The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 285, Ed. 2 Monday, April 15, 1929 Page: 2 of 10
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GUNBOAT IS
FIRED UPON
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fThree British Sailors Wound-
ad By Shots From Bank
Of Chinese River
5?ANGHAI April 15.— (JP) —A
telegram from Ichang Hupeh prov-
ince said three British sailors were
wounded when a British gunboat
was fired upon from the banks of
the Yangtze Kiang near that city.
The Asiatic company’s English
manager Gabb was captured bv
the Chinese and wounded in the
thigh He was stripped and tied to a
post where he remained for 18 hours
without food finally escaping to a
mission.
LILES NAMED AUDITOR
FOR HIDALGO COUNTY
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EDINBURG April 15.—(JP)-O. T.
Liles has been named auditor of
Hidalgo county following the resig-
nation of L. E. Tinkler.
Mr. Tinkler announced his re-
tirement from the position was to j
enable him to devote more time to
his private affairs.
JNOBLEMAN OVERDUE
IN DEAD SEA CRUISE
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LONDON. April 15.—<JP)—A Jew-
ish telegraph agency dispatch from
Jerusalem today said a party con-
taining among others a son and
daughter-in-law of Sir Herbert
Samuel former high commissioner
In Paletsine were two days overue
Dn their return from a cruise of the
Dead sea.
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Special Session May
Mix Oil and Water’
In Lively Battles
AUSTIN. April 15.—Oil and wa-
ter which don’t mix may be inter-
mingled by the legislature which
meets in special session a week
hence.
Oil and gas are sure to occupy
time of the session. There is prom-
ise that water will be an important
factor in the session also based on
unfinished bills of the regular ses-
sion and the recent promise of Sen.
Walter C. Woodward for a lively
scrap over water policy.
Water will not be discussed in
any relation to dry laws of prohi-
bition nor in the aspect of a chaser;
but on the broad issue of public
policy relating to irrigation and
flood control.
Senator Woodward recently in a
speech challenged the policy of the
state water board in the issuance
of permits for hydroelectric devel-
opment and insisting that priority
be given to irrigation projects. A
similar “water priorities” plan
sponsored by West Texas people
failed to reach final action in the
regular session and conceivably may
be submitted when the solons come
back nine days hence.
There’s another set of water bills
too. those of Representative Leon-
ard Tillotson of Sealy which may
be pressed for action. They con-
centrate all the various legal forms
of water improvement and water
control statutes into one general
law. According to Mr. Tillotson
they put the state where an atempt
was made to bring it 15 years ago
with much confusing legisation and
litigation in between.
The legislature failed to confer
authority on the railroad commis-
sion to regulate oil proration. Since
then the United States government
has held that probation cannot be
arranged by agreement of the op-
erators. Therefore the need for
regulatory action at the special ses-
sion will come up in a more impor-
tant farm.
For the great section of Texas
arid by climate as well as other-
wise water mingles into politics as 1
easily as its substitutes do through
the rest of the country.
Senator Woodward’s recent speech
in which he questioned policies of
the water board indicated that his
[ fight for definite laws regulatng
'priority of claims on the water of
streams will be pushed forward at
this special session. The Browns-
wood irrigation fight out of which
this new aggression had its start
was a live and wriggling politcal
question for nearly two years.
Brownwood secured a promise from
the state of part of the water its
irrigation district asked for but not
all. The district was told that part
of its claims were excessive. Some-
body even whispered they were “pre-
posterous.” Just at that time the
Insull power interests were active
in sponsoring a series of hydroelec-
tric dams in the Colorado river in
Travis and Burnet counties. This
company offered to compromise by
yielding part of the water the dam
committees had been authorized to
store up yearly. This never was
formally accepted and the state wa-
ter board has neither increased the
allotment for the Brownwood irriga-
tion district nor modified the Cen-
tran Texas permits to the Syndicate
Power company otherwise the
“Alexander interests.” with which
the Insull people formeity were co-
operating.
Gasoline taxes will be one of the
very sharply contested issues of the
soecial session. Oil proration fur-
ther laws affecting university oil
production and leasing of lands for
its exploitation may be before the
session. The land and the air were
partly disposed of in the regular
session when the “dry crack”
stream-bed land bill of Senator
Small was passed over by Governor
Moody’s vote and the measure reg-
ulating air traffic was passed and
approved.
The sky is left and the state de-
partment is ready and prepared to
push its “blue sky” bill before the
special session.
RAIL LINE SOUGHT
WASHINGTON April 15.—(JP)—
^‘■’rm’ssion to construct 60 miles of
line from Dalhart Dallam county
to Pringle Hutchinson county in
Texas was sought otday from the
Interstate Commerce commission
by the Chicago Rock Island apd
Gulf Railway company a subsidi-
ary of the Chicago Rock Island
and Facific.
MACHINE GUN
HALTS RUNNER
Coast Guardsmen Chase Rum
Craft Up Miami River;
Crew Quits
MIAMI Fla. April 15.—(/P)—
Coast guardsmen who last night
pursued a fleeing rum craft up the
Miami river and startled Riverside
residents with a machine gun bar-
rage faced a prospective inquiry to-
day by Commander R. L. Jack of
the United States coast guard base
at Fort Lauderdale.
Under the fusillade of “tracer”
bullets several of which struck
buildings ashore and a houseboat
moored at the river’s edge the crew
of the liquor laden rum boat aban-
doned the craft which was cap-
tured by the coast guardsmen/
Commander Jack at Fort Lauder-
dale announced he would investi-
gate the shooting at a hearing
today and said that if coast guards-
men were responsible “they will be
punished.” The coast guard officer
said he had learned authoritatively
the government craft was a patrol
boat from his base.
OSTEOPATHIC BODY
MEETS AT SAN BENITO
(Special to The Herald.)
SAN BENITO April 15.—The reg-
ular monthly meeting of the Low'er
Rio Grande Valley Osteopathic as-
sociation wras held here with Dr.
and Mrs. M. C. Burrows at the
Stonewall Jackson hotel Sunday.
Two new members Drs. Mabel Mar-
tin Gwillim of Weslaco and Lloyd
Davis of McAllen were admitted to
the association. Dr. Davis will be
associated with his father and
mother. Drs. W. E. and Ila A. Davis
in their new 17-room osteopathic
sanitarium and hospital in McAllen.
Dr. Burrus lectured on colon and
bowel disorders illustrating with X-
ray pictures.
The may meeting will be held |
with Dr. Amorette Bledsoe in
Brownsville the exact date to be
announced later.
FOREIGNERS FIRED
UPON IN HUNAN
SHANGHAI April 15.—</P)—A
telegram from Chanteh in north-
east Hunan today said foreigners
there had been under fire for six
days; that the Asiatic Petroleum
company’s agency was wrecked
and the Catholic mission looted.
The latest information here how-
ever was the soldiery concerned
dad departed and that foreigners
vere i nno further danger.
WEATHER SUMMARY
The weather was fair to clear
practically throughout the Rocky
mountain region and the Plains
states including Texas at the morn-
ing observation but cloudy and un-
settled over the balance of the
country. Moderate to excessive
rains ocurred in the southeastern
eastern and far northwestern
states within the last 24 hours.
Temperatures continue near the
seasonal average practically
throughout the country.
WEATHER BULLETIN
First figure lowest temperature
last night; second highest tempera-
ture yesterday; third wind velocity
at 8 a. m.; fourth rainfall past 24
hours.
Abilene . 46 — — .03
Amarillo . — 68 — —
Atlanta . — 72 — —
Austin . 56 84 — .03
BROWNSVILLE. 62 96 — .00
Chicago . — 46 — —
Corpus Christ! .58 — — .00
Del Rio . E6 — — .00
Denver . — 60 —
Detroit . — 44 — —
Dodge City. 40 64 — .00
El Paso . 50 — 12 .00
Fort Smith .... 54 — — .30
Galveston . — 76 —
Huron . 40 — — .00
Jacksonville .... 64 — 12 2.14
Louisville . 46 — 14 .20
Memphis . 54 — — 1.18
Miami . 76 — 16 .00
Montgomery ... 60 74 — .00
New Orleans ... 68 80 — .30
North Platte ... 40 — — .00
Palestine . — 82 — —
Pensacola . 64 74 — .36
Pittsburgh . 46 58 10 .28
Spit Lake City .48 — — .00
San Antonio ... 56 — — .00
Santa Fe .— ob 1 — —
Sheridan . 42 — — .00
Shreveport . 56 80 10 .44
Tampa . — 82 — — j
Wllliston . 40 — — .00
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SOLONS FACING
FARM QUESTION
Gafner Assumes Minority
Leadership As 68 New
Members Take Oath
WASHINGTON April 15.—(/P>—
In fulfillment of one of the pre-
election promises of Herbert Hoov-
er the seventy-first congress was
called to meet in extraordinary ses-
sion today to find the long-sought
road to a solution of the farm ques-
tion.
Although its program had been
tentatively set to include farm re-
lief tariff revision reapportion-
ment of the house and a measure
setting a date for beginning a cen-
sus no one would venture a predic-
tion as to the life of the session.
Only organizing faced the house
today while the senate was ready
for business immediately as this
work was taken care of in the brief
session held early in March to con-
firm the Hoover cabinet.
Other than meeting and ad-
journing the senate had little be-
fore it as the message of President
Hoover will not be transmitted to
the capitol by special mesenger un-
til tomorrow. In the house how-
ever. sixty-eight new members were
called to take the oath in the house
along with those re-elected last No-
vember. Of the new comers one
Oscar de Priest of Chicago is the
first negro elected to congress in
28 years.
At the other side of the capitol
nine new senators already sworn
in were on the senate roll. At the
time of their induction into office
more than a month ago the senate
also swore in Charles Curtis of
Kansas as vice president of the
United States.
Over in the house. Nicholas Long-
worth looked toward a start on his
third term as speaker while Tilson
of Connecticut was back as floor
leader of the majority. Gamer of
Texas veteran of fourteen terms
assumed the minority leadership
left vacant by Finis J. Garrett of
Tennessee now a federal judge.
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ROMA MAN RUN OVER BY
TRUCK WILL RECOVER
(Special to The Herald).
ROMA April 15.—Auto accidents
are becoming about as frequent
here as they are in the busier sec-
tions of the Valley. Some two
weeks ago J. M. Rodriguez a mer-
chant of Mier Mexico while en-
route to Roma from Rio Grande
City with a truck load of ice fell
off the driver’s seat under the
wheels and was killed instantly. He
was burled at Rio Grande City.
Last Sunday night the Herrera
family four in number suffered
broken ribs and arms the accident
occurring near the same spot where
Rodriguez was killed. Thursday aft-
ernoon in attempting to crank a
truck In his garage here Leon Gon-
zalez was run over and seriously in-
jured about the head and body.
The truck started while he was
stooped over in front of it and be-
fore he could recover himself he
was knocked down and two wheels
passed over his body. He will re-
cover.
AVIATOR KILLED IN
PARACHUTE JUMP
ST. LOUIS April 15.—W—'The
body of Lieutenant Shapley Gray of
the Missouri national guard was
found today in a field near Gumbo.
The lieutenant had jumped from
his plane when its motor stalled
yesterday. The flier’s parachute was
found intact strapped to his body
with the release cord still in his
pocket.
Captain William B. Wimer pilot
also leaped from the plane but
made a safe parachute landing.
MAN FINED $1 COSTS
IN DISTURBING PEACE
Opening the criminal docket of
the county court before Judge John
I. Kleil^er Manuel Flores Sanchez
was found guilty of disturbing the
peace and was fined $10 and costs
of court which amounted to $31.40.
Sanchez the evidence showed
had disturbed the peace at a dance.
The case came up on an appeal
fro ma justice of the peace verdict.
BUYERS SEEKING
STARR COUNTY LAND
(Special to TheH erald.)
ROMA April 15.—As an evidence
that irrigation is an assured fact
for Starr county real estate men
report the sale of several hundred
acres of lands under the proposed
district and say that inquiries are
coming in every day for more land.
Lands in Starr county under the
proposed ditch are scarce and
there is a strong demand for any
that is for sale. Work on .he ditch
continues unabated.
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