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700 Carloads of Building Material Shipped to Valley Since Hurricane
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REPAIR YORK
COSTS MORE
MILLION
f (Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Oct. 7.-More than
a million dollars worth of con
struction In the Valley storm area
is reflected in the approximately
700 carloads of bu.'V’ng materials
shipped into the Vmtiey the month
following the hurricane, according
to contractors, lumbermen, relief
workers and others.
The railroads alone have hauled
574 carloads of materials into the
Valley and it is estimated that
enough shipments have been made
by truck to run the total around
700 carloads. Trucks were partic
ularly active in the movement of
shingles and other roofing mate
rials right after the storm and also
in transporting of plate glass.
Reefing Large Item
Roofing was the largest item with
more than 200 carloads received
while lumber was second with more
than a hundred. Other large items
in the order named include as
phalt, poles, sand, cement, lime,
gravel, plasterboard, tile, steel,
glass, sashes and windows, nails,
corrugated iron, stone, plaster ana
brick. Roofing was listed under
several divisions such as shingles
and corrugated iron.
Although this material has been
received it has not ail been sold,
but will be eventually, together
with cars still arriving.
The large sum expended to date
in reconstruction of Valley , build
ings and other structures repre
sents largely repairs made on
homes. Many of the larger con
struction jobs still remain to be
done due to pending insurance ad
justments or applications of schools
cities and other municipal corpor
ations to the government lor loans
to finance the work.
Repair Work Rapid
, Utilities generally have proceed
ed rapidly with rehabilitation In
cluding the power companies, te
lephone companies and railroads.
Power distributoin and telephone
lines suffered heavily and the rail
roads lost considerate money in
destruction of shipping sheds wmch
are. however, being rebuilt rapidly
in anticipation of the later winter
and spring vegetable deals.
Sound of the hammer on the
Sabbath was becoming more infre
quent as home owners who worked
frantically to get a roof over their
heads finished their labors, con
tinued rains which did consider
able damage to furniture, stocks
and interiors of houses where roofs
were blown off, hastened this pnase
of reconstruction work so that most
remaining roofing jobs are those
where the buildings have been so
badly damaged that families and
store stocks have been moved out.
Several large business firms are
still doing business in temporary
locations or not doing business at
all for the time being.
{ WEATHER
East Texas (east of the 100th me
ridian): Generally fair Saturday
night and Sunday.
Light to moderate northerly winds
on tne coast.
RIVER BULLETIN
The river will change little if
any from about San Benito down,
fall somewhat at Mercedes, and
continue to fall from Hidalgo to
Rio Grande City during the next
24 to 48 hours.
riood Present 24-Br 24-Hi
Stage Stage Chang Ha i.
Laredo 27 18 00 .00
Rio Grande 21 12.9 -16 .00
Hidalgo 22 178 -23 .00
Mercedes 20 218 0.0 .00
Brownsville 18 188 0.0 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Port Isabel
Sunday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 10:44 p. m.
Low . 12:09 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 6:10
Sunrise tomorrow . 6:26
WEATHER SUMMARY
Except for a few widely scattered
showers the weather continued gen
erally fair to clear throughout the
country since last report. Tem
peratures changed very little ex
cept fell in the central dates
where it was rather cool this morn
ing. Light frost was reported from
Nebraska.
BULLETIN
(First figures, lowest temperature
last night; second highest yester
day: third, wind velocity at 8 a. m.;
fourth, precipitation in last 24 hrsJ
Abilene . 56 86 — 0
Amarillo . 52 74 — 0
Atlanta . 54 76 10 0
Austin . 62 88 — o
BROWNSVILLE .. 72 86 — 0
Brownsville Airport 66 87 — 0
Chicago . 50 66 — 0
Cleveland . 52 60 14 0
Corpus Christi .... 68 82 — 0
Dallas . 62 86 — 0
Del Rio . 62 86 — 0
Denver . 44 70 — 0
El Paso . 62 78 12 0
Port Smith . 52 84 1 2 0
Houston .......... 62 86 16 0
Huron . 32 68 12 0
Jacksonville ...... 62 76 12 0
Kansas City . 50 72 10 0
Los Angeles . 62 78 — 0
Louisville . 50 68 — .12
Memphis . 54 74 — 0
Miami . 72 88 — 0
Minneapolis . 40 62 20 0
New Orleans . 64 82 — 0
North Platte . 38 72 — 0
. Oklahoma City .... 52 78 — 0
1 Palestine . 58 86 — 0
Pensacola . 56 82 16 0
Phoenix .. J® J2 -- .01
St. Louis . 50 76 12 0
Salt Lake City .... 52 80 — 0
San Antonio . 68 86 — 0
Santa Fe . 42 62 — 0
Sheridan . 32 74 — o
Shreveport . 64 82 — 0
Tampa . JJ J® “ 2
Vicksburg . 29 “ 2
Washington . 50 70 —
Williston . 30 66 — 9
Wilmington . 52 72 — 0
Winnemucca ...... 44 84 — o
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M’Kee Expected To
Poll Heavy Vote
In Race for Mayor
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This b ,
the second of a series of sketches {
of the leading candidates in one
of New York’s most exciting
mayoralty contests.
A sketch of Mayor O'Brien will
follow shortly.)
By B. L. LIVINGSTONE
NEW YORK. Oct. 7. UP)—Thrust
belatedly into the mayoralty pic
VALLEY TRAIN
CHANGES MADE
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Oct. 7. —Three o!
the four Missouri Pacific trains
operatni gdaily between Houston
and the Valley are running on
changed schedules and the day
train mi the Valley branch be
tween Harlingen and Mission ias
been changed to conform.
The day train No. 12 Is leaving
Brownsville at 7 a. m. instead of
6:30 a. m. It leaves San Benito at
7:33 a. m» Harlingen at 7:43 a. m ,
Raymondville at 8:23 a. m. am
arrives in Houston at 7 p. m. in
stead of 7:30 r- m. Improved run
ning time and elimination ot meal
stops at Odem and Vanderbilt on
day trains enables the train to
reach Houston earlier although
leaving the Valley later. Meals may
b ehad aboard the trains.
Schedule of the night train, No.
16, leaving Brownsville is virtually
the same as before, changes of
three minutes occurring „ at odd
points. It leaves Brownsville at 9
p. m. as before and arrives in
Houston at 7:30 a. m.
The day train, No. 11, from Hous
ton, now leave sthat city at 12:31
p. m. instead of 8:25 a. m. *5 ar
rives at Raymondville at 10*10 p.
m., Harlingen at 10:45 p. m., Sin
Benito 10:57 p. m. and Brownsville
at 11:35 p. m instead of 9:55 p. m
Similarly the night train from
Houston, No. 15, now leaves that
city at 9:20 p. m., twenty minutes
later than before, arriving at Ray
mondville at 6:37 a. m„ Harlingen
7:30 a. m.. San Benito 7:35 a. m.
and Brownsville at 8:15 a. m. in
stead of 7:55 a. m.
There are no changes In the
night train from Mission to Har
lingen. leaving Mission at 7:45 p.
m. and arriving in Harlingen at
9:45 p. m., in time to make coroits
tions with the Houston bound mr*it
train.
The morning branch train will
leave Harlingen at 7:30 a. m. in
stead of 7:05 a. m., arriving at Mis
sion at 9 a. m. instead of 8:45 a. m.
No changes have been made in
the train service to San Antonio.
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San Benito Farmers
Will Meet Friday
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Oct. 7.—Another
meeting of the San Benito unit of
the Cameron County Vegetable
Growers’ Assn, which completed its
organization this week, will be held
Friday night at the city hall.
The unit was organized with Dr.
Harry Drucker. president; W. T.
McClanahan, vice president; H. C.
Jessup, secretary-treasurer; and W.
E. Chenoweth. delegate.
R. V. O. Swartout. chairman of
the county association, told of suc
cess of the organization s efforts to
bols r vegetable prices last spring
and Homer P. Huntley described
the strong unit organized at Pri*
mera. W. E. Anderson, engineer
who was present, was called on for
a talk and spoke of the necessity
for co-operation among the grow
ers.
Over 700,000 acre* of United
States public lands have been add
ed to the Navajo Indian reservation
in Utah to settle a 20-year contro
versy.
ture, Joseph V. McKee, independ
ent democrat, goes into New York’s
November elections as a political
anomaly, a man who began his
public career by accident and pur
sued it successfully, contrary to vote
getting doctrines.
“Joe" McKee, who at 44 is the
youngest candidate in the fight, of
fers to the voters a major candidate
who probably has less of what dis
trict politicians call “the glad
hand’’ than any recent bidder on
city hall leadership.
Yet—and herein is the anomalous
in the accepted political sense—
there have been few men, includ
ing Broadway's own Jimmy Walker,
who have commanded without ef
fort greater popular response.
Digniifed, handsome, with a wide
engaging smile, he speaks crisply
and briefly of his campaign aim:
“I, and the men associated with
me, are not actuated by political
ambitions. I entered the campaign
in response to repeated urgings. I
am staying to restore the city to
[ the position to which it is en
titled.”
Until last year, when he quit
politics to head a large mortgage
Urm, McKee was a Tammany ally.
He started public life in 1917,
rather accidentally, when he was
nominated for the assembly from
his home Bronx district.
He went from there to city court
as a Justice, was elected president
of the board of aldermen, and
finally—when Mayor Walker quit
—n»e to acting mayor. Tammany
repudiated him last year for John
P. O’Brfen, a break resulting, in
the opinion of observers, from Mc
Kee’s uncompromising economy de
mands on city heads.
In the 1929 election, he demon
strated his ability as a vote getter
by running ahead of Walker on the
regular ticket. His most notable
performance came last year, how
ever, when he was given a 262.000
"write-in” vote against O’Brien al
though he was not a candidate for
mayor.
McKee can be coldly reserved in
addressing audiences. He some
tir.-.es exhibits a pedagogical bear
ing that is a hangover, appaiently,
from his faculty days at Fordham
University when he taught Latin
and Greek.
Privately, "the Judge.” as his in
timates call him. is a pleasant host,
a serious father to his two small
sons. He is teaching Joe. Jr., not
to be a seeker of the limelight.
In Jamaica, natives run 18 miles
uphill, carrying fresh fish to the
markets. The runner who reaches
market first gets the best price for
his fish.
Roofing
Repairing of All
Kiiylfs
Any matyial except
wood/shingles
All iind* of
SheeV^Aetal Work
Courteous Service
Work Guaranteed
RIDLEY’S
TIN SHOP
Cameron Hotel Bldg.
9th and Washington
I
State f
Nation a
I V 1
RELIABLE
SERVICE
RECOGNITION
OF RUSSIA IS
THOUGHTNEAR
WASHINGTON. Oct. 7.—WP)—The
troublous problem of Russian re
cognition which has hounded eve-’f
administration since the World
War apparently is nearing a set
tlement by Pres. Roosevelt.
High administration sources say
the question is “moving into ad
vanced stages." So far has the study
progressed that conservative spokes
men said early personal considera
tion by Mr. Roosevelt looking to
final disposition was a “fifty-fifty"
chance.
Trade benefits expected to row
* I
from diplomatic relations are prov
iding the stimulus in behalf of rec
ognition. Russia wants to buy
through credits—about a billion
dollars worth is a late estimate by
her commissar of foreign affairs,
M. Litvinoff. The United States
wants to sell—especially to a poten
tially huge foreign market.
But indications were that &e
president’s ultimate decision prob
ably would not mean the swift un
conditional recognition advocated
by seme, but ratber that final ac
tion would result from negotiations
covering numerous differences.
Stop Propaganda
Some $300,000,000 of confiscated
American property, a $187,000,000
government obligation and $86,000,
000 in repudiated Russian bonds
have been major obstacles to Rus
sian recognition. Officials foresee
their possible adjustment In the
credit negotiations between Russia
and Prance which points to a form
ilia for composing c aims indire.-uj
by paying a bonus on borrowed
money or contracts—the bonus
going to old creditors.
Important to American states
men too has been a guarantee Iron
Russia to stop the ‘ continued pro
paganda to overthrow institutions
of this country.” Now officials be
lieve the United States has “pass
ed the crisis” of communistic pro
paganda; that Russia lacks the
time, method or means to agitate
the doctrine of “world revolution.”
Singing Convention
Planned for Sunday
((Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Oct. 7.—An all
day Valley-wide singing conven
tion is to be held at the OPrito
school beginning at 10 a. m Sun
day, according to William D. Hick
man, singing convention secretary.
Class singing, quartets and other
special music will feature the pro
! gram and all singers are invited.
HEART ATTACK
KILLS SENATOR
ISLAND POND, Vt., Oct. 7. (fit—
U. 8. Sen. Porter Hinman Dale lay
dead today at his summe* home in
the nearby mountain town ol New
ark—victim of a heart attack.
Dale, a republican and the senior
U. 8. senator from Vermont, was
66. He had been stricken 111 about
a month ago but apparently had
recovered. Three days ago he suf
fered a heart attack and failed to
rally.
He was born in Island Pond on
March 1, 1867, attended Vermont
schools and later studied at Phila
delphia and Boston. For two years
he was associated with James E.
Murdoch, Shakespearian actor and
scholar.
He was elected to serve an unex
ptred term in the United States
senate on Nov. «, 1939. and was
subsequently twice reelected.
He leaves his widow, two sons.
George, a Washington lawyer, and
Timothy, an Island Pond banker,
and a daughter, __
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