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TIHRTY’-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 277 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 1929 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
VALLEY j
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E. B. NEISWANGER has been
elected president of the Central
Power and Light company.
Which means that he is the
executive head of this great con
cern’s properties serving almost
every part of south Texas.
I For thirty years E. B. Neiswanger
has been heading upward. And in
! the past six years, with the growth
of electric power development in
south Texas, he has sped upward
most rapidly.
Those in the Valley who have
known E. B. Neiswanger since he
came here in 1923 know' that ability
is being recognized.
Four years ago. after two years
in supervising utility development
for the old Valley Electric and Ice
company, he was elected vice presi
dent and general manager of the
| Central Power and Light company.
And moved to San Antonio. Now
another promotion.
Washington' p*ark is being
whipped into hape as a future
beauty spot.
Ben Proctor, supervising the
construction work, announces that
V the fountain in center of the park
will be tested out in another week.
It will throw water sprays. And
at night these will be colored by
a system of colored electric lights.
Broken stone walks will lead
from all corners to the park center.
Native trees, including ash. of
three or four years gowth. will be
transplanted, to surround the park
on all sides.
In years to come they will pro
vide the shade that is so essential
Iin parks.
The work has been proceeding
somewhat slowly, men being as
signed as they were available from
other jobs.
But it won’t be long now’.
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THE ONION FESTIVAL at Ray
mondville in the middle of last
month probably produced varying
emotioj®on those who attended.
But jWin Ashton, editorx of the
Valley Farmer, published at Mer
cedes, is the only man we know’ of
who has been inspired to write
poetry about it.
In The Farmer of April 5 he
dedicates to Willacy county onion
growers a poem under the title
I “Apropos the Onion Festival at
Raymondville.”
Mr. Ashton writes:
Some rave of orange blossoms, and
some of new-mown hay;
•Of jasmine, honeysuckle, and such
1 scents as they.
* • •
IThe title “Queen of Fragrance” is '
borne by lovely rose,
But some they think the violet the j
sweetest flow’er that grows.
Hulsache blooms are held by some
to have a glorious scent;
While fragrance pure is symbolized
where mignonette is meant.
• • •
i sweet pea has its claims for
l fame; carnations their charm.
I And wild things breathe ambrosial
I fumes on ev’ry Valley farm.
? • * •
L But “handsome is as handsome
1 does,” we hear some farmers
I say
^Vho claim the smell of growing
bulbs doth make their hearts
wax gay.
• • •
^he sweetest smell that comes to
them,—perhaps you won’t
, deny—
Is when their fields give up their
fruit, and all turn out—oh my!
• * *
TVe know a place called Raymond
ville, where onions grow galore.
Where all the streets of onions
, smell, and shops and stores
smell more.
Bull many a swain* in Raymond
ville. and many a maiden fair.
Making loving vows on March
fifteenth despite that perfume
rare.
* * *
i We saw those onions on those walls,
all nailed to keep them there;
But what they couldn't nail be
sides came out and fill’d the
air!
• - * * *
It came in gusts from ev’ry side;
it fairly fill'd the town.
It made the people take deep
breaths to keep that odor down.
• * •
We smelt it on the ev’ning breeze;
it followed us afar.
And when we got to Harlingen wre
smelt it on the car!
• * *
Op reaching home we tried our ,
best—we'd had enough of— |
twell ... • 1
e closed our eyes and dreampt
of—what?—of onions minus
smell.
—John Ashton.
fcflk H. BARNES * of La Feria.
gaged in the business of selling '
o Grande Valley lands and grow
l grapefruit, writes The Herald !
out how the gift of a box of pink
apefruit for a wedding feast in
C' New York has resulted In the pos
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Kansas Folk Flee Befo re Prairie Blaze
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U. S. AIRMEN
SWARM AS BIG
THREE TAKEN
TO HOSPITAL
BADLY BURNED
Homes Destroyed And
Farms Laid Waste
As High Winds Fan
Raging Flames
—
ATWOOD. Kans., April 6.—(JP)—
Fleeing for their lives before a rag
ing prairie fire, farm families in
the wide, thinly populated stretches
of northwestern Kansas have re
lived vividly the hardships of cov
ered wagon days.
Tonight two men and a woman
were in a hospital here, the woman
fighting for life against serious
burns. At least one other person
was recovering from minor injuries.
Two families had lost their homes
and their farms were reduced to
smouldering acres. A third had lost
everything except its house.
A blazing strawstack near Brew
ster, fanned by a 40-mile wind,
made a fiery path ten to twelve
miles wdde and roared through thir
ty miles of Rawlins and Thomas
county farmland, to be halted at a
highway a quarter mile south of
Atwood, last night.
Their motor car fired, Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Miner were serious
ly burned before they found refuge
under a rocky ledge. Mrs. Miner’s
condition is critical. Neil Walker
and Mrs. Stella Hill a widow, nearly
lost their lives in a race with the
flames. Both were burned, Mrs. Hill
only slightly.
Loss of personal property, livestock,
hay, pasture and farm land was es
timated at more than $100,000.
STORMS KILL
20 IN NORTH
Wisconsin Chief Sufferer
With 13 Dead And
Scores Wounded
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MINNEAPOLIS. April 6.—f/P.—
Spring storms that blew up from
nowhere and skipped through Min
nesota and Wisconsin late yester
day cost 20 lives and more than 100
injuries besides destroying proper
ty valued at millions, a check re
vealed tonight.
Besides Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Iowa also felt the wind's force and
listed one dead, a farmer at Little
Rock. In addition several persons
were reported injured in the north
ern part of the state, just across
the Minnesota line.
Wisconsin was the chief sufferer,
13 persons losing their lives and
scores of others suffering injuries
ranging from scratches and bruises
to fractured bones and internal
hurts. Five of the total number J
of dead were reported in Minne- j
sota. two near Minneapolis and one j
each near Forest lake, Lindstrom i
and Taylor falls. J
In Wisconsin the district near j
Exeland appeared hardest hit with j
Reeve a close second. Near Exeland '
four deaths were reported. Three
were listed at Reeve where three
children were killed on the farm
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pittman:
two were killed near Ricelake and
one each at Clayton. Barron, Glen
wood City and Wausau. The death
near Wausau was that of Edwin
Erdman, 32. struck by lightning.
Reports trickled in slowly from
the stormswept sections, adding to
the death list hourly. It was feared
that when wire communications
were fully established the toll might
be further incerased.
Alleged Publisher of Sex
Questions Makes Bond
AUSTIN. April 6.—(^—Horace
Walker of Jefferson, Tex., until
recently a pre-law student at
Texas Christian University, was
out on bond tonight after having
been charged with criminal libel
for his alleged participation in
publication of the Blunderbuss,
anonymous paper, alleged to have
“scandalized” university students
on All Fools’ day.
The Blunderbuss, suppressed
after it had become an annual
habit for April 1. startled the
campus and much of the sedate
city, when it published the sex
questionnaire, circulated at the
University • of Missouri, and
printed other more or less “inti
mate’’ things about boys and
girls who attend the university.
While Walker admitted that he
had something to do with the
solicitation of advertisements for
the Blunderbuss, he would not
reveal the names of the editors j
or circulators, if he knew them.
After several hours of ques
tioning he refused to give any
more information, if he had any,
commenting that he would “take
the rough end of the deal,” if
necessary.
MEXICAN REBELS DEFEATED IN TWO-DAY BATTLE
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Mexican rebel forces under General Escobar retreated northward following their defeat by federal forces
under General Almazan in the two-day battle at Jimenez, Chihuahua. Above: Cavalry columns be
longing to General Almazan moving northward. At right is the federal General Madrigal with binocu
lars. Below: A rebel fighting plane hidden from federal planes by boughs.
San Benito School
Wins Grand Prize
In Music Contests
SAN BENITO. April 6. — En
trants of the San Benito public
schools won the grand prize in the
music meet at the South Texas
State Teachers college in Kings
ville, local people were informed to
night in a telephone message from
T. J. Yoe. superintendent of the
system who was in Kingsville w’ith
his pupils.
The San Benito entrants won
three first prizes for solo work and
a number of prizes for group num
bers, Mr. Yoe said.
Maud Mosler won first place in
the girls’ vocal solo, Louis won the
boys’ vocal solo and Bernard Woods
won the clarinet solos.
The grand award was made to the
school taking the highest number
of points in the meet which lasted
through Friday and Saturday.
Valley entrants from a number of
schools wTent to Kingsville in a spe
cial train. Many others drove
through in automobiles.
GRANDVIEW FIRE LOSS
ESTIMATED AT $17,000
GRANDVIEW. Texas .April 6.—
(TP)—Aid by the Cleburne and Itas
ca fire departments here today pre
vented the spread of a fire which
Grandview residents feared for a
time would be a repition of the 1920
conflagration that wiped out the
town.
The loss today was $17,000. Three
houses were .destroyed. The cause
was undetermined.
Brownsville Votes
Bonds; Edinburg’s
Old Board Victor
The $75,000 Brownsville independ
ent school district bond issue was
voted 190 to two and four members
of the board of trustees were re
turned to office without opposition
in the election held Saturday.
Harbert Davenport and J. A.
Graham each received 190 votes
while Ike A. Dudley and O. V.
Lawrence each obtained 189 bal
lots. In the trustee election there
were five mutilated ballots and in
the bond vote two.
The board of trustees will be
called into session early this week
for the purpose of naming ofifcers.
Indications are that O. V. Lawrence
will remain as president of the body
and Sherwood Bishop will continue
as vice president. The four trustees
were elected for two years. Hold
overs are Sherwood Bishop. R. B.
Creager and Cleve H. Tandy.
The trustees will get into action
immediately on the bonds voted
which are to be used for the con
struction of a new six-room ward
school in Alta Vista and remodelling
of the old grammar school. These
new buildings will care an over
flow' at the new grammar school
and for an increaseof 312 in the
scholastic census for 1929-1930. In
addition to the regular increase in
the census for 1930-31. six-year-old;
will have to be added to the rolls
Plans for the buildings have been
draw'n by Ben V. Proctor of Browns
ville and Phelps & Dewees of San
Antonio. These have been accepted
by the board. The new' school
house is to be know'n as the East
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MAN SUSPECTED IN
KILLING SURRENDERS
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 6 —
(/P)—Dan Hj'sler, alleged bootleg
ger suspected as having informa
tion concerning the assassination of
former Deputy Sheriff Joe Hay
wood, surrendered today to Sheriff
Cahoon, on a warrant charging
violation of the prohibition law
and was released under bond.
Sheriff Cahoon said that “if
Hysler did not actually do the
shooting, he probably knows who
did and we have a few questions
we'd like to ask hint”
MISS MORROW
LEAVES HERE
Sister of Lindy’s Fiancee
Off For Boston After
Easter Holidays
Returning to her school work in
Boston after a short Easter visit
with her parents at Cuernavaca
and Mexico City, Miss Constance
Morrow, younger sister of Anne
Morrow, fiancee of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, left here Saturday at
8:35 p. m. over the Missouri Pa
cific lines. She had flown here
earlier in the day over the Mexi
can Aviation company line, landing
at the Brownsville municipal air
port at 12:50 p. m.
The petite young daughter of
Ambassador Dwight Morrow was
accompanied by Mrs. S. R. Grame
who acted as chaperone. They
were in good spirits despite a
! somewhat rough air passage from
I Mexico City and went to the El
: Jardin hotel shortly after arriving.
The pair enjoyed almost abso
j lute seclusion, taking a walk
through the business district un
recognized in the afternoon. They
ate at Hotel El Jardin in the aft
ernoon and boarded their drawing
room on the train at 8:10 p. m.
unrecognized.
Their drawing room will be taken
straight through to New York go
: ing by way of Houston and St.
i Louis. Miss Morrow is due to ar
rive in New York at 9:35 a. m.
Tuesday.
She has become a confirmed air
enthusiasts and her recent flights
with Col. Lindbergh at Mexico City
has added to her zest for travel
by air. Over an hour was spent
over Mexico City by her with the
Lone Eagle just prior to coming
here.
As the two travelers boarded 01"
train here alone, Porter Walter
Hilliard with his customary polite
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CHICAGO FEUD
ON AGAIN AS
BOMBS HURLED
Two Explosions Rock
Stockyards District
When Gangsters Get
Machine Guns Out
CHICAGO, April 6.—(W—The
roar of bombs and the death of a
beer runner and former convict re
opened Chicago’s gang warfare,
quiet since the St. Valentine's day
massacre of seven men. today.
Two explosions rocked the stock
yards district on the south side
after Frank (Red) Krueger had
been assassinated as he sat in his
automobile in the west part of the
city.
A third attempt to dynamite a
building, formerly a gambling
house operated by Thomas Tuitt.
was frustrated by a patrolman who
put out a sputtering fuse leading
to thirty-five sticks of dynamite
, placed in a small black bag.
Enemies of Thomas Quinlan,
gangster, racketeer and beer run
ner, were blamed for the bombings, i
which damaged a soft drink place
and a florist shop, and for the
attempt to blow the former Tuitt
headquarters.
JUDGE SWORN
!N LONG TRIAL
Chief Justice O’Niell Em
panels Senators As Im
I
peachment Jury
BATON ROUGE. La., April 6.—
UP)—Chief Justice Charles A. O'Neill
of the Louisiana supreme court was
sworn in late today as judge of the
senate court of impeachment for the
trial of Governor Huey P. Long.
The chief justice was presented to
the senate and sworn in as presid
ing judge after a conference of an
hour with a committee of the
senate relative to trial procedure.
Lieutenant Governor Cyr retired
from the chair and Justice O’Neill
swore in the senators as jurors and
announced the senate resolved into
a court of impeachment.
The committee of managers. wTho
will direct the prosecution of the
governor, impeached by the house
of representatives today, then were
received by the senate court and the
resolution carrying the impeach
ment indictment was read to the
court.
The senate court then recessed
until Thursday. Long, youthful gov
ernor, was impeached by the house
amid a scene of disorder.
By vote of 58 to 40. the house
handed down an indictment charg
ing the governor with attempting to
suppress the freedom of the press,
specifically by threatening Charles
P. Manship, Baton Rouge publisher,
with public exposure of the fact
that the publisher’s brother wras an
inmate in the insane asvium. unless
he stopped an editorial attack on
the governor's proposed tax on oil.
The count read:
“That the said Huey P. Long did
while governor of the state of
| Louisiana, and in the city of Baton
Rouge and in a public place, on or
about the 20th day of March. 1929.
intrude himself upon, threaten and
attempt to intimidate Charles P.
Manshio. owner and publisher of
the Dailv State Times, a newsnaper
Dublished in the city of Baton
Rouge, and did threaten to make
(Continued on Tage Three.)
Bishop Asks Beauties to
Shun Galveston Contest
TEMPLE, Tex., April 6.—(fP)—
Bishop C. E. Byrne of Galveston
reiterated here tonight that he
had advised “Miss Austria” not
to appear in the Galveston bath
ing beauty contest because it
was “uncouth and vulgar.” He
said he had sent similar letters
to the parents of as many entries
as he could reach.
“I have been fighting this thing
for three or four years,” the
bishop declared. “I make no at
tack on the girls, but on the bus
iness men of Galveston. It is
simply parading girls in bath
ing suits who do not go in bath
ing as a means of drawing a
crowd.
Bishop Bvme said he had ad
dressed a letter to Dublin news
papers. advising against sending
an Irish beauty to the contest,
and that they had appreciated it.
“People in other countries do
not know that their girls will
come here, be dressed in bathing
suits and paraded like animals
at a fat stock show.” he said.
Bathing contests are becoming
almost extinct, the bishop point
ed out. “Atlantic City has given
up its contest, he said, and “only
the backwoods places—so to
speak—are keeping it alive.”
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i MEXICAN GIRL
BRAVES REBEL
FIRE AT NACO
NACO, SONORA. Mexico,
April 6.—(A*;—One of the great
est displays of courage during
today’s battle in the Naco fed
eral trenches was made by a
Mexican girl apparently not
more than 16.
She walked alone, upright, on
the firing step of the east trench,
shook her fist at the advancing,
shooting rebel troops and hurled
shrill maledictions on them. Re
peatedly the heated “Soldadera,”
was pulled down behind the
earthen breaswork by soldiers,
but always she leaped up again.
She was not hit.
SIX DEAD IN
HOTEL BLAZE
Investigation Begun As Fire
men Hunt Six More Miss
ing In Ruins
DES MOINES, April 6.—(IP)—The
well known death toll from fire
that destroyed the historic old
Kirkwood hotel here early today
was at six tonight as firemen con
tinued to search the ruins in the
belief that bodies of some of the
six persons unaccounted for might
be found.
Sixteen persona were seriously
injured or burned in the fire which
caused a property loss in excess
of $30,000. • An unidentified body
was found late today, the sixth per
son known to have perished.
Meanwhile, State Fire Marshal
John W. Strohm. and City Fire
Marshal Charles Barker started an
investigation.
Survivors were quoted as declar
ing they had been awakened by
reports that the hotel was ablaze,
but were told to return to their
beds as the fire had been extin
guished.
The dead: Carl Jerrup. waiter,
formerly of Moorehead. Iowa: Mrs
Ted Watson and W. P. Raidley of
Des Moines: and John P. Scott,
who came to Des Moines about two
weeks ago from Mexico City: Tom
Coates. 60. of Des Moines, field man
for the Farmers’ union, and Mrs.
Nell Van Auken, Des Moines.
Searchers said they believed an
aged woman was buried under the
debris on the top floor of the south
end of the building. Ted Watson,
who with his wife and three chil
dren was a guest of the hotel, is
in a hospital probably fatally in
jured.
Police tonight completed check
ing the hotel records and found six
names of persons unaccounted for.
They were:
Queens Craig. E. Reise. Mrs. M.
Hickenlooper. C. L. Henry. G. Long
and Betty Moreland.
MYSTERY PERSISTS IN
SLAYING OF OIL MAN
TULSA. April 6.—(7P)—Tracing
clues which failed to materialize to
day kept investigators busy in an
inquiry into the death of William
S. McCray, millionaire oil opera
tor, attacked in his hotel room
March 24.
In two death bed statements Mc
Cray declared he had been attack
ed by an unidentified man.
BOOKKEEPERS RELEASED
GAINESVILLE, Texas, April 6 —
(JP)—Carroll Reese and John H.
Shepherd, former bookkeepers of
the Lindsey National bank here,
were released on bond todav on
charges of embezzlement of $4,800
in bank funds.
FIGHT RAGES
Federals Repulse At
tack On Naco But
American Is Shot;
18 Ships En Route
MARFA. Texas. April 6.—(/P)—
Twelve planes from the third at
tack group at Fort Crockett Gal
veston, enroute for Naco, Ariz.,
to protect U. S. property, landed
here at 7 p. m and will continue
on Sunday. They are under orders
from the corps area commander.
Each carried a pilot and one man
and was loaded to capacity with
ammunition for the five machine
guns taken as equipment. Capt. H.
N. Heisen is in command.
Seven officers and 43 men from
Fort Crockett will leave by train
tomorrow morning for Fort Huach
uca to join the aviators.
Officers and men in the flight
today were:
Capt. H. N. Heison. Second Lieut.
J. G. Moore, Second Lieut. O. C.
George, Second Lieut. G. H. Mac
Nair, Secortd Lieut. E. P. Rose. Sec
ond Lieut. R. Herber. Second Lieut.
A. M. Kelley, Second Lieut. R. D.
Johnston, Second Lieut. F. M. Zig
ler, Second Lieut. J. H. Williamson,
Second Lieut. T. L. Moseley, Second
Lieut. W. S. Lee. Sergeant Harry
Mooney, Sgt. Lindsey L. Braxton.
Sgt. Everett J. Mays. Sgt. Joseph
C. Laza. Private Chester McPheter,
Sgt. A1 G. Myers. Corporal Charles
B. Hudson. Sgt. Arthur H. Adams;
Sgt. Toney Bauer, Sgt. James H.
Crawlev, Sgt. Tom R. Harmon, Cor
poral Wm. A. Murray.
SIX PLANES~LEAVE
FROM SAN ANTONIO
SAN ANTONIO. April 6.—</Ph
Six army airplanes, equipped for
combat, en route to Naco. Ariz.. to
protect American citizens and prop
erty from possible harm resulting
from Mexican fighting there, land
ed at El Paso early tonight, official
reports reecived here said.
U. S. SUFFERS IN
NACO REBEL RAID
NACO. Sonora, Mexico. April 6.—
(JP)—Attacking this Mexican federal
stronghold in force today, rebel
troops of General Fausto Topete
failed to defeat the defending forces
of General Lucas Gonzalez and
were-forced back with apparently
considerable losses. Although the
casualties on neither side could be
definitely determined, federals were
reported to have suffered the least.
Coincident with the opening of
the battle early in the day. an
American trooper. Private John
Finezee, negro. Tenth cavalry, wa
shot in a brief encounter between a
United States patrol and Mexicans
believed to be rebels on the border
eight miles east of here. Other
casualties on the American side of
the line during the battle included
two Mexicans, a girl and a woman,
slightly wounded by rifle bullets.
In addition to the wounding of
the trooper and others on United
States territory, a rebel plane at
tacking the federal trenches, drop
ped a bomb on the Arizona side of
the line. It exploded 50 feet from
a telegraph office where newspaper
correspondents and telegraphers
were working, shattering windows
and starting a fire in a trash pile.
Charles Newton was slightly
wounded by a fragment of the
bomb which fell in the back yard
of his home.
Airplanes, tanks, infantry and
cavalry of the revolutionary forces
launched the long-threatened at
tack on Naco. Naco was defended
by 800 federal troops augmented to
nearly 1100 during progress of the
battle by arrival of a train of Mex
ican soldiers who had been intern
ed at Fort Bliss, Texas. The rebel
attackers numbered upwards of
1,500.
Two airplanes, two tanks, about
500 cavalrymen and columns of in
fantry joined in the rebel onslaught
shortly after dawn. These forces
by noon succeeded in penetrating a
cemetery east of town and drove
the federals from the front line
trenches, despite a withering fire.
Rifle and machine gun fire from
the federal trenches was augment
ed by a single piece of artillery, a
one pounder. Rebel tanks, con
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THE WEATHER
West Texas: Mostly cloudy Sun
day, somewhat cooler north por
tion; Monday probably fair.
Oklahoma: Unsettled Sunday,
probably showers, cooler in west
portion; Monday unsettled.
East Texas: Unsettled, possibly
showers and cooler in northwest
portion Sunday; Monday, probably
cloudy. Fresh " and occasionally
strong southerly winds, diminish
ing.