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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
BISHOP Being
Sent TO US.
FROM MEXICO
Four Defense League
Members Ordered
20 Penal Colony;
More Raids Made

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 25.-tP)-
Bishop Serafin Armora of Tamauli-
pas was on his way to the United
States Border for deportation as the
government continued to round up
persons implicated in the so-called
Catholic revolution.
Four members of the League for
the Defense of Religious Liberty are
to be deported to the islands of Las
Tres Marias. penal settlement off the
west coast Of Mexico.
Four Catholic priests captured BY
military authorities in Jalisco were
brought to Mexico City for investiga-
tion.
Secret police raided a private home
in the suburbs and seized a Catholic
priest and five other men.
Bishop ATmora was arrested in the
home of a friend where he was
hiding under an assumed name when
he failed to register, as required,
with the department Of interior and
thus became suspected of anti-gov-
ernment propaganda. Two agents Of
the department of interior accompan-
led him toward the Texas border at
Laredo.
The four men to be deported TO
the penal settlement are Emilio
Riberio Lopez, Salvador Aguirre, AL
fonso Noriega. and valentin Herman
dez. They are charged with prepar-
ing and distributing seditious propa-
ganda.
The Catholic priests vincente
Michel, Ramon Velez. Feliciano Leal
and Weneceslao Silvestre were cap.
tured in the Los Altos district OF
Jalisco, where federal troops were
concentrated recently to wipe out the
rebel bands. They will be cited BY
the attorney general for investiga.
ton.
Secret police claimed to have found
another headquarters for the prep.
aration and dissemination of anti.
government propaganda when they
arrested a priest named Jose vivas
Suarez and five other men in q
suburb.
Dispatches from Guadalajara, cap
itai Of Jalisco, said two rebels were
killed when police broke up an at.
tempt to obtain ammunition there
The munitions were said to have
been left in house by rebel agents
A band of thirty entered the capital
to obtain them and a running battle
took place in the streets. The rebels
failed TO obtain the ammunition.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
Limdy Sees Trial
of Magnetic Motor;
Ne1U Plane Device

Thomas G. Lanphier, flight COM
mander at Selfridge field.
The motor which, the newspaper
pointed out, might revoIutionize the
entire scheme of automotive power,
was the invention Of Lester J. Hen
dershot, Of Pittsburgh, the article
said.
Col. Lindbergh, Major Lanphier
and D. Barr Peat of Pittsburgh, bus
mess manager for the inventor, con-
Quoted a test of the motor yesterday
at Selfridge field, and the Free Press
reported it was successful in ey-
cry respect"
No direct authority for news Of the
invention was given other than ii
emanated from one Of the four men
Col. Lindbergh, Major Lanphier
Hendershot and Peat. The first two
reached early today, refused to com.
ment. Reporters were unable to find
the inventor and his agent.
The Guggenheim foundation fol
promotion of aeronautics, the article
said, has arranged for an imme-
date demonstration of the motor
which is said to be based on the
principle of electrical magnetism, as
applied to the rotary motion of the
earth. The newspaper account con-
tinued:
"The model of the motor has been
guarded with the greatest care since
Il was brought to Selfridge field by
Hendershot and Peat. Late yesterday
il was taken to an experimental
hanger, where the famous transat-
lantic flier aided in a tryout that
exceeded even the hopes Of the in
ventor.
$50 far as experiments have been
made, the power is only applied to
use in airplanes. Later develop
ments are planned to extend the
scope Of operation to other fields of
locomotion.
"No other facts were obtainable
other than the machine runs on elec-
trical magnetism as applied to the
rotary motion of the earth. It is in
no sense connected with a perpetual
motion idea although recent tests
have proved it will run for long
periods.
"On the test blocks yesterday il
was learned the motor turned UP
1900 revolutions per minute. 1t would
run at this rate for between 1900
and 5000 hours before it becomes
necessary to recharge the magnet
center"
Peat, according to word from
Pittsburgh, is field manager of the
Belts airport at McKeesport, Pa
Little was revealed regarding Hen
dershot.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25

ON Rail PLAN
Antitrust Law Used
As Club Against
Proposed Merger

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-(Rl-A
complaint that the Kansas City
Southern railway had violated the
Clayton antitrust law by acquiring
capital stock Of the Missouri-Kansas-
Texas railroad and by making agree
ments looking to control Of the st.
Louis Southwestern railway was
made today by the Interstate Como
merce commission.
The railroadc ompany was ordered
to show cause on April why an or
der TO dissolve the combination
should not be entered. The COM
plant drawn up by the commissions
represented the first action Of the
kind it has ever taken.
The Kansas City Southern rail-
way, controlled by L. y. Loree and
associates, undertook two years ago
to merge with the Missouri-Kansas-
Texas and the st. Louis Southwest
ern. but was refused Interstate Com
merce commission authority to pro-
ceed. Following the commissions
decision, Mr.. Loree prepared q new
merger plan, which has not yet been
presented.
It was declared in the complaint
that the Kansas City Southern, the
st. Louis Southwestern and the Mis-
souri-Kansas-Texss werea II COM
mon carriers engaged in direct COM
petition with each other.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
Carol Predicts
He Will Occupy
Rulnania Throne

NICE, France, Feb. 25.-CF>-For-
mer Crown Prince Carol Of Rumania
is being quoted by friends here as
having declared that within two
months he will be on the Rumanisn
throne which he renounced when he
elcped with Magda Lupescu.
Foreign Minister Titulesco Of Ru-
mania, a member of the Braitanu
cabinet which has always maintained
that every effort will be made TO
keep Carol from returning, is now
summing himself at Mentone, few
miles away from Carol. Carol has
been devoting himsef 10 the night
life of the Riviera.
In reuIv to runaors that he could
see Titulesco, Carol said:
"Titulesco would have seen me
Thursday, but ! did not wish to see
HIM"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
SENATEPROBE
HEARS SON OF
ABSENT MAN
With Father Hiding In
Europe, Blackmers
Jr. Tells What He
Knows of Oil Deal

WASHINGTON. Feb. 25s-tFl-Un-
able TO obtain the testimony Of T. NJ.
Blackmer. N moving spirit I'm the
Continental Trading company oil
transaction, the senate Teapot Dome
committee today called his son, Ny
ron X. Blackmer OF Denver, n vice
president Of the Midwes Refining
company.
The son told the committee that he
knew his father had been negotiat.
ing with the late a. i. Humphreys
for oil from his Texas fields, whieh
the Continental subsequently, bought
and resold to the Sinclair Crude Oil
company and the Prairie Oil and Gas
company at an enormous profit.
"The Standard Oil OF Indiana
which owns all of our stock. was
short Of crude at that time," Black
mer said.
When his attention was called Co
the correspondence his father. who
is an exile in Europe, and Robert w.
Stewart. prominent figure OF the
Standard of Indiana, Blackmer said
he no doubt saw some OF the corre-
spondence at the time.
my knowledge about the negotiR-
tons Is only general, as I had no
part in them" Blackmer said. AAt
one time my fathre talked 70 Colonel
Humphreys about buying his whole
property"
"When did you learn that the oil
was being bought through the Con-
tinental Trading eompany?" Sena-
tor Walsh asked
"My father told me had had an
interest in the Continental company
and had made about $750,000 out OF
the company" Blackmer replied.
Was it before your father went
to Europe7"
"Yes, sir"
when did your father 10 TO Eu-
rope?"
"In February, 1924"
That was Immediately after the
senate committee had uncovered the
scandal which led to 20 many civil
and criminal suits in the courta.
"Tell US what your father told you
about the Continental" Walsh pur-
sued.
He did not tell me very much. I
had heard Of the Continental before.
He told me to keep the matter con-
fidential as he had not decided
whether he would keep the profits
as there was the possibility that tha
Midwest might seek to recover
them"
Were your father and yourself
- - "
"Yes, sir"
IF any Of this money was coming
to the Midwest and you were an Of
ficer of that company it was your
duty to make every effort TO recover
it, wasn't it?"
well, my father was chairman or
the board, and ! naturally thought
IL was a matter for him 20 decide"
Have you told US all your father
told you about the Continentalf"
Yes, sir"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25

consisting of two coaches,
two baggage cars and a mall
car.
AS the train stopped, some Of the
robbers, armed with shotguns and
pistols invaded the coaches, firing
promiscuously and intimidating the
passengers.
Others Of the band rounded up the
train crew and herded them with the
passengers where part Of the robbers
stood guard. Two Of the gang, carry
ing explosives, went TO the mail car
which was locked. They set a charge
of explosive in the vestibule of the
mail car, blowing it away, then en-
tered and subdued two mail clerks
and two government agents guarding
the money.
One Of the clerks was struck over
the head when he attempted to re-
sist, otherwise no one was injured,
although more than so shots were
fired. The two men with the ex-
plosiye, after turning over the
guards to those watching the passen-
gers, blasted the mail car safe and
gathered up two mail pouches con-
tanning the cash consigned to two
Harvey banks, where il was to be
used to meet the pay rolls of the in
dustries there
The robbers, as soon as they had
gathered up the cash, called to their
accomplices who still menaced pas
sengers and crew with their weapons
as all backed to a large touHng car
- l. -F 81 IT.
then clambered in and sped away,
the train proceeding to Harvey where
the mail clerks telephoned to postal
authorities here. The train then
proceeded on to Port Huron.
OF the money stolen, $4,000 was n
shipment from the Federal Reserve
bank in Chicago to the First National
bank of Harvey.
The money was to meet u two
weeks payroll for three or four
Harvey factories. said II. G. Hudson,
vice president Of the Harvey bank.
The $4,000 did not represent loss
to the First National Of Harvey, ne
said, since it was still technically in
the control Of the Chicago Reserve
bank. It probably was fully insured,
Mr.. Hudson said. The Chicago Fed
eral Reserve bank Immediately sent
a duplicate shipment
Fifty-three thousand dollars was
consigned from the First National
bank Of Chicago to its correspondent
bank, the Bank Of Harvey.
The previous holdup of the same
train occurred September 10, 1925
and the amount obtained at that
time was s135.0o0. the money being
consigned to the same two banks at
Harvey. No trace Of the robbers was
ever found. They entered the mail
car as the train left Chicago lawn
station and left it as Evergreen sta.
tion was reached. The men escaped
with the money in two mail sacks.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
SACKSLAYER'
FOUNDCUILTY
Pieces of Canvas Are
Convincing Exhibit
Jurors Assert

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25.-(R-A
strand Of yellow thread woven into
two pieces OF canvas in such a way
that it attracted the eye Of eight
women jurors, helped to convict DR..
Charles NJ. Mcmillan Of the sack
murder" Of his employer, Mrs. Ame-
liza Appleby, wealthy widow.
The jury yesterday found the for
mer Colorado, Texas, physician
guilty of first degree murder and
recommended life imprisonment.
The yellow thread ran through the
canvas which was found wrapped
about the wealthy widows body, and
through n similar piece discovered
in the slain woman's automobile in
her garage. Six of the eight women
on the jury agreed that the yellow
thread had been one of the strongest
links in the chain Of circumstances
upon whcih they convictede McMil'
Ian.
at was the same thread sewn In
both pieces" they said after th'
trial ended. "It satisfied US that
the woman was killed in her owr
home, and that DR.. Mcmillan did the
killing"
1T didn't surprise me much" the
convicted man stammered, in com
menting on the veredict. He wa.
grave with the same stoical indiffer.
ence he maintained throughout hi,
trial, in which he admitted forging
the "Appleby will" which bequeath,
ed to him the entire estate of hi.
victim. The state declared the forged
will was the evidence of the doctors
murder motive.
Under the California law, tn,
jury's recommendation makes tn,
sentencing set for next Tuesda,
morning but a formality.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
Dollar Mergers Ruum0yed On Wall Street
wild WeSt'JOb
Gets $133,OOO
Near Chicago

CHICAGO, Feb 25.-lP-Half dozen masked
robbers using wild west tactics held up Grand Trunk
local mail and passenger train the fringe of Chicago
day. terrorzed rs passengers and train employees, blast
ed mail and escaped with at least $4,000 and pos
sibly .
The hold up staged near Evergreen Park south
west of Chicago at the spot where $1350OO train
robbery was executed year ago, and police believe the
same gang executed the second coup
One of the robbers boarded the train, local between
Chicago and Port Huron, Mich at Chicago with ticket
to EverlIeen Park about IL miles fror the downtown
station The train stopped at the flag Sop and this rob-
her got off, quarter of mile down the track five men
wearing black masks and khaki overas tagged the tran
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
ACCOUNT FOR
ALL IN Mine
Is Killed, No Injuries
Is Toll of Blast in
Arkansas

JENNY LIND, Ark, Feb. 25.-(Pp-
Its losses counted up, this little min
ing community today was mourning
its IS dead-victims Of q gas explo-
sion in the tunnel of coal shaft.
Every one Of the 125 who were
working within reach of the fatal ex-
plosion and it's fumes was accounted
for and only one of these was in
jured.
The list Of dead:
Darcy Templeton, nephew of Super
intendent w. Z. Templeton.
Valentine Bersesck. pit boss.
Joe Solar. Forest Ribs, John Kos
matine and Walter Chapple, Of Jenny
Lind.
Edgar Westmoreland, Wise Brown,
James Kimberling, and Lewis Mohr,
Of Bonanza
Frank Durrott, Tshoma, Okla.
Charles Newman of Windsor, No.,
and Jack Williams, also a Mis-
sourian, who entered the mine for
the first time.
Led by Claud Speigel, state mine
inspector, rescue crews worked all
through yesterday until late in the
night. clearing tunnels and bringing
out bodies. until the last was ac-
counted for.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
Biennial To Be
Well Financed

PARIS. Tex, Feb. 25.-CP)-IndI-
cations are that the biennial conyen-
ton Of the General Federation q
Women's clubs 10 be held nc San Ans
tonic will be well financed, Mrs.
w. r. Potter of Bowie, president OF
the state federation. told u meeting
Of club women here Friday. When
the suggested contribution from in
dividual members was found insult
ficient. cities and ellbs pledged nd-
ditional amounts, ranging down.
ward from San Antonio's $4,000, she
said.
Mrs. Potter will broadcast an ad-
dress embodying the same message
over station WFAA. Dallas, at s:ib
y. m. Saturday. She goes there 90
attend the meeting OF the stats
executive board which will consider
the custer instituted against Mrs:
j. u. Fields of Haskell, chairman OK
convention arrangements
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
RAMMED ship
SINKS,3OLOS7
Russian Vessel Hits
Italian Boat In Fog
OFF England

LONDON. Feb. 25.-lF-Carryins
a crew estimated at 80 with her, the
Italian steamer Alcantara has disap-
peared beneath the fog blanketed
waters of the Strait of Dover, ac-
cording to advices reaching here to-
day.
The ship sank after colliding with
the Russian training ship Tovarisch
three miles southeast Of Dungeness.
An SOS from the Tovarisch brought
fleet Of boats to the scene Of the
disaster. The only survivor found
died soon after being picked up by
the British steamer Moldavia from
the floating wreckage.
So heavy was the fog that hung
over the sea off the Kentish coast
that the Moldavia received its first
warning that it had reached the
scene only when cries for help were
heard coming from the sea through
the white shroud.
The crew Of the Tovarisch, al
though q hole had been stove in
their own ship. attempted TO aid the
Italians. The Russian ship is under
stood not to be in a dangerous condi-
ton and trying to make Southamp-
ton.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
FROST MAYHIT
VALLEY CROPS
Freezing temperature
Forecast For Sat-
urday Night

Frost Saturday night throughout
the Valley if the weather clears. was
the report sent out by the weather
bureau Saturday morning.
Indications at noon Saturday were
that the sky would remain clear
throughout the night with a north
wind. In the event the wind drops
and the sky remains clear, consider
able damage to the Valley truck crop
is expected.
Throughout the Brownsville sec
ton toma.c growers are covering
part Of tFeir plants with dirt, and
containers Of every description are
being requisitioned as coverings.
Many farmers are making provisions
to start huge fires of wood and oil
in the event the temperature drops
to the danger point.
Potato growers Saturday morn
ing expressed the opinion the frost
would not be sufficiently severe to
materially damage the potato crop.
Many Of the tomato fields are
ready TO blossom, and the plants
have reached the stage where frost
would have its worst effect. Very
few of the growers have thinned
their plants, and crews Of laborers
were started to work Saturday morn
ing covering alternate plants in the
row, thereby assuring a stand in the
event frost should kill the uncovered
plants.
H. Caldwell, manager of the Delta
Gardeners association, and w. Z. Nc
Davitt broadcast warnings to farm
ers in FL Jardin and Brownsville
sections, urging that they protect
tomatoes and beans as much as pos
sible. Wood fires and smudge pots,
anything which will create a dense
smoke, will be used to protect the
bean fields, growers stated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
MOVIES, BANKS
TRUCKS Seen
IN COMBINES
New York Institution
With Resources of
$3.50, 100000 To Be
One of Firms

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-tP)-Three
huge mervers in the banking. moving
picture and motor truck fields, in
voIving aggregate assets of s1,i5s,-
000, 200. were reported in the finan-
cial district today as in formulative
stages.
Consolidation of the Bank OF
America, the Bowery and East River
National bank, the Commercial Ex-
change bank, the Manufacturers
Trust company and a group of small
er banks controlled by interests affil-
lated with the latter company was
said to be imminent. The institution
would have resources of approx
mately $S50,000,00 and would be
headed by Edward c. Lelafield,
president Of the Bank Of America.
The new institution would be
known as the Bank Of America per-
petuating q name that has been on
Wall street 116 years. The merger
Is being engineered by A. p. Gian-
mini, president of the Bancitaly COR
poration.
Wall street also heard reports that
the William Fox moving picture in
terests would shortly take over the
Stanley Corporation of America,
which controls 270 theaters in some
100 cities. A merger of these two
concerns would bring into existence
. $500, 100000 organization control
ling more than 900 theaters in the
United Ststes.
The motor merger was that Of the
Brockway Motor Truck company of
New York and the Indiana Truck
company of Marion, Ind, with COM
bined assets Of 100000. George A.
Brockway, president of the Crock
way company, said that the two con-
Germs, which had sales in excess of
$15,00o,00o last year would combine
rs the Brockway Motor Truck cor
poration. Mr.. Brockway will head
the new company, which will be one
Of the three largest truck manufac-
turing concerns in the United States.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
CAVALRY HEAD
POST VISITOR
Major General Crosby
Pleased With In
spection Result

Major General Herbert 3. Crosby,
chief of the nations cavalry forces,
reached Brownsville Saturday morn
ing for his annual inspection of the
Twelfth Cavalry headquarters at
Fort Brown.
The officer expressed satisfaction
with the manner in which the post
was being conducted, and compli-
mented Col. William +. Johnson, post
commander, on the way the troopers
conducted themselves during a short
review and drill.
A salute of 13 guns greeted Gen.
eral Crosby when he came into the
post BY the jefferson street en-
trance, following his arrival over
the Missouri Pacific lines. Col.
Johnson and Capt. Wharton G.. In
gram, post adjutant, formed an Off
cial reception committee, greeting
the general when his train pulled
into the station. An escort of troops
accompanied the official car from
the depot to the post.
Following his troop inspection.
General Crosby looked over his
morning mail and spent the remain
der of the day in rest. He was the
guest of Col. and Mrs. johnson at
luncheon in their headquarters at
/ p. m, and was scheduled to have
dinner with Twelfth Cavalry Off
GERS at p. m. in Matamoros.
Following that function the gen.
eral was scheduled to attend a re-
ception and dance given in his honor
at the Officers lodge.
General Crosby came here from
Fort Crockett, and was scheduled to
leave Sunday afternoon. by automo-
bile, for Fort Ringgold, TO review
the troops st that place. Fort Brown
Is the second post to be visited by
the officer on his annual tour.
He expressed especial interest In
the progress made in the recently
ordered reorganization of cavalry
regiments providing increased fire
power.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
Capture Liquor On
Military Highway

Fourteen gallons of mescal, three
gallons Of brandy and two prisoners
we're brought to Brownsville Satur-
day morning by Deputy Sheriff l..
Gilbert of Rangerville who made the
capture Friday night on the military
highway near the Hidalgo county.
line.
The driver of the liquor-laden
automobile resides at Harlingen and
is believed to have received the
smuggled liquor at the river below
the Santa Maria pump, and was
transporting it to Harlingen via
Mercedes.
The case will be presented to the
grand jury which convenes Monday
morning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
Sand Storm Hits
British Aviator

SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 25.-tP)
Bert Hinkler, who flew with clock
like regularity more than 11.0e0
miles from England to Port Darwin,
arrived at Camooweal. Queensland,
today after being missing for more
than "a hours.
Hinkler started from Port Darwin
yesterday morning on q 900-mile
flight for Cloncurry. En- route he
was forced down in the Camel coun-
try by q dust storm. He made a
good landing at Camooweal and his
machine was working well. He in
tends to resume his flight to Clon-
curry tomorrow, and will continue on
to his home town, Dundaberg, Mon
day.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-25
Pershing Leaves to
Mark Soldier Graves

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-P)-Gen-
eral John ]. Pershing sailed on the
Olympic last night for France. where
Is chairman Of the American battle
monument commission, he will take
charge Of the work of replacing the
wooden crosses on the graves of Am
erican soldiers with permanent mark
ers.
General Pershing said the work
will be begun as soon as possible.
and will be done entirely by French
firms. He said he would remain in
france until the work is completed.