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FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 247 **• ***** nm-m * am ***** BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1935 EIGHT PAGES TODAY • 6c A COPY *
QnOuh,
VALLEY
By RALPH L. Bl ELL
THEY TELL US THAT UP
around Corpus Christ!-Robs town,
dust brought in by the north winds—
Has created a new farming hazard.
Bee ms like a half inch layer of
dust was placed over the cotton
fields.
And when the wind began to
blow this fine dust around—
Tops of cotton plants were neatly
•lipped oft.
Wise farmers got into the fields
and plowed their ootton.
Mixing the dust of Oklahoma and
Kansas with the rich and heavy
loam—
Heavy enough to stay where it be
longs.
• • •
SOME OF US ARE INTERESTED
in horse races, some of us are not.
But not a one of us but can get
a kick out of the race now going on
between crews of the Dredge Or
igins and the Dredge Texas.
Men on the Texas swear by all
that's great and holy that they will
overtake the Orleans before that
dredge get* to the Brownsville turn
ing basin.
And men on the Orleans say
“Phoole to you!" We ll have dredged
the turning basin and be on our
way back before we even get sight
of you!"
So we cheer them both on, the Or
leans and the Texas, we win no mat
ter who wins!
• • •
HARRY CARROLL, EX-PRESI
dent of the San Benito Chamber
of Commerce
Heavy on U>e "ex." says Harry—
Tell* us that no man should serve
more than a year as head of a
chamber of commerce.
Pass the job around and let every
body know just how much work there
Is in connection with a chamber of
commerce—
And how much these organiza
tions accomplish.
That* his motto.
He* nght.
• • •
VALLEYS "PORT DAY" IS NOT
off. it* Just postponed.
The ship* are coming in, never
If**1
” A delay of 30 days or so means
nothing In our young livea.
Not after we have waited 30 years
and more to sight an ocean going
vessel as she clears Brazos pass.
So everybody stay set for the big
day.
• • •
OUT AT THE PAN-AMERICAN
airport the boys have been watch
ing and waiting and listening all
Tuesday night and on into Wednes
day morning.
Their mates were out at sea. pilot
ing one of the Pan-American clip
per ships on an epochal flight which
will result in the establishment of
regular trans-Pacific service by air
between the United States and
China.
Buddies of our local Pan-Ameri
can crew are on that khtp which set
down in Honolulu harbor right
around noon.
And they have been catching them
over the radio almost every inch of
fee way from Alameda to Hawaii.
• • •
MEMBERS QT THE VALLEY
Press association are scheduled to
talk "shop" at the regular meeting
of the association Friday night.
If all said what they really think—
The Cortes Hotel at Weslaco would
be minus a roof and a few walls!
But editors are like the rest of
you—
They think a whole lot braver
^fean they talk—
* And most of the time talk a whole
lot braver than they act.
So we anticipate a very peaceful
and harmonious meeting.
Texas Farmers Urge
Extension of AAA
PLAINVIEW. April 17.—vP>— Ar- i
rangements were being made Wed
nesday for a delegation of Texas'
fanners to visit Washington May 23
in support of the processing tax
and other principles of the present
AAA set-up.
C. H. Day of Plain view, chairman
o! the Texas Cotton Advisory com
mittee. said about 250 fanners prob
ably would make the trip. The
committee represents about 300 000
cotton farmers. Day said represent
atives of the growers of other com
modities and of other agricultural
atate would be invited to join in the
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Pan American Clipper Completes Hawaii Flight
FIRST LEG OF
PACIFIC HOP
IS SUCCESSFUL
Big Ship Sett New
Record For Trip
To Honolulu From
California
HONOLULU. April 17. <JP>—The
big Clipper plane "Pioneer” alight
ed on Pearl Harbor here at 7:57
a. m. Honolulu time (12:27 p. m.
Central Standard Time* Wednes
day after a 2 400-mile flight from
Alameda. Calif.
The Clipper plane "Pioneer” ap
peared over Honolulu at 9:37 a. m.
Wednesday.
The ship passed over Diamond
Head, flying high, and fast escort
ed by one swift navy pursuit plane.
All four motors roared as the trans
pacific trail blazing ship swung over
the city.
Manifestly performing perfectly,
she swept past Waikiki Beach and
continued on over Honolulu harbor.
A crowd had gathered to watch
the arrival of the transpacific
plane.
The Clipper traveled the 2.400
miles in 17 hours and 47 minutes
making a new flight record for the
distance.
The plane arrived in the bright
sunlight of a Hawaiian morning,
breaking through clouds which had
overhung the Island of Oahu at
dawn.
Navy patrol ships which went out
a few minutes before the arrival
as an escort were circling outside
Honolulu harbor as the Clipper
came over Diamond Head.
The Clipper flew over the center
of Honolulu exactly on schedule,
which called for arrival at 7:05
a. m. (11:35 Central Standard
Time)
Seizures Increase
Valley customs patrolmen estab
lished something of a record during
March, figures recently compiled in
dicate.
The March seizure reports for the
Valley section included- 3.309 pounds
of beans and corn. 14 automobiles.
176 gallons of liquor. 38 head of cat
tle and last but not least. 57 dozen
eggs.
SAFE CRACKING
PAIR WOUNDED
One Shot Down By Officers
Was Freed On Pardon
In 1934
BEAUMONT. April 17.—(/Pi—Two
men were shot and seriously wound
ed as officers surprised them in the
act of opening the safe in the
American Express company office
at Port Arthur. A third man. be
lieved to have been wounded as
well, escaped.
The two captured were Leon
Brammer. 25. and Ed Sharp, 26. both
of Beaumont.
They were shot by Sheriff W. W
Richardson and Deputy Homer
French, who had waited at the Ex
press office three nights. There
have been four safe robberies in
this area in recent months, and
Sheriff Richardson and his entire
force have waited at likely spots for
the past three nights.
A total of eight shots were fired,
six by the officers and two by the
men they surprised.
Brammer was given a two-year
suspended sentence here after he
was surprised in the act of opening
an oil company's safe several years
ago. Sharp, alias Lanham. was giv
en a conditional pardon from the
Texas penitentiary in September.
1934. after serving 18 months of a
six-year sentence for burglary.
‘PORT DAY’ IS TO
AWAIT COMPLETION
OF ISABEL’S PORT
The “Port Day" scheduled for
Monday. April 22. in celebration of
the arrival of the first ocean going
steamship at a Valley port, has
been postponed due to the cancel
lation of the scheduled a_Val of
the steamship Texas Trader at Port
Isabel.
T. R Rogers of Houston, general
freight agent of the Universal Car
loading and Distributing company,
gulf agents for the New Tex lines,
told The Brownsville Herald Wed
nesday morning that it would be at
least 30 days before the Port Isabel
facilities would enable an ocean go
ing steamer to dock.
“The piling contract was let
Tuesday.” Rogers said, “and this
work must be completed, and floor
ing and wharf* aprons constructed
before ships of any sine will be able
to use the harbor.”
Prospects for successful operation I
of the Valley's deep water ports are i
“fine.'' Rogers said. 1
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1 COMPLETE FIRST OCEAN LEG
__
Captain Edwin C. Musick First Officer R. O. D. Sullivan
Aoonan Canaday • Uiignf Jarboe
Pioneers of the western ocean are the men above, crew of the Pan
American Clipper which Wednesday blazed the first leg of a new com
mercial air trail from the United 8tates to China. In command is
Captain Edwin C. Musick, with R, O. D. Sullivan as first officer. Vic
tor A. Wright is engineering officer. Fred J. Noonan navigation offi
cer. A. J Canaday. junior flight officer and W. Turner Jarboe, Jr., is
radio officer. All have had long experience in flying and navigation
and have undergone long specialized training for the new route.
CITRUS RATES
CUT EXTENDED
Texas Citrus Shippers Assn.,
Works For Advantages
In Other Territory
Notice that reduced citrus rates
which have been in effect the past
year have been extended through to
June 1. 1936. Is contained in a letter
to The Herald from F. S. Hail of
Mercedes, chairman of the Texas
Citrus Shippers association.
“Tire reduced citrus fruit rates,
which this section enjoyed during
the past season, automotically ex
pire on June 1. 1935.’’ Hall says.
’ This association, through the Traf-!
fic Committee of which the writer
is chairman, has been working with
the Southern Pacific and Missouri
Pacific Lines for some time in an
t l fort to secure an extension of this
expiration date to June 1, 1936.
• We are today in receipt of ad
vice that expiration date has been
extended to June 1. 1936. In West
ern Trunk Line territory, and Illi
nois Freight Association, also in
;x)rtions of Southwestern Freight
Bureau territory.
“As we read the tariff, these ex
tensions have now been adjusted to j
Texas. Louisiana, Arkansas. New
If lexico Kentucky. Mississippi. Ten
nessee. Colorado. Illinois. Iowa.
Kansas. Minnesota. Missouri. Ne
braska. North Dakota. South Da
okta. Oklahoma. Utah. Wisconsin,
Wyoming and points in the Michi
gan peninsula such as Ishpeming
and Sault Ste. Marie, but does not
include Michigan proper.
We are working on extension of
reduced rates to that territory not
included in the above,’’ Mr. Hall
says.
Solont End Probe Of
Cruelty in Prisons
HOUSTON. April 17.—<iP>— Five
Texas legislators who conducted a
secret inquiry into claims that
convicts on the retrieve state prison
farm were treated so brutally that
they maimed themselves, said on
their return Wednesday that they
likely would complete a report with
in the next week.
The special house committee ques
tioned approximately 15 convicts on
the Retrieve farm, three of whom
rtcently were transferred from
Retrieve to another unit, about ten
guards, prison physicians and of
ficials both of the farm and the
entire prison system.
Emergency Guards
Rushed to Prison
COLUMBUS. O.. April 17.-i/P>—
Emergency guards rushed within
the walls of Ohio penitentiary Wed
nesday in connection with a passive
rebellion by more than 1.000 con
victs, but Warden P. C. Woodward
denied there was any trouble.
The warden said the extra guards.
42 from the night force and five
special men. would be used in the
prison shops *‘if and when” the
striking prisoners decide to return
to work. They went on strike Mon
day. saying their only grievance was
against the state parole board, which
they charged with delay in releasing
convict*.
ARROYO DREDGE
NEARS ISLAND
14 Miles Lopped From Long
Winding Stream to Bay
By Channel
(Special to The Herald)
RIO HONDO, April 17—Com
pletion of the first unit of the
Flood Control program sponsored
by the government In the Arroyo
Colorado is expected within 10
days.
Only seven hundred feet remain
ed to be dredged Tuesday by the
dredge Ft Worth", whose crew
has been working 24 hours a day
to reach the goal of Horsehead Is
land marking the completion of
unit one.
Harry Hupp, captain of the
dredge, said Tuesday that the
dredge had 24.000 feet remaining
to be cut In the seven miles which
comprise unit one. Unit one is a
cross-country cut. from the banks
of the Arroyo due east seven miles
’o its outlet at the island
The cut te estimated by engineers
as shortening the route of the
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Tax Laws Loopholes
Bill Passage Urged
AUSTIN. April 17. (JP)—Acting
Governor Walter F. Woodul asked
the legislature Wednesday to sus
pend its rules and pass by Thursday
tax measures which he said might
yield an additional revenue of $17,
300,000 yearly.
The acting governor said the bills
already had been Introduced, were
non-controversial and generally were
designed to tighten loopholes in
existing tax statutes.
“It is unfair to leave these loop
holes and have law-abiding citizens
pay these taxes and the guilty es
cape,” Woodul said.
Alabama Slow to Let
Negroes on Juries
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April 17. <A>)
—Alabama courts and Jury commis
sioners moved slowly Wednesday to
revise Jury rolls to conform to the
United States Supreme Court’s de
cision in the Scottsboro case, which
many said meant the names of neg
roes would be entered on Jury rolls.
As far as a survey showed, none
had actually begun revision of the
rolls in conformity with a sugges
tion from Governor Bibb Graves that
they take steps to make the lists
meet the requirements of the law. if
the records did not already do so.
Confederate Vet Diet
CORSICANA. April 17. (JP)—J. M.
Huff, 91. native of Alabama, but resi
dent of Navarro county 59 years, died
at Blooming Grove Tuesday night.
He was a confederate veteran and
was with General Lee when he sur
rendered at the close of the war.
Mr. Huff as a prominent Mason for
65 years and had been tiler of the
Blooming Grove lodge for 46 years.
He was a member of Karern Shrine
Temple at Waco. He was wounded
three times during the civil War.
HOPKINS DUE
TO TAKE UP
LONG FIGHT
All Public Works In
Louisiana Expected
To Be Cancelled If
State Law Passed
WASHINGTON, April 17. OP)—
With hostilities between Senator
Long ID-La) and Roosevelt men
flaring into the open again, the
capital watched Wednesday in the
expectation that Harry L. Hopkins,
relief administrator, may be the next
lo crack down on Long s newest
;>lan&.
So far Hopkins has refrained from
>aying anything about the news from
Baton Rouge that a bill has been
put forward to place relief money un
cler the control of the state admin
istration which Long directs through
Governor O. K. Allen.
But the capital noted the asser
tion of Secretary Ickes, PWA admin
istrator, that public works funds
‘wont's be used to build up Sena
tor Long’s political machine” and re
called that Hopkins, too, had acted
in the case of other states where
tie charged politics had become en
tangled with relief.
Hopkins was known to be follow
ing the Baton Rouge developments
closely and was said to be saving
ills fire until he knows just what
Is to become of the relief bill in ques
tion.
Just what he might do if the re
lief measure passes was not disclos
ed. Ickes statement Tuesday took the
form of a threat to cancel all pub
lic works project* In Louisiana—a
threat which brought from Long the
reply that Ickes might “go slap damn
to Hell.”
Once before Ickes had struck at
the Long forces, holding up all non
federal Louisiana projects for some
time after the enactment of Louis
iana’s two-year debt foratorium act.
The ban was lifted, however, when
PWA lawyers found that the law
would not interfere with repayment
of project loans.
Although 98 per cent of relief In
Louisiana has been paid for by the
federal government, Louisiana re
ceived its April grant of 11.367,962.
After Hopkins had demanded In
creased contributions, the state leg
islature recently authorized local
taxes expected to bring In $2,400,000
for the care of the unemployables
during the coming year.
NEW VETERANS
BILL STUDIED
_
Measure Would Advance
Dale of Maturity to 1938
And Exchange Bonds
WASHINGTON. April 17.—<>P>—A
bond-redemption method of com
promising the cash bonus Issue—
estimated to cost $1,300. 00.000 and
designed to meet administration re
quirements—was introduced Wed
nesday by Chairman Harrison of
the senate finance committee.
He said his bill, which he forecast
President Roosevelt would approve
if passed by congress, would cost
the government $300,000,000 more
than present law.
It would advance the maturity
date of the adjusted service cert
ificates from 1945 to 1938 and offer
to exchange for them negotiable
bends, readily convertible Into cash.
The bonds, which the veterans
could get in exchange for their cert
ificates. would bear interest at 3
per cent, which Harrison said in a
(Continued on Page Two)
Action Against Jurists
In Louisiana Delayed
BATON ROUGE. La.. April 17
OP)—A majority caucus of the
Louisiana legislature announced
Wednesday that no Immediate ac
tion would be taken against three
Justices of the state supreme court
threatened Tuesday with impeach
ment by Senator Huey P. Long.
Representative Edmund G. Burke
of Orleans, chairman of the
caucus which met this morning, is
sued a written statement declaring
impeachment proceedings would not
be started at this time because “we
have tried so hard not to give the
state the name of impeaching any
officer.”
He announced, however, that the
"legislature can be and most prob
ably will be called to act as the
circumstances require, and action
will be expeditious."
New Field Opened
VICTORIA. April 17.—'Pi—A new
oil field, 14 miles south of here, was
believed opened with the bringing
in of the Gillespie and Son No 1
Henderson well on the Henderson
Pickering ranch at Placedo. The lo
cation is in the W. Rupley survey.
The well was reported making
325 barrels a day of 35 gravitv oil.
through 3-16 inch choke from 6.0<*>
6.019 feet, with 1.000 pounds tubing
pressure and 2,000 pounds on the
casing, 1
. —... ■ - ■ 1
Huey’s Brave Bodyguard
Ousts Woman and Solon
Former Representative Offers to Whip
Long, But Bruisers Interfere
BATON ROUGE, La.. April 17.
UP)—Its special session enlivened
by ejection of a woman foe for
Senator Huey P. Long from the
state house as she waved an
American flag and by a farmer
legislator's threat to punch the
senator, the Louisiana legislature
was ready Wednesday to rubber
stamp more laws for Long.
In a night meeting, marked by
the ousting of Mrs. J. & Roussel,
president of the women's division
of the Square Deal association,
anti-Long organization, and a
near-fight between Long and Rep.
Malcolm S. Dougherty, the house
received six more bills and ad
vanced 26 others to passage vote.
The special session was certain
to be extended beyond the custom
ary five-day period to do the extra
work Long assigned. The six new
bills, which will require the solons
to sit at least six days, were
largely technical amendments to
existing acts.
When Rep. Isom J. Guillory,
administration floor leader, in
AMERICANS ARE
FINALLY FREED
France Say* Turning Couple
Loose Because They Gave
State’s Evidence
PARIS. April 17. —<0h-Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz. Amer
icans held for 16 months on es
pionage charges, were freed Wed
nesday.
The release of the American
couple was made on the basis of a
French law which grants clemency
to accused persons who turn state's
evidence.
Mr. and Mrs. 8witx, originally al
leged by the French police to have
been ringleaders in a spy ring,
were said during the course of the
investigation to have assisted the
authorities by revelations of alleg
ed accompjices.
In pronouncing sentence Wed
nesday on the 21 defendants on
trial, the court recognized the quilt
of the couple in the spy ring act
ivities. but said that under article
10 of the espionage law they were
•exempt from punishment.”
Heavy sentences were meted out
to the other defendant*. Benjamin
Bercowitz. a naturalized Canadian,
was sentenced to five years impri
sonment and fined 3,000 francs;
Louis Martin was sentenced to five
years imprisonment, as was Octave
Dumoulin. the latter also being
fined 3.000 francs.
Maurice Milice was ordered Jail
ed four years and fined 3.001
francs; Moise Gonn was ordered
’ailed 10 months and fined 1.500 i
francs.
CAVALRY BEGINS
ANNUAL TACTICAL
MARCH IN VALLEY
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About 500 officers and troops of
12th Cavalry were marching from
the Landrum ranch to Progreso
Wednesday on the second day of
their annual tactical march which
will cover 198.8 miles over the Val
ley.
The troops, made up of both Fort
Brown and Fort Ringgold organi
zations. left Fort Brown Tuesday
morning, marching to the Lan
drum ranch where they spent the
night.
The overnight stops of the hike
are to be at Progreso. Hidalgo.
Penitas. Edinburg. Santa Rosa. Rio
Hondo, Ira Fresnos. Port Isabel.
Loma Alta and then back to Fort
Brown.
The Fort Ringgold cavalrymen
will split off from the main body
at Penitas. returning from there to
Rio Grande City.
The new motorized equipment re
ceived about six motnhs ago is re
ceiving its first real marching test
on this annual march.
Murder Case Rests
In Hands of Jury
The fate of Juan Zamora of Har
lingen and his son Alfonso, charged
with murdering Guadalupe Longoria
at Harlingen several weeks ago. was
being considered by a Jury in crim
inal district court here Wednesday.
The case went to the Jury Tuesday
night after testimony had been pre
-ented Monday and Tuesday.
Alfonso is charged with shooting
Longoria over the right eye with a
pistol in an altercation on the streets
of Harlingen. Counsel for the young
man claimed self-defense, and put
on witnesses who testified that Lon
goria was rushing Alfonso when the
fatal shot was fired.
Zamora's father as at the scene
of the fatal fight, and the state at
tempted to show that he mixed in the
frag.
k
yoked a rule Tuesday night to
clear spectators from the side
wall railings and off the floor,
Mrs. Roussel, carrying an Ameri
can flag, shouted:
“I object I”
"Who is that woman? Put her
out!" Speaker Allen J. Ellender
said.
Sergeant-at-Arms A. J. Thomas
seized her by the arm and led her
out of the chamber as she waved
the flag and sang "The Star
Spangled Banner."
Representative Dougherty, dairy
fanner from the strongly anti
Long hill parish of East Fellcana.
had a run-in with Long that re
sulted in his being put out of
Oov. O. K« Allen’s office by one
of the senator’s bodyguards.
Dougherty said a verbal alterca
tion occurred when he asked Long
to support a house resolution call
ing on congress to retain the cot
ton processing tax. and when he
asked Long what he said about
Dougherty in a recent speech.
The cotton resolution subse
quently was adopted by the house.
FRAUD TR1AJ
BEGINS HEi'i
Pair Charged With At., mpt
At 'Confidence Game' In
'Money Making’
T. C. Moore of Austin and H C
Chamberlain of Harlingen and
Brownsville went on trial on crim
inal district court her* Wednesday
charged with conspiracy to defraud
Dan Heslop of Harlingen with a bog
us "money making" machine.
The defendants entered a plea of
not guilty and went on trial before
a Jury.
Heslop was the state’s chief wit
ness Wednesday morning, testifying
to his alleged transactions with
Chamberlain and Moore. He said
Chamberlain asked him to furnish
$1,000 to be run through the "money
making" machine, offering to split
the profits on the raised bills.
He was given a demonstration of
the machine. Heslop testified, and
at the time was convinced that the
"machine’’ was capable to producing
raised bills. Heslop notified Chief of
Police E. W. Anglin and the officer
called In a secret service operative
on the theory that the case would be
one of counterfeiting, the witness
said.
On the day Heslop was supposed
to have furnished the $1,000 for the
bill raising, the two defendants were
arrested in a Harlingen hotel. They
are alleged to have had the "ma
chine.” which police said was large
ly a matter of blotters and fake che
micals. in their possession at the
time. They had no counterfeit money
or any apparatus which could have
been used for counterfeiting.
The state will attempt to prove
that the machine was a complete
farce and that the defendants were
attempting to pull a "confidence'
game on Heslop with the purpose of
taking his $1,000.
Heslop testified that the first
"demonstration" of the machine was
convincing, and that be thought at
the time that the machine was cap
able of turning out raised bills, us
ing $1 bills as a base Later, he said,
he became *>nvli red that the "dem
onstration" was merely a matter of
planting a genuine bill in the ma
chine.
Most of his transactions were with
Chamberlain. Heslop stated, and he
saw Moore only a few times
Chamberlain was arrested here
and Moore in Austin last week when
they failed to appear when their
case was called. Their bonds had
been forfeited once before for non
appearance but the forfeiture was
set aside.
The alleged attempt to defraud
Heslop occurred in December, the
witnesses testified.
New Approaches To
Farm Help Studied
WASHINGTON. April 17.—UP\—A
new approach to the farm help
problem is being shaped up quietly
or Capitol Hill with emphasis de
flecting from the old plow-under
program to straight-out financing.
There is fo rexampie. legislation
by Chairman Jones (D-Texas> of
the house agriculture committee to
set up what would amount to a fed
eral reserve bank for agriculture.
Jones asserts the farmer pays too
much for the money he borrows.
Death Penalty Okehed
AUSTIN. April 17.—OP)— The
death penalty assessed W R. Hil
dreth In Howard county on convic
tion of murder of his wife, Mrs.
Doc La Hildreth was affirmed Wed
nesday by the court of criminal
appeals.
Hildreth was charged with fatally
stabbing his wife with an Ice pick
a« their home in Big Springs last
October 1. Testimony showed he
had objected to his wife attending
picture shows or going to town
without hia permission.
RALPH FULTS
SURRENDERS
AFTERCHASE
‘Bad Man’ Pleads For
His Life When Cops
Catch Him After He
Is Trapped
DENTON. April 17. uP>—Ralph
Puits, youthful recent running mate
of Raymond Hamilton, fell into a
trap and meekly submitted to officers
at Lake Dallas, four miles east of
here, early Wednesday—a few hour*
before he planned to rob the Tros*
per, Texas .bank.
The Collin county youth was cap
tured by three Denton police offi
cers after he toppled his speeding
automobile into a ditch of a blind
lane on "Millionaire's Island," a Lake
Dallas pleasure resort.
He jumped from the machine,
hands upraised and cried:
Don't Shoot,’ Please
"Don't shoot boys, I m the man you
want and I won't make any trouble.”
Officers Luther Alien, Roy Moore
and Sam Gentry, who had pursued
hun four miles in a spirited cnase
from Denton, disarmed him and
rusned dim here.
Beiore daybreak the oil icera
cruised about the city in hopes of
catching a glimpse ol ihe fugitive.
They went to Lake Dallas and were
returning when they passed Fults’
automobile.
The officers recognized Fults from
photographs and swerved their car
around in pursuit. Fulls stepped his
machine up to 70 miles an hour un
til he reached Lake Dallas. There
he turned into a road leading on to
"Millionaire’s Island,” a strip ol
land that proje|.s ini| the waters
of the lake.
Fults skidded his machine into the
ditch at the end of the road and the
ol fleers stopped nearby. They had
fired twice at the fleeing youth in an
effort to halt him.
He clambered out of the car and
pleaded for his life.
"Are you Ralph Fults?” one ol
the officers asked.
"Yes,” he replied meekly.
Prints Tally
Fults was fingerprinted upon hia
return here and City Marshal Lea
Knight announced the prints tallied.
Fults admitted he had been with
Hamilton during recent Mississippi
escapades, but declined to say def
initely that he teamed with Ray in
robbing the Prentiss, Miss.. bank sev
eral weeks ago.
Hamilton, recently captured at
Fort Worth, is now awaiting exec
ution at the state prison on May 10 ^
for slaying a prison guard.
Fults told of separating with
Hamilton alter they had changed
clothes at a Memphis, Tenn., hotel
several weeks ago. He said he went
to Louisville, Kv., and then traveled
through Arkansas on a return trip to
Texas.
He admitted having visited rela
tives at McKinney several night*
ago. saying "I outran 'em there" in
talking of his escape from officer*.
In Stolen Car
He said he sped to Houston, stay
ed there a day and then came back
through north Texas into Oklahoma.
He came back Into Texas two day*
ago and Tuesday roamed about Dal
las.
After spending the night at Dal
las. Fults said he left there early
Wednesday and headed toward*
Trosper, where he intended to rob
a bank.
“I have a car that will go 90 miles
an hour and robbing that bank
would have been easy." he said.
He admitted the machine he drove
belonged to Dr. O T. Mitchell of
Renner, a small Dallas county com
munity. He stole the car. he said,
after he had kidnaped Coni Howell,
a Collin county youth, several day*
ago
Fult*. reported to have been
wounded in Mississippi recently by a
posse, had no visible wounds. Ham
ilton and Fults were credited with
kidnaping and disarming a Missis*
ippi posse.
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TONIGHT’S MOVIES
OVER THE VALLEY
Brownsville: The Capitol—Ricardo
Cortez and Virginia Bruce in "Shadow
of Doubt ” The Queen—James Cagney
in "The St Louis Kid." The Dtttmann—
Richard Dlx in "Ace of Aces.”
San Benito The Rlvoil—Chester Mor
ris. Virginia Bruce and Billie Burke In
• Society Doctor.**
Harlingen: The Arcadia—Chester Mor
ris Virginia Bruce and Billie Burke in
"Society Doctor." The Rialto—Claudette
Colbert and Warren William In "Imita
tion of Life."
La Feria The Bijou—Prank Lawton.
W. C Fields and Edna May Oliver in
David Copperfleld."
Raymond vllle: The Remon—Clark
Qable and Constance Bennett In "After
Office Hours"
Donna The Plaza—James Dunn and
Alice Fave In "The 8can<tala of 1935."
San Juan: The San Juan—Shirley
Temple and Lionel Barrymore In "The
Little Colonel."
Mercedes: The Capitol—Ricardo Cor
tez and Virginia Bruce in "Shadow of
Doubt"
Weslaco: The Rttz—Irene Dunna and
Donald Woods In "Sweet Adeline.**
McAllen: The Palace—Ricardo Corten
and Virginia Bruce In "Shadow of
Doubt." The Queen—Douglas Fairbanks
8r . In the "Private Life of Don Ji | n."
Mission: The Mission—Shirley Tem
1 pie^and ^Lionel Barrymore In "The UtU#
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