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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23
PLAYCOERS IN
VALLEY MAY
! FORM LEAGUE

HARLINGEN, Aug. 22.-Effor-s
are being made 70 organize 2 VAL
lev Playgoer's League affiliated
with the Playg0er's League OF
America by mean of which larger
and better theatrical attractions
may be secured for this section,
according 70 John II. Floore. man
ager OF the chamber OF commerce.
Considerable interest has been
shown to date.
The league is one of the result
of recent business conditions whlcl
made promoters az theatrical sue
cesses iii the larger centers timid
about taking them on the road and
the smaller cities willy about guar
~anteeing them.
Each local league secures p local
directors OF whom five are elected
To compose a choice committee
which picks the PLAYS and other
attractions which will be secured.
Active members AZ the league pay
their dues. probably about $40. t0
n loca bank where the money Us
kept deposited. Then a play is
agreed uDon. n signed statement is
presented 10 the local bank which
pay the play manager fifty cents
less than the box office price for
each member. Thus active MEM
bers see u $3.50 show for SEQ. etc..
and their seats are always choice.
Tickets are mailed so that member
automatically Eet the best seats with
no fuss ar bother.
Refunds are made II fewer at
fractions are scheduled than would
require the entire membership fee
on deposit.
The local leagues may pick from
q list of choice attractions COM
piled bv the national organization.
The l93l-32 season VIII see such
PLAYS offered aS the following.
'Grand Hotel" las Husbands Co
That's Gratitude. Apron Strings
death Taxes a Holiday Green
Grow the LiiaCs.' Blossom Time
trevivall. The Nicado." revival
with DeWolf Hopper. Getting
Married once TN " Lifetime. II
"The Old Rascal" "HE.7 Fine and
Dandy" ~"Jonesey" House Beau.i-
full" Her Supporting Cast and
probably many others.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23

great dramatic actress-and wasn't.
/ might have been a fortune teller
and wasn't.
But / still Eve ambitions. They
may sound . ange but they are
ambitions. Lc-- them over.
Il. TO live III a house with a
matched roof overlooking Holly
wood. lii must be a matched roof
but don't ask INC why.
=. no cndoW a childrcn's hospital
and this is seTiOus-the finest
children's hospital III the world.
A. Ito grow fat gracefully. Yes.
gracefully. do you know what i
means ior a healthy gal to diet and
then diet some more? And then ~
tn Silvia and get eight pounds p.
hips knocked eff IN a single inning
Oh. f0r the chance Just 10 get n.
and not have to worry about th2
old contour.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23
STAR AT one
TINE HOPED
TO Be NURSE
BY WINNIE LIGHTNER

HOLLYWOOD. AUG. 21-Smal
boys usually want to be policemen
u street car conductors. ! think
my boy wants t0 be q steam shovel
and do I'D all with hls hands
When they grow older they aspire
70 ~ shin captains Xxi candy store
owners. Adults 0f,en have IN ambi-
ton t0 be a wine tester or trap
drummer in "a burlcsuue show.
None vi these things ever ap-
pealed t1 me-nCt that I ever was
q small BOY bu- I WAS mostly tom
bow. which is about thc same thin
MY ambitions always have been
along b1yIsh lines. That is. they
were until about the time began
noticing the color of boys necktiCs.
Then 4 had q burning ambition .o
become a trained nurse. And III n
hadn't started acting. + probably
would be in z hospital right now.
Fancy that Good Old Winnie ln
a starchod uniform and CATER shoes
ramming thermometers down guys
Threats and making funny signs on
charts that even "a handwriting NJ
pert couldn't dccipher. What " break
for humanity when ! started ac.ingl
MY first appearance assam actress
was in Buffalo on amateur night.
II ran out 0n thc stage and tried tO
sing a serious ballad. It was serious
AIN right-onlv I had rtln through
the rain and " couple Cf mud pud-
cleS in mv INV. -a tl grt I'D the
theathr ln Tim end thc audience
Just laughed. From tha. time my
ambitions to bc U dramatic actress
also have been ln The waste baske,.
AT intervals now 7 am caught with
" burning desire t1 be w fortune
teller These animals have made liia
IVY miserable for me. bY predicting
lll sorts of terrible thinas. that 7
feel ! could return .hr favor with
very little conscience trouble.
50. I might have been a nurse -
and wasn't. I might have been 4
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23
HUli0REST IS
SEEN ASPLAY
BOY IN film

III Young JAS You Feel his latest
Fox starring picture. VIII Rogers dis
cards the personal habits of a life
time and appears f0r the first time
Cn stage OF screen as 4 well grO0med-
Bond Street tailored gentleman.
Rogers has not gone Hollywood
His striking wardrobe is a definite
part of the very human characterize
ton Rogers po trays As 'Lemuel
Morehouse." dy Mic. grouchy OH
fOgey who iS compelled t0 turn ultra
modern as an example for his two
sons.
Young AS You Feel" which is the
screen version of George AIDES
hilarious play. Father And The
Bows ana which opened at the
Capitol Theatre Saturday deals with
the widowed father of two modern
sons. u mar who has devoted his life
tO their interest and who wishes
them rO settle down to business and
become happy. C%ontented husbands
The BOYS. however. have other
ideas. one goes in heavily tCr society.
while thp other makes sport "A
mania. Then Rogers resorts to des-
peratn measures "a revolution takes
place in Ills character. brought about
bv w chance meeting with q profess
slonal entertainer. portrayed bv Fiji
D1rs1v. with whom Rogers made s0
much hilari-v In They Had tO See
Paris"
Tn addition t0 Fiji DOrsay and
II rrntpr n -tftaf prunvu4 rrYnvtn~tf t-u
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23

nations airways 10 furnish infor-
nation t0 weather controlling sta
ti0ns along the routes. III addition.
reports are received from over zoo
first order weather bureau stations
twice "a day.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23
AID TO FLYERS

INSTRUMENTATION pilots
owe a considerable debt to the VI.
>. Weather Bureau for the aid
rendered them all over the country.
The bureau maintains 45 upper air
meteorological stations on the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23

Rheumatic heart disease KS said
to occur more frequently among
faIr-haired people than among
dark people.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23

Tn England. more than 10000
war widows have remarked. leav-
ing only 140.55O still receiving
pensions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
China WARNED
BY Japan TO
HALT BOYCOTT
War Threat Is Contained in
Official Note Fixing
Terms for Peace.
BY MILES w. VAUGHN
United Press staff Correspondent

TOXIC, Oct. 9.-Bombing of
Chinese headquarters at Chinchow,
dispatch of warships to China, and
a militant warning that China
must protect lives and property of
Japanese residents indicated today
that the military had outweighed
the peaceful intentions of the
foreign Office.
Some political quarters expected
the government of Premier Baron
Reijiro Wakatsuki to resign in view
of its inability to overrule the war
like activities of the army.
More than a score of vessels will
be sent to Shanghai, Hankow, Nam
king, and other Chinese ports.
Holds China Responsible
The official warning to China
said the Marking government would
be held responsible for failure to
suppress the Chinese boycott
against japanese goods and for
failure to protect lives and property
of Japanese.
It appeared that General HOMO,
commanding japanese forces. which
occupied Mukden and the south
Manchurian railway zone in Man
churia, ordered the bombing of
Chinchow, provisional Chinese head
quarters in Manchuria, at his own
discretion. The foreign office pre-
viously had instructed the COM
mander to do nothing to aggravate
the Manchurian situation.
Peace Policy Endangered
Bombing of Chinchow brought re-
lations between Japan and China
to the most dangerous point since
the Tsinan incident of 1928, when
Japanese and Chinese soldiers
fought in Shaptung province with
heavy casualties on both sides.
The foreign office appeared to be
throwing the full weight of its in
fluence for peaceful methods and
solution of differences through dip
lomatic channels, but the army-al-
ways a strong factor in Japanese
political and social life-appeared
determined to force some sort of
demonstration in Manchuria.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
POISONING is SOLVED
Poor Refrigeration Blamed
in Purdue Cases.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 9.-Ill-
ness of 119 Purdue university stu
dents last Sunday night was caused
by bacterium enteriditis, a para
typhoid germ, it was revealed today
by authorities who investigated the
sickness.
DR.. o. P. Terry, head of the uni
versity medical staff, attributed the
germs Ito exceptionally warm
weather, combined with insufficient
refrigeration, due to changes being
made in the system" DR.. Terry de-
termined that the germs were car
ried in chicken salad sandwiches
served at the evening meal Sunday.
All the students who became ill
have recovered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
Creditors of DefunCt Farm
erS Trust May Battle
Presidents Move.

Creditors Of the defunct Farmers
Trust Company today were consid-
ering organizing to fight the at
tempt of Charles N. Williams, pres
ident Of the bank, to obtain a court
order giving him a large portion of
the institutions assets.
Williams has filed a petition in
superior court four asking the court
to allow him claim of 1922, 1889,
as a secured and preferred claim
over claims Of depositorS and all
other creditors.
Court records also revealed today
that Williams has filed another Pc
tition demanding that several thou
sand dollars worth of bonds, owned
by him, be returned by Boyd M
RalSton, receiver.
Exact Value Unknown
In his petition, Williams states
that the large sum is held by the
bank, as trustee, in special trust
account" created Nov. 8, 1880.
THE bank was to hold the moneys
as trustee and agreed to hold the
account as secured by a first fein
upon all the assets of the Farmers
Trust Company" the petition con-
tends.
Assets of the bank, now held by
the receiver, include real estate,
bonds, stocks, mortgages and other
properties.
Exact value of the real estate is
unknown. However, appraisers have
been appointed by Judge Clarence
E. Weir to appraise farm properties
owned by the bank in other states.
Administration Not Possible
Williams states that he deposited
of hiss own funds various amounts,
under terms of the special trust
agreement, totaling $292,789 which
he demands with interest.
Administration of the banks as
sets will not be possible for some
time, Receiver Ralston stated re-
Gently, because the value of its real
estate holdings is unknown. The
bank closed its doors May 4, 1881.
Othneil Hitch, attorney and cred
itor, charged today that williams
wrote the agreement by which he
now seeks to secure this large pre-
ferred claim"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
MAYOR DODCINC,
SAYS SEABURY
Charges Walker Is Evading
Quiz on Funds.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Samuel Sea-
bury has followed his revelation
that four Democratic politicians de-
posted in seven years $1,1OO,O0O
more than their salaries with an
intimation that he was prevented
from delving into Mayor James j..
Walkers brokerage accounts.
Seabury for some time has at
tempted to get Russell T. Sherwood,
business agent for Walker, within
the power of the Hofstadter city
wide investigating committee.
And Thursday, before Edward
Clennon, supreme court justice, Sea-
bury said:
81 am being INSTRUCTED by every
means possible. Why, even the
mayor of the city has aided this OBJ
struction by keeping his business
agent, Russell Sherwood, out of the
Jurisdiction of the Hofstadter leg
islative committee"
Walker declined to comment when
informed of Seabury's charge.
Seabury made the charge in his
fight to uphold the committees
power to examine witnesses in pri-
vate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
bad BARGAIN
BOUNDS Up TO
FRET CAPONE
Letter Seeking Income Tax
Deal Admitted Into
Trial Evidence.
BY RAY BLACK
United Press staff Correspondent


tried to wriggle out of his own bad
bargain with the government today.
AS his income tax fraud trial be-
fore United States District Judge
James H. WilkerSon went into its
fourth day, the record held details
of a Capone compromise offer that
his own attorneys characterized as
a confession.
A letter, ruled as admissible after
a day-long battle by the defense to
prevent its being entered as evil
dence, contained Capone's admission
through his Washington attorney
that the gang chiefs income over
four-year period was $266,000. 1t
admitted no tax had been paid. The
letter has not been read to the jury,
however, and another battle to pre-
vent the jury hearing 1T was ex-
pected today.
Mailed to Cross"
you've got Capone nailed to the
cross now" Albert Fink, defense at
torney, cried. Admission of this
letter will put him in the final
hole"
The letter, written by Attorney
Lawrence Mattingly of Washington,
to c. w. Herrick, chief internal rev.
enue agent here, pleaded the cause
Of Capone as a $75 week man for
an organization" a family man
and the father. of a 12-year-old son,
the sole support of his widowed
mother, brother and sister.
1t stated that Capone had han
died considerable sums" for the or
ganization Cmeaning the Capone
gang, but had never been its bank
er and always had owed his associ-
ates in the group $4,000 or more.
Paragraph Is Damaging
But included in the letter also was
the following paragraph, which Dis
trict Attorney George E. @. Johnson
and his aids intimated might be-
come the deciding factor of the
trial
Notwithstanding that two of the
taxpayers (Capone's) associates,
from whom have sought informa-
ton with respect to the amount of
the taxpayers income, insist that
his income never exceeded $4,000 in
any one year, am of the opinion
that his taxable income for the
years 1926 and 1927 might be fairly
fixed at not to exceed $4,000 and
$4,000, respectively, and for the
years 1923 and 1929 not to exceed
100000 year."
The government needs prove only
that Capone had a taxable income
Of $4,000 a year.
One of Al Capene's pleasure
jaunts to the Florida coast as a
man from Chicago's who's in the
cleaning and pressing business" and
his later admissions there that he
was owner of dog racing and
gambling interests were-described at
the trial today.
Vernon Hawthorne, states attor-
ney from Dade county, Florida, on
the witness stand told of the con-
versation between Miami officials
and Capone in the summer of 1928,
when the gangster was called to
explain why he was there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Writer

NEW YORK, Oct. 9-Ruth Et-
IN ting sat in her dressing
room at the ziegfeld theater and
talked-about radio. about herself
and her home in David City, Neb.
Ruth just had finished her ia
nous cigaret-girl number. she
was tired, and whenever Ruth Et-
ting is tired, get ready for a lee
ture on the simple life and sim
pie pleasures.
TOO many of us who divide
our time between the stage and
broadcasting tend to forget the
little towns and the people who
hear but don't see us. But those
are the very ones who remember.
They're the real fans.
There are few who have moved
successfully from the stage to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
'UH, FUR FAKM LIFE,- oIGHo ~ KIDD
Ruth Fitting of SagezRadiO Fame Holds Home AbOUe Al

radio A real actor can't express
himself with voice alone. And
still fewer have won stage sue
cess by the radio route.
$50 I wouldn't advise any ANA
teur to aim at the stage through
radio. Anyhow, radio is the
quickest road to perhaps the
greatest fame"
= II
CHE sighed. 1t sounded like a
- young lady being .homesick for
David City, Neb. Coming from
one of the highest-paid stars of
the Broadway show world, and
one who can get $1,000 for a sin
gle radio broadcast, it seemed Just
a little incongruous.
81 was thinking" confessed
Ruth Fitting, "how nice it would
be to be lying out in the back
yard at home. I'm going to build
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
PROTEST LESLIE ACT
Term Is Shortened for
Bandit in Killing.

By United Press
HAMMOND, Ind, Oct. 8. = Loud
protests were being voiced by Lake
county citizens today against action
of Governor Harry G. Leslie and the
state prison board of committing the
twenty -hve-year prison sentence of
Charles McManion, Chicago Heights,
to two to twenty-five years.
McManion was said to have con-
fessed to seven holdups when he was
tried on robbery charges. He was
alleged to have participated in a
holdup at Schneider, Ind, in which
Louis Teboda was shot fatally and
a railroad detective wounded.
McNIanion was sentenced to the
Indiana state prison last January.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09

a new house out there next year.
No. I haven't any immediate fam
lily, but I do have nine cousins,
and we're very close.
You see, I'm not stage-struck,
and haven't a lick Of tempera-
ment. was just lucky enough to
have a voice.
Il danced in Chicago night
clubs to pay my way through art
school. Then I started singing.
1t was about seven years ago that
I got a job singing three nights a
week over WIS in Chicago.
Five years ago I came to New
York, but I didn't do any more
broadcasting until 1928, when l
was in 'Whoopee.'
Nov I do only three or four
programs a month. because it's
such hard work in addition to
the show"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
China Calls on League

By United Press
GENEVA, Oct. 9-China demand
ed today that an urgent session of
the League of Nations council be
summoned to deal with the Man
churian situation.
The secretariat hoped the session
might be possible by Monday.
Feeling that the situation might
get out of control before the sched-
uled meeting of the council Oct ID,
Sir Eric Drummond, secretary-gen
eral of the league, communicated
with officials of the council regard
ing an earlier meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09

tor, was engaged to instruct Hern-
don.
They spent months in prepare
ton, Herndon studying navigation
and specializing in blind flying"
Then, on July %. the eastern
society man and the veteran west
ern transformer SCARED away from
New York, bound round the world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09

In different way, Hugh Hern-
don is as picturesque as his flying
mate. He was born in TituSyille,
Pa. but moved to New York. He
is 81.
The socially prominent son of
a banker, he grew tired of stu
dies at Princeton in 1925 and
sought adventure in the Okla
homa oil fields.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09

VXTHEN Pangborn and Hern-
w don dropped out of the
sky from Siberia in a big red
monoplane at Toxic on their
round the-world flight, charm
ing Nipponese beauty presented
them with a. huge bouquet of
flowers and slIProwd of thousands
cheered themFas heroes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
Death Deng Transformers Are PacicS First ConquerOrS

A few moments later, the two
American airmen found them
selves in custody of police, brand
ed as spies, facing serious inter-
national complications, and un-
able to start their nonstop hop
across the Pacific to America.
A roll of exposed movie film,
and the fact that they had failed
to obtain proper permission to
land on Japanese soil caused all
the trouble.
BY some streak of chance, the
aviators obtained almost perfect
pictures of some of the most
secret Notifications in Japan. Po-
lice and the military bounced on
the camera almost as soon as they
took the plane in charge for land
ing without a permit.
TINE ayiators at first were
Il amused by the excitement.
But their smiles disappeared with
the increasing clamor in the Toxic
/. Nationalist press that they be
punished to the full extent of the
law-heavy fines and long prison
sentences.
Finally, with excitement at a
fever pitch, the Americans were
brought before a sub-district court
judge on Aug. Is and sentenced
to pay 1850 yen each (S1,025) or
go to jail for 2O5 days. They paid
the fine.
And on Oct. 3. the wealthy,
college trained society man and
the veteran aerial transformer
pointed the nose of the nlonoplane
eastward toward America-and
fame as the first airmen to make
a nonstop flight across the Pa
cific. =
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
MASS FORCES TO
FIGHT BANK CLAIM
Key to Past
BIZ United Press

% y CWIVUtI 7 7 COO
CHICAGO, Oct. 9.-Thirty-
seven years ago, a man whose
name has been forgotten
stopped in Room GAG at the
Hotel Sherman. When he left,
he took the door key. The key
has just been received by the
hotel. 1t was sent from Sid
ney, Australia, without any ex-
PLANTATION.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09

THERE he met Pangborn and
i a friendship developed.
Herndon couldn't get a pilots
license in the United ;5tateS-he's
color hlind-So he went to France
and obtained it there, in 1927.
The f1iers formed the Around
the World Corporation early this
year. Lewis A. Yancey of trans
Atlantic fame. an expert nayiga-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
Miner EIectrocuted
By United Press

CLINTON, Ind, Oct. 9.-Leo Be-
Earth, SO, was electrocuted while
working in the Boyle mine near
here. A crossbar, which became
dislodged, pulled a trolley wire down
as it fell. The wire fell across b.
zarth's body, killing him instantly.
He leaves his widow and four small
children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
ROBINSON Is AGAINST
PHILIPPINE FREEDOM
independence Inevitable, but Time
Not Ripe, Says Senator.

Continuing his series of discus
sions on the Philippine situation,
Senator Arthur r. Robinson told
members of Young Lawyers Club at
a luncheon Thursday that, although
independence for the Philippines is
inevitable, the United States would
be Sinking moral obligation if it
we're to grant it now.
Charging that the natives have
shown great ingratitude, because.
although the possessions are a LA
bility, the United States has, and is,
spending millions to educate them
and improve their living conditions.
Every session of their legislature
witnesses a demand for immediate
independence, which should be
granted them only when they are
capable of ruling themselves" he
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
Wabash Man Fights Capone

DY 7 IUtto EpbCFUI
CHARLOTTESVILLE Ind, Oct. g.
Dwight Green, assistant United
States district attorney, who is ap-
peari11g for the government at Chi
cago in its income tax suit against
AL Capone, attended Wabash COL
lege here shortly before the United
States entered the World war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-09
ASSERTS PAL INNOCENT
Chapman's Aid, Facing Deportation,
Pleads for Prisoner.

By United Press
ATLANTA, Oct. 9. - Ludwig
Schmidt, who tunneled his way out
OF Atlanta prison with Gerald
Chapman's partners in crime while
serving 10-year term for the $780,
600 Niagara Falls mail robbery.
pleaded again today for liberation
of co-defendant.
Schmidt just had completed serv-
ing his sentence; he now awaits de-
portation to Germany as an unde-
sirable alien.
James Morrison is absolutely
innocent Of that crime" Schmidt
told the United Press. Morrison is
serving twenty-five year sentence
for the robbery in which Schmidt
also was convicted.