The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 125, Ed. 2 Monday, November 26, 1934 Page: 1 of 8
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Plan to Attend the Valley Mid-Winter Fair November 28th to December 3rd
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THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy and somewhat warm*
er Monday night; Tuesday mostly
f <*<**&■
By RALPH L. Bl'ELl.
WELL WE HAD ONE MORE
high of a time placing the last time
that Ben. Morris Sheppard was In
- the Valley.
* First we ourselves none other
placed the time at 1915-
Wrong.
Then we finally got It right In
•ur own mind at least
And had It oonectly as 1931.
Typographical error changed the
first 3 to a 3—
And It went through 1923.'
That settled It.
Every time anybody wrote 1933
It was changed to 1923.
And Is our face red?
You are right.
At any rate the Senator was
here In 1934—
And glad were we all to see him
• • •
ANOTHER ONE OP OUR GOOD |
railroad men leaves us on his way
to the top.
That’s the way with these promo-
tions they take our friends sway
from us but we all Join In con-
gratulations to Henry Kelley of the
Southern Pacific on the step up-
ward which takes him to Dallas.
Just about 4 years have the Kel-
leys been with Brownsville coming
here from Harlingen.
How they will like Dallas after
five or six years of the Valley is a
matter of conjecture but lt’a no
guess how Dallas will like them.
They carry with them wishes for
the best of success tinged with
regret over their departure.
• • •
A FARM PRODUCTS FESTIVAL
and picnic scheduled for Meroedes
on Tuesday of this week should
draw the crowds.
It’s a keen idea of the Mercedes
Chamber of Commerce this fest-
ival which will bring hundreds of
displays from the farmers of the
Tomm unity—
Competing for $300 In merchan-
dise prizes.
f The prise winning vegetables
and farm products will go to make
up the Mercedes community ex-
hibit at the Valley midwinter Fair.
On top of all that an old Fiddlers
contest women’s nail driving con-
test. will bring many contestants—
With prises offered for the larg-
est family the family coming the
longest distance the family residing
the longest on one farm on the
American company tract.
The whole program will be top-
ped off by an address by Cong.
Milton West scheduled for 3 p. m
In the city park after which the
prize winners will be announced.
We would say this. If you want
to see Valley farm products go to
Mercedes Tuesday.
No Valley community raises bet-
ter nor a more varied assortment.
• • •
NOT SO MUCH THE WINNING
but the ability to absorb defeat and
to learn the lesson therefrom Is
what causes us to doff our hat to
the Eagles of the Brownsville High
School football team.
It takes an intangible something
that will prove the finest asset
those boys could have to go down
In defeat time after time and still
keep up the old fight.
’niat s Just what these boys did
and that's what we give them
credit for.
The beating of Laredo was ftae.
but the ability to keep up their
cplrit to the stage that enabled
them to beat Laredo Is something
i still finer.
So. our hat is off to the team
and its coaching staff and loyal
bunch of rooters who stood by with
encouragmen'.^ ud .upport.
FIRE CHIEF T. P. SARRAN
would like It known that—
It’s up to traffic to look out for
him when he la on his way to a
fire
Not to him to dodge traffic.
There is Just one good rule to
: follow when the fire siren blows and
Shear the trucks coming down
street-
Pull to the curb and stay there
until the department has passed—
Or It is obvious that the fire la
located In some other direction.
There might be a serious accident
some day.
• • •
SUCCESSION OP EVENTS
which all deserve Valley wide recog-
nition and participation begins
Wednesday with the formal open-
ing of the Valley Mid Winter Fair.
Then follow Mission's Citrus
Fiesta and then Weslaco's 15th
Birthday celebration.
We ars telling you that you will
gat lots of enjoyment out of at-
tending them all and will probably
learn a few things about the Val-
ley you did not know before.
Better make your plans now to
latae Id oil three
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 128
BROWNSVILLE TEXAS MONDAY NOVEMBER 26 1934
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
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OFFICERS ARE
TAKEN WHILE
QUIZZING MEN
Policeman Abduc ted
In Own Automobile
At Paris; Jail Break-
ers Are Hunted
PARIS Nov. 38—(i'Pi—Two men
who kidnaped Puis policemen Newt
Baker and H. R. Marks Early Mon-
day were said to fit the descrip-
tions of Ambrose Nix and Arthur
Gooch who broke jail at Holden-
viUe Okla. Oct. 35.
At 10:30 a. m. approximately
seven hours after they were ab-
ducted. no trace had been found of
the policemen oi tueir abductors
and North Texas officers were un-
cert r . which way they fled. They
started north out of Parts but could
easily have doubled back to the west
or to th« south. Hugo. Okla. of-
ficers were advised of the kidnap-
ing shortly after it occurred and
guarded roads but did not see the
fugitives.
Abducted tn Own Car
Holdenvllle officer* said descrip-
tions of the kidnapers led them to
believe they were Nix and Gooch.
Ni and Gooch escaped along
with two other men. Bui Johnson
and Red Hurst and two women
Maudie Lawson and Myrtle Kindig.
Johnson Hurst and the Lawson
woman since have been captured.
The Parts officers were kidnaped
and carried away in their own pa-
trol car vfen they went to a filling
station to investigate a car that
had stopped there They had been
notified by Trier Vficers that two
men had robbed Q Mitchell’s lunch
and beer stand two miles north of
Tyler Sunday night escaping with
(Continued on Page Two)
girlsTmeaths
CLUE CHECKED
F. D. R. Displeased
By Housing Clashes
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2«. -<AV-
President Roosevelt was said In
administration circles Monday to
have expressed displeasure—albeit
In a smiling jocular manner—to
both Secretary Ickes and James A.
Moflet. the housing administra-
tor. over their recent clash of
opinion on federal versus private
housing.
A usually authoritative source
told The Associated Press the
president called Ickes and Moffett
irom Warm Springs Ga. at 9:90
a. m. last Saturday and am wig
other things directed them to go
to the White House immediately.
fhaTMcial
TO BE SPEAKER
Details of Federal Housing
Act to Be Explained By
State Administrator
MERCEDES. Nov. 26. — Full
details of the Federal Housing act
how It works and what is does rnd
can do will be explained to Val-
leyites here Wednesday night by
R. A. Tullis Federal Housing ad-
ministrator r Texas.
Mr. Tullis will speak in the high
school auditorium at 8 p. m. It was
announced Monday by L F. Boling
manager of the Mercedes Chamber
of Commerce.
“We would very much like to
base every Valley contractor lum-
ber man and material man attend
this meeting’” Boling said “We
find that actual workings of this
Federal Housing act are known to
comparatively few and feel that if
all details of the act were known to
our Valley bankers and construc-
tion men that more Federal Hous-
ing plans would be made.”
Boling has been especially active
in promoting the making of these
loans and feels that once the act
is explained In detail by some one
in authority that mwe such loans
will be made In the Valley.
2 Disabled Yachts
IS Aboard Located
NEW YORK. Nov. 26.-<AV-Two
disabled yachts missing an the
Atlantic with fifteen persons
aboard were found early Monday.
The schooner White Cloud Its
steering gear disabled on a scienti-
fic and treasure-hunting expedi-
tion to the 8panish Main was
located 300 miles northeast of
Puerto Rico by the 8. 8. Rangl-
tata. The steamer which wire-
lessed coast guards that it wss
standing by. gave no details. Ele-
ven men are on the White Cloud.
Creeping shoreward with only a
staysail the ketch Fayaway was
found by the Coast Guard Cutter
Mascoutln 35 miles off Chesapeake
Light vessel near Norfolk Va. A
family of four was aboard.
Matamoros Man Shot
One man Is in the Matamoros
hospital and his alleged assailant
is still at large as a result of a
shooting which took place on a road
near Rio Rico in the early hours
Sunday.
Doroeto Galvan is suffering from
a bullet wound In the side which
may prove fatal.
According to the police report In
Matamoros Gal wan was coming to-
ward Rio Rico from a ranch nearby
when the shooting occured.
Wire Flashes
PASADENA. Calif — For the
second tmnesthe year Stanford
was selected Monday to represent
the weot tn the annual Rase tour-
nament football games hers New
Year's day.
ITALY DEFIES
YUGOSLAVIA’S
HLLINGPROI i
Duce Refuses to Hand
Over Two Suspected
Of Part In King’s
Assassination
(Copjrt 1934 by th* A. P)
ROME. Nov. 36.—Italy Monday
openly defied Jugoslavia's attempt
to Investigate the plot that resum-
ed In the assassination of King
Alexander at Marseille last month
by refusing France's demand for
extradition of two alleged prin-
cipals.
The eourt of appeals at Tttrir
ruled against France’s request for
Dr. Ante Pavellch. alleged terror
1st leader and his supposed as-
sistant Egon Kvaternlk Both
have been under arrest tn Italy
since shortly after the murder of ;
Alexander and Louis Barthou th*
late foreign minister of France.
Cart Denial
A curt th recline communique is-
sued Monday afternoon announce'
that the court of appeals had de
aided the extradition "must nr.
be conceded to Prance." This »
the second blow Italy has deliver
ed to Yugoslavia in two days
On Saturday she demanded
flatly that the League of Nations
council Immediately hear Yugo-
slavia’s grave charges that the
Marseille assassinations were plot-
ted in Hungary and an Italian
government spokesman said Italy
and Hungary will be Joined by
Austr i tn presenting a united
front at Geneva when Yugoslavia's
charge is heard.
Refuel Accepted
That Prance’s demand would be
(Continued on Page Two)
OPENSilG
SEASON SEEN
Legislative Group Sees No
Harm In Nets; Want*
Island Channels
(Special to The Herald)
SAN ANTONIO. Nov. 36—An open
and closed season for seining and
netting in bays along the Texas
Gulf coast will be recommended by
Lhe legislative committee which has
just concluded a series of hearings
on salt water fishing it was indi-
cated after the committee had spent
the week-end here and informally
heard C. E. Wheatley state presi-
dent of the Isaak Walton League.
Representative Pat Jefferson of
San Antonio committee chairman
said efforts also will be made to
Dbtai i a federal appropriation to
op. passes through Padre Island—
thre" are desired—to admit fresh
gulf water Into back bays and thus
remedy a condition which kills many
fish in those waters. The federal
govenment also may be asked for
s biologist to make a scientific long-
time study of coastal fishing. The
committee expects to complete its
report in two weeks.
Wheatley declared a plan of per-
mitting seining and netting when
riah are not spavmin gand prohibit-
ing the practices during spawning
time might prove satisfactory. Sein-
ing and netting are now unlawful
at all times in most of the bays.
Cut admittedly the state lacks war-
(Continued on Page Two)
Hitler’s Friend
J. C FOUNTAIN
DROPS DEAD IN
CHURCH HERE
Bank Receiver Die*
Quietly At Sunday
School Service* In
City
Jasper Cluck Fountain. 63 re-
ceiver of the Merchants National
Bank of this city since July I 1933
died In his chair at Sunday School
at the First Baptist church Sun-
day morning. Death came sudden-
ly and without warning.
According to eye witnesses Mr.
Fountain drew a deep breath
just as the sendees were terminat-
ing. and waa dead-
Coming here from Marlin as
successor to John M Young first
receiver of the bank the deceased
waa well known throughout the
entire Valley and was active In
dvU life of the city.
An active church worker he had
served as deacon of the Marlin
Baptist church for more than a
quater of a centurv and occupied
the same position with the Browns-
ville church. He was a member of
<«veral Masonic bodies and of the
Maccabees.
Mr. Fountain had been in the
hanking business for more than 40
years starting as a bookkeeper
with the First National Bank of
Marlin. Later he organised the Ci-
tlaens National bank of that city
and was connected with the Marlin
Cttlsens bank when It consolidated
with the Cltlsens National.
While In Brownsville he con-
tinued his fondness for outdoor
life was an enthusiastic hunter
and fisherman and enjoyed the
facilities of the municipal golf
course where he recently made a
hole in one.
Survivors Include Mrs. Fountain
whom he married at Mias Lola
Kyaer In Marlin In 1893; four
(Continued on Page Two)
ROBLES KIDNAP
GUILT I )
Suspect Pleads Not Guilty
At Hearing In
Phoenix
PHOENIX Aria. Nov. 36.—
Oscar H. Hobson former Tucson
dance hall proprietor charged
with sending extortion notes In the
June Robles kidnaping last April
pleaded not guilty before Daniel
Hurley t7. 8. Commissioner here
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Pollies
parents of little June were pres-
ent for the hearing as was Mrs
Robson.
It wss the second time since his
street by department of justice
agents November 7 Robson has
been taken out of the Phoenix Jail
He waa taken before the commis-
sioner last Thursday at which time
his hearing was postponed because
of the absence of government wit-
Defense couneel announced that
by establishing Robson’s absence
from the state at the time of the
kidnaping of Little June they
hoped to have Robson'S bond re-
duced from the 6100000 figure to
which It was hiked soon after hie
Ira Webster Jr. Is j
Believed Recovering
Ira Webster Jr. young Browns-
ville attorney who was painfully
injured Saturday night when hit
ear went off the floodway bridge
west of Meroedes was brought here
Sunday afternoon after being treat-
ed in tha Mercedes General Hos-
pital.
Although the young lawyer who
Is connected with tha Edinburg
firm of Kelley Looney a Norvell.
was painfully cut and bruisad his
injuries are not oonsklered of a
dangerous nature.
Webster was coming from Edin-
burg to Brownsville when the ac-
cident oocuned. His car was almost
totally demolished by the long
drop over tbs side of tha floodway
bridge.
‘MUSS ’EM r.
POLICE TOLD
Beatings Good For N. Y.
Criminals Chief .
Declares
NEW YORK Nov. 26.—^—Po-
lice Commissioner Lewis J. Valen-
tine declared himself Monday for
a policy of “marking and mussing
up* all known criminals who are
arrested.
Be told 200 detectives at the
police line-up to spread the word
among the force that he wanted
criminals so beaten they would
leave the city rather than face
*1 don't want these coming in
hen looking as If they had Just
left a barber chair.'* the commis-
sioner declared.
His remarks were prompted by
the appearance in the line-up of
a man arrested 'on a charge of
murder. The suspect was neatly
groomed.
The commissioner pointed to the
men add indicated what changes
should have been made. "That
velvet collar.’* he said 'should be
smeared with blood."
“The district attorney will pro-
tect you.” Valentine advised the
detectives . "Bring these known
criminals mussed up.”
Mrs. H. E. Buchanan
Injured In Wreck
Mrs. H. E. Buchanan of Victoria
formerly of Brownsville is in a
critical condition and may not sur-
vive Injuries sustained In an auto-
mobile accident Saturday night ac-
cording to word received In Browns-
ville Monday.
Meager reports said tha Mr. and
Mrs. Buchanan were en route from
Victoria to Yoakum when their car
ran into a bridge the flooring of
which had been demolished by a
truck. No warning signs had been
erected along the road the reports
said.
Mrs. Buchanan sustained a broken
leg. a broken jaw. and her face wae
severely lacerated. Possible internal
injuries were also indicated. Her
husband was badly brulad and
scartched but suffered no serious
injury.
He was local agent for the Humble
Oil company far some time being
tramferred to Victoria about one
month ago.
Storm Located 200
Miles From Bermuda
WASHINGTON. Nov. 26—CAV-Ths
weather bureau Monday Issued the
following storm warning:
"Advtstory 10:20 a. mu: Northeast-
ward advance tropical disturbance
blocked by area high pressure great
magnitude to northward. Distur-
bance centered about two hundred
miles southwest of Bermuda moving
westward or aouthwestward attend-
ed by shifting piles. Northeast storm
warning ordered Atlantic coast
Haiteras to Atlantic City. Strong
winds will be due principally to high
premure area."
FIFTH VICTIM
FOUND SLAIN
AT RIO RICO
Mystery Assassin Has
Killed 5 Wounded
Three During Past
Four Weeks
The fifth victim of Matamoros1
“Phantom Killer" was found In tho
brush near Rio Rico Sunday morn-
ing shot twice with a JS calllani
Distal.
Tha body badly decompoAd
was tiigtified as that of Andrea
ZamoriT' it was discovered lying in
the brush in the district known aa
Plan to Chitlpin.
Two bullet wounds ywfttfttd by
38 calibre bullets were found in
the victim’s neck and two empty
38 calibre sheila were found on
the ground near tha victims body.
Matamoros polype declared Mon-
day morning that an investigation
of the shells led tn«£i to belleva
that Zamora's slayer was the
"Phantom Slayer” who has killed
five men and wounded three in the
past four weeks and has terrorised
ranch districts between Matamoroe
and Rio RlCOc
Police believe that the killer to
demented.
Only twice has be been seen
and both times his features were
concealed by darkness On the two
<wirtn« that me murders have
been witnessed he has mysterious-
ly appeared from out of the dark-
ness and opened fire on his vte-
Ume without warning.
Three of his victims have been
found lying in the brush near Rio
Rico. Another a prominent Mat-
smoros legal advisor was shot to
death before his wile *»d children
ee he attempted to drive his auto-
mobile into the garage. The fifth
was shot down as he stood talking
to a group of men an a ranch near
Matamoroe. Three others were
wounded in the bum of gunfire
that greeted the group of men on
the ranch.
The fact that five bullet wounda
were found in the bodies of hie
first three vicunas led police to
call him "the five-shot terror.* Hie
last two victims however were
hit only twice each.
Police concluded after an investi-
gation at the scene of the slaying
Sunday that the killer !iy In wall
for his victim and shot him down
without warning.
Well Known Houston
Resident Is Dead
HOUSTON Nov. 86. —(*)— Fu-
neral services were conducted here
Monday for Daniel Adam Hort-
man who died at bis home Sun-
day. Hortman bad been a res-
ident of Houston for 80 years
coming here from Huntsville. Ha
was widely known In central and
southeast Treat. Survivors includ-
ed s son. Claude Hortman of Lake
Charlee.
Serivnor Given To
State By Federate
PORT WORTH. Nov. 86. -06V-
W. 8. “Shllo” Scrivnor wee order-
ed released by Federal judge James
C. Wilson here Monday after a
brief hearing. Judge Wilson held
that the state of Texas had a
prior claim to the prisoner who to
at large cm a state furlough from
Huntsville penitentiary
November 86. 1634 -No dis-
tinction was ever made between
those whose labor ana sacrifice
molded Texas civilisation. At
times the "Original Three Hun-
dred” in Austin’s colony indulged
themselves a pardonable feelirg
of superiority tor having been
the first families to establish
homes In an untamed environ-
ment always sdmtttiny how-
l ever the maintenance strength I
of those who followed in the
peaceful foundation of an em-
pire.
In early Texes ss elsewhere
English speaking people showed
the most remarkable energy and
capacity ror coioruinuon. Norto
Americans were the ones who
planted the roots of civilisation
m Texas soil. The wilderness had
52U2? M. SSJS
Alabama Tennessee North Caro-
lina South Carolina Georgia.
Missouri 1 MtoatoilpM
Surprising thing about close friend-
ship of Lem Riefenstahl (abort)
and Reichslesder Adolph Hitler is
that she makes no effort to conceal
fact aha la Jewish. Nazi chieftain
made her virtual dictator of Ger-
man films and allied art* This w
t her newest photo _ —
BULLETS HALT
PRISON BREAK
One Killed Another Shot
As Escape Near Houston
Is Thwarted
HOUSTON. Nov. 26—UP)—Jimmy
Lee Cain 20 of Centerville I1L
was killed and Albert Baggett 23.
of Port Arthur was wounded In the
leg when they attempted to escape
Monday morning from the Harlem
state prison farm near Sugar land.
Cain was serving 40 years from
Tarrant county on conviction of
four charges of robbery. Captain
A. N. Owen of the Harlem farm
said he also had been In prison In
Illinois.
The pair ran from a corn flfld
and sought to gain the protection
at nearby timber but bullets fired
by guards halted their flight
Victim of Kidnap
It Reported Seen
Philadelphia Nov. 26 - WV-In-
formation that William Weiss kid-
naped night life character was re-
ported seen in adjoining Delaware
county two days ago sent federal
agents off cm a new track in their
investigation Monday.
The report was that Weis*
“snatched” by three men outside his
surburan home on October 26. and
held for $100000 ransom was seen
entering a house in the “lower end"
of the county.
Japanese Minister
Of Finance Resigns
TOYKO Nov. 36—(JP) Sanenotou
Fujli. minister of finance who is
suffering from a nervous and physi-
cal breakdown as a result of his
futile efforts to prevent large in-
creases in military appropriation*
resigned Monday.
Physicians said Fujli who has
long suffered from weakness of the
lungs is seriously ill. Camphor in-
jections were necessary.
Bus Driver Says Children
Rode With Him; Were
With Woman
CARLISLE Pa. Nov. 26—i/PV—The
first definite clue to the Identities
of three fair-haired little girls found
dead In a rain-dampened mountain
thicket turned authorities toward
New York and New England Monday
in their investigation.
The Information came from Paul
White Harrisburg bus driver who
after viewing the bodies at the
morgue said he was certain they
were the three children who accom-
panied a woman from New York to
Harrisburg In his bus last Wednes-
day.
White also postively Identified a
suitcase picked up two miles from
where the girls’ bodies were found
as one of three carried by the wo-
man on the trip.
Safe Crackers Get
$900 In Alto Jobs
ALTO Nov. 26.—(/PV-Safe burg-
lars took approximately $500 from
Brookshire Brothers grocery store
and $450 from Blanchard Dry
Goods company here Sunday
night. Explosives were used to
open the safes. Beside the cash
an undetermined amount of checks
was taken.
Fingerprints on a cash register
were studied by Rusk and Lufkin
officers searching for a clue by
which to Identify the burglars.
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