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FORTY-FOURTH YEAR—No. 33 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1935 • • • • 6c A COPY
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Nation Gets Relief from Heat
ARROYO HEADS
; RECEIVE VOTE
OF CONFIDENCE
Mass Meeting Crowd
Heckles Chairman
And Puts Approval
On Dredge Buy
(Special to The Herald)
RIO HONDO. Aug. 10—The lead
p of the opposition to the Ar
royo Colorado navigation commis
sions dredge purchase was rejected
by a tumultuous Rio Hondo mass
meeting at the high school Friday
flight.
By a vote of 22 to 6 (most of the
75 persons present not voting), the
meeting passed a resolution disap
proving of all criticism of the navi
gation commission as retarding de
velopment of the arroyo and express
ing confidence in the personnel of
the commission.
Only Two Present
The resolution of confidence of
fered by Ed Alter of Rio Hondo was
passed alter considerable heckimg
of the chairman. S. L. Williams of
Harlingen.
Williams and Dr. J. A. Palmer of
Hirttngen werr the only committee
men present with none of the three
members of the navigation commis
sion on hand.
Williams was introduced by J. R.
George of Rio Hondo. Williams de
scribed at length his service to the
Valley and Ric Hondo and how he
came to be chairman of the meeting.
He said that the committee was ap
pointed at a meeting in Rio Hondo
and that be was made permanent
chairman at a mass meeting in Har
lingen. In referring to other mem
bers of the comittee (A C. Moody.
Paul H. Brown. M M. Galloway.
Beryl Hollon) Williams remarked.
«T can’t understand why the commit
tee Is not present*
Williams charged J. B Chambers.
Br.. of the navigation commission
with having lobbied in favor of a
bill extending terms of the commis
sioners and declared that he had
thereby “disfranchised the Rio Hon
do voters.” He also accused Cham
bers and Joe L. Penn’. Jr., commis
sioners with having attempted to
break up the Harlingen meeting
(there wa* a disturbance on the
floor when Lloyd Stiemberg and
mkul H. Brown attempted to make
“Potions that an organization be
formed to investigate the recent
dredge purchase t
Williams was interrupted at this
point by Tony Kosta who challenged
his right to be chairman of the
meeting and B. T. Bullis demanded
that Williams present seme new in
formation to the meeting. Ben S
Reed of Combes then demanded
wha* Williams proposed to do about
the dred» deal he had been describ
fng.
Meeting Get* Out of Hand
Reed, who got 55 signatures to a
petition at Combes, proposed a dis
trict wide petition asking the com
missione-s to resign.
Dr. Palmer proposed at this lunc
ture that a secretary be named for
the meeting. Judge Hcdgkins took
the floor to assert that the meeting
should appoint a chairman before it
elected a secretary The meeting be
came unruly with shouts of "who ap
pointed the committee” and “where
are they?” Motions to adjourn also
were heard and Dr E M. A. Sizer
then asked that Alters motion be
put before the house There was
some objection that Alter's motion
“whitewashed” the commission.
Alter said that there was nc hope
of getting the money back that was
paid for a dredee to dig a channel
to the arroyo but that criticism was
preventing the work from being
done
Williams nut the question ..nd Al
tar's resolution passed 22 to 6 cn a
Show of hands.
The resolution follows:
“Whereas, the Arrovo Navigation
commission has purchased a d red ere
and
“Whereas this commission is dulv
elected and qualified to reorc'ent the
peonle of this navigation district; j
“Whereas, some dissension has been
Stirred iro because of their purchase
of said dredge, and
“Whereas, many resorts have been
Circulated which without snv auth
ority seek to reoresent the views of
tit* people of Rio Hondo.
^Therefore, be it resolved that we.
the cltlaens of the Arr^o Naviga
tion District assembled in Rio Hon
do. do hereby express our disapproval
Writer Agrees to Become
‘Human Icicle’ for Science
HOLLYWOOD. Calif.. Aug. 10.
(jP>—Stephen Simkhovitch. 34. has
agreed to become a human icicile
for science under a contract en
tered into herewith Dr. Ralph S.
Willard, the monkey freezing che
mist.
Simkhovitch. powerfully built
scenarist, was chosen for this
unique experiment from among 180
persons Dr. Willard said had of
fered themselves in the interests of
medical science.
The chemist said the experiment
will begin as soon as a refrigera
tor suitable to contain the human
subiect can be built.
Attorneys who drew the contract
added that if circumstances arise
to prevent making the experiment
in the United States it will be car
ried out in Mexico or any other |
country where no interference is
offered
Dr Willard, who said he has I
frozen solid and later revived
small animals over a period of six
years is seeking aid for tubercu
losis sufferers, announced he had
brought one Rhesus monkev. nam
ed Jekal. from a frozen state last
Monday without apparent ill ef
fects.
A second monkey died and a
third. Dr. Willard said, still is froz
en but is to be revived next week.
“I ask only a quiet claim." Sim
khovitch insisted Saturday, “in
event I die I want it so no claim
possibly can be made against Dr.
Willard"
The young scientist insisted he
would not proceed with the experi
ment without the presence of at
least six medical doctors to make
exhaustive physical examinations
of Simkhovitch and watch the en
tire proceeding.
Simkhovitch. who said he wa*
the son of a professor of economic
history at Columbia University,
and of Mrs. Mary K. Simkhovitch.
a student cf sociology in New York,
declared he was prompted only by
a desire to “do something for
humanity for a change."
I wish also to know something
about the soul and its relation to
the human body." he said. “I wish
to know what happens when a per
son dies and I want to be able to
come back and tell of those hap
penings.
“Life itself is unimportant where
such vital matters as these are
concerned. Someone must make
these experiments sometime. Why
shouldn't I be the one to do it? ”4
REVOLUTIONARY
SHIP IS RAISED
Boat of Bonea and Ruaty
Cannon Balia In Water
160 Yeara Viewed
BURLINGTON, Vt, Aug. 10.—W
—The battle-scarred sloop Phila
delphia, bearing a cargo of human
bones and rusted cannon balls, lay
in shallow water near here Satur
day after a rest of nearly 160 years
at the bottom of Lake Champlain.
The Philadelphia was once a part
of Benedict Arnold's proud fleet.
It went down in defeat at the
battle of Valcour Island October 12,
1776, in a fight with British men
o-war and remained undisturbed in
60 feet of water until a recent visit
from divers.
The sloop made its re-entry Into
the world Friday, when it was
raised by a errick aboard a light
er. As its mast, still proudly erect,
showed above water, the salvage
crew halted operations to tie a
Colonial flag back at its top.
Eager searchers boarded the old
sloop as soon as she was in shal
low water and found bones of the
men who had manned her in the
famous battle They also saw three
holes in the hull below the water
line, mute testimonials to the ac
curate fire of a long-dead British
crew.
Several cannon balls were found
in the sloop. Her gun platform was
just as it had been when the ship
sank and her gun carriage was in
position on its 15-foot runway. The
boat measures about 45 feet in
length.
Although Arnold was defeated,
historians say he elayed the Brit
ish advance from Canada toward
the Hudson river and the expedi
tion was postponed until the fol
lowing year, thus giving the colon
ists time to make better prepara
tions and defeat the British in the
battle of Saratoga.
—
Dallas Race Dates
Are Given Approval
AUSTIN. Aug. 10. (>Pv—The Texas
Racing commission Saturday ap
proved officials and issued license for
a 36-day horse race meet at the state
fair in Dallas from September 38
through October 36.
Dallas' meet would open a 116-day
racing season In Texas during the
fall and winter. Meets in Arlington
Downs near Arlington. Epsom Downs
at Houston and Alamo Downs at
San Antonio would follow In order.
Officials at last year's Dallas meet
were chosen again. A license fee was
$2,000 was paid. The track posted
$25,000 bond to assure payment of
the state tax on pari-mutuel wager
ing.
of this criticism and agitation which
we feel can only retard progress of
the work of the commission; that we
concur in the work of this commis
sion and express our confidence in
the entire personnel of same; that
we ask for the dissolution of ai.v
and all organisations that may be
seeking to interfere with its activi
ties; and that when this organiza
tion adjourns tonight that It be de
clared adjourned sine die.”
FREIGHT TRAIN
IS DYNAMITED
Three Men Injured When
Car* Leave Track;
Blame Dispute
SPRINGFIELD, 111.. Aug. 10. 0TV
Three men were injured, two ser
iously when an Illinois Central
freight train was dynamited three
miles south of here early Saturday.
The blast derailed the locomotive
and ten of the 110 empty cars the en
gine was pulling. The right-of-way
was tom up. temporarily disrupting
traffic.
Investigation officials said they
believed the tangled affairs of the
Illinois coal miners' dispute was be
hind the dynamiting. Members of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica and the Progressive Miners or
ganization have been at ‘•war’’ for
several years.
Police and railroad authorities
said they presumed the blast was in
tended for the nightly train Chicago
bound with a load of coal.
The injured were Wesley West
brook. conductor, and Ira Fitzger
ald. fireman, both seriously hurt
and W. H. Hoff, engineer. All re
side at Clinton. They were brought
to a hospital here.
MARKETS
NEW YORK STOCKS
Sales in 100s High Low Close
Am Can 9 144* 143 143*
Am Stl Fdrs 14 17* 17* 17*
Am TT 41 135* 135 135*
Am Tob 8 98 97* 98
Anaconda 117 17* 17 17*
Atch T SF 23 53 * 52 * 53
Baldwin Loe 60 2* 2* 2*
Bendix Avia 84 19* 19* 19*
Chrysler 191 62* 61* 62
Con Oil 22 8* 8 * 8*
DuPont 21 11 10* 11
Gen Asphalt 13 20 29 * 20
Elec 134 30 * 30 * 30*
Gen Food 17 37 36* 36*
Gen Mot 225 45 * 44 * 45*
Goodyear 116 21', 20'4 21*
III Cent 29 15* 14* 15
Insp Cop 1 3* 3* 3*
Inf Harvest 15 53* 52* 53
Int TT 349 12 11* 12
John Manv 11 64>4 63* 64
Kennecott 33 21 20* 20*
Penney 16 80 79* 79*
Radio 101 6* 6* 6*
Sears 34 59 * 58 * 58*
Socony 68 11* U* 11*
Sou Pac 80 20* 19 * 20*
Std Brand 85 14* 14* 14*
SO NJ 8 47 * 46 * 47
Studebaker 29 4 3* 3*
Tex Corp 36 20* 20 20
Tex Gulf 11 34* 34* 34*
US Indus Al 44 44 42* 43*
US Stl 192 44 * 43 * 44*
Warner Pic 34 4* 4* 4*
West El M 39 66 * 66 * 66*
Wool worth 18 63 62 * 62*
NEW YORK CURB
Cities Service 93 2* 2 2*
Elec BAS 436 17* 16* 17*
Ford Mot Ltd 5 9* 9 9*
Gulf Oil 8 64 63 63
Mid West 28 3-16 3-16 3-16
Un Gas 146 3 * 3 * 3*
HIGHER RELIEF
PAY DEMANDED
IN NEWYORK
Worker* Quit ‘Made’
Job*; ‘No Work, No
Money,’ Roosevelt
Tell* Strikers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—</Ph
The contest between the New Deal
and striking relief workers appear
ed headed for an early showdown
Saturday as union leaders predicted
the New York walkout would spread
to many cities and President Roose- j
velt Issued an ultimatum.
Those who turn down work relief
jobs will be cut off the dole, the
president said. Thus they would be
aepnved of any form of federal aid. j
Leaves for Week-End
After issuing this warning and
refusing to recognize the New York
trouble as a strike, the president
took Harry I* Hopkins, Works Pro
gress administrator, with him on a
week-end cruise on the yacht
Sequoia. ,
Though the capital assumed the
works program’s labor troubles would
be discussed on the trip there was
no Indication of any plan to increase
the “security wage" payments rang
iug from $19 to $94 a month, de
pending on locality and type of
work. These wages, long bitterly
fought by unions on the ground that
they threaten to tear down the
wage scale In private industry', are
the bone of contention in the New
York “strike.”
Officials Saturday studied dls
! patches telling of growing support1
for the strike among organizations
I of relief “white collar" workers in
! New York Meanwhile, there were
a dispute about the number of skill
ed building trades workers who had
walked out at New York. Govern
ment officials set the total at 1,137;
un'on leaders. 2.500.
“White Collars’ May Quit
Organizers of the bookkeepers,
stenographers and accountants
union in New York announced that1
all its members working on Works
Progress Administration Jobs had'
beer called out.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
which conducted a losing fight for,
wage rates equal to those of private;
Industry when the $4,881,000,000
work-relief program was going
i through congress said: “We told j
them what would happen—and now
it has."
Kids Hurl Rocks
Into ‘Red* Meeting
NEW YORK. Aug. 10. OP)—At
tacked by an army of children who
hurled bottles, tin cans, stones and
over-ripe fruit, four persons who
were attending a street meeting in
Greenwich Village were recovering
Saturday from minor wounds.
About 30 persons were attending
the soap-box oratory Friday night,
described by police as communistic,
when the children arrived and be
gan a bombardment.
When the adults retaliated by
chasing their tormentors, other per
sons took up the fight in behalf of
the children, and a free-for-all en
sued.
TONIGHTS MOVIES
OVER THE VALLEY
Brownsville: The Capitol—William
Powell and Lulse Ranter In ’ Escapade."
San Benito: The Rivoll—Spencer
Tracy and Virginia Bruce in "Murder
Man."
Harlingen: The Arcadia—William i
Powell and Lulse Ranler In "Escapade.”
The Rialto—Wallace Beery, Robert
Young and Maureen O'Sullivan in "West
Point or the Air."
La Perla: The Bijou—Katherine Hep
burn and Charles Boyer In “Break of
Hearts."
Raymondvllle: The Ramon—Robert
Taylor and Jean Parker In “Murder In
the Fleet.”
Donna: The Plaza—John Boles and
Jean Muir In "Orchids to You.”
San Juan: The San Juan—Richard
Barthelmess in “Four Hours to Kill.”
Mercedes: The Capitol—Orace Moore
In "Love Me Forever."
Weslaco: The Rltz—Shirley Temple.
Rochelle Hudson and John Boles In
“Curly Top."
McAllen: The Palace—Dick Powell and
Joan Blondell in “Broadway Condo
ller.” The Queen—Guy Klbbee and
ZaSu Pitts In “Ootng Highbrow.”
Mission: The Mission—Oene Stratton
Porter's "Keeper of the Bees.”
Sizzling Wave
At Los Angeles
Fatal To Two
New Highs For Year
Set At Several
Texas Points
(By The Associated Press)
Parched middle America found
xtlief in scattered areas Saturday
after Intense and widespread auf-1
ferrng.
Nine lay dead from heat. Five
of them were negro convicts who
succumbed in an Angola, La., prison
hav field, where it was 104 in the
shade.
Two persons, one of them J. T.
Leonard. 87 - year - old Gainesville
publisher, died in Texas.
Two Californians died as Los
Ar.geles broiled in Intense sunshine.
But while temperatures rose to
new high levels in many Kansas.
Oklahoma and Texas points, areas j
to the north felt the cool touch of
wind-borne rains.
At least five persons were in sud
den storms in Iowa that brought I
temperatures down from the state’s
seasonal high, 106 degrees at Shen
andoah, to the 80s.
More rains and cooling breezes
wire expected in various portions of
the middle west Saturday.
From the Pacific coast eastward
the nation felt scorching sunrays
Friday. It was 98 at Los Angeles.
San Bernardino, inland, reported
107 degrees and several points had
100 degrees maximum.
A temperature of 112 degrees was
rnorded at Vlnita. Okla., and it was
ill) at Tulsa, at Kilgore, Tex., and
Neodesha. Kas. Scores of Texas, Ok-1
lahcma and Kansas towns reported
temperatures will above 100 degrees
TEXAS MERCURY
HITS NEW HIGH
(By Staff Correspondent)
Thundershowers Saturday brought
lelief in south Texas from the heat
wave of the last four days which
’ate Friday sent the mercury to new
records for the year in many sec
tions and was Warned for two deaths
and five prostrations.
Cooling winds from the northwest
were expected to sweep into north
Texas late in the day. Dr. J. L.
Cline, weather observer at Dallas,
piedicted the thermometer “will
drop seven or eight degrees early
Saturday evening, and will not rise
above a maximum of 93 degrees at
any time Sunday." Friday the max- j
Lnum reading at Dallas was 100.9.
A thundershower at Houston sent j
the mercury' down to 72 degrees, and
a maximum of only between 90 and
95 was forecast. The reading at
4:15 p. m. there Friday was 100. a
rf cord for the summer.
CLIPPER SETS
RECORD TIME
Big Ship Hang* Up New
Mark On Trip To
Honolulu
ALAMEDA. Calif.. Aug. 10.——
The Pan-America Clipper alighted
at Honolulu at 8:09 a. m.. Pacific
Time (1009 a. m. Central Standard
Time) Saturday, breaking her prev
ious record for the Califomia
Hewaii run bv 50 minutes, the
operating company advised. She
already had had the record at 17
hours 59 minutes., the new record
being 17:09.
The flight completed Saturday
was made at altitudes ranging from
1.300 to 11.00) feet. Pan American
Airways officials here said the shin
had left her charted course several <
time to make special surveys of air
conditions, and that all types of
weather to be expected on the
2 400-mile route had been encount
ered.
The final message from the plane,
completing her log. was ‘ All O. K.” j
and the landing time.
Coatless Elevator
Passenger Winner
NEW YORK. Aug. 10. (*»»—Hold
ing that going coatless is a ‘‘custom
accepted in New York." Magistrate
Huk>n Capshaw Saturday acquitted
David Aloer of disorderly conduct
for standing on his right to go about
in his shirtsleeves.
Alper was arrested last Tuesday
He was alleged to have tied up ele
vator service in a west-side office
building by refusing to leave the lift
although the operator told him it
was against the building's rule for
a coatless man to use the passenger
elevators.
SOLONS FAVOR
DIGGING INTO
SMALLJURSES
F. D.’s ‘Soak Rich’
Plan Changed To
‘Soak Poor’ Idea
By Senators
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10—<7P>—
Going far beyond President Roose
velt’s tax program, the senate fin
ance committee decided Saturday
to boost taxes on the small Income
tax payer by lowering existing'
exemptions and to raise surtaxes In
toe lower brackets.
The committee officially an
nounced it also had abandoned the
house inheritance levies in favor of
increases in existing estates taxes—
a:i the changes estimated to boost
the total revenue by more than
$400,000,000 instead of $250.:00,000
upward in the house measure.
Hits Little Fellow’
The new surtax schedule, along!
with lowering exemptions for small
taxpayer\ was proposed by Sena
toi LaFolIette (Prog-Wis.)
It would reduce present exemp
tions for married men from (2.500
to (2.000 and for single men from
$l.o:o to $800.
It also would start existing sur
taxes at $3,000 net incomes instead
cf $4,000 at present and raise the
rates from a range of 4 to 59 per- j
cent to a scale of 4 to 75 percent, |
the last to apply to net incomes
over $5.000 000.
An estimated (220.00^.000 In add
ed revenue from the new income
and surtaxes was announced in lieu
Of (45.000,000 under the house sur
tax schedule which applies increases
rrlv on incomes over (50.000.
The new estate levies would begin
at 2 per cent on net estates up to (10
000 and run up to 70 per cent of es
tates over (50,000.000. There would be
a (40.000 exemption instead of the
present (50,000.
Existing estate taxes are based
upon two schedules—cne under the
1926 law running from 1 to 2 per
cent and another under the 1934 law
running from 1 to 60 per cent, with a
credit allowed of 80 per cent where
a state estate levy is paid.
Chairman Harrison. in lifting a
pubilicty ban placed on committee i
changes, said he did not think the |
bill “carries cut the president’s sug- >
gestions, but I think It is a gesture
in that direction.”
Demo to Fight Change
He said administration forces
would fight for changes on the floor
to nuke the bill more clcsely con
form with the president’s mess
age.
Conservatives on the committee,
led by Senators Gerry (D-RI) and
others, were victorious in knocking
out the inheritance taxes which the
house adopted at the president's
suggestion.
Harrison said the inheritance lev
ies, which bore the brunt of opposi
tion from organized business and
others, presented the “most delicate
question” for the committee to solve.
The Weather
Brownsville and the Valley: Part
ly cloudy Sunday.
East Texas (east of 100th meri
dian) : Partly cloudy Sunday.
Gentle to moderate variable winds
on the coast.
RIVER BULLETIN
There will probably be no material
change in the river during the next
24 to 48 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chang. Bain
Laredo 27 28 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 3.8 40.7 .00
Hidalgo 21 3.9 -0.1 .00
Mercedes 21 5.9 -0.2 .00
Brownsville 18 5.9 -0.2 .00
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Port Isabel
Sunday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High..3:50 a. m.
Low . 7:00 p. m
MISCELLANEOUS “»ATA
Sunset Saturday . 7:10
Sunrise Sunday . 6:00
_... , ____ ___
Position cf the dredges cutting the
Brownsville ship channel on Satur
day, Aug. 10, was:
Orleans. Station 77 plus 600, or
total advance of 64,600 feet.
Texas, Station 59 plus 445, or total
advance of 46,445 feet.
The Orleans Is now 1.97 miles and
the Texas 5.4 miles from the Browns
ville turning basin site.
HARLINGEN YOUTH
KILLED; OFFICER
CRITICALLY HURT
Two Other Boys, Aged 17 and 20, Are Jailed
As Result of Shooting
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Aug. 10.—Mackey Chaudoin.highway
patrolman and for many years a Valley peace officer,
was in Valley Baptist hospital Saturday critically wound
ed and George Dunlap, 20-year-old Harlingen youth, was
dead as the result of a gunbattle on Polk street shortly
after midnight Friday night.
Two other Harlingen youths, ageg 17 and 20, in a stolen
truck with Dunlap at the time of the shooting, were held
in jail at Brownsville Saturday although formal charges
had not been filed against them.
Statements made by the older of the two boys, although
unsigned, led Cameron county sheriff department mem«
bers to a hiding place on the arroyo near here at which
goods stolen in a number of robberies Thursday night were
recovered.
TRUCK LEADS TO SHOOTING
A missing truck led to the fatal shooting. The truck, a
1929 light model, was stolen Thursday night during the
series of robberies, and Valley police had been warned
to be on the lookout for it. Near midnight Friday night
Bob Hall, Harlingen city policeman, saw a truck he be
lieved to be the missing one but was uncertain because
changes had been made in the machine’s appearance. He
saw the truck parked between Van Buren and Harrison
street, made a notation of the license plates and returned
to police headquarters to check them. They tallied with
the license plates of the stolen truck, and warnings im
mediately were sent out to all Cameron county officers.
Chaudoin and Hill Foreman, fellow highway patrol
man, stationed themselves on Thirteenth street, which is
a dirt road running parallel to an irrigation canal east of
town, and waited with lights turned off. Shortly after
ward. a truck came along the road and the highway
patrolmen turned a spotlight on the approaching mach
ine and identified it as the stolen truck.
OFFICERS SHOOT TIRES
The patrolmen pursued the fleeing automobile and
sounded the siren, as a command to stop. After chasing
the truck for several blocks, Chaudoin shot at the tires
and the truck came to a stop just as it turned onto the
Polk sreet pavement.
Both Chaudoin and Foreman leaped from their auto
mobile and had walked to within a short distance of the
truck when Dunlap, who was riding in the cab, started
from the truck, shooting as he emerged. His first shot
struck a notebook in Chaudoin’s breast pocket and
glanced, striking the officer in the arm.
Chaudoin immediately returned the fire and about a
dozen shots were exchanged before both men fell, each
shot twice. Foreman immediately covered the. other youth
in the cab and the third who was riding on the rear of the small truck,
and shouted to nearby residents attracted by the shooting to call polica.
R. M. Loving, who resided nearby, called police and two ambulance*.
DUNLAP DIES IN HOSPITAL
Dunlap, shot In the left side or hie chest and through the stomaclw
died about an hour later at Valley Baptist hospital.
Chaudoin. shot through the arm and in the groin, was in critical con
dition at the hospital Saturday afternoon. Physicians had delayed an
operation to remove the bullet lodged in his groin until the officer shows
signs of regained strength.
Investigating officers said that the pistol Dunlap used to shoot Chau
doin was an old model .38 colt, and another pistol, a .22 seven-shot target
pistol, was found on the seat of the cab.
Articles found at the arroyo hide-out when investigated by officers
who followed directions given In the unsigned statement, were stolen
from the Farr Grocery and the Jane Daugherty dance studio. The bur
glaries were committed Thursday night. Several cans of goods stolen
from the grocery store were found at tha hide-out, and cushions and
blankets stolen from the studio were found there also.
OTHER ROBBERIES CHECKED
Two other robberies committed early Friday night, before the shooting
ocurred, also were checked by police.
The Rollins Machine Shop was entered and an electric drill and cord
and a reamer were stolen. Later, the Grant Lumber company was en
tered, where the safe knob was knocked but the robbers were unable to
penetrate the inner door. Attached to a light cord near the safe, was
found the eletric drill stolen from the Rollins shop. The drill had not
been used, leading officers to believe the robbers were unfamiliar with
it and unable to operate it.
The William Cameron company also was entered eometime early Fri
day night and $76.75 in cash was taken from an unlocked safe.
Cameron county officers investigating the shooting and robberies were
Sheriff Art Goolsby and Deputy Sheriff Bill Cabler. G. Lorimer Brown,
assistant district attorney and Patrolman ‘ Red” See also were investi
gating the series of robberies and the shooting.
MRS. CHAUDOIN IN AUSTIN
Young Dunlap is survived by his father, Arthur Dunlap of Harlingen,
his mother, now In California, and a sister, Manan. also of California.
Funeral services will be held at the Thompson chapel Monday at 2
o'clock for the slain youth.
Mrs. Chaudoin, wife of the wounded highway patrolmen, was in Aus
tin Friday night, and left immediately for the Valley when she was in
formed of the shooting.
Deputy Sheriff Z. M. Lee and Charles "Red" See. border patrolman
specially attached to the sheriff's department, are checking leads to
determine whether these three men are the three who ransacked the
W. C. Gunnell home in Brownsville about a month ago, holding the
three occupants at the point of guns.
Three men, two of them masked, broke into the Gunnell residence,
situated Just off the Brownsville-San Benito highway on the Media
Luna road, and lined the family up against the wall while the home was
systematically ransacked.
After wrecking their car. a stolen vehicle, the men took Gunnell’s ea»
which was later found abandoned on a street In Harlingen._
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