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THE WEATHER FINAL
For Brownsville and the Valley:
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FORTY-FIRST YEAR—No. 95 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SUNDAY OCTOBER 23 1932 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY 6c A COPY
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IN OUR
VALLEY
KIWANIANS VHO ARRIVE IN
the Valley today will find the peo-
ple of this section supremely happy.
First and foremost of course we
are happy that we are host to this
annual district convention of the
Texas-Oklahoma district of a great
service organization.
Secondly and really we know our
visitors would excuse us If we put it
first the Valley s happy that after
two score and more years of effort
for a deep water port in the Low-
er Rio Grande Valley our efforts
are neare success than ever before.;
Thirdly and fourthly the harvest
of a citrus crop which while not
large Is bringing a really good price i
Is adding to our material wealth
and the harvest of a winter vege-
table crop Is about to begin.
We have felt our share of the de-
pression not to the extent of most
sections of the country but already
we see ourselves started on a steady
climb back to more prosperous
heights.
1
• • •
Jand another fine sign of
Wt* times may be seen In the he-
flra—
Of numerous and sundry real es-
tate salesmen
Whose occupation has not been so
bot
During the past 12 months.
Out of the Valley and off to the
ncr h they are
S > n to return with parties of
prospects from the frozen north.
First excursions of the season.
Smaller In numbers than in years
gore by
Are reported unusually ettccess-
ful.
In the proportion of sales.
The tide is turning to the Valley.
• •
IN LINE WITH OTHER TAXING
powers Saturday came the word
from the taxing authorities bf the
•tty of Brownsville that a 15 p~r
cer*. cut In real estate valuations Is
In sight.
Tax rate for the good year 1932
wilt remain at $1.30 same as for the
yea/ previous.
Vacations are coming down tax
rates are coming down.
Our city county and school dis-
trict officials are becoming just as
good business men in matters of
public Import as they are in the
conduct of their own private busi-
ness.
But thl^ leasing of the tax load
by decreasing expenses must go a
long ways yet It must be worked
Ink) the management of the state
arm federal governments.
Our candidates for state office are
long on economy when they are
candidates and as officials they pro-
ceed to run the cost of state gov-
ernment up another notch or two
•very year.
As for the federal government
all we have to do is to take a look
at the ever increasing deficit to
realize that something is woefully
wrong.
At that it is nara to blame con-
gressmen for voting government
expenditures when every section
every class is seeking to feed at the
federal trough.
Some of these days we will gel
wise to the fact that we are the gov-
ernment and that whatever money
the government gets we must fur-
nish.
West Texans will remember back
•ome years ago when the city of
Coleman was to be the recipient of
a $60000 postoffice if the bill in-
troduced by the congressman from
{hat district passed.
And they will remember that
Coleman citizens wired their con-
gressman that they would donate
the' site for the building and that
$20000 was plenty to spend for their
federal building.
An attitude like that is what we
must all come to if we are to keep
the federal government from
bankrupting all of us and if we are
to have our taxes reduced.
• • •
FARM LOANS IN THE VALLEY
for spring crops will not be handled
on4:he basis on w ich loans were
made this spring.
A mere lien on the crop to be pro-
duced alone will not be sufficient
security according to information
imparted to Val«./ growers by offi-
cials of the Houston branch of the
Agricultural Credit corporation.
Security the same as would be re-
quired by a bank will be required
of growers seeking loans.
gome resentment over these stipu-
(Continued on Pag$ Two).
|JOT’
HANDWRITING
EXPERT SAYS
NOTE TRACED
Pastor Poet’s Fate
Nears Jury As
Sides Close
MUSKOGEE Okla.. Oct. 22.
(API—Disk Judge W. J. Crump
revealed tonight that his Instruc-
tions to the jury which is to de-
cide whether the Rev. S. A. Berrie
is innocent or guilty of poisoning
his wife will cam- only two alter-
natives upon conviction—death
in the electric chair or life im-
prisonment.
MUSKOGEE. Okla.. Oct. 22. <A»l-
The “suicide note” which the Rev.
S. A. Berrie charged with poison-
ing his first wife claims was writ-
ten by her “is not in the handwrit-
ing of Fannie L. Berrie.” J. C
Shearman. Kansas handwriting ex-
pert testified today as the case
neared completion.
Much of todays testimony was
taken up with state rebutal after
the defense closed this morning
without placing th defendant on the
witness stand. However a tran-
script of testimony he gave at a
habeas corpus hearing was read to
the Jury.
Believes Wai Traced
Commenting on the note which
the hymn-writing pastor alleged
was written in desperation by his
first wife after she “was driven
crazy by gossip” Shearman testifi-
ed:
“In my opinion. It was traced
from words such as appear in the
handwriting of Mrs. Berrie.”
The transcript of Berrie’s testi-
mony quoted him as once saying
Mrs. Berrie “had a notion to swal-
low a bottle of strychnine.”
Highlight in today’s testimony
came from Mrs. B. L. Harbison.
neighbor of Berrie. who said she saw
the pastor and the 19-vear-old Sun-
day School teacher he married sev-
eral weeks after his first wife’s
death burning trash.
“They seemed to be picking some-
thing out of a container and burn-
ing it.” Mrs Harbison said “I saw
(Continued on Page Two)
Vision Guided
Slaying Claim
WEWOKA. Okla. Oct. 220p>—
Declaring a “vision’ guided him. Z.
J. Williams. 61-year-old farmer
charged with murdering Mr. and
Mrs. Amos Bruner young share-
croppers who were the parents of
three small children said tonight
he was “innocent in God s law.”
Williams who surrendered after
the Bruners who sub-leased land
from him. had been shot to death
in an argument over jenta said he
was told in the "vision to read the
Bible and that “God commanded
me to provide for my household or
become an infidel.”
El Paso-Mexico City
Air Route Opened
EL PASO. Oct. 22. MP>—’The first
regular plane of a tri-weekly sche-
dule between El Paso and Mexico
City landed at municipal airport
here today at 5 p. BL carrying Mexi-
can officials and company repre-
sentatives for Aerovias Centrales.
Mexican Aviation corporation.
Passengers includ 1 A. Landa y
Pina chief of immigration; Pedro
Palazuelos assistant postmaster
general; and Mrs. Palazuelos; Julio
Madero of the department of com-
munications; Roberto Pesquiera;
and J. I. Perez. They were met by
Juarez and El Paso officials and
were guests at a banquet tonight.
Organized Flogging
Gang Investigated
JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Oct. 22 —
■P>—Belief that an organized gang
is operating here on a set quota of
one flogging a week administered
to some person accused by the
band of activities to which it ob-
jects was expressed by police to-
day after reports of additional
whippings which brought to ten
the number recently reported.
Reasons assigned for the attacks
said Police Lt. VV. O. Sileox ranged
from charges of bootlegging to
“living in a negro district" and
“holding a white man's job." Of-
ficers said some of the men’s
charges had been Investigated and
found false.
Texas Oil Man Is
Sent From Mexico
MEXICO CITY. Oct. 22. —{#•>—
The department of interior an-
nounced today that S. E. J. Cox.
Texas oil man. had been placed
aboard a train for Laredo. Tex.
this morning for deportation and
should reach Laredo tomorrow
morning.
Cox was expelled on a charge of
doing business here under a tour-
ist passport. George H. Graham
described by the police as his
bodyguard also was arrested but
was released today for lack of
1 evidence ^
Valley Port Scenes of Yesterday—And Tomorrow?
Above Is a layout of pictures showing Valley port activity. The pictures were taken In 1926. when the government dredged the outer channel and built the Jetties Valley peopl'? «re
looking forward to such scenes again in the near future with rapid developments recently in the port situation. The pictures are: too. left the dredge working in the pass at Bra-
zos-Santiago; top right scene on the jetty; bottom left tugboat taking load of material across the jetties; and lower right piling being handled at the Port Isabel terminal.
CHEERS BOOS
GREET HOOVER
Four Men Arrested As GOP
Leader Defends His
i
Own Record
OLYMPIA ARENA Detroit Oct.
22. CP—Pres. Hoover tonight assert-
ed that Franklin D. Roosevelt his
democratic opponent had sponsored
a "fantastic” and unworkable pl:.n
for the relief of unemployment and
that he had recently broadcast
statements “amazingly removed
.... " ~ l
DETROIT. Oct. 22. «V-Four
men who climbed light poles near
the Port Street Union station and
exhorted the crowd before Pres
Hoover left the station tonight
were hauled down and arrested
by Central Station police.
At police headquarters they j
identified themselves as Walter
Eicker. 32; Wililam Reynolds. 38;
William Gaetz. 21. and Harry Sil-
verstein 19. all of Detroit. They
were held for investigation.
Police said Reynolds named
communistic candidate for gov-
ernor last June was one of the
leaders of the riot at the Ford
plant last March in which fflur
men were killed.
The arrest or the four men
came In the midst of what police
said was an organized demon-
stration against the president.
from the truth" concerning the ad-
ministration's fiscal policy.
Standing in the huge hall where
a year ago he successfully appealed
to the American Legion againsa the
bonus the president opened his ad-
dress with a statement that the na-
tion’s economic “tide has turned.”
Gives GOP Credit
“The gigantic forces of depression
are in retreat” he said.
“Our measures and policies have
demonstrated their effectiveness.”
Then while listing 18 recommen-
dations made by him as the “re-
publican program.” the chief exec-
utive devoted much of his address
to an attack upon statements made
by democratic leaders during the
campaign and to what he called
“the destructive democratic pro-
gram” proposed during the last ses-
sion of congress.
The democratic candidate he as-
serted. “has refused to renounce or^
disavow these destructive measures
or to give the country the assurance
it deserves that 1* will not be a
party to these measures including
the prepayment of the bonus.
1 _ (Continued on Pago Tiro)
Depository Bond
Hearings Finished
Hearings on law Issues In suits
against sureties on deposit cry bends
covering impounded public money
in the closed Merchants’ National
bank were held here Friday after-
noon before Judge A M. Kent.
The cases will not likely come up
for trial for several months.
Law points in suits filed by Cam-
eron county the State of Texas the
Arroyo Navigation district and the
Los Fresnos Independent school dis-
trict were threshed out in the hear-
ings.
CITY TRIMS
VALUATIONS
15 Per Cent Reduction Is
Seen by Assessor For
Brownsville
■ —
A reduction In real estate~valu-
ations of the city of Brownsville of
approximately 15 per cent was fore-
cast Saturday afternoon by Hulon
P. Sterling assessor and collector.
es the city board of equalization had
virtually completed its work oi as-
sessing personal property.
“On the valuations of personal
property as established by the board
it is now apparent that the city
will be able to reduce Its last year's
real property valuations by 15 per
cent and retain the levy of $130 in
effect last year.** Sterling said.
Hearings on real property rendi-
tions have been scheduled to begin
Monday before the board of equali-
zation. but property owners who
have been cited need not appear be-
fore the board if they are content
with the 15 per cent slash Sterling
stated.
The reduction will be made on all
real estate no matter what figure
was gvien in the renditions of the
property owners Sterling stated.
Mother Kills
Her Children
MATTOON. 111. Oct. 22. (*».—
I'cspondent and desperate she said
brcause of inability to find enjoy-
ment. Mrs. Inez Stead Carrell *9
a widow and former private secre-
tary in Chicago tonight told au-
thorities she killed her three chil?
ren and tried to kill herself.
| The children’s bodies were found
1 mg on beds in the hotel room she
rented Friday night. Doctors said
the mother probably would recover
from as overdose of sleeping potion
MA FERGUSON
URGES UNITY
Gubernatorial Couple
Pleads for Backing
Of Dem Ticket
SAN ANTONIO. Oct 22 — {JPi—
Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson demo-
cratic nominee for governor of
Texas in an address here tonight
took cognizance of an intra-party
bolt directed against her election
on Nov. 8 with a plea for party re-
gularity.
The candidate first and only
woman ever elected to the chief
executive's chair in Texas faced a
situation this time similar to the
one that obtained in 1924 when she
was her party nominee. That time
also a presidential year she de-
feated the republican candidate.
George C. Butte by a plurality of
127000.
Jim Also Speaks
Mrs. Ferguson spoke in the mu-
nicipal auditorium alter a busy
hand-shaking day with democrats
who assembled from many parts of
southwest Texas to help the wo-
man candidate and her former
governor husband James E. Fergu-
son launch their general election
campaign.
The husband member of the
country's only married couple team
that ever served a state as govern-
or spoke from the same platform.
He dwelt too. on the necessity of
democrats standing together not
only In the interest of their nom-
inees to state office but in an ef-
(Continued on Page Two)
Two Men Lose
Lives In Rio
The receding Rio Grande today
added two addition victims to its
list of flood deaths when two Mata-
rr.oros men were swept together
with the horses they were riding
under the muddy waters by a whirl-
pool
The two i en. Fidel Blanco and
Manuel Jaime were driving cattle
and attempting to cross the over-
flow water near the Monterrey-
Mat-amoros railway when they were
drowned.
Bodies of the two men had not
been recovered late Saturday al-
though the bodies of the two horses
arose to the surface soon after the
; accident. t- >
‘Demos Ready To j
Fight Depression'
DETROIT Oct. 22.—iA*>—The de-
mocratic party today was depicted
by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Mary-
land as “ready and eager for the
opportunity to fight unemployment
and the business depression.’’
Addressing a democratic mass
meeting here last night the Mary-
land governor said that a victory
for Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
would be a victory for “the man
who tramps the streets today un-
employed through no fault of his
own.’’
EARLY KIWANIS
ENVOYS ARRIVE
Great Influx of Delegates
Will Begin Sunday
Expect 1000
0
Delegates to the Texas-Oklahoma
district Kiwants convention at Har-
lingen Monday and Tuesday hrd
begun to arrive from Oklahoma as
early as Saturday a check of hotels
at Browasville and Harlingen re-
vealed Saturday night as an ad-
vance indication of the great num-
ber that will arrive Sunday and
Sunday night.
Joe Mills Guy Belford and Eunice
Burrow all from Ponca City Okla..
were registered at a Harlingen hotel
Saturday night and Alvin Moore
and J. H. Bradley of Cheyenne
Oklahoma were early arrivals to
register at a Brownsville hotel Sat-
urday night.
Hotels in Brownsville. San Ben-
ito and Harlingen reported that a
great number of reservations have
been made by Oklahoma delegates
who will begin an influx to the
Valley in great numbers Sunday.
Kiwams officials have declared
that from 1.000 to 1.500 delegates
will attend the Harlingen conven-
tion.
Business sessions of the conven-
ion will be held at the Municipal
uditorium at Harlingen. All Valley
cities are cooperating in housing
and entertaining the visiting Ki-
wanl&ns.
Theft Charged
ARCHER CITY. Oct. 22 —<T—
! Claib McIntyre charged with theft
J of over $50. waived examining trial
I here yesterday. His bond was set
I at $2000 to await action of the
! November grand jury.
M clntyre was arrested at Man-
; kins. Tex. for the theft of two
I saddles from the Zach Scott ranch
i m Archer county. ^
STERLING TO
SUPPORT GOP
‘Dem Banner Must Not Be
Tarnished With Slime
Of Fergusonism’
AUSTIN. Oct. 22 (JP—Cov. R. S.
Sterling announced definitely to-
day that he would support Orville
Bullington of Wichita Fails repub-
lican nominee for the governorship
of Texas in the general election.
“I feel it my duty to the peo-
ple of Texas in the crisis which
confronts them to leave nothing
undone and make any sacrifice
within my power to prevent the
return of Fergusonism to the con-
trol of our state government” he
said.
Gov. Sterling announced Bul-
lington as his choice simultaneous-
ly with the appearance of Mrs.
Ferguson and her husband In an
opening general campaign address
at. San Antonio. The Fergusons
have announced a series of other
speaking engagements for several
sections of Texas prior to the vot-
ing on November 8.
Spilt In 1921
When Mrs Ferguson was elect-
ed Texas' first woman governor in
1924 she was opposed by a large
laction of her party who bolted
her nomination and favored the
republican nominee that year. Dr.
George C. Butte. Mrs. Ferguson
was elected by a plurality over
Butte of 127.000. That also was
presidential election year.
Gov. Sterling renewed his fealty
to the democratic national ticket
nominees in this language;
“As a lifelong democrat I rejoice
in the glowing prospects o! the
election of a democratic president
and vice president of the United
States; but the democratic ban-
ner must NOT be tarnished with
the slime of Fergusonism. It
would make the democracy of the
nation hang their heads in shame
for the democratic hosts of Grand
Old Texas to be led by Jim Fergu-
son when Roosevelt and Garner
are inaugurated in Washington
next March.”
Discussing the state guberna-
torial campaign he said there wa;
•‘but one thing left for Texans whe
love their state and those wh<
love their party to do and that u
to throw the whole weight of theii
i influence and their votes behind
Bullingtoa.
“Texas democrats cannot rendei
the democratic party a better ser-
vice than by smasivlig Ferguson-
ism with their votes at the Nov-
' (Continued on Page Twoy # s
VALLEY TAKES
SECOND STEP
TOWARD PORT
Realization Of Both
Harbor Project*
Draw Clo*er
Titles to the tips of Brazos and
Padre Inlands have been approved
by the office of the attorney gen-
eral of the United States and the
approving opinion forwarded to H.
Ilf. Holden U. S. district attorney
at Houston.
Word of this second great for-
ward step in the Port Isabel and
I Brownsville port projects was re-
ceived In Brownsville Saturday by
R. B. Creager from the office of the
'attorney general and by the Browns-
ville Navigation district from R. B.
j Rentfro. attorney for the district
who has been in Washington as-
sisting the attorney general tn re-
viewing the abstracts of title.
Rids Advertised
At the same time Creager receiv-
ed instructions from the federal au-
thorities to .mmediately record the
deeds of title prepared by the
Brownsville Navigation district to
the government for the channel
right of way from Brazos Santiago
pass to Long Island and for the
spoils disposal areas.
Bids for the dredging of the
channel and tor the dredging of the
Port Isabel turning basin have been
advertised by MaJ. Milo P. Pox. U.
S. district engineer at Galveston
and will be opened on November 19.
Saturday afternoon on receipt of
advices that the title had bean ap-
proved. a conference was held be-
tween officials of the Brownsville
and Port Isabel-San Benito Navi-
gation districts to work out the de-
tails of the transfer to the Port
Isabel district of bonds Of the
(Brownsville district and the trans-
! for to the Brownsville district of
*43.000 the cost of the islandtipa
I held bv the district by the Port
| Isabel-San Benito district
Monday Is Ret
It was mutually agreed that the
transfer should take place Monday
morning.
According to terms of the agree-
ment between the Brownsville dis-
trict and R. B. Creager represent-
ing the Port Isabel-San Benito dis-
trict. there is to be conveyed to the
local district $43000 in cash as soon
1 as the titles to the island tips are
' approved by the U. S government.
In turn the Brownsville district
agreed to convey to the other dis-
trict its bonds of average maturities
to an amount equal to $21500. half
the cost of the Island properties^
figured on a basis is 90c on the dol-
lar..
The Brownsville district further
has agreed to transfer to the port
Isabel district its bonds on the same
basis to an amount equal to one
half the cost of dredgine the chan-
nel to Long Island as soon as the
price has been determined by a con-
tract let by . re government.
Present at the conference between
the two districts Saturday were J.
Q. Louthan. attorney for the Port
Isabel district Lon C. Hill. Jr. rep-
resenting the district Z. A. Rosen-
thal. member of the Brownsville
Navigation commission and A. B.
Cole and H. L. Yates attorneys for
the district.
With titles to the tips of the is-
lands approved by the government
and the bids for the dredging of
the channel and turning basih of
the Port Isabel protect advertised
the last technical obstacles In the
way of immediate port work have
been removed.
Downs Ray* Ready
E. H Downs president of the pore
Isabel-San Benito district stated
some days ago hat his district had
given assurances to the government
that it was ready to proceed to %
finished harbor project.
At the same time officials of the
Brownsville Navigation district are
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MARKETS
| AT GLANCE
NEW YORK
Stocks: Steady; carloadings re-
port bolsters rails.
Bonds: Steady; Argentines
weak.
Oirb: Irregular; slectrle bond
and share firm.
Foreign exchanges mixed; gold
currencies react alter early firm-
ness.
Cotton: Quiet; favorable weath-*
er; southern selling.
Sugar: Quiet; easier spot mar-
ket. •
Coffee: Dull; steady Brazilian
markets.
CHICAGO
1 Wheat easy; heavier northwest
>1 marketing; favorable Canadian
weather.
Corn barely steady; bearish
weather conditions; lower Argen-
tine market.
Cattle dull.
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