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T^iRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 275 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929 TWELVE PAGES TODAY " ♦ 5c A COPY I
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VALLEY!
IT’S A LONG WAYS they say
from Brownsville to Broadway—but
somehow it gets shorter all the
Itime. Will Rogers in his perennial
arguments with editors discusses
the propriety of those parades oi
celebrities up Broadway in the
world’s metropolis, and thinks they
should be put far out on some
special parade streets,
A Brownsville writer signing “J.
Cass” in the New York World puts
in a bid for the furtherest south
cosmopolis and for the Paredes
Line road.
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He writes:
To the Editor of The World:
I Noting The World editorial in
quiry. “Who Wants a Parade?”
March 19. here are some hard facts
that ought to go over near pure
advertising matter, yet for all that
(will be news.
Brownsville. Tex., has exactly the
place for the performance, all
planned two generations ago, all
nicely surveyed and named at the
time — the Paredes Line — pro
nounced properly, after the Spanish
family name, “pa-rade-ace,” but by
the avalanche of Americans called
“parades,” just like two circus
parades, as might be expected.
But, my dear sir. this Paredes
i : Line is no ordinary street—far from
it—thirty-two miles, in fact; thirty
, t two miles and straight away from
c the radio station to Red Fish Bay
and already fourteen miles are
(cement paved, the rest being in the
original sin of delta mud where
it is not sand or salt marsh. Some
street. So just let Will Rogers fix
up his own parade and he will soon
see if he can draw as well as the
gentlf^n who pushed a peanut
from Hondo to Harlingen.
‘aou J. CASS.
'Browns^.e, Tex., March 23.
BRO^SVILLES four banks
Join in urging business men of this
city to make the good-will tour to
, Corpus Christi on Sunday and
Monday, April 21 and 22.
“The object of the trip is to en
able our citizens to see the tre
mendous development of Corpus
Christi during the past years, to in
spect the Corpus Christi port and
to visualize what a similar port
would mean for Brownsville,” says
a letter which the banks have
mailed to city leaders.
The letter points out that Sun
day is San Jacinto Day and that
Monday will be a holiday.
Recipients of the letters arc
urged to notify the chamber of
commerce of their intention to
attend and to be in Corpus Christi
not later than noon Sunday.
r Golf is promised on both days in
* addition to the trips of inspection.
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THE BROWNSVILLE Chamber
of Commerec is asking the board
of county commissioners to extend
the pavement on Boca Chica road
for a distance of two and a half
miles.
It is pointed out that the exten
sion will carry the pavement to the
ridge along top of which the road
continues to the beach.
The Brownsville chamber is in
terested in continuing the road to
the shore.
But believes that the principal
property holder in that district.
Mrs. Nellie Esperson Stewart of
Houston should make certain land
contribution to the county for pub
lic use.
The road if paved certainly will
add to the value of the holdings.
Ard no doubt the owner of the
land will give due consideration to
the fact.
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FOUR HUNDRED passengers
have been handled by airplane be
, tween Brownsville. Tampico and
Mexico City since the air line
opened on March 8.
Indicating that this lane of travel
between the United States and
% Mexico is gaining in popularity.
For quick transportation between
If he three cities the airplane is the
thing.
But for sightseeing, which some
day will be a principal reason foi
visiting Mexico, the railroads will
never be superseded, unless high
way building makes motoring pos
sible for those who prefer to travel
by automobile.
Mexico one day will become a
Jnecca for tourists.
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THOSE CITIZENS and officials
in Harlingen and San Benito who
made possible those beautifully
flowered esplanades and sidewalk
borcJers in those cities are to be
congratulated.
Riots of color. And extend for
blocks and blocks.
Aflltortain to command the at
ten|iW^.ind admiration of all visi
tors. ,
But better yet, they encourage
home folks to appreciate beauty, to
work for even more perfection in
civic attractiveness.
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Slayer’s Term Suspended
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DECIDING FATE OF GOVERNOR LONG
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Determining fate of Governor Huey P. Long, against whom impeach
ment proceedings have been brought, Louisiana state legislature
meets in historic old state capitol, shown above, in Baton Rouge.
RECOVERS WATCH
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LOST IN FRANCE
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AT DALLAS SHOP
DALLAS. April 5. — 'P—A
watch, lost overseas by Its owner
in a repair shop here. The time
piece, according to the owner of
the shop, was left at his place for
repairs about two years ago. The
owner did not recognize the watch
as his until after he had pur
chased it from the repairman, who
sold it for charges.
SKIPPER LOST
IN SEA STORM
Schooner Crew Tell Of
11-Day Battle With
Mounting Waves
PHILADELPHIA, April 5.—</P)—
The auxiliary schooner Nomad lay
at rest in the Philadelphia harbor
today, her skipper lost in a watery
grave and her millionaire owner
and crew of two resting from 11
days with the angry seas.
The Nomad. Sterner said, put out
from Charleston 11 days ago, fly
ing the pennant of the New York
Yacht club. Ross, as if acting on
premonition, placed his wife ashore
just before they left. Within a few
hours the motors failed and when
efforts to repair them failed sail
was set.
The Nomad plowed through
gradually mounting seas under full
sail until a sudden squall tore
away part of the mainsail. Cap
‘ tain John L. Schofield climbed
aloft to make repairs when a roll
ing sea wrenched him from the
mast and washed him overboard.
He was never seen again.
A distress signal was flown. On
the eleventh day. with all on board
prostrated by exhaustion, the No
mad was sighted by an aviator and
a patrol boat dispatched to assist
her.
CARDINAL DIES
ROME. April 5.—(/Pt—Cardinal
Gasquet, archivist of the Library
of the Holy Roman church, who
was creatpd a cardinal in 1914, died
today, aged 83.
THOUSANDS AT
LONG MEETING
‘Head Bloody But Unbowed’,
Governor Says In Stir
ring Address
BATON ROUGE, La., April 5.—
(^—Louisiana attempted today to
digest the intense factional demo
cratic politics served it by oppon
ents and supporters of Governor
Huey P. Long, who is fighting for
his political life in impeachment
proceedings in the house of repre
sentatives.
The governor sought to hold pub
lic opinion by bringing in his fol
lowers from all parts of the state
last night to stage a demonstra
tion in the capital, which he top
ped off with a burst of oratory
that tore at his enemies and de
fended his rr^uCd. He assailed in
bitter terms all of the daily news
papers of Louisiana which he said
' were striking at him because he
dared to suggest a tax against the
Standard Oil company. The crowd,
which overflowed the hall and into
the streets where they listened to
him through a radio, yelled and
cheered for three hours and en
dorsed his administration with
applause.
Witnesses Testify
The rally in the hall following
immediately adjournment of the
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MOBILE WATCHING
FOR KIDNAPED GIRL
MOBILE, Ala., April 5.—Uf\—A
close watch on outgoing steamships
is being maintained by police here
i for the abductors of Barbara
! Pitcher. Montreal school girl. Re
ports were that two men and a
woman were believed enroute here
by automobile in an attempt to
spirit the girl out of the country.
NEW PIANO SOON
A new Baldwi npiano. designed
especially for broadcast presenta
| tions, is expected to arrive at sta
tion KWWG within the next few
days, according to operators of the
i station.
Red Squirrel Runs Amuck
In Chicago, Biting Seven
CHICAGO. April 5.—<.P»—Seven
persons, four of them children,
have been bitten by a red squir
rel during the past three days.
One woman was bleeding from
20 bites on the arms, neck and
shoulder, when she ran into a
police station yesterday and told
of the attack.
Mrs. Marie Meyenberg said she
was hanging clothes on the line
when the squirrel jumped on her
shoulder. When she tried to
brush it away, she said, the
rodent began biting her. Her
husband also was bitten, the
squirel leaping upon him as he
sat on the porch.
Augusta Schrader, age 6. was
on her way to school when the
squirrel jumped at her, biting her
hands. Harry Franke, 4 years
old, was bitten while at play.
Mrs. Rose Vogel, her son. Car
son. and Lawrence Flournoy were
attacked on the street.
The department of health and
the police department joined
forces today in an effort to find
and kill the squirrel.
The seven who were bitten
were in no danger, physicians
said.
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DAUGHTER IN
COURT ROOM
as witness:
Testimony Shows Man
Killed Gave Friend
$25 to Wed Girl Now
Mother
TEXARKANA, Apil 5.—UP)—Os
car Ramsey was given a five-year
suspended sentence here today for
slaying Boyd Flannery in 1927. The
jury was out 12 hours.
Ramsey, a Bowie county farmer,
pleaded the unwritten law, and con
tended it allowed him to protect his
daughter. He walked to the jury
box when the verdict was read, and
with tears in his eyes thanked the
jurors.
His daughter appeared as a wit
ness for her father and carried a
,child which she declared was Flan
nery’s. Testimony was given that
Flannery wronged the daughter
and paid another man $25 to marry
her. She was deserted three months
after this marriage.
The case was tried twice before.
The first time Ramsey received a
20-year sentence, and the second
tim a two-year sentence.
ANNE’S SISTERS
FLY WITH LINDY
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Constance to Arrive Here
Saturday Afternoon En
Route to School
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CUERNAVACA. Mexico, April 5.
—UP)—All three of the daughters of
Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow are
air-minded. One of them in June
will marry Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, foremost aviator. The other
two, since “sister” is to have an air
man husband, arc losing no chances
to get some of their thrills for
themselves.
Miss Elizabeth Morrow, sister of
Colonel Lindbergh’s fiancee, Anne,
flew with him yesterday for more
than an hour. Their trip in his
small two-seated plane took them
over the twin volcanoes Popocatpetl
and Ixtaccihuatl. Such a trip fos
tered the budding romance of Colo
nel Lindbergh and Anne in the early
days of their courtship.
Anne's other sister. Constance
who will return shortly to school
in the United States, went for an
airplane ride, too, though hers was
not so long as Elizabeth’s. Anne
herself did not get to go up until
her two sisters had come back to
earth. It was her second trip with
her aviator husband-to-be since she
crashed with him at Valbuena more
than a month ago.
Colonel Lindbergh and the Mor
rows plan to return to Mexico City
in order to see Constance, the
youngest daughter, off to school
after a 10-day visit with her parents.
She will leave Mexico City tomorrow
morning as a passenger on the
Brownsville airmail line, proceeding
to Masschusetts.
DIOGENES" MIGHT
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LIKE TO AID IN
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HUNTING FOR HIM
MISSION. April 5.—If Diogenes
(Special to The Herald.)
should come to South Texas he
might not have to carry his search
any further.
In Monday’s mail there came to
Aloys Dondlinger an envelop post
marked San Antonio which con
tained a $10 bank note and the
following note:
“Dear Dondlinger: I owe you
this ten. I took something from
you once and this will square it.”
No name was signed to the let
ter, and “Don” says he cannot re
member the occasion of the al
leged loss. Nevertheless the ‘ten”
goes to swell the fund he is sav
ing to assist Aloys Jr., in his
school fund.
94-DEGREE MARK
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THURSDAY MAKES
if. if. if.
NEBRASKA ‘BOIL’
CHICAGO, April 5.—{&)—An
other day of record-breaking heat
was forecast todav for the middle
west, with temperatures in the
90’s only a day behind.
Both Omaha and Lincoln re
ported 94 degrees yesterday, and
in both cities new all-time rec
ords were set for this early in the
season. Chicago’s 79 equalled the
previous record for April 4 and
sent many persons to the parks
and beaches.
The hot wave was expected to
abate tomorow when precipita
tion is predicted quite generally
over the midwest with snow in
the extreme northern portion.
WOMAN KILLED
NEAR VICTORIA
Body Found In Brush Off
Highway; Suspect
Foul Play
VICTORIA, Tex., April 5.—(#)—
Sheriff R. S. Weisider is investigat
ing the death of a woman, believed
to have been murdered, whose body
was found a few hundred yards
from the highway near Raisin,
yesterday.
The murder theory was advanced
by Justice T. P. Lenoir and J. E.
Ryan, undertaker, who found the
skull crushed. One arm. the hands
and left leg were bruised.
A truck, said to have been seen
since Monday near the place the
body was found, and containing
provisions, a man's gloves, woman’s
wearing apparel, and letters bear
ing the names of a man and wom
an, were found by investigators.
Two tires were missing and a third
was punctured.
A live oak twig was found hang
ing to a quilt in the truck. Part
of the quilt was found on the
barbed wire fence near where the
body was found, Sheriff Weisider
said.
Edinburg College
Instructor Speaks
To Mission Lions
MISSION. April 6.—Professor H
Hendrix of Edinburg addressed the
Lions club this week on the value
of education.
He compared the present effi
cient methods with the past slip
shod manner of teaching a genera
tion or two since.
He cited the difference between
the earning capacity of the high
school graduate and the individual
who had only the grammar school
education, and showed the great
increase in the earning capacity
between the college graduate and
the high school student.
Clifton Potter sang several solos,
accompanied at the piano by Mrs.
Heathe May. Several out of town
visitors were present.
Use of Covered
Receptacles For
Waste Is Urged
Throwing of paper or other waste
into the alleys of the city will not
be permitted, was the announce
ment Friday by Street Commission
er A. C. Hipp. Cleaning of all al
leys in the business section of the
city has been completed, and an
effort will be made to keep them
clean, the street commissioner said.
All property owners are required
to secure covered boxes in which
to place water paper or other re
fuse. Paper dumped into an open
box is soon blowing around the al
leys and streets. Hipp said, and the
only means of preventing this is to
place a cover on the box.
“We have devoted considerable
time and money to cleaning the al
leys,” the street commissioner stat
ed, “and I trust the residents of the
city will co-operate with us in keep
ing them clean. There is no neces
sity for the alleys being filled with
waste paper and refuse. Closed box
es should be used, and if this is
done It will greatly reduce the cost
of keeping the city clean.’’
SOLDIERS ON
ARIZONA SIDE
ARE DETAINED
Message From Escobar
Says Shor t a g e of
Ammunition Forced
Jimenez Retreat
WASHINGTON, April 5.
—(/P)—Major General Las
siter at San Antonio, in
formed the war department
today of the arrest by civil
authorities at Naco, Ariz., of
one captain and ten enlisted
men of the 38th Mexican
federal infantry on the
United States side of the in
ternational boundary.
The civil authorities, General Las
siter reported, have turned the
Mexican soldiers over to the mili
tary authorities at Naco. where they
have been detained. All the men
were armed.
JUAREZ. Chihuahua. April 5.—
OP)—Evacuation by insurgents of
their base at Jiminez after a four
day assault by columns of federal
troops was attributed to shortage of
ammunition by the defending rebels
by General Jose Gonzalo Escobar in
a message to The Associated Press
today.
REBELS AT JUAREZ
DIG IN FOR BATTLE
EL PASO. Tex., April 5.—(/Pi—It
was rumored here and in Juarez to
day that 800 Mexican federal sym
pathizers were organizing at Guada
lupe. 28 miles east of the border, to
attack the rebel garrison at Juarez.
The rebels in Juarez were busy
digging trenches on the southeast of
the city, apparently preparing for an
attack.
About forty wounded soldiers,
both federal and rebel, from the
Jimenez battle front, arrived in
Juarez yesterday for hospitalization.
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BOSTONFURS
ARRIVE IN S. A.
Navigation Test May Start
From Airport Here On
Saturday Morning
SAN ANTONIO, April 5.—Lieut.
Albert F. Hegenberger. who is to
be one of the ranking officers in
the Brownsville to Boston army air
corps navigation test flight has
arrived at Kelly Feld here and
Captain C. V. Finter. the other
ranking officer was due to arrive
here Friday.
Date of departure of the .three
planes for Brownsville and for the
start of the flight had not been
decided today.
Finter was reported to have left
Dallas for Kelly Field and if he
arrived here early enough it was
believed the three-ship formation
would take off later for Browns
ville.
The first hop on the trip to
Boston might possibly be mado
from Brownsville Saturday. The
flight is to be made with an O-LL
two place plane, a tri-motored
Fokker and a tri- motored Ford
plane.
The fliers have been delayed be
tween Wright Field. Ohio, and San
Antonio by bad weather, the flight
having been scheduled originally
to get under w?ay on April 2.
Lieut. Hegenberger was co-pilot,
with Lieut. Leaster J. Maitland
when he flew the Pacific to
Hawaii.
Other members of the party who
will make the trip arc Lieutenants
E. C. Lynch and E. C. Langmead.
Leopold Sr., Bowed Under
Bob Franks Tragedy, Dies
CHICAGO. April 5.—<AV-Nathan
F. Leopold, Sr., last of three fathers
bowed under the tragedy of the
Bobby Franks kidnaping, is dead
at the age of 69.
A. H. Loeb, father of Richard
Loeb. died October 27, 1924. Jacob
Franks, lather of the slain Bobby,
died April 19, 1928. All men were
prominent in Chicago until Bobby
Franks was killed by “Dickie” Loeb
and Nathan F. Leopold. Jr. All
lived in seclusion thereafter.
Nathan F. Leopold. Sr., who died
last night, had been ill for some
time.
Appointees Write
Laudatory Notes,
Committee Says
\V ASHINGTON, April 5.—(/P)—Letters, telegrams
and affidavits to show that large sums of money were
contributed in recent years to republican campaign funds
by postmasters and other federal office-holders in Missis
sippi, Arkansas, Alabama, and Tennessee were put into
the record of the senate patronage committee today by
Chairman Brookhart.
Affidavits collected by the post office department at
the request of the committee disclosed that more than
$12,000 was contributed by 110 postmasters of Mississippi,
SIX ARRESTED !
FOR KIDNAPING
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Labor Officials Indignant
As Organizers Are ‘Run
Out of Town’
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., April 5.
— </P) — Organized labor watched
Elizabethton today as a result of a
flare up over labor troubles which
drew from President Green of the
American Federation of Labor an
emphatic protest of what he termed
an “outrage" against labor officials.
He referred to the abduction of1
E. F. McGrady, legislative repre
sentative of the American Feder
ation of Labor, and Alfred L. Hoff
man, textile union organizer, who
claimed they were taken from their
hotel by a party of about 20 men
yesterday and “run out of town.”
The incident resulted in the arrest
of six Elizabethton citizens.
An undercurrent of feeling that
followed a recent strike affecting
local Rayon Mills was believed re
sponsible for yesterday’s demonstra
tion.
The men arrested were J. L. Trol
linger. said to be a Rayon plant
foreman; Charles D. Meadows. A. A.
Hale, Roy Wilcox, Nat Perry and
Paul Medeairs.
PASS BILLS ON
CELEBRATION
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Airport Opening Cost City
$10,406; No Action On
Bond Election
The airport opening celebration
, cost the city of Brownsville $10.
406.75. according to bills submitted
the city commission at its regular
meeting Friday morning. Of this
amount $6,784.50 represented the
amount expended by the city, the
bills of the chamber of commerce
totaling $3,622.25.
In addition to passing on the cel
ebration bills considerable routine
business was disposed of. The bid
for paving Eighth street from Lin
coln to Madison, a distance of 11
blocks, including a connection with
the Puente Guadalupe and Paredes
line entrances, was accepted, but no
contract was awarded. The low bid
of George Hamlink for construction
| of a concrete culvert on the city
; resaca on Eighth street was accept
j ed.
The preposition of refunding
bonds to take up outstanding city
warrants was discussed briefly, and
a conference of the bond buyers and
bankers of the city will be arranged
in a week or 10 days, members of
the city commission stating they de
sired to secure the advice of all
bankers of the city before issuing
the election call.
A contract for electric wiring in
the new hangar at the airport was
awarded to Thomas Witmire on a
low bid of $1,750, and action on a
petition to pave Jackson street from
Eleventh to Seventh was deferred.
A protect from a property owner
against paving Monoe from Four
teenth to Sixteenth was read and
filed for future reference. Les
Mauldin, manager of the airport,
was instructed to secure rubber-tired
wheels for the airport tractor in
order that the machine could be
operated on the runways in hauling
the large planes, the airport man
ager reporting that this would make
it possible to dispense with two men
at the port.
one or them giving $2,1:25.
Some of the money, the af
fidavits said, went to E. P.
Booze, husband of the negro
republican national commit
teewoman for that state. A
total of 154 postmasters said
they had never contributed.
Texas letters put into the record
at the request of R. B. Creager, re
publican national committeeman
for that state, were laudatory of
the methods used by his organiza
tion. A committee check-up of
records furnished by Leonard
Withington, secretary of the Texas
republican state organization dis
closed. however, that a large num
ber of them were from federal of
fice-holders. most of them post
masters, who had been regular con
tributors to Creagers campaign
funds. $
Sullivan Lists Charges I
Today’s hearing was the first '
called by the committee since Pres- i
ident Hoover announced republican '
organizations in South Carolina,
Georgia and Mississippi would not
be recognized as dispensers of fed
eral appointments pending reor
ganization and expressed the hope j
that recommendations for appoint- >
ments in other southern states El
would be made with the aid of an V
advisory council. I
Among the Texas letters was one
from J. G. Sullivan, president of
the Winter Garden Chamber of
Commerce, in which he said that
Roy Campbell of Laredo, collector
of customs, who wrote one of the
laudatory letters, probably would
be re-appointed, and listed a num
ber of charges, declaring he was
“thoroughly convinced in my own
mind that they are correct.” The
letter was dated Feb. 28.
The charges included smuggling
gold and profiting thereby; smug
gling intoxicating liquor for per
sonal use: protection of a man
named Allen Walker prior to and
after his indictment in federal and
state courts at Laredo and commit
ting a felony by aiding and advis
ing Walker to flee the jurisdiction
of the United States courts and of
ficials; importing of alien labor to
work on his onion farm, and illegal
transportation of intoxicating
liquors.
Wurzbach Case “Hatched”
The charges, Sullivan said, were
made after an investigation by Col
Peter J. Hennessy, co-ordinator of
the Eighth Army Corps Area. San
Antonio; William B. Creighton,
chief of the customs office. New
Orleans, and Grover Cleveland Wil
meth, director of immigration, El
Paso. They were filed, he added,
by Robert P. Coon of San Antonio,
six or eight months ago with Sec
retary Mellon, but “no investiga
tion has been made so far as I have
been able to learn.” j
In another letter from Texas.
Mrs. W. C. Gardner of San Antonio
said that in a conversation with
Mrs. Campbell, the collector's wife,
“she informed me her home was a
meeting place for the Creager poli
ticians and at a meeting there they
read the law to her” regarding the
indictment of Representative Wurz
bach, republican, Texas, “so evi
dently there was hatched the case
against him.” Brookhart has
charged that Creager sought to ob
tain Wurzbach’s indictment for vio
lation of the federal corrupt prac
tices act because the latter refused
to work with Creager’s organization
in Texas.
Charge Creager Got Money
Charles W. Anderson, San Anto
nio attorney, wrote that Creager
“controls the federal office-holders,
including the tool, John D. Hart
man. federal district attorney for
the western district of Texas.”
“Hartman,” he said, “only re
cently took up some cases and fool
ed a federal grand jury in Waco,
Texas, several hundred miles from
(Continued On Page Eight)
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT
MISSION, April 6—The pupils
of the Theodore Roosevelt school
in South Mission will give an en
tertainment on Friday, April 15 aB
the school auditorium. The title
of the play is “Forest Count” and
more than sixtv children will take
part. With two months of work
on this play their teachers are ex
pecting them to excell in all parts.
Miss Elzada Clover is principal.
THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair to partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday; not much change in
temperature.
Moderate to strong southerly
winds on the west coast