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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
MUST INCLUDE
WESLACO BOX,
COURT HOLDS
Judge Finds Commis-
sioners Acted Arbi-
trarily In Refusing
ToCount Returns

AUSTIN, March 30.-(P)-A
wrangle of months duration for
the judgeship Of the 93rd judicial
its climax today when Judge
George G. Calhoun held that the
commissioners court acted arbitrar-
ily in refusing to count returns OF
the Weslaco precincts and instruct
ed the jury to return verdict In
favor Of George Griffin, plaintiff.
j. z. Leslie, whom returns TO the
secretary Of state revealed was
elected by a majority of IA votes,
said l1e would appeal.
Griffin's counsel said the in
structed verdict had the effect OF
making permanent an injunction
restraining Mrs. Jane Y. McCallum,
secretary of state, from canvassing
returns which did not include the
disputed box.
The commissioners court also will
be directed to accept the Weslaco
count, which Griffin asserted
would give him a aiority of $50
votes. Votes for the race again will
be tabulated and forwarded to the
secretary of state. IF GriffiM
contentious are found correct hY .a
canvass, he will be issued a certffi-s
cate emitting him to the office, his
attorneys said.
Attorneys were undetermined
what other legal steps would be
necessary before Griffin could as
sumo the role Of judge in the
county where his followers, styling
themselves members of the citi--,
zens republican ticket, opposed
administration candidates.
Echoes Of the stormy controversy
have been heard in the Travis
county court since early in the
year, when Judge Calhoun assum-
ed jurisdiction. Leslie's counsel
maintained unsuccessfully that
since Griffin had filed an election
contest suit in Hida1go county, the.
issues should be tried in the south
Texas city locality.
Tried Case On Merits
Citing statutes which they assert
ed prevented the commissioners
court from receiving any returns
where envelopes were unseald
Leslie's attorneys this week sought
to prevent trial of the case on
its merits. Judge Calhoun held
that the case should be tried.
George C1ough, attorney for
Griffin, declared today after three
days of testimony had been fin
ished, that if the envelopes con-
tanning returns from the Weslaco
precinct were found to have been
sealed, the dispute would be ended.
If they were unsealed, Clough
pointed out, election judges should
be required by court order to seal
the flaps and the commissioners
instructed to canvass returns from
all Of the % precincts Of the
county.
Opposing attorneys countered
that the commissioners could not
legally count the returns from un-
sealed envelopes.
Contradictory testimony was
brought out during the hearing.
Three election officials, including
two women, testified that they saw
J. G. Buckow, presiding Judge, seal
the returns, and four told from
the witness stand that Buckow
Continued on page two)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
AIRMAIL PILOT
dies IN CRASH
Accident Occurs When Air
plane Hits Post On
Small Tuxpam Field

GREENSBORO, N. c., March 80.
-(P)-Robert Mclean, airmail flier
between Brownsville, Texas, and
Mexico City, was killed this morn
ing at Tampico, Mexico, IN an air.
plane accident. according to mes
sage received today by his parents,
MIR. and Mrs. Marshall Mclean, Of
Gibbsonville. The message gave no
details.
Robert Mclean, pilot for the
Mexican Aviation company, was
killed at Tuxpam, in the state of
Vera Cruz. Mexico, between Tam
pico and Vera Cruz City, when his
plane crashed into a post as he at
tempted landing on the small field
there. according to information re-
ceived at the airport today.
Airport officials said also that
Mclean had not been plotting the
company's planes from Brownsville
to Mexico City. and registrations at
the field do not include his name. 1t
is believed here that Mclean was
working between Tampico and Vera
Cruz.
Mexican Aviation company Of
ficials here had no information
concerning the accident, they said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
LONG PLANNING
FIGHT TO LAST
Oklahoman Arrives to Help
Prosecution And Is Re-
ceived Rudely

BATON ROUGE, La, March 30
P1-The Louisiana attorney general
spurned the services Of Charles A.
Moon, Oklahoma representative, as
adviser in the impeachment pro-
ceedingS against Governor Huey P
Long today and the governor an
nounced that he would come forth
next week with revelations that
would "split opponents wide open"
Thus public interest in the house
inquiry Monday night into the
executives official acts rose to a
high pitch.
Moons appearance here created
CONSERVATION among the governors
prosecutors and brought solace to
his faithful, who set up the cry of
persecution Moons stay in Baton
Rouge was not long. He checked
in at the hotel and checked out
again.
Attorney General Percy Saint de-
MED he had invited the Oklahoman,
who aided in the impeachment Of
that states governor, to join him.
Governor Long said he would
forego an Easter holiday and re-
main in Baton Rouge to plan his
battle. He worked today with a
squad Of stenographers and clerks
and his brother, Earl Long, in the
preparation Of additional pamphlets
to spread over the state.
"We will have the entire state
plastered before we are through"
the governor said. 'I never have
rested since I became governor. I,
will not now"
He expressed confidence in VIC
tory, saying he had received word
from the rural districts that the
country people, who he said elected
him governor, still were his sup
porters.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
Seeks Order Of
Court For Place
On Edcouch Ticket
Especial to The Heraldl

EDCOUCH, March 80. Man.
damus proceedings have been filed
by Col. Rufus Lakeland, candidate
for, mayor, to compel the city COM
mission to place his name on the
ballot for the city election to be
held Tuesday.
Hearing on the mandamus will be
held before Judge Hood Boone at
Edinburg Monday morning.
Lakeland announced several days
ago in opposition to H. H. Heron,
and the city commission refused to
place his name on the ballot, assert
ing he is not resident Of the city.
A petition was circulated and sew
eral signatures secured, but was re-
jected by the commission upon the
grounds it had not been presented
within the time required by law.
Candidates for the two places on
the city commission are H. B. Min
yard and @. w. Rockey. Hold
over commissioners are j. d. Lester,
j. C.. Salmon, and A. B. Barker.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
SCORE HOOVER
OIL PROGRAM
Three Western Governors
State Conservation Edict
Too Drastic

DENVER, Colo, March 30.-(P)-
A protest signed by Gov. Frank G.
Emerson of Wyoming, George H.
Dern of Utah and w. A. Adams Of
Colorado, directed to President Hoo
yer, scoring his oil conservation
edict Of March IL, will be dis
patched probably tomorrow, as the
result of tri-state governors con-
ference held here today.
Decision to send the protest, en-
bodying a plan to eliminate objec-
tional features Of the Hoover policy
as its applies to the public land
states of the Rocky mountain re-
gion, came at the end of more than
four hours discussed during the
Continued on page twelve)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
Bandits Release
Mining Engineer
Held For Ransom

MEXICO CITY, March 3o.-(P
The United States embassy
learned today that t. L. Carna-
han, an American mining man,
who had been the prisoner OF ban
dts for ten days while they sought
to collect ransom OF 3O,OOO pesos,
was released Thursday by federal
troops.
Ten thousand pesos had been
paid the bandits ION account" be-
fore the federals made a surprise
attack on the house in the town
of Durango, where Carnahan was
held.
Carnahan was superintendent of
La Noria mine near San Benito,
Zacatecas. He is a brother OF
George Carnahan Of the Continen-
tai Rubber company Of New York.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31

strapped to a cross and left there
for three hours. In San Miguel,
Mora and Guadalupe counties
there are twelve "mirados" or
meeting houses in which the peni-
tentes meet.
One penitente at Mora was re-
ported to have been nearly dead
from exhaustion when he finally
bore his large cross to the place
where it was to be erected, and
was so weak that he had to relin-
quish to another the honor" of
being "crucified."
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
Dent Buys Three Local 7heaters
COOKS MEAL FOR
X \ =
THUG DEMANDING
y. + y
HAM AT MIDNIGHT

CHICAGO, March 30.-(P)-
Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison is a good
cook. She was so voted by a
burglar who made her arise in the
middle of the night and cook him
a meal Of ham and eggs.
Awakened from sound sleep,
Mrs. Morrison found revolver
pointed at her head.
No, she didn't faint. however
much she felt like it, but arose
at the burglars command and
preceded him to the kitchen,
where he told her to "get busy on
ham and eggs"
She did so. The burglar ate
his fill and departed after telling
her she was "a very good cook and
a darned sensible woman"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
Old Easter Rites Observed
byNew Mexico Penitentes

LAS VEGAS, N. M, March 3d.
(P)-The mountains around Las
Vegas last night resounded with
weird chants as hundreds of na-
tive penitenteS observed good
Friday in their strange ceremonies,
centuries old.
Only one "crucifixion" was re-
ported, although in the canyons
there were many professions of
pententes, stripped to the waist,
who walked three abreast, lashing
themselves across the back with
whips in "atonement' for their
"sins."
The "crucified' member was
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
URGES OFFICERS NOT
TO PROSECUTE FRIEND

HOUSTON, March 30.-[P)-In-
sisting to the last that friend
accidentally fired bullet into his
body and was blameless, L. q.
Mackey. 26, died here today
Mackey was visiting a close
friend, r. West, at hotel Thurs
day night when he was shot. He
pleaded with officers not to file
charges against West.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
Friends Gather at Funeral
of Woman Shot in Pro Raid

AURORA, Ill, March 30.-(P)-
A solemn procession of townspeo-
pie and friends of Mrs. Lillian
de King, killed during prohibi-
tion raid in her home Monday,
today filed from the tiny yellow
house to st. Josephs church and
thence to the cemetery.
Hours before the body of the
wife and mother, killed by dep
uty sheriff, was removed from the
home, crowds gathered about the
lawn.
While services for Mrs. De King
were held. Charles W.. Hadley,
assistant attorney general and
States Attorney Carbary were in
conference considering the raid
that resulted in her death.
Hadley was assigned to the case
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31

after Carbary had appealed to Os-
car Carlstrom, attorney general,
for cooperation in the investiga-
ton because Of the feeling against
him in Aurora.
Coroner Herman J. Vierke an
nounced he would subpoena Eu-
gene Boyd Fairchild, investigator
for the states attorneys office,
who said he bought gin of Mrs.
De King. 1t was on this word
the warrant was issued and the
raid made, resulting in the death,
a fractured skull for Joseph de
King, a laborer, and the shooting
Of Roy Smith, leader of the dep
uties, by the 12-year-old son Of
the De Kings, after Smith had
killed the mother.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
OLD NATIVE OF TEXAS
is DEAD AT AMARILLO

AMARILLO, March 30.-P)-
Mrs. Matilda S. Smith. 86, said to
have been the oldest living native
born Texas woman, died here to-
day after an illness of several
weeks.
Mrs. Smith was born at Nacog-
doches November II, 1843. Her
father was William P. Brewer, one
of the few men to receive a grant
of land from the Republic of
Texas.
She had been a resident or
Amarillo since 1896.
Among survivors Is daughter,
Mrs. w. w. Simpson, Carlsbad.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
CAPTURE ALLEGED
THIEVES WITH GEMS

TOTEKA, Mich, March 30.-P)
Captured with diamonds believed to
be worth $4,000 in their posses
sion, reported stolen from New
York jewel salesman in San Fran
cisco, two men who gave several
names in custody tonight. prepar-
ing to fight extradition to California
to face robbery charges.
Police also held two alleged wom-
en- accompliceS.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
THE WEATHER

West Texas: Mostly cloudy,
probably showers in north portion
Sunday; Monday, unsettled, prob
ably showers in east and north por-
tions, colder in north portion.
East Texas: Partly cloudy, con-
tinued warm Sunday; Monday clou-
dy, probably local showers, some-
what colder in northwest portion.
Moderate to fresh southerly winds
on the coast Sunday.
Oklahoma: Probably local show
ers Sunday and Monday: colder
Monday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
HELD FOR SMUGGLING

OAKLAND, Calf, March 30.-tH1
Elmer Kaupp, former member
Of the Douglas, Ariz., police de-
partment, sought by federal Off
cials in connection with machine
gun ammunition running across
the Mexican border, was arrested
here tonight.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-31
Secured
Appointment for
Neff, He Asserts
By S. RAYMOND BROOKS

AUSTIN March 3OPresiden Coolidge appointment
rail mediation board Clarence Gilmore
Governor w. P Hobby of Houston before
Austin recommended former Governor
to him. former Senator Mayeld
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25
The Peanut-Pusher,

With the American people already
edited by such spectacular athletic"
contests as dance marathons lasting a
week or so and cross country foot races
in which the entrants, unshaven and
unkempt limp painfully from town to
town, it would be supposed that one
man peanut pushing race against time
mp Pixies Peak would attract little or
no attention. And 1t probably would
not, except for one reason, the reason
being the appearance in the East Of
a photograph of this brave" and
Courageous man in the very act Of
propelling the peanut to its destination.
No one observing this grotesque picture,
with its hero" on all fours, signs
plastered over his back, the "pusher"
attached to his head and nose and ex-
tending out some two or three feet in
front OF him, could fail to be revolted
or help wondering what plan is to be
matched next in the seeminly never
ending attempt to capture publicity.
News dispatches relate that the en-
trant in this Pixies Peak derby is a
plasterer, that after successfully coax
ing peanut for some eleven miles last
Summer he acclaimed himself the pea
nut-pushing champion Of the world,
and that his latest exploit is the re-
suit OF bet that he cannot negotiate
the twenty-five miles to the summit in
twenty-five days 1t may be Of course
that this champion" is being we'll paid
by the nut industry for his enterprise,
but considering the fact that a peanut
Is not q particularly attractive object
after being pushed q mile or so over
highway 1t is probable that he can
claim entire credit for the scheme-that
is, such credit as would naturally accrue
from stunt Of this nature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25
No Elevator Regulation :

Ihe community is less interested in
the fine legal points involved in the de-
cislon of Police Court Judge Schuldt,
holding invalid regulations pertaining
to the safe operation of elevators In the
District than 1t is in what the District
authorities now propose to do about it..
The public enjoys none of the delicious
ecstasy aroused among members of the
legal profession over the opportunity
that Is presented TO talk about whether
the law means this, that or the other
thing. The public is merely aware Of
the simple and understandable fact
that Congress, as far back as 1878, au-
thorized the Commissioners to promul-
gate safety regulations to protect the
public in building operations, and that
in 1887 1t particularly authorized the
Commissioners to see to 1t that elevators
meet certain standards Of safety. 1t is
confusing to a lay public now to find
that the laws are so intricate that torty-
two years later the regulations pre-
safety to the public is releeated in favor
of q legal point.
The District authorities NAV plan q
test case, which will submit the argu-
ment of Judge schuldt to further ex-
animation, and the authorities may
swell with pride if they find that they
are right and Judge Schuldt is wrong.
But what about safety in the operation
of elevators? What about enforcing
regulations in the meantime?
Judge Schuldt has called attention to
a fact that has been emphasized before,
that is. that while the District requires
safety standards and the latest equip
ment to protect the life and limb of
elevator passengers riding on elevators in
privately owned buildings, it does not
enforce It's own regulations at the
Municipal Building, and that the other
public buildings do not come within the
purview of these regulations. Unless
Congress specifically exempted them,
which Congress did not do, the elevator
regulations should be enforced In public
as well as private buildings.
While plans are being carefully laid
to throw test case into the legal hop
per and to stand back and see what
happens to it and what it looks like
when 1t comes out, the community
would welcome a firm declaration from
the District authorities as to what will
be done to protect the public during
the interlude. If the regulations are
based on a statute that does not apply,
why not base them Immediately upon
one that does? II the regulations are
discriminatory, what stands in the way
of removing that discrimination imme-
diately? No builder or owner Of an ele-
vator will intentionally risk the lives Of
elevator passengers because Of q legal
controversy that might lessen his re-
sponsibility in the matter. But q diff
ference of opinion as to the extent Of
such responsibility invites carelessness.
Not only the elevator riding public,
but the owners Of elevator-equipped
buildings, should be told Immediately
where they stand. Then the fun OF
arguing a point Of law can proceed
without danger Of being marred by
tragedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25

ton regards the drinking habits Of the
distinguished foreigners who tarry
officially in the District of Columbia as
exclusively their own affair. They are
"at home" here. because oficially they
are living on their own sofia fiction
long recognized among nations and one
which the United States, as far as its
legations and embassies abroad are con-
cerned, has always maintained.
1t is the business of foreign ENJOYS
to be obliging and courteous to the
peoples and governments to which they
are accredited. But corresponding obli-
cations rest upon those peoples and
governments. One of them, 1t seems to
be felt in responsible Washington quar-
tiers, is to let the ENJOYS be masters in
their own houses, especially as regards
habits, customs and privileges that are
rooted in a century and more of inter-
national comfy.
1t Is not the use, but the hurtful abuse
OF this privilege which has on certain
occasions given reasonable cause of
complaint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25
Mixed Ears Show
Different Heredities
BY Z. Z. FREE, PHI. d.

Persons with unlike ears-one shape
on one side Of their heads and another
shape on the other Side-are being
sought by British students Of human
heredity. During a recent talk before
the Eugenics Society In London DR.. G..
j. Bond of the Industrial Fatigue Re-
search Board showed a photograph OF
one such case, and described its SINH
larity to the biological makeup Of the
not unusual cows which have one horn
pointed downward and the other up
ward. Up-and-down cows and people
with unsymmetrical ears are results,
Mr.. Bond believes. Of croSS-breeding be-
tween different parental strains Such
instances are especially interesting to
students of heredity because Of expected
clues concerning what happens when
the tiny edity-determining granules
inside the living cells of father and
mother are different from each other.
1t sometimes happens, Mr.. Bond pointed
out, that a man with large. heavy-lobed
ears marries a woman with small ears,
or vice versa. In most of these in
stances the children's ears are either
of one kind or the other. Sometimes,
however, one side of the child's body
seems to have been inherited from the
father. the other side from the mother.
The child is q kind of double half
twin, the two sides of its body having,
in some degree at least. different hered-
itary characters. These are the indi-
viduals who have two kinds of ears,
Just as cows, similarly mixed, have two
kinds Of horns-one inherited from the
mothers side OF the family, the other
from the fathers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. H4SKIN.

! dialects of the English spoken in the
lowlands Of Scotland
@. How much does the temperature
at the South Pole differ from that 1t
| the North Pole?- A.
A. The Winter temperature in the
| Antarctic is not as whole much lower
than that in the Arctic. The absolute
minimums of 10 and TT have
| been recorded on the ice barrier. but
there are no Winter records for the high
/ plateau at the South Pole. In the
Arctic. Mares experienced a minimum
Of -74o F.. Greedy -62' F. and De-
! Long 10 F. In the Antarctic ST
was registered on the discovery in May,
| 1903 while Amundsen reported Tag
on August ID, 1911.
Q. How long was Picking the capital
of China before it was changed to
Nanking?-J. J.
A. Picking was the capital from 1909
to 1923.
O. When was the umbrella first
used in England to keep of the rain?
I L. NJ.
A. The umbrella was originally used
/ in hot climates as sunshade BY the
seventeenth century it was in use IN
England as a protector against rain. 1t
is said that Jonas Hanway was the first
Englishman who habitually carried an
umbrella.
@. Which Of the national parks was
| the first to be reserved by the Govern
ment?-N o. L.
A. In 1882 the Hot Springs and four
sections Of land surrounding them were
set aside by act Of Congress, thus max
ing the first national park reservation.
In 1921 the name was changed from
Hot Springs Reservation to Hot Springs
National Park. 1t contains 924 acres,
and includes Hot Springs Mountain.
North Mountain, West Mountain. Sugar
Loaf Mountain and Wilmington Lake
Park. The springs are grouped about
the base of Hot Springs Mountain. and
| their aggregate flow is 851 1903 gallons a
! day.
| @. Why did France give the United
! States the Statue Of Liberty?-A. T.
! A. 1t was designed to commemorate
/ the hundredth anniversary Of American
! independence. but il was not finished
until 1885. 1t was dedicated october
%, 1886.
! Q. What makes the bones Of canned
salmon so soft?-P. G. NJ.
/ A. The bones Of salmon are rendered
! soft in the canning process when they
are cooked under pressure. The bones
of other fish are rendered soft In the
! same manner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25

per. Thus the whole picture is seen In
false colors.
Perhaps youth is changing. Perhaps
it is best with a restless nervousness a
dissatisfaction with the slowness Of its
elders, an overactive imagination. But
such qualities do not manifest them
selves altogether in dissipation. Their
effect in the opposite direction probably
is even more marked, II we could know
about 1t.
Whenever we hear of this decadent
generation we shall be inclined to recall
the picture of these boys looking into
the sky from the summit OF their me-
chanical triumph. Then we shall re-
serve Judgment.