The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 238, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 7, 1935 Page: 2 of 30
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ETHIOPIA TO 1
. AffAn MOVE
BYILDUCE
(Copy t1933 by the Associated Press)
ADDIS ABABA. April 6.—Hard-
working Haile Selassie king of
kings of Ethiopia confirmed Satur-
day in an interview that his nation
has broken off negotiations with
Italy in the East African dispute but'
emphatically denied that war has
been declared on either side.
Followed by three cocker spaniels!
and a servant carrying a red um-
brella—sign of the master’s power!
as a descendant of the Queen of |
Sheba—the emperor received his
interviewer In a library of the palace |
where he gave a terse but complete
atatement of the Italo-Ethiopian dip-
lomatic situation.
Relations Ended
"We have tried to negotiate dl- j
rectly with Italy or through an in-
termediary. Unfortunately Italy has;
declined arbitration and has not re-!
plied to our proposals. There fore
W’e have broken off negotiations and
submitted the matter of Geneva."
Emperor Halle Selassie if not for
his picturesque costume could have
been taken lor a sun-burned Euro-
pean. The emperor had been up since
five o’clock in the morning his usual
rising time. Often he wc%ksuntil mid-
night. All government work of the
more important class is under his
immediate supervision. His minis-
ters are constantly at his beck and
call In the palace
Decision Fails
The emperor s bnef words in reply
to a question afforded a summary of
tha abortive attempt of Italian and
Ethiopian representative to reach a
decision regarding responsibility for
the Ualual frontier incident and the
question of reparations.
Negotiations ended in deadlock
after agreement had been reached
only on establishment of a neutral
■one. It. was understood that the em-
peror. in mentioning arbitration had
in mind the British minister to Eth-
iopia who acted as intermediary.
REAL TATE
(Continued Prom Page One)
& home at Washington and Second
In Brownsville and moved there.
Purchase of two Los Eban os lots.
Nos 14 and 15 in Block 2 by J. M
Stein as a residential site has also
been announced.
Other Deals Mad*
A D Dickinson developer of Los
Ibenos. stated several deals are be-
ing closed for other properties
there now. and will be announce#
shortly.
One deal announced some time
ago is that m which the Firestone
Tire Service Co. acquired the old
Rabb homesite on Elizabeth This
company is expected soon to start
building a large service station and
warehouse there.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Hinkley on the highway near the
city limits going toward San Benito
ha* been bought by Mr. and Mrs.
R B Rentfro Jr.
Construction is to be started In
the near future by R. D. Sundell
of Pan American Airways on a
home In Los Eabno6 on property
he acquired some tune ago.
FREAK STORMS
(Continued from Page One)
aky lights In business houses. No
estimate of crop damages was made
but it was thought to be heavy.
Nacogdoches reported that a
heavy hail storm hit in the Oak
Hack and Trawits communities
doing heavy damages in an area
five miles square. The report said
that in some places hail drift* were
six inches deep The tomato crop
was believed ruined young trees
were stripped and corn was heav-
ily damaged.
Henderson reported that the Rusk
county area of thf east Texas oil
field counted heavy damages from
a storm Friday night. C R Wheat !
was killed and several derricks
were blown down by a wind storm
which was accompanied by heavy
rain.
Out in west Texas gusty winds
were carrying heavy clouds of dust.
Abilene reported that the sky was
clouded with dust all day.
Tons of dust sifted through Lub-
bock before a blinding sand storm
carried on a high gale the biggest
part of the day. abated at night.
Charges Filed In
Hotel Case Here
Charges of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor a misde-
meanor punishable by a »500 fine
a year in jail or both were filed
against a Port Isabel dredge work-
er. here Saturday in connection
with the disappearance of a 17-
year-old Port Isabel girl from her
home Wednesdav rfight
The charges were filed before
Justice of the Peace A Barreda.
Jr. by Lieutenant of Police John
T. Armstrong
The girl who was located in a
local hotel Thursday morning told
officers she became intoxicated
when she went to Matamoros with
the man Wednesdav night.
The man savS the girl was so in-
toxicated that he left her at a
hotel rather than »ake her home '
The man. in the meanwhile re-
turned to Port tea be 1 and worked
his regular 12:00 midnlght-8 a. m
shift on the dredge.
Both the man and the girl assert
that there was nothing improper
in their relationship.
Bruno Aide To Be
Tried For Perjury
FLEMINGTON. N J April 6. (4V- i
Banjamln Heler. a defense witness
for Bruno Richard Hauptmann will
be tried for perjury during the week
of April 26 In the same courtroom
where two months ago he swore he
saw the late Isa dor ptsch flee the
Bronx cemetery where the $50000
Lindbergh ransom was paid.
Heler pleaded not -uilty to the
|2000 and waa released.
House Opens Way To
Stern Taxation Of
Excess War Profits
WASHINGTON. April 6. —iAV-
House leaders capitulated Saturday
to insistent demands for stern
taxation provisions in the Dili to
outlaw war time profiteering and
opened the way for their insertion
ill the senate.
Atfer insisting for three days
that such amendmetns could not
be offered. Chairman McSwain of
F. I LAW
BANK SPEAKER
• Special to The Harald)
SAN BENITO. April 6—Pending
federal legislation affecting banks
was attacked by F. M. Law of
Houston past president of the Am-
erican Bankers’ Association here
Saturday night in the principal ad-
dress at a meeting of Valiev bank-
ers held at the Stonewall Jackson
hotel.
About 76 Valley bankers and
bank employees heard Law. a na-
tionally known figure point out ob-
jectionable feature* of pending le-
gislation
Many bankers the speaker said
are not in accord with the unli-
mited assessment feature of the
proposed depoeit insurance law.
Banks which do not become mem-
bers of the federal reserve by July
1. 1937. cannot part%ipate in the
deposit insurance. the speaker
pointed out. and he felt that this
amounted to discrimination against
those banks which do not wish to
become members of the federal re-
serve.
The present trends if maintained
would ultimately result in a central
bank in Washington government
owned and controlled th* speaker
la ted.
He also objected to tne unres-
tricted appointment of federal re-
serve officers by the president.
This he felt would subject the
department to politics.
The present banking system can
be improved but it is not so bad
that it should be junked the speak-
er said. Its superstructure should
be fortified he asserted but it
should not be supplanted by a new
system.
Entertainment was supplied by a
San Benito trio made up of Mrs.
Ed Brady. Mrs. James Ward and
Miss Maud Nosier; the Lozano
brothers from Matamoroa. a dance
by Miss Cantu of Brownville and
a talk on Hawaiian customs by
Mrs. M Magoon.
Walter Housewright of San Ben-
ito. president of tne Valley Bank-
ers’ association was toastmaster.
H. R. Safford of Houston exec-
utive vice-president of the Missou-
ri Pacific lines held up the out-
going tram for a short time in or-
der to allow Mr. Law to finish his
address.
Several San Antomo and Corpus
Christi bankers came here to hear
Law's talk.
The next meeting of the Valley
association u to be held in Merce-
des.
Trafficking In
Babies Hit By
New State Law
AUSTIN. April 6. —<A*)— Traf-
ticking in babies was outlawed in
Texas Saturday with the signature
by Governor James V. Allred of a
bill passed recently by the legisla-
ture.
The measure had the support of
the state division of child welfare
which said the number of com-
plaints received indicated it was in-
creasingly difficult for persons to
obtain a child for adoption without
payment of money.
It was sponsored in the senate by
Senator Ben G O'Neal of Wichita
Palls and in the house of repre-
sentatives by Representative W. O.
Reed of Dallas.
"It has gotten to be a racket”
said Reed. "Companion legislation
to place further restrictions on
maternity homes a ill be urged at
this session.”
It was explained that under the
guise of allowing foster parents to
pay placement agencies for the ex-
pense of caring for a child and
sometimes for the maternity care
of the mother placement of babies
was being commercialized.
“The child welfare division has
iiad numerous complaints" said
Mrs Violet Greenhill. chief of the
division of child welfare "that in-
dividuals and agencies are commer-
cializing the placement of babies
and young children and that it is
almost impossible for people who
cannot pay to get a child for adop-
tion.
"This practice is submerged
under various pretexts but in some
instances it involves outright place-
ment of a child in foster homes for
money."
Sheppard Urges Full
Army Navy Strength
WASHINGTON. April 6.—<*»>—
Senator Sheppard (D-Tex» chair-
man of the senate military affairs
committee declared Saturday night
that an adequate army and navy
were needed to assure the economic
sun-1 val of the United States.
“We use about one-hall of the
important raw materials of the
world and our American civiliza-
tion can not continue without
them ” he said in an address pre-
pared for delivery at the annual
A:my Day banquet here “The lines
o' transport of sea and land in
every part of the globe along which
these articles must be conveyed are
as much our lines of defense as our
land borders.
McAllen GleeClub
Wins State Prize
SAN ANGFLO April 6.-The Mc-
Allen high school boys' Glee Club
sang its way into second place in
the state Federated Music Meet
here Saturday. .The McAllen boys
made 94 points as compared to
Waco's 95.
Waco has been undefeated in this
event srnoe 1827.
the military committee author of
the measure himself proposed and
had accepted a 100 per cent tax on
excess profits.
The amendment provided no
basis for the determination of what
should constitute "excess profits"
but it served to tear down the con-
stitutional barrier which would have
pa evented the senate Irom Includ-
ing tax features.
Under the constitution all tax
proposals must originate in the
house. On the basis of the broad
amendment adopted Saturday the
senate mav now write any tax rates
it chooses uito the measurer pos-
sibly those proposed by its own
munitions committee.
It has awaiting introduction a
measure which would limit indus-
trial profits to three per cent of
the investment involved. Chairman
Nys said Saturday he planned to
turn the committee’s hearings to
the bill itself next week prior to
introduction.
The youthful mdependents who
len the fight for a stern anu-war
profits bill were jubilant at what
they considered a victory but were
not entirely ready to abandon an
el fort to recommit the measure.
This attempt will be made on
Monday aimed at the elimination
of provisions empowering a draft of
man power in the event of war
which led some opponent* of the
measure to denounce it as a "draft
bill with a sugar coating.'’
The authorization of a conscript-
ed army was voted into the bill
while a great display of military
; strength was massed outside the
capital in preparation for the an-
nual Army Day parade this time
; commemorating the eighteenth an-
niversary of America's declaration
of war against Germany.
Townsend Club Will
Meet Here Monday
Judge J I. Coursev of Harlingen
will be the principal speaker be-
fore a meeting of the Brownsville
Townsend club to be held at the
courthouse at 8 p. m. Monday it
has been announced.
The old age pension plan which
is ejaininsj strong support through-
c (the country will be thoroughly
explained at the meeting. The gen-
eral public is welcome to attend.
Criminal Harborers
Are Given Warning
SAN FRANCISCO. April 6.
California let the outlaw world
know Saturday night that the con-
viction of four men for harboring
the late "Baby Face” Nelson may be
only a sample of what is to come.
United States Attorney Henry Mc-
Pike disclosed that two present fugi-
tives from justice. Alvin Karpis and
Fred Barker are believed to have
been given aid in this sector.
Dredge Worker Is
Taken To Hospital
Ralph Rohlman dredge worker
was brought to the Mercy hospital
late Saturday night for treatment
of an infected leg wound suffered
in an accident at Port Isabel.
Rohlman s wound was said to be
painful but his condition was not
believed to be serious.
Sanitation Project
Fund Gets Approval
(Special to The Herald>
AUSTIN. Apnl 6 —A work relief
item of *144 for sanitation projects
in Cameron county was authorized
by the Texas Relief Commission
Saturday.
This item was among a total of
*97 451 in expenditures authorized
by the commission.
In 1933. there were 6233 cases
of smallpox in the United States
a~ compared with 49.000. 30.003 and
11.000 in the three preceding years
More than 5000 babies were
cared for by the New York Post-
Graduate Medical School and Hos-
pital during the first nine months
of 1934. _
TRIO INJURED
IN CAR WRECK
i Special to Tha Herald *
EDINBURG. April 6-Owen
Combe of Brownsville president of
the Southwestern Concrete Pipe
company of Brownsville. was in
Edinburg hospital Saturday as the
result of painful injuries sustained
early Friday night when he was in-.
jured in an automobile collision
near here.
H. W. Nutting and Arthur Chaty
ol Edinburg both connected with
the Hidalgo County Water Control
and Improvement District No. 1 al-
so received injuries.
The car. which Combe was driving
overturned and burst into flames
when a truck suddenly turned in
front of the car. and the light sedan
crashed into it. Combe and Chaty
crawled from the wreckage and pull-
ed Nutting who was unoonsclous.
from the flaming car.
Combe received a pamful scalp
wound and bruises; Nutting sustain-
ed a broken leg and cuts and bruises;
and Chaty sustained minor cuta and
bruises
Hospital attendants said Combe
probably will be released from the
hospital Sunday.
WILLACY READY
FOR BIG WEEK
(Special to The Heraldl
RAYMOND VILLE April 0.—The
Willacy county onion which boasts
“not a tear in a carload" will reign
as king here during the coming
week.
And the fiesta that will have as
its basis the fact that more than
*1000 in cash is coming into the coun-
ty for every carload of onions that
j Roes out. will come to a climax with
j the coronation of the Onion Queen
the night of April 12.
Vote Held Secret
The identity of Queen Noino as
| the onion queen is called will not
be made known until the actual time
! of the coronation. Residents of the
county voted several weeks ajro on a
dozen young women of the county
in picking the onion queen.
Activity in connection with the
annual fiesta may be observed on
every hand now. and the decorating:
of the city will be started early in
the w-eek. An onion motif will pre-
vail in the decorating with busi-
ness establishments covered with
onions.
In order to let the rest of the Val-
ley know about the onion fiesta a
caravan of 50 onion-bedecked auto-
mobiles will leave here Thursday
April 11. on a tour of the Valley.
The caravan will stop at every Val-
ley city.
A group of Raymondville people
went to Corpus Christi this week
visiting the exposition there and at
the same tune extending an Invita-
tion to Corpus and Rohstown people
to visit the fiesta. A large delega-
tion is expected to be on hand.
The fiesta proper which is the
big annual celebration of Willacy
county people opens Friday. April
12. at 10 a. m. with the parade
Mere than 50 decorated floats will
ake part in the parade and onions
also will be featured largely in this
part of the celebration.
Frog ram Completed
Following the parade will be a
free barbecue at the rodeo grounds
and following this riders from all
points in South Texas will give the
crowd a thrill in the most specta-
cular rodeo ever conducted here.
Cowboys from Willacy county and
the nearby King ranch whose busi-
ness is the actual handling ot live-
stock will be seen m competition
with the professional showmen in
the game.
The coronation w-ill be held in the
evening in the open air. and one
ot the largest gatherings in the his-
tory of the event is expected here.
Mrs. Burtons Choral club and the
Jane Daugherty Dancing school will
furnish musical and dancing num-
bers.
Following the coronation will be
a street dance with music furnish-
ed by the Millers Heart* Delight
orchestra from San Antonio.
I
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FAMOUS
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Everybody’s
talking About!
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Resist dirt and grime. Super
Valspar Enamels dry fast—one
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Come m today.
•VyAtSPAR
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COST NO MORE
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Frontier Lumber Co.
Sims Reduces Lead To
****** *****
By Army Day Paraders
***** *****
Blaring Music Played
NEW YORK. Apnl 6. Music
had charms for the P. Hal Simses
Saturday as they reduced the Cul-
bertson lead to 10.810 points in their1
150 rubber match.
The music came from 15 military
bands part of an Army Day par-
ade which passed under the exclusive
Crockford Club window to the en-
joyment of the kibitzers and the
consternation of the bridge players.
Mr. and Mrs Sims gained 3.830
points during the session the 18th
Three Charged With
Murder Of Coroner
JENA. La April 6 —iJP)— Louis
Hamilton. 29-year-old medical stu-
dent. Buck Sheppard. 25. and Ploy’d
Miller 31 entered pleas of not
guilty Saturday when arraigned
for the murder of Dr. Fred Ham-
ilton. LaSalle Parish coroner on
the night of June 10. 1933. The
trial has been set for April 22
Hamilton is the son of the man
with whc»e murder the trio are
charged while the other men are
members of prominent families of
LaSalle parish. • j
Honolulu Flight Is
Set Up To April 16
WASHINGTON. April 6.—(AV-
Pan American Airways Saturday
postponed to April 16 its first ex-
perimental flight by the Pan Amer-
ican Clipper from San Francisco to
Honolulu because it said it desired
to give stamp collectors additioaai
time to obtain first flight covers.
An official announcement from
the systems office here said so
many philatelists had appealed for
delay that the flight w*as postponed
from April 10 The deadline for
receipt of mail for the flight was
fixed at 5 p. m. April 15 at San
Francisco.
of the match. Forced to shout their
bids to be heard above the bands
the priiucpals soon became touchy;
and one argument between Ely Cul-
bertson and Sims was ended only
by the roar of martial music.
At the end of the 95th rubbei the
pair fundings were:
Culbertson Sims
Advantage . 10.810
Rubbers won Saturday 52 5
Total rubbers won .. 52 43
Total points . 80 810 70 000
Total aces held . 1 096 1.120
Total kings held .... 1.087 1.129
Total queens held .... 1.100 1.116
The argument developed while
Culbertson was playing a four heart
bid on which he was set one. When
he neglected to take a finesse two
kibitzers conferred audibly. Sims
smiled.
"You don't know everything that
is going on in the same." Elv re-
marked angrily to the kibitzers.
Sims thinking the remark was
meant for him. replied:
“I may not know everything that
is going on. but I know* everything
in front of me. I've seen every rot-
ten play you've made during the
match."
Two Are Hurt By
Tornado In Texas
CORRIGAN April 6.—i/T*—Two
Persons were injured seriously a
dozen others escaped with slight
injuries and more than 25 farm
homes were demolished when a
twister swept through a farming
community a mile and a half
northeast of Corngan at 4 30 p.
m. Saturday.
The seriously injured were Brooks
Hendry about 40. and hts mother
w’ho were taken to a hoeoita)
Livingston. Five other members of
the Hendry family escaped with
slight injuries.
L E. MERRYMAN
PASSES AWAY
L. E. Merry man. 51 well-known j
Brownsville plumbing and electrical!
contractor died at the family real- j
dence in Olmao early Saturday j
morning after an illness of three
months.
The decedent a World War vet-
eran who served overseas with the
Canadian army has been in the con-;
tract mg business here tor 12 years i
He Is survived by his widow five
children. Frances. Kathleen Rich-
ard. Jack and Alfred; three sisters
one of whom lives In Houston an-
other in Franklin. Texas and Mrs.
Harry Richtrdson of Brownsville
jnd one brother who resides in Cor-
pus Chrnti.
Funeral services will be held st
the Moms Mortuary at 3 p. m. Sun-
day with Rev. J. L- Franklin of the
Assembly of God church in charge.
The American Legion post in
which Merryman has been an active
member will take charge of the
services in Buena Vista burial park.
The decendent joined the Cana-
dian army in 1917 and served over-
seas with the 118th Engineering
Corps.
Another Dust Storm
Sweeps Over Texas
AMARILLO. April 8 —jp— For
the second consecutive Saturday
the Texas Panhandle choked in a
blustering dust storm Saturday
striking Amarillo about 11 o'clock
Saturday morning the storm soon
enveloped the city in a dense fog-
like dust. Buildings one block away
were barely visible through the
dusty haze Electric lights were
turned on at the height of the
duster."
TWA transport planes passed
over Amarillo because of the dust.
Newspaper Raided
PARIS. April 8 Police raid-
ed the offices of the newspaper
Humanite Saturday seizing docu-
ment* The paper has been carrying
on a violent campaign against exten-
sion of military service to two yearn
Rio Rico Merchant
Shot From Ambush
Ezfquifl Cavaaoa. well known Rio
Rico merchant waa ahot to death
near that city Friday afternoon ac-
cording to report* reaching Mata-
moro.v
Cavazos waa ambushed and sev-
eral shots lired at him trora a 12-
guage shot gun. The first volley
->iruca him. three pellet* imbedding
in hi* body one on a shoulder an-
other In his cheat and the third
hi* abdcmen. The other volleys tom
In number missed him.
Cavazos died a few hours after he
w aa. ahot and wa* able to talk to
ponce.
Isidro Yanez Olivares la being held
In the Mitam-ros jail In connection
with the affair.
RAY AND HIS
(Continued from Page One)
some of the others implicated to his
latest depredations."
Hamilton asked Simmons to send
him bark to the Cast ham prison
farm from which he escaped last
year in the event he was not "sent
down." Simmons told Hamilton ha
would not do that
Hamilton said Ralph FuH# hie
companion m recent robberies in
Mississippi was "filled with 15 or JO
buckshot.*'
"We just got separated and 1
don't know where he la." the outlaw
told prison officials.
Noland Allred airested In con-
nection with the capture of Ham-
ilton. had said the outlaw related to
Allred the story of burying hi*
wounded pal.
Regarding hia disarming of a
posse in Mississippi Wald said
Hamilton claimed they "just drove
up" on him. He covered them with
a machine gun. he said and told
them to lay down their weapons.
They did according to Hamilton'!
story.
Simmons said he was moat pleased
that we got all these three boys who
escaped < Hamilton. Palmer and
Thompson* without the loss of a
single peace officer That is the luck-
iest part of the whole matter." he
said.
If gl'en their choice mosquitoes
will drink sweetened water In pref-
erence to blood.
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