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- THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS '
YORTY-FIRST YEAR No 193 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1933 EIGHT PAGES TODAY 6c A COPY
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GASOLINE IS
POURED OVER
CHAINED MAN
Gunmen Watch Victim
Sizzle; Fatally
Burned
TUCUMCARI. N. M , Feb 15. UV)
.■—Two bandits sat on the desolate
•"fcrairir early today and watched
complacently while their penniless
victim, Lee Marshall. o3-\ear-old
homesteader, sizzled in flames aft
er they chained him. threw gasoline
on him and set him afire.
In Zero Weather
After Marshall was burned from
bead to foot and his screams were
silenced the men apparently be
lieved him dead and loosened his
bonds. They left and Marshall
staggered three miles through zero
weather to a neighbor s.
There ho was given emergency
treatment and the neighbor walked
another three miles to get a car
with which to bring the home
steader to the Tucumcan hospital.
Physicians said Marshall probably
was burned fatally. The flesh had
fallen from his hands, arms, back
and hips.
Marshall said the two men ac
costed him as he stepped from the
dugout where he lives on his home
stead 30 miles east of Logan, near
the Texas line.
Watch Burning Man
•Stick 'em up.” one of the men
commanded as they flashed a light
on Marshall and dug his ribs with
a gun.
Alter searching him and finding
no money the men demanded to
know where he kept his cash.
Marshall told them he had none
The men jeered and beat him with
a revolver Then they chained his
feet, tied his hands, rolled him on
his stomach and poured gasoline
on him. They laughed as they
tossed a match and his clothing
caught fire. Then they sat down
nearbv. One of the men tossed a
blanket on him and it too burned.
teUTY STAFF
IS APPROVED!
Auetior and Sheriff Name
Assistant* For
New Term
The probable receipts of the
Cameron county sheriffs office
will be approximately $30,000 as
against probable disbursement of
around $25,000, acconlng to an
estimate filed with the comnus
•sjdonen' court by sheriff W. Prank
Brown.
Tax Assessor Ralph Agars esti
mate places the nrobable receipts
of his office at $12,500.
Deputy apiwmtrnent* of these
two offices have been approved by
the commissioners court. The staff
named by Agar includes Robert
Wagner, chief deputy; Robert Br>- j
crn. assistant deputy; Mrs Lcnora
Howard, abstract deputy; Mr.\ Ivy i
Edrlngton. assistant deputy; Joseps
Gavilo. deputy assessor; Robert
Goodrich, deputy assessor; Mar- i
ganta de Leon and Nifa Pena. |
stenographers
The appointments in the alter- j
Ilf's office were; Henry Gordon
chief deputy; J R Sooeberger, of
!ice deputy and accountant; R G
Hall, assistant chief deputy; R. t
longoria. W. W. Ball L. A. Jagou
Tom Cowart, E M Yznaga. A 1
;h W H Wneaton. C. G
ms. deputies; E. Lerma
dmaster R O Delaney heap
jailer; Alfred Busier, night jailei. •
Domingo Polizo. Geo. Cliampior.. j
Antonio E Cavazos, guards; and
Mrs, J. K Bull, matron,
Two Men Held In
Kidnaping Case
DENVER Colo.. Feb 15. (Jj
Two men are in jail and several
arrests have been ordered by police
who todav drove toward the 48
hour deadline set Monday by Chief
Albert T. Clark for the solution of
the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher. ;
2nd
Clark emerged from a conference
with Boettcher s partner and his at
torney to announce the arrests of
W. M. “Red Mitchell and George
Zarlengo. whom he identified as
minor bootleggers The chief de- j
dared the two t-erc suspected of
a part in the kidnaping Sunday at
midnight of the 31-year-old scion
of a wealthy pioneer Colorado fam
ily. i
WEDS ATTORNEY
!' " .. ..
Star of stage and screen. Joseph -
ine Dunn (above) surprised
Broadway by announcing she had
been married early in January
to Eugene J. Lewis, a Philadel
phia attorney. It is her second
marriage—the first one endtng
in four months.
APPROACHTO
DRYSTRENGTH
TEST JS MADE
Over Two-Thirds Of
Members Vote To
Study Bill I
WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.—«.Pi
The senate today voted to take u,»
for consideration the Blaine res
olution to repeal the 18th amend
ment.
The vole winch brought up re
peal lor consideration »a.. the
closest approach to a real test of
senate wet and dry strength this
session, although it was not re
gard'd as an indication of Iht
prospective vote on the submis
sion resolution itself.
Some senators opposed consider
ing it at this tune in the belici
emergency relief measures were u«
danger of failure at this congrea,
because of a prolonged prohibition
debate.
A number of this group are
known to be willing to submit
repeal.
While only a bare majority waj
reeded to take up the resolution
two-thirds will be necessary to sub
mit it to the states for ratification.
Whether this margin can be
mustered is problematical, depeno
ing largely on form of the res- !
ciution w*hen it reaches a final
vote.
The vote was 58 to 23 more than
two-third majority.
Two Men Drown
Near San Juan
‘Special to The Herald i
SAN JOAN Frb. 15—Two men
were drowned in the Rio Grande
river >outh of here Tuesday morn
ing when a collapsible canvas boat
collapsed beneath them as they
were crossing the muddy stream.
The bodies had not been found
Wednesday morning.
Billy Brewster. Tr. son of former
Deputy Sheriff Billy Brewster, was
one of the victims and the other i
was Abe lino Torres, a resident of
the vicinity.
The accident was witnessed by a !
woman residing on the Mexican
Ride of the river. She stated the ]
beat war about half-way across the
river when it disappeared beneath
the men. She last sawr them
clasped together struggling against
the swift current in the main j
channel of the river which is 26 i
feet deep at that point.
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South American Arms
Ban Proposal Made
LONDON. Feb 15. (T—There
has been an exchange of view's
among the governments of Great
Eritain, France. Italy and the
United States in connection with a
proposal to prohibit the export of
arms and ammunition to Bolivia
and Paraguay. Sir John Simon told
the house of commons today, but
nothing definite has developed yet.
Tlic foreign secretary's statement
was elicited by a member who ask
ed whether, in view of the arms
embargo resolution before the
United States senate, the British
governmnn: would express its
willingness to cooperate m such ac- i
tlOQ. 1
PERU’S FORCE
DRIVEN FROM
RIVE1 PORT
Japs Serve Notice That
N e g o i i a tions
Are Over
BOGOTA. Colombia. Feb. 15 —
iP—The Colombian foreign of
fice today handed passports to
the personnel of the Peruvian
legation here.
(In diplomatic usage the ar
bitrary handing of passports to
diplomats of a foreign nation
mrans the breaking off of diplo
matic relations.)
BOGOTA. Colombia. Feb 15.—
I -T/—Colombian troops captured the
town of Tarapaca this morning,
driving out a Peruvian force which
bad occupied the Putumayo nver
port 80 miles north of Leticia.
This was the second develop
ment in oi*n hostilities between
this country And Peru which be
gan yesterday when Peruvian
p.’anes bombed the Colombian gun
boat Cordoba in the Amazon, near
Leticia, but in Brazilian territory.
Casualties Numerous
The action at Tarapaca began
alter the Peruvian bombing squad
ron had withdrawn leaving the
Cordoba undamaged. Fighting war
reported to have started yesterday
afternoon, with numerous casual
ties on both sides.
President Olaya Herrera received
a message from Allred Vasques
Cobo. the Colombian commander,,
reading:
Our flag floats on the hills of
Tarapaca, captured in battle by
he artillery supported by planes
Troops have been disembarked.
Congratulations. Alls well.'*
______
JAPAN SUFFERS
SLUMP IN PRICES
TOKYO. Feb. 15— ,4s.— Japan
served notice today that it has
ceased negotiations with the Lea
gue of Nations in the Manchurian
dispute but its anticipated with
drawal from league membership
was not expected for about a ruont*
The Tokyo stock exchange wa*
closed at noon and those of Osaka
a d Nagoya also were shut down
owing to a severe slump in prices
caused by indications of increas
ing anti-Japanese sentiment at
Geneva.
It was learned an high authority
that the government feels •uh
draw al from the league would be
the turning jioint in the empire's
history. Before the ultimate deci
sion is made, the council of elders,
the nation's highest distinguished
personages, the heads of branches
of the imperial family, and a.i
1 xing ex-premiers will be sum- ;
moned for consultation.
Yosukc Matsu oka, who has been
Japan's special counsel during ths
!<ng debate over Manchuria before
the league, cabled the foreign ot
fice requesting permission to leave
Geneva soon and to return by way
cf the United States. The foreign
office said he would be granten
this request as soon as the league
assembly disposes of the Man
churian question, expected to take
place by February 25 at the latest.
Alabama Senators
Kill Repeal Bill
MONTGOMERY. Ala , Feb. 15.
t-P>—The state senate wants to keep
Alabama dry regardless of what
stand congress takes on national
prohibition.
A move to repeal the state dry
laws to legalize sale of any al
coholic beverage authorized by con
gress was voted down. 28 to 8. by
the Alabama senators yesterday.
Student's Slaver
Gets Life Term
AUSTIN. Feb. 15. UP\ — J. M
Pickett pleaded guilty today to!
charges of murder and criminal
assault and was assessed a life
sentence in each case He pre
viously had been convicted of
criminal assault in San Antonio
and sentenced to life imprison
ment.
Pickett was indicted for murder
m the slaying of Edgar C. Arledge.
University of Texas student, here
on last September 20. He made a
confession after Henry H Brooks,
then district attorney, promised <
that the death penalty would not •
be demanded.
GUNMAN ‘INTENDED TO KILL HOOVER’
BUT GOT CHANCE AT F. D. INSTEAD;
WOULD ‘KILL ALL PRESIDENTS,’ SAYS
MAK IMPROVES.
WOMAN NEAR DEATH;
THREE OTHERS HIT
Gunman Shoots Wildly Into Crowd Gathered
To Hear Roosevelt Speak at Florida;
Assassin Is Held In Jail
.
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 16. (/Pi—A gunman who “hates”
all presidents tried to assassinate Pres.-Elect Roosevelt
last night and failed as the five shots he fired struck five
other persons, one of them Mayor Anton Cermak of Chi
cago.
With an old fashioned .32 calibre pistol, Guiseppi
Zangara shot wildly into the crowd gathered about the
automobile of Mr. Roosevelt in the picturesque Bay Front
Park just as the next president had concluded a brief
speech.
Mayor Cermak. standing just bc-i
hind the Roosevelt car. was among
the first hit. A bullet lodged in his
abdomen and an operation was
contemplated as physicians report
ed he had a little better than a
fifty-fifty chance ot live.
Shocked and startled by the gun
play. Mr Roosevelt wafted to pick,
up the Chicago mayor, and sped
to the hospital with him. He re
mained there to visit the other
victims and cancelled his train de
parture for New York until today.
Firing blindly into the throng,
the assassin made each of his five
shots good although he missed the
mark lor which they were intend
ed.
The other wounded are:
Mrs. Joe McGill ol Miami, shot
in abdomen.
Miss Margaret Kruis ot Newark.
N J . shot in hand.
William Sinnott, New York po
liceman. shot in head.
Russell Caldwell of Miami, shot
in head.
The victims were said by physi
cians to have a "fifty-fifty chance" ;
for recovery.
Confusion Prevails
Confusion prevailed for a few
minutes as the crowd nulled about.
Secret service men and i>olice
pounced on the gunman. Women
screamed.
Looking back from his car.
Roosevelt waited for Cermak to be
lilted to his car. waved reassuring
ly to the crowd and told lhosc near:
"Tell them I am all right.”
Returning to the yacht oi Vm
eent Astor from which he had just
landed from a fishing cruise, the
president -elect early today issued
the following statement:
"I am deeply moved by the seri
ous injuries inflicted upon my
friends tonight and 1 am remain
ing in Miami to learn in the morn
ing of their condition. I am en
tirely unharmed.”
Pres. Hoover immediately com
municated with Mr. Roosevelt by
wire He said:
•Together with every citucn I
irjotee that you have not been
injured. I shall be gratetul to you
lor news of Mayor Ccrmaks condi
tion.”
The president-elect replied;
"I deeply appreciate your mes
sage. Mayor Cermak is resting but
nis condition is still serious. I will
wire yon in the morning after a
have oeen 10 the hospital."
Weird Marv
Gruelling examination of the
swarthy complexioned. stocky-buil.
assassin by secret service men ana
Miami officials brought out a dis
connected. weird story.
According to them account Zan
gara purchased his pistol In a
pawn shop here three days ago fo:
$8. He told them he intended to
kill President Hoover, but when
hr read that Mr. Roosevelt was
coming here he decided to give
attention to him.
Taking no chances that the gun
play was the work of one distort
<
eo mind. police took into custody
under suspicion. Andrea Valenti.
7 ho lives at the same address as
Zangara.
Newspaper cliopings found on
Zanaara reported the movements
of Mr. Roosevelt and police said
one of the clippings told the stoiy
of the assassination of President
McKinley.
Asked if he intended to kill
Roosevelt, police said he replied:
"Yes, and I am sorry I didn't.
I would kill all presidents and ali
officers I like Roosevelt personal
ly but I don't like presidents.”
Police also said that Zangara
told them that he had wanted to
kill the king of Italy but he had
never a chance while in that coun
try. He was said to have lost $200
recently at the dog races. A postau
savings account book on him in
dicated he had about $850 in the
hank.
Homan Grabs Assassin
Intimate friends of Mr. Roose
velt stood about his car for the
brief speech he made as he mo
tored from the yacht to the tr.’in
They included Robert Gore nt
Chicago Marvin McIntyre, secre
tary to Roosevelt, and Represent
ative-elect Wilcox of this district.
The next president had just
spoken a few words into the micro
phone from iiis automobile Sit
ting down beside Mayor Gautier
oi Miami, he turned to talk witn
him when the firing started about
25 feet away.
It .was a woman. Nil's. W Y
Cross of Miami, who grabbed at
the arm of the assassin. James
Galloway of Mismi Beach jouien
her. George w^dnax. a secret
service operative, pounced, on thu
shooter. Police joined With the
departure of Roosevelt and th«
hurried carrying away of the as
sassin. order was quickly restored.
Mayor Cermak sagged to the
pavement. Mrs. GUI also fell. The
victims appeared stunned. It was
the bysatnders who did the shout
ing and screaming. Newspapermen
and photographers were gathered
close to the car. It was over the
shoulder of Rex Satfer. correspon
dent o! the Associated Press Bu
reau in Miami that the shooter had
fired.
Mrs. Cross gave the following
account:
"When the president-elect stood
up to make his speerh so many
stood up in front of me that I
couldn't see. so I stood up on the
benches. This man stood up with
me and the bench altnast folded
up. I looked around. Then I saw
lie had a pistol and hj began
shooting toward the president-elect.
I grabbed hi* hand which held the
pistol and pushed it up in the air
and called for help. Tom Armour
also grabbed his hand and we held
it up in the air so he couldn t
shoot any more. By that time some
men were choking him."
Crowd Disperses
Joe Murphy, assistant chief of
the United Stales secret service,
was on the scene. He took over
the investigation.
Prof. Raymond Moley, economic |
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adviser to Mr. Roosevelt, and Judge
Frederic Kernochan of New York
City, who was on the southern seas
vacation cruise with him. went to
the Dade county jail here and in
terviewed the prisoner. Zangara
was placed in the regular jail quar
ters, 21 floors above the ground in
the county building towering above
the railroad station where Mr.
Roosevelt was to have departed.
A huge crowd waited at the sta
tion for more than an hour to see
Mr. Roosevelt, but It dispersed
quietly when the word was receiv
ed that he was not leaving until
tomorrow.
Miami citizens were outraged at
the attack made on the president
elect m their city but there was
complete order.
Police details were dofbled and
every precaution exercised. So
strong was the detaR that some of
the press members ol the Roose
velt party were temporarily ar
rested when they sought to get back ]
to the Roosevelt train.
The hospital where the victims j
wore taken was besieged by rel
atives and wiends. The telephone
switchboard was plugged up "most
of the night with calls. Telegrams
poured in by the hundreds. Capt.
James Reidy. in charge of the se
cret service detail with Roosevelt,
remained with the president-elect
throughout the night. He and A1
Towsley, another secret service
man, were standing on the run
ning board o! the Roosevelt car
when the firing occurred.
KooxMftlt Calm
The president-elect was calm
throughout the incident. He went
to bed aboard the Vincent Astor
yacht tied to a dock here early to
day. He was deeply affected, how
ever. by the wounding of his friends.
Police indicated at 5:15 a. in., to
day after lengthy examination of
Valenti, wbo was taken into cu -
tedy on suspicion, that they did not
believe him identified in any way
with the attack made bj Zuiigara
on Pres.-Elect Roosevelt. He was
held temporarily in custody but the
conviction grew that it was a one
man job.
At 6 a. m., hospital physicians
rt ported that the condition of
Mayor Ccrmak had improved con
sidreably. However, they said the
condition of Mrs Gill, wife of the
president of the Florida Power and
Light company, had changed from
critical to "most critical." The oth
er victims were believed out oi
danger.
Dr. Rentfro Improves
Dr. James L. Rentfro. widel\
known physician who was Injured
early Saturday morning when his
car overturned as he was return
ing from a call, continues to im
prove at Mercy Hospital where he
is confined, according to attend
ants Wednesday morning.
Kiwanians Attend
Divisional Meeting
A group of Brownsville Kiwani
ans. headed by PreA A. Har- j
grove, left early Wednesday morn
to attend the divisional con
1 ere nee of Kiwanis clubs at Edin
burg.
Hundreds of Kiwanians from the
eight Valley clubs. San Antonio.
Corpus Christ! and Smton were ex
pected to attend the divisional
conference.
Walter L. Morris, district gov
ernor of the Texas-Oklahotna Ki
wanis district, is attend in: the
session. He armed m the Valley
Wednesday morning and met brict
ly with Harhr.gen Kiwanis lead
ers before leaving for Edinburg.
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Five Hurt In
Valley Wrecks
• Special to The Herald t
EDINBURG. Feb. 15 —Five tier- i
sons were injured in two automo
b. le accidents occurring within an
hour of each other on the high
way north of here this morning.
Those injured in the first ae
c. dent were Mrs. Janie Tavlor oi
Edinburg and Mrs. H. J. Loy o:
McAllen, injured when the ca- in,
which they were riding skiddeo
and overturned in a ditch. Both
were injured slightly.
Dr H. P Ha rung and Mrs. Jacx
Younkms, notified of the accident,
were enroute to the scene when
the car in which they were riding
collided with a car driven by
Arthur G. Levy of Houston. Lew>
suifered leg injuries and Dt
Hanmg and Mrs. Younkms suffer
ed cuts and bruises.
$16 000,000 Federal
Building Dedicated
CHICAGO, Feb 13. <Ti — The
world's largest postofficc. costing
S16.000.000 was dedicated today.
Dignitaries of the national, state
and city government aided in the
ceremonies. The building towers
high above the Union Station’s
maze of railway tracks at Van
Burcn street and the Chicago river.
The building has a system of
more than 50 miles of conveyer
belts to rarry mail through the va
rious departments.
Wreck Is Fatal
WACO. Feb. 15.—— C. H
Coleman. 54. engineer for the Mis
souri-Kansas-Texa* railway, was
killed yesterday when the sedan m
which he and his wife were return
ing to their hoT.e skidded and
crashed into a heavy truck Hi*
wife was unhurt Miss Joe Ed
ward* riding on the gravel true*
na& slightly injured.
150 CARS OF
FRUIT REMAIN
Orchards to Be Clear Of
Citrus by First
Of March
• Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Feb. 15— Approxi
mately 150 carloads of citrus fruit
remains on the trees in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley, and at the
present rate of cutting all this fruit
will be off the trees and either
shpi|>ed or in storage by March 1.
the date for beginning of the host
free period in the Valley.
This announcement was made by
P A Hoidalc following estimates
furnished by his federal inspector!
through the Valley.
Mr. Hoidalc announced that sine*
the fruit can be handled in order
ly course of marketing by March
1. and in view of the fact that
three infestations of the fruit fly
have been found «but immediately
wiped out/ during the past month
oi so. there appears to be no need
ol and no possibility of an exten
sion of the season.
In view of this situation Mr.
Hoidalc notified Valley growers and
shippers of the regulations setting
March 1 as the beginning of the
host free period. In the eradication
work against the Mexican fruit fly,
and urged all growers to have the
fruit off the trees bclore that tune.
The recent c8!d sped ligured
greatly in getting the fruit, off the
trees. It was estimated there was
about 408 cars of fruit on the
trees when reports of the cold were
received.
About 208 cars of fruit were cut
in the day or so bciore the freeze
struck, and about 50 cars have
been cut since then.
The infestations found this sea
son consisted of adult flies, no
larvae being found in the fruit.
All fruit in the arras where the
flies were found was immediately
removed from the trees and either
sterilized or destroyed.
Blackmail Letter
Mailed From City
LAREDO. Feb 15. T —A Gal
veston man was held in jail today
on a charge of blackmail after two
letters had been written in an at
tempt to extort $5 Irom a Del Rio
school teacher.
The man was charged with writ
ing two letters, one from Browns
ville and one from Laredo, threat
ening to revea’ certain matters to
j the teacher s wife unless the money
was sent.