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THE WEATHER (By Li. S. Weather Bureau) Brownsville and the Valley: Fair ■ to partly cloudy and wanner Mon day night and Tuesday. I e 1 FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 239 By KALPH. L. BUELL * t’HIS IS SPRING FIRE PRE rention-Cleanup Week. That fact may mean much or lit tle in your young life— But what does mean something in your lile, Is the {act that the fire depart ments of your various Rio Grande Delta cities— Are on the job all the time. And are endeavoruig throughout thus week to impress upon all of us. That proper precaution* will cut down still further the fire hazard. And give our Valley cities still lower fire msurance rate* than they now enjoy. Property owner*, tenants, are the Vones who get the ultimate benefit out of Fire Prevention Weeks— In renewed safety for life and property. So give a thought to the week and it* observance. • • • AND THIS 18 STILL ANOTHER week— "Be Kind to Dumb Animals ' Week. Newspaper offices the nation over are expected to be showered with flowers! m m m HAS THE VALLEY HAD ONE, just one. • wet" norther f aring the i past fail winter and spring? We cannot remember it, if we have had it, and 11 such is the case, some kind of a record has been set. Wonder what has become of the old fashioned wet norther that used to linger on for days, and even weeks, with its miserable drizzle? That is. the drizzle was miserable at the time, but how thankful we all were when its fruition came about in fast growing fields of cotton, corn and vegetables. • • • THEY TELL US THAT VALLEY people are themselves importing plenty of corn for home use from Mexico. And the AAA goes merrily about 1L program of cutting down com acreage here in the Valley and else where. and limiting the production of hogs along with it. We never did produce enough hogs down here, and oi late years we have been missing a fair bet in not plant ing enough com for our own use. There probably is some sense to all this, but it's over the head of a mere scribbler. • • • VALLEY FARMERS SHOWED their opinion of too much govern mental regulation of crop produc tion and sale when they smothered the proposed tdmato marketing pact in the election of Saturday. Our tomato growers have shown themselves amply able to take care of the tomato situation in years past, and are content to let it go at that. • • • ALL KINDS OF CONGRATULA tints to the public spirited citizens whb were Saturday elected to school beards of the Valley districts. Plenty of responsibility, plenty of hard work, await them. May they prove equal to the load they have assumed; may their la bors be crowned with success; may our schools continue to grow and improve, and may the general pub lic back their efforts with hearty cooperation. • • • MANY AND VARIED ARE THE honors gained by Valley students at the various institutions of higher learning throughout the country, and great the credit reflected on their home schools. Latest honor to come to a Valley student is that gained by Miss Gall McDavitt of Brownsville, and proud indeed is Brownsville and the Val ley over her election as •‘Sweetheart ol the University of Texas." Those who know her commend the excellent judgment displayed by her fellow students as they cast their 1 votes. • • • A TEXAS ADVERTISING agency recently made an Investiga tion of the grapefruit sale in De troit and found, on consultation with retailers and Jobbers that— On a very conservative estimate the sale of Texas grapefruit in that city could be increased approximate ly 200 carloads a season— By the judicious use of advertis ing to the cost of approximately 12. 000 In other words, by the expenditure ; of approximately 24c a box. sale of Valley grapelruit in Detroit could be Increased by roughly 7.200 boxes * And still the Valley lags and dilly dallies and does nothing. You figure it out. were bogged down. 7-Year-Old Girl Kidnaped, Slain YOUTH ADMITS HE HIT CHILD fflTHST 0 N E Mentally Deficient Boy Say* Girl Wanted To ‘Go To See Her Dead Mother’ DRUM WRIGHT, Okla.. April 8. (A**—Jay Williams. 20. described as mentally deficient, has been ar rested and confessed he beat Kath ryn Cline, 7-year-old daughter of a Crow oil field worker to death with a large rock “because she wanted to go to her dead mother.” Chief of Police Jack Ary said Mon day. Williams was arrested at his home, a short distance from a bam in which the girl's body was found. He confessed killing the girl. Chief Ary said, immediately after his ar rest. A large rock was found near the city. It was covered with blood, the chief added. Head Crushed Her body, the head crushed was found in a barn a half mile from her home by neighbors and offi cers who started a search for her when she was reported missing from her home for more than an hour. A possee of citizens and county officers started a hunt after the girl’s body was found. Doctors, meanwhile, were making a com plete examination. Deputy Sheriff Vergil de Shan said the girl had gone early to the (Continued On Page Two) ‘AUTO DEATH’ TRIAL BEGINS Brothers Charged With Killing Man By Use of Car Ggegono and Guillermo Tijerina, Brownsville brothers, went on trial in criminal district court here Monday morning charged with the murder of Pablo Saldana, Jr„ em ployee of a Brownsville furniture concern. Saldana died Jan. 27, 1935. after being run over by an automobile allegedly driven by the Tijerina brothers near the Paloma dance ball, situated near Brownsville on the Southmost highway. The defendants, represented by Major H. B. Galbraith, entered pleas ol not guilty when the indictment was called and most of the morning was devoted to selecting a jurv to hear evidence. At preliminary hearings, the Tipe rm a brothers claimed that they had no intention of running over Sal dana with their car. The state will attempt to prove that Saldana was knocked off the cars running board by one of the brothers, and that (Continued on Page Two> FIRSTCARLOAD OF NEW POTATOES IS SHIPPED BY CITY McDavitl Brothers, the Valleys oldest produce house, once more shipped the first solid carload of potatoes of the season, rolling a car out of Brownsville Saturday night to start Texas’ 1933 potato deal. A number of small shipments by truck had gone out already. Po tatoes in the solid car were dug from the farms of Carl Huffaker and Concur Brothers southeast of Brownsville. The car was rolled to Dallas, and brought an unusually good twice, according to W. E McDavitt. Carlot movement of potatoes will be fairly steady by the end of the week. Philippine Typhoon Kills 25 In Samar MANILA. P. L, April 8 (iP—Be lated reports reaching here Monday said Saturday's typhoon killed 25 persons in the town of Borongan on the east coast of the province of Samar. Virtually all the buildings in the town were destroyed, the reports added, and ti was feared the death toll would be increased as later ac counts arrived. r- -- HAMILTON FI ALLY NABBED Here is Ray Hamilton, notorious bank bandit and deith house fugitive, who was captured Friday night in Fort Worth. He is pictured with R. A. 1 Smoot' S hmldt, Dallas county sheriff, who made the capture. The scene is the Dallas county jaiL I R TASTES FIRST DEFEAT — Dictatorship Beaten By Danzig Residents At Polls (Copyright. 1935. by the A.P.) FREE CITY OF DANZIG. April 8 —A handful of Danzig residents with the fighting spirit of Teutonic knights had succeeded Monday In thwarting Nazi ambitions to create a dictatorship in this free city as a step toward its reunion with the i fatherland. Nazis, while polling approximate ly 60 per cent of the vote in Sun day's Volkstag. or parliament, elec tion, tell consideraoly snort of the | two-thirds majority required to I wipe out opposition parties and make themselves supreme in the city s political life. Approximately 93,000 Danzig vot ers, the majority of them German Catholics and aocialists, commned to drown the hopes ol the Hitler ites. The defeat was the first real defiance nazidom has encountered since it attained ascendancy in the teich. Tne outcome was regarded as having far greater significance for the Nazi program than its mere effect on the division of parties in aie Volkstag. New Plane To Go On Exhibit Here Braniff Airways new Lockheed Electra plane was scheduled to ar rive at the Brownsville Pan Ameri can Airport about noon Monday, and to be on exhibition Monday after noon at the airport. A communication to the Browns ville Chamber of Commerce stated .hat T. E. Braniff, president of the line; and Paul R. Braniff, general manager, were making the trip. The new plane is expected to be put in regular service in the near iuiure. greatly speeding up tune be tween Brownsville and Dallas. This is the first of several of these planes to be delivered to Bralniff Airways, with others to be put in service as soon as they can be turned out by the factory. :---—_ VALLEY MAN ON ♦ * * * * TRAIN LOOTED BY ***** GANG OF BANDITS (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN. April 8—Fred L. Flynn of Harlingen returned to the Valley Sunday with a train robbery added to hia list of ex periences. Flynn was a passenger on the train that was robbed as it sped through Illinois Thursday night, when a group of bandits robbed Lhe passengers in the style of the old West. Tne car in which Flynn was riding, a chair car near the en-* gine. was overlooked by the bandit gang. who. shooting and shouting warnings, robbed'the train from the parlor car back through the Pullman cars. Flynn said that the first knowledge he and his lellow passengers had of the rob bery was when a terrified negro porter raced through the car shouting that the train was be ing robbed. Flynn said that all those in the car aid their money and valuables, but were unmolest ed. Passengers in other cars, how ever, were robbed and one man was shot by the bandits. PRIEST BLASTS BRUNO’S ALIBIS German Studied Blueprints Of Lindbergh Home, Says Churchman MILWAUKEE. April 8. UPy—Fed eral authorities Monday considered a new chapter in the life of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a chapter pur ported to blast much of the Bronx carpenters defense alibi to the kid naping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. The Rev. Michael J. Kallok. 48 year-old Catholic priest, told gov ernment agents that Hauptmann studied plans of Lindbergh's Hope well. N. JJ., estate even before it was constructed, and that he had seen tContinued On rage Iwo> I Importance of Port Here Is Seen by Iron Works Official The Brownsvule seaport will develop Into an important gate way for commerce between the United States and Mexico in the opinion of E. A. Holmgreen of san Antonio, president of the Alamo Iron Works, who is a vis i uor in the city. Mr. Holmgreen was accompan ied here by his grandson. Wrather Holmgreen. and was accompanied on his visit to the chamber of commerce and other points in the city by H. R McKay, manager of the Brownsville branch house of the Alamo Iron Works. In addition to its development as a gateway for international commerce, the Brownsville port will result in important agricul tural developments in the opinion of Mr. Holmgreen. 'Your present average rate on perishables to points on the east coast is around 140 a ton,” Mr. Holmgreen said. "Contrast this with $12 to $18 a ton rate that you will have with water transporta tion. and you see the possibilities of agricultural development." Holmgreen said that one factor which would enter into the deal upon completion of the port here is the need for a marketing agency at the receiving end. This agency would load the produce out of the boats and move it on out to various points, distribut ing it in such a way as not to affect the markets. The San An tonio man expressed the belief that development would be steady after opening of the port. Holmgreen is the second gener ation of his family to operate and continue building up the Alamo Iron works, and said that he has now practically retired from active work, leaving the management to the third generation of Holm greens. including his son. WEST TO PAY VALLEY VISIT Congressman Says Will Aid In Battle Against High Freight WASHINGTON. April 8 <Jf* — Representative West <D-Tex> was enroute to Texas Monday to assist | shippers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in their campaign to obtain lower freight rates to northern and eastern markets for citrus fruits and vegetables The alleged discrimination, those shippers claim, is involved In what is popularly known as the Robs town freight rate case. West's office said he probably would stop in Austin. Tex., on the way to Brownsville. Tex., arriving in the latter city Tuesday or Wed nesday. A telegram from Congressman West, quoted in Sunday's Laredo Times, stated that the congressman was leaving Washington Saturday night “to assist m differential rate fight, hearing for which is set for San Antonio on April 17”. Belief that Fort McIntosh would bfe rehabilitated out of PWA money was also expressed in the tele gram. The Times estimated that the new structures and repairs proposed for Fort McIntosh will run between 1200,000 and 1500.000. YOUTH NEAR DEATH AFTER COLLISION; DRIVER IS SOUGHT (Special to The Herald I EDINBURG. April 8—Valley of-' fioers continued their search for a hit-and-run truck driver Monday as the 11-year-old victim. Timotfiy Eay, entered the third day oi un consciousness as a result of injuries sustained in the collision. The truck in which the youth and a younger brother and sister were riding on the highway neat- here a as sideswiped Friday night by an other truck. The youth sustained a concussion of the brain when » piece of the rear narrow. broken in the collission. struck him. The driv er of the other truck sped away. Soviet Recognition Fight Plans Made WASHINGTON. April 8 Iff) — Rep. Tinkham <R-Massi disclosed Monday that he plans to carry to the floor of the house his fight to put congress on record as favoring withdrawal of recognition from Soviet Russia. “The recognition obtained in 1933." he said. "Was obtained on specific promises—a senes of prom ; iaes in writing. AH of these have been violated, particularly the one regarding agitation and overthrow of established government." Wire Flashes HUNTSVILLE—Raymond Ham*. I ilton. recaptured death • house f ugitive, will be sentneced to death Mondav afternoon by District Judge S. W Dean for the slaying of Major Crowson. state prison farm guard. HIDALGO GETS 2 ADDITIONAL PRODUCERS Three Other Tests Set Casing And Prepare To Make Attempt At Production fSoeoUl to The Herald* MISSION. April 8 — Two new flowing producers were completed in the Samfordyce field of south western Hidalgo county this week end to bring the total number of flowing wells In the area to 53. In addition three new tests had set and cemented casing on top of sand, one of them indicating an extension of production 1.000 feet to the east and passing an old dry hole. Four new tests were under way In the field proper and other tests were drilling. Wildcats In Hidalgo county as sumed a new Importance this week as they steadily made hole, the most important being the Union Sulphur Company's eastern Hi dalgo county wildcat which Is in process of completion. Two Completions The completions were: Lucky-Blocker - Bishop's No 3 Francisco Guerra 630 feet from the west and 165 feet from the south lines of the southeast 20 acres of tract 254 porcion 39. about 1.500 feet northeast of discovery, made an estimated 10 to 12 bar rels hourly through Vi-lnch tubing choke under tubing working pres sure of 240 pounds and closed-in casing pressure of 125 pounds. The test Is midway between an oil pro ducer and a passer, and is pro ducing from saturation at 2,753-63 feet. The second completion waa Hi ram M. Reed's No. 1 C. E. Smith in the west end of the south 10 acres of the northwest 46 29 acres of tract 3-B, porcion 41. about 5.700 feet southeast of discovery. It is making its daily allowable through hi-inch tubing choke under tubing working pressure of 280 pounds and 320 pounds closed-in casing pres sure. The test had saturati'Jh at (Continued on Page F vci Montgomery Ward, NRA Fight Begins WASHINGTON. April 8. .JP> — NRA and Montgomery Ward and Company were engaged in a bitter dispute Monday over removal of the company's Blue Eagle. The recovery administration ad vised the firm Sunday that it no longer could use NRA Insignia to be certified as qualifying for gov ernment contracts. Failure to pay 1U assessed share of the cost of administering the retail code was given as the reason for this action. In Chicago. Sewell Avery, presi dent of Montgomery Ward, prompt ly replied that administrative mach inery for the retail code was Tlle gal and unfair". Posse Hunts Blacks CAMDEN. S C., April 8. — National guardsmen and a posse of several hundred persons combed the Wateree river swamp district Monday for six armed negro con victs who wounded one guard and overpowered two others in escaping from the state prison farm near here. Gilbert Mahaffey. 28-year-old guard, was wounded seriously in a gun battle during which he shot three fleeing convicts, one of them fatally, as they broke from De saussure camp Sunday. Parts Of Three States Struck By High Winds 200 Persons Injured; Damage Estimated At $300,000 OLOBTER. Mu*., April 8 UP)—A tornado which blew out of the west over parts of Louisiana. Mississippi and Alabama during the week-end left 26 known dead, more than 200 injured and property damage esti mated at 8300.000. The storm did a hop skip and Jump over the area, striking first at LaJte Providence. La.. Saturday night. When it crossed the Missis sippi river moving southeast it struck three times with added fury at Dolorosa. Gloster and Glllsburg. Miss. and spent its force by dipping down around Mobile, Ala.. Sunday Every House Damaged The main fury of the wind was felt in this town of 1.500 population, be tween McComb and Natchez. Not a j house escaped some damage and, 760 inhabitants were affected di rectly by the storm Mayor Louts Kahn said 87 dwell ings were blown to splinters. 41 so badly damaged that they will have to be razed. 28 other dwellings and 20 business houses partly damaged. Even the cemetery did not escape, tombstones being blown down and shunted from grave to grave. The landscape was stream with timber, metal roofing, uprooted trees and general debris. Pour white persons and four neg roes were killed here and 150 injured. The property damage was estimated at 1250.000 by the mayor. Prom Gloster the storm struck next outside of the village of Gllls burg. 25 miles southeast of here, where six persons were killed, a score of the heaviest hall the crops were • laterally driven into the ground, (Continued on Page Two) 800 ACRES OF TOMATOES LOST Hail Damage Confined To Section Around Harlingen (Snec'nl to The Herald) HARLINGEN. April 8.—Loss of approximately 800 acres of toma toes In an area beginning at Mitchell's Switch and extending through the Wilson Tract section, and east almost to Rio Hondo from Saturday's hail was revealed in a survey made Monday. Extensive damage was also done in that area to cotton, and to some com and bean crops. Cotton was being replanted by many farmers Monday. It was estimated by grower* and shippers here that about 1600 acres of tomatoes was hit by the hall, and that the loss on this will be fully 50 per cent. In the path injured and 14 homes blown down. The tornado then rode into the skies and as thought spent in the ozone but it swooped down Sunday in the Mobile. Ala., area Where It wrecked several homes, unroofed others and did several thousand dol- ; lars property damage but no human lots of life or Injury were reported Hits Another Town At Lake Providence. La., four white persons and fne negroes were drown- i ed when the wind blew over a large boathouse anchored in the Missis sippi river, six miles below the town. Then the wind crossed into the | state of Mississippi and hit Dolorosa, a plantation settlement where three negro children were killed. The wind caught most of the peo ple asleep. They were so panic strick en they could not describe the storm. Southern California Cities Flooded by Heavy Downpours (By The Associated Prewu Spring storms left an erratic pattern of death and destruction In the south Monday while on the west coast torrential rains brought threats of floods. The list of known dead as the result of tornadoes, lightning and flood waters stood at 31. Most of these were killed or drowned as a result of a tornado which ripped through sections of Louisiana and Mississippi. Other deaths were In Texas and Florida. Heavy rains flooded cities in both northern and southern Cali fornia and more downpours were forecast. In the Montrose-La Cres cents and Long Beach areas, near Los Angeles, men were ordered to patrol duty as the section was deluged by torrential rains. In northern California motorist* were marooned by high waters and rail road and airplane service disrupt ed. A snow storm marooned 350 automobiles overnight on the mountanious Lincoln highway near Bedford. Pa. Many of the cars carried persons who had visit ed Washington's Cherry Bloasom Show. Rain and snow brought joy to the fanners of the middle west. Rains fell in the eastern two thirds of Kansas but missed the western third where severe dust storms raged in March. Snowplows were in action in northeastern Missouri Sunday after a 6-inch snow fall. Near Kansas City, the mercury dropped to frees tng point, causing apprehension among fruit growers. MURDER COUNT RETURNED BY KIDALGOJURY Pair Held Without Bond In Slaying Of Salesman Near Edinburg (Special to The Herald > EDINBURO. April 8 —Four in dictments charging Richard A. Pal mer and James D. McAllister with the robbery and murder t>f Percy A. Calkins. Houston salesman who was shot to death near Edinburg March 30. were returned by a grand jury in 02nd Criminal District court court shortly after noon Monday. The four indictments charge both defendants with murder and with robbery with firearm* The gand Jury, empanelled Mon day morning, did a fast job in re turning the indictment* against Mc Alister. & 36-year-old ex-convict, and Palmer. The state ha* indicated it will pres* for a speedv trial. The two defendants are In jail, having been denied bond after signing confes sions to the slaying. The grand Jury is made up of O. E. Britton of Pharr, foreman; W. E Stout of Pharr. Ramon Guerra of McAllen. C. F Archer of Mercedes, D. A. Purvear of Donna Fred Daw son of Alamo. J. A. Cardenas of Linn. Harry D Bowers of Weslaco, B. H Collier of Mercedes. Alfredo Q Garza of Progreso. Roy Conway of Mission and M T Hutto of Donna. Calkins, a well-known Houston salesman, was shot to death near Edinburg March 30 Sheriff J. A Goolsby of Cameron county, through a Up. picked up Palmer at a Rio Hondo carnival Tuesday afternoon, and on inform (Continued On Page i'woi Youth Admits He Slew ‘Girl Friend* FORT WORTH. April 8. <A*> — James Elree Parson*. 23. who told officers that he killed his -girl friend." Mrs Mildred Eva Mc Adams. 21 after a drinking party early Sunday, wa* held in city Jail Monday awaiting the filing of charges. Parsons* friend. Raymond Field house. 21. remained in City-County hospital suffering from cuts and bruises and possible concussion of the brain. He was beaten by Par sons. In a statement to officers. Par sons related that he struck thd wo man by accident while swinging the handle of an automobile Jack with the intention of hitting Field house. Richardson Returns With Deep Port Data O C. Richardson, manager of the Brownsville Chamber of Commerce, is to return to this city Monday evening by train from Monterrey, where he 1ms been the pant 10 days on work in connection with the Brownsville port. Richardson has been gat he ring data to be used in the br ef of the Brownsville Navigation district in support of its application to have the government increase the depth of the Brownsville port to 30 feet. Administration Slate Defeated In Write-In VICTORIA. April 8 HP' —A write in campaign Monday had defeat ed by nearly two to one the ad ministration slate in Saturday* school trustee election Complete returns showed C O Durham. Wil liam Offer and P H. Keefe had won over Dr. J V. Hopkins. Dr. J. H To Ison and C. C. Kerlagon. Rear Admiral Dies WASHINGTON. April 8. 'P> — Rear Admiral Arthur L. Willard died Sunday at his home here aft er * brief illness. He was 65 year* old. Born in Kirksvtlle. Mo . and ap pointed to the Naval Academy in 1887, Admiral Willard had * long and distinguished career During the World War he wa* superintendent of the naval gun factory in Washington, and for this service was awarded the navy cross. F ali~Kiil*—Man WASHINGTON. April 8 .,P>—A man identified by a companien a* William R Dooley of Bedford. Vir ginia. treasurer of Bedford county, was killed early Monday in a fall down a flight of steps at Jimmy Lake's night club. Accompanying him at the time of the accident was a man listed as John B Oliver, also of Bedford, and a member of the Virginia house of delegates. TONIGHT’S MOVIES OVER THE VALLEY Brownsville' The Capitol—Clark Oable and Constance Bennett in After Office Hours." The Queen—"La Cucarm cha ” The Dlttmann Chu Chin Chow." Ban Benito: The Rivoll Oary Coofy er and Anna 8ten in "The Wedding Night *" __ Harlingen: The Arcadia—Dick Powell and Olorla Stuart in Oold Diggers of 1935" The Rlslto—Orets Garbo and John Boles in "The Painted Veil." I* Perla: The Bijou— Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger# In "Roberta ” Raymond vine The Ramon- Zaaa Grey’s "Home On the Range " Donna The Plaza—Fred Astaire and Olnger Rogers In "Roberta ** San Juan The San Juan—Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler In "Dames ’* Mercedes: The Cspitol- Edward CL Robinson in "The Whole Town's Talk* We»iaco: The Rita—Dick Powell and Olorla Stuart In "Oold Diggers of ISIS." McAllen: The Palace-Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart in “Oold Diggers of 1938." The Queen -Shirley Temple and James Dunn in "Bright Eyes ** Mission- The Mission-Myrna Loy and Cary Grant in "Wings In the Dark." Aboveboard Circulation—Only Member in The Valley of Audit Bureau of Circulations