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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
TO OPEN ROAD
BIDS MONDAY
Starr And karnes Among
Counties Designated To
Get State Aid

AUSTIN, March 16.-(P)-The
state highway commission will have
one of the busiest sessions of the
year when it awards contracts for
about S2,500000 worth Of new con-
struction exclusive of maintenance
work in many parts of Texas Mon
day and Tuesday. Delegations from
eight counties will appear request
ing aid, designations and reloca-
tions.
Contracts due to be let Monday
are as follows: Cherokee county,
highway 81; Kerr county, highway
Al; BraZos and Grimes counties,
highway 6; Karnes county, high
way 72; Starr county, highway 12-B;
Lamar county, highway 80; East
land county, high %.
Tuesdays lettings: Scurry and
Mitchell counties, highway 7; Coke
and Tom Green counties, highway
9: La Sale county, highway 2; San
Jacinto county. highway IS; Dewitt
county. highway 70; Washington
and Waller counties, highway 20;
Wichita county. highway 79; Mata-
gorda county, highway SO: Karnes
county, highway 112; Lavaca county,
highway 100.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
PLANES CRASH
AT MONTERREY
2 New Mexican Army Ma
chimes Damaged; Pilots
Escape Injury

Two of the four Waco sport
planes, which were turned over to
pilots of the Mexican federal gov
ernment here Friday, were wrecked
at Monterrey late Saturday when
they attempted to take off from the
field there. They were planning to
fly on to Saltillo where they were to
Join the advance against rebel forces
at Torreon. They were to have been
under the command of General An
dreu Almazan. The planes left
here Saturday.
The accident was witnessed by
Jimmie Mattern, local pilot, who
returned here late today after max
ing a round trip flight.
1t. Col r. Fierro, chief of avi-
alton in the Mexican army, and
Capt. Luis Farrell, pilots on the
planes, escaped injury.
The plane piloted by Farrell was
wrecked when it crashed into tree
at the edge of the field, Mattern
said. Col. Fierro'S plane noSed over
in an attempted takeoff. Both ships
were badly damaged.
The other two planes remained In
Monterrey. They were piloted by
Capt. Alberto Viertez and Sgt. Juan
CarmOna.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
Garner Coming
To Valley; Will
Attend Meeting

CONGRESSMAN John N. Garner,
who recently arrived at his home
in Uvalde from Washington, will
visit the Valley the latter part OF
next week. The congressman eX-
poets to leave Uvalde by automo-
bile Wednesday and will come to
the Valley by way Of Eagle Pass
ard Laredo.
He expects to arrive in the VAL
ley Thursday and will attend the
intracoastal canal meeting at Har-
lingen Friday, coming on to Bro ms
vile Friday night. He is due to
return to Uvalde Sunday.
1t is understood that meeting of
the ways and means committee of
the house may be called several
days prior to opening of the special
session on April Is, and in event
the committee is called Garner
probably will leave for Washington
the latter part of the month.
During his visit to the Valley he
will confer with leaders in all Sec
tions relative to the tariff needs,
and discuss other matters in which
the Valley is interested.
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TO SPEND NIGHT IN
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA

MANAGUA, Mic, March 16.-(P1
Captain Ira G. Eaker arrived here
at 5:21 p. m. from Guatemala City.
He abandoned his attempt to make
a dawn-to- flight to Panama
from Brownsville, Texas, and will
leave for the Canal Zone at a. M.
tomorrow.
Captain Eaker blamed only wea-
ther conditions for his failure to
hold to the schedule that he had
plotted. He was in fine condition
and the motor of his plane was
working splendidly. However, he
had encountered poor visibility in
southern Mexico and a strong head
wind all the day, which reduced his
flying speed to 100 miles an hour.
When he takes off at daybreak
for Panama he will be accompanied
by a Pan-American AirWays plane
and marine corps Fokker.
Captain Eaker now plans his re-
turn flight from Panama to
Brownsville for Monday and will
get away at daybreak in another
attempt to accomplish it in the
light hours of one day.
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Substitutes Dead
Brother For Self
So He May Be Wed

BUDAPEST. Hungary, March 16.
-(P)-Five years ago in order to
marry his sweetheart osef Bako, a
married man secretly exhumed the
brother, carried it home, dressed it
in his own clothes, placed his own
wedding ring on the dead mans fin
ger and fled after firing the house.
Authorities, finding the body
which they believed was that of
Bako, certified to death and Bako'S
wife collected $4,000 in insurance for
the destroyed building and $3.50 or
her husbands life insurance policy.
She remarked the following year.
To her surprise, however, she rec
ognized Bako on the street yester-
day and had him arrested. Bako
was said to have confessed the fraud
and was held for bigamy and van
daliSm.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
WASHINGTON
FEELS WORST
IS NOW over
u. S. Prepared to Take
All Consistent Steps
To Aid Country Re-
store Order

WASHINGTON, March 16.-tP)-
State department officials closed
their desks today for the weekend
vastly more relieved over the Mexi-
can situation than they have been
since the revolution started.
While the department made no
public comment, indications were
that this government feels the
worst has passed and that the rebel
movement has shown its maximum
strength. There was a noticeable
leSsening of the apprehension felt
Immediately after the revolt flared
up.
Following a policy Of full sup
port for the Portes Gil. administra-
ton, officials in Washington W re
prepared to take all consistent steps
in helping the federalS to restore
order and they already have for
mulated a policy of cooperation
with Mexico City to prevent fur
ther activity by rebels who cross
the border into the United States.
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RELIEF WORK
HANDICAPPED
BY TORRENTS
Over 10000 Persons
Affected By Raging
Streams Drai G
South Alabama

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March is.
-(P)-Unprecedented torre n t S
which ragged SeaWard between Ala
bama'S two watersheds tonight
handicapped relief agencies which
concentrated their efforts on aiding
approximately 10000 persons affect
ed by flood waters. Clear weather,
however. has aided rescue workers,
who had helped thousands to safe
ground during the past "a hours.
While only 13 bodies had been re-
covered here were that fatalities
would run into the scores. Prop
erty loss in the form of buildings,
livestock, household goods, farm i'm
plements and other materials was
SO great that no effort was made
to give an accurate estimate.
Food and Supplies Needed
The greatest immediate emergen-
cies tonight appeared to exist in
the neighborhood of Geneva and
Elba, in the Choctawhatchee-
Chattahoochee watershed, but many
other towns in that valley, as well
as Brewton, Garland, and several
other communities, in the Alabama
IOmlgbee basin likewise were 1lOoQ-
ed and in great need of food and
medical supplies.
Elba, with water from Pea river,
ChoctaWhatchee, tributary, 25 feet
deep in its main sections. was the
scene of a great exodus last night
and today. The Alabama national
guard established a relief camp on
Cemetery hill, between Elba and
Big Greek. and brought out 1900
persons within "a hours. There still
were several hundreds who had had
little or no food since Wednesday.
Among them were about 100 school
children, marooned in a school
house.
Population of Town Moved
Evacuation began in Geneva last
night before the worst of the water
from Pea river arrived, and tn e3,-
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Priest Opens Fire
On Men Eating And
Drinking In Cellar

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, March
16.-(P)-Alone, but armed with a
revolver, a shot gun, and flaShlight,
the Rev. Father N. H. Bortell, priest
of San Felipe church in old Abe
querQue, whipped five men who
we're looting his cellar Of food and
drink today. Two men were serf-
ously injured and third was in
jail.
The two others escaped. =
Father Bortel said he found the
n.en eating, drinking and making
merry in his cellar, and that he
opened fire when they refused to
surrender and showed fight.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
TAMMANY MEN
in CONFERENCE
No Announcement of Sue
cessor For Former Or
ganization Head

NEW YORK,( March 16.-(P)-
Warriors of the powerful Tammany
tribe gathered informally around
the council fire in the Union square
wigwam today to talk about the un-
expected resignation of their big
chief, George Washington Olvany.
None Of the spokeSmen would OF
fer an opinion as to the identity
of the successor of the former New
York City judge as head Of the New
YORK county democratic organiza-
ton, the formal way Of saying Tam
many hall.
Olvany himself had nothing to
add to his letter, submitted to his
executive committee yesterday, in
which he said he was retiring be-
cause of i'll health.
Alfred E. Smith, Tammany sa-
chem, and the titular leader of the
national democratic party by virtue
Of his candidacy for the presidency,
would say only that the resignation
had been news to him and that he
would favor no particular candidate
for the post.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
Believe Scores Drowned in Floods
.egro;s Confession
Clears Up Mystery
of Double Shaving

WACO, March 16.-(P)-Jordan
Scott, negro, against whom two
charges Of murder were filed today
in the murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. H.
Pedigo, was removed to another
county tonight. Sheriff Leslie
Sterall said he decided on this step
after hearing threats of mob vlo-
lence. He refused to reveal where
the negro is being held.
WACO, March 16.-(P)-Mystery
concerning the murder of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert H. Pedigo, farmers re-
siding near Moody, found shot to
death in their home on the morn
ing of March 8, was cleared today
when Jordan Scott, negro, 27, con-
fessed to the killings.
The confession came after hours
of questioning by District Attorney
Dick Holt and Sheriff Leslie Steg-
all. Murder charges have been
filed and the district attorney said
he would ask grand jury next
week.
Scott told officers he killed Pedi-
60 because the farmer had refused
him a drink of water two days prior
to the shooting and ordered him to
keep away from his farm. He said
he killed the woman because she
had recognized him when he shot
her husband.
Il was plowing in my field, which
is separated from Pedigos by the
railroad track" the negro said, "and
went into Pedigo'S field to get a
drink of water. 1t was two days
before the murder. The man
wouldn't let me have any water and
told me he would kill me if I came
back on his land again"
The negro told how he had walk
ed past the Pedigo home just after
dark on the night of the murder
and saw the couple standing in a
front door of their house. He then
returned to his house and came
back, approaching the Pedigo home
from the rear.
The black said he had gained
position behind the railroad dump
about 20 feet from Pedigo'S wood
pile Pedigo had been chopping
wood and was STOPPING over when
Itle negro lIeQ LllG 1uSI I4Illc. I1e
shot again Immediately, both shots
entering Pedigo'S body.
THE woman screamed" the ne
gro told the officers. She said,
What did you kill him for? I know
you I told her she didn't know
me and she said: You are the one
my husband had the row with"
He said the woman slammed the
back door and turned out the lamp
in the house as he started through
the fence separating the Pedigo
place from the railroad right-of-
way.
L went around the west side Of
the house and walked up on the
porch. The woman was standing
with the door partly open sticking
her head out. I shot her in the
head" the negro said.
1--WE are not satisfied with the
negro's motive for the killing" Holt
said. Il believe he is holding some
thing back"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
DAWN TODUSK
FLIER HALTED
in NICARAGUA
Weather Conditio
In Guatemala, Mica
ragua Prevent Com
pletion Canal Flight

Captain Ira C. Eaker, halt
ed Saturday at Managua,
Nicaragua, by unfavorable
weather conditions while on
his dawn-to-dusk flight to
Panama, will essay a return
flight from Panama to
Brownsville Monday.
The famous flier who left
Brownsville at 4:08 Satur-
day morning, confident he
would arrive at France Field
Colon, Panama, 1000 miles
distant, by z p. M, encoun-
tered adverse weather con-
ditions at the Guatemala
border.
After battling with head winds,
storms and dense clouds through
the mountainous sections of the
Central American Pacific coast, he
arrived at Managua at 5:21 p. m,
over three hours behind schedule.
Eaker will proceed to Panama
Sunday morning and will take off
from France Field early Monday in
an effort to reach the Brownsville
airport before daylight wanes.
Preparations were renewed here
Saturday night for a monster dem
onstration which had been planned
in honor Of Captain Ira c. Eaker
here Sunday night.
The demonstration will be staged
Monday when the dawn-to-dusk
flier returns to Brownsville, ac-
cording to G. c. Richardson, man
ager of the local chamber of COM
merce. .
1t is planned to meet Eaker at
the local airport with a drum and
bugle corps of the American Leg
ion leading a parade which was
to carry him around the field
Flares have been secured and an
effort will be made to assemble
throng of several thousand persons
at the airport
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
Atlanta Prison
Warden Given 80
Days To Resign

WASHINGTON. March 16.-(Pl--
Warden John Shook Of the Atlanta
penitentiary has been given 80 days
in which to resign. it was disclosed
today at the department of justice.
The 80 days expires on April 4.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
an assistant to the attorney general,
declared Snook's resignation had
been asked because of utter want
of administrative ability"
No charges involving the integ-
rity OF Shook have been made.
Shook has refused to cooperate
with the department of justice in
the use Of under cover" agents in
the penitentiary.
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Old Whipping Post Law
Reuiued; Six are Las led

-(P1-Six prisoners went under
the lash today in the New Castle
county workhouse. Four received
forty lashes, and the others twen-
ty laSheS each.
Elmer j. Leach, laid 1t on well"
as the law directs, before small
crowd in the workhouse yard.
Roy Holland, negro, shot man
in a robbery last week, was the
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GOODSPEED MURDER
CASE BEFORE JURY

HENRIETTA, March 16.-(P)-.
The trial Of Carl Goodspeed for
the murder Of A. r. Gooch, city
marshal, at the Goodspeed home in
Nocona January 13, went to the jury
tonight.
The state has charged Gooch was
shot to death when he went to the
Goodspeed home with a liquor
search warrant.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
CLAIM CAPTURE OF
TORREON IMMINENT
fBy the Associated Press

Capture of revolutionary head
quarters at Torreon is imminent
and the rebels are reported evacu-
ating the city in the latest govern
ment communique from Mexico
City.
Federal aviators informed their
headquarters that Rebel Command
er Escobar was moving his troops to
the Torreon railroad station and
preparing to abandon the strong
hold
The government bulletin added
Continued on Page III
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WOMAN ATTEMPTS
ALTITUDE RECORD

OAKLAND, Calf, March 16.-(P)
Louise McPhetridge, holder Of the
women's airplane altitude record,
took off at 3:51 p. m. here in an
attempt to break the women'S en-
durance flight record Of II hours,
five minutes and 81 seconds held
by Miss Bobby trout, of Los An
geleS
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first to be shackled to the whip
ping post. He was followed by
James PRYOR, an accomplice in
the robbery and shooting. and
Grant Brown, both negroes.
Daniel Jones. the only white man
among the six. was next whipped.
George d. Butler and John Ed
wards were next with 90 lasheS
each.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
THE WEATHER

west Texas: Partly cloudy,
warmer in southwest portion Sun
day; Monday, partly cloudy, warm
er Sunday and Monday.
Oklahoma: Fair, warmer Sunday
and Monday.
East Texas: Partly cloudy Sun
day; Monday, partly cloudy, warm
er in north portion. Light to mod
crate northeast to southeast winds
on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
BLALOCK APPOINTED

MARSHALL, Tex, March 16.-(P)
Jack B. Blalock, Marshall attor-
ney, today accepted the post of as
sistant attorney general of Texas
offered to him last week by Claude
Pollard. attorney general He sue
ceeds Joe Brown, former Marshall
lawyer who resigned to accept a
place with a Houston law firm.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
FLIER'S AGED FATHER
GREATLY DISAPPOINTED

SAN ANGELO, Tex, March To-
P)-Y. Y. Eaker. aged father Of
Captain Ira G. Eaker, read avidly
every detail Of his sons attempted
dawn-to-dusk flight from Browns
vile to Panama today as Associated
Press bulletins were received here
announcine his progress.
The father was visibly disap-
pointed when succeeding bulletins
showed Captain Eaker was falling
behind his schedule, previous to his
abandonment Of his attempt.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
SHOOTS AT ALLEGED
ASSAULTER IN JAIL

HOUSTON, March 16-(P)-Ed
Boswell, %, whose 20-year-old girl
companion assertedly was GRIM
inally assaulted by negro held
here, appeared at the Jail tonight
and took a shot at the prisoner.
Boswell was charged with carry
ing concealed weapon and assault
to murder.
He fired from his overcoat pocket
in the midst of police and a news
paperman standing about the pris-
oner. The bullet went wild.
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Col. Lindbergh
Spends Night At
Albuquerque, N. M,

ALBUQUERQUE, NJ M, March
16.-tP)-Flying the course charted
for tt, contemplated transconti-
mental air mail route over the
southwest, Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh landed here at $40 p. m, to-
day.
He arrived here from Clovis,
N. M, and will spend the night in
Albuquerque.
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TWO HOURS LATE INTO
GUATEMALA CAPITAL

WASHINGTON, March 16.-(P
The war department announced
that Captain Ira Eaker, attempting
a dawn to dusk flight from Browns
vile, Tex, to the Canal Zone, left
, Guatemala City, Guatemala, at
2:17 p. m, central standard time,
two hours behind schedule. Doubt
was expressed that he would end
his flight before p. m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
FORMER BANKER DIES

SAN ANGELO, March 1G.-tH'l-
G. G. Kirkpatrick. 68. Insurance.
agent and a former banker, died OF
heart disease here last night.
Formerly Mr.. Kirkpatrick was
cashier of the Voncho Valley Loan
and Trust company of the Central
National Bank.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
LIFT QUARANTINE

WASHINGTON, March 16.-(Pl-
The department of agriculture to-
day ordered the quarantine on a
small area in California against
hcof and mouth disease lifted March
16 The department said the United
States now is free of the disease.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-17
FOITR. HITRT IN CRASH

AUSTIN, March 16.-(P1-Four
men were injured seriously tonight
when their automobile turned over
after striking culvert near here.
Constable Frank Johns of Pfluger-
vile was the most seriously injured
and may die. Others injured were
Ebbie Pfluger, wrenched knee: Rex
Hamman, shoulder crushed; Harry
Lykman, cuts.
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DALLAS MAN ROBBED

DALLAS, March 16.-(P)-OScar
johnson was held up and robbed
of $28 tonight as he entered the
salvage shop where he is employ
ed.
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CLOVIS, N. M, March 16.-(P)-
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh made
:. 3O-minute stop here today to in
spect the Clovis airport and took
| off at l AS D. m, headed west.
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VOTE ROAD BONDS

SAN ANGELO, March 16.-(P)-
Upton county today authorized is
suance of $50O.O00 in road bonds by
a vote of 446 to 76. it was reported
from McCamey tonight.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-17

tso 0ubjecA whe Was shee ta tas bsss os the brain last September by prehibttiea oeficsrs tn QAio. The driver sf the car in which Miss Hey. wood was . passenger thought the agents were hold.up men. For tunately Nia Heywood recovered. The agent who shet her was ftssd SS for asssult and battery. He has the distinction of being the eniy prehibitisa agent ever punished fer an indiscriminats shooting. Per- haps. as one Ohio newspapsr wit re- marked. he was lined for having such bad aim as to hit the guest in the car instead of the driver.
 And how inefficient the prohibition agents are in stopping the flow ef liquor en masse. They shoot up citizens in automobiles. as if much liquor possibly could bs found there in: while the truckloads Of liquor pass them by virtually unmolested. Perhaps this is because the truck drivers and helpers are harder to handle; and perhaps they may shoot 6rst.
New Britain herald., 1929-06-17

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 Q. Is thsrs any difference b. tween the temperatures of aatueal and artificial Ice:
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 Q. What 1" the capital of Arabia!
 A. Arabia l. nov divided into four states. each with its own capt. tal. They are e follows: The King dom of Hejaz aud Nejd-capital. Mecca; The Imamate of Yemen - capital, 6anaa: The Suitanate ef Kuweit-capital. Kuweit: The sul. tanate Of Omaa-capital. Auscat.
 e. Do chamelsons breed in cAp- tivtty? What is the best way to keep them?
 A. They breed in captivity under favorable conditions. To give them natural surrolndinss," construct . large screened cage whore there is an abundance Of sunlight. Keep plenty Of plants in the sage. Cham- eleons like plenty of water, but will not drink it from . receptacle. Sprinkle the water in drops in the cage in which they are kept. and ou the leaves. They will drink all the water they can get in this manner. Do not let the damp leaves remain long in the cage as chameleons do rot thrive in dampness. They sst meal worms, bread crumbs and tiny pieces of mea.. Put the food on straws and move 1t about. as they will not eat if it remains stationary. In their natural environment, they live by catching moving insects.