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ly cloudy Saturday night; Sunday ■ ■ i ■ I Hr Louis, operated at a profit with
partly cloudy to cloudy and warm- W J I H greater volume oi sales than foe
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«liFORTY-FIRST YEAR_No. 195 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1933 &• A COPT)
Tm Not Crazy* Zangara Scornfully Tells Doctor
ITALIAN TO
GO TO TRIAL
> MONDAY AT 10
Mayor Cermak And
Woman Continue
To Improve
MIAMI. Fla.. Feb. 18. .Ft—"Im
not crazy—that doctor didn’t need
|o ask all those questions.'
That, asserted County Solicitor
Charles A. More head todav. was
the scornful retort of Giusepoe
Zangara. who attempted the life
of Pres-Elect Roosevelt Wednes
day night, after Dr. Dan Hardie,
Jr., of Miami, made a sanity ex
amination of him.
Doctor Hardie said he was con
vinced the little Italian was sane.
ZANGARAS TRIAL
8t:T FOR MONDAY
MIAMI Fla., Feb. 18. i4»»—1Trial
of Giuseppe Zangara. swarthy
Italian who wounded five persons
Wednesday night when he unsuc
sesafully shot five times at Pres.
Elect Roosevelt, was set today for
10 o'clock Monday.
The action was taken after
County Solicitor Charles Morehead.
In the presence of a crowded court
room, moved for a postponement
from today until Monday on the
ground delense attorneys had not
received the report of a sanity
commission appointed to examine
the Italian.
□ Zangara is charged with at
tempting to murder the president
elect. whom his bullets failed to
strike, and three victims of the
bullets. Russell Caldwell of Cocoa
nut Grove. Fla., Miss Margaret
Kruis of Newark. N. J.. and Wil
liam Suinot. New York policeman.
The tiny Italian who shouted de
fiantly wi Thursday that he wish
ed no attorneys to defend him in
court, was brought into the court
room by five husky deputies today,
only to be taken back to his jail
cell a few minutes later.
Spectators who jammed the
courtroom were searched indivi
dually for weapons before they
were permitted to enter.
VICTIMS CONTINUE
TO IMPROVE
MIAMI. Fla . Feb 18 (.4*)—Mayor
Anton Cermak oi Chicago, one of
five victims of bullets fired at
Pres.-Elect Roosevelt, slept well and
had a com tor: able night, hospital
attendants said at 7:30 a. m„ to
day. Mrs Joe H Gill of Miami,
also seriously wounded, was report
ed as • feeling much better* today.
Captive Released
KANSAS CITY. Feb. 18.
James C. Agnew. automobile sales
i man kidnaped by two men he
| thought were prospective buyers,
was released unharmed today after
being held captive 12 hours in a
wooded suburb.
A man who gave the name of
Robert Williams. 24. captured t|
police last night after he robbed a
chain grocery office of $400. told
officers he was one of the kid
napers. Police quoted him as say
ing he and « pa! abducted the
salesman to obtain use of the car
for a robbery and that he left his
accomplice as guard over Agnew.
accomplice escaped.
Negro Killed
CORSICANA. Peb. 18. t/P—Sev
eral watches a quantity oi mor
phine and other articles was the
loot of burglars entering the J. C.
Walker drug store at Kerens, at an
early hour this morning. County
oftlcers are conducting the inves
tigation.
Store Robbed
LUFKIN. Feb. 18 ijpt — Arnst
Ayers, negro, was shot and killed
early today alter he and another
negro robbed Dan Richards, a car
inspector at the Southern Pacific
yaitls here, of his watch and
money. The second robber qgcaped.
DR. REXTFRO BETTER
Attendants reported marked im
provement m the condition of Dr.
James L. Rentfro who suffered a
fractured pelvic bone and rib in an
automobile accident last Saturday
morning as he was returning from
a call on the Box ranch Dr. Rent
fro. widely known physician, is at
Merer hospital
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The Pictures were a success.
EDWARDS AND
KINMEET AT
CORPUS HOME
Fugitive Sees Family
For First Time
In 8 Years
CORPUS CHR1STI. Feb 18 —.P>
—Edwards G. Edwards said here
today that a desirv to see members
of his family and not fear of
being in a bread line caused him
to surrender to San Francisco
police on a murder charge.
Through his attorney. John J.
Picihson, Edwards reported by te
lephone to Mr.i Louisa Pearson,
assistant district attorney here,
and Frank S. Hunt, sheriff at
Sinton. but authorities did not
give any indication of what dis
position of his case would be made
He was sentenced to five years for
the slaying of John Lightboum
and had been missing eight years.
Edwards arrived here late yes
terday and was with ins family
last night for the first time in
seven years and 11 ninths.
Houston Man Held
In Hotel Shooting
HOUSTON. Feb. 18. 0P>—Frank
Odstrchild. charged with murder in
the fatal shooting of W. C. Brown,
oil rig builder, on the mezzanine
floor of the Rice hotel yesterday
will be given a preliminary hearing
Tuesday. He is held without bond.
Odstrchild told police he slut
Brown because he believed Brown
had been jnymff attention to Mrs.
OdstrchlUL
* Cotton Cut Pastes
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18 0P)—
The s nate today passed and sent
to the house the Smith bill aimed
at eating 1933 cotton production
by a novel plan involving a huge
government cotton pool.
The Smith bill, described by
southern senators as all-important
to the south, was taken up again
and passed after once being laid
aside on expiration of the tune al
lotted for its consideration.
HOUSEGOPS
TO)SUPPORT
REPEAL ACT
r _
Senate Measure To
Get Republican
Strength
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18. (A»)-The
house republican wet bloc today
unanimously adopted a resolution
to support the senate prohibit >on
repeal ^ bmission proposal in the
house ’ >nday.
Rep. hl-eck of Pennsylvania, its
chairm predicted that tlie re
publics; v*'would produce approxi
mately .4 votes.
This is**Ven more than the num
ber of tha 'Wrty who voted for the
Garner plat repeal proposal on Uie
first day of this session of congress
which then fell short by six votes
of the two-thirds required to ap
prove submission of a constitutional
amendment.
Already democratic leaders havo
said more of their members would
vote fev submission of repeal now
than Hid on the opening day. and
[predicted as a result that the Blaine
(repeal proposal will be adopted •
YOUTH AGAIN
! DRAWS DEATH
FORMING
Boy Get* Extreme
Penalty For
Third Time
ROCKFORD. Til.. Feb 18—<>P)—
For the thiid time Russell McWil
liams. 18. was sentenced today to
be executed for the m trder of a
street car conductor.
A boy of 16 when he shot to
death William Sayles after rob
bing him in August, 1931, young
McWilliams twice had been saved
from imminent death in the elec
tric chair by supreme court re
prieves.
Judge Arthur E. Fisher had im
posed the death penalty twice
upon the you^Vs pleas of guilty.
Today. Judge Edward D. Shurtleff.
who had ben given jurisdiction by
a change of venue ordered by the
supreme court, determined on
death lor the deiendant despite
the earnest pleas of the veteran
defender. Clarence Darrow. who
biamed circumstances. environment,
society and liquor for the crime
of a boy in his teens.
The execution was fixed for
April 21 in Joliet prison.
Once more an appeal will be
taken to the supreme court in an
effort to Hid the death penalty,
his attorney. B. J. Knight, an
nounced as soon as the sentence
was pronounced.
Man Ambushed
JOLO. P. Ih Feb. 18 (-Pi—A con
stabulary prviate was killed and
Dr. Altura was wounded In an am
bush by Morj outlaws today in a
new outbreal. of the unruly Mo
hammedan tribesmen of Jolo Is
land.
The ambush occurred near the
i ope! where a constabulary officer
I ptSl* twelve privates were slam last
year in a similar encounter which
resulted in fighting which cost more
than sixty lives.
PLOTAGAINST
PRES. HOOVER
IS UNCOVERED
Zangara Attempted
| To Form Gang,
Learned
LOS ANGELES. Peb. 18.
Capt. William Hynes, head of the
police intelligence unit investigat
ing radical activities here, said to
day Giuseppe Zangara. who rhot
five persons at Miami. Fla., in the
attempt to assassinate Pres.-Elect
Roosevelt, came to Lo6 Angeles :n
1931 to reorganize an extreme an
archist jrcup known as L’era Nuova.
Back of that reorganization plan,
said Capt. Hynes, there apparently
lay a plot to assassinate Pres. Her
bert Hoover if he came to Los An
geles as planned to open the Olym
pic games. However. Pres. Hoo\-*r
changed his plans and sent Vice
Pres. Cart is to Dos Angeles in
stead.
Capt. Hynes said he is search
ing for two former leaders of tne
anarchist group whom Zangara is
known to have contacted white in
Los
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MAN WHO WHIPPED
‘JOHN L’ WEIGHED
140 AT HIS DEATH
NEW YORK, Feb. 18,—</P)—James J. Corbett, for
mer heavyweight champion of the world, died of a heart
ailment this afternoon, lie was in his 67th year.
Corbett died in his wife’s arms.
The last words Corbett spoke were a couple of hours
—-•?
Two Are Jailed On
Embezzlement Count
MILWAUKE. Wis., Feb. 18 — >4")
—A man who servea at city treas
urer of MUwauke for 16 years and
another who was head of the de
funct Liberty State bank were in
jail today awaiting arraignment on
indictments charging embezzle
ment of $500,000 of city funds.
John I. Drew, city treasurer from
1916 to 1932< was accused by the
grand jury returning the indict
ments with misappropriating the
money and I. J. Rosenburg. the
former bank president, with aiding
him through his bankmg connec
tions.
To Probe Contract
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 18 —
(zP)—The Arkansas house today
authorized a committee tS
igate the letting of a contract
two years ago to repair the state
I capital and to determine if there
| was "any violation by constitu
tional officers." The resolution
provides that steps be taken to
remove guilty officials.
Rep. Waldrop, its author, charged
the legislature (appropriated $40,
000 for the repairs, "five times
what it should have ben." He de
clared that roof repair had been
Included, but "the roof still leaks
as badly as it did.**
;beiore ms aeatn wnen he saia 10
Mrs. Corbett, to whom he had
been married 37 years:
“Kiss me. darling."
Dies in tier Arms
She kissed him and he collapsed
in her arms. she sat holding his
head until he diea
Just before he died he made an
attempt again to speak to Mrs.
Corbett but was too weak and was
merely able to give her a last smile.
Corbett has been suffering from
a bad heart for several years and
was taken with a severe attack
Jan. 31. He has been confined to
his bed since. Several times dur
ing the last two weeks he has been
on the verge of death, attended by
his priest and his physician, but
until today always rallied to ap
pear stronger than before.
Knot ketf Out Jot"' L.
He was wasted away to only a
shadow of the man who knocked
out John L. Sullivan at New Or
leans in 1862. weighing only about
140 pounds and so weak that
much of the time he could hardly
raise his hand in greeting.
During his last illness Corbett
was attended only by hi* wife and
two old friends of many years.
John and Denny Kellcher, of Bos
ton. He refused to have a nurse.
Friends of stage and ring have
i dfclnged his suburban home, where
ACT BELIEVED
OPENING GUN
OF BIG PUSH
Japs Say Failure
To Obey Means
Fighting
MUKDEN, Manchuria. Feb. IK
(AP)—The slate of Manchukito
today delivered an ultimatum to
Chang Hsiao Liang, commander
in-chief of China's northern army,
demanding withdrawal of all Chi
nese troops from the province af
Jehol.
Failure to comply will bring an
attack by the combined armies of
Manchukuo and Japan.
This appeared to be the open
ing gun in the Jetiol offensive
which has been in preparation for
several weeks.
PEIPING. China. FVb. 18. <,P)—A
major battle between Chinese and
Japanese armies at Kailu, northern
gateway ol Jehol province, appear
ed imminent after the receipt to
day of a Japanese ultimatum.
it ordered Chinese forces im
mediately to evacuate the city. The
Chinese decided to ignore it. it was
stated at Manchurian lieadquarters
here despite a Japanese threat to
attack at once if th* demand wm
not complied with.
Army U Ready
An a liny of 30,000 to 50.000 vol
unteers have been concentrating In
the Kailu re_ oi to block the Japa
nese invasion of Jehol from that
point. Kailu is at the start o! a
main communication route to he
tcity of Chihfeng and the capital.
Jehol city, some 200 and 300 mJea
respectively to the southwest.
The Japanese already have madj
at least a hall dozen airplane bomb
ing raids upon Kailu from their
military base at Tungliao, 20 milea
east want across the Manchurian
border. A series of these air raids
occurred in late January and caus
ed considerable damage in Kailu.
(The Japanese were seeking to
break up the concentrations of Chi
nese. declaring they were a menace
to railways centering at Tungliao.
They claimed to have inflicted heavy
punishment».
Sent to Commander
An official announcement raid
the Japanese ultimatum was ad
dressed to "the Chinese command
er" at Kailu. Previous reports said
Oen. Chu Chmg-Lin was in com
mand in that area.
Among his troops were "big
swords" and "red spears." colorfel
fighting outfits which served un
der Ma Chan-Shan and Gen. Su
Ping-Wen in the northern M n
chrnia fighting last year. After t*e
Japanese crushed those uprisings,
the "big swords" and "red spears*’
straggled over the northern Jehol
border and Joined forces preparing
to defend that province agains*.
Japanese invasion.
Plane Tested For
Antarctic Flight
CHICAGO. Feb 18. Three
famous fliers lifted their new low
wing mononlane from Municipal
airport at 9 38 a. m. today on their
wav to Grand Forks. N D. where
tt will be tested for their proposed
exploration of the Antarctic.
Bernt Balchen. who piloted Ad
miral Richard E Byrd across the
south pole three years ago. was at
the stick of Lincoln Ellsworth#!
600 horse power ship. The third
passenger was Sir Hubert Wilkins.
British polar adventurer associated
with Ellsworth in previous trip*.
Attempt Extortion
HOUSTON. Frb. 18 <••*’>—A plot
to extort money trom A W. Crosby,
wealthy oil man. was under inves
tigation today after police took in
to custody a man suspected of
complicity.
Crosbv told police he had re
ceived two note-, advising him to
have his chauffeur deliver $250 to
a designated place, he first note,
placed in his mail box. was received
early this week and it told han
to leave the money Tuesday night.
He disregarded it.
He said the second not* came to
day._.
he has lived for many year* and
where he died, by telephone, mes
senger and in person sinoe it wa*
reported three weeks ago that he
had not long to live. As many as
75 and 80 telephone calls a day
were made. Only a few friends
were allowed m to see him during
his last days, his physician fear
ing any shock might cause his
death.