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TVTPTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 275 * BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929 TWELVE PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
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✓ IT S A LONG WAYS they say
from Brownsville to Broadway—but
somehow it gets shorter all the
time. Will Rogers in his perennial
arguments with editors discusses
the propriety of those parades o»
celebrities up Broadway in the
world’s metropolis, and thinks they
should be put far out on some
special parade streets.
A Erownsville 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:
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
Line is no ordinary street—far from
it—thirty-two miles, in fact; thirty
two miles and straight away from
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
gentleman who pushed a peanut
from Rio Hondo to Harlingen.
J. CASS.
BrownjdSue, Tex.. March 23.
“ * * *
BROWNSVILLE'S 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
t 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 arr
Urged to notify the chamber of
commerce of their intention to
attend and to be in Corpus Christi
not later than noon Sunday.
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 nointed 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 Stew-art of
Houston should make certain land
contribution to the countv for pub
lic use.
The road if paved certainly will
rdd to the value of the holdings.
And 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
the three cities the airplane is the
thing.
But for sightseeing, which some
clay 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
mecca for tourists.
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THOSE CITIZENS and officials
In Harlingen and San Benito who
made possible those beautifully
flowered esplanades and sidewalk
borders in those cities are to be
congratulated.
Jiots of color. And extend for
Ks and blocks.
re certain to command the at
tention and admiration of all visi
tors.
But better yet. they encourage
home folks to appreciate beauty, to
work for even more perfection in j
cine attractiveness
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Slayer’s Term Suspended
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DECIDING FATE OF GOVERNOR LONG
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. — MV-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.
SKIPPERlTST
IN SEA STORM
Schooner Crew Tell Of
11-Day Battle With
Mounting V/aves
PHILADELPHIA, April 5.—(JP)—
The auxiliary schooner Nomad lay
at rest in the Philadelphia harbor
today, her skipper lest 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 bv exhaustion, the No
mad was sighted by an aviator and
a patrol boat dispatched to assist
her.
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CARDINAL DIES
ROME. April 5.—(.Pi—Cardinal
Gasquet. archivist of the Library
of the Holy Roman church, who
was created 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.—
I7P;—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 record. 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.—(fl*)—A
close watch on outgoing steamships
is being maintained by police here
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
station.
Red Squirrel Runs Amuck
In Chicago, Biting Seven
-CHICAGO. April 5.—(£>)—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 w'ho were bitten
were in no danger, physicians
said.
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 wras read, and
with tears in his eyes thanked the
jurors.
His daughter appeared as a wit
ness fpr 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 w'as tried twice before.
The first time Ramsey received a
20-year sentence, and the second
tim a tw'o-year sentence.
ANNE’S SISTERS ;
FLY WITH UNDY
Constance to Arrive Here
Saturday Afternoon En
Route to School
CUERNAVACA, Mexico, April 5.
—(/P)—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, are 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
(Special to The Herald.)
MISSION, April 5.—If Diogenes
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
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NEBRASKA ‘BOIL’
CHICAGO, April 5.—UPh-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.
BOSTON RIERS
ARRIVE INS. 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 way 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 are Lieutenants
E. C. Lynch and E. C. Langmead.
Late Bulletins
PASSENGERS ESCAPE AS
CAR HURLED 50 FEET
STRAWN. Apil 5.—(JP)—Although
an automobile was hurled 50 feet
and demoilshed when it was struck
at a crossing here today by a Texas
and Pacific passenger train, the
four men who occupied it received
only minor injuries.
COMMITTEE HEARS BUDGET
REQUESTS FROM JUDICIARY
AUSTIN, April 5.—(/Pi—After par
ing more than $250,000 from the
eleemosynary budget for 1930-31 as
recommended by the board of con
trol. the house appropriations com
mittee today devoted itself to re
quests for aid from the judiciary.
LONG PICTURED AS
OBSCENE INDIVIDUAL
BATON ROUGE. La., April 5.—(JP)
Gov. Huey P. Long was pictured as
a cursing, swaggering individual be
fore the impeachment hearing of
the house of representatives by
members of the Caddo police jury
who said they had paid a call of
courtesy on the governor in Febru
ary and the governor used obscene
objectionable language.
PETE GAVUZZI LEADS PLAYERS
RUNNERS INTO BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE. Md.. April 5.—{/Pi—
Pete Gavuzzi. British entrant, was
the first of the transcontinental
runners to reach the finish mark of
today's lap of the race from Havre
Degrace. He made the 44-mile run
in 5 hours and 38 minutes and 15
seconds.
BOMB WARNING
TO REBELS AT
NACOJSSUED
Ten Federal Soldiers
Arrested For Being
Armed On American
Side
WASHINGTON, April 5.
— (/P) —• Secretary Stimson
took energetic action today
to protect Americans in the
state of Sinaloa by request
ing the navy department to
send a destroyer to the port
of Topolobampo.
The secretary of state ask
ed Secretary Adams to dis
patch the destroyer to pro
tect Americans and other
nationals whom Hr. Stimson
declared to be endangered
by the retreat of Mexican
rebel forces in Sinaloa.
As another measure of protec
tion for Americans in Naco, Ariz.,
Mr. Stimson requested the secre
tary of war to convey to rebel
leaders in Sonora an additional
warning that their airplane pilots
must refrain from dropping bombs
into the American city when they
raid the federal forces in the Mexi
can town of Naco across the border.
The secretary requested also that
the war department direct tne
American military commander at
Naco to see the warning is effect
ive.
WASHINGTON. April 5.— (/Pi
Major General Lassiter at San An
tonio, informed the war depart
ment 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
international 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 man
were armed.
JUAREZ. Chihuahua. April 5.—
MP)—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. j.
REBELS AT JUAREZ
DIG IN FOR BATTLE
EL PASO. Tex., April 5.—MV-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.
Additional wounded were expected
today.
1,000 DEAD REBELS
AT LA REFORMA
MEXICO CITY. April 5.—MV
Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles today
pushed federal cavalry northward
through Santa Rosalia de Camargo
in an effort to othertake and “ex
terminate” fleeing remnants of the
rebel atmy which aviators sighted
yesterday.
Federal airmen sighted a lone
troop train of four cars just north
of Santa Rosalia, with many miles
of damaged rail line between it and
Chihuahua City. Nearby were com
paratively small detachments of
rebel cavalry. Federal cavalry was
immediately brought up from La
Reforma for pursuit.
General Calles in a message to
President Portes Gil forwarded es
timates of the carnage at La Refor
ma. Rebel dead, he said, exceeded
1.000; wounded numbered 500. There
were 2.000 prisoners. General Cal
les said he had not had time .to
check up on federal casualties.
Success is attending the west
coast campaign also. Gen. Lazaro
Cardenas, in command there, re
ported the rebels of Gen. Roberto
Cruz, and Ramon Iturbe, were re
treating from Culiacan. capital of
the state of Sinaloa, and he expect
ed to occupy it within two days, us
ing it as a base for operations
against Southern Sonora.
In revealing his plans for opera
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Brookhart Makes
Charge; Friends I
Laud G. 0. P. Head:
i
Washington, April 5.—(/P)—Glowing praise and
scathing denunciation of R. B. Creager, republican nation
al committeman in Texas, and his-state organization went
into the record of the senate patronage committee at a
hearing here today. ,
The bulk of the laudation appeared in letters and -
telegrams and affidavits from friends oi Mr. Creager and '
members of the republican organization in Texas. Most £
of the criticism was contained in remarks of Chairman ■„
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SIX ARRESTED
FOR KIDNAPING
Labor Officials Indignant
As Organizers Are ‘Run
Out of Town’
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., April 5.
i — (;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 of
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.
WOMAN KILLED
NEAR VICTORIA
Body Found In Brush Off
Highway; Suspect
' Foul Play
VICTORIA, Tex., April 5.—UP)—
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.
San Benito Winner
In Declamation At
I nterschool Meet
SAN BENITO, Apirl 5.—An
nouncement wras made here today
that San Benito entrants in the
declamation contests at the Inter
scholastic league meet in Browns
ville last week had scored 27 points
to take first place in that event.
T. J. Yoe, superintendent of the
local schools was director of the
event.
Harlingen and La Feria schools
were in second place with 17 points
scored for each Brownsville de
claimers won 5 point sand Stuart
Place 2.
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT
MISSION, April 6.—The pupils
of the Theodore Roosevelt school
in South Mission will give an en
tertainment on Friday, April 15 at
the school auditorium. The title
of the play is “Forest Count” and
more than sixty 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.
NATIONALISTS WIN
HANKOW, China, April 5.—(/Pi
Nationalist ocupation of Hankow
was imminent today as Wuhan
troops defending it refused to
fight their brother Chinese from
Nanking and instead fraternized
with them.
•honest and the most insol- #
ent witness who ever ap- *
peared before a congression
al committee.”
Texgs 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-1
closed, however, that a large num- *
ber of them were from federal of- 1
fice-holders, most of them post- •
masters, who had been regular con-!
tributors to Creager s campaign ’
funds.
Sullivan Lists Charges
Today’s hearing was the first
called by the committee since Pres
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
that recommendations for appoint
ments in other southern states.
would be made with the aid of an
advisory council.
Among the Texas letters was one
from J. G. Sullivan, president of
the Winter Garden Chamber of 5
Commerce, in which he said that I
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, wpre
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- 1
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- i
tion has been made so far as I have
been able to learn.”
In another letter from Texas |
Mrs. W. C. Gardner of San Antonio I
said that in a conversation with ‘
Mrs. Campbell, the collector’s wile 1
“she informed me her home was a ,
meeting place for the Creager poli
ticians and at a meeting there they
read the lawr to her” regarding the
indictment of Representative Warz
bach, republican, Texas, “so evi
dently there was hatched the c^Jd
against him.” Brookhart pis
charged that Creager sought to ob
tain Wurzbach’s indictment for vio
lation of the federal corrupt prac
tices act because the latter refuser
to work with Creager’s organization
in Texas.
Charge Creager Got Money
Charles W. Anderson, San Anto
mo 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, “onl* re
cently took up some cases and fool
ed a federal grand jury in "Waco,
Texas, several hundred miles from
this city, and brought the indict
ment of Congressman Wurzbach
This was done maliciously for the
purpose of besmirching the good
name and character of Mr. Wurz
bach. and to attempt to discredit
him.”
The indictment was recentlv di -
missed.
John N. Baker of Houston wrote
he thought Judge P. A. Dowlen
chairman of the Beaumont, Texas
democratic committee, would “tes
tify that he and other Ku Klus
democrats made up a fund of $20.
000 in Beaumont and Jeffersor
county and gave it to R. B. Creagei
to put Dr. George C. Butte on tin
republican ticket as a candidate foi
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THE WEATHER |
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair to partly cloudy tonight anc
Saturday; not much change u
temperature.
Moderate to strong souther!;
winds on the west coast
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