West Brownsville Meeting Is Called
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3L- i- ■:*>* _ mmHMHMHWMMMMMWHMWWMMMMMMNMMMmm REPAIRING “O A S“ HOISTS I} Don® In our store by expert work- j LINE I J v k men. All oar work is cuaranteed. I ! Gas — Steam — Electric Driven | Built for long bird service ■ Pine — Low Priced Equipment _I THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—VP) THIRTY-NINTH YEAR—NO. 115 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930 EIGHT PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY |j , .. I MEMBERS OF HOOVER’S UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD AUSTIN NAN’S IN OUR WEST BROWNSVILLE VALLEY CRY FOR AID B1 C. M. HALL to IS UNHEEDED MEETING IS CALLED HOW ABOUT IT? The plain truth is that the i world Is passing through a per- Police Debate While TWO NOTED YOUNGSTERS fectly natural and normal reac- |; tlon. Slowly but surely the Victim Bleeds In forces that will bring about re- PROPOSAL TO vival are at work. Agony —Francis H. Sisson, New York bank executive. AUSTIN, Oct. 27—Shot • • • through the lungs by holdup men COME IN CITY In the two inspection tours I shortly before midnight and left have made, I didn't see one the road. Will Owens, single drunken man. alongside —Prohibition Administrator about 50, was found early today by IS EXPECTED H Amos W. Woodcock his employer, a dairyman, and • • • broug to an Austin hospital. His The fur-bearing animals are condition was cricital. Water Rate Truce disappearing with alarming Owens told physicians the rob- rapidity as a result of trapping bery and shooting occurred about End Is Cause for the fur trade. 11:3* p. m. while he was returning —David Quinn, secretary of the to the dairy, situated near the state Of Gathering emergency conservation com- school for the colored deaf, dumb mittee. and blind, outside the city limits. West Brownsville residents will him and then Two men held up meet at the chamber of commerce shot him, Owens said. sale of Cameron county bu'ldln": at 7:30 to Shortly after the shooting a car Monday night October ANOTHERroad bonds looms for driven by Mrs. Marguerite Wal- discuss the problem of extending 30. It to series E or the fifth ston passed by. Mrs. Walston, heard the Brownsvi:’e city limits to in- for slowed down as million which will be offered. his cries help, clude that section, It was an- Judging from letters being re- Their Job Is to find jobs for the nation’s 3.500.000 unemployed. Pictured here at the White House, she approached the body, thinking nounced late today by O. C. Rich- where met with President Hoover, these men were to his commission for the national it was her nephews playing, she ceived on the subject many buyers they appointed ardson, secretary of the chamber of when saw a man Above are shown Dorothy Woods, only thirteen old but en- relief of unemployment. Left to right are: Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board; Ray said; but she years commerce. will be present. rolled as a freshman at Louisiana and L. of the Interior: Patrick J. of Andrew Mellon, along the road, she speeded up, University, Edmund Guillion of This is the result of the water this Wilbur, Secretary Hurley, Secretary War; Secretary Judge Oscar Dancy morning an holdup. Washington. 19. winner of the international debate of the Treasury; Robert P. Lamont. Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the commission; James J. fearing attempted Saturday night. raise recently, and If the West had the to say concerning Mrs. Walston called police when following Davis, Secretary of Labor. Brownsville citizens agree to enter and was informed the sale: she arrived home the city, It will be the definite that the was outside their "While I am getting more inquir- place termination of the altercation. but that county of- our first ad in the jurisdiction, A large crowd is expected to at- ies in response to informed. Police Fisher BrownsviDe ficers would be Pastor tend the meeting tonight, It was Bond Buyer last Saturday than I Good Lands AUTO THEFT officers said today they had ad- said, and two principal speakers ever got before, we are cot 'kidding' Harlingen vised county officers of Mrs. Wal- Ship will H. H. and doubtless be Banker ourselves with any idea of getting ston’s information. Reluctant Fare wells Heard for Rev. Lovett Judge Jas L. Abner, who have been attracted the atten- the fancy prices we received on the Owens’ cries active in the matter. Celebration Observed tion of J. H. owner of the After a Navy Unofficially PROBED Windlsh. Ten Years Service started first three issues. However dol- RING Valley The controversy early dairy which employed him, when last month when the Brownsville lar buys more now than il has in the When S. S. Comes to Port Harlingen Windiih started out on his route Appointment of Dr. Sterling Fisher, presiding elder of the San Angelo city commissioners met and decided last ten years ^_______ Two Cars Puts at 4:30 this morning. He bundled Loss of district, to the pastorate dt the First Methodist church in Brownsville to raise the water rates outside of * v v While little attention was being Brownsville to Navy Day, at wounded man into the milk paid by the the city limits, explaining that the Officers on Trail him to a hos- was announced at the closing session of the West Texas Methodist con- the same subject R. C. Houston and Harlingen, according to reports, the occasion is being made wagon and brought rates paid by citizens of Browns- ference at Morris of the Frontier Lumber a fete day. pital. Harlingen Sunday evening. ville were really below actual pro- Of Gang officers said re- ANENTcompany writes today to say: Sheriff’s they Dr. Fisher succeeds the Rev. E. duction cost, and that citizens out- Houston has a big battleship anchored in celebration of ten years port J. Lovett, who has served In the Valley “We have discovered that ceived the call but that they failed side of the not Just for The city limits, paying has 199 miles f life, and the Colorado was to traffic at Harlingen. to due to the fact that the the past ten years. Rev. Lovett was named presiding elder Cameron county Arroyo again opened Theft of two automobiles on the respond city taxes to help pay expenses of concrete which us more service. It answered in toto when number of similar calls had been of the Yoakum The Rev. 8. L. Batchelor, former of the highways The Harlingen navy was called into streets of Brownsville Saturday and district. pastor the municipal water plant, should miles of concrete highways than unusually large of late and none of the S. S. with ail hands on deck, wound its First Methodist church in Harlingen was appointed presiding elder of the pay rates for water that would cov- state of good ship Harlingen, slowly Sunday nights has led police to any other county in the the calls had resulted in anything er actual off the home ssan Anegio district to succeed Dr. cost. These rates were so Texas and more miles of concrete way up the Arroyo Colorado and anchored port. the belief that a of car thieves but a gang utile trip. Fisher. unpopular that West Brownsville than other in This boat was nurchased about a highways any county is in this section, and The holdup men obtained only a citizens several times and and a half it was operating News of the transfer of the Rev. met were the United States of the same pop- year ago, pointed j small sum of money. Owens said. motorists are urged to take pre- Lovett fro was at one meeting so Indignant that ulation. out here today, to take pleasure mthe Valley receiv- cautions their cars DEATH STALKS ed with some of the members suggested the “In fact, Cameron ranks the 38th parties boating on the arroyo, but; aginst having regret by Methodists seem in mood stolen. incorporation of a new town. county in the United States but DONNA SCENE the boat did not the Well Known Editor throughout this section, where he A sedan to Duff How- A meeting was the 37 counties that exceed it. and sank shortly after its purchase. J belonging has worked in various capacities then held, a com- ard. oi the Gateway mittee throughout the United States, in Recently, however, it was raised, manager Dies at Rio Hondo for the past ten years. He first of West Brownsville citizens and came back into bridge, was stolen from in front of OVER NATION conferring with the city commis- concrete road mileage, have much today port. HARLINGEN, Oct. 27.—Following came here as pastor of the First celebration at Harlin-' the J. C. store Saturday at which war larger populations.” OF SHOOTING The today Penney an illness of about ten months, Methodist church in Harlingen, sioners, time It de- gen reminded that the Valley city's evening. This car was a blue Chev- cided to defer action for • • • Otto Vinke. 39. formerly connected where he served for four years. thirty chamber of commerce once went rolet sedan, 1929 model. Noted and This j with The Brownsville Herald and SporUman Many Next he was named presiding elder days. period of “armistice" Is up San Benito way would into the boat business. A call today A car to Car- Watchman Placed | touring belonging editor of the Harlingen Star, died of the Brownsville district, which up Nov. 1. also appreciate it if Brownsville Garage in an attempt to gain further de- olina Gonzales was stolen from in Outstanding Figures The It Is j at 5 a.