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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Brownsville Man Joins
Expedition in Land OF
Cold, Snow and Icebergs

ing at one of them for the first
time. These we saw were about
sixty feet high, and were floating
down like white sentinels.
I'VE arrived at st. Antony har-
Dor at 10 D. m. in broad daylight,
and 1t was not dark until nearly
IL.
The whole mission turned out
to meet US. and we met d. Forbes
and all the biologists. After ha.l g
supper word was sent down tina.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell wanted us 10
come up to his house and talk with
him. So we trudged about a mile
up on the hill. and sat there about
an hour and answered all kinds of
questions and drank cocoa. The
place Is bone dTy-not a drop Of
liquor anywhere.
The whole community up here
Is run by the Grenfell association
who look after the welfare of the
people on the Labrador coast. al
fishermen. They have schools here
for them. hospital and industrial
building too.
Pay Own Expenses.
The people who do the work
are all society and college people
from Enalr.ld and the States. They
pay all their own expenses, and do
all the work for nothing.
I'VE are living in the orphans
home. and the three Of us have a
loom on the top floor. and we are
In the midst Of rs kids ranging from
two years 10 IS. Poor little mites
Trey all seem happy. for they know
no difference. There are several
eskimo children here.
The "Ramah' sailed last Thurs
day morning TO go to Indian Har-
cor TO await our arrival in the plane
because from there DR.. Forbes wants
a reconnaissance flight before pro-
coeding any farther. He is going TO
thick the pack ice is so they can
decide whether to 60 way out to
sea. Or Green along the coast.
Cold In Summer.
i often wondered why the fisher
man and sailors up here can not
swim. But the temperature of the
water in the bay where our plane
is anchored Is 80 degrees. and we
have 10 go 900 miles farther north.
we are making all kinds Of prep
crations for flies and mosquitoes.
They arc awful. The black flies here
are fierce. although nothing COM
pared with where we are going. =
A copy Of a newspapr Of Char
l0ttetOWn, Prince Edwards Island
received here tells something of the
expedition.
The expedition hopes to add much
e the meagre store Of information
about the northern cast OF Labra-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Dean Appointed

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 10-iPl
DIR. Samuel r.. Cunningham,
Oklahoma City. lecturer in the
University hospital for crippled
children. was appointed temporary
dean of the university medical
school today to succeed Or. LEROY
ID. Long. who resigned because OF
the governors order admitting a
chiropractor TO practice IN Uni
versity hospital
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Blaze E~xtinguished

A small fire in the car Of Jesus
AlCalla caused by faulty ignition
was extinguished early Sunday
morning BY the Brownsville fire
department. The car was in the 200
block on Washington street when
the fire broke out. The blaze was
extinguished with little damage.
Sunday afternoon a grass fire TO
the rear Of the water and light
plant was extinguished also.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
To Save Buffaloes

AMARILLO, Aug. i0-tF1- a
movement TO purchase the 1880
acre Goodnight ranch and its herd
OF 236 buffaloes was gaining mo-
mentum today.
The idea was given impetus yes
terday when members Of the state
game commission and prominent
citizens visited the ranch and con-
terred about plans to make a state
park out OF II as sanctuary for the
herd OF buffaloes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11

CHICAGO. Aug. IL. CP@Chi-
Cages heaviest rain since 1885 fell
last night and early today. flood
ing Easements and viaducts while
companion winds tore down light
and power lines and felled trees.
Temperatures this morning drop
ped below so.
The official government weather
bureau said the rainfall measured
3.84 inches In 10 hours. l3 minutes,
and was also the third heaviest in
the city's history.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11

dor. on the Arctic fringe, according
to this report.
Bonnick, the aerial photographer,
is one OF the pioneer aerial photo
graphers in the world. He started
aerial photography during the World
War. in 1915. being one OF the first
tc take air pictures Of the war.
He has been working at this trade
since then.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Landowners Petition

A petition stating that their lands
had not been assessed for 1927 and
asking that they be allowed TO pay
the taxes without penalty was pres
sented the Cameron county commits
sioners' court Monday morning by
nine landowners in Common School
District No. Is.
The court referred the matter 10
the county attorney 70 determine
whether this could be done legally.
Signers of the petition were Wm.
Dorman, Mrs. Maggie Heath, d. r
Bowden, G. f. Eldridge, o. N. Hend-
ricks, David Robertson. r. M. Pratt,
NJ. r. Boutwell, and DR.. A. w. Rogers
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Probe Plane Crash

PORT ARTHUR. Aug. II. Up
Alfred Light, critically injured in
an airplane crash here Sunday
night. was still alive today al
though little hope was held for his
recovery.
Herman Carrier, pilot. was in
Stantly killed when the plane went
into a dive from an altitude Of $50
feet.
Meanwhile. an investigation BY
federal authorities into cause Of
the crash was under way.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Visits in Sweden

From far away Sweden comes a
letter TO the Brownsville Cham
Der OF Commerce from Paul Hoidale,
inspector in charge Of the plant
quarantine and control administra-
ton work in the Valley.
Mr.. Hoidale is back at his par
entail home in Sweden for the first
time in Is wears. He left when ne
was a youth Of 10. and had not
seen his parents since that day.
He will be back in the Valley IN
September.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Oil Bill Saved

AUSTIN. Aug. 10. tPl-The Texas
legislature today salvaged one oil
conservation bill from the wreckage
Of administration proposals when the
house concurred in senate amend
mentS TO the Davis Pipe line bill.
which would prohibit railroads or
pipe lines from transporting oil pro-
duced in violation OF the railroad
commissions orders.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Troops Withdrawn

SEMINOLE. Okla. Aug. l0-tPl-
All national guardsmen with the
exception OF Major Earl Taylor,
were ordered withdrawn today from
the Greater Seminole area. where
o than 100 originally were sent
TO enforce Governor Murray's oil
well shutdown order. All but ten
men were withdrawn Saturday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Funds Probe Resumed

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Pj-
Chmn. Nye Of the senate campaign
funds investigating committee was
back at his desk today prepared 10
resume the prolonged inquiry into
the disposition Of certain 1923 anti
Smith campaign funds entrusted %
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., Of the
Methodist Episcopal church south.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Journalists Meet

MEXICO CITY, Aug. l0.-tP-
The World Fress congress. with
$50 American delegates in attend
ance, opened today with a pro-
gram which includes four days Of
business meetings, receptions and
sightseeing trips.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Woman Injured

NACOGDOCHES. Aug. II. lPl-
Mrs. Will Murray. so. received n
broken leg and other injuries when
struck by an automobile seven miles
south Of here today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11

LAREDO. Aug. II. R-Southwest
Texas was drenched by one OF the
heaviest rainfalls Of the year last
night. Precipitation at Laredo was
2.75 inches.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Fireman, Save My
Cat Latest Call
hxsocisfed Press Photo

If your cat falls in the well.
don't get excited. Just pull the
fire alarm.
The Brownsville department
answered a call to 205 st. Char
les street Saturday morning and
rescued a cat from a wei.
II was alive but sadly soaked
when taken from the water
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11
Sky Clears Off.

Later the sky cleared somewhat.
and we decided to try and push on
rather than get eaten up with flies.
The plane got off well. and all
the time the weather got better so
we went north about $50 miles and
out in the brilliant sunshine"
You could make out the east
shore OF Newfoundland, and out
across to the east we got the big
Iest thrill Of all-you could count
eight or ten enormous iceberes
floating down from the Arctic. You
can not imagine the feeling OF look
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11

SINTON, Aug. l0-R- The
grand jury investigating the death
Of Mss Dorothy Doris SynonS. 10.
expected 10 conclude It's work here
today.
Meanwhile. Texas rangers con-
tinued 10 gather evidence a.
Arkansas Pass relative 70 discovery
Of the choir singers body Aug. l In
a grave of mud and seaweed near
the Arkansas Pass breakwater.
NATIONAL LINES or MEXICO
fMatamoroS Station)
No. i32-To Monterrey. Mexico City.
$50 r. N.
Leaves from M r.. Station. Browns
VILE. 7.30 A. MI
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11

Mrs. A. L. Marquez. who under
went a major operation on Sunday
At Mercy Hospital. Is getting along.
splendidly according 10 reports.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-11

Mr.. and Mrs. :. r. Groves an
nounce the birth of a son, Gene
Samuel. on Friday at Mercy Hos
pital. The baby weighed 6 Ia
pounds. Both ne and his mother
are doing well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-05
BRUENINC TO
FASCIST FARLEY
German Premier to Talk
World Problems.
BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press STAFF CorresDondent

BERLIN, Aug. 5.-Chancellor
Heinrich Bruening, Gerlnany's
travelling premier" planned to de-
part for Rome today to confer with
Fascist government leaders on vital
international problems.
The forthcoming conversations
we're seen as highly significant, in
view of Germany's present finan-
cial situation.
Chancellor Bruening's trip to Italy
follows a series Of recent visits in
European capitals in efforts to gain
international cooperation on Ger
many's economic problems.
He, together with DR.. julius Cur
titus, foreign minister, have visited
England twice and Paris once seek
ing foreign aid.
Bruening, on the eve of his de-
parture for Rome, broadcast an in
ternational radio speech in which
he urgently appealed for confidence
in Germany's ability to help her
self back to financial stability.
The chancellor asserted that "the
German people ought to realize that
they can only help themselves if
they have confidence in their own
strength"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-05
POLICEMAN is
SLAIN BY NEGRO
Bandit Also Is Killed in
Lafayette Battle.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Aug. 5.-Pa-
trolman Harry r. Farrell, IS, and an
unidentified Negro are dead, the re-
suit of a gun battle following fill
ing station holdup Tuesday night.
With Albert Nichols, police cap
tain, Farrell was Investigating the
robbery when the officers noticed a
Negro leap from an automobile and
run. He was cornered in an alley
and Nichols and Farrell emptied
their revolvers at him. He replied
with but one shot, which struck
Farrell in the abdomen. He died
twenty minutes later.
The Negroes body was found
about 300 yards from the scene of
the shooting. 1t bore five bullet
wounds.
Farrell, a policeman for about a
year and half, leaves his widow,
a son and daughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-05
NAB PURSE SUSPECT
Fifty 'SnatchingS' May Be
Solved by Arrest.

A parade of femininity was ex-
pected today at police headquarters
with the arrest Of Henry Stevens,
Negro, q.
Stevens, according to police, is
believed to be the Negro who has
stolen pocketbooks from more than
fifty women in the last year.
Victims of urse-grabbers will be
asked to view Stevens.
His arrest by Jesse Troutman.
railroad detective, followed finding
an empty pocketbook in a vacant
dwelling at 1922 Yandes street.
Smiths method. according to
police, was to waylay women as
they passed alleys and seize their
purses. He operated, police allege,
on the north side.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-05
JUDGES IRE REUSED
'ExiIing' JuriSt Angered by
Boards Slap.
By United Press

By United Press
PRINCETON, Ind, Aug. 5.-A
sharp contrast was being drawn
here between the conciliatory atti-
tude of the Indiana Boys school au-
thorities toward John Tooley, Gibson
county exile, and the hostile view
point maintained today by Judge
Claude Smith, who continued firm
in his belief that the youth is a
criminal and incorrigible.
Judge Smith, while branding as
internal lies" reports that he was
invited to the meeting of the
schools board of trustees at which
Johns case was considered, today
fatty refused to admit that he had
erred in first exiting the youth and
then sentencing him to eight years
in the institution.
He expressed dissatisfaction at the
school authorities decision to keep
Tooley at the institution for sixteen
months while they further investi-
gated his case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-05
.DO-x LEAVES BRAZIL
Flies North to Reach U. S.
This Month.
BIZ United Press

BY Unfte1 Press
= RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug.
5.-The transatlantic German fly
ing boat DO-x departed today at
GAO a. m.
The great machine was scheduled
to proceed northward to New York
this month, after several weeks in
Rio De Janeiro, the terminus of its
South American flight from Europe.
The DO-X on it's northern cruise
was to carry several passengers, in
GLIDING at least one woman from
the United States.
1t completed the transatlantic
flight early in the summer. after a
frequently delayed flight from Lake
Constance. Accidents held up the
DO-X for month. 1t did not arrive
until half a year and more from the
time it started last autumn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-05
JAIL BREAKER SAWS
LEG IRONS; ESCAPES

Denver Logger Foils Guards on
Train; Hops Off at Lincoln.
BIZ United Press
LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 5.-Sawing
through leg irons which had bound
him to berth in a Burlington pas
senger train en- route to Denver,
Fred Roger, 81, who broke jail at
Denver several weeks ago, today
escaped from federal officers re-
turning him to Denver from West
Virginia.
Roger escaped while the train
stopped at Lincoln at 1:15 a. m. He
had been in the custody Of Finley
Cook, deputy United States marshal,
and William Garden, guard, both of
Charleston, w. Va.
Roger was under two years SEN
tence for federal charges of violat-
ing liquor laws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-05
EDISON RIDES IN CAR
Noted Inventor Continues
to Improve.
BIZ United Press

By Untted Press
WEST ORANGE, N. j., Aug. s.
Thomas A. Edison is continuing to
improve at his home here from the
collapse he suffered late Saturday
He spends his time reading news
papers and scientific articles and
Tuesday took a twenty-mile auto
mobile ride.
The ride was at Edison's own
suggestion. The aged inventor was
just about to go motoring last
Saturday when he collapsed and
his physician was summoned by
airplane from a Long Island goli
course.
William G. Barstow, associated
with the inventor in many of his
discoveries, and Samuel insult OF
Chicago. utility magnate, planned tc
visit Edison today.
The inventor is suffering fro~-
diabetes, stomach ulcers, and uremiC
poisoning.
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By United Press

BIZ United Press
AKLAVIK, Northwest Territory
(via Radio to Edmonton, Alta.)-
Charles A. Lindbergh, flying across
the wilderness of northern Canada
with his heiress wife, landed in the
Mackenzie river at Aklavik at sos
Central tine) today, eleven hours
and thirty minutes after he had
taken off from Baker lake, LIS
miles to the east.
Averaging better than one hun
dred miles an hour on this most
dangerous hop so far of his aerial
vacation, Lindbergh, with Mrs.
Lindbergh manning the radio, cir
cled this AActic outpost twice and
set his pontoon-equipped Lockheed
plane on the river in a perfect
Lindbergh landing, to the chorus Of
bowling Eskimo dogs and cheers of
the entire population Of this sec
ton.
Royal Canadian mounted police,
in their red jackets and sombreroS,
rowed out to the Lindbergh plane
and helped the flierS bring the low
winged monoplane to the bank,
where it was moored safely.
Guests at ManSe
The Lindberghs, both smiling at
the array of Indians, trappers and
handful Of white persons who live
in this far northern outpost, went
to the Presbyterian manse to rest
up after their all-night flight, only
two hours of which were dark, on
account Of the long Arctic days this
time of year.
Lindbergh and his wife started
unexpectedly from Baker Lake, an
almost isolated point near Hudson
bay, Tuesday night at 5:35 central
time, when the weather, which had
been blustery all day. suddenly
cleared.
Their route lay over the bad
landS,' most barren and sparsely
populated land of the North Ameri-
can continent, cut by ridges of
mountains, dotted with lakes and
covered with underground. A forced
landing would have meant that they
might not be rescued for weeks.
Carrying, emergency rations, a
rubber boat and pistols, the Lind
berghs, with the same self-confi-
dence that the air mail f1ier set out
across the Atlantic in 1927, took the
opportunity CT clearing weather and
roared away toward Aklavik with
the reservation that they might land
at Copper Mines river or Hunter
bay, about half way toward their
goal.
Wife Works at Radio
First news of their take-off
cracked from the radio key in the
hands Of Mrs. Lindbergh, a few
years ago the debutante daughter of
Dwight w. Morrow, now the wife
Of the famous Indy, flying with
him across uncharted land, carrying
her part of the responsibility.
Far down in the United States,
on the northwest side Of Chicago,
Roscoe H. Johnson, chief operator
Turn to Page 81
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NO BRUTALITY.
Chief WARNS
CITY POLICE
DeCenCy and Courtesy Must
Be Used in Arrests,
MOrriSSey Says.

Allegations Of police brutality to-
day brought warning from Police
Chief Mike Morrissey to his officers
that brutal methods in handling of
prisoners will not be condoned.
The chief demanded that de
cency and courtesy be shown at all
times in dealing with citizens" add
ing, however, that courtesy should
not be permitted to interfere with
officers doing their duty in making
arrests.
The warning followed filing Of
charges against patrolmen Otto
Burk and James w. Graham before
the safety board Tuesday by Ralph
Surber, 81, of 752 Livingston ave-
nue., who charged the officers with
striking and clubbing him brutally
while making an arrest for driving
a car with only one headlight Sun
day night.
Board to Hear Charges
Technical charges of conduct I'M
becoming an officer, specifying "as-
sault and battery without provoca-
tion," filed by Surber, will be heard
by the safety board at its meeting
next Tuesday.
Surber, who appeared before the
board Tuesday with badly swollen
eye and other marks on his face,
alleged to have been caused by fists
and clubs of the accused officers.
gave the board the names of num-
Der of witnesses to the affair who
have expressed indignation over &C
ton of the two policemen.
Surber said the officers beat him
when he got out of his car to look
at his headlights, after the officers
told him only one light was burning.
The incident occurred, he said, sew
eral blocks from the place where he
shouted at the officers after they are
said to have turned their car in
front of Surber's car.
Resisted, Say Officers
Chief Morrissey refused to file
charges, saying he believed ex-
PLANTATION of the officers. as he had
not received any statement from
Surber.
The officers told Morrissey that
Surber was struck after he had be-
come abusive, resisted arrest and
drew back one arm as if to strike
them.
Statement of Chief Morrissey,
read at police roll calls Tuesday
night and today, is:
II have of late received entirely
too many complaints of patrolmen
using undue force in effecting ar
rests. While so far none of these
has been found justified, yet fear
where there is so much smoke there
may be some fire.
Courtesy Must Be Shown
''Let it be clearly understood that I
will stand squarely back Of all Of
fcers in using all necessary force,
just as long as their conduct is such
as to leave me room to do so. Yet
I wish emphatically to declare that
I will condone no brutality on the
part of officers dealing with prison.
ers, and shall insist that decency
and courtesy he shown at all times
in dealing with citizens.
"ThiS does not mean, of course,
that courtesy should be permitted
to interfere with officers doing the'r
duty in making arrests. I earnestly
solicit the cooperation of every
member of the force in UNFOLDING
the good name of the department"
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Attorney for Mrs. Brehn
Says Her Declaration
Is No Surprise.
4 wouldn't be surprised"

WOO4S4A W DO4 IA 4ONAs
That comment was made today by
Fred Mattice, Indianapolis attorney,
on reports from Oklahoma City that
Mrs. kettie Brehm. former wife of
D. c. Stephenson, has charged she
was induced to file non-support
charges against the Ku-Klux Khan
leader in a plot to discredit him.
Mattice, who was Mrs. Brehms
attorney in the nonsupport case
here, said that she did not tell him
she was participating in conspir-
acy caused by khan factional dis
puteS, but that he could not state
definitely that Stephenson was not
the victim of a plot.
Judgment Still Unpaid
She came to me because a law
yer in Oklahoma had recommended
me" said Mattice. Il handled her
case because it seemed to me her
action was logical, inasmuch as she
had been deserted when their child
was tiny baby.
Never having been a member OF
the khan, have no way of knowing
whether Stephenson was the object
Of a conspiracy at that time"
Stepl4enson's former wife obtained
$4,000 judgment, which still is
unpaid.
Discussing the case, Mattice re-
called that the nonsupport case was
filed the same week that the Madge
Oberholtzer death case broke"
Pardon Meeting Held
Granting that Steve was rail-
roaded into prison." said Mattice,
didn't he provide the ammunition
for them to shoot him with?"
Stephenson is serving life term
in Michigan City prison on murder
charge growing out of the death of
Miss Oberholtzer.
In addition to his attorneys filing
briefs in his behalf in the habeaS
corpus prohibition suit in the su-
preme court Tuesday, Stephenson's
pardon petitioners held a meeting
Tuesday night at the Office of Elias
w. Dulberger, prime mover in the
petition matter with Henry F. Kott-
kamp.
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Requested!
By United Press

~ united Press
CLEVELAND, Aug. 5.-Peti-
tions to silence Amos n
Andy" popular radio team, to-
day we're being circulated
among the Cleveland Negro
populace.
Sponsored by a Pittsburgh
Negro newspaper, the petitions
charge the two white men
have been exploiting certain
types Of the American Negro
for purely commercial gain"
They allege Negro woman
hood has been broadcast to
the world as indulging in big
amy, and Negro lawyers de-
picted as schemers and
crooks"
According to representatives
Of the newspaper, who are cir
culating the petitions, more
than 275,000 names already
have been obtained in
nationwide drive. The goal
is 100000 signers, they said.