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JUDGE’S TRIAL
CITY UNDECIDED
Attorney* Lock Horn* After
Hamilton Venue Change
Is Granted
AMARILLO, Tex.. June 15.—CSV
The city in which R. H. Hamilton,
prominent Amarillo lawyer, will be
tried on a charge of slaying his son
in-law. Tom Walton, Jr., still was
undecided today after state and de
fense attorneys had failed to reach
an agreement.
Another effort to decide upon a
trial site will be made at a confer
ence next Wednesday, they an
nounced. Should an agreement not
be reached then it would fall to
Judge Henry 8. Bishop, who yester
day granted Hamilton a change of
venue, to name the place where the
case shall be tried.
Ed W. Thomerson. district attor
ney of Poster county, wants the trial
held at some point on the Fort
Worth and Denver Railway between
Childress and Fort Worth, while
the defense lawyers have suggested
Abilene and Dallas and points south
of the latter place.
The change of venue was granted
after nearly a score of witnesses had
testified that the attorney could
not have a fair trial in this county
because of prejudice,
j Walton was slain in Hamilton s
I office where he had gone to tell of
his marriage to Theresa Hamilton, a
student of the University of Texas
and the attorney's daughter,
i During the change of venue hear
ing the youthful widow sat by her
father. It was said that about 70
persons from Austin where both
Walton and his widow were well
known as students had been sum
moned as witnesses.
County Poultry v 1
Contest Will Be
; £ ■ Held On June 25
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. June 15.—Camer
on county's representatives at the
i state poultry judging contest will
be selected at a county-wide con
test here June 25. according to an
nouncement of Henry Alsmeyer,
county agricultural agent. #
Members of 4-H boys’ clubs In all
parts of the county will assemble
here for the contest, which will start
at 10 o’clock In the morning, and
last during most of the day. At the
conclusion of Judging in the after
noon some entertainment will be
arranged for the boys, Alsmeyer
6ald.
Winners in the contest will be
given a free trip to the short course
! at College Station, where the judg
ing contest of the state will be held,
i Judging here will be of Rhode
Island Reds, and Barred Plymouth
Rocks.
Raymondville Seeks
Bond Issue to Build
Air Landing Field
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(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE. June 15—Pe
titions are being circulated here
asking the city commission to call j
a bond issue election in the sum I
of $20,000 to purchase a 200-acre 1
Kite for a government emergency
air field.
The action is being taken follow
ing a conference with Lawrence C.
\ Elliott of the airways extension
» service of the U. S. department of
commerce, who said an emergency
landing field near here is con
t templated i nthe night flying line .
* to Brownsville.
The government will fur
nish the field with hangars and bea
con lights, and will turn it over I
to thp dtp for operation at, any!
f time the city desires to operate it. j
Elliott explained.
HIGH SCHOOL GROUP
x WILL GO TO MEXICO
FORT WORTH. June 15.—m— A
group of high school instructors
from nearly every state west of the
Mississippi river, will assemble at
Laredo, June 29, preparatory to
leaving for Mexico on a study and
travel tour.
The party will Include also several
university students and others in
terested in making a study of con
ditions in the southern republic and
will be the largest group of Amer
icans to visit Mexico since the revo
lution last spring.
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Sentence of Radical
Again Brings to Fore
Sacco-Vanzetti Issue
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Inset, Harry J. Canter, a nd photo of his arrest
BOSTON. Mass., June 1U—The
names of Nicola Sacco and Bartol
omeo Vanzetti, humble workers who
went to their death as murderers,
seem destined to echo and re-echo
through Massachusetts halls of jus
tice. With a sort of fanatical de
votion to the cause, men and women
seem willing, even after death
brought the famous case to a close,
to suffer abuse and imprisonment
in the names of the one-time fac
tory hand and fish-peddler.
The latest to feel the heavy hand
of the law' for his activities toward
vindication of the names of Sacco
and Vanzetti is Harry J. Canter,
Boston printer, who was a candi
date for secretary of state of Mass
achusetts in last autumn's election,
on the workers'-communist party
ticket.
Canter, convicted of criminally li
belling the then Governor Alvan T.
Fuller, has been sentenced in the
Suffolk county superior court, at
Boston, to serve one year in the
house of corrections. The request
of Canter's attorney for a stay of
execution pending action by the
supreme court on Canter s excep
tions was denied, and the man was
taken away immediately to begin his
sentence.
The Offense
Canter admitted that on Nov. 3.
1928. he paraded up and down In
front of the state house. Boston, j
carrying a placard on which was ,
the legend: “Fuller—Murderer of
Sacco and Vanzetti.” For this he
was indicted and brought to trial.
The international labor defense
defended the prisoner, his counsel
being Harry Hoffman of Boston and ,
Arthur Hayes of New York, noted
liberal.
Canter's attorney summoned ns
witnesses for the defense President
A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard uni
versity. Tresident Samuel W. Strat
ton of the Masschusetts institute
of Technology, who were members
of the commission appointed by
Governor Fuller to look into the
Sacco-Vanzetti case; and Mr. Fuller
himself.
These and other distinguished
witnesses weer prepared to appear
when Judge Robert F. Raymond
held a preliminary hearing to de
termine what testimony the defense
expected such witnesses to give.
After the hearing, he declared such
testimony was not admissible. These
witnesses, therefore, did not take
the stand.
Only a Few Minutes
The trial was short, the state of
fering only two witnesses, policemen
who made the arrest, and the de
fense putting on only Canter him
self. The defense argued that Can
ter’S charge against Fuller was
merely political, and that nnbodv
could have believed that he meant
the governor was murderer of Sac
co and Vanzetti in the ordinary
sense of the word. The defense de
clared Canter merely attempted to
place ‘ moral responsibility" for the
deaths upon Fuller.
The judge's charge was not fa
vorable to the defense, and the jury
reached a verdict of guilty in less
than two hours. The maximum sen
tence for criminal libel is two years:
Judge Raymond halved this and
sentenced Canter for one year. Aft
er being sentenced Canter attempt
ed to make a speech, but was told
he had been ably represented by
counsel. He was interrupted and
led away to serve his sentence.
Canter had figured in several pre
vious Sacco-Vanzetti demonstra
tions.
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DEMAND ROAD
IN KENEDY CO.
Willacy Request To Be
Backed By Court
Action ./+
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(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE. June 15 —
Blocked in every previous atttempt
to secure a highway directly north
through Kenedy county, the com
missioners court of Willacy ccunty
decided to take recoure to law in
an attempt to force a road through
the neighbor county. *
County Judge R. S. Dorsett has
served formal demand upon the
county commissioners of Kenedy
county to provide a road connecting
the county seat of that county, Sa
rita. with the road from the county
seat of Willacy county, at the coun
ty line.
A statute passed in 1920 provides
that where one county refuses to
provide a road of standard width
connecting its county seat with the
county sent of an adjacent county,
when such a rekuest is made, the
county can he forced to do so.
Efforts will also be made to get
Kleberg county on the north to
make a similar request, in which
case a right-of-way across Kenedy
county may be secured.
This action is being taken to se
cure an outlet from Raymondville
north, and also to carry out the
plan of state aid on the highway
from Raymondville north to the
Kenedy county line. The state high
way department recently refused to
furnish half the funds for this road,
declaring that it would be little used
because of no connection at the
county line. Willacy county already
has voted funds io meet its part
of the expense on this road.
Rabbit Growers of
Valley Form Body
To Assist Industry
(Special to The Herald)
ALAMO. June 15.—Another In
dustrial organisation has been add
ed to the Valley form of a Valley
Rabbit Growers' association.
L. E. Wigton of Alamo is presi
dent. and Burl Stugard. Alamo, sec
retary treasurer. Other members
are R. E. Clark. Weslaco, H. A.1
j Smith. Alamo, W. C. Ruiz. San Ju
an, Mrs. J. E. Pearce, Mission, and
' E. R. Metcalf, Weslaco.
There are a number of rabbit
farms already In the Valley, and
several varieties of this animal are
being raised, for both the meat and
I fur.
Meetings of the association will
: be held on the first Monday of
I each month, the next to be with
; R. E. Clark, Weslaco. It is also j
j planned to send a delegate to the [
1 national Rabbit Growers’ conven
tion in Fort Worth December 9 to
j 13.
TWO DEMONSTRATIONS
ON POULTRY SLATED
(Soecial to The Herald'
SAN BENITO. June 15— Poultry
Judging demonstrations will be held !
j at two places In the county next j
week, County Farm Agent Henry
Alsmeyer announced today.
A demonstration will be held
Thursday morning at the H. A ,
' Hogles farm in Briggs-Coleman
tract, and one will be held Friday
morning at the E. W. Shaw farm
at Combes, both being scheduled
I to start at 10 o’clock. i
LA FERIA HAS
BIG PROGRAM
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Booster Club Outlines Plans
For Progress Of
Community
(Special to The Herald)
LA FERIA, June 15.—Attraction
of industrial plants to the city, a
move to bring non-resident property
owners to La Feria. and a compre
hensive program of civic beautifica
tion are the aims outlined in the
plan of work adopted by the La
Feria booster club at their meting
this week.
Industries which the boosters
would consider beneficial are a can
ning plant, plant for bottling fruit
Juices, box factory, feed mill, cold
storage plant, branch office of
wholesale distributors.
The beautification campaign
wo»dd include a cltv-wide cleanup
of alleys and vacant lots, the build
ing of concrete sidewalks, and the
planting of trees and shrubs.
Efforts will be made to secure a
new railroad station, and girls’ and
boys’ project clubs will be fostered.
Better roeds and the building of j
modern rent houses and apartments j
are also on the program.
CALIFORNIAN NAMED
TO U. S. POWER BODY
WASHINGTON. June 15.—(JPv—
Frank E. Bonner of Piedmont. Cal.,
has been selScted to sucreed O. C.
Merrill as executive secretary of the 1
federal power commission. 8ecre- j
tary good announced the selection
today. I
Valley Master Farmer's
Son Wins High 4-H Hono\
(Special to The Herald'
HARLINGEN, June 15.—Isaac
Corns, Jr., son of Isaac Corns, Sr.,
one of Texas’ 15 master farmers,
left here Saturday night for Wash
ington, D. C., one of the two rep
resentatives of Texas at the na
tional 4-H club meeting.
The other Texas boy to make the
trip is Paul Robinson of Midway.
Madison county.
Young Corns made an enviable
record during his three years as a
member of a 4-H club in Cameron
county, saving $2,091.10 during that
time with which to pay his expenses
through college. He is a freshman
at Texas A. & M. college.
He saved this money on cotton,
corn and poultry, which were his
major subjects during the years
that he was a 4-H boy.
Working under the direction of
County Agent Henry Alsmeyer.
young Corns has won many local
honors, including first place in com
exhibits in open competition at the
Valley Mid-Winter fair.
He also won first in cotton and
poultry club record books in the
county, and second in cotton exhi
bits at the fair; two _'Sholarships
to the farmers short course at A.
4: M. college. He was a member
of the Cameron county poultry
Judging team that won second place
in state contest at the short course
last, summer.
His achievement, however,
been to take over the home poultry
flock of 330 white leghorns and by
expert feeding and management
placed it on a paying basis. The
first year he managed the flock the
profits amounted to more than $1.
100, and the last year, from Januarj
1 to September 14, the profits cami
to $847.50.
He Is studying poultry husbandry
at A. & M. college.
Dawes Journeys To
Highlands to Meet
Premier MacDonald
LONDON, June 15.—IIP)—Charla
Gates Dawes, new American ambas
sador to Great Britain, left tonight
for the Scottish highlands to meet
Premier Ramsay MacDonald In •
conference widely hailed as preg
nant with great events. He pre
viously had presented credentials tc
King George at Windsor Castle.
The ceremony at Windsor today
was strictly according to tradition,
but Ambassador Dawes’ expeditioui
Journey to Scotland In performance
of a special mission Is as novel as It
is dramatically momentous. Fired
with enthusiastic Interest by the
Brusque Mid - West American’*
' hustle,” the British public is watch
ing Oeneral Dawes with the keen
est Interest.
UTLITY STOCK SALES
CAUSE CURB RECORD
NEW YORK. June 15.—<**>—
Trading on the New York curb
market today exceeded for the first
time the volume on the New York
stock exchange. Sales of 1587.900
on the curb were almost entirely
confined to the public utility stocks.
8tock exchange sales totaled 1564.
420.
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Roseland and Mistletoe butter sold
at all leading grocers. ,
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Equally important are the design and con
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