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THE WEATHER J
(By 0 a. Wnth« Bonta)
Brownsville and the Valley: Part
ly cloudy to cloudy Friday night;
Saturday partly cloudy.
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FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 200 »• fur n«a-r»m » ia» BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1935 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY • • 5« A COPT
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By RALPH L. Bl'KLL
OUR OLD FRIEND GEORGE
Lochrie of Raymondville writes ths
circulation department of The
Brownsville Herald.
His letter needs no comment from
us, here it is:
“On January 29th I mailed you a
check on the Raymondville State
Bank but through some error I have
not been receiving the paper lately.
“Of course I can get along without
The Herald, but it would be Just like
using a coal oil lamp with electrl
^ city available!
“I am with The Herald like the
negro and his old Model “T.” He was
explaining all the good things about
his car, and finally asked, ‘what
kinda car you got. mistah?'
“T drive a Cadillac’
“ 'Well, I guess them* a pretty
food car, too, but I know* tills Fode
“It don’t make any difference to
me if the Extras do come out five
minutes late so long as I can depend
•n their contents."
Apologies to Mr. Lochrie on be
half of the circulation department,
appreciation on behalf of the entire
Herald organization.
• • •
L. A. BOORY. FIELD MANAGER
for the Brownsville Citrus Associa
tion
Thinks that too few of us, resi
dents and tourists—
Know the manner in which our cit
rus fruit is handled from the time
It leaves the field until it is packed
and ready to ship.
On behalf of his association Mr.
Boory gives a cordial invitation—
To all and sundry to visit the as
sociation’s packing plant on the
Fresno* road, Just off Palm Boule
vard—
And give its operations the once
over.
The painstaking processes by
which grade and quality pack are
assured—
Will be an education to moat oi
us
• • •
ROGER W. BABSON RODE
across Texas recently on t! Sunset
Limited of the Southern Pacific, and
being from Florida, most naturally
Mr. Babson was impressed with the
imprint of a cluster of Valley grape
fruit on the menu card as he ordered
his breakfast.
He penciled a note to the folks
back home in Florida, and told them
that:
“I have been surprised with the
tremendous citrus production ability
of this section.
"Tell the growers of southern
Florida for me to quit arguing and to
play ball.
“Otherwise Texas wnll lick the
pants off of us.
“Unless we get together and co
operate. we are done for."
And then he added:
“Wonderlul soil, .a little cool, but
tremendous crops. For every bearing
tree there are nine young ones, not
yet bearing. ‘
• • •
JUST ONE REGRET COMES TO
* ss in connection with the Incident.
If Mr. Babson had only written
that note after breakfast rather
than before—
With the taste of Valley grapefruit
still lingering on his palate—
He, as a prophet of trends and
tendencies—
Would wired his real estate agent
back in Florida to sell out—
That he was coming to the Valley
ARE BLUEBONNETS BLOOM
ing earlier than usual In the Valley
this year?
Must have been two weeks ago that
fudge Cunningham hailed us on the
street and called attention to his
bluebonnet boutonniere.
Yest rday up around Raymond -
I ville we noticed the state flower in
bloom along the road, and on our re
turn home had our attention called
to the blooms in several Brownsville
yards.
• • •
ON AND AFTER MARCH 1 IT
mill be atrictly legal to attach the
1935 license plates on your automo
bile.
And you must have them on * r
ear by the first of April—
But they are fcr sale by the coun
tj tax collector right now and you
can buy them any old
Mothers of Both Bonnie and Clyde Go on Trial
20 RELATIVES
AND PALS OF
PAIR IN COURT
Government Seek* To
Send Kin to Prison
For Harboring Two
Desperadoes
DALLAS. Peb. 22 (***—'The trial
of 22 relatives and friends of the
slain outlaw couple—Clyde Barrow
and Bonnie Parker—on harboring
charges, got under way in federal
court here Friday with the govern
ment and the defense moving to
trim down the list of defendants.
Mothers of the pair—Mrs Cumie
Barrow and Mrs. Emma Parker
Joined other defendants In seeking
; to have the indictment quashed on
a technicality.
Defendants Named
Besides the mothers of the
couple, other defendants were: L. C.
Barrow, Clyde’s younger brother and
his wife. Audrey Fay Barrow;
Blanche Barrow, wife of the slain
Buck Barrow, Clyde’s elder brother;
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Francis, brother
in-law and sister of Clyde; Billie
Mace, Bonnie's sister; Mr. and Mrs.
8teve Davis, stepfather and mother
of Raymond Hamilton, former Bar
row companion; Lillian McBride,
sister of Hamilton; Mary O'Dare,
former girl friend of Hamilton, and
her father, Joe Chambless; Floyd
Hamilton, Ray's brother and his
wife. Mildred Hamilton; Beulah
Praytor, and Henry Methvin, who
(Continued on Page Ten.)
HARLINGEN WILL
VOTE ONBONDS
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Feb. 22— Harlin- j
gen will go to the polls Saturday to
vote on restoration of the municipal
auditorium with the aid of a gov
ernment loan and grant.
The voters will pas* specifically on
a $60,000 bond issue which is to be
purchased by the Public Works ad
ministration at par. The PWA also
will make a grant of from $17,000 to
$25,000 which need not be repaid.
The amount of the grant will depend
on the amount above the sum ol the
bond issue required to reconstruct
the building. The amount may vary
according to fluctuations in con
struction costs, said Mayor Sam
Bolts.
The mayor also made It plain that
the amount of the bond issue, $60.
000, is all that would be expended
by the city as differentiated from the
school reconstruction program which
was a Civil Works administration
project.
The bonds will bear four per cent
interest.
Only persons having rendered their
real or personal property will be eli
gible to vote. Renditions may be
made up to voting time.
L. G. Nichcls will be presiding Judge
with George Phillips, judge in4 Mrs
John Gill. Mrs. Ben Johnson and
Mrs Martha White, clerks. All vot
ing will be at one box.
ERNEST THOMPSON
WILL MEET WITH
VALLEY OIL MEN
(Special LoTbe Herald>
MISSION, Feb. 22. — Ernest O
Thompson, chairman of the Texas
Railroad commission, will be guest
of honor at a banquet given by the
Samfordyce Operators' association
here Saturday night. The associa
tion represents all operators in Hi
dalgo county's new Samfodyce oil
field.
Thompson has been in Laredo on
commission business, but consented
to make a swing through the Lower
Rio Grande Valley and a varied
program of entertainment has been
arranged for him.
Prominent business men and of
ficials of other Valley cities have
been invited to attend the banquet
by officials of the assocltion. head
ed by Ben H. King, Mission, as
president
Grocers Elect
AUSTIN, Feb. 22. (AV-C. Y Ear
ly of Brown wood, president, and oth
er officers of the Texas Wholesale
grocers were re-elected in their an
nual convention.
James W’earden of Victoria was
added to the executive committee.
Powers of the NRA code were stud
ed as grocers sought greater cooper
ation among themselves to eliminate'
rhiselen.
Crew Is Rescued
NEW YORK. Feb. 22.—(AV- The
entire crew or the storm-tossed
Italian freighter S S. Taide was
rescued Friday by the S. S. Galea,
Radio Barlne Corporation reported
The rescue was effected off the
coast of France, in the Bay of Bis
cay.
Rate Differential
Discussion Meeting
Called at Mercedes
A Valley-wide meeting of all interested individuals and
organizations, public and private, to discuss the freight
differential—known as the Robstown differential—has
been called to be held at the Mercedes high school audi
torium at 8 o’clock Monday night, February 25.
KENNAMER TO
BE SENTENCED
Son of Federal Judge Found
Guilty But He Escapes
Death Penalty
PAWNEE. Ok la Feb. 22—UP>—
Friday wa* no holiday for Phil
Kennamer.
Convicted of first degree man
slaughter for the fatal shooting of
John Oorrell in Tulsa last Thanks
giving. the 19-year-old son of Fed
eral Judge Franklin E Kennamer
paced the floor of the old sand
stone jail here awaiting sentence
Saturday.
Holly Anderson. Tulsa county
attorney, intimated he would de
mand a long prison term for the
youth. Under state law*, the sen
tence might be set at from four to
99 years.
Judge Thurman Hbrst will pass
sentence at 2 p. m. Saturday. At
that lime, attorneys for the slayer,
who alternately was described as
brilliant and insane, will file their
motion for a new trial.
Oklahoma still teemed with
rumors, none verified, that an ar
rest might be made soon In the
oeath of young Sidney Born, associ
ate of the Tulsa youngsters called
as witnesses m the Kennamer trial.
Born was found shot to death a
week after Oorrell. The state called
Born’s death suicide.
CARDENAS VISITS
IN MONTERREY ON
TOUR OVER STATE
President LAzaro CArdenas of
Mexico arrived in Monterrey Friday
morning, according to dispatches re
ceived m Matamoros early Friday,
and Mayor R. Munguia C of Mata
moro« and Guillermo Shears, prom
inent political leader, left Friday by
train to greet Mexico's president.
Mayor Munguia will Invite Mexi
co's president to visit the border
City. There is a strong probability
that President Cardenas will visit
Matamoros, as he has expressed a
desire to visit all federal construc
tion projects and their proposed
sites.
Former Candidate
To Face Charge*
FORT WORTH, Feb. 22. {&*)—Mrs. I
Kate M. Johnson, who once ran for
governor and who has announced
she will become a candidate for
that office in 1936. was brought to
the Tarrant county Jail Thursday
night to face four old forgery and
passing charges.
Her trial was set for March 1 in
criminal district court.
Mrs. Johnson was charged here
with passing two forged checks, for
$29 and $103. on Dec. 23. 1933; a
check for $6.95 on Feb. 9, 1934. and
a check for $10 on March 14. 1934.
Appointment Delayed
AUSTIN, Feb. 22. i/F)—Governor
James V. Allred said Friday his ap
pointment of a successor to Beauford
Jester of Corsicana, chairman of the
University of Texas regents, would
be delayed several weeks.
Jester will remain, he said, un
til federal loans are negotiated for
university buildings. Allred said uni
versity officials said two weeks more
would be needed, but he anticipated
it would be longer.
Announcement of the meeting
wu made Friday by the Valley
chamber of commerce secretaries
differential committee, consisting
of Pete Smith of the San Benito
chamber. L. F. Boling of the Mer
cedes chamber, and Harry Ratliff
of the Weslaco chamber.
Speaking for the committee, Mr.
Boling said that the committee from
the Rio Grande Valley Vegetable
Growers association, which Friday
wu en route home from Washing
ton where they went in connection
with the differential fight initiated
by the growers organization, is ex
pected to attend the Monday night
meeting. Arrangements for such a
meeting were made prior to the
committees departure for Washing
on, Boling said.
"The Interstate Commerce com
mission has announced that It will
send an examiner to the Valley
during the latter half of April to
conduct hearings on the differen
tial." Boling said. "If the Valley
is to be prepared to present its tes
timony before that hearing, there
are important things to be done. It
will not be a simple matter to
gather all testimony in such a short
time, and there must be quick ac
tion."
The secretaries' committee an
nounced that no special Invitations
will be sent out, but urged that all
civic clubs, municipalities, counties,
growers organizations and such
should be represented. It is im
portant. it was said, that county
commissioners, county Judges, may
ors and city commissioners attend
the meeting
FRUIT PRICES
MAKING GAINS
Truck quotations for grapefruit
and oranges have made sizeable
gains during the week, according to
reports from the U. & Market News
bureau here.
Oranges have gained about 50
cents a box and boxed grapefruit is
up from 15 to 25 cents. Bushel
grapefruit Is up about 15 cents. This
Increased bushel prices from about
75 cents to about 90 cents.
The increase In prices Is due
to lack of fruit and rainfall which
hampers harvesting.
Vegetable sldpments from the
Valley over Thursday night totalled
104 carloads, the market news
report showed.
CITY HEADS BACK
FROM PARLEYS ON
PROJECTS OF PWA
Mayor R. B. Rentfro and City
Manager Z. A Rosenthal returned to
Brownsville Thursday aiternoon
from a trip to Fort Worth and oth
er Texas points. While in Fort Worth
the city officials Ironed out various
details in connection with PWA proj
ects now under way by the city and
conferred with Julian Montgomery,
state PWA engineer.
On their trip they conferred with
city officials and managers of pub
lic utility concerns on water and
light rates, in line with the recent
ly announced intention of the city
to lower rates her* if possible.
A conference was held also in
Corpus Christi with officials there
relative to rates charged by the city
of Corpus Christi to the navigation
district and the manner in which the
distribution of light, water and
power is managed at the port of
Corpus Christi.
Now Dispute Gets Blame For
Washington’s Tree Chopping
WATERBORO. Me.. Feb. 22.
iJP)—The oft-told and sometimes
disputed story of George Wash
ington and the cherry tree was
told with a new verlson Friday
One in which the youthful
George is represented as having
chopped down the tree because of
a dispute with his step-brothers.
It was related by Webster Mar
tel Smith of Coalsburg. W. Va..
who said he learned what he call
ed the true circumstances of the
incident while delving into mus
ty records of his family. He is a
direct descendant of Martha Ball
Smith, an aunt of the nation’s
first president.
According to Smith's version,
the boy* of the Washington fam
ily. vhic.i included children of
the first wife of George's father,
squabbled each year over the
fruit* of a certain cherry tree on
the Washington place along the
Rappahannock In Virginia.
If George and his own brother
took possession of the tree, his
stepbrothers bombarded them with
sticks and stone*.
One summer. George, armed
with a hatchet, assembled his
companions. Including negro boys,
i nd climbed Into the tree. They
withstood the usual bombardment
for a time, but finally George
jumped to the ground and chop
ped down the tree, shouting:
"By the Eternal. If Mary Ball's
boys cant have these cherries, her
stepsons can't have them either.”
The story then relates that
George's father threatened to
punish him, but relented after
hearing his son's forthright reply,
as every child has no doubt beard.
BE TO BUILD
DAMS FOR RIO
IS mUCED
Request for $75,000,000
River Work Is Put
Before Solons By
West
(Special to The Herald*
SAN BENITO. Feb. 22 —A bill pro
viding for a federal appropriation
of $73,000,000 for storage, flood oon- j
trol, drainage, and hydro-electdlc
power development on the Rio
Grande was Introduced into congress
Friday by Congressman Milton R
West.
This announcement was received
here by J. E. McAnally, assistant
manager of the San Benito Irriga
tion district, from Frank Robertson,
manager of the district and secre
tary of the Valley Water
convervatlon association. Robertson
is in Washington working to get an
additional $2,000,000 for .Valley flood
control work.
t'nder State Department
Congressman West announced
three weeks ago that he was prepar
ing the bill fbr submission, and made
known then Its general terms.
The measure as introduced pro
vides that the fund for development
of the Rio Grande shall be snent un
(Continued on Page Ten.)
RATE ENVOYS
ARE DUE BACK
Leader* of Fight Against
Differential Return
From Washington
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Feb 22 —The four
farm leaders who have been In
| Washington the past few days
seeking to have the Robs town dif
ferential removed are expected back
in this section Friday night, and
will make a report at an early
date.
The delegation Includes R. Roy
Ruff of Brownsville, president of
1 the organization; E. A. Warren of
! Lyford, A. C. Barnhart of McAllen.
! and Homer B. Huntley of Harlin
gen, who will remain a day longer
in St. Louis visiting relatives.
A meeting of the Valley differ
ential committee, headed by L. S.
Boling of Mercedes, will be held
there Monday night, Boling an
nounced. at which time further ac
tion will be considered
The farm delegation has made no
announcement so far. although a
reopening of the differential case
was ordered some time ago, and an
I. C. C. examiner is to be sent to
the Valley some time in April to
hear the Valley's plea for removal
of this surcharge.
Wire Flashes
LOS ANGELES.—Wiley Poet. In
trepid flier who started a sub
stratosphere dash from Los An
geles to New York early Friday,
was forced down without materia!
damage to his plane at Muroc Dry
Lake. 125 miles northeast of here
he advised the Lockheed corpora
tion.
Wildcat Well*-Are
To Make Stem Test*
f Special to Tha Herald)
MISSION. Feb. 22.—Drill stem
tests on two important wildcat tests
will hold the attention of Hidalgo
and Starr County operators this
weekend.
Drill stem test is scheduled for W.
L. Clary’s No. 1 Brock & Showers.
In lot 4, block 12, porcion 80. Ancient
Jurisdiction of Reynas*, about IS
miles northwest of here, sometime
Friday. The test cored five feet of
well-saturated sand at 3,053-58 feet,
nearly a week ago. Legal and mech
anical difficulties have prevented an
earlier test.
E. V. Van Huss’ No. 1 Oarcla Land
& Livestock company. In porcion 100.
southeastern Starr county, will also
be watched with great Interest as
drill stem test is made of saturated
sand at about 2,785 feet.
County Attorney If
Father of Daughter
(BdpcIsI to Th# Her»idt
SAN BENITO. Peb. 22 —County
Attorney Charles C. Bowie Is re
ceiving congratulations on the birth
of a ba.>y girl.
The child was born at Valley Bap
tist hospital Wednesday.
LEAVES WITH PRISONER
Sheriff R. T. Hall of Carrlso
Springs left nere Thursday with R.
C. Harless after serving a warrant
on the Rio Hondo man charging
him with theft In Dimmltt county.
Harless was arrested by the sher
iffs department On orders from
Sheriff Hall, and he was turned over
to the Oarriso Springs sheriff here!
Tuesday. I
Inland W( terways
Tonnage Survey In
Valley Is Planned
Plans for a survey of the Lower Rio Grande Valley to
determine the amount of tonnage that might move over
an inland waterway were being discussed at a meeting
here Friday of directors of the Intracoastal Canal asso
ciation, with C. S .E. Holland of Houston, president of the
-1 association.
CITY WILL GET
$23,800 MORE
Additional PWA Grant to B«
Used on Drainage And
Repair Project
An additional grant of $23,800 hat
been awarded the city of Browns
ville by the Public Works Adminis
tration according to telegrams re
ceived by the city from Senators
Tom Connaly and Morris Sheppard
and Representative Milton H. West
The grant was announced In
Washington late Thursday.
Allocation of the additional grant
had been expected here following a
recent visit to Washington by City
Manager Z. A. Rosenthal who pres
ented the city's application to the
Public Works Administration and
outlined the needs of the various
projects for which loans and grants
had already been made.
Proceeds of the additional grant
will be used on tha city’a drainage
and building repair project, for
which a loan of $45,000 and a grant
of $10,000 already has been made.
The new grant allocates an addi
tional $8300 as a grant from the
PWA to be used on this project.
An additional grant of $17300 was
made by the PWA to provide funds
for construction of an electric
transmission line f om the city to
the Brownsville port site. This ad
ditional allocation s made on the
power plant rebuilding project for
which the city has received a pre
vious loan of $121,000 and grant of
$24,000.
FIVE INJURED AS
CARS COLLIDE ON
M’ALLEN STREET
(Special to The Seraid)
McALLEN. Feb. 22.—Five persons
were injured, one critically, when
two cars collided on North Tenth
street here early Friday morning.
The moot seriously injured was
Lawrence “Mike” Bartliff, SO, son
of L. U. Bartliff, prominent McAl
len business man and pioneer res
ident. who sustained a broken left
leg. a broken right ankle, severe
shock and loss of blood through la
cerations on his chin and mouth.
The others were Leonard Chalk,
16, facial cuts; John Larson. 16,
cuts about his face and head; Jake
Nabors. 31, cuts about his faoe;
Henry Whittenburg, Jr., 16, cuts
about this legs.
The coupe in which Bartliff and
Nabors vAre riding was in collision
with the sedan in which the other
three rode.
Froiti Are Hitting
Florida Vegetables
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Feb 12.— Light
frosts continued In the Florida
vegetable belt Friday morning, ac
cording to reports received here by
the frost warning bureau.
Jacksonville reported a light
frosi early Friday morning with a
temperature of 44. Hastings In the
potato belt reported a temperature
og 34 Friday morning
The Thursday report showed
frost at Bartow and a temperature
of 36 at Hastings There were light
frosts at Gainesville and Jackson
ville Tuesday.
This survey will be used In the
fight by the organization to obtain
approval of the proposed extension
from Corpus Chrlsti to the Rio
Orande. in view of decision of the
U. 8. Army engineers to withhold
final Judgment on the extension un
81 results of other waterway de
velopments In South Texas may be
watched.
The Valley tonnage survey is part
of a general move Incorporated In
a revue of the project authorized
recently by the Rivers and Harbors
committee, and Mr. Holland, in an
interview with The Herald, express
ed optimism over outcome of the
project eventually.
"The survey which has been In
the hands of the Army Engineers
was based cm conditions as they ex
isted five years ago," Holland said.
He pointed out that the original
survey had been started by the late
General Goethals, who died before
It eras completed, and that In Its
final form It did not do Jurtlce to
the matter in view of the trying
conditions under which it was com
piled.
"We feel that a new survey of the
prospective Valley tonnage, made
by a man of the type of General
Ooethais, and using facts as they
are today would throw a different
light on the matter," Holland con
tinued.
He brought out thgt the project
is financed as far as Corpus Chrlsti.
The Arroyo Colorado Navigation
(Continued on Page Ten.)
DEATH NOTES
HELD SECRET
Reason For Plunga of Two
GirU From Plane May
Be Revealed
LONDON, Peb. 22. UR—Two fare
well notes, their contents undlvulg
ed, held the death secret of Jane and
Elisabeth Du Bols Friday,
Coert Du Bols, United States con
sul general at Naples, father of the
attractive young women who plung
ed U> their deaths Thursday from an
airplane, was enroutc here with hi*
grief-stricken wife to receive his
daughters' messagea
The two notes, lound on a seat of
the airliner after the sisters had
leaped from It at an altitude of 3,000
feet over Upmlnister, Essex, were in
the custody of the American consul
here. •
The notes addressed to Mr. and
Mrs. Du Bols, which Jane and Elisa
beth left behind, were reported to
have explained that they wished to
die because two young royal air force
aviators In whom they were Inter
ested perished in an air disaster at
Messina, Sicily, last week.
The young women were said to
have been “informally engaged'' to
the two fliers. Flight Lieutenant
Henry Longfield Beatty and Flying
Officer John A. C. Forbes.
109 Sign Petition
For Vote on Bonus
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. (A*v—Ad
vocates of the Patman $2,100,000,000
bonus pay-off bill passed the half
way mark Friday In their drive to
assure house consideration of the
measure.
In early afternoon, 109 members
had signed a petition to take the bill
away from the ways and means com
mittee and bring It to a floor vote
In the event It is smothered In the
committee.
TO make the petition effective, 117
signatures are needed.
Congress Turns Clock Back;
Hears Washington’s Speech
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. OTV
The senate and bouse turned the
clock back 130 years Friday to
listen to George Washington’s
farewell address as though this
were 1706 and they were hearing
the message for the first time.
In assembling on Washington's
birthday to hear again the famous
advice of the father of his coun
try, congress followed one of Its
oldest traditions.
Senator Austin (D-Vt) was
chosen to read the 8.000 word
message before the senate. Speak
er Byrns waited until the last
minute to choose a representative
to read It.
The farewell address, directed to
the people—“My friends and fsl
low citizens"—was made public
on September 17, 1796.
As the senators and representa
tives listened to it President
Roosevelt was celebrating the
first president's 203rd birthday
anniversary by remaining away
from his office and refraining
from business appointments.
The celebrating of Washington’s
anniversary continues a custom
originating 118 years ago at Val
ley Porge during his lifetime.
The Valley Porge occasion, the
first public celebration, was on
February 22, 1777, while Wash
ington was in winter quarters with
his army, The band of Proctor’s
artillery serenaded the general to
remind him of hi* birthday.
HARD-HEADED
SENATE’S ACT
HAY ENDPLAN
Solon* Bolt Ranks To
Tack on Pay Clause
And Vote Predicted
By Spokesman
WASH! NO TON, Feb. W.—</Pb—A
flat statement from Senator Byrnes
(D-SC), an administration spokes
man, that the works program of the
$4,800,000,000 relief bill “la deed”
threw senate circles in a turmoil of
speculation lets Friday aa to th«
ultimate outcome of the legisla
tion.
Many senators looked upon th«
statement ss merely a threat to
force a reversal on the prevailing
wage amendment.
Returned to Com mi tie*
Senator Robinson, the democratio
leader, and Chairman Glass who
is in charge of the bill returned
earlier to his appropriations com
mittee. refused to say what plana
they had.
Byrnes, who took a leading part
in fighting opposition amendment*
in committee and who kept In close
contact with the Whits House mean
while. told interviewers after the
senate quit for the day:
•The president will veto the bill
with the prevailing wage amend
ment In it. but the senate insisted
on putting it in The work program
is dead.”
Even before the senate returned
the bill to committee on Robinson's
motion so the 1880.0X400 direct
relief portion could be brought into
the senate as a separate bill. Speaker
Byms had predicted the home
would uphold the president In op
position to the prevailing waga
amendment.
Despite the statement by Senator
Byrnes, other senators believed the
committee either would report out
$880,000,000 next week to carry for
ward direct relief and develop
something later on the works
phase, or recommend $1,880.000400
to continue the present set-up for
a year.
Wage name Attached
This would leave in committee tha
controversial $4,000,000,000 work
relief program to which the aenaUi
attached, 44 to 43. a prevailing waga
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BARRISTERS FROM
VALLEY TO ATTEND
STUDY OF COURTS
CORPUS CHRISTI, Ftb. M (AV
Approximately 300 attorneys and
Judges from south Texas cities will
gather in Corpus Christ! Saturday
for a study of proposed legislative
measures designed to simplify court
procedure and speed trials.
Chief Justice John H. Bickett of
the San Antonio court of civ% ap
peals will be the principal speaker,
J B. Hubbard of Corpus Chrlstl waa
named toastmaster. .
Other barristers expected includ
ed Judge A. M Kent of Brownsvllla,
Gordon Griffith of McAllen. Judge
Oscar C Dancy of Brownsville and
Lamar Olll, of Raymondvtlle.
Oil Worker Hurt
CORSICANA. Peb. M (AV-Roy
Lock. 43, of Henderson, is in a.
critical condition in a Corsicana
hospital with little chance for re
covery. as a result of in Juries re
ceived when h* became entangled
in a cathead on a drilling rig near
Fairfield
He received g broken right tag;
broken left wrist; broken left el
bow; broken right wrist; a serious
head injury, and two mangled fin
gers of the left hand, which neces
sitated amputation.
TONIGHTS MOVIES
OVER THE VALLEY
.. "!•"
Brownavllle: Tha Capitol—Wallkee
Beery and Adolphe Menjou In "The
Mighty Barn urn." The Queen—Beg Bell
and Ruth Mix In “Tonto Kid.” The Dttt
raann- W C. Fields and Alison Skip
worth In “TUlle and Oua.**
8an Benito: The Rival!—Rudy fallow
and Ann Dvorak in “Sweet Music."
Harlingen: The Arcadia—Lionel Barry
more. w C. Fields and Madge Ivan*
In “David Copperfleld.” The Rialto—
Rex Bell and Ruth Mix In “Tonto Kid.”
La Ferla: The Bijou -Barbara Stan,
wyck and Warren William In "The Se
cret Bride."
Raymondvtlle: The Ramon—Lyle Tal
bot and Ann Dvorak In "Murder in the
Clouds.”
Donna: The Plaaa—Laurel and Kardy
In “Babea In Toyland.'*
San Juan: The San Juan—Richard
Arlen and Madge Wans In "tfelldorado.”
Mercedes The Capitol—Warren Wil
liams and Margaret Lindsay in “The
Dragon Murder Case.”
Weslaco The Rita—Leo CarUlo and
Louise Faaenda In "The Winning
Ticket.” _
McAllen: The Falsce—Warner Baxter
and Myrna Lay In "Broadway Bill." The
Queen- Tom Tyler m “Tracy Rldm
Mission; The Mission—Carole Lom
bard and Cheater Morris in “The Oa*
■MSB”