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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 248 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1929 EIGHT PAGES TODAY * 5c A COPY
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U. Offers Arms and Munitions to Gil Government
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Little Consolation In
Washington For Re
bels As Mexico Is
Assured Support
WASHINGTON. March 9.—VP)— !
Developments here growing out of
the rebellion in Mexico give no
comfort to those who are seeking
the overthrow erf the present Mexi
can government.
The state department has ap
proved a request of the Mexican
government for surplus war mate
rial and will probably supply such
materials out of stores held by the
war department.
The state department also ap
proved a request by the Mexican
government to import privately
made airplanes from the United
States.
) Reports from Yuma, Ariz.. st..ted
federal troops were preparing a
landing field at San Luis, on the
Sonora border, capable of accom
I modating 15 to 20 planes. This was
i taken to mean an aerial attack in
* preparation on the rebel stronghold
of Nogales, Sonora.
AV'qg with approval given the
pumf Ise of planes by the Mexican
genrifnment wen an embargo on
unauthorized shipment of planes
into Mexico, this being done pre
sumably to prevent the buying of
aircraft In this country by the re
bels.
STATEBONDIS
House to Continue Drive For
Two-Thirds Majority
Monday
AUSTIN, March 9— UD —Only |
two votes short of the coveted 100
to complete the necessary two
thirds majority to pass the state
highway bond issue amendment to
the people, advocates of the pro
posal today laid plans to bring the
matter before the house again Mon
day.
Just how the resolution proposing
the amendment can be considered
again, after the house yesterday
refused to pass it finally, is not
exactly clear.
The vote by which it failed to
pass can be reconsidered by a two
thirds vote, however, and the way !
for this is paved by the opposition
having been too weak to clinch their
victory by carrying a motion to
reconsider and table.
Advocates of the bond issue claim
ed they had more than enough
votes among the nine members who i
were absent when the vote was tak- j
en to have passed it.
Speakers against passage of the
resolution accused state officials
of “high pressure" towards mem
bers in urging them to support the
law.
John Veatch of Joshua, 73 years
old and a member of the legisla
ture for seven terms, said he had
never seen “anything like it.” He
said that when he came to Austin to
attend this session of the legisla
ture he found very few of the mem
bers for it, but that influences had
been brought to bear to make them
IChanga their attitude.
Those who spoke for the bond
Issue gaded it was a matter that
shouldN^e submitted to the people
for their consideration, and con
tended that unless bonds are issued
the state will never be able to ob
tain a connected system of perma
nent highways.
HOOVER NAMES THREE
AIDES TO SECRETARIES
WASHINGTON. March 9.—/.Pi
President Hoover today appointed
former Governor Joseph M. Dixon
of Montana, assistant secretary of
the interior and David S. Ingalls
of Cleveland, assistant secretary of
the navy, in charge of aviation. E.
5. Finney, present assistant secre
tary of the interior, is to become
solicitor of the department.
STEEL ORDERS GROW'
NEW YORK. March 9.—(.P)—Un
filled tonnage of the United States
steel corporation increased 34,854
tons in February to 4.144,341 tons,
Ahe ninthly report disclosed today.
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BROWNSVILLE
SHIPS FIRST
CAR ONIONS
The first car of Valley onions
was shipped from Brownsville
Friday by Brown White, con
signed to the Draper & Ross
Produce Co. at Amarillo.
The onions wrere the Crystal
Wax variety, excellent grade,
grown on the land of the River
side Development Co., adjoining
the city limits on the west. Ray
mondville plans to ship the first
car early next week. Laredo will j
not be ready to ship before
March 15. it is believed.
The fact that a Texas market
took the first car was without
precedent, Brown White said.
The second car of potatoes
also was shipped out Friday by
Brown White, grading U. S. No. ;
1, and well matured. They were j
grown on Brown White’s farm
below Brownsville.
CAPTAIN HAWKS
MAKES RECORD
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Flight From Houston To
Border Made In 1 Hour
50 Minutes
Capt. Frank M. Hawks, whose
record-breaking flight from Los
Angeles to New York still has the
whole country talking, soared over
the Brownsville airport at 12:05 p.
m., after making a new air record
from Houston to the border.
Captain Hawks’ brilliant red
Texaco plane made the flight in
the record time of 1 hour and 50 ,
minutes, shaving by 15 minutes the j
previous unofficial record.
Hawks’ plane as well as that of
Captain Eaker, wrho arrived from
San Antonio 35 minutes before
Hawks landed, vied ith the tri
motors as objects of interest. The
plane flown by Hawks was the one
in which he recently made the new
record non-stop transcontinental
flight.
The Hawks plane was taxied to
the west side of the flying field and
the captain remained at the field
to be present to extend greetings
to Colonel Lindbergh.
B; ND ELECTION
TO BE CALLED
School District To Vote On
$75,000 Building Pro
i
position
A call for an election to authorize
issuance of bonds in the amount of
$75,000 is expected to be called by
the board of trustees of the Browns
ville independent school district at
their regular meeting Monday night,
the bond issue to go before the vot
ers at the regular school election on
April 6.
The bond issue is proposed to fi
nance construction of a ward school
in the eastern part of the city and
to remodel the old grammar school
building which has been condemned.
Members of the school board stat
ed that this construction is neces
sary in order to handle the expected
10 per cent increase in enrollment
next year due to the new law re
ducing the school age to 6 years.
The petition to call a bond elec
tion was signed jointly by the Ki
wanis Lions and Rotary clubs and
the City Federation of Women’s
clubs, and was filed with the secre
tary of the school board.
LAS VEGAS MAYOR IS
NABBED ON DRY LAWS
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LAS VEGAS, Nev., March 9.—UP) '
—The mayor, police commissioner
and more than 20 proprietors of
’soft drink” places here were un- i
der arrest today charged with vio- :
lating the federal prohibition laws, i
Prohibition agents swooped down
vesterday. making the arrests on
secret indictments returned at Car
son City. Mayor J. C. Hesse and ]
Police Commissioner Roy Neagle i
escaped incarceration by posting ]
bails of $5,000 each. ]
Neither the mayor nor the police ;
commissioner would comment upon 1
the arrests. i
TROOPS SENT
NORTH SAID TO
N J18.000
Army Called Greatest
Led To Quell Revolt
Since Pancho Villa
By Former President
MEXICO CITY, March 9.—(/P)—
The greatest army Mexico has
known since the days of Pancho
Villa moved northward today in an
attempt to subdue the revolution in
the north.
At its head was General Plutarco
Elias Calles, secretary of war, who
in 1915 rode with General Alvaro
Obregon at the head of Mexico’s
last similar army—that which
crushed Villa.
The immediate objective was
Canitas a junction point in the
state of Zacatecas. Capture of the
city would open a way westward to
Durango, where General Urbalejo
held out, or northward to Torreon
where General Jose Gonzalo Esco
bars troops were located.
Army Kept Secret
Existence of this army—which
some say contains 18,000 men—was
kept secret until late last night
when an official government state
ment said it had been concentrat
ed at Irapuato, state of Guanajua
to, under the direction of General
Lozaro Cardenas.
Almost simultaneously with the
announcement a special train
which had been waiting with steam
up at the Colonia station left to join
the troops with General Calles and
his staff aboard.
Departure of General Callas from
Mexico City and practically entire
shifting of activity from north and
south made clearer than ever the
government stragtery—of sweeping
:lean in Vera Cruz before attend
ing to house cleaning in the north.
5o scattered is the revolutionary
movement in Vera Cruz and the
south now it can hardly be counted
is at all threatening.
May Fight at Canitas
On the other hand the decisive
battle of the revolt may occur
shortly in a clash between the com
bined forces of General Urbalejo
md General Escobar, and the army
af General Calles.
The first battle of the northern
campaign may be fought at Canitas
unless the rebel forces retreat from
there before arrival of the federals.
Ueneral Anacleto Lopez, in an air
pa Ine flying over the city yester
day said he saw three troop trains
Df rebel soldiers there with another
ipproaching.
Another possibility is that if the
rebel forces should withdraw to
rorreon and choose to make a stand
hey might be subjected to lengthv
?iege by the federal troops. General
Mmazan has already requested a
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Prosecution Hits
At Fritts Plea of
Insanity At Anson
ANSON, Tex., March 9.—CP)—a
plea of insanity entered by Bill
Frittz, charged with killing Earl
Hamilton, 17, Haskell county farm
er, was attacked by the state last
night when more than a score of
persons who had known Fritts for
10 years or more were called to
testify that in their opinion the
defendant was of sound mind.
The defense had presented a
number of witnesses, including
relatives of Fritts, who testified
that he was “irresponsible” ana
had attempted suicide several
times.
Hamilton and his father, D. W.
Hamilton, were shot to death in
the yard of their farm home near
Rochester.
LINDBERGH BRINGS MAILS HERE
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who flew a tri-motored plane from
Mexico City to Brownsville, bringing the first official airmail over the
new international airline.
Doctor Shot; Texan
Whose Boy Recently
Died Gives Self Up
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■RIVER bridge
NOT TO CLOSE
DURING NIGHT
The Gateway bridge will not
close Saturday night, but will
remain open until the regular
closing hour Sunday night.
Arrangements to keep the
bridge open to accommodate the
throngs of visitors were com
pleted by the Gateway Bridge
company Friday.
Both the American and Mexi
can customs and immigration
officials will remain on. duty
throughout the night and there
will be no interruption of traf
fic, bridge officials stated.
Mrs. Scott Remains
In Critical State
At Mercy Hospital
Mrs. W. W. Scott, Brownsville
woman in Mercy hospital as the
result of a pistol wound, is yet in
a critical condition, attaches at the
hospital said today. Little change
was noted in her condition, they
said.
Mrs. Scott was found at a local
hotel shortly after 11 p. m. Thurs
day, suffering from a pistol wound
in the abdomen. Her husband, a
local insurance agent was in the
room at the time of the shooting,
police said. •
After an investigation Friday,
police had filed no charges, and in
dications are that none will be filed.
GAINESVILLE, Tex., March 9.—
(/Pj—Dr. W. C. Cunningham, 64,
Dexter physician, was shot to death
at his home today. M. D. Dawson,
Sturgeon farmer, surrendered to
officers shortly afterwards and was
brought to Gainesville.
Dawson has been brooding over
the death of a son for the past six
months, friends said.
Dr. Cunningham has been the
Dexter county physician for many
years. He is survived by his widow,
and two sons, T. D. Cunningham of
Vernon, and A. C. Cunningham of
Beaumont.
Missing Georgian
Located At Corpus
By Brother-In-Law
THOMASVILLE, Ga., March 9.—
(JP)—'The family of Kent E. Mack,
local business man who disappear
ed mysteriously on Feb. 18, was no
tified today by his brother-in-law,
Homer Williams, that the missing
man had been located in Corpus
Christi, Texas.
Williams’ long distance telephone
message reported that Mr. Mack
was physically well but gave no de
tails. He said he and his brother,
Herschel Williams, of New Orleans,
expected to arrive here tomorrow
with him.
ATHENS BEATS CISCO
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COLLEGE STATION, Tex., Mar.
9.—(A5)—Coach Jimmie Kitts’ Ath
ens Hornets, favorites in the Texas
Interscholastic league basketball
tourney here, downed Cisco, 31 to
17, in the semi-finals today.
BRINGS FIRST
MEXICAN MAH
ONNEWROIITE
Eaker, Hawks, Miss
Earhart Greet ‘Lone
Eagle* On Arrival At
Municipal Airport
Bringing to the border the first
consignment of Mexican air mail
over the new route from Mexico City
to Brownsville, via Tampico, Colonel
Charles Lindbergh landed his tri
motor at the Brownsville municipal
airport at 1:34 today.
The trip from the Mexican cap
ital, made in 5 hours and 38 min
utes, including a 15 minute stop at
Tampico, was without incident, the
steady hand of the skilled pilot
holding the huge plane on a straight
course to its destination.
Ropes, border patrol officers and
troops from Fort Brown proved un
able to cope with the milling
throngs. For several minutes, as
the plane circled the airport, the
crowd pressed against the ropes.
As the machine landed the ropes
gave way before the surge of hu
manity, and soldiers and patrol of
ficers were engulfed in the charge.
Straight to the plane they went.
They hemmed it in and for several
minutes the passengers were un
able to alight. Lindbergh was one
of the last to appear, and his ap
pearance was greeted with a rous
ing cheer.
As Colonel Lindbergh stepped
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TO ‘STAND BY’
Famed Flier Arrives At
Airport; Is Prepared
For Panama Flight
Orders ‘to stand by and await
developments” were received late
Friday night by Captain Ira C.
Eaker, who was scheduled to make
a dawn-to-dusk flight from Browns
ville to the Panama canal Sunday.
Captain Eaker arrived at the
Brownsville airport at 11:25 today,
making the trip from Kelly Field,
San Antonio, in 2 hours and 15 min
utes.
He was escorted by two speedy
combat planes from Kelly Field, pi
loted by Lieutenants Eric Hansen
and E. H. Dunton.
The famous commander of the
Question Mark stated that he was
prepared to make the flight to Pan
ama as soon as permission is re
ceived from the war department,
which Friday issued an order sus
pending the flight pending improve
ment of conditions in Mexico.
Immediately after his arrival, Cap
tain Eaker’s plane was taxied from
the landing field to a position in
front of the reviewing stand where
it was to be formally christened
“Pan American” by Miss Mary
Fechet at 2:30.
FLY FROM GALVESTON
GALVESTON. Tex , March 9.—f/P)
—Nine airplanes of the third attack
group, commanded by Major John
H. Jouett, left Fort Crockett this
morning for Brownsville to partici
pate In ceremonies incident to the
opening of an airport there.
Miss Earhart, Leading Woman Flier, Here
“I am glad to be here because I
im intensely interested in the open
ng of the new international air
ine, and because I like the wide
)pen spaces.”
Thu sspoke the world's most fam
)us woman flyer, Miss Amelia Ear
lart, who came in this morning
wer the Missouri Pacific to witness
he celebration at the local airport
;oday and tomorrow.
Miss Earhart planned to come by
jlane, but the weather map was
ione too propitious, she said, and
ler plane is a slow one, which
nade it unwise, in her opinion, to
ittempt the long trip by plane. She
eft New York City Wednesday,
md will leave here Sunday night
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on the return trip in order to fill
a speakirg engagement in New York
City.
“I have never been to this part
of the state before, but I have been
all over west Texas,” Miss Earhart
said. ‘‘I am very fond of the open
spaces. I like to get out of the city
as often as possible.”
She said she was not able to see
much of the Valley this morning
because the train came in early,
but she declared she liked the coun
try from what she has seen of it.
Miss Earhart expected to make a
few trips in a plane today, flying
over a little of Mexico, but said
she would not be able to go farther
into Mexico. When asked if she
desired to see some of the revo-J
lution she countered with “I am
not bloodthirsty.”
The famous woman flyer knows
Lindbergh well, but says she has
never flown with him.
Miss Earhart left the train at its
arrival today and went directly to
her suite of rooms in the El Jardin
hotel, where she answered wires and
a little later received newspaper
men. She was besieged by a num
ber of persons wanting to talk to
her, or see her. She left about 10
o’clock for the airport, and expect
ed to spend much of the day there,
being on hand for Lindbergh’s ar
rival. She will attend the dinner
tonight in honor of the famous vis
itors to the city, and tomorrow will
,watch the take-off of Lindbergh i
again, spending some more time
flying, in all probability.
In contrast to the general sup
position that a woman flyer is
somewhat masculine, the most fa
mous of them all is a trim, very
feminine blond, who gives no indi
cation of the famous accomplish
ments in the air which has broad
cast her name to every corner of
the earth.
She declared that she is a very
normal person, likes the things
which people do, and does not like
excesses. “I like a certain amount
of cards, society, music, reading and
other things which people do.” she
said, "but not to excess. Mainly I
like people, and like to be around
them.”
Miss Earhart also expressed dis
like for the word “aviatrix” applied
to women flyers. She considers
herself a “flyer” and not an “avi
atrix”
Miss Earhart In the short time
that she was interviewed by news
papermen this morning told some
of the high points of her life, stat
ing that she had taken up flying as
a sport, and that it still is a sport
to her. She took it up first when
she was 18, in Canada, and has
been flying since that time.
She is besieged continuously by
persons and by letters and tele
grams. When asked if she read all
the letters sent to her she said, “I
read most of them, but my secre
tary sort* them.” _ ^ J
Throng Looks On
As Planes Sweep
Onto New Airport
Celebration of the opening of international air mail
through Brownsville had reached a high peak of excite
ment and activity by 1 o’clock today, with planes landing
almost every minute, and many of the planes bringing
famous flyers—men who have crossed oceans, flown
around the world, established endurance records, and ac
complished many other conquests in the air.
The crowd had increased to approximately 10,000
shortly after noon today, with automobiles coming from
every part of the Valley, and from many other sections
of the state, and the grounds around the airport were a
solid mass of automobiles, while thousands stood around
tl\e edge of the field, watching the planes and trying to
7 TRI-MOTORS
AT CITY PORT
Seventh Machine to Arrive
From Detroit Factory
Sunday Morning
Another tri-motr plane will be
added Sunday to the six already
at the Brownsville airport, accord
ing to announcement Saturday
morning at the offices of the Mexi
can Aviation Co. The sixth ma
chine, now flying from the Detroit
factory, is expected to arrive here
This is the third tri-motor the
Mexican Aviation Co. will place in
service on its Mexico lines.
In addition to the three Mexican
Aviation company planes, the Ken
yon and Universal tri-motors, and
two from Tulsa, Okla., will be at
the airport, making this the great
est assemblage of these huge ma
chines on any southern airport.
Two of the Mexican Aviation Co.
tri-motors came in from Mexico
City today, Colonel Charles Lind
bergh piloting the lead craft and
E. J. Snyder the second. Co-pilots
on these machines were C. J. Robin
son, regular pilot on the Tampico
Merida run, and R. V. Kent.
Another Fairchild Wasp, 450
horsepower 7-place machine, will
be added to the Mexican Aviation
Co. fleet before the middle of the
month. D. G. Richardson, opera
tions manager for the company,
left Friday night for New York,
and will return with the new ma
chine.
Brownsville Puts
On Holiday Garb
For Visitors Here
Brownsville today is arrayed in
holiday garb, and everything and
everybody seems to be entering into
the holiday spirit.
In the business section, ad
stores are displaying summer cloth
ing, linen suits, flannel trousers,
sport togs, and straw hats, in their
windows, and it seems quite appro
priate on a warm day like this one.
These clothes really denote weather
typical of the Valley—always
pleasant.
JOHNSTON DEFENDS SELF
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 9.—
(TP)—Accomplishments and records
of various state departments and
institutions were recited today by
Governor Henry S. Johnston, testi
fying in his own defense before the
senate court of impeachment, in an
effort to prove his competency to
continue in the governor's office.
for Fete
■get a glimpse of the notables
who flew in from other sec
tions.
The first dozen of the seventy
five planes due in here from San
Antonio military flying fields ar
rived shortly before noon, flying
in formation.
First mail planes arrived at 11:45,
only two of the three pianes due
during the day arriving at that
time.
Arrival of the Eaker plane, es
corted by Lieut. Dunton and Lieut.
Nelson, of the plane bringing mirk
Mary Fechet and party from San
Antonio to christen the Eaker plane,
and of the first mail planes were
high lights of the morning pro
gram events. All arrived within a
short space of each other, shortly
before noon. Tlie Eakpr plane flew
around the field bof&re landing.
Officials rushed- Capt. Eaker to
the administration building, where
he declared that he would stand
by here for further orders from
Washington befbte attempting his
dawn-to-dusk flight to Panama.
Eaker’s plane, the Pan-American
was one of the smallest on the
field, and attracted considerable at
tention. The famous pilot was still
wearing his jacket and helmet
bearing the interrogation point, but
shortly after donner regular army
regalia of his rank.
Miss Fechet came in the North
Star, a tri-motor plane of the Uni
versal Air Lines, piloted by Capt. -
R. J. Rentz. The three Brownsville1
city commissioners who made the'
trip to San Antonio yesterday re
turned in the plane, with Miss
Fechet, her mother, and several
other women from San Antonio.
The two mail planes which ar
med before noon were the City of
Corpus Christi. and the City of
Brownsville. They were piloted by
Howard Woodhull and Homer Rad
er. and brought the following pas
sengers: Col. Edward L. Halsell of
Muskogee, Okla.; H. D. Gossett of
Little Reck, G. J. Brookshire of
Engleside, Texas; Jack Berretta
president of the San Antonio chap
ter of the National Aeronautical
E. A. Feille, vice-presi
oent of the same company; jack
Crain, director of the Texas Air
Transport, and Jack McDermott, di
vision manager of the same com
pany.
The third plane, which had not
arrived by. 12 o'clock, was mloted
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THE WEATHER (
For Brownsville and the Valleyl
Mostly cloudy and somewhat colder
tonight and Sunday, possibly with
occasional light rains near the
coast; lowest temperature tonight
near 60, and highest Sunday near
68 degrees.
For East Texas: Generally fair
tonight and Sunday, except possi
bly ocasional rains near west coast;
colder in east and south portions
tonight; frost in north portion if
weather clears; warmer in north
and west portions Sunday.
Moderate to easterly winds on
the coast.
river forecast
There will be no material change
in the river during the next few
days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
p . _ sta*« Stage Chng. Ruin
Eagle Pass ..16 2.7 0.0 .00
Laredo .27 -0.4 0.0 .00
Rio Grande .21 4.0 0.0 .00
Mission .... 22 3tf 0.0 00
San Benito .23 6.2 40.8 00
Brownsville .18 0.7 -0.1 ‘.00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
bel tomorrow, under normal me
teorological conditions:
.*04 a. m.; 4.16 p. m.
Um.. f:07 a. m.; 9:36 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
8unset today . 7.g8
Sunrise tomorrow .6;45