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(Copyright, 1935, by The AP.)
PLZMINOTON, N. J., Jan. 29
ft' Jersey spread wider Tuesday the
confusing webs of cross-examina
tion in which It proposed to trap
Bruno Richard Hauptmann irrevoc
ably through the word of his own
testimony.
“Anybody and everybody," said
Attorney General David T. Wilentz,
“mentioned by the defense as sus
pects will be cleared. Hauptmann
will clear them by his own testi
mony.
“I think the purpose of our cross
examination has been met already.
When you show that a man lies and
lies, that's all you can da"
•Claim Is Myth
As Hauptmann took the stand on
the third day of his own defense
against the charge of murder in
the kidnaping of the Lindbergh
baby, Wilentz' pounding cross-ex
amination focused on the rain-sod
den shoebox of ransom money which
Hauptmann asserts he found in the
Idtchen closet of his own home.
His claim, ' declared the state,
was a myth, and Wilentz relentless
ly probed the white-faced defend
ant on his dealings with the late
isador Flsch, said by Hauptmann
to be the owner of the ransom bills.
The Bronx carpenter was more
oomposed as he entered a new
session of his ci on-examination, an
experience which drew from him
Monday tortured cries of "Stop that,
■top that"
Frederick A. Fope, one of Haupt
mann's lawyers, said that "if nec
essary the defense will cite to the
higher courts the attitude of the
attorney general and the conduct
of the trial."
Pope was believed to refer par
ticularly to Wilentz' shout at Haupt
mann: “Don't you ever tell the
truth?”
Defense Objects
The reference to the “conduct of
the trial" was directed at occasional
laughter or disturbances among the
spectators.
The defense also announced Mrs.
Hauptmann would follow her hus
band to the stand.
The prosecution's new attack was
aimed toward obtaining a committ
ment from Hauptmann on the kit
chen closet story of the ransom
money. _
It was Hauptmann's assertion
that he took the shoebox from his
business partner. Ftoch, when the
latter sailed for Germany in De
cember, 1933, placing It in the closet
and forgetting about it until, soak
ed by rain water, it burst open a
month before his arrest. Ftoch. he
said, asked him to take custody of
the money. . „
The Associated Press was inform
ed that last December police au
thorities. checking his stories that
rain water from a leaking roof
soaked the box, drenched the Haupt
mann house with water but found
no leaks into the closet.
Tire prosecution’s explanation of
the wet condition of the ransom
bills to that shortly before Haupt
mann's arrest he dug them up from
the floor of his garage when rain
water leaked Into the earthen pot
in which they were buried. He
transferred them to the house, the
state declared. •
Hospital Convention
Sought By Harlingen
(Special to The Herald!
HARLINGEN. Jan. 29—Mgr. J.
B. Ooston of the Valley Baptist
hospital to contemplating the idea
of Inviting the Texas Hospital Ass*n.
to hold its 1936 convention in the
, Valley.
Coston plans to attend the 1935
convention at Marlin in March and
may extend an invitation at that
time if the co-operation of Valley
people to given.
COTTON MEETING SET
<8pe<ya! to The Herald!
SAN BENITO. Jan. 29—Addi
tional cotton meetings to be held
this week are as follows, according
to Henry Alsmeyer, county agent:
Tuesday night—La Feria and Ran
Krville schools. Wednesday night—
nta Maria school.
Local acreage reduction commit
tees are named at these meetings
by contract signers.
A number of meetings have been
held over the county.
BcJ-KobT^ l(( STMf^
January 29. 1M5. — Among the
obstacles ‘ appearing to some settler
leaders to confront a merger of the
Ideals of government of the Mexican
people, or rather of their rulers, on
the one hand, and those of Anglo
American colonists on the other,
was a condition which harked back
many centuries and concerned the
basic systems of compulsory laws to
which the two peoples were accus
tomed. That of Mexico was the civil
law of the early Roman Empire or
in use among the nations comprising
the Roman world. It was a system
of rigid rules. Anglo-American set
| tiers, with the exception of those
1 from Louisiana, were accustomed to
I the common law, or modifications
i of the common law. of their native
land, which it. in turn, had inherit
ed from England. It was a system
of legal doctrines. The civil law was
regarded with fear as the creation
of A ruling power to Aid it in ex
acting implicit obedience of the
people; the common law was revers
ed ft* having developed in protecting
the people from what a ruling power
might have done to them. In later
years, however, colonists came to
look upon the differences as having
had little, if anything, to do with
the disagreements between them
selves and Mexicans. While Texans
subsequently adopted the common
law as their system of rights, ex
cept where changed by* etatute. as
had and did the states, other than
Louisiana, of the United States of
America, much has always been
drawn from civil law to become a
?«rt of our routes to Justice.
DAUGHTER IS BORN
HARLINGEN- A daughter was
yam to Mr. and Mrs. C. fi. Adams
* the Valley Baptist hospital.
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‘ST. LOUIS KID*
And it looks like Jimmie Cagney got the point, deftly delivered by
Patrticia Ellis. Both appear in Warner Bros.’ latest comedy, “The
St. Louis Kid”, showing Wednesday only at “your" Capitol, Brownsville.
Allen Jenkins and Dorothy Dare art in the supporting east.
Mothers Of Clyde And
***** *****
Bonnie Jailed as Big
***** *****
Crime Campaign Begins
DALLAS, Jan. 29. UP>—The moth
ers of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker, slain outlaw couple, were
among 18 persons in jail Tuesday as
federal authorities brought a nation
wide drive against harborers of crim
inals into the southwest
Other relatives of the notorious
couple, shot down in Louisiana by
officers on May 23, 1934. were in
cluded in the blanket indictment
charging a conspiracy to harbor and
i "*
THE WEATHER '
East Texas (east of 100th meri
dian): Mostly cloudy Tuesday night
and Wednesday; slightly colder in
northeast portion Tuesday night.
Light to moderate northeast to
southeast winds on the coast.
RIVER BULLETIN
There will be no material change
.n the river during the next few days.
Flood Present 24-fir 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chang. Rain
Laredo 27 -0.8 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 14 -0.1 .00
Hidalgo 21 1.7 -0.4 .00
Mercedes 21 4.2 0.0 J00
Brownsville 18 3.1 -0.1 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
Wednesday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 3:15 p- m.
Low . 5:41 a. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset Tuesday . 6:11
Sunrise Wednesday .7:15
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure continued
moderately high to high practically
throughout the United States since
last report, with temperatures gen
erally near the seasonal average,
and generally settled weather except
for some local cloudiness with a light
snow flurries or misting rains. No
measurable precipitation occurred
apparently at any of the stations
from which this office receives re
ports.
Brownsville 8 a. m. (EST) sea
level pressure 30.27 inches.
BULLETIN
(First figures, lowest temperature last
night; second, highest yesterday; third
wind velocity at 8 a. m.; fourth, prec
aution Id last 24 hours i'
Abilene . 38 64 .. .00
Amarillo. 38 64 .. 00
Atlanta . 24 42 .. .00
Austin . 46 68 .. .00
Boston . 16 24 .. .00
BROWNSVILLE... 59 74 .. .00
Br'ville Airport.51 73 .. .00
Chicago . 26 32 .. .00
Cleveland . 22 32 20 .00
Corpus Christi. 56 62 .. .00
Dallas . 46 58 .. .00
Del Rio . 52 64 10 00
Denver . 34 66 .. .00
Dodge City . 30 60 .. .00
El Paso . 44 68 10 .00
Port Smith . 34 48 .. .00
Houston . 48 64 .. .00
Jacksonville . 34 42 .. .00
Kansas City. 26 44 .. .00
Los Angeles . 46 64 .. .00
Louisville . 34 42 14 .00
Memphis . 34 46 .. 00
Miarri . 54 72 10 .00,
Minneapolis . 6 24 .. $0
New Orleans. 46 56 .. .00
North Platte. 28 60 .. .00
Oklahoma City .... 32 56 .. .00
Palestine . 48 62 .. .00
Pensacola . 40 52 .. .00
Phoenix. 50 74 .. .00
St. Louis .. 28 42 10 00
Salt Lake City. 30 42 .. .00
San Antonio... 52 68 .. .00
Santa Fe . 32 58 .. .00
Sheridan . 24 56 .. .00
Shreveport . 42 54 .. .00
Tampa . 44 64 .. .00
Vicksburg .......... 42 54 .. .00
Washington . 20 22 .. .00
Whilst©n . 20 24 .. 00
Wilmington . 34 42 .. .00
Winnemucca . 28 50 12 .00
Work To Begin On
New Funeral Home
ian*-'•«' to Th* F—*!<1*
SAN BENITO Jan. 29.—Contract
for remodeling the Hays Bldg, at
450 E. Stenger Ave. to accommodate
the mortuary to be operated by H.
T. Stotler and G I. Burdette, has
been let to McMillan & Ferguson,
local contracting firm.
The work is to be completed about
February 15 when Clay hall, for
merly connected with the Rio
Grande Hdwe. undertaking depart
ment here, will take over the man
agement for Stotler and Burdette.
Stotler has beer. In the mortuary
business In the Valiev for 28 years.,
Burdette became associated with him I
a few years ago He has been in- >
terestea in San Benito for several
years and was anions those at
tempting reorganisation of the
dosed Tarmera State Bank. I
conceal Clyde and Bonnie from May
20, 1933, to May, 1934.
United States District Attorney
Clyde Eastus headed the six month
investigation that ended with the
arrest of the suspects in a sudden
drive Monday.
"The attorney general of the
United States regards this character
of prosecution as highly important
in the drive to stamp out crime and
banditry." Eastus said. "The indict
ment alleges 80 overt acts and sets
fourth the facts that many banks
would not have been robbed and
eight or nine police officers would
still be living had persons named in
this complaint not helped Barrow
and Bonnie Parker to evade the law.”
The prosecutor said "we have def
inite evidence that practically every
person named in this indictment was
to have met Barrow and Bonnie on
a highway near Grapevine where
two highway patrolmen were killed
in cold blood last Easter.”
Eastus referred to the slaying of
to patrolmen near Dallas on Easter
Sunday, 1934, by Barrow and Bon
nie.
The defendants will be brought to
trial on Feb. 22 before Federal Judge
William H. Atwell here. Eastus said
a maximum sentence of two years
imprisonment and a $10,000 fine
could be imposed for conviction on
the charges
Henry Methvin. alleged betrayer
of the bandit couple, was named
among the group Indicted. He was
reported to have tipped officers to
the whereabouts of Clyde and Bon
nie shortly before their violent death.
Previously he had traveled with them
in a series of depredations through
out the southwest.
Those Indicted were Mrs. Emma
Parker, mother of Bonnie; Mrs.
Cummie Barrow, Clyde's mother;
Mr. and Mrs. L. C Barrow, brother
and sister-in-law of Clyde; Marie
Francks, Clyde's sister; Blanche Bar
row. widow of Buck Barrow, a broth
er of Clyde who was slain in a gun
fight three years ago near Jonlin.
Missouri; Billie Mace, sister of Bon
nie: Mary O’Dare, woman compan
ion of Raymond Hamilton, former
lieutenant of the Barrow gang; John
Basden. Lillian McBride. Joe Fran
cis. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Davis. S. J.
Whatley. William D. Jones, alias
Jack Sherman, former Barrow gang
member; W H Bvbee and Beulah
Pravetor. and Methvin.
Five of the number were impris
oned when Indictments were return
ed. They were Mary O’Dare, prev
iously charged with harboring Clvde
and Bonnie: Blanche Barrow, in the
Missouri prison for assault to mur
der in connection with her husband’s
death: Methvin. tailed for the slay
ing of a Miami. Okla., officer; Bvbee.
in the Texas prison, and L. C. Bar
row. in prison on a robbery charge
Officer Hurt When
His Auto Hits Truck
(Sreclal to rhe Herald*
SAN BENITO. Jan. 29-Joe Gal
van, deputy constable at Harlingen,
was severely injured when his auto
mobile ran into a parked grapefruit
truck a short distance west of
Barreda late Monday afternoon. He
was rushed to the Valley Baptist
hospital in a Thompson ambulance.
The truck was reported parked
off the pavement for repairs. The
engine of the auto driven by Gal
van was forced back under the seat,
so fierce was the impact and grape
fruit from the parked truck thrown
into the Galvan car.
To Study Poll Tax
(Special to The Herald*
BAN BENITO Jan. 29.—Abolition
of the city poll tax is expected to
be accomplished at regular meeting
of the city commission Wednesday
night, the mayor and four com
misionrrs having indicated that
they favor the move.
Hundreds of protests have been
made in the course of years against
the dollar city poll tax. Last year
over 800 were paid and this year
less than 50 have been paid.
3 Dotes of Foley’i
Loosens Cough
Proof!
“Foley'• it
worth ita weight
in gold in caae
of eougha from
fold*, will not
be wtthont it”
Mat N. Dearer.
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gvicUrt rMutti. Cough* do*
to pokkmay irt**r>ouaf**t,
don't deUy. Got **"«“*•
FOLEY'S todny-tuluntw
nututM. Sold tvwyvhm
Fried Chicken Suppers, 20c
Wednesdays and Saturdays
THE MECCA
SERVES-O-BEST
Bottled Beer, 10c
MORE VOICE FOR
PEOPLE URGED
(Copyright. 1935, by the AP)
WASHINGTON. Jen. Secre
tary Wallace, author of a proposal
for an “economic supreme court,"
proposed Tuesday that it be tried
out within a single state
Declaring that the United States
has “some terribly significant de
cisions to make” within the next
few years and that “the people
should be let in on the choice,” he
has suggested creation of a power
ful group of four men who would
pass on key questions of national
policy and submit them to popular
vote. The decision of the people then
would be binding even on the su
preme court.
Chuckle* al Critic*
Considerable criticism has been
aimed at the proposal since he voic
ed it last week. Tuesday the secre
tary with a chuckle, remarked that
evidently many critics had not read
his plan through.
-I said.*’ he declared, "that on
such matters as tariffs, debts, and
land policy there can be no unanim
ity of opinion but that we need now
as never before some new ways to
shake our minds awake and a new
means to express more thoughtful
resolutions in the light of the facts.
"There la certainly no threat to
democracy in a plan which would
make true democracy possible. Some
people seem to fear that an econo
mic council would submit to the peo
ple every wild scheme which was
proposed by some pressure group.
Hits Townsend Flea
"I do not believe, for instance, that
four economic councillors of the type
I have in mind-—intelligent, sound
ly grounded, and far-sighted men
—would ever approve such a scheme
as the Townsend plan and submit It
to the vote of the people. Their Job
would be to tell the people the whole
truth, with the seamy aides all turn
ed outward.”
He suggested that some state might
try the plan as an experiment, say
ing its experiences "would make ex
cellent background for future de
velopment”
The principal weakness of the pro
posal, he acknowledge, is concentra
tion of power in the hands of the
president who would appoint the ec
onomic councillors. However, he add
ed, the same check would be provid
ed as In the case of cabinet appoint
ments—confirmation by the senate.
CAMERON RECORDS
103rd District Coart
Filed: C. C. W. I. D. No. 16, et al,
va Mrs. J- C. Webster, et al, suit for
delinquent assessments. Jimmie Lee
Davis va D. J. Davis, suit for divorce.
Orders: Continued by consent—
Sofia H. de Martinez, et al, va San
tiago Garcia, et al, suit to establish
boundary line- Fabric Fire Hooe Co.,
va. City of Harlingen, et al., suit for
debt. Colorado Life Co., of Denver
vs. F. J. Nolan, suit on note. The
Texas company va C. C. W-1. D. No.
8. et al, suit for damages. Winifred
Smcuse vs. Geo. W. Mason, suit for
debt and foreclosure. Virginia Maln
ero va. P. F. Solis, et al, suit to try
title, etc, National Loan Sc Invest
ment Co., vs. Harry E. Boden, et al.
Reset—For Feb. 4. E. C. Gilson vs.
T- J. Wallace, et al. suit on note.
For Feb. 4, A. Orive, executor estate
Atenogenes Orive, vs. Antonio Chapa
Cisneros, foreclosure. For Feb. 4, R.
V. Spies va Harold A. Ferrin, suit on
note and foreclosure. Mrs. Lula
George vs. Meliton Medina, et al.
trespass to try title, default Judg
ment for plaintiff. George Scanlan
vs. Brazos Santiago Fish Co., injunc
tion, dismissed for want of prosecu
tion Mella H. Hoover vs. J. V. Mur
phy, suit for damages, settled and
dismissed at defendant’s cost. Na
tional Loan Sc Investment Co., vs
Scott Brown. Judgment for plaintiff.
Vinltla S. Mirtman vs. M. Mirim&n.
divorce granted
County Court at Law
New term to be opened Feb. 4 by
Judge Bascom Cox.
Probate Court
Filed: For probate will of Amelia
Campbell Kowalski, deceased.
Marriage License*
Roque Guerrero and Ernestine
Guajardo. •
Doroteo Saenz and Enriqueta Da
vila.
Genaro Abrego and Margarita
Cavazos.
Romaldo Morales and Anastacla
Valdez.
Marile Bruce and Lovina Smith.
Hersheli Stanley and Mary Boyd.
Justice A. Barred*, Jr.
State of Texas vs. Hllario Zamora,
affray, fined $1 and costs.
State of Texas vs. Alfonso Monce
ballos, affray, fined $5 and costs.
State of Texas vs. Miguel Lopez,
disturbing the peace, not guilty.
Marriages performed: Doroteo
Sienz and Enriqueta Davila. Genaro
Abrego and Margarita Cavazos.
GROWERS TO MEET
SAN BENITO. Jan. 29.— Chmn.
Denver Hance of the Highland unit.
Valley Vegetable Growers Ass’n.. has
called a meetng for Tuesday night
at the Highland school.
Flashes
-Of
Life
(By Tb* Associated Prm)
WHAT. NO GLOCKENSPIELEB?
CHICAGO — Chicago’s famous
blade horse troop has a glocken
spiel. but Is minus a glocken
spieler.
The glockenspiel, a first cousin
to a xylophone, was imported
from Germany. It Is worn on a
cavalry sadle and Is played with
marimba — when there Is anyone
around who knows how to play It
So far no galloping glockenspiel
ar has been found among the
troop, composed of the scions of
the city’s elite.
JUST MONKEY BUSINESS
PITTSBURGH — William C.
Pearce bought a monkey as a
part of a theatre spectacle, but
the monk made a spectacle out of
him, he claims, so he wants $10,
000.
Pearoe testified he tried to put
MJim” the monk In the theatre
lobby to attract trade and as he
did so Jim bit him 14 times.
Defendant Michael A. Maiorana
told the court Jim was ’’extra
tame” when he left the pet shop.
THE FINEST
NEW YORK - The police de
partment has a new liquor squad,
and It’s in a class by itself.
It comprises 12S men chosen on
their fitness to fill “gentlemen’s
Jobs." They will go to restau
rants, bars and wholesale liquor
houses to check up on tax stamps
and licenses.
The squad, on which are a num
ber of college men, has a pretty
good Intellectual rating. Collec
tively, the boys can speak 14 lan
guages.
Movie Sidelights
CAPITOL
An exceptionally large cast was
selected to play in support of James
Cagney in his latest starring vehicle.
“The St. Louis Kid.” showing Wed
nesday only at “your” Capitol.
Brownsville.
Jimmy himself is said to have won
new laurels in this picture which
has been hailed as his most hilarious
and most exciting up to date.
Patricia Ellis has the leading fem
inine role opposite Jimmy and is the
romantic interest in the picture Al
though still in her ieens she has had
a long stage earner and recently has
made good.
QUEEN
"Europe’s lady of Allure" has
come, seen, tnd conquered Holly
wood. This if proved by the recep
tion given M.ady Christians, newest
glamorous personality from Vienna,
making her American screen debut
in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “A
Wicked Woman," showing Tuesday
and Wednesday at the Queen theatre.
Brownsville.
The beautiful star of “The Waltz
Dream" and other continental hits
comes to the American screen In an
Intensely dramatic cross-section of
s woman's soul that permits her to
run the entire gamut of humai emo
tions. As Naomi Trice, woman of
lowly beginnings, who rises to a
place in a modern American city,
even tn the shadow of a fearful past,
the Viennese actress proves herself
one of the most powerful portrayers
of human emotion the screen has
seen in years
Auto Driver Fined
fSowiat to The P»"aid'
HARLINGEN. Jan. 29 — Scarcely
an hour had elapsed followine an
automobile accident at Stuart Place
before Joe Cothran of Harlingen
was fined $10 In Judge Will G.
Fields court for failing to give way
to s passing car driven by a Mr.
Freeh, a vlslto.- from Ohio. Freeh
said Cothran turned left to drive
into a filling station and caused a
collision.
Cothran testified he held out his
hand. Hill Foreman, state highway
patrolman, was the investigating
officer.
Cardui Helps In Middle Life
When in a weakened, run-down
condition during the change of life.
Mrs. J. R. Mardis, of Campbellsville.
Ky., writes that she took Cardui. “I
am glad to recommend Cardui to
other ladies, especially those who
suffer after reaching my age." she
writes. “Cardui built up my strength,
helped the nervousness, and the
headache and the dirtiness,’'
Cardui relieves pain and nervous
ness due to certain functional caus
es, also Increases the appetite, im
proves digestion and thereby
strengthens the whole system. If
it does not benefit YOU, consult a
physician.
ANDY’S ROACH
POWDER
RESULTS GUARANTEED
For Sale At All Leading
Drug Stores
Farmers & Growers
We Have Just Received a Solid '
Carload of
Giant Stringless Beans
Priced Right
Call 310•— San Benito or Your
Local Dealer
Reuter Seed Co., Inc.
San Benito
In 1M0, Cincinnati tu known <
as PorkopoUa, haring galned_thaj
name by being th* beat known
port-pndrlng_oent«_ in_the world.
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Tb« banana to a frott when jel
k>w, a vegetable when erven.
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