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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
BRICANDS STAY
500 PRISONERS

SHANGHAI. Aug. 22-CP-A car
nival of footing and killing in
Hanchengchen. Western Hc>an
province. was reported by Chinese
press dispatches today saying brig
ands had slain 500 persons. looted
800 shops and abducted 300 persons
whom they were holding for ran
SOM.
The dispatches said the brigands.
numbering more than 1000 fell
upon the virtually defenselesS city
two weeks ago. and as a result Of
their occupation. the town was prac-
tically in ruins.
Yesterday. the reports said, the
marauders left Hanchenghen, TAX
ing with them their captives. The
bandits were said to be making their
way toward the west, and seeking
their hide-a-ways in the mountains
OF Eastern ShenSi province.
With the bandit army went prac-
tically everything Of value in the
town, 1t was said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

NEW YORK, Aug. 22-tPl-With
three workmen dead and three more
in a serious condition from injuries
III an explosion GAO feet underground
In the new Yonkers-Long Island
aqueduct. the district attorney OF
Bronx county began in 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
Heat Prostitution
Cases Investigated

HUNTSVILLE. Aug. 22-tR-Lee
Simmons. manager Of the Texas
prison system, continued today his
investigation Of circumstances sur
rounding the death OF three state
prisoners from heat ~prostration and
the serious illness Of three others
fro ma similar cause.
The three men died Wednesday
while picking cotton. Jimmie Ar
mold and Herbert Davis died at the
Clemens state prison and Zeb Dan
iels. negro, at the Ramsey farm.
Simmons said he was confident
that 1.-The two white men died OF
heat prostration induced by the ex-
cessive heat. They were not driven
TO oyer-exert themselves SO far as I
can ascertain from the guards" He
added that he had learned the negro
was overcome after a picking race
with another negro.
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 18 originally
planned, and lights will be placed
along the structure on an independ-
ent pole line about 10 feet south
Of the bridge, If an application
made to the district engineers Of
lice for permission to cnange 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 APP
plication for alterations.
The change in location will re-
suit in the bridge being moved
$40 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
CT the bridge will now be about
$50 feet north Of and parallel 70
the existing railroad trestle at
| 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
GAO feet south"
Two passages for boats are to be
constructed, n being 1000 feet
from the Point Isabel shore with q
horizontal clearance of 100 feet,
and another 1000 feet from the
Padre Island shore with a horiz-
entail clearance OF so feet. These
bascule bridges when closed will
have vertical clearances the same
as the trestle. and will have I'M
obstricted vertical clearance when
open.
Protest Limit August 20
The deck OF the bridge will be
about - feet above near 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 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. mot later than
August %, $780," the letter. a cir
cular sent over the state. continued.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Cap Believed That
OF Publisher Found

NEW YORK. Aug. 22.-LP-
Friends or Van Lear Black today
were asked to inspect a yachting
cap picked UP on the beach near
Point Pleasant. N. j., in the belief
II was the one 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
Mexico Protests
About u. s. Planes

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22.=P-
General Anselmo Macias, Chief OF
Military Operations in the Tamau-
lipas District. today telegraphed a
protest to the Secretary Of War
that three United States military
airplanes flying from Central
America landed az Minatitlan,
Tampico, to refuel. without hav-
ing obtained permission to fly over
Mexico.
The planes later continued to
Brownsville.
The planes referred TO arrived IN
Brownsville at 1880. refueled. and
continued 10 San Antonio the same
afternoon.
The trouble was doubtless due to
oversight" <. w. Rihl. airport Of
fetal in B'ville.. said Friday. Posi-
bly they did not think 1t necessary to
obtain required clearance papers
since they were making only one
stop, and that a short one for
~refueling at 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 to
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

The Sterling cry had been non
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-
ment for the masses against the
classes" decrying Sterling'S wealth
and bitterly attacking the Sterling
proposal for a state highway bond
issue.
Tonight they planned to conclude
the campaign. Ferguson addressing
a rally at Marlin, near his Austin
home. and Sterling carrying his
final plea to an audience az Cal
weston. Governor Dan Moody. con-
tinuing his denunciation or Fergu-
son, expected 10 speak in Austin
Meet At San Antonio
The greatest lash or the cam
paign was at q distance Of five city
blocks In San Antonio. last night.
when Sterling spoke to GA crowd
which damned the municipal audi
forum and Mrs. Ferguson set forth
her platform TO a huge assembly on
historic Alamo Plaza. Speaking or
the platform with Mrs. Ferguson
was Lieut.. Gov. Barry Miller.
Sterling had with him as a speak
er Senator Clint Small OF Yelling
tcl who swept West Texas In the
July primary. to run third To Mrs.
Ferguson and Sterling. Senator
Woodward also was or the program.
repeating his denunciation OF the
Ferguson pardon record.
At Houston Governor Dan Moody
addressed a gathering which sea-
soned observers he'd to be the larE-
est ever assembled for a political
E-eeting In Houston. He discussed
IL detail the impeachment record
Of Ferguson.
Jim at Fort Worth
Ferguson spoke before a crowd
that almost filled the grandstand W
the Fort Worth baseball park. firing
broadside after broadside against
Sterling. Moody and Small, amid
the most persistent heckling ne had
encountered in his campaign. His
salvos evoked roars OF applause
from his supporters i'm the audience.
Bitter charges and counter-charges
continued to fly in the attorney
generals race. Robert Lee Bobbitt,
incumbent. speaking at Tyler. and
James v. 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
nouncec In a radio speech az ANA
rillo that he would support Alfred.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Body of vi. p?

FOWEY. Eng, Aug. 22.-P)-A
body. believed TO be that Of Com
modore Henry d. King. member OF
parliament and former Aide-de-
camp to 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 Ship

CHARLOTTETOWN. p. E. l., Aug.
22-CPl-Two men were taken dead
from the sea and four others were
rescued IN a dying condition from
an unidentified ship, whose hulk,
burned to 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
IN OUR
VALLEY
BY c. Nj. 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 1t states: In adj
dition to being far removed In the
matter Of residence from the major
centers Of activity in the district,
Mr. Richards fails in many particu-
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 1t SO desires. but when
1t states that he is too ar removed
from the major centers OF activity
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
New River Group
Meets on Sept. 2
Especial to The Herald

SAN BENITO, Aug. a. l.. M.
Lawson, sole American commission
er of the international Water Com
mission, United States and Mexico,
has called the first meeting since
his recent appointment and 1t Will
be held in FL Paso. his home, Sept. 2.
Notice OF the meeting was re-
ceived here by w. z. Anderson. one
time member Of the commission and
now consulting engineer 10 I. {
body. Louis c. Hill of Los Angeles
also IS consulting engineer and Karl
+. Keller Of Provo, Utah, Is assist
ant engineer.
The commission will outline flu
ture work.
1t formerly was composed OF DR..
Elwood Mead. Gen. Lansing Fl.
Beach and Mr.. Anderson. 1t was
unable TO reach an agreement with
Mexico on division or waters OF the
Rio Grande, Tia Juana and Color
ado rivers
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Two Bible Reading
Slayers at Large

ATLANTA. Ga. Aug. z2-tP=
Fred Fair. condemned slayer OF n
policeman. and Sam Aiken. under
sentence OF death for killing his
wife 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
Opening of Course
Will Attract Many
ESPECIAL to The Herald

70 TIC 4INIuENH
HARLINGEN. Aug. 22.-Prepara-
tons are being made for between
200 and 300 Texas golfers to par
ticipate in the opening tournament
Of the municipal golf course. to be
held here Sept. 4 to 6. Prizes Of
approximately $1,000 are to be offer
ed.
The course will be practically
completed Saturday, and play will
begin unofficially on Sunday. Sew
eral new sandtraps have been added.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Papers Expose Gangsters
Zuta's Records in Strong Box Touch Many
Officials Scattered Over United States

CHICAGO. Aus. 22-pP-The lids Of Jack zutas 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
FFVrnTGT &c nFAn

BALTIMORE, Aug. 22.-F-Wil-
liam Anderson Gap" Hatfield,
known as the last OF the Hatfield
Mccoy Feudists OF West Virginia
and Kentucky. died today nc u
hospital here at the age Of OF.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Campaign
Guns Fire Today
Bitter Invective and Charges Mark Close OF
States Hottest Race in Memory
Of Many Now Living

Political candidates engaged in a last barrage OF shenfte Friday as
the campaign neared the zero hour and the ordinary citizen was saying
It had been q long time since Texas had seer such a campaign - this
between Ross s. Sterling and Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson for the demo-
cratic nomination for governor.
Bitter invective and charge after charge was being hurled by batteries
Of speakers aligned with Sterling OF the one hand and with James z.
Ferguson, husband or the former woman governor, Oh the other.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
AVIATOR TAKES DEE

REYKJAVIK, Iceland. Aug. %
Pp-The German aviator Captain
Gronau took Nf from ReysjaviE
Harbor at 6:35 o'clock this morn
ing OBS A. NJ. E. s. t. and hi:
chourse indicated that he was head.
ing for the United States.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair 70 partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday.
For East Texas: Generally fair
tonight and Saturday except partly
cloudy on the coast.
Light 70 moderate southerly winds
on the coast
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
SKE

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

we feel like the man who Swears he
can whip anybody In the world. the
Caller is just covering too much
territory.
Court records show that more
cases emanate from this territory
than the Corpus end. il is found
after asking here, and all in the
Valley know that the Valley Is the
center Of activities, even in court
cases.
MI. Richards friends are also loud
ly 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 70
it's own.
CHECKING up on highway acct
1, dents with Officer Z. z. Eadier,
we find that 10 date during 1890
there have been eleven deaths in
Cameron county from automobile
collisions alone. This does not in
clude a few deaths where automo-
biles have been hit by trains.
There have been II treated in the
hospitals. To keep the record to-
day we are introducing III 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
re cannot keep it that way.
,IJIrH the schools opening in
wv Brownsville a payroll activity
- will be opened which is little
thought Of in connection Herewith.
II was said at the Kiwanis club
Yesterday that IL mean In salaries
something like $4,000 per month.
This means that this sum will be
distributed to 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 I'D
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
IA we complain Of the heat and in
winter We complain OF having
TO pay for IT,, This political cam
paign closing today might also turn
out suitable for the same applica-
ton.
nNE Of the latest biggest fish
stories going out OF the Valley
is that a Dallas fishing party
caught ninety mackerel off Port Isa-
bel by 8 o'clock, then had some Of
them for dinner Ill Dallas.
That sounds like the way the VAL
lev does things instead OF Dallas.
But we are glad 70 see that the
larger north Texas cities are catch
ing the Valley spirit.
NEARTIN Andersen, dynamic editor
OF the Harlingen Star, agrees
80 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
unln the full 20 inches we do a
weeks work In one hour. and then
wonder if the public will select a
quick way or slowly torture us TO
death.
AYOW the campaign for governor
IN is drawing TO heated close. we
- think that one Of the best things
we have read IL the many things
that have been said Il the state
ment made by Cone Johnson at Cal
weston the other day when he de-
ciared to the effect:
THAT Jim Ferguson's offer IF two
governors for the price Of one
sounded to him like a closing out
offer"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

For ten years, a. B. Cole, Ray
mondville classer, has been in the
cotton business in Texas, most OF
that time around Greenville, 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

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 Gross attorney for six
or sever years. and I made several
trips to 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 son made several attempts
to reach Gov. Doyle Carlton. Attor-
ney General Fred III. Davis. and
Senator John Watson by telephone
tonight but these men were I'M
available"
Laube said his son was a news
paper man in Florida at that time.
Il don't recall why I wanted 70 see
Gov. Carlton and the other Florida
officials but 1t probably had some
thing to do with the real estate
transactions" Laube said.
Another document, described bv
the investigators as a police con-
fession, told Of the attempts Of
"Mops' Volpa and Joe Genaro. no.
torious Chicago gangsters. 10 kid
nap and hold for $4,000 ransom
a man named Jack"
Plot Thwarted
Helen Delmer, a New York night
club hostess. made sthe 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 ransom
plot was thwarted. the investigators
disclosed. However. it was not dis
closed how the confession came in
10 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
continued on Page Ia
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 busi-
ness at Galveston in 1916, contnu-
ing there until 1926. 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.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22

As manager for the Farm Blu
reau Marketing Association at Las
Cruces. NJ. Mexico, a. ". Smith OF
Edinburg became familiar with
the cooperative "A. g. M. College,
and for a number OF years operat-
ed an independent cotton bust
ness.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
HEIR
IS BORN TODAY
Scotland Rejoicing Over
Girls Arrival In
Famous Castle

CLAIMS, Scotland. Aug. 22-tP-
A new heir presumptive to the Brit
ish throne rested in her cradle to-
day at CLAIMS castle, oblivious to the
commotion her birth caused through
the length and breadth of the en-
pire.
Both child and mother, the Ouch
ess Of York, wife Of the second son
OF King George, were said by DR..
Davis Miles and Sir Henry Simson,
royal physicians, 70 be doing nicely.
The little princess is the fourth
grand child Of King George, her own
sister. Princess Elizabeth. and Prin-
cess Mary'S two sons having preced-
ed her into the world. She is the
fourth In succession to the throne:
her uncle, the Prince of Wales. her
father, and Princess Elizabeth all
are In precedence.
British dynasts had hoped the
child, vino had been expected for
days, would be a boy, thus enabling
a male succession TO the throne.
The birth was at 2:22 p. m. dur
ing a storm which beat about the old
castle in a way remindful of the
tempest Of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
the plot Of which al laid in the
castle.
King Is Wired
The accouchment took place in
the Duchess childhood bedroom.
Besides Sir Henry SimSon, who is
a noted obstetrician. and DR. Miles,
the Duchess was attended by Nurse
Beevors. who was with her at the
time Princess Elizabeth, now four
years old, Eas born.
Directly after birth Of the child
IL was taken by Nurse BeevorS TO
John r. Clynes. British home secre-
tar, who has been here for several
days IN order TO attest birth OF a
royal heir. as required by custom
MI. Clynes took the royal child in
his arms and directly wired the Lord
Mayor Of London, the home office
at London. and the war office, whose
duty 1t IS to arrange firing of an
artillery salvo in a first salute to
the babe.
The first to be notified King
George and Queen Mary, IN the
summer palace at SandI lgham.
both returned their congratulations
and will leave Sandringham today
(CoTTinued on Page 14)
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There will be no material change
I'm the river during the nev "a 70
43 hours.
Frnnh prnnnrA III rA-Hr
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Take The Edge-Of The Road.
Rio Grande Valley Trust Cos-Adv,
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Flood Present 14-Hr. l4-HT1
Stage Stage Chang. Rain
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide az Point Isabel
tomorrow. under normal meteorol-
ogical conditions:
High ...... 4.32 n. MI: 1851 ID m.
Low ....-... 9:01 a. m; 9.07 D. m