The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 317, Ed. 2 Wednesday, May 23, 1928 Page: 1 of 12
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Paint* Vami*Ke«
Enamel
and Accessories
Delivered on Phone Call
. Putegnat Company
Brownsville Texas
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Thirty-sixth year—No. 317 . Brownsville Texas Wednesday may 231928 twelve pages today 5c a copy;
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FINAL
“EDITION
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■' “THERE’S a reason."
*’ For the unexpected slowness of the
F. potato market of tne rapiilly fading
** spring*
g Every reason under the moon hn-
irehcen given heretofore. And now one
J- comes out of New York City that
hi seems to answer the question; In
ar fact to be the reason
lib It came in a circular letter wnt-
I t ten by a New York produce distrib-
utor. a copv of which ha« been rc-
on reived by Cleve Tandy of Browns-
rvo .. tt
Here it is;
m I "The fashion of ihe day i* »•'
diilcnder. Everybody is striving
emlchieve a rylph-like form
out “The craze is not confined to
■ lung folks; the older one* orho
•d^nuld know better arr forever
* ok mg to fight off obesity.
Potatoes are generally crc'btm
Vh m *> adding fat. In man . homos
iwanity nre ruled off the table.
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lis ©“WITH THOUSANDS of reople in
sorjeienced hy the same though^ it is
B- 'ind to have a harmful effect on
R- nsumption. rotate grower will
nt mplv have to abide their time and
t>rf tit for a change in ihe fashion.
“A few year* hence the plump
f*iai<!en ma- be the p-cferred
thereupon potatoes will once more
Become popular."
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o NOW. WE’LL WAGER a lot of
1 rowers out ih FI Jardin and Lo»
I 'resnos and nearer Browns v-.Me
\ ever have thought about that bus-
ness of fashion having anything to
1t:'o with the consumption of pota-
- ties.
te But the New Yirke-'s interpreta-
Cltion of the situation may have a lot
th tf foundation to it.
eh Then it seems to be up to the
iotato men generally not only in
fr Texas but in Wisconsin Nehraska.
£ Colorado. Florida an I eHewher* to
L dig into a potato ascertain its prop-
■ erties. or the effect upon ph
C well being thus to show how it will
Bl do one good instead of harm to eat
^^•potatoes. (
Wjsi we can have an “Eat More
fO Potatoes Week." thus adding one to
• Fthe thousand and one different
«f “weeks" over the eoun’ry.
Anyhow the New York produee
ti* man’s thought is worth some porder-
"«lng down here in the Lower Hie
'Grande Valley of T-vaa.
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|* TN THE MEANTIME. the Cameron
C^oounty potato district have shipp'
Often© 1400 carloads of r<tntoes this
season.
• At prices ranging from two and a
| J eusrter to *bout fpur Rnd a ha1'
Scents per pound. wth mhch of it
ooing at around three cents.
L About 25.000 pounds of potatoes t«
P fhe car.
’« Which qjeans that Cameron county
c said to be the premier potato count-
' of the nation this year has shipped
gbout 35000.000 pound* of potatoe*.
b. That’s about a pound for every
he fhird citizen in the United States
jpo If the figures are Tight the g-ow
itocly 0f this county have received
mr* .mewhere around Sl.000.o00 for
.eir potato crop.
* They have spent around 5150.000
for seed potatoes.
* Which leaves a gross profit of
f*:>0.000. Out of that come* the
1 planting harvesting and other labor
•osts cost of sacks interest on loans.
Jr »nd so on.
Now that we’ve carried the fig
\ rcs thus far. we’H leave it to the
’ rowers themselves to determine
he profit of the crop.
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'f WAS. NAT WETZEL is quite proud
* her membership in the Women’
dvertising club of Houston
Has just recently been added to
• list of members.
And attended the “Torchbenre-
nner” given by the club to honor
Mellie F*person Ftew irt a*
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An. LATE BULLETINS
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A STEWART TRIAL SET FOR MAY 31
Aon* m IfSlflNGTON Ms> -'3.— —fr I . f Ro'rrl W. Stewart chairman of
• hoard of the Indiana Standard Oil company. »»n 'lav 31 for refusine
f answer questions a*k«d by the senate Teapot Dome committee was set
_ day hy Justice Sid'nna in Distr t of ( <!<imhU supreme court. The
I .ii(-e set the date after rcieclins the oil man’s fourth plea that his in-
^•Jirtment he set aside.
mi GARDNER. NEGRO. LEADS BIM0NIST8 ROME
®r' * MIDDLETON. N. 3.. Vav 2- ' Gcrdrer Seattle nejrro paced
* transcontinental foot ra r frr • i L ertv to the 81ft control here to-
JP y covering th* 38 rr lea in 6 (12 ■>!* » ardner entrenched himself in
ki iiFth pl*v« with an eIaJ 1 1 Dtne of 644. .. :20 for 3327.4 miles.
jELl LINDA’ DEI \VS ATLANTIC HOP. FORD INFORMED
Brow DETROIT. May 2 5.— —I he Ford Motor company has been notified
A Colonel Charles A. Lirdhcrch ll he has decided to postpone a project-
»l I- Iran'* Atlantic flicrht hi »*.<> of Greenland and Ireland for 60 to 80 days
to ” has announced today at the offices of A' illiam B. 'laxo. chief engineer
Coa the Ford company. i he I ord company is expected to cooperate In the
**• lenakinC
FOUR DROWNED AS L'l NTH SINKS IN LOUISIANA
W NEW IRLRIA. La . May 2 P—Four per-ons sere drowned and two
ere saved *"hcn their launch sank in lai .e Dauterive near here yesterday.
[• ’j e dead are: Sidney Mestayer .ird C. A. Jordan of Loreauville a man
\ 1 lined Boyd of Crowley and mother named Taylor from the Spindle Top
I l fields in Texas. Thier bod es have not been recovered.
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It at RETAILERS TO COME TO SAN BENITO
WICHITA FALLS I May 21.—• " —L. AV. Beavens of Fort Worth
’TEV elected president of the Retail Aterrhants Association of Texas at the
fnint convention session of that association with the Associated Re-
ilHilSedit Men of Texas and the Texas Retail Credit Bureaus Wednesday.
RP T Benito waa selected as the convention city for 193ft.
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BLASTS IN 3
I OTHER MINES
ADD TO TOTAL
164 Bodies Taken Out
Of Mather Shaft;
Search Continues for
33 Still Los*:
f By The Associated Press)
Indications were today that 221
workers had hist their lives In four
mine accidents since Saturday as
follows:
Mather. Pa.—Coal mine explosion;
Hit known dead; 33 missing.
) ukon. W. Va.—Coal mine explo-
sion; 13 known dead; 4 missing.
Harlan. Ky.—Coal mine explosion;
17 dead; 1 missing.
Kimberly Nev.—Copper mine cave-
in; four dead.
Rescue Work Is
Slowed In Mather
MATHER Pa. May 23.-(^»i-The
: bodies of 164 victims of the Mather
! mine disaster had been recovered
j trout the explosion-swept workings
today as rescue men continued their
-earth for 33 missing men. One hun-
dred and fifty two of the bodies were
identified five unidentified and sev-
en held at the bottom of the main
shaft to he brought to the surface
later in the day.
Rescue work wm slowed up to a
great extend wherr rescue men were
I .ffected by odors in the underground
vorkings. Many of the bodies recov-
(Continued on pegs ten.)
49 GALLONS OF
LIQUOR TAKEN
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Customs Men Capture
Pack Train Near
Point Isabel
) pack train carrying a cargo of 49
gallons of liquor was captured early
Wednesday morning by Mounted In-
pectors of Customs R. L. Campbel
Vlphonso Champion and Wm. Shears
rear the old wireless station on the
out-kirt* of Point Isabel.
Two Mexican nationals were placed
nder arrest and two others escaped.
The entire train including four
horses with pack saddles was cap-
tured.
Inc cargo consisted of four 5-gal-
lon carboys of mescal. 205 pint bottles
of c cal and 24 quart bottles of
habanero.
Fhe Mexicans swam their horses
-s the flooded Rio Grande at
• pe nt near the old oil well and
lowed the trail over the sand
r ges to Point Isabel. The officers
surprised the train while the four
"ire unloading the cargo. Two of
he Mexicans jumped onto two of the
h - from which the liquor packs
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GRADUATING CLASS OF THE WESLACO HIGH SCHOOL FOR 1928 j
—-Photo by Sheldon Studio
Pictured here are the 43 seniors of the Weslaco high school of 192R who were to receive diplomas from that institution. Left to right they
are: First row Nell Whitehead Pauline McCalap Mary Lillian War?; Second row Norma Van Vliete Joy Wilson Thelma Hendrickson
Estelle Wiessinger Mildred Meek; Third row Jane Stebbins Mavin Mirtin Irene Richardson Lucille Griffith Eloce Music Eula Mae Simms;
Fourth row. Jewel Watson. Julia Lee Board Lila Yarbrough Katherinz Stolz Elizabeth Whitson. Elizabeth Moore. Honora Griffin Lela Bell
Simms Hazel Bennet; Fifth row Garland Carr Kenneth Fiandt. Irvin? Ault Fields Hampton Floyd Whitaker; Sixth row Conrad Yoight
J. A. Emery Edward Eniss R. B. Farris J. H. Head Angel Gonzalez.
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PAVING BIDS
ON MILITARY
ROAD CALLED
Southmost Road Also
Included In Projects
Listed for Immediate
Construction
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Contracts for paving the military j
ami Sonthmost roads will be award- j
ed Thursday June 21.
An order issued Tuesday by the
Cameron county commissioners court
calls for bids on 46.8 miles’of pav j
ing. including the projects in all 1
precincts of the county. The notice
published on May 14 calling for bids
on June 13 in all precincts other
than the Brownsville precinct was
formally rescinded and all projects
will 6e covered at one letting.
The military road from the
Brownsville city limits to the west
line of precinct No. 2. approximate-
ly 9.4 miles will be the first con-
struction in the Brownsville pre-
cinct. Completion of this road will
he followed by paving of the South-
most road from Brownsville city
limits to Southpoint approximated
7.2 miles. The two projects make
a total of 16.6 miles in the Browns-
ville precinct. The military road
will be 18 feet in widthh the South-
most road 16 feet.
Grades and structures on both
roads were completed several months
ago. and the grades are in excellent
shape for paving. As railway dumps
will he available in close proximity
to both roads the paving is expect-
ed to be completed in record time.
Paving projects in other precincts
include:
Point Isabel-Los Fresnos Precinct
—Old Alice road from state highway
N'o. 100 to the San Jose ranch road
approximately 4 miles; Paredes line
road from state highway No. 100 to
San Jose ranch road approximately
4 miles.
San Benito Precinct—BIu«*town
and military roads from end of prea-
(Continued on page three.)
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Leaders Doubt
A bility To Pass
Act In Congress
WASHINGTON. May 23.—t>Ps—'
President Coolidge today vetoed the
McNary-Haugen farm relief bill.
Thus for the second *ime in ns
PLAN BORDER”
AIR SERVICE
Begin Northern Route
Soon; Rio Grande
Lane Later
ST. LOUIS May 23.— i!?\—Inaugu-
ration of a twice-a-day passenger j
service between St. Louis and Chica- j
go and later establishment of routes
to Omaha and the Mexican border
was announced today by the Robert-
son Aircraft corporation.
With four fourteen-passenger all
metal tri-motored airplanes ordered
the corporation which has expanded
its capitalization to a million dollars
expects to start the Chicago service
about August 1.
Service to Omaha will start as soon
as the air mail route can be lighted
probably about six months hence.
Negotiations are also going forward
to establish a line to Dallas and the
border and the company hopes later
to establish a line to Mexico City
Arnold Stifel who will head the com-
pany said.
The Omaha line will connect with
passenger lines to the Southwest at |
Kansas City and the West at Omaha i
The Chicago route will link up with
passenger service east.
Waiting stations at each terminal
are planned with restaurants for the
conver;ence of the pav en?er« »<
well as express pasesnger and in- 1
surance office*. I
I many years Mr. Coolidge has dis-
approved a farm plan embodying the
equalization fee machinery for sur-
plus crop control.
Whether there will he any farm
relief enacted this season now is up
to congress. The house and renate
have a choice of repassing the biil
without the equalization fee. in the
hope of winning presidential favor
or of attempting enactment of the
measure as it stands by over-riding
Hr. Coolidge's veto.
There is much doubt that the lat-
ter course would prove successful.
The president vetoed the bill on
the grounds of constitutionality and
because the “so-called equalization
fee and other features of the old
measure are still prejudicial in ny
opinion to sound public policy nd
to agriculture.”
The veto draws the issue between
the president and the farm group in
congress more tightly than it ever
has been and unless some further
action is taken at the capitol will
place the agricultural question be-
fore the coming presidential con-
ventions as an outstanding contro-
versy.
Frank C. Lowden is one of the
bill's most outspoken champions.
Vice President Dawes favors it and
Senator Curtis of Kansas and Sen-
ator Watson of Indiana have voted
for it.
Secretary Hoover has been regard-
ed as standing with the president
on farm relief.
The senate would have to muster
a two-thirds vote to pass the bill
over Mr. Coolidge's veto. This ses-
sion the senate passed it by a vote
of 63 to 23. or slighlty more thrtn
the necessary two-thirds. In the
house the measure was approved
2044 to 121 cr slightly less than
two-thirds.
Its consideration In both houses
was enlivened by a discussion rf its
possible effect on the forthcoming
presidenlail campaign the names
(Continued on page ten.)
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MOODY IDEAS
PLATFORM
OFFERED DEMS
Minority Reports Are
Made By Johnson
And Colquitt; Tol-
eration Included
BEAUMONT Texas May 2S.—1/*»)
—A platform containing the prohi-
bition principles promulgated by
Governor Moody’s harmony demo-
crats was reported to the state dem-
ocratic convention Wednesday by
the platform ard resolutions com-
mittee headed by E. S. Sterling of
Houston chairman of the state high-
way commission.
Minority reports were prepared by
Highway Commissioner Cone John-
son who deserted the Tom Love
ultra dry camp yesterday for the
victorious Moody group and by
former Governor O. B- « olquitt.
So action had been taken on the
reports.
Mr. Johnson's report recommend-
ed that the "constitutional" or Love
democrats stand on prohibition be
adopted in preference to the Moody
principles.
Mr. Colquitt's report contained a
resolution seeking to instruct the
Texas delegation to the national con-
vention against Governor Smith for
president.
The majority platform report
called foj religious toleration and
freedom and urged that no person he
discriminated against because of his
religion. The republican party was
scourged especially for its high
tariff policy. This report recom-
mended remedial agricultural legis-
lation.
Resolutions were offered in nc-
moriam to William J. Bryan com-
mending Jesse H. Jones of Houston
for his service in the national
councils and offering him as “suit-
able in every way for the highest
office within the gift of the people
(Continued on page ten>
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80-ACRE 'PATCH’ IN
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ASPARAGUS NEW
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WILLACY ‘STUNT’
RAYMONDVILLK. May 23—W.
A. Harding is having eighty acres
planted in asparagus this week
which is probably the biggest as-
paragus patch in South Texas. The
patch is located seventeen miles
west of here near Hargill. on what
is known as the Mestenas tract.
Tom Ogilvie. a veteran asparagus
culturist. has charge of the work
and he states that conditions here
are better suited to the culture of
asparagus than in any place he has
ever seen.
The seed bed wss put out last
July and Mr. Ogilvie states that he
expects to get a good crop within
one year from this planting. Usual-
ly it requires a period of three
years between putting out the seed
bed and harvesting a crop but the
plants will continue to grow for
years. Mr. Ogilvie is now harvest-
ing asparagus from a small acreage
on the Mestenas tract. whieh he put
out last October and his experi-
ence with this small patch has
shown him what he may expect here
from his new venture.
W. A. Harding is enthusiastic
over the outlook for asparagus
here and states that his big tractor
will be put to work this week pre-
paring a 1000-acre tract which will
be planted to asparagus next Janu-
»ry-__
a of cox’s
EXTENSION OF
aTYUMTTS
Commission Plan For
Taking In New Ter-
ritory Presented To
Body By Mayor
Pirn of the city commission to call
election for the purpose of extending
the boundaries of Brownsville to in-
clude “about fl.O'JU.OOO additional
property values and 1000 citizens”
was approved at a meeting of the
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce
directorate Tuesday night and a
committee of five was named by
President Z. A. Rosenthal to confer
with the city commission in refer-
ence to plans for the extension.
Mayor A. B. Cole appeared before
the meeting and nresented a map
with possible boundaries of the pro-
posed extension marked out but ex-
plained that it was merely a sug-
gestion and that the city commission
realized fixing of the new line would
be difficult and that they would wel-
(Continued on page three.)
GOP Seek to Pass
Small Bills Over
Coolidge’s Vetos
WASHINGTON. May 23.—«7P—Lit-
tle bills were vying with big bills for
congressional attention today as fur-
ther attempts got under way to pass
them over presidential vetoes.
Of an even dozen of the little fel-
lows which President* Coolidgo Has
seen fit to disapprove’two stood vic-
torious in the house today despite
their unfavorable reception at the
White House and now must be passed
by the senate by a two-thirds vote to
become law.
The warfare over these secondary
pieces of legislation was started yes-
terday in the house when with the
aid of many republican stalwarts and
l»y big margins it passed over execu-
tive vetoes a bill providing salary in-
crease for postal employes engaged
in night work and another allowing
rent fuel and lighht to fourth class
postmasters.
As if to even the score the presi-
dent shot back two more measures to
the senate at a night session with his
stamp of rejection on them the more
important of the two being the dis-
abled emergency officers retirement
bill which has been hanging around
the hall' of congrc's almost since the
end of the war. The ether bill would
< rcate a rank of bandmaster in the
army.
NEW FIELD HONORS FLIER
WASHINGTON. May 23.—<jp>—The
new air corps training center at San
Antonio will be named Randolph
Field in honor of Captain William M.
Randolph a native of Texas who lost
his life in an airplane crash at Gor- !
man Texas last February. |!
INSTRUCTIONS
AGAINST N. Y.
LEADER FAIL
Platform Amendment
Offered By Oscar
Colquitt Is Voted
Down 511 to 203
BEAUMONT Tex. May 23.—<#>-*
Radical anti-Smith forces of Texaa
were defeated 511 to 203 at the statu
democratic convention Wednesday on
a proposal to instruct the Texas Na*
tional delegation against Governor
Smith for president.
The proposal was in an amendment
by former Gov. O. B. Colquitt to the
majority platform which declared
only for prohibition and presidential
candidates in harmony with it.
Thu convention defeated an amanfti
rnent by Cone Johnson old demo*
cratic war horse to instruct against
all “wet” candidates.
The convention had not yet reach*
ed the dispute over the method of
choosing the rational delegates.
Smith leaders are fighting to permit
each congressional district to choose
its own delegates for a “true test"
the popular will.
A committee majority platform eta*
bodying the prohibition principled
urged by Governor Moody forces con*
trolling the state convention wad
adopted by an overwhelming vote.
The prohibition plank called fod
strict enforcement of the state and
national liquor laws and favored
presidential candidates in sympathy
with the plank.
After an executive session on tS*
Ball resolutleu the committee eft
permanent urbanization returned ft
report recommending that the te«9
porary convention organization head-
ed by Chairman W. L. Dean be mad*
permanent but withheld a report oft
the Ball resolution on the method
ready to select delegates.
The chairman of the committee JL
H. Menefee of Madisonville said
the report would be made when the
convention had heard the report of
the platform committee and wa*
ready to select dleegates.
Without a dissenting voice th*
convention then voted to make the
temporary organization permanent*
Richard Fleming secretary of the
state executive committee read ft
communication from the national ex-
ecutive committee fixing the numbe*
of delegates at large so that Texa*
would have eight.
A motion to elect an equal num-
ber of men and women as delegate*
at large carried easily.
Tom Ball of Houston then movef
that Texas elect l^men and 12 wom-
en delegates at large with one-sixth
of a vot*- each instead of four men
and four women with a half votft
each. The motion was adopted.
A substitute motion to limit th*
delegate at large slate to eight a*
(Continued on page ten)
San Benito Gets
Merchants Meet
(Special .to The Herald* ” i
«AN BENITO May 23.—This eft*
was successful in its efforts to ceh
the 102J state convention of Retail
Merchants* association a telegram
received by J. E. Bell here a«
noon today announced.
San Benito sent a large delegiu
"®n. t"* present convention in
wtchita Falls and was supported by
delegations from all the other eitie*
in the \ alley in efforts to get tea
next meeting.
WEATHER |
For Brownsville and the Valley*1
rair tonight and Thursday; not much
change in temperature. Light to
moderate northerly winds on th«
coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be a slight to model*
»te rise in the river at San Benita
and Brownsville during the next 24
to 33 hours but no materia! change
elsewhere.
Flood Present 24 Hr. 24 Hr.
Stare S are Chn*. Bain
Eagle Pass .. 13 31 -0.1 .00
Laredo . 27 0.3 -!J> .00
Rio Grande .. 21 100 +S.2 .00
Mission 22 9-5 +2.1 .00
San Benito 23
Brownsville ..13 8.3 —1.0 0(1'
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow tinder normal meteorologi*
•al conditions:
High *m.*...*^»’W<***10:00 a. nt.
Low...12:55 a. cu
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
?un*et today ... . *:1E
sunrise tomorrow ojm.*4:44
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