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^THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 229 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY I
IN OUR
/ALLEY
OWNSVILLE is right pleased
the Mexican government has
fit to cooperate in postponing
of the international air mails
Irownsville and Matsmoros.
start had been planned for
ary 23.
ow will take place on March 9.
is two important events will be
ated at tho same time,
i of them the inauguration of
tails.
> other Captain Ira taker’s
to dusk flight from Browns
lo the Panama canal,
i main event will tako place on
day, March 9.
tain Baker’s flight will tako
on Saturday, March 10.
ess something happens in the
time to change these dates.
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SUBSCRIBE to other daily
s, but always read your good
first.”
it’s the cominont of Lawrence
ooks, Rio Grande City banker,
letter to The Herald renewing
ubscription.
I it’s a compliment that is very
appreciated by The Herald
hose who work on it.
► Herald is enjoying watching
irculation figures go up.
is growing without the assist
of bothersome contests, such
ose in which some newspapers
automobiles and other forms
ixes that never fail to irk tho
t.
i Herald is endeavoring to give
raders a good newspaper. It
es the newspaper reading pub
f the Valley wants that sort
‘ws paper.
• • •
E VALLEY, in May. will enter
>n« of the most important state
ntions of Texas,
it is tho annual meeting of the
i Medical association,
will start May 20. in Browns*
with a meeting of the rail
surgeons' section of tho asso
n.
1 will continue through May
re than 1500 physicians, sur
and specialists will attend the
ng, and there will be distin
ed guests from other states,
i sessions will be held in
naville, but the visitors w’ill
ample opportunity to visit all
sections of the Valley.
:els in other Valley towns will I
lied upon to provide accommo
as.
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E conns CHRISTI CALLER
opportunity to comment on a
t editorial in The Brownsville
d having to do, among other
s, with tho development of
markets for Valley products,
s the Caller:
te Brownsville Herald calls at- i
in, in quite timely fashion, to
spid advance of the canning in
y in the Lower Rio Grande
y, estimating that the Valley
this season will aggregate
to 150 cars, an increase of
ximately 100 per cent over last
, the same time the Herald
i to the necessity for enlarg
he markets for the products of
ralley canning plants, citing, as ‘
>f the reasons for restriction of
narket, inequalities in freight
Lwhich make wide distribution
estly.
le major markets for the pro- j
of Valley canneries have been
oped throughout Texas,” the
Id continues, “though the mar
’or canned grapefruit is being
ded into practically all states,
high quality of the Valley pro
can win its way into any mar
providing it is given an equal
lit rate, and it is to the interest
le entire Valley to cooperate
the canners in securing that
lat no doubt would require con
able time. More to the point,
«mi, is the development of a
nd in the Valley itself for the
y-canned products. The Herald
that until recently practically
alley products appeared on the
e* of grocers in that section,
today, because Valley house
i are specifying goods canned
iat section. Valley grocers are
ing heavily.
prophet, it is said, is not
>ot honor save in his own coun
the same thought might apply
redacts of local plants. The
step in developing a market
»ny product is to establish a
nd for that product among the
• who profit most directly from
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E BROWNSVILLE police de
aent reports that Sunday was
luietest in many months.
• short call officers had ample
ftunitv to dct.c!on their minds
fading magazines and otherwise
in* themselves.
t in Natamoros the situation
a bit different.
re# lives were lost in shooting
ft.
ressltating unusual activities on
(Continued on paga three.)
TWO SHOT IN
PISTOL DUEL;
ONE IN FEUD
Brownsville Man Is
Held In Death of
Soldier Killed At
Market Plaza
Three men were killed in
two affrays Sunday at Mata
morotos, two in a pistol duel
and one as the result of an
old family feud. Two men,
one a Brownsville resident,
are being held by Matamoros
police officials charged with
murder.
In the pistol duel which
occurred on the market
plaza about 4 o’clock in the
afternoon. Second Sergeant
Lena Cavazos of the Mata
moros garrison, and a chauf
feur, said by police to be
Isabel Sanchez, were slain.
According to Acting Chief of Po
lice Jose Alatoore, Sanchez, who is a
chauffeur, was fixing a tire on his
car. parked on the plaza, when the
soldier strolled by. They had some
difference, the nature of which is
not known, when the sergeant sud
denly drew his gun and fired, San
chez being killed.
Revenged by Friend
Caspar Davila, a friend of the
slain man, and said by police to be
a resident of Brownsville, drew his
own gun to protect Jm friend, and
fired, killing the soldier. He sur
rendered to police and in a state
ment declared he had fired to pro
tect his friend.
The shooting occurred so suddenly,
eye witnesses say. that the only ver
sion of the trouble is that given by
Davila, who aNo was operating as a
chauffeur in Matamoros. Davila is
well known in Brownsville. He lost
his left arm about 14 years ago,
while a boy, when hit by a street car
running to the border town.
Cavazos is survived by his widow
and four sons, all residing in Mata
(Continued on Page Three.)
FIND SLAYER
WAS INSANE
Doheny, Jr., Victim of
Demented Man, Phy
sician States
LOS ANGELES. Feb. i8,-(/P)-The
slaying of Edward L. Doheny, Jr.,
heir to the Doheny oil millions, by
his secretary and friend, Theodore
Hugh Plunkett, who committed sui
cide. was looked upon today by in
vestigating officials as the deed of
a man temporarily deranged.
Doheny, 36 years old. was shot to
death in his pretentious home here
Saturday night as his family await
ed the arrival of Dr. E. C. Fish
baugh, to treat Plunkett for a
threatened nervous breakdown. When
confronted by the physician Plunk
ett retreated to the room in which
Doheny's body lay and shot himself
through the head. The doctor found
both men dead.
Several points regarding the mur
der and suicide remained to be
cleared up, however. Whether there
had been a struggle as Doheny had
attempted to auiet Plunkett was un
certain. The furniture had been dis
arranged. An overturned bottle and
several glasses were on a table.
Wife Given Divorce
Since Plunkett’s wife obtained an
uncontested divorce last October, in
vestigators of the district attorney's
office said, young Doheny’s secre
tary had developed a nervous ail
ment which had become serious.
Dr. Kishhaugh. the Doheny fam
ily physician for ten years, at the
request of Doheny, Jr., had attend
ed Plunkett.
Saturday afternoon, a few hours
before the double tragedy, a fam
ily conference had been held ever
(Continued on Page Three.)
Stabs Husband
After Quarrel;
Wife Repentant
CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—(iT‘)—A bride
of seven months plunged a butcher
knife into the breast of her husband
yesterday and then ran screaming for
help to save his life.
Monte Tennes. 11, whose uncle by
the same name is a power in a syn
dicate for dissemination of race track
informatton, had quarrelled with his
19-year old wife over “practically
nothing.”
“Mont and T had gone to a party
at a friend's,” Mrs. Tennes told po
lice. “and I guess we had too many
drinks. When we got home early
yesterday morning we started to
quarrel.
“I insisted that we retire and
Monty said, •won't.’ He sat down and
began to read. We quarrelled some
more and I ran to the kitchen, got a
butcher knife and rushed at Monte.
I must have been craty. Monte
grabbed be and we tussled; then he
went limp and gapped.”
The condition of Tennes w«* crit
ical today. His left lung had been
punctured.
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Prison Survey Is Seen By Moody
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PICKING SPOT
NOW IS ONLY
GUESS, CLAIM
Governor In Message
To Solons Pleads
Expert Determine
Location First
AUSTIN, Feb. 18.—(A*)—To deter
mine upon a place for concentration
of the penitentiary system in advance
of a survey by experts may result in
tremendous economic loss to the
state. Gov. Dan Moody told members
of the 41st legislature, in a message
read in both houses today.
“To pick a spot at this time and
settle it by statute can at best be
little more than a guess,” the govern
or said. "The guess may prove to be
a successful location for a prison
system, and it nay prove to be a
(Continued on page three.)
LINDBERGH TO
FLY TO COAST
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Famed Pilot Working
On Transcontinen
tal Project
WASHINGTON, Ffb. 18.—(JP)—
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, after
a leisurely flight from Miami, Fla.,
was in the capital today, but re
planned for his stay to be a short
one. He is busy with matters af
fecting the Transcontinental Air
Transport company and before the
day is over he will probably be in
New York, where a conference of
company officials is to be held
soon.
After this conference, Lindbergh
intends to take to the air, again for
a trip to the Pacific coast voer the
proposed route to be established by
the Transport company.
At Bolling Field the colonel an
nounced the service of the Trans
continental Air Transport company
would be divided into eastern and
western divisions. The eastern ter
minus of the eastern division will
be Columbus. Ohio, and the western
terminus, Waynoka. Okla. Clovis,
N. M., and Los Angeles will be the
respective eastern and western ter
mini of the western division. Be
tween the two divisions, or from
Waynoka to Clovis, passengers will
be carried by railroads.
Start Trial of
McCloskey Case
AUSTIN. Tex.. Feb. IP.—(j*P)—
Judge Augustus McCloskey. congress
man-elect. of San Antonio, again
faced trial today on indictments
charging alteration returns in the
last general election. First called
at San Antonio, the case recently
was transferred here on a change of
venue.
Judge McCloskey's, secretary, Chas.
Ramirez, and Elmer Wernette, were
indicted for the same offense.
Judge McCloskey. a democrat, and
Congressman Harry M. Wurzbach. a
republican, were candidates for con
gress from the 14th Texas district.
The vote was close, but after legal
skirmishing, the state canvassing
board finally gave McCloskey a ma
jority of 319.
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MEXICAN PRESIDENT ESCAPES ASSASSINS
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Two views of the wrecked train of President Porte* Gil of Mexico. Dynamite wrecked a culvert just be
fore the train approached, and the. locomotive and several cars were ditched. One man was killed ,but
the Mexican exeruth-e was unhurt. The outrape occurred on the day Obrepon's slayer was executed
Race Bill Killed
By Solons After
Threatened Figh t
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FIND WOMAN’S
BODYINRIVER
Man Held By Police
In Connection With
Drowning
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 18.—(/P)
—The Susquehanna river has given
up the body of Miss Verna Klink,
31-year-old candy store manager,
and the police today announced
that Harry B. Bowman, perfume
salesman, probably would be charg
ed with murder.
Bowman has been held in the
county jail since his arrest on Janu
ary 28, three days after Miss Klink
disappeared, but the charges against
him were those resulting only from
hts admissions that money found on
him had belonged to the missing
woman. He was successfully ac
cused of robbery, conspiracy to rob
and larceny, as well as two charges
involving Miss Fthcl Miller, upon
whom police claim he spent the
money obtained from Miss Klink.
Yesterday after 23 days of futile
dragging of the river near the spot
where the woman w-as last seen, her
body was found three miles down
(Continued on page five)
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AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 18.—The house
Monday morning killed the state fair
racing bill. After its authors vainly
offered to take the so-called “con
tribution” provision which was
charged with being a return of le
galized gambling. The vote was 74
to 55 to strike out the enacting
clause.
The house action frustrated an at
tempted mass meeting here Monday
night sponsored by the Rev. J. Frank
Norris, Fort Worth pastor, who was
, tc have spoken in protest of the bill.
Norris was in the gallery, and his
name was frequently dragged into
the debate.
The house took the measure up
out of regular order to dispose of it
after efforts were made by its op
ponents to get a public hearing for
protest of its effect.
A physical encounter loomed as
the Rev. J. B. Forbes was speaking
asking the house to kill the bill
“dead as heck.” Representative J.
C. Albritton rushed to the speaker's
stand with the demand, “did you say
those who support the bill are not
respectable?" “No. I didn't,” Forbes
started to answer as Sergeant at
Arms Joe White led Albritton back
to his seat.*
The ballot came after a two-hour
wrangle in which foes of legalized :
betting on races attempted unsuc
cessfully for the second time to
stage a public hearing. The house
refused to open up the bill at a pub
lic hearing by a 91-26 vote.
Speaking in behalf of the measure
without its contribution sections,
Storey declared it provided for con
trol of fairs by a commission and
that it was sponsored by the State
Cattle Raisers’ association. Sheep
and Goat Raisers’ association, and
the majority of chambers of com
merce ard district fair associations
over the state.
Representative TT. N. (7ravei of
(Continued on page five.)
Southeast Gets
Refrigeration
Rates Reduced
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18.—(A*)—A
•cries of reductions in railroad re
frigeration charges on fruits and
! vegetables moving from southeast
i ern states to northeastern consum
’ngterritory was ordered today by
the interstate commerce commission
effective April 15.
On the important traffic In citrus
fruits and vegetables from Florida
to New F.ngland and North Atlantic
states, the commission ordered a
reduction of approximately 15 par
cent in the refrigeration charges.
On berries from Florida to the
same destinations the reduction or
dered was 23 per cent and on melons
and other Florida fruits a reduction
I of 8 per cent.
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CREAGER HITS
AT BROOKHART
Failure To Ask His
Testimony In Dry
Charge Scored
Assailing Senator Smith W. Brook
hart, chairman of the senate com
mittee, before which testimony was
given that he had given protection to
a Dallas hotel in dry cases,' R. B.
Creager, republican national commit
teeman for Texas, Sunday sent a wire
to the senator requesting privilege
of testifying.
In his telegram Creager said that
10 to 20 responsible leaders of the
party would appear in Washington
on March 2, and ask to be held not
only on the dry charge, but also on
moneys raised by the contribution
committee.
Creager charged further that the
committee had seen fit to “permit a
disappointed office-seeker to testify,”
giving grossly misleading evidence.
His telegram in full is as follows:
“You have seen fit to permit a dis
appointed office-seeker to testify be
fore your committee and his testi
mony to be given publicity through
the press that a former prohibition
agent had told him that a negro bell
boy in the Adolphus hotel had told
the prohibition agent that the hotel
(Continued on Page Three.)
Wants Special
Session Held
Outside Austin
(Special to The Herald)
‘ AUSTIN. Tex.. Feb. 18.—The legis
lature will hold its special session
next month in Houston if a resolu
tion. to be introduced by Senator
W. R. Cousins of Beaumont this week
is adopted.
Senator Cousins said the proposal
to hold the resion in Houston would
be to get it rway from the influence
of the departmental lobby which Gov.
Moody blamed with defeating the
civil service bill. The civil service
bill will be resubmitted Gov. Moody
has said.
While other members questioned
legality of a session away from the
capital city Senator Cousins insisted
that it can be held in Houston if both
house* approve his resolution.
Bandit Calls
Then Robs C
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 18.—<JP)—A
man entered the office of the Mer
chants Transfer company here
early today, after making a call
that sent all th espare drivers out
of the building, held A1 Barrett,
night man. at bay with his pistol,
and rohbed the cash drawer of be
tween $1,000 and $1,600.
Shortly before the man entered,
Barrett received a telephone call to
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JOHNSTON WAS
INCOMPETENT,j
IS TESTIMONY
Oklahoma Governor Is
Not Fit to Handle
Affairs of State,
Secretary Says
OKLAHOMA CITY. Feb. 18.-^—
Henry S. Johnston, “under the dom
inant©’’ of Mrs. O. O. Hammonds,
his recently discharged confidential
secretary, Janies R. Armstrong, her
uncle, and George D. Key, chairman
of the democratic central commit
tee, was incompetent to administer
th© affairs of the governor’a office,
H. E- Sullivan testified today before
the senate court of impeachment,
before which Johnston is on trial. I
(Continued on page five.)
LABORER DIES
IN CAR CRASH
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Accident On Highway
Near Harlingen Has
Fatal Results
HARLINGEN, Feb. 18. — Julio
Ochoa, 25, a laborer, was killed and
his companion, who was not identi
fied, was injured, when a roadster
driven by Ochoa turned over on the
highway west of here early Sunday
morning.
The accident occurred near the
Stuart Place school bouse about 5
o’clock, and the cause could not be
determined. Passersby brought tho
injured man to Harlingen and in
formed the police of the accident.
Ochoa’s neck was broken; and his
body was badly bruised. Physicians
expressed the opinion that death
had been almost instantaneous. Both
men were thrown clear of the car
when it turned over.
According to information secured
by officers the men were on their
way to Harlingen after a trip to
La Feria. That the car was running
at high speed when the accident oc
, currcd was evident. The car was
badly wrecked.
Funeral services for Och*«a were
held Monday morning at 10 o’clock
from the Mexican Baptist church in
this city. He was unmarried and had
no relatives here.
Report Effort
To Bomb Train
MEXICO CITY. Fob. 18.—<*V-El
Universay says today that premature
explosion of a dynamite bomb thwart
ed an attempt to blow up a train be
tween Guadalajara and Colima yes
terday.
Insurgents, the paper says, placed
a bomb on the tracks between the
stations of Manzano and Nicholas,
in the state of Jalisco, but it explod
ed just before the train reached it.
Later information said the train had
arrived safely at Colima, capital of
I the state of that name.
1 Trior to the attempted dynamiting
of the train the insurgents sacked
and burned the railroad station at
Mansano. There were no casualties.
Troops were sent in pursuit of the
marauders.
Four Catholic priests arrested re
cently at Guadalajara on charges of
violating the religious laws have
been sent to Mexico City to await the
disposition of the department of in
terior in their cases.
WILL DROP TROBE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18—(/P)—The
house today derided to withdraw its
request that the department of
justice make a preliminary investi
gation into the charges against
Federal Judge Francis A. Winslow,
of the southern New Rork district.
Taxi Drivers
ompany’s Till
send three taxicabs to carry a
party from an apartment to a road
house. There w’ere only three
drivers in the building at the time,
and they were sent by Barrett.
Just after the drivers left, the
bandit entered. Forcing Barrett to
remain seated the robber opened
the safe with tools from a suitcase
he had carried, took the money he
found, and walked from the office.
CELEBRATION
IS POSTPONED
T0MARCH9-10
Mexico Announces Op
ening to Conform
With Date Set For
American Air Mail
Formal opening of the
Brownsville municipal air
port has been postponed un
til March 9 and 10.
Decision to postpone the
celebration, which had been
set for February 23 and 24,
was reached by the special
celebration committee of the
Brownsville Cham b e r of
Commerce late Sunday fol
lowing receipt of advices
from Mexico City to the ef
fect that inauguration of the
Mexican air mail would be
delayed until March 9.
The action of the Mex
ican government was in com
pliance with a request from
American postal officials,
who suggested that the
American and Mexican air
mail be inaugurated the
same clay.
Contract for the American air mail
to Mexico City was awarded Satur
day, to the Pan-American Air Line*,
Inr., the wmrt to start March 0.
Contract for the Mexican air mail
| from the Mexican capital to Browns
ville was awarded three weeks ago
to the Mexican Aviation company, a
subsidiary of the Pan-American.
Announcement also was made Sat
urday that Captain Ira C. taker of
“question Mark’’ fame, would atart
a dawn-to-dusk flight from the
Brownsville municipal field Sunday,
March 10, to the Panama Canal Zone.
Two-Day Celebration
Notices were being dispatched to
day by the Chamber of Commerce to
Mexican and American government
officials, chamber* of commerce and
other organizations, and various in
dividuals who had been invited to
attend the formal opening of the
airport on February 23, announcing i!
the new date* for the two-day cele
bration. The opinion was expressed
by members of the rclebration com
mittee that the change of dates
would result in a larger attendance.1
" 1 he attention of the aviation
world will be focused on Brownsvtlltj !
by the trio of national events~T
opening of the American mail line,
opening of the Mexican line, and
Maker’s epochal flight," Charles Bur
| ton, head of the celebration commit
tee said. "It is apparent that this
trio of events, each of national im
portance. will form the basis for a
rclebration that will attract thou
sands to the city."
Lindbergh May Accept
Colonel Charles Lindbergh has
made no formal announcemnet of ac
ceptance of the Mexican government’s
invitation to pilot the first Mexi
can air mail plane from Mexico City
to Brownsville, but advices from
Mexico City express confidence that
he will. In the event he makes the
first flight he is expected to remain
in Brownsville the night of March
U, returning to Mexico City the fol
lowing day. The recent announce
ment of Lindbergh’s engagement to
Miss Anne Morrow, daughter of Am
bassador and Mrs. Morrow, adds to
the probability he will accept the
invitation of the Mexican govern
ment.
Captain Ira C. Fiaker. who will
pilot a special plane in the dawn-to
dusk flight to the Panama Canal, is
expected to arrive here early in
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THE WEATHER*
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and
Tuesday; not much change in tem
perature.
For Fast Texas: Cloudy tonight;
colder in north and west portions;
freezing in northwest portion; Tues
day cloudy, probably with rain.
Light to fresh easterly winds on
the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
in the river except continue to fall
slowly from Mission down, depend
ing on the amount of pumping for
irrigation.
Flood rresent 2Mir. 2t.Hr.
Stage Stag* Chng. Bain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.8 0.0 .00
Laredo . 27 -0.3 0.0 .00
Rio Grande .. 21 4.3 +0.1 .00
Mission . 22 4.0 -0.1 .00
Sen Benito .. 23 7.3 -0.4 .00
Brownsville . 18 2.3 +0.5 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorologi
cal conditions:
High . 2:48 p. m.
Low . 5:46 a. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today ..6:29
Sunrise tomorrow .. 7:02
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