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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 134 NOOVI EditiOII BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1929 EIGHT PAGES TODAY _ 5c A COW
j IN OUR
VALLEY,
AS THE READER takes up the
Herald today, he will probably find
a new style of writing, if nothing
else as he wanders down this column
It is because a new engineer has
come to town to direct its downward
•ourse.
Said engineer hails from Laredo,
the town from which Brownsville
copped its air mi., service, and
which is now hitting back by be
ginning to grow citrus fruits.
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The column director came to
town today sorter suddenllke.. He
wishes to announce that he has
come here to live. He has seen
every bit of Brownsville from the
depot to the Herald office, and he
knows that he cannot help but like
% Now that he knows that he is go
ing to like it, he is going to ex
press the hope that all the good
people here like him. He comes
with malice toward none and will
be for everything he believes to be
for the good of Brownsville and the
Valley.
After a hard day's labor what he
wants most right now is somewhere
to live.
Oh, yes, he forgot to tell you.
Bretty soon the real boss of this
•olumn and two other little engi
neers will be coming down. They
plan to make the trip this week
end, if this column director can go
meet them.
They said they would be glad to
come down and they are being writ
ten that they are going to like it.
Tonight he is going to write them a
good picture of all that he has seen
and heard.
• • •
THE MISSUS isn't so hard to
get along with. She comes from an
old fashioned Central Texas stock
and believes ail of Texas the great
est place in the world. We call her
• Campbellite, when she is out of
hearing, and a Christian when she
Is listening. But she is a kind that
while she has lost the idea tliat can
dy will rot out the teeth of children,
•he still believes in forcing them to
eat a little turnip greens once in a
while. Sort of for their stomach’s!
sake so to speak.
The kids are 12 and 14 yeas old
Irespectively. The boy has heard
wild tales of how many ducks can
be killed down here and he is an
pciou.s to have • try.
They have heard that Brownsville
has one of the best school systems
in the state and they will soon be
in there seeing if two and two still
make ofur.
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THE READER la asked to bear
With this self discussion today.
Writing this column today is very
much like playing bridge. When in
doubt lead trumps and when you
have nothing to write, write about
yourself and yours. Of course the
missus would not appreciate that
church stuff about her. but we are
Just hoping she will not see it.
• • •
It is all just a little bit to intro
duce ourselves when we all get here.
To sort of let you know who we are
and that we erally want to know you.
The bread winner of the new
family can see that in Brownsville
r he Is going to have a lot of fun and
a lot o’ work and a lot o' play, all
in a day. In fact it looks like that he
might do everytliing but get ich.
Lots o* people could easily get rich
here, we guess, but that is one af
fliction this writer has never been
toubled with.
• • •
“HOWDY” and get to calling one
another by fist names like all good
Rotarians and Klwanians and Lions,
or what have you, should. We will
tune off today.
Prison Guard Killed
After Negress Shot
HOUSTON. Nov. 12.—<£*)—Ed
Wallace Bruce. 29, guard at the
Darrington state prison farm, was
found shot to death near Sandy
Point late last night a few minutes
after he was alleged to have killed
Carrie Warren. 23. negress
Justice of the Peace Thomas Mor
rison of Angle ton conducted an in
quest but withheld temporarily his
findings. He said, however, the
manner in which Bruce met death
was a mystery. Ambulance drivers
and persons living in the vicinity of
the shooting declined to comment.
FLIERS TO OPEN
EDINBURG SCHOOL
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG. Nov. 12—Les Maul
din. Brownsville flier, and J. A. TH
man, Jr., San Antonio, also said to
be an experienced pilot, will open a
flying school for beginners here
Tuesday, it has Just been announc
ed. Enough pupils to justify the
school have already been signed up.
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Day In Congress
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BT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday:
Senate continues tariff debate.
Senate lobby committee resumes
Investigation.
i Monday:
Senate voted higher tariff pro
tection for Tungesten.
Chairman Caraway of senate lob
by committee presented report cri
ticising tariff activities of William
Burgees.
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Hoover Pleads Peace withDefense Intact
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DEEP MYSERY
VEILS DEATH:
AUSTIN GIRL
Texas Jurist Silent As
He Sits in Cell Pon
dering Over All That
Has Happened
AUSTIN, Nov. 12—i/P)—Muffled
in the silence vhich all principals
In the case have maintained, the
story behind the stabbing of Miss
lehlia Highsmith, 28, by John W.
Brady, prominent jurist, remained
as much of a mystery today as It
was when the tragedy occurred
early Sun~_y.
Brady, once a justice of the court
of civil appeals here and one of
the moet widely acquainted and
respected men in the state, ap
parently did not know exactly
what had happened. Sitting in a
cell, still suffering from shock,
Brady was unable to add anything
to his statement to officers he had
attended a drinking party after
the Bayor-Texas game and he
could recall he had had “a dif
ficulty with several persons.”
Screams Heard
F. R. McNaughton, who lived at
the apartment house where Miss
Highsmith made her home, said
he heard screams, rushed to the
street and found Miss Highsmith,
who apparently had just left her
car. cut and bleeding. He took a
knife from Brady which officers
described as a “twelve inch east
Dallas special." Frank Qraham, Jr.,
University of Te::as student who
was making his way through
school by acting as a music sales
man, was thought to have seen
more of the tragedy than anyone
else. He either accompanied Miss
Highsmith, or arrived at the scene
at almost the same moment she
did. He refused to be interviewed,
but indicated he had made a state
ment to the county attorney.
Brady's many friends rallied to
his support yesterday. Prominent
attorneys frem various parts of
the stats offered their services, and
his wife saved him from the com
mon jail fare by preparing his
meals herself.
To Remain in Jail
Indications were Brady would re
main In Jail until the latter part
of the week, and possibly until
January when the grand Jury
meets. His examining trial was
postponed yesterday because of
absence of Mr. and Mrs. H. F.
Williams, who also lived at the
apartments where Miss Highsmith
made her home. Williams is un
derstood to have been one of the
"several” persons with whom Brady
“had a difficulty." 9
County attorney Roy Archer
held out no hope of bond, even
after the examining trial, "it
looks like & case in which the jury
would probably inflict the death
penalty," he said, “and not a
bailable one.”
H. H. Brooks, district attorney,
who once occupied a desk beside
Bradys in an office In which they
both worked, said the case would
not reach the grand Jury until
January.
Known Over Stale
-JSfi *ad engaged in many
activities that gave him statewide
prominence. He graduated at Tex
as in 1806 and always took a keen
interest In the University’s welfare
and a leading part in activities of
the ax-student's association. *.e
Mned as county attorney here at
and *®ter as an assistant
attorney general. At one time he
h!Lrtn at,t0r?ey for th« banking
department of the state. At the
conclusion of his service on the
to martliJf hiappeals he continued
K> pxwctioe here, representing manv
wh° had business in the
everyone who Wited
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. *fjss Highsmith knew evervnne
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,or rome tlme and
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Denies Mistreatment
Of County Prisoners
10 The Herald)
EDINBURG. Nov. 12 — Reports
that prisoners in the county jail
ha'e been mistreated were empha
tically denied by J. m. Jetton. Jail
or, Monday, who declared that any
discomfort other than that caused
by confinement is due only to over
crowding, and that the prisoners
are treated with the utmost con
sideration.
In support of this statement Jet
ton showed a letter from Col. SVn
Robertson, expressing his thanks
and that of the Sam Jackson post
of the American Legion, and of the
San Benito Chamber of Commerce
for the humane treatment of the
prisoners, as well as the approbation
of F. Stuart Fitrpatrick, of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce. who investigated immigrated
conditions In the Valley.
Principals Involved in Austin Stabbing
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MISS LEHLIA HIGHSMITH > * y *
MRS JOHN W. BRADY ‘ A i *
‘Battle of Grapefruit’
To Fill Tucker Stands
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STARCK GROUP
TO HOLD MEET
Rally at Hinkley’a Hall To
night Will Be First
Political Session
The first open political meeting of
the coining city election will be held
at Hinkley's hall 8 p. m. Tuesday
evening by the “Citizens’ ’ ticket,
which is headed by John Starck.
present city commissioner who Is
seeking the mayoraiity.
“This will be a general gct-to-ge
ther meeting at which we will seek
to perfect our organization. Wo
urge that all interested parties be
present," Starck stated.
The “Good-Government" ticket
has not announced a meeting as yet
This ticket is headed by R. B. Renl
fro. This group does not plan to
hold sessions for some time, ac
cording to its leaders
N. Y. OPENING
NEW YORK. Nov. 12.-4/P—Cot
ton opened steady; Dec. 17.00; Jan.
17.07; March 17.42; May 17.70; July
17.88.
(Special to the Herald)
HARLINGEN. Nov. 12—In anti-!
cipation of a crowd that would taxi
the capacity of Tucker Pield at
Brownsville, members of the Valley
secretaries and coaches committee
in a meeting here Monday after
noon decided to put on sale at an
early date tickets to The Battle of
Grapefruit,” Valley all-star grid
classic to bt- played New Years day.
Seats at the Brownsvtlle field are
to be allotted to Valley towns and
ticket sales to be placed in charge
of local committees in each town.
Seats set aside for the various towns
will be held for citizens of the com
munity until ten days before the
game, when all tickets will be re
turned to Brownsville and go on
general sale.
Plan More Seats
G. C. Richardson, of Brownsville
chairman of the committee in
charge of arrangements, is to in
vestigate possibilities for installing
additional seats and these will be
alotted along with those already on
the field. It is believed arrange
ments can be made to comfortably
seat 6000 people, but it is estimated
9000 to 10.000 Valleyites will seek to
purchase tickets.
The game, which is to be between
an all-star squad selected by Valley
coaCbes and officials and some out
standing state high school team, is
to be really Valley-wide in its ap
peal. In addition to every Valley
(Continued on page 8).
JOHN W. BRADY
Miss Lehlia Highsmith. Austin stenographer employed in the Supreme
Court Commission of Appeals was victim of a stabbing which cost her
life early Sunday morning, and John W. Brady, prominent Austin law
yer. once a Justice of the Court of Civil Appeals in Austin, and widely
known in Texas legal circles, is in jail awaiting examining trial in
connection with the case, of which he denies all knowledge. A knife
was wrested from Brady in front of Miss Highsmith's apartment where
ihe was found slashed and bleeding.
Mrs. Brady, wile of the accused man, declares* she will stand by her
Husband throughout his trouble.
MERCEDES MAN
DIES OF HURTS
L. H. Hoskins, 69, Succumbs
To Head Injuries Caused
When Truck Hit Him
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Nov. 12—L. H. Hoe
kin. 69, died Tuesday night at 9:45
p. m. at his home here, as the re
sult of injjuries received in October
when a truck struck him, inflicting
wounds about his head.
He was in the hospital for some
time undergoing treatment being re
moved to his home recently. He is
survived by his widow, a son, E. E.
Hoskin of Ft. Worth, and two
daughters, Mrs. Joe Junkin of Har
lingen and Mm. J. H. Bums of >
Wichita Falls. All his children were
at his bedside at the time of his i
death.
Mr. Hoskins was a native of Okla- j
homa, and came to the Valley nine |
years ago. Funeral services are to
be held Wednesday morning at the
Baptist church here, with Rev. Er
nest Baldwin In charge, and inter
ment will take place in the Merce
des cemetery.
Highway Officials
Open Santone Meet
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 12—<*V-'
Highway officials from all of the
states in the union were represent
ed here today at the 15th annual!
meeting of the American Associa
tion of State Highway Officials.
Oovernor Dan Moody, scheduled
to make a welcoming address at the'
opening session, was detained in j
Austin on account of official busi-l
ness but sent word he would be;
here tomorrow.
R. S. Sterling, chairman of the !
Texas commission, his colleagues.1
Cone Johnson of Tyler and Judge!
W. R. Ely of Abilene, and Gibb Oil-!
Christ, state highway engineer, were
hosts to the visitors.
The executive committee began
last night and continued today con
sideration of applications for fed
eral highway designations. The
committee can only recomnjend to
the federal government, but such
recommendation has a strong in
fluence.
400 REFRIGERATOR
CARS ARE ORDERED
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Nov. 12—Placing
of an order for 400 new refrigerator
cars by the Pacific Fruit Express
company has been announced by
H. L. Johnson. Harlingen, district
agent for the company. The new
cars will cost approximately $1,800,
000.
SELLING FLOOD
SWEEPS MARKET
PRICES DOWN
NEW YORK. Nov. 13.—fJPs—A
fresh flood of selling swept over
the stock market today, carry
ing prices of leading issues down
from a few cents to nearly $5 a
share. Several blocks of 5.000
to 50.000 shares changed hands
in early trading.
LONDON SILENT
ONPEACETALK
LONDON. Nov. 12.—(A*}—The Lon
don Press today was cautiously non
committal with regard to that sug
gestion in President Hoover’s Arm
istice Day speech that the safety of
food ships in wartime be guaranteed
to all nations.
The best part of the speech, the
London Times said, was that ex
pressing his conviction the world is
becoming more genuinely inclined
toward peace.
•‘Certainly.’* the paper comment
ed. “the omens for the naval con
ference in January are becoming
more favorable and an atmosphere
has been created wheein the confer
ence will have every chance for suc
cess.’’
ROME. Nov. 12.—(A*)—Tevere,
Rome daily, commenting today up
on President Hoover's Armistice Day
speech, said in a satiric vein Mr.
Hoover has not yet gone to the bot
tom in hb. examination of the
causes disturbing peace,
has been created wherein the confer
nized as the determining motive of
wars, said the paper, the Americans,
British, and French have only to
adopt the Mussollnlan formula of
the minimum of armaments common
to all great powers.
GOOD WILL IS
MORE VITAL
THAN PACTS
Starvation of Women
and Children Should
Be Removed as War
Weapon
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—(A*)—A
peace which combines a full real
ization of American principles of
justice with such adequate prepar
ation for defense that no foreign
soldier shall ever set foot upon
American soil is the hope and ob
jective of President Hoover.
To this ideal and to the removal
of dormant and apparent circum
stances which might arise to threat
en the serenity of the Nation his
Administration had dedicated Itself.
It is endeavoring so to organize its
foreign relations as to strengthen
the spirit of international Good-will,
“create respect and confidence" and
“stimulate esteem between peoples.”
The chief executive summed up
the goal of his foreign policies In
an address delivered last nig*t under
auspices of the American Legion as
the climax of its Armistice day ce
lebration.
Offers Suggestion
For the consideration of the Na
tions of the world. Mr. Hoover held
out a suggestion which he believes
would prove effective as a start
ing point for the solution of the
age-old. troublesome and trouble
producing problem of freedom of
the seas. . . . .
“For many years, and born or a
poignant personal experience, he
said. “I have held that food ships
should be made free of any interfer
ence in times of war. I would place
all vessels laden solely with food
supplies on the same footing as
hospital ships. The time has come
when we should remove starvation
of women and children from the
weapons of warfare"
Good-will Advocated
Declaring promotion of interna
tional good-will more vital even than
covenants to abolish war and might
ier than armies and navies in de
fense. Mr. Hoover said it was in
this interest he visited the pre
sidents of the South American Re
publics and this was why he wel
comed the visit of the British Prime
Minister to the United States.
As another and immediate step in
the direction of world peace, Mr.
Hoover said the United States would
reduce its naval strength in pro
portion to any other nation and
added amid a burst of applause the
others could not go “too low for
us."
In making his appeal for peace,
Mr. Hoover made It clear he was
not unmindful of difficulties along
that road. He said this road re
quires preparedness for defense as
well as preparedness for peace.
For Preparedness
On the side of defense he said
amid enthusiastic applause he was
“for adequate preparedness as a
guaranty that no foreign soldier
shall ever step upon the soil of our
country.” Of peace he warned it
was not “a static thing;” that “to
maintain peace is a dynamic in its
reaulrements as the conduct of war ”
His own address completed, the
chief executive heard O. L. Boden
hamer. national commander of the
American Legion, make an impas
sioned plea for enactment of a uni
versal service law and declare the
American Legion “desires to serve In
peace as it did in war."
Ex-Convict Arrested
With Car of Booze
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 12—C^P)—
Tony Ferracane, convicted head ol
the largest liquor conspiracy ever
uncovered here and released from
Leavenworth Penitentiary eight,
months ago, was arrested here late
last night In a raid on a home which
federal agents said had been out
fitted as a liquor headquarers.
The raiding party confiscated an
automobile equipped with a smoke
screen device and seised 24 cases
of assorted Canadian whiskey.
Miss Helen Roger. 28. was arrested
with Ferracane. Bond was set at
$25,000 and a preliminary hearing
arranged for today before a United
States commissioner.
The raid had been planned for
weeks.
BROWNSVILLE MOTORISTS
WARNED OF HEADLIGHTS
/ “I have warned motorists about
defective headlights for the last
Lime. This condition has been going
from bad to worse, and beginning
Tuesday evening I am going to ar
rest anyone whose headlights are not
In proper condition " County Traffic
Officer E. E. Sadler declared Tues
day.
Sadler will be aided in his cam
paign by members of the sheriffs
department.
The officer said there waa an no
usually large number of cars with
bad lights on the highway Monday
evening.
All headlight test stations In the
county had their licenses revoked
recently because of the poor condi
tion of headlights an the highways.
This was done by the county com
mission upon a request from the
state highway department
The stations have been obtaining
new licenses which carry a much
more binding contract than the old
ones. •— ^
SOS BATTLE
HOPELESSLY AS
SEASPILEUP
Deluge of Rain Floods
Over River Banks
To Inundate Thous
ands of Acres
LONDON, Nov. 12-{*V-Bight per
sons were killed through accidents
and drowning, many were Injured
and enormous property damage was
inflicted in a gale which lashed the
British Isles and surrounding seas
last night and today.
The wind blew at speeds varying
from 50 to 70 miles an hour with
occasional gusts reaching 80 miles,
terrific buffeting by the waves,
which often smothered them and
sometimes over-topped their fun
nels. Passengers suffered severely
from anxiety and sickness.
The Belgian steamer Jan Brey
del, which left Os tend yesterday af
ternoon with 72 passengers for Do
ver. battled vainly against the fury
of the storm and finally was obliged
to put in near Dunkirk where its
passengers spent many terrifying
hours in the darkness.
While some airplanes were forced
to make' safety landings others
made perilous trips between Eng
land and the continent defying the
gale.
The giant dirigible R-10 ended
its greatest test at Cardington.
where it rode safely throughout the
storm at its mast. The crew suc
cessfully corrected its movements
as it yawed and dipped under the
enormous wind pressure. One gust
of 83 miles an hour was experienced.
The Severn. Dee. and Wye rivers
were flooded in the deluge of rain
which accompanied the wind, the
water running over banks and sub
merging thousands of acres of agri
cultural land. South Wales suffer
ed badly, the Rhondda Valley, in
the heart of the Welsh coal district
having one of the worst floods in
its history.
Nationalists Drive
Back People’s Army
SHANOHAI, Nov. 12-(jP>—Jap
ancsse press dispatches from Han
kow today stated nationalist troops
had scored a victory over the re
bellious "people s army" at Mihsi
en, Honan province, driving back
the Kuominchun forces 25 miles
westward to Tengfeng. The "Peo
ples Army" wus said to be entren
ching at Tengfeng.
The dispatches said the nation
alists captured Mihsien after in
curring heavy losses and they now
were throwing in all reserves. The
advices anticipated a still more san
guinary battle at Tengfeng.
“One hundred thousand of tw*
Kuominchun are entrenching about
the city said the press deports. The
nationalists are facing a terrific
task to capture the place, as the
terrain favors the defenders.”
One thousand wounded nationa
lists arrived at Hankow and also
1,000 Kuomincum prisoners.
Unverified estimates stated each
side had lost many killed In the
battle of Mihsien.
Storm Gods Reign
Over Western Coast
KANSAS CITY. Nov. 12—<AV
The storm Qods rode over the west
again today, blanketing the Rocky
Mountains In wet snow and in
vading the prairies of Kansas and
the hills of Missouri.
Sub-freezing temperatures fol
lowed a blizzard which swept Col
orado yesterday, reaching the lowest
points of the year during the night.
Apprehension was felt in sugar beet
sections because the harvest is not
completed. Frozen ground will
hamper operations, and sugar fac
tories have but a two-week supply.
Balmy temperatures which have
prevailed in the lower Missouri
river valley gave way this morn
ing to an Increasing wind which
weather bureau forecasts said would
bring the first general enow of the
year to western Missouri, eastern
Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska.
EDINBURG MINSTREL
DIRECTOR ARRIVES
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG. Nov 13—W. R. E.
Camp, of Gordon. Oa. who Is to
direct the production of the mins
trel show which is to be staged by
the American Legion, arrived here
Monday, and work on the show will
begin immediately.
j THE WEATHER j
POr Brownsville and the Valley:
Cloudy and colder tonight and
Wednesday, probably with occasion
al sins; lowest temperature to
night In the sixties, and probably in
the forties by Thursday morning.
Fresh and occasionally strong
southeily winds an the west coast,
shifting to northerly some time to
night.
For East Texas: Generally fair
and colder tonight and Wednesday ;
probably near freezing in northwest
portion and frost In 'nterior if
weather dears tonight. Light
southerly winds on the coast be
coming moderate to fresh northerly
tonight.