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A correction: In this column a few
days ago it was stated that potato
growers in the section between Browns-
ville and Harlingen and east of Browns-
viile had bought $50000 worth of seed
potatoes for this season's plantings.
Cleve Tandy potato grower of
BrownMf}lle> advises that instead of
$50000 worth of seed potatoes the
amount* invested in seed potatoes by
eur growers was nearer $250000 or a
quarter of a million dollars.
Even $60000 worth of Irish potatoes
would seem *o us a pretty good sized
■order. But $250000—ph-e-e-e-w!
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If the Hotel El Jardin were complet-
ed today it would probably be filled
to overflowing with guests.
. If there were available a half dozen
two and three-story buildings the up-
per floors of which were comfortably
equipped as small hotels they too
would likely be doing a nice business.
A few nights ago H. H. Haines gen-
eral manager of the Houston Chamber
of Commerce and five other men all
from the north arriving in Brownsville
ut 11 o’clock at night found no hotel
Accommodations. They found rooms in
Matamoros.
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k Wednesday Governor M. E. Trapp of
I Oklahoma arriving here for a hunting
L trip in Mexico also went to Matamoros
I for hotel accommodations.
I The Chamber of Commerce is being
k flooded with requests for rooms. It
L Has appealed again to residents of
B Brownsville who have rooms to spare
V to file their names addresses telephone
numbers and rates with the chamber.
The Haines and Trapp incidents be-
came known because of their promi-
nence. Doubtless there are many oth-
ers who meet with the same situation.
And what is true here is also true
throughout the Rio Grande Delta. Ho-
Iftels of one town are constantly ask-
ing hotels in others if they have rooms
available.
Manager G. C. Richardson of the
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce re-
ported on the activities of the chamber
aft the annual meeting last night.
The repprt indicated the elaborate
program that is ahead of Brownsville.
It will be printed in full in The Herald
Sunday. Read It. You and your neigh-
bor are members. It should interest
you.
If the things suggested are carried
out Brownsville will be a beter city
to live in than it now is.
And that was a splendid gathering of
Brownsville citizens that attended the
meeting. It was an outpouring of the
best; it was representative. It is men
and women like those that the Chamber
of Commerce needs behind it in order
ftbat it shall become a power for good
a power in the growth and development
of the city and section.
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Fred Keepers has associated with
himself party of four experienced wa-
termelon growers at tRaymondville.
When watermelon growers get togeth-
er things happen.
. They rented 400 acres of the Yturria
ranch in ‘Willacy county and after us-
ing fertilizer extensively will plant the
tract to watermelons.
The country’s first watermelons are
grown in the Rio Grande Delta.
Also the first green corn for table
use.
We must feed the nation. We are
ready to feed the nation. We are anx-
ious to get our greens and our fruits
on every table.
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The hammering of the piledriver on
the site of the Hotel El Jardin Is the
sort of music that the average Browns-
villeite likes to hear these days.
It is the first time that a building
here is being built to such size that
fifty-foot poles treated with creosote
are necessary^to provide a proper foun-
dation. Theri will be about 260 of the
poles driven Into the earth just as a
ten-penny nail is driven into a plank.
It will require something like 30
days to complete the job barring ac-
cidents and unfavorable weather.
After which the clusters of poles will
he concreted to a depth of eight or ten
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} THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Lower Rio
Grande Valley: Fair to partly cloudy
and colder tonight with lowest temper-
attire below freezing; Saturday fair and
continued cold.
For East Texas: Fair tonight; colder
It) south portion and not so cold in ex-
treme northwest portion; freezing to
the coast; Saturday fair with rising
.temperature. Moderately northerly winds
on the coast.
Weather Conditions
Barometric pressure was high and
temperatures unseasonably low through-
out the region fchtween the Rocky and
Appalachian Mountains this morning.
Ffecipit«t>ion Was general throughout
the southern eastern states during
the last 24 h dors. Temperatures were
much below s«ro in the north central
states at the* morning observation and
b«low freezing as far south as San An-
tonio Texas.
The lowest temperature last night
nt • Texas stations ranged from 14 at
Amarillo to 41 at Brownsville
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CREAGER WINS
BRIDGE PERMIT
IN REFERENDUM
Vote of 5 to 1 Favors
Granting Franchise by
City; Opposition I n
Courts Forecast
People of Brownsville yesterday
voted to grant to R. B. Creager a fran-
chise to erect a bridge across the Rio
Grande here the final vote being 364
for granting the franchise to Mr. Creag-
er and 73 against granting it. •
The voting picked up in the afternoon
to make the total more than 400 a
heavier ballot than was expected from
the morning voting.
The vote by wards was: First Ward
93 for 40 against; Second Ward 103 for
14 against; Third Ward 56 for 10
against; Fourth Ward 112 for nine
against. Total 364 for 73 against;
total vote in election 437.
The ordinance granting to Mr. Creag-
er a franchise to erect a bridge across
the Rio Grande here has been passed
by the city commission at first reading.
It was passed by the old city commis-
sion two members of which have been
replaced by other commissioners since
the ordinance was passed at the first
reading.
I he ordinance must be passed at sec-
ond and final reading by the commission
before becoming effective.
Yesterday’s election was the first use
of the referendum made by Brownsville
people since the present city charter
was adopted in 1016. The referendum
*as called by the city commission fol-
lowing the filing of a petition for such
an election by Judge E. K. Goodrich
connected with the Brownsville & Mata-
moros Rapid Transit Co. which concern
is also working to erect a bridge across
the river here.
A third faction has entered the field
of bridge building here in C. G. Malott
who proposes to erect the bridge for the
city on a bond proposition and to lease
it from the city and operate it.
A legal fight is foreseen before the
matter is finally settled.
SATTERWHITE WILL
SEEK RE-ELECTION
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AMARILLO Texas Jan. 22.—Speaker
Lee Satterwhite of the Texas house of
representatives recently widely quot-
ed proponent of a special session of the
legislature has let his political cat out
of the bag.
He will not run for governor in pos-
sible opposition to Governor Miriam A.
Ferguson with whom he clashed in pol-
icy regarding the projected extra ses-
sion to investigate her administration.
Such was assured yesterday in his an-
nouncement here that he will be a can-
didate for reelection as representative
from the 193rd district composed of
six Panhandle counties.
The speaker’s announcement of plat-
form was brief. “If I am re-elected I
will continue to serve you and the state
of Texas to the very best of my abil-
ity.” he said.
Alleged Finnish Spies
Are Arrested in Russia
LENINGRAD Jan. 22—Eleven al-
leged Finnish spies have been arrested
by iRussian state political police. One
of their number while attempting to
escape was mortally wounded. The
head of this espionage organization
say the police is an international spy
named Alexander Tasso who is alleged
to have crossed the Russo-Finnish fron-
tier clandestinely no less than twenty-
five times during the last five years.
ACQUAINTED
Thos. F. Wooalock member of
the interstate commerce com-
mission hearing oral argu-
ments at Washington on the
Southern Pacific’s application
for permit to build its lines in-
to the Valley knows the re-
sources and needs of this sec-
tion. He held the hearing of
the application in Brownsville
in October and toured the Val-
ley while here.
DEFEND REPEAL
OF ESTATE TAX
Senate Committee Re-
port Says Levy Be-
longs to States
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON D. C. Jan. 22.—The
report of the senate finance committee
on the tax reduction bill as submitted
to the senate today by Chairman
£moot defined repeal of the inheri-
tance tax on the ground that this field
of taxation should be left entirely to
states except in emergencies.
Only the ten republican members of
the committee signed the report. Sen-
ators King of Utah and Jones of New
Mexico democrats have indicated they
would file separate reports but the
other democrats on the committee have
indicated agreement with most of the
features of the bill.
Further discussing its proposed re-
peal of the inheritance tax against
which a stubborn fight is in prospect
the committee majority declared adop-
tion by the house of a provision allow-
ing 80 percent credit for payments of
state inhertance taxes constituted an
admission that only 20 percent of the
federal levy was needed.
Slayer Sentenced to
Die by Judge at Waco
(By The Associated Press.)
WACO Tex. Jan. 22.—Sentence to die
by electrocution before sunrise on Feb-
ruary 22 was passed on W. T. Aven to-
day by Judge K. I. Munroe. It was the
first time in McLennan county that the
sentence to death by electricity had
been imposed.
Aven was convicted of the murder of
his wife Mrs. Maude Aven near Waco
on July 5 1921. She died as the result
of poisoning. He has been tried twice
and given the death penalty each time
the first case having been reversed.
Farm Board to Regulate
Crops Proposed by Lowden
(By The Associated Press.)
CHAMPAIGN 111. Jan. 22.—A fed-
eral farm board to regulate crop
production for the farmer as the
federal reserve board adjusts nation-
wide credit facilities for the indus-
trial w'orld was advocated today by
Frank O. Lowden former governor
of Illinois before the annual meeting
of the Illinois agricultural associa-
tion. Acting through cooperative
groups representing certain crops
such a farm board. Dr. Lowden said
might expect to prevent the ruinous
over-production which from time to
time confronts agricultural producers
■“‘turning the surplus of the very es-
sentials of life from a burden into a
blessing.”
The federal board seeks to do in
reference to space what a farm board
should accomplish in reference to time
with the seasonal surpluses of the
farm.
“A surplus of the staple farm
products is inevitable and necessary”
said Mr. Lowden. “The farmer asks
why if this seasonal surplus is a
good thing for everyone else it
should result in a loss to him. The
farmer must always plan to raise
more than just enough if the world
is to be fed and clothed. Everyone
recognizes this need.
“Business responds to the prom-
ise of a bountiful crop. The far-
mer’s gladness however is temper-
ed with the bitter thought that maybe
these seeming blessings of a kindly
providence may bring him ruin. He
is always confronted with this di-
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REFUSED REPLY
TO QUESTION IN
METAL CO. CASE
Former Attorney Gener-
al Should Answer or
he Punished Federal
Jury Asserts
NEW YORK Jan. 22.—Harry
M. Daugherty former attorney
general of the United States
was arraigned before federal
; Judge Thacher today for failure
j to answer questions and to pro-
duce records under subpoena in
the recent investigation concern-
ing the American Metal com-
ianv.
Mr. Daugherty was cited bv a fed
eral grand jury “punishment for con-
tempt" or "for 1'nstructions by the
court that he comply with the sub-
poena."
Colonel Thomas W. Miller former
alien property custodian four German
and Swiss citizens and three German
and Swiss corporations were indicted
by the federal grand jury last October
for conspiracy to defraud the United
States government in the release by the
property custodian of about $7000000
of sequestered assets of the American
Metal company. It was alleged that the
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Land Law Designed as
Defense Measure-Saenz
f By The Associated Tress.)
MEXICO CITY Jan. 22.—Foreign
Minister Saenz in a statement today ex-
plained the Mexican land law and its
application to foregners ”in accordance
with the constitution of 1917 and for
reason of defense and otherwise” he
said "prohibition has been established
against aliens acquiring real estate in
the border coastal zone. Consequently
since 1917 no alien has been able legal-
ly to acquire such rights in that zone
SEEKTOLIMIT
COURT DEBATE
Friends of Proposal Use
Heroic Measures to
Obtain Vote
WASHINGTON D. C.. Jan. 22.—A
vote on the question of limiting de-
bate on the world court was assured
today when the court’s supporters se-
cured more than enough supporters to
a petition asking for such a vote.
WASHINGTON I). C. Jan. 22.—Sup-
porters of the world court again showed
signs today of resorting to heroic meas-
ures to bring the issue to a vote in the
senate.
While the court’s opponents kept the
floor with an oratorical marathon cov-
ering a wide range of international
problems. Senator Robinson the dem-
ocratic leader conferred with other
friends of the court and announced
that the rule limiting debate would be
invoked tomorrow unless there was an
agreement meantime fixing the time
for a roll call.
The burden of the fight against the
court was taken up first today by Chair-
man Borah of the foreign relations
committee who held the floor for one
of the longest speeches of his senate
career while Senator Reed democrat
Missouri Senator Nye republican North
Dakota and others were marshalling
data with which to continue the battle
later in the day.
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TAX
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CITIZEN
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but the law had to solve problems of
acquisitions prior to that date estab-
lishing for aliens such conditions so
they could*keep their properties until
death when individuals or until disso-
lution of companies when corporations
and furthermore so that foreign heirs
could dispose of them five years from
the date of an alien’s death.
"This condition applies only to heirs
of such aliens as acquired real estate
in the prohibited zone prior to 1917.
Outside of the prohibited zone the only
restricton imposed on heirs of aliens is
that of obtaining the permit required
by the constitution' which is only a
condition for the acquisition of property
rights and therefore does not prevent
aliens from acquiring them as long as
they have obtained such permit which
does not affect the rights referred to in
any fundamental manner. This practice
has been observed since 1917 without
difficulty.
"In accordance with the principles of
law any government has the right of
imposing rulings on inheritances even
to the point of reverting them to the
state and practically confiscating them.
Nevertheless Mexico has not adopted
such severe measures as other coun-
tries and confines herself to providing
that heirs of aliens in the prohibited
zone may transfer their rghts. with suf-
ficiently long delay to person* entitled
to acquire such rights in accordance
with the law.
"Concerning alien corporations the
general principle above mentioned will
be applied except in the case of such
companies that may have more than 50
per cent of stock in Mexican companies
owning real estate with agricultural pur-
poses in which cases they are given ten
years to dispose of these rights exceed-
ing more than the fifty per cent re-
quired by law. All other Mexican cor-
porations either industrial mining and
oil or of any other kind not agricultural
are not subject to any restrictions as to
the participation of foreigners.
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Freeze Forecast in
Valley by Morning
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Blizzard Sweeping Over
Nation to Hold Mer-
cury Down
"Warn Valley citizens to drain the
radiators of their automobiles and all
exposed pipes" W. J. Sehnurbusch urg-
ed this morning. The local forecaster
predicts freezing and below for the en-
tire Valley by tomorrow morning with
the possibility of a heavy frost.
“Should the wind cease blowing and
the clouds clear away the mercury
would go several degrees below freez-
ing in the Valley tonight and there
would be a heavy frost" he said. There
is a possibility that the sky will be
clear befo! ' morning.
The lowett temperature last night in
Brownsville was 41.
The presen‘. cold spell is so wide-
spread that temperatures will remain
low until Sunday at least it was pre-
dicted. Sunday likely will be clear with
slowly rising temperatures.
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DALLAS Texas Jan. 22. North and
West Texas was gripped by freezing
weather last night as the blizzard de-
ployed south almost to the gulf coast.
Snow ranging from one to six inches in
extreme north Texas and in the western
part of the state to I'ecos and San Ar-
gelo were beneficial to farmers and cat-
tle raisers.
Intense cold prevailed in the north-
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OVER 4 MILLION MOTOR
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VEHICLES ARE PRODUCED
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IN U. S. CANADA IN ’25
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON I). 0. Jan. 22.—
Production of passenger automobiles
in the United States and Canada for
1925 asannounced by the commerce
department totaled 3817638 against
3262763 in 1924. The 1925 motor
truck production was 496.998 against
377344 in 1924. Both totals for last
year were the largest on record.
The announcement showed 179 man-
ufacturers in operation last month
compared with 246 at the beginning of
the year.
ROAD CONTR ACT
PRICE RAPPED
Hoffman Co. work Could
be Done for Third
Engineer Says
(Bv The Associated Press.)
AUSTIN Texas Jan. 22.—Gibb Gil-
christ. who voluntarily resigned Feb-
ruary 16. 1925 as Texas state highway
engineer testified today 10.5 cents a
square yard was a reasonable price for
a single course asphaltic treatment un-
der specifications of the Hoffman Con-
struction contract. He said 10.5 cent-
would cover all costs and leave the con-
tractor a “substantial profit.” He was
testifying in the state’s suit against
the construction company.
Twenty-one- cents a square yard was
a fair price for a two-course application
if the second should be applied six
months after the first. By "two course
application” engineers understod the
second is to be applied a few hours af-
ter the first. If the second should lie
applied immediately. 21 cents would be
too high a price Gilchrist said.
The thirty cents a square yard paid
the Hoffman company by the state was
an unreasonable price even if two
courses had been applied over all the
highways he said.
Gilchrist declared it would not be
practicable to wait six months to dis-
tribute the second treatment.
Application of asphalt to what he
termed “caliche” would be a ymsa
waste of money from standpoint of the
state for “it is a fine powder” he said.
RED CROSS BOARD
ELECTED THURSDAY
The executive hoard to administer the
affairs of the local Red Cross Chapter
was elected at a meeting held in the
parish house last night. Members of
the new board are Rev. E. P. Dav Mrs.
B. L. Cain W. L. Pendergraft Emmett
Dodd Mrs. E. J. Tucker Mrs. E. T.
Holiday and A. E. Monsecs. The posi-
tions will^he assigned later.
Mrs. J. K. Wells will represent the
Public Health Association on the board.
A meeting will be held some time next
week at which the present board will
Jturn over books and records to the new-
ly elected officials.
Suits Withdrawn in Valley
Road Case; to be Improved
Suits which were filed by attorneys
for D. A. O’Brien and associates act-
ing for their interest in the Rio
Grande Railway litigation have been
withdrawn following the action taken
yesterday whereby W. T. Eldridge
becomes president and majority
stockholder of the road it was an-
nounced today.
The agreement yesterday was ef-
fected at a meeting of directors of
the Rio Grande Railway in the of-
fice of the railway. At that time the
resignations of D. A. O’Brien Miss
Julia O’Brien A. Albert Browne and
James A. Browne as directors were
accepted. Resignations were turned
in also by John Gregg A. L. Brooks
and A. Y. Baker but were not accept-
I cd these three directors remaining
on the board by agreement to rep-
resent the second mortgage bond-
holders who are residents of the Val-
ley.
This arrangement is in effect the
same as that agreed to between at-
torneys for Eldridge and attorneys
for the second mortgage and deben-
ture bondholders before attorneys for
O’Brien filed ’suit it was stated by
Judge F. W. Seabury one of the at-
torneys representing W. T. Elarvogc
in the litigation. It is in effect that
Eldridge take over the road and op-
erate it for two years during which
time it cannot be sold and that it
be improved to comply with the state
railway commission’s provisions and
also that terminals be provided at
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CITY URGED TO
AID C. OF C. IN
Close to 200 Attend En-
thusiastic Gathering;
‘Paint Bigger Picture’
Says Leopold
Close to 200 persons assembled in
Harper’s Cafe banquet room last night
ard heard three nationally known
chamber of commerce men tell them how
the people of Brownsville and the rest
of the Valley can help to bring on the
progress that is sure to come to thi3
section.
These three speakers were H. H.
Haines vice-president and manager of
the Houston Chamber cf Commerce;
Ed OveVholser president and general
manager of the Oklahoma City Cham-
ber of Commerce and Joe Leopold sec-
retary of the United States Chamber of
Commerce at Dallas.
All of them stressed the need of co-
operation of Brownsville people in pre-
paring for the development which is
sure to come and all of them declared
j that this cooperation can best be shown
* by support both in money and in work
for the Chamber of Commerce of
Brownsville.
The banquet was opened by Presi-
dent S. C. Tucker of the Brownsville
Chamber and Rev. E. P. Hay returned
thanks. The assembly led by Harry
Banker sang one verse “In the Good
Old Summer Time” and after the ban-
quet Mr. Tucker introduced the speak-
ers of the evening.
In his introductory remarks before
presenting the speakers. Mr. Tucker
stressed the need of everyone aiding
the Chamber of Commerce not only
in paving for its upkeep but in serving
on committees working with the Cham-
ber officials and otherwise aiding in
the actual work. He mentioned some
thing- that Brownsville is working for
through its Chamber of^Commerce in-
cluding more conventions arcommoda
tions for conventions a city auditorium
and home for the Chamber of Com-
merce hard surfaced road to the Gulf
(Continued on Page Two.)
ON EXTR ADITION
Answer in Arkansas Re-
quest for Pardoned
Man Held Up
(Bv The Associated Press.)
AUSTIN. Texas Jan. 22.—Governor
Miriam A. Ferguson after a lengthy
hearing today took the request of Gov-
ernor Tom Terral of Arkansas for extra-
dition of A. J. Gurley former Miller
county sheriff under advisement. She
said she would anounce her decision
later in the day.
The hearing involved the pardon laws
of Arkansas. Gurley was pardoned with
eight other men last October by Act-
ing Governor S. B. McCall during a two
day absence from the state of Governor
Terral.
The governor’s representative claimed
today that the pardon in a companion
j case had been declared void by the su-
preme court of Arkansas and that the
executive of Arkansas refused to recog-
nize the McCall proclamation as it had
not conformed with the law providing
that it must be published in the county
in which the person was convicted
about two weeks before granting clem-
ency.
Counsel for Guriev asserted that the
Arkansas executive failed to present a
certified copy of the indictment of Gur-
ley for failing to pay over county funds.
Gsarley was convicted in Miller coun-
ty court December 14. 11)23 and sen-
tenced to five years. He had served 15
months when pardoned by McCall.
ITALY APPROVES LOCARNO PACT
(By The Associated Press.)
ROME Jan. 22.—'The chamber of
deputies today approved the treaty of
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