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:jr ■ f ” f ..1J THE WEATHER £»* u (Br O I Weattacv Bureau) Circulation — Of• Brownsville and the Valley: Most- • fend In the Valley ly cloudy Thursday and Friday. Only by The Her probably with local showers; con tinued warm. j ^ -- || FORTY-FOURTH YEAR—No. 66 ra. vaite, nnt-nm ataumi BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1936 EIGHT PAGES TODAY • • • 6c A COPY By RALPH L. BUELL JAY DE PUY. HEAD OF THE construction company which will soon begin work cn the Browns ville port terminal facilities— Bears the reputation among his fellow contractors— Of one who gets things done. They tell that De Puy was figur ing cn bidding on a rather difficult type of construction. And that before submitting his bid ^ hired out as a day laborer to a Urm engaged in a similar job. Spent three months on the Job, Came out and figured his bid, and wen and made money. He is no stranger here in Browns ville, having constructed the State National Bank building. • • • A. DITTMANN, WHO TOURED the middle and far west on a rather extended vacation jaunt, is home again. , And we will miss the postcards with which he kept us informed of his progress, and the comments cn various sundry matters with which he regaled us. From 50 feet below sea level to 10,000 feet above encompassed his vacation travels. Th< West seems to be in good shape, he reports. m m m APPROPOS OF THIS DISCUS sion ol shipping Valley iruit to mar ket by boat, Florida figures are interesting. DurUig the 1930-31 citrus season, 1.1 per cent of the Florida crbp mov ed by water and 00.9 per cent by rail. But, during the 1934-35 season. 40.3 per cent of the crcp moved by water and 39.4 per cent by rail. We are told that the proportion of the crop to move by boat will be still larger for the coming seascn. Several additional vessels are be ing equipped with refrigeration— Figuring on getting plenty of fruit: business. • • - FLORIDA CITRUS INTERESTS are making a determined fight for, lower rail rates. Not only are they seeking lower! rail rates to their own natural mar-1 fcfcet in the east, ' But they are alter lower rates to the great middle west, the territory that has always been regarded as the Valley's market. The same rate to Chicago as pre vails by rail to New York is what they are asking. It behooves the Valley to watch out. • • o M’ALLEN CHIEF OF POLICE Tom Bryan, warns motorists that traffic rules and regulations are go ing to be enforced. School has opened in the City ol Palms, increasing opportunity for accidents, and the police chief is trying to take the stitch in time that will save lives. A similar warning would be most £ opportune for all Valley cities. Give the school children the chance to live. • • • A SEPTEMBER ItiTH CELE bration of the independence of Mex ico is to be staged at Weslaco. Parade will be led by the mayor and the Mexican consul. And hundreds ol Weslaco’s citl sens will participate, while ether hundreds will learn something of the fine history of this land that lies just across the Rio Grande. • • • GLAD IS BROWNSVILLE THAT Mrs. Colgin has been brought to safety from the battered Dixie— j Sorry to learn cl her injury, but, glad again that it is not considered serious. BRINGING THE SEA TO BROWNSVILLE I Position of the two dredges bring ing the sea to Brownsville on Thursday. Sept. 5, was: Orleans, station 83 plus 870, or total advance of 70,870 feet. Texas, station 67 plus 025. or total advance of 54.025 feet. The Orleans Thursday was 0.78 Mile from the site of the Browns villa ship turning basin. Tbs Texas Thursday was 397 miles from the turning basin site. Port Facilities Work Begins Soon • © © © © © « © © « © • © © « © © PASSENGERS RESCUED - -* - DRAMA OF SEA NARRATED BY GROUPASHORE Brownsville Woman Is Injured Attempting I To Assist Another Passenger (Copyright. 1935. by the (jP)1 MIAMI. Fla.. Sept. 5.—The task of removing passengers remaining Efforts to aid another passen ger brought a fractured right ankle to Mrs. C. H. Colgin of > Brownsville, one of the passengers on board the Dixie, according to Associated Press reports to The Brownsville Herald. Mrs. Colgin was among the 164 passengers brought to safety from the liner Wednesday night. ‘1 had started to walk across B deck to aid an old lady who appeared tc be In distress when the craft struck.” Mrs. Colgin told The Associated Press. "I was thrown across the deck My right foot struck a door, and before I could move it, a heavy chair struck it from the other side.” Early Thursday afternoon Mr. Colgin received another telegram from Mrs. Colgin. saying that she had received immediate medical attention and that an X-ray examination of her injured ankle was to be made later m the day. She will proceed to New Yorx with the "rest of the refugees If :>ossib!e.’’ Mrs. Colgin said, add ing that her "clothing is all ruined.” _ aboard the hapless liner Dixie. Tropical Radio reported, was com puted Thursday morning by three (Continued on Page Two) RECORD RIVER RISE ON WAY — Flood Now At Eagle Pass • May Set New High In Lower Rio Grande (Special to The Herald) SAN BENITO. Sept. 5 —The com- j m.si-loners courts of Cameron and L ualgo counties Thursday were taking up with relief headquarters in the Valley and at Laredo the }x>ssibility of securing relief labor for fighting the floods which arc now in the vicinity of El Paso and Dei Rio. and which will reach this section shortly. This action is being taken m view of the fact that the federal funds which have been at the disposal of the International Boundary com-, mission to fight floods are now | exhausted. J. L. Lytel. engineer in charge, announced here Thursday. I Lytel said flood waters now in sight will probably cause a larger rise in the Valley than In June. I vnen the river came to record new high points in the lower part of the Valley, although the total volume (Continued on Page Two) RAYMONDVILLE TO BUILD SIDEWALKS AS WPA PROJECT (Special to The Herald) RAYMONDVILLE. Sept. 5.—An application for 25.000 linear feet of sidewalks has been forwarded to the Works Progress Administration by the chamber of commerce, ac cording to Harry Cook, secretary. It is understood that the side walks would cost property owners $2.2* per 25 feet for materials and that the labor would be supplied by the government from relief rolls if the application is granted. A large number of property own ers have signed up. Although the sidewalks contemplated lie in va rious parts of the city, there are many long continuous strips. Not only do sidewalks improve the appearance of property and provide vreater safety but they also make it possible to extend city mall de livery routes. 8uch routes are not provided except where there are sidewalks Rovallv Welcomed m • Happy at the Honor of being list ed to sing before the British royal family. Rose Bampton. American opera soprano, flashed this smile before the camera as she toucbaf shore In England recently. BLAST SLAYING SOLVED, CLAIM Cownty Attorney Killed At 'Infernal Machine* Goes Off In Automobile HARLAN. Ky.. Sept. 5. (API — Four men were arrested here Thursday charged with the wilful murder of County Attorney Elmon Middleton of Harlan county, who was assassinated by the dynamite explosion of his automobile here Wednesday. The men were listed as Bob Far mer. Otis Noe, Fred Howard and Bill Leonard. They were arrested on warranto sworn to by Sheriff Theodore R. Middleton, cousin of the slain official, who promised a statement later in the day giving a “solution” of the murder mys tery. HARLAN. Ky.. Sept. 5. (^—Sheriff Theodore R. Middleton informed Judge James M. Gilbert in Harlan circuit court Thursday that he had "solved" the mystery of the dyna mite slaying of his cousin. County Attorney Elmon Middleton, here Wednesday. At the sheriff’s request. Judge Gilbert directed the grand jury to remain in session. Judge Gilbert was about to dis charge the grand Jury when Sheriff Middleton walked into the court room and said: “Judge, I’ve solved this dynamit ing case. I would like for you to hold the grand jury until this after noon.” Sheriff Middleton did not state what evldenoe he had. remarking he would present it to the grand (Continued on Page Two) OPPOSITION CITY TICKET IS ANNOUNCED Yturria Is Candidate For Mayor; Devine, M e r r itt, Fountain, Runyon In Race A ticket to oppose the Browns ville city administration in the December 10 election was announced here Thursday by Fausto Yturria, Brownsville attorney, who will head the opposition as candidate for mayor. The candidates for the commis sion to make the race with Yturria are Robert Runyon, O. W. Merritt. Ellis A. Fountain and John L. De vine. Fountain has resided in Browns ville 10 years, and in Cameron county for 20 years. He is own er of the Tex-Mex Fruit Company here, is 35 years old and. is head of a family. Devine was reared in Brownsville, graduated from the Brownsville public schools in 1889 and is a civil engineer by profession. He is 63 years old. married, and is engaged in the life insurance business. Runyon has resided in Browns ville for 25 years. He operates the Basket Place in Matamoros. Merritt, a retired army officer, operates Merritt’s Service Station on Fourteenth street. He is 54 years of age and has resided in Brownsville for the past six years. The ticket plans to open head quarters in the near future. Yturria said, and to conduct an active cam paign with a series of speaking ciates and meetings The ticket's platform has been announced as follows: “We feel that all municipal Jobs of Brownsville rightfully belong to the people of Brownsville, and we (Continued on Page Two) MILLER TELLS OF HIS PLAN 200 Growers Approve Idea For Master Citrus Sale Organization (Special to The Herald) WESLACO. Sept. 5—Approxi mately 200 persons attending a ; meeting here Wednesday night call ed by the South Texas Citrus Grow ers League, voiced their approval of I a master citrus sales organization as I proposed by Banks L Miller of Mc ' Allen and Harlingen. The meeting was the second of a series of three called by the league, the first hav ing been held at McAllen Tuesday night and the third to be held in Harlingen Thursday night. Explaining his proposal in detail. Miller stated that control of from 50 to 60 per cent of the total Val ley crop would be required to matn , tain proper control cf the markets 1 (Continued on page Two) Proud ‘Dixie’ May Never Float Again, Victim of Vicious Wind (Editor's Note: The Asuocialed Press reporter, who Wednesday made the flnt flight over the Dixie, again was In the air over the ship Thursday as the last passengers were removed. His story follows:) • • • By i. p. Mcknight MIAMI. Fla.. Sept. 5. l>IV-They got the last of the grounded Mor gan liner Dixie’s passengers ofi Thursday morning. A skeleton crew aboard her. the once proud ship sits disconsolate on French reef hurricane-batter ed listing to starboard, hard and fast and likely to remain so—an other tragic witness to the vlciou' ness of the Caribbean -urricanes. Wheather favored the rescue operations Thursday, in sharp contrast to Wednesday’s tumbling water and stiff breeze. While the sun peeped in and out. the coast guard patrol launch 185 slid smoothly back and forth, carrying the passengers to the waiting rescue vessels El Occident and Coast Guard Cutters Ca~ra bas*et and Pandora. As we flew around and around the grounded liner Thursday, the last of the passengers were being taken off. Smoothly, without incident, they came over the Dixie's high side and swiftly were ferried to the waiting El Occidente. A lifeboat piled high with bag gage came over the Dixie's side. It waa towed tc the Occidente hoist ed aboard. Immediately the rescue vessel got under way for Miami—writing finis to another maritime epic. Shipping men here say the Dixie will nexer float again. She towers out of the water four and one-half miles from shore and every wave, say the shipping men. settles her deeper into her sand bed. How many crew men were left aboard her nor hew long they would stay, could not be immed iately determined Woman Charged In Mother’s Slaying SAN ANTONIO. Sept 6. OFV— Miss Lois Green was charged with murder Thursday for the alleged beating to death of her mother. Mrs. Nettle E. Green. 76. head of the Christian Catholic Apostolic church. The complaint charged that Mrs. Green was beaten to death with a glass candle stick holder. The battered body of the church leader was found Wednesday at her home, adjacent to the Zion Taber nacle of the Sect Shortly afterward. Miss Green. 37. was found In a critical condition in a gas-filled room of the residence. itaiYbuys VALLEY OIL Duce’s Boats to Call At Port Isabel When 9 Pipeline Ready (Special to The Herald) . PORT ISABEL. Sept. 5.—The first 100.000 barrels of oil to flow through the pipeline from the Sam-1 fordyce field in western Hidalgo county will gc to the Italian govern ment, and will be taken from the port here on Italian ships in October or November, according to an nouncement by T. Prank Murchison, head of the oil interests developing facilities here to handle the Sam fordyce oil. Announcement was made at the same time that the 5000-barrel re finery of Murchison and associates will be completed by November 15. and that there will be on hand 150, 000 barrels of cil in storage by that time, in tanks here and at the field. The Wyatt Meta] and Boiler Works of Dallas has the construc tion contract on the tanks and refin ery, and is making rapid progress now, having construction almost completed on the storage tanks both (Continued on rage Two> Kenedy Road Bids Called for Sept. 24 Bids on the first project of the Kenedy county road construction, from Riviera in Kleberg county to Santa in Kenedy county, will be received by the Texas Highway com mission on September 24. accord ing to word received late Thursday by Judge Oscar C. Dancy. The information was contained in a telegram from Gib Gilchrist, highway engineer, who stated that the telegram was being sent at the request of Commissioner D. K. Martin. Approximately nine miles are in cluded In this first project, includ ing a bridge over Los Olmos creek. It is estimated that the cost of this first lap in the road so long sought by the Valley will run around $230,000. WPA IMPROVEMENT PROJECT OKEHED BY CITY OFFICIALS (8pec1a) to The Herald) SAN BENITO. Sept. 6—A third Works Progress Administration project 'or San Benito was ap proved jy the city commission at a meeting Wednesday night. This project would provide lor construc tion of 7300 feet of street sewers. 16.000 feet of open ditches and street grading. The other WPA projects request ed by the city commission call for rebuilding 30,000 feet of sanitary sewers, for cleaning of 40 blocks of sanitary sewers and for 125 blocks of open drains. The city also has an application for one Public Works administra tion project which would provide for paving ten blocks on Francis and Hicks streets. A loan and grant of $32,000 are being sought for this purpose. Property owners and the government would share in this work on a 55-45 basis, according to present plans. College Registration Will Begin Friday Registration of students in Brownsville Junior college for the fall semester will begin Friday and last through Saturday, it was an nounced Thursday by Superintend ent E. C. Dodd. New students in Junior high and high school also are urged to regis ter early. Registration of old pu pils tn Junior high and high school will be conducted Tuesday. Sept. 10. CONTRACT R $550,000 J B IS APPRO I D Work Also Will Begin Immediately On Rail Connection to Port Of Brownsville Construction work on the $550,000 terminal facilities at the Browns ville turning basin will get under way next week, members of the Brownsville Navigation dist r 1 c t commission announced upon their return to this city Thursday from Houston and Galveston. Announcement was made at the same time that satisfactory prog ress is now being made on the move to obtain an additional fund of $372,000 In the form of loan and grant from the PWA and premium on the district’s bonds, to* build still another wharf and warehouse at the turning basin. If the district obtains this money it will raise to $3,066,000 the total expenditure on the Brownsville port, exclusive of the $3,000,000 or f.iore spent by the government on the jetties and out er pais. Contract Approved The commissioners conferred in Houston Wednesday with Jay De F uy of San Antonio, whose bid of $495,000 on contract to build wharves and docks, at the turning basin here was low. They announced Thursday upon their return that “everything has been worked out satisfactorily, and the contract is as good as signed. Mr. DePuy will come here early next week, and will start at once on (Continued on Page Two) WILLACYFAIR WILL ENLARGE Livestock Show Planned In Connection With Exposition (Special to The Herald) RAYMONDVILLE, Sept. 5— A livestock show is being considered as f> new department for the second annual Willacy County Pair which is set for Thursday. Friday and Saturday. Nov. 21. 22. and 23. Ralph Hutchins. Willacy Couflty farm agent, is working on this part of the fair program and has fine prospects for obtaining a large num ber of entries. Many Willacy county citizens are interested In the live stock business. Cash prizes also are to be offered for the first time. The money for the cash awards will be raised ov a series of street dances the first of which will be presented Saturday night. The first fair held last year was so successful that it was decided to continue it as an annual affair. The (Continued on l*age Two) Storm Moves On Through Florida And Into Georgia Many Bodies Are Recovered And Taken To Morgue; Identification Difficult MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 5. (AP)—A report to Pan American Airways from Wray Gillette, operator of its emergency short wave radio set in the storm , stricken Florida Keys, said Thursday it was believed total deaths in the region would reach 700. ... MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 5. (AP)—A'report to Governor Sholtz from W. P. Mooty, the governor's personal representative in the storm zone, that casualties in the Keys "might reach 1,000," was characterised as "an absolute absurdity," Thursday by Leonard K. Thomson, chairman of the Red Cross disaster relief committee. "I have seen no reports as yet that would in fluence us to raise our estimate of death toll which is now between 270 to 300," Tt^pmson said. (Copyright, 1935, by Th« Associated Press) MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 5.—Relief officials estimated Thurs day that the tropical hurricane, sweeping terror and des truction across the Florida Keys, left in its path a death toll of from 200 to 500 and it “may reach 1,000.” W. P. Mooty advised his chief, Governor Dave Sholtz% from the center of the storm area that fatalities “may reach 1,000.” Other sources have placed the number at from 200 to 500, but the exact figure probably will not be known until communication, has been reestablished with many marooned points. ’HORRIBLE DISASTER’ “Words cannot describe the horrible disaster,” Mooty said in a telegram to the governor. “Everyone as far south as Carabee colony has been moved out. Injured first. Now moving dead, 50 so far. Rebuilding bridges to cross Snake Creek.” Snake Creek cuts off the Matecumbe Keys, where the death toll is expected to have been heaviest. Gov. Sholtz left by automobile to tour the devastated area. The hurricane, dwindling in its destructive powers, soared north through Georgia as Florida rescue corps quickly moved into the stricken regions where they were met by scenes of horror and desolation. ILDUCE FACES' LABOR BOYCOH Organized Working Men Of World May Step In If League Fails GENEVA. Sept. 6. —(JPh- Organ ised labor prepared Thursday to take up the Italo-Ethiopian problem as the League of Nations council, faced with uncompromising stands by the two nations Involved, re tired the matter momentarily to the status of private discussions. Italy indicated she would not meet Ethiopia on a basis of equal footing In the league She claimed Ethiopia was barbarous and unci vilized. The Ethiopians, on the other hand, suggested Italy wanted to settle their differences without regard to the standards of civiliza tion. It was understood the council may meet Friday and appoint a general committee of Inquiry. It would consider all aspects of the dispute between Italy and Ethio pia and prepare a plan of settle ment. ^ In the meantime, the word went out that the executive committee of the International Federation ol Trades Unions, meeting here Fri day, would discuss how organized •Continued on Page Two) ----— ‘Hell Down on the Keys’ Is Vividly Painted by Newsman _ ■■ ■ ■' — (Editor* Note: The following descriptive, vividly portraying the horror in the hnrrirane-levelled Florida Key*, wu written Thurs day for the Miami Daily News ana the Associated Press by Jack Bell, veteran Daily News column ist). • • • BY JACK BELL MIAMI. Fla., Sept. 5.—UP)— Down in the Keys this morning the sun shines serenely on the dead. A hurricane has come up from the south, whipped ssvagely at a few of old Mother Nature’! piti fully weak human beings, gone or, about its business—and hos pitals are filled with broken bodies dazed and uncomprehend ing survivors stare into nothing ness, and stiff, blackened forms lay along the shattered roods of Wtndly and Matecumbe Keys. They’re bringing out the dead now—what they’ve found of them. Ail day yesterday, while Miamians rejoiced because the winds went elsewhere, battered survivors from the Keys straggled out of the underbrush and remains of wreck ed houses. They huddled at the foot t' crumbled railway trestles waiting :or Intrepid pilots of tiny out boards to take them across swift tunning and treacherous water passages They limped along the ‘tagged roads on feet swollen and bruised, some with great gashes on their heads and bodies, wounds as yet uncared for. They waded thiough water almost waist-deep, over unseen rocks and holes, only *o learn that more waiting was their lot. All through Tuesday night and Wednesday the living struggled out of the hell down on the Keys toward the woefully Inadequate facilities at Snake Creek, which was as far as the relief workers on land could go with ambulance service. All Tuesday night a cne-armed pilot of a little out l>oard ran back and forth through tne dangerous tio of Windly. car rying the wounded veterans who had been In camp there. Yester day a few more men with their gallant little •’kikkers" came Into I (Continued on Page Twot Fifty-one bodies, few identified, ley in a morgue here, as the dif ficult mission of bringing aid to the Injured and marooned victims was speeded to the coastal regions where the storm was most severe. Countless Injured were reported strewn through the Keys, battered and tom through almost four days of swirling winds and rains Congressman J. Hardin Peterson at Lakeland telegraphed Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop kins for an investigation Into re ported deaths among war veterans In FERA work camps on upper and lower Matecumbe Keys. Demand Investigation A similar request went to Presi dent Roosevelt Wednesday night from the Miami Chamber of Com merce and the Coral Cattles post of the American Legion. The storm curled into Georgia with drenching rains and stiff winds, but damage In towns was mostly confined to fallen trees and signs. Extensive damage to peanut and pecan crops was reported In some localities. Weather bureaus at Thomasvills and Quitman reported wind velo city at between 35 and 45 miles an hour. The storm was expected to veer towards Macon and then whirl across Savannah, the Carolinas and out ot sea. Despite tom up railroads and washed away bridges. Red Cross and coast guard workers hurried their relief task on the stricken Florida Keys. "The next problem is to find and remove the bodiae* Coast Guard Commander H. O. Perkins said. State department of health offi cials said that the work of caring for survivor* of the hurricane on the upper end lower Matecumbe Keys was "pretty well in hand." The bodies In the morgue here were men. except for those of one (Continued on Page Two) TONIGHTS MOVIES OVER THE VALLEY Brownsville: The Cepltol — W. C. Fields and Mary Brian tn "The Man on the Flying Trapeze " The Dtttmaan Marten? Dietrich In “Scarlet Empress. San Benito The Rlvoll — Robert Young and Madge Evans In “Calm Yourself.” Harlingen The Arcadia—Jane With ers in "Qlnger.” The Rialto—Jamee Cagney and Ann Dvorak tn "O-Men.** La Ferta: The Bijou—Oeorge Raft and Alice Faye In “Every Night at Eight." Raymondville: The Ramon — Arltne Judge and Kent Taylor In “College Scandal” Donna: The Plaza—Shirley Temple and John Boles In “Curly Top.” San Juan4 The San Juan—Oeorge Raft and Alice Faye in "Every Night at Eight.” Mercedes; The Capitol—Robert Young and Madge Evans In **Oala Yourself. Weslaco: The Rita—Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke In "Silk Hat Kid." McAllen: The Palace—Ray Johnson and Nigel Bruce tn "Jains " The Queen —Charles Boyer and Merle Oberon tn “Thunder in the East " Mission The Mission — SaSu Pitta and Hugh O'Connell in “She Oete War Man ' Home^Delivered Circulation of The Brownsville Herald Is More Than Double That of Any Other Valley Newspaper