The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 225, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 14, 1926 Page: 1 of 18
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IN OUR
VALLEY
COTTON gin operators and cotton-
seed merchants have joined in an
appeal to the farmers of the Rio Gran-
de country to consider well before they
experiment with new and untried va-
rieties of cottonseeds.
The appeal appears in an advertise-
ment elsewhere in toady’s Herald and
the advice to the cotton growers would
seem to he well worth consideration at
least.
Every year sees the arrival of new
varieties of cottonseeds. These varie-
ties may do well in soils outside of the
Lower Eio GTande Valley which does
not necessarily mean that they would
be better than those varieties now used
in the Valley.
There is no reason it would seem
why our farmers should experiment
with untried varieties of seeds at their
own expense. The new seed may do
well here and again it may not.
At least there would be no harm- in
talking the matter over with farm
agents in the Delta and with the firms
who have been serving seeds to the
farmer. Certainly if these firms find
a seed that would seem to be better
than those used they would not hesitate
to sell and recommend them.
• * *
The Brownsville Chamber of Com-
merce recently protested to The Liter-
ary Digest that a Florida advertisement
in that magazine claimed—inaccurate-
ly—that Florida is the “only American
tropics” or something of that kind.
This column forecast at the time
that The Literary Digest’s reply would
be in the form of an invitation to
Brownsville and surrounding country
to “advertise its wares” in The Digest.
And that’s what happened. The Di-
gest in its letter to the chamber calls
attention to the fact that Florida Hat-
tiesburg Miss. California points Ari-
zona cities and others advertise so why
aliPuMn’t this country. And why
shouldn’t it?
f| we have a counter claim to tropi-
cgf' plimate and fruits then let’s tell
the world about it.
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The Texas Railroad Commission ex-
pects to hold a hearing in March on the
question of regulation of rates for mu-
tor btfi lines according to news dis-
patches from Austin.
Following the hearing the commis-
sion will prescribe proper rates to be
charged and regulations under which
motor buses must operate.
The decision to hold such a hearing
came about as the result of an appli-
cation filed by a motor transport con-
cern asking the commission to fix
transportation rates.
The cammiMion then sent out a large
number of questionnaires on the sub-
ject and replies have been received
from 436 operators.
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federal Judge J. C. Hutcheson after
considering the compromise agreement
qn the Bio Grande railroad the
Brownsv)|Ie-Point Isabel line and the
plipp for protection of holders of sec-
pnd-mprtgage bonds has given the line
two yf«r» in which to- put itself on its
feet. Should it fail it will be sold at
auction.
The question U who will want the
Bio Grande and who will want it
enough to bid for it against competi-
tion.
At present the only railroad serving
this section is the Missouri Pacific. If
s the Interstate Commerce Commission
approves the application of the Sou-
thern Pacific to enter tnis territory
then the Southern Pacific might be a
bidder for the property.
But it’s all two years away. By that
time vessels may be entering Brazos
Santiago harbor. Perhaps before then.
Is the Valley prepared to supply in and
out tonnage for shipping?
• * *
Up at Lasarn a new townsite in the
Barding-Gill development west of Ray-
mondville on the new Missouri Pacific
extension west they had a lot sale the
other d«y-
Some five thousand persons it is es-
timated attended the sale. The fact
that bidding must have been lively is
indicated by prices ranging from $180
to $700.
Business houses will be built. A
Cotton gin is under construction. That
Was the start that Weslaco had in 1919.
Will Lasara repeat the story of Wes-
laco ?
This week there is to be another auc-
tion. but for a different purpose. Franl
Babb of Brownsville is throwing hh
“Babb Height*” on the market in
Borne plots for country homes. This is
(Continued -on Page Two.)
THE WEATHER
EAST TEXAS: Sunday partly cloudy
colder much colder in north port-on
Sunday night; Monday partly cloudy
colder. Fresh southwest to northwest
winds on the coast.
WEST TEXAS: Sunday partly
cloudy colder much colder in north
portion Sunday night; Monday partly
cloudy colder.
LOUISIANA: Sunday partly cloudy
to cloudy colder in northwest portion:
Monday probably fair colder.
ARKANSAS: Sunday partly cloudy
in west showers ill east portion cold-
er; ' Monday probably fair coder.
*- OKLAHOMA: Sunday and Monday
|»rtiy cloudy much colder.
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CUPID CUTS HIS USUAL CAPERS
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Women Demand Entry (or
Countess; Earl is Sought
WASHINGTON D. C. Feb. 13.—
While preparing to dispose finally on
Monday of the case of Countess of
Cathcart (English titled woman barred
at Ellis Island from entering the
United States Secretary of Labor Dav-
is was presented representations in her
behalf today from several quarters.
A delegation from the national wo
SLAYER HANGED
AS STAY DENIED
Attorney Continues Plea
Forf Garbutt As He
Mounts Scaffold
SAN QUENTIN Calif. Feb. 13.—An
unsuccessful death chamber plea for
delay in the execution of Harry Gar-
butt for murder was made here today
by his attorney Ernest Spagnoldi as his
client was walking up the thirteen steps
to the gallows. Garbutt was convicted
of the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Lee
Hunn of Pasadena. The trap was sprung
at 10:40 a. m.
Garbutt was to have been hanged at
10 o'clock in the morning but execution
was delayed while the supreme court of
California and the United States heard
pleas for a stay.
Atop the gallows the guards affixed
the ankle straps the noose and the
black cap. Spagnoli renewed his plea
out the clang of the scaffold trap ended
one of the most spectacular and per-
sistent fights ever waged in Californio
to save a man from official death.
Garbutt is said to have admitt#d last
night that he fired the shot that killed
j 'Irs. Hunn who had befriended him.
man’s party informed the department i
that the countess was being kept out
of the United States for reasons that
would not keep from entry a man sim-
ilarly placed while attorneys in her
employ were active. Monday she will
be given a formal hearing.
NEW YORK. N. Y. Feb. 13.—The
Earl of Craven may unwillingly fol-
low again the footsteps of the Coun-
tess of Cathcart this time on no elope-
ment to South Africa but through El-
lis Island and out of this country.
Exclusion of the countess by the im-
migration authorities while Earl of
Craven named as co-respondent in her
husband’s divorce suit remains in New
York has aroused a storm of protest
by prominent women.
H. H. Curran commissioner of im-
migration said today that he had or-
dered an immediate investigation of
the earl’s case.
An inspetor was sent to seek the
earl at the address of his uncle Major
Bradley Martin on Park avenue but
he could not be found. Mr. Curran
said he would be questioned and in-
formation on his case referred to Sec-
retary of Labor Davis tne only per-
son having the right to issue a war-
rant of arrest and to decide on de-
portation. He said the earl’s case was
being pressed as rigorously as that ot
the countess and would be thorough-
ly investigated no matter what the
outcome of hers.
Says Truth Barred Her
A clause in section 19 of the immi-
gration act of 1917. which covers the
exclusion of the countess on the
grounds of admitting “commission of
an act involving moral turpitude” cov-
ers also the deportation of any alien in
the country “who admits the commis-
aion before entrance of any felony or
crime involving moral turpitude.”
“I realize now that there was no one
at work trying to keep me out” Lady
Cathcart said today. At her own re-
continued on Page Two.)
Houston U. D. C. Chapters
Object to Lincoln Homage
(By The Associated Press.)
HOUSTON Texas Feb. 13.—Three
chapters of the daughters of the con-
federacy in Houston today took um-
brage at Governor Miriam A. Fer-
guson’s proclamation asking Tex-
ans to celebrate the birthday of Abra-.
ham Lincoln.
In a signed statement the Jeffer-
son Davis Robert E. Lee and Oran M.
Roberts chapters said that history
“had failed to reveal a single in-
stance which might inspire gratitude
from the south or in which Lincoln
was not perfidious to the south.”
“When each„ month of the year
brings illustrious birthdays more to
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the liking of Texans what could
have been the governor’s object in
asking ‘all loyal citizens of Texas’ to
celebrate in October the birthday of
Theodore Roosevelt and now suggests
that it would be a ‘grateful and
worthy act’ to close the state depart-
ment in honor of Abraham Lincoln.
This we must leave to .the imagina-
tion of the people but the Daughters
of the Confederacy wish to go on
record as repudiating the act and in-
sist that it does not represent the
prevailing • sentiment of the state’s
people. If we do not protest no doubt
John flroWn and Harriet Beecher
Stowe will be up for celebration”
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TRUST BUSTING’
SUIT HITS NEW
FOOD COMBINE
Chain Stores Ranped in
In function Action To
Check Activities of
National Corporation
NEW YORK N. Y„ Feb. 13.—The
United States government moved today
to prevent what it regards as an at-
tempt to convert the chain store sys-
tem into linked fetters for the restraint
of trade and commerce.
United States District Attornev Buck-
ner filed an equity suit in federal court
to enjoin the National Food Products
corporation from obtaining further toek
in competing food corporations and to
require the corporation to dispose of its
present holdings in such concerns.
The suit today was the snag on which
the third great proposed combine in Am-
erica’s $22000000000 food industry
was caught. It followed within a few
days a similar anti-trust action against
the proposed $2000000000 Ward Food
Products corporation and the collapse
of negotiation for a $250000000 com-
bination of the Postum Cereal company
and the California Packing company
generally attributed to fears of meeting
government disapproval.
The district attorney charged that the
Naional Food Products corporation a
holding corporation recently formed
through aqui^ition of capital stock in
(Continuued on Page Two. )
STORM R AGING
IN CALIFORNIA
Wind Sweeps Inland Af-
ter Wreaking Havoc
Along Coast Line
(By The Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO Calif. Feb. 13.—
After having goaded the seas along
more than a thousand miles of coast
line to an orgy of destruction a storm
of record size and force was moving
swiftly inland late today. A wake of
shattered beach structures from San
Francisco to San Diego three dead and
at least two sturdy ships hopelessly
battered and broken were left.
Ships at sea reported lasffc night that
they were fighting high seas and hurri-
cane winds while the surf shore side
was smashing down seawalls beach j
homes and pleasure piers.
Wind and surf kept all craft harbor
bound while playing havoc with the
light shipping off shore. At San Pedro
a heavy southwesterly gale put a stop
to all fishing operations tore targets4
of the U. S. battle fleet adrift from their
moorings and broke many yacht anchor
ropes setting these craft adrift. The
concrete floor of the municipal pier at
Santo Monica had sagged to su^h an ex-
tent today that police ordered all
spectators and workmen to leave the
structure.
Flood like rains accompanied the
storm turning streets into miniature-
rivers in some of the southern towns
caving in sections of the coast highway
route near San Juan Capristrano and
causing big landslides.
Water flooded high into t"he beauti-
ful homes of Jesse Lasky Joseph
Schenck the motion picture magnates
Tom Bundy noted tennis player and a
number of others at Santa Monica while
south of Venice many other residences
were undermined including that of Ed-
ward Everett Horton stage and screen
actor. Some of these homes were on
the verge of collapse.
Two met death at Santa Monica yes-
terday and a third man was swept to
death today when George Proctor wharf
employe at Ventura was washed off of
the collapsing shipping pier.
POST NEW CRUDE PRICE
(By The Associated Press.1
AMARILLO Texas Feb. 13.—The Kay
county Gas company Marland subsidi-
ary today announced new prices on
Panhandle crude oil meeting the ad-
vances recently made in the Mid-Conti-
nent fields. The new prices are retro-
active to February 1. The average price
of Panhandle crude under the price is
$1.65 a barrel. .>•*
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New Jury Indicts
‘King of Osages’
in IndianDeaths
(By The Associated Press.)
GUTHRIE Ok la. Feb. 13.—A new in-
dictment was returned here late today
by a federal grand jury against W. R.
Hale and John Ramsey charging the
murder of Henry Roan an Osage In-
dian. The indictment was identical with
one returned January 'J. with the exrep- j
GARNER TO BE “!
IN RACE AGAIN
Friends Line Up for Sup-
port of House Leader;
Opposition Talked
John N. Garner for nearly a quar-
ter of a century representative n con-
gress from this the fifteenth district
will be a candidate to succeed him-
self in the democratic primaries this
summer.
The fact that Mr Garner will run
again became knoWn in a telegram from
the congressman to Mrs. James B.
Wells wife of the late Judge James B.
Wells who was for years the close per-
sonal and political friend of Mr. Gar-
ner. The congressman advised Mrs.
Wells of his intentions because of his
long friendship for Judge Wells.
Mr. Garner as every newspaper read-
er knows has in recent veurs become a '
national figure in statecraft because of
his leadership in tax legislation in the
lower house especially in connection
with the income tax readjustment fight
which he lead in the house last year.
He is democratic whip in the lower
house and also is the ranking demo-
cratic member of the powerful ways and
means committee.
The congressman’s latest fight was in
connection with the inheritance tax
which was approved in the tax measure
passed by the lower house about two
weeks ago and which was repealed in
the senate vote Friday. The measure
goes back now for conference.
Opposition Rumored.
Rumors huve been persistent in this
section during the past week of prob-
able opposition to Congressman Gar-
ner said to be based on his stand in
connection with the inheritance tHX.
(Continued on Page Two.)
STATE FILES BRIEF
IN FT. BLISS CASE
(By The Associated Press.)
AUSTIN Texas Feb. 13.—The state’s
brief upholding action of the Texas rail-
road commission in the Fort Bliss rate
case was sent today to the interstate
commerce commission at Washington by
Attorney General Dan Moody.
In August 1923 the Texas commission
held that freight on all classes and com-
modities from Texas common points to
Fort Bliss to an army post a short dis-
tance from El Paso to Fort Bliss a flat
rate of $12.50 a car was fixed.
The Galveston Harrisburg and San
Antonio railway attacked the rates as
unjust and discriminatory.
The Texas commission holds the in-
terstate commerce commission does
have jurisdiction because the rates in-
volved are purely intrastate. 1
tion that it was more specific as to the
location of the alleged crime.
After returning the single indictment
the jury recessed until February 26.
The previous indictment was quashed
because it did not describe in sufficient
detail the location where Roan’s body
v.a. round on the allotment Rose Little-
star. The new indictment was amend-
td to make this more definite. Hale
and Ramsey will be arraigned in federal
court at Oklahoma City Monday morn-
ing.
A suggestion by Federal Judge John
H. Cotieral that the arraignment be
held at once was not carried out because
of the absence of Ramsey’s counsel.
The jury was in session only about
a day and a half and of the 45 witness-
es summoned considerably less than
half are bel.eved to have testified.
There was every indication that gov-
ernment's plan is to let the investiga-
tion rest with the indictment of Hale
and Ramsey and with their case the
issue fight out to a finish the question
of whether it has jurisdiction to press
murder charges. This has been denied
by counsel for the indicted men. It
is virtually certain that defense counsel
will launch other attacks against the
government right to prosecute a murder
charge. If they succeed in invalidating
(Continued on Page Two.)
PROBE OF DRY
LEAGUE ASKED
Solon Charges ‘Insidi-
ous Influence’ To
Organization
(By The_Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON D. C.t Feb. 13.—
Charging the anti-saloon league with
exercising an "insidious influence"
over the treasury department in the ap-
poirtment of proh'bition enforcement
officers. Representative Britten repub-
lican Illinois today introduced a reso-
lution to investigate the activities of
that organization.
The inquiry was requested the reso-
lut:on said because high officials of
the league or its subsidiaries have been
sent to prison for collecting money un-
der false pretense and also because it
has been shown that two high officials
of one state were on the league's pay-
roll while serving in their respective of-
fices.
“Although the resolution mentions no
names” Mr. Britten said in a statement
it refers indirectly to William H. An-
derson head of the anti-saloon league
of New York who has just completed a
term in the penitentiary. It also re-
fers indirectly to Justice Richard J.
Hopkins of the state supreme court and
Attorney General Charles B. Griffith
both of Kansas who were credited with
being on the payroll of the league after
an investigation of the league’s affairs
in Topeka. The resolution would pro-
vide for appointment of a special con-
gressional committee to conduct the in-
rmjry -nrl would authorize an appropria-
tion of $50000 to defray expenses.
“The welfare of the state and nation
are jeopardized when public officials
elected by the state to enforce all laws
are receiving two salaries one from the
itate and the other from an overpower-
ing secret organization.”
Dutton Clown Will Tackle
W.A.King’s Worst Rattler
Valley people who attend the Dut-
ton Circus here will have the “pleas-
ure of seeing a human being strangled
and bitten to death by a giant snake”
W. A. (Snake) King of this city
says in connection with a request
from Dan Mitchell clown with the
Dutton circus who has asked King
for his worst rattle snake in order
that he Mitchell may “tackle the
snake.”
“True I am a clown” Mitchell says
in his letter “but I possess great pow-
er. I have a perfect figure so pre-
served by a system of physical cul-
ture and by the coils of rattlesnakes
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about my body. I have a family of
trained rattlers. When I come to
Brpwnsville with the Dutton circus I
would like to tackle your most veno-
mous snakes. So select your worst. I
will handle them. I am immune to
their poison.
“I am single but anxious to get
married. If you know a lady who will
meet my requirements kindly have
her get in touch with me. I will see
you on arrival Sunday. Remember me
to all womankind.”
Snake King promises the rattler
but makes n'e hatsy promises regard-
but makes no hasty promises regard
SITUATION IS
TENSE; COURT
OPENS SUNDAY
Investigation May Re-
sult in Clearing Po-
lice Chief; Ama<fbr
Fears Populace
TIAJUANA. L. C.. Feb. 133.—Lula
Amador Tiajuana saloon proprietor
charged jointly with Chief of Police
Zenaido Llanos of attacking Clyde
and Audrey Peteet after being thwart-
ed in a suicide attempt this morning
announced his intention to go on a
hunger strike. Amador’s suicidal at-
tempt was with a safety razor blade
with which he succeeded in slashing
one of his wrists before the jailer dis-
covered his act and took the blade
from him. ' *
The prisoner in a morose and nerv-
ous state announced that he would
eat no food. Mexican officials say
that the man’s mind is probably af-
fected. • * |
Charges against Zenaido Llanos for-
mer chief of police of Tiajuana of at-
tacking Audrey Peteet may be dropped
following investigation of testimony
offered by Llanos in his final ques-
tioning this afternoon the Mexican in-
vestigating officials announced. The
testimony does not affect other charges
which may be made against the former
official however and he still is being
held.
In his final questioning Llanos made
emphatic denial that he had harmed
the Peteet girl who following the al-
leged attack upon herself and her sis-
ter Clyde joined her mother and fath-
er in a “shame suicide” in San Diego
last week.
• Declares Innocence
The former chief of police testified
that while the girl was in an upstairs
room in a hotel where she is alleged
to have been taken he was in the main
room downstairs drinking with eight
persons.
The testimony of Llanos came as a
surprise to the investigators.
Mexican official’s in their eagerness
to quickly settle the case will hold
court on Sunday if necessary.
While Luis Amador proprietor of
Oakland cafe in Tiajuana from which
place the two girls are alleged to have
been taken after their father had been
drugged and who is accused of attack-
ing Clyde Peteet is continuing his
hunger strike officials announced that
two letters had been taken from the
prisoner this morning at the time that
he attempted suicide with a safety
razor. The first of the two letters i»
addressed “To the public” an)d de-
clares that Amador is in fear of t>un-
ishment that he feels may be visittd
upon him by thd Mexican authorities.
He also expresses fear that he tpay ha
taken across the border and there pun*
ished. »
The second of the letters is address*
ed to his wife and consists largely ot
endearing terms. .v
“Had I taken your advice I wouldn't
be here” he wrote.
Tiajuana JubUant
News that a part of the charges
against the former chief of police of
Tiajuana may be dropped was received
with jubilance by residents of the
border town where Llanos is popular.
What resentment Tiajuana inhabitants
feel in the prosecution of the cas* is
largely due to the fact that the for-
mer official was implicated. The faai-
ing of the populace is vented in re* .
(Continued on Pace Two.) *
REVENGE SEEN IN .
BERGDOLL ARREST
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