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THE WEATHER
fBy C I. Weather Bureau)
Brownsville and the Valley: Part
ly cloudy Wednesday night, possibly
\ with local showers; Thursday part
n ly cloudy and colder.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 229 xa. vai*^ nm-fM » ta. nwi BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1935 • • TEN PAGES TODAY »« A COPY
QnOuh, ,
VALLEY
By RALPH L. BLELL
THERE'S A LONG SUMMER
ahead of us. with local showers
(maybe) and all that sort of thing
in the offing.
In other words, the time is here
to take all due precautions to pre
vent and curb mosquito infesta
tion.
We have mosquitoes in the Val
ley. and where there are mosquitoes,
there is bound to be some malaria
lurking around.
Valley counties are getting on
the Job, with co-operation of state
and federal health authorities.
Most Valley cities are seeing to it
that mosquito breeding place* are
covered with oil or drained, and
those not doing it should be doing
It.
• • •
INDIVIDUALS IN CITY AND
country should be on the job.
Cut the weeds around the home.
Punch holes in the tin cans.
Throw away the old auto casings
or fix them so they won't hold
water.
Put oil over standing water that
cannot be drained, drain it if pos
sible.
• • •
SITUATION IN MOST VALLEY
cities seems to be well under con
trol and rapidly getting better.
Just a little more co-operation on
the part of individuals and the
mosquito will be eliminated Insofar
as that is possible.
Situation in the rural districts
will get better than the counties,
through the state and federal au
thorities. get their campaigns still
more under way.
%As in the cities, individual co
operation is going to be needed In
In* rural districts.
• • •
NOT ONLY IN PROTECTION
of the health of our own citizens,
but in support of our claims as a
tourist center, must the Valley be
come acutely conscious of the need
for malaria control through mos
quito eradication.
The danger is ever present in a
climate such as ours, and only
needs to be recognized by the
populace at large to be curbed.
No special need of getting all
upset and excited, but a special
need of recognizing that the danger
Is here and of taking steps to cope
with the situation in time.
Mosquitoes can be controlled,
that much has been proven — the
will to control them and the co
operation of all concerned is all
that is needed.
That will Is present in emphatic
offers of assistance from state and
federal authorities.
Just let the people of the Valley
develop the same desire, the same
will and purpose, and the thing is
done. .
AN ASSISTANT ATTORNEY
Genera! of Texas issues an opinion
on the legality of these “pin” or
“Marble board” games.
And one newspaper heads the
story “Pin Games Declared Ille
gal”.
While another newspaper takes
the same story and heads it. “Le
gal. St vs Attorney General of Pin
Games”
Whereupon we read the opinion
and are of the opinion that both
headwriters were right—
And that Pat M Neff. Jr., the
assistant who wrote the opinion—
Is out of Diace in the attorney
general's office.
With his ability to please every
body.
He ought to be a diplomat.
• • •
SMASHING ILLEGAL GAMB
Mng machinery with axes and what
have you is all right, as the rangers
proceed to clean up Texas.
But we cannot get it through our
heads that draperies hanging on |
rlls. carpets on floors, mirrors j
d all that sort of thing, should
be destroyed under any interpre
tation of the law.
By the same token a group of of
ficers raiding a private home for a j
case of home brew have the right I
to smash all the furniture in the
house and rip the mattresses to
pieces.
Let’s have law enforcement, all
right, but let's leave the fanaticism
out of it.
• • •
T. L. EVANS COMES TO,
B >wnsville and right off the bat !
gets in a huddle as to ways and
means of promoting the Mata -
moros-Victoria highway.
Tim Evans represents the senti
ments of Houston as he works with
might and mam on the Victoria
road.
HALT CALLED
AS EFFORT TO
CONVICT FAILS
Jury Action Reveals
Open Texas Revolt
Against Dry Laws,
Attorney Claims
DALLAS, March 27.—<>P>—Effort*
to prosecute alleged liquor law vio
lators under the drastic Dean law
were suspended here Wednesday
after the state failed to get con
victions in two cases.
District Judge Noland G. Wil
liams called a halt on further
prosecution of cases on the docket,
explaining he would reset those
remaining for trial next we<% when
a “fresh jury panel will be available.
Fred Woolsey, proprietor of the
Coliseum Pharmacy, was the sec
ond defendant to be acquitted by
a jury here at the current term of
court on a Deal law indictment.
Another druggist. Holland Farrow,
was acquitted Monday.
"The outright acquittal of two
Dallas druggists in two successive
trials for allegedly selling whisky
without prescription most certainly
reflects an open revolt on the part
of the citizenship against further
enforcement of the Dean law In
this county." said Jack Keller, for
mer state representative, w’ho de
fended Woolsey.
PLANE BEGINS
ORIENT FLIGHT
Giant Clipper to Blaze New
Commercial Air Route
From U. S.
MIAMI, March 27. (P—Off to
blaze a new commercial air route
linking the United States and the
orient, the giant Pan American
Clipper plane left here at 9:15
a. m. <EST> Wednesday on a
3.000-mile flight to San Diego.
Calif.
The 19-ton flying boat, which
recently completed a 2.500-mile non
stop test flight to the Virgin Is
lands and return, rose from Bis
cayne Bay and headed southwest
to cross the Gulf of Mexico.
The trip of the Clipper plane
Wednesday will be over water for
all but about 100 miles of the 3,000
flight to San Diego.
From Miami, the route follows
an airline course spanning the
Gulf of Mexico, crossing to the Pa
cific by way of the Isthmus of Te
huantepec to the Mexican port of
Acapulco on the Pacific side.
Captain Edwin Musick in com
mand of the ship, estimated it
would require 10 hours to reach
Acapulco where the plane will re
main overnight.
AAA-Shipper Tilts
Are Set for May 20
The constitutional tilts between
Valley citrus shippers and Secretary
of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace have
been set for May 20 in federal district
court here, according to settings
forwarded here Wednesday from
Houston by Judge T. M Kennerly
The suits set for that day include
one in which 14 Valley shippers
seek to enjoin the citrus control
committee :rom interfering in their
businesses, and five othe» in which
Secretary Wallace asks injunctions
to make the shippers comply with
AAA and citrus control committee
regulations
These suits rv styled: Rio Valley
Fruit & Vegetable Co. et al. vs.
Texas Citrus Control Committee:
U. S. vs. Edw. R Smith. U. S. vs
U. Ray Brown. U. S. vs. Donald Webb
U. S. vs P. J. WiHnms and U. S
vs. W. E Baden. All of the suits are
in equity.
C. D. Turner Throws
His Hat In Ring
(Special to The Herald!
McALLEN. March 27—Chas. D
Turner. McAllen auditor and resi
dent of the city for the past 18
? .s. Tuesday announced his can
didacy for xcayor in the April 2
biennial election.
Turner’s entry makes the race a
three-sided affair. Mayor A. L.
Landry and City Commissioner
Harley cki on having already an
nounced. Turner has held a num
ber of public offices in the city and
county during his residence here.
The city commissioners’ race, in
which four * candidates will be
selected, has attracted six men in
cluding Horace Etchison and Van
E. Cook, incumbents. T. W. Kelly.
E. E. (Henry) Guerra. Amado Vela
and John Collavo and John A.
'"rtoby.
Mrs. Yates Prepares
Complete Dinner At
Herald Cook School
Hundreds of interested, enthusiastic women gathered
Tuesday afternoon at the junior college auditorium to
welcome Mrs. Buelah Mackey Yates and her “Happy
I Kitchen” school of cookery on this, her second visit to
I Brownsville.
ENTERTAINER
JIMMY PARNELL
Jimmy Parnell, famed for his
“One Man Band” act which has
been presented to large audiences
throughout the nation will be one
of the big entertainment features
at the annual meeting of Browns
ville service clubs at the El Jardin
hotel here Wednesday night. Par
nell is formerly a Detroiter, but
now is living in the Valley. Ap
proximately 250 service club mem
bers and their ladies are expected
at the meeting, at which the prin
cipal address a-ill be delivered by
T L. Evans, manager of the for
eign trade department of the
Houston Chamber of Commerce.
Drew Patteson will speak on the
Brownsville port. Several more en -
tertainment numbers are to be giv
en.
HIGH OFFICIAlT
VISITS BORDER
Secretary of War Due
At Matamoros For
Conferences
General Pablo Quiroga. Secretary
of War and Marine of Mexico, was
scheduled to arrive at Matamoros
Wednesday afternoon by special
train.
The general, who made the trip
from Monterrey to Reynosa confer
red with military officials there
Wednesday before resuming his trip
to Matamoros.
The purpose of the general's trip
has not been announced.
‘Continued on Page Six)
h That these cooking school events
presented by The Brownsville Her
ald and a group of national and
local advertisers are looked forward
to each year by the modern home
maker. was demonstrated most con
vincingly at the first session of the
school. No other medium so effect
! ive has been devised for the alert
housewife. desirous of keeping
abreast with the latest in scientific
research in food economics, to ac
quaint herself with this knowledge.
An address of welcome by Ralph
Buell, editor of The Brownsville
Herald, formally opened the school
on Tuesday. E. C. Dodd, superin
tendent of the Brownsville schools
and president of the Junior College,
made a short address in which he
stressed the importance of the
scientific study of foods and their
relation to the health and well be
ing of the family.
Robin Pate, vice president of the
Brownsville Federal Savings and
Loan association, is scheduled to
speak during the Thursday after
noon session, explaining the sav
ings advantages offered by the as
sociation. and the loans available for
new homes or for home repair.
The cooking school will continue
through Friday afternoon, with ses
sions beginning each afternoon at
2:30 o’clock.
Mrs. Yates prepared a complete
dinner Tuesday afternoon, by the
simple process of grilling, or broil
(Continued On Page Ten)
LOCAL GROCER
DIES SUDDENLY
Heart Attack Is Fatal To
Antonio Longoria
Wednesday
Antonio Longoria. 52, well known
owner of the Central Cash Grocery,
died suddenly Wednesday morning
at his home. 817 St. Charles street,
after a short illness.
Longoria, long a prominent gro
cer here, complained of illness
Tuesday afternoon, and did not go
to his store Wednesday. He died
about 10:30 a. m., apparently from
a heart attack.
Funeral arrangements are being
held up pending word from En
rique, a son attending Baylor
medical college, and other rela
tives. It is likely, relatives stated,
that the funeral services will be
conducted here Thursday afternoon
The decendent is survived by his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Benito
Longoria: his wife. Mrs. Lea Field
L tioria: two daughters. Amelia
and Lea: two sons. Enrique and
Jorge: four sisters, Maria. Josef a.
Mrs Lon Tumlinson and Mrs. Lu
cinda Longoria de Lieck: and two
brothers. Benito and Francisco, all
of whom reside in Brownsville.
Mr Longoria was one of the best
(Continued on Page Six)
An A. B. C. Newspaper
Gives First Class Sales
Volume and Sales Profit
More than 80 per cent of the 39.000.000 total daily circula
tion ot United States newspapers is known to be “First
Class’* because it is audited, checked and verified regularly
by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The Herald is one of
these 1,017 A. B. C. newspapers—THE ONLY MEMBER IN
THE VALLEY.
First class circulation can be depended upon to do a first
class selling job—for local retail advertisers—for national
advertisers—for classified advertisers.
And during these days when everybody is doing business
on a shorter margin than ever before, it’s more important
than ever for advertisers to get first class value and first
class results from their advertising investments.
The Herald's A. B. C. membership assures circulation of
first class coverage—first class reader interest—first class
selling influence.
First class profit, then, is the logical result of first class
sales power. To report fully on HOW ADEQUATE is the
medium to COVER and SELL the buyers of its territory, an
A. B. C. auditor annually makes his report which is the ad
vertisers' buying guide for the great bulk of advertising
space that is used through the United States.
This A. B. C. audit report gives the HOW. WHERE and
HOW MUCH information regarding circulation of The
Herald. 1.016 other newspapers prove their circulation
figures by A. B. C. audits.
HITLER WANTS
GUNS EQUALLY
WIT HFRANCE
Envoy From Britain
Bested at Parley;
World Asked What
It Intends to Do
(Copyright, 1935. the' AP.)
BERLIN. March 27 —A high au
thority stated Wednesday that
Reichsfuehrer Hitler demands abso
lute military equality on a gun-for
gun basis—excepting the navy—with
other European powers.
This authority said Hitler told
Sir John Simon, British foreign
secretary who returned to London
Wednesday morning, that Germany
would be content with "a small
percentage of the British navy.”
Hitler told Sir John, according to
this source, he wanted army equal
ly with Prance, gun for gun. man
ior man. and airplane for airplane,
and intimated he wanted superior
ity over Russia.
Tp to Russia’
The Reichsfuehrer. the authority i
said, strongly indicated that even
though France were to reduce arma
ments greatly. Germany would not
ioliow suit until It was certain what
Russia would do."
It was said that at every turn
Sir John found Hitler standing
firmly on the foundation stone of
the Nazi foreign policy—Gleichber
echtigung. meaning 'equality."
Germany's return to the league.
Hitler was stated to have said, de
led upon whether he Judged
Germany was being treated as a
great nation should be.
Among the Reichsfuehrer’s objec
tions to the league were said to be j
his contention that Germany never
had been given equal treatment with
i. ance and Great Britain, that the
Germans always drew minor assign
ments while French and English
handled vital political matters.
The authority said that in the
conversations between Hitler andj
Sir John, the revision of important
(Continued on Page Six)
ZACK MILLER
LOSES RANCH
101 Properties No Longer
Belong To Colonel,
Court Rules
OKLAHOMA CITY. March 27 —
<JP,—The death knell of the Miller
Brothers 101 Ranch rang in federal j
court here Wednesday as Federal
Judge Edgar S. Vaught ruled the
properties no longer belong to Col
Zack Miller, last of the famous
trio of brothers.
Judge Vaught upheld the con-1
tention of creditors that Colonel!
Miller had no right, interest or title
in the 17.000 acres remaining of the
one-time 101.000-acre domain, on
the ground it all had been mortgaged
and the mortgages foreclosed.
Colonel Miller and his equally :
picturesque attorney. Sid White,
attired in big white hats and cowboy
boots, had sought to maintain con
trol of the ranch through a peti
tion in bankruptcy under the
Frazjer-Lemke farm mortgage act.
White said an appeal would be
filed immediately.
Americans Draw 497
Sweepstakes Tickets
DUBLIN. Irish Free State March
27. OF)—By the noon recess Wednes
day. Americans had been awarded
497 of the 1.266 tickets drawn in the
Irish hospital sweepstakes, in con
nection with the grand national to
be run at Aintree. Friday.
In the morning's draw. Americans
drew six of the 10 residual prize* of
£8.097 about $40,000) each, and 205
of the 504 consolation prizes of
£100 (about $500) each.
The drawing will continue until
1.600 of the £100 consolation prizes
have been drawn.
Leprion Members To
Discuss Bonus Bill
Members of the Brownsville poet
of the American Legion will meet
at the Legion hall Thursday night
at 8 o'clock. It was announced Wed
nesday.
Discussions on the bonus bill are
scheduled to be made.
Case Reversed
i Sneclal to The Herald)
SAN ANTONIO. March 27—The
{ Pourth Court of Civil Appeals Wed
nesday reversed and rendered a
Hidalgo county case. The appeal
was styled J. V. Hawkins versus E
A. Graham.
Boy Lion Trainer Will
Show at Atlantic City
11-Year-Old Manuel King and His Cats
Booked for Million Dollar Pier
u.. ■ ~
After an inspection of 55 Amer
ican thrill acts, Young’s Million
Dollar Pier at Atlantic City has
selected the lion act of 11-year
old Manuel King of Brownsville
for booking this summer, it was
announced here Wednesday.
The boy and his troupe of huge
lions and his dog. Trixie, will
show during an eight-weeks pe
riod starting June 1. along with
the pick of thrill acts from for
eign nations. Manuel will be
America's representative in the
‘•International Congress of Thrills
of the World,” showing along with
thrill acts from many foreign
nations.
As a coincidence. Manuel and
his lions were going through a
number of stunts here when word
of signing the contract was re
ceived. The stunts were being
performed for Howard Winner,
Universal Newsreel cameraman,
sent here from New York to make
a special feature of Manuel's act.
Selection of the Brownsville
boy, son of W. A. (Snake* King,
is considered a crowning recog
nltion of his ability after a short
aareer of public appearances
during which he attracted nation
wide attention. Manuel King
started working with lions two
yean ago. when there was a Ut
ter of cubs at SnakevUle. his
father's wild animal farm. When
Chubby Qullfoyle, famed old
time lion trainer, came here to
break in the lions for King, he
noticed the attachment of Man
uel, then 9, to the animals. He
and King talked it over and de
cided to give Manuel a trial at
working with the big cats if he
wanted to try it.
He did.
And the result has been re
markable. the boy showing a na
tural knack with lions.
The cubs that Manuel started
out with are now huge, practical
ly grown lions. The males have
shaggy manes, and when they
roar the ground actually shakes.
Still, the 85-pound boy puts the
big cats and the dog. Trixie,
through their paces, and has an
(Continued on Page Six)
ROOD CONTROL
SURVEY BEGINS
Officials From Mexico And
U. S. View Valley
Situation
Following a five-day conference
at El Paso on international matters
pertaining to boundaries and flood1
control, a group of high Mexican!
engineers and officials arrived in the
Valley Wednesday and will spend
two days inspecting flood works and
boundaries in this section.
The visitors are Javier Sanchez
Mejorada. consulting engineer; Gus
tavo P. Serrano. Mexican water com
missioner; and Armando Santacruz.
Jr.. Mexican boundary commissioner.
They were accompanied back to
the Valley irom the El Paso confer
ence by J. T. Lytel of San Benito,
project engineer on the Valley's
flood control work, and W. E An
derson of San Benito, technical ad
visor to the International Boundary |
commisison.
The Mexican officials came to
Brownsville and crossed to Mata
moros where they inspected the
flood control works with Jose Maria
Ramirez, engineer in charge. They
planned to return to Brownsville aft
er lunch, and at 1:30 were to as
semble at the El Jardin hotel along
with Mr. Lytel, Mr. Anderson and
others, and start a tour of inspection
of the flood control works in Cam
eron county.
Wednesday night the group will
gather at San Benito for a dinner,
and Thursday they will be taken to
Hidalgo county by Anderson and
Lytel for an inspection or the flood
control works in that county.
At the conference in El Paso in
addition to these men were L. M.
Lawson. International Boundary
commisisoner; Colonel E. H. Marks,
district army engineer; Porter J.
Preston. Denver. Bureau of Reclama
tion; Fred Scoby of Berkley. Calif.,
hydraulic engineer for the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture; J. B. Lip
(Continued on Page 8ix)
VICTORIA ROAD
DRIVE BEGINS
Brownsville, Houston And
Matamoros Join Forces
To Get Highway
Houston. Brownsville and Mat
amoros will Join forces in prepara
tion of a brief in support of the
Matamoros to Victoria highway,
which has been requested by the
Mexican Department of Communi
cations, it was decided at a con
ference of representatives of the
three cities in the chamber of com
merce building here Wednesday
morning.
Representing Houston was T L.
Evans, manager of the foreign trade
department.
From Matamoros were General
Gabriel Cervera. commander of the
garrison; Julio Galvan, and Ruben
Martinez. Brownsville was repre
sented by County Judge Oscar C.
Dancy, A. Wayne Wood, chairman
of the foreign relations committee;
and G. C. Richardson, manager.
The brief, which will be in Span
ish. will contain all Information
pertaining to the road, including
statistics on traffic, industrial and
commercial development. The Mex
ican government, which contem
plates the beginning of construc
tion on the road within a year, will
use this brief in further considera
tion of the project
Heart Attack Fatal
To Chocktaw Indian
McALESTER. Okla.. March 27
UP)—Lynch Arpelar, 55. full blood
Choctaw Indian, was found dead
near the town of Arpelar. named aft
er his family, early Wednesday.
Benjamin Kies, county health offi
cer. said death was due to heart dis
ease.
W O Merrill, undersheriff, said
earlier reports Arpelar was to have
appeared as s state witness in a
murder case here Wednesday were
erroneous.
Culbertsons Sweep 5 Rubbers
To Take Bridge Tourney Lead
NEW YORK. March 27. iJPi—A
decided turn in the fortunes of war
has given Mr. and Mrs. Ely Cul
bertson the lead in their contract
bridge battle with Mr. and Mrs.
P. Hal Sims with the match only
two days old.
The Culbertsons went Wednes
day into the third day of the 150
rubber bridge marathon with a
lead of 1750 points, the result of
a clean sweep of five rubbers
played Tuesday night.
A difference of opinion as to the
cause of their success developed
between Culbertson and his at
tractive wife. Josephine, at the
end of Tuesday night’s play.
Mrs. Cudbertson contended the
turn in luck was due to a rabbit’s
foot she received during the din
ner recess and which she had with
her during Tuesday night's play
ing.
“Nonsense.” replied her hus
band. “It was the system.’’
It may have been possibly a
swing of aces and kings to the Cul
bertsons. for in the 30 hands play
ed Tuesday night, the Culbertsons
held 71 aces and 64 kings against
49 aces and 56 kings for the
Simses.
Whatever it was, the Culbertaons
sailed through the five rubbers to
overcome a substantial Sims lead.
Starting the afternoon session
with a lead of 2200 points from the
first night's play, Sims and his wife
captured four of the five rubbers
of the afternoon to send their lead
to 4,730 at dinner time. Their
greatest margin, however, had
been 4.820 points at the end of the
second rubber of the afternoon
and the sixth of the match.
An indication of the turn in Cul
bertson luck came at the start of
the evening's hostilities when Ely
and his wife took a 700-rubber
with two successive game bids at
no trump.
They followed this with a gain
of 2040 points on the next rubber
and picked up 1150 on the next,
cutting the Sims lead to 530 points.
In the 13th rubber, Culbertson
forged to the front when he bid
a small slam in hearts and took
every trick. The Culbertson plus
on this rubber was 1880 and they
took the 14th and last rubber of the
night by 400 points.
WORST STORM
OF SEASON IS
MomysouTH
Breathing It Difficult,
Visibility Greatly
Reduced In Parts Of
State
(By The AMoelsted PrtM)
Temperature* were topping
toward the freeling point hi tto
dust-ridden plains state* Wed
nesday a* west Tex** reported
the worst dual dorm of the sea
son
Visibility w*s redared to * few
hundred feet, the sun wa* obscur
ed and breathing wa* difficult.
TAHOKA. March n. — A»>— A
Kansas fog. known to some ae a
dust storm, with visibility at two
city blocks, caused an hoar's
delay in the coming of dawn beta
Wednesday.
One fanner reported he heard
his hen cackle early Wednesday.
He ran out to get the egg for his
breakfast snd inside the egg
found a mud ball.
An old timer, who has weath
ered many dust storms, says It ia
never too windy lo work until
it takes seven men to hold a
oow hide over a keyhole. .Another
reported the wind blew a 90 gal
lon barrel from his yard Tues
day night. The wind returned it
.Wednesday morning — but wind
and dust had worn it down to
a fire gallon barrel.
A traveling salesman cam* In
to Tahoka with the story that
his ear would hardly pull until
the atmosphere cleared and he
discovered be was pushing three
other can that had stalled dar
ing the storm.
Duet clouds continued to Mo4
ant the sun in many parts ef
Oklahoma. Weather otaerwera
warned of possible frost Wedneu
day night.
Southwest Kansas was digging
out of an overnight dust storm.
(By Ths Associated Press)
Blilnding dust clouds driven by a
cold north wind, whipped southward
across Texas Wednesday, heralding
what appeared to be the worst storm
of Its kind this year.
Striking Tex line just before mid
night. the dust had befogged moat
of west and north Texas It reached
Port Worth and Dallas, in the form
of a reddish haie, about 9 a. m.
Temperatures Drop
Sharply falling temperature mark
ed the disturbance. The mercury
tumbled to 40 degrees at Pampa.
while similar declines were register*
ed over practically the entire ra
j gion affected.
Wind velocity stepped up to S3
miles an hour for a time at Port
Worth. The blow was gusty and from
the northeast. bearing the dust
clouds swiftly over tld state.
The stifling dust made breathing
difficult at Abilene, with visibility
reduced to a few hundred feet. Lub
bock residents went about with
handkerchiefs over their faces, but
that gave them little relief from the
choking fog. Workers found breath
ing difficult inside buildinga.
The Panhandle was masked by a
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COURT AFFIRMS
DEATH PENALTY
Slayer of Rio Patrolman
During Smuggling Raid
To Die In Chair
AUSTIN. March 27 — The
Texas court of criminal appeal*
Wednesday affirmed the death
penalty of Ramiro Galvan, alleged
to have killed Evan Scotten. bor
der patrolman, in a gun battle In
El Paso county in 1929 between
United States officers and alleged
liquor smugglers.
Convictions of Clifford Prather
and Lloyd Ravbum alias Leon
Baker in Montgomery county oC
murder of E. M. Walker, a filling
station employe, were affirmed.
Prather was sentenced to 99 year*
and Rayburn to life.
The court overruled objection*
that the trial court erred in admit
ting testimony that Prather and
Rayburn had committed a rob
bery in Walker county shortly prior
to the homicide. Walker vu kill
ed last August 18 by a shotgun
charge.
rONIGk T»s MOVIES
OVER TKE VALLEY
Brownsvllle: The Capitol—Ann Hard
ing and Robert Montgomery in "Bio
graphy of a Bachelor Olrl.” The Queen
—Fredrlc March. Oary Cooper and Mir
iam Hopkins in "Design for Living." The
Dlttmann—Maurice Chevalier in "The
Way to Love”
San Benito: The Rlvoli—Ramon Ho
varro and Evelyn Laye In "The Night le
Young ”
Harlingen: The Arcadia—Anna Stas
and Frederic March In "We Live Again “
The Rialto—Bing Croeby and Kitty Car
lisle in "Here Is My Heart ”
La Ferla: The Bijou—Ramon Novarif
and Evelyn Laye In "The Night *■
Young.”
San Juan: The San Juan—Mary Mor
ris in "The Double Door.”
Raymondvtlle: The Ramon—Jungle
picture. "Beyond Bengal.”
Donna: The Plaza Douglee Fair
banks in "Private Life of Don Juan.”
Mercedes: The Capitol—Kay Frau
ds. Warren William and Oeorgs Brent
In “Living On Velvet.”
Weslaco. The Rita—"Shadow tt
Doubt ”
McAllen: The Palacn-Ramoo No
varro and Evelyn Laye is "The Night
la Young ” The Queen- James Cagnef
is “The St. Louis Kid” _
Mission: The Mission—Charlie DM**
•na- "David Copperfleld ”
Aboveboard Circulation—Only Member in The Valley of Audit Bureau of Circulations