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^ THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEA SED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—QP)_ _
B^THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR—No. 82 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26 1927 SIX PAGES TODAY 6c A C0PY‘
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VALLEY
; HIDALGO COUNTY having seen
ita proposed W000000 road band is-
•ae go down into defeat is now look-
i *B* toward the road district system
for a possible common ground on
i which the voters may meet.
. the last session of the state leg-
islature two road districts Vere
f authorized one to include a section
of the east part of the county the
I Mercedes-Edinburg section; the other ]
f to ln«lade the Weslaco area.
' A petition is now before the Hi-
*lgo county commissioners asking a
4000000 road bond election for the I
irst named diatrict. And voters in j
he Weslaco district are discaasing j
ailing an election.
In other sections of the county
oad districts are planned but!
tothing can be done about it until
*nother legislative session.
• • •
IN THE MEANTIME Cameron I
county is proceeding with her $6-
000000 road program.
A few days more it is likely San
Benito will have a paved road
through to Rio Hondo.
Harlingen’s road to Rio Hondo is
progressing nicely.
The Brownsville-El Jardin road is
likewise nearing completion.
W’ork is about to start on the Bar-
reda-Paredes line road and the
Brownsville road along the Paredes
line to the Point Isabel road.
Also on the dirst work and struc-
tures on the Brownsville-Boca Chics
road.
The Southern Pacific raila. being
rapidly laid southward from Har-1
lingen to Brownsville will shortly
strike Highway 100 which is the
Barreda-Point Isabel road. And will i
be able to handle materials for the
•new highway.
• • •
RAYMONDVILLE. which has been
developing rapidly is ready to make
use of the city’s new $50000 sewer
system.
It’s one of the important steps in
the development of a real city.
Remember not so many years ago
paying a visit to Raymondville. There
on a dark night. A few scattered elec-
tric lights. Few if any sidewalks.
Stumbled along wooden pathways. Al-
most fell in a ditch.
It was pitch black ahead. Thought
never would reach the railroad sta-
tion. Finally did.
I It's different in Raymondville now.
[ Plenty of electrie lights for the
streets. And sidewalks. And paved
streets. And modern buildings of
every type.
• • •
THIS COLUMN recently predicted
that in another year the total assess-
able valuations for the Valley would
pass S100.00b.000.
The forecast was very much be-
hind the times.
The valuations already are there
and more.
Hidalgo county with its estimated
$$2000000 and Cameron with $30-
000000 make up a total of $£8000-
1 000. And valuations for Willacy and
* Starr counties more than carry the
figure over the $100000000 line.
DEEP WATER SPORTS are cer-
tain to become an important feature
of entertainment in the Valley.
Seem* forecast with the announce-
ment of award of contract for erec-
tion of the Point Isabel Yacht Club'a
building at the Point. *
Every year sees more and more
•mall pleasure craft tied up at piers
I Point Isabel.
rery year there are more and
a fishermen on the coast.
>me of the yachts are quite pa-
ll. Others not so much so. but
for the purposes of the owner
nd there ara any number equip-
with outboard motors.
>me prefer sailboats with sux-
y motors. There’a a lot of per-
il satisfaction in being able to
die a sailboat. And lots of fun I
•very owner of a motorboat can
die a sailboat.
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RESIDENT COOUDGE and Pres j
it Callet are scheduled to engage
a telephone conversation next
raday.
bat's splendid.
aw. possibly the administration
(Washington and the aimini«tra
at Mexico City can take down
receiver and settle many of the
itious problems by the exchange
i few words.
othing like voice to voice contact
nd pretty soon. Mr. Coolidge will
laying something like this:
fello. that you Piute? This is Cal
it Washington.”
I WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Lower j
jo Grande Valley: Partly cloudy to-
ght; Tuesday mostly cloudy with
lowers and cooler.
For Fast Texas: Cloudy tonipht;
Un rnd colder in north and central
irtions; Tuesday rain; colder ex-
H>t on the west coast. Moderate to
lesh southerly to easterly winds on
e coast.
Rjver Forecaat
The river will fall slowly from .
lasion down during the next 24 to
hours and remain prsctically sta-
kary elsewhere.
m daily river bulletin
^ Flood Pr**e« t 14 Hr t« Hr
Staff* Stace Cbnff. Rain
KJ Bio.10 .it)
HfaPmas .. 18 ' 8.7 *0 3 .or'
Ado . *7 0.2 - .001
^TStads • 21 8 8 *0.5 .001
Um ..... 22 8.8 *0.3 .00
S Benito . 88
. 18 8.4 40.1 .00
■ JUNIOR HIGH HAS BAND
K (Special to The Herald)
BjngSlON. Sept. 28 —Prof. Schrader
1 r*argani>td a junior high school
composed of both boys and]
and practice will be had every
Prof- Hugh Proctor continues/
Eehart* ^ high school band.
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Work Starts On
Second Unit Of
Paving Program
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MANSTABBED
HERE SUNDAY
Police Seeking Anoth-
er; Victim May
Succumb
Police are searching for a man
whose name has not been given in
the stabbing of Manuel Quintero
Sunday evening in the Fourth Ward
at the east end of Fort Brown about
8:30 o’clock.
Quantero was rushed to Mercy hos-
pital in a ro);ce car following the at-
tack at which time Dr. B. M. Works
examined the wound and deported
that the man's liver was probably in-
jured by the weapon. The wound
was just below the lower rib on the
right side. Hospital officials report-
ed Monday that the man was resting
as well as could be expected.
No trace of the alleged attacker
has been found following the stab-
bing Sunday according to J. T. Arm-
string lieutenant of police in a state-
ment made Monday about noon.
ARMY RITES
FOR KELLY
Funeral Here Tuesday
With Full Military
Honors
The body of Col. William Kelly
Jr. native of Brownsville who died
in Dayton Ohio last Thursday will
reach Brownsville Tuesday morning
and funeral services will be held
Tuesday afternoon it was announced
Monday.
Relatives of Col. Kelly have al-
ready arrived here and completed ar-
rangements for the funeral. Full
military services are to be given
the dead man.
The funeral services will be held at
the Sacred Heart church and burial
will be in the city cemetery at 4:30
o'clock in the afternoon.
The body will lie in state at the
home of J. S. Thornham 709 Wash-
ington street brother-in-law of Col.
Kelly from the time of its arrival
until the funeral. The names of the
active pall-bcarers have not been an-
nounced but they will be officers
from Fort Brown. Honorary pall-
bearers will be:
George 1‘utegnat Dr. Harry K.
Loew R. B. Creager Alfred Fer-
nandez; A. Asheim Augustine Ce-
laya; J. I*. 1‘utegnat Louis Brulay
Joe Wells Frank Rabb A. Wood-
house A East. Jose Celaya Sr.
Owen Combe Fred Starck Oliver
Hicks E. K. Goodrich and Bernard
Cain.
Col. Kelly was born in Brownsville
in 1873 and received his commis-
sion in the army in 1896. He saw
service in the Spanish-American War
and the World War. He was award-
ed the distinguished service cross
for service rendered in the World
War.
At the time of his death Col. Kelly
was on leave of absence and visit-
ing relatives prepaiatory to assum-
ing new duties at Fort Sam Houston.
Correspondent
Dies in Moscow
MOSCOW Sept. 26.—(/P)—Strewn
from a military airplane the ashes
of Walter C. Whifftn late Moscow
i'ress and for many years its repre-
i'ress and fo many years its repre-
sentative in various world capitals
have been scattered ever the high-
ways snd byways of this city of his
last assignment.
The funeral was the first of its
kind in the history of Moscow and
the ceremony was watched by a large
group of spectators. It was in ac-
cordance with one of the correspond-
ent's last wishes.
The -'hes were carried in a flower
covered urn and were scattered over
the city by N. Kotoff a Russian
newspaper comrade and an assistant
when the plans had reached a height
of about 500 feet.
Rebecca Rogers
On Trial Again
GEORGETOWN. Tea.. Sept. 2«.—
—Two hours was granted defense
counsel this morning to prepare •
motion for continuance after the
state announced ready in the trial of
continuance after the state an-
Rebecca Bradley Rogers charged
with arson in connection with the
burning of • vacant residence in
Round Rock.
With the opening of court the de-
fense presented a motion to quash
the indictment because it did not
allege the house was burned with
fire. The defendant was attended in
court by her mother Mrs. Graee
Bradley and her husband Otis
Rogers.
S. P. to Reach Barreda
Crossing As Pav-
ing Starts
While one great development pro-
ject pushes its way over the last few
miles yet to be covered in reaching
Brownsville across its path is start-
ed another development project
which will mean much to this city
and other sections of the Lower Rio
Granve Valley.
The first freight to be carried over
the new Southern Pacific line from
Harlingen as far as Los Fresnos it
expected to be a huge concrete mix-
ing machine for use in paving the
Barreda-Point Isabel highway which
is expected to ultimately link the
Valley with Point Isabel.
Work on the Barreda to Paredes
Line road has been started by the
contractors. Dodds & Wedegartner
of San Benito and the same contract-
ors are expected to start construc-
tion soon on the Paredes Line road
from Brownsville to the intersection
with the Barreda to Point Isabel
road.
These contractors are now work-
ing on the El Jardin boulevard
which is expected ultimately to con-
nect Brownsville and Point Isabel by-
pavement. and work is to be started
soon on the earth work and struc-
tures on the Brownsville to Boca
Chica road.
Although the pouring of concrete
on the Barreda road has not started
the pipe for water lines to the con-
crete mixer is being carried to the
road and the construction on the
project is actually under way.
The Southern Pacific expects to
reach Highway No. 100 the Barreda
to Point Isabel road about the mid-
dle of this week and will bring the
concrete mixer to that point for use
of the contractors on the road.
Dodds Sk Wedegartner have paved
all of the San Benito to Rio Hondo
road with the exception of 4500 feet
and belief was expressed Monday
that the road will be ready for use
bv November 1 marking the comple-
tion of the first unit in Cameron
county’s six million dollar paving
program.
The same contractors are working
on the road out of San Benito in a
southerly direction while F. P. Mc-
Elwrath of Harlingen is naving the
road from Harlingen to Rio Hondo
and the road from La Feria to Santa
Rosa.
EIGHTAW
MAIL FRAUD
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Will Plead Guilty If
Sentence Not Long-
er Than Year
LOS ANGELES. Calif. Sept. 2«.—
John S. Pratt special prosecutor
in mail fraud cases in connection
with the promotion of the Invader
group of oil companies of Oklahoma
last night confirmed reports that
eight additional defendants had of-
fered to plead guilty to the charges
if they were assured that one year
prison terms and fines would be the
maximum punishment meted out by
the court.
Six defendants pleaded guilty here
last week suspended sentences being
given three of them. B. Frank Wood
drew a sentence of two years and
two remain to be sentenced.
The court in passing sentence on
the men made it a condition that
they turn over their gains from the
Eromotions for the benefit of stock-
olders who were said to ha*e in-
vested $20000000 in the comra des.
Postal inspectors according to
Pratt have insisted that a least three
of the eight remaining defendants
Owen A. Wood of Amarillo his
brother Bert G. Wood and L. K.
Jones of Chicago be given not less
than eighteen months terms end
fires. The other defendants remain-
ing to be tried are C W\ Bishop of
Los Angeles. W. H. Hay C. E Pol-
lard and J. F. Canterbury all of Fort
Worth and Otia C Wood of Albur-
queque.
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Aged Man Shoots
Child in Revenge
NEW' YC Sept 26.
—i^—A -old flrl
was shot to death as she slept
today by a 65-year-old man in
revenge for* the Hopement of
his daughter the police allege.
The girl Angeline Constance
was asleep in her bed at her
home in East 108th street when
she was instantly lei ied by a
shotgun discharged according
to the police by Biaggio Ar-
se nio. who escaped over roof-
tops. Relatives told the police
that Arseni# was enraged «ver
the recent elopement of his
daughter with • young man i
t-oduced by the slain child > ■
parents.
BRITAIN ~W1NS~SCHNEIDER CUP
ALL RECORDS
FOR SEAPLANE
ARE SMASHED
Lieut. Webster Estab-
lishes New Mark of
281.488 Miles Hour
In Winning Cup
VENICE Italy Sept. 26.—<ffV-
Flight Lieutenant S. N. Webster in
a super-marine Napier S-5 mono-
plane today smashed all existing
sea-plane speed records in captur-
ing the famous Schneider Cup for
Great Britain. Italy had held the
cup for the past year as a result
of its victory over the United States
at Hampton Roads in 1926.
Lieutenant Webster averaged
453.282 kilometers or 281.488 miles
and hour as compared with the rec-
ord of 246.496 miles an hour es-
tablished by Major Mario de Ber-
nardi of the Italian royal air force
who won the race last year.
The Schneider Maritime aviation
cup one of the most famous trophies
in aviation was captured by Italy
from the United States at Norfolk
Va. last year setting a new record
for sea planes by averaging more
than 4 1-10 miles a minute. Italy
crossed the finish line with an
average speed of 246.496 miles an
hour.
Lieutenant F. Schilt of the United
States navy was second with 231.364
miles an hour as his average.
The defeat deprived the United
States of its chance of permanently
retaining the coveted international
trophy. The United States had won
in 1923 and 1925.
The cup was presented in 1912 to
the aero club of France by Jacques
Schneider French sportsman and
aviator with a view to developing
high speed seaplanes. The country
winning the cup is required to held
the race for the succeeding year.
TRAFFIC HAZARDS OF
* * *
FUTURE FORECAST IN
* * *
AUTO PLANE CRASH
AKRON. 0. Sppt. 26.—<&]—
Traffic hazards of the future are
forecast by an automobile-air-
plane crash here last night.
B. E. “Shorty” Fulton was cir-
cling to land his plane at Fulton
Field herd when Mrs. Rose Robin-
son drove her automibile onto the
field under his plane.
As he levelled off four or five
feet from the ground there was
a jar and a crash. “That certain-
ly was a rough landing” said
Fulton.
"Yes.” said one of his passen-
gers. "you just hit an automo-
bile.”
Mrs. Robinson was cut about
the face by flying glass. Three
other occupants of the car and
three occupants of the flying ma-
chine escaped uninjured. Plane and
automobile were wreked.
OSBORNE ASKS
CONTINUANCE
Second Floggin_ Case
Started Today At
Gilmer
GILMER. Texas. Sept. 26.—(^V-
The morn.ng session of the trial of
Dewitt Osborne under indictment on
seven counts for violating the anti-
mask laws was spent in arguing a
motion for continuance. Osborne is
charged with taking part in the
flogging of the Richardson and
Straps families tenant farmers near
Marshall cn the night of June 8.
Court adjourned at 11 o'clock to
reconvene at 1 o'clock when tha
court would rule on the defense s
motion which claims lack of ma-
terial witnesses.
The court room was filled an hour
before court was called to order.
Judge Warren who was on the
bench at Tyler during the trial of
Cain Anderson who is under indict-
ment on charges growing out of the
same attack is also judge of the
district court here and is hearing
the case.
Briggs and Davis Gilmer law firm
are counsel for the defense.
MARSHALL. Texas. Sept. 2«.—**•)
—County Attorney John E. Taylor
and a large number of witnesses this
morning went to Gilmer Upshur
county where the css* of Dewitt Os-
borne. indicated for alleged viola-
tion of the anti-mask law was called
for trial Mr. Taylor said the state
would announce ready when the case
was called.
NEW M. P. CARS
ST. LOUIS. Mo. Sept. 26.—<>PV—
Sun room cars will soon be in use
on the Missouri Pacific and the Mis-
souri-Kansas-Texas railroads it is
announced here.
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German Flyer May Be Down in Desert
For more than two days no reports have ben received from Lieut. Otto Koennecke German flyer who
hopped off Saturday from Angora Turkey headed for the Persian gulf on the second lap of his flight
to the United States. A long strip of desert is in the path selected by the German on this lap. Photo
shows Koennecke and his plane just before the hop from Berlin.
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Control Zone Declared
In 3 Valley Counties
COLD WAVE ON
WAYTO EAST
Freezing Temperature
In Rockies; Bound
For Northeast
DENVER Colo. S*pt. 2«5.—
Fed by freezing temperatur^ in the
central Rocky Mountains states that!
brought the first snow of the season
to Wyoming and Colorado prairies a
cold wave today swept eastward with j
the prospect it would continue into
the upper Mississippi Valley.
The cold wave struck northern Wy-
oming yesterday to change rain to
snow after one of the hottest days in
weeks. The storm continued through-
out the day at Newcastle and extend-
ed south and east of Denver where
snow melted as it fell. The tne«-
mometer dropped to 34 degrees above
zero here.
Points in Kansas Nebraska and
Missouri reported a cold rain last
night with the mercury slowly ap-
proaching 50 degrees. Forecasts
! called for thermometers to sink to
| the lower thirties today as far east
| as northern Wisconsin with rain
and possibly srow. Generally un-
I settled conditions prevailed in the
southwest.
Canada Emerges
From Cold Spell
WINNIPEG Man.. Sept. 26.—OP—
W'estern Canada today was slowly
emerging from a sharp cold wave
which has brought snow and sleet to j
j practically all sections of the prairie
I'pro vinces.
Freezing temperatures prevailed
over an area extending from the
Rocky Mountain* to the head of the
lakes; ten degrees of frost being reg-
istered at Prince Albert. Sask.. the
coldest spot in the dominion during
the week-end.
Regina citizanz shivered in nine
degrees of drost while other dis-
tricts experienced anywhere from one
to eight degrees below the freezing
line.
Threshing operations atill were at
a standstill with little prospect of
work being resumed until tomorrow.
__ TOPEKA. Kan.. Sept. 26.—OP)—
Kansas had winter weather last
night with temperatures dropping
below the freezing mark in the
northwest part of the state. Good-
land and Concordia reported low
marks to 30 degrees.
LONDON. Sept/ 26.—OP—Snow to
the depth of two inches covers parts
of the north of England and there
has been an abnormal drop in tha
temperature with the unusual snow-
fall. Shepherds in the Westmorland
hills predict a several winter.
NORTHER HITS TEXAS
AMARILLO. Texas Sept. 26.—'IP—
A mild northern swept down on the
Panhsndle-Plains section 1st* yes-
terday and by early today had
driven the temperature down to 33.
A light mist was falling today.
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Measure Described As
Forward Step in
Citrus Culture
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO Sept. 26.—Described
by R. E. McDonald chief entomolo-
gist of the Texas Department of
Agriculture as the “greatest step
forward taken by any horticultural
community in Texas” the establish-
ment of a control zone in Hodalgo
Cameron and Willacy counties upon
request of commissioners courts cf
these counties became effective
Monday with the signing of a procla-
mation at Austin by George B. Ter-
rell commissioner of agriculture
for Texas.
Announcement of the issuance of
the proclamations was received here
Monday morning by J. E. Bell secre-
tary of the San Benito Chamber of
Commerce and chairman of the cit-
rus committee of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Chamber of Commerce
secretaries association.
“The order is issued” Bell ex-
plained Monday “in response to re-
quests of the commissioners courts.
It is the counties taking advantage
of an enabling act passed by the last
legislature for the purpose of con-
trolling pests on a community basis.
By putting into operation the terms
of this order the counties of the
citrus growing belt the Lower Rio
Grande Valley will completely erad-
icate the fruit fly and by requiring
the cleaning up of orchards will do
a great deal towards controlling *11
other pests all of which lays the
foundation for better fruit and more
of it.”
Bell quoted McDonald as saying.
“This is the greatest step forward
taken by any horticultural communi-
ty in Texas making the control of
pests (which is always necessary)
cheaper and more effective by re-
quiring action.
"Instead of one man here and one
man there keeping clean and effi-
cient orchards the order will enable
the county to compel all growers to
maintain first class orchards in
clean condition” Bell continued.
"The order is thoroughly reasonable
nothing drastic about it and all
based upon common sense.”
Terrell’s proclamation gives the
commissioners complete and full au-
thority to enforce the regulations
which they recently passed requir-
ing all orchardista to maintain host
free periods and to remove all ripe
fruit from the trees after the ship-
ping season is over. Inspectors
will visit the various orchards sup-
plementing the work of federal in-
spectors who are now on the
grounds.
The fruit quarantine which was
Eissed by the Federal Horticultural
oard after a bearing on the mat-
ter outline* the steps which must
be taken in the Valley in order for
fruit to bt shipped from this sec-
tion. The regulations have no pro-
vision for eradication work in eases
where shipments are not to be made.
The regulatory measures of the
various commissioners courts in the
county carry.the work one step far-
ther and provide for the removal of
all host fruit whether shipments are
to be made or not.
In no section of any of the regula-
tory measures is there any clause
making the destruction of fruit
trees obligatory. In all eases the
regulations read that the fruit trees
meat be “destroyed or otherwise
pointed out that removal of the
i rendered not nuisances.** It is
fruit will render the trees not men-
I aces.
GERMAN FLYER
MAY JE LOST
No Report Received
From Koennecke in
48 Hours
LONDON. Sept. 24.—More
then 48 hours had passed this morn-
ing without word of Lieutenant Otto
Koennecke. German long distance
flier and his companions in the bi-
plane Germania who left Angora
Turkey Saturday for Basra at the
head of the Persian gulf.
Koennecke accompanied by Johan-
nes Hermann radio operator and
Count George Cedric Solms-Laubach
financial backer of the expedition is
attempting a flight from Cologne
Germany to America by way of the
Orient.
The distance between Angora and
Basra by airline is approximately
1050 miles and Lieutenant Koen-
necke’s estimate when ho started
was that he would make the Meso-
potamian port the same evening. This
was not thought over sanguine view
of the time in which he made his
first hop as he covered the 1875
miles from Cologne to Angora in
something less than 18 hours.
Basra has radio communication
with Great Britain by way of Beruit
and Cairo as well as telegraphic
connections and the fact that the
German airmen have not been re-
ported has given rise to some un-
easiness.
There are many miles of desert
between Angora and Basra as well
as much sparsely settled country
and if the airmen have been forced
to alight there they might be some
time in reaching a point from whieh
to report.
Late Bulletins
LOS ANGELES Calif- Sept 26.
H^r-T*o men held up three of*
ficials of the Los Angeles Water
A Power bureau just after the of*
ficea opened for business today
and escaped with an estimated
$*5000 fa cash.
SANTA MONICA. Cslif- Sept.
26.-—(£y—Art Goebel winner of the
925996 Dole San Franciaco-Hono-
lain air derby hopped off at 9:16
a. m. today in kin traaa-Pacific
plane “Wooiaroc* on an extended
flight through the southwest. He
expects to reach El Paso tonight
continuing on to Oklahoma 'and
other states later.
Al RTIN Texas Sept. 26.—-(Jpv—
Creation of a giant water district
to include the entire Brasoe river
valley waa started tentatively at
a meeting of the execatlve commit*
tee of the orgaaixatioa with the
state board of water engineers
hen today
FORT WORTH. Texas. Sept. 26.
—«AV-Governor Dsn Moody was
here today to participate in cere-
monies honoring Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh who waa to arrive
at the maaleipal airport from Abi-
lene about 2 o’clock.
SHERIFF SAYS
ARRESTS MAY
FOLLOWCLUES
Body Found Near
Fredericksburg That
Of ‘Billy Owens’ of
Crane City Texas
SAN ANTONIO. Texts. Sept. 26.—
(JP)—The body of a young girl found
buried in a shallow grave ten milea
from Fredericksburg last Tuesday
was identified today by Misa Kva
Owens of Crane City Texas as that
of her sister “Billy” who had been
missing from home three months*
Identification was made at Freder-
icksburg after Miss Owens had rid-
den 300 miles by bus to view thn
body.
A ring worn by "Billy” Misa
Owens said was purchased by the
fourteen-year-old girl just before
she left home as a “good luck
piece.” She based her identification
on the ring on the girl's high cheek
bones and the hair. The dead girl's
hair Miss Owens said originally
was blonde but waa dyed red.
The girl's mother and anotae?
sister are enroute to Fredericksburg
to view the body.
With the identification. Sheriff
Klaerner said he was following a
new cine which he hoped would lead
to the arrest of her slayers.
Lindy Objects
To Throne Seat
ABILENE Tex. Sept. *«.—
Charles A. Lindbergh the man who
walked with kings refused to sit m
a throne upon his arrival hera today.
It happened like this:
Lindy stepped out of th« Spirit of
St. Louis at 9:36 a. m. one minuta
after the slim gray trans-Atlsntie
plane came to its berth in a wired-off
enclosure of Kinsolving Field. Ha
walked between a lane of soldiers
standing at attention and flanked by
a cheering crown and came to a stop
before a waiting car.
The back seat of the car contained
a velvet and draped chair for Lindy
to sit in. It was. for all the world. •
throne lindy looked at it and tfca
points of his high cheek bones turn-
ed red. Ha was painfully embar-
rassed as he leaned down to speak to
Mrs. Dan Moody wife of the gov-
ernor.
“Please” he said. "I would much
rather not ride up there. I would ap-
preciate it if you would let ma rid*
on the back seat with you.”
Willing but rough hands took hold
of the velvet draped chair. Whan It
resisted crow bars were used. It was
jerked out of the tonneau and pitch-
ed out on the ground. The flag how.
ever was carefully retrieved and
draped over the back of the ear.
Lindy Welcomed
By Texas Crowd
ABILENE Texas Sept. 26
Colonel Lipdbergh in his Spirit of
St. Louis arrived over Abilene at
9:15 this morning and landed at
Kinsolving Field at 9:23. The larg-
est crowd ever assembled in West
Texas was here to greet him.
■ A throng from all parts of Wests
Texas that included seventy younn
women representing the “spirits” ofl
their towns mayors newspaper me 1
and Chamber of Commerce secret
taries. heard Colonel Lindbergh’J
speech at Federal Lawn where n
crowd that jammed the square a^
a block in each direction heard^n
plea for development of ay
Mayor Thomas E. Hayden M
troduced Mrs. Dsn Moody fl
the governor snd herself st^|
girl who introduced Col. tl
Matamoros Jain
Breakers Nabbj
Seven men confined to jell
Matemoros were not content
breaking out at 3 o’clock Ml
morning but decided that the ■
hour of the day made an idee M
for looting several storea ir£
The result was that the sevefl
recaptured about 7 o’clock Ml
morninf the loot returned rjjl
stores from which it was ta|<K
the men returned to jail. V
Several shots were fired ini
ing the men but no one wuM
Train Falls Into 1
River; Ten I
0 -
ROME Sept- 2*-—UP)—Ten
road worker* war* lost today
train fall into tha flooded ri'
Isargo while idpoute to V*
upper Treatino. which is suffer:
from floods. Several villages al
the fiver have fceea injwidated
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