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FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 200 n. nw w-*w uxom BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY • • • 5« A W. I |
By RALPH L. BUELL
OUR OLD FRUIND ^GEORGE
Lochrie of Raymondvllle writes the
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 Raymondvllle 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!
*T 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?’
“1 drive a Cadillac'
“ Well, I guess thems a pretty
food car, too, but I knows this Fode
“It don’t make any difference to
me if the Extras do oome out five
minutes late so long as I can depend
on their contenta."
Apologies to Mr. Lochne 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 clt
* rus iruit is handled from the time
It leaves the field until it ts 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
Fresnos 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 most ol
a
us.
• • •
ROGER W. BAIiSON RODE
across Texas recently on t' Sunset
Limited of the Southern Pacific, and
being from Florida, most naturally
Mr. Babson was Impressed with the
l 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;
*T have been surprised with the
tremendous citrus production ability
of this section.
“Tell the grower* of southern
Florida for me to quit arguing and to
play ball.
“Otherwise Texas will lick the
pants off of us.
“Unless we get together and co
operate, we are done for."
And then he added:
“Wonderful soil, a little cool, but
tremendous crops. For every bearing
tree there are nine young ones, not
yet bearing.*’
• • •
JUST ONE REGRET COMES TO
^ us 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
lng earlier than usual in the Valley
this year?
Must have been two weeks ago that
Judge Cunningham hailed us on the
street and called attention to his
bluebonnet boutonniere.
Yest rday up around Raymond -
ville we noticed the state flower in
sa 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
will be strictly legal to attach the
1935 license plates on your automo
bile.
And you must have them on • r
car by the first of April—
But they are for sale by the coun
t> tax collector right now and you
can buy them any old tim^
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Mothers of Both Bonnie and Clyde Go on Trial
20 RELATIVES
AND PALS OF
PAIR nycouRT
Government Seeks To
Send Kin to Prison
For Harboring Two
Desperadoes
DALLAS. Feb. 22 (A*)—The trial
of 22 relatives and friend* of the
slain outlaw couple—Clydo Barrow
and Bonnie Parker—on harboring
charges, got under way m 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. Emm* Parker
Joined other defendants In seeking
to have the indictment quashed on
a technicality.
Defendant* Naned
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.
Steve Davis, stepfather and mother
of Raymond Hamilton, former Bar
row companion; Lillian McBride,
sister of Hamilton; Mary ODare.
former girl friend of Hamilton, and
her father. Joe Ch&mbiess; Floyd
Hamilton. Ray's brother and his
wife, Mildred Hamilton; Beulah
Praytor, and Henry Methvin, who
(Continued on Pa*e Ten.)
HARLINGEN WILL
VOTE ON BONDS
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Feb. 22.—Harlin
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 pass specifically on
s $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
Botts.
The mayor also made It Main 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 betr 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. Nichols will be presiding Judge
with George Phillips, judge 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
iBpecui lotto* Hernia*
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 S&mfodyce oil
f'.eld.
Thompson has been In Laredo on
commission business, but consented
to make a swing through the Lower
Rio Grande VaUey and a varied
program of entertalnmeut 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. </P>—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 Wearden of Victoria was
added to the executive committee.
Powers of the NRA code were stud
ied as grocers sought greater cooper
ation among themselves to eliminate
chiaelers.
Crew Is Rescued
NEW YORK. Feb. 22.—(>P>— The
entire crew of the storm-tossed
Italian freighter S &. Talde was
rescued Friday by the 9. S. Galea,
Radio Barine Corporation reported.
The rescue was effected off the
roast of France, in the Bay of Bis
V.
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, Okla. Feb.
Fnday was no holiday for Phil
Kennamer.
Convicted of first degree man
slaughter for the fatal shooting of
John Gomel] in Tulsa last Thanks
giving, the 19-year-old son of Fed
eral Judge Franklin E. Kennamer
paced the floor of the old sand- j
stone jail here awaiting sentence j
Saturday.
Holly Anderson, Tulsa county
attorney. Intimated he would de
mand a long prison term for the ;
youth. Under state laws, the sen
tence might be set at from four to
99 years.
Judge Thurman Hurst will peas
sentence st 2 p. m. Saturday. At 1
that time, 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- 1
rest might be made soon in the i
oeath of young Sidney Born, assocl- ■
ste of the Tulsa youngsters called ]
as witnesses m the Kennamer trial. <
Born was found shot to death a i
week after Gorrell. The state called i
Born's death suicide.
CARDENAS VISITS
IN MONTERREY ON
TOUR OVER STATE
President LAzaro CArdenas of 1
Mexico arrived in Monterrey Friday I
morning, according to dispatches re- j
ceived in Matamoros early Friday,
and Mayor R. Munguia C of Mata
moros and Guillermo Shears, prom
inent political leader, left Friday by '
train to greet Mexico's president.
Mayor Munguia will Invite Mexl- ,
cos 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 construe- <
tlon projects and their proposed
sites. i
Former Candidate
To Face Charges
FORT WORTH, Feb. 22. (JPh-Mrs
Kate M. Johnson, who once ran for
governor and who ha6 announced1
she will become a candidate for
0hat office In 1930, 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. 1
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Appointment Delayed
AUSTIN, Feb. 22. UPt—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- i
versity officials said two weeks more
would be needed, but he anticipated |
it would be longer.
Announcement of the meeting
was made Friday by the Valley
chamber of commerce secretaries
differential committee, consisting
jf Pete Smith of the San Benito
chamber, L. F. Boling of the Mer
cedes chamber, and Harry Ratliff
sf the Weslaco chamber.
Speaking for the committee. Mr.
Boling said that the committee from
the Rio Grande Valley Vegetable
Growers association, which Friday
was en route home from Washing
ton where they went in connection
with the differential fight Initiated
iy the growers organization, is ex
pected to attend the Mi iday night
meeting. Arrangements for such a
meeting were made prior to the
:ommittee's departure for Washing
ton, Boling said.
“The Interstate Commerce com
mission has announced that it will
»end an examiner to the Valley
during the latter half of April to
conduct hearings on the differen
ial." Boling said. “If the Valley
s to be prepared to present its tes
timony before that hearing, there
ire important things to be done. It
will not be a simple matter to
father all testimony in such a short
ime, and there must be quick ac
tion.”
The secretaries’ committee an
lounced that no special invitations
will be sent out, but urged that all
dvic clubs, municipalities, counties,
frowers organizations and such
should be represented. It is im
portant, it was said, that county
tommissioners. county judges, may
>rs and city commissioners attend
he meeting
FRUITPRiCES
MAKING GAINS
Truck quotations for grapefruit
md oranges have made sizeable
;alns during the week, according to
«Ports from the U. S Market News!
Hireau here.
Oranges have gained about 50
ents a box and boxea grapefruit is
ip from 15 to 25 cents. Bushel
crapefruit is up about 15 cents. This
here as ed bushel prices from about
r5 cents to about 90 cents.
The Increase in prices is due
o lack of fruit and rainfall which
tampers harvesting
Vegetable shipments from the
/alley over Thursday night totalled
104 carloads, the market news
eport showed.
CITY HEADS BACK
FROM PARLEYS ON
PROJECTS OF PWA
Mayor R. B. Rentfro and City
Manager Z. A. Rosenthal returned to
Brownsville Thursday a: temoon
rom a trip to Fort Worth and oth
*r Texas points. While in Fort Worth
he city officials Ironed out various
ietalls 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
:ity officials and managers of pub
ic utility concerns on water and
ight rates, in line with the recent
ly announced intention of the city
» lower rates here If possible.
A conference was held also In
Corpus Christ! with officials there
•elative to rates charged by the city
>f Corpus Christl to the navigation
Itstrlct and the manner in which the
attribution of light, water and
?ower is managed at the port of
Corpus Christi.
Now Dispute Gets Blame For
Washington’s Tree Chopping
WATERBORO, Me. Feb. 22.
(AV-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 boys of the Washington fam
ily. whit , included children of
the first wife of Georges father,
sauabbied 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 stones.
One summer. George, armed
with a hatchet, assembled his
companions, including negro boys,
and 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 cant have them either*
The story then relates that
George's father threatened to
punish him. but relented after
hearing his son's forthright reply,
a* every child has no doubt beard.
. . * • ' \ ■ '
BILL TO BUILD
DAMS FOR RIO
IS INTRODUCED
Request for $75,000,000
River Work Is Put
Before Solons By
West
(Special to Th# Herald)
8AN BENITO. Feb. 22 —A Mil pro
viding for a federal appropriation
of $75,000,000 for storage, flood con
trol, drainage, and hydro-electdic
power development on the Rio
Grande was introduced into congress
Friday by Congressman Milton H.
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
convention association. Robertson
i* in Washington working to get an
additional $2,000,000 for .Valley flood
control work.
I nder Stale Department
Congressman West announced
three weeks ago that he was prepar
ing the bill for 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 spent un
(Continued on Page Ten.)
RATE ENVOYS
ARE DUE BACK
Leaders of Fight Against
Differential Return
From Washington
(Special to Tha Herald)
HARLINGEN. Feb. ^2—The four
farm leaders who have been In
Washington the past few days
seeking to have the Robstown dif
ferential removed are expected back
in this section Friday night, and
will make a report at an early
dats.
The delegation includes R. Roy
Ruff of Brownsville, president of
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 relativea
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 cats
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 Post. In
trepid flier who started a sab
stratosphere dash from Los An
geles to New York early Friday,
was forced down without material
damage to his plane at Muroc Dry
Lake, 125 pules northeast of hero
he advised the Lockheed corpora
tion.
Wildcat Well* Arc
To Make Stem Test*
(Special to The Herald)
MISSION. Feb. 22.—Drill item
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, porclon 80, Ancient
Jurisdiction of Reynosa, about 15
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
A Livestock company, in porclon 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 I*
Father of Daughter
(Special to The aerald)
SAN BENITO. Feb. 22 —County
Attorney Charles C. Bowie is re
ceiving congratulations on the birth
of a baby 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 Dimmitt county.
Harless was arrested by the sher
iff's department oq orders from
Sheriff Hall, and he was turned over
to the Carrlzo Springs sheriff here
Tuesday. I
Inland Waterways
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
CITY WILL '
$23,800 MORE
Additional PWA Grant to Be
Used on Drainage And
Repair Project
An additional grant of $23,800 has
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 the city's 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 $6,300 as a grant from the
PWA to be used on this project.
An additional grant of $17,500 was
made by the PWA to provide fund*
for construction of an electric
transmission line from the city to
the Brownsville port site. This ad
ditional allocation is 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 Herald)
McALLEN, Feb. 22.—Five persons
were injured, one critically, when
two cars collided on North Tenth
street here early Friday morning.
The most seriously injured was
Lawrence “Mike" Bartliff, 30. 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.
10. facial cuts; John Larson. 16,
cuts about his face and bead; Jaks
Nabors. 31, cuts about his face;
Henry Whlttenburg, Jr., 16. cuts
about this legs.
The coupe in which Bartliff and
Nabors wire riding was in collision
with the sedan in which the other
three rode.
Frosts Are Hitting
Florida Vegetables
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Feb 22.- Light
frosts continued In the Florida
vegetable belt Friday morning, ac
cording to reports received herr by
the frost warning bureau.
Jacksonville reported a light
frost 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.
association.
This survey will be used in the
fight by the organization to obtain
approval of the proposed extension
from Corpus Chrlsti to the Rio
Grande, in view of decision of the
U. 8. Army engineers to withhold
final judgment on the extension un
VI 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 end 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 on 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 was completed, and that in Its
final form It did not do justice 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
Goethals, and using facts as tney
are today would throw • different
light on the matter." Holland con
tinued.
He brought out that the project
Is financed as far as Corpus Chrlsti.
The Arroyo Colorado Navigation
(Continued on Page Ten.)
DEATH NOTES
^SECRET
Reason For Plung* of Two
Girls From Plan* May
Be Revealed i
LONDON. Feb. 22. JP>-Two fare
well notes, their contents undivulg
ed. held the death secret of Jane and I
Elizabeth Du Bois Friday.
Coert Du Bois, United States con- 1
sul general at Naples, father of the
attractive young women who plung- (
ed u> their deaths Thursday from an 1
airplane, was enroute here with his
grief-stricken wife to receive hu
daughters’ messages.
The two notes, found on a seat of
the airliner after the sisters had
reaped from it at an altitude of 3.00C
feet over Upminister. Essex, were in
the custody of the American consul
here.
The notes addressed to Mr. and
Mrs. Du Bois. which Jane and Eliza
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. Ad- <
vocates of the Patman $2,100,000,000 1
bonus pay-off bill passed the half* ]
way mark Friday in their drive to
assure house consideration of the 1
measure. I
In early afternoon. 100 members ]
had signed a petition to take the bill j
away from the ways and means com- i
mlttee and bring it to a floor vote ,
in the event it is smothered in the
committee.
To make the petition effective, 217
signatures are needed.
Congress Turns Clock Back;
Hears Washington’s Speech
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22. (*V
The senate and bouse turned the
clock back 139 years Friday to
listen to George Washington’s
farewell address as though this
were 1798 and they were hearing
the message for the first time.
In assembling on Washington's
birthday to heat again the famous
advice of the father of his coun
try, congress followed one of Its
oldest traditions.
Senator Austin fD-Vt) was
chosen to read the 8.000 word
message before the senate. Speak
er Byrns waited until the last
minute to chooee a representative
to read it.
The farewell address* directed to
the people—"My friends and lei
low citlsens”—was made public
on September 17. 1796. 1
As the senators and representa
tives listened to it President ,
Roosevelt was celebrating the
first president's 203rd birthday
anniversary by remaining away 1
from his office and refraining
from business appointments.
The celebrating of Washington's ,
anniversary continues a custom
originating 153 years ago at Val
ley Forge during his lifetime.
The Valley Forge occasion, the
first public celebration, was on
February 22. 1777. while Wash
ington was in winter quarters with 1
his army. The band of Proctor’s
artillery serenaded the general to
remind him of his birthday.
HARD-HEADED
SENATE’S ACT
HAY El PLAN
Colons Bolt Ranks To
Tack on Pay Clausa
And Vote Predicted
By Spokesman
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—OP)—A
1st statement from Senator Byrnes
D-SC), an administration spokes*
nan. that the aorks program of ths
,4.800.000000 relief bill “la deed1*
hrew senate circles In a turmoil of
peculation late Friday aa to ths
:ltimate outcome of the leglala*
km.
Many senators looked upon the
tatemcnt as merely a threat to
orce a reversal on the prevaiUas
cage amendment.
Returned to Committee
Senator Robinson, the democratic
eader. and Chairman Glass who
s in charge of the bill returned
arlier to hia appropriations cam*
nittee. refused to say what plana
hey had.
Byrnes, who took a leading part
n fighting opposition amendments
n committee and who kept in close
ontact with the White House mesa*
rhile, told interviewers after ths
enate quit for the day:
‘The president will veto ths bill
nth the prevailing wage amend*
nent In It. but the senate Insisted
►n jjutting It in The work program
Even before the senate returned
he bill to committee or Robinson*
notion so the $880.0X1.000 direct
elief portion could be brought into
he senate aa a separate bill. Speaker
3yrns had predicted the house
could uphold the president In op
xKitkm to the prevailing wags
amendment.
Despite the statement by Senator
3jrmes. other senators believed ths
ommlttee elthe» would report out
880 000 000 next week to carry for
card direct relief and develop
omething later on the works
ihase. or recommend $1.880.00<MNB
o continue the present set-up for
k year.
Ware Clause Attached
This would leave in committee ths
ontroversial $4,000,000,000 work
■ellef program to which the senate
ttached, 44 to 43. a prevailing wags
(Continued On Page Ten)
BARRISTERS FROM
GALLEY TO ATTEND
STUDY OF COURTS
CORPUS CHRISTI, Feb. 22 USV
Approximately 200 attorneys and
judges from south Texas cities will
[ather in Corpus Christ! Saturday
or a study of proposed legislative
neasures designed to simplify court
jrocedure and speed trials.
Chief Justice John H. Bickett of
he San Antonio court of civ* sp
ies Is will be the principal speaker,
r. B. Hubbard of Corpus Chrtstl was
lamed toastmaster.
Other barristers expected includ
'd Judge A M. Kent of Brownsville,
3ordon Griffith of McAllen. Judge
Docftr C Dancy of Browmvtlte and
>mar Gill, of Raymondvllle.
Oil Worker Hurt
CORSICANA. Peb. 22. UP>—Roy
^ock. 43, of Henderson, to in a
Titles 1 condition in a Corsicana
lospital with little chance for re
overy. as a result of Injuries re
reived when ht became entangled
n a cathead on a drilling rig near
'airfield.
He received a broken right teg;
woken left wrist; broken left u
x>w; broken right wrist; a serious
lead injury, and two mangled fln
rera of the left hand, which neoea
iltated amputation.
TONIGHT’S MOVIES
OVER THE VALLEY
Brownsville: The Capitol—'Wallace
Seery and Adolphs Menjou In "The
>Lghty Barn urn.” The Queen—Has Bsll
ind Buth MU lb "Tonto Kid " The Dltt
nsun- W. C. Felds and Ailaon Skip*
eorth in 'TlUie and Qua."
Ban Benito: The Rlvoli—Budy Valise
md Ann Dvorak In "Sweet Music."
Harlingen The Arcadia—Lionel Barry
nore. W C. Felds and Madge Evans
n "David Coppertleld." The Rialto—
les Bell and Ruth Mli in "Tooto Kid."
La Peris ■ The Bijou—Barbara Stan
ryck and Warren William In "The Se
cret Bride."
Raymondvllle: The Ramtm—Lyle Tel
xn and Ann Dvorak In "Murder la the
Jloude."
Donna: The Faxa— laurel and Hardy
n "Babes In Toyland."
San Juan: The Ban Juan—Richard
Irlen and Madge Evans In "Helldorado."
Mercedes: The CepttM—Warren Wil
iams and Margaret Lindsay in "The
Hiragon Murder Case."
Weslaco The Rita—Leo CarlUo and
Louise Far ends IB "The Winning
ticket."
McAllen- The Palace—Warner Baits*
tnd Myraa Ley In Broadway BUI." The
3ueen—Tom Tyler in "Tracy Htdea,
Mission: The Mtsaloo—Carole Lorn*
sard and Chester Morris in "The Oaf
an da,"
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