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P THE WEATHER CHEERY EARFUL
Brownsville and the Valley: Fair The stockmarket waa firm on
and continued cold with minimum late trading today after an early
temperature 20 to 25 decrees Wed- attempt at a rally by rail* waa off
nesdav night. Thursday fair, rising set by a buyers* drive, after la
temperature. sues had gained fractions.
----— THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -
ij|FORTY-FIRST YEAR—No. 186 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 8 1933 EIGHT PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
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IN OUR ]
VALLKY]
THAT OLD TARIFF QUESTION
bobs up again, this tune m an
ellort to get the present tan!! ol
3c a pound on tomatoes cut down.
And once again Florida and the
Valley will join hand* in oelena
tng the present rau voiacn was
put on alter a join'- ellort by these
two large truck producing **«..,om
W. T Hougt . experienced Valley
shipper left the*Jay rugal loi
Wasnuigtoc, w».v.. lie will join K
B. Renifio Broa~*vilie attorney,
to present tin. Va_«y c case beiore
the tarn: coaiun*sion.
It's a light along all fronts to
hold our own these days.
• • •
f WEATHER IS CERTAINLY
Vnrng alon^ a> an ally to Valley
mers and shippers—
Working to horn down the ship
ments of cabba-it and carrots ana
| beets.
And to hold up the price ol
these commodities.
One thing about tt,
It will not hurt anybody to have
ahippmg stojjjjed tor a while.
And certainly me vegetables ol
the Valley—
Will be all there arc m Texas.
When this present spell ot
weather is over.
• • •
WrF ARE NOT WORRYING
about any possible violence on the
part of Valleyiles. spite o! lears
to the contrary expressed b\ some.
This Valley has plenty A mot
lems. ha* had pieniy o: publem*
since the beginning.
Some have been sol ed, soint
are on the way to being solve a
but never once has any solution
been attempted except along a!?
and sane line*.
Personally, we do not b neve
that it will ever become ne\*.sso.y
for our Valley growers to re irt to
picketing to cut down vegetable
shipment.--.
Should such a cour&e seem nec
essary we are sure that mora»
suasion, rather than lorce, will tv
the met nod u-->ed.
The Valley is net aoing to br tx
into the luneligh: with any mieh
a situatio* as has been featured
ir. the Middle West during the
past few months.
Our situation i> not the same wt
are going to come out and are go
1 ing to come out on top.
...
CASTING ALL JOKING ASIDE,
are you not rather wondering—
What Oscar M. Harczell. Drake
Estate magnate—
Js going to tell us when he gets
I f to the United States?
^JVe are. and our guess is that
those who have put their good
money in the pot.
Are wondenn- even harder than
are we
It will have to be a good one.
The yarn he tells.
To get by the thousands all over
the country,
Who have donated’ 'to his cause
During the past 10 years.
• 9 •
BILL WHICH WOULD HAVE
done away with deficiency judg
ments has been introduced in the
Texas legislature, and then made
! innocuous by an amendment which
killed the unport ol the bill.
A deficiency judgment as you
know, is one of those things by
which the holder of a lien against
i your property is enabled to sell
that proper!) and—not getting
enough from the sale to pay off his
»ien—take judgment lor the bal
ance against am and all property
you may have
I Seems to us that the security tor
a loan ought to be held sufficient
payment tor that loan.
If the loaner loomed so much on
■ the pn
not stand good for u. lie used poor
I judgmei
It does not seem fair to the bor
rower not to have me security he
pledged n :ood fan h pay off the
loan in i 1 .ird times hit.
W'e p . . a.t lv h< ;*■ the bill pass
es as originally introduced.
ANOTHER BILL INTERESTING
Valley folk is the one
Introdmed b) Rep. Homer Leon
ard < ■:
Appropr;citing $7 500 tor the ex
pense ol fruit fly spray campaign
i in the Valley.
§■ This, money would enable the
' rii to cooperate with the federal
author. lei.
In getting after the Morelos fruit
fly
Federal c ; ailment has already
stated its will.:, n
To give the spray, provided state
•will cooperate.
And Valley growers will do the
same.
m m m
OUR CITRUS CROP NEEDS
to be petted along.
One thing sure, we must rid tins
sect ton of the menace of the Mex
ican fly.
Its sporadic outbreaks can kill the
citrus industry of the Valley
I deader than the proverbial door
nail.
Valley citrus growers are we are
* sure, alive to the seriousness of the
situation.
State and federal departments
of agriculture are alive to it.
A strong pull and a pull together
will keep the pest under control
an. avert any possible quarantines
by other states
With a big crop comint on next
season we must protect our diver
sity of markets.
T* T T T T* T • » v T -r T T ▼ TT'FTTVVV'r
Colder Weather Forecast for Valley Tonight
TEMPERATURE
TO DROP TO
LOW TWENTIES
Sub-Zero Cold Grips
Texas and Nation;
Records Fall
Valley growers who protects
truck crops against the cold last
night were warned by the w tamer
bureau and by Cameron County
Agent Henry Alaineyer tblv/ that
extra precautions must be tJken
tonight for citrus and truck crops.
Forecast lor tonight is a minimum
ol between 20 and 25 deg. res, and
a heavy frost if the weather re
mains clear. Lowest tenrieratu.es
registered in the Valley last night
ranged Irom 27 degrees at Kay
mondviUe and 29 degrees at Mis
sion, Ha.lmgen and g>an Benito to
io degrees at Brownsville.
Automobile owners m the Valley
were warned to dram radiators to
night. and weather bureau officials
utnise house owner to drain ix
: osed pipes and leave inside water
fawcets dripping.
County Agent Alsmeyer advises
giowers to cover all vegetables
that escaped last night's cold. Do
not irrigate under ar.y circum
stances. he warns.
Citrus growers are urged to bank
young trees above the buds. Grow
ers who aie so preoared should be
gin smudging at temperatures from
2f> to 30 degrees, the county agent
said.
• By the Associated Pi ess)
Record-breaking cold weather in
many pans of Texas followed today
i in the wake of a storm which
descended from the Rocky Moun
tains. bringing casualties among
cuttle, damage to early fruit crops
and suffering to the destitute.
Not a section of the state was
spared the rigors of the wintry
blasts. From the Panhandle to the
Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf
coast, thermometers reached a low
mark which contrasted vividly with
the mild weather of the last week
end.
Clear skies generally indicated
that then would be no immediate
ddition to the light, fall of snow
or ice which accumulated in the
h«st 3fi hours No serious delay to
vehicular traffic developed although
: many motorists chose to leave then
■ automobile in the garage.
Brownsville Warmest
From the 17-degree-below-zero
i temperature at Lubbock, the hg
uies ranged upward to 30 above at
Brownsville.
Lubbocks reading, taken at 7.30
a. m. was seven degrees below the
previous all-ume minimum at the
| state experiment sub-station. In
the city proper, it was 12 below
.aid the sun was sinning. Live
1 Continued on Page Seven*
‘Valley Believers’
Appoint Committee
• Special to The Herald)
WESLACO. Peb. 8.— Reports oi
1 the temporary commit tee on or
! gamzation of the proposed - Believ
1 erf in the Valley'’ were heard a)
the meeting held Tuesday night at
the Stephen F. Austin school in
Weslaco about 40 business men
o; the Valley attending
The tem;»orary commute? was
increased by six members ana p' ms
were made for a mas* meeting to
bt held at the city hail m Weslaco
Feb. H.
Members of the organization
committee are Jeff Bell. San Be
nuo; H. F. Looney. Harlingen; Rex
Baxter. Ruymondv:llc; N p Bur
ton, Mercedes: Ralph Bray ?»■>
! sion: Thomas Homer an Ed
M ckbee of Brownsville; John Mc
Whorter. Edinburg; j f COliver,
Weslaco; Charles Swallow. Alamo
and Pat Joy. McAllen.
Harlingen Death
Is Held Suicide
• Special to The Herald*
HARLINGEN. Feb. 8 - Edward
Patton. 72. was found dead at the
residence of VV B. Coleman. 706
East Madison street. Tuesday a?
noon when Mrs. Coleman returnc^
home.
A pistol was found beside the
body and a note, addressed to
imm Patton. a brother m In
diana. was found on the body.
Justice of the Peace W'l! Fields
returned a verdict of suicide.
The body is held at Thompson’s
mo-nmry awaitinr arrival' of the
Indiana ran. The dead man came
to the Valley from Indiana.
VISIT'* IN MONTERREY
Charles L. Jones, who is with
the public health service here, left
Monday for Monterrey. Mexico for
a visit with his son Robert. He
was accompanied by his daughter, i
I Mrs Oliver Chauncey McFarland j
1 of Lot Angeles. Calif. I
Just about to set sail on a
23.000-mile cruise to the South
Seas and the Orient. Barbara
Hutton, above, assured reporters
that any and all rumors of her
engagement to anyone were false.
She is heiress to the $18,000,000
Woolworth fortune.
COLD SETTLES !
FARM TROUBLE
Differential and Picketing
1 rouble Fade With
Corpus Freeze
The differential war. the picket
ing threat, and all other matters
ove which the Valley has been
exciting Itsc :f sc*-mod to be e tied
by the weather this morning.
With practically all crops of the
Hobs town - Corpus Cliristi section
wiped out las night, the differen
tial will make little or no difference
to Valley growers and shippers
during the present shipping season
And with the threat of low tem
perature tonight carried out. what
vegetables remain in the Valley
Thursday will be worth enough to
remove any idea of picketing or ol
lorcmg the holding of crops.
■H) PER CENT OF
FARMERS SIGN I P
tiSiX'cial ■ I.-. Herald'
WESLACO, Feb. 8.—More than
90 per cent of all fsnri w
dalgo county who havi < .ltr
been asked to refuse- to sell their
vegetables at a less had signed
agreements [hi* effect Wednes
day according to officials of the
Hidalgo County Farm Bureau Fed
eration.
This move followed a series of
meetings held m six Hidalgo coun
t> communities Tuesday night
which were attended by over 2.000
growers of winter vegetables. Meet
ings were held at McAllen. Mis
sion. Edinburg. Pharr-San Juan
Alamo community. San Carlos and
Edcoucli at which Federation
speakers explained the effort to in
crease prices being paid for larm
products.
The agreement did not specify
prices to be paid but bound the
signers to “not harvest any vege
table crop unless we receive the
production cost plus a margin of
profit
This same group of farmers In
all parts of the county will com
plete plans at a meeting in Wes
laco Thursday night
Leaders ot the farm federation
were careful to emphasise the fact
that violence would have no part in
their efforts.
Poison Drink Kills
Two, Another Dying
MORRISTOWN. N. J. F\b. 8
Pt—Two men are dead and a third
is dying from the effects of drink
ing poison, which because of it»
peculiarly sweet smell the men
thought was peach brandy.
The dead men were Michael
Czouski and George Douglass,
r-eoree Lindauk is in a hospital.
Physicians say he will probably
die.
Four Pilots Killed
As Bomb Explodes
SALISBURY. Ene.. Feb 8. i.P/—
Four men of the Roval Air Force
were ki,1cd tcdav wh*m rheir bomb
ing plane crashed during a prac
tice fhght and bur-t ir»o flam’s
A fifth man aboard escaped with
bums.
VALLEY CROPS
HURT; CITRUS
DAMAGELOOMS
Beans, Tomatoes And
Potatoes Suffer
From Cold
A cold wave which has already
damaged tender vegetables and
which threatens to damage prac
tically all other crops and even
citrus trees in the Valley descend
ed upon thus section last night.
Temperatures from 20 to 25 de
grees are forecast lor tonight.
In addition, with bright sunshine
by noon today, there was a threat
of frost added to the fretzing tem
peratures.
The Valley section today uad
done practically everything .n its
power, and was taking stock of
what the cold has done and what
it may do.
than Crop liuil
Already the bean crop lias been
hurt, au hau some ol the toma
toes, and potatoes have been dam
aged some.
Hundreds of laborers iu»hcd out
into fields Tuesday afternoon to
protect tomatoes from the cold it
was estimated ihat Irom «.'J to -a
per cent of the lomaio crop is
covered. The covered touuuc j will
not, be damaged unless the cold
continues for a long period.
The cold spell reachtd the Valiey
shortly alter 3 oclock yesteremy.
Toe mercury then stood at Si 4
Wumn twelve hours it hac. dropped
i>0 degrees and by 6 o'clock uus
morning it stood at 30 m Browns
viiii, 2b. at Haiuugen. 2b at alls
oion and 21 at Raymonuviiie.
However, by 12 u clock me .tin
jx rat ere iluotighout the Valle., had
one ap two or three uvgm . It
s oou at 2. a. Mission, and about
■ lie same a. most Ollier paints in
the Valley.
V'aue.v people saw Utile encour
agement, however, in the sunshine
and rising temperatures.
In the opinion oi W. L. Mc
Uavitt, veteran Brownsville pro
duce dealer, the threat ol most
serious damage is in Ine frost
w hich may Come toiuoirow.
Air. AKUavul suxi beanand
tomatoes nave already beta uam
. ed some but that the exuni oi
mumate damage depenu* on the
temperature tonignt and conditions
lomorrow mornmg. A ncavy irost
(Cont.nucd on Page Severn
Ma’ Loses Fight
Over Appointment
AUSTIN. Feb. 8. </Pj- The senate
today rejected Gov. Miriam A
Ferguson's appointment of F. L.
Denison of Temple as chairman of
he state highway commission.
The senate was in secret session
.css than an hour. Opposition to
Denison had centered abou some
contracts he had with the state
highway commission during Mrs.
Ferguson’s former term as gov
ernor-.
The senate confirmed the ap
pointment of R. L. Daniel of Vic
toria as state life insurance com
missioner Daniel was a member
of the insurance commission during
Mrs. Ferguson s previous term.
Mrs. Gandhi Draws
Six Months Term
BOMBAY. Feb. 8. F>—Mahatma
Gandhi's wife, arrested last went
for illegal political activiti '3. was
sentenced to six months imprison
ment today arid lined 500 rupees
in deiault of which the jail sen
tence will be extended six wtexs.
Her husband has been in p-fcon
at Poona since January, 1'iJJ.
Road Bids Received
AUSTIN Feb. 8. vfV-The Texas
highway commission today received
bids for construction projects in
six counties, aggregating 10 1-2
miles concrete pavement and ap
proximately 49 miles ot other type
of work, part of an estimated $1
850.000 worth of awards it planned
to let at thi- session
Other lettings aggregat g ap
proximate^ $850 000 were proposed
for next Monday.
Robber Shot
GAINESVILLE Feb 8 V -One
ol two men surprised in the act of
robbing the postolfice at Wood
bine, nine miles east of Gainesville
last, night was shot through the
leg by officers and the other es
caped.
Acting on a report that suspicious
characters had been loitering about
the uostolfice. Bert Bro^-vier, sher
iff Joe Pettit a deputy, and Har
vey Olir.on. city motorcycle officer
hid in the general store and post
office for several nights.
EIGHT WOMEN DIE IX FIRE
I:-at worn* n 'wiionu of the Ridgecliff sanitarium in Wickliffe. Cleveland suburb, died in flames that
«; th< ruins lor of a u
ninth victim. Investigators said the blase may prove to have been incendiary.
BANK ROBBER
SOUGHT HERE.
Missouri Cffic ^1s Relieve
Fugitive May Have
Fled to Border
Slier.ff W. Frank Brown's office,
a.dcd by sa’c rimgtis, is con
tinuing tovc. K .tion here in re
gard to a $14 000 bank robbery at
North Kan as City. Mo . after sev
eral men -avc been given a clean
bill by Missouri authorities.
Information was telegraphed here
that one of the suspects was believ
ed to hi .*c fled to this section.
Tiie shorn is office main;timed a
close watch in places the man was
likely to urn up. A Cameron
county man. thought to have been
in contact with the suspect, was
questioned Tuesday at the court
house. He denied knowledge of the
bank robbery.
The county attorney of Clay coun
ty. Missouri, was reached by long
distance tea phone Tuesday after
noon and he gave this man a clean
bill
The Mis ouri robbery created a
sensation, and some of the suspects
are still believed to have contacts
in the Valley. The sheriff s oliice
is com.numg its investigation along
this line.
Organized Gang Is
Blamed in Kidnaping
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8-—/Pi—In
the belici an organized gang of
kidnapers was responsible for the
. bduction ol Mrs. Mary B Skeele.
65-year-old wile of the dean of the
university of Southern California
music college, police today were
investigating thr attempted kid
naping 01 Miss Isobet Smith. 29
year-old daughter of Rev. and Mrs
Merle N. Smith.
Eight Flee Flames
Into Zero Weather
DALLAS. Feb. 8 — P— Eight
nersons escaped in the night cloth
ing into near-zereo weather here
last night as fire consumed at.
eleven-room home in North Dal
las. The house w.ts owned bv Mrs.
Ann Mason who estimated the
loss at $10,000. B L Rogers, re
turning to his home fr~m a bridge
party, noticed the flames and
roused the sleeping occuoants of
the house.
Texan Draws Life
TEXARKANA Ark . Feb. 8. I/Pi
—A jury in Miller county circuit
court toda> lound James Crabtree.
43, guilty on a charge of murder
in the slaying ol Deputy Sheriff
Melvin BracKman, 43. and sen
tenced him to life imprisonment.
Cr btree also is under indictment
for 'he slaving of Deputy Sheriff
J. C. Crain. Brackman's com
pankn. last October 19.
^ tfdete Die*
COPSTCANA. Feb 8 — 4*'— Ire
F Rob n 19 son of Mr. and Mrs
W. B. R'ber:/ of Pruslev. 15 miles
-outhwe-t of Corsicana, died yester
cfcv the funeral is planned fo:
th’s aft-urron
Th? vo - h was a star athlete at
Hi«sen hich ”iool. An infected
■oot as reported the cause Oi
death.
Tariff Delegates
Leave for Capitol
. ial to Tiit H raid
HARLINGEN. Feb 8— VV. T
Hodge, Valley shi;);.c:‘ .'fleeted
ivT*,*c!f‘r* .i'Io rrp.T.-ent it before
the tariff cc.nm; .sion in opposing
any reduction .u the tariff on
Mexican toir.atw*, left last night
for Washington.
He will lx aided there Ov R B
Kent fro Browniviile att.rmy. who
I.-, already In Washington on b au
nt .vs m connect on with th<
Brv.fi. die port projo t.
$339,080,000
PAY PROPOSED
^rilisb Plan to Fay Ten
Per Cent of U. S.
War Debt
LONDON Feb. 8— V,— Payment
of £100 00^000 currently about
'339.000,000. in a lump sum to the
Lnucd States as full and final
(ttlement of Great Britain's war
debt was proiiosed in the house of
commons today by Gcoftrey Man
der. a liberal.
A representative of Neville
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex
chequer. sa’d in the chancellor's
absence that Mr. Chamberlain was
aware of various suggestions of
that nature but that he would
express no opinion upon them
nmdine the debts negotiation.-, a;
Washington next month
Great Britain's debts to America
now stands at approximately $4 -
499.520 000. The payment proposed
by Mr. Mander. therefore, would
affect final settlement on a basis
of somethin? less than ten per
cent, approximately the scale on
which the Lausanne conference
settled the German reparations.
Gas Park Exp odes
ROXANA. Okla.. Fob. 8 -.4’ —
Four huge tanks of gasoline at
the Shell Petroleum corporation*
plant here exploded last aignt and
burst into flames, threatening the
whole town for a time.
Fire fighters finally brought the
flames nuder control Company ol
itcials estimated the damage at
$50 000
No one m^as injured
Blaze Kills Five
TISDALE. Saskatchewan. Feb. 8
—iJPt—Four women and a man
were burned to death and at least
fhc other persons were seriously
injured today when fire destroyed
the Imperial Hotel here.
The dead: Mrs. C. Couture. 45:
her two daughters, aued K and 22:
Miss Emma Ray. an employee of
the hotel, and Fraser Page, a
traveling salesman.
Cone Johnson Worse
TYLER. Feb. 8.—'The con
dition of Cone Johnson, veteran
member of the state highway com
mission. who has been seriously
1’ at his home here, became slight
ly worse today.
Quake Reported
STRASBOURG. France. Feb. 8
/T —A slight earthquake which
j lasted for several seconds shook
the houses here today and drovt
! the people into the onen. No serious
| damage was reported.
AUTO STRIKE
PROBE URGED
•Red’ Activity Charged In
I rouble Among Car
Body Workers
DETROIT. PVb. 8 —A led*
■ -ai ...u .*u;.aUon o. alleged com
.uuiust activity m two strikes
among aulomcoile ooay workers
Here was a poc».0iiity touay.
A request lor intervention by
ceeieiary of L.»aor William N. j
Doaic was made last mgm ) Cal
M. Vvcx .nan, dtmouiauc repre
stmauve elect m congress. Weid
cman cooimu.uca.od w.ui Wasn
iii0ton following receipt 01 a peti
tion wlucn said that an attempt
is oemg made by certain groujis
who are opopsed to our form 01
government to wrest control of said
strike from loyal American citl
/.tns."
The move to enlist the aid o:
the federal government .in silting
.he underlying causes of the strikes
and arbitrating differences follow
ed the walkout yesterday of 3.000
workers at the Hudson Motor Car
Co. plant. This move affec* a
total of 6.000 employes.
With a strike at the ’riggs bodv
. .'ant m its third week Officials
announced that prodretion had
cached normal w: h the filling or
the strikers' places.
Harlingen Police
Recover Property
• Special to The Her. -Id •
HARLINGEN. Feb. 8—Two men
were turned over to immigration
authorities here Tuesday alter city
police identified an assortment of
bathing cans, beach balls ana
float ins belts they possessed as
stolen property.
The property was identified a..
• hat stolen from a salesman's car
about an hour before the tner.
were arrested.
Both men are aliens, police re
ported. Police declared they con
fessed robber,- of the beach goods.
MARKETS
A T GLANCE
NEW YORK
Stocks firm: rail* lead quiet
I upturn.
Bonds irregular; U S govern
ments easy.
Curb steady: utilities firm.
Foreign exchanges steady;
changes narrow.
Cotton higher; firm stock and
gram markets; Wall Street buy
ing.
Sugar steady; trade buying.
Coflee, quiet; easier Brazilian
i markets.
CHICAGO
Wheat stronger; damage re
, ports increased.
Corn firm: Argentine estimates
bullish.
Cattle strong to 25 higher: run
late because of snow.
Hogs fully 15 higher; small run
because of weather.
■A A A A ±.***±**~+.
EX-CAMERON
CHIEF GIVES
HIMSELF UP
1 . G. Edwards Sought
In Slaying Since
In 1924
Edward G. Edwards, a former
county commissioner of Cameron
county from Pt. Isabel, and at one
time justice of the peace in the
same precinct, who has been a
fugitive from Justice since 1924,
surrendered to San Francisco police
this morning, accoidmg to Asso
ciated Press dispatches.
Edwards was convicted at Sin
tin on charges of manslalighter
lor tint killing of John Light bourn.
auA> oi Pt. Label, on Dec. 22 1919.
Out on Bond
Oil motion of the court the case
was transferred to Sinton. where
Edwards was convicted and sen
tenced 20 years in the state
peuitentiary.
He appealed the case and was out
on bond when he di. appeared and
has not been heard trom until to
day.
The ca-e attracted wide atten
tion in all South Texas at the
time due to the prominence of Ed
wards and Lightboum.
Old timers at Brownsville and
Port Isabel, who refused to believe
that Edward G tEddie> Edwards
died in 1924 when his abandoned
truck was found in Matamoros, to
day were reading with Interest re
ports that Edwards walked into a
police station in San Eranc*sco and
save himself up. The trials of
Edwards, charged in the killing of
Johnny Lightboum at Port Isabel
m 1919. were the most sensational
ever held in South Texas.
Meanwhile Sheriff Brown* of
Cameron county and other officers
were delving into the status of Ed
wards' case, the latest records Indi
cating he was under bond while
his appeal from a prison sentence
was being heard when he disap
peared in 1924
Eddie Edwards Is an Englishman,
bom in London. He was consid
ered a brilliant scholar with a keen
mind. He was a partner of Charles
Champion in the fish business at
Port Isabel.
Johnny Lightboum was an oc
casional fisherman and member of
an old family at Port Isabel.
Man of Great Strength
Testimony at the trials brought
out that Lightbourn was a man of
tremendous strength and endur
ance. Stories of his feats of
strength still are told by natives
at Port Isabel with awe.
Edwards was justice of the
peace, and commissioner from the
Port Isabel precinct in the county
commissioners’ court.
Testimony at the trials showed
that a remarkable hatred had grown
up between the two.
The night Lightbourn was killed,
testimony showed, friends held him
once, and Edwards started to ar
rest him. but there was no jail.
Edwards started home, and said he
heard someone running toward
him. and fired. Lightbourn fell.
Body Battered
The strange manifestations of
repressions released were then
manifested Lightboum's body was
found to have been shot several
times, and to be battered almost
beyond recognition. A heavy .45
caiibre pistol was entirely broken,
evidently from the blows struck
The trials of Edwards then
started.
He was defended by the late
Judge James B. Wells.
The case went back and forth
from Brownsville to Alice to Cor
pus Christi and was finally tried
at Sinton. Edwards receiving a
five year sentence. He appealed
against, advice oi his attorneys, th#
case was retried at Sinton. and
Edwards was given a twenty-year
sentence. He again appealed, and
while the case was on apiveal h*
drove his truck across the old in
ternational bndge one day at
Brownsville and nobody ever heard
of him again until today.
But down through the years, th*
old timers at Port Isabel have
maintained that Edwards was not
dead.
Two Harlingen Men
Charged With Theft
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Feb. 8.— TwO
Harlingen men were arrested by
city police here Tuesday when
they attempted to sell two automo
bile tires and rims.
One of the tires was Identified
as the one stolen from rn automo
bile here Monday night.
Hearing has been set in the
justice of the peace court for f;W
o’clock today. . .