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THE WEATHER
(By U. ft. Weather Bureau)
> Brownsville and the Valley: Fair
V- and somewhat colder Thursday
night; Friday fair.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 242
YOUNG MOTHER OF 2 SLAIN IN CAFE
By RALPH. L. BLELL
DURING THE SEASON OP 1934,
Valley tomato growers stood hitch
ed. and—
Realized an average price of 3H
cents a pound or thereabouts for
the tomatoes they sold.
During the season of 1933 the
aame growers stood hitched, and
the price received averaged around
8 cents a pound.
Both seasons there were httle
old incidents that might have re
sulted in the tobogganing of the
price—
Had not the growers stood firm
in their price demands.
By standing firm they helped the
Uppers get their asking price—
^And everybody was more or less
happy.
Within a short time the Valley
will again be moving tomatoes.
There are signs that a chosen few
would like to see the season open
with the growers in a pessimistic
frame of mind regarding price pro
spects
With the idea that this pessimism
will result in a dropping of the
price
Valley tomato growers have prov
en most conclusively to themselves
and to the world that they can get
the price market conditions Justify.
If they stand as firm this season
as in the two seasons past—
They will get the price.
• » »
WHEN IS PROGRESS NOT
progress?
Up in the plains country of Kan
sas and the Dakotas they will tell
you that progress Is not progress
when it plows up the tenacious na
tive buffalo grass for the planting of
wheat.
For the buffalo grass held the soil
together, and the wheat does not.
And dust storms have resulted.
And now they are figuring how to
get the plains back in Buffalo grass
^ again.
W * When they get it figured out. they
also figure that they will change
the wheat farmer into a cattleman,
and that herds of white faced cattle
will once more roam the plains,
while the whoop of the cowboy and
the klink of spurs is heard again in
the land.
• • •
BUT IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO
grass the plains, and what is going
to become of the wheat farmer
during his years of translation into
the cattle industry—
Is something that the brain trust
hasn't quite got to yet.
• • •
SEVENTEEN PIECE8 OF
“franked" mail hit our desk in one
day recently.
From the CCC, the FHA, the
FERA. the AAA and all of the rest
of the alphabetical organizations
they come.
And showing no discrimination—
They were all filed neatly and
with dispatch in the commodious
waste basket which graces our
sanctum
(It has a capacity of about three
bushels, that waste basket.)
But the labor of sorting all that
mail, the labor of preparing the
junk, of sealing and addressing the
envelopes to newspapers all over
the country!
Most of It worthless for newspaper
purposes, and if perchance any item
of news value was contained there
in—
It had come over the wires days
before.
Some day some real news is going
to come out in one of those envel
opes and be entirely overlooked by
weary editor.
Who has been sorting that sort of
trash for years and has yet to
find any newsworthy item
• • •
SEVERAL OF OUR VALLEY
citizens are due for a prolonged
attack of the hebee-jebees. if some
thing does not happen pretty soon
to that Union Sulphur well at Mer
cedes.
Lorry Jacobs of Dallas came down
to give the well his paternal bless
ing. and from all reports will have
to return to Dallas in an ambulance.
Takes big things like oil wells, or
Southland Life Insurance conven
tions. to get Lorry excited.
As public relations man for the
Southland, he is on the everlasting
qui vlve, and usually comes to the
vaUey to rest.
But not this time.
FRANfil
AND BRITAIN
REPRESENTED
Germany Looks From
Afar With Attitude
Of Pessimism; Await
World Move
(Copyright, 1935, by the AP.)
6TRESA. Italy. April 11.—Au
thoritative source*, fully cognisant
ol what is going on In the tripartite
conference on secluded Isola
Bella, said Thursday night Prance
asked Italy and Great Britain to
support iter in defending the
sanctity of treaties against Reich*
fuehrer Hitler’s reupdiation in the
forthcoming League council session
at Geneva.
(Copyright. 1935. by <A*>)
BERLIN. April 11. —An of
ficial German source stated
Thursday night that Berlin sees
the League of Nations “being
destroyed'* by the Franco-Rus
sian agreement for mutual as
iContinued On Page Nine)
CROPSTRING
GOOD PRICES
Onions Get $2.35; Beans
Sell For $2; Potatoes
Four Cents
Valley fanners fortunate enough
to have potatoes, beans or onions
ready for shipment now. are receiv
ing excellent money returns on
their produce, according to reports
of the U. S. Market News Bureau
here.
Onions are heading the list be
cause of the heavy shipments. A
total of 49 solid carloads rolled
Wednesday night, bringing between
$50,000 and $60,000 to the Valley.
Figures on shipments by truck are
not available. Onions are bringing
mostly $2.25 to $2.35 a 50-pound
sack.
Three solid carloads of potatoes
moved Wednesday night from
Brownsville and Los Fresno6. Pota
toes are bringing more than four
cents a pound to growers, where
quality and .size are satisfactory
Shipments will be heavier In a
short time.
Shipments Wednesday also In
cluded two cars of beans, which are
also bringing almost their weight in
money. The beans are selling for
$2 a hamper cash track, where
quality Is good.
Liner Aquitania Is
Fast on Mud Bank
SOUTHAMPTON. England April
11. <jP>—The Aquitania, 45.000-ton
liner of the Cunard-White Star line,
remained fast Thursday on the mud
bank in the Solent, onto which she
was forced Wednesday by a 70-mile
an-hour gale.
Two high tides passed without
enabling a fleet of nine tugs to fret
the vessel.
During the first attempt Wednes
day. nearly 300 passengers whiled
away the time in an impromptu
dance and an unscheduled dinner on
board. Thursday morning, however,
only 27 remained, the others hav
ing braved the rough passage ashore
when given the opportunity to get
off the marooned ship in tenders.
Jurist Succumbs
SAN ANTONIO. April U.—JB*—
Judge William S. Anderson of thir
ty-seventh district court died at his
home here Thursday at the age of
73 The veteran Bexar county Jur
ist had been in ill health for the
lest 18 months. He had been judge
o: thirty-seventh district court for
22 years.
MID-WEST SOIL
*****
REACHES VALLEY
*****
ON NORTH WIND
The Valley received its second
“taste” of Oklahoma, Kansas and
Texas Panhandle topsoil Thurs
day when north winds brought
powdery soil to the Gulf of Mex
ico.
The soil borne by the wind
resembled rainclouds as it swept
southward. A portion of it sifted
through into business houses and
residences’ in Brownsville as it
swept southward.
Temperatures dropped only a
few degrees Thursday afternoon
as a result of the north wind.
The Valley saw its first sand
storm about three weeks ago
when topsoil was swept southward
from Middlewestern states.
TOMATO DEAL
OUTLOOK GOOD
Good Price Seen Despite
Interests Working To
Throw Scare
Optimism regarding price pros
pects for the coming tomato deal is
expressed in a statement issued
Thursday morning by Homer P.
Huntley, chairman of the stabiliza
tion commiteee of the Rio Grande
Valley Vegetable Growers associa
tion. Belief that the deal shows
every indication of maintaining an
average price of 3c to 3He a pound,
provided growers do not permit
themselves to be stampeded into ac
cepting a low’er price, was expressed
by Huntley, who stated that there
are signs of an effort to convince
growers that the tomato deal is
headed for the “bow-wows."
His statement follows:
"There seems to be a concerted
effort on the part of certain interests
to influence growers into the belief
that it is useless to expect a fair price
for their tomatoes this season.
“In spite of complaints from the
customary pessemistic calamity how
lers regarding the prospects for the
Valley tomato growers, we feel that
these prospects are very good. There
are certain foreign interests who are
trying to instill in the minds of the
growers and shippers that our to
mato deal is headed for the bow
wows. because Florida has a large
crop that will hang over into ours;
that Yoakum will come into the
first part of our deal; and that East
Texas will be right along in the
middle, all this indicating that we
should receive a mighty small price
for our tomatoes.
"Although it is a little early to
give any definite information, our
committee has very carefully stud
(Continued on Page Nine)
BROWNSVILLE PORI
ROAD BIDS ASKED
BY HIGHWAY BOARD
(Special toT>> Herald >
AUSTIN. April 11— The Stat:
Highway commission late Wednes
day entered an order calling for
bids on grading, structures and pav
ing of 1.2 miles of road connecting
Highway 48 with the Brownsville
turning basin. The bids will be op
ened April 30.
The paving is an extension of 14th
street in Brownsville to the turning
basin site, and will include 1300
feet on the north side of the turn
ing basin.
Rentfro, Rosenthal
Work on PWA Loans
Mayor R. B. Rentfro and City
Manager Z A. Rosetnhal are ex
pected to return Saturday afternoon
trom a trip to Port Worth and Dal
las in connection with the city’s PWA
loan and grant.
Commissioner W. T. Aldridge is
acting as mayor pro tem in the ab
sence of Rentfro.
Wives Take Rest in Long
Bridge Match; Lead Grows
NEW YORK April 11. {J&—P.
Hal Sims's chance for victory in
his bridge match with Ely Cul
bertson existed Thursday only as
a bare possibility.
The portly bridge master of Deal
N. J. faced a virtually insurmount
able lead as the match entered its
second to last day Thursday, with
17 more rubbers to be played.
Culbertson and his wife. Jose
phine. withstood a determined
assault by Mr. and Mrs. Sims in
Wednesday s play and brought
their advantage up to 14.720
points at the end of the 133rd rub
ber. Early in the night the Simses
had cut the lead to 10.210 points,
only to have the Culbertsons start
a new upward swing that gave
them a net gain for the day of 1,
020 points.
Thursday, for the first time since
the match started. Mrs. Culbert
son and Mrs. Sims will not play.
Mrs. Culbertson is talcing the day
off to be present at the birthday
celebration of her son. Bruce, who
is six years old.
Culbertson will have Albert H.
Morehead as his partner and Sims
will play with B. Jay Becker of
Philadelphia in the afternoon ses
sion. The wives will return to the
table for the night session.
Eleven rubbers were played Wed
nesday and Wednesday night, the
Simses winning six and the Cul
bertsons, five. The Culbertson's
lead in rubbers, 73 to 60, and in
points. 111.330 to 96,610.
'REWORKING OF
DEEP WILDCAT
IS UNDER WAY
Test Flows Casinghead
Gasoline as Pressure
Drops When ‘Killing’
Is Done
(Special to Tba Herald)
MERCEDES, April 11— First at
tempts to re-work the Union Sul
phur company s No. S American Rk>
Grande wildcat six miles north of
here were begun Thursday morn
ing when workmen began to pull
the liner and screen from the deep
hole after tremendous gas pressure
caused drillers to kill the well Wed
nesday afternoon.
Tubing already had been pulled by
noon Thursday, and four joints of
liner and the 22 feet of screen are
to be removed for examination and
possible replacement.
It was believed Thursday that
collapse of the screen under the
heavy gas pressure caused a partial
sanding up. thereby permitting noth
ing but gas production. The pres
(Continued on Page Nine)
FISHING BILL
DEBATE HEARD
Commercial and Pleasure
Representatives Fail
To Agrea
AUSTIN, April 11.—UP)— Repre
sentatives of commercial and sport
fishing disagreed sharply Wednes
day night over the effects of a bill
proposing to permit commercial
fishing in virtually all coast waters
from Galveston to Point Isabel.
Arguments centered in particular
on the desirability of opening west
Galveston bay w> commercial fish
ing. which has been allowed in the
east bay nine months in the year.
Proponents of the measure by
Representatives Robert H. Wood of
Marshall and George B. Butler of
Bryan charged that most of the
coast waters were closed for the
benefit of special Interests and
fishermen were denied a natural
livelihood.
Opponents argued that the east
bay had been almost depleted of
fish bv the commercial fishermen
and that the magnificent spawning
grounds in the smaller west bay
would be destroyed If an invasion
by commercial fishermen was al
lowed.
The sub-committee, which has
had the bill under consideration for
several weeks, asked and was grant
ed another week before making a
final report.
Representative Wood expressed <
the opinion there was enough fish!
along the Texas coast to satisfy all i
needs and decried restrictions which
he said resulted In high prices for
and the importation of fish.
H W. Flagg of Galveston said the
arguments for keeping the west bay
closed were supported by the Unit
ed States bureau of fisheries. He
declared commercial fishing would
destroy fish life in west bey within
a few years.
Other speaker! In favor of open
ing the west bay to commercial
fishing Included O. A. Anderson. J.
(Continued on Page Nine*
State Head Visit*
Cameron School*
Katherine Henderson, district sup
ervisor for the state department of
education, arrived here Thursday to
begin a program of scoring rural
schools in regard to state standard
ization.
She is expected to be here a week
or ten days.
Seek Missing Boy
CHICAGO. April 11. (JP—An un
relenting search was pushed Thurs
day for four-year-old Richard Per
rot, whose father said ransom had
been demanded for the boy’s release.
Richard has been missing for a
week.
The father. Max Pern*. foreman
in a tool manufacturing plant, told
newspapermen he expected his son
back before Sunday, indicating ran
som demands were met for a return
of red-haired Richard. The boy.
mute since an injury at birth, was
believed to have been the victim
of a moron after his disappearance.
Wire Flashes
WASHINGTON.—The senate
agriculture committee Thursday
approved the Wheeler mandatory
16 to I silver purchase bill design
ed to inflate the currency and
speed the attainment of a metallic
currency reserve of one part silver
and three parts gold.
BEAUTIES IN ONION FIESTA
0
Norma Dcntnf — San PuUta
OUt» Hendrtchfcon — La Sava
Helen Louise Wester—KuyuiwriMfc
Rath Ritchie — Raymond role
Margaret Haning —
Eloiae Cheney — Raymondviila
Maxine Hold — Raymond rtile
Mildred Parker — Lyford Dudley Jo Sharp — La Sam
Above are pictured 11 Willacy county girls who will take an active part
In the Seventh Annual Onion Fiesta at RaymondviUe beginning Fri
day and extending through Sunday. One of the girls in the top six pic
tures are eligible to become Queen Nolno VII at coronation ceremonies
to be held at RaymondviUe Friday night. She has been elected already,
but her identity wUl not be made known untU Friday. The remaining
five girls will represent their cities as duchesses. Reading from left
to right, top to bottom, the girls are: Norma Dening of San PerUta;
Susan Handley of RaymondviUe; OUva Hendrlchson of La Sara;
Helen Louise Wester of RaymondviUe; Ruth Richie of RaymondviUe;
Margaret Hanlng of Sebastian; Eloise Cheney of RaymondviUe;
Maxine Hold of RaymondviUe; Jera Mae Brayll of RaymondviUe;
Mildred Parker of Lyford and Dudley Jo Sharp of La Sara.
San Benito Names
New C. C. Directors
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, April 11.—A new
board of chamber of commerce di
rectors. made up of Paul Horn beck,
E J. Allen. R. M Collins. C. S.
Pugsley, M. A. Thompson, F. B. Sub
lett and O. C. Hamilton, was nam
ed by the city commission here Wed
nesday night.
Sublett and Hamilton also were
members of the past board. Other
directors of the previous board were
Harry Carroll, Claude Dodson. Joe
Erwin. Jack Ogbee and Joe Sellers.
The new directors will elect offi
cers at the next meeting.
ONION CARAVAN
TOURS VALLEY
Raymondville Fiesta Group
Advertises Annual
Celebration
—
Wlllsoy county 'Hiursday sent an
onion caravan through the Valley
advertising the Seventh Annual
Onion Fiesta which opens at 10
o’clock Friday morning at Raymond
ville.
The caravan included about 75
Willacy county people riding In 25
onion - decked automobiles The
procession was headed by the Lib
erty Mills Orchestra of San Antonio,
which Is to furnish music for the
dance Friday mght.
"Is Raymond vllle decorating
with onions In preparation for
the fiesta?" a reporter asked
Lamar Gill. Raymond vllle men
visiting here.
"No,” was the reply, they’re
selling the onions and buying
bunting to decorate with. Onions
are too expensive this year to
use for decorations."
The famed Willacy odorless
onion Is now bringing from five
to seven cents s pound, which Is
one of the best price received In
years. Farmers are getting as
much as $100 and $115 an acre
from their crop, GUI said.
The onion fiesta In Willacy
county opens Friday.
In Brownsville the visitors were
greeted by a group Including Pres*
Ident W. B. Clint and Manager O.
C Richardson of the Chamber of
Commerce, and a group of Lions
(Continued on P ge Nine)
EX-CONVICT,
PARDONED, IS
SOONCAUGHT
Man Walks Into Cafe,
Sits Beside Woman
And Shoots Victim
In Head
OLADEWATER, April 11. —<*V
Mrs Emma Sage 27, mother of two
children, was shot to death In the
Pickwick Hotel coffee shop here
early Thursday ai*l a 27-year-old
paroled convict was arrested on the
xjtsklrts of the town a few minutes
later.
The woman, struck by one bullet
in the head, died instantly,
Don Covin, ex-convict who was con
victed at Houston In November,
1931, for the slaying of Marie Hart
>n the mezzanine floor of a large
lotel, was rushed to Longview and
charged with Mrs. Sage s death.
Covin was granted a conditional
pardon on Nov. 28 1934. and re
leased from the state prison at
Huntsville.
Covin, witnesses said, walked
into the coffee shop her* and nt
iown by Mrs. Sage, who was eat
ing breakfast. He ordered a cup of
coffee and without a word fired a
Millet into Mrs Sage's temple.
M. T. (Lone Wolft Gonzaullaa,
former Texas Ranger and now spe
cial invfjtigator of the district
attorney's office In Gregg county,
laid Covin told him he had been
trying to persuade Mrs. Sage to ac
company him to St. Louis but she
Had refused.
Covin sf id they had been keeping
company. Gonzaullaa reported.
Preliminary hearing for Covin
vas set for Thursday afternoon be
fore Justice of the Peace Carl Bruoe
at Gladewater.
DISTRICT MEET
IS UNDER WAY
Literary Event* to Begin
Friday, Athlete* Will
Gather Saturday
The Valley district mterscholastte
league meet was to get under way
Thursday night at Mission with the
one-act play competition, and the
remainder of the meet will be held
st Brownsville Friday afternoon and
Saturday. Mission and Harlingen ona
set teams compete at Mission Thura
The debate preliminaries, which
vill be handled by Director H. A.
Moore of La Feria. will get under
say in the high school auditorium
here at 1:30 p. m. Friday. The ten
uif preliminaries are to get under
Dray at the same time with a meet
ing of contestants in the dean's of
rice.
Declamation events, to be directed
Ov C. P. Hilbum of Raymondville,
are to begin at 7:30 p m Friday at
the high school auditorium. Ex
temporaneous speech, directed by
Superintendent E C. Dodd of
Brownsville, will get under way at
the same time in Room 201. Finals
in debate are scheduled to start at
7:30 p. m. in room 113, according to
announcements by J. Lee Stam
b«ugh of Pharr, director general of
the big meet.
The literary events Saturday will
get started at 9 a. m. Events slated
for that time Include: typing la
the commercial room, ready writers
In the dean's office. "3-B" contest
In the dean’s office and tennis fin
als.
The atthletic events are to be held
on Tucker Field Saturday with ths
preliminaries being staged In ths
(Continued on Page Nine)
Mrs. Kinney Buys
Apartment Building
Purchase of the Del Frances
apartments, on Palm Boulevard In
Los Ebanos. by Mrs. Anna V. Kin
ney, formerly of Boston. Maas., was
announced Thursday.
Mrs Kinney, who has been living
in Ssn Benito the past three years,
will operate the apartment, which
includes six apartments and a two
story residence which is a part of
the main building. She wiU make
her home in the building
The property fronts 170 feet on
Palm Boulevard, and 160 feet on
Ebony.
The property was conveyed to
Mrs. Kinney by ths Jefferson Stan
dard Life Insurance Company.
TONIGHT’S MOVIES
OVER THE VALLEY
Brownsville: The Capitol—Cheater
Morris. Virginia Bruce and BUlla
Burke in Society Doctor" The Queen
—Dick Powell and Josephine Hutchin
son in "Happiness Ahead.'* The Dltt
roann—Stuart Irwin In "The Party's
Over."
San Benito: The Rlvoll—Robert
Young. Stuart Erwin and Betty Fur
ness in "The Band Playa On.”
Harlingen The Arcadia—Kay Franda,
Warren William and Oeorge Brent In
"Living on Velvet." The Rialto— Lo
retta Young and John Boles in "The
White Parade "
La Perla: The Bijou—Jean Parker In
"■equate." ___
Raymond vllle The Ramon—Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers la "Ro
berta."
Donna: The Plaza—Myrna Loy and
Cary Orant in "Wings in the Dark."
San Juan: The San Juan—"It's a
Olft," and "Baboons"
Mercedes- The Capitol—Chaster Mor
ris. Virginia Bruce and Blllla Burke in
• Society Doctor "
Weelaco: The Rita—Edward Arnold
and Arthur Byron In "The President
Vanlahee." _ _ ^ „
McAllen: The Pal aca—Joan B1 on dell
and Olenda Farrell In "Traveling Sales
lady " The Queen—Dick Powell sad
Ruby Keeler In "Flirtation Walk."
Mission: The Mlesloo—Fred Astaire
and Otnger Rogers In "Roberta."
Rayr .ondville Observes Its Onion Fiesta April 12, 13,14—All the Valley Is Invited to Participate
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