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FORTY-FIRST YEAR—No. 103 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1932 SIX PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
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IF YOU HAVE A YEN TO GO
into the business of resilvering
mirrors—
Don't pay some one a fancy price
for the formula—
Advises the Better Business Bu
reau.
Some smart boys have been sell
ing a ‘‘secret" formula—
For resilvering—
To three and lour and five and
as many more as will buy—
In different Valley cities.
Here's a formula given out by the
bureau—
Which will do the work.
Silver nitrate—350 grains.
Rochelle Salts—1 oz.
Strong Ammonia—1 oz.
Denatured Alcohol—8 ozs.
Muratic Acid—8 ozs.
V | one town three men brought
the ‘•secret” formula to the same
druggist to be refilled—
So take warning—
Do not be ‘‘slicked”.
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THERE IS A REAL ISSUE IN
volved in the election for commis
sioners of the Brownsville Naviga
tion district says C. C. Wentz,
chairman of the Citizens Com
mittee which did such effective
work while the negotiations be
tween the Brownsville and Port
I&abel-San Benito districts were in
progress.
The issue is simply this, says
Mr. Wentz—to abandon or continue
yhe work for a port at Browns
llle.
Personally Mr. Wentz, who is
packing the candidacies of the
Bennett-Singer-Smith ticket, is op
posed to the Brownsville port and
believes that it should be abandon
ed in favor of the Port Isabel
project.
As Mr. Wentz will preside at
the mass meeting to be held to
night by baekers of the J. C. Ben
nett. Otis W. Singer and George
M. Smith, it is to be presumed that
he speaks with authority for the
group and with authority for those
candidacies for navigation com
missioners.
we are gm-a i-o see uie issue ae
fined and will be glad if the elec
tion campaign is fought out among
those lines.
It must be admitted that there
exists honest difference of opinion
along the lines set out by Mr.
Wentz and the election is cer
tainly the time and the place to
settle this difference of opinion.
There lias been so much con
fusion. so befuddling of the issues
involved around the navigation dis
trict and its affairs that it is re
freshing to find a man who will
come squarely out and state just
what the issue is.
The biggest crowd ever to attend
meeting in Brownsville should
Juk present at the courthouse to
ynight to hear C. L. Jessup and H. !
B. Galbraith tell Just why—in their
opinion—the Brownsville port proj
ect should be abandoned.
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TWO LEASED WIRES WILL
start clicking in The Herald edi
torial offices next Tuesday after
noon at 4 o’clock—
Bringing the up-to-the-minute
reports of the election.
State and national returns will
co:re in fust as fast as it is human
ly pe^ible—
For the returns to be tabulated.
In addition to these two wires
of the Associated Press—
Which will carry the national
bulletins—
The Trxas Election Bureau will ,
furnish returns—
On the Ferguson - Bullington
race—
Whether it turns out to be a
race, or not
And you are invited to the big
election party—
At tlie usual place—
J On 13th Street—
f. To get the returns as The
Mhcra'id flashes them on the
screen—
Just as fast as they come in.
• • •
ADDING MACHINE BUSINESS
should be good in the future, and
we make no charge for this tip.
Just how our contract bridge ad- ,
diets are going to be able to find i
out who won without the aid of
one or more calculating machines
is what puzzled as as we glanced
through the new rules as publish- i
•ed in Monday's Herald. 1
Oh. well! ,
Some honest-to-goodness busi- ^
rcss women should emerge from \
the bridge tournament* of the fu- i
ture. {
Gamer’s Support of Ma Ferguson Challenged
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Navigation District Voting
Fireworks Set Off Tonight;
Incumbents Ask Re-election
PORT SUPPORT
PROISED BY
PRESENT TRIO
Incumbents Declare
Valley Needs
Project
Expressing themselves as in favor
of the ‘ completion of the Browns
ville port project as quickly as
possible, consistent with sound
business principles,*’ W. G. Will
man, Z. A. Rosenthal and J. G
Fernandez, incumbents, today an
nounced themselves as candidates
for re-election to the Brownsville
Navigation district commission at
the election to be held December 6.
‘Existence Justified'
In tlieir announcement tl»c three
commissioners brought out that
the local district has already jus
tified its existence as it is "through
its efforts alone that the tips of
Brazos and Padre islands were
secured for the U. S. government,
as well as titles to lands in the bay
now in the government's hands,
thus making possible the imme
diate dredging of the channel
across the bay as now advertised.”
The announcement concludes
with the opinion that the con
tinued existence of the Brownsville
district is necessary if the Valley
is to have a port at ail.
Full text of the statement is
sued this morning fellows:
"We announce as candidates for
navigation and canal commission
ers of the Brownsville Navigation
District. We are, as we have al
ways been, for a port at Browns
ville and our platform is:
"The completion of the Browns
ville port project as quickly as
possible, consistent w fi sound
business principles.
“We believe that the future of
our city and community depends
upon the immediate success of the
Brownsville project. Without the
port at Brownsville, our city will
lose its position as the metropolis
of the Lower Valley.
"Therefore, we favor the comple
tion of the port at Brownsville at
the earliest practicable time. §
'Important to Valley'
•'The Brownsville District has al
$ (or it
.olely through its efforts that a
15-foot instead of a 16-foot proj
ect was obtained. It was through
its efforts alone that the tips of
Brazos and Padre Islands were
secured for the U. S. government,
»s well as titles to lands in the
aay now in the government's hands,
-hus making possible the immediate
iredgmg of the channel across the
aav as now advertised. All these
things have been secured in the
tacc of constant opposition.
“The experience of the past four
>ears justifies the conclusion that
he continued existence of the
Brownsville District is necessary if
he Valley is to have a i>ort and if
Brownsville is to achieve the
trowth and importance to which
die is justly entitled and which in
>ur opinion will come immediately
jpon bringing a port to Browns
ville and, for that reason, it would
>e a calamity not to go ahead with
he plans originally laid out for a
xirt at Brownsville.''
Bureau of Market
News Opens Here
The federal-state market news
uureau to supply market informa
tion to Valley people was opened in
he chamber of commerce building
Here Tuesday.
W. D. Googe. who has been In
charge of the bureau the past few
reasons, arrived and started the
service which will include bo'n
.vegetables and citrus fruit.
The first vegetable shipments of
he season are expected to be made
n a short time.
Storm Warning
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. (AWThe
veather bureau today issued the
ollowing storm warning:
Advisory: Tropical disturbance of
light to moderate intensity moving
vest northwestward about 12 miles
>er hour with center in Caribbean
ibout one hundred miles south of
»an Juan.
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SHERIFF QUITS
As sheriff of Knox county,
Kentucky, Mrs. Jennie Walker,
above, was always doing the
unusual. Even though her hus
band was her first deputy she
went out alone to make arrests.
She climaxed the unusual by
failing to execute an additional
bond for her office and- the of
fice automatically was declared
vacant. She is 41 and resides at
Barboursville.
DEMS IN CITY
URGE SUPPORT
400 Hear Speakers’ Pieas
To Vote ‘Straight
Down Line’
A crowd estimated at around 400
assembled in the court house Mon
day night at a democratic rally, lis
tening to a number of speakers who
urged support of the ticket •'straight
down the line."
Judge H. L. Yates, chairman of
the county executive committee,
presided at the meeting
In one of the principal addresses
of the meeting Co. Judge Oscar C
Dancy urged support of the entire
ticket, and in speaking about the
national ticket claimed credit for
being the first person, to class John
N. Garner as “presidential timber."
That was in 1 1, Judge Dancy
said.
Other speakers were Judge A. V
Cunningham of Harlingen, demo
cratic nominee for county judge;
Judge V. W. Taylor. Harbert Daven
port. and J. C. Schultz who spoke
in Spanish.
The sjieakers particularly urged
support of the state ticket, and
pointed out the favors they clain *k1
James E Ferguson has done for the
Valley, particularly in the matter
of flood control.
| Gang Guns Get
! Another Victim
j CHICAGO. Nov. 1.—<4>_ Mrs.
j Rom* McKenna stood at her kitchen
window last night and sang out:
| “Ronald's coming.”
But Ronald never arrived because
as he walked toward his home he
came into the line of bullets fro.n
a machine gun nest planled on ihe
second floor of a building across
! the street.
Prom her window Mrs. McKenna
saw him fall.
Police counted 23 bullet wounds
in his body and came to the con
j elusion that his Idling was an
• important” one in gangland be
cause of the precision with which
j it was carried out.
Boy Released
After reconsideration by Judge
A. M. Kent, a San Benito juvenile
! sentenced to the reform school
Monday was released to the custody
of his parents Tuesday.
Two boys were ordered to the
house of correction after being
found guilty of thefts in San Ben
ito garages.
OPPONENTS TO
AIR VIEWS AT
MASS MEETING
Port Abandonment Is
Advocated B y
New Group
Opposition to the present board
of commissioners or the Browns
ville Navigation district will present \
its case to the voters of the district i
at the mass meeting to be held at
the courthouse tonight sponsored
; by supporters of the opposition
! ticket of J. C. Bennett. Otis W
I Singer and George M Smith.
Active in Opposition
C. L Jessup viid H B Galbraith
have been announced as the speak- ;
ers of re evem.ig who will discus*
a rally Pf'TttC Brownsville
Navigation district.
Both have been active in their!
opposition to the present com
mu-sioner* and Jessup has been
identified with the port movements
it. the Valley for a number of years, j
Galbraith, who is editor of the
weekly “Taxpayer." has been bit
ter in his denunciation of the pres
ent commission and their allegea
methods cf handling the affairs or
the district.
C. C. Wentz, who will preside a/
the meeting tonight, has expressed
himself as opposed to the con
struction of the Brownsville port
and Monday staled to a repre
; sentative of Tire Herald that the
issue of the campaign rests on that
question alone—the abandonment
of the Brownsville port project.
Wentz has served as chairman
of the Citizens Committee which
was active during the negotiations
between the Brownsville and the
Port Isabel-San Benito Navigation
dstricts.
Open Bids Nov. 19
The committee will continue Its
existence. Wrcntz stated this moru
| ing. until the contract for the
oredging ol the channel from,
Brazos Pass to Long Island ha* i
been let b> the federal government, j
Bids on the worn will be opened
at Galveston on November 19th.
One of the largest crowds ever to
attend a similar meeting in Browns
ville is expected at the courthouse i
! ton glu.
Committee in charge of the Ben- '
! nett-Singers-Smith campaign has
I been announced as c. L. Jessup
chairman. H. B. Galbraith. Fausto
\turria, J. D. Sutton, j. k. Wells,
j E. I. Buckim and Claude Macy.
Blanton Is Freed
In Shooting Case
LUBBOCK. Nov. 1.—q
• Buddy* Blanton. 21. was free again
today, having been absolved of all
guilt in two robberies of M-Syster
stores here and the fatal shooting
o» Robert Tharp in one of the
holdups here October 15. Blanton I
was released from the Lubbock
county jail late yesterday, a 99tn j
district court had no-billed him
and A. C. Hanna, grand jury fore
man. of Slaton, ordered Shcrin
Harry Wade to release Blanton.
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American Airways
Officials In City
1VI P Stallter. divisional superin- I
tendent of the American Airways
out of Dallas, and R. k. Spalding j
terminal manager of the airways'
from San Antonio, arrived by plane
Monday afternoon and were to
leave Tuesday afternoon. They were
here on business in connection with
the airways and studying conditions
in the city.
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Clerk Found Dead
FORT WORTH. Nov. 1. f>P>-An
inquest in the death of Sam S. 0*1
vilie. 61. chief deputy district clerk,
was being conducted Tuesday by
Justice Pritchard on the bank of
Clear Fork of Trinity river, where
his body, with throat slashed, was
found floating.
Prichard said his verdict prob
ably will be “suicide" although it
will be withheld until he further
investigates the case.
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Fros/ Brings
South s //o£
Killing Time
And Spare Ribs With
Crackling Bread
And ’Lasses
AGRICOLA. Miss . Nov. 1. (IPi
The south s hoemen gathered to
day in bams where plows rest
ed for the winter, patched har
ness and reckoned the hour had
come to think about spare ribs
and crackling bread, for it’s just
about hog killing time.
Planters, farmers, tenant share
croppers and negro cotton hands
have been preparing for the
slaughter since autumn first
dabbed its colors around the
woods. A supply of coarse water
ground meal has been laid in,
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RFC T o BUY
WATER BONDS
Eagle Pass Gets Fund For
Repair and For New
Projects
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1. UP)—The
Reconstruction Corporation today
agreed to purchase SI,476,000 of
bonds of the Maverick county water
control district No. 1 of Eagle Pass.
Tex., to provide funds for repair
and construction of a combined irri
gation and water power project in
which water is diverted from the
Rio Grande river to the district
canal.
The bends will bear interest at 6
per cent and will mature in vary
ing amounts from 1933 to 1970.
Most of the money will be expend
ed for labor, it being estimated that
2.700 men will be employed for 18
months. Only 230.500 will be spent
for materials.
The project, the announcement
said, embraces construction of a
canal 92 miles long, of which 32
miics have been completed. Hie
water in ihe canal will be used for
irrigation and for operation of a
hydro-electric power station already
constructed.
A flood in September damaged
about 15 miles of the canal and
forced the power plant to close
down. Repairs will be made, includ
ing work to prevent similar damage
in the future.
As a condition of the loan the
corporation requires the district 'o
procure subordination of a lien of
$2,709,000 of be nds now cutstanding
in neivata hands
One Dies, 30
Hurt In Storm
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Nov. I— -P
—Wind and rainstorms thal whip
ped the southeast, killing one and
injuring more than 30 others, leu
behind wreckage and chillier wcath
ci today.
Tornadoes struck at three points
in Dixie yesterday. At Cowans near
Dothan. Ala., a negro girl was
killed and twenty, including elgnt
white persons, were injured. A
dezen more were hurt at Cairo.
Ga.. and at Longbeach near Gulf
port. Miss., tornadic winds ripped
up trpes and damaged build-ngs.
Most of the southeast got *
thorough wetting.
Mystery Blast
Fires Oil Well
LONGVIEW. Nov. I.—</P— The
Shell Petroleum company's No. 3
Landers oil well, scvefi miles north
of Gladewater. was on f.re today
after an explosion of unknown nat
ure during the night.
Although the blast cracked the
Christmas tree connection on the
p oducer and the blare was not
h gh. conservation officials express
ed tile opinion the fire would be
come more serious as other con
nections melted and let **e 20 000
barrels daily production flow un
checked.
Spooks Show Desire
To Hurl Grapefruit
Except for a wild desire to throw
fruit at passing cars and for the
uprooting of a few fences, the
spooks were very orderly here Mon*
day night, according to Lt. of Po
lice J- T. Armstrong.
Considerable difficulty resulted
from the f-uit battles between pass
ing cars.
ONLY PORTION
OF NOTE WAS
RELEASED,SAY
‘Garner Merely Said
Would Support
Dem Ticket’
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FORT WORTH. Nov. 1. An
I answer to Maurv Hughes' statement
I that John Garner will support the
straight democratic ticket was is
sued here today by Webb Walk’r,
president of the Roosevelt-Garner
Bullington club of Texas follows:
‘Not Surprising*
“Maury Hughes, chairman of ne
state democratic executive commit
tee. apparently thinks he has scor
ed a ten-strike with the announce
ment that John ii. Garner, vice
presidential nominee, will support
i the straight democratic ticket. The:e
j is nothing important or surprising
I in such an announcement. Mr.
: Garner is the vice presidential
I nominee of the democratic ticket
and could not concehably do other
wise. furth rmore. he has served for
more than 30 years with credit u>
| himself and to his state as a mem
ber of congress elected on the demo
! cratic ticket from his district.
"But it is surprising that Mr
Hughes, only released a portion of
the Garner letter, and it is very
important that in the portion re
leased Mr Gamer had no sugges
tion or advice to give the democrats
of Texas or made any mention of
the Fergusons or Fergusonism I am
sure that if Mr. Garner, by di
rection or inference, had said a
thing in his letter complimentary to
the Fergusons, or that could have
been construed as an indorsement
of them. Mr. Hughes would have
pro-laimed it at great length.
< laltm Failure
‘•undoubtedly, he sought to get
Mr. Gamer's indorsement of ‘he
Fergusons and failed. The best he
could get was a brief statement that
Mr. Gamir had always voted the
democratic ticket and would con
tinue to do so. something well
known to every Texan and which
every Texan had expected.
"In the opinion of the Roosevelt
| Garnfr-Bullington democrats. Mr.
Hughes' effort is merely the latest
of many upon the part of the Fer
guson ortanization to tie their can
didacy onto the coat tails of the
democratic nominees and to make it
appear that the national adminis
tration indorses the Fergusons, and
to browbeat and threaten the rank
and file of the party into voting for
the Fergusons, under the unwar
! ranted belief that such is necessary
| to the success of the national ticket
in Texas and desirable from the
standpoint of the national nomi
nees."
City I* Sued For
Well Plans ‘Debt’
Morley Morley. Dallas sanitary
engineering firm, has filed suit
against the City of Brownsville for
$750 allegedly due on plans and
I specifications for a clear wel lin
! stalled at the water plant.
The petition alleges the firm was
employed to plan the water filteri
tion plant here and that this was
done. The city asked for additional
specifications for a clear well in
netition alleges, agreeing to pay
$750 extra for them.
Plans were furnished and since
then the city has installed the
well, failing to pay the $750. accord
ing to allegations in the petition.
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Petrified Human
Arm Found With
Gold Nugget*
GREENUP. KV.. Nov. 1— P.—
j Talk of a treasure hunt stirred
this town today after the dis
covery of a petrified human arm,
Indian relics and 12 nuggets
which apparently are gold, in an
cbhcure cavern, 18 miles south
west of here.
Three Greenup men, L. G.
Stapf. undertaker. Dr. C. P- Nor
ton. and Edward Wellman, who
entered the cave, planned to act
today to secure mineral rights on
surrounding land
Two boys. John and Troy Hol
brook. led the men to the catern.
j which was reached by e- entrance
■ so small that the party had to
crawl through on their hands
; and knees.
Inside, they found a room about
15 feet high. 12 feet wide and 14
feet long, with openings to other
underground chambers A more
detailed examination of the
cavern will be made later, the
men said.
Wedding Of
Royalty Yet
Rumored
Will Wales At Last
Take Bride, Or
Will George? [
STOCKHOLM. Nov. 1. UP—
Stockholm newspapers openly
discussed rumors today that the
engagement of Princess Ingrid
to Prince George or the Prince
of Wales will be announced in
London on November 11.
The newspapers added that the |
announcement might be made at !
a dinner in the British capital
celebrating ihe 50th anniversary
of the birthday of the princess'
father. The time and circum
stance of the dinner was accept
ed as unusually propitious for j
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HARBOR BIDS
DATA MAILED
Port Specification* Sent Out
By Maj. Fox To
Contractor*
GALVESTON, Nov. 1 P -Speci
fications have been prepared and
sent out on bids for the dredging
of approximately 3.692.000 cubic
yards of material and performing
all work of digging a channel from
i the inside of Brsw* Sant.ago pass |
to and including a turning basi'i j
at Port Isabel, it was announced
here today.
Bids will be ooened at noon Noe.
19 in the office of Maj. Milo P
Pox. army engineer in charge of
this distr.ct.
The channel to be dredged wiil
be 25 feet deep at low tide and
have a bottom width of 100 feet
It will be side sloped three on one.
j and extend for a distance of ap
proximately 22.000 feet or 4 1 miles.
The turning basin will be 500 !e°r
: square on the bottom and 25 fee*
deep.
The channel will start at the
existing jetty pass, cross Laguna
i Madie to Long Island, where it ";.ll
! curve toward Part Isabel. The tun>
i ing basin will be dug on the flats
i to the southwest of the old navai
radio station at Pert Isabel.
This project has been agitated
by the Port Isabel-San Bcruo navi
gation district since 1919. It will
mean deep water for the district.
Former Hidalgo
J. P. Indicted
! fSpecial to The Herald)
EDINBURG. Nov. 1—H W. Diggs,
i former Weslaco just.ee of the peace.
| uas indicted here Tuesday morn
ing by the 92nd district court grand
jury on charges of misapplication
o; $955.40 in public funds.
The indictment alleges Diggs
received the funds by virtue of his
office as just.ee.
Diggs was released Tuesday after
making a $500 bond.
He has been a resident of Wes
! laco for 10 years. Diggs first held
public office in 1925 when ap
pointed justice to succeed B. >
1 Cadenhead. The defendant was
elected to the post on the Gooo
Government ticket in 1931, polling
1.003 votes. He resigned July 8.1932
Robbers Sought
McKINNEY Nov. 1.—\fP>— Offi
cers of north Texas today had been
asked to look for two men who en
tered the grocery store of A. R.
Gracy here last night, posed as
customers and after they had or
fie red a bill of groceries, shoved a
j gun against Gracys side and took
j 112 from the cash register. They
escaped in a small sedan which a
bystander reported to police bore
Oklahoma license 289.-248.
Injunction Granted
A temporary injunction restrain
ing J. w. Moore of Austin and J.
O. Prentiss of San Benito from
selling certain property now held
in San Benito by Jim Tom Story
has been granted by Judge A. If.
Kent in the civil district court.
Except for the temporary re
straining order the property, valued
at $6 000 by Story , would have been
sold under a deed of trust.
Story sets up a homestead de
fense in the Injunction petition.
PI. WE PASSENGERS
H R. Botsford left for Corpus
Christi Monday on the American
Airways plane Julian Lyles and
George Johnson arrived from San
Antonio Monday.
Jack Schrader. H M Johnston
and J. E. Burden were passengers
on the P-n-American plane out of
Brown j , •' Tuesday menung frr
Mexico City.
BANDIT LOOTS
ANOTHER BANK
IN OKLAHOMA
Witnesses Declare
Famed Outlaw
In Gang (j
SALLISAW. Okia . No*. 1. <m—
Three robbers looted the SsBtww*
State bank of an undetermined sum
today, taking an employe along as
they fled Witnesses said two of the
men were Charles (Pretty Boy)
Floyd and George B rdwell. much
sought bank robbers.
Deputy Sheriff Bert Cotton aa»d
witnesses of the robbery were cer
tain of their identification. Floyd
iormerly lived here.
The men fled toward Fort Smith.
Ark., after releasing their hostage
at the edge of Sallisaw.
Sheriff George Cheek organized
a posse Immediately and started
pursuit east on U. S Highway No.
fit. which leaus into Fort Smith.
The bandits, however, were expected
to turn north somewhere east of
Salli.saw into mountain country
known as a hideaway of Floyd and
his gang.
Bob Biggs, assistant chashler. was
alone in the bank. He was forced
to accompany the trio but was re
lea-'ed at the edge of the city. He.
too. said Fioyd was one of the three
bandits.
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TEXAS ROBBERY
IS INVESTIGATED
MARLIN. Nov 1. or—Officers
continued today with their liive>
gation of the robbery of the FU
ional bank at Reagan fl|
night but had few clues.
Two cars were reported i
north of Reagan during the"
but there w.< n thing to inr
their occupant', had anything to
with the robbery Investigator
found an embroidered handkerchief
in the bank but there was no marl
on it.
Insull Extradition
Delay Seems Certain I
TORONTO, Nov. 1. pP,—Delay of j
at least two weeks in extradition ]
proceedings against Martin Insull 9
seemed assured today when coun- 1 |
sel for Cook county, Illinois, said 1 I
he would interpose no objection to f I
a postponement sought by Mr. In- W
sulls attorney. |
Mr. insull is under indictment in 1
Chicago *n connection with the I
collapse of the public utilities in- ■
tercsts which he controlled with his 1 I
brother, Samuel Insull. A hearing it 1
scheduled lor Friday. fl
Body Found On
Railroad Track
TEXARKANA, Ark., Nov. 1. <*V*
The crew of a north-bound freight
today found the body
of J E (iivens, 32. a Texarkana
service station employe, on the Mis
souri Pacific tracks on the out*
skirts of the city.
His automobile was found partial
ly burned about a mile away. It ap
parently had been pushed Into a
creek bed.
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Negro Draws Life
In Assault Case
HOUSTON. Nov. 1. Cleve
land Davis. 17, negro, was convict- jfl
ed today of participation in a crlm-, vl
inal asault on a 23-year-old white IM
woman and sentenced by the jury to i jfl
99 years imprisonment. |
Davis admitted holding a pistol I
on the victim’s male escort while I
another negro committed the at- I
tack The sttxmd negro had not been I
arrested. |
SOLDIER DIES
IN CAR WRECK
j SAN ANTONIO, Nov I. i.F>—Ser- I
I geant Frank Brandslepper Ran- I
dolph field soldier, is dead, and four 9
cf his comrades are in a scrioti i »
condition at the field hospital as re- H
suit of an accunt at a railroad un- M
derpass near the field last night. v^fl
Tlie automobile in which the five V
soldiers were riding overturned 9
after it left the road and hurtled 9
through a fence. fl
One of Brandslepper's com pan- jfl
ions. Sergeant Edward D. Coon*, m
was r»ar death *nd the condition 1
of the others was reported serious, jfl
Coons has not regained conscious* ■
nexs. fl
Sergeant Brandslepper was k« /m
when pinned beneath the aut| ,
bile- O' her passengers In th*r/
all hurt, were Private C r"
Wvatt Private Anthony E _ -
i Ahd Private B<hku. .