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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
ORGANIZED LABOR
in TEXAS is HIT
HARD, LEADERS SAY

DALLAS. Texas. May 2l.-Organized
labor In Texas during the past year has
suffered more than in any other sta e
IN the United States. but il "bcating
back at this time rapidly" George Slater
Of Galveston. president of the Texas
Federation Of Labor declared in the con
vention here today. He stated that the
union iaborcrs must unite their political
efforts if labor's program is to be fur
thercd in Texas. and called upon organi-
zed labor 10 defend the American con
stitution.
The organized workers in Texas are
the greatest body Of staunch supporters
the cons s.itution has. Slater said. hut
added that n constitution "that CONNER
cializcs the men and women in indus
try ought TO be changed in that partic-
ular.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
BANKERS ENDORSE
ROAD AMENDMENT

DALLAS, Texas. May 2l.-The Texas
Bankers Association. which held its an
nual convention here las. week. adopted
the following resolution endorsing the
proposed highway amendment to the
state constitutions:
Resolved: that we heartily endorse
the proposed Highway Amendment to
the Safe Constitution to be voted on
by the people on July 2sth. providing
for connected system of state high
ways. We recognize that the adoption
Of this amendment IN a necessary step
forward in the economic progress of
Texas. and we urge upon our members
to cooperate with the Texas Highway
Association in the campaign it is con
ducting to insure this result"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
FIRST WATERMELON OF
SEASON BROUGHT in
SATURDAY AFTERNOON

The first watermelon Of the season
was brought in Saturday afternoon
BY &. W. Colgin from his farm three
miles south Of the city. The melon
weighed - pounds. was perfectly ripe
and Of a delicious flavor.
Mr.. Colgin has four acres Of mel
ons and will have about 200 to mar
H.; this week. the prices ranging
from 75 cents To Si.00. -, next week
the melons will me ripcning rapidly.
and shipments from Brownsville are
expected To start next Monday.
Melon growers in this section re-
rci; that the melons this year are Of
exception fine flavor. but in some
districts the crop will be lighter
than usual. due to the ravages Of in
sccts.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
RAISE FUND TO
BUILD BRIDGE
ON BAY HIGHWAY

RAYMONDVTLLE. Texas. May 2i.-
People ~ the Raymondvillc and Lyford
communities have raised a fund to
build bridge across the lagoon between
this city and he Red Fish Bay, and to
further improve the road.
Much Of the work has already been
done. in the way Of Strengthening and
clearing the road. The bay has always
been popular resort. and the bridge
will make it possible for ears to reach
the bay without long de.ours.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
WEST TEXAS CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE MEETS

SAN ANGELO. Texas May II IN
holiday attire. San Anngelo was the
mecca today for thousands of West
Texans n well as hundreds of citizens
from other parts &c the state. com
ing "a attend The annual convention of
the West Texas Chamber " Commerce.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
BODY OF WOMAN
FOUND IN BRUSH
BY DALLAS men

DALLAS. Texas. May 2i.-County au-
thorities are investigating the fatal
shooting yesterday Of Mrs. Geraldine
Harris. age 10. whose body was found
in the bushes near a fishing camp on
the Trinity river just north ~ Dallas.
The body was discovered by Albert Har-
ris. husband Of the woman. Joe Bazzley.
and Homer Fisher while. they said they
were verifying the statement Of Bazzlcv
that he had fired AZ 'hoogcr" in the
bushes few minutes before.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
gxrINGUisH OIL WELL

MENIA. Texas. May 3l.The local
office Of the J. X. Hughes company
announced last night that the Hughes
Mrikr Ill well near here. which caught
fire I. days ago. causing the death ~
Il; mon. was cxtingui>hed at i:1a
o'clock last night after "A weeks effort.
\ battery of H. boilers. pouring steam
into the blazing oil accomplished the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
ACCUSED MURDERER
CLAIMS OFFICERS
HAVE WRONG MAN

FORT WORTH. Texas Nav III
Singing himself n Ed IIallum. the
prisoner who has been held III The ial
here for four months a> John Hal
lum." accused of being one of the slay-
crs of james Listen. Sr.. five wears ago.
today filed an applicafion for writ
"f hahca~ corpus. and n hearing has
been Set for Thursday IIaIIum SAYS he
IL not John IIaIum. and has no know
ledge Of the crime.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
STEAMER IN TROUBLE

SANTIAGO. Chile. May 21.-A
wireless message picked up at Val
paraiso states that the 1000 ton
cargo steamer Presidente Alessandri
is in serious trouble ten miles off
Taltal. The torpedo boat Condell
has been dispatched full speed from
Coquimdo and the steamer Persia
has changed her course and is pro-
ceeding to the aid Of the Alessandri.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
TREASURY REVOKES
INCOME TAX DECISION

WASHINGTON, ID. q. May 2l.-Thc
treasury today revoked the decision
made two weeks ago declaring exempt
from income taxation the corporation
dividends distributed out of profits on
earnings accrued prior to March |, 1913.
The ruling would have resulted in the
refunding Of many millions Of dollars in
taxes, officials said
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21

Explosion
JarsCities

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WICHITA FALLS. Texas. May 81.
An explosion which occurred in
the heavens Sunday afternoon which
Jared buildings in Wichita Falls.
towns in this section. was still un-
explained today. The most plausible
theory advanced was that the cxplo-
sion was caused b. a bursting me
tcor. The explosion took place in
the sky north of here and was close
enough for many To see n cloud Of
smoke in the heavens.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
SHOOTING NEAR NACOCDOCHES

NACOGDOCHES. Tex. May 2l.-
Lee Cunningham. 80 years old. was
shot and instantly killed at Boggs
church community. ID miles north
of here Sunday. Charges Of murder
have been filed against Shorty"
Valentine, who is alleged to have
done the shooting.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21

INDIANAPOLIS. May 2i-Dr. Hen
ry II. Masters of Philadelphia today
submitted 10 the Presbyterian General
Assembly the 6sth annual report Of the
Presbyterian Board Of Ministerial Re
lief and Sustentation, Of which he is
general secretary. He said the fact that
more than one-half Of the Presbyterian
churches had membe rshtp of less han
100 apiece made necessary a pension
system sustained by the larger and
richer churches. The Presbyterian
church was "A pioneer in such a pension
system hut it was Inadequate.
The Relief Department of the Board
needed Si,5o0.000 a year for income for
retired ministers. widows and orphans
Of ministers. and for support Of the
three Presbyterian Homes and the .u-
bcrculoss sanatfium. The Board needed
another s500.000 a year for the church,
share of annuitics in the Sustentation
Department. which IA onc-fifth support
ed hv the previous savings of the annui-
tants.
Dr. Master pleaded for an endowment
fund sufficient to care for the growing
demands of pensioners. and asked t.c
General Assembly to set up n new lay
mems movement to raise an additional
endowment Of Sl5.0OO.000 during the
next three years.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
FOUND DEAD ON STREET

GAI.NESTON. NAV 2l.-W- 4. Ero-
theirs was found hast night Mt lo.3o
o'clock "n the boulevard drive with Il
bullet wound through hiS temple. 4
pistol was found hy his sid. Eruihcr>
was - railroad lerk and member nf
the local order of Elks.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
MEMBERSHIPS IN
COUNCIL Up TO.
PRESDY7ERIANS.

MpNTHAL. \. a.. MAY II The ma
joriiy report Of the committee on for
eign correspondence. favoring the re-
timing of membership ia The federal
council of churches ~ Christ IN Amrri-
ca was before the genera! assembly ~
the Southern PRESBYTERIAN church to-
day for action. II was signed by eleven
members.
The minority report. ~ six men. in
cluding Il. VI. Hall of I."augvicw Texas
declared for immediate withdrawal from
the federal cnuncl.
When the matter finally came to a
vote this afternoon the general assembly
rejected by a voc OF lI5 tolDg the mi
nority report favoring withdrawal from
the federal council Of Christian church
es in America.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
SPECIAL. ELECTION

FLORESNILLE. Texas, May 2l.-Wil-
son county commissioners have called p
special election on June 2S. TO voc on
the proposal TO issue S2o0.ooo of bonds
to construct "a hard surfaced road from
the Bexar county line to karnes county
line.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
'PEK|NG REPORT STATES
TROOPS STARTED FIRING
ON SHANTUNG BANDITS
(By The Associated Prcss)

PEkING. China. May 2l--I;eports
that troops were firing on the Shantung
bandits have been received here by the
diplpmaiic corps today. and the repre-
ScntaiivcS Of the various foreign gov
ernments Immediately drafted notr
To- the foreign office asking the Chinese
misses 10 procure M. rel.nse of the
foreign cnpiivcS and the events which
have been transpirins since that as
Surancc.
LONDON. May 2I.-A Central News
dispatch from Shanghai today reported
the release BY the Chinese bandits of
Mrs. Manuel area. the wife of a Mexi-
tan manufacturer. Mrs. Ccrea says
that the fourteen male prisoners are
still held and are living under terrible
conditions. Mrs. Ncrca was exhausted
when she reached Shanghai.
WASHINGTON, u. c. May 2I.-Fur-
ther negotiations between the Chinese
government authorities and the bandit
leaders in Shantung are futile unless
there is foreign representation on the
Chinese delegation. is the opinion Of
American observers. rs reported to the
State department today. The dispatches
suggested that Roy Anderson. an Amer
lean OF long residence in China and with
an intimate knowledge of the Chinese
bandits and the government officials.
might be chosen to negotia'e with the
brigands and provided with plenipoten-
tiar- nowarg Otherwise tho apIv hone
for the early release Of the prisoners
is By direct foreign negotiations. the
State Department. summary stated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
GIRL is DROWNED AT
ABILENE YESTERDAY

ABILENE. Texas. May .1.-Marv
Lee towan. age ~. daughter of Texas
fartfir railroad foreman. was drowned
Sunday afternoon while swimming nesr
i'aird- The body wss received by Dis
trict Judge W. X. Ely. member of
searching party.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21
MRS. HAMMOND DIES.

PAi.l>. May .u.-Mr>. Sophia N.rn.
hammond. ~. widow of General John
Henry Hammond. died here SUNDAY.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21

The weather was mostly cloudy and
somewhat unsettled this morning over
the Rocky Mountain region. the cotton
belt and the Atlantic scaboard sta IS.
and generally fair elsewhere. General
showers and few scattered thunder
storms occurred within the last ~ hours
over the Southeastern and Eastern
sta.cs. and local showers in Montana
Wyoming. and the western portions of
Nebraska and Kansas. Temperatures
were about normal TO slightly above
over the southern half Of the United
States this morning. and somewhat be-
low the scasonablc average over ;he
northern half. Good growing weather
prevails, however. practically through
out the country.
The lowest temperature last night
at Texas stations ranged from 60 at
Amarillo 20 7G at Galveston.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-05-21

Brownsville and vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday; little
change in temperature.
East Texas: Party cloudy to cloudy
tonight and Tuesday; probably shower.
in nor 'heast portion. Moderate to fresh
southerly winds on the coast.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-05-31
NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS
IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY

To Ernest l.. Chase. his heirs, devisees
or personal representatives and Mrs. Ell
nest H. Chase. u
BY virtue of an order of the Court OF
Chancery of New Jersey made on the DAY
of the date hereof, in a cause wherein
The City of Wildwood, in the County OF
Cape May is Complainant, and you ana
others are defendants, you are required
to appear. plead, answer or demur 10 tne
bill of said complainant, on or before
,July 10Th next or the said bill will be
taken as confessed against you. ,n
Certificates of Tax Sale given by Robert
J. Kay, Collector of Taxes to the said
complainant, dated May 9th, 1919 on
lands in the City of Wildwood and you
Ernest H. Chase, your heirs, devisees or
personal representatives, are made dc,
PENDANTS because you said lands; ana
you Mrs. Ernest H. Chase are made
defendant because you are entitled TO a
dover interest therein.
JOHN BRIGHT, SoPr.
Dated May 18th, 1928. :
Wildwood, N. ].
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-05-31

member) Hitchcock, Underwood, (the
former Democratic leader, Robinson,
(the present Democratic LEADER and
others were among those who chal-
lenged the accusation that they were
nullificationists because they disre-
gard with the terms of the Volstead
downright failure to successfully adj
Act. After three and a half years of
minister the law. 1 certainly have
nothing to withdraw.
Was the act so sacred that the
President of the United States vas
guilty of Treason when he vetoed it?
Were the twenty Senators represen-
ting about equally each political party,
reasonable when they voted to up
hold his veto?
Is a Senator after an added know
ledge of three and a half years of
dismal failure reasonable today, when
he seeks a remedy?
The remedy of those who recognize
existing conditions is that the Eight
zenith Amendment should be written
into the Volstead Act, rather than
have the Volstead Act remain a clear,
deliberate violation of the plain Ian
guage of the Eighteenth Amendment.
In other words, return to the people
the right to have the beverages to
which they have been accustomed over
the centuries and for which they have
been offered satisfactory substitute.
Limit the alcoholic content of such
beverages to that which is not, in fact,
intoxicating, but because one State
may wish to prohibit all alcoholic bev-
erages do not deny the right to others
to permit and enjoy such a maximum.
You will then have brought the law of
Congress into harmony with the Con-
stitution, resored truth to it's pages,
and removed, in great measure, the
and otherwise law-respecting and law
abiding citizens. They believe, and
rightly that this is an %abridgment and
denial of their personal liberty under
an u~nwarranted, arbitrary and op-
pressiye act of Congress passed in VIC
lation of the mandate given by the
citizens of the United States when they
adopted the Eighteenth Amendment.
Such action of Congress will not
restore the saloon. No one endorses
that. Congress and the several States
have and possess the amplest powers
to provide how such non-intoxica-
ting beverages may be sold, distri-
buted and where used. At the same
time, put all the power of the Govern
ment back of real efforts to stop the
importation of hard liquors. We shall
never get prohibition by hunting
TASKS. We must go after the snug
glers, the rum runners and the Cana
dian specials. A moret contented cit
izenship will help to contribute to
such a result. You cannot deny them
reasonable liberty and at the same
time enlist them under the banner of
law observance.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-05-31

I don't claim that this plan will
entirely eliminate the bootlegger or
finally stop hard liquor consumption.
OF course it won't. But if it is the
honest thing to do, it should be done.
In my Judgment as has resulted in
Great Britain and elsewhere the legal
right to manufacture and consume a
palatable beer would greatly reduce
the use of hard liquor and at least
demonstrate to the public that their
Government no longer proposed to
perpetuate a lie. If the public cannot
buy beer they do and will buy poison
alcoholic substitutes.
Therefore, with these counts and
indictments, 1 stand before a repre-
sentative audience of my constituents,
unhesitating1y ~contending that 1
would fail in my duty as a legislator
should l not take eognizance of these
conditions and make every possible
effort to remedy an intolerable situa-
ton. / refuse to sit supinely by and
make no Legislative effort to alleviate
and correct this indefensible, and SER
ious menace, which permitted to con-
tinue unchecked is fraught with the
gravest danger to my country.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-05-31

18th. That in the zeal of some to
make the Volstead Act even more
drastic, Notwithstanding the glaring
inability to enforce the original act
an amendment was secured forbidding
the use of malt liquor in cases of
sickness and cutting down the use of
alcohol for medicinal purposes to a
degree which was a g~ratuitous insult
to the honesty and trusworthiness of
the great medical profession of the
country and protested against by thou
sands of doctors throughout the
Nation.
10th. That by passing and maintain
ing the Volstead Act in such a re-
pressive arbitrary and untruthful
form, we have helped destroy such
good and efficient results as might
have resulted when temperance, was
adopted as a national policy. In at
tempting to enforce a measure, not in
harmony with the plain terms of the
Eighteenth Amendment itself, we
have, as a consequence, encouraged
the widespread and determined re-
sistance and challenge which is now
so apparent.
18th. That we, who maintain that
the Volstead Act should be modified
zenith Amendment, only emulate the
example of Abraham Lincoln in his
attitude and speeches on the decision
of the United States Supreme Court
in the famous bred Scott case. In
his argument against the finality of
that decision, he pointed out that he
was not violating the law or urging
it's violation. Lincoln did not propose
to set bred Scott free by force in OPP
position to the Courts decision; what
he did propose, however, was to agi-
tate and to lead an agitation for such
political action as would make i'm
possible the conditions which led the
Supreme Court to make it's decision
in that particular case. 1t is law
less openly to affront the law. 1t is
lawless to agitate for its consistent
modification. That is my position.
President Wilson vetoed the Act and
twenty Senators, representing almost
equally both political partise, voted to
uphold his veto. 1 was n of the
twenty that so voted in 1919, believing
then, and so announcing, that the
Act was unfair, unavoidable and an
unnecessarily severe Interpretation of
the Eighteenth Amendment. National
characters like Senators, Borah, Bran
regree, Fall, afterwards a Cabinet
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-05-31

recently setting forth that the total
alcoholic cases admitted to the city
hospital, had increased from 357 in
1919 to loss in 1921, and in eleven
months of 1922 had jumped to the as
founding figures of 1913.
The keeper of the Mercer County
Jail advises me that the total number
of commitments to that institution for
the year 1919 (the year prohibition
was adopted) was $50, daily average,
SIS.
The total number of commitments
for the year 1922 (after three years of
prohibition 1859, daily average 70.
An increase of over 80 per cent.
Further, in this connection, it is gen.
orally agreed that the addicts to the
drug habit have been so large
as during recent months.
Common sense and personal obser-
walton, it seems to me, are sufficient
for any reasonable person to recog-
nize that there are violations on every
hand, with bootleggers carrying on
their illicit traffic almost restrained,
and hard liquors and drugs easily OBJ
tainable. Under such admitted con-
ditions to profess satisfaction with
the present deplorable situation, via
the avenue of statistics, is a libel on
intelligence.
18th. That with all the admitted
failure to enforce this act, we have
overworked the Federal Courts until
today 60 per cent of ali the business
Of these courts consists of efforts to
punish a few offenders, but in the
meantime, violations have steadily
increased.
18th. That since the enactment of
the Volstead Act, Congress has in
creased it's appropriations for enforce
ment purposes from 5000, 900 in 1919
to 49, 900 in 1924, thus clearly de-
m~onstrating that there has been no
reasonable lack of support on the part
Of Congress to enforce the law. For
the first time in the 1874 years-of
Constitutional Governmental has
been necessary for Congress to create
a Federal Police force with thousands
of policemen to endeavor to enforce
just one law-the Volstead Act.
18th. That the unfairness of it has
encouraged the organization of I'M
American like aggregations which
hitherto never dared operate. Mob
violence, contempt for law of courts,
unpublished crimes and resistance to
Constitutional Government has never
been so universal.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-05-31
SENATOR VOICES SENTIMENTS OF
MANY REPUBLICAN THINKERS
CONTINUED from page p

NOOASAb0C0 P06O -
pressed language and spirit of the
Eighteenth Amendment, but it breeds
class prejudice. 1t denies to a large
proportion of our citizens a harmless
popular beverage, while, as is well
known, those with sufficient means
can, secure intoxicating liquors which
are clearly prohibited by the Eight
zenith Amendment.
Thus, we are building up a nation
wide industry in smuggling, rum
running and bootlegging, stimulating
the consumption of alcohol in its
worst form. Almost uncontrolled this
has developed the most serious of all
menaces, class distinction, under
which the rich are provided with ille-
gal intoxicants and others denied any
thing but injurious home-brew, or1g1-
mating and encouraging domestic bar
rooms, providing connections that
have broken down the public health
and caused ~unspeakable sufferings
and fatalities. This condition is doing
more to torment anarchy and COM
munism than anything else that is
happening in the country.
No law should remain unchanged
upon the statute books of the Nation
that does not breathe truth from every
provision and every line. You cannon
enforce or encourage respect for a law
that does not itself respect the truth
Enforce the Eighteenth Amendment
Yes-but do not violate the canons OF
truth or the intent-and spirit OF the
Constitution, itself-in attempting to
do so.
10th, That the Volstead Act became
a law on October 28th, 1919. Viola
tions under it have increased year by
year, and today they are more WIDE
spread and more fragrant than ever
The Prohibition Department IN S
itself recently admitted that arrests
during the last six months last year
had increased over "a per cent.
AS a result of this lawlessness we
are breeding a national contempt OF
all law. This condition has largely
contributed in encouraging organized
outbreaks of various kinds in all parts
of the country, many unpun1shed, ana
the like of which were unknown before
this spirit of national protest and
challenge was developed.
18th. That statistics are misleading
is generally admitted. The supply
supporting most any contention is
inexhaustable. Therefore, l will not
attempt to cite them at length. An
official report, published by DR.. Cotton
Superintendent of the State Hospital
at Trenton, states that 81 per cent.
of his cases today are alcoholic, where
formerly the average was Il per cent,
and the highest at any time was 81
per cent. Here in the city OF Newark
a local newspaper published figures