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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
RANGERSLOSE
MOB BATTLE
Court House Fired After Three RepuIses-
Tear Bombs Used; Moody Wires Not
To Shoot; Black Sought

DENlSON' ays-cF-Intent upon Hnching George Hughes, negro.
charged with crininaly attacking a white woman, a mob on several
hundred men renewed is attack upon the Grayson county courthouse
u l&o p m- after IL once had been dispersed BY Texas Rangers and
county Officers who used tear bombs. The second attempt also failed 70
gain access TO the negro.
A large crowd from here was reported en- route to Sherman to augment
the one seeking to get the negro.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
Court Nominee May
Be Sent Senate TODAY

WASHINGTON. May 9.-tP1-
President Hoover was said today nc
the White House To have decided
Upon "a new nominee for the SUI
preme court and hls name Is to be
sent TO the senate today or tomor-
row, II that body Is in session.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
Funds Pour In For
Storm-SWept Area

DALLAS. May 9-(P-Contribu
tons to a $4,000 tornado relic
fund sought by the Texas chaptel
American Red Cross, were &C
cumulating today as communitie
scattered across central and sout,
Texas continued preparations I
bury additional victims OF Tuesday
storm which took 10 lives and in
jured more than 100 persons.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09

nROBABLY tie hottest census
race IN Texas will be that stag
ed between Robstown and hiicr.
Returns reported completed today
by l.. Z. Bennett, chief enumerator,
show that Robstown has exactly one
more person than that Of Alice, or
s,lS3 compared to 4.i82.
Wagors are already beng laid 1T
Brownsville on what the final count
! viii shog here. 1t is generally con
ceded that ii will 90 over 10000.
will not reach 25, 000-but now
much over 10000 is the point OF
contention.
Harrington and San Beni5o are
staging a hot race, on paper at least,
but how any Of this will end with
the final announcement Will not be
known for at least a week.
NEEM5ERS OF the Kiwanis club
iii yesterday stepped GU and IN
animously endorsed Judge Dan
cy's idea Of closing the gaps in the
Military highway.
That the Valley should have that
road completed and that Rangerville
should have a hard surfaced road
seem to be favored by the Valley
as a whole.
Judge Dancy has advanced sever
al ideas on how to do it. Some
day it must be done, if the Valley
is to progress. And chances are il
can never be one any cheaper at
any later date. The cheapest con-
tract ever let in Cameron county
was recently let On the Boca Chica
road.
MINATED Annie of The Browns
~ vile Herald office stepped out
again yesterday. This time she
wonders how some people live 70
such ripe old ages and still remain
8 green.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09

FOR TESTIMONY
Plaintiffs Attorney Labels Subpoena Plea
Grandstand Play: Judge Withholds
Decision Until Later

From the halls OF congress counsel for Golfers Weekly sought to call
witnesses today to aid in fighting off Republican National Committeeman
4" .. Creagers 100000 libel suit against the magazine.
Right after one Of the perennial arguments a to the admissibiity Of
certain testimony. Charles Z. Kelley, chief OF the publications legal
staii' requested Federal Judge w. Lee Estes to subpoena U. s. Senator
Smith W. Brookhart and Representatives Harry M. Wuzbach, who is
from Texas. Fred r. Lehbach. Ioring M Black Carl Chindhlon and
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09


didacy, however. was not expected
until after he has filled a series OF
speaking engagements.
The announcement today con-
firmed rumors that he would run.
started as the result of the issu-
ance Of three statements in which
he set out the cardinal problems
now faced by the state. These
points were expected to be made the
main issues or the campaign.
IN his informal announcement to-
day. the governor said he was seri-
ously figuring on running" Am
plifying this, he said: The pros
poets Of being forced to choose De-
tween Ferguson, a man who has
been impeached. running either I'M
his own name or III the name OF
somebody else. and Mayfield, a man
whose political history Is well
known. is not very inviting to the
people of Texas"
Earle B. Mayfield is to make his
opening address tomorrow al
Winnsboro in his campaign for the
nomination while the supreme court
was expected to hand down "a de-
cision next Wednesday on James
Z. Ferguson's mandamus action 20
compel the state democratic execu-
tive committee to certify his name
for a place on the ballot.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
QUOTA $500

Especial 20 The Herald)
McALLEN. May 9-Citizens Of
Hidalgo county will be asked to
contribute $500 to be used in bring
Ing relief to storm-Stricken areas
Of TsAas. according to DR.. Allen
Kearby, secretary Of the Hidaleo
county chapter OF the American
Red Cross.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
Crash Kills Two

LANGLEY FIELD, Va, May g.
R-Captain Percy O.. Black, eighth
field artillery, was In a hospital to-
day. the sole survivor OF an air
plane collision which cost the lives
of Lieutenant Colonel Phra Am
ara Of the Siamese air corps and
Lieutenant Robert j. Brown, Jr., u.
S. A. air corps.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
1000 Dead In Quake

TEHERAN. Persia, May e-tP)-
The newspaper Iran said today
that there was an earthquake Mon
day at Salmasg. Most OF the build
ings in the town collapsed during
a second shock.
Exact number of casualties Is not
stated but Iran repeats other news
papers estimates Of 1000 dead.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
5 Frs in Ruins

mn N. j., May 9.-tR-
NE PIeand a portion of the
PlallI " .lulf Refining company
mSie TuL5day with an estimar-
fed by 6.00S raIlore ~ cr,,da ~
anu sasoilnsd ragged through the
plant IOI HOURS.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
1l8 Church Members
Guests at Reception

Especial 10 The Herald.)
McALLEN. May 9.-New adult
members. a total Of 118, Of the First
Methodist church who have been
received into the church member
ship since February will be guests at
a reception to be held in the social
rooms Of the church Friday night.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
Valley May Get Cotton Branch
District of Al Counties to Have Dozen
Offices With Federal CIassers

n IeXas Cotton Cooperative association, the organization through
which the federal farm boards plans for Texas cotton farmers are be-
ing carried put VIII establish a number of bronch offices with federaHy
licensed classers in charge Of 10 o IL most important cotton centersi IN
ms district comprising Al counties with Corpus Christi as headquarters.
q letter from Sidney Kring, Corpus, disclosed FRIDAY.
A meeting will be held June 3, Tuesday, in Corpus Christi with Carl
Williams. member OF the Federal Farm Board. speaking on subject
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09

head OF a senate patronage inves
tigattng committee which came In
to the Rio Grande Valley and Lehl
bach was chairman OF a house com
mittee Of inquiry.
we want them" Kelley said. II
testify about what Creager tolC
them here in Texas"
Answer Heated
The jury just was filing back into
the courtroom, after being banishec
pending the termination Of the evi.
dence argument. and George Hill
Jr- Creager's head lawyer, appar.
emily angry, arose and said, i've got
something to say on that score. You
know" he said turning to Kelley
why you're making that motion a,
this time"
He argued that the court had no
power 70 summon a congressman
away from is legislative duties.
i never found them busy with
legislative duties" Kelley answered
smiling.
Decision withheld
Judge Estes withheld his decision,
saying there was no particular
rush.
Hill meanwhile had charged KEEL
ley with asking for the senators
and representatives merely as a
grand stand play"
Unless" the Creager attorney
said, this is an empty gesture ne
can get those witnesses by a mere
request"
ITS nc. that. sir" Kelley re-
piled.
After that brush. M. G. Chandler,
Hidalgo county realtor whose let
tiers TO Golfers alleging a political
hierarchy In the county led the
magazine to send Owen p. White
for an investigation which ended IN
'High-Handed and Hell-Bent.' the
article Creager excepted to. was PUT
back on the stand.
White. lanky. somewhat stoop-
shouldered. still rather bronzed
from q long contact with the Ei
.aso sunlight. and bushy az hair,
.ook a little black notebook on the
stand with him wherein he had
iotted down many of the charges
Hidalgo county political
condition which later wSre used In
High Handed and Hell-Bent.'
Money Wasted"
He described how NJ. c. Chandler,
real estate man; Dave Kirgan.
mayor of Weslaco; F. B. Freeland,
mayor of McAllen. and Ed Couch.
resident of a Weslaco bank, had
written Golfers letters saying the
money was being wasted
md the taxpayers voice being de-
lied by the A. Y. Baker democratic
'egime in Hidalgo county.
At their urgent request. he said,
lie finally consented to come TO the
Talley and make an investigation.
Ie declined after arriving. he said
stay at the home Of Mayor Kir-
an. going to a hotel instead be-
he wanted to avoid any par
isanship.
On his first day in the Valley.
White went on. he and Kirgan went
D McAllen.
I'VE stopped" he said. at banks
nd stores and they told me Of the
financial e~rookedness and
corruption corroborating
le charges / had seer in newspa-
Ter clippings. The business men
Did me the same thing as the bank
rs. Then we went TO Edinburg and
talked to a lawyer think his
ame was Brown-who went more
ito detail.
He told me then they could Sc
Ire no financial statement from
e county. He told me Of ~extrava-
INT expenditures Of public money
Id practically every man I saw
i'd something about the Tobasco
iloolhouse as an outstanding ex-
nple Of graft. They all told me
e same story of corruption. They
i'd they were all subject to the
of the Baker ring.
Continued on page ID
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09

! As Rangers surrounded the Negro
In the court room where he was IN
have been tried today. county or
ficers and Sherman firemen were
II - Il -.
COURT HOUSE AFIRE
The Grayson county court
house I'm which George Hughes
negro, IS confined from IA mob
seeking 60 lynch him was OH
fire this afternoon.
In the fourth rush on the
courthouse 10 gallons Of gasoline
was poured into the basement
and set afire.
= 49,
fighting the crowds that overran
the courthouse corridors, lawn, and
streets surrounding the building.
Tear gas bombs were used freely
by officers 10 drive back the crowd.
and firemen a up ladders to the
second floor OF the courthouse down
which they forced IA number III
those inside the building.
Negro I'm Courthouse
II was said the negro was taken
by the Rangers from the vault and
rushed TO another section Of the
building still free from the flames.
Crowd Gathers
The crowd rapidly grew after the
negro was brought Cd the courtroom
and the Rangers. sent on orders of
Gov. Dan Moody. surrounded the
negro while county officers and
firemen sought TO drive
back the mob.
A third rush on the courthouse
failed this afternoon. In its third
the mob sought 10 dynamite
the building. but officers and Tex
H. Rangers managed I'D extinguish
several charges or the explosives
they had been ignited about
The structure.
The crowd was said 10 be rapidly
growing, being augmented by per-
IONS from surrounding towns who
had been informed or the excite
nent. The highway between Sher-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
StorrKills One

hASiLNGSebr., May 9-Pl-
a WIG sVorM ronadic fury swept
hastInsS IaSIh ut. One man was
hliieu, severaI-e injured slight
S100, 900.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
Hoover's Mexico Trip
Is Still Undecided

WASHINGTON, May 9-P- A
decision has not vet been recahed
by President Hoover upon his pro
posed trip TO Cuba and Mexico next
winter. He still has under consid-
Grafton the continuance OF his good
will tour begun before he took Of
flee.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
METHODISTS AID

DALLAS. May 9-Py-Delegates
to the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
opened their hearts and pocket
hooks for sufferers in the tornado
stricken sections Of Texas today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
IN OUR
HOW ABOUT III?
BY CHARLES HALL

HOW ABOUT 1T?
When a man stops having ex-
periences he stops learning;
after that he merely remembers.
and then he becomes muddled."
Ben Hecht, author.
III women we're TO have a
gospel Of beauty, one word would
contain it, and that word is
refinement"
-Marilyn Miller. stage and
screen star.
The United States is the
greatest law factory the world
has ever known"
Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09

Back fences are fast disappearing
but the fear of backyard converse
ton still has much TO do with good
morals.
PROGRESS is still reported for
the glider club at Brownsville.
= II was said yesterday that this
club Is to be a Valley organization
and not a Brownsville, proper, pro-
lect.
AT an early date ii is planned to
eject a central governing committee
with the officials chosen from the
Valley as a whole. The first glider
with a sail recently took to the air
and proved a helpful innovation.
II il is ever discovered how 70
start the things without playing
crack-the-whip, the automobile in
dustry may have to look to its lau-
rels.
HAVE received a letter from A. j.
m McColl of McAllen about that
- big meeting he had up there.
Some seem prone to think hat ne
had only a selfish motive In calling
the meeting. What II he does gain
q bit personally. If it works out for
the general good OF the Valley? But
we believe with Mr.. McColl when he
saws that he is inaugurating the
move for the Valley a. a whole.
HUME is not SO far off. Just before
June. voices that otherwise had
= hardly been noticed begin to take
on a decided sweetness in solos and
duets before Valley pianos.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09

nan and Denison, only a few miles
apart, was reported crowded with
automobiles hurrylng people from
this section 70 the scene.
Hughes was arrested a few hours
after an attack on IA Young white
woman near Sherman last Satur-
day. He was arraigned Yesterday
and pleaded guilty TO the charge
and agreed 70 accept any sentence
imposed.
The mob started gathering mt I'D
o'clock this morning. but ID was
close to noon before leadership was
established and "A rush was made
upon the courthouse. The court
house doors were broken down un-
der the first crash. At that mo-
ment the negro was locked in a
vault d. the district clerks office,
and the Rangers and officers group
ed themselves about the vault as
"A guard.
Frank Hamer. Ranger Captain.
got this message from Gov. Dan
Moody:
Hold him II you can but do not
shoot anybody"
No attempt was made TO bother
the negro when he was brought into
court yesterday. although there had
Continued Oh page T
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
, DIE IN A CRASH

DOWNINGTON, Pa. May ZIP;
"A 27-year-old airplane pilot and
his two friends were killed near
here last night when the pilot at
tempted to make = dead-stick land
ing. after the planes motor had
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
TIDE

High and low tide at Point Isa-
bel tomorrow. under normal mete-
geological conditions:
High $500. 2.45 a.. m. lis u. m
Low ....-..- sos a. M S.l4 p. m
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
DAILY RIVER BULLETIN
Flood Present 24-Hr. 7s-Hr.

There will be no material change
IN the river during the next "a to
As hours.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
MOODY TO RUN
FOR GOVERNOR
Informal Announcement IA
Made on Candidacy
For Third Term

AUSTIN, May 9.-tPl-Governor
Dan Moody announced informally
today he expected to be a candidate
for the democratic gubernatoriaI
nomination in the July primary.
Formal announcement Of his can
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
NEGRO DOOMED?

At 2:45 p. m, the courthouse
was said 10 be doomed. The ne
gro was reported still in a
vault tn the structure and all
officers and Texas Rangers who
had sought 90 keep him from
the hands or the mob were
said TO have been forced from
the building BY the flames.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09
MOODY

MOODY PLATFORM
Adjust taxes TO relieve unjust
burdens Of farms. homes ana real
property. Modern prison system.
Lobby-free legislature. Public
utilities control. Equalize educa-
tional opportunities.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-09

AS Rangers surrounded the Negro
In the court room where ne was tr
have been tried today. county Or.
ficers and Sherman firemen were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21

has improved the social compositions of the
Party because 80 per cent of the new recruits
are industrial workers 1t has also consider
ably raised the percentage of Negro members
in the Party since nearly 20 per cent of the
new recruits are Negroes.
The recruiting campaign, however, also suf-
fered from basic weaknesses. 1t was not
based primarily on organized recruiting activ-
tiles of the nuclei. The members were recruited
in mass meetings, etc, and then assigned to
the nuclei. There are shop nuclei in New
York. Chicago and elsewhere that have not re-
cruited one single new member. This weak
ness of the drive, if not repaired, will prevent
the Party from assimilating and keeping the
new members 1t is therefore imperative that
the political activization of the nuclei be made
the first aim OF all work in the districts. In
active nuclei cannot utilize the revolutionary
spirit of the new recruits but rather tend to
paralyze them. Without the political activiza-
ton of the nuclei, the Party cannot be trans
formed into one OF revolutionary action
Building a Mass Party.
10. The transformation of our section of
the Communist International into a mass Party
of revolutionary action demands the activiza-
ton of every member of the Party. Party
members who remain passive in the fact of
the rapidly increasing duties of the Commu-
nists in the present period are not revolution
aries and have room in the Party. At this
period of struggle, Right elements will seek
to remain in the Party by conceaing their
Right tendencies. These elements must be
uncovered not mechanically but by self
criticism. The very adaptation of the Party
to its revolutionary tasks will weed out the
unfit and unworthy. To this end every lead
ing Party committee shall Immediately organ
IL
division under its direction. This overhaung
shall achieve adjustment of the function
ing of the Party in accord with the needs of
revolutionary action, The following steps
shall be taken:
(a) Every single member of the Party
must be assigned specific work in the Party
and in proletarian mass organizations. The
nucleus executives shall direct and check up
the work of every Party member.
(b) The functionng of every committee,
committee member and Party member must
be checked up continually.
(c) Ruthless political criticism of all er-
rors and deviations must provide the base for
serious and continuous self-coTection.
(d) Committees and functionaries who per-
sist in errors and deviations must be removed
from the leading cadres as unfit for leader
ship in this period
(e) The practice of burdenng active COM
rades with multiplicity of functions must be
discontinued
f) The shortage of forces thus created
must be repaired by systematic drawing of
new proletarian elements into the leading
cadres of the Party.
tg) All leading Party committees are
obligated to be most concrete in their plans
and instructions for work to the lower units.
uncearness, ambiguity and generalization
lead to misunderstanding and to delays in the
carrying out of instructions The need of the
hour Is clarity Of instructions and promptness
Of execution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Political Struggles of the Workers.

H. The growing difficulties of capitalism
cause the American capitalist class to recog-
hlze III every workers struggle as a direct
attack upon the capitalist system. Therefore,
even the smallest strike of workers for de-
cent working conditions is met with the whole
state force of capitalism. Sheriffs and state
troops against the Illinois miners: police
courts and state government against the
needle, the food, the shoe workers in New
YORK; Police and deputzed mill thugs against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Recruiting Campaign.


H. The recent recruiting campaign has i'm
proved considerably the social composition of
the Party. With the large number of new
workers taken in it is unquestionaby possible
TO organize number of new shop nuclei But
IN spite OF that the great majority of the basic
units of the Party still remain as street nuclei
AS long as our Party is not anchored in the
industrial establishments of the country, we
cannot claim to be Bolshevik Party. Every
district is therefore obligated to transform the
PARTY base systematically into one of shop
nuclei. Within the year following the conyen
tlon over 40 per cent of the Party members
must be organized into shop nuclei To achieve
TINS aim every District Committee must work
out plans Tor systematic work in number Of
selected shops and industries and must concan.
trate the Party forces on this work. The Or
ganization Department of the C. c. must en-
perVlse and direct carefully this campaipr
inc PARTY press must be used to urge, criti
cize, and lead this work and to stimulate revo
lutlonary competition between the districts.
into the Shops" must be the guiding slogan
IN the bodybuilding campaign.
il. The recruiting campaign was the first
serious test OF the Party after the CT Address
The Party stood the test. 1t proved first. thai
it had succeeded IN thoroughly liquidating fac
tlonalism and organized opportunism; and sec
ond, that this made membership in the Party
more desirable for the revolutionary workers
The CT Address was thus fully justified in it's
statement that the liquidation of fact;onalism
Will be a boon to the building of the Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21
Development of Tascism.

H.. In the political field, American capital
ism is rapidly developing putspoken fascist
methods of government This manifests itself
IN three main groupings of forces: First, tho
direct mobilization of the heads of finance cor;
TAI and their immediate class representatives in
(a) per-govefnmental organs. mnos;na, tbe,r
will and direction from above upon the "den,-
ocratic" apparatus (Hoover's National Busi-
ness CounciD: (b) direct nomination into kew
governmental positions Of representatives Of
finance capital Hoover, Mellon, Young, Nor
row. Grundy, etc.,; (c) concentration of power
IN the hands Of the executive and judiciary and
the systematic undermining of the powers and
prestige OF Congress. Second, the mobilization
OF the rcformist ORGANIZATIONS and elements
sore'of which GA. +. of L. are outright fas-