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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
CITY OFFICER
OFSANBENITO
Held IN JAIL
One Man Killed In
Dance Hall; Other
Shot to Death in His
Home


Cameron county peace officers
Monday were seeking one man as
a slayer and shaping evidence a.
gainst another held in jail here ms n
result OF two killings over the week
end.
Emelio Vega. ~. was shot and
killed at a dance hall I'm San Benito
shortly after midnight Sunday and
Manuel Reyna about 40. was called
70 the. door of his home on the
Brown Tract east Of Rio Hondo
and murdered shortly after 8 p. M.
Sunday.
Jesus Cantu IN being held In Jail
here in connection with the killing
OF Vega at San BenitO and officers
are seeking the slayer of Reyna.
Called Go Bale
Cantu, a San Benito city police
man. says he was called TO the bale
hall in Old Gardens at San Benito
by Mari Lopez and asked 10 put two
men off the floor. He said he made
them leave the bale once. but that
they returned later. According To
his story. when he sought to make
them leave the dance the second
time. one Of the men grabbed him
by the arms and the other made
a move to draw gun. Vega was
shot through the chest near the
heart and died i'm a very short time.
Only one shot was fired.
Immediately after the shooting
Cantu was arrested BY Ernest Cor
kill. San Benito policeman. who
called Deputy =. M Jester. The
man was brought to Brownsville
and lodged In jail to await an ex-
BenitocO XaHRhtmeGoETAOI A
amining trial 10 be held at San
Benito this afternoon before L. NJ.
Valdetero. justice OF the peace.
Valdetero was called TO the scene OF
the shooting Sunday morning but
did not hold an inquest. He said
there were several witnesses to the
shooting.
Vega Is reported to have been n
sober and industrious young man
and very popular with San Benito
citizens. He was employed at a
dairy.
Shot at Home
The wife OF Reyna told officers
investigating the shooting on the
Browne tract Sunday evening that
her husband was removing his
clothing preparing 10 retire for the
night when someone began TO shout
his name in front of the house.
She said Reyna went 70 the door
and that as he stepped outside he
was shot.
Two loads of buckshot we're fired
into the body or the man at close
range.
The belief that this shooting was
the continuation Of feud which
has been going on between two
groups on the tract for several
years. was expressed by those fami-
liar with the circumstances.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
STAGE STARS
FOUND shot
Margaret Lawrence Apart.
ment Scene of Tragedy;
Suicide Pact Seen

NEW YORK. June 10.-(P,-
Margaret Lawrence, stage star and
widow Of Wallace Eddinger, was
shot to death in her apartment
yesterdy.
Sprawled beside the bed on
which her body was found was the
body of Louis Bennison. stage and
screen actor Both had been shot
through the left breast. On the
bed was a pistol.
Police said Bennison had shot
Miss Lawrence and killed himself.
A suicide agreement was hinted In
two notes found in the apartment.
One note said: The sunset has
a heart. Look for us there" The
handwriting of this note was iden-
titled as that of Miss Lawrence. II
was signed "Tianna"
The other note was unsigned
and read: Please notify Mr.. Mus
sen az the Lambs club at once"
The bodies were found by Mrs.
Gertrude Chalair, a friend of Miss
Lawrence. who let herself into the
apartment after no one responded
to her ring. Miss Lawrence was
in a night gown. Except for bare
feet. Bennison was fully clothed.
Empty liquor bottles and glasses
were strewn about the attractively
furnished apartment
Bennett MusSen. author and ac-
tor. identified the pistol as one be-
longing to Bennison by the initials
Il. b." on the handle. He said
the actor was subject to a suicide
mania.
Miss Lawrence was in her for.
tieth year. Bennison was As years
old.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
Gasoline Explosion
Destroys Menchaca
Store Here Sunday

An explosion. caused by striking a
match near a 20-gallon can OF gaso-
line. resulted in an almost total loss
Of the small grocery store operated
by Estanislado Manchaca at 6:52
D. III. Sunday
The store was located at Eighth
and Jackson streets. Alarm was
turned in at box 466.
The entire building roared into
flames after the explosion. but
neither Menchaca nor a clerk who
were in the building at the time
was injured.
The fire was we'll under way by
the time the tiremen arrived. de-
spite a fast run. Stations number
one and three made the call. Two
water lines were run.
The loss has not been estimated
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
AWARD BEAUTY
TITLE TONIGHT
Miss United States Will
Get Crown; Foreign
Entries Wait

GALVESTON. June 10. tPD-
Thirty -four hearts beat quicker to-
day as the hour approached tonight
upon one of the north American
entries in the International pageant
of pulchsitude here.
Not an event was scheduled on
the official program today. and the
girls spent most OF the day resting
for the contest tonight. Yesterday
all the "A beauties. American and
foreign, were paraded along the sea-
wall in bathing suits, before thous-
ands Of spectators.
The foreign girls had nothing to
do today or tonight but see which
American beauty would match looks
with them in the competition to-
morrow night for Miss Universe.
the choicest plum in the pageant.
WilIett l.. Roe. manager Of the
huge spectacle, praised the game
ness Of the beauties in going
through with the bathing suit re-
vue yesterday despite the extreme
heat. Some 10 girls tainted after
the parade as result Of the sever
est temperatures Of the year.
Miss Roumania. Magda Deme-
trescu. Miss Philadelphia, Ethel Mae
Moody, and Miss Tennessee. Willie
Taylor, were the most seriously af-
fected, but they appeared little the
worse for their experience today.
Most Of the girls were revived in a
few minutes. Their floats were
without tops. and many of them did
not think to carry an umbrella.
An estimated crowd of $4,000 wit
messed the parade. which required
more than an hour. The route OF
| the parade was between two and
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
ESCAPED CONVICT
CAPTURED BY DEPUTY

Manuel Tijerina. alias Jose Flores.
said to have been convicted in La
redo, Texas, on charges Of THEFT
and sentenced to ten years I'm the
state penitentiary. was captured
here Sunday by Deputy Sheriff Eze-
quiel Cavazos, Jr.
The captive Is said to have serv-
ed two years of his sentence and
to have escaped from Huntsville
eight months ago. He told officers
he had been in Brownsville Two
months. He will be returned 70
the penitentiary today or tomorrow,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
SENATE GROUP OKEHS
HOOVER PROHI PLAN

y WASHINGTON, June l0.-tPl-
The Jones resolution to carry out
President Hoover's recommendation
for a join congressional committee
to study the reorganization of pro-
hibition enforcement agencies was
ordered favorably reported to the
senate today by its judiciary COM
mittea.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
HARLINGEN WOMAN
HURT IN STOVE BLAST
Especial to The Herald,

HARLINGEN. June 10.-Mrs. o.
H. Coles was severely burned about
the arms and shoulders here when
the oven of a gas stove exploded,
setting fire to her clothes.
She had left some food TO be
cooked. IL was reported. and the
oven burner became extinglished.
When she opened the door the
gas filled oven was ignited by flames
from other parts Of the stove. Her
husband extinglished the burning
clothes. saving her from possible
serious injuries, it was reported.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
POLA NEGRI AND HER
HUSBAND TO SEPARATE

MONTE CARLO. June lO.-tPl-
Pola Negri and her princely hus-
hand Serge Mdivani seem to have
come to the parting Of the ways.
Friends say the trouble which
has eliminated in her suit for d.
vorce started three months ago
when they came to France. The
prince wanted to 60 to Monte Carlo:
Pola didn't
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10

REYKJAVIK. Iceland. June 10
Rl-The Swedish transoceanic plane
Svirge. which started on a flight TO
New York from Stockholm yeSter-
day. was safely moored at Skap-
taros. southeast Iceland, in good
condition today.
The steamer Erja Reykjavik
reached Skaptaros this morning and
reported the Sverige only lacked
gasoline. The Danish government
vessel Fyllia was expected this
afternoon with fuel and the Swed-
ish airmen hoped their machine
would be ready for the 150-mile hop
to Reykjavik later in the day.
Weater conditions we're good.
Reykiavik was the scheduled sec
ond landing place Of the Sverige
which was retracing the old Viking
path to North America, and there
was much anxiety in the city when
the fliers failed to appear.
At length word was received that
Captain Albin Ahrenberg and his
companions. Lieutenant AXel Flod-
en- and mechanic Hans Ljunglund
were safe.
Crowds waiting at the landing
place last night in anticipation of
the planes arrival heard the story
Of its struggle with storms directly
from the wireless operator on the
plane. After what seemed a lone
silence the operator tapped the
words that the Sverige hand landed
safely. Even then 1t was some
hours before the exact place Of land
ing was learned.
STOCKHOLM. June 10.-tP1-
Captain Albin Ahrenberg and hi:
Continued on page five.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
NO CHANGES
LAWS, GIL SAYS
Evangelist Holding Meeting
Here In Mexico City
Seeking Pact

MEXICO CITY. June 1O.-P)-
Conferences beginning today be-
tveen President Emilio Portes Gu
and emissaries OF the Roman Cath
olic church were expected generally
To bring an agreement permitting
re-opening of Mexican churches.
While the president said Satur-
day the Mexican government would
consent to no change In its relg-
ious laws. clauses of which led 70
the Mexican Episcopate suspend
ing services in the churches almost
three years ago. it was felt diff
ferent Interpretation might eventu-
ate in the next few days which
the church bishops would find ac-
ceptable.
Rev. Francisco Olizabal, founder
of the Mexican INSTRUMENTATION
church who has been holding a re-
vival in Brownsville for the past
six weeks. Is in Mexico City with
the object Of placing the cause Of
his church before President Emilio
Portes Gil.
Olizabal. along with representa-
tives Of other creeds, are seeking
TO have the strenuous religious reg
ulations in Mexico modified.
OliZabal came here six weeks ago
and has attained considerable note
as a healer" Since coming here
he has gained such a following
that a $4,000 church Is being put
up for him at Second and Jeffer-
son streets through donations.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
VIKING PATH
RETRACED BY
EUROPE PLANE
Ship Is Moored In Ice
land After 1t Had
Run Out of Gasoline
In Air

BULLETIN
COPENHAG GEN, Denmark.
June 1O.-(APl-Captain Albin
Ahrenberg, commander Of The
Swedish plane Sverige was ad-
vised today not to continue his
flight from Iceland for the pres
cnt as weather conditions on the
coast of Greenland were very
unfavorable.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair or partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday. Light TO moderate winds.
mostly southerly.
For East Texas: Increasing cloud
mess tonight Tuesday parity
cloudy. Light 70 moderate easterly
IN southerly winds on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
RIVER FORECAST

The river will continue 10 fall
slowly practically all along during
the next few days.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
FTOOd FrrFrlF IH-HF. 1E-Hl
Etara Efavo Chur Pat
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Point ISabe.
tomorrow, under normal meteor
illogical conditions:
High OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. S.35 a. m.
Low ..---4..--.-...-. N1lunlEnt
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10
Lawn Mowers

Garden Hose - Sprinklers
Grass Shears - Trimmers
w. II. Putegnat Company
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-10

AND FITTINGS
Complete - Well Assorted Stocks
Alamo Iron Works
Brownsville - Corpus Christi
San Antonio - Houston
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
Food for Argument in
Matter of Doughnuts

No matter how long man has
lived, he is likely to have a few
incorrect ideas that right reason
ing has never been able to correct.
we knew q man once who sold
dOughnuts of his own fabrication.
He had laid up quite little money
and was doing very well. He
vended a large-hOled duughnut and
his argument always had been that.
the larger the hole. the less dough in
the doughnut. He specialized, Of
course. on large holes and small
profits.
= This was all very well until. one
day on his rounds, he met an argu
mentative man. Unfortunately, the
dOughnut man, in moment of con
fidence, expounded to him his theory
OF the large hole and small profits.
The argumentative man shook bis
head. He spent some time at 1t.
but he finally convinced the dough
nut man that he had been working
his business on fallacy. The ar.
gumentative man proved to the
dOughnut vender, and by mathe.
matics, that the smaller the hole in
the doughnut, the less dough 1t took
to go around it.
The dOughnut man went home
and figured over the matter SO long
and so intently that he was event.
ually bereft of his reason and had
to be cOnfined.-A. j. r. in the Min.
neapOlis Journal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
Reached Enemy's Heart
Through His Stomach

Mrs. Laura Fraser, the original
Becky Thatcher of Mark Twain's
stories, related shortly before her
death at Hannibal, Mo-, how she
had once gone through an expert.
ence as thrilling as any that Twain
had created for his fiction. Dur
ing the Civil war Mrs. Fraser's hus
band was a strong southern SYM
pathiZer, and as he was a doctor he
defied federal authorities in treat.
ing wounded Confederate soldiers.
He finally was put in prison about
the time that Gen. John Mcneil
came to Hannibal to suppress the
southern sympathy and camped In
Mr.. Fraser's front yard while he
picked out ten prisoners Of Con.
federate leanings to be converted"
by a firing squad. Mrs. Fraser,
fearing the inclusion of her husband
invited the general to specially pre-
pared dinner, and he was so over
come with culinary delights that he
ordered Fraser's release. But he
reconsidered the next day, and had
him re-arrested, though he spared
his life.-Detroit News.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26

ity on George Washington He at cnce re-
ferred me to the Life of George Washing
ton,' by Henry Cabot Lodge, who said that
Washington in his youth was six feet tall
and in later years six feet two or three inches
! in height Senator Lodge in Volume 2, page
$50, of the same book quotes letter by d.
vid Ackerson of Alexandria: 'Washington's
exact height. was six feet two inches in his
boots. At that time he weighed two hum
dred, and there was no surplus flesh about
him. In 1859 in biographical sketch Lin
coin said: If any personal description is
thought desirable am in height six feet four
inches nearly, etc. In response to my re-
quest the Congressional Library at Wash
ington sent me the following references
which are all well known: Abraham Lincoln,
1916, by Herndon, w. H. and Weik, j. W.,
page 294, VOL 2; Mr.. Lincoln was six feet
four inches high From Paul Leicester
Ford's George Washington page SO: The
earliest known description of Washington
was written in 1760 by his companion-in-
arms and friend George Mercer, who at
tempted a portraiture in the following
words: "He may be described as being as
straight as an Indian, measuring six feet
two inches in his stockings, and weighing It's
pounds when he took his seat in the House of
Burgesses in 1882 From The World AL
manac, 1929, page 226, Biographies of the
Presidents: He Washington was man
of powerful physique, 6 feet, 2 inches in
height, with sandy hair, blue eyes, big hands
and feet. He weighed 210 pounds when 40
years of age From Townsend's Handbook
of United States Political History, Boston,
1908, page 361; Lincoln was the tallest, 6
feet inches Madison was che shortest, 5
feet, inches. Polk was the leanest Cleve-
land was the stoutest. Van Buren, the tidiest
in dress. Taylor the most careless l be-
lieve these facts would be interesting to your
readers. American Legion Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
THE PROBLEM OF YOUTH

From the earliest times it appears that
the problem of directing young folks in the
proper way has engaged the serious attention
of reformers and uplifters- busybodies
book on etiquette published in 1850
gravely warns young women of the peri1s of
the waltz and declares that unmarried la
dies should refrain from the waltz altogeth-
er, in public and in private" It is assumed
that married ladies were supposed to be i'm
mune to it's demoralizing effects.
Every once in while someone digs up
an old newspaper or magazine containing an
article which throws light on this tendency
to worry about the young people of the past.
The boys and girls of the present generation
are likewise causing CONSERVATION among the
self-appointed guardians of morality
But, the youngsters of today, in spite of
their seeming frivolty, are the sanest, clean
est and most promising crop of future citi-
zens the world has ever seen.
Whatever their failings, they are not
hypocrites- and that can not 5e said of most
of their critics.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
THE WORLD TODAY
by ARTHUR BRISBANE

In one day, in this prosperous country, there was
a turn over of one billion eight hundred million
dollars in tax payments and treasury financing
alone. Not ripple on the surface of the financial
waters
Interest rates didn't go up. Call money" the
kind used for Wall Street speculation remained at
AZ per cent with unorganized lenders ION the out
side offering to lend at per cent.
MAIN STREET
Secretary Mellon knows how to handle big fl
nance smoothly. To him billion dollars is only
billion dollars. Perhaps that's because he has bill
lion or so of his
A mother with baby handles other babies
easily.
Camera, the Italian giant, weighing 200 pounds,
six feet ten inches TALL is forbidden to box again in
England They like the good natured Italian but
are afraid he might kill some man in the ring and
hurt the noble sport"
What an advertisement that will be for the Ital-
ian prize fighting giant when he arrives America
Here, II you knock man down on the sidewalk
with no gate receipts, that's a crime
1t you knock man down and even kill him in
the prize ring with big gate receipts and rakeoff
for the right politicians, that's sport" and perfectly
legal.
Mr.. Mitchell, President Hoovcr;s Democratic at
torney general, wants 100000 to build new prisons
Tor the United States. He says the problem of
prisons is the major before the Department of
Justice.
In Great Britain they are closing prisons. rent
ing prison buildings for other purposes, because
crime is diminishing.
At Linares, Spain, a woman dreamed that
lottery cket with certain number would win the
grand $1,lOO,OOO prize in the forthcoming lottery
In Spain the people encouraged to buy lot
terry tickets as they once were in this country Peo-
pie don't like to pay taxes, but are willing to con-
tribute to the state by gambling
After the lady dreamed, the crowd broke in and
wrecked the store of the man that owned the ticket
and police rescued him.
foolish man would have waited to win the
grand prize. Not with the owner of the ticket
He organized a lottery of his own sold 4 Ol0
shares in his dream ticket and made a big profit
Fffty-nine men found dead in an Oklahoma coal
mine. The world will know their names print
ed only in local papers. Only coal mine "handsn
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
LINCOLN WAS TWO INCHES TALLER
THAN WASHINGTON

Legionnaire and Representative Hamil-
ton Fish, Jr., of New York sends us COPY
of an interesting letter which he forwarded
to the editor of the Middletown (New York;
Times Herald: II have just read with much
interest an editorial in your issue of October
"a, 1929, entitled 'Tallest President Your
editorial states that Washington was six
feet three inches. He was taller than Lin
coin. Washington was the tallest of all men
who have occupied the White House. For
the sake of historical accuracy l am obliged
to differ with such statement and to ask
you to kindly refer to the authority from
which you have reached such an obviously
erroneous conclusion. After reading the ed
itorial referred to Immediately telephoned
William Tyler Page, Clerk of The House of
Representatives, who is recognized author
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
Yes, Please

The little boy had been sent to
the drug store to get some linfment
and special kind of china cement.
"Do you want the two things in
separate parce1s?" asked the drug
gist, as soon as he had attended to
the boys demands.
"Yes, please" answered the little
fellow. II think it would be as
well. 'sThe cement is for mother ;
she wants to mend a teapot. The lin
iment is for father. Mother broke
the teapot over his head"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
Sand Blasting Effective

For cleaning metal surfaces for
one purpose or another demanded
by the industries the land blast
takes the first place. In recondi-
tioning several thousand feet of
track for a southern street railway,
1t was decided to resort to welding,
and for this purpose surfaces to he
treated must be smooth, bright and
perfectly clean. It was decided to
do this cleaning by sand blast and
the report is that in one hour more
and better work was done by one
man than was possible previously
in eight hours with four laborers
using chisels and brushes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
Wide Pronunciation Choice

There are 10 ways of pronounc.
ing the name of Miami, If record
kept by George B. Joyner, Pathfind.
er Magazine reader at Whitney.
Fla, is to be relied upon. From
bits of conversation overheard at
recent tourists gatherings in Flor
fda's mecca, Mr.. Joyner lists the
following:
"Mi-a-mer, My-er-muh, Mf-armour,
My-aim-ah, My-am-I, May-hammer,
My-ammy, Me-ammer, Manner,
Me-yammer, My-yamer, Me-ah-
nah, My-ah-ahm, Me-ammy, May
yammy and Nanny"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
True to Form

An old actor-manager died, or at
least his relatives thought he had
died, and arrangements were made
for the funeral.
On the appointed day one of his
old colleagues arrived to pay his
last respects, but to his astonish-
ment, the would-be mourner was
Informed that deceased" had come
to life after a period Of coma.
Just like Bill" said the visitor
she was always a terror for re-
hearsals."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-12-26
Good Trick

fer heart reared like q fright
ened horse" writes an author in
Woman's Home Companion. 1--WE
always thought" commented the
crusty critic, "a long course of ffc
ton reading had revealed every pos
sible thing that human heart can
do, and here all the time it could
stand up on its hind legs and we
didn't know It,"