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GLADIOLI grown in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley of Texas graced
the speakers' table at Hotel Statler
in Detroit. Mich., this week when
the Chevrolet automobile dealers of
the nation were guests of the
manufacturers at a banquet.
And the flowers were fresh and
in oondition to do justice to the
section where they were grown.
, They were shipped by air mall
Wednesday morning from Browns
ville by George White to Tom Stev
•nson, local Chevrolet dealer.
It was the first time such a
shipment had been attempted from
here.
White received the following wire
Saturday from Stevenson:
“Flowers arrived in excellent
shape and were arranged on speak
ers’ table at banquet. The speaker
of the evening announced that I
wanted to show that we had some
thing besides grapefruit in Browns
ville. After the banquet the presi
dent of the Chevrolet company took
part of them home and the re
mainder were displayed in the
lobby of the hotel.’'
. The flowers left Brownsville on a
mail plane Wednesday afternoon.
The banquet was Thursday night.
• • i
THE WRITER of the column
called “Think" In the San Antonio
Express prints some interesting
comment on a highway which soon
Is to be built shortening the road
between that city and Brownsville.
He says:
“Atascosa county would like
Bexar to match its own efforts
by providing a 100-foot right-of
way on the Pleasanton road, to
meet the steadily growing traffic
demands when this road eventually
shall be completed through Atas
osa, Live Oak and part of Jim
fd'ells to make a continuous, practi
ne#ly airline highway from San
’n fonio to the Lower Rio Grande
V a?y. The present road is en
Ially too narrow for a pavement
which 4.000 or 5.000 cars will
1 * ;el daUy within two years."
1 i * • *
|e writer of that column has
w’Atght idea about main travelled
L JPsa* and H the Valley continues
;* attract the attention of the na
ff , Won, as It is sure to do, 16. 18 and
24-foot pavements such as are be
rlng put down at present soon will
•} prove enttroty Inadequate.
The time is coming in the not far
distant future when highways 36
feet wide will be demanded in the
name of safety. Rights-of-way 100
feet wide should be secured now on
main arteries of travel.
| This Is the age of travel and with
1* nation of 125.000,000 on wheels
'old wagon roads will not serve.
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AERIAL HISTORY is to be wrtt
f 4en in Mercedes Sunday.
Five planes are to fly from the
municipal airport at Brownsville
and land on a recently cleared field
there.
The planes will include two ships
belonging to the Corperacton Aero
nautica de Transportes. S. A..
which flies the air mail and pas
senger route from here to Mazat
lan. and three ships of the Inter
national Air Transport Co., which
carries fish from Soto la Marino to
Brownsville.
The ships will be greeted at the
field there by citizens and the
pilots, headed by Major Bernard A.
Law and Capt. Ralph Stone, will
be given lunch and shown several
sites under consideration for an
airport. • e
The purpose of the trip is to stir
enthusiasm in Mercedes for a mu
nicipal airport. Was promoted by
John Phelan, chamber of com
% merce secretary there.
Several thousand letters written
by school children to children in
cities on the route of the C. A. T.
will be brought back to Brownsville
by the ships in the afternoon and
sent out over the regular air mail
ill route from here.
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THOUGHT I had seen them
•11" said the visitor. “Atlantic City,
J Miami. Coronado, but I had to
J come to Brownsville to see the best
scheme of drying bathing suits.
Coming in on the Point Isabel road
a family partv with the ol’ *bus
li and all decked out with the swim
[ duds, paw s on the hood, quite evi
if dently maw’s stuffing up the radi
*tor. maw is a little inclined to
ili embonpoint, you see—and then the
If) three smaller suits, all colors, all
{§> tied along the side. And all of
r them perhaps good and dry in the
I wind coming back to town. Quite
K some scheme'”
■ ! THE BROWNSVILLE Tiom^K
headed by Bascom Cox. finds a fer
I tile field of work in promoting in
um tematlonal relations.
Recently the club sponsored the
exchange of hundreds of letters be
Kf * '*lldrpn of the Brownsville
I schCtols and those of Monterrey.
18 Mexico.
i Now the club has a new idea.
| It proposes to have as its guests
the enforc ment officers of both
Brownsville and Matamoros.
I There will be exchanges of opin
| ion as to how the officials of the
| two sides of the river may cooper
| ate to advantage.
I # possibly the outgrowth of the
| 1 acquaintance will mean much In
I keeping down criminality along the
I lower part at the border,
f Without cooperation, the criminal
I has only to cross the border to
H safety, and possibly further depre
K Ration*
Cobolini, Starck
Say City Losing
In Airport Deal
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LIST ROOMS
FOR DOCTORS;
FINAL APPEAL
Have you a room which you
possibly can spare for the next
four or five days?
If you have and if you are
willing to rent it to a visiting
doctor during that time, call the
reservation bureau at Hotel El
Jardin this morning and inform
them of that fact.
Only a few rooms are avail
able and many doctors are ex
pected to arrive here without
having made reservations, ac
cording to Dr. W. E. Spivey, in
charge of that part of the con
vention.
ONE DEAD IN
TEXAS STORMS
Wichita Falla Area Still
Isolated From Outside
With Wires Down
DALLAS. May 18.——'Torren
tial and widespread rainfall today
marked the passage of another se
ries of Texas storms, which killed
one man. Injured 11 persons and did
thousands of dollars damage.
Frank Trentacost, a storekeeper
at Bryan, was killed by a bolt of
lightning as he watched the rain
from the doorway of his store.
The most severely struck area was
near Wichita Falls, where at least
eight communities felt the force of
winds and heavy rain. That por
tion of the state still was isolated
from the outside, telephone wires
being down.
Near Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Mer
ell Wllkerson. celebrating their
honeymoon, were injured when a
twister ripped their house from the
ground and carried them about 300
feet. They were married Sunday.
In far south Texas, Westfield. 20
miles from Houston, also suffered
from the wind. A twister sweotJL
path about a quarter of a mile Tong
and 50 feet wide. Four persons.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Farros and a
Mrs. Benedict and her daughter
were injured. The Farrow home
was fattened.
Near Wichita Falls, at undee, Wil
liams Oanders was injured when a
store building collapsed; Mrs. C. H.
McDaniel was hurt when the porch
of her home fell in: a flying timber
struck William Miller. Eight stores
and 12 homes were damaged at
Dundee.
At Clara, also near Wichita Falls.
Agnes Howard was struck by a
piece of wood from a school build
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TEXAN IS WOUNDED
RESISTING SEARCH
RUSK. Tex.. May 18—(^V-Deputy
Sheriff Jim Adams tonight shot
and perhaps fatally wounded a
young man who gave his name as
Douglas Wells, about 24.
Adams had a warrant to search
Wells' automobile for liquor, and
the officer claimed Wells sought to
flee the machine. No liquor was
found.
No charge had been filed against
Wells.
HUBBY HUNTS JOB AS
WIFE GETS $20,000
COFFEYVILLE. Kans.. May 18 —
An Asiatic myth says a man
who searched the world over for
diamonds returned home and found
them in his hjck yard.
W. O. Fivtsh, Coffeyville. is some
where tonight—probably Texas, his
wife doesn't know—searching for
work. She is trying to find him
because May 25 she Is to appear at
Chattanooga. Tenn.. to be identified
formally as the niece of the late
O. W. Reno and to receive a legacy
of $20,000.
bus estiuTresigns
FROM TEXAS LEAGUE
DALLAS, May 18.—(jPI-J. Doaok
Roberts, president of the Texas
league, tonight announced the resig
nation of Bus Estill as a Texas
league umpire. Estill would not be
renlaced. Roberts said.
Estill notified Roberts he wanted
to leave to accept a position with
the Mexican government.
FURTHER RISE IN
RIVER PREDICTED
A further rise in the Rio Gran
de due to rains over the San Juan
watershed in Mexico is seen in the
U. S. weather bureau report.
The river has spread out in Its
banks for the past few days and
reached a height of 11.4 feet at
San Benito Saturday. Flood stage
at that point is 23 feet. The river
was at a 6.7 foot stage at Browns
ville Saturday.
No danger is expected from Jhe
waters.
RESIGNS
BIG SPRING, Tex.. May 18.—(A*)
—After the Big Spring West Texas
league dropped out of its last ten
games, J. E. Payne, resigned as
manager here tonight.
By W. L. PENDERGRAFT
The city of Brownsville is losing
ground every day it fails to sign a
contract with the Pan-American
Airways. Inc., for use of the muni
cipal airport as a terminal for the
Brownsville to Mexico City air
mail and passenger route, in the
opinion of Commissioners John G.
Starck and J. A. Cobolinl.
In a statement to The Herald
Saturday these members of the city
commission reiterated their stand
that the contract as agreed on by
the city and the Pan-American aft
er the first day of consultation
should have been signed and that a
contract should be drawn imme
diately to meet the desires of the
air mail contractors and signed.
The preferential option clause, on
which Mayor A. B. Cole and Com
missioner A. C. Hipp based their ob
jections to signing the contract.
Starck and Cobolinl think is not vi
cious. They see in it only the pro
tection which any business concern
would require before making the
investment which they propose on
the tract of land they are seeking
to lease.
Have Temporary Lease
The Pan-American has asked a
lease on an acre and a half of
ground which includes hangar No.
2, the last one built.
On a temporary contract the Pan
American is paying the city $3600
rental for use of hangar No. 2 for
one year. The company also is to
pay the city a profit of one and
one-half cents per gallon on all
gasoline used until the consump
tion passes 10,000 gallons a month.
After that period has been reached
the payment to the city is to be
one cent a gallon.
In support of their contention
that the city is losing ground in its
negotiations with the concern.
Starck and Cobolinl say the Pan
American now in asking that de
preciation be credited as a basis for
fixing a rental.
Get Gas Profit
The contract which they were
discussing and which they said
should have been signed, proposed
that the one and one-half acres of
ground be leased for a term of 12
years and six months to the Pan
American. the rental to be the
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wmr^
ATLANTIC AGAIN |
Eckener Inspects Disabled
Craft And Leave* For
Frederichshafen
CUERS. France. May 18.—<&)—
Dr. Hugo Eckener, after a day spent
in careful examination of his crip
pled ship the Graf Zeppelin, left
tonight for Frtedrichshafen. He had
made plans for .putting the dirigible
back into air service and had char
acterized as ‘‘absurd’’ reports that
sabotage was responsible for the
breakdown of four of the five mo
tors Thursday. .
The dirigible commander has left
to his staff the task of installing
new motors, expected from Fried
richshafen tomorrow or Monday.
The airship is scheduled to leave
early Monday or Tuesday morning
for its home port where it will be
completely overhauled. The start
of the next attempt to fly to Amer
ica has been set tentatively for
June 20.
RED RIVER FLOODS
ARKANSAS LOWLANDS
TEXARKANA. May 18.—UP)—'Ten
thousand low land acres near In
dex. Ark., were under water today
and major Red river flood stages
impended at Fulton and Index.
Predictions were that the water
would go over the safety level by
Wednesday at Index and two or
three feet over at Fulton by Thurs
day. White Cliffs on the Little
river was due for a one-foot over
flow Tuesday.
At Index it was declared the gov
ernment levee on the north side
of the Red river would stand 30
feet of water if it did not crumble.
The levee was completed a few
months ago and the sod was be
lieved not to have set solidly. Should
the water overflow there, between
30,000 and 40.000 acres would be
flooded Immediately.
Blind Boy Wins Federation Club Essay P rize
Robert Stiiwell. blind son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Stiiwell.
Sr., who lives on the highway
outside Bhownsville, and stu
dent in the local senior high
school, has Leen awarded first
prize on his essay on Stephen
F. Austin in a competition
conducted by the City. Fed
ration of Women’s Clubs.
Junior high school students
wrote essays on Sam Houston
in the same competition and
first prize was awarded to
Virginia Henderson.
In the senior contest on
Austin Kermit Cromack was
awarded second prize and
Rachel Barnes third. Second
and third prizes in the Junior
. contest were awarded to Reva
Clark and Harriet Clark, re
spectively
In the senior contest the
prises were $10, $5 and $3.60,
GIRL’S HEAD IS FOUND
ON LOS ANGELES RIVER
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16More Hospital Victims Doomed
--—-- --*£.
DISASTER AT
CLEVELAND TO
CLAIMOTHERS
Probe of Gas Horrors
Mostly In Secret;
Steamfitter Heard;
Death List Now 124
LOS ANGELES. May 18.—(fi\
The head of a girl was found buried
in the sands near the Florence ave
nue bridge ove the Los Angeles riv
er by deputy sheriffs late today. The
discovery was made not far from
the spot where the torso of a wom
an was recovered from the river in
April.
The head was preserved suffi
ciently to permit identification by
anyone acquainted with the victim,
deputy sheriffs said.
After a cursory examination, au
thorities declared the manner in
which the head had been severed
corresponded to the surgrey prac
ticed on the unidentified womans
body. A positive connection cannot
be established, they said, untl chem
ists have studied the physical struc
ture.
The head appeared to be that cf
a woman between 16 and 2."> years
old. approximately the age estimated
for the torso.
The discovery was made after au
thorities had beeq attracted to the
spit by the uneveness of the sands.
A small nit was found in which the
head nfjJOsed. and they said ft ap
peared that possibly a body had
been buried there and washed away
by heavy rains.
8 Striking Union
Textile Workers
Await Jury Action
ELIZABETHTON. Tenn.. May 18.
—<;p>—Eight striking union textile
workers tonight were free on bond
pending grand jury action, while
others who faced preliminary hear
ing before two magistrates on
charges of conspiracy to commit
murder were released.
Announcement that the eight
members of a group arrested Thurs
day after a clash with non-union
workers returning to the American
Bemberg and American Glanzstoff
mills, would be held to the grand
Jury was made today. Trial of the
cases, involving 100 or more work
ers. began Thursday and was com
pleted yesterday.
SHAM BATTLE CLAIMS
LIFE OF ARMY FLIER
COLUMBUS. Ohio. May 18.—</P\—
Mimic warfare that has waged over
Ohio since Wednesday in the na
tional army air maneuvers claimed
Its first victims today with the death
of Second Lieut. E. L. Meadow of
Nashville. Tenn.. and injury of Sec
ond Lieut. A. F. Solter of Los An
geles.
Their ships collided in mid air
high above an outlying residential
section and fell in flames. Lieuten
ant Solter jumped and saved him
self with injuries no more serious
than bums. Hut Lieutenant Meadow
came down in his ship and his body
was almost cremated.
Both men were piloting pursuit
planes attached to the ninth pursuit
squadron from Rockwell Field, San
Diego.
FOUR HURT IN STORM
HOUSTON, May 18.—Four
persons were injured, one seriously
when a tornado swept a path 100
feet wide for five miles through a
farming section 15 miles northwest
of Houston today.
mt . MERCEDES HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES ■***
These Mercedes High school seniors will receive their diplomas at exercises here this week. Students in
the picture, left to right:
Top Row—Claudio Hinojosa. James Barr Ewing. Robert Buck. Rit Erwin (president), Miss Amy Cor
nish (sponsor), Glenn Commons. Clifford Senterfitt. John Ohls. Carter Pikes. Mr. Blake Curl (sponsor).
Middle Row—Leona Dick, Prances Hale, Tomasa Hinojosa. Daisy Lister. Floy Adams, Fay Dell McAdams
(salutatorian), Sylvia Ewing, Mary Fisher (valedictorian), Nadine Lentz.
Bottom Row—Azalee Patrick. Velma Runnels, Catherine Commons, Della Walker, Mary Lee Kern,
• Margaret Pierce, Harriet Hausman. i
NEW FOUNTAIN
OPENS TUESDAY
Multi-Colored Lights To
Make Park Beautiful
City Asset
The Washington park electrically
colored fountain, which is expected
to become one of the show places of
the Valley, will be formally opened
Tuesday evening in connection with
the convention of the State Medical
society, it has been announced by
Burt E. Hinkley. Sr., cit ypark com
missioner. A short program has
been prepared which includes a
demonstration by the American
Legion bugle and drum corps and
music by the St. Joseph's college
band.
There are only three other foun
tains of this kind in the state and
the one here is of the latest im
proved type. It is the only one of
this type in existence at present.
The fountain was built on General
Electric plans with all work under
the supervision of Ben V. Proctor,
city architect. Its only cost to the
city was for labor.
The laage fountain Is situated in
the center of a 300 by 580 foot park
lying between 7th and 8th and
Adams and Madison streets. The
park is bordered and crossed by
sidewalks which are being lined with
roses, hibiscus and bougainvillia.
The fountain throws a varying
soray into the sky 65. 45 and 15 feet.
Colored lights play on the streams,
running the gamut of an artist’s
color box. This is very effective
when contrasted against the night’s
sky. Both the lights and sprays are
automatically governed and go
through a complete series of
changes in a period of eight min
utes. There are 30 colored light
Drojectors of 500 watt power in the
fountain. These are divided into
five groups of six lights which are
red. white, green, amber, blue and
purple. The lights are automatically
governed by magnetic switches.
The water is powered by a 10
horsepower, electrical centrifugal
pump which operates a 4-inch
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PUT UP FLAGS
FOR DOCTORS,
WORKS URGES
‘ Please display all flags on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day.”
This request was made of
Brownsville merchants, profes
sional men and citizens in gen
eral Saturday on the eve of the
opening here of the Texas State
Medical association convention,
by Dr. B. O. Works, in charge
of arrangements for the gath
ering.
It is his desire that the flags
be displayed to give the city a
gala air and make more apparent
the spirit of welcome to the visi
tors.
GEO. CHAMPION,
SR.. DIES HERE
i
Aged Valley Pioneer Vic
tim of Acute Attack
Of Indigestion
George Champion. Sr.. 77 one of
the oldest and best known pioneers
of the Rio Grande Valley, sccumberd
to asudden attack of acuts indi
gestion at his home. 1321 Adams
St. at 8:40 p. m. Saturday.
Death came unexpectedly and the
aged man wos ill but a few minutes.
He had been in poor health since
the death of his wife 17 months
ago but had not been confined to
his bed.
Champion was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Champion and was
bom at Point Isabel Oct. 22. 1852.
He was. reared and obtained his
early education here.
The decendent also attended St.
Mary s college in San Antonio. He
took an active part in the « vie
life of the city and county in his
early manhood.
Champion was city alderman over
a span of years and later served
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DOCTORS WILL
LECTURE TODAY
Physicians Here For Con
vention to Fill Val
ley Church Pulpits
Public health lectures are to be
delivered Sunday from the pulpits
of a large number of Valley
churches by distinguished members
and guests of the Texas Medical As
sociation. preliminary to the open
ing of the annual convention Tuea#
day in Brownsville.
Arrangements for the speeches,
which were made by Dr. J. A. Pol
lard of Harlingen, will bring to the
Valley churches outstanding physi
cians of the state and a number of
famous men in the medical profes
sion.
All of the lectures will be deliv
ered at the morning hour except at
San Bentio. where they are .to be
given at the evening hour on ac
count of a special service there at
the morning hour In connection
with the closing of public schools,
and at the Weslaco Baptist church.
Dr. Felix Miller, president of the
Texas Medical Association, will
speak at the First Baptist church in
Brownsville. Dr. A. C. Scott of
Temple will speak at the Pres
byterian church. Dr. W. B. Russ of
San Antonio will fill the pulpit at
• the Church of the Advent, Epis
copal. and Dr. K. H. Aynesworth of
Waco will lecture at the First Meth
odist church.
Assignments for other Valley
towns are:
San Benito.—(All lectures here
| will be at the evening hour.) Dr. Joe
E. Dildy of Brownwood, president
elect of the association. Baptist
, church; Dr. E. D. Cruchfield, San
Antonio. Methodist: Dr. H. R. Dud
: geon. Waco. Presbyterian: Dr. 8. E.
Thompson, Kerrville. Christian.
Edinburg—Dr. J. W. Torbett.
• Marlin. Methodist church.
! Weslaco.—Dr. N. D. Buie. Marlin.
Methodist church at morning hour
1 and Baptist church at evening hour.
McAllen—Dr. W. B. Thomtng.
Houston. Baptist church.
Mission—Dr. A. Philo Howard.
Houston. Methodist.
Harlingen.—Dr. Thomas M. Dor
ban eft. San Antonio. Baptist; Dr.
Minnie L. Maffett. Dallas. Method
ist: Dr. C. M. Rosser. Dallas, Pres
byterian; Dr. John T. Moore. Hous
ton. Christian.
Health talks are to be delivered at
various luncheon clubs throughout
the Valley during the convention.
Hundreds Expected
To Attend Meeting
Of Valley Scouts
MERCEDES. May 18^—Hundreds
of Valley people will attend the first
Spring Conference of the Valley
Scout Council, to be held at Camp
Chas. F. Perry Sunday afternoon,
and several hundred Valley Scouts
will stage a retreat and parade In
the evening, according to final plans
for the conference.
The purpose of the meeting is
to acquaint the public with teh im
portance of the work of the Council
and to give them the oppodtnunay
to learn something of what has been
done, especially toward building the
The junior a words were $5 $2.50
$2.50.
The competition was so close
that after the local com
mittee had selected the best
three papers in eash compe
tition they were unwilling to
select first, second and third
winners and finally submitted
the papers selected by them to
a group of English instructors
in Houston.
All judging was done by
number none of the judges in
Brownsville or in Houston hav
ing any knowledge of the writer
of the papers being considered.
The committee named by the
fereration to Judge the papers
was compossed of Mrs. V.*L.
Conrad, federation president.
Mrs. E. O. Holliday, historian,
and P. D. Kennaxner, former
county superintenrent of
schools.
The committee in Houston, _
which made the final selections
was composed of Miss Minnie
Gillespie. English teacher in
San Jacinto senior high
school and sisters of the late
Chas. Gillespie, editor of the
Housaon Chronicle; Miss Es
tella Ballew, American history
teacher in Regan senior high
school; M. Duggan, history
teacher in San Jacinto senior
high school and director of
interscholastic d e c 1 a m a tion
contests in that school.
The papers were considered
for raaachanical plan and neot
ess; Grammatical and rhetorical
accuracy; literary style, force
and effect; historical and
biographical matted tnd thor
oughness .of treatment.
The contest opened Feb. 1
and closed May 1. On the clos
ing date teachers in the high
school selected the best papers
from a list of more than 40Q
contestants. Eight papers were
submitted to the federation
committee by teachers of the
junior high school and 17
papers were submitted from
the senior high school.
The winning papers had not
been returned to the federation
committee late Saturday.
Robert Stilwell. winner of first
prize in the senior contest,
attended the State School,
for Blind at Austin for a
number of years and learned
to read by the Braille system
His high school work here has
been largely with the assis
tance of a reader, who has been
able to assist the blind boy
to hold a promonent place in
his classes. In addition to his
studies he has learned to play
the cornet and is a good mu
sician. Robert is a sophmon
and is on the school honor
roll.
DECAPITATED
TORSO TAKEN
FROMSTREAM
Officers Say Identifi
cation Possible By
Anyone Acquainted
.With Victim
CLEVELAND. Ohio. May It—gp»
Sixteen of 50 persons still fighting
against poison gasses they inhaled
In the Cleevland clinic disaster are
not expected to recover, doctors mid
tonight, and the others probably win
suffer lung troubles for years to
come The death toll stood at lit.
Oxygen treatment was continued
and some were given blood trans
fusions.
Investigations of the tragedy will
continue Monday. Coroner A. J.
Pearse said. Much of today's In
quest was held in secret.
Under direction of the coronar, a
picture of the beginning of the ca
tastrophe was presented before the
Sunday adjournment was taken by
Buffer}* Boggs, steamfitter. star wit
ness.
Down in the charred basement
store-room where fire In X-ray
films released the deadly gasses of
the disaster—which chemists said
was enough to have killed 4.000MS
people—Boggs reenacted the open
ing scenes.
The steamfitter showed where ha
was working when he observed
smoke coming from the storage
room. “I saw no fire," ho mid.
Boggs then told how he had grab
bed a fire extinguisher and played
on the films to find that the smoke
increased. He told how he felt him
self being overcome, and showed
where he escaped through a trap
door to the outside of the building.
Despite all their Investigation, how
ever. Coroner Pearse and officials
working with him are baffled b>
the case. They hope to haye a "final
sum-up" of the tragedy, however,
next week.
Thirty-six victims of the disaster
were buried here today. Among them
were the bodies of Dr. John Phil
lips. a co-founder of the clinic, and
Dr. Charles Edward Locke, brain
specialist, member of the clinic
staff.
Throughout the day. Cleveland
was in official mourning for the
dead. The American flag in public
square and others were drawn to
half mast.
Financial relief for many of the
bereaved was promised from the
state workmen's compensation fund.
Rancher Wounded
In Matamoros Not
Expected To Live
Pear that Calixto Garcia, pronu
1 nent Matamoros rancher who was
shot four times on the market
square near noon Saturday, would
not live through the night was ex
pressed by those it his bedside lata
Saturday evening.
Garcia, an uncle of Guillermo
Shears, president* municipal, wax
shot at close range with a pistol.
Bullets struck him on the right
wrist, right and left shoulder and
in the left Jaw.
Fidel Blanco, also a Matamoros
rancher, was arrested and put in
Jail shortly after the shooting Gar
cia was unable to pull his pistol due
to being shot in the wrist the fins
shot, officers say. The hone 1m
was riding was struck in the neck
also.
Despite the fact that he had re
sided at Los Arboles ranch Just west
of Matamoros for a number of
years, Garcia Is said to be an Amer
ican citizen. He waz born near San
Benito.
The market plaza was crowded et
the time of the shooting.
SAN ANGELO MAYOft QITTS
SAN ANGELO. May lg—
Mayor W. D. Holcombe, head oi the
city administration far three terms,
resigned tonight without announ
cing a reason. A message to the
city commission tendered tils re
signation as soon as a sucesamr
could be elected and qualified.
j THE WEATHER |
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WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy,
warmer in north portion Sunday:
Monday partly cloudy.
OKLAHOMA: Fair, somewhat
warmer Sunday: Monday, partly
cloudy. _
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudy, lo
cal thundershowers in south—t
portion Sunday; Monday, partly
cloudy. Light to moderate vanabi*
winds on the ooast becoming —ft
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