The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1934 Page: 1 of 10
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Bayonets Glisten Behind Barricades and Armored Tanks Patrol Streets in Frisco
[At the left above la a typical
scene in the downtown street* of
San Francisco with state militia
i
doing sentry duty behind bar-
ricades that block the main arter-
ies in the downtown district of
l
the Port. All motorist* are re-
quired to identify themselves and
state their business before pass
lng the three-mile length of
barricades on the Einbarcadero
At the right are shown armored
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tanks of the Fortieth Tank com-
pany from Salinas. Cal. as they
lumbered to placements in the
"war zone." The tanks were
brought to San Francisco on flat
cars and fortify the chain of
r’“* !*t tsar; '**£. ; is it??* ■
barricades extending from the
China Basin Inlet on the south
to the picturesque Italian fishing
%
wharves on th«» northern tip of
the Rmharcadero. waterfront
highway.
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THE WEATHER
Brownsville and the Valley: Fair
Thursday night; Friday pertly
cloudy.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 14
THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS THURSDAY JULY 19 1934 TEN PAGES TODAY
EARLY
EDITION
5e A COPT]
PACIFIC COAST VIOLENCE CONTINUES
IIN OUR]
VALLEY
BATTLE OP THE BANKHEAD
411 continues to be fought by Val-
ey farmers and Valley glnnera.
Bales of cotton which cannot be
old are piling up at gins all over
he Valley uninsured and subject
o the vagaries of the weather.
From present indications it will
* at least 30 days and more prob-
hly 60 days before the farmers of
he Valley receive their permanent
ax-exemption certificates.
With a drouth still holding sway
ver a large portion of the cotton
rowing districts in Texas and
Mgphoma. and prospects of the
port est crop in years the Valley
otton grower aits here holding the
rell known sack.
And right along with him is the
Talley ginner who is advancing
h« money to pick and gin the cot-
on now ready for harvest and
rho has not the faintest idea in
le world when and how he is go-
lg to get his money back.
• « •
MOST OP THE FARMERS WHO
►cured the Interim tax exemption
irtlflcates—
Found that these RACC loans
ere not charity from the govern-
lent—
And found that the proceeds
am the sale of these first few
ales went to Uncle Sam—
Leaving Mr. Parmer still with-
it monev with which to finance
ie picking of the rest of his crop
• • •
PRESSURE APPLIED IN WASH-
mtnn and Austin finally resulted
r Uie making available of bale
igs and emergency exemption cer-
flcates.
Pressure must continue to be ap-
ied to hurry up the tedious pre-
ss of issuing the permanent tax-
cemption certificates.
Valley fanners with the excep-
on of Cameron county growers
ho had tomatoes have not hac
paying crop for months and
onthv
Cotton today is a paying crop IE ;
can be sold without payment or 1
e Bankhead tax o! one half the
arket price.
Valley people can exert their
.ergies along no better lines than
continuing the fight to scrure j
lief from the onerous and injust
a they affect this section this
ar> provisions of the Bankhead
itton bill.
• • •
( %
ONE OF CAMERON COUNTYS
nd id at es gives us the glad hand
. thanks and appreciation—
For our remarks regarding the
rier in which our political ctr-
s being conducted this yeai.
3ay* that he rot a break the oth-
> night got home and to bed at
ISO the earliest since the car.
htl began.
I • • •
V VIEW OF ALL THIS TALK
jut a “oorrupt Brownsville city
.g’’ dominating Cameron county
ltlcs. It is interesting to note
> “home towns ’ of those now
ding county office.
Here they are:
Dounty Judge A W Cunningham.
iriingen
Hieriff Frank Brown. Harlingen
jllson Tract).
tountv Clerk H. D. Seago. Har-
sen.
ounty Treasurer Mrs * Man-
tes Harlingen.
ax Collector. Frank Hardin
iingen.
ax Assessor Ralph Aga: Bin
jure
(Continued on Fa«a But.)
It-
Dakota’s Legislators Barred From
Assembly Halls by National Guard
IKIDNAP PLOT
AT LUFKIN IS
BEING PROBED
—
Member* of 3 Well
Known Familie*
Watched
LUFKIN July 19 t4*i—A rumor-
ed kidnap plot purportedly ^imed
at member* ol at least three prom-
inent Lufkin families was revealed
by the sheriff* and police depart-
ments Thursday. The officer* have
been investigatmg the case two
weeks.
Officers have searched for day*
m vain through dense brush along
the Angelina river lor what was
purported to have been the head-
quarters of the kidnap gang. The
search was started after a laborer
tipped officers that the plot had
been conceived explaining two men
approached him with a plan to
-make a lot of money."
The laborer said the plot wa.-
outlined to him alter he was taten.
blindfolded on a long ride to the
camp in the thicket with another
Lufkin man. also blindfolded
There he claimed he was introduc-
ed to four men and a woman who
told of a scheme to kidnap Patrkia
Purdie 5. the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. R M. Purdie of Houston.
It was planned to abduct h'%r
from the home of her brandfather.
C. A Burket. Lufkin mayor ar.d
druggist with whom she was siev-
ing while her parents were in Colo-
rado.
At a later conference the laborer
revealed the plan was changed to
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Governor Murray
Leases His Paper
OKLAHOMA CITY. July 19 T—
I <»ov Murray Thursday relinquished
I control of his weekly newspaper
the Blue Valley Farmer to Cicero
Murray his cousin and former
marUal oil field commander leas-
ing the three-fourths interest of
himself and Mrs Murray for $1
and •other valuable considerations."
Cicero Murray already held the
other one-fourth interest.
Under the terms of a contract
published by the paper. the gover-
nor reserves the right to publish
his "weekly letter to the people" in
the publication provided that it
does not contravene the policy of
the paper"
• Alfalfa Bill’’ acquired the paper
when he was campaigning for gov-
ernor in 1930 and has used it since
as a forum for administration views
— ' 1 ■
8 Quakes Reported
WASHINGTON. July 19.-^-
9'ft-r sefere earthquakes striking
so close together that their records
were entangled and difficult to
decipher were reported Thursday
by seismologists at Georgetown
University.
The series of heavy shocks which
the observers here termed extra-
ordinary. began about 9 a. m. EST.
Wednesday.
A second quake was about 2.2 0
miles from Washington in the di-
rection of Central America.
Myer* Sighted
PARSONS. Kas. July 19.— /P>—
Jim McKernan. Katy engineer re-
ported to police Thursday that he
believed he recognized a man lying
beside a parked motor car near
Olathe. Kas.. early Thursday as
Neal Myers El Reno. Oklahoma
youth sought for investigation in
the death of Marian Mills Uni-
versity of Oklahoma beauty queen
TEXAS NEGROES
TAKE VOTE TILT
TO HIGH COORT
AUSTIN. July 19. Applica-
tion for permission to file a motion
for a wnt of mandamus »o compel
election officials to allow negroes
to vote in the democratic prim *.rie*
was presented in the Texas supreme
court Thursday on behalf of two
negroes in Jefferson county.
The petition named as defendant*
Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson. Atty.
Gen. James V Allred the state
democratic executive committee
the Jefferson county democratic
executive committee and precinct
judges and election officials of
Jefferson county.
It alleged that W G Bell one
of the negroes in whose interest the
suit was instituted had been le-
iused the privilege of casting an
absentee ballot with the Jefferr m
county cleric. E. L. Jones. Jr. was
the other plaintiff.
The Inherent power of the demo-
cratic party to prescribe the quali-
fications of it* members ha* been
superseded and taken over t* the
-tale by statutory enactment and
ha* been surrendered by the demo-
cratic party the petition alleged.
It also wa* contended that the
democratic party and the state and
county executive committee* weic
arms of the state government anc
were without power to bar negroes
irom the primaries.
Allred ruled recently that negro?*
were ineligible to rote in the pri-
maries because of * resolution
adopted by the democratic conven-
tion at Houston in May. 1932. re-
stricting participation in the party s
activities to white persons. Allred
distinguished thi* action from that
previously taken by the state exec-
utive committee in which the U. *
supreme court held the committee
could not bar negroes.
The petition pointed out that the
state democratic executive commit-
tee at a recent meeting in Austin
refused to pass on the eligibility of
negroes to vote in the primaries.
—
MISS SETHMAN
PASSES AWAY
County School Teacher Dies
At Hospital Following
Short Illness
Prances Nadine Sethman. daugh-
ter of Richard Sethman. died at 5
o'clock Thursday morning tn the
Mercy hospital following a brief
illness. Funeral servlets will be
conducted Fnday afternoon at 4:39
o'clock at the Morns Funeral Home
with Rev. O. C. Crowe in chvrge.
The body will be forwarded Fnday
night to Anthony. Kas.. and bui-
lal will be made early next wee* at
Waldron Kas. the old family home.
The decedent was born Dec. 13.
1910. at Waldron. Kas.. and mov-
ed to Brownsville with her parents
at the age of 10 She was educated
iri the Brownsville schools system
graduating from the high school
and Brownsville Junior college. For
the past three years she was a
teacher in the county schools sys-
tem occupying a post at vPiila
Nueva.
Although she had been in ill
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r .-.-. —. —
EXPLAIN PLANT
SALE EFFORTS
__
I
Connection As Attorney
Was No Secret Local
Man States
WASHINGTON. July 19 <>$»—The
; law firm of R. B. Creager. repub-
lican national committeeman for
Texas was said by a trade com-
mission investigator Thursday to
have received more than $13000 in
fees from an Insuli company in a
fruit a attempt to buy the muni-
cipal power plant at Brownsville.
Texas.
Carl H. Depue. the Investigator
testifying in the commissions util-
ity inquiry said the Central Power
and Liaht company an Insuli unit
paid the fees to the law firm of
West and Creager. Brownsville
Texas
Depue said the con $ any spent
more thvn $25000 in the Browns-
ville venture
Creager Statement
‘ As scores of Brownsville citizens
knew at the time. Wm. S. West of
Brownsville and mysel* represented
(Continued on Page Sixi
EXECUTIVE’S
OFFICE TAKEN
BV OLE OLSON
- —-.
Lieutenant Governor
Keeps Legislature
From Meeting
BISMARCK. !*. D.. July 19 —
./T—-The North Dakota t(nw*e of
Representative* meeting in defi-
ance of l^ eut. C»ov. Olr II Olson's
proclamation revoking a special
session of the legislature con-
vened at niton Thursday.
Mrs. Minnie D. Craig speaker
who a feu days ago resigned a
federal relief Job to avoid qne*-
tion of her right to participate in
the special session called the
house to order.
BISMARCK N. D July 19 wP—
Lieut. Gov. Ole H Olson acting
governor took physical possession
of the chief executive's office at
10 a m Thursday.
He merely walked into the office
accompanied by two friends. Na-
tional guardsmen at the same time
were posted in the corridors of the
state house There was no disturb-
ance.
keiwion Revoked
Oiaon Immediately posted his
proclamation in the corridors of
the state house revoking a special
session of the state legislature
called by William Langer ousted
governor. Doors of the two as-
semblies were locked.
Accompanied by the two friends—
State Sen. Lars Fredrickson and
(Continued on Page Six)
Woman Is Accused
Of Hiding Body
TOPEKA Kas. July 19. AV-
Mrs. Myrle Lattlmer. of Seneca.
Kas. wa* under federal court in-
dictment Thursday on charges
growing out of the concealment of
her mothr s body for two and a naif
years to illegally collect the latter s
Civil War pension-
The indictment returned by a
grand jury 'here Wednesday con-
tained three counts charging for-
gery and three charging the utter-
ing of forgeH instruments.
Airport Men Elect
CORPUS CHRIST!. July 19 /P»—
Pule her Armstrong of Wichita Falls
was elected president of the Texas
Association of Airport Managers in
convention Thursday.
S W. Ruff of Austin was elected
vice-president and W. C. Maua.
Corpus Chrlsti. secretary-treasurer
Austin was selected as the next
convention city.
NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG-NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
Washington by Gtorge Durno — New York by Jam«» McMullin
WASHINGTON
By George Dnrno
ISSl'ES — A veteran Republican
who has figured prominently in
past national campaigns is getting
fed up on the clamorous demands
his party stump orators are now
making to get back to the Con-
stitution H
In the first place he is willing
to bet that few of the orators and
still fewer of their listeners have
read the Constitution sufficiently
recently to remember ahats in it.
Secondly it is his conviction that I
Calvin Coolidge *aa the last man I
in a position to use the issue
effectively.
• • •
Unlike moat sideline critics this
political student has a counter-
suggestion to offer.
As he see# It the GO P. should
concentrate instead on a single
nhrase *n the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. Citing the many objec-
tionable acts of King George III
the Founding Fathers declared
among other things:
He has erected a multitude of
new offices and sent hither swarms
of oificers to harass our people i
and eat out their substance.”
John W Davis who carried the
democratic standard to d eat ten
years ago. keynoted this conserva-
tive ffcar ol "slow•strangulation by
an engirding bureaucracy’' at
Charlottesville last week but his
speech failed to arouse the en-
thusiasm in republican ranks that
one might expect.
"True Davis is an outstanding
democrat but he is hardly the man
to command wide attention as a
defender of the old order”* they
say. "After all Davis merely is de-
fending his own life record.”
GOP strategists quite selfishly
art hoping against hop* that con
serrattve democrats of the Davis-
Carter Glass order will produce a
younger man with a more liberal
label to cry out against the mush-
room growth of government. Pref-
erably th<*y would like to see some
one tackle the Job who has played
an actual part in molding the New
Deal.
• • •
RADICALS — Despite recent
Washington developments such as
curtailment of NR A it is the meas-
ured opinion of competent observ-
ers of both political faiths that
the Roosevelt administration—and
the eountry as a whole—la not yet
ready for a conservative swing back.
Those who have been out through
the states say a nervousness is de-
veloping about the steady increase
in the national debt. Nevertheless
they predict bold experimentation
will continue to have support until
the day the people begin to pay It
off—and feel the burden In thei
process.
Even some of the New Dealers
are not as sanguine as they were
six months ago They are spider-
ing In the privacy of their own
councils mhether history mav not
be repeating itself with farm pay-
tContinued On rt«i Pour)
TEXAS CITIES
AGAIN SUFFER
INTENSE HEAT
San Antonio Houston
Both Show Mark
Of 100
(Bv the Associated Presai
Sweltering heat made life miser-
able for Texans again Thursday
after temperature* soared Wednes-
day to seasonal high marks all over
the state. There were three heat
fatalltie* Wednesday.
. Crop* were blistered and grass
on the dry ranges was seared as hot
winds added to the damage already
caused by a prolonged drought in
many sections.
Death Toll Mount*
Sain Davu>. 80-year-old negro
died of heat prostration while cut-
ting com in a field near Taylor
Wednesday. J. C. Eaton. 72 col-
lapsed while fighting a grass fin-
near his lunch stand at Houston
He died en route to a hospital. Sev-
eral other elderly men have suc-
cumbed to heat in the last few
days over the state.
Dallas had the hottest weather
of the season Wednesday with the
temperature teaching 101 degrees.
For months there had been no ap-
iContinued on Page Six.)
Mayor Is Slain
SCOTT CITY. Kas . July 19 .4V-
A quarrel over a sewer permit led
to the slaying of Mayor H. L
Bleecker of Scott City.
Joe West a plumber. wa& m Jail
Thursday at Garden City where he
was taken after he had knocked
Bleecker down and kicked him to
death here Wednesday officers
said.
The quarrel started witness**
said when Mayor Bleecker remon-
strated with West asserting the
latter was installing a sewer con-
nection without a city permit.
Brother Stabbed
HOUSTON July 19 (4»—Two
brothers had a hot argument over
the governor a race Wednesday
night and a* a result one was in
Jefferson Davis hospital with a
serious sub wound in his abdomen
Thursday and the other was in city
jail charged with assault to mur-
der.
The wounded rr.ar. was Lewis
Hill. 55 He was cut with a pocket
knife The man charged with sob-
bing him was his brother. Bob Hill
51.
Workman Is Burned
VAN July 19 4»i—Roy debum
was burned badly about the head
face chest and arms In a fire which
destroyed a loading rack and tour
tank cars of gasoline here Thurs-
day. He was rushed to a Orand Sa-
line hospital. Another worker at the
loading rack was burned slightly
The fire was caused by a boy .strik-
ing a match to light a cigaret some
40 yards away from the loading
rack.
-1*
On The
Strike
SAN FRANCISCO July !».—
UP'—A muse mcnU of recent sea-
son* are staging a comeback in
San Francisco where the man*
strike this week closed all the
theaters night clubs and beach
concessions. Jigsaw puzzles have
been put to use again; tabic ten-
nis equipment has been resur-
rected; card games are more
than usually in favor; fishing
golf and tennis equipment is tn
heavy demand at stores; and even
miniature golf is making a come-
back.
Gasoline gurgled into dry auto-
mobile tanks Thursday for the
first time for nearly a week and
cars of the Market street railway
reappeared on the street* bring-
ing the rity nearer normal trans-
portation after five day* or
thumbed auto rides bicycles
(Continued on Page Six )
PARR SCORED
BY SEABURY
Millionaire Pearson Pulling
Up Funds For Duke
Speaker Saya
• Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. July 19. — The
charge that W. L Pearson million-
aire contractor is financing the
“fight of Sen. Parr against me.”
was hurled at a mas* meeting here
Wednesday night by Judge F. W
Seabury' of Brownsville.
Judge Seabury also declared he
is informed "some of my opponent*
are telling the people of the Robs-
town section that they will see that
the Robstown differential If not re-
moved if elected to office.” and
challenged his opponents to take a
stand on this matter ss he has done
Fights Differential
The Brownsville man addressing
about 300 people in the American
Legion Arena here outlined his
plan for removal of the differential
which he said can be done.
For the first time in a Valley ad-
dress h* mentioned Jim Negi the
third candidate in the race de-
claring that "I have always taken
the attitude that Neal and I were
lighting a common fight against
Parr but while I have been fight-
ing Parr. I find that behind my
back Neal has been fighting me.”
Judge Seabury was introduced by
James L. Abney Brownsville at-
torney. alter short talks were made
by A L. Montgomery ol San Benito
and Paul Brown of Harlingen both
well known Valley attorneys.
Montgomery and Brown discussed
Judge Seabury’s qualifications for
the office declaring that on the
basis of qualification• thkre is no
comparison between the three men.
They brought out Judge Seabury's
thorough knowledge of Valley prob-
lems. his ability in handling legis-
lation as proved by hi* speakership
of the Texas House of Representa-
tives. and declared that the Valley
(Continued On Page six)
FRISCO LABOR
RANKS SPLIT
OVER SOLUTION
Food Is Moving Into
Area Without
Trouble
<By The Associated Press)
The grip of San Francisco’s gen-
eral strike weakened Thursday bug
violence increased tension else-
where on the Pacific coast.
Gunfire on the Portland water-
front menaced Sen. Robert F. Wag-
ner of New York as he was making
an Inspection tour Wednesday.
Witnesses said the shots which
•truck close to the senator's auto-
mobile. were 11 red by special water-
front guards Wagner is on the coasg
to aid In conciliation efforts.
tfl Hart at Seattle
Rioting at Seattle Injured 30 per-
sons. some of them policemen. Ap-
proximately 1.500 striking long-
shoremen and their sympathisers
stormed two pier# In the face of a
tear gas defense by police.
Food and other necessities wera
moving again into San Francisco.
Oakland and other bay cities. Mora
markets stores and restaurants
re-opened
A lifting of the maas walkout
was asked by Hugh 8 Johnson NBA
(Continued on Page Six)
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Flashes From
_A. P. Wm_
WASHINGTON.—IV* bomb-
ing plane* comprising the Aladut
flight squadron of the army ahr
corps hopped off from Rolling
field Thursday for Dayton on tho
first leg of their M ono mile flight
to Alaska and return.
WARSAW. Poland.—Rodin* of
130 victim* of raging flood* in
southern Poland have been recov-
ered. an official report laid
Thursday with 1*0 missing ard
believed to have perished.
A new flood menace waa fear-
ed at Cracow a* a crest of water
from the mountain region* roared
down into the valley*.
More than S5.1HW were without
food and shelter a« swollen riv-
er* continued to leave their bank*
after day* of continuous rain.
HOI STON.—The first Houston
casualties of the current political
campaign were «offered Tuesday
night when two speakers at a
Clint Small-for-governor rally in
the height* were stoned
A rock thrown at Gavin t'lmer
the principal speaker cut a gaah
in the Houston attorney's cheek.
Another rock struck the Rev. J.
J. Wallace on the neck. Inflicting
a bruise but not breaking tho
skin.
SAN FRANCISCO—Eleven huge
navy seaplanes attempting a mam
i orma lion flight to Alaska were
poised for resumption of their
flight Wednesday after being for-
ced down at Santa Barbara and
San Luis Obispo by adverse
weather.
WASHINGTON— pre* Roose-
velt In a message to Secy. Per-
kin* Wednesday ex proved con-
fidence that “common sense and
good order’* would enabkt a
"reasonable solution’ 'of the Kan
Francisco strike.
SAN FRANCISCO — The gen-
eral strike should bo called off
■nnsrdintely Per*. Roosevelt's
labor dispute* board declared
Wednesday. In railing for arbi-
tration at once on the contro-
versy.
BISMARCK. N. D— Attorney*
for William Longer ousted gov- f
ernor. Wednesday filed petition* r
with the state supreme court to s
withhold Judgment and seeking ■*
rehearing In the proceedings ■L;*'
(Continued on Papt SOU
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