davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-06-06
Pulled Up!

Jimmy-"Rising nicely, amt he
MAJ"
Mother-"Jimmy! What on earth
have you been doing to Fido?"
Jimmy-"He's just ct three yeast
cakes and drank pan of sour milk"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-06-06

ject of railroad legislation will be
threshed out beginning in December.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Suit For Divorce
Leads to Fatal
Austin Shooting

AUSTIN, July 11.-(P)-A divorce
suit filed one week ago by Mrs, D.
A. Bush, Al, against her husband,
was held today by police to have
caused the fatal shooting yesterday
of Mrs. Bush's sister, Mrs. Otis
White, ard the serious wounding
of the estranged woman. The
shooting occurred at the Bush
home.
d. A. Bush, claim agent and sec
retary of the local street railway
company, was held without bond
today on a charge Of attempted
murder in the wounding Of his
wife.
Beyond saying he "just had to do
it," Bush refused to reveal any in
formation to officers.
S. j. Lock, neighbor, heard gun
fire and rushed to the home to aid
the two women, but both had been
wounded when he arrived.
Funeral services for Mrs. White
viii be held tomorrow,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Chinese And Soviet
Feud Renewed With
Arrest of Russians

TOKYO, July 11.-(P)-The long
standing feud between northeastern
China and Soviet Russia over con-
troll Of the Manchurian unit of the
-Sibrian railway system has
broken forth anew with what is
regarded here as a definite Chinese
move against the Russians.
Rengo News Agency dispatchs
from Harbin, Manchuria, said Gen.
Chang Ching Hui, governor Of the
Harbin district, yesterday arrested
174 soviet officials and employees of
the Chinese eastern railway Thirty
seven of the prisoners wre started
under guard for the Siberian border
for deportation.
The dispatches interpreted the
coup as having made virtually un-
healabl breach between China and
the soviet. Chinese directors were
appointed to replace the arrested
Russians, the Chinese sizing every
opening to undermine the Russian
influence.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
five BURN TO
DEATH IN CRASH
Fire Follows Impact Of
Passenger Train On
Freight Cars

CORNING, N. T., July 11.-(P)-
Five persons were burned to death
and sixth may die, as the result
Of a fire which broke out after the
eastbound Cleveland New York eX-
press on the Erie railroad struck a
freight train near here today.
The locomotive Of the passenger
train ploughed into tank car, the
contents of which broke into flames,
the fire spreading rapidly to the
baggage car, two mail cars and a
passenger coach which had been de-
rallied.
The dead were identified as Fred
E. Blake of Hornell, engineer; w. T..
Latonik of SuSquehanna, Pa, fire
man; Railway Mail Clerks Hulburt
of Airport and Flavin of Salam-
anaca, and q wayfarer identified
as Swan Berger, SO, of Moline, Ill.
Waugh Rose of New York City.
tentatively identified as a passen-
ger in the derailed coach, was ex-
tricated from the wreckage and
taken to Corning hospital so seri-
ously burned he probably will die.
The passenger train left Corning
at 1875 a. m, and passed the west
bound freight about three miles east
of the city.
According to railroad officials, the
locomotives of the two trains were
nearly abreast when the first tank
car in the freight apparently buc-
kled and left the rails The passen-
ger locomotive, travelling at a high
speed, crashed into it and spread
the tank cars inflammable contents
over a wide area. G
None of the freight car crew was
injured.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
STABILIZINC
YEARLY CROP
IS GROUP aim
Plan to Purchase At
Time Of Deflation
Of Prices; First
Steps Taken
Especial to The Herald


SAN BENITO, July 1.-THE low
er Rio Grande Valley Potato Grow
ers' association is to seek from $780,
600 to 100000 as loan from the
federal farm relief board, according
to announcement here today by F.
B. Latham, president and general
manager of the organization.
Latham said that so far as he
knows this is the only organization
in the section which will seek fed
eral aid. It is one of the few that
is operated entirely by the farmers,
he said, this being one of the re-
quirements to securing aid under the
farm relief measure.
First steps toward securing the
loan were taken as soon as terms Of
the bill were framed, showing ways
in which the money was to be spent.
1--WE are going to continue our
fight for the funds as long as there
is a chance" Latham said, land we
have every reason to believe that
we will get recognition.
Stabilize Market
Latham explained that the money,
If secured, is to be used in tSabiliz-
ing marketing conditions in the po-
tato deal, and will not be spent for
buildings, or other immediate uses.
During the season just past" he
explained, ''the price of potatoes
was forced down at this end, when
there was no excuse or reason for
it. Several dealers who did not have
enough capital to operate at the
higher price forced the price down
so that their funds could be Suffi-
cient to finance their operations.
"One Valley dealer helped to sta
bilize the price, by offering to buy
up most of the potatoes offered at
the lower price. The price started
up Immediately"
could be used by the association,
if it had sufficient funds. When
dealers attempted to force down
the price, the association could buy
these potatoes and keep them from
going out at the low price.
700 Members
The Potato Growers association
now has close to TOO members, this
being approximately 90 per cent of
the potato growers of the Valley
1t controls almost 70 per cent of
the acreage, which is between 5000
and 5000 acres.
Latham in discussing the potato
deal and other crops predicted a
banner year for the Valley, due to
the farm relief, the tariff measure.
which will protect tomatoes, the
state compulsory grading measure
for potatoes, and general co-opera-
ton which is being evidenced among
farmers. He said indications point
to general move in the Valley to-
ward organization of all farmers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Clara Bow Engaged
To Marry Richman,
Talkie Comedy Star

LOS ANGELES, July 11.-Pl-
Clara Bow, referred to rs the 1T"
girl of the screen" is engaged 10
marry Harry Eichmsr, musical
comedy actor and nigtS club pro-
priet0r IF New Y;"S.
The n arriage prO),bly will take
place within mon'h, pending COM
pletion of pictures which Miss Bow
and Richman are making here.
RI I1Ilan broke Sne EeTs o; ere
enga' :. Cnt yeStec ". Many times
reported engaged since the begin
ming Of her film career, Miss Bow
has Lao occasion t. deny such re-
ports but this one she confirmed.
The romance began when the act
reSS was on vacation in New York
several months ago.
Richman was married to Yvonne
Stevenson in 1918 at Santa Ana,
Cal, and divorced in 1922. Miss
Bow never has been married.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
ACTION TAKEN
TO CUT DOWN
YEAR BUDGET
J. S. Ford, Former
Commissioner, Has
Held Post Since It's
Inauguration

The office Of city audi
tor and purchasing agent,
created by the city COM
mission about five or six
weeks ago, was abolished
by the city commission at
a special called meeting
Thursday morning.
j. S. Ford, former city
commissioner, has held
the post since it was Great
ed. 1t carried a salary of
$3.50 a month with it.
The reason given for
abolishing the office was
that the city has to cut ex-
penses to keep within its
1929 budget.
The city commission orders tn
action to take effect Immediately
No further explanation oether thar
the cut in budget was availabl
morning for the Suddel
action.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
MISSION Man FACING MURDER
CHARGE IN Ex-0FF|CER'S death
Valley IrvigutiOu FIGHT Goes To Water Board
Tough Hombres'
Remain In Air
After 215 Hours

CULVER CITY, Calf, July IL.
-(AP)-StiIl unfaltering in their
battle against time and gravita-
ton. the two tough hombres," L..
w. Mendell and r. b. Reinhart,
continued to drive their second
hand biplane in circles above the
Culver City airport today. At
$50 a. m. they had been In the
air 215 hours.
That they expected to remain
in the air 800 hours or more was
indicated when they dropped a
note saying "telI that crowd IL
they want to see us land, to come
back next Tuesday. We're gonna
stay up another hundred"
The filters, who broke the suS-
tanned flight record Of TIA hours
SO seconds Wednesday afternoon,
found their fuel supply danger
OusIy low late yesterday. A quick
contact with their refueling plane
replenished the fuel supply.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
DECISION Will
COME IN week;
NEED OPINION
Attorney General To
Decide Whether Old
Presentation Valid
For New Bounds
Especial to The Herald

AUSTIN, July 11.-With brand
new question Of priority to be de-
cided for future precedent, the board
of water engineers late Wednesday
took under advisement application Of
J. T. Franklin for permit for IT,
600 acre feet Of water annually out
Of the Rio Grande, to irrigate $4,000
acres of Hidalgo county land.
More than a week will be re-
qUired before decision is made, the
board indicated. It will await an
opinion of Asst. District Attorney
General w. w. Caves on the queS-
ton whether the permit, which pro-
poses to be on land entirely different
from that on which Franklin took
out presentation three years ago
shall date back with the presenta-
ton thereby taking priority over at
least three districts now under per-
NIT.
Control Question
Other questions the board will
pass on are whether Franklin has
control of sufficient of the proposed
district area to authorize issuance
of permit, how much storage shall
be required, so as to limit his taking
of water to flood and storm waters,
and whether the 30-mile canal sys-
tenn is feasible project.
Older Valley projects were given
permits without storage but the
water board has adopted the policy
to require at least half the water
to be stored in Rio Grande projects.
Attorneys Vernon B. Hill and D.
x. Wood Ward challenged the per-
nit on the question of priority, while
Atty. F. w. Seabury of Brownsville
attacked it as contrary to public
policy, on an allegedly non-feaSible
project, also not subject to priority,
and as undertaking to embrace lands
of clients unwilling to go into the
proposed district. Another prece-
dent which this project proposes
set Is the issuance of preliminary
bonds to complete surveys and To-
cations.
Attack Changed
Extensive attacks were prepared
to be made on the permit which did
not originally propose to build reSer-
voirs for storage, but would have
required constant pumping out of
the normal flow Of the river at
all times, but much Of this oppo-
siJion was frustrated, particularly
that of Atty. Neal Brown, by an
nouncement of E. F. Smith. attorney
for Franklin, that Franklin would
propose to build reservoirs for stor-
age of water as safety factor.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
EQUITY GROUP
SUSPENDS FIVE
Actors Association Step
Said To Be Result of
Talkie Contracts

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, July IL
(P)-SuspenSion of five actors from
the Actors Equity association and
the reinstatement of two others was
announced by Frank Gilmore,
president, today. While no state
ment was made as to the cause of
the suspensions, it was understood
they resulted from making con-
tracts with talking motion picture
producers without sanction of the
organization.
Those suspended were Tully Mar
shall, AnderS Randolph, Raymond
Hatton, Louise Dresser and Henry
Otto
The action at a meeting of the
association last night was inter-
preted to be the first move Of Equi-
ty in its demand that producers ac-
cept only contracts from paid-ur
members Of Equity. Leading mem
bers of the industry here made a
flat refusal of the demand, insist
ing open shop would continue.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
CLYDELATHAM
IS DEAD FROM
shot INJURIES
District Attorney Or
ders Man Held Be
Placed Under Strong
Bond
Especial to The Herald

McALLEN, July 11.-Charges Of
assault to murder now pending
against Ephraim Deckard, 56, OF
Mission, in connection with the
shooting Of Clyde Latham, AZ, last
Saturday, will be changed to muir
der charge, District Attorey Oliver
Aldrich told The Brownsville Her
aid representative in a telephone
conversation Thursday morning
Aldrich is in Alice attending
court.
Latham died Wednesday after
noon after lingering four days be-
tween life and death.
Aldrich said he had instructed
Rogers Kelley, assistant district
attorney at Edinburg, to demand
that Deckard be held under good,
strong bond unless he could be held
without bond" Aldrich is expected
to return to Edinburg late Thurs
day.
Latham was employed in a Mis-
sion nursery. He died at a Meal
len hospital at $3.50 Wednesday aft
ernoon from gunshot wounds said
to have been received during diff
ficulties which arose between him
and Deckard over the price for i'm
pounding animals.
Deckard alleged Latham attempt
ed to hit him with an iron bar.
Latham in a signed statement said
he used the iron bar to knock the
bars from door at the pound
Funeral arrangements for Latham
are being held up pending the ar
rival of a brother from Fort Worth
who is due Thursday.
Latham is survived by a brother,
sister, mother and father, all Of
Fort Worth. He came to the VAL
ley from that city several years
ago. He was city marshal Of
Donna two years before becoming
identified with the Miller Bros.
nursery at Mission.
Deckard is being held in the coun~
ty Jail at Edinburg.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Trotzky's Request
To Visit England
Meets With Denial

LONDON. July 11.-(P)-Home
Secretary Clynes announced in the
house of commons today he had
decided against allowing Leon Trot-
zky, exiled communist leader, to Wis
it Great Britain.
The nwly-formd labor govrnment
had scarcely come into power last
month when Trotzky, apparently
hoping the laborites would be more
sympathetic to his request than the
former conservative govrnment, ask
ed Premier Ramsay Macdonald for
authorization to visit England "for
urgent medical treatment and scien-
tific work" The matter was re-
ferred to the hom scrtary's depart
ments
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Slow Drizzle May
Continue Through
Day And Tonight

A slow drizzle began in Browns
ellie about a. m. Thursday, falling
throughout the morning. About l
inche was recorded by IL a. m.
with indications that the fall would
continue all day and Thursday
night.
No precipitation was reported
rom points up the Valley at a. m.
Int indications were that similar
showers we're falling all over the
valley. No havy rains or disturb
ances are expected By Officials at
the weathey BUREAU
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
REVOLUTION LEADER
is TOMATO GROWER

GUAYMAS, Sonora, Mexico, July
11-(P}-General Ramon Yucupicio,
one of the leaders of the last rev.
olution, has settled down to quiet
life as tomato grower. He has
a farm near here and comes to the
city on periodical visits.
General Yucupicio was granted
amnesty by the government fol-
lowing collapse of the revolutionary
movement, but was deprived Of his
rank in the army. He declares he is
through with politics and military
life for good.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Especial to The Herald

AUSTIN, July 11.-Gov. Dan
Moody's present intention" is to let
Harry j. Leahy of Liveoak county
go to the electric chair Thursday
until night. Leahy was given As
years on his first trial for Staying
DR.. j. M. Ramsey of Mathis and
on a new trial at Georgetown was
given death.
The following story by Charles
Hairston in the Houston Chronicle
tells the complete story of Leahy
and his connections in South Texas:
I'VE, the jury, find the defend
ant, Harry j. Leahy, guilty as
charged, and assess his punishment
at death"
That verdict Of 10 Williamson
county farmers, a merchant and
an insurance man in the old court
house at Georgetown on February
9, 1927, will be carried out shortly
after midnight Thursday in the
electric chair at Huntsville unless
Governor Moody intervenes.
Harry Leahy is known to almost
every man and woman in the mes
quite-tangled country that stretch
es from Corpus Christi to the Rio
Grande. The disappearance Of DR.,
J. A. Ramsey from his home near
Mathis on the night Of May 20,
1925, the finding of his body in a
shallow grave in the mesquite west
Of the little town just over the Live
Oak county line, the arrest Of
Leahy at San Antonio, his convic-
ton at George West, where he was
sentenced to serve so years, and his
retrial at Georgetown, have been
discussed by cowboys, lying on pom
Continued on page nine.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Captain and Crew
Of Sverige Reach
Ivigtut, Greenland

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July II.
Advices received here from Ivigtut,
Greenland, State Captain Albin
AnIenberg and the crew of the air.
plane Sverige reached Ivigtut at 6
a. m, today in a motorboat after
landing at Kungnait bay from Reyk-
jayik, Iceland.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday
with probably local showers. Mod
crate to fresh easterly winds on the
coast.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to-
night and Friday, probably local
showers in the extreme south por-
ton. Moderate to fresh easterly
winds on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Noted Theosophist
Woman Leader Dies
On Visingso Isle

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July Ii
R)-Mrs. Katherine Tingley, noted
theosophist leader, died today on
the Island of VisingSo where she
has been under treatment while she
has been ill.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
LEAHY MUST
Die TONIGHT
Attorney Makes Last Plea
To Moody Who Will Be
Away Thursday

AUSTIN, July 11.-(P)-Another
attempt will be made today by H. S.
Bonham of Beeville, attorney for
Harry j. Leahy, sentenced to die in
the electric chair at midnight Fri
day, to have Governor Moody COM
mute the sentence to life 1mprison-
ment.
Bonham conferred with the chief
executive last night, but Governor
Moody announced it was his inten-
ton to refrain from interfering.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
CONVICT TAKES STROLL

COWES, Eng.-JameS Dawson, re-
captured an hour after escaping
from Parkhurst prison, said he had
enjoyed a pleasant stroll"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
SUIT OVER FALSE TEETH

CHICAGO, Ill.-Dr. r. j.. Colsin
won suit against Mrs Emma Long
for false teeth that she declared did
not fit.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
MARRIES AND FTEES

BRUSSELS. - Immediately after
getting married Franz Morlieu got
into an auto and dashed away to
France,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteor
illogical conditions:
High ...... 8:28 a. M; $40 p. m.
Low ..... 1:48 q. m; 3:37 d. m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
RIVER FORECAST

The river will continue to fall
slowly during the next few days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS DATA

Sunset today ............... TBS
Sunrise tomorrow .......... 5:46
The Washington times., 1929-05-21
Z0NING GROUP
HOLDS MEET

ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, May 21.-The Arlington
county zoning commission met last
night at the courthouse and ap-
proved the applications OF Asa Don.
aldson to construct a storage ice
box as an addition to his building
at Cherrydale. d. p. Rhodes petit
ton to construct two dwellings In
Clarendon was approved.
The application of J. w. Seeger,
Of Washington, to install six gas
tanks on his property at Four Mile
Bun was held up to allow the COM
mission to make further investiga-
ton.
The commission decided to invite
all persons interested in coming
and what the commission Is doing
to attend its meetings.
The Washington times., 1929-05-21
Mclean Library Pays
Debts. All But $1OO

MCLEAN, VA. May 21.-The Nc
Lean Community Library Associa'
ton has reduced its building debt
to 800, according the annual re-
port of the retiring treasurer, Mrs
w. E. Linn of Balls Hill.
This final payment will be paid
off this summer. other improve
ments noted at the annual meet
ing were plans for concrete side
walk from the building to the road,
to be contributed by Douglas Wal.
tiers and Fred Drew, repainting OF
all exterior woodwork. completed
since the last meeting. and plans
for landscaping, the exterior.
New officers elected. include Mrs.
q. S. Walters, president; Miss May
Walters; vice president; Mrs. Henry
Mackall, corresponding secretary
Mrs. J. H. Mack, recording secre'
tary; Mrs. Owen Briggs, treasurer
Mrs. Albert Mack, librarian.
The Washington times., 1929-05-21
PROTEST WORK.
ON SCHOOL

Charging cheapness rather than
economy in the work already done
upon the addition to the Burviile
School, the Northeast Boundary Citi.
zens Association last night made an
other protest to each member of the
Board of Education. inviting per.
sonal inspection OF the work on the
the same plane.
"If concrete pillars are used in
place of blank. high brick wall to
offset a slope in the grade" says
the petition, "a basement for shops
may be provided by raising the floor
level of the assembly hall five feet,
thus keeping new and old floors on
the same plane"
The accepted design for making
the addition to the building costs
much less than the sum allowed by
Congress, and the people of that
section have been urging that bet
ter plans be required at a slightly
higher cost. -
DR.. ]. r. Porter, 2. r. Ramsour
and H. d. Woodson are officers in
the association. t
The Washington times., 1929-05-21
CIRCUS CROWDS
DEFYSTORN

When the circus comes to Wash.
ington the Weather Bureau might
Just as well close its doors and
send its forecasters away on q va
cation.
Fifteen thousand circus fans
proved this yesterday and $4,000
circus fans can't be wrong. The
Weather Bureau had announced
that the weather was not ideal for
a circus, and 1t wasn't. But the
big top" Of the Ringing Brothers
and Barnum and Bailey circus was
filled almost to capacity at both
shows,
Just to prove that this was not
an unusual phenomenon a long
line began to form in front of the
ticket wagon on the Camp Meigs
grounds, Fifth and Florida Avenue
Northeast, this afternoon to buy
tickets for the matinee performances.
The circus will leave town after pre-
senting its show tonight.
The circus this year is said to be
bigger and better" than ever be.
fore. The big thrill Is furnished
by Hugo zacchini, who whites away
his time during his act by being
shot across the arena from a can
non. Then there are clowns. arial.
lists, tight rope walkers, jugglers,
trained seals, ponies, elephants, dogs
and Goliath, a huge sea elephant.
And, of course, there are lots Of
peanuts, popcorn and pink lemon.
ade.