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I
THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair Friday night; Saturday in-
creasing cloudiness; not much
change in temperature.
FORTY-SECOND YEAR—No. 199 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16 1934 TWELVE PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
IN OUR
VALLEY
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A SURE SIGN OF THE RETURN
of better days—
Is a shortage of housing facilities.
Willacy County News carries a
front page editorial pointing to a
shortage.
Port Isabel has a move cm foot to
get more buildings constructed.
In Brownsville apartments. rent
houses are scarce.
Same situation In most other
Valley cities.
What It sounds like to us is the
forerunner of some more building.
• • •
CONGRATULATIONS TO WIL-
lacy county—
On Us more elaborate program
for the Onion Fiesta this year.
Dates have been set lor April b
and 7.
Queen Noino will be crowned as
the big stunt ol the fiesta.
• • •
WELCOME TO THE BANKERS
of South Texas—and the visiting
bankers from other parts of the
. state.
Visitors at their convention in
Harlingen today will doubtless
See a marked difference In spir-
its—
From the deep gloom that hov-
ered over the banking world a year
ago.
Visiting bankers will be told that
this Lower Rio Grande Valley is
w getting back on its feet—
A That during the depression and
the post-hurricane period—
It has taken stock—
Has frankly admitted its short-
comings its needs—
And has gone to the bat to get
them.
• • •
EXALTED RULER KNETbCH OF
Texas Elks.
Who hails from begum—
Sampled Valley hospitality and
Valley fishing Thursday.
Local Elks took him into the ship
channel and bay near Port Isabel
where he showed his fishing abil-
ity—
And Thursday alternoor he visit-
ed with Elks at Mercedes.
• • •
WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF A
communication from E M Goodwm
of Mission.
Secretary of the Rio Grande
Valley Rehabilitation and Relief
Corporation—
Telling of the work that has been
done.
Mr. Goodwm expresses the hope
that the bill making available loans
totalling $8000000 to Valley citrus
growers will become a’ 'aw shortly.
• • •
UP AT MERCEDES THE MER-
chants are feeling the effects of oil
activity.
Leasing is active—oil men there
spending money.
All the way to Brownsville and
Port Isabel the effects of oil ac-
tivity are noted.
For oil men are convinced that a
great field Is in the making in this
section—
And its outlet will be the coast
near here.
• • •
BROWNSVILLE AND MATA-
moros people assembled once more
at a friendly meeting Thursday
night—
And once more a governor of
Tamaulipas was told iha* the Vic-
toria-Matamoros highway is con-
sidered one of the most important
objectives of Matamoro6 and
Brownsville.
Like deep water—that road will
become a reality some day—
And like deep water its import-
ance will be emphasis'd not lessen-
ed. by the long fight to get it.
• • •
FARMERS MEETINO AT HAR-
llngen decided it is impossible for
| the Valley alone to do anything
about the cabbage market.
The supply la so great that one
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•JCTTTTiiTTTTV'rT
CIVA to Drop 400000 from Rolls
PLOT TO KILL
DOLLFUSS IS
SAID FOILED
Czechoslovakia Deniei
Sending Arms To
Aid Rebels
Wholesale fighting was at an
end in strife-tom Austria Friday
but the tenacious socialists began
a campaign of guerilla warfare
against the fascist home guard
backbone of government support.
Assassination Attempted
Reports were circulated thal
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
“gamecock” of Europea .1 politics
had been the subject of an assassina-
tion attempt along with Vice Chan-
cellor Emil Fey and Prince Ernst
Von Starhemberg. home guard lead-
ers. The rumors were unverified.
Socialist leaden called for act!
of sabotage.
Other European nations mean-
while closely scanned the Austriar
situation which they considered
fraught with danger to Europear
tranquility especially should th«
Nazis gain control.
To avoid ’ this. France and
Czechoslovakia decided to give the
Dollfuss government non-military
aid
Reports were current In Rome thal
Italy might demand an Investiga-
tion by the League of Nations ol
published charges that Czechoslo-
vakia supported the socialise up-
rising by shipping arms and am-
munition into Austria.
Deny Rebel Aid
Press attacks on Czechoslovakia
the foreign office admitted repres-
ented the Italian government!
view.
Dr. Edourd Benes Czechoslovak-
ian foreign minister tauied a flat
denial in Parts that his government
had supported tha socialist outbreak
in any fashion.
The charges he told the Aasociat-
(Continued on Page Five)
Allred Will Confer
In Relief in Texai
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 -
Atty. Gen. James V. Allred of Tex-
as. said here Friday ht expected U
confer soon with the relief admin-
istration concerning the general re-
lief situation in Texas
The Texan said he likely would
discuss the relief bom situation tr
that state. Some difficulty has beer
met there in disposing of the bonds
Hunt Jailbreakers
DECATUR. Feb 16. <*»•—Wide-
spread search was under way Fri-
day for four prisoners who escapee
from the Wise county Jail hen
Thursday night after slugging ant
disarming Sheriff J TOm Faith
67 veteraa peace officer.
Faith had gone into th jail cel
with extra bedding when J O
' Russell. 34. serving a bank robbery
sentence who had secreted himsell
In another cell struck the shertfl
a blow and seized his gun. holding
him at bay while Russell liberated
the other convicts.
TRAIN KILLS MAN
STRAWN. Feb. 16——A passen
ger train ran over and killed Rec
Callahan. 62-year-old oil field work-
er who had lived here 20 years neai
> the station today.
NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG-NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
Washington by George Durno — New York by Janies McMullin
COLLUSION—Senators interested
in Latin American bond flotation;
have ben told the Senate will dig
into the matter soon. That will
make the tenth Congressional in-
vestigation so lar this session. About
11.200.000 000 is involved in default-
ed Latin American bonds held bj
American investors.
Its charged that collusion be-
tween American bond concerns and
head*. of South American govern-
ments led to 19 vast national con-
cessions covering natural source*
ic return for loans. Profits wer«
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BOUNTIES MAY
AID AVIATION
PULL THROUGH
_
System for Stronger
Aerial Defense
Mapped Out
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16.—(4*)—A
direct federal ‘bounty" for avia-
tion. replacing scrapped air mail
contracts. r*ceived strong admin-
istration thought Friday.
An idea behind such an undis-
guised bounty would be to build up
.rtronger aerial defenses in case of
war.
To Check Profits
Another disclosure was that
Comptroller Gen. J. R. McCarl.
watchdog of federal expenditures
la shaping a stop-gap against ex-
cessive protit- on army-navy air-
plane contracts This move is at
congressional request.
Whatever the new ledcral plans
it apepared that the air mail scrap
it far from over.
Walter F. Brown. Hoover i>ost-
master general said that charges
of conspiracy and "illegal'’ acta by
r.is administration as put forward
by his predecessor were completely
lacking in "justification.'*
Waiving immunity. Brown ar-
ranged to tell the senate air mail
investigating committee on Monday
his version of the tangle.
Farley Misled?
Air mail contract holder protests
continued to arrive. One company
official asserted Postmaster Gen.
Farley himsel. had “been misled in
this air mail matter."
The justice and post oftice depart-
ments prepared to fight ln a New
York federal court a restraining
order against the contract cancel-
lation and army mail flying.
The ‘ bounty'’ plan under consid-
eration by presidential aides was
described authoritatively as similar
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Weslaco and McAllen
In Tie For Rose Cup
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Feb. 16—Miss Julia
Montgomery publisher of Monty's
Monthly a Mercedes visitor Thurs-
day stated that the first inspection
trip in the annual Rase Cup con-
test was made Wednesday and <*s
regarding city beautification ti*?
towns of the Valley are in poor
condition.
Weslaco and McAllen tied for
nighest score which was 340 points.
Although scores for all towns were |
among the lowest ever given in the
history of the Valley-wide contest
it is expected that improvement
will be the greatest of any year.
Miss Montgomery said.
With the improvements made
xxssible by the Civil Works Admin-
istration appropriation practically
every town in the Valley is already
• at work on a beautification pro-
gram.
—
Bremer Denies Any
Lack of Cooperation
ST. PAUL. Feb. 16. (4»u-Edward
1 G Bremer bank president recently
released by kidnapers after paying
of $200000 ransom. Friday express-
ed displeasure over statements from
Washington that the Bremer family
was not co-operating fully with fed-
' eral investigators
“I don’t think the attorney gen- |
eral was justified in making the |
statement that federal agents are
not receiving the co-operation of
the Bremer family." the 73-year-
old bank president said.
Mr. Bremer refused to amplify
his comment.
Fire Raze* Plant
TEXARKANA. Ark Feb. 16. .4»V-
Fire start l from a nearby boxcar
caused $100000 loss at the number
2 plant of the Southern Ice and
Utilities company Friday.
Firemen battled the flames six
hours before bringing them under
control. They believed hoboes start-
ed the boxcar fire Thursday night
to keep warm.
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WHERE HUNDREDS WERE KILLED
i ' m
RURAL AREAS
TO GET CUTS
FEBRUARY 22
Next Friday Is Last
Pay Day for Many
Thousands
WASHINGTON Feb 16. (W—
The Civil Works Administration will
drop 400.000 workers in rural areas
throughout the country on Friday.
February 25.
Announcing new regulations for
the next ten weeks. Harry L. Hop-
kins administrator said that for
the present hours of labor would
remain at 24 a week in cities and 15
in rural areas.
>00.000 Dropped
The demobilization which started
Thursday night with the dropping
of between 150000 and 200 000 work-
ers on federal projects will be car-
ried on at the rate of approximate-
ly io per cent* a week through
March. After that it is scheduled
to be accelerated until the ent'ce
force of 4.000.000 men and women
will have been demobilized by May
1.
The demobilization order affects
every state equally insofar as it has
gone out. Hopkins said.
The new regulations as Hopkins
11 outlined them:
1—All persons living in house-
| holds where another member is
1 working whether on public or pri-
vate employment will be dropped
first.
J— All persons who have other re-
sources.
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Man Facing Charge
Takes His Own Life
VERNON Feb. 16. «4*j—Leonard
I O. Moore. 32. shot and killed him-
self Thursday night after he was
served with a felony warrant for
i arrest on a charge of swindling
; from Motley county
i Told that he would be arrested.
: Moore asked J D Linton sheriff
to accompany him home for a few
minutes. The sht-rifl complied and
Moore entered his home took a
pistol from a dresser drawer in an
adjoining room and fired a pistol
bullet through his heart.
| ‘Ma* Frees Four
AUSTIN Feb. 16. iA>—Gov. lit-
I nam A. Ferguson Friday pardoned
from the penitentiary Floyd Kelley
serving one year from Hunt county
for violation of the licuor law.
He was convicted in November.
1933.
’ She gave conditional pardons to
• Elbert Wilkes serving four years
i from Hopkins countv lor burglary
> and theft convicted in February
> 1933. and to Frank Carroll. Kauf-
I man county theft of automobile.
t two years convicted in March. 1933.
A 90-day furlough extension was
t issued to J. O Escobar convicted in
i Bexar county for murder m
- June. 1932. and sentenced to 40
> years.
; PASSENGER LIST
i The following passengers left this
• morning on Pan American airways
southbound plane; to Tampico F
[ O. Willy: to Mexico City Mr. and
r Mrs. A. N. Lawson. J J. Cushman
and Mr. and Mrs. G E. Felton.
The Karl Marx apartment house In Vienna housing 2 000 socialist families was one of the buildings
demolished earlier in the week when the Austrian government turned heavy guns on quarters occupied by
socialists. Many hundreds were reported killed when the building erected at a cost of $4000000 and con-
sidered Europe's finest was demolished by artillery fire. The socialists had set up machine guns in the
building and were pouring a deadly fire into the ran cs of government troops.
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BANKERS MEET
AT HARLINGEN
Group Warned That Unless
Robberies End May Lose
Burglary Insurance
• 8pecial to The Herald»
HARLINGEN. Feb 16.—About
150 bankers from various parts of
the state were warned here Friday
morning that unless steps are tak-
en to abolish bank robberies in this
state banks are facing the possi-
bility of losing burglary insurance
even at much greater insurance
rates.
The warning a as issued hy D F.
Blackburn president of the Texas
Bankers' association in an :ukkess
to members of the Second district
rexHs Banking association in con-
vention here.
Blaokburn warned that state
bunkers have i>aid little attention
to Texas' rewards for dead bank
robbers and advised thos. attrtid-
ing the convention to familiarize
themselves with simple rules of
precaution.
Bankers have been too engrossed
in building big banks -’nl have in-
dulged In cut-throat competition
which has led to the present condi-
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Pope Gets Pay
AUSTIN. Feb. 16 <A»>—Rea W E
Pope of Corpus Christi enjoined in
district court from receiving his
legislative salary warrant will get
his wage after all.
An injunction restraining the
comptroller and treasurer from is-
suing and paying his salary war-
rant was dismissed Friday John
T. Smith of Austin publisher of a
tax journal filed application for
injunction alleging Pope owed
$1098.48 in delinquent state taxes.
He contended Pope had no right to
receive state pay while owing taxes.
“Thirty Dayk that Rocked the
Nation.'' those 30 days which
were taking place exactly a year
ago in the United State* is ap-
pearing daily in The Brownsville
Herald.
The series is a concise auth-
entic survey of the circumstances
that led to the crisis that faced
thr United States last year
fore Roosevelt took office events
that will go down as among the
most stirring in America'! history.
Familiarize yourself with those
history-making days by Trading
“Thirty Days that Rocked the
Nation."
TRAIN KILLS
SCHOOL TOTS
Two Children and Teacher
Die In Grade Crossing
Accident
DALLAS. Feb. 16. uP»—Two school
children were killed and their
teacher was injured critically early
today when the automobile in
which they were riding ran Into
the side of a fast passenger train
at a crossing west of Dallas.
Evelyn Wayne Dalton. 8. and her
sister. Mary Nell. 7. lost their lives
and Mrs. Pear C. Newton 38. who
had picked them up in her ca:
a short distance from the tracks
suffered severe head and body
bruises. The automobile was de-
molished.
E. A. Bales station agent at
Eagle Ford said Mrs. Newton ap-
parently did not see the train ap-
proaching from her right and the
automobile struck the engine al its
drive wheels.
Mrs. Newton was a native of
Alto. Texas and formerly taught
school at Nacogdoches and Denton
8h> went from her home here
every day in her automobile and
frequently picked up children along
the road to the school.
PLANE STOCKS
PROBE BEGINS
New York Exchange Aski
Members to Report On
Transactions
NEW YORK. Feb 16—The New
York Stock Exchange today launch
ed an investigation into recen
trading in Aircraft stocks.
The exchange has notified ai
members to report to the businesi
conduct committee by noon Feb
19. a list of all sales made Iron
Jan. 26 to Feb. 9. the names o:
members of firms through whon
transactions were made and of th<
! customers for whom they wen
executed.
The inlormatiou is requested foi
the stocks of Aviation Corp. of Dc
law are. Bendix Ailafion Corp
Curtis-Wright Corp. Douglas Air
craft Inc North American Avia
lion Inc. United Aircraft anc
Transport and Wright Aeronau
tical Corp.
While exchange officials declinec
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Medic*~Baffled By
Bleeding Disease
CHICAGO. Feb 16. —</?—Physi
cians were conlronted with i
strange malady today — thromtx
cjtopenic purpura— ar affhdtoi
which has caused a 30-year-ol<
telephone operator to lose nearl;
nine quarts o! blood.
Eight days ago Miss Gertrud)
Siers appeared to be suflering fron
i ordinary cold. Suddenly he
nose began to bleed. Within tW)
days the bleeding spread to he
mouth ears and eyes and ha:
continued since despite the effort
of physicians at Holy Cross hos
pita).
During this time ten quarts o
blood have been injected into he:
veins in 13 transfusions.
WASHINGTON
T? George Durnn
AIR MAIL—Sources dose to the
administration predict the govern-
ment will end up carrying its own
cir mail for keeps since the Presi-
dent's cancellation of existing con-
tracts.
Mr. Roosevelt refuses to discuss
the situation. He says its too early.
But you can lay a bet that op-
erations in the next few months
will be closely checked with an eye
to setting up a permanent fleet of
government mail planes.
It’s also sale to bet that a ter-
\ |
rific lobby will descend on Wash-
ington to balk the move. Commer-
cial aviation will shed oceans of
tears to prove that it can't get
along without mail contracts.
Also every section of the country
will be apprehensive as to how the
air mails will be rc-routed.
Congress and the White House
will both feel the pressure.
• • •
PAY—Investigators lor the Bud-
get Bureau have quietly moved in
on NR A and PWA—with the ob-
ject of giving the taxpayer a break.
Budget Director Lew Douglas
ccied on information that payrolls
in the two emergency organizations
hadn't been whittled as ordered. If
he finds what he expects you’ll see
him going to the mat with Gen
Hugh Johnson and Sec. Ickes in
person.
• • •
When the Recovery and Public
Works Administrations were set up
all employees were hired on a clvi!
service rate of pay although not
under civil service ratings.
This system caused a lot of trou-
ble. Two sub-officials would hire
two delta to do the same type of
work and one would rate higher
pay than the other.
To stop this practice the Presi-
dent issued an executive order set-
ting a single salary for every grade
in the emergency offices.
Lately Douglas got word the sys
tem is still being beaten by the
simple expedient of giving favored
tmployees titles which call ior
higher pay than the type of work
they are doing
That was enough to make the
budget boss see red. Even some
higher-ups may get stepped on.
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NEGRO SHOT
TWICE AS HE
IS ARRESTED
Black Wanted For
Killing Man
And Wife
CLARKSVILLE Feb 1«. <*»►—
Frank Clark negro wanted for tho
double slaying of Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Stiles on their farm near
Idabel. Okie.. Tuesday wa. captur-
ed by officers at Addilou. 23 mile*
northwest of here about noon Fri-
day.
Negro Shot Twice
Clark was shot twice by Deputy
Sheriff J. N. Geer as the officers
seized him. The negro was still
alive when officers started with Krr
to Detroit. They were presumably
on their way to Paris with the negro.
Couple Shot Down
Three sons of the McCurUun
county Oklahoma farm couple
witnessed the slaying. Dedrtck
Stiles 21 one of them said the
negro apparently was talking with
his parents in a field and then
raised his rifle shooting his father
and then his mother. Stiles was
killed Instantly and his wife died
two hours later.
Clerk then started toward tbo
sons and fired one shot but ap-
parently lost heart and started run-
ning toward the Red river thickets
to the south.
It developed that the negro had
1 resented the couple’s action in rent-
ing an adjoining farm on which he
was a tenant.
Wire Flashes
BELTON—A district court jury
Friday convicted bill Querner of
Temple for the slaying of Dr. A.
M Clifford last Nov. g and sen-
tenced him to 99 years’ imprison-
ment.
NEW YORK.—The suit of the
Transcontinental am* Western
Air. Inc. to prevent cancellation
of its air mail contract waa
challenged by the government
Friday on the ground that it
could not be brought without the
government's consent.
NACOGDOCHES. — Two men
robbed and hound Frank Banka
night watchman and then loot-
ed four stores of 170 in cash and
i several C W A checks before mak-
i ing a successful getaway in the
early morning hours at Cushing
near here. Friday.
The robbers held up Banks im-
mediately after be had met the
Southern Pacific train at 2 a. m..
robbed him of three dollars placed
a hood over his head and tied
him to a telephone post.
NEW YORK—A half million
trade union workers were
ordered out Friday to demonstrate
against the “slaughter of Austrian
i workers."
The walkout called by its lead-
ers the most ambitious labor
demonstration In the history of
New York City was to be climax-
ed at Madison Square Garden In
a huge protest meeting.
HOUSTON.—Texas headquar-
ters of the Farm Credit Admin-
istration announced Friday that
local production credit associations
had been instructed not to make
loans to fanners who refuse to
co-operate in the crop curtail-
ment program of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration-
Through county production
control associations now being
set up. the AAA will prepare
lists of farmers Joining in the
movement to reduce acreage in
certain produc ts.
; WASHINGTON—The House of
Representatives . will pave the
I f25R.000.000 tax bill Tuesday.
This was decided Friday before
that branch Joined the senate In
recess over the week-end.
TWENTY BANKS
ARE REOPENED
WASHINGTON Feb. 16—<>¥»>—-
| Twenty national bank* wliich had
been in conservators hands were said
today by comptroller of the currency
• I O’Connor to have been licensed and
opened or reopened during the first
ten days of February.
Frozen deposits involved totaled
$17149000 and unrestricted deposits
$1.682 000.
The reorganization plans tor nine
banks were approved during the
same period. O’Connor said.
At the close of business Feb. 10
i three were 300 unlicensed national
banks in the United States. 271 of
’1 which had approved reorganization
1 plans and 59 disapproved plans he
added.
Unlicensed national bank* whose
reorganization plans were approved
included:
Texas—Robstown. Oouger National
bank.
Insolvent national banks whose
reorganization plan* w?re approved:
Texas—Sylvester. First National
bank.
Centennial Plans
Studied by Solons
AUSTIN. Feb 16.—op>—'The Tex-
as legislature turned from debt
moratoria and employment relief
bond subjects temporarily today to
ether bills that had been sent in -
by Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson.
The senate centered its attention
cn legislation that would make
possible the holding of a Texas
centennial celebration In 1936 and
th* hause considered methods of
combatting the pink boll worm amt
other matters.
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