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BROWNSVILLE HI WINS INTERSCHOLASTIC DISTRICT MEET
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DONNA TAKES
'SECOND PLACE
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djlrownsvill© Youth Makes
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“k t/Bjr Leaping 22 Ft. 3 In.
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Brov/yville high school led the
group. t^oterday afternoon and won
the track and field honors of the
district interscholastic meet with a
total cf 49 1-2 points. Their nearest
competitors were the Donna boys
who accumulated a sum of 38 1-2
points.
McAllen placed third with 23 1-2.
and Mercedes got in on fourth place
ahead of San Benito with 12 marks.'
Newman of Brownsville startled
the athletes that gathered for the
contests with his sensational broad
jump of 22 feet, 3 inches. Overstreet
' of McAllen was close behind the
leaping border town lad and'placed
second in the same event.
Considering the dirt path the
dash men had to run on. Bellefont
of Mercedes did well In the century
when he stepped it of? in 10.2. That
means the young athlete might clip
the 10 flat marks or beter when he
hits the cindered alleys.
Quite an arrav of athletic pres-,
pects exhibited their wares, and the
-Results show that the Valley docs
have some promising track men.
The results of the meet follows;
120 High* Hurdles — Gabrlsh,
Donna, first: Leslie. McAllen, sec
ond: Overstreet, McAllen, third;
Seoten, Edinburg, fourth. Time,
16.5.
100 Yard Dash—Bellefont, Mer
cedes. first; Newman. Brownsville,
second: Lome’’:. Brownsville, third;
Champion, Brownsville, fourth.
Tim- 10.2.
889 Yard Run—McLure. Donna,
first. Time 2 minutes. 8 seconds.
220 Low Hurdles—Overstreet, Mc
Allen. first: Cox, McAllen, second;
Lesslie, McAllen, third; Gomes,
Brownsville, fourth. Time 27.5.
v 220 vard dash—Bellefont, Mer
fccdcs. first; Newman, Brownsville.
. sfccnd; Chamcion, Brownsville,
third; McEowan. Rio Hondo,
fourtrt. Time 23.9.
440 vard dash — Rodrigues,
Brownsville, first; Donna, second;
Todd. Brownsville, third; Pharr
Ban Juen-Alamo, fourth. Tune 57.
> One mile relay—Donna, first;
Townsville, second; ^dinburg,
third; Raymcndville. fourth. Time
3 min., 45 see.
Pole vault—Ruthland. Donna,
first; McFarlan. Donna, and Sum-,
mere. Donna, tied for second.
Height 12 feet.
Discus throw—McFarlan, Donna,
first; Cable?, Brownsville, second;
Crowell, Raymondville. third; Men
ses.', Brownsville, fourth. Dis
tance 104 1-2 feet.
Broad jump—Newman, Browns
ville. first; Overstreet. Me Alien,
second; Ruthland. Donna, third;
Longoria. Brownsville, fourth.
Dirties 22 ft., 3. in.
SV •• put—Adamson, San Benito,
first/ Earnhardt, Brownsville, sec
ond; Samano. Brownsville, third;
Cabler. Brownsville, fourth. Dis
tance 41 ft., 9 in.
High jumo—Overstreet. McAllen,
first; Hendrix. Edinburg, second;
Earnhardt. Brovmsville, third.
Height. 5 ft.. 11 in.
Javelin throw—Cabler. Browns
ville. first: Adamson. San Benito,
second; Ewing. Mercedes, third;
Weller, Brownsville, fourth. Dis
tance 142 feet.
Farmers Flee Homes
As Engineers Fight
Against Levee Break
SNOW LAKE. Ark.. April CO.—-(F)
—United States engineers express
ed hope tonight that they would
save the Mississippi river levee
which has crumbled near Knowlton.
a few miles from here, but hun
dreds of persons had fled their
homes in fear of a crevasse.
Skiff:, gasoline launches and
barges carried the refugees through
the back water to places along the
Missouri Pacific railroad tracks
where box cars provided improvised
homes until danger of a break
passes. Two years ago a break at
the same point cost 27 lives.
MAY RECOMMEND TO
INVESTIGATE PRISONS
HOUSTON, April 20.—(F)—An
Investigation of escapes from the
Texas penitentiary system may be
recommended by district attorney s
offices of Karris and Tarrant
counties as a result of revelations
made here today by Carl Lawder,
held en a charge of aiding the
escape of Bob Silver, it was
learned.
District. Attorney R. A. Stuart of,
Fort Worth, who left by airplane
for Fort Worth late today, an-1
pounced that the circumstances of
the discharge of Lawder. after j
serving only two years on convic- j
tfons aggregating six years, and of j
the subsequent escape of Silver,
will be laid before Governor
Moody.
MEMPHIS MAN BREAKS
GOAL THROW RECORD
, MEMPHIS. April 20.—(F)—With
a perfect score of 75 straight bas
kets, early Maxwell of the Mem
phis Tiger ■ basketball team broke
the world's record to win the title,
senior man's division, in the annual
i world free throw basketball tourna
ment. scores of which were an
L nounced from headquarters here
W tonight.
£f ABILENE CHOSEN
I CORSICANA, Tex., April 20.—(F
I —Abilene will entertain tne 1920
I convention of the Texas Federation
of Music clubs, the executive board
announced at the closing session of;
the fourteenth annual meeting here
toda^
STEEN HEADS EDITORS
PAMPA. April 20.—(F)—^Memphis
was selected for the next meeting
place and Homer Steen, editor of!
the Floydada Hesperian, was elect-.
ed president at the closing session
of the annual Panhandle Press as
sociation convention today. j
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C. of C. to Display Ancient Iron Horse
*An antique shop.
ft railroad antique shop, seeped
in Valley trqjhtica.
VTnat's v/fflt the Brownsville
chamber of Commerce park will
seem in the bear future. From
two sources, donations of old rail
equipment have'been made to the
chamber’s board of directors.
One of the oldest locomotives in
the United States has been given
the chamber by C. R. Tyrrell,
president of the Rio Grande Val
ley railway. Tiofilo Crlx^ll, for
mer operator of the Matamoros
Santa Crua car line, also has giv
en one of the oldest narrow cars
that used to ply hi^Une.
These will be thoroughly bur
nished up and mounted on a short
narrow track in the chamber of
commerce park. *" . ,
The old locomotive has rested
' full many a year at the local yards
of the Rio Grande Valley railway,
v after making history over a. long
period on narrow guage tracks be- *>
tween Brownsville and Point Isa
bel. The engine was brought here
from Belgium in 1868 when the
short line was established by Jose
Celaya, Sr. It was brought by
boat from the Old Continent to
Point Isabel and was lightered over
the bar and placed on newly com
pleted rails there.
It was spick and span then—the
last word in a new and revolution
ary lien of development. But now,
even the redoubtable “Casey”
Jones might faint at the sight of
it. The old engine snorted ^nd
puffed its way between the Point
and Brownsville when the only
other way out cf the Valley wras
an ox-trail to Austin. It was
named the “Ayala” for Jose Aya
la, its first driver.
Among many stirring adven
tures the old Iron Horse witness
ed was an attempted hold-up.
Bandits intimidated the court
house janitor and ordered him to
signal from the tower of what is
now the old Masonic hall when
the train departed with a large
consignment of money.
The janitor tipped off officers.
The old engine was loaded with
grim enforcers of the law, brist
ling with a young arsenal. The
bandits were greeted with a vol
ley of lead and black powder.
Negotiations already have been
entered into for transfer of the
aged equipment' and it is expect
ed to be erected in the park in
the near future. There is a pos
sibility that the exhibit will be
erected in the Missouri Pacific
park, however.
Huge interest in the anchor of
the Reina de la Mar. now on dis
play in the chamber grounds,
wielded considerable influence on
the board of directors in accept
ing the engine and car. The an
chor was recently taken from the
channel at Point Isabel where the
boat sunk many years ago.
BODY FOII1
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prosecution’s theory, declaring It
would be “to the best interest of the
state” not to do so •'at this time .”
He did say. however, that neither
rum running nor robbery had any
place in the state's hypothesis. A
watch and other valuables were
found in the reporter's clothing
when his body was discovered.
The disappearance of Williams,
who formerly lived at Muncie, Ind..
caused an intensive search. Im
migration officers from Brownsvillle
to El Paso at one time were ordered
to aid in the search for the missing
youth and the entire country was
circularized. Numerous false leads
were followed, but there was no
trace of him until the body was
found at a shallow' point in the river.
Chicago Police Make
Search For Patrons
Of Firearms Dealers
CHICAGO. April 20.—OP)—Hav
ing information as to the means
Chicago gangsters have of obtaining
machine guns, similar to those that
mowed oov/n seven men in a north
side garage last Ct. Valentines day,
police marched today for two pa
trons of firearms dealers.
The testimony yesterday at the ,
inquest into the St. Valentine’s mas- i
sacree yielded two names of inter-1
est. Steven Oswald and Frank j
Thompson. It was believed they
might possess valuable information
of the killings.
In the meantime from Los An
geles came the news that Charles
W. Lloyd, under arrest there for
prohibition violation had been iden
tified by a veteran of the internal
revenue department as a former
member of the gang of Hymie Weiss,
slain by hoodlums on the steps of
the Holy Name cathedral some years
ego.
MAY REACH AGREEMENT
ON COLORADO RIVER
YUMA. Ariz., April 20.—(JP)—At
the close of a two-day meeting here
the Arizona and California, Colo
rado river commissions sent a tele
gram to J. A. Donovan, chairman of
the Colorado river conference, in
I Washington, asking him to call a
| meeting of the Arizona. Califor
nia and Nevada representatives at
once.
Members of the two commissions
said their meetings here had been
"most successful’ and that prog
ress had been made towrard an
agreement on the Colorado river
problem. They declined to comment
on the reason for asking an imme
diate conference with the Ncvad
commission.
COMPLIMENT IS PAID
RETIRING D. A. R. HEAD
WASHINGTON, April 20.—UP)—
A compliment was paid Mrs. Adam
Wyant, retiring treasurer general
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, here tonight at the ban
quet closing the 3§th annual con
gress of the organization.
The presiding officer, Mrs. Robert
Reed, former vice president general
who did not deliver her prepared
spech. in introducing Mrs. Wyant
to thet thousand delegates read a
letter, which sne said was dated
“the ’White House,’ saying that Mrs.
Wyant had been considered for sec
retary of the treasury in the Hoo
ver cabinet and praising the finan
cial genius of the former treasurer i
general.
Ex-Kai3er Stricken
As News Comes of
Death of Brother
BERLIN. April 20.—<AV-Prince
Henry of Prussia. 66, only brother
of the former kaiser, died today on
estate at Hemmelmark, near Kiel,
without having seen for more than
a year, the exiled brother he loved
so well.
At Doom the ex-kaiser was grief
stricken. Henry was the closest to
him of all kinsmen.
Laryngal trouble, from which!
Prince Henry had suffered, result- j
ed in his death.
ELECTRICAL STORM
SWEEPS WINNSBORO
WINNSBORO. Tex.. April 20.—UP\
—One of the most severe electrical
and hail storms in history here
swept an area four miles wide and
eleven miles long early today. The
storm lasted 45 minutes.
Thousands of dollars damage was
done by hail which destroyed cot
ton. corn, fruit and vegetable crops
and stripped branches, bark and
foliage from trees.
ABILENE HIGH WINS
ABILENE. April 20.—(^•—Abi
lene high school overwhelmed a big
field to win track and field honors
in district 8 today. The Eagles
scored 52 1-2 points. Colorado, with
12 points, placed, second.
NEW TEETH DEFY AGE
BUDAPEST-. — Josef Marzyck.
who grew three new teeth at 87. has
two more on the way. He Is now 81.
Stimson Against Ban
On Free Sugar From
Philippine Islands
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WASHINGTON, April. 20.—UP)—
Secreary Stimson has informed the
house ways and means committee
that if proppsed restriction of free
sugar imports from the Philippines
is carried out, it would be “inevitably
interpreted as a betrayal of trust
by the United States toward a de
pendent people.”
The state department head told
the committee that the proposed re
! striction was unnecessary to protect
American beet or cane sugar in
terests as free entry of Philippine
sugar into the United States “does
not and cannot affect the price of
sugar in the American market.’
Mr. Stimson said the issues lies
between Cuban and Philippine sugar
rather than between Philippine and
domestic sugar. He added that the
present attempt to restrict sugar
from the Philippines “comes direct
ly from those interests which have
invested in Cuban sugar.”
ALIAZAN M
supply fuel for the trucks for the
trip through the pass.
fConfirmed from pace one.l
NOGALRS. Sonc-ra, Hex., April i
20.—UP)—Perhaps the final major
battle in the Mexican revolution
is expected in the near future in
southern Sonora, reports received
here indicated today.
A rebel army of some 8.000 was
said to be encamped at Masiaca,
Sonora, about 35 miles from the
new rebel base at Navojoa. San
Bias, Sinaloa, a short distance be
low Navojoa. is occuDied by a
strong federal army. A meeting of
* *ese two contending forces is said
> be imminent, with the outcome
d matter of speculation.
Preparations are under way for
a big engagement, it was evidenced
today by arrival of a troop train
here carrying 1,000 rebel cavalry
men from the Cananea sectors.
Rebel headquarters said the train
would go “southward." These
troops were believed to be enreute
to Navajoa.
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SANTA FE TO SELL
LINES IN MEXICO
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KANSAS CITY, April 20.—(JF}—
The Kansas City Star will say to
morrow that the Santa Fe railroad
has determined to divest itself of
ttv Orient lines in Mexico. The
paper said its information was con
firmed from authentic sources in
Texas where W. B. 8torey. Santa
Fe president and other officials
hare been on an inspection tour.
PLAN BAND CONTEST
DALLAS, April 20.—GD—Plans
have been started for the state wide
band contest to be held here in con
nection with the 1929 Texas state
fair, said a committee named by the
Texas Band Teachers’ association
under whose auspices the contests
will be held.
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WEST’S WATER
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friends overrode an attempt to di
vorce future leasing of university
lands from his department, and re
stored him to balance of power, by
requiring that the new board of
two regents and the land commis
sioner must act unanimously on
any lease matter.
The report on his Investigation
will be made early in the session,
members who already are arriving
here for the opening day under
stand.
The water priorities bill also
holds promise of plenty of vigorous
action when the lawmakers take
it up.
Sen. Walter C. Woodward of
Coleman, who has already reached
Austin for the session, recently said
Gov. Moody has agreed to submit
this subject, after it was left over
undisposed of in March.
This bill may reopen all the vio- j
lent controversy of the Brownwood !
irrigation district-Insull power in- j
terests over state permits for:
building power dams in Travis and J
Burnet counties, and of restrictions
laid by the state water board on
the amount of water that the
Brownwood district might impound
for domestic and irrigation pur
poses.
West Texans Call for Law
The west Texas people, including
the West Texas Chamber of Com
merce, have called for a law that
would put power generation down
in fourth place in the list of prior
claimants for the impounding of
water in streams. They want cities
and domestic users, riparian owners
and general Irrigation projects all
to come ahead of power claimants.
They sponsor a measure to give
such claimants the right of way
over other permits.
Sen. Woodward will, when the !
matter is submited, sponsor the j
priorities bill, according to recent
statement.
The prison relocation fight, in
volved in Gov. Moody’s attempt to
get a general “concentration’’ bill
that will leave a board free to
select the site of a new prison
plant, will break early in the ses
sion, this being one of the three
matters that will be laid before the
legislature by the governor in his
first message Monday.
The general appropriations bills
will wait until later in the session,
though the senate finance commit
tee already has completed them
and the house appropriations com
mittee now is working daily to get
them ready for the opening of the
new session.
Speaker W. S. Barron, who was
here this week, expressed the be
lief that all matters can be dis
posed of in 30 days, but many of
the members disagree with this
belief.
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FAILURE OF DEBT
EXPERTS INEVITABLE
PARIS, April 20.—(7P>—F a 1 n t
hopes that the reparations com
mission yet may reach a comprom
ise were reviving slightly todav b
the departure of the Oerman dele
gates to Berlin to consult the Ger
man cabinet, but in general it wa
felt that failure of the experts to
reach a settlement was inevitable.
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And All
Valiev Leading Dealers
Theater Guild Marks
Tenth Anniversary of
Its Humble Beginning
Ten years old this spring, the Th eater guild of New York has become
in a decade a major factor in the American theater. Below is the tiny
playhouse where it started in 1919. Above is its board of managers: In
the top row Theresa Helburn, Philip Moeller, Lee Simonson and Helen
Westley; in the lower row Lawrence Langner and Maurice Wertheim.
By C. D. SEYMOUR
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
NEW YORK, April 20.—(£>-The
Theater guild is celebrating its tenth
anniversary.
In the spring of 1919 a group of
players in the neighborhood of
Washington square negotiated for
an old stable and planned to con
vert it into a small theater for the
production of amateur plays. The
fire commissioner frowned on the
project.
So they went up town and rented
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a little playhouse called the Band
box. on East Fifty-seventh street,
at $35 an evening. With $2,000 they
hoped to finance the presentation
of two plays.
The first, “Bonds of Interest,” was
a failure. The second, “John Fergu
son^was a drama which St. John
Ervine, its author, never expected
to see produced on the stage. But
it got a foothold and ran for 156
performances in New York. The
play made no money, but the The
ater guild was launched.
Today the guild has 26,000 annual
subscribers in New York. It occu
pies its own playhouse along Broad
way, and has plays running at pres
ent in three other New York the
aters. Its companies have toured
the entire country, and it will con
duct subscription seasons next year
in 10 cities outside New York from
Boston to St. Louis. Its first play
to be sent abroad, “Porgy” is on
view in London.
Of the six members of the guild’s
board of managers, four have been
with it from the outset—Lee Simon
son, Lawrence Langner, Philip Moel
ler and Helen Westley. Simonson,
who 10 years ago was a young ar
tist just out of Harvard, has be
come the giuld's chief scenic design
er and a frequent director.
Moeller, a playwright, has turned
to direction and adaptation. Miss
Westley, an actress all her life, has
played 35 character roles in guild
productions. Langner, who has been
active in the business affairs of the
guild, is one of New York's leading
patent and copyright attorneys.
The executive director of the guild
is a woman, Theresa Helburn.. She
was a teacher at Byrn Mawr and
dramatic critic for the Nation be
fore she came to the guild as a
play reader. She has held her pres
ent post eight years.
In a decade the guild has pro
duced in New York approximately
70 plays, of which 20 have been by
American authors, 22 by English,
and 24 by continental playwrights.
Eleven plays by George Bernard
Shaw are among the number, in
cluding “Back to Methuselah, “Arms
and the Man,” and “Saint Joan.”
Three by Eugene O’Neill have been
presented, among them the notably
successful “Strange Interlude.”
The guild has done three Franz
Molnar plays, including “Liliom,”
and “The Guardsman,” three Sid
ney Howard plays, among them the
Pulitzer prize winner, “They Knew
What They Wanted;” and the ne
gro drama “Porgy” by Dubose and
Dorothy Heyward. It presented Ka
pek’s “R. U. R.” sponsored the first
Broadway work of Riofcard Rodgers
and Lorenz Hart in the “Garrick
Gaieties” of 1924, and was notably
successful with Andreyev’s “He Who
Gets Slapped.’
G.M. STAGING .
SPECIAL WEEK J
Cars Parade Here Saturday! J
Showrooms To Remain |
Open At Night |
parade of 36 General Motors cars 8
here Saturday afternoon opened the 9
local phase of the G. M. spring J|
showing. The cars were new mod- 9
els taken from the showrooms <51 ®
the McDermott Motor Co.. The Ah- B
bott, Buick company, the Isom 9
Motor company, and the Stevenson j|
Motor company. 1
Following cars were In the pa- If
rade: Cadillac, LaSalle, Oldsmo-1
bile, Buick, Oakland. Pontiac and P
Chevrolet. The bugle and drum®
corps of the American Legion head*
ed the parade, a
Showrooms of all the General Mq- 9
tors agencies in the city have bean*
elaborately decorated and will re-91
main open until 9 p. m.. Gladioli*®
Will be given to each adult attend-®
ding the showings. m
Radios will furnish music for th*9p
demonstration rooms and there will®
be a good number of attendants on S
hand. J®
A film, “Proved,” showing ' tftfli
proving grounds of the G. M. com-H
pany at Milford, Mich., will bfli®
show-n at the Queen theater Mom-®
day and Saturday of next week.®
This two-reel film shows all of the®
proving tests given the cars over®
the rough course. It is said to bet®
educational and entertaining. 9
The movement here is part of a®
national week. It is the first time ®
the local concerns have fully co-*H
operated in a project of its kind. 9
CHURCH INSTEAD OF JAIL jp
BELFAST.—Patrick Moran, agedt®
16, escaped a jail sentence for theft®
on his promise to attend church®
every Sunday for two years. "_X
MARITAL APPENDICITIS 9
CHICAGO.—A week after Edgar.®
L. Thompson was operated Gn for®
appendicitis Mrs. Thompson’s epJ.®
pendix was also removed,. 9
SCALPED BY MACHINE 9
ST. LOUIS. Mo.—Miss Dei^K
Callao’s scalp was torn off wheaf®
her hair caught in a rotary maJ®
chine. M
CHILD BURIED BY SAND ®
CHICAGO.—Eight-year-old Amy®
Thomas was buried and suffocated ®
by a slide in a sand pit,J®