The Brownsville Herald from Brownsville, Texas • Page 10

RECORD COLD WAVE GRIPS NATION THE WEATHER Brownsville and the Valley: Partly cloudy and colder Friday night with lowest temperature probably near fifty; Saturday partly cloudy to fair. THE VALLEY IN THE WERE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELOW-ZERO WINDS CLAIM LIVES FORTY-SECOND 183 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1934 TWELVE PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY SENATE ORDERS ARREST OF EX-HOOVER OFFICIAL IN OUR VALLEY ISABEL, PISHING RE- sort of the Valley and of our tourist visitors, if justly sxercised over the warnings set in print regarding the payment of non-resident fishing licenses for casting a hook in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Seems like this bill was passed to protect the gaoi fish in the inland of the state. On the face of is ridiculous to charge a resident of Iowa $5 for the privilege of going out ten wiles into the Gulf, and fishing, merely because he happens to bring his catch back to Texas. As a matter of fact, 'this law seems to be one that is universally ignored as far as fishing -n salt waters of Texas is concerned.

That being true, it is worsa than foolish to broadcast warnings to visitors to get the license. The law should be amended insofar as it salt water fishing Write your representative and your senator. FOR THE INFORMATION OF all, We are no longer opea to kidding about our "fresh water tarpon." It died. Disporting itself vigorously in the waters near port- It leaped by chance into Grider k-Perkins pool- of hot And was scalded to death. KINDA FULL OF PORT ISA- foel this morning, mentally and phy- sicafty.

Honored Thursday night with dinner and the hands of 1 the directors of the chamber of commerce of that place. A tickled palate and a satisfied mind is the dual result. This idea of Valley wide cooperation as it is being worked out en a practical scale by tue Port Isabel chamber of Commerce is fine. It's a tried and true theory that once you have broken bread with- a man, you begin to understand him And understanding is all that is needed, nine times out of ten, for a complete cooperative effort. FOR NEARLY A SCORE OF years we have been hearing and reading scorching regard ing the "fly by night" class of shippers of Valley fruits and vegetables.

We have been told 'Uat they are responsible for the demoralization of the Valleyts market price to the grower. (And we believe it). But-nothing has been done to remedy the situation in these 20 years. The same identical howls which are being made Friday were made, word for word, 10 yeais ago. WE REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT there are no minds in the Valley capable of solving the situation, if those minds will but devote themselves to the task.

"If," we say, and that "if" looms large. If the legitimate shippers of this Valley WANT to run the fly-by- nights out of the Valley they can run them out. A licensing and bonding law witf belp, help immensely. Shippers of the Vallsy, we have been informed, have gathered a considerable amount of data regarding the workings of similar laws in other states. The shippers organization has appointed committees to draft a tentative law along this line for sub- bission to the legislature.

law is never the subject is never tnentioas'l, and the shippers ar laying themselves open to the very patent accusation of not desiring such a law. IT MUST BE BROUGHT HOME to shipper and grower alike that this pa gage Five), France Prepares for New Riots FIGHT AS CABINET PLANS LAID Troops Rushed Into Suberbs Where Riot Expected PARIS, Feb. 9. Gaston Dou- mergue, 71 year-old premier- designate, turned his back on youtn- ful enthusiasts Friday afternoon to name a cabinet of experienced vet- terans banded together by the crisis threatening their France. Veterans Unite Same half a dozen former premiers were named in which Doumergue planned to present later in the day to Pres.

LeBrun for the chief executive's approval. Two of the strongest political veterans in Premiers Andre Tardieu and Edouard tq serve in this time of need as "ministers of state" without portfolios. The cabinet is slightly leftist or advanced liberal in complexion with only the cooununitste and the socialist faction headed by Deputy Leon Blum left out of the selection. Disorders Threaten Even as Doumergue selected his ministers, however, street disorders (Continued on Page Five) Santa Rosa to Hear Plans for Drainage (Special to The Herald) SANTA ROSA, Feb. plans for the Santa Rosa section under the proposed Tri-County Drainage district will be explained to residents of this viitaitv at a meeting to be held here Monday night.

Adequate drainage plans for the Santa Rosa section are incorporated in the proposed project, according to engineers. J. C. Mars, drainage engineer connected with the U. S.

department of agriculture who is aiding Valley engineers in preparing plans for presentation in Washington, will be the chief speaker at the local gathering. Rose Cup Survey To Be Made Saturday (Special to The Herald) MERCEDES Feb: conunit- tee of four judges Monday, will inspect all Lower Rio Grands Valley ci'iies preparatory to awarding the Rose Cup a silver cup annually awarded to the Valley city showing greatest civic beautification. Two judges representing Cameron county and twa representing HMalgo county will grade all cities. The final judging will occur in June the greatest improvement in beautificetipn during the interim in awarding the cup to that city. The Rose Cup, shaped like a full- blown rose, is awarded by Monty's Monthly, a Brownsville magazine.

Texas Senate Okehs Auto License Report AUSTIN. Feb. 9. (IP) Texas senate Friday voted 25 to 2 to adopt free conference report on a Dill to extend the time for payment of automobile registration fees unth March 31 as permanait policy. It would authorize remittance of penalties collected from registrants since Feb.

1, the final date for payment under the existing law. The bill will be sent to the governor for her approval after' the house of representatives had adopted the re- DOrt. Schooner in Distress EASTHAM, F20. S. (IP) An ice-coated schooner, believed to be of British registry, was sighted through heavy mist a mile off the coast Friday riding low in a moderately heavy ses and flying distress signals, coastguards from the Nauset station who said they believed she was anchored, were unable to go to her assistance because of heavy ice piled up on the shore.

They notified headquarters at Boston. BEGINNING OF TERRORISM IN PARIS DEFIANCE OF EX-AIR CHIEF IRESPROBERS McCracken Fails To Show Up for Mail Investigation WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. senate, defied Friday by William assistant secretary of commerce for his arrest. He failed to appear for the scheduled opening of his trial on contempt charges, challenging senate's authority.

One of'the riotous street demonstrations which latf amed into the revolutionary uprising in Paris' historic. Place de la Concorde is striking- ingly shown in this NBA Service picture, just amreVin America. Here you see police arresting demonstrators who protested against heavy taxes which increased the price of of the many taxes that aroused the populace to a fighting fury. BRIDGE HOURS FINALLY FIXED International Spans Now Open on 24-Hour Basis On Both Sides At last, after almost 20 years of juggling hours, the international bridges here are back on a clock- around schedule. The American officials have been on a clock-around schedule- since Dec.

1, but at that time Mexican officials began halting traffic across the bridge at midcight. Matamoros officials received orders from Mexico City Wednesday to permit traffic after midnight, and the new order is now in effect. Prior to the war, the bridges at major points along the Rio Grande operated on a 24-hour basis, (Continued on Page Five) but Cary Grant Weds Virginia Cherrill LONDON, Feb. 8. Cherrill, American movie player, and Cary Grant, also of the films, were married Friday at the caxton Hall registry office.

They will sail from Plymouth, for the U. S. Friday night aboard the liner Paris. "We aje both very happy," said Grant, who is a native of Bristol, after the simple ceremony, "Now we are going straight to Hollywood," -he added. -'We got to get back to work." Teachers' Meeting Here Sets New High In Numbers Present More than 1,000 school teachers of South Texas had registered by noon Friday for the 1934 convention of the South Texas division, Texas State Teachers Association, in this city, breaking all records for the convention.

The convention swung into its program at the session Thursday night, and Friday morning the Brownsville Junior College was filled to capacity and overflowing for the general session, at which "Education and the New Deal" was the theme oi' the discussion. CABBAGE MEET WILL BE HELD Corpus Growers to Come Here For Plow-Up Discussion Angelina County Killers Hunted ZAVALLA, Angelina County; Feb. 9. hundred citizens led by deputy sheriffs scoured this section Friday for two men who beat Charles Cansler, 70-year-old Zavalla to slugged his aged wife and stole a safe in the. Cansler home.

Mrs. Cansler was slugged but was not. considered in a dangerous condition. The bandits -left the aged man bound and gagged on the floor. His wife was found bound and gagged on a bed nearby.

Registration Continues Convention headquarters are being maintained at the El Jardin hotel, where registrations were made, with another desk at the junior college building for registration. At 12 o'clock Friday the had been passed, breaking all records for the convention, according to Porter S. Garner ol Robstown, president of the South Texas division. Registration was expected to continue throughout the day, and the final figure will probably be between 1200 and 1500. Wm.

P. Galligan, superintendent of schools at Laredo, and vice president of the South Texas or-" (Continued on Page Five) HARLINGEN, Feb. had been practically completed Friday for a joint meeting of Valley and Corpus Christ! cabbage growers heljp Saturday, to discuss a proposed, plow-up campaign and other steps raise the price the commodity. Cabbage continued to sell Friday at a base price of $3 to $4 a ton Friday, although most Pf it went unsold, and farmers got largely empty promises for it. At a meeting Thursday afternoon in Weslaco farmers discussed the "fly-by-night" loader, wlio is keeping the fanner from getting even "the low price of $4 a ton for his as revealed in Tha Herald recently.

Efforts to stop consignment shipping and to plow up half of the cabbage' are expected to be made at the joint meeting. Wreck Injures Two BATON, Feb. Jo-, sephine Williams of Plainview, Texas, was seriously injured and Mrs. Mel Self, also of Plainview, suffered minor injuries and shock early Thursday when their automo- bile'plunged off the highway on the outskirts of French, N. 22 miles south of here.

Valley to Get Low Of SO Friday Night, Predicted The Valley and its visiting school teachers Friday night were expected to witness a 20-degree drop in temperature from the maximum of 77 Thursday. The Brownsville weather bureau predicted Friday that the Valley's temperature would drop to around 50 degrees Friday night as the result of record-breaking cold waves over the north and Frost In Texas was predicted to reach almost to the coast Friday night, the Others Appear KECORD LOWS AEE REPORTED OVER NATION By Associated Press Intense cold and storms ruled over two The U. S. Weather Bureau celebrated its 64th anniversary by re- cordicg many all-time lows in temperatures. In Europe, Germany and Scandinavia were struck by gale which.

caused widespread damage and was directly responsible for several deaths. Nine Lose Lives Ships hugged harbors in the North. and Baltic Seas. The New England and north Atlantic and eastern Canada bore the brunt of the suz-zero -weather in America. "Nine deaths were attributed directly or indirectly to the cold.

Fatalities, by cities, were: Boston (Continued on Page Five) Wire Flashes WASHINGTON. Testimony that private contractors since 1926 averaged a 19.8 percent profit on army airplane business was given to the house military al- fairs committee Friday by Harry H. Woodring, assistant secretary of war. Since 1926, Woodring added, army purchases on which the 19.8 percent profit was made to- talled "about Three co-defendants, all attached to air companies that benefited from air mail contracts in the last administration, were on hand, however. Once the.

MacCracken position had been read to the senate, Sen. Black (D-Ala), chairman of the committee investigating air mail (Continued on 'Page Five) 'Ma' Frees Four AUSTIN, Feb. .9. state, convicts were released Friday under clemencies granted by Gov. Miriam A.

Ferguson. Conditional pardons were, issued to 'Green, Wilbarger county, misapplication of public i'unds, 10 years, convicted in April, 1933; Vernon Oliver, Bell county, forgery, two years convicted. 1933, and Porter Green. county, murder 8 years, convicted in December, 1932. A general -parole was given C.

E. Lawson, Dallas county, theft over $50. two years convicted in March, 1933. Tourists Entertained (Special to The Herald) EDINBUKG, Feb. Wista Hornburg, secretary of the Edinburg Chamber of Commerce, is a firm believer in entertainments for Valley tourist visitors.

"We are even introducing residents of the same northern cities to each other," Mrs. Homburg stated. "At the first of our new series of tourist entertainments Tuesday night, three men from Detroit, met each other for the first time. They bad lived within a mile of each other in Detroit for several' 'years' 'and had rooms on the same floor of an Edinburg hotel, but had not met until they attended entertainment." Texas Independence Stamps to Be Bought AUSTIN, Feb. 9.

of Jive series of postage stamps, to commemorate Texas' 100th year independence in 1936, by the postoffice department, was asked Friday by the Texas legislature. Scenes depicting historical events of Texas' fight for independence would be placed on the stamps, which would be twice the usual size. The resolution requested first sale of the stamps be made March 6, 1936, at San Antonio. Await License Trials (Special to The Herald) EDINBURG, Feb. of the Peace J.

Loy Bamiour of Edinburg has continued several cases filed against Hidalgo county motorists for alleged failure to pay 1934 automobile license feas. Justice Ramsour is awaiting action of the legislature before continuing prose, cution of the defendants. NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG-NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS Washington by George Durno New York by James McMullin SALES House ways and Means Committee is having a tough time licking the revenue Mil into shape. Mem'jers privately i d- mit they don't see how to rtlse $200,000,000 by revising the income tax schedules without a roar from the country. "There's no use putting a big.

tax on profits," said a member of the committee. "There are no profits yet to speak of. Business can't pay heavy taxes till'it makes money. No use taxing big personal incomes when- they've shrunk much. "Whether we like it or not I believe we must face a sales tax.

We've simply got to raise money to keep this program going." Workers can't understand how the NRA is their friend when they're thrown out of jobs by NRA orders to suspend production. A big lumber concern in.Wash- ington State was forced to close several weeks ago. The threatened violence until the man agement' proved that shutdown or- ity." Then the workers kicked. Business organizations -protested. The Senators protested.

The newspapers protested. Nothing doing. Voluntary relief committees had to be organized to feed the' workers who must be idle till late in Femruary. Meantime a Soviet ship arrived, from Vladivostok with a cargo of lumber which undersold American lumber in the Seattle market- thanks to high prices ordered by code authority. Local hailed their comrades, gave them den-same from the "code author-)a banquet, lalutetl the red flag and pledged allegiance, to Moscow.

Idleness in lumber mills in Texas has raised a similar howl against the NRA. a -lot of water has gone over the dam since the status of the proposed new food, drug and cosmetics bill was last discussed in this -column. A powerful lobby is tearing the measure to ribbons bit by bit. Unless the White House takes, a hand a feeble bill will be reported out of committee and probably will never reach a final vote. The first bites that the pain- and-paint lobby took were anticipated by 'the Food and Drug Administration, which seems to be standing alone in the fight for the bill.

All legislation is a matter of Siit those bites have only served to increase the lobby's appetite. In the original Tugwell bill ii was provided that drugs and foodstuffs must have an iterusation of their contents printed on the laoel (Continued on Page Four). WASHINGTON. The senate agriculture committee Friday favorably reported a bill by Chairman Smith (D-SC) authorizing the purclia.sc of 5150,000,000 of cotton and cotton products for free distribution to' the needy. Johnston, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive and C.

Sterling Smith, president of the now closed Standard Trust bank were found guilty by a jury here Friday on charges of misapplying- $450,000 of the bank's funds and of making false entries. WASHINGTON. Chairman Fletcher of the Senate banking committee Thursday said mat the request of Pres. Roosevelt his bill to be introduced Friday for regulation of stock exchanges would also provide for supervision of commodity exchanges. Material Arrives For Storm Sewer Building (Special to The Herald) McALLEN, Feb.

carloads materials to be used in construction of McAllen's $60,000 municipal storm sewer, one of the biggest CWA projects in the Valley, arrived here Wednesday and Thursday, according to City Inspection Engineer C. C. Eckhoff. A carload of cement arrived from Houston, two cars of gravel were received from Sam Fordyce auvi La Fruta aud five cars of sand were received from the latter towns, also. Two Missing, Seven Hurt in Train Wreck RHINELANDER.

Feb. 9. (ff) Jones, a railroad fireman, was missing, and at least 12 persons, seven of them passangers, were injured when two Northwestern, road passenger trains collided Thursday night at a turntable track intersection near Monico, 15 miles southeast of here. Jones, the fireman on train No. 112 en route from Ashland to Milwaukee, was believed caught under the locomotive which was derailed and capsized in a ditch after it had washed into train No.

12, operating between Antigo and Watersmeet, Mich. GOP Raises Cry Of 'Corruption' in CWA WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. of "corruption" and "oolitical favoritism" against the four-million- man Civil Works were put forward Friday by the republican National committee as congress speeded final touches on a measure to clink $450,000,000 more into nearly empty CWA coffers. House and senate conferees hoped for "agrecnent before nightfall on the administration's bill, passed Thursday night by the senate, to appropriate the $950,000,000 for CWA and relief work.

Cattle Inspected (Special to The Heraldl McALLEN, Feb. J. T-aylcr of Harlingen. supervisor of cattle tuberculin tests in. the 10th district of Texas for the Public Works Administration, is personally supervising such tests in Hidalgo county.

The tests, on both, dairy and farm cattle, are being made by a number of veterinarians, each assisted by five helpers, all of whom are being paid bv the PWA. Upon completion of work in HI- dalgo, the veterinarians -and helpers will move to Cameron county. Dr. Traylor's district includes Hidalgo, Cameion, Brooks, KJeberg Kenedy and Nueces eoun-.