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THE WEATHER
(By 0 9 Weather Bureau) f*“* I feh. I I
Brownsville and the Valiev. Fair to § I | M JLA
partly cloudy Thursday night and Frl- ■ ■ ■ ™ m w mb
tide tabli F n | f 1 O N
High and low tide in the Pass and ■■■ ™
along this immediate coast Friday un-
der normal Meteorologies! conditions: Fall Leased Wire service at
High . V45 a. m. The Associated Frees
Low . 10 00 p. m
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—No. 301 The vaiiey First-Fir»t in The valley BROWNSVILLE TEXAS THURSDAY JUNE 24 1937 * * SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
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6IVC LIGHT AND THt PCOPLC
WILL FIND THE/D OWN WAY"
THE hardest thing for
any of us to do Is to face the
facts of a bad situation calmly but
frankly. Nature has a great way of
setting up an alibi for us. It is all
somebody else's fault that things
go wrong. Mary hit me first.” says
the small boy in detense of his
own striking. “Somebody robbed
me” says the victim. He rarely
says. “I failed to lock the door."
Man is still a child grown tall. A
great deal of the time most of us
re-act as children to our situations
“God helps those who help
themselves." Men who put up the
shutters are not ruined by the
hurricane Fools build houses on
the sand according to the Scrip-
ture. We fail to pick up the board
with an upturned nail in it and
then can't understand our “bad
luck” when we step on the nail.
We are all what the psychologist
calls 'escapists.” We conceal Irom
ourselves our own shortoommgs.
We explain our misfortunes by-
blaming some thing or somebody
else.
Our emotions fool Us too. Mis-
fortune overtakes us and we are m
the dumps. We sit with folded
hands and say -‘can t". We resign
ourselves to The will of an Over-
ruling Providence and accept our
misfortune as an inevitable visita-
tion of God’s will. We put the well
too near the cess-pool and then
cannot understand the reasoning of
a God who saw fit in His infinite
wisdom to take our loved ones away
with typhoid fever.
WWW
f)0 NOl MISUNDERSTAND us.
We believe in (ML But we too
far respect. a Power that gave us
a few brains and a free will to be
content to blame Him for out own
delinquencies. Let's ‘act our ages"
as the new generation phrases it.
Ctor citrus development in the
Lower Rio Grande is one of the
start ling agricultural phenomena oi
today in America. It sprang almost
full-grown from the torehead ol
an agrarian goddess We have it;
do we know what to do with it. now
that we have it? That remain* to
be seen. But. if we cannot make
this new industry work for us
profitably let us not blame Pro-
vidence. Let us. rather conclude
either that we do not know enough
to make it commercially valuable
in a consistent year-to-year way.
or that the economic facts are
against us and that we may better
thing else. Let us look our problem
tning else. Let us look our problam
squarely in the face.
We feel superlatively certain that
citrus can be profitably grown and
marketed from this Valley year
in and vear out But we must imd
out how to take the uncertainty
out of it This uncertainty is al-
most entirely in the marketing.
The technique of production is sut-
ficlently advanced to make it sure
that it can be sufficiently perfect-
ed to be wholly practicable
So why not concentrate our study
this year on the technique of mar-
keting and try to learn what the
matter really is. Any policy ot
resignation is a policy oi despair
.there is no sane ground for such
an attitude. We do not know the
technique for success or we would
tell it to you out of hand and
settle it all for you. We know much
less about it than you do. gentle
reader. But we know how to find
v j and we have the determination
to join others in finding the cure
for the malady
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\Y/E FEEL VERY SURE that co-
w operative marketing is the first
step to take Every producer should
join a packing unit and every unit
should join a mnrketmg agency.
We should quit bidding against our-
selves. We should not allow our-
selves to be used by “smart guys"
to beat down our own price.
With this step taken we can be-
gin a study which will help us find
out our trobule We have asked a
dozen intelligent producers what
the trouble is and none can tell
us with any factual certamty. Of
course no one can cure the trouble
when no one knows exactly what
the trouble is. As with a good
physician at a bed-side; diagnosis
comes first. Then the remedy will
probably be Indicated to us without
much doubt.
We are urging |>eople to join a
jjro-operative. We believe it to be the
”e sential first step. Bue we are not
going to be contented if the pro-
ducer accepts bad results this win-
ter with an air of resignation and
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Valley Traffic
Toll for 1937
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Injurira ... 178^
%rcid<*nt« .. 164
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Mellon Du Pont Named as Tax Dodgers
TRANSACTIONS’
LEGALITY IS
Government Outlines
Corporation System
For Evading Heavy
Income Payments
WASHINGTON. June 24 The
names of Andrew W. Mellon. Pierre
Du Pont and John J. Raskob en-
tered Thursday Into a congressional
investigation of methods by which
the nation's wealthiest business and
financial leaders reduce their in-
come taxes.
Their introduction by Guy T.
Helvering internal revenue com-
missioner. charged a joint senate-
house inquiry committee with ex-
citement. Members listened intently
as other names including those of
more than half a dozen additional
Du Ponts studded the testimony
Helvering gave and highlighted rec-
ords he introduced.
Just before the committee recess-
ed until Tuesday morning the treas-
ury- tax official informed the com-
mittee that 1300 personal holdings
through deductions perfectly legal
under present statutes had made an
aggregate tax saving of $2.638307
in 1936 returns.
Loss Estimated $9237000
He estimated that an analysis not
yet made of 4.516 holding company-
returns would show g tax reduc-
tions totaling $9237000. And that
figure he asserted represented only
a fraction of the tax avoided
through holding companies because
it necesarily did not cover many
returns.
The tax official made no charge
that such reductions were in any-
way illegal.
The corporations included the
Adason Tobacco Corporation the
principal owners of which were
• See TAXES. Page Eight>
LICENSE BILL
ACTION SLATED
Valley Measure Heads
For Allred’s Desk
•
• Texas Capital News Service*
AUSTIN June 24— A bill light-
ening requirements of vegetable and
citrus dealers headed for Governor
James V Allred's desk Thursday.
The house Wednesday completed
action on a senate measure alter-
ing provisions of one i»ssed at the
regular session of the legislature
Sponsors said the new action lower-
ed salaries ol persons administering
the acts and permitted one bond and
one license fee to suffice for any-
one deal in both vegetables and cit-
. rus.
After passing in the senate Wed-
nesday morning. SB-24 by Senator
Jim Neal corrective measure for the
licensing and bonding laws. HB-99
and HB-557. was rushed through the
• Sep LICENSE on Page Eight*
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Japan Being Urged
To Pick Diplomats
By Type of Blood
TOKYO June 24 4>. — Dr.
| Tsunemasa Niigaki. medical ad-
visor to the foreign office urged
the government Thursday to
pick its diplomats by blood type
—the O” kind
Dr. Niigaki explained there
were four distinct types of hu-
man blood. "A". "B". • AB" and
*0". He added that only supe-
rior" men like Premier Prince
Fumimaro Konoye who possess-
es tT type blood are fitted to
fight Japan's diplomatic battles.
These men combine level-
headiness with quick unerring
decisions perseverance and a
gentle mien cloaking an iron
willsaid Dr. Mngaki.
TATE MURDER
IS RECALLED
Officials Interested In
Werbiski Case
Arrest of Miguel Werbiski in
Matamoros in connection with the
shooting and killing of Celedonio
Garcia Barron 22 in that city in-
terested county and federal oi-
fleers in Brownsville Thursday.
According to records in tlie of-
fice of the state district court in
Brownsville one Mike Werbiski was
indicted by a state grand jury in
February 1919. in connection witn
the slaying of Fred Tate a United
States customs officer m a battle
between Tate and suspected smug-
glers on the night of August 31
1918.
Tate was shot and killed at a
point about a quarter of a mile up
the Military highway from where
it I* crossed by the Missouri Paci-
fic mam line track
Created Indignation
The murder of Tate a veteran
and popular officer created wide-
spread indignation among federal
and other officers of the time along
the border.
According to the records in the
district clerk's office the indict-
ment against Mike Werbiski was
dismissed but no reason was given
He was never arrested.
Mike Werbiski was a descendant
of a pioneer family ol Brownsville.
For several years prior to 1913 he
wa.s a member of the Brownsville
police force. In the summer of that
year he crossed the Rio Grande
and joined the forces of General
Lucio Blanco rebel leader who on
(See WERBISKI on Page Eight
Father Says Son
Aided His Support
EDINBURG June 24— Antonio
Munoz who claims $30837 damages
for fatal injuries to his son. Hector
received when he was struck by a
truck of the Sinclair Refining com-
pany. told jurors Thursday morning
that his son contributed $3 000
yearly to his support.
The young man who died Janu-
ary 19. allegedly as a result of In-
juries received in the accident Jan-
uary 16. assisted his father in bus-
iness. Mr. Munoz testified. The
driver of the truck which struck
the roadster driven by young Munoz
testified that he exercised every
precaution to avoid striking the
other car.
The jury was impaneled Wednes-
day.
George Vest Donna Named
Coach at San Marcos College
The Valley has lost its outstand-
ing football coach.
George Vest who has turned out
numerous Valley and regional foot-
ball and track championsip squads
at Donna high school has been
added to the coaching staff of San
Marcos State Teachers’ College it
was announced Thursd-ay at San
Marcos by O. W Strahan athletic
director.
Vest who has been the outstand-
ing athletic mentor of the Valley
for the past four years has had
numerous offers this year includ-
ing ones from Brownsville and Son
Antonio.
He was elected here with a view
to developing junior college foot-
ball. but declined the position.
Vest is a graduate of San Marcos
college and has been instrumental
in sending Donna high school ath-
letes to the college He was a star
football and basketball player with
the Bobcats before coming to Donna
seven years ago. Vest served as
assistant coach for several years
under Claude Daily now at Mis-
sion. before being advanced to the
position of head coach.
GEORGE VEST
So far as could be learned Don-
na has made no appointment to
replace Vest.
GIRDLER HURLS
LIAR’ CHARGE
AT UNION HEAD
Also Flays Senator At
Hearing On Strike;
Says CIO Denying
Right to Work
WASHINGTON. June 24 Tom
Girdler. chairman of Republic
Steel told a senate committee
Thursday Philip Murray chairman
of the Steel Workers Organizing
committee was “a liar ' and that
Senator Guffey <D-Pa.) ‘doesn't
know what he is talking about’’
with respect to the present steel
strike.
Appearmg before the senate
postoffice committee to answer
charges made against Republic by
Murray. Girdler made his assertion
in answer to a question by Sena-
tor Bridges <R-NH». The senator
asked Murray s statement was true
that the only issue was the question
of reducing an oral agreement to
writing.
Bridges said Senator Guffey had
suggested the same thing at an
earlier meeting of the committee.
Asks Withdrawal
Mr. Murray is a liar to the best
of my knowledge and belief and
always has been." Girdler snapped
in reply. “Senator Guffey doesn’t
know what he’s talking about."
Chairman McKellar (D-Tenn)
immediately asked Girdler to with-
draw his remark about Guffey as-
serting that senators are entitled
to respectful speech by all wit-
nesses.” Girdler remained silent.
Guffey who la not a member
o the committee but who has
• See GIRDLER on Page Eight)
CITRUS GROUPS |
JOIN EXCHANGE
Two Units Sign Up
For Market Plan
WESLACO. June 24-Two addi-
tional citrus associations have joined
the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Ex-
change. It was announced Thursday
by John N Hager general manager
The Mission Citrus association ot
which W A. Wolverton is president
and the Donna Citrus association E
J. Farnsworth president signed
contracts this week whereby the ex-
change will handle the sale of their
fruit. This makes a total of nine
packing plants whose fruit will be
marketed through the exchange
which has been selected as the cen-
tral sales agency for Valley cooper-
ative marketing associations. Sev-
eral associations pack through some
of these plants.
The Bayview Citrus Groves were
the first to come in this season and
others are expected to follow as they
become organized.
Witnesses Take
Oath In Vote Case
Preparations Are Made For
Obtaining Depositions
In Ravmondville
j Special to The Herald!
RAYMONDVILLE June 24. —
Preparations lor taking depositions
of Willacy county voters in the suit
for public office to be tried in Edin-
burg July 26 were being made here
Wednesday as 70 witnesses were
sworn in
The 70 witnesses sworn Wednes- j
day were for the Incumbents Bert \
Rains. Reid Rikard. and Albert
Hughes who were elected over the
' plaintiffs. Art Baughman. H. T.
Karr and Rube Parhan in the Jan
12 election of Willacy county water
improvement district directors.
Baughman. Karr and Parhan
filed suit against the election win-
ners alleging illegal votes had been
cast foi the Incumbents.
Judge Bryce Ferguson will hear
the case or. its merits July 26
SPOT COTTON
NEW' ORLEANS. June 24 . P —
Spot cotton closed quiet 12 points
lower Saies 159; low middling
10 98; middling 12 48; good middling
1303; receipts 1 468; stocks 42.502
DALLAS June 24. (/P—Cotton
12.20; Houston 12.41; Galveston
12.38. •
HEMP BEING PROCESSED IN RAYMONDV1LLE PLANT
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Hemp fiber made from a species of marihuana is shown in the picture above a* it comes from a fiber
machine m the plant of the Texas Hemp Corporation at Raymondville. George H Trout president of the
company. Is shown examining the fiber. Below is shown a crew of workers feeding the raw hemp stocks
into the fiber machine.
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New Industry for Valley
Seen in Hemp Growing
State Ranger Force Pushes Investigation Into
‘Marihuana’ Production In Fields
Close to Raymondville
AUSTIN Tex. June 24 ->P»—Ran-
ger Cipt. Bin McMurrav who has
hunted many human enemies of
peace and order Thursday investi-
ijated another foe of man—mari-
huana weed.
He was sent to the Rio Grande
Valley area to investigate report*
that 2.000 acres of the narcotic were
{rowing near Raymondvilie.
Gov. James V. Allred asked the
public safety department to conduct
a survey after Sheriff William Shely
of Nueces county said his deputies
investigating a statement by a pris
oner reported patches flourishing in
the Valley area.
GROW ING OF HEMP
IS Ol.Ii INDUSTRY
(Bv Staff Corresjxjndenti
RAYMONDVILLE. June 24 — j
When Eve cast aside her fig leaf it
probably was in favor of some gar-
ment fashioned from hemp.
That just about makes the grow-
ing of hemp and the extraction and
weaving of hempen fibers one of the
! <See HEMP on Page Eight!
Unsterilized Seed
Permits Required
Quarantine Chief to Issue
Permits to Growers
In Section
Cotton growers wishing to take
unsteriliaed seed away from gins
must secure a permit from the ol-
fices of D M McEachem. McAl-
len m charge of quarantine regu-
lations pertaining to pink boll worm
eradication according to a notice
received by C. S Rude district
quarantine inspector at Browns-
ville.
The sterilization plant at the
Fidelity Products Company on Fron-
ton street is receiving improved
dry heating equipment for serv-
icing seeds for the next planting
season. Mr Rude reported Later
in the season a portable sterilizer
will be used to accommodate farm-
ers in this section he said
NUISANCE TAX EXTENDED
WASHINGTON. June 24 A*—The
senate voted Thursday to extend the
so-called nuisance taxes and the
three cent postage rate for two
years instead of one.
Dr. Olmsted’s Car
Damaged In Crash
A car driven by Dr. L. R. Olm-
sted. Brownsville was damaged
V ednesdav at 1 p m when it col-
lided with a truck at Levee and
Fourth streets.
The accident occurred when Olm-
st'd attempted to pass a truck and
the truck driver made a left hand
turn it was reported.
Olmsted's car received damage to
the right front fender door and
running board.
HOSTILE FLEET
PATROLS SPAIN
Italians Under Order
T o Answer Fire
(By The Associated Press)
German and Italian warships pa- j
trolled the coasts of Spain on their
own initiative Thursday their com-
manders acting in apparent concert.
■Italian vessels were under orders
to strike back immediately at any
• attack ‘ from the Spanish govern-
ment The German battle fleet
about to be reinforced by the pocket
battleship Graf Spee was told to
‘protect German interests.'*
A fear still pervaded Britain that
the joint Italian-German withdraw-
al from the non-Intervention patrol
designed to isolate the Spanish war
was the forerunner of an attack
against government Spam as "pun-
ishment*’ for an alleged attempt to
torpedo the German cruiser Leip-
zig
The German cruiser Koln arrived
unexpectedly at Oibra 11 a r. but
whereabouts of the rest of the Ger-
man fleet went unreported Reports
from Tangier. Morocco said Italian
and German warships had sailed
from there
From Paris meantime came word
(See WAR on Page Eight)
Colonel Riggs to Leave Fort
Friday; Whitney in Command
Col Kerr T Riggs commander of
Port Brown who recently was as-
signed as chief of staff of the
Panama Canal department Friday
will drop the command of the post
here when he departs for a month s
leave.
The commander and his wife
plan to leave by automobile. They
first will stop in San Antonio to
meet their daughter. Anne who left
here a week ago for a visit there.
From there they will go to Virginia
where they will spend the greatest
part of their vacation.
About August 5 Colonel and Mrs
Riggs and Anne will sail from
Brooklyn. N Y. to the Panama
Canal Zone where Colonel Riggs
will take over his new duties
Lieut. Col. Frederick W Whitney
executive officer at the post will be
in command pending the arrival of
the new commander. Col. Donald A.
Robinson. Colonel Robinson recent-
ly was transferred from Peiping.
; China to the command of the
(Twelfth Cavalry. He is expected
about September
PLANTS SHUT
DOWN BY FIVE
FIRMS IN OHIO
Unauthorized Walkout
Is Hinted As Cause;
Mediators Seeking
Settlement Basis
WARREN O. June 24— Five man-
ufacturers closed thetr plant* in
Warren and Nile* Thursday after
the CIO notified it* union* to
abandon plant for a general sympa-
thy strike.
Officials of the Hralnard Steel
company who declined to be quoted
by name said thetr contract with
the C I. O was "no good "
They denied there was a lockout
at their plant and said operations
were curtailed partly due to lack of
orders
F R Schaeller. general manager
of the Niles Steel Product* company
declared the action was taken be-
cause of an unauthorized strike
Wednesday.
Many Strikes Called
C I O unions called strikes in
many Warren plants Wednesday in
a move for * projected general labor
holiday as a protest against a court
injunction limiting picketing at the
Republic Steel plant in Warren.
The action also was a sympathy
move against the movement of men
and supplies into the Republic plant
under protection of city police and
the Ohio national guard sent to the
Mahoning valley by Gov. Martin L.
Davey of Ohio to maintain the steel
"status quo' while the federal medi-
ation board continued its delibera-
tions in Cleveland.
The Van Huffel Tube corporation
and the Ohio Corrugating Co also
were closed down Thursday.
With the threat of a general .strike
• See STRIKE on Page Eight >
MAN IS JAILED
AS TWO SHOT
Charges of Assault
Are Filed
< Special to Tha Herald i
RAYMONDVILLE June 24-Cal-
letano Olivares. Sebastian was be-
ing held Thursday by the Willacy
county ahertff s department m de-
fault of $5 000 and $1 000 bonds set
after he waived examining trial on
two charges of assault with intent
to murder.
The charges mere filed against
diveras In connection with the
shooting which sent Lupe Ayala
Santa Rosa and Pedro Gonzalez
Sebastian to the clinic here in
critical condition.
The shooting occurred at 8 p m.
Wednesday when the men asserted-
ly quarrelled at a beer parlor in
Sebastian. Ayala with a bullet
wound in his head has been given
slight chance to recover and Gon-
zalez is expected to recover from
a paralytic condition caused by »
bullet wound in the chest which
punctured his lungs A 38 calibre
pistol was used by the assailant.
Meanwhile another man. Jesus
Cortez not involved in the shoot-
ing. was fined $30 and costs in
Justice of Peace S P Nielsens
court here Cortez interfered with
officers when they arrested Oliv-
ares.
Deputy Sheriff Madison Wood
made the arrests. The case against
Olivares will come up when the
Willacy county grand jury convenes.
Diamond Smuggling
Ring Charges Filed
NEW YORK June 24. yf)—Fed-
eral agents Thursday rounded up
additional members of an Inter-
national diamond smuggling ring
which they said had netted miiliona
of dollars in the last seven years.
Twenty-four of the 55 persons
whose indictments were annou
Wednesday already were under
rest Lamar Hardy. United States
attorney said. An additional 24
mostly Europeans were fugitives.
The defendants were scheduled for
ararignment on charges of cons-
piracy to evade the customs law
and smuggling
Senator Hastings
To Live In Olmito
Senator John A Hastings asso-
ciate of a group of New York'men
recently announced plan* for con-
struction of a 1250 000 cotton con-
centration and compress plant at
the Port of Brownsville was join-
ed by Mrs. Hastings his two sons
and two daughters Wednesday
evening. Temporarily at least they
will make their residence in the
Olmito section. Senator Hastings
said Thursday.
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