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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10

G. l.. Hunter. manager ri Jardin
irrigation district: I'm my jndg-
ment the proposed Brownsville chan
mel and port project is the most ben
eficial proposition ever advanced for
RI Jardin as well as Brownsville.
look upon this proposition not as in
creasing our bonded Indebtedness,
but as the medium through which
our bonded Indebtedness will be lift
ed. Fl Jardn has 3l5 voters. and ]
believe 500 of them will vote for the
project. consider il the greatest
step ever taken toward permanent
prosperity.
John Gregg. president, Merchants
National Bank: II have worked for
the deep water for years. and the
project proposed by the port commit
tee of the Brownsville Chamber Of
Commerce will il carried out. ma
terialize the ambition Brownsville
has had for years. believe every
body is in favor Of the project"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
ID CONVICTS
MAKE ESCAPE;
.4RECAPTURED
Huntsvillc Break In
cluded Three Men
Charged With Arson
In Fen Blaze
HUNTSVILLE. Tex, Oct. IO.-tA

HUNTSVILLE. Tex, Oct. l0.-tP
Fourteen convicts, including three
<HHo had been charged with arson
for the burning of five buildings on
the Wynne state prison farm near
here last week. escaped from the re-
naming whole building at Wynne
last night by saving a hole in the
floor Of the building.
-Four Of the prisoners were recap
tured in Huntsville, two miles from
the Wynne farm. a little more than
two hours after their escape. They
were recognized BY Walter Woods
taxicah driver.
Three Of tho men recaptured were
to face trial soon for the firing OF
the tubercular building mt the farm
last week. Five buildings were de-
stroyed with a property loss of about
$4,000.
Bloodhounds were trailing the es-
capped men today.
The men recaptured who arc
charged with arson are Roy Davis
serving a three year term for burg
larry in Donley county. Oscar Raf.
ferty serving an li-year term foi
forgery. burglary and theft in Nc.
Clellan county. and I'd Kiss. serving
three years for burglary in Dallas
county. The fourth man retaken was
John Reud, convicted Of robbery with
firearms in Young county and sen.
tenced to . years.
The other escaped men are; Car
Gassett, Tarrant county. two years
for burglary; Il. l.. Edwards, Howard
county. eight years for assault and
theft: W. B. Shirley, Johnson and I'll
lis counties. forgery and passing
two years; Marion Azbell. Haskell
bigamy. five years; Roy Robbins
Harris. robbery. five years: Johr
Square. negro. Tarrant. forgery. foui
years; Joe Thomas, Collins and Rock
wall. forgery. fifteen years: Leandei
Gaines, Mccullough, theft and burg
larry, eight years.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
! Austin Pastor
To HeaL Texas
Presbyterians

LUBBOCK. Tex. Oct. lO.-)P,-
Dr. w. n. Minter. pastor of the
First Southern Presbyterian church
at Austin. was elected moderator Of
the Texas Presbyterian Synod. u. s.,
a. the second day Of the synod open
cd here today.
The Revs. J Leighton Green Of
Fort Worth and NJ. r. Purcell Of
lifton were selected ~ assistants
- Dr. s., J. McMurray OF Bartlett,
clerk.
Presidents of five colleges were
among delegates TO the synod. They
are: DR.. T. s. Clyde. Austin ,il-
iege. Sherman; Dr.. s. Z. Chandler.
Daniel Baker college Brentwood: /:
Dr. l.. s. Peddy. Texas Presbyterian
Institute. Kerrville: DR.. II. w. Cur
fie. Austin Theological Seminary,
Austin.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
to
Play Game Here

Alamo Heights high school
football team of San Antonio will
play Brownsville high Thursday
afternoon Of next week. Oct. is.
in Brownsville.
Arrangements to this effect
we're closed in San Antonio this
morning by Red Irvine. director
Of athletics Of the local schools
and Alamo Heights. Mr.. Irvine
left last night for San Antonio.
Alamo Heights won the cham
pionship of San Antonio last
year ard last week defeated the
strong Corpus Christi eleven.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
Comments on Port Plan

J. X. Wells: "For IS years | have
wondered why X has never been
done"
4. A. Hargrove: II consider the
channel and port necessary 10 the
future prosperity Of Brownsville and
the entire Valley. Any individual
who X in doubt a. to the advisability
OF voting bonds to construct the port
should scan his freight bills. Those
freight bills are the best argument
for port that could be presented"
Sherwood Bishop: Il am in full
accord with the recommendations Of
the Chamber or Commerce port com
mittee. In fact, ] believe practically
every resident of Brownsville holds
the same opinion. The port " abSo-
lutely necessary tn the future drvel-
oprent II Brownsville and the entire
Valley"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
Policeman's Wife
Killed By Bombs

CHICAGO. Oct. l0.-CP,-The wife
Of Chicago police captain died last
night, victim of bombs.
u was September last that a
bomb exploded nj the home of Can
tain Luke Garrick and hurled Mrs.
Continued on mage ten
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"The YankS are coming the
Valley Saturday AZ least 1000 strong
and Brownsville has begun prepar-
ations for their entertainment while
in this city.
Flags will he flow from all city
buildings and from sidewalk staffs
and the city is to take on a holiday
(Contiuued on psee two.) -
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
Silver Loses In
Rehearing Fight

AUSTIN. Oct. i0.-tPi-The court
Of criminal appeals today denied the
second motion Of Robert Silver.
Fort Worth hiiacker. for n rchear-
ing on his case.
Silver was granted third stay of
execution until October 26 by Gov
ernor Moody to permit the court 70
act on this motion.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
PICkPOCKET HOOKED

CHlCAGO.-After his pocket had
been picked three times. Robert
Glennon fastened fish-hooks in his
pocket and caught Tony keavin. lS-
year-old gangster.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Thurs
day; rot much change in tempcra-
ture.
For East Texas: Tonight and
Thursday partly cloudy; cooler
Thursday in the extreme northwest
norton.
Moderate "a fresh southerly winds
on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-10
800 600 EnR NEIGHRnRS

SUNDERLAND. William Lee
berueathed his $4,000 estate five
neighbors who had befriendcd him.
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RIVER FORECAST

RIVER FORECAST
There will not hc any material
change in the river stages during
the next "a TO as hours.
Flood Present 2t-Hr. s4-Hr.
Stage Stage Ching. Rain
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TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and low tide mo Point Isabel
tomorrow. under normal meteroloEs-
cal conditions:
High .... 1856 n. m; lass r. m.
Low . s.a3 O. NJ. z:i5 y. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
sprss. todav 6:a7
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-13

a field adjoining the Playground and
did a rushing business for three
days.
We had arranged for the fence to
be opened to the ground and for
a gateman to give return tickets to
anyone who wished to ride in the
plane. All this in return for free
parachute drop.
At Billings, however, our field
was some distance from the fair and
we decided to devise some scheme
to bring the crowd out to us We
stuffed a dummy with straw and
enough mud to give it sufficient
falling speed to look like human
being.
When the grandStands we're
packed that afternoon we took off
from our field with the dummy in
the front cockpit with me.
I went out on the wing and we
did a few stunts over the fair
ground to get averyone's attention;
then Lynch turned the plane so
that no one could see me on the
wing and we threw out the dummy.
1t fell waving its arms and legs
around wildly and landed near the
Yellowstone River
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Down the Yellowstone

We returned to our field and
waited eXpectantly for the curicus
ones to come rushing out for infor-
nation, but two hours later, when
a few Montanans did arrive, they
told us about one Of the other at
tractions--a fellow who dived from
an airplane into the Yellowstone
River, which was about three feet
deep at that point. That was the
last time we attempted to thrill a
Montana crowd.
The transforming season in
Montana was about over in Octo-
Der, and soon after returning from
Lewistown 1 purchased a small
boat for 81. After patching it up a
bit and stopping the largest leaks
started alone down the Yellow
stone River on the way to Lincoln.
The river was not deep and ran
over numerous rapids which were
so shallow that even the fiat bot
tom of my small boat would bump
over the rocks from time to time.
had been unable to purchase q
thoroughly seagoing vessel for 81
and very little rough going was re-
quired to knock out the resin from
the cracks and open the old leaks
again.
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METHOD DOCTORS ADVISE
ENDS COLDS OVERNIGHT
Endorsed as Ideal Way to Stop
Head Cold, Cough, Chest Cold
Pleasant for Home Use.

- No longer is it necessary to guess
in choosing the quickest way to get
rid of a stuffy head cold, bad cough
or deep-seated chest cold. For doc
tors at the clinic have Endorsed a
hospital tested method for home use
which is giving hundreds of Indian
apolis people the same quick relief
that came to G. j. Wrenn and SO
many others who have tried it.
Mr.. Wrenn developed bad head
cold which nothing seemed to re-
lieve. He couldn't sleep except to
doze off a few minutes and wake up
with the feeling that he was being
choked. Then he called doctors at
the clinic, who advised Ayers
Cherry Pectoral-a concentrated
mixture of wild cherry, terpin-hy-
drate and other ingredients which
have relieved even the most ex-
treme hospital cases.
With the first swallow he felt
its comforting, healing warmth
from his nose passages deep down
into his chest. Relief began in
stantly and the cold was clearing
up noticeably in two or three hours.
He continued the pleasant doses, and
in another day or so, doctors re-
port, there was no trace left of the
cough or cold.
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Swapping the BuffaIoes

Lynch and myself transformed
over western Kansas and eastern
Colorado giving a number Of ex-
hibitions from time to time in
which I usually made a jump and
cid a little walking.
In the fall, together with 'Banty"
Rogers, a wheat rancher who owned
the plane, we set out for Montana.
Our course took us through a
corner of Nebraska and then up
through Wyoming along the Big
Horn mountains and over Clusters
Battle Field.
At one time in Wyoming we were
forced to land, due to motor trouble,
near a herd of buffalo, and while
Lynch was working on the motor I
started over towards the animals
to get picture.
I had not considered that they
might object to being photographed,
and was within hundred yards of
them when an old bull looked up
and stamped his foot.
In a moment they were all in line
facing me with lowered heads. I
snapped a picture but lost no time
ir returning to the plane. Mean
while Lynch had located our trouble
and we took off.
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That Leaking Boat

I had my camping equipment
laShed on top of one of the seats to
keep it dry. and as I progressed
down the stream through the ever
present RAPIDS more and more of
my time was required for bailing
out the boat with an old tin can,
until at the end of the first day,
when I had travelled about twenty
miles, I was spending fully half Of
my bailing out water.
I made camp that night in a
small clearing beside the river.
There had been numerous showers
during the day. which thoroughly
soaked the ground. and towards
evening a steady drizzing rain set in.
I pitched nay Army pup tent on
the driest ground could find and,
after a cold supper, crawled in be-
tween the three blankets which I
had sewn together to form a bag.
The next morning the sky was
still overcast, but the rain had
stopped, and after a quick break
fast ! packed my equipment in the
boat and again started down the
river.
The rain set in anew, and this,
together with the water from the
ever-increasing leaks in the sides
and bottem of the boat, required
such constant bailing that I found
little use for the oars that day BY
evening the rocks had taken SO
much effect that the boat was prac-
tically beyond repair.
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Bird, Carved From Walnut,
Was Placed Over Bier
Here in 1865.

Miss Jeanette Dellen, of 500
Rochester ST., is shown above hold
ing the wooden eagle which was
placed over the bier of Abraham
Lincoln in the old Statehouse here
when the martyred Presidents body
was en- route to its last resting
place at Springfield. Ill The bird
is now a possession of the Columbia
Club.
Carved out of a solid block of
black walnut, the bird has been
painted with aluminium paint and
its eyes and beak done in ColorS. 1t
rests on the wall of the carpenter
shop, in the basement of the club.
Here also are busts of Washing
ton and Lincoln and about 1000
pictures of prominent Republicans
of the past, for hitch room has not
been found in the club.
The wooden eagle hung for years
in the cigar store of John McGaw
in the old Bates Hotel, located on
the present site of the Claypool. 1t
was taken down on great
occasions" according to State
Entomologist Frank Wallace, who
recalls much of the history of the
bird, but is not sure of its origin.
1t hung over the bier of Lincoln
and also of President William Henry
Harrison, Wallace asserts. When
McGaw died, his widow donated it
| to the Columbia Club.
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Continued from Page u

at Wisconsin. From then on I spent
every minute could steal from my
studies in the shooting gallery and
on the range.
The first six weeks of vacation
after my freshman year we're spent
in an artillery school at Camp
Knox, KY. When that was over I
headed my motorcycle south and
with $48 in my pocket set out for
Florida. After arriving at Jackson
vile I started back the same day,
but over a different route, leading
farther west than the first.
Seventeen days after leaving
Camp Knox I arrived back in
Madison with a motorcycle badly IN
need of repair and SO left in my
pocket. After stopping in Madison
long enough to overhaul the engine
I went to Little Falls to spend the
remainder of my vacation.
Soon after the start of my third
semester at Wisconsin I decided to
study aeronauticS in earnest, and
II, dAICA pCCOHllIlS UcGter acquainted
with the subject, it appeared to
have a good future. I intended to
take it up as life work.
I remained at the University OF
Wisconsin long enough to finish the
first half of my sophomore year.
Then about the end of March, 1922
left Madison on my motorcycle en-
route to Lincoln Neb., where I had
enrolled as a flying student with
the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation.
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Starts 'Wing-W Walking

1t was while 1 was flying with
BAIL that I began to do little
"wing-walking." We would often
attract a crowd to the pasture or
Stubble field from which we were
operating by flying low over town
while I was standing on one of the
wing tips.
In June I returned to Lincoln
and received little more instruc-
ton.
About this time Charlie Harden.
well known in the aeronautical
world for his parachute work, ar
rived in Lincoln. I had been faS-
clnated by the parachute jumps 1
had seen and persuaded Ray Page
to let me make a double drop with
Harden'S chutes.
A double drop is made by faSten-
ing two parachutes together with a
rope. Both are then packed in a
heavy canvas bag; the mouth OF
the bag is laced together and the
lace ends TIED in bow-knot. The
bag is lashed half way out on the
wing Of the plane. with the laced
end hanging down. When the
plane has reached sufficient alti-
tude the jumper climbs out of the
cockpit and along the wing to the
chute, faStens the parachute straps
to his harness and swings down I'M
der the wing. In this position he
is held to the plane by the bow-knot
holding together the mouth of the
bag containing his parachute, the
bag itself being tied securely to
the wing. When ready to cut loose
he pulls the bow-knot, allowing the
bag to open and the parachute to
be pulled out by his weight.
In a double jump, after the first
parachute has fully opened, the
jumper cuts the rope binding the
second chute to the first. The first
chute, upon being relieved of his
weight, collapses and passes him on
the way down.
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On Transforming Trip

The next two months were spent
in obtaining, in one way or an
other, my flying instruction, and in
learning what I could around the
factory, as there was no ground
school in connection with the flying
course at that time.
We did most of our flying in the
early morning or late evening on
account of the strong Nebraska
winds in midday with their CORE
spending rough air which makes
flying SO difficult for a student.
believe that I got more than
my share of rough weather flying,
however, because my instructor, or
"Biff," as we used to call him, had
certain very definite views on life,
one of which was that early morn
ing was not made as time for in
structors to arise. So, as I was the
only student, and "Biff" my only in
structor, 1 did very little early morn
ing flying.
BY the end of May I had re-
ceived about eight hours of inStruc-
ton which Gin addition to the $500
cost of my flying course) had re-
qiured about $3.50 for train fare and
personal expenses.
One morning "Biff" announced
that 1 was ready to solo, but the
president of the company required
| a bond to cover possible breakape
of the plane, which was not able tc
furnish. AS result, did not take
a plane up by myself until severa
months later.
Before I had entirely completed
my flying course the instruction
plane was sold to E. G. BAIL, who
was planning a transforming triI
through southeastern Nebraska.
I became acquainted with BAIL a
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car along one Of the Nebraska
country roads. a piston had jammed
and I had not found time to re-
place it.
Accordingly, after returning from
Montana I spent several days over
hauling the machine before pro-
ceeding on to Detroit, where 1 was
to meet my mother.
made the trip to Detroit in three
days, and after spending about two
weeks there I took train for Little
Falls to clear up some business in
connection with our farm.
During the winter months I spent
part Of my time on the farm and
part in Minneapolis with my father.
Occasionally we would drive the
hundred miles from Minneapolis to
Little Falls together.
In March, 1923, I left Minnesota
and after a short visit in Detroit de-
parted on train bound for Florida.
My next few weeks we're spent in
Miami and the Everglades.
Ito Be Continued
| Copyright. 1923. by Charles A. Lindbergf
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OHIO FACED BY
/ PARALYSIS OF
/ COAL INDUSTRY
Abandonment of Largest
/ Mines in State May
!, Climax Strike.
BY HARRY WILSON SHARPE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb 49,
Ohio's greatest industry-that of
bituminous coal mining-virtually
was paralyzed today, with complete
abandonment of many mines con-
templated
Forty thousand striking miners
are idle, their children are ragged,
starvation is imminent, sabotage
and rioting are frequent, and the
climax still is in the offing.
81 The strike-one of the most bitter
dramas in the history of the
country-has been in effect since
last April, when the Jacksonville
wage pact, guaranteeing skilled
miners $3.50 day, expired.
The pact possibly never will be
E renewed, because the mine owners
insist they cannot operate under
the agreement and profitably COM
pete with non-union mines in
Kentucky and West Virginia.
Miners Hold Out
The miners, led by John L. Lewis,
president Of the United Mine Work
+ers of America, are determined to
hold out for renewal of the compact,
Or at least for what they term an
equitable compromise. And now
warnings have been sounded in
Congress and State militiamen are
held in readiness, prepared for
eventualities.
An ominous cloud of unrest,
fraught with premonitions of dis
aster, hangs over the strike-torn
coal fields and State officials are
watching closely. \
Open rebellion-if such occurs
may be expected April l, officials
fear, when a Federal Court order
evicting union miners families from
houses owned by non-union mines
becomes effective.
Meanwhile, the State has leaped
into the fray. A relief proclamation
was issued by Governor Vic Donahey
and the entire State has responded.
Relief Given Families
Sixty-fve kitchens have been set
. up in the coal fields and are feed
ing 5000 children day; scores of
trucks loaded with clothing shoes
and canned goods have been sent
into the destitute areas, and the
State has an $4,000 relief fund on
hand.
But over it all hangs the feeling
of hate and unrest that has f1ared
forth in rioting, arson and, in a
few instances, murder.
Meanwhile, the coal production
has declined from 100000 to 2O0,-
900 tons a month. Two hundred
fifty mines, normally employing 30
900, are idle and 80 per cent of the
smaller mines are imperative.
In addition, the Sunday Greek
Coal Company, one of the largest
the State, is threatening to aban-
p it's mines, even to Withdrawing
its maintenance men.
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An Aerial Thrill

made my first jump one eve
ming in June from an 1,800-foot
altitude over the flying field.
My first chute opened quickly,
and after floating down for a few
seconds, I cut it loose from the
second, expecting a similar per-
Torrance.
But l did not feel the comfort
able tug of the riserS which usually
follow an exhibition jump. AS I
had never made a descent before,
it did not occur to me that every
thing was not as it should be until
several seconds had passed and I
began to turn over and fall head
first.
I looked around at the chute just
in time to see it string out: then
the harness jerked me into an up
right position and the chute was
open.
Afterward I learned that the vent
of the second chute had been tied
to the first with grocery string
which had broken in packing the
parachute, and that instead of
stringing out when I cut loose, it
had followed me still folded, caus-
ing a drop of several hundred feet
before opening.
I remained in Lincoln for two
weeks working in the Lincoln
Standard factory for SIS a week.
Then I received a wire from H. j.
Lynch, who had purchased a
Standard a few weeks before and
taken it on a transforming trip into
western Kansas.
He was in need of a parachute
Jumper to fill number Of exhibit
ton contracts in Kansas and Colo
RADIO, and wanted me to go with
him in that capacity at a small
fraction of its cost
Page offered me a new Harden
chute instead of my remaining fly
ing instruction. and I took a train
for Bird City, Kan.