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THE WEATHER
(By C. •. Weather Bureau)
^ Brownsville and the Valley: Cloudy
^to partly cloudy and continued cool
Friday night and Saturday.
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FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 243 BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1935 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY • • 6c A COP*
.
—
By RALPH L. Bl'ELL
PERSONALLY WE ARE STILL
trying to figure out why—
When rain falls In the midst of a
dust storm.
It does not shower mud!
• • •
SYMPATHY TO WILLACY
County on the kind of weather that
Is being dished out for the Onion
Piesta.
These sort of things do happen,
and when they do happen about the
only that can be done about is to do
as Willacy county is doing, grin and
bear it.
Knowing those folks as we do.j
though, we know that they are saying I
that the good the rain will do their
dftk farmers and the farmers of the
VaUey more than recompenses for
any inconvenience that has been
caused.
• • •
ABOUT THE BEST SIGHT FOR
aore eyes that has come to our re
cent notice—
Was the downtown appearance
Thursday of W. G. Wiliman, chair
man of the Brownsville Navigation
commission.
He has been sorely missed during
his lengthy Illness.
Missed by those to whom hi»
cheerlul conversation is one of the
day's high spots.
And missed by his colleagues and
fellow workers in navigation district
activities.
It is good to know that he will
coon be with us again.
• • •
ITS NOT RAINING RAIN TO
“In Our Valley" this gloomy Fri
day morning—
It's raining cotton and corn.
From where we sit it looks like a
general soaking lor the entire Valley,
and II the weather man tells us that
it's merely a "local disturbance"—
Right vexed will we be.
THAT WARHORSE OF THE
Valley sticks by his job in Wash
ajbton, and great the result of the
Yabor> of Frank Robertson.
111. hardly recovered Ircm the
effect* of a recent operation, he is
on the job iurnishing the requisite
information to congressmen, sena
tors. officials of the Department of
State, to all and sundry who have
^ know about Valley conditions as
they affect Milton Wests flood con
trol and treaty with Mexico bill.
One thing is certain, that with the
multiplicity of work being thrown on
our senators and congressman by
the workings of the New Deal, the
only way to get things through at
Washington is to have an expert on
the Job.
Brownsville Navigation district
found that out. and the Valley will
find it out when Frank Robertson s
efforts are crowned with success, as
crowned they will be.
• • •
"DOC SPIVEY. CHECKING ON
homes with and without screens over
the county as a part of his health
unit work, reports that—
Homes equipped with screens are
reporting practically no cases of!
malaria.
Pretty good score for the screens
and a pretty good tip to dealers in
building materials!
• • •
THIS “CONSUMERS GUIDE”
published by the AAA continues to
have and to hold our goat.
Constantly, almost every issue,
some reference is made to the do
magtic production of oranges and!
4&X truit, but not once is Texas
mCtiontd as a producer of either.
California and Florida get the
mention and we get left.
Might be well for some Valley
Chamber of Commerce to drop the
editor of this tax supported publi
cation a little note and tell him that
tax money from Valley citrus grow
ers helps to pay his salary!
• • •
DUST STORM IN THE VALLEY?
No, it’s Just a little “dusty," and
that's not chamber of commerce
talk, either.
On no less an authority than
Weather Man Schnurbusch do we
tell you that it is not a dust storm
until the visibility drops to a 1,000
feet or less, and we could see
Thursday afternoon for a mile.
So we missed a dust storm by 4,
380 feet!
QUEEN NOINO
SEVENTH TO
RULE ONIONS
Colorful Parade Open#
Willacy Celebration
In Honor of County
Money Crop
(Special to 1 tic Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE. April 12
Queen Noino Seventh will be coro
nated here Friday night as the fea
ture event of the first day's celebra
tion of Willacy county's seventh an
nual onion fiesta.
This colorful tribute to the coun
ty's valuable crop got under way
Friday morning with a parade in
which many floats and individuals
were entered. Congressman Mijton
H West of Brownsville who is no
stranger to the boots and saddle,
was adjudged the most typical cow
boy in the parade. Mrs. Richard
Shelton was adjudged most typical
oowgirl. Thousands of visitors were
on hand for opening of the three
day celebration.
Prizes Award
Adan’s Kindergarten was award
ed first prize for the best float In
the parade competition. The prize
for best decorated show window
went to the RaymondvlUe Mercan
tile company. This show window
featured a large silver paper onion
with a background of the real
articles.
The parade was lengthy and col
orful. It Included firemen, city and
county officials, the high school
band. Congressman West, rodeo en- )
tertainers. carnival performers and
a 1902 automobile furnished by the ’
Grindle Sales Co. of Harlingen Fire
Chief H L Townsend had chaige
or the parade.
A barbecue, attended by thou
sands. was in progress at the rodeo
grounds at noon.
Sheriff Howart T. Cragg was to
(Continued on Page ftixi
HITLER READY
TO SIGN ANEW
Germany Wants New Pacts
After Discarding War
Treaties
(Copyright, 1935. by the AP>
8TRESA, Apuril 12—The British
anncunced Friday that Germany
was ready to enter an eastern Euro
pean pact of non-aggression even
though other signatories “stipulate
among themselves accords of recip
rocal assistance."
This news was given to the world
in an official communique issued
by the heads J[ governments of
Italy. Great Britain and France, as
sembled here in an effort to smooth
out the path of European peace.
The conference itself was inform
ed of the German decision by Sir
John Simon. British foreign secre
tary. who said his information had
been given to the British ambassa
dor to Berlin by Konstantin Von
Neurath. Reichsfuehrer Hitler'p for
eign minister.
Tlie announcement followed by a
few minutes a statement by Pierre
Laval. French foreign minister, that
the representatives of the three na
tions assembled here had reached
an agreement among thmselves as to
the program they shall follow’ in the
meeting next week at Geneva of the
League of Nations council
Raymondville Fiesta
Is Visited by West
Congressman Milton H. West of
the Valley district, now visiting In
this territory, was in Raymondville
Friday attending the Willacy
County Onion Fiesta.
Congressman West confer*'d
Thursday w’lth commissioners of
the Arroyo Colorado N3'!*31101*
district, assuring them that part
of the $2,000,000 additional flood
control appropriation expected to
be secured by the Valley will be
spent in further work to make the
arroyo more serviceable as a flood -
way.
The congressman also expects to
hold conferences on matters of
freight rates and with irrigation
officials to help speed up refund
ing of the district's indebtedness.
Graf Zeppelin Damage
It Denied by Agents
RIO DE JANEIRO. April 12 u|b—
The Condor Syndicate, business
agents for the Graf Zeppelin. Friday
denied that the big German dirigible
had been damaged in an accident at
Pernambuco, declaring: “We are in
constant communication with the
Graf Zeppelin, which did not report
any accident. The news from Pern
ambuco is absolutely false.”
Lifer Cleared
by Confession
. .— ii" "i
Cleared of guilt In the murder
of two Minneapolis policemen in
1932 by a gangster's confession,
new hope of freedom bas come
to Leonard Hankins, above,
sentenced to life in Stillwater,
Minn., prison for the crime. Jess
Doyle. Bremer kidnap suspect,
held In SL Paul, bas named the
Barker-Karpis gang as the
klllera.
DUST HOVERS
ABOUT VALLEY
Bureau Says Annoyance To
Continue Here For
Some Time
The Valley obtained a clearer con
ception of a dust storm Thursday
and Friday when the weather bu
reau announced Friday morning that
this yellowish hase and annoying,
sifting soil from the middle west can
not be classified as a “storm.” To
become a "storm,” the weather bu
reau informs, visibility must drop to
1.000 feet or less, and the lowest
visibility dropped in the Valley Fri
HARLINGEN, April 12. —Now
that the Valiev is having a dust
storm, some ox its residents feel
that they have a right to tell
some yarns such as were collect
ed by the Associated Press in the
Middle West some weeks ago.
The current yam is about the
Valley farmer who came to town
Thursday morning to transact
business. He concluded Ins" nego
tiations and suited home late
in the afternoon. When he got to
the point in the road where he
thought he lived he recognized
the old farm from which he had
moved away in Kansas ten years
ago. It had all blown to the
Valley.
day afternoon was about three-quar
ters of a mile.
So, the Valley simply had a “dus
ter.”
The' bureau reported Friday that
the “duster" will. In all probability,
annoy Valley residents all of Friday
and Friday night, as long as the
wind remains out of the north or
northeast. Even when the wind shifts
to the south, the Valley will continue
to receive a certain amount of dust,
for the reason that the middle-west’s
soil is scattered far out over the Gulf
of Mexico, and a portion of it will
return cn southern winds before
it eventually settles.
Showers over the Valiev Fridav
morning afforded some reiief from
the yellowish haze, but the showers
were light and scattered. Browns
ville reported .13 rainfall, and Hidal
go, the only other Valley point re
'Continued on Page Six)
KENEDY ROAD
RIGHT-OF-WAY
VIRTUALLY IN
Only About 10 Acres
Outstanding; Work
Within Very Short
Time Expected
f Sneclal to The Herald •
AUSTIN. April 18. — Senator
Jim Neal announced Friday aft
ernoon that all of the right of
way deeds for the Kenedy county
road had been executed by the
Kenedy, King Ranch, Armstrong
and Yturria properties, and are in
the hands of the State High
way department.
The only deeds not yet receiv
ed by the department are three
or four small ones involving
about 10 acres. Senator Neal said,
and the program of securing the
necessary right of way is virtual
ly completed.
•'Soec'al to The Hnntdt
AUSTIN. April 12 — All rights-of
way deeds for the Kenedy county
road right-of-way through property
of the King Ranch estate have
been signed and delivered to the
State Highway commission, it was
announced here Friday morning by
Gib Gilchrist, state highway en
gineer. and Senator Jim Neal.
Neal stated that he had been in
formed Wednesday by R. J. Kle
berg. Jr., that the King estate
deeds would be in the hands of th^
department within the next two or
three days, and expressed his gra
tification that the deeds had been
received by the department.
Deeds for right-of-way through
the Armstrong ranch have not yet
been received by the department,
but are expected writhin a short
time. The deeds were signed and
sent to New York for additional
signatures, which were given, but
it was later found that the notary's
acknowledgment wras faulty, and the
new’ deeds had to be prepared and
sent to New York for signature.
It Is expected here that all
right-of-way deeds will be received
in time to permit actual work on
the clearing, grading and structures
of the first unit of the road, from
Rivera to Sarita in Kenedy coun
ty. to begin within the next 60 to
90 days
Both Senator Neal and Engineer
Gilchrist have expressed the opinion
that all details in connection with
the building of the road have been
ironed out and that “everything is
going just fine*.
Mary Astor’s Hubby
Is Granted Divorce
LOS ANGELES April 12 (Ab—
Charging his wife, screen actress
Mary Astor. was hypercritical and
made humiliating remarks about hts
onming capacity. Dr Franklin
Thorpe was granted a divorce Fri
day by Superior Judge Dudley S.
Valentine.
Miss Astor did not appear to con
test the suit. She and Dr. Thorpe
were married in Yuma. Ariz.. June
°9. 1931, and seperated March 25.
1935
The court wras Informed a prop
erty agreement between Miss Astor
and Dr. Thorpe had been affected
and that they had agreed to divide
the custody of their daughter. Mar
ilyn Thorpe, two vears old.
Rangers Arrest 40
Women and One Man
LONGVIBW. April IS 4’-Texas
Rangers raided several houses near
here Thursday night on the Glade
water highway and arrested 40 wo
men and one man.
The man was charged with keep
ing a disorderly house, and the wo
men held on misdemeanor com
plaints.
Vice Presidential Bees Are
Beginning to Buzz in Bonnets
WASHINGTON. April 12. (>P>—
The idea of a woman vioe presi
dent of the United 8tates is crop
ping up in conversation among
capital feminists.
But many of the women lead
ers who have been through poli
tical battles seem to agree with
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt that
the time may not be ripe for such
a move.
The league for a woman presi
dent and vice president, a Brook
lyn organization, recently tossed
two names into the discussion as
possibilities—Ji^lge Florence E.
Ellen of Cleveland and Miss
Josephine Roche, assistant secre
tary’ of the treasury. Neither ap
proved.
Later the name of Ruth Bryan
Owen, minister to Denmark, be
gan to be heard in the conversa
tional buzz. She was too far
away even to hear it. But peo
ple in her lecture audiences have
often lingered afterward to tell
her that if she'd been born a boy.
she'd stand a good chance of
winning the prize her father
three times missed.
If any vice presidential bees
are honeying around the flowers
in the Easter bonnets of the re
publican ladies, they have not be
come generally audible. But
Mabel Walker Willebrandt. who
hit highest on this federal scene
of any woman of her party, still
is no stranger to Washington.
Alice Roosevelt Longwo r t h,
daughter of Theodore Roosevelt,
has turned down all suggestions
of a seat in the senate, but no
body questions her awareness of
what goes on in that body. And
that's the vice-presidential field
of action.
' Touted as Next
House Leader
A red haired, fiery Tammanyita,
Representative John J. O’Connor,
above, is being boomed for leader
of the Democratic majority in
the House, with indication that
a new leader must be named,
due to tbe continued illness of
RepresenVative W. B. Bankhead,
Alabama. O Connor is chairman
of tbe powerful rules committee,
serving his seventh term In the
House.
LAREDO FACES'
LABOR STRIKE
______
2500 Vegetable and Onion
Field Workmen Demand
Higher Pay
LAREDO. April 12. <;P>—Twenty
five hundred Latin-American la
borers in onion and vegetable
fields here Friday went on strike
for higher wages.
Men, women and boys lined the
streets and circulars demanding
pay of $125 per day were issued.
Heretofore laborers in the Ber
muda onion and vegetable fields
had been receiving from 75 cents to
$1 daily.
The stnke came as harvesting
of about 1.000 carloads of Bermuda
onions was to start. The workers
demanded better treatment be
provided laborers in the fields and
asked for transportation from the
vegetable plantations.
The long line of idle workers was
increased hourly by the arrival of
others. There were no dlsurbances
but some of the strikers said an
objection would be rasled It out
side labor Is brought in.
NINE CITIES IN
MEXICO PARALYZED
MEXICO. D. P . April 12. (**—
Thousands of electric light and
power company employes went on
strike Friday paralyzing Industrial
activity in nine cities.
At the same time, a general
strike of the Workers' and Peasants'
Union scheduled for Friday was
cancelled following declaration by
President* Lazaro Cardenas that
the government would aid the work
ing classes to attain their objec
tives by all legal means.
The electric strikes In San Luis
Potosi. Leon. Irapu&to. Guanajuato.
Celaya. Ciudad Ouzman, Uruapan.
Veracruz and Merida were called in
sympathy with the week old strike
of power company employes in
Tampico.
The strike was called In protest
against a recent federal supreme
court decision in the case of the
Huasteca Petroleum company
opening the way for the company
to appeal a decision of the board
of conciliation that it pay full
salaries to striking employes of the
Mata Rerionda, Veracruz, refinery.
In Veracruz, workers on Gulf
coast vessels quit together with
hotel and restaurant employes.
Work Progressing
On Mercedes Well
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. April 12.—Workmen
on the Union Sulphur company's
No. 3 American Rio Grande well at
noon Friday were cutting on the drill
stem with a spear in an endeavor
to get the liner and screen set at
7.477 feet.
Due to the great depth of the
well this operation was expected to
take a number of hours.
Excitement which prevailed during
the first attempts to bring the well
in has somewhat subsided, but local
people still are anxiously watching
the progress.
The well was killed Wednesday
when excessive gas pressure devel
oped. and is being re-worked in an
effort to bring K to completion as
a producer.
HUNDREDS OF
STUDENTS TO
CONVENE HERE
District League Meet
Contests to be Run
Off on Friday And
Saturday
The Valley district Interacholastic
League meet, which got under way
Thursday night at Mission with the
host school winning the “One-Act
Play" contest, was to be resumed
here Friday afternoon with literary
events and tennis.
Literary events were to continue
Friday night and Saturday mom- j
lng. The field and track events for
both senior and junior boys are to
be held on Tucker Field Saturday
morning and afternoon.
Debate Entries
At 2 p. m. Friday, debate prelim
inaries were to begin at the Junior
college-high school building here
with Supt. H A. Moore of La Ferla
in charge. Finals were to be held
beginning at 7:30 p. m. in Room
113. The entries include: Boys—E
B Roberts and Jess Thompson of
San Penlto, Tom Swafford and Dan
Murphy of Harlingen. Geo. Taylor!
and Carroll Brown of McAllen. Wil
li* Gray and Joe Kilgore of Mission,
Clarence Freeney and Howard Hay
good of Lyford; Girls—Julia Glover
and Eleanor St. John of La Ferla.
Mary Hinkley and Barbara Boyer
of San Benito, Ruth Griffin and
Gloria Yzaguirre of McAllen. Alice
Burrus and Lillian Reason of Mis
sion and Loretta Sorensen and
Katheryn Box of Lyford.
Jess Thompson, who teamed with
Gordon Fisher to win the boya
event last year, is back again, as is
Joe Kilgore of Mission who was
defeated in the finals in 1934.
Under the direction of Dean E C.
Dodd of Brownsville, the extempor
aneous speech event will begin in
room 201 at 7:30 p. m. Friday. The
entries include: Boys—Lester Park
er of San Benito. Baird Elfrtnk of
Brownsville. Conan Wood of Mis
sion and George Willey of Lyford;
Girls—Dorothy Jane Klester of La
(Continued on Page Sixi
HAMILTON’S PAL
KIDNAPS YOUTH
I - I
Boy Later Released Says
Ralph Fults Admitted
His Identity
DALLAS, April 12. NP> — Cecil
Howe. Collin county youth, told of
ficers he had been kidnaped at
daybreak Friday by Ralph Fults,
fugitive former traveling companion
of Raymond Hamilton, and re
leased at Renner, north of here.
Howe said Fults. who admitted
his identity to him. stole an auto
mobile at Renner belonging to Dr.
C. T. Mitchel of that community,
and started towards Dallas.
Officers threw a heavy guard
along aH highways leading into
Dallas from the north. The car
was last seen speeding along the
Coit road, which runs parallel to
the main highway to McKinney,
Fults’ home town.
Tower Dynamited
CLEVELAND. April 12. <;P—An
apparent attempt to disrupt the
light and power service of the great
er Cleveland area by dynamiting a
huge steel tower carrying 132.000
volt transmission lines, was disclos
ed by officials of the Cleveland Elec
tric lUiminatlng Co.. Friday.
The explosive toppled over the
tower, located near the Ridgevllle
Lorain. in Lorain oounty. Thursday
night, but failed to halt electrical
service because of automatic safety
devices.
Torn Bodies
Strewn Along
Side of Track
Tots Mangled Beyond
Recog n i ti o n As
Train Hits Auto
ROCKVILLE. Md., April 12. UP>—
Ghastly remnants of wholesale
tragedy, the mangled bodies of 14
high school students who met death
when an exore&s train crushed their
auto bus late Thursday sight, lay In
an improvised morgue in a quiet fu
neral home here Friday while an
guished parents went about the task
of identifying them.
Fifteen other occupants of the
bus, including the driver and the
teacher in charge, were suffering
from various injuries and shock but
with the exception of two students
in a hospital at Washington, all
were able to go to their homes at
Williamsport, Md.
Parent* Identify Dead
One of the latter—Margaret Crete
—was reported to be suffering irom
internal Injuries add the extent of
tier hurts was not definitely known
rhe other, Jane Staley, who sustain
ed a broken arm. was said to be out
of danger.
News of the crash struck with
chilling horror here. Appaled by the
tragic end of the children's trip,
fear - stricken parents trembled
through the hours as the death list
gradually took form.
The list of dead, as given out here
by Mayor Richard Hawkins, lollows:
Margaret Eva Zimmerman, Paul
McEiroy, Carl Brindle, Norris
Downs. Jr.. Pearl Emerson. Virginia
Myers, LeRoy Kendall, Claude My
ers, Bertha Castle, Eiva Harsh, Mary
Lcuise Downs. Phoebe Kelley, Lois
Winters. James Flurie.
The eleven uninjured were:
Ellen Bloyer, Mary Teach. Blanche
Long, Dwight Fearnow, William
Collier, Glenn Anderson. Edward
Hose. William Gower. Malcolm Col
lier. Wilma Newey, Albert Leaf.
Percy Line, driver of the truck,
and Miss Louise Funk, teacher ac
companying the children, were not
Injured.
Wet. Foggy Weather
The weather was wet and foggy as
the bus—a brand new one painted a
shiny blue and bearing the party
from a chemistry exhibit at the
University of Mary land, College Park,
toward their homes at Williamsport.
Maryland—approached the grade
crossing here.
Though Baltimore and Ohio rail
road officials said the crossing was
guarded by a bell and a red light,
the bus driver declared he did not
see the tram until he was on the
track.
“I heard the whistle just as it
hit us.” he sobbed afterward. “I
didn't see the train until I heard the
bell of the engine as I started over
the track "
The flyer—a Train bound from St
Louis to Washington—struck the
bus in the middle, sheared it in two.
and carried the rear half many
yards down the track before tossing
it aside a mass of wreckage. Bodies,
so terribly mangled that they were
beyond identification, were strewn
along the track for 200 yards. Some
were tossed into a cemetery nearby.
Eye-witnesses told of finding am
putated limbs at the scene and the
decapitated bxiy of a girl. The acci
dent occurred near the residence of
the Rev. Cecil J. McNeal. who hur
ried outside and administered the
last rites of the Catholic church to
dead and dying. He found two bodies
on the eng ne s cow-catcher.
A vivid e;ie-witness account came
from Edwa *d L. Stevens of Rock
ville. golf pro at the Manor club, who
passed the hus in his motor car just
before the :rash.
MI was heading toward Norbeck,"
he said. “I saw the train coming,
but I crossed anyway. I passed the
bus. just at it came on the track.
I grabbed ny brake, and just as I
stopped, tht train hit the bus.
“I Jumpec out of the car. There
(Continued on Page 8ix)
Dolores Costello Moves From
Barrymore Home; Hint Split
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April
12. uP)—"Moving day" in the John
Barrymore-Dolores Costello house
hold Friday brought accompany
ing reports of an impending di
vorce in the famous screen family.
While the actor remained silent
in New York, the beautiful blue
eyed Dolores, equally uncommuni
cative here, was believed prepared
to desert the palatial Barrymore
home on Tower road and go with
their two children to an exclusive
apartment nearer town.
But to all inquiries about her
puzzling private affairs. Mrs.
Barrymore simply replied:
"I have nothing to say."
With that she declined to com
ment on reports that Barrymore,
absent from the film colony for
many months. had sent word
through that he Intended to file
suit lor divorce, that she must
leave their Tower road mansion,
that he wasn't coming heme—that
their six-year marriage was def
initely over.
Henry Hoachner. who reportedly
carried the message, was flying to
New York, to be "with Mr Barry
more." according to his wife.
Rumors of marital discord be
tween the Barrymores were first
heard following his long absence
in Europe on a film-making ven
ture. and then a hunting expedi
tion.
Maurice Costello, one-time mati
nee idol and father of Mrs Barry
more. said Thursday night he had
not been informed of a final break.
SHARP RISE
IS EXPECTED
IMMEDIATELY
Dun and Bradstreet
Says Wholesalers
Being Rushed With
Reorders
NEW YORK. April U. <**>—'Th*
sharpest business rise in 25 yean
was forecast for the Immediate fu
ture in the weekly business review
by Dun & Bradstreet Friday.
“More convincing proof has com*
forward that the passing of March
left behind the lows for the year*
the review stated.
“During the week there was a
complete transformation of senti
ment. as the hopes for a rather far
removed improvement were replaced
by a realization that the imme
diate future is to bring the sharp
est rise that has been witnessed 1b
business in the past quarter of a
century.”
Government Credited
The review added that th* rla*
“will be fortified adequately to
prevent the interrupting recession*
which followed the spurts of the
last two years."
It continued “Potential benefit*
of the five billion dollars appro
priated by the government have
provided stimulus needed to dispel
the impatience which had appear
ed in some branches because of
the let-down In business toward
the close of the first quarter.
"All of the reports received wer*
more decisive than at any time this
year in the confident attitude tak
en regarding a more even tempo.
Encouragement also was pro
vided by the fact that, in spite of
rain, cold, snowfall, and recurrent
dust-storms, consumer demand was
sufficiently strong to carry retail
distribution to a larger total than
for the week preceding.'*
Wholesalers Rushed
Wholesalers were rushed with re
orders. the review said, and many
retailers lost sales because of de
lays incident to the rush.
General industry continues at
the year’s peak, with the gams be
ing extended m the output of th*
products for national consumption."
it reported.
“Industries in most parts of th*
country now are advancing at the
most orderly pace in the last two
months, as all of the strikes have
been settled and threats of walk
ouu h,,e b>n
Dust Travels Fifty
Mile* Out in Gulf
BEAUMONT, April 12 un—The
crew of the S. 8. Vogesen, German
steamship which docked here Fri
day. reported that the dust storm
which covered all Texas Thursday
envelepoed their craft while still 50
miles at sea.
The yellow haze was taken for
fog at first. Then sailors saw the
fine sediment was settling on the
woodwork.
Oldtimers said this was the first
such experience they recalled in gulf
shipping, though sands from the
African desert! have been carried
over wide expanses of sea.
Matamoros Bullring
Construction Begins
Construction of the Matamoros
bullring on 18-19 Bravo street in
Matamoros got underway Friday, ac
cording to Prudencio Roiz, president
of the board of directors of th#
Paisa de Toros Bienvenida 8. A.
Preliminary framework Is being
erected preparatory’ to the building
of the brick and reinforced concrete
outside wa'ls. Contractors headed by
Carlos Valdez have charge of th*
work.
Matamoros union labor Is being
used in the construction job and
work on the Plaza de Tores is be
ing rushed in an effort to Inaugurate
the bullring on July 4 Cost of the
ring, which will be of the most mod
em type with a seating capacity of
more than 6.000 will be around 35.000
pedos.
Pardon Revoked
AUSTIN, April 12 «.Pi—Governor
James V. Allred Friday revoked *
conditional pardon granted by Mrs.
Miriam A. Ferguson to Don E Covin,
who killed Mrs Emma Sage Thurs
day at Gladewater.
Covin was serving a 10 year sen
tence for murder of Marie Hart in
1931 on the mezzanine floor of the
I Rice hotel at Houston when he re
ceived the pardon.
TONIGHT’S MOVIES
OVER THE VALLEY
Brownsville: The Capitol—Rudy Val
le* and Ann Dvorak In "Sweet Music.
The Queen—Buck Jones In Shadow
Ranch " The Dlttmann—Lionel Atwtll
In "Beggars in Crime "
San Beulto: The Rtvoll—Alice Pay*.
James Dunne and CUM Edwarda in
•Scandals at IMS "
Harlingen: The Arcadia—Bing Cros
by. Joan Bennett and W C Fields In
"Mississippi ” The Rialto—Richard Dt*
in "West of the Pecos” _
La Ferla: The Bijou—Chester Morris,
Virginia* Bruce and BUU* Burke in
"Society Doctor."
Raymond Vine The Ramon—Chester
Morris. Virginia Bruce and BUU* Burk*
in "Society Doctor " _ .
Donna: The Plara—Claudette Col
bert and Warren William in Imitation
of Life"
San Juan' The San Juan—"It’e a
Olft." and “Baboona "
Mercedes The Capitol-Chester Mor
ris. Virginia Bruce and Bllll* Burk* IB
"Society Doctor " _ . _
Weslaco The Rlte-Blng Crosbr Jon«
Bennett and W C Fields m MisMs
‘‘ffijuien- The Fwlnf*—W*U*5.V
Robert Young snd Maureen O Sullivan
In "West Point of the Air ” The Queen
Tom Tyler In "War on the Rnngo ’
Mission The Mission- Evelyn Lay*
and Henry Wtlcoson in * Prince*
Charming
Willacy County Onion Fiesta Under Way; Plan to Attend Friday, Saturday and Sunday
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