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IN OUR' POINT ISABEL Valleyites Throng Brownsville LEVEE ERECTED VALLEY PORT FAVOREO As I. C. C. Hears First AT SANTA MARIA * Testimony__ Probably parades do not build rail- toads. BALDWIN SAYS Autos Here Neither Special Cars, SIDELIGHTS does oratory. Nor, one may -r FAILS TO HOLD reasonably suspect, do placards bring With Friends of New __ railroads; or stickers or hot argumenas, State Asks Dismissal Two gert lenten front McAllen, both or resolutions. Will Buy Short Line if Railway well along in years, met a Browns-^ The of the River Eats Through people Lower Rio Grande ville friend in a cafe e t e s today. Valley generally appreciate those facts. Eldridge Compl Wash- A crowd of three thousand people of "What are you fellows doing here,” Main Levee and And they have a way of what showing ‘Certain Brownsville from Hearing; Negotiations* visited today points Charges the Brownsville man asked? they think, about that have to es Defense proposal throughout the Valley and the southern Secondary dd with the welfare of the Valley, President Declares “Well, we came down to help get part of Texas to be present for the Stream Falls The particular now this here railroad, but there don’t Away; proposal before opening of the hearing on the applica- Lack of Jurisdiction the seem to be a people of the Valley, the plan to The Missouri Pacific System tion of the Southern Pacific Lires. damn thing we can do build the Southern Pacific into the Val- about it. We ain’t even seen the has agreed to purchase the Bio Special'cars brought delegations from The levee on the ley, asks only one of the hearing yet. We just been i improvised thing people San Antonio and Yoakum, while from Dan Moody, attorney general, exploded the state's bomb- loafing Grande railroad, between Point and down of the Valley—their moral support. shell at the Interstate up these streets.'’ Rio Grande near Santa Maria, on Isabel und the Valley theie has been an almost Commerce Commission hearing here The Brownsville, it was! * * *. only way they could think of to continuous stream of cars all day. in which the Southern Pacific several hundred men announced in today railroad seeks to extend its which show that they were “for” anothe* Brownsville Sun- There will be flowers this afternoon The Edinburg delegation, headed by I San Antonio & Aransas Pass line from Falfurrias to worked all and lailroad into this section was through day by L. W. Baldwin, Hidalgo. for President W. R. Scott of the Saturday night president Sheriff A. Y. Baker, reached Brownsville Ernest parades, through placards, of Through May, assistant attorney general, he filed a Southern Pacific. through the Missouri Pacific. shortly- before noon with about fifty Sunday, went out shortly after stickers—and their I petition of intervention that the be for The flowers will personal appearance The cars. A.delegation from Falfurrias ar- asking hearing dismissed be presented by in purchase, Mr. Baldwin 12 o'clock last within an Brownsville. lack of If Miss Jessie of a night, rived Sunday, and early Monday morn- jurisdiction. it is sustained it apparently will sweep Lcniburg McAllen!, stated, depends upon the suc- member When the Valley wanted flood con- j there arrived the Alice delegation, the from under the of of the McAllen delegation, hour after the river finished eat- cessful ing ground feet the Missouri Pacific Railroad, trol they brought the entire state le- completion of certain of the which came to Brownsville this morn- headed by Secretary Gardner Ithe Protestant against the proposed extension, which asserts ing through the first levee, and gislature down in special trains—on negotiations which Colonel W.' Chamber of Commerce. ing sixty cars strong. there is not business in the for two She water is over a two occasions. They got flood control. T. enough territory roads. The is accompanied by F. W. Lem- spreading large Eldridge of Sugarland, now j The city was full of ribbons, pinned Southern Pacific declares present and burg, her father, and Perry Clark, of the county near the west- When they wanted paved highgvvays, has on coat lapels, indicating the home of prospective tonnage is part pending. Members of the went to- ( more than sutficient for two roads to a Chamber of Com- ern they the polls and voted for olonel Eld holds a the wearer. every town in the make reasonale return boundary. ridge mechanics, Virtually has a them, and their colonization project in Mexico then dug deep into their lien amounting to a little leSs than’ Lower Rio Gran e was represented. upon investments. from San Benito and and who has been active in connection Reports pockets to pay for them. < $500,000, on the Rio Grande railroad.. Most of the visitors from the Valley W. R. Scott, of were Houston, president of the Southern Pacific with the Southern Pacific’s plans in surrounding country today When they they saw a way This lien was filed for towns expected to return to their home thought record in lines in Texas and was the this section. that the water is in a to build a Louisiana, first witness before Thomas going harbor at Point Isabel, they cron county several months ago., thl#> afternobn and tonight, while those * * * direction the dug deep into their pockets and put up Mr. Baldwin said: from the towns outside the Valley plan- '’r. Woodloek, of Washington, northerly along actual cash to help it along—to the ne Missouri racitic has been ltv- ned to remain two days. member of the Interstate Com- The hearing at the court house main canal of the La Feria dis- tune of like control of of came near something $350,000. the Gulf ('oast Lines for less Yoakum Llwunber Commerce merce Commission. Incidentally this is being held up at 11:30 this trict, and will probably reach • * * than a year. The Missouri Pacific delegation distributed leaflets carrying the morning when the Valley visitors set is RAIL OFFICIALS first time that a member of the the Arroyo Colorado by that not opposed to and has never a roster of the Yoakum and up a din of automobile horns This hearing is not a personal matter been op- delegation, commission had come to Texas on a like honking posed to the for the of Yoakum. as went around route. between officials of great railroads. development of deep water advertising", city mission. Previous hearings in other they the court house. at Point Isabel but to The Yoakum was headed It i6 believed that there will If those who sit in the courtroom ex- quite the con- delegation cases have been conducted before exam- * » * it has f). R. of to see Mr. Baldwin of the Missouri trary, been and is now in favor by Davis, president the Cham- iners for the not be a flood of the pect ATTEND commission. Members of the Chamber of Com- damaging of HEARING Pacific at Mr. Scott of the South- development of every Gulf Coast port ber of Commerce, and other members glare Woodloek Introduced. J merce, S. C. Tucker, W. B. Clint, W. arroyo, as occurred dis- and desires to extend of the are: W. with,the ern or Mr. Scott at Mr. all possible and party Philip Welhausen, Pacific, glare Mr. Scott read a E. McDavltt, .,'ohn and G. C. proper without T. E. A. M. C. lengthy statement Gregg, astrous flood of 1922, as the Baldwin, arc to be help discrimination or Brian, Palmer, Driscoll, they likely disap- L. W. outlining the position of the Southern Richard sort, manager, met Commis- favors, and to the M. A. W. E. Gi * n, J. H. Baldwin, president of the Mis- river is the re- pointed. yxiu may say people Meyer4 Neuman, sioner falling up line, souri Pacific. Preceding his on WoodlocR ai the railway sta- of the \ alley and Brownsville that this E. C. Knerth, F. A. Strurk, H. Seekamp, Pacific, and W. R. ScotC presi- appearance ports this and The men are doubtless personal dent. the stand. Clarence E. of tion and welcomed him to the morning indicate, goes double for Point Isabel.” J. K. Elkins, E. Hertz, A. N. Turner, of the Southern Pacific lines in Gilmore Aus- city. friends. They may he separate in their Texas and tin. chairman of the Texas State Rail- I). A. O’Brie.v, who was present, sug- will probably start A typewritten statement handed to A. E. Stephen, A. O. Frohcse, L. W. Louisiana, are leading dele- dropping positions in the hearing now in progress of road gested that Commissioner Woodlock near San Benito the press from Mr. Baldwin’s Sheckles, Dr. T. J. Hill, John McFadden, gations rail officials and noted attor- Commission, introduced Mr. Wood- ; tonight. private be a but a different sort of hearing in an- on lock to the given wooden key to the in The river at at car Sunday said: Dr. C. L. Kopecky, H. Quota, W. F- neys here opposing sides in the In- attorneys and to the audi- city, Brownsville is 14.75 other section of the country may find terstate Commerce Commission ence which filled ’the district court consideration of his name. about the same as it has been for the “Asked about an option on the Rio Adams, 1*. J. Davis, II. D. M-ister, and hearing them fighting together. of room. * and is Grande railroad, he stated that the J. J. Salazar. the Southern Pacific application for * * past day, standing still. The Souhern Pacific wants into the permission to \xtend its lines into the “It Several hundred men were called out Missouri Pacific .had agreed to purchase H. D. Meister, who is proprietor of is .not. often,” he said, “that a Private Pullman cars of the South- The Missouri noon Valley. Pacific, being member of ern after Saturday to wark on the the Rio Grande railroad upon the suc- the Yoakum Daily Herald, said that Valley. the commission can get a- Pacific, S. A. U. & G., Gulf Coast wants to the here, keep Southern Paci- Thomas E. interstate com- levee which was to break cessful competition of certain negotia- Yoakum is an important no'ni on me Woodlock, wav from Washington and when a mem- Lines, Missouri Pacific, and threatening fic out. I-GN, merce commissioner, is chairman of the through at Santa Maria, and a tions which Mr. Eldridge has pending Sap road, having the machine shops or ber decides that he can leave his duties S. A. & A. P. were “parked” at the second- in the Panhandle of and G. D. is ary levee was thrown about Up country Texas and which may or may not be consum- the railway at that poin,, and that, tnt hearing Mattingen attorney it becomes a‘matter of very great in- Gulf Coast Lines terminals here this up 1,000 j examiner. feet in there is another great railroad fight. mated, blit that he wanted to assure the i merchants and businessmen generally of terest to the section which he visits.” morning. Just before the 8:45 train length. The 1 The Missouri Pacific Due to the condition of the it Denver road (Burlington) and the people of Brownsville and the Valley that city were interested in securing a delegation, in ad- Mr. Gilmore*" welcomed Mr. Woodloek tame in, 20 minutes late due to five ground Santh Fe are at hammer dition to President consists of was impossible to wdrk teams, and the it, and tongs that whether the Missouri Pacific ac- ! stiaight line connection between there Baldwin, to “this particularly favored portion of extra cars, a representative of the there. C. A. de secondary defense levee was thrown up The Denver wants to keep quires the Rio Grande or not, it will and the Valley. Gersdorff, general counsel, Texas," and the attorneys and those in S. I'., and one of the M. P. talked in | up the Santa Fe out. In still be from New York. E. M. as- a with sacks and work dope hand with many respects favorable to the development of Durham, Jr., the audience welcomed him with a friendly manner, each standing with by the contentions are the same as sistant to the of ^t. his shovels. they Point Isabel. He -statefl that experience president, Louis, storm of applause. hand on the rail to a car of his S. O. The levee lasted ere in the had demonstrated that wherever a Ouellet, superintendent of trans- Mr. own hooked less than an hour af- Valley. port Woodloek regarded it as a per- line, together. * * * ter the was built in it was portation, St. Louis; E. M. McReynolds, first levee went through. up any community sonal privilege to be here but immedia- * v * director of for the entire Parts of the Le Feria Valley grapefruit of the 1925-1926 always beneficial to the railroad serving publicity sys- tely launched into the business of the Harlingen NAVY E. F. Newspaper row at the hearing in- and San Benito water MENDED tem, Barnes, to the season is now such community' and therefore the Jr., secretary districts will be reaching the local mar- peo- hearing. It must be completed, he said cluded C. P. no as president, O. H. Wind, to Mr. Gillespie, vice-president flooded by this the da- ket® of the Valley towns. ple may feel uneasiness to the secretary by night. Meanwhile the water, although Thursday op- and general manager of the Missouri Durham, Carl Reichert, to Mr. Houston mage is not expected to be of much ex- Pacific’s attitude whether it secretary portunity of nobody would be Tney are being peddled from wagons abridged, t hronicle, A. W. Archer, news editor Rio or H. R. Safford, executive tent, as there are no on this acquires the Grande railroad not, McReynolds, he said, and asked that of crops land in Brownsville, and may be obtained at duplication of the San Ant or as it vice-president of the Gulf Coast Lines to Express, H. M. now. will, in any event, be favorable. BY PN-9 PILOT testimony he avoided. the stalls in the market. city and International Great Frank Shepparu of the Associated Press, Mr. homage was shown this state- Northern, S. I’. Has are selling two and three for i Many Friends. Helen They ^ ment and Andrews, general counsel o.' the Gulf Rummel, ^covering” the hear- corroborated it and said that The court room a and are with where the hearing for the quarter, being greeted Coast Lines, W. G. man- ing Houston Press, W. O. Hol- every in the Valley knows that he Choate, general was extreme satisfaction at breakfast tables. yne (By the Associated Press.) held began to fill with visitors land of ager, Gulf Coast John San Benito Light, Mrs. Julia has been actively and vitally interested I). a.—Col- Lines, Mobley, within are those hat are being WASHINGTON, C., Oct. few minutes after the hearing They sweet, counsel for the Gulf Coast J. S. Montgomery of Monty’s Monthly, a in the development of Point Isabel; that onel William Mitchell’s that Lines, under pulied. But they are not quite as good charge got way. Frank Andrews of representative of the DIE IN chief Herald, and Ed FIRE no Kirkpatrick, J. A. he has hesitation, however, in advis- “amateur na- engineer, Brown, to the taste as they will he later on bungling” by non-flying Houston, entered his appearance for Williams of in freight traffic monager, Horace Booth, the W’eslaco News. ing the people the Valley that the val was th<> in the season. officers responsible for the Missouri Pacific and the Gulf Coast will not be retarded if the traffic manager, T. S. Bond, assistant * * * development failure of the navy’s Hawaiian flight Lines, with that of C .A. This season are to worry traffic J. C. Degesdorft they going Missouri Pacific should the Rio freight manager, Carter, “Coats off” was the pcrchase drew a contradiction today before the of New York, general counsel for the opening order (Continued on Page Two) Grande railroad; that it will be in much publicity director for the Gulf Coast of the air board from Lieutenant session, followed an ATORPHANAGE• president’s Missouri Pacific closely liy Lines and the International system. J. H. Talli- better to serve the interests Great North- order for no position Byron J. Connell, pilot of the PN-9 chett of Houston, smoking. The crowd ern. C. W. Strain, general attorney for tlmt wll be developed than the Rio number 1. general passenger which was around the the Texas lines, appeared for the standing rail of THE WEATHER Grande could he without such agent, for the Gulf Coast Lines, and Col. the court possibly Under questioning by Senator Bing- Southern Pacific. Others room grew to such propor- W. T. of the rail- representing Nuns Battle to < -___ assistance, and he feels like it would ham of Eldridge Sugarland tions that it was Rescue Connecticut, Lieut. Connell the Missouri Pacific System: R. B. ’necessary to ask of the a real way. he doing the people Valley backed the week them to be seated. This a For Brownsville and the Lower Rio up testimony given last Creager and Harhert Davenport, both brought Boys in Idaho Indian service to have the Missouri Pacific Commander On the Southern Pacific, side are round of applause from those Grande Valley: Increasing cloudiness by John Rodgers, leader of Brownsville and John A. Mobley of seated take over the Rio Grande railroad, as gathered the following officials and in the beck and Tuesday.hecoming unsettled of the flight, declaring that all arrange- Houston. of the room. Institution tonight he feels confident that it will make ev- J ments were carried out and legal talent: J. H. Tallechet, general at- local not much by Rodgers The of the -- with possibly showers; i Apparently the Southern Pacific came “peanut" court room ( ery reasonable efort to carry forward the other torney, J. R. Bell, commercial counsel, in flying officers. to the did not fill until change temperature. hearing with considerable sup* completely around the the development. C. K. Dunlap, traffic manager, H. M. (By Associated Press) For East Texas: Partly cloudy to- ”Commander Rodgers had complete port. Fourteen cities and 11:30 when the Valley delegation “Mr. ‘I have no hesi- organizations Eldridge stated. charge of all Connell asserted. Lull, chief engineer, G. R. Cottingham, LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct. 5.—Fire night and Tuesday; somewhat unsettled details," and the State of Texas filed started pouring in. Then it was pack- tation in to the of the Auditor. petitions visited on the little Catholic east saying people "He is a and made tragedy near the coast; cooler in extreme very, very good flyer of intervention in of the ed, the Brownsville band the Missouri Pacific can support South- being pres- Mission settlement in Valley that careful Thomas E. Woodlock, member of the the Nezperce In- tonight; warmer in north por- preparations.” ern Pacific's plea for of the ent. portion render them a greater and better ser- Interstate Commerce is authority dian reservation 25 miles east *>f here, to moderate winds Failure of the wind, which weather Commission, tion Tuesday. Ligfct commission to extend its line. The at vice in the of a at as and took the lives development port could con- acting chairman of the hearing and midnight Saturday on the northeast to south- experts not forsee, Connell : Dallas Chamber of ooast, mostly Point Isabel than it would be G. D. Commerce, the Edin- of six Situated five miles possible was for the Mattingen is attorney examiner Battle Looms orphans. east. • tinued, largely responsible burg Booster’s the Legion for the Rio Grande railroad to furnish Club, Valley Cham- from a railroad in a not for the commission. sparsely settled Weather Conditions plane reaching Honolulu. ber of the McAllen and 1 have no hesitation in advising Commerce, Business Over section, the at mis- and Mitchell Stand boys dormitory the The weather was mostly cloudy Mens Club, the Mission Commercial the people of Brownsville and the Val- sion where 31 youngsters lay asleep was unsettled throughout the Club, the City of La practically ley that, in my opinion, this service will Continuance Granted Travis Grand Jury to Edinburg, Feria wiped out. United States and the Canadian North- Chamber of be rendered by the Missouri Pacific Commerce, the County of (By the Associated Press') Nuns heroically worked to awaken observation. Rains Probe State Official* : west at the morning « Hidalgo, the of OMAHA. whether it acquires the Rio Grande or In Charge of Forgery L City McAllen, the Neb. Oe. 5.—Veterans of the the boys, half dragging them from their f — occurred within the last 24 hours to Brownsville Chamber of world not.’-- Commerce, the war. here for the seventh annual beds.'. The sisters were to the Associated bplieVed southern Florida, Tennessee, _ _ (By Press) Cities of convention Arkansas\ Weslaco, Pharr, Donna and of the American Legion, have escorted all of the boys from the and in the northeastern states; and y The case of E. C. Busey, charged with AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 5.—Grand jury Alamo all came in lined j support of the pro- up today for a fight on the en- building when five of the lads dashed scattered was reported Head forgery on three indictments, was con- investigation into office holders in the posed railroad extension dorsement of precipitation Piggly-Wiggly and against Col. William Mitchell’s hack into the fire to rescue some com-' also from the southern Rockv Mountain tinued until the special term of the crim- state capitol, land office and Travis ! the protest of the Missouri recommendations to Moves to Brownsville Pacific congress for a se- panion they thought was facing death. region and the Canadian Northwest. A inal district court this morning by county was ordered today by Judge Jas. which to it. air objects parate service department. The bodies of six were found closely area over the Canadian Criminal District A. W. Cunning- R. Hamilton in the Travis crim- high pressure Judge county Outstanding among them was the pe- Disappointment at the Colonel’s in- huddled together in the ruins. The the owners of the | was attended rather low C. P. Evans, one of ham. inal district court. Northwest by tition of the State of Texas asking that ability to attend was assuaged some- victims were from 5 to 14 old. and years in the region named, and Piggly-Wiggly in Texas, manager Andreas Rodriguez was found guilty Principal among the