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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
FLAMES KILL
WOMAN; TRAIN
CRASH FATAL
Woman Here Burned
To Death Sunday;
Wreck Victim Hurt
Thursday at Dixie

Death stalked into the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Sunday arm In arm
with the New Year and some OF the
coldest weather Of the current season.
taking its toll of life i'm Brownsville
and Harlingen.
The death here was attributed di-
rectly 10 the cold weather. Mrs. Car
olita Torres, 81, died at the Mercy
hrospital 1880 p. ~. Sunday As n
result of burns sustained mt noon.
when her clothing became ignited
from an open fire in her home on the
northwest corner Of Fourth and JEFF
ferson streets.
The accident happened a few min
utes after the noon hour, when resi-
dents of the neighborhood, just in
from New Year church services were
sitting down to the midday meal. The
aged woman was alone in che house
at the time, and exact details Of the
blaze are unknown.
Her screams attracted the atten-
tion Of passersby, who broke il the
door OF the house and found the wum-
aAtt - AbANAAf eGe9AANt<AA-
ed across tub Of live Goals i'm the
one room Of the house.
The fire department was summon
ed, and an ambulance from the Nor
ris and Kilchcr Mortuary took the
victim to the hospital. She was so
badly burned that she was unable to
give her name to attendants at the
institution
1t is believed that she was hover
ing over the huge bed of Goals in tina
tub when her lower clothing caught
fire and her efforts TO beat out the
flames only famed them to renewed
life. Her clothing was burned en-
tirely from her body when members
Of the fire department, under Capt.
J. B. Guerra, reached the scene.
Santos Torres, husband az the woman,
was absent mt his work. when the ac-
cident happened.
Funeral services were held Mon
day moring at 10:30 o'clock and the
body was buried at III o'clock in the
old city cemetery. The Cara under
taking establishment had charge OK
the funeral.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
BURNED Shed
TOBE REBUILT
Pharr Nursery Loses
Plants in Early
Sunday Fire
Especial 10 The Herald. J

PHARR, Jan. 2.-Preparations were
being made today by George Witt
bold, Chicago nurseryman. to rebuild
the growing house destroyed by fire
here Sunday morning when a smudge
pot, which had been lighted to pre-
vent freezing temperatures, explod-
ed. The fire, which started about
4 a. m, caused a loss estimated al
nearly $4,000 in growing palms
rubber plants and other ornamentals.
Engineman Henry Dehr, driver OF
the Pharr fire department pumper
was overcome by the cold while re-
naming at his post for a double shift
but was revived without serious in
jury.
The flames, famed by a high north
wind, spread rapidly through the lat
tice work building and threatened
residences to the south of the struc-
ture. Two Of these caught fire but
were saved by quick work on tho part
of the local fire department.
The building ordinarily is heated
by steam lines, but on account of the
unusually low temperatures that had
been forecast it was decided BY Mr..
Withhold and Superintendent W. G.
Baker TO resort to smudge pots as ad-
ditional protection. The smudge pot
exploded a short time after it was
lighted.
Mr.. Withhold, who has been ship
ping palms and evergreen into Flor
ida and to eastern markets in carload
lots for several years. announced
work Of rebuilding would be rushed
as rapidly rs possible.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
new ATTORNEY
TAKESOFFICE
M. r. Hall Given Oath;
Gives Up Private
Practice

NJ. r. Hall, for the past three
years assistant county attorney un-
der Harry L. Faulk, was formally
sworn in as county attorney az $3.50
o'clock Monday morning by II. ID.
Seago, county clerk, in the latter's
office.
Mr.. Hall was appointed to the
post on December IL by the county
commissioners when Mr.. Faulk feel
ing that his work as county attorney
had been accomplished, announced
his resignation.
Monday mornings ceremonies were
very simple. Mr.. Hall going into the
office of Mr.. Seago for the oath,
which was administered in the pres
ence Of County Judge Oscar c.
Dancy, Mrs. A. W. Cooke, Judge A.
M. Kent and Homer Fitch.
Immediately after the ceremony
his office in the basement and made
ready to assume his new duties.
1t was announced that Mr.. Faulk
will continue his private practice.
The new county attorney was born
in Fulton, Mo-, 2S years ago, and
came to Brownsville in 1925, immedi-
ately after receiving his degree from
the law school of the University of
Texas. He had been assistant to
Harry l.. Faulk since the latter was
named county attorney to succeed
A. NJ. Kent.
Mr.. Hall was raised in Rockport
Texas, where his family removed
from Missouri when he was very
young. He received his public school
education there. going to the Uni
versity when his high school days
were over. and later attending the Ma
tional University at Mexico City.
He speaks Spanish fluently. having
taught the language for four years
before he began his law practice.
Mr.. Faulk became acquainted with
the man who was later to step into
his shoes while the former was a
member Of the state legislature from
this district.
Mr.. Hall married Miss Theo Mae
Kethley, of Center, the year follow
ing his appointment to his post here
and since that time has made his
home in Brownsville. He has def.
initely cast his lot with this city and
Cameron county.
He has severed his connections with
the firm OF Faux, Abney and Hall
and henceforward will maintain his
sole office 1T the court house. This
office will be removed from its pres.
ent location In the basement or the
building to place on the third floor
This removal viii take place in the
verv near future.
While no announcement was made
BY Mr.. Hall, his friends are conf
dent he will be q candidate for elec-
tion to the office at the next election
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
j. 5. MARINES
CHASE REBELS
INNICARACUA
Five Soldiers Killed
And "a Wounded in
Sunday Clash With
Forces of Sandino

MANAGUA, Me, Jan. 2.-(P)-
United States marines were engaged
today in a bitter campaign against
rebels led by General Augustine San.
dino after a sanguinary battle in
which five marines were killed and q
wounded.
The marines, operating with Nicar-
aguan national guardsmcn, drove the
rebels from the Sandino headquar.
ters near Quilaii, a few miles south
Of the Honduran border, Friday. The
rebels, Informed by spies Of the ma.
rine advance, were fully prepared to
meet the attack and the patrol was
forced to defeat a thoroughly trained
and well equipped force Of 500 insur.
gents TO gain their objective.
1t is regarded as certain that San.
dino is receiving outside aid because
his men are better equipped and
armed than heretofore. Marine head
quarters were informed that the con,
duct of the rebels in battle was great
IL improved and that hsA7n@nnearriec
both machine guns and rifieg
Rebel~Loss Heavy
Y Ii was estimated that for every ma
rine casualty there wexA@ten among
the rebels, which would putshe rebel
dead around 80 and the wounded rear
2gos Since Sandino's men removed
Stheir dead and wounded to save them
from vultures. the exact number OF
rebel casualties will probably never
be learned.
The marines suffered the heaviest
casualties since American forces were
landed in Nicaragua more than a year
ago. The dead:
First Sergeant John Z. Hemphin
Chicago.
Corporal Adolph Theilhart, Middle.
village, L. !. New York.
Private. first class, George z. Gold
smith, Deer Park, Wis.
Private. first class. Grady w. Wat
son, Point Coupee, La.
Private, first class, Estler Grosson
Pleasant Plain, Ohio.
Seriously injured:
Captain Richard Livingston, Phila-
delphia.
Gunnery Sergeant Fred Coryell
Anaconda, Mont.
Private Robert II. Collins, Cobb.
town, Ga.
Private Bernard w. Coyne, Fran
inghSm, Mass.
Private Charles E. Turner, Terre
Haute, Ind.
Private Leonard J. Smith, New
York.
The slightly wounded included:
Private Raleigh K. Brandenberg
Louisville, Ky.
Private Jason Little, Taylorsville
N. c.
Continued on page two)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
Deaths Recorded Over
u. S. By Cold Which
Covers Nation; Cold
Strikes Florida
HOW OTHERS FARED

Having escaped serious damage
while the record cold spell for many
years past swept over the remainder
Of Texas, the Valley today had pass
ed through the worst of the norther,
according to w. J. Schnurbusch, local
forecaster. Overcast skies and a
steady north wind lessened the dam-
age when the mercury dropped be-
! low freezing and tonight the lowest
temperature is expected to be wei.
above the danger line-unless the
clouds disappear, and this Is consid-
cred unlikely.
The lowest temperature registered
was 20 at Mission Sunday morning:
The reading there Monday morning
was 20.
The Brownsville Weather Bureau
reported a minimum of 80 degrees
both Sunday and Monday mornings.
| The temperature remained below
freezing only two or three hours
Sunday and by 10 o'clock had risen
to 35, remaining at this point
throughout the day and most of the
night. Early Monday morning the
temperature again went below freez-
ing and at z o'clock the 80 degree
minimum was registered. The tenn
perature has been rising slowly dur
ing the day.
The cold wave was the worst Texas
has experienced in years. Corpus
Christi reported a minimum of "a
Sunday morning and p Monday; San
Antonio reported 20 Sunday morning
and Is Monday; Galveston "a Sunday
and 20 Monday; Houston Is Sunday
and Is Monday; Del Rio had a mini
mum of 20; Laredo "a; New Orleans
%.
Reports from practically all sec
tions of the Valley indicate no dam
age to citrus fruit, but the extent
of the damage to vegetables cannot
be ascertained for two or three
days. All tomatoes and beans, OF
which there was a very small acre
shipped, are believed to have been
ruined; but cabbage, beets and car
rots are not believed to have been
damaged materially.
The blanket of clouds. which almost
invariably forms over the Valley be-
fore or during freezing weather, ef-
AtNb6dAAg hCoNy ~
citrus fruit and the more hardy
vegetables, was the opinion express
ed Monday morning by growers and
shippers. The below freezing weather
lasted only a few hours and was not
sufficient to affect the fruit remain
ing on trees, according to reports
received here.
A number OF Valley fruit growers
fired their orchard heaters both Sum-
day and Monday mornings. just be-
fore the minimum was reached.
The San Antonio and Corpus
Christi reports indicate serious dam
age to citrus fruit and vegetables in
the winter Garden" area west o,
San Antonio where below freezing
temperatures evidently prevailed
from early Saturday night until
Monday morning with probable
minimum of % to q.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
Worst Cold SpeW Misses Valley
FAITH OF CHILD
= = =
IN SANTA CLAUS
= =
FOILED BANDITS

FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 2, Up
"A child's faith in Santa Claus
and her desire to talk to Jolly st.
Nicholas probably prevented the
bandits who robbed the First Ma
tional Bank of Cisco from making
a clean getaway. The child was
Frances Blasingame, six, who fled
with her mother, Mrs. II. y. Bias
ingame, out of the bank while II
was being robbed.
The story of how the bandits
were foiled was told here today by
Mrs. Blasingame who is visiting
in Fort Worth.
"We were standing across the
street when Frances saw the man
dressed as Santa Claus enter the
bank" the mother said. "Of course
Frances wanted TO talk to old Santa
and we CROSSED the street and fol-
lowed him into the bank.
"We had just gotten inside and
saw the bandit draw a gun and
command everyone to put up their
hands. Whether the bandits fired
at US / do not know, / only know
that managed to get out Of the
side door and run to the police
station and give the alarm.
"But really that was not old
Santa Claus" put in Frances.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
INSANITY PLEA
|. seen FOR FOX
Detectives Still On
Trail OF Wonan
In Case

Los ANGELES. Calf. Jan. 2.-(H1
Prosecuting officers, believing
they must combat a plea of insanity
in their efforts to convict William
Edward Hickman, kidnaper and muir
derer of Marian Parker, today be-
gan laying new plans for the trial.
Meanwhile they continued TO dig
into the unexplained phases of the
case, one Of which they say is the
discovery that Hickman entertained
woman in his apartment on the
day the little girl was killed.
The mystery Of the visit to Hick-
mans cell yesterday of three
strangers, accompanied by his coun-
sci, Jerome Walsh of Kansas City,
was regarded by the prosecutors as
showing that further moves were
being made toward constructing a
defense basis of insanity. Although
Walsh declared the trio were making
a private investigation Of Hick-
mans activities and the three other
men. insisted on concealing their
identities, it was learned that one
was o physician.
Probe Hunts Moves
Walsh insisted none Of them were
alienists.
The strangers and Walsh with
Joseph Ryan, resigned member OF
the district attorneys office who
admitted he was considering aiding
in the defense of the youthful
criminal, were closed for nearly an
hour in Jailer Frank Dewar's office.
They conferred with Hickman there.
Ryan left the district attorneys
charges against the methods pur-
sued in the conduct of the office.
Walsh declared that Ryan had
been chosen to acquaint him with
California procedure.
Further investigation into the
daeth last May of A. r. Driskell,
grandfather of Welby Hunt, con-
fessed aide of Hickman in several
holdups, one of which ended fatal
ly for the victim, c. i. Thoms, was
continued by deputy sheriffs and
George Conteras, chief Of detectives
Of the district attorneys office.
Five asserted suicide notes of the
elderly Alhambra business man were
given a handwriting expert for in
yestigation.
Seek Forgeries
Officers assert that the notes ap-
peared to be written by persons
other than Driskell.
Handwriting experts also were
preparing reports on the signatures
of checks darwin against Driskells
bank account last May. The officers
suspect the checks were forgeries.
They we're drawn on the bank en-
ploying Hickman and Hunt as mes
sengers and which discharged the
former for forgery of checks. Re-
ports Of the penmanship experts
was expected TO be ready for pre-
sentation Tuesday to the grand jury
which will consider evidence for the
possible irdicting of Hunt for muir
der in the Thoms case.
The suicide notes were found
stuffed in a single envelope on
DriskelPs person and indicated fl
nancial troubles and i'll health as
his reasons.
Investigators declared Driskell
had several thousand dollars in bank
deposits and was declared to be in
good health shortly before his
death.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
MOTHERLINDY
STILL FLYING
Plane Forced to Make
Second Landing Be-
cause of Snow

STURGIS, Mich, Jan. 2.-tP-
Weather permitting, Mrs. Evangeline
Lindbergh and her party planned to
resume today the last lap of the re-
turn air journey from Mexico City 10
Detroit which has been interrupted
twice since Saturday by forced land
ings in severe storms.
The second forced landing was
made yesterday near Edwardsburg,
Mich, when snow and sleet, encoan-
tered shortly after their hop off from
Chicago, interfered with the motors
Of the plane and Pilot Harry Brooks
brought it safely to earth. Mrs.
Lindbergh, Mr.. and Mrs. William 3,
Stout and other passengers spent the
night in Edwardsburg and Brooks and
his mechanician, flew the plane here
after the storm subsidized. Brooks re-
mained in the machine last night
turning over the motors at intervals
to prevent freezing.
The several interruptions TO her
homeward flight have not impaired
the disposition of Mrs. Lindbergh.
She is taking the delays cheerfully
and enjoying the thrill"
One Of Mrs. Lindbergh's disappoint-
ments will be her failure to deliver
to Mrs. Henry Ford a box OF ripe
strawberries from Mexico City.
The berries Jared well during the
journey to St. Louis, but the days
layover there and subsequent two
days Of wintery blasts were not 10
good for the fruit.
Il still have the Strawberries" Mrs
Lindbergh said with a laugh. "but
instead Of fresh strawberries they are
now strawberry parfait, for they are
frozen"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
First Fire Call
Is False Alarm

A large and densly uupopu-
lated vacant lot--yery extreme
~ dark. and equally as vacant
enAtek members of the
Brownsville fire department
when they made the first run
of the new year here Sunday
at l2:l5 a. m.
!. gThe call came in as the
echoes Of bells and whistles,
which had greeted the New
Year, were still ringing out. A
very excited masculine voice on
the telephone announced that a
house was on fire at 423 JEFF
fersOn street.
Firemeu rushed shiveringly
to the scene, only to be greet
ed BY silence, darkness and
vacancy.
The person turning in the
alarm evidently didn't live up
stairs over the lot, for he was
mt in evidence when the
smoke-eaters got there.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
Convicts Free After
Attack on Officer

HUNTSVILLE. Tex, Jan. 2.-CPI-
Three convicts who escaped from q
train eighteen miles north Of Croc-
kett last night when they overpower-
ed T. A. Findley, prison guard, and
knocked him unconscious with their
manacled hands, were still at large
today.
Officers led by Warden NJ. L. Speer,
with blood hounds, believe the fugi-
tives are still in the vicinity Of the
thickets into which they plunged aft
er striking the guard and pulling the
emergency cord on the train The
eonvicts took the guards gun and
threatened passengers on the train
as they fled
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
Damage Slight
Throughout Texas
(By The Associated Press)


Although sub-freezfng temperatures
were reported from all sections OF
Texas Sunday night and early Mon
day, the most prolonged and severe
cold wave of the season did little
damage to crops and livestock. Git
rus fruit in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley, while exposed to a tempera-
ture of 80 degrees for about two
hours, was not damaged seriously, al
though small acreages OF beans and
tomatoes were destroyed, according
70 unofficial reports.
Heavy clouds combined with n
steady north wind are accredited
with having saved the Valleys cit
rus. The temperature was rising
over the state Monday.
All of southwest Texas experienced
the coldest weather of years. At
Lockhart. records showed the tela-
perature Of 10 degrees was the low
est in 25 years. At San Antonio, a
minimum OF IL degrees was record
ed, roses and flowers that usually
bloom the entire year being killed.
Northeast Texas was severely hit,
Dallas recording a maximum Of is
degrees for the last % hours. The
minimum Sunday night was Is. Cor
Continued on page two.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
Engineer Killed AS
Trains Crash Headon

MOUNT VERNON. III. Jan. 2.-(P
One engineer was killed and the
ether slightly injured early today
when east-bound passenger train No.
Is Of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad collided with No. IS. another
nassenger train, about five miles east
Of here. =,
"a when his locomotive overturned.
NJ messengers were reported injured.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
BURNS FATAL TO WOMAN

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Jar. 2.-tF,-
Mrs. Margaret Cook, 81, living alone
at Burlington Junction, Mo-. was
burned to death Sunday at her
home. IL II believed she arose to
light fire and her clothing was ig-
nited-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
TROLLEY CRASH KILLS 4

MARIETTA, Ca, Jan. 2.-tF1-Four
persons were killed and several in
jured today when two interu-ban cars
collided on the Atlanta Marietta elec-
tric line near Glover's Station, one
and one-half miles from here
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Lower
Rio Grande Valley: Cloudy to partly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday with
slowly rising temperature; lowest
temperature tonight above freezing,
but low enough for frost is weather
clears and remains in the north
Light to moderate winds, probably
northerly tonight.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy
tonight ard Tuesday with rising
temperatures; probably freezing near
east coast tonight. Light to moder-
ate northeast to southeast winds on
the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
Sears Roebuck & Co.
Head Dies in Chicago

CHICAGO. H.. Dec. 2.-tPl-C. NJ.
Kittle, president Of Sears Roebuek &
Company and former vice president
Of the Illinois Central railroad, died
here today after a two weeks ill
ness.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
IUnGE IMPROVES

FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 2.-tF1
Improvement was noted today in
the condition Of Judge r. r. L. Roy.
Of seventeenth district court. who
was striker with paralysis last Fri
day.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
rrrcTRIcIANs PAY HIKEp

FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 2.-(Pl
Tnride electrical workers here
v,erf on their jobs today with an
;rrrease of fifty cents n day bring
mo their daily wage up to sll as a
result Of a contract signed Satur-
day.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide nc Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorcloEi.
cal conditions:
High ..--.- 1:10 p. m - d0:52 ID. ri.
Low .-..-- b.41 m. III. e.24 p.r.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-02
DAILY RIVER BULLETIN

There will be no Material change
in the river during the new few
days.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-08-31
CHAPTER w

'I wish to see Miss Colby" said
Nina.
And what is the name, please?"
said Barker, closing the front door be-
hind her.
Morgan, Miss Morgan"
'If you will kindly wait in the draw
ing room, I'll see If Miss Colby's al
home"
Every well. Please say" added
Nina, shat | will not keep her long
but that my business is important"
The butler bowed and departed.
Nina's nerve was good and her life
had accustomed her to the taking OF
chances of divers sorts. Nevertheless
she was excited. She had made up
her mind to do certain thing, thing
which required an impudence amount.
ing to courage, and yet at the last mo-
ment she had an impulse to leap TO
her feet and run from the house be-
fore it was too late. She had sufficient
resolution to control the impulse. and
? now she was making last attempt to
gather all of her resources to do the
thing she had come to do.
LIZ had been a rough world for Nina
Born into poverty, the daughter of a
wayward father and an anemic moth
er. she was we'll on toward woman
hood before she realized that there
was anything but hardship In this
world. AS she blossomed into woman
hood and her good looks became set.
tied acquisition, she found that they
brought her little but persecution.
But she had sense enough, while yet
a child, to realize that education meant
increased earning capacity. She read
the newspapers and discovered thar
there were various ways whereby some
sort of education could be obtained al
slight expense. There were night
schools, free lecture courses, cor
respondence schools, museums, pub
tic Libraries. To all of these sources
from time to time she applied, with no
inconsiderable results. But through
all her progress from the depths of
poverty and ignorance to moderate
degree of Intelligence and sophistica
llOn, She UdU tOuhu uCi pain DCSCt ny
men. She had found many men anx-
ious to improve her education, but the
motives of few of these instructors
turned out to be altruistic. By the
time she was twenty years old she
bad come to regard men as a race of
wolves. She admitted no exceptions.
And II was in pursuance of this con
firmed philosophy of life and action
that she had come tonight TO the home
of Doris Colby. and now that she was
here, although even her settled assur-
ance was little ruffied. she had no
thought of turning back.
She was not even daunted by the
sudden appearance of the beautiful
Miss Colby herself. when the latter
came into the drawing room a moment
later.
How do you do" said Doris.
How do you do" said Nina.