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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-09-17
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-09-17
BROWNSVILLE SPOTS HIGHER

Cotton m ddling basis was bid 27c
per ID; cotton seed $50 per ton.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-09-17
INV The Associated pressl

DOTHAN. Alabama. Sept. 17.-One
person. Mrs. II. II. Lane. Of Dothan was
killed at Cottondale late last night when
the Louisville and Nashville Eastbound
passenger crashed into the Northbound
excursion trai, railroad officials an
nounced. They have not confirmed the
report OF another woman killed. Twenty
two others were injured. and II is feared
that Il. j. Kelly. and Fred Lane, six,
son OF the dead woman. may die.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
AMERICAN is HERO.
By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily New
Copyright 1923.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1928.
SHANGHAI. September 14.-The
American Red Cross here today sent
5000 tons of medical supplies and food
to Japan and has contracted for all
available freight space on all vessels
calling here for further huge ship
mentS.
The international famine relief
commission for China, which is max
ing a nationwide appeal for Japa-
neSe relief funds, is meeting with
gratifying response.
A new tale of American heroism
was told here today by officers of the
French liner Andre Lebon, which was
in Yokohama harbor during the dis
aster. Blazing oil from exploded
Standard Oil Company tanks threat
ened to envelop the vessel, which had
many refugees aboard. A Yokohama
American named Lafaffin in an open
motor boat took a hawser from the
liner and drove through the burning
oil to a permanent buoy. where he
made the hawser fast, enabling the
ferno which surrounded her.
Wireless dispatches state that the
Canadian liner Empress of Australia
is en- route back to Yokohama from
Kobe today and will take aboard a
big load of refugees there for Van
couver. The Andre Lebon brought
several hundred to this port.
The Swedish consul, under instruc-
.ions from the Swedish foreign min
lister, is sending a big shipment of
-four to Japan.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
SPANISH WAR VETERAN
KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE

Lieut.. John II. Mittendorff, a vet
eran of the Spanish-American war,
former chief engineer of the District
Of Columbia Naval Militia, and who
served in the Washington navy yard.
was killed Tuesday night by an auto
to meeting of the Old Defenders
day celebration at Federal Hill Park.
Lieut.. Mittendorff saw service In the
Spanish American war and was active
in the local naval militia of this city.
He was on duty aboard the battle
ship Massachusetts, one of the ships
making up the flying squadron" This
ship was commanded by Admiral
Winfield Scott Schley, the squadron
under Admiral Sampson. He was in
the running fight that put out of com
mission the Spanish fleet when IL
broke out of the harbor Of Santiago.
He was commissioned by President
Mckinley and was cited for meritor-
ious service. He received spec:.,
commendation from President Roose-
velt
Lieut. Mittendorff was a member of
the Concordia Lodge. No. 13, Masons:
Lawton Camp, United Spanish War
Veterans: Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Spanish War Commandery and the
Marine Engineers Beneficial Associa-
tion, and the Army and Navy Club of
this city He had been secretary for
forty years of the marine organiza-
tion.
He is survived by two sons,
John Henry Mittendorff of Bal
timore, Homer Mittendorff and a
daughter. Mrs. Robert Rausch of
Chevy Chase, D. G. Lieut. Mittendorff
was q member of tho war memorial
commission Of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
PLANS FOR JUNIOR
HIGH SCHOOL WORK
Program Prepared by Special
Committee Will Be in
Effect Monday.

A definite plan of organization for
the junior high schools has been COM
pleted by a special committee of
months Of intensive study and will be
put into effect at the inception of the
new scholastic year Monday.
Four new junior high schools will
be opened this fall-another step to-
ward the complete transformation of
the Washington public school system
from the S4 plan to the 6-3-3 plan
and the organization plans are de-
signed to peculiarly At the new sys-
tenn.
Features of the Program.
Studies, subjects and classes OF ap-
propriate length to bridge the pas
sage of the child from the elementary
to the high schools-one of the aims
of the Junior high school--are the
features OF the organization scheme.
Among the subjects selected for these
schools are English. mathematics, his
tory, general science. drawing, physi-
cal training, geography and music.
The academic group includes such
subjects as foreign language. manual
arts, domestic arts and domestic sci
ence. In the commercial group are
clerical practice. bookkeeping, man
ua1 arts, domestic art. domestic sci
ence and typewriting. Subjects chosen
for the practical arts group are man
ual arts (boys), domestic arts (girls)
and typewriting Cboys and girls).
Among the curricula extra activities
are assemblies, club meetings and ed
ucational guidance.
In Classroom From to O'Clock.
Glasses in the junior high schools
will begin at o'clock in the morn
ing and close at o'clock in the after
noon. The daily program VIII be
divided into seven periods OF forty
three minutes each. Six OF the seven
perisds will be devoted to regular
course work, and the seventh to extra
curricula activities.
Forty-five minutes will be given the
pupils for lunch instead of the thirty
minutes allowed in the high schools.
This arrangement is made because
many junior high school pupils desire
to go home for lunch.
There will be little departmental
work in the seventh grade of the
junior high schools. In the eighth
grade there will be more department
alization, while in the ninth and final
that of the first year high school.
Members of the Committee.
The committee which worked out
the organization plan was composed
of Miss Alice Deal, Henry Draper,
Howard p Stafford, Harold E. Warner,
Mineola Kirkland and G. Smith Worm
ley. Junior high school principals;
SeIden NJ Ely and J. c. Bruce, super
vising principals; Stephen E. Kramer
and Garnet c.. Wilkinson. assistant
superintendents OF schools, and Supt.
Frank W. Ballou.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
WESTERN MARYLAND
HAS RECORD YEAR
Net Operating Income Thus Far
This Twelvemonth Far Sur
passing Previous Earrings.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md. September IA
The Western Maryland railway is ex-
pected to have a record year in 1923.
With consistently increasing gross
revenues. operating expenses have
been kept down, and as a result net
operating income for the first seven
months Of the year was S2.676.7G6,
compared with s1.S22.55s for the same
period in 1922, s1,72O.742 for 1921 and
a deficit of s3s2,635 for the corre-
spending period of 1920 Seven
months gross revenues increased
from ss.4s5,656 in 1922 to s13,73s,o46
in 1929, a gain of $4,240.3s0.
Gross business for the entire twelve
months of 1922 was. with the excep-
ton of 1920, the largest in the roads
history. but, because of the coal
strike last year and heavy curtail-
ment of other income, the surplus
after charges was no better than the
average.
Last year bond interest charges
were s3,050,707, and results for the
first seven months for 1923 indicate
that charges will be covered about
one and one-half times, against one
and one-hundredth times in 1929
The first mortgage gold As, due Oc-
tober I, 1852, are selling around 6Ok.
which is IN above the years low
of 5Sb. This compares with a high
earlier in the year Of SO. These
bonds, of which $46. 6.56S, 900 are out
standing, are secured by first mort
gage on 37S miles of road. second
mortgage on 102 miles and a second
collateral mortgage on sixteen miles.
also by deposit of $2,o19,160 par value
of stocks and $2,619,150 par value of
bonds. They are outstanding at the
rate of $93,626 on the mileage COW
cred
Evening star., 1923-09-14
JUSTICES REVERSED
IN SPEEDING CASES
Circuit Court Holds Laws Applied
to'Villages Do Not Apply
to Suburbs.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va. September ia
Judge w. r. Barksdale, in the Camp
bell county circuit court, has re-
versed the Justices of Brookville
maeisterial districts in three cases In
which residents of Lynchburg were
fined for operating automobiles in
the suburbs of this city faster than
fifteen miles an hour.
The police officers of the district,
seeking to invoke a new law, erected
signs throughout the suburbs and ar
rested those who disregarded the
flfteen-mile limit. Judge Bark sdale
held. that the law was designed to
protect villages on much travelled
highways, and was not designed to
reduce speed in suburbs, such as had
been put in the limit here by the
district police
Evening star., 1923-09-14
MYSTERY IN DEATH
OF THREE WOMEN
Unidentified Body Found in
Road-TWo Others Taken
From Rivers.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn. September IA.
"A prominent village merchant Is
held here today by Davidson county
authorities on a charge of man.
slaughter. while Coroner ]. r. Allen
is preparing for an inquest into the
death of an unidentified woman whose
bloodstained body was found on a
roadside here yesterday afternoon.
said to have been a victim Of an au-
tomobile crash.
Ben F. Morse of Gladesvtse, Tenn.
a village near Nashville, declared to
officers that the woman had been ac-
cidentally killed when struck by his
automobile. Through a chain of cir
cumstances. =. which officers have
viewed with suspicion. the coroner's
inquest will seek to knit the ends of
facts which investigators openly
state indicate that the woman. appar-
emily only twenty years OF age. met
her death by means other than haT-
ing been struck by the automobile.
Such basis Tor the coroner's in
vestigation was formed out of the fol-
lowing facts which developed during
an afternoon and night of work by
of1cerS, hoSpltal o1nclalS ana eSe-Wlt-
neSses TO the tragedy.
Morse drove rapidly away from the
place where the body was left lying at
the edge of the road. After chase of
mile he was overtaken by Donley
Davenport, a merchant. who took Morse
and companion, Tarver Riggets, also
OF Gladesville. to the police station un-
der a threat of personal violence If
they refused to obey the order.
At the general hospital. where the
body was examined. no indication OF in
juries such as would be inflicted by the
force OF a collision we're found. The
body bore absolutely no external bruises,
officials said, other than fngerprints on
the right forearm and q slight lacera-
tIon Of the throat. Physicians said
there had been profuse bleeding of the
mouth and ears.
Although scores OF persons attempted
OF the body. none sue
ceeded, leading 70 the belief that the
woman does not live in Nashville.
The young woman was clothed in a
blue silk dress. cotton stockings and
white underclothes There was no per-
sonal effects tending to establish her
identity.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
QUIZ TWO WOMEN
IN CULT INQUIRY
House Of David Colony Case Re
opened by Michigan Grand
Jury.
BY the Associated Press.


LANSING, Mich, September IL
The states grand jury investigation of
the House of David colony reopened
here today with three witnesses sched-
uled to appear. 1t is not improbable
according to Attorney General Andrew
D. Dougherty that the testimony taken
today will close the investigation.
Today's wintsses were Gladys Bam-
ford Rubel and her siste. Ruth Bam-
ford Reed. former members of the
colony, and Mrs. Reeds husband. 1t
was upon statement of one OF the
women that warrant making serious
charges against Benjamin Purnell,
head of the House of David, was is
sued
We have no more witnesses" At
torney General Dougherty said. "It is
possible testimony today made lead to
resumption of the investigation and
the summoning of more witnesses Oc-
tcber 2. Otherwise we are through"
Mr.. Dougherty intimated the testi-
mony expected today might be used
as the basis for a new warrant against
Purnell. 1t was pointed out that some
of the allegations previously made
against Purnell were not within the
statute of limitations.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
JAPAN REBUILDING
TO COST ) BILLIONS
Nationwide Syndicate Is
Formed to Assist in Re-
storing Quake Area.
By the Associated Press.

Dy tue asSOClhleu
TOXIC, September 14.-It is esti-
mated that the cost of reconstruction
work in Toxic and Yokohama, as re-
suit of the earthquake and fire will
approximate 10000, 100000 yen ($5.-
600, 100000.
4 nationwide syndicate of bankers
has been organized to assist the gov
ernment in rebuilding the devastated
area, and the empire is asked to de-
vote all surplus funds for this pur-
pose.
The banking syndicate announces 1t
will raise the additional money re-
Quired for reconstruction by local and
foreign loans.
The Bank of japan, the insurance
companies and the public have con-
tributed 50,000.000 yen toward relief.
Plans for feeding and housing refu-
gees have been completed, and the
government and the people now are
devoting all efforts to a great recon-
Struction campaign.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
PRINCE CARRIED AWAY.
Body of Nijo's Daughter Is Wash
ed Ashore.

BY the Associated Press.
OSAKA, September lit is re-
ported here that Prince Milo was
carried away with the tidal wave
that engulfed his villa at Kama
kura. The body of his daughter was
washed ashore.
Countess Yoshikawa. widow of
Count Yoshikawa and mother of
Count Yamagisav. q member Of the
house of peers, was crushed TO death.
Total exemption or reduction In the
current years income and business
taxes for persons in the earthquake
devastated zone are in accordance with
the losses they suffered, is officially
announced from Toxic. Payment of
other national taxes is postponed and
import duties on building materials
and necessities are temporarily ex-
empted or reduced.
Elections Are Postponed.
Elections TO the prefectural assem-
blies have been indefinitely post
poned, and an extraordinary session $40
Of the diet is believed probable. The
diet buildings are reported to have
been only slightly damaged.
Special committees of business men
and parliament members, headed re-
spectively by Baron Shibusawa and
Prince Tokugawa, are discussing
plans for relief and reconstruction.
Two Forts Destroyed.
SEATTLE, Wash, September IL
Destruction of Forts Two and Three
situated opposite Kannon Saki light,
in the Tokto-Yokohama disaster of
September /, is reported in a radio
message received from Capt Francis
r. Niochols. master OF the steamship
President Jefferson, which Is expect
ed here tomorrow night with the
first group of refugees.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE.

Mrs. Laura M. Blumke today filed
suit in the District Supreme Court
for a limited divorce from William A.
Blumke, charging cruelty and deser-
tion. They were married at Balti-
more, Md, October IS, 1918. and have
no children. The wife tells the court
her husband was convicted In Police
Court September 8 for striking her
with his fist and throwing chair at
her. He left her the next day, she
asserts, and she cannot locate him.
She Is represented by Attorneys AL
bert A. Stern and ]. L. Krupsaw.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
Chinese Rulers
Daughter in Hall
Room, ir, Wellesly
B.. the Associated Press

B. the Associated Press.
WELLESLEY, Mass. September
14.-Miss Grace LII, daughter of Ii
1uan-Hung, President OF China.
has slipped quietly into WELLESLEY
and rented a hall bedroom In a
small boarding house on a side
street. In contravention of pro-
tectfng the daughters of the rulers
OF China with troops of attendance.
Miss Ii arrived with but one COM
panion. Miss Harriet Chow, her.
self only twenty-one years old.
The girls are entering Wellesley
College to take two-year courses
in political economy. Miss L. says
she believes in woman suffrage,
although she admits that Chinese
femtninity is hardly advanced
enough to use the ballot yet. She
Is unmarried. because, she said,
she has never seen the man she
wanted to marry.
Chinese nn longer are betrothed
as Infants sne declared. with en-
phasis. THAT was so once, but not
now, among the educated classes.
We do as we want to. We are not
bossed nowadays"
Evening star., 1923-09-14
TAFT AGAIN IS TO HEAD
UNITARIAN CONFERENCE
Chief Justice Is Reelected by His
Observation-Disclosures Against
Bigotry Adopted.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. September II.
Chief Justice William Howard
Taft was reelected president of the
general Unitarian conference at its
closing business session today.
Harmonious yeiations between
peoples of diverse races, creeds and
nationalities living in this country
is essential for the permanence of
our democratic institutions and pres
ervation of the world" said a reso-
luton adopted by the conference put
ting on record it's unqualified con-
demnation of that evil spirit of in
tolerance, bigotrY and hate which
manifests itself in acts of violence
and persecution designed to intimi-
date or to deprive Of their legal
rights any of our fellow beings, of
whatever race, color or creed" 1t
recommended church participation in
inter-racial committees which are
seeking that better mutual under
standing which is the only way out
of the clash of diverse races and con-
flicting interests"
Evening star., 1923-09-14
ENTIRE j. s. FAMILY
KILLED IN QUAKE
Safety of Many Americans
Also Reported in New
Dispatches.

Consul Dickover reported that the
death of the entire Amrine family"
assumed to be Thomas II. Amrine.
wife and daughter of the Interna-
tional General Electric Company. had
been confirmed.
Mr.. Dickover confirmed the safety Of
the following Americans:
Frank Benedict and wife, Francesca
Castati, Giuseppe Delloro, Earle Ken
meth Dyer, Maggie Ehrhardt, Ray.
mond Harry Gear. Rev. H w. Myers,
]. w. Myers. J. w. Pierson. Sarah
Willis Russell, Harry Sellers, Baron
Shibusawa, D. Barton Taylor and wife,
Rev. Paul Van Camp and wife and
Percy. Zieman and wife.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
Fence Used by Ring
of Thieves in ID. C..
Found, Belief.

Watches, chains. diamond rings, a
wedding ring, diamond brooch, dia-
mond pins, Pullman blankets and
sheets. six pistols and an expensive
rug were seized by police of the Sec
ond precinct last night about IL
O'Clock at the home of Joseph S.
Blandheim,. colored, 10Il 4th street,
where the occupant is alleged by the
police to have conducted fence"
Blandhein. forty-one years old and
a government printing office employe,
is said by the police to have admitted
purchasing articles of jewelry and
other property during the past five
years. and also to have loaned money
on other articles. He also is said to
have stated that he paid cash for
some property and gave whisky for
other.
Police estimate the value of the re-
covered property at $15, 900. Soon af-
ter the PROPERTY was recovered the
police started to roundup persons
from whom Blandheim is said to have
admitted making purchases. Several
colored men were under arrest before
daybreak. others being captured later
Evening star., 1923-09-14
RUSH LANGLEY SCHOOL
FOR EARLY OCCUPANCY
Contractor Agrees to Finish Room
at Time to Take Care of Fall
Enrolment.

A plan to expedite occupancy Of the
new Langley junior high school.
which is not expected to be completed
for some time. is being worked out
by school officials, 1t was announced
today following an inspection Of the
building by Superintendent of Schools
Frank W. Ballou.
The contractor, 1t was said, has ar
ranged to complete the rooms one at
a time. The first room probably will
be ready next week and each sue
cessive room will be completed at
regular intervals thereafter. AS soon
as each room is finished the officials
will accept it and the furniture and
will be moved in.
DR.. Ballou also inspected the addi-
tion to the GARRISON School, now un-
der construction.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
ONE UNION DEFEATED.
Metal Polishers Oppose Idea of
Amalgamation,

CINCINNATI, Ohio. September IL
Overwhelming defeat of the one big
union principle, as sponsored by radi-
cal labor leaders, was recorded at the
session last night at the International
Metal Polishers Union in convention
here.
The vote on the proposition showed
that II favored the idea in principle
and that 122 opposed IL.
The delegates passed a resolution
requesting the release of all remain
ing wartime prisoners.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
KNOW SUIT CASE v1cTIMa
Police Think Missing Mother OF
Four Slain--Doctor Wanted.

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. September Il.
Belief that the dismembered body
of a woman found in the Merrimack
river at Tynbsboro in two suit cases
two weeks ago had been identified to-
day intensified the search for DIR.
William NJ. Robb. who had offices in
the Back Bay section OF Boston.
District Attorney Reading said he
thought the woman was Mrs. George
Wolschendorf of East Bridgewater,
who has been missing since Augu ST
%. She was the mother of four chill
dren, the eldest being twenty years
old and the youngest twelve.
Information given by members of
the wolschendorf family led the au-
thorities to seek DR.. Robb. One suit
case found in the river contained a
torso, the other had the legs of the
same body. The head has not been
found.
Evening star., 1923-09-14
FOUR IN GANG MURDER
SENT TO PENITENTIARY
By the Associated Press.

BY th6 ABBocAteu PfebB.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill, September IL
Anthony w. Bulburg, George III.
Holsapple. George Buckley and Dan
Drost were found guilty of the mur-
der of John Conner Looney by a Jury
in circuit court today. Billburg was
sentenced to twenty years and his as
sociates from one to twenty years.
Young Looneya was killed last Octo-
ber in a gunfght between under
world gangs Of which Bilfburg and
John Looney, sr, were the recognized
leaders.
years for control of local underworld
privileges. Young Looney, the dead
boy, was twenty-five years old and
the bodyguard of his father. The state
is now seeking the elder Looney, O.
fugitive for eight months.