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If THE WEATHER-1 111
Brownsville and the Valley Part-
ly cloudy Friday night and Satur-
day; not much change in tempera-
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FORTY-SECOND YEAR_No. 180 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS FRIDAY DECEMBER 8 1933 TWELVE PAGES TODAY ie A COPY
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IN OUR
VALLEYJ
BROWNSVILLE’S OLDEST
charitable Institution will come to
Brr wnsville folk tomorrow asking—
^Xliat we do our duty toward tt.
as the Chanty Home has been
doing its duty toward Brownsville
end Brownsville’s unfortunates
throughout a long span of years.
The charity Home is peculiarly
• local Institution.
For many years it was the only
place where the needy of our com-
munity could obtain food and
shelter
Kindly sympathetic efficient
the spirit of those m charge has
never lagged the work has contin-
ued.
May Brownsville help by its
contributions tomorrow to bring a
few rays of the Christmas spirit
to the Charity Home and those
being sheltered there.
• • •
ALL OF US REALIZE. IF WE
Jbut stop to ponder the matter—
The heavy load under which our
Home Town merchants have been
staggering during the past 3 years
One of the wonders of the world
That as many are in business
now as there are.
It's one lor all and all for one
these days.
If any of us are to make the
grade.
So—as we plan our Christmas
Shopping-
Let’s do K with this idea in
mind-
That we will buy in our Home
Town —
And if unable to find what we
want there—
That we will buy m the Valley
• • •
DEPRESSION OR NO HUItRI-
cane or no courageous Weslaco
steps out with its 14th birthday
party next week
And as appreciation of the cour-
age displayed by Weslaco citizens
we are sure that Valley tolk will
throng to that city to help in the
celebration.
It took nerve and lots of it. to
decide to hold this birthday party
but then—Weslaco figured it had
something worth celebrating.
• * *
TWO CAMERON COUNTY EM-
ergency road projects will be *ct by
the State Highway commission on
Dec. 16.
That's a starter anyway.
Banker road connecting the Mil-
itary highway with the Boca Chlca
road and the new airport road
are the first two projects in tot
county to get into action.
And we all hope that other pro-
jects will follow.
Cameron county's road program
Is gradually getting in good shape.
The emergency work being ap-
m proved by tie highway comm:$-
*sion the NRA projects the CWA
work all are Helping to put our|
_ {Continued on Page Seven}
FIRE SET TO
DEAD BODY OF
TEXAS NEGRO
I -
Dead Man's Mutilated
Remains Dragged
Through City
KOUNTZE Deo 8. OP>—A negro
ex-convict accused of criminally
attacking and murdering a white
woman was shot ..o death by a deo-
utv sheriff and his bodv was mutil-
I ated and finally burned by a mob
which dragged his body to a pyre
in the negro section of Kountze
early today
Officers and incensed citizens
had been searching for the negro.
David Gregory ever since Mrs.
Mellie Williams Brockman. 30. wife
of a farmer living near Kountze.
was found dead on the highway a
• short distance from town last Sat-
urday.
Negro Has Pistol
Last night a nosse trailed the
negro to his hiding place in the
belfry of a negro church at Voth.
a town between Kountze and Beau-
mont. Officers ordered the fugi-
tive to come down At first he re-
fused. Then he appeared in the
belfry. flourishing a pistol officers
said.
Deputy Sheriff Ralph Chance of
Hardin countv fired at him with a
'hotgun. the charge of buckshot
tearing into his neck and face. The
wounded negro unconscious was
taken to a hospital at Beaumont
but when officers received informa-
tion that a mob of farmers and oth-
ers was forming at Kountze and
starting toward Beaumont they took
the negro awav in an automobile
trving to protect him from mob
violence.
Without regaining consciousness
or being able to make any state-
ment as to his guilt or innocence
the negro succumbed to his wounds
as the car bearing him sned toward
Vidor six miles east of Beaumont.
Mob Follows Sheriff
The body was taken to Silsbee.
another small town in the vicinity
by Sheriff Miles Jordan of Hardin
county. On learning of these de-
velopments. the mob. slowly in-
creasing in size trailed the sher-
iff to Silsbee. After some hesita-
tion. the mob took the body from
the sheriff tied it behind an auto-
mobile with chains and dragged
it for some 35 minutes through the
negro section of Kountze.
A bonfire had been built on the
highway running through Kountze
the mob. which had swelled in
numbers to approximately 300 hav-
ing planned to burn the body This
blaze died down while the car was
dragging the bod' so the mob was
unable to cremate it immediately
Members of the frenzied mob
mutilated the body horribly in a
savage demonstration of its spirit
Then the hacked corpse was again
tied behind the car and bounced
through the negro section finally
being brought to where a new fire
was started.
But before casting it to the
flames the mob took the body to
the home of Gregory’s mother and
calling her to the door showed her
the gruesome remains.
Mother Praises Act
‘You ve done right white folks”
(Continued on Fag* Seven) j
Federal Building’s
Opening Is Delayed
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Dec. 8—Opening
of the Harlingen p toffice in the
new lederal building has been de-
layed again it was stated today by
Postmaster J F Rodgers
Failure of furniture to arrive has
been responsible for the delay and
the postoffice may not be able to
move into its new quarters for a
week according to Donald T.
Smith supervising government en-
gi -eer.
It is likely that the open house
will be held a week from Saturday.
SEVEN PERSONS
BURN TO DEATH
Members of Two Families
Perish When Fire
Razes Home
SAULT STE MARIE Mien.
Seven persons were burned to
death here early today when fire
destroyed the home in which they
were sleeping.
T.ie dead are: Mrs. Genevieve
Hibbln 31 an her four children.
Gemgieve 8; Catherine. 6: Jerome.
5; and Ernest 2; and Mrs Erline
Orr. 19. and her daughter. Cons-
tance 18 months
The fire which apparently start-
id from an overheated stove
wrecked the interior of the house
and was not discovered by neigh-
bors until it had made i»nsider-
able headway. Firemen said that all
the occupants who were asleep at
the time the fire started appar-
ently had been burned to death
before they could escape to give an
alarm.
Mrs. Orr’s husband. Albert was
said to be employed on a dredging
project in the Detroit river near
Amherst berg.
Officer Slaying
Laid to Barrow
$
DALLAS. Dec. 8. t/P>—Indictments
against Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker his woman companiun for
the u ling of Malcolm Davis de-
puty sheriff of Tarrant county here
last January were made public to-
day.
They were returned last week but
Judge Noland G. Williams tiled
them away and revealed their con-
tents after the Jury had made an-
other report returning 49 indict-
ments and six no-bills
Fred Bradberry deputy snerjlt.
and ormer Ranger Vannoy of Bel-
ton Tex. were named in as state
witnesses They were in the group
of officers who went to a ^est Dal-
las cottage to plan a trap for sus-
pected bank robbers.
One Killed and Two
Hurt in Gun Fight
LONGVIEW Dec 8. —(*>— One
man was killed am: two others were
severely wounded in a pistol figh;
at a roadside tourist camp near
Longview early today.
Rudy Lyle about 30 was shot
through the heart and Jess Hat-
chell suffered a bullet wound in
the throat. Ben Carmichael was
shot in the chest and was report-
ed to have been the victim of a
stray bullet j
CUBAN CHIEFS
PREPARE FOR
NEW REVOLT
0 I
Soldiers and Sailors
Move to Downtown
Havana
HAVANA. Dec 8 Ofb— Heavv de-
tachments of soldiers and sailor?
moved Into midtown Havana irom
nearby pos*s early today and gov-
ernment leaders. Including Pres. j
Ramon Grau San Martin spent a
sleepless night.
There were long conferences be-
tween representatives of the Gran
regime and later between these
leaders and men heading opposi-
tionist groups but the significance
of the parleys was not made known
Meeting Is Held
Speculation was aroused by a
meeting at the palace between Dr.
AntonH Guitears. secretary of in- '
terior and war. who has been re-
porter to be planning a coup d'etat
to overthrow the government and
the Uruguayan minister. Fernan-
dez de Medina author of a politi-
cal conciliation plan.
Adding to the disturbed feeling
during the night all stores were
ordered to close at midnleh* an-. ;
rranv late motorists were stopped
and questioned bv soliders.
Much of the military preoaration.
whkh included iirthcr move’ to-
ward portifyine the palace was due
to the government's desire to be :
ready for any disorders In ennnee- |
tlon with the inauguration at mid- i
night of the new "50 per cent law.” j
Threaten to Quit
This law provides that 50 per cent !
of the employes in all commerce and i
Industry must be native Cubans I
-Some Spanish merchants have
threatened to close shop rather than !
comply.
The American-owned electric j
company had until today to meet i
41 demands presented by its em-
ployes who refused company offi-
cials' requests for another week In
which to study the petition.
Presumably for the purpose of
getting military protection If the1
company decided to operate with j
strike-breakers representatives of
the concern conferred with Cot
Fulgenclo Batista commander ot
the army.
Weslaco Gets
$50000 Grant
1_
The city of Weslaco todav receiv-
ed a loan and grant of 150 000 for
the construction of sewage facili- |
ties from the Public Works admin-
istration. according to Associated
Press dispatches to The Browns- '
vllle Herald
It Is thought that 30 per cent
of the total amount wUJ be a grant
from the government
Gold Unchanged
WASHINGTON Dec 8. UPt—'The
governments gold price again was
unchanged today at C34.01 an ounce
It was the seventh successive j
time the same figure had been set i
for the RFC purchase price of new-1
h-mined domestic gold
London's price today was *32 48
an ounce on the basis ol sterling i
opening at $5.12 1-2 to the pound.1
Four Coast Guard
Members Rescued
HALIFAX. N. 8. Dec. |. —vP>—
The Royal Canadian Mounted police ;
announced today that four mem-
bers of the crew ol the police cut-
ter Stumble Inn. kidnaped aboard
the Kromhout. a suspected rum -}
runoff. were landed safely last
night at St. Pierre The crew of
the Kromhout was jailed.
Wlille every available craft of
Canada's police service combed the
Atlantic for the four captives thev
were landed on the rocky island off
Newfoundland's coast at 9 p. m
some 12 hours after their abduc-
tion.
Captain Ross Mason of the
Kromhout and his men were ar-1
rested immediately and placed in j
jail at St. Pierre
PORfWORKERS
GIVEN CREDIT
Garner Connally Sheppard
Mansfield West And
Yatea Thanked
—
Brownsville people today gave
thanks to a gt*Y of faithful offi-
cial* and private citizens whose
continued work for the Brownsville
port project made possible the vic-
tory announced this morning
Heading the list is Vice-Pres
John N. Gamer who has at frequent
intervals In the past helped to keep
the prolect alive. When it has been
turned down at various stages of the
way it was Gamer first as con-
gressman and then as vice presi-
dent who usually got the cace re-
opened and made it possible for the
Valley eventually to get not only
the Brownsville channel funds but
the funds for the outer channel as
well.
Texas* two senators. Tom Con-
nally and Morris Sheppard have
stuck by Valley people throughout
in the port fight. They worked with
Valley representatives on every oc-
casion. arranged interviews inter-
ceded for them and otherwise help-
ed the cause down through the
years.
Cong Mansfield chairman of the
Rivers and Harbors Committee was
a long-time supporter of the
Brownsville protect and his work
was of considerable value m helping
the deal through
Since his election to Congress to
fill the unexotred term of Cong
Gamer. Milton H. West of Browns-
ville has worked steadily for the
protect helping Valley people who
went to Washington on the project
The steady plugging work fer the
nast three months of Judge H L.
Yates of Brownsville given the
’ion’s share of credit in bringing th«
victory todav Judge Yates left nere
«oon after the hurricane and in
’he face of occasional adverse optn-
*ons ar>H fneouent defies he brought
♦he matter to its final successful
-onrlu«ion today.
Members of the Brownsville
Navigation district are todav be-
ing complimented for the manner
in which they have handled the af-
fairs of the district refusing to sell
the iistrict’s bonds at a beam- dis-
count shortly after thev were first
voted and as It turned out «aving
the district a vast amount of money.
The commission and its attorneys
have never wavered in the!** faith
in the project and have out In
many anxious hours of work in get-
ting records In shape to weet the
demands of the Public Wort Ad-
ministration.
BROWNSVILLE
SEES NEW ERA
OF PROGRESS
City Officials And
Merchants Are
Jubilant
The day of which Brownsville
people have dreamed for year* ar-
rived today—
And here is what community lead-
ers. rnd those who have worked
for the port think of it:
W. G Willman chairman of the
Brownsville Navigation district—"I
have spent my life in Brownsville
watching it grow and helping as
much as I could.
• The victory in Brownsville * port
fight is the happiest day of my life
and the greatest day in the history
of Brownsville.
"It means the beginning of a
great city here."
J. G. Fernandez secretary of the
Brownsville Navigation dist r 1 c t
commission—
"According to a telegram from
Judge H L Yates to the Browns-
ville Navigation district a plan for
financing the Brownsville Naviga-
tion district port has received gov-
ernmental approval and this will
make it possible for the district to
go ahead with plans for our
Brownsville port.
‘A 25-foot porf at Brownsville
with adequate terminal facilities
would be of immense value to the
entire Rio Grande Valley as we
would furnish water transportation
for this entire section of the state
and a great portion of northern
Mexico
"It is my opinion that the com-
pletion of a port at this city would
be the oeginning of a new era for
Brownsville and that we will see a
gradual steady and continued per-
manent growth and in the future
(Continued on Page Seven)
‘Hunk’ Anderson
To Be Replaced
BOUTH BEND Ind Dec 8 UP)
—Elmer Layden one of the Four
Horsemen will replace Hcartly
"Hunk" Anderson as head football
coach at Notre Dame next 'all as
the result of a drastic shakeup of
the Notre Dame athletic staff. J ess
Harper also will retire as director
of athletics.
Harpers successor probably will
be announced within the next two
weeks. The most persistent report j
however was that Layden would
hold both the athletic director s and
coaching jobs. Layden is now
at Duquesne but will leave his post
in time to take charge of spring
football in 1934
Four Arrested In
Missouri Lynching
8T JOSEPH. Mo. Dec 8
Four men are in custody in connec-
tion with the lynching Nov 28 ot
Lloyu Warner 19-year-old negro
said by police to have confessed an
attack on a young Jewish girl.
Aaron Levin Junk dealer and
John F Zook former polneman
are charged with first degree n ir- !
der. Both pleaded not gun and j
are held without bond for next
week* grand jury
$2472000 FUN
MADE AVAILABLE
BV PWA APPROVAL
Channel to Be 100 Feet Wide 25 Feet Deep
And 15 Miles Long; Turning
Basin to Be 1000 Feet
WASHINGTON Dec. 8^-(AP)~ The
long fight of Brownsville Tex. interests for
construction of a ship channel and turning ba-
sin ended successfully today. The public works
administration announced a loan and grant to-
talling $2472000 to the Brownsville Naviga-
tion District to be used in dredging a channel
J00 feet wide 25 feet deep and about 15 miles
long with a turning basin 1000 feet by 1300
feet with terminal facilities consisting of docks
sheds and railroad connections.
Thirty per cent of the allotment was a
grant and the remainder a loan to be secured
by five and one half per cent general obligation
bonds payable from unlimited ad valorem tax-
es and also by a pledge of the net revenues
from the project and by a first mortgage on the
land improvements.
The Public Works Administration said all
interest above four per cent on the bonds would
be refunded to the district. Work officials said
can start in one month and be completed in
15 months giving 660 men employment dur-
ing that time.
VALLEY ROAD
BIDS CALLED
Banker Stretch and Cut-off
To Airport Valley's
First Emergency
BkIs for the construction and
paving of the Banker road connect-
ing: the Military Highway with the
Boca Chica road and of the new
airport cut-off road will be opened
by the State Highway commission
on Dec. 18. Associated Press dis-
patches to The Brownsville Herald
this morning stated.
The two pieces of road construc-
tion are the first in the Valley to be
advertised by the commission under
the emergency road work program
at the stale
J
VAT1.S CONFIRMS
A. P. WNOI NC IMI.M
A t« leg ram to W. G. ’Vi 11 mao.
-hainran of the Brownsville Navi-
gation district from Judge H. L.
Yates attorney for the listrict who
hu been in Washington for the
past two months in the interest of
the port loan confirmed the As-
sociated *ress dispatch received bp
The Brownsville Herald.
According to Judge Yates a part
of the cash grant from the Public
Works Administration will be used
to amortise earlier payment* ol In-
terest and bonds presumably those
bonds given to the Port-Isabel-San
Benito Navigation district snd to
postpone the tax paying period for
a few yean.
Judge Yates’ telegram also stated
that bonds to the amount of fljft.-
*W0 would he purchased by the PM V
bearing 4 per rent interest.
. Action of the PW A must be con-
lirmed by Pres Roosevelt whirl*
confirmation will probably be given
on Monday Judge I a too atotod
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