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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Called Meeting
Monday, 2:30

N1PSOldl w Lie FtIdlQl
HARLINGEN, May 3-Business
men Of Harrington have been ap-
pealed to by the chamber OF COM
merce to join hand with land COM
panies in their movement to offset
adverse publicity TO the Valley cir
culated in the North and East by
the Better Business Bureau IN A
cities.
Leading business men as well as
representatives Of land companies
are requested to attend the meeting
called by A. J. McColl. land pro-
motor. at his clubhouse at McAllen
Monday afternoon at 2:30. Several
already have signified their inten-
ton Of attending the conference.
The chamber of commerce hopes
to have a delegation Of not less than
fifty business and land men leave
here at ! o'clock Monday afternoon
for the conference.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Gold Star Mothers
Leave for France

WASHINGTON, May 3.-tP-
Two hundred and t~hirty-two wo-
men, many Of whose horizons have
been limited TO rows Of corn, cac-
tus or sage brush glimpsed from
kitchen windows, tomorrow are
starting on a 500 mile journey by
rail and steamer.
They form the first contingent OF
the 5000 Gold Star widows and
mothers who will be taken this
spring and summer on one Of the
most unique journeys OF sentiment
ever undertaken by any govern
ment. They are TO visit the graves
OF their sons and husbands in the
war cemeteries in France
Ten women who will sail with the
first contingent Wednesday will ar
rive in washington Monday or
their way 10 New York.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Fin Is Assessed
San Benito Driver

SAN BENITO. May 3.-Lewis
Battle was convicted Of reckless
driving by a jury in Justice Of the
Peace L. NJ. Valdetero's court here
Friday.
The case grew out OF q three
cornered wreck April /.
Battle was given a small fine.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Soviet Documents
Declared Forgeries

NEW YORK, May 3-LPJ-Pur-
porting TO show that Soviet agents
have been sent here from Russia
to foment strikes and riots may Oh
may not be f~0rgeries, but police
commissioner Grover Whalen re
CARDS them ms evidence and ne Is
going 10 keep them.
The commissioner made some OF
the documents public yesterday and
they were Immediately declared
spurious by Peter "A. Bogdancv.
chairman Of AmtOrE, Soviet trading
corporation. One or the papers was
a letter on AmtOrE stationery signed
with the name or an AmtorR or
fetal and listing more than a score
Of alleged secret Soviet agents In
this country. Bogdanov's name was
on the list.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

were knocked 70 the ground buL
were unhurt.
Hail OF Missiles
The 50-ton boiler was hurtled 800
feet away. 1t tore a hole in the
ground about Sour feet deep when
it struck. then bounced 100 feet
further before it stopped
The train was moving slowly
down a slight grade when the ex-
plosion occurred. When the train
left Roanoke, three miles from the
blast scene, Turner had been in the
engine cab. He said he saw Weld
man on the second back and a few
minutes. before the explosion,
crawled to join him. Weidman said
that he heard a dull thud." The
next thing I knew I was picking
myself off the ground" he said,
For the next few minutes 7 was
kept busy lodging the hail Of mis-
siles. There was SO much steam j
couldn't see what was happening"
Boiler Blown Into sky
J. S. Waller. Fort Worth, con-
ductor and F. w. Laird, Bonham, a
brakeman. were in the caboose
Waller said he heard the explosion
which was not loud, braced himself
for a shock and looking ahead. saw
the cloud Of steam He said he
knew instantly what had happened
and ran up ahead. He was the first
to reach the bodies OF the dead men.
five minutes after the blast.
One Of the six-foot drive wheels
rolled so feet and a pony truck
ploughed a furrow for more than
800 yards. The cab Of the engine
was demolished although the chas-
is was still on the track.
". r.. Stephenson. whose farm
house Is situated about 200 feet
from the scene was sitting In mis-
front room with two nieces. Misses
Thelma and Billie Helm who are
visiting him from Clay county. He
said they heard the explosion and
rushed to the door to see the huge
boiler descending from the sky less
than 100 feet from the house.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

1t was estimated Saturday that
the final figures will be slightly ov-
er a 100 per cent increase over the
1920 figures. which were nearly
$4,000. The population that will be
accredited to Brownsville in 1896
will be around $4,000 or $4,000, it
was said. The increase to date Is
close to 20 per cent.
Districts Completed
All districts in the city limits
have been completed but not COM
piled, the last section being fin
ished Friday. City census enumer-
ators Immediately went to work on
it.
The city men will turn in many
new names that have been missed,
and the total numbers will be
boosted materially" 1t vas stated
Saturday. They are going over the
city with a fine-comb."
Especial attention is being paid
TO the western and northeastern
portions Of the city.
Harlingen Busy
Federal enumerators began re-
ceiving their first p~ay-checks Fri
day and Saturday. Immediately
upon completion of their districts
their cards were checked and their
salaries determined.
John +. Floore. secretary Of the
Harrington Chamber Of Commerce
announced Saturday afternoon that
the San Benito census totals were
higher than that Of Harrington. anc
urged that added impetus be given
the work Of getting additional
names TO the HarlinEen returns.
The chamber Of commerce there
Is rechecking the city with the aid
Of volunteer workers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Californian Crashes
In Glider Contest

/. SAN DIEGO. Calf. May 3-tP,-
Jack Barstow crashed on Point
Iona at about z o'clock tonight, af-
ter having been up 8 hours and one
minute in an effort to officially
break the worlds glider record.
He was found among the ruins
Of his machine in a canyon. bleeding
from the head and mouth and in
jured in the back. but able to talk.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
CREACER CASE
OPENS MONDAY
Forty-Eight Witnesses Are
Called In Million
Dollar Suit

With the r.. %. Creager-C Golfers
81, 200, 900 libel suit scheduled TO
open in the federal district court
Monday morning with Judge w. l..
Estes on the bench. the clerks Of
flee was swamped with a flood OF
subpoenas Saturday.
The defendant asked service upon
48 witnesses, 50 of whom reside in
Hidalgo county. and l3 OF whom live
in Cameron county. The plaintiff
has ordered only three witnesses
supoenaed but has obtained a num-
Der OF dispositions.
A grand jury will begin grinding
away Monday when court is open
ed. II will have only one week
ahead Of il, as another grand jury
will have to be drawn for the May
term OF court.
"A flood Of witnesses. grand jurors,
jurors and other interested parties
was expected 10 come into Browns
vile Sunday and Monday. "A panel
Of go jurors has been ordered from
Houston, Galveston. Victoria and
Corpus Christi districts OF the
southern federal district Of Texas.
Truth Pleaded
The trial Is expected to attract
nation wide attention. Golfers Ma
ti0nal Weekly is one Of the lead
ing publications of the United States
while Creager Is the national repub-
lican committeeman from Texas. He
is high in republican political circles
having several times turned down
the u. S. ambasSadorship to Mexico
The suit has grown out OF two
articles which were published in
Golfers. The first was Jobs foI
Jack which dealt with alleged con
ditions OF republican patronage In
Texas. The second dealt with the
political situation in Hidalgo county
and was headed "High-Handed anC
Hell-Bent.r Its author. owen p
White, is now in the Valley, aiding
lawyers in compiling evidence to be
presented.
The defendants, p. +. Golfers
Distributing c%0Tp0ati0n and the
ICrowell Publications company, plead
truth Of the articles as their defense
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Girls Charges Are
Probed by Officers

Preliminary hearings for Bill Ryan
and Elmer Eubanks, La Feria young
men. charged With attempting to
commit statutory offenses, have
been passed to next week.
Bond IN each Of these cases has
been set at 81 1900.
The charges were filed after three
girls complained TO the sheriff's
department following a party.
The preliminary hearings were
postponed Saturday to allow the
district attorneys office to further
investigate the cases.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
WOMEN GOLFERS
TO MEET HERE
Texas State Championship of 1891 Will Be
Fought on Brownsville Club Course
Mrs. Works Is President .ya.

While Brownsville Saturday was busy entertaining visiting golf players
from Monterrey women golfers Of Texas in the championship meeting
at Texarkana voted 70 stage the state tournament az Brownsville In 1891.
And Mrs. 3. Q. Works OF Brownsville was elected president or the asso-
citation.
This means that next year over "a hundred on the best women w1elderE
Of the golf stick will gather In this city to determine who shall reign ms
champion. At Texarkana approxmately 80 qualified In each the first
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Storms Halt
Flight for Record

COTTON. Cal. May 3-P-Frank
Goldsborough. 10. flier Of Jackson
Heights. N. Y.. halted temporarily
In his record breaking junior trans
continental dash today because
heavy rain storms.
The Youthful aviator. son OF
Bryce GoldSbOrough. pilot Of the
i'll fated trans = Atlantic plane
Dawn" attempted this morning 70
nv the remaining 40 miles Of his
cross country flight from Westfield,
". u, to Los Angeles, but rain
forced him TO return 10 his bean
field landing place.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

For Brownsville and the Valley
Mostly cloudy and unsettled
Oklahoma: Showers and thunder
storms Sunday; Monday, probably
fair in west. thundershcwers An east
portion
East Texas: Local thundershuwerr
Sunday, fresh possibly strong south
erly winds ON the coast; Monday
partly cloudy. Except probabi
showers IN east portions. Frea
southerly winds on the coast.
West Texas: Partly cior =
coded by thundershowers. IA
portion Sunday Mond' a.
clOuays M
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Dallas Flooded

DALLAS, May 3-tPl-More rain
fell within one hour in Dallas to-
night than fell here during the
entire month OF April. The down
pour. OF almost ~clOudburst proper
tons. flooded strets in sections
Of the city and highways leading
TO Dallas.
Automobiles were stalled on down.
town streets here and the fire de-
partment was called upon to pump
water from the easements Of sew
eral buildings.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

and second flight, not to mention
those who failed to enter either,
and 1t is thought even more wiz at
tend a meeting down on the Rio
Grande.
When the news was flashed over
the Associated Press wires to The
Herald office and passed on 70 local
golfers Joy reigned In country club
circles.
While a big gallery was follow
ing the Texarkana players in the
finals yesterday afternoon, the ex-
ecutive committee met and award
eel the 1891 meeting place TO Browns
vile and elected the Brownsville
woman president.
Fort Worth and Brownsville were
bidding for the honor Of the meet
ing place. At the last moment
Fort Worth withdrew its bid in IA
vor Of the border city.
When the shooters gather here
next year, they will find Mrs. Clay
G.. Cary OF Cedar Crest Country
club. Dallas. defending her state
crown. This was placed upon her
head yesterday afternoon when she
defeated Mrs. Il. w. Magruder OF
Spring Lake Country club Waco
and 3.
When Mrs. Works arrived In Tex
arkana she wired back that snf
might have a chance to bring the
meeting to Brownsville. Her ~ wa
then supported by kilograms from
members and officials OF tht
Brownsville Country club, and thf
brownsville Chamber OF Commerce
The result Of the flood OF telegram
was that Fort Worth withdrew he'
bid.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Woman Is Injured
In Sooner Cyclone

FUTILE. Okla, May SIP
Mrs. Ben Jackson. wife OF "a dairy
farmer living half a mile west Ny
Tuttle. was injured seriously early
tonight when a tornado unroofed
their dwelling. Falling rafers mar
rowly missed Jackson and four
children who were in the house.
Four other houses In the vicinity
OF Tuttle were damaged by the
wind.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

and the nf~t time he wouldn't. we
felt mighty bad until ne told us that
his wife nee followed said double
for two blocks to overtake him and
declare 1t time for him TO be getting
home to lunch
MINATED Annie OF our office
~ burst out yesterday with the
observation that a glass Of Rio
Rey filled with crushed ice Is the
hot stuff. Do you wonder that the
English could not understand our
stenos at the peace parley?
CENSUS takers will soon have
completed their work Of telling
us just how big these cities we
have been dreaming about really
are.
For years our business men and
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Brownsville Count 1850
City Now Expected to Tabulate $500 Souls
Harlingen Secretary Asks Campaign

Saturdays census figures brings BrownsviIes total to around 1880. It
was estimated, with approximately TAO new names turned in by chamber
Of commerce workers.
Brownsville will be satisfied with the final census returns" Of
ncias said late Saturday night. The count IS rapidly nearing completion.
and all work will come to a close not later than next Saturday. May 10
is the official day. but 1t may be extended for a few days more. If
necessary"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

to the office today
to that
II looks q little
cloudy for many
Valley chamber of
commerce popu-
lation estimates,
which have been
proudly referred
to in so many let
tiers for the past
decade. S a y S
many Of the sec-
retaries are slow
ly floating down
out OF the clouds.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Hoover Supported

WASHINGTON. May 3-P-The
house. by big majorities. stood by
President Hoover twice in the long
contest over the tariff today and
refused to accept the senate's ex-
port debenture amendment and
modified flexible clause withdraw
ing executive authority TO make
emergency changes in the struc-
ture.
Party lines split on both votes,
the debenture rejected 23l 20 161
and the legislative flexible prov-
sion 236 to 154.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

clearly IN many instances that the
dream has at times become an ac-
tuaI reality. In this way they have
added a bit from time TO time 10
their best estimates of their towns
population until the estimate and
the actual count will show somewhat
Of a difference.
The little weather cat stepped in
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Too Many Loops

ST. LOUIS. May 3.-tP-Miss
Laura ingalls,. %. OF New York City,
established a new women's record
for consecutive loops in an airplane
bv executing 344 oops at Lambert
st. Louis field late today. The
former record Of Is loops was held
by Miss Mildred Kaufman Of KAN
sRg City.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

Scotland m a d c
famous.
j. w. Derby. one
OF the golfers with
( h e Monterrey
shooters, has a
double in his home
town. We thought
In Monterrey once
We Just " e T c
plumb d u m b
when we would
speak 10 Mr.. Der
by one time and
he would know us
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Aggravated Assault
Charges Are Filed

Charges Of aggravated assault
have been filed against Bob Bradley
Of Harlingen through the Sheriff's
department.
Bradley's bond has been set at
$3.50.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
R~aymondville Truck
Smashes Building
Especial to The Herald)

RAYMONDVILLE. May 3.-The
front OF the chamber Of commerce
building was smashed here yester-
day when a Sweeney Coca Cola
truck rammed through the plate
glass. No one was injured in the
mishap.
The front of the frame and stuc-
CO building was showed back several
feet by the impact.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Train Boiler Blown Skyward
Two Killed in Explosion Near Fort Worth
Farmer Sees Wreckage in Air

FORT WORTH, May 3-CR-Claude Gremm, 50, engineer and :. w.
Wade, fireman, were killed when the boiler Of the locomotive No 54 pull
ing the southbound Texas g. Pacific local freight train, exploded two
miles north OF Keller this afternoon. Gremm lived in Fort Worth.
Wades home is in Bonham.
The bodies, scalded, were picked up on the highway, about so Dr. rs
feet away. Two brakemen, @. @. wedman, Fort Worth, and II. L.
Turner, Bonhan, riding on the second car back from the locomotive
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
BUSINESS UP
Postoffice Receipts Show
Increase for 1880

Receipts Of the Brownsville post
office for April 1880 show an in
crease OF S699.06 over the same
period Of 1929, or an increase OF
approximately 10 IL per cent. ac-
cording to figures released by Post
master q. w. bennett.
Heavy purchases by business
firms account for the increase.
The April figures. hitting a new
high for 1880, gave Brownsville a
$205.35 increase for the four-months
period OF January, February, March
and April, as compared to the same
period last year.
The comparative figures follow:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

LlOSe w II o e
heartedly interest
ed in the growth
Of Valley cities
and towns have
stepped to then
windows, a n d,
looking out have
dreamed Of sky
scraperS and The
din Of a nletrop-
oils.
In fact, they
have not o ! Y
dreamed it, but
ha forSeen it sc
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

nut 1t has always been noticed
M that a man or a community
that neither dreams. hopes or
strives, rarely ever does anything.
The weather cat says he will take
the over-ambitious in preference to
the purely lazy any day in the year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
ALTUS HIT

ALTUS. Okla, May 3.-tP-Sev-
eral small buildings were destroyed,
the city grandstand was wrecked
and trees were uprooted and hurled
across streets here sarly tonight
when q brief windstorm struck the
city,.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
q ON THE i n

ANEW YORK = Lord Derby is here
with his umbrella. He carries
II rain or shine. II Is a habit
ne acq-eSed in Liverpool. where there
is rain often. He does not wear
spats; he carries no cane. The last
cigar he smoked was IS years ago.
And when he presents a cup at
Churchill Downs he intends to plead
with his hearers 70 pronounce the
name of the race Darby"
NEW YORK - The happiest man
in the world. as he calls himself.
has lived within q mile Of the heart
Of Manhattan for so years without
ever doing q lick Of work, riding a
street car or automobile or talking
'1ver the telephone. Thomas Bauer,
-, has been ct the city almShouse
on Welfare island. in the East river,
since 1880, q victim Of q mild form
nc psrnlyEss.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
IN OUR

By CHARLES Halls

ATEST dope on the Senate hear
Il ing on the Pit. Isabel Browns
vile deep water project Is that
y will come up between May Is and
90.
II that omnibus bill will pass the
senate as IL did the house. lots O.
people are going to be glI 1 they did
not heed Wisconsin and bought VAL
ley land anyway.
Had q letter from a man in ILL
nois telling Us in detail how right
Wisconsin is in its steps with refer
snce to Valley land. Said he had a
few acres down here making mostly
salt water, and intimating that for
that reason the Valley is no good
for investment purposes.
No one In the Valley with the ex-
.eption Of INSCRIPTIONS persons. has
ever recommended a salt water bog
as an investment. Which reminds
Us that an article once printed in
The Saturday Evening Post once sent
thousands Of land purchasers to Ark
anSas.
4AAOcC lldL h4iCW Adl4Q Pu4NAlGcCA
-ich Valleys and are still there. Those
that did not bought rocky hills it
would take an airplane to get TO and
would grow nothing. OF course, the
latter are not there nov.
CAPTAIN Z. z. Bailey OF the good
II, ship M. p. wanted to know when
the port would be ready for him
to make a landing down here. Said
he thought he would find 1t profit
able to haul down a load of lumber
and take back a load Of good fresh
produce to Houston.
When Captain Jones. his compan-
on IN recent distress talked you could
almost smell the salt. He has been
going TO sea only forty years and
once had an experience in the Artic
regions similar TO the one IN the
Gulf Of Mexico.
TODAY we have with us the hot
shots Of Monterrey all tangled
I'D with the best that Browns
Vile has 10 offer in the game that
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04
Harlingen Banquets
Collegiate Visitors
lSnecial Ia IND Heraldl

FoDtCldI 20 Tic ntIdIII
HARLINGEN. May "a large
number of students from Texas
College OF Arts and Industries at
Kingsville were guests or the Har-
lingen Chamber OF Commerce here
Saturday night. Others In the
party included the mayor or Kings
vile and officials Of the college. "A
banquet was rendered the visitors
at the Plaza hotel shortly after
their arrival at six p. m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-04

Surely You Need Insurance
Rio Grande Valley Trust Co.-Ady.
YoungstownskeÌ SlovenskeÌ noviny = Youngstown Slovak news. (Youngstown, Ohio) 1910-1940, 1930-11-21
BRAT1A RUs1NI DosTANU AUToNoMIU

I'o 12-rocnom pref ahovani Podka1patska Rus do
sane ajbzsej dohe auononiu ak jej zarlcuj nie-
rov smuva. W vraj robene plipravy vol BAN do
podkar1)ator1lskGho sncmu.
Bratom podkarpatskIm Rusom blahozeame k ilspe-
c. On nenlal lfgic, neda million doalov revOluc-
MI akcl, ale mali nlizov meste preto dostann auto
noniu I'm nebolo tleba Cevelandskej Dohody All Mo-
skovskej Dohody, al, Pittsburghskej Dohody. Oni sa
ncspolieha bratsk venost dodrzanie cestneho "a
vazku. Oni 81 s merov1 konferenciu pre- svou
narodni potck slobodu a dostali jul.
Ny pevne verime, ze autonomu dostaneme my Slo-
vaci O1olnost dona prazskll vladu k toml. Donlti
u nasrbenie rov1akosti Statneho sriadena ktore auto
nomia Podkarpatskej Rusi zapricn1. Sovensko bude
mat svoj slem i Cesko Morava, prazsky parliament
bude mat malo roboty Potion ami nam nebude Praha
vymentvat udl zpoza Moray polcajtov, llradnl
kov, profesorov suhov. Slovensko bude patrit
Slovakom slovencna bude panovat Ia Slovensku Il
radoch slkromloi verejnom zivote v0bec