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P THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Mostly cloudy and unsettled Fri
day night and Saturday with oc
casional rains: not much change
m temperature.
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FORTY-FIRST YEAR—No. 70 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932 EIGHT PAGES TODAY A COPY
IN OUR I
VALLEY
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VALLEY IRRIGATION Dis
tricts, variously known as water
Improvement districts, conservation
districts and what not, have been
ruled eligible to receive loans from '
the Reconstruction Finance cor
poration.
That means this—
There will be some building and
construction activity in the Valley.
It is an open secret that the Wil- j
lacy county district has been work- i
ing for a loan from the RFC for j
several months.
W. A. Harding, guiding spirit of
the dryland-to-be irrigated section
has been in Washington off and
on for weeks seeking to put such
a loan through, and has reported
that chances are better than good
Adams Gardens project has voted
a *950.000 bond issue, suit to
validate which soon comes up in
the district court of Travis county.
We understand on more than
good authority that arrangements
are practically completed for the
pledging of this bond issue with the
RFC for an amount equal to 9Uc
on the dollar of this bond issue.
Directly west of Mission is the
^far.in Goodwin project which is
already making ready an applica
tion for a sizable loan from the
federal agency.
New lands going on the market
—they bring up the question—
How are we going to get the peo
ple down here to live on them?
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INDIVIDUAL TOURIST RATES
to the Valley have again been
denied.
The Southern passenger Associa
tion has given the Valley's request
the go-by—
Giving as a reason for the de
nial—
That passenger traffic in North ]
Texas would be cut down.
We have not heard that passen
ger traffic between Amarillo and
Denver has suffered—
By reason of individual tourist
rates—
In effect from the East and M;d
, die West—
To California.
Maybe it's the Texas climate or
something
And our development company
frlend3 tell us that—
Home seeker rates from the East
to the Valley
Have not been applied this year.
And that they are even thinking
of using huge busses,
To transport their prospects to
the Valley.
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WE RISE TO REMARK THAT
It is time the Valley snapped out
of its “punch drunk” attitude and
timed an aggressive front.
his section has been taking it
on the chin just too long.
It Is time, high time, that we
quit talking about “cooperation”
and began to practice it.
It is time that our communities
began to hunt business in the
same manner ar. aggressive and up
to-date business hunts business, .by
going cut after it.
Unless we are badly mistaken,
the Valley is going to find itself
out of position when the time
conics that business begins to look
our way.
And we will be out of position
because we stood in our tracks
and moaned rather than take ad
vantage of the breathing spell af
forded us to prepare for what we
know we must have.
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COOL HEADS AND WISE
coua<el seem to have prevailed in
the somewhat tangled relations of
our navigation district*.
The Valley will rejoice, its length (
and breadth, that unanimity seems
to have been reached and that the '
Port Isabel-San Benito district has
agreed to proposals advanced some
time ago by the Browmsville dis
) trict.
Agreement reached and proposals
made by R. B. Creager on behalf
* of the San Bcrito district to which
I the Brownsville district has ac
quiesced would seem to clear the
way for an almost Immediate ask
ing tor bids by the government on
the
Lots of us will regret that the
agreement does not provide for the
further going ahead and comple
tion of the Port Isabel harbor proj
ect. but surely we may expect that j
with the channel work under way
thr.t district will lay Its plans for
the continuance of the other work:
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Police Fear Missing Banker Met Foul Play
MYSTERY CALL
AND LETTERS
TANGLE CASE
Banker Last Heard
From East Texas
Town
BURLINGTON, Okla.. Sept. 23 —
(A*)—Petr that Henry C. Doherty.
36. missing Burlington banker, metj
with foul play on a motor trip to'
Amarillo, Tex., was held today by
Alfalfa county officers Investigating
his disappearance.
The Bullington bank, of which
he was president, failed to open
Tuesday, three days after Doherty
left here on a business mission to
Texas. The banks closing, accord
ing to Ben Krat, bookkeeper, re- |
suited from a shortage of cash.
No indicatioi. of irregularities was
found by J. W. Ingram, state bank
examiner.
Letters to Wife
In letters to his wife, mailed from
Oklahoma City and Shamrock,'
Tex.. Doherty told of picking up
hitch-hikers to keep him company,
and officers exprer ’ belief he,
probably had been harmed by
some one whom he sought to be
friend.
Search for the banker revealed
two mysterious telephone calls had
been made to his brother In Wich
ita. Kalis. adding to the apprehen
sion for his safety. The calls were
made Tuesday night* The first, i
investigators said, told Dohertys
brother. "I phone bad news. Henry
won’t return. Don’t tell anyone but
your son and daughter, God bless
you.”
The second. 30 minutes later. I
said, “that call a while ago was
all a farce.” Officers have been j
unable to trace the calls.
Auto Is Found
An automobile identified as
Doherty's was found abandoned on
the Newca~ le road in Cleveland
county, Oklahoma. Deputy sheriffs ,
said two discharged pistol shells
were found in the rear seat of the ,
car.
An anonymous note, mailed from
Oklahoma City and addressed to
the Oklahoma highway comm Is-!
sion, added to the mystery. It gave
the number of Doherty's automo- I
bile license and read further.
“Be sure *o look on the north
east side bt the Santa Pe under
pass and find what I saw north i
of Amarillo. He should have hit!
the gun. I was sure scared. A
Hoover bug.*’
Texas officers investigated but
found no clues.
Tne last word of Doherty’s
whereabouts was a letter he mailed
his wife from Shamrock. Tex, last
Sunday.
Huntress Kills
Girl And Self
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PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 23 — OF}—
Mrs. Irene Etter. 37, daughter of
a retired Norristown. Pa., financier
ar.<j known as a huntress and
markswoman, shot and critically i
wounded her husband, killed her
young woman companion and then
committed suicide today.
The husband. Earl Etter. 43. a
traveling construction superintend
ent fv a steel company, was
wounded twice as he entered the
bedroom of his apartment.
Clad only in pajamas. Mrs. Et
ter then ran to the nearby home
of her parents, where her com
panion. Miss Gwendolyn Shinn.
26, a department store sales girl,
was visiting.
Chasing her to the rear yard I
police said, Mrs. Etter shot her
twice and with the last bullet in
her pistol killed herself. Miss Shinn
died four hours later.
‘Five-Cent Poison'
Peddlers Sought
NEW YORK. Sept, 28.—W—Ped
dlers of death by five-cent poison
hid today from police somewhere
in dim districts that most Man
hattanites try to forget.
A Jobless seaman dropped dead
his morning from drinking wooa ;
alcohol. He was the 13th to die
since Monday of the same cause and
the 50th. police said, to succumb
since Aug. 1 after drinking ven-,
omcus liquor of one kind or an
other.'
On the Bowery—where hotels are j
flophouses and speakeasies are
"shock Joint**—and through the
murk of the waterfronts, the itiner
ant peddlers have passed by night
re!ling to derelicts a guln of hlch
powered poison for a panhandled
nickel
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Stepfather
Arrested In
Boy s Death
HARRISBURG. Ark., Sept. 23
—VD—Herman Ledbetter, 31
year-old farmer, was captured
today and charged with the
murder of his two-year-old
stepson who was beaten to
dea^i near here Thursday.
Scores of citizens joined the
search for him after the issu
»nce of a first degree murder
warrant On the complaint of
his wife whom he married a
year ago.
Louis Minton, deputy pros
ecutor for Poinsett county, said
Ledbetter disappeared early
Thursday after taking home the
mutilated body of the stepson.
Lee Powell. The farmer told his
wifa the boy feU from a wagon
and was crushed by the wherSb.
She refused to accept her hus
band's story of accidental death
and notified officers.
Minton said the child appar
ently was beaten with a heavy
leather strap with a large buckle
on the end.
$43,000 PORT
DEPOSIT MADE
Sum To Be Paid Brownsville
District Upon Approval
Of Titles
The Port Isabel-San Benito
Navigation district has deposited
with R. B. Creager the sum of $43.
000 in cash which will be paid the
Brownsville Navigation district im
mediately upon approval of titles
to the tips of Brazos and Padre
Islands and acceptances by the
government, of deeds to the island
tips.
Agreement to this effect is con
tained m a letter to the Browns
ville district from Mr. Creager
which states that he has in writ
ing the approval of the commis
sioners of the Port Isabel-San Ben
ito district and their authority to
make the proposal to the Browns
ville district lor the purpose of get
ting the harbor work under way.
The proposal, which has been
agreed to by the Brownsville dis
trict. provides for giving the gov
ernment by the Brownsville dis
trict deeds to the channel right of
way and the spoilage disposal
areas. These deeds have already
been turned over by the local dis
trict and are held by Mr. Creager.
Bonds of the Brownsville district,
ba^d on 90c or. the dollar, amount
ing to $21,500 are to be turned
over to the Port Isabel-San Benito
district as soon as the $43,000 has
been paid.
Based on the same value, bonds
of the Brownsville district are also
to be turned over to the Port Isa
bel district to an amount equal to
one half of the cost of dredging
the channel from the Pass to Long
island, and in the event the
Brownsville district proceeds with
its project an additional $21,500 in
bonds is to be given that district
to pay for the second half of the
cost of the island tips. The re
mainder of the cost of the chan
nel dredging is also to be paid by
the Brownsville district to the Port
Isabel district in this event,
Approval of titles to tips of Bra
zos and Padre Islands already has
been given by Douglas W. Mc
Gregor, assistant U. S. district at
torney, and abstracts of title were
forwarded to him Thursday night
by the Brownsville district.
Approving opinion to the titles
will be forwarded by McGregor
along with the abstracts to Maj.
Milo P. Fox. U. S. district en
gineer at Galveston, who will for
ward the deeds and abstracts to
the War Department at Washing
ton.
Final approval by the War De
partment is considered assured.
Man Faces Death
Robbery Case
ARDMORE, Okla.. Sept. 23.—f
—A death sentence faced Albert
Ellis, young tenant farmer, today
for robbery of the family of John
Weber. Port Worth bond broker,
near here Aug. 28.
A district court Jury, after delib
erating ten hours, returned a ver
dict last night convicting Ellis of
robbery with firearms and con
demning him to die in the electric
chair.
Ellis and his brother-in-law.
Oscar Brandon, were accused of
robbing the Weber family on a
highway and assauTVng 18-vear-old
Joan Weber. The girl was abducted
and left bound in a ceme^rv.
Brandon has not been tried. ^
CLOUDBURSTS !
SEND RIVERS
FROMBANKS
Man Drowns, Woman
Feared Dead In
High Water
KERRVILLE. Sept. 23. I/P\ —
Flood waters of Johnson Fork of
the Guadalupe river swept a car
off a bridge seven miles west of
Kerrville last night, drowning Fred
Tullos. 36. and probably Miss Cleo
McCaUum. 33, who was riding with
him.
Tullos’ body was recovered today
about two miles downstream from
the crossing. The car, a coupe,
was found about half a mile below
the bridge, battered into wreck
age.
An intensive search was being
made for Miss McCallum, but at
noon she had not been located. It
was feared she too had drowned,
as she was unable to swim.
Johnson Fork, a tributary of the
Guadalupe, had risen 12 feet as a
result of a 5-inch rain on its
watershed.
clotobi rst sends
RIVER OVER BANKS
SAN ANTONIO. Sept. 23 /T —
Del Rio, Fredericksburg and Kerr
ville were cut off from highway
communication with San Antonio
today because of heavy cloudbursts
norm and west of here.
The Sabinal river. beyond
Uv-lde. was slowly rising on the
Del Rio highway, it was reported.
W. H. Furlong, director of the
chamber of commerce highway de
partment. reported Uvalde could be
i reached, but that the Nueces river
and other streams probably would
close the road to that city during
the day.
| A cloudburst In the upper hill
country has made the Guadalupe
river impassable at Comfort and
Kerrvtlle can not be reached. Fur
long was told. The river also was
out of banks at Waring.
General Valley rains of about
i 36 inches from Brownsville to
Rio Grande City Thursday were re
ported by the Brownsville weather
bureau Friday.
Reports from San Benito were
that farms in that section received
a heavy soaking.
Tear Gas Bombs
Quell Miners
TAYLORVILLE. III. Sept. 23—f^P>
—Tear gas and smoke bombs of
the militia burst in the streets of
Langleyville today, clearing the way
for union miners to go to work
through pickets of a new miners
union who refuse to abide by the
new $5 wage scale.
Through a jeering jibing crowd
the national guardsmen pushed
their way.
Machine guns looked menacing
ly down the street from each end
of the village. In platoons of six.
bayonets fixed, the guards march
ed into town, tossing gas bombs
ahead to clear the way.
Garner Returns
To Washington
WASHINGTON. Sent. 23—(3V
Speaker John N. Gamer returned
to Washington today after attend
ing the funeral of his 81-year-old
mother. Mrs Sarah Jane Garner,
at Detroit. Texas.
Met by a few friends at the sta
tion who expressed their sorrow
over his loss, the democratic vice
i presidential candidate told thfrrr
-it was a sad mission."
New Diving Record
Made By Inventor
HAMILTON. Bermuda. Sept. 23.
1 ($*)—A new deep sea diving mark
1 of nearlv a half mile was added to
i the world's records today.
Dr. William Beebe. New York
scientist, and Otis Barton, inventor
of the ‘’bathysphere.,' a newly-de
vised diving apparatus, descended
2.200 feet below the surface of the
Atlantic here yesterday and broad
cast their impressions over the ra
dio from the depths.
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Dentist Indicted
HOUSTON. Sept. 23 UP*—In
dictments returned today by the
Harris county grand Jury included
a murder charge against Dr. Sam
Cruse, Cleveland. Texas, dentist,
and a robbery’ by fire arms charge
against Ernest Gray, now held in
Mobile. Ala. and Ivey Morgan, in
connection with the holdup of the
Spring State bank. May 24.
Dr Cruse. 39. a member of a
prominent east Texas family, was
named as the slayer of W. E.
Sharp. 23. in connection with a
fight here Sept. 3 Styarp died
Sept. 9 frcm the effects of a bul
t let wound.
MRS. KAYE DON
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Mrs. Eileen Kaye Don, former- |
ly Eileen Martin, Is seen here In
her Greenwich. Conn , home,
which she will leave soon to Join
her bridegroom in Paris and
Switzerland for the honeymoon.
He's the famous British boat ]
racer and engineer.
POLICE CHIEF'S
SON SUCCUMBS
John T. Armstrong Jr. Dies
Following Operation
For Appendicitia
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John T. Armstrong. Jr, 13-year
old son ol Lt, c! Police and Mrs.
J. T. Armstrong, died at the Mercy
hospital at 2:50 a. m. Friday fol
lowing an appendicitis operation
Sunday.
Funeral services were to be con
ducted at Our Lady of Guadalupe
church at 4.30 p. m. Friday with
interment in the Lerma plot in
the old city cemetery.
The youth became ill last Thurs
day and was operated upon Sun
day afternoon. At first it was
thought he was recovering but the
boy sank rapidly after the fourth
day.
In the immediate family he is
survived by his father and mother
and a younger brother. Robert.
Schoolmates at St. Joseph college
were to act as pallbearers. They
were as follows: William McDon
ald. Ramon Marquez, Jr.. Antonio
Marquez, Lionel del Angel, Miguel
Saldana. Juan Villarreal and Al
fredo Martinez.
The decedent was a well known
and popular student at St. Joseph’s
college. He graduated from the
sixth grade there and had entered
; public school for this term.
Morris mortuary Is handling ar
rangements.
Woman’s Nude
Body Is Found
MERIDIAN, Miss, Sept. 23 (A*)—
The nude body of Miss Jerline
McNeil, 40, was found hidden un
der brush in a ditch near here to
day with knife wounds in her
breast. Bloodhounds led officers to
the home of a negro known as
Dudley Roberts.
They hurried him away to a
secret Jail after searching the
house and finding bloody clothing
and a sawed off shotgun.
Chinese Invasion
Believed Checked
When federal court Judge T. M.
Kennerly gave six-months jail sen
tences to five alien Chinese who
were captured near here after they
were smuggled in from Mexico, he
effectively stopped the influx of
Chinese which was threatened, ac
cording to Immigration Chief D.
W. Brewster of Brownsville.
Brewster and D. P. Gay, head
of the Border Patrol, followed the
movement of the Chinese carefully.
They estimated that at one time
there were 500 alien Chinese con
centrated in northern Mexico,
ready to smuggle over here so they
; would be deported to China free
| of coat.
BROWNSVILLE
COMMISSIONER
IS INDICTED
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George Desha Faces
Charges Returned
By Grand Jury
Two indictments charging Geo.
Desha. Brownsville city pommis
sioner, with embezzlement have
been returned by the criminal dis
trict grand Jury, and the city of
ficial may be tried at the present
term of court.
Charge Embezzling
The indictments grow out of two
checks paid to the Henson-Lomax
company by the Eagle Pass Lum
ber company. The first of these
was dated 11-18-31 and was in the
sum of $507.25. The second is dated
11-4-31 and is in the sum of $146 07.1
The indictments charge the city 1
official, who has been employed by
the Henson-Lomax company, with
The indictments charge the city
official, who has been employed by
the Henson-Lomax company, with
embezzling, misapplying and con
verting these checks to his own
use. Desha has been a well known
figure here for years. He has been
a civic worker and has been a
leader In golfing circles, recently
heading the country club.
Mathes Makes Bond
W G. Mathes of San Benito,
development sales manager, has
made bond in five swindling in
dictments growing out of the sale
of lots in the La Paloma addition.
Mathes appeared at the sheriff s
office Thursday afternoon and
made 11,000 bond In each case.
Charges were preferred against
Desha here In Jus. of the Peace
Fred Kowalskis court some five
months ago by officials of the
Henson-Lomax company.
He wavled preliminary hearing
and was bound to the grand jury.
Bond To Be Set
Since then the books of the de
velopment company have been
audited but no announcement has
been made as to findings of the
audit.
Bond for the Indicted city offi
cial was expected to be set Friday
afternoon.
Al Smith Denies
Will Make Speech
NEW YORK. Sept. 23. (P)—Al
fred E. Smith denied today pub
lished reports that he planned a
political speech next Tuesday.
program for next week has
no item on it that comprehends
any speechmaking, either radio or
otherwise," tiie former governor
said in a statement.
Vote Trial Set
PARIS. Sept. 23—(/P)—Trial of
Mayor T. J. Record for alleged
irregularities relative to last April's
city election has been set for Oct.
3 in the district court of Judge
George P. Blackburn.
Mayor Record was Indicted yes
terday on a charge of unlawfully
paying money to influence a voter.
He also was accused of furnishing
funds to pay another person's poll
tax.
Miner Draws Life
HARLAN, Kv., Sept. 23. bp—
James Reynolds. 40. Evarts miner,
today was given a life sentence In
Harlan circuit court by a Jessa
mine county jury on a charge of
slaving Deputy Sheriff Jim Dan
iels. one of four men killed in the
mine battle at Evarts in May. 1931.
Tlie jury deliberated six hours.
Reynolds was the sixth person
giver, a life sentence in the E\arts
cases.
Woman Found Dead
CORPUS CHRISTT. Sept 23
—Mrs. A. L. Butchee. 60, was
found dead last night in the bath
room at her residence. A coroner's
verdict of death from gas as
phyxiation was returned. The
body, which was found by her son.
K. Butchee. was sent to Marlin to
day for burial.
Dizzy Signs Up
ST LOUIS. Sept. 23. Mb—'The
St. Louis Cardinals today signed a
1933 contract with Jerome H. ‘‘Diz
zy’* Dean, sensational young pitch
er. Terms were not made public
but Vice President Branch Rickey
said the club was “eminently
pleased" with Dean s services.
MRS. CHERRY BETTER
Mrs. Madge Cherry’ left Mercy
Hospital Fridav morning following
an annendicitis operation a week
ago. She will be confined to her
home for sometime but she is in
\ m improved condition.
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Valley Show
Man's Home
Is Bombed
DALLAS, Sept. 23.—OP)— Ter
rorists who exploded a bomb
shortly after m dnight last night
at the home of E. W. PaschaU,
operator of a chain of motion
picture houses, had not been
identified today.
The blast shattered windows in
the PaschaU residence and tore
a small hole in the front yard,
where the bomb detonated. It
was believed the bomb vaa
hurled from an automobile driven
past the house.
Paschall. who operates 50
theaters in 21 cities of north
and east Texas and In Browns
ville and Harlingen, said he
was at a loss to explain why
anyone would bomb his home,
taking a chance on killing mem
bers of his family.
HARLINGEN P. 0.
BIDS DATE SET
Treasury To Open Offers
October 24 For New
Building
'Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Sept. 23. — Bids
for tha construction of the new
Harlingen federal building will be
opened October 24. at the Treas
ury' department in Washington,
according to a report received here
today.
The building here is to cost ap
proximately SI50.000, the entire ap- 1
propriation being $170,000. The
site cost a little more than $20,000.
and was purchased a short time
ago by the government.
The Harlingen building will be
somewhat similar to the one now
being constructed at San Benito, i
but will be larger. It will have a
basement for storage, the ground
floor for the po6toffice. and a mez
zanine floor containing offices for
postal officials and other govern
ment officials in this city.
Beginning of work on the struc
ture Is expected to result in a gen
eral revival of building in Harlin
gen.
Gandhi Strike
End Seems Near
m^mmmmmmmmm
BOMBAY. India. Sept. 23 i/Fi—
A plan dealing with the electoral
position of the depressed classes
has been agreed to by Hindu and
untouchable leaders and accepted
in the main by Mahatma Gandhi,
private advices from Poona said
today.
Leaders of both sides began dis
cussion of more important points
in the plan before holding a furth
er interview with Gandhi at 4 p.
m. today.
Insult Investments
Adjudged Bankrupt
CHICAGO. Sept . 23. (/Pi—Cor
poration Securities company and
Insul! Utility Investments, Inc.,
the two Insull investment trusts in
which the public had $300,000,000
invested, were adjudged bankrupt
todav by Federal Judge Walter C.
Lindley.
The decrees, which Judge Lind
ley had indicated last night he
would sign, were filed with the
clerk of United States district
court during Judge Lindley’s ab
sence in Danville, his home.
72 Bolivians Slain
In Chaco Skirmish
ASUNCION, Paraguay. Sept. 23—
I OP—Seventy-two Bolivians were
slam in a battle in the Chaco m
which Paraguayan troops captured
nearly 100 yards of Bolivian trench
es. an army communique said to
day.
It was the first announcement
of definite casualties in the battle
which has lasted nearly two weeks.
Bullington Speaks
CORSICANA, Sept. 23.—(JP\_Or
ville Bulllngtdn. republican guber
natorial candidate, spoke in the
interest of hia candidacy at Frost.
Navarro county, this morning. He
I is to speak at Milford. Hill county,
i this afternoon.
Texan Killed
BRECKENRIDCE. Sept. 23.-/JP)
—Lewis C. Dixon. 22. was accident
ally shot to death late yesterday at
his farm nine miles from Brecken
ridge. A rifle bullet struck him in
i the ofcesk ^
ILLEGAL VOTE
NUMBER CLAM
SET AT 55,000
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Governorship Fi g h |
Trial Expected To ;
Last Weeks
%
DALLAS. 8ept. » (*n-An ef
fort on the part of a group at
Democrats to defeat Mrs. Miriam
A. <Ma) Ferguson for governor
In the Nov. 8 general election
has resulted In the calling of a
state-wide mass meeting at the
Dallas city hall tomorrow morn
ing.
The call was signed by Carr P.
Collins, former member of the
state Democratic executive com
mittee; Alvin Moody, of Hous
ton; Dr. C. C. Seleeman, presi- .
dent of Southern Methodist Uni
versity. and others. 4
Collins said the propose^ or
ganization. for which the name
of "League of Anti-Ferguson
Democrats" was suggested, had
not selected the nominee it would
support against Mrs. Ferguson.
AUSTIN, Sept. 23—(**)—Trial of
Gov. R. S. Sterlings auit conteaW
ing the democratic nomination of
Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson for gov
ernor of Texas was set today fa*
October 3 in the district court of
Judge W. F Robertson.
Papers preparatory to obtaining
service on Mrs. Ferguson were be
ing made out by the district cierkrf
office.
Files New Putt ' .
Gov. Sterling filed the suit lasf
night alleging that 55.000 person*
had been permitted to cast illegal
votes in the runoff primary of
August 27 between him and Mra.
Ferguson. Mrs. Ferguson bad been
declared the party nominee f>y th*
state democratic convention at
Lubbock on September 13. T\#
official canvass showed she re
ceived about 4.000 more votes than
Gov. Sterling.
Gov. Sterling asked the court Id
order the secretary of state to cer
tify him as the democratic nomine*
in the general election after »
hearing had been had on th*
allegations.
He proposed that the ballot boss
es in certain counties, where irreg
ularities were alleged, be brought
Into court and opened to sub*
stantiate charges made by him.
Gov. sterling asked the court 18
go into the allegations, order th*
ballot boxes opened to determifllS
the genuineness of his charges of
Illegal votes having been counted
for firs. Ferguson and finally de
clare him the lawful nominee of
the party for governor. Event Gov
ernor Sterling should be sustained
the court would direct the secre
tary of state to certify his nam*
as the nominee.
Papers Delayed
Service of papers in the case had
been held in abeyance today and
a cost bond had not yet been fQed.
The distriit clerks office said it
had not been determined when
papers would be issued to officially
notify Mrs. Ferguson of the suit.
The case had net been set for trial.
Actual trial was expected to con
sume a number of weeks.
Some lawyers believed oov. Ster
ling s next move would be action
in some court to prohibit Mrs.
Jane Y. McCallum, secretary of
state, from certifying Mrs Fergu
son's name as the nominee to th*
various county Judges for a plao*
on the general election ballota,
pending disposition of the auit.
The law requires the secretary of
state to certify the ballot not !Vef
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