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I C ARLY
f CiS UNDAY
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 226
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Valley Citrus Season Will Close Early
INFESTATIONS
BY FRUIT FLY
CAUSEACIION
Season Cut Short 13
Days But Hardship
As Result Expected
To Be Slight
The citrus fruit season for 1934-35
(will come to & close midnight. April
S. instead of April 15 as previously
scheduled.
This announcement was contained
in an official order from Lee A.
Strong, chief of the Bureau of Plant
Quarantine in Washington, to Paul
A. Hoidale. in charge of the Valley
district quarantine work. Saturday.
The curtailment of the season is
the result of numerous Infestations
of the Mexican fruit fly during the
, past few weeks.
This action on the part of the
bureau has been expected for sev
eral days, and will not work an un
due hardship on the Valley. It is
estimated there are less than 500
carloads of citrus left in the Valley,
and much of this is not commercial
fruit. The regulations permit stor
ing of fruit, for shipment later, the
only requirement being that all fruit
be removed from the trees by mid
night. April 2
Shipments of fruit have been de
em* using daily for the past two weeks
^Although the season is curtailed
by 13 days, it still is a month and
two days longer than the regular
shipping season provided in the
quarantine regulations. The season
ordinarily would have closed March
1 of this year, the extension to Ap
ril 15 having been made by the Bu
reau of Plant Quarantine in view of
the large crop, and absence, at that
time, of fly infestations.
MARKETS
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
NEW YORK
Stocks heavy, metals resistant.
Bonds firm, secondary rails
rally.
Curb irregular, mining shares
higher.
Foreign exchanges mixed, Bel
ga rallies.
Cotton lower, local and spot
house selling.
Sugar higher, firm spot mar
ket.
Coffee firmer, trade coverin#.
CHICAGO
Wheat lower; sympathy with
aorn.
Com weak; bearish Argentine
advices.
Cattle nominally steady.
Hogs nominally steady; quot
: able top $9.00.
NEW YORK STOCKS
Sales in 100s High Low Close
A1 Chem&Dye 1 1304 1304 1304
1 Am Stl Fdrs 10 14 14 14
Sug 4 594 584 59
m TAT 10 1024 1024 10924
in Tob 1 75 75 75
Anaconda 26 94 94 94
AT A SF 25 404 394 394
Baldwin Loc 6 2 14 14
Bend ix 3 134 134 134
Chrv.slcr 44 344 34 34
Con Oil 16 74 7 74
Du Pont 11 904 894 894
Gen Asphalt 2 144 144 144
Gen El 29 224 214 214
» Gen Foods 16 334 324 324
Gen Mot 30 284 28 284
Goodyear 10 184 174 174
Ills Cent 4 114 104 104
Int Harvest 6 374 37 37
Insp Cop 2 24 24 24
Int T&T 35 64 64 84
J Manv 6 43 42 42
Kennecott 12 154 15 154
» Mo Pac 1 14 14 14
Nat Stl 2 414 414 414
NY Central 51 144 134 134
flP>ncy 5 664 66 664
Wait' 43 44 44 44
Sears R 16 1354 344 344
Soc-Vac 22 124 124 124
S Pac 24 144 14 14
Std Brands 20 15 144 144
SO NJ 10 38 37 4 374
Studebkr 4 24 24 24
iTex Corp 2 184 184 184
US Stl 37 30 4 29 294
Warner 11 24 24 24
YU Tel [phone]
West E&M 15 364 354 354
( 'Woolworth 5 534 534 534
NEW YORK CURB STOCKS
Cities Service 41 1 15-18 1
E B«StS 30 54 54 54
Ford Ltd 18 74 74 7'
Gulf Pa 1 524 524 52* ,
United Gaa 3 14 14 14
‘DIME’ PRINCESS
*****
HAS COPS CHASE
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SPECTATORS OFF
aOUTHAMPTON. March 2S. iJP>
—On her first lap to Reno and a
divorce from Prince Alexis Mdi
vani. Princess Barbara Hutton
Mdivani sailed for New York
Saturday aboard the S. S Bremen.
With a police guard to chase
the curious away, the princess
and her cousin. Jimmy Donahue,
boarded the steamer at 9:45 a. m.
The police explained that jthe
Woolworth heiress had asked for
special protection, so all who
awaited her arrival at the steam
er were scattered.
Princess Mdivani wore a heavy
fur coat with purple orchids, and
a tight-fitting brown felt hat.
Cousin Jimmy, who Friday was
reported packing a revolver for
their protection. wore a derby
Jauntily.
HIDALGO HAS
HUGE GASSER
Wheelock and Collins To
Be Closed In; Hope
For Oil
—
(Special to The Herald i
MISSION. March 23 —The Wheel
ock and Collins No. 1 Seabury et al
was completed Friday night as a
huge gasser on the northern edge
of the Samfordyce field, showing
only dry gas from 2774-79 feet un
der a casing pressure of 1.200 pounds
and a tubing working pressure of
1,100 pounds.
The test showed oil on a drill
stem test, and will be closed In for
several days in an effort to allow
the column of oil to build up. In
other tests where there were exces
sive pressures, they developed oil
on completion.
Blast Kills Man *
PORT ARTHUR. March 23. (JPh~
Burns received in an acetylene tank
explosion here caused the death Sat
urday of Clarence Carr and Harolr
Moore
Another victim. Ennis Lcmvler
was not expected to live.
Flying debris Injured Sam B
Butler and Harold C. Poole but they
were not in a critical condition.
The blast occurred at the Texas
company’s terminal. A hose leading
to the acetylene tank ignited and
exploded the tank.
INCREASE IN
US. STANDING
ARMYOKEHED
Number of Soldiers
To Be Increased By
40 Per Cent Over
Last Year
WASHINGTON. March 23— (JPV—
Agreement on an Immediate in
crease in the authorised strength
of the standing army by 40 per
cent was reached Saturday by senate
and house conferees on the $400,
000.000 war department appropria
tion bllL
The agreement came after the
house conferees receded from a
proposal to give the president dis
cretionary authority as to the rate
of Increasing the army from Us
present strength of 118.750 to the
new authorization of 165.000 men.
The senate proposal which was
accepted provided that the Increase
should begin at once, with an ex
pected annual cost of $20,000,000 in
cluded in tlie bill.
Hie proposed increase, recom
mended by the war department as
necessary to bring the army up to
the “least allowable minimum” was
the major new provision of the bill
but it represented a gain in total
appropriations of more than $70,
000,000 above last year’s figure.
Stab Wounds Fatal
BRYAN, March 23. i*V-Lynn
Dickerson. 30. of Grand Saline, died
in the Bryan hospital Friday night
of stab wounds inflicted by an un
identified man at the Magnolia Pipe
Line camp near Flynn.
Employes of the company brought
Dickerson here, reporting he had
been found near the camp, where he
had gone in search of work.
The body was sent to Grand Sa
line.
Gypsies Released
DURANT. Ok la., March 23. uP>—
All gypsies held in various cities in
Oklahoma and Texas for question
ing in the death of B. D. Wood near
Bennington Wednesday with the ex
ception of a group under surveillance
at McKinney. Texas, have been or
dered released. Bryan county offi
cers said Saturday.
Those ordered released Included
six at Muskogee and two held to
Oklahoma City.
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"Ideal Girl’s”-1
Good Points
■ ■ ■ — *
Delegates to convention of na
tion’s beauty shop owners in New
York picked out good points of
five girls and decided if one miss
had them all, she’d be ideal girl
of 1935. She’d have, for in
stance, back and hips like Phyllis
Marion (left) and (below) legs
like Sally Fox and hands like
Caryl Bennett.
(Central Prtme)
SAN BENITO
LEADS MEET
Track and Field Event*
Finals to Be Run Off
Saturday Night
(Special to The Herald)
BAN BENITO. March 23 — Bar
Benito schools appeared to be run
ning away with the Cameron Coun
ty Interscholastic league track and
literary meet here Saturday, at the
last day ol the meet.
Only track aid field finals re
main to be run off under the flood
lights here Saturday night.
Standings of schools at noon Sat
urday were as follows:
Class A.
San Benito. 122 points; La Ferla
80 points; Rio Hondo 474; and
narilngen 234
Class B
San Benito junior high school.
SO points; Santa Rosa. 25; Stuart
Place 12; Wilson Tract 10; and
Santa Maria 5.
Ward schools:
Landrum ot San Benito. 424
points; North Ward of San Benito
40; Los Presnos. 374; La Ferla. 27;
Harlingen intermediate. 20; Fred
Booth San Benito, 174; Los Indloa,
15; Santa Ro*a. 15; Combs. 10;
Stuart Place, 10; El Jardin. 10;
Central Ward. Harlingen. 74; Port
Isabel. 5; Highland. Harlingen. 4;
South Ward. Harlingen, 4; North
Ward. Harlingen 2.
Pioneer Grocer Die*
WICHITA FALLS. March 33. <*»)
—W. P. Parker, pioneer Texas gro
cer, died here Saturday after an
illness of several months. Bom in
Tennessee in 1859, Parker came to
Texas and entered the grocery busi
ness 50 years ago.
Funeral services will be held at
Denton Sunday, where he lived be
fore moving here 38 years ago.
He is survived by his widow, two
sons, two daughters and a sister;
Mrs. Elrod of Denton.
Vessel in Distress
SAN FRANCISCO. March 33. UP)
—Globe Wireless. Ltd., reported re
ception of distress calls from the
steamship Haiho near Fuchow,
China, Saturday.
The ship gave its position as
latitude 35.43 north, longitude
119.40 east. No other information
was given.
ITALY CALLS
MORE TROOPS
220,000 Additional Man
Called to Arms At
‘Precaution’
ROME. March 33.—i/P)— The
entire military class of 1911. esti
mated at some 230.000 men. was
I called to arms Saturday aa a "pre
cautionary measure’ an official
communique announced.
The mobilization order was an
nounced just alter Premier Musso
lini had declared to the nation chat
| ‘‘Italy' u> now ready for any threat
I of war coming from beyond her
frontiers.”
He was speaking at a public cel
ebration on the sixteenth anni
versary of the founding of the
Fascist party and said in the course
of his remarks to 10.000 black shirts.
“Our desire for peace and Euro
pean collaboration is based on some
millions of bayonets ”
Official circles were of the opin
ion the order was due to the Ger
man situation.
The government's terse commu
nique said “the under-secretary for
the press and propaganda com
municates the following: The head
of the government and minister of
armed forces has ordered as a
precautionary measure the recall by
official notification of the entire
class of 1911V*
Beaumont Dry After
Raid, Claim Police
BEAUMONT. March 23. A
downtown raid which netted 200
bottles of liquor was the last step
in making the city a Sahara, Police
Chief L. B. Maddox said Saturday.
Chief Maddox said Governor All
reds axe-swinging rangers would
fine no liquor here. He also said the
search for open gambling would be
equally fruitless.
He added that if there are any il
legal slot machines in operation they
are unknown to him.
Negro Convicted
AUSTIN. March 23. (A*)—K. C.
Holmes, negro, was convicted Sat
urday of complicity in the murder
of Will Poster, street ear motor
man. in a holdup here last Janu
ary and sentenced to 45 years im
prisonment Two other negroes
previously were given death penal
ties.
12-CENT AID
LL GO OVER
TO 1935 CROP
Only Those Who Take
Part In Reduction
Of Acreage Will Be
Eligible
WASHINGTON. March 23 CSV
Secretary Wallace announced Sat
urday that cotton loan* would be
made on the 1935 crop.
He did not give the amount which
will be lent but said the 12-cent
loans on 1934 cotton holdings would
be extended indefinitely beyond the
present maturity date of July 31.
1935.
Earlier, Wallace denied a predic
tion by Senator George (D-Ga)
that processing taxes would be lift
ed on bread, meat and clothing.
The gecretary’s announcement
said:
"The 12 cent loans an the 1934
cotton holdings will be extended
beyond the maturity date of July
31. 1935.
-As to a loan on the 1935 crop,
it is the purpose of the adminis
tration to provide adequate credit
facilities to cotton farmers to per
mit the orderly marketing of the
new crop.
-It should be emphasized, how
ever, that the commodity credit
corporation will make no loans on
the 1935 cotton crop to any pro
ducer who is not co-pe rating in
the cotton program under the agri
cultural adjustment act nor will
any loans be made on the 1935 crop
to any producer for an amount of
cotton in excess of his allotment
under the Bankhead act”
High Jap Official
Escapes Assassin
TOKYO. March 23 (A*—Police
Saturday prevented an apparent at
tempt to assassinate Baron Kito
kuro Ikki. president of the privy
council, arresting a member of a
patriotic organization who at
tempted to force his way into Ikki's
home armed with a dagger.
Police gave the assailant's name
as Daihachi Kikuchi. member of
the Kokusui Taishuto society.
Later they raided the headquar
ters of the organization and ar
rested nine more men, who offered
some resistance.
Debutantes To Be
Presented at Court
LONDON, March 23. (AV-Eigh
teen American matrons and de
butantes will be presented by Mrs
Robert W Bingham, wife of the
United States ambassador. at
Royal Courts March 28 and 29, it
was announced Saturday.
The names of those to be pre
sented to their majesties. King
George and Queen Mary, at the
first court include Miss Mary Pye
Hutcheson of Houston. Texas.
Street Car and But
Motormen on Strike
WICHITA. March 23. t/Pi^Street
car and bus transportation was bad
ly crippled here Saturday when 85
of 114 motormen and bus drivers
went on strike in demand of a wage
Increase of from 45 to 65 cents an
hour.
A. J. Cleary, superintendent of the
company, said that at 8:30 the com
pany had restored operation of about
35 per cent or normal and that 10
per cent service was possible by
Saturday night.
Valley Girl Injured
When Stove Explodes
<Special to The Herald»
M*ALLEN. March 23 —Miss Ruby
Mitchell, who resides on the south
Ware road west of McAllen, was
badly but not seriously burned Fri
day afternoon when an oU stove
exploded at her home.
She was burned about her arms,
legs and face She Is reported re
covering at the McAllen Municipal
hospital.
Britain Wins
Argument For
League Delay
France Apparently To
Wait Before Taking
Drastic Steps
PARIS, March 22. lAV-Oompiete
“unity of purpose" among France.
England and Italy was announced
late Saturday a* a result of the day
long three-power conference on Ger
man rearmament on the eve of Sir
John Simons momentous visit to
Berlin.
Backed by Premier Mussolini's
sudden order mobilizing 220.000 addi
tional men and official French ad
mission of the transfer of troops to
the Rhine frontier, the conference
announced agreement that the Brit
ish foreign secretary A talks with Hit
ler will follow the lines of the Lon
don declaration following the An
glo-French agreement and will be of
“exploratory character."
Mussolini's three-power confer
ence after Sir John a visit was set for
April 11 at Streaa. Italy.
Communique Issued
A communique issued by the con
ference said:
"Foreign Minister Pierre Laval.
Capt. Anthony Eden and Under
secretary of Forign Affairs Fulvio
Suvich met at the Quai D Orsay and
proceeded to exchange views upon
the general situation.
"In the oourse of the conversa
tions U was decided that the visit
of the British ministers to Berlin
would be of exploratory character
and scope and the purpose of their
conversation would be that agreed
upon In the London communique of
a. in regard to. whifik tin iden
nif bT the views of the governments
of London. Paris, and Home have
been affirmed.
"It was decided that after this
visit and other British visits to Mos
cow, Warsaw and Praha, all of
which visits are undertaken with
the good wishes of the other two
governments, the British. French
and Italian foreign ministers would
meet at Stresa on the 11th of April.
League in Background
‘•Foreign Minister Laval. Capt
Eden and Under-Secretary Suvich
noted with satisfaction the complete
unity of purpose of their govern
ments.’*
Frances citation of Germany be
fore the league council was not men
tioned in the communique and it was
said in informed quarters that the
league proceedings “appear to be
pushed into the background."
This was understood to be the re
sult of British pressure to have
Prance avoid anything drastic until
there is time for the British to learn
exactly what Hitler Intends
France, it was understood, had pro
posed at the conference that a pub
lic discussion of penalties for Ger
many take place at a meeting of the
League of Nations, the penalties
suggested being mainly economic to
nature.
POWERS DIVE’
TESTER DIES
■" —
Noted Pilot Plows Into
Earth Going Over 400
Miles An Hour
PARMINODALE. N. Y, March
23 i/Pr—James H. Collms. noted
teat pilot of military airplanes, has
made hU last “power dive”.
Screaming earthward at more
than 400 mile* an hour, he straight
ened out a new Grumman fighting
ship with a snap which he knew
from experience would leave him
momentarily unconscious. He naa
told friends It would be his last dive
before taking up the quiet life of
an aviation writer.
But the engine and propeller tore
loose from the plane. The craft
spun more than a mile and a half
to the ground, carrying Collins to
his death.
Collins, 33. was an army-trained
flier. He had been a classmate of
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh at
Brooks and Kelly Fields. Texas.
The test shortly before dusk Fri
day was the tenth and last dive
demanded of the “mystery plane”
of navy Inspectors.
L. Comdr. Andrew Crtnkley, navy
spokesman, said Collins was killed
outright, but two civilians who
were among the first to reach the
wreckage said the flier asked them
to pull him out and then said:
“Never mind wiping my face.
I'm don«.“
THE WEATHER
(By C S. Wmtlier Bureau)
Brownsville and the Valley: Most
ly cloudy and not much change in
temperature Sunday.
'CHANGES ■;
GIVE F. D. R.
GREATPOWER
Currency Expansion
Amendment Due To
Be Stricken Out In
Conference
WASHINGTON. Man* tt-iS
The *4 880.000.000 work-relief MS*
with numerous modifications in
cluding a modified silver Inflation
plan, was passed Saturday fay toe
senate.
This end to weeks at struggle re
turns the measure to the howto
with amendments.
May Weed Owl Expends*
Administration strategy called for
sending the long-controverted relief
measure to a conference Oetweea
the senate and house and there
reconcile some of the outstanding
differences.
Leaders expected to see stricken
out in conference an amendmen*
by Senator Thomas (IM>kla) far
s currency expansion of *375,000,000
through the issuance ot stiver cert
ificates at the *1129 an ounce mon
etary value of the treasury's sllvw
stocks instead of the present prac
tice of using the purchase value at
the silver.
just before passage, the senate
accepted an amendment by 54c
Carran (D-Nev) to require senate
confirmation of all officials, re
ceiving *5,000 or more, who would
have charge of expenditure at toe
huge fund.
88 to 16 Vote
The vote posting the Mil wm 0
to 1«
The largest single appropriation
ever to pass any national legislature
was revised and compromised dur
ing eight weeks on the senate floor
and in committee but still leaves
President Roosevelt wide powers In
spending the huge fund.
The entire sum remains available
until June 30. 1937 as in the orig
inal house bill. Despite nine ear
markings of the work fund, the
president has WOo .000.000 to switch
from one group of projects to so
other at will.
The Mil provides 14.000.000.000 tee
public works on which 3300.000 per
sons now on relief and able to work
would be given Jobs The remainder
of the appropriation- SHH0,000.000—
would go for direct relief until the
Job-giving makes headway.
Salvation Army’s
History It Told
<Hy Staff Correspondent) #
BAN BENITO. March 23. —Hie*
tory of the Salvation Army wee
told by Col. W. J. Jenkins at the
Rotary club meeting at the Stone
wall Jackson hotel this week. Re
has been in the Army for over M
YCftTL
Visiting Rotarianr: Dr. Altue
Lyle, E. 0. Watson. P. A. Hoidal*
Jack King. Stanley Yount and
Oeorge Wroten. Harlingen: T. A
Chtdlow. McAllen; Tom Bpcnom,
Houston.
Milton Atkins. William Day and
J. W. Porter oi Houston mm
guests.
Rangers Make Dallas
Law Breakers Uneasy
DALLAS. March 33. *V-Gam
bling and liquor law violators Sat
urday anxiously watched the move
ments of three Texts Ranger*
headed by Captain Pred McDaniel,
who came to Dallas after wrecking
some resorts In Port Worth and
raiding two hotels there.
“We are here with our eyes wide
open." McDaniel said, when asked
about his plans With him were
Rangers Sid Kelso and Dick Old
ham.
"We are Just here on a brief vie*
and probably will leave Saturday
night for Austin." Captain Mo*
Daniel added. "But well be back.**
Suits Are Filed To
Disbar Texas Pair
SAN ANTONIO. March » WP>—
Suits to either disbar or suspend
from the practice of lav John a.
Cunningham and Z. D. Bonner
were filed by Criminal District At*
torney John R. Shook here Satur
day.
The attorneys are under fedeni
court sentences of eight yean and
110 000 fines in connection with
embezzlement and misapplication of
funds from the Commercial NA*
tlonal bank of which Bonner ti •
former president. The eases am an
appeal.
Brown*vllle: The Capital—Joan ParS*
er In "Sequoia.” Th* Quoin Teanne*jfc
MacDonald and Maurloe Chevalier m
Th# Merry Widow
San Benito: The RivuU Lotesog
Young and Bonald Coleman in "0M*»
at India."
Harlingen: The Araadl*—LoraWt
Young end Bonald Coleman In "die*
of India.” The Rialto—Norm* Shear**.
Frederic March and Charles Laughton
in "The Barrette of "wimpol* Street.
La Ferla: The Bijou— Wallace Beery
end Adolph* Menjou in "The Mighty
Barnum.”
San Juan: Th* Ban Juan—Cary Oranf
and Myrna Loy in Wing* In th* Dart.
Raymondvlll*: Th* Ramon — Ham an
Navarro and Svclyn Lay* In "Th* Night
I* Young."
Donna: Th* Plant—Fr*d*n* Mans
and Anna 8t*n In "W# Live Again.”
Merced**: Th* Capital—J«an Fart**
in "Sequoia.”
Weslaco Th* Bit*—Myra* Lay ass
Cary Qrant In "Wing* In the Dark."
McAllen The Palace—Will Roger* m
“Life Begins at SO." Th* Qua*n **
S. Brown in "Six Day Bicycle Rider.”
Mission: The Minion—Douglas ItSW
bank* te -Th* Frtvat* Lift Os*
Jwan.”
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