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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
Italia Crew Report Seeing Rescue Plane
Hotel
At Point To Be
Begun Tuesday

ceremonies which will begin at z
o'clock Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Bartholomew, a well known
hotel builder of the middle west, G..
r. Tyrell. president Of the Port Is
abel company, the developing COM
pany at the seaport, and directors of
the chambers of commerce Of
Brownsville and San Benito and
members OF the Valley port commit
tee will be present for the ground
breaking. The site will be on Pow
ers street, betyeen Tarnava and
Msnatou streets.
The Bartholomew hotel will be
the first steel frame building to be
constructed in the Valley. Steel is
being fabricated in Pittsburgh and
will arrive in Point Isabel in three
weeks. Contracts call for compile
tion and occupancy Of the hotel BY
November /.
With steel frame and brick facing.
the new hotel will rise five stories
above the street, 100 by 120 feet and
will contain els rooms. each with
bath. Materials other than steel will
be purchased in the Valley, where
possible. brlCk Will DE puTCudStu
from a Valley yard and lumber and
other woodwork will be purchased
from Valley agnecies, the builder
said.
Il want to spend my money where
I expect to make it," Mr.. Bartholo-
new said Monday. "For that reason
everything will be purchased in the
Valley that we can use"
The steel work is TO be ereG>ed by
the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredg-
ing company, erectors Of the new
Gateway bridge between Browns
Vile and Matamoros. Mr.. Bartholo-
new has constructed many modern
hotels and high class residences
throughout the middle west and be-
came interested in the Valley sew
eral months ago. On his first visit
as guest Of the Port Isabel company
he purchased a winter home site IN
Bayview Citrus Groves, the irrigated
development on the coast north of
Point Isabel and a project of the
Port Isabel company. At the same
Continued on page ten.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
White Girl,
NEGRO DEAD
Belief Is Black Killed
Woman and Com
mited Suicide

PHILADELPHIA, June Is.-tRD-
Mary McGinty. a Young woman, was
found choked to death today in a
physicians office. In she kitchen Of
the house. the doctors negro chauf-
feur. Clarence Tull, was found dead
from gas.
Dr. W. B. G. Terry and his family
were at their farm near Pemberton,
n. j.. over the weekend and the
bodies were found when a SON re-
turned home.
The disarrangement Of the furni-
ture in the doctors office and the
condition Of the Young woman's
clothing indicated there had been a
struggle in the room.
Police announced that IL was evil
dent that the negro had killed the
girl and then ended his life. A re-
volver and a razor were found at his
side in the kitchen.
The police learned that the young
woman had advertised for a position
as servant and went TO the doctors
office yesterday in response 70 a
telephone call.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18

LONDON, June Is. -fPl- The
transatlantic monoplane Friendship,
carrying the first woman ever to
span the Atlantic by air, landed nc
BURY Port, Wales. nc 12.40 r.. m. to-
day, Just 20 hours and 40 minutes
after taking off from Trepassey,
Newfoundland.
The plane, which had been sighted
us miles west of Ireland by the
steamship America, landed I'm BURY
inlet because OF n shortage of fuel,
Wilmer Stultz, the pilot, bringing
his ship down without difficulty
close 70 shore.
Miss Amelia Earhart. Boston social
worker and co-pilot OF the plane,
came ashore with her companions I'm
motor boat which set out imme-
diately from the coast guard station.
The crew cf the Friendship, which
included Louis Gordon, mechanic.
was in the best of spirits and looked
none the worse for their 21 hour
flight across the almost 1000 mile
stretch between Newfoundland and
Great Britain.
Although the plane settled down off
swampy region some distance from
the little town of BURY Port, which
had never dreamed of its arrival, ~
was not long before hundreds OF
spectators were on the scene.
Crowds on foot and by motor
rushed 10 the port and the nearby
city OF Llanelly and gave the avia-
tors a great reception.
I'm the confusion of news from
BURY Port, reports were received in
London that there had been four
however. definitely stated that Mr..
Lincoln Ellsworth, the American ex-
plorer. Adyices from New York
Y however. definitel ystated that Mr..
\ Ellsworth was in that city
/ The fliers were i'm the best of spir-
its as they landed. Stultz told The
Associated Press that the plane had
been forced to land because OF a
shortage Of fuel. He said bad wealth
err and heavy mist accompanied the
ship the greater part Of the journey
while rain was almost incessant.
\ Stultz Immediately made prepara-
tions 70 obtain fresh supplies Of gas
oline 70 proceed To Bristol as soon as
possible.
The London newspapers this aft
ernoon were still publishing reports
that four persons were aboard the
plane including Ellsworth, but this
apparently was incorrect. Efforts Ia
learn definitely if there were four
Continued en- page two.1
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
No Truth In It.
Kellogg Saws

WASHINGTON. June 1s.-gPl-
Secretary kellogg today declared
that the report from TegucigElpa
that Sandino held II American pris-
oners. among them being Is marines,
was without foundation and said
that he did not believe "that there
was word Of truth IN IT,"
The secretary added that Eve are
always receiving hrs propaganda
and the strange part of il is that
the reports always emanate from
some place other than Nicaragua y
He asserted that il the report was
true that Eve would certainly know
something about it here"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
8 Said DEAD
IN TORNADO
1000 Are Homeless In
Twister Torn Part
Of Oklahoma

BLAIR, Okla. June 1s.-tPl Eight
persons believed dead and approx
imately 1000 persons homeless was
the result Of a tornado that swept
southwestern Oklahoma Saturday
night. Jackson. Kiowa and Tillman
counties spent Sunday administering
first aid 70 those who had received
minor injuries and checking the de-
vastated area for further dead or
injured.
The stricken town of Blair center
ed its attention today on the burial
Of its three dead-Elmer Castles, 35 +;
Mrs. George A. Rogers, and Hugh
Smith, IL. l.. c. Cam, also Of
Blair, first reported killed. is in the
city hospital at Altus, suffering from
n broken back. His recovery is con-
sidered doubtful.
Three negroes were reported killed
on a bridge near Headrick, southeast
Of here. but confirmation could not
be obtained.
Otis Rice, formerly of kiowa coun-
ty. was reported killed.
G. r. Fogle of Blair and +. A
Simpson of Headrick both we're in
the hospital at Mangum, suffering in
juries but are expected TO recover.
L. G. McHanna, Headrich postmas-
ter. sustained a broken arm when the
wind threw him violently to the
ground.
Relief parties checking the devas-
tated area were amazed at the low
loss OF life. Over the forty mile tor
nado area, from three to five miles
wide, trees weer uprooted. houses
and barns flattened and scarcely a
splinter remained standing.
Rail and Highway bridges in the
tornado area were badly damaged
and traffic was at n standstilI. Wire
communications are non-existent.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
Citizens Battle
River In Missouri

KENNETT. Mo-, June 1s.-lP,-Un-
relenting in the battle against the
rampaging st. Francis river, which
has driven a thousand families from
their homes in Southeast Missouri, a
citizens army pushed its strength
against a 600-foot levee seven miles
above the newest crevasse and early
today apparently had won a skir-
mish from the river.
The total area submerged BY three
crevasses in two days was approx
imately a hundred thousand acres.
damage to crops and farms was es-
timated between a million and a half
and two million dollars.
The present goal is to save q 25.-
OOO-acre expanse protected by the
smaller levee. which has been boil
stored several times since it was
swept out BY the 1927 flood. This
section lies between the cotton belt
railroad tracks and Crowley's ridge.
west Of Campbell and Just north Of
the Arkansas line. IL Is seven miles
upstream from the crevasse which
developed Sunday morning, inundat-
ting $500 acres.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18

IN KARLINCEN
Epstein's Loss About
$4,000 Is Estimate;
Cause Unknown

HARLINGEN, June 1s.-Fire Of un-
determined origin caused approxi-
mately $4,000 damage when it broke
out IN the Broadway Mems Store
here early Sunday morning.
Unable TO locate the source Of the
fire, i was impossible for firemen
TO fight the blaze with chemicals, as
is usually done in an effort to pre-
vent destruction from water. and two
lines of hose were laid to the build
ing.
Water was played into the building
for approximately Is minutes before
the smoke had cleared enough 50 that
firemen could enter. A post investi-
cation led firemen to believe that the
blaze had started in q pile of boxes
stored under a counter but it was i'm
possible to determine the cause.
The store Is owned BY Ben Epstein
who is nov in the east on a honey
moon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
MABELBOLLIS
IRED PILOT
Defeat BY Friendship
In Race Across Is
disappointment

HARBOR GRACE, N. f., June Is.-
Rl-A difference Of opinion among
members of the crew OF the mono-
plane Columbia as to plans for its
flight was admitted today by Oliver
lie Boutillier, one of the two pilots.
He said that while he favored start
ing the flight for England tomorrow
morning and flying back to America
at the first favorable opportunity,
other members of the crew were talk
ing Of flying back to New York, TAX
ing the plane to England by steamer
and then attempting the westward
flight across the Atlantic.
HARBOR GRACE, N. r., June Is
RD-In the face of continued ad-
verse weather over the great circle
course. the monoplane Columbia was
groomed for a possible transatlantic
hop today while its crew strove to
conceal disappointment at the march
stolen by Miss Amelia Earhart and
her companions aboard the Friend
ship.
Mabel Boil, who wanted to be the
first woman to fly the Atlantic and
who is the leading spirit of the CO.
lumbia expedition. could not conceal
her agitation when she learned that
the Boston aviatrix had disregarded
weather predictions and set her face
toward Europe.
There were reports of serious dis
sension in the Columbia camp here
with Miss Boil depicted as far from
satisfied with judgment Of her pilot.
Capt. Oliver lie Boutillier.
lie Boutillier had expressed the
opinion a few hours after Miss Ear
hsrt's departure that the Friendship
was only circling the coast TO study
weather conditions and asserted the
Columbia "would not be drawn out"
Later when it became apparent that
the other ship was off in earnest.
Miss Boil said. II just cannot imag
inc Bill Stultz taking such n fool
hardy jump with a three corner gale
raging in the Atlantic ] wish them
luck but think twenty hours full is
not sufficient to cary them across"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
Two Palm Beach
Banks Are Shut

WEST PALM BEACH. Fla. June
1s.--tP)--The first American and the
Citizens banks here failed to open
for business today.
The Kelsey State Bank at Kelsey
City, adjoining West Palm Beach also
was closed. A statement on the door
Of the First American said the bank
was in the hands Of the state banking
department.
The Citizens banks door bore the
statement that the bank was closed
to avoid a run, and for the protection
Of depositors. II was feared that a
run on the Citizens would follow the
closing Of the First American, it was
said
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
! In Blazing Plane
Killed; One Escapes

ROME, June 1s.-tF)-One man
was killed and another saved him
self BY jumping when the military
airplane in which they we're flying
over Centotello airfield caught fire
today at an altitude Of 5000 feet.
Major Cutry made a safe descent in
his parachute, but his flight COM
panion, Sergeant Garavaglia, who
tried 10 save the machine. took to
his parachute too late and lost his
life.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
SAYSSANDINO
HASCAPTURED
Il AMERICANS
Peruvian, Who Claims
To Have Visited
Leader; Ayers Is
Marines Are Held

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June
1S.-tPy-A representative OF Mex
lean radical groups who has arrived
here says that he visited the camp
of the Nicaraguan rebel leader
Augustine Sandino and found 81
Americans held there as prisoners.
Esteban Pavlevitch, a Peruvian or
Jugoslavian descent, said that when
he left the rebel camp on Thursday
all prisoners were in good health and
being well treated. The prisoners
weer said by Pavlevitch to be George
B. Marshall, Of New York, manager
OF the La Lux mine which was raid
ed last April, two American mine
workers and is American marines.
He stated Sandino had issued a de-
cree saying that after June IA he
would no longer respect foreign
properties except those owned BY
Spaniards and Latin Americans.
The rebel leader intended to show
by this action that the protection en-
joyed by foreign interests was due
70 his leniency and not the presence
Of American marines in Nicaragua.
Pavlevitch claimed that Sandino
had 1000 well armed and well equip
ped men and expected TO fight un-
der favorable conditions with the
coming of the rainy season.
He asserted Sandino won a pitched
battle with tAe marines on June ii
at Zapote, near Bacaya, routing the
Americans after killing a number OF
them including their commander.
The American navy department
said il had no report Of any engage
ment between marines and Sandino
followers on June II in which ma
rines were killed or wounded. There
have been no reports of any fight on
that date from other sources and the
Honduran message named as the
dead commander an officer who is
not listed on the marine corps ros-
ter.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
TRAIN HITS AUTO; TWO DIE

MEMPHIS. Tenn. June 1s.--tFl-
Harvey J. Roper. so. of Memphis and
his brother, Robert L. Roper Of
Byhalia, Miss, both planters, were
killed instantly today when their
automobile was struck by the Sunny
land. 81. Louis and San Francisco
train at Byhalia-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
Chief State Witness
Called In Oil Suits

AUSTIN. June 1S.-tPl--Resum-
ing trial of its suit for recovery Of
500 acres of oil producing Hutchin-
son county land, the state today re-
introduced its chief witness. jeff
Williams or Plainview, in district
court here.
Williams again described a survey
he made of the area, with testimony
seeking to affirm the states con-
tention that the tract. worth mil
lions, is not held legally By the
present sixty defendants because
valid title IL alleged not 70 exist.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
Maine G. 0. p. Make
Nominations Today

PORTLAND. Ie., Jine ls.-tPl-
The republican nominations for gov
ernor and United States senator
were in the hands Of the electorate
today after a spirited campaign.
Friends of Senator Frederick Hale
we're confident that he would defeat
Gov. Ralph o. Brewster for the
senatorial nomination. Aligned
against Brewster we're three former
republican governors. William II.
Cobb. Earl K. Milliken and Percival
2. Baxter.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
3 Women Lost LiUeS
In Previous Attempts

turn was Mrs. Francis Wilson
Grayson, who with three men
companions left Roosevelt Field
December g after passing Cape
Cod they were never heard from
or seen.
The third woman lost in an ocean
flight was the hon. Elsie Mackay
who with Captain Walter Hinch-
life attempted the westward
crossing from England, starting
March 13.
Ruth Elder was forced down
near steamer off the Azores IN
her plane the American Girl while
attempting a New York to Paris
flight last year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18

Ground will be broken Tuesday
evening at Point Isabel for a half
million dollar hotel to be built and
operated by r. NJ. Bartholomew Of
indianapolis, Ind.
Invitation is extended by the
builder to all the people of the Val
ley to attend the ground breaking
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
SAYS CHICAGO
TERRIBLE AND
MAKES 1T so

CHICAGO. June IS.-tPl-"Con-
ditions in Chicago are terrible"
said the middle AGED woman in a
black coat who entered the candy
shop of Mrs. Mary Stuebe early
today. "It isn't safe for a person
anywhere in this town"
She began fumbling in her hand
bag and extracted a pistol. She
pointed il at Mrs. Stuebe. took
all the money out of the cash
register. and departed. leaving
the storekeeper 20 ponder on
conditions in Chicaro.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
Lad Stays Father To
Save Mother He Says

CHICAGO. June Stanley
Piekut. Jr.. shot and killed his faith
sr early today 10 save his mother, he
aid. from attack.
The father. Stanley, Sr.. was ad-
xarcing toward Mrs. "a len Piekut.
flourishing psd druggis, srs. held
ike z q Saggsiit ''r fails. Easl,T,Orld son son
4sllied the = ~
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18

Three women have lost their
ives in previously attempted
transatlantic flights and the only
one attempting il who was not
lost, Ruth Elder. wac forced down
before she had reached her goal.
The first was Princess Lowen-
stein Wertheim, S2-year-old Eng
lishwoman, who took off from
Upavon. England. August ., 1927,
in the plane st. Raphael with Cap
cain Leslie Hamilton and Col. II.
r. Mnchin on an attempted
flight to Ottawa. Can.
The second woman TO sail away
into the unknown and never re-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
'PHONE SALE DENIED

BROWNWOOD. Tex. June ts.--
Fl-Reports that the West Texas
Telephone company's property here
and in this district had been sold
to the Southwest Telephone company
Of Arkansas were denied here today
by Fred W. Greber. president or the
West Texas coEpany
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
TO PROBE ROY SCHOOL

AUSTIN. June 1S.-tF1-Attorney
General Claude Pollard said Mon
day that he had MT assigned any
OF his staff TO investigate accounts
of the state Juvenile training school
at Gatesville. but that he expects
to 20 into the case 'from cellar to
garrett" as1dd
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday;
not much change in temperature.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy tn
cloudy tonight and Tuesday.
Fresh southerly winds on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
FRIENDSHIP IS
LANDED ALONG
WALES COAST
Fuel Supply Barely
Enough to Reach
Land; Ship Gassed,
Continues Trip

BURY. PORT. June 1s.-(APl-
The trans Atlantic monoplane
Friendship. with Miss Amelis
Earhart, Wilmer StultE and Louis
Gordon aboard. left BURY Port me
5:37 o'clock this afternoon for
Southampton.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
RIVER FORECAST

There will be NO material change
IN the river above Rio Grande City
and q slight 10 moderate rise from
Mission down during the next % to
4S hours.
Flood Present - III. - Hr.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide st Point Isabel
tomorrow under normal meteoroloEi-
cal conditions:
High $50 D. ~.
Low fO.49 u. ua-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-18
Special Attention

iven e. Power ard
trial Plant Breakdcwns
Car Save You Money
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-22

some cell window tweaking steadily and
rapidly with a steel saw or broken
knife blade or some other instrument.
The noise made by the saw or other
instrument is effectually drowned by
the singers SO that if the officers do
not walk carefully and look carefully
they will never know that a Jail break
is attempted until they come out in
the morning and find one cell empty
with = ping hole in a two foot con-
crete VIII or window bar with one
end dug out of the concrete and twist
ed half around to make q little hole,
but big enough for a man to squeeze
through
A professional criminal will take the
steel arch supports from his shoes and
make tools out Of them with which he
will be able, if left alone a short time,
TO break from almost any Jail What
few eating utensils are permitted the
prisoners arc often appropriated to
these uses and now and then someone
snluggles @ real saw into cell. How
ever lew escape in the long list Of those
placed behind the bars and most of
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-22
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 2 1928

Prisoners are only confined by them
selves if they are unusually unruly or in
cases where there are more than one in
the same case and the officers do not
want the different ones talking to each
other. Now and then juvenile is
placed in the Jail and in these cases he
is always locked up by himself as the
law again provides that no minor shall
be placed IN the same cell with adults.
How Prisoners Pass Time
Prisoners are very cheerful as rule
and laugh and sing ard play cards and
sometimes, if the combination of ability
is right, they will organize bands with
paper and combs and tin pans or what
ever they can secure from the little al
lowed in a cell
When prisoners sing too Justify, es-
pcoially at night, the police have
learned to hold suspicious and often a
Cuict patrol into the vicinity of the big
cells will discover the entire collection
OF prisoners with the exception of one
man. singing Justify, with their heads
sll together near tie door while the
enc silent prisoner will be found at
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-22

The next customer will be Mexican
burro driver captured with burro load
of mescal. Toward morning drug adj
dict burglar who has not bathed since
he acquired the habit, is added to the
collection and just at dawn colored
boy is apprehended crawling through a
window.
BY the time the jailor comes to serve
breakfast the white cell interior looks
like shamblcs. There is no one in
the cell with pride or ability enough TO
clean it up.
Sanitation is maintained however.
During the morning the prisoners are
ordered to clean the cell and if they do
not do so a kangaroo court IS insti-
gated in which the most able bodied Of
the lot takes charge and first cleans his
part Of the cell and then influences
his cell mates to clean the rest. But the
cell is never the same until it is emp
tied and re-wlftcwashed There is a
certain a,nell Of 7team hest, unwashed
humanity, the fumes Of drunkenness
and insect spray that IL net TO be found
in any perfunery shop.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-22

them pay the penalty and march out
through the doors by which they ent-
cred and the wheels of justice grind on,
sometimes slowly, sometimes swiftly.
Sometimes it may seem that they
grind coarse and sometimes very fine
but in the end one is convinced that
they do grind rather well and the ma
jCrity of the inmates that tarry for a
day or a month in the Douglas city jail
viii admit freely that they have COM
mitted offenses which entitle them to
be where they are and all of them will
freely state that they are well treated
although some declare that they have
been in far better jails and for far
lOnqer periods.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-22
wRIrEs sT. louis H1sToRY

ST. LOUIS GA history of St.
Louis, told in a S5O-page volume and
covering half century, has been pub
lished by William A. Kelsoe Of the St.
Louis POST Dispatch editorial staff.
Kelsoe has been actively engaged in
the city's journalism for SO years