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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 235 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24,1929 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY • 6e A COPY
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NEW YORK, Atlanta, Birming
ham, Mobile, New Orleans, Beau
nont, Houston. Brownsville,
i That’s how they are lining up the
important points of the all-land
Sir route to Central and South
America
And the company In which
Brownsville is included is making
ihis city feel right important about
It all.
It is definitely fixed as one of
I he key points in air transporta
tion between North and South
America.
All of which doesn't hurt Browns
, life's feelings even a little bit.
Brownsville has always felt that
Ksmetime, somehow, its geographi
cal location with reference to the
feuthern republics would bring it a
eturn.
8ome years ago there was talk
>f a railroad to serve this same
Pan-America. With Brownsville
he North American gateway to
Central and South America.
ABOUT A YEAR* AGO Browns
Ute voters went to the polls and
oted a bond issue of $100,000 to
levelop an airport.
They voted this bond issue with
«ae misgivings. The election fol
owed a chamber of commerce
2pg in the federal building.
»fe an enthusiastic meeting,
pa one of the best civic
Catherines ever held in Browns
ille.
Yet, mostly, the voters felt that
his airport business might not be
l* important as some leaders indi
cated in their talks.
There was ample reason for the
nlsftvings. Air transportation was
ary much in its infancy. Browns
’llie had a tentative promise of
ntemational air mall, but saw that
ro elsewhere.
But the last few months have
feveloped nothing into something.
Brownsville Is squarely on the air
nap today.
International air mall, express
ind passenger service through here
«*lns March 9.
It's something Brownsville can
mild on.
• • •
“GET THE VALLEY Point of
/tew.” says a headline over a front
>age editorial in the Mission Times,
rhich goes on:
“For years there has existed a
eellng of rivalry, and not the
riendlt sort, either, between the
astern and western ends of the
xmtr Rio Grande Valley. This in
olerance crops out occasionally
oday. Animosities are engendered:
tarsimontous reflections arc made.
“If Brownsville does something
pood, hooray Let's applaud. If
Mission does something good, per
lape Brownsville will return the
ompliment in kind. So with up
*r and lower Valley communities.
“Right now Brownsville has done
omething of inestimable value to
he Valley—built a great airport,
vhlch will mean a lot to the 'Tip
>’ Texas' country. Were glad of
t; mighty proud; feel the entire
/alley has benefltted by the fore
jght and progressiveness of the
action's metropolis.
“8o with other things They're
ibout ready to build a port. That
ras our business, and we should
\ave helped finance it; but we
itdnl. At any rate we can give
hem our moral support, for the
wrt. like the airport, will be of
rttal Importance to all of the Val
C J*ts rise above community jeal
•uste*. Let's get that big Valley
•utlook. It will pay. for our in
vests arc common . ’
• • •
unrs GO BACK into Valley
briefly.
UU0T Y.*04 Brownsville, a city of
'erhaps 5.000. isolated and not very
important, agitated hopefully for
allroad connection with the outer
t arid.
The late Col Uriah Lott and B
a. Yoakum came along with their
It. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico
abroad.
They put it up to Brownsville.
Give us $100,000 or its equivalent,
ind well build a railroad to
irownsville '*
Brownsville's bank deposits were
(bout $200,000, and covered a wide
erritory. Despite its limited re
ources. Brownsville somehow
made the grade."
There was no one else in the
/alley to appeal to Whatever Uni
ted resources the Valley contained
rere concentrated right here in
iTOwnsville.
But that $100,000 was the first
tep in the real development of the
My.
• • •
TWENTY-ONE YEARS later, in
935. the Southern Pacific resumed
ts efforts to get into the Valley.
Its announcement Indicated, how
ler that it intended to build only
o Edinburg. McAllen and the river.
Outside of the towns directly af
geted. Brownsville was the first
o endorse the proposed extension
t the Southern Pacific. The I
Irownsville Chamber of Commerce
cted. The Brownsville Herald lent
nihuslAStte endorsement
Burnsville, at the! time, had no
to believe the Southern Pa
3b was even considering other
construction. The railroad com
any*s officials themselves could
ot say.
Then announcement from
lie Southern Pacific that it wanted
(Coatiaued •»
PLANS HOP TO
MEXICO CITY
OVERSUNDAY
Aviation Hero Refuses
To Say Whether Hop
To See Sweetheart
To End in Wedding
(Picture on Page 6)
EAGLE PASS, Texas, Feb.
23.—(AP)—A flier the world
loves to call its own sped out
into the night under starry
skies, bound for Old Mexico
to visit his sweetheart.
Suspicions which Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh left be
hind when he took off from
Abilene, Texas, this after
noon after declining to write
his destination in the airport
registry, were verified when
the famous flier came to
earth at Eagle Pass, on the
Texas-Mexico border tonight, and
announced that he was en route to
Mexico City. He landed at 7:30 p.
m., and said he would take off at
daybreak tomorrow for the Mexi
can capital.
When asked if he Intended to
marry his fiancee. Miss Anne Mor
row, while on this trip, the “Lone
Eagle" preserved a stony silence.
The first definite grounds for
suspecting Lindbergh was to lay
aside his role of route inspector for
his company. National Air Trans
port. Inc., for that of a Lochinvar
of the air, were discovered at Abi
lene this afternoon when, after
falling to record his destination, the
flier headed his plane southward
instead of in a westerly direction.
(Continued on page six.)
neffMes
SEN. MAYFIELD
Claims Confirmation
Blocked By Solon
From Texas
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—<AV
Former Governor Pat M. Neff of
Texas said today his renomination
to the railroad board of mediation
would be “overwhelmingly con
firmed" If voters could be reached.
"This, perhaps, is not the time to
go into details as to why the sen
ate has not confirmed my aprvint
mcnt." he said, “except to s*,; that
it appear at this time that Senator
Mayfield has succeeded in blocking
further proceedings.
* Senator Mayfield, jblned by two
other senators representing those
objecting to my liandllng of the
railroad strike In Texas in 1932. who
have fought my confirmation from
the beginning, and delayed It In
every way posible. are now studious
ly following a technical, filibuster
ing program which wil prevent the
senate from reaching a vote.
“It seems strange." Neff added,
“that the only appointment of na
tional scope, ranking in law and m
fact with that of a cabinet officer,
ever given to a Texas democrat by a
republican president, should be an
nulled by a democratic senator from
Texas whose only grievance is that
T did not actively support him in
his candidacy for re-election."
Hennings Takes
First Art Prize
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. Feb. 23 —
(JP>—Prizes were awarded in the Ed
gar B Davis art competition today
as follows:
Class 1, Texas wild flowers: 1st
prize. $3,000. E. M. Hennings. Chi
cago. “Thistle Blossoms:" second,
$2500. Marie A. Hull of Jackson.
Miss . “Texas Field Flowers;" third,
$2,000. Maurice Braun of Point Lo
ma. Cal.: fourth. $1,750. Isabel Bran
son CartwTlght. of Philadelphia.
Wild Poppies;" fifth. $1500. P. L
Holmsted of San Antonio. “Evening
Shades;" sixth. $1,250. Louis O.
Griffith of NashvUle. Ind, “Tran
quil Afternoon:" seventh. $1,000. El
iot Clark of New York City, Red
Bud and Wild Plum."
Class three: Cotton fields: Third.
$1500 Louis Reynau of New Or
leans. ‘Pickaninnies In Cotton:"
fourth, $1,250, N. R. Brewer of Lit
tle Rock. Ark.. "The Cotton Har
vest."
BOY DROWNS IN RIO GRANDE
LAREDO. Tex, Feb 23 —<AV
Quint en Diaz. 14. was drowned late
today when he attemoted to swim
his horse across the Rio Grande be
low here. The body bad not been
found tonight.
HELD ON BAD CHECK CHARGE
HOUSTON. Feb. 23—oPv—Lew
Rand, wanted in Lawrence. Kas,
Beaumont. Tex, and In Nebraska
and Missouri on bad check charges,
was arrested here tonight.
Prison Bill Foes
Break Quorum
To Delay Action
AUSTIN, Feb. 23.—(JP)—Opponents of the administration prison bill.
Inferior in voting strength, today broke up a quorum in the senate to
forestall engrossment of the Holbrook measure.
The prison concentration legislation thus was left up in the air over
the week-end after parts of four days spent in discussion.
Today was the first time this session that such tactics had been em
ployed to postpone action and they were used to continue the longest
drawn out fight that either branch has had this session.
The previous question had been called for when anti-administration
senators began slipping silently from the chamber.
LINKS CANADA,
CUMIN HOP
Haldeman Makes Non
stop Flight In
13 Hours
HAVANA, Feb. 23.—(/P)—George
Haldeman today linked Canada and
Cuba by a single unbroken airplane
flight. In taking off from the
Walkersvllle airport near Windsor,
Ontario, at 3:49 a. m., the wheels
of his plane were deep in the snow.
He set them down less than 13
hours later on the tropical soil of
Cuba.
Haldeman succeeded where Leo
James F. Hayden, a mechanic. His
charted course of 1404 miles was
flown in 12 hours and 56 minutes.
Haldeman succeeded where Leo
nard Flo of Ann Harbor, Mich.,
twice failed, once because of fog
and once because of illness. Halde
man. pilot for Ruth Elder in her
unsuccessful attempt to cross the
Atlantic, showed no fatigue flight.
Haldeman was aided on his flight
across the Gulf of Mexico bv a tail
wind which blew at th- rate of 20
to 25 miles an hour. Cuban army
aviators at Camp Columbia made no
spectal preparations for his re
ception although they were greatly
Interested in the flight.
Kidnaped Boy, 8,
Returns to Home
DALLAS. Texas, Feb. 23.—(#)—
Dallas officers today are working
on a kidnaping theory in seeking
the abductors of James Koonce, 8.
who returned to his parents* home
late yesterday with his legs cut and
his body bruised.
He told his parents that while
playing near his home yesterday
morning two older boys told him
they would show him a robin's nest
in the woods near the river. When
they reached the woods, they bound
him to a tree with wires and beat
him, he said.
It was thought the abductors
planned to ask ransom, but failed
to go through with their plan.
Texas' Only Licensed Aviatrix And Noted Gun Shot Flies To
Local Port To Attend Air Mail Celebration On March 9 and 10
Piloted by a deft hand, a
Trarelair plane swooped down
from the Valley's azure sky and
landed without butup or jar on
the Brownsville municipal air
port.
Prom the cockpit stepped forth
Miss Grace McClellan. Texas'
only licensed avlatrix. who had
flown her plane to the border to
Inspect the International airport,
and remain in the Valley until
after the celebration on March
9 and 10. in honor of the open
ing of the Mexican and American
air mail.
Miss McClellan, who bean the
ft
• find "No quorum”
McFarlane had the floor.
A roll call revealed absence of a
quorum and a call of the senate was
invoked to prevent any other sena
tor from leaving.
As Deberry remarked, however,
* the stable door had been locked
after the horse had been stolen."
After more than 30 minutes elapsed
only Miller had been rounded up
and a motion carried to recess un
til Monday.
Senators against the Holbrook
bill were aided in their move by the
fact that several of the administra
tion group were at home for the
week end. 1’he ones who slipped
away were reported to have headed
for San Antonio. Miller was a lit
tle late and was reported caught by
the sergeant-at-arms after a long
chase.
The day furnished one defeat aft
er another to Senator Holbrook,
sponsor of the bill.
Amendments Stopped
His efforts to prevent adoption of
five amendments which would pre
clude relocation of the prisons in
as many senatorial districts were of
no avail and he was unable to get a
(Continued on page eiz.)
HUNT ON FOR
HIGHJACKERS
Boy» Report Holdup
Near Los Indios;
Fire on Car
More than 24 hours after hijack
ers had fired on a group of youths
in the vicinity of Los Indios. forced
their automobile into a ditch and
searched it, officers of Cameron
county had failed to find a trace of
the men or the car which they were
driving.
Two bullet holes in the rear fen
der and one through the back of the
car which the boys were driving
bore testimony to the truth of their
story.
The boys telephoned to the sher
iffs department late Friday night
from San Benito, where they drove
following the holdup. They related
that they had been to a party near
Los Indios and that ten of them
were returning home in the
car.
They said a Chrysler roadster oc
cupied by five men drove up be
hind them and ordered them to
halt. The car the boys were driv
ing was speeded up and this brought
a fusilade of shots.
The pursuers finally forced the
boys’ car off the road Into a mudhole.
After searching it. the men drove
off. Pulling the car out of the mud.
the boys drove to San Benito.
Sheriff W. F. Brown and a party
of deputies rushed to the scene and
spent Saturday seeking the hi
jackers.
WOrLD CCT WINKLER OUTPUT
FORT WORTH. Feb 23.-J4A—
Recommendation that the 175,000
barrel per day production of Wink
ler county be cut to 125.000 barrels
ts made to Winkler county pro
ducers in a letter bv E. A. Lan
dreth. Fort Worth indenendent on
er* tor Landreth ts chairman of the
onerators advisory commute of
Winkler county, selected by oper
ators and approved by the Texas
railroad commission to handle
Winkler preration.
FARMER DROPS DEAD
GAINESVILLE. Tex.. Feb 23.-4A*
—Homer Warren. 22. farmer, drop
ped dead while crossing a street In
the business district here late to
day.
sobriquet of the “Flying Gun
woman.” is a noted pistol shot as
well as the only woman in Texas
licensed by the war department
as a plane pilot
“This is a real airport,” was
her first comment as she alight
ed from her plane and rarrd at
the buildings, runways and level
landing field. "I did not expect
to find anything like this.”
Miss McClellan, who was grant
ed her pilot’s license October 15,
1938. has been flying planes
three years. With ample wealth
at her command she has studied
aviation hi Germany, France and
EAKER WILL
LEA ! HERE
AT 4:30 A. ft
Schedule of New Ship
With Cruising Rate
Of 2y2 Miles Per
Minute Announced
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23.—OR)—
The dawn-to-dusk flight from the
United States to the Panama Canal
zone March 10 by Captain Ira C.
Eaker, of the army air corps, In the
"Pan American,” first model of the
new army P-12 plane, latest and
fastest of the army pursuit planes,
is expected to end at France field
at least by 7 p. m. that day.
The new plane is capable of a
cruising speed of better than 2 1-2
miles a minute with a high speed
of 188 miles an hour and the war
department announced Captain
Eaker’s schedule today based on an
average speed of 135 miles an hour.
The schedule follows:
Leave Brownsville, Texas, 4:30 a,
m.; arrive Tampico. Mexico. 8:10 a.
m.. distance 260 miles; leave Tam
pico 6:30 a. m.; arrive Minatitlan,
Mexlca, 9 a. m.; arrive Guatemala
City. 11:50 a. m., distance 441 miles;
leave Guatemala City, 12:10 p. m.;
arrive Managua, Nicaragua. 2:40
p. m., distance 330 miles. Leave
Managua, 3 p. m.. arrive David.
Panama, 5:30 p. m.j distance 365
miles; Leave David 5:50 p. m.; ar
rive France field 7 p. m., 185 miles.
Total distance. 1.950 miles. Total
elapsed time. 14 hours. 30 minutes.
Average speed 135 miles an hour.
Captain Eaker will not stop at
(Continued on page nix.)
DAN MOODY, JR, SIX WEEKS OLD
imhAi-**.
(Photo by University Studio, Austin)
AUSTIN, Peb. 23.—Dan Moody, Jr, is getting to look more like his
father every day. and his mother, shown holding her son in the pic
ture. is very proud of it. This picture was posed exclusively for The
Herald at the executive mansion when Dan, Jr., was six weeks
old. He was born Jan. 6.
Testimony of Fraud
In McCloskey Vote
Denied by Witness
AUSTIN, Feb. 23.—(IP)—The defense got its inning today in the trial
of Congressman-elect Augustus J. McCloskey of San Antonio on one of
five Indictments charging election frauds.
It immediately sent to the stand a succession of witnesses to deny in
toto the testimony yesterday of Dave Dewhurst, state’s star witness, who
Stick Up Show
Durmgjhriller
HOUSTON. Peb. 23.—UP>—As a
crowd In the Queen theater watch
ed a screen drama, a bandit, mi
movie fashion, stuck a gun on Nor
val Murray, assistant manager of
the playhouse, forced him to hand
over a bag containing $535 and then
“white light" throngs,
made his escape through tonight's
So quietly was the robbery staged,
milling people on Houston’s busiest
corner did not realise what was
happening and patrons of the the
ater continued to watch a romance
unfold Its flickering way without
interruption.
50-Yard Hurdle
Record Broken
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va„ Peb.
23.—W)—Harry Flippen. University
of Virginia, tonight broke the in
door world record for the 50 yard
low hurdles with four flights by
covering the distance tn six seconds
flat In the first heat. In the final
heat he tied the world record of
6 1-5 seconds.
Fllppln was competing tn the
fifth annual indoor invitation
games of the University of Vir
ginia.
CHICKEN THEFTS BUT AUTO
GAINESVILLE. Tex.. Feb. 23.—VP)
—Chicken theft proved highly prof
itable to two Gainesville youths un
til they were arersted here today the
boys, both under 20. were driving a
new automobile bought with their
•earnings."
Italy, aa well as In the United
States.
Merely to show that die Is fa
miliar with the various types of
planes she acted aa co-pilot on
the Kenyon tri-motor Ford on
•everal flights over Brownsville
and ICatamorai Saturday after
noon.
Shortly after her arrival. Miss
McClellan telegraphed Mias Ame
lia Ear hart, first woman to fly
across the Atlantic, to be her
guest during the Brownsville
celebration, and also will invite
Mias Earfaart to be a paamnaer in
her piano during the stoat flying
. ' , ...jjrp. Si ’ Jfe
• testified that on his suggestion Mc
Closkey and the former Bexar
county Judge’s secretary connived
to steal the November 6 election
from Harry M. Wurzbach of 8e
guin.
First came Ernest J. Altgelt.
named by Dewhurst as present
when the plot was hatched and sly?
at least one who urged it.
Did Not Know Dewhurst
At the time, November 8, he did
not even know Dewhurst. Altgelt
testified. He did not at any time
suggest holding the ballot boxes for
a possible McCloskey contest; never
relayed to Dewhurst the information
that "Nolte and Creager” had urged
that the election be taken from
Wurzbach by any means, and never
in any manner suggested that the
election returns be altered, he de
clared.
Then came Charles R. Quinn,
San Antonio, lawyer, to testify that
at some time between December
1 and 17 last, Dewhurst related to
him that McCloskey had nothing to
do with illegally altering the re
turns. a statement Quinn asserted
was repeated as recently as ten days
ago.
Creager Opposed War*bach
"Dave, did Judge McCloskey have
anything to do with changing those
(Continued from page six.)
HOUSTON MAN FOUND
GUILTY IN MURDER
HOUSTON,"~Feb. 23.~(A>)—Morris
C. Lalne. Harris county road in
spector. tonight was found guilty of
murder and sentenced to five years
for slaying T. F. Conoway In front
of the First Baptist church Oct. 2,
1927. The verdict came after more
than 27 hours deliberation.
Lalne took the stand In his de
fense. testifying that he believed
Conoway was armed and that he
fired In self-defense when Conoway
made a motion as if to reach far his
gun.
exhibition* which will farm port
of the celebration.
"I have vMted practically every
Important airport In the United
States and Europe," Miss McClel
lan said. “The Brownsville air
port was a surprise to me. I ex
pected to find the usual array,
bat Instead I found a port that
is strictly modem In every way.
Brownsrfflt Is to be congratulated
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' BYEARS
Goldstone To Appeal
Conviction In
Fort Worth
FOltf^ WORTH. Feb. 23—(AV
Dr. Archie Goldstone, alias Abe
Goldstone, of Chicago, was sen
tenced to six years today by a crim
inal district court jury which found
him guilty of stealing a trunk al
leged to have contained $35,000
worth of jewels, motion for new trial
will be filed.
The defense closed Its case with
out offering testimony.
The Jewel trunk, which was In
the custody of Joe Optican, sales
man. for a New York concern, was
stolen from In front of the Fort
Worth Y. M. C. A. last February.
It was taken Into the country,
broken open and rifled of contents.
The theft was made possible sup
posedly by a “swap’' of checks an
the jewel trunk ana on a trunk sim
ilar to it which contained junk, by
a similar ruse another Jewel trunk
was stolen recently from Optican
at Tulsa, Okla.
The state’s last witness. L. D.
Louthian. railway special agent with
headquarters in Wichita Falls, tes
tified he saw Goldstone at the
Wichita Fails depot on the night of
Feb. 17, 1928, when the Jewel trunk
was checked to Fort Worth. Other
state witnesses testified seeing Gold
stone in the country near where the
jewel trunk was rifled.
SAN ANTONIO BANKS MERGE
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 23.—(AV
A merger of the Central Trust
company with the Texas Bute Bank
and Trust company was effected to
day. A. F. Barnes, executive vice
president of the Central Trust, an
nounced. Official sanction of the
state banking commission was re
ceived by the merging Institutions
shortly afternoon.
FT. WORTH GETS OIL SCOUTS
FORT WORTH. Feb. 23.—<AV
Fort Worth was selected for the
sixth annual convention of the Na
tional Oil Scouts of America at a
meeting of the executive committee
of the association and district dele
gates here today. Dates for the con
vention are Monday and Tuesday,
May 20 and 31.
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Antonio, has traveled in all parts
of the world. 8be enjoys sports
of all kinds, and la a notod pistol
shot, the champion at the Booth,
ha vine defeated a nnmber of tbs
famous “gun toters” of the boedar
In a match at B Paso smral
yean ago.
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from the ground, hut for mors
beautiful from the air. I know of
no part of the United Bates that
is mom attractive to tourtels,
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