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jValley Views I Vsldley I To Sheriff Brown Wisconsin's I A Stronger UARLINGEN INVITES San Benito to join its delegation to Austin Monday to secure prv Fan Benito-Harlingen highway through aid. a lot of loose curbstone talk about lack of alley but when it jomii to real stick together anti fight rscr-thcr as a unit. VALLEY MORNING STAR 1 VOL. 2 NO. DIE HARLINGEN, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1930 TRAIN The Weather For Vailey: Mostly cloudy and unsettled to- TEN PAGES TODAY WRECKS Texas Police Seek Girl Fire Torturer AS ONE VALLEY will others town grows grow Development at Tort Isabel and BvwhisYtUe will create prosperity this wide domain.

Creation of a Valley-wide cham- i i commerce, working as a anil on ail major problems will ktmsr freight rates, better legislation atfi Valley. MAN BEATS AND TORTURES GIRL WITH FIRE IN HOTEL League Assembly Sees Few Victories Sir Hope Today money into the NEWSPAPER DOFFS its hat to Sheriff Brown, who in apparent failure to capture a trio) of Chicago broke up a i oJot to extort money from two rading citizens. While the sher- were somewhat balked! by premature nublkity, lack of I time to gather in all loose interfered with the case, iff did, however, prevent lug and drove from the country the gangster crowd. Entire With Mass Blisters ampie wine eniL ulvo in IhW Kul na p. i GENEVAS SWITZERLAND, Sept.

12. League of Nations assembly reviewed its past year's work tcxiay and found the movement fjt co-operation in the economic lield, launched 12 ago, has many defeats to mourn and no great victories to cele- biate. 1 The assembly was told bv its ow body OVGred leaders that attempts at a tariff I truce had failed; that custom bar- I riers, instead of crumbling, actually had grown more in several states and that continuation of the growth of its protectionist spirit was threatening to drive the few remaining free trading nations into adopting the high tariff policy which all loudly deplored. of Sept agent 12. of the BEAUMONT, aw enforcement city and county sought a man who beat and tortured Miss Edith Bozeman, 21, with fire in a hotel room here last night.

Miss Bozeman was found in the hotel room early today, suffering from blis- on nearly every part of her LAND COMPANIES may now do business in Wisconsin, ter; thanks to Homer Miles and Pro- body. Development company. Police who were called to the Fighting against political odds, 1 hotel by a porter chased a man Mr. Miles his company out whom the porter said came out of of 'defeat in circuit court into; room in which Miss Bozeman found. He had locked Indoor behind him and fled down the stieet after knocking down a victory in the state supreme court and finally won a license from the well-known Wisconsin real estate! brokers board.

"pans CLOSES ONE of the most heated controversies of the year for the light brought action by Polk Horn and Archie Parr in the Texas legislature and reunited in an official Texas boycott order on ail Wisconsin products. clerk who had followed him to the I siuewalk. Miss Bozeman was unable to talk coheientlv this afternoon on account of the swollen condition of her lips. Theories were ad- vanced that her burns were made by a cigarette lighter or a light- i ed cigar. Nothing of that nature found ir the room.

I said Miss Texas and the al-. accompanied a man who had Uy never intended the boycott early last night. Aft- measure as anyt hing but a threat. I er midnight, the porter heard a Wisconsin is a goou state, manu-! strange no in the room occupied faetures fine implements for our, by the girl ancl called police. farmers and thousands of other products of the milL Actipuo not affect the value of those im- show, plements.

At the same time, Wisconsin had boycotted Texas land. homi License War TOPEKA, Sept. 12. L. King, state vehicle commission- announced three deputies had been sent to Cowley ar.d Sumnei counties to bear the brunt oj the fiirhting in the recent renewal ol the Kansas-Oklahoma automobile license wai Wreck Kills Man BEAUMONT.

Sept. 12. Bol Banks, about 30, was killed when his truck was struck Southern Pacific passenger train at Pine Island, ten miles west ol here. A negro riding in the truck was not injureel. The cai was carried yards on the pilot of the Undertaker Killed why not products boycott Wisconsin GALVESTON, Sept.

12 Sam J. Levy, Galveston undertaker, died here tonight after an ambulance of a competing company struck him as he step- ne night, I bia own ambulance in ait- I yv rTJPP tTa rum fly. to go to J1 -T At midnight the famib TROPICAL STORM SUDDENLY HITS N. CAROLINA COAST 120 Mile An Hour Wind Destroys Property Gold Star Mother Collapses Across Grave, Dies RALEIGH, N. Sept.

with sudden fury Cape Lookout, 15 miles from port of Beaufort, a tropical VERDUN, France, Sept. 12. The second of the American gold star mothers to die during their pilgrimage to France summer passed a way here trda.v after less a week's illness. She was Mrs. Grace W.

Kingsbury of Smith Center, Kan. She collapsed across her grave in a military cemetery last Saturday. Observers first believed she was overcome by grief, but when she failed to recover her composure, they investigated and found she was unconscious. Physicians said she was suffering from uremic poisoning. OTHERS FEARED BURIED UNDER WRECKAGE AT FT, WORTH Four Burn To Death In Oklahoma Crash at the hur- Sham ro races which became alarmed and made some search but found no trace of the girl until she was released from a taxicab in front of her home.

THE FIGHT is over 1 and the Valley emerges from the Wisconsin and the. Better Business BuiVau mtroversies that I weighted it down the first half the year, in a stronger position today. We have been criticized, investigated and we have been given a clean bill of health, not 5 by Wisconsin, but by the Bet- Business Bureau, rec- i invited the Valley unit to School Enrollments Total 2,219 Here Enrollment in Harlingen schools which opened Tuesday morning total students. Superintendent Paul E. Phipps said Friday.

The largest enrollment of any om school was in the West Ward with 457 pupils. Central Ward is second in enrollment with a total pupils. Othei enrollments become scheme part of its cation. C. Hogg Dies In Germany Houston Sept 12 Hegk.

55, oldest non of "Great Commutici- of htc 1 oratei James Stephen died short ly after noon teniav in a hospital ai Baden, Germany, his siter, Miss Ima advised bv cable-, Tht eapitalist succumbed eight un emergency was performer! in man health lesort Touring Europi, he was stricken last ga After ai ion he to rallving n-wide are: South Ward 22K, North Ward Combes 75, Colored school i 51, Junior high 412 and Semeir high Enrollments for the complete school terms are to pupils, which would be increase ol 250 over the total en rollmcnt of hist se-hool year. Outlook Bright WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Summarizing employment condi- tions for August, the labor said today there was little change as compared with July but added a brighter outlook near the clcse of the month with regard to the next iJO to 60 days. -mwm Bankers Held CHICAGO, Sept.

12 Laveine Lindgren, cashier, and Elmer Langguth, president, of the Defunct State Bank ol Maywood, west suburb, were convicted today of making false statements to bank They face terms of from one ten years in prison. 1 he Bank was closed last spring with a $173,800. British entry in the British-American yacht toelay. I KIDNAPING CASE I nuble make any further progress for lack of evidence and clues on the kidnapping plot case which has occupieel their time for the last JN hours, Sheriff forces are undecided whether or not to continue their investigation. Since they first learned of the plov, said to have been made by Chicago gangsters to kidnap C.

P. Baneda, millionaire Brownsville land ownci and Juan Cross, cot- TWO ARE DEAD IN SUICIDE PACT ricano howled up the North Carolina coast this afternoon, but was believed to have passed out to sop tonight without causing loss life. The full force of a 120-milc-an- hour wind from the southwest buffeteed the Cape Lookout vicinity at 5 p. demolished a dozen buildings and damaging the coast guard headquarters slightly. Inhabitants of the vicinity sought sheltei in the guard buildings.

Re ports received here early night indicated the fierceness of the storm was abating. At Cape Lookouc, the wind had fallen to 16 miles an hour by 9:30, but at Cape Hatteras and northward, the coast was still battered by a 50 mile an hour gale. Earlier Hatteras had recorded 60 mile velocity. Communication with the coastal area was badly crippled. Information of the damage at Cape Lookout was given coast guard division headquarters at Norfolk bv radio telephone.

Commercial telephone Jiues were put out 0 1 bhi lit Me oCher 'fann- age was listed in available reports. A dispatch from Norfolk said weather officials there did not expect the storm to be felt to any great extent in that region as they believed the center had curved back into the Atlantic, whence it came about 2 p. with the blow at Lookout. ENID, Sept. 12.

Trapped in an inferno of blazing casing head gasoline, five men, four of them unidentified itint- rants, were ki ju when 15 oil cars of a Rock Island freight train left the tracks at Kremlin, 10 miles of here today, and caught fire. The identified man was I. L- Lockrart, 52, of Lexington, who died shortly after he hael been removed to a hospital here, suffering from broken legs, shock and internal injuries. Witnesses watched three men burn to death in the flames, unable to aid because of the intense He sat, as he spoke, at his desk heat and danger explosions. A in the dim, quiet office that han fourth man.

both legs broken, was been restored to him from presi- seen to crawi on his back pulling himself with his hands as the heat PERSHING IS 70 YEARS OLD TODAY WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. years ago 12 years almost to the hour, the battle i of Mihiel was won, to Pershing said. dential occupation, an office rcih with carved and painted reminders of another, more stately day. He locked eastward from the deepest window over the green beauty of the White House grounds, over the White House itself topped by the fcently swaying folds of the Hac to did not know the names hich John Pershing has given of Ul(.

hey met the with soldierly devotion all the mcn at Enid um) to years et his manhood. I take the freight north from here. Tomorrow sun will peer over far horizon Pershing at desk as the 70th year of which caused the cars to jump the his life opens, nends and high officialdom will come trooping to do hennr then on his birthday to COLLISION AT great captain of the cj KIH fa al FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 12 he thought as he sat so quietly and looking eastward towards France when two Rock became more intense he collapsed and died. William and George Slade of Pubelo, the only two out of a party of seven which boarded the freight train at end to men take The station agent said the wreck had been caused by a falling break World war.

But it was not of tomorrow an I Ol shortage More Dry Agents WASHINGTON. Sent. 12. An increase in the funds for ii bureau from $9,000,000 to $11.200,000 was asked of th budget bureau today by to permit the addition of 5(H) agents to stafi of 1,475. ton king and millionaire of Matamoros.

officers over Cameron count) and Valley hire baen I ttr. I working on the case in an effort Carenaugnt Wins apprehend the plotters. ANNAPOLIS. Sept. 12.

Publication the plot before OlV-The Carenaught, owned by: department had time It. Roy Keys, of Buffalo, and complete their work is said to I piloted In Captain W. Flick-! destroyed their chances of I army aviator, of Washing-1 catehinfc, the gangsters, ton. retained the secretarv of the Seek Session El lut call latuie Sept. 12.

Reso- asking crnor Moody jHvitil the legists appropriate moony for drought relief in West leitts were teday by the est I exas Assta iation of oun- Judges and in leas ion here. London Flight MONTREAL Sept. 12. Ml Be yd and Harry P. Connor pa reel tonight to take off for Harbor Grace.

N. thei-e to leave as soon as weather Permits on a flight to London. Vie- ion of ot today Triple Funeral ATHENS. Sept. 12.

(A9) tims of a strange sue threM- meml family were aftei triple funeral services heb'. The Dallas county grand jury was investigating the fatal auto-1 mobih crash there yesterday which took lie vs of Mrs. J. W. Beavers of Athens and her Wesley of Tyler, as they were en route Garland to arrange funeral services loi anedhcr son.

Oscar. He was kilkni Wednesday with three other linemen of the I exas Power and Light company when they came in contact with high voltage wire at West, nea. Waco. navy trophy for dis- craft in the regatta here today, winning both heats with an average of better than 18 miles an hour. Execution Protest PR At I zee ho Slovakia, 12.

A demonstration the Italian legation in pro- I test against the execution of four Jugoslavs by Italy at Triest last drew apology today from foreign office, which promised tin Italian minister the demon strator? would be punished. Iritjoyen Arrested BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 13. (Saturday) government thi- morning issued an official in which it is stated that Dr Hipolito Irigoyen, depos- piesielent of this eountrv, is The gang plotting the two kid- napings were said to have their headquarters in Harlingen.

Sheriff Brown last night said the investigation would be elis- eusscd by the department with the district attorney and decision as to continuing the case wemld made. Election Contested OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 12. for District Judge George C. Crump, of the Hughes- I Seminole county district today filed an application for a rehear! ing in the election contest in which official returns show he was feated for renomination.

The petition filed in the I supreme court. Morrow Honored TAHLEQUAH, Sept. 12. on two months ago by Dave Chandler, county clerk and democratic nominee for the state legislature, and Mrs. Dicic Strafford wife of a Tahlequah musician, was fulfilled today when Chandler died in a hosiptal here from bullet wounds inflicted after Mrs.

Stafford was shot and killed on a lonely road last night. The shooting occurred in automobile parked in a desolate wooded spot on a lonely high- way north of here. Nearby residents who went to the scene found Mrs. Stafford dead, three bullet wounds in her breast. Chandler was rushed to a hospital here where he told officers that wanted to die Steamers Collide GALVESTON, Sept.

12. Th(j German steamer Kersten Miles, inbound to Houston and the American tankship Dungan non, outbound, collided head on ir the Houston ship channel today Both vessels aground tug boats from here floated them and towed them to Bolivar Roads for survey of damages. Extend of damages was not imnmdiatelv available, although both were rc- to havo sustained serious damage to thcrr Condition Serious SAN ANTONIO. Sept. 1-- condition of A.

E. lark, Corpus Christi, traveling salesman, was reported af. critical, conscious injured tonight today. It was not of his own life! story he dreamed, colored with I 11 alns caollided near hi re. One glory and with tragedy, but of member of the train trew, Ernest that day 12 years ago.

and of M. l-ridge, engineer, was missing comrades fell and still sleep was thought buried heneaht wreckage. Both engines overturned along with six freight cars, some of which caught fire and presented a Shot To Death I dangerous situation because of a tank of casinghead gasoline near- LSION, Sept. lw. Shot an(j presence of another train Seaman Found Friday night He was found un- from head wounds on Their ship is the monoplane in hich Clarence Charn- flew its owner, A.

Irvine, Germany in enl uiale lowed He is uemr Roadr today at i lkv theaters Ate ai IM.I a Ou thr Pern itvou In BMfi w- Btrs nix him ret Rtcl. in WtOH N'l (UH Wtlttaai ai tu Ml Ke tlt Oakir tu a IM MO Sals Brini Magazine Explodes WICHITA Kas Sept. 12 1'he Du Pont del magazine, nea." Wichita Heights, a small oil field town, nine miles north of here, exploded tonight. The blast was heard in towns and within an 50 Brok er glass from windows littered the streets here and vir tually every building in the city sought war rcKked by the blast. All lines of communication with Wiehitr Heights were out of com mission and reports of expected oaiaiMraM I casualties and damage were iinmeuiatelx available and will not be alto abandon the Argentine, at on the cruiser 1 Bel era no in Buenos Aires outside the harbor.

EXICO it St 12. Dwight W. Morrow, who will leav for the United Stai es Sept. 17. to I his office and ente olitic al life, today was entertai ted atluncheon by the Americar Cl here.

Coste Tour NEW YORK, Sept. 12. damaged propedler or Dieudonnc ic plane was sent to the shops today. Tomorrow afternoon Coste will superintend a test of the propeller in the factory. On Sunday he will take it up for a flight test and unless it should not function properly the tour will ondav morning.

$150 Reward i SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 12. The mystery ot the kidnapping I of Ethel Jordan. 12-year-oNld daughter of J. R.

Jordan of San was no nearer solution tonight after Gov. Dan Moody posted a $150 reward for the arrest and convictkn of the persons who took the girl from the streets of San Antonio Sunday. the Castroville road 111 miles south of San Antonio late cdnesday night. Warsaw Tense WARSAW, Sept. 12.

strictive measures decreed Re by shall Joseph Pilsudski since he reassumed power as premier, recent- er ly have caused tension throughout the country and foreign observers i ubout of trouble Sunday, and he said, if presence of oil cars. Efforts were being made to prevent the fire spreading to the oil and gasoline cars. The known dead is F. M. fireman, Fort Worth.

The known injured were F. B. Minor, brakeman, Fort Worth, and W. N. Rains, 64, fireman on a switch engine.

Two itinerant white men riding in a box car that was wrecked escaped uninjured. Brakemari Minor jumped from HOT SPRINGS, Sept. 12 I the engine of the freight train Enthusiastic friends of on which he was riding when it United States Senator Joe T. was several hundred feet distant Robinson in the state democratic from the switch engine on the convention here today tossed string of oil cars, hat in the ring foi the The boiler of one ieicntial nomination. freight engines exploder! a m.

overturned. Stop Show 1 chiefly in a AUSTIN. Sept. 12. Gov- MoexJy today set about to that theatrical tradition through the chest and beaten over the head, the body of H.

H. Myhrs, a seaman said to have lived the west was found in a ditch near here today. Clinton Kinney of New lens, a sailor, was charged with murder in connection with the slaying, although he claimed he and Myhrs were held up and Myhrs was killend by highwaymen, For President I see Senator Believes Dry Law Failure WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Prohibition continued to command attention today in the capital, with Senator Burton K.

Wheeler saying conditions under it had forced him to the opinion that the Eighteenth amendment had failed. The Montana democrat recalled the show must go is going to break it, he it takes all the Texas rangers and the national guard. The show is a large circus which planned two performances Sunday near Shamrock. Sunday lormanccs are fqrbidden by state law. of the when it box car loaded with grain, was extinguished they will find the bodies of than an hour of w'ork.

Koumucc uf Your Gangsters Sought BUFFALO, N. Sept. 12. gangsters, driven from that city after the murder ef Jerry Buckley, radio announcer, were here tonight for the al ductior oi William Shislei, 24, of Erie, said by police be well-known in various river-front Reliability Flight WAUSAU. Sept.

12. Led by John Livingston, of Aurora 111., last winner, 18 air- 1 planes in the national air tour grounded at the Wausau airport today for an overnight stop be- fwe taking off for Fau Claire, on the next leg of their re- not liabil Carol Embittered Lee Go Xa- Trouole. Cuba Guarded VIENNA. Sept. 12.

for- gi diplomat stationed in the I HAVANA, Sept 12. Rumanian capital, arriving here reports more frequent today en route to Paris, said King i that a revolution is impending Carol's responsibilities grow ing the Cuban government has placed out oi his youthful escapades are I guard'' over ail railroads, high- now weighing like a ton of lead i it wa 'wavs and government buildings or his shoulders and are embit-jby Adjutant i throughout the islands. itcrinfc hi? life. I Robertson, Camp Changed AUSTIN, iiept. 12.

name of Camp Palacios near Palacios. national guard camp site, has To Pay Alimony CHICAGO, Sept. 12. Kearns, one time manager of Jack Dempsey, was ordered to pay $500 a temporary alimony and $1,000 in temporary fees after ecunsel for Mrs. Kearns had failed a cross-bill for separate maintenance in circuit court today Seek Shelter santo domingc.

Sept. 12 survivors of last disastrous hurricane, which des- McCormick Probe WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Ruth Hannah Met and successful campaign for the republican senatorial nomination in Illinois, again will looked into by the senate campaign funds committee next week. having voted for the Jaw troyed virtually all housing in the ad I to 9t his state.

He liquor traffic regulation state. Aside from his prepared; statement, he predicted the demo- cratic party would nominate an I opponent of prohibition in 1932. Tea Party Campaign CHICAGO, Sept. 12. party to arouse on the prohibition referendum in Nov.

4, was instituted today by 10 leading organizations. Ruth Hanna McCormick, republican senatorial candidate has said she would abide by the referendum. from any kind of cover- een changed honor of Camp Hulen in General John For Dry Repeal LONGVIEW. Sept. 12.

oPi Senator Wesley L. Jones, sponsor of the stringent and law' against prohibition violators, said tcdav he would feel justified in working for submission to the people for drect action of a congres-1 automobile races over the Suspect Held TYLER, Sept. 12. A man arrested here as a suspect in the slaying of Ben whose body was found on a highway au reemermg nea, Georgetown Sunday night, a state: ot dazed griet and wai taken to Georgetown tcvday. are trying to gat cover woman arrested with him as soon as pos- rcjeaaeo TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point NEW YORK.

Sept. 12 today undcr Word was received here conditions: that Captain Yancey and two companions crashed on al a. small island in the Bahamas to- rter day on their return from a MISCfclXANKOtH DAf 000 mile good will tour of the yesterday Americas. The fliers were not today injured but the plane was des- Fliers Crash 5:21 10:59 p. m.

p. 6 15 troyed by fire- the messages said. Texan Held Highway Opened llano. Sept. 12 ex- LAREDO, 12.

amining trial for Ray Click, of Llano held in with the TEMPERATURE Yesterday High ------------------------------Low 74 Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo paved jional proposal for modification or -4onte announced today repeal of the Eighteenth amend- highway will mark the formal that highway, 150 miles long, to traffic, Sunday. General Robert ment if such a request were made opening of by the petple of his state. fatal shooting of Charles Walker here been set for Tuesday. funeral was held at, Cherokee today. BUILDING PERMITS Yesterday None, i Totals: For Year For li." 1'.