Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-10
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THE RAIN which fell on Browns
vile and surrounding territory in
the early hours of Tuesday was the
first moisture worthy of the name
to fall here within four months
and there has not been really
hard rain in the section since Nov.
9, 1923, when more than 8 inches
fell.
Other portions of the Valley had
Jared better than the Brownsville
area for some reason, good rains
having fallen a week before over
the dry land section and in many
parts of the irrigated area. Maybe
they pay the preacher better.
The rain Tuesday was worth
millions of dollars to Valley farm
ers and was especially thankfully
received about this city.
On Dec. 5 rainfall of go inches
was recorded at, the local weather
bureau by w. j. SchnurbuSch.
From that time until April 8 the
rain guage at the station was not
overly worked as only slight pre-
cipitation was recorded during that
four months period.
COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
sees no reason why the country
should become alarmed when he
fails to arrive at some certain point
at just the hour when the populace
has estimated he should arrive.
"All this stir is so uncalled for"
he says. when a person sets out
for an automobile tour he does not
notify someone at the other end of
his journey to be on the lookout
for him. Why should we who use
the air do so?
"One mode of travel is as safe
as the other"
All this after he had arrived at
the municipal airport here this
morning just as the army and ,pri-
vate iry1ividuals were about to- put
searcfN parties into the air.
He haS left Mexico City at noon
Tuesday and had not been seen or
heard of until he arrived here at
$50 a. m.
The Colonel fails to see any
reason why such a stir should be
raised when he is out of touch
with the world for few hours.
Il likely in the future viii be out
of touch with telephone and tele-
graph for two or three days at
time
There Is no reason then, when l
fail to appear at some airport
where the people think I should
land, to send out searching parties"
Col. Lindbergh said.
II regret very much that the
press has seen fit to cause all this
unnecessary excitement by sending
out unauthorized dispatches. When
/ left Mexico City at noon Tuesday
had no intention of flying be-
yond the borders of Mexico.
IF press dispatches had merely
said had left for an unannounced
destination, there would have been
no cause for alarm"
THE FIRST complete telephone
director of Cameron and Hidalgo
counties combined are being deliv-
cred in the Valley this week.
For the first time the book in
cIudes liStings Of the Weslaco and
La Feria exchanges and also sep
arates hstings on Edcouch and Elsa
exchanges.
The book, as has been the custom
for the past three or four issues,
is bound with the exchange listing
Of the town where it is distributed
placed in front. That is, in Browns
vile the Brownsville exchange list
ing comes first; in Harlingen the
Harlingen listing is in the front Of
the book.
The new directories are to be
distributed in Brownsville during
this week.
PAUL (. USHER writes from III,
in the hills of Pennsylvania that
he wishes he was back in the
Valley. From Meadville on April 2
re wrote:
Yesterday was one of the worst
days of winter here The roads
were so covered with ice as to be
dangerous. Spent two hours get
ting over icy pavemnets on the
hills last night.
Me for the Valley"
THE MISSION ENTERPRISE be-
comes a member of chain of
newspapers being organized under
the Turner Schmidt banner. The
firm has headquarters at San An
tonic.
Robert Lowry, who has been
guiding the destinies' of Missions
newest newspaper almost from the
beginning, has retired and Moulton
Cobb, University of Texas school
of journalism graduate, has been
placA5 in charge.
The same interests also have
purclI nlhd the San Juan Sentinel
and SsSe La Feria News. No an
nouncement is forthcoming regard
ing editors of these publications.
Cobb announces there will be a
,.t .t,,n1o in the n0licV of the