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Nogales international., 1931-08-05
SIX OFFICERS
In u. S PATROL
ARE SELECTED
Arizona Quota Is Now
"A Under Allotment
For Fiscal Year

TUCSON, Aug. 3-Six new ap-
pointmentS in the u S. Border
Patrol for Arizona were announced
today by Iva Williams, assistant
chief, on duty in the absence of
Chief C. C. Courtney who is in
Texas on his annual vacation.
The new appointees are Brady
Newman, Colorado, Texas; Paul
Nichols, Tumacacori, New Mexico;
and Ray Butler, Lowell, Ariz., who
have already reported for duty. and
William Codd, Phoenix, Ariz., Will
liam Been, Bryan, Texas, and Earl
Westmoreland, of West N1cLenren
county, Texas, who are expected to
report during the coming week.
The foregoing appointments are
in additional to the selection CT
Calvin johnson, Kingston Cole and
Chester Marlin of Tucson and
Floyd Netnerland of Ajo, Ariz., an
nounced last Wednesday.
1t was also stated at the office OF
the border patrol that Melvin Sezy
of Marine, Mich, now on duty on
the Canadian frontier, had been
transferred to Arizona by his own
request and would report for duty
in the next few days.
All of the appointments are as a
result of the U. S. civil service ex-
animation held last April for the
western area when 5000 applicants
took the test.
The appointments announced to-
day finishes the complement OF OF
ficers allocated to Arizona, for the
fiscal year, July to June 30, 1881
to 1882, the corps now numbering
"A.
New officers are paid $3.50 q
month with promotions according
to service and ability.
Assistant Chief Williams said to-
day that the new recruits would be
assigned to duty with experienced
men for training and that they
would be sent later to posts where
,oooc+ needed and to which they
were considered most acceptable as
to adaptability.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
Neuer Saw Drop Of
Rain On Long Trip

C.. c.. Cheshire, prominent auto
mobile man of Nogales, got back
Monday night. from a six weeks
$500 mile automobile trip up the
Pacific coast as far north as Van
couver, B. c., and never saw a drop
of rain until he reached Florence
on the return journey to Arizona.
st had to come back to the desert
state of Arizona to find rain and
I found plenty of it in old Arizona.
I was held up for two hours in a
wash just this side of Florence and
cot into the cloudburst at Tucson
Monday, he said.
He reports that he and his wife
and daughter encountered such cold
weather in the San Francisco dis
trict that is was necessary to wear
heavy overcoats.
At Seattle, Mr.. Cheshire repre-
sented the Nogales Elks at the an
nual national convention Of the Elks
Lodge.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
Luncheon Today :
For New Collector

James w. Mcdonald, the new COL
Iector of customs at Nogales, and
Mexican officials at this border
point, will be guests of honor at
luncheon to be given at IL o'clock
noon today at the Cavern Cafe in
Nogales, Sonora, by the members
of the international relations COM
mittee of the Nogales, Arizona,
Chamber of Commerce.
Besides the members of the COM
mittee and the new collector, there
will be present, the mayors of No
gales, Sonora, and NogaleS, Arizona,
the chiefs of immigration of the
two cities, the customs collector Of
Nogales, Sonora, and the colonies
of the army posts of the two cities.
Covers will be laid for about Is
persons.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
Mitchell Catches
2 Fish All Summer

There was trout stream directly
in front of the cabin that A. j..
Mitchell and family occupied while
he attended the University of Colo
RADIO summer school at Boulder,
Colo, but Mitchell only caught two
trout all summer, he said Monday.
AS a fisherman, Mitchell admits he
is the bunk
Mitchell and family got back Sun
day. More than 5000 persons at
tended the summer school, he said
The school superintendent an
nounced yesterday that the fall and
winter term of the Nogales schools
will open on Tuesday September s,
the next day after Labor Day which
falls this year on September 7.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
Fire Destroys
New Hines Home

Leo Hines new home, which had
Just been about completed in Oak
Ridge subdivision back of the Hotel
Esplendor hotel, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire shortly after 4 o.
clock Monday afternoon.
The blaze originated when some
tar that was being cooked inside
the house to be put on the roof,
exploded.
The home erected by Mr.. and
Mrs. Hines, who were recently mar
ried, was a frame dwelling and cost
about $1,000. A desk containing
business documents that Mr.. Hines
had just moved into the house, went
up in the flames.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
Falvey Retires
After AZ Years

S. S. Falvey of Tucson, formerly
of Nogales, completed forty-two
years and two months service Fri
day night at 6 o'clock as railway
fireman and engineer for the
Southern Pacific company.
He began service with the Los
Angeles division in 1899 and year
later was assigned to duty with
the Tucson division. W
The past six years and seven
months of Falvey's service have
been spent on the Tucson to No
gales run and return.
Retired on pension, Falvey will
make no immediate plans as to the
manner in which he may spend his
retirement.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05

James w. Mcdonald, former
sheriff Df Pima, county, was
sworn in as collector of GUS
toms of the Arizona district,
with headquarters at NOgales,
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
by Justice of the Peace Charles
E. Hardy, who was President
Woodrow Wilson'S appOintee as
collector.
Mcdonald succeeds Fred E. Ed
wards who was collector the past
four years.
Shortly after he assumed his new
duties, Collector Mcdonald was
greeted at his office in the federal
building by the members of the in
ternational relations committee of
the Chamber of Commerce and
party made up of DR.. A. l.. Gus
letter, chairman; w. c. Vinegar
E. K. Cumming, O. A. Smith, II. r.
Sisk, G.. R. Michaels, American Con-
sui B. Y. Yost of Nogales, Sonora,
Mayor Harry j. Karns and Craig
Pottinger, publisher of the Nogales
international.
H. r. Sisk, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce; Mayor Harry j
Karns, DR.. Gustetter, chairman OF
the International Relations Com
mittee; and o. A. Smith, addressed
the collector and welcomed him tc
Nogales.
The committee advised Mr.. Nc
Donald that Nogales is glad to have
him become one of u.s. and that
he will find this community coop
Grating whole -heartedly with him
in the same manner that it did
when Fred Edwards was collector.
AS chairman of the international
relations committee of the Chamber
of Commerce, DR.. Gustetter well
coined the new collector as mem
ber, Mcdonald having been appoint
ed early yesterday morning as an
honorary member of the committee.
Mayor Karns offered the collector
the full cooperation of the police
of the city of Nogalee
and the collector replied: I've
known your chief of police for g
long time and he is a very fine
man..
o. A. Smith, whose hobby is the
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
MEXICAN HELD In TEXAS ON
l5.YEAR- OLD MURDER CHARGE

OZONA, Tex. Aug. 4 -O.P0-
Fifteen years after the body Of
Jarvis Harp, rancher, was found
lying in the midst of his scattered
goat herd, Salama Raola was ar
rested as the suspected murderer
and lodged in the county Jail here
to await county grand jury action.
Harp was murdered in 1916, ac-
cording to old sheriff's records. The
ranchlnan was running a herd Of
goats on the Harrell pasture lands.
One morning cowboys from the
Earrell ranch found Harp's battered
body lying on the prairia, his goats
scattered about him.
It was believed Harp had quar-
relied with a Mexican herdsman,
who had tended the flock.
The Mexican vanished. Night and
day guards watched the border for
the fugitive. Angered ranchmen Of
the sheeplands pledged a reward Of
$500 for the arrest and conviction
of Harp's nlurderers.
AS newcomers settled on the
prairies of Crockett County, the
murder mystery and the hunt for
Salana Raola were forgotten.
A few days ago one Jose Guerra
was arrested on a ranch, on charges
of being drunk and disorderly. The
next day officers announced they
Nogales international., 1931-08-05

held a suspect in the murder of
Jarvis Harp. Guerra denied his
name was Raola and protested his
innocence.
He was arrested near Del Rio,
$50 miles from the spot where
Harp's mutilated body was found.
He had been working on ranch
near there for several years.
Military records at Villa Acuna
show that Raola deserted the Mex
lean army in 1925. He returned to
the United States, made Del Rio
his home, and married a second
wife, officers declared.
Conflicting stories told by the
suspect first aroused officers sus-
picion. When hailed into Corpora
ton Court at Del Rio, to be fined
$12.T$ for disturbing the peace, he
begged his release, declaring he was
wanted in Bracketville, Ozona, and
other places. But only in Ozona did
Del Rio authorities find officers who
wished to question him.
Through an interpreter, he de-
MED ability to speak English. But
when an officer struck him on the
arm with a blackjack when he riot
ed, the suspect begged for mercy in
fluent English.
Officers here were uncertain
whether the 15-year -old reward for
Harp's murderer would be paid.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
GRIFFIN LEAVES
LARGE ESTATE


Guy Griffin, owner of the Bow
man Hotel, who died in Tucson
last week, left an estate of about
100000.
The will, providing for the dis
position of the estate, was filed
Friday in the superior court at
Tucson. Mrs. Bertha Griffin
Crowell of Litchfield, New Hamp-
shire, and Carl Parker Griffin,
brother and sister, are the prin-
cipal beneficiaries of the will.
Employees of the Hotel Bowman
and of the Tucsonia and Roskruge
hotels in Tucson, all of which were
owned by Griffin, were remember
ed in the WILLY
Mrs. Crowell gets two thirds Of
the estate and the brother inc
third after number of bequests
have been made. Among these are
the Arizona Children's home, 5000;
Gotta Bartholomew, $1,000; Lizette
Snider Garfield, $1,000; Elmer 3.
Dobson $4,000; Bernadena Resid-
enberg Weeks, $4,000 in addition to
what she owed Griffin; j. G.. w.
johnson, $500; George H. Freeman
Tucson.
There are a number OF other
minor bequests including one OF
$500 to Dartmouth college from
which Griffin graduated.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
6.38 INCHES RAIN.
HERE DURING JULY

With total precipitation of 6.38
inches, rainfall for the month OF
July shattered all July records in
this city, it was stated yesterday by
Mrs. A. S. Noon, local U. S. Wea-
ther observer.
Up to yesterday morning there
had been 1.66 inches of rain the
past four days. There was .99 of an
inch from 10 A. M. Monday until
P. M. Monday, and there was
.65 of an inch Saturday night.
Maximum temperature the past
several days was 80 degrees Satur-
day and minimum, So, Saturday and
Sunday.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
New immigration
Chief Across Line
Greeted By c. {.

Members of the international re-
lations committee of the Chamber
of Commerce paid visit yesterday
to the new chief of immigration in
Nogales, Sonora-Oscar Peralta.
Mr.. Peralta comes to Nogales from
Juarez and he assured the Ameri-
can committee that he will do all
in his power to further the splend-
id spirit of cooperation that has
been existing at Ambos Nogales for
many years.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
1889 GUARDSnIEN ORDERED TO
ANNUAL SUMMER ENCAMP PNIENJT
AT FLAGSTAFF AUGUST 1880
Company A Of Nogales To Send Three Officers
And Sixty Four Men To State Camp
At Fort Tuthill

F. Temple and the U. S. war de-
partnent.
Twenty-Five companies will at
tend the encampment, the largest
companies coming from Tucson and
Phoenix. In addition to the infant
ry companies, howitzer company
from Mesa and medical detachments
from Phoenix, Mesa, Tucson and
Casa Grande will attend
The 1881 encampment will be re-
corded as Camp Lamson, in hon.
or of Col. E. M. LamsCn, pioneer
state adjutant general, who died in
Arizona last winter Brig. Gen.
Alexander M Tuthill will be in
command, the dispatches indicate.
The troop trains will arrive at
9:45 a. nl.; Ais p. M, and $40 p.
m. August Is. The trains will be
dispatched from Phoenix in COM
mand CT Maj D. L. Staplay OF
Phoenix, Maj. Prugh Herndon of
Tucson and Capt. George K. Ruble
of Phoenix
The following companies are
summoned to camp by the recent
order Headquarters company, 89th
brigade, Chandler, two officers, "a
Nogales international., 1931-08-05

FLAGSTAFF. Aug. 3-Three
troop trains, bearing more than
HOO Arizona National Guardsmen
from IA Arizona towns and cities,
will arrive in Flagstaff August Is
to attend the 15-day annual train
ing camp at Fort Alexander M. Tut
hill, according to advices received
by Capt. Clarence t. Pulliam of
Flagstaff, co. I. A toal of 1899 are
summoned to camp through orders
issued by Adjutant General Oscar
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
ARGUS ReddocEl
Nogales Visitor


ARGUS Reddoch, former county re-
corder of Santa Cruz county, ar
rived here Monday night from Hous-
ton. Texas, for a brief visit with hls
sister Mrs. John w. Larimore.
For the past six years Mr.. Red
doch has been living in Spanish
Honduras where he was employed
bv a big fruit company that re-
Gently closed down because Of the
depression.
ARGUS has a world of friends IN
Nogales who are pleased to see him
hack in the old home town.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
TAX FREE CITY FORECAST

DALHART, Tex, CUP0-stating
that the city water and light planU
can care for it's own bonded indebt-
edness. Mayor Ira l.. Pennington Oh
clayton, so miles northwest OF here
sees a tax-free city for the next
fiscal year. There only will be one
execution. a three and one-halt mill
tax to finance the police and fire
department. ,.,-..-i----
Nogales international., 1931-08-05

distance 9.3 feet.
At Is miles an hour, stopping
distance 2o.S feet.
At 20 miles an hour, stopping
distance 81 feet.
All such vehicles, it is announced
must be equipped with brakes
which will bring them to stop
within the prescribed distances
travelling at the speed indicated,
and when tested on a dry asphalt
or concrete pavement where the
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Nogales international., 1931-08-05
ARIZONA CUTS
COTTON ACREAGE

PHOENIX, Ariz., U.P)-Lack OF
nrofit in cotton resulted in an auto
matte curtailment of acreage in Ari-
IONA. a survey just completed re-
veals The decrease in acreage this
wear was II per cent, there being
178 600 acres of cotton in the state
now as compared with 2l5,ooo Tor
$780,
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
TapFinds Comet with Home-Made. Telescope

Masaji Nagata, an obscure Japan
ese grower of garden truck, of Braw-
ley, CAL. startled world astronomers
by finding a new heavenly body with
a two-inch telescope he built himself.
The comet will probably be named
after him.
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
News From Home

Subscribers to The Internation-
al taking vacation trips can keep
in touch with home news by
having this paper reach them
during their absence from the
city.
Phone As and we will be glad
to change your paper to your va
cation address, and there's no
extra charge, either.
The international
Phone As
Nogales international., 1931-08-05
County Tax Rate
Be Fixed Aag. II

The Board of Supervisors will
meet on August 10 to adopt the
budget for the new fiscal year and
on August II the new county tax
rate will be set.
Largely because of quite reduc-
ton in the assessed valuation of the
county, the rate is expected to show
an increase of around 20 cents over
last year.
The old rate paid by Nogales pro-
perty owners was $4.047, including
county, city, state and school rates.
Superior New business building
to be erected on lot adjoining Peo-
pies Market on Main Street. ).
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
MANY DROWNED
BY HEAVY RAIN

TAMPICO, Mex, Aug. 5. PI-Tor-
rental rains which flooded Tampico
and other cities in Vera Cruz and
Tamaulipas with the loss OF many
lives ended today and gave inhabit-
ants an opportunity TO take stock
or their losses.
The flood water. reaching a depth
OF over three feet in some Of the
most pOpulous districts OF Tampico,
receded sufficiently for resumption
Of street car and automobile traffic
in the center Of the city early to-
day.
Three men and q woman we're
caught in the swiTling flood in Tam
pico and swept out TO sea, and res
idents reported seeing numerous
bodies floating down the swollen
Panuco river from the interior. MS
well as hundreds Of drowned cattle.
The Panuco river, which overflow
ed into wide zone in the interior
or the country and buried numerous
villages under its waters. still was
rising and the town OF Panuco.
crowded with refugees from the sur
rounding country. was A1rtially
flooded and cut off from communi-
cation with Tampico.
a vast extent OF the Tamaulipas
and Vera Cruz oil fields were under
water and crop destruction in tie
zone was reported enormous.
The American Tanker Nevada.
which went aground in Tampico
harbor. was freed by tugs after T.
600 barrels OF its cargo had been
dumped into the river.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
TEXAS MURDER
SUSPECTS FREE
Choir Girl Mystery Death
Case Principal Out
On Bond

SINTON, Aug. 5-(P)- Newton
Yarberry, %, charged in connection
with the mysterious death of his
sweetheart. Miss Dorothy Symon,
IS, Arkansas Pass choir member,
was at liberty under a $500 bond
today. His examining trial was held
here yesterday. .
Clad in a bathing suit. the girls
body was found Saturday night in
a grave strewn with seaweed about
40 hours after she left her home
in Arkansas Pass to attend choir
practice.
Sheriff S. +. Hunt testified New
ton Yarberry told him last Satur-
day he believed Miss Symons be-
came angered at her mother and
had left home, going either to Sour
Lake, Texas, or TO Indiana.
j. H Kell, Arrnsas Pass night
Waterman, testified he saw the girl
and Yarberry standing near the
post office between 9 and 10 O'Clock
engaged in conversation on the
night OF her disappearance.
Tommie Conner testified he es-
corted the Symons girl from the
Fowler home to a hotel, approx
mately a mile away. and left her
there, when she said Yarberry
might see them and be angry.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
tom MIX WILL
AID In SEARCH
Pretty 15-Year-OId Girls
Disappearance Is
Mystery

TEXARKANA, Aug. 5.-tP-Of-
ficerS OF two states today searched
for Mildred Balche, pretty l5-year-
old girl whose father, Joe Balche,
IS secretary 10 Tom Mix. movie
star.
Last Friday this note was found
on a typewriter she was accustomed
TO use:
Mother, darling. I am leaving
and don't know where I am going.
You will think 1 am very foolish
and so VIII everyone else"
The girls mother said she was
e proficient typist and errors In
the note led to a belief Mildred did
not write IL. Mix, from Billings,
Mont, notified the girls father he
would aid in the search.
Mrs. Balche was reported In a
critical condition today as a result
OF a snake bite received during
search Of a woods for her daugh-
ter.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
OUTLET
FOR COTTON
MOVE STARTS
Conference Members
Oppose Production
Curtail Laws

AUSTIN, Aug. 5-PEThe South's
cotton crop conservation conierees
were en- route home today, most OF
them resolved to set in immediate
motion q movement aimed to END
in the passage OF laws drawn to
curtail production.
The two-day southside cotton
conference called by Gov. Ross 5.
Sterling Of Texas ended late yes
terday.
Movement Grows
Leaders likewise rededicated
themselves to their work OF finding
new outlets for the south's main
crop. The movement TO exploit new
markets gained much momentum
during the two-day conference.
A campaign OF advertising the
possible uses of Gotten was sCgg ST
ed by T. Arthur Edwards 0. Lake
Charles, La, personal representa-
tive Of the governor Of Louisiana
Appeal to Board
A resolution appealed TO the
federal farm board to make one Of
its detectives the finding OF more
markets for cotton.
The confereeS voted down a reSo-
luton by Lawrence WestDrooK OF
Waco asking the farm board TO
withhold its three and a half nj
lion bales from the market until
after January !, 1888 and then dis
pose Of the cotton in small
amounts.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
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SCREEN LOVER
GETS DIVORCE
'Habitual Cruelty Actress
Tells Judge In Charges
OF Complaint

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 5.-tP-
The airplane el0pement OF ina
Claire, stage and screen actress,
and John Gilbert. romantic movie
actor. whose marriage was termed
tn Ideal romance has crashed
in the divorce courts.
The actress obtained the decree
yesterday or a charge or mental
cruelty, saying Gilbert tod her
they yer temperamcntally I'M
suited 10 each other and that he
wanted 70 be left alone.
Although a private hearing had
been sought before Superior Judge
Joseph Sproul. the news OF the
case became public and spectators
trooped into the judges chambers.
Miss Claire's low-voiced testi-
mony followed closely the charges
of the complaint. asserting a
course OF habitual cruelty which
resulted III great mental pain and
suffering"
Gilbert. who eloped by airplane
with Miss Claire. In May. 1929. 70
Las Vegas, New, did not attend
the hearing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
INDEBTEDNESS
IS said MORE
Than MILLION
Claim Sinking Fund
Should Be About
100000
Especial 10 The HeraldO

EDINBURG, Aug. 5.-Dlssolutiof
OF Hidalgo County Drainage District
NO. | on ground that the district has
outlined its usefulness and that
functions for which II was orf/lized
are taken care Of by the county
flood control system is recommended
in the semi-annual report OF tha
drainage commissioners given tha
commissioners cert az Hidalgu
county late Tuesday afternoon.
The report OF the commissioners
claims that the sinking fund Of tho
district schould be approximately
100000 whereas there now stands
TO the credit OF the district the sum
OF $l,832.65.
Warrants Outstanding.
II Is also claimed that the out
standing warrant Indebtedness Of
the district stands between $1,000
600 and $4,000, 900.
Drainage commissioners appolnt-
ed By the commissioners court In
January. l93lNare r. r.. Ohls. q.
<. Langford and w. Drummond.
Report rendered BY the commits
sioners overs the first six months
OF the current year.
Suggestion that the district d. dis
solved was received ~favOrably BY the
commissioners court. according 20
w. II. Atwood. Edinburg commits
sione-, and County Attorney Bryce
Ferguson has been instructed By the
court 10 make an Investigation 10
the end that the legal entity OF the
district may be wiped out.
Original Indebtedness.
THE only legitimate indebtedness
OF the drainage district Is the orig
inal bond issue OF $4,000, and at
this time there should be 500. 900
in the interest and sinking fund"
County Judge r.. @. Couch stated
Tuesday On receiving the report.
There has been levied a tax ample
TO cover all other expenditures OF
the district and TO keep the sink
ing fund up TO its requirements
the judge said.
Warrants OF the drainage district
amounting to Sis. 900 are said in the
report OF the drainage commissions
ers TO be held By the sinking fund.
These warrants. the report states,
are alleged to have been bought by
former drainage commissioners and
county officials with funds or the
district as an investment
Claim Alleged.
The report OF the new drainage
commissioners expresses the opinion
that such purchase was Illegal.
Difficulty In securing records of
the drainage district IN mentioned
In the report rendered Tuesday.
II is estimated, however, that wa--
rants OF various kinds now outStand-
ing against the district will total
$ l,000.000 and perhaps $4,000. 900.
One or the former drainage COM
miSsi0nerS is now under indictment
on two counts. both alleging forgery.
Another indictment charges two az
the former commissioners Jointly
with a former county judge, alleging
forgery.
Affairs OF the drainage district
have been a political issue In Hi
dalgo county since the first active
fight against the Baker regime was
started in 1924.