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THUMBNAIL EDITORIAL Brownsville can push lU chest out a little farther now THE WEATHER that it has the New Majestic Mostly overcast »ki«» and to brag on. mild, with occasional, scat- tered thunder shower*. Grand* Valley for Over 50 Year* 28 PAGES BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1949 57TH YEAR — NO. 39 (/P) MEMBER He's Traded Bullets For Oratory But Chapin Still Engaged In Courtroom Battles At 79 Cotton Picker Who Killed By GEORGE AVER tin raid Stuff WrlUsr Judge Dennis B. Chapin has swapped tullr.ts for courtroom oratory but h«'a still fighting. Friend Slain By Officer Tho 70-year-old former Hidal- go county Judge, who ha» had share of political battles as well an gun fight*, !« now in Alien Shot the midst ol legal warfare with nrveral lai e;o Texas oil compa- Port Isabel The oil canes thin week brought As He And him to Brownsville, where he hud alawoifleenlmo«toOycarB ago. Whin he finished a stor- Set For my hearing In Judge Allen B. Deputy Fight Hitnnaya federal court Chapin rUd florne reminiscing" about his first viwit lure, Fish Tourney Shooting Is Held Worked for Cattlemen •It wa« back in 1892 or 38D3 he Justifiable In •mid, v/h-n he was work ng for Four-Day Event Verdict Of Justice tho Cattle riHi.snrs AflHoclation Gets Underway -My npr.clfio Job was what A cotton picker thought thr-y call•*! a tt-oubleshooter Early Thursday "llmlnatiiiK cattle thieves and to have bludgeoned a com- horse thieves," he sal d, Ho Port Isabel, Aug. 17 — panion to death was shot added he had a -special corn- Last minute entries and final fatally by Deputy Sheriff iY\i*A^ioi,«n 1ivr.1 * j11m1 thw * *e \ ' trovernon i LO Walter Keller while resist- ride with the Texas K*"**™ arrangements were being «nd rlc-numd their asfllstanco made today for the Texas ing arrest last night. '"whonev< T I deemed it neces- Both killings came within not often neces- International Fishing Tour- .snry." " nament which gets under an hour at about midnight, Sheriff Boynton Fleming MU y way at 7 a. m. Thursday. ' ' ' Is Acquittal said. flhapin does not deny that in Keenest competition is ex- Banger to pected in the sailfish and Justice of the Ponce Manuel Diaz about JUIO he shoacquittet a d after dc Loon returned ' a verdict, of death and wan marlin divisions with former justifiable homicide in the death of n ninf'-dHV trial In Victoria. Port Isabel Rodeo champs and the man Keller shot. He called the The flm-id, Hoqu-nenL I lawyer bludgeoning- "murder". 1 11 of seven famous deep-sea fishermen concen- told how Hi' I-''" near trating on the big trophies for (iivos Account r,,MllPr.H i.-d him from sails and marlin. Fleming gave the, following ac- JUDGE DENNIS B. CHAPIN Grandma Coming count of the events leading up to ... .— > — 71-year-old Mrs. Clara Thomaa the fatal fracas: iind two of his men of Alvin, Tex., the "Fishing Grand- At nbout 31:30 p. in. the. sher- joined me in th- pursuit of these iff's office sot a call saying a man and' 1 brought them (tnc A&I Student Union Building ma," is expected to arrive by air had been killed in his toed on the t( Corpus Chrlstl . in Brownsville at 6 p.m. today from farm of Jose Martinez, near Okla- anr| there ' out fitted them" for Houston for the tournament. Mrs. homa Avenue about; seven miles the trln to the border. Thomas landed a 70-pound tarpon east of Brownsville. <-Tlml was the first time T Contracts Are Let By Board Keller made the call to investi- Brownsville," here on July 4. Nfiw the city of 1 Among late entries are two gate. He found Ignacio A vila Ol- Chapin Maid, "t made up my 17 Contracts totaling $419,- prominent San Antonio sport fish- vera, 23, an alien picker, had been { over settled KJNGSVILLK, mind tiif-n that if 055,80 for construction of a student union building on ermen. Leon Howell, regional di- hit on the head with a blunt in- down I would mftko tho Rio I. College were let Tuesday at rector of the Veterans Administra- strument and his skull crushed. Ornnde Vull'-y my home. tho. cum pus of Texan A. & tion at San Antonio and Dr. Dudley The deputy also found all the End f'>r Ru.iHrrs a meeting of the colleges board of directors in San An- Jackson, cancer specialist, an- dead man's belongings missing and The rustlers? nounced their intention to compete his roommate not there. about tonio. "Wo exterminated them Completion of the three-story on Tuesday. Seek Man ;. - '10 miles above Laredo, Meanwhile, long-range weather While waiting for Chief Deputy n 01 none structure, is scheduled for 350 days he M,,t,j, "nnrl in the tlght^ alter the start of construction. Dr. forecasts predicted good weather Sheriff Bill Gatliff and the justice of" ,i<t was f-vori wounded, ILA Contract for the tourney, tenth in a series of the peace to get to the small fh'apln recalled In minute K. H. Poteet, president oC the col- which began at Port Isabel in house where Olvcra had been kill- d tail his arrival in Browns- lege, said work would probably be 1934. Fishing for an estimated ed, Keller and Martinez, owner of ville "The first. domoHtic duty I Still Sought .started within ,<J.0 days. entrants begins at 7 a.m. Thursday the farm, started in search of the had'forced upon rnft by my wife, Contracts ind continues through 4 p.m. Sat- dead man's former friend, W(ls to take, a prescription to a GAL.VESTON, Auff. urday. A day-long program or They found him walking toward The R-ene.ral contract for the dnijr "torn and have It refilled, statement on contract nion tnnkfing went to Harwell and awards, with Senator Rogers KeJ the Rio Grande and stopped him ho tsauccl today, F. A. ^i-agci, ey of Edinburg as master of cere to f--earch him. The man Keller shot h l president of the Intprnnt.onal Uirwell o£ Ban Antonio on a bid "»Tho 'dn.KKiHl of the city at ,f svn 000. Four other contracts monies, will be held Sunday. was identified as Miguel Morales that time WHS a Mr. Puto.gnat Longshoremen's Association C..ULL Free Fish Fry Hernandez., 22, also a wetback cot- Coast district announced. warded were: Plumbing, $27,402, a most congenial gentleman . ;tnin and Dawson, Corpus Christ!; Port Isabel fishermen, in charge ton picker. -I HHk->d him what the price He said the statement will fol- of a free fish fry Sunday for the As Keller started to search him, WHM and he said -51.50. I low a third meeting between I'O- itililies, $17,.173, Modlln Co., of h5ch holds its for- Hernandez hit the deputy in the ovpus Chriflti; electrical wiring, eneral public continued Tuesday NEW MAJESTIC—Shown here is the new Majestic Theater w tendered him a *80, 1J. S. cur- presentatives of the TLA atul the to lay in supplies for the affair, face, knocked him down and jump- which rcpro- l'.t 800 Hooper Electric Co. of San .)>nrv o-nld note Mr. Putep- Maritime commission including 2500 pounds of fish and mal opening tonight. (Other pictures on Page Five.) ed on him. Keller reached for his cmploycrs and .nt'nnio; and dining room and gun, a .45 caliber automatic, freed inl ,ooU -t. and said Til have scnts warehouse < i t e h c n equipment, $26,680.80, 75 gallons of cooking oil. The fish to tfivi- you your change In the barge operators. Southwestern Specialty Co. of San fry, beginning at 11 a.m. Sunday, * • • it from its holster and fired one money of the country.1 Another meeting will be held is expected to draw 4,000 to 6,000 shot, which grazed Hernandez' <\ntonio. , Hunt Starts •Tin cave me two Mexican tomorrow, he said. The board members reorganized persons before it ends at 3 p.m. stomach, Fleming's account said. Kilver dollars a Mexican five- The two groups opened contract Early entrants were checking in All In Readiness For Gala They wrestled for possession of negotiations Monday. They mot • docting officers Frank C. Smith dollar hill and the balance of the Houston, president; Mrs. Frank at Port Isabel today and preparing the weapon. Keller found it had- in trade checks on Boi- again yesterday, but Yeagr-r would pear for tournament fishing. Some In Mexico jammed after the. first shot. He rharuve not comment on progress thus Norton Lewis of San Antonio vice lack's store KleUls store, the H-c-sident- and Robei-t C. Eckhardt charter boats hired for the three Opening Of Majestic Theater succeeded in clearing the chamber store, and other far. The old contract expires ,f kings vine, secretary treasurer days of fishing reported that they For Ochoa of the automatic, while Hernandez stores of the city. Aug. 21. Ml three were recently reappolnt- would concentrate on waters 35 to was still wrestling with him and Hups i\l thc hoard by Governor Allan 50 miles offshore, seeking blue With top executives of Interstate Theaters lending a LAREDO, Aug. 17 — (/P)— The attempting to strangle him, Flem- "[ found out that those trade (I to members marlin, sailfish, and amberjack in ing quoted Keller as saying. would Shivers. Other board hand, final details for the formal opening of the new vord was out in Mexico today: Keller freed the gun and shot checks on those stores Range Rider resent wei-e I^on C.