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* THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(/P) -—
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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 230 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY
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/ALLEY I
T SUMMER the potato grow
this section found themselves
assessors of a considerable
\ of their last spring's crop
i storage.
i no market for the product,
> overprodution In other dis
Herald inaugurated a cam
to assist these growers In dis
of their crop in the Valley
earby points.
Herald was informed that
mpaign proved quite success
another crop is coming on.
>erhaps. is timely to suggest
he people of the Valley con
to insist on retailers supply
iem with Valley-grown pota
retail market in the Valley.
i population of about 150,000
! may claim the figure is too
vative—is a mighty good
t in itself,
t cultivate it.
• • •
>. WHILE on the subject, do
>rget that the Valley also
*s canned goods that should
i good and growing demand,
pefruit In cans is produced.
Hnis. tomatoes, spinach and other
products.
Ask for the Valley-produced ar
ticle first. And if you can't get it,
why get the next best.
• • •
VIRGIL N. LOTT, former news
paperman of the border, unofficial
historian, ex-immigration officer
and now an official of the Baker
Pate company, owning bridges at
Nueva Mercedes. Roma. Hidalgo.
Zapata and other points, has a
new idea.
He proposes that the various
bridges of his company shall be
dedicated to the memory of various
heroes of the Mier expedition.
, A bronze plate, with suitable in
scriptions. will be placed on the
tower of each bridge.
That visitors to the Mexican side
may know they are on historic
ground.
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CITY COMMISSIONER Junius
Cobolmi has been delegate! gau«.
eral supervision of the airport by
the city commission.
As finance commissioner, he
holds the purse strings, but has not
i been holding them tight.
' Tor he is mightily Interested in
the project. Believes in it. watches
over it. and urges everything that
will make it even a better airport
than it is.
Being finance commissioner, he
is in mighty fine humor when he
is informed that the port. In a
month of operation, has consider
ably more than paid its overhead
In January, for example, the
port made a profit of about $300
if interest and sinking fund are not
included.
There have been rumors of an
offer of $500,000 to the city for the
airport. Probably Commissioner
Cobolinl would not listen to it, if
he heard it.
a a a
NEARLY 35.000 persons crossed
the Gateway bridge at Brownsville
during the week ending Saturday
night.
That is said to break all previous
records.
The figure, of course, includes
traffic in both directions.
All due to unprecedented Influx
of visitors from the north.
About 2200 persons arrived in the
Valley in special trains. And most
of them found an opportunity at
one time or another to visit
1 Brownsville and Matamoros.
JroWNSVILLE believes it has
the first international ticket office
for airplane voyages.
The Mexican Aviation company,
of which George Rthl is the head.
h&» opened an office at the cor
ner of Levee and Eleventh streets,
in the Capitol theater building.
Mre. Lois Hugo Is agent in
chafge
Very soon one will be able to step
into the ticket office and purchase
passage, via air. to Tampico Mex
1 ico City, Merida and other points
south.
I Mexico City is some 56 hours
distant from Brownsville by rail.
By air. It is some five hours
distant.
I Those who prefer flying prob
ably will forget there are railroads
from the border to the capital.
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MADAME Schumann-Heink is to
sing for the people of the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
Announcement comes from Har
lingen that she will appear at the
city auditorium there on April 15.
, The great singer has visited
yvery important point In the Unit
'd States.
With th* exception of the Lower
Rio Grande Valley, which has be
come important, from an enter
tainmen' standpoint, only within
the past few years.
I She will certainlv be given as
wonderful a recent ion in this sec
tion as it is ncruble to jive the
»* All person she is.
* "approve bond”
At a regular meeting Tuesday
morning the Cameron countv com
missioners court approved the de
posit bond of the Merchants Na
[ ttooal bank. *
TRADE HUSBANDS AND WIVES
Mrs. and Mr. Willis Knight (left), and Mrs. and Mr. Lawrence
Rikansrud. farm couples living near Minot. N. D., following a double
wedding ceremony in which they were remated after trading hus
bands. wives, children and furniture. The womn had obtained un
contested divorces. The Knights had been married 17 years and the
Rikansruds 11 years.
Europe Menaced By
Widespread Floods
From Melting Snow
CELEBRATION
TO BE FILMED
Four News Concerns
To Be Here For
Mar. 9 Event
With the exception of the recep
tion committee, all committees to
handle plans for the international |
air maii opening celebration here
on March 9. have been appointed,
it was announced Tuesday by O. C.
Richardson, manager of the cham
ber of commerce. Members of the
reception committe are to be an
nounced later.
Two additional film companies
will be represented here at the cele
bration. according to word received
at-the chambeiL D, L. Paaley. Saul
AntoriTo! fepfOfipWtitlVe Of the Para
mount News company, and R. C.
Payne, Dallas. Universal Film Ex
change. wired they would be here, j
Pathe and Fox Films notified the \
chamber they would be here last j
week.
The Command-Aire company of i
Little Rock has written the cham- '
ber it would have two of its planes
on exhibition here during the cele- ;
bration and it is possible other
Elane manufacturing concerns will
ave ships here also that day,
Richardson says.
Louis Brulay .who recently flew
to Tulsa. Okla.. wired that he had
met a party flying from Detroit,
Mich, and they advised him they
would fly here for the celebration.
Acceptances of invitation to li
censed pilots from all sections of>
the country are being received j
dally, and possibly several hundred
fConttnaed on page ten)
POLICE BUNT
FOR KIDNAPER
Comb San Francisco
For 'Bent, Gray
Haired Woman’
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 19.——
Spurred by rewards aggregating
$5,000 police today were searching
for a ' bent gray-haired old wo
man" as the abductor of 4-year-old
Doris Virginia Smith-Murphy, who
disappeared from a city playground
last week.
Information obtained by the police
that the little girl was seen in the
company of an elderly woman and
another child last Friday injected a
new element of mysteyr in the case
This information was given by Miss
Clara Bridges, a neighbor of Mr and
Mrs. Edward J. Murphy, step-father
and mother of the missing girl.
Miss Bridges ^aid she saw the trio,
and when Dorothy spoke to her
11’ i old woman grasped her by the
arm and took her away.
A letter signed "K. K." and say
l ing Dorothy was safe and would be
returned was received yesterday by
Mrs. Murphy
CAPT. MERRILL TO TALK
Capt. John N. Merrill, retired is
to address the regular meeting of
the Rio Grande Masonic Lodge No.
81 Tuesday evening on "The Philip
; nine Islands " The meeting gets
under way at 7:30 p. m.
i ...
Nervy Thief Steals Barbed
Fencing From Roma Ranch
ROMA. Texas. Feb 18 —There
is the thief who stole the pro
verbial hot stove and money off
of a dead man s eye. but of all
the nervy thieves the one who
stole two acres of barbed wire
fence together with the posts,
takes the prise.
The refugio ranch, a secluded
little spot Just off the main high
way near Rio Grande City, which
is under the management of Lino
Perea is minus the above named
amount of wire and posts which
disappeared some time during the
past meek.
Peres went out to look after the
ranch Saturday and found the
fence gone near the ranch house.
He Investigated further and found
that a wagon had driven in and
carried off three sides of a two
acre enclosure, while the third
string was down and would have
soon been carted off.
The tracks, when followed by a
trailer, led to the river and it is
the belief that the fence went to
Mexico by way of a shallow ford.
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LONDON. Feb. 19,-4/Pv—Flood j
terrors replaced rigors of bitter cold
over a large part of Europe today, j
It was feared that when the toil ;
of the inundations, rcaf and pros- '
pective, was complete, it would
equal or surpass that of the cold.
The Danube and tributaries
swelled over their banks and forced
many from their homes. Melting
snow ar.d ice caused disastrous
floods in Macedonia and Thrace.
Bavarian rivers overflowed, while
rising temperatures in northern j
Italy foreshadowed rapid swelling j
of rivers there.
Temperatures were less extreme
than they have been, but in many j
localities the thermometr had not
rlsn to above zero, or freezing,
centigrade.
Advices from the Danube dis-1
trict. where ice and snow have
been piled six feet thick over the j
surface of the river, indicated a
worse situation, possibly, there
than elsewhere. The Danube and
its tributaries had not only to car
ry off the huge load of melting ice
and snow but faced the hazard of
(Continued on page five.)
START PROBE
OF MASSACRE
Chicago Po lice Are
Questioned By In
vestigators
CHICAGO. Feb. 19.—(>P>—Every
detective squad member on the Chi
cago police force was called in for
questioning in the gang masacre in
vestigation today. Each asked:
“Where were you last Thursday
morning between 10 and 11 o'clock?"
That was the hour in which seven
of George <Bugs> Moran's men were
lined up in a North Clark street
garage and slain.
State’s Attorney John A Swanson
issued the order for questioning of
the policemen.
•It isn't because Swanson be
lieves the gang killers were led by
city detectives.” one of his aides ex
plaind. "It is because he is not ab
solutely sure that they were not."
Most witnesses have mentioned
the slayers were using a detective
bureau squad car. Several said two
of the five men In the automobile
wore police uniforms.
Police Commissioner William
Russell Is convinced that no police
men were involved, but he is lending
his assistance to the state's at
torney's to clear up the mystery It
is the commissioner's theory that If
any of the slayers wore uniforms It
was as a disguise.
Every squad car thta has been
sold In the last few years Is being
traced. In this manner, police be
lieve. they may find that the ma
chine used by the murderers was.
as witnesses said, a police car. but
one that had been disposed of by
the department.
Permit Is Sought
To Abandon Road
WASHINGTON. Feb. 19—<*»►—
Permission to abandon eight miles
of the Houston and Texas railway
line from a point north of Waco to
Ross all in McLennan county, was
sought from the Interstate Com
merce commission here today. The
line is paralleled by other lines and
cannot be operated profitably, the
application said.
I
8 Hurt As Cars Crash On Highway
WOMAN MAY
NOT }0VER
IN ACCIDENT
—mmm 11 ■ 1
Land Party Group Is
Among Injured As
Autos Collide Near
Harlingen
(Special to The Herald)
HARLiNGEN. Feb. 19. — Eight
people three women and five men
were injured when two automobiles
collided on the highway between
here and San Benito at midnight.
The injured were rushed to the Val
ley Baptist hospital where today lit
tle hope was held for one of the
injured. Mrs. J. E. Rhoe.
The accident occurred about mid
way between the towns, the cars
crashing head-on. The cause has
not yet been ascertained.
The car occupied by Mrs. Rhoe
and which she was driving, was a
Lincoln sedan owned by R. P. Webb
and wife of Chicago, and also con
tained J. E. Rhoe of Crete. 111., hus
band of the Injured woman, and
Thomas Woulfe of Chicago. They
were members of a land party on a
tour of the Valley, having driven
down.
The other car. a Ford sedan, was
driven by Felipe Davila and also
contained Anita Ramirez and Abua
dio Fernandez.
The cars crashed with such force
that the Ford literally stood on its
nose, its occupants being hurled
out. The heavier sedan, however,
was forced off the road and went
into the ditch, crashing against the
bank.
All of the injured sutained cuts
and bruises, but none is believed se
riously injured except Mrs. Rhoe.
who with Woulfe were hurled thru
the windshield. Mrs. Rhoe sus
tained a crushed chest and also was
critically cut on the face. Hospital
attendants declare there is little
chance for her recovery.
The Injured were rushed to the
hospital by Mackie Chaudoin. high
way traffic officer, who was driving
but a short distance behind the
Webb car, and lieutenant of police.
Cage Johnston of Harlingen.
Both of the cars were badly dam
aged by the crash and wreckers
were busy today hauling the Lincoln
sedan out of the ditch.
NORTHfEXAS
HIT BY COLD
Snow Sweeping Pan
handle; Zero At
Kansas City
PORT WORTH. Feb. 19.—i/T-A
rapidly falling temperature and in
dications of snow prevailed today
as north Texas again was in the
grip of cold neather.
The cold wave Is moving rapidly
toward the coast, according to the
U. 8. weather bureau.
Snow was falling in the Pan
handle today. Amarillo, with 12
degrees, was the coldest point in
the state. In the south plains
area the weather was cloudy and
calm, with the temperature around
the 30 degree mark.
Wichita Falls and points between
that city and Fort Worth were cov
ered with mist. Abilene had a
temperature of 22 degrees, while
at Stamford sleet was reported.
Gainesville reported sleet and a
temperature of about freezing.
KANSAS CITY. Feb. 19.——
Some relief from the cold wave In
this section after tonight, when
temperatures again will be cloee to
sero. was promised by the weather
bureau Clear skies with the mer
cury climbing to about 20 degrees
tonight was the forecast. Sea
sonable temperatures are expected
by the end of the week.
The thermometer reached 1 above
sero here this morning, compared
wWh 1 below yesterday.
Snow was reported in the Texas
Panhandl*. parts of Missouri. Okla
homa and Iowa.
Pat Crowe Found
Again La Buffalo
NEW YORK. Feb 19.—«.**—New
York and Buffalo police differed to
day as to whether Pat Crowe was
dead or alive.
A suicide in Buffalo was identi
fied by the police of that city yes
terdav as the one-time train robber
and kidnaper of Edward Cudahy.
Jr., but today a man who said he
was Crowe appeared at New York
police headquarters.
He said he had seen the story of
the suicide in the newspapers and
wanted to relieve the anxiety of his
son and daugbtr in Chicago.
Solons Make Patchwork
Of Highway Resolution
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NUMEROUS
CHANGES
VOTED
AUSTIN, Fe'o. 19.—(/P)—So patch
ed up with amendments was the re
solution calling for a constitutional
amendment to permit the legisla
te to issue $175,000.0000 bonds for
highway construction, that when1
the senate adjourned yesterday
friends of the plan were putting
their heads together to devise means
of rescuing it.
Senator J. W. Stevenson of Vic
toria said he might offer an entire
subtitute for the resolution with
hopes of getting it back to near its
original form when the senate start
ed whacking away at it.
While the senate was deliberat
ing '*i the bond issue proposal the
house heard a message from G«v
erncr Moody advocating peniten
tiary concentration legislation.
Under an amendment put across
by Senator Thomas B. Love of Dal
las. the highway bond resolution
permit expenditure of pro
ceeds from the state securities on
lateral roads as weli as designated
arte nets on the highway system.
With but one exception those who
are said to be opposed to the bond
issr voted for the Love amend
ment
Senator Tom Pollard of Tyler, se
cured adoption of an amendment
wihch would fix the annual maxi
mum of bonds to be authorized for
h‘"h7.ay construction at $20,000,000.
and would provide that no bonds be
sold for less than par and that the
securities shall not bear more than
four percent Interest.
Mexico Churches
Urged to Comply
With Constitution
MEXICO CITY. Feb. 19.—VP)—
Acting Secretary of Interior Ca
nales told Mexican Roman Cath
olics In a statement published in
Mexico City newspapers today that
the church authorities had it with
in their power to restore peace In
Mexico.
It was merelv necessarv he said,
to comply with the constitutional
regulations on religious subjects.
The statement is an answer to
that published yesterday from
Msgr. Miguel de la Mora, bishop of
San Luis Potosi. and spokesman for
the Mexican Episcopate, which de
nied participation and responsibil
ity in recent Mexican bomb out
rages. This responsibility had been
alleged by President Portes Gil.
The statement says it is public
knowledge there is an armed move
ment against the government (ref- I
erence to Insurgent activities in
states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, and
Mlchoacan) and that this move
ment. rightly or wrongly, is take \
as a defense of the clergy against!
"so-called attacks on them." It is
logical also, he said, to attribute
the bombing of the presidential I
train February 10. to a “defense." ;
Mail Robbery
Jury Still Out
PORT WORTH. Feb If.——A
Jury had not returned a verdict at
j noon today in the case of Travis
H. Wilson. Mrs. Ottie Bridges and
M E. Pruett, charged in connection
; with a $53,000 Texas & Pacific mall
robbery on last November 9. The
I case was given to the Jury yester
day at 4:30 p. m
Four of the original six charges
! in the indictment on which the de
fendants were tried were abandon
ed yesterday, leaving them facing
only two counts.
One count charges the actual
robberv of the train and alleges
that the life of Paul Carney, mail
clerk .we-s placed in Jeopardy by %
loaded pistol. The maximum pen
alty is 35 years imprisonment.
The other count deals with an
alleged conspiracy to rob the mails.
! Maximum penalty under this count
is two years.
Wllsra has pleaded guilty ani
! testified as a government witness.
The other two defendants pleaded
not guilty.
WITHDRAWS OPPOSITION
VATICAN CITY. Feb. 1$.—IAV
It was learned in Vatican circles to
day that opoosltion to the princi
ples of "Rotary" has been with
drawn by the church authorities.
SENATE COURT
BARS OPINIONS
IN TESTIMONY
Witness Gives Outline
Of Conversation Ov
erheard In John
ston’s Office
OKLAHOMA CITY. Peb. 19.—OP)
—Barred from the presentation of
opinions as to the competency of
Gov. Henry H. Johnston in his trial
before the senate court of impeach
ment. the prosecuting house board
of managers continued today with
the offering of testimony intended
to prove his incompetence.
A purported conversation between
MfeB. O. O. Hammonds, who recently
resigned As confidential secretary to
the suspended governor, and her
husband, state health commissioner,
in which Mrs. Hammonds was quot
ed as saying “we re going to get
ours while we can." was related to
the court by Jack Wheeler. Okla
horoa City, attorney, who previously
had given the same testimony be
fore the house investigating com
mittee.
Mrs. Hammonds, her uncle. James
R. Armstrong, and George D. Key.
democratic state chairman, were
dubbed a "triumvirate” with alleged
control over Johnston, in argument
yesterday by R. H. Stanley, mem
ber of the board of managers. H. E.
Sullivan. Johnston’s private secre
tary. in answer to a question which
subsequently was withdrawn, told
the senate court he considered
Johnston incompetent In view of
what he declared was the domina
tion of the three over the governor.
The court later voted its disapproval
of that form of testimony.
Wheeler said he overheard the
conversation between Dr. Ham
(Continued on nage two.)
2 CITIES TO
HOLD BANQUET
Harlingen-San Benito
Are To Meet On
Monday Night
(Special to The Herald)
8AN BENITO. Teb. 19—A joint
banquet of business and profes
sional men of Harlingen and San
Benito, in preparation for the time
when the two cities eventually will
grow Into one, will be held next
Monday night at the Stonewall
Jackson hotel here.
This was decided on today when
straws were drawn for choice of
the meeting place. San Benito win
ning. At this banquet, which jrtll
be open to all business and profes
sional men of the two cities, an ef
fort will be made to have the city
planning of the two towns be made
similar.
Both now are making prepara
tions few city planning, and as each
town is growing closer to the other.
It is hoped to have them maocrJ
out under the same civic method.
The banquet also is to consider all
projects In which the twp towns
have similar Interests, such as
highways, golf courses and airporta.
One of the features of the ban
miet is to be a big parade Uirot.cn
the business section of San Benito.
This parade Is to be headed by
mayors of the tow towns, then city
commissioners, other city officials
of the cities and business men.
General chairmen from each city
(Continued on page five)
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4-CENT GAS
TAX BILL
FAMED
AUSTIN. Feb. 19.—(4*)—Levy of a
four cent excise tax on gasoline and
reduction of 35 per cent in license
fees on private automobiles was
voted by the house committee on
revenue and taxation last night, aft
er having the bills under advise
ment for six weeks.
The horsepower fee would be eli
minated from private trucks. Coun
ties would be permitted to retain all
licnse fees up to $50,000. and the
state would get one-half of the
: mount over that sum. but no
county would be permitted to retain
more than $300,000.
Representative Walter Beck of
Fort Worth toid the committee an
annual loss of about $9,000,000 would
result from the cut in license fees,
with approximately $5,000,000 added
through the increased gasoline tax.
BODYlS FOUND
Li RIO GRANDE
Mystery of Laredo
Reporter's Death
Partly Cleared
LAREDO, Tex.. Feb 19.—A
seemingly unanswerable enigma,
characteristic of many Mexican
border disappearances and killings,
today faced officers seeking an ex
planation of the death of Harry
Williams. 24. Laredo newspaperman,
who disappeared on Jan. 19 and met
death In an unexplicable manner.
Williams' body, without a single
external knife, bullet or bludgeon
mark, but bearing what physicians
believed were unmistakable eviden
ces of violence, was found In the
Rio Grande near here yesterday.
Examining doctors said absence of
wat*»r In the lungs was conclusive
that Williams was dead when his
body was thrown Into the river.
In the thin hope that future de
velopments may furnish tenable
(Continued on page five.)
Contractors Get
Work Orders On
Paving Projects
Work orders have been issued by
the state highway department to
the contractors who will pave High
ways Nos. 96 and 100 in Cameron
county it was learned today. The
work orders had been delayed sev
eral days pending settlement of
right-of-way matters.
It Is understood that all right
of-way required by the state high
way commission has not been se
cured. and that it Is probable con
demnation proceedings will be nec
essary.
Work on Highway No. 96. for
which E P. McElwrath has the con
tract. Is expected to start at once
Work on Highway No. 100, . for
which Dodds A Wedegartner have
the contract, will start at soon as
the paving project on the military
road between Los Indtos and La
Paloma is completed. This will be
finished during the week, the con
tractors report.
! Paving machinery has been mov
ed from the Southmost road to the
old Point Isabel road northeast of
Brownsville and paving started.
Televox, Mechanical Man,
9
! Adept In Handling Airport
NEWARK. N. J., Pet* 1».—{*>—
1 llr Televox, the mechanical man,
has come to the aid of aviators
by making dangerous landings on
unlighted flying fields unnecessa
ry.
In obedience to the note of a
siren on an approaching plane
the mechanical man turned on the
flood lights at the Newark airport
last night without the aid of
human hands.
Mr. Televox. whose name, free
ly translated, from the Greek and
Latin means distant voice,'* dem
onstrated his ability as an airfield
attendant when in repeated teat*
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V
he flooded the new airport with
24.000 000 candle power in re
sponse to the distant voice of a
plane high in the air.
Pete Branson, airmail pilot, ap
proached the field from various
directions and at different alti
tudes in the tests, turning ona
wlndr-driven siren aa he neared
Each time the sound of the siren
reached the field, the mechanical
man flashed on the lights.
The device which gives Mr.
Televox the similitude of human
response to sound Is the combi
nation of two recent Inventions,
the Knowles grid-glow and a vi
brating reed selector.
SAW THROUGH
BARS; 5 ELUDE
OHIO GUARDS
Two Murderers, Three
Robbers Use Rope
Ladder In Break
From Penitentiary
COLUMBUS. Ohio. Feb. 18.—VF\
—Pive prisoners, including Pat Mc
Dermott. slayer of Don R. Mellett.
Canton editor, sawed their way to
freedom from the Ohio penitentiary
today.
Warden Preston E. Thomas, said
the men sawed their way from their
cells, went to the roof of the cell
block, climbed over his house and
down into the street by a rope lad
der. The escape was discovered
about 7 a. m, by a guard who saw
the rope hanging over the wall.
Besides McDermott those who es
caped are: James A. Walton. 28.
serving a sentence from Cuyahoga
county for robbery.
Mike Jackow. 19. Cuyahoga coun
ty serving a life sentence for mur
der.
William W. Young. 36, Washing
ton county, serving a life term for
murder.
Joe Russo. 23. a Clevelander, serv
ing sentence for robbery.
None of the guards who were on
duty In the cell house at the time
of the escape were aware of the fact
that the men had gone over “the
wall."
McDermott, “trigger man" In the
Mellett murder, was sentenced to
life on Christmas even In 1936. aft
er a trial which lasted several
weeks.
The delivery was made from the
third tier of the new cell block.
Mattress material was used to make
the ladder the prisoners used in de
scending to the ground.
Warden Thomas said that one bar
on each of the three cells was sawed
In two. permitting the prisoners to
get through. He said he believed
the bars had ben sawed with a hack
saw that was probably taken from
a Plumbers tool kit.
Seven other men held in the
three cells, each of which housed
four prisoners, refused to escape.
CANTON. Ohio. Feb. 19—1
Pat McDermott, who escaped from]
the Ohio penitentiary today was'
convicted here of Mcllett's murder ‘
three years ago.
The Canton editor was shot ad
the climax of a newspaper campaign,
against vice and crime in Canton.
McDermott and two others were
sentenced to life imprisonment at
Columbus for the killing.
Those convicted with him were
Ben Rudner and Louis Mazer.
The snow storm left officials
with no clues as to the direction
the men took in leaving the peni
tentiary. All extra guards were sent
out to search near the prison im
mediately, after the escape was dis
covered and police of surrounding
towns and cities were notified.
After the five men left their cells,
they slipped along the corridor oI
their tier, which is In the front of
the penitentiary, then mounted to
the roof through a venitlator. From
there they crawled to the roof of
the warden's residence, suspended
their Improvised ladder made of
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For Brownsville and the Valley:
Cloudy tonight and Wednesday,
probably with occasional light
rains; much colder tonight with
lowest temperature In the low
forties; continued moderately cold
Wednesday. Moderate to fresh
southerly winds on the west coast,
shifting to northerly this afternoon
or tonight.
For East Texas: Cloudy tonight;
colder except in northwest por
tion; cold wave in south portion;
temperatures 15 to 20 In north. 22
to 28 in Interior south. 30 to 24 on
the east coast, and 32 to 36 on the
west coact. Wednesday partly
cloudy; not so cold In north and
west portions. Fresh northwest
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
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FJood Pf mi ti-Hf. t UHr.
Sun Sum* On**, gain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2 8 00 .00
Laredo . 27 -03 0.0 .00
Rio Grande . 21 4.4 4.1 50
Mission .... 22 4.0 0.0 JtO
San Benito . 23 65 -05 00
Brownsville . 18 15 -05 JB
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
bel tomorrow, under normal met
eorological conditions:
High.. 3:35 p. ttt
Low . 6 50 a. m.
MISCELLANEOrS DATA
Sunset today .651
Sunrise tomorrow .
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