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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
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AUSTIN, Texas, March 27.-Carlot
shipments of fruits and vegetables
spinach, Texas. "a; Virginia, Is; South
Carolina, O; others, 5; cabbage, Texas.
l; Florida 81; South Carolina, 80; New
York, 5; Wisconsin, 0; others. 10; mixed
vegetables, Texas, 3; others. 81; total,
90; lettuce Texas i; total, 43; onions,
Texas, 5; total. 38.
Shipments by districts Of origin,
Texas-Cabbage, Lower Valley, / u
spinach. Laredo, 16; upper coast, !;
Lower Valley, q; Winter Garden, Is;
beets and carrots, unreported
Shipping point information-Cabbag
firm, wagonloads to growers, usual
terms, SIS; beets and carrots, usual
terms, beets IS cents to S1.00; carrots,
65 cents to rs cents bushel; few sales.
Cabbage-Kansas City, no arrivals,
five track, steady, unchanged; Chicago.
four Texas, two others. So track. weak
err $500; st. Louis. nine Texas. one
others. "a track, dull. $40; Cincinnati.
no arrivals. eight track. steady. $40 to
$50; Detroit, two Texas, II track,
stronger. $3.50 to $500; Denver, one
Texas. three track, steady. unchanged;
Pittsburgh, 10 Texas, dull. $2.75 to
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
DONNA PIONEER
DIES SUDDENLY
Especial to the Herald. J

DONNA, Tex, March 27-Funeral
services are being held at p. m. today
at the Methodist church for c. E,
Brown, pioneer resident of Donna, who
died of heart failure last night. His
death was unexpected as he had appear
ed to be in good health until he suf-
fered the attack only a short time be-
fore his death.
Mr.. Brown is survived by his wife
three daughters, Miss Monk of San An
tonic, Miss Marion, teacher in the Don.
ma schools, and Merle a student here;
and two sons, Malcolm in the insurance
business and Albert who is farming q
tract Of land near here owned by his
father.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
MILLION LOST
PRAIRIE
Reports Of Two Deaths
at School House Are
Denied

VALENTINE, Nehr., March 27.-An
estimated loss of $1,000,000 or more to
hay lands and ranchers property was
caused by the prairie fires which have
ravaged North Central Nebraska and the
southern section of South Dakota.
Several smaller fires are known to be
present northwest of here, but ranchers
reported they were being extingushed
rapidly without considerable loss.
Earlier reports that school teacher
and two children were burned to
death in school house near here
were found to be groundless, survev
made today showed. The closest call
the fire made was when it Quilted a
school house six miles southwest of
Crookston. which is several miles west
of here The teacher and II pupils saw
the clames approaching and were taken
to safety about an hour before the
structure was destroyed.
The chief crop Of this region is wild
hay and cattle raising. While it was
first declared the fires would aid the
country, the ranchers south and west
of here today said the fires have com
pletely destroyed the hay crop for the
next three years. North of Valentine
the country is less sandy and if rains
set in, the fires will benefit the hay
lands. However, ranchers everywhere
are counting on tremendous losses II
hay.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
KIMBRO LOSES SUIT
AGAINST KU KLUX
(By The Associated Press.)

HOUSTON, Tex. March 27.-George
B. Kimbro. Jr., lost his 100000 damage
suit against the Knights Of the Ku
Klux Klan. incorporated. and certain Of
it's officers in fifty-fifth district court
this afternoon when Judge Ewing Boyd
granted motion by the Klan side to
instruct verdict declaring that no
conspiracy to Danish Kimbro from the
Klan or ruin his reputation had been
proved. After six hours Of argument
the Judge said curtly:
''The motion is granted. / wouldn't
let verdict stand If the jury should
find one"
iKmbro still has claim against the
Klan for $4,000 and the Klan suit
against him for $25,000.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
BANDITS HOLDUP
Fl. WORTH BANK
Two Men Force Cashier
Into Vault and Get
Near $1,000
(By The Associated Press1

FORT WORTH. Tex, March 27.-Two
men held up the Polytechnic State
Bank of Fort Worth at a. m. today
and escaped in an automobile with be-
tween $1,000 and $1,000 in currency. The
bank is located directly in front OF
Texas Woman's college campus and in
the heart of populous residence Sec
tion. The cashier was locked in the
vault. 1t was the second time the bank
has been robbed in six years.
Two men entered the bank and al
the point of a pistol forced Cashier G
W. Hawkins to enter the vault. The
men closed and locked the door, ther
helped themselves to currency amount
ing to $4,000 in the safe and more thar
that amount which but few minute.
before had been transferred from the
vault to the teller's cash drawer.
The robbery was similar to high nool
theft committed at the same bank Nov
ember %, 1920, when two men forcec
J. R. Jackson, then cashier, to enter
the vault and robbed the bank OF
$4.993.70.
How the robbers came to the bank to-
day and in which direction was not
known to Hawkins, but Walter Jones,
negro. said he saw a low slung, five
passenger automobile start quickly from
the bank about the time the robbery
occurred. There were three men ir
the automobile which would indicate
that the trio were well prepared for {
quick getaway. Jones said the auto
mobile was "going faster than train
and almost ran into the curbing as il
turned the corner in the direction Of
the Masonic home.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
THE WEATHER

i. Brownsville and vicinity: Fair to
partly cloudy tonight and Saturday;
colder tonight.
East Texas: Fair and colder to-
night; frost in north and central por-
tions; Saturday fair; warmer In north
west portion. Moderate northeriy
winds on the coast.
Weather Conditions
Moderately heavy showers and thun-
derstorms occurred since last report IN
Alabama, northern Georgia, and west
ern Tennessee, and light general rains
in the Ohio Valley. with generally far
weather over the balance of the coun-
try. 1t was much colder this morning
in the north-central and central states,
with temperatures below freezing
throughout the Plains states southwark
nearly to western Oklahoma.
The lowest temperature last night at
Texas stations ranged from SO at ANA
rillo to 66 ct Galveston.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27

The first car of potatoes in the
world-Gone.
The first car Of beans in the world
going.
This is the record of. Brownsville in
spring vegetables, for last night the
first car Of new potatoes of the 1925
season was moved out of here, con-
signed to Kansas City, by w. f. Nc
Davitt, local produce buyer and shipper
And some time this afternoon the
first full carload of spring beans will
leave ownsville-probably for St
Louis.
Domingo Ayala, for many years q
farmer in the vicinity of Brownsville
gets cledit for turning out the potatoes
which left here as the first. He dug
a carload of potatoes Wednesday, which
potatoes were shipped yesterday. And
while these were being prepared fol
shipment, he went out into the field anC
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
SCHOOL BOARD
REPARES FOR
new BUILDING
Bond Election Ordered
May 2; A. E. Anderson
Submits Petition to Be
Board Member ~s

A $4,000 school bond election was
ordered by the school board last might
the election being for bonds for new
buildings. aat,
And petitions were received for posi-
tlons on the school board. all the three
members whose terms expire this year
turning in petitions for re-election and
A. K. Anderson, well known engineer of
Ell Jardin, being entered at the request
of residents of that section who pay
taxes in the Brownsville district for a
place on the board to fill the vacancy
left by the resignation of E. r. How
ard. This vacancy has not been fill
ed since Mr.. Howards resignation.
No further petitions will be received
by the board for places on the school
board. as no more meetings will be held
before the school board election, which
will be on April 4.
When the meeting opened. with S. c.
Tucker presiding, the petition askins
for a $4,000 school bond election in
Brownsville was received, and the elec.
tion was ordered to be held on the first
Saturday in May, which will be May
2 The election will be held at the
grammar school building, and judges
will be Eugenio Anguera, Henry Skel-
ton. Jr.. and George Connor.
Petitions Of Harbert Davenport, DR..
o. V. Lawrence, Judge James A. Graham
and A. E. Anderson to be placed on the
official ballot were filed yesterday af-
ternoon with Secretary F. E. Starck, and
the board at it's meeting last night or
dered the secretary to have the official
ballot printed with these names on it.
Three of these candidates, DR.. Law.
renee, Judge Graham and Mr.. Daven-
port. are members of the board at the
present time The name of Mr.. Ander-
son was sent in at the request of FL
Jardin residents, seeking representation
on the board. Other members of the
board. whose terms of office do not ex-
pire until next year, are S. c. Tucker,
chairman, r. B. Creager and Sherwood
Bishop.
M. L. Waller, architect of San An
tonic. was awarded the architects con-
tract to draw up plans and speciflca'
| tions for the new buildings, and for the
| additions which are to be made to the
| Junior high school, and to the West
1 y
Brownsville school.
| These plans and specifications will be
drawn up as soon as possible, and VIII
| be available to contractors at the Of
| flee of Mr. Starck. 1t is the plan Of
the board, as shown last night. to pro-
| ceed with the work immediately, ant
to advertise for bids on the work as
soon as the bond election is carried
with the ultimate object in view be-
ing the completion Of all the building
work in time for opening of school in
| September.
| Mr.. Starck assures the tax payers
/ that the school board expects to stici
| TO the 1924 tax rate which is
| already at 81, which prevents raising
| it. Hence the bond issue will not bur.
| den the tax payers, and the additiona
| $4,000 bond issue is to be taken care
| of by the new taxable values, which al
| low the board to cut the 1924 mainte-
| nance tax of 10 cents to 65 cents, and
raise the interest and sinking fund tax
| from 80 to 35 cents.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
SHOALSCOMMlSSION
NAMED BY COOLIDGE
(By The Associated Fress.)

WASHINGTON. D. c., March PA
commission to study the Muscle Shoals
problem. consisting of Former Repre-
sentative Mckenzie Of Illinois, Former
Senator Dial of South Carolina; Profes-
sor Harry A. Curtis of Yale Univer-
sty; William Mcclellan Of New York
and Russell F. Bower of the American
farm bureau federation, was named to-
day by President.
Contrary to expectations, no cabinet
members were placed on the commits
sion, which will be authorized to deter
mine the most practical methods of
utilizing the facilities available al
Muscle Shoals.
Appointment of the commission which
will be under instructions to submit a
report to the president if possible be-
fcre the next session of congress was
IN line with a resolution passed by the
house.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Plane Safer Than Horse,
Air Mail Pilot ReDOyts

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 27.-
Experiences in two 'sforced landings"
in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada
have convinced Air Mail Pilot Unger
that riding horse is more hazard
Gus than flying an airplane.
AS related in his report to the post
office department, Unger was flying
with mail plane between Elko,
Nevada. and Salt Lake City, when he
lroke a set of gears and was forced
to land in the mountains. A rancher
lent him horse to ride to the near
est telephone to summon assistance.
He got there all right and then start
ed back to his plane.
II mounted, or started to mount,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Indian Guide Stole Wife
Hunter DiUOyce Plea SAYS

brought against Mrs. Ida MayH end
bricks in New York, were branded "a
mass of falsehoods by her attorney,
o. A. Gerths, here last night.
Gerth said he does not know where
Mrs. Hendricks is, but believes she
is somewhere in Southern California.
Riverside police said they found
Mrs. Hendricks and Joe Secakuka at
the Riverside fair last October after
Hendricks had requested their arrest.
The two were questioned but no ac-
tion was taken, officers said.
Mrs. Hendricks explained at that
time, they related that Secakuka had
come to California from Arizona in
her employ and that their relations
were purely those of employer and
employe.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27

wrote Unger, "and as all true west
ern horses do, this one :ook off in a
climbing turn, before / had gotten in
tho seat and had my safety belt fast
cred. To make long story short. I
over-controlled, her nos: went down
and spun or de-slipped--I don't
know which-onto the ground with
great speed. My left ankle broke III
tw, places and was well shaken up
by the forced landing
After having IT,, ankle set at Elko.
Unger by having straps stacked on
tho :rddcr bar to MAKE up for the
loss of his left foot in navigating,
flew his repaired plane to Salt Lake
City.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Government Will Pay
Millions to Oil Concerns

WICHITA, Kans., March 27.-Frorn
twelve to seventeen million dollars, es-
Inmates show, will be paid back by the
government to various oil companies in
the United States as the result of de-
cision Of Judge John G. Pollock Of the
United States district court filed in
federal court here today.
The decision was on test case
brought by the Derby Oil company to
recover $6,59O1S in transportation tax
es paid in 1919.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27

for a new trial filed by his at
torneys. Until this motion is
acted upon he will be ineligible
for bail. Hearing was set for
tomorrow.
Collier received the verdict without
apparent emotion. He thanked the
jurors and shook hands with each of
them. Prosecuting attorneys express
ed surprise at the verdict They had
asked that Collier be given the death
penalty.
Testimony showed that Collier killed
Robertson in fit of resentment caus-
ed by the alleged revelation of impro-
per relations between Robertson and
Golfers 18 year old daughter. Mary
Francis. The young couple were Sc
cretly married last June. When the
marriage became known to her family
in January annulment proceedings were
filed by Collier.
In the motion for new trial it is al
legged that the verdict Of the jury was
not supported by the evidence, that
the court erred in denying the defend
ant the right to offer testimony as to
the defendants good. character on the
issue of suspended sentence and that
the court erred in not requiring the
degree of proof required by law on the
issue of manslaughter.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Pan-American Oil Co.
To Be Two Concerns
(By The Associated Press.)

NEW YORK, N. Y, March 27.-The
first step in the reorganization Of the
Pan-American Petroleum and Transport
company into two separate companies.
one controlling the California proper
ties and the other those in Mexico was
taken today in the incorporation at
Dover, Delaware, of the Pan-American
Eastern Petroleum corporation, to which
VIII be transferred the assets of the
Mexican properties.
The new corporation, in which, it is
understood, the Standard Oil company
of Indiana, will have a substantial in
terest. will have a capitalization of S25,-
100000 preferred stock of $l0o par
value and one million shares of no par
common.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Worlds Greatest Milk
Cow Dies in Illinois
(Rv The Associated Press.l

CHICAGO. H.. March 27.-Ssgis Piet-
ertje Prospect, said to have been the
worlds greatest milk cow. is dead. The
animal. which produced worlds rec
ord of 1881 pounds of milk, equal
to 17,943 quarts. IL one year test Pc
riod, according to the records of the
Holstein association of America, died
Yesterday on the Carnation Milk farms
at Seattle, Washington. This cows
three offsprings have ben sold for $35,
600. the last one going to Japan.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
IN OUR
VALLEY

WATCH willacy County grow-such
w is the message that Judge Lamar
Gill, former county judge of Willacy
county, and leader in development in
the "dry farm" belt, brings to Browns
vile.
Judge and Mrs. Gill and Mr.. and Mrs.
= C. B. TONNE spent a few hours in
Brownsville yesterday.
Everybody in Willacy county is all
smiles over crop prospects-and every
thing is not prospective, some things
are real, are here, the Willacy county
men declared.
For instance, that onion crop. If
there is anything Willacy county man
is proud of, it is the county's crop of
great big, fine Bermudas, particularly
when prices are good-and this year
they are quite satisfactory.
And those rains that came just at the
right time. They insure a good cotton
crop, will make" is the way they put
it.
Speaking of onions, Willacy county,
just as usual, shipped the first carload
of the country's 1925 crop. Some 40 cars
have since gone forward, and the market
continues good.
Ross Holloway sold one car to Hous-
ton at So for commercials and $3.50
per crate for splits and boilers. An
other car of .Iolloway's 20 acres went
to Dallas; commercials and brought $4
a crate.
w. T. Holder. sold his crop off 40
acres for $4,000 and still has 10 acres to
harvest.
The yield is from 120 to 130 bushels
to the acre.
Receints have ranged from S65 to 5000
per acre net, depending on the method of
sale. Some contracted for their crops
weeks ago, receiving s1.50 a crate
others took chances on the market and
so far have won.
Brownsville scores.
First carload of 500 to 70O-car crop
of potatoes.
First solid carload of beans.
Good prices. Up the country they are
clamoring for new potatoes in cream,
and mess of string beans to mix up
with little bacon. Nothing like it.
Remember the time not so many years
ago when Brownsville never SO much as
dented the vegetable markets. Things
are different. Farmers of the immedi-
ate Brownsville vicinity are running up
shipments into the hundreds of carloads.
Ten years ago a score or two of cars
out Of Brownsville was something to be
remarked about.
And if you don't think they grow cot
ton around Brownsville, note the fact
that there is gin at Olmito, and two
at Brownsville. And two more are be-
ing built for use this year, one in the
city and one few miles down the river
Writing in The Dallas News about
a trip he had made into the Lower Ric
Grande Valley-hs first-Dr. ]. B
Cranfill, Baptist leader of national
prominence, opined that there are two
cities in the Valley with real future
McAllen and Brownsville, and he didn't
know but that McAllen's chances were
better than Brownsville's.
Merely the view of an outsider, OF
course, one who hurried through by
automo5-e.
DR.. Cranfill, we believe. was not en-
thusiastic enough. We are going to
have real cities everywhere in the Val
ley. Therell be one at Brownsville, one
at San Benito, one at Point Isabel
one at Harlingen, one at Weslaco
one at Donna, one at Pharr-San Juan
one at McAllen, one at Mission, one al
CONTINUED on page 2)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
STORM WARNING

WASHINGTON, D. c.. March 81
The weather bureau today issued the
following storm warning: Advisory
10:30 a. m. fresh south and southwest
winds will shift to northwest this after
noon with thunder squalls Atlantic
coast, Sandy Hook to Hatteras and late
this afternoon or early tonight north
of Sandy Hook to Eastport.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Blast Wrecks School;
Janitor Believed Dead
fBy The Associated Press.)

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 27.-An ex-
plosion early today wrecked the pub
lie school building at Swissvale. a SUI
turb. Jacob Jacobs, the janitor. was
reported missing and firemen and po-
lice were searching the ruins IN the
belief that he met death in the blast.
Officers believe the explosion was not
accidental and reward of $1,000 was
offered by Fire Marshal Thomas p.
Farr for information leading to the ar
rest of those responsible for wreckine
TIE building.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
fBx The Associated Press }

tDN ne ASSONidlCu 4 iCoS.J
NEW YORK, N. ", March 27.-Joe
Secakuka, Hopi Indian guide, was
named as correspondent in a suit for
divorce filed by Clifford Hendricks,
wealthy big game hunter, against
Mrs. Ida May Hendricks. The suit
was revealed yesterday in Brooklyn
supreme court, when an application
by Hendricks for permission to serve
the summons and complaint by pubs
lication was granted. Since the ac-
tion was instituted, Hendricks said,
he has been unable to find his wife,
who is believed to be in California.
LOS ANGELES, Calf, March 81
Allegations of intimacy with an Indian
guide, contained in divorce action
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27

SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March 27.-With
prairie fires near Wakpala, S. D., extin-
guishe dearly today, attention of the
state to the fire area is concentrated in
the Rosebud Indian reservation, where
unconfirmed reports tell Of extensive
damage.
Crippled wire communication made it
difficult to run down reports from the
Southern fire zone, where the villages
of Tuthill, Vetel and St. Francis were
reported destroyed and other reports
told of deaths.
The list of dead in unconfirme reports
has mounted to four today, all in the
Southern South Dakota Nebraska area.
Reports from White river indicated
that fires which ragged yesterday in
Mellette, Washabaugh and Todd coun-
ties, in the Rosebud country, have burn
ed themselves out after traversing ap-
proximately hundred miles of prairie
lands.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Attorneys Seek NelU
Trial For Slayer of
Daughters Husband
(By The Associated Press)

WICHITA FALLS Texas March 27-Three years imprison
the penitensry the penalty Mayor Frank
Collier faces for the Staying Of Ellie Robertson Golfers youth
full son-n-law, February H. last
After celebrating nearly hours the jury returned
its verdict at 5 last night finding him guilty of mansaughter
The verdict cmaxed of the most interesting and
ona trials in North Texas court annals 1t had been progress
II days Collier in jail today pending hearing Of motion
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Panama Ex-Governor
On Tacna-Arica Board
(Bv The Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 81
Former Governor Morrow of the Pana-
ma Canal zone, was today appointed
by President Coolidge as American
member of the Tacna-Arica boundary
commission.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-27
Former Resident Of
Fort Brown Is Dead

Reports have been received here of
the ceath in Washington, D. c.. on Feb
rlary Z, of Mrs. Dali Evans, wife Of
Colonel Frederick d. Evans, retired, who
is well known in Brownsville, as Col
onel Evans was stationed here as a
major during 1916 and 1917.
During the war Major Evans was
promoted to the rank Of brigadier gem
eral, and was retired as a major soon
after the war. Mrs. Evans mother,
who also was well known here. died
last December.
PHONE DIRECTOR DIES
ATLANTA, Ca. March 27.-J. Epps
Brown, chairman of the board of di-
rectors of the Southern Bell Telephone
company, died here today.