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Present Session of
Legislature to Make
Record for Inaction
By RAYMOND BROOKS
AUSTIN, Feb. 25.—The “slaughter session” of the legislature has
passed the fewest general laws in the history of a regular session up to
its present stage, with but a week and a half left of its 60 days: and will
kill perhaps the largest number of bills in history by failing to reach
them before final adjournment.
Two general bills of relative im-i
portance, authorizing a seven-dor
mitory construction program for the
University of Texas, and remitting
to West Texas claimants land il
legally surveyer over streams be
longing to the state, hate been
passed. Gov. Dan Moody will like
ly veto the land bill, it has been in
dicated.
Pive general policy measures of
Gov. Moody's administration all
have failed so far to get affirmative
action. The highway bonds bill,
generally admitted the biggest item
before the session, has not yet
passed the senate and faces a stiff
battle In both branches, if reached
by the lower house at all. Prison
relocation has been In a memorable
battle, with the Moody plan of an
open relaction policy already de
feated in the house and the bill so
changed in the senate as to be un
acceptable to its sponsors.
Short Ballot Doomed
» The short ballot, third Moody pro
posal. will not be reached. Civil
service was killed outright and the
regulation of public utilities through
a new appointive commission has
been abandoned until the special
session.
All but the highway bond Issue
submission likely will b* submitted
by the governor at the coming
special session. Alreadv the hang
over on the policy bills indicates the
special session will in man" wavs be
more important and significant
than the regular session
All general appropriations hills
will be passed to the special session,
despite attempts of the senate to
dispose of them during the regular
A horde of local and special and
nearly 300 general bills will die on
the calendars of the two houses at
the end of the session March 9. It
has become apparent. The Univer
sity of Texas land lease bill, giving
control of leases to regents, with the
land commissioner constituting a
third member of a leasing board,
apparently will be passed.
“Thev Shall Not Pass"
The anti-bolter bill and the “free
dom of conscience" bill, affecting
rights of individuals in primaries
have been killed The state phar
macy board law Is In process of final
enactment.
The FYench battle erv "They shall
not pass." apparently has been the
watchword of house and senate dur
ing this session.
A general summary. Incomplete as
to general measures and disregard
ing the vast number of special and
local bills that will not receive a fi
nal vote, lists the following as prob
ably dead through failure to he tak
en up. through direction artion. or
through being left on the calendar
when the final gavel falls
All general appropriations, never
tak-en up.
P”bllc utilities control, abandoned
until the special session.
A large group of automobile li
cense fee »-oduction and gasoline
sales tax bills, not taken up because
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Harp water a!wax's leaves clothes
gray, no matter how much you wash
and rinse. Hard water has something
in it with xvfeich the soap combines.
Scum forms at once. This scum gets
into clothes. You never can rinse it
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failure to reacn the highway bond
plan until the close of the session
prevented their consideration.
Search and seizure law repeal, two
bills awaiting action In senate and
may be taken up.
Cities may advertise natural re
sources, through tax levy, awaiting .
action.
Counties may advertise natural
resources through tax levy, killed by
senate committee.
Purchase of land for new state of
fice building, die on calendar; ap
propriation for new office building
and repairs for capitol, abandoned
until special session.
Water priority measure, fail to be
reached: water improvement district
measures, fail to be reached; ratify
ing interstate water compact, may
be reached.
Some of the ‘ land” bill series. In
cluding withdrawing state leases
from the market and venue of state
suits to recover, to die on calendar.
Others to Die
Other bills apparently doomed to
die untouched include:
House road policy measures.
Authorizing creation of junior
colleges.
Create state museum, passed by
house and awaiting senate action.
Wirtz senate bill giving political
parties full control of primaries,
voters and candidates.
Full-time, nine-member supreme
court.
Abolishing Industrial accident
board.
Authorize voting machines: also
series of bills regulating election re
turns and the holding of elections.
Rural aid appropriations.
State ‘blue sky” law, strengthen
ing protection of Investors in secur
ities.
License and regulate chiropractors.
Regulate beauty schools.
Recognize greater legal rights of
married women.
Revisions to insurance laws; in
creasing workmen’s compensation
benefits; regulate mutual aid so
cities: regulate fraternal benefit so
cieties; regulate Lloyd's Insurance
plan.
Create board of education and ap
pointive state superintendent.
Sell legion hospital and use pro- «
ceeds to build armories.
City sanitary code. 88-page bill
sponsored by Medical association.
Ratifying lease of state railroad to
Southern Pacific.
Create state nautical training
school. Sen. Cousins.
Create labor and industrial com
mission. Sen. Wirtz.
About 20 bills affecting court pro
cedure. by Reps. Jenkins and Pren
dergast.
Sundav motion picture regulation
in hands of cities; may be reached
next week.
License fossil hunters for mu
seums. Sen. Small.
Exclude geologists from land
without written permits, ‘‘doodle
bug” bill.
Authorizing governor to accept
gift of land from John H Kirby for
state forestry experimentation.
Program of dormitories at A. & M.
college.
Declare fur-bearing animals prop
erty of the state.
Several bills regulating and re
stricting truck loads; regulating
motor buses.
Important oil conservation and
proration law. sponsored by rail
road commission.
Prohibit the building of deep-sea
oil pipelines into Gulf for loading
ships.
Limiting time for stopping pay
ment of checks. . . .
State Inspection of potatoes for
S&I
Pay John W. Hornsby $10,000 for
assisting state road recovery suit
against American Road company.
Regulating ginners
Methods for liquidating failed
banks.
Sen. Hornsby's “anti-short meas
ure” gasoline sales bill.
Purchase of Kavanaugh tract for
the university.
Anti-fraternity bill, died In com
mittee.
Safeguarding slaughter of meats.
Taxing cotton exchanges
Exempt university securities from
taxation. ,
Permit railroad commission em
ployes to hold hearings.
Regulate lobbying. Rep. McGill.
Rural credit union regulation.
Prohibit dentists* advertising.
Self-governing bar.
Vocational rehabilitation policy.
Create state pellagra hospital;
create negro tubercular hospital.
Record cattle brands.
Regulate, profession of architec
ture.
labeling of pillows and mattresses.
Creating experimental stations in
lavaca county, the black land sec
tion. East Texas, the plains country
and other section*.
Regulate sale of planting seeds.
Allow cities to install civil service.
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INCOME TAX
FACTS
WHO? Single persons who
had net Incmoe of $1,500 or
more or grow Income of $5,000
or more, and married couple
who had net income or $3,500 or
more or gross Income of $5,000
>r more must file returns.
WHEN? The filing period
ends March 15. 1929.
WHERE? Collector of inter
nal revenue fo rthe district in
which the person lives or has
his principal place of business.
HOW? Instructions on Forms
104A and 1040.
WHAT? One and one-half per
cent normal tax on the first
M.000 in excess of the personal
exemption and credits. Three
per cent normal tax on the next
$4,000. Five per cent normal tax
on the balance of net income.
Surtax on net income in excess
>f $10,000.
YOUR INCOME TAX
No. 1$
Increase in the value of property
accruing before March 1, 1913, is not
taxable, even thougt it was realized
that the constitutional amendment
authorizing congress to tax incomes
of individuals became effective as
of March 1. 1913. The revenue act
of 1928 contains provisions for de
termining the gain or loss on the sale
or other disposition of property ac
quired bv purchase before March 1,
1913. The basis provided is the
cost of such property or the fair
market value as of March 1. 1913.
whichever is greater. For example,
a taxpayer bought in 1910 property
for which be paid $10,000. The value
on March 1. 1913. was *12 000. He
sold It In 1928 for $14,000. The
March 1, 1913, value being wreater
than the cost* of the property, the
taxable gain is figured on that basis
and amounts to $2 000.
A taxpayer bought in 1910 oron
ertv for which he na«d $5 000. its
value on March 1. 1913. was *5.500.
and In 1928 he sold it for $4,000. In
this example the taxpayer bases his
loss on the March 1. 1913. value.
wh*ch was tyre»t*r than the cost,
and the deductible loss is $1,500.
Reduce Permit To
Maverick County
SAN BENITO, Feb. 25 —The per
mit granted the Maverick county
district by the state board of water
engineers to divert water from the
Rio Grande has been reduced to
1,500 second feet for both power and
irrigation, according to information
received from Austin.
The original permit granted 1,500
second feet for power and 600 for
Irrigation. This has been amended
so that 1,500 second feet will be the
maximum for both power and irri
gation.
The district recently voted $1,800,
000 bonds for construction of the
power plant and canals, the water
to be diverted at a point about 30
miles above Eagle Pass, with a 60
foot fall at the point where it will
return to the river.
BEAR BAND SIGNS UP
FOR 9 ENGAGEMENTS
(Special to The Herald)
WACO, Tex.. Feb. 25—Nine en
gagements have been arranged for
the Baylor University Bear Band
for the annual spring tour. It is
estimated that approximately 10,000
people will hear the band on this
tour of over 800 miles.
The cities to be visited are: Ham
ilton. Ballinger, San Angelo. Big
Springs. Midland. Lamesa, Sweet
water. Cisco, and Ranger. The
band tour will start on the 8th of
March and will be concluded March
17. when the members return to
Waco.
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure was rather
low over the Rio Grande Valley and
Texas, and also over the Canadian
Northwest and adjacent states this
morning, and relatively high over
the eastern states and off the Pa
cific coast. Cloudy and unesttled
weather prevailed practically
throughout the United States at
the morning observation, with pre
cipitation nearly as widespread
within the last 24 hours Tempera
tures were mostly above the sea
sonal average throughout the coun
try this morning, and no unseason
ably cold weather prevailed within
the limits of the morning observa
tion.
WEATHER BULLETIN
First figure lowest temperature
last night; second, highest tempera
ture yesterday; third, wind velocity
at 8 i. hi.; fourth, rainfall past 24
hours.
Abilene . 40 74 — .08
Amarillo . 28 66 10 .00
Atlanta . 48 54 18 .00
Austin . 60 68 10 .00
Boston . 24 54 — .00
BROWNSVILLE .63 75 21 .00
Chicago . 22 44 — .00
Corpus Christi . 66 72 30 .00
Dallas . 52 56 12 .78
Del RtO . 54 76 — .00
Denver . 20 26 — .10
Detroit . 28 42 10 .00
Dodge City .... 22 50 10 .00
El Paso . 34 62 14 .00
Fort Smith. 44 50 10 .32
Galveston . 62 62 16 .00
Helena . 30 36 — .00
Huron . 6 — — .00
Jacksonville .... 56 — 10 .00
Kansas City .... 36 44 10 .42
Louisville . 38 50 — .06
MfmphU . 52 60 — .28
Miami . 68 74 14 .08
Montgomery ... 54 62 10 .00
New Orleans .... 58 M — .00
New York . 38
North Platte ... 22 30 — .13
Oklahoma City . 36 54 12 .20
Palestine . 58 66 18 .03
Pensacola . 60 64 24 .O')
Phoenix . 42 6a — .08
Pittsburgh . 36 44 — .00
St. Louis . 38 58 12 .30
St. Paul . 14 24 — .00
Salt Lake City ..26 3r — .01
San Antonio .... 66 72 — .01
8anta Fe . 20 42 — .28
Sheridan . 12 38 — .00
8hreveport . 56 <2 — .01
Tampa . 60 — — .00
Vicksburg . 60 66 12 .06
Washington .... 32 44 — .00
WilUston . 12 2s — .00
Wilmington .... 46 54 — .00
BABY'S COLDS
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FRANCE DENIES
BELGIAN PACT
Dutch Paper’s Publication
Of Alleged Secret Ac
cord Causes Stir
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PARIS, Peb. 25.—(A*)—The Havas
News Agency today published a
semi-official note denying any se
cret military treaty has been signed
between Belgium and France as has
been claimed by a Dutch newspaper.
The note says the two countries
signed an accord in 1920 implying
an entente between the two general
staffs but that this accord was not
secret, was registered with the
League of Nations and was publish
ed by the league two years ago.
AMSTERDAM Holland. Feb. 25.
—'AV-Publication of alleged provi
sions of a secret Franco-Belgian
military treaty excited considerable
discussion in Holland today.
According to Utretsch Bagblad,
! leading provincial paper, the con
vention came into its hands by “for
tuitous circumstances," and publica
tion was withheld until satisfactory
guarantees of its authenticity were
secured. The treaty was negotiated
in 1920 at Brussels, the paper says. !
By the terms of the treaty the j
two countries would make common I
cause in the event either is at war i
with Germany or any power assist- j
ed by Germany, each placing all its
available forces at the disposal of
the other.
Mobilization shall be instantone
ous and spontaneous without prior ,
I consultation Immediately after a
cause for invoking the treaty lias
been established. Acts of aggres-;
I sion are not confined to the Rhine
I frontier but apoly to any front.
Belgium is set a minimum of 600- I
000 men for mobilization, while
France’s minimum is placed at 1,
200,000 men.
City Briefs
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New Underwood Typewriter tales,
and service. Underwood Typewrit
er Co„ Moore Hotel Arcade, pbona
295, Harlingen.—Adv. tf.
Pecan wafflee with honey at the
Snappy Cafe, all day. —adv. tf.
Toaated Sandwiches, all kinds, 'o !
taka out. At the Snappy Cafe.
—adv. tf.
Come in and hear the Stromberg
Carlson Radio at The Sheldon Stu
dio. 1240 Elizabeth St. For sale by'
John N. Merrill.—Adv. tf.
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Work Progresses — Large plate j
glass show windows have been
placed in the store building for- j
merly occupied by the Rutledge I
Jewelry store and Harry’s cigar
store. Work is progressing rapidly,
and it is expected to have the
building ready for occupancy!
within a week. I
Complete Foundation — Work
men were completing the founda
tion for the Jose Besteiro building!
Monday morning. This is to be a J
one-story brick structure for com
mercial purposes, and is located on
the market square.
Inspection—C A. Cline, Western !
Union official, is in town for a few
days inspecting the local branch.
Audits Accounts—T. D. Givens,
warrant officer from Fort Sam
Houston, arrived Sunday to audit
accounts at Fort Brown. This is
done periodically. The auditor is ex
pected to remain a week or ten days.
He came here from Laredo.
A Daughter—A daughter was
bom Monday morning to Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Truss at the Mercv hos
pital. Both mother and child are
doing well.
Returns to Work—George Lock
ard. Missouri Pacific employe, who
recently was operated upon at the
hospital in Kingsville for appendi
citis, was able to return to his du
ties Monday morning.
Arrest Suspect—One suspect has
been plaeed under arrest in connec
tion with burglaries in Brownsville
last week. The man under arrest
claims Mat&moros as his home, but
officers are investigating reports
that he Is from San Antonio.
Returns From Corpus—George
Westervelt. district attorney, return
ed Sunday night from Comus Chris
ti. where he had spent the week
end with his family. He will re
main here for the week.
Shooter* Practice—The Browns
ville Skeet club, composed of a
number of local tran shooters, is
practicing semi-weekly at the new
shooting ground* near the highwav
north of the dty. Two traps and
all other necessary paraphernalia
have been provided.
..Poison Oak or Try is relieved
quickly and permanently with Im
perial Enema Remedy. AH drug
gists are authorised to refnnd yonr
money if it fails.—Adv. (5)
Elk* Meet Changed—The meeting
of the local Elks lodge scheduled
for Tuesday evening has been post
poned to 8 p. m. Wednesday. L. L.
Colley, secretary, announced today.
Dickey's OM Reliable Eye Water
cool*, heals and strengthens sore,
weak, tired eyes. AH druggist* 2Re.
-Air. _ (4)
PERSONALS
William Neale, deputy collector
I of customs in charge here; H. R.
i Jefford. deputy United 8tates mar
i shal. and A. A. Champion, have re
I turned from a several days busi
I ne*s trip to Laredo.
J. M. Nix. president of the El
Jardin Hotel company, eecompan
! icd by Mrs Nix. arrived in Browns
j rille Monday morning from San
) Antonio. He said his trio here had
J no special significance, other than
l to inspect his holdings in the city.
! STOP THAT ITCHING
Use Blue Star Soap, then apply
i Blue Star Remedy far Eczema, itch,
tetter, ringworm, poison oak, dan
druff. children's torts, cracked
hands, sore feet and most forms of
itching skin diseases. It kills germs,
•tops itching, usually restoring the
skin to heelth. Soap 25c; Blue Star
Remedy, $1A>0. Ask your druggist.
—Adv,
Sunday, Feb. 24
Pilot E. C. Bowe in the Mexican
Aviation Co.'s plane Fairchild
M-8COE took off to Tampico from
this field with the following pas
sengers: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kin
kaid, Elliot McClare, and Lee Light
foot.
Pilot Vaught In his plane Eagle
Rock C 6318 took up two passengers
for a ten minute joy ride yesterday
morning.
The International Sport and
Amusement Club's Ford Tri-Motor
plane with Pilot R. S. Riggs made
seven flights with a total of 55 pas
sengers yesterday afternoon and
was in the air for a total time of one
hour and forty five minute*.
ROBISON PROBE
OPENS TUESDAY
-
Land Office Inquiry Awaits
Report of Audit Being
Made of Affairs
By R. W. BARKY
(Associated Press Man Writer.)
AUailN, Feb. 25.—uF,—Disposal
of the invsetigation into affairs of
the highway department and the
board of control has moved the
spotlight over to the inquiry into
administration of the general land
office. The hearing will be re
sumed probably Tuesday.
The controversy envelopes J. T.
Robison, veteran commissioner of
the land office. It was precipitated
by disagreement between Robison,
Governor Moody, the attorney gen
eral's department and university
board of regents, over the proposed
leasing of mineral rights In 103,000
acres of public lands early in Janu
ary.
Considerable bitterness was arous
ed, with the commissioner hinting
at a conspiracy to force postpone
ment of the sales, which he claimed
had to be made under the law.
Wait Auditors Report
There has been a current of
animus throughout the hearing,
which, under provisions of the in
vestigation resolution, was to in
clude investigation into the Govern
or's attorney general s and regent's
connection with the disagreement.
The committee is awaiting a re
port of auditors who have been
making an exhaustive check of rec
ords In the land office and after its
submission will come the testimony
of Robison himself. He will be sub
jected to a gruelling cross exam
ination.
Past sixty years of age and in frail
health. Robison faces an ordeal few
public men are called on to with
stand. The storm over his head
broke unexpectedly, after three dec
ades of public service during which
time he had been venera#?d by
many citizens of Texas.
Keen interest Is being evinced
over the attitude Governor Moody
will take with reference to the small
bill, new on his desk awaiting his
signature. The bill would validate
title to river beds in West Texas,
vesting It in the patentees. The
courts have held the beds of navi
gable streams were public domain,
and included in the category river
beds which are dry exceot in times
of abnormal precipitation The
status was said to be unfair to own
ers of property valuable for mineral
purposes, and Senator C. C. Small
of Wellington, assisted by Senator
Walter Woodward of Coleman, pre
pared a bill to correct the claimed
iniustlce. It passed both houses with
little apparent opposition, although
in some Quarters the measure was
condemned as unfair to the perma
nent school fund, benefictmrv of the
Income from nil public lards. Rnou
sorx of the bill named It the “anti
land crabbing” measure.
While talking about rrosnective
candidates for governor, the unpre
cedented action of the senate naus
Jng in the midst of its work Satur
day to felicitate Lieutenant Govern
or Ban-v Miller on his appointment
to be deputy grand master of the
Independent Order of Odd Fe’lows
«-hen he was nralsed bv e numbe- of
the senators as worthy of «nv office
Texas might bestow on him, was
taken bv conltoi observe** to mean
he will be “drafted” by hl« friend*
as a candidate to succeed Governor
Moody.
PIERCE APPOINTED
WILLACY SURVEYOR
(Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVXLLE. Feb. 35.—E. L.
Pierce has been appointed county
surveyor of Willacy county, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of Pat Caldwell, who resigned
to .accept a position with the state
engineering department in Pecos
and Crane counties.
Pierce has been engaged In engi
neering work in this county with
Engineer J. E. Johnson far the
past several months.
FORMER C. OF C. HEADS
AT McALLEN THANKED
McALLEN, Feb. 25. - Retiring
President O. P. Archer and retiring
Secretary W. R. McGarity of the
Board of City Development of the
city of McAllen were extended the
appreciation of the directors of the
board in a set of resolutions pro
posed by Gordon Griffin.
Whit Rogers, local realtor, is the
new secretary.
Check That Cold!
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Threats Fly as Chicago
Aldermanic Vote Nears
CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—(JP)—'Tomor
row Chicago elects aldermen. Latest
news from the more active fronts
follows:
Candidate in ‘bloody twentieth”
ward threatened with death unless
he quits race.
Bullet, stray or deliberate, cuts
neat hole in windshield of automo
bile carrying campaign captains of
candidate in Fourth ward.
Voters living within rifle range
of the University of Chicago campus
receive telephone warnings they will
be “taken for a ride” if they show
up at the polls tomorrok.
Workers for one candidate an
nounce they will not be out election
day because of a fear that it might
not be healthy.
| The name of A1 Capone has been
i prominent in the "bloody twentieth”
campaign, the charge bring made
that Capone followed and the Eller
supporters have united in an effort
to defeat Alderman A. J. Prignano.
State Representative William V.
Parcell is Prignano s opposition.
Speaking of affairs in this ward
m a radio address yesterday, Albert
i R- Brunker, head of the civic safety
commission, said:
*T sat in a conference Saturday
with several public officials and
heard them say that the chances
of Prignano to live through Tuesday
in the ward where he was bom and
where he has always lived, were
slightly less than even.”
It was Brunker who told of
threats made against Prignanos
life.
McAllen Boy Scout
Drum, Bugle Corps ;
Backed By Legion
McALLEN. Feb. 25.—A drum and
bugle corps is now in the process of
organization in Troop 4 of the local
Boy Scouts, which is sponsored by
the local post of the American Le
gion.
All expenses in equipping a drum
and bugle corns of ten members
will be borne by the Legion post.
Uniforms will be secured so that the
organization can represent either
the American Legion or the Boy
Scouts, as the occasion demands.
Weekly practices are being held
under the direction of a competent
Instructor, according to Scoutmas
ter Paul Bowen, and about twenty
boys have signified their intentions |
of trying out for the corps.
Troop 4 is made up entirely of
Mexican boys.
nurmFsalibi
MUST BE GOOD
Unless lie Can Give Reason
For Non-Appearance
Will Be Barred
NEW YORK. Feb. 25.—(iP>—Un
less he can fmd an alibi lor ms non
appearance at the National A. A. U.
cnampionships, Saturday. Paavo
Nurmi may do a lade out for the
next six months by request.
Nurmi, already under suspension,
must appear before the registration
committee of the Metropolitan asso
ciation. A. A. U.. to explain, why he
withdrew from- the two mile steeple
chase an hour before that event was
to be rim. Unless Paavo can offer a
legitimate excuse, the chances are
he will be plastered with a long
suspension.
Hugo Quist, generalissimo of
Nurmi's campaign, said Nurmi had
gone stale and was suffering from a
bad cold.
But some critics declare Quist
learned Saturday afternoon that
Eino Purje. younger Finn, would
start in the steeplechase Instead of
of the two mile flat race in which he
was to have met Edvin Wide, the
Swedish schoolmaster. Nurmi al
ready had been charged with side
stepping a duel with Wide when he
entered the steeplechase and some
critics contended that Paavo, rather
than face so formidable a rival as
Purje in the steeplechase, decided
not to run at all.
It appears that Nurmi would have
been trounced had he entered either
event. Purje broke the world's rec
ord for the steeplechas and Wide, in
winning the two mile flat race, cov
ered the distance in 9 minutes and
seven seconds, much better time
than anything Nurmi has done on
ills present tour.
I. c. c."denies~permit
FOR SANTA FE LINE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.—(JPh~A
Santa Fe railroad extension project |
in Texas, calling for the expendi- !
tore of nearly $2,000,000 and the i
construction of 66 miles of line,
failed today to receive the approval
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. The application contem
plated extension from Hale Center
to Parmerton. both points in Texas.
The commission already has au
thorized the Fort Worth Sc Denver
Plains com Dan v. which is connected
with the Burlington System, to
build a new line in this territory.
The decision today said that the
Santa Fe construction proposed
would parallel the Denver South
Plains line throughout Its length at
a distance of 13 miles and would
represent an untustified duplication
of railroad facilities, particularly in
view of the development of highway
and truck traffic.
Organize Texas
Class D League
WICHITA FALLS. Tex. Feb. 25.
—(AV-Temporary organization of
a new class D baseball circuit, to
be known as the Red River Valley
league, was completed here yester
day. Four towns. Vernon. Chil
dress, Lawton, Okla., and Duncan.
Okla., signed their willingness to
enter the league.
Two other franchises are to be
Issued, the prospective participants
Including Quanah, Wellington, and
Pam pa. Tex., and Alius and Ard
more. Okla.
Grady Shipp of Vernon was
elected temporary president.
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—Two drills a day. particularly for
the young pitchers, was Manager
Connie Mack's order today for the
Philadelphia Athletics at their
spring training camp here. The tall
leader said he would not insist on
the veterans practicing so long and
intensively.
This is get-away week for Man
age “Lena” Blackbume and his
White 8ox.
With their hopes pinned largely
on a big crop rtf promising rookies,
the White Sox will leave Chicago
for their spring training camp at
Dallas. Texas. Thursday.
Lloyd and Paul Waner, star out
fielders. who have failed to sign
contracts, "will play with Pittsburgh
this year, or they won't play at all*
Sam W. Dreyfuss. club treasurer,
announced at Paso Robles. Calif.,
today as the Pirates resumed spring
training. Dreyfuss denied that
John McOraw had offered $210,000
for the brothers.
At Santa Catalina Island. Cal.,
the Chicago Cubs entered the sec
ond week of spring training today
ready for the hard work promised
by Manager Joe McCarthy. Begin
ning tomorrow when the tnfielders
end outfielders, including Rogers
Hornsby, arrive, two practice ses
sions will be held daily.
Fourteen of Cincinnati’s prime
baseball performers made up the
contingent of Reds joining other ac
tors in the show down south today,
and wh*»n the plavers arrive at Or
lando. Fla . after the long ride from
Cincinnati, the spring training ramp
will house the club’s principals In
the 1929 pennant drive.
Court Orders
Bond Forfeited
Failure of Paul C. Green. Dallas
attorney, to appear in criminal dis
trict court Monday morning to an
swer to a charge of swindling and
embezzlement, resulted in an order
by Judge A. W. Cunningham to for
feit Green's bonds in the amount
of $4,000.
A bench warrant was issued by
the iudge and tha sheriff Instructed
to place Green under arrest and
bring him to Cameron county for
trial.
Green was arrested about three
years ago and was released on bond,
but never appeared to answer the
charge, the case being continued.
He is alleged to have come to
Brownsville to arrange for entry of
an alien, and to have received $1,000
from the alien's relatives to make
bond. This bond, it is alleged, was
never made and the money not re
turned to the relatives.
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Are Staged
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES, Feb. 25.—Boy 6coi
troops No. 2, 3 and 4 of Merced*
were hosts at a Father and Sr
meeting Friday night at Chav g
park camp grounds. The me
was well attended. " q
G.-O. Commons presided over tt
i activities which were opened wit
j the saluting of the flag and pledgin
of allegiance.
j Carl Patrick gave the welcome t
1 the fathers on behalf of the scout
and O. E. Van Berg of Mercede
president of the Valley Boy Scot,
Council made the response re pro
sentlng the fathers.
Robert L. Lyon, assistant scof
executive of the Valley, and th
Rev. C. P. Owen, pastor of the loci
! Presbyterian church were speakeJ
j of the evening. Mr. Lyon spoke o
i the “Ideals of Scouting,'* and Re
I Owen's talk dealt with “Georg
Washington. The Scout.”
Assistant Scoutmaster Ray Schr.il
, ter of troop No. 2 directed the gam*
; which had been planned few tt
fathers, with the scouts as specti
i tors. and. in turn scout games wet
played for the amusement of tt
fathers.
Scoutmaster W. E. Perry and A*
sistant Scoutmaster Ray Schnltt*
of troop 2. Scoutmaster Eddie Cnw
white and Assistant Tom Massey <
troop 3. and Scoutmaster Noel Woo
and assistant Jim Barry of troup
were present.
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