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FORTIETH YEAR—No. 170 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1932 EIGHT PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY

— ■ .. [ in our I VALLEY! BILL PASSED ABOUT this APPROPRIATION IS NICE THING ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ♦> ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ *1* ♦ ♦> ♦ ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ *♦* v ♦ ❖ ❖ •> ♦> ♦> •> ❖ <♦ ♦> ♦ ❖ <♦ ♦ ❖ column writing business— You just can’t get away with anything. * Make a mistake, and rest assur- ed that somebody, somewhere, Mellon Action in House Will call It to your attention. —" — 1 " m Impeachment Delayed— ■■■ — — *3 rnmmmmmmmmmmmmm Which is as it should be. And we do not mind. T« UNDER WAY For at least it proves that there " •re people— NEW MATERIAL DAWES WILL I I I ...t $126,000,000 Who read our humble effort*. So we were glad to hear from a “Harlingen lady," IS AWAITED IN HEAD GIANT MEASURE GETS Who told us that the -kumquats” L ivrow'ing in the Brownsville yards sfL Are not “kumquats' at all. CREDIT BODY But are “calainondms.” INVESTIGATION — ——- A species of citrus— SENATE^OKEH Resembling the orange on a Colombia President Business Revival Plan Public small scale. Utility Probe Is For The calamondm grows troni seed, Denies Oil Deal Ready Ordered In House Appears to be almost immune With Mellon Test Committee from damage by frost or cold. | Bears the year round, WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Pres. It being a common sight to sec WASHINGTON Jan 19. F — WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. (AP» Hoover announced Am- blossoms Final action On the Patman resolu- today “The senate today pawed and bassador Dawes would retire as tion seeking the impeachment of •ent to tonfereiMe the Si’ftooe,- Green and ripe fruit. chairman of the American arms On the tree at the same time. See. Mellon was postponed indef- ! delegation to become president of deficiency appropriation MU. the reconstruction finance And anyone who has seen the | initely today bv the house judl- corpora- tion and that Sec. Stimson would WASHINGTON Jail 19. 4»,— in Brownsville, I clary committee. trees replace him at Geneva. The house today loosened the par- Will bear us out that they are Material Is Asked. liamentary shackles that bound the extremely ornamental. Meyer Is Chairman. reconstruction corporation, send- • • • This action was explained not to At the same time, the president ing the bill to conference with the Jim Fox is mean the case was but | TAX COLLECTOR dropped j stated Eugene Meyer—governor of senate for agreement on contro- it tor in | making easy everybody that future consideration would ! the federal reserve board—Would verted feature* so it can be dls- to the W. j Cameron county join politi- await the printing of the hearings Uen. W. Atterbury. president be chairman of the board of the lwtched to the White House to be cal by establishing sub- ol the Pennsylvania railroad, and made law the s parade the the proposed $2,000,000,000 finance by president stgna- be and receipt of material com ! was stations where poll taxes may a visitor in Brownsville today, corporation. ; tur*. mittee has requested. railroads of paid ir. charge of all the will sail with The senate was ready for the After a brief executive session Sec. Stimson not Just in case you did not know it. the in France dur- conference. Both branches gave held after Rep. Wright Patman. | the remainder of the American we would remind you that you may ing tile World War. their time to less W I delegation to the general arms con- prewing legisla- Texas democrat, and Alexander A graduate of Yale, he entered pay your poll tax without paying ference ncxt month at Gen- tion, with the senator* getting Gregg. Mellon's representative, the rail- I coming your property tax. although when service of Pennsylvania eva. I ready to vote on the *12* 000 000 had closed their arguments. Chinn. road in 1886 as an apprentice in you pay your property tax you His place as chairman of tbi deficiency bill which already has Hatton W. Summers said: the Altoona and worked his must pay your poll tax. shops, delegation at the opening sessions passed the house. "We are going to await the print- to the presidency. Please do not misconstrue that way up will be taken by Ambassador Hugh An Investigation of public utility ing of the hearings before we con- He first became familiar with remark as being advice to pay the Gibson, one cf the American dele- holding companies and investment sider the matter further.’ the Mexican border section in As-Kitted Prett Photm one and not the other, it's just gates. trusts was ordered by the houan 1916. when, as of the Above are shown Mrs Winnie Ruth Judd 'center* and her two slain companions. Agnes Le Rot 'left* you ot the tacts. Of Oil Cable Sought. president Pres. Hoover said these sudden to be conducted one of it* com- reminding he and Samu«’Ison At lower left is Mrs Judd's home in Phoenix and at lower by American Railway association, Hedvig 'right*. right officials i course, all of us who possibly can, changes in were necessitated mtttees. The material requested includes rendered valuable assistance to j plans are shown examining trunks in which the bodies of the two women were found in a Lo* Angeles railroad are all of our taxes, and es- the fact that unless Dawes was The ways and means committed paying the orgmal cable sent by Pres this section. by station. de- O O U U _-_-______to end its tax pecially are we paying up our of Colombia to his lega- named to and accepted the position decided hearings Olaya As director general of trans- T r T T to linquent taxes so as to take ad- as head of the new corporation, he ( next Monday, the plan betng tion here which in turn wa.s laid portation of the American Ex- vantage of the remission of penalty would sail from the United States have a revenue program ready for before the committee today, deny- peditionary Forces he handled the ‘and interest the house by the first of next ing that he had ever discussed the of U. S tomorrow. from transportation problem month But we are getting awav of! concession with Mellon The president is keenly desirous TRUNK Barco in France, and for his ser- of inter- troops Numbers of committees examin- the poll tax question Lots Patman had charged that the Distin- to have the corporation start tunc- Startled i vice was awarded the j • --in these Every- « t ^ * Drys ed witnesses and legislation today, days. in mthiene- By politic* secretary had a hand j guished Service Medal, the legion losing.4mn*e*i*»*r4v.- is wondering who the demo- the subjects up again including how body ing American bankers to make a of Honor by Prance the Compan- Liven Business. nominate to taxes should be levied and whether crats will oppose loan to Colombia which went for- ion of the Most Honorable Order JURORS CALLED A conference must be had be- 4 per cent beer should be' allowed:. President Hoover. ward shortly after the Mellon con- of Bath bv Great Britain, and the 1 house committee w In Cameron county everybody is oil received the the tween the senate and house for re- Booze The Judiciary Gulf Commander of View trolled corporation of Order conciliation of differences in details Murray postponed a vote on the Patman if the Taxpayers League a concession from Colombia to Crown bv Belgium Jflhondering Winnie Ruth Judd resolution of ‘will have a ticket in thr field and valuable oil iands in the He has been president of the of their bills, but the president is Begins seeking impeachment Burco; Jan. 1!>. —A startled Anti- Sec Mellon. in Hidalgo county rumors would concession. Pennsylvania railroad system since expected to have the legislation for- WASHINGTON, • to in i To Sen Borah republican. Idaho have us believe that that hotbed 1924 I warded him for signature the Fight Escape Saloon league convention weighed today a surprise sug- to have next few Soon thereafter, it in a bill called for reduction of ail of real politics us going days. from Gov. of Oklahoma that a more satis- be started Gallows gestion Murray federal salaries exceeding* *5.000. panties again. is hoped that credit can j Roosevelt Ready re- factory form of control be substituted for Fi x a good year to be a voter, and flowing from the $2 000.000.000 liquor might the only way in the world you can To Take New Post RAILROAD HEAD sources planned for the agency— > existing prohibition. this state of Texas is by to liven business in many fields PHOENIX. Ari* Ian 19.— *>. Recog: 3ed as a dry, the pic- vote in WASHINGTON Jan 19 P — Prisoner Is in i TJve president, announcing the Ruth having a poll t*x receipt your Theodore Roosevelt came to Wash- —IVinnif Judd went to turesque Alfalfa BUI* was given selections at his regular Tuesday 1 possession todav to receive his trial before Judge Howard C. on last s ington appoint- j conference, said he prominent place night the midday press mem as governor general of speak man in county of the biennial con- Here WE WERE to VIEWS CITRUS was gratified to state that Dawes .Maricopa OFFICERS BEAT program big JUST AS ready the Brought Philippines, approved by senate 1 i had the as- superior court today for the vention. following close upon a chide the weather man. in record time accepted important 1 t vice Chief Sheriff R. O. For having trifled with us on It took the greatest deliberative signment. The former presi- murder of Agnes Anne I,e Roi, stirring address by Bishop James Deputy Wants to See How Much who now is ambassador to Delaney left here Monday for this norther business body on earth” just ten seconds dent. one of the victims of the dou- Cannon. Jr, defending the piohibi- Houston to return G. C Wisdom to its consent to Great Br.tian but soon will re- CLAIMED southern ; In came the norther. yesterday give ble last MEN. tion part he and other trunk October. Trees He Saw 4 Years is at White House. slayings t here to face a charge of forgery And such a norther! placing the son of President Roose- sign. a t%est the churchmen had played in political the has Wisdom was being held by Ham* a mast welcome rain. velt in the highest territorial post Presumably, president campaigns and promising more of Bringing Ago Have Grown Jan 19— county authorities Del- who under the United States conferred with him at length about PHOENIX, Ariz, the same if necessary. pending Which is not making those arrival. for $2 000.000.000 Winnie Ruth Judd was called into Miners' Union Officials Say aney’s have either citrus or vegetables the plans throwing | • •Not Wisest Solution’ Houston officers took the man in- When I came down here four into the nation's credit structure. court to answer a least bit peeved. superior today to Sunday and he was un- Were Clubbed Into The Oklahoman had distributed custody We heard wonderful predictions ears ago they showed me millions Non-Partisan C haracJ r cliarge that she murdered her two able to make bond. Wisdom to of grapefruit tree* about so high to the press a speech w hich among on Sunday of what the cabbage Gold Theft Is Other members of the directorate former ’best friends.'* Anne charged with swindling a Browns- foot a halfi. Agnes Insensibility other things asserted he believed be on | indicating a and Well, ; ville business man with a market would Monday. of the corporation will not be forged tin back here now to see what has Le R<5l and Hedvlf Samuelson. “that prohibition will not prove the And on Monday It rained named at this time, the president instrument. The warrant was is- happened to them. Howard Speak- wisest legal solution of the control So if the market jumps again on Believed Solved He wishes to preserve a non- Superior Judge sued out of a J P court. Thus commented Gen W W | s^id. KNOXVILLE T«nn Jan. 19.— J of the liquor traffic.” of the rain. character on the direc- man will over the fignt of "Although under the state laws account of Penn- partisan preside Hi is sentence and some others Atterbury, president the Jot Weber and BUI Duncan. are no when That will be some more torate. aubum-hairea wom- we allowed mileage good If authorities honor sylvania lailroad, and one of the the slender, like it lie left unuttered when he men National Miners’ Union organizers, making arrests on J. P warranto, luck. Mr Dawes met newspaper the mounted the but the gen- I extradition papers on C. B. Sharp outstanding railroad executives of an to escape gallows. platform we are these arrests wher- You will know before you read in the Stinisons recep- since last Friday, came to eral tenor of the draft was making of El Centro. Sheriff Frank Brown the nation, upon his arrival In Secretary was sum- missing original his A panel of 85 jurors ever we feel that they a- prac- this. of Brownsville tion room, striding out witj Knoxville from Appalachia, Va, maintained and afterwards he ex- believes he is near a solution Tuesday. and attor- tical,** Sheriff Frank Brown states. famous clenched moned. Court attaches and related a 01 being he would stand absolutely the $o00 gold robbery from the His prgram for the day was ar- underslung pipe today story plained FOR the between his teeth. anJ stopping at it would t. e at arrested at Cumberland Ten- back of the written Vtnkon. PROSPFCTS Valleys home of A. H Knftuff, Harlingen ranged according to his wish, and neys estimated Gap. would seem to be he Brownsville the head of the large tabl». nessec. taken Harlan county of- I got started of! wrong and harbor projects some time ago. jeft shortly after 9 lea«t two days to select the jury by Texan Indicted For dentist, back. I a looking with the pews that the o'clock Tuesday morning for a tour Pounding the table with his ficers to Lynch. Ky, and clubbed never could get kept up A J. P warrant for Sharp's, ar- for which only men art; eligible. has all the v the Valiev to Mis- hand, he said: into dose eye on that crowd and I His Wife rivers and harbors committee connection with the bur- up right insensibility. Shooting rest in brief. I Mrs. wife of Dr. W. C. knew weren’t in to re- i Continued on page 7.i “Now this is going to be Judd, Weber, who said he had been they sympathy — P asked the army engineers has been issued. M A Marks SAN ANTONIO. Jan. 19 glary a with views. The mentality of the do not consider this talking job. Judd. physician, in organizer for the National Miners my C Matthews was indicted survev projects. was arrested at the time of the • what I Rudolph j When one is beginning im- Union at Wilkes Barre, Pa., dis- tlie crowd wasn’t expected.' Estimates of the cost were made a the trial faces prosecution yesterday for murder of his wife. burglary and placed under $1,000 | not the time to present With that he let the matter pass and labor were at portant work it is played bruise stripes across his He renewed his bond of fcvOOO Hu when materials bond. ac- for the of Mrs. Le His of the audiences Matamoros To talk about it and when we have only slaying a his neck. analysis We are told that, for j back and gash in trial was set for Feb. 8 a high peak morning Sheriff Brown the it is not neces- the death i was correct. at Tuesday complished job Roi. Should she escape He said he and Duncan, 44-year- sympathies apparently instance, dredging was figured talked to Gen. Bill Stefr- I but Matthews said the ahooUng of Adjutant That's all 1 have to say and were ar- They followed his words closely se- sary. the slate will try tier later i old Bell county miner, ! his wife in their home Jan. 5 was around 12c which can now be told him of the penalty no ling in Austin and Hold Carnival that's enough." Sheriff w’itii almost applause. or and that of killed Miss rested by Deputy Hugh an accident. cured for around 4c 5c. case and further advised him that He turned and strode back into on a charge having j Rudolph Matthews, j Ryder of Claiborne county. Torn, C nmmenl Later Jr. 9. told officers a other costs have dropped in pro- extradition papers had been for- the secretary's office, vigorously Samuelson. quarrel pre- Matamoros is lor her last Friday night. t ceded the shooting. portion. warded from the Valley Monday, preparing slamming the door behind him bc- defendant was I Afterwards the chairman of the j annual Carnival Feb The 27-year-old Ryder, he said, called Harlan, im ma> be that when the re-sur- Sterling's department agreed to four-day 6-!#. i lore his listeners had time to ask a leagues executive committee. Dr it ha.-, been announced visited her parents, the Kv., and said over the telephone: has been completed, we will in California if by the by elderly A J Barton of Wilmington. N. C.. 4*ev make the arrest single question. Me-l two men Cotton Man Dies committee in which is now Rev. and Mrs. Harvey Joy “Were got your have some comment find that the costs of both the the extradition papers were honor- charge said he might Tnd. In her of Claiborne — a general program ana Kinneli of Darlinseton. Sheriff Frank Riley There was much informal NACOODOCI.es. Jan. 19 .*» Brownsville and the Port Isabel ed. The formal papers were drawn I forming later. Launch the eve of the trial. county. Weber said, was called and James Hunter Brown 82. well- have been reduced to such Dist. At tv. making other arrangements. Merchants cell on discussion among the leaders but projects in Harlingen Sunday by have Harlan known Texa cotton An More than 60 witnesses he in turn talked to nc action was taken. i buyer, died that will not Dist. auxiliary' committee, headed . an extent financing r> S Pur! and Asst. Los men in an automobile, earlv todav. He was located for- Atty.; by Juan M Maraboto. ‘Hot Check’ Drive been summoned. They include Three j Murray made it clear to tiie be the hard task It now appears. Claude Carter. correspond- rnt for hot detectives who will Weber related, took him and Dun- he was not commit- merly In Waco. Later he vm con- the meantime, it at F.I “El Mundo,” will be in A determined drive against Angeles city audience that And fn ap- Sharp is now being held turned them nected with the P J Willis com- of the celebration this artists'* in Brownsville was tell of the bodies of Mrs. can to Harlan, and ting himself to any change in the Mexico is more than arrival of Texas charge year. ! check finding tha* Centro' pending in over to four men dressed m “leath- law'. He as pany of Galveston. Funeral ser- pears Other members of the committee i launched at a meeting of the Le Roi and Miss Samuelson fundamental suggest I'd casually interested ui this harbor officers twv vice* were at Waco tomor- are Lie. Jesus Rojas who is Junz Retail Merchants association at trunks in Los Angeles; er coats and carrying pistols something that “cot be done planned at the mouth of the river proposi- Some time ago. Knauff. the Har- ’’ row afternoon. cie Primera InsUncia. vice presi- j the chamber of commerce building deputy sheriffs, who investigated apiece adoption of a state compact system, now '■... information as we lingen dentist, a “this ! to .— '.I...1...... —."'ll11" '-"-g-..:. 1 tion. Such split partnership when the SOS sys- in Phoenix: and psy- He said these men declared under congressional sanction, Instruments dent; Ruben A. Martinez, head of Monday night the slayings on the subject is pretty va- and took his dental as to end Tor two, took them for of interstate com- have the chamber of commerce, secre- ot merchant of bad chiatrists. who will testify is the you , ally purposes this to his home. tem warning gue. but maybe when commis- and S.**1 in dental gold where were tary: Alfonso Reina. sub-secretary; checks was adopted Mrs. Judds sanity. to Lynch, Ky. they merce states wishing to legalise from Mexico C!tv gets to One afternoon he received a mys- j of men similar states ex- sion and Felipe Vazquez D. general H. G. H. Weinert. president, spoke joined by another group beverages—beer we will be able to get terious telephone call from Browns- i Then, he related, were taken to beer states, wine to wine MARKETS Matamoros aide. on “Cooperation" at the meeting. they porting details of the pro- ville ask me him to come here. This the mountain from and etc,—but shipment ol ; the complete Alternate helpers on the com- J. P Glenn was elected director up Lynch preventing he did. but found the call to be alcoholic to and from posal mittee include Alfonso C to succeed Price vho re* beaten with clubs and sand-bags beverages was here to Lopez, Massey Murder’ A T GLANCE we are inclined to “blind” and no one 1 according those with differing legal sanction; personally Anastas:o Zarate. Alfredo Bouch- cently moved from the city. 10‘Gang At daylight Saturday, this harbor meet him On returning to Har- were or with absolute prohibition. the belief that new ard. Maximo Gomez. Porfirio J The recond Monday in each to Webers story, they picked in with the flood lingen. he found that his home had and taken to Va.. | project is linked Anzaldua. George Leonard. E. month was adopted as the reg- up Appalachia. NEW YORK: work to been looted and the dental gold Jurors Chosen: where stayed with a friend > control and conservation Gonzalez Anclra. Carkxs Argueiies ular meeting day of the associa- they Bloc its heavy; rah* ]f#e most taken. — their wounds which the International Water and Pedro J. Rernoso. lion. of Duncan until Commission to Hear ol early gains is bending Us effort Traffic Officer Lawson Anglin j healed. Bonds tX 8 Commission The committee is now working Ten f irregular; gov- a car near Harlingen for a Jan Weber is of the central and that being the case we need stopped on a program which takes in bull HOUSTON secretary New Road Arguments ernments easy. traffic violation Two men leaned Hamar Dies i had been selected at noon committee in the not expect immediate action. fights, dances, cock fight*, ker- Hugo jurors strike Kentucky- ( WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 r- Curb steady; leaders mark from the automobile and ran. One murder trial of w S nteses and other forms of enter- Hugo Hamar, 51, watchmikcr, todav in the Tennessee coal fields. The Interstate Commerce commis- tune. t of them Marks arrested accused m the | Anglin tainment. died Monday afternoon following «Shilo> Scrivenor. sion today a announced that on Feb Foreign exchange# Irregular;, the believed to of Mr. and Mrs. f but second man. j an illness of several month- The -gang murder.'’ 17 it will hear oral arguments here franc higher. * Teachers to Meet have been Sharp, escaped. is held Delta and C A Keggy Jones. on the of the Texas and Cotton southern sell- ■ body by Mortuary Whale application quiet; teachers of Cameron officers, found Jones were found 4,000-Pound The rural According to they Horticulturists To funeral arrangements are to be Mr and' Mrs j Pacific Northern Railway Co, for ing; decreased trade demand a meet- 31. countv will hold regular the missing gold on the back seat made slain in their apartment Aug. to construct a 330-mtlc trade ; upon receipt of word from had Caught Off Miami permission Sugar steady; buying in the office of Mrs W R of the automobile. Meet Next hours after John Cherris j line from Texas, to Coffee ing Wednesday i relatives in the north Hamar. who 36 MIAMI. Fla.. Jan. 19.