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the general recovery plan.
FORTY-SECOND YEAR—No. 79 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1933 SIX PAGES Sc A COPT
IN OUR
VALLEY t
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EFFORTS TO GET THE VAL
ley’s rehabilitation wage scale
atralghtened out—
Are being made on strenuous
fashion,
According to Rufus Ransome,
energetic and ha 1 working at
torney for the Cameron County
non-profit corporation.
Word is expected from Washing
ton in the near ’ture.
Setting the scale to te charged
under the leans made *mder the
auspices of this oorporaUon.
And setting a scale within the
limits of Valley folk to pay.
Fair alike to laborer and to em
ployer.
That will help a lot.
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IN THE MEANTIME, WORD
reaches us from unofficial and un
actable sources, that Harry L.
Wpkins, head of the federal relief
administration in Washington, Just
can't believe what Valley folk tell
him about this RFC labor wage
down here.
In fact, we have reason to be
lieve that at a recent conference
with Valley folk. Mr. Hopkins al
most passed the insinuation stage
in his disbelief of what he was told
It is certainly too bad that some
of the Valley’s influential men
cannot set the relief people right
on this point.
From the local administrators of
the relief funds right on through
the state organization, it Is admit
ted that the 30c an hour wage is
raising hob with farm labor.
But when we get outside the
Mate, we have no luck at all get- j
ting our viewrpolnt over
INTERESTING COMMENTARY
on Juries a..d lawyers alike was
that given In district ourt here
yesterday.
Being questioned as to his elig
ibility lor jury service, a local man
told the world he was unlit.
"I don’t believe in trial „y Jv 7,”
he told the questioning attorney.
"Why not?"
"Jury trials are unfair. You law
yers sit out there am pick the
dumbest men you can find in the
courtroom, so you can sway them (
easily by your argumr-'s."
And some jury' verdict* would;
teem to bear him out.
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REPORTS PERSIST IN REACH
|ng us that Cameron county has
beans—
Believe It or not.
Beans away up in the air, which
will be ready for market.
Long before the most optimistic
predictions.
& a few eeks ago.
More power to them!
It's crops we want, growing crops,
Hastening to maturity and mar
ket.
IN CASE YOU HAVE BEEN
puzzled as to why KENEDY COUN
TY taxes should be remitted to
build a drainage system foi WIL
LACY COUNTY, here's the low
down
As some or us remember, the
now Kenedy county used to be
Mied Willacy .-ounty.
^During that period the state tax
es of certain counties, including
Wiliaey county vere remitti to
build the Corpus Christi seawall.
In the meantime, a new county,
carved from Carat ron anc Hidalgo
counties, was created, and this new
county was called Willacy, the
old Willacy county being renamed
Kenedy.
But—the wording of the seawall
tax remission was no' hanged, so
the new Willacy county’s state rax
es have been going to pay for the
Corpus Christi seawall.
And—the old Willacy ounty, the
now Kenedy county, has bee • block
ing the new Willacy county people
off from the port they are helping
to build.
So—some bright boy hi the leg
islature figured that letting Ken
edy county’s state taxes build a
drainage system for Willacy county
would be one way of evening things
up
Great things, these laws of ours!
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ALL OP WHICH AGAIN SERVES
to remind us that—
We have heard nothing about
WHEN that road through Kenedy
eounty
Will be ordered built.
State Highway commission is be
ing watched by the Valley.
We are still n a doubtful frame
of mind.
Are still wondering if he influ
ence of one man.
It stronger with the mmisslon.
Shan the desire of a coupla of
*red thousand people.
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Commissioner Denies Job Selling
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PIS BLAME
OF SCANDAL
ON 2 OTHERS;
Fear of Press Kept
Action Secret,
Is Claimed
AUSTIN. Oct. 10. Dr. E. P.
Jarrell of Tyler, member of the
Texas live stock sanitary commis
sion. testified today at an investi
gation before the house appropria
tions committee, into alleged "Job
selling activities" that he had no
connection whatsoever with the
placing of employes on his commis- j
slon in exchange for money.
Dr. Jarrell was the first witness
in the inquiry, ordered by the house
yesterday by adoption of a resolu
tion offered by Rep. Gordon Burns
of Huntsville, who told the legisla
tors there was "common talk in east
Texas that a member of the live
stock sanitary commission was sell
ing jobs.”
Names Two Men
Dr. Jarrell named Royce Williams
and D. H. Williams of Gilmer as
the persons who had started the
job selling ‘'scandal'’ in east Texas.
Jarrell denied emphatically that he
had taken or received any money
in promise of a job or that he had
employed any person because of
money payments. He testified that
when he found out the Williams
brothers were engaging in the prac
tice that he refused to have any
thing more to do with the Wiliams
brothers or with persons who alleg
edly bought jobs from them.
Fear that the press would find out
about the case and would “gloat"
over it to the embarrassment of Gov.
Miriam A Ferguson and her hus
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House Passes
Relief Bill
AUSTIN. Oct. 10.—The Tex
as house of representatives today
finally passed a bill providing for
the distribution of $5,000,000 to
indiaents of this state and regulat
ing the manner in which the money
shall be disbursed.
The senate has approved a bill
that would direct the expenditure
of $6,000 000. There were wide dif
ferences between the tv v houses as
to who should comprise the agency
to handle the money and in wnai
way it should be applied.
Jewish Refugees
Promised Relief
GENEVA, Oct. 10 —^-—Organiz
ed relief for Jewish refugees from
Germany definitely was assured to
day.
A resolution adopted by the
League of Nations assembly's eco
nomic commission projides for the
creation of a high commission and
governing body—outside the ma
chinery of the league—to which a
commissioner will submit periodic
reports.
Gotham Is Expecting
Record Mayor Vote
NEW YORK, Oct. 10. »;P>—'The
heaviest first day registration in the
city's history bore testimony today
to the widespread interest which the
three-sided fight for mayor has
aroused.
The total number of registered
voters on the opening day was 314,
927, exceeding by 40.027 the first
day total last year when 274.900
qualified to vote for president, gov
ernor and mayor. On the basis of
yetserday’s total, the belief was ex
pressed that the 1932 record of 2.
; 334.131 voters might be exceeded.
Court Action Ends
Tabernacle Strife
JONESBORO. Ark.. Oct. 10.™.P>
'—The Rev. Dale Crowley and his
followers today were in control of
the Jonesboro Baptist tabernacle,
backed by a blanket court order
restraining all members of the
faction led by the Rev. Joe Jeffers,
evangelist, from preventing Crow
ley's occupation of the pulpit.
The court action climaxed two
months of strife between the
groups over control of the church’s
affairs.
Jewelry Stolen
Thieves took a wrist watch and
two diamond rings from the J. D.
Ireland home. 213 Elizabeth street,
after entering the residence Sun
day afternoon by cutting a screen
or the back porch.
The wrist watch was set with two
emeralds on the band. One of the
rings was of white gold, the other
of yellow gold.
TRCOPS GUARD ROADS
SULLICAN Ind . Oct. 10. -.A*—Na
tional guardsmen acting under a
proclamation of 'military control"
patrolled Sullivan county roads to
day to guard against renewal of dis
orders attending the picketing of
co-operative bituminous coal mines.
Extremes In
Courtships
Breed Grief
CHICAGO, Oct. 10. UP)—Univer
sity of Chicago scientists have
come to the conclusion that eith
er extremely long or unusually
short courtships end the same
way—in matrimonial difficulties.
They came to this conclusion by
studying the answers of 6,000 mar
ried couples to questionnaires.
There’s a considerable hazard
• in courtships lasting Vess than
three months and great risks in
those that drag along for more
than five years.
From three to five years was
held to be an ideal length of
lime.
Colleges graduates were given a
25 per cent better chance for hap
piness in marriages than persons
with eighth grade educations.
Couples living in cities, the in
vestigators. concluded find it more
difficult to adjust themselves to
married life than do their coun
try cousins.
WRECK KILLS
VALLEY YOUTH
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Son of Pioneer Family At
Donna Dies When
Autos Crash
(Special to The Herald)
DONNA. Oct. 10.—Funeral ser
vices wii! be held from the Donna
Episcopal church Wednesday after
noon for Howard Lots, :6. son of a
pioneer Donna family, who was kill
ed in an automobile accident south
of the city late Sunday night.
Chief of Police E. E. Vickers of
Donna stated the youth was riding
on the running-boi.rd of a car ap
proaching the south city limits. A
eeond car, said to have been with
out lights, was parked on the side
of the road while Its owner was
seeking gasoiine. A third car's lights,
meeting the vehicle on . hich young
Loiz was riding, prevented the driv
er from seeing hte parked auto. In
the crash which followed, young
Lotz was instantly killed. Both legs
were broken, he was injured inter
nally and the body *. os mangled.
Chief Vickers stated no charges
would be filed against drivers of the
cars figuring in the tragedy.
The Lotz family came to Donna
a number of years ago and is wide
ly known in the mid-Valley section.
Surviving the youth, who was grad
uated from Donna Hi*,. School last
year, are his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Lotz of Donna; two sisters.
Miss Helen Lotz of Donna, and a
married sister residing in Shreve
port, La.; and two brothers, John,
an enlisted man in the U. S. navy
and whose vessel is now cruising
in foreign waters, and Leonard
Lotz. who is in the U. S. Army and
stationed at San Antonio.
Rev. D. C. T. Raynor, rector of
the Donna Episcopal church will of
ficiate at the last rites.
Sam Hargrove’s
Hand Amputated
^Special to The Herald
EDINBURG. Oct. 10-Sam M.
Hargrove, former Hidalgo County
commissioner, suffered the loss of his
left hand as the result of injuries
sustained Sunday while roping a
steer.
The rope became twisted about
Hargrove’s wrist when he roped the
steer at a ranch north of Edinburg,
breaking the bones in his vrist and
stripping the flesh from his hand
It was decided at the Edinburg
hospital that amputation of his hand
was necessary in order to save his
arm.
Hargrove was reported resting
comfortably at the hospital this
morning.
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STATE BEGINS
TESTIMONY IN
MURDER TRIAL
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Self-Defense Plea
Expected To
Be Made
Presentation of state's evidence
against Isaac Davis, charged with
the murder of Arthur Dowd in Cor
pus Christi Nov. 17, got under way
in criminal district court at 2 p. m.
with Mrs. Charlotte Johnson, Dowd’s
secretary and purported eye-witness
of the shooting, taking the witness
stand.
Another purported eye-witness of
the shooting. Norman Collins, Cor
pus Christi banker, was expected to
be the state’s second witness.
Purl to Testify
Dist. Atty. D. S. Purl, who per
sonally investigated the shootir|g
and prosecuted the case, planned to
take the witness chair in state's
behalf. The fourth and last state's
witness to be used was David Peel,
undertakar who prepared Dowd's
xxiy for burial.
The state was expected to close
its testimony Tuesday afternoon or
Wednesday. Defense counsel has
called 11 witnesses and is expected
to take at least two days of court
time. Davis' witnesses are Jack Dif
fenderfer, deputy constable of Cor
pus Christi; Glenn Hanson. Corpus
Christi sheet metal worker; Haynle
Hanson. Corpus Christi investigator;
O. D. King of Corpus Christi; “Red”
Stewart who is playing in an or
chestra in San Antonio; Jimmie
Westrich and Jack Pickens of the
Texas Theater at Laredo; C. J.
Stevens and Walter Garcia, employes
of the Nueces hotel in Corpus
Christi; J. T. Gannaway. Corpus
Christi apartment house owner, and
Frank Siegel, Corpus Christi loan
broker.
May Ask Death
Davis, a small square-featured
middle aged man, is charged with
shooting Dowd. manager of the
Nueces hotel, after Mrs. Davis had
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Florida Vote* Today
On Dry Law Repeal
TAMPA. Fla.. Oct. 10. </P>—Florida
voted today to decide whether the
state would be the 33rd to sanction
repeal of the 18th amendment or
the first in the country to oppose it.
Repealists sent out a last hour
plea through Postmaster Gen. James
A. Farley and Gov. Dave Sholtz who
spoke here last night.
Farley called upon Florida to join
' the parade of states marching to
ward early accomplishment of re
peal’’ and predicted that the state
would go two to one for repeal.
Bailey Break Aide*
Leave for Prison
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 10. —
Heavily guarde din a specia, rail
road prison car. Thomas L. Mamon
and Grover C. Bevill, under sentence
on charges of aiding Harvey Bailey
to escape from the Dallas, Tex., jail,
liassed through here today en route
to federal prison at Leavenworth.
Kas.
With them were 32 other federal
prisoners. Manion is a former Dal
las county Jailor and Bevill a butch
er friend.
Doug Eludes Queries
On Divorce by Mary
LONDON. Oct. 10. (/Pi—Douglas
Fairbanks is in and out of London
so much that even his staff can not
keep track of him, it was said at
his headquarters today, so questions
about reports that Mary Pickford
will seek a divorce from him went
unanswered.
It was believed, however, that
Fairbanks is in France seeking lo
cations for a new picture.
‘This Is Gangster’s End’
Dying Public Enemy Says
CHICAGO, Oct. 10. i/Pi—The body
of Gus Winkler, dapper heir to part
of the affuence of the old Capone
gang lay In a morgue today—mute
evidence of the gangland rule that
death men tell no tales.
In gangland they call talking to
authorities the “squeal” and it was
the theory of investigators that his
enemies pumped four volleys of
shotgun pellets into his body yester
day to keep him from telling what
he knew about a $250,000 mail rob
bery in Chicago last December.
Winkler was the second person
linked with the robbery in one way
or another, to uie. The other was
Edgar B. Lebensberger. owner of a
swanky club on Chicago’s near
North Side.
And while XinkJer's body lay in
a mortuary there were newspaper
reports that his slayers have mark
ed lor death, one, or posubly two,
other men to silence them in the
federal government’s investigation
of the robbery.
The report that Winkler, who had
been in hiding since last Saturday,
had intended to talk today with
federal investigators came from his
widow.
"He.’’ said Police Capt. Dan Gil
bert, "apparently was -he contact
man between the actual mail robbers
and the peddlers of the stolen bonds.
He was the only man alive, appar
ently. who could put the finger mi
the gangsters who robbed the mail
messenger."
Three killers, motoring down the
street in a green truck, methodi
cally they poked their guns from
the machine and fired. But he
didn’t talk. The ’squeal" gangland
presumably expected from him died
with him. His last words, after he
had prayed, were:
“This is the end of a gangster."
Silent on Romance
En route to Hollywood, where she
may resume motion picture work,
C'oia Negri, once the brightest star
in the movie firmament, is pic
tured as she arrived at New York
from Europe, whence emanated re
cent reports that she was to marry
Harold F. McCormick, Chicago har
vester millionaire. Pola refused to
comment on rumored romance.
PROBE $4,000
JEWELRY HAUL
Donna Resident's Home
Is Entered By
Robbers
(Special to The Herald)
DONNA, Oct. 10.—Hidalgo coun
ty officers had arrested one suspect
and were seeking others Tuesday
in their investigation of a Jewel
robbery at the home of Anthony
Taormina, wealthy Donna canning
plant operator, which occurred
sometime Sunday night.
Taormina reported that three
la age diamond rings, a watch ana
a pin. the rings and pin set with
diamonds, were valued at more
than $4,000. Other small and less
expensive itsms of jewelry also were
taken.
The Taormina family left the
home Sunday afternoon for a drive
and returned about 6 o’clock. Taor
mina noticed the drawer in a
bureau, where the jewels were kept,
had been pulled out and left open.
A quick search revealed that the
jewels were gone. Without touch
ing the edges of the drawer or dis
turbing anything in the house, the
robbery victim called officers. *
Despite a careful search, no fin
gerprints were found on the ou
reau. the drawer or elsewhere in
the house. Bloodhounds followea
a trail from the home to a nearby
paved st.Vt, but lost the scent
there.
Loan Application
Papers Received
All papers necessary for com
pletion of loan applications have
been received by the offices of the
Cameron County Emergency Rel
ief corporation, it was stated this
morning by Miss Lorn a Kelley, in
charge.
Some slight delay was experi
enced in completion of leans ap
plications dut to failure to receive
mortgage and contractor's bond
forms, but this now has been
remedied, Miss Kelly states.
Several persons who have signed
the applications have not returned
for the mortgage a,nd contractor?
forms, and she urged to come to
the offices of the corporation in
the chamber of commerce building
and get the additional forms that
action may be speeded on their
loan.
Reichstag Burning
Again Is Confessed
BERLIN. Oct. 10.—.JV- Marinas
Van Der Lubbe, young Dutch
brickmason. again confessed today
that he set the reichstag building
on fire last winter, working with
out assistance.
Hie first day of the, resumed
hearing, held In the main com
mittee room of the parliament
building after sessions in the su
preme court at Leipzig, came to a
tense climax with this admission.
Wire Flashes
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WASHINGTON. Oct. Kt-'/P)—
Joseph Edward Cronin, youngster
manager of the Washington Sen
ators today, signed a three-year
contract to pilot the club that
captured the American league
pennant this year bat was turned
back By the Giants (or the world
| honors.
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LOANS BOARD
CONVINCED OF
VALLEY NEED,
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Public Works Chiefs
Impressed on Trip
Through Area
FORT WORTH, Oct. 10.—OP}—
Impressed with the emergency
relief needs of the storm-stricken
area of the* Rio Grande Valley,
state and regional public works
administration officials who toured
that area last week preceding a
meeting at Mission returned here
today prepared to speed applica
tions for funds in that section.
New Applications up
The Texas public works advisory
board will hold a three-day session
here Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,
and a number of new applications
from counties in the Valley which
were the center of the recent coast
hurricane are expected to be re
viewed at that time. Several Val
ley applications already have been
approved and forwarded to Wash
ington.
Convinced of Need
"We went all over the area dam
aged by the storm,” Clifford B
Jones, regional P W A advisor,
stated today, and there was no
doubt left in the minds of any
members of the board, I am sure,
as to the urgent needs in that sec
tion.” "I am convinced that ap
plications for emergency projects
such as those in the Valley and
for all others as well will be han
dled more speedily from now on.”
J. W Chatham, chief clerk for
the state board, and P. A. Welty.
engineer-examiner for the state
organization, also returned to their
offices here Tuesday morning.
Welty will handle the V |iey ap
plications hereafter, checking them
over and submitting them to the
board for action.
DRAINAGE BILL
GETS APPROVAL
House Committee Okehs
Bill After Senate
Passes It
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(Special to The Herald)
AUSTIN, Oct. 10.—A measure
passed by the senate yesterday
providing for the creation of a
master, three-county drainage and
reclamation district in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley was passed by
a house committee this morning.
The bU}, introduced in the sen
ate by .Sen. Archie Parr of Ben
avides provides $20,000 for an im
mediate survey of the proposed
district.
Decision to press for legislation
authorizing the giant Valley pro
ject was reached at a meeting of
leading Valley citizens about two
weeks ago as a relief and reclama
tion measure. The plan provides
, for the reclamation ot about 20.000
acres of fertile. Valley soil. The
district would be carved out of the
three counties of Cameron. Hidalgo
and Willacy. Public Works lunds
and the assistance of agricultural
and reclamation departments of
state and federal governments
would be sought in the project.
The senate passed the measure
yesterday by a two-thirds majority,
enough to assure immediate effect
if the house also passes the meas
ure by a sufficient measure.
Find Dying Woman
By Husband’s Body
DES MOINES. Oct. 10. W»>—Mrs.
Charles A. Fulmer, found critically
wounded near the body of her hus
band. in an apartment hotel here
last night, was reported in a "poor
condition” in Broadlawns General
hospital today.
Physicians said she is not expect
ed io live. Police believe Mrs. Ful
' mer killed her husband and then
[shot herself.
MRS. KELLY BOUGHT
MACHINE GUN USED
ON URSCI , CLAIM
‘Human Rat’ Shrinks in Chair As
Is Pointed Out as Man
Who Took Ransom
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 10—(AP)—Kathryn Kel
ly was accused in prosecution testimony today as the buy
er of a $250 machine gun used in the kidnaping of
Charles F. Urschel, oil millionaire.
_With th« testimony of J. Klar, Fort Worth, Tex..
STORM’S TOLL I
FEARED HEAVY
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Marine Officials Attempt
To Check Losses From
Atlantic Blow
HALIFAX. N. S-, Oct. 10—(AV
The fate of two score seamen re
mained uncertain today as marine
officials attempted to learn the
toll of a storm that whirled up the
Atlantic seaboard over the week
end and blew itself out north of
Newfoundland
Ships were asked to keep a sharp
lookout for 21 men of the Greek
steamer Annuola. believed to have
foundered Saturday about 600 miles
east of Cape Lookout, N. C.
Off the southwestern tip of Nova
Scotia an unidentified derelict
drifted bottom up in the shipping
lane. Her three masts apparently
had been snapped at the neck.
She was described as a twin-screw
vooden auxiliary schooner, prob
ably carrying 10 men.
The belief that the derelict might
be the long overdue Dorin. out of
Bahamas with salt for Yarmouth,
N. 6.. was dissipated by Captain J.
T. Cruickshanks of Halifax, owner
of the Dorin. who said his vessel
was a single-screw auxiliary steel
schooner.
Murder Case Trio
Lose First Round
PORT WORTH. Oct. 10. <£»>—'The
three defendants in the Handley
triple murder case lost their first
legal skirmish in criminal district
court today when Judge Hosey over
ruled two defense motions.
The trio. O. D. Stevens. W. D.
May. and M. T. Howard, are to go
to trial Monday In connection with
the slaying of J. B. and Harry
Rutherford and Jack Sturdivant,
whose bodies were found in Trinity
river last July. Authorities believe
the three men were killed during a
quarrel over division of the T. & P.
mail robbery loot.
Government Backs
New Housing Plan
WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. UP)—
Sec. Ickes revaled today the gov
ernment was considering establish
ment of a new corporation to han
dle construction and leasing or sale
of low cost housing projects through
out the country.
Articles of incorporation, already
drafted, would permit the corpora
tion to go into cities and through
purchase or condemnation proceed
ings acquire lands on which low cost
housing projects would be erected
American Struck
In Face for Not
Saluting Nazis
BERLIN. Oct. 10. —An Amer
ican business man. Roland Velez,
a native of Maryland who now
I lives in Berlin, was sl.uck twice
in the face by storm troopers be
j cause he did not salute a Nazi
| procession, he reported today.
The incident occurred in dus
i selodorf on Sunday while he was
walking with Mrs. Velz in a street.
He notified George S. Messersmith,
American consul general here, who
complained to police authorities
and both the reich and Prussian
ministers of the interior.
Mrs. Kelly Denied Wish
Of Prison With Mother
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 10. itPy
Federal officials have decided def
initely that if Kathryn Kelly is con
victed in the Charles F. Urschcl
kidnaping case, she will not be hous
ed in the same federal prison with
her mother, Mrs. R. O. Shannon.
“Those two were together quite a
bit when they were free and it ap
parently did neither any good.” said
Joseph B. Kennan. assistant U S
attorney general today.
“We will keep them as far apart
as possible.”
Mrs. Shannon, sentenced to life
imprisonment, still is held In the
county jail here and no decision has
been reached on where she will be
imprisoned. Kennan said he wished
to disease the case with Sanford
Bates, federal prison director, be
fore moving Mrs. Shannon.
R. O. Shannon, Kathryn s step
father, likewise under a life sen
tence, also is still . the county
jail her$. He has not made $10,000
bond which Federal Judge Vaught
specified should be* posted before
the 54-year-old Paradise. Tex., far
mer might go free for 60 days to
wind up his business affairs.
lirearms broker, the government
first began to draw the slender
Kathryn into its construction of the
$200,000 kidnaping conspiracy, for
which she is standing trial with
George iMachine Gun> Kelly, her
husband.
Kelly Pointed Out
Testifying Just after Kelly,
shrinking in his chair, had been
pointed out by E. E. Kirkpatrick,
Urschel’s oil associate, as the man
who took a satchel containing the
ransom from him on a Kansas City
street. Klar said he sold Kathryn
a machine gun for $250 bearing
the saaac serial number as the
weapon later found beside the
sleeping Harvey Bailey on the
Paradise, Tex., “kidnap farm" where
the victim was hidden. Bailey is
serving a life term on conviction of
the kidnaping.
"Didn’t you sell Kelly three ma
chine guns before this'time?” ask
ed Kathryns attorney. John Rob
erts, after Klar had testified that
the woman came into his shop
alone last Feb. 20 and selected the
weapon.
CfiUd Testifies
“No Sir. Kelly had been in the
store before but never had bought
anything,’’ Klar replied.
He denied that when Kathryn
entered the store that day he had
said to her: "I’ve got that machine
gun that Kelly wanted.”
The machine gun. prosecutors
allege, was the one which was
pointed at Urschei when he was
hustled from his sun porch July 22.
“He’s lying.’’ muttered Kathryn,
frowming, as Klar told his story.
Prosecutors also sent to the wit
ness chair 13-year-old Rifth Shan
non, whose father and mother
already are under life sentences, to
testify against Kathryn, her half
sister.
Her Story Dashed
Obviously frightened. Ruth tes
tified that Kathryn unexpectedly
took her and two other girls to Fort
Wor»h from the R. G ShannonJ*
Texas farm the day Urschei was
brought there, a blindfolded captive.
This and the machine gun testi
mony. prosecutors believed, dashed
the blue-eyed defendant's story
that she was the unwilling tool
ot her husband.
Two Sentenced for
Kidnaping Threats
NEW YORK. Oct. 10. <JP>—Nico
lina de Palma. Yonkers nurse, was
sentenced to five years imprison
ment, and James Medley, former
gasoline station attendant, to 10
years by Federal Judge Alfred C.
Coxe today on their pleas of guilty
to threats to kidnap a niece of Rus
Sell C. Leffingwell. partner In the
Morgan banking house.
Four letters were received by
Franklin A. Batcheller. Yonkers res
ident. demanding $10,000 under
threat to kidnap and harm his
daughter, now Mrs. Helen B. Dough
erty.
TributehPaid
To Barry Miller
AUSTIN. Oct. 10. W—Surviving
j colleagues of the late Barry Miller
| of Dallas, when he was a member
| of the Texas senate more than 30
i years ago. paid a final tribute to
| him today in impressive memorial
services in the senate chamber.
Five of the 10 surviving members
of the senates of 1899 and 1901 were
present. They were M. P. McGee of
! Marshall. W D. Yett of Austin, C.
V. Terrell of Austin, now railroad
commissioner. W. A. Hanger of Fort
Worth and S. L. Staples of Austin.
Delegation Seeks
Aid for Schools
(Special to • ’ ? Herald)
SAN BENITO. Oct. 10 —A delega
tion of three left here this morn
ing for Austin to seek financing of
the San Benito school system. A gov
ernment loan will be sought.
The delegation is composed of E.
C Breedlove, president of the school
board: Thomas J. Yoe, superintend
ent; and Ivan Riley of Harlingen,
architect.
President Weds
WARSAW. Oct. 10. op—Ignace
day in the private chapel of the
Poland, and Mme. Mary Dobrzan
ska. half his age. were married to
day in the private chape! of hte
royal castle The bride at on* time
was social secretary to Mme. Mos
cicki, who died in 1932.