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j tlon !■ Audited | Circulation — Of fered la the Vaflaf Only by Tha Har akl “forty-fourth VEAR-No. 72 n- «* »**-«« » u» «i~ BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 19B» BIGHT PAGES TODAY . » 6« A C0PT. QkOl* t VALLEY 1_us* BY IALPH L. BUELL "VALLEY FRUIT ON ENO land's Tables” Is meeting with favor That's what Mrs. T. B. Raybun of San Antonio, recently returned from a visit to the tight little island Writes Ray Tolson of the Tolson - Davies company of Brownsville. Mrs. Raybun writes that she fc-nd "the delicious citrus fruit juices everywhere"— Also the canned grapefruit, Served in England proper and the ships going and coming. ^*1 found the Juices wonderful as a refreshing and nourishing drink or pick-me-up during the voyage and I really believe they prevented sea sickness,” she concludes. Mr. Tolson. along with others who make it their business to get this canned grapefruit Juice of ours spread over the world— Is naturally pleased with this; backing up of his Judgment. • • • WE OF THE VALLEY HAVT had our little say about the ship ment of green grapefruit. Now listen to what those on the other hand, who have to try to sell the stuff, think of it. The following paragraphs are quoted from a recent bulletin issued by the New York office of the Amer ican Fruit Growers, Inc. "In our bulletin of last week we outlined what we felt could be ex pected at this week’s sale • • • with few exception* the cargo lor the most part was Just a little too green to expect any worthwhile price*. "A few lots of exceptionally heavy fruit brought fair prices; others brought exactly what the quality merited. "We are really surprised that the trade took the cargo and quantity at the price range It dkl, but we would like to go on record now as elating that, with a similar quantity to be offered at next week's sale of the same kind of fruit— “Growers might Just as well pre pare for a great deal less right now, ""THE FRUIT FOR THE MOST part is beautiful in appearance "The grading Is good. "But it must be remembered that She ultimate use for the fruit Is for eating purposes. "And when it is devoid of Juke •'You are not only sticking the consumer on that particular sale— "BUT YOU ARE SPOILING HIS APPETITE FOR MORE GRAPE FRUIT.” m m m WISE CRACK OF THE WEEK must be credited to .he Nueces County deputy sheriff— Who remarked: “I think 111 go fishing again. I ought to lj able to catch a dead fish"— On being informed of the casual ties among the finny tribes off Bmzos and Padre islands. • • • THE ROAD TO MEXICO CITY ta open, high, wide and handsome. That’s the report of Jack Yea mans. manager of the Laredo Cham ber of Commerce, who checked and rechecked the road in person. Twenty-si* feet wide through the mountainous sections, the road Is reported by Yeaman*. to smooth and safe at all points A ’ of whlcb la good news to all of us who live on the border— And furnishes an added incentive to the Valley to do everything poasf>le TV> get our Reynosa-MOnterrev snd Matamoros - Victoria connec tions to that Mexico City road built. f AND if the rest of the Valley is getting the rain that Is pouring down right now— We art moved to remark that there Is such a thing ss too mucn of a good thing! Still, itt fine weather to be set ting out those ornamental shrubs •round your house— You know, the ones you have been going to set out for so long • time. To kind of beautify the home •rounds. Dredge Arrives at Brownsville Turning Basin SEA BROUGHT 14 MILES TO NEWEST PORT Dredge Texas, Digging Channel on Down to 26 Feet, 2.7 Miles From Basin The sea has come tc Brownsville. At 2 o’clock Wednesday morning the big hydraulic dredge Orleans, after almost a year cf steady work, crossed the line of the turning basin, arriving at “home base." Last fall the Orleans was welcom ed to the Valley by a delegation of Brownsville people headed by city and navigation district officials. She immediately started work on the channel, and has dredged 14 miles of channel to a depth of 13 feet. Texas Nearing Goal Back of the Orleans is the Texas, which is cutttag the channel on down to 26 feet. The Texas was 2.76 miles from the turning basin when the Orleans crossed the line. The Texas is owned by the Atlan tic, Gulf 6c Pacific company, con tractors on the big dredging Job; while the Orleans Is owned by the Standard Dredging company sub contractor. Continued rains and the fact that the dredge crossed the line at night caused cancellation of tentative plans of a welcome for the dredge upon its arrival at the turning basin. The turning basin will be dredged to a depth of 36 feet, and will be 1,000 by 1.300 feet at the bottom. To Dredge 7 SOO Feet According to figures furnished The Herald by the 0. S. engineer office in the federal building here the amount of dredging required to complete the channel is equivalent to 7,800 feet of channel dredging. In view of the position of the dredges it will likely be a race between the Orleans and Texas to see whether the Orleans completes the turning basin by the time the Texas gets to the line. Competition between the two big dredges has been keen since they started the Job. and Captain C. D. Scarborough of the Orleans once remarked “we will meet them going back ’’ 50-YEARTERM GIVEN GARZA San Benito Father Of Five Found Guilty Of Assault Try One of the heaviest sentences Im posed by a Cameron county Jury In recent vears was assessed Victor Garza. *33. San Benito father of five. In criminal district court Tues day afternoon when he was found guilty of attempting to assault Mrs. Louis Schmidt at her San Benito home April 7. The Jury was out only a short while in finding Garza guilty and assessing his punishment at 50 years in the state penitentiary. Mrs. Schmidt took the stand as the state's chief witness and posi tively identified Garza as the man who attempted to assault her. According to testimony, the man appeared in her bedroom as she was preparing to retire for the night. Her assailant dragged her to the lawn, and then was frightened away by the family dog and neighbors, the witness told tne jurors. The following day Mrs. Schmidt saw Garza as he was mowing a lawn in San Benito and he was ar CSee AS8AULT on Page 2) BIDS ON KENEDY HIGHWAY OPENED BY STATE BOARD The movement to close the Ken edy county gap In the Hug-the Coast Highway came nearer real ization Tuesday when the state highway commission announced that Heldenfels Bros, of Rockport was low bidder on 8.7 miles of grading and structures between Sarita and Rivera. The bid was fir $21,164. It Is expected by road leaders in this section that work order on this project will be issued soon. The Rockport firm also was low bidder on the Los Olmos bridge be tween Kenedy and Kleberg coun ties. The bid was $29,244. The state highway commission recently set aside $75,000 to be used in dosing the Kenedy gap. Lenox Avenue Sleeps Off Hangover; Dempsey Says Louis in Class by Self Hot Dog! Yeah, Man! Harlem Trudges Home at Dawn After Night of Celebrating NEW YORK, Sept 25. <AP)—Harlem neighbors trudged home at dawn Wednesday to sleep off a terrific hangover, scrambling their drawling rhetoric with easy abandon aa they sang in praise of Joe Louis’ whacking of Max Baer. “Hot dog! Yeah, man! Lem me on!* Until sun-up the celebrants along Lenox Avenue, main street of New York’s negro colony, danced in the streets, snake-danced and Jigged and clogged, knocked over ashcans, and sang and Mew bugles and rolled drums. They couldn't hall Hero Louis in person. He and his bride remained at home. Hullabaloo In the hidden rsndexvoua of the side streets, patronised only by recognised Harlemites, made up for comparative quiet in the better known clubs snd taverns. The walls of the niches resounded with drink - filled laughter and song snd the floors groaned under shuffling, tune-bound feet—all for the pride in the prowess of a negro boy from Lafayette, Ala., who started his career aa a lugger of ice cakes around a refrigerating plant Harlem listened to the fight In saloon, fen parlor and on street corner. The knockout touched off aa explosion of pent up Joy. Small boys scurried down the rtreet shout ing. Men and women grabbed each other in the street and swung round and round. Old Mauler Says There Isn’t One Heavyweight In Sight Who Can Beat Bomber NEW YORK. Sept. 25. (API-Jack Dempsey, who seconded his “pal,” Max Baer, thinks there is no heavyweight in sight with a chance to beat Joe Louis. “Louis is good, there’s no doubt about that,” mid the former world champion Wednesday. “It will take a really g^at fighter to beat him and there’s no one around now capable of turning the trick.” Keenly disappointed by his protege’s showing, Dempsey declared that “Baer is all washed up.” ”1 told him he ought to quit,” added the Old Mauler. “He simply hasn’t got It any more. “I tent Baer out there to fight, not box, but he wouldn’t open up, except in one or two brief spurts. Between rounds I urged him to keep slugging. He didn’t do It and he couldn’t even explain why he wasn’t following instructions. “At the finish, he was knocked absolutely sense less. He didn’t know where he was when we drag ged him back to the corner.” Asked what he thought his own chances against Louis would have been, in his prime, Dempeey grinned and replied: ”Well. I’d have kept punching with him, doing the best I could ” The former champion left the Impression he thought he might have had quite a pleasant punch ing party with the Brown Bomber. His parting shot, however, was: “I’m glad I’m In the restaurant business now." VICTORIA ROAD FUNDS OFFERED Bank In Mexico City Make* Offer to Governor To Finance Deal An offer to advance funds to pave the Mat amcros-Victoria highway has been made to Governor Canseco of Tamaulipas by the Banco Refaccion ario de Obras Publlcas of Mexico City, according to announcement received by the Brownsville Cham ber of Commerce. The announcement came from Ruben Martinez of Mat&moros, who received advices from Victoria. The bank offers to advance the money provided the state gasoline tax is set aside to repay it. The pro ceeds from this tax are now used in the general fund of the state. It is believed that with construc tion of the road traffic over it will be great enough to bring about re payment erf the money in a fairly short period. Arrangements were being made Wednesday for a conference to be held In Victoria some time in Octo ber on the matter. City and cham ber of commerce officials from Matamoros. Tampico. San Fernan do. and Victoria will be at the meet ing, and the attitude of Governor Canseco is expected to be revealed at that time. The new governor, who succeeded Dr. Rafael Villareal. Is known to be in favor of the Matamoros-Victoria highway. The Banco Refacdonarlo de Ob ras Publicas in Mexico holds some thing of the p rest ion of the Recon iBee VICTORIA On Page Two) Valley M. P. Chief Get* Safety Award The silver loving cup awarded Texas lines of the Missouri Pacific Transportation company for the best safety record during the year has been received here by Harry Rob erts manager of the line* in the Val ley, and is cn display at the city ticket office of the Missouri Paci fic. Presented by the St. Louis office of the company, the cup was award ed on the basis of the greatest per centage of Improvement in the safety record of the six competing divisions. "The Texas division is proud of it* record and proud of the cup that has been given us," Roberts said Wednesday. "We are going to do our best to keep it in the Texas division of the Missouri Pacific Transporta tion company." Blazing Mfell Saved By Valley Driller (Special to Tbs Herald) MISSION. Sept. 25.— Gordon Johnson, driller, Tuesday prevented % disastrous fire and saved a 120.000 Diesel rig at the Harrlson-Dsvis Bishop’s No. 4 Francisco Guerra in the Samfordyce oil field. When drillers returned so the well, in production for a week, they found pita afire and flame* be neath the derrick. Johnson wrap ped himself in a wet blanket and crawled under the derrick to shut off the well. Origin of the blase is a mystery. BENGSONCASE IS REOPENED Several Arrests Made By Mexican Chief Of Detectives New light may be shed on the Bfflng earlier this par near Mata moros of Ray & Bengson. young geologist living in Brownsville, as a result of arrests lust made by Mexican federal officers assisting In the investigation. As a result of wort. Mexi can Chief of Detectives Valente Quintana of Mexico City, now la in Matamoros working on the case. A ballistic examination by an expert in Mexioo City of one of the bul lets which struck young Bengson. and one fired from a gun seized by officers led to the re-arrest of the suspect, who la now being held pending further investigation. No charge has been filed against him. All the suspects previously head had been released. Bengson. geo-physicist for the Titan La Oil company, which Is a subsidiary of the Huasteca « U company, was carrying 800 pesos to the company's camp west of Matamoros when he met death. He was shot several times, and the money was taken. Some of the money was recover ed by offioers, and several arrests made, but all suspects had been released. Coal Strike Board Remains Deadlocked WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. UPh Soft coal miners and operators re mained deadlocked in their wage negotiations Wednesday es the United Mine Workers continued a widespread strike they began Mon day morning. The negotiating committee gath ered for another session, but there was no indication of an imme diate break in the impasse. "No progress" was the report Van A. Bitner, southern West Virginia district president of the mine union, made as he emerged from the con ference room Friday night. 4TH COURT OF APPEALS (Special to The Herald) SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 25 — Acting on an appeal of the Firestcoe Tire end Rubber company versus L. P. Inman from Hidalgo county, the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals Wed nesday granted an agreed motion to dismiss. In another Hidalgo case. Dayle L. Smith versus Mamie Olosner Grif fin et vir, motion for writ of cer tiorari was granted and attached certified copy of record ordered filed. LEGION TAKES DIG AT SOVIET Veto Ask U. S. to Take Back Recognition Of Nation MUNICIPAL, AUDITORIUM. St Louis, Sept. 36.—(A*)—The American Legion Wednesday asked the Unit ed States to withdraw its recogni tion of soviet Russia. relegates cheered as J. J. Tomey of Massachusetts, chairman of the committee on Americanism trade, offered the resolution. After commending legislation for national defense passed by the last congress, the convention adopted a (See LEGION on page Two) --— ITALY GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO AVERT WAR Britain Answers Duce’s Peace Loophole With Assertion She Wants No Conflict ROME. Sept. 25.—OP}—The Italian government announced in an offi cial communique Wednesday that Sir Samuel Hoere. British foreign minister, had told Premier Mussoli ni of Italy that Great Britain was "particularly desirous of eliminating all useless misunderstanding be tween the two countries." The communique said this state ment was a personal message de livered to H Duce through Sir Eric Drummond, the British Am bassador to Rome, Monday. •Friendly to Italy* The official announcement stated that Italy never would be the first to transfer the Italo-Ethiopian con flict to Europe. 8ir Samuel Hoare was stated to have expressed himself in his mes sage to Mussolini as ‘ %n old friend of Italy." H Duce responded, ask ing Ambassador Drummond to make it known in London that he appreciated Sir Samuel's communi cation. The communique added that Sir Samuel’s message will "be appre ciated by the public opinion of Italy" because official and unofficial declarations have explained many times that Italy "has not and does not wish to have any differences with England—the difference which exists is between Italy and Ethiopia." The colonial character of this dif ference is so evident, said the com munique. that "it seems impossible and absurd in the eyes of every man of good common seme to transpose it to the European seeton in such fashion as to alter Italo-British re lations." The communique added: "In any event, it will never be Italy which ail! make the first step In this direction. British public opinion ought to be convinced of this and take note of it." Political sources interpreted th£ communique as a strong bid for British neutrality in the impending (See ITALY on Page 2) Bonds Mean Taxes, Civic Improvements Mean Bonds Half of Taxes Now Levied Go For the Retirement of Bond Issues By RALPH L. BUELL (EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the third of a aeries of articles dis cussing the tax problems of Cameron county.) If the student of Cameron county’s tax situation comes to the con clusion that "we got that way" through issuing bonds, he would not be far wrong. The assertion may be safely made that from one-third to more than one-half of the faxes we pay go to retire these bond issues. In other words to pay interest an the money we borrowed and to repay at least some of the principal every year. For instance, Cameron county * levy for the current year has been set at $122, of which amount 70c ia to taka care of bond issues, and the re mainder to take care of the operations of the county. And if Cameron county had not consummated a refunding agreemusa with Its principal bond holders whereby a reduction in Interest was granted for a few years, the levy to take care of bonds would be still greater. City of Harlingen, last year had a tax rate of $180. of which 85c. more than one-third, was for bonds. San Benitos last year s rate was $280. .— - - ■ * A. J. Kuenster, 69, Dies At San Benito SAN BENITO, Sept. 25 —Albert J. Kuenster, 09, retired druggist who has lived in San Benito for the past five yemrs, died at 10:15 o’clock Tuesday night while playing chess In the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. W. Diehl, 451 South Bonham street. A heart attack was given as the cause df death. He Is survived by two other daughters, Mrs, A. C. Bollinger of Waterloo, 111., and Mrs. Louis Schmidt of Long Beach, Cal. In event the body Is sent to the old home at Waterloo for burial, short services will be held Wednes day afternoon at 4:20 from Thomp son's mortuary, and the body for warded Wednesday night. Other wise funeral services will be held In San Benito Thursday. Constable Charged JARRELL Sept. 25. —(*>— Con stable J. W. Thomas was unoer charges of murder Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting Tuesday night of finest Koonts in a beer parlor here. D. B. Wood, district attorney, said the shooting grew out of a l'mg standtng disagreement Between Koonts and Thomas split just exactly 50-50 between bonds and maintenance and opera tiona, $1.35 for each. Bonds Mean Taxes Brownsville Independent school district levies the constitutional limit of $1 on the $100 valuation. All the taxes collected by the dis trict are split 43-57 for bonds and maintenance and operations. That is. | for every $100 collected, $43 goes In the Interest and sinking fund pot to take care of bond issues, leaving the district $57 for opera tions. These tax levies may be taken as typical of those levied by the other political subdivisions of the county.! In some instances the proportion go. lng to bonds will be higher, In some lower, but it will probably average out that right close to 50 per cent of the taxes paid in Cameron coun ty go to pay back the money we borrowed to build city halls, roads, schools and the like. Bond Issues make taxes. One would think that axiom would be Indelibly written in the thoughts and minds of every property owner of the Valley. Civic improvements bring on bend issues, therefore, civic improvements make taxes. Another axiom that the Valley should well know by now. But do we realise it? There are times when one is prone to think that none of us know what rflee TAXES on Page Seven > DIFFERENT j Just to be different, Miss Dorothy Wilson didn’t wear a distracting fown or hat when she showed this Russian ermine evening wrap (price 110.000) in preview of winter for styles in New_ York. CITRUS PLAN ISO I Miller And Directors Of Exchange to Hold Meeting (Special to The Her?Id) HARLINGEN, Sept. 25 —Confer ence* between officials of the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchanges, its marketing agency, the National Fruit dt Vegetable Exchange, and Banks L. Miller will be held during the next few days to discuss the proposed Miller plan ol market ing Valley citrus. Miller met at Weslao Tuesday afternoon with directors of the Ex change and discussed the situation. Th« director* expressed themselves willing to cooperate in any move that would help the grower. *nd named H. H. Banker, the exchange presi dent. and F. E. Embree. sales man ager here for the National, to confer with Miller on the matter. The exchange is under contract no*’ with the National Fruit Sc Vegetable exchange for marketing of its fruit for the coming season. Banker, at the request of the Tex as Citrus Growers League and oth ers. has been urging growers and the cooperatives to Join in a plan of sell ing all fruit through one corpora tion. which would be known as the Texas Citrus Sales Corporation. He states that this corporation must control at least 75 per cent of the output- - ^ ... Embree. Miller, and Banker held a brief conference Tuesday eve ning. and will meet again soon. ANOTHER BROWNSVILLE MEETING CALLED Unfavorable weather cut down st tendance at the meeting of El Jar din citrus growers at the school building there Tuesday night, and another meeting is to be held Wed (See CITRUS On Page Two) BENEFICIAL RAINS CONTINUE TO FALL ALL OVER VALLEY The Valley continued to receive beneficial rainfall Tuesday night and Wednesday, with precipitation ranging from .16 during the night at Brownsville to 1.78 during Tues day night at Hidalgo. Brownsville received another M Inch Wednesday morning and it continued to shower up to noon The following cities reported rain fall Tuesday night: Rio Grande City .30, Hidalgo 1.76, Mercedes JO and Brownsville .16. The Rio Grande continued to rise slowly from Mercedes do-.ro and to fall slowly from Mercedes up Tuesday morning as the result o: a rise in the San Juan river in Mexico. Brownsville, where flood stage is 18 feet, showed a stage of 17.1 Wednesday morning; Mercedes where flood stage la 21 feet, ta-d 19.4 Wed. sday. Weather Observer W J. Schnur busch predicted Wednesday the river will change very little in the Valley during the next 24 hours, and may rise slightly from Rio Grande City up during the next. 34 to 36 hours. BOTH CORPUS AND ROBSTOWN AGAINST CUT Competing Distr i c 11 Fight to Maintain Advantage In Rates Over Valley WASHINGTON, Sept. 36.—m— An interstate Commerce Commission spokesman expressed uncertainty Wednesday on whether reduced vegetable freight rates from the Lover Rio c rande Valley of Texas \.*auld become effective on Septem ber 30 as previously ordered. The commission said protests had been received from Corpus Christl and Robstown that the propaeed rate changes from those points still were not low enough, compered with changes from the Brownsville dis trict. The commission suspension board would have final determination of the effective date of the new sched ule for all three areas. The board has until Sunday to decide whether, because of the protest, to suspend the schedule temporarily pending a hearing. Such a hearing probably would be held in some South Texas city. The commission spokesman said the new schedule called for little changes In rates from Carpus Chrtt tl, some reductions from Robstown and greater decreases from Browns ville. At the rate hearing held several months ago. Corpus Christ! with drew her protests against reduction of freight rates from the Valley on a compromise plan whereby the Valley agreed to slight Increases in freight on cabbage and decrease! on practically all other commodi ties. This hearing was between the Valley's differential committee com posed of growers and shippers, and representatives of the Missouri Pa cific and Southern Pacific rail roads. The Interstate Commerce Com mission. however, ruled later that the Valley was entitled to the rate reduction and that the proposed increased rates on cabbage were un fair, and awarded me Valley a gen eral freight reduction amounting *o removal of the long-fought Robe town differential. Valley growers and shippers esti mated that the rates, which would have become effective September 10 except for the protests from the Valley's oompeting areas. Corpus Christ! and Robstown. would have saved this section approximately $1,000,000 annually on the cost of getting its vegetables to eastern and northern markets by rail Two Storms Still Lashing Caribbean JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Sept, 25. 4*i—The weather bureau Wednes day Issued the following storm warning: -Advisory 10 a. m, meager re ports Indicate tropical disturbance between 300 and 350 miles south west of Kingston. Jamaica, appar ently with considerably diminished rate of movement but still attend ed by shifting gales and probably winds of hurricane force over small area near center. Future direction of movement uncertain. Caution ad vised vessels In western Caribbean next 24 hours. “Advisory S a. m. (issued at San Juan, Puerto Ricoi, tropical dis turbance of moderate Intensity cen tral Wednesday morning r bout 100 miles south of Mona passage mov ing west northwestward about 13 miles per hour. Caution advised vessels south of Dominican republic next 24 hours TONIGHT’S MOVIES OVER THE VALLEY ....... . Brownsville: The Capitol—Laurel and Hardy in "Bonnie Scotland.** The Queen—Paul Muni. Oeorge Raft and Ann Dvorak In "Scarface ’’ The Dttt mann—Ben Lyon and tt-tck von Stro helm In "Crimson Romance " San Benito: The Rlvoli—Laurel and Hardy In "Bonnie Scotland." Harlingen' The Arcadia—Laurel and Hardy In "Bonnie Scotland.** The Rial* to—Dolores Del Rio Pet O’Brien end Edward Everett Horton in "In Cal* lente “ La Perla: The Bijou—Helen Oahagan and Randolph Scott In "She." Raymond! tile: The Ramon—Siam Land! and Kent Taylor In "Without Regret " Donna: The Plasa—Katharine Hep* bum In "Alice Adams." San Juan: The San Juan—Douglas Montgomery and Evelyn Venable in "Harmony Lane." Mercedes: The Capitol—Bette Davis and Oeorge Brent in "Front Page Wo* man.** Weslaco- The Rite—Bette Davis and Oeorte Brent In "Pront Page Woman.** McAllen The Palace—Oeorge Brent and Bette Davis in "Special Agent.” The Queen-Dolores Del Rio. Pet O’Brien and Edward Everett Horton la "In Cal* lente.” Mission - The Mtsaloa-Oreta Qarbo and Frederic March In "Anna Karenina." ^Delivered Circulation of The Brownsville Herald Is More Than Double That of Any Other Valley INewspaper I