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KIDNAPER IS
BELIEVED SEEN
IN OipOMA
Photo Is Identified As
Leader of Three
Who Held Police
Head Captive
OMAHA. Neb., July 18. OP)—'The
Omaha World Herald Thursday
said Charles Mack, Hooper, Neb.,
marshal, and a half dozen other
persons Identified pictures of Wil
liam Mahan, fugitive Weyerhaeuser
kidnaper, as the leader of a group
of three men who kidnaped Mack
early Thursday.
Besides Mack, the newspaper
■aid. two brothers and their two
alsters. who were taken for a pleas
ure ride by the trio Wednesday
night, identified Mahan’s photo
graphs The children, Ada, Cora,
John and Frank Mitchell, living
three miles southwest of Hooper,
range in age from 13 to 19. and
said the strangers left them at
their home at about 2:30 a. m.
8hortly afterward Mack was at
tacked by the trio, bound and
forced to watch the men steal two
qptomobiles and a gasoline supply
In Hooper. He was left unharmed
at the bridge north of the city.
DEPARTMENT
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additional details as to the propos 'd
Improvements there, other than the
plans as sent to the War Depart
ment and approved some time ago.
Under these plans the old frame
buildings and brick and plaster
structures would be replaced by
modem type of stucco finished
buildings.
The road program calls for a
paved road extending entirely
around the army preserve, and pav
ing of streets that are now gravel
Practically all buildings except
those remodeled after the hurricane
would be either replaced or re
modeled. and the post would pre
sent an attractive, well balanced
architectural picture when com
pleted.
The program for rehabilitation
was worked out after a definite
decision not to abandon the
post, and to make It a permanent
army fixture, was reached.
Other applications, according to
the Associated Press. Included;
Bracketville — for new buildings
and other Improvements at Port
Clark. $456,941 Including magazines
$13,486; reconstruction of hangar
$40,000; personnel garages $15,200;
paved aprons, runways and roads
$55,000; rehabilitation of barracks,
quarters and miscellaneous struc
tures $185,596.
Dallas— For new buildings and
other Improvements at Hensley
Held $324,895 including reconstruc
tion of hangar $45,000; paved aprons
runways and roads $139,380; repairs
to buildings and improvement of
grounds $139,315.
For new buildings and other im
provements at Hensley field $18 600
Including N.C.O. quarters $16,600.
Galveston—For new buildings and
other improvements at Fort Crock
ett. $614,700 Including barracks
$180,000; quarters $272,200; ordance
npair shop, $28,000.
Galveston—For new buildings, re
construction and other improve
ments at Fort Crockett $215,983 In
cluding rehabilitation of barracks,
quarters and miscellaneous build
ings $90,616; reconditioning roads,
walks, and drainage $60,485; re
conditioning and modification of
water and electric systems. $35,500.
Laredo—For new buildings, re
construction and other improve
ments at Fort McIntosh $217,200
including rehabilitation of barracks,
quarters, miscellaneous buildings.
$105,000; construction and repairs
to roads, walks and drainage sys
tems $33,200.
Laredo — For reconstruction of
buildings and other improvements
at Laredo airdrome, including re
construction of hangar with masonry
walls and new roof, and paving of
runways, aprons and roads. $106,000
Midland—For reconstruction of
buildings and other Improvements
at Sloan field. Including reconstruc
tion of hangar with masonry walls
and new roof and paving of roads,
runways, aprons, and other Improve
ments to landing area $110,000.
OPENING PLANS
(Continued from Page One)
Mr. Bowie will speak on "What Wa
ter Transnortation Means to the
Lower Rio Grande Valley and
Northern Mexico.” Port commission
members, including Col. E. H.
Downs, chairman; Davis Wade. San
Benito; W. H. Pattee. Port Isabel;
port director. Herbert S. Crawford;
Mayor Geo. N. Sranlan. Port Isabel;
one Mayor E. L Barmore. San Ben
ito. will be introduced James Q
Lou than, navigation district at
torney. will speak on ’ Port Policy."
C. L Jessup of Brownsville will
speak briefly about the creation of
the port, and Banks L. Miller, Mc
Allfn. who Is shipping the first
cargo from the port, will be pre
sented.
Colonel Downs will Introduce
Governor Allred Following the ad
dress of the governor the assembly
will sing the national anthem
Music for the occasion will be fur
nished by the 12th Cavalry band
from Brownsville. The formal op
ening proceedings will be broadcast
over radio station KRGV.
GUILTY PLEA
(Continued From Page One)
mate of an Ohio asylum for the In
sane. formally entered the guilty
plea.
The crowd, many members of
which had waited since daylight for
resumption of the trial, was silent
as Goodrich, ccatless, his lips mov
ing. heard sentence pronounced. |
Goodrich probably will be taken
lo prison Saturday.
Marigolds give off a phosphor
WCMt glow. Other flowers give off
Smiling Through the Mood
This mother and her child smile gamely as they return to their home in
flooded area at Marathon, N. Y., to find it a mass of flood-torn wree' rrre.
Ruined roads check efforts of relief parties hastening to tl> v* a'd a
water rcctdes. (Centra! Pr-?st
FLORIDA SHIPS
FRUIT BY BOAT
Competing Citrus AVea Is
Taking Advantage Of
Cheap Rates
(Special to (lie H« raid*
HARLINGEN. July 19.—A bulle
tin of the Growers and Shippers
League of Florida received here
shows that there lias been a tre
mendous increase In the amount of
Florida citrus transported by boat
and truck.
It Is shown by the league's ana
lysis that boats and trucks distri
buted a greater percentage of the
citrus crop for the season every
month except September. Boats and
trucks handled 59 per cent of the
citrus.
When trucks are left out of the
picture and just boats and rails are
compared, the league shows that a
greater percentage of citrus was
distributed all-rail In only three
months out of the nine months in
cluded in the survey. The months
dominated by the railroads were
‘ September, October and December.
The boats carried a heavier ton
nage in November. February. March
and May. It was 50-50 between rails
and boats in the other two months.
April and January.
Of the distribution by boat, 92
per cent went to four eastern ports.
Five per cent went to eastern trunk
line and New England destinations,
two per cent to New Orleans and
: one per cent to miscellaneous
American and Canadian destina
tions.
If the carloads shipped by rail,
boat and truck are reduced to box
es, the total movement went as
j follows:
I Type Cars Boxes Pet
Rail . 25 568 9,120.816 41
Boat . 23.452 9.380.800 42
Truck . 9.758 3.903.200 17
56.778 22,404.816 100
The figures are expected to be
used by Florida interests in its at
tempts to obtain lower railroad
freight rates to inland points.
CONSUMER TO
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feat the holding company bill at
$700,000.
The committee also hea-d testi
mony from U- E. Beach, of Ithaca.
N Y-, securities manager for As
sociated. that he instructed com
prny managers all over the country
last week to ‘ destroy” all their
l lecords bearing on opposition to
the legislation.
Details of a midnight conference
it. a Washington hotel at which
witnesses subpoenaed in the senate
investigation were said to have dis
cused what information they would
give previously were received.
‘Get Rid of Record*'
Beach, a middle-aged, bespectacled
man in brown suit, said he ordered
the destruction on his "own" re
sponsibility although ne had dis
cussed it with O. E- Wasser. A. G. E.
controller at Ithaca.
“I told him.” Beach said, “that
I had told my managers it was O
K to get rid of their records be
cause as far as I could see we were
through with working on it
utility bill.”
This was after the senate inves
tigation had been ordered.
“Didn’t Wasser instruct you to
order the destruction?’' Chairman
Black asked.
"No. He didn’t say yes and didn’t
sar no when I discussed it with
him."
District WPA Staff
Appointments Made
(Special to The Herald)
SAN ANTONIO. July 18.—B H
Tate. Works Progress Administra
tion director for district 11. which
includes the Valley. Thursday had
virtually completed his staff after
conferences at state PWA head
quarters here, and prepared to open
district headquarters at Laredo in
stead of Alice as planned previous
ly
District 11 appointees include: A.
D. Clarke, assistant director; R. 8
O'Brien, supervisor of f%iance and
reports; Ben T. Rogers, supervisor
of labor management: and T H
Langham. Jr., supervisor of Intake
nd certification.
MARKETS
NEW YORK STOCKS
NEW YORK. July 19. (/P)—Diverse
price trends accompanied profit
taking in Friday's stock market.
The list displayed a fairly firm
tone at the active epening. The pace
slowed down appreciably as realiz
ing began to crop out in scattered
groups. Also a lew specialties kept
their heads well above water.
Grains were Just about steady and
cotton eased. Bonds paid little at
tention to stocks and the majority
of secondary loans recorded small
gains. The dollar improved against
the principal foreign exchanges.
Such shares as Case, Jons-Man
ville. Motor Products and Radio
Preferred “B" got up around a point
and improvement was registered by
Glidden, Murray Corp.. Commerchl
Solvents, Public Service of New Jer
sey and Acme Steel.
On th^other hand, com products
dropped more than 3 points and is
sues about unchanged to off a point
or so included American Telephone.
Caterpillar Tractor, U. S. Steel,
Bethlehem. Union Pacific. Santa Fe.
Amerada, Atlantic Refining. Stand
ard Oils of New Jersey and Cali
fornia, Consolidated Gas, Western
Union and General Eelectric.
A more than seasonal recovery In
freight car loadings for the past
week did not appear to influence the
equities list to any great extent. It
was realized that, while industrial
improvement was responsible for at
Vest part of the increase, the In
dependence day hiliday in thf
previous week had considerable to
do with the low total in that per
iod.
The nervousness rf the oil group
was variously attributed to fears
that price-cutting in this field can
not be prevented and to the notice
able decline in net earnings shown
by Atlantic Refining.
Brokerage analyst* were still
friendly to stocks, as a whole al
though recognizing that srme of the
leaders looked wearier than they
should. The increase of only $17
000.000 in brokers" loans for the week
ended Wednesday Indicated to some
obsrrveds that the market's in’
”al structure had net been scrious
\v impaired.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, July 19.—M*/—A
t cfmlte trend was lacking at the
start of trading on the cotton mar
ket Friday with near months 1 to
2 points hieher while the more
distant positions were l to 4 points
lawer.
July and Oct firmed at the first
rail largely reflecting the extreme
tightness of the spot market while
Dec. at 11.50. Jan. at 1148 and
March at 1149 showed slight de
rimes.
Trading was restricted again
Ttiday and there was little activity
either by longs or shorts. A private
crop report covering the state of
Texas indicated that progress there
t'lis week had been generally good
ADD COTTON—NEW ORleans ..
The declines became general as
the morning progressed but were
held to about 25 cents a bale. Light
offerings found a scarcity of takers
and active months dipped on a
point-to-point decline.
July sold at lli>3. Oct. at 1155.
Dec. at 1147 and Jan. at 11.45 as
trading passed the half-way mark.
The first of the weekly statistics
to appear indicated that spinners
takings were off around 15.000 bales
from those of a week ago and
eround 25.000 bales below the sim
ilar week of 1934.
Weather wires showed that rains
were fairly general throughout the
belt during the past 24 hours.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO. July 19—(AV- Re
sponsive to unexpected relative
strength shown by the Liverpool
wheat market, grain prices here ad
vanced early Friday. Liverpool re
ported a scarcity of both wheat of
ferings and supplies. Opening 4-1**
higher. Sept 84T>*-85*4, wheat in
Chicago held near to this range.
Com started 4-4, Sept 75%-76.
end afterward altered little.
VISIT MADE CONRlTL
A party d three officials from Mex- i
ican consular offices in San An
tonio arrived in Brownsville Wed
nesday for a visit with Juan Jose
de la Gam. consul at the station
here.
Included in the group of visiters
is Manuel S. Gonzalez, consulting
attorney for the consul in San An
tonio: Jorge Barranco. assistant to
Gonzalez: and Gustavo Martinez,
secretary of the consulting attor
ney’s office in San Antonia
CITY SURVEY
TO BE MADE
Opportunities Of Water
Development and Trade
To Be Shown
A special survey will be made here,
at part of the Texas Industrial Sur
vey. to show opportunities for de
veloping water transportation, and
especially Latin American trade, ac
cording to communications to the
chamber of commerce and naviga
tion district.
Dudley P. South, director of the
Texas Industrial Survey, which Is
to be financed by the federal gov
ernment. explains the survey, and
declares that assistance of cham
bers of commerce and port groups
is sought in the surveys at sea
ports.
The survey will place a number
of workers in each chamber that
is to assist in the work, and the or
ganization here has promised every
possible cooperation. These workers
will be paid from federal relief funds.
The survey will also furnish ex
pert supervision and assistance to
the chamber and the staff of work
ers in each office.
“The industrial survey to be con
ducted thus will be carried out by
each chamber of commerce as a
survey of the community served by
that organizaticn.” South states,
“with emphasis placed on the local
needs and Interests of the com
munity. The information and ma
terial required for the general state
survey will be obtained by the staff
in the course of making the local
surveys.
“Thus there will be a seperate ln
dqustrial survey made by each
chamber that works mith us, focussed
on its own local problems, and the
general setate-wide survey mill be
built up out of coordinated iiftla from
all of the senerate survevs."
The study here mill he made large
ly along lines of market data, for
eign trade possibilities, and oth*r
nossJbilities of international devel
opment. and in vi*mf of this the suj -
j city and to the port now being built.
VALLEY CORN
(Cc tinued From Page One)
75 cents a bushel, or around $350,''OO
for the crop.
The Valley will ship about 15 car
! leads of popcorn. and about half
I this has moved The popcorn acre
age is small, but this little corn
usually brings a very high price.
The three crops will bring close
to $750,000 to Valley farmers at a
time when they usually are not
marketing any crops, helping to
snread the section's marketing sea
son out over the entire year. an£
tiding over some farmers until the
vegetable and citrus deals.
Failure To Pay Tax
Holds Up City Buses
Failure to pay occupation taxe
when due has forced citv official'
to Instruct three privately-operated
Brownsville buses to cease operatin’’
until proper financial adjustment'
can be irr’rie.
City occunation taxes for the base*
here arp due every three month.'
the year s sum having been divided
into f ur equal installments. The
last periodic tax was due on June 30
but even with the 15 days of grace
granted by the city office over ttr
deadline three of the buses have
been unable to mnet U'-lr oblige
lions. The citv ncrupa'ion tax for
the year amounts tc $36.
Tt was pointed out that 23 p**i
vntely-owned buses arc operating 1**
the city and between B'ownsvill
and Mftcmoros. Fourteen buses are
engaged in p^senger traffic be
tween B~own.svil!e and the \fexi
c»n city, while a similar number at*
i rmnloyed steadily in carrying pass
engers in the city. Twenty-five hw -
which have been ooerating rc‘n’,'-~’
already have paid their occupy —
taxes, while one of thp three e’~
I ''d down by citv officials for
to pay has h**en m'fi i’
Matamoros-Br*'u •» service
—
Brownsville Lions Tc
Visit Mexico Cit*
Brownsville Lions club will b
tvpresented at the internatlona
convention in Mexico City July 23-2:
by two mrmbers. while practical’
every group In the Valley is expect
ed t<» send one or more delegates
John H Snow, president of the
Brownsville club, will join a large
group of Lions from northern points
late Sunday, and continue with
them by train over the National
Railways to Mexico Citv from
Revnosa. Hugh Johnston, the other
n presentative from Brownsville, is
manning to leave by plane some
t time during the week-end for the
| convention city. Sessions of the
International parley will ooen Tues
| day at Pullman City. In the Mexi
can capital.
Valiev lions this week have been
perfecting plans to take visiting
delegates who will arrive In this
l section bv train early Sundav on
a hurried auto tour of the Valiev,
i including a visit to ttie Brownsville
"irp rt. Fred Wagner. Brownsville,
has been one of the leaders in the
movement.
Woman Offers To
Sormpr Death Trap
MUSKOGEE. Okla . July i*_
Mrs. Clarence A. Schoonover, 35.
Tilsa mother of two boys both
urder 10 years of age, has applied
for the job of hanging Arthur
Gooch, condemned Okmulgee kid
naper. scheduled to die on Seotem
W 13. Marshal Sam E. Swlnney
said Thursday.
Mrs. Schoonover told Swlnnev
she "believes that the law should
be- enforced against such characters
as Gooch and I am ready to do my
part to enforce it”
Flowers for all oocaslona Los
Ebanos Greenhouse Company Phone
1588. Adv.
Yellow Cab—Phone 1033—Adv.
Cotton acales. sacks, ducking and
knee pads. Folding cots and wagon
oovers. Brownsville Hardware. Adv.
Outdoor Library Success in Spain
Madrid has found the “honor system” successful in operating this
outdoor library, established in one of the Spanish capital's parks.
No books ever are stolen and the public, which uses the library
extensively, has faithfully observed the request that each reader
treat the volumes as carefully as he would his own property.
Matamoros Revokes
All Gun Licenses
Mayor R. Munguia C. of Mataoros
Wednesday issued a decree revok
ing all gun licenses which have been
issued by the city government to
resident of the Matamoros muni
cipality.
The order is expected to effect
approximately 200 persons who have
been holding gun licenses in th
border municipality. Mayor Munguia
stated to The Herald that this step
had been taken due to a number
of tragedies which have occurred
recently In the border city, and \m
is hoping with the present decree
to avert future bloodshed.
QUINCY. Mass. July 18—0P>—
It* U. a S Phelps. $4,000,000 de
stroyer leader, was launched Thurs
day at the Pore River yard of the
Bf'hlehem Steel corporation, the
hrst of four such fighting ships
ordered by the United States navy. I
H1TO TO END
CHURCH TREATY
Special Ministry For All
Relifkms Is Planned
In Germany
WURZBERG. Germany. July II.
(AV--Catholic circles asserted they
learned Thursday of nazl party
ptens to announce abrogation of
Germany's concordat with the
Holy See.
Catholics said they were ammsed
on being Informed that the naxis
would break itt the covenant, con
cluded between the Hitler regime
and the Vatican July I. 1933. dur
ing their annual convention In
September at Nurnberg.
No confirmation of the Catholic
report could be obtained from nazl
sources, since such matters are
bell confidential.
Dr. Wilhelm Frick, nazl minister
of Interior, has come out openly on
the side of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg,
leader of the German faith move
ment. and Catholic circles were
convinced that the concordat would
be abrogated.
These sources mid Reichsfuehrer
Adolf Hitler was determined to es
tablish a special ministry for reli
gion of all faiths, with Hans Kerri,
president of the Prussian diet. In
charge as minister without port
folio.
The Vatican already has pro
tested to Berlin against alleged vio
lation of the concordat.
Objections were ofered to appli
cation of nasi sterilization laws to
Catholics, Interference with Cath
olic lay organizations, and attacks
on the freedom of the Catholic
press In Germany
The Vatican asserted that these
last phases of the nasi Catholic
controversy were specifically cover
ed In the concordat.
Cholera Breaks Out
LONDON, July IS—<*V-The Reu
ters correspondent at Hankow re
ported Thursday that a missionary
from the hills of the Han valley
stated cholera had broken out
among the 300.000 refugees who had
f.ed there from the flood.
Kiwanis Chib
Host To Post
Baseball Nine
Member* of the Fort ftrown entry
In the Brownsville Playground Ball
league, victors over the Klwania club
In the aeries for the all-season
championship, were guests of ths
Kiwanis at the club’s regular lunch
eon Thursday at the Cl Jardln hotel
Doug Ireland, manager of the Ki
wanis nail team, spoke briefly In
praising the sportsmanship and
playing ability of the Fort Brown
Yankees. The visiting players were
introduced individually.
Lieutenant R A. Smith. Fort
Brown athletic officer, responded for
the Yankees, praising the Kiwanis
aggregation which pushed the Yan
kees through five games before they
won the pennant The playground
ball league has proved an Important
item in the past's athletic program,
the officer stated.
Robin Pate reported that sale of
the Kiwanis-sponsored bonds for in
stalling a night plant at Tucker Field
is practically completed. Bids for
installing the night football plant
are scheduled to be opened July 29.
The club extended Pate a vote of
thanks for his work in connection
with the sales campaign. The club la
selling 210 S10 non-interest bear
ing bonds which mature in five years.
The debt will be paid from 60 per
cent of the net f*te receipts at
Tucker Field.
K Richard Criss. Harlingen attor
ney. spoke briefly in explaining ths
seven constitutional amendments to
be voted on August 24
Rascom Ccx had charge of ths
program
Shrimp Catches High
PORT MABEL. July IS—Record*
•re still being broken In the shrimp
catch In Oulf waters off the coast
here as high as 100.000 pounds of
shrimp having been caught In a
week recently.
The shrimp bring around eight
cents a pound to the fishermen, re
sulting in a large and steady Income
for the Pert Isabel section. Prom 19
to 20 boats are fishing for shrimp
regularly out of Port Isabel now.
many of them having come from
other parts of the Oulf.
The Herald Will Pay
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in or driving an automobile, provided that at the time of the accident, he has
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