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iSCONSIN IS
HIT BY STORM
erified Reports State 10
billed; Property Loss
Said Heavy
INROE, Wis., April 6.—(JP)—A
tornado which swept over La
te county in southwestern
msin wrecked farm buildings,
d thousands of dollars dam
ind seriously injured at least
man. Wholly unverified re
were current here tonight
between five and ten persons
been killed. A visit to the
m section of the county re
el no fatalities.
Whether there w ere any casual
les in the western section could
lot be determined.
There was a report that one man
lad been killed at Blanchardville,,
i-Vis., but communication with that !
:ity could not be obtained as lines
vere down.
Herbert Emerson, 25, a farmer
iving near Argyle, was picked up
jy the wind and carried approxi
nately 1,000 feet from one farm to
mother, where he was tossed to
he ground and seriously injured.
A telephone call into New Glarus
»y way of Madison brought the re
xirt that two children were in
lured there.
r JFYom Daarlington, Wis., came th:
•umor that one man had been kill
'd in the Argyle district. Doctors
frere summoned there.
BROWNSVILLE
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Brownsville Ward school and the
rrmodelled structure as the Wash
ington Park ward school. Con
struction will be gotten under way
as soon as possible to have the
schools open in time for tpe fall
term.
Part of the issue will be used to
Durchase the site for the East
Brownsville institution.
The bonds will be of the serial
type bearing five per cent interest
semi-annually in $1,000 denomina
tions. One thousand dollars 7/ill be
paid yearly for five years and $2000
yearly for 35 years.
OLD BOARD WINS IN
EDINBURG DISTRICT
EDINBURG. April 6—By a ma
jority of more than 400 votes for
each place, three men supported by
the administration were re-elected
to the board of trustees of the Edin
burg independent school district
here Saturday in a hotly contested
election. The good government
league candidates failed to carry
any of the four boxes.
L. E. Tinkler received a total of
1.194 votes. John Box 1.192 and Joe
Guerra 1.180. This is the adminis
tration ticket and all are members
of the present board.
O. W. Curry, on the good govern- '
ment league ticket, received 759
votes, Fred D. Flanders 757 and
H. C. Aldebolt 755.
j Edinburg gave Tinker 919, Box
917. Guerra 905, Curry 759, Fianders
5, Aderbold 5.
Jesus Maria gave Tinkler 42, Box
42, Curry 14, Flanders 14. Aderbold
14.
Santa Rita gave Tinkler 63. Box
68. Guerra 68, Curry 0, Flanders Of
Alderbold 0. ■
Olmito ReEelects
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reach all those who have not been
helped and to do so is making the
startling offer of a generous treat
ment free to all sufferers. Anyone
afflicted should write for this free
treatment at once, giving age.—Adv.
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I
bers of the present board of trus
tees of the Olmito independent
school district were re-elected in a
spirited election held here Satur
day. Four places on the board.
Winning candidates and the vote
each received were: Tom Steel 38,
H. O. Stroman 32, C. H. Binkley
29, an dSam Houghston 25. Losing
candidates were T. B. Helmuth 22,
E. C. Sanborn 12, H. J. Meyer 11,
and A. J. Womack 8.
Members of the old board whose
terms did not expire are H. H. Fan
ning, E. A. Robbins and M. J.
Mickle.
SHARY WINS
SHARYLAND, April 6.—John H.
Shary, T. P. Langwell and J. E.
Meador were re-elected to the
Shary land independent school board
of trustees by an overwhelming ma
jority here today. Shary received
196 votes, Longwell 193 and Mea
dor the same number. Otto Jen
sen, the only opopsing candidate,
received 4 votes.
MISSION VOTE QUIET
MISSION, April 6—Two mem
bers of the board of trustees of
the Mission independent school dis
trict whose terms expire were re
elected in a quite election Saturday
and two other new men were elected
to fill vacancies caused by retire
ment of members who did not ask
re-election.
H. H. Rankin and John P. Waite,
members of the present board were
returned to their places. A. E. (
Strohle and Franklin Ewers are the
new members of the board. Each
of the four candidates received 64
votes.
George W. Koehler and R. D.
Buckley are the retiring members.
Those on the present board whose
terms have not expired are Owen
Council, president; Dr. T. J. Cald
well and Mrs. C. D. Eppright.
NEW MEN AT RIO HONDO
(Special to The Herald)
RIO HONDO, April 6.—Three
new members were named to the
board of trustees of the Rio Hondo
independent school district and one
old member was returned to the
body in the election conducted
here Saturday.
New members and their votes
are C. A. Mullernee. 82. J. A. Ar
nett, 65, and F. O. Lewis, 57. Joo
Yoeman wTas re-elected with 66
ballots.
Unsuccessful candidates were M.
Houghtaling 54; W. J. Mercer 45.
and George Fields. 41. Houghtaling ;
was seeking re-election.
Holdovers on the board are J. |
W. Tredway, Lee Maddox and C. D.
Hoover. D. P. Rounds whose term
just expired did not seek re-elec- !
ticra. Houghtaling and Mercer j
who did. however, were nosed out I
by newcomers.
OLD MEN BACK
(Special to The Herald)
PHARR. April 6.—Three mem
bers of the board of trustees of
the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo school
district were returned to office
without opposition in the election
held here Saturday.
A. A. Kelley, Roy Dribelbis and
G. L. Callis each were given 23
votes.
Holdover members of the board
are A. A. Kelley. Chas. Starlin, R.
L. Tolies and Clayton Stotler.
SANTA MARIA RESULTS
(Special to The Herald.)
SANTA MARIA, April 6.—(A*)—
Members of the old school board,
all w'ith opposition, were returned
to office in an election which drew
only a light vote here Saturday.
A. G. Gunn. J. F. Mock and A.
J. Phillips, all members of the
board were re-elected. Eighteen
votes were cast.
Defeated candidates were G. C. !
Killion, Paul Merton and B. M.
Sansom, Jr.
HARLINGEN QUIET
HARLINGEN, April 6.—A. E. Mc
Clendon and A. A. Kimmel were re
elected to the obard of trustees of
the Harlingen independent school 1
district Saturday and Dr. John A. 1
Crockett was elected a new member
of that body without opposition.
Miller Harwood, a former member,
was not a candidate. A total of
178 votes were cast.
SAN BENITO RE-ELECTED
SAN BENITO, April 6.—M. J.
Dodson, W. B. Haines and S. C.
Sparks were re-elected to the San
Benito independent school district
board of trustees Saturday. They
were unopposed and the vote was
very light.
MERCEDES NAMES 4
MERCEDES, April 6.—Members
of the board of trustees were re
turned to office Saturday by citi
zens of the Mercedes independent
school district. They are Charles
H. Hupp, R. T. Stotler. R. H. Kern
and James R. Berry. There wras no
opposition.
Hupp is president and Stoler vice
president of the board.
Raymondville Names 4
(Special to The Herald.)
RAYMONDVILLE, April 6.—The
only member of the present school
board who was a candidate for re
election in the Raymondville inde
pendent district won his race here
Saturday and three new men were
voted in.
The victors and their votes were:
R. S. Wheeler, member of the
board, 106: R. E. Scott, 96; C. J.
Scott. 92; W. H. Smith, 78.
Defeated candidates were Mrs. G.
B. Calder. 72; Earl Gilliland, 56;
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Mrs. J. J. Mayfield, 49, and Mrs.
George Curry, 45.
' At Lasara, where four candidates
were in the field for two places,
Roy Lobb and Mrs. Sinclair
Thompson were victors with 43 and
39 votes, respectively.
Defeated candidates were Dan
Shives with 29 votes and M. C.
Cavazos with 25.
Santa Margarita elected three
trustees from six candidates. The
victors and their votes were: How
ard Campbell, 74: Mrs. Ella M.
Lambert, 71, and R. E. Heath, 77.
Defeated candidates were: B. F.
Knox, 34; T? D. Campbell, 25, and
B. V. Rains, 24.
MISSMORROW
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ness, assisted the women on the
train with a “watch yo’ step.”
He then turned his back and
looked up and down the train shed
for further patrons. A bystander
asked Hilliard if he knew who the
two women were.
After the porter answered In the
negative, he was informed that the
girl was a sister to the luckiest
woman in the world—Anne Mor
row, Colonel Lindbergh’s bride-to
be.
Hilliard’s eyes bulged. “Well,
well, you don’ say. What you say
her name is—Morris?” the porter
wished to know.
“No, Morrow, M-O-R-R-O-W.
The daughter of Ambassador
Dwight W. Morrow to Mexico.”
Hilliard hustled inside and view
ed his charges as he prepared a
berth near the Morrow drawing
room.
Soon the white-coated rail em
ployee reappeared outside the train.
“Dog gone, I get all these good pas
sengers.” he declared, “why I
brought Miss Earhart down hs?e
for the airport celebration.”
“Say is she the one who got hurt
With Lindbergh?”
He was set aright on the ques
tion. •
“Dog gone, sure am proud to have
Miss Morris on my car,” Hilliard
declared with a wag of his head as
the train pulled out.
City Briefs
New Underwooa Typewriter sales
and service. Underwood Typewrit
er Co., Moore Hotel Arcade, phone
295, Harlingen.—Adv. tf.
Infertile Eggs, fresh, delivered
daily at your grocery store. Ask
your grocer. Joachim Poultry
Farm, back of Country club—adv tf
Fifty-foot guaranteed garden hose
with nozzle $4.95. Flower pots, gar
den fence poultry netting screen
wire. Felt roofing $1.35 roll; bath
tubs, sinks, etc. Hardwood Sales,
Second and Fronton.
— I
Cameron Hotel Permanent Wave
Shop; special rates of $5 all styles
permanent waves, for one week.—
Adv. 9.
Sisterhood to Meet—The Sister
hood of Temple Beth-El will meet
at the home of Mrs. M. Edelstein
on West Levee street at 4 o’clock
Monday afternoon.
Br. Bert Crosno will be in
Brownsville in a few days on his
regular semi-annual meet. He will
be prepared to tune and repair
pianos, and those wishing his ser
vices can call Mrs. Abnev, 730-J.—
adv. 9.
Postoffice Chief
Leaves After Talk
On Schedules Here
S. M. Gaines, superintendent of
railway mail service with offices at
Fort Worth, left here Saturday eve
ning by rail after confering with
Postmaster G. W. Dennett on the
advisability of changing the sched
ule of the Valley star mail route so
as to make connections with the
northbound airmail out of this city.
No word was given out as to the
result of the conference but it is
felt serious consideration is being
given the matter in view of numer
ous letters from up-Valley points
urging that connection be made
here with the airmail.
The northbound plane leaves here
at 1:25 p. m.. prior to the arrival of
the star route from upper Valley
cities, under the present schedule.
Gaines and Dennett also met two
officials of the Mexican postal ser
vice when they landed here today
en route to a international postal
convention to be held in London.
They were Lino B. Rochin. sub-di
rector general of postoffices of
Mexico City, and Jose V. Chavez,
general superintendent of railway
mails. The Mexican officials were
to leave Saturday evening also.
SOLDIER DIES IN PARADE
NEW YORK. April 6.—f/P)—
Lieut. Col. J. Philip Benkard. 56,
a broker, collapsed while marching
in the army day parade here to
day and died.
He had been a member of the
staffs of Generals Le Grand, Le
Conte, Jerome and Pershing and
was a chevalier of the Legion of
Honor.
SALESMAN GIVEN DEATH
DENVER, April 6.—</P)—Death
was the penalty assessed to H. A.
Weiss, dapper lingerie salesman,
who confessed he killed his wife
“because she loved me and wouldn’t
leave me alone.”
FEAR FOR FRUIT CROP
SAN FRANCISCO, April 6.—(A5)—
Grave fears were felt by fruit
growers in many sections of
northern California today for the
safety of the peach, apricot, plum
and cherry crop, after a cold spell
Friday night.
NEGRO SHOT TO DEATH
LULING, Tex., April 6.—(/P)—Al
bert Cosey, negro, was shot to
death by officers here tonight when
he resisted arrest for a minor of
fense.
STUDY DAIRYING
DALLAS, April 6.—(A5)—H. H.
Haines, manager of the Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce, today mail
ed letters to dairymen in the Pan
handle urging a large delegation on
the Texas tour .of the Southeast to
study dairying and manufacturing
conditions.
VISITOR
Mrs. Byron B. Byrne of Colorado.
Tex., is visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. L. B. Moss in El Jardin.
Mrs. Byrne is a sister of Mrs. Moss. ,
FAMOUS FLIERS
NOT YET FOUND
Smoke From Forest Believed
At First To Be Signals
Revealed As Bush Fire
SYDNEY, N. S. W„ April 6.—(A5)—
An airplane chartered by the Syd
ney “Sun” which departed today
to search a 30-mile wide coastal
area north of Wyndham, western
Australia and investigate smoke
signals reported seen there, re
turned tonight without having
found a trace of the lost airmen of
the Southern Cross.
A number of bush fires along the
coast, which presumably had given
rise to rumors that Capt. Charles
Kingsford-Smith and his three com
panions were sending up smoke sig
nals, were looked into.
The search will be continued to
morrow.
RESERVE BOARD IS
CRITICIZED BY SOLON
PHILADELPHIA, April 6.—(/P>—
Efforts of the federal reserve board
to restrain speculative loans were
criticized tonight by Chairman Mc
Fadden of the house banking com
mittee in an address in which he
declared the reserve board “should
not concern itself about the condi
tion of the stock market or the
security loan market.”
COMPLETE FARM
AID TESTIMONY
House Committee Started
On Framing Relief
Measure
WASHINGTON, April 6.—(tP)—A
week in advance of the special ses
sion the two agriculture committees
of congress tonight had completed
taking testimony on the farm relief
question and one committee that of
the house, had made a start on
framing a farm aid measure.
The house group placed with a
sub-committee the job of making a
preliminary draft and the senate
committee the first of the week is
expected to turn attention to the
same undertaking.
Except for the testimony of Sec
retary Hyde, both committees will
depend largely on their own knowl
edge of the agricultural situation
and on the expressed views of Presi
dent Hoover.
SEVEN DIE IN FLOODS
TORONTO, April 6.—(#>—Seven
deaths were reported today from
heavy rains and floods which de
moralized transportation and com
munication systems throughout On
tario.
OPEN AIRPORT
MINERAL WELLS, April 6.—(JP)—
Many West Texas visitors were here
today to attend the program for
mally opening the Mineral Wells
airport, which began this afternoon
and will be concluded Sunday.
THIRD WOMAN CLAIMS
DEAD MAN AS SPOUSE
DENVER, April 6.—{&)—Mrs.
Eleanor King, known in Denver as
Mrs. Eleanor Becker, president of
a mining company, said today she
was the legal wife of William Ham
ilton King, alias William Fish, who
died in Chicago yesterday, a sui
cide, while two wives wrangled at
his bedside over the possession of
his body.
HEADS MUSEUM BODY
SAN ANTONIO, April 6.—OF)—
James Chillman of Houston was
elected general chairman of the |
Southern States Museum conference
at the business session today and
was empowered to appoint the three
vice chairmen who will heatUfcrt,
history and science sections. ^^Bew
Orleans was selected as the next
meeting place of the conference.
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