Valley Sunday Star-Monitor-Herald (Harlingen, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 2 Sunday, July 25, 1937 Page: 4 of 26
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VALLEY SUNDAY STAR — MONITOR — HERALD
taxes.
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CUSTOM-BUILT
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Buy For All The Family
AT OUR
A bottle of shoe white with
each pair white shoes pur-
chased.
You Are Always Welcome To Visit Our Showroom And
Factory.
value of the MOO certificate will All the Central American nations
decrease $66 67. whether or not the have announced their intentions of
national guardsmen, called to steel
strike duty, saw the gruesome
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DRUG STORES
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TAX PAYMENTS
INCREASE WITH
SUIT THREATS
Botica Argueta
Sth A Abaaolo Streets Matamoros, Mexico
SHOES for CHILDREN
Children’s Shoes at unusual values, school
i starts soon and you can outfit the young-
Y ster at the most reasonable prices.
9 POLL PARROT A ROBERT JOHNSON /
xA RAND SHOES X 1
Laugh at the Heat
with a Sandwich
and an
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BotUe of
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“The Place to Go"
TROUT’S DRIVE-IN
Ample Parting Space
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Tepnia Balls
Racquet Presses
Racquet Covers
Tennis Shoes
(Ladies’ Oxfords)
(Men’s Oxfords)
Racquets Restrung
Batsell-Wells
SPORTING GOODS
$2=
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—Something New
Gnaraateed for Athlete’s Foot,
■seesaw. Heat Rash, Ring
Worm. Sores. Itch, etc.
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bimple and easy to open into a bed. A comfortable inner-apt $■<
mattress. A concealed compartment where you can keep your
bedding. A back to support pillows and convenient arm rests.
Opens to twin or double beds. These are the features that make
a Cantwell Couch the buy of the year. Offered in a choice of
hew colors.
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ELECTRIC OR GASOLINE MODELS
SOLD ON EASY TERMS
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America’s Strangest Murder Mystery
Who Is Mad Butcher Of Kingsbury Run? Why Did He Brutally
Dismember His 9 Victims; How Does He Trap Them?
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Tennis Balls
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SHIP
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REGULAR 50c EACH
SPECIAL
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Cellophane Wrapped
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Deadline On Tax
Payments Nearing
BROWNSVILLE—City of Browns-
ville taxpayers who hsve already se-
cured tax certificates amounting to!
a 40 per cent reduction on taxes
they paid during 1933-36 have only
until July 31 to use the 1937 portion
of their certificates. After that date
not only is this year's portion of the
tax certificate useless, but also an
8 per cent penalty and 6 per cent
interest accrues to this year’s taxes
due the city.
For example: a taxpayer paid
31000 in city taxes during the years
1833-36. Under the city's tax reduc-
tion plan he received a certificate
valued at >400 in paying texes. One-
sixth of this certificate, or >66 67.
can be used each year for the next
six years. This year the one-sixth
of the certificate can be used only
before July 31. After that time the
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“This has been one of the most
prosperous years in the Valley since
the depression slump and there is
a rush to clear Cameron county de-
linquencies before suits are filed
at the September term of criminal
district court at Brownsville,” Agar
Mid.
Approximately $1,300,000 in de-
linquent taxes are due the county
by 7.000 of its 17,000 taxpayers.
Agar estimates that approximately
$500,000 in past-due taxes has been
paid under the reassessment plan
instituted by the county in May of
1836 under an old ruling of the at-
torney general s office.
The county’s reassessment reduc-
tions. ranging from 10 to 40 per
cent also apply to taxes for the
State, common school districts. Ar-
royo Colorado Navigation District,
Port Isabel-San Benito Navigation
• District, and to several water and
drainage districts. Assessments and
collections for aU of these agencies
are handled by Agar's office.
Agar says collections are good be-
cause taxpayers have money, be-
cause they have learned that a
homestead can be sold for taxes, be-
cause they wish to obtain reduc-
tions through reassessment and be-
cause the county is definitely com-
mitted to a policy of filing tax suits
after they had been discontinued
for five years.
Another incentive offered by the
county plan is that the taxes can
be paid on a split payment plan.
Under this system, the delinquent
pays one-tenth of his taxes and
then retires the remainder in equal
installments over a 20-month per-
iod
City of Brownsville taxpayers are
taking advantage of a reduced pay-
ment plan which gives a rebate to
those who have not been delinquent.
This plan is clouded by a federal
court suit brought by bondholders ,
and payments under the plan are
being rushed before the action goes
to trial on merits.
At Raymondville substantial re-
ductions in city taxes are being of-
fered on delinquencies prior to 1834
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There is plenty of warm
weather ahead, and there is
plenty of wear in these shoe
values. Whites and in white
combinations, formerly
priced $2.98 to $5.00.
Tire Vulcanizing
Fast Service—Best Equipment
Phone 1284 610 W. Harrison
Valley-Wide Pick-Up &
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USED TIRES — ALL SIZES
DUDLEY TIRE SERVICE
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Sunday, July 25,
All the Central American nations
Shoes that must not be carried over, whites, white and color combina-
tions, pumps, oxfords, shoes for street sport and dress wear. Really
worth while values for they are priced at
Values to $2.98-$5.00
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Phillips Hdw. Harlingen Hdw.
SAN BENITO HARLINGEN
Or Write And Our Display Trailer Will Call
• On You At Your Home
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BROWNSVILLE - R. Roy Ruff,
president of the counrj agricultural
association returned Saturday from
Washington wiiere he attended a
national conference of farm leaders
called by Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, this being the first time
national recognition has been ac-
corded growers of perishable com-
modities. The meeting was called
for a clooe-up study and discussion
on a nationwide basis of the pro-
blems of particular interest to the
growers of fruits and vegetables.
Approximately 50 farm leaders
were in attendance and a wide
range of subjects were taken up.
Ruff serving on three committees
studying separate phases of the na-
tional program.
Among the leading subjects taken
up were the relationship between
the perishable commodity industry
and the national agricultural and
Farm Credit Administration pro-
grams. the need for greater use of
uniform grade standards and in-
spection methods, the enactment of
state and national legislation to pre-
vent unfair practices prevalent in
the industry to eliminate interstate
and intrastate barriers to the free i
movement of perishable commodi- i
ties to market, stronger organisa-
tions of growers to standardize their
products and increasing their buy-
ing power, to deal more effective-
ly with large farm subsidizing syn-
dicates in order to prevent over-
production.
Plans were made for a permanent
national committee to be composed
of approximately 15 members to be
selected from leading vegetable and
fruit producing states who would
be selected by actual growers. From
this group the Secretary of Agri-
culture would select an executive
committee of five who would be
assigned to study and co-ordinate
the interests of the various competi-
tive aroas and formulate necessary
legislation for the proper regulation
of the industry.
At the conclusion of the Washing-1
ton conference many of the dele-
gates remained over to contact
their senators and representatives
concerning farm legislations soon'
to come before them
Ruff also spent two days at Col-1
We will custom-build any style or design couch that you may
desire.
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lege Station attending a meeting of
the Texas Agricultural Conservation
Committee to study possible changes
in the 1938 farm program. W. H
Kilgore. Mission city commissioner
and chairman of the chamber of
commerce industrial committee, was
a representative at this meeting
from Hidalgo county.
It has the rain washed freshness of an April
morning, the ingenuous elan of the first
spring blossom. It sets the final seal of
absolute correctness upon your country
clothes . . . yet town tailleurs and the furs
you wear with them are likewise enhanced
by it
Perfume . . . $35.00, $24.00, $12.60,
$7.00, $4.00 and $2.00
Eau de Cologne and Lotion
$3.5Q and $2.00
Sold Exclusively by
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He believes the bodies are cut and
disjointed only as the easiest
means of disposal.
Of the slayers nine known vic-
tims, six were men, three were
women. All were under 40.
Police say the slayings began
some time prior to September,
1935, when bodies of two men
were found in Kingsbury run.
The total may be higher than
nine.
Police also consider the possi-
bility that r woman, parts of
whose body were found two years
ago in the Lake Erie shallows at
North Perry. 25 miles from Cleve-
land. also was a victim. This, how-
ever. has not been established de-
finitely.
Likewise, police here tried to
link the murders with several of
a similar nature near New Castle
Pa., particularly one where the
headless body of a man was found,
wrapped in a Cleveland news-
paper. in a long-sealed boxcar on
a railroad siding This, too, has
not been definitely linked to the
Cleveland murders, in the opin-
| ion of investigators.
But whether his victims num-
ber nine, or 11, or more, the din-
of the blood. This theory was bas- , ■.---—— ■ ~ |
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have been, or still be, a butcher,
or a surgeon. Or, just as plausible,
he may be neither of these.
Perhaps the killer operates in
some "horror chamber” in some
hidden part of the city. But he
may be working normally some-
where. meeting the public daily, :
and deriving sadistic enjoyment
one of the bodies has been decapi-
tated and dismembered, as if by
an expert in anatomy, surgery
or butchering. The heads of some
of the victims never have been
recovered.
In Mill District
The majority of the bodies have
been found in a district that bor-
ders foreboding mills and rail-
road yards—in a gully that is
caUed Kingsbury run. close by the
murky Cuyahoga river.
The district is surrounded by a
thickly populated region. And
several police stations are with-
in walking distance.
Yet police have found not a sin-
gle clue.
The unknown murderer hss
been termed ‘The Mad Butcher
of Kingsbury Run ”
No one knows when he strikes.
The first indication of a new vic-
tim is disclosed when a part of a
dismembered body is found.
The torso of the last victim was
found only the other day. when
tastic suggestions.
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slayer does not work alone. They
admit, as a bare possibility, that
he may have an accomplice.
Detective Inspector Joseph Mc-
Sweeney believes that the killer
is a sex maniac. But Coroner Sam-
uel R. Gerber of Cuyahoga coun-
ty thinks otherwise.
Dr. Gerber also conjectures
that the man is a "lone wolf’. "If
more, one
would have told something by this
time.” Dr. Gerber says. "One man
can keep a secret better than two.”
The killer has left his "trade-
mark” on each of his victims, ac-
cording to Dr. Gerber, who says
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HARLINGEN - With hundreds
taking advantage of savings offered
through a reassessment plan before
the county ends its six-year mora-
torium on tax suits. Cameron coun-
ty delinquent tax collections are the
best they have been in four years.
R. T. Agar, assessor-collector, said
•t his sub-office here Saturday.
Practically all of the major taxing
agencies in Cameron and Willacy,
. counties are offering some form
delinquent tax reductions, and col-
lections are reported generally
good.
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from reading newspaper accounts
of the slayings.
Literally hundreds of suspects
have been questioned since the
first of the gruesome killings.
Among them have been men with
known degenerate tendencies,
with various types and degrees
of abnormality. Included also have
been former patients of mental
institutions, others from the fring-
es of society, some of them dwell-
ers in tiny shacks in "borderline
regions." •
But never have police been able
to link any one of the suspects
with the murders, and all the men
were released.
Many theories are considered,
some of them ranking with crea-
tions of Edgar Allen Poe in their
quality of horror.
One theorist has suggested the
killer is afflicted with an ailment . IU[1P or 41> or more, me <
which destroys the red corpuscles ning killer remains at large,
ed on the deduction that such a
person might possibly seek to re-
plenish his blood supply along
vampire lines.
Investigators spurn such fan-
But they do
give credence to a theory that the
slayer does not work alone. They
By ALVIN L. KRIEG
Central Proas Staff Writer
p LEV ELAND — America’s stran-
gest murder mystery has
Cleveland's police baffled.
There have been nine victims in
two years—all except two uniden-
tified.
Most gruesome of all — every
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Police fear that a tenth, and
perhaps an eleventh victim, al-
ready have met their fates.
(The man is suspected of two or
three other slayings in the past in
addition to the nine known mur-
ders.)
The slayer, police are convinced,
is clever. He is a muscular man.
(The latest victim was a husky ther^ *’ere or
man. about 35, weighing nearly
200 pounds) He may be a danger-
ous maniac, or he may be a for-
mer asylum inmate discharged as
normal (although a check at insone
asylums gave no clue.) He may
------------------------------------ the decapitations prove the
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by issuing interest coupons at 60
cents on the dollar. Approximately
$7,000 in delinquencies have been
cleared up under this plan. The
coupons are accepted at face value
for taxes.
Various forms of savings are be-
ing offered by the taxing depart-
ments of other political subdivisions.
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Where the ninth body was found. In the ~
Cuyahoga river In downtown Cleveland.
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Grower Problems
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