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VALLEY I
MOVING PICTURE news reels
are full of Brow’nsville and coast
country stuff these days.
At a total cost of $21 to the
chamber of commerce, publicity
worth thousands of dollars has
been secured. It couldn't De
bought.
First came Barney Zimmerlcy
and his non-stop flight from
Brownsville to Winnipeg. Canada.
Pictures of the flier and his ship
were made in front of the hangar
at the municipal airport; then the
start was photographed in the
light of flares.
A few days later the command
ing officer and his staff from the
Matamoros, Mexico, garrison paid
a courtesy call on Lt. Col.' Stanley
Koch and staff at Fort Brown.
This was photographed.
Bird Island furnished a beauti
ful strip of film depicting bird life
along the coast. John Shary and
the Port Isabel company furnished
a boat for this trip and shots of
tarpon fishing were made at the
same time. Here the coast country
gathers fame.
• • •
Some ten days later Captain
Wallace Reed and his well trained
crew of coast guards performed for
the news recorders, giving matinee
and evening presentations.
Regular wrater drills .were pic
tured in the afternoon.
At night flares lighted a life
saving drill.
A day later half a dozen Browns
ville beauties clothed in pretty
bathing costumes went crabbing
along the coast near Point Isabel.
A live crab thrown into the boat
with them caused a considerable
commotion and the camera record
ed all their antics.
* And the final shot was when the
radio towers at Point Isabel crashed
to the ground, showing the march
oAProgress.
SO-CALLED advertising schemes
costing thousands of dollars are
presented to the chamber of com
merce almost daily. Most of them
are not worth as much as one of
these news reel shots.
And the news reel publicity will
continue. Camera men for Para
mount, Metro-Goldwyn-Maver, In
ternational News and Fox News ail
have left their address and have
asked that they be notified by wire
when anything out of the ordinary
is about to occur.
They will be notified.
* * *
VALLEY FARMERS rank With
the most skillful in the land.
One of ten master farmers in the
state of Texas has been a Valley
farmer for the past two years, and
now the Valley has two fme candi
dates in the race this year.
Master farmers are selected by
the Progressive Farmer and A. & M.
college from nominations made by
county agricultural agents.
M. F. Orr of Los Fresnos was
Cameron county's master farmer in
1927 and I. B. Corns of Stuart
Place was selected one of the ten
outstanding agriculturists in the
state in 1928.
The Valley candidates this year
are Fred E. Appleby of Donna for
Hidalgo county and H. H. Whipple
cf Los Fresnos for Cameron county.
Orr and Corns assisted in selecting
Whipple.
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JOHN W. KIRKPATRICK, Hi
dalgo courity agent says of his can
didate for honors:
“Mr. Fred E. Appleby is a young
man farming 16 acres of land
which he owns, and he rents 40
acres besides. He has hogs, cows,
chickens, a.fine citrus orchard and
raises truck besides.
“He is developing a splendid place
and I believe will make a very ex
cellent showing in the contest. He ,
plants 25 per cent of his acreage '
ea<m year in cowpeas for the pur
pose of soil building. He makes
very good records of the work he
has done and has excellent home
surroundings.
“He is a very good citizen, taking
interest in the affairs of his com
munity, and is a well rounded
character.
"I believe he is following the lines
of agriculture that will mean suc
cess in the Valley.”
• * *
Mr. Whipple, Cameron county's
candidate, has lived for the past 14
years on the same 60-acre farm in
the Los Fresnos district and during
that time has made a profit every
year.
He has raised cabbage, corn, I
tomatoes and other vegetables, but
his main crop has been potatoes.
His average profit is said to be
very satisfactory.
Whipple has been active in com
munity affairs, has been a director
of the water district and has held
bther places of trust.
He has been a constant grower
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Superior Judge M. V. Barnhill
of Rocky Mount, N. C„ will pre
side at the trial in Gastonia, N.
C.. beginning July 20, of 15 tex
tile strikers and organizers .in
cluding three women, held for
the murder of Police Chief O.
F. Aderholt. Special Judge
Hoyle H. Sink, who was to have
presided, is unable to because
of his mother’s serious illness.
ARROYO HEAD’S.
SALARY FIXED
Commissioners Grant Cham
bers $300 Month on Re
quest of District
Application of the Harlingen
chamber of commerce for $300 a
month salary and exenses for the
chairman of the Arroyo Colorado
navigation district, was granted
Wednesday afternoon by the Cam
eron county commissioners court, to
go into effect immediately.
The action was taken by the com
missioners following receipt of a
communicatioon from Myron F.
Ward, secretary of the Harlingen
chamber, in which he notified the
commisisoners that at the last meet
ing of the navigation committee, it
was decided that J. B. Chambers,
chairman of the navigation district,
needs that sum to carry cm his
duties.
Little discussion marked the ac
tion of the commissioners in grant
ing the request.
/jfter the letter wras presented, the
motion was made by Commissioner
J. F. Baughn, and the order was
signed by County Judge Oscar C.
Dancy, Commissioners Baughn, A.
V. Logan, Sam Bell and H. M. Pat
tee.
Test Flight Will
Precede Tokyo Hop
TACOMA, Wash., July 25.—UP)—
A test flight today was expected to
make Lieutenant Harold Bromley
ready for his projected non-stop
flight from Tacoma to Tokyo, 4,
700 miles. If the test flight satis
fies the aviator, and if the weather
permits, he probably will start the
long hop at dawm tomorrow'.
The work of checking the instru
ments of Bromley's plane, the City
of Tacoma, continued until late
yesterday and ended with the en
thusiastic “OK" of C. W. Paxson,
the Pratt and Whitney motor ex
pert, and mechanics from the
Lockheed Aircraft plant where the
ship was built.
A further development last night
wTas Lieutenant Bromley's decision
to abandon his radio receiving
equipment. He will retain his radio
sending apparatus.
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NEXTMONDAY
Growers From All Ov
er Valley Invited to
Attend; Action Is
Urged
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, July 25.—Demand
for a more extensive citrus quaran
tine against the Morelos fruit fly
and the tightening up of regulations
affecting entrance of citrus into
Texas is expected to result from a
mass meeting called Thursday to be
held at the city hall here Monday
night.
The meeting has been called on the
instance of the committee which at
tended the Laredo conference at
which train schedule changes, which
would have assertedly affected the
citrus situation, were discussed. The
committee reported that changes in
the plans will be made to satisfy the
Valley. It is thought probable that
two cars will be allowed to enter the
United States without inspection at
the border, but inspectors will board
these cars and make a thorough in
spection en route.
The committee will make its of
ficial report to the meeting Monday
night, which is expected to be at
tended by citrus growers and ship
pers from all over the Valley.
Suggestions will be made to the
meeting that the citrus growers of
the Valley demand an extension of
the quarantine as far as El Paso to
the west and as far north in Texas
as citrus is grown, probably to the
Winter Garden district near San
Antonio.
Members of the. cMnmitigg raDort-j
ed that at Laredo they'round ripe
fruit on trees and decaying fruit in
orchards, which, they declared, of
fer an ideal host for the Morelos fly.
These same orchards would prove a
great menace to the Valley In the
event of an infestation of the Med
iterranean fruit fly.
The committee which attended
the Laredo meeting included Myron
F. Ward, secretary of the Harlingen
chamber of commerce; L. E. Snavely
of Harlingen; J. B. Ramsey, La
Feria; and Whit Rogers. McAllen.
Belasco ‘Feels 2F
On 75th Birthday
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 25.—
OP)—David Belasco, dean of Broad
way theatrical producers, feels like
a youngster of 21 today—Ms seven
ty-fifth birthday.
Although the thermometer in a
backstage corridor of the Apollo
theater, where his new play, “It’s a
Wise Child.” is being tried out, reg
istered 75 degrees, Mr. Belasco wore
a black suit with a vest.
“Seventy-five degrees!” he ex
claimed. “That is nothing at all.
I feel like I wras 21. I can run and
jump and box. Just feel that arm.’”
The subject of his retirement
brought a ’vigorous outburst from
the man who says he is 75, but who
is granted only 70 by “Who's Who.”
Court Fight Looms
In Trial Prohi Men
OKLAHOMA CITY. July 25.—OF)
A battle to decide in which court—
State or Federal—W. W. Thomason,
federal prohibition enforcement of
ficer, and Jeff Harris, under-cover
man, will be tried for murder,
loomed today.
Both men have been bound over
to district court on charges of mur
der in connection with the slaying
of two Oklahoma farmers, James
C. Harris and his brother-in-law,
Oscar Lowery, during a liquor raid
on the Harris farm July 4.
Yesterday the federal government
stepped in, when the United States
district court, through an order
signed by Ed S. Vaught, U. S. dis
trict judge, assumed jurisdiction of
the men and brought them from
Pottawatomie county jail, where
they were being held without bond,
to an Oklahoma City jail.
MEXICO JUDGE KILLS
RELEASED PRISONER
CIUDAD BRAVOS, STATE OF
GUERRO, Mexico, July 25.—(JP)—
Reports reaching here from Ayulta
say that Delfino Sanchez, a “bad
character,” was shot to death on
the street by Judge Jesus del Cas
tillo, after Sanchez had been re
leased in connection with a murder.
Sanchez was held while the killing
was investigated, but was released
and was strolling away from the
jail when he met the judge and
was shot. The reports say towns
people are incensed at the judge's
action.
REBEL LEADER AND
210 MEN SURRENDER
QUERTARO, Mexico, July 25.—(JP)
—The rebel chief Manuel Frias has
surrendered with 210 men at Villa
Colon. The rebels were given safe
conduct home and allowed to re
tain their horses.
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ROBIN TWO DAYS
AHEAD OF COAST
MARK, STILL UP
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Endurance Flights Turn Into Contest Be
tween Missouri*and Texas Planes As
Progress of Each Other Watched
ST. LOUIS, July 25.—<T>—Announcing in notes dropped this morning
that “everything is fine” and the motor is “showing no signs of giving
in,” Dale “Red” Jackson and Forest O'Brine piloted their St. Louis Robin
on into the thirteenth day of their endurance flight above Lambert-St.
Louis field today.
ST. LOUIS BLUES
* * *
‘THEME SONG’ OF
* * *
HOUSTON FLYERS
HOUSTON, July 25.—(TP)—Hous
ton's endurance fliers today were
singine the “St. Louis Blues’’ and
“I Get the Blues When It Rains.”
Since Tuesday when the St. Louis
Robin passed the old record for
sustained flying the Houston Bil
lion Dollar City has been getting no
nearer a new world mark. To day
intermittent showers swept in from
the gulf to add to the discomfiture
of the pilots, Joe Glass and Glenn
L. Loomis.
The birdmen got some satisfac
tion from the fact that they had
stayed aloft longer than any one
else in the south and had only two
more marks yet to beat. At 9:49:54
o’clock this morning the plane end
ed its 188th hour in the air.
A smashup of the refueling ship,
tfhich. would have ended the flight,
was narrowly averted yesterday aft
ernoon when1 a girl stowaway se
creted herself in the tail of the
plane. Due to the extra weight the
plane barely managed to clear a
fence on the takeoff.
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., July 25.—
(TP)—The monoplane, the Minneso
ta, piloted by Owen Haughland and
Captain P. L. Crichton, tot>y con
tinued its effort to break the en
durance record for planes . At 10 a.
m. (central standard time), the
plane had been in the air 63 hours
and 20 minutes.
Large Still Seized;
Three Men Arrested
CORSICANA, Texas, July 25.—(TP)
—One of the largest stills ever un
covered in this section was raided
last night by Deputy Constables E.
W. Warn ell and John Bass and two
federal agents. It was located about
a mile south of Richland. Three
men were arrested, and about 900
gallons of whiskey were confis
cated.
The still was located in the rear
of a farm house, and from the
ground level appeared to be a large
feeding shed writh a sheet iron roof
and concrete floor. A switch con
cealed under some hulls operated a
hydraulic elevator that gave access
to the still in an underground
chamber.
The cave, approximately 10 feet
high, 20 feet wide and 100 feet long,
was equipped with an electric light
ing and ventilating system. The
still proper was made of the best
duality of copper and had a capac
ity of 1 000 gallons.
TAX HEARINGS TO
END NEXT WEEK
The tax assessor's office Friday
will wind up another week of hear
ings for tax payers answering noti
fications cf increase in tax valua
tions on property over the county.
Surnames beginning with letters
P, Q, R are to be heard Friday.
Next week, hearings will be con
cluded . Few protests are being
made this year in comparison with
1927 and 1928. The commissioners
court continues to sit as a board
of equalization.
( At 17:17 p. m. (C. S. T.) the fliers
completed 293 hours in the air and
had exceeded the former world's en
durance mark by 46 hours, or nearly
two days.
O’Brine inquired in a message as
to the progress being made by the
Houston, Texas, endurance plane,
"Bililon Dollar City,” now well up to
ward the 200-hour mark, and
added:
“You know we can’t land with
them up; they might pass us, and
that will never do.”
“Motor Feeling Fine.”
“Our motor sure is feeling good
this morning,” wrote Jackson in a
note addressed to P. V. “Shorty”
Chaffee and C. Ray Wassal, refuel
ing crew for the endurance plane.
“Just like a race horse,” he added.
“It wants to run away every chance
it gets; can hardly hold it down.
O'Brine is singing his usual morn
ing song. I'm sure in a fine place be
tween the motor and O'Brine. Can't
tell who makes the most noise but
you can tell them apart as O'Brine
has more vibration at high speed.
I know now why the tail surface
shakes.”
Jackson gave a demonstration of
his skill as a pilot while sending
down the morning order for gaso
line, oil and breakfast. The plane
swooped low over the field'and then
climbed a bit in a double bank as
the cylinder bearing the order fell
a short distance from the flight
headquarters tent.
Seeing his wife and Mrs. O’Brine
in front of the tent, “Red” turned
the plane sharply, clearing the
wind vane of a hangar about fifty
feet and then waved a cheery greet
ing for himself and his companion,
who was asleep, as the plane again
passed low over the tent.
Only the wearing out of the mo
tor will cause Jackson and O’Brine
to descend from the atmosphere
which has been their home for ap
proximately 12 days and which has
brought them at least temporary
fame as the pair who set a new en
durance flight record. They eclipsed
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Flames Leap From
Hawaiian Volcano
HONOLULU. July 25.—bP)—The
huge volcano Kilauea on the island
of Hawaii began erupting today.
A dispatch from Hilo said:
“Halemaumau, the crater of Kil
auea, resumed activity at 6:30 a.
m. Four fountains of fire are play
ing on the southeast side, leaping
from 100 to 150 feet high. The
sight is very spectacular. The erup
tion is strong.”
WOMAN AND CHILDREN
HURT IN AUTO WRECK
LOCKHART, Tex., July 25.—(/P)
—Mrs. Luke C. Terry, whose hus
band was killed in an automobile
accident a year ago, and her two
children were injured near Fla
tonia yesterday when their car
struck loose gravel as they were re
turning from Galveston. They were
brought to Lockhart.
BROWNSVILLE WOMAN,
95, DIES WEDNESDAY
Miss Manuela Torres Pena, aged
95, died at the home of relatives
here Wednesday evening. Funeral
services were to be held at 4 p. m.
Thursday at the Immaculate Con
ception church, with interment in
the city cemetery. She was a na
tive of Brownsville.
HATCHER WE
SEEK HIGHEST
TEXAS OFFICE
State T reasurer A ir
nounces Candidacy
For Governor; Tells
Of Platform Plans
DALLAS, Tex., July 25.—(/P)—
Gregory Hatcher, state treasurer
today announced his candidacy for
governor.
“In response to the urging of
friends and admirers throughout
Texas, and to what I believe to be
a public necessity for someone to
be elected to the office who is not
afraid to speak out in the cause of
the people —‘the great common
head’, if I may be pardoned for
that term—I make public an
nouncement of my candidacy as a
candidate for governor subject to
the 1930 democratic primaries,”
[ said Mr. Hatcher’s prepared state
• ment.
Points Ont Issues
“It has been a rule of my life to
strike at wrong, whenever and
wherever I have seen it, and to de
fend right in the front line trenches
and it may be that I can now best
serve my maker and my state by
making this fight from high places
—that of course to be determined
by the voters.”
He said he would point out what
he believed to be the issues of the
campaign and his attitude on each,
but not until after completion of
his year as worthy grand patron i
of the grand chapter of Texas, Or
der of the Eastern Star, Oct. 25,
would he make an active campaign.
He intended to take his campaign
first to “the boys at the forks of
the creek” and then to the larger
cities.
He did say, however, he believed
reducing the cost of the govern
ment “is and ought to be the para
mount issue.
“If elected governor I promise the
people that it shall be lowered from
$50,000,000, the cost for the past
two years, to about $40,000,000, the
amount spent under the Pat Neff
and Ma Ferguson administrations—
a saving of $10,000,000 compared
with the past two years and fifteen
to twenty millions if the program ;
now contemplated goes into effect.”
Opposes Chain Banks
As an aid to such a program he
promised reduction of the cost of
running departments whose heads
were appointed by the governor.
“Chain banking will be another
issue in the campaign,” he said. “I
am opposed to it and will not ap
point as commissioner of banking
any man who will ‘feed the small
banks of Texas to the chains.’ Also
I will reduce the number of fail
ures of state banks in Texas by at
least half and the expense of run
ning the state banking department
by half.”
Connally Predicts
Anti-Trust Problem
WASHINGTON. July 25.—f/P)—
Charging the anti-trust laws have
not been enforced. Senator Con
nally, democrat, Texas, predicted
today congress would be forced to
approach the problem of mergers
and consolidations from a new
angle.
He declared the “formation of
monopolies dealing in the necessities
of life constitute a menace to the in
dustrial freedom of the country” and
that it is “a problem congress must
meet.”
“The anti-trust laws have not
been enforced,” he said. “Under the
last administration, the department
of justice seemed either in sympathy
with or indiferent to these great
consolidations. It may be because
through development of modern
methods of financing and pryamid
ing of holding companies, the law is
not adequate to meet present condi
tions.”
BrownsvilleMen Bring In Large Cargo
Of Fish After Fighting Raging Waters
Ending anxious hours for the
Coast Guards at Point Isabel, the
48-foot fishing schooner “Captain
Wallace Reed,” shoved into the
port at 2 p. m. Wednesday after
weathering three days of storms
in the gulf that threw waters over
its deck and made it necessary
for the crew to tie themselves to
the masts.
The fishing trip was a welcom
ing event for Francisco F. Calds
roni, medical student. It was given
by Eugenio Cuellar of Point Isa
bel and Oscar J. del Castillo of
Brownsville. Others aboard weie
Juan “Kid” Hernandez, Valley
boxer, Jesus Medrano, and Eliseo
and Romulo Cuellar.
The small craft, equipped with
sails and motor, put out from the
point early Monday morning. The
sky was clear but about 30 miles
out they ran into murky elements.
Other schooners on the fishing
banks returned but the “Captain
Wallace Reed’’ was too far to turn
back.
The squall continued through
out Monday afternoon. The craft
kept on its way to the Nicaragua
bank, about 60 miles out in the
gulf, however. The elements abat
ed about 8 p. m. but increased in
intensity later. Water poured over
the sides and the pumps had to be
kept going. The anchor failed to
hold and the schooner was tossed
about as lightning flashed and
rain poured in torrents. Finally
the anchor caught on a coral reef
and held.
Tuesday -the wind calmed a bit
but another squall broke in the
morning that lasted almost all
day. A search for the “Silver
Bank,” famous fishing ground,
was unsuccessful. Waves again
broke over the sides and the
pumps had to be manned.
After a third squall broke Wed
nesday, the craft returned to
Point Isabel as oil was running
short.
Despite the heavy elements, the
party caught about 250 pounds of
red snapper, some mackerel and
one dorado, a very rare fish, ac
cording to Point fishermen.
Calderoni is a medical student
at the University of Alabama at
Tuscaloosa. He returned to
Brownsville recently for his vaca
tion.
Juan Hernandez, former Valley
champion bantam, has been living
in Laredo. He has returned here
to live.
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Virtually a storm of comment
has arisen over a letter written
to Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
of New York by George W.
Wickersham, above, chairman
of President Hoover’s law en
forcement commission, and read
to governors’ conference at
Groton, Conn. Declaration by
W’ickersham that states ought
to bear burden of local dry en
forcement is the issue causing
debate.
SNOOKJURY
COMPLETED
Trial of Co-ed Slayer Near
ing Testimony At
Columbus
COURT HOUSE, COLUMBUS,
Ohio, July 25.—{/P)—The jury box in
the trial of Dr. James H. Snook,
confessed slayer of his young mis
tress, Theora K. Hix, was tenta
tively filled this afternoon.
The twelfth juror, Harold E.
Brown, 28, a confectioner, qualified
at 2:15 p. m.
Selection of the thirteenth or al
ternate juror remained.
Opposing counsel proceeded to
issue premptory challenges against
tentative members of the panel.
Mrs. Albert C. Brooks, wife of a
retired farmer, and F. G. Mills, re
tired, were the tenth and eleventh
jurors seated.
The eighth tentative juror was
seated when both the state and de
fense accepted Elliott P. Rexford,
26, a chemical analyst. John F. Sei
del. defense counsel, asked Rexford
if the presence in court of the par
ents of Miss Hix would affect hi*
decision, and when the talesman an
swered in the negative, the question
wras extended to include all the ju
rors.
A woman who said she w'as op
posed to capital punishment W’as
excused by Prosecutor John J. Ches
ter^ Jr. Four women tentatively seat
ed“on the jury said they had no ob
jection to the death penalty.
Louis C. Devis, painting contrac
tor, was seated tentatively as the
ninth juror.
Officers Suspended
On Chief’s Charge
DALLAS. July 25.—(£>)—Plain
clothes Policemen Mike F. Huggins
and A. B. Farrow were out of work
at least temporarily today pending
a hearing on charges that they con
spired to attempt “compromising”
their chief, Police Commissioner W.
C. Graves.
The officers were suspended on a
formal charge of insubordination.
Their demand for a trial before the
mayor and board of commissioners
will be granted, Mr. Graves said.
The commissioner declared he
had evidence that Higgins and Far
row, both with long records on the
force, had importuned a woman to
invite Mr. Graves to a house for a
“beer party,” the policemen plan
ning to break in and pounce upon
their superior.
They denied the charge, declaring
it was an effort to “frame” them
and obtain their dismissal.
WOMAN DIES FROM
AUTO WRECK INJURY
WAETHERFORD, Texas, July 25.
—(IP)—Mrs. E. L. Russell, wife of a
Breckenridge grain dealer, died
here today shortly after receiving a
fractured skull in an automobile ac
cident two miles east of here. A
son and two daughters escaped in
jury. The accident occurred when
the car, driven by the son, over
turned on a slippery pavement in
attempting to avoid striking a
truck. The party was en route to
'ordngpre, Okla.
WITNESSES AT
HEARING TELL
OF ATTITUDES
Warden, Ranger and
Others Declare He
Is Conscious of Fate
Awaiting Him
GEORGETOWN, Tex.. July 25 —
(/P)—Testimony for the state, tend
ing to prove that Harry J. Leahy,
charged with the death of Dr. J. A.
Ramsey, is sane, opened Thursday
afternoon.
After the recess, the state called
as its first witness E. F. Harrell,
warden of ,the penitentiary.
He testified he had known Leahy
since February of this year and had
talked with and observed him
closely.
“In my opinion.” he related, “he is
sane, knows the consequences of
murder and knows of his impending
fate.”
The warden testified that when
he notified Leahy he would not be
electrocuted on July 12, the de
fendant was unmoved and had little
to say.
Hgj-rell said executions were con
ducted as humanely as possible and
described the death house and cells.
He testified on cross examination he
did not remember the date Leahy
was received at the penitentiary.
Notified Leahy
In answer to the question, “Leahy
had approached the death chair to
within a fe whours, and when you
told him he had been reprieved
again, did he not reply save to say
‘I thank you?’” the warden re
plied. “yes.”
Objections from the state stopped
Harrell's reply to the question, “you
do not believe in capital punish
ment, do you?”
Lee M. Taylor, formerly of
Georgetown testified he was an ac
countant at the penitentiary and
had conversed with Leahy since he
was brought to the prison. He said
from his conversation he had no
ticed nothing different from other
men in the defendant and said he
believed Leahy knew right from
wrong. On cross examination Taylor
said he had talked with Leahy only
two or three minutes during the last
six weeks.
Ranger Testifies
Ranger Light Townsend testified
he had known Leahy about three
years, and had noticed no differ
ence now than in May 1926.
The ranger said that when noti
fied of the sanity trial Leahy said:
“Boys I hate to take this rap, but
it looks like the last chance.” He
! testified that in his opinion the
defendant was sane.
H. E. Moore, secretary to Warden
Harrell, charged with duties of
reading mail, testified he had read
letters to and by Leahy; had known
the defendant about three and one
half months; saw and observed
him occasionally, and had talked
with him. He added'that in his
opinion the defendant was of sound
mind and knows right from wrong
and the consequences of murder
and knows that he is sentenced to
die. Moore identified a letter writ
ten to Lee Whaley of Georgetown
as one written by Leahy.
Marvin Johnson of George West,
district attorney, said he had
known the defendant for some
years and testified Leahy had been
a frequent visitor in his office. He
testified he believed the defendant
sane.
Lawyers, Too
On cross examination Johnson
said the last time he had had a
conversation with the defendant
was in February, 1927.
“You do not tell this jury that
because the defendant was prac
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For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy to unsettled tonight
and Friday, probably with local
showers.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to
night and Friday, scattered show
ers in the southeast portion.
Light to moderate southerly
winds on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be a slight rise in the
river from Mission down during the
next 12 to 24 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Stage Stage Chng. Rain
Eagle Pass .. 16 2.3 +0.1 .00
Laredo . 27 -0.9 0.0 JOO
Rio Grande . 21 6 4 +2.5 .10
Mission. 22 3 8 0.0 jOO
San Benito . 23 7.4 +0.7 .80
Brownsville . 18 2.6 -0.3 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteoro
logical conditions:
High .»••««»« 7.24 a. m.) 6.24 p. m.
Low ..2:22 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today...7:21
Sunrise tomorrp^ .5:53
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