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Only Three of Southwest’s ‘BadMen ’ Remain to Be Captured by Police
FLOYD MILLER
AND UNDERHILL
STILL HUNTED
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 13. —<**>—
Hoodlum hunters went after crim
inal quarry in the southwest almost
light heartedly today.
Harvey Bailey and George (Ma
chine Gun> Kelly were put away—
lor keeps. That simplifijd the
hunt, a triumvirate remained.
Only Three Remain
Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd and
Wilbur Underhill, long familiar
names south of the Missouri river
and the Kaw, were sought along
with a blond newcomer from the
north, Verne Miller, World War
machine gunner and former Huron,
S. D.. sheriff who “went bad."
"Floyd is just a cross-roads
chicken thief," according to C. A.
Burns, chief of the Oklahoma Bu
reaw of Criminal Investigation. But
other authorities have rated him as
"the most dangerous gunman in
the southwest."
Underhill likes to be called the
“Tri-State Terror,” an appelatlon
gained from his depredations in the
Ozarks area of Missouri, Arkansas
and Oklahoma. He and Bailey led
the Memorial Day break of eleven
convicts from the Kansas state
prison. Two murder convictions
stand against him. Bank robbery is
his forte.
He and Ed Davis. 30-year-old life
termer, are the only convicts of
the Kansas fugitives unaccounted
for. Two men who robbed the
Farmers and Merchants Bank o
Tyron. Okla., Oct 9, boasted they
were Underhill and Brady. Photo
graphs of Underhill yere identified
as those of a participant in a $2.
000 bank holdup the same day at
Baxter Springs, Kas.
Gunner For Fay
Miller, a machine gunner for pay.
Underhill and Floyd all are want
e (|:or the slaying of their frlena,
convict Frank Nash, and four of
ficers at the Kansas City Un.on
station, June 17.
Bailey was wanted In that case, j
too. but his convicton along with
Kelly and seven others in the
$200,000 Charles F. Urschel kidnao
ing left disposition of the charges
in doubt. Bailey, Kelly and four
others were sentenced to life Im
prisonment.
Bob “Big Boy" Brady, escaped
Kansas convict, also Indicted for
the Kansas City slayings, lies
wounded in the New Mexico peni
tentiary. He was shot Friday in;
attempting to escape arrest.
i WEATHER
East Texas (east of 100th meri
dian*: Partly cloudy, showers on;
the wMt coast and in southwest
portion, Friday night and Saturday, j
Light to moderate easterly to
southerly winds on the coast.
RIVER BULLETIN
The river will continue to fall
slowly throughout the Valley, ex
cept only very slowly at and be- [
low Brownsville, during the next
24 to 36 hours.
niwd Present 24-Hr 24-H* i
Star-* Stage Chung Ram |
Laredo 27 1.7 40.7 .00 j
Rio Grande 21 9 8 -0.4 .00
Hidalgo 22 12.8 -0.7 .00
Mercedes 20 17/ -1.0 .00
Brownsville 18 17.4 -0.1 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Port Isabel
Saturday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 1:28 a. m.
Low 6:15 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
8unset today . 6:04
Sunrise tomorrow.6:29
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure remained
moderately high over the region
from the plains states and Texas
to the Atlantic coast since last re
port, but fell considerably over the
Canadian Northwest and adjacent
regions. Except for some cloudiness
and a few light scattered showers
in Texas and New Mexico the
weather continueu generally fair to
clear throughout the country. It was
considerably cooler to colder in the
central states and the Ohio valley
this morning, and warmer over a
considerable area in the Canadian
Northwest and adjacent states.
Freezing temperatures prevailed,
however, also at widely scattered
places in the United States this
morning.
BULLETIN
(First figures, lowest temperature
last night; second, highest yester
day; third, wind velocity at 8 a. m.;
fourth, precipitation in last 24 hrs.)
Abilene . 62 80 .. .00
Amarillo ....•••••• 50 66 10 .00
Atlanta . 68 78 .. .00
Austin .. 68 88 .. .00
BROWNSVILLE .. 73 84 .. .00
Br’ville Airport ... 68 85 .. .00
Chicago . 42 52 .. .00
Cleveland ........ 46 56 18 .00
Corpus Christi .... 76 84 .. .00
Dallas . 62 86 .. .02
Del Rio . 66-86 .. .42
Denver . 44 64 12 .00
El Paso . 58 78 .. .00
Fort Smith . 60 78 10 .00
Houston . 70 88 .. .00
Huron . 36 48 14 .00
Jacksonville . 66 84 .. .00
Kansas City ...... 44 62 10 .00
Los Angeles. 56 76 .. .00
Lou if; vi lie . 42 60 10 .18
Memphis . 50 72 .. .00
Miami . 76 82 .. .01
Minneapolis .. 30 44 .. .00
New Orleans . 66 82 .. .00
North Platte . 40 62 .. .00
Oklahoma City .... 54 64 .. .00
Palestine . 68 86 .. .00
P maloca . 64 80 12 .00
Ivoenlx . 68 88 .. .00
fit. Louis . 44 62 .. .00
Si Lake City .... 48 74 .. .00
Sail Antonio . 70 88 .. .00
Santa Pe ...t. 44 64 .. .01
Sheridan ....1. 30 70 .. .00
Shreveport . 64 82 10 .22
Tatnpa . 68 86 10 .00
Vicksburg . 62 80 .. .00
Washington . 62 80 .. .16
WUliston . 42 58 .. .00
Wilmington . 58 78 .. .00
Wuuarmucca . 30 82 .. jOO ,
IS --■-1-*
THE GORILLA STARTS TROUBLE
Scene from “Tarzan The Fearless” new jungle thriller starring Buster
Crabbe and Jacqueline Wells, showing Friday and Saturday at the
Capitol Theatre, Brownsville.
Shippers Vote To
Bond Mem hers A nd
Raise Standards
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Oct. 13.—A move
ment designed to place the mem
bership of the South Texas Ship
pers' Assn, on such a high plane
that the mere fact that a shipper
belongs will gain the confidence of
the farmer, was started here Thurs
day.
Shipping sections all the way
from Corpus Christ! to Brownsville
were represented at the meeting
in the patio of the Reese-Wil-Mond
hotel where a committee was nam
ed to draw up a code of ethics, fix
a bond guaranteeing fair dealing,
and d.scuss compulsory shipping
point inspection and grading of
vegetables, a subject very near to
the hearts of grower organizations.
Pres. Louis S. Witte appointed a
committee of Frank Hall of Mer
cedes, chairman; L R. Stahl, Wes
laco; John Morris, Jr., Harl.ngen;
Cleve Tandy, Brownsville; and C
D. Kirk, San Benito, to work out
details of the code of ethics and
settle other questions which came
up for discussion at the meeting
here. The committee will meet
Monday morning in the office of
Mr. Morris and will report at an
other general meeting to be held
at the Reese-Wil-Mond Thursday
morning.
This week’s meeting was lor mem
bers and non-members alike, no
tices having been sent to all ship
pers of which tlie association had
record, in order to discuss the cur
rent Valley situation and to build
for the future.
It was the consensus of the
meeting that the association should
adopt a code of ethics and set a
bond for members because the pro- |
babilities are that no bonding bill
can pass this session of the legis
lature which has about expired.
It was the feeling of shippers
that code requirements should be
made rigid and that anyone desir
ing to be a member must not only
agree to the code but sign an
agreement. The bond would be for
the purpose of guaranteeing fair
dealing with g-rowers and payment
of dues to the association.
One of the ideas brought for
ward was that the rigid member
ship requirements should be given
full publicity and the names of
paid-up memberships published in
newspaper advertisements from
time to time so that the growers
might know which shippers have
subscribed to the code and are
backing up their dealings with
bonds.
The committee will have the task
of drawing up a code of ethics in
i which not only fellow members but
growers will have a strong interest
and determining what amount of
bond shall be made by members.
It was the idea of Mr. Kirk that
the association should "start out
new" and that its membership car
ry such prestige that shippers will
seek to Join rather than have the
association solicit them to come in
to the organization. The code
should be so strong, he said, that
gr wers will not do business with
shippers who will not subscribe to
its provisions and make the bond
which Is set.
Some thought that as long as
production was light that growers
might take the attitude that they
should deal only with reputable
shippers but that with overproduc
tion they would again sell to “every
Tom. Dick and Harry." The solu
tion as seen by others present was
that shipments could be prorated
when overproduction threatens as
has been done in various parts of
the country.
Davis Wade, San Benito shipper
long a “holdout" as far as the as
sociation was concerned, strongly
approved the suggested setup of its
proposed high standards. He said
that the reason he had not joined
previously was that he had felt the
association was solely a member
ship proposition but that with
adoption of a strong code of ethics
that he saw it as a movement in
the right direction, gaining confi
dence of the grower.
Several methods of financing the
association were discussed so that
the fight against higher freight
rates, reduction of refrigeration
charges anil similar matters might
be carried forward with vigor. L.
F Sewell, secretary, explained that
a number of rate matters were
pending even how although hear
ings have been over for a year and
that eternal watchfulness on the
part of a strong shipper organiza
tion was necessary to prevent dis
crimination against this section.
Hart T. Longlno of .he Texas
Federal shipping point inspection
service told of the strong desire on
part of grower organizations to for
mulate a bill calling for compul
sory inspection and grading of vege
tables and urged the shippers to
name a committee to work with
them. He said the government
agencies cannot sponsor such meas
ures and can work only with those
who are interested.
The House of Lords, England
may transact certain business when
there are only three members pres
ent. not necessarily including the
Lord Chancellor.
KELLY MAY
SPEND LIFE
ONJSLAND
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 13.—UP)
—Alcatraz Island, a block of roctc
rising amid swirling currents in
San Francisco Bay, is planned as
the lifetime home of blustering
‘Machine Gun” George Kelly and
Harvey Bailey, two of the six sen
tenced to life imprisonment for the
kidnaping of Charles F. Ursctiei,
oil millionaire.
Bailey already is serving behind
the walls of Leavenworth Federal
Prison with Albert Bates, convicted
of aiding Kelly In the actual ab
duction.
To Separate Pair
Kelly and his wife, Kathryn,
sentenced yesterday, are held nere
awaiting removal. Kelly probaoiy
will be taken by plane to Leaven
worth. Kathryn may go to Cincin
nati, despite her avowal she wlU be
• bad” unless sent to the same pri
son with her mother, Mrs. R. G.
Shannon, who is expected to oc
cupy a cell in the prison at Alder
son. West Virginia. Mrs. Shannon
and her husband, also sentenced to
life, however, will be given some
time to wind up their affairs at
their Paradise, Tex., "kidnap” farm
home.
Shannon's 22-year-old son, Ar
mon, given a suspended sentence of
10 years, departed for the Texas
farm yesterday, expressing confid
ence his neighbors “will under
stand” and that he would live “the
right kind of a life.”
The remaining pair of nine con
victed, Clifford Skelly and Edward
Berman of Minneapolis, were sen
tenced to five years each.
Cue Unfinished
Although state charges of rob
bery with firearms against Kelly
and Bates were dropped, the far
reaching case is not finished.
Kathryn’s uncle, Cass Coleman,
from whose Texas cotton paten
iederal agents dug $73,250 of me
ransom money, and his neighbor,
Will Casey, face charges of harbor
ing criminals.
Kelly's brother-in-law, Langford
Ramsey, Memphis lawyer, accused
oi trying to recover tne money
buried in Coleman’s farm, and
three men taken when the Keilgs
were trapped in Memphis, are
under arrest.
Urschel, praised for his coopera
toin with the government and given
“new” money in exchange for the
marked bills recovered, now is con
cerned with recovery of approxim
ately $125,000 still outstanding.
Lions Club Planning
Quarterly Conference |
HARLINGEN. Oct. 13. — Th*
quarterly group meeting of Vaiby
Lions will be held at McAllen Mon
day, Oct. 23, it was announced at
a meeting of the local club at the
Madison Hotel Thursday by E. O.
Anglin.
Directors will meet Monday with
Pres. L. R. Baker.
Mrs. J Grant Marthens and Mrs
Carlisle sang duets with Mrs. 3. R.
Jennings at the piano.
Good For Biliousness
*T decided to take Thedford’s j
Black-Draught, as I had been hav- I
tag bilious spells,” writes Mr. t
Charles E. Stevens, of Columbus
Ind. "When I get bilious. I feei
sleepy and tired and do not feel
like doing my wort:. I get awfully
dizzy. After I found how good
Black-Draught is, that is what I
have used. I guess it rids me of
the bile, for I feel better —don’t
feel like I am dropping off to sleep
every time I sit down. That, to me,
is a very bad feeling.”
• • Children like the new. pleasant
tasting SYRUP of Black-Draught.
f/ I
VVHATlS THE USE OF WAITING? TIMES ARE ON THE MAKE!
WHAT’S THE USE OF HATING EVERYTHING YOU BAKE?.
V
• NOVV'5 THE TIME FOR MAKING AN END TO VA/N REGRET
DO SOME OLD-TIME BAKING- GO BACK TO CALUMET/
Five Sick
Elephants
Left Behind
CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. IS. m
—The Mg top moved on to an
other town today, but five of
Barnum and Bailey’s herd of 50
elephants couldn't make the trip.
They were sick—painfully sick.
"Musta been something they
ate," said the caretakers, as the
big fellows trumpeted in anguish.
“Huh—it’s Friday, the 13th."
opined young rustabouts as they .
strained at moving the Mg poles
as the show bro’ ** up—work usual
ly done by the beats.
Fourteen of the herd became ill
here, but only five were too sick
to be taken to the next stop.
Circus officials were at a loss to
explain the elephants' illness
which they believed to have re
sulted from some kind of poison.
GOES UNDER KNIFE
HARLINGEN—c. H. Garden un
derwent an operation at the Valley
Baptist hospital. i
RUSSIAN ■ JAP
FUSS REACHES
DAN _R POINT
MOSCOW, Oct. IS. —(JPy— The
tightly drawn cord of diplomatic
relations between Russia and Japan
was stretched ' a bit nearer the
breaking point today.
It was strained further with re
ports from Khabarovsk, Siberia, of
the arrest of two more Soviet of
ficials of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way iQ Nippon’s puppet state, Man
chukuo.
Only a few days ago, a sensation
was created here vlth the publica
tion of what allegedly were docu
ments describing a Japanese plan
to seise the CER.
One by one, it was said, the few
remaining Soviets among the rood s
officials were to be removed, event
ually giving Manchukuo complete
control.
The two latest arrests reportedly
made aa Soviet Consul General
Slavutski at Harbin renewed nis
demands for an answer to his pre
vious reporta.
Meanwhile, from Tokyo came a
foreign office spokesman's state
ment which indicated Japan's stand
remained unchanged. “Several days
of careful deliberation.’’ he said,
“will precede Nippon’s next move
in the controversy.
Hunters of Cheap
Land Disappointed
OBpecial to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Oct. 13. — Those
people who flocked to the Valley
expecting to buy up good property
from citizens discouraged by last
month's storm have been sadly dis
appointed. says Harold P. Looney,
real estate man and city commis
sioner.
They found that Valley people as
a whole were not discouraged but
on the other hand were rebuilding
rapidly.
“Of course there may be some
families who bought lands with
little or no drainage and who ooU
gated themselves beyond their ca
pacity to pay who are moving sway
but few are leaving who made
sound investments,” Looney said.
CALIFORNIA’S
STRIKES CROW
Hope of peace In the strike-rid
den coal fields of western Pennsyl
vania was more encouraging today,
but in California the strike move
ment spread.
Bituminous mine operators told
Pres. Roosevelt they would give
conditional recognition to the check
off. under which union dues are
deducted from miners’ wages, and
some labor leaders believed this
would be accepted as recognition of
the union.
The number of strikers in Cali
fornia Increased to 25.000 when 7,
000 garment workers in Los Angeles
left their Jobs to protest low wages.
Strikes among cotton pickers, sar
dine fishermen, lettuce and tomato
pickers, grape harvesters and steve
dores continued.
Sullivan. Ind.. was under curfew
ordered by national guardsmen.
Three Sullivan county mine work
era locals voted to return to work.
Threat of a strike in the Republic
Steel plant In Buffalo collapsed
when workers* representatives walk
ed out of a “strike” meeting.
SPECIALS
For
FRIDAY
TZL And
SATURDAY
SPECIALS
For
FRIDAY ^
And
SATURDAY
Home Cash Grocery in Brownsville
AND ALL JITNEY JUNGLE STORES IN THE VALLEY ,
COFFEE
Admiration
1-lb. Can
26c
Vermont Maid
I SYRUP
12-oz. Jug... 19c
26-oz. Jug.38c
MILK, All Kinds, 3 tall or 6 small cans 19c
COLORADO BROWN BEAUTIES
POTATOES, 10 pounds . •.25c
rv \KI UHTTr
SHORTENING, 1-lb. carton. 8c
BUTTER, Valley Brand, 1-lb. carton 22c
PIIXSBI'RT'S BEST
FLOUR, 24-lb. Sack.
Crisco
Three
for homes that
wonithebeat Pail Only.
in cooking * ‘ *
CORN, Desire, No. 2 can. 8c
POTTED MEAT, Armour’s, per can. 3c
SOAP, Camay, per bar. 5c
APPLES, Peak, solid pack, gal. can . 35c
POST POASTIES, large pkg.10c
COCOA, Baker’s, Vg-lb. pkg.10c
i
Regular
Package
GRAPES
Per Pound
7%c ,
SHOOTING PLANE!
Free for 2 Pkf. Tops of 2 Pkfs.
WHEATIES 23c
SENT TO MFGRS. ■■ V
I
APPLES
Fancy Jonathans,
Med. Size, per doz.
Baking Powder
Calumet,
I I-lb. Can ..
DEL MONTE
PEAS, Early Garden, No. 2 can ....=.- 16c
PREMIER ASSORTED FLAVORS
PRESERVES, 2-lb. Jar . 47c
PIMIENTOS . SJ3. Wtc
OLMITO, No. S CAN—
BLACK EYED PEAS with Pork .... 8V2c
GRAPENUTS FLAKES, reg. pkg. . ., 9c
EXTRA CHOICE EVAPORATED
APRICOTS, 1-lb. package.14c
PRUNES, large size, 1-lb. pkg.8c
KRAFT’S KITCHEN FRESH
MAYONNAISE £ ;;;.it
Royal Geletin ROYAL?
QukkS^I !
Win an Automobile
During the October
Contest, three pkgs. ....
PEACHES, Del Monte, No. V/z can .. 17c
PEARS, Del Monte, No. 2x/t can .... 19c
DEL MONTE
TOMATO JUICE, 12V*-oz. can . 8’/2c
AMERICAN
SARDINES, three can* ...10c
SOAP, Lifebuoy, per bar.. 6V2C
PHILLIPS
MILK of MAGNESIA *£ £& ;;;;;;; £
RINSO, large phg..21ck
OLM1TO ROASTED and PACKED IN THE VALLEY jl
COFFEE, 1-lb. carton.19c
TOOTH PASTE, Ipana, 50c tube ... 38c
m .. **"
SOAP
P & G I
LIFETIME CHROMIUM TRAY
I WITH 2 PACKAGE TOPS FROM
{“BISQOICK 33c
Mailed to Bisanick. MinneipoHs. Minn.
Macaroni and Spaghetti
Skinner’s
FANCY SLICED BACON, per lb.. 17c
CUT TO SUIT:
PORK SHOULDER, per lb.10c
ROUND LOIN STEAK, per lb. ...19c
BRANDED BEEF:
CHUCK ROAST, per lb.. 14c
CHUCK VEAL, per lb...12c
7 STEAK CHOPS, per lb. ..15c
PURE PORK SAUSAGE, with Old
Plantation Seasoning.. 12V£c
PICNIC HAM, Sugar Cured, 4 to 6-lb.# per lb... 9c
YOUNG CALF LlVER7siic7»d7per lb. ..7 15c
YOUNG PIG HAM, half or whole, or Loin Roast 14c
DRY SALT BACON, Streak O’ Lean, per lb. . .. 10c
BRISKET POT ROAST or STEW, pCr lb.77777 9c
A^i^K^L ON A QUARTCJ?^^
-WHERE THE RIO GRANDE BUYS ITS FOODS"