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-land office. concluded, 1t told both
houses In its report today.
j. T. Robson, land commissioner,
had testified he believed the state
to have no interest in the fund and
so believing he had accepted
amounts of refunds which had
been sent to land owners.
The manner Of handling the
fund was described as "inexcusable,
unwarranted and unjustified: that
the same involves an unsound pub
lie policy and should not be coun-
teracted by any public official in
the discharge Of the duties of his
office"
No Accurate Account
Commissioner Robson had testi-
fled that he kept no accurate ac-
count of the receipts and dis
bursements of the fund.
The acceptance of gifts and
gratuities as practiced by the land
commissioner, if carried on. by Of
ficials of a democratic form OF
government TO any extent. is calcu-
lated to destroy the confidence of
the citizenship in the government,
and finally to wreck and destroy
the same" the report said.
The committee made no specific
recommendation to the legislature
concerning acts Of the land COM
missioner.
Submits No Suggestions
due to the seriousness of the
result and the fact that the mat
ter is of sufficient interest to the
legislature as a whole, upon which
body the responsibility would final
ly rest. the committee submits no
suggestion as to what action the
legislature OF the state should take
concerning the acts of the land
commissioner" the report stated.
Representative Fred Minor OF
Denton was chairman OF the COM
mittee. Other members were Rep
reSentatives Coke r. Stevenson OF
Junction and T. r. Bond Of Terrell
and Senators Joe M. Moore OF
Greenville and Carl G. Hardin OF
Stephenville.
The committee recommended that
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Use CASBOMBS
TO ARREST 10
Textile Mill Strikers Gather
On Highway Over Which
Workers Travelled

ELIZABETHTON. Tenn, May 16.
--tPl-National guardsmen used
tear gas bombs to effect the arrest
OF approximately 100 men and wom-
en- textile mill strikers who had col
lected on a highway over which
workers were beiEg taken to the
American Glanzstoff and BamberE
RavOn plants today.
The demonstrations and arerst
occurred three hours after the water
main serving this city and the mills
had been dynamited. The bombs
we're used after stones were alleged
to have been thrown and buses and
automobiles in which employees OF
the mills were riding. Those arrest
ed were herded into the court house
here.
One Of the buses dashed through
group OF strikers trying to block
the road. injuring four OF them One,
Evelyn Heaton. was seriously hurt
The driver. Joe Calhoun, was taken
to Jonesboro. Is miles away. by
guardsmen.
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PRISONER shot
In JAIL RUSH
Two Others Wounded When
Tour Men Attempt To
Make Escape

WICHITA FALLS. Tex, May rs.
-(Pp-One prisoner was shot to
death and othrs wounded when four
men in the Wichita county Jail
rushed their jailer today in an at
tempt to escape.
Raymond Sellers. %. was killed
and T. o. Cagel. 81. and c. w. Brun-
er. 81. were wounded.
w. w. Allen. jailer, suffered minor
cuts and bruises.
Jack Stewart. Dallas. under bur-
glary indictment, was the fourth
prisoner. He threw himself to the
floor and escaped wounds after his
companions had been shot, Allen
said.
Sellers. under two automobile
theft sentences totalling seven years.
said in his trials he had studied for
three years at the University of
Wisconsin. Bruner. Burkburnett.
Tex. was shot through the hips.
He was awaiting the outcome Of an
appeal from a 10-year sentence for
auto theft. eagle, Petrolia. Tex,
was awaiting trial on six burglary
charges. He was shot through the
abdomen.
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SENATE COURT
IS DISSOLVED
UNANIMOUSLY
Governors Forces Win
When He Gains Sig
nature of Is Solons
On Petition

BATON ROUGE, La, May 49,
P-The Louisiana senate court of
impeachment today abandoned trial
Of Governor Huey r.. Long and dis
solved by unanimous consent with
out hearing any testimony on the
Impeachment charges against him.
The adjournment was taken on
an oral vote amid scattered hand
clapping and a few muffled cheers
The gallery was packed and the rule
limiting spectators was suspended TO
permit tnrongs TO come in and stand
around the rail.
Governor Long was not present at
the final session, but Mrs Long was
III the spectators gallery.
Adjournment was forced by the
Long forces move in presenting a
signed motion for adjournment
sine die bearing the signatures oI
i5 senator's declaring they would
vote To acquit the governor regard
less Of the evidence as they believed
the charges had been voted in VIOLA
ton Of the law and constitution.
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LOG OF THE
ZEP FLIGHT

CBy The Associated Press)
IAN times used Eastern Standard
ll:57 D. m. Wednesday-Left
IFriedrichshafen, Germany.
Sis a. m. Thursday-Passed
l1ver Lyons. France.
$40 a. m, Passed over Mines.
8:35 a. m.-Passed over Bar
lcelona, Spain.
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WILL DESTROY
FOREIGN FRUIT
Endeavor to Prevent Any
Florida Citrus From
Reaching Valley

t0DGNAdA 10 liz 41GAdlQf
SAN BENITO, May 16.-The abb
solute embargo on citrus fruit de-
clared by the Texas department Of
agriculture empowers state or fed
eral inspectors to seize and destroy
any imported fruit found in the
Valley and was designed to prevent
Florida citrus fruit from reaching
the Valley. and thus avoid the posi-
bility OF the Mediterranean fruit fly
reaching here.
This information was contained
In a communication received today
by j. T.. Bell. manager Of the cham
Der OF commerce here, from George
3. Terrell. commissioner Of agricul-
ture. The letter contained a copy
Of the regulations.
Terrell explained that there was q
quantity OF Florida fruit stored In
Corpus Christi. Houston. San An
tonic and other Texas cities and
that it was to prevent any of this
fruit reaching the citrus growing
section OF Texas that the quarantine
was declared. The ruling was Is
sued following the discovery OF two
boxes OF Florida fruit on sale In
the market at Brownsville.
Following that discovery state in
spectors visited all stores and mar
kets throughout the Valley but
failed to find any more Florida fruit
being offered for sale.
Bell said that vigilance commit
tees were being appointed In all
Valley towns to aid inspectors In
the campaign 10 see that no Florida
fruit reaches this section.
All Florida fruit stored In Texas
is being inspected and If 1t Is found
to be infested IL will be seized and
destroyed, Terrell said.
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:
The ship was flying at a height
Of several hundred feet.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. Germany.
May 16.-tPi-The dirigible Graf
Zeppelin, mighty mistress OF the air
raced westward with the sun today
above southwestern Europe on its
second trip across the Atlantic to
America. III made q previous trip
last October.
Before 1t lay a variable course
above Gibraltar, probably the Azores
and Bermuda, TO Lakehurst, N. j..
which the dirigible'5 master, DIR.
Hugo Eckener. did not expect TO
reach tefOre late Saturday night
or Sunday morning.
Aboard the ship were 40 Of the
crew. Is passengers. and female
gorilla, "Susi" The only woman
passenger was Mrs. Mary Pierce,
wife of q New York utilities broker.
who made the trip despite urgent
pieadingS Of her husband and moth
er. Among the men was Capt. Sir
George Hubert wilkins. arctic ex-
pI0rer-
The ship was trundled from it.
hangar at 5.45 a. m. and at the
pilots command was released for its
long voyage at 5.57 a. m. Q1:57 p
m, eastern standard time Wednes-
day. III rose slowly in an inter-
mittent drizzle. while 200 or more
spectators cheer6d. It circled the
field one, and disappeared in 10
minutes in the direction of the Laka
Constance and Basel, Switzerland.
After flying over WalaShut and
Saeckingen the dirigible arrived over
Basel at 1880 q. m. fog obliging
it to descend close to the ground
20 discharge its first load of air
mail Five Swiss airplaneS joined
Ii there and acted as an escort a.
far a. the French frontier which ii
wirleSSed ID had crossed at 7.55 a.
m.
Mrs. Pierce was one of the first
at the field. Her decision to make
the trip was believed here never
to have been changed after her
purchase of passage Tuesday. al
though to relieve anxiety OF rela-
tives in America she had 1t reported
she had cancelled her booking and
she herself sent messages to Amer
lea saying she was not going.
III hope you all told your papers
I'm not going" she told several
American correspondents. Won't
my relatives be surprised when
drop in on them after alp"
DIR. Ackener was the last aboard
the Zeppelin. It was taken from
Its hangar. poking its nose impos-
ingly into the dreary grey mist. Al
5:56 he gave the command 70 start
the motors and the next minute
the vast dirigible was on its way
first describing a loop over Fried
\ richshafen.
All the windows on the starboarc
side were lined with faces, whose
owners waved their hands in answer
TO the "hoghcy or the crowd below
All seemed III cheerful lOvia
mood.
AS the dirigible was taken from
its hangar another stowaway-thl
seventh since yesterday-wss caugh
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POISON GASES
SLOWLY KILL
MANY VICTIMS
Many More Suffering
Now Will Die, Ply
sicians Say; Police
Probe Explosion

CLEVELAND, May 16.-tAP)-
A re-check of the victims of the
explosions and fire yesterday at
the Cleveland clinic showed 12O
persons dead at HAS a m. today.
Victims who had fought for their
lives through the night succumb-
ed one after another, and physi-
clans predicted that eventually
Others whose bodies were poison
ed with gas would die. ...... -.
The gas had attacked the blood.
they said, slowly destroying red
corpuscles. The victims were COM
pared to the walking gas cases OF
the World war-gassed soldiers who
withstood the inroads of the poison
for a few days and then fell over
dead.
Some OF the survivors were pa
tients, nurses and doctors az the
clinic. Others were firemen and
policemen who risked their lives in
the acrid smoke to remove the
bodies. Some we're volunteers who
had worked feveriShly with them.
Physicians said most Of them had
but little chance for their lives.
Such q case was that OF DR.. John
Phillips, one of the founders Of the
clinic. Two tanks Of oxygen were
used. but he collapsed after walk
ing some distance to his home from
the clinic. The recourse having
failed. DR.. George w. Grille, CO.
founder and head of the clinic, per-
formed a blood TRANSMISSION upon his
colleague. IN spite Of everything
that could be done for him he died.
Six similar cases were recorded az
Mount Sinai hospital last night,
three Of them victims who had left
the charred clinic with no apparent
effects of the noxious fumes. One
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LEADERS Will
RECEIVE BILL
Senate Debenture To Go To
House C. o. r. Heads,
Decided Today

WASHINGTON, May 16.-tRl-
House republican leaders decided to-
day to receive the senate debenture
export farm relief bill SO it might
be sent to conference, but said in
approving such procedure they felt
senate inclusion of the debenture
proposition constituted an invasion
upon the constitutional prerogative
ing legislation.
1t is expected the farm bill now
formally will be sent to conference
with the senate either late today or
tomorrow.
House leaders are hopeful they
can prevail upon the conference
group to eliminate the debenture
proposition.
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$500, 100000 Cash
Offer For Boston
Paper Is Revealed

WASHINGTON, May l6.-fPl-
Richard Grozier. editor and pub
Usher or the Boston. Mass. Post.
testified today before the federal
trade commission that a Boston ad-
vertising man who claimed to rep
resent the power interests Of Samuel
insult last February made an offer
az s20,0O0,O00 in cash to buy the
Post.
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Emigrant Agent Tax
Bill Passed BY the
Senate Last Night

AUSTIN, May is 6-tFl-The John
son emigrant agent tax bill was
passed by the senate last night and
after the house concurs in an
amendment today 1t will 90 to Gov
ernor Moody for his signature De-
signed to protect Texas farmers
from agents who take laborers out
Of the state. It provides for an
annual state tax of $1,000 and cuun-
ty tax OF $500 against them.
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THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and thn NAllME.
Mostly cloudy and unsettled tr-
night and Friday. prcbanly Win
local showers: not much chanee -
temperature. Moderate Winds.
mostly eASterly.
For East Texas. Cloudy tonight
and Friday: probably local AilnMnrA
in south portion. somewhat warmer
in north portion Friday. Lignt 70
moderate eaStcrly winds Gu taae
cCnSf
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OKLAHOMA MAN AND
SON DROWN IN LAKE

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. Nay
l6.-iPl-The body ~ Paul W. Ea-
vison. 90. Oklahoma City real Ha-
tate salesman. who with nAE Hnm.
paul r.- Dawson. ". and Ellie Barn
hill. lS. was drowned late yeStrr-
day in Lake Overh0lSer. CITY water
reservoir. was recovered today hr
firemen.
Bodies nf the child ard EArnAAAAA
weer taken from the lake sDrt. AFT
cr the trio's small boat cApSinrr
Dawson went down after hoicira<
his small son above the saves Tor
several minutes. witnesses said
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University Dean
Charges His Side
Was Steam Rollered

BUFFALO, ". Y, May 16.-tPl-
The hitherto harmonious aspect of
the Baptist Bible Union convention
here. took on a disturbed tinge to-
day when Dean Earl Galloway of
Des Moines university. envoy Of
President H. C. Wayman. dismissed
with the faculty of the fInRsa-
mentalist school by the trustees,
charged from the floor that his side
had been steam rolleredr by DR..
r. +. Shields and the board and had
not been given a chance to present
its case.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-16
GALVESTON MAN is
KILLED IN WRECK

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May To-
tPl-The body of William g. =.
Tolex, AZ. superintendent Of mails
at Galveston. Tex, killed in an
automobile accident near here last
night, was sent TO Galveston today
for burial. Mrs. Tolex accompan-
led the body.
The driver OF an automobile
which collided with that Of Tolex
was arrested after the mishap, but
later released. Tolex, police said,
made a left turn on the highway
without warning.
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1880 CONVENTION OF
II. G. vi. AT AUSTIN

BRECKENRIDGE. Texas. May i6.
-(PD-The Texas Christian Mission
ary convention will return TO Austin
next year to celebrate the 1900th an
nivarsary Of the pentacost and for
its third state convention in Aus
tin. The decision was reached at
the convention meeting here yes
terday at the same time officers for
the coming year were named. Rev.
T.. ID. Anderson. Fort Worth. was
chosen president OF the convention
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PROBATE OF WILL
HAS BEEN ORDERED

DALLAS. Texas. May 16.-tPl-
Probate Of the million dollar will
of the late Mrs. G. G. Slaughter
has been ordered. A contest was
instituted last year by A. A. and
c. G Slaughter. sons. when efforts
to probate the instrument were
made. Judge W. M. Holland was
named temporary administrator yes
terday pending outcome of the con-
tests. A permanent admini-trator
will be named.
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IDEAL WEATHER FOR
GRAF ZEPPELIN TRIP

NEW YORK. May 16.--tFl-- DR.
James III. Kimball. associate United
States meteorologist. predicted ideal
weather conditions over the south
ern route by way Of the Azores for
the dirigible Graf Zeppelin on its
flight from Germany TO the United
States.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-16
MACHINIST DIES
FROM GUN WOUNDS

NACOGDOCHES. Texas. May is.
-lPp-A. X Bonner, a machinist-
died here yesterday. shortly after
he had been found. wounded by a
gun, on the edge Of town. A verdict
Of suicide was returned. He Is sur
vived BY hts widow and several chill
dren-
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LAKE STEAMER CAUGHT
IN HEAVY BLIZZARD

SAULTE STE. MARIE. Mich.
May l6.--tPi-Caught I'm a blizzard
the steamer Henry G. Frick or the
Pittsburgh s. s. company. ground
ed In the lower st. Mary's river be-
low Sailors Encampment at l
o'clock this morning. The steamer,
upbound, Is believed TO be light.
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MISSIONARY RELEASED
BY BANDITS, REPORT

HANROW. China. May 16--Ad-
vices received at Hankow today re-
ported the release by bandits of
the Rev. Harry A. Schwendener Of
Chicago. a missionary. for the Chris
tian and missionary alliance.
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EXPERTS TO CONSIDER
GERMAN PREPARATIONS

PARIS. May 16.-tFl-The ex-
perts or all the creditor nations met
late this afternoon to consider the
German reparations settlement con-
ditions and the craft Of the report
which will be made to the interested
RnvernmentA
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FOOT OF SNOW FALLS
IN UPPER MICHIGAN

SALTE STE, MARIE. Mich. May
16.-gRl-A foot OF snow covered the
ground In this upper Michigan dis
trict today as winter in blizzard
form made m belated visit.
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There will he n further slight tn
moderate rise In the river as san
Benito and Brownsville during the
next "a I'D 76 hours. rrMrhlnG
stage of about " feet Mt Browns
vile sometime Friday. At Mn4
above Mission there viii bc no ma
terial change except continae g
fan slowly In the absence CT rains
NHnnn nrmMmrnN MN-NE MMMFAN.
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Robinson Scored
For 'IneXcuSable'
Handling of Funds

AUSTIN May l6The cent fund" created
against purchasers Of state lands public fund
all which remained unxended by the commissioner
the administration Of the 1925 the
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Graf Zeppelin Over
Barcelona In Second
Flight to America

BARCELONA,
Zeppelin passed Barcelona m
time.
MINES France z.--.,I-
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High and low tide az Point Isa-
bel tomorrow. under normal net
geological condition:
MAEM WM~~#A##~M $3.50 MM @
Low ......... 4.56 m un-. T.n6 wv. EHl
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Lawn Mowers

Garden Hose - SprinkIers
Grass Shears - Trimmers
w. II. Putegnat Company
Brownsville, Texas
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MINES France lay l6The Graf Zeppelin passed
u: 40 {. m. GAO m. z. 5. I'd !
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-01
AT THE HOSPITAL

Mrs A. N. Lenhart and baby boy left St. Ann's Hospital yester- day and are now at home in the Radio Apartments on Twelfth Street.
 The condition of Miss A. B. Coe- man, City Librarian, who entered St. Anns Hospital last Saturday for medical treatment, is slightly improved.
 Emmet Botelho entered St. Ann's hospital on Sunday and is receiving medical treatment.
 James M. Longhurst entered S: Ann's Hospital last night and is receiving medical treatment for a"l injured spine.
 Mrs. Henry Stevens, who has been receiving surgical treatment it St. Ann's Hospital since Septem- Der IA, returned to her home in Douglas today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-01
DETECTIVE IS SHOT DOWN ON
 HIS WAY HOME
Discarded Pistol Is Only Clue-Killer Fled After
 Shooting Victim

HAVRE DE GRACE, Maryland. Oct. 1.-The authorities, with noth- ing more tangible than a discarded pistol to work on, are searching for an assassin who last night killed A. A. Morrison, of New York. Pin kerton detective, assigned to the Tavre de Grace race track.
 Morrison was homeward bound when murdered.
 Witnesses said Morrison, while going through a darkened street, was accosted by man who said:
 Now I've got you"
 The man fired six shots into Morrison and then fled
 Morrison died five minutes after without regaining consciousness.
 The pistol was found later in a clump of bushes where it had been thrown by the killer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-01
RICH SURFACE FIND REPORTED
 ONUPPER TAKU
Local Prospectors Report Discovery of Silver-Lead
 Deposit of Value

Discovery of a silver-lead out cropping of substantial size and carrying values to S45 per ton in the Tal1u River district was re- ported here today It was made by Chris Ericson and Chick Ash by, local men. about three miles southeast of the Manville Group now being developed by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company
 Interested with i.shby and Brick sen are several local men includ- ing: Wyatt Kingman, Harry Stone house, James Wickersham, J. H. Hendrickson, James Kelly, Rev Harry R. Allen and Olaf Torkel- son. The assays made are said to have averaged s45 in lead and silver.
 The discovery is located near a waterpover site recently located by the Alaska Juneau The surface exposure showed veins l5 to 20 feet wide the length of two full claims, or 5000 feet. It is said that the Alaska Juneau has sent an engineer to the ground to look it over, and the Kennecott inter- ests have been asked to send an engineer, also, if they are inter- csted
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-01
N. 6. OFFICERS ACT AS COURT,
 CRIME PROBE
Military Court Organized Tn Texas to Sift Crime
 and Murder

BORGER, Texas, Oct. 1.-Re- lieved by the presence of 100 sol- diers assigned to administer mar tial law, long list of witnesses have been subpoenaed to appear be- fore a military court Investigating lawlessness in the turbulent oil boom town.
 The court has been established by Gen. Wolters, who led the troops into the town.
 The scope of the investigation is unknown but it is expected to continue until the National Guard officers, sitting as members of the court, have sifted every angle of Border crime on charges there has been official conspiracy to protect crime and also on investigation into the assassination on September 13 of District Attorney John Hol- mes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-01
ONLY ONE SWISS IN
 NINE WORKS IN HOTEL

GENEVA, oct. 1.-Switzerla1 really is not one great big hotel, as many have supposed.
 Hotels stick out from every moun- tain side and loom up in all the valleys but native statisticians can prove that the tourist trade is only part of the nations industry.
 Only a ninth of the Swiss work CTS are engaged in the hotels. Fig ures show, also, the importance of tips because wages in the hotel industry equal only a twentieth of the industrial payrollS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-10-01
MANAGER or HIRST MINE ARRIVES AND
 LEAVES FOR TAKU

Accompanied by Mrs. Williams, D. H. Williams, general manager of the Hirst-Chichagof mine on Chichagof Island, arrived here yes terday afternoon. He left this morning for the lower Taku River with w. L. Eaton to examine some mineral prospects in which they may become interested.
 Mir Williams and Mir Eaton were responsible for the entry of the United Eastern Mining Company into the Taku River district. They developed the Tulsequah Chic property last year to point that enabled them to sell to the larger concern.
 Mrs. Williams will remain here visiting friends while MT. Williams is on the trip They probably will return home late next week.