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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 251 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY
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BROWNSVILLE and the entire
Lower Rio Grande Valley secured a
large amount of publicity from the
opening of the airport and inaugu
ration of the air mail service.
The records of the Western
Vhpon show that on Saturday and
«*n|vday 15,635 words of “press”
' virnt out from the local office.
This is the equivalent of ap
proximately 14 columns, exclusive
of heads.
Many of the Texas newspapers
used the telephone to secure their
“stories” of the international event.
The Associated Press, United
Press, and International News, each
serving thousands of daily news
papers, had special representatives
here.
New York and Chicago papero
called for special “stories” from 800
words up.
Several Texas newspapers sent
special representatives to “cover”
the airport opening, and feature
syndicates wired for specia ^pictures
to go out by air mail. ^ ,
THE NEWS REEL companies
also were represented. Metro-Gold
wyn, Paramount and others had
their cameramen on the grounds.
One sound picture machine was
among the group, and faithfully
recorded the cheers as Lindbergh
landed.
These news reels will be shown
the length and breadth of the
country, and will prove a wonder
ful advertisement for the interna
tional airport at Brownsville.
CONSIDERABLE "credit Is due
the Western Union and its local
manager, A. W Reed, for the man
ner in which the press dispatches
were handled.
Provisions had been made for
the large volume of business. Sev
eral minutes before the arrival of
Lindbergh the lines were cleared,
and 30 seconds after Lindbergh's
plane passed over Brownsville and
before it had landed on the field
the w’ires of the Western Union
were carrying to the news agencies
the “flash” of his arrival.
Within two minutes after the
plane reached the ground the
stream of “press” began to move.
The Associated Press wires out of
Dallas were carrying a detail story
before Lindbergh had been in the
United States 15 minutes.
The finish of a 1,100 word “story”
W’as in New York 21 minutes after
«dbergh reached the ground,
hat is real service—service such
both newspapers and public
Appreciate.
• • •
AIR MAIL leaving Mexico City
at 7:45 a. m. and arriving in
Brownsville at 1:15 p. m., reaches
Chicago at 5:40 the following morn
ing, less than 22 hours after leav
ing the Mexican capital.
If addressed to New York, it
reaches the postoffice in that city
at 4:45 p. m„ or exactly 33 hours
after leaving Mexico City.
At Chicago connections are made
both east and west, assuring rapid
connections with all large commer
cial centers in the United States.
Such service is certain to gener
ate a large amount of mail be
tween the two countries, which
means a corresponding increase in
the volume of commerce flowing
across the border.
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THIS IS orange blossom time in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
From Brownsville to Mission the
citrus fruit groves are a mass of
bloom, and the air in many sec
tions is charged with the odor of
the waxen blossoms.
Visitors to the Valley and even
many of the old residents are im
pressed with the beauty of the
groves, which appear at their best
during the blossoming period.
Horticulturists predict that the
fruit crop, barring adverse weather
conditions in Anril, will be the
heaviest on rec | i. The fruit is
“setting” heavily, they report,
which means there will be large
quantities of fruit on the trees.
They attribute this to favorable
weather conditions, and also to the
fact that growers are learning to
take better care of their groves.
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SEVERAL moving pictures of
Valley citrus groves have been
made by the news reel cameramen
here for the airport celebration.
A blossoming grove, a mass of
bloom swaying in the Gulf breeze,
form a picture of great beauty.
But when a bevy of those fair
damsels of which the Valley can
boast are added to the panorama
it b^ornes a picture of surpassing
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BANDITS GET AUTO
LICENSE COLLECTIONS
MADISON. Wis.. March 12.—(^P)—
Two men held up the messenger of
the Wisconsin Automobile License
division in front of the office in the
capitol annex today and took $157.
000. mostly in checks and money or
ders.
The amount of cash taken has
not been determined.
Robert L. Siobecker. assistant sec
retary c' state said the loss was
covered by insurance.
CALL GRAND JURY
The Cameron county grand jury,
tv {rich recessed two weeks ago. was
cared to convene Monday morning,
March 18. A number of cases have
developed since the jury recessed
and it is expected to be in session
several days.
GUN RUNNERS SHO
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DESERT SLOWS
CALLES MARCH
ON TORREON
Almazan Announ c e s
He Is To March On
Saltillo With a Force
Of 10,000
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^By The Associated Press.)
Stiff opposition to the enveloping
federal advance appeared likely to
day as rebel troops concentrated
heavily at Torreon to meet the
northern drive of General Calles,
federal generalissimo.
General Almazan, federal com
mander at Monterrey announced he
was planning to advance on Saltillo
with an army of 10.000 men in an
.ffort to drive back the insurgents
on their Torreon base.
Government circles generally ex
pressed belief that the rebel move
ment would disintegrate rapidly as
the federal forces approached, but
the revolutionary leaders gave ev
ery indication of putting up strong
resistance.
General Calles was reported to
have reached Camacho with the
advance guard of his powerful ar
my. but between this point and
Torreon was an almost waterless
desert.
The rebels reported destruction
of railway bridges between Camacho
and Torreon which would hold the
federals up several days giving the
insurgents an opportunity to gath
er strong reinforcements for Gen
eral Escobar, rebel commander-in
chief.
In Sinaloa, the Insurgents were
continuing a cautious advance
down the Southern Pacific railway
toward Mazatlan where 2,000 fed
erals w re strongly intrenched.
This advance was being conduct
ed by General Iturbe with 5.000
men converging upon Mazatlan
from various points.
The government today announc
ed confiscation of the property of
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BOLTERS BILL
VETO IS URGED
Lynch Davidson Tells Moody
Measure Would Cement
Hoover-Dems
DALLAS. Tex., March 12.—f/P)—
Lynch Davidson of Houston, in a
telegram to Governor Moody urg
ing veto of the bolters bill, said the
measure, if not “killed” would crys
tallize Hoover democrats into a
powerful republican political ma
chine in Texas, “seemingly ‘dry’ but
actually ‘wet’.”
“As ring leaders of the harmony
democrats we are not without re
sponsibility for republican success
in Texas,” the message said. “While
we stuck to our democratic guns
and voted the ticket straight, a
tide against Smith was started that
could not be turned when his nom
ination was forced upon us.
“I have no sympathy with people
who do not keep their political or
party pledges, but the preservation
and solidarity of the party is of
primary importance.
“The bolters bill would read a
quarter cf a million people out of
the democratic party in Texas who
have done no more than has been
done numerous times before by
many of the self-same people who
now complain. It might destroy
our party in Texas and only serve
to gratify vengeance on supposed
bolter leaders, who in truth were
not leaders at all, but crafty
enough to get in front of the
parade."
SELECTING GOODSPEED JURY
HENRIETTA, Tex., March 12.—
VP)—Ten jurors were selected by
noon at the trial of Carl Goodspeed,
charged with killing A. R. Gooch,
city marshal of Nocona. while Gooch
was searching Goodspeed’s house
Jan. 13. The case was transferred
to Henrietta on a change of venue.
HOLDING CONCERN FORMED
NEW YORK. March 12.—(JP)—The
Southwest Utilities corporation has
been organized as a subsidiary of
the Empire Public Service corpora
tion to include corporations serving
ten municipalities in Texas and
Louisiana. They are Big Spring
Public Service. Texas Electric. Texas
Sewer. Southwest Ice and Minden
Gas companies.
SCHOOL NURSE RESIGNS
Miss Rosita Putegnat has resign
ed her position as school nurse in
Brownsville and will leave in the
near future for Boston to take spe
cial work. Miss Rachael Pierce,
who recently graduated from the
John Sealey school for nurses at
Galveston, has been appointed to
the position, the appointment to
take effect March 15
U. S. Troops Sent
To Guard Border
In Mexico Revolt
WASHINGTON, March 12.—(i^P)—
Movement of a small body of
troops to the Mexican border for
the protection of Naco, Arizona,
and to guard the water supply of
Bisbee, about 8 miles from the inter
PLANES UNDER
EMBARGO HERE
Airmail To Continue But
Fish Planes, Others Not
To Cross Line
Official confirmation of dis
patches received here last week that
Sec. Kellogg had announced the
reolacement of the embargo on all
airplanes entering Mexico came late
Monday when William Neale, deputy
collector of customs, announced re
ceipt of a telegram from Washing
ton which ordered officials here not
to permit any military, commercial,
or privately owned planes to cross
the border, unless special permission
has been granted from Washington.
Postmaster G. W. Dennett Tues
day had no word affecting mail
planes to Mexico City and declared
they would continue to depart from
the Brownsville airport as per
schedule.
Don Stewart of the Tex-Mex Fish
eries announced that his fish planes
would make trips today by special
permission but that beginning to
morrow, there would be no flying
across the border, unless officials
could be convinced that the area
around Soto La Marina wrhere the
company’s planes land, is not in
danger of being converted into a
wrar zone.
The embargo, according to of
ficials. has been replaced in order to
prevent planes falling into the
hands of rebel forces.
New Schedule And
Inducements Used
By Rio Rico Club
<Special to The Herald)
NUEVA MERCEDES. Mexico,
March 12.—A new schedule with
special inducements will be inau
gurated by the Rio Rico club here
beginning Wednesday, it has been
announced by A1 Robinson, an of
ficial in the concern.
Hereafter dog races will be staged
at 8:15 p. m. on Wednesdays, Sat
uddays and Sundays and there will
be no matinees. Bridge toll and
ntrance to the dog races will be
given free to allcomers on Wednes
days, under the plan announced.
This supercedes the previous ar
rangement of allowing citizens of
certain towns this privilege on cer
tain dates.
The new hard-surfaced road
from Mercedes to the bridge will
be opened to tdaffic Wednesdays.
This will do away with the detour
that has been used heretofore.
It was also announced that all
land parties will have free access
tq__the bridge and dog kennels at
any races during the week. Any
one able to prove himself a tourist
will be granted the same favors.
PAPER SAYS O’NEILL
DIVORCE PART OF PACT
NEW YORK, March 12.—UP)—
The New York American says to
day that Mrs. Eugene O’Neil in go
ing to Reno to obtain a divorce
from the playwright is fulfilling a
proviso in their marriage ceremony
whereby each agreed to give the
other freedom should love for an
other arise.
This proviso to the marriage cer
emony. says the newspaper, was
worded "until love do us part.”
O'Neill, says the American, re
minded his wife of their agreement
in a letter from London in which
he said:
"I love someone else deeply.
There is no possible doubt about
this.”
Carlota Monterey, actress, has
been mentioned as the present ob
ject of O’Neill's affections.
HOOVER TO ALLOW NO
LEASES OF OIL LAND
WASHINGTON, March 12.—T.^P)—
President Hoover said today there
would be complete conservation of
government oil lands during his
administration.
The president, answering inquir
ies by newspaper men. said there
would be no leases or disposal of
oil lands during his administra
tion. no matter by what depart
ment the lands w’ere controlled, ex
cept such dispositions as were
made mandatory by congress.
U
national line, was reported to the
war department today by Major
General Lassiter, commander of the
Eighth army corps area at San An
tonio,
At the request of the local au
thorities in Arizona, a company of
the 25th infantry and a troop of
theTenth cavalry were dispatched
by Col. Douglas McCaskey from Ft.
Huachuca, Arizona, to the border.
The authorities there had become
uneasy over activities of Mexican
revolutionists across the border
from Naco and appealed for army
protection.
General Lassiter informed the
war department that no other troop
movement was contemplated at
present. Reports from Fort D. A.
Russell, Wyoming, that troops there
were preparing to move to the bor
der were said by war department
officials to be incorrect.
TO ESTABLISH OUTPOST
SAN ANTONIO, March 12.—{&)—
United States troops sent to Naco,
Ariz., were ordered there to estab
lish an outpost and keep watch
along a stretch of border remote
from the permanent military posts,
it was announced at Eighth corps
area headquarters today. The force
consists of a small detachment of
cavalry from Fort Huachuca, and
the movement does not involve the
sending of additional troops to the
border, it was said.
RAINS, HAIL
SWEEP TEXAS
Heavy Storm Hits Wyoming;
Fort Worth Stock Show
Is Continued
FORT WORTH. March 12.—(/P)—
Rain that fell practically all last
night and continued today gave
“Fort Worth Day” at the South
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show a “wet” reception.
Despite the $150,000 fire of yes
terday the exposition continued to
carry out its programs, the only ex
hibits missing being those destroyed.
LARMIE, Wyo., March 12.—(R—
The worst storm since the memo- J
rable blizzard of May, 1927, was j
raging here today. Between 18 and
24 inches of snow had fallen in the
Laramie region and a high wind
had piled the snow into deep drifts.
Highways were closed in every
direction from Laramie and traffic |
even in the business section of Lara
mie was paralyzed.
WICHITA FALLS, March 12.—</P)
—Small grain crops in northwest
Texas were declared to have been
benefited by heavy showers which
fell here last night. The precipita
tion here was .85 inches.
CHILDRESS, Tex., March 12.—OP)
—The sky was clear here today aft
er a rainfall of .47 inch of rain
during the night.
GAINESVILLE, Tex., March 12.—
iJP)—Hail and an inch of rain fell
here last night and today. No
damage from hail was reported.
WACO, Tex., March 12.—UP)—An
inch and a half of rain fell here
today and an overcast sky foretold
more. This in addition to the half
inch that fell yesterday. Farm
work is at a standstill.
DULEY, ESPINOSA LEAD
MIAMI, Fla., March 12.—(£>)—Ed
Duley of Los Angeles and A1 Es
pinosa. Chicago, were four up on
Johnny Farrell and Gene Sarazen.
defending champions, at the end
of the 18-hole morning round of the
annual international four ball golf
tournament here today. Leo Die
gel and Walter Hagen, seeded in
the lower bracket were one down
to John Golden, Paterson, N. J.,
and Billy Burke of Westport, N. Y.,
at the turn.
SHIP QUARANTINED
SEATTLE, March 12.—(JP)—As a
percautionary measure to prevent
another outbreak of spinal menin
gitis here. 336 third-class passen
gers and crew members of the liner
President Madison were in quaran
tine today at Diamond Head, near
Port Townsend, Wash.
COOLIDGE FREES CONVICT
WASHINGTON, March 12.—</P)—
The departmetn of justice made
known today that President Cool
idge had commuted on March 2,
effective that date, the sentence of
Albert C. Goodwin, of Albany, N.
Y„ convicted at Indianapolis last
November of conspiracy to counter
feit government stamps.
3 HUNTED AS GUNMEN IN CHICAGO GANG KILLING
Convinced they have found the solution of the St. Valentines day gang massacre mystery, Chicago
police have instituted a search for three men, who, they declare, were participants in the machine gun
killing of seven members of the Moran gang in a Clark street garage. The men sought are, left to right,
Frederick A. Burke, James Ray, both said to be St. Louis gangsters imported for the shootinf, and Jo
seph Lelordo, Chicago, whose bdother was slain by gangsters in January.
SCHOOLBOND
VOTE CALLED
Election To Be Held April
6, to Pass on Proposed
$75,000 Issue
A call for an election to authorize
issuance of bonds in the amount of
$75,000 for construction of a new
ward school and remodeling the old
grammar school was issued by the
board of trustees of the Brownsville
independent school district at a
regular meeting Monday night.
The board also appointed Cleve
H. Tandy a member to fill the un
expired term of S. C. Tucker, who
died last year.
The bond election will be held
April 6, at the same time as the
regular school trustee election, the
old grammar school being designat
ed as the polling place. W. K.
Mendenhall was appointed presid
ing judge for the bond election,
with Albert Besteiro and Manuel
Tamez as judges, and Mrs. Manuel
Tamez as clerk.
Henry M. Skelton was appointed
presiding judge for the school trus
tee eiection, and was empowered to
appoint his own judges and clerks.
Members of the school board
whose terms expire this year, and
who, it is understood, will be can
didates for re-election, are O. V.
Lawrence, president; Harbert Dav
enport, James A. Graham and Ike
A. Dudley. Holdover members are
R. B. Creager. Sherwood Bishop and
Cleve H. Tandy.
In connection with the bond elec
tion. announcement was made that
a site at Twenty-second and Har
rison has been secured for the new
ward building which will serve the
eastern part of the city, part of
Victoria Addition and the Tomates
Bend section. The proposed site,
for which a deal is expected to be
closed as soon as the bonds are
voted, is 300 by 280 feet.
The board plans to remove the
second story of the old grammar
school, condemned last year, and
completely remodel the first floor,
providing ten class rooms. The old
grammar school will be known as
the Washington Park ward school
and the new structure to be known
as the East Brownsville ward school.
Score Card Change
Voted At Meeting
Of Fair Directors
<Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. March 12.—The
Valley Mid-Winter Fair association
at a meeting here Monday voted
drastic changes in the score card
for com—unity exhibits. In the fu
ture prize money will be more gen
erally distributed throughout the
various communities, as a result
of the changes agreed upon.
The prize for attractivenss will
be eliminated and this money
placed on worth of the products
themselves.
It also was decided to sponsor a
better showing of Valley agricul
tural products.
John T. Flore, secretary of the
organization, announced that four
communities had signed for ex
hibits this fall. They ade:
La Feria, Stuart Place, Edcouch
and Primera.
‘REGINALD’ INDIAN CHIEF
KESHENA, Wis., March 12.—OP)
—A new chief ruled the Menomi
nee Indians today, and his name
was Reginald. The succession of
Reginald Oshkosh to the tribal
leadership followed the death yes
terday of Chief Ernest Oshkosh at
the age of 56. Ernest, a grandson
of the founder of the Wisconsin
city bearing the family name, was
educated at Haskell Institute and
i Notre Dame university.
Officers Fired Upon
Them, 3 School Boys
Say In Trial Here
Trial of Porter Eubanks, Har
lingen constable, charged with as
sault to murder in conection with
firing upon a car in which three
schoolboys were riding near Los In
dios on the night of February 22,
got under way in criminal district
court Tuesday morning.
Eubanks and two deputy con
stables, Strong Boynton and Jesse
Riley, were indicted by the grand
jury. The case against Riley was
CASTELLANOS
IN MATAMOROS
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Tamaulipas Governor Says
All Is Quiet In Capital
Of State
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Francisco Castellanos, governor
of Tamaulipas, arrived in Mata
morcs late Monday from Victoria
with his mother, Sra. Filomena C.
de Castellanos.
The gover, who drove through in
his automobile, said that all was
quiet in the capital and that he
was merely on a tour of the cities
of the state. He expects to remain
in Matamoros several days, he said.
A report that state records were
brought into Matamoros last night
wa edenied.
Governor Castellanos, who is vis
iting at the home of friends in
Matamoros, was beseiged by callers
throughout the day. He formerly
yas a member of the Matamoros
bar and is very popular with the
citizens of that city.
Gen. Gabriel Cervera, comman
der of the Matamoros garrison, de
clared conditions were about nor
mal in that city and that there are
no indications of unrest among the
populace. Rumors of unrest in
Tamaulipas are greatly exaggerat
jed, Gen. Gabriel said.
HILLIN SIGN'S WITH TAMPA
COLLEGE STATION. Tex., Mar.
12.—“Rosie” Hillin, former Texas
Aggie twirler, has signed to pitch
for the Tampa (Southeastern lea
gue) team. Hillin, who is a big
right-hand flinger, closed his col
lege career with the Aggies in the
spring of 1927 and last year was one
of the outstanding twirlers on the
Abilene (Wets Texas league) nine.
dismissed by the sttae, Riley going
on the stand as a state witness. A
severance was granted and trial of
Boynton is expected to follow com
pletion of the Eubanks case.
Witnesses for the state included
the three schoolboys, Robert Conditt
of San Benito, W. J. Morris and
Jarpes Franklin of Los Indios, all 16
to 17 years of age; and S. M. Jester,
special investigator for the district
attorney.
Each of the three boys stated they
had passed a roadster parked beside
the road, that the roadster had fol
lowed them, and that men in the
car opened fire on their car which
ran into the ditch shortly after the
firing started.
The car was struck several times.
Exhibits introduced by the state in
cluded a 45-caliber pistol bullet
which had passed through the back
of the car in which the boys were
riding and was found imbedded
above the windshield; two buckshot,
extracted from the spare tire casing;
two flattened pistol bullets, picked
up in the road; a 12-gauge shotgun
shell, discharged; and two empty
43-caliber pistol shells. These were
picked up near the scene of the
shooting the same night, S. M. Jes
ter testified.
Robert Conditt testified he smell
ed liquor on the breath of the men
who stopped the car. and that later
he found a liquor bottle near the
point where their car was parked.
He stated he did not know which
one of the men it was upon whom
he smelled the honor. The other
boys did not sircll liquor. “I was
too scared,” W. J. Morris said.
Tire testimony indicated that Eu
banks was armed with a shotgun
and Boynton with a pistol. Jester
testified that the marks on the car
In which the boys were driving in
dicated that the shotgun had been
fired with the intention of striking
the rear tires.
According to Conditt’s version of
the affair the men standing beside
the parked roadster turned away
when their car approached, and he
did not recognize any of them.
A few minutes later the roadster
drr'w near and ordered them to stop.
“We thought it was a hold-up,” he
said, and the boys speeded up. Sev
eral shots were fired and the boys'
car went into the ditch.
“I jumped cut and ran across the
track,” Conditt said. "I thought it
was a holdup, and I had some
monev. I heard somebody cry
‘Don't shoot him,’ and some one
came across after me. I reached
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‘Pauper1 Dies From Lack
of Food; Had Over $7,000
CHICAGO, March 12.—UP)—
Harry Cline, 61, had no money to
pay his room rent. He had no
money to clothe himself prop
erly. He had little on which to
eat. So he said.
When he died at the county
hospital two days ago, they wrote
opposite his name—“undernour
ished.”
A representative for the pub
lic administrator investigated. He
found the house where Kline had
lived. Its owmer—a woman with
a baby to support—said Kline
had not paid rent for many
weeks, pleading he had no money.
In his room was found a trunk.
At the bottom were savings ac
I
count books in 35 Chicago banks.
Total deposits were $7,000.
Kline had been afraid; afraid
to keep money for fear it would
be stolen; afraid to bank it for
fear the bank would fail. But
with $7,000 he had to do some
thing, compromising by opening
accounts in 35 banks. It was not
likely all would fail.
The interest on these accounts
was about 67 cents a day. On
that he lived.
The address in Philadelphia of
Kline’s wife was found. He had
left her 15 years ago. She is com
ing here to get the $7,000 that
her husband was afraid he would
lose.
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BY PATROLMEN
Battle Prevents Arms
Going Into Mexico
After Wounding of
U. S. Officials
EL PASO, Tex., March 12.
— (fP) — An at t e m p t to
smuggle arms and ammuni
tion across the international
border was frustrated late
last night after a gun battle
in which two American pa
trolmen were wounded.
August Steinburn and Francis A.
Scott, members of the border pa
trol, were shot from ambush near
Cordova Island as they started to
investigate the presence of two loi
terers on the American' side of the
boundary.
Approaching to within 40 yards
of the two, the officers shouted and
the answer was a fusilade of bullets
from another direction, where a
group lay concealed in a thicket.
Both men fell wounded.
Reinforcements arrived under
command of H. C. Horsley, head of
the border patrol. A miniature bat
tle followed in which many shots
W'ere fired. Thereafter, a half
hundred men were seen to run to
safety on the Mexican side of the
Rio Grande, Horsley reported.
WAR, NAVY ASSISTANTS
APPOINTED BY HOOVER
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WASHINGTON, March 12.—(/P)—
Two new assistant secretaries of
war and navy were appointed to
day by President Hoover. They
were Ernest V. Jahncke of New
Orleans, assistant secretary of navy,
and Patrick Hurley, of Tulsa, Okla.,
assistant secretary of war.
Mr. Hurley was one of the chief
Hoover supporters in Oklahoma dur
ing the last campaign. He will be
in charge of wrar department in
dustrial mobilization plans, suc
ceeding Charles B. Robbins, who
had expressed a desire to return to
private life.
Mr.Jahncke is a member of a
famiyl long prominent in the ship
ping and shipbuilding world. He j
will take over the duties of Theo- j
dore Douglas Robinson as assistant
secretary of the navy.
POLICE SAY VICTIM
STABBED, SET AFIRE
SCRANTON, Pa.. March 12.—UP)
—The body cf a man, who had
been beaten and stabbed and his
clothing saturated with kerosene
'oil and set afire, according to the
police, was found today by firemen
fighting flames in the home of
Frank Crido at Carbondale. eigh
teen miles north of this city.
Finding a heavy hammer and
knife beside the charred body, con
vinced authorities a killing had
taken place and the Crido home
was set afire to hide the crime. Mr.
and Mrs. Crido were visiting in
Archibald borough at the time of
the fire.
RECAPTURE CONVICTS
BATON ROUGE. La.. March 12.—
(IP)—Louisiana penitentiary officials
stated today they had been inform
ed cf the recapture of two escaped
convicts, Sam Thomas Sherman of
Caddo parish, and Batchelor Haynes,
negro, of Rapides parish.
I THE WEATHER J '
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Cloudy to partly cloudy and slightly
cooler tonight and Wednesday.
Moderate to fresh southerly winds
on the west coast, shifting to
northwesterly late today or tonight.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to
night; rain in extreme east por
tion; somewhat colder except in
extreme east portion; Wednesday
generally fair and somewhat colder.
Moderate to fresh south to north
west 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.
Stage Stasre Chng. Rain
Eagle Pass ..16 2.7 0.0 .00 |
Laredo .27 -0.4 0.0 .00
Rio Grande .21 4.3 -fO.l .00
Mission . 22 3 7 .00
San Benito . 23 7 6 - 0 2 .00
Brownsville . 18 1.6 -iO.9 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
bel tomorrow’, under normal me
teorological conditions:
High .5:05 a. m.; 5:05 p. m.
Low . 11:09 a. m.; 11:12 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 6 37
Sunrise tomorrow . 6:41
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