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NUMBER 32
VOLUME XVII
capitol to Election Returns To Be
A CRISIS!
LOCAL BANK
VALLEY TO
OPEN WEEK
DEFENDANT
EXPERIMENT
FROM TODAY
$36,548 SUIT
- STERILIZING
to come in and
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Stokes Seed company builds new home
at Weslaco
col. 2, p. 10
of accident
p. 1
James-Dickinson tract will be devel-
Mayor Kasey Asks Cooperation of All Citizens In Mosquito War
oped by September
col. 1, p. 10
%
at meeting
•Opening picture at remodeled theatre
is announced
p. 1
for conservation
col. 5, p. .3
Local unit of Farm Bureau will be
organized Wednesday
p. 1
'Three dead, thirty-four hurt in recent
Valley wrecks
•Great rodeo may be put on at Valley
Mid-Winter Fair
col. 1, p. 3
Members of Rumanian royal family
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Business Men Of
San Antonio Visit
Valley This Week
Mercedes Unit Of
Farm Bureau To Be
Formed Wednesday
3 Killed, 34 Are
Injured In Valley
Crashes In a Week
Night Blooming Cereus
In Cactus Display At
Chamber Of Commerce
Rotarians Are Guests
Of Local Kiwanians At
Bird Barbecue Tonight
Judge Carl Invites
All To Vote In The
Primary, Tomorrow
Democratic
invites you
TESTS MADE SHOW
SOUND IS PERFECT
Local People Attend
Telephone Convention
MERCEDES NEEDS
WIDER BRIDGES
FOR SAFETY AND /
ACCESSIBILITY
-Highlights-
Of This Issue
are:
E.
structions and suggestions to
city health officer.
for the junior high school,
meeting of the board.
Two sets of playground
J. A. Liljestrand, Elsa, and V.
Parks, Edcouch.
Cameron county delegates ;
Bert M. Cromac,—Brownsville;
each
Plant Wilt Be Brought
From Florida For
Work Here
Fruit Of Different Sec-
tions Requires Var-
ied Treatment
7-Months-Old Baby Is
Killed tn Wreck Near
Mercedes Sunday
“When truth or virtue an af-
front endures /
Th’ affront is mine, my friend,
and should be yours.”
Howard and Elliott Ask
Damages of Hidalgo
County Bank
Newell Tucker Files 2
Suits Against R. W.
Briggs & Co.
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Methodist Men Hear
Interesting Program
At Banquet Monday
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Legion And Auxiliary
Choose Delegates To
State Meet In Austin
SUIT FILED 93RD
DISTRICT COURT
(THE MERCEDES NEWS and MERCEDES TRIBUNE CONSOLIDATED)
MERCEDES, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1930
Good Will Andz Cooper-
ation Of City Is As-
sured Valley
Lawyer: Why do you think that?
Client: I have two witnesses who
can swear that on the night in ques-
tion I was at home in bed, and two
more who can swear I was playing
bridge at their houses.
Everything Will Be In
Readiness By
Aug. 29
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Children 6 Years Old
Before Jan. 1 Enroll
For 1st Term School
Officers Will Be Elect-
ed At Meeting At
City Hall
Arose From Operations
Of Their Company
Here Last Year
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Client (charged with crime):
think we shall win the case.
own Nash cars
• WILL PREPARE
FOR EMERGENCY
p. 1
The' annual picnic for employees
of the Rio Grande Valley Telephone
company was held Friday at Fair-'
park at Harlingen. The feature of
the entertainment for the afternoon
was a baseball game between the
Lower Valley and the Upper Valley
teams which ended in a tie, 19-19. J
The picnic was attended by 350
Valley employees including the fol-
lowing from Mercedes: Miss Lilly
Bell Scott, Miss Clara Marose, Miss
Esther Marose, Miss Floy Adams,
Miss Leona Dick, Mrs. Elsie Mur-
ray,, and Mrs. Mary Pleasant, Mr.
and Mrs. L. S. Jones, Mr. and Mrs.
J. P. Nicholson and Glen Bolger.
Five delegates from the James A.
Garcia American Legion post and
four from the Legion Auxiliary have
been chosen to represent the local
organizations at the annual state
convention which will be held in
San Antonio September 1-3. Legion
delegates are: James Howze, chair-
man of the delegation, E. C. Whit-
tington, Fred Eberling, W. J. Kra-
mer, Mike Betels arid B. O.. Snell of
La Feria. Alternates are R. R. Tal-
bert, W. J. Copeland, Oscar Roman,
F. C. Baum, J. C. Lewis and W. N.
Coe, Jr. . .
The auxiliary chose the following
as delegates: Mrs. E. C. Whitting-
ton, reporting delegate, Mrs. W. J.
Kramer, Mrs B. O. Snell of La Feria
and Mrs. Mike Betels. Alternates
are Mrs. R. R. Talbert, Mrs. W. J.
Kramer, Mrs. George Rippert and
Mrs. J. C. Deyo.
Plans are being made by Legion
posts in the Valley for a motorcade
to leave from Edinburg for the con-
vention headquarters. Those to go
in the motorcade will gather at Ed-
inburg on the morning of the 31st
and go from there in a body. Others
not joining the motorcade will like-
ly go to the convention by special
train, ' T’ ' ' s.
exercise your.
Mrs. L. S. Jones, chief operator at
the local telephone exchange, and
J. P. Nicholson, local manager, are
attending the annual Southwest Tex-
as telephone convention which is be-
ing held at the Plaza hotel at Cor-
pus Christi today and /tomorrow.
About 60 Valley people left early
this morning on the special bus
chartered for the occasion.
Flashed On Screen Here
From Direct Leased Wire
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The Texas grand master Lively
of the "Masonic lodge will speak at
a tiled meeting for all Valley Ma-
sons at the municipal auditorium at
Harlingen Tuesday night.
As this is the meeting night of
the local group Murray Howze,
grand master, has announced that
the members will meet for a- very
short session at 7 o’clock, following
which all those wishing to do so may
attend the meeting in Harlingen.
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The new tariff encourages the im-
port of diamonds in the rough, thus
paying a gentle tribute to our great
ancestors.
The members of the Valley Ohio
club will hold a picnic at Fairpark
at Harlingen on Labor Day, accord-
ing to announcements being sent
out by E. W. Archer of Lyford, sec-
retary-treasurer of the 'organization.
Sports, contests and speeches will
compose the program of entertain-
ment for the day. Those attending
will bring lunches which will be
Served picnic style on the grounds.
The Ohio club has about 225 mem-
bers in the Valley.
Comerto Mercedes Saturday!
Don’t miss the big election
party!
People of Mercedes and the
entire Valley are invited, to
watch the election returns here
Saturday~night, flashed on a
screen on the Hartman build-
ing, from returns received pver
a direct leased wire from the
Texas Election Bureau in Dal-
las. ' . -
These reports will be- as complete
as any received anywhere," the ser-
vice being the utmost furnished by
the Texas Election Bureau, the- ac-
knowledged authority for gathering
returns in the state. '
The ' returns are being brought
to you through the courtesy of the
merchants of this city and the
News-Tribune, and approximately
$150 will be spent on this service.
It is planned to close part of
Texas avenue, directly in front of
the screen, so that people may stand
anywhere in the street. Special of-
ficers will be on duty to direct the
traffic so that the crowd may watch
in comfort.
Murray Howze and Fred Johnston
will -be in charge of the work, and
they have several years experience/
insuring speed in handling the re-
ports. The reports will be received
by Western Union and as fast as
delivered will be flashed on the
screen.
had much experience in this work.
Every property owner will be asked
to cooperate to the fullest extent
in .the campaign.
At the time the inspection is made
a report will be left with the prop-
erty owner, showing where there
are likely mosquito breeding places,
and what should be done for their
eradication.
Today some time will be a meet-
ing of all the scoutmasters of the
city, and their aid will be asked in
carrying the campaign .forward. It
< In the run-off primaries tomorrow the people of Texas
face a question whose gravity has arisen to blot out every other
consideration and issue. Through unfortunate circumstances
Mrs. Ferguson, proxy for her husband, has been enabled to
confront this state once more as a candidate for the governor’s
chair. The results of this primary are therefore fraught with
the greatest and most serious consequences to the people and
to the good name of this state.
Do the people wish to have federal aid withdrawn from
the state highway department again?
Do the people wish to send to the governor’s office a poli-
tical combination which has in the past brought shame and
ridicule to Texas?
Do the people wish to elect Mrs. Ferguson to office again
and allow her to repeat her disgraceful performance in pardon-
ing - \ 1 ’r.
Do the people desire that the government of this state
again be thrown into confusion and the administration of its
affairs revert to the chaotic condition which prevailed under
Mrs. Ferguson’s domination?
Do the people of the state of Texas wish to see the future
of their state, set back and arrested for two years with a cor-
responding struggle at the end of that period to restore order
and sanity to the government? .
Four years ago Texas rejected Mrs. Ferguson as the tool
of her husband’s designs by a large majority. Tomorrow it
is once more called upon to administer defeat to this desperate
attempt at reinstatement. Mrs. Ferguson will poll a certain
number of votes, as everyone knows, and if only five hundred
thousand voters go to the polls tomorrow she will win, to the
ever-lasting shame of this state. Moreover, if - only enough
vote to defeat her by a small margin, she and her husband will
find encouragement in that fact to confront the people of this
state still another time. What is needed, what must be given,
is an overwhelming defeat to "Fergusonism" and proxy govern-
ment. To do this every voter in he state, regardless of other
and minor interests, must go to the polls tomorrow and vote
against Mrs. Ferguson.
Texans, residents of the Valley, we. entreat you to aid in
thrusting the Fergusons away from that high office to which
they have again dared to aspire.
With a record attendance for
summer meetings, Boy Scouts of
Troop 40 met last Tuesday at the
City Hall, about 20 scouts being
present. After the regular business
was completed, M. Agnew announc-
ed that the annual troop barbecue
would be held tonight at the troop’s
own pit at the Merkle-Olson tract.
The boys were extremely enthusi-
astic over the prospect as the last
fear’s affair proved to be a huge
success. White-wings, killed, clean-
ed and dressed by the boys them-
selves, will be used for the event.
“Therefore, the
Executive Committee
ment, one for the South side gram-
mar school, and one for the North
side school, have been purchased and
will be installed by the opening of
school.
Twenty-five new typewriters will
be ready for use in the commercial
room at the beginning of school. The
old machines are traded in on new
every three years.
Jacob Fossler was awarded the
contract’ and has completed the
painting of the Heidelburg school.
A sixth accident occured near Mc-
Allen late Monday when two cars
collided on the South-Jackson road.
John S. Lake, real estate dealer, is
in the McAllen hospital suffering*
from a deep gash in his head, bruis-
es and shock. Fidel Montemayor,
40, of Pharr, who was riding in the
car which came into collision with
Lake’s has a fractured skull and
his chances for recovery are slight,
reports reveal. The driver of the
car in which Montemayor was rid-,
ing at the time of the accident was
released from the hospital after re-
ceiving emergency treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Kelly of
Pharr were bruised and shaken when
their car was in a smash-up west of
that city. Mrs. Kelly suffered two
broken ribs and other injuries but
is improving rapidly. ' *
A thorough campaign of mosqui-
ti eradication will be inaugurated
here today, and in conjunction with
every other city in the Valley, the
campaign is expected to thoroughly
cover all of Hidalgo, Cameron, Wil-
lacy and Starr counties. The work
will be under the supervision of the
county health officers of these coun-
ties.
Mayor E. H. Kasey has announced
the appointment of Skeet Crawford
as inspector and an immediate in-
spection will be made of every home
in Mercedes. Mr., Crawford has
choice. If you do not want to
vote on county officers (there is
but one to be voted on), then
just leave both candidates for-
county attorney and it will count
as no vote on that office. We
are not urging you to come into
our primary in order to get any
advantage of you. We are simp-
ly inviting all who desire to do
so; but if you do not wish to do 1
so, no one is hurt.
“We just extend this invita- ‘
tion. Take it or leave, as you
like. There is the usual pledge
on the ballot, because Article
3110 of the Revised Civil’Statute
of Texas requires it, and says
the ballot would be void without
such pledge printed on it.
J. F. CARL,
Chairman Hidalgo County
Democratic Executive
Committee.
All children becoming six years
of age before January 1, 1931, may
enroh-in the local schools for the
first term, starting September 8, it
was decided at a meeting of the
board of the Mercedes Independent
school district held last week end.
Ther will be no class for beginners
at the opening of the second term of
school and therefore this new rule
was inaugurated as an accommoda-
tion by the board.
Miss Alma De Shazo of Santa
Rosa was elected as a new teacher
A Mercedes unit of the Farm Bu-
reau will be organized and officers
elected at a meeting at the city hall
Wednesday night, August 27, called
by Fritz Englehard of Eagle Lake,
state director of the bureau who is
in the Valley, heading a member-
ship drive for the organization. All
farmers of the community are urg-
ed to attend.
A Hidalgy county unit of the bu-
reau is to be formed at a meeting
to be held at the Pharr-San Juan
high school at 2 o’clock Thursday
of next week. The membership
drive has-been going forward in
this county for the past three weeks
and at the present time about 300
members have been signed up, ac-
cording to Mr. Englehard. Merce-
des’ membership had reached 70 at
the first of the week.
Cameron county has recently or-
ganized with more than 400 mem-
bers.
The Southern Farm Bureau train-
ing school and conference, one of
the most important1 farm gather-
ings in Texas for some time, will be
held in Marshall September 3, 4 and
5. In addition to being a state con-
vention of the Farm Bureau, rep-
resentatives from all the southern
states will be present in large num-
bers, and will include practically all
the presidents of the organization
of the states of the south. In ad-
dition some of the national officers
will attend.
As a result of the recent member-
ship drive the Valley will be repre-
sented by a large delegation from
both Hidalgo and Cameron counties.
Hidalgo county will be represent-
ed by Shelly H. Collier, Mercedes;
Ralph Hughes, Edinburg; O. M.
Kenyon, Edinburg; Albert Curtis,
San Juan; Mrs. N. S. Sellers, Ala-
mo; Mrs. H. E. Alcott, San Juan;
“Next Saturday’s run-off Dem-
ocratic primary will -determine
who our state officers are to be
for the next two, and probably
for the next four years. All
good citizens like to have a part
in the selection of their officers*.
The men of the local Methodist
church enjoyed a banquet and most
entertaining program at the church
Monday night. E. H. Poteet acting
as toastmaster introduced the fol-
lowing numbers on the program:
vocal solo by H. C. Alston, accom-
panied at the piano by Mrs. W. M.
MeClellen; reading by Mrs. Clark
Atteberry; piano solo by Mrs. Me-
Clellen; violin solo, Robert Neff, and
talks on the work of the men of the
church by the Rev. O. C. Crow of
Brownsville, J. Milton Reynolds,
Clark Atteberry, H. L. Schmalzreid,
Dr. A. L. Kline, Gilbert Glasscock
and Harry W. Austin of Fort Worth
who is a guest in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Reynolds. The din-
ner was served by the members of
the' Methodist Women’s auxiliary.
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Ohio Club Will Have
Picnic On Labor Day
The famous four Marx Brothers’
latest picture, “Animal Crackers,”
will be shown for the first time in
any theatre as the attraction which
opens the Capitol theatre here, next
Friday, August 29, after the theatre
has been remodeled and sound equip-
ment installed. This was the an-
nouncement of Hugo Plath, man-
ager, this week.
All sound equipment has been in-
stalled and engineers have made
rigid tests, and pronounce the Cap-
itol one of the most perfect sound
theatres they have ever seen. Prac-
tically all the work is completed at
the theatre with the exception of
the hanging of the draperies and
some decoration work. Further
tests of the sound equipment will
be made from time to time until the
opening, and as far as possible un-
der actual operating conditions.
Promising that with the inagu-
ration of talking pictures at the
Capitol only exceptional features
would be booked, Paramount-Publix
interests here stated that for all
round entertainment “Animal Crack-
ers” could not be surpassed.
, The policy of' the Capitol calls
for program changes on Friday,
Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.
Theatre goers of Mercedes and the
surrounding towns will be presented
with the latest releases in singing,
talking and dancing entertainment,
according to Mr. Plath.
Elaborate plans- are being made
for the opening, and the merchants
of the city are joining in with Pub-
lix officials to make Friday and
Saturday of next week a gala event
in Mercedes.
col. 6, p. 2 *
Auto Wrecks since last Saturday
have caused three deaths and have
sent more than a score to hospitals
throughout the Valley, some of the
victims not being expected to live.
After the news of the fatal crash
on the Los Fresnos-Brownsville high-
way Saturday in which Pilar Mata,
35, of Los Fresnos.was killed and
his companions, two in number, sent
to the Mercy hospital was learned,
the horrible details of the death of
little Elizabeth Owens, 7-months-old
baby of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Owens
of Edcouch, were learned Sunday.
The Owens car in which were rid-
ing Mr. and' Mrs. W. F. Simms,
parents of Mrs. Owens, Vera Simms
and L. R. Simms, all of Weslaco;
was hit by a sedan driven by Adams
Kindsfather of Mercedes who turned
out of a filling station near Bixby
on highway 12. Occupants of the
Owens car were rushed to the Mer-
cedes hospital. Kindsfather has
been charged with negligent homi-
cide and is under $500 bond to ap-
pear before an examining trial to
be held at La Feria this morning.
Funeral services for the little girl
were held at the Stotler mortuary
of this city on Monday.
Eight others were injured in auto
wrecks Sunday. On the Boca Chica
road a collision between cars driven
by Joe Leftwich and S. G. Vittitoe
caused B. T. Brooks to receive sev-
eral bruises and cuts about the skull.
Leftwich suffered cuts on the head
and neck and Mrs. Mary Vittitoe
was cut. In Weslaco, Arthur Mar-
. (See 3 KILLED— page 7)
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Boy Scouts Decide To
Have Annual Barbecue
In Meet Held Tuesday
Jose Maria Lopez, of this city, is
being held in the Hidalgo county
jail in Edinburg in connection with
the murder of U. S. Customs Inspec-
tor Bert Ellison at Hargill on Aug.
10. He was captured here three days
after the crime by Inspector Roy
Harrell of Mercedes, following a
tip giveri by Nicandro Munoz of
Hargil, who has recently confessed
t<5 complicity in the murder. As-
sistant District Attorney Rogers
Kelley has announced that murder
’charges would also be giled against
Santiago and Victor Rodriguez,
brothers of Margarito Rodriguez of
McAllen, who was killed in a pitch-
ed battle near Hargill while attempt-
»ing to elude capture by officers.
- Inspector Ellison, Munoz’ confes-
sion stated, walked into a trap laid
by the conspirators who slipped up
behind him in the brush near a
dance, held him and shot his body
full of lead. Officers quoted Munoz
as saying that liquor warfare caus-
ed the killing.
Among those participating in the
solution of the crime besides as-
sistant attorney Kelley were Bor-
der Patrolmen Henry Johns, Depu-
ty Sheriffs Brown O’Neill and Char-
lie Coy of Edinburg, Sheriff Luther
Snow of Willacy county, Inspector
Roy Harrell of Mercedes, Texas
Ranger Heard of Falfurrias, and
many others.
The Hidalgo County Bank and'
Trust Company of this city was
named defendant in a suit filed Wed-
nesday in the 93rd District Court
of Hidalgo county, by H. B. Howard
and J. S. Elliott, asking total dam-
ages of $36,548.44. Actual dam-
ages of $1,548.44 and $25,000.00 are
asked and exemplary damages of
$10,000 are asked.
The suit alleges that the plain-
tiffs were partners in business un-
der the firm name of J. S. Elliott,
Agent, engaged in the business of
buying, shipping and selling farm
produce and that the bank convert-'
ed - to its own use and benefit the
sum of $1,548.44 on May 8 and 9,
1930.
The suit states in part: “That
defendant did not notify plaintiffs
of its said conversion of said sums
of money before said demand" was
made, and these* plaintiffs in the
usual course of their business and
without knowledge of said acts of
defendant, issued many checks prior
to the demand and after the con-
version hereinbefore alleged. That
payment of said checks, when pre-
sented to the defendant by the pay-
ees thereof, was refused and said
checks were returned to the payees,
unpaid. That there was a large
number of said checks, there being
about forty in number and given to
different persons in Hidalgo and
Cameron counties, Texas.
“That these plaintiffs’ reputation
and credit was of great pecuniary
value to them, towit, of the Value
of Twenty-Five Thousand and no-
100 ($25,000.00) Dollars in enabling
them to carry on their said business
as produce buyers, shippers and
sellers.”
H. D. Lauderdale is attorney for
Mr. Howard and Mr. Elliott.
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Local Man Figures In
Highway Crash, None
Hurt As 3 Cars Meet
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Another auto crash, this time in-
volving a well-known local man,
happened on highway 12 Thursday
morning between this city and Wes-
laco about 11. N. M. “Brute” Rag-
land was driving his car towards
this city from Weslaco, when a se-
dan, driven by Jesus Martinez go-
ing in the opposite direction swung
from behind a truck in which were
riding Fred Sandoval and Charlie
Johnson, Mercedes, attempting to
pass it. Ragland swerved his car,
trying to go between the sedan and
the truck, hitting both vehicles and
sending them into the ditches on
both sides of the road...
. Ragland’s car was badly smashed
in,' as were both the other autos.
None of the men were hurt badly,
Johnson- receiving minor cuts about
the face. A Brooks Motor company
wrecker soon cleared the wreckage.
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Local Masons Will
Hear Grand Master
Of Texas Tuesday
is planned to divide the city into
sections, and ask each scout troop to
be responsible for a zone.
The Tip - of - Texas campaign
against the mosquito is being made
under the supervision of an or-
ganization set up this week, and
which has for executive head J. E.
Bell, secretary of the chamber of
commerce, San Benito. Mr. Bell’s
office will act as a clearing house
for the work, which is being effect-
ed under the direction of the county
health officers, who in turn issue in-
Florida fruit fly quarantine is relaxed
- considerably — _ -X.______ col. 4, p. 2
San Antonio business men visit the
Valley . ............ p. 1
V alley . will have fruit sterilization
plant . ..... .........:_ _____ ‘p. I
Nordman, La Feria; E. W. Brown,
San Benito; R. O. Barron, Los In-
dios; H. E. Ballinger, Los Indios;
B. C.Mitchell, Rio Hondo; E. Wick,
Rio Hondo; P. Brotzman, Rio Hon-
do/J. F. Ehlers, San Benito; A. L.
Baur, San Benito; H. H. Whipple,
Los Fresnos; S. F. Morrow, Ran-
gerville; H. L. Alsmeyer, county
agent, San Benito. George B. War-
ren, president of the county unit and
director of the State Farm Bureau,
and R; G. Alexander, secretary of
the county unit, will also attend
from Cameron.
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Employees Of Valley
Telephone Company
Have Annual Picnic
“The eradication of the, mosquito
cannot be made effective without
the cooperation of every property
owner,” Mayor Kasey states. “It
will be necessary to eliminate all
breeding places; and it will also be
helpful if all trash and weed’s are
cleared away. If the people will cut
all weeds and place them with the
trash in convenient places; our
trucks will haul to the disposal
plants. We bespeak the cooperation
of every citizen to make this cam-
paign effective.”
\ The local Rotary club will be
guests of the local Kiwanians at a
white wing barbecue tonight, the
invitation having been extended at
the Rotary club luncheon Tuesday.
Jack McDermott of Brownsville,
traffic representative of the Pan-
American Airways was a guest at
the Rotary meeting s and gave a
most interesting talk in - the pro-
gress and service of commercial
airlines.
Miss Miriam Reighly of New Or-
leans, a guest in the home of Dr.
and Mrs. John Ashton gave two
piano solos, “Etude Fantastique”—
Friml and Prelude by Czerwonky.
This musical entertainment was
greatly enjoyed by those present.
Hugo Plath, manager of the new
Capitol theatre announced the, open-
ing date as Friday, August. 29.
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Mercedes Man is
Asking $55,993 As
Result Of Wreck
With good will and coperation to
Valley problems as the key-note of
their visit, the eleven representatives
of the- San Antonio chamber of com-
merce who have beeri making a three
day tour of the Valley left for their
home city Wednesday night.
The San Antonians visited the
chambers of commerce of each Val-
ley town starting from Edinburg
where they arrived Monday morn-
ing by automobile. They were in
Mercedes Monday afternoon about 4
o’clock.
Members of the party included: F.
L. Hilinger, lumberman and capital-
ist;-Jack White, operator of the
Plaza hotel; Melrose Holmgreen, Al-
amo Iron Works; O. A. Hudson,
Newton & Weller Co.; E.C.Schoell-
horn, Steves Sash & Door Company/
W. D. Outlaw, San Antonio Express;
C. W. Points, Plaza Hotel, Corpus
Christi; Wm. F. O’Keefe, Steves
Sash & Door Company; U. S. Paw-
kett, traffic manager, chamber of
commerce and Howell A. Jones, sec-
retary of trade extension depart-
metn? chamber of commerce,
The visitors reached Harlingen
Monday night and were given a din-
ner at the Reese-Wil-Mond hotel
where .Jack White delivered a speech
in which he stated that the Valley
would be included in San Antonio’s
$16,5,000 national advertising, cam-
paign for the.coming year. Mr.
White said that the city was doing
this in order to keep the tourists in
San Antonio and South Texas as
long as possible, pointing out the
fact that if tourists are sent to the
Valley and Mexico they will neces-
sarily return to San Antonio. Both
his city and this section will profit
by this, the speaker asserted. F. L.
Hillinger declared that it was the
purpose of the delegation to help the
, (See BUSINESS— page 12)
By Harry L. Sexton
Washington, Aug. 21.—Establish-
ment of a fruit sterilization plant
in -the Lower Rio Grande Valley by
the Federal Plant Quarantine and
Control Administration is proposed
as s means of determining through
experimentation the proper sterili-
zation for Walley citrus fruit in the
event the Valley is ever confronted
with a problem such as obtained
troughout Florida when the Medi-
terranean fruit fly was discovered.
While no definite plans have been
announced by the officials ef the
Federal Bureau, it is' understood that
a sterilization plant will be brought
from Florida and established at
some central Valley point at which
experiments with fruit from all1 sec-
tions of the Valley will be carried
on. Efforts also will be made to
carry on experiments in sterilization
with refrigeration, a system which
has proved very effective with the
Florida fruit and which has prac-
tically replaced heat sterilization in
that state.
The federal quarantine bureau
was confronted with an entirely new
problem when the Mediterranean
fruit fly invaded the citrus groves
of Florida and it becomes evident
that shipments from that state must
be sterilized. Florida growers sus-
tained heavy losses as the result of
lack of knowledge concerning steri-
lization. Many shipments of fruit
were rendered almost unmarketable,
and throughout that section of the
country into which only sterilized
fruit was shipped many complaints
were registered. During the latter
part of the season there was marked
(See VALLEY— page 12)
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Mercedes Mexican Is
Held In Connection
With Recent Murder
Staditm at State Fair will seat 50,000
people -______— col. 1, p. 3
Election returns will be thrown on
screen here tomorrow _.......— p. I
Cooperation with Farm Board is urged
World’s Premiere Of
“Animal Crackers’^
Opens House
A night blooming cereus is one
of the 35 varieties of native cactus
which T. R. Riggs of the Riggs Nur-
sery company has placed on display
in the local chamber of commerce
office. The cereus is expected to
bloom tonight or the night follow-
ing. This variety of cacti, noted
for its beautiful lacy cream flower
is very rare and is gradually be-
coming more so in the Valley as
clearings are made for development.
The bloom opens between 10 and 12
o’clock at night.
- Other interesting varieties of cac-
tus included in the display .are, the
devil’s pincushion, and a spineless
cactus with edible fruit which is al-
most ripe. The cactus is in Aztec
pottery of unusual designs. Mr.
Riggs also has a rubber plant, fern
'and beautiful cut roses on the dis-
play table.
ADlerttdea Aetog-Oxibue
•7 "U‘ '■ 'z " ,
Two damage suits were filed at
Edinburg Monday by Newell* Tuck-
er of Mercedes against R. W. Briggs
and Company/ of Pharr. The suits
total $55,993, and were filed as a
result of a wreck on the Base Line
north of the city earlier in the year.
Tucker Casks $5,993 for-himself and
$50,000 for his son, Robert Tucker,
who was injured in the wreck.
The petition alleges that ybung
Tucker, who is 17 -years of age, was
permanently disabled and is men-
tally unbalanced as the result of
injuries he sustained when, the pe-
tition alleges, the car he was driv-
ing was' struck by a Briggs Co.,
truck on the “base line” road about
four miles north of Mercedes the
day of February 18, 1930.
The petition alleges also that Al-
fred Villareal, an employee of the
company, was driving" the truck and
was driving it at 50 miles per hour,
was one , the wrong side of the road,
and was making some adjustment
on the dash of the truck and was
not paying attention to the oncom-
ing car driven by young Tucker
when the crash occurred. The pe-
tition further alleges that the truck
did not have brakes in good me-
chanical condition and that they
were incapable of slowing or stop-
ping the car to insure other drivers’
protection.
The petition further alleges that
the boy was badly bruised and cut
in -the wreck and that he remained
unconscious for 30 days as a result
of a blow he received on the head
in the wreck.
The petition alleges that the car
the boy was driving was complete-
ly* demolished through negligence
on the part of the truck driver.
One petition asks for $400 as the
price of the car the boy was driv-
ing, asks for $893 paid out by the
father in hospital bills for his son
and asks for $4,800 said in the pe-
tition to be the amount that the
youth could have earned until his
majority had he not been perma-
nently disabled and incapacitated
for work.
The other petition asks for $50,-
000 damages on the grounds that the
youth’s mind is unbalanced, that
he is permanently and totally dis-
abled, and that his powers of speech
are impaired, all caused, the petition
states, from the effects of injuries
received in the wreck.
Kasey asks cooperation of all in war
on mosquitoes _ - — p. I
Douth of 1930 is a great calamity for
.the U. S. ______ col. 1, p. 2
Hidalgo County Bank is sued for
$36,,548.44 —_________—________________ p. 1
’Tucker sues Briggs company as result
'First pile in Padre Island causeway is
sunk .................col. 1, p. 5
Society" and Personals _ pp. 6 and 7
Congress makes large appropriations
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