The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 247, Ed. 3 Wednesday, April 17, 1935 Page: 1 of 8
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T THE WEATHER *•«•<»• <***: £ I
(By V. ». Weat** Bureau) CarculatlOO — OU
Brownsville and the Valley; Moat- | Vallae
ly cloudy Wednesday night and feral in tna vauay
Thursday; not much change In tem- Only by The Her-
peratuxe. Moderate to fresh south- aid.
erly winds.
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FORTY-THIRD YEAR—No. 247 »• cso* m na to «bs van* BROWNSVILLE TEXAS WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 193* BIGHT PAGBB TODAY • *_6c A COPT
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VALLEY
By RALPH L. Bl ELL
THEY TELL US THAT UP
around Corpus Christi-Robs town
dust brought in by the north winds—
Has created a new fanning hazard.
Seems like a half Inch layer of
dust was placed over the cotton
fields.
And when the wind began to
blow this fine dust around—
Tops of cotton plants were neatly
clipped off.
Wise fanners got into the field*
and plowed their ootton
Mixing the dust of Oklahoma and
Kansas with the nch and heavy
loam—
Heavy enough to stay where it be-
longs.
• • •
SOME OF US ARE INTERESTED
in home races some of us are not.
But not a one of us but can get
ra kick out of the race now going on
between crews of the Dredge Or-
leans and the Dredge Texas.
Men on the Texas swear by all
that s great and holy that they will
overtake the Orleans before that
dredge gets to the Brownsville turn-
ing basin.
And men on the Orleans say
-Phooie to you!” Well have dredged
the turning basin and be on our
way back before we even get sight
of you!”
So we cheer them both on the Or-
leans and the Texas we win no mat-
ter who wins!
• • •
HARRY CARROLL EX-PRESI-
dent of the San Benito Chamber
of Commerce-
Heavy on the •ex.” says Harry—
Tells us that no man should serve
more than a year as head of a
chamber of commerce.
Pass the job around and let every-
body know just how much work there
la in connection with a chamber of
commerce—
And how much these organiza-
tions accomplish.
That s his motto.
He s right.
• • •
VALLEYS PORT DAY IS NOT
off. it's Just postponed.
The ships are coming in never
fret.
A delay of 30 days or so means
nothing m our young lives.
Not alter we have waited 30 years
and more to sight an ocean going
vessel as she clears Brazos pass.
So everybody stay set for the big
day.
a a •
OUT AT THE PAN-AMERICAN
airport the boys have been watch-
ing and waiting and listening ail
Tuesday night and on Into Wednes-
day morning.
Their mates were out at sea. pilot-
ing one of the Pan-American dip-
per ships on an epochal flight which
will result in the establishment oi
regular trans-Pacific service by air
between the United States and
China.
Buddies of our local Pan-Ameri-
can crew are on that ship which set
down in Honolulu harbor right
around noon.
And they have been catching them
over the radio almost every inch of
the way from Alameda to Hawaii.
• • •
MEMBERS QP THE VALLEY
Press association are scheduled tc
talk “shop” at the regular meeting
of the association Friday night.
If all said what they really think—
The Cortes Hotel at Weslaco would
be minus a roof and a few walls I
But editors are like the rest of
# you-
^ They think s whole lot braver
than they talk—
And most of the time talk a whole
lot braver than they act.
So we anticipate a very peaceful
and harmonious meeting.
• • •
JIM BOWIE. GRAND NOT SO
old man of San Benito and the
Valley back again after a siege in
• San Antonio hospital.
And glad to be back in the Val-
ley. bet that.
Sends us some potatoes from the
Bayview Orchard properties fields.
Two of them filled the rumble
•eat in a coupe.
Says the yield out there is run-
ning better than 100 bushels to
the acre which is something this
year of all years.
I
FIRST LEG OF
PACIFIC HOP
IS SUCCESSFUL
Big Ship Sett New
Record For Trip
To Honolulu From
California
HONOLULU April 17. <AV-The
big Clipper plane “Pioneer” alight-
ed on Pearl Harbor here at 7:57
a. m. Honolulu time (12:27 p. m.
Central Standard Time) Wednes-
day after a 2 400-mile flight from
Alameda. Calif.
The Clipper plane “Pioneer” ap-
peared over Honolulu at 9:37 a. m.
Wednesday.
The ship passed over Diamond
Head ftying high and fast escort-
ed by one swift navy pursuit plane.
All four m6tors roared as the trans-
pacific trail blazing ship swung over
the city.
Manifestly performing perfectly
she swept past W'aikiki Beach and
continued on over Honolulu harbor.
A crowd had gathered to watch
the arrival of the transpacific
plane.
The Clipper traveled the 2.400
miles In 17 hours and 47 minutes
making a new flight record for the
distance.
The plane arrived in the bright
sunlight of a Hawaiian morning
breaking through clouds which had
overhung the Island of Oahu at
dawn.
Navy patrol ships which went out
a few minutes before the arrival
as an escort were circling outside
Honolulu harbor as the Clipper
came over Diamond Head.
The Clipper flew over the center
of Honolulu exactly on schedule
which called for arrival at 7:05
a m. (11:35 Central Standard
Time.)
Confederate Vet Dies
CORSICANA. April 17. (/P>—J. M
Huff 91. native of Alabama but resi-
dent of Navarro county 59 years died
it Blooming Grove Tuesday night.
He was a confederate veteran and
was with General Lee when he sur-
rendered at the close of the war.
Mr Huff as a prominent Mason for
65 years and had been tiler of the
Blooming Grove lodge for 46 years.
SAFECRACKING
PAIR WOUNDED
One Shot Down By Officers
Was Freed On Pardon
In 1934
BEAUMONT. April 17.—UP)—1Two
men were shot and seriously wound-
ed as officers surprised them in the
act of opening the safe in the
American Express company office
at Port Arthur. A third man. be-
lieved to have been wounded as
well escaped.
The two captured were Leon
Brammer. 35. and Ed Sharp 36. both
of Beaumont.
They were shot by Sheriff W. W
Richardson and Deputy Homer
French who had waited at the Ex-
press office three nights. There
have been four safe robberies in
this area in recent months and
Sheriff Richardson and his entire
force have waited at likely spots for
the past three nights.
A total of eight shots were fired
six by the officers and two by the
men they surprised.
Brammer was given s two-year
suspended sentence here after he
was surprised in the act of opening
an oil company’s safe several years
ago. Sharp alias Lanham was giv-
en a conditional pardon from the
Texas penitentiary in September.
1934. after serving 18 months of a
six-year sentence for burglary’
‘PORT DAY’ IS TO
AWAIT COMPLETION
OF ISABEL’S PORT
■ The Port Day" scheduled for
Monday April 22 in celebration of
the arrival of the first ocean going
steamship at a Valley port has
been postponed due to the cancel*
lation of the scheduled ar^val of
the steamship Texas Trader at Port
Isabel.
T. R Rogers of Houston general
freight agent of the Universal Car-
loading and Distributing company
gulf agents for the New Tex lines
told The Brownsville Herald Wed-
nesday morning that it would be at
least 30 days before the Port Isabel
facilities would enable an ocean go-
ing steamer to dock.
“The piling contract was let
Tuesday." Rogers said "and this
work must be completed and floor-
ing and wharf aprons constructed
before ships of any sise will be able
to use the harbor."
Prospects for successful operation
of the Valley's deep water ports are
“fine" Rogers said.
COMPLETE FIRST OCEAN LEG
pioneers or tne western ocean are tne men aoove crew or tne pan-
American Clipper which Wednesday blazed the first leg of a new com-
mercial air trail from the United 8tates to China. In command is
Captain Edwin C. Musick. with R. O. D. Sullivan as first officer. Vic-
tor A. Wright is engineering officer. Pred J. Noonan navigation offi-
cer. A J. Canaday. junior flight officer and W. Turner Jarboe. Jr. is
radio officer. All have had long experience in flying and navigation
and have undergone long specialized training for the new route.
CITRUS RATES
CUT EXTENDED
Texas Citrus Shippers Assn.
Works For Advantages
In Other Territory
Notice that reduced citrus rates
ahich have been in effect the past
year have been extended through to
June 1. 1936. is contained In a letter
to The Herald from F. S. Hall of
Mercedes chairman of the Texas
Citrus Shippers association rate com-
mittee.
“The reduced citrus fruit rates
which this section enjoyed during
the past season automotically ex-
pire on June 1. 1935.” Hall says.
This association through the Traf-
fic Committee of which the writer
is chairman has been working with
the Southern Pacific and Missouri
Pacific Lines for some time in an
effort «to secure an extension of this
expiration date to June 1. 1936.
“We are today in receipt of ad-
vice that expiration date has been
extended to June 1 1936. in West-
ern Trunk Line territory and Illi-
nois Freight Association also In
portions of Southwestern Freight
Bureau territory.
“As we read the tariff these ex-
tensions have now been adjusted to
Texas. Louisiana Arkansas New
Mexico Kentucky. Mississippi Ten-
nessee Colorado Illinois. Iowa
Kansas. Minnesota Missouri. Ne-
braska. North Dakota South Da-
okta. Oklahoma Utah. Wisconsin.
Wyoming and points in the Michi-
gan peninsula such as Ishpeming
and Sault Ste Marie but does not
include Michigan proper.
'We are working on extension of
reduced rates to that territory not
included in the above” Mr. Hall
says.
Solont End Probe Of
Cruelty in Prisons
HOUSTON. April 17.—(JPh- Five
Texas legislators who conducted a
secret inquiry into claims that
convicts on the retrieve state prison
farm were treated so brutally that
they maimed themselves said on
their return Wednesday that they
likely would complete a report with-
in the next week.
The special house committee ques-
tioned approximately 15 convicts on
(the Retrieve farm three of whom
recently were transferred from
Retrieve to another unit about ten
Sards prison physicians and of-
ials both of the farm and the
entire prison system.
Alabama Slow to Let
Negroes on Juries
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. April 17. UP)
—Alabama courts and Jury commis-
sioners moved slowly Wednesday to
revise Jury rolls to conform to the
United States Supreme Court’s de-
cision in the Scotty boro case which
many said meant the names of neg-
roes would be entered on Jury rolls.
As far as a survey showed none
had actually begun revision of the
rolls in conformity with a sugges-
tion from Governor Bibb Graves that
they take steps to make the lists
meet the requirements of the law If
the records did not already do so.
ARROYO DREDGE
NEARS ISLAND
14 Miles Lopped From Long
Winding Stream to Bay
By Channel
(Special to The Herald)
RIO HONDO. April 17 —Com-
pletion of the first unit of the
Flood Control program sponsored
by the government in the Arroyo
Colorado is expected within 10
days.
Only seven hundred feet remain-
ed to be dredged Tuesday by the
dredge Ft. Worth” whose crew
has been working 24 hours a day
to reach the goal of Horsehead Is-
land marking the completion of
unit one.
Harry Hupp captain of the
dredge said Tuesday that the
dredge had 24000 feet remaining
to be cut in the seven miles which
comprise unit one. Unit one is a
cross-country cut from the banks
(Continued on Page Two)
F.D.R. AND GARNER
WATCH FIRST BALL
GAME AT CAPITAL
WASHINGTON. April 17.—<AV-
Favored by warm sun that took the
chill from a lively northwest wind.
President Roosevelt and many gov-
ernment notables turned out Wed-
nesday along with some 30.000 fans
to see Washington and Philadelphia
play their delayed baseball inau-
gural.
The crowd disappointed when
freezing weather postponed Tues-
day's scheduled opener came early
and yelled lustily as the players went
through their warm-up drills.
The president was given an ova-
tion of cheering as he raised his
hat to the crowd.
Vice-President Jack Gamer. Pres-
ident William Harridge of the Amer-
ican League and owner Clark Grif-
fith of the Senators followed by
the players and the band marched
to center field and raised the Stars
and Stripes.
Then came Mr. Roosevelt’s an-
nual pitching chore. He lobbed a
high one toward the infield which
Bob Burke. Senator hurler leaped
to grab above the heads of the
players massed in front of the
presidential box.
Onion Shipper to Pay
Fine and Serve Term
LAREDO. April 17.—(JP)— Joseph
Roeenblum. onion buyer and ship-
per of Corpus Christi. was sentenced
here Wednesday to serve four
months in jail and pay a fine of
$4500 for failing to acoount to for
shipments of vegetables received in
Interstate commerce.
The case grew out of the ship-
ment of five carloads of onions be-
longing to Herman O’Keefe of this
section in April. 1933 for which
Roeenblum allegedly did not make
returns to O’Keefe
INCREASE IN
TOURISTS TO
CITY SHOWN
Visitors During Year
Almost Twice More
Than Previous Year
Report Shows
During the year ending March 1
1935 a total of 1.303 tourist* reg-
istered at the Brownsville Chamber
of Commerce as against 782 the
previous 12 months according to a
report made at the meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce directors
Tuesday night.
The greatest increase was during
the winter season just closed it was
brought out. with prospect* of good
summer tourist traffic this summer.
The figures were given by Ralph L
Buell.
The directors accepted the resig-
nation of George White with re-
grets. and passed a resolution of ap-
preciation for his work.
W. B Clint chairman of the port
eommittee and president of the
chamber reported on the port sit-
uation. and outlined the industrial
developments that are in line for
Brownsville.
Preliminary plans are now under
way for a port celebration upon the
opening of the Brownsville port. It
was brought out by G. C. Richard-
son. secretary.
A. K. Black publicity committee
chairman reported on the new liter-
ature and on the steady stream of
publicity which the organization is
securing for Brownsville.
Reports were also made on Port
Brown including a discussion of
the increase in personnel to be made
there. The chamber of commerce
will send a letter to Colonel Guy
Kent commanding officer express-
ing appreciation for his work while
here. He is to be transferred soon.
A report on the steps taken to
bring about a reduction in bridge
charges on commodities crossed
here making the charges the same
as those at Laredo was also made.
It was brought out that the matter
was dscussed with Leopoldo Valdes
of the Mexican National Lines after
his visit here that W. E. McDavitt
was appointed to handle the matter
representing Brownsville and that
he took it up with the Missouri Pa-
cific Lines after which the charges
here were reduced to conform to
those at Laredo.
Richardson discussed the Texas
Chamber of Commerce Managers
(Continued on Page Two.)
NEW VETERANS
BILL STIMD
Measure Would Advance
Date of Maturity to 1938
And Exchange Bonds
WASHINGTON. April 17.—m—A
bond-redemption method of com-
promising the cash bonus issue-
estimated to cost $1300000000 and
designed to meet administration re-
quirements—was introduced Wed-
nesday by Chairman Harrison of
the senate finance committee.
He said his bill which he forecast
Preskiem Roosevelt would approve
if passed by congress would cost
the government $500000000 more
than present law.
It would advance the maturity
date of the adjusted service cert-
ificates from 1945 to 1938 and offei
to exchange for them negotiable
bends readily convertible into cash
The bonds which the veterans
could get in exchange for their cert-
ificates. would bear interest at 3
per cent which Harrison said in I
(Continued mi Page Two)
Action Against Jurists
In Louisiana Delayed
BATON ROUGE. La.. April 17
(A*>—A majority caucus of the
Louisiana legislature announced
Wednesday that no immediate ac-
tion would be taken against three
Justices of the state supreme court
threatened Tuesday with impeach-
ment by Senator Huey P. Long.
Representative Edmund G. Burke
of Orleans chairman of the
caucus which met this morning is-
sued a written statement declaring
impeachment proceedings would not
be started at this time because “we
have tried so hard not to give the
state the name of impeaching any
officer.”
He announced however that the
“legislature can be and most prob-
ably will be called to act as the
circumstances require and action
will be expeditious.”
New Field Opened
VICTORIA April 17.—<JP)—A new
oil field. 14 miles south of here wai
believed opened with the bringing
in of the Gillespie and Son No 1
Henderson well on the Henderson-
Pickering ranch at Placedo. The lo-
cation is in the W. Rupley survey.
The well was reported making
3V5 barrels a day of 35 gravity oil
through 3 -16 inch choke from 6.0^>-
6019 feet with 1.000 pounds tubing
pressure and 3.000 pounds on thi
f— «tng
Huey’s Brave Bodyguard
Ousts Woman and Solon
Former Representative Offers to Whip
Long But Bruisers Interfere
BATON ROUGE. La.. April 17.
OP)—Its special session enlivened
by ejection of a woman foe for
Senator Huey P. Long from the
state house as she waved an
American flag and by a farmer-
legislator's threat to punch the
senator the Louisiana legislature
was ready Wednesday to rubber-
stamp more laws for Long.
In a night meeting marked by
the ousting of Mrs. J S Roussel
president of the women's division
of the Square Deal association
anti-Long organization and a
I near-fight between Long and Rep.
Malcolm 8. Dougherty the house
received six more bills and ad-
vanced 26 others to passage vote.
The special session was certain
to be extended beyond the custom -
j ary five-day period to do the extra
j work Long assigned. The six new
bills which will require the solons
to sit at least six days were
largely technical amendments to
existing acts.
When Rep. Isom J. Guillory
administration floor leader in
AMERICANS ARE
FINALLY FREED
France Says Turning Couple
Loose Because They Gave
State's Evidence
PARIS. April 17. —<**>—Mr and
Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz Amer-
icans held for 16 months on es-
pionage charges were freed Wed-
nesday.
The release of the American
couple was made on the basis of a
French law which grants clemency
to accused persons who turn state’s
evidence.
Mr. and Mrs. Switz originally al-
leged by the French police to have
been ringleaders tn a spy ring
were said during the course of the
investigation to have assisted the
authorities by revelations of alleg-
! ed accompUces.
i In pronouncing sentence Wed-
nesday on the 21 defendants on
trial the court recognized the guilt
of the couple in the spy ring act-
ivities but said that under article
10 of the espionage law they were
•exempt from punishment.”
Heavy sentences were meted out
to the other defendants. Benjamin
Bercowitx. a naturalized Canadian
was sentenced to five years impri-
sonment and fined 3.000 francs:
Louis Martin was sentenced to five
years imprisonment as was Octave
bumoulin. the latter also being
fined 3.000 francs.
Maurice Mllice was ordered jail-
ed four years and fined 3.000
francs; Molse Gorin was ordered
jailed 10 months and fined 1500
francs.
CAVALRY BEGINS
ANNUAL TACTICAL
MARCH IN VALLEY
About 500 officers and troops of
12th Cavalry were marching from
the Landrum ranch to Progreso
Wednesday on the second day of
their annual tactical march which
will cover 108.8 miles over the Val-
ley.
The troops made up of both Fort
Brown and Fort Ringgold organi-
zations left Fort Brown Tuesday
morning marching to the Lan-
drum ranch where they spent the
night.
The overnight stops of the hike
are to be at Progreso. Hidalgo.
Penitas. Edinburg 8anta Rosa. Rio
Hondo. Los Fresno* Port Isabel.
Loma Alta and then back to Fort
Brown.
The Fort Ringgold cavalrymen
will split off from the main body
at Penitas. returning from there to
Rio Grande City.
The new motorized equipment re-
ceived about six months ago is re-
ceiving its first real marching test
on this annual march.
Murder Case Rests
In Hands of Jury
The fate of Juan Zamora of Har-
lingen and his son Alfonso charged
with murdering Guadalupe Longoria
at Harlingen several weeks ago was
being considered by a jury in crim-
inal district court here Wednesday.
The case went to the jury Tuesday
night after testimony had been pre-
sented Monday and Tuesday.
Alfonso is charged with shooting
Longoria over the right eye with a
pistol in an altercation on the streets
of Harlingen. Counsel for the yo; ig
man claimed self-defense and put
on witnesses who testified that Lon-
goria was rushing Alfonso when the
fatal shot was fired.
Zamora’s father as at the scene
of the fatal fight and the state at-
tempted to show that he mixed in the
frag. •
voked a rule Tuesday night to
clear spectators from the side-
wall railings and off the floor
Mrs. Roussel carrying an Ameri-
can flag shouted:
"I object!"
“Who is that woman? Put her
out!" Speaker Allen J. Ellender
said.
Sergeant-at-Arms A. J. Thomas
seized her by the arm and led her
out of the chamber as she waved
the flag and sang “The Star
Spangled Banner."
Representative Dougherty dairy
fanner from the strongly anti-
Long hill parish of East Felicana.
had a run-in with Long that re-
sulted in * his being put out of
Gov. O. K» Allens office by one
of the senator’s bodyguards.
Doughertv said a verbal alterca-
tion occurred when he asked Long
to support a house resolution call-
ing on congress to retain the cot-
ton processing tax and when he
asked Long what he said about
Dougherty in a recent speech.
The cotton resolution subse-
quently was adopted by the house.
FRAUD TRIAL
BEGINS HERE
Pair Charged With Attempt
At 'Confidence Game’ In
‘Money Making’
T. C. Moor* of Austin and H. C.
Chamberlain of Harlingen and
Brownsville went on trial on crim-
inal district court her* Wednesday
charged with conspiracy to defraud
Dan Heslop of Harlingen with a bog-
us “money making" machine.
The defendants entered a plea of
not guilty and went on trial before
a Jury.
Heslop was the state’s chief wit-
ness Wednesday morning testifying
to his alleged transactions with
Chamberlain and Moor*. He said
Chamberlain asked him to furnish
$1000 to be run through the “money
making" machine offering to split
the profits on the raised bills.
He was given a demonstration of
the machine. Heslop testified and
at the time was convinced that the
“machine” was capable to producing
raised bills. Heslop notified Chief of
Police E. W. Anglin and the officer
called in a secret service operative
on the theory that the case would be
one of counterfeiting the witness
said.
On the day Heslop was supposed
to have furnished the $1000 for the
bill raising the two defendants were
arrested in a Harlingen hotel. They
are alleged to have had the "ma-
chine." which police said was large-
ly a matter of blotters and fake che-
micals In their possession at th*
time. They had no counterfeit money
or any apparatus which could have
been used for counterfeiting.
The state will attempt to prove
that the machine was a complete
farce and that the defendants were
attempting to pull a “confidence"
game oh Heslop with the purpose of
taking his $1000.
Heslop testified that the first
“demonstration" of the machine was
convincing and that he thought at
the time that the machine was cap-
able of turning out raised bills us-
ing $1 bills as a base. Later he said
he became #onvtrt:ed that the “dem-
onstration was merely a matter of
planting a genuine bill in the ma-
chine.
Most of his transactions were with
Chamberlain Heslop stated and he
saw Moore only a few times.
Chamberlain was arrested here
and Moore in Austin last week when
they failed to appear when their
case was called. Their bonds had
been forfeited onoe before for non-
appearance but the forfeiture was
set aside.
The alleged attempt to defraud
Heslop occurred In December the
witnesses testified.
New Approaches To
Farm Help Studied
WASHINGTON April 17.—(jP)—A
new approach to the farm help
problem Is being shaped up quietly
or. Capitol Hill with emphasis de-
flecting from the old plow-under
program to straight-out financing.
There is for example legislation
by Chairman Jones <D-Texas I of
the house agriculture committee to
set up what would amount to a fed-
eral reserve bank for agriculture.
Jones asserts the farmer pays too
much for the money he borrows.
Passover Week Is
Observed in City
Observance of Passover by Jew-
ish people the world over starts
Wednesday which is Passover eve.
The observance continues for eight
days during which time only un-
leavened bread is eaten.
Services will be held at the Jew-
ish Temple in Brownsville Friday
night according to plana an-
nounosd hen Wednesday.
RALPH FULTS
SURRENDERS
AFTERCHASE
‘Bad Man’ Pleads For
His Life When Cops
Catch Him After He
Is Trapped
DENTON. April 17. wP>—Ralph
Fults. youthful recent running mat*
of Raymond Hamilton fell Into a
trap and meekly submitted to officers
at Lake Dallas four miles east of
here early Wednesday—a few hour*
before he planned to rob the Tros-
per Texas .bank.
The Collin county youth was cap-
tured by three Denton police offi-
cers after he toppled his .speeding
automobile into a ditch of a blind
lane on "Millionaire's Island" a Lake
Dallas pleasure resort.
He jumped from the machine
bands upraised and cried:
‘Don't Shoot/ Please
"Don't shoot boys I'm the man you
want and I won't make any trouble.’*
Oificers Luther Alien Roy Moor*
and Sam Gentry who had pursued
him four miles in a spirited chase
from Denton disarmed him and
rusaed him here.
Before daybreak the officer*
cruised about the city in hopes of
catching a glimpse of the fugitive.
They went to Lake Dallas and were
returning when they passed Full**
automobile.
The officer* recognized Fults from
photographs and swerved their car
around in pursuit. Fults stepped hi*
machine up to 70 miles an hour un-
til he reached Lake Dallas. There
he turned into a road leading on to
•Millionaires Island" a strip of
land that projegs int| the waters
of the lake.
Fults skidded his machine into the
ditch at the end of the road and the
oificers stopped nearby. They had
fired twice at the fleeing youth in an
effort to halt him.
He clambered out of the car and
pleaded for his life.
"Are you Ralph Fult*?" one of
the officers asked.
"Tee" he replied meekly.
Prints Tally
Fultz was lingerpnniea upon
return here and City Marshal L##
Knight announced the prints tallied.
Fults admitted he had been with
Hamilton during recent Mississippi
escapades but declined to say def-
initely that he teamed with Ray in
robbing the Prentiss. Miss. bank sev-
eral weeks ago.
Hamilton recently captured at
Fort Worth is now awaiting exec-
ution at the state prison on May 10
for slaying a prison guard.
Fults told of separating with
Hamilton after they had changed
clothes at a Memphis Tenn. hotel
several weeks ago. He said he went
to Louisville. Ky. and then traveled
through Arkansas on a return trip to
Texas.
He admitted having visited rela-
tive# at McKinney several night#
ago saying "I outran 'em there" in
talking of his escape from office*#.
In Stolen Car
He said he sped to Houston stay-
ed there a day and then came back
through north Texas into Oklahoma.
He came back into Texas two day#
ago and Tuesday roamed about Dal-
las.
After spending the night at Dal-
las. Fults said he left there early
Wednesday and headed towards
Trosper where he intended to rob
a bank.
"I have a car that will go 90 mile#
an hour and robbing that bank
would have been easy.” he said.
He admitted the machine he drove
belonged to Dr. O T. Mitchell of
Renner a small Dallas county com-
munity. He stole the car. he said
after he had kidnaped Cecil Howell
a Collin county youth several day#
ago.
Fults. reported to have been
wounded In Mississippi recently by a
posse had no visible wounds. Ham-
ilton and Fults were credited with
kidnaping and disarming a Mlssla*-
ippi posse.
TONIGHT’S MOVIES
OVER THE VALLEY
Brownsville: The Capitol—Ricardo
Cortez and Virginia Bruce in 'Shadow
of Doubt" The Queen—James Cagney
in "The 8t Louie Kid " The Dittroann—
Richard DU In "Ace of Acos."
San Benito The Rlvoll—Chester Mor-
ris'. Virginia Bruce and Billie Burk* in
Society Doctor."
Harlingen: The Arcadia—Cheater Mor-
ris. Virginia Bruce and BUlle Burke o
"Society Doctor.” The Rialto—Claudett#
Colbert and Warren William in "Imita-
tion of Life "
La Perl a The Bijou—Prank Lawton.
W C. Finds and Edna May Oliver m
David Copperfteld.”
Raymond vllle: The Ramon—OUurfe
Gable and Constance Bennett in "After
Office Hours.”
Donna: The Plaza—James Dunn and
Alice Faye In "The Scandals of 1935.
San Juan: The San Juan—Shirt*#
Temple and Lionel Barrymore in "Th*
Little Colonel "
Mercedes: The Capitol—Ricardo Oo*r
tez and Virginia Bruce In "Shadow df
Doubt."
Weslaco: The Rltz—Irene Dunn* ana
Donald Woods in "Sweet Adeline."
McAllen: Th* Palace—Ricardo Corta#
and Virginia Bruce In "Shadow or
Doubt." The Queen—Douglas Fairbanks-
Sr In the "Private Life of Don Jijn.
Mission: The Mission—Shirley Tem-
ple and Lionel Barrymore in "Th* UM•
Colon ei."
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