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Negro Tells How Valley Brothers Shot Down
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VALLEY’
By RALPH L. BUELL
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
just two days left In which to be-
come affiliated with the greatest
order on earth—
The Association of Free and Un-j
trammeled Wleldera of the Ballot
In the State of Texas.
Initiation dues $1.75—
Benefits—The right to criticize
and the satisfaction of belonging
among the ranks of full fledged
citizens.
Better join now.
By paying your poll tax.
• • •
AND STILL ANOTHER BIT
about taxes.
Your current taxes—that is for
the year 1934—are due just as they
have always been due and must be
paid on or before January Slat 1935
to avoid penalty and Interest as-
sessments.
Remission that has been granted
-.by the legislature applies only to
([taxes that became delinquent prior
to August 1. 1934.
So in case you have been labor-
ing under the impression that remis-
sion of penalty and interest applied (
to currently due taxes—you have
been wrong.
• • •
LATEST DEMAND ON THE
part of Valley fishermen—
Is for parking rules applying to
fishermen on Valley beaches.
According to reports reaching this
desk.
There is hardly room enough to
go around since fishing has become
a young paradise for the piscatar-
ially inclined.
• • •
THIS COLUMN IS MORE IN FA-
vor of a law calling for the licens-
ing and bonding of shippers and
buyers of fruits and vegetables than j
•ver before.
We understand that there is some
question as to the advisability of re-;
tabling the bonding feature of any
bill that may be presented before
the present session of the legisla-;
ture.
Reason for abandoning the bond- j
big feature is given as inability of
so many Valley shippers to make a ;
surety bond.
And that reason my friends is j
the main reason we would insist'
on retaining the bonding feature.
If any shipper in this Valley is
unable to make a surety bond that
shipper should be refused a license
to buy fruit and vegetables from
Valley farmers.
AJThat sort of shipper is just the
Jbrt of shipper that this section can
well get along without.
* * *
WE ARE TOLD THAT PRO-
gress Is being made in drawing the
bill.
Again we suggest that the mea- j
sure be completed as quickly as
possible-
And sent to Valley legislators for)
Immediate introduction.
It takes time to get bills passed
and there will be controversy enough!
over the bill—
Without having it handicapped by
the time element.
$ $ •
VALLEY CABBAGE GROWERS
are asked to hold for a twice of $20
per ton.
As we remarked yesterday. If
Valley cabbage was worth $10 a
ton before the freese—
It ought to be worth three times
that much now.
At least it ought to be worth
twice that much now.
We have an idea that after the
raorry*' cabbage is off the market.
And the terminals find out Just
r how little of the new crop there is
in the VaUey and the Robstown-
Corpus Christ! area—
The price will seek a higher level.
Certainly $15 a ton seems too low.
• • •
THIS THOUGHT COMES TO
Ui!
Will the Valley shippers who are
fighting pro-ration who seek to al-
low a flood of Valley grapefruit to
overwhelm the markets of the coun-
■ try will these shippers take the lead
In promoting an Advertising pro-
pgram to increase consumption to the
£lnt of the shipments they would
e to have allowed?
There Is just one way to establish
Texas citrus fruit on the markets
by advertising It and advertising It
the country over.
Money will be required lots of ft.
California is spending over a mil-
lion dollars for this purpose the
Valley is spending nothing.
Florida is spending everybody—
every section—except the Valley—is
advertising its citrus fruits.
Will we?
. Or wont we? |
CLARK TRIAL
IS DELAYED
BY ILLNESS
Negro Tells Jury How
Brothers Shot Down
In Pasture After
Robbery
(Spec!ill to The Herald)
GEORGE WEST. Jan. 20. — The
trial of Charles Clark Austin man
charged with the murder of Virgil
Dobbs. San Juan produce trucker
was recessed here Wednesday due
to the illness of J. F. Tabulee of
Georgetown counsel for the de-
fense.
William Reed negro Jointly charg-
ed with Clark but not on trial at
this time was scheduled- to be
cross-examined Wednesday after-
noon If the trial is resumed. Reed
and Walter Clark brother of the
man on trial obtained severances.
William Reed negro ex-convict
charged with the murder of the
youths testifying Tuesday said
Charles Clark pointed out the
Dobbs brothers to him In the San
Antonio produce market -usd told
him. "We are going to kill and
10b ’em.** He testified they went to
the home of Charles Clark's mother
on South Pine Street in San An-
tonio and unloaded their fruit and
vegetables which they were to take
to Austin to sell. They followed the
red Dodge truck driven by the
Dobbs brothers and passed it be-
tween Whitsett and Three Rivers
on Highway 66. South of George
West Charles Clark told Reed and
his brother to get out and wait at
the side of the road while he waved
the truck down. Reed testified
Charles Clark offered to wave the
brothers down because “they knew
him."
“We. Bud and I laid down in the
the bar pit at the side of the road
which Charles Clark waved the
men in the red Dodge truck. When
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JED C ADAMS
PASSES AWAY
Texan Member of U. S. Tax
Appeals Board Succumbs
At Washington
WASHINGTON. Jan. SO. UPV-Jed
C. Adams. 59. member of the United
States board of tax appeals and
former democratic national com-
mitteeman from Texas died here
Tuesday night after several days
illness.
Funeral plans were Incomplete but
the body was prepared for removal
to his former home in Kaufman
Texas for burial.
He had been In a coma since
Monday night. Mrs. Adams and
his son and daughter. Nash and
Elizabeth had been with him since
Sunday. Physicians had adminis-
tered oxygen to facilitate his breath-
ing for two days. They said only |
his extraordinary vitality had kept
him alive so long.
Mr. Adams became a member of
the board of tax appeals in May.
1933. succeeding William D. Love of
Uvalde. Before that he had serv-
ed ten years as national committee-
man.
He served as state s attorney in
Kaufman county from 1898 to 1902.
He was named United States at-
torney for the northern district of
Texas In 1919 but resigned in 1920.
Escaped Prisoner
Caught by Sheriff
SAN ANTONIO. Jan. 30 -0P>—Ro-
bert L. Pringle was back In custody
Wednesday recaptured after his leap
Monday from a moving train on
which officers were taking him from
Sacramento. Calif. to Houston to
answer charges ranging from coun-
terfeiting to robbery.
The capture was made by Sheriff
A. W. Seagert and Deputy O. R.
8pring. who were searching the
district along Cibolo Creek west of
Lavernia fpr him. The prisoner said
he was too stiff from bruises result-
ing from his leap off the train to
run when the sheriff fired a ma-
chine gun burst over his head as a
warning.
F ede r a 1 I mpr o vemen t
Commission Is Sought
A Federal Improvement board for
Mstamoros Is sought In petitions
sent this week by city officials to
the Secretarla de Hacienda at Mex-
ico City
The board if formed. - would take
over Improvements in the border
city using a 35000 peso fund now
in the customs treasury. The funds
are derived by a special tax on Im-
ports and exports.
It Is expected that if the new
commission is granted its first work
will be toward the installation of
s modern water purifying and dis-
tribution system and street paving.
What The
Legislature
_Is Doing
AUSTIN Jan. 30. Liquor
would be dispensed through state
liquor stores under a bill introduc-
ed in the Texas house Wednesday*
by Representative W. E. Clayton
of El Paso. Liquor sales would be
under supervision of a three-mem-
ber board to be appointed by the
governor which would determine
places in which liquor cold be sold-
Sale would be in unbroken pack-
ages except in restaurants and
railroad dining ears.
AUSTIN. Jan. 30. (*V-Support-
ers of a bill In the Texas legisla-
ture to make gas pipe lines com-
mon carriers had won their first
major skirmish Wednesday.
The house committee on oil. gas
and mining recommended passage
of the bill Tuesday night after
an extended hearing in which mer-
its of the proposal were contested
hotly. It was voted out 9 to 8.
While the oil committee was
placing a controversial bill on the
calendar of business the house con-
servation committee removed one
disputed proposal. It killed a bill
that would have prohibited pay-
ment of a commission in the sale
of the unfinished Insull Hydro
Electric project in the Colorado
river to a public authority estab-
lished to complete it with aid of
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BROTHERS D
ON $5000 BOND
Defendant Claims Victim
Fell From Car In
'Aato Slaying’
Gregorio and Guillermo Tijerina
young brothers who reside on the
Southmost highway near the Pa-
rana dance hall were bound to the
district grand jury in $5000 bonds
here Tuesday afternoon following
a preliminary hearing on charges
of murdering Pablo Saldafia early
Sunday morning by running over
him with an automobile. The de-
fendants did not make bond.
Conflicting testimony was given
at the hearing held before Justice
of the Peace Raul Dominguex be-
fore a packed courtroom.
Eye-witnesses agreed that there
was an argument and fight in a
group of men near the Paloma
dance hall about 7:30 Sunday morn-
ing and that the Tijerina brothers
and Saldana were In the group.
Gregorio got Into his car and
started to drive off and Saldana
hopped onto the running board.
Witnesses differed as to whether
Saldana fell off the car or was
knocked off by Guillermo. One wit-
ness testified that Gregorio backed
the car over Saldana and then ran
over him once more Other wit-
nesses said that the car only ran
over the man once after making a
circle.
The witnesses were Mrs. Nellie
Ichord who lives about 150 feet
from where Saldana’s body was
found; Severo Ays 11a who also lives
in the neighborhood; Guadalupe
Granado of the same vicinity: II-
defonso Cornejo who claimed that
Gregorio’s car hit him on the knee
while circling bifare running over
Saldana; ana Guillermo one of the
defendants.
The state’s case was handled by
District Attorney R. B Rentfro Jr
and the defendants were represent-
ed by Maj. H B. Galbraith.
Guillermo denied that he struck
Saldana as he was or the side of
the ear. contending that the man
fell off when Gregorio turned the
car sharply to the right.
Grapefruit Hearts
Freezing Tests Made
— (Special to Tba Herald)
HARLINGEN. Jan. 30.—The first
grapefruit hearts believed ever to
have been processed by the quick
freezing method are being tested in
New York said A. B. Bracken of
the Frosted Foods Corp. before the
Klwanls club Tuesday at the Christ-
ian church.
Mr. Bracken who was a guest of
Dr. C. O. Delfs told how the frost-
ed food business got Its start when
a Mr. Birdseye found that fish
frozen at 40 degrees below aero re-
tained all their fresh qualities. Val-
ley peas are now being froaen by
his firm. Mr. Brackett said.
David Ormesher told of the Val-
ley-wide meeting to be held March
12 to discuss plans for sidetrips
from the International convention
to be held in San Antonio this
year.
Dr. R. E Utley urged the club
to provide 12 bouganvlllea plants
for beautification work.
A Valentine party Tuesday. Feb.
12 to which Klwanlam are to
bring their wives was announced.
Each Is to bring a small gift.
Mrs. Douglas Cantwell entertained
with readings.
The program was In charge of
Harry Eagleston.
Dr. H. A. Llle was a guest of Dr.
Harold Wood and J. H Fontaine
of San Antonio a guest of L. G.
Ortodle D. I* Welch also was a
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HARLINGEN IS
GIVEN PERMIT
FOR CHANNEL
Arroyo District Buys
Ten Acres Near City
For Turning Basin
Location
•
(Special to Tta# Rer«1d>
RIO HONDO. Jan. 30—A six to
ten-foot channel suitable for com-
mercial barges and pleasure crafts
between Harlingen and Port Isabel
was assured by federal permits re-
ceived by the Arroyo Colorado
Navigation district Tuesday and
the district purchased ten acres on
the south bank of the arroyo near
Harlingen for a turning basin.
The federal permit from Col. E.
H. Hawks’ office gave the district
permission to dredge a 10-foot chan-
nel down the Laguna Mad re a dis-
tance of about 10 miles to deep
water at Port IsabeL Little dredg-
ing is expected to be necessary on
tug last stretch.
Tanking Basin Approved
Commissioners of the Arroyo
district have applied for permit to
construct the turning basin on the
Harlingen property which was ac-
quired Tuesday.
Dredging on the last ten miles of
the channel is expected to get un-
der way as soon as the flood con-
trol dredging in the arroyo is com-
pleted.
Arroyo district commissioners
have been seeking arroyo frontage
at Rio Hondo for constructing docks.
The Whalen oroperty located one
block from main street is being
considered. The property fronts on
the arroyo 100 feet and is 250 feet
in width.
According to information re-
ceived here a Houston barge line
company has indicated that it will
inaugurate a service into Rio Hon-
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STENOGRAP R
WILL TESTIFY
Swiftly-Mowing Trial Of
Major Shepard Is
Near Climax
TOPEKA Kas. Jan. 30. f/P>—The
fast moving federal court trial of
| Maj. Charles A. Shepard on a
charge that he fatally poisoned his
second wife Wednesday approached
its climax-—the appearance of the
young blonde stenographer with
whom the retired army surgeon
once was infatuated.
United States District Attorney
S. 8. Alexander directing the prose-
cution in the second trial of the 83-
year-old physician said Miss Grace
Brandon the government's star
witness probably would be sum-
moned to appear Thursday.
Letters and gifts exchanged be-
tween the slender grey-haired offi-
cer and Miss Brandon were used by
the government in an effort to es-
tablish the alleged murder motive
at the first trial in which Shepard
was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment She later brokt off
the romance but only recently she
said “it would please me greatly if
he is freed."
Still laying the ground-work for
Introduction of its ace witness the
government was prepared Wednes-
day to call two army pathologists.
Majors Hugh B. Mahon and James
E. Ash. who examined the viscera
after the death of Mrs. Zenana
Shepard at Fort Riley. Kas.. June
15 .1929.
Matamoro* Plant
Annual Carnival
Plans are under way In Mata-
moros for that city’s annual car-
nival which will be held on March
2 to March 8.
Committeemen selected this week
to begin work on the annual at-
traction are Genera] Gabriel R.
Cervera Juan Manuel M&raboto
and Manuel Ochoa M.
R. Munguia C. mayor of Mata-
moros was named director and
Wilbur Dennett G. C. Richardson
and A. Wayne Wood all of Browns-
ville. were named honorary mem-
ber* of the carnival committee.
Proceeds from the show will go to
the city’s improvement fund.
Prices on Cabbage
Continue to Sag
Cabbage wavered between SIS and
820 a ton in the Valley Wednesday
morning in spite of light ship-
ments from tins section reports
to the U. S. Market News Bureau
here show.
The Valley moved 18 cars Tues-
day night and Corpus Christi ship-
ped 7. A total of 111 ears rotted in
the nation most of the remainder
being storage abbage
In spite of belief that the price
will go up the market continued to
GRACE COOLIDGE
*****
TO BE MARRIED
*****
CLAIM REPORTS
NEW YORK. JUl. 30. —UH— A
Washington dispatch to the New
York Daily News says that Mrs.
Grace Coolldge will be married
early next spring to Everett Sand-
ers one time White House secre-
tary to the late Calvin Coolldge.
After the wedding Mrs. Coolldge
will move from her Northampton.
Mass. home to preside over the
500-acre Sanders estate In Mary-
land says the report. Sanders was
once chairman of the National
Republican Committee.
Mrs. Coolldge who is now visit-
ing at Slick Rock. Polk County N.
C. has previously denied reports
that she will marry again.
RABID ANIMALS
BITE SEVERAL
San Benito Police Chief
And Others to Undergo
i Treatment
(8f*clal to The Herat**
SAN BENITO Jan. 30 —Chief of
Police F Scott Cowart and several
others have been bitten b; rabid
animals it was revealed Tuesday
afternoon.
A dog later found to be mad. at-
tacked the chief of police and hit
horse. Both were bitten. Cowart
just above his boot top. He wound-
ed the animal but it go» away.
Later in the day the dog was
lolled at Sam Georges home at 930
N. Crockett St by C S. (Buster)
Goolsby and taken tc the county
laboratory where the technician.
Mrs. Everett Walls reported a pos-
itive reaction. The dog was report-
ed to have bitten several persons
but Maynard George. 5. is the only
child known definitely to have been
attacked
A positive reaction also was re-
ported by the laboratory following
examination of a oow at the Phil-
lips Tourist Camp on the Harlingen
highway Mrs J. L. Van tine is
thought to have been infected
through an open abrasion on her
hand which came in contact with
saliva from the animal. It also is
believed that hei son. Max. and
nephew. Dean Barr will need to
take treatment. All treatments will
be administered fn San Benito by
family physicians.
The laboratory reported a posi-
tive reaction to Dr. B. L. Cole on
an animal shot at Brownsville. The
county health officer reported that
the animal had bitten five other
dogs in that city.
Contract Let For
Office at Airport
Contract was let at noon Wednes-
day to Blythe and Staats Harlingen
contractors for the construction of a
new office building for Pan-Ameri-
can Airways at the Brownsville air-
port.
The Harlingen concern's low bid
was $17392. Construction work will
begin as soon as material can be
placed on the grounds it was an-
nounced.
Bids on the new office building
were as follows:
Blythe and Staats. $17392; 8. W.
McKenzie. Brownsville $17.84890;
H C. Oroom. Brownsville $17777.77;
W. A Velten. $17910; L. T. Adam-
son. $17984; A W Neck A Son. $18-
500; E. H Buck. $20864
The building Is to be 171 by 43 feet
constructed in two sections with an
arcade. It will house the engineer-
ing. accounting and several other
departments of Pan American air-
ways.
The building win be of reinforced
concrete tile and stucco similar in
architectural design to the present
administration building.
Germany Celebrates
Hitler’s 2nd Year
BERLIN. Jan. 30—WPv— Reichs-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler commemorat-
ing the second anniversary of the
Nazi state proclaimed Wednesday:
"In the first half of the four year
period which 1 asked the nation to
give me to develop my working plan
more than two-thirds of what I
promised has been carried out.”
“No democratic government In
the world can submit itself with
greater confidence and hope to a
national vote than can the national
assumption of power was no less a
turning point In history than the
socialist government of Germany.”
Hitler declared that the Nazis'
assumption of power was no less
than a turning point in history than
the Work! war and that multiudes
of former adversaries were flocking
into the nazl ranks filled solely with
the desire to work for peace with
honor.
Poison Kills Woman
CORSICANA. Jan. JC.—<JP>— Mrs.
Mattie Matheson 72. died at Wort-
ham early Wednesday morning as
a result of accident*] poisoning.
Arsenic which was in a baking
powder can. was accidentally mlz-
eo with flour as Mrs. Matheson was
preparing breakfast Tuesday morn-
ing for beraall and her sister. Mzs.
Mollis Creswaa who wm Mefet
VALLEY PAYS
HONOR TO F J).
WITHJANCES
Churches to Have Own
Entertainment Here
To Aid Charity And
Fight Paralysis
The Valley was preparing to
shower honors upon President
Roosevelt Wednesday cn the occa-
sion of his 53rd birthday and at
the same time to aid charity and
the battle against infantile paraly-
sis at a series of birthday dances
over the district Wednesday night.
Practically every town In the Val-
ley had completed plans by noon
Wednesday to celebrate the pres-
ident’s birthday at dances. Harlin-
gen. however got the Jump on the
remainder of the Valley by holding
Its dance Tuesday night.
Wednesday night's danoes include:
McAllen Club Royale east of dty;
Mission. Brooks building on Conway
Blvd; Edinburg country club; Wea-
laco-Mercedes country club; San
Benito San Benito club; Browns-
ville. El Jardin hotel; and Rio
Grande City Starr county court-
house.
Other balls will be staged at
Donna and RaymondvUle.
Pharr San Juan and Alamo will
Join with McAllen In the president's
birthday party. Edcouch and Elsa
folk will dance with those at Edin-
burg. La Feria will celebrate at Har-
lingen. Rio Hondo will Join San
Benito. Port Isabel will take part
In the Brownsville fete.
A dual celebration Is scheduled
far Brownsville.
Those who will attend the dance
will assemble at the El Jardin hotel
patio which has been decorated far
the occasion. A floor show will be
presented as one of the features of
the program and the president's
address will be heard over the ra-
dio. The first ticket to the ball will
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14 SIMS
TO FIGHT AAA
Valley Group Takes Court
Action Against
Proration
HOUSTON Jan. 10.—01V- Con-
stitutionality of the agricultural
adjustment act and of the power
delegated to Secretary Wallace was
attacked in suits filed hem Tuesday
by 14 Rio Grande Valley shippers
seeking to prevent Inference with
movement of grapefruit from the
Valley.
The shippers contended thej nev-
er had agreed to the marketing
rules promulgated by the secretary
ol agriculture under which the
Texas citrus control committee seeks
to prorate shipments
Federal Judge T. M. Kennerly set
a hearing for Saturday.
Plaintiffs are as follows;
Rio Grande Fruit Si Vegetable
Co. of Edinburg; U. Ray Brown
Fruit Co. of La Feria; Truckers
Fruit Co. of Edinburg; Sum-Pak
Shippers of McAllen; Alamo Fruit
& Vegetable Co. of Alamo; Pharr
Produce Co Inc of Pharr; Webb
& Helster of Mission; Don Webb
Co of McAllen; VaHey Fruit Co
of Phan; Gulf Marketing Co of
Donna; Clay Everhard cf Phan; W.
E. Baden of Phan and F. H. Sapp
of Edinburg; Ed Roberts of Edin-
burg. All of the plaintiffs are repre-
sented by A. W. Cameron. O. V.
Bridges and Sid L. Hardin.
Shooting Victim •
Funeral Arranged
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Jan. 80 — Punerml
services will be held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock for George
F Morrissey. 58 who police say
shot and killed George A. Honea
and then killed himself at Ban
Benito last Saturday.
Services will be held at Markham
Thompson’s chapel with Rev. W E.
Johnson of the All Saints church
in charge. Bunn1 will be made at
Mont Meta oemetery.
Arrangements were expected to
be completed sometime during the
day for Mr. Honea. '
Poderjay Says It
Guilty of Bigamy
NEW YORK. Jan. 30. —<M>—Ivan
Poderjay 30-year-old Yugoslavian
pleaded guilty in general sessions
court Wednesday to a charge that
he blgmmously married Mias Agnes
C. Tufverson missing corporation
lawyer of New York and Detroit.
Poderjay who was extradited from
Vienna. Austria to face the chame
pleaded that he did not know lie
was committing bigamy when he
married Miss Tufverson December 4.
1813.
No request far bail was made and
Poderjay was committed to The
TwwKt tmtti pMadlng mday*
Foe of Huey
in Hot Spot
Sheriff Robert L. Pettit above.
Is In a hot spot as result of the
Square Deal uprlstns In bis
Bast Baton Rouse. La. parish
la which the courthouse was
seised by *0fi armed men. re-
sulting In troops being rushed to
the scene by Huey Loas- Pettit
recently defied Lons by reap-
pointing his deputies contrary
to a Klngflsh edict.
MEXICO REVOLT
PLOT CRUSHED;
—
Investigators Say Plans
Hatched In U. S.t Backed
By $300000
MEXICO. D. F Jan. 30.—(Ah— A
well-organised revolutionary move-!
ment allegedly financed In the I
United States apparently had been
thwarted by the arrest of 18 persons
suspected of participating In the
conspiracy. Additional arrests were
expected.
The war department said the re-
volt was set for February with the
backing of $300000 in American
funds.
The government said the suspects
were implicated by documents which
also revealed that the conspiracy
had been organised In the United
8tates.
The official announcement named
as leaden of the movement Gllber-
1 to Valenzuela and General Marcelo
I Caraveo both in El Paso Texas;
| General Antonio Villarreal and En-
rique Vasconcelos cousin of Jos41
' Vasconcelos who was formerly a
prominent political figure.
Valensuela and Caraveo were quot-
ed as asserting In a telegram to the
newspaper Excelsior that they had
i no connection with the movement.
Similar denials were made by the
others arrested.
International Cotton
Control Bill Is Up
WASHINGTON Jan. 30—(AV-
Creation of an International board
to divide up the world’s export mar-
kets among the producing and man-
ufacturing nations was proposed
Wednesday to a senate committee
by Secretary Roper
Roper was testifying before the
senate agriculture committee after
Secretary Wallace had told it that
restriction of cotton acreage in this
Country must ocntinue until foreign
demand for the staple Increased.
The commerce secretary proposed
that the international board start
its work with cotton and later
broaden Its scope to other agri-
cultural and manufactured prod-
ucts.
David Lamson Case
Witness Found Dead
RAN JOSE. Calif Jan. 30.—(AV-
Death has claimed * witness fh the
Divld Lamson case with the suicide
of Buford O. B*own. sssoclate pro-
fessor of journalism at Stanford
University since 1823
mth Mrs. Brown the professor
wis one of Jie first to enter the
Ltmson home the day Mrs. Lam-
son was found dead in her bathtub.
Tl elr testimony was relied on by
! the defense in Lamson’s forthcom-
ing retrial on charges of murder.
Death Toll From
Bad Booze Is 32
3LOVERSVILLE N. Y Jan. 30—
(A>i—Numerous white-faced citizens
one by one applied for hospital
treatment Wednesday fearful of
having drunk of the poison “white
mile” that has spread death In
three upstate c-tlea.
With the death toll at 32. Olov-
ersville residents whc swallowed
alcoholic drinks of uncertain man-
ufacture in the last few days look-
ed anxiously fot symptoms of the
creeping death” which has struck
down 15 persons here
Rix persons are in ths hospital
at Utica and eight men and two
women are In hospital* here Twen-
ty others am under observation.
BRUNO’S WIFE
ISTRIPPEDBY
PROpiTION
German Woman Says
Used Shelf Where
Money Kept Denies*
She Saw It
—
(Copyright 1939. by the AP>
FLEMINQTON. N. J* Jan. SO.—»
Two wttneaaes—one his wife—Wed-
nesday supported Bruno Richard
Hauptmann's alibi for the night baby
Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr. waa kid-
naped and slain.
Overt Cartel rom a carpenter of
Swedish extraction who said he re-
membered because It was his birth-
day. testified he saw Hauptmann in
the Bronx at 30 p. m . on March l
1933
Mn. Hauptmann testified her hue-
band called for her at her place of
employment that evening and went
home with her around 10 p. m.
The Lindbergh baby was stolen
from his crib in Hopewell. N. J. more
than 90 miles away between 1 and
10 o. m on March 1 1932.
Mrs Hauptmann suceeded her
husband on the stand- On her di-
rect testimony she said she could
not reach the top shelf of the broom
rloeet and for that reason never need
It.
Wfiemi Trips Her
Attorney General David T. Wll-
ents made her admit she kept a t*u
box with soap coupons on that she!f
and tint she often took the box
down also that she kept bags and
curtain rods on the shelf.
She Insisted nevertheless that
she never saw the shoe box.
Wllents attacking the most Impor-
tant alibi she offered for her hus-
band. asked her:
"And so when they (the police)
asked vou about March I. you aald
•thafs too far back. I can't remem-
ber whether my husband was with
me or not’?"
"When they asked me about the
first of March. I believe I said that."
she admitted.
Court reconvened for the after-
noon at 1:36 p. m.. and Mrs. Haupt-
mann went slowly back to the wit-
ness chair. j
Wllents asked her first about the
statement she gave in the Bronx
alter Hauptmanns arrest
Q You knew it was about tha
Lindbergh kidnaping?
A. I didn't know what It was.
Q. You and Mrs. Henckel were eery
good friends you say?
A- Yes.
Q. Ever have any trouble with
her?
A. No.
Mrs. Hauptmann a defiant look
In her eyes denied that she refus-
ed to go to the Henckel home and
complained of the friendship with
them.
Q. You didn't like the idea of pic-
tures your husband had taken with
other people?
A. T would say dat.
Wllents asked her how she found
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Recovery Program It
Outlined by Allred
AUSTIN. Jan 30 f#| QgfBf—1
James V. Allred Wednesday sug-
gested that irrigation flood con-
trol and reclamation project* pre-
vention of erosion development of
hydro-electric power housing shun
clearance and elimination of dan-
gerous grade crossings should be in-
cluded in the federal government**
recovery program in Texas.
The governor w*s one of the prin-
cipal speakers at a conference of
Texas representatives of federal re-
covery agencies with heads of state
departments cooperating in the wort.
He again emphasised the need of
long range planning for the Judic-
ious expenditure of the approximate-
ly 1250.000.000 which he said the na-
tional government probably would
allocate to Texas.
TONIGHTS MOVIES
OVER THE VALLEY
-.—.mmmmmmmmmmmmmrnm.....
BrownevUle- Tha Capital—Jimmy
Cagney In tha "St. Loula Kid." The
Queen —Madr Christiana la "A Wick-
ed Woman * The Dittmann—Paul Lukas
and Constance Cummings In "CMamour."
San Benito: The Rlvoll—Bichard Ar-
len and Madge Kvaaa fn "Heildorado."
Harlingen - The Arcadia— fUshard
Arten and Madge Kvana in "Belldorado."
The Rialto—Marlene Dietrich la "The
8ea.net Etapreas."
La Pena: The Btjou— Mat*rtae Cheva-
lier and Jeannette MacDonald in “The
Merry Widow."
RaymondvUle: The Ramon—Tom
Brown and Anita Louise la "Beeheier
of Arts.*
Donna- Tha Plana—Jack Benny end
fancy Carroll la "TransatlsttUe Merry
Oo Round."
Ban Juan: The San Juan'—James
Dunn and Alice Faye In "MS Day* la
Hollywood.*
Mercedes The Capitol—Anne Shirley
and Tam Brown In "Anne at Groan
Oablm."
Weslaco: The fi ta flhitlef TRappl
and Jamas Dunn In "Bright Byes."
Me Alim Th# Palac#— ntml Landl
and Cary Gnat tn "Enter Madame."
The Queen-All star flag*. "Ships of
Wanted Men..'*
Mission The Mlmloo-Henry Hull and
hmJkuitn^TM Man Who Bee
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