The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 146, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1933 Page: 2 of 8
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Texas Bank Bandits Apparently Make Clean Get-Away with $41000Loot
5 PRISONERS
RELEASED BY
ROBBER PAIR
MARLIN. Dec. 2§——A dean
getaway apparently had been made
today by two robbers who looted
the Pirst National Bank here ot
•41.000 and held three employe* ot
the bank captive for nearly 12
hours.
After sacking the bank vault
the robbers sped by automobile to
a wooded pasture aboht nine miles
south of Roger*. In Bell county
carrying with them as hostages
Vice Pres. M. V. Bradshaw; Mias
Andrew Peyton bookkeeper; and
Lee Humphries a negro porter.
Hunters Taken
Shortly after the robbers and
the bank employes reached the
pasture two hunters. Jack Davis
and Lee Davis wandered unsus-
pectingly upon the scene and they. >
too were taken prisoners.
At dusk yesterday the robbers
tied the five to trees and after
warning them to “keep your eyes
shut or well punch your eyes out”
drove away with the money The
bank employes and the hungers
freed themselves in about an hour
and notified officers but were un-
able to tell which way the robbers
went or to provide more *han
vague descriptions of them. None
of the five was Injured.
Prom the time they entered the
bank until they left their captives
in the posture the robbers repeat-
edly warned them not to try to see
what was going on or to look at
their captor*. The captives were
forced to keep their heads down.
?1 aspect Is Held
Bradshaw said the robbers who
carried oot their crime and subse-
quent escape cooly. confided to him
that they had been In Marlin for
three days “lining up the situa-
tion.”
City detectives at Port Worth
last night detained a 54-year-old
man for investigation in connection
with the robbery. The man em-
phatically asserted his innocence
and offered to produce any number
of witnesses to show he had been
K Itasca all of yesterday. The man
la known to members of the police
force at Port Worth as a law-
abiding citlsen. He was taken to
Marlin for questioning.
Bradshaw said he had just en-
tered the bank yesterday morning
when one of the robbers came in
behind him telling him if he
“made a bad move it would be
dangerous."
"He made me walk ahead of him
to a stool where I was sitting when
Shaw Spencer Marlin mail carrier
later saw me" Bradshaw related.
"The other man told me to keep
my head down. He cam* In but
went right out and stood in front
of the bank.
“The bandit covering me asked
me the combination of the vault. I
told him I didn't know it. A few
minutes later the negro porter
walked in and my escort pointed a
pistol at him and told him to lie
down. He was behind the rail.
“Mr. Spencer came in to deliver
the mall and I thought he would
see the porter but I guess he did
not. When the postman entered
the bank the bandit told me not
to make a move or It would be too
bad We exchanged some words
with 8pencer about the weather.
Miss Peyton the bookkeeper was
the last to enter the bank. By that
time the other man had come In
again. He made Miss Payton take i
the seat where I had been told
the porter not to move and tM
first bandit made me walk ahead
of him to the vault.
"The cashier sets the time clock
and I did not think it was time for
it to be opened. I turned the com-
bination and tne vault owned j
Both men came into the vault and
while one stood guard they piled
the money into a sack thev had !
brought with them. Wh«n the
money was gathered up. th^v mad
us walk ahead of them to a car
at the rear of the bank.”
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Majesty on Skates
Despite her fifty-three years Queen Wilhetmina of Holland demonstrate;
that she is still an adept on the ice. The ruler of the Netherlands u
shown with her only daughter Princess Juliana as they braved a snow-
storm to skate at a public rink in The Hague recently. Princess Juliana
is famed as a speed and figure skater.
Farm Bureau Head
Sees Money Change
As Great Benefit
(Editor's Note —The year 1933
being as memertoas as it was
what did it mean for agriculture?
The Associated Press herewith
preecnts the answer as viewed In
an article written for It by one
of the moat widely known farm
figures.)
By Edw. A. O’Neal president
American Farm Bureau Federation
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28 —(A*)—
Unity of action among farm organ-
isations has been demonstrated in
the past year as being possible.
Farm organizations ordinarily have
worked congenially together but hi
ROTARY HEARS
SPANISH SONGS
Master Zeferino Perea Jr. of
Matamoros. entertained members
of the Brownsville Rotary club
Wednesday with songs and recita-
tions in Spanish being greeted
with rounds of applause at the
conclusion of each number.
Zeferino Perea Sr brought to
the club New Year’s greetings from
the Matamoros Rotary club and
business men of Matamoros. ex-
pressing the sentiment that the
New Year held much in store for
the twin cities of the border.
Rev. E. P Day spoke of the N?w
Year saying that the trials and
tribulations of 1933 should fit us
to better take advantage of the
prospects offered by 1934
Announcement was made that
Walter Jenkins governor of the
47th district of Rotary would be
present at the next meeting of the
club and attendance of all mem-
bers was urged.
Mrs. Jenkins will accompany her
husband and they will present the
program.
the tat twelve month* they have
worked In a particularly clooa for-
mation.
The beginning of a new era In
regard to control of surplus** al-
though discussed several years
prior to 1933 got into full action
during that year. I refer to the
control of surpluses by limiting
production rather than trying to
control them after they are pro-
duced.
Ten years ago we did not need
to limit production because then
we had world markets. Nineteen
hundred and thirty-three brought
us face to face with the fact that
our world markets for farm pro-
ducts had largely vanished and
that farmers if properly rewarded
should control their production
Nineteen hundred and thirty-
three was particularly significant
to agriculture In that It confirm-
ed our federal policy of taxation
based on ability to pay. despite the
fact that the federal gov-rime nt
In it* efforts to relieve unemploy-
ment needed vast funds.
The Income method of taxation
has been continued through this
troublesome period instead of re-
sorting to other forms of taxes
which are based mostly on neces-
sity to consume.
In my opinion along with the
great tax victory Just spoken of
stands the monetary policies now
being put into effect throughout
the year 1933. The revaluation of
the dollar recognition of silver and
the general expansion of credit
throughout the nation by govern-
mental activities constitute an
epoch in the fiscal policies of our
nation The “honest dollar" which
the American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration for years has advocated is
now a near reality.
Nineteen hundred and thirty-
three marked a definite beginning
of a planned agricultural urogram
for agriculture in which control
of production retirement of mar-
ginal lands from production pro-
per marketing of farm crops sup-
port of agricultural agencies and
similar activities are given more
recognition than ever heretofore
they had been given.
We are barely at the beginning
of this era however and much
larger action will be needed than
we have been able to start in 1933.
The year Just closing also shows
to my mind that the administra-
tion at Washington is more farm-
minded than former ones have
been and with the policies initia-
ted in the past year and carried
forward as they are now planned
we can look back to 1933 a few
years from now and realize that
agriculture so far as federal re-
cognition is concerned entered a
new era with a new hope and con-
fidence in the administration of
Pres. Roosevelt.
The beginning of this hope and
confidence Is evident in *he in-
creases In prices on farm products
wiich have begun an upward
swing taking the country as a
whole.
in-.. ■•hiiiibwii.h ^
I IN OUR
VALLEY
•Continued From Page Ona>
“valley crop production
loan association should shake
hands with itself—
Over the selection of Frank
Crowe of McAllen as its president.
Sound and sensible views enter-
tained by Frank Crowe tingvd with
a never slackening enthusiasm for
the Valley-
Make him the ideal head of this
agency which will have such an in-
fluence over the future of our
growers.
Don't let Wall Street fool vou
The American dollar Is Just as
sound as ever—although you buy
tas far It now than vou used ta
HUEY CARRIES |
IHS TROUBLES
INTOJPOL
BATON ROUOE La.. Dec 28-
OP—With hla political irons in the
fire In two fierce election battles
In Louisiana Ben. Huey P. Long
was en route to Washington today
to press seating of Mrs. Bolivar E.
Kemp his choice as sixth district
congressional representative.
Sanders Polls Pole
Strife for the moment was cen-
tered in the sixth district where
n Use ns yesterday held their own
independent election and po-sd a
total of 14584 votes in 181 out of
197 precincts for J. Y. Sanders Jr
their choice to succeed to the con-
gressional office vacated by the
death of Mrs. Kemp's husband.
Meanwhile another sector com-
manding the attentic of the
Louisiana "Klngfiah” was New Or- !
leans where a Long-supported third
ticket was forced Into the mayor-
ality campaign by the old regular
I
organizations rejection of Long
suggestion for a district attorney
on their ticket.
All twelve parishes In the sixth
district took part in the election
yesterday and the balloting com-
paratively heavy was carried out
without the flash of guns ballot
and effigy burning and firing of
shot! and issuing of court orders
that marked the election of Mrs.
Kemp on Dec. 5. Mrs. Kemp was
nominated by the district executive
committee and elected without a
primary.
Though Sanders an anti-admin-
istration leader in the state senate
and a politic*.! er**my of Long was
the sole candidate on the inde-;
pendent ticket in yesterday's elec-1
tion. Mrs. Kemp received at least
19 write-in votes.
Sanders pointed to his heavier
vote as “a smashing repudiation of
Long's attempt to name the con-
gressman from the sixth district/'
Sanders said he would go to
Washington and press his cause on
the claim that Mrs. Kemp's elec-
tion was Illegal and confiscatory
of the people’s right of franchise
in the denial of a primary by the
?governor and the further claim
hat his election was legal and fair
and represented the will of the
people in his district.
Mrs. Kemp is already tn t .e
capital city conferring with Speak-
er Rainey an<1 other congressional
leaders
G 0. P. TAKES
JOB BATTLE
INTO COURT
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28 —(AV-
Willlam A. Humphrey today 'ook
to the U. S. Court of Claims hfc
contention that Pres. Roosevelt's
action in ordering him remote a
as a member erf the federal trade
commission last October was ‘Il-
legal and void.’*
In a petition filed with the
court. Humphrey a republican de-
manded from the United States
$1251.39 he said was due nire y>
his salary from October 8 to Not-
ember 30.
Disclosing for the first time tne
full correspondence between him-
self and the president. Humphrey
placed before the court the tran-
script of four letter* from Mr
Roosevelt Two of them requited
his resignation a third accepted
hi* resignation although Slumpn-
rey contended not had been of-
fered. while a fourth contained
only these words:
"1 am in receipt of your letter
of Sept. 27th. Effective as of this
date (October 7) you are hereby
removed from the office of com-
missioner of the federal trade com-
mission “
The controversy between the
president and Humphrey which
already has been pitted up as a
political issue by some republicans
and is certain to be aired in the
coming congressional session has
beer simmering either beneath 'he
surface or in the ooen since 1m1 I
July.
Humphrey refused to relinquish j
his post ere nafter the direct order 1
from Mr Roosevelt He based oB
case before the court on the con-
tention that congress Intended the
commission to be an Independent '
semi-judicial non-political body
the members ol which would be in-
dependent of the will of the pres-
ident and subject to removal only
for causes stated In the statute.
PLANE PASSENGERS
Pan-American plane arrivals |
Wednesday were W J. McLain Mr
and Mrs. P. A. Boharte and baby
from Mexico City; T. Garcia Oon- j
rales and Miss Maria Oonnlet and
Mr. and Mrs. Pred Koch from
Tampico. D. G. Richardson. Mbs
June EyfiekJ and H. W. B’ish left
for Mexico City Thursday morning
BEAN I )SSING
CASE DROPPED
Charges of smuggling beans in-
to the United States from Mexico
have been dropped agai-at Bal-
dotnero Rustro and Ctpri r*» Flores
pending their payment of — ntm
.idmlnlstraUve fines according to
information at the U S. commis-
sicner’s office.
The men entered pleas of guilty
when brought before tve commis-
sioner. but the cases were dismissed
*hen they UdWlcated wUltngnesB ms
pay the administrative fines.
They were arrested 'uesday at
the La Paloma ranch by Dep. Sher-
iff E. M. Yznaga. at which time
they were alleged to be transport-
ing 297 pounds of smuggled beans
desaned for San Benito The dep-
uty sheriff turned the men. bean*
and car over to customs officers
Rostro admitted smuggling the
beans across near La Paloma. whi>
Flores stated that he was Merely
aiding his companion.
Two Russian balloon 1st* report
oxygen in the stratosphere lmo*'
as plentiful as on earth. That a
reserve supply for our lecturer* Mid
politicians-
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