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ITALY DEFIES MEDDLING IN AUSTRIA Stmunsuillr Herald THE VALLEY FIRST--FIBST IN THE VALLEY--LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE, ASSOCIATED PRESS FORTY-THIRD YEAR--No. 20 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934 FOURTEEN PAGES TODAY 6c A COPY PRETTY DUMB, THAT'S WHAT We were in figuring the loss of citrus trees resulting from the hurricane. We correctly figured that the total number of trees in the Valley as of April 1, 1934 is 203,529 less than the total number of trees as cf April 1, 1933, but-We did not figure in the number of trees planted since the hurricane, 376,890. To arrive at the proper figure representing trees lost from the hurricane, the two must of course be added, Making it a total of 530,419 trees ibis section lost in last September's ow, or more than 7,000 acres. Sorry for the error.

In explanation, not excuse, will say that the reporter who did the figuring was engaged in writing the story, answering telephone calls regarding hurricane, and talking to an assortment ol some 10 candidates, all at the same time. Wednesday was one of those days, that's all! COUNTY VALUATIONS IN 1931 were some 50 odd million-As quoted of ttirne in current campaign literature circulating in Cam. eron county. And county valuations of Cameron county for 1933 are some 3S odd million, as similarly quoted. And the difference is some 15 odd million.

BUT, and it is a big "but," toe county valuations for 1932-In between the two, were some 40 odd million, a figure not quoted. it will be seen that the difference between valuations in Judge last year of office and the succeeding year-Was FIVE million, not the fifteen million claimed by opponents oJt the former commissioners court. STORM LEAVES 30 DEAD MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DAMAGEDONE Giant Tidal Wave Hits Low Area and Many Are Missing, Ignores Hollywood Just a littla fair, that's all. question of being A MORNING PAPER REMARKS that it's no wonder Brownsville folk are worried about their municipal plant-That Httle blow Tuesday put the plant out of commission. This morning paper might have added that th plant was out of commission just a few minutes and that-The employees of that plant have done heroic work in keeping it running at all since the September hurricane.

That "emergency loan" of $200,000 granted by the PWA last October toe 13th-- is still all tangled up in red tape, But gradually the whole thing is jetting untangled, And we may expect to see some 400 men at work very shortly- Putting Brownsville's utility plant back in first class condition. FOLLOWING. ADVICE OF GOV- ernment engineers, Brownsville Navigation commission is planning on using 16 inch mains in connecting the turning basin with the municipal water system. These 16 inch mains are larger than any at present in use in the city system, but the engineers believe that they will be needed to give the port ample water supply. And that is in itself a most encouraging sign of the prospects in store for the Brownsville port.

Good water, in unlimited amount, a prime necessity for any harbor, and Brownsville is indeed fortunate that its port will have both good water and plenty of it. ASTONISHINGLY LARGE crowds jre gathering to hear Judge F. W. Seabury-The Valley's candidate for the state senate, As he concludes his drive for the nomination-In his home territory. Judge Seabury has every right to expect the Valley to rally to his banner- Not on the grounds that he Is a home candidate-But on the much better grounds that he is most eminently fitted to serve his home section.

His opponents are saying that judge Seabury is appealing to the Valley to put him over, and are using the fact that he is a Valley man-Who has promised to serve his home territory with efficiency, In an endeavor to pull away support in the other parts of the senatorial district. Continued on Page Eight) HOUSTON, July 26. (JP)--From the. hurricane-devastated Texas coastal region Thursday came tragic reports which Indicated fatalities might exceed 30 and that crop and property damage would amount to many millions. There were at least 17 persons missing from the low-lying Sargent area, where a giant tidal wave swept Inland for a distane of six miles, laying waste rich farming section.

80-Mile Wind As the storm raged in from the gulf, the wind howled at a velocity of 90 miles an hour and, in at least one community, displayed the twisting characteristics of a tornado. At Morelos, in Jackson county, the wind wrecked practically every building and killed five persons. Another person was dying from injuries Thursday. The dead at Morelos were Neal Lewis, 45, of Wink, Texas, his two adopted sons, Harvey Lewis, 13, and Roland Lewis, 12; Mrs. Sue A.

George 72, the mother of Mrs. Lewis; and a negro farm laborer, Handy Cook. Mrs. Neal Lewis was injured probably fatally. The Lewises and Mrs.

George were crushed in the wreckage of Mrs. George's home. The negro was killed while working in a field. The wind had subsided Thursday all along the coast from Galveston to Corpus Christi and efforts were being made to open communications with the stricken area in order to learn the full extent of the disaster. Telephone and telegraph lines were still out of commission to many coastal towns near where the center of the disturbance struck--Freeport, Port Lavaca and Port A coast guard radio truck was rushed from Galveston into the area.

Damage is Heavy Along the coast were strewn innumerable small craft, battered in(Continued on Page Eight) Tri-County Grower' Not Official Organ The Tri-County Vegetable Growers association has no connection with and is not responsible in any manner for the publication now being circulated throughout Cameron county and called the "Tri-County Grower," according to a statement made Thursday by Roy Buff of Brownsville, president of the association. Ruff in his statement said: "It has been called to my attention that a new paper is being distributed this week under the name of "The Tri-County Grower," which is largely political and which is actually sponsoring a list of candidates. "I wish to call attention to the fact that the Tri-County Growers association has no official paper, is in no way responsible for any statement or statements appearing in the above named paper, and that such a publication does not meet with the approval of this organization." Signed, R. Roy Ruff, President, Tri-County Growers Association. Celeste Wehrheim, 21, beauty eon- test-winner, rejected an offer from HoBywood which promised stardom.

Sbe preferred to stay in Chicago and be the wife and homemaker of a straggling- yocnK lawyer "I IOTB him wrj much!" VALLEY ARE OUTLINED Funds Are Obtained For Flivver Planes WASHINGTON. July efforts to stimulate the aviation industry are going ahead steadily along the lines ol developing an inexpensive, flivver airplane. Undismayed by failure to get PWA funds, the department of commerce has obtained $100,000 from a special fund held by the president, and it is going to use part of this money for the planes. Officials are confident that the idea is thoroughly practical and a plane bas already been produced which approaches their idea of what can be done. Puerto Rico Oil Code Body Named WASHINGTON, July 26.

oil administration Thursday nounced establishment Scabury to Work For Legislation to Aid Section (Special to The Herald) MERCEDES, July of the Lower Rio Grande Valley in the way of legislation to protect agricultural development were outlined here at a mass meeting Wednesday night by Judge F. W. Seabury of Brownsville, candidate for the Texas senate from tlie 27th district. Judge Seabury explained the necessity for a licensing and bonding law for shippers, for a compulsory inspection and grading law for vegetables, for a compulsory public weighing law, and other similar -laws to protect the Valley farmer, and secure him a fair return on his farm products. He pledged his effort to secure such laws if elected senator.

Other speakers at the meeting here were Judge John H. Mitchell, of La Major H. B. Galbraith of Brownsville. Major Galbraith in discussing the qualifications of Judge Seabury explained that his 10 years of legislative training would enable him to be of immediate value to the Valley whereas an inexperienced man succeeding Parr would waste a year or two in acquiring experience.

Maj. Galbraith also the Rio Grande City election 1906 in which Judge Welch was killed (Continued on Page Eight) Dr. Yantis to Take Appeal From Fine TORNADO HITS IN WAKE OF GULFJTORM Fire Die As Twister Sweeps Down On Victoria Area VICTORIA, July Five persons were killed and another injured probably. fatally in a tornado which wrecked the farming community of Morelos, county, late Wednesday. The tornado apparently was a phase of the violent Iwrricane which, sweeping inland from the gulf, devastated a.

wide stretch of coast line and ruined crops for miles in the interior. Five Lives The dead: Neal Lewis, 45, Wink, Texas. His two adopted sons, Harvey Lewis, 13, and Roland Lewis, 12. Mrs. Sue A.

George, 72, the mother of Mrs. Lewis. Handy Cook, a negro fram laborer. Mrs. Neal Lewis, 42, was reported In a dying condition Thursday at Edna, where she was taken for treatment.

The negro lost his while working in field, while the others (Comtinued on Pave Eight) Highlights On Situation In Austria HOME--A high official ot the foreign office told the Associated Press a movement Thursday of Italian troops toward the Austrian frontier constitutes an affirmation, directed at Germany, that Italy will not tolerate foreign interference in Austria's domestic affairs. TORONTO--Three armed men Thursday held up the branch of the Bank of Monti-til at Keele and St. Clair streets and obtained a. sujn of money estimated In first report, at $28,000. The men entered the bank during the noon hour, forced, em- ployes to lie on the floor and escaped in motor can.

Youthful Slayer Gets of murder for trw ax slaying of mother and brother, Louis Rude Payne, 21-year-old student, faced another superior court trial Thursday a trial in which a jury will decide whether he ix Late Wednesday he was found guilty hacking to death his mother, Mrs. Carrie L. Payne, and brother, Robert. The jurors made no recommendation, leaving Payne to be hanged unless he is found to have been insane at the time the double slaying. Payne, son of a former St.

Louis utilities executive, Lucius F. Payne, said he committed the crime because of an "irresistible impulse." Oil Strikers Guard Against 'Red' Action HAMMOND, July oil plant workers of the Shell Oil company Thursday put a force of 40 union policemen in the field to guard against violence or sabotage. They will cooperate with city and company police, said T. B. Fisher vice president of the International Association of oil field, gas well and refinery workers, who explained: "We expect to carry this strike to successful conclusion, and we don't want to be blamed for anything the reds may attempt.

Our troop will give full protection to the refinery and the company's stations." LOS ANGELES--Eight men and four women still battled Thursday over try fate of Dave Allen and Gloria Marsh, Hollywood figares who went on trial two and one- half weeks age on moral charges, with court attaches predicting the Jury would be unable to agree. BERLIN, Baatt, a German staff photographer for the Associated Press, was arrested by Vienna authorities for taking a picture of the Austrian chancellery Wednesday. The foreign minister Here Mid the German- embassy fe mating (Continued on Page Eight) DAWS DUCE PLEDGES WILL DEFEND FREEAUSTRIA War -Time Sentiment Heard In Hot-Bed Of Europe ROME, July 28.. --(ff)-- Premier Mussolini assured Vice Chancellor Starhemberg of Austria by telegram Thursday that Italy will defend Austrian independence even "more strenuously in these exceptional and difficult times." Mussolini's message was sent as war time sentiments came to the ore in Italy, long opposed to a union of Germany and Austria Troops in the north, were ordered eady to march oh short notice. Lauds DoIIfuss "The tragic end of Chancellor XHfuss saddened me profoundly," Mussolini telegraphed Starhemberg, who is leader of the fascist home guard.

"I was bound to him by ties of personal friendship and by identical political points of view. I have always admired his capacities as a tatesman, great courage. "Chancellor Dollfuss served the 3eople from whom, he came with ibsolute disinterestedness and dis- ain for peril. His memory will be IL DUCE SENDS 32,000 MEN TO GUARD BORDER Mussolini Tells Austria He Will Back Her to Limit to Keep Nazis From Taking Control LONDON, July 26. dispatch from an Exchange Telegraph stated it had been reported without confirmation that Chancellor Hitler arrived on the German side of the Austrian frontier Thursday afternoon and visited an Austrian legion encampment.

ROME, July 26. (AP)--Four army each with a strength of about 8,000 men have been ordered to points along the Austrian frontier it was stated by an official communique issued late Thursday. In addition, Italy has 75,000 men who have been for months stationed so close to the Austrian frontier that they could be pushed across at any time without preliminary movement. Mussolini sent word to Austrian fascist authorities that he was, in effect, ready to go the limit to back them against nazis. Permission to Move Bales To Warehouses Comes Too Late service Counsel for Dr.

G. R. Yantis gave notice of appeal when motion for a new trial, alleging misconduct on the part of a juror, was denied by Judge E. T. Yates in the Cameron county court at law Thursday morning.

Dr. Yantis was fined and costs by a jury which found him charge of simple as- W. A. Neylan, local of an- a. marketing committee to administer the on code in Puerto Bico.

Members of the committee: E. Noonan, Shell Oil: B. Arkin, Texas Oil; E. Yeates, Pyramid Oil; A. Lopez Deharo, president San Juan Association of Retailers; Samuel Banza, president Pones Dealers association; Diego Ajjueros, treasurer San Juan organization; Jose Carbia Miranda, West India Oil company; Eduardo Mendec, guilty on a sault upon barber.

Counsel for the defendant attempted to prove that a juror had while in deliberations, that Neylan was not the first man Dr. Yantis had assaulted. Iriffin Rally To Be Held In City The Gordon Griffin for Congress rally to be held in Brownsville Thursday night will be staged in the courthouse if the weather Is unfavorable, Griffin managers announced Thursday morning. In event the weather is not threatening, the rally will be held in the V.F.W: arena on Elizabeth street: Strike of Truckers Is Near Settlement MINNEAPOLIS, July 26. (IP) -Acceptance of all wage scale provision in peace terms designed to settle the truck drivers strike was voted Thursday by the employers advisory committee.

Reports that the drivers' union viewed favorably the proposition strengthened hope the walkout would be settled soon and dissipate the need of military rule. With approximately 18,000 of the 24,000 bales of cotton ginned hi the Valley to date lyinc in mud on the ground near Valley gins, provisions of a new regulation designed to enable Valley cotton farmers to move their cotton came too late in the opinion of ginners anc growers contacted by The Brownsville Herald Thursday morning. The new regulations allow growers to sell their cotton, leaving the amount of the tax, approximately $35 to $40, in escrow until the permanent certificates are issued. W. E.

Mullikin, Farm Credit administration official, stated while in the Valley two weeks ago that he was making every effort to ss- cure a loosening of regulations of the Bankhead bill which would able growers get cotton moved from the gins into storage in compresses where it would be protected from the elements and insured. The new regulation announcd bv Collector of Internal Revenue Frank Scofield Wednesday followed the survey made by Mullifcin, but comes after heavy rains which have damaged bales to the extent of $5 to (Continued on Page Eight) Latin-Americans To Vote, Allred Rules In a ruling issued Wednesday by Atty. Gen. James V. Allred, the right of Latin-Americans to.

vote in th July primaries in Texas has been upheld. The ruling was returned after the Travis county Democratic committee ruled that Latin-Americans could not participate in the July primaries in that county, basing the ruling on the action of the state convention in IS 32 that ruled that only Caucasians can vote. PLANE PASSENGERS LeRoy McGuirk, J. M. Sanchez and J.

de la Mora left by airplane Thursday for Mexico City. Mrs. C. A. Songer and Miss T.

Songer went to Tampico by plane. Plane arrivals at the 'Brownsville airport Wednesday were D. G. Richardson who cam from Mexico City and Andrew Millefc, J. F.

Harrison, R. I. Ingalls, G. V. Kauffman, and W.

Nichols who came from Tampico. lonored not only by AustrHi but very where in the civilized vhich has already with its moral ondemnation struck at those persons :dir.ectly snd indirectly respon- for receive an expression of my condolences, which interpret the unanimous sentiment of execration and mourning of the Italian people. (Signed) Mussolini." Troops Are Ready The orders to troops followed by publication of an official announcement that Dollfuss' successors in Vienna had asked the help of European powers, requesting intervention. Whether armed assistance is needed will be determined at a conference of diplomatic representatives in Vienna. It was considered certain here that Italy would participate in any movement of troops into the neighboring: country and that England and the Little Entente would either send troops to aid in intervention or lend their close economic, moral and political support.

(Reports from Praha, Czechoslovakia, however, quoted authoritative as saying the Little Entente would consider intervention neces- (Continued on Page Eight) Reduction In Rail Service Requested AUSTIN, July Hearing on an application of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway company for authority to reduce passenger train service between Temple and San Angelo Thursday was set for August 20 at San Angelo ay the Texas Railroad commission. It had previously been set for July 31 at Brownwood. MINNEAPOLIS GETS TROOPS 4,000 Guardsmen Ordered In As City Put Under Military Rule MINNEAPOLIS, Jidy M. thousand national guard were ordered to place Min neapolis under military rule Thurs day by Qov. Floyd Olson aft warring factions in the truck drivers strike failed to agree final peace plans submitted them, by federal mediators.

The martial rule decree, at 12:21 p. central standard time, fo lowed by about an hour the ac ceptance of the peace plan by th Drivers Union, No. 574, and a rep from the employers advisory boar committee accepting some term with reservations but rejecting th wage-scale suggested by the Re Francis Haas and E. H. Dunniga: mediators.

Brig. Gen. X. A. Walsh was im mediately appointed by the gov ernor as commsjider of the troop who will move into the city force immediately.

Some 800 a ready were stationed inside th boundaries of Minneapolis whi the 4,000 men were stationed a the fair grounds adjacent the cit limits and other points nearby. Gen. Walsh began preparation regulations to be placed into effec Doomed Attorney Is Granted Sta; LITTLE ROCK, July Justice T. H. Hum phreys of th Arkansas Suprem Court Thursday granted a stay execution for Mark H.

Shank, Ak ron, Ohio, attorney, who was sched uled to die at dawn Friday for th poison murder of four persons. The stay of execution was grant ed to permit th supreme cours when it reconvenes from its sum mer recess September 17 to considei an appeal on the question of givini Shank ft sanity hearing. New Strike Begins OMAHA, July 26. (IP)-Workers for the Omaha Council Bluffs Street Railway went on strike Thursday morning in accordance with a unanimous vote aken Wednesday night. A few of the strikers appeared at car barns with clubs and bricks jut threw them away at the request of police.

The tram company made no effort to move cars and told employes who reported for work to call back this afternoon. C. C. C. Worker Dies CODY, July Short, 19, of Wellington, a sergeant in a CCC camp near here died at a hospital Wednesday after two weeks' illness from a spider bite.

The body was sent to Ms home in Texas Thursday. Col. M. House Observes Birthday BEVERLY FARMS, July kindly old gentleman who holds no office but has at his fingertips more information on foreign affairs than many rulers celebrated his 76th birthday anniversary Thursday. He is Col, Edward M.

House confidant of Pres. Wilson in Work War days, intimate friend of Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt and perennial host to the visiting great from overseas. 1,000 Marooned BEAUMONT, July 1,000 persons marooned on High Island by the tidal wave which hil the Texas Gulf coast were unable to leave Thursday and indications were that they might not be able to get away for two or three more days. While water had receded, roads leading to the island were washec out in all directions.

The roac linking Beaumont and High Islanc was still under water in places. THE WEATHER Brownsville and the Valley: Mostly cloudy and unsettled Thursday night and Friday, probably with occasional local showers. NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG-NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS JWaihington by Gtorgc Dtrnio by McMulKn WASHINGTON AIR-WAR--The eclipse of J. Ham- say McDonald, prime minister of Great Britain, is attended by far- reaching consequences affecting other countries. As McDonald fades from the picture, the sturdy figure of Stanley Baldwin emerges as chief burden-bearer of the British government.

Socialist gives way to Conservative. Pacifism retreats and old-tune imperialism breaks out flag. Our state department sees this change as having a profound effect upon American policy--particularly nwwl and air fcOtj. viiy Uttto attention has been paid to the new factors that now appear. Increase of Britain's home defense air fleet by 33 squadrons means nothing to America, but increase of naval air force causes Uncle Sam to sit up and take notice.

Obviously this question win thrust iteelf into the next naval conference. Agreed-upon parity necessitate revision of of fleets will America's naval air plans. Japan will be heard frum, of course. But the milk in the cocoanut is the immense air preponderance of Britain. Trench have London at tfceir mercy, Britons have squirmed over this situation for several years.

Ramsay MacDonald has always 'turned a deaf ear to ah- expansionists as he has to other "militarists." Now Stanley Baldwin moves to put an end to Britain's air inferiority. He acts within two days after the break-up of the last disarmament pow-wow. Britain will arm and defend herself. Little has been statesmen regarding said among France's air supremacy over Britain. But the brute fact more than once has to Ma in European confabs.

Look over the record. In every pinch case Britain has stood with France and has not dared to do otherwise. Ths debt situation may undergo a change with Baldwin in the saddle. He made the agreement. He would be the best man to revise Itr-he has tre respect and confidence of Washington.

BLIGHT-- Southern Congressmen running for renomination have sent in hot answers to the campaign committee's questionnaire. The committee.wanted answers to these an jour How does the public regard NBA PWA, AAA, FERA, et al. How does FDR stand with the people? The composite reply of close to a majority of southern candidates is: "Patronage famine knocks me silly. Rival democrats getting my goat because I don't deliver pie. This district can't get its share of PWA funds and I am blamed.

Can't you stop this plum blight? Water drought not in it with devastation here. "People confused by federal alphabet agencies pulling and hauling. Everybody stands by TOR. ITALIAN ALLIES TAKE OVER POWER (Copy't, 1934, by The A. VIENNA, July power the Austrian fascists, allied in ideals and friendships to the fascists of Italy, mounted to the rule of Austria Thursday.

Prince Ernst von Starhembergt tall nobleman, and leader of the fascist heimwehr, was announced as the new chancellor, succeeding the little, commoner, Engelbert Doll- Additional news on the Austrian situation will be found on pages five and six of this edition. fuss, who was assassinated day by the fascists' bitterest foes, the nazis. Pres. Wilhelm Miklas expected to make the formal appointment of Von Starhemberf Thursday. Civil War Breaks Oft But as the fascist star ascended, civil war blazed forth in the province of Styria where nazis battled government forces for control of villages.

Early reports did not tell how many men were being killed, although an official announcement at Graz, capital of the province, said 14 government soldiers slain. Styria has for months past been the peace of Europe as a result of inspired, Dollfuss had claimed, by the nazis whom he fought in efforts to create a "united fatherland." Everywhere rumors and fears far theh peace of Europe as a result of the stirring events of Wednesday and Thursday, were expressed. Armed men were everywhere in strenuous effort to maintain order. To Follow DolUuss As his first statement as chief at the cabinet, Prince Von Starhem- berg said only that the government policy wiU be to carry on the work begun by Dollfuss. The first act of the cabinet when it met under its new leader was to vote an authorization for "appro: priate" financial measures for future welfare of Dollfuss' widow and his two children, five-year-oW Eva and four-year-old Rudolf.

Then the cabinet declared the ireation of a special military court to try the offenders in Wednesday'! (Continued on Page Eight) Flashes A. P. From Wire HENDERSON, with automatic pistols and sawed-off shotguns, four shabby, unshaven bandits Thursday robbed the Farmers Bank of Henderson of between $25,000 and $30,000 and fled south in a (Ford V-8) sedan which was parked in front of the bank with an accomplice at the wheel. WASHINGTON of the stock exchange regulation commission said Thursday the closest scrutiny would be given the origin of rumors that troops had marched into. Austria which caused stock market to nose downward.

Officials said it was not possible to state definitely now what their powers were in regard to rumors of this character, It would more to study the situation immediately. SAN FRANCISCO--A member of Pres. Roosevelt's mediation board said Thursday Pacific coast waterfront had agreed to discharge non-union longshoremen as a prerequisite to the return to work of striking mion stevedores pending arbitration of the issues fe the walkout, PARK CLUB, Saraxen, the defending duunpion, was stripped of his last title Thursday when he was beaten by Al Watrous, Detroit veteran, 4 and in a 36-hole second round match of the Professional Golfers Association championship. SEABRIGHT, N. Berkeley Bell, former Texan now livinr in New York, Thursday defeated iVllmer Allison, of Austin, Texas, the- country's second ranking; plays', to enter the final round of he Sesbrig-ht Invitation tennis tournament.

The scores were i t-t-1 -ft, i.