Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-08-24
DECISIONS OF
FULLER TO Be
INVESTIGATED
Defense Body Charges
Vicious Under Cow
er Activities Of De-
tectiVes

BOSTON. Mass. Aug. 24.--tFp---
call has gone out for N national
conference in New York on August
| 27 and 2s to organize q league 10
establish the innocence of Sacco and
! Vanzetti and to expose the con-
spiracy which sent them to death"
IL was proposed 10 accomplish this
BY a sensational investigation OF
the department Of justice, inquiry
into the decisions OF Governor Full
Ter and his advisory committee and
BY exposing ~the vicious under cover
activities Of private and govern
mental detective agencies" II vas
hoped also 20 raise a fund for Mrs.
Sacco and 20 create "a memorial for
the two men.
Ashes 20 Europe
The ashes or Bartoiomeo VanEetti
are to be taken on a tour az Europe
Miss Luigia Vanzetti, who came
from Italy 70 see her brother be-
fore Ne was executed in the state
prison yesterday. is 20 accompany
them. After cremation here the ash
es will be taken 20 New York, Lon
don, Paris. Berlin, Stockholm, and
other cities before going 10 Italy,
Vanzetti's native land.
The body or Nicola SAcco. who was
executed with Vanzetti. also In 20
be cremated. His ashes will be
claimed by his widow, who resides
in Boston with her two children
Announcing a. cancellation of
plans for exhibiting the bodies of
the two men In various American
cities because or the "physical inn
possibility" the Sacco-Vanzetti de-
fensa committee said the cremation
would be next Sunday, with funeral
professions or memorial services in
various American cities. The bodies
would he IN state until Sunday in
the north end, the Italian section OF
Boston, the announcement said.
Burial Required
Difficulties developed III this con-
nection today. City ordinances re-
quire burial within four days cf
death without special permission.
Mrs. Glendower Evans, wealthy
society woman associated with the
defense. said that death masks
would be made Of the two men and
many copies distributed.
The state today still held the
bodies but the tenure which began
with their arrest for murder III 1920
seemed likely 10 be broken before
night by delivery OF the bodies tc
the Sacco-vanEettI defense commitr
tee.
The men refused to the last td
return to the Catholic belief of
their childhood. Respecting their
beliefs. IL was announced that no
prayers would he said but that
comrades would speak briefly before
the gathering
Letters Made Public
Final letters from Sacco and Van-
zetti have been made public by tho
defense committee. One was by
van1ctti 70 Sacco's young son
Dante.
"I tell you now aIl that ! know of
your father" the letter said, Ahe
is not n criminal but one of ths
bravest men 7 ever knew. Some day
you will underHtHnd what am 70 tell
VIII understand what I am to tell
you. That your father has sacri-
ficed everything dear and sacred to
the human heart for hiH faith in
liberty and justice no NIL. That some
day you will be proud az your
father. and III you become brave
enough. you will take hiE place in
the struggle between tyranny ard
liberty and you will vinHicate his
(our3 names and our blood
The letter said Vanzetti was Ieav-
ing Dante his American Bible"
which the letter did not otherwise
identify.
Tn n joint letter 10 the defense
wrote: "OnIy two nf us will die.
four) names and our blood"
live By millions"
Arrests Test Case
A test case or Boston ordinances
on sauntering and lettering IA to
be made By Arthur Garfield Hays,
New York attorney, by trying the
cases or siK persons fined $40 each
for conEreRatinR I'm front Cf ths
state house In "a death watch.
Among the six are EdrA CON- vfH-
cent Millay, poet, ard Ellen Hayes.
formerly professor mt WELLESLEY Col
lege- Fines OF $5 each were paid by
145 other persons whose eases were
heard at the same time I'm munict-
pal court
Powers Hapgood. nephew OF Nor
man Hapgood, was free today after
being held In "a hospital for observn-
tion- He was sent tc q hospital Rf-
ter being arrested five times in
demonstrations tn the executions.
He was released after Hays threat