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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
Harlingen Airport
Campaign Grows Hot
ESPECIAL 70 The Herald

HARLINGEN, July IL One Of
the most active campaigns for votes
in the history Of Harrington was
under way today to bring about pas
sage Of the 100000 airport bond is
sue in the election set for next
Tuesday.
Each civic club in town has heard
the matter discussed by experts, al
most every store has an airport dis
play in its windows and plans are
being worked on to bring out the
biggest vote possible on election
day.
The parade Monday night. spon-
sored BY the chamber OF commerce,
is scheduled to be an elaborate one.
Ii will take the place OF q mass
meeting which has been discussed at
times.
A Telegram has been received
from u. 5. Department Of Commerce
officials stating that every effort
will be made 10 send an expert here
to inspect airport sites before Tues
day. Advocates OF the bond issue are
confident OF victory.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
Republicans Await
Answer of Huston

WASHINGTON July 11.-fPp-
Turning back his party foes for q
second time, Claudius Huston has
given word he will announce his
status as chairman Of the Republic
an National Committee In his own
time-after the senate adjourns.
This was the declaration he made
late yesterday to officers Of the
national committee who had an
nounced before they went into ses-
sion with their chairman that his
resignation must be forthcoming.
His statement that what I have
to say on that subject will be with
held until after the adjournment Of
the senate" was accepted by the
Republican chieftains and they i'm
mediately interpreted It as mean
ing he would announce his resigna-
ton.
But Mr.. Huston emphasized later
TO newspaper men that II have
made no promises" and he warned
them to make interpretations ION
your own responsibility" Joseph r.
Mutt. treasurer. and James r.
Burke, counsel. heard Huston's
words to the newspapermen and did
not challenge them. They are among
those demanding his retirement.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
EXPECT DOYLE
Spiritualists Set Stage For
Return of Dead

LONDON, July II Up Spirit
ualistS have set the stage for Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's temperance
before them during a memorial SER
vice to be held Sunday AZ Albert
Hall.
The authors favorite chair will
occupy the center Of the platform,
to the lay eye empty, but TO his
devoteeS occupied by the spirit Of
the man who created Sherlock
Holmes, and who died Monday.
Lady Doyle, his widow, will sit at
the lef tside Of the chair, a place
she always occupied during her hus-
bands public lectures. She was said
today to regard this as the last
public demonstration that she would
attend with him.
we expect II to be the largest
attempt at clairvoyance ever made,
but whether Sir Arthur will be able
TO demonstrate sufficiently yet for
the medium to describe him Is prob
lematical. Even If he should. II Is
doubtful II the evidence would be
accepted BY the skeptics, but we
who have known Mrs. Este,le Rob-
erts, who will be the clairvoyant,
have no doubt at all"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
Tommy Armour Slips
While Robbie Waits

INTERLACHEN CLUB, Mime
apolis. July il-(P-Cracking on the
last nine holes Of his second round,
Tommy Armour, the Black Scot,
shot a rs today, for a two-day &C.
hole total OF 146. This put him tenn
pararily in the lead, with Mac Smith
and Waiter Ha-cn chasing him for
honors. Bobby Jones had not yet
started but could take a rs and tie
Armour.
Tommy Armour. Detroit Toto
w. Kozak, Douglaston, N. Y, IA
$3.50.
Lester Bolstad, Minneapolis, 10
75-i54.
Bill Parker, Chicago. 7s-s1-15e.
Ben Coltrin, Oakland, Calf, 81
80-l62.
George 3. Smith, Moorestown, N.
j., 79-78-157.
Joe Ear. Los Angeles. Sl-S0-161.
Rocco Rich, Larchmont, N. Y, 81
81-l62.
DIN Dutra. Los Angeles, 1879
152.
James Kenney, Toledo, Ohio. s-77
Isl.
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Texas Cotton Crop
Is l7,500,O0O Acres
Especial % The Herald.l


AUSTIN. July l1-Texas had
17.500,000 acres Of land In cotton
July !, according to the July cotton
report OF the u. .. bureau or crop
estimates for Texas.
The report avoids any references
70 the condition or the cotton or
the probable yield. and refrains
from comment as TO prospects or
cotton price.
This policy was adopted when
congressional action was secured to
prevent government bureau eSti-
mates from affecting cotton prices.
The report says Texas cotton
acreage Is four per cent under last
year. Lac years crop was $780,
600 bales, much below the average.
The national crop this year in
cludes 45,8l5. 900 acres. O. reduction
Of 81 per cent from last year. when
a national crop OF 1929. 600 bales
was harvested.
Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Mis-
souri,, Tennessee, Arkansas, New
Mexico acreage is a. high this year
as last year. The planting was re-
duced in Texas North and South
Carolina, Alabama. Louisiana, Okla
bona, Arizona and California
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Ruling on Hoover
Demos Status Due

FORT WORTH, July 1l.-tPl-
The opinion in the appeal Of as
Hoover Democrats" for a man.
daTnuS to compel the Wichita coun-
ty democratic executive committee
TO put their names on the primary
ballot as a candidate for precinct
chairman will be handed down by
the second court Of civil appeals
here tomorrow morning. The argu-
ments on the petition were heard
Thursday.
The office seekers, headed by j..
r. Ogle, who seeks the chairman
ship Of the Wichita county commit
tee. claim they always have been
democrats but that they exercised
their just prerogative in voting for
the republican electors in 1928 and
for a republican governor in 1924.
The respondents argued Thursday
that the petitioners comprise q po-
litical clique whose purpose is to
destroy the democratic party organ
ization in Wichita county.
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possible that the demand for citrus
might become greater than the
supply sometime In the future, they
insist that there always will be a
market for a superior product such
as the Valley produces.
They take the position that the
government is presuming a great
deal, If the reported bulletin c
tually has been issued, IN that
grapefruit Is perhaps the least
known and the least advertised Of
all the major fruits produced in
this country.
They insist there Is no possible
way TO tell to what extent demand
Tor the citrus will be increased by
an advertising campaign Of world
wide proportions. They point out
also that a vast market can and
will be opened for grapefruit in
continental Europe.
Granted that the price OF citrus
will decline. the growers and ship
pers call attention to the fact that
the Valley not only can grow the
best fruit. but can grow II more
cheaply than in any other area OF
the United States.
These fatcors, they argue. must
have been ignored without justifi-
cation In the reported government
bulletin. They are hopeful that
Texas representatives in congress
can bring the necessary pressure 70
bear in washington to remedy the
situation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
Dutch Officials
Will Visit Valley

With the object or inspecting and
studying airway facilities and air
port conditions III this section, Mex
co and in the Dutch colonial pos
sessions of Curacao and SURNAME,
with the view OF recommending inn
provementS. two or the highest
Dutch officials will pass through
Brownsville via Pan American plane
In September. according TO -fck
McDermott. local traffic representa-
tive and agent for the line.
These officials are w. U. ". Dell
aert, the harbormeester or Schiphol
and J. De Vries. OF the general Of
fees. both connected with the great
Dutch airport at Amsterdam. Word
was received here from direAOr "A.
PleSman OF the X. u. VI. lines. in
forming local officials OF the pro-
posed flight
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
POSTAL GAINS
ARE $ll57.63
Brownsville Office Shows
Steady Growth Of
City Business

Despite generally depressed bust
ness conditions over the United
States, postal receipts at the
Brownsville postoffice for the past
fiscal year reflect a healthy con-
dition in this city. according TO fig
ures released here today BY Post
master q. w. bennett.
While business was generally
Stacking off in other parts Of the
country, postal receipts here gained
$l,l57.63 over the previous fiscal
year. The total figures were $685.
1856 as compared to S64. 677.T3.
The March quarter OF 1890 show
ed a decline Of approximately $500
Is compared to the March quarter
Of 1929. This. Postmaster bennett
states. is due 10 the fact that air.
mail lines between Brownsville and
Mexico City and Brownsville and
Fort Worth were placed into opera
ton in March 1929. There was a
heavy rush for first flight covers
over these new aerial routes and
consequently the March 1929 figures
were swelled abnormally. Airmail
stamps alone for March 1929 show
ed an increase Of S370.80 over March
Of 1880 when the use OF airmail
had subsidized to normal conditions.
The postal recei1 hts at the
Brownsville office q set out below
by quarters:
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Postage Rate Raise
Now Being Advocated

WASHINGTON July ll.-lPl-
Convinced that an increase in post
age rates is the only feasible way of
lifting the worlds biggest public
untility "clt Of the red. postal Of
ficials r preparing to press their
advocacy Of a higher charge for
carrying first class mail.
When Postmaster General Brown
submits his annual report TO con-
gress in December. enactment Of
legislation authorizing the increase
is to be his most urgent recommen-
dalton. The postmaster believes a
rate or 2 IL cents an ounce on first
class mail would balance the dep
artment's budget for the present.
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GLORY BE!
How Many Times Have You
Wished for Such Chance?

SYDNEY. Australia. July il-CP-
Because a secretary was discourte-
GUS, a charitable institution here is
reported to have lost $4,000.
Charles McNesS, western Australia
millionaire and philanthropist,
walked into the institution and
asked TO see the governor ION pri-
vate business"
IF you can't state your business,
you can't 60 in" replied a secretary
tartly.
We'll. said McNess, "if that's the
way 20 utreat poor people, I might
as well tear this up"
Re tore up a check for $4,000 and
gave the secretary the fragments.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
Houston Judge Dies
OF Heart Trouble

HOUSTON, July il-Pl-Judge
J. w. Parker, widely known Houston
lawyer. died az his residence here
early today. He had suffered from
heart trouble and other complica-
tionS.
Judge Parker practiced law for
many years in Georgetown and Tay-
Tor. He moved TO Houston in 1908.
He was connected with many i'm
portant cases here in railroad liti-
CATION.
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Harlingen Requests
Report ON Canal
Especial 70 The Herald)


HARLINGEN, July 1l-While
plans are under way for an active
campaign to bring the intra-coast-
al canal to Harrington. the chamber
Of commerce has invited the naviga-
ton district officials to appear at
the next meeting and give complete
reports on their past activities and
future plans.
It Is the desire OF the chamber 10
promote only activities toward OBJ
tanning a nine-foot channel. The
navigation district for a long time
has made strenuous efforts To bring
deep water to Harlingen by cutting
through Padre Island. and j. B.
Chambers and Lansing Beach have
been personal representatives IN
washington.
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issue
Vote IS Set
AUGUST 8
Twenty Thousands
To Be Expended
On Streets

A $4,000 bond issue election for
a city filtration plant has been
called for August 8. according to
city manager z. A. Rosenthal Fri
day afternoon.
City commissioners met at the
city hall Friday morning in a leng-
thy session to decide this question,
among others.
1t was also authorized that $4,000
be spent in street repair work, Mr..
Rosenthal said.
The bond issues election will be
advertised Immediately in news
papers and other channels, the city
manager added.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
GETS
HOOVER'S PEN

The pen with which President
Herbert Hoover signed the rivers
and harbors bill, giving the Valley
her deep water port, was received
in Brownsville Friday morning by
r. B. Creager, national Republican
committeeman.
Mr.. Creager stated that the pen
would be turned y e TO the cham
Der of commerce and will doubtless
be placed on display alongside Of
the pen already received from
Speaker Longworth.
A letter from John N. Garner,
minority leader in the House Of
Representatives, was received with
the pen. and read:
Il told Walter Newton that you
would probably want The pen that
the president signed the rivers and
harbors bill with. and he arranged
it. I enclose a note from Richey,
which explains itself. / initiated
this matter at the request Of q. G.
Richardson, secretary Of the cham
Der OF commerce, so / wish you
would be good enough to confer
with him. as I am sure he would ike
it as a memento in the chamber"
The letter from Lawrence Richey,
secretary OF the president, which
Mr.. Garner referred TO-, is as fol-
lows:
In accordance with your request
have pleasure in sending you here
with. for Colonel Creager. one OF
the pens used by the president in
signing: H. r. 1871. an act author
izing the construction. repair and
preservation Of certain public works
on rivers and harbors and for other
purposes"
The pen is brown with a black
hard-rubber grip. smooth. long and
well-polished. The pen-poiDt Is new,
and barely splotched with ink.
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no MQlCaJlOQS OF a breakdown.
Until the time the black cap was
adjusted over his head and the
moose frightened around his neck,
the desperate maintained his cool
ness.
Fleagle stood firmly on the ce-
ment floor OF the death house as
the straps were adjusted around
his legs. He made no sign as the
belt and straps were placed in po-
sit.on, pinning his arms to his
sides.
Less than ar hour before he was
hanged. Fleagle embraced the Cath
Ole faith. He was baptised in his
cell by the Rev. Father Regis Bar
rett, prison chaplain, and received
the SacramentS Of the church.
Repeats Rosary
Fleagle was saying his rosary
with Father Barrett at the moment
a guard appeared at the cell to no
tify the doomed man the execution
chamber was ready.
AS the guards stepped forward to
make final preparations, Fleagle
spoke. God bless you, Warden"
and then. turning TO Father Bar
-rett, God bless you, Father" and
then, finally, Jesus have mercy on
NY soul"
The gunman held a final reunion
with his mother, Mrs. Anne Fleagle.
his wife. Margaret. and a sister,
Mrs. Florence Miller. a few hours
before he went to his death.
Ralph and Jake Fleagle. assisted
By Howard L. Royston, California
cement worker and George j. Alb
shier. held up the Lamar bank May
%. A. N. Parrish, president, and
J. F. Parrish, his son, were fatal
" wounded during the robbery. E.
A. Kessinger. teller, was kidnapped
and later slain by the bandits. DR..
w. w. Wineinger. Dighton, Kas..
physician, who treated Royston.
shot through the jaw in the holdup.
was shot to death after he had
dressed the bandits wound.
Abshier and Royston are IN the
death house awaiting execution next
week. Jack Fleagle is still at large.
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Convict Breaks State Word

RALEIGH, N. c.. July ii-CPH
Otto Wood, convict. subject 10 an
experiment In humanities" BY
Governor o. Max Gardner, was at
large today.
In his fourth escape from Gen.
trail prison yesterday Wood broke
a pledge that he not try 70 escape
again as long as Governor Gardner
was in office.
After his third escape. Governor
Gard1ler singled Wood out for an
experiment, had him released from
solitary confinement in a veritable
dungeon where he had spent rs
months and made him an honor
prisoner.
Wood was serving from % Ia to
30 years for the murder Of a Green's
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
Picking Price Set
AT 75c Hundred
Especial TO The Herald)

Especial to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, July ll.-Forty in
terested cotton growers. represent
ing more than half the communities
of Cameron county. met in the city
hall here last night for the purpose
Of fixing cotton picking prices. A
maximum OF 75c per hundred was
decided upon. pickers to furnish
their own sacks.
The following officers we're elected
for the countrywide organization:
p. r. Cricket. Stuart Place, chair
man: z. w. Brown. San Benito.
vice chairman. and F. q. Stringer,
Harrington. secretary.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11

boro p~avnbroker. He was commit
ted in 1923. and Is wanted in Vir-
ginia and Tennessee after compile
ton Of his term here. Previously
he escaped from the Ohio state
penitentiary.
When made an honor prisoner he
told the governor: II won't offer you
my word Of honor. because that
wouldn't be much: but you can be
sure of one thing. Ill never run
away IS long as you are governor"
The governor. when ne learned Of
Woods escape, said: Il do not re-
gret releasing him from solitary
confinement but / do regret his
betrayal of my trust in trying TO
treat him humanely as other pris-
oners &C states prison are treated"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-11
Please Be Careful

DALLAS, July l.-tPEThis may
prove something and IL may not. A
watermelon seed was taken from the
ear Of a three-year-old negro girl at
the emergency hospital today.
They sho' Is geen good this year.
amt they2" she remarked to the
doctors. speaking Of Texas water
melons.
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Miller Peaceful
Citrus Growers Net
Favorable Returns
Especial 70 The HeraldJ

A9kNNA1A ~ 4AC A&GA444g
WESLACO. July ll-Citrus grow
ers in the Rio Grande Valley this
year got favorable returns from
their products in so far as the
markets we're concerned.
John Shary Of the Texas Citrus
Fruit Exchange reports that the
average received for Duncan Golden
Grapefruit was S3.l6 per hundred
lbs. net TO the grower; Marsh Seed
less Golden Grapefruit brought the
grower in excess or $3.50 per hun
dred lbs; Foster Pink Grapefruit
brought the grower around $3.75 per
hundred lbs. The above prices are
made on a basis Of sizes 81 TO 20 and
80 fruit to the box. and these prices
we're reported by the Texas Citrus
Fruit Exchange.
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3 CANDIDATES
BAY AT HEELS
OF STERLING
Ferguson Falls Back
On Healed Sore
OF Klu Klux
CBy The Associated Press)

Campaign fires flared merrily
Friday under the impulse Of new
fuel, as Ross S. Sterling Of Hous-
ton. highway commission chairman
and gubernatorial aspirant, was
rapidly becoming the storm center
Of the campaign for the Democratic
nomination.
state Senator Clint c. Small, at
Waco yesterday, declared: Texas
needs as governor a man who has
nerve enough TO discuss other prob
lens Of state government besides
the issuance of state road bonds.
ne added that strip Nj. Sterling
OF his robes OF office as highway
commissioner and his 5000 campaign
managers on the payroll OF the
state, take him down to the finan-
cial size OF the rest Of US candi-
dates and make him run on his own
merits, and he wouldn't get as
many votes as 'Soapy' Moody"
Most of the other speeches also
wer edirected against Sterling. At
Austin, Mayfield declared sterling
was spending vast sums Of money"
and asserted he had een such
an open, braZen and defiant at
tempt TO buy the governors office
as Is being made today by the Ross
S. Sterling forces"
X. X. X. Is Heard
Speaking at Yoakum for the can
didacy Of his wife, former Governor
James <. Ferguson declared at a
public rally that Sterling was head
Of the K. K. K. organization in
Houston, with the proposition that
members pay eighteen dollars for
a three-dollar robe, but this bond
proposition is a worse holdup." The
at Brennan tonight.
Sterling, at San Angelo, continued
TO pound away in his speech with
an explanation Of his $3.50, 10000 900
highway bonding plan, to be fin
anced by income from gasoline tax
revenues.
He directed his attack at Lieut..
AON. Daily NAL44CAs W4AOAAA az AAAACA
"a nice man. but he has been shoot
ing a lot Of bunk to the people"
Small Cornered
Sterling asserted Miller had de-
clared in a speech at San Angelo
that the income Of the highway
department was $50, 1000 900 a year.
I'm here TO tell you that 1t is no
such thing" Sterling said. 1T is
$50. $50 900 a year"
Directing his attention - Clint
Small, Sterling said The voted for
submission of the $4,000 900 state
road bond issue when that measure
was before the Texas legislature. He
was for it then.
Thomas B. Love. in an address
last night at the North Texas
Teachers college at Denton remark
ed concerning the amount Of money
he believed Jim Young and Clint
Small were spending in their rival
campaigns. He predicted he would
win the nomination by a majority
Of $4,000 to $4,000 votes in the first
primary.
Miller Peaceful
Lieut.. Gov. Barry Miller. at
Springtown. stressed that part of
his platform which calls for the
state buying Texas products when
ever practicable.
His platform for tax relief and op-
position to proposed relocation of
the penitentiary system made up
the subject for Congressman jim
Young's address at Galveston.
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SHOWERS

'SpFCIdL 20 Inc HeraIdI
SAN BEN1TO, July 1l-Spotted
showers over the Valley continue
to cause considerable damage Cd
cotton, IN the opinion or w. r..
Boyd. cotton expert with the Valley
Ginning company. The area eff
fected yesterday was reported as
Lasara and the Hargill section,
where the heaviest picking has been
going on and which has heretofore
been more fortunate than the re-
mainder Of the Valley III escaping
rain.
No check has been made in gin
nings since yesterday. IL was re-
ported at that time as a total OK
500 bales.
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lSnacIal I'd The Heraldl

HARLINGEN. July 11.-Harlingen
police are looking for the first bur-
glars operating In this section for
some time. The stolen goods In this
instance consist OF a cigarette vend-
ing machine, taken from the front
Of the Frozen Custard stand On the
highway.
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Expert to Pass On
Sits for Airport

Especial 20 the HeraIdJ
HARLINGEN. July ll.-Marshall G.
Hoppin. government airport inspec-
tor and specialist, will arrive by
plane in Brownsville this afternoon
at 4:30 for inspection Of Harlingen
airport sites. He is sent here by
the United States Department Of
Commerce at the request Of the
local chamber or commerce.
A number OF sites are In line for
the proposed airport. and Mrs. Hop
pin is to pass judgment as to the
one best suited.