The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 205, Ed. 2 Friday, February 28, 1936 Page: 3 of 16
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FARM RELIEF
MACHINERY IS
MADEREADY
Bill It Patted Amid
Contention of GOP
That Aid Plan It
Unconttitutional
WASHINGTON Feb. 28 UPj—<Of-
ficials awaited only a scratch of
President Roosevelt’s pen Friday be-
fore hastening to launch a vast new
agricultural subsidy program applic-
able to every American farm and ad-
ministered by a reorganized AAA.
Hurrying to beat the spring plant-
.lng deadline AAA men eagerly saw
the $500000000 soil conservation
measure complete Its J o u r n ey
through congress Thursday.
After a White House conference
Thursday night it was indicated
President Roosevelt would ask next
week for taxes to finance the pro-
gram. These are expected to total
about $500000000.
To Cali Farm Chiefs
Authoritative sources said officials
would call farm representatives into
regional meetings to discuss details
of subsidies the government will pay
farmers for conserving soil by taking
land out of commercial crop pro-
duction
The first of these it was indicated
might be held next week at Memphis.
Tenn. where the first major dis-
closures of Secretary- Wallace's exact
plans are expected to be made.
(The new program replacing the
AAA struck down by the supreme
oourt will be administered by an
agency bearing the same alphabet-
ical designation. The bill gives Secre-
tary Wallace wide authority to make
payments either directly to farm-
ers. or through cooperating states
for conserving soil and making other
•■economic'' use of land. After two
pears the grants would be made only
tn states which adopted farm aid
formulas acceptable to the federal
government 1
Attacked by GOP
Some officials favor paymg sub-
sidies an two bases in the cotton
belt—a flat grant for each acre
customarily planted in soil-conserv-
ing crops and a second payment
baaed on value of cotton which
would have been produced on land
diverted to soli conservation
Republicans have attacked the new
bill as unconstitutional while Sena-
tor Smith <D-SC) chairman of the
agricultural committee called it
“the closest to a constitutional bill
that can be written."
The Weather
East Texas <east of 100th meri-
dian): Partly cloudy Friday night
and Saturday; slightly warmer Fri-
day night except in northwest and
north-central portions.
Gentle to moderately northeast
winds on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
to the river during the next 24 to 36
hour*.
A Flood Present 34-Hr 34-Hr
Stage Stage Chang. Rain
Laredo 27 2.3 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 2.1 -0.1 .00
Hidalgo 21 3.3 0.0 DO
Mercedes 21 5 4 OuO DO
Brownsville 18 412 -0.2 .01
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Port Isabel
Saturday under normal meteor-
ological conditions:
High.13:47 p. m
Low . 3 03 a. m
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset Friday . 6:31
Sunrise Saturday.6:54
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure was relatively
low over the northern Rocky moun-
tain region and over the far south-
west Friday morning and relative-
ly to moderately high over the bal-
ance of the United States and over
the Canadian northwest. The weath-
er was therefore generally fair and
temperatures about seasonable prac-
tically throughout the country at the
morning observation.
Brownsville 7 a. m. (CST) sea-
level pressure 30.16 inches.
BULLETIN
(First figures lowest temperature last
might: second highest yesterday: third
wind velocity at S a. m.; fourth prec-
ipitation in last 24 hours).
Abilene . 46 88 tt 00
Amarillo. 38 64 .. .00
Atlanta . 34 60 .. .00
Austin . 40 68 .. .00
Boston . 30 40 20 .01
BROWNSVILLE ... 48 81 .. 01
Br’ville Airport. 46 62 .. .01
Chicago . 18 38 .. .00
Cleveland . 22 40 W .02
Corpus Christi ...... 46 62 .. .04
Dallas . 50 68 .. .00
Pel Rio . 40 88 .. .00
Denver .. 32 54 .. .00
Dodge City . 30 58 .. .00
El Paso ............ 36 64 .. .00
Fort Smith ........ 42 62 It .00
Houston. 54 62 .. .00
Jacksonville ....... 48 74 .. .26
Kansas City . 34 46 .. .00
Los Angeles. 52 78 .. .00
Louisville . 30 40 .. 00
Memphis . 38 52 .. 00
Miami . 68 76 .. 00
Minneapolis . 4 16 M) .00
New Orleans . 48 58 .. .01
North Platte . 38 54 .. .00
Oklahoma City. 44 62 It 00
Iw Palestine . 48 68 .00
Pensacola . 46 60 It .02
* Phoenix . 42 76 .. 00
St. Louis . 34 40 .. .00
Salt Lake City .... 36 54 .. .00
8an Antonio.48 68 .. 00
SMs Fe . 24 48 .. 00
eridan . 22 50 .. .00
Shreveport ........ 44 68 W .00
Tampa ............ 30 78 14 56
t ksburg . 42 64 12 00
Washington ........ 34 54 10 .16
Williston . 0 24 .. .01
Wilmington . 48 70 .. .08
Winnemucca .. 54 54 .. .00
Doctors Busy In Nanking
HAWKING—UP*—The Ills of Nan-
tint’s 900.000 Inhabitants are min-
istered to by 134 modern doctors
•ad 408 physicians of the old Chi-
nese school. Last year these 542.
medical men treated 1.340000
wises. '
4Cotton Road* Tragedy Reaches Far Beyond
Murder Piercing Depths of Human Passions
By FRANCES CORRY
NEA Service Special Co respondent
ANADARKO Okla Feb. 38. —
Here where Caddo and Kiowa In-
diana in bright - colored blankets
walk the streets before the red-
brick courthouse a tragedy of the
backwaters of civilization has been
enacted — a tragedy so intimately
linked with the bleak life of the
cotton share-cropper and tenant
that hereabouts they are calling
the story “Cotton Road.”
Emma Willis 18-year-old daugh-
ter of the cotton farm tenant Id-
dis Willis took a 12-gauge shotgun
in her hands one nig - and killed
her father as he lay sleeping. That
is the bare admitted fact.
But the story unrolled be-
fore Judge Will Lynn carries deep
down into human passions and
conditions of life.
The Willis family were tenant
farmers in the rough forsaken
country of western Oklahoma near
Eakly The grinding toil of one
farm after another five children to
rear with only stark subsistence to
hope for — all this stalked tn the
background when Horace Smith
was awakened one still ray morn-
ing before dawn by a call outside
the door of his gray shack beside
the road.
A woman and a young girl stood
outside. Smith raised an oil lamp
high looked an unspoken question.
“I’ve Lost My Man"
"Its him." the woman said brief-
ly. Smith understood that some-
thing had happened to Willis. They
set off across the half mile of
stubble and broken ground bo the
Willis shack.
"Something bad happen?” asked
Smith finally.
“I reckon.’ replied the woman
'"Bad enough. I’ve lost my man.”
Smith knew Willis had been sick
he thought of death but he was
not prepared for what he saw.
“The girl. Emma was sitting by
the stove." a hastily summoned
constable told it later. “She wasn’t
crying but only staring ahead.
Flashes of Life
A fttorv to Ted
CANANDAIKUA. N. Y.—Martin
Davey. 25. of Buffalo was won-
dering Friday how to break the
news to his boss that his truck
collided with itself.
The steering rod of his trailei
truck bro-» the truck went out
of contro;. the trailer coupling
broke and the two parts of the
machine collided and overturned
in a ditch.
Davey expects to be out of
Memorial hospital here in a few
■ day’s.
—
Contrarr to Custom
CLINTON. N. C — Kirby Wilson
a farmer drew a 30-day suspend-
ed sentence here for driving while
drunk but his automobile license
was not revoked.
Wilson was driving a mule.
Third Degree Corpse
COLUMBUS. O—George An-
derson found a skeleton on a dump
to which had been carted debris
from the Odd Fellows Hall fire
that resulted in death to five fire-
men. and police hastily checked
again to determine if there had
been still another casualty.
Odd Fellows came to their as-
sistance. The skeleton was part of
their ritualistic equipment they
said.
No More Bologna
TULSA. Okla —The difference
between bologna and sausage is a
matter of principle to women pris-
oners of the county jail.
Declaring “I’ve eaten so much
bologna I can bark better than I
can talk.” Marie Kelly led the
prisoners into a hunger strike to
demand the objectionable item be
eliminated from the Jail diet.
They claimed a victory when Jail
Chef Lyman Burge served them
sausage—and not the link variety.
Not Speaking
DALLAS—Deputy Sheriff BUI
Decker asked Police Radio Dis-
patcher Max Moore to broadcast
a message to a sheriff's squad car.
“What squad?” asked Moore.
“Deputy Bryan Peck.” Decker
replied.
“Sorry." snapped Moore. “He
and I aren't speaking.”
French Saving Hits Prison Isle
LA ROCHELLE. France f/P—An-
other victim of government economy
is St Martin-de-Re. the Island where
thousands of convicts have been built
up for the voyage to Devil's Island.
Hereafter the prisoners will be taken
in barred railway cars direct to the
prison ship. Only the aged or in-
firm will be fed up at St. Martin-de-
Re.
Willis lay in the bed. He had been
shot through the right breast and
that shotgun left a big hole.
Girl Is A Model Prisoner
"I asked who had done it. and
they told me that Emma had shot
her father. Neighbors had come
in by that time so I told Emma
to get her coat and hat. and we
brought her lad the gun back to
Eakly.
"She was the best prisoner I
ever saw. She didn't cry none and
didn't say anything much either
but she didn’t make any fuss and
do a lot of explaining. She's a
hard case to understand.”
She is. Here is Miss Willis’ story
as told in the Caddo County Jail
to a reporter:
"He'd beat me ever since I «an
remember. He beat and cursed and
never let us do anything we want-
ed to do. He made us all work
hard every day . . .He w-ould pre-
tend to be so good when others
were around but* be couldn't be
good to his own foies at a'^
Mind b Blank on Killing
The fatal day. Emma had a date
to go to a bell game with a
neighbor boy. She and her father
spatted about it. That night when
she finished shucking com and
feeding the livestock she did not
go Into the house for supper. After
dark she sneaked into the house.
The family was asleep.
"I don’t know how long it was
before I went to sleep” she re-
lates. “long time. I reck’n. After
that it’s all kinda mixed up In
my mind. I come to and I was
lyin’ In the middle of the floor.
**Ma was a-cryin’ and the kids
the little ones was a-screamin’
I don’t know nothin’ of it except
what ma told me I done. No I
didn’t cry any. That wouldn’t a-
helped none.”
The daughter flushed leeplv as
she Intimated constant pressure
from her father to engage in un-
natural relationship with him. She
implied that this rather than the
spat over her “date.’ goaded her
into her desperate act.
Mother Tells of Misery
Mrs Zona Willis the girl’s moth-
er. a raw-boned woman with wind-
parched face tells her version:
“Emmy hadn’t orta done it but
Iddis wuz mean u her. Emmy is
a good girl. Hope they ain’t too
hard on her. She ain’t never had
an easy- time of it. None of os
has.
“T always tried to raise my chil-
dren right and learn them what was
right and wrong. But ‘he’ never
would let us do nothin’ but work
hard. He's been pestering Emmy
ever since she was 11. He never
gave her no peace after that.
“I talked to Emmy. I told her it
was wrong. I told her to keep away
from him. He found out and then
he got worse and worse. He beat
me and Emmy both and then he
started in on the other kids.”
Little Known By Neighbors
Neighbors knew the Willises lit-
tle though they testified that Wil-
lis was hard-working and “kept as
neat a farm as there is around
here. * He had been 111 for some
time.
And Willis himself the man his
family called by no more affection-
ate name that “he” the long years
of worry and struggle with his
family and his crops and debts—
his story- will never be told. He is
dead by his daughter’s hand.
Dairy and Poultry
Courses Are Offered
SAN BENTTO. Peb. 28—The agri-
cultural committee of the chamber
of commerce met at breakfast
Thursday at the Stonewall Jackson
hotel and set March 10-12 as
tentative dates for a dairy and
poultry short course to be held in
San Benito.
The A. and M. College Extension
Service and the Cudahy Packing
Co. which is planning a plant at
Mercedes have been invited to
furnish speakers.
Birds that sleep on the water
avoid drifting ashore by tucking
one foot up in their feathers and
paddling slowly with the other thus
traveling in circles.
TO MILLIONS WHO
SHOULD USE OMN
Tests Show All-Bran Cor-
rects Constipation* Gently
and Naturally
Sine# it* introduction some fif-
teen years ago Kellogg’s All-Bran
las been used with beneficial results
>y millions of . eople.
Realizing the important relation-
ship between proper diet and
health the Kellogg Company has
aided for some years research in
leading university laboratories.
These tests show that the continued
use of bran is thoroughly satisfac-
tory.
All-Bran supplies soft “bulk"
which absorbs water and gently
cleanses the intestinal tract. All-
Bran also furnishes vitamin B and
iron. Use as a cereal with milk
or cream or cook in delicious
recipes.
This tempting cereal may be en-
joyed by every normal person. Two
yblespoonfuls of Kellogg’s All-
bAAN daily are usually sufficient.
Consult your doctor if you do not
gain relief this way.
Help your family keep well. Serve
Kellogg’s All-Bran
regularly for regu-
larity. Sold by all
grocers. Made by
Kellogg in Battle
Creek.
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Tourists—
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Del Mar
Beach
The finest resort on the
Gulf of Mexico where
Bathing and Fishing
is an All-Year
Pleasure
At Del Mar you’ll find comfort-
able modernly equipped cot-
tages—electric lights — gas for
cooking—hoc and cold running
water and other conveniences-
Del Mar
Beach
last a Short Drive from
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