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VOL. XXXIII No. 115 ESTABLISHED 1892 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS TUESDAY OCTOBER 27 1925 SIX PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS A COPY
IN OUR
VALLEY
ILLIAM Randolph Hear3t the
publisher who first ventured in-
to Texas with the purchase of the
Fort Worth Record some two years ago
and set Texas big city publishers to
wondering what was going to happen
has disposed of that property.
The purchaser according to report
is Amon G. Carter and the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram of which Carter is the
head.
The Star-Telegram has been the phe-
nomenon in southern newspaper enter-
prises. Its strength is in West Texas
and it ran its circulation up to well
over J 00000. It has a million dollar
plant and will likely continue the
publication of the Record from its
plant and as a morning newspaper
combining the two into a single Sun-
day morning edition.
When Hearst went into Fort Worth
friends of Carter are said to have ad-
vised him to sell out. Instead he has
taken over the Hearst property.
Hearst placed the great power of
his organization behind the Record
but was never able to get the property
“on its feet.”
This leaves Hearst with the San An-
tonio Light as his only Texas prop-
erty.
Hearst was said to ihave “angled”
for the Houston Chronicle and the
Houston Post-Dispatch but neither
property was* for sale.
* • *
The Nebraska tour of 10000 persons
# who will visit Texas will not visit the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
That they would come here was rath-
er a far-fetched conclusion. The route
vras made up long ago and its farthest
south point was Touston.
Let’s wait a year or two before we
take on an order like that. Then we’ll
be better able to care for them when
they come. And they’ll come. *
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We here in the Valley have long
been accustomed to the establishment
here of branches of up-state enterpris-
es.
But for Valley enterprises to estab-
lish branches up-state is reversing the
order of things.
This has been done by the Valley
Industries of Mercedes manufacturers
of bottled drinks.
E. Keith Lyons head of the concern
has announced the purchase of prop-
erty at Beeville and will establish a
branch of his Mercedes business.
* * *
The Sells-Floto circus is coming to
the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Another indication of the growing
importance of this section.
Sells-Flc^o ranks next to the giant
Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey
organization.
It will be the largest circus that has
ever visited this section of the state.
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The Gulf Toast Lines announces a
package car service to operate from
Brownsville to Mission via San Benito
over the San Benito & Rio Grande
Valley road to Mission.
This service should prove of great
benefit to the wholesale trade of
Brownsville.
Dry g^gtls. is wholesaled out of
Brownsville likewise groceries drugs
sundries fruits and vegetables. A
quick service to points like Santa Ma-
ria Hidalgo. Alacrances Crossing etc-
should materially h'elp this trade.
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A man who has observed growth in
cities in other parts of the country re-
marked :
“Take a tip from me—the center of
your business district may find it. elf
in an entirely different part of
Brownsville in the next few years. The
Hotel El Jardin may bring this aboil*
—and then again it may not. Vour
trend seems to be northward. Levee
street north from Eleventh 'may in
time be the new business district.
“Business concerns establishing here
are going to demand first class busi-
ness houses. Gradually they will be
built and they will be occupied. A
great many of your old-style business
buildings are not arranged for mod-
ern business. If they are permitted J.o
remain business will be naturally
forced into sections where new build-
ings are available.
“I may be wrong—but I don’t believe
that I am.”
THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Lower Rio
Grande Valley: Partly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday; rising temperature.
For East Texas: Increasing cloudi-
ness and warmer tonight; Wednesday
unsettled; probably rain in north por-
tion; much colder in north portion.
Moderate to fresh northeast to south-
east winds on the coast.
Weather Conditions.
The high pressure area over the Ca-
nadian Northwest yesterday morning
has increased considerably in intensity
and is apparently developing into a se-
vere cold wave. Temperatures were
near zero this morning throughout the
Canadian Northwest Montana and por-
tions of North Dakota and Wyoming—
Calgary Canada reporting a minimum
of 2 degrees below zero. Another mod-
erate high pressure area covering most
of the central and southern states is at-
tended by fair weather and also rather
low temperatures throughout the great
central valleys. Rains occurred within
the last 24 hours in the Gulf and south
Atlantic states and snows throughout
the Canadian. Northwest and ..adjacent
• . ptates _ _ _ ____
NURSERYMEN OF
LOWER VALLEY
TO ASK ACTION
Florida Growers Send
Representatives; Spe-
cial Meet of Court Is
Called Here
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The battle over the question
of enforcing an embargo on
shipments of citrus fruit trees
into the Valley from areas in
Florida and other states
which are infested with citrus
canker and other diseases was
expected to be precipitated
here early this afternoon at a
special meeting of the com-
missioners' court with Val-
ley nurserymen arrayed
against Florida representa-
tives who arrived in the Val-
ley early this afternoon.
The Valley nurserymen’s
forces headed by W. H. Stef-
fins of Harlingen president
of the Valley Horticultural
Society A. T. Potts president
of the Valley Nurserymen’s
association and other leading
citrus tree growers assem-
bled at the Travelers Hotel
roof for lunch today prepar-
atory to entering the conflict
at the commissioners’ court.
In the party from Florida ace Louis
H. Alsmeyer former Cameron bounty
agricultural agent and at present em-
ployee of a Florida nursery; J. E. Cor-
nell representative of the Florida Nur-
serymen’s association and J. C. Goodwin
member of the Florida plant board.
Both sides of the question are ex-
pected to be fought out this afternoon
and in Hidalgo county tomorrow at the
regular meeting of the commissioners’
court to be held there.
The question has aroused the entire
Valley and action on it is expected in
a short time.
tl was started by Valley interests
a short time ago and became a center
of discussion in the Valley when for-
mer County Agricultural Agent Alsmeyer
charged nurseymen with efforts to form
a monopoly in order to raise prices.
These charges are denied in a letter
from A. T. Potts president of the Valley
Nurserymen’s association.
The Valley Horticultural society at its
meeting last night passed a resolution
in favor of placing an embargo on all
citrus fruit tree shipments from any
other place and the Harlingen Chamber
of Commerce has passed a similar reso-
lution. ’'V.
Potts Declares
Embargo Needed
An embargo on. shipments of citrus
fruit trees into the Valley from areas
in Florida or other states where there
is citrus canker white fly and similar
citrus diseases is a matter which is of
the same vital interest to bankers or-
chard owners merchants and others
in the Valley as it is to nurserymen
says A. T. Potts president of the Val-
ley Association of Nurserymen in a
reply to the letter of» former Countj
Agent Louis H. Alsmeyer.
Mr. Als meyer is now with a Florida
nursery and in a recent letter to
County Judge Oscar ■ C. Dancy he
charges Valley nurserj'men with an at-
tempt at carrying out a monopoly of
citrus tree sales in the embargo mat-
ter.
The nurserymen will be represented
before the Hidalgo county commissicJh-
ers’ court Wednesday of this week
and before the Cameron county com-
missioners' court Monday of next
week in seeking a recommendation oJ
the two courts to the eommissionei
of agriculture C. V. Terrell* that h<
declare such an embargo as the courl
themselves have no power ^o enforct
such an embargo Mr. Potts *said.
On Infected Areas
He also mentioned that the embargt
will be in force only on trees fron
areas where there is • infestation ant
not from entire state.
The proposed embargo will be. pre
parpd. in conference between the nur
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Satterwhite and Ferguson
Conference Ends in Break
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COOLIDGE FIXES
THANKSGIVING DAY
WASHINGTON D. C. Otc. 27.
—President Coolidge today pro-
claimed Thursday November 20
as Thanksgiving Day when grati-
tude should be expressed for
“many and great blessings” which
have come to the people during
the past year.
The nation has been brought
with safety and honor through
another P2 months the proclama-
tion said with peace at home and
abroad with the public hc;i^th
good with hai.ests f ivl indus-
tries productive and labor well
rewarded.
AMERICAN WINS
SEAPLANE RACE
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Doolittle Drives Curtiss
Racer 232 Miles Per
Hour in Cup Event
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BAY SHORE PARK. Baltimore Md.
Oct. 27.—A jet black little United States
army*Curtiss racer with an uncannily
dexterous pilot in the cockpit proved
America’s cup defender yesterday when
Lieutenant James H. Doolittle drove
to a 232.*573 miles an hour victory in the
international Jacques Schneider trophy
race. Lieut. Doolittle’s time was a new
Schneider trophy mark and in addition
he set up claim for three new world’s
records—100 kilometers 200 kilometers
and maximum speed—which will he pre-
sented to the Federation Aeronautique
Internationale for recognition.
Lieut. Doolittle made 235.036 miles
per hour on his last lap around the fifty-
kilometer course. The previous world
record recognized by the federation
aeronautique internationale was 226.752
made by Captain Henry C. Baird in
Great Britain’s “Mystery ship” the.
supermarinc napier S-4 in a trial at
Southampton. The supermarine entered
in the Schneider cup race crashed with
Captain Biard during the trial flight
last Friday and was totally wrecked.
Lieut. Doolittle’s marks were 234.772
for 100 kilometers and 234352 for 200
kilometers.
Straight-away speed trials over a
three kilometer course are scheduled to
be held today.
HIGH VALUE ON
HIDALGO FARMS
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Land and Buildings Arc
Placed at 37 Million
By U. S. Bureau *
WASHINGTON D. C\ Oct. 27.—The
results of the—1925 farm census for Hi-
dalgo county were made public today
by the department of commerce. Fig-
ures for 1920 were not given for this
county because of changes in the county
boundaries since 1920.
The 1925 figures show land and
buildings in Hidalgo county valued at
$36930822. Of this amount land alone
had a value of $35659561 andf buildings
$3271261. There were 2646 farms in
the county in 1925 2638 of which were
operated by white farmers and eight by
negro farmers 1643 by owners 28“ by
managers and 970 by tenants.
Horses numbered 3670 in the county
for 1925; mules 6551; cattle 12772
. and swine 2110. The principal crops
were corn hay. sorghum cotton and
grapefruit. In 4924 807ft acres of corn
i produced 317.151 bushels; 1649 acres of
i hay produced 13012 tons* 4536 acres of
I sorghum amount produced not given;
101838 acres of cotton produced 35870
• bales; and there were 158607 young
• grapefruit trees and 77971 trees of
bearing age . f _
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'Tried To Be Friend To
Jim But Couldn’t
Speaker Say3
(Rv the Associated Press'
AUSTIN Tex. Oct. 27.—
Although former Governor
James E. Ferguson and the
governor declined to discuss
the conference yesterday with
I.ee Satterwhite speaker of
the house Mr. Satterwhite
admitted today that there is
an open break. He said that
he K tried to be Ferguson’»
friend but Jim would not let
him.” N
Satterwh+te said he told the Governor
and Mr. Ferguson that he would not*
call a special session of the legislature
unless results of the investigation of
the highway department conducted by
Attorney General Dan Moody showed
that it was necessary.
The speaker declared that Mr. Fergu-
son said “You arc either for or against
us and if you are not for us you are
against us.” **•
Mr. aStterwhite said that his confer-
ence was the “old. old story. Jim got
mad. Just like he was before he is
mad with* power.” He admitted that
Mr. Ferguson invited him to go before
the grand jury and to state what he
knows about the administration.
This morning Mr. fatter white held a
conference with Attorney General Moo-
dy to “go over some details" he said.
PALLAS Texas Ocf 27.—Early
court action in a possible suit by At-
torney General Pan Moody for cancella-
tion of highway maintenance contracts
to "decide once and for all” the present
controversy was favored in a statement
by Chairman Frank V. Lanham of the
state highway commission. Mr. Lanham
returned to Dallas today from Austin
where a meeting of the highway com-
mission was held yesterday.
LUTHERCABINET
TO HOLD SEATS
Places of Nationalists
to be Taken Over by
Other Members
x (By the Associated Press)
BERLIN Oct. 27.—The Luther-Strese-
nann cabinet will continue to function
without the assistance of the nationalist
party and furthermore promises rigid
adherence to the foreign policies which
culminated in the security pact and
treaties at Locarno.
This announcement came from gov-
ernment headquarters where there ap-
pears to be no inclination to allow the
withdrawal of the three nationalist min-
isters to develop into a government
crisis or a parliamentary situation
which might necessitate new elections
for the reichstaf*.
The cabinet yesterday formally ac-
cepted the resignations of Herr Schiele
Dr. Von Schlieben and Herr Neuhaus
and then voted to continue in office.
The vacancies will he filled by Chan-
cellor Luther taking over the ministry
of finance Herr Gessler minister of
defense assuming the post of minister
of interior also and Dr. Krohne* min-
ister of transportation adding the min-
istry of economics to his duties.
It was contended that no practical
purpose would be served in the present
international situation if the entire
cabinet retired.
SWEETWATER—A valuation of two
thousand dollars a mile for taxation
purposes on the Orient railway in West
Texas v/ai recommended in a resolution
•
passed yesterday by County Judges rep-
resenting a majority of counties tra-
versed by that system as an aid in re-
organization and rehabilitation of the
road.
FORT WORTH—T M. Carter mayor
of Graford son of Col. Kit Carter first
president of the Texas Cattle Raisers
association \fas buried at Graford yen-
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PAINLEVE CABINET
OFFERS TO RESIGN
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( By the Associated Press)
PAItfS Oct. 27.— Premier Pain-
leve's cabinet resigned today.
M. Painleve called on President
Doumergue shortly after 2 p. m.
and presented the collective resig-
nation of the ministers.
The premier informed the presi-
dent' that' the cabinet could not_
continue its work of restoring the
French finances without being as-
sured of a favorable majority in
pail ament. The decision of the
ministers to resign wa* unanimous.
It^was caused by the attitude taken <
by the radical and socialist par-
ties at their recent congress in
Nice where the principle of a tax
levy on capital was adopted.
OFFICERS SEEK
SLAYER OF MAN
Farmer Found Dead in
Brmh Near La Paloma
Late Yesterday
Officers today are searching for the
slayers of Jesus Sanchez 50 farmer
who was found dead in the brush near
La Paloma late last night by Deputy
Sheriffs Ted Teel and J. C. Dilworth
after they had been notified that the
man was missing.
Sanchez was shot through the back
and had a bullet wound in the left side
of his head. A coroner’s verdict was
that he had met death from gun shot
wounds inflicted by an unknown person
or persons.
According to relatives of the man he
had sold two bales of cotton Saturday
afternoon and is supposed to have had
about $300 in his pockets when he left
his farm about 5:30 for the home of
friends in La Paloma where he had
been sleeping.
T^he wife of the man is visiting in
Reynosa officers were told.
Officers are working on the theory
that robbery was the motive for the
slaying.
STATE IN BRIEF
DALLAS — Investigation .here dis-
closed that 5ft persons in Texas have
been victimized through the sale of
the right to operate filling stations for
$350 by persons posing as represent-
atives of a large oil concern.
FORT WORTH—Sam Levy million-
aire merchant who died in Chicago Sat-
urday was buried here today. He was
•president oft he Casey-Swasey company.
GALVESTON—Galveston island is
practically the only area in the Galves-
ton-Holiston region available to hunters
and fishermen as result of the foot
and mouth quarantine according to ad-
vices from Dr. Marion Imes federal di-
rector of the plagug fight.
MAN 55 GETS SECOND
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MARRIAGE LICENSE IN
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MONTH; FIANCEE IS 20
A man at thp age of 55 has as
much right to 1# fickle as a girl at
the age of 20 is the belief of William
Fogle Harlingen man who exercised
that privilege here recently.
On October 10 Mr. Fogl« apn» ared
before I. Zarate deputy county clerk
and secured a marriage licen<o for
himself and a young woman whose
age he gave as 23.
Yesterday he returned told the
county clerk that he had decided to
exercise his privilege of changing
<hc mind and secured a marriage li-
cense “for himself and Miss Lillie
May Grahgm age 20 or a little more
than one-third his age.
Whether the marriage ceremony
been held yet the clerk did not
know stating that Mr. Fogle return-
ed to the upper part of the county
yesterday afternoon.
GRECO-BULGAR
ACCORD LOOMS
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Troops Ordered Out of
Both Countries By
Nations League
(By the Associated Press.)
ATHENS Oct. 27.—The Greek gov-
ernment today ordered the prompt
evacuation of Blugarian territory by
its forces. The movement to withdraw
the Greek frontier guards to their for-
mer posts has been begun.
PARIS Oct. 27.—Greece’s representa-
tive M. Carapanos annouced at the
I opening of today’s meeting of the
league of nations council that through
the friendly mediation of Rumania a
direct agreement has been reached be-
tween Greece and Blugaria for evacu-
ation of their respective territories.
An Athens dispatch last night said
the Greco-Bulgarian agreement at the
suggestion of Rumania had been reach-
ed prior to yesterday’s action o# the
league of nations council in Paris
which ordered Greece and Bulgaria to
withdraw their troops behind their re-
spective frontiers.
Whether Rumania acted independent-
ly of the league or not the effect of
the agreement is to carry out the con-
ditions laid down by the league coun-
cil.
League of Nations
Gives Strict Order
PARIS Oct. 27.—After Locarno Par-
is; after Lake Maggiore’s code of peace
for Europe a stern pronouncement by
Europe that the more universal peace
code a covenant of the league of na-
tions must be loyally fallowed - l''at
is the message that radiates from Par-
is today i*' connection with the coun-
cil of the league’s decisive actio’i in
^mlering a halt in the Greco Bulgarian
conflict.
The councils' warning to the Balkan
states that they must cease hostilities
and return within their own frontiers
is regarded here as the logical se-
quence of what was achieved at Lo-
carno in consolidating/ European secur-
(Continued on Page Two.)
Crop Estimate Aids Raid
on Farmers Solons Aver
WASHINGTON D. C. Oct. 27.—
Department of agriculture report in-
dicating a cotton yield this year of
15226.000 bales drew fire from two
senators from cotton producing
states.
Senator Caraway democrat Arkan-
sas declares that any one acquaint-
ed with conditions in the belt this
season realizes that there are not
15226.000 bales or anything ap-
proaching that figure of spinnable
cotton in the southern states this
year. Senator Harris democrat Geor-
gia expressed doubt that the final
figu re foY the season would exceed
14000000 bales.
Charging that the government
seempd to lend itself to every move-
ment “to depress the price of cot-
ton” i*tor Cara* ay dccUrtd “H
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is time ‘to reform or abolish the de-
partment of agriculture which has
lent itself consciously or uncon-
sciously. to every gambling raid on
the farms of the South and West.”
“1 shall myself introduce a bill to
ifleet this situation when congress
meets month hence!' he added “and
I shall demand immediate considera-
tion of it. The bill I will urge will
make gambling in all farm products
a crime with penalties so severe that
none will have the temerity to violate
it.”
Senator faraw-ay charged that “to
everyone it roust be apparent 'that
intentionally or otherwise these
cotton report* have thi* year cost
the cotton growers of America no|
less than a quarter of a billion doi-
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30 HURT WHEN
COACHES ROLL
[OWN BIG BANK
Sunny land Fast Passen-
ger Between St. Louis
and San Francisco De-
rails in Mississippi
(By the Associated Press.)
MEMPHIS Tenn. Oct. 27.
—Twenty dead and more than
30 injured is the total toll
taken when the Sunnyland
fast St. Louis and San Fran-
cisco passenger train left the
rails today near Victoria
Miss. and tumbled in a
tangled mass down a forty
foot embankment.
At least twenty persons
were killed outright or died
before a relief train could
reach the scene and possibly
twice that number were in-
jured. •
The train traveling at about 50 or
00 miles an hour apparently spread
the track about three hundred yard*
from the station and about 200 feet
from a forty-foot trfstle. The engine
cleared the trestle as did the first
baggage coach. The engine did not
’eave the track. Three baggage coach-
es and nine day coaches and Pullmans
made up the train.
All of the coaches except the last
Pullman rolled down the 40-foot em-
bankment.
The dead included:
J. W. Ryan conductor Memphis.
O. O. Jordan Carrolton Ga.
Mrs. O. O. Jordan. Carrollton Ga.
Fay Jordan -8 Ninekah Okla.
John M. Jordan Ninekah Okla.
Miss Ollie Webster Oxford Miss.
Dr. H. G. Hathorn.
J. S. Thompson Tupelo Miss.
J. Burrctt News agent.
Floyd Wagner. Tupelo Miss.
The three day coaches were a tan-
* gled mass of wreckage. One of them
dived headlong into the clay bank by
the side of the track and the others
rolled and jammed as they struck tha
bottom piling the occupants into the
tops and ends of the car*.
Pullman Passengers Escape
Few of the passengers sleeping in
the last three Pullmans suffered seri-
ous injury and it was these who direct-
ed the rescue and first aid work be-
fore the relief trains arrived.
The injured:
Mrs. Bessie Jordan 40 Ninekah Ok.
cut and possible internal injuries.
Arthur Jordan 10 Ninenkah Okla.
cuts and bruises.
Young Jordan 12 Ninnekah Okla.
cuts and bruises.
Charles Devlin” 28 Topeka Kana.
minor cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Charle* Dcvfin Topeka Kana.
minor cuts and bruises.
Mrs. J. W. 'Camp Wynee Ark. frac-
tured wrist.
Randolph Jackson 17 .wacqn Mill.
severe bruises.
J. W. Hewskede 23 Dickerson Ala.
severe bruises about head.
P Anderson Aberdeen Miss. bruis-
ed about the body.
B. Hogan Amory Miss. both legs
broken.
M. A. Kelley 27 Memphis both legs
broken backk wrenched.
Louis Heinrich 32. Russellville Ark.
severe bruises back wrenched.
J. C. Champion 70 Winfield Ala.
broken shoulder and back wrenched.
Mrs J. C. Champion. 65 Winfield
Ala. severe bruises and cuts about tha
body.
Theodore Fullbright 30 Batesville
Ark. bruises about body and bock
wrenched.
H. J. Kellett collarbone broken and
back wrenched.
Cecil Dossett 60 Okolona Mast*
status unknown.
Residents Aroused
Passengers who escaped from tha
Pullman cars uninjured roused tb«
residents of the village and stopped all
passing vehicles on the roads com-
mandeering them for rescue work. In
a short time a crowd had gathered and
as the injured were taken from tha
wreckage they were wrapped in bad-
ding and carried to tbe station.
All available ambulances and doiior*
from Memphis and towns near Vic-
toria were pressed into service and as
quickly as victims were taken from
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