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Officials Seek to Place Responsibility for Fatal Forest Park Blaze
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FIRE EXPERTS
FORM JURY OF
INVESTIGATION
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 5. UP— Pers
ons responsible for the disastrous
Griffith Park brush fire which cost
27 lives, and for ordering labor
ers into the fire-trap canyon, were
sought in a 3-fold investigation to
day.
Jury to Probe Case
With a promise that criminal
prosecution will follow any evi
dence of negligence, Dist. Atty.
Buron Fitts assigned a deputy to
attend the coroner's inquest. At .his
hearing, scheduled for next Wed
nesday, a jury composed of fire ex
perts, engineers and foresters, will
hear evidence gathered by city,
county and state investigators
Coroner Frank Nance said to
day the exact death toll of Tues
day’s fire in the box-like Mineral
Weils canyon may never be known.
The latest report placed the miss
ing at 62. but many of th<*se were
believed to be In hospitals or had
failed to make their safety known
to authorities.
‘Set Fire of Own’
Police said Robert D. Barr. 29.
an unemployed motion picture pro
jectionist who was arrested for
suspicion of arson, did not cause the
fatal blaze although they said he
admitted starting a fire in the park
later in the evening.
The investigating officers stated
that Barr, who had been drinking,
heard a report of the fire m the
recreational center and started out
to find it. Being unable to locate it
the police charged he started a file
of his own.
BOMBS CLIMAX
MINE STRIFE
(By The Associated Press*
Troops and state police moved to
preserve order and prevent violence
today as tension increased in
spreading trouble spots of American
industry.
At Harrisburg. 111., four com
panies of national guards were or
dered mto Saline county as clashes
broek out between warring mining
factions.
Two terrific bomb explosions
climaxed a night of terror in the
southern Illinois coal fields, and at
Peabody Mine No. 43 officials re
ported that pickets had surrounded
the working and opened fire and
that many persons had been wound
ed.
In western Pennsylvania, state
m pt liee- and deputy sheriffs hasten
'* ed to strategic points as striking
miners strengthened picket lines
and announced a determination to
prevent reopening of soft coal mines
closed for three weeks in a fight
for union recognition.
Two steel workers were slashed
by pickets as they attempted to
enter the Clairton, Pa- plant of the
Carnegie Steel company. It was
the second outburst in 18 hours
among steel strikers, one man hav
ing been shot and others clubbed
at Ambridge, Pa , earlier.
At Scranton. Pa., the ninth dy
namiting in an anthracite strike
damaged the home of a miner,
while workers' automobiles were
stoned by pickets at Dickson City.
Pa
Ford Motor company strikers of
Chester. Pa., and Edgewater, N J.,
announced plans for a march'' by
automobile on the Ford plant at
Detroit.
Gunmen Fire On
> Pastor’s Home
* PALESTINE. Oct. 5—VP)— The
board cf deacons of the First Bap
tist church last night passed a res
olution upholding the stand of their
pastor, the Rev. Calvin Nelson,
whose home was the object of
pistol bullets early Tuesday, and
posted a $500 reward for the arrest
and conviction of the man who
fired the shots
Officers working on the case
were without clues. The bullets
were fired into the rooms where
the minister, his wife and children
slept. Rev. Nelson revealed he had
received a telephone call about 30
minutes before the attack but the
man claimed "wrong number” and
hung up the receiver.
TONITE 8:30 O’CLOCK
On the Stage
J. C. Penney Co., Inc.
Fall Style Show
Today
and Friday |
—
She dared to
love her boss
Kathleen Norris
“Second
Hand
Wife”
with
SALLY FILERS
Ralph Bellamy
L-QUEEN
‘SECOND HAND WIFE*
Sally Filers and Ralph Bellamy are cast as the representatives of dif
ferent social strata in the new Fox screen play. ‘Second Hand Wife,"
dramatized from the novel by Kathleen Norris. Showing Thursday
and Friday at ifle Queen. Brownsville.
'Now Is Time To
Buy’ Slogan In
New NRA Drives
_
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. (A*)—
Hugh S. Johnson directed the pow
er of NKA's influence today toward
a “buy now” campaign to speed
the circulation of money and credit.
He addressed manufacturers and
advertisers throughout the coun
try. noting the end of the “flat
wallet era” and urging full coopera
tion in the “now is the time to
buy” drive officially set to start
Monday.
Johnson’s move to increase credit
velocity was intended chiefly to
help industry meet NRA’s higher
payrolls, but It blended smoothly
with Pres. Roosevelt’s determined
efforts to expand credit and boost
farm prices.
Further, it coincided with the
coming to Washington of Henry
Bruere. president of the Bowery
Savings Bank of New York, who
boarded Mr. Rowevelt’s train as it
headed toward the White House
frim New York City. Buere was ex
pected to coordinate the entire
credit expansion campaign.
Another step with the same aim
was the government’s request for
bids on 844.525 tons of steel rails
for 47 railroads. The public works
administration will lend the $25.
006,000 or more buying price to the
carriers.
united states. Bethlehem ana
Inland Steel and the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company were the con
cerns to which Josep B Eastman,
railroad coordinator , addressed re
quests for prices. Later, a lumber
of companies will bid on 245,221
tons of fastenings.
Johnson, expected back in his of
ficp soon to direct personally the
buying campaign and reorganize h>
administration for enforcement
work, cited to the manufacturers
statistical evidence that new pur
chasing power has been created in
recent months.
He said August factory employ
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BRI CE C ABOT
ment was up 24 per cent over Aug
ust, 1932. and payrolls 40 per cent,
while July farm prices showed % 33
per cent boost.
“In view of these developments,”
Johnson said, we believe that the
opportune moment is at hand fOr
American industry to bend every
effort toward increased sales.”
HOME LOANS
SPEEDING UP
(SELECTED
Speeding up ofho me loans to
Valley people, including these liv
ing on farms, is expected fallowing
the appointment of Dewey Welch of
Brownsville as special appraiser for
the district from Corpus Chrisfl
south.
Welch received notice today from
the San Antonio office of his ap
pointment, and said his instruc
tions will be received tomorrow in
the mail.
Works Independently
He will work independently oi
the county appraisers, and for the
next few weeks his principal work
will be in the Valley storm section,
helping people of this section get
loans from the Home Owner Loan
Corporation for the rebuilding of
storm-damaged homes.
••I have been in the San Antonio
office, familiarizing myself with
the work the past few days." Mr.
Welsh said.
They have about 4.000 loon ap
plications on file there, and have
approved only a few*, less than a
dozen. The reason for this mainly
is that they fcave not had enougn
people to handle the work. Five or
six employes have been added in
the office there, and they are ex
pected to speed up the work now.”
Farm Loam Available
Mr. Welch said that reports that
the Home Owner Loan Corporation
will not make loans outsite of
cities are not true, ana tnat they
will refinance Valley farm homes
where the mortgage holder will take
bonds of the corporation. These
bonds are now selling for around
92 cents on the dollar.
Welch Is a member of a pioneer
San Benito family, but has lived in
Brownsville since 1922. He was
connected with the Frontier Lum
ber Company for six years, and
since then has been in the loan
business here. He will keep his home
in Brownsville.
HARLINGEN — Judge Will G.
Fields fined W. A. Brown a total
of $26 on a simple assault charge
News Shorts
Of Cameron
County
SAN BENITO—A Dutch lunch
will be served members of Sam
Jackson Poet No. ill when it meets
over the former R. B. Cafe on N.
Sam Houston at 7 p. m. Thursdav
night.
SAN BENITO—Names of Misses
Sarita Gilbert and Mary Agar were
inadvertently omitted from the
senior class roster published in
Tuesday’s Herald. ,
SAN BENITO—T. V. Woolam is
recovering from severe bums on
his left arm and hand and lesser
bums on his right hand suffered
when a gasoline stove exploded.
HARLINGEN— Rev. W. Everett
Johnson, rector of All Saints Epis
copal church. San Benito, will Iec
ture on storms and barometers in
patio of the Reese-Wil-Mond Hotel
tonight for benefit of St. Alban's
mission here which like the San
Benito church suffered storm dam
age.
HARLINGEN—Nine retailers and
two distributors took out beer li
censes from the city early this weex.
HARLINGEN — Audit of city
I books will start Monday by Aik
man, Griffin & Mothershead, a
local firm.
SAN BENITO—Judge Frank W.
Roberts fined R. B. Buell $1450 on
an intoxication charge.
HARLINGEN—County Adminis
trator B, G. Moffett is serving as
director for the Harlingen unit of
the Cameron County Welfare and
Re-employment Board until a suc
cessor Is named to Lloyd Thomp
son who resigned for reason nX
made public.
HARLINGEN—A jury found Al
len Doan of a San Benito Transfer
company not guilty of operating a
truck without a railroad commission
permit. Trial was in Judge Will G.
Field’s court.
LA FERIA—Growers of the La
Feria community heard an expla
nation of available government ud
for farmers from County Agent
Henry Alsmeyer at a meeting at
I the community hall.
PLOT AGAINST
EM PLAYER
TO BEPROBED
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5A
reported plot to disfigure John
War bur ton, film actor, so that he
could no longer appear in motion
pictures, was to be considered by
the Los Angeles grand jury today.
Witnesses subpoenaed included
Alice White, featured film actress;
Sidney Bartlett, her fiance; Dave
Miller, former Chicago boxing ref
ere; and Martin Block and Russell
B Brown, film extras held on
robbery charges.
Detective Lieutenants S. 8. stone,
Earl Kynette and W. M. Robinson
said Block and Brown signed a
statement asserting Bartlett told
them he wished to have Warbtir
ton’s face disfigured because the
English actor had slapped Miss
White and purportedly made un
complimentary remarks about ner.
• Its a lot of rot,” said Bartlett.
' It’s absurd and ridiculous,” said
Miss White.
The reputed confession said
Block and Brown were responsibv
for the recent attack upon War
burton during which he was rob
bed of $230 added the robbery was
only incidental to the beating and
asserted they were paid $50 for
battering the actor. The pair said
they understood part of the money
came from Miss White, a former
friend of Warburton.
"Every person in my profession
is always open to humiliating and
distressing charges/' said Miss
White, "but this is the most das
tardly attack of the kind I have
ever heard.”
Bartlett said. "I am man enough
to fight my own battles.”
Detectives reported Warburton
susi^ected some sinister motive be
hind the attack upon him and
identified Brown and Block as his
assailants.
Miller was named by the arrest
ed men as having introduced Block
and Bartlett.
daughter born
Mr. and Mrs D. G. Richardson
announce the birth of a daughter
Thursday morning at Mercy hospi
tal. The baby weighed 8 pounds.
Mr. Richardson is operations rrana
I ger of Pan-American airport.
F. D. Meets
Al at Church
Conference
NEW YORK. Oct. 5. OPV-When
Pres. Roosevelt entered the meet
ing room to address the national
conference of Catholic chanties
lats night one of the first vers
ons he met was Al Smith.
"Howrye. Prank?" said the
former governor.
"Pine, Al." said the president
and their arms went to each oth
ers shoulders in an affectionate
pat. Cardinal Hayes, archbishop
of New York, smiled for he had
arranged to bring together the
two men who had contested for
the democratic nomination for
the presidency.
Oakley Appeals
SULPHUR SPRINGS. Oct. 5 —
UP)—Defense counsel filed notice of
appeal and had bond reduced from
$3,500 to $2,500 yesterday in tne
case of Coy Oakley, one of the
two brothers indicted for the -,devil"
slaying of Bernice Clayton, thres
year-old invalid, at her home near
Linden. Tex., last winter. Habeas
corpus proceedings also were in
stituted.
Oakley was tried here several
weeks ago but the Jury failed to
agree and was discharg'd.
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San Benito Farmers
To Convene Friday
(Special to The Herald)
8AN BENITO, Oct. 5.—Farmers
of the San Benito community have
been asked to meet at the city hall
at 8 o'clock Thursday night when
a program under sponsorship of
the Cameron County Vegetable
Growers* Assn, will be presented.
A plan will be brought before the
growers at that time which It is
expected will assure them profit
able farming.
Every fanner is asked to bring
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