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ROCKEFELLER
94 YEARS OLD
LOOKSTO100
(By Associated Press)
Stepping toward the sunset of a
long life, John D. Rockefeller reach
ed his 94th milestone today. He
wants to reach 100, and then—
“After that I shall really begin to
live.”
The old man of the sun glasses,
giving away dimes or reading bits of
verse to chance acquaintances on
gold courses, is but a reflection of
the 17-year-old bookkeeper who
worked for $4 a week in Cleveland
six years before Sumter was fired
upon.
“It is the duty of every man to
get all the money he honestly can
and give away all he can,” was his
creed then. He still lives up to it.
His account book of the early days
shows such items as “50 cents to a
poor woman.” The records of his
New York accountants today show
that he has given away publicly in
the last 20 years something like
$45,000,000. His unannounced gifts
cannot even be guessed.
Cnee it was estimated he was
werrh $2,000,000,000. This was later
denied and the total was placed at
probably less than half that sum.
So steadily has he given that a
friend has said the world would be
surprised to learn how small his
estate is.
The whole progress, from $4 a
week to billionaire and back to
somethine like ordinary wealth, has
been a steady one.
TARRYTOWN. N. Y., July 8. Up
john D. Rockefeller, 94 years old to
day, celebrated the anniversary sim
ply.
His schedule:
Early to rise.
8 a. m,—Breakfast.
After breakfast—John Yordi, val
et, reads him newspapers and con
gratulations from all over world.
Before lu^c^—Nine holes of golf.
Noon—Lunch.
After lunch—Short nap.
After nap—Two-hour auto ride
over ostate.
5:30 p. m.—Dinner attended by
children and grandchildren.
After dinner—Listens to hymns on
pine organ; then plays favorite soli
taire card game of nurrerica.
3 p. m.—Early to bed.
Thanksgiving Service
Planned for Sunday
The 10 o’clock service at the
Church of the Advent Sunday morn
ing will be a celebration of the Holy
Euoharist intended especially for
the distressed and afflicted in the
path of the storm which missed
Brownsville and the Valley, Rev. R.
O Mackintosh made announcement
of the services Saturday.
“All Christians who wish to join
the congregation of the Church of
the Advent in rendering public
thanksgiving to Almighty God for
our deliverance and pray for those
who were not so fortunate, are cor
dially invited to the service,” the
rector stated.
.Depression Over
The depression is definitely over,
take it from R. L. Marques, operator
of the Texas Cafe.
Saturday Jthe cafe abandoned
•coffee arid” ior five cents. The cafe
had been giving coffee and biscuits
or sweetbread tor five cents. In the
future it will Pe a dime. Marques
says.
McALLEN— Slarco6 Barrera of
McAllen has been released from
the McAllen Municipal Hospital
after receiving treatment for bums
sustained several days ago when a
gasoline tank exploded.
Air Armada s Chief May Be Italy s Next Dictator
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By NEA Service
ORBETELLO, Italy, July 7.—
Behind him, fifteen years of un
broken triumphs, high adventure,
advancement, acclaim; years in
which he did much to shape the
destinies of a nation. Ahead now
lies the greatest thrill of all, but
to Italo Balbo, it will mean much
more than the leading of a squad
ron of 25 airplanes across the At
lantic.
It will mean, in some measure,
proof of his disputed theories of
military aviation. It will mark, in
a gratifying appropriate way, the
tenth anniversary of Fascism, which
he so conspicuously helped to
found. It will strengthen his of
ficial position in Italy, a position
already considered virtually in
vulnerable. And it should make
him the kingpin of Italy’s popular
heroes.
Air Minister Balbo loves adula
tion, and very naturally will enjoy
being feted in America, especially
at Chicago’s world fair. But he
doubtless desires the plaudits of
his own people even more, for the
reason that he has deposed three
of their flying idols and has fallen
into the bad graces of another—
Gabriele D’Annunzio.
A BORN LEADER
If General Balbo were less am
bitious or less willing to ride
rough-shod over the ambitions of
other men, he •would not be, as he
is today, one of the most powerful
men in Italy and one of the hetrs
apparent to Mussolini’s dictator
ship. He has been organizing, lead
ing, fighting, since his boyhood.
When others of his age were going
to work, on farms, he was taking
part in demonstrations against
landlords. When the war started
he was In the thick of a local
movement for intervention on the
side of the allies. At 19 he was in
the fighting, having chosen the
Alpine crops for his service. He
was decorated twice for heroism.
Nor did he stop fighting when
the war ended. He was with D’An
nunzio at Fiume, and afterward
organized groups of veterans to
carry on the work of Fascism. In
September, 1921, he led 3,000 nen
into Raver.na where, at the grave
of Dante, he planted Fascist stand
ards and shouted: “On to Rome!”
And when that dramatic march
was made, 26-year-old Balbo was
one of its four chieftains.
IN CABINET AT 29
It may be that Mussolini was
alarmed by his young aide's rise
to militant power. At any rate he
offered Balbo the post of Governor
of Tripoli. Balbo refused; he al
ready was a high-ranking official
of the Fascist militia, and he soon
became its commander-in-chief.
Much of the Fascist strong-arm
work fell to his lot, and there was
so much unpleasant talk about the
murder of an anti-Fascist deputy
that Balbo was allowed to resign.
Soon afterward, though, during
the disorders in Florence in 1925,
Mussolini selected him to settle
the trouble. There were charges of
dark deeds on both sides, but any
way, the opposition groups wer<*
crushed.
Home with another difficult task
accomplished, he became under
secretary of public works and, at
29, the youngest member of the
cabinet. But Balbo wanted action
and excitement, so Mussolini or
force and shunted into a minor
diplomatic job in Buenos Aires.
The feud with De Pinedo was
said to have begun in 1927, when
Balbo headed an aerial expedition
of 32 planes to the eastern Medi
terranean and Russia. De Pinedo
had been appointed by Mussolini
to head the squadron, although
Balbo, as undersecretary for avia
tion, held higher rank. The colonel
w'as acclaimed and entertained: the
fledgling cabinet officer got little
glory.
REBUKED BY IL DUCE
For his jealous actions Balbo
TRAGEDY MARS FIRST HALTOF ITALIAN SKY CAVALCADE
The first hop of Italy’s air armada to Chicago was m arred by tragedy when the I Dinl, one of the 25
seaplalnes in the flight, crashed at Amsterdam, killing one and injuring three members of the crew. In
this picture, which was rushed to London by air and transmitted by radio to New York, the injured
are shown being pulled from the upturned fuselage.
dered him to learn how to fly and
made him undersecretary for avia
tion. It was about this time that
anti-Fascists claimed to have ex
posed a plot to enthrone II Duce,
a move to habe been engineered by
Balbo with expeditions against
the royal palace and the regular
army staff headquarters.
Late in 1928, Balbo attended the
international air congress in Chi
cago, being closely guarded the
while against bitterly outspoken
enemies. Less than a year later
he was named minister of avia
tion, and then is when he came
near making himself very unpoou
lar with the Italian public. Col.
Mario de Bemardi, one of their
heroes who had won the Schneider
Cup, was retired from active serv
ice. So was Lt. Ferarin, an Atlan
tic flier. Next, in December, 1929,
Francesco de Pinedo, who had
flown over five continents and was
Italy’s greatest living ace, was re
lieved as chief of staff of the air
(by this time a full general) >s
said to have been rebuked by Pre
mier Mussolini and rebuffed by
D’Annunzio when he went to call
on the latter. There is even a story
Injured In the crash of the sea
plane I-Dini, one of the 25 in
Italy’s air armada to Chicago,
were Captain Baldini, left, com
mander of the craft, and Lieuten
ant Amelio Novelli. A third mem
ber of the crew was drowned.
to the effect that Mussolini sent
word to him that his resignation
would be accepted, Balbo boldly
countering by declaring that It
was not going to be offered.
Between spectacular formation
flights, such as two around the
Mediterranean and one across the
South Atlantic in 1931, General
Balbo established six commercial
airlines and built up Italy's mili
tary air force to be second only to
that of Prance. He believes that
Italy, being a relatively poor na
tion, would have to depend chiefly
on planes in a war emergency,
since 2,000 planes can be built for
the cost of one battleship.
He expects to have the most ef
ficient air force in the world, in
spite of the fact that Italy has
been able to spend only about $30,
000,000 a year, much less than
Prance.
Balbo is 37 now, handsome, ener
getic and personable. He still
wears the beard he grew in earlier
days to lend dignity to his youth.
And he still talks with a curious
lisp which belies his daredevil
temperament. His men love his
dash and swagger, qualities which
he has imparted to them by giving
them gay uniforms and high nom
inal ranks. Of some 2,000 air corps
officers, more than half are gen
erals, colonels, lieutenant colonels,
majors and captains.
MORRIS OPENS
LUMBER YARD
R. C. CDick) Morris, one of the
best known men in the lumber
business in South Texas the past
20 years, has opened a lumber
business here.
The Moris Lumber Co.. First
and Fronton streets, is now open,
with a complete stock of lumber
and building materials.
Mr. Morris has practically grown
up in the lumber business, as his
father, who came in with the rail
road in 1904, opened a lumber
business here and was in the busi
ness during the remainder of his
life.
“I feel that the Valley is on the
threshold of a period of substan
tial building,” Mr. Morris said.
“The prices are still low, and it
appears that now is the best time
to take advantage of this and start
building before prices go up.
“I have complete confidence
in the Valley to be one of the
first sections of Texas to pull
completely out of the depression,
and the start we have already
made justifies this belief."
HE EVENT
of the SEASON
Acquatic Sports at the
New Casino in Port Isabel
SWIMMING and
DIVING EVENTS
• For Men
• Women
• Children
0
Bathing Beauty Revue
Starting at 2:00 P. M.
SUNDAY, JULY 9th
Dancing in the Evening
With Music by a Real Orchestra
1 VISIT THE VALLEY’S r
I MOST ATTRACTIVE I
J RESORT L
Hard Times Fail
To Check Cupid's
Darts in Texas
AUSTIN. July 8. (IP)—The finan
cially turbulent times of 1932 fail
ed to keep Texas swains and their
sweethearts away from the mar
riage license bureau.
Figures released today by the
census bureau showed that the
marriage rate in Texas declined
only eight-tenths of one per cent
during 1932, compared to a nation
al decline of 7.5 per cent. Mar
riages in 1932 were 6.7 per 1.000
COTTON STATES
TO GET RELIEF
WASHINGTON. July 8. (IP) —
Around $100,000,0000 of farm relief
money will pour into the 16 cotton
states within the next six weeks.
The money will be distributed
under the plan by which cotton
growers agree to plow under 25 to
50 per cent of their present crop
and then rent the land to the gov
ernment.
Confident that the plan Is going
to succeed, Secy. Wallace today is
extending the time in which grow
ers may voluntarily agree to re
duce production. That period was
to have ended tonight, but the sec
retary found that unexpected de
lays. such as the difficulty of pre
senting printed applications to the
2,000,000 cotton farmers, necessi
tated ap extension.
The secretary also is going to
announce the number of acres of
cotton that farmers have agreed to
destroy. It was reliably reported
that a preliminary study of the
tabulations had convinced President
Roosevelt, the secretary, and farm
act administrators that there was
no doubt about final promulgation
of the program.
The $100,000,000 to be paid to the
farmers will be obtained by a tax
levied on processors. This will go
into effect about August 1 and the
amount to around 4 cents a pound.
BREAD PRICE
HIKE SCORED
WASHINGTON. July 8. UP) —
Secy. Wallace today condemned
“unreasonable rises” in bread prices
in connection with the 30-cent a
bushel processing tax on wheat
which will go into effect at mid
night.
Wallace said that In the period of
declining pirces, the baking indus
try's argument was that wheat
prices were a minor factor in bread
costs.
He said that if all of the costs,
not only of the processing tax but
of the increase in wheat prices and
other ingredients which go into
bread, were passed on to the con
sumer, the increase in the price
of a pound loaf of bread should be
"only a little more than one cent
above the price prevailing in May.”
“If the argument wag true in
1931,” Wallace said of the baking
industry’s statement then that
wheat prices are a minor factor in
bread costs, “it should also be
true today when wheat prices have
turned upward.”
population in 1932 compared to \
6.9 in 1931.
Marriages performe d totalled
40.1932 in 1932 in comparison to
40,512 the preceding year.
The number of divorces granted
to Texans showed a substantial
decline, dropping 10.3 per cent from
15,788 in 1931 to 14,167 in 1932.
Both the marriage and divorce
figures were at considerable vari
ance with the statistics compiled for
1922. In that year there were 61.
730 marriage performed and only
12,257 divorces granted.
The drastic decline in marriage
figures in the 10 year period was
attributed to passage of a law re
quiring Texans to give a three day
notice of intention to wed. Many
couples desirous of marrying went
beyond Texas’ borders for their
licenses. The last legislature re
pealed this law and the number of
marriage licenses issued in Texas
in 1933 was expected to show a
material increase over 1932.
There were 137 marriages an
nulled in 1932 and 121 in 131, the
report showed.
CAMERON RECORDS
District Court
Piled: Grace Jordan, et vli^ vs.
Jos. K. Junkin et al, suit for con
version; Nellie Katherine Smith
vs. Robert Smith, divorce.
Court-at-Law
Filed: Humble Oil company vs.
B. C. Price, H. M. Dozier, Jr., and
A. Y. Benke, suit on note, trans
ferred from Bexar county on plea
of privilege.
Habeas corpus granted Santo
Navarro.
Marriage licenses issued: Manuel
Salinas and Emilia Rutledge, of
Pharr; Vicente Hernandez and
Maria Luz Garza, La Feria; Fran
cisco Sartchez and Luisa Gonzalez,
Santa Rosa; Jose Cabrera and Ce
lia Garcia, Harlingen; Simon Ce
laya, Brownsville and Louise Scar
lette, Los Fresnos; Felix Perez and
Pilar Cruz, San Benito, ^
Marriage intentions filed: Julio
Vasquez and Angelita Galego, El
Ranchito.
Summer
Prices
We have
pleased hun
dreds — We
can try to
please you,
too.
Permanent Waves
Any Style
$1.95 to $5.00
Croquignole, Duart, Frederick,
Eugene, Oil of Tulipwood, etc.
Steam Oil Waves, $1.95 or two
for $3.00. Bring this ad and
receive 50c credit on our $3.50
or $5.00 permanents.
Amaya’s Beauty
Shop
1235 Adams Phone 1605
Near Herald Office
GENERAL ITALO BALBO
MANY FLIGHTS
ARE PROJECTED
(By The Associated Press)
While preparations were under
way today for rescuing Jimmie
Mattem, plans for other flights
were being pushed.
Mattem, an American airman
missing since June 14 when he took
off on a lap of a projected world
tour, is safe in northeastern Si
beria, and Russians and Americans
started to find him.
An armada of 24 Italian air
planes awaited favorable weather
at Reykjavik, Iceland, before leav
ing on a 1,500-mile jaunt to Cart
wright, Labrador, the next leg of
their cruise to Chicago.
At Lyons, Prance, Capt. Charles
T. P. Ulm, Australian flier en route
to England, awaited the arrival of
a mechanic to repair his plane,
damaged in landing, so he could
continue.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh were getting ready in
New York for a flight to the Arc
tic.
Freon Los Angeles, two famous
Americans hopped off on projected
transcontinental trips, Amelia Ear
hart for Newark, N. J., and Capt.
Frank Hawks for Atlanta. Miss
Earhart hoped to set a new wo
man’s record.
Wiley Post, who flew around the
world with Harold Gatty, planned
to leave New York soon on a sim
ilar flight alone.
2 KILLED BY
CLOUDBURSTS
IN COLORADO
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DENVER, July 8. (IP)—Colorado
counted its loss today at two known
dead, between 20 and 30 unaccount
ed for, with only the barest chance
of finding them alive, and property
damage In excess of $1,000,000 from
five cloudbursts that struck sudden
ly at widely-separated sections of
the state.
The bodies of Mrs. Sylvia Soder
mah of Denver, and a man about 50,
as yet unidentified, where the first
found after a 20-foot wall of water
roared down Bear Creek canon and
swept through Morrison and Idledale
late yesterday.
The known missing from the vi
cinity include 4-year-old Eunice
Sodernian, daughter of the dead
woman; Jack Burton, 52, of Idledale,
Leonard Conde, 14, and his brother,
Raymond, 14 and Marietta Mc
Intyre, 20, of Denver.
Five or six automobiles, believed
to have contained 15 or 20 passen
gers, were seen leaving Idledale to
go to Morrison just a few minutes
before flood came surging down the
canon.
A dozen or more wrecked auto
mobiles were found. It is feared the
occupants perished.
A cloudburst on Box Elder creek
near Wellington, Colo., between Ft.
Collins, Colo., and Cheyenne, Wyo.,
' washed out several hundred feet of
gas pipeline and left Cheyenne with
out its usual natural gas supply to
day.
At Hugo, in eastern Colorado,
thousands of acres were inundated,
Trans-Continental Highway No. 40
was washed out in dozens of places
and the Union Pacific railroad
tracks were washed out near Hugo,
Sharon Springs and Red Eye, Colo.
On the western slope of the Rocky
mountains cloudbursts struck in the
Uncompahgre and the Unaweep Val
leys south of Grand Junction and
did great damage, reports stated, to
peach orchards and highways.
McALLEN—A large number of
firemen from member departments
of the Fifth District, Texas Vol
unteer Firemen’s Association, will
be present at the quarterly meet
ing of the district organization here
the night of July 11, according to I
registrations already filed with
Chief C. H. Britton of McAllen.:
district secretary.
Big Meal—Little Money
PLATE 1 ^
LUNCH— X QC
DINNER^— 25c & 35c
Not the Cheapest But
the Best
THE MECCA
°43 Elizabeth :t.
TUghUghts **
From
_Hidalgo_
MISSION — The Mission Cham
ber of Commerce float was awarded
first place in the McAllen Fourth
of July parade, winning a prise of
$25. The fl"at was decorated by
members of the Christian Endeavor
Society of the First Christian
Church of Mission.
McALLEN— Jim Jones, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jones, Sr., of
McAllen and seaman on the U. S.
S. Cincinnati, arrived here this
week for a visit with his parents.
He has been in the navy for four
years and has travelled in nearly
all parts of the world. He made
the trip here from San Pedro.
Calif., on a motorcycle.
McALLEN—Cannon’s Drug Sto-e.
operated for the past six months
by former City Clerk E. E. Qannon.
has been sold to . F. Palmer of
Hannibal. Mo., who will remodel
the building and re-open the store
about July 15.
McALLEN— Bloodhounds were
used unsuccessfully Thursday night
in an effort to track a prowler who
fled from tn? home of former City
Clerk E. E. Caflnon after Mrs.
Cannon screamed when she awoke
to find the man standing over her.
This was the fourth time during
the past six weeks that prowlers
have frightened members of the
Cannon family.
WESLACO—C. O Miles, secre
tary-treasurer of the Rio Granoe
Valley Citrus Exchange of Wes
laco. and T. M- Melden. sales man
ager for the Texas Citrus Fruit
Growers Exchange of Mission, are
in Washington to confer with ad
ministration officials concerning
the proposed code of ethics for the
Texas citrus Industry.
Surf Bathing
Del Mar Beach
DANCING
SATURDAY
NIGHT
>
Cool Salt Breezes
Good Dance Floor
Beach Cottage*
Avoid the week-end crowds
at Del Mar beach. Rest and
fish in the middle of the
week. From Sunday night
to Thursday night, inclusive,
cottage rates are much less
than regular tariffs.
For Reservations Phone
DEL MAR 1F1
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Experience....
will be at a PREMIUM
THIS YEAR
A*
jTxo at no previous time in the
history of the Rio Grande Valley cit
rus industry, experience in the pack
ing and marketing of citrus fruit this
next season will be at a premium.
The production of the Valley next
season will probably more than triple
the output of the past season, and
with this increased production will
come more exacting demands on the
marketing organizations for success
in moving this bumper crop.
Texas Citrus Fruit #Growers
Exchange knew that heavy tonage
was coming and it knows that the cit
rus production of the Valley will in
crease steadily throughout the years
with more trees being planted each
year and thousands more coming into
bearing each season. Always looking
to the future, the Exchange has made
the most of its ten years experience
and has laid a bedrock foundation
while the citrus industry in Texas was
young that will easily carry the
weight of ever-increasing Valley pro
duction.
with this quality pro
duct the Exchange has spent its first
ten years profitably in creating a de
mand for its fruit and in establishing
firm marketing connections in the
markets of this country. .
Mr. Citrus Grower, if you are not
affiliated with any other co-operative
marketing association, you should con
sider these facts seriously. Do you
intend to dump your fruit on the mar
ket hoping by some chance or other
that you will receive a return?
Why not take advantage of the j
Exchange’s ten years experience, of a
brand name that is well known wher
ever grapefruit are sold, and of mar
keting connections that will be inval
uable during this year w’hen so much
citrus is shipped out of the Valley?
The Exchange has
learned by experience that a
quality product is the first es
sential. and TexaSweet conse
quently has become known
as the finest brand of Texas
grapefruit or any other grape
fruit.
PACK
MARKET
PROFIT
TOGETHER,
JOIN THE
Don’t be lost In the whirl
pool of chaotic marketing
conditions, but tie to the es
tablished pioneer, Texas Ci
trus Fruit Growers Exchange.
Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange
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