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STEAMER AND "
CUTTER CRASH
Passengers Safely Moved
From Big Boat After
Collision
BOSTON, July 8—UP)—The steam
ship Prince George, bound from
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, for Boston
with 249 passengers, was in collision
with the coast guard patrol boat
Agassiz in a dense fog 65 miies east
of Boston light yesterday.
All passengers were safely trans
ferred from the Prince George to
v. a the Agassiz, and only one, Miss
Seretha Nickerson of Greenwich,
' Conn., was injured. She was slight
ly bruised.
Two members of the patrol boat’s
crew were .severely hurt. Orlo D.
Howsker, seaman, at the wheel
when the ships came together, and
Alfred R. Johnson, boatswain's
mate.
Johnson, although sufferine from
a severe gash across his forehead,
refused medical attention until all
the Prince George’s passengers had
been safely taken aboard the Agas
siz.
The Prince George was struck on
her port bow by the coast guard
boat. The impact ripped a jagged
hole in the liner’s steel side, six feet
wide and extending below the water
line. The stem of the Agassiz was
crumpled but she did not take much
water. The liner, on the other hand,
suffered a flooding of her No. 1 hold
and came into port down by the
head and with a slight list.
The Prince George’s ten lifeboats
were lowered within 15 minutes
after the alarm wras sounded, and
the ship put about and came along
side the Agassiz. Gangplanks were
rigged and the passangers, many of
them with all their baggage, made
their way aboard the patrol boat.
About 15 miles off Boston, the
passengers were transferred again,
when the cutter Mohave came
alongside and relieved the Agassiz
in order that vessel might proceed
to the east Boston coast guard base
for inspection and repairs.
Air-Rail Service
Inaugurated Over
Pennsylvania Line
COLUMBUS. Ohio, July 8.—(IP)—
tlespite rainy weather, the air-rail
service of the Pennsylvania railroad
and the Trans-Continental Air
Transport, Inc., was inaugurated
here todsy.
Two planes, “The City of Colum
bus” and the “City of Wichita,”
took off from Port Columbus. The
“City of Columbus” soared into the
skies at 8:15 a. m. and the other
plane followed a few minutes later.
Each ship carried 10 passengers.
In Washington, Secretary of
Commerce Lamont pressed a but
ton in his office, a gong sounded
at the airport here, and the “City
of Columbus” took off for Indian
apolis. Miss Amelia Earhart, trans
Atlantic flyer and assistant general
traffic manager of the T. A. T., w’as
one of the passengers in the first
plane.
Miss Earhart, along with most of
^♦he other passengers, came to Co
^junbus this morning on the Air
ways Limited that left New York
last night. Less than half an hour
after the train pulled into Port Co
lumbus, the passengers were wing
ing their way west in the planes.
The flight from here to Waynoka,
Okia., of the two ships marked the
first time in the history of aviation
that train and plane service have
been linked in regular transconti
nental service.
Edinburg State Bank
Resources Placed At
$2,419,502 In Report
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG. July 8—Total re
sources of the Edinburg State Bank
and Trust, company, as shown by
Its statement of June 29. amounted
to $2,419,503.16, with deposits of
$2,084,458.68.
Under resources of the bank are
listed loans and discounts $1,215.
187.72; bonds, stocks and other se
curities. $459,491.01; backing house
and lot, $79,872.41; furniture and
fixtures $25,689.71; other real es
tate, $25,987.44; and cash on hand,
and due from other banks, $613,
273.87.
The capital stock of the bank Is
$100,000. surplus $125,000 and undi
vided profits. $91,827.80.
M. P. OFFICIALS IS
HERE ON BUSINESS
E. H. McReynolds, assistant to
the president of the Missouri Paci
fic lines, arrived in Brownsville
Monday morning to confer with M.
. P. heads here.
McReynolds recently visited Point
Isabel by plane with Bill Vogt,
champion angler.
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WOMAN CHOKES HUSBAND,
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dl Warner Bros-Production;
Warner Bros, present A1 Jolson
in “The Jazz Singer” at the Capitol
theater today. The long-awaited
presentation of the picturization of
Samson Raphaleson’s comedy-dra
ma, which continues to be a potent
attraction on the legitimate stage,
will be made a gala event.
Of the production of “The Jazz
Singer” it is said that the Warners
have lavished so much thought,
care and attention that they look
upon the completed work as their
supreme achievement. For nearly
six months the picture has been in
active preparation.
The story of the rise of the son of
the cantor who deserted his home
to become a jazz singer and at last
was torn between the desire of his
father that he succeed him in the
synagogue and his own desire to
shine on Broadway is well known.
Alan Crosland, who directed the
picture, is said to have treated the
story in the spirit in which it was
conceived. That Jolson is the log
ical exponent of the story of the
picture is clear from the fact that
the story of his own life parallels
it in many places.
Chief in Jolson’s support is May
McAvoy as leading woman in the
role of Mary Dale, Warner Oland
has the role of the elderly cantor.
Among others in the numerous cast
are Otto Lederer, Eugene Besserer.
Cantor Josef Rosenblatt. Anders
Randolf, William Demarest, Bobby
Gordon, Richard Tucker and Nat
Carr.
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(By The Associated Press)
TENERCLIFFE, Canary Islands
—Senorita Rosario Velazquez, “Miss
Spain” at the Cflveston beauty pa
geant, dislikes American men.
‘ They are wholly dominated by
their women, who are extremely
dominating,” she explained here on
the way home to Madrid.
NEW YORK—Mr. and Mrs. F. Le
Moin Page of Pittsburgh had a dif
ference of opinion. She wanted to
learn to fly. He objected. They
compromised. She came to New
York to learn. He followed. Both
took solo flights the same day. Now
they are going to buy a plane.
IiOS ANGELES — Writing her
husband she can't stand expensive
things. Mrs. Claude Derring has
forsaken the luxury he gave her
and gone back to the old restaurant
life. She is a waitress again. Six
years after she married a railroad
brakeman oil was found on his Wy
oming homestead. He has obtain
ed a divorce.
OSSINING. N. Y.—A state prsion
to be built at Attica. N. Y., will
have no keys or keyholes. Cell
doors will be operated by compress
ed air. At lockup time each pris
oner must record his presence in his
cell by pressing an electric buzzer.
NEW YORK—The disappearing
whale is to have even less chance.
Capt. Finn Luetzow Holm, war avi
ator, has gone to Norway to sail on
a whaler with his monoplane. He
win fly looking for schools and re
port their whereabouts to the ship.
Work to Start Soon
On New John Sealy
Galveston Hospital
GALVESTON. Tex., July 8. —vTPl—
/hec,nc‘w out-patient build
^?hn Scaly hospital will start
soon the contract having be*n
awarded to the Summer Collitt ccm
Ja”£ °L S,ar>Antonio by directors
of the Sealy-Smith foundation. Es
timated costs total $550,000. includ
ing $50,000 appropriated by the uni
versity board of regents for labora
tory, equipment as a memorial of
the late John Sealy.
Bids for the new nurses’ home, to
cost $250,000, will be sought in No
vember.
M. P. Superintendent
In Brownsville For
Bus Shed Completion
H. P. McDonald, superintendent
of automotive equipment for the
Missouri Pacific Transporta t i o n
company, arrived in Brownsville
Sunday to supervise work in the
new bus line shed nearing comple
tion. McDonald, accompanied by
his secretary, Elmer Lacasse, came
here from St. Louis.
McDonald will supervise removal
of equipment from the old to the
new shops here and also the instal
lation of new. equipment. Ke ex
pects to be here about a week.
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TOULON, Ills., July 8.-(JP}—Lau
ra Weave, 21-year-old woman of
great size and strength, was held
today for the torch murder of her
common law husband, Wilmer T.
Kitselman, 52.
Six feet tall and weighing 230
pounds, the young woman told of
strangling Kitselman, wrapping his
body in a quilt, rolling it down
stairs, lift it into an automobile and
driving into the country where she
dumped it by the roadside, poured
naphtha over it and then touched
a matqh. ,
Since Kitselman himself weighed
200 pounds, her signed confession
would have been less plausible were
it not that she is large and muscu
lar. For several days after the
burning body was found by two
farm boys July 1, it remained un
identified. A brother finally made
the identification.
After two hours questioning, the
woman detailed the story of her
affair with Kitselman and Its end
ing. Her confession told of her
growing disgust with Kitselman s
drinking.
“He came to our room over the
gambling house at Wyoming, 111.
Sunday morning (June 30),” the
confession said. ‘‘He had been
drinking. He grabbed a chair and
tried to strike me with it. I got
away from that. Then he tore a
mirror from the wall and brought
it down on my head. It smashed
in a thousand pieces and almost
s' v.nned me.
Chokes Him
“Finally I got him on the bed
and sat watching him an hour. He
got up, drank some more and fell
back on the bed in a stupor.
“I took off his belt and punched
more holes in it so I could draw it
tighted. Then I pulled it around
his neck until he got blue in the
face. Then I hooked it.
“It was about 11:30 a. m. Sunday.
Most of the folks in town were at
church. I pulled the old patch
work quilt from under him and
threw it over his head. It seemed a
long time that he continued moving
under the quilt. Finally he was
still.
“I got some fish line and tied him
up, bending him so his chin rested
on his knees. I rolled him off the
bed and wrapped the quilt around
him.
“I went down and drove the
couoe up to the door. Then I went
back. I didn't want to carry such
a load down, so I rolled it down
the stairs. At the foot of the stairs
I picked him up and put him in
the back of the coupe.”
Touches Match
She told of driving out of town,
of stopping to buy naphtha and of
leaving the main road for a little
frequented byway. Then she con
tinued:
“I took the bundle out and threw
it beside the road in some weeds.
I poured naphtha over it, threw the
jar away, and touched a match. It
was blazing hard when I drove
away.”
The Wyoming landlord from
whom the woman and Kitselman
had rented became suspicious at the
protracted absence of his roomers.
An investigation which ended with
Laura Weaver’s arrest was begun
The girl’s father, Henry Weaver,
is a prosperous Fox valley farmer.
Until a short time ago she'had been
living in Peoria with Kitselman,
their common law relationship hav
ing extended over a period of about
two years.
| Youth Slashes Girl
With Razor; Crowds
Watch Early Attack
NEW YORK, July 3.—(/P)—Chas.
Delaet, unemployed bus boy, who
confessed to police he had killed
a woman in Detroit four years ago.
today slashed Miss Caroline Good
win of Rahway, N. J., wuth a razor
at Broadway and Vesey street as
thousands of workers w’ere on their
way to business.
Miss Goodwin, telephone clerk
and 19 years old, received a twelve
inch razor slash across the back
requiring fifteen stitches. Her con
dition was stated to be favorable.
The attacker had scarcely in
flicted the wound when he was
knocked out by Joseph Gabarino of
Brooklyn, who leaped from his
truck and held him until police ar
rived.
The slasher said he was 23 years
old and that women “pestered”
him.
After-Midnight Car
Ordinance Will Be
Enforced At Once
Beginning Monday night all cars
found parked on the streets of
Brownsville after midnight will be
impounded by the police depart
ment. This law has been in effect
for some time but there has been
laxity in enforceing the measure.
This step is being ttaken to facili
tate cleaning of the streets.
A special wrecker has been pur
chased by the city to haul the cars
to the police station. Owners may
redeem their automobiles by paying
$2 at the pound. Otherwise they
will have to appear in corporation
court at 2 p. m. on the day of the
car's seizure.
Brownsville merchants have com
plained that the streets were not
properly cleaned. The street clean
ing department has answered that
they are hampered in their work by
cars being left parked over night.
All unsightly wrecks parked on the
streets in the outlying districts also
will be removed, officers state. This
work is being done jointly by the
fire department and the police. The
street cleaning is done under the
supervision of the fire chief.
Immigration Laws
Explained to Group
At Meeting Sunday
The new American immigration
laws were explained to a gathering
of some 150 Mexicans at the
Juarez hall here Sunday afternoon
by Ignacio Guerra, president of the
Juarez society.
This meeting Is one of an educa
tional series in the Valley begun by
Enrique de Silva, engineer for the
Mexican department of agriculture.
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NEW PREMIER
\ uko Hamaguchi, leader of
the minority in Japan, is the
new premier, succeeding with
record speed the Tanaka gov
ernment.
HNG GEORGE
i HAS RELAPSE
Illness Forces Monarch To
Delay T*“*P to Sum
mer Home
LONDON, July 8.—{IP)—All Bri
tain was shocked today when, with
in 24 hours of an empire-wide
thanksgiving service for his recov
ery, unsatisfactory progress of a
phase of King George’s illness pre
vented his planned departure for
Sandringham, British royal summer
home.
The official announcement de
nied immediate serious symptoms
and declared the general health of
his majesty was satisfactory. It
said there had been unsatisfactory
progress in the sinus in the right
chest, and departure for Sandring
ham therefore was delayed for a
short period to permit further X-ray
examinations.
In court circles the opinion was
the physicians’ bulletin was favor
able, particularly as it indicated
there was no fatigue after yester
day's imposing ceremony at West
minster Abbey and that it probably
was necessary only for him to re
main at the palace a few additional
days.
House Unable To
Get Quorum For
Monday Session
AUSTIN. July 8.—UP)—Twenty
members short of a quorum, the
house today for the fifth consec
utive time was unable to complete
its organization for transaction of
business during the third special
session. While the 80 members who
answered roll call stood at ease,
Sergeant at Arms Joe White scour
ed the city for absentees, and tele
grams were sent to the homes of
missing members.
The senate had 24 members pre
sent but was unable to transact
business except for (he election of a
new chaplain. Rev. Randolph Clark.
Ranger, was named to succeed Rev.
W. H. Doss, who resigned because
of illness in his family.
Bridge Company In
First Annual Meet
Here Monday Morning
The first annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Gateway Bridge
company was in progress Monday
morning at the offices of R. B.
Creager, president of the concern.
One of the chief matters to com?
before the gathering was changing
the board of directors from a body
of five members to three members.
Most of the out of town stock
holders were represented by proxies.
Bootlegger and Rum
Peddler Shot Fatally
In Pistol Battle
CAMDEN. Ark., July 8.—OP)—E.
E. Marsh, city marshal at Chides
ter, near here, and Walter Patter-*
son, alleged bootlegger, were shot
to death in a gun fight which grew
out of a liquor raid near Chidester
last night.
Marsh was said to have been
slain by Patterson who in turn was
killed by another officer, Constable
Luther Meeks.
TWO LEGISLATORS
RESIGN POSITIONS
AUSTIN, July 8 — OF) —Repre
sentatives Ben Woodall. Marshall,
and J. C. Shipman. Hamilton, to
day tendered their resignations to
Governor Moody, effective imme
diately.
Woodall, whose name was men
tioned as a possible candidate for
speaker, quit his post in order to be
come deputy county and district at
torney of Harrison county.
Shipman left the legislature on
account of his removal to Abilene
where he will practice law.
Woodall was chairman of the
criminal jurisprudence committee.
Special elections to name succes
sors to the two men will be held
at an early date, Governor Moody
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Sylvia Cripe, Four-Year-Old
San Benito Girl, Killed
In Automobile Wreck
SAN BENITO. July 8—Funeral
services for Sylvia Cripe. 4-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cripe, will
be held here from the Baptist church
at 10 a. m. Tuesday.
The body of the little girl, killed
in an automobile wreck in which
other members of the family were
injured, arrived Monday morning
from San Antonio, and is being held
at the Thompson mortuary.
It was acompanied by Mr. Cripe,
his wife and their daughter, Alice,
the latter two also having been
painfully injured Saturday on the
Corpus Christi road, 11 miles south
of San Antonio, and three other
daughters, Etta Mae, Danola, and
Flora Belle.
Mrs. Cripe and Alice were report
ed to be out of danger.
Mr. and Mrs. Cripe and their chil
dren had been visiting relatives in
Illinois. While en route to Sail Be
nito, Cripe stopped over in San An
tonio, where he is employed by the
Central Power and Light company.
Mrs. Cripe and the. children con
tinued on the trip when the acci
dent occurred.
UNIDENTIFIED SHIP
SUNK OFF ENGLAND
LONDON, July 8.—(IP)—Identity
of a vessel reported by Lloyds to
have been sunk by an explosion
near Smjthknoll Lichtship, off the
Norfolk coast, has not been estab
lished.
The Danish ship Arneberg, which
wirelessed the information a ves
sel unknown to it had foundered,
was cruising in the vicinity, and
the minesweeper Selkirk and other
craft joined the search, but without
finding a traee of the vessel or
those aboard it. The explosion was
supposed to have been about 30
miles off Great Yarmouth.
HARLINGEN REALTOR
IS DEAD AT TEMPLE i
DALLAS. July 8.—f/F)—'The body
of Robert D. Lightfoot, 64; promi
nent realtor of Harlingen who died
yesterday at Temple, was received
here today to lie in state pending
funeral arrangements.
Gano Lightfoot, a son. today was
enroute to Dellas from his London,
England, home.
Mercedes, Weslaco
Boy Scouts to Hold
^ Joint Rally Monday
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES, July 8.—According
to W. E. Perry, scoutmaster, a Boy
Scout rally will be held here at 5
p. m. Monday. Three Boy Scout
troops from Mercedes and the three
troops from Weslaco will take part.
The scouts will set up camp at a
vacant lot in town, where they will
cook supper. Following supper at
7 o’clock an hour will be given to
scout stunts and games..
At 8 o’clock the Elks* band will
give a band concert at the city park.
A joint court of honor between the
Weslaco scouts and the Mercedes
scouts will be held at the park fol
lowing the band concert. At this
time the court will pass upon the
application of Glenn Commons of
Mercedes for an Eagle Scout badge.
Other awards of merit will be made
also.
F. C. McConnell of Weslaco is
chairman of the court of honor in
that city and John * Herndon of
Mercedes is chairman of the local
court of honor. The public is in
vited to attend.
SAN BEN1TAN
HIT BY TRAIN
fron Worker Expected To
Recover From Hurts
Suffered
KAN BENITO, July 8.—Mangled,
bruised and gashed by a string of
box cars which passed over him as
he lay between the Missouri Pacific
tracks Sunday, Marcus Lopez, 21, is
in the Valley Baptist hospital, not
expected to live.
Friends told officers investigating
that Lopez had been to a baile until
an early hour Sunday morning. He
apparently was walking home and
had stopped to rest on the tracks a
short distance from the Central
Power and Light company’s ice
plant here, they said.
A slow freight passing above him
would not have hurt him. railroad
men declared, offering the opinion
that he attempted to raise himself
a number of times, and each time
was struck by rods under the cars.
The wheels apparently did net
pass over him, Physicians said.
His most serious injuries are said
to be ‘severe head bruises and pos
sible internal injuries.
Lopez is employed here by the
Southern Iron and Machine com
pany.
I WOMAN AND
MAN STABBED
Farmer of Browne Tract
Held In Jail After Cut
ting Affray
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("Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. July 8.—One man
is in jail, his wife is recovering1
from knife wounds and a close
friend of the family is in the Val
ley Baptist hospital in a critical
condition as the result of a cutting
affray on a Browne tract farm near
here Sunday.
Crescendo Herrera, 35, is in the
hospital, with a fighting chance for
recovery, according to Dr. V. O.
Monger of San Benito, who treat
ed him for knife wounds in neck
and body. Gonzales’ wife was
treated for knife wounds in the
shoulder and returned to her home.
Federico Gonzales, 56, who has
been farming for many years, told
Constable Joe Hofling of San Ben
ito, who arrested him, his story of
the affair.
Gonzales’ story is substantially as
follows:
Herrera has been living with the
J Gonzales family since he was a
child of eight. Gonzales had brought
him up and had given him work
on the farm. Early Sunday morn
ing Gonzales went out to feed his
cattle. Upon returning to the
house, he found the door locked
and went to the side of the house.
Neighbors who heard shouting
and screaming called for police.
Gonzales was arrested and then
Herrera and Gonzales’ wife were
taken to the hospital.
Deputy Sheriff S. M. Jester, in
vestigating the affair, said charges
to be fried will depend on whether
Herrera lives.
The two men were reported to
, have had disputes previously over
Herrera’s alleged attentions to Gon
zales’ wife.
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LARGE CROWD ENJOYS
DANCE AT SAN BENITO
SAN BENITO, July 8.—A large
crowd enjoyed the regular Saturday
night dance at the Aztec club here.
Music was furnished by Eddie Wer
ner and his Boys, local orchestra.
An arrangement of colored lights
casting their reflection in the re
saca, on the banks of which the
club is built, added to the enjoyment
of those present.
Some noted dance orchestras are
to play for dances at the club in the
future, the owmers said.
Labor Body Would
Send Valley Men
To Gather Cotton
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The Texas Negro Business ami
Laboring Men's association, with
headquarters in Houston, is plan
ning to cooperate with farmers in
securing cotton pickers, it has beer
announced by C. W. Rice, head ol
the association. This labor body has
a membership of several thousand
and has assisted Valley farmers in
obtaining pickers for the past sev
eral years.
The association discourages pick
ers from jumping transportation,
misrepresentation of prices and oth
er bad practices frequently encoun
tered between the farmers and pick
ers. Rice states.
Special railroad rates for pickers
in parties of 25 or more have been
obtained by the body. The associ
ation may be reached at 807 1-2
Prairie avenue, Houston. A sub
station also is maintained at 608 1-2
E. Commerce, San Antonio.
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