Kingsville Record (Kingsville, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 30, 1932 Page: 1 of 10
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Have You Had Your
BULGARIAN BUTTERMILK
TODAY
T O
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR
KINGSVILLE. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH .'10, 1932
Number 33
New Cattle Breed Comes to Texas
Clean-Up and Paint-Up Week.
It begins April 3 and ends April
9.
This Is the year to observe It.
Building material Is priced lower
than in years.
The cost of labor has been re-
duced voluntarily by the labor
groups.
There Is not a safer and better
way of contributing to the National
Anti-Hoarding Campaign than by
having that Job of painting and re-
pairing done now. And you’ll keep
the money in Kingsville among
your neighbors, and the merchants
and mechanics of Kingsville.
—BB—
V In a certain Texas county not-
ed for the wealth of Its county of-
ficers, forty candidates have an-
nounced for county offices. The
boys should remember, however,
that the county in question is pret-
ty well paved now, and that the
contractor who did most of the
work on those highways is trying
to explain to Uncle Sum Just why
he did not report the amounts paid
out in ‘‘commissions.” The pick-
in's will be slimmer from here out.
—BB—
Lots of interesting robberies,
killings, etc., in this great Christ-
ian country this week. One train-
robbing pair in the Northwest lin-
ed up thirty passengers and got
the loot and made a get-away. The
victims are sure one of the bandits
was a woman. Another triumph
for the "equal rights” advocates.
—BB—
Two of these who "stood and de-
livered” were detectives. Their
pistols were in their grips.
—BB—
in the Southeast, two policemen
were killed. In the same section,
two states call out the National
Guard to enforce law and main-
tain order. Georgia convicts a
nan for murder. He had slain two
prohibition officers. A member of
tWB Detroit underworld literally
shoots his way out of Jail, wound-
ing one officer as he made the
break for liberty.
-BB—
All of which seems to indicate
that the police lack the cunning
and the fighting spirit that marks
the modern criminal.
—BB—
As a finul rebuke to the ineffi-
ciency of American police officers,
the Lindberghs seem to have taken
the kidnapipng case from both po-
lice and gungland and turned it
over to a minister of the gospel.
Let's hope he can succeed where
gangland followed the police in
failure.
—BB—
While rattlesnakes still abound
in many parts of South Texas, it
is seldom that one invades the
heart of any town, but Ralph Kiin-
inerly, Jr., found and killed a five-
foot specimen of the poisonous
tribe near Seventh and King Ave.
Just what drove his snakeship and
the ’possum he was about to de-
vour into the city is not known,
but_leading Democrats are certain
that both were driven from the
ranches and farms by the peculiar
economic conditions for which they
hold Mr. Hoover responsible.
—BB—
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Twenty-nine head of Africander cattle, the first ever brought into
the United States, have arrived at the famous King ranch, near Kings-
ville, Texas, for cross breeding with American cattle now on the ranch.
The largest of sixteen bulls, pictured above, weighs 2,200 pounds. The
heaviest of the cows tips the scales at 1,600 pounds. This species r
Xsed as draft animals in South Africa.
J. Frank Dobie, Noted Texas Author
Delivers Address Here Monday
TUose who might have thought
thsJLjohn N. Garner came into the
sTTTilJtership of the House by rea-
son of seniority alone, are now at
liberty to change their minds. With
politically minded solons refusing
to enact tax-measures to "balance
the budget” and an insurrection on
within the ranks of both parties.
Garner took the floor yesterday
and delivered a straight-forward,
clean-cut talk o% the conditions to
be met. His appeal brought order
out of chaos and the house set to
work once more to “pass a non-
partisan revenue bill to maintain
the Integrity of the country's cre-
dit.” 1 still don't believe Franklin
Roosevelt could have managed it
as well as our own John Garner.
—BB—
SALESMAN’S PSALM
Hoover is my SHEPHERD. I am
In want. He maketh me lie down
beside my beautifully filled sample
cases. He leadeth me Into a great
depressed territory among idle and
honest merchants. He restoreth iny
doubts of the Republican party.
He Jeadeth me In the path of des-
truction for his party’s sake. Yea,
w^eo I walk In the Valley of De-
pression and Bankruptcy, I fear no
evil, for Thou art with me. Thy pol-
iticians and Thy profiteers, they
frighten me. They preparest a great
reduction of salary for me In ike
presence of all my creditors. Sure
ly DEPRESSION and POVERTY
will follow me all the days of the
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION.
u ,u*. ■ « .
J. Frank Dobie, famous writer of
Texas folk lore and tales of the
brush country, addressed a capac-
ity audience Monday evening at A.
and I. College
Mr. Dobie, brought to this City
*hrough the endeavor of the De-
partment of Literature of the
Kingsville Woman’s Club, was in-
troduced by Mr. J. E. Conner, head
of the History Department of A. &
I. College
Mr Conner spoke briefly on Lit-
erature, discussing the necessity
of a natural picture in story writing
and story telling. To stress this
point, Mr. Conner said that "Cor-
onado's Children” and “The Vas-
quero’s of the Brush Country”
could not have been written by a
European, and that they were a
work of a real Texan.
From his very first words Mr.
Dobie captured the entire interest
of his audience by his simple, di-
rect and humorous manner. He re-
galed the company with stories of
lost treasure, long horned cattle,
rattle snakes; in fact he had a
story of fact or fancy for every
phase of Texas life.
He stated that he bad been ask-
ed to talk the language of this
country, to tell stories and not ex-
press thoughts. Mr. Dobie fulfilled
this request almost entirely al-
though occasslonally he digressed
One statement he made carried 1
a great deal of weight. He said, |
"Texas literature whenever it is
written, reflects tales of the Texas
cowboy, range life and tHe Long-
horn cattle.” He went on to re-
mark that the Longhorn may not
have as much material value as
cotton or oil but it will certainly
appeal to the Imagination. His ap-
peal to the imagination is the key-
note of his success as a speaker
and compiler of Texas folklore and
legends. Typical of ills vivid and
intensely interesting portrayal of
every day happenings Is his story
of “Old Sancho,” the tale of the
traveling I^onghorn.
Mr. Dobie further stated, "that
his section of the country was full
of drama, rich In historic value;
even the brush Itself held a pecu-
liar attraction."
In talking of horses, Mr. Dobie
spoke as a true Texan. He said
"Certainly the horse with Its rider
Is a subject for tales that will nev-
er die, don't care how many auto-
mobiles and airplanes are used In
modern travel.” He said further,
"The meanest man on earth is a
horse thief,” and "a man on foot
is not a man at all,” these beliefs
lie with unchanging conviction in
the heart of every Texan."
The speaker went on to tell many
stories of the endurance of horses
i and the skill of their riders. He
, stated. "The good rider is a man
who sympathizes with his horse
and one who gets all out of a horse
he can.”
Another statement of Frank
Dobie that expresses his poetic na-
ture was his desire to see the day
come when Texas wild flowers
and their meaning as known in
legends would be treated In stor-
ies One hook along .that line that
he said was especially fine was
one written by Ellen Qulllan. He
also remarked that he fervently
hoped for the day when the brush
of the Lone Star State would be
regarded with the sentiment due
it. He wished for a statement of
their botanical facts; the legends
compiled concerning them, many of
which are quite thrilling."
In speaking of wild cats, pan-
thers, Javeltnas and other wild
creatures of the Texas wood, he
told many humorous stories. As to
I javellnas, he said, “Imagination
! had not let the javellna alone; the
(Continued on Page Five)
ONE INJURED IN
CROSSING ACCIDENT
Nejfro Switchman Injured
and Auto Wrecked on
Crossing
A near fatal accident occurred
last Friday evening when a sedan
driven by James Bramlette, son of
School Superintendent Bramlette,
collided with a siring of freight
cars being shoved across King
Avenue by a switch engine of the
Missouri Pacific. The accident
happened about seven-thirty as
young Bramlette and a companion,
l)an King, were driving east ot.
King Avenue.
The reur car of the train being
bucked up struck the auto ot the
boys, almost completely demolish-
ing it. Tlie occupants escaped
with only minor scratches and
bruises. *
Calvin Harris, negro switchman
whose duty it was to flag the
crossing, received serious head in-
juries and is at file Kleberg Coun-
ty Hospital where his condition is
said to be improving.
School Board
Election Called
For Saturday
The first election of 1932 to bo
held In the county will he for the
selection of three school trustees
of the 'Kingsville Independent
School District to serve for three
years. The election will be held
at the City Fire Station, April 2,
with Buckner Harris acting as pre-
siding judge.
Mrs. O. E. Sims and L. F. Con-
nell, members of the hoard whose
terms expire, and L. C. M< Roberts
are the only candidates and ap-
parently have no opposition.
Kingsville Defeats
' Refugio 8 to 5
Despite the absence of a railroad
league team of ttie standing of the
Mo Pan Pioneers, Kingsville fans
will enjoy some good diamond
amusement during the summer If
the plans of "Mule” Grissom. A. &
L grid star, Johnny Lynum, mound
ace of the Pioneers and other col-
lege and town hoys are carried
out.
Without adopting a name for
his hunch of ball tossers, Grissom
took them up to Refugio last Hun-
day and, assisted by the hurling of
Lynum, annexed the season’s first
contest 8 to 5.
The roster of the new club con-
tains the names of J. M. Dixon,
Nedbalek, Sadler, . Seott, Morris,
Rich, Philllber, Grissom, anil Fra-
ser, all of the college, and Lynum,
Skipworth and Weisman, town
players.
Grissom, who is managing the
boys, says that he expects to add
other promising prospects to the
team and to give the local diamond
fans some good entertainment.
A. & I. Coach to
Return Next Week
SMITH-HUGHES
DAY IS SET FOR
MONDAY APRIL 4
More than 200 High School
AKttie Students to Enter
Contests at A. & 1.
College
More than two hundred high
school students of vocational agri-
culture will be in Kingsville next
Monday morning to participate in
the contest of the Smith-Hughes
Day at the College, according to
R. J. Cook, director of agriculture
at A. & I.
A week before the date of the
contests, forty teams of four stu-
dents each, had been registered
from 15 South Texas High Schools.
Each team will be accompanied
by Its coach, usually the agricul-
tural teacher of its high school,
as well as by other boys who make
the trip to observe and prepare for
another year when they hope to
niako the team representing their
school in the phase of work of
greatest interest to them.
Runge and Beeville lead in num-
ber of registrations, each of these
cities sending 28 hoys. This is
the first year for Reevilie teams
to enter the contest. Another new
entry is Edinburg.
Much of the livestock judging
will be done on the King Ranch
where classes of beef cattle, dairy
animals, horses, swine and sheep
of highest breeding will he avail-
able for the boys’ study. C. K.
Fraser, director of the meet, says
that advance Inquiries Indicate
much Interest in the newly Im-
ported Africander cattle on the
Ranch.
The contestants and their friends
will be housed at A. & I. gymnasi-
um during the two days of the con-
test. Many will arrive next Sun-
day, Fraser says.
MO PAC CONDUCTOR
DIES AT HOSPITAL
J. G. Lunsford Dies Following
Operation Monday
Morning
- I
J. G. Lunsford, conductor on a
Missouri Pacific freight run out of |
Houston, died at the Kleberg Coun- j
ty Hospital at about 9 o’clock Mon 1
day evening, March 28, following !
an emergency operation performed I
early the same morning. He was
brought to the hospital for injuries
brought to the hospital two weeks
ago for injuries said to have been
received while on duty about Feb-
ruary 28. His condition became
critical last Friday.
Mr. Lunsford came to Kingsville
as a conductor some 13 years ago,
but moved to Houston when lie
was assigned to a run out of that
city several years ago. He was
held in high esteem by his fellow
employes and by Kingsville peo-
ple who knew him during Ills resi-
dence here. He was a member of
the Methodist Church and of the
Order of Railway Conductors. He
was born in Lampasas, Texas, Oc-
tober 16. 1881.
The remains were taken to loin,
Texas, Tuesday morning, acconi-
| anted by Mrs. Lunsford, Mr. and
Mrs. G. H. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Shields, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Black. Funeral services and bu-
rial were at lola at 11 o’clock this
morning.
Surviving are the wife, Mrs. Mar
garet Wilcox Lunsford, two child-
ren, Jay. Jr... 13, and Margaret, 4
:years; four brothers, John and
j James of Houston and Jesse and
I Joe of Fort Worth, and one sister,
Mrs. Lizzie Fox of Cleburne.
“Junk Car” in Which Student Died
gygjl £iSj
A Rice Institute freshman, driving in a “junk car" race, the pro-
ceeds to go to 11 persons injured in a previous race track crash, was
killed on the Houston speedway last week when a splinter from the
steering wheel entered his chest. Pictured is his ear, while Robert
Engels, 19-year-old dead boy, is inset
Seventh Annual So-Tex Music
Meet at College April 8 and 9
LEGION TO AID
Survey of City to be Made
and Repair Work Solicited
By Committee
The committee on unemploy-
ment appointed by Ernest L. An-
derson Post American Legion will
undertake a systematic campaign
to provide work for unemployed in
the building trades, according to
P. R. Moore, chairman of the com-
mittee, who stutes that the Auxili-
ary of the Post has enlisted In the
campaign.
The plan explained by Mr. Moore
provides for a survey of the city to
ascertain on what premises repairs
are needeil and if the owners of
the property Involved nre able fi-
nancially to have the work done
Committee workers will call at
homes throughout the city secur-
ing information that may he trans-
ferred to questionnaire forms so
thut complete Information on the
need of puinting, carpenter work
and other forms of repair will he
The Seventh Annual South Texas
Music Contest, sponsored by the
Texas College of Arts and Indus-
tries. will be held In the College
auditorium and the Music rooms
Friday and Saturday, April 8 and
9.
Entry blanks and contest rules
were sent out to the South Texas
High Schools eurly In December to
allow ample time for preparations.
Final arrangements and a definite
program of events will he announ-
ced by MIsh Corlnne llumill, chair-
man of the Music Contest Commit-
tee, ufter April 2, which Is the lim-
iting date set for receiving entries.
The contest Is for high school
pupils only. To be eligible for en-
trance In any of the events the
contestants must he regularly en-
rolled In either u Class A or ClasH
B High School.
The South Texas Music Contest,
during the short period of six years,
has grown to be the largest of Its
kind in the state of Texas. From an
enrollment of a few more than a
hundred participants In the con-
test's Initial year, 1926, the number
has inereased to eight hundred and
forty entrants, representing twenty-
five high schools, in 1931.
WOMAN CHURCH
EDITOR SPEAKS
HERE TONIGHT
[ Miss Jane McCaugherty of
Atlanta to Address Pres-
bytery Auxiliary at
Opening Session
The thirty-first annual session of
the Woman's Auxiliary of Western
Texas Presbytery which convenes
In this city three days of this week,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
will feature as Its principal speak-
er Miss Jane Wr. McCaughey of
Atlanta, Georgia. Miss McCaugh-
ey Is the executive secretary of
the Woman's Auxiliary of Presby-
terian churches and Editor-In-Chief
of "The Surveyor," a Presbyterian
magazine.
She is muking a tour of the
Southern States in the Interest of
auxillury work In the churches.
The early part of this week she
attended the Mexican Presbyter!*I
held at Taft.
The first address made by Miss
McCaughey will he made Wednes-
day evening, at the opening meet-
ing of tlie Conference. On the pro
gram with her that evening will be
Dr. Geo. F. Williams, Mrs. Geo.
W. Smith of Brownsville; Mrs.
Chas. A. Ford, president of the to-
tal auxiliary; Mrs. Hurt Mussey,
chairman of the Fifth District.
Tin* session meetings will con-
tinue morning, afternoon and even-
ing through Friday morning. In-
teresting speakers of note ait
scheduled to talk and varied musi
cal programs have been arranged.
D. C. MORGAN IS
CALLED BY DEATH
Kleberg County Farmer Suc-
cumbs to Heart Attack
Friday
Schools from all purls of Soutli-
available to the various building | west Texas have entered groups , _____________ _____
tradesmen, Moore says. Ibis work ,und individuals in the past years, later engaging In farming. He was
will lie begun during the coming -pi,,, territory from the lower Itio a member of tlie Masonic fratern
D. C. Morgan, 6G, died at his
home near Kingsville last Friday,
March 25, at ten thirty In the even-
ing, the result of an acute heart at-
tack. He had been 111 for ubout
ten days.
David Crockett Morgan was horn
at Woodvllle, Texas, February 6,
1866, son of James and Hetty Dur
din Morgan. Hr* was married July
31, 1889, to Miss Hetty Barclay. He
came to Kingsville In 1912, enter-
ing the employ of the railroad, anil
week -Clean-Up
Week.
and I’ainM p Qrnnde Valley to tlie eastern town tty and of the Baptist Church,
Boys and Girls
Will Have Club
All Their Own
If you see a group of bright-eyed
boys and girls leaving the Rialto
Theatre next Saturday morning,
you can he sure they've been lls
tening to the explanation of what
the “Merry Makers Club" Is and j covered by the meet,
what it is going to mean to them. |H expected to tie even larger
Every youngster 111 tlie city will Hiis year lliuii ever before, despite
lie delighted at tlie thought of In' rapidity with which the contest
longing to h really truly "Club” ,1ils grown.
with officers and regular meetings ^ he South I exas Mush Meet was
and progrums and everything . . . | Inaugurated by Hie late Professor
just like the clubs that mother and . A,,,OM 11 Ungle, former head of the
dad belong to and in which they j Music Department of A. K I., for
take such Interest. [the purpose of stimulating high
school music activities.
of Yoakum lias been included in tlie
scope of til*1 innet,
Th*' events scheduled on the con-
test program are; lh;->d, orchestra,
mixed chorus, girls' glee club, hoy’s
glee club, girls’ vocal solo, hoys'
vocal solo, piano solo, violin solo,
utul solo events In hand instru-
ments An engraved silver cup will
be presented to the winners in each
event, as In former years.
Judges for all events will be
people from outside the District
The annual increase In enroll
Surviving besides the wife are
two daughters, Mrs. Charles Ross**
and Miss Nora Morgan. A son
died in 1904.
Funeral services were conducted
| by Rev A. II Clark of the First
Baptist Church al three o’clock
Saturday uftertioon. The services
weie at Chamberlain Park where
the burial was had. Pall bearers
were L. (’. Newton, Hen F. Wilson,
FI. W. House, G. W. I>ay, Dr, C.
A Roberts and J. O. Johnson.
Laredo Wins One-
Act Play Contest
Word from Dallas, where A. Y.
McCallum, head coach of the Texas
College of Arts and Industries, has
been under the care of a specialist
i for several weeks, Indicates that
his condition is improved.
He Is expected to arrive home
next week and assume charg of
the spring training of the largest
and most promising group of ath-
letes ever to wear the Blue and
Gold.
Kingsville Boy to
Receive Priesthood
Bernard William Daugherty, son
of Mr. and Mrs. John I>nugherty
will be ordained to the priesthood
Monday morning at 8 a. m., In
St. Patrick's Cathedral.
His Excellency the Rt. Rev. K
B. Ledvina. D D. and S. D.. will
confer the ordination. The young
man has completed the long and
arduous course prescribed for this
high office. Rigid examinations
are held and the candidate must
make the required mark.
The young man will sing his
first solemn high mass April 10.
at 10 30 a. m , at St. Gertrude’s
Church. Everybody Is cordially
welcome to attend.
A large number of priests and
high Catholic Church officials will
he present
A formal banquet will be tender-
ed the young priest at the Casa
Ricardo April 10, at 1 p. m.
Ion-do High School, presenting
“Message F’rom Kufu,” won first
place In the Fourth Annual one-
Act Play Contest which was held
it \ \ I College I-'i Id ay and Sat
'iin- “Merry Makers Club is an I i, ■ ■ t * - of i. I week Miff the ilnc*
organization for hoys and girls ----------- - jtlon of Miss Mildred Pecaut, head
without Initiation fees or dues. > I of the Speech Arts Department of
Weekly meetings will be held at Man Killed ill H6&don the College. The cast of the Lnre-
thc Rialto I’heatre at 10 o clock a j i '# lliui/iti I’'11?* which was directed by
every Saturday morning. These /11IUI- I rut K 1 OIIISIOI1 MrK Therman Boswell, was corn-
will tie matinee meetings and the —■ , posed of Fred Dickey. Albert Bos
programs will be arranged espe ^ head-on collision of a truck and!enberg, James Spivey, and George
dally for the youngsters by pre a Hinnll coupe on the. road two Maher.
sentlng a special stage and screen m|le* ,.„Bt 0f Bishop Saturday j Kingsville High School, giving
progrum, and they will share in niKt„ r„BU|tP<i j„ th« ,)ealh of ] Medicine.” directed by Mrs.
It, too Carlos Hernandez, 27. Hernandez ' «'urtlit Williams, placed second.
Membership application cards died Sunday afternoon at the Kle- q-j,,. characters were Alert* Bent
jure being given out this week at berg County Hospital where he had f l«*y, Mury Helen Calloway, and G.
j the theatre and at the schools and been taken following the wreck. He I q» Rogers.
| must be filled out und presented had been living on the Jack Jarrell j Corpus Christl High School with
1 at the Theatre Saturday morning farm east of Bishop for several j b„ presentation of “AH Gummed
at the first weekly meeting. Flach years. He is survived by his wife , pip •> directed by Richard Gillespie,
i member will then be given a mem-[and baby daughter, and other rela- [ ranked third. The players were,
hershlp card and button, which will tives George Henry Guy, t'arroll Wake
enable him or her to enjoy all the j Both cars are reported to have j rield, Josephine Rhodes, Ivan
privileges of the club. | been running without lights at the B^nnup, and Vena Moonov.
All boys and glrla with talent J time of the accident. Hernandez's ; sinton. presenting “The Valiant"
i will not only be given an oppor- j wife and baby and his brother, who | under the direction of Raymond
(unity to show what they can do. were with him In the coupe, eseap Manning and Bishop presenting
but will be coached and given j**d uninjured, as did several Mexl- "Finders Keepers" directed by Miss
every encouragement and the club cans riding In the truck. I he Marie Robbins placed fourth and
will undoubtedly be the means of MiaII car was badly wrecked, and fifth, respectively,
many gaining names for them!the truck damaged considerably, j Alice anil Karnes Olty furnished
selves. j . the individual winners of the eon-
Manager J. 8. Hall, Jr., urges 1 KINGSVILLE BOY WINS test,
every hoy and girl to fill out an ARITHMETIC CONTEST! The high schools of thirteen
application for membership blank ....... j cities, Alice, Tynan, Bishop, Heb-
and be at the Rialto Theatre next 1 Erwin Strong, twelve year old ! bronville, l or ado, Karnes City,
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bart-! Fulfurrias, Kingsville, Hobstown,
These blanks are free and when lett, won first place In the Arilh- Sinton, Corpus Chrlsti, Benavides,
filled out w',11 call for the official | metlc Contest ot the Cameron and Skidmore entered the contest,
membership cards and buttons, al County Interscholastic Teague; Inaugurated four years ago when
so free, and to be Issued at the : meet that was held Ip San Benito,
next weekly meeting. I March 26th. (Continued from Page Five)
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