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if ®ljf ISottunsvillf HcrnlD &§$?« _I the VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(ff) |_ _, THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 81 BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1929 SIX PAGES TODAY 6c A COPY T RES' A dSh- A j TRANS-PACIFIC FLIER HERE ) -» ART C. GOEBEL Bm'i Art Goebel. Intrepid veteran of the skies, who dropped In at Brownsville's International airport at 6:20 p. m. Friday on his way to Mexico City. He is entered In the International Air Derby, which will leave the Mexican capital Monday for Kansas City, spending the night here. Goebel captured the $25,000 Dole prize In the first and only trans-Paclflc race. _ Water Purification Plant Plans Okehed Plans for Brownsville's new 4.000,000-gallon water purification plant %hich will cost approximately $75,000 are to be prepared immediately and approval of the state health department is to be secured. Construction is expected to be started early in 1930 and the plant to be in operation by next summer. ine xirxn ox morey ana storey .t sanitary engineers of Dallas, was employed by the city commissio.; at a meeting Friday afternoon to complete the plans and specifica tions, secure approval of the state authorities and attend letting of the contract. For this service the city Is to pay $2100 and has an option of increasing the fee to $5. 000 and securing personal supervi sion of construction of the plant. Save $2500 The health department, which has demanded that additional chemical treating equipment be in stalled at the present plant, is to be notified that the plans are be ing prepared for the new plant and are to be asked to allow' the city to continue with the present equip ment. This would mean a saving of $2,500, more than the plans are to cost, as the equipment to be in stalled at the old plant could not be used in the new installation. A laboratory already has been purchased and will be used for daily tests of the water from the old plant and after the new plant is in operation. David Morey. Jr., one member of the firm securing the contract, was present and appeared before the commission, submitting proposals for preparation of the plans and (Continued On Page Three) The Greater Valley Edition 1 °* Brownsville Herald Will be out tomorrow, Sunday, Sept. 22 It will contain 112 pages full of information about the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Send your friends who are interested in this sec tion a copy. FIVE CENTS OVER THE COUNTER: 15 CENTS BY MAIL ELECTION RIOT FET IN MEXICO Three Men Killed As Oppos ing Factions Clash In Capital _ MEXICO CITY. Sept. 21.—UP>— First serious trouble in connection with the national presidential elec tion to be held in November oc curred here last night when three men were killed, another probably fatally wounded and three less seri ( ously wounded in fighting between supporters of Jose Vasconcelos and Pascual Ortiz Rubio, presidential candidates. The clash occurred at the Avenida Hidalgo and San Fernando park, two blocks from the office of El Universal, newspaper which has been the center of political contro versy during the last few days. Or der was restored after police reserves quplled the disturbance. Parading supporters of Vascon celos encountered Rubio enthusiasts. A shot was fired and the trouble crew to proportions of a riot. The Vasconcelistas Invaded a moving picture house where they barricaded ; themselves until police arrived. One of the dead men is German Del Camp. 23. student orator. The two other fatalities were unidentified workmen. Two of the injured per sons are workmen and the other a former army officer. Armed guards were thrown around the offices of El Universal. STORM WARNING WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—UP>— The weather bureau today issued the following storm warning: • Advisory: Northeast storm warn ing ordered 10 a. m.. Cape Hatteras to Atlantic City. N. J. Disturbance of slight intensity central nearly three hundred miles east of Jack sonville. Fla., apparently moving very slowly northward in connec tion with strong area of high pres sure over the North Atlantic and middle Atlantic states, will cause strong northeast winds, probably of gale force at times during the next 1 thirty-six hour*,” 1 TRANS-PACIFIC ACE OFF FOR MEXICO CITY Aviator Refuses To Comment On Race As He Leaves Here With Full Gas Tank Art Goebel, nationally known race flier, and first of the Mexico Kansas City derby entrants to pass through D.ownsville on his way to the starting point of the race, took off from the local airport at 8:55 a. m. Saturday with a full load of gas, heading straight through to Mexico City. Goebel arrived from Kansas City at 6:20 p. m. Friday. He flew {he ship which he used in the national air races at Cleveland this year, a 300 horsepower Wright motor in a Travelair hull. Reticent about the contest, he made no statement as to the other fliers entered, or his own prospects. No official information in regard to the entries has been received here, but it is understood that Earl Rowland, and ‘ Speed” Wells, trans continental derby winners, willien ter and several other prominent filers have been mentioned in con nection with the race. More Fliers Dae Airport officials expect most of the fliers to pass through Browns ville Saturday or early Sunday. No special arrangements for passports or the clearing of the planes In the race on the way into Mexico have been made, it was found Sat urday morning, though it had been understood by them that a blanket permit had been secured from Mex ico City. It will be necessary for all planes to be cleared through the regular channels. The race Is limited to 20 en trants, 10 from the United States, five from Mexico, and five from other countries. No foreign entries have been named. 15 OR MORE SHIPS TO BE IN DERBY KANSAS CITY, Sept. 21.—(JP)— With scores of planes and lighter than-air craft in the hangars of Kansas City airports and a dozen ships converging on Mexico City for a take-off there Monday on a 1, 500 mile race to Kansas City, the international air circus opens here today with a 500-mile race over a circular route through Kansas and Missouri featuring the day’s events. The Mexico City to Kansas City deby is the principal event of the circus. Twelve planes have been entered and officials in charge said they expected at least three more to take off from the Mexican capi tal on the long trip which will end here Thursday afternoon. Dale Jackson Entered Among the entrants are Dale Jackson, St. Louis, co-holder of the world's endurance record; Mrs Florence Lowe Barnes, San Marino, Calif.; Cca. Art Goebel. Kansas City, winner of the Dole flight to Hawaii; Sydnor Hall. St. Louis; Don Walker. Kansas City, and five Cuban and two Mexican pilots. Complete Itinerary for the race: Leave Mexico City at 11 a. m. Monday, arrive Tampico 1:15 p. m.. distance 225 miles. Leave Tampico 2:15 p. m„ arrive Brownsville. Tex. 5:45 p. m., for overnight stop Monday night; 260 miles. Leave Brownsville Tuesday 9 a. m., arrive San Antonio 1:30 a. m.. 255 miles. Lea\’e San Antonio 1 p, m„ ar rive Dallas 3:30 p. m., 255 miles. . Leave Dallas 4:30 p. m., arrive Wewoka. Okla., 6:15 for overnight stop Tuesday night, 170 miles. Leave Wewoka 9 a. m. Wednes day. arrive Muskogee 9:45 a. m., 74 miles. At Kansas City Thursday Leave Muskogee 10:45 a. m., ar rive Tulsa 11:15 a. m., 45 miles. Leave Tulsa 12:15 p. m., arrive Joplin, Mo., 1:15 p. m., 105 miles. Leave Joplin 3:15 p. m., arrive Springfield. Mo., 4:30 p. m., for overnight stop Wednesday night; 75 miles. Leave 8pringfleld 2 p. m. Thurs day. arrive here 3:30 p. m., 145 miles. The times are central standard. TRI-STATE FAIR AMARILLO, Tex., Sept. 21.—{/Ph Throwing its gates open to the world without an admission charge, the Amarillo Tri-State Fair’s an nual exposition will get under way here Monday and will run for the week, through Saturday, Sept. 28, f JUDGE DELIVERS * * * LONG ORATION TO * * * DEAF DEFENDANT CHICAGO, Sept, 2t—(AV-The court crier sang out his famous •’Hear ye, hear ye,” but it didn’t mean a thing to Ralph McClus key. McCluskey was up for disor derly conduct, and Judge Joseph Schulman fined him $25. To further Impress the defendant with the lowness of disorderliness Judge Schulan delivered a severe oral reprimand. He laid it on heavy. The defendant paid no atten tion. He gazed abstractedly about the courtroom, and when final ly the court's denunciation had ended, McCluskey strolled out. "That fellow didn’t pay atten tion to a word I said,” Judge Schulman remarked to his bailiff. "Couldn’t.” replied the bailiff. “He’s totally deaf.” 19 VICTIMS IN DETROIT BLAZE —. Thirteen of 37 Injured Not Expected to Re cover DETROIT. Sept. 21.—UP—'The death list in the fire which early Friday swept the Study Club, De troit cabaret, mounted to 19 today with doubt expressed for recovery of 13 of the 37 injured still re maining in hospitals. One of the injured. Rolland Lowe of Detroit, died eaerly today. Eight of the injured have been discharg ed, while a majority of the others are reported In a "temporarily ser ious condition.” Investigation of the fire broad ened to include four city depart ments in its scope. While Henry J. Oarvin, detective inspector, tentatively placed the blame for the tragedy on the cloa.< room girl who is said to have open ed the front door when the flames were first discovered on the first floor of the club. County Prose cutor James Chenot announced hi3 office not only would seek to place criminal responsibility for the fire but would hold to account as well the authorities who permtited the place to operate. Departments which will be af fected in view of the prosecutor’s statement were the recreation de partment, which granted the license for dancing; the police department which approved a permit for re modeling of the place when it was opened last year, and the fire com mission which permitted the build ing to open after its investigation was supposed to have proved the place was safe. Purported Plot Bared In Strike Trouble CHARLOTTE. N. C.. Sept. 21.— UP—Details of a purported plot by New York City radicals to assas sinate Solicitor John G. Carpenter and two other members of the prosecuting counsel in the trial of 16 strike leaders and union mem bers for the slaying of Police Chief O. F. Aderholt, of Gastonia, and to "slow up” things in Charlotte and Gastonia, were before North Caro lina police today. '50-YEAR SENTENCE CAMERON. Sept. 21.—</P>—For killing Joseph Hosch, Fred Mat thews was sentenced to 50 years' imprisonment by a Jury which re fused his self defense plea here yesterday. GUM UP PORT PLANS’ SAYS J. GJTARCK Starck and Cobol i n i Carry Motion; Hipp Votes ‘No’; Hinkley And Cole Absent Brownsville’s muchly changed chamber of com merce directoriate went through another general al teration at a meeting of the city commission Friday aft ernoon. With Commissioner A. C. Hipp as mayor pro tem, Com missioner J. G. Starck pre sented a list of 15 names and moved that the men be named di rectors of the chamber of com merce. The motion was seconded by Commissioner J. A. Cobolini. The change was to become effective Tuesday, Sept. 24. Hipp put the motion, Starck and Cobolini voted • yes” and Hipp vot ed "no." Commissioner Burt E. Hinkley, Sr . was not present but came in later. Mayor A. B. Cole was en route to Cuba, where he plans to spend a three weeks’ va cation. The New Board The new board of directors are: R. C. Morris. Sam Perl, W. A. Ras co. A. D. Dickinson, Jr., A. A. Ash heim, H. L. Yates, C. P. Barreda. E. J. Tucker, Jesse Dennett. Harry Nunn. E. de la Garza, W. B. Sell ers. Milton West. B. L. Kowalski and W. R. Kiekel. Six members of the new board are reappointments, these being Dennett, Dickinson, Sellers, Tuck er, West and Yates. Members of the old board not ! reappointed are Z. A. Rosenthal, president; A. H. Fernandez, Joe Celaya, W. B. Clint, R. B. Creager, J. S. Ford, Frank Lopez, A. W. Reed, R. B. Rent fro. ‘Gummed it AH t’p' "We have just been waiting for them to get through with the port," Commissioner Starck remarked as he offered the list and moved that the board be appointed. “They have gummed it all up and we will see if some one else can do bet ter." This was about the only com ment preceding the vote. Commissioner Hinkley came Into the meeting a short time after the action had been taken and Mayor pro tem Hipp sought to reopen the matter in order to give him an op portunity to vote. Commissioner Hinkley Insisted the matter already had been passed in his absence and refused to record a vote in the matter, or to be considered present but not voting, as was suggested. Quick Changes The board which is to retire Tuesday was named at a meeting of the commission on February 26. and succeeded another board which had been named just 10 days be fore on February 16. The board named on February (Continued On Page Three) Peacox Trial It Adjourned WHITE PLAINS. N. Y.. Sept. 21 —(1ft—A week-end adjournment brought the trial of Earl Francis Peacox to a standstill today. There was testimony yesterday that he had threatened “to get” his wife, whose murder he confessed. BORGER HAS WORST ‘BIT OF ORGANIZED CRIME’ HE EVER KNEW, HAMER TELLS MOODY AUSTIN. Sep. 21—VP>—Borger has I the worst “bit of organized crime" ! he has ever encountered in his 23 years in the ranger service, Captain Prank Hamer told Governor Moody in reporting his estimation of the situation. Governor Moody returned today from Dallas and Terrell. He held a conference with the ranger captain, the two riding from Dallas to Terrell together. The governor refused to declare hit said he no opinion as to the likelihood of mar tial law. “Captain Hamer did not make any recommendations, he merely report ed on the situation and declared it the worst he had encountered in his long career,” Governor Moody said. He said he did not know what steps would be taken to combat the crime “ring'’ described to him. He said Captain Hamer said some of the law enforcement officers had either served terms in the peniten tiary or war* now under Indictment. TRIALS OVER FOR BECKY? The Jury in the case of Becky Rogers, left, took 40 ballots and de liberated two days in an effort to reach a decision in the trial of the former University of Texas co-ed. charged with robbing the Buda. Texas. National bank in 1926. The Judge dismissed the Jury and Becky s fourth trial was ended. Her husband-attorney, Otis Rogers, is shown at right. • • • ® • • • Jury Dismissed in Becky Rogers Trial NEW BRAUNPELS, Texas, Sept. 21.—tfPV-Unable to reach a verdict after nearly two days of deliberation, the weary jury which heard Mrs. Rebecca Bradley Rogers' bank robbery trial was discharged last night, and today the end of the former Texas University student's long court combat with the state appeared to have been reached. HERALD SCHOOL FREE TO WOMEN Valley Housewives Urged to Attend Cooking Classes Every Day Every phase of culinary activity j will be covered by the gifted home economist, Myra Oliver Dougan, in 1 her series of five lectures, during The Herald cooking school which j opens Monday at 2:3(1 at the Queen j theater. Actual demonstrations will | be followed up by detailed explana tion of the methods involved. In no case will the women be kept ! later than 5 p. m. giving them am-: pie time to return to their homes and prepare the evening meal. A great number of out-of-town women are expecting to attend, judging by the queries received at The Herald office. The Herald j hereby extends to all of its women j readers, regardless of address, an in vitation to attend this greatest fern-1 inine event of the year. Admission ; is free. Detailed information re- ! gardtng the ensuing day’s program, will appear dally in The Herald, but it will be Impossible owing to the sheer volume of material involved, to present detailed reports of Mrs. Dougan’s lectures Women readers of The Herald will have to depend upon their personal attendance for the recipes and secrets of the kitch en which will be divulged by the domestic science expert. Every woman is urged to make plans im mediately for attendance at the school. • Valley Radio Electric corporation will display several refrigerators in the model kitchen. Russian Plane Said At Aleutian Islands MOSCOW, Sept 21.—W—The Russian plane “Land of the Soviets” was reported by the soviet news agency Tass to have landed today cm Attu island, the extreme west of American territory in the Aleutian islands. The agency reported the plane left Petropavlovsk. Kamchatka, en route to New York, last night and covered the 750 miles to Attu island by way of Bering Strait at an aver age speed of 112 miles an hour. A violent storm raged. Suspect In Oklahoma Bank Robbery Held BEAUMONT. Tex., Sept. 21.— —A suspect in the 34,360 robbery of the Checotah, Okla., People’s Bank was held here today. Cashiers checks amounting to 32, 000 were found in possession of Hill's lathes. i i wnue uisinct Aiiomey rrru Blundell would not commit himself, he indicated he did not intend pros ecuting her for a fourth time for holding up the Farmers Nauonal bank of Buda, Texas, in December. 1926. Twenty-four-year-old Mrs. Rog ers smiled thinly when the Judge disbanded the Jury, which had stood nine to three for acquittal on the insanity plea, but she made no comment. Otis Rogers, who as his wife’s chief lawyer had hoped to celebrate his 27th birthday yester day with the knowledge she had been freed outright, exhibited his disappointment, but he thanked , each juror for his labors. Take Becky Home He planned to take Mrs. Rogers immediately to their home in Fort Worth. Blundell had called on him to place her In an asylum if he still believed her unbalanced The young 1 husband answered that challenge ! with a hot statement that, she would | remain with him and under his ! care. The Jury of German-American ’ farmers strived manfully to come to ! a decision, but the three "hold outs" refused to budge. Several times the foreman told the court no agreement was possible but was in structed to go hack and try again, the Judge being mindful of the ex pense of the trial. Forty ballots ( were taken. All of them recorded 9 to 3 except the first two. which were R end 4. Tt was the first Jury "hung" on a felony case In this county within a decade More Carrs Coming Rogers, assisted onlv by two for mer classmates at the university, where he secretlv was marrird, looked somewhat, haggard as the trial wore on. hut Mrs. Rogers ap peared ^different. The home to which the couple goes back seems destined still to know Its quota of care as Rogers never has recovered entirely from tuberculosis brought on by exoosure occasioned bv his efforts in behalf of his wife after her arrest. Mrs. Rogers, too. according to defense physicians. Is a pellagra sufferer. Penury Charged In Mrs. Pantages Trial LOS ANGEI.ES. Sept. 21—Im possibility of perjurv charges against two defense witnesses for Mrs. Alexander Pantages held the spotlight in the trial of the theatri cal magnate's wife on a second de gree murder charge today as prose cution and defense counsel pre pared their final summations to the jury for presentation Monday. HUDSPETH SAYS HE WILL NOT RUN AGAIN SAN ANGELO. Sept. 21—IAV The San Angelo Morning Times said today the veteran congress man. Claude B. Hudspeth, had ad vised It that he would not seek re election. setting forth his reasons for publication later. Insurance Is An Asset. Rio Grande Valley Trust Co.—Adj. 19 AIRPLANES DUE HERE AT 4 PI TODAY Extensive Prepara* tions Made For Ban* quet At Matamoroi Honoring Visitors GALVESTON. Tex.. Sept 21.—(fP)—The Fort Worth aerocade, consisting: of 1! planes and a personnel o< 75, took off from the third attack group airdrome at I o’clock this morning foi Corpus Christi. The part} was entertained at a banquet here last night. . Interest in the Fort Worth aero cade was lively Saturday morning and a large crowd was expected U greet the 19 planes when they lan4 at the international airport at 4 p. m. Saturday afternoon. The ships, bearing 75 passengers were to head south from Corpul Christ! about 2 p. m., stopping foi a few minutes in Harlingen. The* are to be greeted at the field bj the city commission, the director! of the chamber of commerce, anc the committee on aviation activities Cars will be provided to convey th! visitors to town, and they are to b4 guests at a banquet in Matamoroi at the Matamoros Cafe at 7:31 p. m. Leading citizens from botfc towns have been invited to the ban quet. W. S. West is to act as mas ter of ceremonies, and will wclcomi the visitors, and Francisco de P Morales is to speak for Mata* j moros. Hawks is Leader Capt. Frank Hawks, holder of thi trans-continental record is to lead the aerocade. Hubb Diggs, Fori Worth aviation enthusiast, and D W. Carlton, chairman of the com mittee on aviation activities, ar| leaders in the party. The ships will take off for Mon terrey early Sunday morning, mak ing a short stop at McAllen. Ar rangements for personal passport! for members of the party have al ready been made, G. C. Richardson secretary of the chamber of com merce, stated Saturday morning and it is expected that permits foi the planes will be secured somt time during the day. Landing at Monterrey about 11 a. m., the trippers are to hav« lunch, taking the air for Laredo about 3 p. m. on their homeward journey. Broadcast Pro-IT*m Arrangements for transportation were practically completed Saturday morning, according to Geo. White, transportation chairman. Cars used to meet the party at the field will also be used to carry them to Matamoros in the evening, and ta ] the airport Sunday. The banquet program is to be broadcast by remote control hook up over station KWWO. Gov. Dan Moody, who had ex 1 pected to make the trip, found if impossible to do so. Mexican customs officials receiv ed notice Saturday morning that all planes going into Mexico for the international derby will not be required to go through the usual bonding and other formalities, ac* cording to information furnished J. G. Philen company, customs brokers, who have been handling ; the bonding of ships. 1 THE WEATHER For Brownsville and the Valley: Mostly cloudy and unsettled to night and Sunday, probably wlUt occasional showers near the coast. Moderate northerly to easterly winds on the west coast. For East Texas: Partly cloudy to night and Sunday with occasional I showers near the coast. Moderate [ northeast to southeast winds on the . coast. RIVER FORECAST The river will continue to fall slowly practically all along during the next 24 to 48 hours. Flood present 24-Hr. 24-Hr. Stax* Stage Chug. Rain Eagle Pass .. 16 3.1 -01 .00 ! Laredo . 27 0.0 -0.4 .00 Rio Grande . 21 8.5 -1.1 .00 Mission.22 112 -1.3 .00 San Benito . 23 18.9 -0.7 .13 | Brownsville . 18 117 -0.4 .06 TIDE TABLE High and low tide at Point Isa bel tomorrow, under normal meteor ological conditions: High.4:50 a. m.; 7:07 p. m, i Low .11:39 a. m. MISCELLANEOUS DATA Sunset today ... 6:33 « Sunrise tomorrow. ».»,«.».»y.va* ^||| I