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THE WteATHER Brownsville and the Valley: Mostly cloudy Monday night and Tuesday, probably with local showers; not much change in temperature. InmmstnUe SeralO THE VALLEY FIRST--FIRST IN-THE VALLEY--LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PKESS Support the NRA Code The Brownsville Herald Has subscribed to Pres. Roosevelt's Re-Employment agreement. Under the provisions of the accepted newspaper code The Brownsville Herald Joins fully In eplrlt ol the general recovery plan. FOETY-SECOND YEAR--No.

126 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1933 SIX PAGES 6c A POLICE PUZZLED BY FLOYD'S 'DOUBLE' BREAKDOWN IN FEDERAL relief agencies is not at the top. Witness the effort of that Mission farmer whose story you read in Sunday's Herald-To get assistance from the Federal Land Bank when his home was about to be foreclosed upon. A direct appeal to Pres. Roosevelt got action, And action in a hurry. As this paper has always maintained-- It's the minor officials who are gumming up the works.

AT THAT, THANKS TO THOSE have been carrying on the fight, it now appears that least some relief may be expected by the Valley from the lanri bank officials. A. C. Williams, president of the Houston institution, came through late Saturday night with the statement that things looked favorable for the Valley. Many Valley folk, notably Ralph Bray the Mission Times, H.

B. Galbraith of Brownsville, Harbert Davenport of Brownsville, John Shary of Mission, and a host of others, have been working on this problem for years. Success would appear to be about to crown their efforts. SHIPPERS OF THE VALLEY meet at Weslaco tonight to consider-- The Texas citrus code. Eyes of Valley growers will be on this meeting.

They will be wanting to know is who, and why who is not who. Stabilizing of the citrus industry of the Valley depends upon the wholehearted cooperation of Valley shippers-In standing by the Citrus code. We know reputable shippers of the Valley- Will be found lined up behind this program. BROWNSVILLE BUSINESS AND professional men wfto believe the time has come to turn loose of dim forebodings-Will meet tomorrow noon to plan t. campaign for renewed business activity for this The time is certainly ripe.

Things are picking up here in the counw sea. of Cameron county. Several breaks have come our way. and more breaks coming. And incidentally, our Brownsville business men can certainly make iheir own breaks.

what makes a winning football team--the team that can make the breaks. And by the same token--a winning community is that community that makes its own breaks. HENRY KELLY. HEAD MAN OF the Southern Pacific in these parts-Tells us that things are really on the vo and up. Says the S.P.

has" gained back around 60 per cent the loss in citrus shipments-Which is really somet.ung. Building materials have helped a lot- But a general increase In all (Continued on Page Six) a Liquor Goes on Sale Tomorrow in 16 States WHISKEY SOLD IN PACKAGES FOR HfE USE New York to Permit Drinking With Meals By Associated Press Spirits, forbidden by the nation for 13 years, may legally be sold tomorrow afternoon in at least 16 states. The legislatures of several other states, dry as the prohibition veil lifts, are at work on bills designed to permit sales. The legal drinking status of the nation follows: Alabama--No. Arizona--Only with meals in restaurants or hotels; in packages from drug, grocery and regular liquor stores, unlimited.

Arkansas--No. California--Only wine and beer with meals; hard liquor in packages for off-premise consumption. Colorado--Beer and wines in restaurants, hotels and dining cars; hard liquor in packages for off- premise consumption. Connecticut--Beer in taverns; wine and beer in hotels and restaurants; hard liquor in packages. Delaware--No bars; hotels, restaurants and clubs may sell for consumption in dining rooms, tao rooms and bed rooms; grocery and delicatessen stores to sell in packages -or consumption off premises.

Florida--No. Georgia--No. Idaho--No. Illinois--Unrestricted except in Chicago where local ordfiiance prohibits perpendicular drinking; legislature at work on control law. Indiana--Rules not yet promulgated by commission.

Iowa--No. Kansas--No. Kentucky'--No native drinking; (Continued on Page Six) STOBYf But the angel of the Lord said to the shepherds, Be not afraid; I bring you tidings of great joy. Unto you this day is born, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. SHOPPING DAYS CHRISTMAS Negro Killer Is Given Life FORT WORTH, Dec.

Frederick Simmons, 23 negro, pleaded guilty today to the murder of A. S. "Pete" Michael, 33 and his companion, Miss Geneva Cantrell. 19. and was sentenced to 99 years for each killing.

The penalty was agreed upon at a conference between attorneys for the negro and the state. Michael and the girl were louno. shot to death near where their car was parked on a lonely section last July 23. The girl had Deen attacked. Gulp-Pray Era Ends Tomorrow NEW YORK, Dec.

cocktail hous tomorrow will find Manhattan's gulp-and-pray Ege ended and the sip-and-savor era begun--but the big town is not exactly hysterical about it. Black hulled steamers bore down on this port today, carrying old Madeiras, rare Burgundies and sauternes. Across the border in Canada bonded cars crammed with whiskies and liquors awaited word from Utah. In many a metropolitan warehouse workmen stacked giant trucks high with liquor, ready to dash away with supplies for tomorrow night's fetes in hotels and clubs. One warehouse alone, according to those in the Snow, holds 200,000 cases of aged-in- the-wood American rye, unblended.

New York City, never parched (Continued on Page Six) FAGALA MAKES $10,000 BOND Man Held in Slaying Of Father-In-Law Released GIRL'S BODY FOUND NEAR LYNCH Negro Is Held After Missing Woman Located Ernest J. Fagala. 40-year-old Browne Tract dairyman charged with the murder of his aged father- in-law, Orville R. Daniels, has been released from custody after making- a $10,000 bond. The bond was signed by 'C.

Roberts, H. B. Conley, E. H. Downs, C.

H. Heiple and John Scott. Fagala, who resides near San Benito, gave himself up to Lt. of Police John Cowart on the afternoon of Nov. 12.

The officers found Daniels in the milking room on the Fagala dairy badly battered about the head by a heavy milking stool. He died shortly after being taken to the Valley Baptist hospital. The Browne Tract man staunchly maintains that his father-in- law 1 hit him first. He was treated for slight scalp wounds following his arrest. Mrs.

Fagala, daughter of the dead man, is suing her husband for divorce. PRINCESS ANNE, Mi, Dec. 4. (ffV-The body Miss Ettna Morris, 20-year-old while farm girl, missing since last Friday, was found by two negroes in a wood five miles from Princess Anne today. Authorities declined say whether she had been murdered, pending an autopsy.

Fiflly Clothed She was fully clothed, lying down in a pool of blood. She apparently had been dead some time. The negroes who found the body lived approximately 100 yards from the place where it was found. They brought to Princess Anne Immediately and one was released. Princess Anne was the of a lynching on Oct.

18. A negro, Geo. Armwood, accused of attacking a white woman, was taken from the jail, hauled through the streets behind an automobile, strung up on a tree and then burned. Troops Withdrawn No indictments against the mob members were brought and last Tuesday Gov. Albert C.

Ritchie sent troops to Salisbury, in an adjoining county, to arrest persons said by witnsses to have participated. A riot resulted and "the troops were withdrawn. Later the four persons under arrest were released on habeas corpus proceedings. Drake Estaters Work CWA Rolls Dr. Wynekoop Too 111 To Attend Hearing CHICAGO, Dec.

4 (JP)--Dr. Alice Wynekoop was too ill in the county jail today to appear before che Bar in criminal court for arraignment on her indictment for the murder of Rheta, her daughier-in-Iaw. In a hearing that lasted no more than a minute, Chief Justice Philip L. Sullivan assigned the trial to Judge Joseph B. David.

Tag Day Saturday A tag day will be held Saturday in Brownsville for the benefit of the charity home here. The nome is in need of repairs due to storm damage. Women and girls will be or. the streets of the city Saturday both in the business and residential districts, with the tags. Ford Dealers Meet Drew Patteson of Brownsville, J.

M. Jones of San Benito. Louis Boggus of Harlingen and other Valley Ford dealers will go to Houston Dec. 7, for a general convention of Ford dealers fo be held in the Rice hotel. General matters of business of handling Fords will be discussed, it was said.

Shipments Increase (Special to The Herald) HARLINGEN, Dec. four carloads of fruit and vegetables moved from the Valley over the week-end, making the total citrus shipments for the season 824 and total vegetable shipments 126. MAYOR DIES RUSK, Dec. 4. J.

L. Summers, 55, mayor of Rusk, died yes- Business houses were closed today for the funeral. He was survived by his widow and two sons. PRESS ASKS TARIFF HELP HELSINGFORS. (iPf--A tariff bar against foreign newspapers and jeriodicals is urged by Finland's Press, official organ of the associa- of newspaper ions of marks, it argues, could be ept in the country by limiting reading of foreign Journals, Policeman Is Killed In Traffic Accident AUSTIN, Dec.

4. (fP)--James R. Cummings, 31. member of the Austin motorcycle police squad, was killed early today in a collision with an automobile occupied by two negroes. He was the second motorcycle officer to die in accidents here within the past few weeks.

A charge of negligent homicide was filed against Albert J. Quinton, 18, driver of the automobile. Man Pardoned by 'Ma' Jailed On Old Count SAN ANGELO, Dec. 4. pardoned by Gov.

Miriam A. Ferguson, Ike of Runnels county was held in the Tom Grfeen county jail on a federal charge of robbing the Rowena post- office in 1931. James Sheehan pleaded guilty to a smiliar case in the robbery and was sentenced to a year and a day at Leavenworth. Musil was given a life sentence under the habitual criminal act and was serving in the state penitentiary when pardoned. Crew Rescued ST.

JOHN'S. Nfld, Dec. Dasnish steamer Maine reported by wireless today the rescue of the crew of the fishing schooner Edward VII, 300 miles off Cape Race. Last sighted off Bacalleu Island just before a raging storm paralyzed coastal shipping, the 45-ton Edward VII, it was though, had Been drifting helplessly off the Newfoundland coast for days. On board were a crew of nine, Captain Wilson Vey and a passenger, Llewellyn Barefoot, who was making the voyage to Random Sound.

The Drake Estate racketeers, in spite of the recent conviction of their leader. "Baron" Oscar Hartzell, are still taking money from Valley people. This information was given The Herald today by Albert Decker of La Feria and other Valley points, who has made a crusade against the Drake Estate racket for the past year or more. Decker has just returned from Iowa, where he attended some of the sessions of the HarizeU trial, and saw the "Baron" get sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary lor defrauding the people of this country for the past 13 years with this racket. Decker said he was told that the racket is being worked among laborers on the rolls of the CWA, and that he came to Brownsville today to investigate this report, and will talk to the county officials about it.

"The Drake Estate racketeers arc still working at La Feria," he said, "and are getting some money there. I was also told they are getting money in Harlingen and San Benito." Four Boys Injured When Truck Wrecks PARIS, Dec. 4. (fl)--Four Lamar county youths were injured early today when the truck in which they were returning to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Sonham overturned at Brookston, 10 miles west of Paris. They were George Shannon, James Bybee and Clyde Chennault of Paris and William Collins ot Tigertown.

En route to the camp after a Sunday at home, the young men were hurt when the truck overturned on a sharp turn. Most of the occupants of the truck were asleep at the time. The injured were brought here for treatment. Barrow Is Believed Hiding in Houston HOUSTON, Dec. Clyde Barrow, notorious desperado of the southwest, was sought in Houston today.

Police believed Barrow and Parker, his traveling companion, reached Houston yesterday and went into hiding. C. R. Hasty of Waller reported that a man and a girl, answering the description of Barrow and the Parker woman, had picked him up between Waller and Hempstead and forced him to drive them to Houston. Business Men Plan Yule Programs Plans for a series of pre-Christmas events which wil( stimulate community spirit and business will be outlined at a general meeting of all Brownsville business and professional men which will be held at the White Kitchen at noon Tuesday, Dec.

5, it was announced today. A community Christmas tree additional Christmas decorations, night programs during the holiday season-all will be discussed at the meeting which has been called by leading merchants and others. The meeting will begin at noon and a round table discussion will feature the luncheon hour. All business and professional men of the city are urged to attend. NEGRO FLEES TEXAS POSSE Black Sought As Attacker And Murderer Of Woman Molten Lava Spouted From Volcanic Crater HILO, Hawaii, Dec.

4. (7P)--Mol- ten lava surged and sprouted in the Mokukeoweo crater at the summit of Mount Loa today in a continuation of the greatest eruption of that volcano since 1903. A cascade of fiery lava seething across the plateau at the summit forms a pillar of smoke by day and of fire at night. Two gigantic smoke plumes trailed from the peak early Saturday to give the first indication that Pele, Hawaiian goddess of fire, was stirring from her long sleep. Growers Unit To Meet Thursday Members of the Brownsville- unit of the Rio Grande Valley Vegetable Growers Association will meet Thursday night o'clock in the El Jardin school building, according to announcement oday.

A nvmbership drive will be dis- cursed, and matters which have transpired recently in the Valley organization are to be explained. C. H. Pinkley Is head 01 me organization. BEAUMONT, Dec.

4. for a negro suspected of criminally attacking and killing a white woman, Mrs. Mellie Williams Brookman, was under way today in the Kountze area. Hardin county ofli- cers believed they had identified the 30-year-old woman's assailant. Mrs.

Brockman was waylaid Saturday afternoon, while driving to town from her home, five miles west of Kountze, in a light truck, alone. She was found dead beside the truck, which had been set "ifire in what officers regarded as an attempt to destroy evidence. Her body had been seared by the flames. A rumor was current last night that the negro suspect had captured and spirited away to an unnamed jail but officers denied it. Officers searched the home of a negro and found that the man had been to his house, changed clothes and then left, clothes found in the negro's house fitted the description of those worn by an armed negro Civilian Conservation Corps workers saw in the vicinity of the spot where Mrs.

Brockman's body was found. A shotgun was in the house, along with three loaded with 'he same size shot as that with which the woman was killed. The negro seen by Conservation Corps workers was carrying a shotgun as he disappeared into a patch of woods. Four Die In Train Wreck SPOKANE, Dec. 4.

Four were killed and two injured when a Great Northern freight train crashed into a rock slide at Milan, 24 miles north of here, last night. The dead: w. J. Barrett, engineer: William Kreuger, fireman: Leonard Gargrove, brakeman; j. T.

Towhuy, brakeman. The injured: E. W. Horsall, conductor; F. G.

Cook, brakeman. dead and injured were all of Hillyard, a subprb of Spokane. Youth Critically Hurt As Train Hits Truck (Special to The Herald) EDINBURG, Dec. Hayney, 17, was in a critical condition Monday as the result of a train-truck collision on the Southern Pacific crossing north of here Sunday. The youth suffered a fractured skull and it is feared that a leg is fractured also.

The accident occurred when Vollie Adair, Weslaco truck driver, was unable to see the train because of fog. He turned his truck parallel to the tracks in an unsuccessful effort to avoid the crash. Cleaner's Arrest On Code Charge Sought OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. --The arrest of J. E.

Moore, a cleaining plant operator, as a violator of the national cleaning code, was sought today in a telegram from officers of the Oklahoma City a 'ministrative board to the code authority in Washington. F. D. Back at Desk WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.

Roosevelt reached Washington today at 11 a. m. from his two vacation stay at Warm Springs. Ga. With Mrs.

Roosevelt he stopped for a moment on the rear platform to pose for. photographers before departing for the White House The president spent a quiet morning on his special train reading. PWA PAYROLL PUTS $50,000 OUTJEEKLY County Quotas Set For Winter Months The Lower Rio Grande Valley's CWA payroll has settled to approximately $50,000 weekly for Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy counties, where it will remain during most of the winter, dropping off as spring months approach. County Quotas Set Quotas of the various counties have been set, Cameron county's quota of 2712 making very little reduction in the number of men at work last week, according to Will Cabler, director. Cabler said 1080 men went to work this morning on CWA projects in the Brownsville precinct alone, with t.3 limit at work in the county.

In addition to these about 150 men are at work in the Brownsville precinct on regular RFC payroll. The Cameron county payroll will run approximately $25,000 weekly, Cabler said, on CWA projects, with probably $4,000 to $5,000 more weekly straight RFC payroll. $17,905 in Hidalgo Hidalgo's payroll last week was $17,905, and will be close to that figure during the winter. Wtllacy's will be considerably smaller. Most of the CWA projects on which men have gone to work will last through January, and some on through May, and new ones are expected to be approved as the first ones are finished.

Hidalgo county has been given a quota of 2865 men, according to reports today. Citrus Grading Violation Halted CSpeclal to The Herald) HARLINGEN, Dec. State authorities moved last week on the demands of Valley growers to stop bulk shipments of Louisiana oranges and tangerines to the Houston markets. On reports to the Valley that Louisiana truckers were bringing in bulk shipments in violation to the recently-inacted standardization act, an appeal was taken to J. E.

McDonald the state agriculture department and Hart Longino was sent to Houston to investigate. The truckers were stopped last week by a state order and Louslana officials have notified Texas that they will cooperate in checking violation of the Texas standardization laws. War-Time Actress Is Gravely 111 PARIS, Dec. Cocea, a noted French actress whose lire has been dogged by tragedy, lay gravely ill today with blood poisoning, the result of pricking her finger on a lobster claw. Mile.

CocSa played in the first underground theater during the World war and was starred in shows that had long runs in Paris. Recently she tried a comeback in the face of unpopularity resulting from the suicide in August, 1932, of Lieut. Victor Point, a French naval ou'icer, after he and the actress had quarrelled. Clarence Click Trial In Kidnaping Begins KANSAS CITY, Dec. Click went to trial here today on a charge of participating in the kidnaping of Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of City Manager Harry F.

McElroy, here last spring. M. W. O'Hern, assistant prosecutor, announced as the selection of a jury was started, that the death penalty would be asked. Walter McGee, alleged leader ol the kidnaping band that took Miss McElroy from her home, is under a death sentence, while a younger brother, George, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the crime.

Alice White Weds MAGDALENA, Sonora, Dec. 4. white, film and Sidney Bartlett, writer, marriage here climaxed an off and on Engagement of several years, were honeymooning today at the Mexican ranch of Antonio Proto friend. The couple was married in the Magdalena town hall by Civil Judge Francisco Estrella Sunday and then were guests at a party attended by leading townspeople and Mayor Roberto Urias. C-ATURED? Fort Smith police today believed a man in a hospital from injuries received in an automobile accident is "Pretty Boy" Floyd, widely-sought Oklahoma desperado.

Although the injured man gave another name, police believe he is Floyd and are rushing in fingerprints in an attempt to identify him as the South's bad man. BOOTLEGGERS GET WARNING Judge Tells Grand Jury Here Not to Let Up on Booze Investigations Repeal of the 18th amendment means exactly nothing flat to South Texas bootleggers so far as the federal courts are concerned. This was emphasized by Fed. Judge C. B.

Kennamer of Alabama in his charge to the grand jury which was empanelled for the regular December term here Monday morning. Smuggled liquor will continue to be handled under the customs laws, and other liquor will be handled through treasury regulations as pertain to dry states. After the grand jury went into session, Judge Kennamer called the civil and equity dockets for settings and expected to call the pending criminal docket for pleas and settings Monday afternoon. There are now 30 U. S.

prisoners in the Cameron county jail awaiting trials. There are around 50 in the Hidalgo county jail, according to reports here. Numerous up-Valley customs and immigration officers have come to Brownsville for the term of court. Masonic Officials Named at Meeting WACO, Dec. E.

M. Wood of Anson, Grand High Priest of the Grand Royal Arch chapter of Masonry in Texas, today appointed Sam J. Helm, Hardy Petty, B. F. Brown, E.

C. Couch and E. O. Feierabend on the grand chapter committee on grand officers report. Other appointm- made: No.

on petitions--W. A. Hendricks, H. Swartz and W. R.

Worley. No. 2 on petitions--T. H. Newton, R.

L. Stringer and J. D. Harrison. Chapters U.

D. Hutchison, T. R. High --id J. B.

Tartt. Grievances and appeals-- C. J. Shields, J. C.

Van Cleave and J. D. Starks. Johnson Takes Lead In Geese Hunting Nig Johnson forged to the front over the week-end in the goose- shooting competition in this section, with a total of 17 for the season. Father Cartier, Catholic priest here, did not hunt the past few days, and is second with 14.

In third place is R. E. Collins with 13, Sam Norman is fourth with 11. MARKETS AT GLANCE NEW YORK Stocks steady; market dormant. Bonds steady; U.

S. governments easy. Curb irregular; industrials easy. Foreign exchanges weak; dollar rises sharply. Cotton quiet; lower sterling exchange; liquidation.

Sugar steady; trade buying. Coffee steady; trade buying. Coffee steady; disappointing Brazilian markets. CHICAGO Wheat easy; domestic acreage bearish. Com easy; following vyheat.

Cattle steady to 25 higher. Hogs steady to 5 higher, top $3.60. MAN GUARDED IN HOSPITAL AFTERWRECK Identification Is Not Positive But Police Think Is Floyd FORT SMITH, Dec. 4. (IP)-Raymond Drake, deputy sheriff from Sallisaw, said today that a man in a Hospital here Relieved to be Charles Arthur (Pretty Boy) Floyd, was "an exact double" but that he could not identify him as the notorious Oklahoma outlaw and police guards were withdrawn from the hospital.

Doubt is Floyd Local police they doubted the man, who was injured in an automctsirt accident late last night and who gave his name as Robert Carney of Fort Smith, was Floyd. Motorcycle Policeman Foster Porter, however, said he was "not satisfied." Drake, who had known Floyd personally, examined the man thoroughly and said he failed to find any of the scars or identifications connected with "Pretty Boy." A tattoo on' the left arm was missing. Wife Is Injured Mrs. Ruby Floyd, wife of the hoodlum, and Stella Collins, his niece, were in hospitals suffering from injuries received when the car which was driven by Fred Stiles, Fort Smith, hit a bridge near Charleston, late last night. Stiles died early tcday from injuries.

Police identified the two women positively as Mrs. Floyd and Miss Collins, and Mrs. Floyd was registered under the name. She has no; been questioned. THREE-YEAR HUNT MAY HAVE ENDED By The Associated Press Elusive as a wraitn, cfiarles Arthur Floyd, Oklahoma's "Pretty Boy" public enemy, has sneered for three years at frantic manhunters seeking him for a list of real or reputed crimes staggering enough to awe the most fearsome bad man of the roaring days.

Wanted for murder and accused of one bank robbery after another, Floyd repeatedly has wriggled through the tight lines of the law to gain carefully hidden hideaways in the hills of eastern Oklahoma cr western Arkansas, or to find concealment in the far-flung greater Seminole oil field where, legend nas it, "Pretty Boy" played Robin Hood to the poor. The Sallisaw hill country knew "Chuck" Floyd as a "godS kid," until he wandered away from home to became a dandy and then a hoodlum. But if "Pretty Boy" retained any affection for the old home town it wasn't apparent, for one of his reputed exploits was to loot a Sallisaw bank, heding townspeople who knew him as a Doy into the iobby with a six-shooter and kidnaping bank employe. Since he first left his native hills, the 25-year-old thug haS been accused of murder or banditry over a wide area. TRAPPED CREW FACES STORM ST.

PAUL ISLAND, Bering Sea, Dec. 4. (IP)--A hundred miles north of the Arctic circle in the bleak ice of the east Siberian Sea, the ice- locked soviet ship Cheliuskin, ind its human cargo of 68 today faced another "heavy storm." Baffled by storm three days ago in their efforts to abandon ship and cross the ice to shore, the party of Russian scientists prepared to weather a second storm, their wireless operator messaged. The message, received by the Naval Radio operator here, described their situation as "okeh." It said: "Still drifting in ice and still okeh, but heavy storm from north started. Postion 68 183 Champion Case Set The case charging Alex Champion with a simple assault on Carroll C.

Crowe has been stl tentatively for Friday by Jus. of the Peace Bertram Combe. The complaint was sworn out by Crowe Thanksgiving following an alleged assault at the RFC headquarters where Crowe is employed. Court Opens The Cameron county court at law, presided over by Judge E. T.

Yates, opened a new term Monday morning confronted by a heavy appearance docket. Cases will be called for setting and orders Tuesday morning..