The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 286, Ed. 1 Monday, April 18, 1927 Page: 2 of 8
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MBS SI
TOURSVALLEY
Secretary Rio Grande
Commission Investi-
gates Condition
0
Mi*« Mae A. Schnurr secretary to
Commissioner Elwood Mead of
the Bureau of Reclamation Depart-
ment of the Interior Washington
D. arrived in the Valley today and
will spend the next few days looking
over the situation here relative to
making t .port to Dr. Mead and the
commission for the equitable use of
water trom the Rio Grnnde.
Besides Miss Schnurr George Cur-
ry. former governor of New Mexico
and now boundary commissioner R.
E. fishburn consulting engineer for
the American section and Gustavo
P. Serrano Mexican Commissioner
and Armando Santacruz )r. Mexican
consulting engineer of El Paso ore
in the Valley. The members of the
commission will h Id ameeting in
Brownsville some nine during their
stay here this week regarding a set-
tlement of boundary questions aris-
ing through the changing course of
tfee Rio Grande.
This morning C. L. Hunter man-
ager of water improvement district
number five and a number of men
and women of El Jarain and others
interested took the visitors for a
drive over district number five. This
afternoon the visitors will go up the
Girls’ Noses
Never Shines
when they use this new wonderful
french Process Face Powder called
31KLI.O-GLO—-keeps that ugly shine
away. Women rave over its superior
purity and quality. Stays on so long
—skin looks like a peach —keeps com-
plexions youthful-—prevents large
pores. Get a box of MELLO-GLO
Face Powder today. Eagle Pharmacy
Inc.—Advertisement.
I%r Better Luggage
[i! h _ -
gee
R. L. LACKNER
Jeweler
1103 Elizabeth
Phone 644
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Dog Is Revenged
“Skipper" is only a mongrel dog
who loners about the campus of
Furnarn university Greenville
S. C. yet three students have
been expelled from the school ny
vote of the student council be-
cause of him. The youths cut
off his right ear with a razor
enclosed it in an envelope with
a note and slipped it under the
door of his master’s room.
Valley and a program has been
planned by W. E. Anderson of San
Benito a member of the commission j
for the equitable use of waters of the
Rio Grande for showing Miss
Schnurr over this section of the bor-
der.
Win- Penn—5 cent*—A Good Cigar
2 GROUPS'
(Continued from page one.)
Matnmoro* and a part of the group
will put on a program over radio
station KWWG.
Tomorrow morning the special
car will be hooked on the Monter-
rey train. The group will go us far
as Saltillo. The return trip also
will be made by way of Mutamoros
the train arriving there Friday
evening.
While on the trip the students are
gathering material for articles which
they are writing for the newspapers
and magazines which they repre-
sent.
The Corpus Christ! good will
‘‘trippers’’ are to have members of
the Brownsville Chamber of Com-
merce as their guests at a dinner in
Matamoros tonight shortly after
their arrival here. They will put on
a play at the Quevn Theatre "The
Whole Town is Talking.” a comedy
written by Anita I-<>os. ai>*hoF- of
“eGntlemen Prefer Blondes.” Free
tickets have b *en distributed for
this show.
Tomorrow morning the “trade
trippers” will head up the \ alley as
far as McAllen. The* trip home will
be concluded Wednesday.
Wm. Penn—ft cent*—A Good Cigar
APRIL -
Month of
Diamonds
See the unusual set-
tings at Dorfman's
Buy a Diamond
^Ve always allow full purchase price
on a**Dorfman diamond when ex-
changing for a larger stone.
PRICED FROM
$25.00 to $1500.00
A Diamond Priced to Fit Your Purse
Unusual Preparations
for Diamond Month
April’s Birth Stone
This being Diamond month we have
made unusual preparations by in-
creasing our diamond stock and we
are showing many exclusive designs
iu mountings.
An Exceptional Bargain
DIAMOND RINGS
Values up to $69.60
Special
$49.50
Buy a diamond for his
lodge ring. He’ll p-
preciate your thought-
fulness.
$10.00 and up
Phone
. 970
Complete _
Jewelry i*SI».hct
Service Time
DEMONSTRATE
POTATO TESTS
Three Meetings of Po-
tato Growers Called
for Next Week
SAN BENITO. Tex.. Apr. 18.-
Three potato meetings in the Cam-
eron county field* and at the Valley
experiment station at Weslaco Mon-
day. Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week at which hundreds of farmers
throughout the Valley are expected
to be present were announced Mon-
day by Henry Alsmeyer Cameron
county farm agent.
AH meeting* will be held at 2:30
p. ni. on the days scheduled. The
first meeting is to take place at El
Jardin at the farms of W. II. Cald-
well and M. H. Saubers. The experi-
mental plots there will be dug up and
the results of the sulphur control of
the potato scab will be observed. Po-
tato fertilizer work will be a feature
of the meeting at Sauber's farm.
The Tuesday meeting is to be held
at the Agricultural Experiment sta-
tion at Weslaco withi William
Kriedn superintendent in charge.
Seed treatment will be the specialty
at this conference.
The third day’s gathering are to
take place at Los Fresnos on the
farms of Mitchell Orr and F. C. Rich-
ey. At the Orr farm the rsults of
the potato variety test plot will be
observed and another sulphur control
plot will be noted at Richey's place.
I»r. J. i. Tnubenhaus of the Experi-
ment station at College station will
be among the speakers at the meet-
ings. Other men from the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college are ex-
pected to attend to give the growers
some pointers on the growing and
developing of the potato crops in the
Valley.
JOE MINOR GOES
. INTO NEW FIELD
Joe H. Minor for the past three
years secretary-treasurer of the f’ut-
ceson Motor Company of Browns-
ville has disposed of hi* interest in
the company with the intention of
removing to new field*.
Mr. Minor *aid that he has not
definitely decided on hi* future loca-
tion. He left Saturday for a leis-
urely automobile trip with his fam-
ily and will travel westward. He ex-
pccts to investigate possible loca-
tions in New Mexico and in Califor-
nia.
The Minor residence in West
Brownsville has been sold to R. K.
Henderson of this city.
Mr. Minor has made many friends
both in a business way and socially
since coming to Brownsville several
years airo with the Patteson com-
pany. all of whom will regret his
departure from the city.
Edinburg Secures
P.-T. A. Convention
ED1NBUKG Texas Apr. 18.—
Through the persistent efforts of the
six delegates to the annual Parent-
Teachers Association at Kobstown
Edinburg is to be hostess to the
P.-T. A. onvention.
Mrs. Ed Yarborough first vice-
president of the Edinburg P.-T. A.
gave the response to the address of
welcome and Mrs. J. K. Miller
treasurer gave a splendid report for
Edinburg. The high light of the day
was the address by Miss D’Laurn
Bevil expression teacher in the
Edinburg school. Miss Bevil spoke
of the platoon system which is now
being used in the Edinburg public
schools. Her talk w:.s so well given
and appreicatt^l ho much that she
was asked to give the same uddress
again in the afternoon session.
Those attending the convention
from the Edinburg P.-T. A. were
Mesdames George P. Brown pres-
ident; Ed Yarbrough. first vice-
president J. K. Miller treasurer. A.
Y. Baker. H. Baker E. S. Hearne
[Miss Bevil.
Wm. I*enn—rent*—A (»«K*d < igar
Sam HuRhston
{
Life Insurance is
like a life belt. You
may not need it for
a long time but
when you do you
heed it badly.
183
SEPMCE MAN FOR
INVITATIONS
ARE SENT OUT
Formal Opening WH1
Be Held for Three
Buildings
Joint invitations by the Browns-
ville Chamber of Commerce the
Missouri Pacific Lines and Hotel
El Jardin to attend th«* formal open-
ing of three buildings on May 4
are being mailed.
Several thousand of these invita-
tions have been placed in the mails
by all throe interested organizations.
The invitations are very attract-
ive. They were printed by the Mis-
souri Pacific printing shops in St.
Louis.
Three illustrations one each of
the new depot the hotel and the
Chamber of Commerce are used.
The invitation is in the form of a
folder- The depot is ^hown on the
left-hand leaf us the invitation is
| opened the hotel is shown in the
j center leaf and the chamber of
commerce building on the right-
hand leaf. iFach has written matter
underneath.
In addition to the cut* of three
buildings several "dingbats" or Mis-
souri Pacific trade-mark* in red ure
UM-d to decorate the folder
i It is planned to make a gala af-
fair of the opening with several
bands and an orchestra on hand a
grand ball in the Spanish garden
built in connection with the hotel
refreshments served in Missouri Pa-
cific diners. Special rates may be
offered on the railroads. Mexico’s
celebration of a national holiday El
Cinco de Mayo from May 1 to M. in
Matamoro*. will be an added atrac-
tion. Matamoros will hold an expo-
sition in connection with the cele-
bration. No passports will be re-
nuired during the Mexican celebra-
tion period and many p-rsons nre
expected to take advantage of the
fact to visit the Brownsville opening
and the Matamoros celebration on
the same day.
Universal Film Proves
Melodramatic Thriller
Something in the nature of u sen-
sation will be revealed at the Texus
1 Theatre tomorrow at the opening per-
formance of Jules Verne's famous
melodrama "Michael Strogoff.” long
popular as a book and as a play and
now filmed for the first time and pre-
sented by Carl Laemmle as a Uni-
versal-Film de France production. A
handsome and personable young Rus-
sian actor Ivan Moskine said to be
• Europe's idol of the screen” heads
a brilliant group of principals sup-
ported by a cast said to number O.lHKi.
The performance of the star as the
intiepid hero a “secret courier of
the Czar” was a splendid realization
of Verne’s fumous character and left
nothing to be desired.
The story concerns itself with the
adventures of Strogoff on a 5000
mile journey from Moscow to Irkutsk
in Siberia with a message from the
Czar to his brother the Grand Duke
in command of the Russian troops
who is threatened by an uprising of
the semi-barbaric Tartars under Feo-
far the Grand Kuhn.
Edinburg Stores
Formally Opened
EDINBURG Texas April 18.—The
formal opening for the Popular
Sture with Max Tavss owner and
manager and The Edinburg Drug
Company with John Box manager
was held Friday night in the midst
of brilliant surroundings. Roth
stores arc in the new Max Tavss
brick building just completed.
Both Mr. Box and Mr. Tavss re-
ceived the scores of callers that
came to congratulate them on their
| new home and the neat and attract-
ive way in which everything was ar-
ranged.
Both nrm are “old-timers” in Ed-
inburg and numbers of callers had
the pleasure of listening to the
great improvement of conditions in
Edinburg of “then and now".
The Edinburg Drug Company has
the distinction of being the second
oldest pharmacy in the entire Val-
ley and was the only one in Fdin-
burg and Hidalgo County for a long
time.
Souvenirs were given the visitor*
at both places.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Benjamin Rodriguez and Rosa
Garza. '
Hipolito Gonzales and Rosa Garza
Will Snipes and Edna Williams.
Jose Gutierrez and Benigna fcs-
comilla.
James E. Jones and Louise Kioto.
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' Win- Penn—5 rents—A Good Cigar
RELIGIOUS
(Continued fruin page one.1
this country in the internal affairs
of other nations” in “the strict en-
forcement of the provisions of the
constitution that congress shall
make no law* respecting an estab-
lishment of religion or prohibiting
the free exercise* thereof”
“In this spirit” concludes tb«?
governor's letter. “I join with fel-
low Americans of all creeds in a
fervent prayer that never again in
this land will any public servant be
challenged because of the faith in
which he has tried to walk humbly
with his God.”
The governor cites the nineteen
tunes he has been elect'd to public
of^ce. and had served that he never
has known any conflict between his
official duties and religious belief.
"Your church just as mine.” he
told Mr. Murshall. “is voicing the in-
junction of our common Savior to
render unto Coesar the things that
are Caesar's end unto God the things
that are God’s."
Gsjwtrnor Smith says that of his
pr sent cabinet thirteen are Pro-
testants. two Catholics and one a
Jew. The assistant to the governor
he say* is a Protestant a republi-
cs n and a -12 nd dee re- Mason.
Mr Marshall argued that the Ho-
man Catholic church was committed j
to the doctrine of into!trance ami
in this connection he Quoted the
Catholic Envvclopedia. The goverao*
said that “dogmatic intolerance.”
mean* that ins.de of th* Catholic
church Catholics are to be intol-
erant c* anv var*anc’ from the dog-J
mn of the chn-ch. As to the ay’Is-1
v> is of P. pc Piur IX. Quoted by Mr. j
M-irahall on the matter of a pos-1
«ihle conflict between church and
state the governor said it had been
declared by Cardinal Newman t®
have no dogmatic force.
“You have no more right to a*k
mo to defend a» part of my faith
every statement coming from a pre-
late.” wrote the governor “than I
should have to ask you to accept as
an article of your religious faith
every statement of an 'Episcopal
bishop.”
Ttie governor quoted statements
by Catholic American prelates de-
fending equality of all religious be-
fore tne law.
TRUCK MARKETS
(Continued from page one.)
diaiuspolis Galveston Los Angeles;
1 each Topeka D’ts Moines. Louis-
ville. Denver Abiler.e Kansas.
Evansville Omaha Cincinnati Salt
Luke City.
Carlot shipments of Entire United
States reported for April 17 (Sun-
day)
Cabbage: Alabama 2 Louisiana 2.
Texas 4 total U. S- $ cars.
Potatoes: Colorado 7 Florida 7.
Louisiana 3 Texas 6 total U. S. 24
cars.
Mixed Vegetables: Arizona 3. Cal-
ifornia 2. 8. Carolina 2. Texas 27.
total U. S. 35 cars.
Harlingen north bound movement
i reported for Monday morning April
18:
Vegetables 26. Beets and Carrots
R 4 Carrots Corn 10. Potatoes 63.
Beets 1 Onions 1 total 110 cars. To
date- Fruit 744. Vegetables 10074
total 10.818. Empties ordered today
I 71 cars.
F. O. K. shipping point miornia-
tion reported for Saturday Anril l*»:
Cabbage: Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley Points: Warm partly cloudy.
Haulings moderate light wire in-
quiry. demand and trnding slow
market dull. Carloads f. o. b. usual
terms too few sales reported to
quote; in mixed cars $10-18; crat s
best mostly *1.40-1-50. Wagonloads
cash to growers $8-10.
Green Bean*-: Lower Rio Grande
Valley Points: Hau'ings moderate
moderate wire inquiry demand and
trnding moderate market steady.
Carloads and mixed cars t. u. b.
usual terms bushel hampers $1.76-
2.00 best mostly $2.00. Wagonloads
cash to growers—-best mostly 1.25
few lower.
Green Corn: Lower Rio Grande
Valley Points: Haulings moderate
mod-rate wire inquiry demand and
trading moderate market about
stendy. Carloads and in mixed cars
f. o. b. usual terms bushel basket
mostly around $1.75.
Tomatoes: Lower Rio Grand* Val-
iev Points; Haulings light for
mixed cars onlv. demand good mar-
ket steady. Mixed earn f. n. h. usual
terms four bask *t carriers turning
unwrapped mostly 2.00.
Bee's und Carrots: Lower Rio
Grande Valley Points: Haulings
moderate demand and trading mod-
erate. market steady on carrots
slightly stronger on beets. Carloads
and in mixed cars f. o. b. usual
terms bushel baskets $1.00-1.25
beets mostly $1.25.
Potatoes: Lower Rio Grande Val-
iev Points: 'Haulings increasing
moderate wire im uiry. demand im-
nroviny. matket firm Carloads and
in mixed c:ir«s f. o. b. usual terms
sacked Bliss Triumohs U. S. No. 1
11-2 in. min. mostly $3-00; f. o. b.
cash track mostly $2.75. Wagonloads
cash to growers $2.25-2.50.
Hastings. Florida: Warm partly
cloudy. Haulings fairly light good
wire inquiry demand good mark -t
stronger prices higher. Carloads f.
o. b. usual terms double head bnr-
lesals Spaulding Rose U. S. No. Is
S4.75-S5.00. Peak of movement ex-
pected next wexk.
j Wm. Penn— 5 renls-A (ioud Cigar
The Markets J
\KW \ OK h COTTON ;
NEW YORK. N. Y.. Apr. 18. The
cotton market opened steady at an
advance of six to ten points on the
over-holiday weather and flood news
from the Mississippi \ alley. Active
| covering with eon>uft*i iiblt? triple ilIU*
fresh speculative buying sent prices
up to 14.&6 for July and 15J® for
December or about 16 point* above
lust Thursday's closing quotations
and the market held well up to three
figures at the end of the first hour.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS. La.. Apr. IK.—d/Pi
—Cotton prices were active here to-
day with first trades showing gains
of y to 17 points. Bad weather in the
belt and the flood situation were in-
fluences that carried May 17 points
up soon after the opening and later
month* y to 13 point- up. July trad-
ed to 1.4.58 and October 14.83 16 or
17 points above the previous close.
After n loss of 7 or 8 points prices
again were at the highs.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO. III. Apr. 18.—(JP —
Wheat displayed an early upward
trend today owing largely to further
general rains and to a forecast of
widespread additional moisture.
Opening 1-4 to 1-2 cent advance
wheat soon went higher.
Corn out* and provisions were
also firmer corn starting unchanged
| to 1-4 cent up and later scaring
I gains all around.
BI TTER AND EGGS
CHICAGO. 111.. Apr. 18.-Rut
ter iower; creamery extras 50 1-2:
standard* 41* 1-2: extra firsts 40 1-2
(a 50; firsts 47 12 <a 48 1-2; seconds
43 1-2 (ri; 45 1-2.
Egg* lower; firsts 21 <si 21 1-2: or-
dinary first* 22 1-2; storage packed
extras 26 <ft 26 1-4; storage packed
firsts 25 1-4.
POTATOES
CHICAGO. 111.. Apr. IS <A’. Pota-
toes old stock; weaker; Wisconsin
sacked round whites 1.95 (a 2.05; i
Idaho sacked russets 3.05 rn 1.20;
new stock stronger; Florida barrels
Soaidings Rose 5.06 fin 6.50; Texas
sucked Bliss Triumphs 4.00 (ri 1.25. j
IW I.TRY
CHICAGO ill.. Aur. !•.—tAh—
Poultry alive firm; Fowl* 25 (p 19;
broilers 15 (p 45; turkeys 10; roos-
ters 16; dueks 20 (p 12; geese 17 fh
18.
SILVER
NEW YORK. N\ Y.. Apr. 18—.Ah—
Bar silver 56 7-8; Mexican dollars j
41 1-4.
Saturday Forwardings
of Truck Total 115
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Tex.. April 18.—
The Vnll y forwarded 115 c*rs of
truck Saturday sending the total
lor the season l*v freight over the
I Gulf Coast Line* to 10.708. To date
j Inst year 0087 cars had been moved.
The report in detail:
iMj.x d vegetables Harlingen 1.
Taylor Made News
_____ AI’UII 18. 1827 No. IS ! |;
I ----II.
Published in the In-
terest of the People
of Itrownsville and
Vicinity by Taylor
Lumber Co. C. W.
Clark. Mgr.
For the Home-Town
Merchant we must
sigh.
He ’hates to see the
crowds go bv.
And spend their Cash
in a near_by town
While with him it’s
always. “Mark that
down.”
If we told you that
we were in business
for the love of it you'd
laugh and you’d have
a right to luugh. The
truth of the matter is
this business is our
bread and butter.
Why not change
the name of an en-
gine's “Cow-catcher”
to “Lizzie Tosser?”
Cows are more care-
ful now days than
some auto drivers.
The new home of
the McDermott Motor
Co. at fifth and Eliza-
beth Streets is near-
ing completion. Meri-
wether & Sauers ar*
the contractors.
I
C. A. Leister says:
“Now that spring is
here paint now don't
put it off. Put it on.” j
C. E. Nichols of El
Pnso. representative
o£ the Southwestern
Portland Cement Co..1
was around last week j
Claude says "El Toro’’
cement is the best
cement on earth and
we think he is* cor-
rect.
One of our Browns-
ville young ladies
says she agrees with
the local painter for
girls that paint sure
draw the men.
“The Americana.” it
the Queen Theatr**
Wednesday April 2<»
at 8 p. m.
Velvetone a beauti-
ful soft tone washable
flat wall paint for in-
terior decorations if
there was a better
paint made we would
have it.
We are counting
strong on those St.
Joseph's College boys
putting on a fine en-
tertainment next Fri-j
day evening April 22.1
Wf certainly were
kept busy last wees
filling order* for
Ruchter’* Hurab 1 e
Paint. A painter us-
ing this paint for the
first time remarked
'*1 never used a paint
that had such cover-
ing capacity.”
Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Wood will move into
their new home in
West Brownsville in
a few days. Ruchter’*
Durable Paint was
used on this home.
Tony says: “No rea-
son for going without
a shave now there
are lots of barber
shops in town.”
Improvement of the
military highway is
now the biggest pro-
ject before the peo-
ple of South Texas. 1*
they go after it with
their usual vigor
there can be no doubt
of its success. The
project is one which
deserves the maxi-
mum of federal aid.
TAYLOR LUMBER
COMPANY
Brownsville Texas
Phone 506
* Pee Gee China Enamel
With charming eiiect FVe Gee China hnamel
Gloss White it u*edon door* stairway* pil-
lars wainscoting and all interior or exterior
woodwork It gives a smooth hard brilliant
Finish that does not yellow with ane Also
made ra various tints and eggshell Finish.
■: V.ijir.iaang
JUST turn the dial onaPeeGeeColor Selector
(which we will give you) and you will
see fifteen groups or colors- each group a
complete harmony in itself. Walls ceilings
wood trim floors and draperies arc shown in
pleasing contrast in each group.
When your color selection l as been made
you will find a Pee Gee Paint product to fill
your requirements.
The Pee Gee trade mark on a jn of paint is
your assurance that the audit;/ cannot be
improved upon by anybody.
FRONTIER LUM £R CO.
Browns* die
Mercedes fi Weslaco 6. Donna I
Alamo I. Sun Juar> 1 Mormon 1
.McAllen I. Brownsville 1. San Be-
nito 1. Spiderweb railway point*
Be-u \V« slnco I. Ratcliff 1.
Carrots Weslaco I.
Corn—Ln Keriu 1 M rcedes 2
Weslaco 2 Pharr 1.
Potatoes Harlinren 1. Stuart
Place 1. Olmito 21. Brownsville :l.
Sun Benito 4. Rio Hondo I Spider-
web railway points 12.
Onions—Harlingen 1.
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