The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 218, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 11, 1934 Page: 3 of 24
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4Chicago Police Believe Dillinger Chief Gunner in Running Battle
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YEGGS ESCAPE
AFTER FIGHT
WITHPISTOLS
CHICAGO. March 10. 'TV*—A ^sen-
sational gun fight in which the po-
lice believe John DiUinge;. •kill-
crazy” jail breaker -vas the chief
gunner sent investigators on an
intensified hunt for the slippery
desperado Saturday.
The fight occurred l.»tc Friday
night in suburban Schiller Park
between gunmen and Police Chief
Robert Christian whose car was
completely disabled by gunfire.
Men Escape
The men whose leader was iden-
tified by James Gaskin a chauffeur
as Dillinger escaped. They were
believed to have gone to a hideout
in Wisconsin.
Chief Christian had pursued two
speeding sedans. As he drew up to
within 10 feet of the larger of the
two a gun was thrust through the
rear window. Shots splattered all
around the chief but he was. un-
hurt. He returned the tire but
without apparent effect and the
two cars sped away.
One of the machines was believed
to have been the same one stolen
earlier in the night from Mrs. Her-
man Stem by whom Gaskin is em-
ployed. Gaskin told iwUce that three
or four men in another car kidnap-
ed him. stole Mrs. Stem's car took
him along with them and then forc-
ed him out. roaring away to safety.
From pictures he said he recogniz-
ed Dillinger as one M the men.
Order Expert's Arrest
4 Federal officials -ielivere.1 their
Wsecond blow in the DiUinge.- affair
dv ordering the arrest of Ernest
Blunk. fingerprint expert who is
accused of locking Matt Brown
one of Dillinger’s guards tn a cell
shortly before Dillinger escaped.
Previously the government reirov- (
ed Its eight prisoners from the
Crown Point Jail to South Bend.
The order for Blunk’s arrest was
based on the allegation that he
violated the Dyer act bv driving a
stolen automobile across the In-
diana-Illinois line with Dillinger as
a passenger last Saturday when
Dillinger escaped with the aid of a
wooden pistol. The automobile stol-
en from Sheriff Lillian Holley lat-
er was found abandonel ir. Chicago
Blunk protested that he wa com-
pelled to do tilt driving at the
point of a gun.
Impressive
Ceremony
Performed
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MERCEDES March 10.—Marking
the close of the year’s work in the
Woman’s Auxiliary of the Presbyte-
rian church an impressive "Light-
Bearers’’ ceremony was held at the
church Tuesday afternoon. In the
center of a table at the front of the
room was a large lighted taper and
as each officer gave her yearly re-
port. she lighted her taper and
placing it around the larger one.
formed a circle. Following fhis cere-
mony the new officers who will as-
sume their duties in April were in-
stalled. with Rev Fred Clark pas-
tor. officiating. Those taking office
are Mrs. Ben Stafford president:
Mrs. John Rouse treasurer and the
following circle chairmen: Mes-
darm's Lee Kidder Myrtle Lee E. G.
Smith and A. K Phillips Mrs Kid-
der is secretary and Mrs. T. L Nolin
as vice president will serve for an-
other year.
• • •
TVxas writers made appropriate
responses to roll call at the meeting
tills week of the Woman s Study
dub. when a “Texas Day’’ program
was held under the direction of Mrs
W. J. Copeland. A review of Lee
Joseph's two books "October's Child’’
and "Three Blind Mice” was given 1
by Miss Catherine Commons. Mrs. I
Henry Lauderdale gave a report of
the executive meeting of the Valley
Federation board rcently held at
Harlingen.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. E G. Reid had for
their guests during the past week.
Mr and Mrs. Ed Jackson of India-
Lf ipolis They entertained the fol-
Pliowing in their honor recently:
Messer* and Mesdames Oscar Abel. (
Cla’ ten Pritchard of Harlingen. H
L Sc'vnalzried. W. L. Bradbury. O
F Van Berg and Morris Allen of
Mercedes.
• • •
Contract bridge formed diversion
for a luncheon given Tuesday bv
Mrs. H. B. Seay and Mrs. W\ G.
Greenlee at the Seav home Guests i
included Mrs. Ai Parker of La Feria. j
. M[i.. D. W. Glasscock. Mrs. D. R |
Brower Mrs. R. O Swain. Mrs. S.
H Collier and Mrs A. J. Brower
Mrs. Swain was awarded high score
trophy.
A costume dance at the home of
Mrs. A N. Brown was one of the
delightful affairs of the week for
members of the younger set. The
home interior was attractive in flo-
ral decorations. Punch was served
during the evening. Those in at-
tendance were Misses Mattie Lee I
Breeding Margaret George Har-1
rlet Kidder. Doris Garrison Bettie
Chambers. Jackie Johnson Isabel j
Hall. Anne Ferguson Verda Jones.
Dorothv Perry. Grace Gainous
Martha Lee Jcnes. Man Ruth Ben-
nett. Dorothy Warner. Gay Vann j
Doro’hv Ragland. Kathryn Moot
and Messers Jeff Vining. Bob Gar-
rison Ray Hughes .Ferguson Hager.
Randolph Bennett Wendell Giddle.
Charles and David Allen Lawrence
Foasler. Stuart Lent*. Loren Coun-
cil. Jack Brown. Kenneth Galbreath
Dale Drawe. Charles Van Berg.
Frei’K Barr’. Pat Mitchell. George
Cope Breeding. Harry’ Bowman. Her-
bert AHcr end Farl Mitchell.
• • •
g Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hotlman
Ijtft Thursday morning for Gains-
^jurg Penn. after a stay here of
several weeks looking after property 1
I
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FEAR FLOODS AFTER HARD WINTER
Blanketed with snow and ice in
the worst winter the middle west
has experienced in many years
localities in the vicinity of the
Ohio river fear a serious flood
will result with the arrival of
warmer weather. A night view of
the ice-gorged Ohio river near
Cincinnati is shown top. Below
bales of snow covered cotton on
on* the Cincinnati river
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MARKETS
MARKETS
A T GLANCE
New York
Stocks Irregular; alcohols heavy.
Bonds irregular; U. S. govern-
ments steady.
Curb irregular; most changes
narrow.
Foreign exchanges steady; deal-
ings dull.
Cotton quiet; local and south-
ern selling; lower cables.
Sugar higher; trade buying.
Coffee lower; commission house
liquidation.
Chicago
Wheat strong silver legislative
action.
Corn higher; sympathy with
wheat.
Cattle nominally steady.
Hogs nominally steady top
$4 60 t g
NEW YORK COTTON
NEW YORK. March 10. —
Cotton opened barely steady 2 to
6 points decline on lower cables and
under moderate southern and foreign
selling. March 12.11; May 12.18; July
12.29; Oct. 12.42; Dec. 12.51; Jan
1256.
Business was again restricted by
uncertainty as to developments in
connection with the Bankhead bill.
There was a little southern selling
here at the opening and some trade
buying but otherwise business was
attribute dlargely to evening up of
commitments. After selling at 12.18
at the start. May eased to 12.16 and
active months showed net losses of
about 6 to 8 points during the early
trading. Liverpool cables were 5 or
6 points lower than due and report-
ed a quiet featureless market there
which had met some hedge selling
toward the close.
FT. WORTH GRAIN
FORT WORTH. March 10.—
Light demand featured the cash
grain market at Fort Worth all the
week and Saturday found slow sell-
ing even for the very light offer-
ings.
Prices ranged as follows basis car
londs o ntrack at Fort Worth freight
paid to delivery point;
Delivered Texas Oulf ports ex-
port rate or Texas common points;
Wheat No. 1 hard 91 3-4 to 94 3-4
Barley No. 2 nominally 55-56; No’.
3 nominally 54-55. Sorghums: No. 2
milo per 100 pounds nominally 1.12-
1.14 ;No. 3 milo nominallf 1.10-1.12.
No. 2 kafir nominally 95-96; No. 3
kafir nominally 93-94.
Delivered Texas common points or
group three: corn No. 2 white 66 3-4
to 67 1-4; No. 2 yellow 65 1-4 to
65 3-4
Oats No 2 red 42-43; No. 3 red
41-42.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO. March 10.—m—<U. S.
D. of A.)—Cattle 400. compared Fri-
day last week good and choice year-
lings and choice and prime medium
weight and weighty steers 15-25
higher; lower grades generally
strong to unevenly higher; extreme
top 7.50 on yearlings 7.40 on medium
weights and 7 00 on 1418 lb. aver-
ages; prime 1583 lb 6.00; mostly
5.00-6.50; market; Stockers and
feeder; better grades firm others
weak to 25 lower; cutter cows about
25 lower; fat cows strong to 25
higher; bulls steady; vealers 1.00
lower; big weight steers mostly 550
down to 4.50; numerous loads at
5.00.
Sheep 4.000: compared Friday last
week fat lambs 50-75 lower; bulk
65 off; sheep weak; week's top
wooled lambs 9.50; closing 9.35 with
late bulk 9.25 downward; 95-93 lb
clipped lambs closed at 750; tall
shorn earlier in week upward to
9.50; aged native ewes 3.50-5.50;
feeding and shearing lambs 8.J5-50.
Hogs 7.000; steady; medium
weights 4 60. top; compared week
ago weight* below 200 lbs 15-25 low-
er. others 15-25 higher; all quota-
tions nominally unchanged.
FT. WORTH LIVESTOCK
FORT WORTH March 10—dP»—
<U. S. Dept. Agr.i—Hogs: 600. in-
cluding 281 directs; fully steady:
top 4 50; gcoc medium weight rail
butchers 4 50: good to choice 181-
260 lb. truck hogs mostly 450; med-
ium to good underweight* 3-50-4.40:
packing sews 3-75.
Cattle: 300; calves: 100; Satur-
day nominal For week: steers
.steady t<> 15 lower; cutter cows 50
.ower; yearlings and other classes
cattle and calves mostly steady.
Tot* fed steers 5.00; fed yearlings
c.rO; fat cows 3.00; stock steer
yearlings 5215 heavy fat calves
5 00; bulk fed steers 4.00-50; bet
ter fed yearlings 4.75-525; butcher
tows 2.50-75: cutters and low cut-
ters 1.00-2.00; sausage bulls 1.50-
2.00; heavy calves 3.50-4.50.
Sheep; 100; Saturday nominal;
for week; fat lambs 50 lower; oth-
er classes steady; good wooled led
lambs 8.00-25; medium to choice
thorn fed lambs 6.50-7.00; early top
.horn lambs 725; few milk fed
lam'js 9.00: shorn led yearlings and
2-year-old wethers mixed ti.00;
shorn aged led wethers 4 75; wooi-
ed feeder lambs 675-725.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAOO. March 11—/*»>— A
sudden outburs: of buying hoisted
wheat prices almost straight up-
ward about two cents a bushel Sat-
urday above an early low level.
Favorable action of the house
co— age committee on a proposed
bill at Washington to exchange
agricultural products for silver
inspired brisk purchasing of wheat
and was quickly reflected in the
sharp rise of quotations. Better
milling demand here lor wheat
helped the upturn of prices.
Wheat closed strong at the day's
i lop point. 1 cent to 1 1-2 cents
higher than Friday's finish. May
corn and oats both i»-H
up. and provisions varying from 2
cents decline to an equal gain.
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Fess Jr. Drawn
Into Mail Quiz
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—I
Answering charges that he had
been employed to help an air
line get mall contracts Lehr
Fess. above Toledo lawyer and
son of Senator Simeon D. Fcss
(Rep. O.l declared that he did
legal work for the company
«n!y after the contracts bad
been issued.
Opposes Control
mmmmmmmmmmmmmummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmm
W. G. Paul
j Supporting Richard Whitney. pro*
.dent of the New York Stock Fx-
I change in the tkrht of the steel j
markets against Federal control
and regulation is W. G. Paul sec ;
retary of the Los Angeles Stock I
; Kxehauge. He is shown above as j
be appeared before the senate bank- i
mg and currency committee. >
Guns? No Fair! Tiger Man’ Hunts Fierce
Jungle Cats With Spears and Arrows
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Sacha Siemel takes spear in hand and dare* a jaguar-%kin rug to do its worst in hh New York hotel room.
By HELEN WELSHIMER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK —Sacha Siemel. the
"tiger man ” has come to North
America to plead tor disarmament
in the Jungle.
Siemel. who is one of the most
daring hunters of the day. sat in
the Vanderbilt Hotel surrounded
by his spears and bows and arrows
and heads of the jungle cats that he
killed and explained why it isn't
fair to meet a 300-pound Jaguar
with a gun.
Jaguars by the way. are described
by the encyclopedia and any hunt-
ere as the fiercest and largest of
wild cats quite surpassing the
tiger which is ferocious enough to
suit most armed hunters
Bui Siemel known as the "tiger
man.’ prefers Jaguars which in-
cidentally. are called tigers In his
jungle country.
"The forests should be made safer
for jaguars.' he says. "There isn't
much adventure in attacking a cat
with a gun. If a hunter wants
sport he should equip liimself with
a spear—or a bow and arrow—and
start after his game. Of course you
can't make mistakes You must
know when to plunge the spear in
the throat of the jaguar or when
to shoot your arrow. There is ad
venture to this primitive method.
But guns—”
A Professional Huntsman
The tall broad-shouldered man.
whose eyes are a mild and merry
blue whose face carries a perfectly
trimmed black beard looks decided-
ly more like a college professor who
decides the cream or lemon problem
at faculty teas than a mighty hunt-
er.
Instead he spends his life in the
jungle at Oran Chaco. In East
Bolivia. He hunts alone with a
>iack of dogs only occasionally tak-
ing along a native hunter He
waits until the big cats are within
three feet or maybe closer. Then
he plunges his spear or releases an
arrow.
For many years he hunted with
firearms and killed 95 jaguars un-
aided.
•'But one day I saw a native using
a spear and asked him to teach me
how it is done.” said Siemel. “I
also learned how they use their
bows and arrows. After all shoot-
ing with a gun wasn't fun. It is
much more snorting for a man to
meet a beast in equal combat."
‘Equal combat meaning a tall
slim man on one side with a primi-
tive weapon and a jaguar weigh
mg anywhere from 250 to 400
pounds on the other !
‘Some battles last only three
seconds. The animal has lived and
struggled for as much as three min-
utes though. The Jaguars come
alone. If two came . . . well. I
hope they never will.*
Siemel who is the only white man
who hunts big game with primitive
weapons is in direct antithesis to
the trend of civilized and unciviliz-
ed hunters who are continually try-
ing to improve their rifles.
But back of his long hunt in the
South American Jungles Is as nice
a story as ever unfolded on a cine-
ma screen. It was all a question
of a lady or a tiger. Siemel chose
the tiger.
"I fell in love with my best
friend's wife back in Buenos Aires
when I was 24." he explains. “I
had a splendid position but there
was nothing to do but go away—
and forget. I went to Brazil work-
ed on the roads did manual labor
on farms slept well and in six
months I was over it.”
Keeps Young Romance Alive
But he didn't forget he adds Ano
he never maried. although he is 45
now. Instead in an endeavor to
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find some vital life interest he be-
came interested in hunting far game
and selected “tigers" for his pur-
suit.
We ha vent much lav In our
country.” the explorer explains.
"My brother who hunted with me
was killed in ambush one day. and
for nearly 10 years I searched for
his slayer. I found him. too. But
he was dying with a lung disease.1*
So he didn't shoot his man. He
turned back to the Jungle
"| have never been injured in
combat” he tells proudly "with
the exception of one time when I
waded In muddy water up to my
neck to get a tiger and an alli-
gator bit my foot. It was my fault.
I stepped on the alligator."
Sterne 1 who is accompanied by
Julian Duguid. famous author of
“Green Hell.” Is spending three
months in America lecturing on his
adventure.
DEAF WORKER* SUCCEED
IN TEXTILE PLANT TRl’OUT
ASHEVILLE N. C. —A big
textile manufacturing plant near
here 1» trying the experiment of
employing deaf workers and Is find-
ing It successful.
Two months ago American Enka
corporation officials acceded to
persistent requests from the North
Carolina state school for the deaf
ind hired or I girl "Just to see how
it would work ”
The other day a letter to the
school called for more workers.
Mankind has 32 "permanent”
teeth.
Magellan's expedition sailed
around the world in 1083 days.
STRIKES FADE
AFTER CUBAN
ARNYCALLED
HAVANA. March 10.—(AW— Prm
Carlo* Mendleta’s government Sal- '
urday broke the strike of Havana
Cock laborers.
Guarded by soldiers non-anion
workers went on the Ward Lina
oocks and unloaded the 8. & Ori-
ente. which had brought a cargo
1 of fruits and vegetables from Mex-
ico
There were no incidents attach-
ed to the strike breaking and the
strong military guard maintained
i :rder throughout.
The action at the Ward Line
docks was an expression of the
ore si dent's determined stand again*!
' tabor troubles stirred up by radie-
< a Is
Strikes widely spread appeared
to be weakening In the face of
I Mendleta’s attitude.
...-. —
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