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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
MATAMOROSIS
TO CELEBRATE
Cinco de Mayo Plans
Are Completed For
Entire Week

Matamoros was all set Saturday
night for the opening Sunday OF her
eight-day Cinco de Mayo celebration
with a program of varied entertain
ment in store for those caring to
participate in observance Of the an
niversary Of the battle of Pucbla in
1862.
Not only MatamoroS residents but
many living in the Valley and the
Mexican state Of Tamaulipas are ex-
pecting TO participate in the cele-
bration. Valley Mexicans have can
celled their own celebrations in or
der to observe the anniversary IN
Matamoros.
Matamoros is providing many at
fractions during the week. There
will he commercial! exposition,
baseball games, boxing and many
other features. The commercial eX-
position has exhibits from many
Mexican cities, including great
number from the factories of Mon
terrey, capital Of the state Of NuevO
Leon.
There will be two baseball games
Sunday, one at 10 o'clock. American
time between Vera Cruz military
team and Fort Brown and another
at o'clock, American time. between
San Bonito and the Moctezuma
Brewery nine from Monterrey. There
will be ball games every day in the
week
Boat racing will be held On the Rio
Grande on Wednesday and boxing on
Thursday. principal day Of the cele-
bration.
On May 5. 1862 General Zaragoza
entrenched at Puebla. turned bach
the invading Frenchmen marching
on Mexico City under Laurents, and
il is the anniversary of this battle
which is being celebrated.
Provisions have been made 10 nj.
low the entry Of all persons during
the celebration without requiring
passports or Identification cards. ac.
cording 70 officials Of the Matamor-
os Chamber of Commerce who are in
charge of the celebration
Special rates are IN effect not
only on the Missouri Pacific and
connecting lines but also over the
National Railways Of Mexico. Leo
Waldschmidt. local ticket agent. pre-.
diets that visitors will be coming tc
Brownsville from all over the state
beginning Sunday and continuing
through the week.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
MEXICAN TOMATO
MOVEMENT LARGE

Carlot shipments Of tomatoes out
of Mexico probably will total 5000
this year, almost 1000 more than
during any previous year. according
to some comparative figures given
out here BY W. ID. Googe. manager
Of the Valley market news bureau.
Mr.. Googe's records 90 back as
far as 1920 when 739 cars Of Mexi-
can tomatoes moved to American
markets. The figures increased
steadily each year although the in
crease was slightest in 1921 when
only 7s6 cars moved. BY 1922 the
total of 1912 was reached. In 1923
Mexico shipped out l.709 cars, IT,
1924 it shipped out l.s0s ears. IN
1925 ii shipped. 2sS2 ears and last
year that country shipped 3.l49 cars.
Up to April % this year 4.20l cars
had been shipped with prospects Of
passing the 5000 mark.
Most OF the Mexican tomatoes are
grown in Lower California and other
Pacific points in Mexico.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
Mine BLAST
Death TOLL
May REACH 90
Eleven Known Dead,
80 Men Entombed
In West Vir ginia
Coal Mine

FAIRMONT, ". Va, April 30.-(Pl
-Ninety-one men are believed TO
have lost their lives in n terrific cx-
plosion late today in the mine of the
new England Fuel 4 Transportation
Company.
The known dead had reached
eleven late tonight. Eight bodies
were removed from the mine, two
men were killed at the Triple out
side while another died in a local
hospital shortly before midnight.
While the fate Of eighty men still
entrapped in the working remained
unknown, rescue crews which have
penetrated the debris-strewn mine
said conditions were such that none
of them could have survived.
OF the IL known injured, several
were reported by hospital authorities
TO be in critical condition.
Harold Davis. Is, of Fairmont. 8
check weighman on the tipple was
so badly injured when the explosion
blew off the front of the office in
which he was working that ne died
later in a hospital.
Among the identified dead were
Jim Morrison and Robert Peters,
negro, whose body was discovered
80 feet down the main entry Of the
mine.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
BONNER TRIAL
OPENS MONDAY
Corpus Bomb Case to
Get Second Hearing
At San Antonio

SAN ANTONIO. Texas. April 3d.
(P,-Frank II. Bonner of San An
tonic, charged with having murdered
his prospective farher-in-law by
sending him a bomb. il due 10 90 to
trial for the second time here Mon
day. Bonner is accused to having
sent j. A. Barnes Of Corpus Christi
an express package containing eX-
plosives in November Of 1928. Barnes
and his six year old son Jesse were
killed when the package was opened.
A previous trial in Corpus Christi
resulted in disagreement and the
case was transferred 20 this district.
District Attorney c. NJ. Chambers.
announced that the state expected to
be ready. Assistant District Attor-
neys Lamar Seleigson and Fred N.
Cowen ass listed in the trial of the
case in Corpus Christi and will as
sist IN the prosecution here. Dis
trict Attorney Chambers will con-
duet the case for the state and Dis
trict Attorney George Westervelt Of
Corpus Christi is expected 70 be here
to aid him.
Several Of the witnesses who
testified in the former trial in San
Antonio. including two boys who de-
ciared they received the bomb from
man IN an automobile and took it
10 the American railway express Of
flee.
Bonner was not arrested until last
September. Since the explosion he
had married Dorothy Barnes. daugh-
ter OF the dead man.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
FIND GIRLS BODY
in CHURCH BELFRY

LITTLE ROCK. Ark. April 30
tPl-The body of III year old Floella
Mcdonald. mysteriously missing from
her home here for three weeks. was
found late today in the belfry Of
the fashionable First Presbyterian
Church.
A negro janitor Of the church, find
ing blood stains in the basement.
notified police and thorough search
of the building led TO the finding OF
the body.
The condition of the body prevent
ed authorities from determining how
the child met her death until an au-
topsy Is performed. Her clothing was
blood stained.
Among those being sought for
questioning j. another negro janitor
of the church.
The disappearance of the girl af-
ter school one day. almost stimuli
taneously with the disappearance of
= IL year old boy. Lonnie White. fur
rished police with one Of the most
pusZlIng mysteries in several years.
The boy still is missing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
Finance Committee
Fix Appropriations
at About Al Million

AUSTIN, Texas, April 30.-(Pp--A
rough aggregate of about Sal 100000
To run the state for the next two
fiscal years IL called for in the
four major appropriations bills TO be
put up TO the fortieth legislatures
special session, May ., by the senate
finance committee, Senator A. r.
Wood of Granger, chairman, an
nounced today.
This Is an increase Of some S3,00O,-
600 over the board Of control recon-
mendations because of changes in
the disbursement situation since the
recommendations were made.
The house bills are not ready yet
and totals are not available. Only
the educational budget yet remains
to be passed on. however. The ele-
monsynary budget was agreed upon
today with much less reduction
dations than was made by the SEN
ate finance committee, it was esti-
mated BY house committeeman.
The senate committee slashed the
educational and eleemosynary bud
gets submitted by the board Of con-
troll, but had 20 increase the depart
mental and judiciary budgets. In
crease in the departmental budget
was occasioned by change in pro-
viding for operation Of the state
prison system.
Under the organization bill passed
at the regular session, prison reve-
nues will go into the general revenue
fund and they will be appropriated.
Increase in this case, thus Is only
matter Of bookkeeping. In the
judiciary budget, however, an actual
increase was necessary 10 take care
Of the judges salary raises and GER
tain fee increases made by the
fortieth legislature.
Adhering 10 a policy of economy,
which the house also IL committed TO,
the senate finance committee, cut
81 ,i0l .655 from the recommended ed
ucational budget Of $l7,90O.162 and
SSH 900 from the recommended ele-
mosynary institution budget of $9,-
s52. 2.s05.
The departmental budget. which
carries the new prison budget, viii
carry something more than 5000. 900
mi ore than was recommended by the
carry something more than $4,000. .000
increase viii be carried in the
judiciary budget. This includes, be-
sides the judges salary. an increased
mileage and per diem fee. for wit
nesses and increased expenses al
lowances for district attorneys who
have more than one county.
A final check over on the COM
pleted bills will be made next week
BY the senate committee while the
house committe completes its edu-
cational hearings.
Representative j. +. Wallace. Of the
house committee. has il figured out
that the states revenue for the next
two years will run close 10 S45,000,-
600 counting the prison revenues
heretofore not counted in the gen.
eral fund. He declares that there will
be very little deficit at the end Of
the present fiscal year, August 81, II
any.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
CONTRACT LET
FOR MANAUTOU
BUILDING HERE
Entire Structure Will
Be Used to House
Department Store to
Open in Fall

Plans for increasing his business
TO department store proportions and
handling nationally advertised goods
were announced Saturday by +. Man
autou with the awarding of a con-
tract for the construction Of q two
story building al the corner of
Washington and Twelfth Streets TO
the San Antonio Construction Com
pany. The contract is to be signed
in two weeks.
The entire building. including
plumbing and electric fixtures, IL to
cost $5l ,S24. The wiring contract was
awarded to the Guarantee Electric
Company and the plumbing contract
to the ". II. Putegnat Hardware
company.
The structure is to have fifty
foot frontage on Washington Street
Continued on page two.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
YOUTH ADMITS
Staying PLOT
Says Gangster Leader
Hired Him to MUIR
der Mayor

BENTON, ILL.,, April 30.-tPl-
Charles Birger, notorious southern
Illinois gangster, was directly
charged with plotting the murderof
Mayor Joe Adams. Of West City, a
friend Of the rival shelton gangsters,
in a confession in open court here
today by Harry Thomasson. 10.
The youth declared Birger hired
him and his brother, Elmo, II, now
dead. TO kill Mayor Adams He also
charged that Birger and his as
sociates were responsible for the
dynamiting and firing of Shady Rest.
Birger's roadhouse, the night Of Jan
uary ., in which Ehmo Thomasson
and Mr.. and Mrs. Steve George were
burned to death.
"Mv brother. Elmo. and | killed
Joe Adams. but Charley Birger made
Us do it," the youth asserted. "Birger
promised $50 for every shot that hit
Adams.
"We each got $50 after we killed
him and Ray Hiland got $50 for
driving our car"
Circuit Judge Charles TT. Miller
interrupted the recital of how the
mayor was assassinated at the front
door Of his home last December ~.
by asking:
"Why are you SO insistent on
pleading guilty of murder:"
Because Charley Birger. Connie
Ritter. and Freddie Wooten. blew up
Shady Rest Cabin and killed my
brother"
Thus il was that Thomasson had
come from the reformatory at Ponti-
ac. where he was serving a sentence
Of from ten years 70 life for robbery,
TO have revenge.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
ALL or SOUTHEASTERN
ARKANSAS INUNDATED

PINE BLUFF. Ark. April 30.-tF1
Roaring through a six hundred foot
crevasse in South Bend levee. flood
waters from the Arkansas river to-
night menaced at least 1000 persons
within 10 miles ~ the crumbling
rampant.
A warning Of increasing danger
was telephoned. or dropped by air
plane in towns without wire cor
munication. Residents who renamed
in Dumas. Walnut Lake. Tillar and
McGehee left the lowlands as quick.
" as possible, although none ~
these towns was in immediate peril.
A fleet Of boats ferried the flee
ing inhabitants across sections w
highways which were inundated tse'
day when the new break poured in
volumes 10 swell the flood already
IN the lowlands from previous ere~
vase. The majority of the home
less were taken 10 the refugee camn
al Monticello. westward en the ridra4
and will be quartered ther with soma
5000 others who were exiled carries
Continued On page twol
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01

Major General Edgar Jadwin. chief
Of army's engineers. in a statement
that stronger. wider and higher
levees afforded the only hope for
relief from future floods Reforesta-
tion. flood control works. in the up
per reaches az the river and 9th ~
ideas presented for controlling the
father OF waters were held un-
feasible.
Ruin 70 2D1.DrA persons. 100000
acres flooded. S200.0O0.000 damage,
thousands clinging 10 their homes
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
Snyder's Daughter
Will Go On Stand

NEW YORK, n. Y. April 3O-iPD
Added to the list Of prospective
witnesses in the Snyder-Gray trial
which resumes Monday is the name
OF child who, by being born a girl
instead Of the boy her father desir-
ed. so provoked pickering that il
ended only when the disappointed
father was murdered.
Lorraine, 8 year old daughter Of
Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder, co-defend-
ant with Henry Judd Gray in their
trial for the murder Of Albert Sny-
der. magazine art editor slain in his
Queensvillage home March 20. will
take the stand in her mothers de-
fense Monday. ID was announced to-
day by Edg,ir Hazelton. chief OF
counsel for Mrs. Snyder
Lorraint was an "unwanted child, Il
Mrs. Snydtr testified Albert Snyder
had wanted a boy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
Hoover Pictures Horrible DesOlatiOn and Great
Suffering in Flooded Areas On Mississippi River

MEMPHIS. Tenn. April 30.-tPl-
Desolation wrought BY "the mos,
dangerous flood our country has
ever known in its history" was pic
tured for the nation tonight in a
radio address by Herbert Hoover.
secretary Of commerce. who just had
completed weeks survey Of the
swollen Mississippi river from Mem
phis TO New Orleans as the personal
representative ~ President Coolidge.
Before he faced the microphone
over which he painted the dreary PIE
turr, Secretary Hoover, Joined ~ith
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
Plans for Formal Opening Completed
Valley Man Identifies Body
as That Of Missing Brother

an effort to determine if the dead
man was his missing brother. who
had wired that he was starting from
Florida for Texas and who failed to
arrive.
"A through ticket to Brownsville
was found among the mans pos
sessions and by other articles among
his belongings. the brother was able
to identify the body.
II is supposed that on account Of
high waters he had abandoned his
and had decided TO travel
Continued on page six.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
Refuse Permission
To Traverse Russia

MOSCOW, Russia. April 30.-liPp--
Permission to traverse Russia on its
way to China has been refused Rear
Admiral Mark /. Bristol. who is slat-
ed 70 succeed Rear Admiral Clarence
:. Williams. Commander Of the
American fleet in Chinese waters.
the Associated Press was advised to-
night.
The grounds for this attitude By
Soviet government were stated TO
be Washington's refusal TO permit
former Finance Commission Gregory
Sokolnikoff entry.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
WEATHER

EAST TEXAS -- Sunday partly
cloudy; Monday unsettled, probably
showers IN north portion. Moderate
easterly 70 Southerly winds on the
rOnSf
WEST TEXAS-Sunday and Mon
day generally fair.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01

"The question in the mind Of every
man in these districts tonight is
will the levees hold against the ap-
preaching erest:'"
lie pictured thousands Of men
"strung mile upon mile working in
long strings. like ants. piling the
levees higher and higher" and added
that while the leyees have held
against the water enemy. "what the
result Sf fight may be no one
knows
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
BORCER WORKMEN
WANT BACK WAGES

AUSTIN. Tex. April 30.-tPi-Fif-
ty Berger citizens today appealed TO
State Labor Commissioner Charles
Mckcmy for aid in collecting $4,000
in wages claimed to be due oil field
laborers by operators.
An Inspector from the department
was sent to Berger today. The peti-
TONERS claimed dozens Of men are
unable to collect salaries due them.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01

where upper floors remained dry.
more thousands needing to be re-
moved in boats and established in
great camps on higher ground. and
vet other thousands, camped upon
broken leyees, was a view Of the
disaster given by Mr. Roover over
the radio.
''ln the miles of river below Nicks-
burg which has moi vet been reached
ay the crest az the flood the battle 20
control breaks in the levees is still
on" he said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
CHILD DRINKS PINT
OF KEROSENE, dies

Eleaza Garcia. three -year-oId
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Manuel
Garcia. who reside between Fifth
and Sixth on St Francis Street. died
at ; o'clock Saturday afternoon from
the effects OF drinking kerosene. The
child had procured "A quart bottle Of
the liquid and swallowed half Of il
before her mother ascertained what
she was doing.
Dr. Castillo was called. hut the
child was in convulsions when he
reached the home, dying a few mo-
meEts later.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01

The body of an apparently name
less pauper found April 10. six miles
north Of Placedo, Victoria county,
has been positively identified as that
of Louis +. Overstreet. prominent
produce dealer Of Lake Worth, Fla,
BY his brother, p. r. Overstreet, who
is 4 leading produce dealer and to-
mato grower of Alamo and Browns
Vile.
Saturday forenoon, Mrs. p. X.
Overstreet received a telegram in
Brownsville to this effect from her
usband He had ogne to Victoria in
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
THOSE COMICS

The Herald must apologize to
its readers again this morning.
The apology comes because OF
the fact that the eight-comic
seettpn this morning il that
which s.,ould have appeared last
Sunday.
The comics we're held up last
Sunday because of the floods.
These which should have arrived
last sunday did not reach here
until Tuesday. They appear in
The Herald today.
Those which should be here
today are held up somewhere on
the road To Kansas City.
We hope that by next Sunday
they will appear -csir on
schedule.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-05-01
DIES FROM MOINnS

ABILENE, Texas, April 3O.-tPi-
Alvin Lee Fuqua. -. who died Fri
day afternoon from buckshnt wounds
received IN IN encounter with Sner-
if Lemmons Of Glasscock county
south Of here, Thursday was buried
al Big Springs this afternoon.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-23
MISS MACKAYE
Is RELIEVED OF
CHARGE

los ANGELES, June % R-The
defense of Dorothy Mackaye, stage
actress, succeeded in having one OF
two felony counts against her
thrown out OF court within a few
minutes after the state rested in
its efforts to prove her guilty VI
conspiring with DR.. w. j. Sullivan OF
Hollywood to conceal the real cause
OF death OF her actor husband, Ray
RAYMOND, last April.
Superior Judge Charles Burnell
dismissed the cnarge tnat the do-
tress was an accessory after the fact
in the alleged attempts tc distort
the facts IN the case, because OF in
sufficient evidence The other count
charges compromising CT felony.
Spurred OH by victory the defense
plunged into its case by putting a
witness on the stand who testified
that Miss Mackaye went to Dr..
Sullivan's office in a highly nervous
state after the death OF her hus-
band and was given smelling salts
because OF a weak condition. The
WltANsoo, .p44o.5 N1dlBdICC OWCCltCSy LII
Sullivan's attendant. told OF over
hearing conversation between i
physician and the actress in which
the former demanded his 5000 tee.
This fee, which Paul Kelly, under
7entence for Raynond's death. as 4
result OF a fist fight two days prev.
iotlsly, sent to Miss MacKaye to-:
gether with hospital expenses, was
made basis tor conspiracy charges
against Dr. Sullivan Mrs. Sweeney
said the physician assumed a re-
lcntless professional tone indicating,
defense attorneys attempted to pcint
out, chat there was no conspiracy
between The two.
Mrs. Sweeney was followed to the
stand by two undertaking employees
OF Hollywood both OF whom said
Raymonds body was handled in the
customary manner without special
instructions from anyone.
A Nrepetition OF technical testimony
given at Kellys trial was Indicated
ct the afternoon session when DR..
Thomas McHugh, uncle OF DR.. Sui
livan and consulting physician il,
the Raymond care, was called to Tie
stand.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-23
Frank WhiteIey Wins
Essay Contest With
Scholarship and Money

BlSEEE, June % ~ - Frank
Whlteley, son OF E.rE. Wnitelcy, as
aistant general manager of the Calu-
net and Arizona Mining company,
and member CT the 1927 gradual
ing class of the Risbee high school.
has been chosen cne Of the six wir.-
,ners OF q national student essay
contest sponsored by the American
Chemical society, it was announced
here today by SCHOOL officials.
The honor carries with 1t tuition
fees for four years in any recognized
university and also $1,000 to be used
in connection with The tour year
study program. The essay contest
was divided into six divisions, all
of which related to the Importance
of chemistry in The development OF
The nation, and was open TO all high
school students in the United States.
Whiteley's essay was a 2,400-wOrd
paper on Chemistry in the mining
industry as exempiified by the leach-
ing plant at the New Cornelia Cop
per company at Ajo, Ariz."
The lot papers submitted by Ari-
zona contestants were juGged by
members of 3he chemistry depart
'nent faculty of the University OF
Arizona and the Bisbee youth won
ever all entrants who wrote on
Chemistry III Industry" Whiteley
expects to apply the national scnoi-
arship at Stanford university in Paio
Alto, Calf, beginning next fall
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-23
ANNIVERSARYOF
AIMEEE'S W AL K
HERE F RECALLED

4 Today's the Gay. June % last
wear a. Dispatch extra had Just
'Ieachcd the street carrying the news
that Aimee for whom the entire Pa
lcific coast was in mollrnings had
appeared in Aqua Prieta.
Every A. +. wire IN the United
States was carrying tine story sent
cut from Douglas a year ago today
of the finding OF the famous seva1l-
gelist.
Mrs. Mcpherson herself was con-
fined to the Calumet hospital i'll
what physicians described as q
state Of collapse.
At this time last year everybody
in Los Angeles claimed co have
visited Douglas and Aqua Prieta al
one time or another.
Lindbergh with all his new found
relalves has no more claimants to
kinship than did Douglas claimants
to residence here at this time last
yer. Yes, todays the day.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-23
; Cars Of Chevrolet
Automobiles Received
By Agency in Douglas

Three carloads OF Cbevrciet cars
have been received. at the local
agency, each carIsRd con tai,lifg eight
AUTOMOBILES, oil modals, coiipes,
touring scarsa ssetAns, Ioadsfers and
trucks. s5 8 Ngs
These cars are The 1927 models,
as line Chevroietg cars change only
once a. year and that isisin January.
i TIE Discus olu,nblng building mas
been rented SO vs. to allow suftic-
lent space for the cars..s Anyone
who desires a demonstration may
either call at The agency Cd Ninth
street, or phone the manager and q
demonstration will be Immediately
provided.
The shipments includes a number
OF trucks which are the first CT
their kind ever to arrive IN this city
The bodies are especially constructed
for dairy and bakery use.
1le bodies on the Chevrolet are
now made By Fisher, and lave q
D.cco finish and q cne-piece fender.