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American and Jap Warships Steam to Protect Citizens from Chinese ‘Reds’
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FOREIGNERS
FLEE BEFORE
HUNGRY MOBS
FOOCHOW, Fukien Province,
China, Aug. 30.—(^—American and
Japanese warships steamed towards
this city today to protect nationals
of those two countries from an
increasing red menace.
As a result of the communists’
swift incursion into north Fuiken
and their capture of Yenping, a
number of American missionaries
fled here and others in nearby
feenrring were endangered.
Ships Are Asked
United States consular authori
ties asked tire state department to
send ships of the Asiatic fleet to
protect the American colony,
(A Washington dispatch said an
American warship had been order
ed to proceed to Foochow. The
gunboats Tulsa and Sacramento
were at Swatow and Hongkong,
only a short steaming distance
item Foochow).
Two Japanese destroyers and one
qruiser were en route to protect the
large Japanese colony and prop
erty interest* here.
Meanwhile, a dispatch from Nan
chang said General chiang Kai
ghek, leader of an anti-communist
expeditionary force with headquar
ter* here, announced 100,000 Mexi
can dollars would be paid for the
head of either Shu Teh or Mao
Chetung, the principal communist
leaders who have for weeks been
eaufing the government endless
tremble.
Foreigners Bvaeotte
All foreigners were said to have
evacuated Yenping before tne in
vaders entered it.
Hungry, tattered hordes of com
munists have been on the move in
Fukien since early in August, when
they moved on Amoy, an important
nort, but they were turned back
from there by General Chiangs
famous 19th route army, heroes of
the Shanghai warfare last year.
EIGHT AMERICANS
REPORTED SAFE
HANKOW, China, Aug. 30— UP)—
Eight American Passionist mission
aries who two months ago were
caught in warfare at Yuanchow
between rebels and provincial troops
were today reported safe.
A telegram received by mission
headquarters here from Chinese
authorities at Hungkiang, 50 miles
south of Yuanchow, said the Amer
icans were still at Yuanchow after
government troops had captured the
town and ousted rebels, who fled
toward the Kewichow border.
WEATHER
East Texas (east of the 100th
mer.dian): Partly cloudy to cloudy
with local showers south portion
Wednesday night and Thursday.
Light to fresh easterly winds on
the coast.
RIVER BULLETIN
The river will rise practically all
along during the next 24 to 36
hours.
Flood Present 24-Br. 24-Br
Stage Stage Chang. Rain
Laredo 27 0.2 0.0 .03
Rio Grande 21 6.1 +0.8 1.01
Hidalgo 22 6.4 -0.4 .39
Mercedes 20 9.3 -0.3 .51
Brownsville 18 9.9 -rO.l '.56
TIDE -‘ABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
Thursday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 2:59 a. m.
Low . 6:35 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 6:52
Sunrise tomorrow . 6:10
WEATHER SUMMARY
An area of moderately high pres
sure is crested over the Lakes and
New England, and extends thence
southward to Texas and the gulf
coast. A poorly defined trough of
low pressure extends from Montana
to Arizona and a tendency toward
higher pressure is noted over the
Pacific northwest. The slight dis
turbance noted yesterday in the
western gulf has apparently passed
inland over the coast of Mexico.
Light to moderate showers have
occurred in south and east Texas,
and less frequently at stations to
north and east.
BULLETIN
(First figures, lowest temperature
last night; second, highest yester
day; third, wind velocity at 8 a. m.;
fourth, precipitation in last 24 hrs.)
Abilene . 66 82 — 0
Amarillo .. 60 74 — 0
Atlanta . 64 82 16 .02
. Austin . 74 94 — .14 i
BROWNSVILLE .. 74 87 — .56
Brownsville Airport 72 88 — .95 j
Chicago . 66 70 — 0
Cleveland . 60 70 14 0
Corpus Christi .... 80 88 — .30
Dallas . 68 84 — 0
Del Rio . 74 90 — .22
Denver . 54 74 — 0
El Paso . 68 88 12 0
Port Smith . 68 84 12 0
Houston . 74 86 — .80
Huron . 54 78 — 0
Jacksonville . 78 92 — 0
Kansas City . 56 70 — .06
Los Angeles . 56 78 — 0
Louisville . 66 82 10 0 I
Memphis . 72 80 — .04
Miami . 78 88 — 0
Minneapolis . 56 78 — 0
New Orleans . 78 92 — 0
North Platte . 58 74 10 0
Oklahoma City ... 62 74 — 0
Palestine . 72 92 — .12
Pensacola . 78 86 — 0
Phoenix . 84 106 — 0
St. Louis . 64 78 14 .02
Salt Lake City_ 68 92 10 0
San Antonio . 74 94 — 0
Santa Fe . 52 74 — 0 |
Sheridan . 48 76 — 0 |
Shreveport . 74 88 — .00 :
Tampa . 76 92 — 0 !
Vicksburg . 74 94 — .14
Washington . 62 78 — 0
Willis ton . 58 84 — 0 s
Wilmington . 68 94 — .94
Winnemucca . 44 88 — 0
STUART PLACE—Lieuts. Isaac
Corns, B. D. Muzzy and Chester
Chambers will attend an officers
reserve corps training camp at
Camp Bullis.
MAIDENS ON A MAIDEN CRUISE
Scene from the musical movie hit "Melody CTuise” in which forty
maddening maidens go on a maiden oruise with the musical stars,
Phil Harris and Charlie Haggles. It shows Wednesday and Thursday
at the Capitol theatre, Brownsville.
2,000,000 Given
jobs Through NRA,
Officials Estimate
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—{/PJ—
Intensified striving went today in
to the mass movement to re-em
ploy Jobless workers and create bil
lions of new purchasing power un
der the sign of NRA’s Blue Eagle.
SHERER RITES
HED TODAY
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Aug. 30. — Last
rites for Thomas Harrison Sherer,
63, were to be held at 3 p. m. to
day from Thompson’s Funeral
church with Dr. Hugh Robertson.
Presbyterian, in charge and inter
ment at Buena Vista cemetery,
Brownsville, was to follow.
The pioneer San Benito citrus
grower was found Tuesday morning
by his brother-in-law, James Sto
bart, with a lamp still burning in
the room indicating that death oc
curred before Mr. Sherer’s retire
ment hour.
He was born in Alabama but had
lived in ths community 24 years.
He is survived by three brothers,
P. M. Sherer, San Benito; I. E.
Sherer, Eldridge, Ala., and Dr. M.
E. Sherer, Portland, Ore.; and a
sister, Mrs. Albert S. Scott, Jasper,
Ala., who visited here recently. Mrs.
Sherer died in 1925.
Active pallbearers were to be
Homer Liles, Paul Norris, E. M.
Aiken, John Wright, Noah Shafer
and Claude Shafer.
Honorary pallbearers were Joe
G. Ballenger, C. S. Lasby, L. R.
Welch, W. Y. Dawson, W. R.
Crockett, L. W. Liles, P. F. Dominy,
H. T. Mosure W. H. Taylor, Davis
Wade, John F. Carpenter and R.
T. Collins.
Sisters Express
Thanks For Kermesse
Sisters of the Incarnate Word
wish to express their appreciation
and extend their thanks to all those
both in Brownsville and Matamoros,
who helped to make the Kermesse
held Sunday and Monday at the
comer of 14th and Jefferson streets
the success that it was.
Endurance Driver
Completes 100 Hours
One hundred hours of continuous
driving without sleeping were ended
at midnight by E. J. Lavave who
is seeking to break the record of
206 hours, according to his man
ager, L. L. Laney. Lavave is the
former record holder of 178 hours
which he held in 1931 in Des
Moines, Iowa. His goal is 240 hours.
CAMERON RECORDS
District Court
Piled: N. S. Liddell vs. A. L.
Longoria, et al, suit for debt and
foreclosure m. m. lien; L. E. Mer
ryman vs. Mrs. Jas. La Gro; J. E
McGuire vs. Gerald W. McKenna,
et al. title and possession and fore
closure; A. H. Fernandez, trustee,
vs. G. R. Strunk, et al, suit on
d. 1. and v. 1.; A. H. Fernandez,
trustee, vs. Minnie L. Webb, et al,
suit on d. 1., and v. 1.; A. H. Fer
nandez. trustee, vs. Mrs. Mamie P
Alexander, et. al, suit on d. 1. and
v. 1.; A. H. Fernandez, trustee, vs.
Edw. Thompson ,et al, suit on d. 1.
and v. 1.; A. H. Fernandez, trustee,
vs. C. F. Osborne, et al, suit on d.
1. and v. 1.; A. H. Fernandez, trus
tee, vs. E. J. Payne, guardian for
E. Kent Payne, et al, suit on d. 1.
and v. 1.; A. H. Fernandez, trustee,
vs. E. J. Payne, guardian for E.
Kent Payne, et al, suit on d. 1. and
v. 1.; A. H. Fernandez, trustee, vs.
Dr. Nephi Callam, et al, suit on d.
1. and v. 1.; A. H. Fernandez,
trustee, vs. Charles R. Jackson, et
al, suit on d. 1. and v. 1.; A. H.
Fernandez, trustee, vs. Marguerita
Virginia Shively, et al, suit on d.
1. and v. 1.
Marriage intentions filed: David
Caraveo and Maria de los Angeles
Fernandez, Brownsville: Alfredo
Rodriguez and Catalina Gonzalez,
Harlingen.
Divorce suit filed: Severo Garcia
vs. Aurora Moreno de Garcia.
WARNING ISSUED
V.Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Aug. 30—Repeti
tion of the warning that no crops
for sale can be planted on retired
cotton acreage before January, has
been received by the chamber of
commerce.
HARLINGEN—Mayor Sam Botts
and family are spending the week
in Gonzales.
Hugh S. Johnson, after being
tied to his desk for days on end by
critical problems of the industrial
control movement, himself took the
field to deliver at Boston a major
address of this week’s windup
campaign for plastering the coun
try’s store windows with the red.
white and blue poster of coopera
tion.
"We can scarcely realize that
perhaps 2,000,000 have been remov
ed from the ranks of the unemploy
ed and are again self-supporting
citizens,” was Johnson’s estimate
as he spurred on the dcor-to-door
work of the volunteer army of a
million and more men and women
busy up and down the land ex
plaining the NRA agreement and
obtaining pledges of supnort.
Using the 2,000,000 figure, John
son said it represented at least
$30,000,000 more in pay envelopes
each week. But not until after
Labor day, with its objective of
6,000,000 new jobs, will the NRA
begin to assay whether its sweep
netted enough reemployment and
wage boosting to give the Roosevelt
recovery program its desired mo
mentum.
Johnson left his office as labor
hailed an end to non-union labor
in bituminous coal fields and set
about plans to unionize workers in
automobile plants. The recovery
chieftain also said bluntly that
Henry Ford would subscribe to the
automobile code or "not get the
Blue Eagle.”
“I think maybe the American
people will crack down on him by
putting their Blue Eagles on other
cars,” Johnson told newsmen re
garding the automobile magnate.
Some NRA officials were saying
privately that the wrage-raising
agreements and permanent codes
of fair practice do not yet appear
destined to create sufficient pur
chasing power to keep ahead cl
higher prices resulting from t.:c
greater costs which business is u .
dertaking for NRA. Expansion o.
credit through the reconstru' ;..i
corporation, was planned to he.p
business bear these higher costs
until mass purchasing can taki
over the job.
Jesse Jones, Reconstruction Co
poration chairman, was back a.
his desk after conferring with
President Roosevelt. He declined
comment on the president’s pro
posal for advancing credit to aid
NRA industries, but high officia
quarters said "four or five days'
will be required to complete de
tailed plans.
Movie Sidelights
CAPITOL
Zestful, peppy, racy RKO-Ra
dio Pictures’ "Melody Cruise,” with
Charlie Ruggies, Phil Harris.
Greta Nissen and other notables
prove a surprise musical package
of eight reels of rhythmic laughs,
girls, romance and song to the
audience at the Capitol Theatre
Wednesday and Thursday.
The plot, light, frivolous and
spicy, holds interest throughout
with its gay comedy. Alan Chan
dler, millionaire playboy, and his
pal, Pete Wells, embark for Cali
fornia. Alan, as insurance of im
munity to marriage, mails a letter
to Pete’s wife, outlining Pete’s in
descretions, with instructions that
it be opened only in case of his
marriage. The situation becomes
hilariously complicated when Alan
actually falls in love and Pete is
constrained to persecute Alan with
frame-ups to discourage the match.
Pete fails, and his ensuing efforts
to retrieve the letter from his wife
result in mi uproarious climax.
dittmann
A powerful drama of human pas
sions in the raw, comes to the
Dittmann Theatre Wednesday,
when “A House Divided,” Univer
sal’s story of life and love on the
bleak northwest coast, opens its
first local engagement with Walter
Huston, Kent Douglas and Helen
Chandler in the leading roles.
A neat dramatic situation is
contrived when a mail-order bride
arrives at the home of a stem
tyrant, is terrified but marries him
—and then falls in love with his
son.
PLANE PASSENGERS
E. and Joe Silva left for Mexico
City Wednesday morning on the
Pan-American plane. Irvin Bal
luder, M. D. Hugo and H. M. John
ston arrived Tuesday on the plane
from Mexico.
American Airways had as pas
sengers Tuesday, Raymond Brooks
to Austin, H. J. Cross to El Paso,
Miss M. Taylor to San Antonio and
R. B. Creager to New York. Mr.
Manning and Mr. Ward came from
Fort Worth ojj, the plan®.
HOLLYWOOD IS
FRIGHTENED AT
GANGJLAYING
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 30.—
Frightened Hollywood notables were
reported adding guards to their
homes today while Los Angeles
police declared war on gangland
and named four men as the sus
pec ted assassins of Harry Mackley
and Prank Keller, former New
York and St. Louis hoodlums, here
Monday night.
Officers said the double slaying
had thrown a scare into many
movie colony leaders who feared
racketeers were seeking a foothold
in filmland. Only recently Lupe
Velez notified police she had re
ceived a note tnreatening the kid
naping of her adopted daughter
and had sent the child to a school
in the southern republic as a pre
caution.
While Chief of Police James E
Davis organized a special “gangster
squad” to ferret out hoodlum sus
pects and seek their deportation
from the city, chief of Detectives
Joseph Taylor named Charles
Sherman, Morris Solivinsky, Henry
Sherman and Jack Weinstein as
suspects in the Mackley-Keller
slaying and said he would ask mur
der complaints against the quartet.
The detective chief said the slay
ings were an act of reprisal for the
killing of Morris Moll, also known
as Morris Marks, in New York
last June. The four men named
by Taylor allegedly are members of
the gang formerly headed by Moll
HARLINGEN—Rev. O. L. Smith,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
opened a two week’s revival at the
Calvary Baptist church Sunday.
Morning and evening services will
be held.
High School Pupils
Register Wednesday
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Aug. 30.— Prin.
C. R. Robertson began advance
registration of high school students
Wednesday morning and will con
tinue registering from 9 to 12
o’clock each morning and 2 to 4:30
o’clock every day except Saturday
when / registrations will be taken
only In the morning.
Grade pupils are to be registered
early Monday and dismissed in
time for the Labor Day parade at
11 o’clock.
There will be a general faculty
meeting Saturday afternoon.
Little Theater Head
Arrives in Valley
(Special to Hie Herald i
HARLINGEN, Aug. 80.—Frederick
Leon Webster who for nine years
directed destinies of the Houston
Little Theater, has come to this
section at insistence of local in
terests and will direct productions
of the Little Theater of the Valley.
First production is expected to be
“Hie Third Mary,” a comedy
drama, to be prepared for presen
tation some time the latter port of
September.
Committees will handle much of
l the Little Theater work.
WE DO OUR PART
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10/000 employes subscribe without reservation to
the NR A Code for the Oil Industry; we know that^
the principle behind your recovery program is not an J
experiment but a proved success.
The N R A Code for the Oil Industry lays
down the broad principles of a "square deal" be
tween employer and employe. The Humble Oil
and Refining Company and its employes have
secognized the soundness of these principles for
many years; and insofar as it was practical for one
company alone to do so, the Humble Company
has put them into effect. The maximum hour
week, minimum wage scales, and collective bar
gaining have been basic factors in Humble's man
agement-employe relationship.
In 1932 the Humble Company completed a
progressive adoption of the five-day week, making
it operative in all departments. Under this plan—
a leading feature of the President's recovery pro
gram-personnel has been maintained at a maxi
mum; hundreds have remained at work who must
otherwise have been let out, and more people
were put to work. In the year which has
passed since the Company’s adoption of
the five-day week, personnel has been f
increased by more than 10 per cent.
So we know from experience, Mr. President,
that your recovery program is not an experiment
but a proven success. It must be equally suc
cessful in its nation-wide application. We sub
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spirit as well as the letter of our code.
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