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the weather
Brownsville and the Valley: Fair
Thursday night; Friday partly
cloudy; not much change in tem-
perature.
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THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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EDITION
* ORTY-SECOND YEAR—No. 277
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS FRIDAY MAY 18 1934
TWELVE PAGES TODAY dc a uurx
MAY SHIFT
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IN OUR !
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STROLLED INTO A CHICAGO
theatre recently did Arthur Hipp
And within 5 minutes after taking
his seat received the shock of his
life—
For there flashed across the
acreen the caption—
“BROWNSVILLE. TEXAS. 10-
YEAR-OLD MANUEL KING AND
HIS TROOP OF PERFORMING
LIONS!"
And Arthur miles away from his
home town
Was transported back across ihe
miles in a jiffy
Home again.
“You have no idea what a weird
experience it was" says he.
We can imagine.
• • •
OXFORD GRADUATE AND ALL
that. Co. Atty. Charlie Bowie found
a word that stumped him the other
day.
“Pediculus' was it.
And personally we do not blame
him for not knowing that the word
means in plain and unadorned
English “a louse."
Charlie Burton and Jim Lotus
I were both able to set the erudite
counsellor right which was all
right we could not do it.
• • •
AND AS FOR THIS QUESTION
of Pop-eyed or Goggle-eyed perch
which has become one of the burn-
ing Issues of the day
And threatens to become moot as
lar as Bish Clement* of the Edin-
burg Review and Mynatt Smith of
the McAllen Press are concerned.
We say only this—
“We do our fishing by proxy and
take the words of our friends for
any question involving race creed
gender or physical peculiarities oi
fish perch or whale.”
And as to the question of rank
which is raised by Mynatt drop it
boy drop it!
Some smart alec reader is going
tbob up and maintain that all
iUmniaetB »r* "rank.” and then
will all our faces be redt
• • •
EXCITED FOR A FEW MIN-
utes Wednesday afternoon were tbe
editorial members of The Browns-
ville Herald force.
Over the based wire flashed the
bulletin that ‘Barrow is caught m
Ban Antonio."
Hung on the wire we did hop-
ing the yam was true but hunching |
ah the time that the report was.
fai *•
It was.
• • . •
ONE MAN WHO LIVES UP TO
the title he holds is Capt. Harry
Tunis “expediter ’ attached to the |
Pv/A Texas olfice at Fort Worth.
Really trying to get PWA money
in circulation in Texas is the cap-
tain. a regular army officer on de-
tached service.
incidentally as a result ol the
expediting done by the captain while
hire the first of the week it now
appears that the city of Browns-
ville and the Brownsville Navigation
district will receive the first PWA
money to be released in Texas.
Should that happen we may
compliment not only Capt. Tunis
but city and navigation district of-
fice.* for the manner in which they
have handled the loan applications
and all details connected therewith.
• • •
COURT OF HONOR OF
Brownsville Boy Scouts to be neld
Friday night is receiving the atten-
tion the event deserves.
Various awards of ment will be
pa-sen ted. a fine program will u«
earned out. and those attending
will have a first hand chance ta
see what the Boy Scouts are really
doing.
Sure are we that those who are
conducting this work will appreciate
tlx encouragement of your presence
at the Junior High school audi-
torium Friday night.
• • •
ADD TO THE LIST OF LOCAL
birthdays on Sunday. May 13. the
name of Bert M. Cromack.
Seen a lot. experienced a lot
during the 67 years which Sunday
marked opines Mr. Cromack
And those who know him know
that those years have been filled
with activity and civic usefulness.
• t •
THOSE WHO MIGHT HAVE
thought that Walter W’oodward
^nator from Coleman county ano
candidate for attorney general
limited 'is friendships and acquain-
• (Continued on Page Two)
GOP to Put Up Lively Battle
in Bills Fight
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STORMS BREW
IN CONGRESS
FOR WIND-UP
—
Tariff Bill Already
In Heated Fight
In Senate
WASHINGTON. May 17. fP)—It
became more evident Thursday
that time-marked quarrels are going
to make this congressional wind-up
anything but placid.
Already the senate was In tariff
throes the house bill for presiden-
tial trade bargaining powers bring-
ing arguments reminiscent of his-
torical disputes.
Metallism Debate
And taking shape at the White
House was a Roosevelt recommenda-
tion for a bl-metallic monetary pol-
icy potentially the forerunner of
the greatest gold-silver debate* dnee
the 19th century. '
Four other messages with dis-
pute a probable offspring of each
were on schedule before the At-
tempt to adjourn June 5.
On two subjects war debts and
munitions the president was ex-
pected merely to give information
or state views.
On the other two. the coconut oil
import levy he opposes and social
reform legislation he favors he was
expected to make definite recom-
mendations.
Have Hard Task
The house m an while. had
T ursday to deal only with the fed-
eral contribution to government of
the District of Columbia.
The president's declaration fer
the house side on major items in
depute such as definite maginal re-
quirements made for something
other than an easy task by tne
con erees.
Then there were inevitable treas-
ury considerations as the day
brought t: 2 deficit past $3500000.-
000 for the veir that ends with next
month. Members of the house ap-
propriations committee were shap-
ing up the new $1322000000 ap-
propriation bill.
Sec. Morgenthau was anticipating
th“ ten million it contains for li-
quor tax enforcement.
Identify Defendant
As Robber of Bank
SHERMAN. May 17. —pPi—State
testimony in the trial of Chester
Delisle for alleged participation in
the $13220 robbery of the Whites-
boro National bank March 9 near-
ed conclusion Thursday with ad-
ditional witnesses identifying the
30-year-old Rolf. Okla. defendant
as one of the four men who com-
mitted the crime.
E. B. Cooper. Whitesboro farmer
who was in the bank when it was
robbed pointed Delisle out and said
hr was the man who “pushed a
pistol in my stomach "
fleeing Father Is
Ought With Son
DENVER. May 17.—fiF*—A fath-
ers efforts to gam possession of
his son ended here Thursday as
Percy Lamar Armstrong. Sr. 36.
and Robert McPhail. 21. were taken
into custody on a fugitive warrant
received by Denver police from
Tennessee authorities.
The men and Lamar Armstrong
Jr. 10. were found in a Denver
apartment which they Lad rented
Wednesday as department of Just-
ice agents enlisted aid of Denver
police in winding up a search that
began May 11 at Clarksville. Tenn.
Girl Slaying Case
Probe Continues
PAN FRANCISCO. May 17—/P —
Or the time element involved in
tne slaying o. Louise Jeppesen. 23-
v car-old OgJen Utah girl San
Francisco police Thursday sought
to tighten then case against Mil-
lard Hicaman. 45 marine engineer.
Captain of Inspectors Charles
DuJlea said a new voluntary effort
b> Hickman to explain his whers-
tibtuts at th* time Miss Jeppesen
w<** believed to have been crimin-
ally a tucked and slain had failed
lo satisfy police.
Run-Away Boy Caught
SAN ANTONIO. May 17. —</P>-
The few remaining days of the
school term were more than nine-
year-old Bobbie Newell of Houston
could bear.
The boy was found Thursday by a
special agent of the Southern Paci-
fic Railroad company in a box car
in the freight yards having come to
San Antonio on a freight train.
'What did you leave home for
sonny? asked the officer.
"I don t want to go to school any
more." the lad said.
The agent turned him over to the
police to hold until his parents can
arrange for his return to Houston—
and school
Flashes From
A. P. Wire
MADRID—A group of 10 Smith
college students and several oth-
er Americans intending to visit
France were refused visas by the
French consul Thursday unless
| they cabled at their own expense
tor certificates of good conduct
from the French consuls in the
districts of their American resi-
dence.
BEAVER. Pa.—A coroner’s Jury
Thursday exonerated 15-year-old
Steve Vrvas who police quoted as
saying he killed his father to save
his mother from being attacked
with a pitcblork.
A verdict of justifiable homi-
cide was returned.
LOS ANGELES— Samuel I.
Brmheim 13 part owner of the
Pittsburgh Pirates of the Nation-
al baseball league and member nt
a prominent Kentucky family
('•fed early Thursday at his Bever-
ly Hills home from a heart at-
tack.
WASHINGTON.—Vincent Astor
told the senate air and ocean
mail committee Thursday that
the affairs of the International
Mercantile Marine corporation
had not been mentioned to Pres.
Roosevelt while he was Astor'*
guest this spring aboard the yacht
Nourmahal.
LORDSBIRG. N. M.— Flying
low but maintaining a good
speed the navy’s giant dirigible
the lT. S. S. Macon passed over
here westward bound at 10:45 a.
m. Thursday
NEW YORK—Dominick (Duke)
Bellizzi contract rider for Mrs.
Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brook-
meade stable died Thursday in
Mary Immaculate hospital. Ja-
maica of injuries suffered Sat-
urday when he fell from his
mount during a race at the
Jamaica race track.
WASHINGTON. — The House
Thursday passed the Buchanan
■ (-solution appropriating $150000-
000 to help the cattle industry
and an indefinite sum for ad-
ministration of the Bankhead
cotton control act. It now goes to
the senate.
WASHINGTON—Western I'nion
threatened Thursday to challenge
“fundamentals of the National”
Recovery Act” in the courts if a
code is forced on the communica-
tions industry.
Bankers brokers industrialists
and other major users of wire ser-
vices rallied at Thursday’s NRA
hearing to back up Western
l'nion's attack on the pr #*o*ed
code.
WASHINGTON.—The report ol
the t rrow committee on mono-
polisRc practices under NRA and
the reply of Hugh S. Johnson
industr.ai administrator are so
voluminous that the White House
announced Thursday copies would
be unavailable for publication un- .
til next Monday.
WASHINGTON. — Refusal to
certify positively that the Ford
Motor Co had complied with
NRA codes Thursday cost a Ford
dealer the loss of a government
contract.
J. R. McCarl the comptroller
general ordered the department
of commerce to reject a low bid
for two trucks by the Northwest
Motor Co. of Bethesda. Mi.
which certified it was complying
with NRA requirements but would
not say positively the trueks
were produced In strict comphanct
with NRA agreements.
LEGHORN. Italy.—The Amer-
ican steamer Youngstown ram-
med and sank the Italian Brigan-
tine Eugenio at the entrance to
the harbor here Thursday. Her
crew swam ashore.
The Youngstown is a freighter
of 4.000 tons net register. She
sailed from Galveston. Texas.
April 15.
NEW YORK.—As Wall street
appraised the silver program
agreed upon by Pres. Roosevelt
and senate silrerites the future*
market rose nearly a cent an
ounce Thursday but quickly re-
ceded from the best prices. Some
silver company shares advanced
$1 to $4 in the stock exchange
in quiet trading.
NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG-NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
Washington by George Durno — New York by James McMullin
WASHINGTON
By George Durno
Bl'TTEEFLIES — That business
of the Jersey City tailor who drew
a 30-day sentence for a 5-cent code
violation has reacted like a stone
tossed in the water. Political ripples
have been ever-widening. Editorial
comment has been anything but
pleasant It looks as though the
obscure Jacob Maged might become
a campaign isi;ue.
Men with strongly pro-administra-
tion viewpoints ask one another
why a 5-cent violator was selected
for drastic punishment when many
1 other dyers and cleaners were avail-
able who had been chopping prices
35 and 40 cents? Why did the news-
papers not know or not carry—for
two days—the fact that Magedt
sentence had been suspended imme-
diately after it wa* imposed so he
never spent a night in the bastille?
Ardent Roosevelt supporters would
like to believe someone had ar-
ranged cleverly to give the whole
National Recovery Administration
set-up a black eye Maged * case w?
. not inspired from NRA headquarters
I in Washington they argue. He was i
apprehended and brought to trial
under a state code.
It is easy of course to second-
guess. The defenders of NRA i\ y
well be chasing butterflies. Certainly
the oppr^ition to NRA says so.
* • • •
HORSING—Clarence Darrow em-
erged from the office of NRA Coun-
sel Donald Richberg the other day
with a man in tow. It was the first
time he had been in Blue Eagle
headquarters in weeks — having
scrupulously avoided the place while
his special committee was building
up the report that took so many
feathers from the back of NRA.
"What brought you here. Mr.
Darrow?” asked a reporter who
chanced to meet him in the corri-
dor.
"Just trying to see if I could
find a place tor my friend from
Ohio.” replied the old war horse
gesturing at his companion.
• • •
FIREWORKS—First-page copy is
to be furnished the country for
days next fall when Sen. Gerald Nye
and his special senate committee
swing into action investigating the
war-propaganda activities of th<
munitions manufacturers both hen
and abroad.
Nye is loaded with dynamite anc
he's determined to go to extreme
.strategic lengths to get informa-
tion aired
Originally both Nye and Vanden-
berg of Mich offered resolution!
for a probe of the arms manufac-
turing industry. Referred to th<
Foreign Relations Committee anc
after a while returned on the grounc
that committee had no Jurisdiction
Then referred to the Military Al-
(Continued On Pag* four)
JUNE ROBLES
IS TRYING TO
FORGET TRIAL
Child Shows Str a i n
From 19 Days In
Desert Hole
TUCSON Aria. May 17. (A»)—
June Robles is going back to school
Monday to try to forget the hor-
ror of 19 days alone in a desert
hole.
But the ordeal of her cruel im-
prisonment by kidnapers has cut
deeply into her young mind.
‘Deeply Affected’
From Carlos Robles uncle of the
little girl and one of those who
rescued her last Monday came the
statement that the six-year-old vic-
tim has been more affected physi-
cally and emotionally than appear-
ed to casual observers.
Pittful efforts by the child to
amuse herself with dolls fashioned
out of date sedbs and paper while
she sweltered beneath a desert .sun
and of her dazed condition w'|Yi
she was lifted from the grave-like
hole were related.
Spurred on by these revelations
authorities extended their efforts
to find her abductors.
Doesn't Like to Talk
“It has been difficult-* Carlos
Robles said "to secure any infor-
mation from June about the time
she lived in the tin box <lining the
hole >. It repels her to speak of those
days and she recoils when asked a
direct question. I have had to use
subterfuge in eliciting information
(Continued on Page Two) ^
Mother’s Day Is
Observed by Club
Mothers Day was the theme of
the program given at the luncheon
meeting of the Rotary club Wed-
nesday at hotel El Jardin.
Vocal selections were given by a
quartet composed of J. A. Russell
Cleve Tandy Emmett Dodd arid
Dr. H. C. Sample.
A number ol children m cos-
tumes typical of several different
countries were presented in an
operetta composed by Mrs. H. C
Groom. and entitled Which Moth-
er Is Best?’’
A sextette composed of Eliza-
beth Wilson. Maxine Rockwell
Elizabeth Ann Tandy Elouise Clark.
Anna Louise Brown and Patsy
Clark gave a group of numbers
with Mrs. Cleve Tandy playing the
accompaniment.
The Rev. E. P Day. pastor of the I
First Presbyterian church paid a
tribute to mothers.
Valley Man Injured
When Cow Drags Him
(Speci .l to The Here’di
HARLINGEN. May 17.— As a
result of having been dragged by a
cow. Joe Julius was taken to 'he
Valley Baptist Hospital at 10 o'clock
Ihursday morning for treatment
fn a severe knee injury. Hospi .il
attendants stated that injury to
the knee believed to have been
caused by being dragged while
a tangled by a chain or rope is
serious.
Irate Neighbors
Hang Wife-Slayer
VERA CRUZ Mexico. May 17.—
(A*;—1The neighbors of Porfirio Gu-
tierrez farmer lynched him Thurs-
day.
He had tied his wife to a tree
at their heme near Colpia. then
burned her to death.
The people of Colpia bound him
to the same tree and killed him
the same way.
It was the first lynching In the
state of Vera Crux.
Negro Wounded By
Officer Succumbs
MARSHALL. May 17 — (AV-Henry
Brown negro shot by Deputy She-
riff Walter Huffman Wednesday
died Thursday of his wounds. No
charges had been filed.
•CASKET’ WHERE JUNE ROBLES KEPT
—""" —. ..
Here is the coffm-llke box which held June Robles for 19 days in the desert heat while ants crawled over
her body and a merciless sun beat down upon her. The box was buried in the ground and a rude shelter
was fashioned above it. The man at the left holds the chain and bar which held the small victim of kid-
napers a prisoner in her horrible ‘ grave'’.
F. D. PLANS TO
BUY SILVER
Bi-Metallic I Stand to Be
Proposed In Message
To Congress
WASHINGTON. May 17 —
Pres Roosevelt in agreement with
the senate silver bloc will speed a
message to congress proposing a
bi-metallic stand for United States
currency.
The chief executive set about
writing this new money document
Thursday for dispatch possibly in
48 hours. He was reported satisfied
with the understanding. It whl
mean the purchase of a huge
store of silver estimated up to l.-
800.000000 ounces.
Congressional leaders rearranged
their legislative calendars to make
room for action on the new ad-
ministration-tagged proposal be-
fore the scheduled early June ad-
journment. The program in rough
outline will call for:
1. Mandatory declaration of pol-
icy that silver shall be purchased
'Continued on Page Twoi
German Train Wreck
Takes Lives of Four
PFORZHEIM. Germany. May 17.
—<'**'— Four persons were killed
Thursday and 10 injured seriously
when a locomotive ran mto a train
bearing working men.
The locomotive tore into the
middle of the train just as it was
passing a switch.
Black Is Faced By
Extortion Charge
LAKE CHARLES. La.. May 17 —
-John Collins. 37. a negro was
under arrest Thursday in connec-
tion with an attempt to extort
$100000 from C. H. Austin wealthy
president of the Stevedores’ Asso-
ciation here .
‘Ma’Frees^Six
AUSTIN. May 17.—— Gov
Miriam A. Fei ’uson Thursday issu-
ed one full and five conditional
pardons to Texas convicts:
G J. Toole convicted of extor-
tion for the purpose of obtaining
money in Natarro county. Novem-
ber 1931. and sentenced to seven
years was freeo On full pardon.
Conditional pardons granted in-
c’uded: Monroe Brinkley. Ochiltree
county. September. 1933 theft two
y»ars; Haroid Brinkley. Ochiltree
county August 1933. theft two
years; Marvin Powers. Step he .is
county. November. 1932. possessing
1‘quor and theft four years; J. Mc-
C-eight. Hardin county January
1932 murder 15 years.
Hamilton’s Trial
To Begin Friday
DENTON. May 17—^—Whether
T. R. Brooks will be called as a
witness in Raymond Hamilton's
.rial Friday !cr the Lewisville bank
jobbery was kept secret Thursday
by Co. Atty. Judge Gambill.
Brooks a Wichita Falls youth
and Hamilton were caught by Gray-
son county officers about two hours
after the first National bank nt
Lewisville Denton county had
been robbed ol $500 April 25. Thoy J
were In a stclen car and readily
admitted the holdup. Hamilton en-
tered the bank and took the money
at the point ol a pistol while Broons
waited in a car outside.
U. S.T0HEAR
JAP DEMANDS
—
Prince Sails Primed To
Ask Equal Rights In
Naval Power
■-
YOKOHAMA Japan. May 17 —!
n\— Prince Fumimaro Konoyc sail-
’d lor the United States Thursday j
primed to iniorm American leaders
that Japan at the 1935 naval con-
ference will demand "equal rights:
in national dtfense" and abandon-
ment of the present ratio method
of naval limitation.
The prince was given last-mipute
.instructions a high authority le-
vraled at a breakfast with Japan's;
naval war lords in Tokyo.
The youthful political leader
only recently installed as president
cf the House of Peers sailed on
tLe liner Asama Mary bound for
&Ui Francis.©. U. S. Ambassador
Joseph C. Grew saw him off :n
Tokyo.
Whether "equal rights" mean?
actual .tonnage parity or whether
Japan will oe satisfied with a gen-
era. Anglo-A.:.erican admission of
hei equal ranking as a naval powjr
remains to be decided in a senes
of high state councils in coming
months.
Death Claims Aged
Texan In Thornton
MEXIA. May 17.—<>P>— G. 'V
Black. 83# for many years mayor of
Thornton and representative of
L-mestone county in the state legis-
lature was found dead in his
Thornton home Thursday.
Black was the father of Ruby
B ack. a press association corre-
spondent In Washington. Recently
; E’.ack was a guest In the While
House of President ind Mrs Roose-
! velt
FLOGGING CASE
COUNT DROPPED
Weslaco Farmers Freed Ir
Assault On Buyers
Last Year
(Special to The Herald i
EDINBURG. May 17—Criminal
cases against 15 Weslaco fanner*
which were filed as a result of the
flogging last year of two produoe
buyers and shippers at Weslacc
mere dismissed on motion of Dist
Atty. Sid Hardin Thursday morn-
ing by Judge Bryce Ferguson of
92nd District court.
The men had been charged with
unlawful assembly not. and ag-
gravated assault. Charges were
pending against T. W Bowman. W
D Nunn. O. B King. Howard
Wright T. D Yeung H G. Mot-
miller J. W’. Perry G. T Nolan
Roman Heider. H C Kleckler. H
B Hunter. George Bellman. Clar-
ence Albrecht and W S. Gat ton.
The flogging is alleged to hove
(Continued on Page Two)
Fourteen Die
In Mine Blast
BRUSSELS May 17 Four
teen men were killed Thursday it
the Paturages Au Fief mine by at
explosion of firedamp as the]
sought the bodies of three miner
killed with 40 others Tuesday night
Last Tuesdays expljsion rappee
48 miners. Five of them wen
brought out alive. Forty bodies wen
recovered.
Pilots Make Plans
To Fly Back Home
ENNIS. Irish Free- State. May 17
<;P)—Firm conviction that they cat
conquer the Atlantic on the re
turn trip to New York wa* express
ed by Capt. George Pond and Lieut
Cesare Sabelli as they set out b;
automobile Thursday morning for i
visit to Dublin.
“The same power that helped u
get this far can help us get bad
to America again. ’ Capt. Pond de-
clared when reminded that th<
westward crossing is more hazard-
ous than the east-bound trip.
Portmarnock. near Dublin on th<
Irish Sea. has been chosen as th<
taking off point for the returr
fight.
The airmen hope to remain then
only a short time then fiy back t<
Dublin and have their plane over
hauled.
KIDNAPERS OF
TOT SAID IN
VALLEY JAIL
Chicago ’Phone Call
Says Pair Caught
At Alamo
Are the kidnapers of June Robles
secretly held tn the Valley by
Texas Rangers?
That question kept newsmen on
edge Thursday as clue after c\ie
from Tucson Arizona scene of tho
kidnaping; irom Chicago where
anonymous letters led to recovery
of the child; and from Austin
where Texas Rangers announced
tney expected to make an arrest
in Texas shortly tn connection with
the case—all pointed to the Lower
Rio Grande Valley as the scene of
the next 1 break" in the sensational
kidnaping.
Get ’Phone Cali
The first intimation that the
kidnapers are in the Valley came
Wednesday night in a telephone
cah from Chicago.
That telephone cell to a Valley
newspaperman said that It was
reliably reported that a telegram
had been received by Tucson auth-
orities that two men were arrested
Wednesday ax Alamo. Texas in
connection with the case and that
the men had been taken to Edin-
burg where confessions were ob-
I tained.
A check of Edinburg however
failed to reveal that the two men
in question were being held there.
Efforts were being made by news-
men Thursday to locate them at
some other Valley town. In .he
ctllef that Rangers are secretly
'bolding them in the hope of ob-
taining confessions.
Ranger* Expect Arrest
Another ani’ie that was received
with interest was an Associated
Fass dispatch from Austin stating
that the Rangers’ headquarters
there had announced that an
operative" is on his way to Texas
tiom Chicago and that an arrasl
s expected to be made tn Texas
within 12 hours after his arrival.
The fact t!i«* the ’operative'* is
(Continued on Page Two)
Prisoner Will Be
Taken to San Diego
Sheriff Dan Tobin of Duval
county was to arrive here Thurs-
day to return Alberto de ios Santas
to San Diego to face a murder
charge.
The local sheriff* office also is
checking with state authorities to
ditermlne whether De los Santas is
an escaped prisoner from the
state penitentiary He was sentenced
to 10 years when tried here m
lflit- on a charge of assault with
intent to minder.
1 De los Santos who lived at Los
Presnos before his conviction n
1930. wa.-> arrested in Brownsville
i recently by Dep. Sheriff W. K.
i Smith on inlormation forwardea
r h#re by Sherd l Tobin.
Demands Probe Of
Conspiracy Charge
WASHINGTON Mai 17. — m-
Patrick J. Hurley secretary of war
In the Hoover administration.
Wednesday demanded that a sen-
ate committee require A. V. Dal-
• rymple former prohibition director.
. to prove his story of a conspiracy**
i to keep republicans in the prohibl-
■ tion service “or convict him of
. criminal libel."
Hurley told the senate civil aer-
r vice committee statements by Dal-
k rymple that he and five others
held a secret meeting in Hurley's
Virginia home and ’’plotted" to rid
the dry unit of democrats and re-
' tain republicans were maliciously
falsa.”
Free Speech For
Baptists Promised
FORT WORTH. May 17. —t«V-
The Southern Baptist convention
i ‘heard Thursday from J H. Rush-
brook of London general secretary
of the World Alliance to be held
in Berlin in August that the hosts
would not Interfere with sessions
of the gathering.
Rushbrook wrote that "it is sim-
ply ludicrous to suppose that it U
unsafe to go to GermanyHe
stated there was “no foundation
for the idea that in Germany our
congress would be denied freedom
of speech."
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Deaths Affirmed
I JEFFERSON CITY May 17. A*)—
i Inc death sentences of Paul H.
Kauffman convicted four years ago
at Kansas City of murdering Avis
. Woolery. 17-year-old Webb City
i school girl and Eugene Copeland.
| a negro for the slaying of the «on
i of a St. Louis furniture dealer
II wire affirmed Thursday by division
I No. 2 of the Missouri supreme court.
The court set the date for *he
1 nanglng of the two men on Friday
I June 29.
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