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AMERICA MAY
I *AY BAIBO’S
FUGHT HERE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. (A*,—'The
m£t ambitious non-stop mass for
mation flight ever attempted was
under contemp'taion today at the
navy department, involving the same
seaplanes that cnlv vesterday hung
up the present record.
The projected sea nop. wnicn has
not y^t been formally ordered, would
send six and possibly 12 giant fly
ing boats over a 3,000-mile course
from the Panama Canai Zone to
ward San Diego, California.
May Go To Italy
Talking with evident pride of the
six big planes that made the non
stop span in formation over the 2-,
000 miles from Norfolk, Virginia, to
Coco Solo, Canal Zone, an officer
in the highest naval circles said to
day these same planes might be
chosen to return the air visit of
Gen. Italio Balbo, Italy's air mar
shal.
Admiral Wil'iam H. Standley,
chief of operations, was askpd later
if the navy's xecord p ones would
go to Rome.
Althonugh replying that he knew
nothing of such orders. Standby
said that should the U. S. decide
to repay the Balbo visit, the planes
in the Norfolk to Coco Solo hop
would be logical choices for the hon
or.
“Such a flight over the ocean
would undoubtedly be the navy’s
Job,” he said, smil'ng. "And tnese
planes are as good for a long dis
tance dash as any we possess. That
may not be true tomorrow or next
week. Aviation seems tc be progreiS
lng about that fast.”
May Wiit Year
Naval air officers were cf the opin
ion that if a flight to Italy were at
tempted, it would not be tried until
next summer. It was pointed out
that the present season is too far
gone to make the effort by the
northern route.
In plotting out possible courses,
some at the navy department esti
mated roughly tnat the snor;er
northern route would icquire less
than 4,000 miles of flying to leach
Rome. Over the southern track, by
way of the Bahamas an athe Azores,
involving longer open water jumps,
it was calculated that at least 4,
400 miles of flight would be neces
sary.
There was jubilation at the navy
department today over the leat of
11 officers and 25 enlisted men in
eclipsing the longest non-stop for
mation flight by Gen. Balbo by more
then 200 miles.
FARLEY PLANS
TEXAS VISIT
WASHINGTON Sept. 8 —t/Pt—
Postmaster Gen. James A Farley
will visit Texas and Mississippi in
October. Sllliman Evans of Texas,
fourth assistant postmaster general,
announced today.
The purpose of the trip. Evans
said, was for the postal chief to
"meet and do honor to his friend.”
Vice Pres. John N Gamer.
The postmaster general and his
party will go to Meridian. Miss., by
plane to dedicate a nrw postoffice
building. October 18 At one p. m.
they will fly on to Texas and will
be met at Fort W’orth by Gamer.
Texus cities to be visited will be
Dallas, Fort Worth. San Antonio
and Houston.
Arriving at Fort Worth Oct. 18.
the party will be greeted by Garner
and another party, including Sen.
Tom Connally and Congressmen
Rayburn and Lanharn. Son. Morris
Sheppard will not be able to be
present, Evans said, because he al
ready had accepted an engagement
out of the state for the week.
City Briefs
The petition in Jus. of the Peace
John Martins office in the base
ment of the courthouse was blown
out by the hurricane.
Chicken Dinner every night at
The Orlll.—Adv.
St. Joseph's will open its regular
school term Monday It has been
announced. An enrollment of around
200 atudents is expected.
Conrad E. Broden, formerly as
sistant director of Dr. Stout’s
laboratory, now located at 203
^ate National Bank Building,
/Townsville. Phone 53.—Adv.
Homer Morrow*. Jr., Is to leave soon
for College Station where he will
enter A. Ac M. college.
Window glass, roll roof mg. nails.
Brownsville Hardware, former
Cloetta location—Adv.
Thomas Newman was a guest in
Edinburg Thursday of Mrs. J. L.
Dahnke as were Mr. and Mrs. M. A.
Newman and Mrs. Gladys Tabor ol
Pettus.
Tires on credit—Firestone. Adv
Mrs. Marvin Hall and children
have left for El Paso where they
will visit her sister, Mrs. Lynn Davis
for several weeks.
Dickey’s Old Reliable Eye Watei
relieves sun and wind burned eyes.
Adv. (1).
San Benito to Ask
Aid For Schools
tSpecial to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Sept. 9—Federal
aid for rebuilding some of the local
schools damaged by the storm prob
ably will be sought, it was indicated
Saturday.
Registration of high school stu
dents took place last week m pre
paration for opening of school Mon
day. Registration of grade school
pupils took place before the storm
•truck.
Some of the buildings are now be
ing used for reliejf work with .soup
kitchens in two of them. Homeless
are staying temporarily in several
buildings.
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How Twin Storms Struck Texas and Florida
This map shows the paths of two terrific tropical hurricanes which blew up from the South Atlantic,
one ravaging Cuba and sweeping across the Gulf of Mexico to the lower coast of Texas, and the other
striking the Bahama Islands and continuing to F'orida. The Texas storm cost the lives of scores
ana inflicted severe damage in the lower Rio Grande Valley, towns in which are indicated. The
weather bureau said the almost simultaneous striking of two hurricanes was unprecedented.
Coal Code Again
Balks Progress
In NRA Program
WASHINGTON, Sepi 3. (.p)_Ne9
difficulties in the way of a bitumin
ous coal code and regulation of
prices in trade plans combined to
day to vex the recovery administra
WIDELY-KNOWN
JURIST DIES
SEBASO ESTATES, Me., Sept. 9
— Pi—Judge William S. Kenyon, of
Fort Bodge. la., who resigned from
the U S. senate to accept appoint
ment to the federal bench and
later turned down a post in the
cabinet and consideration as a pres
idential candidate in order to re
main a jurist, died today at his
summer lodge here after a six
weeks’ illness.
The 64-year-old judge apparently
wras recovering from a heart attack
suffered late in July and only two
days ago had rallied from a relapse
so that attending physicians saw
no cause for alarm.” His invalid
wife was the only member of the
family here with him.
Judge Kenyon first was elected
to the senate to fill an unexpired
term in 1913 and was returned
twice by the Iowa voters. In 1922
he resigned io accept appointment
by Pres. Harding to the circuit
court of appeals of the eighth dis
trict.
The post of secretary of the
navy was proferred him by Pres.
Coolidge, but he declined. When
Ccolidge issued his historic “I do
not chose to run’’ announcement
liberal republicans tried to get
Kenyon to enter the republican
free-for-all, but he said his Wife’s
health prevented his return to the
political arena.
S. P. REPAIRS
FRUIT SHEDS
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Sept. 9.—Contracts
have already been let for rebuild
ing of four Southern Pacific own
ed fruit and vegetable loading sheds
damaged by the storm and con
tracts for repairing all other dam
aged sheds will be let immediately,
according to R. W. Barnes, chief
engineer.
“You wall have more fruit than
you think.” said Barnes in announc
ing that contracts had been let for
rebuilding the four sheds, two at
Santa Rosa, one at Harlingen and
one at Brownsville. Three firms got
the jobs. They are W. E. Crawford.
Ramsey Bros, and J. N. Meek.
A number of engineers from th?
Houston office are in the Valley
help speed the rehabilitation worl
along the S. P. lines.
Other officials here included A. D
Mims, assistant general manager; A
R Mielley, industrial commissioner;
M. O. Scobee, superintendent of
telegraph; Thomas Scott, division
•superintendent at Victoria; T. W
Spence, assistant division superin
tendent at Victoria; and J. J. Moore,
trainmaster of the Victoria division
H. M. Lull of Houston, executive
vice president, was here earlier in
the week.
It was pointed out by Wills J
Carter. Valley agent that the South
ern Pacific was active in speeding
relief trains to the Valley and in
setting out cars of fresh water at
various points.
Medical Regiment
Winds Up Duties
<Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Sept. 9.—Demands
for relief were diminishing to such
an extent that it was thought Sat
urday that the Second Medical Regi
ment, Second Division, which had
come here faom Fort Sam Hous
ton under command of Col. L.
Erechman, would return within a
few days.
Col. Brechman said that although
a tentative date had been set for
return of the regiment to San An
tonio that he would not say def
initely.
Medical officers, ambulances and
other facilities were provided by the
regiment during the emergency re
lief period. Shelter was provided by
means of tents on grounds of the
Valley Baptist hospital for these
needing hospitalization.
The barber’s pole has come down
from several centuries ago, when
barbers performed minor opera
tions in surgery; the stripes on the j
pole represented the bandages. j
tion, with labor disputes bringing 1
added complications.
Numerous objections to the pro- !
gram for coal, as worked out by
Hugh S. Johnson, the industrial ad
ministrator, brought a postpone
ment until Tuesday of a hearing
planned on the code and revisions
that may be made in the light of
the criticisms.
From the consumers' advisory
board came a request that the mas
ter code for the vetail trade, involv
ing several millions of employes, be
delayed to permit investigation into
the subject of minimum prce con
trol.
Arthur D. Whiteside deputy ad
ministrator in charge of retail
codes, felt it imperative, however,
that there be no delay and sought
ta put the plan into effect as ranid
ily as possible.
The retail cod?, ranking just be
hind coal as one of the primary
NRA problems as being drawn con
tained a cost-plui section which, ex
cept in specific instances, would re
quire retailers to sell goods at 10
per cent, or more, above the cost
of the terns.
A special committee was set up by
the cabinet industrial recovery
board to study the cost-plus ques
tion. Representatives of several fed
eral departments and the agricul
tural adjustment administration
were put on the committee.
Whiteside said if this committee
was functioning next week, he would
be able to ta.k with it before sub
mitting his : ecommcndations to
Johnson on the retail code’s cost
provision.
Services Are Held
For Douglas Child
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN,' Sept. 9.- Services
were held from Thompson s Mor
tuary Saturday afternoon, for Rich
ard Allen Douglas, two years old,
who died Wednesday near La Feria.
He was not a storm victim as re
ported.
Interment took place at the La
Feria cemetery.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. A.
Douglas, moved here recently from
Columbia, Mo.
MANIACS ARE
GIVEN GUN IN
FREEDOM TRY
TRENTON, N. J„ Sept. 9. (TP)-An
attendant in the criminal wing of
the New Jersey state hospital con
fessed today, police said, that he
gave madmen a revolver, ammuni
tion and saw blades in exchange
for $2.
A chance remark of one of the
four inmates involved in an at
tempt to shoot their way out of
the hospital, frustrated the plot.
Three of the men were serving
life terms for murder.
Promised $1,000
Questioning of the attendant,
Louis Haist. 35, of Hamilton town
ship, revealed, police said, that he
had assisted the maniacs v/no had
promised to mail him $1,000 after
| they were safely away.
The break was to have been made
comorrow.
The wife of one of the inmates,
unidentified, was credited with pre
venting what might have been a
serious break in the asylum. Her
: husband said to her, “everything
will be all right soon.” Pressed for
details, he told her of the plan.
Phe reported immediately to Oscar
Heaps, superintendent of the crim
inal ward.
Heaps concealed himself near the
inmate while he further detailed
the plan to his wife. Later he told
Heaps who the others w-ere and all
wmre removed under heavy guard to
i the state prison.
Have Confession Claim
Search of the criminal ouiiding
revealed a loaded revolver behind
a radiator in the basement, and 24
bullets hidden in a ma» tress used
by one of the plotters.
The inmates were:
Tony Baccabora, 30, sentenced for
murder from Essex county in 1929.
George Malden. 38, sentenced for
bur'.d^ry from Middlesex county
in 1932.
Robert Tully 35, sentenced for
murder from Monmouth county in
1930.
The other, a life term, was un
identified by authorities.
Haist confessed, police said, to
Prosecutor Marshall of Mercer coun
j ty. He had been employed at the
hospital for two years, is married,
and is the son of a retired clergy
1 man of Groton, Conn.
F. D. d URGED
BY CONNALLY
TO AIDVALLEY
MERLIN, Sept. 9. (JP)—Tom Con
nally, U. S. senator from Texas,
today wired Pres. Roosevelt that he
had asked Harry L. Hopkins, direc
tor of the federal relief work, funds
for relief work in the storm-swept
Rio Grande Valley.
His telegram to the president
read:
“I have sent the following tele
gram to Hon. Harry L. Hopkins,
director of federal relief:
Needs Immediate Aid
“Nature through a great and un
usual tropical hurricane has brought
loss of life and untold damage to
property and growing crops and
want and destitution to the Lower
Rio Grande Valley of Texas and
other areas of the Texas gulf coast.
“This unusually rich and prosper
ous section is in need of immediate
aid. Under the law you are author
ized in your discretion to award
funds for relief without requiring
local or state contribution. The con
ditions are so emergent and demand
such quick and urgent attention that
I appeal to you to set apart from
the fund subject to your discretion
ary use such funds as may be neces
sary to provide food and clothing
and shelter for those in need in the
territory visited by the storm.
Urges Complete Survey
“This is no ordinary situation and
I respectfully urge that you send a
representative directly to the area
to make a survey and to take im
mediate action. The element of lime
is so important that action must be
immediate and the fund provided by
congress for direct relief work in
such situations is the only source
of prompt and effective action.’
“I respectfully urge that you direct
Mr. Hopkins to set apart sufficient
funds from the direct relief to care
for the area w'hich has been visited
by this tragic disaster.”
CRUDE NEARS
DOLLAR RANGE
TULSA. Okla., Sept. 9. — (JPy—
With crude oil prices near the long
sought dollar a barrel range as a
result of this week’s increases, at
tention turned today to the ex
pectations of refiners and market
ers for commesurate gasoline tank
car and retail price advances.
The gasoline men believe they
will get substantial increases early
next week, a belief in which they
have been encouraged by activity
of the federal agency administering
the oil code.
In the manufacturing field low
Octane gasoline today was quoted
at around 4 3-4 cents a gallon. The
middle at 5 1-4 and the high at
5 3-4 to six cents.
H. L. Strieker Dies
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Sept. 9.—The body
of Henry Louis Strieker, 54, who ditd
at 5:10 a. m. Saturday will be sent
to East St. Louis for interment by
Stotler-Burdette.
No services will be held in Har
lingen for Mr. Strieker who bougnt
an orchard at Stuart Place about 10
months ago. He is survived by his
widow, his mother, Mrs. Maggie
Strieker, tw’O daughters, Mrs. J. H.
Adamson of Murphysboro, 111., and
Mrs. C. H- Harris of Hurst-Bush,
111., and a son, Henry of Stuart
Place.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 9. —(>P>—
Battle lines were finely drawn
tonight over the general question
"May a New Yorker sit at a side
walk cafe to dunk a doughnut
in his coffee if he chooses.”
There were pros and there
were cons—and there were those
who thought the whole situation
a bit absurd—while inexorably
Sept. 18 crept on as the date on
which sidewalk cafes were to be
tabooed.
Lined in defenses of the Man
hattanite effort to bring a con
tinental touch to the cold granite
canyons of New York were such
celebrities as:
George Jean Nathan, the cri
tic; Henrik Willem Van Loon, the
historian; Arthur Garfield Hays,
the lawyer, and Sinclair Lewis,
who writes of Main streets.
Against them were various
business associations and Bo
rough President Samuel Levy,
who recently issued an order ban
ning the sidewalk eating and
drinking plaoes.
Most of the cafes involved are
on lower Fifth Avenue. They
sprang up, with their prop pot
ted palms, their evergreen hedges,
(removable), gaily colored awn
ings and chick tables with the
return of beer.
With the issuance of Levy’s
order, based on a city ordnance
forbidding “encumberances to
sidewalk traffic,” arose many
neat distinctions. Just what, up
holders of the right-to-drink
beer-on-the-sidewAlk wanted to
know, did the law mean?
Why, they asked, were store
keepers permitted to display to
matoes, fruits and other wares
while men and women were not
permitted to patronize cafes oc
cupying the same general area?
Round one of the cafe set-two
was won by the pros when As
semblyman Herbert Brownell, Jr.,
as counsel for the cafe owners,
obtained a stay of Mr. Levy’s ban
order.
Mexico Orders
Churches Close
MEXICO, D. F„ Sept. 9. (/?)—The
government suddenly took action to
day to enforce its religious laws,
ordering the immediate closing of
about 300 churches in the federal
district.
Only about 95 were left open, in
compliance with a law passed some
time ago but up to this time not
strictly enforced.
It is reported similar action has
been taken in all parts of the coun
try.
City Approves
Sale of Beer
LITTLEFIELD, Sept. 9. ,7P)—Lit
tlefield voters today approved the
sale of 3.2 beer within the city by a
vote of 215 for to 11? against, a ma
jority of 98 votes.
The election was quiet. Total vote
was 332. The city in the county-wide
election Aug. 2fl, showed a majority
of 46 for sale of beer but the county
went dry.
Victim’. Body I. |
Sent to Chicago
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Sept. 9.—The body
of a storm victim, Mrs. Judith Ku
cera, 36, of Rio Hondo, was sent
to Chicago Thursday night for in
terment.
The body was held at the Stotler
Burdette Mortuary until it waa
sent north.
Mrs. Kucera is survived by her
husband. John, and two brother®,
| Martin Ciran and Samuel of Chi
cago.
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All wiring will be inspected and dried out, all
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