McAllen Daily Press (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 292, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 11, 1927 Page: 1 of 16
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McALLEN DAILY PRESS, THE FASTEST GROWING NEWSPAPER IN THE VALLEY
McAllen Daily Press
“THERE’S NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS”
Vol. VI.
McALLEN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1927.
USE
SOLD BY
PALM CITY
TIRE
& RUBBER CO.
Cooper ]
Number 292
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leave, one of the Ozark’s most famed tant cloud bank, where it will be vis-
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
o:
store.
have not yet taken advantage of our offer. We are of
fering the unusual bargain to people getting their
paper by mail in Hidalgo County. If they will send
in Three Dollars for a year’s subscription we will give
Garber v.t.t acquir-
them a pen or a set of pearls. If you wish to take ad-
; months. Believing that hia company
Mra. Clodfelter plans the immediate
whether we can get more.
capa-
semi-
constantly
stabilized
light-
appli-
163; potatoes. 2;
26; tomatoes, 50;
was
she
was
his
in
Morgan
left on
will
our
the
A
day
able
Avenue here at a cost of $45,-
lie American Rio Grande Land
VEGETABLE OUTPUT
DOUBLES THAT OF
Thompson of Chicago,
Edison. Gene Tunney. Al
Babe Ruth.
was an easy winner in
nearly
any other season,
to date have been
various commodi-
papers.
has no
MRS. LILLIENDAHL GETS
"TEN YEARS AT HARD
LABOR AND FINE
NEW HARDWARE STORE
COMING TO McALLEN
the other offices are es-' numerous cottages on the property,
—y! in addition to her present holdings.
vantage of this offer, you will have to get your order
in at once as when this supply is gone we do not know
the same date last
are nearly three
in
Service)
Dec. 10.—
Poland and
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THROWS PICTURES OX
CbOVDH
Northwestern University
vey had been completed
growing and
every month,
stronger
More firms
the Government
amount above
expenses of run-
Growers Asso.
shed was form-
public reception
invited to in-
in cur office the other
us when we wculd be
the leased wire news
was* meant the fu!l
that are carr.ed by
in the large cities
between
presi-
of Li-
of
(International News
GEN EVA. Switzerland,
Threats of war between
Lithuania over the status of Vilna
were completely dissipated this morn-
ing following the meetihg
Marshal Pilsudski, the Polish
dent, and Premier Valdemaras,
thuania, at the secret session
League- of Nations Council.
that ts
from time
ties. We
Increasing
week to week
Every month finds us doing a nicer
business than we did the
vlou*.
With 356 cars of vegetables shipped
the Valley to date, as compared
141 cars to
shipments
as great as
n keeping with our policy
to increase THE PRESS
to time as business justi-
are enjoying a constantly
business from day to day.
and year io year.
and Rev.
Special
com-
Mrs. 1
and 1
ible for miles around. The arrange-
ment of the lenses makes focusing
unnecessary, anefeby swinging the bar-
el of the light-gun the image-can be
shiftfid, z
It is possible, according to engineers
to build a light gun that will throw an
--------b to a distance of five miles or
Sky painting with an electric
gUnsMs a recent addition to the
cation of electricity to industry.
The light-gun is mailt up of a pow-
erful searchlight mounted behind a
Mr R
President
Hiukamp
| that city,
Igation of
Tex
Wai
Darrow-.
income
the Christmas
were not announced.
from
v. ith
year,
! imes
Vegetable shipments
divided among the
ties:
Mixed vegetables,
beans, 35; cabbage,
beets and carrots, 30; carrots, 7.
Mercedes continues to lead in total
shipments, with 167 cars of fruit and
vegetables shipped, followed by San
Benito with 143 and Weslaco with
cars.
finished.
The store- at Mc Allen will be under
tlie management of Mr. R. E. Krueger,
who has been manager of the store at
Pharr. Great pains ate being taken
to make- this store one of the prettiest
in tlie Valley. All the fixtures are new
and absolutely
along the most
lines to make
friend was
and asked
to install
ice. By this
telegraph reports
the larger papers
the faci-
packing
We
you
you
organizing the sales force which will
work out of McAllen and cover the, erection of a large summer hotel and |
Valley until
tablished.
We were fortunate in getting another shipment of
• i
fountain pens and pearls, and can supply those who
The Hayes—Sammons Hardware
Company, with headquarters in Mis-
sion and stores in Mission, Edinburg,
and Pharr are opening a Store in Mc-
Allen. This is one of the largest bust-
' ness conc erns in the Rio Grande Vai
.ley and has been doing business in
I the Valley for many years. It is with
'a great deal of pleasure that the citi-
zens of McAllen welcome- this estitn-
But the McALLEN DAILY
is continually growing and will be as
good as the best of th-m long before
McAllen is as large as Brownsville.
FUNERAL0 SERV ICES
SATURDAY
feel thankful to
of our city, the
j beauty spots, and has a population
'slightly in excess of fifty inhabitants.
The property acquired by Mrs. Clod-
I felter includes a house an l one hun-
Mr. L. W. Gaffney has recently ar- i dred sixty lots, on which stands the
ved ip McAllen to establish the Vai-, railroad station, post office, several I
C -r- ral mer- j
vast postal machine
in front every possible source-,
of this amount was expended
aries of additional employees.
Figures for the additional
resulting from
rush
Lumber Company 'this
million feet of lumber
near-
“Old Matt” was
master at Garber
general stored
The property at
ed merely as an investment M.w. Clod-
felter aald. Tt is valued nt about
$4,500 and was taken in trade with
CHICAGO MAN MAKES
McALLEN A VISIT
With' this issue of the McALLEN
DAILY PRESS will be seen for the
first time our eight page magazine
section. This is a new addition to
THE PRESS and we hope that our
readers will like it.
| (international News Service)
| CHICAO, nr. Dec. 10. A third of'
' Chicago's fire department was engag-!
• ed in fighting a spectacular fire which
I was raging in the yards of the Ed-
ward Hines
morning. A
have- already.been destroyed, and
by property is threatened.
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MICHIGAN COMPANY
WILL ESTABLISH
HEADQUARTERS HEREj
McAllen is
getting more
and advertising is getting
and more certain. More firms are
coming in all the time, who subscribe
to fuller and more constantly adver-
tising schedules.
' MERCEDES, Dec. 10 —The most
1 modern and up-to-date fruit packing
!shed In Texas has just been completed
1 on Ohl
i 000 by
■and Irritation Co., for use of the Rio
(Grande Valley Citrus
The new packing
‘ally opened with a
| today. Everyone is
’[Sped the shed on this date.
' The new plant is 90x100 feet and Is |
‘ i located on Ohio Avenue with Missouri
It has
. .The
has
i i v t_u 141 »•)< 111.11 tv t n i a in 1311 Lii v v ai i 1 am vau oiaviuiij vm
'ley headquarters for the Eureka Vac-(scattered homes and one t
j ctium Cleaner Company, of Detroit,
Mr. Gaffney is the Valley
(International News Service)
MAYS LANDING, N. J., Dec.
'Its. Margaret Lilliendahl and
alleged paramour, Willis Beach,
sentemed today to ten years at
labor and fined $1000 upon their
r lotion of slaying the woman’s
the McAllen metehants divide their
advertising among several
and the Brownkville Herald
competition.
All of which we
the business men
surrounding towns in the Valley and
our large and constantly growing
foreign advertising patrons.
10 —
her
were
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" Citrus Association Shed
One Of Most Modern
that if Brownsville could.
McAllen should. McAllen could if her
advertising were consolidated as it is
in Brownsville Tlje Brownsville
Herald had a hard time of it until
competition was eliminated" and all
the advertising support went to one
CHICAGO. Dec. 10.- Col Charles A.
Lindbergh and Henry Ford are the
most important men in the news to-
day, and Queen Marie of Roumania
leads the women, according to a sur-
vey made public here by officials of
sur-
st u-
(International News Service)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The Unit-
ed States government will play the
role of Santa Claus to the tune of a-
bout $9,000,000 this Christmas season,
in that it will cost
approxixmately that
and beyond ordinary
ning the mail service to handle the
1927 Christmas mail.
This figure is based upon compila-
tions of similar additional expendi-
tures for previous year, with due al-
lowance for the usual normal increase.
Last year the Post Office Depart-
ment disbursed $8,688,215 for addition-
al service to take care of tlie great
volume of Christmas mail that poured
into the vast postal machine from
Most
for sal-
near future. He 1
Mrs. Hedlick and
thought McAllen ■
she had seen in
Relick’s are friends
guests of Mr. and Mrs.
of McAllen while here,
the Missouri Pacific for
SEMI-RIGID AIRSHIP
FOR 30 PASSENGERS
TO BE BUILT SOON
F»L
chandise
Mrs. Clodfelter became it ,c. ested in ,
the village because It was the home of [
“Old Matt” and “Aunt J ’. e”—Mr. j
and Mrs. J. K. Ross—ch .rasters in j
WrirSjt’s novel, "The Shephet d of the '
Hills". Garber Is also one >f the old-1
est settlements In the state.
for yeat the post-j
and al <> ran the
(International Newi Service)
SPRINGFIELD. Mo.. Dec. Iff—Sole
jowfier of the town of Garber, Mis-
souri. in the heart of the "Shepherd
of the Hills” ’.country; made famous
by Harold Bell Wright, Mrs. Ada Clod-
fclter, Is planning to place a little vil-
lage on the roster as a resort center. ...... „—......„------------- ------ _
Mrs. Clodfelter, who operates seve-, series of lenses and a slide holder, all
ral small hotels at Garber, is believed j encased in a metal housing which
te be the only owner of an entire town j looks like a big cannon barrel.
in Missouri. I The light gun has been designed to j
Garber is four miles from, Marvel (cast an image at long range on.a dis- image
‘ ‘ ‘ '....... " ' • more.
was as good a town as Browns
and
Polish-Lithuanian War Is Off i
After Geneva Conference
Brooks I. Dickey,
Timmons in charge,
was given by a quartette
of Mrs. Grady Timmons,
Cardwell. W. G. Siewart,
ie.
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CHRISTMAS MAIL TO
COST U. S. $9,000,000
! Students were asked to
1 and ten women whom they considered
I te be most important. Lindbergh and
Ford tied for first place with the next
eight as follows: President Coolidge,
Mussolini. Prfitce of Wales. Mayor vVil
liam Hale
Thomas A.
Smith and
Queen Marie
the women rat
Ruth Elder, Helen Wills and Jane
Adams trailing in that order
Other men for whom balloting ran
high were: Charlie Chaplin. Lloyd
George. John I). Rockefeller.
President Dawes. Jack Dempsey.
j Rickard, George Bernard, Mt
' ker. Glenn Frank. Clarence
H. G. Wells. Dogulas Fairbanks, King
Michael, Prime Carol, Herbert Hoo-
ver and Senator Borah.
Funeral services for Mrs. Louise
Florence Walker, who passed away
Thursday night, were hold Saturday
afternoon at the Kreidler Chapel, with
Rev
Grady
music
posed
John
Wm. PayYu
Active pall bearers were: F. B
Freeland, C. H. Britton. Art Collins,
F. L. Moore. C. P. Samson, and C. C.
McDaniel.
Through respect, the office of the Michigan..
McAllen Daily Press was closed from I supervisor for the Company.
3 to 4 oclo.k , M|. (!aff]ley state(] that after Janu-
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(ary L branches would be established
ROTARY LADIES NIGH in j{arj jnKen an{] Brownsville, but
POSTPONED 1 that the main offices of the company
, , ... , , : would remain in McAllen, the Valley
Ladles night, which was to have . ’
, r> , , * supervisor making his home here,
been observed by the McAllen Rotary |
Club Friday evening with a banquet, 1 According to Mr. Gaffney, his com-
when members of the McAllen faculty , pany is new in this section of the
and wives of the Rotarians were to be | State, although the company has been
special guest, has been postponed in-1 operating In Texas for the past fifteen
definitely.
The regular Rotary luncheon will be, has the best In its line, Mr. Gaffney is ■ M. J. Shaekett, Eldorado Springs, Mo.
served by ladies of the Eastern Star
on Wednesday at noon, and at this
time, the High School foot ball boys
will be special guests of the Rotarians.
D Redlick of Chicago, Vice-
and general manager of the
Rial Estate Company of
is here on a trip of investi-
the Valley in general and
PREVIOUS SEASON •stated last evenig, that he was agree-
jably surprised to see the progress that
had been made and predicted that a
;greater showing would be made in the
'next five years, than have been made
Iin the last five and that in his judg-!able concern here.
I ment, the greater the acreage planted j They have been busy the past week
| to. citrus fruits, the beter the prices j moving in their large stock of goods,
would be, also much easier to mar- and getting ready for their opening
I ket. He did not recall of ever having ; which is to fake place next Thursday.
;seen Valley fruit on the markets of ■ They will bejocated in a new building
I Chicago and stated that if we had ' on Main Street which has just been
sufficient fruit to warrant, that Chi
cago dealers could undoubtedly
interested in buying here.
Mr. Redlick did not say whether
company would become financially
terested TTj the developing of the Val-
ley or not, but said he was pleased
with what he had seen and in all prob-
ability would make a return tyip to
McAllen in the
accompanied by
stated that she
the nicest town
Valley. The
and were the
R J
They
their home last evening.
By International News Service
LONDON. Div. 10.—A semirigid
airship 1 hat will carry a paying load
of :lu passengers with their baggage,
end six tons of cargo and mails, at al
■ pi i d of 5o miles an hour, is one of 1
tile possibilities of the near future. ,
Pacific trackage on two sides. 1
D. signs for s'ueh a craft have been a capacity of four cars per day.
voniplvti it. and it is hoped that con- very latest type of machinery
. . . . , . been installed insuring the highest ef-
st ; ni t ion will be taken tn hand tn the
, , ificiency in packing, grading and ship-
e c x i »C“«i r. |
ping.
| In extending invitations to growers
of this section to inspect the new
i plant the Association said:
1 "Regardless of whether you own a
citrus orchard or not you are invited
to visit our shed and inspect
lities for sorting, grading,
and marketing citrus fruits.
I be more than glad to show
I equipment, and explain to
(service which this association is in a
position to render every citrus grower
i in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.”
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! WOMAN SOLE OWNER
; OF MISSOURI TOWN
TO “PUT IT ON MAP”
modern and arranged
modern and scientific
merchandising a plea-
The stock will be very
j large, carrying a large number of
j litres and an absolutely complete stock
1 of everything to be found in a hard-
I ware store.
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Lindbergh And Ford
Shine In The News
As Listed By Students
scheme is being promotejl by
Airships, Limited, a London
itical company. “We believe
e future of profitable commer-
cial aviation lies with the semi-rigid
airship rather than with the airplane,"
the secretary of the company declared.
It is true that the airplane is capable
uf greater speech but the airship has
the compensating advantages of dls-
[ tance-range and cargo-carrying
'l ily. The maximum cost of the
| rigid craft will be $130,000.”
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’ Fire Raging
1 In Chicago
Lumber Yard
paper.
Ra Wa
kti
The
Me.* 1 len
business men
have
enough
advertising to support a
news
service
as good
as Brownsville
. but
Two Killed, Two Wounded In
Shooting At West Texas Bank-
FIRST SHIPMENTS
RUN HIGH; EXCEED
THOSE OF LAST YR.
Citrus fruit shipments tram the
Y alley during tile present season
have reached a figure nearly as high
as total fruit shipments for the 1926
1927 season, according to figures
furnished by the Missouri and South-
ern Pacific lines. Total shipments
last season barely reached 500 cars,
while this season's figures show ap-
proximately 490 carlots sent out, not
including express shipments.
The Missouri Pacific has sent out
462 cars of citrus and the Southern
Pacific nearly 30, according to fig-
ures furnished and tlie crop is es-
timated to be about one-third out, ac-
cording to local growers. A record
business is being done in express
shipments by individual orchard own-
ers who sell by mail. Grapefruit has
made up 400 of the straight carlot
shipments, with 6 cars of oranges and
56 cars of mixed fruit.
(International New* Service)
SAN ANGELO, Texas, Dec. 10.—Wil
liam Schneeman, president, and Karl
Word, cashier, both of the Guaranty
State Bank here, died thia morning
from bullet wounds inflicted In a
shooting affray in the bank's offices
yesterday. Ira Swope, assistant cash-
ier, and two customers, Mrs. Helm*
Walling and Earl Gibson, were acci-
dentalTy wounded during the shooting,
but were recovering today.
Tlie shooting followed a notification
given Word that he would be replaced
as cashier by a younger man, accord-
ing to bank officials. Neither Schnee
man nor Word were able to make a
statement before they died, but Swope
stated that the shooting followed a
conservation between Word and him-
self relative to Swope’s handling of a
customer’s telegram.
New officers were temporarily ap-
pointed by the board of directors con-
ducting the bank, which opened for
business today.
Prices have run to a very satisfac-
tory figure, growers receiving from
SI.25 to $2.75 per crate f. o. b. the
Valley. As high as 2c and 2 l-2c is
being offered growers for fruit on
the trees, according to reports.
CLASSIFICATION OF
McALLEN’S POPULATION
The population of McAllen at the
opening of 192S, eight years after the
la.pt decennial census, is, 10,129, com-
pared with 5,331 in 1920. an increase
of 90.0 per cent, according to a sur-
vey just completed for the McALLEN
DAILY PRESS by the Newspaper
Feature Bureau. The population of
the metropolitan district, comprising
the city and adjacent territory, is es-
timated at 12,000.
Increase of 75.0 per cent since 1920
in the number of qualified voters in
the city.
Characteristic
H (if
the McAll
(‘11 po-
pulation are:
1920
192S
Census Survey
.Population
5.331
Hi 129
Males
2,811
5,341
Females
2,520
1.788
Persons ov«r 21
2,763
5,250
Males
1,494
2.839
Females
1(269
2,411
Families
1,084
2,060
The survey is, based on statistics
from local sources.
giving the
city's
gains since the
census of 1920
in the
factors essential
to population
growth:
Excess of births over deaths
in the
city since 1920,
numbering 540.
Increase of 85.0 per cent since 1920
in the number of youths of school age.
Increase of 80.0 per cent since 1920
in the number of active domestic
water services.
Estimate from Mayor F. B. Free-
land of 10,000 as the city's popula-
tion at the close of 1927, and 12,000
for the city and adjacent urban ter-
ritory.
PARIS TO HAVE DANCE
SCHOOL IN MEMORY
OF ISADORA DUNCAN
(International New* Service)
PARIS, Dec. 10.—The “Isadora Dun-
can" dancing school is soon to be es-
tablished Tn Paris, in memory of the
famous dancer who was recently kill-
ed at Nice, according to her brothers,
Raymond and Augustine, and her sis-
ter, Elizabeth. The institution will
foster the ideals of chorography1 and
physical grace a* Isadora Duncan
knew .them
It i* hoped that the school will be
sufficiently endowed to offer free tul-
Hop,.'to persons of more talent than
mdney, and thu* make for a world of
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French Pilot Killed
By International New* bervtav
LE BOURGET, Paris, France, Dec.
10.—Pierre Corbu, famous F-?nch pF
lot, and his pilot, Lacostc, were killed
here this morning while they were
testing a new plane.
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MASONS WILL
CONFER DEGREES
The degree of Master Mason will be
conferred next Tuesday night at the
Masonic Temple by Past Master's of
the McAllen Lodge No. 1110, A, F. &
A M. The conferring of the degree
will take place at 7:30 p. m.
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Brooks Smith
Well Received
In Concert Fri
— -1
Brooks Smith, the Valley’s boy pian-
ist, played his way into the hearts of
all who heard him Friday night in his
concert in the New McAllen High
School Auditorium, his concert being
the firsjt entertainment to be given in
tin' recently completed building.
Brooks was encored time after time
by his enthusiastic audience of more
than 400 persons, and he responded
graciously each time. His program
included many of the best works ot
the old masters, and was greatly ap-
preciated by the listeners.
Brooks was assisted, in his concert
by Terry Ferrell, well-known Valley
violinist, who was accompanied by
Miss Hulda <■ Walden, of San Juan.
Mr. Ferrell’s numbers were highly
praised and he responded with several
encores.
The concert was sponsored by the
McAllen Study Club, and was directed
by Judge B. D. Kimbrough.
‘beauty, such as the famous danced of-
ten imagined
A tragedy of the life ot Isadora has
been written t>y one of her great
friends, M. G. Denis, and will soon be
published in an edition de luxe with
80 sketches ot the artist made by Joee
Clara. Mr. Dennis was one of the Wit
nesses to the cremation of the dancer
and telle that the flames rapidly re-
duced her body to fine ashes, all bat
the shin-bones which refused to ban
until they were removed and sectioned
by a slight blow of the axe.
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