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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-29
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AT TEXAS

Charlie Chaplin worked as an ex-
ira in Norma Talmadge's latest pic
ture, THE Woman Disputed" which
is on its last day at the Texas the
alter. And the worlds most FAM
GUS screen comedian received the
same pay of the other extras.
One day when Henry King and
Sam Taylor were directing a scene
in the story of love and war, sew
eral extras were instructed to stand
in doorwayS and peer out at Miss
Talmadge, in the role of a girl of
the streets. as she passed. King
wanted a little man in a big coat
for n of the close-ups-and none
of the extras answered the require
ments.
Chaplin. who happened to be
visiting the Talmadge set at the
United Artists studio that way, was
iokingly asked by King if he wished
to make a few extra dollars.
Certainly" replied Charlie. Get
me an overcoat and I'll do the
scene with Norma"
Miss Talmadge was not told, and
when the cameras followed her as
she walked along the street. peer
ing into the faces of various men,
she received the shock of her life
when she discovered one of them
to be Charlie Chaplin.
At the end of the scene Mr..
Chaplin said:
"Where's my $7.50?"
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THREE KILLED
In PLANE SPIN
One Of Victims Had Been
Warned Not To Ride
With Pilot

LOS ANGELES, April 29.-(P-
Three young men went out for an
aerial Joy ride died in the blazing
wreck Of their airplane near Culver
City yesterday.
William H. Oviatt. Jr., %, I'M
licensed pilot Of the plane, Ray
Scott, Is, motion picture scenario
writer, and Mcak Fluker, Is, screen
actor, were the victims. Oviatt was
the son of a Falmouth, Mass, the
atrical producer, and nephew Of
Charlie Murray, motion picture &C
tor.
The three took off from Rogers air
port ito take a spin" according to
Thomas LOTUS, the Waterman.
Scott. who leaves his parents, DR..
and Mrs. E. w. Scott; his widow,
Mrs. Simmone Scott and a three
-year-old daughter, was warned two
weeks ago not to flv in Oyiatt's
plane, his mother said. Mrs. E. w.
Scott declared a clairvoyant two
weeks ago had told Mrs. Simmone
Scott that her husband would meet
death in Oviatt's plane.
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Governor Submits 5
State App ointees
To Senate For Okey

AUSTIN, April 29.-(P)--Gover-
nor Dan Moody today submitted
five appointeeS for confirmation by
the senate.
They included w. M. Odell Of
Fort Worth, acting chairman o. the
prison commission, to succeed Ed
Howard as a member OF the board
of Regents Of the University of
Texas; DR.. Edward Randall of Gal
weston, former faculty member of
the University of Texas College of
Medicine at Galveston, to succeed
r. G.. Storey on the university
board of regents.
Robert Grim of Hicks was ep-
pointed a member of the state min
ing board. Roy I. Biggs of Pecos
was named district attorney OF the
109th judicial district, and Oliver
G. Aldrich of San Juan. was chosen
district attorney of the 10th dis
trict.
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LAST RITES FOR
VIRDO
Especial to The HeraId)

MISSION, April 29.-Funeral SER
vices were held at the First Bap-
fist church at McAllen Monday
morning for Virdo Stephenson,
Sharyland farmer, who died in the
Medical Arts hospital in Edinburg
Saturday morning, a result of
appendicitis.
The deceased, who came here
from his native state of Arkansas
a few years since, leaves a widow
and four daughters, all quite young,
besides a son, a young man.
After the funeral services, which
were conducted by Rev. S. Benson
Of the First Baptist church of this
city, the body was shipped to the
old home in Arkansas.
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ALPO4G W1Ok4 OdI4O4dCJ1O1l llldL Ill ull
opinion the rebellion in Sonora has
terminated as the principal traitors
continue their flight northward un-
accompanied by material support"
His message detailed uncondition-
al surrender of two groups of rebel
soldiers, totalling 1000 men yester-
day, and described di~sintegration of
the rebel troops as they found re-
treat at almost every point blocked
by federal soldiers.
Continued desultory Guerilla war
sfare seems the prospect in Sonora
for some little while as federal con-
tingents pursue remnants of the
rebel army into mountain districts.
aiding in this pursuit, General
GALES said, were to be large Yaqui
Indian contingents who had vowed
their allegiance to the central gov
sernment and had always remained
passive to the rebel cause.
But one other military problem
seems to face the administration of
President Portes Gil, that being the
suppression of the "Cristero" or So
called religious rebellion in the
states of Guanajuato and Jalisco,
where General Saturino Cedillo is
already campaigning vigorously
against them.
General Gales said the last of the
rebel armies had been driven north
of the Rio Yaqui and that General
Robert Cruz. n Of the command
ling officers Of the rebel west coast
army. had fled to the mountains.
Delayed messages from General
Almazan said he had sent thanking
columns against a small rebel army
which was delaying his passage Of
sPulpito canyon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-29
AGGIES PLAY LAST ON
HOME LOT UNTIL MAY

COLLEGE STATION. April 90
The series between Coach Bob
Countryman's Texas Aggies and the
T. c. U. Horned Frogs on Kyle Field
April 1920 was the Aggies' last on
their own diamond before May 6
when they will open a two-game Sc
ries with the Texas Tech Matadors
as a feature of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce Convention
at Bryan May 5-6-7. Following their
games with the S. M. U. Mustangs
and T. G. U. Horned Frogs on their
North Texas road trip the Aggies
will journey to Houston for a two
game series with the Rice Owls.
Their next conference appearance
on their own diamond will be the
Mustangs May 1914.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-29
AT THE QUEEN

Scandal" a tense drama of high
society with Laura La Plante in the
leading role, opened yesterday at
the Queen theater and will play
today only.
The story, which was adapted
from a Cosmopolitan Magazine
story by Adela Rogers st. Johns,
builds up to a tremendous climax.
There we're moments when the
audience seemed to hold its breath,
waiting for the final outcome of
situations so convincingly real as
to bring tears to the eyes of many.
3 Through a moments weakness, a
woman is forced to choose between
losing her honor, her husband, her
child and her home, or allow a man
to be sentenced to Imprisonment
for life unjustly charged with the
murder of his wife.
The court scenes are particularly
intense, and Wesley RuggleS, the
director for this Universal picture
has cleverly handled each situation
so that at no time is there the
slightest suggestion of superficial
ity in the telling of the story.
John Boles, cast as the erstwhile
lover who finds out too late that
he has married the wrong girl.
handles the role in a sophisticated
manner which is not lacking in
sympathy Laura La Plante, as the
woman who in a moment of in
fatuation forgets that true hap
piness and the love Of a HUSBAND
and child are worth every sacrifice,
IS powerfully appealing. Huntly
Gordon plays the part Of the hus-
band who cannot bear to have his
name besmirched by scandal, a type
well understood by a conventional
world.
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is her God. Robert Edeson is cast
as the doctor, the man who holds
her destiny in his hands. A strong
supporting cast includes the young
English actor. John Loder, Nancy
Price, Wilfred Noy and Ethel
Wales. THE Doctors Secret" was
directed by William De Mile.
On the same program with "The
Doctors Secret" Paramount offers
Borrah Minnevitch and his Musical
Rascals, a popular vaudeville and
musical comedy headliner, now ap-
pearing On the screen in ten min
utes of fun and unusual music;
and an uproariously funny all-talk-
ing short feature, titled "One
Word"
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R OF
KEMBLE'S BILL SHOWN

AUSTIN, April 90 up The
first showing Of strength of Rep.
George Kemble's civil service bill, a
measure strongly endorsed by the
administration, vas revealed today
when the house refused by a So
48 vote to indefinitely postpone its
consideration.
At the request Of MI. Kemble,
the bill was set as a special order
for 2 p. m. tomorrow.
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BANK MESSENGER is
ROBBED OF $4,000

LOS ANGELES, April 29.-(P-
Jim c. Koolman, bank messenger.
was robbed of $4,000 on a down
town street today. While scores
OF pedestrians walked past unaware
OF what was going on, a man push
ed a gun against Koolman's back.
snatched a bag containing the
money, and escaped.
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EDERAL5ERO
PUPITO PASS

Ell PASO, Texas, April 29.-(P-
Ell Continental, Spanish language
newspaper, said Enrique Liekens,
Mexican consul general here, re-
ceived a radio message from Gen
eral Juan A. Almazan, federal COM
mander, that his forces had routed
the rebels at Pulpito pass and start
ed a drive against Aqua Prieta, So
nora, rebel stronghold.
The federal forces crossed the
pass after the rebels had been bonn
barded from the air, the message
said.
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Gales Says War in
Mexico Is at an End
With Rebels Fleeing:

MEXICO CITY, April 29-F-Genera1 Plutarco Elias Gales, Mexi-
"a minister d war, today considered the revolt in Sonora at a end and
the last Mexican state cleared Of organized resistance to the central
government.
In a message to President Portes Gil he said: 1T is my honor to
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ESCOBAR BELIEVED
z TO u. S.

NOGALES, Ariz., April 29.-(P)-
The sudden departure of General j.
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| am employed by The Herald to give service to the
Valley people who use the Want Ads only OCCASION
ally. The folks with whom l deal, use Herald Want
Ads maybe four or five times a year-to sell some
odd pieces of furniture-hire a maid-or transact
the many little businesses that arise in everyday life.
These people aren't regular day after day advertisers
: and seldom become experienced in the real psyche
logy involved in the writing of a Want AID to get the
most pulling power"-we call it-out of every word
in their message.
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Continued from Page One.)
actual construction work from
Port Arthur to Galveston bay.
Sections 7 and 8. Galveston bay
to Gulf. Matagorda county; dis
lance. 50 miles, estimated cost, ST.
231. 600.
Sections 9 and 10. Gulf, .Mata-
gorda county, to Corpus Christi;
distance, 100 miles; estimated cost,
approximately $750,000.
Conditions Imposed
TN authorizing the construction
of the Intracoastal canal, congress
placed upon local interests that
is to say, the interested localities
along the route, two obligations
precedent to commencement of
construction work: first, furnish
ing to the government free of all
cost the necessary rights of way
and spoil disposal areas; second,
the assurance that there would be
available facilities including ade-
quate vessels, terminals and auxil-
iary equipment for the economi-
cal handling Of not less than 1.200,,-
900 tons Of commerce annually.
"Only recently the secretary of
war accepted the assurance of the
intracoaStal canal association in
respect to the second obligation.
Following adoption of the pro-
ject by congress, a location survey
of the canal was necessary In or
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der that local interests might be
provided with the data, including
maps and field notes, needed in
obtaining rights of way. The max
ing of this survey naturally con-
sumed much time, and the work
of securing rights of way could
not be undertaken until it was
completed. While many interested
land owners generously made their
conveyances by donation, pro-
longed negotiations were necessary
with others, while the problem OF
getting in touch with numerous
nonresident owners was a most
tedious task. However, this essen
tial work is being pushed to rapid
completion and several additional
contracts for actual construction
work doubtless will be let in the
various sections:
Section j. New Orleans to Nor
gan City. Practically all rights Of
way have been secured and the
few remaining conveyances yet to
be obtained should be in hand
within the next few weeks. An i'm
portant part of the work on this
section is the construction OF the
lock in the Mississippi river at New
Orleans, which is estimated to cost
approximately $780, 900. Plans for
the lock have been forwarded to
the chief of engineers at Wash
ington for final approval.
Section 2. Atchafalaya river to
Vermillion river. All rights of way
secured and abstracts of title now
in the hands Of the United States
District Attorney for examination
and approval. When approved,
construction work on this section
will be authorized.
Section 3, Vermillion river to
Mermentau river. All rights of
way secured and abstracts of title
now in the hands of United States
district attorney for approval.
When approved, construction work
on this section will be authorized.
Section 4, Mermentau river to
Calcasieu river. Finally approved
and advertising for bids author
lied.
Section 5. Calcasieu river to Sa-
bine river. No work necessary.
Section 6, Sabine river to Gal
weston bay. No work necessary
from Sabine river to Port Arthur,
a distance of 29.5 miles. All rights
Of way conveyances in jefferson
and Chambers counties, on the
stretch from Port Arthur to Gal
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William u. Mitchell.

the area within that zone. The en-
tire cost Of the project is spread
W the district, but an area of
land at the outskirts pays consider
ably less than one which is ready
for immediate development"
All of these methods require the
assessor to assume the role Of a
prophet, because he must calculate
in advance the probable enhance
ment of land in the future, says Mr..
Cornick. And the more extensive
the improvement, the more difficult
it becomes to say when and where
the benefits will be apparent. For
instance in the city of Seattle, a
change in zone from one family
residence to business in n part of
a district may throw out of balance
the whole spread of assessment fig
ureS for a new improvement.
Coordination With Zoning
"But the more prophetic ard
painstaking the people who distrib-
ute special assessments, the more
care they exercise in computing fu-
ture benefits and present advan-
tages, the more equitable will be
special assessment bills from the
point Of view Of the public" says
Mr.. Cornick.
"Westchester county, New York,
and the state Of California have at
tempted to solve the problem Of new
coming. upSetting new special as
SeSsment procedure. The laws in
both states provide for the financing
Of improvements out of bond issues
with a somewhat longer term than
the ordinary assessment bonds.
The charges for retirement and in
terest are spread annually, by means
Of a tax rate against the values at
which the lands in the district are
carried on the tax rolls for general
purposes. Shifts in assessed land
values involved shifts also in the
successive annual burdens on the
individual parcels. these with the
greatest enhancement assuming the
heaviest burden. In the Seattle case
for example, referred to above. the
new business zone with its largely
increased values would have a pro-
p~ortlonate increase in its annual
levies. This plan, manifestly. is
useful only when land values are re-
vlsed annually on the basis Of rem
tails and sales.
"On January II, the Street Rail-
way and Rapid Transit Commits
sions in Detroit presented a pro-
poSal to the city council for the fl
nancing Of a subway by direct tax
alton upon the city at large, and in
addition by a charge made by the
city of part of the enhancement in
value upon specially benefited prop
erty, to be levied on the ascertained
fact that the improvement has in
creased the selling price Of such
benefited land. Official bodies have
recommended the use Of special as
sesSments in financing transit lines
in Pittsburgh. Los Angeles, st.
Louis. Boston. and Chicago"
If rain mandates your land in Los
Angeles, you pay nor for storm
SeWer than land that shakes off the
water, and this is as it should be,
says Mr.. Cornick. And when this
same principle is applied in distrib-
uting the cost of all local improve
ments, everyone will be happier
about having them.
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WATER

Continued from page one.l
OF the total for the winter months.
This insignificant showing was due,
very largely. to the rates. New
Workers approved the quality OF
Valley fruit and vegetables; they
were not enthusiastic over the
grading and pack of some Of the
commodities, but they did not feel
inclined to pay the freight rates.
The New York market consumes
over roc car of fruit and vegetables
every Business day of the year. Ar
rivals In that city in 1923. exclu-
sive of motor truck receipts, were
1862 cars, of which 2O9 ,587 cars
were handled and sold through the
wholesale markets of the city. The
New York office of the bureau of
agricultural economics reports that
for several years the annual increase
has been from 5000 to 10000 cars,
AMI ctsinlaJe that by 1885 the an
nIal consumption will be approx
r:ately 100000 carloads.
Over 10000 Cars Monthly
During the winter months fruit
and vegetable consumption is lower
than when local supplies are avail
able, but the monthly average from
November to May, the Valleys ship
ping season, is approximately 20, 0OO
cars. Reports covering a period of
years show a steady increase in
the per capita consumption of fruits
and vegetables in that market dur
ing the winter months.
New Workers last year consumed
1890 cars of cabbage; 2,739 cars of
cauliflower, 1925 cars of celery, 4,137
cars of grapefruit, l 1903 of oranges,
9,346 of lettuce, 628 of beets, IL ,951
of onions, 1884 of peppers, 22,057 of
potatoes, 3,642 of spinach, 7,843 of
tomatoes, Its of turnips, 1868 of
w~atermelons, 5,093 Of mixed vegeta-
bles in addition to thousands Of cars
of other commodities which are
listed among commodities the Val
ley can or does produce. Consump-
ton of these commodities in Phila-
delphia, Boston, Baltimore and
other cities lying east of the AL
leghanies is approximately the same
ratio to their population.
New York business interests, vi
sioning the future utilization of
water transport for handling at
least part of the huge tonnage of
fruit and vegetables the city con-
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Line TO LINK

CONTINUED from page one.l
has been operating almost to ca
\ pacity since the extension of the
route to Durango.
The route Is almost due west from
Brownsville to Monterrey and Tor
reon, a distance of .appriximately 400
miles by air line, then southwest
through Durango to Mazatlan. a
distance of approximately $50 miles.
Mazatlan is approximately $50 miles
west and Is miles south of Browns
vile.
The route is across the high pla-
teau area Of the Mexican interior
and crosses the various mountain
ranges through low passes. Pilots
pronounce it safe in every respect,
and the planes which have been .op-
Grating as far west as Durango have
experienced no difficulty in main
tanning their schedules.
It is understood the company also
Is developing a line along the Mexi-
can west coast, Mazatlan to be the
mnction point for all eastern mai,
and passenger and express traffic
generated in that section.
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sumes, have in the past three years
devoted considerable attention to
development of wharfs and termi-
mails designed to handle this traffic.
Rail Lines Provide Piers
The Erie railroad has recently
completed a huge pier at which con-
signments are received for transfer
into the New York markets or TO
the more inland cities; and the
Pennsylvania also has erected q pier
equipped with the most modern Ia
cilities, where the Mallory lines
steamers discharge their cargoes OF
perishable products. The objective
of these railroads is to assure rapid
distribution of cargoes, not only n
to the New York markets, but also
to practically all markets east OF
the AlleghanieS, an area in which
approximately 40 per cent OF the
perishables produced in the United
States are consumed.
New York and other eastern cities,
due to the development Of ter
terminal facilities, Is now req hing
large consignments of perishaDleS
during the winter months from
Cuba, Porto Rico, Egypt, Spain and
Central America. These commodl-
ties, due to a low water rate, and
despite a protective tariff are e
turning the growers a greater mar
gin of profit than American grow
ers using only rail transportation
derive from their production.
Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore
and other seaboard cities r fol-
lowing the lead Of New York in
development Of produce terminals to
handle water ship m and
throughout the entire coast area the
past three years have witnessed "a
pid development of this class of wa
ter traffic.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley.
which can produce both fruit and
winter vegetables at lower cost than
any other semi-tropic area in the
United States, car and will realize
great benefits from development Of
water transportation. With the es-
tablishment Of an adequate tariff.
completion Of a deep water port
and development Of terminal facili-
ties in the Atlantic seaboard mar
kets the Valley will come into its
own as the Winter Garden Of the
World"
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P.ABANDONS
HIDALCO PLAN
Flood Works Make Building
South of McAllen Too
Costly, Says |. c. G.
Especial to The HeraldO

NoPCNAdA W 4IlC I1CI dlQt
AUSTIN, April 6.-Magnitude of
flood protection for a lower section
of the Rio Grande Valley is well
portrayed in the language taken
from a new order of the Interstate
Commerce commission relieving the
Southern Pacific company from ex-
tending the S. A. & A. p. from
McAllen to the international bound
airy with Mexico at Hidalgo, a dis
lance of z 1-2 miles. A copy Of
this order has Just been received at
the railroad commission office. It
sets out that the original plan was
for a line through the Valley bot
toms below McAllen and a firm
bridge footing was thought posi-
BILE, but that the river is disposed
to change its channel and make the
situation unstable an duncertain.
That is given as another reason for
permitting the abandonment of the
extension. The part Of the order
setting out the flood control work
as q reason for ABANDONING the
line reads as follows:
"For the protection Of the Valley
the river two overflow channels or
floodways between high levees have
recently been built on the north side
of the river. The northern flood
way is dsigned to carry 10000 Sec
ond-feet of water and the southern
floodway 10000 second-feet of wa
ter when the river is at flood stage.
The levees are IA feet high and each
f1oodway is nearly half a mile in
width. In order to build its line to
the Rio Grande, the applicant would
have to construct and maintain high
fills and trestles $500 feet in length.
Seven or eight times as much en-
bankment would be required be-
tween McAllen and Hidalgo as was
originally estimated. The construc-
ton of these floodways will also
probably necesSitate a revision OF
the road system and changes in
drainage the territory in question
which would further increase the
cost of construction OF the railroad,
while the dedication of large areas
of arabic land to floodway use
would diminish the probable revenue
from the proposed construction"
"A system of improved hard-sur-
faced highways has been built in that
section to serve the towns involved
and that is also cited as making a
railroad unnecessary, especially
since there would be only a small
amount of tonnage to cross the Rio
Grande at that point.