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NEW POSSIBLE!
EXTENSION OF
FIELD WATCHED
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(Special to The Herald)
MISSION Feb. 21—While opera
tors, geologist* and land men by
tha dozen* anxiously awaited re
sult* of a drill stem test ordered fot
the W L. Clary wildcat, 15 miles
northwest of Mission, another wild
cat about 6.500 feet northwest of the
Samfordyce discovery well cored a
few Inches of oil sand late Wednes
day night and again focused atten
tion on an important northwest ex
tension ol the Held.
Another new test cm the extreme
south edge of the Camlordyce field
and the first new test since the
showing In the Clary test were pre
paring to spud in sometime late this
week. ,
Gas Indication
A wildcat in south central Starr
county gave indications of ga* and
made rainbows on the ditcn while
effort* were being made to sidetrack
it for a test ol sand shown in a Sca
lumberger tea.
W. L. Clary s No. 1 Brock & Show
ars. in lot 4. block 12. porcion 80. An
cient Jurisdiction ol Reynosa, about
16 miles northwest oi Mission anu
II miles northeast of the Sim or
dyce field, is to make a drill stem
test ahortii Title difficulties which
arose shortly alter the test cored a
rich sand at 3.053-58 leet last Friday
caused a delay In further examina
tion of the sand If the core is con
sidered proof of probable produc
tion. another new ueld has been
opened In Hidalgo county. Leasing
activity has been extreme.y acute in
view of the fact that no driu stem
test had been made and only the on**
core was the single indication of pro
duction.
E. V. Van Huss'a No. I Garcia Land
6k Livestock company, 33u .eel Horn
the east line ol porcion 100, Ancient
Jurisdiction of Reynosa, in south
eastern fitarr county, was reported
to have cored several inches oi sand
at 2,790 feet late Wednesday night
The sand carried a good oraor ana
showed some oil. There was no in
dication ol sail water. The depth is
subject to change alter stecime
measurement but the ind.cations at
tracted considerable attention to the
northwest edge of the Sam'crdyce
fleid. A drill stem test l> expec ed to
be made shortly. Location is about
I, 000 leet west ol production In the
Samfordyce Held and about 6,530
feet northwest of the discovery wei
It la 4.747 leet south of State High
way 4
Nine Tests Under Way
The first new test to get under way
since the showing In the Clary well
northwest of here will be Showers &
Mcmcnei s No. 1 Brock At chowers,
660 feet from the north and 660 feet
from the east lines ol lot 11, block
18. porcion 79, Ancient Jurudict-on
of Reynosa. about three mtl« south
of the Clary teat. Derrick has been
completed machinery has been mov
ed to the location and the test should
be spudded in by the last of the week
The location was staked before the
Clery w-ell showed.
Both the Clary and Showers At
Moncrief tests are located in Vista
Hermoea subdivision, which Includes
both porclones 79 and 80, Ancient
jurisdiction of Reynosa, western Hi
dalgo The subdivision Indues the
II. 000-acre Brock A: Shower* ranch
owned bv E A Showers, Houston and
Fort Worth independent operator
and member of the firm of Showers
6k Moncrief, Inc., and J D Brock i
Mission business man and ranch
man
In the Samfordyce field Reserve
Development company* No 2 8ea
burv et al. in the southeast comer
of the north 28 acres cf the west 38
acre* of the southeast 89 80 acre.*
of tract 256. porcion 38. about 2100
feet west and slightly north of dis
covers drilled plug in surface cas
ing and began making hole Wednes
day night
Goodwill Banauet
Is Planned by C. C.
fSr*«*c<at to The
MI8SrON Feb 21 — At the reg
ular meeting of the Mission Cham
ber of Commerce this week the
board of directors voted to hold th**
annual meeting Tuesday, March 5
In the form of a '‘goodwill banquet ’’
The directors stressed that all eitl
aens interested In the development |
of Mission should plan to attend
and a special effort la going to be
made to have representatives from
all new business concerns indus
tries. and new trade territory de
velopments.
The banquet will be held In tbe
Christian church and according to
the committee In charge of ar
rangements, the first two hundred
reservations will be favored ones
The following committees were ap
pointed bv R L Starr, president of
the chamber, to handle the details:
arrangement* committee. Judge J.
O Henry H. H Dennis. “Sunny
Oarrisor:. program committee. Harry
Starr, Lloyd Ramey. C O. Dunbar;
ticket*, E E Maburgcr
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Vindicated Betty Goes Home
Cleared of all suspicion of participation in the Lindbergh kidnaping,
Betty Gow, the baby’s Scotch nurse, boards liner at New York with a
friend to for her home in Scotland. Her testimony helped convict
Bruno Hauptmann.
German-Jap War
Pact Charge Is
Hurled by Soviet
MOSCOW, Teb. 21. (.Pi—The offi
cial organs of soviet opinion up
braided Oeriany Thursday with ac
cusations of plans for aggression in
both eas err. and central Europe.
On the heels of the approval of the
London agreements extended by
Maxim Livinoff. commissar fcr
foreign affairs, on the condition they
Foncannon to Head ..
Oil Test Workers
(Special to The Herald'
MERCEDES. Feb 21 —Ray Fon
cannon was elected president of an
organization perfected here this
week to be known as the Hidalgo
and Cameron Counties and Arroyo
association, and composed of farm
ers and landowners of this district,
for the purpose of making a deep
well test. A Manahan was elected
secretary.
A committee of three was appoint
ed to make a map of the territory
to be presented at a meet.ng next
Tuesday night at the Foncannon
home. The committee includes John
O'Keefe, Orar.ce Grove road. 8 W
Roberts, who lives near the county
line, and Herman Krehflei, who
lives west of La Ferla, Fifteen hun
dred acres have been signed to date,
according to Manahan
Herbert A. Dennis, financier of
Perlor, 111, will be in Mercedes Fri
day to contact each .ndividual in an
attempt to get the blocks signed
solid and get action by the Tues
day night’s meeting.
The territory being signed up In
cludes land from the Rio Rico road
west to Blue Town east, and to th<
concrete on the north of the high
way past the Arroyo Colorado ana
possibly to the river
I are made effective in their entirety,
.ne autnuatanvt press pictured the
nazis as hungry lor war under the
disquLse of "diplomatic chattering.'
General display was given charges
ay the Czecnjaiovakian newspaper
.’.arodni Po.itika thu Japan. Ger
many and Poland were preparing
.or war against the soviet union. Tne
.nfiuentlai Pravda and izvestU.
nvwever, concentrated thetr atticks
on Gera any with incidental jibes at
England.
••German farclsm." said Pravda
“Is getting ready to occupy east and
central Europe in order to prepare
for war on the western front. Thu is
why U is against the eastern pacts
.aid mutual assistance.
••Further, it is trying with English
help to destroy Franco-Sov,et co
operation The English Bourgeoisie
must take into account tint the mass
of English toilers does not want war
end does not approve of encourag
ing the adventuristic plans of Ger
man fascism
“The English government has
aken to complicated maneuvers, but
is now faced by the general concius
.on that it is necessiry to accelerate
he completion of regional pacta
above all the eastern pact, and that
it is up to the English ruling circles
o promote this end "
Soviet Russia has lined with
"ranee and Oreat Brfaln in an ef
fort to obtain from Germany un
qualified adherence to the principles
of the London agreements.
C. C. HEADS TO MEET
<K* ■ M It', IK r|“'I lilt. 1
WESLACO. Feb. 21— Regular,
: >nth!v meeting of the Rio Grande
Valley Chamber of Commerce Sec
taries’ association will be held on
March 8 here, accord’ng to Harry
Ratliff, manager of the Weslaco
chamber.
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FALLEN SUIT
TARNSFERRED
(Special to The Herald)
SAN ANTONIO, Feb 21— Suit
to force payment of $8250 on a
fidelity bond to the McAllen State
Bank, whose vice president Is
charged with causing the loss in
July, 1932. was transferred Wednes
day from 73rd District Court to
Federal court.
James Howae. who wm vice
president of the bank before it was
called insolvent and taken over by
the state banking commissioner for
liquidation. Is made defendant along
with the Great American Indemnity
company E. C. Brand state bank
ing commissioner, the plaintiff,
seeks to recover on a banker s
blanket bond which had Insured
the bank against a total loss of
mm.
Brand charges that Howze and
W. C. Stefflns. who operated the
Texas Securities oompany. had en
gaged in a joint business to acquire
stock of the McAllen bank from
its stockholders, and while so do
ing Howze is alleged to have placed
$8250 subject to written order of
Stefflns without consent of the
bank. Stefflns orew three dr a It*
July 5. 16. 17 in 1932 for $5 00.
$2,42721 and $822 09, and placed
to his credit on a concern known
as the Texas Securities company
additional drafts.
The suit was filed in state court
Feb 4 and was moved on grounds
of parties doing business in dif
ferent States.
Weslaco Will Elect
Signs at Entrances
lSpecial to Tb* Herald*
WESLACO. Feb. 21.—Two attrac
tive signs extending a welcome to
Weslaco and listing all service clubs
of the city will be erected at each
entrance of the city with in the next
few daya. according to E. B Ballard
The signs are being built and erect -
ed through the efforts of the Lions
club, and E. B Baliard la chairman
of the committee. It was the decis
ion ot the Lions club to erect sign-1
for the benefit of tourists and new
1 comers of the Valley in as much as
| It Is difficult to distinguish the
names of the various cities in the
Valley at present. The signs will be
eight by 13 feet and will be attrac
tively built and will carry the em
blems of the various civic clubs ot
the city.
...—.—
CKtTELTY TO ANIMALS
HAJRLIMGEN. Feb 21 —Dragging
a cow behind an a u tome bile coat a
man he'e a 150 fine In corporation
court on a charge of cruelty to ani
mals.
Rote Cup Contest
Gets Under Way
(Special to The Herald»
WESLACO. Feb 21.—Plans have
been made to conduct the Valley -
wide City Beautification campaign
for 1935, according to Harry Ratliff.
Weslaco, who his been named chair
man of the committee by the Valley
.Secretary's association.
The campaign, which la sponsored
by the chambers of commerce of the
Valley and Mrs Julia Montgomery
of Brownsville, provides an entrance
fee from each participating city of
$10. First judging of the cities will
be made in the first part of Mirth
and the last judging will be made
during the lirst week In December
The city showing the greatest
amount of Improvement in the wav
of beautification in December will
be awarded the Montgomery Rose
Cup and a cash award of approxi
mately $100.
Scout Drive Begins
t»ueciai to The Herald i
MERCEDES Feb. 20 — The Boy
Scout finance committee met Wed
nesday to work out plans for the
annual drive in obtaining supporting
associate memberships for carrying
on the work in Mercedes during the
coming year.
Present were w O. Greenlee,
finance chairman. George Carnes,
assistant vice cha rman, Soout Exec
utive John Lealue E A. Brown. C.
B. Weimer. T. J. Ripert, Jack Mar
tin, Jimmie Nebemahl, and B. Q.
Mueller Other towns in the Valley
are holding similar meetings to ob
tain funds with which to carry on
the work of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley Boy Scout counc.l
8cout Troop 16. sponsored by the
local Ktwanis club, will participate
In the tree planting ceremony at 4
o'clock Friday directed by Scout
master B Q. Mueller. A retama tree
will be planted at the east approach
of the city, near the lily pool being
built under the direction of Mrs
J. C Lear and her c.ty beautifica
tion committee. The troop will gc
on an overnight hike the previous
night. A large attendance it ex
pected at the ceremony as the city
schools will be doted In honor ol
Washington s b.rthday
Growers to Meet
(Bner'el to The Hernldi
SAN BENITO. Feb 21— Ralph
T. Agar. Cameron county tax col
lector-assessor will make a talk on
taxation and Fred Sellars of Santa
Rosa a talk cn marketing before
the local unit of the Valley Vege
table Growers association Thursday
night at the city hall. W. E.
Chenoweth will preside for the first
time in his new capacity as chair
man of the local unit.
‘SETH PARKER’
IS TOWED IN
TUTU TLA, American Samoa. Peb
21. —With bedraggled sailing
gear flapping from her masts and
her pumps working contmuoulsy. the
American radio schooner Seth Park
er anchored at Pago-Pago Thurs
day.
The little sailing ship, whose dis
tress calls 10 days ago echoed
around the world and brought the
third son of King George to her
aid aboard H. M 8 Australia, was
• towed Into port by the U. 8. naval
tug Ontario at 10 p. m., Wednesday
night.
Although not badly damaged the
craft on which Phillips Lord, mas
ter and down east radio character
kown as Seth Parker, hoped to sail
around the world, was a sorry sight
All of her masts were still stand
ing but one or two spars had been
i tom away, her Jib sail was ripped
to ribbons and minor pieces of rig
ging were tom loose by the South
Sea storm she weathered
What will be done with the Seth
Parker waa not known. Lord laid
he did not plan to return to the
United 8tates until he has circum
navigated the globe.
All of the 13 men originally
aboard her were well
The Ontario took the Seth Park
er in tow last Priday, four days aft
er the British cruiser Australia,
with the Duke of Gloucester aboard
arrived alongside for the second
•time.
• We encountered a bad gale with
wind of hurricane force, which in
the early stages carried away the
upper rigging.* Lord recounted
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Thursday. “Laboring of the ship
caused serious leaking and we were
unable to take care of the water
coming In.
"The ship was wallowing in a
trough and unmanageable. Cap
tain (Constantine) Fllnk, 32 years
in sail, said he believed it would be
Impossible to weather the gale and
as this coincided with my opinion
end lives were at stake, the distress
call was sent out.
“If the gale had not abated. I
doubt if we could have lasted until
the arrival of the Australia which
stood by until the arrival of the
U. s S. Ontario, commanded by
Captain W L. Fres f an. who exe
cuted the greatest care and judg
ment in towing us to Pago-Pago
“We were unable to use our sails
because of the weakened rigging."
£1 Jardin Hotel
Under Receiver
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. II.— Rich
ard Olll. who hu been operating
the El Jardin hotel at Brownsville
as a trustee was appointed Wed
nesday to operate the hostelry un
der receivership. Olll as receiver,
was authorized to conduct the place
as heretofore. He was placed jnde*[
925 000 bond. . ^
Anointment of the receiver bf
Special Judge Court, was tx» re
soonse to a foreclosure suit Wm
aeamst the hotel by the Wheeler,
Kelly. Hapiy Trust company.
Olll, with the approval of the
nlalntlff*. mas authorized to uee
912.300 on hand. Wages due for
eerv ices 30 days back were au
thorized to be paid.____
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