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Tee Off In Golf
Open at Paso

FL PASO. Tex Jan. 19--fPt-The
third annual ri Paso open golf tour
nament got under way today when
the first threesome. composed OF y.
Monroe. Jack Harden and Andy Gray,
teed off for the first round over the
RI Paso Country Club course.
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sound he heard was the crush Of
stone and dirt in the railroad
"cut," a short distance from his
home. he got out Of bed, seized
a lantern and made a hurried in
vestigation.
The investigation proved his
fears correct. Tons Of earth and
rock had filled the cut. Knowing
the passenger train No. was due
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INELIGIBLE

MADISON, Wis. Jan. 19.-PD-
Because he competed in the annual
east-west charity football game az
San Francisco. December 20. Rube
Wagner, captain OF Wisconsin's 1928
football team and n star Weight
man on the track squad. has been
banned from further college ath-
letic competition
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MEDICoS ELECT

TEXARKANA. Jan. 19.-tPl-Dr
A. $. Buchanan. Prescott, Ark. wa
elected president of the Tri-Stat'
Medical association at the closin,
session OF the associations annua
mid-wintsr convention here yester
day. Marshall. Texas. was chosen a,
the 1880 convention city.
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Thrill Slayer
Is Found Guilty

ATLANTA. Ca, Jan. 19.-tPl-
George Harsh, former oglsthor7e
university student and scion Of q
wealthy Milwaukee family, was con-
victed by superior court jury here
to-day of murder. The verdict car
ries the death penalty.
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RIVER FORECAST
TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal rneteorologi-
cal conditions:
High ................. 1.39 d. nm.
Low sr-+-....s.......-. Oil "a. nl.
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Radio

received but nothing like the response a littsi Sd
brought for il when ADVERTISED For Sale in The
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HtFaIu " ANt NUS Iuu NNI
seell your Used Radio and for
Cash, too. by phonirr or bring
ing your ad 10 Thee Herald.
Reach over 10000 of readers
nightly.
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WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair to partly cloudy tonight and
Sunday; warmer tonight, continued
warm Sunday. Moderate to fresh
southerly winds on the west coast.
For East Texas: Increasing cloud
mess tonight; somewhat warmer IN
southwest portions; Sunday unset
tied; probably local rains in north
portion. Moderate 20 fresh easter
ly TO southerly winds ON the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
There will BE- no material change
In the river during the next few
days.
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let them find boxes for 1t and pack 1t
up for us, to be stored In the basement.
That met with hearty approval and
SO the boys are securing for boxes and
the stuff is being packed and every
bodys mind is eaSy-save for that
wretched problem Of how to stow
enough clothing into our hand luggage
which will certainly include several
social" affairs requiring dinner coats.
Our last-day program gave us the
morning free and 1t was mostly spent
in shopping, duty-calling, money-get-
ting and, as have indicated, prelimi-
nary packing. At noon, however, We
entrained for Omiya, which lies about
an hours travel north of Toxic, where
we were to inspect a silk mill and a
railroad repair shop, two rather con-
trasting lines of work. AS on the trip
to Nikko, we had a special car, which
gave us perfect comfort. The Japanese
railway carriages, by the way, are ex-
cellent in design and finish. The first
class coaches are built on a somewhat
peculiar plan, the seats facing one
another in pairs and those Of one side
Of the narrow aisle being long enough
for three persons, while single-person
seats are on the other side. This ar
rangement permits a person to stretch
OuI OIl OllC VI Tile lOIlScT ScdJS hIlQ ItShC
a nap when so disposed, If there Is
room.
When we alighted at Omiya we were
met by the mayor Of the city, frock-
coated and formal and ceremonious.
He escorted us to the motor cars and
we were soon spinning through the
streets toward the "Filature" or silk
mill of the Katakura Co., one of the
largest and Oldest concerns of its kind
in Japan, with upward of so different
establishments such as that at Omiya.
Something struck us as different in
the appearance of the streets, until
finally 1t was noticed that all the shops
were decorated with two flags each,
the national red-circle nag Of Japan
and another with a peculiar design In
red on a white field. asked what the
latter was and was told that it was
the flag of Omiya and that the display
was in our honor. Then 1t was observed
that each Of the motor cars had the
Japanese and American flags crossed
over the radiator. This being the first
time had ever had a town decorated
for me, suggested that 1t would be
agreeable to have one of the Omiya
flags as a souvenir. This bore fruit,
as will relate hereafter.
A short distance out of town we drove
through. a. pair of handsome gates into
Evening star., 1929-06-24

clean Immediately after quitting work.
I asked About the wages these men
receive. They work 10 hours, net, and
earn ON an average. Of three and q half
yen O day, or about s$1.75, save in the
case OF certain ones OF higher skill
who do "piecework'' and whose wages
run about 70 per cent higher.
One of the most interesting items in
this establishment is museum in
which are shown various exhibits OF
materials and models illustrating the
development of railroading in Japan.
The models are in most cases operative
and we were told that SchoolboyS are
brought to sc this show by the thou
sands, as measure of education and
that the lads look upon these trips as
precious privileges. The japanese mind
Is keen upon mechanical details.
We were shown in passing q place
that was strangely out OF the picture
of a railroad repair shop. A couple Of
men were engaged in grinding rice
meal. just what part this commodity
til is was explained tnau this was the
employees cooperative enterprise. The
Mutual Aid Association Of the Govern
ment Railways maintains a purchasing
guild for the cheaper provision Of sup.
plies, and this ricemeal mill is part of
the scheme. The saving In price to the
consumer is said to be nearly 40 per
cent. There is suggestion that this
is one of the means used by the gov
ernment, which is the chief owner of
the railways, to keep the rail forces
steady and immune to radicalism.
And so, not to bed, but to pack. To-
morrow the long, long trail begins.
Another of Mr.. Lyons letters will
appear IN The Star tomorrow.
Evening star., 1929-06-24

what appeared TO be private park.
1t was the silk min, set In beautiful
surroundings. At the main building
we were met by the vice president of
the company In charge Of the. Omiya
plant, D small, elderly sprightly gentle
man with bushy gray whiskers, some
what after the style Of Bjornsen of
Norway. After the usual lining UP for
still and motion pictures we were
whirled through the mill and shown
the process of reeling raw silk. A young
man with q manuscript kept us herded
as close together as possible and from
point to point read out to us In English
a description Of the progress Of the
cocoon from the drying room to the
final making Of the book" Of 80 skeinS
of reeled silk.
Though we had seen something Of
silk reeling both at the sericulture ex-
pertinent station in Toxic and the silk
conditioning house in Yokohama, this
demonstration Of the actual manufac-
ture on the quantity scale was most
are employed, and about 200 men. The
women are the reelers, being the more
ef1icient In the handling Of the delicate
filaments. They are amazingly deft in
their manipulation Of the almost in
visible threads and the management
of the complicated mechanism.
This mill produces and ships five
bales Of raw silk daily. That may not
seem to be a large quantity. But it is
to be considered that each bale holds
81 books" and each book thirty skeins,
which makes Q total product Of $500
skeins, and each skein or twist of silk
contains several miles of silk thread,
each thread composed of five filaments
of cocoon silk. So it may be imagined
that five bales represents very good
days work with this finest and most
delicate Of all industrial materials.
Japan exports about SO per cent OF
all the raw silk she produces. The
remaining IL per cent is woven in
Japan. being the inferior grade made
from the double cocoons, or doupions.
For SOME strange reason not under
stood, occasionally two worms will build
one cocoon together, twin-like. The
silk from such q cocoon Is not as fine
and even as other silk. InaSmuch as
Japan must send its very best raw silk
Evening star., 1929-06-24
FERNANDEZ TO SUE
FOR SEIZED FUNDS
Former Mexican Official viii
Ask Massachusetts, Court
/ Tor SIC, 900 Refund.
1y the Associated Press.


BOSTON, June 24.-Mariano Via
monte Fernandez, former cashier gen.
eral Of Mexico, is coming back to the
courts Of Massachusetts, to demand the
return of small fortune, wrested from
him I'VE years ago.
Charged with absconding with 140,-
900 pesos, or about $1,000, when he
relinquished his post in the Mexican
bureau of finance, Fernandez learned,
after his arrest, that his money had
been attached.
He spent five years in the jails of
New Hampshire and Mexico, awaiting
trial, and was recently pardoned by
President Portes Gil of Mexico, be-
fore the courts had opportunity to de-
ternine his guilt or innocence.
Hekwfll appear in the equity session
OF the Salem court tomorrow, his par
don In hand, as proof that the attached
money rightfully belongs to him.
Mexican secret service agents trailed
him, some five years ago, from Mexico
City to New York and then to Newton.
N. H., where Mrs. Fernandez had pur-
chased 70-acre farm. He deposited
his money in the Haverhill Bank, and
then began the five-year fight for its
control.
The Mexican government attached
the money through action in a Mass
achuSettS Equity Court. He was seized
by Federal authorities and freed by the
United States commissioner at Con-
cord. N. H
He was then taken back to Mexico
City and spent three years In jail
there.
Evening star., 1929-06-24

to America, which Is the largest con-
sumner of the product, taking 80 per
cent of all Japan sells, the standard
has to be strictly preserved. So the
doupion silk stays at home and becomes
the silk weave Of the japanese them
selves.
We saw the whole process, as far as
roasting of the cocoons to the f1nal
packing of the books. Then we were
escorted out to q large marquee stand
ing in the ground, where we were guests
at one of the incest luncheons OF our
entire Japanese experience. Before we
had reached the entree stage OF the
menu an attache or the company
brought to the table large paSteboard
box and gave 1t to the host, who had
1t passed around for general inspection.
It was a souvenir Of the occasion, 70
be given later to each member Of our
party, consisting Of design in cocoons,
yellow and white, surrounding a copy
Of the photograph of the party that had
been taken less than an hour before.
beautiful silver jewel box containing
two wisps of silk and two cocoons was
also presented to each of us.
From the silk mill we were driven
across Omiya to the railroad repair shop,
one of 81 maintained by the govern
ment railways. 1t is large establish
ment, employing 1900 workmen and 600
officials. Covering several acres-they
do not reckon large areas Of land in
acres in Japan, but in tsubas, or squares
of six feet-it comprises shops of every
description requisite to the recondition-
ing of locomotives, electric engines,
freight and passenger cars and all the
accessories Of railroad use. The plant
was flattened out completely by the
earthquake of 1923, but has been re-
built in better form and arrangement,
and is even now being remodeled to
meet new requirements. 1t is excep-
tionally clean and orderly. And the
workers, too, are in the same condition.
Every possible precaution is taken to
insure good health among them. A
well equipped medical service is main
tanned. One of the best features Of the
whole yard" is large room set aside
as lavatory, containing two immense
shallow tanks into which the workers
dip and where they scrub themselves
Evening star., 1929-06-24
RACIAL "0UTRAGES"
:
SURVEY is ASKED
Association for Advancement of
Colored People Requests Hoover
Commission to Make Study.
ny the Associated Psess.

ny the Associated Paess.
NEW YORK, June 24.-The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People announced yesterday
that brief had been sent to President
Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission
asking 1t to include in its investigation
Of lawlessneSs in the United States ''the
law breaking committed against Ne
gToes In the form Of lynching, disfran-
chisement. peonage and mob violence"
The brief, signed by James w. john
son, secretary Of the association, said
that '1ynching constitutes the quintes-
sential form of law breaking and brutal
disregard for. human life and constitu-
tional guarantees in the United States.
The brief attacked alleged residential
segregation ordinances In Atlanta, Ga,
and in Louisiana, Jim Crow accommo-
dations on Southern railways and al
legged disfranchisement Of colored citi-
zenS In the South by "plainS intimida-
tion and terrorization, as well as grossly
discriminatory administration Of exist
ing laws
Evening star., 1929-06-24
HELD IN $50, 900 THEFT.
Mail Messenger Missing
Money Package Recovered.

ANSONIA, Conn, June a CP.-
Post ONCE inspectors from Boston last
night arrested Esko c. Burgess, Ansonia
mail messenger, on q charge of steal
ing q package Of money containing
$4,000 which was consigned to the
Ansonia National Bank from the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Boston.
The pouch, which was taken We'd
nesday, was found in wooded section
in the northeast part of the city. The
inspectors said Burgess would be ar
raigned tomorrow in the Federal Court
at New Haven.
The money was untouched when
found and was returned to the post
ONCE.
Evening star., 1929-06-24

stores. Then there were the souvenirs
of our social events. special menus,
cards, photographs, theater programs,
In Both English and Japanese, descrip-
tive matter concerning the amusements
offered for our delectation.
Quite literally we have been swamped
with this tide Of print and other ma
terial. What to do with 1t has been
O. grave question. Sort it out as we
might, there remained q great deal that
we have felt obliged to keep and to
take back with us to the States. The
other day several Of the members Of the
party went shopping for additional lug
gage in which to pack this miscellany
and store it at the hotel pending our
return in late July. But this morning
the manager of the hotel, Mr.. Inamura,
who has been one of our best friends
and advisers and most genial OF COM
panions on several of our expeditions,
suggested that we turn this accumula-
ton over to our several room boys and
Evening star., 1929-06-24
LONDON CROWD IN PANIC.
Many Injured in Throng Inspecting
Fleet of Destroyers.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 24.-The Daily Sketch
said today that many were injured and
some tainted when q crowd Of several
thousands inspecting q feet Of destroy
ers got out of control on Traford wharf,
Manchester, yesterday.
There were so many aboard the
ships one OF them nearly capsized when
the crowd rushed to one side. Nurses
and ambulances were sent for to treat
numbers Of fainting women and slightly
injured children. The warships were
considerably damaged by meddlers
whom the sailors and police were unable
70 control. One person was pushed over
board, but was rescued,
Evening star., 1929-06-24
sTEvEDoREs STRIKE.

VERA CRUZ, June "a R.-The
Stevedores Union went on strike Sat
urday after refusal Of ship owners to
sign a contract to pay the stevedores for
loading and unloading by the ton.
On account of the strike cargoes were
not removed from the Ward Line steam
ers San Jacinto from New York and
the Mexico from Tampico. An appeal
has been made to the secretary Of in
dustry to intervene in order to avoid
suspension of sailings to Vera Cruz by
ship owners on account of diff1culties In
discharging their cargoes.
Evening star., 1929-06-24

lions. From the
very hour of our
arrival we began to
collect" That is
to say, we began to
receive. Books,
pamphlets, corona
ton numbers of
the various news
papers, trade re-
ports, documents
about education,
about forestry,
about o score or
more of industries.
about international
relations, all flowed
in upon us until
our rooms here at
the Hotel Imperial
lnnlrod HE old fN0ak
Evening star., 1929-06-24
TOXIC,
MAY 81, 1929.

May 81, 1929.
This is our last day in Toxic. We
leave tomorrow on the grand tour"
which will include southern Japan,
Korea, southern Manchuria and such
parts Of China as are at present open
to travel Consequently, after I have
completed this report of the days hap
penings, of a rather miscellaneous ma
ture, must get to work at my packing,
complicated procedure, inasmuch as
we will be for days at time separated
from our big boxes" as the English
say, and viii have to subsist on our
smaller luggage.
AS matter of fact, our packing has
begun already, with the stowage of our
various reapings in this abundant har-
vest of Japanese courteSies and atten-
Evening star., 1929-06-24
CLIMPSING THE FAR EAST
BY GIDEON A. LYON.

Of
Evening star., 1929-06-24
Prepares for Zeppelin Cruise.

FRIED RIcHSHAFEN, Germany
June "a CP.-Director Bauerle of the
Zeppelin works left today for Toxic
to prepare for the arrival of the Graf
Zeppelin there on its cruise around the
world.
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VESSEL GOES
DOWN AS IT
RAMS TANKER
Captain Stays With
Charge As It Lists
Rapidly; No Boats
Are Launched

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.
30.-(P)-Revised figures on
the number of passengers
who were aboard the coast
wise steamer San Juan when
she sank off Pigeon Point
south of here today showed
seventy-four persons remain
ed unaccounteG for and may
have perished.
Radio stations here reported the
Munami had renewed its search oi
the wreckage -strewn collision area
at daybreak but that up to 8 a. m
it had not reported picking up any
additional persons.
These advices, coming eight hours
after the San Juan sank. led to the
belief that few If any Of the seventy
four missing would be wound alive
Offices OF the Los Angeles and
San Francisco Navigation company
owners of the San Juan. announced
their lates information showed there
were IS passengers aboard the YES
sci when she collided with the
Standard Oil tanker s. G. 7. Dodd
in a thick fog at midnight. The crew
Of the San Juan numbered 10.
Many Injured
There were conflicting reports as
to the number rescued. Aboard the
Dodd were q OF the San Juan's
passengers and crew. Nine others
had been picked up by the steamer
Munami. which was still at the
scene of the collision at 8 a. m. one
report said there were four other
survivors aboard the motor ship
Frank Lynch but this could not pe
confirmed.
Every available ambulance In San
Francisco was sent to the water
front to receive the n passengers
uicked up by the Dodd. Emergency
hosnitals were made ready to receive
the survivors. some OF whom were
injured and reported badly IN neeo
OF medical attention.
An Old Ship
The San Juan. a double decker
Of iron construction. 2S5 feet long
and $500 gross tons. had sailed tne
seas for AZ years. she was one OF tne
Oldest ships on the Pacific, havins
first taken to the water shortly al
ter the disappearance OF the SWlI,
nackets that carried the frontiers OF
trade 10 the Pacific coast.
After . short period OF service
with the Pacific mail steamship line
IN tha South American trade. the
SAN Juan was sold TO the James *
Nelson company and soon thereaf-
ter became the propertv OF the Los
Angeles and San Francisco NaviRa-
ton company. She piled between the
two California cities for years, Tea
turing low passenger fares.
The Dodd Is a 7.000-ton ship. Sne
was damaged little in the collision
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FOR JUD PECK
Slayer Of Sweetheart Breaks
Jail With Three
Negroes

WOODVILLE, Texas, Aug. 3d.
R)-Jud Peck, 10. charged with the
Staying of his purported sweetheart,
Emma Womack, 33, escaped from
the Tyler county jail with three ne
groes last night.
Peck, whose examining trial had
been set for today, remained at
large this morning, and officers
combed this section Of the country
In serach Of him.
David Cumming, one OF the three
negroes who broke jail. wandered
back some time during the ni-ht.
The others had not been caught. He
said Peck did not want to leave, but
the negroes prevailed upon him to
do so.
The negro who rsturned aid the
prisoners tore a hols In the ceiling
and dropped from the attic into the
hall and walked out while no Off
GERS were near. The four men were
the only prisoners in the Jail.
The crime for which Peck was In
Jail was described as the most
gruesome ever committed in Tyler
county.
Shortly after the finding of the
body. the youth was arrested at the
home Of Allie Jeffcote, for whom
he worked. AT first, according tc
Sheriff Ogden, Peck denied know
ledge of the crime, but later con-
fessed to killing Miss Womack.
The woman, who had no rela-
tives in this section, had been en-
ployed on d farm near Fred.
Miss Womack was found dead
nearly nude and with her head bad
ly battered, in a small ravine near
Fred Sunday. She had been miss
ing since August 10.
Fl. 3. Ogden, Tyler county sher-
iff, said the youth admitted having
killed the woman because she broke
a marriage engagement with him.
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MEETINCBEST
EVER,STATES
COUNTY Head
Principal Addresses q
Are Made By Cald-
well, DR.. Primer, and
Mrs. Davenport
Especial to The Herald

LOS FRESNOS, Aug. 3o.-A talk
by Dean 8. "a Caldwell OF the
Brownsville Junior college OH the
special problems OF high schools
marked the second day Of the Cam
eron county teachers institute aa
1t neared its close here Friday.
Addressed by DR.. B. O. Primer,
county health physiciah. and Mrs.
Harvert Davenport. Parent Teach
ers' association worker. were to ba
delivered in the afternoon. The in~
Stitute was to close with the organ-
ization Of the County Teachers as
ISOLATION.
The institute. attended by lid
teachers, wFe characterized as the
best ever held by Mrs. w. r. Jones,
county superintendent. Visitors
swelled the attendance to 100.
The institute Is held annually FOR
famillarizing the teaching staff with
the problems confronting them.
The first day or the meet was
marked by speeches by Supt. @. w.
Gotke Of the Brownsville public
school system ard DR.. r. B. Cousins
or the Teachers college mt Kings
vile.
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COTTON MILL ROOM
WRECKED BY BOMB

MARION, N. c.. Aug. 30.-tPl-
The opening room" in the Clinch.
field cotton mill here was wrecked
by an explosion Of dynamite toby
Deputy sheriffs on guard at the
mill, where a strike is in progress.
failed TO catch the dynamiters.
Today's dynamiting was the first
Of a series OF explosions in connec-
ton with the walkout TO cause any
damage. No one was hurt. The
opening room Is the room in which
bales of raw cotton are opened.
Efforts TO arbitrate difficulties be-
tween officials OF the mill and men,
bers OF the United Textile Workers
union continued.