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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
R. CARDENAS,
LAST OF Line,
FEUD VICTIM
Merchant Shot Dead In
Valley From Drawn
Curtains of Auto;
Was Second Attempt

A volley cf pisto. fire emanating
from between closed curtains of "
speeding automobile as it passed the
ancient market house in Matamoros
Monday night is believed 60 have
written finis tO " love feud that is
said 70 have ragged internationally for
the past six years and to have cost
the lives Of at least six members of
prominent Mexican families.
Refugio Cardenas, prominent Mata-
moros businessman. and the last
male member of his family, was
slain by the aEsassins aS nv stood
on the corner, a direct target for
their guns.
He was shot five times NV N AZ
caibre pistol, the shots taking effect
i'm various portions of his body. He
slumped to the pavement with the
first shot but it is reported that he
did not die until early Tuesday morn
ing and that he furnished police Of
ficials OF the Mexican city with
clues to the identity or his assail-
ants which will probably lead to their
arrest within the next few hours.
Find Abandoned Auto
An automobile. the number of
which was furnished tO police bv
witnesses Of the murder, was found
abandoned In "A residential section
OF the city only few moments after
Cardenas had been shot.
IA man was arrested last year fol-
lowing an unsuccessful attempt 70
take Cardenas' life at the identical
spot AT which he was fatally shot
Monday night.
Cardenas was a prominent busi-
nessman Of the Mexican city and had
lived there throughout his entire
life.
The feud is said TO have started
between "A member Of a BeHavidea
family living in Matamoros and a
brother Of the man who was fatally
shot there Monday night
Both Loved Girl
Both men we're said to have heen
In love with the same girl and that
they mutually agreed to stay away
from the young lady's house ard
await her decision.
"A brother Of the man said t0 be in-
v0lved In the love agreement is said
TO have crossed from Brownsville 10
Matamoros and tO have slain young
Cardenas as he walked along one ~
the principal streets of that city.
This initial Staying is said tn havs
happened about six years ago.
Two other members nf the Carde-
mas family, who took up the feud..
we're slain on the plaza i'm Matamo-
rOs about two and one half wears
ago in a running gun fight IN which
stray bullet Us said To have serious
nv injured one of the prominent Of
ficials Of the Mexican town.
Father Was Slain
About a year ago. the father of
the Benavldes man was called tD tho
door of his ranch home, few miles
south Of Matamoros, and shot and
killed from ambush.
Juan N. Cardenas. next to the
youngest of the Cardenas brothers.
was shot and killed in Monterrey
a little more than a year ago and
another brother was sand tn been
shot and killed in an alteration on
the river between Matamoros and
ReynOsa-
Refugio Cardnas. killed Monday
night, was the last of the line, liz is
said.
It is believed that funeral SER
vices will hc held fnr him Hn MatnA
moros sometime Wednesday although
no definite announcement was OBJ
tainable, Tuesday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
Robertson to Aid In
Texas League Series

HOUSTON. Tex. Sept 4.-tR)-
Claud Robertson. manager and first
string catcher Of the Beaumont Ex-
porters will be eligible for service
with Wichita Falls in the Texas
league play-off which is to start
September ~ at Wichita Falls.
President Fred Ankenman of the
Houston Bluffs has announced.
Il has been agreed that while
Robertson will be eligible for the
Wichita Falls-Houston play-off hc
Is to be used only in the event Pete
Lapnn- first string catcher for the
Spudders. is incapacitated.
Confirming the report that he will
join the Spudders. Robertson said
that Gene Bailey would direct the
Exporters the remainder of the sea-
son. Robertson u to report at
Wichita Falls tomorrows III
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
maine VOTERS
PICK OFFICERS
NEXT MONDAY
Trend of Election In
u. s. to be Shown Is
Superstition; Hard
Fight Near Close
By BYRON PRICE.
(AesorInfed Press Staff Writer.

NASnuCiAttu EFeSS starr wv Filtr.
PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. 4.--tPl--
With all of the customary flourishes,
and some besides, Maine il bringing
TO conclusion another of those state
campaigns in which, every presiden-
tial year.. the great national parties
pass through their baptism Of fire.
On Monday next the state will
choose a governor, a senator, its full
quota of representatives in congress,
legislature, and other state and
local officials. 1t vii not vote for
president until November, when
everybody else does. For peculiar
reasons, linked with tradition and
tinctured by. a background Of un-
wavering republicanism, the cam
paign which ends with the current
week Is for Maine the big political
event Of the year.
The most impressive element OF the
picture is the intensive effort OF the
republicans to roll up "A record-break-
ing majority. The democrats are
fighting more quietly.
Barometer State
But they have no delusions about
the difficulties they face in a state
20 dry il was the first Of the forty
eight to adopt prohibition, and SO re-
publican it never has cast its cleo
toral vote for a democrat except in
the great republican disagreement OF
1912.
This September election custom
dates back to the beginning Of state
hood. Originally several other states
selected local officials in advance Of
the countrywide election in Novem-
Der, partly on the theory of the
countrywide election in November,
partly on the theory that such q sys-
tenn made for separation. Of state and
national issues. Now the custom
survives in Maine alone.
Keeping thus apart in her habit Of
early voting, Maine has fallen heir
to a reputation as the Barometer
state reputation based on the
theory that big or little republican
majority for the state ticket in Sep
fTnrtfwund an rnwn afuhfl
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04

FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. A.
tPl-Sifned BY 17 Methodist minis
ters Of the Fort Worth district, a
petition requesting Governor Moody
TO commute to life imprisonment the
death penalty Of J. X. (Bob) Silver,
was sent t0 Austin yesterday.
The written request was drawn up
by Rev. Homer T. Fort, Fort Worth
pastor. and presented at ministers
meeting.
Silver. convicted or staying ROs-
coe Wilson, youthful theater cashier
lin an attemrted holdup. was SEN
tenced to be executed September q.
He was granted 2l-day reprieve by
the governor In order that che board
Of pardons might investigate the
case.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
Storm Forecast To
Hit Yucatan Channel

WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.--lHD-The
weather bureau today issued the
following storm warning:
Advisory 10 a. m. tropical dis
turhancc central about 20 north. 40
west moving west northwestward 1T
rate of about 800 miles per day. II
IL still apparently OF moderate but
slowly increasing intensity and il
will likely pass through Yucatan
channel late tonight. Caution ad-
vised vessels bound southeastern
gulf next 36 hours
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
MEXICO
FOR new Law
Religious Liberty Is
Asked By Catholics
In Petition

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4.-(Pl-A pc
tition signed by lao prominent Cath
Ollie laymen asking amendment OF the
religious laws to establish complete
religious liberty In Mexico and make
the church and state independent"
was before a senate committee today
for consideration.
The petition was read in the senate
last night and turned over to the
committee on constitutional points
for a report on it. The memorial was
also filed with the chamber but that
body was not in session yesterday.
The petition asks i'm part:
'First, that the legal existence and
personality of all distinct dencmina-
tions be recognized.
Second, that the separation and in
dependence between the state and
different religious denominations be
recognized and that consequently the
state should not legislate in religious
affairs.
third, that this separation not he
system Of hostility but Of friendly
cooperation in order 20 benefit the
commonwealth. Each in it's own
sphere can be independent, the state
in affairs Of the temporal order. the
church in affairs Of the spiritual or
der"
81 TO SALVE HER HEART
GLASGOW.-Miss Aileen Derrct
was awarded 81 in her breech Of
promise suit.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
OFFICER IS
HURT INFALL
Suffers Brain Injury
When Head Strikes
Railway Tracks

HARLIN, Sept. 4.-Ramon Longo-
ria, United States border patrol in
spector, was seriously injured here
Monday night when he fell as he
attempted to step from the rear plat
form Of q Southern Pacific passen-
ger train. his head striking the rails
as he struck the ground.
He suffered a concussion Of the
brain. according to attending physi-
clans who are treating him at his
home in this city.
The accident occurred as he pre-
pared to leave the train after a
search for an Italian immigrant be-
lieved to have gained unwful en-
try to this country by having cross
ed the river at some point near
Brownsville.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
Woman Slightly
Injured by Fire

Mrs. II. D. Ralph, 1913 West St.
Charles street. was slightly burned
about the hands and arms Tuesday
morning when leaky pipe in an oil
stove became irnited.
The blaze. which was extinguished
BY the fire department with the use
Of chemicals, did no damage TO the
house or furnishings, according to
Fire Capt. j. ID. Guerra.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
Speed Boat Driven
At 81 f.9iles an Hour

DETROIT. Sept. s.-tPD-Ceorce
wood, Detroit speed boat wizard.
drove his hydroplane Miss America
VII to a new worlds record todav
when he average s2S34 miles an
hour in the trials for the ona-mile
championship Of North America. The
old record was s0.567 which Wood
ade In his Miss America " two
years ago.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04

DETROIT. Sept. 4.-tP)-Disciplcs
OF widely different schools Of politi-
cal thought contested today for the
republican nomination for governor
IN Michigan's primary election.
Gov. Fred w. Green has conduct
ed campaign Of silence; George
VI. Welsh of Grand Rapids. dis
tinruished as a political orator. has
carried his message to the elcctor-
ate. stumping the state.
The democratic gubernatorial
nomination is uncontested. William
a. Comstock Of Detroit. being the
candidate.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04

you value Is ruined. The man who re-
pairs roofs and can save you time. expense,
and worry, will see your need in a classi-
fied-so will the carpenter, plumber, and
others. See eBusiness Service and you'll
save money! Want Ads-small but
mighty. Phone 8.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
FINAL.
EDITION.
I'm OUR
VALLEY

&. c. WENTZ. Cameron county
potato grower, addressing the Rio
Crande Valley Potato Growers asso-
citation. tells Of a visit to the potato
growing districts in California.
He told Valley growers that they
had received a far better return
from their potato csop Of last
spring than did the California
n growers.
Three-fourths Of the Valley crop,
ne pointed out. had brought a price
OF three cents a pound or better.
In comparison with the one cent
a pound paid for most of the Cali
fornia crop.
Potato growers are now interested
in the next crop and its prospects.
Seed buying time has arrived.
Doubtless the growers are sur
veying the situation carefully, since
potato seed is a rather expensive
investment.
SAN BENITO inaugurates a move
ment looking to the creation OF a
street between that city and Har-
linRen.
In which the present section Of
the state highway would be in
cluded.
Curbs. storm sewers and other
facilities Of a street would be con-
structed under the plan.
II would be at least double the
present width. And at least that
much more space should be pro-
vided for to accommodate even the
present traffic.
II appears to be an undertaking
that is necessary and quite worth
while.
THE BEST THING about this
widening Of that thoroughfare would
N be the probability that some pro-
Raway with the "waves" in the Har-
ingen-San Benito road.
Those waves sometimes face
Aiously termed 'rDancy's Permanent
waves"
SPEAKING Of Judge Dancy, he
orrects this column in regard to
Statement in connection with the
salary that is being paid Roy Mil
Ter. the intra-coastal canal official,
also that Of r. r. Crcager, the Cam
eron county harbor representative.
It was stated that Miller was be-
ing paid S. 600 a year. Wrong. The
county Judge calls attention to the
fact that Cameron county is paying
him $500 a month, or S2.40O a year.
And Creager. instead Of receiving
$4,000 a year, is receiving $4,000 a
year.
And, incidentally, both men were
employed on the initiative of the
county commission in order to fur
ther the interests Of the intra
coastal canal and the harbor at
Brazos Santiago pass.
SOME $4,000 school children Of
the Lower Rio Grande Valley are
starting to school this week and
next.
School rooms are humming with
excitement.
It's a new year for study. For
some hundreds it is the first year,
the start.
For some other hundreds il Is the
final year, the year OF graduation,
preceding college. or the workaday
world.
The older generations Of the
Valley have provided splendid build
ings, unexcelIed equipment, and
hundreds Of highly trained teachers.
II is up to the youngsters to make
the best Of what mas been placed at
their service at an outlay Of many
millions of dollars.
JUST A LITTLE BREATH Of a
ncrther early TUESDAY, mcrning.
The very first whiff Of the II
season that Is rapidly arriving In
the north, and approaching the south
somewhat SLOWLY.
Valley-ites. many Of them. sought
light covers during the nigkt.
Follows on the heels Of rains that
spread over large section Of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley Monday
and Monday night.
CONTINUED on page eight
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
SEAMAN FROM TEXAS BROWNS

WASHINGTON. Sept. i.-tPi-
The navy department was advised
today az the drowning Of w. T..
Lindlev. seaman on the destroyer
FIusser, near Charleston. ~ C-, yes
terday. The body has not been re-
covered. Lindley's father. William
II. Lindley. resides. at Melissa, Tex.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04

PARIS. Sept. 4.-tP)-The flying
Sergeants Jean Assolant and Rene
Lcevre. who took off from lie Bour-
get field this i.orning I. on a trans
oceanic flight, were sighted at 9:35
a. m, by a fishing boat in latitude
44-50 and longitude LAT. They were
heading westward.
The fishing boat was in the Bay of
Biscay about 80 miles southwest OF
Bordeaux. The point indicated is ap-
proximately $50 miles from lie
Bourget field. whence the start was
made. This was the first report Of
the plane since its takcoff.
The report was taken as an indi-
cation that the filters were heading
for the Azores with the intention OF
reaching the United Statesflf Their
general course had been southwest
from lie Bourget until they were
clear Of the coast of France. after
which. it was apparent they had
Continued on page eight
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair to partly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday. Light 70 fresh north
erly 10 casterly winds ON the west
coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
PLANE MAKES
FIRST PAUSE
AT MOROCCO
Take-Off Made in Ship
Canary Bird Early
Tuesday From lie
Bourget Field

CASABLANCA. Mororcco, Sept. 4.
-fPl-The Yellow Canary plane.
which hoped off with Jean Assolant.
Rene Lefevre and Almond Lott from
lie Bourget field near Paris this
morning landed here at 4:40 p. m,
today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04

There will be no material change
in the river during the neat ai tn
AZ hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 2a-Hr.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow. under normal meteur0logi-
cal conditions:
High ..-.-.. 6:lE a- m-; 10000 p- m-
Low .....-.. 1882 "A. m.; 1857 ". m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-04
Maybe You

have Insurance against
a leaky roof, but think
of the inconvenience
and suppose something
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Lucky Roberts
Supplies Prince
With Records

NEW YORK, Aug. 29-(SpeciaD -
Luck Roberts, popular composer,
orchestra leader and purveyor of mu-
sic to the "Four Hundred" of New
York, has just been revealed as the
man who keeps H. II. H., The Prince
of Wales, abreast of the latest tune
full music. Each month and some
times oftener he ships the cream of
the latest dance and ballad numbers
recorded to London. =.
Lucky" who with his wife, Lena,
has carried the orchestra burdens of
many musical comedies from those
of current date back to Williams and
Walker days when she was in that
famous chorus and he and Alex
Rodgers were composing Bert Will
liam's songs, is still in partnership
with Rodgers. They conduct a mu-
steal studio at 225 West 10th street,
New York City, and among recent
hits which they have composed and
are recording are "Baby Mine, lit
tie Drops of Water" Little Grains
of Sand" Magnolia" and CUP in
My Sweetie's Suit" Roberts is hav-
ing considerable success, having re-
Gently purchased the 23-room house
at IDS st. Nicholas. Last winter he
played at the Everglades Club, Flor
ida's exclusive Palm Beach resort, the
first band to play there.
Roberts met the Prince during his
visit TO the u. S. when he played for
him nine nights in succession at
Clarence Mackay's country estate on
Long Island, at Mrs. w. X. Wander
bilt's at the Vincent Astors. the
Fleishman's, and other palatial
homes where owners are regular pa
irons.
Rodman Wanamaker who is an in
innate Of the Prince and good
friend Of "Lucky's" arranged for the
latter to keep him supplied with
records.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Young Man, Go West,
Says Bishop Walls

NEW YORK. ~ Bishop W. ].
Walls. of Charlotte, N. c., and one
of the leading bishops and church
men of the A. NJ. f. Zion Church,
was one of the prominent delegates
to the National Negro Business
League.
Bishop Walls came here from the
Pacific Coast, where he attended the
Worlds Sunday School Convention
in Los Angeles, and passing his vaca
ton, He was greatly impressed with
the progress that the race was max
ing on the Coast. He said: 1.-THE
people of color in San Francisco,
Los Angeles. Oakland and Sacra-
mento, the richest productive areas
in America, are making marvellous
progress both in business and agri-
culture.
"The cotton raising in these val
leys, which began five years ago, Of
fers a new field of opportunity for
the independent Negro farmer.
"He should go there in increasing
numbers and learn the principles Of
dry farming and thus establish HIM
self in this new Colorado"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Race Integrity Law
Up to Supreme Court

RICHMOND, Va.-Attorneys for
Mrs. Cassie Jamerson announced
this week that she would take the
question of Virginia's new race in
tegrity law up to the supreme court
of the United States.
Mrs. Jamerson's white husband
sued her for annulment of their mar
riage and won in the lower courts
of the state.
Jamerson declared that his wife
led him TO believe that her dark
complexion was due to Indian blood.
He now finds out that this is an I'M
truth and that she is colored.
Counsel for Mrs. Jamerson con-
tended that under an old Virginia
law persons having less than one
fourth Negro blood were classed as
white and that the recent law of
1910 is unconstitutional in that it de-
clares that all persons of one-six-
teenth Negro blood are colored.
Under the old Virginia law Mrs.
Jamerson says she is white, but that
under the law of 1910 she is colored.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
AVERAGE WAGES
OF u. LABORER.
40 CENTS HOUR

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 90
The weighted average rate of wages
for common laborers in twelve I'm
portant industries on April 1, 1925,
was 405 cents an hour, according
TO a report of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Department of Labor. The
lowest rate was is cents and the
highest 62,5. The highest average
rate. Al cents. appears in the auto
mobile industry. with the petroleum
industry only slightly lower, 46.s
cents, The lowest average rate.
32,4 cents, appears in the sawmill
industry.
The study made by the Bureau
was confined to entrance rates, that
is, the wages paid newly employed
unskilled adult males, in important
industries which require consider
able numbers of common laborers.
Some establishments, the Bureau
said, reported two rates, for exam
pie. one for the 10-hour day and
one for the S-hour day, or one for
white and one for colored or Mexi-
can workers. These distinctions
have not been maintained in the
tabulated data. although 1t is ap-
parent that the. lowest rates are
shown for those geographic divisions
where there are large numbers of
colored or Mexican workers, while
the highest rates are shown for To-
calities where an S-hour day is
more or less prevalent.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Negro Medical Internes

WASHINGTON, d. c. August 20.
1t has Just been announced by
the Department of the Interior that
Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist,
has pledged $3.50 per month to be
apportioned for the use of the medi-
cal internes in Freedmen's Hospital,
Washington, ID. c., an institution for
the cOlored.
The statement by the Department
says that "These young colored grad
yates in medicine, serving their in
terneships to further fit them for
the practice of their profession, are
without possible sources of income
to supply the simple necessities of
living.
This beneficence of Mr.. Rosen-
wald, bestowed in a quiet way
through the Secretary of the Inter-
ior lis real charity, intended to
further the ambitions of worthy
men who have struggled against
odds up to the graduation point. 4"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
Took Wife's Money
Is Shot to Death

CHICAG0.-Tom Dore is dead as
result of taking the petty sum of
eighteen dollars from beneath the pill.
low under which his wife had hidden
it. An hour after he had taken the
money his wife Mabel Dore, age SO
years, demanded the return of her
savings. Dore refused to comply with
her request. The woman took a
nickel-plated pistol from beneath an
other pillow and returned to the liv-
ing room where her husband was
and fired two shots. One went into
the ceiling of the home and the other
through the heart of her husband.
"He said | would get the money
only over his dead body and sure
did," she told police, they said as she
signed a confession yesterday after
noon.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-30
1000 College Students
In M. E. Schools

ATLANTA, GA. = The presidents
of seventeen Methodist Episcopal Col
leges for Negroes, in annual session
Thursday at Cannon Theological
Seminary, this city, reported an en-
rolment of more than 1000 students
and aggregate property and endow-
ment values of $7,000,000.
The last four years, it was said,
have been the most successful in the
history of these institutions, with
constantly increasing enrolment,
rising standards, and more liberal
support. The institutions represent
ed reach all the way across the South
from Morgan College, Baltimore to
Austin and from Nashville to Day
tona, Fla.