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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
CUP WINNER
Harrington Given Trophy
For Opening Day

MARLINGEN, March Collar
lingen won the attendance cup Of
fered by Lee Keyster. president Of
the Des Moines baseball club train
ing here, for the largest crowd at
tending seasons opening games this
week. About 529 baseball fans turned
out yesterday for the Des Moines-
Denver clash in Harlingen, San
Benito greeting the opener between
the same teams Tuesday with $40
fans.
Less than 100 we're present in Mis-
sion YESTERDAY for the Omaha -Wich-
tia game. and about 200 attended
McAllen's game. The cup, suitably
inscribed. will be presented to Har-
lingen by Mr.. KeySer.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Highway Is Changed
From Brownsville

AUSTIN. March 20.-(P)-The
highway commission has changed
the designation Of the jefferson
Davis highway. it announced to-
day. The new routing is from Sabine
River near Orange TO Houston, 20
Austin, TO San Antonio. to Alpine,
to Van Horn. TO FL Paso. The for
mer routing was Sabine River via
Houston to Rosenberg, via Vistoria
to Beeville. via Corpus Christi 70
Robstown. to Alice, via Falfurrias to
Brownsville. with another branch
from Beeville to Karnes City to
San Antonio. via Del Rio to Alpine,
to Van Horn. via FL Paso to New
Mexico state line. The change was
made on petition of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Michigan Man Files
Charge Of Fraud

Papers charging that John w.
Stoddard fraudulently obtained
S4.375 from Geo. Trip. Michigan
resident. for a portion Of the Col
lins subdivision which the Stoddard
Land company did not possess. have
been filed by 2. w. Anglin in Jus
tice b. T.. Gains court.
The deal was said to DC for 2044
acres in the subdivision and the
price was set at $l6.400. The Stod-
dard company operated In Oakland
county. Michigan. during 1923. Trip
Il seeking to regain his land.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20

Eacted on Tor ten days or a week
but that everything pointed toward
favorable consideration.
Mr.. Creager has been in WASH
ington for approximately q week
and his trip was thought to be to
give further aid toward a new post
office for the city.
While in Washington further ac-
tiyitieS OF his political enemies,
Brookhart and Mcclellan, were re-
vived In a report from a congress
SIGNAL committee. The Republican
committeeman from Texas made a
statement in Dallas with reference
to accusations made in the commit
tee report, and it is expected that
he will have something for Valley
digestion on his return tomorrow.
Prospects for early action on the
new postoffice were held as excep-
tionally bright at the time OF Mr..
Creager's leaving for Washington.
and further light on this matter is
expected on his return.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Estranged Wife Meets
Hubby With Shotgun

LUFKIN. Tex.,-March 20.-CP-
Henry Shivers. 20, farmer living
near Digell, was in a serious cond-
ton today from wounds suffered
when he attempted TO enter his
father-in-law's home to possess his
two children.
Shivers and his wife were separat-
ed several months ago. Mrs. Shivers
taking the children with her TO her
fathers home. Yesterday Shivers
sent word ne was coming for them
and was met at the door by his
wife. with n shotgun IN her hands.
He was shot twice, one charge en-
tering his abdomen.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Famous Baby Case
Finds 3 Unbonded

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, March 20.
Up Bond remained to be fur
nished today by three defendants
charged with murder of a newly
born baby found Saturday night in
a garbage can here.
Buddy Hoard. Louis Goss and Miss
Grace Frederick were returned TO
Bexar County jail yesterday after
they had failed to furnish bonds
totaling $4,000. set at a hearing.
Miss Ethel Schumacher. mother OF
the child. was not able to appear in
court.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
WOMAN SAVED
Rescuers Find Victim Tied
To Blazing Bed

MEXIA. March 2o-tP-M Miss
Wilma Jones, %, Of Leon county
was rescued from a blazing bed
to which she had been bound in
a hotel at Fairfield, near here.
early today by other guests whose
attentions were attracted to her
room by smoke issuing from the
windows and door.
Although Miss Jones was unable
TO identify her assailant, officers ar
rested a man for questioning.
The young woman was in Fair
field to answer charges Of forging
the name Of d. :. Moore, prominent
lakewood business man, 10 a check
for $3.50. She was taken TO her hotel
oom otter collapsing on the stand
Yesterday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
THE

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday;
not much change In temperature.
Increasing southerly winds on the
west coast.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy 10
unsettled tonight and Friday: warm
err In southeast and colder In north
west and north-central portions to-
night: colder In interior and much
colder in north portions Friday.
Moderate to fresh southerly winds
on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Vote Machine Errs

AUSTIN. March 20-Py-Repre-
sentative j. r. Mcdonald OF Wax
ahachie learned today his bill TO
make 1t unlawful to plant more than
sixty per cent Of any one farm 10
cotton had failed of engrossment
Tuesday by a single vote. Speaker
w. S. Barron discovered an error
made by the electric voting mach
inc. which revealed the vote was
against engrossment rather than for
engroSsment.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Valley Pictures
Made for Screen

Twenty million persons will
see Brownsville within the next
few months. Twenty million will
also hear Brownsville.
Pathe news camera men with
sound devices attached to their
movie boxes are filming scenes
in and around Brownsville. The
men are George Lahm, VIM.
Deeke, AMI Walter Mullin. Cham
Der Of commerce officials ac-
companied the men and pointed
out places of interest.
The Pathe news has a circula-
ton Of 10000, 900, 1t is said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Valley $40 and 8"
Names New Officers
Especial TO The HerallN

Especial 70 The HeraI-N
SAN BENITO. March 20-Ralph
Buell. Of San Benito was elected
chef de guerre' Of the Valley
40 and s. az a reorganization meet
ing held at the Stonewall Jackson
hotel last night. Others elected to
offices were Luther Kerr. DR.. S.
II. Crews. q. A. Epstein. Lew Will
liams, Robert Work, Stewart Ad-
kins. Lewis Hirsch and DR.. Z. r.
Morris, all OF San Benito.
The new executive committee Is
composed Of r. G. Treon and N.
@. Chappelle OF San Benito, and
James Howe OF Mercedes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Final Doheny Pleas
Are Argued Today

WASHINGTON. March 20-P-
Opening final arguments in the
heny bribed Albert B. Fall when
creme. government prosecutor. today
told the jury that Edward L. Do
henv bribed Albret B. Fall when
he sent him 500. 900 in cash prior
TO receiving for his company n
lease to the Elk Hills naval oil
reserve.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Snow In Montana

SPOKANE. Wash. March Pop
-Swirling snow and zero weather
in Montana has arrived hand-in-
hand with gale-like wind-storms
that have done extensive damage IN
eastern Washington and northern
Idaho.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Escobar Under Arrest?
Former Chieftan Reported Held AS Smuggler
With Others But U~nconfirmed

TUCSON. Ariz, March 2o-CP-John Gungl United States attorney
for Arizona, announced here today that twelve members Of an alleged
ring OF consprators to smuggle munitions into Mexico from Arizona
during the Mexican revolution Of 1929 had been arrested. 1t was said that
we're General Jose Gonzalo Escobar. commander-in- chief Of the revo-
among them were General Jose Escobar, commander-in-chief or the reyo-
lutonary forces, but this could not be verified.
The arrests clmaxed the return Of secret indictments by federal grand
Jury here based on numerous investigations OF the alleged rings ac-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Two Valley Projects Loom
Port Will Be Voted on in About Two Week.
And Postoffice News in Offing

With news OF two propositions daily expected out Of Washington BY
Brownsville and the Valley. the situation today was that one will not be
heard from for ten days or two weeks, and the other not until the return
of r. B. Creager 10 the city. If then.
These two propositions are the Valley deep-vater port and the new fed
eral building for the city.
A special telegram to The Brownsville Herald today said that the rivers
and harbors augmentation on the Brownsville port would probably not Be
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Ticket Seeks
San Benito Offices
Especial 70 The Heraldl

Especial 20 The HeraIdJ
SAN BENTTO. March 20-A third
ticket. headed by G. L. Lasby for
mayor. has entered the field for
the city election which Is schedul-
ed for April ]. With Lasby are
filed the names Of Fred .. Glover
and M. j. Dodson for commissioners.
This announcement makes a to-
tai OF eight candidates seeking the
city positions. Friday Is the last
day for filing candidates. for the
election
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
FIRESTONE MAY
VISIT VALLEY

Another prominent visitor is
promised for the Valley.
Information was received here to-
day by G. G. Lindsey that Harvey
8. FireStone. president OF the Fire
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
business Man Charged

MEXIA, Tex. March 20.-tPl-
Charges OF arson and attempt TO
murder were filed against D.. 5.
Moore. prominent lakewood business
man, at Fairfield today in connec-
ton with an attempt to burn to
death Miss Wilma Jones. %. Of
Leon County. in a hotel there last
night.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
.HARLINGEN ASKS
ON ROAD
County Commissioner and {. OF C. Locked
In Polite You First Please,
My Dear Alphonse'
Especial 70 The Heraid.)

nAr-iNuEN' Marcn 2o-Whle Rangervile would-be market goers
81 III q mud o. the beneficial rains Of a few days aEo. and ask on
cameron county q hardsurfaced road to town, the two bodies engaged
N a attempt to grant their petition today were in the attitude of bowling
o stold You first my dear Alrhonse.r
Inc polite but firm deadlock is seen today IN the answer OF the Har-
hngen Chamber Of Commerce to a proposition OF the county commits
soners made In The form OF q count er proposition u 4 recent aduanra
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
Especial 10 The Herald)

especial 10 The Herald)
HARLINGEN. March 20.-Work-
crs for census checking in this sec
ticn have been employed, and are
ready 70 start April 4 vhea ths
census begins.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
IN OUR

BY CHARLES HALL .;
HOW ABOUT 1T?
we are living too fast
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison.

The United States has no air
force"
General William Mitchell
"A woman's hopes are woven
Of sunbeams; a shadow annihi-
lates them
George Eliot
ITO be ready for defense is not
20 be guilty Of aggression"
Former President Coolidge.
"A husband Is a plaster that
cures all ills of girlhocd."
-Molierc.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20

Civ the Riddles q Break
10 Grande Valley Trust Co.-Adv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20

There will be no material change
In the river during the next few days
Flood Present 24-Hr. 2A-Hr.
&c. Co.. ERMA DmfA
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20
TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow under normal meteoroloG-
ical conditions.
High 1912 n. fn.
Low .....s.s....-....... @-1u =. M
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20

"nIG GIRL Show for Bargain Day
Here reads a headline in an
extemporaneouS contemporary.
Nov just what is meant by that?
hre they going TO show big girls az
= bar-but W. better quit before We
Get into trouble.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-20

TODAY is the day we predicted
they would vote on the port
proposition. but congress has
not paid any attention to us about
hurrying up.
Cot a wire today from Harry Sex
ten at washington. He says: Keep
ing in daily touch with rivers and
BARRIERS committee. Everything
locks good. Expect no action for
week or ten days"
. Thanks. Harry. but tell them ali
W us are in a fidget.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-26
CORRECTIONS

l. WalruSes, not SEALS have tuSks like the u al left. 2 Neither seals
nor waLTrres have suCh large cars :. The word "seaIIons, shorId he
sea-HCns- a These animals live Ia fresh water Is wen as salt. s The
scrambled word IL VIOLIN.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-07-26
TH91S Oc<amhe6raM

There are 40 least four mistakes in the above picture. They may per-
tain to grammar. history. etiquette. drawing Or whatnot. see II you can
find them. Then Jock ~ the scrambled word below-and unscranble il.
py switching the iets-s around. Grade yourself 20 for each OF the mis-
takes you find. and 60 fr the word If you unscramhe it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-02-06

the address is in pencil. The pencil
was used also to erase a few words
at the bottom Of the first page.
The second Library of Congress
draft is fair copy of the first draft.
1t is written wholly in ink.
Without stopping here and now to
give my reasons, l believe that the
first page of the first draft was writ
ten in ink before Lincoln left Wash
ington. If he completed this draft at
the time, and there was second page
in ink, he became dissatisfied with it
and cast it aside. l think he wrote
the second page, in pencil, in Gettys-
burg, probably on the night before the
delivery of the address. The second
Library of Congress draft think was
written in Gettysburg on the morning
Of the delivery. The place of writing
was in the home Of Judge Wills, fac
ing the public square.
Just TO dispose of question which
is sure to rise, whether Lincoln did
not write the address upon the back
of an envelope on the train on his
way from Washington to Gettysburg,
let me answer that he may have
made few penciled notes, and for
this purpose may have used the back
of an envelope, but he did not write
the address as whole in any such
fashion. In my judgment the two
Library of Congress drafts were both
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-02-06
Five Copies of
Lincoln's Speech
AT Gettysburg

Abraham Lincoln's address at Get
tysburg is unique among his speeches
in many particulars, one of which is
that there are in existence at the pres
ent time no less than five copies Of
it in Lincoln's own handwriting. In
only a few cases is there q single copy
Of other speeches. The first inaug-
ural, for instance, was composed in
Springfield and set up in plea type in
the Office of the Illinois State Journal,
and, after some interlineation and the
addition of closing paragraph sug-
gested by Secretary Seward. was de-
livered from the corrected proof, and
not from the original manuscript. So
far as am aware the manuscript was
not brought away from Springfield by
Lincoln nor preserved in the printing
Office. The Journal for many years
had been accustomed to receiving edi-
torials and other matter in his hand
writing, and neither the editor, Simeon
Francis, nor any one of his compost
tors took thought that this was to be-
come document of historic interest
and that the original would be valu-
able.
Copy Not Preserved.
Most of Lincoln's speeches, If writ
ten out, met like fate. If the copy
came back from the office with the
proof, Lincoln tossed it into the waste
basket, and no one rescued it. After
he became President, of course, he
knew and every one knew that his
handwriting would be in demand, but
no one looked for the time when his
letter to General Hooker would sell
at auction for $4,000. So most Of
his speeches persisted in the original
manuscript, persisted in the very proc
ess of preserving them in print; and
of the few that were preserved there
is usually only one copy.
The five copies Of the Gettysburg
address, two are In the Library Of
Congress. One of them is mainly in
ink, written on a sheet of paper head
ed with the usual Executive Man
sion" caption. The other sheet is ruled
letter paper of the same size, and with
wide spaces between the lines. It is
the paper that was commonly used in
the White House for speeches or doc
uments likely to need interlineation,
and is identical in quality with that
used by the President for the second
ilraft Of the Gettysburg speech and for
the second inaugural. The writing on
the second sheet of the first draft Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-02-06

seph L. Gilbert. He did not pretend
to have taken down Lincoln's exact
words. but reported the speech partly
in shorthand and checked up in a
hasty comparison with Lincoln's man
uscript. The second was special re-
port used in one Philadelphia news
paper, one Cincinnati newspaper and
in the local newspaper in Gettysburg.
It was very poor report. The third
was, as 1 judge, the one report that
tells us exactly what Lincoln did say.
1t was made by Charles Hale Of the
Boston Advertiser, one of the official
Massachusetts commissioners. His
written affirmation to Gov. John A.
ly, and that Hale was able to get the
precise wording, is as good as the oath
of court stenographer certifying the
accuracy Of his version.
We know, think, what Lincoln
intended to say, what he did say,
what he was reported to have said,
and what he wished he had said.
Surely LincoIn's Words.
Neither Of the drafts of Lincoln's
manuscript made before the delivery
Of the address contains the two words,
under God" Both say, "that we here
highly resolve that the nation
shall have new birth of freedom"
But every stenographic report, good,
bad and Indifferent, says "that the ma
ton SHALL under God, have a new
birth of freedom" There was no COM
mon source from which all the report
ers could have obtained those words
but from Lincoln's own lips at the
time of delivery. 1t will not do to say
that Stanton suggested those words
after LincOln's return to Washington,
for the words were telegraphed by at
least three reporters on the afternoon
of delivery and published all over the
country. Nor will it answer to say
that Seward suggested them the night
before as words that would convey to
the people assembled suggestion Of
piety, for John G. Nicolay gives clear
history of the writing of the second
draft on the morning of delivery, and
the second draft does not include those
words.
But all three Of Lincoln's copies
that were made after the address had
been delivered do contain the words
Of the three or more reports made
while he was speaking, 'under Cod"
Lincoln said those words; the several
independent reports that went to the
wires at once agree that he said
them; and Lincoln certainly wished
to be remembered as having said them,
for he wrote them into every one Of
the three copies which he made for
permanent record.
Where, then, did Lincoln get those
words? He got them, think, out Of
his own stock of phraseology. He was
not given to the careless use Of re-
ligious phrases, but this one he used
at other tines 1t came to him as
he sat on the platform at Gettysburg,
inspired by the sense of solemnity that
the occasion brought upon him. The
journey, the reception of the night be-
fore, the parade. the sight Of the bat
tlefield, the long and eloquent grafton
Of Edward Everett and the growing
depth of feeling as his own time came
to speak, reused in him deeper sense
of the nations need Of reliance in
God than had been in his mind when
he was engaged in the work Of writ
ing.-William e. Barton, in the New
York Times Magazine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-02-06

A-AAASoAn 0SAANSaAAAS AAP SkrSS$A at Aac oSeASe>-
ton Of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg
November 10, 1868.
written before the delivery of the
address. OF the other three we know
the history. They were all written
after the address had been delivered.
Five Texts Of Speech.
The first two copies vary but little
from each other. The last three
copies vary but little from one an
other. How they vary I have set
forth in interlinear versions in my
life of Lincoln" The important
fact is that we have five texts in
Lincoin's handwriting, no two Of
them exactly alike, and that they fall
clearly into two groups, two in one
and the earlier group, three in the
other and the later group, and that
we know in detail the history Of the
last three.
intermediate between these two
groups in Lincoln's own hand are a
number Of other versions printed at
the time. First of these is the As
ISOLATED Press report prepared by Jo-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-02-06
SCOOPS COLUMN
By SCOOP-HIMSELF
Scoop to Get Invitation

Art Green, one of the chief gaia
boes of the Swanton road celebration
in early spring, was in The Republi-
can office on Monday with apologies
that invitations had not yet been sent
out to Scoop, the boss editor, and
Archibaldson. Art promised an en-
bossed invitation in the near future
and explained that printers strike
down in Swanton had held up the par
ty.
The corn club of .Swanton had
passed all requirements, he said, be-
cause members of the Oakland Corn
club had tested the results and had
found them up to standard. GAIL we
need now is time," he said.
$50
That note at the bottom of the
Homemakers Corner last week looked
like a mistake, but the recipes would
MT have been complete without them.
The names of the homemakers could
be added by purchasing Campbell's
vegetable soup, extracting the neces-
sary letters for spelling the names,
and add with pinch of salt to each
one. This would have resulted in a
tasty morsel.
Amalgamates Meet Again
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-02-06

gamated Society for the Prevention of
Work to be held this year, the presi-
dent moved that if the members
couldn't forsake Amos and Andy long
enough to have meeting, there
wasn't any use of keeping up the So
ciety.
They turned off the radio long
enough to adopt the following:
Extracts from the creed of men,
bers of the society, few of which they
believe:
That George Washington never told
a lie.
That it is much more creditable to
be the father of a son than a daugh-
ter.
That turkey is much better if it
has been frozen.
That carrots are good for the COM
plexion.
That milk will take away the smell
of onions.
That an hours sleep before mid
night is worth two after midnight,
and that it's never too late till two,
and then it's too late.
That girl who smokes cigarets is
immoral.
That women are the weaker sex.
That you can tell a hen-pecked
husband by his dropping shoulders.
That the members would rather be
right than be president.
That we used to have much heavier
SHOWS than we do now.
That the town drunkard is really
the smartest man in the county if he
would stay sober, and amt it shame
he can't control himself? ,.
That too much meat causes high
blood pressure. .
That even your best friend won't
tell you about halitosis.
That all women are beautiful to
their husbands.
Vice versa.
That all prescriptions given by
physicians contain either castor oil or
EPSON salts.
That it is impossible to cut your
chin with a safety razor.
That battered hat, several years
old, denotes sophistication.
That some women "just look good
in anything"
That you wouldn't trade your radio
for any you have ever heard any,
where.
That Garrett county is drier since
the last meeting of the Grand Jury
That it's no use being Irish unless
you're dumb. according to Jim Ker-
ins.)
That corn in a bottle is worth two
on the feet.