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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
Teacher Faces
Whipping Charges

TExARKANA. Ark. Jan. 31.-R
Charged with "cruelly whipping
IA child. Louis Watkins. l4. Mrs.
Emmett Huff principal of the Plea
SAINT Hill school in Miller county
viii seek a change Of venue when
arraigned Monday before Justice
Lynn mo Fort Lynn She said today.
MRS. Huff has been n county teach
er Tor ten years. She claimed the
schoolboy had been bullying"
smaller children and that ne took a
rifle and fired several shots into the
schOnlhouSe. which was vacant rt
the time. The charge against her
was brought by the Watkins boys
parents.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.zP-
a show down" ON Ralph i. KEEL
ley's oil charges was demanded to-
day by the administration at the
opening OF tile Senate's investiga-
ton Of statements made BY the
former land office official.
Secretary Wilbur insisted the
lands committee make a full in
vestigati0n and give the interior
department an opportunity 70 ans
wer every charge. Simultaneous
ly Senator Glenn. republican, I'LL
nois. demanded the committee tn
quire into the circumstances sur
rounding publication OF the charges.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
Harvesting Ceases AS
Rains Fall Over
Section
SHIPMENTS
To Date Show Decrease
Compared With Those
OF Last Year

HARLINGEN, Jan. 81. -Carlot
shipments Of Valley vegetables and
fruits dropped from a Gays record
OF 3e7 carloads on Jan. % to within
a tenth Of this daily volume during
the past week due to continued
rains which interfered extensively
with harvesting and the movement
for the season, including forward
ings Of Frioay morning, totalled
$500 CARROTS.
To date a year ago shipments
totalled 1852 cars or 1892 more
than the total SO far this season.
January %, the Missouri Pacific
forwarded 226 cars Of which 116
were cabbage and the Southern
Pacific III OF which AZ were cab
bage. This made a grand total OF
297 cars Of which I59 were cabbage.
That was the day the market for
cabbage took a drop. II has since
seen a recovery rains having work.
ed well with plans OF growers to
stop cutting until prices took a rise.
IN contrast with this heavy move
ment, there were only % cars OF
fruits and vegetables out Friday
Of which Is were cabbage.
To date this season the Valley
has forwarded ais ears or fruit,
or 1873 less than the total TO date
last season of 1888.
Weslac0 Holds Lead
The vegetable gain shown last
week declined this week due % q
drop in shipments. put yer still
"A cars ahead Of last season Friday.
The comparative figures were 1913
for this season and 3,845 10 date
last season.
WesIaco held easily 70 its grand
Continued on page 81
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
Vanderbilt Says He
Did Meet Mussolini

PHOENIX. Ariz.. jan 31-tPl-
The silence Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.
has maintained over the remark at
tributed TO him in which Premier
Mussolini Of italy was pictured rs a
hit and run driver was broken
briefly today In a denial OF a state
ment from the italian foreign Of
flee that he never met Mussolini.
Vanderbilt declined direct COM
ment on his meeting with II Duce,
but mentioned two cables from
Rome In 1925 referring to the meet
Ing and said they were true"s
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

Starting Sunday Feb. l. the inter
national bridge here will fsmain
open "a hours a day
Orders 10 this effect had been re-
ceived BY United States customs and
ing similar instructions from Mex
ing similar Instructions from Mex
leo City 70 Matamoros officials the
outcome had been In doubt Orders
were received Saturday i~nstructing
Mexican customs and immigrations
men, and as a result the bridge viii
remain open day and night.
The old International Bridge,
operated by the Missouri Pacific,
has been closed to motor vehicle
traffic since Wednesday morning
when an order closing the bridge
was received from Mexico CITY NO
definite reason for the shutting
down Or the bridge was given, a.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
Prepare Charges
Against Gen. Butler

Plans for court martial proceedings
against Major General Smedley y.
Butler moved slowly ahead today as
the Navy prepared specific charges
on the basis OF u~tterances which
provoked an American apology to
Premier Mussolini.
Rear Admiral Davis X. Sellers,
Judge advocate general or the Navy,
declined 70 see newSpapermen but
busted himself In the task OF get
ting charges ready for approval OF
Secretary Adams
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
Legislators Are
Entertained Sat,

HOUSTON, Jan. 31-tP)-Round-
~ entertained today at the big
shore home OF Gov. Ross 8. Sterl-
ing ard elsewhere, Texas legislators
prepared TO be roundly roasted
tonight In the fifth annual grid
iron dinner Of the Houston Sales
nlanship club.
The legislative branch Of Tex
ais government arrived In a body
this morning on a special train
from Austin and went almost i'm
nlediately TO Gov. Sterling's home
near Morgan's Point. There the
members had a country" break
fast and for luncheon they were
taken TO the home o. j. M. West.
capitalist. on Clear Lake. This af-
ternoon. they rode down the Hous-
ton ship channel I'm q small fleet
oil yachts and lanucneM
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
Texas Cities Forge
Ahead With Building

DALLAS. Tex, Jan. 31.-tP9-The
close Of January saw Texas cities
forging ahead with new building
plans. as reflected in permits for
the week. Dallas led the state
with a total OF S119. 1895. H~ouston's
weekly total was not available but
its total for the year thus far was
the highest in the state. S1.026. 742.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

COLORADO Tex, Jan. 3f-fP-
Nearly ESQ farmers met here today
To discuss drought relief. ~. WV.
5tuneorac, key banker f1r Mitchell
county. presided and explained tn
detail the plan Or governing drought
relief loans. Others who addressed
the meeting we're G.. Hall, Lnrainn.
J. H. Greene WV. q. Foster and I'll
". Thompson, OF Colorado
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
Harlingen Company
Increases Capital

WHARTON, Tex, Jan. 31.-tP)-
w. M. Stafford of Wharton, in a
business deal consummated today.
became active vice president and a
large stakeholder in the Bankers
Securities company OF Houston and
Harlingen. An amended charter
was granted. increasing the capital
paid up stock Of the company from
$250,0 900 to $ 1000. 900.
Will r. Miller OF Houston, vice
president OF the Bankers Mortgage
association, is president OF the
company: Jack Stack. Harrington
real estate man, first vice president;
and B. Boeden OF Houston, secre-
tary and treasurer. Offices will be
maintained in Houston.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
S. Benito Couple on Hunt
Indulge in Hide-and-Seek

in doing so, became hopelessly lost
herself.
He returned to the car about 2
o'clock. and found that Miss Oliver
was gone. Becoming alarmed
he teiephoned to the BOX Ranch
for a searching party, which was
formed.
Meanwhile. Miss Oliver wander
ed for miles through the brush,
losing one Of her shoes. she finally
found a residence, and the two were
brought together agaiTs at IL o'clock
If that's not hide-and-seek. what
is7
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
HIS BREAKFAST
= X y X
EGGS ARE GONE
y y = = =
BUT HE VOTES

There's n man In Cameron
county who's determined to have
his say In civic affairs even If he
is forced to forego his breakfast
eggs.
He strobe into the courthouse sat-
urday with two hens. under his
arms. "Ili sell them for SITS" the
gentleman announced.
Said gentleman did not make
clear just what he was going to do
with the SITS. However. the fact
that a long string or persons was
jamming the courthouse 70 purchase
SITS worth OF voting rights may
have been more than a coincidence.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

LOS FRESNOS. Jan. 3I-Frank-
lin Edwards and Miss Nellie Oliver
must have been playing hide-and-
seek.
The two. both residents Of San
Benito. were on a hunting trip near
Los Fresnes, Mr.. Edwards, rather,
was hunting while Miss Oliver
read q magazine in the car.
Three short stories. two articles
and a crossword puzzle later. Miss
Oliver decided that her male es-
ccrt was lost. as he hadn't return
Cd. she started to hunt for him, and
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01
CAV staff Corresnondentl

EDINBURG, Jan. 31.-Suit seek
ing to enjoin the city Of Edinburg
from collecting city taxes ove and
above S1.50 on the 500 valuation
was filed in the 9Srd District Court
here this noon by the Hidalgo Coun-
ty Taxpayers League and indivi-
dual citizens OF Edinburg. George
G. Clough. attorney for the Tag
payers League. represents the
Plaintiffs.
Tax rate of the city Of Edinburg
Is now set at $3.50 on the 500
valuation, a figure which the plain
tiffs allege Is illegal, as 1t is al
legged that the population Of the
city is under 5000 persons.
The suit alleges that $50 per
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

WASHINGTON. Jan. 81. tFl-
Prediction that the democrats would
not control the next house was
made In the house today by Chair
man Shell. Of the rules committee.
The New Yorker declared that II
the democrats had a majority Of
about Is in the next house. neither
minority leader Garner nor Repre-
sentative Crisp would be clamoring
for liberalization OF the house
rules.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

Those were the days when the
driver stopped TO pick up the head
OF cabbage that fell from the wagon
on its way TO the shipping shed.
Those we're the days when San
Benito celebrated its annual cab
bage carnival every March ~.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

Those were also the days when
It was a problem to get freight
ears enough to carry the Valley
cabbage crop to market. when cab
bage was piled along the railroad
right OF way and left to rot for
lack OF Transportation facilities.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

In late years the Valleys King
Cabbage has been toppled from its
throne. II is a far cry from the
position occupied by cabbage
crop today to that OF 1914. o. was
IL 1915, when the potential kraut
was bringing from 500 to SIPS per
ton.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

Right now Frank Hall Of the
California Vegetable Union has ad-
dressed a request to the roads ask
ing that the d~ifferential be re-
moved as an emergency measure.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley
Shippers Association Is proceeding
along the same lines and will, no
doubt. file a formal request with
the I. C.. G. in the near future,
asking The removal OF this extra
tariff.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

Our railroads have been and
still are among the greatest single
factors responsible for the develop
ment OF the Valley. That they will
continue to lend their efforts 70
the upbuilding OF the Valley Is
assured. It's Just n matter Of getting
together. and may that day be
speeded.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

And then along came the Mis-
souri, Pacific and acquired the
Saint l.. 3. e. M, as Dave O'Brien
used TO call 1t, and with the ac-
QUESTION. how things did change.
Plenty OF refrigerator cars, i'm
proved freight schedules. and the
Valley cabbage crop. along with
the carrots and beets and dandeli0n
greens and radishes and parsley
and hymisher and eggplant and
broccoli rolled merrily TO market.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

Some OF these days Valley IN
terests and the executive heads OF
the Missouri Pacific and OF the
Southern Pacific are going 70 put
their feet under the table, get their
heads together, and when they
emerge from the huddle. the rail-
road executives are going TO indi-
cate. no matter how much II hurts.
their willingness 70 accede TO the
removal OF the d~ifferential.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

And then along came the South
ern Pacific, with its nationwide
facilities, and plenty more refrig-
orator cars were available for the
ever increasing vegetable crop OF
the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

Certain Valley commercial organ
lzations have just recently been
instrumental in the preparation q
a brief attacking the differential.
which said brief Is due to be con-
sidered by the Interstate Commerce
Commission some OF these days.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

sporadically Valley interests
launch attacks on the d~ifferential,
certain elements OF our population
get excited, endeavor to start some
thing, and then the attack burns
itself out.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-01

When cabbage is $40 per ton.
nobody gives a tinker's dam about
that little old $500 per ton. When
cabbage Is s5.00 per ton, everybody
worries about that $500 per ton.
and II Is not such a little $500
either.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
Randolph Claims
Eight-Hour Day Will
Aid JobIess Porters

NEW YORK CITY.-At least four
thousand Pullman porters can be
placed back at work ii the eight-hour
day can be enforced. according to A.
Philip Randolph, president and gen.
eral organizer of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters. Ashley l.. Tot
ten, general secretary-treasurer has
been designated to appear before the
congressional committee with repre-
sentatives of the Big Four Railroad
Brotherhoods in an effort to get
reduction in the number of hours in
the working day.
The Big Four Brotherhoods are
seeking a six-hour day in order to re-
lieve unemployment in their field,
while the Sleeping Car Porters are
demanding an eight-hour day under
the Adamson Eight-Hour Act. When
this act was passed in 1916 the por-
tiers were denied hearing on the
claim that they were an morgan
lied group.
The unemployment of 1000 jobless
porters will greatly relieve distress
among this section of the workers
throughout the country. And conse-
quently it would stimulate business in
some measure among Negro districts,
Totten said.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
Federation Not
Interested In
COlored Poems

NICKSBURG. Miss. President
William Green of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor has not become ar
ticulate and active on behalf of col
ored poems in the levee camps along
the Mississippi, as enormously print
ed in last weeks newspapers, an As
ISOLATED Negro Press correspondent
found this week.
The Vieksburg Chamber of Com
merce, learning that white and col
ored laborers were held in state of
peonage ON U. s. Government work
on the Mississippi flood-control prof.
ect. protested to President Hoover,
and the u. S. Army Chief of Engi-
neers, Maj.-General Lytle Brown. in
whose jurisdiction such comes, made
a personal investigation.
For White Members
President Green got into 1t upon
receipt of reports from two Fedora
ton of Labor Investigators who sub
mitted that $500 men were working
Is hours a day, at ck-breaking
work, for starvation wages, under
brutal foremen, and forced to buy
their needs of sustenance at company
stores.
Mr.. Green's activities have been in
this connection on behalf of his
white members and not because col
ored men were, maybe still are,
"peons"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
Sccttsboro Trial Is
Set For January Is

NEW YORK. - According to an
Interpretation of a report from the
national office of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, the attorneys selected
by that organization will represent
the eight boys condemned to death
at Scottsboro before the Alabama
Supreme Court on January 10 and
not the lawyers of the International
Labor Defense, communist group.
The N. A. A. c.. p. reports that the
bills of exceptions for the appeal
filed by its attorneys have been GER
titled to the Supreme Court and that
the bills presented by George w.
Chamlee, communist attorney, were
not approved.
When the appearance is made be-
fore the Supreme Court of Alabama
on January 18, the associatiortswill
be represented by Attorneys Roder-
lex Beddow of Birmingham, Clarence
barrow of Chicago and Arthur Gar
field Hays of New York.
Wide attention has been attracted
by the case of the eight boys who
were convicted of raping two white
girl hoboes on a freight car. The
death sentence was termed illegal
lynching".
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
Would Make Lincoln's
Birthday A Holiday

WASHINGTON. - Congressman
Oscar De Priest of Illinois introduced
a bill into Congress last Thursday
asking that February u, birth ami
versary of Abraham Lincoln, be made
national legal holiday. Mr.. De
Priests bill called for the declaration
of this day as a public legal holiday
ito all intents and purpose in the
same manner as Christmas, the first
day of January, the 22nd of Feb
ruary, the 30th of May, the 4th of
July and the first Monday of Sep
TENDER are now made public holi-
days"
This is the first public bill the
Illinois Congressman has introduced
since he entered the halls of Con-
gress three years ago Other bills
introduced have been of private ma
ture calling for Congressional appro-
priations for private individuals. The
new bill was referred to the commit
tee on judiciary, of which Hatton w.
Summers, Democrat, Texas, is chair
man. Little hope is entertained for
the passage of this piece of legisla-
ton
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24

Dabney To Search For
Kin OF Nicodemus

CINCINNATI, o. - Wendell Phil
lips Dabney, astute editor of the
Union, of this city. received an in
teresting assignment, Tuesday, when
Probate Judge William II. Lueders
appointed him executor of the estate
of the late Nicodemus Jackson.
Jackson, or rather. his estate had
Importance.
Prior to his death, a week before
few people seemed to know much
about Nicodemus jackson, around so.
He was Just man about town. more
or less a bum about the streets, so
far as any information which has yet
arisen would reveal He dressed in
tatters, he ate his meals at the city
charity soup house, and generally was
regarded as a derelict.
Then a week ago he grew i'll, was
taken to. the charity section of the
General hospital, and died.
While at the hospital a handbook
was found, which showed that Jack
son had 81, 400 on deposit. His status
in life was changed at once. The
newspapers mentioned the fact, and
next day relatives" appeared in
droves. claiming to be "next of kim"
The Probate Court was swamped,
so the judge selected an undertaken
himself, had the body buried, and
appointed Editor Dabney to admin
lister the estate.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
Elders Prayers Breaks
Drought In Georgia

ATLANTA, Ga.-After three days
of prayer by Elder Caesar Nee rain
fell in south Georgia for the first
time in five months, last week.
The drought and incidental forest
fires were the severest in Georgias
history.
In futile attempt to quench the
fires the Forest Rangers had water
hauled from wells-ere they dried
up. From Valdosta to Gomorrah not
tree was left standing from which
to lynch black man, nor to shelter
a lone bird.
Elder Prayed
With moisture gone from the
earth and the air heavy with smoke
and acrid fumes of burning pine,
breathing became exceedingly diff
cult All creatures of the air, from
the tiniest to the mightiest, offered
a pitiful sight in fruitless quests for
food and water, and the wailing,
screeching, flapping of wings, set up
such a continuous din as to give life
the garb of uncannness.
Finally, Elder Hee chit his knees
anu, COiiiCiutHce OF not, lne RAIN
came-to the relief of south Georgia
from its greatest of tribulations.
Told that VIM. Pickens of the N.
A. A. C. p, had said prayer was all
right, but social force is needed to
carry on, Elder Nee replied, eyes
sir, that's what they tried to stomp
out the burning woods with-social
forces. We got the rain after we
prayed"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
Three Arrests Made In
West Virginia Lynching

CHARLESTON, W. Va. Three
white men, all brothers, were arrest
ed and arraigned Saturday on muir
der charges in connection with the
lynching early last Friday morning
Of Tom Jackson, rs, and George
Banks, 81. The accused men are r.
E., Pete and Jack Legg, who live in
Quinwood. The prosecutor said he
expected other arrests in connection
with the lynchings. The three men
under arrest waived hearing and we're
held without bond for the January
grand jury.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
Are The Black Jews Of Harlem Fakes?
Question Cause OF Heated Controversy

Salt it would appear, believes that
the Jew is originally of the so-ealled
white race.
The Jews, there is good reason to
believe, were originally colored
people. Godfrey Higgins, the noted
English archaelogist, who did an
enormous amount Of research on this
subject, says flatly that the ancient
Chaldeans were colored. Abraham,
founder Of the Jewish nation, came
from Chaldea.
Not only Chaldea but all the sur
rounding region seems at that time
TO have been peopled by coiored peo-
pie. Herodotus, called "The Father
of History" very plainly say that the
Colehians, who lived in what is now
Armenia, were black men with
woody" hair.
Moses Black
Further the Jews were enslaved by
the colored Egyptians for more than
three centuries. Mernepthah, the
CONTINUED on page -
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
Preacher Uses Gun
To Collect Offering

MOULTRIE, GA man known
in this section as Nathan Worthy,
not only preached a sermon at
church here but told his congrega-
ton how much he thought it was
worth. Worthy came here posing as
a minister and accepted an invitation
to preach. When collection time
came he explained that he needed
seven dollars badly. But the collec-
ton plate came back empty
Then the reverend" Mr.. Worthy
went into action. Leaning over the
pulpit, the divine pulled out a gun
and said: Brothers and sisters, told
you l need seven dollars, and really
do need it. | am going to send back
that collection plate and want seven
dollars to come back"
The plate was hurriedly passed
again. This time it came back with
S11.05. Worthy took it and fled. Po-
lice are on his trail.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-24
fEnterprise No. Burean)

NEW YORK-CBy j. A. Rogers) d.
Are the black Jews of Harlem
Jews, or just fakes?
This question is causing a heated
debate between DR.. Norman Salt,
white. head Of the American Pro-
Falasha Committee and the head of
the black Jews of Harlem.
DR.. Norman Salt denounced the
Harlem Jews as fakes, and says lac
cording to the press reports) that the
dark skin Of the Falasha, or Abys-
sinian Jew, is due TO centuries Of
tropical sun, and that the Falashas
are probable descendants of Jewish
soldiers who fled from Egypt.
White or Black
Now as to whether the black jews
of Harlem worship, according to old
Jewish rites | am not in a position
to say; the assumption that the Fa-
lashas are white men blackened by
centuries Of sunlight is. however, in
my opinion, without foundation. DR..