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PATROL KILLS
TWO SMUGGLERS
El Paso Battle Nets U. S.
Officers Big Liquor
Cargo
EL PASO. Tex.. July 23.—UP)—
Four border patrolmen surprised a
band of 20 rum runners at the Rio
Grande last night and in a pitched
battle killed two of them and
wounded another.
Five of the band were captured
and three motor cars, two trucks
and more than 150 gallons of whis
key were confiscated.
Descending upon the rum runners
in nmfor cars, the border patrolmen
mounted a fence near the Rio
Grande banks. The rum runners
opened the battle, and before it
ended two were killed and another
wounded seriously. It was reported
several hundred rounds of ammuni
tion were fired.
None of the patrolmen was in
jured.
H. C. Horseley, chief of the border
patrol, said one of the men captured
a negro truck driver, confessed his
part in the band’s activities and im
plicated several others, including the
man said to be the ring leader.
DETROIT, July 23.— UP) —The
largest liquor seizure ever made on
the Detroit river was reported by
customs border patrol inspectors to
day. They said they captured
twelve boats loaded with between
500 and 800 cases of whiskey near
the Ecorse shore at 1 a. m. The
boats consisted of three outboard
motors, eight rowboats and a canoe.
Five men in charge of the ship
ment were arrested, while several
others dived into the river and
escaped.
The seizure was made by four
inspectors in two patrol boats after
the flotilla had been seen to put out
from the Canadian shore.
Posse Seeks Man
Who Terrorizes
Mountain People
PAULS VALLEY, Okla.. July 23.—
UP)—Suffering from a bullet wound
thought not to have been treated
since it was inflicted Saturday night
in an exchange of shots with a
deputy sheriff. Bud King today was
reported terrorizing settlers in the
Arbuckle mountains near here.
A posse of 14 Garvin county of
ficers was on his trail, but had
paused temporarily to await arrival
of bloodhounds from the peniten
tiary.
King seriously wounded A. L.
Pickens, deputy sheriff, after the
officer had ordered him to surren
der a gun at a dance hall Saturday
night. King stepped back, drew the
weapon and opened fire on Pickens,
three shots taking effect. The of
ficer returned the fire before he
fell, wounding King in the face.
King fled.
FORT BROWN BAND
PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
' The Twelfth Cavalry band at Fort
Brown will be presented in its reg
ular Tuesday night recital of a
varied program, Director C. F. Wad
ington announced. The program:
March, Heart of America. Pryor.
^p.lnction. The Serenade, Herbert.
Waltzes, Los Sirenes, Waldtoufel.
Gypsy Air, Songs my Mother
taught me, Dvorak.
Selection. A Trip to Japan. Klein.
March, Mt. St. Louis Cadets,
Laurendeau.
EXPULSION UPHELD
BY MEXICAN COURT
MEXICO CITY, July 53.—(fP —
The Mexican supreme court has up
held the ruling of Tuxpam district
court, Vera Cruz, expelling a group
of agrarians to whom the Tuxpam
municipal government had given
land belonging to the British owned
El Aguila Oil company. The mu
nicipality contended El Aguila was
not using the land.
The court’s ruling did not deny
the law permitting municipalities to
provide for cultivation of unused
land was constitutinonal, but found
merely the Vera Cruz legislature had
not passed legislation limiting the
time and manner of cultivation.
LIQUOR TAX CAUSES
ICEMEN TO STRIKE
VERA CRUZ. Mexico. July 23.—
(fp\—The new state liquor taxes have
indirectly forced the city to go into
the ice business. Groceries and
saloons closed in protest against the
Hew taxes on the sale of liquors and
the ice companies, as a gesture of
sympathy, refused to deliver ice.
The city has put a number of trucks
to work distributing ice.
GOEBEL WILL PILOT
PLANE ON LAST TOUR
r WICHITA, July 23.—(.^—Spon
sored by Frank Phillips. Bartlesville,
Okla.. oil man, the Woolarco mono
plane, which won the Hawaiian
Sight, will tour the middlewest for
the last time with Col. Art Goebel,
its trans-Pacific pilot, at its con
^pSfc' wing the tour, the plane will
be “retired1* to a hangar at Bar ties
^Between 50 and 60 cities will be
visited between July 31 and August
12 Philips announced. The itin
erary will include Wichita. Tulsa,
Oklahoma City, Amarillo and Lub
bock. Tex., Topeka, Kansas City, St.
Joseph, Springfield, Joplin, St.
Louis, Omaha, Des Moines, Sioux
City, Waterloo, Iowa City, Mason
City, Davenport. Minneapolis. St.
Paul and Rochester, Minn.
HIT-RUN victim
STILL IMPROVES
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. July 23.—Rafael
Barbosa, victim of a hit-and-run
driver Saturday on the highway
near Raymondville, continues in an
improved condition at the Valley
Baptist hospital here. He rested
fairlv well last night, doctor report,
and no new complications have de
veloped.
rt was necessary to amputate Bar
bosa's leg, and he is also suffering
from severe shock. ; ' Jf - j
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NEW SORT OF AIRPLANE FLIGHT
Captain Ross G. Hoyt, army air corps, by attempting a flight from
Mitchel Field, Long Island, to Nome, Alaska, and back, is doing some
thing different in flights. Plans called for 8,460 miles in 75 hours,
50 minutes flying time. Above, the 600-horsepower pursuit plane;
left, below, map of route; right, Captain Hoyt.
MPersonals~j
D. G. Smith is here from Lafay
ette, La., and is a guest at El Jar
din.
C. W. Levett is here from San
Antonio.
Miss Lucia Van de Griff, of San
Antonio, came in Sunday.
B. Levy, of San Antonio, is at the
Travelers.
Wm. Sterling arrived Monday
morning for a business visit to the
Valley.
Joe Bramberg is here from Gal
veston.
H. M. Wiley, of San Antonio, ar
rived Monday at the Travelers.
R. E Weeks is here from Corpus
Christi.
Ethel Esterak, and Benedicta Le
shika, of Smithville, are visiting
friends in Brownsville.
H. Graciano is here from San
Antonio.
F. M. Campbell, of St. Louis, Is
here on business.
Mr. anti Mrs. G. M. Husser, of
Kansas City, are at El Jardin.
F. C. Lane and V/. N. Bush, of
Houston, came in Monday.
C. W. Lawrence is here from Bns
ley, Alabama.
M. A. Campbell and A. D. Davis
arrived Sunday from Dallas.
F. D. Newman, of Houston, is a
guest at El Jardin.
R. W. Ponby is here from Fort
Worth.
A. H. Smithers, of Mexico City,
was here Sunday.
Moe Levy and N. Horrmeyer are
here from Baltimore.
G. C. Brown. H. W. Brown, and
Dr. G. Lyons, all of De Quincey, La
are guests at El Jardin.
Ben F. Moore and son, Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Adams, and Mr. and
Mrs. L. E. Grandjean, all of Okla
homa City, arrived Sunday.
tjay Hunt was in town from Las
Comas over the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schaemberger
and John Schaemberger are here
from Pittsburgh, Pa..
Taj lor Hicks is in town from Aus
tin.
Mrs. A. C. Downey, and daughter,
been here for the Past
month, guests at El Jardin. left
Tuesday morning on a trip to Mex
ico City. Mrs. Downey’s husband is
a manufacturer of automobile parts
^Detroit, where the family resides
Manuel Guapardo, of Monterrey!
is at the Travelers wmile attending
to business here and in Matamoros.
Paul Rader, of Harlingen was
looking after business here Monday.
Mrs. J. R. Miller and family are
visiting the city, and are stopping at
the Travelers.
T. P. Remy arrived Tuesday morn
ing to look after business here and
in other Valley points.
E. H. Groth is here from Houston
on business, and is a guest at El
Jardin.
D. M. Bailey came in Tuesday
from Corpus Christi.
C. A. Hall is here from San An
tonio.
J. E. Reifschnekler, of Galveston,
is in town.
Robt. H. Reynolds, of San Antonio,
is a guest at the Travelers.
E. B. Martin is here from Corpus
Christi.
F. B. Brice, of Garland, Ark., is in
the city.
J. H. Smith, of Edinburg, was
here Monday.
Ulpiano Fernandez, erf Dallas, is
in town.
J. V. Siegmund, of Austin, and
Mrs. J. V. Siegmund. of Orange
Grove, are visiting Brownsville and
are guests at El Jardin.
W. N. Bush is here from Houston
on business.
J. V. Vautier, of the Southern
Pacific lines, is here from San An
tonio.
T. D. Puckett, erf Kenedy, is at El
Jardin.
W. W. England, of San Antonio,
arrived Mondfcy.
W. H. Ector is here,from DaHas.
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Meyer, and
soi}, of Eagle Pass, are at El Jardin.
J«fr. and Mrs. Geo. Ehrenberg. of
Dallas, arrived at El Jaedin Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Barksdale are
here from Houston.
AMERICAN PURCHASES
BUST OF WASHINGTON
LONDON, July 23.—(/Pi—An Amer
ican. understood to be John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., today purchased
Jean Antoine Houdan’s fanions bust
<rf George Washington pjade in
1-196 at Mount Vernon. The price
was $250,000. It is thought the bust
will be presented to some American
DISHWASHER IS
* * *
CAUSE OF $5 FINE
* * *
FOR CAFE MAN
“But look at her! Don’t you see
her drying those dishes?’ a city
health officer asked a restaurant
man Monday.
“She don’t work here,” the man
staunchly avowed.
“My gosh, fellow, don’t I see her
with my own eyes?” the officer
expostulated.
“She don’t work here,’ came the
answer, as determined as ever.
The girl in question had no health
certificate necessary for dish
washers.
After several more “She don't
work here’s,” the officer threw
up his hands and said: “All right
tell it to the judge at 2 p. m.’
Before Judge A. A. Browne the
man declared up until and after
a $5 fine had been slapped on him
that she “Didn’t work there.”
He said the girl was washing
her own dishes but the officer
testified that she washed enough
dishes for several people as he
stood by and watched.
Five Cases Are
Considered By
District Court
Five cases were considered in
district court Monday afternoon by
Judge A. M. Kent, resulting as fol
lows :
Evangeline Ohlinger vs. Fred
Ohlinger, decree of divorce granted
plaintiff as prayed. Custody of
children to plaintiff as per decree
on file; fee of $15 for attorney ad
litem R. W. Pate and taxed as costs.
Southwest Bitulithic company vs.
Jose Martinez, et al, continued
pending settlement.
Southwest Bitulithic company vs.
Pedro P. Sanchez, et al, F. W. Kib
be withdraws as attorney for plain
tiff, who hereafter will be repre
sented by Faulk and Abney.
L. L. Potts et al vs. Thomas Bur
roughs, both parties granted leave to
amend, cause continued.
J. Zollezzi vs. R. C. Cowan et al,
motion of defendant to quash writ
of sequestration overruled and de
fendant excepted in open court.
Damage Suit May
Be Tried Again
In Present Term
The case of G. R. Yantis vs. Mc
Dermott Motor company, tried in
the last term of district court be
fore special Judge V. W. Taylor,
may come up again during the
present term, under Judge Kent,
since the decision of Judge Taylor
in setting aside the verdict of the
jury and ordering a new trial in the
case.
“I couldn’t render a legal decision
on such conflicting facts as estab
lished by the jury, and therefore I
ordered a new trial in order that
the case may be settled during the
present term of court in case the
attorneys see fit,” Judge Taylor
said.
Judge Kent was unable to be here
for the previous trial.
Plaintiff in the case sought to re
cover for alleged damages received
from the purchase of an automobile
from defendant.
ALfrENS, IN JAIL,
WILL BE DEPORTED
Jose Salas, Sara R. Garcia, Leo
poldo Alvarez and Pedro Pecina be
gan serving 30-day jail sentences
today following which they will be
deported to Mexico as aliens.
They pleaded guilty to violating
the immigration law Tuesday in
hearings before U. S. Commissioner
E. K. Goodrich. The commissioner
is now empowered to pass sentence
in cases where the plea is guilty.!
He has now sentenced about 40
confessed violators of the law.
TAXI DRIVER HITS
OFFICER. PALS RUN
*
MEXICO CITY, Mex„ July 23.—
UP)—To aid the escap- of twio com- i
panions who were being escorted
to the police station by two officers.!
a taxicab driver drove his car full
speed onto a sidewalk, running over
one of the policemen.
The other offl.cr, in the excite
rs rnt, released the prisoners who
r%n off while the automobile driver
drove away hurriedly cad oseaped.
Briefs]
Pool Electric Service—Motor and
armature winding; magnetos. 439
Tenth street.—Adv. 24.
Drags Road—The old road to
Point Isabel from the Puente Guad
alupe bridge was in excellent con
dition for week-end tourists to the
Gulf, after Commissioner Sam Bell
had a crew drag the road last week.
This route is some four or five miles
shorter than via Los Fresnos.
Stop Dandruff immediately and
prevent its return by applying im
perial Remedy; pleasant odor, not
greasy. Your druggist.—Adv.
Elks Initiate—The local Elks club
is expecting another large attend
ance at the Wednesday night meet
ing. Several candidates, among
them City Commissioner J. A. Co
bolinl, will be initiated into the
club.
New Store—The E. Amaya mil- |
line^y store has established" a branch ; 1
in the old Aziz location.
Fly Here.—E. McDermott, geol- 1
ogist, arrived here by plane from 9
Tampico Monday. Eg
Visitors. — N^rea and Amelie ' |
Mechalon of Tampico flew here I
Monday to visit their sister, Mrs. .1
E. J. Snyder.
Visit the Corset Shop and see the i
new Comfolettes and Dualiste with j
under belts. 1327 Elizabeth. Adv. 2? i
Your Felt Hat can be dyed and
blocked if you bring it to Amaya' \
millinery, Adams St. Adv 4
CITY BRIEFS—MUST—. 1
On Vacation. — William Nea’c j
U. S. deputy collector of customs, i
has "one on his vacation. His pos J
;s being filled by E. R. Jefferd: '
during his absence.
To Tampico.—A V/. Naylor, air
port engineer for the Mexican Avi- a
ation company, went to Tampico J
aboard the regular plane Tuesday j
morning.
Visitor.—J. c. Carter, persona1 :
representative of H. M. Lull, execu- !
tive vice president of the Souther^ i
Pacific Lines, is in Brownsville for
a short stay.
Armour Company’s
Broadcast Hour Will
Start On August 2
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F. E. Macmanus, Brownsv.T' 2
manager for Armc r and Compa?"1' i
has returned from a group meetin jf
at San Antonio, att. ed by th~ jj
sales organization of Armour rnd
company at Corpus C'nristi, Austin. 1
Laredo and San Antonio. The Fort •
Worth superintendent of sales con
ducted the session. i!
Th? meeting was held to acquaint
branch heads with the new enter
tainment program to be broadcast j
over the N. B.. C. system beginning ! j
August 2, and to be known as “Ar- j
meur Hour.” from 8:30 to 9:30 p. m. 3
each Friday. Thirty-six stations 9
will relay the entertainment hour, i 1
Edith Mason, prima donna, will sing i
on the first program, and F. Edson i
White, president of Armour rnd fj
Company, wall speak briefly. Th° ®
remainder of the program will be 1
composed of several radio surprises, j n
In connection with the new Ar- £|
mour feature, A. S. Lanier, of the |
Lanier Radio Parlor here, will keep * 9
his place open during the “Armour
Hour,” in order that everyone not
having a radio accessible may lis
ten in.
Armour and Company are the
first national packers to go on the
air with a regular entertainment
program, according to Mr. Mac
manus.
Girl Runaway Goes
Home After Hearing
Radio Tell Escape |
CHICAGO. July 23.—(JF)—A great |
invention, radio? Tsh, tsh, replies 1
Stella Stepin.
Stella, who lives in Specialville <§
and is 15 years old. had left home ft
“for the sake of freedom,” as she g
explained it. She was headed for 9
the wide open spaces and got as B
far as the railroad station when 9
some one turned on a portable radio. 9
The girl stopped to listen. The ft
tune ended, and the announcer 9
spoke: 9
“All police squads, attention! Be j|
on the lookout for a 15-year-old girl ft
named Stella Stepin. Five feet tall, [1
when last seen was wearing-,”
But Stella waited to hear no more. H
She went home.
“What’s the use of trying to get B
away?” she told the folks, “when the B
blamed old radio follows you every- 9
where?” K
Eat Everything i
without Fear !|
of Indigestion *
Are there lots of foods you can’t
eat—for fear of gas, bloating, ;6
pains in the stomach and bowels? J
Do you have to pass up favorite £g
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For more than 10 years Tanlac has »
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sands who denied themselves their
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Markham St., Little Rock, Ark., 1
says: “Since taking two bottles of 1
Tanlac, I can eat anything without J
indigestion and put in a full day’s 3
work without a bit of trouble.”
If you suffer from indigestion^ 1
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tion or torpid liver—give Tanlac a
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tle often brings the needed relief.
Tanlac is a good, pure medicine,
made of roots, barks, and herbs
that are recognized by the United
States Pharmacopoeia. Get it from
your druggist today. Your money \
back if it doesn’t help you.
Tanlac i
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