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EARLY SUNDAY EDITION Herald THE VALLEY FIBST-- FIRST EN THE VALLEY-- LEASED WffiE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Support the NRA Code Brownsville Herald Has mibictlbod to Pies. Roosevelt's Re-Employment agreement. Under the provisions of accepted newspaper code Brownsville Herald Joins fully In spirit at tne general plan. FORTY-SECOND YEAR--No. 95 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1933 5c A COPX HOLY LAND UPROAR AS RESULT OF ARAB AGITATION Gold Price Is Increased Despite World Drop STOCKS AGAIN FAIL TO NOTE NEW FIGURES Quotation a 1 Is At London; Margin Increasing WASHINGTON 28.

regarding a drop in world gold quotations, the administration again today pushed upward its fixed price for the' domestically mined metal. While the London quotation was falling from $31.10 yesterday to $30.57 today, the price of RFC purchases rose from $31.76 to $31.32. Yesterday, it stood at 65 cents above the world level and today $1.25. Little Recognition The only apparent recognition of the decline on the London market lay in the fact that the domestic increase was at a smaller rate than in the last several days when the London quottion was trending upward. As compared -with the first price on Wednesday, Thursday's figures was 18 cents higher and Friday's 22 cents above Thursday.

The increase today was six cents. Economists studying the development of the government's new monetary policy were quick to draw the conclusion that today's rise, in the face of the foreign decline, was evidence of a determination oy the administration to run the domestic quotation well above world levels. Margin Increases The margin between the Washington and London rates has rjrown steady. On Wednesday, it was 17 cents, Thursday 58, yesterday 66 and today $1.25. At the same time the actual London price, in British cur- rencl, has risen and fallen.

Today's figure was below that of Wednesday. Dispatches from Denver and Francisco reported a tremendous outburst of activity among the miners, eager to take advantage of the new price, and of huge deliveries to the mints in those cities. Through raising and pegging the price of gold. Pres. Roosevelt hopes to induce a rise in the price of commodities, on the theory that gold and commodity prices are closely related and automatically adjust themselves to each other.

Football Results Brown Holy Cross 19. Mercer Furman 6. (tie) Davidson N. C. State B.

(tie) Penn State Columbia 33. 20; Rochester 6. jjtNorwich Northwestern 7. Hampsmre Vermont; 13. Maryland West.

Maryland 13. Johns Hopkins 13; Haverford 0. Ursinus Drexel 0. Lebanon Valley 13; Delaware 6. F.

M. 14; Swarthmore 0. Temple Bucknell 20. Marquette U. of Detroit 22.

VUlanova 47; Manhattan 0. So. Carolina 12; V. I. 0.

Randolph-Macon Richmond 27. Wooster Muskingum 9. Otterbein Ohio Northern 0. Pitt 14; Notre Dame 0. Purdue 14; Wisconsin 0.

St. Joseph Albright 47. LaSalle Westchester o. Ohio Wesley an 20: Denison 0. W.

M. 12; Georgetown 6. St. Johns (Annapolis) 38; Amer- Univ. 7.

Michigan 28; Chicago 0. St. Thomas Springfield 6. Boston U. Boston College 25.

Lehigh Rutgers 27. Wash. Lee Princeton 6. Washington Coll. Susquehanna 6.

Dartmouth Harvard 7 (tie). Maine 12; Bates 7. Army 21; Yale 0. Georgia Tech 109; North Carolina '6. De Paul 25; Western State Teachers 6.

Syracuse Michigan State 22. Navy 12; Penn. 0. Alabama Fordham 2. Davis Elkins West Virginia 7, (tie).

Bethany 18; Thiel 24. North-western Ohio State 12. Ex-Premier 111 PARIS, Oct. 28. Former Premier Painleve, who has been in poor health for some time, became se today and several physicians called to attend him.

HOGS AND AGGIES WINNERS: STEERS LEAD: FROGS STALL POLICE FIRE ON MOBS AS UNRESTGROWS i sh Immigration Increase Leads To Outbreaks DRAKE ESTATE SET-UP SHOWN IN TESTIMONY a tstock Collected $55,000 Working For Racket SIOUX CITY, Oct. 28. Iff)-The set up of Oscar M. Hartzell's collection organization was revealed today in his trial on mail fraud charges in connection with promotion of his Drake estate enterprise. Collected $55,000 Amos M.

Hartstock of Laurens, Iowa, one of Hartzell's chief lieutenants, as the witness who reveal- ed'he had collected $55,000 since securing power of attorney from Hartzell, most of which was cabled to Hartzell, while he was in London supposedly establishing title to the estate of the famous British sea rover. Receiving the power of attorney, in March, 1931, Hartsock related that he had persons working under him at various points known as "co-workers." He held meetings of prospective donors to the fund and spoke in various cities, naming Sioux City, Fort Dodge, Moville, and Correctionville, Mitchell, S. Winnebago, and Marshall, Minn. Hartsock admitted ownership of 80 receipt books seized at his home by state authorities during their investigation of the Hartzell enterprise. About 9,000 persons contributed to the fund through his office, the witness said.

Judge Urges Speed Government attorneys produced a cablegram from Hartzell authorizing Hartsock to act as his secretary, his salary to be paid from Hartzell's fund. At one point Federal George C. Scott urged urged attorneys to speed up the examination of witness. "Too much time and attention is being given to minor details," the jurist advised. He also suggested that "the record be not burdened with too much literature." Much of the time taken during this week of the trial has been devoted to identification of cablegrams, letters and bulletins connected with Hartzell's affairs.

Film Actress Sues On Promise Breach HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28 (jp)-- Charging that Harry Joe Brown, film director and producer, broke his promise to marry "her when he wed Sally Eilers, screen star, Marjorie Gay, actress, has filed suit asking $100,000 from Brown. PRISONER IS SHOT DEAD IN FREEDOM TRY Trio Silhouetted By Prison Lights On Wall WALLA Wash. UP)--A murderer and three robbers, desperate men all, started over the wall at the Washington state penitentiary. Prison lights silhouetted them, and there was a blast of shotguns from the watchtowers.

Another Dying Today one lay dead, another was believed dying and the two wno surrendered to save their lives were in solitary confinement. Donald F. Collins, 21, was slain. He was serving 10 years for assault. and was charged with robbery.

James Penning, 37, holdup man known to police as "the red menace," took a shotgun slug througn the brain. He was serving 20 to 30 years. James McCourt, 27, murdered serving a life sentence and Carl "Bingo" Brehan, robber sentenced to 10 to 25 years, gave themselves up. McCourt and conins had tried escape before. Ladder Concealed With a ladder made from building material concealed under potatoes in the prison vegetable house.

Collins and Penning were at tne top of the 28-foot outer wall last night when guards C. M. Shere and Eznil Sparks, standing in their ers, saw the two outlined against the sky, Shotguns couched a rain of slugs and Collins crashed over the wall, took a few steps and died. Penning, with a slug through his skull, toppled from the ladder and fell inside. The other two ran back from the shotgun flashes, and surrendered.

Charge Bonds Forgery OMAHA, Oct. 28. --(fP'l-- Forgery of Omaha 'City bonds, which Comptroller Charles, Stenicka believes may total $400,000, a $42,000 block of which was sold to a Chicago bank, was announced in. official quarters today. City officials have learned thai $25.000 worth of the bonds had been soS to Omah apeople, who protect- eo' by the bond houses from which they made the purchases, have received refunds.

How many more bonds were still in circulation has not been fully checked. Dry Agents Shot SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. rifle attack upon three prohibition agents by liquor smugglers caught landing their contraband on the Mendocino county coast, in which one officer, Norman D. Austin, was critically wounded and another, Sam Byrd, slightly hurt, was reported today by George B. Edman, acting head of the prohibition bureau here.

LAVISH PUBLIC EXPENDITURES ARE ATTACKED WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. -Secy. Ickes today told a delegation which urged that the public building program be speeded that he making, every effort to establish "a sane and national policy" in that direction, and took occasion criticize lavishness in public projects. The Publfc Works administrator reiterated "we are perfectly -willing to build any building that is economically justified." To the contention of Rep.

Crowe leader of the relegation, that unemployment would be diminished and men removed from relief rolls by instituting nie building program on a large scale, Ickes said "that doesn't justify us in building a pyramid." He directed attention to the cost of maintenance which would follow. The secretary said he believed many of the proposed public buildings could be constructed for a third of the present estimated cost. In the delegation were Chairman Doughton of the house ways and means committee and Rep. Dies THE WEATHER Brownsville and the valley: Sunda; partly cloudy and wanner. As Hitler Told World of League Withdrawal A tense moment in European history is pictured above as Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany made his momentous radio address to the world shortly after Germany's sensational withdrawal from the Geneva Disarmament Conference the League of Nations.

At left, German citizens read a poster, asking support of the action of their government, which appeared on Berlin streets 24 hours after withdrawal. FEAR 26 LOST LIVES DURING LAKE STORM Negro Draws Death SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 28. (ff) -Death in the electric chair was the punishment assessed by a jury here tcday when it found June Foolfolk, 36, negro, guilty of the murder of Mrs. Alma Dell Caoble, 34-year- old white woman.

The verdict was read to a crowded court room. win, Cre w. NAZI LEADER And Passengers Missing SEKKTRK. Oct. 27.

Anxious relatives of 26. missing men peered with wavering hope today out upon the sleet lashed waters of Lake Winnipeg. Somewhere out there were two boats which had been missing five days with the crews and oassen- gers. All of Selkirk. One was the Luberc.

With a crew of six and 15 fishermen, she left for winter fishing stations 250 miles northwest of here less than 48 hours before winds and snow tied up navigation here. The other was the Question Mark carrying a crew of three and two passengers. Airplanes zlg-zagged over the lake in the hope of finding the boats. So severe was the storm that inshore craft were- converted in appearance to miniature icebergs. The Luberc, a 90-foot oil burner built at a cost of $28,000, is owned by the Lake Manitoba Fisheries Co.

The Question Mark, is a 50-footer, owned by the Selkirk Navigation Co. Child Drowns CUERO, Oct. 28. (tP'i Junior Swenson, 2, drowned here today when he fell into a shallow fish pond at the home of his grandparents. He was found by his mother face down in the pool and apparently had been in the water only a short time.

Relief Board to Meet AUSTIN, Oct. 28. (IP)--A meeting of the Texas relief commission has been called by Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson for next The commission will meet to organize and lay plans for disbursement of funds to be provided by sale of state xellef IS HUNTED BY FEDERAL U.

S. Seeks Man To Deport Him As Propagandist NEW YOSK, Oct. Spanknoebel, pro-nazi leader was hunted today by federal agents under a 1927 law aimed at foreign propagandists. U. S.

Atty. George Z. Medalie said "he is now either in hiding or on his way to the country." Spanknoebel, a storm centre in a nazi-semitic controversy which led to the banning by Mayor O'Brien of a "German Day" celebration Sunday, was ordered arrested yesterday. Medalie charged that Spanknoe- fael represented himself to be a German diplomatic agent and that he failed to notify the state department of his alleged mission, as "required by law. Medalie declared the German embassy denied Spanknoe- bel was an official agent of Germany.

Medalie said, the charges were based on statements by Victor P. and Bernard H. Ridder, publishers of German language newspapers here, that Spanknoebel displayed documents purporting to show that he represented the "presse abteil" (publicity bureau) of the German government. Official statements in Berlin have disavowed Spanknoe- bel. Spanknoebel was reported to have sailed for Germany on the litter Deutschland, but the skipper replied to a radio query: "Spant- nceoel not aboard." POLITICIAN'S KIDNAPING IS UNDER PROBE Candidate for Judge Spirited Away By Four Men PIKESVILLE, Oct.

28. Organization of a searching narty to seek Willis Staton, about candidate for circuit judge who was kidnaped yesterday by four masked men, was planned here today as authorities sought to determine a motive for the abduction. Reports of the kidnaping were brought by Joe Staton, nephew of the missing man, who said the quartet stopped him and 1 his uncle by blocking their automobile on a way shortly before dawn yesterday as they were returning from a political rail at Pond Creek. Young Staton said one of the four men handed his uncle a jjaper and said "sign that or die" arid the elder Staton replied "I'll die." After binding him to the automobile, Joe Staton said, the men drove away in their own car with" his uncle. "He was kidnaped by political enemies," Mrs.

Staton declared when informed of her husband's abduction. She said her husband received two. letters in the past few days telling, him not to remain in the political race. Staton, formerly a circuit judge, was a practicing attorney and author. He lost the democratic nomination in the August primary, started to contest the election, but withdrew it and announced as an independent.

Cashier to Prison BEAUMONT, Oct. 28. (IP)--Porter Cooper, former cashier of the First National bank of Palestine, reported io the. United States district court here today and was turned, over to the who will take him to the Leavenworth penitentiary to begin a five-year sentence on an. embezzlement charge.

Cooper was sentenced in the Tyler federal court by Judge Randolph Bryant Oct. a. LAST PERIOD FIELD GOAL Aggies too Much For Baylor's Golden Bears FAYETTEVILLE, Oct. 28. fourth-quarter field goal by Geiser gave the University of Arkansas Razorbacks a 3 to 0 victory over Southern Mettiodlst University before a crowd of 6,000 today.

The game was a battle throughout by powerful lines through which the fleet backs of both the Methodists and the Razorbacks found it hard to penetrate. The Razorbacks had drilled all during the past week on pass defense and the Mustangs' famous "aerial circus" stalled. AGGIES DEFEAT BAYLOR, 14 TO 7 COLLEGE' STATION, Oct. 28. --Smarting under the defeat suffered last week at the hands of T.

C. A. M. College's "Fighting Aggies" came back to knock the Baylor University Bears out of the Southwest Conference championship race today by a 14 to 7 victory. The Aggies scored in the second and third quarters and the Bears put over their lone marker in the final period.

AUSTIN, Oct. University of Texas Longhorns were leading Rice Institute 6 to 0 at the beginning of the last quarter here today in a slow game. Centenary T. C.U. forward walls were holding well at the half this afternoon and neither team had scored as the second period ended.

Woman Claims Self Defense in Slaying SAN ANGELO, Oct. 28. (ff) Mrs. Minnie Hopkins, 50, was charged with murder -this afternoon in connection with the fatal shooting last night of Prank Cunningham, 23. She was carrying Cunningham's army rifle when arrested.

Her only statement was "I shot in self defense." A witness at the inquest quoted Cunningham as saying, "It might have been an accident, taut I thlnK it was on Mexico Holds Army Officials in Plot MEXICO, D. Oct. 28. or nine officers from the rank of second captain down, it was learned authoritatively today, are held to connection with a plot discovered by the authorities. The aim of the plot, it was said, was t6 imitate the sergeant's revolution in Cuba and seize control of the army from the superiors.

'Ma' Frees Two AUSTIN, Oct. Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson today issued two conditional pardons to Texas convicts. One was granted to J.

T. Wolf, El Paso county, forgery, two years, convicted in March, 1933, and the other to Arthur Chastine, Upshur county, violating liquor law, one year, convicted in April, 1933. Finance Head Quits T. V. Soong, the national government's minister of finance, tendered his resignation today.

It was understood to have result ed from mounting financial diffi culties. The government was not expected to accept. JERUSALEM, Oct. 28. (IP)--The Holy Land was in a ferment today as a result of Arab agitation against an increase in Jewish immigration and unrest spread rapidly not only through Palestine but to Trans- Jordania and even to Syria.

In two new clashes in Haifa between police and Arabs one person was killed and 35 injured after violent rioting. Prison Stormed A mob was reported to have stormed a prison in. Nablus, Palestine, 30 miles north of Jerusalem, tonight and released prisoners, the tense situation was made worse by the declaration of a general strike by Arabs. Troops were held in readiness and Royal Air Force planes left Cairo, Egypt, for Palestine, where they can.be employed if necessary. Sections of Haifa today resembled a war zone.

A mob of infuriated men, screaming invective against the British administration, attacked both the railway station and the police station. In both instances police fired on' the rioters and wounded a number. No actual disturbances occurred in Jerusalem but authorities made arrests as a- precaution against outbreaks. Sullen, embittered crowds watched funeral processions in Jaffa for those killed in demonstrations yesterday. Officials were alert, although there were no disturbances, fearing that the unrest would flare up there.

Troops Mobilized In strategic points throughout Palestine British troops and police were mobilized, ready for further outbreaks such as occurred in four main cities yesterday, in which scores were killed and wounded. How widespread and well organized the Arab movement is can hardly be gauged for few Europeans understand the ways of the East. There were indications, however, that Arabs in a wide territory were sympathetic. The Arabs' call to action travelled swiftly in their own channels, and wild Nomadic bedouins moved into the cities. Agitations said their demonstrations were riot directed against Jews themselves, but against British authorities for allowing increases in the Jewish immigration.

Stones Are Hurled In Haifa crowds of incensed Arabs tried to smash automobiles outside a railway station when a volley of shots was fired. Youths, meanwhile, ran through the city throwing stones. To avoid general fighting police proclaimed a curfew law but the Arabs attempted to rush the station for the arrival of prisoners arrested yesterday in the Jaffa disorders. Armored cars of Seaforth Highlanders patrolled Nablus, where one, was killed jn clashes yesterday. Troops aided police also in Nazareth, and Safed.

In -Jerusalem the government rounded up members of the Arab executive, among them Aouni Bey and Abdul Hadi, the latter a leader of the independents and a prominent The Arab executive has promoted the demonstrations. Market Supervision Legislation Urged WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. --(ffj-- Pres. Roosevelt apparently plans to urge legislation, in stronger terms than he did last session, to extend federal supervision of the great; securities and commodity markets.

Federal exchange supervision was mentioned to the last congress by the chief executive. The press ol recovery legislation, however, prevented it from reaching adfanced stages of consideration. Auto Wreck Fatal DENTON, Oct. automobile collision on the highway northeast of Denton caused the death ol Frank Jordan, 36, of Aubrey, and the serious injury of Sheriff G.C. CostreU and James Mack of Denton.

The cars, driven by Cockrell aniJ Jordan, collided yesterday. Cockrell was cut across the forehead and, received possible internal injuries, while Mack suffered a deep cut on the heck and body bruises. Dallas Cursinger, a deputy riding with Cockrell, was cut and britised,.