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I THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 340 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929 EIGHT PAGES TODAY • 6c A COPY
RIO HONDO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS_j
Above is pictured the 1929 graduating class of the Rio Hondo High school. They are: Back row. left to
right: Arthur Kipfer. Tony Schnabl. Oquin Haney, Herschel McEowen, Emerson Webster, Carl Dack. J. D.
McMurty, Dayton King. Front row. left to right: A Ima Gruett. Evyln Watson. Veva McDowell, Rachel
Lewis. Anna Lee Kemp. Leona Kaatz. Annie Newell <not present).
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Officials Talk Co-operation
In ‘Hands Across River’ Fete
1 CLAIMED BY
, RAGING CREEK
Cloudburst Sends 15-Foot
Wall of Water Over
Montana City
WIBAUX. Mont.. June 8.— r —A
fifteen-foot wall of water from i
Beaver Creek swept through Wibaux 1
following a cloudburst yesterday, I
claiming four lives and causing
property damage estimated at
$200,000
The flood struck without warning
and buildings were carried from
their foundations as the water
raged through the town.
The Rev. A. A. Seifert, pastor of j
the Methodist church, heard the
roar of the approaching water and
ran to the church, one of the most
solid structures in town, to open its |
doors to those seeking safety. A few ,
moments after he had returned '
home to get his wife, the flood j
struck. The parsonage was twisted j
fro mits foundation and carried sev- i
eral blocks before it rested against
a railroad viaduct. Both the min
ister and his wife drowned.
Sever Knutson. 56, a farmer, was |
trapped in his home and drowned j
when the building was destroyed.
R. A. Thompson. 7n who lived on
the creek bank, was the fourth
victim.
Citrus Quarantine
Is Extended North
By Secretary Hyde
Washington. June r p —
Secretary Hyde today revised the
Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine1
to forbid reshipment of Florida hast j
fruits and vegetables from northern ‘
and northeastern states into the
South and West.
Under the supplemental regula
tions reshipments cannot he marie
to Alabama. Arizona. Arkansas. Cal
ifornia. Georgia. Idaho. Louisiana,
Misissippi. Newuia. New Mexico, i
North Carolina. Oklahoma. Oregon.
South Carolina. Tennessee. Texas.
Utah. Washington or Porto Rico
The regulations provide also that ,
host fruits and vegetables from
zones immediatelv surrounding the
infested zones and moved northeast
to Virginia, the District of Colum
bia ^Maryland and Pennsylvania.
coWa not be reshipped outside that
areal.
The revision places no restriction 1
on interstate movement from non- i
infested states of articles original- [
ing outside of Florida as this state
is the onlv one definitely known to
have Mediterranean fruit fly infes
tation.
AERIAL ‘FLIVVER’ ON
SALE FOR UNDER $400
CHICAGO. June 8 — <P*—'The mail
order airplane—a “flivver” of the
skies costing, knocked down, less
than the lowest priced automobile
—has been placed on sale bv a Chi
cago mail order house. All neces
sary parts and a kit for assembling
the plane may be purchased un- I
der $400. *
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They Were Quick
On the Draw But
It Was Ail Fun
Recollections of law enforce
ment in the "first on the draw"
days past suddenly cropped up
during the good will banquet of
the Lions club last night when
more than a dozen men reached
for their hip holsters.
Two waiters apparently got in
to a scuffle on the floor, one
knocking the other's tray over.
The victim drew a razor. The
other dre wa gun and fired twice
at him.
It took some minutes for the
men, some of whom had just
been in battles, to realize amid
much laughter that the affair
was part of the entertainment,
and that the gun was a blank.
11 NEGROESUP
IN POISONING
Mississippi Group Charged
With Attempting Life
Of Alleged Whipper
WEST POINT. Miss.. June 8.—(&)
—Eleven negroes implicated in an
alleged plot to revenge a whipping
administered one of their number
by poisoning the family of Walker
cionza. farmer, faced preliminary
hearing today on charges of at
tempted murder.
Sheriff Lon H Miller announced
he had obtained a confession from
one of the negroes, but did not re
veal his name. Six of those in
volved. including two women, were
in jail here, four were free on bond
and one was held in Aberdeen.
Miss. All live near the Cionza farm,
ten miles from West Point.
Poison was found in a drinking
cup used by the farmer's family
which Includes several children.
Sheriff Miller said.
Railroad Indicted
On Fifteen Counts
In Discrimination
COLUMBUS. O. June 8.—i/TV
The Detroit. Toledo and Ironton
railway. Henry Ford's railroad, was
indicated on 25 counts charging
violation of the Elkins act in receiv
ing discriminatory rates for coal
shipments from Kentucky to Ohio
points, by a United States federal
grand jury here today.
CONNOR ONE UP IN
GOLF TITLE CHASE
DALLAS. Tex.. June 8—
Lanhath Connor. Dallas, was one
up on Dennis Lavender. Abilene, at
the end of nine holes in their 36
hole match for the Texas amateur
gc’i championship here today.
Both were playing poor golf.
Connor taking 40 strokes for the
first nine holes, five over par. and
Lavender 4L
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By HYMEN PLENN
Brownsville and Matamoros offi
cially shook hands last night.
On the wall American and Mexi
can flags were draped together.
Close to 100 persons, representing
city, state and federal administra
tions in both cities, who attended
a good-will banquet in the dining
room of the El Jardin hotel, heard
shakers tell of plans for furthering
common interests through co-opera
tion in law enforcement, commer
cial, industrial and educational pur
suits.
A bridge of friendship uniting the
sympathies of two peoples brought
together by natural conditions was
held before the group throughout
the evening as the ideal goal, in dec
orations, speeches, musical numbers
and table arangements.
Opening with the playing of the
Mexican and American national an
thems by a marimba band from
Matamoros. while the entire assem
bly stood at attention, the banquet
sponsored by the Brownsville Lions
club ar.d chamber of commerce, was
Interspersed with short talks indi
cative of the sentiment underlying
the affair.
Cementing the bonds of friend
ship already existing between the
two cities is a worthy undertaking.
Jack Roetzel of the Lions club, who
acted as toastmaster, declared in
his address of welcome. Miguel
Saenz, representing the a.vuntamien
to of Matamoros. responded, empha
sized the need of close relationship,
but declared that among the well
intentioned on both side-- of the
| river the feeling of amifv has always
j existed.
M rfro Spirit De.-.ril ed
Picturr d a “new V.vxi o’ using
from the ashes of turmoil and un
rest which has develops i from the
assertion of a people's spirit was
painted in the address of Francisco
Nicodemos. Tamaulipas school direc
tor. “It is cut h banquets as this,
indicating a feeling of good will." he
declared, “that makes us hope for
the future, even looking back upon
a recent past not any too bright.
And in this hope we aiso wish that
certain elements seeking to separate
us and create dissension, may for
ever lose their influence lor evil.
Here are two towns with a single
aim—the development of humanity.”
“I speak for all the residents of
this side of the river when I state
that we are brothers and extend
to you a cordial welcome which has
its origin in our hearts." G. W. Den
nett. Brownsville postmaster, said
in his address of welcome to the
officials, civil ana military of Mata
moros. He praised Gen. Gabriel
Cervera and the late Col. W. T.
Johnston for tneir work in creating
a spirit of friendliness between the
two cities.
“And I feel sure." he continued,
"that Gen. J. H. Serrano, who is
with us tonight, will continue the
good work of General Cervera."
General Serrano responded with
a brief statement of thanks.
Co-operation between law en
forcement bodies on the two sides
of the Rio Grande was stressed by
M. R. Hall, county attorney of
Cameron county. “We have found
the Mexican authorities alwavs will
ing to help us. and I hope that
they have felt the same way about
our attitude," Hall stated. He ex
pressed hope for continuation of
the co-operation in the future, ex
tending a particular invitation to
the mexican officials to call upon
American Authorities wherever or
when they could be of assistance.
The only address in English was
delivered by Dr. Manuel F. Rodri
(Continued on page two.)
N
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Citizens Defy Harlingen Officials
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JMALADY HUS
ONE FAMILY
IN EDINBURG
Death Takes Tinkler
Children Within 14
Hours After Illness
Started
EDINBURG. June 8—While ar
rangements were being completed
here today for the burial of three
children of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Tink
ler. who died Friday and Saturday
morning, medical authorities were
seeking the possible source of the
dread disease, amoebic dyssentery,
which killed them. i
The mother, prostrated with grief,
was confined to her bed and a
fourth child was seriously ill with
the disease at the Medical Arts hos
pital here. This child was believed
to be on the road to recovery.
Lancaster Earl. 8. died first at
11:45 a. m. Friday. Rose Marie. 5.
died at 12:20 a m. Saturday and
Catherine, 10, at 1:20 a. m. Satur
day.
Lancaster Earl, known to his
friends as Buddy, was removed from
the family home to the hospital1
Monday and by Thursday it was
thought he was well on the road to
recovery. Members of the Midget
Bugle Band of the Edinburg school,
of which organization Buddy was a
popular member, serenaded him at
the hospital Wednesday. He took
a turn for the worse Friday morn
ing and was dead before noon.
The other children were not be
lieved to be in so serious a condition
until a few hours before death.
Fruit May Be Cause
Dr. J. R. Mahone. county health
officer, expressed the belief that
over-ripe fruit eaten by the chil
dren may have been the cause of the
disease .although there was no pos
! itive proof. He explained this is
the disease with which so many sol
diers died while in the Philippines
during and after the Spanish-Amer
ican war. It is said to be both con
tagious and infectious and its treat
ment is difficult.
There was some alarm occasioned
here that the disease was caused bv
the drinking water, but medical au
(Contlnued on page eight.)
V. RAY ADAMS
IS ACQUITTED
Bartlett Farmer Freed On
Re-Trial of Bet Slay
ing Case
CORSICANA. Tex.. June 8—
V. Ray Adams, Bartlett farmer, was
acquitted of slaying Orville L
Mathews. Dallas banker, by a jury
here today.
The jury reached its verdict about
noon today, having received the
case last night.
This was Adams second trial, a
first trial at Dallas resulting in a
hung jury. The case was brought
to Navarro county on a change of
venue.
The slaying of Mathews on a busy
downtown street in Dallas was al
leged to have grown out of an elec
tion bet on the Connally-Mayfield
senatorial race.
Adams testified that he was sorry
he killed Mathews, but that he shot
only after he believed his own life
was endangered.
Friends and business associates of
the slain man assisted in the prose
cution. having obtained Robert Al
len. noted Dallas criminal lawyer,
as a special prosecutor.
STALLWORTH
JURY DISMISSED
AMARILLO. Texas. June 8 ——
The jury in the Mrs. Levi Stallworth
murder trial here was dismissed this
afternoon after It had declared it
self hopelessly deadlocked
GOERNER FREED
CALDWELL. Texas. June 8.—<;P)
Ed Goerner. fanner, was a free man
today.
A jury acquitted him last night
on charges of shooting his wife to
death in 1927,
Troops Ordered Out:
As 5 Wounded In
Mill Strike Clash
SEEK CHARTER
CHANGE AFTER
PLEA IS FILED
Action Demanded On
Offer to Curtail
Power of City’s Of
ficials |
'Special to The Herald*
HARLINGEN. June 8.—Proposed
changes in the Harlingen city char
ter. mainly acting to limit the pow
er of city officials, will be sub
mitted to the people within 60 days
regardless of action of the city
commission, as the city charter pro- !
vides for such action.
Sponsor Talks
This announcement was made by!
J. C. Myrick, one of those who j
sponsored the petitions asking for I
the charter amendments, in view1
of the fact that the city commis- |
sion filed the petitions and took no
action.
The city charter provides that
a petition for a charter amendment,
signed by the number of persons
who signed out petitions <250> must
be submitted to the people within !
60 days after it is presented. We J
hope the city commission will pre- i
sent it at once."
Limit Warrants
The proposed amendments limit j
the amount of warrants that the j
commission can issue to one-tenth
of one per cent of the valuation.
$8,500 for this year; limit the com
missioners’ salaries to $50 a month
each, and the mayor's to $100. and
limit them to $5 a month each when
a city manager Is employed: provide J
for a city park commission, reduce
the per cent of the voters necessary
in a recall to 20 from 50.
Airport Wanted
It is considered likely that if these
changes are submitted to the people j
another will be added providing for
expenditure of funds by the city
to purchase sites for an airport,
and for placing improvements there
on. The fact that the present city
charter has no such provisions in
it has been called to mind by Judge
Myrick.
TEXAN RECOMMENDED
FOR U. S. FARM BOARD
WASHINGTON. June 8—AV
Former Representative Eugene
Black of Texas, was recommended
to President Hoover today for ap
pointment to the federal farm
board under a bill now before con
gress by Representative Til&on.
house republican leader. Garner,
house democratic leader, and Speak
er Longworth.
GASTONIA. N. C., June 8.—
(API—Chief of Police O. L. Aber
holt. seriously wounded last night
in a battle between guards at the
tented ramp of striking Loray
cotton mill workers and police
men, died in a hospital here today.
GASTONIA. N C.. June 8—m—
A strikers' clash with police officers
in which five men received gunshot
wounds, threw this textile center
Into such turmoil today that county
officers called on Governor O. Max
Gardner to send national guards
men to the scene.
Of the five men wounded only
one. Chief of Police O. L. Ader
holt. was believed to have been ser
iously injured.
The chief and the patrolmen
were shot last night when they
started to enter a headquarters
building maintained by the strik
ers. Joseph Harrison of Passaic. N.
J. organizer for the National Tex
tile Workers Union, also was
wounded.
Chief Aderholt and his men went
to the mill village upon receipt of
a cal! from Patrolman H. C. Jack
son. who said a party of strikers
had started for the Loray plant
with the announced intention of
forming employes to halt work.
After turning back the strikers
the officers approached the head
quarters Jackson related that as
they came near they were chal
lenged and then were suddenly
fired upon.
Sheriff Eli Lineberger asked Gov
ernor Gardner for troops after in
(Continued on page eight.)
ROBISON CALLS
175 WITNESSES
Subpoenas Requested For
Impeachment Hearing
Starting Monday
AUSTIN, June 8.—<&)—Attorneys
for J. T. Robison, commissioner of
the general land office, against
whom charges have been preferred
in the house of representatives, have
requested that subpoenas be issued
for 175 witnesses. Speaker W. S.
Barron announced today.
The committee chosen by Speak
er Barron to select an attorney to
represent the proponents of the
charges had not definitely decided
on its men. and Rep. Grariy Wood
ruff of Decatur wms making a list
of witncc.se; to be prevented in sub
stantiation of his charts
Carpenters were at work rearrang
ing tables and Installing a platform
for use of witnesses wh**n the house
begins the hearing as a "ommittce
of the whole Monday.
Whole House lo Listen
There was rome agitation to “farm
out" the hearing to a sub-committee
in the interest of lagfaflation. but
it Is likely this move will be resist -
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Beauties Throng Galveston
Annual Pulchritude Show
GALVESTON. Tex.. June 8.—<7P>—
A steady stream of people poured
into Galveston today for the inter
national pageant of pulchritude.
The fourth international event
and the tenth bathing girl revue
was to be inaugurated at 5 p. m..
with a parade in sports and after
noon costumes. A float was ready
for each of the contestants.
About one-third of the United
States entries remained to arrive to
day. among them Miss Cuba. Elvira
Moreno, only foreign contestant
who had not made her appearance
on the island last night.
Manv of the contestants were
somewhat awed by the prospect of
parading before such large crowds
and of matching their natural en
dowments with those of competitors
from all over the world despite the
fact that they were entering the
pageant by virtue of victory over
hundreds and. in some cases, more
than a thousand opponents.
Foreign Entries Hope
The foreign entrants surveyed the
scene optimistically, confident that
this year was their "turn.” Three
years they had aspired to the title
of "Miss Universe" and their efforts
had produced nothing. Mis Brazil,
Olga Bergamine de Sa. was not the
least bit perturbed because she was
the first South American girl to
stake her good looks against the
(Continued on page two^,
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POLICE HERE NIP
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FIRST FALSE FIRE
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ALARM; 3 JAILED
It was bound to come.
At 9:24 p. m. Friday the lire
alarm gong sounded, and the re
corder tapped out “box 182" !
'Third and Elizabeth). Two min
utes later trucks from the Cen
tral and No. 2 stations arrived on
the scene. The firemen found no
blaze but found three youths
writhing in the hands of the law.
At present there is no law ap
plying to malicious false alarms,
but the city commission passed to
first reading an ordinance in this
matter Friday.
Officers W. F. MacDonald made
the arrests.
DOUBT SUICIDE
IDEA IN DEATH
OF STUDENT. 21
Officials Differ On
Wounds In Head;
Four Arrested And
Then Released
PHILADELPHIA, June 8 — </P>—
Whether Bramwell Linn. 21. honor
student at Haverford College, whose
body with a bullet wound through
the head was found in his room on
the campus, committed suicide or j
was slain remained undetermined to
day. Official opinion differed.
The student was a son of Judge
William B. Linn, of the Pensvlvania
superior court. He was to have been
graduated today and was to hav*
received a special prize for improve
ment in scholarship.
Clothed only In underwear. Linn's
body was found on the floor of his
room in Lloyd Hall by Robert
Doughty. Jr., a classmate. A .22
caliber rifle stood in a corner of
the room.
Doughty and three other students.
Wendell W Blanco. Wayne. Pa.
Ralph Atkinson. Salem. O. and
John O. Hartman. York. Pa . friends
of Linn, who had been held for
questioning, were released late last
night.
A note, which Linn gave to
Doughty to turn over to Hartman, j
read:
“The soggy old prohibitioni.;ts will
get a great kick out of this. They'll
say it was booze. But it was not.
They'll say I was insane, but I'm
not I’m both sane and sober. I
want to pass out of this life as un
known as I came into it.”
FREIGHT THEFT
RING SMASHED
Roundup Nets Seven Men
After Border Patrol
Officers Report
HARLINGEN, June 8 —Seven
men. charged variously with bteak
ing into a freight car and stealing
merchandise, with r"ec4v‘ng stolen
merchandise ard with allied viola
tions of the law, are licing hailed
into Justice of the Peace W. H.
Sharp s court here—and all because
a border patrol ofiiccr went out
to Interview an alien about his en
try papers.
This was reveal.d when the men
w’ere brought <nto justice court by
Special Investigator H. M. Wallace
of the Missouri Pacific, and Border
Patrol Officers Dave Ferguson and
W R. Brady, who arrested the men.
The case was continued a day or
two due to absence of Assistant
District Attorney Milton W. West.
Ferguson and Brady went to a
point near the river to investigate
an alien, and noticed several oairs
of trousers hanging up. They noti
fied Wallace, and he investigated,
tracing them back to a thefr, of
85 pairs of trousers out of a box
car at San Benito in May.
COL JOHNSTON
HAD SERVED IN
ARMY 42 YEARS
Funeral Service* To
Be Held Sunday At
4 P. M.; Masonic
Rite* Also
Fort Brown today mourned the
loss of a great soldier and poat
commander. Col. William T. John
ston. who died suddenly Friday aft
ernoon at 3:55 o’clock. The imme
diate cause of death was hypostatic
pneumonia.
The flag mas at half Riant lotto?
for this veteran who gave 42 year*
to service for his country and who
was ;o have iieen retired from the
service for on July 28.
Colonel Johnston, born July 28
1865. in Pennsylvania, has had a
brilliant military record since he
was graduated from the United
States military academy at Wert
Point in 1891. He saw service at
various army posts over the United
States, was a recruiting officer in
the Spanish-American war. was sta
t.oned at Manila. Philippine Is
lands and was in action during the
insurrections there, was transferred
back to the United States and liter
back to Hawaii. He came to Fort
Brown in 1925 and was completing
his fourth vear here
In III Health
Although in ill health during h«*
last year and a half her'*. Colonel
Johnston continued in atctve com
mand of the post, although he might
have been retired for physical dis
ability.
Colonel Johnston will be burled
in Arlington National cemetery at
Arlington. Va. Chamber of Com
merce officials mill rend a wreath
to be placed beside the grav» there
as a token of the esteem in which
he was held by the eitv of Bromm«
ville. for which h* has done m
much.
Reaol.'.tions on his d-ath are to be
prepared by the city commission
and the chamber of commerce
Funeral services are to he neld
at the guarers Sund.iv a* 4 p. m.
The mil:Cary ceremory mill be sim
ple and oricf i* was HJMNMSd
Colonel Johnston is survived he
his widow, and a non. IMvsell. who
arrived in Brownsville Thursday to
be with his father.
Koch Take* Command
Col Stanley Koch mill temporar
ily be in command of the po*t pet d
ing the arrival ot Co’ Daniel Van
Voorhls. who now la at W.»*r»u
ton completing a course in the War
college.
The colonel m as taken Hi in March
1918. He was s-n*. to the .-ta'icn
hospital at For* Sam Houston and
later to Mayo brothers, mhere i.e
was under treatment for two
months.
He returned to the post in No
vember and was active until the day
before his death. The official
bulletin of MaJ. Fletcher Gardner,
post surgeon, said death resulted
<Continued on page *wo >
THE WEATHER
1.1 ■
For Brownsville and the Valley
Fair or partly cloudy tonight and
Sunday. Light to moderate winds,
mostly southerly.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy
tonight and Sunday. Light to mod
erate variable winds on the mart.
RIVER FORECAST
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
in the river during the next few
days.
rood Pr«*nt 14-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stacc draco Ctinc. R*tn
Eagle Pa-^c .. IB 2 8 -02 .00
Laredo . 27 - 01 -0 4 .00
Rio Grande . 21 7 0 0 6 00
Mission. 22 6 2 0 0 00
San Benito .23 11.0 -0 2 00
Brownsville . 16 6 0 -0 4 00
TIDE TAM E
High and low tide at Point Isa be.
tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 6 54 a. m.
Low. 11 00 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset todav .7 31
Sunrise tomorrow... 5 37
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