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CHICAGO GIRL
NAMED BEAUTY
OF UNIVERSE
Wins In Competition
At Galveston With
Prettiest From ll
Nations of World
GALVE3TON Tex. June 6.——
Adjudged the most beautiful of <2
bathing girls ten of whom were
from foreign lands. Miss Ella van
Hueson of Chicago today was be-
ginning her reign as “beauty queen
of the universe.” She v.as given that
title here last night as the climax
and conclusion of Galveston’s third
annual international pageant of pul-
chritude.
As Miss Dorothy Britton of New
Jersey. N. J.. «M ** 1'nlvet e" of the 1
1927 pageant placed r. gold crown I
on Miss Van Hueson’s head the
audience of 2.000 rose to its feet
in obeisance to the new beauty
queen. Movie cameras clicked and
spectators stamped *heir feet and
whistled and shouted their acclaim.
Miss Van Hueson then was pre-
sented with a silver plaque en-
graved to show that she was the
"most beautiful among the beauty
ambassadors of ten ^o.xirn countries
ana two score American beauties.”
“Min Universe.” as she will be
known was selected as* “Miss Unit-
ed States on Monday night winning
that honor from .11 United States
entrie* Last night she competed
avith the foreign contestants.
The selection of the 12-year-old
girl as ‘Miss Universe” was unani-
mous with the seven judges.
Other winners from second to
tenth respectively were: Raymond
Attain. Paris; Lilia 'Nrraccj Rome;
Mildred Fllene Golden. Denver.
< olo.; Audrey Reillcy Charleston.
W. 'i.; Irene Hill. Calgary Al-
berta. i anad3; Anna Friedrich Lux-
embourg; Marv Horiocker Columbus.
Ohio; Anna Dehrow. San Antonio;
Helen Paris. Tulsa Okla.
Onlv one of the ten winners was
a decided blonde the Denver entry.
Miss Van Hueson has dark brown
hair and hazel eves and slightly dark
complexion She n-ss one of the
tallest entries measuring five feet
six and one half inches and weigh-
ing 120 pounds.
Three of the girls. Miss Canada.
Miss Luxembourg and Miss San An-1
tonio. had bobbed hair.
All of the foreign beauties were
to~V*ve here todav for New Or-
leans^ttr"111 m'hich port they will em-
bark frft ther homes. Miss Van
Hueson pMnn*^ tn *tart her return
to Chicago _
99 Year SeP^nce of
Slayer Ig^onfirmed
AUSTIN'. June « The 99-
5*«ar sentence assessed
»«r in Jones county for parTfWf2at*on
in the slaying of a Fisher cvfttJv
sheriff and his deputy was affirnvV
ed Wednesday by the court of crim-
inal appeals.
Bill Smith convicted with Conat-
ser. already is in a prison death cell
awaitin'* execution.
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WOMAN FLIER
AWAITS GOOD
WIND FOR HOP
Take-Off on Atlantic
Flight to Require
Right Weather; Two
Others Rush Plans
TREPASSEY tf. F.. June <*»._
With no apparent intention to make'
an early getaway on their projected
hop to England the three members i
of the crew of the Fokker mono-
plane Friendship of Boston slept
late this morning.
Troublesome winds which held
them here yesterday continued to
upset the fliers’ hopes although the
northwest breeze had abated some
what and the weather otherwise sa«
fine and clear.
Miss Amelia Earhart. member of
the crew; Wilmer Stultz pilot and
Louia Gordon mechanic expressed
disappointment over the delay.
To make a aafe takeoff the Friend-
ship would have to head eastward!
out through the narrow harbor1
mouth. But with the wind out of!
the west and on their tail a take-j1
off away from the wind was consid-!
ered too hazardous for the heavily I
loaded plane.
The pontoons which add the
greatest factor of safety for the
ocean flight also make a take-off
difficult and condition needed to be
just right before the big monoplane
could break the suction of the water
on her smooth boatlike supports and
rise into the air.
The mystery which surrounded
tarly preparations for the flight
continued.
S[he fliers were reticent in dit-
cussr’Jf their plans. They said they
had noT definitely decided where
they would land; that they were not
seeking puRitfity; that their flight
was a private venture adn that they
did not'care to gi<«* out information.
Mix* Earhart sain.she had found
the flight xo far vcTV enjoyable.
She is looking forward .eagerly to
being the first woman to- fly the
North Atlantic and seemi little
daunted by the fact that three other
women have lost their lives in s mi-
lar attempts. She said that
though she had done a great deal oi
' flying she had never before been
! on a long flight.
. Two Women Rush
Plans For Flight
NEW YORK June fi.—(A>)—With
Miss Amelia Earhart delayed at Tre-
passey \\ F„ by unfavorable winds
for her take-off in the monoplane
Friendship two other women were
pushing plana here for trans-Atlan-
; tic flights.
The monoplane Columbia in which
I Charles Levine and Clarence Cham-
berlin flew to Germany last vear
was reported ready for the ocean ;
flight Miss Mabel Boll is planning
and Misa Thea Rasche. the German
aviatnx. received front the builders
of the Bellanca plane in which she
hope* to fly to Germany.
| -M'« Boll was elated when she
learned that the take-off of the
Friendship had been delayed.
*°0i new* f°r me. Mav-
be I H be first after all" she said.
There were -till several matters
tor her to settle however before
she could start her ocean attempt.
She has not definitely chosen a
pilot although Charles Le Boutil-
her. British war flier has been men-
tioned. and Levine owner of the
Columbia said the plane was not
yet ready despite the report of T
Harold ' Doc" Kmkade Wright mo-
tor expert that it was all set for the
ocean flight.
Miss Rasche i* not rushing her
preparation* "Not later than July
15 was all she would say when
pressed for a possible starting date
She said her new plane had only
been flown for six hours and that
at least 30 more hours of test flvir»
must be done before she would take
off. She also has not announced a
selection of a companion pilot.
South Interested
In Bamboo Crops
SAVANNAhTg. I ex-
periments with bamboo are declared
hv growers to have demonstrated
the importance of its culture in the
South. There is a market for botn 1
the timber bamboo and the edible
* varieties. A grove near here has at-
tained a height of feet. Young
shoots of the edible bamboo are used
as a vegetable and sa^td-
Producers say most bamboos will
thrive wherever cotton is grown suc-
cessfully. preferring fertile well-
! drained soil. They make an excel-
ent windbreak and as evergreens
are sought for landscape ornamenta-
The light poles serve a great
array of farm purposes while the
heavier timber is used in the manu-
faeture of furniture building mate-
rial and paper.
nJn* ther# ha*
JS? * h*" ‘he importa-
tion of live bamboo or seed from
foreign countries to keep out dan-
wrous plant diseases and insects
•eorgia growers cooperate with the
department of agriculture in obtain-
ing stock.
I GARNER CLUB
MEETS FRIDAY
Chairmen Urged to At-
tend Banquet At
Harlingen
_
Definite plant for getting out the
Gainer vote at the July primary will
be discussed at a meeting and ban-
quet of the voting precinct chairmen
of the ( ameron county Garner-for-
('empress club to be held at Hotel
Rees-Wil-Mond in Harlingen at 7
o'clock Friday night.
Invitations have been mailed to the
chairman and chairwomen of all
voting precincts urging they attend
the meeting and to be prepared to of-
fer suggestions as to the best means
of polling every vote.
H. B. Galbraith of Brownsville
chairman of the club will preside.
“We hope every voting precinct
will be represented at this meeting.”
Mr Galbraith said. “It is very es-
sential that every precinct be organ-
ized. and this should be done in
ample time to assure a full vote at
the July primary. I am confident
that Cameron county will return the
usual majority for John Garner but
we want to get every Garner vote to j
the polls.”
Several Garner leaders from
Brownsville. San Benito. Harlingen
and La Feria are expected to be pres-
ent to address the meeting.
TEXAS DEALER
IN STOCKS DIES
NEW YORK. June 6.—(£V-Eugene
G. Scales who came to New York
from New Orleans 21 years ago with j
28 cents and a §200 diamond ring and
in two years ran it into a fortune of
$8000000 on the cotton exchange
died yesterday of heart disease.
There is little of his fortune left.
He was 70 years old.
Mr. Scales was horn in Dallas hut
moved to Paris. Tex. when a young
man and opened a general store. Aft-
er a few years he sold out and bought
into the Central Texas Cotton till
company.
Making a small fortune in that he !
opened brokerage offifrs in Temple.
Brownwood. Waco. Corsicana and
and became a member of the
New OrieaffiK York and Chicago
cotton exchanges. He retired from
the mrrket in 1S*10 with his $*.000000
in winnings but returned in two
years to suffer immediate heavy
losses. He laughed his los es away
until 1014. he said his fortune was
gone. The next year however he
stepped into the war wheat market
and amassed another fortune. He
went along quietly then until last
year when again he announced his
fortune was gore.
PHONE CREWS
WORKING i
New Line to Point Is
Ready; to Increase
Switchboard
Evidence of the growth of Browns-
ville end Point Isabel was reflected
Wednesday morning at the local of-
fice of the Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone company with a new project
getting under way and the termina-
tion of a second.
A toll line from Point Isabel to
Brownsville was being strung into
the office here by a crew under
supervision of j F. Tiner construc-
tion foreman. Thus givgs the cities
two connecting lines where it has
been served by one before. A third
may be had by installation of equip-
ment on the terminals without fur-
ther construction on the pole line.
It is expected that this third circuit
known as a “phantom” will be com-
missioned soon.
R. C. Vernon toll line transmis-
sion engineer of San Antonio is to
test the line Wednesday and upon his
approval the line will be placed in
operation it was stated.
The second project just getting un-
der way is that of adding to the
switching facilities of local and toll
telephone lines which includes the
placing of 200 new numbers on the
board.
A crew of Western Electric in-
stallers arrived Monday and began
this wrork. Added men and materials
for this project Is expected it was
stated.
The wodk will consist of the in-
stallation of two new positions at the
switch hoard one local and the other
toll. The toll position will facilitate
quicker handling of long distance
communications a department that
has grown steadily here for some
time. The local position will take
care of 290 additional local tele-
phones. With these new numbers
the exchange will have 1499 numbers
listed.
AH inside installations «f this na-
ture for the Southwestern Bell is
done by Western Electric company.
TO TEST CITY
WATER DAILY
Equipment for Labora-
tory Ordered By
Commission
■ Daily test* of Brownsville city
water will fce made as soon as lab-
oratory equipment can b» installed
purchase of the equipment having
been authorized by the city commis-
sion at a special meeting Wednesday
morning.
R. r. Graham connected with the
county health unit and stationed at
Brownsville will make the daily tests
and reports.
Some criticism of the quality of
Brownsville water had been made by
military authorities and others. The
request was made by the medical
staff at Fort Brown that #the labor-
atory be installed so tWat an accur-
ate check could be kept' and the water
maintained at standard.
Under the present arrangement
sample* of the water are sent each
veck by the city to the A A- M. Col-
lege for tests the military author-
ities also sending samples to Fort
Sam Houston. City and military
health officers stated it was im-
possible to maintain an accurate
check on the water under this system
and advised the establishment and
equipment of a laboratory at the city
plant.
The cost nf the equipment will be
approximately $500 and the labor-
atory is expected to be ready for the
initial tests in a few weeks.
BACK FROM ASSEMBLY
MERCEDES. June Rev. T M
Pollard has returned from Atlanta
where he attended the General As-
sembly of the Presbyterian church.
He is pastor of the Fresbyterian
church here.
P'l won’t do it” |
-said Iflrs. Burns
“I refuse to pay .TO rents for
a half-pint of any liquid
Insect-killer when I can get
the same quantity of Black
Flag for only 3.1 rent*.*
Black Flag Llqnld Is one-
half the price of other liquid Insect-killers.
And It Is the deadliest made. 'Money back If it
doesn’t prove so.) Black Flag comes In two
forms— Liquid and Powder. Both are sure j
death to flies mosquitoes roach** ants bed
bugs fleas etc. Powder IS cents and up.
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Day or Night f K
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Our service is not bounded by S|
the clock or the sun; it is al- u(|
ways available when the need *]!
arises. |*t*j
S> think that the modern Wifi
funeral director as a class re- L»
alizes the necessity for twenty- Ra
four hour service. Certainly |H
we fed that it is a vital phase
•f our service.
WA.DARLING I
FUNERAL HOME E
JEFFERSON AT IfTH
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Delegation Of 7
To Leave Friday
For Penitentiary
sentenced to terms in the federal
penitentiary will leave B|ro*n*^J*
Friday night in a special Pullman
over the Southern Pacific i01.1*?'-
enworth. Kan. They will be in the
custody of Harold
U. S. marshal with R J• Tucker and
J. T. Jefferds as guards.
Six additional prisoners will M
picked up at Corpus Chriati a ad one
more at Houston. At Houston they
will be met by P- A. Haryin. IN S.
marshal for the southern district of I
Texas who will accompany them to
Leavenworth. Mr. Jefferds will re.
main in Kansas City for* the repub- !
lican national convention.
Six of the prisoners sentenced at
Brownsville were convicted on
liquor smuggling charges and the j
other on the charge of attempting 1
to enter the United States on a false
passport. The prisoners include
Frederic© Saenz Martias Trevino
Pedro Gomez and Gregorio Ramos
each sentenced to 1 year and a day;
Manuel Cuellar and Alfredo Adame
sentenced to 2 years each and Ama-
do Balli sentenced to 16 months.
Saenz who was convicted on a
smuggling charge had been re-
leased from Leavenworth last De-
cember and was re-arrested four
months later with a large quaatity
of liquor in his possession.
DePauw Presidency
Source of Bishops j
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. <7P> — The
presidency of De Pauw university
at Greencastle. Ind.. is a training
school for Methodist bishops.
Three former heads of De Pauw
now are bishops and they are having
a college reunion at the church's
I quadrennial conference this month.
I They are Bishop Edwin H. Hughes
of the Chicago ares. Bishop Francis
J McConnell of the Pittsburgh area
ar.d Bishop George R. Grose of the
Peking. China area.
All three were in tne president's j
chair at De Pauw when they were
elevated to the episcopacy. Bishop;
Hughes was at the college from 1908
to 1912. and Bishop Crose from 1912
to 1924.
De Pauw a Methodist school
founded in 1837 now is headed by
the Rev. Dr. L. H. Murlm.
RABBIT HI NT COSTS LIFE
RACINE. YVis. — Accidental dis-
charge of his brother's gun killed
I'oy Brown while the two were hunt-
ing rabbits.
DISCUSS CITY
LIGHT PLANS
Proposals Received To
Illuminate Busi-
ness Section
Installation of street illumination
system in the business segtion of the
city was discussed briefly by the
city commission Wednesday morn-
ing in considering a proposal of the
Western Eiectrie company to install
the system at a cost of $15000.
Action on the proposal was post-
poned until the next regular meet-
ing «n June 15 Commissioners
Starck and Cobolini announcing they
were in favor of the installation.
Plans for the system were pre-
sented by a representative of the
electric company who has been in
the city a week and made a thor-
ough survey of the lighting ne£ds
of the business section. According
to the plans the area to be illumi-
nated would include Washington
Elizabeth and Levee streets from
Tenth to Fourteenth. The present
ornamental posts would be replaced
by 93 posts 15 feet in height placed
three to the block each carrying a
light of 600-candlepowcr with a spe-
cial illumination globe.
Installation of the system would
necessitate the removal of 29 orna
meaUl posts which would be used in
tbo residential section.
The present street lighting sys-
tem which was installed in the bus-
iness district several years ago has
bean pronounced wholly inadequate
by illumination experts.. The pro-
posed system would provide ample
illumination for the entire district
the standards being of sufficie.it
height to diffuse the light over a
large area.
Members of the commission an-
nounced they would study the va-
rious details of the proposed instal-
lation and would pass upon the pro-
ject at the next meeting.
WILL OPEN CITY HALL
WESLACO June 6.—Formal open-
ing of the new city hail here is to
tale place tha latter part of this
month. Tha building in practically
completed now and the city offices
chamber of commerce fire fighting
equipment etc. will be moved in.
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COOLING 8YY8TIM IN
HARLINGEN June S.—The sec-
ond unit of the cooling system at
the Arcadia theater here has been
installed and is now in operation
according to Jack Pickens manager.
With this unit the theater can now
be made 20 degrees cooler that the
air outside the manager said.
Renew Your Health
By Purification
Any physician will tell you that
“Perfect Purification of tha System
is Nature's Foundation of Perfect
Health.” Why not rid yourself of
chronic ailments that nre undermin-
ing your vitality? Purify your en-
tire system bu taking a thorough
course of Calotabs—once or twice a
week for several week*— and sea how
Nature rewards you with health.
Calotabs are the greatest of a*’ »j|
system purifiers. Get a family p»
age with full directions. Only ®
at drugstores.—Adv. j j
No More Gas
In Stomach
and Bowels
H you with to bo permanently re-
Iltved of gas to stomach and bowels
take Baalmann'a Gae Tablets which
are prepared especially for atomacb ess
and ail the bad effacta resulting from
gas pressure.
That empty gnawing feeling at tho
pit of the stomach will disappear: that
anxious nervous feeling with heart pal-
pitation will vanish and you will again
ha abla to taka a deep breath without
discomfort.
That drowty. sleepy feeling after
dinner will be replaced by a desire for
entertainment. Bloating will cease.
Your limbs arms and fingers will no
longer feel cold and “go to sleep" be-
cause Baalmann's Gae Tablets prevent
gas from interfering with the circula-
tion. Cet the genuine in the yellow pack-
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Always on hand at
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\our doctor
knows * ♦ *
that whole wheat contains
every element the human ^
body needs balanced in
healthful proportion. Whole
vheat and whole milk—that^s
the ideal food combination—
but be sure the whole wheat
is properly cooked for easy
digestibility.
Shredded Wheat is the
whole wheat steam-cooked
shredded and thoroughly
baked. Its crisp crunchy
Iflavory shreds of whole wheat
encourage thorough mastica-
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* teeth and healthy gums. 12
large full-size bis-
cuits (12 ounces)
in every package
ready-cooked
ready-to-eat. Deli-
cious for any meal.
Made by The Shredded Wheat Company
I Step Right Up Folks |
This way to the best service and most
economical hardware and household
store in The Valley. The store of a mil-
lion and one different bargains.
Covacevich Supply Co.
G. A. Covacevich Prop.
Hardware Auto Electrical and Plumbing Supplies
Everything for the Home and Farm
Opposite New Chamber of Commerce
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