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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—No. 65 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1933 6c A COPY
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Jurors In ‘Devil* Slaying Case Are Dismissed
BODY UNABLE
TO AGREE ON
OAKLEYSFATE
Jury Had Given No
Indication Of
Verdict
f SULPHUR SPRINGS, Sept. 23.—
*■ UP)—The jury in the trial of Coy
Oakley for the “devil” slaying of
Bernice Clayton, 3-year-old Inva
lid, was discharged today when it
was unable to arrive at a verdict.
Ask For Confession ,
Since receiving the case Wednes
day, the jurors have given no in
dication of nearing an agreement,
yesterday they interrupted their
session to ask for the confession
which the defendant purportedly
made ‘after his arrest.
The child died last December at
her parents’ isolated cabin in the
woods near Linden while weird
rites were being conducted to cure
her. She was crippled by an at
tack of infantile paralysis.
Testimony showed that Paul Oak
ley, self-styled “faith healer,” Coy
Oakley, described as his brother’s
“disciple,” and the child’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Clayton,
were present at the fatal rites.
Claim Child Choked
Paul Oakley was trying to “drive
cut the devil” he believed respon
sible for the child’s condition, by
a ceremony called “laying on of
the hands.” The state claimed the
«hild was choked to death while
Paul's hands were on her throat.
Last May Paul was convicted of
murder and sentenced to 50 years
imprisonment in a trial at Linden.
During the ritual, testimony in
dicated, Coy Oakley and the child’s
parents were in the cabin praying
and singing. The defense brought
out that they had faith in di\ine
healing power and thought Paul
Oakley could effect a cure.
FLORMFRUH
DAMAGE HIKED
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Sept. 23.—Revised
estimates of the grapefruit loss
in Florida as a result of the storm
which struck there the same day
as the Valley suffered its catas
trophe, show that damage may run
as high as 40 per cent instead of
the original estimate of 25 per
cent, according to information re
ceived here.
One Florida shipper reports he
visited a number of groves in Poik
county where he found conditions
extremely serious and the loss in
many of the groves in the district
from Avon Park to Davenport run
ning from 50 per cent to 80 per
cent. The loss in the Eagle Lake
#ct.ion averages 25 to 30 per cent.
The damage was much more
serious in Orange county and quite
serious in Lake county around
Leesburg and Umantilla where the
damage ranged from 40 to 75 per
cent. Grapefruit was hard hit in
the southern part of Volusia county
and two storms practically wiped
out the grapefruit crops in St.
Lucie and Brevard counties as far
down the east coast as Stuart.
Grapefruit was damaged only to a
small extent In the Titusville sec
tion which is not heavy in that
fruit. Damage also was light in
Hernando, Pinellas and Hillsboro
counties.
Gasser in Flames
CONROE, Sept. 23. (SP — The
Conroe oil field wild gasser was
still a raging inferno of flame to
day, the fire burning uncontrolled
and with no attempt yet made to
control it. The mouth of the well
continues to crater, and officials
. of the Humble company, cwners of
the well, expect this condition to
result in the hole filling up and
choking off the flow of gas.
Occassionally the well heads a
quantity of oil which bums with
the gas.
-W Murder Charged
■DENTON, Sept. 23. yp—A mur
der charge was .ilecl today against
Steve Sparks, a dairyman living
southeast of Denton, after the
shooting here last night in- which
R. O. Sands. 22, Denton county
farmer, was killed.
TAMPICO IS
IN PATH OF
GULFSTORM
Hurricane Following
Path of Last
Disturbance
MEXICO, D. F.t Sept. 23. (/P)—
A tropical storm which touched
the northern coast of Yucatan,
causing one death and some prop
erty damage, was headed northwest
today across the Gulf of Mexico
toward Vera Cruz.
Heavy rains and wind struck
Vera Cruz state and rail traffic
was interrupted in several places
by floods. One person drowned
when a small ship sank off Pro
gresso. At Cozumel a pier and
many houses were destroyed.
Warnings were issued to vessels
in the southern part of the Gulf
of Mexico. It was considered like
ly that the storm might move di
rectly toward Tampico, which last
week was struck by a disastrous
hurricane.
The wreather bureau this morn
ing located the tropical hurricane
now in the Gulf as 150 miles north
of Frontera, which is about 450
miles southeast of Brownsville.
The bureau described the disturb
ance as of hurricane intensity.
If the disturbance .seeps its pres
ent course it is expected to fol
low very closely the trail of the
last hurricane which struck inland
slightly north of Tampico. The
disturbance is traveling about 10
miles an hour.
Man Leaves Hispital
With $3,000 Radium
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 23. (JP)—
Somewhere in south Texas today
possibly in San Antonio, J. W.
Boatwright, oil field worker, is go
ing about his business with a
radium needle worth $3,500 stick
ing in him.
Physicians at a Victoria hospital,
where the needle was attached
when Boatwright applied for treat
ment, fear that the patient doesn’t
know the needle is in him. It was
applied, as usual, with a bandage,
and is not visible.
Insull Extradition
Delay Encountered
ATHENS, Greece, Sept. 23. (JP)—
A delay has been caused in the
extradition proceedings against
Samuel Insull, former Chicago util
ities operator, by the refusal of the
ministry of justice to accept the
American legation’s tranr tion of
doc. nents necessary in ths case.
The foreign ministry is trans
lating over again all of the papers,
and it will be several days before
the next step in the case is taken.
Man Kills Wife, Two
Grandchildren, Self
FRESNO, Calif., Sept. 23. (JP)—
What police said was the killing bv
an apparently crazed rancher of his
wife and her two grand children
before he fatally shot himself was
■under investigation here today.
The rancher, E. J. Switzer. 53,
fired a bullet through his head in
his home at Caruthers, near here,
as a deputy sheriff threw a tear
gas bomb at him last night.
Tornado Strikes
ALPINE, Sept. 23. (JP)—During a
heavy rain storm here today a small
tornado struck the western part of
Alpine. It wrecked the residence of
Bill Lane and buildings on his
poultry farm, and unroofed and
damaged the interior of a building
housing the U. S. department of
agriculture.
Second Sleeping
Sickness Victim
Dead in Valley
(Special to The Herald)
PHARR, Sept. 13.—The second
death from sleeping sickness to
be recorded in the Valley this
week was on the rolls with the
death early this morning of the
Rev. Leopoldo Castro, 60, pastor
of the Pharr Methodist Mexican
church.
Rev. Castro, who had lived in
Pharr for the past 10 years, had
been ill the past two weeks, the
last few days of which he was in
a coma.
He is survived by his widow,
- two daughters and seven sons.
Funeral services will be held
from the church of which he was
pastor Sunday afternoon.
The first death from sleeping
sickness was that of Ruth Now
lin, 10, a Center Point, Texas
girl, who died at McAllen on
Wednesday night.
4 ARRESTED
WHEN BLOODY
CAR IS FOUND
SHREVEPORT, La., Sept. 23. W)
—Police this afternoon were hold
ing four men for investigation aft
er discovery of bloody clothes and
blood stains in a car in which they
were riding, Police Chief D. D.
Bazer reported.
The quartet was detained by de
tectives who became suspicious of
the car which they found on a
downtown street.
Officers said that a window of
the car was shattered, apparently
by bullets. A revolver was found
in the car.
The car which they were riding
is a wine colored coupe bearing
Texas license No. A-13190 and bore
Motor No. 3433699.
One of the men said his home
was in Longview, Tex.
BASEBALL
RESULTS
First—
Broeklyn . 010 101 040—7 14 1
New York .... 000 001 120—4 10 1
Leonard and Outen, Lopez;
Shores, Luque, Clark and Richards,
Mancuso.
Second game—
Brooklyn . 000 003 000—3 10 0
New York. 000 000 00—0 4 1
Mungo and Lopez; Salveson and
Richards.
Cincinnati . 000 000 001—1 7 0
Chicago . 000 106 OOx—7 8 0
Derringer, Kolp, Stout and Lom
bardi; Bush and Hartnett.
First Game
Boston . 001 110 010—4 12 0
Philadelphia .. 000 200 21x—5 13 1
Frankhouse, Smith and Hogan,
Spohrer; Grabowski and Davis.
Second Game—
Boston . 200 010 020—5 11 0
Philadelphia .. 000 310 000—4 10 0
Cantwell, Fullerton, Magnum,
Zachry. Betts and Horgan, Spohrer;
Holley,' Elliott and Davis.
AMERICAN
New York .... 206 311 210—16 23 5
Boston . 001 314 021—IS 16 3
Pennock, Moore, Vanatta and
Rensa; Brown, Kline and Ferrell.
Philadelphia .. 000 001 200—3 5 1
Washington_ 000 010 000—1 7 0
Cain and Cochrane; Weaver and
Bolton.
St. Louis . 011 100 000—3 8 1
Detroit . 000 004 Olx—5 7 2
Blaeholder, Braxton and Heuasley;
Hamlin and Havworth
0
NRA MODIFIED
IN HURRICANE
SWEPTVALLEY
Codes. Suspended In
All Crafts, Is
Stated
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. (/P)—
Rep. Milton Vest of Texas an
nounced today that NRA codes
would be modified indefinitely in
the hurricane-swept area around
Brownsville, Tex., in order that
working hour restrictions might
be lifted during the repairing of
storm damage.
Conference Held
West made the announcement
after he and Judge H. L. Yates
conferred with Boaz Long, in
charge of the compliance board
division of the NRA. The order
affects four counties in the Browns
ville area.
The effect of the NRA action
will be to suspend operation of
both wage and hour provisions of
all crafts under codes in the af
fected area of Cameron, Hidalgo,
Willacy and Starr counties, Long
said.
Long wired Maury Hughes of
Dallas, state NRA chairman, and
the Brownsville chairman of the
administration’s action.
“It will mean,” he explained,
“virtually throwing the situation
open to permit maximum speed in
rebuilding.”
‘Need Four Months’
West told the administration
that suspension of the codes’ oper
ation for at least four months was
necessary but Long did not com
mit the NRA to any definite pe
riod pending recommendation as to
the time necessary, which he ask
ed Hughes to forward as soon as
posssible.
The step was taken. Long ex
plained, solely because of the
emergency and upon representa
tions that it was essential to “meet
a serious situation.”
Bailey Jail Break
‘Air Tight’ Case
DALLAS, Sept. 23.—UP)—A -ed
eral investigator declared emphatic
ally today that in his opinion the
department of justice had c iffi
cient evidence to obtain a convic
tion in the federal court trial next
week of two men held under $10,003
bond on charges of aiding Harvey
Bailey to escape from the Dallas
county jail on Labor day.
“We have an air-tight case,” he
said. “There is absolutely no ques
tion about the information we nave
being sufficient to convict. And,
we will have a surprise at the trial,
too.”
Lindys Pleased With
Russian Reception
LENINGRAD, U. S. R., Sept. 23.
(£>)—So pleased are Col. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh with their
reception here that they might
continue their air trip to Moscow.
“We have come here purely out
of interest in the Soviet union,”
said the colonel.
On their arrival from Finland,
the Lindberghs were met by two
soviet naval planes and greeted
by an official welcoming commit
tee.
Stores Fired On
PORT ARTHUR, Sept. 23. (VP)—
A grocery store and barber shop
under the same ownership were
damaged by buckshot by unknown
persons here early today. A note
was found threatening further re
prisals if the owner does not con
form to the National Recovery pro
gram.
Gunners Guard Officers Quarters
Keeping ominous vigil before all entrances to the Hotel Nacional, in
Havana, where 300 former army officers had barricaded themselves,
were machine gun squads of the Grau San Martin regime. Here is one
of the grobps, with gun ready to repulse any counter-revolutionary
sortie on the part of their one-time superiors.
VALLEY STORM
AREA SEEN BY
SENATE GROUP
Lieut. Gov. Witt And
Augustin Celaya
With Senators
Seven representatives of the
Texas legislature, the lieutenant
governor of Texas, Rep. Augustin
Celaya of Brownsville and five
senators arrived in the Valley Sat
urday morning on a survey of the
storm damage in this area.
The senators who are surveying
the Valley’s storm area are:
Sen. Archie Parr of Benavides;
Sen. W. K. Hopkins of Gonzalez;
Sen. W. M. Martin of Hillsboro;
Sen. Will Pace of Tyler; and Sen.
Alfred Stone of Brenham.
Lieut. Gov. Edgar Witt and Rep.
Celaya arrived from Austin with
the group.
They were met this morning by
Harlingen residents and were tak
en on a tour of the upper Valley
where they viewed damage to cit
rus orchards and to property At
noon the senate delegation was en
tertained at a lunch given by San
Benito city officials and later in
the afternoon surveyed storm dam
age to the San Benito area.
Late this afternoon the group
was taken on a tour of Los Fres
nos and Port Isabel.
They were to have dinner in
Brownsville and spend the night
here.
‘BABY FACE5
1 JOYNER HELD
IN ARKANSAS
Fatal Prison Break
Leader Caught
In Dragnet
•
HOT SPRINGS. Ark. Sept. 23.
(TP;—Police today announced the
capture of Earl (Baby Face) Joy
ner, one of the leaders of the break
from the Angola. La., prison farm
on Sept. 10 in which four men were
killed, and shortly afterward dis
closed that Charles Chapman, much
sought alleged bank robber, had
eluded a trap set for him at Mag
nolia, Ark. Four other men and
three women also are held here.
The round up of alleged criminals
was made in mid-week but police
withheld the news until today for
police reasons.
Joyner under a 27 to 46 year sen
tence in Louisiana for shooting with
intent to murder, has been released
to authorities at Crockett, Texas,
on a bank robbery charge.
Others arrested here are: J. E
Wells, alias James Curtis Wilson, 30,
wanted in New Orleans for aleged'
counterfeiting, and as a fugitive
from the Marksville, La., prison
where he escaped while serving a
sentence for burglary.
theTweather
Brownsville and the Valley: Part
ly cloudy to cloudy Saturday night
and Sunday with occasional rains
Sunday: continued warm.
DESTROYER IS
PREPARED TO
RESCUEGROUP
U. S. Officials Attempt
To Liberate Them
At Parleys
HAVANA, Sept. 23. (JP)—Sixteen
Americans and Britans, Including
three women and live children,
were prisoners today in their own
homes at the TanamovSugar mills,
near the north coast of Orier.te
province, and the U. S. destroyer
Hamilton made preparations to take
them aboard.
The sixteen were the prisoners of
striking workers. The Tanamo mills
are owned by American interests, in
cluding groups represented by Percy
Rockefeller and Vincent Astor.
U. S. authorities do not intend to
land armed forces to effect the res
cue, it was learned, although the
Americans and Britons are about a
mile and a half from the coast.
U. S. officials were negotiating
with the strikers to bring about
the release of the prisoners, it was
reliably reported.
SOLUTION TO CUBAN
SITUATION EXPECTED
HAVANA, Sept. 23. (A3)—Pres.
Grau San Martin and his foes and
friends met with neutral mediators
today and an early solution to bit
ter political differences was oficial
ly predicted as a result.
Guarded by heavily-armed de
tachments of cavalry, members of
the student directory, the presi
dent’s strongest supporters, and
leaders of five opposition factions
convened in the presidential palace
to resume negotiations the executive
broke off a week ago when he re
fused to entertain demands for his
resignation.
Seed Is Removed
From Tot’s Lung
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23. UP)—
A watermelon seed which had lodg
ed for more than a month in the
left lung of two-year-old Jane Aus
tin. of Salton, Tex., was removed
today in the Temple University
hospital’s bronchosocooic clinic.
Brought here last week by air
plane and train, the child could
not be operated on immediately be
cause of inflammation in the lung.
She uras reported convalescing, but
physicians said they would keep her
in the hospital some time for ob
servation.
Auto Victim Dies
SAN ANTONIO. Sept. 23. UP)—
John Thomas Connally, Bishop
druggist, today became the third
fatality of the automobile accident
which occurred Sunday near San
Marcos when automobiles driven
by Connally and J. A. Glossup of
San Marcos collided.
Connally died in a local hospital
where he was brought after the
accident. L. J. Dailey, Jr., passen
ger in Glossup’s car, died in San
Marcos shortly after the accident.
Miss Louise Smith, Corpus Christi,
passenger in Connally’s car, died
Wednesday in a San Marcos hos
pital.
Rear Admiral Dies
MEXICO, D. F., Sept. 23. UP)—
Rear Admiral Hilario Rodriguez
Malpica, who commanded a Mex
ican warship which stole into the
Nicaraguan port of Gorinto in 1909
under the guns of United States
vessels and carried Pres. Santos
Celaya to exile in Mexico, died yes
terday at the age of 75 after a
long illness.
In accordance with his wishes,
his body will be cremated. There
will be no military honors at the
funeraL
$5,000 PRICE
IS PLACED ON
WIFFS HEAD
Judge Refuses to Free
Defendants In
Urschel Case
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 23.
. (AP)—Rewards totaling $15,000
were pledged today for the cap
ture of George ‘'Machine Gun”
Kelly and his wife Kathryn by a
group of Oklahoma citizens head
ed by C. F. Col cord, capitalist
and pioneer peace officer.
The price on Kelly’s head was
set at $10,000, that on his wife’s
at $5,000.
Announcement of the rewards
followed a meeting of bankers,
business men, lawyers and civic
leaders called by Colrord.
The rewards were underwritten
by Cdlcord and others. They will
seek contributions.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 23. UP)
—One defendant was freed, a rul
ing on two others was deferred un
til Monday, and all nine others in
the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping
conspiracy trial must wait action
of the jury, Judge Edgar S. Vaught
ruled as court recessed for the
week-end at noon today.
One Is Freed
Charles Wolk of Minneapolis,
was freed, and Isadore Blumenfeld
and Peter Valder, also of the seven
twin cities group of defendants will
be held in suspense no longer than
the week-end.
Judge Edgar S. Vaught issued a
burning denunciation of the Shan
non family of Wise county, Tex.,
and four others from the north,
however, as he refused to sustain
defense motions to dismiss.
He overruled motions of counsel
for Harvey Bailey and Albert
Bates, southwestern desperadoes
accused of being principals in the
Urschel abduction.
“This is a revolutionary proceed
ing today,” began Judge Vaught at
noon after hearing arguments of
lawyers all morning.
“Kidnaping is as bad as murder
if not worse. There is no greater
menace in the country today. In
interpreting the act under which
this case is heard I take in mind
that its purpose is to prevent all
kidnaping.”
The trial invokes the new “Lind
bergh” law passed by congress last
year.
Shannons Denounced
His clear voice overruled the
Bailey and Bates motions in a
sentence. *
Turning to the Shannons, R. G.
Shannon, his wife Ora, and his
son, Armon. Judge Vaught said:
“The evidence shows that the
Shannons knew there was a kid
naped man at their home. *If they
new he was kidnaped and they
guarded him, then they woyld be
just as guilty as if they had kid
naped him, transported him and
collected the ransom.
“Fear of individual punishment is
no excuse for a violation of the
law.”
Judge Vaught’s rulings were pre
cedent making, as this is the first
trial under the new law.
Four Plotter* Are
Slain in Mexico
GUADALAJARA, Jalisco, Sept.
23. (/P)—Pour bandit chieftains
plotting an armed uprising in the
state of Jalisco were killed yester
day in an exchange of shots with
police. Gen. Jus to Gonzalez and
his aide Col. Alfredo Ramos were
shot to death in a house where they
had met their followers to plan
robberies and activities against the
authorities.
Gen. Perfecto Sandoval, chief of
staff of Gonzalez and his brother
were also killed in the outskirts of
the city when they were en route
to meet members of their band.
Man Hang* Himself
DALHART, Sept. 23. (ff)—J- Mar
vin Turner, 54. Hartley county far
mer against whom charges of slay
ing his wife were filed yesterday,
hanged himself in the Dallam coun
ty jail today.
Turner improvised a rope from a
blanket, and was found by his cell
mate, Bert Rice, hanging from a
bar, his feet scraping the floor,
dead of strangulation.
Mayor* Elect
CHICAGO. Sept. 23. (JP)—Mayor
T. Semmes Walmsley of New Or
leans today was elected president
of the United States Conference
of Mayors, succeeding Mayor James
M. Curley of Boston.
Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Mil
waukee was named vice president.
Paul V. Betters of Chicago was
reelected secretary.