McAllen Daily Monitor (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 158, Ed. 1 Monday, September 2, 1935 Page: 1 of 4
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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
NO. 158.
SERVES THE RICHEST AGRICULTURAL COUNTY IN AMERICA
McALLEN, TEXAS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1935.
HIDALGO COUNTY’S OWN NEWSPAPER
Price 5 Cents
ITALY
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1 READ, 15 HURT IN STRIKE GUN BATTLE
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One Thousand Homeless in Rio Grande Flood
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HURRICANE ENTERS GULF BY KEY WEST
^Trouble Flares •
at Cotton Mill
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at the Opening
COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 2—(AP)—Gov-
cmor Olin JohnstojX^alle^ out “as many na-
tional guard tropjps as is riecessary to handle
the situation" early today ^immediately after
beng notified that one had been killed and a
number wounded in rioting at the strike-tom
Felzer mills at Pelzer, S. C.
PELZER, S. C., Sept. 2—(AP)—A woman
was killed and at least fifteen wounded in a
short-lived but terrific gun battle at the strike-
if am Pelzer manufacturing company mills here
Nearly today as workers attempted to break
U. picket lines. * i
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Greenwood under command of Major Frank
H. Barnwell of Florence.
Two companies of national guard troops,
called out by Governor Olin Johnson, left fori .? -r-, £ , ,,
the scene immediately from Greenville and' e av^n ° a ens itself was in no danger.
Workers Labor
Without Rest to
Repair Levees
EL PASO, Sept. 2—(AP)—Hundreds of
men worked feverishly today to bulwark lev-
ees near Tornillo, little town 34 miles south of
here, where the crest of the worst flood on the
Rio Grande since 1925 was reported.
This morning the emergency crew had
worked 16 hours without food or rest.
Meantime relief agencies toiled to assist
nearly 1,000 persons near Fabens five miles
north of Tornillo who became homeless when
the raging stream burst through levees last
night and flooded more than 2,000 acres of
farm land on both sides of the Texas-New Mex-
ico border.
■ Damage to homes and crops in the Fabens
area was unofficially estimated at $500,000.
The entire El Paso county health department
was rushed to the scene. The Red Cross was
Mrs. Bertha Kelly, 21, mother of two chil- f tTves^weTlTikVng c^r^of ^me’^of^hThorT^ri^
and others found lodging in schools and church-
es.
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dren, was the one slain. She was killed during
the fighting at the company’s main plan situat-
ed here on a slight hill.
J. P. McDougal, a watchmaker taking his*
son to work, was perhaps fatally wounded in a
second gun battle at the number 4 plant a mile
from the principal plant.
Witnesses said approximately 500 pistol and
, rifle bullets screamed through the air during
. the two fights that lasted but five minutes.
All thos£ shot were said to be members of
the group of strikers and pickets that ringed
the plants shortly before opening time.
A half stick of dynamite was exploded in
front of the main plant but it did no damage.
Bystanders said it was set off apparently with
no other intention than to add to the confusion
Those wounded included Jim Davis, Will
- Revis, Paul Mahaffey, W. A. Alexander, Mr$.
i Lary Campbell, Mrs. J. M. Ford, Mrs. Florence,
- Sergeant, Clarence Dunlap, Alvin McDougal
Lizzie Garftbrell, Sadie Alexander and Stella1
| Sargeant, all at the number 4 plant.
Injured at the number I plant included James
Saxon, shot in the hip and shoulder.
McDougal, 50, was shot in the head. He was
rushed to a hospital at Greenville where it was
said his condition was critical.
. Dunlap, also in a Greenville hospital, was
sai<$Nto be in a serious conditioru ^ '
Others of the wounded were cared for at an
emergency hospital here.
Brazos River
Flood Control
Project Approved
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—<>P)—
A $30,000,000 flood control project
for the Brazos river was reported
today by Senator Morris Sheppard
(i)-Tex) to have been approved by
Works Progress Administration
engineers subject to a department
action.
.The project, calling for the con-
struction of 13 flood control darps,
|vill be submitted Tuesday to Brig.
Gen. Edwin A. Markham, chief of
airmy engineers, for his approval.
Engineer corps certification will be
required before formal approval
can be given by the works progess
heasd.
'i In addition to the $30,000,000
asked as a federal contribution.
Senator Sheppard said local inter-
ests would contribute about $5,-
000,000. The cost-per-man was *-
timated at $600, as compared to
the $1100 maximum placed on
Works Progress projects by the
president.
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First Test Case In
Coal Law Objections
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—UP>—
The first test case challenging the
fconstitutlonality of the Guffey law
regulating the soft coal industry
w,a£ filed in the District of Col-
umbia supreme court this after-
noon.
Frederick Wood, attorney, said
the suit had been filed in behalf
at the Carter Coal company, a
•out-hern West Virginia firm.
, President Roosevelt signed the
J>111 to create a "little NRA” for
the bituminous industry only yes-
terday.
Four Indicted Under
New Securities Act
NEW YORK, Aug 31—<JP)_Four
Chicago men were indicted In Fed-
eral court today in the first re-
ported return under the securities
and exchange act. The Indictments
named Joseph Mendelson, Leonard
T. Sutterman, John J. Burke, and
Joseph Sherman.
In addition to the four men,
Burke’s company, the John J.
Burke Company of Chicago, was
also named.
John J. Flynn, trial counsel for
the securities exchange commis-
sion, said the operations of the
men had netted them a profit of
$350,000 through manipulations of
Stuz common stock.
President Signs
Rivers - Harbors
$614,OOOjUOO Bill
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—(/P)—
The rivers and harbors bill, au-
thorizing $614,000,000 of improve-
ments, was signed today by Pres-
ident Rosevelt.
This measure stamps congres-
sional approval on a number of
projects already started with PWA
funds, but congress must appro-
priate money later for several
hundred others.
Included among the PWA pro-
jects the measure seeks to validate
are the $63,000,000 grand Coulee
project on the Columbia river and
the $13,000,000 Parker and $10,-
000,000 proposed Head Gate Rock
dams on the Colorado river.
PWA allotments already receiv-
ed by various projects listed in the
bill total $288,020,549.
Storm Expected
to Pass Florida
This Afternoon
HAVANA, Sept. 2—(AP)—Reports by the
Cuban telephone indicated today that a trop-
ical storm was moving north northwest with
“more danger to Key West than Havana.”
A Pan-American airways flying boat arrived
from Miami at 10:30 a. m. and returned at I 1
a. m. with 25 passengers. Under regular sched-
ule it would have taken off at 3 p. m.
On his arrival the pilot said he had seen hea-
vy dark clouds, but that if tWy constituted the
storm center, the blow was rruieh farther north
than meteorologists had reported. He said the
clouds he saw were headed toward Boote Key,
80 miles south of Miami.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 2—(AP)-
The weather bureau here ordered hurri-
cane warnings dir-dayer at Key West this af-
ternoon and said the tropical disturbance which
is approaching that city from the east probably
wuold pass through the Florida straits this af-
ternoon or tonight.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 2—(AP)—A
tropical storm moved slowly westward from
the Bahamas early today apparently bound for
the 90-mile stretch of water between Havana,
Cuba, and Key West, Fla., but the weather bu-
reau ‘said it was seemingly of limited area.
Reports at 10 a. m. located the disturbance
about 200 miles east of the Cuban capital. Me-
teorologist Grady Norton said its course was
difficult to plot because of a scarcity of infor-
mation from the vicinity.
The disturbance, he said, apparently was fol-,
lowing a westward course with shifting gales
and “may have winds of hurricane force over
a small portion of the center.”
Barring a change in direction, the weather
bureau said, the storm was expected to pass
between Key West and Cuba during the after-
noon.^The Florida keys were warned to look
out for gale winds and high tides.
- Because of the size and westward movement
of the disturbance, observers added, it was not
expected to have much effect on the coast from
Miami north.
Earlier, the army meteorological service in
Havana had reported the storm as increasing
in intensity. The Cuban forecasters warned
Havana and Mantanzas prpvinces along the
north coast of the island to take precautions
against tidal wave.
A second tropical storm crossed the coast of
Mexico south of Vera Cruz late yesterday,
sweeping the coastline with violent winds but
apparently doing no great damage.
Army ofDuce is
Reported to be
on Haile’s Soil
LONDON, Sept. 2—(AP)—The Reuters
correspondent at Dired^wa, Ethiopia, said to-
day he had heard an unconfirmed rej>ort that
an advance guard of 1,000 Italian troops with
1,500 native troops had crossed the Ethiopian
frontier west of Assab. * L
The report was that the Italian Fofde had
•entered the Damakil country and that the na-
tives were abandoning their villages.
ROME, Sept. 2—(AP)—An official denial
was issued today concerning a London report
that Italian forces had invaded Ethiopia near
Assab. ' : H
ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 2—(AP)—Emperor
Haile Selassie directed the first distribution of
gas masks to his subjects today in anticipation
of possible gas bombings by Italy, while 5,000
regulars and large quantities of ammunition
left Harrar for a field base.
cession.
2,000 March Against
Ramos in Sonora
NOGALES, Ariz., Sept. 2—(/P)—A dispatch received
here today said 2,000 persons marched through the streets
of Hermosillo in the second demonstration against Ra-
mon Ramos, new governor of Sonora.
A similar demonstration was held several hours be-
fore the governor’s induction yesterday.
Carrying huge banners displaying the words “down
with Ramos,” the marchers, most of whom were from
the laboring class, paraded orderly past the state house
from the city park where they had assembled.
Fearing a possible outbreak of violence federal sol-
diers marched beside them and followed behind in mili-
tary trucks.
Returning to the city plaza the crowd disbanded al>
ter an hour’s parade.
Afterward Governor Ramos appeared on the balcony
of a hotel and tcld a large audience he was “a frjend of
the laboring men and would do nothing to hinder’ them
in their progress.
As a precaution the city was closely guarded as long
lines of uniformed scldiers paraded up and down the main
thoroughfare.
When the governor rode into the municipal stadium
where the inaugural ceremonies were conducted he was
flanked by a score of soldiers.
Approximately 10,000 persons; 3,000 of whom were
out-of-town visitors, attended the induction.
In his address Governor Ramos said he intended to
raise the standards of the educational system in the state,
by increasing salaries of teachers and constructing new
schools.
ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 2—<y*P)—Sir Sidney Barton,
British minister to Ethiopia, was instructed by his gov-
ernment today to watch events in Ethiopia and seek ad-
ditional Information as to the- political implication of
Emperor Haile Selassie oil and mineral concession to an
American corporation.
This instruction served as a revocation of Barton’s
original instruction asking the emperor to recall the con-
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