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SIGN ACREAGE FOR TOMATOES # BAN BENITO, Fib. It.—Only the signing o! the necessary acreage •tands In the way of San Benito fitting a tomato Juice plant to be •reeled by the Kemp Brothers Packing company of Indiana, one of the largest processors of tomato juice in the United States whose product was taken to the south pole lay Admiral B;rd. Arrangements have been made for a site and for other details of the local venture. Walter J. Kemp and Ralph Kemp, two of the three brothers In the partnership, are in the Valley now signing up acreage for the proposed local plant. “We want to see what can be done m the Valley raising tomatoes on a contract. basis; said Walter Kemp m speaking to a Herald representative. Tomate canners in the paM have purchased their sup plies on the open market and to matoes are being contracted lor for the first time. A number of new canneries over the Valley are con tracting for tomato acreage. The Kemps want to *ign up 500 acres In the San Benito community. The Kemps are the original pack ers of pure rrd tomato Juice and hold the patent# on non-separating tomato Juice. The juice Is packed under the brand name of Bun-Rayed snd sale of the product is con centrated in the East Plants are located at Franklin, Kokomo and Kempton, Indiana This firm nrovlded tomato juice | taken to the south pole by the Byrd expedition said Mr Kemp who showed pictures of the cans piled on the decks of Byrds ship The local plant would be located between the Lovett St Kirk (for merly Etchison's) and the associa tion packing sheds on fl Sam Hous ton Blvd. The Missouri Pacific plans to move a building here from another Veliev town to house the new plant. The railroads ere not permitted to eieci new fscllltles of this kind so that it was decided to move a vacant building here from another town. REILLY PLANS (Continued Prom Page One) out for a recommendation of mercy That would have meant a life sen tence There was no mention of mercy when the jury wa* polled With stuttering words Foreman Charles Walton announced the y«‘* diet He who had listened to the evi dence for more than six week* even twisted the defendant's name m his fight to remain calm. Hands Tremble 'Guilty,'' he announced "We find the defendant, Richard Bruno Hauptmann, guilty of murder in the first degree. An insignificant place of paper rustled in hi* trembling hands. He gi*«Aarf at the paper with unseeing •yes In pretense of consulting it. A few strides away stood Haupt mann. jaw set. face so pale and hag Srd it wa* ghastly in the electric ht Sharply erect, he tottered Ihtly as he heard the foremans words. . A few minutes later Justice Thoms* W. Trenchard quietly im posed sentence ended the long Lindbergh kid nap trial. It began in Featherbed Lane. Hopewell, the night of March L 1932. when the wind wa* howl ing over the lonely sourland moun tain on which Colonel Charles. A. Lindbergh made hi* home. It ended In a prosaic, rural courtroom Utter ed with paper* and clgaret atubs. Thirteen times the death-dealing verdict was recited, on the thirteenth day of the month. _ Alter Walton had made known the decision, the court clerk asked: “Member* of the Jury, you have heard the verdict, that you find the defendant Bruno RlcMard Haupt mann. guilty of murder in the first degree, and ao say you air -We do." Shadow* from photographer*’ flue* outside danced wierdly on the windows The shout* of the crowd Intruded on the courtroom hush. The clerk polled the Jurors, asked •ach by name ••What l* your verdict?’ One after the other fell the an-, "I find him guilty of murder in the first degree *’ “I find him guilty ol murder in the first degree." "I find him guilty-" _| Hauptmann seemed not to h**r It once. Judge to at lase . _ _ _a Justice Trenchard was me www* ftcation of judicial decorum. He bent I look on Hauptmann »«d dirsctsd; •The defendant may be seated Turning to Attorney General David T. Wilent7 he continued: "It aeems to the court that there to nothing remaining except to im pose the sentences provided by the statute and I am now asking the at torney general If he moves the sen **W?’ents. psle. moistened his Up* ••If your honor p.esse. the state moves for the sentence of the de fendant at this time.” justice Trenchard asked for the Indictment end It was handed to statute requires apparently that the court shall fix a time with in which the sentence la to be exe. cuted and within a certain week, which must begin not less than four weeks and not more than eight weeks after the issue of the death Warrant." he observed “The court will therefore now pro seed to imjmse the sentence The defendant may stand Again Hauptmann got to his fee; and faced the bench. The hand cuffs on his wrists—first Ume since the trial started January 3—glinted in the artificial light. -Bruno Richard Hauptmann: You have been convicted of murder in ^Hlfroice*?** kindly, fatherly. The sentence of the court Is that you. the said Bruno Richard Hauptmann suffer death at the time and place and in the manner Sovided bv law. And the court 5S l£Sd to the sheriff a warrant appointing the wesk beginning SPonday the **hjJfiL ° i6t y ii\| week within eucn sen* fence must be executed in the man ner provided by law. "You are now remanded to the custody of the sheriff." it was a shaken, restless Haupt mann who nervously paced his cell ip the Hunterdon county jail Thuxs d*At the state prison is Trenton a a A Longed-for Reunion .-_—————————————w • The troublesome rebellion ot bis Louisiana subjects baring beet disposed of, D. S. Senator Huey Long returned from the wars tc Washington, D. C.. where he was met by bis wife (left) and daughtei Rose (right). cell In the death house wa* ready j for him. He will be kept there un- j til Friday night, at least, and then be whisked quietly to the state cap- j ltal. , Sheriff John H Curtiss the man responsible for hie safe delivery to the death house, said merely that there was no hurry. Mrs. Hauptmann, frequent caller at the Jail, must wait until he is the penitentiary to see her hus band again. Further visitors at Flemington have been banned, but the guards who have kept Haupt mann under ceaseless watch since he was brought here may converse with him for the first time. Wife Still Hopes Daubing at her tears. Mrs. Haupt manns last words as she left the courthouse through a rear door last night were: T am not afraid. I still hope** They were words which came hard Only the reassurances of C. Lloyd Fisher, one of her husband's lawyers, made them possible. •There Is nothing left for me ” she had said before Fisher, an arm around her shoulders, promised to "See this thing through.” Be brave.-* he gently told the woman who has been Hauptmann's staunchest ally, who took the stand as his chief alibi witness. From the courthouse Mrs Haupt mann returned to her temporary quarters where her year-old eon Mann fried awaited her. Colonel Lindbergh did not hear the sentencing of the man con victed of killing his first born son. It was the only session of the trial he missed. Nor would he comment. At the Morrow home In Englewood, whence he and Mrs. Lindbergh have been sheltering their second son. Jon. it was said the flier had "no state ment nor comment on the case whatsoever.” Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, mother of Anne Lindbergh, and other mem bers of the family who had gath ered at Englewood also declined to discuss the case. So did Dr J. F Condon, the "Jafsle-’ who paid $60,000 of Colonel ; Lindberghs money to a man who promised to return the kidnaped Infant. That man. Dr. Condon tes tified. was Hauptmann. Attorney General Wilents praised the eight men and four women on the jury. "The tremendous responsibility' imposed on Hunterdon county was shouldered without flinching." said the dapper prosecution chief. "The nation is indebted to these cour ageous men and women." WUentx also paid tribute to the New Jersey pollca and to New York : and federal officers for weaving the net of evidence that bound Haupt mann. Defense counsel expressed confi dence in eventual victory. "There is no limit to the extent to which we intend pruning this case. We shall take It to the high est court of the country, the United States supreme court. If necessary." said Reilly. "We believe that we shall be able to secure an ultimate reversal of the judgment.” Expected Acquittal "I had hoped for and expected an acquittal,'* said Egbert Rosecrana Bui I have little doubt but that the Judgment can be successfully ap Rosecrans pointed out that, since it wa> a matter of life or death to the 36-year-old defendant, the state was expected to pay the cost of the appeal. Had Hauptmann received a prison term, the state would be under no obligation to aid him. Despite the late hour, the defense battery met after the verdict in Fischer’s office to plan their next move. The usual procedure under Jersey Jurisprudence is to bypass the su preme court through a technicality and carry the appeal direct to the states highest bench, that of the court of errors and appeals. If the appeal takes the usual course, the 16 Judgee will not hand down an opinion until September. As a last resort Hauptmann s at torneys could apply to the court of pardons in October for a commuta tion of sentenoe. Any appeal to the federal courts would delay his march to the elec tric chair still longer Hauptmann s defense was a blan ket denial of the state’s accusations i and was based principally on alibis for the key date*. He wa* charged with stealing Charles Lindbergh. Jr from his crib, killing him in a fall from a home-made ladder while descend ing from the nursery window, bury ing the body in a woods, and then; extorting the ransom Police recovered $14,600 of the ransom money from Hauptmann's garage in the Bronx, a wood tech nician traced the ladder to his home, and handwriting experts said he penned the extortion letters. He admitted only that he had the $14, 600, and Mid that had been given to him by Istdor Fisch, now dead. Baaed on the state's estimate of $1,000 a day. the trial cost New Jer sey $32,000. The State House Com mission. which holds the strings of the official rainy- day bag. allotted $50,000 for the case. Other thousands had been spent in the investiga tion Jurors refused to talk, but a well informed report was that they had required five ballots to agree on a verdict without the recommenda tion for mercy They were out 11 hours and 6 minute#. By the time they returned t© the courtroom, it was anything but a spectacular setting for the conclu sion of the sensational case Tobacco smoke hung heavily in the air; half-emptied containers of coffee perched on uncertain bases lawvers and newspapermen who had watted since before noon stretched restlessly. There wras talk that the jury would be locked up for the night. Each hour that passed decreased the expectation of a death sentence. As abruptly as the flare of a match, a change transformed the room. Sheriff Curtiss came quickly into the court from the door through which the Jurors used on their way to the Jury room. Even before he said H. the word whisked through the room: They've reached a verdict The Jury's com ing in” . .. Wilentz, chief of the prosecution forces in the 32-day trial, tned to be calm, unconcerned. But his face paled and he moved about jerkily in aelf-conaclous motions. Reilly, usually urbane and jolly, became strangely serious His florid face took on a deep flush As evaryone waited, a bell began to toll. It was the courthouse bell signalling to the burghers that the jury had found its verdict Outside the courthouM the crowds grew tense- _ At 10:31. six state troopers march ed in. Behind them came Haupt mann manacled to hi# two guard* Hia face was gray and etched in deep, tirad lines There was an ap prehensive. fearful look in his eyes and he did not walk with his fami liar readiness and expectation There was another alight stir and Mr*. Hauptmann hurried down an aisle. She forced a smile on her bloodless face as the looked on her husband, and her bloodless lips moved soundlessly as #he tried to utter words of encouragement Another minute and another, and the jury had not returned At 10:34 the jurors and their guard* walked slowly in. , _ . Mrs Verna Snyder, juror No. 3. walked with bowed head and her eves ware red as If from weeping Mr*. Ethel Stockton, whose seven year-old son waited in one of the benches, had her white face fixed on the Juror who walked ahead of her. The Jury box was filled. Last—It was 10:42—Justice Tren chard. benign, paternal In hia ap pearance. mounted the bench C Llovd Fel. white-haired county clerk, in his routine, singsong voice, polled the Jury. The Jury and Hauptmann rose Then came the repeated “Guilty oi murder in the first degree. Hauptmann wa# sentenced, turn ed over to the sheriff and led out. The electric clock on the varnish ed face of the balcony said 10:51 The entire scene had taken only 31 minutes. McFarland Rites Set (•pedal to Tb* Herald) HAKLINOEN. Feb. 13.—Funeral service* for Thomas McFarland, pio neer Harlinger resident, will be held Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Thompson's chapel. It was an nounced Wednesday. Rev L. A. Boone, pastor of the First Methodist church here, will officiate. Burial will be made at Mont Meta cemetery at San Benito I YATES DENIES OIL JNTEREST Judge H L. Yates does not rep resent anyone seeking exclusive bunkering contracts of franchises at the port of Brownsville, according to a telegram received Wednesday from Judge Yates, who Is in Hous ton His telegram reads as follows: "I do not represent anyone seek ing exclusive bunkering contract lor bunkering '•U at the port of Browns ville. My work in this matter has been purely gratuitous and was ani mated by desire to get a pipe line to our port. "Since strenuous efforts are be ing made to divert oil from the Starr and Hidalgo fields to Corpus Christi it would seem to be bad business to take advice from there. Please cor rect your statement as to my repre senting promoter." A news story' in Tuesdays Herald, commenting on the fact that Judge Yates had written to the Brownsville Navigation district stating that par ties desired to negotiate an exclusive bunkering contract for the Browns ville port for a 25 year period, said that Judge Yates represented the promoters who also made a proposi tion to build a pipe line from the Samfordvce field within the next 5 years, with certain stipulations at tached. . . _ . It is the statement that Judge Yates represents these parties that he denies in his telegram. Judge Yates appeared once before the port industrial committee, and at least once before the navigation committee, urging that the pro posal of the Hidalgo oil operators be accepted. He stated both times that he had absolutely no financial interest in the matter, and was act- j ing solely as a cltlien of Browns ville, seeking to further the inter- | esU of the Brownsville port. MOTHER MS (Continued Prom Page One) Frau Hauptmann wiped her eyes and said •Preaidaat Rooeevelt—He will help an old mother ” **I ahall writo him immediately and beg him to pardon my son ’ With an effort t-o shake off her first bewilderment. Frau Haupt mann »at at a table to write, when a cablegram was delivered from Flemlngton. “Don't worry." it read ‘Deci sion only temporary Annie The message, written in Eng lish. was translated for Frau Hauptmann by the Associated Press correspondent. -Thank God!*’ Frau Haupt mann axclaimed. “If I could only help Bruno In bearing hi* burden This telegram give* me some peace again’’ Quicklv Frau Hauptmann de cided “I'll write the president right now.” She picked up a pen and with a trembling hand wrote in Oothlc acrlpt: "Dear Mr President: "I am the mother of Bruno Richard Hauptmann and have to day learned through newspapers of the terrible verdict against my non. Dear Mr, President the World War ha* already taken from me my husband and two of mv aon*. T am 70 yaars old. (Her 70th birthday is next June.) "It would mean my death, if you. Mister Preeident. don't par don my son because then I shall be all alone "Mister President, disregard hi* previous offense for which the world must be held reeponslble; Bruno isn’t a bad man. There fore, I beg you to be merciful to him. "Yours, a poor mother, Frau Pauline Hauptmann '* Night Supervisor At Mercy Hospital Dies Miss Irma Van Zieleghen. 20. night sunerviaor at the Mercy hospital since 1030, died early Tuesday night after an illnees of three months The body will be forwarded to Chica go. 111., Wednesday night, accom panied by the decedent * sister. Mrs. Louise Corcoran. Mrs. Ccrcoran came here several days ago from Chicago when it be came apparent that Miss Van Zieleg-{ 'ten's condition was turning for the worse. Miss Van Zieleghen was born in Cicero and was educated In the public schools and at the University of Chicago. She graduated from the Jackson Park hn«mtii] in 1027 and was employed at St. Pauls hoept Pajamas Take Mrs. Dionne’s Eye . Pajamas, row on row of them, fascinated Mrs. Elzire Dionne with their beauty as she reveled In a shopping tonr of Cblcago depart ment stores. She seems to have fonnd a pair she especially likes, as she rests here, being given helpful euggestions by the smartly carbed salesgirl. tal in Dallas before coming here in! 1930. She is survived by her met her. Mrs. M B. Van Zieleghen; two sis ters. Mrs. Louise Corcoran and Mrs. Anna Banks; and three brothers, Eniii. Albert and Arthur. All of the survivors, with exception of Albert, who lives in 8t. Paul, reside in Ci cero. Truck Markets Carlot shipments of entire United btates reported Wednesday. Feb. 13: Grapefruit: Arlz 3. Calif. 2. Fla. 2... Texas 17. total US 48 cars. Oranges: Ca»lf. 206 Fla. 89. Tex as 3. total US 297 cars. Mx c:trus: Calif. 9. Fla. 32, Texas 1, total US 42 cars. Beans: Fla 79. total US 79 can.' Cuba 6. Puerto Rioo 1. Beets: None. Cabbage: Arlz. 2. Calif. 9. Fla. 1. Minn 5 New York 50. Texas 5. Wts. 12. others 2. total US 86 cars. Carrots: Arlz. 4. Calif. 31, Mich 1. New York 9. Texas 1, total US 46 cars. Greens: Calif. 6. Fla 2. Va. 3. to tal US 11 cars. Mx vegetables: Arlz 2. Calif. 34 Fla 17. Texaa 7 others 5. total US 66 cars. Peas: Oallf 26 Fla. 8, total US 32 cars. Peppers: Cuba 3. Mexico 1. Spinach: Texas 49. total US 45 cars. Tomatoes Cuba 40, Mexioo 14. Lower Rio Orande Valley ship ments forwarded Thursday morn ing. Feb. 14: Grapefruit 17. oranges 3. mx cit rus l, cabbage 5. mx vegetable* 8. potatoes 2, carrot* 1, total 35 cars Total to date this season—citrus 3296. vegetables 3996. mx citrus and vegetables 24. total 7316; to same date last season—Citrus 1507. vege tables S274. mx citrus and vegetables 18. total 4800 cars. Representative prices to truckers for Valley citrus and vegetables Wednesday. Feb 13: Grapefruit: Boxes US Combina tion $125-1.40. few small sizes low er. Buahels US Combination 65-7Sc; US No. 2s 50-80c Swcks box size US Comb around $1.00; US No. 8s 78 9Cr. Oranges; Boxes US Combination $1.90-2.10 Buahels US Combination 95c-1.06 few higher; unclassified 75-90c. Sacks box size US Combina tion $1 65-1.75; unclassified $150 1.65. Beets Per dot bunches 25-35; half crate* $125-1.36 Broccoli: Per do* bunches 65-75c; crate* $1 65-1.75. Cabbage: Bulk per ton $35-42.50; half crate* $1 35-1.45. Carrots: Per doz bunches mostly 25c: half crates $1.10-125 Greens: Per doz bunches turnip and mustard 25-30c. Gr onions: P-?t dor. hunches most ly 25c. crate* $1 75-2 00 Parslev: Bunches per bu crate $1.03-125. Potatoes: Bilss Triumph! 50 lb QO(UI(«^pMUV Of/ DAN THOMAS - GEORGE SCARBO KA7HABJMI HfPSUftN 11 FiftST CAME TO KXlVNOOQ [j EVEOt' ONE WAS sues SHE I >NAS A NNCALTWY ME;OESS’ WHEN SHE CONTINUALLY ^ AND EMPHATICALLY OE- 1 I I TAhC*nN0 9lN»NS Urm SU*CV»y LESSDN9 OMLV'WHEN MoantHS wasxus meg oos, usi ng> an sue 19 tor nogk CLD FA6UONED V*ASMTliff FOC THC UOg. INS ON A PCTUGE * sacks US No. is $1.00-1.10. lh In | min 90c-1.00. Spinach: Bu basket* lair to or- \ dtnary 85c-1.00. few best $1.00-1.10. Turnips; Per do* bunches 25-35c NEW YORK CURB NEW YORK, Feb. 14. (4b—With the volume of dealings restricted and moat traders remaining on the side lines. price movement* failed to fol low any set course on the curb mar ket Thursday There waa about an equal amount of gains and losses registered. Pio neer gold at 10 1-8, Cities Sendee at 1 1-8. Lake Shore Mines at 51 1-2 and Swift Intemacional at 34 1-4 were typical of the small advance* shown. Electric Bond & Share sold at 5 5-8. unchanged from its previous close, while fractional recessions were apparent in Distillers Corp -Sea grams at 16 7-8, Niagara Hudson Power at 3 1-8 and American Cyna mld "B at 16 5-8. CHICAGO GRAIN CHICAGO. Feb. 14. 'With hog values jumping to the highest, point since March 1931. gram price* de veloped new strength early Thurs day. Opening at 3-8 decline to 1-8 gain. May 96 3-4 to 7-8, the Chicago wheat market soon rose all around. Corn started unchanged to 3-8 off. May 85 to 85 1-8. and subsequently mount ed. Uranium worth $10,000 a ton has been found In Manitoba. Outlaws Mothers m Jail - ~ > .iKV'^WWIWiWIf *m. '-^WU Mr*. Emma ParktT, shown above with her daughter Billie, and Mm Cumie Barrow (arrow) are being held by federal authoritiee in Texas jail on charge of harboring their children, Bonnie Parker Barrow, while the pair were fugitives from justice. The clPaf**m‘£'I]f Parker girl and Barrow, high-ranking public enemy, were shot Jo ‘.eat* ^ at Arcadia, La., last May. (C*nttaL Presi) ” Third Port Parley Set for Thursday Third of a aerie* of grpup meet ings at which the Brownsville port developments are being discussed by members of the port Industrial com mittee of the chamber of commerce with Brownsville business and pro fessional men will be held Thursday night at 7:30 at the chamber of com merce. Invited to the meeting are proprie tors of lumber yards, department stores, dry goods stores, Jewelry stores drug stores, furniture stores, news papers. hardware stores and auto mobile dealerships. On account of the limited space available and the desire of the com mittee to make the discussions as informal as possible, only a limited number are being invited to each meeting. It Is planned to hold sever al more such meetings until the -)ort and Its prosoects have been dis cussed with ell lines of business and all oroiaa-iona in the city. Those attending are urged to ask questions on any phase of port acti vity. In 1929 there were 551 bank fail ures In this country; In 1930 there were 1345. OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS Port of Brownsville. Texas, February 14. 1935. Notloe ia hereby given that on February 13. 1635. there was seised near San Benito, Texas, for violation of Sect. 593 Tariff Act 1930 and Sect. 3063 R.S, one Chevrolet Roadster, motor No. 1372642 Any one claiming the above described automobile will file claim with me within twenty f30> days from the date of this notloe: otherwise I will sell the automobile at public auction at the U. S. Cus tomhouse. Brownsville. Texas, on Thursday, March 7. 1935. at 10 o’clock A. M —Wm Neale. Dy. Col lector. 2-14-31-38-3t-49lS l, _| Cast nets, minnor selns, rods, reel* and fishing poles. Brownsville Hard ware.—Adv. Complete building service —The Geer Co., opposite Brownsville Ice Co., phone 1125—Adv. Nearly 70 per cent of Japans farmers cultivate less than 2 1-3 acres of land to a family I HONEST AID! It was Lincoln, wasn’t it, who gave its the epigram about fooling some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time? Times have changed. Some peo ple, today, can’t be.fooled at all. They are the ones who buy thought- ^ fully and spend wisely. They are guided by the most up-to-the-minute news about pro ducts, prices and values. They read the ad vertisements in The Brownsville Herald. Whether you’re marketing for tonight’s dinner, for a refrigerator or for a home — the most reliable guides are printed right here in The Herald for you. Make it a habit to shop through The Herald, before you set out. It saves time ... saves tiresome searching . . . and it saves real money.