McAllen Daily Monitor (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 151, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 25, 1935 Page: 1 of 6
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Pipeline Injunction is
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WEATHER
|* Fair Sunday. Gentle to mod-
erate variable nlndx.
MSALLEN
MONITOR
EARLY SUNDAY
EDITION
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SERVES THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN AMERICA
HIDALGO COUNTY’S OWN NEWSPAPER
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
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NO. 151.
McALLEN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1935.
Price 5 Cents
TEN PAGES.
LAND CONCENTRATES ITS
LEET AT THE SUEZ CANAL
ERS FREE [Repeal Leads in
GOON WITH Big Cities; Vote
VM1EY WORK jn County Close
Stoppage Of Construc-
tion From Point Isa-
bel To Bar re da Is
Ended.
BROWSVILLETAug. 24
—An injunction restraining
e Valley Pipeline company
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 24— (JPy— Partial unofficial re-
turns from 104 of the 142 precincts in Harris county had
been tabulated at 2 p. m. by the Houston Chronicle.
This tabulation gavq:
For repeal 6,072; against repeal 1,669.
For textbook amendment 3,518; against 2,919.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug.’:24—(/P)—Scattered un-
official returns from 31 boxes Here showed the repeal
amendment leading by nearly 9 to 1 this afternoon. The
viS amendment leading by nearly 9 to 1 this
No l00 ?BaWedaT>*n r*°tals: 1-793 fcr repeal and 253 against.
Isabel) as part of a pipeline
right-of-way was dissolved
in 103rd district court here
Friday afternoon in an opin-
n handed down by Judge
ce Ferguson, sitting on
m bench for Judge A. M.
ent.
The pipeline company now
stands free to continue laylnr line
on about ID miles of the highway.'
When the injunction was granted
1, crews were, transferred to
ate right-of-way.
State’s attorneys representing
tfc« state highway department fll-
* notice of appeal to be taken to
Court of Civil Appeals at San
nio. Hafbert Davenport of
OwnsviUe, pipeline attorney, said
i felt certain that Judge Fergu-
’8 opinion would hold in any
nrt.
A temporary order restraining
company from laying pipe on
the right-of-way of the Port Isabel-
las Freanos highway (state No.
100) wap obtained in Judge A. M.
Kent’s 103rd district court at
Brownsville' on Aug. 7. The state
highway department, through the
district attorney's office, alleged
hat it could not grant the pipe-
oomp&ny permission to put its
inside of the state right-of-
Flling Its answer Aug. 12. the
company contended that as a com-
a carrier under the state oon-
tion it “haa been granted the
right and power to enter upon, con-
demn and appropriate lands,
rights-of-ways, easements, and
property of any person or corp-
oration, together with the express
right and power to lay pipe along.
; across and under any public road
or highway in the state, with the
limitation only that no pipeline
shall bp laid parallel with, and on
any public highway closer than 15
feet from -the Improved sections
thereof, except with the approval
and under the direction of the
€0011018*1006™* court.”
Hearing on the injunction was
postponed to enable state and de-
fense attorneys to consider ques-
jtions In the case.
Approximately 40 mile* of pipe
Aad been laid Saturday, the crews
Being at a point near Rangerville,
a few miles south of San Benito.
Oscar Fredell of the Fredell Con-
struction Co., has the contract for
lading the line. The big ditching
machine dig the trenches and
swinging crews follow and plaee
the Pipe In position. The crews
should reach the Hdalgo county
lines sometime next week. T. Frank
Murchison, official of the Valley
Pipeline company, said.
The 75-.000-barrel tank storage
In the Bam Fordyce field should be
completed shortly, he said. A 20,-
000-barrel tank has already been
erected by the Wyatt Mdtal and
Boiler company of Dallas and oil
been turned In for storage. The
second unit, a 81.000-barrel -cap-
acity tank, ia now beln* completed.
Material for the $200,000 refin-
*ry at Port Isabel arrived at the
last week aboard the Lykes
steamer Flour Spar. Sites are
cleared and the plant will
to take shape next week.
G. I*. Rowaey of Taylor and aaso-
•s are erecting the refinery.
,tt has a turnkey contract for
construction.
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 24—(IP)—Unofficial reports at
noon from scattered boxes indicated a slight lead for pro-
hibition repeal and all other amendments except that
dealing with the school system.
DALLAS, Aug. 24—(AP> —Heavy
majorities for repeal of prohibi-
tion in Texas were reported by the
major cities today in unofficial
returns.
San Antonio was going nearly
eight to one, Houston four to one
and Dallas and Fort Worth more
than two to one.
Many smaller communities, how-
ever, reported early leads of aj&out
two to one against repeal.
Returns from 61 precincts in
Harris county as tabulated by the
Houston Chronicle shortly before
noon and accounting for 2.517
votes gave 2,030 for repeal to 487
againgt^
Ban Ahtonio reported scattered
returns from 31 boxes, comprising
a cross-section of the city, amount-
ed to 3.262 for repeal to 4)0
againpt.
Unofficial reports to the Fort
Worth St^t-Telegram from five
boxes gave 210 for repeal to 101
against. Ip Dallas the Times-Her-
ald did not report totals but said
Repeal found unexpected strength
in the early Dallas voting.” It said
many of* the more populous vot-
ing precincts were going wet, with
majorities ranging from two to or.e
to three to one.”
The picture was the reverse,
however, in many smaller counties.
The Houston Chronicle received a
note from Nacogdoches that the
vote there was about two to one
against repeal. At Huntsville, home
of the late W. L. Dean, author of
the Texas prohibition statute, pro
hibition was leading about two to
one. Returns from six city boxes in
Shelby county gave 107 for repeal
to 187 against.
Other counties in which an anti-
repeal trend was 'indicated were
Brazos. Robertson, Leon, Grimes
and Madison.
Wets were diaapopinted at early
return? to the. Houston Chronicle
from Guadalupe county, where re-
peal had-a lead of less than two
to oak. At Columbus, also in the
wet belt, repeal had only a slight
lead*
Cahreron county, on the Mexican
border, 'and Oraijge, on the Louis-
iana line, were reported close, with
repeal ahead in Cameron and be-
hind in Orange.
Returns from Jeffetson county
showed repeal leading only five
to four, considerably less than the
county’s majority two years ago
Cpr national prohibition.
Voting was reported light.
‘Governor James V. Allred voted
tlariy at his home box in Wichita
Falla, castes an anti-repeal ballot.
Voting throughout Hidalgo
county t^)day was light and few
boxes reported tabulations. Less
than 50 percent of the full voting
strength of the county will prob-
ably be shown, according to early
indications.
The real measure was running
about 50-50, according to unoffi-
cial reports. The school book mea-
sure -will probably be defeated, it
was indicated, and the "old age
assistai^pe" will probably carry.
Voting at both McAllen precincts
throughout the day was light, with
the majority of ballots being cast
by voters carrying exemptions. Ob-
servers saw these returns as evid-
ence that the old-age pension
amendment was receiving heavy
favor. .
At the North McAlen box 128
votes had been cast by 1 p. m. witn
173 cast at the South McAllen box,
a total of 301. It was considered
doubtful that more than 700 votes
would be cast when the polls
close at 7 p. m.
Voting strength of the “old age
assistance" amendment was mar-
shalled and this measure is expect-
ed to carry by a good majority.
T^e text book amendment. No. 7,
will probably cary, according to
early' indications.
Dissolved*%£%£%
People to Get
Out of Capital
War Certain
(Copyright, 1935, by the i VALETTA, Island of Mal-
; Associated Press) ! ta, Aug. 24 — (/P) — The
ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 241 cruise program which will
—Emperor Haile Selassie i bring the cream of the crack
ordered the civilian popula-
tion today to evacuate the
capital within a week if It-
aly declares war.
British Mediterranean fleet
to within almost overnight
striking distance of the Suez
canal, by Sept. 1. was an-
An official proclamation j nounced here officially to-
assured the population suf-'rlnv
ficient warning would be
given by the firing cf cannon
With Italy rejecting all peace proposals at the Bar is conference, war with Ethiopia seemed Inevitable.
Here are Italian troops of three divisions recently called into service, as they were about to leave Rome lor
the East African front. They joyfully carry aloft a banner bearing the likeness of Crown Prince Humbert.
SEVEN TARPON Ordinance F,xes
CAUGHT FIRST!
DAY OF RODEO
One Hundred Anglers
Battle With Fish In
Contest For Many
Prizes.
Name*
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—UP)—
it Roosavelt today nomln-
Robert E. Freer of Ohio to
ember of the Federal Trade
Want Baker Hotel Co.
Declared Bankrupt
BAN ANTONIO, Texas. Aug. 24
—(—A petition of three Galves-
ton firms seeking to have the
Baker corporation, formerly operat-
ors oL-44~-Lfcne of hotels declared
bankrupt w^k filed in Federal Dis-
trict court hete today.
Alleging that each of the three
petitioning firms had secured
judgments against the corporation
in Galveston courts, the plaintiffs
assented that the corporation is in-
solvent and that it committed an
act of bankruptcy by having Hugh
C. Taylor appointed receiver last
January in court proceedings at
Austin.
Japs Release U. S.
Spy Suspects And
‘Golden Mountain
TOKYO, Aug. 24—i/P)—Japanese
gendarmes said today two young
Americans had been cleared of sus-
picion- in connection with the al-
lege# photographing of a fortified
zone .from the American freighter
.Golden Mountain.
Tbj) two, identified as Phillip
MaaM a Stanford university grad-
uate, and W’iUiam Felix, received
official permission to resume their
journey to Kobe from Tukoyama,
Rengo news agency dispatches
said.
Fpljpwing a second examination
of the freighter in Tokuyama har-
bor; where it has been held to
anchor, gendarmerie officers said
their suspicions of willful law-
breaking through photography of
the fortified Bungo straits had been
virtually* removed.
The gendarmes said they found
and confiscated aboard the ship a
small camera and three rolls of
exposed film belonging to a mem-
ber of the crewy. The pictures were
amateurish, they said, indicating
espionage was not intended.
Cobb Tells of Will Rogers
DONNA, Aug. 24—(Spl.)—Moul-
ton (Ty) Cobb, Weslaco, spoke to
thet Donna Rotary club at their
regular meeting this week on the
‘•Lite and Work of Will Rogers.”
Gordon Wood was program chair-
man.' Visiting Rotarlans included
Granger H. Smith and H. B. Glen-
dennihg of McAllen. Mrs. Hattie
Belt gras a guest.
Gov. Allred Votes.
WICHITA FALLS, Texas, Aug.
24-r-fjP)—Governor James V. Allred
voted1* here in today’s special elec-
tion, casting ballot No. 22 in pre-
cinct £2.
ii
PORT ISABEL. Tex., Aug. 24—
(jp)—Ane hundred sunburned ang-
lers sailed beck into waters of the
Gulf of Mexico near here today to
continue the battle aginst the fish
in the second Rio Grande Valley
fishing rodeo.
George Greet of Dallas was lead-
ing the field with 1450 points.
As if In answer to the fisher-
men’s combined prayers, the fish
just literally swam up and bit yes-
terday. And today was another
ideal fishing day, with promise of
much game.
Seven tarpon, kingpin fish of the
rodeo, were included in the total
catch yester lay, along with 80 king
mackerel. 38 fighting jackfish, and
Numerous assorted and strange
fish, such as dolphin, ling, star-
fish and the like.
Far down the list, in last place,
was last year’s champion. Dr. I.
Henry Smith of Shreveport. But
Dr. Smith set out today determined
to catch up with the field. David
M. Lide, now of Dallas but resident
of Shreveport last year, was seven-
teenth on the list in point total
with 580..Mrs. David M. Lide, last
year’s women winner, was third.
The only woman angler to land a
tarpon the first day was Mrs. H.
N. Jorgenson of Dallas.
One fish that got away furnished
something of a thrill. It was a
big white marlin, only one ever
reported snagged in this section,
hooked by Drew Patteson of
Brownsville, and lost after a fight.
Joe Staley of Tyler, Texas, was
second on the list today, with J. H.
Rabinowitz of Houston, third; J.
S. Wheeless of Houston, fourth,
and G. W. McNess, one of the 25
Shreveport men on hand, fifth.
The rodeo will end tomorrow.
The catch, except for tarpon, is
expected to set a record. Sixty tar-
pon were snagged last year.
Setting the maximum rate of
$2 50 per $100 valuation, the citv
commission made public Friday
the 1 935 tax levies for the city
of McAllen. The ordinance was
passed Wednesday night.
The levy is the same as that in
effect last year.
Half of the levy, $1.2 5, is to bo
used for th*> purpose of defraying
the current general, running and
operating expenses of McAllen.
The other $1.25 is for the pur-
pose of creating a sinking fund
to be used in payment of the prin-
cipal and interest of the bond is-
sue of the city.
Hearing on the city's operating
budget will be held next week,
officials said. The budget last
year was set at $46,795.23
Final figures on 1935 valuations
have not yet been completed. The
valuation in 1934 amounted to
$4,069,150.
COTTON DROPS
TO NEW LOW
IN SHORT DAY
Movement Is Further
Readjustment To
Fed eral Program,
Traders Say.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24—The
cotton futures market closed $1.05
to $1.25 a bale lower today and
some of the active contracts broke with unveiled skepticism
from the Emperor’s palace.
He acted on the belief one
of Italy’s first acts will be
to bomb Addis Ababa from
the air.
The Ethiopian Emperor
also ordered all valuable
property hidden in subter-
ranean caverns.
His order stirred the cap-
ital’s 120,000 residents.
Americans and other for-
eigners remained calm, some
believing that the League of
Nations might yet save the
situation.
The population, in evacu-
ating, was directed to avoid
assembling in large numbers
elsewhere. The citizens were
told to scatter to distant
points.
Already* many merchants
have begun to move their
property into the nearby
hills.
The government, it was
stated, has taken the neces-
sary precautions to assure
wireless communication with
the outside world in the
event of a bombardment.
LONDON, Aug. 24—f/P>—Ques-
tioning eyes pried into Great Bri-
tain’s state of preparedness—or
lack of it—today, even as Mritish
fighting planes were reported roar-
ing toward Egypt to guard the
Suez Canal, pathway to the Afri-
can powder keg.
Part of the London press viewed
the na-
Mercedes Trades Day
Getting Fine Support
MERCEDES, Aug. 24—(Spl) —
Eight new business firms have
been added to the list of those
sponsoring the weekly trades day
events in Mercedes to continue
through September 28. A com-
mittee to work with the chamber
of commerce in inviting every bus-
iness firm in Mercedes cooperate
in the staging of these events, was
appointed by Chairman Bill Daily,
as follows: Abe Baum, chairman;
Walter Collur and L. F. Boling.
The new firms include A1 Robin-
son, of Al’s Place,* Morgan’s Hum-
ble Filling -Station. A. R. Mace,
Texaco Filling Station, *C. M. Wat-
ers Cafeteria. Hidalgo County
Bank, First National Bank, Brown
Motor Company, M. L. David Ser-
vice Station.
through the bottom levels esta-
blished during yesterday’s slump.
It was an orderly decline and,
according to traders to movement
was a further readjustment of (he
staple price structure to the new
conditions resulting from the gov-
ernment’s plan for a 9-cent loan '.o
market also was an influence in the
growers. Weakness of the stock
selling. '
Pressure was heaviest on the
October, December and March
positions, which worked back to or
sold below the minimums establish-
ed in the first hour yesterday.
Poultry
CHICAGO, Aug. 24—(JP)—Poul-
try, live, 13, trucks, steady, prices
unchanged.
Hotel Hall At Donna
Ha* New Management
DONNA. Aug. 24— (Spl.)—Th"
Hotel Hall here has been leased to
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Bock and has
been completely remodeled and re-
decorated in the past few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Bock have had
much experience runningHostel-
rles. They managed hotels in Illi-
nois before moving to Kansas,
where they lived for 23 years.
VegetableGrowers
Hosts To Farmers
At Cascade Pool
All farmers, their wives and
children in the McAllen commun-
ity will be entertained royally
Thursday night. Sept. 5, with a
picnic at Cascade Pool sponsored
by the McAllen Unit of the Rio
Grande Valley Vegetable Growers
association. Plans for the affair
were announced following a meet-
ing of the 1 rganization Thursday
nig^t.
A. C*. Barnhart, in charge of ar-
i rangements, said that preparations
were being made for 300 people.
There will be plenty to eat, he
said—weiners and buns, sauer-
kraut, Ice cream, sandwiches and
other refreshments
Everything will be free, he said.
Supplies are being donated by Mc-
Allen merel ants.
Speeches end special entertain-
ments will be announced later,
Barnhart said. The picnic is
scheduled for 7 oclock.
tion’s ability to risk conflict by at-
tempting to apply sanctions against
Italy should Mussolini war on Ethi- j i»y and will not be diverted from
day.
The warships will leave
Malta Aug. 29 and will b£
concentrated in a tight, small
ring ranging from the actual
entrances of the canal and
within the canal to points
from 150 to 400 miles from
the Mediterranean entrance.
The biggest concentration
will be at Alexandria, Egypt,
where the ships Revenge and
Valiant, the first and third
cruiser squadrons, the aiT-
craft-carrier Glorious and
other warships will assem-
ble.
The first destroyer and
first submarine flotillas will
remain at Malta.
Coincident with the an-
nouncement of the fleet
movement it was denied of-
ficially that the fleet would
be strengthened.
ROME, Aug. 24—OF)—'The his-
torical question: ."What will Eng-
land do?” asbosrbed Italy today.
As Naples teemed with military
activity in preparation for the sail-,
ing of the largest force of men
Italy has yot sent to Africa, the *
kingdom's intense interest in
Great ritain s policy was reflected
in the press.
Not only was a large volume of
British and French newspaper
comment on Great Britain's latest
cabinet meeting reprinted here, but
the sale of French and British
newspapers showed a remarkable
increase. ,
Informed quarters evinced an in-
clination to deprecate the possibil-
ity of any corrective action to stay
Italy's hand in East Africa. Yet
these observers reiterated that
Italy is prepared for any eventual-
opia.
“The plain truth is that Great
Britain is the most defenseless of
all the great porwers,” the Daily
Mail warned bluntly.
Official confirmation of the re
ported movement of the flying men
of war was lacking. It was learn-
ed, however the admiralty has
been ordered to pass the greatest
display of British might ever as-
sembled in the Mediterranean as
a “precautionary” measure, and to
protect Great Britain’s lanes of
communication with her colonies.
The action, springing from yester-
day’s meeting of the defense com-
mittee of the cabinet, was viewed
in some quarters as the nation’s
first step toward preparing to apply
military sanctions—including the
closing of the Suez Canal to Ital-
her course no matter how stern
ar» the measures directed against
her.
It Great Britain controls the
gateway to the Mediterranean, they
sai.l, Italy is it's keystone. Furth-
ermore, they contended that if ac-
tion is taken to close the Suez Ca-
nal to Italy's transports, Italy has
the naval power to close that wa-
terway to any other nation as well.
Such a situation, it was pointed
out, would have as serious effect
on British commerce with the East
as it would on Italy's military pro-
jects.
Among the 6,000 troops sailing
later in the day aboard the steamr
ships Saturina and Atlante, it was
understood, will be Premier Mus-
solini’s two sons, Bruno and Vit-
tovio, and his con-in-law, Count
Galeazzo Ciano, minister of pro-
to
ian ships—providing other mem-
bers of the league of nations agree j paganda, who are assigned
to support Great Britain at the bombardment groups,
council meeting September 4.
Such a policy, said the Daily
WITH THE ITALIAN
ARMY,
Mail, would be disastrous to Eng- j BOLZANO, Italy, ug. 24—Musso-
land. I lini’s mighty army rolled up its
"The government’s decision to big guns ne?r the ustrian frontier
stand by Geneva in the Ethiopian and his generals reviewed their
dispute is incompatible with the final orders today in preparation
condition of our armed forces,” the! for what officers said might be the
newspapers said. “The plain truth, most significant war games in lus-
is that Great Britain is the most tory.
defenseless cf all the great pow-
ers. Our defenses—weaker than
they've ever been since Britain's
name meant anything."
Faint hopes that Premier Musso-
lini might p. least slow up his
troop movements to East Africa as
a result of the British cabinet’s
emergency session this week were
dashed with a report from Rome
that Italy's biggest consignment of
troops on cne ship—4,500 en—
was embarking today in a vessel
built to hold 1,500 persqns.
The purposes of the meneuvers
which brought 150,000 fighting
men into thi< area were both mili-
tary and political;
1. To furnish a dress rehearsal
for what may be war in East Af-
rica.
2. To show Germany thhat Italy
is ready to act in Austria despite
her troubles with Ethiopia.
3. To try out Italy's new “Cel-
erity divisions" which, her gener-
als believe, will put an end to
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