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FORTIETH YEAR—No. 301 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS MONDAY JUNE 20. 1932 SIX PAGES TODAY 6« A COPY
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IN OUR]
valley]
WHEN WE WAKE up Tuesday
morning—
We will be a muchly taxed
people.
John L Public takes one right
on the chin—
With these new federal taxes.
John is going to do a lot of
kicking—
And grumbles will be afoot in the
land.
But John should remember this—
That he has not been paying—
Hardly anything—
For the support of the federal
government.
The rich men have been footing
the bill—
And there seems to be no rich
men left—
So it is up to us little fellows—
To pitch in and do our share.
The good that will come of a
balanced federal budget-
will more than make up for any
Inconvenience—
We may suffer.
BROWNSVILLE CAME TO work
Monday morning with smiles on
every face.
The crowds did it.
Thronged streets on Friday after-
noon and night the crowds of the
Legion and Auxiliary and the
League of United La tin-American
Citizens conventions all combined
to make us think that things are
pretty good after ail.
Lots of people in town all having
a good time made all of us want
to have a good time and most ol
us did have a good time.
We have not seen anything that
did Brownsville more good than
the Fun and Frolic festivities and
the parade Friday.
Calloused as this writer is to
things like that we enjoyed the
parade and that really is some-
thing. ..
It was something to see the
lloats on which so much time and
r*wgv had been expended. It was
sfcething to have Brownsville s
business and industrial life pass in
review. . _
We all of us should have a better
realization of Brownsville of what
Brownsville has and is. after seeing
that magnificent spectacle.
Once again this column would
express appreciation to tnose res-
ponsible for the spectacle. They
have accomplished something
really worthwhile.
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VALLEY FAIR PLANS as an-
nounced by Mgr. A. L. Brooks—
Show no slackening in the des-
ire—
To make this annual event one
of the foremost of its kind
In all Texas.
The opportunity is here.
To few sections of the United
States
Is it given to hold a Mid-Winter
event. . * i
And talking about fairs.
We are still interested in—
The promotion of an annual ci-
trus exhibition of some kind.
Sort of a citrus fair or what have
>0That will bring our grapefruit
Into proper notice
In all sections of the country.
At one time there was some talk
of providing a building
On the fair ground.
For such an institution.
To be combined with the Valley
Fair.
Hope the project is not being
lost sight of. ^ ^ #
VALLEY VOLUNTEER firemen
scored another victory for tills sec-
tion in a state organization when
they secured the election of R. R.
Talbert former Mercedes chief to
the office of vice-president of the
association.
The individual honor is one sure
to be appreciated by the Mercedes
man. and still more important is
the recognition given Valley fire
departments by the state organiza-
tion.
Valley volunteer fire departments
rank high. They have done good
work secured the lowering of fire
insurance rates and given most ex-
cellent protection to their respect-
ive communities.
Election of a Valley man to of-
fice in the state organization is
still further recognition of the high
standing of these departments.
Rites Set For
Pistol Victim
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LA FERIA June 20—The body
Cf w H Barnes 58 well known
La Peria man who died Saturday
night from an accidental gunshot
ground was forwarded Sunday night
to the family home in St. Louis
for burial.
Barnes a farmer living near the
citv was cleaning a .32 calibre
oistol about 2:30 Saturday after-
noon when it accidentally dis-
charged. The bullet entered his
body just below the heart and
lodged near the spine. The man
was rushed to the hospital in Har-
lingen. where he died about 8:10
Saturday night.
Barnes came to La FVria nine
years ago from St. Louis. He was
jn the land business in the Valley
until two years ago.
Survivors are his widow who
accompanied the body back to St.
Louis a daughter. Mrs. Prances
t^eir of Scarsdaie N. Y.. two broth-
#rs. J. J Barnes of Atlanta and
John F Barnes of Plant City Fla.
and a sister in Poughkeepsie N. Y.
County Political Action Begins Monday
BALLOT BODY
ASSESSMENT
ARE DECIDED
14 Speaking Dates Set
Over County Before
Primary Vote
With the time for filing of can-
didacies passed midnight Saturday
the Cameron county democratic
machine will slip into action Mon-
day night at La Peria and continue
through 14 speaking dates which
will cover the county before the
primary elections.
Abney to Preside
Originally the Monday meeting
was to have been held at Santa
Rosa but was changed to La Fena
m order not to conflict with a reli-
gious meeting. Ihe meeting to be
presided over by J. L- Abney in the
absence of H- L- Yates head of the i
democrat c executive committee will
get under way at 7:45 p- m.
It is planned to give judge O C
Dancy incumbent county judge
and A. W. Cunningham candidate
for the post ample time for a free
discussion of administration affairs-
Their debates are to headline the
speakings with all other candidates
and their representatives limited to
three minute talks.
Meeting at Harlingen
The second meeting of the week
will be held at Harlingen Wednes-
day mgnt. Other speaking dates
are: June 27 Combes; June 29 Los
indies; July 1 El Jardin; July 5
Santa Rosa; July 7 Rio Hondo;
July 8 Brownsville; July 11 San
Benito. July 13 Port Isabel; July
15. Los Frtsnos; July 18 Stuart
Place; July 20 Brownsville; July-
21 Harlingen.
The county executive committee
with H- L- Yates m the chau. met
at the courthouse Monday morning j
and made assessments against the
1 candidates and appointed the bal-
lot committee.
The assessments are slightly lower
than have been the case in the past-
The amounts to be paid by the
candidates on or before June 2o fol-
low;
County commissioner $150: coun-
ty judge $200; county clerk $250;
i tax collector. $300; 'sheriff $300;
county attorney $250; tax assessor
$125; judge county court at law
$125; county treasurer. $100; dis-
trict clerk. $200; all other county
and precinct offices $10 each.
Committee Appointed
Names of candidates who have no;
paid the assessment by midnight
June 25 will be left off the ticket.
The ballot committee was ap-
pointed as follows: W* T. Burnett
Brownsville; J. L- Crawford San
Benito; S I. Jackson Port Isabel;
J. L Coursey Harlingen: W. N. Coe
Stuart Place; and H. V Yates is ex-
officio member of the bod}.
The ballot committee will meet
at 10 a. m. next Monday in Yates-
office to prepare the ballot- This
group will make Its report to the
county executive committee 2 p. m.
of the same date-
At the Monday session the exec-
utive committee' announced that it
will be active for democratic inter-
ests in the general elections. The
committee will sponsor democratic
speakings over the county at that
time-
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Officer Shot In
Fight With Yeggs
TEXARKANA. June 20.—</P>—
Night watchman Will Hefner 61
j was shot and seriously wounded
early today in a gun fight with
two burglars who escaped after J
! looting the railway station and a
store at Maud in Bowie county.
Hefner was struck with a charge
| from a sawed-off shotgun when he
disregarded an order to raise his
hands. He reached for his pistol
instead. The charge struck him in
the right side but he was able to
return the fire.
Former Ranger Well
Known Here Dies
D C. (Jack' Webb well known
as one of the rangers here under
Capt. W. L. Wright during turbulent
! World War times died suddenly in
I Carriao Springs Monday morning.1
' according to word received by
friends here.
Webb was assistant supervisor
of mounted customs inspectors at
! Del Rio at the time of his death.
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Movie Czar Denied
Subpoena Release
| WASHINGTON. June 20.—.F—
The senate banking committee by
a unanimous vote todav refused
to release William Fox. the farmer
film capitalist from a subpoena to
appear before it In ita stock mar-
ket Investigation. i
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Man Mistakes Dad
For Yegg Stabs Him
SAN ANTONIO June 30- (/Pi-
Mistaking his father for an Intrud-
er J. D Grona 43 today severely
stabbed Paul Grona 72 according
to police.
The younger Grona said he was
starting out on the back porch when-
he heard some one shuffling
through the kitchen in the dark
Grona seized an ice pick from the
top of an ice box and as they met
in the darkness stabbed his father
In the abdomen thinking him a bur-
glar.
PORT MEETING
HELD SECRET
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Maj. Fox Calls Parleys
With Three Valley
Committees
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Maj. MUo p. Fox. U. 8 district
army engineer with headquarters
at Galveston was In the Valley
Monday conferring with port in-
terests in this section.
Maj. Fox left with the Browns-
ville Navigation commission certain
maps and field notes of the govern-
ment concerning properties which
will be used m port developments-
The local district will work out its
field notes to show points of coin-
cidence and contact in the various
properties which will be deeded to
the government etc.
This work is being done in pre-
paration for the beginning of port
construction as soon as other re-
quirements are carried out-
Maj. Fox conferred early Monday
mornmg with members of *he Port
Isabel-San Benito Navigation dis-
trict and met later with members
of the Brownsville district- He then
conferred for a time with C. C-
Wentz chairman of the citizens
committee.
No announcement was made as to
the results of these conferences or
what detailed matters were discuss-
ed. Ed Downs chairman of the San
Benito-Port Isabel commission
when asked about the meeting de-
clined to comment on It; and Mr.
Wentz said that there wes nothing
for publication concerning his con-
ference with Maj Fox.
Four Flee State
Home for Insane
ST. JOSEPH Mo.. June 20—
—Four patients of state hospital
No. 2 for the Insane three of them
ex-convicts escaped Saturday night
Dr. G. A. Johns superintendent
said today.
The former convicts were Martin
Montgomery. Morris Liebowitz. and
Robert Adkins. The fourth patient
who had no criminal record is
Ben Mairs.
Supt. Johns said the four had
pried bars from a window.
Amelia Earhart Is
Back in New York
NEW YORK. June 20—**-
Amelia Earhart Putnam .the first
woman to pilot an airplane across
the Atlantic returned home today
to receive the plaudits of her fel-
low countrymen.
It was Just a month ago today
that Mrs Putnam took off on her
solo flight which ended in Ireland
where she was forced down In a
pasture by a faulty exhaust mani-
fold which had threatened her
plane with fire during almost the
whole journey.
Sterling Say* Can
Do Nothing on Prohi
AUSTIN. Juse 20. p—In replv to
a telegram sent by H. K Taylcr
chairman of the Dallas county al-
lied forces for prohibition. Gov. U.
S. Sterling said today he could not
do anything to have the state demo-
cratic executive committee rescind
its action in ordering a vote on
whether congress should resubmit
the eighteenth amendment.
“There isn’t anything I can 1o
about the matter.” Gov. Sterling
said "It is a party matter acted on
by the executive committee”
Two Charged In
Extortion Plot
SULPHUR SRINGS June 20. iff*
—Charges had been filed today
against Henry Wilson 25. and J. B.
Webb. 55. for an attempt to extort
$3000 from Mrs. Sidney Greaves
wealthv Cumbv woman Both waiv-
ed orelimlnarv hearings-
Officers said Wilson made a full
confession In which he exonerated
i Webb.
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Bonu* Marcher Die*
HUTCHINSON. Kas June 20-
•P—Two persons drowned in Ark-
ansas river sand pits here over the
week end. Arthur Johnson. 14. war
caught in a whirlpool late vester-
dav. Edward Hughes. 17. drowned
i Saturday.
VALLEY GETS
WINTER LOANS
LOANSJtIGHT
House Amends Federal
Finance Corporation
Measure
Amendment to the Federal Re-
construction Finance Corporation
act giving the Lower Rio Grande
Valley the right to make loan* on
fall and winter crops which It
sought unsuccessfully from the
secretary of agriculture has been
passed by the house of representa-
tives according to dispatches to The
Herald from Washington.
Many thousands of dollars will
undoubtedly be turned lc ' in the
Valley this summer and fall as a
result of this new bill with a more
encouraging aspect on the agricul-
tural situation as a whole.
Sought by Petition
The credit relief for livestock
dairy and winter vegetal interests
is included in the amendment .vs
voted in the house and which is
similar to another amendment re-
cently approved by the senate. The
house bill liberalizes handling of
these funds to a greater extent than
the senate bill-
The Lower Rio Grande Valley
people aided by representatives of
the federal reconstruction finance
corporation sought by petition u>
Sec. of Agri. Hyde last spring to
secure liberalization of the regula-
tions permitting loans for livestock
and dairying and loans for crops
planted tnis fall and harvested next
winter.
The requests were not granted.
W inter Crop Loam
Under th? terms of the bill the
secretary of agriculture . not only j
authorized to continue loans from
the fund set up for the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporaucn to farmers
throughout the country but is
specifically required to extend these
loans to the livestock dairy and
poultry industries- It also removes
restrictions established by the sec-
retary of agriculture which barred
farmers in the south particularly
in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas
from obtaining crop production
loans on their winter vegetable and
fruit crops.
The legislation followed numerous
unsuccessful attempts by the Texas
congressional delegation and others
to obtain from Sec Hyde a liberali-
zation of the original agricultural
loan policy established by the de-
partment following creation of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation-
Under the act. agriculture was to
receive approximately $200000000 of
the total but under the rules set
up by Sec. Hyde loans were stopped
April 30. limited onlv to a small
class of farmers and "only reached
about $67000000.
Texas Committee
Recently a special Texas commit-
tee selected by Gov- Ross Sterling
came to Washington on behalf of
such legislation and obtained a fa-
vorable report from the house agri-
culture committee on a similar bill.
The amended senate bill however
was considered in an effort to save
time and gain enactment of the
measure before the sessions end.
Sec. Hyde's position with reference
to the agriculture loans has aroused
considerable criticism in congress
both on the republican and demo-
cratic sides where it is claimed that'
: he ignored the real intent of con-
gress in adopting the Jones amend-
! ment providing for financial relief
for agriculture. The house banking
and currency committee in report-
i ing the amendment declared:
Clears Situation
"It was reasonably expected that
j the reconstruction finance corpora-
! tion act provided for loans to all
classes of farmers- However when
j the secretary cf agriculture issued
. his regulations relating to the ad-
ministration of the farm section of
the act it making any loans what-
ever except for the production of
growing crops the loan to be se-
cured by a lien on the growing crops
which were to be marketed. Such
an interpretation precluded from
the benefits of the act that very
large class of farmers who are en-
gaged wholly or partially in live-
stock raising and dairy production;
it ignored all of those farmers who
do not market their growing crons
but who feed their crops to live-
stock and either market their live-
stock or livestock products-
"It also develops that some crons
are planted one year but do not
i mature and cannot b? harvested un-
til the following year; also that
the soil is prepared by fallowing *n
one year for production in the fol-
' lowing year.
"This bill is designed to rectify
hese very inequitable sltuauoaa."
Roosevelt-Smith
Fight Centers On
Elections In N. Y.
Empire State’s Giant Vote Is Expected To
Settle Issue Between Two On
Race For Nominee
CHICAGO June 20—(A5)—New York with her 94
votes became sudden focal point of democrat preconven-
tion skirmishing here today as leaders bf Gov. Roosevelt
looked to the empire state to make a choice for him in
the quarrel with Alfred E. Smith.
BAKER INCOME
TAX PROTESTED
Government Claims Widow
Of Late Sheriff Owes
$131018
{Special to the Hera.d)
WASHINGTON. June 20.—Claims
by the government that Mrs. A. Y.
Baker widow ol the late Sheriff
Baker coiorlul sheriff of Hidalgo
county ewes $131018 in income tax-
es and interest have been protest-
ed here by Mrs. Baker on grounds
of errors made by government
agents it was learned at the
treasury department today.
The amounts the treasury is
seeking to collect from Mrs. Baker
are: $49013 income taxes for 1927;
20.208 income taxes for 1928; $40-
950 for 1929. and interest on the
alleged income tape deficiencies
totalling $20963.
Petition similar to that filed by
Mrs. Baker was lodged with the
board of tax by the administrator
of the estate of A- Y. Baker. The
petition Is likewise aimed at a
$131013 alleged delinquent income
tax and interest assessment which
the commissioner of internal rev-
enue claims Baker failed to .pay
the government during 1927 through
1929 on income received jointly by
him and Mrs. Baker.
According to a letter sent Mrs.
Baker by the commissioner of in-
ternal revenue notifying her of the
alleged unpaid income tax assess-
ments the Edinburg woman re-
ceived income as follows the com-
missioner claims; 1927. $256761;
1928. $228632 and 1929. $210863.
Baker's income according to the
commissioner was; 1927 $256761
1928 1228 632 and 1929. $210863.
The total income received by the
Baker family the commissioner
claims was: 1927 $513623; 1928.
$457265 and 1929. $421726.
In the filed petitions it is claim-
ed that David Bumet commissioner
of internal revenue erred in levy-
ing the alleged delinquent income
tax assessment totalling $262036 for
the 3-year period against Baker
and Mrs. Baker on the following
points:
The commissioner was mistaken
In finding that income taxes were
due on salaries directors fees
rents and dividends reported as de-
ductions frem the joint income of
the Bakers for the years 1927
through 1929. It Is further claim-
ed that the "unexplained’’ and "un-
identified” bank deposits were con-
tained in returns filed by Baker
and Mrs. Baker during the three
years in question.
Further allegations are made that
the commissioner erred in disallow-
ing contributions and commissions
totalling $40000 paid L E. Tinkler
in 1927 It is also denied that Bak-
er received commission totalling
$163 000 In 1927.
Sterling Against
Special Session
AUSTIN. June 20. < J"'—Gov R. S
j Sterling said tcdav he would not
consider relief legislation before
next fall if then.
Recently he had been petitioned
! by a number of county commission-
ers’ court* to call a “one-day spe-
cial session for the purpose of al-
1 lotine a portion of the four-cent
i gasoline tax to a fund to retire
| county bonds which were voted to
i build highways now a part of the
j state system.
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Sterling Unable
To Attend Parley
AUSTIN. June 20. Gov. R S.
Sterling a delegate-at-large to the
national democratic convention de-
! cided today he could not attend the
< Chicago sessions.
He gave a nroxv to W A Tarver
chairman of the Texas state ins'ir-
; ance commission It was Tarver who
j demanded a roll call vote at the
! Texas state convention in Houston
on the proposal to rjetltion congreas
1 to resubmit the eighteenth amend
: The Roosevelt captains say the
New York decision expected to be*
announced soon after the arrival
of the delegation heads here Wed-
nesday will put their man -over the
top."
James A. Farley of New York
head of the newly-established
Roosevelt camp here won t com-
ment on the probable decision in
his state but ne
smiles and insists
"Roosevelt will
win on the first
ballot — I mean
that.-
But there are
about as many
claims as there
arc candidates
In democracy's
swiftly gathering
convention con-
flict on this his-
toric battleground
and a lot of mill-
ing around is in
prospect before
the gavel falls
next Monday.
The prohibition
dispute which divided the recent
republican conclave is losing the
spotlight to the presidential race
among the democrats.
Friends of
Roosevelt are
snapping up the
repeal substitute
rejected by the
republicans a s
their banner for
the 1932 cam-
paign. This pro-
poses submission
of a repeal
amendment to the
in event of re- i
peal.
In the melee i
over the presi-
dency the ancient
two-thirds nomi-
nation rule of the1
^ democrats is up
«m*tn again for its cus- .
tomary round of speculation. There i
seem to be well-founded reports'
that some high in the Roosevelt!
council would eliminate this rule
in favor of a majority nomination
if their candidate gees over the'
majority line and a deadlock en-
sues.
563 for Foosevelt
Today. Roosevelt had 563 pledged
and claimed votes. Indiana s 30 will
be picked late in the day or to-
morrow. a majority of the con-
vention is 578 and two-thirds is
770.
The whirl of preconvention ac-
tivity has brought decisions on
many routine affairs. For Roose-
velt. it was announced that Arthur
F Muile Nebraska's hard fisted
national committeeman would be
the floor manager and John Mack
of New York the nominating speak-
er. Mack placed Roosevelt in nomi-
nation twenty-two years ago for
his first public office—state sen-
ator.
For Gov. Ritchie of Maryland tt
was announced by his campaign
manager. Robert B Ennis of Bal-
timore. that Senator Tydings of
Maryland would place the gover-
nor in nomination and that Rich-
ard F Cleveland of Baltimore son
of the former president would
make a seconding speech.
William G McAdoo. a leader of
the advocates of Speaker Garner
is due here tomorrow or Wednes-
day to join in an active campaign
Sen Tom Connally of Texas al-
ready has been named as the man
to nominate the Speaker.
Aimee’s Hubby On
Trial For Suit
LOS ANGELES. June 20 UP— In-
vestigations. threats and counter-
threats having marked the warming
up stages of the trial. David Hut-
ton choir singer-husband of Aimee
Semple McPherson Hutton the
evangelist was called into court to-
day to defend himself in a 1200.000
breach of oromtse action brought oy
Mvrtle Joan St Ferre a nurse.
The evangelist who announced
she “intends to stick by Dare
through thick and thin.” 'will be
unable to attend the court sessions
She is in a sanitarium will an ni-
nes* she developed during a recent
tour of Central America. \
LEGION BOOMS!
AINSWORTH AS1
STATE LEADER
—
Veterans Close 2-Day
Con ven tion In
Brownsville
A boom for Miller Ainsworth.
Luting bank president for com-
mander of the American Legion.
Department of Texas at the Cor-
pus Christ! state convention was
started at the closing session of
the Third Division convention in
Brownsville Sunday afternoon.
The boom for Ainsworth fea-
tured the business session held in;
the Cameron county court house.
About 1500 Legion men and
Auxiliary members were in Browns-
ville during the convention which
tertainment features including din-
opened Saturday with various en-
ners in Matamoros. and a dance at
the El Jardin hotel.
Dr. rtxman Thanked
The general session was held in
the Capitol theatre Sunday mom- >
tng. following a parade in which
drum and bugle corps of several <
south Texas cities paraded along
with Legion members.
Dr. W. W. Utzman of McAllen
division commander presided at
the business session In the after-
noon. and was given a vote of
thanks by the assemblage being
boosted for appointment as a na-
tional committeeman from the
Third Division.
At this session the two loving
cups offered by the Brownsville
Legion post were awarded one
going to Harlingen for having the
largest number of members at the
session and the other going to
Luling for traveling the greatest
number of miles.
Rev. Leslie Boone of Raymond-
ville formreiy state Legion chap-
lain. made a stirring talk at the
meeting appealing to Legion men
to maintain the ideals which act-
uated them in 1927 In serving
their country.
Rev .Boone Speaks
‘There are able bodied men In
this country now drawing more
compensation than the widows and
orphans of men killed in action”
Rev. Boone said Remember that
you have some things which can
not be bought—not even for your
weight in gold.”
He and other speakers includ-
ing Dept. Comm V. Earl Earp.
cautioned the Legion men to “hold
steady." It was the general tenor
of all talks—the importance of
keeping a balance In any crisis
which may come
Dept. Comm. Earn devoted most
of his talk at the business session
to defending his administration
against attacks mentioning in par-
ticular his action in refusing to
• favor a certain man for a cer-
tain national office when an offer
of $25000 was made If the man
was appointed to that office."
Fifteen resolutions were brought
in by the resolutions committee at
the close of the session and were
approved without discussion.
Revolutions Offered
Among them were resolutions
seeking reduction in state per ca-
pita on Legion members withdraw-
al of compensation to federal em-
ployes opposition to too drastic
reductions In the army investiga-
tion of the killing of Curtis in San
Antonio recently by a demented
disabled veteran who at the time
was in the care of the veterar. s
bureau nomination of Sto: •
Krrng of Corpus Christi as dele-
gate to the national convention
with Dr. Human as alternate.
One resolution offered the ser-
vices of the Legion as an auxiliary
law enforcement body in combat-
ing crime.
Another thanked all who helped
to make the Legion convention *
success and the final one endors-
ed the Texas centennial
Miller Ainsworth was endorsed
to succeed Dr. Utana: a* division
commander then the boom for
him for department commander
was started by Hal Brennan of
Laredo and Walton Hood of Har-
lingen. both past department com-
manders.
Mominc Session
Sunday morning following en-
tertainment by the BrownsviLe
drum and Legion corps. Boy Scouts
and the Ft. Brown band. Legion
and Auxiliarj delegate* attended a
joint meeting at the Capitol the-
ater with Dr. Uttman la charge.
H. L. Tates president of the
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce
welcomed the delegates on behalf
of Mavor R. B- Rentfro.
"Our hiSory is one of battles
and wars ’ Mr. Yates declared in
his sorerh 'and struggle and war
will continue as tong as human
nature survives. It is up to the
American Legion to down the in-
visible and economic forces now
t* war with our government - He
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ROBBERY IS
CRIME MOTIVE
POLIC1AVER
Four Rifle Shells Are
Found In Room
With Bodies
KNOXVILLE. Iowa June 20 (K>\
—The charred bodies of Letltia and
Jennie Keefer elderly spinsters
were found in the dining room of
their lonely farm home near hero
at 7 a. m today by a neighbor.
Pour empty rifle shells found fn
the dining room indlca xl the wo-
men had been shot to death and
their bodies burned.
A hole about five feet across had
been burned through the floor pre-
cipitating parts of the bodies into
the basement.
The sisters had lived alone on the
farm several years and were reputed
to have kept a sum of money about
the place leading to a belief that
the motive for the crime was rob-
bery.
MAN KILLS WIFE
FOl'R CHILDREN. SELF
CANTON. Oa. June 20. MB—Paul
Hardin. 30-year-old farmer living
10 miles southwest of here shot his
wife and four small children to
death last night and committed
suicide
The tragedy was discovered thla
morning by John Henry Hardin
father of Paul who went to his son's
home for a visit. The elder Hardin
found the house locked and. peering
through a window saw the bodies
of the fanner his 24-year-old wife
and their four children Henry (1.
Ruth. 4. Dorothy. 2 and Pearl. 1.
A pistol lay nearby.
Man Is Blown From
Boat by High Wind
WARSAW. Mo.. June 20.—CD-
Harvey S Stuck treasurer of the
Western Typesetting company of
Kansas City was blown from the
top of a houseboat and disappear
ed yesterday in the lake of the
Ozarks. His body has not beeu
recovered.
William B Lathrop of the Lath-
rop-Marshall Grain eompnrv alia
was blown from the boat by a
strong wind but was aid'd in re-
turning to the craft by Frank A.
The is.
Two Hurt 28 Held
In New Strike Melee
FAIRMONT w. V» June 20. .*»
—Two men were injured and $3
were arrested when violence flared
today in a new strike :n the north-
ern West Virgin • cos! fields-
State and gganty officers broke
up a clash be* •’ r*n strikers and
men going to work at the Monon-
gah mine of the consolidation coal
company. Other miners were attack*
ed at Traction Park as they left a
street car oa their way to the mine.
Pioneer Baseball
Pitcher Succumbs
CHICAGO. June 20 OPi—Baseball
has lost another of its famous old
time* of the eighties.
Charles Getsein the pitching half
if the famous old “ pretar i battery**
for the Detroit Tigers in the eighties
was stricken with a heart attack
at hi ham last night and suc-
cumbed shortly afterwards. He was
64 years old.
The other half of the famous
"pretafl battery” was Charlie Oan-
***! who like Getsein was German.
Nile Wright Draws
15-Year Sentence
SAN ANTONIO June 20—ypv—
Found guilty of robbery by assault
with firearms in connection with
the extortion of 175.000 from R. W.
Morrison millionaire rail magnate
on May 17. 1930. Nile Will Wright
was sentenced to fifteen years*
imprisonment by a Jury in 94th dis-
trict court here Monday.
The Jury returned its verdict
after deliberating nearly forty
hours having received the case at
7:20 p. m. Saturday after a trial
lasting the entire week.
500 Attend League
Convention Here
Approximately 500 membra of the
League of United Latin-American
Citizens attended the regional con-
vention held at the junior college
auditorium Sunday morning.
J. T. Canales. Brownsville at-
torney and one-time state legisla-
tor. presided over th emeeting. He la
president of the state-wide body. Si-
milar meetings wen held at San
Antonio and Del Rio Sunday
A debate on bi-metalism with N.
O. Cofer taking the affirmative
and Kenneth Faxon the negative
was a feature of the session. The
debaters are Brownsville attorneys.
Members of the league from
Brownsville. Mercedes and Rio
Grande City engaged In a debate
arguing for and against a proposal
to have payments of interest on
private debts apply on principal
during the depression.
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