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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 3 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1929 EIGHT PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
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Non-Stop Flyer Delayed
ZIMMERLEY
WAITING FOR
INSTRUMENT
Tests Plane And Is
Ready to Hop Off
At First Opportun
ity; Route Given
Delayed In the start of his non
ftop flight from Brownsville to
Winnipeg, Canada, by failure of J.
W. Bearetta, governor for the Na
tional Aeronautical association of
« Texas, to arrive here with a baro
graph, D. S. (Barney) Zimmerley
was preparing to hop at 2 a. m.
Sunday.
Weather reports early today in
dicated he would have a favoring
tail wind practically all the way
on his 1600-mile flight by traveling
at a height of 3000 to 5000 feet. He
will await a later report before
definitely deciding whether to start.
Baretta wired that he could not
Teach here Friday with the baro
graph on account of stormy wea
'■kher conditions, but that he hoped
Mto arrive Saturday afternoon.
Bride Watches
As the 30-year-old veteran of the
air speeds over the course in his
low-wing Nicholas-Beazley light
plane, his bride of ten months, now
in Marshall. Mo., will be earnestly
hoping for his success. This is the
first record flight Zimmerley will
have attempted since his marriage
In North Dakota last September.
Mrs. Zimmerley wired best wishes
late Friday.
After taking off here Zimmerley
plans to steer a "bee-line” course
for Winnipeg. He will pass west
of Houston a considerable distance,
expects to fly directly over Waco
and to pass just east of Fort Worth.
He hopes to maintain a course that
will carry him directly over Guth
rie, Okla.. slightly east of Wichita,
Kas,. over York. Neb., west of Lin
coln over Yank town, S. D., and
Caselton. N. D.
To Drop Streamers
Zimmerley has a number of
printed streamers with him, which
he will drop in various towns as he
continues his flight. These stream
ers read “Brownsville to Winnipeg
Non-Stor) Flight." A message form
is attached and the finder is re
quested to file a telegram to the
Associated Press telling at what
time he passed.
Several of these will be dropped if
he is flying low enough to be seen.
If he is forced to fly high. Zimmer
ley said he possibly would not drop
any of them.
The pitne was tuw»d •£* Fri
dav and taken on a test flight. The
pilot announced It ready for the
supreme test.
FARMER ACQUITTED
IN PEONAGE CASE
AMERICUS, Ga„ July 6.—UP)—
W. D. Arnold, Sr.. Webster county
planter, was released from custody
rOday—freed of charges of peonage
growing out of complaint from em
ployees on his plantation.
Arnold was acquitted by federal
WY™ after a trial extending over
lfey<st of the week. Claud King, a
white farmhand, and John Vanover,
negro worker, were principal gov
ernment witnesses, testifying they
had been whipped by negroes at
Arnold’s orders.
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Crowds Storm New
Endurance Champs;
Flyers Seek Sleep
CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 6.—(A5)—
Holders of a new world’s record
for endurance flights of 174 hours
and 59 seconds, Pilots Roy L. Mitch
ell and Byron K. Newcomb today
rested after remaining in the air
from a week ago Friday until,
12:39:50 this morning when they
brought their plane to earth at
Cleveland airport.
They exceeded by one hour 28
minutes and 58 seconds the old
mark set recently in Fort Worth,
Texas, by Reginald Robbins and
James Kelley, who remained aloft
172 hours, 32 minutes and 1 second.
Weariness brought the airmen to
a landing and the riotous acclaim of
75,000 persons after a flight which
became more hazardous and diffi
cult as the days aloft cut down tneir
physical endurance.
The climax of the attempt came
but a few hours before it ended, and
the two men said it nearly killed
them. They survived a severe elec
trical storm which damaged their
refueling plane in a forced landing
and stopped all other air traffic to
fight on for the record, attained
twelve hours later.
Exhausted
Exhausted, the airmen immediate
ly were taken under guard to s.
hotel, to sleep throughout the day
if they desire. They were spent.
“We broke the record. That’s
enough. All we want now is sleep,”
Newcomb said.
Resting with them was Ernest
Basham, pilot of the refueling plane,
who completed 24 contacts during
the flight to replenish the supply of
gasoline, oil and food.
High lights of the feat followed
rapidly last night and early today
as the record was reached, a new
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EX-CHAMP IN
DEATH PROBE
Johnny Wilson Occupies
Attention In ■ Club
Owner’s Slaying
NEW YORK. July 6.—(J’)—John
ny Wilson, former middleweight
champion, occupied the center of
attention today in the search for
the slayers of Frank Marlow, night
club owner.
Wilson, in jail as a material wit
ness in the killing, was regarded as
a close friend of Marlow and was
under his management at one time.
Discrepancies in his story of the
events of the day and evening of
the slaying have caused police to
subject his statements to rigid
scrutiny and led to reports his
status in the case may be changed.
When first questioned, Wilson de
nied Marlow had answered the tel
ephone in the restaurant in West
Fifty-second street where they with
four others dined on the night of
June 27 and from where Marlow
went to his death in Flushing,
Queens.
Confronted with the statement of
Humbert J. Fugazy, that Wilson as
well as Marlow had used the tele
phone, the former boxer admitted
both calls. He said is call vas
made to a bookmaker, Darmy Mur
ray.
Geyser Eruption
Burns Are Fatal
To Foreign Editor
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS,
Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.,
July 6.—(JP)—George Landroy, edi
tor of Le Matin, a Brussels, Bel
gium newspaper, died at the Mam
moth Hot Springs hotel yesterday
from bums suffered from boiling
water from Castle geyser.
Mr. Landroy, member of the Car
negie foundation tour to European
journalists, was inspecting the for
mation of Grand Geyser Wednes
day evening when the Castle, its
near neighbor, started an eruption.
The boiling water covered him be
fore he could get out of the spray.
The editor was given first aid
treatment at Old Faithful Lodge
by Dr. D. A. Homer of Chicago
ind then taken to Mammoth Hot
Springs Hotel.
CROQUET RACE ACROSS
COUNTRY IS STARTED
GALVESTON, Texas, July 6.—(JP)
-With their backs to their shops at
lule, Texas, G. C. Hart, barber, and
l.uther Rose, tailor, today turned
heir faces to New York City, 1,700
niles away in a croquet ball batting
narathon. Frank Walton, tailor
ilso of Rule, was with them. He
ilanned to drive an automobile car
ying supplies.
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Fort Worth Man
Killed When Gun
Fires Accidentally
FORT WORTH, July 6.—UP)—G.
H. Brown died today as the result of
gunshot wounds accidentally in
flicted an hour earlier. The shooting
occurred at the home of Lloyd Mc
Falls.
Several families were holding a
party at the home of McFallls, H. L.
Watson playfully started to hand a
shotgun to his mother. The gun was
accidentally discharged, the load
striking Brown in the side.
Farm Board to Begin
Work of Stabilizing
Agriculture July 15
WASHINGTON, July 6.—UP)—
Confident that the federal farm
board membership will be rounded
out next week, President Hoover
has decided to start it July 15 on
its effort to stabilize agriculture.
The first meeting, which prob
ably will take place in the White
House, will precede the reconvening
of the senate by more than a
month, but in view of the desire of
the administration to have the
board functioning in time to re
lieve the situation affecting this
year’s crops, the members will go
ahead under recess appointments
instead of waiting for confirma
tions.
Five of the members to be ap
pointed already have accepted
places on the board, and offers
have been made to fill the three
vacancies. The president expects
to have acceptances for all of
these appointments within a few
days and the full membership of
nine, including the secretary of ag
culture serving ex-officio, on hand
a week from Monday.
As in the case of the president’s
law enforcement commission, he is
expected to address the initial
meeting briefly, emphasizing the
importance he attaches to the
board’s undertaking. It will then
be ready to organize, with Alexan
der H. Legge, president of the In
ternational Harvester company, as
chairman.
ASKS 9 MEMBERS TO
STATE SUPREME COURT
AMARILLO, Tex., July 6.—UP)—
Declaring the heavy work required
of state supreme court justices had
sent many jurists to a premature
death, Chief Justice C. M. Cureton
today asked members of the Texas
and New Mexico bar associations in
convention here to support a pro
posed constitutional amendment in
creasing the court from three to
nine members.
VETERAN NAVAL
OFFICER DIES
WASHINGTON, July 6.—UP)—
Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eder
le, retired, died here today.
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CLOSE RACE IN
CONTEST SEEN;
FIVEJNFIELD
Candidates Disa g r e e
On Proposed Plan
For Obtaining Port
Facilities
HARLINGEN. July 6.—With more
than 200 votes cast here and a
heavy poll reported at Rio Hondo,
a close race was indicated in the
special election being held Satur
day in the Harlingen navigation
district to select commissioners.
There were five candidates in the
field for three places, and although
no official statement could be ob
tained, it was reported the balloting
had been very close.
Members of the present commis
sion. all of whom are seeking re
election, are J. B. Chambers, chair
man; Tyre H. Brown and J. R.
George. New candidates are G. C.
Howell and H. J. Goetzke.
Howell and Goetzke have an
nounced they favor abandoning the
deep water proposal for the present
and to seek extension of the inter
coastal canal south of Corpus
Christi and connection with that
waterway.
The present board has a plan to
cut a channel through Padre Island
opposite the mouth of the arroyo
and dredge a nine-foot channel to
the railway bridge near Harlingen.
It is planned to deepen this later
to accommodate sea-going vessels.
Constitution For
Spain Presented
To Crown Assembly
PARIS, July 6.—UP)—Reestablish
ment of the elective cortes, or Span
ish parliament, is provided for by
the projected new Spanish constitu
tion, submitted to the national as
sembly for plenary action in Oc
tober, the text of which has become
known here.
The projected constitution wouid
establish Spain as a constitutional
monarchy with the executive power
vested in the king, and with the
ministry to have arbitrary consula
tive power.
The legislative power will revert
to the cortes, a single body con
taining one member for every 100,000
of population, both sekes being
available for membership and for
enumeration for representation.
One half of the cortes will be
elected by universal suffrage, 30
members appointed by royal decree
and the rest elected by special
clasifications or professions as laws
later enacted may establish.
The king, under the new consti
tution. profiting by the advice of
his ministers, will initiate all laws
except those referring to govern
ment expenditures, which have pre
viously received the approval of one
fifth the deputies.
There is an express guarantee:
“No one shall be molested in Span
ish territories because of his re
ligious opinions, nor for the exercise
of his own cult, unless it is harm
ful to Christian morals.” Public
religious ceremonials and other re
ligious manifestations are limited to
the Roman Catholic faith.
Youths Bound Over
In Harlingen Store
Robbery Charges
Melquiades Cervantes and Emilio
Sanchez, charged with burglarizing
the Rio Grande Hardware and Ma
chinery company at Harlingen two
weeks ago. were tried in examining
trial before Justice of the Peace
W. H. Sharp at Harlingen Friday
afternoon. They were bound over
to grand jury action under bonds of
$750.
The youths were brought to the
county jail here when they failed
to make bond. Cervantes said he
was 17 years old, and Sanchez gave
his age as 16, -
QUEEN OF THE JULY 4 CELEBRATION
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Her Majesty Queen Dorothy of the House of Stokelp, who reigned supreme at the water pageant which
terminated the brilliant. July, 4 festivities in Brownsville. Her princesses included beauties from every
Valley city. She is the daughter of Mr. arid Sirs. Et. F. Stokely of Brownsville.
SOLON HURLS
BRIBE CHARGE
Oklahoma Legislator Says
Members Received Mon
ey to Aid Bills
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 6.—(fP)
—Members of the special session of
the twelfth Oklahoma legislature
were homeward bound today, puz
zling over charges of corruption
against unnamed legislators, which
threw the lower house into a tur
moil just before sine die adjourn
ment last night.
The charges, hurled by Joe Sher
man, Major county republican, al
leged several members of the house
had received various sums of money
for supporting bills permitting cog
and horse racing, aud in connection
with a bill which would put money
lenders under state supervision.
In a spirited session, in which
fist fights were narrowly averted,
Sherman refused to reveal the
names of the legislators he accused,
although he wp; ordered to do so
by a majority of the lower house.
James C. Nance, speaker, said he
was powerless to compel Sherman
to reveal the names and the matter
was finally voted to be directed to
the attention of the Oklahoma
county attorney.
HE RESTED WITH
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HIS CARGO, THEN
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WAS ARRESTED
Carrying a quantity of bottled
liquor in a sugar sack down a city
street may seem the height of
boldness or necessity.
But here is such an act carried
a step further.
Two men toting such sacks,
strolled leisurely down Fourteenth
street Friday night.
They had been walking a long
way with their illicit cargo. One
of the men stopped to rest.
Right handy was a parked au
tomobile. On the running board
one placed his sack of booze.
The car was City Officer Emilio
Lerma’s.
The man Saturday was explain
ing to the sheriff’s department to
whom Lerma turned him over,
about the 23 pints qf mescal.
His companion fled.
BANK CASHIER
IS BLACKJACKED
Bandits Hold Up Eastern
Bank, Escape With
$50,000
DAUPHIN, Pa., July 6.—UP)—
Three men robbed the Dauphin Na
tional bank here today of $50,000 in
cash after blackjacking Cashier
Harold F. Cobaugh as he was open
ing the bank for business.
Cobaugh, knocked unconscious,
recovered soon after the men left
the bank and, seizing his revolver,
started in pursuit of their car, fir
ing as he ran.
The sound of Cobaugh's shots
aroused the community. It is be
lieved, police said, the robbers’ car
turned from the main highway at
Heckton and headed toward the
mountains between this town and
Harrisburg.
PRESIDENT’S PARTY
AT FISHING LODGE
MADISON. Va„ July 6.—(/P)—The
presidential party of seven was se
cluded from the cares cf adminis
tration duties at the Hoover fishing
preserve in the Blue Ridge moun
tains near here after a hard drive
yesterday over rain soaked roads
from Washington.
With the president were Mrs. Hoo
ver and their son. Herbert. Jr., Dr.
Vernon Kell-.qg, permanent secre
tary of the national research coun
cil and Maik Sullivan and William
Hard, news writers. They expected
to return to the capital late tomor
row.
MASSACHUSETTS^CREW
WINS THAMES RACE
HENLEY, Eng., July 6.—UP)—'The
Browne and Nichols school crew
from Cambridge, Mass., won the
famous Thames cup this afternoon
by capturing the final race of the
gruelling competition.
FOUR FLY TO MEXICO
SATURDAY MORNING
The Mexico City-bound plane
carried four passengers Saturday
morning.
In the group was John Forbes, as
sistant treasurer of the Motlcan
Aviation company; R. J. Allison
of Mercedes; Francisco de P. Mo
rales, Jr., Brownsville lawyer; and
L. H. Kahle, Tampico engineer.
HOOVER TO REVIEW
RAINBOW DIVISION
WASHINGTON, July 6 — (ff) —
President Hoover will review the pa
rade of the rainbow division at Bal
timore on Monday July 15.
Counterfeiting on a large scale
has broken out in Sicily.
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Local Attorneys
To Argue Opposing
Sides of Contest
Judge A. M. Kent Saturday morn
ing said he probably would be in
Raymondville all of next week where
the Lyford road district bond elec
tion contest has been set for Mon
day.
The case is expected to take prob
ably four or five days to hear, and
should the plaintiff prove allega
tions that the $400,000 bond issue
voted several months ago did not
carry, then the court will order the
ballot boxes reopened and a recount
made.
Graham and Graham of Browns
ville and Gause and. Kirkpatrick,
Mercedes, and Judge V. W. Taylor
of Brownsville will assist in defense
of the election.
RAYMONDVILLE MAN’S
HAND CUT BY SAW
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE, July 6.—The
first accident of the ginning season
occurred at the San Perlita gin
early Friday morning, and as a re
sult, Will Moore may lose an arm.
He was caught in the saws when
helping clean them, and his arm
was badly mangled, three fingers
being amputated at once. He was
rushed to the Raymondville hos
pital.
PLAINTIFF WINS
ACTION ON NOTE
A Jury in Cameron county court
at-law Friday afternoon was in
structed to find for the plaintiff
in the case of the Fidelity Loan
and Investment company versus H.
C. Jessup.
The suit was for collection on a
promissory note.
Chicago to Berlin
Plane Is Reported
Fogbound on Bay
OTTAWA, Ont., July 6.—<7P)—
Radio messages to the department
of marine and fisheries indicated
the Chicago-Berlin plane. Untin
Bowler, was weather bound today
at Great Whale, Hudson Bay trad
ing post.
“Landing at Great Whale, weath
er bad,” was the interpretation of
a garbled message received from
the plane yesterday. Great Whale
is about 250 miles north of Rupert
House, where the plane spent
Thursday night.
Lack of further messages was
taken to mean the plane was
grounded as its radio only operates
when the plane is in the air.
The plane, which is owned by the
Chicago Tribune, and carries a
crew consisting of Robert Gast,
Parker D. Cramer, pilots, and Rob
ert Wood, aviation editor of the
Chicago Tribune, left Chicago last
Wednesda.y
HACK WILSON FINED
$100 FOR FIGHTING
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NEW YORK, July 6.—(£*>—Lewis
(Hack) Wilson, slugging outfielder
of the Chicago Cubs, must pay a
fine of $100, and serve a suspension
of three days, effective today, for
his attempted attack upon Ray Kolp
in the Reds’ dugout during the game
at Chicago July 4, President Heydler
of the National league announced
today.
2 FORT WORTH
MEN ARE HELD
BY OFFICERS
Lake Outing Attend-*
ed By Ten Couples
Ends In Tragedy;
Several Drunk
PORT WORTH, July 6.—UP)—
Charges of murder were filed today
against Phili Hooper and Cecil
Odneal in connection with tha
killing of Audie Fentress, 18, las*
night at Camp Frances, Lake:
Worth.
Fentress was shot in the head and
also suffered a blow in the head
which apparently was inflicted with
a heavy instrument.
Fentress’ death was the climax to
a party in which 10 couples ranging
from 18 to 30 years participated and
where several persons became in
toxicated.
Both Odneal and Hooper deny
firing the shot. Odneal said after
the shot was fired, all left the camp
but himself and that he summoned
officers and an ambulance and
stayed with the body until, other
persons arrived.
Odneal said the party arrived at
the camp about 9:30 p. m. Several
couples were inside the camp house,
he said, while others were seated in
cars near the camp. He said he
heard a shot and ran to where it
had been fired. He said he borrowed
a box of matches from another man
and examined the body of Fentress.
Odneal then called an ambulance
and also the district attorney’s of
fice.
In the excitement following the
shooting Odneal said other members
of the party disappeared before the
arrival of an ambulance and Lack
land. He said he alone stayed by
the body of Fentress.
About an hour after Odneal had
made his statement, two girls, who
were members of the party, also
made statements to Lackland.
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Endurance Flyer*
In California Have
New Mark to Break
CULVER CITY, Cal., July 6.—(/P)
—A new goal was set today for L.
W. Mendell and R. B. Reinhart as
they left the half way mark well
behind in their quest for the en
durance refueling flight record.
At 12:29:30 a. m. the fliers had
been in the air 89 hours since their
takeoff last Tuesday. When in
formed Roy L. Mitchell and Byron
K. Newcomb had set a new mark
of 174 hours 59 seconds at Cleveland,
the two pilots dropped a note of
congratulations, adding the promise
they would surpass the new record.
To equal the new record, the 220
horsapower motor, which has as yet
given no indication of faltering,
must keep up its steady drone until
1:30:29 p. m. next Tuesday.
AUSTRALIAN FLYERS
ARRIVE IN PERSIA
BUNDER ABBAS, Persia, July 6.
—(/P)—Captain Charles Kingsford
Smith and three companions ar
rived here at noon today from Kar
acih, British India, in their airplane,
the Southern Cross. The distance
was about 700 miles.
The men are flying from Sydney,
N. S. W., to London.
FLIGHT TO ROME IS
DELAYED BY WEATHER
OLD ORCHARD, Me., July 6.—(K*
—A beach rutted by the pounding
surf today forced Lewis A. Yancey
and Roger Q. Williams to postpona
their proposed takeoff for Rome iit
the monoplane Pathfinder. Weath
er over the Atlantic was described
as “not the best," by Dr. James H
Kimball, meteorologist.
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Mostly cloudy and unsettled to
night and Sunday, probably with
local showers.
• For East Texas: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Sunday: probably scat
tered showers in southeast portion.
Light to fresh southerly winds on
the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
The river will rise somewhat
more at San Benito and Browns
ville during the next 24 hours, and
remain probably stationary there
after for one or two days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr,
Stage Stage Chng. Rail)
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.8 -0.2 .00
Laredo . 27 0.0 — .00
Rio Grande . 21 9.0 -0.1 .00
Mission.22 10.8 +1.9 .00
San Benito . 23 16.6 +2.2 .17
Brownsville . 18 10.5 +2.7 .22
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 5:56 a. m.
Low . 10:01 p. m,
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today.7:26
Sunrise tomorrow . 5:44
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