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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-26
q. r. :. PROGRAM

MERCEDES, Dec. 26.-Locsl mem
hers Of the Eastern Star Will give
4 special program Monday evening tn
the Masonic rooms in honor Of the
Past Matrons and Past Patrons Of
the organization. A social hour in
planned which will follow the cere-
morial program. A number q out
of-town visitors are expected for the
occasion.
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San Benito Charity
Ball Fund Aids Poor
(Special 10 The Herald,

SAN RENITO. Dec. 26.-Charity
and welfare organizations Saturday
received their first donations from
tho proceeds OF the recent Charity
Ball held hy the Lions club Of san
kcnito, according 70 Harry n.
BartSch, president.
Lore than 500 we're given 10 those
in charge 81 various branches a.
service. and a reserve fund was main
tanned % supply needs from time 70
time ~ deserving calls were made, il
vas explained.
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CnST on A CONSCIENCE

tish lighthouse keeper who refused %
work on Sunday ard was discharged
has been refused the unemployment
benefit
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-12-26
Something that's
right for men
UhO came out of
Christmas Nth
something left

We know most fountGM
pens are tired-and that
no doubt the holiday ele-
plant stepped pretty
heavily on your pocket
book
Buff you are one OF
the lucky souls who came
thru Christmas with M
thing left to spend-this is
your lucky day.
% brand new 1923 suit
models rode into Browns
vile yesterday. They are
from the tailor shops Of
Hart Schaffner e Marx
and so new in line and
Ssbric that they haven't
yet been publicly announ-
ced.
If there are % men in this
city who have no inferior
financial complex - we
promise to make it espe-
cia1ly interesting this
week.
Evening star., 1927-11-20
Industrial Department.

This evening the Deutscher Mad.
chen monthly meeting will be held at
z o'clock, in the third-foor clubroom.
when a musical program will be en-
joyed
On Tuesday, a group Of girls from
this department will give an enter.
tainment at the Florence Crittenton
Home. Miss Elsa Thomas and Miss
Iotta Leicht will sing German folk
songs, and Mrs. Clifford Hurley of
the industrial committee will give
several violin numbers.
Wednesday, the second junior in
dustrial program will be given. Fol
lowing supper at $50, there will be a
handcraft class for the making of
Christmas gifts, at pm, and at s
there will be swimming and bowling.
Any employed girl over 16 years of
age is urged to join this group.
The girls employed in homes will
meet on Thanksgiving afternoon at
the Y. w. c. A. at 61i l. street, for
dinner together at $50.
Girl Reserve Department.
This afternoon at o'clock, the
music chairman of each senior high
school club will have tea in the club
rooms with Miss Imogene Ireland, di-
rector of music. On this afternoon,
also, at G:30, Miss Mabel r. Cook. Girl
Reserve executive, will attend tea at
Gunston Hall, when she will present
the program of the Girl Reserves to
the students.
Tomorrow afternoon, the Adelphi
Club Of Western High School and
the Junior Blue Triangle Club Of Mac
farland Junior High School will hold
service meetings at the schools at 3
O'clock.
Tuesday afternoon. the clubs of
Powell, Columbia and Langley Junior
High Schools will take fruit to the
Children's Hospital.
A cabinet meeting of the officers OF
Die "Just Us Girls Club of Dennison
Vocational School will be held at
12:lS at the school. in Room 2. The
Nontinued on Page Twenty-six.)
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BYRDS FLIGHT WILL REALIZE
WANAMAKER'S COSTLY DREAM
Capitalist Has Spent $780,
900 Since 1914 to Span
Sea by Air.
Weather's Franks Continue
to Hold the America at
Roosevelt Field.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 22.-When
weather permits the tri-motored FOX
ker monoplane America to take off
for Paris, Rodman Wanamaker will
see the dawn Of a dream which al
ready has cost him nearly 100000.
After spending more than 100000
in 1914 in a vain effort to build a
flying boat powerful enough for a
cross-seas flight, Wanamaker financed
the projected flight of Comdr. Richard
Z. Byrd.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars has already been spent on the
new expedition, designed to obtain
scientific data in the interests of de-
velopment of trans-oceanic travel by
air. The costs of the Wanamaker
enterprise greatly exceed the S25 900
flight of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
and the $5O,OOO expedition of the
Bellanca monoplane Columbia.
The America alone cost between
$40, 900 and $4,000, while other thou
sands were spent on hundreds Of de-
tails to aid the efficiency and safety
of the project. A sloping runway
which allows an advantage equivalent
to 500 feet Of take-off distance has
been built at Roosevelt Field, where
Capt. Rene Fonck, French aviator.
ended in disaster his effort to take off
for Paris almost year ago.
An elaborate scheme for weather
observation has been established by
the Byrd expedition. Men have been
sent abroad to arrange with foreign
weather bureaus and government ex.
perts for advice and information. while
experts here are in daily consultation
with the flight commander.
T. Harold Kinkade, field engineer
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man, who gives the impression of a
perfect gentleman of the old type.
He speaks German and French tiu-
emily, but very little English.
Members of the Russian delegation
have refrained carefully from any
political predictions during the con-
ference, but are enthusiastic over the
future of Russian agriculture. whose
advance, they say, is largely matter
of popular education. Considerable
progress has been made in science
during the past few years which IS
waiting to be applied by the farmers.
One of the delegation this morning
compared Washington with New YORK
and Berlin.
"In Washington" he said, one
breathes air. In New York one
breathes gasoline" He said that
Washington was somewhat compar-
able to Berlin, but with far greater
possibilities as a city of beauty.
The Russian delegation is leaving
in Washington the great soil exhibit,
valued at approximately $4,000,
which it brought and which includes
specimens of all the better known
Russian soil types.
The election of Prof. Glinka marks
a considerable step forward, in the
opinion of many delegates, toward
the world fraternity of science such
as existed before the World War.
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81 CONV|CTS FLEE
TEXAS PRISON FARM
Long Termers Believed Sur
rounded in SWamp-Kan-
sas Group Mutinies.
nv .ha Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
~ HOUSTON, Tex, June 22.---Thifty-
Ave long-term white convicts, VINO
ESCAPED from the Ferguson State pris-
on farm near Madisonville. so miles
north of here, at midnight last night.
were believed to have been surrounded
this morning in the densely-woodeo
Trinity River Valley near their camp.
Guards from the prison camp were
reinforced by volunteers from all Sec
tions of Madison County. called by
farm authorities to assist in the man
hunt. ;,
Many of the prisoners were oescrlp'
ed as desperate characters.
All efforts to communicate with the
farm by telephone failed, indicating
the convicts cut all wires. SO far
as could be learned no one was IN
jured In the break.
Sawed Through Wall.
The men sawed through the side or
their bunk house and ran to a high
way. where they started toward a fer
rv on the Trinity River short dis
tance northeast of the farm. GUARDS
hastily took up positions near the
ferry and the fugitives were turned
southwark before they could cross
the river.
Dogs were then secured and aided
in chasing the men into thickets along
| the river bank. The section through
which the chase led is a virtual
swamp with mud several inches deep.
1t is impossible in many places 70
ANYTHING except men on foot.
| Farm officials denied reports that
| the prisoners had Communicated au
| tomobiles and horses. The ofi1cers oe'
clared the men were driven into the
woods before they had an opportunity
to raid nearby ranches.
Prison officials said their antici-
pated little difficulty in capturing the
men. They declared the dogs would
be able to trail the prisoners and tnat
with the large force of guards ano
| volunteers available it was only a
question of starving the fugitives into
surrender.
Reported to Be Unarmed.
A messenger from the farm told
| police here that the fugitives were
unarmed. He said they sawed through
| the side or their bunkhouSe without
attracting attention.
| Communication with the farm Is
| limited to messengers on horseback
which due to the mud is very slow
Recent rains have flooded bottom lands
and added to transportation diff
culties. The names of the fugitives
were not announced and the prison
headquarters at Huntsville was await
ing arrival of the list by courier.
The guard who discovered the mer
as they were leaving said there were
1853 convicts in the bunkhouse. He
covered several who were trying to
crawl through the hole with his shot
gun and they surrendered.
Five packs Of bloodhounds were as
signed to the chase. Authorities indi
Gated no more volunteers would be
needed. 1t was said that this was the
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HERR|CK TO SAIL
FOR HOME TODAY
Carries French Suggestions
for Anti-War Treaty With
United States.
Rv The A.sociated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. June 22.--The American
Ambassador, Myron T. Herrick,
boards the lie de France at Havre
today for his trip to the United States
with memorandum containing sug.
gestions by the French government
as to how negotiations may be opened
for pact to outlaw war" between
the two countries.
Such a pact was first broached by
Foreign Minister BRAND in his mes
sage to the American people through
the Associated Press on April s. on
the occasion of the tenth anniversary
of the entry of the United States into
the World War.
Long Farley Expected.
Sheldon Whitehouse. who is acting
as charge d'affaires in the Ambassa-
doris absence, called at the foreign
office last night to receive the sug-
gestions, so Mr.. Herrick would be able
to talk them over upon his arrival in
Washington. The text of the sugges-
tions is withheld both by the embassy
and the foreign office. but it is known
that they relate chiefly to methods of
procedure.
The negotiations are expected by
both sides to be long drawn out, as
there are several points that will re-
quire careful consideration. One of
these is Frances obligation as a mem
ber of the League of Nations to join
in military action against any ag-
gressor the League may designate.
1t is expected here that the next
move will be made when Ambassador
Herrick returns from America with
instructions from Washington based
on the memorandum he is taking home
with him, as Foreign Minister BRAND
will probably spend considerable
part Of the Summer recuperating at
Cocherel, his country home.
NJ. Brands present trouble (shin.
gles), though insignificant in itself, is
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for the Wright Aeronautical Cor
poration, builders of the three Whirl-
wind engines with which the big
monoplane is equipped, has booked
passage for France to await the ar
rival of the flyers. The departure Of
the expert was taken as an indication
that the America, scheduled at least
for a flight to Paris. will continue
flying in or from Europe.
Contrary pranks Of tickle weather
off and about Nova Scotia indicated
today that the expedition can only
talk about flying to Paris today and
tomorrow. Early reports Of unfavor-
able weather suggested that no start
could be made today and probably not
tomorrow.
James Kimball Of the New York
office of the Weather Bureau reported
a storm and dense fog off the Nova
Scotian coast and rainfall totaling
5.56 inches in "a hours at Halifax.
The America continued in state OF
preparedness. All hands were ready
and the mail was aboard awaiting
word of favorable weather.
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PLANS DAYTON LAYOVER.
Lindbergh VIII Get Welcome on Way
to Washington.

ST. LOUIS, June % P.-Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh planned to hop
off today for Dayton on the first leg
of a flight to Washington, where he
is to confer with high Government Of
ficials on matters germane to the de-
velopment of aviation. Whether the
transatlantic flyer will take off in a
plane, sent here for the flight by Maj.
Thomas Lanphier of Selfridge Field
or decide at the last moment to make
the trip in the famous Spirit of st.
Louis, was unknown, but it is con-
sidered that he will fly the Army
plane.
Efforts to obtain statement from
either the Flying Cononel or his prin-
cipal backer in the New York-to-Paris
fight, Harry H. Hall, regarding the
details of the Washington conference
were futile, as neither would make
any comment on the aviator's plans. 1t
Is understood, however. that Col. Lind
bergh will meet with heads of the
Army, Navy and Commerce Depart
ments, the latter part of this week to
discuss aviation and the flyers plans
for the future.
Col. Lindbergh expects to arrive at
Dayton late today, where he will be
the overnight guest Of Orville Wright,
dean of the airpiane manufacturing In
dustry, before proceeding to the Ma
tional Capital.
A reception has been planned by the
city of Dayton in his honor.
The transatlantic flyer intends to re-
turn home after the conference in
Washington to resume his work for the
advancement Of aviation. provided the
Government does not decide to use
him in some other line Of aviation
work.
Col. Lindbergh already has been Of
fered the presidency of a proposed
81 100000 airplane manufacturing COM
pany here, and If he returns home
permanently, 1t Is expected that he
will announce soon whether he in
tends to accept the offer. He has ex-
pressed himself in sympathy with the
plan, and definite decision is expected
to be reached by him following the
Washington conference.
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Connection of Baker and Kel-
Ter With Project indicates
It Is Feasible.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

Newton d. Baker, wartime Secre-
tary Of War;, on the legal end, and
Col. Charles Keller, former Engineer
Commissioner of the District of Co
lumbia, on the engineering end, rep
resenting BylIesby & Co., one of the
big operating concerns of the country,
are the most active agents for the
Potomac River Corporation, whose
application for a permit to make a
gigantic hydro-eiectric development at
Great Falls is pending before the Fed
eral Power Commission. The applica-
ton is signed by Robert ]. Bulkley Of
Cleveland, a wartime associate of Sec
retary Baker.
The enterprise Is backed by men
of the highest standing-men who
have given the project years of study
and are not likely to be making false
gestures or to squander money on
program that would not be carried to
a successful conclusion.
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LEWD MAGAZINE
DRIVE PLANNED
National Campaign Will Gen.
ter Here, With Appeal for
Congressional Action.

Washington has been selected as the
battle-ground" for Nationwide war
on obscene magazines, weeklies and
other publications, to be waged by the
International Reform Federation. 1t
was announced here today by DR.. Rob-
ert Watson of Boston, president of
the federation.
Gratified at the success of the cam
paign conducted in the National Cap
ital last year, under auspices Of The
Star, and also in Massachusetts, under
auspices of the federation, reform
leaders have begun collecting "evi-
dence" In score of cities IN the East,
and will present the data to Congress
when it convenes, DIR. Watson de-
clared.
Would Block Shipments.
Legislation against the transporta-
ton of Objectionable reading and pic
torial matter by express or freight
will be sought, with a view to block
ing all means of distribution and thus
dealing a death blow to unscrupulous
publishers who are flooding the coun-
try with salacious literature" it was
pointed out. Mailing of such objection
able matter Is prohibited by postal
laws.
The federation will make an in
vestigation of the situation in Wash
ington since the drive conducted by
District Attorney Gordon some months
ago. and will pay attention particu-
larly to certain pictorial weeklieS of
tabloid character which have recently
come into question in other localities.
Il wish to compliment The Star on
its accomplishments in the former
campaign against so-called art maya.
zines" DR.. Watson said. 1.-The feder.
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
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Transatlantic Pilot Leaves
st. Louis Today for Dayton
to Stay Overnight.
NO OFFICIAL PROGRAM
OF VISIT ARRANGED
Probably Will Discuss Aviation
Matters With War, Navy and
Commerce Authorities. -

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will soar
into Washington again, probably to-
morrow, for conferences with officials
here concerning aviation matters in
general, and his own future in par.
ticular.
Planning to hop off from st. Louis
today, the transatlantic hero was ex-
pected to fly to Dayton, Ohio. where
he would remain at least overnight,
proceeding later to Washington by
airplane. The time of his arrival in
not yet been made public.
No official program has been set for
his reception, so far as could be learn
ed today, but it was indicated here
that he will confer informally with
the three Assistant Secretaries for Air
of the War. Navy and Commerce De-
partments.
Return Of the flying hero to the Ma
tional Capital for the third time since
he crossed the Atlantic from New
York to Paris will give the public the
first good opportunity it has had to
see him since the great celebration
staged in his honor here, when he was
welcomed to his native soil direct into
the heart of the Nations Capital.
Second Trip Surprise.
The second trip which Col. Lind.
bergh made to Washington surprised
Washington in the dead of night, as
he flew down from New York in eve.
ming clothes during the moonlight
hours to get his precious plane, the
Spirit Of ST. Louis, to fly back to New
York. He was here only a few min
utes and was greeted by only the
small crowd at Boiling Field that as
sembled quickly for the surprise visit.
He was off again and back to the
metropolis for breakfast.
With the great official celebrations
in Washington, New York and st.
Louis now behind him, Col. Lindbergh
is turning to his friends, the officials
in Washington, who indicate they will
be glad to confer with him, not only
to give the international hero the
benefit Of their experience for his con-
sideration in deciding on his own
future. but in order to get more fully
Lindbergh's impressions of aviation
as he observed it in Europe.
Outstanding Air Exponent.
Official Washington recognizes Lind
bergh as the outstanding individual
exponent of aviation today. and is
eager to learn what his decision will
be as to a future career. 1t is real
lied generally here that the conser-
vatism of the youngster who has won
his way into the heart of the world.
his refusal of a fortune in offers Of
various kinds, have enhanced not only
his popularity but the power of his
influence for the general promotion
of aviation in a broad gauge and dig
nified manner throughout the United
States.
Reports that Lindbergh had been
"ordered" to Washington were denied
at the War Department, where 1t was
said the colonel was proceeding at
his own initiative.
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RUSSIAN ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF SOIL SCIENCE CONGRESS
Honor First Conferred Upon
Native of His Country Since
1917 Revolution.
Delegates of 80 Nations Here
Vote Post to DR..
K. D. GIinka.

For the first time since the bolshe-
visit revolution in 1917, a Russian to-
day was elected head of large inter-
national organization.
Prof. X. D. Glinka, director of the
Soviet agricultural experiment sta
ton at Leningrad and one Of the fore
most agricultural scientists in the
world. was elected president of the
International Congress of Soil
Science, composed of delegates from
80 nations, at the United States
Chamber Of Commerce building
early this afternoon.
The next meeting Of the Interna-
tional Congress will be held in Russia,
probably at Leningrad.
Prof. Glinka, son of a peasant farm
er, was described by members of the
Russian delegation as a splendid ex-
ample of the self-made man in
czarist Russia. He advanced step
by step in the scientific world until
he was recognized throughout the
world as the foremost authority in
his speciality and was honored by the
old Russian government with a title
usually reserved for members Of the
nobility.
The overturn Of the Czarist govern
ment made little difference in the
standing or life Of Prof. Glinka, who
continued with his experiments di.
rected towards increasing the fertility
of the soil. Early in the World War
his work on classification of soils was
recognized in the United States when
his book on that subject was trans
lated by c.. F. Marbutt, director of
the soil survey of the Department of
Agriculture, and it has been used as
a standard textbook ever since. His
work is said to have revolutionized
the science of soil classification.
Prof. Glinka has been one Of the
prominent figures at the present con-
gress. He is a tall, elderly, bearded
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Curious Disappearance of Tame Ducks
On Rock Greek Solved; Turtle Caught

creek Policeman Sheedy saw his duck,
down near the bottom. And attached
to the fowls foot was a large snap
ping turtle Of vicious demeanor. The
turtle was getting ready for a big
duck dinner.
The officer leveled his gun, took
careful aim at the snapper's head and
sent a bullet directly between it's eyes.
He fshed the reptile out, and de-
clares that its head measured inches.
ANYWAY, a local restaurant Is serv-
ing duck-fed turtle to its patrons
today.
Policeman Sheedy was back on his
beat today, watching ducks and look.
ing for another turtle which has been
seen in the vicinity of Pierce Mill.
With this other duck menace out Of
the way. the Government will be able
to replace all those ducks which have
been worrying Policeman Sheedy by
their disappearance.
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Motor Cycle Policeman ]. w.
Sheedy has found out what has been
happening to all the domesticated
ducks out in Rock Creek Park.
He was standing beside his motor
cycle on the edge of the dam at
Pierce Mill yesterday, watching the
ducks and wondering why their num-
bers were diminishing, when he saw
one of his favorite ducks give signs
Of distress. With fiutter OF wings
and a few final squawks the bird
disappeared under the water.
Knowing ducks SO well, Policeman
Sheedy realized that this bird did not
go under on purpose. 1t was pulled
under by some unseen force. He took
a hitch in his belt, grabbed hold of
his automatic and crept TO the waters
edge. d
Through the clear water Of the
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TR0TSKY AND ZINOVIEv
FACE OUSTING BY SOVIET
Likely to Be Removed From
Toheka as Agents of British

By Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927.

By Gable TO The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1927.
MOSCOW, June 22.-Removal Of
Leon Trotsky and Gregoire Zinoviev
from the Toheka, their last position
Of influence in Communist circles,
again is forecast by the Moscow
Pravda organ of the All-Union Com
munist party.
NikOlai Bukharin, editor Of Pravda,
who is tactical leader Of the inter-
party fight against the two veteran
revolutionists, asserts they are CO.
workers and agents of the British.
He declares the party is unanimous
In demanding their expulsion.
"The party does not want noblemen
or disobedient bolsheviki within the
party nor on the central committee" !"
says an authoritative statement. "All
organiza tions demand decisive meas
ures against opposition leaders"