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L 11 THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(IF)_- - - .—
THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR—No. 116 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 1929 _SIX PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY
MEETING PLEDGES CHANNEL TO VALLEY
Manufacturers' Relations With Senator Denounced
REPORT HINTS
BODY OFFERED
SENATOR LOAN
Caraway Says Trans-
action Shakes Con-
fidence of People In
Legislators.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 26.—(JP)—
Relations between Senator Bing-
ham republican Connecticut and
the Connecticut Manufacturers’ as-
sociation were condemned before
<ie senate today by Chairman
araway of the lobby commitee as
“tending to shake the confidence
of the American public in the in-
tegrity of legislation.”
Caraway made his statement af-
ter presenting & report to the sen-
ate from the committee detailing
circumstances of the “loan” by the
Connecticut Manufacturers associa-
tion of Charles L. Eyanson to as-
sist Senator Bingham in his work
on the finance committee in fram-
ing the tariff bill.
“In view of the extraordinary cir-
cumstances attending this transac-
tion" the Arkansas senator said
“it was felt by the committee it
was its duty to call to the atten-
tion of the senate immediately the
information obtained.
Caraway also disclosed for the
first time that the committee had
reason to believo Bingham was
first approached by the association
relative to their giving him assist-
ance although the records showed
Bingham first asked for a “loan”
of a man.
Technical Work Done
By Water Commission
WASHINGTON Oct. 26.—(JP)—
Members of the United States-
Mexico international water com-
mission today rounded out tech-
nical work in preparation for an
executive meeting Monday.
Escorted by members of the Am-
erican commission tfce Mexican
commissioners spent the afternoon
in sightseeing. Members of the
commission have been working with
their technical advisers and have
prepared sufficient data to start
the formal Joint sessions Monday.
Legion Praised For
Immigration Work
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Oct. 26.—Work of
the San Benito American Legion
post in connection with immigra-
tion matters here was credited by
Col. Sam Robertson in addressing
the Legion men Thursday night
with resulting in bringing Stuart
Fitzpatrick to the Valley to inves-
tigate for the United States Cham-
ber of Commerce.
Col. Robertson praised the Le-
gion for its attitude and activity.
Officers of the organization were
Installed Charles Bowie going in
f as new president succeeding Cain
^ Roberts.
Predatory Beasts In
10 Counties Sought
SAN A NGELO. Oct.. 26—(JP)—
Many new men have been put to
work in the campaign of predat-
ory animals inaugurated by the
Bureau of Biological Survey cf the
United States department of Agri-
culture in co-operation with the
Texas Livestock Sanitary Com-
mission since the legislature’s ap-
propriation cf $70000 annually be-
came available.
More than $6on a month Is be-
ing paid out by the department in
this work with ten new counties
now receiving aid.
Harlingen Club to
Sponsor Stamp Sale
(Special to the Herald)
HARLINGEN. Oct. 26.—The Los
Amigos club of this city has de-
cided to sponsor the sale of stamps
advertising the Valley in booklets
Issued by the Valley Stamp Adver-
tising League
pictures of the Valley
■Hie colored stamps showing pic-
tures of the Valley and printed
with about 100 different designs
are in books of 750 and are selling
for one cent each or $7.50 a book.
Craddock Queen
San Benito Carnival
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Oct. 26.—Annie
Louise Craddock was crowned
bueen of the San Benito high
school carnival here Saturday night
The vaudeville called the “High
School Follies of 1929” was present-
ed in the auditorium previous to
the coronation
The Academy of Science in Washington where Madame Curie (right) co-discoverer of radium will
be presented with a gram of radium as a gift from her American admirers October 30. President Hoover
will deliver an address at the ceremony.
WAR ON HOOVER
i ENEMIES LOOMS
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Thosa Who Oppose Admin-
istration on Tariff to Be
Subjugated
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NEW YORK Oct. —War
by the Republican Senatorial cam-
paign committee against Republic-
an Senators who oppose President
Hoover on the tariff was forecast
by New York newspapers today.
The forecast was predicated on
the selection of Otto H. Kahn as
treasurer of the Republican Sen-
atorial campagn committee which
was announced Thursday night
at a dinner given by Jeremiah
Milbank for Claudius H. Huston
chairman of the Republic? i na-
tional committee.
Mr. Kahn accepted the treasurer-
ship at the request of senator
George H. Moses of New Hamp-
shire. chairman of the committee.
In recent years the committee has
had no treasurer obtaining most
of its funds from the national
committee.
The Times raid selection of a
banker of Mr. Kahn’s standing
was accepted as an indication
senator Moses Intended to be prep-
ared for a hard fight for retention
of Republican control of the sen-
ate when one-third of the mem-
bers come up for election or re-
election next year.
The selection said the Times
was seen as somewhat of a war
measure aimed as much against
members of the so-called repub-
lican progressive group as ag..inst
the democrat with a possibility
that the Repi blican Senatorial
campaign committee might fail to
support some c the progressive
senators who have opposed and
are opposing President Hoover and
the administration on the tariff
bill.
The American said the cam-
paign for an immediate aggres-
sive fight against the insurgents
was largely due t-> the appeals of
senators Moses and James E. Wat-
son of Indiana. The newspaper
quoted Moses as appealing to the
130 persons present to join him and
Watson in helping to make the
republican majority so large its
decrees would be challenged only
with futility by La Follete Nor-
ris Borah Capper and other re-
puted progressive republicans.
Great Lake Yields
Another Ship Tragedy
DETROIT Mich. Oct. 26—(JP>—
The tumultuos waters of Lake
Michigan which eliminated the
Milwaukee from the shipping lists
of the Great Lakes yielded up the
story of another tragedy this week.
Out of the lake have come bits
of wreckage of the House of David
schooner Rosabelle unreported since
it set out for a cruise eight years
ago. The Rosabelle carried a crew
of 11 men and was on its way from
High Island with a cargo of pota-
toes raised there when it disappear-
ed in a storm. Wreckage of the ves-
sel was found on the beach neai
Racine Wis. by searchers for e
trace of the Milwaukee.
West Texas C-C Makes
Up $20000 Deficit
EL FASO Tex. Oct. 26. — (/F) —
Square with the board for the first
time in some months delegates tc
the West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce convention breathed easier to-
day as they prepared to conclude
the 1929 session by electing officers
selecting a place for the next meet-
ing and making any changes con-
sidered necessary in the constitutior
and by-laws.
Hostess Wins $75000
For Spanking by Thaw
NEW YORK. Oct. 26.—(JP)—A Jury has decided Harry K. Thaw must
pay a night club hostess $75000 for spanking her with a hair brush.
An award of that amount was given in Supreme Court yesterday in
favor of Marcia Estardus who brought suit for $100000 for personal
injuries w’hich she charged Thaw inflicted upon her at a New Year's party
in his apartment January 1 1926. &
The verdict was the outcome of
the second trial of the case a pre-
vious trial having ended in dis-
agreement.
Thaw expressed amazement at the
amount of the award and his coun-
sel served notice of a motion to set
aside the verdict as excessive.
Miss Estardus testified Thaw tore
her clothes bit her and spanked her
with a hairbrush. She claimed she
had suffered permanent scars as
well as great pain and humiliation.
When the verdict was announced
she said:
“It’s goodbye Broadway for me.
I’m going to the country.”
Senate to Review
‘Dollar-a-Year’ Men
WASHINGTON Oct. 26—(JF)—A
report on the relations of Senator
Bingham republican Connec*- ut
and the Connecticut Manufactur-
er’s Association was submitted to
the senate today by the Lobby in-
vestigating committee.
It contained one specific recom-
mendation—that the senate adopt
a resolution calling upon the de-
partment of commerce to submit
a list of any “Dollar-a-Year” men
on its rolls as a result of the tes-
titmony of Joseph E. Wuichet of
the Connecticut Association that
he was a Dollar-a-Year man for
the department.
Says Cult Made Him
Try to Kill Self
EL PASO Texas Oct. 26—(J3)—
Strapped to an operating table
James Clifford 28-Year-old self
styled scion of a wealthy Oakland
Calif. family declared today he
shot himself on order of a secret
cult whose heads gave him a pist-
ol and demanded he cammit sui-
cide because he had fallen in love
with the wife of another cult
member.
Four Bodies Found
In Lake Disaster
CHICAGO Oct. 26—(IP)—Pour
bodies found late last night in a
water-filled lifeboat several miles
off St. Joseph Mich. spurred coast
guardsmen to :.n intensive search
today for the remaining 43 bodies
of the crew of the car ferry “Mil-
waukee” which sank In Tuesday’s
storm.
5 INDICTED FOR
STEVENS DEATH
Two Killed A* Rum Runners
Attacked Prohibition
Agents* Car
SAN ANTONIO Tex. Oct. 26—(JP)
—The slaying of prohibition agent
Charles Stevens near San Antonio
Sept. 24 today had resulted in in-
dictments for murder against five
persons and prospects for more in-
dictments soon.
Bullets fired into the prohibition
agent’s car killed Stevens a. he
and two other officers Pat Mur-
phy and R. H. Hirzel were return-
ing from a liquor raid near Pleas-
anton. A gun battle followed in
which Pedro Guajardo was killed.
The shooting led to the uncover-
ing of a rum ring said to have ex-
tended throughout the south with
headquarters in San Antonio.
Two grand jries took up the
slaying yesterday one in Bexar
county and the other in Atascosa
county Bexar’s neighbor to the
south. The southern county no-
billed four men on complaints
charging conspiracy to commit
murder. The same four Lynn
Stephens Lee Cottle McCullen
Shank and Joe Rhomer had been
chargedw with murder in Bexar
county. The Bexar county jury re-
turned indictments against Mrs.
Louisa Guajardo Joe Hobrecht and
three others.
Besides the six named two
others have been charged with
murder in Bexar county: Alice
Smith expected to appear today
to make new bond in connection
with the indictment and Martin
Casbeer Stephens Casbeer and
Rhomer have not been arrested.
The rest except Alice Smith are
in the Bexar county Jail.
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PROHIBITIONIST DIES
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Oct 26—
<7P)—The almost lifelong conflict of
Edward Shumaker with the liquor
traffic was at an end today. Death
yesterday terminated a lingering
illness of the man who for 22 years
had been superintendent of the
Indiana Ahti-Saloon League
NEWKIRK Okla. Oct. 26—(£>)—
Shelton Phipps 21-year-old former
Ponca City high school student
i who Bruce Potter Kay county at-
torney said had confessed to a fan
• tastic plot directed against Lew
Wentz chairman of the state high-
way commission and multi-million-
aire oil man. and L. K. Meeks weal-
thy Ponca City banker was held in
jail here today awaiting arraign-
ment on charges which Potter said
would be filed early today.
Phipps’ confession the county at-
torney said involved a demand for
. $50000 from the two men under a
threat to turn a mysterious “In-
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femal machine” which sprayed a
death dealing gas on to them and
then to direct it against “all of
Ponca City” if the demand were
ignored or if an appeal were made
to officers.
A letter containing the demand
addressed to Wentz and Meeks was
received yesterday by the banker.
The letter Potter said gave explicit
directions as to where the money
should be hidden on a bridge on
a lonely road two miles south of
Ponca City
The two men took the letter *o
I Potter and Joe Cooper Kay county
l sheriff.
WEALTHY SHOW
MAN’S FATE IN
JURY’S HANDS
Two Husky Deputies
Guard Pantages At
His Home As 12 Men
Deliberate Case.
LOS ANGELES Oct. 26—(F)—Two
husky deputy sheriffs held Alexan-
der Pantages multi-millionaire im-
pressario a virtual prisoner in his
own home here today pending de-
cision of the jury as to whether he
criminally attacked Eunice Pringle
17-year-old dancer last August 9.
Pantages had been at liberty un-
der a bond of $50000 but was re-
manded to the custody of the sher-
iffs when the case went to the jury
of seven women and five men late
yesterday. After deliberating about
three hours without reaching a ver-
dict the jury was locked up for
the night.
Pantages Startled
The order to take him into cus-
tody startled Pantages. He slumped
in his chair and whispered excitedly
with his attorneys and then was
permitted to go home with the of-
ficers. One of the sheriffs was in-
structed to remain in the room in
which Pantages slept last night.
During early deliberation of the
jury Pantages paced nervously
about in a small witness room chew-
ing gum rapidly. His two sons
Lloyd and Rodney his daughter
Carmen and her fiance John Con-
sidine his adopted daughter Mrs.
Dixie Martin and his attorneys
spent the evening there with him.
District attorney Buron Fitts
closed the state’s case with a re-
view of the testimony and described
the defense tactics as “born of des-
peration.”
Final Pleas
“Alexander Pantages is on trial
charged with having attacked a
young girl—Eunice Pringle only 17
years of age” Fitts said. “His at-
torneys have advanced everything
possible in this case except a de-
fense to this specific charge.”
Defense attorney Gilbert made
the final plea for Pantages declar-
ing the story of the attack as told
by Miss Pringle from the witness
stand was “absurd” and “physically
impossible.”
In his instructions to the Jury
Judge Fricke stated one of three
verdicts could be returned. He said
the showman could be found not
guilty guilty with a recommendation
for a county jail sentence or guilty
with a recommendation for a state
prison sentence.
If a verdict of guilty with recom-
mendation for the county jail is
returned a maximum sentence of
one year can be imposed but if the
sentence must be served in the state
orison the maximum is fifty years
the term to be set by the prison
board after sLx months has been
served.
Handsome Cop’s Lady
Dies For Love of Him
CHICAGO Oct. 26.—(F)—Since
October 18 lights had been burned
night and day in the apartment of
Mrs. Eva Waddington Greeley—she
who called herself a countess. For
a week mail had accumulated in
the hallway mail box.
Neighbors investigated yesterday
and found Mrs. Greley dead. Be-
side her was a pistol that belonged
to Policeman John Maier 29; and
there was a farewell note to him.
Mrs. Greeley killed herself she
wrote Maier “because you cast me
so brutally out of your life.”
PHARR KIWANIANS IN
SAN BENITO PROGRAM
(Special to the Herald)
SAN BENITO Oct. 26—Four
members of the Pharr Kiwanis
club headed by Rev. Archie Reed
Presbyterian pastor of Pharr pre-
sented a program at the Kiwanis
luncheon here Thursday.
The program was part of a good
fellowship campaign being carried
out in the Valley by the Pharr
club.
Youth With *Infernal Machine9
Plans to Destroy Entire City
Promptly at 9 o’clock last night
the time designated in the letter
Potter wearing Meeks’ clothing and
driving Meeks’ car halted at the
bridge placed a package containing
$50000 in large bills where the let-
ter had directed and drove away.
Fiften minutes another man drove
up snatched up the package and
started to return to his car. He
was confronted by three deputies
who had been hidden in a clump of
trees nearby.
The youth was taken to Ponca
City w:here he was identified as
young Phipps.
| COWBOY FLIER DARES ATLANTIC j
Aviation officials fear Urban P. Diteman aoove Billings Aiont
cowboy who set out on an attempted transatlantic flight from Harbor
Grace Newfoundland bound for London in his plane “Golden Hind”
has gone down at sea. At the take-off Diteman had sufficient fuel
for 25 hours of sustained flight aboard.
HOOVER FINDS
BUSINESS GOOD
President Reassures Nation
After Stock Market
Collapse
WASHINGTON Oct. 26—(JP)—In
spite of the week’s ruinous decline
in security prices. President Hoov-
er is convinced the general condi-
tion of American business is strong
and sound.
Collapse of the stock market led
newspapermen to question the
chief executive as to his opinion
of the situation and he replied
with a hignly optimistic and re-
assuring statement.
Production and distribution of
commodities which he termed the
fundamental business of the coun-
try he declared to be upon a
“sound and prosperous basis.” As
the best evidence of the „ruth of
this assertion the President point-
ed out that although production
and consumption are at high le-
vels average prices of commodi-
ties have not increased nor has
there been any multiplication of
stocks of manufactured goods.
In addition Mr. Hoover said the
trend of wages was upward and
individual output of workers in
many industries was growing. All
of these factors he interpreted as
indicating a “healthy condition.”
The chief executive however
noted a few weak spots in the
Nation's business structure. The
construction and building indus-
tries have been effected to some
extent he said by high interest
rates resulting from speculation on
the stock exchange. He added
without namin'- the industries in
question that a seasonal decrease
had been noted one or two other
fields but this he said was of a
“secondary character” when con-
sidered in its relation to the whole
situation.
Mr. Hoover also mentioned a
sympathetic decline in grain pric-
es which accompanied the drop in
stock quotations asserting this
usually happens. The significant
factor in the grain market is he
said that the year’s world produc-
tion is estimated at 500000000
bushels less than last year which
will result in a very low carry-over
at the end of the present harvest
year.
The President made no direcl
comment on the stock exchange
situation but did allude to it ir
speaking of the drop in grair
prices “sympathetically with stoci
exchange prices.”
Fall Pins Hopes On
Motion For New Tria
WASHINGTON Oct. 26. — (4>)-
Convicted of bribery former secre
tary of the interior Albert B. FaL
today pinned his hope of exonera
tion upon a motion for a new tria
and that failing an appeal to i
higher court.
OLD NEGRO SINGS
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POPULAR MELODY
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AS PRISON BURNS
HUNTSVILLE Tex. Oct. 26—(IP)
—At an estimated loss of $15000
three buildings of the Wynne state
penal farm near here were burned
to the ground yesterday.
An investigation will be made to
determine cause of the fire W. H.
Lead general manager of the farm
said.
While the Huntsville fire depart-
ment stood helplessly by unable to
check the flames because of lack of
water an aged negro convict croon-
ed “It Ain’t Gonna Bum no More”
to the accompaniment of a guitar
as the main barracks the guards’
dormitory and the commissary were
destroyed.
BROWNWOOD
THUGS CAUGHT
Pair At Wichita Falls Had
$6000 and One Was
Wounded
WICHITA FALLS Tex. Oct. 26
—(£>)—x. E. Holt and B. D. Cage
who said their homes were in
Borger waited in Jail here today
for Brownwood officers to come
for them after admitting a sum
of money police here discovered
on them last nijht was part cf the
loot of the Brownwood Bank.
Holt was wounded in the leg
presumably by the charge of buck-
shot which one of the officers of
the bank fired yesterday after a
trio of masked men had locked
him in the vault and gathered up
$8000 in metal and paper money.
Police questioned the men last
night when it appeared they were
intoxicated. A search revealed con-
siderable money on each H them
and the car \.as searched. A gun-
nysack containing $755.10 fn silver
and bundles of currency bound in
bank wrappers was found. Offic-
ers found $1484 in Cage’s pocket
and $220 in Holt’s clothing.
The men admitted taking part
in the robbery saying they had
; camped a short distance from
Brownwood last night and come
on to Wichita Tails today. A
third suspect. Bill White was ar-
rested and cha-jed with the crime
I in Brownwood. Police here arrest-
ed a third man. who said he was
. a Coleman t: i driver hired by
. Holt and Cage. He denied complic-
ity in the robbery but police held
him for questioning.
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i Be Wise-Insurise.
Bio Grande Valley Trust Co.—Adv.
MILLER SAYS
CANAL TO BE
BROUGHT HERE
Association to Persist
Until Completion to
Rio Grande Is As-
sured.
BEAUMONT. Tex. Oct. 26—(JP>
With the charges of congressman
E. E. Denison that railroads were
delivering freight at less than coat
to regions near undeveloped In-
land waterways and charging de-
ficit to others fresh in their minds
members of the Intracoastal Can-
al Association rededicated them-
selves to their slogan. “From the
Mississippi to the Rio Grande”
here today and considered means
of completing their inland water-
way.
Reports showed work was being
pushed on all nine of the authoriz-
ed sections of the canal between
Corpus Christi and New Orleans.
The convention reassured res-
idents of south Texas the oattle
would not be dropped or relaxed
until the canal had been pushed
to the Rio Grande.
The address of Roy Miller of
Corpus Christi active vice-presi-
dent of the canal body had as its
dominant note the plea that the
delegates “stay with” the Rio
Grande Valley in that section’s ef-
forts to insure completion of the
waterway.
Pointing out that the project for
an $18000000 canal nine feet
deep and 100 feet wide from the
Mississippi river at New Orleans
to Corpus Christi already had
been finally approved and that
work on two Louisiana sections
with a total mileage of 80 was un-
derway Miller declared “we shall
persist unrelentingly in our ef-
forts to insure its final completion
to the Rio Grande which is has
always been and will ever be our
fixed purpose.”
New Orleans Lake Charles Hou-
ma and Morgan City La. and
Beaumont Port Arthur Orange
Houston Texas City and Galves-
ton Tex. are the principal cities
most vitally affected by the intra-
coastal canal the executive said.
Several times he refered to the
“vision” of President Hoover and
spoke of him as a certain ally in
the general proposal to make the
Mississippi basin constitute the
world's greatest system of inland
waterways.
Now and then he too. ..poke of
the pioneer band which met in
Victoria on Aug. 8 1905 at the
call of President Holland to begin
the long fight for the canal. He
spoke of the difficulties in obtain-
ing rights of way in Galveston
county as one of the chief con-
cerns of the organization. He be-
lieved. however he added that the
situation soon would be djusted
by men now working hard pon
it and that by two years the New
Orleans-Galveston section would
have been completed.
Engineer Killed As
Express Train Wrecks
ELKTON Md. Oct. 26—UP)—
The engineer of a northbound
Washington New York Express of
the Pennsylvanir. lines was ’ tiled
a dozen passencers injured and
scores severely shaken up and 25
railway cars derailed late yp terdav
when the express sideswlped a
buckled car of a freight train on
the southbound track at Iron Hill.
S THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Mostly cloudy and unsettled to-
night and Sunday probably with
occasional local showers; slowly
rising temperature. Light to mod-
erate winds on the west coast
mostly northerly.
For East Texas: Cloudy tonight
and Sunday; scattered showers in
south and east portions. Light tc
moderate variable winds on the
coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
in the river during the next 24 to
48 hours.
Eagle Pass —16 S.O 0.0 .04 Cldy.
Laredo — 27 0.0 -0.1 .05 Cldy.
Riogrande — 21 5.9 *0.2 .19 Cldy.
Mission — 22 6.5 -0.1 .15 Cldy.
San Benito —23 11.4 *0.6 .22 Cldy
Brownsville—18 6.1 *0.3 .09 Cldy.
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa-
bel tomorrow under normal me-
teorological conditions:
High . 1:06 a. m.
Low . 5:56 P-
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
j Sunset today 5:53
1 Sunrise tomorrow 6:36
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