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'/ALLEY
BALIB L. BUKU
V THOUGHT THAT EVERY-
botiv inderstood about these »n-
detr^ion suits which have been
filed by the federal government to
aecur the right of way foi . S
Brr* svilk ship channel and turn-
ing asin.
Tbtse suits art friendly suits.
fUec chiefly to clear title to the
lane
Tlry are NOT filed because the
ownrs of the property have put
any hindrance whatever in the way
o( tif acquisition of the land.
W< nake this explanation because
J. B Jones one of th# land owners
is bung subjected to considerable
crlticsm from acquaintances and
accused of “holding up” the port.
M: Jones la doing no such thiag
nor ira any of the other property
owners so far as e know.
Tbe government has simply cnos-
en -.ais way to get the land ;lear
the itle making the acquisition
of ite right of way a much speedier
^^proposition than if U. S attorneys
^TS^ac to wade through the immense
▼ Staci of abstracts and opinions.
• • •
6C PAR AS THE PRESENT SEA-
soi. is concerned Valley tanners
Stay as well forget the Bankhead
Mil. except to grin and bear the
oa&iuieat injustices the bill imposes.
But—we would respectfully urge
again on all Valley organizations
that we get to work for next
•on.
Lets find out before cotton plant-
ing urn# as much a« we can about
what is going to be done.
Let s KNOW what our allotment
for the county is going to be.
Lets insist on having all possible
information regarding acreage re-
duce m tax exemptions and all that
serf of thing in time to do us some
good.
Let’s find out how to impress on
the AAA the fact that we plant cot-
ton months in advance of the rest
of the cotton growing territory and
let s insist that we are as much en-
titled to consideration as any oth-
er section of the country.
It can be done if we will just not
fold up with the end of th« cot-
ton season and forget all about it
until next June or July.
• • •
AKMAY LIVE IN THIS VALLEY
for mother 20 years and every .our
of that 20 years—
We will continue to believe that
• central clearing house for Valley
problems is a prime need.
Actually this Valley misses out or.
plenty because we have no one
egriicy responsible for representing
of us before the various state
d federal agencies.
A Valley Chamber of Commerce
ecu to be "out.”
But it does seem to us that a Val-
ley council with authority to .t;p-
resent each community could be
formed of representatives of the
various commercial organization^.
The need is certainly here.
• • •
TO OUR PERSONAL KNOW-
ledge Sunday's norther hit just in
time to spoil a hall dozen oeach
parties.
And rob a half hundred or so of
the opportunity of soaring aloft in
the new Douglas plane.
On the other hand the slight
briskness induced by the first ange
of fall weather.
Gives added pep to us all.
• • •
THIS PROBLEM OP GETTING
e thought of apy kind on a Mon-
day morning is one that never gets
any nearer solution.
It’s Just one of those things tiat
worries everybody connected with
s newspaper.
• • •
THOSE OF US WHO HEARD
Pres- Roosevelt's talk Sunday mg at
k arew a measure of hope in his ad-
1 mission that the NRA had found
Ik that a different order prevails m
Smaller communities and that rules
And regulations which apply to the
larger industries do not apply to
the business houses of these com-
_ mum ties.
Our business concerns relatively
email in comparison with major in-
dustry have problems peculiar to
themselves. Just as does major in-
dustry.
From our own experience we
know that no hard and fast rule
can be promulgated binding both
big and small
One or the other and perhaps
both will suffer.
The Valley we believe hopes that
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Fair Profit Protection Promised by Roosevelt
._______ ■ - —- - ... . to .—
CAPITAL AND
LABOR PEACE
PACTS ASKED
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NRA to Be Modified
Where Neceisary
Nation Told In
Address
WASHINGTON Oct. 1.—(AV-
Pres. Roosevelt applied himself
Monday to a new experiment—a
truce to warfare between capital
and labor with the government as
the umpire.
Acting on a plan he announced
in a “fireside chat" to a nationwide
radio audience Sunday night. Mr
Roosevelt is expected to summon
leaders of industry and organized
labor within a few days.
He will seek to have them forego
strikes lockouts or other methods
of economic force for a "specific
trial period of industrial peace."
He will ask pledges to settle dif-
ferences by mutual agreement or.
failing that by the elaborate medi-
ation machinery the New Deal has
established.
Praised by Labor Head
Quick praise for the president’s
speech came from Pres. William
Green of the American Federation
of Labor. Calling the address •'time-
ly. appropriate and impressive." he
said at San Francisco that the
“appeal to Industry and labor to use
the government for cooperative pur-
poses is pertinent."
He expressed the hope that the
(Continued on Page Two)
BOY SEESH1S
FAMILY SLAIN
Brother to Be Buried In
Arms of His Dead
Mother
STEPHENVILLE. Oct. 1——A
shocked terror-striken nine-year-
old boy was the only survivor of a
rural farming family Monday after
witnessing the slaying of his moth-
er and four-year-old brother by his
step-father who then turned the
gun to his own head.
The body of Robert Reed Salter
four lay In the arms of the mother
Mrs. Mittie Salter. 29. In an un-
pretentious casket as relatives plan-
ned funeral services. The father.
Jess Salter. 40-year-old shell shock-
ed World war veteran and high-
way maintenance operator will be
buried by their side.
The two children walked beside
their mother as they entered the
yard of their home at the John-
sonville community 15 miles south-
east of here after a day’s work In
the cotton field. Salter advanced
towards his family and started fir-
ing. Two shots penetrated the boy's
heart. Through the cheek in the
abdomen and through the heart
Mrs. Salter was shot. She dropped
dead beside her baby.
Morris Johnson nine-year-old
stepson cringed L. terror behind a
tree. He ran to a neighboring house
screaming.
Salter went to the home of Odell
Wright a neighbor. Mrs. Wright
sought safety under the house while
her husband hid In a cow lot. Salter
discovered Mrs. Wright and threat-
ened to kill her if she did not tell
where her husband could be found.
Mrs. Wright said she did not know
where her husband was.
Salter turned and pressed the gun
to his head. He fired one shot and
dropped dead.
Douglas Airplane
Rides Postponed
The norther which blew into the
Valley Sunday afternoon cut short
the program of demonstration rides
being given city officials and oth-
ers in official capacities In this
section in the new Douglas Airliner
by Pan American airways.
The demonstration win be com-
pleted probably next Sunday it was
announced.
Have Mae West Figure And
Many Children Duce Says
ROME. Oct. 1.—Women
under the regime of Premier
Benito Mussolini are subjected
daily to a tremendous bombard-
ment of propaganda divided un-
der four headings:
1— Get married young.
2— Have children many of them.
3— Create Italian styles and buv
Italian clothes.
4— Have an Italian figure that
is be of the Mae West type. The
slim woman is derided is a Donna
Crisl (woman of the crisis) be-
cause it is believed she is not a
child bearer.
Do facilitate marriages the
government protects their jobs
gives them almost free honey
moons and distributes liberal
dowries. To enable women to
marry young the law has
amended to permit girls of IS to
wed without the consent of their
parents.
To encourage child bearing the
government contributes to the
support of large families.
Fascism rigidly protects the
family. Divorce is not permitted.
Legal separations are possible but
may be obtained only with much ■
difficulty.
The cause of suffrag for wo-
men is dead tn Italy and women
have less chance to obtain the
vote under Mussolini than they
ever had.
1st New Deal Case
To Come to Supreme
Court Is Dismissed
WASHINGTON Oct. 1—(#)—The supreme court
opened its fall term Monday by dismissing one of the five
cases in which the constitutionality of the New Deal is
involved—that seeking to punish East Texas oil men on
a charge of producing more than the quota allotted them
________ — that eta to
NEW AIRLINE
BEGINS RUNS
Brownsville Now Served By
Two Connections To
North
Bowen Airlines inaugurated
plane service between Brownsville
and Ft. Worth and Intermediate
points Monday af'emoon with a
northbound plane ieavlng here at
1.15. A six-place Lockheed-Vega
plane was due to arrive here Mon-
day morning to make the return
trip northward with passengers.
Leonard O. Simon traffic man-
ager of the Bowen lines arrived
in Brownsville Sunday to complete
arrangements for the inauguration
of the service.
“We anticipate a good business
between points north and Browns-
ville" Simon said.
Under the schedule announced by
the company planes will leave Ft.
Worth at 2:30 p. m. arriving in
Austin at 4.20 San Antonio at 5|<£
and Brownsville at 7:10 p. m.
Northbound planes will leave here
at 1:15 p. m.. arriving at Corpus
Christi at 2:10. San Antonio at 3:25.
Austin at 4:20 and Ft. Worth at
6:10 p. m.
The schedule was arranged ac-
cording to Mr. Simon especially to
make connections with Pan Amer-
ican planes and with trains and
airplanes north from Dallas.
Passengers going to the North
will take the train out of Dallas
shortly after arriving and may
take a plane out of St. Louis the
following morning reaching Chi-
cago at noon or New York at 4
p. m.
The planes used by Bowen air-
lines muse at 150 miles an hour
and have a top speed of 190 miles.
The company is establishing an
office at the Pan-American Muni-
cipal airport Simon said and will
have teleplume connection. No- 111.
after Tuesday.
SHERIFF’S AU T O
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STOLEN BY NERVY
♦ * * * *
MAN IN HIDALGO
(8pedaJ to Tbs Herald)
EDINBURG. Oct. 1—One of
the nerviest thieves in the world—
or one of the dumbest—is being
hunted in the Valley.
And the phrase “Is being hunt-
ed" doesn’t convey half the
tensity with which he really is b**
mg hunted.
Sunday night an automobile be-
longing to Tom Gill was stolen at
Edinburg and Tom GUI happens
to be the sheriff of Hidalgo coun-
ty- The missing car Is a 1934 light
sedan with truck back and bears
the license plate 567-444. Officers
throughout the Valley were look-
ing for the missing automob‘1*
Monday morning.
Girl’* Body Clad
In Trunk* Found
WACO. Oct. 1. (AV-McLennan
county officers Monday sought a
man for questioning In connectl <n
with the death of 14-year-old Ade-
laide German of Waco whose oody
was found floating in the Boseque
river clad only in white trunks.
The body bore ne marks of vio-
lence. The man was last seen with
the girl at a dance.
The government through James
Crawford Biggs the solicitor gen-
eral. asked dismissal on the ground
that executive orders issued by
Pres. Roosevelt had Inadvertently
omitted the offense with which J.
W. Smith and four other Oregg
county. Texas producers had been
charged.
Only recently-—after the case bac
been appealed to the supreme court
—was it discovered that the exec-
utive orders failed to prohibit oil
production above state quotas.
The lower federal ooun for east-
tern Texas quashed the indictment
against the men. ruling that ihe
federal government had no author-
ity to attempt to control production
in the states. The case was appeal-
ed by the government directly to the
supreme court.
Two other oil cases attacking the
constitutionality of section 9-C of
the National Industrial Recovery
Act and the oil code issued under
it remained before the court rhey
were brought by the Panama Re-
fining company and the Amazon
Petroleum company.
In both cases the eastern Texas
district court decided against the
government but was reversed by the
court of appeals.
MORERANSOM
BILLS TURN UP
;
Book* Throw New Light
On German’s Actions
After Kidnaping
TRENTON. N.J-Oet. I—(API —
Governor Harry Moore Monday
announced that New Jersey would
probably movi> tor the extradition
of Bruno Richard Hauptmann be-
fore the German carpenter goes on
trial in New l'ork on an extor-
tion indictment.
TRENTON. N. J. OCC. 1. (A*)—
to the tune of extradition." Wilentx
said- “It is unlikely such proceedings
will be instituted this week."
“There has been no decision as
Atty. Oen. David Wilentx announc-
ed Monday that it was unlikely that
New Jersey would seek to extraal’e
Bruno Richard Hauptmann this
week to stand trial on a charge ol
murder in the kidnaping of the
Lindbergh baby.
Bronx county officials went into
court to ask dismissal of an affi-
davit charging Bruno Richard
Hauptmans with the extortion. An
indictment had superseded it. They
also pushed their house wrecking
search of Hauptmann's home and
arranged with defense counsel for a
mental examination of the prisoner.
Dist. Atty. Samuel J. Foley -aid
he wculd ask for a special jury
panel of 200.
Monday s court procedure was a
technicality which did not require
(Continued on Page Twoi
Cool Wave Brings
Strong North Wind
Sunday's "norther.” which brought
rain to practically all of south Tex-
as. was a “dry norther" in Browns-
ville Sunday but rain began to fall
at noon Monday.
The government station at the
airport reported a light sprinkle
Sunday afternoon but the city sta-
tion reported no rainfall. All i her
Valley stations reporting Monday
showed precipitation ranging from
a few hundredths of an Inch to SO
at Hidalgo.
The cool wave struck the ''alley
early Sunday afternoon bringing
with It the strongest north wind of
the season. Temperatures tumbled
from 90 degrees during the after-
noon to 68 st Brownsville Sunday
night.
Although the wind was the
strongest of the season the fall In
temperature did not set a new low
for the season. On September 16 -a
low of 66 was recorded and on
September 5. 61 was recorded.
The txml wfcve was general from
northern Mexico to the great lakes
the weather bureau reported.
Man Suffers Broken
Back in Car Wreck
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Oct. 1.— Maroos
Villarreal is In the Valley Baptist
Hospital. Harlingen receiving treat-
ment for a broken back as a result
of s collision st an Intersection near
the Valley Box and Crate factory
Sunday noon. The occupants of the
other car were Bill Williams and s
girl companion neither of whom
wwt badly burl
SWEETHEART
DEATH CASE
TRIALBEdS
‘ American Tragedy V
Parallel Will Be
Heard by Jury Jin
Pennsylvania
WILKES-BARRE. FA. Oct. 1—
(/p—Bobby Edwards. 21-year-old
mine surveyor goes on trial for his
life Monday in Pennsylvania’s par-
allel of “The American Tragedy.”
The commonwealth charges that
he blackjacked Freda McKechnie.
his neighborhood sweetheart while
they were swimming killing her so
he might marry another girl.
Feeling Runs High
Counsel for Edwards will contend
that Miss McKechnie’s delicate con-
dition resulted in a heart attack
when sha plunged into the chilly
water of Harvey's lake the night of
July 30. *
Feeling is running so high that
attorneys expect difficulty in se-
lecting a jury. Eighty Luzerne
county men and women many of
them miners in collieries where Ed-
ward* worked have been called for
jury duty. Some knew the girl as
an active church worker.
District Attorney Thomas M. Lew-
is says he will introduce three state-
ments in which Edwards admitted
the blackjacking shortly after Miss
McKechnie s body clad In a bathing
suit was recovered from the lake.
The defense plans to attack the
statements as having been forced
from a confused and frightened
youth.
To Become Mother
The states case will be opened
by Harold Flannery assistant dis-
trict attorney who will charge that
Edwards plotted Freda's death after
promising to marry Margaret Crain
an East Aurora. N Y music teach-
er. whom he met while attending
Mansfield. Pa. State Teachers col-
lege.
The defense in support of a heart
attack will point to the post mor-
tem report that Miss McKechnie
would have become s mother in five
months.
State police will patrol the streets
in front of Luzerne county's 12.000.-
000 court house.
Edinburg Mechanic
Is Electrocuted
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG. Oct. 1.—Ignac.o
Ochoa. 24. auto mechanic was elec-
trocuted Sunday afternoon when
current from an extension coid
passed through his body. Ochoa »a*
working in his shop during a rain-
storm and caught hold of an ex-
tension cord supposedly to lurnish
light to continue his work
He was standing on damp earth
and s piece of iron. A short in the
extension circuit is believed to have
sent the curent coursing through
his body. His wife heard his screams
and tore the socket from his grasp
but efforts to revive him were in-
effectual.
Funeipl rites were to have oeen
held Monday afternoon. Survivors
inciuc> the widow and two small
children.
Illness Is Fatal To
Mrs. Louise M. Kain
(Special to The Herald)
RIO GRANDE CITY. Oct. I-
Funeral services were held Monday
in the Church of Immaculate Con-
ception for Mrs. Louise M Kain 76.
who died Sunday at her home in R.o
Grande City after a lingering illness.
Mrs. Kain organized the American
Red Cross chapter of Starr county
in 1917 and served as first cham-
man of the chapter- She was an
active worker in the Catholic
church.
Surviving are . four daughters.
Misses Mabel and Nellie Kain and
Mrs. F. D. Guerra of Rio Grande
City Mrs. Maud Cohen of Dallas
and two sons. John of Baltimoie
and James of Austin and several
grandchildren.
‘Dillinger of Ozarks’ Slain
During Gun Fight at Tavern
ST. JACOB. 111.. Oct. i.—UFy-
The remnants of s band of Ozark
night raiders hid before relent-
less pursuers Monday after four
persons had been slain In a tavern
holdup.
Madison county officers blamed
the “Bish Perkins Gang.” which
has seared a brand of crime across
Southern Illinois and Missouri.
Officers identified two dead ban-
dits as Eugene Goodman self-
styled “Dilllnger of the Ozarks"
and Webb Perkins brother of
William (Bish) Perkins.
Floyd Hartman a customer
from East St Louis and Lea
Holden an employ* also wars
killed. Harold Shannon was critt-i
cally wounded. M
Flourishing guns five bandit^
entered the tavern and were meflj
by the proprietor. Elir.er Jacksofli
with shot gun fire from an
Joining room The raiders
treated raining slugs into
comer of the room but JadflH
got two of them.
Hartmann and ShannonHR
in the first burst of shot. HflElfll
already wounded crept to ■BH
feet of the bandit leader BHi
pleaded for his life
"If you've got anything iHBflBI
»a> it now." the gangster mERi
ed then shot himf JEEB
While Kidnap Hunt Was On
.
In the summer of 1932. while the International hunt for the kidnaper*
of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was at its height Bruno Hauptmann
now indicted for extortion in connection with the crime was enjoying
himself at Hunters Island New York as this snapshot from his al-
bum shows. His sprightly partner in the boisterous episode la Anita
Lutxenberg.
HIGH FINANCE
SECRETS WE
BE REVEALED
$163000000 Fraud I*
Charged Againat
74-Year-Old King
Of Utilities
CHICAGO Oct 1 .—m— Samuel
Insull. once holder of the patron's
box. moved back stage Monday toe
drama as theatrical as the opera he j
once sponsored—his own trial.
The 74-year-old deposed utilities
magnate and sixteen of his business
associates—former leaders of Chi-
cago's social financial and artistis
life—go to trial Tuesday charged
with a $163000000 mall fraud.
Hypnotised Public
Playing opposite them are three
of the government's ace prosecutors.
Their key line expressed last Octo-
ber during attempts to extradite
Insull from Greece is:
"Insull hypnotized the public to
build his super-companies ’’
Supporting Insull and his asso-
ciates is a chorus of eight Chicago
lawyers considered among the moat
brilliant ever assembled for a single
case.
Their lines are those already in-
dicated by insull himself:
"I went down In the depression
that swept the world. Why should
an object lesson be made of me?"
The curtain rues on the opening
scene at 10 a. m.. In the United
States district court of northern
Illinois.
Intense Intereel
The principal and the principles
involved and the ramifications of
the case with Its inside workings of
high finance have attracted to it
extraordinary Interest; an Interest
heightened by the number of per-
sons affected in the crash of the
great utilities system that extended
into 37 states.
Insull has promised he will “tell
his story." In one of his pleas t»
Federal Judge James Herbert Wil-
ke: son who will preside at the
trial the British born Insull accept-
ed responsibility for “my own acta
and those of my associates.’’ refer-
ring to his sen. Samuel Jr. and to
seven other Jbfficlal* of his defunct
I corporation •ecuritie.s company.
L. W. HUMBLE’S
FUNERAL HELD
Pioneer San Benito Farmer
Dies in Hospital At
San Antonio
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENIO. Oct. 1—Leonard W
Humble. 58. died at 5:30 Sunday
morning in a hospital in San An-
tonio a week after being taken
there for treatment. The pioneer
San Benito farmer had been grave-
ly ill for many months. The bo<37
was taken to San Benito Monday
morning and funeral services were
to have been held Monday after-
noon at 3 o'clock in the First Meth-
odist Church. Rev. S. C. Dunn
pastor will be in charge.
Military rites were scheduled to
be held at the graveside with a
(Continued on Page Two)
^ ‘Ma* Free* Eight
AUSTIN. Oct. 1.— **)- Oov. Mir-
iam A. Ferguson Monday granted
four conditional pardons and four
general paroles to Texas convicts.
Conditional pardons were grant-
ed R. E 'Sticks” Woodland con-
victed in Smith county In June
1934. of violating the liquor law and
sentenced to one year; Wade Mor-
gan. Smith county. June 1934. vio-
lating liquor law. one year; Oscar
Wood hunt county. April 1931. as-
sault tor ob. nine years and Jimmie
Moore. Gonzales county. January
1934. turkey theft one and one half
years.
General paroles Included Lloyd
Hitt. Gray county May 1933. burg-
lary five years.
VET ADMITS HE
KILLED FAMILY!
Cane Gets Life Term For
Slaying Wife And
Children
OKLAHOMA CITY Oct. 1—<*V-
Speaking for the first time in many
weeks John A. Cane former psy-
chopathic patient plead d guuly
Monday to a murder charge in the
shovel slaying of his wife and three {
children In June 1933 and was/
sentenced to life imprisonment. f>.
‘If there was ever a case when'
the death penalty should be
posed** said District Judge
Hooker *‘it is this character
case.
“However. I have two reasons f
following the recommendation
the county attorney that ihi.» '
be given a life sentence
is tnat I rely on the ju<
the county attorney. Tbg
that I don't think I V
myself to impose a de.*
where there is no Ju* n
the whole responsibility. _
Cane slight war veten
ed the slayings while r
the veterans hospital aid
“Something came
explained telling of
down his family
and placed the
shallow grave
homa City
•pot. and w
dcr.
The defendants arc InsulTs
principal dealer* hla per-
sonal * and the aocountaa*
who to the oompany’e
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