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, 1935-05-29
Especial to The Heraldl

MISSION, May 29.-Three tests
we're setting and oementing oil
strings in the Samfordyce field Of
southwestern Hidalgo county Tues
day night, a fourth was coring for
the sand and a fifth was attempt
Ing completion.
Hidalgo and Starr county wild
cats continued drilling in several
sections of both counties.
On the north edge Of Samfordyce,
Gem Oil Company's No. Az Sea-
bury ct al. about 300 feet north
west OF discovery, cored the up
per Samfordyce gas sand at 2,735-
so feet, Shale at 2.75O-63 feet and
the Saturation at 2,763-7l feet. Cas-
ing G-inch o. d. will be set and
cemented at 2,765 feet
In the western section Of the
field, w. F. Lacy's No. ! Eusebio
Flores, about 200 feet west OF dis
covery, is coring at 2,756 feet.
East OF discovery about 5000 feet,
Rogers Oil g. Gas Company'S No.
B-3 Francisco Guerra, cored the
upper gas sand at 2.7l5-44 feet,
Shale at 2.744-46 feet and saturation
az 2.746-60 feet. The hole is bottom
ed in Shale at 2,76l feet. Casing
C7-inch o. d. will be set and
cemented at 2.756 feet.
About $500 feet east of discovery.
Showers d. Moncrief's No. 2 G. l..
Smith, cored a dry gas sand at
2,732-35 feet. shale at 2,735-39 feet.
gas sand with oil ShowingS at
2.739-32 feet and saturation at
2,742-54 feet, where the hole Is
bottOmed. Casing T-inch o. ID. viii
be set and cemented at 2,745 feet.
On the eastern edge OF produc-
ton, Cortez Oil Corporations No.
CT c. K. Smith. about $500 feet
east of discovery, Is expected 70
core a few more feet Of sand and
again seek oil production. The test
made wet gas in large quantities IN
the lower sand at ~2,746-5l feet.
In Hidalgo county wildcat areas,
three tests were reported active.
About three miles southwest Of
Mission. Bluff Petroleum Company'S
No. l Porcion Land Co. completed
boiler repairs and resumed drilling.
Surface casing Is TO be set and ce-
mented shortly.
About five miles northeast Of
the Samfordyce field. ID. M. G. Oil
Company's No. / Osca DaSkam, Is
awaiting arrival of a rock bit 70
drill out back-preSsure valve at
AGO feet. A small fishtail bit on
tubing was used to drill out the
cement plug but failed to remove
the valve. The hole is bottomed at
ALA feet in "A feet OF oil sand.
, 1935-05-29
GRADUATES AT
TURNING POINT
Seniors Facing Challenge In
Today's Changes,
Walton Says

HARLINGEN, May 29.-Tne grad
uating class of the Harrington high
schol wer told by d.. t. O.. Walt
on, president of the Agriculture
and Mechanical College Of Texas.
at commencement exercises here
Tuesday night that you are at
the turning point Of your lives:
the point where home ties break
and you are on your own"
He stated that the youth Of to-
day has a challenge TO meet and
from the foundation of our civil
ization a new and finer n can be
built. He urged all the graduates 10
labor faithfully and added that al
though the work might be hard, II
would not be long as he believed
a person only averages about four
hours Of work per day.
You are on your own" DR..
Walton concluded. Take time TO
reflect on your life and what you
have done and what you should do
and how you will conclude your
own work
The program was as follows:
Professional. Miss Margaret FL
more; invocation. Rev. William
Lee Edwards: Salutatory Jean Nc
Clendon; trumpet solo, Bride Of
the Waves" CLARK. by Warren
Dowdy: valedictory address by J.
G.. Farmer; vocal solo, "Invictus''
CHuhn). by Edwin Whitaker. &C
companied by Mrs. II. f. Eagleston:
awarding of scholarships and med
ais by ID. M. Denton: presentation
OF class to president Of school
board by E. c. Deering; awarding
Of diplomas by Frank z. Davis;
benediction by Rev. VIM. Lee Ed
wards; occasional by Miss Marga-
ret Elmore.
, 1935-05-29
CITY PLANNING
BUY DREDCE
Arroyo Navigation Chiefs
Believe Plan Would
Save Money
Especial to The Herald)

HARLINGEN. May 29.-The Ar
rCyo Colorado Navigation District Is
studying the possibility Of buying its
own dredge for the purpose Of OPEN
ing the arroyo from the bay TO
Harrington. 1t was learned here this
week.
II is expected that bids will be
asked from dredge builders for a
dredge 70 be built in the Valley for
s on the arroyo. II would be
constructed according TO Specifica-
tons for this particular Job.
Whether bids r TO be asked on
a dredge depends on engineering
estimates now being made on the
amount Of earth that will need TO
be moved TO provide a channel from
rear Port Isabel TO Harrington.
A member OF the navigation COM
mission told The Herald that public
corporations such as a navigation
district are not bound by code re-
quirementS as a contractor would
be and that there would be a saving
In favor OF the district. The entire
matter OF initial cost and operation
will be given extremely careful study
and consideration before a decision
Is reached either way. 1t was stated.
and there is no certainty that the
district swill 90 into the matter
unless II feels sure that 1t can do
the work as efficiently and cheaper
as under contract.
Another factor being given strong
consideration Is that Of mainten-
ance. The dredge would be avail
able for maintenance after the
channel Is completed II the district
should purchase such a machine.
The district Is planning a num-
Der OF projects including turning
basin at Harlingen. a channel TO
the bay and dock facilities at Rio
Hondo end Harrington. The turning
basin ard terminal facilities prob
ably would be provided first. AL
facilities would be built TO accom-
modate pleasure craft and small
commercial vessels. A ten acr site
for terminal facilities recently was
purchased near the highway bridge
ever the Arroyo.
, 1935-05-29
Relieves Sluggish Feeling

MIGHT or day. when you firSt be-
Gin 70 feel sluggish and need some
thing 20 straighten out your bowels
GO relieve constipation)-take a
dose of reliable Thedford's Black
Draught.
sWe take Black-DraUght for bill
business, constipation and any bad
feeling that comes from these con-
dItions." writes Mrs. Luvena Owens,
~ Springer, Okla. "Black-D raught
cleans the system and makes me
feeI much better after taking IT,"
Freshen up by taking this purely
vegetable laxative. II you have a
tendency to constipation or slug
Rishness.
, 1935-05-29

bin drafted By Charlton OBburn. emo
OF A. ". OF LIS general counsel.
The bill would be based on tina
courts. equity powers. Other details
are not disclosed. although II n IN
defstood the MIRA II proposes would
be similar I'm some respects TO the
old one.
Meantime. the federation plans 10
press congress for enactment OF the
Wagner labor disputes bill and the
Connery 30-hour week measure.
Federation chiefs regard the WRg-
ner bill as especially important Just
now because the old recovery acts
collective bargaining guarantee APP
peared u have been rendered i'm
potent by the supreme court decis-
ion.
, 1935-05-29
Help Police
Al Harvest Fiesta
Especial tc The Heraldl
" ~V~ENw A. N

AoptNlal ~ ANN htIhlul
HARLINGEN. May 29.-Harlin-
Fnu Boy Scouts. under the direction
80 Myfiin Johnson, Scout executive
we're assisting city police in handl-
ing the throngs at the First An
nual Harvest Fiesta which opened
here Wednesday morning.
The Scout drum and bugle corps
will lead the Riddles Parade at
$50 D. m. and the Scouts will assist
in maintaining order throughout
the two-day fiesta.
, 1935-05-29
Davis on Visit
Especial 70 Inc Hrrnlul

Especial TO h HeInld
SAN BENITO, May 29.-Supt. o.
L Davis and family have left for
Iomita. Texas where they will spend
most OF the summer. Mr.. Davis will
attend one term of summer school
at some college to be choesn later.
Most OF the teachers in the San
Benito schools are taking summer
courses in order to retain their
qualifications for teaching positions.
, 1935-05-29
To Present Concert
Especial 10 The Heraldl

HARLINGEN. May % - Mrs.
Becca Won Kreveld Detert. concert
list from the Netherlands who will
present a concert in the high school
auditorium here Friday night at 8
o'clock to raise funds for the Boy
Scouts Jamboree in Washington,
endorsed the auditorium as having
good acoustics after practicing
there the past week.
Mrs. Detert. renowned continent
al c~oncertist. will appear under the
auspices Of the Harlingen Amer
lean Legion post. Polk Hornaday.
Harrington city attorney, was chair
man OF the committee that select
ed Mrs. Detert.
, 1935-05-29
Cameron Records
IOsRD DISTRICT COURT
Judge A. Nj. Kent

FILED: Mrs. Geo. L. Van Ecken VS..
George L. Van Ecken, suit for di-
vorce.
Santa Helena Improvement Co,
ct al. VS.. Delta Irrigated Farms Co.,
ct al, suit on note and foreclosure.
G. II. Colgin, trustee, VS.. B. G.
Mitchell. ct ux, suit on note and
foreclosure.
JURY VERDICT: c. M. Wunder-
man VS.. Service Wholesale Grocery
Co. suit for attorney fees, iudg-
ment for plaintiff in sum Of $l,3l9.1O
(suit was for approximately $4,000.
, 1935-05-29
AFL PREDICTS
REVIVED NRA
Labor's Executive Council
Drafts New Bill to Send
To Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, May 20. RI-A
new NRA rising out or the ashes Of
the old was predicted Wednesday by
American Federation OF Labor
chieftainS.
Already. the federation's exec
utive council is considering present
ing TO President Roosevelt an NRA
, 1935-05-29
Plans Completed For
Odd Fellow Meeting

McALLEN, May a. According
to Clarence McVey. general chair
man. plans for the entertainment
OF about 500 Odd Fellows ard
Rebekahs in McAllen on June
are nearly finished. There will be
a one day session. Dinner win be
served at the Methodist church.
Sessions will be held at the
church and degree work put on at
the lodge hall.
, 1935-05-29
COUNTY COURT AT LAW
IudRr RascOm Cox

FILED: A. +. Aytes, assignee for
creditors OF Valley BOX g. Crate Co..
VS.. M. 7. Wiley, suit on $429.25 note.
A. F. Aytes, assignee Valley Box
a. Crate Co, VS.. Joe M. Spears, suit
on $239.06 account.
A. +. Aytes, assignee Valley Box
A. Crate Co, VS.. Raymondvlle State
Bank. garnishee. garnishment.
A. r. Aytes, assignee Valley Box
AZ Crate Co, VS.. K. B. Rogers, suit
on $3.50 account.
A. F. Aytes. assignee Valley Box
A. Crate Co., VS.. Citizens State Bank
Of Donna, garniShee, garnishment.
, 1935-05-29
BOND is POSTED

Especial 70 The Heraldl
HARLINGEN. May 29-Jose Zepe-
da posted $1,000 bond and was
bound over to the district court
after waving preliminary hearing
before Judge Will O.. Fields on a
charge Of assault allegedly COM
mitted in January.
, 1935-05-29
ENNIS VISITORS LEAVE

SAN BENITO-PrS. j. H. Duke
of the Ennis Chamber OF Commerce,
Rrrs. Duke and son returned to their
home Tuesday after visiting in the
home OF Manager Pete II. Smith OF
the san Benito Chamber OF Com
Eaerce.
, 1935-05-29

Several Valley families know
that Malta (or undulent) fever rs
no joke. Keep 1t out OF your home
by using Grisham's Pasteurized
milk.-Adv.
, 1935-05-29
VISITS SAN BENITO

SAN BENITO-O. E. Van Berg.
Mercedes engineer, was a visitor
here Tuesday.
, 1935-05-29

Geo. Rangel and Catarina RoSas.
Juan Guerra and Bonita Garcia.
Domingo Arizmendi and Irene
Gonzalez.
, 1935-05-29
PROBATE COURT
Iudnn n q nancv

FILED: Application for admins
tration estate OF Clarence Jackson,
deceased.
, 1935-05-29
Is RORN

LYFORD-A daugh ser was born
tn Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Anderson at
Valley Baptist hospital. Harlingen,
this week.
, 1935-05-29

The male and female albatroSl
take turns In sitting ON the eggs
, 1935-05-29

~ Now you can enjoy m your own
~ home Oh Office the same restful
relief from heat that you have experi-
enced m an sir-cnnditioned theatre.
, 1935-05-29

Think what this means 90 you With q
sna of a switch you can transform n
sticky, humid room into n cool, refresh
ing retreat. Think what il win mean TO
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-02
STARVATION WAGE

Mrs. Wright thinks of her boys all the time while she goes
about her work in the fine white folks house way out in a
suburb called st. Elmo. Its wide clean streets are shaded
by the sides of Lookout Mountain from the intense heat of the
southern sun. She gets So a week for seven days work from
seven in the morning to seven at night. 1t costs her a dollar a
week in bus fare to get out there every day. That leaves 81 a
week for her and Lucile-which would mean starvation but
for the funds experimenting it from the international Labor
Defense.
Mother Wright smiles as she works. She is full Of hope.
She saw all those thousands of people all over the world who
are ready to help her boys. 'Sure, [ keep cheerful, she said
as she pulled her tired hands out of the dish pan and wiped
them on her apron. 81 try not to worry about the boys. !
know they have plenty of friends thinking for them and doing
for them every minute they are in jail. 1t makes it easier as
the months go by to know that"
Mother Patterson lives in Chattanooga too. Right near the
tracks. Her little wooden house is as neat as a pin. Its mantel
pieces are decorated with pictures Of Haywood taken at his
three trials and Of crowds and meetings held foe S%cottsboro
denfense. In the back of her house is a small garden in which
she works all day long raising a good part of the food the
Patterson family gets to eat. Claude Patterson, Heywoods
father, a slight wiry man works in the railroad shops. Long
time ago he used to make $50 or $40 a week. But five years
ago things began to get bad and he got less and less and hunger
found its way into the little household. The older daughters
had gone off and got married, but the young ones-Heywood
was the oldest of them-were left at home and Haywood want
ed to help them. That is why lac went off with his friends
hunting work.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-02

still trying-to wrest from her a large share Of her territory,
than she does toward the English, the Americans, the Germans,
the Italians and others. Results of that has been something
approaching a Concord between Tokyo and Marking govern
ments. Whites have definitely "lost face in China-they are
mistrusted, disiked, feared. The Chinese believe they talk much,
make fine promises, and then do nothing. They believe that the
sole white ambition is to exploit the resources, human and ma
teriaI of the black and yellow peoples.
The situation is particularly serious to England. Il, as Mr..
Du Bots also pointed out, an understanding between China and
Japan closes Asia to white aggression, India need no longer
hesitate between passive resistance and open rebellion. India is
a mighty muscle in the body of the British Empire. Her millions
of natives are governed by a few thousand whites. What an
Indian revolt would mean can only be conjectured-but the sun
that finally set on it would be red indeed. SO it goes throughout
all the colonies ofblackpeoples governed by Europeans-in
British, French and Italian Someliland, in Kenya Colony, else
where in Africa and South America.
Nothing IS more horrible, more dangerous more corrupting
to ire orderly possesses of civilization than race warfare. The
great majority of the earths population is colored, and a great
majority of these colored people are dominated by whites.
If es Italy-Ethiopian disorder leads to a decisive split between
the two great groups, it will be one of the most important events
in the history of the world-an event that, over a period of many
years, perhaps, centuries, can change all the maps, and remake
the cart ho a different plan.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-02
A RACIAL DANGER

There is one phase of the Italian-Ethiopain struggle that
has received much less notice than it deserves. That phase
which, in the long view, may become the most important and
most potentially dangerous of all the phases-is the inter-racial
complications that may arise from Italy's imperial ambitions.
Here is the way it is expressed by the famed American
Negro leader, educator, and writer, w. E. b. Du Bots, in the
October issue of Foreign Affairs: ''The probabilities are that
Italy will subdue Ethiopia. If this happens, it will be a
costly victory, both for Italy and the white word-lndia, China
and Japan, Africa in Africa and in America, and all the South
Seas and Indian Ameriea-al that vest mass of men who have
felt the oppression and insults, the slavery and exploitation of
white folks, will say; i told you sol There is no faith in them
even toward each other. They do not believe in Christianity
and they will never voluntarily recognize the essential equality
of human beings or surrender the idea of dominating the
majority of men for their own selfish ends. Japan was right.
The only path to freedom and equality is force, and force to the
uttermost.'
Mr.. Du Bots allusion to China and Japan involves another
point that is not so well understood at it should be. When
Japan started her invasion of Manchuria a few years ago, the
white nations seemed to be solidly on the side of China. Japan
was called an outlaw among nations, was held to be a menace
to the peace of the world. Yet a legion of white observers have
returned from the orient since, bringing the news that China
today feels more friendly to the japanese who tried-and are
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-02

the international Labor Defense, Mrs. Wright was a guest of
honor.
To millions she became a symbol of an oppressed, black
skinned people-a mother whose children are threatened with
murder and lynching so that a whole nation can be kept in
its place for plumber and robbery.
Back in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mrs. Ada Wright is being
pushed back into her place. She has to support herself and
her baby Lucille, who is Ii years old. Her married daughters
have troubles of their own. Mother Wright and Lucille move
back and forth, staying with each of them part of the time
Beatrice, the oldest daughter Lives in the house the "boys'
lived in and grew up in. It's just beyond the tracks. All
day long and far into the night trains passing over those steel
rails could beckon to the boys carrying promises of work and
plenty further on yonder, somewhere.
Roy and Andy Wright and their friends Haywood Patter-
son and Eugene Williams must have been tempted by those
shiny roads for years. At home-only proverty and hunger
and no work no matter how hard you tried. So there was only
hope left. And one fine morning the four boys went off to-
gether on those tracks and got as far as Scottsboro, Alabama,
and u lynch sentence to death.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-02
PRISONERS RELIEF OF I. L. D. HELPS

"If it wasn't for the money you all send me every month
we'd all be starved to death. We just about get enough to eat
to keep alive on now. | was hoping to save enough money to
get to see Eugene, but I couldn't with the doctor and the medi-
cine | had to get, and feel that l was taking the food out of the
mouths Of my children when [ did it."
Mrs. Williams has six children besides Eugene. The littlest
is Christine. She has a tiny, heartshaped face, and large, sad
eyes like her mothers. After her comes Dorothy and then three
boys, Fred and Junior and Robert, who is thirteen now. Just the
size of Eugene when he left home and the same age. "He looks
SO much like | remember Eugene, too Mrs. Williams said. Then
there's Opheia, age 10. Ophelia is a big girl who never smiles
She doesn't get a chance to smile. She's working all the time.
Especially now that her mother is sick. She has to cook and
wash and try to keep the children clean though that is an i'm
possible task. All around the house is dust and filth. The chill
dren run around half-naked and bare footed, in clouds of gray
dust. There's no place for them to sit except on the bare
ground. They simply can't keep clean. And sd opheia stands
over the tub, and scrubs away at the rags.
And l bet If she was a boy she'd be off just like he was, >
said Mrs. Williams. THAT child is so unhappy. Like me when
l was her age, work and work and nothing else, and hardly
enough to eat, and no decent clothes. l don't blame Eugene for
going off. Maybe he would have found work further on
so he could grow up decent and help us all.
Maybe when he's free he'll be able to take all of us away
from this here
The sweep of her hand embraced the blackened boards of
the porch, the chairs that all missed a leg or a back or a seat,
the road banked by mountains of junk and garbage, the totter-
ing old houses, and the ragged children. Maybe soon
Ada, I'm gonna tell my mother you was talking to a white
lady all day long, This beligerent statement was made by a
mean looking redheaded youngster to Mrs. Ada Wright, moth
er of Roy and Andy, two of the Scottsboro boys in the kitchen
of the "white-folks house, she works at. Among her many
duties which include s%crubbing the large house, washing, and
doing all the cooking is the care of this boy and his little sister.
They have a white nurse to look after them. But they don't
like her, and why should she work when she can get Mrs.
Wright to fetch and carry for her, while she sits out on the
shady porch ordering her around. The lady of the house is
away on business most Of the day.
In 1882, Mrs. Ada Wright left the same job at the invita-
ton of the international Labor Defense and Travelled through
twentysix countries of Europe. Wherever she went, if she
was not put IN jail or Immediately deported by the police, she
was greeted by huge crowds of workers, who cheered her in
more than a dozen different languages and pledged to help
her win freedom for her two sons and all the other Scottsboro
boys.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-02
SANCTIONS

League OF Nations Sanctions against Italy will probably be
In force by the time this is read.
First sanctions will be economic, and will take the following
forms among others:
Forbid the opening of credit to Italy in any foreign country.
Forbid authorization of an Italian bond issue in any foreign
country. Forbid opening of bank credit to Italy in any League
nation agreeing to the sanctions. Forbid opening of normal
commercial credts@a prohibition which, it is said, would bring
about an almost complete ~stoppage of Italian trade. In brief.
the canctlons would be designed to paralyze Italy's import and
export business.
Only three League nations voted against the sanctions and
said they would not obey ~them-Albania and Hungary. which
are relatively unimportant, and Austria, which, due to geo.
graphical position, IS very important. Austria connects Italy
with Germany, which is no longer a member of the League.
Thus, goods Italy needs can be bought in Germany, transported
across Austria, largely multiplying League sanctions. The League,
which IS now being led by England, could of course cure that
by military action-something that would mean war. MANY still
believe that nothing will be really settled until that war occurs.
The Omaha guide., 1935-11-02
CUT OFF FROM RELIEF

Mrs. Williams lives in this rambling old house with her
sister and her children, and a ledger and her children. She
was completely cut off the relief while she was sick, and stayed
with Mother Patterson who took her in and cared for her. The
children stayed with her sister.
They wouldn't give her anything until she went back to
her children they told her. Imagine that, letting on that |
abandoned my children or something. just so they could put
more money in their own pockets. | know they do. They just
ran a man out Of town for telling ON them. They do all us
people outof our relief money and put it in their own pocket.
They don't even deny il very hard. Because the papers and
reports they send on to the government tell what they spent all
the money they got for the relief and nobody except us knows
the difference.
81 went to the relief lady and fought and finally, four
weeks ago, she put me back on-after | came here. Yes, | get
$3.50 a week for me and all the children. That's all. She knows |
don't pay my sister any rent. So all | get is that 81 so and | had
to go fight for the last one, too. She didn't send it out when it
was supposed to come.