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I —_-- ■ - .-..—- ' —— . THE WEATHER (B?0 I Wcatfew Bn For Brownsville and the Valley: Partly cloudy to unsettled Friday night and Saturday, probably local IjJH, showers: continued warm. FwT _ p FORTY-FOURTH YEAR—No. 50 xw nm-n~ » u. ««w ■ BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 81, 1985 TWELVE PAGES TODAY___ Home-Delivered Circulation of The Brownsville Herald Is More Than Double That of Any Other Valley Newspaper _ -.— ■" ... 1 ... ■ ... 1 1 ■ - QnOuK VALLEY * < By RALPH L. BUELL OFFICIAL STATUS OF WIL lacy county In this now wet state of Texas— Is settled by the Willacy County Chronicle. The parts of Willacy county that came from Hidalgo and Cameron counties— Are wet. The parts that came from the old “Willacy" county (now Kenedy county) Are dry. Aa only the very sparsely settled northern part of the county came from the old “Willacy”— The county is oonsidered as "wet" forrritofy. wfficH BRINGS TO MIND I that the state over we will probably have a large number of local option elections, providing that old law Is ■ill. on the books. Willacy county, for instance, show ad a decided dry sentiment in the tote on the repeal amendment. Several Hidalgo county precincts toted dry by big majorities. Doubtless local option elections will be called In these precincts. We still have liquor in politics, when it's out it’s in and when It’s In it’s out. • • • ALONG WITH PROSPECTS FOR a good price for the coming citrus • « the Valley— ' Add to optimistic news the fact that Valley farmers will have re ceived better than a half million dollars for their corn crop. It may seem like 80 cents a bushel probably averaging a gross return of around $30 per acre, is not muen money. But moot of this corn crop was yumri at a minimum of expense And actually money was put into circulation at a time of year when not much else was coming in. • • • leaf worms are said TO be destroying the cotton crop of Texas at a great rate. The Valley knows what leaf worms can do, and certainly extends sympathy to those sections that aie now afflicted. We have had ’em. In fact, we can remember one season when the leaf worms really saved a cotton crop! Rain had given cotton plants m-gf jr growth that they had the gUtdte of young trees— With thick, weevil protecting fenage tangled up, row on row. The worms came along and ate ■p the leaves, letting the sun In, and the crop made. This season, with little enough | nun, the worms have done little 1 damage in the Valley, and the crop to gone now. so let them come! •Mr • • • P CITRUS MEN AND NEWSPAPEk fo!c generally are finding it hard This estimate of a Valley citrus atop of around 7,000 ears. It may be, but we doubt It A re versa.' of the positions of the two ends of the Valley appe.rs prob able this aeaaon. Shipments will come from the lower «nc of the Valley than from the Just opposite to the figures of the • • • and another thing that b tttvidends* The well kept grove costs money In upkeep, and returns profits far , fja __ »■ m* i Italians Tes ting Courage With Real Bullets SHELLS ROAR OVERHEAD AS TROOPS MOVE Duce’s Final Speech Awaited For Hints On Attitude Toward Rest Of Europe BOLZANO, Italy. Aug. 30. (AV* One soldier was killed and two were wounded in Premier Musso lini's realistic war games Friday when the soldiers advanced un der real artillery fire. LONDON. Aug. 30. uPr- Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary, is awaiting President Roosevelt's final decision on the congression al neutrality act and an official copy of the act for determination of just what actions the L’ nited States proposes to take in event of an ltalo-Ethiopian war, it was learned Friday from informed headquarters. WITH THE ITALIAN ARMY, BOLZANO. Italy, Aug. 30. —tAV Make-believe was abandoned in the war maneuvers on the Austrian frontier Friday as the Italian ar tillery and machine guns poured shells and bullets over the heads of thousands cf advancing infantry. The deadly missiles were substi tuted for harmless explosives by leaden who reasoned that real artillery fire was designed to elim inate the panic into which the sol d.-ra often fall when they hear the shells of their own guns whistling ever them. Mussolini and his war generals, including Italo Balbo, Italy s “for gotten hero.” attended the exercis es. General Balbo stood in the cen ter of a group cf military chiei *ains who talked with him of mili .ary problems, particularly in the province of Libyia, where he fe gov ernor. Mussolini stood with Constant Ciano, father of II Duche s aon-in .aw Galeazzo Ciano. minister of propaganda, who has left for vol unteer service in east Africa. Political circles were much in terested in the tone Mussolini will adopt in a speech Saturday in his final review of the troops. Much, they said, depends upon the reac tion his extraordinary cabinet de claration is receiving in the other capitals of Europe, particularly in London. If London’s impression is favorable, it is said. Mussolini's I speech will be conciliatory. ESTIMATE ON FRUIT HIKED Valley Now Expected Tc Produce 6,000 Cart Of Citrus (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN, Aug. 30—The Low er Rio Grande Valley will produce between 5.000 and 6.000 carloads of citrus fruit during the 1935-36 sea son. according to estimates of a number of citrus men made here following a recent surtty of the situation. This estimate is more than 1,000 carloads higher than the estimates a month ago, but more than 1,000 carloads leas than the U. S. De partment of Agriculture crop report would Indicate. The department's report shows a condition of 33 per cent for grape fruit as against S4 per cent last year, and 41 per cent for oranges ss against 40 per cent at the same time last year. Last season the Valley moved 7.571 cars of fruit, which would indicate at least 7,000 cars during the coming season. Shippers are confident, however, the total will not reach that figure due to the fact that a number of orchards have been taken out of production. Fruit is sizing up nicely, they re port. with prospects of fairly good quality. Prospects are also good for a better price this season than was received last year. Strato Instruments Found Near Santone SAN ANTONIO. Aog. 30. (*V A set of delicate instruments, one of a group sent into the strato sphere in a cosmic ray experiment research conducted here recently by Dr. H. V. Etiher, was recovered Fri day by L. Hitzfelder, 38 miles north of San Antonio. • The instrument* were sent to Dr. Robert A. Millikan, famed physi cist. in California where they will be examined for possible cosmic ray information. Only one other set of six sent •loft ha* been recovered. • - WHY SUEZ ‘ HOT SPOT’ me map above ^.oas tae situation o! the auez Canal and the im portant position it holds in Italy’s planned invasion of Ethiopia. If the British-dominated canal is closed to Italy, Italian ships would be forced to travel clear around the Cape of Good Hope to carry sup plies \nd troops to the Ethiopian front. England’s purpose behind her threat to close the canal is to check Italy's invasion, because Italy, once in control of Ethiopia, could divert the flow of the Nile river and make a desert of 'John Bull’s sphere of influence in Egypt. WILLACY’S OIL TEST WATCHED Geologists Believe Mercedes ' Sand Will Be Found Near 5,000 Feet (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN, Aug. 30—Oil In terest in the coastal section of the Valley turned this week-era to the L. & 8. Drilling Company No. 1 Armendaiz, formerly the W. T. Daniel test, near the Willacy and Cameron counties line. This test is now down to 5,000 feet, and is nearing the formation in which the drill was lost at 5,165 when Daniel was drilling. An analysis of that formation reveal ed it is practically the same as the formation near the oil sand of the Mercedes producers. This tends to substantiate the opinion expressed by geologists that there is a high near the coast east and northeast of here where the Mercedes sand may be encountered at around 5,200 to 5300 feet instead of at 7,300, The L. & S. Drilling concern, a Harlingen company, is prepared to ( to 7300 feet if necessary on the Armendaiz test, although much in terest will center in result of the next few days drilling as the well i readies 5,165 feet The test has bee a beset by much trouble since it was started, salt water ruining the boilers, drill being lost, and ! roads delaying the work from time [to time. While this well is being watched closely, the Joseph F. Anderson No. 1 Browne Properties, three miles ea** of Rio Hondo, is drilling at around 1,000 feet, and preparations are being completed for spudding Jin W. T. Daniel No. 1 Port Isabel company. The Darnel well on the Po:f Isa bel company properties was to {have been spudded in Friday, but ! unfavorable weather delayed it. Several new locations in the coun ty are expected to be made short ly, Anderson announcing that he is ! preparing to make i/ dittonal tests. Old Feud Is Blamed In Matamoros Death An old feud with a neighboring rancher is given by investigating officers as the cause of Pablo Gen tries Leal, about 36. being shot to I death at the Canasta ranch, about ! ten miles south of Matamoros i Thursday afternoon. The identity of Leal’s assailant | was revealed to officers by eye-wit : nesses, and a search is being made for the man. After an exchange of words, witnesses say. the assailant emptied a 38 automatic Into Leal’s body and head with seven bullets taking effect. He died instantly. The assailant, who was on herse i back at the time, fled and was not captured. Leal’s body was taken to Mata moros Thursday afternoon. FIRST RIVER DAMOKEHED F. D. Signs Bill For Big Water Barrier Near El Paso WASHINGTON. Aug. 30 —4/Pf— P:esident Roosevelt Friday signed a oiiJ authorizing $1,000,000 tor con struction of a diversion dam on the New Mexico-Texas border near h: Pose as a part of the Rio Grande river canalization project. The measure was handled in the senate by Senators Carl A. Hatcn ana Dennis Chavez. New Mexico democrats, and was pushed through :1a house in the closing minutes of the congressional session by Rep. John J. Dempsey, another demo crat from the same state. The bill as originally introduced by the New Mexican would have authorized $4,000.0 0 for the entire project including dam construction and canalization of the stream from the Caballo dam site in New Mex ico south to El Paso. Later Dempsey discovered the buieau of the budget had disapprov ed the $4,000,000 authorization as uut In keeping with the govern ment’s requirements for works allot ments. He obtained an argument w.th budget officials on $1,000,000 to start the program. The New Mexicans said before they left Washington for home they believed additional funds for the project would be authorized early in the next session of congress. FORT BROWN FUND IS SUBMITTED TO WPA FOR APPROVAL (Special to The Herald) BAN ANTONIO. Aug. 30— Ad vices received at Fort Bam Houston say that construction projects ag gregating more than $39,000,000 for at my posts in the Eighth Corps Area have been approved by the War Department and submitted to the Works Progress Administration in Washington for prospective allot ment. The projects include, the advice* tod. $254,000 for Fort Brown; $541,000 for Fort Ringgold, and $299,000 for Fort McIntosh. Posts in and around Ban Antonio would get approximately $22.400000 11 all proposals are approved. 31 States Obtain Relief Allotments WASHINGTON, Aug. SO. —<*>)— Thirty-one states Friday received direct relief allotments for the first half cf September as work relief officials Indicated their hope of putting several hundred thousand persons to work in the next two weeks. Harry L. Hopkins made no allot ment tc 13 states including Alaba ma and Wyoming, whose relief ad ministration will be disbanded on September 1 as the work retttf pro gram gets under way. QUEEN’S BODY RETURNED AS PEOPLEMOURN Tiny Belgium Grieve* Openly Over Lo*» Of Beloved Ruler; Leopold Recover* ‘ BRUSSELS. Aug. To the muffled roll of drums and the shrill notes of bugles sounding “Aux Cnamps” (last post), the dead Queen AM rid made her tragic homecoming Friday to the country which had grown to love her. Banked with white flowers and lighted by six large candles, the simple coffin was placed in the] pti&ce chapel (chapelle ardent*). The special train that bore the body from Switzerland as it drew into the downtown Gare Du Nord station at 8:40 a. m. found a city in deep mourning. Sorrowing crowds wept openly in the streets and behind them doors v ere draped with black crepe ano shop windows were shuttered. Sobs Heard From Crowd A deathlike hush fell over the crowd outside the station as the Queen's body was lifted from tne coach in which it made the over night Journey from Lucerne. Sobs from the bareheaded crowd broke the deep silence as attend ?ntc placed the casket In the motor hearse outside the somberly draped ‘ station and *tePB*d back to await ! the start of the drive to the palace. Then drums, hung with heavy ! black velvet began the funeral j roll and the notes from the trumpets of a band of army buglers rang out | strangely and sharply in the usually j bustling square facing the station. The funeral will be next Tuesday. King Leopold left the train at Care Du Luxembourg, before it arrived at the downtown station, ard drove to the palace In an auto mobile to await his Queen s body. Governmental and city dignitaries rode in six automobiles which moved behind the hearse as the sad pro cession to the palace began. Troops lined each side of the streets as the cortege wound its way atowly up (Ccntinued On Page Eight) 12,000 BALES ARE GINNED Valley’s Cotton Season Is Practically Over, Experts Say The Lower Rio Grande Valley has gli ned approximately 42.00) bales of cotton up to the end of August, ana its season Is practically over, according to figures compiled by I C.arence Ragan of the Fidelity Pioducts company here. Ragan estimates ginnings by counties as of August 31 as follows: Hidalgo, 15.000. | Willacy. 13.000 Starr. 4.000 Cameron. 11,000. There is some difference in fig ures as to Hidalgo and Starr gin i ntngs, because several gins are lo cated almost on the county line of the two counties, but the total for f‘ e counties Is about the same. Ragan said there will probably be 1.000 more bales ginned, bringing the i total for the season to around 43.000 bales. - A1 Capone Mutt Pay $120,000 Liquor Tax WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.—m— 1 A1 Capone. Chicago beer baron now I serving an 11-year sentence m Alcatraz penitentiary for income tax evasion Friday was assessed almost $12C,0?0—for liquor taxes not paid. The assessment, ordered by the treasury, also was levied against other members of the Chicago syn dicate with which Capone was con nected during the prohibition era. Capone to charged with the lUe g&I manufacture, distribution and sale of some 20,000 barrels of beer. Tlie treasury will take steps im rrediatelv to collect the assessment In a civil court proceeding. Position of the two dredges bring ing the sea to Brownsville on Fri day Aug. 30. was: Orleans, station 82 plus 730, or total advance of 88,730 feet. Texas, station 65 plus 630, or total advance of 52,630 feet. The Orleans Friday was exactly are mile from the site of the Brownsville turning basin. Hie Texas was 413 miles from the site of the turning basin. Huey’s Filibuster Puts State Pension Programs in Snarls (By The Associated Press) Brand new old age pension plans were snarled In many states by congress’ failure to appropriate money to make the social security act effective. An Associated Press survey brought responses from 31 states and the District of Columbia. BOY HURT BY ' POWDER BLAST Toy Gun Made Of Pipe Explodes, Injures Youth . Calvin Jarvis. 14-year-cld son of Mrs. B. L. Jarvis, was severely burn ed about the head and shoulders late Thursday afternoon when gun. powder with which he was experi menting prematurely exploded near the family residence, 1625 Elizabeth street. Although his bums are painful, his Injuries are not expected to prove serious. The youngster and a companion were constructing a toy gun with pipe and gunpowder when the acci dent occurred. Calvin was stand ing about three feet from the toy when It exploded. The youngster is being treated for his injuries at his home by Dr. T. A. Kinder. :Kidnaper’ Of Own Children Sought A Valey-wide search is under way for Mrs. Alice Philips Odom, former resident cf this section who is charged by complaint with kidnap ing her two children. Clara Mae. 5; and John Thomas, 9; at Winnfield. La.. August 6. An intensive search of this sec tion has been started on the request of Sheriff Bryant Scholars of Winn Parish. The Louisiana sheriff states that Mrs. Odcm lived in the Valley 'or a number of years and that he believes she is in this section now with the children. Mrs. Odom is about 27 years of age and is a blonde. A reward of $50 for information leading to the apprehension of Mrs. Odom and rtum of the children tc their father is being offered. Mrs. Odom is likely tc seek em ployment In cafes, the sheriff writes. RICHARD KLEBERG TO ATTEND LABOR DAY PARADE HERE Congressman Richard Kleberg of the Corpus Christ! congressional district, will be among the distin guished guests who will review the monster Labor Day parade cf the Valley Monday. It was announced here Friday morning by R. B. Rob erson. secretary of the Central La bor Union. Word that Ccngr asmac Kleberg would be here for the par ade was received late in the morn ing by Duncan Wright, deputy U S. Marshal. Mayor Rafael Munguia of Mita moros also ncti.ied Roberson Fri day that he will review the parade, accompanied by a number of Ma tamorce city officials. Representa tives from each of the 12 labor or ganisations of Matamoros will also be in the line of march, probably 100 in all. Postmaster William T. Burnett was having the rimewing stand erected in frcnt of the post-office Friday morning, and ample accom modations will be available for all of the visiting dignitaries who will occupy seats there. Mrt. Tom Connally Buried At Marlin MARLIN. Aug. 30. —<JF— Mrs Tom Connaly. wife of Tom Con nally. Junior United State* senator, was buried here Thursday j in the presence of hundreds cl j friends who gathered for the simp!* ' services. Relatives, state dignitaries, neigh bors and intimate friends attended services at the Connally home or Capos street. Mrs Connally died suddenly ta the cffiee of the senator In Wash ington Monday. Senator Connalh snd Intimate friends accompanist the body to Texas arriving Thursday morning. TRANSFERS CANCELLED WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. (JPh i Army orders assigning Captain j Benners B. Vail. Fort Brown, at ! Brownsville. Texas, to duty at the j city high schools of Johnson City, I Term, were revoked Friday by the War Department Typical replies: “We cannot start without fed eral aid.” “We are ready to proceed, but need federal co-operation.” can go ahead only on a cur tailed basis until congress provides federal funds In January.” The legislatures of nearly a score of states passed laws at their last sessions setting up new old age pension systems or revamping laws to conform to the federal measure. Plans for several special legisla tive sessions to pass laws to permit co-operation with the federal gov ernment were disrupted. Some may be held to provide statutes effective when federal aid becomes available, but others, not ably In Kansas, and Illinois have been abandoned to await action by the next congress. I a number of states where old age pension laws now are effective, funds have been Inadequate and most of them were depending on the anticipated congressional grant to bring pensions up to the per mitted maximum. Thousands of elderly persons ln (Contlnued On Page Eight) UPPER RIVER AREAFLOOi ) Rio Grande Rising After Heavy Rains Cause Death, Damage EL PASO. Aug. JO.—IJF\—Terrific rainstorms flooded scattered areas ' of the deep southwest Friday, caus ' lug unestimated damage and brlng ng apprehension for additional lives, i Las Crucea, N. M. 45 miles nortn of here, was flooded by heavy rain ier. In the upper Rio Grande basin, at the same time searchers found (he body of a fifth victim of the transcontinental bus tragedy at Willcox. Arts.. 300 miles to the west. Steve Stapleton, 28. of Dallas, Tex., wo3 killed at the same time four othtrs perished when the bus was i swept off the highway and flooded I in a sudden torrent. At Las Cruces water was two feet deep In the main streets ana Mayor J. Benson Newell said the storm was “very bad, but 1 don’t know how bad. Newell said he planned a survey early Friday. Eeavy rL'ns also were reported In the Belen and Socorro areas (Continued On Page Eight) Wire Flashes WASHINGTON—<AV- Material I for a new test of the government ■ power to regulate industry waa placed on the statute books Fri day when President Roosevelt signed the Guffey bill setting up a “Little NR A” for the soft coal industry. Austin—Gerald C. Mann > resigned Friday aa secretary of state to accept appointment as Washington Representative of the Texas planning board. Governor Allred appointed R. R. Stanford of Waco to succeed him. NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 3t. (AV Senator Huey P. Long's employes pension act of the third 1S34 spe cial session of the Louisiana Leg islature providing for proportion ate pension payments in relation to years of service waa declared unconstitutional Friday by the three-judge federal court ST. LOUIS. Aug. 3*. (A*v— A strike of 44tg employes of the Wabash and Ann Arbor railroads, tentatively set for dawn Saturday, was called off by the unions Fri day afternoon. Valley Photographs Sent To Centennial Dosena of photograph* of Brouma i vllle and points of Interest In and around the city have been fcrward - ed the past few days by the cham I ber of commerce to different > branches of the Texas Centennial organisation far use in advertising • itter that Is to be sent cut during the next few months. The photographs will be used In Magaxlne trticles. advertising li terture. books, and in other waya In advertising the Vtley. Considerable literature on Browns ville also has been sent, for un to the same articles and publications $1 N STAR OF'SILENTS’ ESCAPES HARM Norma T alm&dge Screams, Man Who Forced Entrance To Home Flees HOLLYWOOD. Caltf . Aug » m —Screams of Norma Talmadg*. screen actrees, foiled what officers l believed was an attempt to roll or kidnap her in her apartment In * the fashionable colonial boose. Beverly Hills, shortly before noon Friday. Miss Tainted f* told officers a man carrying a small box knocked at her apartment, that her maid Matilda Shirk, answered, and was told he had brought flowers for the actress. When the maid unfas |%'d the door chain the man pulled out an automatic pistol, pressed it against her body, told her to hold her hands above her head “and dont say a word." The maid screamed. Miss Tal madge. in her bedroom, heard the commotion. Seeing the man with the pistol, she slammed shut the door and started screaming. The man fled down the hallway. He dropped the box. It was empty. Miss Talmadge is the wife of Oeorge Jesael. stage and screen actor. CLAUDETTE COLBERT GETS DIVORCE HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. ». (An — Charles Feldman, business manager for Claudette Colbert, glamorous motion picture star, said Friday the actrees had obtained a Mexican divorce from her actor husband, Norman Foster. The divorce. Feldman said, was obtained more than a week ago. but he said he could not tell where in Mexico it was secured. The marriage of the Paris-born actress and Foster, who first gain ed prominence on the New York sta-e, occarred eight or nine year* (Continued On Page Eight) “BABY LINDY’ * CLAIMED FOUND Bruno Defense Attorney ‘Finds' Child; Prints To Be Compared NEW YORK Aug. 30 <JPh- Dr. Erasmus M. Hudson, fingerprint expert who figured prominently in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, said Friday that the fingerprints of the Lindbergh baby could not be com pered with those of the body Iden tified as that of the child because “the hands were missing from the body." According to the autopsy report which Dr. Charles B. Mitchell. Mer cer county physician, handed New Jersey state police the left hand and right forearm were missing from the body of the child which Colonel Charles Lnldbergh identi fied as his sen. In California, where he is investl. gating “new evidence.’* C. Lloyd Fisher, chief attorney for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, condemned to death for the kidnaping, said thtre ia a child on Long Island who (Continued On Page Eight) TONIGHTS MOVIES OVER THE VALLEY Brown*vtHe: The Capitol—Clark OabU. Jean Harlow and Wallaca Beery tn “China Seas."* The Queen-Tom Tyler In “Coyote Trail*." The DUtmann— Roger Pryor and Mary Aator IB “Straight Prom the Heart.'* San Benito: The R1 wall—Edward Ar nold and Blnnie Barm* la “Diamond Jim Brady.** Harlingen: The Arcadia—Clark Gable. Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery la “Chine See* ” The Rialto—Buek Joaea In “The Texas Ranter.** La Perta: The Bijou—Warner Olaad and Pat Pate man la "Charlie Chan in Egypt .** Raymondvtlie: The Ramon—Randolph Scott and Kay Johnaoa tn “VUaige Tale." Donne: The Plane —Edward Bverett Horton and Karen Motley la "fit Ratae." «fP Juan: The him Juan—Paul MmU tn "Black Fury." Mercedes The Capitol—Marlon Da viea, Pat O’Brien and Dick Powell tn "'Page' M.l» Glory." Weslaco: The Rita-Clark Gable. Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery la “China Sea* “ McAllen.: The Palace—Buddy Rogers and Grace Bradley In "Old Man Rhythm." The Queen—Myma Ley tn “Rogue at the Rio Grande." Mission The Mlealon—W. C. Fields ! and Mary Brian tn "The Man an the ' Ftytng Trspem."