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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 289 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929 TWELVE PAGES TODAY 5C a COPlI
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POSTMASTER Wilbur Dennett
sees relief ahead.
Ever since Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh flew the air mail from
Brownsville to Mexico City. March
10, inaugurating the service for
Compania Mexicana de Aviacion.
the postmaster has been the mark
of indignant stamp collectors.
“What happened to my letters I
sent out on the plane which Col
onel Charles A. Lindbergh flew?”
was the burden of their letters.
“Why,” they asked, “don’t I get
those letters back?”
“I don’t know,” was about the
only reply the postmaster could
make.
• * •
He didn’t know. In fact he was
doing a lot of wonderng about the
matter himself. A lot of wonder
ing and a lot of questioning In
other quarters.
Every person who might'be able
to throw any light on the matter
was questioned.
All denied any knowledge of tteji
5,000 letters that seemed to have
performed a Houdini disappearing
act.
The postmaster here knew they
j had been loaded into the plane.
^ The postmaster at Mexico City
if was equally certain they had not
— been delivered. All along the route
porkers in the service denied any
nowledge of what had happened
I 1 i them. The letters were not at
pico, the only stop.
• • •
^it the mystery has been solved
and everything is serene
id the office of Postmaster
l»tt.
letters, duly marked wjth
ndbergh cachet, tgpp being
-d to their rightful owners,
came about through the
•• size of the open space
igs of the big tri-motored
•e in which Col. Lind
V. ^e the trip.
\ ,^gs of mail containing
the jg ’etters, jostled into the
far cois-^/Of one wing. The plane
was sent on to Merida for service
on a Pan-American line down
there. It was searched carefully
and when hope of finding the
missing mail w’as almost aban
doned a searcher crawled back into
the wing. There was the mail.
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MASTER PLUMBERS of Texas
concluded a three-day convention
in McAllen Wednesday.
During their visit they were
given an opportunity to see much
of the Valley; they were fed on
Valley grapefruit.
Now Valley plumbers are worry
ing about the possibility of having
new competition.
Many of the visitors expressed
a desire to make their homes in
this section.
C. W. Richmond. McAllen plumb
er, planned the entertainment for
the visitors and received high
praise.
The visitors had a view of Mexico
at Reynosa, where they enjoyed a
i dinner dance.
The members of the women’s
| auxiliary were guests of Harlingen
' at the Woman's Chamber of Com
merce building there and toured
the Valley as far east as that city.
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DAIRYING is a subject on which
much is being said in the Valley
at present but little is being done
about it.
That is, little is being done which
appears on the surface—which
would make good news copy.
But leaders are mapping a cam
paign which is destined to produce
results and which will hasten
placing the Industry on a firm
footing.
Before fine dairy cattle—or beef
cattle either, for that matter—can
be brought into Cameron county
In any number the tick must be
eradicated.
• • •
The cost of the continued dip
ping campaign which it is neces
sary to go through in order to kill
out the ticks has in the past been
almost a prohibitive burden on the
counties undertaking it and has
I been the source of much trouble
and hard feeling.
State Senator Archer Parr will
introduce a bill in the special ses
sion of the legislature, which meets
Monday providing for inspectors
paid by the state.
This bill will be favored by
Cameron county citizens and as
soon as it is passed—and it is be
lieved the measure will pass—
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SENATE GROUP
UNANIMOUS IN
FIRSTBALLOT
Hoover Nomination for
Place on Radio Com
mission Also Given
Favor of Solons
WASHINGTON, April 19.—(IF)—
The senate Interstate Commerce
committee ordered favorable reports
today on the nominations of Maj.
Gen. Charles Saltzman, retired, to
be a member of the radio commis
sion for the fourth zone, and Oscar
B. Colquitt, former governor of Tex
as, to be a member of the railway
board of mediation.
Both nominations were approved
in short order after Saltzman and
Colquitt had appeared before the
committee and answered questions.
Saltzman is a republican from
Iowa.
Colquitt is a democrat, but he told
the committee he voted for Herbert
Hoover at the last election. His
nomination, he said, was indorsed by
the Texas democratic committee
and the Hoover democratic organ
ization of that state.
The committee vote was unani
mous for both candidates.
M. P. TO HAVE
NEW PASSENGER
Changes In S. A., Houston
Schedules To Connect
With Airlines
Announcement of a new and
faster schedule for “The Pioneer.”
the Missouri Pacific’s fast Browns
ville-Houston train, and the estab
lishment of an express and local
train between Brownsville and
Houston, effective at midnight,
Sunday, April 21, was announced
Friday by W. R. Kiekel, soliciting
freight and passenger agent in
Brownsville.
“The Pioneer” will be a solid
Pullman and one chair car train,
and will make no stops between
Harlingen and Houston, with the
exception of two stops, for oper
ating purposes. It will carry the
mails.
“The Pioneer.” knowrn as No. 16.
will leave Brownsville at 9 p. m.
instead of 8:35 p. m., arriving in
Houston at 7:30 a. m. and at San
Antonio 7 a. m.
Southbound, “The Pioneer” will
leave Houston at 9 p. m. as at pres
ent, arriving in Brownsville at 7:30
a. m. instead of 7:55 a. m. The San
Antonio train will leave that city
at 10:15 p. m., the same as at pres
ent, with Pioneer connection at
Odem.
The change, according to Kiekel,
is to provide a better train and
close connections at Brownsville
for airplane travelers between
Brownsville and Tampico and Mex
ico City.
The new train, No. 14. north
bound, wrill be an express and local
train carrying one Pullman car to
Houston. It will leave Browns
ville at 7 p. m., arriving in Houston
at 7 a. m. Leaving Houston as No.
13. southbound, it will depart at
7:45 p. m.. arriving in Brownsville
at 8:10 a. m.
There will also be a change of
time on No. 12, northbound, day
light train between Brownsville.
Corpus Christi. Houston and San
Antonio. This train will leave
Brownsville at 6:10 a. m. instead of
6 a. m., and southbound will leave
Houston at 8:25 a. m., the same as
at present, arriving in Brownsville
at 9:55 p. m., the same as at pres
ent. The only change in this
train’s time is the leaving hour, be
ing ten minutes later than at pres
ent. This train carries cafe and
parlor car between all points.
TEXAN DIES AFTER
CRASH AT VICTORIA
VICTORIA, Tex., April 18.—G.
Coffey, 45, Victoria business man,
was fatally hurt, and Henry Saens,
former deputy sheriff of this
county, was killed instantly, last
night when their automobile col
lided with a parked truck.
The accident happened near
Pierce when they were passing an
other automobile. Coffey, who
formerly lived at Farmersville,
died today. J
Doherty Weds Woman Who
Nursed Him in Illness
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NEW YORK, April 19.—(JF)—
Henry L. Doherty, one of the
country's wealthiest bachelors and
nationally known as a public util
ity leader, has announced his
marriage last New Year’s eve to
Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, a widow,
who nursed him during a two
years’ illness.
Mr. Doherty, whose wealth is
variously estimated from $25,
000,000 to $200,000,000, is 58 years
old. His wife is 40. News of the
wedding came as a surprise to his
business associates to whom he
often had said he would remain a
bachelor all his life.
The announcement was made at
the offices of Henry L. Doherty
and company, where it was said
Mr. and Mrs. Doherty were on a
belated wedding trip to Atlantic
City. The wredding took place at
the home of Canon Lawrence E.
Skey, rector of St. Anne’s An
gelican church at Toronto.
GIRL WITH ONLY
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SHOES DANCES ON
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LAWN; FINED $100
DALLAS. April 19.—(IP)—A Dal
las youth drove up n front of a
blonde 19-year-old Dallas nymph’s
house several days ago, and she
danced out on the lawn wearing
nothing at all except shoes, he
testified in court here today. She
sang a song of springtime, other
witnesses, all men, testified.
She denied being at home when
the dance was alleged to have
been given. The girl was fined
$100 and costs.
“If the girl had been a cfofau
tante,” said the assistant distil
attorney, “her maneuver would
have been called Greek or inter
pretive or something and she
would have been invited to give a
recii^V She works in a five and
ten store, neighbors called them
indecent.”
APPEAR FOR STATE
AUSTIN, April 19.—(>P)—R. M.
Tilley and Jack Blalock, assistants
attorney general, were in Texar
kana today appearing for the state
in litigation growing out of the war
department’s effort to decrease tolls
on the bridge across Red river be
tween Denison, Texas, and Durant,
Okla.
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ASSOCIATED P«« (.UNPERWOeP)
HENRY U DOHECTY
NEW AIR ROUTE
SURVEYSTARTS
U. S. Inspector In Houston
To Plan Lighting of
Mail Line Here
'Special to The Herald.)
HOUSTON, April 19.—L. C. El
liott. airway extension superin
tendent of the United States de
partment of commerce, aeronau
tics branch, is in Houston mak
ing plans for a survey of the pro
posed HoMston-Browncville air mail
route. He landed on the Houston
airport Wednesday in a Stearman
biplane (Whirlwind), piloting the
plane himself.
After conferring with postal and
chamber of commerce officials, El
liott announced that he will begin
at once an aerial survey of the
proposed route, flying the distance
in his plane. He estimated that
the survey would require 60 days
and that the installation of night
lighting equipment would be com
pleted in an additional four
months.
Electric beacons will be placed
10 miles apart between Houston
and Brownsville. An added safety
precaution wTill be the establish
(Continued on page nix.)
: LATE BULLETINS
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT SEEKS 4-STORY BUILDING
AUSTIN, April 19.—(AP)—The highway department is seriously in
need of a not less than four-story building to house it, Gibb Gilchrist,
state highway engineer, told members of the house appropriations com
mittee today.
REBELS DRIVEN FROM SASABE, REPORT SAYS
NOGALES, Ariz., April 19.—(JP)—An engagement in which several
soldiers and a rebel lieutenant colonel were killed occurred at 7 a. m. at
Sasabe, Sonora, federals here announced. Eighty rebels were holding the
border city, but were surprised and driven out after a sharp engagement
by federal troops.
JOHNNY MILES BEATS OUT DE MAR IN MARATHON
BOSTON, April 19.—(AP)—Johnny Miles of Sydney, Nova Scotia, to
day won the thirty-second annual Boston Athletic association marathon.
It was the second time he has won the event. In repeating his 192G vic
tory today he shattered the old record of 2 hours, 37 minutes and t 4-5
seconds by covering the 26 miles, 385 yards, in 2:33:08 4-5.
REPARATIONS CONFERENCE MAY YET AGREE
PARIS, April 19.—(JP)—With definite breakdown of the reparations
negotiations held off by the sudden death of Lord Revelstoke, British
expert, authoritative quarters late today indicated the conference which
went aground yesterday may yet be refloatd.
MITCHELL AFFIRMS MELLON’S RIGHT TO STAY
WASHINGTON, April 19.—(AP)—An opinion by Attorny General
Mitchell to President Hoover ruling that there is no question of the right
of Secretary Mellon to continue in office was placed before the senate
judiciary committee today by Senator Reed, republican, of Pennsylvania.
HOUSTON POLICE CAPTURE "PHANTOM” BANDIT
HOUSTON, April 19.—(JP)—Police today captured Houston’s ‘‘phan
tom’’ bandit, who had given officers a merry chase for the past few
weeks, during which he was credited with some 25 robberies.
BRAVES DEFEAT ROBINS IN MORNING GAME
BOSTON, April 19.—(AP)—The Boston Braves defeated Brooklyn in
a morning game as part of a Patriots Day double bill by a score of 6 to 5,
shoving across the winning run in the last half of the ninth inning.
• DELCURTO LEAES FOR FRUIT FLY CONFERENCE
AUSTIN, April 19.—(JP)—J. M. Delcurto, chief entomologist of the state
department of agriculture, left today for Washington to attend a con
ference called by the U. S. commissioner of agriculture, to consider a
quarantine against Florida to prevent spread into this state of the Med
iterranean fly.
V
ALDRICH ON
BAKER’S SIDE,
HE MARGES
McAllen Man Declares
San Juan Attorney
Helped Elect Admin
istration Candidate
AUSTIN, April 19.—(/P)—Gordon
Griffin of McAllen, contestant for
the district judgship of the 93rd
district court, charged here today
that Governor Moody had failed
in his announced effort to avoid
partisanship in the Hidalgo county
political controversies when he
picked a district attorney to suc
ceed the late S. H. Woods, of the
79th court.
Griffin said that Oliver C. Aid
rich, the governor’s choice as one
who was free of political ‘ alliance”
in the Valley, had joined hands
with Sheriff A. Y. Baker's ‘‘admin
istration forces” in helping to elect
their candidate to the mayor's of
fice In San Juan during the re
cent municipal election.
“The governor had an opportun
ity to select a district attorney
from two applicants who absolutely
were not aligned with either side,”
Griffin said. ‘‘The governor had
plenty of chances to get informa
tion which would have directed
him down the middle of the road.”
Griffin is here in attendance on
district court, where he lately won
a decision over Judge J. E. Leslie,
incumbent for district judge, when
Judge George Calhoun ordered the
i commissioners court of Hidalgo
(Continued on page six)
WOMANHELDON
FRAUD CHARGE
Well-Known Author Once
Visited Here; Left Bad
Check Behind
A woman giving the name of
Miss Elizabeth Murray, believed to
be the same one who was arrested
at San Jose, Calif., Thursday on
a warrant from Fort Worth, where
I she is under indictment on a
charge of mail fraud. visited
Brownsville in January, 1927, and
proposed to organize an artists’ col
ony.
| The colony was to be located on
! the Barreda tract, which was about
to be developed at that time.
The woman explained it was
planned to build a large hotel and
a number of cabins to house the
artists who would make their home
in the Valley.
It is reported the woman who
was here left at least one bad check
behind her when she abandoned
her project and moved.
FORT WORTH. April 19.—(AP)—
The federal district attorney’s of
fice here today awaited informa
(Continued on page six.)
Free Tickets
To Capitol for
Herald Readers
The names of two
Brownsville subscribers
of The Herald appear
in the classified adver
tising columns today.
By calling at The Her
ald office, Adams and
13th streets these sub
scribers will receive
free of charge two tic
kets to the Capitol
Theater permit ting
them to see the new
picture, “The Carnation
Kid” featuring Douglas
MacLean.
Two names will ap
pear in the classified
columns three days of
each week in the future.
Read the classifed
columns and get free
tickets. Your name
may be in the paper to
day.
Bob Blake Calm
As He Pays With
Life for Murder
HUNTSVILLE, Texas, April 29.—The fear that drove Robert Blake
to pace his cell like a caged animal during the past several days left him
early today as he went to the electric chair to pay with his life for
murder.
Blake walked to the death chamber erect. As he stepped into the
room, a iaint smue piayea over?
his face. He nodded to several of
the spectators and walked straight
to the chair and sat down.
“Anything you want to say, Rob
ert,” Captain R. E. L. Allen asked
him.
“No, not anything, Captain,” he
said.
Then he leaned back in the chair
and shut his eyes. His head drop
ped over to one side and his body
relaxed as guards hurriedly fum
bled with the straps that bound
him.
The switch was thrown at 12:15.
At 12:24 a. m„ Dr. E. L. Angier,
prison physician, pronounced him
dead.
Blake’s last hours were spent
writing a letter to his mother.
When Captain Allen went to his
cell last night to read the death
warrant to him, Blake was writ
ing. He looked up impatiently as
Allen entered and asked: “Do I
have to listen to that? I’m writ
ing a letter to mother, and I want
to finish it.”
Allen told him it was necessary,
and Blake walked around his cell
nervously, chewing on a cigar.
When Allen finished reading, Blake
shook hands with all the guards.
“I want to thank all of you,”
he said, “for your kindness to me
while I’ve been in prison. I want
you to know I have no malice in
my heart toward anyone connected
with the prison or with this execu
tion. I appreciate everything that
has been done for me. Everyone
has been good and kind all the
time.
“Goodbye, all of you.”
Newspapermen crowded around
Blake.
“Is there anything you want to
say now?” they asked.
“Yes,” Blake replied as he
rolled the cigar nervously in his
mouth. “I hope this execution will
be the last one in this penitentiary
or in this state.
“I hope the people will awaken
to the realization of how barbaric
and antique capital punishment is.
I do not think that capital pun
ishment is a crime deterrent. I
think it tends to increase crime.”
As Blake stepped from his cell
he shook hands again with the
guards and walked down the tier of
cells and shook hands with each
inmate, telling him goodbye and to
pray for him.
Jack Norton, a convict, handed
him a white rose.
“This is for purity, Bob,” he
said.
"Thanks,” Blake said, and pin
ned the rose in the lapel of his
coat. It was there when he went
to the chair.
He reached the cell of Pete Mc
Kenzie, condemned San Antonio
man.
McKenzie shut his eyes as if to
blot out the picture of what he,
too, is doomed to see.
Blake was the youngest man to
die in the Texas electric chair.
He was but 23 and was sentenced
to death for the slaying of Fred
Connor, Tulsa automobile sales
man.
HEAR WORKERS CLAIMS
AUSTIN, April 19.—i/P)—Hearing
of the protest of railway employes
against removal of the machine
shops and roundhouse of the Tex
as and Pacific railway company
from Long iew, will be held by the
railroad commission in Longview on
April 25, Clarence E. Gilmore, chair
man, announced today.
BABE WEDS
.
Mrs. Claire Hodgson, 26, New
York actress and a widow,
above, and Babe Ruth, below,
were married on the eve of the
American league opening in
New York. The bride formerly
lived at Jefferson and Athens,
Ga. The Babe’s first wife was
burned to death Jan. 11. (Pic
ture by telephoto from New
York).
6 SUFFOCATED
AS HOME BURNS
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Bodies of Aged Woman and
5 Children Found In Up
per Story of House
SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 19.—(JP)
An aged woman and five children
suffocated as they slept when a de
fective kitchen stove set fire to
the home of Harvey Purbucker here j
last night.
The grandmother was Mrs. Mary
Gooley, 78. The boys, all sons of!
Mr. and Mrs. Parbucker, were Aloy
sius, 15; John, 13; Edward, 10; and
Louis, 8. The girl, a cousin, was
Katherine Guard, 12.
Fred Gertner, a neighbor, saw a
red glow in the windows of the
house, a two-story frame dwelling
shortly before 11 o’clock. He tried
to enter by breaking a window,
but, finding the smoke too dense,
summoned the fire department.
With the blaze soon under con
trol, the firemen found the bodies
in sleeping rooms on the upper floor.
Their features were composed, in
dicating they had died in sleep.
The parents had left the place
early in the evening, taking their
youngest child, Rita, 3.
Radio Aiding Police is
Danger Signal for Thug
CHICAGO, April 19.— <JP) —
Radio is a great invention, the
burglar said.
A woman, observing the burglar
leisurely looting the third-IlOor
apartment at 5737 Prairie ave
nue, telephoned police. Police
notified radio station WGN so
that word might be flashed to
touring squad cars, equipped with
receiving sets.
A moment later listeners on
the WGN program heard this;
“Detective squads, attention.
There’s a burglar on the third
floor at 5737 Prairie avenue.”
The squad of Lieut. Walter
Storms heard the call, and sped
towards the address given. They
entered the apartment and found
the robber gone.
In a corner a radio was going
full blast. Tucked under the lid
was this note:
“Dear Radio Man: Thanks for
the tip-off. You’re a swell an
nouncer. I’m now signing off.” i
SALOONS AND I
STORES OPEN I
AFTERTRUI I
25 Per Cent Reduction!
In New Levies Pro-I|
mised Drivers LeadsH
To Settlement !
The chauffeurs’ union of Mata- H
moros, striking for the past three fl
days against greatly increased state B
tax levies, today reached a com- H
promise with the constituted gov- fl
ernment and the Mexican city B
across the Rio Grande returned to B
near normal at 11:15 a. m. Friday B
when the strike was declared offi- B
daily ended. fl
The slate government, through fl
the chamber of commerce offered fl
a 25 per cent reduction in the new H
levies and this offer was accepted fl
at a meeting this morning of rep- fl
resentatives of the drivers, and the f 1
chamber of commerce. I
All stores were reopened and sa- Hi
loons were operating as usual with B
the exception of those ordered closed fl
by Gov. Francisco Castellanos of ,.:.l
Tamaulipas. When a number of t l
saloons dosed in sympathy with the J
strikers the governor ordered that 9
they be officially closed. Large 9
seals were placed over the doors of 9
these places and permission of the
governor is required before they can Ig
be reopened. fa
On conclusion of the agreement fi|
a telegram was sent to Governor ij
Castellanos at Victoria, capital of fl
the state by officers of the union fl
expressing their allegiance to him. ||
The telegram said:
“The chauffeurs’ union of this |fj
city having held a conference with fl
chamber of commerce represents- n
tives, has decided to end the strike 1^
immediately. Our attitude towards jg
your government has never been one fl
of rebellion, and we take this op- fl
portunity to pledge allegiance to fl
The message was signed by Jose l|
Gonzales as president pro tempore, fl
Mateo Martinez, secretary, Lam- IS
berto Lerma. sergeant-at-arms, and fl
Eusebio Cisneros, vice president. II
The chamber of commerce direc- p
tors, realizing the situation was be- m
coming serious, late Thursday held ||
a conference which was attended by Iff
many of the merchants who had k
closed their places of business. It ■
was decided at this time to attempt I ’
to mediate the strike and reach a 8
peaceable settlement. 1
As a consequence a few places of S
business wrere opened late in the I;
afternoon and the chamber of com- 1
merce leaders prevailed upon mem- |
bers of the drivers union to call off ®
a meeting which was to have been |
held at the union hall at 8 p. m. |
Armed guards which lined the te
streets of Matamoros yesterday were S
not in evidence today and the city «
had returned to its normal appear- |
ance. The guards were recruited ||
from the Agrarians and were put jl
on the streets by the city govern- 1
ment when it was feared the strike I
would lead to an outbreak. I
Hoberto Gonzalez, president of the 1
union, who in a speech at the hall |
yesterday counselled the strikers to |j
be calm and peaceful, was in Nuevo 1
(Continued on page six.) g
THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Mostly cloudy and unsettled to
night and Saturday; not much
change in temperature. Fresh ana
occasionally strong southerly winds
on the west coast. 1
For East Texas: Cloudy and un
settled tonight with showers and
thunderstorms In interior; Saturday
cloudy; probably thunderstorms in
east portion. Fresh southerly 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 Stage Clmg. Bam
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.3 0.0 .00
Laredo . 27 —0.5 —0.1 .00
Rio Grande . 21 4.5 0.0 .00
Mission. 22 4.3 0.0 .00
San Benito . 23 8 9 -0.5 .00
Brownsville . 18 4.4 40.1 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
bel tomorrow, under normal met
eorological condition:
High. 12:43 a. m.; 2:02 p. m.
Low.7:47 a. m.; 8:18 p m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 6:55
1 Sunrise tomorrow .6:08
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