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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
veil REMOVAL
OF M'KENZIE
Violence Feared AS Man
Taken to San Antonio
For Sanity Quiz

AUSTIN. June i5.-fPl-Gov.
Moody late last night granted John
M CPete) Mckenzie. who was to
have been electrocuted today for
the murder of Chief Of Detectives
Sam Street OF San Antonio, a stay
of execution until July 2.
The governor granted the re-
prieve on advice of Ralloway CAL
hount, 1T assistant attorney gen.
eral. after Judge w. w. McCrory
Of san Antonio. Sad ordered execu-
ton stayed until Mckenzie could
be examined in his court on sanity
plea.
SAN ANTONIO. June 18.-(Pl-
Fearing violence. not only because
OF feeling on the OUTSIDE. but be-
cause OF the hostility Of other
prisoners. John M. Pete) McKen-
zie. snatched from death in Hunts
Vile penitentlary. will be brought
secretly to San Antonio and lodged
III the solitary death cell at the
Bexar county jail to await a sanity
hearing in district court next Mon
day.
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11-Year-Old Shot
While At Play BY
Guard In Chicago

CHICAGO, June 18.-tPl-An IL
year-old boy. playing with a group
or children about a school building
under construction. was shot and
seriously wounded late yesterday
when the children refuse to obey a
watchman's commands to leave the
building.
The watchman. George Meservey
was arrested and charged with the
shooting. Police were told he had
fired one shot into the group.
After the boy. Gus Kezios, had
f-llen with a bullet in his neck
the watchman went TO a small shed
on the grounds. When police ar
rived. a crowd of 200 persons was
moving toward the shed where Me-
servey had barricaded himself.
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COUPLE FOUND
BY NEIGHBORS
IN SMALL TENT
Questioning Shows
Man Had Been In iii
Health And Out of
Work

AUSTIN. June lS.-tFt-John
Sanders, 50. was found dead from
gunshot wounds. and his wife, about
As. in a dying condition, today when
neighborS. aroused by the sound OF
shots. entered the tent in which the
couple lived near here.
Sanders had been shot through
the neck by a single barrel shotgun
found nearby, and the woman had
been struck In the stomach by
charge from the same weapon. She
died at hospital without making
statement.
Officers who questioned neighborS
said Sanders. who formerly engaged
in farming but had not worked re-
Gently. was IN III health.
Coroner Bryan Blalock said he
would return a verdict OF death
from gpnshot wounds fired by
| Sanders.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18

With first bales" appearing al
most daily in various Valley
towns and one farmer preparing
to take the second bale Of the
season from his farm to the gin.
the cotton crop is expected to be
moving at a lively pace withii
few days. ginners say.
A first bale" was ginned in
Edinburg Monday afternoon. and
Ismael Montalyo Of San Benito,
who Saturday got the first bale
there, was preparing to take his
second bale of the season to the
gin there late today or early
Wednesday. He expects to pick
a third bale before the end Of
the week.
The bale ginned at Edinburg
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SNOW FALLS IN
CALIFORNIA AS
EAST SWELTERS

NEW YORK, June 18.-CPl~
Snow in California and swelter-
ing temperatures in the mid
west and east were shown by the
weathe- map today.
Snow that fell throughput
Sunday at Truckee and Lake
Tahoe. Cal, covered the ground
to a depth of four inches, while
the temperature hovered around
the "a degre mark.
The difference between The
two coasts was shown further by
the maximum temperatures Of
the two Portlands. Yesterday
the Oregon city reported a high
Of 81 degrees while at Portland,
Maine. the days maximum
was 80.
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was picked on the farm Of G. F.
Amason, two and a half miles
east Of Hargill. 1t was ginned at
the Planters Gin in Edinburg
and was purchased by P. D. Ha-
ley. manager Of the gin, for rs
cents per pound and with gin
ming free. This amounted to q
premium of 1856 and plans were
being made to collect fund for
the grower in Edinburg today.
Montalvo's first bale, ginned by
the Valley Gin Co.. about 4 p. m.
Saturday was bought for 20
cents per pound and the gin gave
him a premium Of SIS. The cot
ton graded strict middling and
the bale weighed $40 pounds.
The cotton was picked from Is
acres OF a 160-acre field.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
CHURCH LEAGUE WILL
OFFER LAW SUPPORT

PHILADELPHIA, June 1s.-CP-
APPOINTMENT Of a national loyalty
commission consisting of II min
listers and eight ruling elders was
announced today by DR.. Cleland 3.
McAfee of Chicago. moderator Of
tl1e Presbyterian general assembly
from the headquarters Of the assem-
bly, here.
This commission is to assemble in
rJew York avenue Presbyterian
church, washington. tomorrow. and
ear on President Hoover and tender
IA him the support of the Presby-
terian church in his stand for law
observance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
Bus Overturns On
Highway Outside of
Brownsville, Report

A Missouri Pacific Transportation
company bus overturned on the
highway between Brownsville and
San Benito shortly after noon Tues
day. officials OF the company were
notified by the driver.
"A wrecker and representatives OF
the bus line had been sent to the
scene Of the wreck but no report
had ben received whether anyone
had been killed or injured.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
MOTOR BLAZE
PERILS FAMILY
Barely Escape With Lives
AS Car Burns At Red Fish
Bay; Lose $160
Especial OF The Herald)

RAYMONDVILLE, June l8.-Dr
and Mrs. F. M. Jansen lost an au-
tomobile, Sl60 in currency, and
barely escaped with their lives late
Monday when their car caught fire
on the beach at Red Fish bay %
miles east of here. The automobile
was completely burned.
The money was under the back
seat Of the car.
Wr. and Mrs. Jansen and two
grandchildren had spent the week
end on the beach at Red Fish bay
Continued on Page 81
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General Picking of Cotton Crop Started Over Valley

representing a syndicate Of Cot
ton Exchange firms, and the auc-
toner was Gardiner II. Miller,
president OF the Exchange. aided
by Miss Fern Helscher. represent
ing the Corpus Christi Chamber
of Commerce. Lieut. Gov. Her
bert II. Lehman OF New York,
and Z. G. Bowe, pilot Of the plane
which brought the bale here in
10 l-2 hours. witnessed the sale.
President Miller said the ship
ment marked an era In the trans
portation Of the South's greatest
crop.
The bale was grown on the
farm or S. T.. Henson near Ed
couch and was ginned there.
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THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy or cloudy tonight
and wednesday. Light 20 moder-
ate southerly winds on the west
coast.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy TO-
night and Wednesday: cooler IN
extreme northwest portion tonight.
Light TO fresh southerly winds on
the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
Port Arguments
AT Capital Today

WASHINGTON, June 1S.-fAPD
Del vations from Point Isabel
and Brownsville, Tex appeared
before the board of engineers for
rivers and harbors here today and
argued the advantages of their
ports for the location OF n turning
basin.
The Brownsville delegation pro-
tested the recommendation Of Mai.
Milo P. Fox. resident engineer.
Galveston, that the turning basin
be placed at Point Isabel
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BOoTLEGGERs GATHER

WASHINGTON, June l8.-CP)-
Assistant Secretary Lownan an
nounced today that confidential re-
ports from treasury agents indicat-
ed an unprecedented gathering OF
bootleggers and smugglers along the
Canadian border from Vancouver tc
the Atlantic seaboard to smuggle
liquor into the United States.
Because Of this. he said, the Gus
toms border patrol across the entire
country had been Strengthened.
Lowman also said President Hoo
yer had not. asked for any report
concerning the smuggling or prohi-
bition enforcement situation and
that he had not conferred with OF
made any report to the executive.
The White House, he said, had
Continued on Page 81
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NORTHERN BAPTISTS
ELECT MILLER HEAD

DENVER, June 1s.-(P,-Alton l..
Miller Of Boston was elected presi-
dent OF the Northern Baptist con-
vention here today.
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QUESTIONED AT MIDNIGHT


COLUMBUS. O.. June 1S.-tP)-
Intent upon their hunt for evidence
in the hammer Staying Of Theora
Xix. 23-year- coed. authorities
today predicted sensational devel-
opments in their investigation as
they centered their inquiry about
Marion r. Meyers. taken from m
cell at midnight and questioned be-
fore the girls mutilated body early
today.
Movers. "a former suitor and n
friend Of DR.. James II. Shook. also
held for investigation In the slay-
ing. made the trip to the morgue
complaining of lack Of rest, but he
touched the body and answered
questions without wavering I'm his
denial that he knows how the girl
came 10 her death.
Both Meyers. a research worker
i'm the horticulture department of
Ohio state University. and Shook,
until yesterday a professor ~ the
university school or veterinary. have
been held since a few hours after
the girls body was found on rifle
range Friday. She had been beaten
and cut to death Thursday night
and thrown from an automobile.
Shook has admitted posing as her
husband and maintaining a room
for their meeting place.
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BILL WOULD HIKE PAY

AUSTIN, June 18.-Rep. Polk
Hornaday today introduced bill 70
authorize Cameron county to pay its
assistant county attorney and chief
deputy sheriff s2400 a year each,
heads Of department." Of the coun-
ty $500, and other deputies $500 q
year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18

Inquiries of local attorneys and
court house circles failed TO reveal
a barrister here by the name of
Smell.
1t was pointed out, however, that
he may be using an assumed name.
A number of new attorneys have be-
gun practice here during the past
two years, IL was said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
HOOVER ASKS
CITIES help
IN RUM FIGHT
Treasury Official Says
international Ring
Conspiring Against
u. s. Laws

WASHINGTON, June 13.-tP-
President Hoover today called upon
the communities along the Canadian
border to help the treasury to pre-
vent the systematic war being waged
by international criminals against
the laws of this country.
The president said he deeply de-
plored the killing Of any persons,
but the treasury was making con-
slant effort to prevent misuse OF fire
arms.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18

Reports from Raymondville in
dicated that Clyde Stockwell to-
day would finish picking seed cot
ton for a bale from his farm be-
twen here and La Sara. This
bale Is expected to be ginned
Wednesday.
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YelLoU Bird CreW viii
Get High French Honor

18-The the transatlantic monopane Yel
Bird will received the chamber deputies the senate and the
Vile the highest that Fenchman
OF all honos reception today minister. Is
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LAWYER REPORTED FOUND

SHREVEPORT. La, June 1872
|-J. Dudley Smell. Shreveport attor-
mel. who mysteriOusly disappeared
October is. 1927. has been located at
Brownsville, Texas, relatives here
said today.
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BALE BRINGS s12fI


NEW YORK. June lathe
first bale of cotton of the 1879
crop. brought here by airplaae
from Texas. was auctioned off on
the floor OF the New York Cotton
Exchange.
1t brought s1.2l1. half of which
goes to the United Hospital fund
here and half to the Salvation
Army at Corpus Christi. Tex. The
purchaser was william .. D0Well,
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RIVER FORECAST

There will be no material change
IN the river during the next few
days.
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Late Bulletins

FLYERS DIVORCE SET ASIDE
ATLANTA. June 1S.-(APl-The
divorce granted three years ago TO
Leslie Philip Arnold. former lieu
tenant in the United States army,
one of the original round the world
filters and lately husband Of Priscilla
Dean. Hollywood motion picture ac-
tress, was set aside today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
RED SOX LOSE

NEW YORK. June 1S.-(APl-The
Yankees defeated the Red Sox 3 to o
in the first game of a double header
as Freddy Heimach turned In a
smart pitching performance.
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TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and low tiGe nc Point Isabe.
tomorrow. under normal meteor
oloRical conditions:
High 4.i2 "a. m.
Low ,................... sos p. m.
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FLYER ON COAST

MARCH FIELD. Riverside. Cal.
June l8.-(Pl-Lieut. John S. Grif-
fifth. landed here about ii a. m. to-
day. He took off after ten minute
stop to refuel his plane. The ship
was headed for Crissy Field. San
Francisco, the third stop in his ef-
fort to make a dawn TO dusk flight
from San Antonio, Tex, to Seattle,
| Washn.
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CnNGRESS no RECESS

WASHINGTON, June 1S.-lAP1-
Effective upon adjournment tomor-
row the senate will recess until Aug
ust 19. and the house until Septem-
Der %. a concurrent resolution
provide for this today received the
approval Of both houses.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
hint DOPE PLOT
IN COED DEATH
Reports Circulated That
Murdered Girl Had Been
In Traffic

COLUMBUS. Ohio. June i8.-tF
Federal authorities we're drawn
INTO the Theora Hix Staying today.
Assistant United States District At
torney Bartels announced he would
start an investigation to determine
If traffic in narcotics formed
background for the Staying. His
announcement came after reports
were circulated that Miss Hix had
been engaged in drug traffic with
DR.. James III. Shook. former uni
versity professor. held for investiga-
ton. Detective Chief w. G. Shel~
lenbarger denied today drugs play~
ed any part in the Staying.
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BROOKLYN WINS

BROOKLYN. June 18.-tPl-AI-
though outhit by the Giants. 1S to
Is. in a free slugging game the
Robins noSed out the New Workers
8 to Z. here today in the first game
OF a doubleheader. Dazzy Vance was
routed in the third. but John Nor
rison finished well enough to win.
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DEATHS MYSTIFY DOCTORS

CHICAGO, June 1S.-lFl-DoctorS
were mystified today over the death
Of Chester Kewkinski and the seri-
GUS illness of the siX-year-old boys
four brothers and sisters. Some be-
lieved the children had been pois-
oned: others suspected disease.
Neighbors called police attention
to the condition Of the children.
When the youngsters were taken TO
a hospital they were In coma.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
DALLAS MAN NOMINATED

WASHINUIUN. Julit Io.-F FAH =
Arch Coleman OF Minneapolis was
nominated today 10 be first assistant
postmaster general and John Philip
of Dallas. Texas, to be fourth assist
ant postmaster general
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COTPIF WOUNDED

BRECkENRIDGE, Tex. June TO.
-lP)-A girl and a youth today
were recovering from wounds suf-
fered last night when they were
fired or with a shotgun after they
had left open a gate into a pasture.
Royce Perry. II. and Laura johnson,
16, were the injured.
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POSTMASTER NAMED

WASHINGTON. June 1s.-tAP)-
Theodore vi. Herring was nominated
today by President Hoover to be
postmaster at San Angelo, Texas.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18

UP AT McALLEN another cele-
bration is being planned and there
will be great rivalry to see which
city will attract the largest crowd.
Boxing matches and bull fights
70 be staged on the further side Of
the Rio Grande. Of course. already
ere included in McAllens offerings.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18

Emerson Fans
Will Keep You Cool
Guaranteed Five Years
w II Putegnat Company
Brownsville, Texas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
REPERTOIRE AMATEURS
PLAN TOUR OF ENGLAND
Performances Will Be Given in
Churches and on Village
GreenA

LONDON (N.ANA).-A new dra-
matte enterprise has been started by
the Pilbrim Players, band of amateurs
who have decided to tour England in
motor caravan to give repertoire
of plays portraying THE Creative Ad-
venture In Human Dramatics"
These players made their debut last
year in a morality play at st. Peters
Church, Piccadilly, and they hope to
give their present performances in
churches and on village greens. They
have made all their own stage prop
critics, costumes and scenery.
One play. Lots WIFE," Is q modern
version of the famous tragedy Of Mrs.
Lot. In this piece Mr.. Lot is modern
business man in the frozen meat trade.
The business fails, but Mrs. Lot insists
llpon retaining her position and pos
sessions and looks back on what has
happened instead of forward on what
is to be. In the play she Is dressed
in light gray and eventually when she
becomes rigid, she takes on the ap-
.pearance of actually having been turned
into q pillar OF salt.
Another play, The Defeated Pawn-
broker" Is intended TO show the prog
ress of human evolution. In one scene
earth is portrayed as a pawnbrokers
shop in which q fat man (the world)
hands out masks and skins (to one q
cat mask, to another a donkey, 10 an
other q snake and so on) to the people
who bring him shimmering white robes
to be exchanged for something that VIII
make them more successful on earth.
+ Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
HART COMPLETES
23YEAR CAREER
Attorney Closes Desk as Dis
trict Official to Enter
Law Firm.

Ringgold Hart, principal assistant
corporation counsel, yesterday ended his
services in the District government
where he had been connected con-
tinuously In various capacities for %
years.
Several weeks ago Mr.. Hart sub
mitted his resignation to the Commits
sioners to join q newly organized law
firm in which he is to be q member
The resignation does not become effec-
tive, however, until September !, but
an accumulated leave OF absence en-
abled him TO wind up his duties yes
terday. but continue on the salary roll
until the effective date of the resiRna-
ton.
just before Mr.. Hart closed his desk
for the last time Commissioner Sidney
p. Taliaferro sent him farewell tribute
on behalf Of the board Of Commission
ers
Your resignation as principal as
Sistant to the corporation counsel of
the District of Columbia has been re-
ceived and accerCsEx" the Commissioner
wrote. You are row about TO engage
in the private practice of your profess
sion.
For % years you have been a valued
empioye Of the District of Columbia,
and since october, 1915. you have been
in the once Of the corporation counsel,
having risen from the bottom to the
important position of principal assistant
u that office. Such q record Is unique
and enviable. Your long period of serv-
ice has been marked by energy, faith
fulneSs and unusual ability In every
position in which you have served.
believe that every District employe
whether long in the service or q new
conner, is your friend
Il desire TO express my personal
pleasure and satisfaction in my associ-
alton with you. Upon behalf of the
board of Commissioners of the District
Of Columbia, and personally, wish to
say how much we regret your leaving
the District service, and that our best
wishes 60 with you for your future
happiness and success"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
PALACE
STONE is AUCTIONED

LONDON (N.AN.A).-Another auc-
ton of quite . different. kind arranged
recently was the sale of 80 or 40 tons
of the Palace of Westminster. ReStora-
ton of the dacayed fabric has been 60
ing on for some time, and the Office OF
works decided that to pay for some
small portion of the work 1t would have
q sale Of the old stone.
Lots were accordingly on view ut the
Victoria Tower. Members of Parliament
bought large quantities of the stone,
and both Mr.. Baldwin and Mr.. Mac
Donald carried on unusual parliament
airy trophies.
The catalogue contained 1873 items,
No. ], Q noble specimen weighing ton,
was described as "a base stone Of
cupola to turret, hexagonal in plan, Gu
poia shaped and decorated In crockets
on angle ribs and lozenge ornament in
panels"
Another lot comprised ave crock
cited stonepieces in form Of cross" and
another -four bird finals" 1t was
suggested in the catalogue that the lots
would be useful for garden ornaments.
seats, birdhathS, center features, bases
for statuary, balustrade facades and
rockery schemes" Anyhow. there was
something unique In being able TO buy
up Parliament by the ton, and the sale
proved q great success.
He~SstShA, Nae3
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28

the civil population he punished ruth
lesSly. Many o useful rider paio Will
his life for stealing. 49,.
Budenny seldom speaks in public, Dut
when he expresses himself his utterance
becomes law among the people. Thus at
q meeting Of an-Russian central ex-
ecutive committee, while discussion CEN
tered around the plans for elcctrlnca-
ton Of the country he arose with TINS
speech:
what is all this talk about electrifi-
cation? What we need Is not electr1n-
cation, but horSification. We haven't
enough good horses for the army" The
horSification statement caught the fancy
Of everybody In Russia. =.
Education, he thinks, Is the greatest
thing O man can achieve. Education
ia the hope Of the people. In q few
years you will see what our people Will
be-" he said They take to education
like O Cossack to the horse. They eat it
up. I know the soul of my people singly
and altogether. Just give US chance
and we will catch up with the rest OF
the world
Being In high ONCE, Budenny Is q
member of the Communist party, but he
sl1ys ut discussion Of Communist theory,
probably because it Is not subject that
is not an open book to him. Until he
became allied with the bolshevist gov
eminent he probably had never heard
Of either Karl Mafx or Lsains
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28
DISABLED VETERAN HEAD
DEMANDS NAVAL PARITY
Commander Murphy Also Makes
Plea for Continued Citizen
Soldier Work.

A protest against suspension OF naval
construction until parity with the navy
of Great Britain 10 attained. and a plea
for continuance of appropriations pro-
viding for the training Of citizen SOL
diers were voiced yesterday In a state
ment by william ]. Murphy, national
commader of the Disabled American
Veterans.
Comdr. Murphy of Santa Ana. Calf,
issued his statement through the Wash
ington ONCE Of the organization In
comment on President Hoover's an.
nouneed intention to reduce the cost OF
the military establishment and suspend
the cruiser construction program:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28

Mexico leads all other countries In
buying American aircraft this year.