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PIRATES LOOT
BRITISH SHIP;
MAKE ESCAPE
Hold 1400 Passengers
At Bay With Guns
While Vessel Is Rob-
bed
HONGKONG Sept. 29.—(Ah—A sto-
ry of cruelty and ferocity rivalling
the wildest tales of the Spanish Main
was brought to Hongkong today by
the steamship Anking. which reached
port after having been looted by
Chinese pirates.
Two British officers of the steam-
er. Chief Officer Davis C. Jones of
New Quay. Wales and Chief Engi-
neer Henry Thomson of Greenock.
Scotland were killed. Captain Plunk-
ett Cole who commanded the ship
was wounded as was third officer A.
I. Campbell. The Chinese quarter-
master who rushed to the bridge to
fight off the pirates was shot dead.
The Anking which left Singapore.
Strait Settlements on Sept. 23 for
Hongkong by way of Hoihow Swa-
tow and Amoy was attacked by the
pirates on Wednesday in the Gulf of
Tonking. The pirates had shipped
aboard the vessel as passengers.
Most of the officers of the ship
were at dinner Wednesday when the
pirates numbering forty dropped
their passenger roles. Some of them
rushed to the bridge of the vessel
firing point blank at the officers on
duty there. Chief Officer Jones was
instantly killed and Captain Cole fell
with bullets in both legs. It was at
this point that the Chinese quarter-
master rushed to the bridge to assist
his commander but was shot dead as
soon as he appeared.
Seise Engine Room
Meanwhile other pirates had rush-
ed into the engine room and mur-
dered Chief Engineer Thomson. The
other officers were wounded end
beaten with clubs while Campbell
w-as knifed in the hack and fell be-
side the body of Chief Officer Jones.
The pirates seism the ship's ar-
mory and took full control of the
vessel overaw.ng 1.400 passengers
aboard her. After throwing the dead
men overboard the pirates permitted
the ship’s surgeon to dress the
wounds of Captain Cole and the oth-
er wounded. Second Officer Bennett
was then forced to navigate the ship
under a guard of pirates who held
revolvers at his back. Bennett was
compelled to stay on the bridge for
51 hours with but short intervals of
rest until the Anking cast anchor in
Honghai Bay which is north of Bias
Bay the notorious lair of Chinese
pirates. «•*
All passengers were mustered on
the decks and systematically search-
ed luggage and cargo cases were
ransacked and the ship’s officers
were robbed. For ten hours this
went on until a great pile of loot was
heaped on the decks ready to be tak-
en ashore.
I*ave in Lifeboats
The pirates disembarked in three
lifeboats taking loot valued at $R0.-
000. Seven Chinese passengers also
were taken along to be held for ran-
som. The desperadoes were in gay
humor at the success of their raid
and when not guarding their victims
made merry and feasted hegvily in
the saloons and officers’ mess.
As the ship passed Hongkong last
night enroute for Honghai Bay the
pirates became alert. All lights were
extinguished and the surviving offi-
cers were threatened with instant
death if the Anking were challenged.
Several vessel* were sighted but the
pirate* dodged any challenge. Bias
Bay itself was given a wide berth
since warships are constantly patrol-
ling th* waters off that pirate ren
dexvous. The Anking was steered
into Honghai Bay and anchored off
Ro«s Head at 1 a. m.
After the Chinese crew and third
officer Bird had rowed the pirates
ashore they were permitted to re-
turn to the ship which immediately
steamed for Hongkong arriving late
today.
The Anking piraev is one of the
mostdaring and succes ful outrages
of recent years and has caused great
concern in sea-faring and mercantile
circles.
WHOLESALER
MAKES MOVE
Slavitchek Secures Ad-
ditional Space For
Business
Because of a constantly inrreastnr
business. Harry Slavitchek. Brown
vtlle retailer and wholesaler of con
factions and smokers’ supplies ha
moved hi* wholesale warehouse fron
the seeopd floor of the F'utegnat
building to the Young building op
posite El Jardin hotel on Levee
street where he has secured add*
tional floor space.
“My business has grown so in the*
past few months.” Slavitchek said
Saturday as he superintended the
moving of stork “that I have found
it necessary to move into larger
quarters."
Slavitchek came to Brownsville and
started his business in 1916. He en
tered the world war as a soldier ir>
the United States army and saw ap-
proximately 26 months of service
Upon receiving his discharge. h<
returned to this city and resumed the
management of his business.
Lumber Company
Granted Charter
fSpecial to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Sept. 29— Charter
has been granted the THo Grande
Crate ft Lumber Company of Rio
Hondo of which Louis S. Witte of
thia city >• president with C. L. Mad-
dox and Ralph Davis both of Rio
Hondo as the other members. It was
amounted here today.
The company hi* two warehouse*
recently built at Kin Hondo and
will start a basket hamper and crate
business at once.
Mr. Witte i* with the Alexander
Marketing company here and will
maintain hi* present connections.
employ teachers
SAN BENITO Sept. 29.—Two new
teacher*. Misses Mamie Liles and
Ray Morgan were employed for the
first grade at the Mexiquito ward
school here at a meeting of the
tchooi board Friday eight.
Mexican Bees Nest Is
Found Mystery Solved
At Jam the mystery of the
Mexican bee*’ neat has been
solved. (At least it was a mystery
to many around The Herald office
and presumably to many readers
of the paper. There is such a
thing as a Mexican bee's nest and
one has been displayed here by
F\ D. Kcnnamer county superin-
tendent of instruction.
Mexican wild bees whose nests
are the most accurate geometricians
extant was the statement of Ken-
namer.
In many respects the nest re-
sembles that of “the original
paper makers”—the wasps—being
formed of a tough fibrous paper
substance so closely woven as to
exclude rain or wind. The nests
are usually attached to three or
more branches of a tree in order
to prevent damage from wind.
The pest consists of alternate
layers of ceils each formed of the
paper substance instead of tl.e wax
of the common honev bee. The
cells hexagon in shape are about
—
an eighth of an inch in diameter
when filled with honey each is
scaled with a paper cap. Air
spaces are provided between each
layer. Utilization of the hexagon
form assures maximum capacity in
1 minimum space and there is no
waste"Vpace between cells. Owing
to the fact the cells and nest are
constructed of the paper sub-
stance extraction of the honey is
extremely difficult.
A cross section of the nest shows
alternate layers of the cells each
supported and connected with oth-
er layers by pillars of the paper
substance. Ten to twenty layers
of cells are connected by the pillar*
the whole forming a mass of
great strength.
Announcement last week that a
Mexican bee nest was desired for
exhibition purposes brought sev-
eral to light and others reported
they had found nests In their
trees but after an experience with
the bee* had decided that those
who wanted to exhibit the nest
could remove it themselves.
ROBINSON IS ON
WAY TO KANSAS
V/ill ‘Talk in Plain
Language* to Farm-
ers of State
ROBINSON SPECIAL enroute to
Wichita Kans. Sept. 29.——With
the democratic drive to win Mis-
souri for the party standard now
definitely under way. Senator Joe
Robinson turned his face tonight
toward Kansas where he has indi-
cated he intends to talk in plain
language to the farmers.
As he moved out of Missouri the
democratic vice presidential nominee
said he was more than satisfied with
the reception he had received and
expressed optimism over the party
outlook. He was told by party lead-
ers that while a stiff fight was be-
in* made by republicans he could
leave with assurance that the state
democratic organization also was
going after the eighteen Missouri
electoral votes with sleeves rolled
up.
He further was assured that
Charles M. Hay. democratic nominee
for senator and candidates on the
/tate democratic ticket were giving
whole-hearted support to the na-
tional ticket and could he counted
to carry forward the party stand-
ard in every voting district.
Robinson wound up his campaign
in the state this afternoon at Co-
lumbia. where it was arranged for
him to speak on the campus of
Christian college a girls’ school.
He chose Gov. Smith's record on
school legislation as his subject.
In an address prepared for the
occasion he declared that no justi-
fication existed for the “belief ex-
pressed by some that the election
of Governor Smith to th© presidency
will impair or endanger the effesf
ivencss of our publie schools."
"It appears from his public act-
and utterances ” he went on “that
the democratic candidate for presi-
dent is the staunchest advocate and
supporter of our common school
system this generation h.i* prod ne-
ed."
Judge White Is
Supporting Smith
DALLAS. Sept. 29.—-Judge Ed-
ward W. White associate justice of
the fourth court of civil appeals a!
San Antonio is supporting the en-
Ore democratic ticket “without any
sort of reservation or exception.'
but prefers to state his own posi-
tion rather than sign the round rob-
in address of democratic nominee
to the voters of the state he told
j ( ampaieo Manager W. A. Thomas
in a letter received today at demo-
cratic state headquarters.
SCREEN Af TOR KILLED
LOS ANGELES Sept. 29. T* - Ar-
nold Kent. Italian screen actor run
down by an automobile her last
night died of injuries late today.
B: jy Harlingen
Boy to Le Sent to
Greenville Texas
(Special to Tho Herald)
HARLINGEN. Sept. 29.—The body
of William S. Bunch. 21 local drug-
store clerk who died at the Valley
Baptist hospital here late Friday
night from what was pronounced by
physicians as carbolic acid poisoning
is expected to be forwarded Sunday
night to the family home at Green-
ville.
M. F. Bunch father of the boy
left Greenville Saturday and will ar-
rive here Sunday. No arrangements
for moving the body are being made
pending his arrival. The body is at
the Thompson Mortuary here.
The youth had been a resident of
Harlingen about two years and had
been working for several months as
a clerk in the Harlingen Pharmacy.
Hidalgo Man Is
Favored by Many
For Speakership
AUSTIN. Sept. 29.—The Sun-
day Austin American Statesman to-
morrow witl say that a poll it has
conducted among members of the
i state house of representatives pn
I their preferences for a speaker at
the Forty-first session has dn-closed
forty first choices for Ropre:-enta-
il ve W. S. Barron of Bryan twenty-
! six for Representative W. K. Mont-
gomery of Edinburg nine second
choices for Barron and sixteen sec-
ond choice* for ^tpinery.
Cecil Story of Vernon was the sec-
ond choice of three members the pa-
per said and the third choice of
three.
Many of the new members nomi-
nated in Aufust hive not made
choices the poll said.
Curtis Addresses
W. C. T. U. at Enid
ENID Oulu.. Sept. 29—</P>— Before
the Oklahoma Woman’s Christian
Tensperanee Union Senator Curtis of
Kansas republican vice presidential
nominee tonight pledged ih** repub-
lican party to “honest faithful
rigid fair and impartial enforcement
of the liquor law and every other
law of the country.”
He assailed the state liquor con-
trol plan of Governor Smith. th*
democratic president Ini nomine*
and asked “if he nv'atis to < r. •. •
the law why did be - ign the toil
repealing the New York state en-
forcing law?”
He was tired bruised. Hut smil-
ing.
Forced to carry his right hard in
a sling the Kan its senator came
here tonight after delivering fi\e
speeches during the day mostly on
farm relief on his third day's tramp
about Oklahoma Last night he
caught the hand in an automobile
door and one finger was badly
smashed
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SAYS PRESENT#
(Continued from page on«.>
that if I were elected president and
I took the oath of office to sustain
the constitution and the laws of this
country with one hand on the Bible
and the other reaching up to Heaven
that 1 would make that good and
you can take my assurance for it
that 1 will do so as far as it is hu-
manly possible to do it.
‘1 shall likewise discharge my duty
to advise the congress of the changes
in the law 1 deem right.”
In his speech tonight. Governor
Smith also adverted to his accept-
ance speech in prescribing his rem-
edy for the conditions about which
he complained. He put it this way:
“First I recommend an amend-
ment to the Volstead act which
should contain a sane and sensible
definition of what constitutes an
intoxicating beverage because upon
its face the present definition does
not square with common sense or
with medical opinion. Each state
could then provide for an alcoholic
content not greater than that fixed
by congress.
“It must be borne in mind that the
eighteenth amendment does not pro-
hibit alcoholic beverages; it pro-
hibits intoxicating beverages. And
no sensible man can truthfully be
prepared to say that one-haif of
one per cent of alcohol constitutes
an intoxicant.
Raps Poisonous Liquor
“I firmly and honestly believe that
a great deal of the dangerous and
poisonous hard iiguor would be
driven out of this country if the
Seople could be assured of an alco-
olic beverage declared by common
sense and science to be non-intoxi-
cating. I further recommend an
amendment to the eighteenth amend-
ment. I placed it squarely upon the
basis of the Jeffersonian principle
of the right of each state to deter-
mine for itself what it wants to do
about questions of local habits of
life usually covered by local polit-
ical laws.
“I have fully however provided
I -afeguards that will make impossi-
| ble a return to the old conditions of
sale in the saloon despised and
rightly so by the American people.
"I suggested a referendum for the
expression of the will of the "people
themselves in the firtt instance. I
would then regard it as the right of
the state itself subject to limitation
which I outlined to dispense to its
own inhabitants alcoholic beverages
as desired by the people of the state
question of State Rights
■ Vo man who believes in states*
rights w*-» believes in the funda-
mental principles of democracy can
find any fault with that. No state
should be permitted to impose its
will upon another state in matters
of local concern.
“What would the states that de-
! sir* prohibition think about a pro-
j pc - aI to amend the constitution to
| forbid them to enact prohibition
laws? They would justly resent it.
That's the wav the people of the oth-
er states feel about the eighteenth
amendment.”
In “painting the picture” of pro-
hibition as he described it. the demo-
cratic nominee declared it had pro-
duced a condition of “wholesale cor-
ruption” among officials of the gov-
ernment charged with its enforce
ment. has had a bad effect on the
| morals of American youth has been
“the great political pork barrel for
the republican party.” And ha*
“driven men and women who. hereto-
fore were content with drinking
light wines and beer to the use of
I strong liquor.”
“And liquor drinking in this roun-
I try instead of being on the decline*'
hi added “is on the upward move as
a direct result of the attempt to pro-
hibit leverages entirely.”
At another juncture Gov. Smith
inquired “what is the answer of the
republicans to all of this?” then
went on:
“In the face or tbit record the
platform crosses over the whole
thing by quoting the words of George
hibit beverages entirely.”
and again pledges itself to the ob-
servance of vigorous enforcement of
the 18th amendment. No truth no
candor not even common honesty."
As for Herbert Hoover’s contention
that prohibition is a “great social
and economic experiment” the demo-
cratic nominee declared that millions
of people in the United States do not
agree with his opponent on that
score and added that “you could get
no better testimony for that than
to look at the result of the refer-
endum in so many thickly populated
states.”
Insisting that “the great army of
Washington and of Abraham Lincoln
bition. Smith held that “the natural
result of it is breeding throughout
the length and breadth of the coun-
try a disrespect for all laws.”
“No one can gainsay the faet” be
continued “that the prohibition law
and tho Volstead act have found a
new line of endeavor in the under-
world; they have brought to life
the bootleggers and the bootleggers
begot the hijackers and the hijack-
ers the racketeers so that gangland
is interested in the maintenance of
prohibition. Because of its opera-
tion they are benefited.”
With the declaration that he re-
garded prohibition as a “great moral
issue.” Gov. Smith appealed to the
people of America. regardless of
party to put aside any preconceived
not^D# *nd to approach the ques-
. .
tion "fairly without passion and
withoat prejudice with open eyes
and with open minds to the end that
some constructive solution of this
| important problem may be reached.”
Recalling testimony offered a
senate committee by Lincoln C. An-
drews. a republican while he was
in charge of the federal prohibition
bureau. Mr. Smith asked:
“How long are the officials
Washington going to disregard a
condition laid before them by aj
high official of the government?]
How long are they going to continue
the trick of an ostrich of burying
its head in the hand and assuming
that everything is all right? What
ia the proper thing for them to do—
conceal all this or talk it out plain-
ly to the American people?
The democratic leader strayed
considerably from his advanced
text although a in his other cam-
paign speeches. He followed the
trend of thought. Gales of laughter
were provoked when he observed
that “gangland sits pretty on top
of the earth entirely satisfied with
prohibition in love with the Vol-
stead law. because their presence
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At one juncture Smith mentioned
Mrs. Mabel Walker W’illebrandt. one
of his outspoken foes by name and
booing could be heard throughout
the big hall jammed beyond its
seating capacity of around 8000.
Hit first mention of the Volstead
law also brought booing and there
were groans when he related that
a waiter in the senate restaurant in
Washington had lost his job “be-
cause of carelessness” after drop-
ping a bottle of liquor on the
floor. "3
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