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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
u. S. SUFFERS IN
NACO REBEL RAID

NACO, Sonora, Mexico, April g.
P)-Attacking this Mexican federal
stronghold in force today, rebel
troops of General Fausto Topete
failed to defeat the defending forces
of General Lucas Gonzalez and
were forced back with apparently
considerable losses. Although the
casualties on neither side could bel
definitely determined, federals we're
reported to have suffered the least.
Coincident with the opening of
the battle early in the day, an
American trooper, Private John
Finezee, negro, Tenth cavalry. was
shot in a brief encounter between q
United States patrol and Mexicans
believed to be rebels on the border
eight miles east of here Other
casualties on the American side of
the line during the battle included
two MeXicans, a girl and a woman,
slightly wounded by rifle bullets.
In addition to the wounding of
I the trooper and others on United
States territory, rebel plane al
tacking the federal trenches, drop
ped bomb on the Arizona side Of
the line. 1t exploded so feet from
a telegraph office where newspaper
correspondents and biographies
were working, shattering windows
and starting a fire in a trash pile.
Charles Newton was slightly
wounded by a fragment of the
bomb which fell in the back yard
of his home.
Airplanes, tanks, infantry and
cavalry of the revolutionary forces
launched the long threatened at
tack on Naco. Naco was defended
by 800 federal troops augmented to
nearly HOO during progress Of the
battle by arrival of a train of Mex
ican soldiers who had been intern
ed at Fort Bliss, Texas. The rebel
attackers numbered upwards OF
1900.
Two airplanes. two tanks, about
500 cavalrymen and columns of in
fantry joined in the rebel onslaught
shortly after dawn. These forces
by noon succeeded in penetrating a
cemetery east of town and drove
the federals from the front line
trenches, despite a whitening fire.
Rifle and machine gun fire from
the federal trenches was augment
ed by a single piece of artillery. a
one FOUNDER. Rebel tanks, con-
Continued on page three.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
SIX DEAD IN
HOTEL BLAZE
Investigation Begun AS Fire
men Hunt Six More Miss
ing In Ruins

DES MONIES, April 6.-(P)-The
well known death toll from fire
that destroyed the historic old
Kirkwood hotel here early today
was at six tonight as firemen con-
tinued to search the ruins in the
belief that bodies of some Of the
six persons unaccounted for might
be found.
Sixteen persons were seriously
injured or burned in the fire which
caused a property loss in excess
Of $30,0O0 An unidentified body
was found late today, the sixth per-
son known to have perished.
Meanwhile, State Fire Marshal
John w. Strohm. and City Fire
Marshal Charles Barker started an
investigation.
Survivors were quoted as declar-
ing they had been awakened by
reports that the hotel was ablaze
but were told to return to their
beds as the fire had been extin-
guiShed.
The dead: Carl Jerrup, waiter
formerly of Moorehead. Iowa; Mrs
Ted Watson and w. P. Raidley of
Des Moines; and John P. Scott
who came to Des Moines about two
weeks ago from Mexico City; Tom
Coates. so. of Des Moines, field man
for the Farmers union. and Mrs.
Nell Van Auken, DeS Moines.
Searchers said they believed an
aged woman was buried under the
debris on the top floor Of the south
end Of the building. Ted Watson
who with his wife and three chill
dren was a guest of the hotel, is
in a hospital probably fatally in
jured.
Police tonight completed check
ing the hotel records and found six
names of persons unaccounted for.
They were:
Queens Craig, E. Reise, Mrs. NJ
Hickenlooper. G. l.. Henry, G. Long
and Betty Moreland.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
STORMS KILL
20 In NORTH
Wisconsin Chief Sufferer
With 13 Dead And
Scores Wounded

MINNEAPOLIS, April 6-tP)-
Spring storms that blew up from
nowhere and skipped through Min
neSota and Wisconsin late yeSter-
day cost 20 lives and more than 100
injuries besides destroying proper
ty valued at millions, check re-
vealed tonight.
Besides Minnesota and Wisconsin,
Iowa also felt the winds force and
listed one dead, a farmer at Little
Rock. In addition several persons
were reported injured in the north
ern part Of the state, just across
the Minnesota line.
Wisconsin was the chief sufferer,
13 persons losing their lives and
scores of others suffering injuries
ranging from scratches and bruises
to fractured bones and internal
hurts. Five of the total number
of dead were reported in Mime
sofa, two near Minneapolis and one
each near Forest lake, Lindstrom
and Taylor falls.
In Wisconsin the district near
Exeland appeared hardest hit with
Reeve a close second. Near Exeland
four deaths were reported. Three
were listed at Reeve where three
children were killed on the farm
of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Pittman;
two were killed near Ricelake and
one each at Clayton, Barron, Glen
wood City and Wausau. The death
near Wausau was that of Edwin
Erdman. 80, struck by lightning.
Reports trickled in slowly from
the stormswept sections, adding to
the death list hourly. 1t was feared
that when wire communications
were fully established the toll might
be further INCREASED.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
MISS MORROW
LEAVES HERE
Sister of Lindy's Fiancee
Off For Boston After
Easter Holidays

Returning to her school work in
Boston after short Easter visit
with her parents at Cuernavaca
and Mexico City, Miss Constance
Morrow, younger sister of Anne
Morrow, fiancee of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, left here Saturday at
8:35 p. m. over the Missouri Pa
cific lines. She had flown here
earlier in the day over the MeXi-
can Aviation company line, landing
at the Brownsville municipal air.
port at 1880 p. m.
The petite young daughter of
Ambassador Dwight Morrow was
accompanied by Mrs. S. r. Crane
who acted as chaperone. They
were in good spirits despite a
somewhat rough air passage from
Mexico City and went to the E.
Jardin hotel shortly after arriving
The pair enjoyed almost abso-
lutte seclusion, taking a WALL
through the business district un-
recognized in the afternoon. They
ate at Hotel Ell Jardin in the aft.
ernoon and boarded their drawing
room on the train at $40 p. m
unrecognized.
Their drawing room will be taken
straight through to New York 60
ing by way of Houston and St
Louis. Miss Morrow is due to ar
rive in New York at 9:35 a. m
Tuesday.
She has become a confirmed air
enthusiasts and her recent flights
with Col. Lindbergh at Mexico CITY
has added to her zest for travel
by air. Over an hour was spent
over Mexico City by her with the
Lone Eagle just prior to coming
here.
AS the two travellers boarded the
train here alone, Porter Walter
Hilliard with his customary polite
Continued on Page Ten.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
JUDGE SWORN
IN LONG TRIAL
Chief Justice O'Niell EN-
panels Senators AS I'm
peachment Jury

BATON ROUGE, La, April g.
P)-Chief Justice Charles A. O'Neill
of the Louisiana supreme court was
sworn in late today as judge of the
senate court of impeachment for the
trial of Governor Huey P. Long.
The chief justice was presented to
the senate and sworn in as preSid-
ing judge after a conference of an
hour with a committee of the
senate relative to trial procedure.
Lieutenant Governor Cyr retired
from the chair and Justice O'Neill
swore in the senators as jurors and
announced the senate resolved into
a court Of Impeachment.
The committee Of managers, who
will direct the prosecution of the
governor, impeached by the house
of representatives today, then were
received by the senate court and the
resolution carrying the impeach-
ment indictment was read to the
court.
The senate court then recessed
until Thursday. Long. youthful gov
ernor, was impeached by the house
amid a scene of disorder.
BY vote Of So to 40, the house
handed down an indictment charg-
ing the governor with attempting to
suppress the freedom of the press
specifically by threatening Charles
P. Manship, Baton Rouge publisher
with public exposure Of the fact
that the publishers brother was an
inmate in the insane asylum, unless
he stopped an editorial attack on
the governors proposed tax on oil.
The count read:
THAT the said Huey P. Long did
while governor of the state OF
Louisiana. and in the city Of Baton
Rouge and in a public place. on or
about the Goth day of March. 1929
intrude himself upon. threaten anc
attempt to intimidate Charles P
Manship. owner and publisher Of
the Daily State Times. newspaper
published in the city of Baton
Rouge. and did threaten to make
Continued on Page Three.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
Brownsville Votes
Bonds; Edinburg,s
Old Board Victor

The $4,000 Brownsville independ-
ent school district bond issue was
voted 100 to two and four members
of the board Of trustees were re-
turned to office without opposition
in the election held Saturday.
Harbert Davenport and j. A.
Graham each received 100 votes
while Ike A. Dudley and 0. V.
Lawrence each obtained 189 bal
lots. In the trustee election there
were five mutilated ballots and in
the bond vote two.
The board of trustees will be
called into session early this week
for the purpose of naming officers.
Indications are that 0. v. Lawrence
will remain as president of the body
and Sherwood Bishop will continue
as vice president. The four trustees
were elected for two years. Hold
overs are Sherwood Bishop. r. B.
Creager and Cleve H. Tandy.
The trustees will get into action
Immediately on the bonds voted
which are to be used for the con-
struction of a new siX-room ward
school in Alta Vista and remodelling
of the old grammar school. These
new buildings will care an over
flow at the new grammar school
and for an increaSeof 312 in the
scholastic census for 1929-1930. In
addition to the regular increase in
the census for 1930-31, six-year-olds
will have to be added to the rolls
Plans for the buildings have been
drawn by Ben v. Proctor Of Browns
vile and Phelps & Devices Of Sar
Antonio. These have been accepted
by the board. The new school
house is to be known as the East
Continued on Page Ten)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
Bishop Asks Beauties to
.Shun Galveston Contest


ing as a means Of drawing a
crowd.
Bishop Byrne said he had ad-
dressed a letter to Dublin news
papers, advising against sending
an Irish beauty to the contest,
and that they had appreciated it.
People in other countries do
not know that their girls will
come here, be dressed in bathing
suits and paraded like animals
at fat stock show" he said.
Bathing contests are becoming
almost extinct, the bishop point
ed out. Atlantic City has given
up it's contest, he said. and "only
the backwoods places-so to
speak-are keeping it alive"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
PLANES RUSHED TO NACO
Kansas Folk Flee Before Prairie Blaze
MEXICAN GIRL
BRAVES REBEL
FIRE AT NACO

NACO, SONORA, Mexico,
April 6.-(P)-One of the great
est displays of courage during
today'S battle in the Naco fed
eral trenches was made by a
Mexican girl apparently not
more than 16.
She walked alone, upright, on
the firing step of the east trench,
shook her fist at the advancing,
shooting rebel troops and hurled
Shrill maledictions on them. Re-
peatedly the heated "Soldadera,
was pulled down behind the
earthen breaswork by soldiers,
but always she leaped up again.
She was not hit.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
Alleged Publisher of Sex
Questions Makes Bond

AUSTIN. April 6.-(P)-Horace
Walker of jefferson, Tex, until
recently a pre-law student at
Texas Christian University, was
out on bond tonight after having
been charged with criminal libel
for his alleged participation in
publication of the BlunderbuSs,
anonymous paper. alleged to have
"scandalized" university students
on All Fools day.
The Blunderbuss. suppressed
after it had become an annual
habit for April l, startled the
campus and much of the sedate
city, when it published the sex
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07

TEMPLE, Tex, April 6.-(P)-
Bishop c. E. Byrne of Galveston
reiterated here tonight that he
had advised Miss Austria" not
to appear in the Galveston bath,
ing beauty contest because it
was "uncouth and vulgar" He
said he had sent similar letters
to the parents of as many entries
as he could reach.
Il have been fighting this thing
for three or four years. the
bishop declared. II make no at
tack on the girls, but on the bus
mess men of Galveston. 1t is
simply parading girls in bath
ing suits who do not 60 in bath
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
GRANDVIEW FIRE LOSS
ESTIMATED AT $4,000

GRANDVIEW, Texas April g.
by the Cleburne and Itas-
ca fire departments here today pre-
vented the spread of a fire which
Grandview residents feared for a
time would be a repition of the 1920
conflagration that wiped out the
town.
The loss today was $1,000. Three
houses were destroyed. The cause
was undetermined.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07

QUESTIONABLE, circulated at the
University of Missouri, and
printed other more or less 'inti-
mate" things about boys and
girls who attend the university.
While Walker admitted that he
had something to do with the
solicitation of advertisements for
the Blunderbuss, he would not
reveal the names of the editors
or circulators. if he knew them.
After several hours of ques-
tioning he refused to give any
more information, if he had any,
commenting that he would take
the rough end of the DEAL" if
necessary.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
SIX PLANES LEAVE
FROM SAN ANTONIO

SAN ANTONIO, April 6-(P)-
Six army airplanes, equipped for
combat, en- route to Naco, Ariz., to
protect American citizens and prop
erty from possible harm resulting
from Mexican fighting there, land
ed at Ell Paso early tonight, official
reports received here said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
THE WEATHER

West Texas: Mostly cloudy Sun
day, somewhat cooler north por-
ton; Monday probably fair.
Oklahoma: Unsettled Sunday,
probably showers, cooler in west
portion; Monday unsettled.
East Texas: Unsettled, possibly
showers and cooler in northwest
portion Sunday: Monday, probably
cloudy. Fresh : and occasionally
strong southerly winds, diminish
! ing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
MAN SUSPECTED IN
KILLING SURRENDERS

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April g.
P)-Dan Hysler, alleged bootleg
ger suspected as having informa-
ton concerning the assassination of
former Deputy Sheriff Joe Hay
wood, surrendered today to Sheriff
Cahoon, on a warrant charging
violation of the prohibition law
and was released under bond.
Sheriff Cahoon said that "if
Hysler did not actually do the
shooting, he probably knows who
did and we have few questions
we'd like to ask him"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
MYSTERY PERSISTS IN
SLAYING OF OIL MAN

TULSA, April 6.-(P)-Tracing
clues which failed to materialize to-
day kept investigators busy in an
inquiry into the death of William
S. McCray, millionaire oil opera
tor, attacked in his hotel room
March "a.
In two death bed statements Nc
CRAY declared he had been attack
ed Dy an unidentified man.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-07
ROOKKEEPERS RELEASED

GAINESVILLE, Texas, April g.
P)-Carroll Reese and John H.
Shepherd, former bookkeepers Of
the Lindsey National bank here.
were released on bond TODAY on
charges of embezzlement of $4,000
in bank funds.
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PHYSICIANS DIRECTORY.

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WHERE TO BUY THE PLANET

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MAN DEFEATS NATURE.
CHAIN STORE GROWTH.
ZIP GOES WHEAT.
A BIRD BOOTLEGGER.

Man consistently surpaSSeS the
performances Of nature.
Locomotive and automobile out
run the deer Alrplanes already
outay any bird, and will do better
when they stop initiating birds and
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Bulls of BaShan beloved and
were heard afar The microphone
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latest defeat OF nature is the ccea-
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danger signals coming through the
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Forty-fve chain store organlza.
tons. in June, did $3.50. 28l TAT bust
ness, gaining q per cent in a year,
Sears, Roebuck stands first with
June sa!>l OF $25,747,o7o; Wool
worth next, S23,0O0,000; Montgom-
erv Ward third. S2l,000.0O0
Newspaper publishers are inter-
eSted in the policy of General
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stantly building retail stores. pro-
noting them with newspaper adj.
vertiSing.
Sears, Roebuck, il IS said, plan
several retail stores in all big cities.
one in each smaller city.
While the Government thinks
about II, Mother Nature helps some
farmers by injuring the wheat crop
here and in the Canadian North.
west
The price Of wheat went 40
everywhere, Chicago, Winnipeg,
London. Buenos Aires, touching
Sl.36 bushel. The price was %
cents few weeks ago.
Ii is not so pleasant for those
farmers whose wheat is "irrepar-
ably ruined"
y w 7, Logan, Christian mission
AIRY returning to Buffalo. from the
headwateps Of the ZambcSi, tells OF
q little bird that makes hole in the
river bank clay, fills il with fruit,
lets it ferrnent and develops alcohol
AT the proper time the bird re.
turns to its little clay vat, takes a
drink and will fight anything.
What could our prohibition
forces do about that, Satan, of
course, educated that bird. far back
In the Garden Of Eden. very likely
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Man consistently surpaSses the
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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-01-18

INDUSTRIOUS Poten;a.e is lie, OF
Sudan Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order. MOBILES of the Mystic Shrine.
It was coming to him, for he is tho
most highly perfected Mason in
North Carolina and all North Caro-
ina Masonry comes to him for is
hisher learning in Masonic ritual
ism. Six thousand Shriners vii
come to Elizabeth City in May ID
hail their big chief and Elizab2th
City will see the biggest show in its
history, for these Shrine-s are the
>layboys of Masonry and a prank
ing. frolicking, noise-making lot. Be-
sides being Illusrious Potentate OF
the Shrine. DR.. J. B. Griggs OF this
city whose photo appears herewith
is Grand Recorder Of the Grand
Council of Royal Arch Masons OF
North Carolina and Grand Recordef
of the Grand Council of Knights
Templar, of North Carolina. lie is
a past Grand Eminent Commando:
Of the knights Templar and past
Grand High Priest of the Roya!
Arch MasonS.