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NAVY BEGINS PROBE INTO MACON’S FALL SAN FRANCISCO Feb. 14. (/P* Ifce cause ol the “shudder” which meant death to two men and the dtmaUonai end of the giant dirig ible Macon was sought Thursday by 1 naval court of Inquiry in the first of a series of promised gov ernmental investigations. Even the surviving 81 officers and men of the silver skv queen which crashed and sank in the Pacific ocean Tuesday night were not sure What caused mat quiver to run the length of the Macon and subse quently rip away two of her vital gas cells 5 ‘Has Some Ideas’ Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley •m-vlvor of the Akron disaster and master of the Macon, had “some Ideas’ about It but declined to dis cuss them. He began questioning the crew when they returned to the Macon's vacant hangar at flunnyvale Wednesday and called them to assemble at noon Thursday, His findings will be placed before the naval board of inquiry. Whether testimony before the board all! be made public immediately was to be dstermined after it assembled aboard the XJBS. Tennessee in San Fran cisco bay at 9 30 a. m (12:30 p. m. Eastern Standard time). Three proposals to Investigate the ■rash were made In Washington as president Roosevelt said there would be no immediate move to replace the greatest airship the World has ever seen. There were a few dissenting voices, but official Washington was Inclined to view the Macon s loss as indicating a halt in the navy's development of the dirigible, tem porarily if not permanently. As to the onginsl cause of the crash, survivors and observers were ■freed on only one thing—that the equally weather played only a minor port Structural Weakness? There were hint* ot some possible •tructural weakness in the stern Of the $2,450,000 ship, but navat officers would make no definite abatement regarding such a pos albllity. They talked freely only of the heroism of the aircraft crew and the remarkable efficiency of the navy lit rescuing all but two of the 93 aboard. Survivors tola the dramatic story of the air queen's end and thetr rescue from the murky Pacific 125 iffUM south of San Francisco off Point Sur. Cruising at a speed of 63 knots, the ship had twice lowered her elevation to duck rain squalls. Com mander Wiley related, "when a abort Jar was felt" "Upon Inquiry of the elevator man (who controls the rudder guid ing the ship's altitude) I was in formed the wheel had slipped out of his hands,'' he went on. "The ship began to take a bow-up inclina tion *nd rose. Apparently the ele vator man did not have control, immediately I reoeived a report from the aft that number l cell tone of the 12 helium gas cells which kept the craft aloft in mid air) was gone.'* Then the Macon rose rapidly to 4.000 faet. her nose sticking at a gharp angle above the stem, and •ank slowly toward the ocean as the crew dcvalved the forward gas Chambers and threw ballast over board from the stem In an attempt to right the lurching ship. As she landed heavily on her ■tern, sailors and officers slid down topes that burned their hands and legs or dived into the heavy swells. Twenty two men who had gone forward as a futile ballast, slid 4!own “a horribly long’* 125 feet of tope from the nose to the water. Each carried a flashlight, making toe descent column look like a pa rade of fireflies. "Men swam through the flame Where flares had ignited oil and gasoline. Others rescued compan ions whose lifebelts were lost or broken in Ion? leaps Into the sea. Under the gleam of searchlights, three cruisers picked them up from half an hour lo an hour after they had abandoned ship Santa Rosa Corn-Hog Meeting Is Arranged (Special to The Herald* BAN BENITO Feb. 14—The last eommunitv meeting to consider sign ing of 1935 com-hog ontracts Is to he held at 8 p. m. Friday at Santa Rosa school, according to Henry Alsmey. r. county agent, who will be on hand to explain the year s con trol program ’“Contracts will be signed at close Of the meeting as at previous ones In the county. All contracts must be signed by Qaturday evening. Russian paper rubles Issued be fore the World War have no ex change value. i ' WHITE KITCHEN 419 12th Street Business Lunches — Fresh Veg etables — Luscious Valley Grapefruit. Private diningroom. Serving the * Valley for over ten years. Tandy’s^ roach POWDER results guaranteed For Sale At All Leading • • DrugStorea | Allred Wins Fight Over Appointments To Planning Board AUSTIN. Feb. 14. t/Py—Governor James V. Allred stood victor Thurs day in a skirmish with a senate bloc over the right of the executive to name a majority of a proposed board to plan public works projects for con struction with federal funds. A group opposed the bill sought to suplit the appointments between the governor, lieutenant governor — Completion of Golf Course Plant Made <8pecla! to The Herald) 8AN BENITO. Feb. 14 —It will re quire approximately $4,500 in labor 'and materials to complete the muni cipal gol( course started as a CWA project last year but there is a pos I sibllity that completion will be brought about, it was stated at a } cliamber of commerce group meet ing Wednesday morning at the Stonewall Jackson hotel. Joe A. Sloan, chairman of the group, explained that about $2,000 of the amount would be for mate rials. The confnittee is hopeful of I getting the labor from relief roils and that the city will buy the ma I terials. i The benefits that would accrue to San Benito through finishing the job were explained. It was pointed pointed out that the course was al most a necessity if San Benito ex pects to get her share of tourist trade. James Graham reported that the railroads would not even consider the matter of tourist rates but It was decided to continue efforts to obtain liem. Jesse Welch reported on work of his comtt're in directing tourists to fishing. i\ tmng and other recrea | Lion centers. Alex Bowie Heads Presbyterian Men (Special to The Herald) SAN BENITO. Feb. 14.—Alex M Bowie was elected president of the Presbyterian Men - of-the - Church Tuesday night at the Bowie chapel, i He succeeds Joe A. Sloan. Ray Smith was re-elected secre tary-treasurer, making several years In succession that he has geen chosen to fill this office. Charles C. Bowie, county attorney, made the principal talk of the eve-; ning. He reported on the crime conference he attended recently in Washington and quoted the war den of the now famous Alcatraz; prison on the responsibility of the home and church in preventing, crime. The warden stressed the necessity for teaching the Bible in the home and the return of the family altar. ^ _ There were 40 present at the meeting which was served a dinner ■ by the ladies cl the church. Mrs. M. M. Magoon, a native Hawaiian, demonstrated Hawaiian dress and song. Mrs. L. R. Wasson and Miss Lillian Har! presented a ’'ventriloquism" act and Mrs. Oraj Dickie gave several readings. Kiwanis Members Entertain Wives (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN. Feb. 14.—I/wal Ki wanians had a Valentine meeting this week when they brought their wives to the luncheon at the Christ ian church. Those attending includ ed Mesdames G. I. Burdette, J. H Wright, Don Walley, C. G. Delfs. Harry Eagleston. G. W. Edgerton. Joe Harris. R. E. Utley. O. G. Ford ham. Frank Grimsell. Ed Cary, Tom B. Bowman. R. E. Buckles, Bert Thompson, N. I. Koppell, George Hardeman. 8. D. Grant. Ned Son dock. A. J. Wittenbach. R. U Hill. Bruce Ramsey. H. V. Johnson, A. J Pollard and Stanley Bliss. Fred Newland made the talk. The San Benito quartet compos ed of T. S. Caswell. E. W. Edwards. M B- Huffman and Paul Hombeck with Mrs. Caswell at the piano sang League Meet Date* To Be Decided On (Special to The Herald) SAN BENITO. Peb 14 —Date and place of the district Interscholastic j league meet are expected to be set soon, according to Supt. O. L. Davis. The district meets the last few years have been held in San Benito because of the facilities available. | J. Lee Stambaugh of the Pharr San Juan-Alamo school is director general. H. A. Moore La Feria. is director of debate; E. C. Dodd, Brownsville, extemporaneous speak ing- Claude Dailey. Mission, ath letics; E. H. Poteet, Mercedes, ready writing (essay); Arthur Hayes. Mission, one-act play. H. A. Hod ges. Edinburg, typing. T. J. Yoe. former superintendent here, was named director of declamation but a change probably will be made because he ha* left the Valley. Hear Scout Program (Special to The Herald) SAN BENITO. Feb. 14—Al White of Spnngf.eld. Mass . former district governor of Kiwanis in New Eng land. proved an unexpected but wel come addition to the local Kiwanis club's Boy Scout program Wednes day at the Stonewall Jackson hotel. The local club had planned a pro gram in observance of the 25th an niversary of Scouting in the United States. White happened to attend the meeting and made a talk on Boy Scout activities in the east. White hijd Charles Bowman of San Benito as his guest. Scouts on the program were Bur rus Pugsley. Albert Smith, Erwin Adleson and Jack Reed. Rube Wagner came in a* a new member of the club. The majority of 1934 accidents took place on the open highways rather than on crowded city streets. Figures indicate that the traffic death rate In 86 principal cities last year was one-third lower than for the nation as a whole. FOR WOMEN Bacaaaa Paanaauot dia dalxooiu cfaaw Mg ttMB Lax a tin a cbawad tha laaatm m piacad m cba n«ta naethly. (a r*a a thorough. aaoca natural actio* ,-1 I and speaker of the house, but a compromise amendment, giving Allred the power to appoint six ol nine members was adopted. The secretary of state, an Allred ap pointee. the highway engineer and chairman of the board of water en gineers would serve as exofficio members. Administration leaders hoped for a final vote on the proposal Thurs day. It was received from the house more than two weeks ago which vot ed to permit the governor to ap point six members with the secre tary of state as the seventh. A heavy majority blocked a move to recommit the bill lor further com mittee action. Also on the senate calendar was a matter involving the sacredness of executive sessions on governor s nominations. The senate Wednesday requested Dick Vaughan, Houston press correspondent, to divulge the source from which he received a pur ported roll call on the confirmation of former Representative Sarah Hughes as Dallas district court judge The vote was taken in secret and a senator divulging the vote is liable to suspension. A sub-group of the house commit tee on revenue and taxation started work on a bill to levy heavy license taxes on chain stores. The committee was instructed to combine four bills into a composite proposal. Three of the bills would levy a tax of from $1 on individual stores to $750 on units in chains of more than 50 stores while the fourth would tax gross receipts of all mercantile enterprises. Cameron Records FEDERAL DIST. COURT Judge T. M. Kennedy Short term to be held Saturday with the following settings: BANKRUPTCY DOCKET— Road Districts Nos. 1, 2 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. and 8 of Hidalgo county, refunding of bonded debt at par. In the matter of Robb Hotel Company. LAW DOCKET—Road Dist. No. 1 of Hidalgo County vs. Brown Crummer Investment Co. D'Arcy Edgar Donne, Sr., vs. City of Mercedes, ev al. Jno M. Young, receiver, vs. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. F. H. Varner vs. County of HI-! dalgo. H. D. Creath, receiver, vs. Hidalgo County Drainage Dist. No. 1. EQUITY DOCKET—T. G. Trottl vs. McAllen Improvement company. Robt. Bullard vs. County of Hi dalgo, et aL Lincoln Mutual Life Insurance Co. vs. Hidalgo county, etc. Tills case consolidated with Sam H. Hanson, Jr., va Hidalgo County, etc. _ CRIMINAL DOCKET— Govern ment va Guadalupe G. Garcia. Government va Joe Johns. Government va Elisdoro Cantu. Government va Devere Rich. Government vs. Victoria F. Mar ron. Government va Andre Villegas, et al. 103RD DIST. COURT Judge A. M. Kent New term opens Monday with. docket to be called for settings Tuesday. (Cameron county bar as-, sociation to hold regular meeting prior to call of docket Tuesday morning). CRIMINAL DIST. COURT Judge Geo. Westervelt New term opens Monday. Grand Jurors summoned Include: George French. C. V. Hamilton, R. Mathers, O. A. Manske and J. G. Phllen. Jr., all of Raymondville;! Tyre Brown. H. F Looney and Faustino Rendon of Harlingen; H. C. Aldridge. A. M. Garcia and C. F. Pirtle of San Benito; T. E Betts of La Peria. R. B McLeaish of Port Isabel, and W. E. Scott of Santa Rosa. COUNTY COURT AT LAW Judge Basrom Cox ORDER ENTERED: Byron Moore vs. Federal Petroleum Company, suit for alleged damage by negli gence as result of traffic collision, mistrial declared and Jury discharg ed. Case reset for Wednesday, Fes 20. PROBATE COURT Judge O. C. Dancy FILED: Will ot E F. Rosecrans of Oberlln, Ohio with, request B H. Dunlap of La FYria be named administrator of estate in Cameron county, valued ai (2500. MARRIAGE LICENSE Wm. P Kimbrough. Jr., and Lois Thompson. JUS RAUL DOMINGUEZ ORDER: S'afce vs Irena and Martina Dominguez, abusive lan guage, Jointly fined (20.30. RECOVERING HARLINGEN—Carl Hamilton of San Benito is recovering from an emergency appendectomy perform ed Saturday night. SENATE GETS RELIEF FIGHT WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. (it*)— Roosevelt leaders, carrying the vast work and relief program to the floor of the senate Thursday, foresaw some furious debate but hoped to pass the measure within a week. Finally extracted Wednesday from an appropriations committee where critics had sought to change It be yond recognition, the bill bore near ly a score of alterations, most of them considered comparatively min or. The critics sought reinforcements in the senate at large in an attempt to continue their fight. Administra tion forces saw stiff contests to keep the $4,880,000,000 fund from being chopped down to $2,880,000,000; to maintain intact the broad discretion ary powers which the hill would confer cm President Roosevelt, and to prevent the "prevailing wage” idea from winning over "security wages.” Republican senators are to be call ed to a party conference to discuss what their attitude shall be Senator McNary, the republican leader, said he would confer with minority men on the appropriations committee be fore issuing the calL There was sharp difference of opinion over whether the committee vote of 12 to 11 against the amend ment cf Senator Adams <D-Co1q) to cut the appropriation to $2,880, 000.000 was an index of senate sen timent as a whole. Scouts in Charge Of School Program (Special to The Herald) SAN BENITO. Feb. 14. — Boy Scouts were in charge of the assem bly program at the high school Wednesday with Mr. Branch, Junior high principal, supervising. The prorgam was In observance of the 25th anniversary of the Boy Scout organization in the United States. It opened with assembly being blown by Richard Worth, bu gler. The procession of flag and drum corps followed and Worth then blew the call "To the Colors." The scouts gave their pledge of allegiance to the flag and Burrus Pugsley told of the history of scout ing and the scout anniversary. Er win Adleson described the life of James E. West; Dwight Day the life of Robert Baden and Albert Smith the life of Daniel Carter Beard while Jack Reed spoke on the ranks of scouting. The scout laws were represented by Jack Sandmeier, Robert Bickel. Marvin Houghtling. Richard Worth, Duvall Cotton,'Irdell Nichols, Albert Smith. Robert Bone. Arthur Wade, Jack Tippit. Billy Brandon and Day ton Raney. Group singing was led by Cecil Littlefield. Taps and a song concluded the program. Club Royale Plana Series of Dances (8peclal to The Herald) McALLEN. Feb. 14. — A series of unusual events have been planned st the Club Royale near here to continue throughout the week. The first will be a masked ball Thursday night, the second a col lege dance sponsored by the Hust lers’ club for Friday night, the reg ular Saturday night dance, and a lea dansant from 3 to 6 p. m. Sun day afternoon. Dick Shannon, rhythm king, will furnish music for each of the Events The club is also planning a Wash Tse club also is planning a Wash ington birthday dance for Thurs day night, February 22. The Club Royale also will pre sent floor shows at each of its special dances this week that will feature a novelty dance team known from coast to coast. Signing of Tomato Acreage Discussed (Special to The Herald) SAN BENTTO Feb. 14 —Signing of acreage for a proposed tomato juice packing plant here will be discussed at a meeting of the San Benito unit of the Valley Vegetable Growers association scheduled for Thursday night at the city hall. Officers for the year also are to be :hosen. WEAK AND MISERABLE ■--- t • • |r your uay Begins * with nerves frayed, backache, or periodic pains, you need a tonic such as Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip tion. Read what Mrs. J. L. Ether • e r\ v ^ / euRC oi xvouic i9 Kerens, Texas, laid: “After a severe illnesa I was in a weakened condition. My side was sore, I clt tired, and my back hurt. I used Dr. 1'ierce’s Favorite Presc notion and it en* irely overcame the feminine complaint. I ega.ned my strength and had no more achea a pains at any kind." All druggists. Sew siie, tablets 50 its. liquid $1 00. Onginallv prescribed (or his patients by Dr R. V. Pierce over ' 0 years ago. Write Dr. Pierce’s ( unic, liudalo, N. X* or tree medical advice. ' --•-■r_’-----—---v ' " .•.' ’-"m--—-----— ■ • (By The Associated Press) A Tip for School Marins EDMONTON. Alberta—Alberta school teachers don't approve a lot of carryings-on out of school. In convention Thursday, they cast their vote for married women as the best school teachers be cause “they don’t gallavant six night* in a week making them selves useless for work in the class room.” They disapproved of single teachers, on the ground that they were likely to run off in the mid dle of the term and marry some young man. One Should Be Enough LORETTO. Pa. — Eighty-two years ago Samuel Henry Kettell was bom in a frame house in Lo re too. He died in the same house, nev er having lived in any other. His brother. Andrew. 85, who liv ed there all his life also, survives him. On Credit DALLAS—Miss Adelyn Drans ford and Paul Dodd were being married at the home of.the bride's parents. During the ceremony a burglar opened a screen in the rear of the house, reached in and lifted the “honeymoon" money from the bride groom’s traveling clothes. Interscholastic League Discussion Arranged SAN BENITO, Peb. 14.—A meet ing of the Cameron county execu tive committee has been called for Monday night. Feb. 25. for the pur pose of discussing details of the Cameron countv Interscholatisc lea gue meet to be held here March 22-23. The meeting was called by Supt. O L. Davis of San Benito, director general. The local mar said that the San Benito schools would be represent ed in every event and that prepara tions are going forward in every division. The largest number of pupils probably will be entered in the rhythm band contest although this event will not count toward* the county championship. C. E. Broderick, music director, has 300 tiny tots enrolled in var ious rythm band groups but only a selected band of 50 will be enter ed in the meet. ^ p W T T.V " TWO TESTS SETJAS1NG (Special to The Herald) MISSION, Feb. 14.—Two tests set and cemented casing atop the Samfordyce saturation in Hidalgo county’s Samfordyce field Wednes day while several others were mak ing hole and two new locations were reported. Another wildcat test near the field was abandoned below 4,300 feet Casing was set and cemented at 2.768 feet in the Navarro Oil Com pany’s No. 3 Seabury et al. in the northwest corner of the north 25 acres of the southeast 51 acres of, tract 256. porrion 38. about 2.700 i feet northwest of discovery. The test is 600 feet north of production in the field. A drill stem test which took in seven feet of formation at the bottom of the hole produced 1,750 feet of oil and 60 feet of brackish water In 15 minutes. The test had one foot of shale at 2 760 69 feet and three feet of saturation at 2.769-72 feet and 7-tnch O. D. casing was set in the shale break. The test was drilled to 2,765 feet and did not core the upper gas sand. This hole was sidetracked from the original hole at 2.500 feet after salt water showed on dnll stem test of saturation at 2,763-71 feet in additioi to 42 Joints of oil. In the center of the field. Show ers Sc Moncrief’s No. 3-B John Lawrence, In the center of the I northeast 13 5 acre* of tract 274 porcion 38. about 1,600 feet east ol discovery, set and cemented 7-inch O. D. casing M 2,778 1-3 feet. The sand record showed gas sand at 2,761-73 feet, oil sand at 2.773-78, shale at 2,778-78 1-3 feet and sat uration at 2,778 1-3-81 feet, where the hole is bottomed. The 4-inch shale break is the thinnest found in that part ol the field, wells to the north showing several feet of shale and to the south showing no shale break. The field's northwest outpost well, Gem Oil Company's No. 1 Seabury et al. in the east 24 acres of the west 48 acres of the north 78 acres of the southeast 166.9 acres of tract 256, porcion ?8. about 3.100 feet northwest of discovery, drilled plug in surface pipe Wednesday night and was making hole Thursday. NOTE OF THUNKS This is to express my sincere thanks first to Dr. J. L. Rentfro for his untiring attention and care of my sister during her late illness; to the Sisters of Mercy, to whom she was truly devoted; to the Band of Nurses, who rendered so many acts of kindness to me and my sis ter; to Mr. Hlnkley for his kind at tention and courtesy. Louise Corcoran. One of the potential charms of Guadalajara. Mexico, is the figure of San Cristobal holding up a child on an outside comer of Santa Mon ica church; tradition says that who ever looks upon it will be free from harm for at least 24 hours. Harlingen Boasts 7 Boy Scout Troops (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN, Feb. 14.—There are seven Boy 8cout troops in Harlin gen sponsored n as many different churches and organizations, it was explained by those engaged in the finance <1 ive. Troop 23 is sponsored by the La tln-American club, the negro troop by the Methodist church. Troop 32 by the Kiwanls club, Troop 72 by ' the American Legion, Troop 76 by the Border Patrol. Troop 9 by the Baptist church and Troop 68 by the Clio club on the Brlggs-Coleman tract. Debate Tournament To Begin March 1 (Special to Th* Herald) SAN BENITO. Feb. 14.-An In vitation debate tournament will be held here Fnday and Saturday, March 1 and 2. according to an nouncement from C. L. Fincher, local debate coach. There will e* entries from out side the Valiev as well as In. Edge wood high school of San Antonio having accepted an invitation. There will be divisions for girls and boys and trophies will be award ed in each. 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