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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
c. 0. P. GROUP
Vote FAVORS
4HOOVER MEN
Littleton In Meeting
Of Executive Com
mittee Holds Proxy
From South Dakota

KANSAS CITY, June 6.-tR)-The
four Creager delegates-at-large from
Texas, instructed for Herbert Hoover
for president, today were granted
seats in next weeks republican con-
yention over the protest Of a rival
faction headed by Representative
Wurzbach of San Antonio.
There was no roll call vote taken.
Ralph +. Williams, committeeman
from Oregon, who has been directing
the fight in the committee for the
Hoover forces, proposed after a hear
ing that the slate sponsored by r. Il.
Creager, Texas national committee
man. be seated.
c. G. Littleton Of Fort Worth, one
of the delegates at large on the
Wurzbach slate, was in the executive
committee session holding a proxy
from South Dakota. He proposed as
a substitute that the "big four" dele
CATION of which he was a member, be
recognized. but his motion was re-
jected by an overwhelming oral vote.
The committee then made a quick
job Of il in voting TO place the
Creager delegates on the temporary
convention roll.
in addition to Creager those who
were seated were Eugene Nolte Of
Seguin. Orville Burlington of Wichita
Falls, and r. P. Lee of Houston.
The losers. besides Wurzbach and
Littieton, were William Hall Gage Of
Dallas. and William NJ. (Gooseneck
Bill Macdonald of Fort Worth.
The Wurzbach-Littleton slate was
uninstructed ard he'd been counted
Continued on page eight)
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BYRD WILL FALL
y \ 4
OFF WORLD RIM,
= = *
.VOLIVA THINKS

NEW YORK, June 6.-tPl-wil-
bur Glenn Voliva, who firmly be-
lleves the earth is flat, fears Com
mander Richard E. Byrd will fly
off the edge of IL should he cross
the antarctic plateau.
"If Byrd flies over those icy
mountains" he said, "I'm afraid
he'll never come back"
The overseer of Zion City, Ill,
who returned on the Laconia yes
terday from a four months tour Of
Europe, enlarged upon his theory
of the earth being flat.
"The world is flat as a plate
and as round" he asserted.
There's a northpole, certainly, in
the center of that plate, and the
sun moves around il like an orange.
But you'll notice that the sun
never goes any farther north than
the tropic of cancer, and never any
farther south than the tropic of
capricorn. This business OF the
sun setting and the sun rising is
only an optical illusion. IL doesn't
prove that the earth is round"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
CITY TOBUILD
FIRESTATION
Call For Bids on Cen,
tral Plant on 10th
And Adams

A central fire station will be
erected upon the city property Mt
Tenth and Adams streets as soon as
bids can be secured and the contract
awarded, was the decision of the city
commission Wednesday morning an
rounced after an executive session
in which plans submitted by various
architects were considered.
Plans presented by Proctor a
Dudley, Brownsville contractors,
we're accepted, and the commission
ordered the publication Of n notice
TO contractors for bids on the
structure. The building is expected
to cost approximately $4,000.
The plans call for two-story.
fireproof building, 95 by so feet in
size, to be constructed entirely Of
concrete and brick. IL will be Moor
ish in design, and will provide am
pie room for the storage of all fire
equipment with a commodious ma
chine shop in the rear. The struc-
ture will front on Adams street.
The second floor will be used for
dormitories and N central station for
the fire alarm system, which the
city is expected to install later. 1t
will be equipped with bath and all
ether conveniences for the fire fight
ers.
Work on the structure is expected
to get under way by the latter part
OF July, city officials stated. and IL
should be completed in the early fan.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
new MURDER
LAW UPHELD
Appeals Based on New
Act Are Denied BY
Criminal Court

AUSTIN, June 6.-tPp-The new
murder law enacted by the Fortieth
legislature was upheld as constitu-
tional Wednesday by the court of
criminal appeals, against attacks Of
defendants in two homicide cases
appealed on grounds that the stat
ute's omission Of the "malic afore-
thought" clause makes ii vague and
indefinite.
Overruling this contention, the
court affirmed the fifteen-year mur-
der sentences of Tom Crutchfield,
Dallas county, for killing his wife,
Lucy, and Bill Davis, Lamar coun-
~, for the killing Of William Terry
with an iron bar.
The appellants objected to the
fact the trial court charges based
upon the new law, which was passed
to eliminate the offense of man.
slaughter, substantially defined
murder as any voluntary homicide.
and did not require the finding of
murder guilt TO rest upon proof of
malice aforethought."
Judge baltimore advised that
"some reasonably accurate defini-
tion of the word voluntarily should
be given" and also suggested defini-
tion Of malice aforethought."
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Poland.Lithuania
Dispute Delayed

GENEVA. June 6.-tPp-A resolu-
tion in the League council demands
ing quick settlement Of the POLISH
Lithuanian dispute was defeated this
afternoon. Premier Waldemaras OF
Lithuania alone voted against il, bus
unanimity ~ required, including the
parties in dispute.
A resolution presented by Sic
Austen Chamberlain. British foreign
secretary. placing the question on
the agenda Of the September ses-
sion was then adopted.
President AEuero ruled that mas
jority vote for this purpose was SUI
ficient. and Premier Waldemaraa
rallied 10 the Chamberlain resolu-
tion. which is tantamount 10 post-
ponement Of the problem.
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THREESTATES
FLOODSWEPT;;
STREAMS RISE
6 Killed, Huge Damage
Results From Over
flows In Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala. June 6.-tPl
Isolated towns and villages dotted
the turbulent courses of scores of
streams in Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana today, as the second over
flow in those states within two
months took short cut to the gulf.
Heavy rainfall for five days had
caused creeks to become torrential
rivers. As consequence the coastal
plain counted six dead and hundreds
of thousands of dollars in crop
losses.
To this scene was added the threat
of continued rains, which caused low
land communities by the score to
prepare for evacuation.
Southern and central Alabama bore
the brunt of damage, burdened not
only by the worst rainfall since 1892
in some localities, but also saddled
with a torrent Of water released by
the lowering Of "a flood gates on
three power dams above Montgomery.
These gates. grouped about Lake
Martin, one of the largest artificial
bodies of water in the world, were
dropped yesterday as a precautionary
measure.
Four of the five railroads through
Mobile had practically suspended
operations, while travel on highways
was virtually impossible.
Probably the worst flood condi-
tions in the area prevailed at Cow
ington, La, where water was stand
ing from 12 to IS inches in the
streets and a $4,000 highway bridge
near the city was washed away. AT
Pearl River, La, 1890 inches of rain
fell in 4S hours.
Fatalities occurred in the flood area
yesterday near Birmingham where
an automobile skidded off a rain
soaked highway. killing three men;
near Mobile as a result Of the plunge
Of handcar through draw bridge
during a binding rain, drowning one
Of the occupants; and at Marion and
Hammond. La, where fisherman
and a negro we're drowned.
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ARMED Band
ESCAPES With
BIG PAYROLL
$50 Employees i'm Bus-
mess Office OF De-
troit Publication Are
Held Up; Three Shot

DETROIT, June 6.-F)-Six o.
seven men armed with revolvers and
sawed-off shotguns held up tho busi-
ness offices OK the Detroit News
in wild west" style shortly after IL
o'clock today and escaped with q
greater part Of the newspapers pay-
roll after wounding two officers, one
probably fatally
The payroll amounted to approxi-
mately S65,0O0, but the robbers
dropped some Of the money in escap-
ing The amount obtained was not
determined pending n checkup.
More than ID employees, many OF
them girls and women, were working
at their desks i'm the business offices
on the second floor Of the building
when the robbers entered.
Jumping up on a counter, one OF
them shouted orders for everyone To-
put up bis hands. Another stood I'm
the center Of the room flourishing
shotgun while a third stood at tha
doorway covering n dozen OK more Of
flee boys and other employees who
were lined IN against the wall in tha
outer hallway.
Two other robbers vaulted over am
eight-toct partition around the
| cashiers cage. covered the four men
inside and began scooping UP the
money.
About that time a girl employs
standing near a wall reached up to
pull "a fire alarm and the robber
standing on the counter promptlE
fired two shots at her, both of which
lodged in the wall.
AS word that a robbery was undeg
way spread through the building,
other employees began rushing into
/ the second floor hallway and the KUha
bers, becoming nervous gtarted tn
leave.
They had not obtained all tic
money in the cashiers office HnA
dropped some OF the loot az they racoa
down nstairs and out of the building.
George Barstead, N traffic cfflcer
On duty al the News corner, was
probably fatally wounded, and PstrolA
man Gayot w. Craig was shot IL the
foot in an exchange OF shots In the
street in front Of the building.
More than a dozen shots were ex-
l changed in the heavy traffic OF La
Fayette Boulevard while u hundred o.
more persons looked on from the
windows of the News building and
from doorways and windows Of other
i buildings.
The robbers car, proceeded down
the street in the line Of traffic with
all four doors open and guns sticking
out menacingly.
Joseph Worten, employed in the
advertising department, was shot IN
the right hand and In the leg by the
bandits. Worten was in the line OF
fire in front of the building when
Patrolman Barstead was shot. His
condition was not serious, hospital
attendants said. Witnesses said an
other man, "A bystander, was shot IN
the street battle, but ne was not
seriously injured. His name was NOT
learned.
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GEN. PERSHINC
RUSHING Home
May Be Dark Horse of
G. 0. P. Rumor In
France Says

WASHINGTON. June g. Up -
Friends of General Pershing here
attached no political significance to
his departure from France just in
time to reach home while the repub.
lican national convention in Kansas
City was sitting. It was said ai
his office in the war department
that when he left for Europe he
had indicated June l as the approx
mate date Of his return, but set no
definite schedule.
A suggestion that the general
might be planning n Trip to Kansas
City as his name might be presented
there for consideration for the
presidential nomination was charac-
terized as wholly out Of keeping
with the attitude Of the former com
mander of the A. E. F. Many OF
his friends. il was admitted, had
been active In efforts to forward
boom for him. but General Perish
ing himself has had no connection
with IL. nor shown evidence OF tax
ing great interest in the subject.
PARIS. June 6.-Pl-The Paris
Herald today said General John j.
Pershing had received sudden call
to return home and sailed unex-
pectedly on the Leviathan yester-
day leaving Paris for Cherbourg in
an automobile after the boat train
had departed. General Pershinr had
been expected to remain in France
indefinitely in connection with his
work with the battle monuments
commission.
The paper said that the situation
at Kansas City was believed by some
to be responsible for the generals
hasty departure since he had been
mentioned as a dark horse for the
republican presidential nomination.
CHERBOURG. France. June s.-lPl
General John J. Pershing passed
through CherbourR yesterday en-
route to America faster than any
would-be record breaking around the
world traveller since Phineas Fo9r.
At that he barely caught the Levia-
than as the great liner was getting
under way.
The generals automobile broke
down twice between Paris and Cher
bourg. He reached port an hour aft
er the tenders had gone 10 the liner.
He hired fast launch and reached
the ship just as the gangways were
being hauled in.
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MEXICAN FLIER
TOSTART HOP
Carranza to Attempt
Capital to Capital
Flight Over Here
Especial to The HERALD

MEXICO CITY, June 5.-Captain
Emilio Carranza Of the Mexican avi-
alton corps will hop off from the
Valbuena air field here Thursday at
3 p. M, on the Mexico City-Washing-
ton leg Of his proposed flights in an
swer to Lindberg's visit to this coun-
try, IL has been announced. He is
TO follow the Lindbergh route in his
plane Mexico-Excelsior.
Carranza has declared everything
in readiness and says that weather
conditions are unusually favorable.
The builders Of the plane have
completed an intense inspection and
believe the plane to be in the best
possible condition.
Great enthusiasm for the flight
reigns in Mexico City, many demon
strationx being held.
Carranza recently completed n non
stop hop to Mexico City from San
Diego. Calf. He expects to make
the Washington hop in 25 hours.
Carranza is expected to pass over
this territory somewhere between
Brownsville and Point Isabel early
Thursday evening.
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Southern Cross
FHeYS To Make
FimaIHop Today

the Southern Cross will hop the 1850
miles to Brisbane, Australia, and n
vivid account by Co-Pilot Charles
Ulm Of the wild flying that drove the
four airmen to the verge of madness
on their long hop here from the
Hawaiian Islands, were the outstand-
ing features Of a banquet in the
aviators' honor here tonight.
Captain kingsford-Smith today in
spected a proposed take-off site al
Uaselai, sixteen miles away, but said
he had not made up his mind wheth-
er the runway was long enough OK
when the Southern Cross would re-
sumo its flight to Sydney by way OF
Brisbane.
Ulm made q speech before n large
gathering Of Fiji officials and citi-
zens tonight at a civic reception and
banquet. and described a phase OF
the flight that was fraught with
many perils.
Lauds Americans
IL am telling you on behalf or
myself and 'Smithy' that We would
have been very cold meat but for the
aid Of our two American friends,
Harry Lyon, navigator, and James
Warner, radio operator.
Imagine the roar of the planes
660 horsepower motors, the planes
small cabin deafened with the roar
cf the motors. trying to send and re-
ceive radio messages one hundred
per cent efficient, 1000 70 5000 miles
away.
"Jim Warner possessed no mean
skill and was full of courage getting
back to the old sea dog again. WAR
ner was a former steamship radio
operator.)
might before last in the middle
Of the Pacific, the fates were not
with us.
we struck bad weather. Our Job
vas intricate. The direction was
taken from the h-nds Of the navi-
gator. The wild flying was getting to
the stage where one might just no
mad. Smith was doing skillful fly
ing, lodging storm clouds. turning
right angles when flying 100 miles
an hour.
Navigator Skilled
"The navigator's skill, resources,
anQ INITIATIVE were hHpWH Nnen a1tGr
All these quick movements throughout
the night, that he could plot out our
position and when we came out of
the mess, 10 say; Here boys, here's
where you are
"That we came through was not
luck. Get the right men and equip
ment. coordinate them and you will
get through"
In opening his speech at the ban
quet, Ulm said the difference be-
tween an aviator and a parrot was
that q parrot can talk but not fly.
and an aviator can fly but not talk
Lyon then addressed the gathering.
"I had 70 navigate" Lyon said. "If
hadn't found Suva where would /
have been7 I have had such a good
time in this world that want To car
ry on"
Seek Take-0ff Site
Ulm said the aviators were now
looking for q site to take off for
Brisbane and he was sure they would
Continued on page eight)
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Raids on London Clubs
Halt Nobility Wedding

LONDON. June 6.-CF,-Th
Daily Express today said that re-
cent raids on the night clubs own
ed by Mrs. Kate Merrick had pre-
vented the wedding of her daugh-
ter May to the Earl of Kinnoull.
The couple visited the registry
office yesterday morning and ar
ranged for the ceremony TO take
place at 2:30 in the afternoon.
When the office closed they had
not appeared.
May Merrick. the paper said, re-
fused to be married unless all the
family attended. Mrs. Merrick.
who is known as the queen ef
night clubs, and other members of
the family. including her other
daughter, Dorothy Evelyn, who is
the wife Of young lard Clifford,
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considered it unwise 70 appear in
public because of recent raids on
the night clubs. The Forty-Three
club and the Manhattan, owned BY
Mrs. Merrick, were raided and
closed on May "a.
The marriage Of May Merrick 70
the 24-year-old earl was first ar
ranged for last Saturday. At that
time the ear failed to produce
documents attesting his divorce in
Scotland last November from the
former Miss Enid Hamilton-Fel-
loves, whom ae married in 1923.
About five years ago the Earl
of Kinnoull created q sensation in
which his mothers last-minute in
tervcntion prevented his marriage
TO a South African widow, Mrs.
Trewartha Suris,
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Lone Bandit Robs
Bank Oklahoma

ENID. Okla. June 6.-(Pi-A ban
dit today held up and robbed the
bank of Breckenride, 10 miles north
east of here, Of $1,100 in currency.
The man drove up to the bank in
T. new blue coupe, entered and forced
Walter Z. Pralle, cashier, to turn
his back to the wall while he rifled
the currency box. He then forced
the cashier into the vault, which he
also looted.
No attempt was made to enter the
safe. The vault door failed to lock
and Pralle spread the alarm before
the bandit had left the outskirts Of
the town.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-06
Will Rogers In
Airplane Crash

LAS VEGAS. New. June 6.-(Pl-
Will Rogers. the humorist, and DR.
L. d. Cheney, passengers, and Pilot
Fred Kelly, narrowly escaped death
here today when the new monoplane
air mail carrier Of the Western Air
Express, flying from Los Angeles
10 Salt Lake City, turned over nose
first and landed squarely on its
back.
The three men were not seriously
hurt. The right wheel broke and
caused the accident when landing
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DROPS DEAD
AT MOTHERS
BIER; BURIED

SAN ANTONIO, June s.-CR
Double funeral services will
be held for Mrs. o. X. Phillip,
44. and her mother, Mrs. Alma
Ranzau. who fell dead ut her
bier. Mrs. Phillips died at her
home north OF San Antonio
Monday. Her mother came from
Ranzau, who fell dead at her
daughter. but fell dead when
she stood up to leave the room.
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BAYLOR SAFE IN WACO

WACO. Tex, June 6.-fP,-Anv
fear that Baylor university might Be
removed from Waco has been suc-
cessfully alleviated as the result of
the extraordinary meeting Of the
Texas Baptist general convention
here Tuesday. A resolution favor
ing Baylor's continued location in
Waco was adopted unanimously by
the convention.
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Hoover Leads I'm Sum
Spent, Probers Report

WASHINGTON, June 8. -tPD-
Making its final pre-convention re-
port, the senate investigating COM
irittee today listed the campaign ex-
renditures OF ell presidential can
didates in both parties at 731, 1,0s7.75,
OF which amount more than half was
attributed to Secretary Hoover.
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FINAL
EDITION
in OUR
ALLIE

Clendenning, a soil expert. chal-
lenged the Egyptian agricultural de-
partment to a comparison of the
soils Of the Delta of the Nile and
the Delta Of the Rio Grande.
Except for a gracious acknowledge
ment Of the challenge via the Egyp-
tian minister at Washington, moth
ing happened.
Now comes J. r. Mason, invest
ment banker of San Francisco, with
an observation.
Writing to County Judge Oscar G..
Dancy of Cameron county from
Cairo, Egypt, Mason says:
"After two months in Washington
doing what / could TO aid Boulder
Dam, decided to come on over here
egypt and see where irrigation
began.
Except for the pyramids, which
of course you have not, can see no
reason why your own Valley will
not rival. or even outshine, the Delta
Of the Nile.
Land here is In demand at 81 500
to $4,000 per acre. All irrigation
works are, like roads, built by the
government and cost removed cnly
indirectly, like roads. Have beer in
Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine,
etc.
THERE is TO BE another bridge
across the Rio Grande soon.
II will be located south Of Mer-
eedes and Weslaco. in the vicinity
Of the Progresso development.
There may be a settlement on the
Mexican side, and there may not.
But that as il may, there will
doubtless be a settlement Of some
sort.
There is certain 70 be a cantina,
perhaps two or three or four can
tinas.
The American side of the Rio
Grsnde is exceedingly dry. The
Mexican side is wet--and it's not
due altogether TO high water in the
Rio Grande.
And the dryness often wants to
test the wetness.
UNITED STATES SENATOR Nor
ris Sheppard, when he introduced the
Eighteenth Amendment probably
conceived of many things that il
would do for the country.
It stopped large percentage Of
the drunkenness.
IL is credited with having made
possible millions % savings &C
counts that never existed before.
II enabled millions TO buy autos,
homes and other possessions that
they might never have otherwise
owned.
Also. it had another far-reaching
effect.
IL brought international bridges TO
points that otherwise might never
have had them.
J. T.. BELL. manager Of the San
Benito Chamber of Commerce. has
been compiling interesting statistics.
41C n@e Dcen ulkElnE DdCk INTO Ce-
vclopment in the Valley in the past
year or so. and finds that something
like S40.000.000 has been invested in
that time in public ard semi-public
improvements.
He notes that the Central Power
and Light company has spent about
sS.5oo.ooo in new installations and
extensions.
The Missouri Pacific has dug in
to the amount of $S,000.000 in ex-
tensions and improvements.
4. The Southern Pacific has spent
komething like s6.O00.O0O in pene-
srsting the Valley.
Highway construction accounts for
:, sme si2.0o0,0OO. spent and to be
: pent.
=, The Rio Grande Valley Gas COM
Continued on page eight
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NAME BOARD HEAD

WASHINGTON, June 6.-tP)-Dr.
Clarence True Wilson, corresponding
secretary of the board of temperance
and public morals Of the Methodist
Episcopal church, announced today
that Bishop W. r. Mcdowell. of
Washington. has been elected presi-
dent Of the board.
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SUVA, Fiji. Jure 6.-tPl-The
Southern Cross will hop off ut
three p. m, tomorrow from the
beach at Naselai, 16 miles from
here on its l,T50-nile flight to
Brisbane, Australia, Flight Com
mander Charles Kingsford-Smith
announced late tonight. (This
would be 8 o'clock Wednesday
night, central standard time.)
SUVA, Fiji. June 6.-tP,-An-
rouncement by Flight Commander
Charles Kingsford-Sinith that no de-
cision had been reached as to when
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BREAKS 1ss PIGEONS

WICHITA. Kans.. June e.-CP)-
Frank Luther of Wichita broke 199
clay pigeons out Of 200 shots here
yesterday TO win the great western
singles championship. featured event
in the great western trap shoot.
Ira Carroll of Kansas City and ID. r.
McCaffree Of Pueblo, Colo, tied for
second at 1913.