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Eatabluhed July 4 1892
Entered u second-class matter In the Postoffice
Brownsville Texas.
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ocal news published herein.
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TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
Foreign Advertising Representatives
las Texas 512 Mercantile Bank Building
was City Mo. 306 Coca Cola Building
cago. 111. Association Building.
v York 350 Madison Avenue.
Louis 502 Star Building.
Angeles Cal. Room 1015 New Orpheum Bldg.
Broadway.
1 Francisco Cal. 318 Kohl Budding
ttle Wash. 507 Leary Building.
Passing of Tom Finty Jr.
>ther son of the Fourth Estate has gone to his
l. Tom Finty Jr. was widely known in the
of Texas newspaper writers. He had been con-
with the Belo publications for 31 years. He
een the editor of the Dallas Evening Journal
ill as a director of the Belo publications) since
rst issue of the Journal. The Journal is the
Don edition of the Dallas Morning News. Tom
Jr. was 61. He was one of the mose lovable
;rs of the newspaper fraternity under south-
11 skies.
was a glutton for work. He never looked at a
sr a timepiece. He had been a reporter a cor-
dent an editorial writer and a directing head
;er years of a modern newspaper. He had
the Belo interests and later the Dealey Alter-
ing and faithfully. Those who knew him well
at he worked himself to death. He never knew
e- ttdiir until illness came to him several years
id he was sent on a long vacation to recuperate
had many friends in the capital city of the
He had many friends the state over. He knew
iblic men of Texas political and otherwise. He
ie soul of personal integrity he had his ideals
» very serious minded he battled for prison re-
for educational reform for taxation reform
e merit system in the selection of employes of
ate and wherever there was welfare or reform
bo be done Tom Finty Jr.'s face was in the
!.
was not an aggressive man. He was slow mov-
d cautious. He loved books. He loved nature
s loved his fellows. If he had an enemy in the
then the newspaper world did not know it. He
native of Illinois. He received a practical ed-
1. He became a telegraph operator. He came
cas in early manhood. He worked the wires
ild use his pen. His thoughts flowed easily and
lly.
t Texas was the seat of his early endeavors
serted the wire for the typewriter and became
spaper reporter and correspondent. He worked
nember of the staff of the Galveston Tribune
the coming of the tidal wave which swept the
city of the pirate isle almost off the map and
s its toll 10000 lives. Clarence Ousley was the
of the Tribune and Finty became his right
man. It was a terrific financial disaster for
. He was one of the financial victims of the
dealing and property-destroying tidal waves
covered Galveston Island.
n Finty Jr. became a reporter on the Galves-
ews then a Belo newspaper. He was trans-
from Galveston to Dallas more than 30 years
id from that hour to the hour of his death he
lentified with the News and its allied publlca-
He was one of the makers of the Texas Alma-
He knew how to gather facts and figures he
economics he was a student as well as a work-
was a member of all the state organizations of
aper men and he could talk as well as write
ways he was a valuable citizen and the Fourth
and the state of his adoption lost a faithful
atriotic worker when he closed his eyes in
1 sleep and his soul winged its flight to that
nvisible.
I Drilling To Be Controlled
Associated Press dispatch from New York says
tmerican Petroleum Institute adopted the fed-
>il conservations program of conservation when
lirectors voted unanimously to cooperate with
sard in the promulgation of an interstate com-
which would limit production by controlling
is will be interesting news in all the petroleum
of the- southwest. This is an interesting ex-
from the stories carried cn the wires by the
news-gathering association:
tie institute learned today that Gov. Moody of
has promised Dr. Smith his cooperation and
aid he would recommend any changes in the
it drilling laws of the state necessary to meet
quirements of an interstate compact.”
George Otis Smith is director of the geolog-
urvey to obtain opinions from the governors
ious oil producing states on the type of legis-
necessary.
is. Pine and Thomas and Reps. Hastings and
■d of Oklahoma should be able to furnish Dr.
with very interesting outside information rela-
3 foreign crude on the free list and the ship-
from Colombia Venezuela and Mexico
t we forget the Woodrow Wilson democrats
foreign crude on the free list and the Warren
irding and Calvin Coolidge republicans per-
foreign crude to remain on the free list. Is I
riff the thing? '
Pirate Isle Social Happening
mall yacht used for pleasure purposes was cap-
off the coast of Galveston by federal coast
. It carried a cargo—75 cases of the real stuff
i European country. Its captain and its crew
tg Italian slid into the Gulf waters with the
on of swimming to the shore. He was boat-
by a coast guard and landed on the sands.
Lesley Jones will get the young Italian and the
ups will pocket the loss. The goat was made
irn.
BROKERAGE OFFICE STUDY
>mer (coining out of a siesta): How’s the
*r: The market s 90 slow that the tape is 1
utes ahead of It 1
MR. TWITCHELL ON THE PRESS AND THE
CRIME WAVE
"President Hoover is doing a smart thing when he
calls on the American newspaper publishers and ed-
itors to help suppress crime” declared Eimer
Twitchell today. "The newspaper publishers have
the solution in the hollow of their hands. If they
would refuse to run any notices about crimes unless
the criminals took out paid advertisements the crime
wave would be knocked in the head.”
Mr. Twitchell seemed quite serious. "As a mat-
ter of fact” he continued "it would be a good thing
if the publishers refused to print any free notices
about crimes anyway. If the crooks want to get space
in the newspapers let them pay for it!
"It’s the glamour thrown about lawlessness by
many newspapers particularly the tabloids that's
responsible for much of the shooting now going on
in this country. A lot of people are going in for
crime just to get their pictures on the front page.
"Walk into a newspaper office and announce that
you are 72 years old never broke a law in your life
and would like a little mention of the fact on page
one and you will be handed over to the loving care
of the janitor while the editor phones for a doctor.
Walk in and announce that you have just held up a
bank and killed two tellers and you will get all the
space origianlly reserved for Lindbergh.
"One of the troubles today is that you can't get
any publicity'through a minor offense. In the old
days the local paper would publish a photograph of
a man and his entire family if he tapped a gas main
stole a horse got off a trolley without paying his
fare threw a brick through a window or cheated the
landlord cut of a month’s rent. Today that’s piker
stuff in any editorial room. The only way to get a
big first page spread is to go in for arson robbery
and murder.
"The publishers should confer with their business
managers and editors at once and let the word go
out that there will be no more free notices even for
major crimes.
"Yes sir it’s up to the press to help Hoover. If
a child-bride wants to get before the public the news
that she has murdered her mate as the headlines
say let her take out a full page ad. If a couple of
nuts want the public to know they have held up an
armored truck and shot the guards make them take
out a page advertisement.
“If I was an editor I would go even further” con-
cluded Mr. Twitchell. “I would not pay any atten-
tion to any criminal unless he took out a year's con-
tract at the highest advertising rate.”
• * * •
REVENGE
The collier T. A. D. Jones named after and owned
by "Tad” Jones former Yale football coach was
shelled by the coast guard recently for no apparent
reason. There is of course just the bare possibility
that the guardsmen had wagered on some of those
Yale teams of the past few years.
* • • *
Perhaps Marrion Talley will buy a farm where the
soil is rich enough to raise two crops of debentures
every year.
* * * *
Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. his own car disabled
tried in vain to get a ride as a hitch-hiker the other
day. Probably the drivers of the cars were willing to
give him a lift but were restrained by their timid
wives who said "Don’t take a chance Willis; I don't
like his looks.”
I • • • • •
WASHINGTON April 29.—The Congressional Rec-
ord—the great diary of the elected representatives of
the American people—has a fighting chance of get-
ting a boost in circulation of some 25000 copies.
A bill was introduced in the lower house of con-
gress the other day authorizing the public printer to
send each public and parochial high school in the
United States one copy of each daily issue. The idea
originated with Rep. Edgar Howard of Nebraska.
The author of the bill believes a study of the
Record will carry to students better knowledge of the
practical workings of our forms of government than
any textbook nowr in such schools.
* * * *
COW ONLY ART
There is probably no other printed document
which has as much fun poked at it as the Congres-
sional Record. To many it is synonomous with dull-
ness and dinginess—the reading of which causes one
to grow exceedingly tired.
For more than 56 years it has been printed in
the same wray and in the same type. Only once has
it yielded to modernism . About eight years ago con-
gress permitted the printing of a picture of a cow
and it is said this particular Record has been re-
quested thousands of times since its printing.
There is at least one member of congress who has
interested himself in the question of making the Rec-
ord mere attractive and is out in the open to put
pep into it and increase its circulation. He is Rep.
John J. Boylan of New York.
Speeches alone do not count for much says Boy-
lan yet that is all the Record now contains. He
would make of it a great national oumal printing
anything that helps to give a picture of American
life today.
This conceivably may mean cartoons pictures
rotogravures comic strips headlines editorials and
even a sporting page—in fact all the adornments of
the modern entertaining and historical newspaper.
As a matter of fact only a fewr weeks ago Boylan was
prevented by Maority Leader Tilson from inserting
a cartoon in the Record.
There should be room in the Record he says for
a Babe Ruth as well as Speaker Longworth for Lind-
bergh as well as President Hoover. He thinks intro-
duction of such matters would inculcate a greater
desire upon the part of the American people to read
and keep in touch with what congress is doing.
• • • •
DEAR OLD WAYS
On the floor of the house one day Boylan told
his colleagues that they should publish the Record
as a live up-to-date alert paper or suspend entirely
publication of this “obsolete sheet that is so ante-
diluvian and prehistoric in its make-up as to make
a printer’s devil laugh.”
“We are certainly retrograding in publishing such
a Record as we now publish. You cannot even read
It without the aid of a magnifying glass. Not one of
vou would think of reading a paper today that was
published in the same style it was published 56 years
igo. Let us get away from our staid and set conserv-
ttiwsm.”
His colleagues listened with amusement to his ap-
ical. When he concluded there was much laughter
ind applause. But no one said anything more
tbout it.
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A LOVE AND
MYSTERY STORY
Bv J.Jefferson Farjeon Copyright. IS!? by Control Trots Associotion. lne. I
READ THIS FIRST:
The plot concerns some weird un-
derground noises beneath a sup-
posedly haunted house in Byford
Moor. One day Brown a romantic
young clerk overhears a rough-
looking man say to another: “After
her! And—if she’s troublesome—
don't me particular what you do to
her!” Brown traiLs the girl whose
name he learns is Joscelyn to the
house. His companions ar° Rupert
and Charlie. Brown disappears.
Rupert and Charlie susnect Simon
Brill knows the secret cf the house.
They trail him. Charlie meets Celia
a professor’s daughter and falls in
love with her. Celia has promised
to meet Charlie in the village tea
room and explain some of the xnys-
tery.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY)
CHAPTER XXVIII
Rupert glanced at his watch.
“You’ve got a couple more min-
utes old chap. That tea shop is only
just around the corner—I noticed it
on my way to the photographer's.
Listen! We’ve got five points against
Simon Brill. Is it worth while going
to the police with any of them?”
“We might sound a bit silly.” mut-
tered Charlie.
“In addition we’d he wasting
time.” added Rupert “because
there’s no police station in this vil-
lage and I don’t believe there’s one
for at least ten miles." He paused
for an instant while the sparrow on
the lawn suddenly lost its serenity
and flew away. A car had passed
the inn at a high speed and had
disturbed its serenity. “Do you know
Charlie.” said Rupert . “I think
Simon Brill has made one bad mis-
take.”
“Let’s hear it” replied Charlie.
“He doesn't want us hanging
around Coomber House and he has
tried to put us off. Well his spirit-
ualistic stories might keep the vil-
lage folk away—but did he seriously
think they would frighten a couple
of chaps like us?”
“Yes that was rather silly of
him” agreed Charlie.
“And then—this experiment he
hinted of to you” Rupert went on.
"That was supposed to choke us off
too. Silly ass! Why—wouldn't such
an experiment—if it were really
coming off—be just the thing to in-
terest us? Wouldn't it?”
“I’ll go further.’ answered Charlie
“and ask doesn't it?”
Rupert frowned.
“You know. Miss Marlowe made
just the same mistake. Charlie. She
tried to put us off. too—’
“By Jove. I’d forgotten all about
her.” exclaimed Charlie. “I left her
telling you her life story didn’t I?”
“I wish you had” grunted Rupert.
“She told me she was a journalist
•writing up’ Coomber House for her
paper. She told me she wanted us
to go. and that Brown had gone off
voluntarily—”
“What without saying good-bye?”
interrupted Charlie.
“I made that point ” said Rupert.
“And what did she sav?”
“That he’d gone at her reouest.
and had left her to explain things
to us. Like the sound of it. Charlie.”
“No. I don't! Journalist eh?”
“That’s what she said.”
“And why should little Pip chase
her. then. ’ Following her for copy
or what?”
“She gare some sort of an ex-
planation. but the whole thing was
terribly thin.”
“Then you do think she’s a wrong
’un1” came Charlie’s blunt nuestinn.
“I've asked myself that a hundred
times” replied Rupert desperately
“and the only answer I get doesn’t
answer it at all.”
“What’s the answer?”
Rupert regarded his companion
with a perplexed frown.
“Why—this.” he said. “That if
Joscelyn Marlowe is a wrong 'un my
world has turned topsy-turvy be
cause I’m going to follow her to the
last ditch.”
“So help us heaven!” murmured
Charlie; and then added with rath-
er surprising sasacitv: “Don’t worry
old sport. Your instincts are pretty
sound. Perhaps the fact that you’re
following her to the last ditch is the
! strongest argument we’ve had yet
that she isn’t a wrong ’un. Any-
how. my lad. Bvford Moore has got
us both by the throat and I’ll stick
to you if you’ll stick to me. Good
Lord!’’ he cried jumping up. “Twen-
ty-seven past!”
“You’ve got three minutes” re-
nlied Rupert. “Wait a second man!
Hi! I’m going to Coomber—”
Eut Charlie was already across the
lawn.
With an uneasy feeling that he
had wasted too much time in con-
versation Rupert left the inn only a
few seconds after Charlie. As he
jumped into the waiting car which
was facing the lane that wound to
Coomber House he glanced in the
opposite direction and saw the large
back of his friend just before it dis-
appeared through the unpretentious
doorway to “Dace Confectioner.”
Then he settled himself in his seat
started the engine and began his
second trip that morning to the
house of mysterious happenings.
Ke traveled fast. He felt wretch-
edly anxious. When he had first
read Charlie's note after returning
from the photographer’s his impulse
had been to go straight to Coomber
House end to se whether he were
needed there. Then it had occurred
to him that aftr all. Miss Mar-
lowe’s dancer would hardly be likely
to materialize during the next few
minutes and that it would be better
to get into touch with Charlie him-
self. and to learn a little more about
the position at Moor View. In this
decision he may have been unwise
and in his present growing anxiety
he called himself a fool. But he had
been frankly doubtful of Charlie's (
capacity to describe a situation ac-
curately in ink as also of his ability
to deal with a situation in action.
In this as has been shown he rath-
er underestimated the value of his
friend.
So wisely or unwisely he had gone
to Charlie’s assistance first and now
lie wished he had left Charlie a little
longer to his own resources. It was
nearly two hours since he had last
seen Joscelyn Marlowe and nearly
two hours since the unsavory Pip
had been deputed to watch out for
her. Suppose they had already met?
Another factor had entered into
Rupert’s considerations. Ted the
laborer already represented Respect-
ability in the danger zone. It was
questionable however how service-
able Ted would prove In a scrap!
What if he had overestimated the
laborer as he had underestimated
Charlie?
Tortured by these thoughts he
gave the Armstrcng-Siddeley every-
thing it could stand and his pace
nearly caused him to miss the Royal
George when he reached it. He ap-
plied the brakes suddenly stopped
the car anr* jumped out.
The public hovcv? stood silent and
surly by the roadside. Flanked by a
steep hill which rose almost to its
j bank windows it gave the appear-
ance of having tried to shrink into
it away from the road and since it
could not do so. of standing in sullen
defiance of the eyes it had desired
to cheat. “I have a story” it said
voicelessly “you need’nt expect me
to tell it.” It certainly told Rupert
nothing.
Ted was not visible outside the
inn. He was not visible inside the
inn. A glum innkeeper with a bald
head “didn’t know nothing about
nobody nor no one.” Rupert climbed
into the car again and continued on
his way.
His next halt was outside Coomber
House itself. It did not look quite
as cheerful as it had looked by the
early morning sunlight. A heavy
haze hung cn the air and great
slaty clouds were springing up like
suddenly erupted mountains. His
forebodings increased. Was there
going to be a storm? Nature’s inci-
dental music is never tuned to fit
the human occasion yet we react
to it as though it were and are af-
fected by its assumption of personal
significance.
Rupert did not leave the car in
the road this time. He threw open
the gate and drove into the front
garden. He recalled that cars had
a habit of disappearing in these
parts.
Leaving the car. he turned to the
shed. It was empty. The sheet of
paper with the name of th* inn he
was staying at still lay on the floor.
No one had disturbed it.
“Hallo!” he called softly. "Anyone
about?”
If there was anyont about no
desire was evinced to proclaim the
fact.
He approached the house. It
looked as it had always looked
saving that the window was not
open quite so wide. The lower por-
tion of the broken pane which pre-
viously had been backed by the up-
per half of the window to which it
had been raised now yawned direct-
ly into the hall and there was only
Just room for a slim body to slip be-
neath the sash.
“Either that window has been
lowered” thought Rupert “or it has
been closed and then opened again.
Well—perhaps our ragged friend has
been side.”
He prepared to raise the window a
little higher. Whoever had slipped
through before him had possessed
less bulk. But as his fingers gripped
the ledge they paused.
Boom-boom!
“Thunder” he muttered.
Boom-boom! Boom-boom! Booom'
“Not thunder!” he recanted. “I
swear it’s an uncanny sound!”
Boom—Crash!
Rupert waited no longer. Before
the crash had ceased to echo through
the hall he had shoved the window
up and le^pt through. And then an-
other sound fell upon his ears.
Someone at the back of the hall was
scurrying upstairs.
He raced across the faded carpet
and reached the staircase. No one
was in sight; the heavy silence had
returned. But from the distance
while he stood there irresolute came
a faint muttering rumble. Real
thunder this time. At least . . .
Someone was up those curving
stairs! The crash he had heard had
not come from above however but
from below. From somewhere be-
neath the spot where he stood. Im-
mediately beneath—
He gazed at the heavy oak door
under the ascending stairs. He had
thought once that it might be the
door of a cupboard. Now he was
convinced that it led to another
staircase—a staircase that descend-
ed to a basement. “But a basement
without any windows!” he recollect-
ed suddenly. There was no kitchen
area outside the house. He remem-
bered that. The kitchen itself was
on the ground floor. To the left of
where he stood. Then the descend-
ing staircase behind that locked oak
door must lead to cellars. And some-
thing was going on now in those
cellars.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
UNITED FRUIT COMPANY
FORCES PRICES UPWARD
KINGSTON Jamaica April 29.—
(/P>—The United Fruit company be-
cause of an alleged banana war with
the newly formed Jamaica Produc-
ers’ association was forcing prices
up today. As a consequence the gov-
ernment was requested to set up a
“ )
Health and Right Living
BY ROYAL S. COPELAJO M. D. /l
Former Commissioner of Health
What is nervousness? We hear
so many women say "I’m so nerv-
ous!” What do they mean and
why are they that way?
Women are more highly organ-
ized more sensitive in their na-
tures than men are. They are more
emotional less restrained in giving
way to their feelings. They cry
easily. They suffer more.
I am not at all sure it would
be good for the world to have them
different. We need their enthus-
iasm their readiness to express joy
and sorrow their tenderness their
warm hearts. It would be a cold
and barren world without their
many contributions to the common
welfare.
But of course there are unfortu-
nate women who have such emo-
tional natures that they are in real
distress much of the time. Their
"nervousness” becomes a disease.
This condition is serious enough so
that its victim requires medical at-
tention.
If the physical and mental state
becomes so pronounced that sleep-
lessness and loss of appetite are
daily experiences it is certainly
time that something should be
done about it. Unnatural fear
worry mental depression jumping
at every sound headache backaehe
inability to carry on in the accus-
tomed tasks—these are distressing
! symptoms.
In analyzing the common expres-
sions of nervousness we must seek
two sets of causes. One may be
spoken of as the external causes—
the surroundings financial and do-
mestic conditions. All the outside
influences that work against hap-
piness and tranquility of mind are
included.
Generally speaking these are
temporary. Time heals many
wounds of heart and mind. Or else
the crushed soul adants itself to
the miserable circumstances.
It is more than likely what we
call the internal causes for nerv-
ousness are more serious. These
have to do with the physical the
bodily causes for misery.
Studying these carefully we find
that they can be traced to the
pelvic organs the abdominal or-
gans or to a disturbance of the
nervous systems caused by the ab-
sorption of poisons generated with-
in the body. Of course this is a
very general statement but it is
not far from accurate.
Disease or congestion of the
womb the ovaries or the bladder
—some localized disturbance within
the pelvis—here may be the trouble
which is disturbing the nervous
system.
Wrong eating insufficient food
excessive quantities of food are all
causes. In consequence there Is
stomach or intestinal trouble. Or
else the kidneys liver or other ab-
dominal organs may be failing to
work properly.
There may be abscessed teeth
infected tonsils diseased gall-blad-
der. or fermentation in the bowel.
Because of that condition wherever
It is. poisons are formed which ex-
cite brains and nervous system.
This is a brief outline very brief
indeed but it may be helpful to
some poor sufferer. It may point
the way to proper treatment and
out of that may come relief of
these dreadful symptoms of nerv-
ousness.
ANSWERS lO HEALTH
QUERIES
M. C. Q.—What do you advise
for dandruff?
A—i would suggest frequent
shampooing and the use of a good
tonic.
MISS M. M. M. Q—What should
a girl weigh who is 21 years old
and 5 feet 3 inches tall? 2. What
can I do for broken skin on my
legs and hins?
A.—For your age and height you
should weigh about 124 pounds.
2. If you mean that you are toubled
with eczema you should correct
your diet.
W. G. Q.—Do you advise treat-
ment for dandruff? 2. What is the
cause of moles?
A.—Yes. For particulars send a
self-addressed stamped envelope
end repeat your question. 2. Moles
ere usually birthmarks "mother’s
marks” as they are called. That
is. the skin defect is present when
the baby is born. Generally they
grow larger as time passes.
A. G. M. Q.— Is sulphuric acid
in the urine a serious condition?
A.—No.
E. G. Q.—How can I gain
weight? 2. What causes whit?
spots on thfe fingernails?
A.—Proper dieting and deep
breathing is the secret. You should
eat nourishing foods and have
plenty of sleep and rest. For full
particulars send a self-addressed
stamped envelope and repeat your
question. 2. Improper manicuring
will cause this condition. 1
SARAH M. Q.—What causes a
twitching on top of the forehead
near the head; is this serious?
A.—Nothing to be alarmed about.
L. S. Q.—Can tubercular peri-
tonitis be cured?
A.—Yes. by removing the focus
of infection.
H. C. N. Q.—What causes poor
circulation? Ja
A.—Poor circulation is due Jo a
run-down state of health. TJ to
build up your entire systemjand
you will benefit generally.
1
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Who am I? What state do I rep-
resent in the senate? W’ho is th«
other senator from my state?
Who were Amelia Earhart's com-
panions on her transatlantic flight?
Who rescued General Nobile from
the Arctic Ice?
“Now if we be dead with Christ
we believe that we shall also live
with him.” Where is this passage
found in the Bible?
1 Star Lorel
Computing the Age of the Earth
By Arthur D. Carpenter
There are three kinds of lead in
the earth distinguished from one
another by their atomic weights.
Ordinary lead has an atomic weight
of 207; lead disintegrated from ura-.
nium 206; that from thorium 20P
The process of radio-activity whie j
produced lead from uranium the
thorium has been carefully studwg
so it has come to be known tnat
one per cent of uranium for in-
stance. is converted into lead in 66
million years The relative percen-
tage of lead to uranium in the oldest
rocks shows the world to be about
1200 million years old. But uranium
l^ad in the rocks does not go back
to the creation of the world!
(More Tomorrow)
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Thomas Heflin; Alabama; Hugo
Black.
2. Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gor-
don.
3. Einar Luddborg Swedish avia-
tor.
4. Romans vi 8.
CLASS PLAY TICKETS
ON SALE AT SAN BENITO
• F.peeial la The Herald'
SAN BENITO. April 29.—'Tickets
for the San Benito high school sen-
ior class play. "Merton of the Mo-
vies” to be presented at the local
high school on April 30. are being
sold at 50 cents each for adults
and 25 cents for children. A large
attendance from the Valley is ex-
pected according to local hlcn
school seniors in charge of the per-
formance.
SUPERINTENDENT NAMED
RIO HONDO. April 29.—M. C.
Rushing has been chosen by the lo-
cal school board as superintendent
of local spools for the ensuing year.
The remainder of the staff will
probably be named at a regular
meeting of the board of trustees to
be held here Monday night.
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and add value and distinction to
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