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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—-No. 88 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1938 Sc A COPY
Kelly Again Warns He Will Break Prison
MACHINE GUN’
IS TAKEN TO
LEAVENWORTH
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‘HI Be Out of Here
By Christmas’
He Boasts
LEAVENWORTH. Kas., Oct. 14.
UP)—George (Machine Gun) Kelly,
convicted kidnaper, today was be
hind the high walls of Leavenworth
federal penitentiary from which he
declared he would soon escape.
Heavily Guarded
The associate of Harvey Bailey
and Albert Bates, who preceded him
to the prison with similar life sen
tences for the $200,000 ransom ab
duction of Charles F. Urschel, made
his boast at Kansas City. In the
train yards there the armored, win
dow-barred coach which brought
him from Oklahoma City was trans
ferred to another locomotive for
the short run to the prison. Num
erous guards were scattered through
the yards and union station.
It was in front of the Kansas City
Union station that four officers
and their convict-prisoner, Prank
Nash, were slain last June 17, as
Nash was being transferred from
a train to motor car to be return
ed to Leavenworth.
Done Prison Garb
Although he donned prison tarb
on his arrival at the prison last
night, mo6t of the ‘dressing In”
routine was delayed until today.
Kelly will be placed in an observa
tion ward for three days and then
will, like other prisoners, be put to
work, pending probable transfer to
another prison later.
“Don't worry about me.” Keii>
told officers as they arrived here,
“I’ll be out of here before Christ
mas.”
“What Christmas?” asked Har
old Anderson, a federal agent.
Kelly made no reply.
•jQpe of the guards said Kelly re
marked. as the train entered the
prison, that he was glad to get there
“so I can get this hardware off."
He referred to the handcuffs rmd
leg chains.
‘Going to Break Out’
At Kansas City he peered from a
barred window of his coach at a
crowd of officers.
“How's things?” a patrolman
shouted.
“I'm going to break out as soon
as I get to Leavenworth,” Kelly re
plied. The crowd laughed.
Officers commented that he evi
dently had either not heard or had
discounted the discpuraging obser
vance of Bailey, viewing the prison
f walls from an airplane, that they
were ‘‘pretty high.”
Bailey was one of 11 convicts who
escaped over the Kansas peniten
tiary wails at Lansing, Kas.. last
Memorial Day.
King Ranch Leased
By Oil Interests
CORPUS CHRIST!, Oct. 14. (/P»—
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times
says the Humble Oil company has
leased the 1,800.000-acre King ranch
of southeast Texas for oil develop
ment purposes, for a reported con
sideration of $3,500,000.
The paper says the deal includes
properties in nine south Texas coun
ties. Although members of the Kle
berg family, owners of the ranch,
declined to confirm or deny the re
port and referred inquiries to R. J.
Kleberg. Jr., administrator of the
1 estate, the paper says he could not
be located.
Youth Sentenced
SWEETWATER. Oct. 14. (JP)—
Luke Trammell, west Texas youth
convicted of murder for killing de
puty sheriff John Lam kin at Black
well last June 1, today was under
a 50-year penitentiary sentence.
Ranger Capt. James M. Robbins
of San Angelo testified he had prom
ised Trammel he would use his in
fluence to see that he got no more
than a life sentence If he would
confess. The court then ruled he
confession was legally inadmissible
and an agreed sentence of 50 years
was assessed last night.
theTweather
For Brownsville and the Valley:
.Mostly cloudy Sunday; not much
^ “Wfcange In temperature
PLANE CRASH
SETS FIRE TO
TWOHOUSES
Ship Falls Onto Roof
After Collision At
Air Circus
WILMINGTON. Dei., Oct, 14. Uft
—Crashing onto two houses after
colliding with another plane, an
open-cockpit monoplane, part of an
air circus, caught fire and set the
houses ablaze today.
The pilot, Roy Hunt, bailed out
and landed safely. The other plane
was not damaged.
Tank Explodes
The fire started after the gas
oline tank exploded. Four police
men. who had gone on the roofs of
the houses to investigate were in
jured.
Hunt's home js in Oklahoma
City. The air circus, conducted by
the American Air Aces. Inc., with
headquarters in Chicago, had been
hired to give demonstrations this
afternoon at Bellanca Field. New
castle. six miles from Wilmington.
Families Flee
The other plane, also part of the
“circus” was piloted by Harold
Newman, of Moline, III., the mach
ines had been maneuvering over
the city.
The houses on which Hunt’s
plane landed are in a closely built
up district. They are occupied by
John Martin and Morris Rousele
and their families, who fled from
the homes before the gasoline tank
exploded.
Mrs. Lon Chaney
To Be Married
To Chauffeur
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 14. UPh
Blanks for a notice of intention
to wed Mrs. Hazel G. Chaney,
wealthy widow of the late Lon
Chaney, movie character actor,
were obtained today at the mar
riage license bureau by John
Jeske, the Chaney family chauf
feur.
License clerks said Jeske told
them he expected to marry Mrs.
Chaney at her bedside in a hos
pital where she is reported seri
ously ill.
Kathryn Kelly To
Remain in Jail
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 14. UP)
—Kathryn Kelly, wife of Machine
Gun George," and her mother, Mrs.
R. G. Shannon, both under sen
tence of life imprisonment for the
Charles F. Urschel kidnaping, prob
ably will remain in the county jail
here until next Wednesday at the
'arliest, authorities indicated to
day.
Reports which could not be con
firmed said the blue-e, Jd Kathryn
would be taken to the federal wo
men's workhouse at Cincinnati and
her mother to a similar prison at
Memphis.
Bonds Suspect Is
Hidden in Texas
DENISON. Oct. 14. iff)—■Elmer
Burd, an Okmulgee. Okla.. res
taurant operator, charged with con
spiracy to handle stolen securities,
was held secretly for two days In
the city Jail here and was removed
late yesterday to a “point in Tex
as" by Jim J. Shown, Texas ranger.
Shown arrested him at Okmulgee
Wednesday and questioned him
concerning all angles of trips he
made recently to Louisiana and
Kansas City and of telephone and
telegraph communications with va
rious person*.
FIRE SWEEPS
WATERFRONT
AFTER BLAST
Man Killed, Three
Others Missing
In Blaze
BAYONNE. N. J.. Oct. 14. (A*'—A
fire which swept the water front
of the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey’s lower hook plant early to
day claimed one life and caused
damage estimated from $75,000 to
$150,000.
Another man was badly burned
and three more were unaccounted
for. But it was believed they were
aboard lighters which put out when
the fire started.
The fire destroyed the fuel-supply
launch in which it started, an i dam
aged two concrete piers and four
lighters and for a time threatened
the entire plnat.
The dead man was Arne Kolvj^rn
sen, 18. of Staten Island.
The blazing piers and launch were
visible for miles along the New
York. Brooklyn, Staten Island and
Jersey shores. and lighted tlie
stack of the Jacob Ruppert, ltag
ship of the Byrd Anartic expedition,
moored a mile away at Constable
Hook with steam up for a mldnlgnt
departure. She was never in any
danger, however.
Two of the known missing were
John Holmes and Howard Brace, the
latter a nephew of Capt. M. S
Brace, skipper of the launch R. T. C.
No. 7 on which the fire started.
They were in the crew of the launch
which tied up at Pier 5 late yester
day and was taking on 2.000 bar
rels of fuel oil when the fire start
ed and an explosion ripped a hole
in her deck.
| Fc jtball Results
Delaware 0; Army 52.
Georgia 30; North Carolina 0.
Virginia 6; Columbia 15.
Union 0; Amherst 46.
West Virginia 0; Fordham 20.
V. P. L 13; William and Mary 7.
Muhlenberg 3; Penn. State 0.
Johns Hopkins 7; Lehigh 14.
Tennessee 2; Duke 10.
Alfred 12; Buffalo 12 (tie).
New Hampshire 0; Harvard 34.
Ohio Wesleyan 0; Syracuse 40.
V. M. I. 0; Davidson 6.
Colby 14; Boston Unlv. 9.
Wisconsin 0; Illinois 21.
Earlham 0; DePauw 28.
Franklin 0; Ohio U. 78.
Kentucky State 0; Wilberforce 12.
Gallaudet 0; Washington College
Bucknell 19; Villanova 17.
Indiana (Pa.) 25; Bloomsburg 7.
Purdue 7; Minnesota 7 (tie).
Stanford 0; Northwestern 0.
Nebraska 20; Iowa State 0.
Notre Dame 12; Indiana 2.
Georgetown 20; Manhattan 20
(tie).
Alabama Poly Institute 6; Georgia
Tech. 16.
Mercer 0; Birmingham Southern
0.
Cornell University 0; Michigan
40.
Wesleyan 12: Michigan State 20.
F. St M. 0; Pennsylvania 9.
Rutgers 2; Colgate 25.
Bates 0; Dartmouth 14.
John Carroll 7; Western Reserve
0.
Washington and Lee 7; Yale 14.
St. Michael's 0; Northeastern 9.
Wesleyan 0; Bowdoin 14.
Vanderbilt 0; Ohio State 20.
Lafayette 12; N. Y. U. 13.
Lebanon Valley 12; City College
(New York) 0.
Connecticut 7; Massachusetts 40.
Providence 0; Holy Cross 14.
Princeton 14-45. Williams 0-0.
Pitt 7-34. Navy 6-6.
St. Vincents 14. St. Mary 6.
Carnegie Tech 3, Xavier 0.
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LEADS GERMANY IN BOLD MOVE
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Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s action today In announcing Germany's with
drawal from the Leagie of Nations and the disarmament conference
was interpreted by leaoing national figures as plunging Europe into
another crisis.
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2 AIRPLANES
SHOT DOWN IN
SIAMREVOLT
Fed eral Artillery
Opens Fire On
Soldiers
BANGKOK. Siam. Oct. 14.
Heavy fighting was reported in pro
gress today between government
and rebel troops on the outskirts
of this city.
Government artillery late yester
day opened fire which continued
through the night and was still in
progress this morning.
The rebels, who began their move
ment Thursday by seizing a royal
aeronautical airdrome, were repotred
rereating after sustaining heavy
casualties.
Two airplanes circling the city
were shot down in the river. One
of them crashed in front of the
royal palace.
The city itself was relatively quiet
as the government expressed confi
dence it would be able to subdue th*
rebellion.
Wreck Injures Man
ERICK, Okla.. Oct. 14. iJPI-John
Jackson, 30, of Shamrock, Tex. a
drug company salesman, was injur
ed seriously in an automobile acci
dent near Erick today. He was
brought to a hospital
TWO CHARGED
FOR HELPING
KELLY HIDE
_
Armored Car Figures
. In Arrest At
Chicago
CHICAGO, Oct. 14. (AWoseph
Bergl and Charles Caplan were ac
cused by the government today of
obstructing Justice in helping har
bor George “Machine Gun" Kelly
and his wife, Kathryn, while they
were in hiding here for five days
before their capture at Memphis.
Bergl is the Cicero garage owner
arrested shortly after the robbery
Sept. 22 of two Federal Reserve
bank messengers and the killing of
a policeman as the bandits' armor
ed car was wrecked on a West Side
street. Police said r*ergl had or
dered the armoring for the sedan.
Bergl already in federal custody,
was served with the warrant and
he and Caplan. a reputed bootleg
E, were held in $15,000 bond for
iring Oct. 20.
Troops Concentrated
TOKYO, Oct. 14. (A*)—Authorita
tive sources said here today that
‘Japanese troops were being con
centrated at Mukden. Changchun
and Harbin in Manchuria.
Apparently the. concentration was
a precautionary measure, ostensibly
in preparation for a bandit drive.
PORKERS COME
FROM BEHIND
TO WIN19 TO 7
Ponies Defeat Rice
As Aerial Plays
Click
a_
LITTLE ROCK, Oct. 14. MV
Alter trailing a lighting Baylor
University eleven lor two periods,
the University of Arkansas Razor
backs gained two breaks they turn
ed into touchdowns during the lat
ter part of the final p.riod to de
feat the Bears, 19-7, here today be
fore 8,500 spectators. The win
placed the Hogs in the lead in the
Southwest Conference race.
Baylor came back in the Opening
quarter after the Porkers' put over
a touchdown in the first few min
utes and outfought and outplayed ;
the Arkansas squad during the
next two periods. Baylor scored in
the second quarter on a long pass
after a series of plunges that took
the ball deep into Arkansas terri
tory.
HOUSTON, Oct. 14. — The i
Southern Methodist University's
Mutangs trampled the Rice Owls
into a 13 to 7 defeat here this aft
ernoon after taking an early lead
and holding it throughout the aft
ernoon.
Neither team was able to score in
the final period although the Owls
took to the air in a desperate at
tempt to overcome the Ponies’ con
vincing lead.
FORT WORTH. Oct. 14. UP)—
Texas Christian University, winners
last year of the Southwest Confer
ence championship, this afternoon
buried the lighter Simmons’ Uni
versity team from Abilene under a
20 to 0 score.
The heavier Prop battled list
lessly through three quarters, con
tent to lead by a 7 to 0 margin,
and then rolled up two more touch
downs in the final period.
DALLAS, Oct. 14. </P>—The Uni
versity of Oklahoma this after
noon deefated the University of
Texas 9 to 0 before a large crowd
at the Fairpark Stadium.
The victory was the first in five
years for the Oklahomans in their
annual games with Texas.
Oklahoma scored in the first and
third quarters.
WOMAN SAYS
SHE SHOT IN
SELF DEFENSE
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UPPER SANDUSKY. O.. Oct. 14.
UP)—The nearly nude body of an
Ohio curio collector was found be
side a northern Ohio road last
night and today Mrs. Eva Timmer
was lodged in jail here for question
ing. after she admitted shooting the
man.
The slain curio collector, who us
ed a bus in his travels through
Ohio, was R. V. Brown, a former
marshal at Powhatan Point. O.
Mrs. Timmer. who gave no resi
dence and gave her age as 42. said
she had been traveling with Brown
and his medicine show curios since
Aug. 1. She told Sheriff L. Weatb
erholtz. of Wyandot county in jail
here today that she killed Brown
when he attacked her.
Sheriff WeatherhoJtz said no
charge had been placed against Mrs.
Timmer, pending further question
ing.
REFUSAL OF ARMS
EQUALITY ENOS IN
DRASTIC I LSURES
Germany Term* Demands of Othe* Nations
Humiliating and Dishonoring
To Republic
BERLIN, Oct. 14. (AP) —By one of the boldest
strokes of official action taken since his assumption of
power, Chancellor Adolf Hitler today served notice on
the league of nations that Germany will withdraw two
years hence, and on the disarmament conference that the
rc,5" no finds it | ssible to continue its attendance*
To demonstrate to the worfi that all Germany stands
behind the chancellor’s foreign policy, Pres. Paul Von
Hindenburg ordered the dissolution of the reichstag and
all the state parliaments and set new reichstag elections
for Nov. 12.
HITLER MOVE
BEGINS GRAVE
WORLD CRISIS
U. S., England, France
And Austria Show
Deep Concern
WASHINGTON. Oct. 14. (*V-Bec.
Cordell Hull said today that Ger
many's notice today of withdrawal
from the arm conference and the
League of Nations impedes the whole
movement for disarament.
The secretary of state, speaking
gravely to reporters, said the Amer
ican government is very seriously
disappointed and deeply regretful
of the developments.
While Sec. Hull declined to com
ment more fully in the absence of
official dispatches, it was learned
from another source that the
American government took a stand
with Great Britain and France in
opposing immediate rearmament 6f
Germany.
The seriousness with which the
Washington government views the
levelopment was indicated as the
secretary conferred almost constant
ly with his associates.
LONDON. Oct. 14. (JPh-Great Bri
tain’s role in the grave world crisis
as the result of the German with
drawal from the disarmament con
ference and the League of Nations
was described today as an effort
to keep the European hotheads
from rocking the boat.
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon
ald maintained the closest contact
with Sir John Simon, the British
foreign secretary at Geneva, and
explicitly Instructed the foreign Of
fice in Downing street to make no
official comment.
PARIS. Oct. 14. UP)—A French
spokesman today characterized the
announcement of Germany's inten
tion to withdraw from the disarma
ment conference and the League of
Nations as “the gravest news in 20
years.”
VIENNA. Oct. 14. (AV-News of
Germany’s withdrawal from the dis
armament conference and the Lea
gue of Nations was received as a
sensation in the Austrian capital
today.
Doheny Family Gets
$100,000 in Rebates
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. VP)—'Tax
refunds totaling $100,000 to the
Doheny family of Los Angeles were
announced today by the Internal
Revenue Bureau.
Of this amount $34,988 was cred
ited to Edward L. Doheny, a prin
cipal in the oil scandals of the
Harding administration.
Rail Fares Cut
CHICAQO, Oct. 14. (A*!-—Western
railroad fares, already slashed by
the Western Passenger association,
were given another trimming when
it was announced that after De
cember the Chicago to California
round trip rate, with nine-month
stop-over privileges, would be cut
from $144 to $111, and that a two
cent a mile rate would be in effect
on all western round-trip and 10
day trips. At the same time south
western winter rates were cut 20 per
cent
t ine reicnstag MUioung will be
so conducted that a vote for Nazi
members will at the same tima
mean an endorsement of the gov
ernment’s course.
Dr. Joseph Goebbels. minister of
public eniightment and propagan
da. read a solemn appeal by the
chancellor to the assembled news
paper men. from which it appeared
Germany was leaving the disarma- <*
ment conference because the other
nations were unwilling to concede
to the rekh the equalitv promised
Dec. 11, 1932.
(The great powers promised Ger
many a virtual equality of arma
ments last December in a dramatic
Geneva session in which the reich
delegates threatened to walk out.)
Appeals to Nations
The appeal read:
As the German reich’s govern
ment sees In this attitude a dis
crimination of the German people
which is both unjust and dishonor
able, it considers itself unable un
der such circumstances to partic
ipate further as a second class na
tion deprived of justice in the nego
tiations which could only lead to
new dictates.
“In giving a renewed expression
to the unshakeable will to peace,
Germany declares in view of these
humiliating and dishonoring de
mands that, to her deepest regret,
she must leave the disarmament
conference. She will, therefore,
also announce resignation from the
League of Nations.
“In again expressing its unshake
able will to peace, the GermaniS
emment declares in view of these
humiliating and dishonoring de
mands that it must to its deepest
regret leave the disarmament con
ference. For the rame reason .it
will also give notice of its resigna
tion from the league.
“This decision, together with a
renewed avowal of the policy of
the sincerest will to peace and a
readiness for reconciliation, the
German government lays before the
German people, asking it to ex
press its position there anent.
"It expects from them a mani
festation of a similar love of peace
and a readiness for peace, but also
a similar conception of honor
a similar determination.
"Unanimous Rally*
"As chancellor of the German
reich I, therefore, proposed to the
reich's president to lay this policy
of the retch’s government, as a vis
ible expression of the unified will
of the government and the peo
ple. before the nation for a plebi
scite, and to dissolve the German
reichstag in order to give the Ger
man people thereby an opportunity
to elect those members who aa the
convinced representatives of this
policy of peace and honor can give
the people the guarantee of an un
daunted safeguarding of its inter
ests along these lines.
“As chancellor of the German
people and leader of the national
socialist movement, I am convinced
that the entire nation will unani
mously rally behind a confession
of political faith and a decision
that springs equally from a love for
our poeple and a respect for her
honor, and from the conviction that
the goal of world ^eace so neces
sary for all can be reached only If
the conception of the victor and
the vanquished is supplanted by a
just application of the same vital
right for all. Adolf Hitler.**
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Study Sugar Tax
WASHINGTON. OU. 14.
Senator Adams (D-Colo* said 'today
after a call on Secy. Wallace' that
the secretary indicated a processing
tax on sugar was being considered
to aid the producers.
Adams was a member of a. dele
gation representing the beet sugar
Industry which included several
other congressmen.
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