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. rElectrical Fixtures WATER WORKS
SYSTEMS FOR
Most Complete Selections country homes
. Enjoy City Comfort .
W H. Putegnat Hardware On The Farm
J*ZnL ALrAMO IRON WORKS
Brownsville Texa. SAN ANTONIO BROWNSVILLE
- - THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(JF) --—
THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR—No. 49 ESTABLISHED 1892 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24 1927 SIX PAGES TODAY &c A COPY
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[ ; VALUEY
AN ANONYMOUS writer in a
note to The Herald takes issue witB
J. V. Meyer agricultural agent for
the Missouri Pacific Lines on the
proposition of “Pomelo” as a trade
name for Valley grapefruit.
“ Pomelo’ is good” he says "but
‘Grapefruit’ has too great a start
The Valley it too poor to make a
change. Woul4 be like building a new
Ford car."
But as we understand it Mr.
Meyar did not suggest changing the
name ef ‘grapefruit.” What he sug-
gested was that “Pomelo” would be
* good trade name or trademark.
Reminds us of the time this
column suggested that Rio Grande
Delta being shorter was more de-
sirable as a name for the Valley
than the present and longer “Lower
Bio Grande Valley.”
feet there was such an evenly di-
vided opinion on the matter that it
**1 allowed to drop. But it was in-
teresting while it luted.
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THIS EEACOAST is now on photo-
graphic record in the hydrographic
•ffiee of the United States navy.
Lisutenant C. Frank Schilt marine
corps aviator did the work.
He started out from Philadelphia
followed the coast line to Key West
circled the Island of Cuba made the
rim of the Gulf of Mexico from Key
West to New Orleans and down again
to Brownsville.
Flew a total of 22000 miles spent
SIO hours in the air photographed
2000 square miles of coast line took
6000 pictures from a constant alti-
tude of 10000 feet.
He took seaplane bases and light-
houses and lots of other things.
• • •
“THINK” IN the San Antonio Ex-
press. says the air mail service will
travel from San Antonio to Laredo
thence down the border to Browns-
ville and across into Mexico at this
point.
New Orleans Association of Com-
merce says the route will be from
New Orleans to Houston connecting
there with the Chicago line and from
Houston to Brownsville connecting
hero with the Mexican line.
Which makes plausible a sugges-
tion that three lines meet at this
point namely the Mexican line the
San Antonio line and the New Or-
leans-Houston line.
Brownsville is going to worry lit-
tle about the direction just so they
get here.
L 000
" IN AUGUST. 1910. Tht Herald in-
■tailed tF* "Duplex press which a few
days ago was dismantled and placed
in storage pending shipment.
Did service for seventeen years
almost to a day.
Referring to the installation of
that press. The Herald of August 9.
1910 said:
“This is the finest news press in
the state south of San Antonio and
its addition to The Herald plant
which probably very few of our local
ing plants in nearly all Texas towns
of the sue of Brownsville marks a
■tep in advance the importance of
whch probably very few of our local
patrons realize.”
Three of the four presses which
have printed The Herald since it
was established in 1892 are In
Brownsville.
Tha first was a Washington hand-
press It still stands and is used for
taking proofs.
Tha second is doing duty but
where Heaven alone knows.
The third is in storage.
The fourth a fast traveler is now
printing The Herald.
• • •
YOUNG LADIES of Camp Walda-
inar. up near Kerrville have com-
pleted a joyful trip into the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
This group has a side trip every
year. This year they had planned to
visit New Mexico but a reported
epidemic of infantile paralysis caused
pleas to be changed.
Fo discussions were started. Some-
one suggested. “Let s go to the Val-
<|y"
• The suggestion was cheered to the
Jsy
“But let's sleep over it.” suggested
_isa Johnson in charge. “We'll de-
*~’e tomorrow.
So they slept over it.
k vote again the next morning
Mere cheering. And it was unan-
ous.
>o they came to the Valley.
}nd if you ask them they did
l ragret it.
Brownsville they were enter-
led by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bru-
Mr. and Mrs. R. B Creager and
ft. J. L. Wortman all of whom had
ighters in the camp.
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j CAIRO Egypt Aug 24.-OP'-AI!
the government offices were closed I
tods' owing to the -death yesterday
of Zagleul Pasha nationalist leader
• and president of ihe Egyptian cham-
1 her of deputies. Death was the re-
sult of eciema.
The funeral was set for this af-
ternoon.
Redfem to Hop
Off Thursday
BRUNSWICK. ra. Aug 24.—<*>>—
Paul Redfem will take off tomorrow
in his monoplane. Port of Bruns-
wick on a projected non-stop flight
to Braiil if treat her reports late to-
day '‘show as favorable conditions
•a did this mornings report" Paul
Verner chairman of tha flight com-
puttae Aiuwuoced.
Valley Man Attempts Rescue; Dies With Wife
HEROIC DEED
OF LABORER
IS FRUITLESS
Neighbors Aid Comes
Too Late As Pair
Overcome By Gas in
Shallow Well
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(Special to The Herald.)
RAYMONDVILLE. Aug. 2«.-An act ;
of heroism by a laborer of the soil
brought the man to the same fate
from which he tried to save his mate
near here Tuesday.
Descending into a 26-foot well in
a vain effort to rescue his wife who
had been overcome by gas Juan
Gonzales fell a victim to the same
poisonous gas and the pair died in
the well. 1
Man Goes to Aid Mate
Maria Gonzales had gone down
into the well to clean it out while
Juan stood on the edge of it with a
rope and bucket to pull out the
earth as it was put into the bucket.
The man observed that his wife
crumpled up in the well and fell ap-
parently in a faint. He urged the
girl to go into the well in an effort
to rescue her mother but the child
became frightened almost into hys-
terics.
Then the man descended and was
overcome by the" carbon monoxide.
Rushing to the home of neighbors
nearby the girl gave the alarm and
many prsons rushed to the rescue.
However they were unable to save
the couple.
A lighted lantern was lowered into
the well in an effort to test
the gas but the light went out be-
fore it reached the bottom. Then •
blanket wae -naturafted- with gasoline
lighted and dropped into the well
but it was extinguished before reach-
ing the bottom of the well.
Oxygen Fails
Two hours after the man and his
wife descended to their death their
bodies were dragged out by means
of ropes and hooks.
Oxygen administered by Dr. C. C.
Conley was pumped into the lungs
of the man and woman but to no
avail.
The man and his wife worked in
the vicinity of the Steuver ranch
near HargiU. and had lived in this
part of the Valley for the past eight
years.
GROlSLAlN;
OFFICER HELD
Wealthy Georgian Ac-
companied by Bride
Shot to Death
JESUP. Ga.. Aug. 24.——While
returning with hia bride of two
months from a week-end at the sea-
side. Ernest Dval. 26 of McRae mem-
ber of a wealthy South Georgia fam-
ily. was shot to death in his auto-
mobile last night by Chief W. B. Ay-
cock of Wyne county police.
The officer claiming self-defense
told Sheriff J. O. Mattox that he
shot when Dyal drew a pistol after
he had accosted him on the highway
fve miles south of here his sus-
picions brnn* aroused bv the sodden
stopping of Dyal's speeding car.
With Chief Avrock at the time was
Captain J. W. Kemp of the Atlantic
Coast Line railway police wbo cor-
roborated his account of the shoot-
ing. Both men were arrested on
charges of murder and are held it.
jail here.
Dyal died instantlv. two bullets
from Aycoek's pistol taking effect.
With the body on the seat beside
the chief dro\<* Dyd'i machine into
Jessup while Mr-. Dyal was brought
here by a passerbv and placed under
the eae ©fr physicians She was in
a highly nervous condition.
Fire Razes Ancient
‘City of the Blind’
CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 24.-hA»»
- A huge fir* in Scutari the Asiatic
suburb of Constantinople famous in
Byzantine history as Chalsedon.
"the city of the blind” has destroyed
the most picturesque and most Tur-
kish district on the shores of the
Bosphorus. The less was 1.000.000
liras.
The fire which started last niirht
destroyed about 400 old wooden lat-
ticed houses and drove 2.000 refucees
to the famous Scutoricemetery. cele-
brated for its cypresses where they
encamped.
WEATHER
(By The Associated Press.)
East Texas — Wednesday cloudy
local showers colder in the interior
Thursday; partly cloudy.
West Texas — Thursday partly
rloudy showera in east portion cold-
pi in south.
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German Balloonist on Way Here
Hans Kaulen ri*ht. and his aid are on their way to the United States
to fly in the Gordon Bennett cup races at Detroit Sept. 10. They
are the first German balloonists to enter the race since the war.
Agreement on Water
Question Predicted
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FLARES FAIL
TO AID HUNT
Search For Missing
Fliers Continues
In Pacific
--
SAN FRANCISCO. Calif.. Aug. 24.
—<**»—A woman and five men—seven
day* lost at sea—two more days of
search.
Hope for the missing Dole race
fliers. Miss Mildred Doran. John
“Auggy" Pedlar. Lieutenant V. R.
Knope Jack Frost and Gordon Scott
who left the Oakland Municipal Air-
port for Hawaii a week ago today
glimmered wanaly on the seventh day
of silence. Hope for the recovery of
Captain William P Erwin and A. H.
Eichwaldt. who flew out of the ait-
port Friday in search of their miss-
ing companions and were believed to j
have crashed into the sea after send-
ing out a frantic SOS on their radio
was feeble.
In the face of disrouraring re-
port* from the 42 submarines de-
stroyers airplane carriers and their
searching “eyes.” ever flashing the
colorless laconic "nil-ntl-nil” peri-
odically by 'sdio came word that fif-
teen additional destroyers and one
light cruiser under command of Rea-
Admlral Luke McNamee were or-
dered to join the search.
Rear Admiral Richard H. Jackson
commander of the Pacific fleet or-
dered these boats into action with
the idea of scrutinizing uncovered
sea area before falling of the “zero
hour” Thursday.
A story that a green flare was seen
to rise and die down about 8.000 feet
up the nigged slopes of Maura Kea.
in the island of Hawaii Sundav
night has thus far failed to result
in definite word that any of the
file's has been found.
Three of the irmv’i Dehavaland
airplanes which left Luke field.
Honolulu to flv over the mountain
in the hope of finding a fallen plane
are expected to report the result of
their search todav.
Rebels Attack
Marines Again
WASHINGTON D. €.. Aug. 24—tf’t
—Although American marinas have
again been ambushed by Nicaraguan
bandits Rear Admiral Sellers in
charge of naval forces in a report to j
the navy department declared condi
tions in Nicaragua are steadily im-
proving. w
General Sandino former liberal
military leader whose forces were
defeated last month by marines at
Ocotal the admiral added ia believ-
ed to be still in hiding in Nicara-
gua with a small band of men. In
the mountains of Segovia in north-
ern Nicaragua General Moncada dur- I
ing an airplane sarvey recently dis-
covered small hands the report said.
GAS PERMIT GRANTED
NEW YORK K Y.. Aug. 24.—
The Dixie Gas and Utilities compary. j
has obtained franchises to supply
natural gas for domestic and indus-!
trial uses in Orange. Rusk. Jackson-
ville Nacogdoches. Tunnson. Crockett
and Livingston. Texas. Laying of j
Baias will be aUrted soon.
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Care Must Be Used in
Valley Situation
Lawyer Says
DENVER. Colo.. Aug. 24.—<JP\—
With electrodes of no mean voltage
in their hands neither California
nor Alizona. parties to the wster di-
vision dispute iu the lower basin of
the Colorado river can let go.
That was the graphic picture of the
situation in which the seven state
Colorado river governors conference
found itself after two days of ne-
gotiations as presented by Delph
Corpenter Colorado's water commis-
sioner.
Carpenter was plainly optimistic
regarding the outcome of the mm- j
ing.
“California and Arizona’' he de-
clared. “are neaier a settlement of
their problems right now then they
ever have been dispite all reports of!
disruption and lack of harmony. The!
chances are 70 per cent in favor of!
a mutual agreement at this confer-i
ence as against SO per cent of a
breakup.
Subjected to a cross fire of ques-1
tions Tuesday Charles L. Childers
irrigation district lawyer talked at I
length on the international aspects)
of the river controversy as they af-
fect Mexico. Congressman Edward
Taylor of Colorado sounded a note
of warning when Childers admitted
that eventually Mexico would be de-
prived of irrigation water under the 1
all American canal plan of develop-
men.
Texas." said Taylor “is enjoying
the use of water from the Rio Grande
by courtesy of Mexico. We in Wash-
ington have been careful in handling
this situation. If we here too are ]
r.ot careful we may be dealing with
issues wo aren’t looking for.”
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Storm Threatens
North Atlantic
WASHINGTON D. C. Aug 24.—
—The ‘Weather Bureau today is-
sued the following storm warning:
“Advisory 10 a. m. storm warn-
ings changed to northwest Delaware
breakwater to Boston. Disturbance
of great intensity central 130 miles
south of Nantucket moving northeast
will cause strong northwest winds
this afternoon and tonight reaching
gale force off New England coast."
Newspapermen
Meet at Geneva
GENE\ A Aug. 23.——Men who
age managiag the news agencies and
the newspapers of the world gath-
ered at Geneva today under the aus-
pices of the League of Nations in an
international conference to study-
problems connected with the profes-
sion.
Improvement in the means of com-
munication. telegraphic telephonic
and wireless more reasonable rate*
for the transmission of news better
facilities in the collection of news
the removal of censorship in peace-
time and examination of the general
problems of the legal protection of
press information were subjects on
the agenda.
The Associated Press was repre-
sented by Kent Cooper general man-'
HUNDREDS ARE
HURT AS NOBS
POLICE CLASH
Radical Demonstra-
tions in London and
Paris Curbed With
Difficulty
NE’X YORK N. Y. Aug. 24.—OP}—
Disturbances at London and Paris a
demonstration before the American
consulate at Geneva and the bum-
Ir-g of an American flag at Johannes-
burg. South Africa were some of the
developments in foreign countries as
rn aftermath of the execution ot
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van-
zetti.
After a “memorial meeting” in
Hyde Park. London last night the
demonstrators began to march in
defiance of police orders in the di-
rection of the American embassy.
The police charged them with drawn
batoons but reserves had to bt sum-
moned before the manifestanti* could
be dispersed. Forty persons ntnong
them four women were injured.
“Memorial Day”
The international class war pris-
oners organization is making plans
to call a national “memorial day”
next Sunday in all parts of England
with a central demonstration in Tra-
alfcar Square.
For several hours lsst night Paris
witnessed wild scenes as enraged
radicals balked in attempts to hold
demonstrations before the American
embassy and the boulevards did ex-
tensive damage to shops auto-
mobiles and cabarets in the Mont
Mart re section. In a battle with the
nolice from behind hastily set up
barricades the mob used stolen
canned goods as missies. Before calm
was restored with the aid of a heavy
down pour sixty policemen were ln-
iured. ten of them badlv bv knife
thrusts and 200 manifestants were
arrest»d.
Neneva Guards Increased
Monday night's disturbances fn
Geneva when windows of the League
of Nations place were smashed and
much other damage was done
prompted the authorities to augment
♦ be guard* wherever trouble was
likely to develop. Notwith«tendi*»«r
tfci* hov.ever. a large crowd gath-
ered before the American consul-te
last night to protest against the
death of the two men. The shouts
were increased when it became
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INSULL POWER
DEAL CHECKED
Abilene Meeting Re-
sults in Change of
Attitude
AUSTIN Tex. Aug. 24.—4**)—With
the airing given the Syndicate Power
company at Abilene during la*t week
negotiations between the company
and the Insull properties virtually
ceased C. F. Gibson and E F. Smith
attorneys at Austin for the power
company said today.
The Syndicate Power company a
Washington concern has permit to
do business in Texas. Smith said.
The Syndicate Power company
has been negotiating with the Insull
people to purchase stock and the
deal was almost closed when the
Abilene meeting was called but the
Insull people own properties in the
Pecos region and fearing that these
might be injured ceased negotiations.
Work was abandoned and survey-
ors have been withdrawn from the
Hamilton damsite near Kings Land.
Options had been secured on prac-
tically 25.000 acres at from *150 to
*250 per acre. No surveys have been
made on the other damsites Smith
said.
Bobby Jones Is
Winner in Match
MINNEAPOLIS Minn. Aug. 24 —
Bobby Jones had to fight hard
to win in his first round match to-
day and survived for the title
struggle in the national amateur golf
championship as George Von Elm did
to survive the qualifying round yes-
terday. He defeated ?rauriee Mc-
Carthy of New York.
Jess Barnes Given
Release by Dodgers
NEW YORK N.Y.. Aug. 24.—UF>—
Jess Barnes veteran righthander
pitcher was released today by the
Brooklyn Nationals.
As a ten year man ha received his
unconditional release.
He has signed with the Toledo
club of the American Association for
the rest of the season.
MAYOR WALKER IN BERLIN
BERLIN. Aug. 24.— uF) — Mayor
Walker of New York and his party
Arrived u» Berlin this morning.
(—— ->
Organization of
Valley Growers
Formed Tuesday
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PROBE ASKED
IN HIDALGO;
OPPOSE BONDS
Petition Passed At
Pharr Meeting To
Be Sent Attorney
General
(Special to The Herald)
PHARK Aug. 24.—A petition di-
rected to Attorney General Claude
Pollard requesting that the attorney
general's department investigate the
administration of county affairs in
Hidalgo county and that he refuse
to approve any bond issues of the
county until such investigation is
concluded was endorsed by resolu-
tion and signed by over 200 citizens
at a mass meeting of the Pharr dis-
trict Monday night.
The meeting alto went on record
as opposing the proposed $6000000
road bond issue and G. A. Young
farmer presided at the meeting and
E. A. Russell was secretary.
Copies of the petition to the at-
torney general are new being cir-
culated throughout the county it was
announced and will be forwarded to
Austin the latter part of the week.
Following is the text of the peti-
tion signed at the meeting here:
“To The Honorable Claude Pollard
Attorney General Austin Tewas.
“We the undersigned citizens tax-
payers of Hidslgo county Tex. here-
by petition you as attorney general
of the state to afford us such re-
lief as the laws of our state may en-
able and empower you to give us
from the intolerable conditions now
und of long time past prevailing in
our county.
“The laws are not enforced but are
openly ignored and in well defined
instances violated by our county of-
ficials. Public funds have been em-
bezzled and those guilty were never
prosecuted nor have the funds been
recovered. Public funds are mis-
applied and mishandled.
"Illegal voting is continually prac-
ticed and elections are carried by
fraud.
“Our county bonds and county war-
rants have been sold secretly and il-
legally at prices ruinous to our tax-
payers. Our securities are debased
and public credit badly impaired; so
that governmental conditions pre-
vailing here have become a bar to
progress.
“Crime is open and frequent end.
mostly little or no effort is made to
apprehend the evil-doers.
“Our people are overburdened with
unjust unfair and well-night con-
fiscatory taxation; many are losing
their homes and life-time earnings
thereby.
“We further appeal to you not to
approve any more road bond issues
from this-county until our county of-
ficials have been fully investigated
and all matters affecting the value
and validity of such bonds removed
as well as the officials.
Sen. Norris Backed
For U. S. Presidency
LINCOLN Neb.. Aug. 24.-HAV-
Petitions to place the name of United
States Senator George Nome on the
republican presidential ballet in Ne-
braska will be filed with the secre-
tary of state it was announced to-
day by C A. Sorenson Lincoln at-
torney.
HUMBLE CUTS PRICES
HOUSTON Tex. Aug. 24.—
An announcement here today said
that the Humble Oil A Refining
company had posted a reduction of
from ten to 32 cents a barrel in the
price of Crane Upton Pecos and
Crockett county crudes establishing
a flat price of sixty cents per barrel.
Crude in tbe»e counties wes former-
ly on a gravity basie end prices
rsnged from 70 to 92 cents a barrel.
TENNIS POSTPONED
NEWPORT R. L Aug. 24.—<*V-
The 47 matches scheduled todsy in
the international invitation lawn ten-
nis tournament at the Newport Ca-
sino were postponed because of the
continued rain. Only one match
was played yesterday.
WILSON HITS HOMER
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Aug. 24.—<**>
—Hack Wilson of the Cubs drove out
his 21st home run of the year with
one on base in the sixth inning of
the first game of a double header
with the Phillies here today.
ENGLISH WRITER DIES
FLORENCE Italy. Aug. 24.-GP>—
Mrs. Janet Anne Ross. English writer
died today at her ViUa near Settig-
uaiio aged 55.
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES Aug. 24.—Temporary
organization of the Rio Grande Val-
ley Vegetable Growers Exchange the
central body for the various commun*
ity units that have been organized
*n ten Valley communities was ef-
fected here Tuesday afternoon. J. R.
Brothers of Mercedes was elected
temporary chairman and F. O. Fleury
of Donna temporary secretary.
Application for charter was ap-
approved and will be filed with the
secretary of state the Exchange to
be a non-profit body. The charter
will grant the same privileges grant-
ed in the charters of the local units.
Local units have been organized at
McAllen San Juan Alamo Pharr
Donna. Weslaco Mercedes La Feria
ar.d Brownsville and Harlingen will
' organized Thursday night. All units
were represented at the meeting by
one or more members the vote being
limited to one for each unit.
To Meet Again
Tentative by-laws were read and
approved and the temporary chair-
man and secretary were delegated to
make several revisions and final ac-
tion will be taken at a meeting at
Harlingen Tuesday August 30.
The Exchange will be the central
governing body of the organization
and each of the local units will have
one representative and an alternate
with one vote in all deliberations of
the body. Officers will be elected
annually on the second Monday in
July the various units electing their
officers and representative on the
central exchange on the first Mon-
day in July. The primary function
of the Exchange is to make the
marketing contract with the distrib-
uting agency to quote prices on com-
modities to supervise grading and
pack and ©therwiae serve each of
the various units.
The next meeting of the Exchange
at which a permanent organization
will probably be perfected will be
held at the Harlingen city hall at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning. August 30.
Contracts with various distributing
agencies will be considered at that
time.
The Exchange has no intention of
endeavoring to organize a marketing
bureau this year but proposes to em-
ploy some national marketing agency
to handle the production upon a com-
mission basis. Members pointed out
that the cost of creating and main-
(Continued on page two.)
WOMAN SHOT;
SONCHARGED
Body Buried Week
Found in Basement
Of Home
CHIC AGO. III. Aug. 24.—(VP)—A
! charge of matricide today pursued
21-year-old Harry Hill around Chi-
cago as plans went ahead in hi* home
town of Streator 111. for the funeral
l of the mother he is accused of hav-
ing slain.
Young Hill was known to have
been in Chicago Monday night spend-
ing the evening at a friend's home.
From there the trail disappeared.
Dr. C. H. Hill a well-to-do Streat-
or oculist was responsible for dis-
covery of the body of the wife from
whom he had been estranged for
seven years. He asked officers to
accompany him to the home in which
she and her son lived.
Digging in the basement they came
upon the body of the 55-year-old
woman. There were two bullet holes
in the head.
Mrs. Hill had been dead about
three weeks.
On the back porch was found a
pair of young Hill's shoes and on
them was dried clay such as that in
which Mrs. Hill’s body was found.
As a motive for the slaying of-
ficers pointed to several gambling
obligations Hill had contracted.
Mexico Bandits
Wound American
WASHINGTON. D. C. Aug 24.—OPi
—Florence Anderson an American
citizen was “seriously wounded’ when
the train upon which she was re-
turning to Los Angeles from Mexico
City was attacked by several hundred
armed men at four o’clock yesterday
morning 14 kilometers south of Aca-
poneta. Naryit. Mexico the state de-
partment was informed today;
Gen. Bullard War
Veteran To Marry
NEW YORK N. Y^ Aug.
Major General Robert Lee Bullard U.
S. A. retired commander of the
second army in the world war and
Mr*. Ella Re iff Wall widow of Dun-
can Wall of Philadelphia are to be
married today. General BuMaid is
> 66 year* old and Mrs. Wall 62
DECISIONS OF
FULLER TO BE
INVESTIGATED
Defense Body Charges
‘Vicious Under Cov-
er Activities’ Of De-
tectives
BOSTON. Mass.. Aug. 24.—
A call has gone out for a national
conference in New York on August
27 and 28 to organize a league “to
establish the innocence of Sacco and
Vanzetti and to expose the con-
spiracy which sent them to death.**
It was proposed to accomplish this
by a sensational investigation of
the department of justice inquiry
into the decisions of Governor Ful-
ler and his advisory committee and
by exposing “the vicious under cover
activities of private and govern-
mental detective agencies.” It was
hoped also to raise a fund for Mrs.
Sacco and to create a memorial for
the two men.
Ashes to Europe
The ashes of Bartolomeo Vanzetti
are to be taken on a tour of Europe.
Miss Luigia Vanzetti who came
from Italy to see her brother be-
fore he was executed in the state
prison yesterday ia to accompany
them. After cremation here the ash-
es will be taken to New York Lon-
don Paris Berlin Stockholm and
other cities before going to Italy
Vanzetti's native land.
The body of Nicola Sacco who wag
executed with Vanzetti also ia to
be cremated. His ashes will be
claimed by his widow who resides
in Boston with her two children.
Announcing a cancellation of
plans for exhibiting the bodies of
the two men in various American
citiea because of the "physical im-
possibility" the Sacco-Vanzetti de-
fense committee said the cremation
would be next Sunday with funeral
processions or memorial services in
various American cities. The bodies
would be in state until Sunday in
the north end the Italian section of
Boston the announcement said.
Burial Required
Difficulties developed in this con-
nection today. City ordinances re-
quire burial within four days of
death without special permission.
Mrs. Glendower Evans wealthy
society woman associated with th«
defense. said that death maska
would be made of the two men and
many copies distributed.
The state today atill held the
bodies but the tenure which began
with their arrest for murder in 1920
seemed likely to be broken before
night by delivery of the bodies te
the Sacco-Vanzettl defense commitg
tee.
The men refused to the last td
return to the Catholic belief of
their childhood. Respecting their
beliefs it was announced that so
prayers would be said but that
comrades would speak briefly before
the gathering.
Letters Made Public
Final letters from Sacco and Van*
zetti have been made public by tha
defense committee. One was" by
Vansetti to Sacco’s young a©u
Dante.
“I tell you now ell that I know of
your father” the letter said “ha
is not a criminal but on« of tha
bravest men I ever knew. Some day
you will understand what I am to tell
wfll understand what I am to tell
you. That your father has sacri-
ficed everything dv«r and sacred to
the human heart for hia faith in
liberty and justice to all. That some
day you will be proud of your
father and if you become brave
enough you will take hie place in
the struggle between tyranny and
liberty and you will vindicate his
<our3 name* and our blood.”
The letter said Vansetti was leav-
ing Dante hia “American Bible**
which the letter did not otherwise
identify.
In a joint letter to the defense
committee Sacco and Vansetti
wrote: “Only two of us will die.
tour) names and our blood.”
Hv« by millions.”
Arrests Test Case
A test case of Boston ordinances
on sauntering and loitering is to
be made by Arthur Garfield Hays
New York attorney by trying the
cases of six persons fined |10 each
for congregating fn front of the
state house in a death watch.
Among the six are Edim 0L Vin-
cent Millay poet and Ellen Hayes
formerly profasaor et Wellesly Col-
lege. Fines of |5 each were paid by
148 other persons whose eases ware
heerd at the same time in munici-
pal court.
Powers Hapgood nephew of Nop*
men Hapgood was free today after
being held In a hospital for observa-
tion. He was sent to a hospital af-
ter being arrested fix# times in
demonstrations to tha executions.
He was released after Hays threbt-
ened habeas corpus proceedings.
Plans of the committee to have
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