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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
IT, s. Officers Seize Liquor in Valley Gun Fight
SKIPPER STICKS
4 r r
TO DOOMED SHIP;
\ \ =
HIS CREW SAVED

ASTORIA, Ore, June 18.-P)-
Determined to salvage half Of his
ship If possible, Louis Johnson,
captain Of the Inflated steamer
Laurel, remained aboard the
wreck today playing a game or
freeze -out" against a pounding
sea after spurning the pleas Of
coast guardsmen to come ashore.
Wedged on Peacock Spit at the
mouth Of the Columbia river, the
larger portion Of the Laurel held
only the gritty captain after 80
members OF her crew had been
taken off in groups. the last
yesterday. One Of the crew, Rus
sci Smith. 19. OF Worcester, Mass.
was swept from the bridge to his
death shortly after the ship ran
aground in a storm Sunday.
Coast guardsmen tried to take
Captain johnson off yesterday
but he refused to 60. The would
be rescuers left him warm and
dry with access through a skv-
light to the gallery. where he
could obtain food and water.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
HARLINGEN IN
CLOSE ELECTION
Opposition Develops In Vote
On 100000 For
Schools

HARLINGEN, June 16.-With
about ITS votes cast in the 100000
school bond election being held here
today. 1t was unofficially reported
that the vote was very close between
those favoring and opposing the is
sue.
At 1890. when little more than
100 votes had been cast. 1t was un-
officially reported that opponents Of
the issue held considerable lead.
but 1t was believed this had been
overcome.
If the bonds are voted the money
Is to be used along with about
S250.000 now available from. a pre-
viously voted issue to construct one
of the most modern senior high
schools in the South.
Bids for construction OF the build
ing were received sometime ago by
the board Of trustees and it was
found that the money then avail
able was insufficient to pay the cost.
It was decided to call the election
being held today rather than alter
the plans.
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 withi: a
few days, ginners say.
A first bale" was ginned in
Edinburg Monday afternoon. and
Ismael Montalvo Of San Benlto,
who Saturday got the first bale
there, was preparing to take hts
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 Edinburs
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
CHURCH LEAGUE WILL
OFFER Law SUPPORT

PHILADELPHIA. June 1s-lPi-
Appointment Of a national loyalty
commission consisting of II min
isters and eight ruling elders was
announced today by DR.. Cleland 3.
McAfee Of Chicago. moderator Of
the Presbyterian general assembly,
frotn the headquarters OF the assem-
bly, here.
This commission is to assemble in
New York avenue Presbyterian
church, washington. tomorrow. and
call on President Hoover and tender
10 him the support Of the Presby-
terlan church in his stand for law
observance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
BoOTLEGGERs GATHER

WASHINGTON, June l8.-tPl-
Assistant Secretary Lowman 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 to
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 or
made any report 10 the executive.
The White House, he said, had
transmitted to him a telegram Of
Minnesota citizens protestin g
against the killing of Henry Virk-
kula by Customs Border Patrolman
White
Besides this $50 other telgrams
against and approving the treasury
stand. he added, had been received
on this case.
Lowman declared the case would
be allowed TO take its usual course
in the courts.
Lowman reiterated that the
treasury had no intention Of dis
arming its customs border patrol
men. Yesterday, however, he or
dered that the armament Of the pa
- - -
revolver. Some agents had been
armed with shotguns and rifles.
Customs border patrol men deal
with a desperate class Of men," he
continued, "and all smugglers we
have ever arrested except few, have
been ehavily armed. To end our
forces out against such criminals
without arms would in fact be send
ing them TO certain death or injury.
DETROIT, June 18.-(P)-Charges
that a United States coast guard
cutter turned a machine gun on two
men and a woman in a speedboat
on the Detroit river were sent to
the Canadian government at Ottawa
today by Chief Of Police James Proc
tor of Sendwich, Ontario.
The men in the boat. Carl Ray
mond Of Monroe and James O'Con-
nor of Newport. Mich, told Chief
Proctor the windshield Of their boat
was shattered by the coast guard
fire. They and a Mrs. Johnson es-
capped injury.
Chief Proctor said:
while appreciate the very diff
ficult duties the American officers
are trying to perform. / feel a mat
ter Of this kind should be brought
before your attention before more
serious trouble ensues."
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18

was picked on the farm Of G. z.
Amason, two and a half miles
east of Hargill. II was ginned az
the Planters Gin in Edinburg
and was purchased by p. D. Ha-
ley. manager Of the gin, FOR %
cents per pound and with gin
ming free. This amounted to a
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 p. m.
Saturday was bought for 20
cents per pound and the gin gave
him a premium Of $25. 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

representing a syndicate Of Cot
ton Exchange firms. and the auc-
toner was Gardiner Fl. 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. c. Bows, pilot Of the plane
which brought the bale here In
19 1-2 hours. witnessed the sale.
President Miller said the ship
mentmarked an era in the trans
portation of the South's greatest
crop.
The bale was grown on the
farm Of 8. T.. Henson near Ed
couch and was ginned there.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
LOU GEHRIG HITS
EIGHTEENTH HOMER

NEW YORK. June 18.-tP)-Lou
Gehrig hit his eighteenth home
run In the first inning OF the first
Yankee-Red Sox game att he Sta
dunn this afternoon, retaining the
major league lead.
Ed Morris was in the box and
Earl Combs on base.
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
Special OF The Herald)

RAYMONDVILLE. June 1S-Dr.
and Mrs. F. NJ. Jansen lost an au-
tomobile, S160 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
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
200 HOMESEEKERS IN
VALLEY MORE DUE
Especial to The Herald)

HARLINGEN, June 1.-two hun
dred homeseekers arrived in the
Valley Tuesday morning and like
number were scheduled TO arrive
Wednesday morning. according to
officials Of the Missouri Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads.
The visitors were gathered from
widely separated sections Of the
United States and were brought In
by number Of land companies.
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-
TWEEN here and La Sara. This
bale Is expected to be ginned
Wednesday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
II. S. WILL NOT SIGN
PREPARATIONS PLAN

WASHINGTON. June Is.-tP1
President Hoover announced
today that the United States
would not sign the Young repara-
tions plan recently agreed upon
by the experts conference at
Paris.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy or cloudy tonight
and Wednesday Light TO moder-
ate southerly winds on the west
coast.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to-
night and wednesday: cooler I'm
extreme northwest portion tonight.
Light TO fresh southerly winds on
the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
hint DOPEPLOT
IN COED DEATH
Reports Circulated That
Murdered Girl Had Been
In Traffic

COLUMBUS. Ohio. June l5.-tFl
Federal authorities were 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 a
background for the Staying. His
announcement came after reports
we're circulated that Miss Xix had
been engaged In drug traffic with
DR.. James H. Shook. former uni
versity professor. held for investiga-
ton. Detective Chief w. q. Shell
lenbarger denied today drugs play
ed any part in the Staying.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
HOOVER ASKS
CITIES help
IN RUN FIGHT
Treasury Official Says
international Ring
Conspiring Against
u. s. Laws

WASHINGTON, June 1s.--CPl-
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 a con-
slant effort to prevent misuse Of fire
arms.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
YeHotD Bird CreW Will
Get High French Honor


Hotel Vile the highest honor that FTenchman
ceive.
honors reception Iaurenteynac
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
BALE BRINGS SI2II

NEW YORK, June l8.-The
first bale Of cotton Of the 1929
crop, brought here by airplsae
from Texas. was auctioned off on
the floor OF the New York Cotton
Exchange.
1t brought Sl.2ll. half Of which
goes TO the United Hospital fund
here and half to the Salvation
Army at Corpus Christi. Tex. The
purchaser was william S. Dowell,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and low tide &C Point Isabe.
tomorrow, under normal meteor
oIogical conditions:
High ................ 4:12 a. n.
Low ....-.-............. 8:03 p. m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18

SAN ANTONIO, June lS.-CPl-
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 penitentiary. will be brought
secretly to San Antonio and lodged
in the solitary death cell at the
Bexar county jail to await sanity
hearing in district court next Mon
day.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-18
RIVER FORECAST

Y There will be no material change
i'm the river during the next few
days.
Fiood Present 74-Hr. 24-Hr.
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 18.-(Pi-Gov.
Moody late last night granted John
NJ. 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-
prieye 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.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10

Resistance to Wage Cuts
Enabled Labor to Force
Millions from Employers

Did you ever stop to think about the total
gains for the workers in dollars and cents
achieved through fights for higher wages and
determined resistance to wage cuts? For
years the Communist Party and the Daily
Worker have been in the forefront of every
drive of the workers against wage-cuts and
for higher wages, shorter hours and better
conditions
Our Party and Daily have constituted the principal
driving force in all the important struggles of the working
class since the birth of Hundreds of thousands
workers have been able to benefit directly because of the
revolutionary leadership they received press The
publicity of columns has resulted in raising
strike relief funds to keep the spectre of hunger and
want so that strikers could continue the fight for their e
menary rights Every worker The Daily
has never failed him in time of dire need Tens of thousands
when they unable to buy paper order to keep
in touch with happenings in the world received The Daily
Worker Free Hundreds of working class prisoners suffer
ing in the bases of capitalism have been heered by the
presence of the Daily and the knowledge that their
received the widest publicity in its columns Longterm
prisoners have been chered by books clothing and other
necessities and prison uxures them because their
needs made known through the columns of the Daily
If all those workers who have directly indirectly bene
fitted through the existence of The Daily Worker
be asked whether the Daily should suspend because of
lack of response its financial needs their
answer would be: THE DAILY MUST NOT BE PERMITTED
TO DIE!
But the situation is such today that unless aid is mme
datey received the Daily is in the greatest danger of ss
pension In spite of the fight have put up for class
in its fight against capitalist tyranny today face the
gravest danger of suspension
1t is imperative that all Party members who have not
yet contributed to the One Days Pay Assessment
and that ali sympahzes who benefited by
The Daily Worker to its assistance financially
let reader give days pay aso You you would
not like to have to enter next strike without The Daily
Worker But unless you act quickly The Daily will perish
before your next strike is called.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
August First
international Anti-War Day.
CHICAGO Mobiles AGAINST WAR
Meeting Friday Night to Prepare for August
First Demonstrations

CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 9.-What in
creasing preparations for imperial
ist war mean to the workers of Chi
cago will be graphically expressed
by workers from the steel, railroad
electric, packing and every great
industry here at the membership
meeting of the Communist Party to
be held at Mirror Hall, 1136 North
Western avenue, at 8 p. m. this Fri.
day, when plans will be Launched
whereby the great mass of local
workers will be drawn into August
First, international Red Day
Against Imperialist War.
Delegates From Factories.
Fight the speed-up!" will be the
message of hundreds of workers
from the steel mills who know from
|, bitter experience on the production
line the necessity Of resisting the
plans of powerful corporations
which cut wages and lengthen hours
even as they adopt plans for cen.
tralized military control of Their
plants when the imperialist clash
breaks.
Railroad workers, who just now
are feeling the effects of the. raj
companies adoption of faster sched.
rles for their Pacific Coast bound
passenger and freight trains, cls
Joining eagerly in mobilization plans
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10

Act is dead letter. Two watches
are supplanting the three-watch
system. Wages have been cut from
$85 to $55 for ABS with cores
ponding cuts in other departments.
Vessels are putting to sea absolutely
undermined, and inadequate crews
are forced to work over time under
the necessary" clause. Crews sign
on with no stipulation for over time
and the mate or engineer usually
promises time off, which in most
cases they never get. The crews
living quarters are becoming noto-
riously unsanitary. The food is
garbage and the blacklist is used
right and left on all who raise pro-
test.
decentralization.
The marine industry has under
gone radical changes since the end
of the war. The universal intro
duction of oil fuel, the Diesel engine,
the electric drive, the "metal mike"
the shipping splice, the automatic
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10

for the great August First demon
stration, many workers report.
Workers of the Western Electric and
other giant electrical engineering
plants in the city are joining with
them.
Chief among delegates from the
packing industries-utilized by the
War Department to ration its ar
mies-will be many veterans of the
labor movement who remember the
practise of the Armour's Embalmed
Beef Company which in the last
world war dished up the same
canned poison to troops for the sale
Of which to the government it was
condemned in the Spanish Ameri-
can war 10 years earlier.
A War Preparations City
With its steel ndustries--strate-
gically close to the steel town of
Gary, Indiana, Chicago, boasting the
largest railroad center in the world
and leading center of the wheat
market, will be one of the key towns
to be controlled by the War Depart
ment when it next declares war
against it's imperialist rivals, or,
temporarily allying with them, joins
in concerto dattack on the Soviet
Union. Measures to defeat theoc
plans will be the main task at th2
Friday nights meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
/ -AB0R DEFENSE
Will CONTINUE
TO MAIL SLOGAN
Judge Aids Prosecution
By Drastic Ruling

Judge Thomas D. Thatcher, of the
Federal District Court, yesterday
morning ruled, without taking any
evidence, that the envelopes of the
international Labor Defense carry
ing the slogan, "Smash the Murder
Frameup Against the Gastonia
Strikers" were libellous and should
be barred from the United States
mails. He refused to grant a writ
asked by the International Labor
Defense to force the post office to
accept them for transfer through
the mails.
Defense VIII Continue.
The national office of the Inter-
national Defense, 80 E. 18th St., i'm
mediately issued the following state
ment:
The decision of Judge Thatcher
today does not in the least change
the plans of the International La.
bor Defense. Thatcher, in his rul-
ings, did not give the real reasons
why the federal government is
barring our envelopes from the
mails. He stated that our en-
yelopes are defamation of per-
sons behind the prosecution of the
Gast1nia textile strikers.
The reason our envelopes were
barred is that the government au-
thoritles are cooperating with
the mill owners in a determined
effort to prevent the workers of
America from learning the truth
about the frame-up of Is men,
Continued on Page TwoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
P R EP ARE FIGHT
ON ACW MACHINE

The tide of resentment against
the corrupt Hillman machine in the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers is
rising. The response to the call OF
the Rank and File Committee of 35
of all the progressive groups in the
Amalgamated to organize shop COM
nittees for the big shop conference,
July 27 and rs, is exceeding expec
tations, it is announced. These shop
committees have already begun reg
istering and new ones are being or
ganized daily.
The shop conference July 27 and
Is will organize the machinery for
intensive struggle against the union
bureaucracy and terror machines.
Try TO Bribe Gangsters' Victim.
Tremendous impetus has been
given the preparations for the shop
conference by the flaming indigna-
ton of thousands of tailors at the
murderous assault of three militant
clothing workers on June 27. 1t be-
cHme known yesterday that the
Analgamated machine has at
tempted to bribe off Louis Shan
Continued on Page Three :
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
Party Units Vote Overwhelmingly After Thorough Discussion
Supporting Central Committees Expulsion of Jay Lovesoue
Membership
Right Strengthening Party

THE PARTY MEMBERSHIP speaking through
by various that overwhelmingly
of the Communist International for of
Central Committee combat Party giving
its to the action taken expng Jay Lovesone from
the Party, and removing Bam D. Wolfe Political
Branch Section District York;
tan foe of all attempts split the Party declaring
the expulsion of Lovestone the Party the Wolfe
the Political Committee and the Miller
Secretary in District Two, New York.
The unit calls the Central
against all those who attempt to split Party
Unit IT, Section L. District New York; declares its
men unanimously of the resolution
pusion of Jay Lovestone, declaring:
1T opinion that with this development the actions
the splitting tendencies the Party be intensified
against leading comrades who maintaining
expulsion Lovestone opposition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
BEAL, FROM PRISON CELL,
WIRES TEXTILE WORKERS
SOLIDARITY With CARMEN
New Local Organized at LeekvilIe Wooden Mill
of National Textile Workers Union
Mill Company Attorney Threatens Organizer;
Would Drive Him from Mill Village

The federal government, executive committee of big
business struck two fronts against the rising tide of
southern workers mancy and found the workers striking
right back The decision of Federal Judge Thatcher New
York that the international Labor Defense envelopes bearing
the slogan Smash The Murder Frameup Against the Gas
ona Strikers be barred from the mails brought an mme-
date statement from the International Defense that
would mail the envelopes anyway.
The granting of injunction by Federal Judge WAYNE
G. Borah of New Orleans against the militant strike of the
New Orleans street answered by wire from
Fred Bea southern organizer of the National Textile Work
ers Unon who declared from his cell in the CASTOR county
JAIL where he is held for rame-up and eectrocuton that
the textile workers back of the car strike and hail
the struggle in New Orleans evidence of the determina
ton OF southern workers to resist the employers drive
against them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
on
NeuU Orleans
Car Strikers

NEW ORLEANS, La, July g.
Federal Judge Wayne G. Borah to-
day granted an injunction asked by
the New Orleans Public Service,
Inc., against the New Orleans street
car strikers, in which he invited the
company to start running again
with scabs, and promised support to
the strikebreakers by "every en-
forcement agency" of the national
government, from the regular army
to deputy U. S. marshals.
Following announcement of the
courts action in granting the in
junction, William Ruth, president of
the Building Trades Council, said he
would proceed with previously an
Continued on Page TqOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE FOR
MARINE WORKERS ON AUGUST II
Official Call Issued by League; To Lay Basis
for Larger Conference

Over the signature of its ma
tional secretary, George Mink, the
Marine Workers League, the mill
tant marine workers organiza-
ton which has its national head
quarters in New York, at the In
ternational Seamen's Club, %
South St., issues a call for an
Atlantic Coast Conference of ma
rine workers, to meet here Aug.
II.
The call is as follows:
The Marine Workers League here
by calls for the election of delegates
to constitute the East Coast Con.
ference of the Marine Workers
League to meet in the Port of New
York at 8 p. m. August 7, and tc
conclude on August IS, 1929. The
conference will be held at the Inter
national Seamen's Club, % Soutf
St., New York City.
The present conditions aboard thc
ships are intolerable. The Seamen's