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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 338 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929 EIGHTEEN TAGES TODAY • 5c A COPY
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FRENCH COUNT
IS ARRESTED
BYDRYAGENTS
International Ring Be
lieved Broken U p
By Arrest of Two
Other Leaders
NEW YORK, June 6—(/Pi—Count
Ar Polignac, said to be of the old
French nobility, was arrested by
under-cover prohibition agents to
day and charged with being the Eu
ropean agent of an international
rum ring.
Seven cases of liquor were seized
In the count’s suite at the Savoy
Plaza hotel.
The count's arrest occurred in a
general round-up of 37 men charged
with conspiracy to violate the pro
hibition act in connection with the
activities of the alleged ring
William J. Calhoun, chief in
charge of the 40 agents making the
round-up, said papers relating to
activities of the ring were found
In Count de Polignac s suite.
Another raid conducted on head
quarters of the ring resulted in
the arrest of two other alleged lead
ers. William Bartles and Philip D
Go wen.
Bartles and Gowen occupied of
fices at 200 Fifth avenue under the
firm name of the “Go-Bart Co., ex
porters and importers," two other
men arrested in the offices were
William B. Flynn and George Heath.
!H OTO
VALLEY
* COTTON is king.
Wj£h the vegetable and fruit
r:mA out cf the way, the Interest
oWrilley farmers, buyers and bus
iness men will turn for the next
fewr months to harvesting the cot
ton crop.
Most any day now the race for
the first bale of cotton will be on
—the annual Valley derby.
First bales have been ginned as
early as May 26 (that was in 1921»
and as late as July 10. Nearly
always it has been before July 1.
There is talk of the first bale
this year being taker, to Houston
aboard an airplane. The bale al
ways is auctioned on the floor of
the Houston Cotton Exchange and.
being the first bale of new crop
cotton in the world. it always
•brings a premium of several hun
dred dollars. Hence the race.
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It's too early to predict the size
of the crop—but it looks mighty
good”
This Is about what cotton yield
prognestigators generally are say
ing of the Valley crop this year.
While the acreage has been some
what reduced, there is possibility of
a 150.000-bale crop being gathered.
Such a yield would mean approxi
mately $15,000,000 new money in
the Valley and a large part of it
would be nut in circulation by the
farmers, ginners and pickers.
If present indications are borne
out it looks like good times ahead.
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THE COTTON CROP for many
years has been the leading cash
producing product of the Valley
despite the growing importance of
the fruit and vegetable growing in
iustrr
Truck crops of the season just
closing have been estimated to
have grossed as much as S13 750,000
to Valley growers.
While the cabbage crop was a big
disappointment as a revenue pro
ducer and some of the other pro
ducts failed to net as great a re
turn as had been hoped for. the
season has been fairly satisfactory.
Now with a prospective bumper
•etton yield in the immediate fore
ground. Miss Prosperity seems to
be about to turn on the Valley with
one of her most alluring smiles.
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BROWNSVILLE is about to stage
a mand airport celebration.
*><# because the Pan-Ameri
can jBrwa>s terminal seems to have
been located here permanently.
Graduating classes of the army
advanced flying school at Brooks
Field. San Antonio, coming here
in two groups for a cross country
flight,
The first group, consisting of 32
student pilots and four or five in
structors. sundry mechanics, et
cetra. to arrive Saturday. June 15.
in between 30 and 40 pianes.
The visitors will be guests of the
chamber of commerce at a dinner
dance Saturday night and return
home Sunday.
A second group cf the same size
will make a flight on June 22 > Sat
urday) and return on Sunday.
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Capt. C L. Chennault. director
of flying at Brooks Field, finds this
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WOMAN CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE
Mrs. L. P. Stallworth, left, today listened to attorneys plead for her
acquittal, after she had testified that she shot Mrs. Grace Morrison
in Amarillo last May in defending herself. Mrs. Stallworth alleges
that Mrs. Morrison was a rival for her husband's love At right is
the accused woman's mother-in-law.
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Robison Charged With
Misappropriation of
Land Office Funds
G. 0. P. LEADER
TO BE CHOSEN
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, Creager Says Committee
May Make War Chief
Work’s Successor
R. B. Creager, national commit
teeman from Texas, said. Thursday
it Is too early to predict who will
succeed Dr. Hubert Work as chair
man of the committee, and that
the date for the national committee
meeting had not been definitely set.
He declared, however, that he
would attend the meeting, along
with Mrs. J. C. Griswold of San
Antonio, national committee wom
an.
“It has been the custom to con
sult the president before naming
a national chairman, and his wishes
probably will be very influential in
selection of a leader this fall, Mr.
Creager said.
This statement supports reports
that James W. Good of the war de
partment will be named, as he Is a
cabinet appointee of the president
and said to be very closeto Mr
Hoover.
Mr. Creager recently returned
from a tour of Texas, where he has
been putting the republican organ
ization into line for the 1930 guber
natorial race.
MRS. MONTGOMERY IS
SUED BY OFFICIAL
RAYMONDVILLE. June 6 —Suit
asking $50,000 damages for allegede
libel was filed here today by County
Judge R. F. Dorsett against Mrs.
Julia Montgomery, editor of Monty's
Monthly.
A paragraph in the May Issue of
the magazine is the basis for the
suit.
The complaint alleges that the
editorial implied alleged irregulari
ties in connection with the East road
plan through the King ranch lands
EDISON TALKS VIA TALKIE
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J . June 8.
——Although still at his home
near Fort Myers. Fla , Thomas A.
Edison delivered a personal message
to the delegates and guests of the
National Electric Light association
who today celebrated “Edison day.”
Mr. Edison appeared through the
medium of a movie tone film, which
i pictured him as strong, active and
smiling
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AU8TIN, June 8.—(/F)—Twenty
specific charges embodying alleged
misappropriation of state funds and
alleged gross negligence of office
were coupled with a resolution ask
ing impeachment of J. T. Robison,
commissioner of the general land
office, placed before the house to
day.
The accusations, growing out of
a report of the land office Investi
gating committee during the first
special session, were made under
oath by Rep. Grady Woodruff, De
catur.
Rep O. R. Van ZandU. Tioga, in
; troduced • simultaneously with
i W*oodruff’s charges a resolution
asking the house to resohe Itself
into a committe to hear testimony
(Continued on page lis.)
SANBENITO I
, TO GET LINKS
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City Commission Signs Up
For First Municipal
Course of Valley
•■Special to The Herald'
SAN BENITO. June 6.—Contract
for construction of the first munici
pal golf course in the Valley was
signed last night by the San Benl.’o
[city commission with Lavern A.
i Miller, golf course developer former
ly of Springfield. Mo.
The course will consist cf nine
i holes and is to be ready fur use by
■ Oct. 15 this year. It will be located
on a 92-acre tract recently pur
' chased by the city for golf course
I and city park, approximately 65
| acres being used in the goll course.
Under the contract. Miller and
i his associates will operate the
; course for five years, w/h an op
tion on an additional five years, at
the discertion of the city eommis
! sion.
City to Spend $10,000
In addition to the $10,000 to be
spent by the city a considerable sum
will be spent by the operators. A
stucco club building 40 oy 60 feet of
Spanish architecture will be erect
ed immediately. This building will
contain showers, lockers end spt.ee
for concessions.
The tract is located two miles out
from San Benito on the Rio Hondo
road and lies in a horseshoe bend of
• Continued on oage six.'
Fire Alarms in Whole Day
And No Use Made of Them
Brownsville’s new fire alarm
system, best in the state, was put
into actual operation at 6:30 a.
m. Wednesday and no alarm had
been received early Thursday,
Chief Weller said.
This new system, which cost the
city S35.000. consists of 100 boxes
of the latest design and complete
mechanical appartus at the Cen
tral fire station which includes
three pieces not found in other
cities in Texas.
Citizens of Brownsville are
urged by Chief Weller and E. N.
Jolliff. who supervised installation
of the new equipment here, in giv
ing an alarm to follow instruc
tions on the box which explain
fully how to obtain results. There
is no glass to be broken.
Those who maliciously turn in
false alarms w’ill be vigorously
prosecuted. Chief Weller said. It
is expected that the city soon will
pass an ordinance heavily fining
such offenders. An alarm was
sounded over one of the boxes late
Tuesday before they jpere put in
actual operation, and a quick run
to the scene caught the guilty
person, before he could leave the
scene. He was not taken into
custody.
*1 know of no department in
the state which ranks above
Brownsville now. and I have been
in every city in Texas.” Jolliff de
clared. "Your excellent 15 per
cent good fire rating is the boast
of very few cities, and I am sure
now that your already low insur
ance rate will be cut down still
more, with the complete equip
ment you now have.
"We have a spare box on ex
hibition at the Central fire sta
tion. and the public is invited to
drop by and see how it works.
The whole system is absolutely
fool proof and you will be sur
prised to find out how each con
tingency is so easily provided for.
The box will be on display for the
remainder of the week.
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Convict Slain on Texas !
Prison Farm; Two Charged
MAN SLUGGED
REFUSED TO
JOIN MUTINY
Dying Prisoner Said
To Have Accused
Fellow Convicts An
gry at Him
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AUSTIN. June 6.—Two con
victs are in jail at Richmond,
charged with the murder of Bill
Lawler, another convict, who was
slugged and stabbed to death Mon
day night at Imperial farm. Col. W.
H. Mead, general manager of the
penitentiary system, said here to
day.
The men charged are Ray Ham
monds and Norman Adams. Before
I he died Lawler made a statement
accusing them. Col. Mead said
“He told us sometime ago that
these men had it in for him because
he would not join in with them in
mutiny and other infractions of the
rules. Col Mead said “Trying to
protect him. we sent him to Camp
No. 2 on the farm, but Monday it
became necessary to transfer him
back to camp No. 3. and It was
here he was attacked. One of the
men hit him in the head, and the
other stabbed him through the
heart.”
Lawler had been sentenced at
Hillsboro last year for the murder
of Rev. A. J. Motley, at Hubbard
SLAYING CASE
NEARS JURY
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Woman Who Shot Alleged
Rival Hear* Attorney
Plead For Freedom
AMARILLO. June 6 —(JP>—Having
presented a self-defense plea in her
first public statement since she shot
Mrs. Grace Morrison down on the
street here last May. Mrs. L. P.
Stallworth was prepared today to
hear her attorneys ask for acquittal
in her trial for the slaying.
Taking the stand yesterday Mrs
Stallworth told the Jury she had
wrenched the gun which fired the
fatal bullets from Mrs. Morrison's
hand shortly before the shooting
and she had fired only after Mrs. I
Morrison, she said, left the room
ening gesture,
Mrs. Stallworth said that she had
gone to Mrs. Morrison's rooming
house to beg Mrs. Morrison to stay
away from Mr. Stallworth. Mrs.
Morrison, she said, left hte room
ing house and entered a car. which
she and Mr. Stallworth had used
in the alleged trysts. The gun. ac
cording to the defendant, was
snatched from a pocket of the car.
"As she started to leave the car
I grabbed the gun away from her."
the witness said. *T threw it on her
and demanded that she come to the
police st«» 'ion.”
Mrs. Morrison then attacked Mrs
E. M, Stallworth, the defendant
said, and then turned on her. Mrs.
E. M. Stallworth is the mother-in
law of Mrs L. P. Stallworth.
"I thought I was being attacked
and I fired. I Just shot—I don’t
know- how many times ”
4 The state's version of the shoot
ing had the mother-in-law grappling
with Mrs. Morrison and pushing her
awav Just as the shooting started
A hotel man explained the pres
ence of the gun in the car when he
testified Stallworth had entered the
hotel earlier in the evening, intoxi
catd and with a gun in his belt.
He said that he persuaded Stall
worth to return the gun to the pock
et of his car.
U. S. GUNBOAT AGROUND
SHANGHAI. June 6—c/P)—'The
United States gunboat Luzon. 575
tons, was aground today at the
breakwater at the mouth of the
Hwang Pu Kiang. but was In no
danger. It was expected to be re
floated at high tide, 5 a. m. Friday.
I ' STUART HIGH GRADUATES__J
—Photo by Holm
Members of the 1929 graduating class of the Stuart Independent school district high school are pictured
above They are: Seated, from left to right: Joe Vencill. Ruth Garrett. Ohena Dorsey. Mildred Hester.
Irvin West Standing, left to right: Howard Eighinger. Herman Hentz, Robert Marrs (president), Troy
Moon. Clyde Hester. Aden Harrington _
McAllen Woman Faces Trial
June 27 In Husband’s Death
SPECIAL TERM
DOCKET CALLED
Edinburg Special Term To
Hear Eight Other
Murder Cases
'Special to The Herald*
EDINBURG, June 6—Date of
hearing for nine murder cases have
been named by Judge J. F. Carl,
presiding justice of the special term
of the 79th district court when the
docket was called at Edinburg.
The case of Mrs. Esther Fry, who
fs accused of shooting to death her
husband. Charles H Fry. at their
farm home near McAllen last win
ter, was set for hearing on June
27. A special venire of 100 men
was ordered summoned.
Arthur L. Gupton. Edinburg build
ing contractor, charged with mur
der in connection with the fatal
shooting of Leonard Bass, negro
bootblack of this city, in July. 1928.
will be brought to trial on June 26.
according to the newly set docket
Other murder cases and the date
of hearing are as follows: Gue.du
lupe Esquivil, June 18: Felixa Vela,
at 1:30 p. m. June 14; Bias Deanda.
June 17; Felix Gonzales. July 1;
Jose Gonzales. July 2: Panfilo Gon
balos. June 27. and Tidolo Robleo.
June 24.
George J. Simms will be brought
to trial ona charge of burglary
of a railroad car on June 13; Amado
Trijo will be tried on two counts
of theft of more than $50 at 1:30
p. m. June 11; Leopoldo Alonza and
Francisco Tevales will be tried on
charges of theft of more than $50.
on June 12. and Francisco Gonzales
will be tried on a charge of assault
with intent to murder on June 20.
Nicalos Youez goes to trial on the
same charge on June 12.
| Cases continued by agreement
; were those of John Hill, charged
with swindling: Owen Scott, charged
with swindling, and that of Guad
ulupe Presas. accused of receiving
and concealing stolen property val
ued at more than $50.
The case of Sabas Cantu, Jr.,
charged with rape, will come up for
further disposition on June 14.
The special term of court was
\Continued on page nine.)
FACES CHARGES AFTER
GALVESTON SHOOTING
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GALVESTON. Tex , June 6 —
—John F Hartwell, proprietor of
a jewelry store, today faced exam- !
ining trial on charges of fatally
shooting V. D. Mitchell. 45, watch
maker. in Hartwells store yester
day.
Hartwell was released on $1,000
bond. Mitchell came here about
three weeks ago from Brownwood
The shooting happened. Hartwell
said, when Mitchell came back to
the store for the third time de
manding money. He declared Mit
chell was drinking, and Mitchell
struck at him as he came into the
shop.
O’NEILL SERIOUSLY ILL
LONDON. June 6.—i/Pt—The Lon
don Daily Express today said Eu
gene O'Neill. American playwright,
was seriously ill with tuberculosis
in Switzerland, and therefore was
unable to come to London for the
premiere last night of his play.
•‘Welded'’
Bob Silver Again
Facing Death; On
Trial In Robbery
BRYAN. Texas. June 6.—JP—Bob
Silver today faced trial for his life
for the second time.
He was charged with robbery with
firearms in connection with a prison
break at Huntsville along with Rob
ert Hill. John Reid and Marvin Ax
bell.
Silvers originally was sentenced
to death for robbery with firearms
in connection with the Majestic
theater holdup in Fort Worth, dur
ing which Roscoe Wilson, cashier,
was killed. Another man received
99 years for the same offense
Later Silver s confederate assumed
the blame for the actual shooting,
and Gor. Dan Moody commutccd
Silver’s sentence to 99 years
Silver and several others escaped
from the penitentiary prison farm
where he had been placed because
he was said to have been suffering
from tuberculosis. In escaping, he
and his companions took an auto
mobile fro ma young couple on a
highway.
Marooned Fishing Party
Returns from Cruz River
! Mud-splattered and too tired to
boast of their achievements, a party
of nine Valley fishermen returned
here Wednesday telling of having
hern marooned by a r.ear-cloud
burst on the Cniz river in Mexico,
225 miles south of hei e, for more
than a week.
The party, composed of H. H. j
Weller of Brownsville. A. J Wood.
Dr C. W. Letzerich, Hugo Letzerich.
Forrest West and son. R. Franklin,
i and C. Dubose and Dr. W. Shrop
shire of Yoakum, left here In two
automobiles and a truck shortly aft
er the State Medical convention.
The trip to the Cruz river near
Victoria, capital of Tamaulipas. was
: uneventful and was made in a day
and a half. After several days of
i fishing a near-cloudburst estimated
at 10-inches fell, flooding all sur
rounding territory' The party was
unable to move their automobiles
for several days as the rain con
tinued to fall intermittently.
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Their f^;xi supplies became low
but they were able to replenish them
at San Fernando. Roads in this
section were covered by three feet
of water . members of the party
stated They declare that they saw
fish swimming in front of their
cars as they ploughed and splashed
their way out. A long detour was
made around the San Fernando
territory.
It took the party seven days to
reach Matamoros.
“We caught plenty of black bass
and saw much game, but after a
few days sport concerned us little."
Weller stated.
Dr. Shropshire, who attended the
medical convention here Just before
going on the fishing trop, doubts if
he has a practice left in Yoakum.
| “I didn' tknow one could be so close
and yet so many miles from a given
l point,' he laughed.
CONGRESSTOLD
OF PROPOSED
ENFORCEMENT
President’s Mess age
Offers Scheme Fot
Reorganization of
Departments
WASHINGTON. June « —
President Hoover today recom
mended to congress the appoint
ment of a Joint select committee
to study matters pertaining to the
transfer of the prohibition unit
from the treasury to the Justice de
partment and other subjects in
connection with the administra
tion of the bureaus having to do
with dry law enforcement.
The chief executive informed
congress in his second message to
the special session that he would
appoint a committee from the de
partments to cooperate with the
congressional commute and that
the national commission on law ob
servance and enforcement also
would cooperate through their
studies of the departmental organi
zation.
The joint congressional commit
tee would be expected to formulate
recommendations for the consid
eration of congress at the regular
session in December and at which
the chief executive desires enact
(Continued on page aix.)
STATE ASYLUM
FUND BILL UP
Senate Considering Money
Need of Eleemosynary
Institutions
AUSTIN. June 6 —(JV-The senate
today resumed consideration of the
appropriation bill providing 513.311.—
90 for support of the state eleemosy
nary institutions during the bien
nium beginning Sept. 1.
Yesterday it passed finally th aju
diciary bill calling for the expendi
ture of $4,788,238 for support of the
courts during the next two years.
The house passed Its Judiciary bill,
it aggregating $5,018,375. There ts
a difference of only $228,137 be
tween the two branches on this bill.
The senate passed the bill by Sen
ator W A. Williamson of San Anto
nio. appropriating $1,000,000 with
which to purchase land adjoining
the Alamo in an effort to stop com
mercial encroachments to the old
shrine.
The senate has passed the ele
emosynary bil lto engrossment and
was conostdering it on third read
ing when Senator Joe M. Moore of
Greenville launched an attack on
the provisions made for psychiatric
hospitals at Galveston and Dallas,
contending that one or both of thes'?
should be eliminated. He had
moved reconsideration of the vote
by which the bill was engrossed. It
requires a two-thirds majority to
amend a bill after It has passed to
third reading.
AUSTIN. June 8—r—Creation
of a nine-member Texas prison cen
traliation commission to submit
plans to the legislature for relocat
fContmued on r>«g«* six.)
i THE WEATHER
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For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.
For East Texas Mostly cloudy to
night and Friday; probably scat
tered showers in north portion.
Light to moderate easterly to
southerly winds on the coasw
RIVER FORECAST
The river will continue to fall
very slowly practically all along
during the next 24 to 48 hours.
Plood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Staffs Staffs Chng. Rain
Eagle Pass .. 18 3 2 - 0.4 .00
Rio Grande . 21 8 0 0 0 .00
Mission. 22 59 -0.4 .00
San Benito .23 115 -0.8 .00
Brownsville .18 7 0 - 0 9 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 4:55 a. m.
Low.. 9:18 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 7:20
i Sunrise tomorrow ... 5:31
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