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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-01-24
MRS. ELIZABETH ANN WIENER

MhS. ELlLADElE ANN w AA'A1iN'
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Weimer, aged
II years, 8 months and 6 days, the
widow of the late Jesse Weimer, who
died early during the fall of last year,
departed this life at her home near
Round Glade, four miles north of
Oakland, Wednesday evening, Janu-
airy 16, after a brief illness of inf1u-
enza, followed by pneumonia. Mrs.
Weimer is survived by three sons and
one daughter and many other rela-
tives. Funeral services were conducted
at the home of the deceased, Rev. j.
C. Skipper officiating. Interment was
made in the Thayerville cemetery.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
FANNIE BR|CE TOPS
. PROGRAM TONIGHT
Sophie BrasIau and 0rIoff,
Russian Pianist, to Share
HonorS.

Fannie Brice, the worlds foremost
Coincidence; Sophie BraSlau, American
contralto, and Orloff, Russian pianist,
are to share the headline honors in the
programs tonight of the chain broad
casting systems.
Miss Brice will make her microphone
debut In the Majestic hour, which will
come into Washington over WMAL
Nine. Braslau and Orloff are the stars
of the Atwater Kent program, which
tops the WRC schedule.
Some of Miss Brice'S best known
comedy recitationS and songs are in
Guided in her program. These are MY
Man." I'D Rather Be Blue Over You
Than Happy Over Somebody Else, "
Happy Days and Lonely Nights" and
IF You Want the Rainbow You Must
Have the Rain Redferne Hollins-
head, tenor, and Arnold johnson and
his orchestra also will take part in the
Majestic broadcast.
Character Songs.
Besides group of character songs,
Miss Braslau will present other selec-
tons, sustaining the classical character
Of the concert. Orchestral features in
the same vein will be performed by the
Atwater Kent Concert Orchestra, under
direction of Josef Pasternack, former
conductor of Metropolitan Opera. Piano
solos by Orloff include the Chopin
"Rondo in E Major" LISTS "Liebe-
stratum" and a Mendelssohn "Scherzo
In & Minor" The character songs by
Miss Braslau include Robinson's Water
Boy" Little Log Cabin of Dreams"
and Strickland's Ma Lii Batteau."
The concert orchestra opens the pro-
gram with the Turkish March" from
Beethbven's Ruins of Athens" and
later contribute two excerpts from the
famous Bizet opera, Carmen"
Jean Goldkette'S orchestra, in the
Etudebaker broadcast, and the National
Light Opera Co., which will present a
tabloid version of the English opera
Mariana" are among WRC's other
outstanding attractions.
Six modern arrangements of popular
song hits will be played by the Gold
kettle orchestra, among them What a
Girl, What a Night" and Some One
contributions by Retting and Roland
q two-piano team 1t will be new
arrangement of The Japanese Sand
man"
M Photograph Program.
The Dictograph program will revive
memories of the famous Bradley Martin
ball and such forgotten rags as Every
body Two-Step" and Dancing Around =
DR.. Sigmund Spaeth and male quar-
tet will again present the Old Co.'S
program. The theme song of the broad
cast. viii be When Grandfather Went
A-Sparking."
In addition to the Majestic hour,
WMAL's leading attractions include the
La Palma hour, the De Forest Audions
and the Russian broadcast described as
Around the Samovar" Spanish music
viii feature the La Palma program. and
Arthur Pryor and his famous band viii
provide the De Forest broadcast. The
band will play n-Americana, ex-
cerptS from Princess Pat" March OF
the Toys" and excerpts from THE Red
Aall."
VOL has scheduled its usual array
OF. Sunday attractions, featuring the
Meditation hour. The program of
WJSv is made up Of variety of fea-
tures. including selections by trum-
pet quartet and the Ladies Choir Of
Fairfax, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
TALK ON WASHINGTON
AS FARMER SCHEDULED
Agricultural Department Historical
Research Chief will Be on
the Air February 81.

-r'he story of the farming enterprises
@nd methods of George washington,
master farmer" will be told to radio
listeners February % on the 197th an
MtverSary of his birth.
A talk on Washington's pioneer work
tn improving agriculture, by DR.. o. G.
Slime, chief Of the division of historical
research Of the Department of Agricul-
ture, viii be broadcast at noon through
WRC and a National BroadcaSting
Go. network of 16 stations in the Middle
West and South.
Prof. c. F. Marvin, chief Of the
Weather Bureau, will take occasion on
the birthday anniversary of the man
who In his time saw the need for a
mere simple calendar, to explain new
proposals for calendar simplification
which recently were placed before Con-
gresS and the public.
From tomorrow to Friday the depart
ment's noon-hour program will bring to
listeners the facts about the world
wheat situation, about seed supplies and
prices, the trend of poultry products
and the dairy market situation. There
also will be summary of a report
showing what the nations of the world
are doing to improve their live stock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
"ar'd when You send it mb my man, be
sure you change the price tag to $3.50"

know good radio when hear it. My wife does when she
the price.
That's fine loud speaker but you have idea how terrible
would be if my wife knew it cost but SIS.
Haven't you got fancy COX you put in? Tell her the
body is "Rtzy and put 24K label the package Human
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real worth the improved Table model Crosley AC Electric
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real VALUE and it's possible because Of Croseys
sales. And huge sales because gives truly wonderful
performance and satisfaction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
BRITISH CHANGE METERS;
VIRGINIA FANS BENEFIT
Listeners Report Better Reception
at Danville on New
Wave Length.

Broadcasting Corporation has changed
the wave length on which it has been
transmitting overseas programs from "a
to 1888 meters.
The nightly programs are sent from
5SW, Chelmsford, 80 miles east of Lon
don. The change presumably was made
70 avoid conflict with code station
Some short-waye listeners declare
that reception is better on the new
channel than under the old, with re-
ception usually at its best between 4
pm. and pm, Eastern time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
PARTIAL PAYMENTS LOSE,
Debate Won by Coe College or
Fans Vote.

CHICAGO CF).-Radio listeners may
buy their own sets on the installment
plan, yet WMAQ's audience apparently
opposes further extension Of installment
buying.
Their attitude was reflected in vote
following a debate between teams Of
Kent College of Law and Coe College.
of Coe debaters, who argued against in
stallment buying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
Glee Club on Air Tonight.

A special program by the Wesleyan
University Glee Club will be broadcast
by WEAF toni~.lt from 1915 to 10:45
o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17

KFRC Uses amos and Andy"
KFRC, San Francisco. brings amos
and Andy" to the microphone each
night except Wednesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
Dance to New Orchestra.

Listeners Of WJR, Detroit, have been
dancing to the tunes Of new orches-
ira. It is directed by Blue" Steele.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11
Science In Industry Is
British Meet KEYNOTE

CAPE TOWN, British South Afri-
ca, July 11.-(R-The application of
science to industry will be the key
note of the 1929 meeting of the
British Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Science here July %.
Practically every phase of mod
ern life and industry will be touch
ed, on, from the development Of new
motor fuels to the cure of nation
wide unemployment; from the prob
lens of mining and agriculture to
the complexities of dirigible flights.
Sir Thomas Henry Holland, the
new president of the association,
will stress in his inaugural address
the international relationship of the
mineral and metallurical indus
tries.
It is his belief that since minerals
are essential in the production Of
ornaments, and since those min
erals are by no means equally dis
tributed among the nations. the
possession of certain strategic de-
posts easily may develop into an
excuse for war or, properly con-
trolled, into an effective guaran-
tee of peace.
Other addresses on problems of
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-11

I hauer as he balanced a rifle. He
did not smoke; he did not drink
not even tea.
"Oh, you must meet Mr.. Leahy!"
1t was a remark frequently made to
newcomers about the bridge tables
at the Nueces hotel.
Son of Pioneer
Harry Leahy is the son Of Phil
lip Leahy, 80, pioneer of southwest
Texas. His mother is a sister of
Judge Harry Timon, for E score Of
years up to 1921 criminal district
Judge for the district that extends
from Corpus Christi to Brownsville
and Laredo. THE car Of the VAL
ley" they called Judge Timon.
On January !. 1923, the "old
Leahy ranch"-10,087 acres near
Mathis-was sold at sheriff's sale.
1t was one of the first official acts
of Frank Hunt, sheriff of San Pa
tricio county, who later took a
leading part in the investigation
which followed the disappearance
Of Doctor Ramsey.
Begins Reading Law
At the Georgetown trial, Hunt
testified that after the sale Harry
Leahy did not want to give posses
sion. The sheriff said that he did,
however, fencing off 100 acres not
included in the execution sale. The
sheriff said that there was litiga-
ton of this 100 acres between the
Leahys and others of Mathis.
some of whom we're relatives of
the Leahys. He said that Doctor
Ramsey had no part in the litiiga-
ton, but that Harry Leahy did not
seem friendly to the doctor"
1t was after the loss of his old
home and the removal Of his aged
parents to a little house in Mathis
that Harry Leahy began reading
law" He had a few cows. Life
was not hard in the little town
where Everybody knows everybody
else" He was a familiar figure in
the drug store at the intersection
Of Mathis main street and the
highway from Skidmore to Alice.
Then at $50 p. m, May 20, 1926,
began the series of events which
have resulted in the sentencing of
Harry Leahy to the electric chair.
At that hour, Roberto Martinez
appeared at "the old Leahy ranch
where now lived Doctor Ramsey.
Martinez babbled casa Muy
malo." E. G.. West, a neighbor,
translating for the doctor, ex-
planned that the man said his
brothers wife was i'll with appen-
dicitis and that the doctor was
needed.
Woman Gives Tip
"The man said he did not have
much money" West testified at the
Georgetown trial, but he would
help his brother pay. Doctor Ram
Sey said that was all right-if the
woman was i'll he would do what
he could regardless sof the money
The doctor and Martinez drove
away in the doctors old Dodge car.
They stopped at the garage of
Herbert Schmidt in Mathis about
$50 p. m. for a quart of oil. It
was the last time the doctor was
seen until his body was found
August Is.
One hot July afternoon a woman
J on the American side of the river
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agriculture and education in South
Africa, and several on the negro
problem as it manifests itself here.
Discussions in the realm of pure
science will not, however, be lack
ing. Perhaps the most interesting
of these to the lay mind will be the
discussion on The Nature of Life"
The geological, physiological, psy-
Geological and botanical aspects of
the question viii be dealt with by
such men as DR.. j. S. Haldane,
psychologist of Oxford; H. Wildon
Carr, professor Of philosophy at the
University Of London; Darcy
Thompson. professor Of natural his
tory at st. Andrews university, and
r. r. A. Hoernle. assistant profess
sor Of philosophy at Harvard uni
versity.
On the ver-intriguing subject Of
the structure Of the atom, Prof. Sir
Ernest Rutherford, president Of the
Royal society, is said to have some
thing new to contribute, while an
other significant address may be
Prof. o. Abel's ideas on the Causes
Of Degeneration in Species"
The meeting will continue here
and at Johannesburgh and Pretoria
until August z.
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dez, lot AZ, block G." Celaya addi-
ton, Brownsville, $225.
r. p. McElwrath Jr. to H. j.
O'Connell, all of town lot 9 and
west half lot 8. block n, city of
Harrington, $40.
Los Ebanos Estates, Inc. to A. w.
Beilby. farm block 20, Los Ebanos
Properties, share I, E. s. grant, COS
acres, plat 8-12, $6840.
H. D. Seago ct al to Stanley j.
Beebe ct ux east 2 acres farm block
26, FL Jardin subdivision, share q,
E. S. grant, $500.
Frank j. Duroy ct al by Consta-
bic to G. H. Colgin, trustee, south
half Of north hal fof block 221. San
Benito Irrigation Co., subdivision
$735.31.
r. Lee Kempner to Valley Dew.
Inc, south 10 acres, block 81, Kemp
ner Citrus Grove subdivision, $40.
Valley Dew. Inc, to F. c. However
ct Tx, south 10 acres, block 81.
Kempner Citrus Groves subdivision,
share II, $4,000.
r. Lee Kempner to Valley Dew.
Inc, north 10 acres bloc. %, Kemp
ner Citrus Grove subdivision, $40.
Valley Dev. Inc, to Thomas j.
Doran, north 10 acres block 90,
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by various bits of circumstantial
evidence.
On Thanksgiving day the jury
brought in a verdict Of so years in
the penitentiary.
Through the night in his cell,
Leahy worked on a motion for a
new trial and the next day the pa
pers were filed.
CompOsure mistaken
The motion was granted and the
case was transferred to William
son county.
Additional bits Of circunstantial
evidence had been woven about
Martinez confession when the state
next presented its case against
Leahy at Georgetown on January
81, 1927. And on February 9, after
a sensational trial, the death ver-
dict was rendered.
Said the Williamson County Sun:
The defendant sat composed
and the strength which has sus-
tanned him throughout the trial
did not desert him in the trying
moment. There was a trace of a
smile upon his face, which has been
seen throughout all the days of the
hearing"
The case was affirmed by the
court Of appeals some months ago.
Leahy was first sentenced to die
on June II, but a postponement
was granted by Governor Moody.
BY a coincidence, the governor OF
Texas, then district attorney, won
his spurs in the same courtroom
where Leahy was convicted and be-
fore the same judge, the late Coop
er SAMSON.
Leahy's efforts to get a new
hearing on his appeal have been
u~navailing.
Leahy offered $4,000 to any law
yer who would secure a new trial
for him. No lawyer has yet taken
the case on this basis.
Roberto Martinez is now serving a
99-year sentence for his part in the
crime.
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Kempner Citrus Grove subdivision,
share II, e. S. grant, $1,000.
G. @. Bowman to j. T. Foster, lot
II, block 8, Fairview addition, Har-
lingen, $3.50
w. G. Mathes to Carmen Numez
de Cardoza, lot I, block 2, Colonia
La Pc'na 2, San Benito, plat 7-38
$40.
Valley Dew. Inc. to Jerome A
Donnelly, all block 3, containing 1C
acres Chester Park subdivision OF
northeast part survey 1877, Sill OO.
0. p. Storm to Valley Dew. Inc.
block 8, containing 10 acres Chester
Park subdivision, $40.
Lon G. Hill. ST., to H. T.. Looney
lots l, 8, 4. 5. block AS; lot 13, block
361; ut %, block 443: lots l. 2. 3
6, IS, II, block 444: lots 2. 8. 6 7 10
II, block 491; lot IA, block 361: lot
10, 16. block 279: lot is, block 1856:
Laguna Vista Townsite: also farm
blocks 40, containing 40 acres 220,
containing 5 acres, and 90 contain
ing 5 acres, Santa Isabel grant,
$1.C64.
Cuates Dew. Co. to Paul O. Cab
bert ct al, lot 8, containing 1856
acres out Of block 4, Citrus Gar
DEN subdivision, share 43. of share
10, E. s. grant. plat 8-27. $8425.
Hidalgo County
Z. Q. Couch and w. l.. Forbes to
S. A. and A. P. Ry Co.. 1.61 acres
farm tract 564 west tract, S1425.
J. 1. Head to K. W. Bonham, lots
4 and S, block 80. Hargill, $3.50.
w. A. Harding to E. G. Chamber
lain, north half lot II, east half
lot II. block 66, Mo-Tex $4,000.
4. e. Streeter ct Tx to St. L. 3.
and M. Ry, Co., 100 right Of way
across farm tract 429, west tract,
v. M. Sutphen to j. l.. Head. lots
Z art 9. block 80, Hargil, $40.
Z. l. Haven to r. A. Rowland
trustee, south 80 acres, lot 6, block
275 Tex-Mex. $4,000.
P. w. Perkins to F. K. Lvdick
west 10 -cres south 1872 acres lot IA.
block, 1O2 Campacuas, S342o.
l.. W. Yates ct ux to st. T.. 2
and M. Ry. Co.. south 10 acres farm
tract So, west tract, $1O,3O5.
R. A. Rowland, trustee, to James
+. Page, south half lot /, all of lot
2, section 238 Tex-Mex, / .491O2.
George G. Breeding, sub. trustee.
TO A. R. G. L. and I. Co., south
acres west 20 acres, farm tract 294.
West tract, $500.
George G. Breeding, sub. trustee.
to A. R. G. L. and I. Co., farm tract
50, West tract, $1,000.
J. K. Martin ct Tx to Virgil Hen
ry. l IA acres lot SO, L. T. and 7.
Co. subdivision, $40.
Progreso Development co. to
Henry "A. Digman ct ux, north 5
acres south 9.96 acres, lot IS, LIano
Grande subdivision, $4,000.
A. Lightfoot to Kate Joe Ingram,
east Is acres farm tract $40 West
tract, $4,000.
PrOgreso DEVELOPMENT Co. to H. D.
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Cameron Courts

Suits filed in the district courts
w. e. Spivey VS.. B. H. Hooks et
al to try title.
28TH DISTRICT COURT
Hon. A. w. Cunningham, Judge
No orders.
103RD DISTRICT COURT
Hon. A. NJ. Kent, Judge
No orders.
COUNTY COURT
Hon. Oscar Dancy, Judge
Suits filed: None.
COUNTY COURT AT LAW
Hon. John Kleiber, Judge
No orders.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
FURNISHED by Valley Abstract Coz
Cameron County
Arthur L. Harris, Bruce S. Gentry
to Cuates Dew. Co., west 10 acres
lot !, section 2. share %, Harris.
Gentry subdivision plat 8-14.
Cuates Dew. Co. to John DebelI
west 10 acres. lot l., section 2, Har-
ris-Gentry subdivision, share %. E
S. grant, plat 8-14, $40.
j. S. Ford ct al to Carlos Herman.
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Story ofLeahy and
Trial Will Become
Legend 0fSouthwest
Continued from page -

Continued from page ID
chos beside chuck wagons. bv Mex
leans In their fondas, by loafers on
the courthouse squares of a dozen
southwest Texas towns.
Will Become Legend
In the years to come, when con-
crete roads have supplanted COW
trails, the story will become an
other legend Of the great South
west.
w. H. Mead, manager of the
prison system, has refused to al
low newspapermen to talk with
Leahy at Huntsville. So the COM
plete story that lies behind the ar
rest and conviction Of Leahy will
perhaps never be told.
1t so CHANGED that = knew Leahy.
He told me that story as he sat in
the lobby of the Nueces hotel at
Corpus Christi, a Winchester across
his lap. He told me that he had
been shot from the brush" IL
times. Once, he told me, he was
shot in the lobby of a hotel in
Brownsville. The bullet, he said,
struck his watch and was DETECTED.
His was a life fraught with dan
ger, yet his steel-blue eyes held no
fear.
Stole Courage
An incident at San Patricio is
typical of the Harry Leahy that 1
knew. A farmer. inflamed with
l1n1IOr hn1inund hic rrifn y1yn az n
dance with another man. He pro-
cured a shotgun, went to the
schoolhouse where a Mexican band
was grinding out tunes. The dane
ers yelled for Harry Leahy. To me,
a stranger in the community, it
seemed that such was the regular
procedure when a difficulty arose.
Leahy knocked the farmer down
with 8 piece of lumber, took his
gun away from him, and sent him
home.
The feat was performed with the
same stoicism that has character
lied Harry Leahy in the days since
he was arrested in San Antonio.
Much has been written in the
newspapers of my fortitude in this
period" he wrote the Williamson
County Sun from his death cell.
This comes from nothing extra
ordinary in a man, but is born Of
a sense of being right, which is nat
urally followed by a sense of sure
ness and serenity.
Has Philosophical Mind
"a study of the inmates confined
here, where they count each stroke
Of the clock as one hour nearer
the terrible fate which awaits them,
some in terror, some in angered
distress, some in grave supplica-
tons, and yet others as raving
maniacs, before the awful plunge
from the known to the unknown
20 my mind proves that this Situa-
bon can not be calmly endured, as
[ am enduring it, free from its ter
rors except when clothed with the
knowledge Of being right"
The language Of this statement
Is typical of the man. He has read
the works of the great historians
and philosophers. He was lionized
by the women who spent their sum
mers at Corpus Christi, this man
who talked as easily of Schopen-
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Flashes of Life
(By the Associated Press


WASHINGTON. - Those new
smaller $40 bills, out today with
other denominations, are starting
in circulation on the anniversary
Of a tragedy. They bear the pic
ture Of Alexander Hamilton. One
hundred and twenty-five years ago
today Hamilton wrote a farewell
note to his wife. The next day he
was wounded fatally in q dlel with
Aaron Burr.
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y.-Mrs.
Mary G. Alexander Of Lynchburg,
Va, mother of two children, is a
student flyer here. She has an
automobile sales agency at home
and prepares to put in a line OF
airplaneS.
NEW YORK-Knees are going
into retirement in the fall, maybe.
Anyhow they were just covered in
advance modes displayed at a
fashion promenade Of the Garment
Retailers Of America.
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.-From
one Harry Doremus, who is in the
hooSegow, comes information re-
garding Al Capone'S culture, to wit:
"Capone hires nothing but gentle
men. They must be well dressed at
all times; they must have cultured
accents; must always say yes sir,
and no sir. to Capone when he
addresses them" Capone, in iail
at Philadelphia, is doing no hiring
just now. Doremus, who SAYS he
was a lieutenant Of Capone's. il
accused Of stealing an automobile
and having concealed weapons.
NEW YORK.-Having been Of
fered blood by $50 persons, George
Mosher, Is, a blue-eyed freckled
poor boy whose case aroused vice
sympathy, is dead Of kala-azra. OF
transfusions were in vain.
NEW YORK-Nineteen is the
dangerous age for the fair sex.
Such is the conclusion by Elizabeth
R. Butler, social worker, from a
study Of shoplifters and other fem
mime l~awbreakers who are in iail.