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Milford chronicle., 1929-07-26
SECOND WHIsKEY REBELLION

Detroit Free Press, June IA, 1920
The extensive preparations being
made by the Federal Government to
combat smuggling into this district
should open the eyes of the public
to the real nature of the situation.
A numerous element in the citiz-
enry is in open and defiant rebellion
against the Constitution of the Unit
ed States and certain laws enacted
to give effect thereto, whatever other
name they may give to their activi-
ties.
A far larger element is financing
the rebels by purchasing the stuff
they sell.
The rebels themselves are armed
and do not hesitate to kill, when
their illegal business is interferred
with or they are threatened with the
statutory penalties therefor. Some of
them are supplied with machine
guns. They maintain their fleets"
They fall short of 'waging armed re-
bellion" against the United States
only when they are left to ply their
outlawed trade in peace.
The merits or demerits of national
prohibition do not enter into the sit
uation, as it exists today. A
prohibition amendment has been in
serted in the Constitution and laws
enacted hereunder, all by due con-
stitutional process. Those who be-
lieve they should be repealed have a
right to agitate for their revision;
but as long as they remain the law
their fragrant and widespread VIOLA
tion cannot be ignored by the gov
ernment without exposing the Fed
eral power to further invasions and
ultimately bringing it into contempt
The right of the Federal Govern
ment to employ the armed forces OF
+he nation to maintain domestic
tranquility and enforce Federal
statutes is as clear today as 1t was
in 1894. when Washington modified
* mn men in the first "Whiskey Re-
be1Iion." The force that it will en-
pIoy to meet the situation IN TINS
district is likely to be measured by
the necessities created by the people
themselves. They can slde WIN tne
government and thus remove tne
necessity for extraordinary meas
ures; or by obstructing 1t tney can
expose themselves to the fulI TlgoE 5c5
or it's authority. The government dld
not invite this war The duration ana
severity of it is still within the pow
er of those who have invited IT 10
determine. All they have to DO 10 emu
IL is to cease financing 1t, Whlcn
means to cease patronizing tnoSe
who violate the law.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-26
A CrUinU Need

Oh, where is there shady tree, a
really shady tree, where 1 can hide
from all this sun, the whole scorched
length of me? Oh, where is there a
sunless spot, really sunless spot,
where I shall not find everything un-
comfortable and hot? Oh, where is
there swimming hole, where one
can swim and prance without the
formal nuisance of a pair of swim
ming pants ?-E. A. in Farm & Fire
side.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-26
IT Is To Gasp

He calls his dog "knickers"-nis
breath comes in short pants.-Ine
Pathfinder.
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-26

Remember the good old days when
lettuce leaves and carrots were fed to
the rabbits only?
Milford chronicle., 1929-07-26
Rehoboth Beach

Samples of milk received from Re-
hoboth by the State Board of Health
for the month of July:
Bacteria Fat Sediment
Per C. c. Per Cent Test
H. Lynch. 98,500 1865 Clean
J. C.
Holland 10000 4.25 Clean
Thomas
Drymer 100000 3.4 Clean
Rehoboth
Dairy :. 1000 3.75 Clean
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
MURDER CASE
ARREST MADE
Refugio Sanchez Held
In Shooting of Ig-
nacio Saldana

Refugio Sanchez, who resides in
the western part Of the county near
the river, was placed under arrest
Wednesday at Mercedes by Cameron
county officers on a charge Of murder
in connection with the death Tuesday
night Of Ygnacio Saldana at the Har-
lingen hospital.
Saldana is alleged to have been IA
tally wounded by a bullet fired by
Sanchez shortly after a shooting
affray Sunday at bale in which
Manuel Pena was killed and the lat
ter's two brothers, Nestor and Benito,
seriously wounded. Complaint against
against Sanchez was filed Wednesday
by S. NJ. Jester, special investigator
for the district attorney, who has
been investigating the shooting af-
fray.
According TO statements Of wit
nesses, Sanchez was on n truck which
was conveying the wounded men to
the Mercedes hospital. When the
truck stopped at a gate a car driven
BY SaldEna bumped into il. Sanchez
is alleged TO have fired twice at the
car, one bullet striking Saldana in the
Continued on page thirteen.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
M. P Employees
In Valley After
Houston Farley

About so employees Of the Missouri
Pacific lines, representing all sec
tions Of the country and travelling
in two special cars, and Pullman's,
arrived in the Valley Thursday morn
ing on a one day tour Of inspection.
The party liz headed by G. w.
Strain, passenger traffic manager,
Houston, and r. NJ. Dozier, executive
general agent, Memphis. Tenn
They arrived ut Harlingen. where
they detrained, on the regular pas
senger train from Houston and their
special cars we're brought on to
Brownsville.
The side trippers, employees OF the
company who attended the family
meeting" held nc Houston, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, will get
into Brownsville late Thursday after
noon for u dinner nc MatamoroE.
They vill leave here tonight for San
Antonio, the next stop on their tour
OF the Missouri Pacific lines sys-
tenn
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
Rockefeller Has
Beaten Stewart,
Newspaper Says

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-tPl-The
Herald Tribune says today that &C
cording to one Of New York's out
standing petroleum authorities John
ID. Rockefeller, Jr, has won his
fight to oust Col. Robert w. Stew
art from the chairmanship Of the
Standard Oil company of Indiana.
1t is quite likely, the pap says,
that Mr.. Rockefeller would announce
he had more than 81 per cent Of the
voting proxies some time before the
meeting of the stockholders, Marcn
z.
While Mr.. Rockefeller will have
the large blocks of stocks held by
such interests as the Hardness, Flag
ler and Rogers estate and Of other
Standard Oil companies in which he
Is the dominant figure, Col. Stewart
is expected to rally the stock held by
employees and the $4,000 small stock
holders Of the company.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
FINAL
EDITION
i'm OUR
VALLEY

THERE WAS A FOG over Browns
Vile last night.
From descriptions one has heard
of tae famous fogs of London, this
fog might have been described as Of
thu London variety.
II was an unusual fog for this
section.
Unusual in the fact that il settled
over the city before sundown We'd
nesday afternoon, rolling in from
the southeast.
Also unusual in the fact that it
|eontinued dense throughout the
night.
Lifting about 3 o'clock Thursday
morning.
A somewhat cool atmosphere from
the north met warm currents from
the gulf right along the coast line.
THUS causing the fog.
This was OF tho type OF fog used
lin arguments months ago against the
coastal route for air mails.
But they are infrequent. and ex-
tremely rare in afternoons. Will
not impede air mails.
NORTHERN TOURISTS now visit
ing in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
land parties are marveling.
They have just come out Of the
Frozen north to find the Lower Rio
Grande Valley n mighty pleasant
blace to spend a winter vacation.
Many Of them are paying their
first visit TO the south. And vir-
tually all of them their first visit
10 the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
They find trees green. Green all
fround. Everywhere the eyes turn
green. when their homes are cloth
I'd in snow. Their creeks and rivers
|frozen. Their trees barren. Their
grass brown.
Scores or them will find an oppor-
tuni;g they have been seeking. Many
will korae here TO make their homes,
now or later.
The green and gold Of the orange
and grapefruit trees. The beautiful
areen of the cabbage patches, the
lettuce patches, the acres on acres
pf beets and carrots are a wonder
full attraction.
It's hard 70 resist, this appeal OF
.he Lower Rio Grande Valley.
TWO BROWNSVILLE youngsters
(Continued on page thirteen.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-tR1-
Stricken while engaged in a study OF
the diets thought to cause the dis
ease of pellagra, DR.. Joseph Gold
berger, a United States public health
service scientist, died today at the
naval hospital here following an ILL
ness of several months. He was %
years old.
The fatal illness, which started
during his pellagra studies. however,
was an enigma at his death to his
fellow scientists. A post-mortum
was planned by DIR. G. W. Mccoy,
director Of the health services hy-
gienic laboratory and close friend
of Or. Goldberger, TO determine the
cause of the Illness.
Mccoy said physicians attending
the dead scientist believed he SUI
fered from some form of anaemia.
They did not agree on the type Of
the disease. however. and later con-
cluded that some other. undeterm-
ined infection was the primary
cause Of his sickness. His fatal i'll
ness occurred when he was expert
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
PLANS
FLORIDA TRIP
P!'esident-Elect Will
Leave Washington
Next Monday

WASHINGTON. Jan. l7.-tP)-
President-elect Hoover will leave
here Monday at 10:30 a. m. for
Miami Beach, Fla, where he viii be
the guest Of j. c. Penny on Belle
Isle for little more than a month.
Mr.. Hoover expects TO arrive in
Miami at 1880 p. m. Tuesday to par
ticipate in a monster all-state dem
onstration arranged in honor Of his
visit to the state which with three
others in the once solidly democratic
South gave him a majority last No
vember.
The governor and other high state
officials will be on hand to welcome
officially the president-elect and it
is planned also TO have all of the
counties in the state represented.
After the welcoming in Miami the
president-elect and his party will
proceed In escort motor cars to
Miami Beach and thence across a
causeway to the Penny estate.
The trip to Miami is 70 be made
on n special train on the Atlantic
Coast line and the Florida East
Coast railway.
The present plans Of the presi-
dent-elect are to return here about
two weeks before the date of his in
auguration to continue conferences
with republican leaders which he
has been holding for the past ten
days and which will be continued
through tomorrow and Saturday. He
plans to take a rest and 70 fish.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
Radio Fans Will
Ask Law Against
Interference

A petition asking the city COM
mission and Mayor Of Brownsville TO
PASS an ordinance that would result
in preventing "man made" radio IN
tcrference as far as possible, was
rapidly gaining signatures Thursday
The petition states that il is the
signer's opinion that there is great
deal Of unnecessary interference 70
radio reception IN Brownsville and
that inasmuch rs large sums OF
money are invested in sets, said IN
vestors are entitled to some relief
al the hands of the city officials.
Radio experts in the city generally
agree that what the layman refers
10 as static" is composed Of about
% per cent man-made interference
Ii is pointed out that a large por-
tion OF this bug-bear TO radio fans
can De eliminated with little trouble
once the sources are located.
Nearly NIL interests in the city
that could possibly be producing in
reference have promised full CO.
operation in the drive here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
ScieutiStDieSI In
PeHagya Study;
Had Been Here

menting with pellagra-preventatiye
foods.
Made Study Here
Twenty Of DR.. Goldberger's col
leagues Of the public health service
volunteered for blood transfusions
shortly after he became critically i'll
in November, but after six opera
tions this was abandoned as Of no
avail.
Before the fatal attack he had
suffered three other severe illnesses
-typhus fever contracted IS years
ago while he was experimenting on
il in Meyico City; yellow fever
shortly after this, while he was
working with this disease In lew
Orleans. and dengue fever while he
was making a study of it in Browns
vile, Texas.
DR.. Goldberger was born in Aus
tria-Hungary, but came to this coun-
try with his parents when he was
about seven years old. He gradu-
sted from the Bellevue Hospital
Medical college, New York. He later
entered the public health service.
Found Pellagra Cause
Or. Goldberger's greatest achieve
ment was his contribution to. the
worlds knowledge Of pellagra. His
discoveries are believed to have
saved thousands from succumbing to
this malady. He Is survived By his
widow, three sons and a daughter.
During the II years in which DR.
Goldberger was in charge Of public
health investigations of pellagra, he
showed the disease is due to an un'
balanced diet, and demonstrated the
means where by it might be pre-
vented and cured. His work con.
tributed largely 20 the general
knowledge of nutrition. He discov'
cred the vitamine "pp" or pellagrs
preventative, and showed that dried
yeast contains IL, for this Is an in.
expensive concentrated safeguard
against the malady.
Several years ago, public health
CONTINUED on page thirteen.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
HARDY OUSTED
AFTER TAKING
S25OO CHECK
Membership I'm Ameri-
can Bar Association
Annulled at Meet of
Executive Group

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Jan. 17.-(Pl
Dismissal from membership in the
American Bar association of Carlos
:. Hardy. one OF the two judges or
the criminal court Of Los Angeles
county, California, brought TO an un-
expected conclusion the meeting or
the associations executive commit
tee here yesterday.
Judge Hardy's membership was
forfeited by the executive commit
tee because Of alleged violation of
eanons Of the association which pro-
hibit pecuniary or other obligations
which might interfere with the dis
charge Of legal duties and the alleg-
ed acceptance OF presents or favors
from litigations or from those whose
interests were likely to be submit
ted for judgment.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.-(R-
Removal or the name or Superior
Judge Carlos II. Hardy from mem
bership in the American Bar assoc
citation followks upon a legal con-
troversy in California over his ac-
ceptance OF n $500 check from
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, the evan
gelist, for legal advice.
During a grand jury investigation
of alleged vfficial corruption in
Los Angeles recently, Judge Hardy
admitted accepting the check but
said it was for services volunteered
prior to the time that Mrs. McPher-
Continued on page thirteen.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
Standard Oil Co.
Chiefs to Land
AT Airport Here

Alan Jackson, vice president Of the
Standard Oil company Of Indiana
with headquarters in Chicago, has
written the Brownsville customs Of
ficiaIs 70 notify them that a tri-
motored Ford plane, bearing execu-
tive Officers Of the Standard Oil
company, would arrive at the
Brownsville municipal airport Janu-
ary "a or 2s enroute 10 Tampico and
other cities Of Mexico.
In his letter, jackson requested
that he be advised as to the neces-
sary requirements for clearing the
ship and requested that customs Of
ficials meet the plane at the field
in order that clearance might be ae-
complished as quickly as possible.
The ship will also pass through
here on its return trip.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
GOVERNOR TO
JOIN QUIZ AT
ALBUQUERQUE
Death of Helen Askew,
Welfare Home In
mate, Caused BY In
lection, Is Verdict

ALBUQUERQUE, n. NJ, Jan. IT,
Pl-A joint committee from both
houses Of the New Mexico legislature
was ordered to come here today from
Santa Fe to open investigation into
the death last Sunday Of Helen
Askew, Is, of POrtsles, inmate of the
New Mexico girls welfare home, a
correction institution.
The girls death, a coroner's Jury
found yesterday, was caused by "the
lack OF water and an injection Of twi-
light sleep administered by DR.. Eve
lyn Frisbie and Miss Bertha Lips"
physician and superintendent respec-
lively at the home.
II was brought out AZ the inquest
that the drug was administered last
Saturday night to Miss Askew and
five other girls ito keep them quiet"
when they created a disturbance in
objecting to solitary confinement and
bread and water diet, which punish
ment was imposed for their escape
from the home. Miss Lips said the
injection was under DR.. Frisbie's d.
rection.
Governor r. c. Dillon ordered the
legislative investigation yesterday
and said he personally would accom-
pany the committee here to inquire
into conditions at the home. District
Attorney Eugene Lujon said he was
studying evidence brought out at the
inquest with view toward filing
criminal charges against the princi-
pals in Miss Askew's death.
The six girls escaped last Wednes-
day and were captured and returned
Friday. Miss Askew's companions
testified they were placed in solitary
cells and given nothing TO eat that
day. but that on Saturday a slice OF
(Continued on page thirteen.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
gen. LASSITER
IS DUE HERE
9Th Corps Commander
To Review Fort
Brown Friday

Maj. Gen. William Lassiter, COM
mander of the Eighth Corps Area
with headquarters at Fort Sam
Houston, will arrive at Fort Brown
at 8 p. m. Thursday by automobile
from San Antonio on a tour of in
spection Of border posts. according
to an announcement made at Post
headquarters here Thursday morn
ing.
In the party with Gen. Lassiter
are Maj. William II. II. Morris, as
sistant ca, sth Corps Area, and
Lieut.. Leander q. Syne, aide de
camp to Gen. Lassiter.
A review Of all troops or the 18th
Cavalry will be held at Fort Brown
beginning mt 9:15 n. m. Friday after
which Gen. Lassiter will inspect all
Post buildings. The general public
has been invited to witness the re-
view.
General Lassiter took command Of
the sth Corps Area in December OF
1927, relieving Brig. Gen. Alfred ].
Bowley.
While in Brownsville, Gen. Las
sitter will be the guest Of Col. and
Mrs. w. T. Johnston and ,iaj. Morris
and Lieut.. Syne will be the guests
Of Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Stanley Koch.
Ladies and officers or Fort Brown
will compliment General Lassiter
with a reception and dance to be
held at the Officers club beginning at
. p. m Friday evening.
General Lassiter and his staff will
leave Brownsville for Fort Ring
gold. Rio Grande City, Saturday
morning. The corps commander will
inspect that post Saturday after
noon.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
Passed Up Il: Il: Il: *; i::;: ::; :!: TX 4;
oteasnc

With George Harris the next-door neighbor who had
brought the dance she stood the veranda in the
1t seemed to Betty that George always
beside her. All through high school he had walked to
school with mornings taken her to athletic events and
the school dances.
George was serious-minded boy not given to de-
monstrations Of affection AS she listened to his mono
logue about the work of the committee arrangements
for the dance and heard his plans to make it annual
affair she wondered what he would do if she suddenly
put her face up to his to be kissed
This unusual thought was the result of the scenes
page
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
LATE BULLETINS


HOOVER TO TELEPHONE ADDRESS TO BELGIUM
WASHINGTON. travelling thousands OF miles
will address
attended by King and Of Belgium
a his desk either his Mafo~er
.o. beadouare or Al Belgian capital his voice
kI be heard by he crowd through amphfiers.
LONDON RUMoR INDICATES BOOTH TO QUIT SANS SCRAP
within
Army leadership and administration be in sight
While
he
lcouescs
night
NAMED PROBE BRBE
oK AHOMA Of
|uet an
OF W.
F,eutenant governor and president o he senate.
ExAs SENATE RANCH PRODUCTS
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
Presidents Sign
Anti.War Pact

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-CRp-
President Coolidge today signed the
document Of ratification Of the Kel-
logg treaty to renounce war.
Members of the senate, which rati-
fled the pact on Tuesday, and cab
met officers looked on as Mr.. Cool
idge affixed his signature. The eere-
mony took place in the east room Of
the White House.
Notification that the ratification
document has been signed will be
sent to the fourteen other original
ssgnatory powers. One other step
will remain, the signing Of exchange
copies Of the treaty for deposit in
the archives Of each signatory nation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
Bill, The Peanut PtsShey
Still FauOyS Al Smith

Hondo 20 HarIingen should Smith
lose. Bill and al both lost in one
respect but Bill became famous in
III days through his peanut mara
thon."
'Tt wasn't such a hard job" he
declared, "but I wouldn't do IL
again just for fun"
During the course Of his 'push-
ing" Bill got slightly Jared when
a woman motcrist parked the front
end of her vehicle against Bills
port side ms he was industriOusIy
engaged in his gsrgantuan labors
on the Rio Hondo-Hsrlingen high
way
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
FOMY State Officials Sued
Girl-AttaCker
Planning Fight
ToDodge Chair

were done on the day and night after
he and another man, whom the state
alleges was Merriman, held up, with
pistols, an automobile parked" near
here, forced three young men out
and took away the machine with
three girls.
Miss Mae Sanderson, IL, engaged to
be married, the prosecutrix in Aid
ridges case, did not bring out in her
testimony who happened to the two
other girls.
Merriman will be tried later.
At the Aldridge trials conclusion,
he was rushed" through a secret
passageway to the county Jail, sur
rounded by officers. Some talk of
mob violence, in the event Of YER
dict less severe than death, had been
heard.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17

DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 17.-(Rl-Ben
Aldridge, "a, confessed robber and at
tacker of woman, awaited today the
fruition Of his counsel's efforts to
save him from the electric chair, to
which he was sentenced for criminal
assault by a jury here yesterday.
He was captured after a gun fight
with officers, in which Lee Roy Mer-
riman, a companion, also charged
with criminal assault in two cases
and robbery in three, was wounded
slightly. Aldridge made a purported
confession to the attack and other
offenses, among which he listed the
burglary of thmree Kaufman county
farm homes and the rifling Of post
offices in two Oklahoma towns
These "jobs," his statement said,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17

Bill Williams Of Rio Hondc,
internationally known and famed
peanut pusher. still believes that
AL Smith would have been the
@best man for the job"
He made this declaration while
in Brownsville Thursday on a short
business trip.
1t was this same declaration that
caused Bill to jump into world
fame BY pushing q peanut 8 miles
with his nose
During the heat or the now long
gone presidential race, Bill volun-
teered to push o peanut from Rio
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
HULKING COP
SAYS SMALL
WIFE CRUEL

CHICAGO, Jan. l7.-(PD-Po-
liceman John Belskey weighs, in
his stocking feet and without his
artillery. 255 pounds avoirdupois.
Mrs. Belskey's best weight is IS
pounds.
Belskey, suing for divorce,
charges cruelty. He says his wife
took his revolver away from him,
slapped his face, sat on him,
punched his jaw and capped the
pugnacious climax by throwing
him out of the house.
The court will see about It.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-17
Brothers Burn
To- Death Under
Wrecked Train

McALESTER, Okla, Jan. l7.-R
Two brothers named White. whose
given names have not been learned,
lost their lives in a freight train
wreck at Red Oak today. They vere
caught under a derailed tank car
and their bodies burned to a crisp.
Twelve oil and gasoline tank cars
and three box cars Of merchandise
were consumed by flames which fol-
lowed derailment. A planning mill
and lumber yard near the tracks
burned.
The White brothers, about 10 and
20 years old. lived at Bull Hill.