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Given To
Baby, Officials
Told by Father

WINCHESTER, Ky. Jan. lip
Mary Magdalene Pitts. Q years old.
whose death after alleged torture
December % is being investigated bv
Greenup county authorities was Civ
en poison December 2S By Mrs. Mary
Frazier. his housekeeper. Robert
Herman Pitts, the child's father told
officers yesterday. Pitts and Mrs.
Frazier are in Jail here for safe
keeping. They are charged with
murder.
Although Pitts declared his attor-
ney told him not to talk, he CON
tinued to blame Mrs. Frazier for the
death Of the baby and said that the
woman had mistreated the child at
various times.
Mrs. Frazier charged in a state
ment to officers hat several times
Pitts told her he had escaped from
a jail or ~penitentiary. While deny
ing any conspiracy to kill the child,
Mrs. Frazier said that several times
Pitts told her he wasn't afraid OF
the law in Greenup county" but
afraid 10 kill Mary because they
might find him out and he was
wanted anyway"
Pitts admitted he has been in Jail.
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Hook and Ladder
Wagon Gets Here

The new hook and ladder waFon
ordered sometime ago for the usa
Of the Brownsville fire department.
has arrived in the city and In I'm A
furniture chr In the Missouri IN.
cific freight yards. Capt. J.. B.
Guerra. captain Of the central fire
station said Wednesday. III came In
early Wednesday morning. A rep.
resentative of the American La
France company, Elmira, Nv. NJ, from
which the truck vas purchased
n cost of more than $4,000, W
reach Brownsville Wednesday mir
or Thursday morning 20 Surerit.
the unloading Of the new equip.
ment and personally deliver Ii y
th@ city. Ii was said.
No location for the truck has be,
decided upon as yet, Capt. Guer
said. but il is hoped TO find a plat
large enough near the central str
ton.
The new piece Is IS feet and u.
inches long, and has m aerial ladde
that will extend upward for rs feet
il was said.
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MRS. SNYDER
fContinued from rage one.l

Continued from page one.D
law. But this did not happen. !
have searched IT. vain for any basis
which my conscience in the light of
my oath OF office viii approve on
which ! might temper the Law with
mercy
up to this writing there is no
extenuation shown for what the sew
en- judges OF the Court or Appeals, in
agreement with the twelve Jurors and
the trial justice, have found 10 be
n deliberate and p~remeditated MUIR
der committed BY these defendants.
"The application for executive
clemency is therefore denied"
The governor, throughout the read
ing Of his statement, hau before him
on his desk a letter from Mrs. Isa-
belle Gray asking that the life Of
her husband be spared 50 that their
1~O-year-old daughter would not car
~ the stigma through lfie.
Thousands of letters bearing on
the Ease were sent TO the governor.
Last-minute court moves to OBJ
tain a stay of execution continued
to be planned by counsel for the two
prisoners as the hour approached
for their execution.
Word of the governors decision,
unless conveyed by their attorneys
or relatives. will be kent from the
two condemned persons, Warden Lew
IS r. Lawes of Sing Sing said. Their
first intimation, so far as prison OF
ficials are concerned. he said, will
come VIII the appearance Of guards
who will lead them to the death
chair.
Mrs. Snyder has expressed to call
ers thc belief that there Is still
tir-7 for something good to hap
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-11
Nicaragua Similar
To Philippine War

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-|(PJ-Am-
erican marines in Nicaraguan are
dealing with a situation in many
ways similar to that which marked
the last phases of the pacification of
the Philippines. A handful Of hos
tiles, fitting through the Jungle
covered area along the Honduran
border, must be rounded up and that
process has begun with the return Of
the dry season making jungle trails
availagle again to the marine patrols
and attachments of Nicaraguan ma
tional guard under marine COM
manders.
The system expected by officials
here to be followed by the combined
force is occupation of each town and
cross-trail village by a small garri-
son and establishment of intercon-
Meeting patrols over the territory.
The main source of revenue of the
SANDING and Salgada bands, Wash
ington officials say, has been the
coffee crop seized from the scattered
cultivated patches in the area where
they operate. A market for this
coffee is found across the border in
Honduras where it Is sold at half
the usual price.
GONeFenMenL reports mere are de-
clared 70 show that sufficient reve-
nue. has been derived from this
source 20 account for purchase here
and there in Honduras of whatever
additional arms and ammunitions the
hostile forces have received recently.
Suggestions that some outside agency
is supplying SANDING are more or less
secuted at the state department.
Warrington political officials also
seemed inclined to look upon esti-
mates Of heavy casualties among the
SANDING forces in clashes with the
marine as highly imaginary.
SANDING himself has never had any
previous Importance, politically speak
ing, in Nicaragua. The state depart
ment bluntly calls him a bandit lead
er, intent only on pillage. Moncada,
the liberal military chieftain with
whom the Stimson agreement was put
through and the probable liberal can
didate for president at the elections
this ummer is said 20 have informed
American authorities that SANDING
was always q troublesome and in
subordinate unit Of the liberal army.
Both political factions have dis
avowed his present activities.
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HURT Here

(Continued from page one)
was almost overcome by smoke, being
rescued from the flaming interior OF
the house by neighbors, Mr.. Bettin
said Wednesday morning.
Grid Star Hurt
Samano, star back on the local
high school football team during the
early part Of the season, sustained
deep l~acerations Of the face and nu-
merous body bruises. while Reed, al
so a student at the high school. was
badly cut about the face. suffered
severe body bruises, and. il is feared
by members Of his family, was in
iured internally.
Reed was driving the machine.
property of his father, Capt. Wallace
Reed of the U. S. Coast Guard SER
vice north on Ninth street when IL
was struck by Chief Weller's car. go
ing west on Washington. the force
Of the impact hurting the car oc-
cupied BY the two boys completely
across the street.
Hurled Through Top
The lighter machine had almost
cleared Washington when the heavy
car of Chief Weller, going at a As
mile an hour clip, struck the rear
end, knocking it against a lamp
post on the northwest corner, from
which i r~ebounded, turning over
three times. to a position on the
southwest corner
Samano was hurled through the
tor Of the car, while Reed was
thrown through the windsnield. Both
were unconscious for a time after the
accident, but Samano was able To
80 home, nearby, unassisted. Reed
vas removed to his home in a pass
ing auto nobile. and treated by the
family physician.
An A-ray examination was 10 be
made Wednesday to determine the
extent Of his injuries. his mother
declared Wednesday morning.
The fire started in the dining
room Of the Bettin home. apparently
from defective wiring or p%oppinr
Goals from the kitchen stove. Mrs.
bettin was on the front porch a;
TIE time, while an employe Of the
Lace was in the garage IN the rear.
The first intimation Mrs. Bettin had
Z q the house was on fire was
screams from neighbors. who saw
smoke pouring from the rear win
dows, Mr.. Bettin said Wednesday.
The aged woman rushed into the
smoke and flame-filled interior ANA
was led to safety by neighbors.
Mr.. Bettin estimated HIS loss al
approximately $4,000. inc entire
contents Of the house were badly
damaged by smoke and water. while
most Of the rear portion was CHAIR
cd by the flames. he said.
The house is owned by T.Crixell.
The new fire company, opened
Monday at Sixth and st. Charles
streets, was supposed to have an.
swered the call. but the alarm svs-
ten from the central station failed
70 work. CaDt. J. 2. Guerra. in charge
Of the latter station said.
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BRYAN Says Democrats
Can Carry IS States

LINCOLN, Neb. up - With the
right kind Of candidates, the demo-
cratic party should sweep IS states
in the 1923 presidential election,
savs Charles W. Bryan. former gov
error Of Nebraska and party nomi-
~ for vice president in 1924
The right kind of candidate, he
thinks. would be "a genuine JEFF
Tersonian democrat from the middle
vest. in harmony with the great
erricultural states Of the west and
south"
If nominated. he AYERS. such a
man could carry ten southern states,
give border states. eleven western
states, and nine middle western
stafes. which have a total electoral
Rrvan set forth his views in a
letter. 10 Glen Shaver Of Fairmont.
n. Va. chairman Of the democratic
rational committee.
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STOCK CHATTER

NEW YORK, Jan. 1I.@F1-Prices
moved in narrow and irregular chan
nels at the opening of the stock
market today. Corn products opened
at a new high record Of 20 rs and
International Telephone was up q
point at the outset. Woolworth be-
gan the day n point lower.
Borden scared 8 ga points to 1s4
by early afternoon and Mullins Body
jumped six points TO 81, both new
high records. Freeport, Texas, Reid
Ice Cream. Christi Brown, Curtis
Airplane preferred and Devoe and
Reynolds also reached their best
prices since 1926 or longer. Early
losses of a point or so in General
Motors and Radio were converted
into moderate gains.
Speculative interest in the rail
road group as divided between the
establishment OF new peak prices by
the St. Paul issues and the resum-
ton of the rise in Texas and Pacif-
ic to new high levels.
NEW YORK COTTON
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-P)EThe
cotton market opened steady at q
decline of ) to 10 points in response
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11.-(P-
Following an easy opening and a
slight early decline the cotton mar
ket rallied later on n report by the
Textile Association making Deem
Der sales SO per cen in excess of
production.
First trades showed losses Of o
TO il points and soon after the open
ing March eased off to 1881, May
1872 and July 1851, 13 to IL points
net down. The subsequent rally on
the textile report carried March to
1890, May 1880 and July 1859, 8 to
. points above the lows.
At the end of the first half hour
the market was steady and tending
upward.
The market Continued to advance
during the morning on favorable
textile reports and March eventual
ly reached 1900; May and July
1878, ID 10 p points above the
lows and 5 TO 8 points over the
previous close.
The continued fair weather and
good crop prospects inspired some
selling towards noon anu the mar
let eased off Ito 8 points from
the highs.
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LIVE STOCK

KANSAS CITY. Jan. IT'D
Hogs 10000; steady; top $50; pack
ing sows 6.50G7.25; stock pigs 7.5O
@S.00,
Cattle. 5000; calves. 500; fed
steers strong 10 25c higher; she
stock, bulls and veals steady; top
medium weight steers 1900; good
heavies 1850; fed steers 1850
1880; veal top HOO.
Sheep, 1000; strong; lambs 1900;
ewes 7.25.
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The Markets

to disappointing cables, which evil
IDENTIFY brought in liquidation. Con-
siderable southern selling also was
reported and New Orleans was an
active seller here in early trading.
March sold off 70 1924 and May
to 1895; net declines of s to Il
points on the active months. A few
stop orders were uncovered on the
break, and after their execution the
market steadied on trade buying and
covering, prices showing rallies Of
5 or o points from the lowest at the
end Of the first hour.
The market vas less active later,
but held generally steady on cover
ing and further trade buying. Pric-
es more than recovered the early
losses. March selling up to 1909 and
May to 1915, and the general list
ruling about net unchanged to 10
points higher at midday. The buy
ing was accompanied by reports Of
q firm spot basis in the South.
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COTTON

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 1l.-tPl-Cot-
ton spot steady; American strict
good middling HOB; strict middling
lO-ss; middling 1918; strict low
middling 1863; low middling 1888:
strict good ordinary 1928; good or
binary 9.9S. Sales 10000 bales,
1900 American. Receipts 1900
American 5000. Futures closed
quiet; January 1919; March 1915;
May 1903; July 1000; October 9.63.
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POTATOES

CHICAGO, H., Jan. 11.@P-Po
tatose steady; Wisconsin sacked
round whites 1.55nl.65; Minnesota
sacked whites and Red River Ohios
1.45M1.55; Idaho sacked russets No.
4. 1.6541-s0; new potatoes Florida
bushel crates bliss triumphs No. /,
.2.25. .
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CIVIL WAR VET DIES

DENISON. Tex. Jan. i1.-tP-
Dexter l. Wagner, so. past state
commander Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic. and a resident OF
Texas for more than 80 years. died
at his home here late Tuesday.
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POULTRY

CHICAGO. Hl.-tP1-Poultry alive
easy; fowls 20a26; springs 20625;
turkeys 2JG28; ROSTERS Is; ducks
1921; geese 17MIS.
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BUTTER Y EGGS

CHICAGO, Jan. 11.=(P-Butter
lower; creamery extras As l-2;
standards as; extra firsts 45G46;
firsts IL 1908; seconds 3sn40.
Eggs higher; firsts ~ 1908;
ordinary firsts 5000.
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Big Volcano Starts
Eruption In Hawaii

HILO, Hawaii. Jan. IL Up -
kilauea. largest active volcano in the
world, began TO show moderate ac-
tivity shortly before midnight last
night. Lava oozed from two cracks
in Halemaumau. the pit Of the vol
cano. at the south end Of its floor,
n flowing and ono glowing. An
other glowing hole appeared in the
north center Of the pit. The glow
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IInf.S

FORT WORTH. Jan. lip
Hogs 1900; steady; top $50 packing
sows 7.00G7.50; pigs 6.OOG6.75.
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QUADRUPLETS ARRIVE
DEPTF0RD. Eng. - Q~uadruplets,
three boys and a girl, were born to
Mrs. J. c. Watson.
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DURGL AIRS CRACK
TREW MOTOR SAFE
cocord Attempt to Rob Auto
Company Proves Success
ful-Get 81, GOO.

Success crowned the efforts of yegg-
men to rob the safe Of the TreW Motor
Co, 1925 Fourteenth street. some time
last night or this morning, following a
futile attempt to rifle the same deposit
tory last December.
When employees of the concern ar
rived at 1890 O'Clock this morning they
found the 1.500-pound safe ripped open
and its money contents, estimated to
have been about 81 900, gone.
The safe was found 10 feet from its
wall niche, resting with its back on
three automobile seat cushions III the
center of the balcony floor, its door
ripped off and its contents Of papers
and cabinet drawers heaped within the
open container. The companys own
croWbars and tire tools were found lying
near the safe. where the robbers had
dropped them after tearing open the
thin metal sheathing which houses the
cement packing in the safe door.
Trew said his loss was covered by
insurance.
A similar attempt to rob the same
safe occurred last December, when the
hinge pins on one of the doors had
been removed. The burglars at that
time left before completing their job.
Thieves also entered the Marmon
Motor Co, 1888 Fourteenth street, and
ransacked it. Their only loot, how
ever. consisted of Al conceled checks
and battery worth S25 They entered
through a side door, which had been
left open.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-25
AMERICAN NETMEN
WIN AT WIMBLE DON
Tilden, Hennessey and Lott Are
Easy Winners at Opening
of Tournament.


WIMBLEDON, England, June 25.-
Big Bill Tflden opened his attempted
comeback on the tennis courts Of VIM
bledon today with q smashing victory
N the first round Of the Wimbledon
championships over N. v. Summerson,
youthful English player, 60, 81,
Go.
John Hennessey. young American
Davis Cup star. also swept through TO
an easy victory. defeating the English
player, E. Mather, 81, 60. Ga.
L. A. Godfree, the British veteran.
was eliminated by Ronald Boyd, Argen-
tine player. G-3. 60, 60.
George Lott, member Of the Ameri-
can Davis Cup team. also had an easy
time winning his opening match, de-
feating r. Crosbie, So, Go, Go.
bot behind their American friends
the French Davis Cup stars. Rene La
coste and Henri Cochet. also won their
opening matches. Lacoste eliminated II
l. Walcott. Go. Go, 60, while
Cocilet beat MOilannaed SIeen1. Indian
ranking player, CO, 3--6. 60,
Wilbur r. Coen. jr.. 16-year-old MEN,
Der OF the American team, swept TO
v.ssory over Axei Peterson OF Denmark
IL impressive style, 7-5, e-3, 6-~3. The
experienced Peterson, . veteran OF III
tGTEatlOrlaI play as q member of the
DaTzixh Davis Cup team for four years
y.as no match for the young American
end could not win single set although
he managed 70 force the first 10 deuce.
Jean BoEotra Of Frances Davis Cup
r11sketeeers won q straight set victory
over 4. H. Lowe Of England, 6--2, B-~6,
6-z, as fayorites continued to storm
through the opening round
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Continued from First Page)
was transferred to another Swedish
machine, seaplane, and transported to
Virgo Bay.
At that narbor, 80 miles to the north
Of the regular base at Kings Bay, he
Was restored to the care OF his COM
panions of the Citta di Milano. Virgo
Bay was selected by the Swedish pilots
for their base of operations, and as soon
as the rescue had been effected they
notified the Citta di Milano, which was
then at Kings Bay. The vessel fmme-
diately sailed to take Mobile aboard and
to continue northward IL necessary, to
pick up other members of the Italia
crew who might be rescued.
The Swedish flyer, having brought
Mobile to safety, returned to the other
narooned naen to take them OF the Ice
foe. There the plane made second
landing, but overturned In the attempt
The pilot was not injured, but appar-
entity he was stranded with the Italia
survivors.
Efforts to find Roald Amundsen, who
left Tromsoe, Norway, week ago In a
French seapaane With five companions
to join in the Mobile rescue work, have
proved fruitless. Maj Penzo flew from
gen, Norway. In an Italian plane, stop
ping at Bear Island en- route, without
finding any trace of the six men.
Rumors that the Russian ice-breaker
Maligin, now on its way to Kings Bay
to join in the rescue work, had picked
up S o S signals from Amundsen were
disSipated when advices from Moscow
said that the ship had reported 1t re-
ceived no such signals.
The Maligin today was forging her
way north in an effort to reach the
ssventy-eighth parallel of latitude From
that point Aviator Babushkin will make
observation flights over the district
where the remainder of the Mobile
party are stranded.
A second Russian ice-breaker, the
Krassin was ordered to keep sharp
lookout for Amundsen 1t sailed from
Bergen for Kings Bay and will cover
practically the same route which the
missing explorer mapped for his fight.
Operations of both ice-breakers have
been hampered by fog.
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MOBILE EXPLAINS RESCUE.

ROME, June Is (P.-Advices today
from Gen. Mobile, whose injuries from
the crash of the Italia viii take more
than a month to heal. explained why
he alone of the party of six had been
rescued by a Swedish airplane and
taken to the base ship Cita di Milano.
When the Swedish flyer, Lieut.. Lun-
borg. descended on the Toe foe upon
which Mobiles party had been adrift
since May IS, Mobile said that the
party should be taken on In this order:
Natalie Ceccioni. motor chief. whose leg
was broken; Prof r. Behounek, meteor
ologist; Filippo Troiano. engineer; Gen
Mobile, Lieut.. Alfredo Viglieri, naviga-
tor. and Giuseppe Giogi, radio operator
Lunborg replied that he was ordered
to take Mobile OF at once SO that the
commander could give directions for
pressing the search for the seven men
who drifted eastward in the balloon
part Of the Italia, and the three missing
since they started across the ice on
May 50 from the Mobile party. The
flyer and Mobiles marooned comrades
all firmly insisted on this.
Mobile realized that they would be
easier in mind If they knew he were
al tAtG UdoC unCSSaitS SEdANklallS OpCId-
tions. He also realized that there must
be no delay IN taking the party of the
ice. SO yielded to the wishes of his
companions against the dictates Of his
own heart.
Before leaving he turned over COM
mand of the group left behind to Lieut..
Viglieri.
The commander of the Citta di
Milano sent a wireless message today
saying that Lieut. Lunborg had tried
also to bring Ceccioni to safety. but that
therefore, made second trip leaving
his mechanician behind. In attempting
to rise, however, his plane overturned.
He was not hurt. Presumably this left
him stranded ON the Ice with the Italia
party.
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DOUBT SHIP MAIL
WASSTOLEN mus.
New York inspectors Unable
to Get Definite CIeW in
Leviathan Theft.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 25.-The theft of
$500 900 from the registered mail car
ried to England aboard the liner Levia-
than today remained a mystery to pos
tai authorities.
Inspectors traced the actual handling
of the mail in New York and several
clerks were questioned. They an
nounced their quest had been without
result.
Inspectors were without official in
formation from either Washington or
London, but a cable to the Office Of
the United States Lines here said that
Scotland Yard and British post Office
authorities were working on the theory
that the mail bags were looted in this
country prior to being placed on the
ship
Almost o thousand men would have
to have been in cahootS to commit that
crime here successfully" Chief 1nspec-
tor c. H Clarahan said. but he ordered
the investigation in order that no time
might be lost in seeking solution Oh
the mystery.
The sacks from which the registered
mail was taken, looted of its contents
and the envelopes returned, was handled
IN the regular manner here, postal au-
thorIties said, and was constantly under
guard until placed aboard the Leviathan
shortly before she sailed q week ago
Saturday.
Commodore Fl. A. Cunningham OF the
Ieviathan was quoted in dispatches from
London as being sure the robbery did
not take place while the ship was en-
route to England With British au-
thorities certain everything was in order
while the mail was being transported
from Southampton to London, the rob-
berry appeared as far from a solution
as when it was first discovered.
London cables said the packages and
letters from the rified mail bags would
be delivered to the addresses whether
they are empty or fun and only after
reports have been received from the
recipients would an accurate check Of
the loss be possible.
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Hesse Orders Police to Guard Children
In Streets as Vacation Period Begins

and you will. therefore. whenever chill
dren are observed at play In the streets
on your beat. warn them against such
practice and OF the dangers attending
the use OF the public highways as play
grounds. and at the same time direct
Them To the nearest playground
The individual officer ON the beat
can accomplish great results FOR the
personal safety OF the children Ia mis-
sionary way, lie should make 1t a point
always 10 have ths children lock upon
him as their best friend, he can by his
mere interest In them bring them TO
believe that he il their protector rather
than their enemy. and he should strive
at all times to secure their confidence
and assist them whenever possihie IN
their personal sRGety and associations"