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THE WEATHER
Brownsville and the Valley: Fair
Thursday night; Friday partly
cloudy; not much change in tern
FORTY-SECOND YEAR—No. 68 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1998 TWELVE PAGES TODAY <c A COPE
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VALLEY AS A WHOLE DOES
not seem to yet realize the im
portance of a rapid completion of
the storm damage census now un
der way.
Many communities have com
pleted their census, others have not
yet begun to take it, and still oth
ers are making a more or less
lackadaisical progress.
This census taking organization
was set up at the instance of John
H. Shary of Mission, a member of
the Texas Public Works adminis
tration advisory board.
Applications for all public loans
will go through this body.
The government will be informed
by this body of the actual amount
of property damage suffered, and
on this estimate the government
will base a whole lot of its relief
action.
It was originally hoped to have
the census completed by Friday of
this week.
Sections which have not yet com
pleted their share of the work
should immediately get busy.
THIS IS IMPORTANT.
4 • • •
RED CROSS DRIVE FOR RE
habilitation funds Tor Valley storm
sufferers ts reported as sadly lag
ging in upstate cities.
Smaller communities of Texas,
some 68 of them, have filled the
quota assigned.
City of San Antonio, nearest of
all big city neighbors of the Val
ley.
Has raised something like 20 per
cent of the quota assigned.
Houston has raised approximate
ly 60 per cent, and Dallas has rais
ed around 50 per cent.
Telegrams pointing out the ac
tual necessity existing down here—
And signed by leading business
“*• and professional men of the Val
ley.
Went out to the various cities
last night,
Addressed to the various business
organizations’ of these cities.
Urging that they urge their
members to get behind the local
Red Cross drive.
Idea that the government is
•taouring millions into the Valley”
^Appears to be the main reason
why the drive is falling behind.
• • •
SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE
mix-up between Washington NRA
officials.
And the Hon. Maury Hughes,
head of the Texas State Recovery
committee.
Hughes made his recommenda
tions to Washington regarding the
. Valley’s plea for a partial relaxing
of the NRA.
Washington evidently lost the
original recommendation,
Hughes sent a copy back to
Washington.
Washington comes back and says
that Hughes' recommendations are
not clear.
All the above gained by The
Brownsville Herald as a result of
many telegrams back and forth.
Now comes Hughes with a wire
to Brownsville folk, asking that we
wire or write Washington.
All of which leads to the query—
Of what use was the visit of the
Hon. Maury and the hearing he
held
AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE
gather from reports from various
«alley communities, that this delay
t hearing from Washington on the
NRA recommendations of Hughes
has resulted in the virtual suspen
sion of NRA activities and regula
tions.
This should not be.
The Brownsville Herald believes
that the rules of the NRA should
be relaxed as recommended by
Hughes.
We do not believe that the whole
NRA program should be junked.
This institution is staying with
the agreement it signed, and pro
poses to stay with it.
We believe that others should
stay with the agreements they
signed.
Modifications there must be in
many instances, yes.
But a wholesale abandonment of
the program should not be coun
tenanced.
• • •
KENEDY COUNTY ROAD Ap
pears to be assured, and we say
"appears'’ advisedly.
So many things have happened
Ethat road that it is hard to be
re. in fact we will not believe,
that it is going to be built until it
is built.
And even then we will have our
doubts!
(Continued on Page Eleven)
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TWO GUNBOATS
DRAW NEARER
CUBANCOAST
Presidential Palace
Heavily Guarded;
Situation Tense
HAVANA, Sept. 21.—(£>)— Two
American warships drew in close
to the city today as the revolution
ism regime set up 11 days ago
made hurried but complete prep
arations to withstand a rumored
revolt.
Cavalry Called
The vessels, which came here to
protect American lives and inter
ests, at once established heliograph
ic communication, using lights atop
the United States embassy ana
aboard the craft.
Cavalry re-inforcements, a mobile
arsenal on a truck, extra guards,
and machine gun units were hur
riedly deployed about the presi
dential palace as reports persisted
that civilian anti-government for
ces and soldiers prepared to fight.
An army truck brought rifles
and ammunition to headquarters of
ABC radical society members,
who thereupon went to police head
quarters as re-inforcements sup
porting President Ramon Grau San
Martin.
Climax Said Near
In the face of these and other
preparations the executive declared
that “everything is all right; I am
staying right where I am.”
Reliable sources predicted that
a climax was fast approaching in
the many troubles the president
and his supporters have had.
■ Since he took the helm Sept. 10
Grau San Martin has found an
ever-stiffening line of opposition
among five of Cuba’s most power
ful politico-revolutionary factions.
Revolt Breaks Out
Revolt broke out in Camaguey
province, where old Juan Bias
Hernandez, who pricked former
Pres. Machado's side for two years,
led his well-armed veterans into
the field. He was reported sur
rounded by government troops, but
refused to treat for peace.
The United States navy’s sudden
orders speeding four destroyers
from the Guantanamo base in Cu
ba, to various troubled spots were
interpreted by observers as indicat
ing a serious situation on the is
land. Some Americans were known
to be moving within the gun range
of their country’s warships.
New York Board To
Head New Exchange
NEW YORK, Sept. 21. (/P)— £he
governing committee, president and
other officials of the New York
stock exchange have agreed to di
rect the affairs of the pioposed
New Jersey stock exchange, it was
announced today following a meet
ing of the governing committee.
The action of present exchange
management in accepting corres
ponding places in the auxiliary ex
change which is expected to be
started in New- Jersey sets up dup
licate managements which will di
rect the destinies of both the old
and new organizations. Richard
Whitney will be president and Al
len L. Lindley, vice president of
both the New York and New Jersey
exchanges.
Fuel Sale Probers
Ask for Grand Jury
TYLER. Sept. 21. C. A. Pax
ton, assistant director of the motor
fuel tax division of the state comp
troller’s department, and Sam Kib
erlin. district supervisor, in a sign
ed statement today asked for a spe
cial session of the grand jury to
investigate alleged gun play and
forcible interference with employes
of the division.
They asked that the jury be as
sembled even if they had to defray
the expenses themselves. The ou»g
lar panel will not convene until
November, making a special venire
necessary for immediate action.
V. F. W. to Aid Vets
A carload of food and clothing
was received by the Brownsville
po6t of the V.F.W. Wednesday
from the Galveston post to be dis
tributed among war veterans who
suffered storm losses at Browns
ville, Port Isabel, San Benito and
Harlingen.
Headquarters for distribution will
be maintained at the Hauseman
hardware building at Brownsville.
Veterans must show discharge pa
pers when applying for food and
clothing.
The V. P. W. also announced
that it will accept any donations of
food and clothing from Valley resi
dents.
TRAFFIC LIGHTS ON
Brownsville’s traffic lights are
in operation today, the first time
since the hurricane.
WITNESSES TALK UNDER THREAT OF DEATH
With the courtroom and environs bristling with machine guns, Harvey J. Bailey, notorious desperado, and eleven others are shown above as
they listened to testimony at the trial where they are charged with kidnaping Charles F. Urschel, wealthy oil man. Four of the defendants
are shown here. At left (in shirt sleeves) is Albert L. Bates; in center with head bowed, Harvey J. Basley; behind Bailey, wearing white
hat, is Mrs R. G. Shannon. To right of Mrs. Shannon is Aaron Sha nnon.___
WILEY POST
BADLY HURT
World Flier Injurad When
Famous Winnie Mae
Crashes
QUINCY, 111., Sept. 21. (JP)—Wiley
Post, round-the-world flyer, was
severely injured today when his
plane, the Winnie Mae, crashed as
he was taking off from Monroe air
port for Davenport, la.
Post was cut across the forehead
and was bruised about the body.
The Winnie Mae was badly wreck
ed.
The Winnie Mae side-slipped
while on the take-off and observers
estimated that it fell about 50 feet,
landing in a group of small trees.
The motor had stopped.
Post had stepped out of the plane
by the time a crowd gathered. He
was taken to a hospital. Plans for
the resumption of his tour were in
definite.
The plane in which Post flew
around the world will have to be
rebuilt. Its left wing was badly
damaged.
Wreck Near Corpus
Takes Four Lives
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 21 .—HP)—
A tire blowout was blamed today
for the automobile accident in
which four persons were killed and
another injured seriously on the
Corpus Christi highway three miles
south of Floresville.
The dead: Dr. Jack Eidelberg,
San Antonio physician. Morris Co
hen, 55 part owner of a Corpus
Christi pharmacy; Mrs. Morris
Cohen, 50; their son, Bernard
Cohen, 27.
An emergency operation was
performed on Jerry Greenwald, 13,
nephew of the Cohens, who suffer
ed a fractured skull. He was in a
Floresville hospital.
Prompt Trial For
Divorces Is Urged
Judge Geo. C. Westervelt of the
criminal district court urges that
attorneys with uncontested divorce
suits make an effort to dispose of
them during this week and next.
The judge plans to begin hearing
pleas of guilty Monday.
The grand jury returned six in
dictments Thursday noon, bringing
the term total to 20. Contents of
the new true bills were not di
vulged pending arrests. The grand
jury recessed until Friday morning
after making its noon report.
Truck Injuries Fatal
CORSICANA, Sept. 21. (JF)—O. R.
Collins, 37, of Krum, Texas, died as
a result of injuries received this
morning when a truck in which he
was riding overturned on highway 75
north of Corsicana.
Kent Smith of McKinney, driver
of the truck, was also seriously in
jured. The men were en route from
Houston to McKinney.
Slayer Is Sought
PORT WORTH, Sept. 21. (/F)—
Police today were trying to capture
the man who stabbed W. E. Pool,
43-year-old automobile salesman, in
an altercation here last night. Pool’s
body, with a wound in the left side
of the chest, was found lying in a
used car lot adjoining a cafe.
Government Asked
To Purchase Half
Of Cotton Crop
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21—(/P)—A special committee
from the cotton belt states urged President Roosevelt to
day to order Government purchase of half of the present
cotton crop at 15 cents a pound as a means of raising
prices and controlling production.
$825,932 FOR
ROADS WORK
Panhandle Area Gets FunJ
As Emergency Jobs
Creator
AUSTIN, Sept. 21.—(IP)— The
Texas highway commission today
allotted $825,932 for highway con
struction, much of it for emergency
work to relieve unemployment.
A special appropriation of $115,
000 was made for relief work in the
Panhandle area in Randall, Potter.
Sherman, Gray, Midland and Mar
tin counties.
The panhandle projects were by
counties:
Randall—18 miles widening pav
ing on highway 9 from Amarillo to
Canyon $25,000; 14 miles grading
and drainage structures from Can
yon to Palo Duro Park $20,000.
Potter— 12 miles reconstructing
highway five from Amarillo nortn
$20,000.
Sherman— Grading highway 9
from Rabbits Ear creek bridge to
Top of Cap rock $8,000.
Gray—Two miles grading and
surfacing highway 33 in Pampa
$18,000.
Midland—Five miles grading and
drainage structures on highway 1
from Warfield to Ector county line
$16,000.
Martin—10 miles grading and
surfacing of sandy sections of
county road fro® Stanton, north.
$8,000.
Real Estate Tax
Change Discussed
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG, Sept. 21.—The sug
gestion that taxes on real estate
be adjusted according to the earn
ing power of the land will be dis
cussed at a county-wide taxpayers’
meeting here Monday night.
The meeting will be held at the
Edinburg Junior College auditorium,
and all taxpayers are urged td be
present.
F. D. Remains 111
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—(JP)—
Pres. Roosevelt’s calling list was
clear of definite engagements to
day, as the chief executive sought
complete recovery from a slight
fever.
After a succession of conferences,
the president returned to bed late
yesterday when his temperature
again went above normal, the result
of a cold contracted last Sunday.
The committee, neaaea Dy sen.
Bankhead, (D-Ola.), informed the
president of the recent southern
states cotton convention favored
inflation of the currency, but this
point was not pressed or discussed
at the White House.
Asked if inflation had been drop
ped, Sen. Bankhead said “no” and
explained the committee was sent
to the White House only on the
cotton plan.
Some of the group indicated the
president gave the impression he
was doing all he could to push
expansion of credit and that he
was holding off meantime on cur
rency inflation.
Sen. Bankhead said the president
took under sympathetic considera
tion the proposal to purchase half
the cotton crop. He indicated an
early decision was in prospect.
Western Japan Is
Shaken by Quake
KANAZAWA. Japan, Sept. 21. >ff)
—An earthquake shook western
Japan today and it was feared
heavy damage resulted, although a
break in communications prevented
receipt of only meager details.
The shock was most severe in
Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures
on Noto penisula. One was known
to be killed at Nanao. and two ser
iously hurt.
Beer Importations
Are Reported Light
The importation of three-two
beer from Mexico for personal use
by border residents has been very
light, according to information at
the customs house.
Customs officials have ruled that
border residents can bring two
cases a month in from Mexico duty
free. Only one importation a
month will be allowed, however.
Broader Relief
Usage Is Sought
AUSTIN, Sept. 21. (/P) -The Texas
house of representatives today
adopted a concurrent resolution,
which now goes to the senate, urg
ing Harry Hopkins, federal relief
administrator, to permit the expen
diture of funds for emergency
operations and hospital expenses.
At present relief money cannot be
expended for operations and nospi
tal expenses.
Wheat Prices Fall
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—(IP)— A
storm of stop-loss selling that
broke out late today tumbled wheat
prices down 5 cents a bushel, the
extreme limit allow’ed for any one
session.
Moderate rallies which were seen
after noon in the wheat market
were more than wiped out.
STORM OPENS
BRAZOS PASS
Land Which Joined Island
With Mainland Is
Washed Away
The pass at Boca Chica which
gave that spot its name and whicn
disappeared years ago is apparently
back to stay, and Brazos island is
now really an island.
Valley people, including Col. Sam
A. Robertson, who have been watch
ing the newly opened pass there
since the hurricane, expecting it
to fill, report that it is still a deep
cut, and apparently will not close
as most of the small passes in the
islands have done since the storm.
“It looks as though the pass is
going to stay,” Col. Robertson re
marked, “as it is pretty deep and
wide this time.”
Valley fishermen are hoping that
the pass does not close, as it will
be a boost to fishing, permitting
the fish to get into the flats back
of the island to feed.
Turman Is Located
fiiy Anson Officers
Fred Turman, sentenced to sev
en years for auto theft here in
August of 1932, has been taken in
to custody at Anson, Texas, and
Sheriff W. Frank Brown has for
warded his penitentiary commit
ment to that city.
Turman was released on bond
when he appealed from his con
viction here, and the court of
criminal appeals affirmed his sen
tence in April of this year. Since
that time he has been at liberty
while officers searched for him.
Wednesday G. G. Flourney, chief
of police at Stanford. Tex., noti
fied Sheriff Brown that Turman
was in custody at Anson.
Husband Slaying
Trial Under Way
LONGVIEW, Sept. 21—(JP)— Th3
trial of Mrs. Ruth Atwood on a
murder charge for the slaying of
her husband, Dallas B. Atwood, was
scheduled to open in district court
here today.
Mrs. Atwood has been in jail
since the 30-year-old Longstreet,
La., man, to whom she had been
married but ten days, was found
beaten fatally in the railro&d yards
here. She was unable to make the
$10,000 bond set in her case.
Cassie “Red” Smith also has
been charged with murder in con
nection with the killing. He will
be tried later. He was at liberty
under $10,000 bond.
Youth Bound Over
An Oklahoma Cfty youth was
bound to the federal grand jury
here Thursday morning when he
pleaded guilty to interstate trans
portation of a stolen automobile.
He failed to make the $1,500 bond
which was set by U. S. Commission
er E. K. Goodrich at the prelimin
ary hearing.
If indicted, the youth indicated
that he would ask that the case be
transferred to Oklahoma City for
trial. The young man was arrested
by county officers here, and, they
turned the matter over to federal
authorities.
'HUMAN RAF TELLS
PRINCIPALS IN CASE
THEY WILL BE KILLED
Kelly Alleged to Have Appeared Sunday
In Oklahoma to Deliver
Personal Warning
OKLAHOMA CITY, -Sept 21—(AP)—Frtd Cola
man, son of T. M. Coleman, at whose farm near Stratfora
the Government alleges the Urschel kidnaping plot was
hatched, told Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught today that
George Machine Gun" Kelly appeared at the Coleman
GOVERNOR HAS
CHILD GUARDED
Plot Revealed to Hold Girl
Until Bailey Members
Are Released
TOPEKA, Kas., Sept. 21.—(JF)—A
kidnap plot in which his 16-year
old daughter, Peggy Ann, was to
have been held a prisoner until he
granted executive clemency to mem
bers of the notorious Harvey-Wil
bur Underhill gang now confined
in the Kansas penitentiary was
made public today by Gov. Alf M'
Landon.
While denying receipt of any
“actual threat,” the governor said
‘so much confirmatory evidence”
had been disclosed by investigators
that guards have been maintained
at the executive mansion.
Miss Landon, attractive high
school senior, has been under the
surveillance of armed guards since
the plot was revealed to the gover
nor more than three weeks ago.
Guards armed with riot guns
also have maintained watch over
the executive mansion, where the
governor lives with Mrs. Landon,
Miss Landon, and her 14-months
old sister, Nancy Jo.
Eleven men, including six long
term convicts in the penitentiary
and a woman were said by the gov
ernor to have been involved in the
plot. Their names were not dis
closed.
Tammany Faces
New Opposition
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (A5)—Talk
of a third candidate, to run under
independent democratic auspices
against Tammany and fusion may
oralty candidates in the November
election, arose today as a sequel to
Tuesday's stirring democratic pri
mary upsets here.
John F. Curry, Tammany leader,
had little to reconcile him in the
primary results that saw Frank J.
Prial break the Wigwam lines in
the comptroller’s race, that ousted
three Tammany district leaders, and
gave a decisive though unimpressive
vote for Mayor John P. O'Brien.
NRA CWefs^lay
Fixing of Prices
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. (AV
The NRA was listening today for
reaction to the newly drafted code
for retail trades before going for
ward to a definite decision on the
demand of business for regulations
prohibiting the sale of goods below
a set minimum price.
Hugh S. Johnson, the industrial
administrator, meanwhile, concen
trated attention on the status of
the rapidily-developing industrial
control experiment, seeking to meas
ure :*esults so far obtained with a
view to steering it effectively from
this point on.
Fall Is Fatal To
Pioneer Valleyite
SAN BENITO, Sept. 21— Funeral
services for Henry Clay Murphy, 70,
who died here Wednesday night
as the result of a fall while work
ing on the Welch Motor company
building, are to be held 10 a. m.
Friday at Thompson’s Funeral home
Rev. L. C. Bankhead at Thomp
son's Funeral home. Rev. L. C.
Bankhead of the Church of Christ
will have charge of the services,
with interment in the Mont Meta
cemetery.
Murphy was a pioneer resident
of this section, having settled in
Harlingen in 1911. The decedent is
survived by two sons, Henry Clay,
Jr., and Pat W. at whose home he
died.
Storm Warning
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—<ff)—
A storm warning was issued today
by the weather bureau saying:
“Advisory ten a. m. ‘ropical dis
turbance in northwestern Caribbean
central about ninenteen thirty
north eighty five west apparently
moving slowly westward or west
northwestward attended by gales
and by winds hurricane force over
small area near center. Indications
are it will reach Yucatan peninsula
about midway between Belize and
Yucatan channel tonight. Caution
[advised vessels In path.”
i arm last night and threatened
death to the Colemans the
Shannons.
T-.3 surprise revelation was giv
en in the quiet of the judge’s chant
i
GREEN CITY, Mo., Sept. SL
(AP)—Blind faith upholds the
widowed mohter of Harvey
Bailey daring his trial for kid
naping.
“We’re not following the case,*
said his mother, Mrs. Amanda E.
Bailey, 80, at her farm home
northwest of this village.
“He never planned the Urebel
kidnaping. He couldn’t have done
the things they charge him with.
A better boy never was born. He
never sassed his parenta. He
comes from the finest families of
West Virginia.”
bers and was withheld from the
public until noon.
Judge Vaught declined to com
ment on the statement of the 35
year-old farmer but other federal
authorities in the Urschel case in
dicated they were partly inclined
to the theory that the incident was
not wholly genuine.
“It looked and sounded like darn
ed good acting to me,’’ said one of
the prosecuting attorneys in the
trial when Coleman’s entrance was
interrupted this morning as he
sought to address the court.
GOVERNMENT DRAWS
TOWARDS CASE’S END
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 21.—
(JP)—An electrifying defiance of
gangdom by the Charles p. Urschel
clan greeted George (Machine Gun)
Kelly’s death threats today as the
government moved to close its
case against a dozen others on
mai ior conspiring in the oil mi?,
lionaire’s kidnaping.
“We are in this fight to the
finish,” said a spokesman for the
family as a letter from the fugitive
Kelly, who has been called “a hu
man rat” by Assistant Attorney
General Joseph B. Keenan, was
made public by Keenan and the
Urschels.
Bear Fingerprints
Kelly’s letter of hate, bearing hia
fingerprints and apparently writ
ten by his wife, Kathryn Cleo
Kelly, also wanted for the kidnap
ing, warned that the Urschel fam
ily will be “brutally murdered" and
informed Urschel that Harvey Bailey
and Albert Bates, outlaws on trial,
will be “out for the ceremonies—
your slaughter.”
At another point it said: *‘I am
getting my plans laid to destroy
your so-called mansion and you
and your family immediately after
this trial.”
To this the family replied:
“We have thrown our lot with
law and the government. The
Urschel family does not want one
moment’s delay in giving ganglanu
its answer.”
Details Related
Meanwhile Dlst. Atty. Herbert K.
Hyde drove toward the announced
goal of completion of his case by
nightfall.
Already Urschel has told the ac
cusing story of his D-day imprison
ment on a Texas farm, with Kelly
and Bates branded as the machine
gunners who kidnaped and held
him last July, and the millionaire’s
associate, E. E. Kirkpatrick of
Tulsa, only yesterday told of pay
ing the $200,000 ransom to Kelly
(Continued on Pagi Eleven)
MARKETS
AT GLANCE
NEW YORK
Stocks weak; liquidation in
creases.
Bonds heavy; U B. government
recover.
Curb weak; list dips sharply.
Foreign exchanges irregular;
dollar erratic.
Cotton lower; weak stock and
grain markets; general selling.
Sugar steady; traie buying.
Coffee lower; commission house
selling.
CHICAGO
Wheat semi-demoralized; stop
loss selling.
Com weak; liberal country of
ferings.
Cattle steady to strong top
steers $7.
Hogs 10-15 higher active top
$5.40.