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PUT EMBARGO
ON TEXAS GRAIN
Shipments Of Wheat To
Galveston Halted; Ele
vators Full
WASHINGTON, July 19.—An em
Mtrgo of shipments of wheat to Gal
veston goes into effect today in an
effort to relieve the congestion of
grain at the Texas port.
The embargo was decided upon
hy the railroads serving Galveston
ttnd was announced by the Ameri-.
Ofcn Railway association.
ti. M. Betts of the car service divi
sion of the association, said 4,000
cars of wheat were at Galveston
and that 3,000 additional cars were
en route. It was necessary, there
fore. he said, to place an embargo
an further shipments because the
•levators wera about \licd.
Recent high prices for wheat was
caid to have brought about the con
gestion.
GALVESTON. Texas. July 19.—
</P)—The goal of Galveston shipping
and traffic interests today was the
immediate modification or revoca
tion of embargo restrictions placed
tm export grain to Galveston.
The embargo, announced yester
day by R. C. Andrews of Dallas, dis
trict manager of the American Rail
way Association Car Service divis
ion, went into effect at midnight
last night. Before it became oper
ative, Galveston interests decided to
meet and attemot to iron out the
situation, caused, it was said, not
by lack of facilities to move wheal
but by neeuliar market conditions
The embargo, restricting further
loading at interior points for export
at Galveston, will not stop cars en
route here, totaling 2924. They will
be allowed to continue, and cars
consigned to Fort Worth for inspec
tion mav oe recorsicned to Galves
ton until midnight Saturday. The
embargo will be lifted when con
gestion disappears.
MODERN STORE TO BE
BUILT AT HARGILL
tSoecial to The Herald)
RARGILL, July 19.—Work of
putting the foundation for the new
Bonham building was begun this
week. This will be a stucco struc
ture with cement floors and mod
em front, containing two rooms,
aach 25 by 60 feet. One will be oc
cupied by Foster Stewart as a
grocery store, and post office, and
the other by Mr. Bonham in a drug
store. The building will be wared
for lights and piped for gas. The
contract is held by B. W. Kay of
Rargill.
ST. LOUIS PLANE
IN AIR SIX DAYS
ST. LOUIS, July 19.—(/P)—Still
feoing strong after six days in the
air, the vSt. Louis Robin,” endurance
plane piloted by Dale Jackson and
Forest O'Brine, took on a new sup
ply of fuel at 7 a. m.. today and
drove on into the seventh day aloft.
The plane had been up 14 hours at
7:15 a. m.
A sister endurance plane of the
Curtiss - Robertson Manufacturing
Co., the ‘‘Missouri Robin.” approach
ed the end of its second day of flight
this morning.
HARGILL GINS RUN
650 BALES TO DATE
(Special to The Herald)
RARGILL, July 19.—Gins at Har
gill continue to run full time, with
some night ginning. To date. 650
bales have been ginned, 425 by the
Sharp Gin company and 225 by the
Brov.n Gin company. Present pros
pects Indicate that from 2000 tc
2500 bales will be ginned through
the season. Both gins are buying
cotton and paying market price.
The number of bales to date is the
number turned out by both gins all
last season.
LIGHTNING HITS SHIP
SINGAPORE—Three sailors were
killed when lightning struck a
coastal steamer near here.
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Sea Mariners’ Beacons of Years Tumble Earthward to Help Mariners of Air
Mariners at sea no longer will
point their craft toward two im
posing towers in seeding the en
trance to Brazos Santiago pass.
Motorists no longer will direct
the eyes of their companions to
ward the towers from points
many miles out on the prairie
and say “there lies Point Isabel.”
For the massive supports of
radio aerial today lie a tangled
mass of steel awaiting the cut
ting torch to become merely a
pile of junk.
After proudly rearing their
heads 315 feet for 15 years, one
man with a cutting torch in a
single afternoon laid them both
low.
The first tower, with its 312,000
pounds of steel, was crashed t<
earth at 4:30 p. m.—and a mighty
crash it was. The other tower did
not fall until after 6 p. m. and
then a large part of it was left
standing when the back legs held
to their base and refused to let
go. i
J. E. Norwood, welder of Donna,
first climbed the tower to a hieght
of more than 200 feet, where he
found the ladder in such poor
condition it was unsafe to go
higher. After fastening a large
rope to a cross member, he re
* turned to earth and took up the
torch.
How He Did It
First all braces were cut from
the north leg of the tower and
then the leg proper wj^ cut en
> tirely in two at two points about
six feet apart. This piece re
mained in place and although
the tower trembled as though it
realized the end was near, nothing
more happened.
Then the back legs were weak
ened with the torch, being cut al
most entirely through.
Returning to the first leg, Nor
wood continued to increase the
angle of the cut. The severed
piece would slip forward a frac
tion of an inch, Norwood would
-drop his torch and run. This was
repeated several times.
Suddenly the piece slipped clear
and the tower started leaning.
Norwood, convinced his work
was done, dropped his torch and
sped away from the tower. The
leaning increased in momentum.
The shortened leg struck the con
crete base block, the heavy top
work crumpled over and the tow
er began to roll down as though
it was made of cardboard. The
rear legs tore loose from their
base and the entire mass crashed
within 60 feet of the base.
Portion Buried
One light steel beam separated
from the tower and struck the
ground with such force that it
was buried more than a foot.
Portions of the tower were buried
several feet in the ground.
A cloud of dust and rust arose
and settled and the mass was
surrounded by a wildly cheering
throng.
A period of 30 minutes rest
from the strain for Norwood and
he was at the task of cutting
down the other tower. He failed
. to weaken the back legs and a
part of it was left standing. Sev
eral cuts were made on a second
leg of the tower in an effort to
bring it down but were unsuc
cessful and dark finally stopped
operations for the night. Work
was continued Friday morning.
The government ordered the old
land marks down because they
were a menace to the public and
to aviators flying along the coast.
One plane is reported to have
barely missed a tower last week.
Contract for taking dowm the
towers was let by the navy de
partment to C. F. Porter and
Sam Bernard of Point Isabel.
They are to be paid one dollar
and the material. The steel has
been sold to a Monterrey steel
mill. The towers will be cut into
three-foot lengths by Norwood
and loaded onto cars at Point
Isabel. -
These towers were erected in
1914 and 1915 and for several
years supported the aerial of one
Of the most powerful radio sta
tions in the United States. The
station was a relay point for gov
ernment messages between Wash
ington and the Panama Canal.
The station later was removed
to Port Brown and the towers
abandoned. Since that time they
had not been painted or cared for
in any way and the tops were so
badly decomposed by rust they
were mere shells.
Nine Bodies Removed
From Sunken Car In
Bridge-Train Wreck
STRATTON, Colo., July 19.—(IF)—Nine bodies had been recovered early
today from the wreckage of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific’s crack
passenger train which plunged thr ugh a flood-weakened bridge into an
arroyo a few miles from here at dawn yesterday.
Flood lamps rigged on wrecking trains lighted the twisted steel Pull
CONGRESS HAS
PROHILETTER
Wet And Dry Members
Study Wickersham’s
Recommendations
WASHINGTON. July 19.—UP)—
| The prohibition suggestions made by
' Chairman Wickersham of the pres
ident’s law enforcement commission
in the letter read to the governors’
conference at New London, Conn.,
continued today tc engage the at
tention of wet and dry members of
congress.
In some quarters, meanwhile, it
was regarded as clearly established
that the president had no intention
of complying with the demand of
Senator Caraway, dry democrat of
Arkansas, for the chairman's resig
nation on the ground he had “sacri
ficed his usefulness.'’
That conclusion was draw-n from
the statement by Senator Watson of
Indiana, republican leader, in de
fense of the Wickersham proposal
that enforcement responsibility be
definitely divided between the fd
cral government and the states,
which was coupled with his sugges
tion that, if this were done. “Na
tional and state laws might be
modified so as to become reasonable
and enforceable.”
The republican leader, who is
closely associated witt President
Hoover, interpreted the letter as
urging “that the states do their
full duty in enforcing the eighteenth
amendment.”
Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
dry leader and supporter of the
president’s enforcement program,
remarked that Mr. Wickersham had
“at least succeeded in making it,
clear that he regards the prohibi
tion law as unenforceable.” He de
clined to say whether he thought
President Hoover had seen the let
ter before It was sen, to Governor
Roosevelt of New York, who read it
to the conference.
Less reticent on that point, Sen
ator Tydlngs, wet democrat of
Maryland, declared he did “not
think Hoover had anything to do
with it,” but that he regarded it as
an “effort to get the reaction of
the governors so that the commis
sion might study their views.”
MISTRESS AND MAID STEAL
CHICAGO—Mrs. Mary Francis
and her girl servant were caught
shoplifting in a department store.
mans, as searcners wonted tnrougn
the night in an effort ot locate ad
ditional bodies ir the death car—
“The Cape Porpoise”—still sub
merged beneath the torrent that
poured down the ordinarily dry
creek bed.
On each bank of the stream, oth
er Pul!:v.:.n and brggage cars were
piled, two of the Pullmans half
submerged.
Eight of the bodies were taken
from “The Cape Porpoise.” so com
pletely submerged it was two hours
after the wreck before it was real
ized one of the cars in the train was
missing. The ninth body, that of a
negro Pullman porter, was found a
mile down stream.
Scores Injured
Scores of the more than 100 pas
ngers aboard the train were in
jured and were taken to hospitals
throughout this region.
Passengers on the train said most
of them were awake when the acci
dent occurred. A few minutes be
fore, the train, westbound, had pull
ed into a siding to permit the pas
sage of the eastbound train over
the same tracks. The eastbound
train pass'd over the bridge 45 min
utes before the disaster to the west
bound train.
Engineer M. V. Ryan of Colorado
Springs, Colo., a veteran of 25 years
service on the Rock Island, and pi
lot of the head engine of the dou
ble-header, said the engine crossed
the bridge safely.
The structure gave way as the
rear wheels of the baggage ear
passed over it. The car cleared the
bridge and plunged off the track,
turning over. A second Pullman
almost cleared the arroyo, its rear
section on*y falling into the stream
The next car. “The Cape Porpoise,”
was submerged anu the front sec
tion of the Pullman next in line fell
into the water. The remainder of
the 13 coaches were strewn about
the prairie.
Disconnected Engine
Ryan disconnected his engine
from the caf and raced it to Vonah,
four miles away, where he reported
the accident, returning immediate
ly to aid in the rcrcre work.
While a complete check was im
possible. rumor persisted that sev
eral passengers were missing, and
it was predicted two or three more
bodies would be found in the coach
The list of dead, announced by
the railroad, follows:
MISS MARY MCDONALD, West
Palm Beach. Fla.
G. F. CARLIE. New York City.
MRS. G. F. CARLIE. New York.
JULIA CARLIE. New York.
MRS. BEN LEWIS. Memphis.
HENRY LEWIS, Memphis.
MRS. JENNIE FOLTZ, Memphis.
BROOKS CLINE, negro porter.
Unidentified negro porter.
RAYMONDVILLE BOYS
HONORED BY C. M. T. C.
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(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE, July 19.—The
nine Raymondville boys who attend
ed the C. M. T. C. camp at Fort
Sam Houston returned home with
honors.
Phil Schrader. Eldemero Garza
Octavio Garza, Hal Durham. Tate
Parker and Elias Oarcia all won
medals for marksmanship. It was
necessary to make a score of 56 to
be awarded a medal and Schrader
qualified with a score of 65, Parker
with a 63, Durham with a 62. The
others were all above 59.
Lee Cook was presented with a
tug-of-war medal and Webster
Beachum was awarded a senior life
saving badge.
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BROTHERS ENTER WEST POINT
James R. Chapman. 21 (left) and Ethan Allen Chapman, 19, brother*
of Alexandria. La., won their way from the ranks of the regular army
infantry school at I t Benning, Ga., to the United States Military
Academy at West Point.
CALLES’ PLAN
HINTS THREAT
Proposed Trip to Laredo
May Involve Pending
Prosecutions
MEXICO CITY. July 19.—(/Pi
Accounts published in Mexico City
today that General Plutarco Elias
Calles would leave here Saturday
by train for New York, passing
through Texas en route, caused sur
prise in some circles where the
threat of John A. Vails, former dis
trict attorney at Laredo, Texas to
arrest him on a murder warrant
was remembered.
The Mexico City accounts today
said Gyneral Calles would leave
New York on the lie de Prance July
26, to spend several months in
Europe during which time he will
rest and seek relief from a disease
which has bothered him for some
time.
Previously it had been understood
he would go to Tampico and take
a ship from there to New Orleans,
proceeding to New York by train
from that city.
Last August Vails, who is now a
judge at Laredo, accused General
Calles and the late General Alvaro
Obregon of cr/nplicity in the assas
sination of two Mexican army offi
cers in Laredo in 1922. /alls said
that while General Obregon’s as
sassination had removed the possi
bility of arresting him, “the prose
cution against Calles and his fel
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CHILD’S STORY
STIRS CROWD
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Ten year old daughter
of accused man tells
pathetic story . . . fath
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against forcing child to
testify!
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ALL TALKING
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“ON TRIAL”
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LOIS WILSON
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Paramount Talk
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“Two Little Chinese
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low conspirators will remain pend
ing with the fervid hope that some
day they will be called upon to an
swer for their enormous crimes at
the bar of public justice in Webb
county.”
Vail's statement was made as the
result of an exchange of correspond
ence with the state department at
Washington growing out of the
threat of the Mexican government
to remove its consulate from Laredo
because of prejudiced handling of
cases in which they were interested.
' AREDO, Tex., July i..-(/py
Saying he was district attorney at
the time he Turtle the statement
that General Plutarco Elias Calles
former president of Mexico, would
be arrested if he came to Webb
rounty, Judge John A. Vails todav
refused to comment on a reported
decision of the Mexican general to
visit I' •/ York, passer through
Texas en route.
VOLCANO ERUPT «
SAPPORO, Ye Japan, July 19.
— The volcano Komagataka
began a new eruption today,
showering ashes over nearby vil
lages. The int '.tants prepared to
withdraw.
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Mickey McGuire
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Houston Family Finds
Square Meals As Long
Trek To Chicago Ends
CHICAGO, July 19.—(A5)—Pover
ty and heartaches were the only
baggage the Mulligans had when,
afier long days of hitch-hiking
from Houston, Tex., they climbed
wearily from a dust-caked automo
bile in front of the Hyde Park po
lice station last night.
Ever since the head of the fam
ily died three years ago, Mrs. May
Mulligan, 42, has been stumbling
along a rough ro. d where every
sign post pointed te poverty and
mi ry. She has three children, all.
under 14 years old.
She thought if she can.e to Chi
cago and could find her cousin,
Clyde Wilber, she mi ht get help.
He once had told her he would be
glad to give aid if ever rhe needed
it.
There is only one Clyde Wilber
listed in the city directory. Last
night he denied knowing Mrs. Mul
ligan. H- hit;h-hike from Texas
began to appear as a v“-v foolish
thing, the Chicago rain w a
mirage.
The Salvation Army was notified.
It provided ! - -1 accomodations.
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Policemen secrc tucked some
currency in the frayed Mulligan
handbag.
The u. .'ns from Hour i ate
a square meal last n^' -meat, for
a change, potatoe- vegetables,
warm rolls, and ice cream. The
little Mulligans I lied the ice cream
best; but ts. . "ulligan’s wind-red
dened : glowed to see her
youngsters tucking the meat and
potatoes und the’- t dts, for their
bodies nee-!cJ nr hing badly.
Something w~s sure to turn up
for the Mulligans today. A good
dinner and breakfast after three
years of scant -ations, somehow
made the wrorld look mucli brighter.
' mething w~ - sv to turn up to
day.
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Connally Appeal* To Farm
Board For Study Of
Crop Conditions
WASHINGTON, July 19.—(JP)—
Senator Connally, Democrat, Texas,
appealed to the federal farm board
today to give early consideration to
the ‘ton situation.
The Texas senator urged the
board to set up a .tatistical bu
reau as the first step in pointing
the way to a consideration of cot
ton renditions.
Carl Williams of Oklahmoa, cot
ton representative on the boaiaj
assured Senator Connally that fks
,oon as the board had determined
its policies the cott situation
would receive consideration. He
received with ’nterest the sugges
tion for the establishmerof a sta
tistical bureau which w^uld keep
the board in touch at all times with
cotton cr conditions.
While cotton prices have been
sliding downward, Ser tor Con
nally expressed the opinion they
had stiffened ~nd would ut least
hold their own.
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