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OFFICIALS GET
DATA ON DUST
AT FIRST HAND
Federal and State Men
Visit Territory As
Sand Storm Swirls
Into Vicinity
(By The Aaaoclated Press)
State and federal officials obtain
ed first hand information about
dust storms Tuesday while a slit
and sand base hung over the na
tion’s dust bowl.
Arriving in the midst of a dust
storm. M -L. Wilson, assistant sec
retary of agriculture, and Gov. Alf.
If. Landon of Kansas, started a
survey of the stricken area at Col
by. Kas.. Monday*
"We were impressed with the need
for even more vigorous action.’’ said
Governor Landon after viewing the
results of the listing program inau
gurated to prevent soil blowing.
“Apparently it will be necessary
to list not only a great many more
acres but the appropriation per acre
must be much heavier because of the
financial condition of many farm
ers in the area that is blowing.
They are unable to work at soil
control with an appropriation of
only 10 cents per acre.”
Communities far to the west of
the area were showered with dust
Monday. Schools were closed at
Trinidad. Colo.; mountain highways
Here shrouded by a dust fog, while
at GrantvlUe. in the western part
of Utah, airplane and motor car
traffic was halted. Two army avia
tors from Scott Field, Belleville. 111.,
were forced down by the dust at
Ogden. Utah.
Basil Powell. 32. Dalhart. Tex.,
was killed near Springfield. Colo.,
I his motor car was wrecked in
!i:|i<iPi|&^e dust cloud.
IgSBn count \ Colorado comm>
■rt decided to appeal to the Red
Kii for nurses to help care for
^^he sick. Two of the three physic
~ Ians In the county are themselvei
flj and unable to make calls.
The Weather
last Texas east of 100th meri
dian): Cloudy and unsettled Tues
day night and Wednesday; warm
er in west and north portions Tues
day night.
Light to fresh southerly winds on
lbs coast.
BJVEK BULLETIN
There will be no material change
In the river during the next few
days.
mood PreMQt 34-Hr. 34-Hr
Stag* Stag* Cbang. Rain
Laredo 27 -0.9 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 12 0.0 .00
Hidalgo 21 1.0 -0.8 .00
Mercedes 21 2-0 -07 .00
Brownsville 18 2.2 -0J .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Port Isabel
Wednesday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 3:34 a. m. 2:10 p. m
Low.9:36 a. m. 8:50 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Bunset Tuesday . 6:54
Sunrise Wednesday.6:06
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure was moderate
ly high from the middle Gulf coast
northward into Canada Tuesday
morning, and moderately low to low
over the Rocky mountain region and
the Canadian northwest <2958 at
Denver and 29 40 at Swift Current.
Canada). Except for light precipita
tion around the Great Lakes the
.weather was generally fair to part
ly cloudy from the Rocky Mountain
region to the Atlantic coast during
the last 24 hours. Temperatures fell
in portions of the eastern states, but
rose decidedly in the northwestern
states since Monday morning.
Brownsville 8 a. m. <EST) aea
toval pressure 29 98 inches.
BULLETIN
(Plr»t figures, lowest temperature last
Bight; second, highest yesterday; third
wind velocity at 8 a. m.; fourth, prec
ipitation In laat 24 hours).
Abilene . 52 68 .. .00
Amarillo.50 64 12 00
Atlanta 40 72 18 .00
Austin . 62 78 .. .00
Boston . 38 60 22 M
BROWNSVILLE ... 66 83 .. .00
Br’ville Airport.61 86 .. .00
Chicago . 26 30 10 .01
Cleveland . 22 36 20 .30
Corpus Christl. 66 78 .. 00
Dallas . 50 64 10 OC
Del Rio . 64 86 .. .00
Denver . 56 66 .. .00
Dodge City . 42 58 18 OC
El P**0 . 62 82 .. .00
Fort Smith . 42 60 .. 0C
Houston . 66 78 .. 0C
Jacksonville . 58 80 12 0C
Kansas City. 32 52 .. OC
Los Angeles . 54 68 .. 0C
Louisville . 30 44 14 .00
Memphis . 46 60 .. .00
Miami . 58 76 .. oc
Minneapolis . 22 34 IS .0C
New Orleans. 62 78 .. OC
North Platte . 40 56 12 OC
Oklahoma City. 48 58 .. or
Palestine . 56 74 .. .00
Pensacola . 54 72 10 .00
Phoenix . 56 84 .. .00
fit. Louis . 32 48 12 .00
Salt Lake City .. 44 74 .. .00
San Antonio . 62 82 14 OC
Santa Fe . 50 66 .. .00
Sheridan . 48 74 .. .01
fihreveport. 56 74 .. 0G
Tampa . 64 74 18 OC
Vicksburg . 52 70 10 .00
Washington . 30 68 14 .01
Wllliston . 32 46 12 OC
Wilmington . 44 68 10 0C
Wlnnemucca. 38 56 14 .16
Students to Broadcast
(Soeclal to The Herald)
EDINBURG. April 16. — 8even
pupils of Mrs J. M. Frlsby. plane
instructor will broadcast this week
over station KTRH. KPRC and
KXYZ m Houston under the pa
tronage and sponsorship of Mrs
John Wesley Graham, prominent
music leader in the state. Pupils
who will participate are Ardyce
Jean BayUs. Janet Cramer, Joseph
ine Ch toman. Mergaret Brown
Carolyn Cramer, Alice Chipmar
and Mildred McHenry.
Sunday afternoon the pupils,
their parents and friends, were
rtts in the home of Mrs. Frls
where they played the num
bers which they will broadcast. In
addition to their schedule of broad
casting the girls will be guests In
Navasota where a reception will
be held in their honbr.
Sand Storm Area Looks
***** *****
Like Desert Now, But It
***** *****
Can Turn Green Overnight
BY ROBERT GEIGER
Associated Praos Staff Writer
SPRINGFIELD. Oolo., April 16—
f/p)—A man unfamiliar with the
high plains dry-farming region,
birthplace of the black blizzard,
might see only despair and desola
tion in wind-scoured fields and
dust-drifted roads and farmyards.
It does look pretty desperate, and
some families have given up hope
and moved away. Not many. Dry
land farmers have been through
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State Catholic
Students Want
Probe in Mexico
(Special to Tbe Herald)
SAN ANTONIO. April 16-Plans
to deluge President Roosevelt with
thousands of postcards, letters and
telegrams this week protesting
against the administration's alleg
ed order to table Senator Borah's
resolution for Senate investigation
into asserted religious persecution
in Mexico, were made Sunday at
the closing session of the first
Texas Catholic Students' Spiritual
Leadership convention.
Nearly 1.200 students from 32
cities leaped to their feet cheer
ing approval of the plan proposed
by Rev. Daniel A. Lord, 8. J., of
St. Louis, presiding officer.
Other resolutions adopted after
presentation by Percy Neville of
St. Edwards University. Austin,
urged the Texas legislature to de
feat the sterilization bill and fa
vored placing a permanent “legal
watcher’’ or adviser in the state
capital to keep Catholics informed
of legislative and other govern
mental activities.
It was decided to make the con
vention of sodalities an annual
affair, but site of next year's
meeting was not decided. A com
mittee of representatives from San
Antonio, Houston, Galveston. Dal
las. El Paso. Beaumont. Amarillo
and Brownsville was authorized to
agree on a convention city by June
15.
Rev. J. Rogers Lyons. 8 J.. also
of 8t. Louis, co-worker with Fath
er Lord on the “Queen's Work,'*
national sodality organ, declared
that Senator Tom Connnlly of
Texas, member of the foreign rela
tions committee where the Borah
resolution is now “resting,’’ favors
the resolutions for hearings on al
leged persecutions In Mex.co. How
ever, he said, the administration
must be deluged with protests and
appeals to get action. A main ob
jection raised, the sodalists were
told. Is that there Is no precedent
for such action as contemplated
under the Borah resolution. In re
futation of that contention, it was
pointed out that in 1919 the then
administration favored, and congress
passed, a resolution to investigate
conditions among Jews in th*»
Ukraine.
On Jan. 1, 1933. there were 3337
waterpower plants In this country;
their combined output of electrical
power was approximately 15,817.900
horsepower.
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13 th And Levee Streets
dust storms before, and moat of
them echo the anonymous dd timer,
a veteran of the Panhandle, whc
said:
“It takes grit to live out here—let
er blow!"
As a matter of record, they had
storms a century ago much like
those 1935.
The Rev. Isaac McCoy, pioneer
surveyor and missionary, reported
one in western Kansas in Novem
ber, 1830. which cut visibility to
30 yards, made hoof-prints invisible
and masks Imperative.
Again, In 1913, sand and dust
drifted to the eaves of Isolated farm
buildings In one section, and In
spots the region looked as it does
today.
With this background of experi
ence and endurance, and the knowl
edge that, given water, they can
get remarkable crops, the dry-land
eis are hard to discourage.
Traveling through the dust sec
tor-through southeastern Colorado,
southwestern Kansas, the west end
ol the Oklahoma Panhandle and
the north tip of the Texas Pan
handle—you see a region which now
has the appearance of a vast desert,
with miniature shifting dunes of
sand. A rain might turn It green
overnight, but that is how It looks
now. There are spots where wheat
fields still were green last week.
Many of the fields that were
planted to wheat last fall give the
illusion of a great colony of ante,
with hills marking spots where
tumbleweeds have caught and dust
drifted around them. These little
dunes are about a foot high.
In other places the drifts are as
high as fences, especially in comers.
Snow fences that have held virtual
lv no snow for four winters are
drifted to the tops with sand, and
one can walk over them.
_
On the roads can be seen an oc
casional car. loaded with a farm
family, usually with a truck follow
ing carrying household goods. Some
are headed for eastern Kansas or
Missouri, or eastern Oklahoma,
where rainfall has been nominal,
or to the Colorado mountain coun
try.
Postmaster Herman Davis, of
Springfield. Colo., says about a
dozen families have moved away,
but most of them made a temporary
change of address, planning to re
turn when rain comes.
J. R. Peters, of Boise City. Okla,
said he would leave "immediately"
it he had means.
“If I leave I cant get wheat and
com payments or relief, and that’s
ali that's keeping me alive," he
said. He hasn’t had a crop in four
vears.
But E- J. Ubbey. a neighbor, came
cut of Sunday’s big dust storm
smiling.
“Theyll have to carry me out of
this country feet first," he said,
grinning. "I won't leave voluntarily."
"However." he added, ‘Tm going
to move about 20 miles west, where
the dust alnt so bad. I live farther
down that way now than the priairie
dogs will live, but I’m sticking it
out."
• ———i ■ ■
SENIORS ENJOY BEACH
(Special to The He: aid i
SAN BENITO. April 16— Monday
is senior day. first big date chi the
oring calendar for the senior class,
nd they all went to Boca Chloa on
;hcir annual outing.
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THE BROWNSVILLE
UTILITY BILL
SPEED SOUGHT
Ban on Holding Companion
Action In Fortnight
Sooms Possible
WASHINGTON, April 1«.—(JPV
An attempt la In prospect to speed
action on the utility control bill,
centre of a notable controversy.
Next up on the administration’s
program, the bill may be parcelled
out to subcommittees of the house
interstate commerce committee with
a view to getting It Into form to lay
before the house within a fortnight.
Chairman Rayburn (D-Texas)
said Tuesday that would be the
first question taken up by the com
mittee when It starts work on the
178-page measure two or three days
hence. Weary after eight weeks of
listening to witness for or against
the bill, the committee rested for
a day or two after hearing Dr.
Walter M W. Splawn Monday In
final rebuttal.
The senate finance committee,
however, opened hearings of its
own Tuesday on the bill which
would abolish utility holding com
panies in 1940 and regulate all elec
tric and natural gas utilities. Chair
man Wheeler (D-Mont), co-author
with Rayburn, hoped to limit the
stnate hearings to two weeks.
The chief point of controversy in
the bill is whether holding com
panies should be abolished or mere
ly regulated.
Armendiaz Test It
Down to 1,800 Feet
(8peclal to The Herald)
RIO HONDO. April 16—Oetting
off to a second start, Rio Hondo's
oil well, the W. T. Daniel, et al„
Armendiaz No. 1 was down to 1,800
feet Monday morning.
Approximately 3,000 feet of drill
stem was lost in the original hole,
which was down to about 5,170 feet.
The hole was abandoned and a
new hole, about 50 feet from the ori
ginal one. as begun.
Plat# are now to go to a depth
of 7,500 feet if necessary.
Revival Continues
(Special to TO* Herald)
LA FERIA, April 16 —A number
of special services for children dur
ing the closing week of the revival
at the Methodist church have been
announced by Rev. J. C. Wilson, pas
tor.
Tuesday. Thursday, and Friday
nights at 7 o'clock there will be spe
cial services for children and the
evening service Friday night will be
a special young peoples meeting.
Sunday morning a part of the Sun
day School hour will be used for a
pecial childrens service.
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As Outgrowth of Harbors
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, April 18.—A W.
Grant, managing editor of The
8an Antonio Express, declared at
a Junior Chamber of Commerce
dinner at the Madison Hotel Mon
day night that he would not be at
all surprised if some large chem
ical company did not locate at a
Valley port because three such
companies have located on the
Texas coast within a few years and
there are still some who have not
built plants in this state.
He pointed out what the Southern
Alkali Co. plant has meant to Cor
pus Christl and said that it would
not be Improbable that a company
engaged in the same line might not
look further down the coast.
Raw materials with the possi
ble exception of limestone are close
at hand for manufacture of the
basic or heavy chemicals such as
sulphuric acid and caustic soda, he
said. These chemicals are used in
the oil industry, rubber industry
and many others.
The coming of a port means more
than Just the shipping that goes
through it. the speaker asserted.
Mr. Grant went on to discuss
other potential resources of the
Valley Including oil. foods and
tourists. In regard to oil. he said
that only further tests were requir
ed to disclose the p%iucing area
but in his opinion the entire Val
ley probably was underlined with
oil.
The speaker said that one of the
things about the Valley that had
interested him most was its sud
den prominence as the reservoir
for the nation. The way the na
tion has turned to the Valley for
its vegetable parallels the way
It turned to Texas in former years
for its beef, he said “It is the
most significant and important
thing I have seen in this part of
the state." he declared.
He made the prediction that
there would be increased tourist
travel to Mexico and that the
motorists would go to that country
one way and come out another. Of
all the things that San Anto’*o did
for her tourists, the one most fa
vorably received was the most
favorable. That was the plan to
have police place visitors tags on
cars bearing out of state licenses
inviting the tourists to park where
they pleased and otherwise make
themselves at home.
At the beginning of his talk. Mr.
Grant asserted that Texas is still
in the process of being made and
told of the additions being made
to the shore line at 12prt Lavaca
where three feet are being added
yearly. He also referred to the
Texas home of the dinosaurs in
Medina county where the giant
reptiles left their tracks millions of
years ago. Some big men leave
their mark in the mud and disap
pear without having contributed
anything to the community in
which they live except their tracks.
He told also how the known forces
of nature may lie long unused un
til some intelligent man suddenly
sees these forces in another light
and puts them to work.
Mr. Grant said that he Mked ap
plication of the word dynamo to or
ganizations such as the Junior
Chamber of Commerce because no
one part can function except in
unison with the others.
The visitor expressed his pleasure
at the hearty greetings he received
while in the V.illey and said that
he had a sincere and genuine inter
est in what this section is doing.
Grant was introduced by R. L.
Baker, toastmaster, who also in
troduced County Judge Oscar C.
Dancy of Brownsville. Rev. L. A.
Boone of Harlingen, Editor Moul
ton (Tyl Cobb of the Mercedes
News-Tribune, and R. A. Dunkel
berg. Brownsville attorney repre
senting the Junior Chamber of
Commerce of that city, all of
whom made short talks.
E. V. McCright, president of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, re
ported a 100 per cent increase in
membership since Jan. 1 and that
several parties are interested in
opening a department store here.
George Hardeman led group
singing with Mrs. S. R. Jennings at
the piano and later sang a solo.
Rev. Mr. Boone gave the invocation.
Plans Are Made For
Scout Camporee Here
John Leslie Scout Executive spent
, Monday and Tuesday in Browns
ville working with local Scout lead
ers preparing for the annual Coun
cil Camporee which is to be held
in Brownsville May 3 and 4.
“This is a Valley wide event and
should draw numbers of scouts to
Brownsville,” he said. He is also
working on the National Jamboree
scheduled for August as well as
conducting the cubbing course.
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BY JUSTICES
Supreme Court Trio Is
‘Crooked’ Long Tell*
Rubber Stamp Solon*
BATON ROUGE, La.. April 18.
<>P)—Senator Huey P. Long Tuesday
threatened impeachment of three
justices of the state supreme court
and intimated the action might be
taken at this special session of the
legislature.
“Something has got to be done
with the crooked Jurisprudence in
this state,” Long said while “ex
plaining” before the house ways and
means committee more than a score
of bills introduced Monday night.
“Why, you've got three Judge*
down there on the supreme court
who decide one thing one day and
something else the next day.
“This legislature is of the humor
of doing something about it. I don’t
know whether we shouldn't take it
up at this legislature and do some
thing for the people.”
“Everyone of those three Judges
should be impeached.” the senator
shouted, moving up and down near
the end of the committee table. “I
don’t know whether it Isn't the duty
of this legislature to impeach these
judges. We may do It."
He referred to Chief Justice Char
les A. O'Neill as that “crooked-leg
Justice.” the “crookedest part” ot
the court. Chief Justice O'Neill has
had an afflicted leg all his life.
The other two Justices Long
threatened with impeachment are
Wynne G. Rogers and Fred M Odom.
Long said ine three Justices had
ruled a* »>ne time when "dummy’
candidates were used against him
that they were legal but that in the
next election when he used “dummy”
candidates for “protection” the Jus
tices had reversed their ruling and
held they were unlawful.
Kiwanis Entertained
(Special to The Heraldt
8AN BENITO, April 16 —The joint
meeting of the local Kiwanis club
with residents of the Highland com
munity at Highland Wednesday
night will take the place of the reg
ular Wednesday noon luncheon
meeting in town, according to Joe
A Sloan, president. The Highland
ers will provide the barbecue and
the Kiwanians will provide the pro
gram.
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RAYMOND VILLE, April IS- The
Presbyterian pastor is to be Installed
here Sunday. April 28 and a num
ber of Valley pastors and laymen
will participate. The new pastor Is
Rev. Mr. Ye&rgen. who has been
here several months.
Dr. Hugh Robertson, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at San Benito
will propound the constitutional
questions. Rev. Flynn V. Long of
Harlingen will charge the pastor
and Joe A. Sloan will charge the
congregation. .
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