The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 202, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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fNSURANtEMEN
BANQUET; HEAR
’ VALLEY LAUDED
r
R. T. Stuart Host to Of-
ficers and Agents At
i Country Club; Great
Development Seen
i
“The eyes of the nation are on you
and the Lower Rio Grande Valley is in
for a period of development such as
was never dreamed of by your most op-
timistic citizens."
This prediction was made by Ed. Over-
holser president and manager of the
Oklahoma City chamber of commerce
in an address last night at a banquet
served at the country club to more than
100 agents and officers of the Mid-Con-
tinent Life Insurance Co. and their
wives. The party was ending the fifth
day of their convention being held in
the Valley with R. T. Stuart president
of the company as host.
In addition to the insurance men there
were present a number of Brownsville
and Valley citizens guests of Mr.
Stuart and it was to these Mr. Over-
holser addressed the statement above.
Members of the insurance party will
hold another session in Stuart Place to-
day and will leave tonight for Galveston
where they will spend one day before
returning to their homes in North Tex-
as Oklahoma and Arkansas.
The 200 guests were seated at long
tables arranged in the spacious rooms
at the club house. Grapefruit and
oranges with twigs of citrus trees
formed tin table decorations and a
bright fire in the huge fireplace added
cheeriness. A splendid repast was en-
livened with music by Arser’s orchestra
from McAllen.
West Extends Welcome
Mr. Stuart as host expressed his hap-
piness at having the assembly enjoy his
hospitality and introduced Edwin
Starkey vice president and general man-
ager of the company as toastmaster.
‘•Are you happy?” Mr. Starkey asked
the gathering and received a ringing
“Yes” in reply. “Are you tired?” was
answered as vigorously with a “No”
and the fact that the entire convention
was sold on the Valley was demonstra-
ted when “Do you want to go home?”
(Continued on Page Six.)
SPANISHPLANE
STARTS VOYAGE
(By The Associated Press.)
LAS PALMAS Canary Islands. Jan.
22.—Commander Franco’s seaplane ar-
rived here this afternoon completing
the first leg of the projected flight
from Spain to Argentina.
PALOS Spain Jan. 22.—Three Span-
ish aviators started at 8 o’clock this
morning in the seaplane Ne Plus Ultra
on the first leg of a flight for Buenos
Aires and probably New York. The
first stop will be Las Palmas Canary
Islands. The aviators are Commander
Ramo Franco Captain Ruiz de Alva and
Ensign Duran. The distance to Bue-
nos Aires and New York is 12332
miles.
The Columbus of the air. Command-
er Franco is seeking again to link
Spain with the Americas and from the
exact spot in the Domingo Rubio ca-
nal whence the caravels of Columnus
set forth.
The length of the first hop is 876
miles. From Alpog to Buenos Aires is
€.332 miles.
Franco has been known as “The Jack-
al” since his aviation school days be-
cause he wore a large lock of his shag-
gy black hair down over his bronzed
face.
From the Canary Islands still pro-
ceeding southward off the northwest
Africa coast the flight will be to the
Cepe Verde islands.
From the Cape Verdes there will be
a jump of 1.432 miles to Fernando Do
Noronha and then a flight of 279 miles
to the American mainland at Pernam-
buco BrvMl. Hkisting the coast of
Brazil the path of the Ne Plus Ultra
will lie as thee row flies 1264 miles
from Pernambuco to Rio Janeiro. Then
will lie as the crow flies 1264 miles
Buenos Aires where the flight as at
present arranged will end.
REFUSED REPLY
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assets were returned to their German
owners although it was pretended that
they were being returned to Swiss own-
ers.
Mr. Daugherty had been ' subpoenaed
to produce bank ledger records of the
Midland National Bank of 'Washington
Courthouse Ohio of which his brother
is president. United States District
Attorney Buckner said today that when
the former attorney general was asked
before the grand jury whether he had
brought the records he wrote his answer
on a piece of paper as followsi
“Having been the personal attorney
of Warren G. Harding while he was
United States senator and up to the
time of his death and for Mrs. Harding
and for the Midland National Bank and
for M. S. Daugherty and having been
as counsel and friend most confiden-
tial I refuse to answer because my an-
swer might tend to incriminate me.”
Mr. Daugherty according to the
grand jury records refused to answer
all of several questions put to him on
the grounds stated.
JOBLESS IN AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE?—Large unmbers of
skilled workers are idle in Australia
depression.
CITY URGED
(Continued From Page One.)
feeder roads leading to the highway.
“We must be ready to cate for fcfce de-
velopment when it starts this way" Mr.
Tucker said.
Richardson Reads Report
He introduced G. C. Richardsonsec-
retary of the Brownsville Chamber of
Commerce who read his annual rerwrt
outlining the work that has been done
during the seven months that he h«-
been here as secretary of the Chamber
and unfolding the plan of the Chamber
for further development. Mr. Richard
son concluded his report with words
•of appreciation for thd cooperation he
has received from the hoard of direc
tors and from Brownsville people.
^ ith the statement that the Chamber
of Commerce fund as provided by tax-
ation is not sufficient and must be
supplemented by Brownsville merchants
and business Mr. Tucker introduced
Mr. H aines.
“This section of the state is progres-
sing faster than any other section of
the state." Mr. Haines said after a
few explanatory remarks in which he
dealth harshly with “The Cornhusker
from Iowa" Mr. Leopold; and “The
Sooner from Oklahoma." Mr. O'vcrhol-
ser. He went on to state that the Val-
ley in the decade ending in 1920 had
made a population gain of 154 percent;
the Gulf Coast had increased 48 per
cent and other sections of the state
showed a much smaller increase.
Few people know about the Valley.
Mr. Haines said and urged Valley peo-
ple to “spread the information over
the whole country" as the darky said
he would do if he were stationed at a
listening post during the war and sav:
a German army coming toward him.
To illustrate the lack of information
which people have about the Valley he
related an incidenj where “The Corn-
husker from Iowa where the tall corn
grows” had mistaken some last year’s
corn stalks in a Valley field for a bam-
boo.
Few Know of Valley
“Few people know the facts about
the Valley.” the speaker said “and it
is up to the Valley to spread the infor-
mation. Houston is ready to cooperate
as a sound business man would coop-
erate for your benefit and for his
own."
He mentioned the manifold and mul-
tiple duties of a chamber of commerce
and declared that personal service must
go along with funds. “If you do co-
operate there is no reason why you
should not prosper beyond any other
section” he said. “The time is ripe
for you to make this section attractive
to the tourist—the man of finance look-
ing for an investment from other
parts of the country.”
Mr. Haines closed his talk with a
mention of the prospects of having a
hard surfaced road from the Valley to
Houston and from Houston on to oth-
er parts of the country and with the
repeated urge to Valley people to
“scatter this information all through
the country.”
Ed Overholser was the next speaker.
He suggested to Brownsville people
that they hold monthly banquets in-
stead of holding one every year. The-
benefits of such a banquet were given
by Mr. Overholser as being an oppor-
tunity to get acquainted with one's fel-
low man.
“Why do you live in communities?”
he asked. “Because some time hack in
the dim and distant past a man found
a task he could not do alone and got
one of his fellow men to help him do it.
By division of labor and association
you are able to have advantages con-
veniences and luxuries which you could
not otherwise have. In return for
these pleasures you owe something to
the community.
Owes Debt to Community
“This can best be paid by helping the
Chamber of Commerce.” The speaker
stated that we live under federal state
county and city governments and are
under several departments of each but
these governments can not do many
things. The things they cannot do are
the things that benefit a community in
the way of progress. He called the
Chamber of Commerce the “department
of progress" and said it is a place
where people can work together for
progress a place where the unorganized
man can find cooperation and aid and
a place where the citizen may repay to
a community that which he takes from
it.
The speaker praised the present sec-
retary of the Brownsville Chamber as
being one of the most capable men in
Chamber of Commerce work.
“Florida has about sold out her al-
ligator pastures” he said. “Things
are going to start this way. Why don't
you get together and raise some money
for your Chamber of Commerce and
give it a chance.
it you men and women will wake
up and see what other people see you
will profit individually and will there-
by bring profit to the city and the com-
munity. You can make Brownsville
and the Rio Grande Valley the best
place in the world to live in and to
rear a family in. Dream your dreams
and do it now" was the dosing line
of a poem with which Mr. Overholser
dosed his talk.
Joe Leopold secretary of the United
States Chamber of Commerce office at
Dallas was the next speaker. After
replying to “Colonel Harvey Haines
the big cockroach on my left.” by stat-
ing that he was not only a “Cornhusk-
er. but that Col. Harvev Haines was
not even a “Damn Yankee” but a
“Canuck” the speaker praised Mr.
Overholser for his Chamber of Com-
merce work.
Paint Bigger Picture
Mr. Leopold said that he liked the
Valley. Liked the people and the
grapefruit and other features but so
far had not found a suitable place for
a picnic. He mentioned his honor of
going out with a basket and sitttng
down on a cactus.
In his chamber of commerce expla-
nation and discussion which followed
Mr. Leopold emphasized the need of
“painting a bigger picture” of think-
ing in tenfts of your fellow man city
community state and nation. He told
of the things that business men ne-
glect including their opportunities to
aid thbmselves ancl their communities.
CABBAGEBRINGING
$50 TON TO FARMER
Cabbage is selling for $50 in the
Valley.
This price to the grower is about
•five times as much as growers were act-
ing for cabbage last year when meetings
were held in an effort to raise the price
to $15 a ton.
| The price went up yester.'av from
i $4;> a ton to $;*0 a ton and is holding
• its own today. It has been at $45
j throughout the present week accord-
1 >ng to reports from Wade & Newton
local shippers.
Cabbage is bringing a high price due
to the shortage over the country caused
by shiaHer acreage and damage to cab-
bage in other sections by the cold.
HOTELS FEED
Express Company Offi-
cials To Be Here
for Short Time
✓
Crowded condition of hotels in
Brownsville was again emphasized today
when a party of American Railway ex-
press company officials who had arrang-
ed to spend two days here were fore-
failed. v
Efforts by C. N. Hill local agent of
the Express company to find hotel ac-
commodations fer the party of seven
but could not get rooms.
In the party are C. I). Summy vice
president of the American Railway Er-
press Co. at St. Louis and Mrs. Sum-
my; G. A. Taft general manager at
Houston and Mrs. Taft; C. N. Campbell
superintendent at San Antonio and
Mrs. Campbell and Mr. Summy’s secre-
tary.
The Express company officials arc in
McAllen now and will come to Browns-
ville probably in the morning remain-
ing here during the day and leaving to-
morrow night. They had planner^ to be
here today and to have a banquet along
with local railway and express company
officials tonight.
Several instances have been reported
recently where visitors to Brownsville
were forced to go to Matamoros for
hotel accommodations. H. H. Haines
vice president* and general manager of
.the Houston Chamber of Commerce en-
tertained Brow'nsville people at the
Chamber of Commerce banquet last
night when he mentioned “when I first
came into Brownsville from Mexico."
Mr. Haines on his first night in Browns-
ville was forced to go to Matamoros to
get a hotel room.
The governor of Oklahoma M. A.
Trapp who was here recently and has
gone into Mexico on a hunting trip was
forced to spend the night in Matamoros
as hotel accommodations could not be
secured here.
The speaker related brieflv the his-
tory of the I'nited States Chamber of
Commerce and toid some of its func-
tions which are mainly to “give a cross
section of American business." and tell
how business stands on all propositions
of national or state import that come
up. •
“Nature has been kind to you and if
you are not careful you will become
lazy" he said. ‘‘You are going to
have prosperity the whole nation is
looking forward to a bright year dur-
ing 1926; a great deal of prosperity is
coming this way. Ft is the prosperity
which started in Florida and is now
swinging to this section.
“Make your picture big. If you can’t
think in terms of state and nation for
yourself think in terms of your child-
ren and work for a better city a bet-
ter state and a better nation to leave
them.”
Mr. Leopold expressed the desire of
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to as-
sist Valiev people at any time that the
call may be sent in.
FREEZE
(Continued from Page 1.)
western part of the state when the mer-
cury dropped to 14 degrees at Amarillo.
Broken telegiaph and telephone lines
impaired communication ywith severajl
cities in that section. Rail traffic was
slightly delayed in some instances.
The brunt of the storm was moving in
a southwesterly direction toward the
Rio Grrndc Valley the observer said
lode.-.
Tn.! freeze extended to Sen Antonio
while at Dallas the minimum temper-
ature lest night was 20 degrees.
Cleav and continued cold weather was
the general forecast for tonight.
Atlantic Seaboard
To Get Spell Today
(By The Associated Press.)
CHICAGO III.. Jan. 22.—Old Boreas
juggler of temperatures did his famous
mercury vanishing act today and as a
result the northern section of the coun-
try from the Rockies to the Ohio read
the thermometer in terms Of minus or
near it.
The Atlantic seaboard is the next lo-
cale for the chilling spectacle fore
casters said.
Lochinvar-like from out of the west
he came. As reports went eastward of
14 below temperatures in Colorado and
Wyoming the cold wave area spread its
borders. Blooming pussywillows in
Montana had an icy shroud and other
northwest points vied for the doubtful
honor of being the coldest spot in the
countiy. Hibbing Minn. registered 2G
below just four degrees warmer than
The Pas Man.
Storm warnings were displayed in the
Great Lakes territory and there was no
promise of relief this week.
The southwest was not exempt. Snow
and freezing temperatures were the lot
of a large section of Texas. Near zero
and a few degrees below were forecast
for the corn and wheat states. Not
much-snow was expected
Properities Pleased
With Delta
i Martin J. Insull head of the Midwest
| Utilities Co. and one of the Insull
I brothers who are at the head of a vast
j array of public utility enterprises in
; the United States spent yesterday in
I the Lower Rio Grande Valle^ inspect-
ing the properties of the Valley Elec-
tric & Ice Company which is owned by
the Texas Central Power Company and
which in turn is controlled by the Mid-
west Utilities Company the latter being
.controlled by the Insull brothers.
Mr. Insull who is from Chicago was
accompanied by James Kennedy of San
Antonio president of the Texas Cen-
tral Power Company; S. B. -Netswung-
er general manager of the Texas Cen-
tral properties; Frank C. Ludden gen-
eral manager of the Valley Electric &
Ice. Company and S. A. Cripes of San
Benito superintendent of the Valley
properties.
l ne party were guests of R. A. Stu-
art president of the Mid-Continent Life*
Insurance company at the company’s
banquet at the Brownsville Country
Club last night.
This is Mr. Insult’s first view of the
Valley and his first view of the prop-
erties of the Valley Electric & I<e com-
pany. which were bought by the In-
sulls "sight unseen" along with the
Texas Central Power company from
the Morirson & MuColl interests sev-
eral months ago. The purchase com-
prised some sixty power and other elec-
trical and ice plants and was said to
have involved $20000000.
I am very much pleased with our
properties in this section and see a
bright future for the Lower Rio Grande
Valley" Mr. Insull said. “In fact I
like t!ie country so well 1 have about
decided to invest in land in this sec-
tion.”
Mr. Insull and Mr. Kennedy came to
the Lower Valley after a visit to La-
redo Corpus Christi and other towns
where the company operates electrical
and ice properties. The party returner!
to San Antonio last night andd Mr. In-
sull will leave there today for Chicago.
ROAD surf
(Continued from Page One.)
Point Isabel and other facilities
agreed to in connection with the har-
bor development.
During that period the road cannot
be sold by Kldru've but the second
mortgage bondholders may force a
sale.
Eldridge is given a first mortgage
lien on the proper for a total of
$353304.30 invested :i it. This repre-
sents $74756.80. pr'i cipal and inter-
est on the origin.'! first mortgage
bond of $65000 whi was purchased
by Kid ridge in order to keep the road
from reverting to the Frisco receiver
and a mechanic’s lien of $278547.50.
The latter figure was reduced from
the original ntechanic’s lien of ap-
proximately $450000. but cutting out
all questionable items and also the
amount of the first mortgage bond
payment.
The second mortgage bondholders
will have a second lien of $215400
and interest at six percent from Jan-
uary 2 1024. In the event the road
is sold before the two years are up
by order of the second mortgage
bondholders the first mortgage lien
j must be paid off.
If at the end of the two-year period
the road has increased In value until
it is’worth more than the indebtedness
the second mortgage bondholders may
secure their money out of it by paying
off the first mortgage lien which will
give them the prior lien against the
properties of the road. Eldridge. will
also have a prior lien for money in-
vested in improving the road during
the next twTo years.
Holders of debenture bonds are to be
given second mortgage bonds under
this agreement.
Judge Janies A. Graham when asked
today if this agreement would he sat-
isfactory to the second mortgage bond-
holders said that if the agreement is
substantially the same as that reached
between him as attorney for the bond-
holders and the (Eldridge intercsst im-
mediately after the filing of t!ie first
suit that it will probably be although
all of the bondholders were never
reached to secure their approval to that
agreement.
The agreement is practically the
same Judge Scabury said today.
The change in directors transfer of
stock and other action taken yesterday
afternoon is final and it is expected
that an agreed judgment will be filed
soon in the other litigation in the rail-
way.
The receivership will be dismissed
Judge Seabury said.
The value of the property at the end
of the two years and the amount that
the second mortgage bondholders real-
ize on their money will depend largely I
on the cooperation given in developing
both the road and the port. Judge Sea-
bury quoted Md. Eldrtdge as kav'fng.
IN OUR VALLEY
(Continued from Page One.)
feet. Once the foundations are ready
once the superstructure is started the
$400000 hostelry wil be well on the road
to completion.
And it is not wild guessing to say
that before Hotel El Jardin is complet-
ed the need will be felt for additional
rooms. It has been found true in most
cases.
EDINBURGH—King George's High-
land cows won first honors in the Scot-
! tish N.'lfiOfmt FA) SUTcE 1*h6W.
FARMBOARD
(Continued From Pagfe Oiie.)
lemna: If he produces too little the
world will go hungry and naked; If
he produces too much the surplus for
the time may break the price he re-
ceives for his product to a point
where it would have been better for
him to let his fields lie fallow.
“In the south we say cotton is
king; in the middlewest it is corn we
have crowned. But these royalties
are buffeted about by the traders of
the world. They have been made to
yield immense profits to everyone
"but those who produce them. And
all the while we have been marketing
along these great staples of the
north and south but also each year
a part of the fertility of the soil it-
self. If the farmer alone must bear
the crushing burden of a surplus un-
der the slow operation of economic
laws time will come when there will
be no surplus. And they will go hun-
gry and but half clothed. In interest
therefore of society as well a* the
farmer we must contrive some meth-
od by which the surplus of the very
essential of life shall become a bles-
sing and not a burden.”
EXPECT DECISION
IN RIVERA CASE
Decision by Criminal District Judge
A. W. Cunningham is expected some
t'me late this afternoon in the habeas
corpus hearing of Guadalupe and Juan
Rivera charged with murdering H. W.
Williams.
The habeas corpus hearing opened
before Judge Cunningham at 9 o’clock
this morning and the same witnesses
who testified in the examining hearing
here before Justice of the Peace George
B. Brown were placed on the stand and
questioned.
The state rested its case shortly be-
fore noon.
T. C. Scales father of Mrs. Williams
was on the stand for the defense early
this afternoon and both sides are ex-
pected to close their rase this after-
noon in time for a decision.
The defense is asking that bond be
set for tne two men.
200 TO GUARD BANK
NEW YORK “Hiking Hiram.” Col-
onel Hiram Bearss. U. M. M. C. retired
who led his marines at Vera Cruz and
Chateau Thierry is picking 200 fight-
ing men to guard the greatest store of
treasure in New York the Federal Re-
serve bank.
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They know that those who be-
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PLOT TO SLAY
RULERSFOUND
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500 Communists Held by
Jugo Slavia Police;
Raids Continue
(By The Associated Press.)
BELGRADE Jugo Slavia Jan. 22.—
Discovery of a plot against the lives of
King Alexander and his cabinet minis-
ter is believed to be behind the sudden
decision of Premier Pachitch to return
j from the Rivera where he went on
January 10 for an announced lengthy
stay for his health.
The police are continuing their wide-
spread raid upon the homes of known
communists and the number of persons
arrested had swelled this morning to
500.
The plot against the King and mem-
bers of the government is said to have
been revealed been revealed by the ar-
rest of a workman in Zabrab. The man
was spending money lavishly boasting
that he had received 250000 dinars from
Moscow as part payment for the work to
be executed. He declared according to
police that he received the funds
through M. Philipovich a leading Jugo
Slav communist who for the last year
has been a resident of Moscow.
This is the first intimation that the
alleged communist plot in Jugo Slavia
was directed against the lives of the
ruler and his ministers. Belgrade
despatches last night said more than 20ti
suspects had been taken into custody in
connection with a movement to over-
throw the government.
Syndicalist workmen attempted to hold
demonstrations in front of the nrt®i*l)id
assembly building in Belgrade aAcf'Jht
use of mounted troops was required
disperse them. f
The minister of the interior issued &
declaration that all unions were illegal
and must be disbanded. It was reported
that the communists had received ordfcri
from Moscow to reorganize the part#
througrobt the country and resume tWr
former activity.
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Paris Brouse Suspends !*
In Protest of Tax Hike
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(By The Associated Press.)
PARIS Jan. 22.—Business on thb
Paris Bourse was completely suspended
today in protest against the proposed?
increase in taxation on Bourse opera-'
tions. *
The traders take the position that
such an increase is bdund to restrict
business and entail the dismissal of
many employes. The clerks employed
in recording flotations took the initia-
tive inviting the other employes to
cease work for the day.
No untoward incident had been re-
ported up to eprly afternoon.
.Colds'
By millions ended ■
Hill’s stop millions of colds every winter—
and in 24 hours. They end headache anJ
fever open the bowels tone the whole sy*
tern. Use nothing less reliable. Colds and
Grippe call for prompt efficient help. Be
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w ^ Where Men Bay Quality Clothes # ’
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Harvest Time is Here
Buy Real Estate in the Valley
— And —
GET RICH
Southern Realty Company
Corner Elizabeth and Eleventh St.
Phone HI4
Geo. F. Dennis S. S. Webster
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Delicious Valley Oranges at a Bargain
Friday and Saturday Specials We ha ve a few box -
\ 14 Pounds Pure Cane Sugar for . . $1.00 es of good Valley
jello any flavor . 10c .
Fancy Pinto Pink or Navy Beans per pound .. 10c oranges grown at
Campbell's Pork and Beans per can 11c I Honeydale fa rmi
6-Pound Can Crisco $1.33
3-^aund Can Crisco .... 68c per dozen
3 ‘Cans Old Dutch Cleanser... 25c
Heinz Oven Baked Beans (Vegetarian) 15c
Heinz Oven Baked Beans with Pork.. 15c and 25c
Fancy Louisiana Yams per pound .-.• 8c
Fancy delicious Apples per dozen . .. 60c
' Extra Fancy Winesap Apples per dozen 40c and 50c
Fhncy Vegetables Fresh Each Day
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