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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
WOMAN LOSES
CAR CONTROL
At CROSSING
Accelerator Jams,
Machine Speeds On
Main Street, Then
Crashes Into Cafe

With the accelerator janmed at
the wide-open point, large sedan
driven by Mrs. Gregoria Salazar
of Rio Hondo, ran wild and out of
her control Thursday at Los Fres-
nos, crashed into a parked automo-
bile on the main street, and smash
ed concrete pillars on business
structures, and then plunged
through the front of the Los Fres-
nos cafe, wrecking the interior, be-
fore it came to a stop.
No one was in the restaurant at
the time Of the crash. The cook, in
the kitchen, barely escaped when
the counters, pushed back by the
impact, upset large stove.
Mrs. Salazar and three small
children, in the car with her, es-
capped uninjured.
Mrs. Salazar said that she lost
control of the car at railroad
crossing, when, reaching the tracks
she saw a string of freight cars
reaching the intersection, too late
for her to bring her car to a stop.
She stepped on the accelerator, and
shot across the tracks ahead of the
freight train. AS the car INCREASED
in speed, she realized the acceler-
ator had jammed, and could not
regain control of the car before its
wild race was stopped in the res
taurant. !.
Several persons standing in front
of fthe cafe were endangered
Speeding down the Point Isabel
Barreda highway at top rate, the
car travelled 800 yards before the
woman could attempt a turn into
an intersection. The car swerved
aM she pulled the steering wheel,
sfruck another automobile parked,
then hit the concrete posts of the
restaurant and plunged into the
cafe.
The building in which the cafe
IS located is owned by Justice of
the Peace r. F. Watson, and the
restaurant was operated by H. e.
Elliott of San Benito.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
Owner Enjjoined
From Operating
For II Months

Las Prietas dance hail, where two
deputy constables of Cameron coun-
ty were shot to death last April and
where numerous other difficulties
have disturbed the peace of the
county, perhaps has had its last bale
as the result Of an injunction grant
ed THURSDAY morning by Judge
A. M. Kent, enjolning Jascual Del
gado owner. from operating 1t as
such for one year.
Bond was set at $1,000, when the
defendant agreed not to contest the
case. This constitutes virtual pad
lock. assuring no more dances being
held at Las Prietas, since the bond,
if made. would be forfeited should
officers find any drinking Or other
misconduct at the place after a re-
sumption of the dances, officials de-
clared
The petition alleged the place to
be a public nuisance. II declared
that common nuisances there such
as fist fights, cutting scrapeS, drunk
enness, and loud noises prevailed to
make peace in the neighbOrhood
impossible.
The most recent tragedy there was
when Deputies Frank Stanner and
r. =. Brown we're shot down without
warning by several gunner who
made quick escape. Brown died
almost Immediately, but Stanner
fingered several days. One man since
has been arrested in connection
with the affair. Others alleged to
oe implicated in the affair are be-
Jieved to have escaped into Mexico.
They never have returned to the
United States.
County Attorney Hall, who with
District Attorney George WesterVelt
instituted proceedings, said 1T was
the only thing to do
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
I'm OUR
VALLEY

FIVE HUNDRED Valley boy
scouts are counting the days to
August z.
Beginning that day and continu-
ing ten days to Aug. II, the annual
encampment is to be held at Camp
erry on the Arroyo Colorado near
Rio Hondo.
Last year about $50 boys enjoyed
this period of recreation and educa-
ton. There now are more than 1000
scouts in the Valley and, counting
the scoutmasters and other adults
interested in the work, there are
1900 persons engaged.
Tom Murray, Valley scout eXecu-
tive and director, says the encamp-
ment is going to be bigger and bet
ter" in every way.
There will be a real course Of in
struction for the Scouts and a pro-
gram of entertainment that will fill
all the hours.
Safety instruction is in charge of
w. G. Jones and Scion Ayers will
direct athletics. Harvey G. Stiles
will conduct classes in nature study
Snd j. D. benson will teach rope
making. B. Flemming is taxidermist;
Bud Bohner, swimming.
These are only a few of the sub
teeMS to be taught in the ten-day
Scoutcraft college.
w. Edward Perry will be assist
ant director under Murray and
camp management will be in charge
of the following committee: w. H.
Moon, McAllen; A. G. McInnis,
Brownsville; E. G. Bennett, Harlin-
gen; ]. G. Cook, McAllen: Burt
Coleman, La Feria; Frank Tappan.
Mercedes and Ralp Scott, Raymond
vile.
Physicians at the camp will be
DR.. r. z. Utley, ,Harlingen; DR.. r.
j. Malone, public health officer,
Hidalgo county, and DR.. w. B.
Primer, head Of Cameron county
health unit.
Sergeant Rowe of Fort Brown is
first aid and health specialist and
Sergeant Renfro in charge Of com
miSsary.
FUTURE LEADERS of the Valley
will be among the boys who attend
this encampment.
Men who will direct the affairs of
this section and the state will grow
from these scoutS-and the associ-
ations and instruction received dur
Continued on Page Fourteen.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
Witnesses Testify
AS Lloyd Davidson's
Murder Trial Opens

CORSICANA, July 1o.-(P)-
Taking Of testimony in the trial
of Lloyd Davidson. charged with
Staying his father. w. T. Davidson,
near Coolidge, Limestone county,
started today.
o. B. Williams, member Of the
grand jury that indicted David
son, testified concerning an alleged
confession.
Fred Lee. Mexia, rural mail car
rier, testified he had loaned an
automobile to he defendant the
day before the Staying and there
was blood stains on a running board
when the car was returned.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18

NANKING, July 18.-(Py-Pres.
Chang Kai Shek called an emer-
gency conference of Chinese lead
ers this afternoon to discuss the
situation with regard to Russia.
The nationalist president talked
with these leaders all afternoon to
discuss the situation with regard
to Russia.
The ctionalist president talked
with these leaders all afternoon,
and although no official announce
ments was made, it is understood
the government has not lost hope
Of an amicable settlement.
Conference Follows
The emergency conference fol-
lowed receipt of a telegram from
Gov. Chang Hsueh-Liang Of Man
churia, reporting the situation is
extremely grave, because the Rus
slams were concentrating forces
along the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
frontier.
Possibility of Japanese represen-
tation in the interest of peace in
the orient developed today as the
Russian -~',ineSe crisis grew more
tense.
With the breaking of diplomatic
relations by Russia, numerous troop
movements by Russians and Chi
nese along the Siberian -Manchuri-
an frontier were reported.
Concentrate Armies
General Budenny, noted Russian
general. was reported to have been
called from vacation. His program
was understood to include the con-
centration of Russian forces in
cluding powerful air Squadrorfs. cav
airy and tank divisions on the from
tier in addition to reinforcing the
Leningrad and MOSCOW ,,arrisons.
Chinese reinforcement5 also were
reported headed for the frontier.
UnconfirmeT dispatches in the
Chinese press stated Russian forces
had crossed he Amur river on the
frontier but we're RI. llsed.
Despite the fir reaching military
movements. there was still insist
ence in ,iplomatic quarters that
war would be avoided although the
danger of border incidents was
clearly -eco ,nized.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18

. Grabner, owner of Windy City,
winner of this years American der
by, had just turned off the crowded
main highway onto a gravel road
to evade traffic congestion, when a
large sedan, bearing three men,
blocked his path. Two men, brand
ishing pistols, got out of the car,
entered the tonneau of the Grab
ner machine, where the women
were, and ordered Grabner to
drive on. The robbers car followed
close behind.
One robber stripped jewelry from
the women, while the other robbed
the men of jewelry( and money.
Mrs. Grabner set her loss at $10,-
600, Mrs Siegel at $9,850, and Sic
gel a three-carat diamond ring
valued at $500. Grabner lost 5000
in cash.
Warning the party to make no
outcry, the robber directed Grab
ner to drive back onto the highway,
still crowded with hundreds Of ma
chimes. Siegel, despite the pistol
prodding his back, managed to
open the car doo. with his foot
and when the traffic procession was
halted by a train, he leaped from
the car and ran toward a bus.
Has anyone got a gun?" he
cried. Duck your heads! It's
robbery"
The two robbers jumped from the
car, pistols in hand, and pursued
him, but made no effort to fire.
They then jumped into their own
car, which was close behind Grab
ner's, and were driven swiftly away
down a side road.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
HOYT ATTEMPTS NEW
RECORD TO ALASKA

mitchell FIELD. N. Y. July 18
-(P)-Captain Ross @. Hoyt, re-
fueller of the army endurance plane
Question Mark. took off for Alaska
in single-seater -ursuit plane ct
2.30 D. m. DAYLIGHT time. todav in
on attempt to make flight IF 8.4Sn
miles quick than such a journey
was ever completed before.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
SIXTEENTH BANK is
CLOSED IN FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. July 49,
(P,-The state banking denart-
ment announced the State Bank
of BowIing Green, Fla. had failed
to open its doors to-day, bring
ing to is the number Of bank
failures in the state during the
past two days.
The Carital and surplus Of the
Bowling Green bank were listed
at S34,f q. : posits S300,390.55 and
assets G425,16s41.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
SWEDISH AVIATOR LEAVES

1VIGIUT, Greenland, July 10
Rp-Captain Albin Ahrenberg. Swe-
dish aviator, making transatlantic
flight from Stockholm to New York
in several jumps, took off here to-
day for Labrador at 11:18 a. m, G.
NJ. T., ,(6:00 a. m, z. S. To
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
DENIES REBEL BAND
HAS LAID DOWN ARMS

MEXICO CITY, July 18.-tP)-
La Prensa quotes Deputy Nemesio
Vargas. recently arrived from the
state Of Colima. as denying reports
the irregular rebels there have laid
down their arms.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
Chinese Chiefs
Called For War
Crisis Farley

BERLIN, July Is. P)-The Ger
man government has agreed to
take charge of Chinese interests
in Russia and Russian interests
in China, it was announced to-
night.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
KNOWN KILLED:
MANY ARE MISSING

DENVER, Colo, 8PEight killed
than injured the wreck Stratton Coo today of the
Colorado
plunged through bridge weakened sudden flood following cloud
burst
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
Planned
Robbery In Chicago
NetsBandits$22,OOO

yesterday
wely Frederick
Grabner, Mr. and Mrs Sege, their companions
carefully planned robbey while the Grabners
returning Park
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
WEATHER
THE WEATHER

THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday.
Light to moderate winds, mostly
southerly.
For East Texas: Not received in
time.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
REGULATIONS
TO ALLOW &C
PRIVILEGES
u. S. Residents May
Obtain Cards From
Home Town Cham
bers of Commerce


department Of the interior has an
nounced.
Chambers of commerce through
out the United States more th&l
90 miles from the Mexican border
are authorized to issue the cards.
Americans residing within 40 miles
of the order will be allowed tC
continue using the local or resi-
dent" cards givn them by border
authorities.
The followin~ statement of reg
ulations applying to Mexican i'm
migration and to visits across the
border was issued Thursday by the
Brownsville Chamber of Commerce
after it had been approved by Edel-
miro Rodriguez, inspector in charge
Of immigration at Matamoros:
"All ~esidents of the Rio Grande
Valley, residing within 40 miles Of
the river, desiring to visit -eXi-
can frontier towns in this territory
must have border passports and
these border passports must be OBJ
tanned not later than July 81, Of
this year.
THE procedure for obtaining
these border passports is as follows:
"(a) The resident within the
40-mile zone must secure a let
ter, stating that he is a citizen
of good reputation in the COM
munity or territory in which he
resides
"(b) Citizens living in town or
city can secure these letters from
their mayor or recorder or from
the judge of any court.
"(c) Citizens living in the ru-
raj districts can secure these let
ters from justice of the peace
or from judge Of any court.
"(d) The citizen must then
secure two small passport photo
graphs which can be secured from
any photographer for few cents.
"(e) The citizen then proceeds
to the Mexican immigration Of
flee in any of the Mexican bor-
der towns, where there will be is
sued to him border passport,
good for one year in any Mexi-
can border town.
The charge for this border pass
port will be so cents Zone peso.
The Mexican immigration offices
are open every day except Sunday.
from to II in the morning, and
from 2:30 to $50 in the afternoon.
Under special ruling, colored
persons will not be furnished pass
ports. Therefore, all mayors, re-
corders, judges and justices of the
peace ere requested not to issue let
tiers to persons Of color.
Until and including July 81, all
persons Except negroes) will be
permitted to cross the Mexican bor-
der without passports or cards. On
August l and thereafter, none can
pass without either passports OF
cards. In other words, the new
regulations go into effect on Au-
gust 1, 1929
In the meantime, all visitors will
be notified by the Mexican i'm
migration officials that from and
after August /, they must present
passports or cards.
The Brownsville Chamber Of
Commerce joins the Mexican immi-
grafton officials in urging all citi-
zenS living within the 40-mile zone.
who contemplates visiting any of
the Mexican border towns within
the next II months, to secure their
border passports on or before July
81"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18
RIVER. FORECAST

RIVER FORECAST
The river will continue to fail
from Mission down during the next
few days, and remain practically
stationery elsewhere.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-18

TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal aeteoro-
logical conditions:
High ................4:48 a. m
Low D. m
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset To-Day .......-....7.-3 p. m
Sunrise tomorrow ....5:49 z. n.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-30

Because Charles Bergin, million
aire president of the Los. Angeles
Soap Company, divorced his wife
after twenty-five years and mar
ried this 26-year-old bride, his
brother, Leo, is seeking in Los
Angeles 1urts to have him de-
clared mentally incompetent and
unable to manage his business af-
fairs. The new Mrs. Bergin was
Miss Sybil Painter of Montgomery
Ala. A year ago, Bergin got a
Reno divorce and married her as
soon as it became final.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-30

ment of Indiana university, show
ing that since enactment OF the
tenure law but six teachers have
been subject to hearings for dis
charge and that eight teachers have
been dismissed.
He said that there are 1888 prin-
cipals, supervisors and teachers in
counties and Lilo have taken adj
vantage of the law, and that ITO
principals and teachers were not
reappointed and were discharged
because of the law.
Of this number, 498 we're good
educators, 153 we're fair, and So were
poor. Smith said.
Of this total, but 1855 good and
fair teachers failed to obtain posi-
lions elsewhere.
Reports also were received from
1871 city superintendent that there
are 1882 teachers in the cities re-
porting and 1856 per cent are oper-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-30
MOST MISSING
PEOPLE RETURN
TO THEIR HOMES
Majority of Women Who
Leave Come Back, Survey
of ID Cities Shows.

Fields afar held an irresistible
lure in 1928 for an imposing num-
Der of Americans, both young and
old, but after they had their fling
approximately seven-eighths of them
returned home, figures compiled by
the United Press showed.
Police bureaus of eighteen cities
reported more than 10000 persons
felt the call offwanderlust and we're
reported missing during the year.
Slightly more than $4,000 later re-
ported back home.
About twice as many men as
women disappear and only about
half of the men ever heard from
again.
Most women who left home were
found. police figures indicated, de-
spite common opinion that many
girls and women drop from sight an
nually and are never heard from.
Few Married Men Vanish
Captain John H. Ayres, head of
the New York bureau o. missing
persons, reports few married men
are reported missing.
Homes broken by divorce, con-
gested living quarters. grinding pow
erty, high cost of living and in
creased standards of living on
meager salaries, were some of the
chief reasons advanced for the
exodus of thousands.
Lack of privacy in congested
homes to receive "boy friends" was
the cause of many girls seeking out
side companions.
Many girls between the ages of IA
and Is started for Hollywood.
The circus "big top again proved
an attraction for the boys of Amer
lea in 1928. Thousands followed the
smell of tanbark and wet canvas to
return home again when they be-
came disillusioned.
Let Boys Run Away
Sergeant Joseph Starshak, who
heads the missing persons bureau
in Chicago, advises parents to let
the boys run away.
Its good for them" he said, "to
get out into the world and see how
the other half lives. They'll return
when they get broke and hungry.
He was more dubious about girls.
Buffalo, N. Y, reported the small
est percentage of women returned to
their homes. Out of 243 women on
the "lost records. in 1928 only fiji
teen were reported as found.
New York led the country in num-
Der of missing with 17,458 lost and
1860 found.
Added to that were 4,657 stray
human beings from other cities who
went to Gotham seeking adventure
and life along the white way. Many
of them we're found because their
money ran low. A large number re-
fused to 60 home under any circum-
stances.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-30
COMMITTEE is
DIVIDED OVER
4 TEACHER LAW
Three Vote for Repeal of
Tenure Measure; Seven
Are Opposed.

A divided committee report on the
bill calling for repeal of the teach
er tenure law was presented today
by the committee on education in
the state house of representatives,
with seven members reporting that
the repeal bill be killed in commit
tee and thHee voting that it go to
the house.
Those bringing in the minority
report were Representatives Charles
T. Jones of Rochester, John D.
Groves of Rome, and George L..
Saunders of Bluffton.
The education committee went
into executive session after Dean H.
L. Smith of Indiana university,
Donald Drushane, Roy P. WiSehart,
state school superintendent. and
Robert P. Whitsett Jr, president of
the Logansport school trustees, ap-
peared before the committee and
spoke in favor of the present law
and Harlan r. Denton of Farmer
one of the authors of the repeal
measure spoke in favor of the re-
peal.
Harlan set forth that the tenure
law handicaps education through
foisting upon the schools teachers
who after receiving their sixth
year contracts, which give them
permanent berths, are content tt
rest on their oars.
He also said that the Indiana
Association of Trustees has come
out openly in favor of repeal,
Dean Smith set forth figures
gathered by the education depart
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-30

show that the law was working IN q
beneficial manner and cited the ex-
perience of other states having SIM
liar laws, which showed that 1t took
several years for adjustment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-30

ating under the teacher tenure law.
Number of educators discharged in
cities because of the law is so, OF
whom "a were good teachers, II
we're fair and 9 were poor. OF this
number twenty-~sur good and fair
teachers failed to obtain new posi-
tons.
A plea for permitting the law to
be in force for, two to four years
more before taking any action was
made by Wisehart.
Dushane also set forth figures to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-30
LAST COUPLE IN UNIQUE
WEDDING TO SEPARATE

Three Brothers at Portland Had
Wives Who Were Sisters.
BIZ Times Special
PORTLAND, Ind, Jan. 30.-A di-
vorce suit filed here by Earl McAtee
against Violet McAtee, marks sepa-
ration of the third couple of sex
tet which included three brothers
who took three sister brides. Earl,
John and George McAtee were wed
respectively to Violet, Agnes and
Othal Overin.
John McAtee died. Mrs. George
McAtee has divorce suit on file
in Georgia.
Earl McAtee charged abandon
ment as cause for divorce. He asks
custody of two children, Albert, z,
and Treva, 6.