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....■ THE WEATHER Hmi|| (By O S. Weather Barcas) Brownsville and the Valley: Most ly cloudy Friday night and Satur j ' day; not much change In tempera fi** 1 . FORTY-THIRD YEAR_No. 225 »• taiiw ***-*» ta uw van* BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1985 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY • • • 6e A COPY By RALPH L. Bl'ELL JUST TO KEEP THE RECORD Straight and all that sort of thing— Thursday was the first day of spring! And it found Valley men costless and Valley women with their short aleeved muslins. Blue bonnets in bloom. Spanish daggers in bloom— Birds chirping right merrily— And everybody hoping that old man Jack Frost realizes that spring is really here with no excuse for any more prankish tricks and belated oold snaps • • • A PROPOSED TOMATO MAR keting Agreement will be heard by shippers and growers Monday morn ing at 10 at the Harlingen city halL Representatives of the AAA will discuss details of the revised pact which will be submitted to tomato growers and shippers of Texas and Mississippi. Hot a thing in the world do we know about the proposed agreement but this: Valley tomatoes oome on the mar ket long before those of Mississippi. , and considerably in advance of those from other parts of Texas. The AAA took the Valley to a beautiful trimming on the Bank et «ad law provisions because of ^failure to recognize the early crop season of the Valley. We advise caution that the same trouble does not oome up In any to mato agreement. Personally we think the Valley »» getting along all right with its to mato deal without the help of the red taped rules and regulations of the Agricultural Adjustment ad ministration. • • • FEAR THAT HARTZELL IS getting lonely in his Leavenworth oell for some of his Valley play mates— Is expressed by a correspondent. Who says that at least $500 a week is still being paid into the Drake Es tate swindle by Valley suckers You know, there Is no law in the world that oan keep a man from being a damned fool— Especially when he Is just bound and determined to be that sort. ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT views with alarm the tendency of property owners in Brownsville to refuse long term leases on business properties. Says that such refusals are bound to slow up the wheels of progress He is right and he is wrong. Property owners, especially own x ers of rental properties, have taken /a beautiful trimming during the year of the depression, and have tak en it with a smile. Many the business man. whose rent was cut down by voluntary ac tion on the part of the owner of his property when business went to the demmtion bow-wows. And many the property owner who has failed to get tax money and re pair overhead and insurance money out of his property for the past two or three years. So when they refuse to tie them selves up with 5 and 10 year leases, leaving the way open to take ad vantage of the bound-to-come nse in the value of their properties, who can blame them? ... w FOR MONTHS WE HAVE BEEN looking for the answer to Brad 8mith's boastings about the time he makes in his new cou*>e. Brad, you know, covers the Hi dalgo and Starr counties oil front for The Brownsville Herald. But we have the answer. Prom Brownsville to Corpus Christ 1 in 35 minutes is what we are going to tell him the next time‘he pops off. And refer him to the Bowen air line schedule which goes Into effect Sunday for proof. But he'll come back, never worry! ... BY THE WAY. HAS ANYBODY seen -a Valley grapefruit national advertising campaign running around loose and seeking aa owner? We Just wondered. PWA Indictment Charges Denied TWO TEXANS CLAIM THEY AREINNOCENT Raymon dville Man Named in Indictment Declines to Comment On Charges • (By The Associated Press) Two of the men Indicted Thurs day for alleged conspiracy to de fraud the government in a $4, 853.000 Willacy county irrigation project, emphatically denied the charge; while a third declined to comment. A three-month investigation by Public Works Administration agents resulted Thursday In a special Dis trict of Columbia grand jury in dicting seven men. including two former Public Works engineers. Of the three available Thursday in Texas. Prank McElwrath and (Continued on Page Six) riveFproblem PARLEY CALLED Committee Will Meet At El Paao to Discuaa Distribution WASHINGTON, March 2J UP)— Secretary Hull ha* taken official cognizance of problem* concerning distribution of water* of the Rio Grande and has called a meeting at El Paso, Texas, to consider the mat* ter. F. S Robertson, a San Benito. Tex as, engineer, started the ball roll ing by advising Senator Connally (D-Tex) that development of six Mexican rivers Just south ol the In ternational boundary ‘ has a vital effect on our water supply and ac centuates the necessity for a treaty covering the equitable uses of wa ters of the Rio Grande between the two nations.” Connally referred the matter to the secretary who made this reply: •T’m fully aware of the apparent in dications of the Mexican •govern ment's interest in international wa ter problems and I propose to do what is possible and practical at this time With that in view. I am arranging, at the instance of boun dary Commisisoner Lawson, for the departments of war, agriculture and interior to have an engineer from each to serve on a committee to be assembled in El Paso in the next few (Continued on Page Six) HIDALGO COUNTY’S 48TH OIL WELL IS TURNED INTO TANK (Special to The Herald) MISSION. March 22—Hidalgo county's 48th flowing oil well in the Samfordyce field is now mak ing its daily allowable although first completed as a wet gasser. The new well is Navarro Oil Company’s No. 3 Seabury et al, in the northwest comer of the north 25 acres of the southeast 51 acres of tract 256. porcion 38. about 2.700 feet northwest of discovery. Casing was set and cemented at the bot t .im of the hole. 2.772 feet, and it was then gun-perforated at 2,770 feet. After cleaning, the test show ed only wet gas under high pres sure. It was closed in for several days and was then reopened for further tests. It began making oil and is continuing to produce under high gas pressures. We*t Only Texan To Vote Against Patman WASHINGTON. March 22. <AV Representative Milton West of Brownsville was the only member of the Texas delegation in the House of Representatives to vote against the Pitman bonus amend ment, providing the Issuance of new currency to pay the certifi cates. on the roll call taken late Thursday. West supported the Vin son plan, which provides for pay ment of the bonus, but without what Its sponsors claim is infla tion. AH other members of the dele gation. with the exception of Rep resentative Frits Lanham of Fort Worth, voted for tha Patman bill. Lanham answered present. Boy Pinch Hits in *Pucki Role The boy you'll know as "Puck" la the movie version of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream" will be Mickey Rooney. But, because Mickey broke his leg in the midst of his work, the boy you'll set in the lively antics of this char acter will be George Breakston. George is shown above in the . "Puck” role as he pinch hits for the unfortunate Mickey. NEW LAW AIDS FRUIT INDUSTRY Early Valley Citrus On Market to Be Superior To Florida’s BY HARRY FOEHNER (Herald Staff Correspondent! HARLINGEN. March 22.— Fig ure* compiled by the state depart ment of agriculture Inspectors with offices here show that only a small percentage of the fruit shipped from the Valley during the early part of the current season would have been able to meet the require ments of the new maturity law which has passed both houses of the legislature and is on the desk of the governor for his signature. This is so because the require ments of the new law are much stricter regarding sugar content written in as a result of demands from growers and shippers who suffered from the shipment of im mature fruit to the early markets. One of the principal changes in (Continued on Page Six) SIX POWERFUL FRONTIER AIR BASES JCEHED War Department Now Considering Sites For Establishment Of Defense Units WASHINGTON. March 21 (JPh A bill to authorize the war de partment t i build six powerful air bases to defend the nation’s fron tiers was approved unanimously Friday by the house military com mittee after it had heard the meas ure describee! as ‘‘essential” by high army officers. The full military committee will take up the bill Tuesday. Chair man McSwam said he thought its unanimous approval was likely. In determining the strategic lo cations for the bases, the war de (Continued on Page Six; SEED LOANS BILL SIGNED Farmers May Borrow Up To $500 On $60,000,000 Available Fund WASHINGTON. March 32. (VP>— The Farm Credit administration Friday started its machinery to make $60,000,000 in seed loans avail able within a week to farmers who need help to grow their 1935 crop*. The bill appropriating the money was signed by President Roosevelt Thursday night and Friday Governor William I. Myers of the Farm Cred it administration announced the loans would be disbursed through regional offices one of which is lo cated at Dallas. Only farmers cooperating with the government’s crop control pro gram are eligible for the loans, which will be limited to a maximum of $500. No loan, however, may be made that is greater than actually (Continued on Page Six) San Benito Winner Of Choral Event* (By Staff Correspondent > SAN BENITO. March 22— San Benito ward schools carried off moat of the honors in the choral singing contest of the Cameron county Interscholastic league meet Thursday night Landrum school won first place. Fred Booth second and Stuart Place finished third. There were nine schools entered and at conclusion of the contest they were massed tn the balcony for a program of songa There were 25 pupils on each team so that the massed chorus consisted of over 300 voices. Mr. Valley Advertiser: An A. B. C. Report? Let’s assume that you have not. The first thing to do. then, Is to ask The Brownsville Herald for a copy of their A. B. C. Audit Report. They will gladly furnish It. Read the report from beginning to end. The complete ness of the circulation Information will be a revelation to you. As a local advertiser the circulation facts In an A. B. C. report are Invaluable to you. The various paragraphs give you information you want and need—the total distribution and the net paid circula tion; how it was secured; how and where It is distributed. 1. e.. how much is In the Valley, how much is In your trading territory, etc.; also distribution of circulation by counties and many more facts having a bearing on the quantity and quality of the circulation. These facts are all given by dis interested auditors who have every facility for reporting the facts. The Brownsville Herald is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations in order to serve the best Interests of ad vertisers. It welcomes the opportunity of furnishing you circulation facts ascertained by this unbiased and unpre judiced auditing organization. AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 185 West Wacker Drive Chicago. CHISHOLM TRAIL MONUMENT FUND • •• ♦ # * DRIVE LAUNCHED A small monument to be erect ad in Brownsville at a coat com mensurate with "the size of our pocketbook” to mark the southern end of the old Longhorn Chisholm trail, is proposed by P. P. Ackley of Donna, who has done a notable work in marking tha trail across the State of Texas. The monument would be to memory of the now almost ex tinct Longhorn cattle and of tha cowboys who herded them on the plains and across the state to tha northern market*. "Deserving of something more than just s passing memory” is the old trail with Its wealth ot legend and history, thinks Mr. Ackley. To start the ball of contribu tions rolling, Mr. Ackley announces that he will subscribe 110. and ex presses the hope that hundreds of Valley people will feel the urge to subscribe at least a small amount, from 25 cents up. to as sure the erection of the monu ment. School children with their nick els and dimes and grown-up6 with the twenty five and fifty cent pieces should be able in a short time to raise the necessary amount, is the opinion of the sponsor of the plan. DE loir BY TORNADO $800,000 Damage Done To Upper Rio Grande Area By High Wind* DEL RIO. March 22. (£*>—Tor nadic winds, accompanied by a heavy ram. caused damage estimat ed at approximately $600,000 in this section of the upper Rio Grande country Thursday night. Twenty-one tanks collapsed at the Illinois pipe line farm. Several hundred sheep in one pasture drowned. Trees were uprooted, houses were unroofed and crops were lashed by the destructive wind, which reached a velocity of 56 miles an hour here. Telephone lines were blown down. Half of this city was in the dark for a time after the storm hit the section. Rainfall in the period of one and one-half hours amounted to more than four inches. The storm roared in from the west and passed over the city in the direction of Spofford. Rainfall there totaled one and one-hall inches. The driving rain weakened some stretches of Southern Pacific rail road track, necessitating repairs but not delaying traffic. ALAMO’S SERVICES FOR ANNIVERSARY TO START SUNDAY (Special to The Herald) ALAMO. March 22 - A fitting celebration of the 16th anniversary of the first anniversary services in the Alamo community will be observed at the community church here Sunday and Monday, March 24 and 25. Sunday evening a platform meeting will be held in the church, with musical numbers by a quar tet composed of men who attend ed that first service 16 years ago. Greetings will be read from for mer pastors of the church and former citizens of Alamo. A church supper will be served at ladles of the church Monday ght, followed by a social hour. Three reels of pictures of Alamo people and events taken several years ago by Bill Whalen will be shown, with added musical num ber*. Valley people are invited to join with the people of Alamo for the event Rangers Raid Night Club Second Time PORT WORTH. March 22.—[JPh Three Texas rangers slipped Into town from Wichita Palls Hiursday night and raided the Ritcy Ringside club for the second time In a week. Captain Fred McDaniels, who led the group, said they found a small quantity of liquor. With Captain McDaniels were Rangers Ski Kelso and Dick Old ham. 2,500 VALLEY STUDENTS IN LEAGUE MEETS County Events Under Way at San Benito, Donna and Lyford; Finals Saturday At least 2.500 Valley students representing practically every high school in this section, are entered in county lnterscholastic league meets at Donna. San Benito and Lyford Friday and Saturday. Both literary and athletic events are scheduled at 8an Benito and Lyford. while only athletic compe tition is being staged at Donna. The Hidalgo county literary section is to be held at Mission March 30. but more than 750 students are in the track and field events Friday and Saturday. It is estimated that about 1,500 of the best pupils and athletes in Cameron county will participate in the San Benito meet which got under way Thursday with volley ball, playground ball and choral singing. About 200 school children are participating m the Willacy county (Continued on Page Six) New Equipment For Penitentiary Urged HUNTSVILLE. March 22. (AV Adidtional equipment for the state penitentiary to give it a better op portunity to become self-supporting was in prospect Friday. C. C. Cannon chairman of the house penitentiary committee, and Carl Bergman, vice-chairman, pledg ed to make effort to secure the equipment after a regular tour of inspection of the prison Thurs day. Cannon said he believed his com mittee favored ‘ letting the peniten tiary make its own way" and added that "we ought to let the prison print shop compete for state print ing." Divorcee-Socialite Announces Marriage SAN ANTONIO, March 22. CSV Mrs Alice Traylor Morgan, social ly prominent divorcee, Friday re vealed she had been marned since Feb. 26 to Harold D. (Duke) Coul ter, nationally known polo star and former army captain. The marriage announcement came as trial of the suit in which William F. Morgan, wealthy oil man. to gam custody of his 11-year-old son from his former wife, began in distnct court. Coulter was discharged from the army after a court martial, behind closed door*, in which improper con duct with Mrs. Morgan was charg ed. Legions Bill Gets Beaten By 3-Vote Margin Margin Great Enough To Override Veto By F. D. R. WASHINGTON. March IX. (AP) — The administration • opposed Path.an bill for paying off tha soldiers' bonus by Issuing 12. 000.000,000 of new money wsa passed Friday by tbs house and sent to the senate. President Roosevelt has threat ened several times to veto the legislation if passed by congress. Senate approval waa freely predicted, but administra 11 o n leaders counted on that body to refuse to pass the measure over a veto. That would require a two-thirds vote. Before final passage, the house rejected 204 to 207 the Vlnson American Legion bill for paying the onus but leaving up to the government tin method of rais ing the money. It also tamed down the Tyd ings-Corhrmn • Andrews measure for making the payments in nego tiable bonds. WASHINGTON. March J2.-4AV By a three-vote margin, the house Friday refused to substitute the (Continued on Page Six) HOSPITAL AID DRIVE BEGINS Tag Day to Ba Held Here Saturday For Harlingan Institution The drive to raise funds for the Valley Baptist hospital at Harlingen will get under way In Brownsville Saturday with a tag day sale, it was announced Friday. The Brownsville drive originally was scheduled for last Saturday, but was postponed because of conflicting dates with the Charity Home tag day campaign. Rev. O. L. Smith, pastor of the First Baptist church here, will be In charge of the tag sale nere. H E. Butt of Harlingen Is general chair man of the Valley-wide campaign to raise funds for the hospital. Drives have ben launchd in sev eral other cities in the Valley, and (Continued on Page Six) Opposition to Court Changes is Recorded A communication from the Cam eron county bar association express ing opposition to any change in the present set-up of courts in Cam eron county, was entered in the min ute* of the county commisisoners’ court after a brief meeting Thursday. This was a resolution passed by the bar association before its meeting in Corpus Chrtsti with members of the Nueces county bar association The commisisoners also passed routine bills at the brief Thursday session. Spiritualists Take to Air To ‘Contact’ Dead Friends NEW YORK. March 22. UP)— ! Eerie voices of undetermined ori gin. wafting through the inky blackness of a darkened cabin plane as it soared 4,000 feet above New York, gave spiritualist* a topic of paramount interest Fri day. The voices identified themselves as belonging to the spirits of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famed creator of Sherlock Holmes and a firm disciple of spiritualism; Roald Amundsen, explorer; Hor ace Greeley, crusading newspaper editor of a past era. and Lincoln Beachey and Floyd Bennett, avi a tors. Attempted for the first time so far as the participants knew, the airplane seance took place Thurs day night through efforts of a group of New York spiritualists to overcome “Interference.’’ The Interference, they expl a 1 n e d. sometimes handicaps their at tempts feo contact the spirit world. Fourteen spiritualists were In the plane, from which all light had been shut by newspapers tacked across the windows Aft er the liner was In the air, Miss Maina Tafe, the medium, sug gested “everybody sing.” All did. Soon an unearthly and thin voice (the source as yet unde termined) came from one of the two aluminum trumpets In the aisle. It said It was Sir Arthur, and described the experience of talking with persons In an air plane as "more fantastic than death itself.” "Floyd Bennett” was heard as the plane roared over the Brook lyn airport named In his honor. The next voice, ascribed to Lin coln Beachey. said the spirit of Wilbur Wright was standing be side him. Arthur Ford, a friend of the late Sir Arthur, said after the seance he was sure "that was Sir Arthur’s voice.** The voice which claimed to be that of Amundsen came through without much trace of an ac cent. although Amundsen s voice was marked by his early years in Norway. This voice. In answer to a ques tion. told how Amundsen met death on a rescue flight in the Arctic, a tragedy still unexplain ed by history. “We became lost in the fog over trackless wastes of ice.” in toned the weird voice. “It was just as well that I went when I did. My work was done. I have been down with Byrd in Little America, watching over him.” The seance ended, the spir itualists. who Included some of the most widely known believers in New York, ripped the news papers from the windows. Moon light streamed brightly into the cabin. At the airport, the spiritualists, with John Ooldstrom as their spokesman, termed the venture a “complete success.” GERMANY TO DEMAND BIG NAVALFLECT Europe Prepares To Encircle Rearmed Nation With Wall Of Iron' GENEVA. Man* ». (API—The Lhiw of Nations Friday «oa» voked an extraordinary wewmUm of the eounril for the flret weak k» April to deal with the appeal of France against alleged German violations of the Treaty ef Ver sailles hi the creation of a ooo script army. An official communique said the exact date of the meeting will bo announced later. The convocation wae made by Foreign Minister Tewftfc Arse of Turkey. acting president of the council until the regular May session to be presided over by For eign Minister Maxim Litvlnoff of Kusaia. (By Ths Associated Prats) London naval circles heard Friday that Germany would demand a navy equal to that of Italy or Franca to complement her newly-created air and land forces. While the diplomatic representa tives oi France. Italy and Great Bri tain prepared to Journey to Paris for Saturdays tn-partite confer ence. the eyes of all Europe wera tu.ned to the forthcoming confer ence at Berlin between Sir John Si mon. Bnuxh ioreign secretary, and Reich&fuehrer Hitler. On the success or failure of the Berlin negotiations was expected to depend the entire policy of western European powers with regsit to preservation of peace upon the con tinent. LONDON—The possibility was seen that failure of the Berlin talks would result in a system of Euro pean Alliances to encircle resrmad Germany with a "iron wall." PARIS—While diplomats wool forward with their plans to seek a peaceful solution of the European crisis precipitated by Germany’s re arm ament declarations. Franca made it plain that sha was taking adequate precautions against tha possibility of an outbreak of war. BERLIN—Ths official press re torted to France’s protest again* Germany's unilateral abrogation af the military clauses of ths Versailles Treaty by accusing the French ot neglecting multitudinous opiiortun* ities for improving their relation* with Berlin. ROME—As Fulvio Suvlch, under secretary for foreign affairs, depart ed for Paris for the trl-partlte con ference, the government announced Italy’s military conscription laws had been tightened to add 500,000 men to the army. TOKYO—The Oerman ambassador called at the foreign office to give formal notice of Germany's denun ciation of the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty. WASHINGTON — Senator KJBJ Pittman, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, said the United States government is "no* interested'' in the question ' wheth er the Hitler government has vio lated the Versailles Treaty." Rev. Fritsche Dies At Santa Rosa Homo (Special to The Herald) SANTA ROSA. March 22.— Fu neral services will be held at Lomlre, Wls.. for Rev. Charles William Gustave Fritsche. 97. who died at the home of his daughter near here Thursday afternoon. Rev. Fritsche. who was bora 19 Germany, had been active In the Evangelical church for 66 years. He Is survived by three daugh ters. Mrs. C. A Christiansen, and Mrs P. M Christiansen, who reside In the Valley, and Mrs. W. P. Rad datz, Racine. Wls.; two tons. O. A. Fritsche, Racine; seven grandchil ; dren and three great-grandchildren. His daughters will drive to Lo rn Ira. Wisconsin, to attend the fu neral. ^ ^^mmm_ • Firing S^uad Takes Lives of 4 Russians MOSCOW. U 8 8 R. March 22. (AV-Four young Muscovites, three of whom were under 20 yean of age. were executed Friday for murder and robbery after a swift exemplary trial Intended to put an end to a crime wave in the Red capital. S Petroff. 18 N Tlotln. 19. and F. Dobrovolsky. 20. were shot to death after being convicted of the murder of a 72-year-old kindergarten teach er. 8 Fedoroff was the fourth to be executed. He and his companions were alleged to have established a crime club In which they mapped out plans of lawlessness. TONIGHTS MOVIES OVER THE VALLET Brownsville: The Capitol—Will Rag* era in Life Begin* at 40.” The Quean— Ted Well* In "The Phantom Cowboy The Dlttmann—Janet Oaynor and War nar Baxter In ’ Paddy the New Bee* Thing ” San Benito: The Rlroll—Buaaatt Hardy and Jean Parker In ’ Sequoia Harlingen: The Arcadia -Ruaaell Hardy and Jean Parker In "Sequoia. The Rialto—Tom Tyler In ’"The Surer Bullet " La Ferla: The Bijou—Evelyn Lay# *» •’Erenaong.” Donna The Plana—Raman Navarro and Evelyn Lay# In "The Night m Young” __ Sail Juan: The Ban Juan—Oary Coop er. Franchot Too# and Kathleen Burke in ”LlTe* of a Bengal Lancer. Mercedes The Capitol-Mym* UW and Cary Orant in ' Wlnga In the Dam. Weelaco: The Rlt*~Ruaaall Hardy and Jaan Parker In ’’Sequoia.” _ „ McAllen: The Palace— Ruaaell Hardy and Jean Parker in "Sequoia" The Queen--Bob Ruaaell tn ’'Fighting Through." _ M m: on: The Mi talon—Tont Kaene In “Our Dally Bread.” Aboveboard Circulation—Only Member in The Valley of Audit Bureau of Circulations • ‘ . * * s A r * * *