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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-10
Valley Physician
Claimed by Death
-. VALLEY PHYSICIAN.
Special TO The Hrraldl

RIO HONDO. Nov. To-. M.
johnson. for the past II years a
resident ri Rio Hondo. died at the
Valley Baptist hospital AT II 40 a.
m. Tuesday. after an Illness Of
about five months.
He Is survived by his widow. five
children. Mrs G = King. and Mrs.
w y. Holley. of Corpus Christi. y.
r Johnson. and y NJ. johnson. Jr..
Of Rio Hondo. n r Johnson. cap
tain OF a steamer. r-nn is now Off
the coast OF Spain All except n r.
Johnson were az the doctors bed
side ct his death. as was q sister.
Mrs. d 3. Reeves.
No funeral arrangements had
been made at noon. but n was be-
lieved the funeral would he held
on Wednesday OF THURSDAY.
lie was a member OF tire Masonic
lodge. He has been very prcrninen.
in the affair % the community
throughout his residence In the
Valley.
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KANSAN KILLS
SELF AND SON
Ex-Convict Hard Pressed
BY Officers Cr--5
Fire on Family

WILDER. Kas.. Nov. lo-tP)-Ed-
ward Maddox. %. an ex-convict Of
Marshalltown. Iowa shot and fatal
" wounded his 10-year-old step
sen and then killed himself near
here yesterday while resisting eff
forts Of Kansas Chy, Kas., police
and county officers to capture him.
Maddox. whom officers sought to
arrest on statutory charges involv-
ing his ~l4-year-old stepdaughter,
had barricaded himself in the home
e a relative. Mrs. Richard Perkins.
Previously he had taken his stepSon
to the home Of a neighbor where
he forced him TO borrow a shotgun
and some ammunition and evicted
Mrs. Perkins from her dwelling.
Officers believed Maddox was
crazed with rage against his wife.
Mrs. Nellie Maddox. who had refus-
co TO return with him % Iowa. She
was working as a waitress and ID was
her custom on Sunday TO visit her
son, whom she had placed with the
Perkins family SO he could attend
school.
David Kepler. marshal Of Kansas
City. Kas.. northside court, hear
Ing Of Maddox's whereabouts. came
here to serve the warrant. Kepler.
When informed Of Maddox's actions
called for reinforcements and 25
peace officers responded. Shortly
after two tear gas bombs had been
shot into ar upper story window. two
reports from the shotgun
heard.
Officers entered the mouse to find
Maddox dead. with a VIZ und in his
heart. The youth died on the way
70 the h0erita1
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The educator read from a report
Of the world congresses held at
Moscow stating that unemployment
was a growing object OF communists
IN America and that II had been
sponsored In a special campaign.
The campaign. the report said, was
promoted In the anthracite and
bituminouS strikes in Pennsylvania
and attacks against the American
Federation # Labor.
he translated &. report Of the So
Wet congresses saying the revolu-
tionary center in America has in
its program 100000 negroes. put
said the communists had not sue
ceeded in advancing their cause In
his direction. or -mong the farm
eTS.
In that connection. the report
said the Soviets had not been able
to do anything with the pullman
al porter
4At ACPOAb Hlutl N4ldL NOEalllQl-
lists had subsidized anti-imperial-
list campaigns three years ago In
Nicaragua and China and that Eff
forts had been made 10 influence
marines sent 20 those countries To
turn against the United States.
Reading further from the report.
Father Walsh said the communists
had established perambulatory
schools around Buffalo, instruct
orS being sent from New York City
to conduct the schools along lines
formerly followed by circuit riders
In the rural districts.
The red membership in this
country "a officially recorded az
10000 in the report The commun-
ist party. II added. published elev-
en- daily papers In nine languages.
in addition 10 IL weekly journals
with en- aggregate circulation e
10000.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-10
COMPANY
TO DEVELOP
VALLY Land
Site Near City To
Get First Party
Next Monday

Approximately 536 acres Of land
close TO the Brownsville cit limits
will be placed under development
immediately BY the Penn-TeX Dew
elopment company. Il was an
nounced Monday.
Francis Kowalski. who returned
TO Brownsville Monday from Penn
sylvania, Will be in direct charge
Of sales operations. E. J. fIcGinlay,
vice-president Of the Pen..-Tex. Co,
IS also in the city, and ill pos
Slbly remain here.
The company. headed BY Penn
sylvania capitalists. also has an
option Of an additional 1000 acres
Of land. and it was said today that
the company would doubtless take
up this option in the near future.
Heading the Penn-Tex. company is
John CoSgrove. president. nation
ally known figure Of Johnston.
Penn: and T. w. Monroe, Cherry
Tree. Penn. secretary and ~treaSur-
er. Both men are bankers, and well
known in the north.
The first party to be brought to
this section by the new concern
Will arrive next Monday, according
10 Mr.. Kowalski.
Mr.. KowalSki is well knoF n in
this section. in the past having
been connected with both the Al
Parker company and the Port
Isabel company.
The financers behind the new
development are expected 10 ar
rive in Brownsville for an inspec-
ton tour on Nov. 18th.
The holdings are on the military
highway just beyond the city limits.
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1t Happened in Old Monterrey

Americans q saw 'ssiud which In
Spanish mcars here 70 YOU.
II Is a regulation AT the brewery
10 serve every visitor a. mCcA beer
rs he wants. free Of charge, and not
many tourists overlook the opPor-
tunity. Not infrequently tourists
ask for twenty glasses. Or yer more
Soon the park. where the beer is
served at tables, viii Be improved
with the addition Of a beer garden.
where dancing floor and sandwich
room Will be provided. Music and
sandwiches viii be free with the
beer, when this pavilion Is complet-
ed. probably in about six months
!. will be Of old Mexican colonial
style architecture. and viii improve
the appearance OF the brewery site.
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in OUR

BY {. VI. HALL

HOW ABOUT 1T?
Depressed conditions n the
automobile industry have reached
bottom. Sharp revivals may be
expected 10 bcgin with auto
mobile shows III early January.
-fchn j. Raskob Of Gen. Motors.
The income OF a large part Of
our people Is not reduced BY the
depression. but is affected by I'M
necessary fears and pessimlsm.
We have known a thousand
Temporary setbacks. but the
spirit OF this people never VIII
brock defeat.
President Hoover.
We have in our hands the
power to restore the steel indus
try in so days.
james a. Farrell OF U. S. Steel.
This propaganda for boarding
money mus cease
Dwight w. Morrow OF New
Jersey.
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Airport Celebration
Al San Renito Off
tSrecisl 10 The Herald

h&A~AAAA " Al AAEA44AR
SAN BENITO. Nov. l0-The biz
Armistice Day and airport opening
celebration which was planned for
Tuesday has been postponed indef-
iritely because Of Indictment weather.
1t has not yet been decided wheth-
or the celebration will be held at
some later date or given UP entire
~.
An elaborate program had been
arranged for the occasion.
The American Legion will hold a
dance at the Memorial hall at 9 p.
II. Tuesday.
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at Walter Reed hospital had given
up hope OF saving him. he was
within six weeks OF his seventy
seventh birthday.
He will be buried Wednesday az
Arlington, escorted 70 the grave by
a group OF distinguished soldiers
and sailors whose names with his
were on every lip during the world
war.
General John J. Pershing.
Admiral W. s. Benson. Admiral
Hugh Rodran. Major Generals
Hugh L. Scott. William .. Baker.
former Secretary Of War and GO.
z. M. House. will be his honorary
~pallhearers.
1000 Men Tn Cortegc
Funeral services probably will be
held at the Washington Cathedral
and plans were being made 10 give
him the final tribute OF an imores-
sive ceremony. including a military
cortege OF more than one thousand
men.
General Bliss served IN four
Continued on page 81
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WITH the proposition of the Bet
w ter Business Bureau o before
the public, newspaper men, sec
retaries of chambers Of commerce
ard the like will stage q meeting
this afternoon and tonight for the
leaders in that move to acquaint all
in the Valley with the objects Of
such an organization.
Fifty thousand dollars Is being
asked OF Valley business men TO
maintain it for two years.
There Is no doubt but what the
Valley is in a receptive mood for
en- organization TO represent 1t TO
the world at large, but the Better
Business Bureau must establish it.
self for more than an organization
along the strict lines Of the national
Huization to get fun support in
tdcssower end Of the Valley. if what
has been heard Is the opinion OF the
business men. In other words the
organization will have u stand for
more than warning from time TO
time. that some merchant who Is
advertising whole silk hose in reality
l. offering a product with some cot
ton in it. Chances are that the
Valley will not expend $4,000 for
that but 1t will for a Valley-wide
representative body.
IF il is left to us We will venture TO
say that really we do not need
any more rain at present.
Water Board to hold meet" says
q headline in a Valley morning
newspaper today The members
could hold II in most any back yard
today and have the subject before
them. Our idea OF a good job at
present is the milk delivery bust
ness.
VIJISH to acknowledge the following
WI today:
I'm your paper Yesterday YOU
stated San Juan went republican
b. a vote OF 256 10 81. That was
Alamo instead OF San Juan
Thanks. That Is what we call a
terrible error.
DASCOM Cox, past president Of
II the Lions club has informed Us
that Jul proposition Of number
irg the houses IN Brownsville will
De taken up by that body, with the
idea OF seeing a practical method
worked out to accomplish that end
N~yGXe ask YOU in ali seriousness
On have 2 kindly feeling toward
the Lions club. and wish them more
and more power?
A MINATED Annie a v that eve
"a if you have a will Of your own
II is better 70 have a lawyer
draw it up.
THE little daily offering on what
Brownsville has to offer MAJ
surprise YOU n bit today. but
here goes right in the face Of cir
cumstances which make il hard TO
believe:
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Three Men Are Held
AS Burglar Suspects
tSrerlaI ~ The Herald

Especial 10 The Herald
SAN BENTTO. Nov. i0.-Three
men are being held here in connie
tion. with the burElarlz.ng OF the
Chapa store. az the corner Of Bowie
and RcTson. A large quantity OF
groceries taken from the store wa
recovered
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Ranchman Killed
In Auto Accident

AMARILLO. Tex. Nov. 10.-P-
w. w. Sweeney. SO. ranchman OF
Bard. N. NJ. was killed Yesterday
when his automobile overturned
near husband. Tex. He was en-
route to Elk City. Okla. to visit a
brother. Charles Sweeney. who was
preparing TO undergo an operation.
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Upper Valley To
Celebrate At Fair
,Spe 'ial to The Herald.J


MISSION. Nov. i0-What is ex-
pected TO be the biggest and best
Hidalgo county fair yet staged will
lie opened TUESDAY. A feature Of
the day will be the game between
san Benito and Mission football
teams.
The fair. which is to last only n
day this year, is sponsored by the
American Legion. The program
opens with a parade, and a number
Of sporting events have been arrang-
ca.
Many exhibits have been placed
ard this section Of the fair Is ex-
pected TO be the best yet Valuable
prizes for the best exhibits are Of
fe-ed.
a delegation from HarlinFen Is tx
pected 10 attend the fair during the
afternoon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-10
Mexico Church Bells Silent
Sexton Goes to Jail for Hosting Red Flag
And No One Left to Ring for Mass

MEXICO CITY, Nov. l0-Fr-Bells Of the cathedral we're silent to-
day. Their strangely beautiful peahngs, which through the centuries
have counted off the hours, toled mournfuly at national disasters and
Jared forth happily at festival time, called nobody to mass at dawn.
The tower in which they hang was vacant and the man who rings them
was absent-n jail.
Anastasio Mayoga Reyes was born In tbs cathedral helfry. where
his father and grandfather before him had spent their lives II minister
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,lng to the bells. He was married
u the belfry. not even leaving TO
fetch his oTIde. They made II their
home ana when his father died
Mayorga succeeded him III respoa-
slbllty Tor the bells.
Eorty-tWo years spent III the bel
fry caused Mayorga TO become phil
osophical about life and politics.
whose panorama he watched
through many changes and revoIu-
tons from the beliry window over
looking the national palace and the
Plaza De La Constitution. Embit-
tered az his lot in life, nc became
a communist.
he learned from friends, and
from such things as he read, rrin-
cipally propaganda. Of the third
lnternationale. Of Karl Marx and
Nicolai Lenin. and Of the world
revolution. Friday. the thirteenth
anniversary OF October Day date
OF the Proletariat victory In Russia
NayorEa IN his entllusiasm decided
to do his Bat 70 bring about the
new era In Mexico.
Fed Flag u
He procured a large strip CT rel
bunting and on It the painted the
words. IN SpaniSh. Down with the
Goyernment-Up With CoEnmun-
ISM He hung the banner out IF
the windows Of the belfry where
throngs gathered in the plaza be-
low to watch a passing communist
demonstration could see IL.
The banner created a hubbub.
The picus regarded IL as q sacrilege,
in view OF the Vatican attitude to-
ward Soviet Russia. Police saw q
Continued on page 81
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-10
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday.
with probably occasional rains; lot
much change In temperature.
For East Texas: Mostly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday. not much
change in temperature.
Moderate winds on the coast most
~ northeriy.
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DEATH CLAIMS
war VETERAN
Funeral Cortege Of 1000
Men Pay Tribute
To General Bliss

WASHINGTON, Nov. lo.-Pl-
General Tasker Howard Bliss. war
time Chief OF staff. is dead. ending
more than half a century Of service
OF his country.
The soldier-stateman succumbed
early Sunday 70 an intestinal i'll
ness, several days after physicians
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-10
Shipments
Total 778 Carloads

Fruit shipments Sunday and Mon
day morning totaled as cars. Al
moving over the Missouri Pacific,
and 5 over the Southern Pacific,
bringing the total for the season up
To 778 cars. which is still consider
ably behind the total Of 808 cars
for the same period last year.
Vegetables also Jagged. with only
10 carloads TO date. as against AZ
last year. One a of beans was
nintnnd frnn, nndrttnn
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$50 Homeseekers
Valley Visitors

Tie Valley welcomed $50 home
seekers Monday morning. with aD-
proXlmarely $50 more scheduled TO
arrive on Tuesday The Missouri
Pacific carried 200 or the party, and
the Southern $50.
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earth three times a century, and oc-
caSIonally filling the sky with a
rain OF lire.
Figuratively they are coming
from above earth because their Or
bit Is inclined II degrees TO the
plane OF the earth's orbit.
Astronomers plan to count the
outriders of this meteoric host from
November III 10 IL. because the
numbers seen may indicate wheth-
CT the Leonids are likely TO put on
another great fireworks display in
1888. or to throw q dud. as they have
lone more than once in the past.
Volunteers Asked
A CO.. volunteers to assist IN
watching DOL saturday and Sun
day morning was ed here today
volunteers from the lcv public,
hardy persons willing to spend the
night out in the cold, to strain
their eyes for hours to see perha9 Is
a few Lozen meteors. and to spend
their own money for a two cent
stamp to inform science Of the re-
suits.
This Is real scientific service, and
those who attempt il will expert
ence some Of the ordinary routine
of ASTRONOMERS. including paying
their own expenses.
The count may enable astronom-
ers TO calculate whether the center
Of the big shower Is headed just
right to hit earth. It's main con-
~centration is estimated as not moro
than 10000 miles wide and is now
several hundred million miles dis
tant.
Shower Nav Materialize
The request for volunteers was
made by DR.. Charles p. Oliver. d.
rector OF Flower Astronomical OBJ
servatory Of the University Of Penn
s%ylvania.
II" he said. "the big shower
does not come off three years from
now. il seems that we should be
meeting a fair number this Novem-
Der. But it would be misleading 20
promise any shower in the popular
sense Of the word.
1T is useless to look for them be-
fore III :30 ID. m The part of The
XIV to watch Is due east and about
half wav TO the zenith. The num-
her Of meteors seen each hour. and
tho condition IF the skv should
both be carefully recorded"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-10
Pastor Outlines
Reds Activities
Testimony Before Ho use Committee Paints
Definite Picture of Attempts To
Overthrow Government

WASHINGTON Nov. N-PEA charge that communists in Russia
lent aid to members Of their party in this country to increase unem-
ployment was made today by the Rev. Father Edmund Walsh before
the house communist investigating committee.
Father walsh, who is vice president OF Georgetown University, told
the committee he had made a study Of Soviet activities in Europe last
and found considerable unrest due to what he described ~
Soviet dumping.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-11-10
Stars Plan Visit to Earth
Vanguard of Main Section Three Years
Distant Expected to Arrive Saturday
BY HOWARD BLAkESLEE.
Associated Press Science Editor.

PHILADELPHIA, NOV. l0-NP-CoaSing earthward down a lI-degree
slope in space the thnkest swarm Of meteors known to science Is near
ing this planet.
SO vasL are its numbers that although its main section is still three
years distant its advance guards to the number OF a dozen or more en-
hour are expected to appear in the early morning Of Saturday, Novem-
Der is, as well as for a few days before and after this.
The swarm is the Leonid Meeors, known for 1000 years past, visiting
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COLGATE DIES

ORANGE. NJ j.. Nov. i0.--r--
Sidney Colgate. president or the
Colgate PalmOlive Peet company
and one Of the founders OF the
Colgate company. 4 dead.
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RIVER FORECAST

There Will be = slight or possibly
moderate rise IN the river from
Rio Grande City down during the
next "A 10 AZ hours.
Flood present 24-Hr- 14-Hr.
G-a-a G-,~p rra-u Pain
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This decrease ! DIT moving west
ward making The average oye the
past fifty five years about ~ inches
fof the VaIlcg Wy, y whole 70 the
weather bureau man tells rs
FOUND ON THE WIRES
4 ONp0N G|rCenVllle owen
u, Sampson. hcaduaitcr at A club.
has been left 100000 ~ the viii
OF Sir Charles v E. g. Hartropp.
FOR whom Ia was once valet.
ADDISABABA. AbvSsinia - Nigh
broke after spending most OF his
fortune on his coronation. THE en-
reror i planning a palace u cost
81 1000. 600. He expects 80 raise the
money largely hy selling concessions
10 foreigners.
SPRINGFIELD. No The poul-
Try king of the O7arks III grateful
fo his defeat election Gsy lie has
issued q statement EXPRESSING his
thanks The democrats GRATED 4.
Patterson He old not choose TO
- IT could nor helm IN.
LA - oun- GshrdII ru nu n1
PR1SCETCN. = J - The Rer.
DR. Henry Van DYKE. author clergy
nan and professor emeritus of
Princeton. was "a wear old today:
tho latest milestone on rhr road az
life he described ~ i5r another
marker Of distance Travelled along
this interesting HIGHWAY. with side
excursions on the delightful foot
paths of friendships ana fishing
NEW YORK - a model Of a ulane
which he hopes will take ITO pas
sengers across the Atlantic in "a
hours has been brought from Ger
neny BY Dr.. Edmund Ruunpler. air.
plane designer. Engines Of 10000
horsepower will be in the wings.
which will spread 200 feet
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MAJOR DIES

. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 10
P1-Dr. Harry N. Kerns. 43.
former major In the United
States Army Medical Corps and
for six years Psvchiatry ms
tructor at West Point and Yale,
Is dead here.
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TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and lor tide a. Point Isabel
tomorrow. Under normal meteorcl-
ogical conditions:
High Hoo p. ~.
Low Il 81 p m.
The Washington times., 1930-08-02
MISS HARD BOILED"

The Parkers married in Boston.
They chose their mates from
other big white houses, whence
Revolutionary heroes had gone
to glorious death or glorious vic
tory. Her own husband was
from the big white house across
the Common.
"I suppose you'd call her beau
tiful," Nancy Parker Alden told
John Alden, her husband, when
they were alone. If you care for
that type of beauty. To me 1t
seems-well, too acute. Not Of
fensive, of course. Her skins
too pale for that. But sort of
compelling and-not quite COM
Portable"
IT thought she was the most
exotically lovely woman I have
ever seen," said John Alden,
with genuine admiration.
Nancy looked at him with
raised eyebrows.
IT didn't know you cared for
exoticism," she said. criSply.
John was uncomfortable and
showed it.
"I should have preferred
Prudence Rankin" his Wit e
said. "She was in love with
Jerry, you know. I believe she
always thought Jerry would
come back to Boston in the
end. And when he did, he
would find her waiting for
him"
There was to be a gathering
of the clan about the polished
mahogany table in the dining
room of the big white house. It
seemed to Raquel that she
could see the dim faces OF the
The Washington times., 1930-08-02

followed Richard Quincy and prevented him
from leaving on q west-bOund train. It Is
obvious that he had with him $1O,OOO, taken
from the body Of Jerry MurdOck. without
that only possible proof Of his guilt, he
might have escaped any effort of the police
to pin the murder upon him.
"And yet, he was obviously the guilty
man. The doped water affected his wife
and not him; the dope was put into Mr..
Forests caraffe the following morning,
otherwise 1t would also have been In the
tumbler he drank from the night before;
and at that same time the automatic was
placed in the travelling bag. It wal prob
ably during the confusion following the
discovery Of the murder.
'Then, the footprints in the snow. The
lower door was first unlatched, then pass