McAllen Daily Monitor (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 179, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1935 Page: 3 of 8
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Individual boy*, who find It Im-
possible to affiliate with a troop or
patrol* may become acouUt unc
the Lone Scouting plan,, as outlined
by Scout Executive John Leslie.
M**.'Leslie lias announced that a
rural survey and the promotion of
Lone Scouting In the Valley will
be tlfe principal projects of the
Valley Scout Council for the mon-
th of October. L
Lone Bcouts. with the approval
of their parents or guardians,
qhoose jan • outstanding man in
their community to act as their'
friend sad -counselor. This friend
and counselor examines the lone
Scout lh his advancement require-
ments, for ; Tenderfoot through
Clnns rank and then assists him in
making the proper contacts in
■following the merit badge pro-
gram. The Lone Scout who lives in
the Valley, works under the super-
vision and direction of the Scout
executive of this council wifn
headquarter* In the Mercedes City
Hall. Hr. Leslie points out’; that
/- more than half, of the population
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Man Arrested With
$72,000 of Kidnap
Cash to Exchange in
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DETROIT, Sept. 27—(IP)—Fed-
eral officers (held Cassius M. Mc-
Donald, 52-year old engineer, today
on a warrant charging him with
having made arrangements for
exchange of $72,000 of the $300,-
000 ransom paid kidnapers of Ed
ward G. Bremer, St. Taul hanker.
McDonald wap arrested at his
Isolated lake front villa in Grosse
Pointe village last night and was
Immediately arraigned before Unit-
ed States Commissioner Frank Q.
Quinn, Who fixed McDonald’s bond
at $100,000, and set the removal
hearing for Oct. 8.
McDonald, at liberty since Feb-
ruary under $10,000 bond, after he
was indicted at Miami, Florida, for«n exchange of .poets.
harboring Alvin Karp*, credited
with having planned the kidnaping
of Bremer, was arrested on order
mf William G. Comb, first assistant
'United States aUortfcnk wh°
the acted at tpe .request of District
Attorney George F. Suillivkn of St.
Paul.
. With McDonald at his arrajign-
ment were two attorneys, who jsaid
they hoped to oomplHe arrange-
ments foi- McDonald’^ releas^ on
bond.
Federal officers said McDonald
is charged specifically with hav-
ing made arrangements in Havana,
Cuba, for the exchangje of $7^,000
of the “hot’‘ Brehier rarjsom
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Bremer was kidnftped in pan-
u*ry. 1034, at St. Paul and releas-
ed near Rochester, Minn., aftejr he
had been held captive 21 days.
The subsequent department of
Justice investigation Involved tihe
notorious Barker-Karjpis gang In
the kidnaping. Karpts, now classi-
fied as Puclim Enemy No. 1,‘and
Harry Campbell, a lieutenant;’are
the only major suspects in. ,tlfe
case still spug'ht. J _
Cotton Aqjusters (Vutnge
RIO GRANDE CITY, Sept. 27—
(Spl.)—Wayne Sigler,! assistant 1n
cotton adjustment, has arrived tp
take up his duties here, relieving
Gordon Langston, Who has jbeen
transferred to Conroe. The
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BITSY GRANT DEFEATS BUDGE — At right is Bryan M.
-Bitsy” Grant. Jr„ tennis flash of Atlanta. Ga^who mused sur-
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Grant’s steady playing won high praise.
in the Valley lives In small ’towns
or iwral districts. Every year 1,-
828 boys in tke Vajley reach the
age of 12, at which age they be-
come eligible for membership in
the Boy Scouts of America. Of this
total, kfa are estimated to Jive in
the small U,wn9 and rural com-
munities.
The rural survey will be car-
ried on Mircugh the rural schools
of the Valley by the district Scout
commissioners, amt Will possibly
be started, within 19 days or two
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RevI.A. Hunter, Well- Known Former
McAllen Pastor, Will Speak Sunday
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The First Methqdist church of
this, city will have as Its guest
Mr. Leslie slated. The ru-
BK. ral survey was started last year
ud whs completed in three com-
munities of <he Mercedes district,
Relampago. North Palm Garden
aad South Palm Garden. ~K scout
handbook wKi be presented to each
rural school for the school library.
Is , Y1»e*abooks hav* been donated by
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MERCEDES. Sept. 27—(Spl.)—
Ralph Buell of, Brownsville, will
$>e the featured speaker here to-
night at the annual Rotary. and
Kiwanis clubs "ladles night” ban-
quet to bo held the high school
cafeteria at .7:80 o'clock. Guests for
the oecaak>n\will 'be the members
of the Mercedes-school faculty and
wives and friends of the members
of the two clubs.
Rev.% E. A. Hunter
Presiding Elder of Browns-
ville District
speaker on Sunday evening the
Rev. E. A. Hunter, presiding elder final report,
of the Brow nsville District. Mr.
Hunter served the McAllen church
as pastor for four years before be-
ing placed on the district.
MY. Hunter will use as his sub-
ject, “Around the World in King-
dom Service.” “In this message,”
Mr. Hunter says. “I speak for
| twenty million people. 1 hope all
my. old friends and the entire mem-
bership of the church and its
friends will hear this message.
The fourth quarterly conference
will be held immediately follow-
ink the preaching service. -f
With the approaching end of the
conference cr church year which
comes to a close on Oct. 30th with
the meeting of the annual con-
ference in San Antonio, Rev. Coun-
cil, the pastor, and ail the workers
of the chu'tfi are putting fortn
every effort possible to bring up
a 100 per cent report
The McAllen church leads the
district this year again in additions
to church membership, has raised
$350 on its rnissionary quota of $1,-
200, and $2,199 on its ehuVch debt,
$75,00 for the orphanage, and has
taken 41 credits in religious edu-
cation. There ' are many other
items that will be Included in the
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Fred Johnson, president of the
Rotary club, will give the welcome
SkMrem and will also act as toast-
■Hjgy' master. Wm. O'Hair, director >f
the Mercedes school orchestra, will
give laptrumental selections; L. F.
Moling and H. L. Scott will present
d humorous skit. D. R. Johnson,
chairman, and H. L. Scott, repre-
senting the Rotary club, and Floyd
ord. Ray Schmitter and Dr.
r* Lawler, representing the
Xlwanian* compose the committee
In 4^arge of affaft*,. ,
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Mr*. Leonard Larson and tamily.
Who have boon residing in C^athay
. Court?, are moVing Saturday to
the Nix addition In North McAllen
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HOLLA WAY RETURNS—W. W.
Holla way,, representing a Kansas
City bond house, returned to his
headquarters Saturday after spend-
ing a week In the Valley.
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ANDERSONS ON TRIP — Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph F. Anderson kft
Tuesday for a trip to Dallas. Tyler
«nd Oladewater, Tex. Mr*. Ander-
' aon recently came here from her
•tome in Salt Lake City to join her
husband at the Casa de Palmas
hotel. They expect to return t0 tho
Valley In several days. Their seven-
teen year old son will be a visit-
or In McAllen soon. Mr. Anderson
has been engaged Jn drilling acti-
vities near Rio Hondo.
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^ IN OKLAHOMA—Virgil
t» returned this week from a
In Chic kasha. Okla.
Army Engineer Is
Surveying Llano
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Grande Project
MERCEDES, Sept. 27—(Spl) —
Ll^iut. Col. Edwin H. Marks, dis-
trict U. S. Army enginfeer, Galves-
ton!, is seeking expressions of op-
inions of local navigation interests
toward the proposed shipping
channel which has been asked of
tho government as a construction
project at Llano Grande lake,
south of Mercedes, in southeastern
Hidalgo county. Marks, in public-
ly posted notices here, in wh^ch
he announced that he was carry-
ing out-provisions included in sec-
tion 3 of the river and harbor act,
which was approved by the na-
tional congress, August, 1935, quot-
es the following section: “The sec-
retary of we*- is hereby authorized
and directed to cause preliminary
examinations and surveys to be
made of the following named lo-
calities. * • • Arroyo Colorado,
Texas, from Llano Grande lake to
it mouth. • * *
Local leaders describe the chan-
nel construction project to in-
clude the dredging of a channel
for light shipping from the Llano
Grande lake sector east to the point
of contact ' ith the Arroyo Colo-
rado, which moves thence -east
via Harlingen and Rio Hondo to
Paso Real and the Laguna Madre.
If the extension of the intereoas-
tal canal oc Louisiana and Texas
to Harlingen, which has been ad-
vocated for several years, took
place, and the local channel was
dredged, wrier shipping facilities
wop Id be accorded Mercedes via
the lake, the arroya and the lag-
been elected cheer leaders for the
pep squad.
Coach H. L. Schmalzried has an-
nounced the following lineup for
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RETURNS FROM LAREDO —
• George Young returned Wednesday
Wight after * business trip to
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EDINBURG VISITORS—Mrs. M.
parks and Miss C. M. FI inn were
Visitors In Edinburg yesterday.
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Roma School Opening
RIO ORANDE CITY, Sept. 27—
(3pl.)—Teachers of the Roma dis-
trict will tho id -a meeting tomor-
row at the Roma school In prep-
aration for the opening of school,
Mr*. Florence J. Scott county’ »up-
—'ntendent, announced. Reglstra-
ns in the 9'hools at Rosita. Es-
,bares, Los Saens, and Garceno,
the Roma district began Friday.
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the Tigers:
Player
Ragland
Timkin
Sachtleben
Irby
Wise
E. gchwartz
Barnes
Bonner
Pylant
Drawe,
Jor.es
May Establish Center
At Rio Grande City
RIO GRANDEi CITY, Sept. 27
—(Spl)—James Knight, Univer-
sity of Texas extension department
representative with offices in Har-
lingen, was here Wednesday in the
interests of establishing an exten-
sion center at Rid Grande City.
The course this year Is to be
mental hygiene and is available
to those of junior standing or high-
er and teachers who have taught
five years. Physical education cred-
it at the university will be obtained
by 'those who pass the instruction.
Those interesed may make inquir-
ies of H. C. Baker or Mrs. Flor-
ence J. Scott.
Highest market prices for your
butter fat, sweet or sour, are paid
by your Kree-Mee station.
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Mercedes Tigers
Open Home Season
With Santa Rosa
MERCEDES, Sent. 27— (Spl)-
Pla.ving their first conference
game and first home game of the
season, the 'Mercedes Tigers will
meet the Santa, R6§a Plowboys
here this afternoon.
Arrangements have been made
for a loudspeaker to be placed on
the’field* for announcing downs,
penalties and explanations of plays.
The high school pep squad has
been ’ organized and will be out-
fitted in their uniforms. Dora Ha-
ger and Barbara Warner have
in San Antonio
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Kling, A. R. McAllen Daily Monitor (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 179, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1935, newspaper, September 27, 1935; McAllen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1143530/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting McAllen Public Library.