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- THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORTY-FIRST YEAR—No. 304 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 1933 6c A COPY
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Farmer Kills Neighbor, Then Bums Self
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MAN PERISHES
AFTER SETTING
HOMEMAZE
No Motive for Action
Determined In
Probe
DETROIT, Tex., June 24. (IP)—
L. L. Gregg, 65, a farmer, early
today shot and killed Oscar Worth
am, 35, then went to his home near
by, set it afire and died in the
flames.
Gregg, who lived alone, was work
ing on his farm when he suddenly
fired a load of buckshot at Worth
am, who had just left his home
across the read to go after a team
of horses. When Wortham fell,
Gregg fired again.
He then went to his house, about
150 yards away and a short time
later it was aflame.
Mrs. Wortham heard the shots,
ran her husband's side and was a
witqjfes to Gregg’s death. She quick
ly notified officers.
No motive for Gregg’s action
could be learned. The men had been
friends and were seen together late
yesterday. The shotgun he used was
purchased about a week ago.
Both lived about four miles north
east of Detroit.
Gregg had no survivors near De
troit and Wortham was survived
only by his wife.
BASEBALL
RESULTS
NATIONAL
Cincinnati 000 000 200—2 6 1
New York. 100 200 02x—5 12 2
Derringer, Quinn and Hemsley,
Lombardi; Parmelee and Mancuso.
Pittsburgh .... 011 020 570—15 21 1
Brooklyn . 001 000 110— 3 6 0
Swift and Finney; Thurston, Hei
mach, Ryan and Lopez.
Chicago .... 010 000 000 00—1 6 0
Boston _ 000 000 001 01—2 14 0
Warneke and Campbell; Betts,
Frankhouse and Spohrer.
First:
St. Louis . 020 004 010— 7 7 1
Philadelphia .. 313 000 12x—10 18 4
Hallahan, Vance, Mooney, John
son and Wilson; Jackson, Holley, P.
Collins.
AMERICAN
Washington .. 000 020 113—7 10 1
Chicago . 020 000 003—5 8 0
Stewart, Russell, McAfee and Sew
ell; Gaston, Faber and Grube.
Philadelphia ... 000 020 040-6 8 4
Cleveland . 020 000 000—2 6 4
Grove and Madjeski; Hudlin,
Connolly and Spencer.
50 Feel Effects
Of Escaping Gas
INDIANAPOLIS, June 24. (JP)—
Nearly 50 persons today were re
covering from effects of inhaling
chlorine gas that leaked from a de
fective tank yesterday and overcame
residents of a near east side neigh
borhood. None was believed affected
seriously.
Forty-four persons, Including 12
firemen, six policemen and a num
ber of children, were treated and
returned home.
The tank was being loaded on a
truck for removal to the city dump.
Lawyer Succumbs
WICHITA FALLS. June 24 .MR)—
H. J. Bruce, 48. lawyer and prom
inent democrat in Wichita Falls
since 1920. died in a hospital today
after an illness of several weeks.
He was a native of Grayson coun
ty. Survivors included his widow
and a daughter, Ruth.
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Brownsville and the Valley: Gen
pr-yiy fair Saturday night and Sun
day.
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G. A. CHAMPION
SUCCUMBS TO
HEARTATTACK
Member of Pioneer
Family Dies
Suddenly
George Albert Champion, 50,
member of a large and well-known
Valley family, died suddenly of a
heart attack at the family resi
dence, 1921 Adams street, early Sat
urday morning. He had complained
of a slight pain in the chest for
about a week, but his condition was
not regarded as serious.
Funeral services were to be held
at 4:30 p. m. Sunday from the Im
maculate Conception church with
interment in the family plot in the
Old City cemetery. The body is be
ing held at the home pending final
rites.
The decedent, bom here Aug. 26,
1883. had resided in Brownsville
practically all of his life, serving as
a peace officer for many years. At
one time he was a real estate agent.
Mr. Champion was the son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Champion,
members of a pioneer family in the
lower Valley section. His early ed
ucation was obtained in Browns
ville, and he later attended school
in Waco.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs.
Rebecca Champion; three daugh
ters, Emily, Rebecca and Lydia; two
sons, George A. and Robert; eight
sisters, Mrs. H. O. Williams. Mrs.
A. A. Benavides, Mrs. E. L. Bryce,
Mrs. D. I. Allala, Lula, Sophie,
Lydia and Mattie; two brothers,
Alex W. and Raymond; and grand
children, Bobbie George Champion
and Evelyn Lorraine Champion. All,
with exception of Raymond who
lives in Beeville, reside in Browns
ville.
Active pall bearers named are Os
car Sommers, A. Orive E. T. Yates,
Henry Gordon, Harry Wallis and A.
Cueto.
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Millionaire’s Son
Takes His Own Life
BEVERLY HILLS. Calif., June
24.—UP)—Fischer C. Bailey, Jr.. 21,
son of a Beverly hills millionaire,
shot himself to death, police were
told today over the protests of his
brother and a friend.
Frederick Bailey, the brother, and
Harry Pierson, a friend, said ihat
after being denied admittance to
Bailey’s room last night, they
climbed to a porch and through a
window, saw the youth shoot him
self.
His wife recently signed an af
fidavit of insanity against him
and was appointed his guardian.
1,000 Reds Reported
Killed by Soldiers
CANTON, China, June 24. UP)—
Canton government military author
ities said today 1,000 communists
were killed in southern Kiangsi
province in a three-day battle with
Kwangtung province troops, who lost
200 men.
(Advance received at Shanghai to
day, said a number of Americans
were among the mfsionaries in
northeast Szechwan province, west
ern China, who have been forced to
leave their stations because of Chi
nese communist activities.) 1
Lost All Rights to Gennan Throne toWinThis Bride
Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of ex-crown prince of Germany, who was deprived of his theoretical rights
to Prussian crown when he married Dorothea Von Salviati, a commoner, is shown receiving Nazi salute
from citizens ol Bonn as he leaves town hall after civil ceremony. Bride is shown doseup after religious
ceremony.
(Central Press)
3DAYLIGHT
BANK YEGGS
SH00T2 IN
Men Escape m Coupe
After Robbery
Try Fails
GRAYSON, La., June 24. (£>)—In
a bold daylight effort to rob the
closed Grayson bank, three un
masked robbers today shot two
men, R. G. Baygent, bank liquida
tor, and Rush Tarver, a customer,
and ✓-■aped in a waiting coupe in
the direction of Chatham. It was
not believed they obtained any loot.
Baygent, who was shot in an arm
and in the head, was rushed to a
Monroe hospital. *
Wounded in a leg, Tarver,
brother of L. V. Tarver, superin
tendent of Monroe police, was tak
en to Olla for- treatment. Tarver
was shot as he ran from the bank
when the robbers began firing at
Baygent as the latter sat in his
chair.
A man who saw the robber car
enter Grayson said there were
three persons in the machine.
Motorcycle Crash
Fatal to Driver
CLOVIS. N. M.. June 24. —(/P)—
Vernon Mack Porter, 25, whose
home is believed to be Los Angeles,
was instantly killed 30 miles south
east of here last night when che
motorcycle he and two companions
were riding crashed through a
barbed wire fence.
W. M. Lawless, who was riding
in a side car with G. B. Stevens
suffered severe wire cuts on his
neck. Stevens was uninjured.
Porter was driving.
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Methodists Say
Newspaper Chief
‘Enemy of God’
LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 24. (/P)
—The northwest conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church adopt
ed a resolution today declaring
“the American newspaper today is
one of the chief enemies of the
knigdom of God."
The resolution directed against
the newspapers was part of a re
port on the general situation in
this country.
AIR ARMADA
DELAYS HOP
ON WEATHER
ORBETELLO, Italy, June 24. —
tfPV—Air officials received reports
today that the weather in the Alps
was clearing, and they announced
that tomorrow the Italian air ar
mada would take off on the first
leg of the mass flight to Chicago.
Gen. Italo Balbo, air minister,
had considered the possibility of
changing his course in order to
avoid the Alps. Then he received
the welcome news that flying con
ditions in the mountains were im
proving.
Couple Found Shot
MEXICO, Mo., June 24. (/P>—Mr.
and Mrs. Justin White, both about
50 years old, were found shot to
death in their home near here to
day. Authorities expressed a belief
that White killed his wife last night,
several hours before he lulled him
self.
$500 REWARD
OFFERED FOR
TRETTY BOY’
Price on Floyd’s Head
Totals More Than
$5,000
KANSAS CITY, June 24. —<7P)—
Thomas B. Bash, sheriff of Jack
son county, today posted a reward
of $500 for information that will
lead to the arrest and conviction
of Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd,
Oklahoma killer, and another $500
for the same information about
the slayers of four officers and
their prisoner at Union station a
week ago.
The reward, which increases the
price of Floyd’s capture to $6,u00,
was offered by Bash privately and
not as an officer of the county.
“I believe,” the sheriff said,
“that Floyd participated in the
slaying at the Union station. I
have definite information that he
was in Kansas City the night be
fore the killing and I feel that the
Union station crime was commit
ted by machine gunners who were
hired to do the job.”
Postoffice Burglars
Sought in Houston
HOUSTON, June 24. (JP)—Hous
ton police were asked today to look
out for postoffice burglars who
broke into the Gladstell. Liberty
county, postoffice last night, knock
ed the knob off the safe and took
its contents.
Loot was $50 in money, 12 money
order blanks and $30 in stamps.
PAIR HUNTED
IN ARKANSAS
AFTERRAIDS
Officer Expected To
Die As Result
Of Battle
PORT SMITH, Ark., June 24. (JP)
—Two machine gun desperadoes
who left a trail of violence in
northwest Arkansas last night were
sought in the rugged Oklahoma
border country and in the Ozark
mountains north of here today.
Store Held Up
They held up a store at Fayette
ville yesterday and sped south to
ward Alma. Two officers H. D.
Humphrey and A. M. Salyers, at
tempted to intercept them. The
gunmen’s car crashed into a mach
ine driven by Webber Wilson and
as Humphrey reached the scene,
they opened fire with a submachine
gun, hitting him three times. Sal
yers, who dived into a ditch and
returned the fire, was unhurt. Wil
son was injured in the collision.
Humphrey is not expected to recov
er.
Fire At Motorist
The gunmen leaped into Salyers’
car, firing at another motorist as
he drove by. A half hour later,
they blockaded the highway near
Van Buren, forced Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Loftin, Jr., from their car
and sped away. The Loftin car
was found last night atop Mt. Vis
to, and it was believed the hood
lums continued on foot down the
bluffs and into the Oklahoma bor
der country near Greenwood Junc
tion.
A report this afternoon that two
men attempted to steal an auto
mobile from a couple fishing near
Winslow, 50 miles north in the
Ozarks, sent officers to the scene.
Gang Chief’s Widow
Quizzed in Robbery
NEW YORK, June 24.—OT*)—Mrs.
Vincent Coll, a gang chief’s widow
whose hair is streaked with gray
though she is only 25, sat between
two detectives today and stared
with unflickering eye at six mer
chants who pointed their fingers
at her.
“That’s the woman,” they said.
“That’s the girl bandit who robbed
me.”
Her lips curled, but there was a
trace of weariness in her voice.
“You’ve got a good memory,
haven’t you?” she said. “But you’re
wrong.”
Dynamite Found
DALLAS, June 24. —(^—Work
men in a south Dallas hotel found
enough dynamite to wreck the
building today when they tore
through a partition in a clcset of
the apartment occupied last winter
by Vick Clesi and Sam Murray,
sentenced to L*ayen:yorth for pro
hibition lawr violation.
Investigators said the explosive
| would have razed the building had
I the closet been entered through the
I door.
TRIO LOSES
HOLD ON RAFT
AFTERJCRASH
Men Give Lives To
Save Woman’s
On Lake
FRANKFORT. Mich., June 24. UP)
—Mrs. Charles Rennie. Jr., 27, who
clung for 34 hours to the wreckage
of an airplane that crashed into
Lake Michigan Thursday and watch
ed her husband and two other men
slip to their deaths, was brought to
Frankfort today, on the verge of
hysteria.
She had been picked up at 8 p.
m. Friday by the Ann Arbor car
ferry No. 7, which sighted her
clinging to a raft fashioned from
a cushion of the plane and a one
gallon gasoline can.
Three Lose Lives
Mrs. Rennie told how first the
mechanic of the plane, Peter Kel
ler, 24, loosed his hold on the raft,
then its pilot, James Gillette, 28,
and finally her husband, Charles
Rennie, Jr„ 29, vice-president of
the Rennie Oil company of Traverse
City, slipped to their deaths. The
light raft was too fragile to hold all
four, and the men clung to its sides
after lifting Mrs. Rennie to a perch
on the cushion.
The party, en route from Frank
fort to Milwaukee on a combined
business and pleasure trip became
lost in a fog at 10 a. m. Thursday,
and about ten minutes after they
had taken off.
“We struck the water suddenly,”
said Mrs. Rennie. “The plane was
damaged and sank almost imme
diately after we had struggled out
and we could find only a cushion
from the cabin and an empty gas
oline tank. The men fashioned
these into a raft and made me sit
on this while they clung to its
sides.”
Tt Was Horrible’
Keller, the mechanic, she said,
let go his hold and sank about 4
o’clock Thursday afternoon. “We
couldn't do anything to help him,”
she said. “It was horrible.”
During the night, she saidr Gil
lette lost his hold. “We did not
know it until he had sunk,” she
went on. “My husband stayed with
me through the night but early in
the morning he told me he could
not hang on much longer. He
handed me his watch and some
papers that were in his pocket. I
was not able to hold him up and
he sank,”
WAITRESS
WILL INHERIT
OVER MILLION
Mary Pickford Left
Bulk of Fortune
From Mother
TORONTO. June 24. UP)—Mary
Pickford, Toronto-born film star,
inherits' $1,144,972 from her mother,
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, professionally
known as Charlotte Pickford, who
died at Beverly Hills March 21,
1929. Probate of the will has been
granted by the surrogate court of
York.
In leaving the bulk of her estate
to her famous daughter, Mrs. Smith
said it is to be “hers, her heirs, and
assigns forever, because whatever
property I am possessed at the time
of my death has come to me
through my association with my
said beloved daughter in her busi
ness, and through her most unusual
generosity to me.”
Water Rights Fuss
Leads to Shooting
CHEROKEE, Okla., June 24. UP)
—Tom Jones, superintendent of the
Saline game preserve, was under
arrest today following the fatal
shooting of John Corbett, 55. a
farmer.
A dispute over water rights,
neighbors said, led to the shooting
yesterday afternoon. Corbett had
asserted the game preserve altered
a stream on his farm and caused
him to lose water.
HUBBY SAYS
WOULD HAVE
BEENJOLD
Mystery Cablegram
Brings News; Is
Branded False
LOS ANGELES. June 24. OPV-A
mysterious cablegram reporting the
birth of a nine pound son to Evan
gelist Aimee Semple McPherson
Hutton in a Paris hospital was re
ceived last night by her husband,
David L. Hutton, Jr., who branded
the message as “ridiculous'' as ha
ordered a telegraph company to
trace the sender.
Hie cablegram, dated June 23 and
addressed to Hutton at his wife’s
church, Angelus Temple, read:
“Darling boy. Nine pound son. Do
ing splendidly. Understand press in
quisitive but keeping quiet.”
The message was signed “adoring
ly wife.”
Temple officials Including Miss
Harriet Jordan, manager, and
friends of the noted evangelist, said
they considered the cable as a hoax.
“Somebody with a motive sent
that,” they said.
“My wife would have let me know
about this long ago,” Hutton said,
“and besides I know that mother
hood is impossible for her. There
isn’t a word at truth in it. Its ridi
culous and I have ordered the tele
graph company to trace the aendea*
AIMEE CONFINED
TO HOSPITAL
PARIS. June 24. OP)—Aimee Sem
ple McPherson Hutton is convales
cing at the American hospital and
it is expected that she will be there
for another week.
Hie hospital refused to give out
any information about her. re
ferring inquirers to Dr. Charles
Bove, noted surgeon and gynecolo
gist. Dr. Bove said his patient was
doing well, but refused to discuss
the patient’s Identity.
The report that Mrs. Hutton had
had a child was greeted with laugh
ter at the hospital. It is understood
she went there several days ago.
Woman Beaten With
Hammer, Mate d
HOUSTON, June 24.—(P>—Beaten
with a hammer, Mrs. Alyne Bess
was in a critical condition at a
Houston hospital today, and her
estranged husband. T. B. Bess, was
in jail charged with assault to
murder.
The 38-year-old practical nurse
told police her husband, from whom
she had beer separated for some
time, came to her home last night
and an argument started.
“I turned my head and he struck
me with a hammer,” she said.
Revenue Freight
Loadings Hiked
WASHINGTON, June 24. —<P —
Hie American Railway Association
announced today that loadings of
revenue freight for the week ended
June 17 were 587 931 cars, an m
ciease of 23.385 over the preceding
week and 69.533 more than in the
same week Pst year.
Screaming Woman
Is Shot in Back
CHICAGO. June 24. —«•)—Mrs.
Martha Adams, 40. ran screaming
from her home today, John Chesta,
50, pursuing her with a pistol.
He overtook her and fired lha
weapon into her back. The woman
fell seriously wounded. Chesta sent
a second bullet into his brain and
died.
Both were married and lived
with thfeir families.
Man Charged After
Another Is Slain
AUSTIN, June 24. (#)—Jimmie L.
Ross, 28. was charged with murder
today after a shooting in which
Louis P. Starnes. 42, was killed
Ross’ bond was set at $3,000.
Two women, one of them the es
tranged wife of Starnes, were at
a house when the homicide occur
red.
Ross left the house after Starnes
made a threatening remark to him,
witnesses testified. Ross returned
later and called Starnes outside,
police said, and the shot that killed
Starnes was fired.
Robbers Critically
Beat Their Victim
DALLAS, June 24. OP) — Jones
Tatum, 47, was in a critical condi
tion at a hospital today after he
had been beaten at the filling sta
tion where he worked and the sta
tion cash register had been robbed
of $23.
Three men were arrested for
questioning. They were found near
the station.
Troops Hunt Robbers
CHANUTE. Kas., June 34. MV—
Fifteen national guardsmen from
Humboldt Joined sheriffs’ forces
from four counties in heading a
posse which searched the country
side near Petrolia for two men who
robbed the Piqua, Kas., state bank
of $1,100 shortly after It opened
this morning.
W Frees Eight
AUSTIN, June 24. CP) — Three
full pardons, five conditional par
dons and one general parole wera
issued today by Gov. vhh—%
Ferguson to Texas convicts*