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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-12-04
FORT WORTH Is VOTING

FORT WORTH. Tex. Dec. 4.--Cit-
izcns of Fort Worth were voting Sat
urcay on a proposed $750.000 school
bond issue to build four new schools
ard complete some unfinished work.
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FORECAST FOR WEEK

WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Dec. 4.-fFl
Weather outlook for the week be-
ginning Monday on the West Gulf
states:
Cloudy with. occasional rains first
part. mostly fair latter part of
week; temperatures mostly near
normal.
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Sharp Earthquake Is
Felt in Northwest

PORT ANGLES, Wash. Dec. 4.--tPl
A sharp earthquake shook houses
here at 5:45 this morning. No dam
age was reported.
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WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Lower Rio
.Crande Valley: Partly cloudy tonight
and Sunday; not much change in 'tem-
|perature.
For East Texas: Cloudy tonight
and Sunday; occasional rains and
Icolder in north portion. Moderate
|southerly to easterly winds on the
coast.
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COTTON GIN DESTROYED.

CeRSIGANA. Texas. Dec. 4.--tPl-
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
gin. cotton house and seventeen
bales OF cotton owned by j. L..
Mitchell at Frost early Saturday
with a loss Of $4,000.
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ROBBERS GET s25. 600

MONTREAL, Dec. l.-tPl-R Robbers
today entered the Swift Canadian
Company's offices in Craig street
and escaped with $4,000.
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MRS. NJ. f. yoAKUM DIES

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. J.
R,-Mrs. Nancy +. Yoakum, S.,
widow Of the late G. .. YoalSum,
Texas congressman. died here to-
day.
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. Dec. A.
Bellingham was shaken at 5:55 a. m.
today by an earthquake. 1t lasted
from to : seconds. ratified dishes
i'm restaurants and homes and top
pied over flower pots.
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River Forecast
There will be no material change
|in the river.
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DAILY RIVER BULLETIN

Flood Present q Hr. y Hr.
stage Stage Ching. Rain
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jury ACQUITS
MRS. HALL and
HERBROTHERS
Return Verdict Of Not
Gu ilty, Leaving g
Double Murder Un-
solved Mystery

JERSEY CITY. n. J.. Dec. 4.-tPj
Suggesting that Jersey justice
be embalmed and sent 20 the British
museum If there was cessation OF
further prosecution XII the Hall-Mills
murder eases. Senator Alexander
Simpson. in y letter ID Gov. "a. Harry
Moore. today resigned "a assistant
to the attorney general. Shortly al
terward he announced that he con
templated asking for q Legislative
invt stigation.
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COURTHOUSE. Somervilles n. j..
Dee. 4.--tFj-All defendants in the
Hall Mills murder case were released
from custody today. when Suprcm
Court justice Parker, wv the motion
III the attorney general quasheL tha
indictments watch remained again
them after yesterdays acuuitta of
Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and hex
brothers, Willie and Henry Stever
for the murder Of AIRS. Eleanor k.
Mills
The indictments qlashed were:
Mrs. Hall ANA her two brothers AMI
their cousin, Henry de IA Bruy 70
Carpender, ch rgcd with the murder
of the Rev. Edward ~. Hail; HenIF
Carpcnder, charged with the murder
Nj Mrs. Mills. Attorney General
Katzanbach took cA4rrg uf the pro-
cerdings when Special Prosecutor
Alexander Simpson teiephoned that
he would not come 70 Somerville for
the proceedings. n
Evening star., 1926-10-18
STREAM YIELDS BODY
OF MURDERED NEGRO
Victim of Gun Play Found in
Canal by Fisher
man.

Police today are confronted with
another murder mystery and thus far
are without clues as to the identity
of the Victim--a colored man. whose
body. with a bullet hole through the
head, was found in the CheSa peake
and Ohio Canal near Chain Bridge
yesterday.
There was no water in the lungs,
proving that the man was dead when
thrown into the water
Detectives Fowler, Flaherty. Jones
and Jackson are working on the case
and Sheriff Clay Plummer of Mont
gOmery County has been asked to as
sist them. There is a possibility, the
detectives hold. that the man was
killed either in Maryla nd or Virginia
and the body carried over the District
line.
The man was light brown in color.
between 81 and 40 years old. about 5
feet IL inches tall and weighed about
200 pounds. Except for the bullet
wound there We're no marks of ViO-
lence on the body. The bullet entered
the forehead between the eyes.
John II. Thompson. 33S r street
southwest. discovered the body while
fishing Coroner hewitt believes 1t
had been in the water several days
The police have no record of any
missing person answering the descrip-
tiOn.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
GOOD BATTLE PLANES
ARE ALWAYS DANGEROUS
Must Be Extremely Sensitive to
Be of Value in Rapid Pur-
suit Fighting.

BY the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio, October 1S.--A
good battle plane IS necessarily an
unsafe plane, and 1t is the element
of danger that offers the pilot of such
a ship his greatest protection in aerial
battle.
officers of the Army Air Corps and
officials of McCooll Field here believe
that. The primary requisites in fight
ing planes are speed and mancuVer-
ability. These little ships must he able
TO twist and turn sharply and sud
denly. to follow the enemy'S ZigZag-
ging. or to avoid his sudden rush from
behind a cloudhank. They must he
easily maneuVerable.
This; means that controls must be
sensitive to an extreme degree. When
a pursuit pilot in battle moves his
aileronS or other control he wants i'm
mediate response. It is This SenSi-
tivenesS and extreme fieXibiity, Nc
Cook Field officers say, that makes
the pursuit plane unsafe and treaCher-
ous in the hands of AN inexperienced
pilot.
More than one death may he at
trihuted to the fact that the pilots
experience has been almost wholly on
"slOw" ships and had not Developed
the deliCaCy of tcuCh necessary to
plotting one of the finger pressure"
planes
Evening star., 1926-10-18
FATAL ILLNESS
DESCRIBED TO PHYSICIANS
Capital Specialist Has Made Exhaustive
Study of Records of Case Of
Nation First President.

similar circumstances-that is, very
suddenly with acute Inflammation after
exposure to inClement weather.
Washington's half-brother, Lawrence,
died of tuberculosis.
The Father of His Country himself
had several times previously been
laid up with an ailment similar to
that which eVentuated in his death.
once during the BraddOck campaign
he was out of commission for some
time due to Il contagious affection OF
the respiratory tract.
When he went to take command
of the Continental Army at Boston
he was in bed for a time with some
thing very similar to influenza.
Several times he was subject to
pleuritic affection. Once he nearly
died of pneumonia.
Man of Good Physique.
Washington, DR.. Wells points out :
was a man of exceptionally good
physique hardened by much outdoor
exercise. which stood him in good
stead during the hard life of his cam
paigns, and the confining years of
his presidency. Due to this physique
he was able to throw off the previous
infections.
But his eXacting routine as Presi.
dent sapped his strength. When he
returned to Mount Vernon he did not
have the same reserve of vitality. Vie
was growing old-6S. But he re-
manned active and presumably was a
man of tremendous vigor. His death,
after an illness of only two days.
shocked the country.
DR.. Wells is inclined to Justify the
physicians who attended Washington
on his deathbed. They We're DR..
James Craik Of Alexandria. who had
accompanied him on his military
campaigns; DR.. Gustavus r. Brown
of Port Tobacco. Md, and DR.. Ey.ell
Dick of Alexandria. Craik and Brown
were Edinburgh graduates. Dick was
a University Of Pennsylvania man.
Five days after his death these
three issued a statement, attributing
the cause TO cynanche trecheales. or
Inflammation of the throat-prac lly
| the same diagnosis given hv DR.. Wells
| himself. knowledge of this kind of
malady was, of course, very limited
in those days.
A scrupulous record of the
symptoms and treatment was kept by
Washington private secretary. Col.
Tobias Lear.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
COLLEAGUES EULOGIZE
LATE JUDGE G. E. DOWNEY
Court of Claims Jurist Is Praised
at Special Memorial Services
Here Today.

AN able, efficient and valued pub
lie servant, honOred and beloved by
all who knew him. Judge George T..
DoWney made for himself a place
amongst the great judges of the Coun-
try" said Herman J. Galloway, Assis
tant Attorney General of the United
States, in a eulOgy delivered at sarv
ices in honor of Judge DoWneY. held
in the courtroom of the Court of Claims
this morning at 10 o'clock.
Judge Downey, a member of the
Court of Claims, who was appointed
by President Wilson August 3, 1915,
was born at Rising sun. Ind. July
II, $50 and died in Washington May
q, last.
Others who delivered addresses
honoring the late jurist We're &. f.
Jones, George y. King. Louis u.
Michener. John T. McCarron, Charles
T.. Kincheloe, Horace :. Whitman, all
lawyers, and Judge Fenton w. Booth
of the Court Of Claims. Judge Edward
X. Campbell presided.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
u. S. TELLS MEXICO
TO PUNISH SLAYERS
Note Demands Immediate Action
Following Killing of
American.

BY The Associated Press.
An urgent note requesting appre-
hension and punishment of those re-
sponsible for the murder Of ]. F..
Spriggs. an American citizen and Of
fetal of the Pepper Fruit Co, has
been delivered to the Mexican minis
ter of foreign affairs by Charge
Schoenfield of the American embassy
in Mexico City.
Consul Blocker, at Mazatlan, re-
ported the murder of Mr.. Spriggs to
the embassy, which acted immedi-
ately.
The Blocker report said Mr. Spriggs
was murdered and robbed of 1.500
pesos at a point three kilometers
northwest of Culican, Sinola, about
noon Saturday.
Evening star., 1926-10-18

George Washington probably died
of acute inf1ammatory edema of the
larynx, resulting from simple
cold, which clogged the respiratory
passages and caused suffocation.
Such is the conclusion of DR..
Walter A.. Wells, Washington throat
specialist. after an exhaustive study
Of all the medical evidence bearing
upon the last illness of the first
President.
The malady Is not uncommon and
does not often result fatally, but in
WASHINGTON case it worked very
rapidly. probably being accompanied
by some Virulent micrO-O organism,
most likely the streptococcus. This
bacterium is also responsible for
croupous pneumonia.
Some Mistakes Indicated.
Washington DR.. Wells concludes.
did two of the worst things possible
after returning from an inspection
ride about Mount Vernon on a cold,
rainy day with a slightly sore throat.
In the first place. he neglected to
change his wet clothes. In the second
place, despite a warning hoarseness.
he start ed to read aloud, thus doing
the very thing that would tend to in
crease the Inflammation Of the parts
affected.
In an extreme case of this kind at
present, DR.. Wells told the Virginia
Medical Society at Norfolk last week,
a delicate operation would be per-
formed This consists of opening the
trachea, allowing direct ingress of air
to the lungs. This operation was
known to physicians in Washington $
day. but was opposed by the best
medical opinion.
Instead the orthodox practice OF
bleeding was followed. in accordance
with the Edinburgh school of
medicine, although it could have no
possible effect in relieving the suffa-
cation which was strangling the
master of Mount Vernon. Washing
ton himself was somewhat of an
| amateur physician and great
advocate of bleeding as treatment for
most ailments. He frequently ordered
ii for members of his household and his
slaves who were indisposed.
Others of Family Cited.
Throat infammations were hereditary
in the Washington family. The father
of the first President died under very
Evening star., 1926-10-18
VESSEL LANDS TRIO
SAVED OFF FLORIDA
Tiny Craft Is Sunk in Recent
Hurricane After Eight-Day
Battle.

BY the Associated Press.
HAERE. France. October 1S.-An
eight day battle in, a disabled motor
boat with the tail end of the Florida
hurricane ended in almost miraculous
rescue for three Americans, who were
taken from their tiny craft few mom-
entS before it sank in the raging seas.
The three, William Sandberg of
Brookline. Mass: Patrick Nash of San
Francisco. and Russell Young of Cam
bridge. Mass: arrived here today on
the United States Shipping Board
Steamer Meanticut. which picked
them up after they had given up their
last hope and We're prepared for death
Hit Without Warning.
The hurricane hit the launch with
out moments warning as the boat
was chugging down the Florida coast.
The men We're forced to head to sea
to avoid being SWamped under the
monster waves that time and again
smashed over the deck of the craft
and buried the bow under tons of
water.
For five days they managed to keep
the bow of the launch to the sea: then
the engine became disabled, and the
only reliance left to them was a jury
sail. rugged out of a blanket.
For nearly ~ hours they were with
out sleep, for the thrush of water kept
two of them hailing all the time, while
the third handled the wheel. Finally
they gave up hope. with the water al
most up to the sheer-line and huge
waves battering them.
Saved i'm Nick OF Time.
1t was then that the Meanticut hove
into sight and took them off just as
the launch plunged to the bottom.
Even then, Sandberg narrowly escaped
death. for in his exhausted condition
he fell from the boarding ladder under
the sinking launch and was hauled
out with difficulty.
The three men today had the highest
praise for Capt. S. G. Wallace and the
crew of the Menticut, who gave them
every care. furnished them clothing
and brought them to IIavre.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
MORSE DEAL NOTES
IDENTIFIED AT TRIAL
Accountant for Firm Named in Con-
spiracy Charge on Wit
ness Stand.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. October 1S.-The Gov
ernment. in the conspiracy trial of
Harry f., Benjamin w. and Edward!
V. Morse and IA co-defendantS. today
called as a witness Charles +. Potter,
an accountant formerly connected with
Dennis & Young, a firm of account
ants, the senior partner of which, Will
liam II. Dennis, is a defendant.
Potter testified that in 1917 he was
engaged. under the direction of Den
mis-. to examine and audit books and
records of the United States Steam
ship Co. and its subsidiaries. He
identified copies of excerpts he said he
had made of meetings Of the steam
ship company involving the Gilbert
contract" around which the Govern
ment bases its charge OF conspiracy to
defraud
The transcripts We're offered by the
Government in substa ntiatiOn of pre-
viously identified complete copies of
the SO-called contract
Evening star., 1926-10-18
MRS. HALL TO TAKE
STAND IN DEFENSE
Sure of Vindication When
Case Comes to Trial No.
Vember 3, She Declares.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW BRUNSWICK. y. j., October
18.-Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall will
take the stand in her own defense
when brought to trial November 3
on charges of the murder of her hus-
band. Rev. DIR. Edward Wheeler Hall.
and Mrs. Eleanor X. Mills. a choir
singer.
Il shall certainly take the stand
when the trial starts next month, "
she said. Il have nothing to conceal.
Then Special Prosecutor Simpson
will have to change his tactics. deal
with facts before a. jury and stop his
campaign Of suspicious and insinua
tions in the newspapers. When that
day comes I feel he will receive from
the jury a. rebuke richly deserved and
New Jersey will again be Il fit place
for decent people to live in"
Mrs. Hall denied that wealth or
political influence sheltered her and
the three other members of her fam
ilv under Indictment for the murders
Henry and Willie Stevens. her broth
ers, and Henry de la Bruyere Car
pender a cousin. The brothers will go
on trial with her and carpenter will
be tried alone later.
Her own fortune, she said, never
has exceeded 5000. 900. WilIie's not
more than $3.50, 900 Henry's about
$1S5.000 and Carpenders, $4,000.
The brothers inherited theirs, she said.
while carpenter earned practically all
of his.
Il do not consider the present in
vestigation which resulted in the in
dictments as an investigation" she
said, but a malicious persecution of
Il L.
a tabloid newspaper to increase its
circulation and ahettcd hy politicians
to further their own ends"
Mr.. Simpson declined to comment
on the interview. saying he preferred
to make his answer in court.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
MALADY IN FLORIDA.
Medical Aid Sent to Fort Lauder
dale. Where 200 Are III.

MIAMI Fla. October ;8 P).--Dr.
William r. Redden, medical director
Of the American Red Cross. accom-
panied by a. corps of physicians and
nurses left here today for Fort Lau-
derdale, following reports that more
than 200 persons in that city and
neighbOring communities were suffer
ing from n mysterious illness which
appeared suddenly.
DR.. Redden said he had been advised
that 80 Red Cross workers in the Fort
Lauderdale zone had been incapaci
tated by a maady, believed to have
been caused by temporary pollution of
the water supply there He said he
was advised that it was not typhoid
fever.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
NAME FOR GIRAFFE
TOBE CHOSEN SOON
Judges Select Winning Sug-
gestion This Week From
Nearly 500 Letters.

The giraffe-naming contest closed
officially Saturday night.
There are nearly 500 letters from
the children of Washington from
which selection will he made during
the week. Most of these letters CON
tain more than one suggestion and
some Of them six or seven. There are
nearly a thousand different names
which have been offered for this little
orphan from the African iunGles who
is coming TO be the playmate of little
Washingtonians
Was ever such trouble taken with
the christening Of a baby? Is It likely
that the giraffe VIII appreciate IT"
Few of Suggestions.
There We're few names left out Of
Sundays star for lack of space. Some
Of them arrived late in the eventus.
Just under the wire. for cOnsideratjUu
in the contest.
These suggestions follow:
Josephine A. O'Connor. IA years
old, l06 Rhode Island avenue
CeteWayo, Brown Bones and Dummy.
Eleanor Collins, 1905 Potomac str"rt
Star.
John Beverly Riggs. years old,
Brookville, Md.--Bahe Ruth.
Joe Mitchell, il, 6l2 Sligo avenue,
Silver Spring -Africona.
Arthur W. Suite. years old, 14lS
Spring road-Dandy.
Shirley Lazarus. 800 TAYLOR street
Shorter. Ginger. Zandcr the Great.
Elizabeth Keiser 13 years old, +53
Park road, Beans, Howdy.
Joseph V. Finotte. 10 years old, 23lS
Minnesota avenue Rarnum.
Helen Greenwald. 1854 Lanier place
Aero. Airy AL. General Mann. Sheik.
Dorothy Rrodt, 1925 Thirteenth
street -RaftuS or Tunncy.
Peggy Kahn. s years old. 2101 Com
necticut avenue Brave spot. Nicto-
rious Spot. Victory.
Leo Tenley Lee, 30 a street north
east Jack OIantern.
Samuel Shulman. 1240 New IIamp-
shire avenue columbus, Adam, Well
come. Sambo, Weightman.
Names i'm Plenty.
Edna Stein. 2S27 Thirteenth street
Rubberneck. Proud Beauty.
Horace Epes, ir.. Q years old, 1000
OrdWay street Stanley.
Philip Ferris, IA years old, 1910 AL
bemarle Street-Anack
Charlotte Hobbs. 55lS Sherrier place
starry, Star Boy. Perry Scope.
Peter Pan, Add I[rim. Jack. TouSv-
Light-Cs.
Edith Hopkins, 1880 Eighth street
Af-Am.
Philip Robinson. II years old. 4l2
Surrey street, Chevy Chase Key.
Mary Margaret O'Connell. years
old. 1918 street mort LongneCk.
Thomas William Miller. years old.
7O5 Rock Creek Church r"ad-lieaVen-
ly Eyes.
Abram l.. Budd. Berwyn. Md.-I-a
valiant.
Donald A. Bruce. 13 years old, 1890
Thirty-Ninth street Excelsior.
Carl Hard, GaithersburC, Md.-lIern.
Kathryne T.. CookSeN. 3606 Six
teenth Street-MannZy.
Margaret L. Rand. 10 years old. 1ol4
Florida avenue northCaSt-African
Star.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
CANDIDATE Is KILLED.
Three Other Nevada Office Seekers
Hurt When Auto Overturns.

RENO, New. October l. Grl.-Mrs.
Clara I. Cunningham. Republican
candidate for State treasurer. is dead
and three other candidates for State
Offices TODAY were recovering from
injuries received when the automobile
in which they were riding turned
turtle Yesterday near Elko, Nev. The
injured Ben T. CUrler. candidate for
attorney general: Mrs. Eva Hatton,
seeking election as clerk Of the
Supreme Court and r. {. Peterson,
candidate for controller
Evening star., 1926-10-18
DIR. HARVEY w. WILEY. AT 80.
SAYS LIFE SPAN WILL STRETCH
Sees Next Quarter Century
Adding 3 or q Years
to Average.
Observes Birth Anniversary
Today. Taking Usual
Hike to Office.

Three or four years will be added
to the average span of human life in
America during the next % years. DIR.
Harvey w. Wiley predicted today, his
eighty second birthday.
DR.. Wiley feels that the progress
of science in lengthening life, which
has added 10 years in the past quar-
ter OF d century, will continue, but at
1t slower pace.
The noted chemist and food expert
arrived at his o1ice in the Mills Build
ing at $40 am. He had walked from
his home in Ashmead place, as he
does every morning. He remains in
the office until so, taking no time
out for lunch.
we are adding more and more
wears to the lives of babies" he said.
but science has not been making
such high progress in combating the
ills which continue to beset the older
generation"
Evening star., 1926-10-18
DEMANDS LIQUOR TRIAL.
Lessee of representative Cramton' s
Home Pleads Not Guilty.

Pleading not guilty TO charges of
transportation and Illegal possession
of - quarts of gin and rum. Jack
O'iIerne. alias Or. Barton, lessee Of
Representative Louis e. Champion.
dry leaders,. home. 1929 Irving street.
demanded trial by Il jury when ar.
raigned before Judge Robert T. Mat
tingiy In Police Court today. lie was
released on a bond of $500
OlIerne was arrested Saturday
night by Policeman j. II. Johnson
and William :. Brown of the tenth
precinct. after they had pursued him
down Adams Mill road. The machine
which O'IIerne was driving was con-
tsCated.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
PERKINS MEDAL GOES
TO NEW YORK CHEMIST
Development Of California Potash
Industry Prevailed as Basis
of Award.

py the Associated Press
NEW YORK, October 1s.-Dr. John
T.. Teeple, chemist of this city. will
receive the Perkins medal for 1927 in
recognition of his chemical achieve
ments, particularly the development
of an American potash industry at
Searles Lake. Calf. The medal has
been awarded annually since 1906 to
the American chemist who has most
distinguished himself by his services
to applied chemistry.'
DR.. Charles II. lIerty. president of
the Synthetic Organic Chemical Man
ufacturerS Association. in announc-
ing the award. said that the plant
which DR.. Teeple developed is capa BILE
Of supplying 20 per cent OF the potash
needs OF this country. DR. Teeple is
secretary Of the American Chemical
Society
He was born in Kempton. H.. and
is a graduate of Valparaiso College
and of Cornell University.
Evening star., 1926-10-18
CASHIER GETS 10 YEARS.
Baltimore Official Confesses Part in
$4,000 Tefts.

BALTIMORE. Md, October Is (P).
After confessing his part in the
larceny of $4,000 from the banking
and brokerage firm of w. w. Lana
han & Co. of this city, J. stephen
Kelley, former assistant cashier of the
firm. was sentenced to 10 years in the
Maryland Penitentiary by Judge
O'Dunne in Criminal Court today.
The chief incentive for the thefts.
Kelley stated on the stand. was a de-
sire to obtain whisky. His pecula
tions had covered a period of about
four wears he said.