Brownsville herald. [volume], May 14, 1929, Page SIX, Image 6

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|U. S. COURT IS
I WORKING FAST
I 9 Sentenced on Opening
I Day; Liquor, Immijra*
1 t:on Big Items
| After nearly breaking al! previous
■ records for prosecutions on its open
■ ing day Monday, the federal district
■court continued to dispose cf imml
■rratlon and liquor cases rapidly
■ Tuesday. The court proper did not
■ get into operation until 11 a. m.
■ Monday but by closing time has
Pmeeted out 60 sentence?. The best
l! record previously performed here
was 88 sentences last year. This
was an all-dav session, however.
As the court assessed penalty aft
er penalty in the liquor cases, the
federal grand fury, under Foreman
R. C. 8chme!llng, ground out in
dictments for the court to consider
later. None of the indictments had
been made public at noon.
No Jury cases were tried Tuesday
morning
Assessing 60 sentences, in addition
to getting the machinery of his
court into operation. Judge Hutche-,
son came near establishing n record ;
on the opening day cf the May term !
cf the federal court here. The
wheels of the court did not begin to
grind in earnest until It n m. and j
continued only until 4:30 p. m. but
riisDcsed of 54 immigration cases!
within a period of two hours.
The Judge sentenced all who
pleaded guilty to violation of the im-1
migration laws to the tall sentence J
they had already served and turned 1
them over to the immigration nuth- j
critics for deportation. The re
mainder of the cases considered
Monday were mostlv continued from ;
past terms of court.
Overdose of Medicine
A mild sensation was created !r.
the courtroom when a prisoner, di-1
rect from the county jail was |
brought in in what apepared to be a
state of intoxication. Speculation \
was rife as to where he had obtained j
his liquor An investigation order«d
by the court brought out that the
prisoner had taken r.n overdose of
medicine.
The federal grand Jury got into
sesion shortly after 10 a m Monday.
The charge of the judre to the in
ouisitorial body contained nothing
of a sensational nature.
The federal building and th*» side
walks were crowded throughout the:
Excess Acid
Sickens - Get
Rid of It!
Sour stomach, indigestion, gas.
These are signs which usually mean
Just one thing; excess acid. The
stomach nerves have been oversti
mulated, Too much acid is making
food sour in the stomach and intes
tines.
The way to correct excess acid is
with an alkali. The best form of nl
t kali for this purpose is Phillips Milk
'of Magnesia Just take a spoon
l ful of this harmless, almost taste
less preparations in a glass of wat
er. It works instantly. The stomach
becomer sweet. You ate happy again
in five minutes' Your heartburn,
gas. headache, biliousnect; or indiges
tion has vanished!
Know Phillips Milk of Magnesia
and you're through with crude
way—the efficient way to alkalinize
methods forever. It is the pleasant
the system; to relieve the effects of
over-acidity.
Phillips Milk of Magnesia has been
standard with doctors for over 50
years. 25c and 50c bottles at all
drug ttorcs. Be sure you get the
genuine.
“Milk of Magnesia” has been the
U. S. Registered trade mark of the
Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Co. and
its predecessor. Chas. H. Phillips,
since 1875—Adv. <
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SUICIDE THEORY IN COLLEGE BOY’S MYSTERY DEATH
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Although gun from which shot was fired was still missing. County Detective Edward J. Hickey, detective
working on case, announced belief that late Walter T. Huntington. Harvard student, of Windsor. Conn.,
committed suicide. Huntington s body was found in swampy land near Windsor, shot through the head.
Dr. Henry N. Costello, coroner s physician, and Mrs. Mary Clark Huntington, widowed mother of Walter,
insisted the youth could net have killed himself. Top picture shows searchers looking for missing weapon
on land where body was found. Huntington house at Windsor is shown lower left; latest photo of young
Huntington, lower right.
day with spectators, witnesses, court
attaches, etc.
Judge Hutcheson sentenced Mon
| day the following 54 who pleaded
guilty to entering the United States
illegally to the time they had al
ready spent nl jail and turned them
over to the immigration authorities
for deportation. All the cases were
handlec ct ore time.
Name, and sentences follow:
Salome Campos. 17 days; Pablo
de Bengarc., 17 days; Samuel
apeda. 17 days: Tomas Gamboa. 13
days; Primitivo Agiullar 16 days;
Felipe Ortez. 16 days: Antonia
Garza. 16 days: JQuan Trevino. 18
days: Filimon Espinosa, alias Pablo
Rodriguez. 60 days in Hidalgo jail
<to be served*; Pablo Rios. 33 days:
Apctonio Leoez, 30 days: Isidro
Rodriguez. 30 days: Anascencio
Reyes, alias Rios, 30 days: Andres
Loa, 30 days: Cruz Garza. 34
days: Feiicitas Hernandez. 33 days:
Jeronimo Martos. 34 days: Epifarfc
Lopez. 34 days: Guillermo Garza. 32
days; Catarino Hernandez. 33 days;
iBamabe Merino. 18 days; Saturino
Rico. 22 days: Amanedo Cantu. 22
days: Pablo Segura, 13 days: An
tonio Martinez 13 days; Angel Val
deb. 13 days: Manuel Castillo. 39
days: Oiegario Martinez. 38 days;
Ramon Silva. 40 days: Pablo Villa
real. 13 days; Petra Ester Plata. 9
days: Natalia apeda. 9 days; Angel
Coronado, 14 days; Ascencion Vela
and Antonio Vela. 10 da vs; Cle
mente Oarza. 35 days; Pedro Beni
vades, 32 days; Concepcion Reyes. 31
days; Ambroslo Torres. 10 days;
Simon Garcia. 20 days: Jesus Gon
zalez. 20 days: Karl Herbert Voll
rath. 30 days in Webb county jail
I (to be served); Benito Trevino. 20
| days; Mauro Caso. 21 davs: enor
Reyna. 19 days: Tldlfonso Martinez.
19 days; Antonio Mendoza, 18 days;
Roscndo Soto. 20 days: Joaquin
Ochoa. 21 days: Bsldoncro Gon
zalez, 17 davs; Efren Villafuente.
14 days: Manuel Hernandez. 14
lays: Arnulfo Acullar. 14 days;
Francisco Hernandez, 14 days; Trin
idad Ramirez, 10 days; Miguel
Reyna. 60 days in Hidalgo county
j»il (to be served).
The following cases also were
handled:
Mrs. Thomas Tomlinson, em
bezzling: dismised for lack of prose
cution.
Jcse Casanova and Lorenzo Mo
reno. liquor charges; dismissed for
lack of prosecution.
Modesto Gonzales. Amado Ball!
and Hilario Alvarez, liquor charges;
Ball! and Alvsd-ez previously sen
tenced: dismised as to Golzales for
want of prosecution.
Rodolfo Jaso. Arnulfo Sanmiguel,
liquor charges: Jaso previously dis
missed: Sanmiguel generaly con
tinued.
Baldomero Gonzales and Jose
Camero. liouor charges: Golzales
nreviously dismised; continued as to
Camera.
Ernesto Galvan and Joseph Jin
ich, alias Yosef Senish. bringing in
alient; Galvan dead; dismised as
to Jinich.
Avaristo Castilla, liquor charges;
continued, no arrest.
Emitero Bela, liquor charges; con
tinued. no arrest.
Bonificio Rios and Pablo Solis;
liquor charges: Rios escaped jail;
Solis serving sentence; continued as
to Rios.
Alejandro Flores and Venon Sus
taita. liquor charges; dismissed pre
> viouslv as to Flores; continued as to
Sustaita. no arest.
Librado Yrlas. liquor charges:
continued, no arrest.
Miguel Flores and Jesus Fuentes.
alias James Fuentes. liquor charges;
Flores previously sentenced: con
tinued as to Fuentes. no arrest.
Marcos Cantu. Heriberto Rodri
guez and Rafael Delgado, liquor
charges; Cantu. Rodriguez previous
ly sentenced; continued as to Del
gado. no arrest.
Pablo Martinez, liquor charges;
continued, no arrest
Sllvero Lopez, liquor charges; con
tinued. no arrest.
Jesus Huerta: liquor charges; 30
davs in jail.
Pablo Martinez, liquor charges;
continued to December term
Enimencio Torres, liquor charges:
continued.
Pablo Cano, liquor charges; con
tinued.
Eluteria Gonzales, liquor charges;
continued.
Erminio Reso. alias Recio. Pancho
Moreno. Pedro Davila and El Indio
Amaro: receiving, concealing and
possessing interstate shipments;
nreviously dismissed as to Recio and
Morena: dismissed as to Davila and
Amaro for want of prosecution.
A W. Collier. Arthur Soward, A
R. Morgan. John Smith. Arturo
Zamidio Garza. Jose Casillas and
| Slmcn Garcia; liquor charges; con
[ tinued as to Morgan; others pre
viously dismissed.
Jaspar Mora. Ernesto Cavazos and
Alfredo Casteneda. liquor charges;
dismissed as to Cavazos and Cas
teneda; Mora sentenced to 30 days
in. jail.
Jose Ortega and Jesus Huerto,
liquor charges; Huerta previously
sentenced; dismissed as to Ortega.
Francisco Chapa and Jose Galvan;
smuggling, transporting merchant
dise; 60 days in jail each.
Wilfrido Alanis, liquor charges;
$50.
Felipe Briones, liquor charges;
year and day sentence in Atlanta
penitentiary, suspended
Pedro Chavez, liquor charges;
three months and eight days.
Anacleto Dominguez, liquor
charges; $25 fine with a year and a
dav suspended sentence.
Fortunado Hernandez. liquor
charges; 43 days in Jail and to be
i delivered to immigration authorities
for deportation.
Mafias Huerta liquor charges; 60
days in jail.
Ysidro Leal, liquor charges; $100
fine, year and day suspended peni
tentiary sentence.
Brigido Rodriguez, liquor charges;
$50 fine.
Estanislao Rodriguez, liquor
charges; 30 days.
MOORTOWN. Eng . Mav 14.-44*.
—Walter Hagen. British open
champion, took the lead in the first
Qualifying round of the Yorkshire
Evening Thousand Guineas tour
nament when he turned in a sensa
tional 69. The American pro went
cut in 35 strokes in spite of a hard
wind and came home in 34.
Merchants
(Continued from page one.)
and local delegates, and came to a
close with a banquet In Matamoros
Monday night.
The afternoon session Monday
which was also a joint session, open-!
ed with several reports, and was!
featured by adoption of the recom
mendation of directors of the state
Retail Merchants’ association for
the amalgamation of the three or
ganisations into one executive body.
This recommendation was adopt
ed with very little discussion, and
without dissension. The joint ex
ecutive organization was proposed
and approved for the purpose of
handling business of the three or
ganisations as a whole.
A name for this general organisa
tion will be decided at the Wednes
day afternoon session, which Is the
final session, and officers of the
body will be elected at that time.
Several addresses proved of un
usual Interest to the visitors Mon
day afternoon, including a talk by
George Mendell. Jr., general coun
sel of the Retail Merchants Asso
ciation of Texas; one by Dr. Ken
neth Dameron, professor of econom
ics at Rice Institute, on “Progressive
Retailing.” and a talk by Adolph
Grasso. secretary of the Retail Mer
chants association of San Antonio,
on “Activities of My Local Associa
tion.” Mr. Grasso formerly was
secretary of the state organization.
Antos Assemble
Automobiles had assembled at the
convention headquarters, the Stone
wall Jackson hotel, to take the con
vention visitors on a tour, starting
at 3:45 Monday afternoon. They
went to Point Isabel first, and
thence to Brownsville, crossing the
river for dinner, followed by danc
ing.
Attendance at the convention has
Increased steadily since noon Mon
day. according to reg;stration fig
ures at the chamber of commerce.
Tuesday s session opened with an
unusually large number of Valley
visitors, as It is probably the biggest
day of the convention in the way of
program, etc. All the merchants’
associations of the Valley were rep
resented, with business men from
other Valley towns helping in ar
rangements for the convention.
Program Changed
The morning program today was
changed somewhat due to the ab
01 ®uy H Hulse. national sec
retary. Mr. Hulse. who once pre
vioualy Halted the Valley, could not
of important business
Which developed at the last minute
otherwise the program was car
ried out as scheduled.
..The only separate sessions of the
organizations opened
this afternoon, all being held In dif
ferent rooms of the Baptist church
where the convention meets are be
ing held.
The sessions on the final dav to
morrow. will be joint affairs.
M/ BURNS IN TOURIST
CABIN BLAZE; 2 HURT
Kansas city. May 14. (r>—r
D. Kennedy. Memphis. Tenn.. was
burned to death and two other per
sons suffered dangerous injjuries
in • fire in a tourist cabin near
here today Kennedy's widow' i<?
not expected to recover from burns
she received. The third occupant;
of the cabin. R. H. 8teele. Jackson.1
Miss., was given a slight chance
for recovery.
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WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure was moder
ately low this morning over the
Rocky mountain region and the
plains states, and moderately high
over the eastern and far northwest
ern states. Light to moderate rains
occurred apparently throughout the
eastern hall ol Texas within the
last 24 hours. Dallas, however, re
ported 3.38 inches. Light to mod
erate rains were also mere or less
general in the Ohio and middle and
lower Mississippi Valleys. Temper
atures continued to rise over the
northwest, and reading were prac
tically seasonable throughout the
country this morning.
Abilene . 54 78 — .00
Amarillo .53 63 — .00
Atlanta .'..62 82 12 .00
Austin .63 80 — .20
Boston .48 70 10 .00
BROWNSVILLE ...67 89 — .37
Chicago .52 60 10 .46
Corpus Christi .76 84 10 .20
Dallas .62 76 — 3.38
Del Rio.70 86 — .00
Denver .50 72 10 .00
Detroit .50 60 — .16
Dodge City.50 62 — .04
El Paso .60 89 12 .00
Fort Smith . 64 78 — .32
Galveston .74 83 10 .08
Helena.:... 40 66 — .00
Huron .550 76 12 .00
Jacksonville.70 78 — .00
Kansas City.54 58 10 .12
Louisville .62 70 — 1.02
Memphis..68 82 — .12
Miami .72 80 10 .34
Montgomery .68 86 — .00
New Orleans.72 85 — .02
New York.54 70 — .00
North Platte .48 70 — .00
Oklahoma City.5 64 — .00
Palestine.64 73 — .70
Pensacola .74 78 — .00
Phoenix.64 96 — .00
Pittsburgh .54 64 — .50
! St. Louis .60 64 10 1.06
8t Paul.52 72 — 00
j Salt Lake City ... 54 80 — .00
San Antonio.70 82 — .14
I Santa Fe .44 64 — .00
Sheridan.48 80 — .00
Shreveport .62 78 — .01
Tampa .68 90 — .01
| Vicksburg .68 84 — .08
Washington.56 64 — .08
Williston .36 84 12 .02
MORETROUBLE
was decided at first to take the
prisoners to Jonesboro in another
county, but a delegation of strikers
from Ellabethton arrived and pro
tested.
In a few minutes the main high
wav was blocked for more than a
mile, and persons coming to Eliza
bethton from Johnson City were
slopped, manv of them being
searched. A number of persons
who were not Included in the first
group arrested mere taken Into
custody when they argued with
soldiers.
$10,000,000 ANNUALLY
PAID BLIND WORKMEN
• Continued from page one.)
BEAUMONT. Texas. May M.—(JPi
Ten million dollars is being paid
each year to women who ham haem
totally or patrially Minded while al
work, Lewis H. Cams, New York,
managing director of the National
Society for Prevention of Blindness,
said today in an address at the
Texas Federation of Labor conven
tion.
“Despite all the notable accom
plishments of thb safety movement,
hundreds of men and women are
being blinded in industry needless ■
I!y eevry year* Cams mid.
VOTE BOND I83CX
GALVESTON, May 14, .^-Clty
officials and bond issues aggrega
ting S2.7855.000 were voted upon
here today.
Two tickets are seeking endorse
i ment of voters, one headed V
I Mayor J. E. Pearce and the o»ht*% **
by Prank B. Markle.
Indigestion Stopped Quickly
by Stomach Antiseotic
What is commonly known as in
digestion is a fermented condition
of the stomach which keeps the un
digested food sour, creating acids
and poisons. Fermentation is the
worst obstac'e in the way of over
coming stomach disorders.
GORDON'S—an interna! antisep
tic, geta Immediately at the cause
by stopping fe. entation—soothing
i and healing the inflam'd and irri
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tateri membrane lining—driving
out the acids and poisons II
strengthens weak or disordered
stomach?,
Surprising results may he expect
ed in cases of indigestion, dyspep
sia. excess acid. gas. b oating, heart
bum. sour stomach and that "tired
feelinp. *
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