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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 227 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1929 EIGHT PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY
J _MAY BE CREW FOR EAKER’S BROWNSVILLE FLIGHT
w Captain Ira C. Laker, who will make a dawn-to-d usk flight from Brownsville to Fanama on March 10,
was commander of the “Question Mark," which recently broke the world’s record, remaining aloft 150 hours.
The above is a picture of Captain Laker a:id his crew of army fliers just before taking off on their epochal
flight, and it is believed he will select two members of this crew to accompany him on his new venture.
Left to right: Sergeant Xooe, Lieutenant Quesade, Lieutenant Halvorson, Captain Lakrr and Major Spatz.
] BIG MEASURES
j i AWAIT ACTION
) BOTH HOUSES
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o' Final Decision on Im
2 portant Bills Is Ex
pected In Legisla
°ru ture Next Week
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By 9. RAYMOND BROOKS
AUSTIN. Feb. 16.—Next week will
tell the story of the major doings
,t of the Texas legislature,
vo This was decided as the present
’J week rounded to a close when the
^ senate set both the $175,000,000
Q statewide highway bond issue and
ht the w hole question of prison central
■it isation, relocation and reform, for
rtf action next Monday. The senate
It then set the big question of legal
og dealings with bolting democrats lor
Jr action Tuesday.
| Highway bonds and prison affairs
UH have been accepted as the t*>> out
. standing measures before the legis
lature. Public utilities coni: iil and
fi state civil service have gained next
>, rank, and both these measures are
4f scheduled for consideration next
pweek, as well as highway bonds and
prison affairs. The civil service
T measure has been passed by the
house and awaits senate action,
iff Utilities control awaits action in
•'• both houses, with assurance of a
ylsenate vote soon after the other big
* hills are disposed of. •
f» Senate Takes Lead
I') The senate, which has kept far
it ahead of the house in action on big
and little measures, and which at
1 tempted to secure passage of the
big supply bills, but failed to over
come house opposition, swung into
action Thursday and Friday in ret
ting down the big bills for early next
week.
| The next six legislative da's will
see the history of the measures writ
ten, and see the opening chapters of
f a long story of public policy as the
• outgrowth of the votes now sched
mu lei.'
at Various university measures and
• hills affecting the leasing of oil
» rights, which grew out of the contro
ls versy over the university land sales
of the early days of the session, also
. will go to definite decision dunng
• the next week, if present signs do
not fail. However, indication has
•eiheeti given that the changes to be
vrmade will be far less revolutionary
h than at first promised.
Frobex Nearly Finished
• The coming week probably will
*#« the close of the surge of investi
I gations which swept this session,
and which was accepted as a cus
stomary phase of every regular ses
I sion. The highway and board of
control inquiry has been recessed
until next Wednesday. The land of
s fic* inquiry is underway. An investi
gation of textbook matters was or
y dcred. Others have been disposed
> of or refused. The coming week
• should free the legislature of the
i*: grind and worry and activity and un
certainty which the investigation of
I state department* always entail.
The highway bond issue* proposed
► will be the openirg gun of the “big
1 week,” and on outcome of this pro
* posed public vote next July 2 will
depend the fate of numerous pend- j
irg bills relating to gasoline taxes,
meter vehicle registration fees, di
vision of fees and other related mat
ters,
AUSTIN, Feb. 16.—fA*>—Process
of the nnti*evolution bill by Repre
tentative James W . Harper of Mount
'I'leasant, a minuter, which would
make it unlawful for any instructor
"In a public free school to teach as a
|,ct that man evolved from a lower :
'Irder of animals, was inneded yes
When the ho.,? deferred its’
eHL'w»yhert because {.quorum was
The membership had been dwin
dling gradually during the debate on
the measure, as members quietly left
for a week end visit home. When
tim* came to engross, the hoard ‘
5 showed less than li* voting and some
•M raised the point or order, which
(Cuatinued on V*ge eight.) |
Chicago Clamps on
Lid as Aftermath of
Gangster Massacre
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CHICAGO. Feb. 16.—<A>-Three
“purple" gangsters of Detroit today
were thrice identified through photo
graphs as members of the gang hunt
ed fur Thursday's septuple slaying.
Police said they were planted in
advance to observe the men marked
for death and note their hours 01
gathering, so that the actual killers
would know when and how to strike.
Two women and a man living
across from the garage where the
gang massacre took, place identified
! photographs which they said were of
j men who had rented rooms overlook
j ing the garage during a period of
days preceding the assassinations.
Harry and Phil Keywell, brothers,
j and Edwdic Fletcher were the three
whose pictures were identified. But
even the identifications were matched
in interest by several sensational
aftermaths of the crime.
Find Gang leader
For one thing, George (Bugs)
Moran was found, not by author
ities but by newspapermen. The
seven who were slain were Moran
mobsmen.
For another, a fiery shaft of cen
sure and warning was shot by state's
Attorney John A. Swanson at the law
J enforcement agencies of Chicago and
; Cook county.
The state's attorney called Police
Commissioner Russell, other high
police officials, sheriff's officers and
county police to his office, and issued
! Ibis fiat:
“Enforce the gambling law, and
the laks against vice.
"Obey these orders, or you’ll go to
; prison."
Swanson told them their depart
tContinued on page eight.)
Civil Service
Will Be Sent To
Special Session
AUSTIN, Tex.. Feb. 16.—Gov. Dan
Moody will seed the state civil serv
ice hill hack to the special session
of the legislature “and to every oth
er session as long as I am gover
nor until it is passed.” he announc
ed Friday, promptly after the house
killed the administration civil meas
ure.
He charged “a lobby of state em
ployers, afraid they couldn't hold
their jobs under the merit system
killed this bill."
“When civil service has been pass
ed in this state there will he fewer
state stamps used in political cam
paigns, fewer state automobiles used
<n campaigns for office, and fewer
state employer* traveling around on
state time working for candidates to
they can hold their jobs," Moody
declared.
BODY FOUND
!N CEMETERY
Police At Marshall In
vestigate Mystery
Murder
MARSHALL. Tex., Feb. 16.—(*»>—
All available peace officers of Har
rison county today were called upon
to seek the slayer of H. B. Alston,
Texas and Pacific railway employe,
whose body was found in a Marshall
cemetery last night. His skull had
been crushed.
The body was found by a police
man who accompanied a man to the
cemetery after the latter had asked
the patrolman for his flashlight to
aid in finding money he had lost
‘•while running through the ceme
tery/’
The man who asked for the flash
light and two girls, said by police
to have been his companions, were
held for investigation. The girls
wrere said to have been unable to
tell a connected story of the affair.
An examination of Alston’s body
showed the skull had been broken
in several places across the fore
head. No trace of the instrument
with which the crime was committed
was found.
Alston, who was 30 years old, form
erly lived in Shreveport, having re
cently moved to Marshall.
Grant Rails Use
Of Houston Road
W ASHINGTON. Feb” 16.—(JP>—The
Texas Si New Orleans railroad to
gether with the International Great
Northern, St. Louis, Brownsville and
Mexico, Gulf Colorado and Santa
Fe. Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the
Tnnitv and Brazos Valley, all re
ceived permission from the Inter
state commerce commission today to
operate over the municipally own
ed railroad at Houston, Te*.
The line over which the joitt
operation will extent in part is own
ed by the navigation district at
Houston and in part by the city ol
Houston. Approximately 52 mile-^ ol
terminal track reaching industries
and plants and wharves in tha
Houston district will he opened for
the joint use of the railroads named
by the contract which the commis
sion approved.
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“The Singing Fool" they called the “happy waiter” discover
ed through Help Wanted ads. Mr. Emplo)*r, in what other
way can >ou get the number from which to select as quickly
as through a Help Wanted Ad in this paper?
DAWN TO DUSK
PANAMA TRIP
SET MARCH 10
Commander of <Ques
tion Mark’ Selects
Municipal Airport
For Epochal Flight
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.
—(yp>—A dawn to dusk
flight from the United
States to the Panama Canal
Zone will be attempted
March 10 by Captain Ira C.
Eaker, who wfas chief pilot
of the endurance plane
Question Mark.
The flight will be made
in the first model of the
P-12, newest and fastest of
army pursuit planes, deliv
ered to the air corps. It will
start from Brownsville, Tex
as, with France Field, Pana
ma, as the terminal. Five
stops will be made in the
2.000-mile flight—Tampico
and Minititlan, Mexico, Gua
temala City, Guatemala, Ma
nagua, Nicaragua, and Da
vid, Panam-.
Captain Eaker ia at Seattle, where
hit ship is being built. He plans to
leave there either Monday or Tues
day for Kelly Field, San Antonio,
Texas, making overnight stops at
Oakland. Riverside and San Diego,
Calif.; Tucson, Aril., El Paso and
Midland, Texas. Flight tests will
be conducted at Kelly Field, where
a speeial gas tank and pumping gear
will be installed.
The plane will leave for Browns
ville. March 8 or 9 ao as to be ready
at dawn on March 10 for the flight
to Panama if weather conditions are
favorable.
In event the project ia successful,
Captain Eaker will make another
race with daylight on the return trip
by leaving Panama at dawn in an
endeavor to reach Brownsville that
evening, and Washington, D. C., the
following day.
The ship will be named “The Tan
American.” It ia a small, fast ma
chine. with a wing spread of 23 feet
and from tip to tail measures not
more than 21 f«et. It ia powered
with a 450 horsepower, pine-cylinder,
air-cooled motor.
Bootlegger Gets
Bight ’Phone But
The Wrong Party
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the connection was completed.
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the boys after • couple of cal?.
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same Place—10 Broadwav"
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'bo?d°Bt#r W-' p,Bf*d ■"«** *».000
Two Vernon Men
I Held For Murder
.?*“'• Feb. 1«._<*V
Raw la "wiht^*1*** Donahue and
can 80U(tht 0 •
charge,} also with the slayi^”**’
-Mel be* ,nd v'r. ar
an’s* ih!* "«terday after Wal
1 c>nn«L k°dy. frosen from a week’s
s~stw?r#* W*‘ ,0tt,!d on the bank of
«oufc nVb ®U t‘*id town
fll d araiSsthe»be‘ T£* C,,*rr*, w«"
jnttu *F*Jn** the three men after
IftuSuf- wf*1-1*— ■^■Nar ol.ee
/t»'4ks.“2ip"H**F h«d hiss
in the chest with a shot^ua.
AIRMINDED? WHY
* * *
THEY SHIP COOK
* * *
STOVES BY AIR
Is Brownsville airminded?
So much so that Saturday morn
ing a large iron cook stove was
loaded aboard a plane at the
municipal airport and sent via air
to Soto La Marina.
While enthusiasts in other parts
of the country are engaged in
coaxing newcomers aboard planes
for one short hop, Brownsville has
gotten over the finnicky stage and
now is practical in the matter to
the extent of shipping fish and
cook stoves by air.
The stove was sold to the
aerial fishing fleet” by the W. II.
Futegnat company of this city.
CELEBRATION
TOBEFILMED
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News Reel Concerns
Will Attend Air
Mail Event
News reel concerns are to be well
represented here at the celebration
of opening of the Brownsville-Mexico
international air mail line here, ac
cording to advices received by G.
C. Richardson, manager of the cham
ber of commerce.
Wires have been received from J.
H. Britton of the Fex News company,
and also from Fred Bockelman of
the Paramount company, advising
they would be here to record the
event for the films.
Plans for the celebration are
making considerable headway, ac
cording to Charles Burton, chairman
of the chamber of commerce air
port committee. Meetings of various
committees to solidify details are
being held daily in order that noth
ing may be overlooked which might
add to success of the celebration.
A record attendance from all sec
tions of the United States and Mex
ico is expected, pilots from all sec
tions also are expected, an invitation
to all licensed flier to attend, htving
been sent out by the chamber.
A letter waa received Saturday
from Jose Crux y Oblis, president of
the Confederation de Camaras de
Comercio of Mexico, an organization
similar in Mexico to the United
States Chamber of Commerce, that
a committee of that body would be
appointed to attend the Brownsville
celebration.
Fears Insanity*
Kills 2 Sisters
And Slays Self
OMAHA. Nebr, Feb. 6.—<flV~Frank
Johnson, who feared insanity would
befall his entire family, went to a
hospital late last night, shot and
killed two of hia sisters and then
turned his pistol on himself.
One sister, Alma, was a patient,
under treatment for mental trouble.
Another, Ede, was a hospital at
taches. A third sister. Hulda, has
been a patient at the hospital for the
insane at Hastings, Nebr, for a year.
Hospital authorities expetced a
friendlr family gathering when John
son, a Kearney, Nehr, farmer, called
and asked to see hia sisters. The
three had been left is a room only a
few minutes, however, when three
shots were fired. Nurses found the
three bodies.
BridgeBiUsFor
Valley Siped By
President Today
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1«.—0F>—
President Coolidge signed the fol
lowing bridge construction bills to
day: Across Rio Grande at San
Benito, Texas, by Rio Grande Del
Norte Investment company; across
Rto Grande at Donna, Texas, by
Dobbs Bridge company; across Rio
Grande at Los Indios. Texas, by
Los Indins Bridge company, and
seress Rio Grande at Ri# Grawde
City, Texas, by* Ria Crtsfe City
Camargo Bridge company.
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Wurzbach Flays
Texas G. O. P. in
Patronage Probe
MANY KILLED
WHEN MEXICO
TRAIN RAIDED
Bandit Bands Slay
Passengers After
Wrecking Cars On
Michoacan Line
MEXICO CITY, Feb. lfi.—«4»)—Sur
vivors of a train attack in which as
many as 25 or 50 may have perished
were en route today to Mexico City
from Yurecuaro, Michoacan, near
where the attack occurred.
News of the attack is carried in
Mexico City newspapers today in
special dispatches from Guadalajara
and Zamora. The Guadalajara dis
patches to Excelsior say the entire
military escort of the train—usually
between 30 and 50—and its engineer
and fireman were killed.
Zrmora dispatches to El Universal
merely say “some of the passengers,
some of the crew, and some soldiers
perished."
The train, proceeding from Reyes
to Yurecuaro, lrom wht re it was to
go to Mexico City, was dynamited be
tween the stations of Moreno and
Guarachita. Insurgents then attacked
it, the escort fighting until its am
munition gave out. The attackers
then burned the train.
The Zamora dispatches said al
though the engineer and ' fireman
were killed in the explosion, mem
bers of the crew detached the loco
motive from the coaches and, taking
tomu passengers with them, ran it
through the insurgents lines to Za
morii, and later to Yurecuaro.
The entire garrison at Zamora was
sent in pursuit of the insurgents.
The raid was reputedly led by a
General Gorostieta, who during tne
regime of Victoriano Huerta, was
sent to the Vera Crux area to repel
a possible advance of Americans to
ward Mexico City. There was no ad
vance and hence no clash.
La Feria Voting I
Today On Bonds
LA FERIA. Feb. IS.-While the
morning rote at the La Feria water
district 11,600,000 bond election to
day was light, election officials pre
dicted that a heavy vote would be
cast during the afternoon.
Four periling places were designat
ed for the election, one each at La
Feria, Bluetown. Santa Rosa and
Wilson Tract. The polls will close
at ? o’clock.
A vigorous campaign has been
waged to get out the entire vote of
the district. Proponents of the
bond issue predicted it would carry
by a large majority. No check on
votes was available at noon.
WILLACY ORCHARD
NETS BIG PROFIT
RAYMONDVILLE. Feb. 16.-The
total sales from the 40-acre citrus
orchard of W\ A. Harding, lying with
in the city limits of Raymnndville,
this year netted *6.000. or *150 per
acre, according to German Fox, sup
erintendent of the orchard.
The last three car load* of fruit
icmaining on the trees has just been
sold to L. E. Sntvely of Harlingen,
at two cents per pound, Mr. Snavely
to d« the harvesting.
WASHINGTON. Fet. 16.—(AV
Representative Wurzbach, only re
publican member of congress from
Texas, told the senate patronage
committee today that since 1921 an
“enormous amount” of money had
been collected by the Texas republi
can organization in return for fed
eral appointments.
He declared that from May, 1921,
when the Dallas headquarters were
opened to January 1, 1929, promis
sory notes made payable to the or
ganisation controlled by R. B.
Creagcr, republican national com
mitteeman for Texas, totalled more
than $200,000, most of which was not
given voluntarily.
“If this money had been paid in
cash,” Wurzbach said, “these con
tributions might have been volun
tary but the large proportion of
promissory notes shows they were
not voluntary because men do not
usually go under a legal obligation
to make donations of this sort.”
Postmasters Have Notes
Tha notes, he said, were made by
postmasters. United States marshals
and customs collectors, all or nearly
all of whom were republicans.
He declared that from May, 1921,
to January 1, 1922. the notes total
ed $66,000. This, he said, was be
cause terms of office were expiring
and new notes were being asked
by the organisation.
“Just when the pie counter open
ed up ” Chairman Brookbart aaked.
"Yes,” Wurxbach answered, “the
plums had just begun to fall.” This
was soon after the inauguration or
President Harding.
After January 1, 1922. Wurzbaeh
said, the contributions fell off but
that they rose again in 1925.
“I am looking for another rise
this year,” he added.
350 Notes Found
Brookhart said his committee had
found 350 notes, and that the names
of the signers had been sent to the
postoffice department for identifica
tion. The department replied that
242 were postmasters or postal em
plovees.
Of the 6S unidentified by the de
partment, Wurzbach identified nine,
including Henry Zweifei as federal
district attorney at Fort Worth; S.
I- Gross as marshal at Dallas, and
R. W. Humphries as collector of cus
toms at Galveston.
Wurzbacll said be had received
many complaints about the situation
in his state, among them a letter
from W. E. Talbor, former director
of the republican organization to
J. M. Parker of Fastland county,
which Wurzbach said, corroborated
his testimony that contributiona
were involuntary.
Leonard Withington, the present
director, has told the cemmittee con
tributions were voluntary.
Wurzbach entered a general de
nial of charges that he bad de
manded contribution* to uid his
campaigns is which he said he was
opposed by the "democratic and
Creager machines.”
Famous Singer
Will Appear In
Valley Concert
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Feb. 16. — Civic
clubs of Harlingen and individuals
here have aimed a guarantee of ap
nroximstely $2J00 to bring Madame
Ernestine Sebuman Heink here for a
concert on April 15.
The famous singer will appear in
the municipal auditorium.
The civic clubs were backed by
the Business and Professional Wom
en's club and several individuals In
guaranteeing the amount.
Youth in Willacy Jail
Proves Adept in Angling
RAYMONDVILLE, Feb. 1«—(A*»
—Temptation proved too strong for
Long! no Villalovss, a juvenile
“trusty” at tbe Willacy county jail,
when he found there was a large
quantity of liquor stored in tbe
basement. He contrived an ar
rangement to “fish” tbe bottles up
window and get possession of
LaSber Snow bad dis
cs was mjsterious
and set a man to
i guard on duty saw a “fish
I
ing” arrangement come down from
an upper window, and clasp one of
the bottles, which was drawn op.
Investigating farther, he foana
Viilalovas at the window drawing
an the liquor.
The liberty of the “faithful
trusty" summarily revoked,
and ha [confined in a ce.».
Jadga R mett than disposed
of the « y aaaten<*ing Villa
‘7, 4 "WSforasalory at
ijatesville. ta is rimrr old, arwf
had been In J*it on a
chare* of
SERVICE FROM
BORDER WILL
OPEN MARCH 9
Reserve Right to Ex
tend To Central
America; Mexico
Announces Opening
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16.
—(/Pi—The post office de
partment today awarded to
Pan American Airways, Inc.,
the contract for carrying
mail from Brownsville, Tex.,
to Mexico City. One way
service will start on March
9.
The Pan American Air
ways, Inc., was not the low
bidder for the route but was
the only one regarded able
to meet the requirements of
the Mexican postal authori
ties. The Air Transportation
company of Minneapolis,
was low bidder with an offer
of 98 3-4 cents per mile, and
several other bidders with
drew their bids when they
found they could not meet
the Mexican postal require
ments.
In the contract the postmaster
general reserved the right to ex*
tend the route from Mexico City via
Vera Crux to one or mor* Central
American countries.
On the return trip from Mexico
City to Brownsville the mail will
be carried by the Mexican Aviation
company, a subsidiary of the Pan
American Airways. The Pan-Amer
ican Airway’s bid was 12 per mile.
MEXICAN SERVICE TO
START FEBRUARY 23
MEXICO CITY. Feb. 18.—<AV-An
nouncement has been mad* that the
new airmail route between Mexico
City and New York by way of
Brownsville. Texas, will be inaugu
rated February 23. High Mexican
government officials will be pas
sengers on the first plane to the
border.
GARNER GETSPERMIT
FOR FOREIGN PLANES
Foreign plane* wifi be permitted
to land at the Brownsville municipal
airport, wa* the announcement Sat
urday morning in a telegram from
Congressman John N. Carrier, who
recently conferred with treasury and
labor department officials relative
to the international phases of the
Brownsville port.
"The . Interdepartmental airport
committee of the departments of
treasury, labor and commerce has
instructed Collector of Customs
Campbell of temporary permission
granted for landing of foreign air
craft at Brownsville- the congress
man stated in his telegram. “Con
sideration will be given with a view
of permanent arrangements as re
quested by the Brownsville Chamber
of Commerce, when regulations for
the designation and continuance of
airports of entry have been adopted
THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair and continued moderately cold
tonight; Sunday fair and someuB»at
warmer.
For East Tins: Fair tonight;
not so cold in north and west por
tions; frost on the east coast; Sun
day fair; somewhat warmer in south
portion; colder in extreme north
west portion.
Light northerly to easterly winds
on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
Thera will ho no materia! change
in the river during the next few
days.
Flood Present t*-Rr. S4-Br.
Sta«e Sues Ctntg. Rein
Eagle Pass Id 2D +0.1 .00
Laredo . 27 -03 04) DO
Rio Grande .. 21 4.2 04) .00
Mission. 22 4.2 -0.1 DO
San Benito .. 23 7.0 OD .00
Brownsville . 18 IJ -44 DO
TIDE TABLE
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