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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Boy Scouts Ordered
To Meet Saturday

Brownsville's Boy Scouts. total
ing six troops. have been ordered
to mobilize and report for duty
10 o'clock Saturday morning at the
ci.y hall BY Ed. r. Mockbee. scout
commissioner.
ut Is the duty or every scout TO
hold himself I'm readiness in case Of
an emergency. and the emergency
has now arisen Mr.. Mockbee said
Friday morning. The community
is depending upon the scouts for
assistance, and as scout commits
sioner. I say that our boys will
respond In full force"
The exact nature of the emery
ency was not revealed by commits
sioner Mockbee. but he explained
that II had To do with the city.
and with a campaign that is OF
vital Importance TO the health Of
the community.
"All scouts are asked TO appear
Saturday morning in the city
managers office IN fun uniform"
he added. However. those who do
not have uniforms, or whose
uniforms are not available, are
asked to report anyway. What We
want more than anything else Is
scout-power. and lots Of H."
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
20 In FIGHT
Matamoros Labor Union
Members Battle

Twenty men. all members OF diff
ferent MatamcroS labor unions.
were lodged in the city fail this
morning as a result OF a free for all
fight that took place In the "5indi-
CATO Hall this morning.
T. ten o'clock this morning, "a
squad OF mounted police led BY
Erasmo Blanco. acting chief OF the
Matamoros police department, ans
wered an emergency riot call. The
men that we're lodged in the city
jail were subdued soon after the
arrival Of the mounted police.
Contradicting ver-ionS of how
the alteration started we're told
this morning by bystanders, who
witnessed the fight at union head
quarters on Sixth street, Matamor-
os' main thoroughfare. Some say
that the fight started between a
cook and a waiter, because, SO the
version goes. the cook was given
preference by the union I'm securing
employment. Friends took q hand
until the affair became a small
c-zCd riot.
Erasmo Blanco. acting chief OF
police said that he had been unable
to determine the real cause or the
near riot.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Site CHANGE
OF CAUSEWAY
APPLIED FOR
B uilding Company
Petitions Fox
On Plans

The causeway at Point Isabel,
which will span the Laguna Ma
Dire and connect the mainland with
Padre Island. will be widened to 20
feet instead of the 10 originally
planned. and lights will be placed
along the structure or an independ-
ent pole line about 10 feet south
Of the bridge, II an application
made to the district engineers Of
flee for permission to change both
location and plans for the cause
way are accepted.
The original plans were accepted
and approved by the assistant
secretary Of war March 81, 1880
Major Milo p. Fox, district engineer,
pointed out in a letter TO the local
chamber Of commerce in which he
notified the organization Of the ap-
plication for alterations.
The change in location will re-
suit in the bridge being moved
GAO feet south Of the first site.
New Location Set Forth
The new location Of the proposed
causeway Is described by Major
Fox as follows: Across the Laguna
Madre from Point Isabel TO Padre
Island. The extreme west portion
OF the bridge will now be about
$50 feet north Of and parallel 70
the existing railroad trestle al
Point Isabel. The east end OF the
bridge will land on Padre Island
about one mile above BrazoS San
tiago Pass. The approval plans for
this bridge show its extreme west
portion as being $500 feet north
Of and parallel to the existing
railroad trestle. The proposed
change in location therefore con-
sists in moving the bridge about
$40 feet south"
Two passages for boats are to be
constructed, one being 1000 feet
from the Point Isabel shore with a
horizontal clearance Of 100 feet
and another 1000 feet from the
Padre Island shore with a horiz-
ontal clearance OF so feet. These
bascule bridges when closed will
have vertical c~learances the same
as the t~restle. and will have un-
obstricted vertical clearance when
open.
Protest Limit August -
The deck OF the bridge will be
about IL feet above mean low tide,
and the independent pole line will
carry electric wires for the purpose
Of supplying power for operating
the bascule spans as well as light
ing the bridge. The wires will be
carried under the bascule OPEN
ings by mean OF submarine cables
sunk in the bay.
ANY protest you have to make
against the proposed operations
from the standpoint Of navigation
must be received. /. not later than
August 2e. 1890" the letter. a cir
cular sent over the state. continued.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
HEARING May
OPEN Way TO
PORT ACTION
Condemnation Suit
Now on Held
AS Pivot

A brisk battle over the vide div
ergence in estimated values OF prop
erty along the Brownsville Naviga-
ton district ship channel got under
way In the Cameron county court
at law Friday morning when the
condemnation suit against <. O..
Anguerra came up for consideration.
Six witnesses for the district
took the stand III the morning ses-
sion. DR.. 5. K. Hallam, M w.
Corey and J. B. Cummings were the
men who took the stand. Hallam
and Corey were qualified as real
estate experts. Hunter and Huff
mar. were introduced as officers in
the FL JardIn water district and
men acquainted with the value Of
property in that section. These men
estimated the value of the land In
question as from So an acre TO SIS
an acre at present.
They were ross examined )y Fl.
B. Galbraith for the defendant, and
he sought to bring out that these
were present values Of the land used
for grazing.
Conrad and Cummings were quail
flied as engineers.
Cummings. consulting engineer OF
the district. said he and Mai. Milo
p. Fox. u. 8. district engineer, be-
lieved that the district should con-
troll a strip one-half mile wide TO
the Point. He stated that he be-
lieved this was a public necessity.
This land, he said, should be
owned In order to provide a place
70 put the spoil from the channel
and for maintenance purposes.
Galbraith asked him If the half
mile strip was desirable. or a ne
cessity."
Both" was the engineers answer
The counsel for the defense then
attempted to draw parallel cases be-
tween the development Of abe Hous-
ton port and the project to be put
In here. II. L. Yates. counsel fol
the district. objected to the CON-
parison. saying that no basis for
such comparison had been laid.
The jury was excused while CAL
braith went further in his comESf-
son drawn from Cummings testi-
mony. This. however, was not
privileged matter.
The noon recess found cuunse
still plying Cummings with ques-
tons.
The court was to reopen at i:3C
p. m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

The Sterling cry had been hon
esty In government holding up
the Ferguson impeachment and
Mrs. Ferguson's pardon record as
the chief issue In the campaign:
and Ferguson had marshaled argu-
men. for the masses against the
classes" decrying S~terling's wealth
and bitterly attacking the Sterling
proposal for a state highway bond
issue.
Tonight they planned 70 conclude
the campaign. Ferguson addressing
a rally at Marlin, near his Austin
home, and Sterling carrying his
final plea 10 an audience at Gal
weston. Governor Dan Eoody. on
tinuing hts denunciation OF Fergu-
son, expected TO speak In Austin.
Meet AT San Antonio
The greatest lash OF the cam
paign was at a distance OF five city
blocks in San Antonio. last night,
when Sterling spoke TO a crowd
which TANNED the municipal audi
forum and Mrs. Ferguson set forth
her platform to q huge assembly on
historic Alamo Plaza. Speaking on
the platform with Mrs. Ferguson
was Lieut.. Gov. Barry Miller.
Sterling had with him as q speak
err Senator Clint Small of yelling
tol who swept West Texas IN the
July primary, to run third TO Mrs
Ferguson and Sterling. Senator
Woodward also was on the program,
repeating his denunciation Of the
Ferguson pardon record.
At Houston Governor Dan Moody
addressed a gathering which sea
soned observers ht-d to be the larg-
est ever assembled for a political
] Getting In Houston. He discussed
! detail the Impeachment record
OF Ferguson.
Jim at Fort Worth
Ferguson spoke before a crowd
that almost filled the grandStand OF
the Fort Worth baseball park. firing
broadside after broadside against
Sterling, Moody and Small, amid
the most persistent hecklIng he had
encountered In his campaign. His
salvos evoked roars Of applause
from his supporters In the audience
Bitter charges and counter-charge
continued TO fly in the attorney
generals race, Robert Lee Bohbitt,
incumbent, speaking as Tyler, and
James ". Alfred OF Wichita Falls,
his opponent, addressing a rally at
Greenville. Cecil Storey OF Vernon
who ran third In the attorney gen.
erals race In the July primary. an
nounced In a radio speech at ANA
rillo that he would support Alfred.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
IN OUR
VALLEY
BY c. M. HALL

THE Corpus Christi Caller in sup
porting d.. S. Purl for the office
of district attorney makes one
statement which will create many
objections in the Valley.
In making a plea for the home
man for the office II states: In ad-
dition TO being far removed in the
matter OF residence from the major
centers of activity IN the district,
Mr.. Richards fails in many p~articu-
lars to measure UP TO the standards
which should be required for the
office"
The engineer OF this column has
no crow to pick with the Corpus
Christi Caller for backing it's home
town man, If il so desires, but when
IL states that he is too far removed
from the major centers OF activity
we feel like the man who swears ne
can whip anybody in the world. the
Caller is just covering too much
territory.
Court records snow that more
cases emanate from this territory
than the Corpus end, 1t is found
after asking here, and all in the
valley Know Ilat the NalIey Is y
center Of activities, even in court
cases.
Mr.. Richards friends are also
loudly questioning the matter Of the
ability OF the two men, but that is
a matter Of opinion IN which we
concede to the Caller the right TO
It's own.
CHECKING UP on highway acct
dents with Officer Z. z. E2dler.
we find that to date during 1880
there have been eleven deaths in
Cameron county from automobile
collisions alone. This does not in
clude a few deaths where autcmo-
biles have been hit by trains.
There have been II treated in the
hospitals. To keep the record to-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Brownsville Lead
Imports Diverted

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22.-CP-
An effort by the Mexican Gov
eminent to divert to Tampico ship
ments Of lead mined in Mexico
and now exported by way of
Brownsville and Corpus Christi,
Texas. was launched today with
signature by President Ortiz Rubio
Of a decree calculated to enable the
National Railways to compete with
rates charged by American lines.
The decree authorizes the Treas
ury Department to pay the Nation
al Railways the difference between
its rates and those of American
lines on all lead shipped TO Tam
pico. The decree is effective i'm
! mediatelv
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Mexico Protests
About u. s. Planes

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22.-tP)-
General Anselmo Macias, Chief Of
Military Operations In the Tamau-
lipas District, today t~eiegraphed a
protest to the Secretary OF War
that three United States military
airplanes flying from Central
America landed ct Minatitlan,
Tampico. TO refuel, without hav-
ing obtained permission 10 fly over
| Mexico.
The planes later continued to
Brownsville.
The planes referred TO arrived In
Brownsville at 1870, refueled, and
continued 70 San Antonio the same
afternoon.
The trouble was doubtless due to
oversight E. w. Rihl, airport Of
fetal in Brownsville, said Friday
Possibly they did not think II nee
eSsary to obtain required clearance
papers since they were making only
one stop and that a short II for
refueling al Minatitlan.'
Mr.. Rihl added that another
government plane, a trimotored
marine ship passed through
Brownsville Friday. leaving the
municipal airport early this morn
ing. and that this ship also left
without arranging FOR the neces-
sary clearance papers.
This may result In another
complaint. but I'm not sure. Mr..
Rihl explained. The ship is 70
make but one stop in the southern
republic. and those in charge were
under the impression that papers
were not required"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Educational Talk
Scheduled by Vina

J.. Manuel Zorro Vina. talented
author and famous Mexican educ
ationalist. Is scheduled TO speak
Friday night in Brownsville at the
Benito Juarez hall on Jefferson
street between Fourth and Fifth
streets.
ST.. Vina Is from Mexico City.
and has been touring the United
States for the past eighteen
months, delivering addresses to
Latin American residents In the
country. He Is attempting TO get
Latin Americans to see the value
OF education. and his talks are
along this line.
Everyone interested Is invited 70
attend the meeting Friday night.
There is no admission charge.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

FOWEY, Eng, Aug. 22.-F-A
body. believed to be that Of Com
modore Henry d. King. member Of
parliament and former Aide-de-
camp 10 King George. was washed
up on the shore at Landsallos Bay
today.
Commodore King and four other
men-possibly five-lost their lives
when the Yacht Islander was
dashed on the rocks In Lantivet
Bay yesterday.
Thus far no other bodies have
been found
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Four Rescued From
Unidentified Shin

CHARLOTTETOwN, p. Z. T., Aug.
22-tP-Two men were taken dead
from the sea and four others were
rescued In a dying condition from
an unidentified ship. whose hulk,
burned 70 the waters edge lay eight
miles off the village Of Mimminigast,
In the Gulf Of st. Lawrence today.
Residents Of Mimminigast, an
Isolated settlement on the western
tip OF Prince Edward Island, went
to the rescue in gasoline launches
when the ship. in flames, was sight
ed One Of the dead men had been
drowned and the other burned to
death. Those rescued were suffer-
ing from what appeared to be fatal
burns.
1t was not learned whether others
had been trapped in the fire.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Pendergraft Held
Little Changed

The condition Of w. L. Fender
graft. manager OF the Port Isabel
Yacht club, remained unchanged ut
noon Friday. according TO reports
from Mercy hospital.
He has been seriously Ill since
Saturday evening. complications fol-
lowing an appendicitis operation
keeping him in q precarious state.
II was said that he passed a rest
less night Thursday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Workmen In
Subway Blast Die

NEW YORK, Aug. 22-lP-With
three workmen dead and three more
IN q serious condition from injuries
In an explosion $40 feet underground
In the new Yonkers-Long Island
aQueduct, the district attorney OF
Bronx county began an inquiry into
the accident.
The official said he would ask
a grand jury to look into a series OF
accidents which have occurred In
construction OF the aqueduct, and
would seek to determine whether
there was criminal or other liability
in the explosion early today-the
worst OF the series.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Cap Believed That
OF Publisher Found

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-R-
Friends Of Van Lear Black today
were asked to inspect q yachting
cap picked up on the beach near
Point Pleasant, N. J., In the belief
1t was the n worn by the Balti-
more publisher when he diSap-
peared from his yacht off the Jersey
coast Monday night.
The cap. found by two fishermen.
was Of expensive make and bore
the insignia Of the New York Yacht
club OF which Black was a member.
A lookout is being kept all along
the Jersey shore In the belief
Blacks body may have been washed
up. He Is believed to have fallen
overheard from his yacht.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

resort three weeks ago.
How the letter got there, I don't
know" Laube said. Il never heard
Of Jack Zuta until the newspapers
told OF his death"
Laube said he had been retained
by Gross. a Gary real estate man,
to negotiate the purchase Of some
hotel property In Florida.
I've been GroEs' attorney for six
OF sever years, and 7 made several
trips 70 Florida for him last year."
Laube aids He told me that some
Chicago men were going to finance
the Florida deal. The transaction
later fell through when Gross
could not raise the money"
Memory Fails
The letter to Gross mentioned
that my sonm made several attempts
to reach Gov. Doyle Carlton. Attor-
ney General Fred II. Davis. and
Senator John Watson by telephone
tonight but these men were un-
available"
Laube said his son was a news
paper man In Florida at that time.
Il don't recall why I wanted 10 see
Gov. Carlton and the other Florida
officials but It probably had some
thing TO do with the real estate
transactions" Laube said.
Another document, described by
the investigators as q police con-
fession, told OF the attempts of
"Mops" Volpa and Joe Genaro, no.
torious Chicago gangsters. to kid
nap and hold for $4,000 ransom
a man named Jack
Plot Thwarted
Helen Delner. q New York night
club hostess, made the confession.
She said Genaro brought her from
New York to serve as a lure. A
tip-off TO the police caused the ar
rest OF the girl and the ansom
plot was thwarted. the investigators
disclosed. However, it was not dis
closed how the confession came in
t. Zuta's possession.
Another batch OF correspondence
from Louis La Cava, one time Zuta
ally and later a Capone gunman.
was described by Pat Roche. chief
investigator for the states attorney.
as showing Zuta's power in Chi
cago.
La Cava was sought as a sus-
pect In the sensational murder OF
Assistant States Attorney William
tContinued on Page l4)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Bible Reading
Slavers at Large

ATLANTA, Ca, Aug, 22-PJ-
Fred Fair, condemned slayer Of q
policeman. and Sam Aiken. under
sentence OF death for killing his
wits and her alleged lover. sawed
their way TO freedom last night
from a cell in which they had spent
recent months together reading
aloud and discussing the Bible.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
1880
Toto /.

day We are introducing our Crash
O-Meter.' On IL we Will carry the
number killed and injured each day
and the number OF deaths for the
year.
Today's record is blank, let's see If
we cannot keep II that way.
WITH the schools opening in
wv Brownsville q payroll activity
will be opened which is little
thought Of in connection Herewith.
II was said at the Kiwanis club
yesterday that IL means in salaries
something like $4,000 per month.
This means that this sum will be
distributed 70 teachers and school
workers. which In turn will be put
into active circulation in the city.
When that comes and We add the
payrolls OF our many projects now
in the offing. business will pick up
in such a manner that the national
map OF the United States Chamber
Of Commerce which always shows
the Valley white, will be as pure as
the %proverbial driven snow.
MINATED Annie says in summer
~ we complain Of the heat and IN
winter We complain Of having
10 pay for it. This political CAM
paign closing today might also turn
out suitable Tor the same applica-
ton.
ONE or the latest biggest fish
rk1rsn~ -,s.-~ l,.4 - +La xr.rfav-
is that a Dallas fishing party
caught ninety mackerel off Port Isa-
bel by Q O'Clock, then had some Of
them for dinner in Dallas
That sounds like the way the Val
lev does thingr instead OF Dallas.
But We are glad TO see that the
larger north Texas cities are catch
ing the Valley spirit.
MARTIN Andersen. dynamic editor
W Of the Harlineen Star. agrees
ava with Editor Mcdaniel OF Meal
len that when a column writer writes
a whole column IN one day he has
done a days work.
We wish they had advised with the
engineer Of this column. Often in
pulling the throttle to run this COL
umn the full 20 inches we do a
weeks work in hour. and then
wonder If the public Will select a
quick way or slowly torture us to
death.
AIOW the campaign for governor
IN Is drawing 70 heated close. we
think that one OF the best things
we have read IN the many things
that have been said is the state
-1ent made by Cone johnson at Gal
weston the other day when he de-
clared to the effect:
THAT Jim Ferguson's offer Of two
governors for the price of n
BOUNDED TO him like a closing out
offer"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
ASKED

WILMINGTON. Del Aug. L-tFl
"A petition asking for the appoint
ment OF n receiver for Warner Pic
lures. Inc. and an accounting was
filed today with the clerk OF the
court Of chancery he-..
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

REGGIE, Calabria, Italy, Aug. p.
PA slight undulatory earth
quake shock was felt here at 2:30
a. m. bringing about a panic among
the populace. There was no damage.
Roccella, Jonica, and Cantanzaro
also felt the Gremox.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Final Campaign
Guns Fire Today
Bitter Invective and Charges Mark Close OF
States Hottest Race in Memory
g. Of Many Now Living

Political candidates engaged In a last barrage OF sheIfre Friday as
the campaign neared the zero hour and the ordinary citizen was saying
IL had been q long time since Texas had seen such a campaign as this
between Ross q. Sterling and Mrs. Miriam "A. Ferguson for the demo-
cratic nomination for governor.
Bitter invecttve and charge after charge was being hurled by batteries
OF speakers aligned with Sterling on the one hand and with James =.
Ferguson. husband Of the former woman governor. on the other.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Papers Expose Cangsters
Zuta's Records in Strong Box Touch Many
Officials Scattered Over United States

CHICAGO, Aug. 22-tP-The lids Of Jack zutss strong boxes were
torn from their hinges today and hitherto unknown contents scattered
far and wide.
Reams OF additional papers and records were made public by the in
vestigators, some relating TO public officials. some to gangland activities
Attorney Ben Laube. Of Gary, Ind. said he was the writer of a letter
mailed to Frank Gross OF Gary from Orlando. Fla, and signed Ben
found in the possessions Of zuta, who was slain at a Wisconsin lake
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
FEuDIsT rs DEAD

BALTIMORE. Aug. 22.-tF-Wil-
liam Anderson cap" Hatfield,
known as the last or the Hatfield
Mccoy Feudists OF West Virginia
and Kentucky. died today ut q
hospital here at the age Of 81.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley
Fair to partly cloudy tonight n
Saturday.
For East Texas: Generally fair
tonight and Saturday except partly
cloudy on the coast.
Light TO moderate southerly T1rd
on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
AVIATOR TAKES OFF

FEYKJAVIK. Iceland. Aug. 81
tP-The German aviator Captain
Gronau took off from R~eykjavik
Harbor at Gas o'clock this NORM
ing (2:35 "A. NJ. <. S. IT, and his
course indicated that he was head
ing for the United States.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

For ten years, A. q. Cole, Ray
mondyille classer, has been In the
cotton business in Texas, most OF
that time around GreenviIle. al
though he was for several seasons
in Corpus Christi territory. He Is
a World War veteran and an ex-
student OF s. NJ. u.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

Native OF Galveston, where he
was reared, L. W. Weber OF Har-
lingen, entered the cotton bust
ness at Galveston In 1916, contnu-
ing there until 1925, when he be-
came manager of the cotton de-
partment for several gins at Har-
lingen. which place he was hold
ing when he accepted the position
as Harrington manager for the
Texas Cotton Cooperative Associ-
alton.