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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
S. P. TO REACH HERE FRIDAY
FALL PLEADS
OWN CASE IN
TEAPOTTRLAL.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 20
Rp-Albert B. Fall startled those in
the District of Columbia supreme
court today by making a plea and
argument to Justice Siddons during
his trial with Harry Sinclair on a
criminal conspiracy growing out OF
the leasing Of Tea Pot Dome.
He told the court that IL was
fundamental and vital" to the de-
fense in this case that +. c. Finney.
assistant secretary of the interior,
be permitted TO give his interpre-
tation of the oil leasing laws passed
by congress.
"The law makes il his duty to in
terpret those laws" Fall said, his
voice trembling with emotion. IF
he is wrong in that Interpretation,
the United States supreme court
will reverse him. AS long as he re-
mains within his jurisdiction his in
depreciation is the law of the land"
Falls move was so unexpected that
even Justice Siddons appe ared spell
bound for a moment. Then he broke
into remind Fall that he had liable
and eminent counsel" to represent
him.
II have no desire to make a
speech" Fall replied. II have no de-
sire to testify. But, sir, there are
lawyers and there are mining law
yers. Judge Finney is qualified as
a mining lawyer. He knows what
this situation is all about and If al
lowed to testify he could clear the
situation up.
II have very eminent lawyers. and
have the utmost confidence in each
and every one Of them, but there are
some technical matters Judge Finney
understands and they do not under
stand
As Fall proceeded. making gestures
occasionally. with his right hand, to
emphasize his points, Mrs. Fall sat
in the front row Of the spectators
section visibly disturbed. She wrung
Continued on page two.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
Water Rises In
Mexico Floods

MEXICO CITY. Oct. 20.-tPl-Sev-
cral towns in the state Of Tabasco
have bene flooded by waters of the
Grijalva river which has been con-
siderably swollen by ineessant tor
rental rain. Houses today had be-
gun to topple at HuimanguillO and
Teapa.
Meager details reaching Mexico
City are that Huimanguillo. Teapa.
Tlacotalpan. Jaiapa. Frontera and
villa Hermosa have beer partly sub
merged and the inhabitants have
sought refuge in solidiy built
churches and houses In the sections
that remain dry.
A large portion Of Villa Hermosa.
the state capital. was under three
feet Of water today with the flood
still rising. The city Was thrown
into darkness when the water flooded
the electric light plant.
Governor Cruz has appealed TO
President Gales for relief.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
SCHOOL PUPIL
HURT HERE
Youth on Wheel Run
Down Early Today
At 7th and Levee

Elpidio Garcia, l3, Of Matomoros,
a student at the st. Josephs Acad-
emy here, is in a critical condition
at the Mercy hospital As a result OF
being run down by an automobile
near the entrance to the school. nj
Seventh and Levee streets, at 1880
o'clock Thursday morning.
The boy was rushed to the hospital
in private car and placed under the
care of DR.. B. l.. Cole, who pro-
nounced his condition serious. II Is
feared the victim suffered a frac-
tured skull. An X-ray examination
was to be made Thursday afternoon
to determine the extent of the in
jury to the boys head.
No charges will be placed against
the driver OF the car that struck
the boy, pending the outcome OF
the youths injury, ]. +. Collins, traf-
fic patrolman who investigated the
accident. stated.
The boy was hurt as he was rid
ing a bicycle to the morning classes
at the school. The driver Of car that
struck him, heavy milk truck, is
believed to have been unable to see
the youth riding on Seventh street,
as he approached the intersection OF
Levee. A large closed car parked near
the corner shielded that section az
the street from his view he told or.
ficer Collins.
Persons who witnessed the crash
said the force of the imract when
the boys head came in contact with
the pavement caused the injury. The
truck did not come in contact with
his body, they say.
Reports from the hospital say that
Manuela Torres. injured early Wed.
nesday morning in a crash of two
machines on the highway near the
Country Club. Is improving. Her con
dition is no longer serious, il is said
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
General
Scores KIQn Deeds
Alabama Official Re-
signs Membership
In Organization

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. 20.-(Pl
A klansman whose wholesale in
vestigation Of reported floggings in
criminated the invisible empire has
branded ''the Ku Klux klan in Ala
bama as the greatest menace 20 con-
stituted authority" in rendering his
unconditional resignation from that
order. In sweeping condemnation of
that organization, Attorney General
Charlie Z. Mccall directed his letter
Of withdrawal yesterday to +the ex-
alted Cyclops, Klan No. 3, province
No. 2. realm Of Alabama, invisible
empire. Knights Of the Ku Klux
klan, Montgomery.
This action follows Immediately
after the extensive investigation OF
the attorney general into a series OF
alleged whippings in Oneonta
Blount and Crenshaw counties. His
activities prompted an investigation
by a special Crenshaw county grand
jury last week AZ Luvcrne which
scored the Elan in returning 101
indictments against residents OF that
section charged with completely in
these floggings.
While protesting an adherance to
"those fundamental principles which
the Klan has publicly pronounced" T"
the attorney general in his letter
declared that he had become con-
vinced that the khan in Alabama IA
in the hands Of a lawless leader
ship"
lie said he regarded his oath as an
officer of the law superior to any
private or fraternal obligation. and
he did not feel he would follow
longer behind the banner and under
the leadership OF those leading ia
their religious, political and other
war with constituted authority" Mr.
Mccall az the same time in a public
statement denied reports that he
had launched a safe wide investiga-
tion of the Khan. He declined "a
comment on the report, which he
said was unauthorized and untrue.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
Eldridge Backed
Fore. of Post

SUGARLAND. Texas. Oct. 20.-A
large delegation from Sugarland.
supporting W. T. Eldridge. head Of
the Sugarland Industries. for presi-
dent. and seeking permanent head
quarters Of the South Texas Cham
ber of Commerce, will attend the
first annual convention OF the
South Texas Chamber Of Commerce.
will attend the first annual conven-
tion Of the South Texas Chamber
az Commerce IN Brownsville Novem-
her IA and rs. according to an
nouncement here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
Carroll to Get
Freedom Today

ATLANTA. Ca. Oct. 20.-(P)-
Parole papers for Earl Carroll did not
arrive in the first delivery at the
Atlanta federal penitentiary today
and Warden John W. Shook indicated
that il probably would be mid d-after-
noon before the Broadway producer
would be released.
The second delivery Of mail Is
around noon and after the papers
are received there vii lbe formali-
ties of signing the parole and check
ing out with the record clerk.
Carroll was at the "honor farm
where he served as librarian early
today. waiting 10 be brought TO the
main prison, ten miles nearer Atlanta
during the morning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
Workman Crushed to
Death by Big Truck

Crushed by the rear wheel Of the
truck from which he fell while
going 20 work on the Boca Chiea
road about a mile and a half from
Brownsville. Hilari0 Garcia died
Thursday morning al the Mercy
hospital. a few minutes after he
was taken there by fellow workers
on the road gang.
He did not regain consciousness.
and little was known about him
except that he lived In San BenitA
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
CREWS WORK
over TIMETO
FINISH Line
Official Opening Gel
ebration to be Held
November IA, Is; Of
ficials Due Friday

The Southern Pacific Lines will
l have steel laid 10 the Brownsville
city limits some time Friday and the
track will be completed to the depot
site by Saturday night If favorable
weather continues.
Grading for the main line within
the city limits was completed early
this week and the crews are now en-
gagged IN grading he yards between
Sixth and Seventh streets from
Madison north To the city limits.
The grade for the ~" track, which
extends along the north bank of the
| city resaca TO a connection with the
| Rio Grande railroad, has been prac-
tically completed, and will be ready
for the laying Of steel the first Of
| the week
Representatives Of the railway will
arrive in Brownsville Friday morn
ing 10 make plans for the formal
celebration of the entry Of the road
into this city, according to word re-
ceived Thursday at the local Cham
Der of Commerce from II. NJ. Lull,
executive vice-president of the road.
Big Celebration
In elaborate celebration IL being
planned for November is, for tho
formal inauguration Of service TO the
southern terminus OF the road.
| Bridge construction crews worked
all night to complete the bridge over
the Putegnat resaca, a mile and a
half from the city limits, and the
steel was laid across the resaca early
Thursday. One 45-foot bridge re-
mains to be completed over the
II Hrrfwuna latnL - "A
the city limits, and the bridge crews
will probably have this completed be-
| fore Friday morning. This will per-
NIT the tracklaying crews to COM
plete their work into the city FRI
day.
Al material for the yard tracks ia
ready 70 be brought in ms soon as the
line IL completed. Heavy shipments
Of gravel for ballast are now en-
route, and both the main line and
yard tracks will be ballasted as soon
as completed.
All bridges on the extension are
extra heavy construction, and en-
gineers who have gone over the work
have commented on the fact that 90
pound rails are being uEed and that
fish plates are being placed on every
tie. The ties are also OF the best
and heaviest grade.
Work on Station
The right Of way within the city
includes all that area between Sixth
and Seventh streets from Madison
street to the city limits, affording
ample yardage facilities. Work on
the freight depot on Seventh and
Monroe u making rapid progress.
The passenger depot, which will be
located Seventh and Madison, will
soon be under construction, railroad
men stated.
The entire area included in the
railroad yards has been ieveled, and
construction Of yard tracks is ex-
pected to proceed rapidly as soon an
the main line into the city ID COM
pleted. The "Y" track, which fol-
lows the north bank of the city re-
scaa TO n connection with the Rio
Grande Railway, crosses both Sew
enth and Eighth streets, a deep cut
having been made in the resaca bank
to provide room for the track.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
Frenchmen Start
Flight to Goal

RIO JANEIRo. Brazil. Oct. 90
P)-Dieudonne Costes and Lieuten-
ant Joseph Lebrix of the ''Nungess ser
Coli" started on the last lap of their
Paris-to-Buenos Aires flight this
morning. leaving Pelotas, where they
had spent the night at 9:40 a. m.
Pclotas is about 400 miles from
Buenos Aires. The aviators landed
there last night after flying 500
'oIIsurf OH moIy sSUm
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
SKUNK DOES HIS BEST
= 4 q
BUT LOSES TO ODOR
y ~ #
OF FERMENTING MASH

TACOMA, Wash, Oct. 20.-lR-
Despite the best efforts Of a skunk.
G. II. Town, Thurston county
farmer. must Ro 10 Jail.
Town was convicted i'm federal
court here yesterday OF operating
a moonshine still. Officers who
made the raid declared Town kept
a skunk in a box near the scene OF
his operations on the theory that
the animals odor would neutralize
any odor emanatinR from his still.
The skunk did his best, but the
odor Of the fermenting mash won
out and led 20 Towns downfall.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
Biscuit Consuming
Race Likely Here

Fire Commissioner Allie Ander-
son Of Houston and Water Com
missioner Moss of Dallas Thurs
day were invited by telegraph 20
"eat IL out" in a biscuit-consum-
ing contest here In Brownsville or
Matamoros during the South Tex
as Chamber OF Commerce conven-
tion, Nov. 10 and as.
Fire Chief j. q. Sarran, OF San
Antonio has also been invited.
These three "big menT Of Texas
were TO have staged the biscuit
eating contest for the champions
ship Of Texas recently at Dallas.
but one after another they took
sick and are now recovering. III
they agree 70 eat for biscuit hon
ors here they will start training
az once, il IN reported.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
MINEOWNERS
SEEK AID TO
STOPPICKETS
/. w. w. Ignores Or
ders, and Places
Pickets at Practical
ly All Mines

DENVER, Colo. Oct. 20.--(P,-
The possibility Of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron company appealing to the
state for protection as the result Of
the picketing of all coal mines in
the Walsenburg district by /. W. w.
strikers, was seen today.
r. II. Hair. general superintend-
ent Of the company, said il was up
to county authorities TO afford them
protection and If this could not be
done that it was up to the state to
do il.
Despite the warning of Sheriff
Harry Capps, of Huerfano county
that all piekets would be arrested,
az most mines they were not molest-
ed today.
WALSENBURG, Colo. Oct. 90
LPl-Striking /. w. W. miners in the
Walsenburg district shortly before
; o'clock this morning started pic
keting southern Colorado coal mines
in defiance Of an edict of the state
Industrial commission and Sheriff
Capps.
Eight large automobile carrying
seven men each were dispatched from
]. w. W. headquarters here for the
mines in the district. with instruc-
tions 70 enter mining properties.
Officials of the Colorado Fuel e.
Iron company. operators of seven
mines in the district announced that
mine guards were on duty with in
structions TO prevent pickets from
entering the camps.
All of the pickets were searched
before they were permitted to leave
strike headquarters.
Pickets Evade Guards
At 5:15 o'clock this morning. the
Rouse mine, IL miles south of Wal
senburg, reported 30 pickets had
evaded guards and entered camp.
"We intend TO continue this strike
peacefully" Paul Seidler. ]. W. W.
organizer said. "but if a striker is
killed-our men will be carrying
cannons around with them. Mark
my word on that point"
United Mine Workers officials,
and members of the state industrial
commission met the |. W. w. threat
with renewed demands for organized
labor 10 disregard the strike call
while sheriffs i'm southern and north
ern fields swore in more deputies to
protect those wishing to work.
Legal Battle
Alignment Of strikers against
authorities for a test of the state
law requiring a 30 day notice TO
make strikes legal, started last night
when Seidler announced he had read
the statue and found nothing to pro-
hibit picketing.
Two members Of the Industrial
commission who attended the meet
ing informed the strikers the state
maintained the strike illegal because
no notice was given, and that every
effort would be made TO prevent
extension of the walk-out through
picketing.
"If picketing is n violation Of the
law. then the county commissioners
will have TO keep US. because we all
will be in JAIL" Seidler replied.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
TEXASSLAYER
GIVEN DEATH
Convict Found Guilty
In Coleman Robbery
And Shooting

COLEMAN, Tex, Oct. 20.-(P)-
Guilty of murder. with the death
penalty assessed, was the jury's ver-
diet returned here this morning, in
the case of o. c. Wells.
Wells, a convict, and brought here
from the state penitentiary to an
swer TO charge Of numbering J. A.
Mitchell at Coleman January 81
1927, went on trial Monday. He de-
MED his guilt and attempted to prove
an alibi.
Wells was a fugitive at the time
Mitchell. a storekeeper was shot
down by masked robber.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
Execution Of Woman
Held Up BY Court

CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 20.-LFp-The
execution OF Mrs. Catherine CaHsler,
set for tomorrow morning was stay
20 Tor one week by an order issued
soday by Judge william W. Brothers.
chief justice OF the Cook county
criminal courts.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20

BIGLOW. Ark, Oct. 2o.-tFl-
Peter Vincent Nolbert, is months
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Nolbert.
was drowned today when he fell head
s.rsmost into an ice cream freezer.
~hieh contained about four inches
- water. Mrs. Nolbert. mother Of
ssven children. missed the child and
search revealed his BODY N the
frse1cxs
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Lower
Rio Grande Valley: Fair and con-
tinued cool tonight and Friday. Light
70 moderate northerly winds on the
west coast.
For East Texas: Fair tonight and
Friday. Light to fresh northerly
winds on the coast.
River Forecast
The river will remain practically
stationary above Rio Grande City
and continue 70 fall slowly from Rio
Grande City down during the next
few days, probably indefinitely.
nAIIY RIVER RTUIpTN
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
FIGHT film
ARREST MADE
Harlingen Man Charg'
ed With Showing
Fight Pictures

Charges of violating the state law
regarding the exhibition of motion
picture films Of boxing matches and
prize fights we're filed against Jack
Pickens, Of Harlingen, before Judge
John I. Kleiber in county court
Thursday morning. The charges were
filed by County Attorney Harry L.
Faulk.
Judge Kleiber fixed Pickens' bond
at $3.50 and set Monday as the date
for q preliminary hearing.
The defendant is the manager OF a
motion picture theater at Harlingen,
and is accused Of having exhibited
the motion pictures of the recent
Tunney-Dempsey heavyweight cha
pionship fight in Chicago at his
show.
The state law provides a fine Of
from 500 to 81 900 and from 10 70
SO days In Jail as penalty for such
offense, each days showing OF al
legged illegal films TO be regarded as
a separate offense. The pictures
we're exhibited in Harlingen for two
days.
Additional complaints are to be
filed against two other Cameron
county movie house managers, one
Of them az BrownsvilIew here films
are scheduled 70 be shown, Mr.. Faulk
declared.
All three defendants are to get a
preliminary hearing in the county
court here Monday, the country at
torney declared.
Pickens came !nto the court and
surrendered voluntarily IN accord
ance with an agreement made Tues
day with Mr.. Faulk and s. MI Jester.
investigator for the 2Sth district.
The other picture house operators.
who are to be charged with a sim
liar offense, have agreed to do like
wise between now and Monday the
official declared.
NEW YORK. N. ", Oct. 2O.-tP,-
Fight films can be exhibited legally
IN New York or any other states,
according TO an opinion today by
United States District Court Judge
Henry W. Goddard.
Judge Goddard also ruled that ex-
hibitors receiving fight films from.
persons other than common carriers,
or through the mails, may display
them without becoming accessories TO
an offense against the interstate
transportation laws.
Judge Goddard's ruling was made
IN answer TO questions put to him By
the federal grand jury investigating
moving pictures Of the Tunney- -Demp-
sey championship bout at Chicago.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-20
Ad. Toepperwein

world renowned Pistol and
nile Shot Here October 25th
w. II. Putegnat Hardware
Company
Brownsville. Texas
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-09

Tearing Up Gantry
New York Times)

(NcW YORK IlmeS)
1t is to be hoped that when Mr.. Bayard Veil
Ter tore up his dramatizaton of ELMER Gan
try" he kept a carbon copy. His reasons as
announced sound fantastic, but no one has
come forward with any others. And if they
are true, he is almost sure to regret the de-
struction Of the manuscript, and that is where
carbon would come in handy.
He has one successful play on Broadway at
present. Why he should imagine that it stood
in need of publicity, when it is doing capacity
business, is beyond the understanding of any,
one not intimately associated with the stage.
He fancies that his play is to be attacked by
the vice crusaders.
If his name, already under suspicion by au-
thorship of the piece which the reformers deny
they ever thought of attacking, were assoc-
ated with ELMER Gantry," he would not have
a leg to stand on in the defense of the first
one.
Here is what it comes to: With any kind
Of luck, the law will investigate the success
to whose morals it's author has called atten-
ton. It will be found harmless, and business
will fall off accordingly. TO beguile the
frowning muse, the playwright will dig up the
carbon of the lost Elmer" and the same peo-
pie who denounce the book will denounce the
play. Thus do a playwright's fortunes pros
per.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-09

Those interminable graveyards.
And the old haunts of Dickens and
Thackeray. The familiar
names leap out at you and give you
q pleasant feeling Of passing an old,
old friend. Such is Black
friars. where David Copperfield got
out Of "Edwin brood" or Or
Bayham street, where Micawber
lived. .. Or Marleybone, where
Dombey and Son had their adven-
lures. !. Or Borough High, where
dwelt Little Dorritt. And,
finally to Westminster Abbey, to
look upon the grave Of Dickens. I.
Or if you wish, there is the trail
Of Thackeray. And again names
that rol! off the tongue and
memory jump out to greet you. (.
There's Bury street, where PEN
dennis had his rooms. And
Bloomsbury, Clerkenwell Road d,
Middle Temple, Charterhouse and
20 many others.
Memories drip from almost every
corner in London. d. It's in
effably sad and yet delightfully."-
flavorsome. -.
Chinese restaurants, where they
have never heard Of chop suey.
!. :. = Which quite natural since
it is an American dish.
And the menacing, tumbledown,
squalid atmosphere Of Limehouse.
But Thomas Burke did it SO
well that I'd have q nerve to try
and improve on his descriptions.
The, soap box spouters Of KEN
singtoh c. dens, lined in solid
thalanx for blocks and surrounded
by great crowds. !. And shouting
every sort Of revolt under the sun.
(. No effort is made to break
up their meetings. i. In Amer
lon the "red" bomb squads would
be called out in mass formation.
And those other political and
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-09

radical spell binders Of Trafalgar
Square. Here occur all the
social demonstrations" they tell
me. There didn't seem
much to demonstrate about the day
l passed through. Except
quite the chicest nurse maid I
have ever beheld. But my
individual demonstrations didn't ret
to first base.
And finally the Church Of St.
Martins in the Fields, with its
rich Corinthian columns and the
name Of Nell Gwynne carved in its
burial register. It never
closes its doors and asks no uues.
tons az to who may enter during
the night. And 80, ia from
the dark corners Of Trafalgar
Square and in from the chill. cir
cled corners Of Charing Cross and
Picadilly Circus comes the army Of
poverty and squalor to seek shel.
ter from the night. Dark.
staggering figures fall drmkeniy
upon its pews and twitching finger.
ed victims Of drugs shrink IL its
corners. And. with the
dawn, the rich and ornate decora.
tions cast their gold reflections up.
ON these outcasts Of the worlds
largest city.
GILBERT SWAN.