The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 263, Ed. 2 Thursday, May 7, 1936 Page: 10 of 14
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DEFICIENCY
BILL FACES
HOUSE TUI
Show - Down Battle
Over WPA Due tc
Accompany Plan Tc
Solons
WASHINGTON May 7. (JP)— A
$2364229712 deficiency appropria-
tion bill carrying $1425000000 foi
relief went to the house flooi
Thursday for a show-down fight
over WPA policies.
The big money bill was reported
by the appropriations committee
with $75000000 of the $1500000000
ariginally asked by President Roose-
velt for continuing work reliel
activities shifted to the Civilian
Conservation Corps. This made a
$308000000 total fo rthat agency
a fund designed to keep the author-
ized strength of the corps up tc
350.000 and provide and average ol
a066 camps fn the nine-month
period until March 31 1937.
Other major items in the last
bife measure to be cleared before ad-
journment were $458631860 for the
social security program $6555000f
for public buildings and $3990000C
for the Tennessee Valley Authority
Fifteen Percent Leeway
The relief money was allowed by
the committee subject to maximum
limitations .on specified classes ol
expenditures but with a fifteen per
cent leeway permitted between
classes. Republican members of the
committee contended this nullified
any actual efforts at limitation and
the minority raised a concerted
demand that WPA be dismantled
and replaced with a system oi
federal grants to states.
But administration leaders ex-
pressed confidence the bill as re-
ported would pass the house this
week or early next.
General allocations of the $1425-
000.000 relief money subject to the
fifteen per cent flexibility clause:
Highways roads and streets $413-
250.000 or twenty-nine per cent;
public buildings $159750000 eleven
per cent; parks and other recrea-
tional facilities $159750000 eleven
per cent; public utilities including
sewer systems water supply and
purification airports and other
transportation facilities $171000000
twelve per cent; flood control and
conservation $128250000 nine per
cent; white collar projects $85500-
000 six per cent; women’s projects
$85500000 six per cent; miscel-
laneous work projects $71250000
five per cent: National Youth Ad-
ministration. $71250000 five per
cent; rural rehabilitation and relief
for farmers $85500000. six per cent
Extends Compensation
In connection with the WPA
funds the committee wrote in the
stipulation that the president
require payment of wages “as will
in the discretion of the president
accomplish the purpose of such
appropriation and not adversely or
otherwise tend to decrease the
going rates of wages paid for work
of a similar nature: provided that
the president may fix different
rates of wages for various types of
work on any project which rates
need not be uniform throughout the
United States.”
The bill extended workmen's
compensation to WPA workers re-
quired a full report on WPA opera-
tions be made to congress by Jan-
uary 10 and set up a maximum
penalty of $2000 fine and one year’s
imprisonment for fraud in connec-
tion with application and other
phases of WPA.
—.......—.
PORT OF BROWNSVILLE
Scheduled to Arrive
May 13
U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Sara-
nac; sailing indefinite.
May 14
S. S. Tanker New Jersey; line
Texas Company; origin New York;
via Port Arthur; destination Port
of Spain; agents Philen Miller and
company.
May 14
U.S. S. Dickerson destroyer; sail
May 17.
May 15
Dr. Brinkley II private yacht; sail
May 17 destination Galveston.
May 16
Commercial Quaker; line Moore-
mack; origin Baltimore; destina-
tion. New Orleans and north of
Hatteras ports; agents Philen Mil-
ler and company.
PORT ISABEL
Scheduled to Arrive
May 10
Commercial Alabaman; line
Moremack; origin Baltimore; via
' New Orleans; destination Balti-
more; agents Philen Miller and
company.
May 11
Texas Ranger; line Newtex; ori-
i gin New York; via Houston; desti-
nation New York; agents Philen
Miller and company.
May 18
Texas Banker; line Newtex; ori-
gin New York; via Houston des-
I tination. New York; agents Philen
Miller and company.
May 19
E. J. Nicklos; line Continental;
destination New York via Corpus
Christ!; agents Philen Miller and
company.
May 24
Commercial Pioneer line Moore-
mack; origin. Baltimore; via New
Orleans; destination Baltimore;
agents Philen Miller and company
May 25
Texas Trader; line Newtex; ori-
gin New York; via Houston; des-
tination New York; agents Philen
Miller and company.
May 31
Commercial Guide; line
Mooremack; origin Baltimore; via
New Orleans; destination. Balti-
more; agents Philen Miller and
company.
—
A
PORT CELEBRATION HEADS
A. A. Hargrove left in charge of the commercial division float section
of the port parade to be held May 16; James L. Abney general chair-
man of the reception committee.
LOCOMOTIVE
BLAST FATAL
Three Trainmen Lose Lives
In Explosion; Cattle
Run Loose
BATAVIA N. Y. May 7. (A5)—A
locomotive exploded on the Dela-
ware Lackawanna and Western rail-
road south of here Thursday and
three men were killed.
Station Master Bert Coulter of
North Alexander said the bodies of
the engineer the fireman and the
head trainman had been found all
“pretty badly mangled.”
The division superintendent’s of-
fice in Buffalo said they did not know
who was killed out that their rec-
ords showed the engineer was Steph-
en Hasfurter of Buffalo with Oscar
Arthur of Elmira as fireman and E.
F. Arwine of Elmira as head train-
man.
The locomotive was hauling freight
and ten cars of cattle were derailed.
Coulter said cattle were “running all
over the countryside.”
P. O. Receipts Gain
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN May 7—Postal receipts
In McAllen were increased $1063.74
in April this year over the same
month in 1935 Harry S. Merts post-
master announced Wednesday.
! Receipts for April 1936 were $4-
! 1 5.34. and for April 1935 were
$3041.60.
Junior-Senior -
Banquet Held
At La Feria
(Special to The Herald)
LA FERIA May 7.—Members ol
the 1936 graduating class and the
high school faculty were guests oi
the junior class at the annual
Junior - Senior banquet Tuesday
night in the school cafeteria. Five
large Dutch windmills were placed
against the walls of the room and
smaller windmills were used as table
decorations to carry out the theme
of the banquet. Girls of the
sophomore class dressed as Dutch
girls served as waitresses and Dutch
numbers given in costume and dia-
lect added to the atmosphere ol
the occasion.
Programs and menus were In the
shape of the typical windmill ol
Holland and favors consisted ol
Dutch dolls a boy and a girl a1
each plate watching a Dutch shif
the sail of which was used as e
place card for the guest. In th(
center of the U formed by the
tables was a large bed of tulip<
in class colors. Across one end o:
the room a stage and an alcove
for the orchestra were arranger
with vine covered trelliswork form-
ing a background and the outline
of the stage and alcove.
Robert Graham as toastmaster
introduced Ruth Ashworth who’ ex-
tended a welcome from the junior;
to the seniors faculty and guests
John Hatchett responded for the
seniors and compared the fou
classes of the high school to the
four arms of the windmill sayins
that each had a distinct service t<
perform. Viola Yarbrough and Mil-
dred Wemeyer dressed in Dutcl
costumes gave a tap dance numbei
followed by a vocal duet “Tiptoe
Through The Tulips” by Louise
Holley and Louise Watson. Accom-
panists for these numbers were
Mildred Clark and Miss Willie
Magee. Torrell Mangham and Lee
Cisneros dressed as a Dutch gir
and boy gave a dance number am
song. Edward Hatchett of Sar
Benito accompanied by Miss Mar-
garet Sloan sang two numbers the
first in Dutch and the second “The
Little Dutch Mill.”
Superintendent J. B. Smith ir
speaking to the group comparec
the tower of the mill to the schoo
supporting the four arms repre-
sented by the classes and stressec
the importance of each class ful-
filling its obligation to the schoo
in order that the school may properlj
fulfill its obligation to the com-
munity. “Success in life depend;
not on fortunes gathered on thi;
earth but in friendships made anc
service rendered to one’s fellow man.'
was the parting thought given bj
the speaker a “Goodnight” song
written by Mildred Clark of the
junior class sung to the tune ol
“Aloha Oe” announced the con-
clusion of the evening’s program
Music during the evening was fur-
nished by an orchestra composec
of Phillip Murray Mrs. D. M. Mc-
Leod Henry Sepp and Jack Rainey
C. E. Vail is sponsor of the junioi
class and Miss Willie Fosselman ol
the senior class.
In addition to members of the
two classes and their sponsors oth-
er guests included: Misses Evelyr
Howard Clovis Hickman Lila Dyer
Willie Magee Mary Jane Simpson
Mrs. C. E. Vail Mr. Magnus Bol-
ander and Superintendent and Mrs
J. B. Smith.
Members of the senior class pres-
ent were: Lucille Adams Jessie Car-
roll Ella Cisneros Lois Erickson
Gareld Foncannon Mildred Frieb-
ele George Gaston Grin Goulding
Charlfc Hamner Olwen Hamner
John Hatchett. Alton Hennessee
Harold Hensley Oleta Keeton
Catherine Lee Martha Lievens
George Lingle Miguel Longoria
Joseph 'lachner Edwin Maston
Margaret Matthews Oscar Moreno
Joella Murray Brady Noblett Irene
Shipley Bruce Smith Verine Stark
Buddy Strickland Mildred Voorhees
i John Dale Williams Edythe Wilson
Rosalie Curry and Ruth McCulley
Members of the junior class pres-
ent were: Marvis Anderson Billie
Ruth Ashworth Elouise Bourn.
Willie Castleberry Mildred Clark.
Flora Belle Cloud Mary Ann Cole!
Alta Dodd R. L. Franklin Bettie
George Mary Ellen Gilliam Robert
Graham Phyllis Leka Emestina
Longoria Melvin Martin Dolly
Bess McCarty David Moreno Delia
Moreno. Richard McMinn. Syble
Myers Margaret OKeefe Lawrence
Perry David Poole Helen Roland
Edith Sibson Leonard Simandl.
Charles Smith Jane Smith John
Stinson. Bonnie Thornton Grover
Todd. Isabelle Vigness Flossie Walk
and Annabelle Haaxer.
Eighteen and a half million peo-
ple attend British theaters every
week.
CORNS .REMOVED
s-JASTOROIL
r**ors. A new liquid called NOXACORN
en“s P«in in 60 seconds. Dries up peskiest
corns or callus. Contains pure castor oil
camphor and corn-aspirin. Absolutely safe.
Winner of Good Housekeeping Seal. Easy
directions on label. 35c bottle saves untold
Druggist returns money if NOXA-
wUiCN fails to remove any corn or
City Drug Store Cisneros Mc-
Kay’s and other druggists.—Adv.
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WEATHER
——.-. ..—
East Texas (east of 100th meri-
dian) : Cloudy probably with local
thundershowers late Thursday night
and Friday; cooler in northwest and
north-central portions Thursday
night and in west and north* por-
tions Friday.
Fresh and occasionally strong
southerly winds on the coast.
Small craft warnings are display-
ed on the Texas coast Thursday.
RIVER FORECAST
The river will continue to fall slow-
ly from about Mercedes down and
probably not change much elsewhere
during the next twenty-four to
thirty-six hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chang. Rain
Laredo 27 3.2 0.0 .00
Rio Grande 21 *2.8 c0.7 .00
Hidalgo 21 2.8 -0.6 .00
Mercedes 21 5.2 -0.1 .00
Brownsville 18 4.5 -0.8 .00
*—estimated. *
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide in the pass and
along this immediate coast under
normal meteorological conditions:
High...5:51 a. m.
Low . 10:05 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Supset Thursday . 7:04
Sunrise Friday . 5:48
WEATHER SUMMARY
Disturbances were central over
New Mexico and western Texas and
over south-central Canada North
Dakota and Minnesota Thursday
morning while barometric pressure
was relatively to moderately high
over the balance of the United States.
Except for scattered showers in the
northern states the weather was gen-
erally fair throughout the country
during the last twenty-four hours.
Temperatures dropped in the plains
and north-central states and rose
in the Ohio valley the Great Lakes
region and in the northwestern
states since last report.
Brownsville 7 a. m. (CST) sea-
level pressure 29.74 inches.
BULLETIN
(First figures lowest temperature last
night; second highest yesterday; third
wind velocity at 8 a. m.; fourth prec-
ipitation in last 24 hours).
Abilene . 70 92 16 .00
Amarillo. 58 90 .. .00
Atlanta . 54 84 .. .00
Austin. 70 82 14 .00
Boston. 50 62 12 .00
BROWNSVILLE ... 74 82 14 .00
Br’ville Airport. 73 84 14 .00
Chicago. 66 86 10 .00
Cleveland . 70 78 20 .00
Corpus Christi. 74 80 18 .00
Dallas. 68 82 16 .00
Del Rio. 70 88 14 .00
Denver . 34 60 .. .30
Dodge City.‘68 86 .. .00
El Paso :. 60 88 12 .00
Fort Smith . 64 88 .. .00
Houston. 66 82 14 .00
Jacksonville. 60 80 .. .00
Kansas City. 70 86 14 .00
Los Angeles. 62 78 12 .00
Louisville . 66 86 .. .00
Memphis . 68 86 .. .00
Miami . 72 86 .. .00
Minneapolis. 60 86 .. .02
New Orleans. 66 88 .. .00
North Platte. 52- 72 10 .00
Oklahoma City. 66 82 20 .00
Palestine . 64 82 .. .00
Phoenix. 54 88 .. .00
St. Louis. 64 88 12 .00
Salt Lake City. 40 50 12 .00
San Antonio. 68 84 14 .01
Santa Fe. 38 70 .. .00
Sheridan . 42 50 14 .00
Shreveport. 62 86 10 .00
Tampa . 68 88 12 .00
Vicksburg . 64 86 .. .00
Washington . 56 76 .. .00
Williston . 40 56 18 .24
Wilmington . 54 74 .. .00
Winnemucca. 30 58 .. .00
DECORATIONS
WORK BEGINS
Downtown Business Houses
To Be Gaily Attired
For Celebration
Decorating of downtown business
establishments for the three days
of the port celebration is expected
to get underway Thursday or Fri-
day it was announced Thursday
morning by R. B. Ernst chairman
of the celebration committee on
decorations.
All of the decorating work will
be done under the supervision of
the South Texas Tent and Awning
company McAllen Ernst stated and
merchants desiring to have their
buildings decorated are asked to
phone the Brownsville Chamber of
Commerce and leave their names
and addresses.
C. J. Thompson of the company
is now in the city and will remain
here until the celebration begins he
stated Thursday morning. He has
already started to contact business
houses and reports a good response.
“The committee is very anxious
that the city present a gaLa appear-
ance during the celebration” Ernst
stated “and we urge that all who
possibly can cooperate by decorat-
ing their establishments.”
National Guard Units
Planned For Valley
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN May 7. —The Valley
may get several units of the na-
tional guard Homer Leonard state
representative announced Wednes-
day.
Representative Leonard who 1ms
been working on this proposition
for several years in conference with
Colonel H. H. Carmichael of the
adjutant general’s department here
Wednesday went over the whole
project in full.
Governor Allred and Adjutant
General Carl Nesbitt are said to
look with favor on the setting up
in the Valley of national guard
units and Colonel Carmichael is
now in the Valley making a survey.
‘Hot Rhyt ’In
Prehistoric Erin
BELFAST. (JP)—“Hot rhythm” had
its fans in prehistoric times new
archaeological finds in northern
Ireland reveal.
! Estyn E. Evans noted antiquarian
. following investigations at a cairn
in County Antrim said that his
; discoveries threw an interesting
; light on life in the stone age about
2000 B. C.
“Everything points to the cairn
’ having been the scene of human sac-
rifice carried out with the permis-
sion of the victims” he said
i “Ritual dances marked the cere-
mony and music was part of the rites
; bronze trumpets evidencing that
1 ‘hot music’ with wild dancing were
indulged in.”
Hidalgo Records
93rd District Court
Judge Fred Bennett
Filed:
HOLC vs. R. A. Rowland et ux
Pelicitas Barrera vs. S. Bar-
Felicitas Barrera vs. Alesio Bar-
rera divorce.
92nd District Court
Judge Bryce Ferguson
Jesse I. Whittenburg et vir vs.
John A. Wessling et al application
for injunction.
Shannon Newman et al vs. Placido
de la Fuente et al.
Esteban Garcia vs. Luis Alanis
partition.
Marriage Licenses
John Alejo and Mary Silvas.
Antonio Garcia and Conoepcidn
Ocala.
New Cars
H. Q. McKenzie McAllen Ply-
mouth; J. E. Wilkins San Juan
Plymouth; M. Chapa Montalvo Ed-
inburg Ford; Henry Lankford Mis-
sion Chevrolet; Henry D. Lauder-
dale Mercedes. Dodge.
The United States has one auto-
mobile to every five persons.
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PORT CELEBRATION HEADS
EX-PRESIDENTS
ARTICLES SOLD
Household Furnishings Of
Calvin Coolidge Put On
Auction Block
NORTAMPTON Mass. May 7. (JP)
—Household furnishings of the late
President Calvin Coolidge were plac-
ed on the auction block Thursday.
Stocky bald-headed George Bean
auctioneer to whom Coolidge’s
widow Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge
entrusted selling of the household
effects hired the Smith college arena
to accommodate an expected crowd
of devotees.
About 400 articles pointed the trail
the thirtieth president took from a
Vermont farm to the White House.
For the block were articles
Coolidge used as a student at Am-
herst College and inexpensive but
still sturdy tables and chairs from
the now famous two-family house
on Massasoit street where the young
lawyer and the attractive school
teacher set up house-keeping.
Awaiting the bidder too were more
recent landmarks in the former
president’s life—books and curios and
ornate vases he brought back here
with him from the White House and
solid mahogany furniture from his
last home “The Beeches.”
Mrs. Coolidge is traveling in Eur-
ope now.
VISIT IN McALLEN
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN May 7.—Harry Hall
A. W. Taylor Jack Ross and J. C.
Looney were visitors here Tuesday
night.
Midtown Store
Plans Formal
Opening Friday
The Midtown Grocery and Mar-
ket Brownsville’s newest grocery
store and market will hold its for-
mal opening at 1032 Washington
street Friday it was announced
Thursday.
The new store will be owned and
managed by L A. Santa Ana. for-
merly connected with the Central
Cash Grocery here and well ex-
perienced in the grocery and meat
business.
The store will carry a complete
line of nationally-known groceries
smoked and fresh meats and pro-
duce of all kinds.
Residents of Brownsville and the
Valley are invited to visit the store
cm Friday during its formal open-
ing Mr. Santa Ana said Thursday.
Junior High Honor
Studeft Are Named
SAN BENITO May 7.—Van Allen
with a grade of ninety-five and
Richard Worth with grades averag-
ing ninety-three and one-half will
be valedictorian and salutatorian for
the junior high school graduates.
Other high ranking students are Al-
bert Smith Billy Brandon and Billy
Jean Gardner.
The promotion exercises will ba
held Monday afternoon. May 25.
Ends Aching
Sore Muscles
For loti gar luting quicker relief uee
Ballard’* Snow Liniment which contain* ecthrs
ingredient* to give a more then local action
thus bringing a surge of warmed blood (a
scatter congestion end more quickly tooth*
away the pain from aching muscle* sprains
straws backache end lumbago. Ballard)
Snow Liniment. 30c aad 60c.
ALL VALLEY DRUGGIST*
W. E. Heaner left chairman of the committee on grounds seats and
stage in connection with the Saga of Transportation; Fred Latham
parade master.
Weslaco McAllen
Rotarians to Meet
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN May 7.—Joint Rotary
programs of the Weslaco and Mc-
Allen clubs will be held May 21 and
May 27 it was announced Wednes-
day at the regular meeting of teh
Rotary club which featured music
in observance of national music
week.
Those on the program were Mrs.
Thornton Thacker who had charge
of the program and including Miss
Dorothy Bivin with a piano solo
a reading by Mrs. B. Spiller vocal
solos by Mrs. Thacker and Ray Losh.
Attorney E. A. McDaniel delivered
a short talk on world affairs.
Guests included H. C. Pressler
Austin Merle Edwards and Vernon
Hill Mission George Vest and
j Harris Carter Donna Horace Etchi-
ison and Sam Weems McAllen.
Dr. Kline Is Named
To Brinkley Staff
MERCEDES May 7. —Dr. A. L.
Kline has been appointed by Dr.
John R. Brinkley as chief of staff
for the John R. Brinkley hospital in
San Juan and assumed his dulties
Wednesday with his family arriving
the first of next week it was an-
nounced.
Dr. Kline has been in Mercedes
for about six years.
$1000000 Tomato
Crop Is Predicted
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN May 7.—A million dol-
lar tomato crop in Hidalgo county
is forecast by shippers and growers
this year.
The crop is classed as of unusual
quality and acreage is said around
14500 acres.
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