The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 63, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1936 Page: 2 of 8
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STOCK PRICES
ADVANCING ON
BUYING WAVE
Business Indus trial
Optimism Fanning
Purchasing Orders;
Advance Is General
NEW YORK. Sept. 18. (>P>—Busi-
. ness and Industrial optimism fanned
buying flames in Friday's stock mar-
ket and many issues steamed up
fractions to two or more points.
Although uneasiness was still evi-
dent over the foreign situation es-
pecially the critical French fiscal
position there was a renewed de-
mand for shares of selected rails
motors oils coopers steels and spe-
cialities.
Rail bonds were a shade better
as were commodities.
Conspicuous stocks on the upside
were Santa Fe Union Pacific. Chesa-
peake Si Ohio Chrysler. General
Motors Shell Union Oil Consolidat-
ed Oil. Standard Oil of New Jersey
U. 8 Steel Bethlehem Youngstown
Sheet Si Tube. Crucible Steel J. I.
Case Deere. Kennecott American
Smelting. International Nickel West-
Inghouse American Can Allied
Chemical. International Paper Si
Power preferred Lee Rubber Gen-
eral Asphalt Corn Products and
American Metals.
Improvement was also registered
by American Telephone. Western
Union. Consolidated Edison North
American. Anaconda General Elec-
tric. Goodyear. Schenley Montgom-
ery Ward. Sears Roebuck. Electric
Boat Paramount Pictures Firestone
Tire and Great Northern.
Douglas Aircraft moved up but the
volatile Wright Aeronautical fell
beck under realizing.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO. Sept. 18 /Pi—More
than two cents a bushel overnight
jump in Liverpool wheat quotations
led to all around higher Chicago
prices for grains early Friday. Cables
said European continental countries
were taking Danubian offerings of
wheat and that Canadian wheat of-
fers were without any competition.
Opening 4-1% cents up. Septem-
ber 1.164-%. December 1.144-4
Chicago wheat futures then reacted
somewhat. Corn started 4-14 lush-
er. September 1.164-%. December
964-% and continued to strength-
en.
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
* NEW ORLEANS. Sept 18. —</P>—
Cotton futures were from 1 to 4
points higher in early trading Fri-
day.
Enough trade and speculative
support developed to keep the mar-
ket on an even keel and absorb the
small amount of hedge selling that
developed at the opening.
Reports of devastating floods In
the interior of Texas particularly
around San Angelo were considered
bullish.
Oct. sold at 11 96 at the first call.
Dec at 11 99 Jan at 12 01 and March
at 1196.
Weather
■_■
East Texas (east of 100th meridian i;
Cloudy probably with local showers
Friday night and Saturday; somewhat
warmer In north portion Saturday.
Light to moderate east winds on the
coast (easterly)
RIVER FORECAST
The river will fall alowly at Browns-
ville and Mercedes probably change
little at Hidalgo and probably con-
tinue to rise at Rio Orande City dur-
ing the nest 24 to 30 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chang Ram
Laredo . 27 6 0 -1 8 0U
lUo Orande . 21 10 5 1.0 .41
Hidalgo . 21 12 9 -2 5 .00
Mercedes .... 21 17 3 -3 5 08
Brownsville . 18 19 5 0 5 .21
TIDE TARI.E
High and low tide in the pass and
along this immediate coast Saturday
under normal meteorological con-
ditions:
High .. 4 06 a m 6 44 p m
Low . 10 55 a. m
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
8unset Frldnv . 8 31
Sunrise Saturday . 6:17
WEATHER SUMMARY
The great tropical storm was cen-
tral a short distance east of the Vir-
ginia coast at 8 a. m. <EST> Fridav
apparently moving more northward
now. Over the United States baromet-
ric pressure was relatively to moderate-
ly high Friday morning except rela-
tively low over the Southwest. Light
to heavy rains occurred again in Texas
and apparently northern Mexico and
scattered showers in Oklahoma and
Arkansas during the last 24 hour*
Temperatures continued rather low in
the northwestern and north - rentrai
states and about seasonable over the
balance of the country.
Brownsville 7 a m. (CST) sea-level
pressure 29 94 inches
BULLETIN %
(First figures lowest temperature last
night; second highest yesterday third
" wind velocity at 8 a m.; fourth prec-
ipitation In last twenty-four hours t
Abilene . 64 69 ..US
Amar!”o . SO 74 .. 01
Atlanta . 68 88 .. .00
Austin . 70 90 . .04
Boston . 00 74 18 00
BROWNSVILIE . 75 87 .. 21
Brownsville Airport . 73 87 .. 04
Chlcr.go . 56 64 . 0»
Cleveland . 50 62 12 00
CP’^ius Chrlitl . 7» 88 .. .72
Da las . 70 86 .. .14
Del R.o . 70 82 .. .36
Denver . 52 82 .. .00
Dodge City . 76 .. 00
*n Paso . 6o 84 .. .00
Fort Smith . 68 80 .. .18
Houston ... 72 .86 12 OC
Jacksonville . 70 88 .. oo
Kr.ns.i" CUV . 60 70 .. .00
Los Angeles . 60 80 .. .(*
Lcu'svll'e . 58 72 .. o
M-m-hls.66 80 .. .00
’rim- . 78 98 .. .o:
5£ rn"~uol s . 96 72 .. .0^
*Cc*" O-leens . 76 88 .. .O"1
Hr-th Platt* . 51 74 .. on
Oklahoma City ..6? 64 .. l 09
Pr'ertlne . 69 88 .. .0t
P-aaeco'a . 72 84 12 .SO
Pfco-nlr . 76 100 .. oo
8 Louis . M 74 .. .00
e- t Lake City .:. « 78 .. Oo
E-n Antcnlo . 72 80 .. 1 56
8-nta Te . 50 74 .. .00
Eh-rldan . 32 72 .. .00
F’*?cvf*r>ort . 72 90 .. .On
T-rvaa . 74 w .. .Si
♦‘•tf-'twr* . 70 90 .. .00
w—H*nr*oa .. «s 82 16 on
•V .ton. 42 66 .. 00
W -ijfen . 72 84 14 .00 1
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STOCK LIST
NEW YORK STOCKS
Close Close
Alleg 4 Nash Mot 16
Allis-Ch M 52 Nat Bis 304
?inw Ua-k Nat Dairy 26%
Am CAFdy 4<% J
AmCrvsS 29 Nat Dist 29%
Am PALt 11% Nat PALt 11
Am RASt 21% NY Cen 444
Am Roll M 274 North Am 31
Am SmAR 82 North Pac 274
Am Stl Fdrs 414 Otis Elev 274
Am TT 174% Pac OAE1 36%
Am Tob B 101% Packard 124
Am Woolen 74 Park Utah 3
Atch TASF 81% Penney JC 89%
Atl Ref 27 Penn RR 39%
Avi Corp 54 Pet Corp 13%
Bdwin Loc 51 Phel Dod 39%
BA Ohio 174 Phill Pet 40%
Bndall 174 Plym Oil 16%
Ben Avi 29 Pub Svc NJ 444
Beth Stl 684 Pullman 574
Borden 294 Pure Oil 16%
Briggs Mfg 57 Radio 104
Bdd Whl 113 RKO 74
Burr Ad Mch 8 Rem Rand 19%
CaluAHec 11% Rey Tob B 56
Can Pac 12% Sway Strs 29%
Chrvs 1124 SLIok Lead 28%
C-Cola 120 Stl-San F 24
Col GAE1 19% Schen Dist 434
Coml Solv 154 Seabd Air 14
Com with AS 3 Seabd Oil 31
Con Can 71 Sears R 87
Cont Mot 2% Servel 26 4
Cont Oil DI 30 Shell Un 21%
Com Prod 68 Soc-Vac 13%
Cur-Wri 64 Sou Pac 42%
DuPont 161 Sou Ry 22%
El Auto L 414 Sperrv Corp 22
El PALt 14% Std Brds 154
Freeport Tx 24% So Cal 36
Gen Asph 24% So Ind 374
Gen Food* 39 So NJ 61%
Gen Mills 614 Stew-Warn 19
Gen Mot 66% StAWeb 18%
Gen RAUt 24 Tx Corp 37
Gillette 14 Tx Gul Sul 37%
Gold Dust 13% TP CAO 11%
Gdrich 22% TP L Tr 9%
Gdyr 24% TideWat As 174
Hd-Her B 28% TransAm 13
Hous Oil 84 Un Carb 954
InspCop 104 Un Oil Cal 21%
Int Harv 764 Un Pac 1364
1 Int Nick C 584 Unit Air C 25%
j Int TT 124 Unit Carb 844
ij-Manv 113% Unit Corp 74
I Kelvin 20 Unit Fruit 744
Kenn 48% Unit Gas I 15%
Kresge SS 26% US Gyp 994
Llbb-O 66% US Ind A1 33%
LigAMv B 1054 US Rubr 30%
! Loew 594 US Stl 71
I Lor <P> 22% Vanad 244
Lud Stl 294 Warn Piet 134
Mid-Con P 224 WU 88%
MKT 8% Wes E1AM 1394
MoPac 2% White Mot 20%
M Ward 484 Wilson&Co 84
Mur Corp 204 Woolw 54
NEW YORK CURB
C'lo"# Close
Am Mar 15-16ths Mount Prod 5%
Am Sup Pwr 2% Niag H Pwt 14%
i Ark Nat Gas 5 Pan Am A 58 %
Cities Svc 4 Stregts Pap 4%
East GAP 64 Shatt Denn 8
El BASh 21% So Kv 19
Ford M Ltd 84 R unray Oil 3%
Cnilf Oil 944 Texon Oil 54
Humble Oil 62% Unit Gas 7%
Ind Ter 111 B 3 Un LtAP A 6%
San Antonio Roads
Blocked By Water
(By The Associated Pressi
Continued hard rains northwest
of San Antonio blocked a number
of highways Thursday with high
water. Highway 81 between Ban-
dera and Kerrville was closed as
was highway 27 in Kimball county
near Junction when a bridge was
washed out. The Llano river was on
a rampage but telephone lines were
down and the extent of its flood-
ing was not learned immediately.
South of San Antonio ten mites
the Medina river once again closed
the Laredo highway. Farther south
along the International Highway
the Frio river was reported rising j
with prospects it would cut the j
highway five miles north of Dilley
by Thursday night.
Waters of the Medina were within
one and a half feet of the approach
to the bridge on the Somerset
road south of San Antonio. The
bridge was ordered closed.
WIDOW DENIES
SLAYING PLOT
Unhappy Married Life
Told Jurors
CARTHAGE. Sept. 18. (-T—A story
of unhappy married life unfolded by
Mrs. Reable Childs in her trial for
the slaying of her crippled husband
was before the jury Friday. •
The defendant 24. and pretty
denied she and Terrance Bramlette
her 21-year-old admitted lover plot-
ted the death of Marlie Childs. She
said she made a statement only after
officials had denied her rest and !
food.
Mrs. Childs testified she and her |
husband had^ew common pleasures. |
She said he refused her motherhood
and declined to giv* her a divorce.
Childs was killed by a bullet fired
through a window of their home at
Center April 23.
Bramlette remained In jail here
awaiting trial on the same charge.
Three Sentenced
Three sentences were assessed or
pleas of guilty in he criminal dis-
trict court here Thursday.
R. F. Kint 72. who resides near
La Feria. was .ined 125 and
and his driving license was revoked
for six months w'hen he pleaded
guilty to driving a motor vehicle
j while under the ’nfluence of in-
toxicating liquor.
Manuel Rodriguez. 23. Harlingen
was assessed a five-year suspended
sentence w’hen he pleaded guilty to
a charge of burglary
Manuel Guerra about 24. was
sentenced to one year in the county
jail when he pleaded guilty to pos-
session of marihuana. He was ar-
rested near Riverside addition here
| by Border Patrolmen the testimony
! showed
On Broadway with
W alter
W incliell
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MEMOS OF A COLYIMAV8 GIRL FRIDAY
Dear W. W.: In the first place please do a girl a favor...You were
two inches short for the quip column and they found that out at 7 p. m.l
...I went silly with five minutes to go before rolling finding a piece in
your overset that would fit...They used the wrong rule when you made
up the column—so fevvensakes—watch that!...John Howard Lawson
may inherit the drama critic Job at the Worker which seeks a play-
heckler...To prove that there is little if any dignity left any more the
Reverend Vincent Bums who was
ejected from the Hauptmann trial at
Flemlngton (his brother Is the fam-
ous Fugitive from a Chain Gang*
will lead Roseland's swing band for
only one show next week... Have a
good name for those song theme
* pirates—songomffs.
Samuel Instill has lost his Job
again. His withdrawal from that
Chicago radio firm is now au fait
accompli— dunno when it’ll be an-
nounced. . .The Meadow brook Boys
phoned. Said Ginger Rogers’ theme
song should be: '‘Astaire Fell Out of
Heaven"..It's a boy at the Ted
Blacks 'Arline Sohn at the Park
West hosp. The best babies come
from there according to ^Irs. Win-
che!l..You can safely toss orchids
at B. K. Blake’s first "Court of Hu-
man Relations' reel—a honey...And
to the score of Crosby's next flick
which is sawell.. ."One. Two. Button
Your Shoe" will certainly be a smash
novelty. ..Add silly lyrics: "Drive
Up the River Road." frixample
which counsels: "Forget all about the
bills you owe"...Oh. sure!
The maior gamblers in Miami. I
hear are trying to move the scene
to Hollvwood Fla. The idea prob-
ably will flop though...The Giants
and the Yankees have been caution-
ed not to frequent any of the Broad-
way restaurants—because gamblers
jhang out in them.. .Montclair’s new
Casino reopens on the 1.6th and will
feature a private entrance for peo*
pie who want it—instead of using the
lobby.. .Regina Crewe remains as
film editor on the American; the
rumors had it otherwise.. .George S.
Kaufman is being bothered with ob-
scene letters sent anonymously to
him. care of "21".. Adolphe Men-
Jou is back with what should be a
rood story for some editor...He un-
derstands several languages. He
claims he heard plenty in Europe
when careless remarks were dropped
which people didn’t think he savvied
.. I heard this: That some of the
swell newreel shots from Spain were
gotten by putting cameramen in
hearses!
Art Shaw will appreciate a favor.
Seme crook swiped two of his clari-
nets. Worth about $300...But he
doesn’t want them back. If the
mcuth-pieces are. returned however
he'll pay $150 reward. Took him two
years to break them in...Heard
Jerry Cooper sing "Did I Remem-
ber?” over Columbia and I’ll always
remember it . The very odd Mc-
Intyre reports that a Spaniard pre-
dicted that Dollfuss wouid die a vio-
lent death within three months and
that the exact date was May 23rd ..
Time "the ablest historians.” re-
ported in the issue of August 6th.
1934 that he died two months later
...Dollfuss died July 25th.. .No won-
der so many people are confused
these days.. .Here's something more
cheerful.. .Reuben's new bar will be
shaped like a heart.. .Robert the
beautician says people with tilted
noses are increasing...A sign of re-
| turning prosperity?
Have a caption for those pictures
frm Spain: ‘ Spain In All Its Glory!*’
...And howz about calling the com-
munistic comrades — Comreds?...
There's a grand new team of pian-
I ists on the air. Named Harold Triggs
i and Vera Brodsky. Heard them with
i Fred Waring's crew...Very top-
drawer. . .You oughta hep up some of
| the smart places which are catering
to sixteen-year-old students who
j get woofled after two whiffs of any-
I thing.. .The boomerang will be cost-
ly if their parents complain to the
cops...Erwin Gelsey to get the at-
mosphere for "Swing Time” which
' deals w ith a dance school took les-
I sorts at Arthur Murray's. Gelsey
i helped write the flicker you know
... I still think it would have been
| better if it ended when Betty Fur-
| ness gave Fred the air—the epilogue
wasn't necessary. Slows it.
Here’s an Item. If we go three
more weeks without a bank failure
j (Sept. 30thi. it will break a seventy-
! year record. This means national
banks of course. The last one that
failed was in 1935... Comptroller of
the Currency Jefty O'Connor will
j confirm that.. .The official report
isn't due for three weeks... Billy Sel-
wyn 1s rushing Rosalind Russell but
she still jjir.es for that New York
lawyer.. Did Ruth Selwyn get her
divorce from Edgar yet?... NBC
; will reward Hildegrade with two 30-
; minute programs weekly beginning
! next Chewsday night. She will ln-
I troduce Holt Marvell's new ditty. "If
I Were Ginger Rogers and You Were
; Fred Astaire".. .He's the chap who
; charmed us all with "These Foolish
Things.”
Clarence Gould’s colored valet was
married in Harlem. Gould was best
man and Barbara Bannister was
bridesmaid... Add startling •like-
nesses: Rudy Vallee and the door-
man of Lindy’s 49th St. branch...
A spot in W. 53rd. strictly a Rolls-
Royce stop is suspected of featur-
ing a dojje bar .."Let Me Be The
One In Your Heart” is very pretty
but so was; "At The Masquerade"
...Suggestion: Call them: "aah-
chids”.. .1 like the first issue of "The
New York Woman"—did you notice
• J. Edgar Hoover’s right-hand man
(Clyde Tolson) in the Stork Club
[snapshot? He’s on extreme left...
j I feel so very sorry for two lads who
; are suffering from blisters on their
) hearts. Girl-trouble. I don’t know
what to do to keep them from drown-
ing in their own tears: I know so
I little about love. All I know about it
is what I read on the tombstones.
—Your Gill Friday.
WILLACY BIDS
ARE ADVERTISED
$80000 Span Project
District’s First
l Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE Sept. 17. —
Bids were advertised Thursday for
approximately $80000 worth of
construction which would be the
first step In completion of the
giant 75000-acre Willacy county
irrigation project.
Officials of the Irrigation dis-
trict advertised for bids on five
bridges to san the mam canal of
the project and for a distribution
system to water 6.000 acres east of
Raymondville. The bids are to be
opened in offices of the district
here at 10 a. m Saturday. October
10.
It Is estimated that It will cost
about $12000 to build the five
bridges needed over the main canal
from the river to the reservoir and
an additional $70000 for the distri-
bution system serving the 6.00C-acre
tract east of here. The main canal
is only partially completed.
The plans and specifications for
that portion of the project for
which bids are being atked were
approved a few days ago by the
Public Works Administration which
has under advisement a $4800000
grant and loan for completion of
the irrigation system
Plans and specifications lor
other parts of the project are being
rushed according to W. E. Ander-
son. engineer for the district. O. E.
Van Berg is assistant engineer
and there are two field parties
making surveys. Altogether some 2t
persons are now employed on the
project.
Work now being done Is being
financed by means of a $25000 ad-
vance grant from the PWA.
A contract has not yet been
drawn between the Willacy and
Mercedes ristrict* for water ser-
vice although a verbal agreement
has been reached. Under the terms
of this understanding the Willacy
district would spend a considerable
sum making additions and replace-
ments at the Mercedes district
plant in return for water service.
It is understood that the agreement
is of mutual benefit because tne
Mercedes district would soon need
to modernize its plant. A Joint
meeting of the Willacy and Mer-
cedes boards was to be held Thurs-
day for a further discussion of the
contract.
Although the work on which
bids are being asked is only a small
part of that which will eventually
be done it will serve to meet
Public Works Administration re-
quirements that construction be
started within a certain time. The
work on the distribution system
will be mostly earthwork. All dis-
tribution canals are eventually to
be concrete lined to make lor eco-
nomical use of water and minimize
drainage problems.
Seniors Elect
• Sneclsl to The Herald!
SAN BENITO. Sept 18 — Joe
Spears has been elected pre&iden’
of the senior claw with Arnold
Hoflin . vice president; and Lester
Parker secretary-treasurer. All are
football players.
Mrs. E. M. Aiken was named
sponsor and class mothers will be
Mrs. Joe Spears. Mrs. John Clark
and Mrs Nell D. Kendrick.
Abney Club Speaker
James L. Abney assistant United
States district attorney was trw
principal speaker at the weekly
meeting of the iClwania club in
Hotel El Jardin Thursday.
Abney spoke on "The Constitu-
tion of the United States.” and ex-
plained how it is used every day in
the Uvea of American citizens.
A. M. Wryrlch was a guest.
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Marine News
■_■
PORT OF BROWNSVILLE
Scheduled to Arrive
September 19
BS Commercial Floridian. Mooremaeli
Baltimore.
« September 21
SS West ttobomac Lykes Liverpool
and Manchester.
September 21
SS Texas Banker NewTex. New Tork
September 23
S8 Isis. Hamburg American Line for
Bremen and Hamburg
September TiS
SS Commercial Navigator Mooremack
Baltimore. Throtigh B-L via a steamer
to Baltic and Scandinavian ports.
September 2*
SS Texas Trader • NewTex. New Tork
October 2
Norwreien MS Tronto Hamburg
.American Bremen berth Oslo Hamburg.
Copenhagen and Odvn'a.
October 3
SS Commercial Pioneer. Mooremack
Ba'ttmore.
October 1#
SS Commercial Bostonian Mooremack
Baltimore Through B-L via a steamer
to Baltic and Scandinavian porta.
October 12
SS Texas R*riser NewTex. New Tork
October 17
SS Commercial Floridian. Mooremack
Baltimore.
October 19
SS Texas Trade* Nevro>x. New Tork
October 24
SS Commercial Navigator. Moore-
mack Baltimore Through B-L via
a steamer to Baltic and Scandinavian
porta.
October 2*
SS Texas Bsoke* NewTex New Tork
October 31
SS Commercial Alabaman. Moore-
mack. Baltimore.
PORT ISABFt.
Scheduled to Arrive
September 21
SS Calorla Standard Fruit and
Steamship Co.. New Tork. (Tanker).
September 23
SS r. J. Nlcxlos. Continental. New
Tork
Sent ember 2f
SS B J. Nlckloa. Continental. New
Tork
October It
SS * J. Nlckloa. Continental New
Tork.
• • •
Mooremack. NewTex Hamburg Amer-
ican Bremen berth Continental. Stan-
dard Fruit and Steamship Co. Creole-
Odero. and North Orman Lloyd sched-
ules furnished through courtesy ol
Phllen. Miller & Co„ agents.
Lykes Brother* Rlplev and Hamburg
American schedules furnished through
courtesy of Lalller At Co.
The earlier types of morlna
'talrciH* In London’s Tube railways
'raveled at a rate of 90 feet a min-
ute: newest models can do 180
though run only from 120 to 1<K
feet a minute m yet.
Large Crowd Sees
Holiday Program
The High School auditorium hare
was filled to overflowing Wednes-
day night for the program given by
the Mexican Patriotic committee
here upon the occasion of Mexico's
126th universal ay of independ-
ence from Lpain
Principal addresses were made by
Mexican Consul Santiago Suarez
and A.elardo A. Trevino both of
Brownsville. Raul Garza gave a
declamation and Game Warden
Antonio P. Orta of Matamoros en-
tertained with ventriloquism and
sleigth of hand tricks.
Dances were given by Fablo;a
Cardenas and Miss Armandina Cantu
Muzquiz. Little Miss Elena Luna
gave two songs and a dialogue was
presented by Miss Olivia Orta and
Jose Rodriguez. Enrique Delgado
and Alfredo Garcia sang several
selections.
Piano accompaniments were plaved
by Jesus Carru.o of Brownsville.
and Hildebrando Moya of Mata-
moros.
Pawnee Bill's Wife
Dies In Car Wreck
PAWNEE. Ok la.. Sept. 17. (JP>—
Mrs. May Lillie. 65 wife of Major
Gordon W. Lille (Pawnee Bill*!
frontiersman and showman died
Thursday of injuries received in an
automobile accident Sunday night i
Throughout the night she had
grown weaker steadily and admin-
lstratiotns of oxygen failed to re-
vive her.
Her husband. 76. himself injured
in the accident which caused her
death was at her bedside when the
end came.
The romance of May Manning
and Pawnee Bill began in 1885 v^hen
Major Lillie was playing his wild
west show in Philadelphia.
"I do declare if I didn’t think
the major a sight the first timg I
saw him." Mrs. Lille told friends
later ‘1 just laughed out loud at
his long hair sombrero and buck-
skin clothes. I was just a school
girl in pigtails. He turned and tip-
ped his hat to me. That's what
started it alL’*
Floyd Gibbons Held
By Spanish Rebels
SAINT JEAN DE LUB France.
Sept. 17. —UP —United States Am-
bassador Claude G. Bowers said
Thursday he was using his good of-
fices to obtain the release of three
American newspaper correspondents
reported •‘detained" by Spanish in-
surgents at Carceres.
The three were said to be John
T. Whitaker of the New York Her-
ald-Tribune Floyd Gibbons and H
R. Knickerbocker of International
News Service.
Mr*. S. A. Lyons
Die* At Edinburg
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURO. Sept. 18. —The body
of Mrs. Edith Lillian Lyons who
died at 7:30 o'clock Thursday
night at her home here will be
forwarded Friday afternoon to
Orange by the Skinner Mortuary
for burial.
She had been a resident of the
Valley for the past eight years-
Her husband Is a furniture dealer
here.
In addition to her husband. Mrs.
Lyons is survived by two sons
Carroll of Edinburg and 8. A Jr.
ol Corpus ChristL
FUNERAL HELD FOR
F. H. DAVIS
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN. Sept. 18 — Funeral
services were held at 10 a. m. Fri-
day for F H. Davis who was found
dead at his home at Alamo Tuesday
morning.
Interment was made in the Mc-
Allen cemetery following services
at the Kreidler Funeral Home with
Rev Charles Raynor of the Epis-
copal church officiating.
Dodson Back on Job
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Sept. 17.— Decid-
ing that one night policeman was
not enough to police the city the
San Benito commission Wednesday
night restored Marcos Dodson to
active duty.
Dodson was one of the police-
men affected by the city's expense
reductions campaign.
PARKING
(Continued from Page one)
While the committee said that its
petition to the commission Included
only Elizabeth street the mayor
sakl that such a parking limit
should also include Washington and
Levee streets and across streets
probably from Eighth to Thirteenth
streets.
A committee from the commission
including Commissioners A. C. Hipp.
W. T. Aldridge and City Manager
Z. A. Rosenthal will meet with City
Attorney Canales to consider details
of a new ordinance for presentation
to the commission.
The parking time limit will ex-
tend to the alleys in the business
district.
Rev. O. C. Crow representing the
Associated Charities appeared be-
fore the city commission in con-
nection with the expiration of the
arrangement under which the city
is supplying 827 50 per month for
rentals lights water and other
facilities to the WPA sewing room
in the McDavitt building. A nine-
month agreement expired In August.
The sewing room giving employ-
ment to seventy-eight persons who
receive wages totaling about $2300
a month will be removed to new
quarters.
Advantages Pointed Oat
Rev. Crow pointed out that not
only do many needy families receive
support through the sewing Jobs
but considerable quantities of new
clothing are made available for
needy school children. We have
record of at le t 400 children who
would be unable to attend school
but for these supplies of clothing”
Rev. Crow said.
Mayor Rentfro requested the city
manager to confer with Mrs. Vera
Enckhauser of Laredo sewing room
head in this district on the ques-
tion of continuing co-operation.
New quarters for the sewing room
If continued have been arranged
for by the Associated Charities of
which Ed Mockbee Is the president
i Kenneth Faxon attorney repre-
senting Joe Cbhrnga and 8e«ns ap
‘DEVIL DOLL’ AT MIDNITE SHOW
Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O’Sullivan are shown in a scene from
the mystery drama “The Devil Doll’* showing midnight show Saturday
night 11:30. at the Capitol Theatre. Brownsville.
plicants for a bus franchise in
Brownsville revealed plans tor a
system of bus lines provided the city
will work out an exclusive franchise
on certain streets.
Mayor Rent fro expressed doubt
that an exclusive franchise could be
arranged and requested the city
manager to get In touch with the
Texas League of Municipalities to
ascertain what other cities are do-
ing along tills line.
Tl.e Colunga firm now operating
a bu.i line in Corpus Christi. pro-
poses to oi*rate buses on Elizabeth
and Levee streets and on Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets other streets
to be added as demand Justifies.
T«n minute service and fifteen-
minute service would be given.
"We propose to operate modern
safety buses.” Mr Faxon said. We
will use four buses of fourteen or
sixteen-passenger capacity and the
fare will be either five cents or six
cents with a special rat? for school
children during school terms ”
While the company a Vied for a
25-vear franchise. Mr Faxon said
that a five-year franchise would be
acceptable.
The applicant for the franchise.
Joe Colunga. is a building contrac-
tor of Brownsville and for several
years with his sons has been oper-
ating a bus line in Corpus Christi
REBELS
(Continued from Page One)
Alcazar and its self-imprisoned de-
fenders following their final refusal
to surrender enabled government
troops to occupy surface buildings of
the old castle but. apparently did
not shake the fascists from their
grim determination to die rather
than give up.
Advances Repulsed?
Explosion of the first mine at To-
ledo and the syndicalist ultimatum
in Madrid coincided with new and
strict regulations limiting the stay
of foreigners in Spain.
These restrictions were decreed of-
ficials said after it was learned for-
eigners had engaged in fascist
espionage.
At the same time the government
poured syndicalist reinforcements
from autonomous Catalonia into the
fighting west of Toledo and claimed
it had repulsed fascist advances from
Siguenza. northeast of Madrid and
in the mountains north and north-
west of the capital.
POLL
(Continued from Page One)
probable is that local or state his-
tory will have its effect as the large
percentages of pivotal voters settle
into place for Roosevelt and Landon.
Michigan for example with
Roosevelt now running slightly
ahead but one voter in five "unde-
cided.” favored Hughes over Wil-
son by four to three in 1916 and was
overwhelmingly republican in 1920.
1924 and 1928. Its vote for Hoover
over Smith was nearly three to one.
Roosevelt carried it in 1932 by less
than ten per cent over Hoover. The
question is whether the strenuous
democratic effort to repeat this un
precedents overturn with a strong
democratic candidate running for
governor would be able to overcome
that state's long standing republl-
’ can tradition.
In Pennsylvania which last week
showed a Landon gain again the his-
tory of what was once a rockribbed
republican state seemed worth tak-
ing into account. The fourteen per
cent of "doubtfuls" were in a posi-
tion to control that state's thirty-six
electoral votes; to which set of in-
fluences they would respond recent
or historical was an Interesting ques-
tion.
New York state In four past presi-
dential elections has gone republi-
can three time*—for Harding. Cool-
idge and Hoover. But republican
margins were steadily declining and
Hoover s was a bare 105.000. History
offers little promise here But of the
other group of doubtful states all
but one or two were prior to the 1932
landslide persistently republican.
An incumbent administration as
political history shows possesses cer-
tain advantages; but there Is an ad-
vantage. too to an undercurrent of
tradition that ran for many years
prior to the advent of exceptional
conditions. The possible effect of
such tradition In many states with
important electoral votes certainly
deserves consideration In this mapy-
angled election.
MATAMOROS
(Continued from Pag* One)
dalgo. and probably continue to rise
at Rio Grande City during the next
24 to 36 hours."
The river reached a peak flow of
41000 seclnd feet at Mercedes
Thursday according to figures fur-
nished by J. L. Lytel of the Inter-
national Boundary' commission. Hi-
dalgo had a peak of 34.000 second
feet.
By Friday the flow dropped to
23.500 second feet at Mercedes and
25 000 at Hidalgo. Brownsville had
30.000 second feet Friday and about
2.500 second feet flow was going
thrcugh the Rancho Viejo resaca
flood way.
The stage of 19 5 at Brownsville
at 7 a. m Friday lacked only two
tenths of a foot being as high as
the river has ever been here.
Thousand Working
Where water was overflowing In-
to the southwestern part of Mata-
moros the new big levee built
around Matamoros had a gap in it
where the railroad crosses. The
water was flowing over the railroad
track at a depth of about two feet.
More than a thousand men were
working at the spot with sandbags
trying to plug the hole.
The water Is flowing inside the
big secondary protection levee that
extends around the southern part
of the city and there was some talk
of cutting that levee to let the
water run on out Into lowlands be-
low. Instead of backing up into the
lower part of the city.
Considerable damage had al-
ready been done particularly In the
Industrial section of the city. Cot-
ton and cotton seed products were
being moved out of many of the
plants ahead of the rising waters.
Soldiers guarded the break and
policed the crowd of men. many of
them loiterers picked up on the
streets who were working with
sandbags logs and other objects In
the effort to check the flow of
I water.
Side Glances - - By George Clark
v^sr i-» m*.■ —•“?
.—..—-i
“You know dear some other s|>ccialist might say tliat
some outdoor liobby would be even better for your nerves.”
ROOD
(Continued from Page Qng)
Boyd and Robert Canute iFhOM
boat capsized Thursday in trying to
aid the Weaver family.
Another boatman Eugene Hrshew
had been rescued earlier by boat.
The Weaver family had Deen In
the tree-top* since 5 am. Thurs-
day the horseman not taking them
out of their precarious tree havens
until nearly dawn Friday
The refugees were removed to a
state sanitarium out of the danger
area to recuperate.
400 Are Homeless
In San Angelo the Red Croas
fed 300 destitute residents of tha
muddy water sodden city Friday
morning at emergency kitchens set
up tn two churches. There ass no
accurate figure available on the
number of homeless needy citlwna
left In the wake of the flood but
responsible persons estimated It
would exceed 400.
There were at least 300 houses
washed sway and more fhan 700
damaged by the waters which at
their peak Thursday evening. In-
vaded practically every residence
section and a large part of the
business district Silt and debris
littered the scene and Concho Creek
still nearly 200 yards wide In places
as It cut through the center of
town was clogged at bridges with
smashed houses cars and other
wreckage.
The north fork of the Concho
mainly responsible for the city's un-
precedented losses had receded
many blocks from its high mark
and the sky was clearing over this
section of southwest Texai lead-
ing to the belief that danger had
definitely abated.
It was torrential rain amounting
to as much as twenty lnchea at
some points on the Concho river's
immediate watershed that caused a
mass of swirling water to raga
through this city of 26.000. thriving
center of the sheep and cattle In-
dustry-
In Our Valley
(Continued from Page One)
Is one who believes that ths Val-
ley would cash in on such a cam-
Pr#gn In greater proportions than
any section of the state.
We agree.
• • •
* WHY ALL THE TAlSt ABOUT
opening tha citrus shipping season*
asks a friend who knows what It Is
all about.
"When enough fruit passes the test
to enable shipments In commercial
quantities the season will be opened
bv state and federal authorities.”
Which Is Just about the meat af
the coconut.
Hidalgo Records
■_■
•2ND DISTRICT COURT
Filed: f
A. L. Johnston vs Joac Y. Loaano
et al. debt and attachment.
•3RD DISTRICT COURT
Emmett F. Clark vs Wlllia Mat
Clark dlvorca.
PROBATE COURT
John W. Stanbridge probata of
will.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Clementa Garza and Cm* »an-
chea.
JUDGMENTS
Gertrude Adams vs. J. C Adama
divorce.
The Nick Doffing Company. Inc
va E L. Bradbury et al. case dis-
miss'd at plaintiffs' coat.
NEW CARS
T. D. Champion. Mercedes. Ply-
mouth; A W. Lee. Mission. Ford; D.
W. Hale. McAllen. Chevrolet; R. P.
Taylor. Weslaco. International truck;
Rlona Products Co. McAllen Chev-
rolet.
City Brief*
■_■
Mrs. R. A. Hodges and son. Rax.
have returned from a week's vaca-
tion In Sandla.
Dr. W. E. Spivey has gone to
Bay City on business.
Henry Skelton. Mrs Nellie D.
Skelton and Miss Nora Douglas
have returned from a two weeks*
vacation in Dallas and Fort Worth.
H. L. Cummins Is confined to hie
home by Illness.
Judge O. C. Dancy has gone to
Bay City on business.
A. M. Braswell la a visitor from
Austin.
C. C Cuff is here from 8an An-
tonio.
D. E. Woolett Is a business visitor
from Laredo.
G. B. Elrod is visiting In «t»a
city from Monaham.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hartman
are tourists from Atchison. Kansas.
Norge sales and service. 1213
Elizabeth fit. phone 222. Tom Stev-
enson Co. Adv.
Dr. Claudia Potter is here from
Temple visiting her sister Mrs.
Hilliard Smith. Dr. hotter Is with
the Scott and White Hospital in
Temple.
Charlee Mclntire. son of Mr. and
Mrs H H. Mclntire. expects to
leave Saturday for College Button
to attend A. and M. college.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C Holdcreat are
visitors from San Antonio.
Judge Oeo C. Westervelf tfi the
criminal district court has relumed
to Corpus Chrtstl to spend the week-
end with his family.
Tom Cunningham court reporter
for the criminal district court haa
returned to Corpus Chrjsti for the
! week-end.
Polk Homaday. Harlingen attor-
ney. was a business visitor In
! Brownsville Thursday.
Arthur Klein Harlingen lawyer
and Justice of the peace was at the
courthouse on business Thursday.
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