve immediately thereafter ap
pointment of state public works ad
ministrators who will direct expen
diture of more than $1,000,000,000
under the entire $3,300,000,000 pub
lic works program.
Meanwhile, pressing close behind
the road plan for an immediate
start, the army has drafted a $135,
000,000 housing and construction
plan, now being scrutinized by a
works board committee for report
next week. The navy department,
pushing its extensive ship construc
tion plans, sought arrangements to
have the 30-hour work week applied
to all its shipyard contracts. The
requirement probably will be writ
ten into the call for bids on the
half of the 32-vessel program which
will go to private builders. Similar
regulation will control the construc
tion in navy yards.
Other Kelier Given
With the works program and in
dustrial and farm price-lifting
pushing forward fast as possible, the
reconstruction corporation yester
day gave congress a report for May
showing a peak in that month for
its relief allocations. They totaled
around $500,000,000, including $300,
000,000 to the new federal farm
credit agency for refinancing farm
mortgages, while $5,050,000 went to
increase federal subscriptions to
the capital stock of the federal
home loan bank.
Several new ideas were put into
the regulations on highway con
struction. Besides linking up ex
isting federal-aid highways, ex
tending them and running them
through municipalities, the new
funds are to be employed for land
scaping roadways, for eliminating
safety hazards, for paralleling ex
isting railroad branch-lines which
may be marked for abandonment in
the railroad reorganization plan.
i WEATHER
East Texas feast of 100th meri
dian :) Generally fair Saturday night
and Sunday.
Light to moderate southerly winds
on the co%st.
RIVER BULLETIN
There will be no material change
in the river during the next 24 to
36 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chang. Ham
Eagle Pass 16 2.9 0.0 .00
Laredo 27 -0.2 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 3.4 -0.4 .00
Hidalgo 22 4.9 -0.4 .00
Mercedes 20 7.2 -0.4 .00
Brownsville 18 7.2 -0.3 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Port Isabel
Sunday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High .. 6:52 a. m.
Low . 10:53 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 7:25
Sunrise tomorrow . 5:40
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure gradients I
were still rather shallow and almost
inactive at the morning observa
tion, resulting in little change in
weather conditions throughout the
country. Local showers occurred in
the western states, and rains con
tinued in Florida. Temperatures
also continued high in the in
terior.
BULLETIN
(First figures, lowest tempera
ture last night; second, highest
yesterday; third, wind velocity at 8
a. m.; fourth, precipitation in last
24 hours.j
Abilene . 72 98 .. .00
Amarillo . 72 94 .. .00
Atlanta . 70 88 .. .01
Austin . 74 100 .. .00
BROWNSVILLE .. 75 97 .. .00
B’ville Airport . 73 98 .. .00
Chicago . 70 84 .. .00
Cleveland . 64 76 12 .00
Corpus Christ!. 74 92 .. .00
Dallas . 80 100 .. .00
Dei Rio . 72 98 .. .00
Denver . 58 86 .. .02
El Paso . 66 86 .. .18
Fort Smith . 74 102 .. .00
Houston . 76 94 .. .00
Huron . 68 88 .. .00
Jacksonville . 72 86 .. 1,66
Kansas City . 82 98 .. .00
Los Angeles . 58 74 .. .00
Louisville . 72 94 .. .00
Memphis . 76 94 .. .00
Miami . 80 86 .. .00
New Orleans . 76 88 .. .06
North Platte . 60 90 .. .00
Oklahoma City .... 76 100 .. .00
Palestine . 74 94 .. .00
Pensacola . 76 84 12 .12
Phoenix . 76 106 .. .00
St. Louis . 78 96 .. .00
St. Paul . 68 84 .. .01
Salt Lake City .... 62 90 .. .00
San Antonio. 76 98 .. .00
Santa Fe . 52 74 .. .08
Sheridan . 50 82 .. .02
Shreveport . 76 94 .. .00
Tampa . 76 84 .. .54
Washington . 68 90 .. .00
Wilmington . 70 84 .. .00
Business Is Sold
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, June 24. — Judd
Smith has sold his interest the
Smith Bros. Grocery to his brother,
W. P. Smith and probably will en
gage in business with his son at
Orange.
The brothers are pioneer San
Benito grocers, at one time having
been connected with Blount &
Smith. The store at one time was
sold to G. H. Dameron but was re- i
purchased by the Smith brothers, j
Collings Mystery Flashbacks
Famous Collings murder mystery has been revived after 21 months by
the arrest of Frank Dreger, burglary suspect, at Stamford, Conn. At
left is Mrs. Lillian Collings, widow of Benjamin Collings (lower center),
as she appeared at the time of the crime; at right is Mrs. Collings (in
white), aboard the yacht Penguin, as she told her story to police.
Lower left is a map of the scene of crime, and at right, Barbara Col
lings, 5, who was with her mother aboard the yacht when her father
was slain and thrown overboard.
(Central Press)
Pharr May Remain
Dry Although Rest
Should Become Wet
(Special to The Herald)
PHARR, June 24.— This South
Texas “hub city,” located at the
chief highway intersection in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley, has been
“dry” for lo, these many years, be
fore and during prohibition, and,
by a curious legal arrangement,
may continue to be so, regardless
of how Texas votes in August.
Founded in 1911
On March 20, 1911, three lower
Rio Grande Valley pioneers, Jonn
C. Kelly, W. E. Cage and H. N.
Pharr, deeded to the newly organ
ized Pharr Townsite company 313.30
acres of land on which to build a
town. The townsite was called
“Pharr” in honor of H. N. Pharr.
There was nothing unusual about
starting a new town in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley. Several were
started about the same time and
there are now more than 50 towns
and villages and cities in the sec
tion. Not until the deed conveying
the 313.30 acres to the Pharr Town
site Company was filed on April 4,
1911, was any particularly signifi
cant developed noticed. The con
sideration of $50,000 had been paid,
the title to the acreage had been
traced back to the ancient Spanish
land grant to Juan Jose Hinojosa
250 years before when the land wras
known as Porcion 69, Ancient Juris
diction of Reynosa, and all re
quirements had been met.
One of the special considerations
noted in the deed, and which was
written into all deeds to Pharr
townsite lots during the lifetime
of the founders of the town, read
as follows:
Town Is Dry
“That neither said grantee nor
any person holding or claiming un
der him shall at any time establish
or maintain any saloon, dramshop,
business or place whatever for the
sale at retail or wholesale of spirit
cus or malt liquors, or knowingly
permit the same to be done upon
said property.” The penalty for
breach of this consideration would
be reversion of the property to the
grantors, John C. Kelly, W. E.
Cage and H. N. Pharr. For a num
ber of years, this consideration was
written into every deed to a town
site lot in Pharr.
Old-timers testify to the efficacy
of the demand prior to 1918. Pro
hibition in all its power held sway
in Pharr. There was no relief for
the thirsty within the limits of the
townsite block. Not a saloon opened
its doors on Pharr's single street.
Not a drop of liquor ever crossed
the surveyor's line, so far as is
known, outside the anatomy of any
Pharr citizen. Pharr inhabitants
walked “Pharr,” at least a mile
and a half south, to a little house
appropriately known as the “Oasis”
| for their drinks. The only differ
ence between this house and oth
ers in the same general vicinity
was the location of the “Oasis”
just across the road from the ^own
site line.
Case Unsettled
What Pharr will do if and when
beer comes back to Texas is some
thing undetermined. Some residents
believe the fact that the old re
quirement is now omitted from
deeds to townsite lots, as has been
the case for the past decade, will
prevent the matter from ever be
coming really important. Others
are wondering if anything could be
done if the heirs of the grantors
should desire to enforce the pro
vision to the letter. Still others
worry not the slightest about
Phan’s beer future.
“We have always had the«best
of most things,” they tell you with
out cracking a smile, “and why
should this be any exception?”
Shoulders Built
On Harlingen Road
HARLINGEN, June 24.—Shoulders
are being built for the first time
along' certain parts of Highway No.
96 running through Harlingen.
The state highway department is
doing: the work which is nearing
completion.
At one time the state did not
assume maintenance of highways
within city limits.
The shoulders are being built
near Four Corners. Repair work
also has been under way for some
time on previously constructed
shoulders on the same highway be
tween Harlingen and San Benito.
Cold Plate
LUNCH
Only
A real treat to the
tired shopper or the
busy office worker.
MODERN
SANITARY
SERVICE
Cool on a
Hot Night
Think of—
Cisneros
Stop in after the movie
or when taking an eve
ning stroll.
Remember the Soda
Fountains at your
REXALL Stores.
It’s Always Cool Here
Only the most delicious Ice
Cream and Drinks, Sandwiches
served at our Fountains
1
m-cisneros RUG STORES
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ANTITRUST
LAW CHANGES
AREJTUDIED
AUSTIN, June 24. <7F)—A special
session of the legislature to modify
or suspend the state’s anti-trust
laws has been forecast by Law
rence Westbrook, director of the
Texas rehabilitation nd relief com
mission.
Westbrook said it would be nec
essary for the legislature to act to
allow Texas industries to partic
ipate fully in the .ndustrial recov
ery program. He returned from
Washington yesterday.
“It is my opinion, concurred in
by most authorities with whom I
have discussed the matter, that
Texas will of necessity be obliged
to modify her anti-trust laws to
permit the various trade associa
tions to get the maximum benefits
from the industrial recovery act,”
Westbrook said.
Necessity for a special session
might be obviated should James V.
Allred, Texas attorney general, ex
hibit a disposition not to rigidly
enforce the stringent anti-trust
statutes, Westbrook said. Even
should Allred show 3. lenient atti
tude, Westbrook said it might be
better to have the legislature modi
fy the laws so Texas’ status would
be certain.
To date the commission has re
received 900 surveys from political
subdivisions proposing relief proj
ects totalling $272,823,426. The re
quests are being checked and will
be sent to the federal administra
tion at Washington.
Permanent Cameron
Dry Group Is Formed
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. June 24. — At a
mass meeting of representative ci
tizens of Cameron county, held \t
the Methodist church in San Ben
ito Friday night, a permanent
county prohibition organization was
formed.
Rev. O. C. Crow' of Brownsville
was elected county chairman,
Sherwood Bishop of Brownsville
vice-chairman, and Miss Mary
Bartlett of San Benito publicity
chairman. R. L. Valentine of San
Benito acted as temporary se/.e
tary. The chair was authorized to
appoint a secretary-treasurer and
to invite an advisory beard of rep
resentatives from each community
in the county to serve with him
the ensuing year. A number of
communities already have their or
ganizations functioning.
A thorough organization will be
set up throughout the entire county
and an intensive campaign made
to get out the vote on the prohibi
tion question in August.
News Shorts
Of Cameron
_County
SAN BENITO — “Radio” has
come to be a fighting word at least
among some of the population.
When a San Benito man called
another a “radio” it brought on a
fight which landed both before
Justice of the Peace Frank W.
Roberts.
HARLINGEN—Miss Louise Black
of Blossom, Texas, formerly a
teacher in the Weslaco schools,
visited Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Day of
Harlingen and Weslaco friends
this week.
SAN BENITO— Although they
found their home ransacked upon
their return from a short journey,
A. D. Bowie and family were un
able to find any valuables missing.
HARLINGEN— Three speakers
who will talk briefly at Tuesday
night’s concert by the high school
band Tuesday night in the Madison
Hotel Park are A. L. Brooks. Rev.
Flynn V. Long and R. L. Hill.
HARLINGEN— Merchants have
been warned not to let employes
sweep trash into the gutters. Sweep
ings have been found in gutters
after street sweepers have finished
their work.
HARLINGEN— Officers chosen
by the Masonic lodge are: J. M.
Paine, worshipful master; A. A.
Cornell, senior warden; J. H. Lee,
junior warden; A. W. Frank, treas
urer; J. B. Challes, secretary; R.
A. Dittman, tiler; John Gill, sen
ior deacon: Paul H. Brown, junior
deacon. Installation takes place
Tuesday.
HARLINGEN—Reed Williams has
purchased entire stock of the Rio
Grande Pharmacy from his former
partners, Joe Chaudoin and R. W.
Baxter.
HARLINGEN—Hogs will not be
tolerated within the city limits, it
was decided following the filing of
complaints.
HARLINGEN—A canvas top foi*
the Church of God gospel tent on
N. “B” St. was stolen when it was
taken down for repairs, it weighed
600 pounds.
HARLINGEN—Penalty and inter
est on delinquent city taxes will
become effective August 1, accord
ing to D. D. Norton, city secretary.
HARLINGEN—All except three
stores have agreed to close at 9
o’clock on Saturday nights begin
ning July 1. Some stores favored
even earlier closing when ap
proached by a committee of the
Women’s Chamber of Commerce.
IF. DJ TOUCH
WITH WEIGHTY
STATEAFFAIRS
PULPIT HARBOR, Me., June 24.
—UP)—In this picturesque, well
protected harbor out on the Atlan
tic coast, the president of the
United States rested this morning,
surveying public affairs at a dist
ance and playing with his sons,
who joined him yesterday.
Satisfied With Parley
Pres. Roosevelt showed his satis
faction with the trend of the vital
London economic conference in a
statement issued by his secretary,
Stephen T. Early, last night as the
Amberjack II sailed smartly around
Pulpit Rock and swung into a cove
across the island of North Haven
in Penobscot Bay.
Early, on board the destroyer
Ellis, tossed the statement by line
to the newspaper cruiser. Coman
che. It read:
“Recurring and widely published
reports that the president will
board the cruiser Indianapolis for
rush trip to London are without
foundation of fact. The president
plans to complete his vacation
cruise and return to Washington
as scheduled.
“At no time has the president
considered going to London and
he sees no reason whatsoever to do
so now. Reports from London re
ceived in the last 24 hours, have
been altogether satisfactory to the
president.
In Constant Touch
“Although the president is far up
the Maine coast, he is and has
been in continuous communication
with Washington at all times since
he left. The state department has
kept him fully advised of all devel
opments in the economic confer
ence.”
Swept ahead under full sail bv a
northwest wind, Mr. Roosevelt shot
far beyond his scheduled night’s
destination at Tenants Harbor,
proceeded past Rockland in the
late afternoon amid welcoming
craft from the shore, and picked
out this natural haven just as the
sun was dropping behind the crim
son horizon.
He gave his young sons, Franklin,
Jr., and John, a full day for their
first day at sea. The president
kept them and their pal, A. Y.
Paul, of Philadelphia, aboard the
Amberjack last night and sent
three of the others of his veteran
crew of a week to sleep on the
destroyer Bernadou.
King George is reported to have
lost weight during his recent illness.
Another case of the declining
British pound?
Height a Clue
Description given of murderer of
Rose McCloskey in Philadelphia
lover’s lane by her companion, as
an extraordinarily tall man, led to
arrest of (above) Richard Bach, 6
feet, 6 inches. He was identified by
police as one of a gang who preyed
on park visitors. Bach denies
knowledge of the crime,
t (Central Press)
Revenue Freight
Loadings Hiked
WASHINGTON, June 24. — (A>)—
The American Railway Association
announced today that loadings of
revenue freight for the week ended
June 17 were 587,931 cars, an in
crease of 23.385 over the preceding
week and 69.533 more than in the
same week Tst year.
Farmer Gets Death
For Killing Woman
ARAPAHO, Okla., June 24. (JP)—
A district court jury today con
demned John Lemke, 65-year-old
farmer, to death in the electric
chair for the killing of Mrs. Nellie
Jelanak last May 27.
Mrs. Jelanak, a divoacee, was
shot to death in her home in the
presence of her 9-year-old son,
Albert. The boy and his brother.
August. 11, testified their mother
and Lemke, a widower, had quar
reled after having kept company
for several years.
STATE LEGION
COMMANDER TO
VISIT VALLEY
McALLEN, June 24—Carl Nc.bitt
of Mineola, state commander cf
the American Legion in Texas, will
be the principal speaker at the
sixth annual renewal of the Mc
Allen Fourth of July celebration
here, according to L P. Inman,
chairman of the celebration com
mittee, and H. Dave Horger, chair
man of the speakers’ committee.
Commander Nesbitt is to speak at
the dedication of the new Legion
building and band stand in Archer
Park here.
Hal L. Brennan, past commander
of the Legion in Texas, and Rev.
Leslie A. Boone of Harlingen will
appear on the program, Horger
stated. Congressman Milton West
of Brownsville has been invited to
attend the celebration and is ex
pected to be present, it was an
nounced.
Other plans for the Fourth are
nearly complete, according to
chairmen of various committees.
Prizes totaling $160 are being of
fered for floats in the annual par
ade, one of the chief features of
the celebration, Harry Mertz, parade
marshal, announced. A large num
ber of floats have already been en
tered.
The Mission 30-30 Rifles, un
beaten Valley semi-pro baseball
team, will meet the fast San An
tonio Multigraphers at Legion Park
on the afternoon of the celebra
tion. A number of boxing bouts at
Legion arena early on the night
of the Fourth will complete the
sports program.
The regular fireworks display,
lasting three hours, will start at 10
o’clock the night of the Fourth.
This is one of the big features of
the annual celebration. Dances at
the Club Royale on the nights of
July 3 and 4 will be other features.
Inman stated.
Arrangements for parking c-.-s
are already being made in and near
the business district to facilitate
handling of traffic, the traffic com
mittee has informed Inman. . 'ore
than 15,000 persons attended the
celebration last year and the num
ber is expted to be greater this year
because of the small number of
Valley-wide events during the past
year.
KWWG to Broadcast
Rutherford’s Talk
Judge J. F. Rutherford’s speech
“Effect of the Holy Year on Peace
and Prosperity.” will be heard over
a number of radio stations at 5:15
o’clock Sunday aftemcon, includ
ing station KWWG at Brownsville.
The speech will be presented in
the Watch Tower feature Sunday.
, with having created "mass produc
You and I together are credited^ ^ By lt the
tion." We use it to make more m prices Workmen earn higher
people have more and better goods a- cheaper p ce. ^ ^
wages with less strain-not less work. The
has been visibly elevated. elsewhere. But
Industry never harms a we increased our ,6
industry bears the brun o ^ for 22 months. Today our -age rate
minimum -age to *7 a day. 3tiU suffers for something she did
is the highest in our line. something outside Industry has
not cause Between making and using _ usine
not cause. from making and the user from using.
stepped in to prevent the the 5-day week, a minimum -age that has
we pioneered the 8-h ^ employees and the Company
always exceeded the market rate. ^ ^ M interested in social
have always stood on a just conscience as any reformer whose
progress, and possess as sensi fle for doing what we
theories have never met the test ofdeoencies not by regulation •
think is right. And we aohi fal control and "gentlemen's
agreements"—free to do what we fg can make good motor cars
We have no fears ° ^w ^ ^ -pwad out. Big factories,
under any just system. I th lDStead we shall have workshops
crowded industrial centers, wi .n prevent the worst shocks of
•in village and country. Nearness production" can be retained without
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u. ..u« or „„t .up or «u> ~
You and X are able to take tnis n
in taking the present one.
June 23. 1933