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AUSTIN, April 20.—About 350
dads aru| mothers of university
BtudentiL vere visitors on the cam
pus of tne University of Texas Sat
urday of last week for their sev
enth annual convocation and visit.
Among the parents from the
Valley who signed with the regis
tration committee were Mr. and
Mrs. N. B. Lackland of Harlingen,
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Adams of La
Feria, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Mobly
of Weslaco, and L. B. Lebowitz of
San Benito.
Mr. Lackland was elected second
vice president of the Dads and
Mothers association.
The association was addressed at
its Saturday meeting by Sen. John
Hornsby of Austin, Pres. H. Y.
Benedict of the university, and H.
J. Lutcher Stark, president of the
board of regents.
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New officers of the University
Y. M. C. A. were installed Tuesday.
Arthur Klein of Harlingen was in
stalled as a member of the board
of directors. Klein is taking his
first year of work in the univer
sity school of law this year, and
is prominent in campus forensic
activities.
• • •
Jack Lebowitz of San Benito
spent last week and with his
brother, Bernard, at the Tau Delta
Phi fraternity house. Jack accom
panied their father, B. L. Lebowitz,
to Austin where he took part in
the Dads and Mothers’ day activi
ties.
• • •
Miss Mary Margaret Glasscock
of Harlingen was one of the mem
bers of Theta Sigma Phi, honor
ary and professional journalism
fraternity for women, who took
part in the annual Matrix Table
celebration Saturday night of last
week.
Distinguished alumnae and other
guests were present at the affair.
Miss Glasscock is an issue edi
tor of The Daily Texan, campus
newspaper, and is a student in the
department of journalism.
• • •
Students of civil and architec
tural engineering in the university
who made a structural inspection
trip to Houston last week-end, re
turned to the campus late Satur
day night of last week. James L.
Crawford, Jr., of San Benito, was
one of the students making the
trip. Crawford is a member of
the Loiwhom band.
Twei^y-three high school papers
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published in Texas have been se
lected to send delegates to the In
trscholastic league press confer
ence contests to be held at the
university May 3 and 4.
One of the winning papers of
the Southwest division, in Class
B, is The Eagle, published by the
students of Mission high school.
Miss Lillian Mayberry is editor of
the publication.
Vernon Hill, attorney at Mis
sion, was a visitor in Austin Mon
day. Mr. Hill is a former student
of the University of Texas, and was
a member of the staff of The Daily
Texan while in school.
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Miss Josephine Pollard of Harlin
gen, president of the Sidney La
nier society, women’s forensic and
literary club, presided this week at
the election of new officers._
Miss Pollard has been chosen one
of the favorite girls at the Scot
tish Rite dormitory, the entire
group of more than 300 girls tak
ing-part in the balloting. Mis*
Pollard will have her picture in
the Sardine, yearbook of the
dormitory. ^ *
Miss Gvneth Stugard of Alamo
presided this week over the meet
ing of the Women’s Athletic asso
ciation of the university when new
officers were elected for 1929-30.
Miss Stugard is the retiring
president of the association. She
will receive her degree in June.
Menton Murray of Mercedes, law
student at the university, is taking
part in the production of “It Pays
to Advertise," a play to be given
bv Thespians, newly organized
literary group of the Newman
club. Murray is also an issue edi
tor of the Daily Texan.
• • •
Mrs. J. L. Rentfro of Browns
ville, formerly Miss Alice Ballard,
a popular university co-ed. arrived
In Austin Tuesday to be the guest
of Mrs. Earle E. Simms for the
week A number of informal af
fairs’have been planned in her
honor. • • •
Three Valley students were elect
ed to Nu Upsilon Tau Tau, bur
lesaue scholastic society for wom
en at its regular April meeting
They are Salome McAllen and Es
ther Weller of Brownsville and
Mary Margaret Glasscock of Har
lingen. ., , , .
Although a rather high scholas
tic average is one cf the require
ments for admission into the so
Sety, N. U. T. T. is an “onery”
scholastic fraternity, intended as a
take-off on Phi Beta Kappa, na
tional honorary scholastic frater
...
joaauin Mora of McAllen, jun
ior in|the department of architec
ture, was awarded first mention
this week on a problem, An
Acquarium,” submitted to members
of the faculty.
Mora has won several prizes with
his work in architecture. He is
editor of the bulletin board de
voted to items of interest to stu
dents of the department.
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600 RY OVER
MEXICO ROUTE
FIRST22 DAYS
Customs Inspector Re
ports 308 Arrived;
Estimate As Many
Went Other Way
Approximately 600 passengers
travelled into and out of Mexico on
planes of the Compania Mexicana
de Aviacion, local air mail contrac
tors, in the 22-day period from
March 9 to March 31, according to
W. L. Biggs, customs inspector at
the airport.
Inspector Biggs reported to Wil
liam Neale, deputy collector of cus
toms for the Brownsville district,
that 308 passengers arrived from
Mexico and it is etsimated that
approximately the same number
made the trip in the opposite di
rection.
In the same period exports of
$309,370 worth of merchandise was
exported through the local airport
into Mexico. The bulk of this is
represented by new planes taken
into that country for the Pan-Amer
ican Airways, Inc., of which Corn
mania de Aviacion is a branch.
A large portio nof the business
was merchandise of various kinds.
Imports for the same period to
talled $17,002.
One hundred ships reached the
airport during 22 days from Mex
ico.
A large portion of the business
rivals that were made by the planes
of the International Air Transport
company, bringing in fish from Soto
la Marino. A greater portion of the
imports are represented by the fish
brought in for the Tex-Mex fish
eries.
This volume of business exceeds
the expectations of the company to
a considerable extent, officials agree,
but a part of it is believed to have
resulted because of the revolution
in the southern republic.
With the rebellion practically con
trolled, the business—passenger,
freight and maU—is continuing in
satisfactory volume, officials declare.
OSBORN ELECTED HEAD
OF McALLEN ROTARIANS
(Special to The Herald.)
McALLEN, April 20.—Mayor F.
E. Osboin was elected president of
the Rotary club here, succeeding C.
D. Martin, wHo stated at Wednes
day’s meeting that he will leave
McAllen soon for another business
connection. Mayor Osborn was
vice president during President
Martin’s term.
Five directors were chosen at the
same meeting. J. C. Paxton, C. O.
Rockwell, W. H. Moon, D. W. Web
ber and Stockton Fountain. To
these will be added Mayor Osborn
and Secretary W. E. Rhodes.
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Europe Uses
Much Citrus
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Demand For Grapefruit Is
Strong Despite Slow
ness of Oranges
(Special to The Herald)
WASHINGTON, April 20.—In the
following, received in the foreign
service of the bureau of agricultural
economics, Edwin Smith, fruit spe
cialist of the bureau in London, dis
cusses the European market for
American citrus fruit with special
reference to the potential market
for grapefruit in Continental Eu
rope.
There has been a general reces
sion in prices for oranges during the
' past week (March 16 to 23) although
Spanish oranges arrived in smaller
quantities and the best quality made
some advance in prices. Many Span
ish oranges in a weak condition sold
for lower prices, whereas the best
California Navels sold for from 50
cents to 75 cents per box below last
week’se figure. It is said that peo
ple are tired of oranges, since they
have had it dinned into their ears
since December that they should eat
large quantities of oranges to pre
vent influenza and there is no doubt
that consumption has been heavy
during the past three months .
Another factor influencing prices
has been the increased movement of
California oranges from New York
since the price of oranges from
Spain and Jaffa reached a point to
make trans-shipment profitable,
California oranges are to be seen in
all British markets and this illus
trates how fluid supplies are when
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BRAMLETTE ACCEPTS *
KINGSVILLE POSITION
(Special to The Herald.)
McALLEN. April 20.—Superin
tendent J. D. Bramlette has defi
nitely decided to accept the posi
tion offered him as superintendent
of Kingsville schools and professor
in the teachers college in that city,
according to his announcement this
week. Superintendent Bramlette
was formerly a principal in the
Kingsville school system.
BOX PLACED IN FRONT
OF McALLEN OFFICE
(Special to The Herald)
McALLEN, April 20.—A courtesy i
box, where patrons of the local
postoffice may drive up and de
posit their mall without leaving
their car. has been placed on the
sidewalk beside the office by PeiTy
Hudson, street superintendent.
The idea has been tried success
fully in several larger cities and
its adaptability to McAllen was
seen as a remedy for congestion
around the postoffice and time
saver for local business men. About
twenty-five feet of parking space
adjoining the box has been closed
to parking.
WATERBODIES
BUCKING GRANT
TO EAGLE PASS
14 Irrigation Districts
Of Valley In Argu
ment Before Federal
Commission
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(Special to The Herald.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20.—
Granting of a permit to the Mav
erick county water improvement dis
trict of Eagle Pass to utilize the
waters of the Rio Grande for power
purposes would seriously handicap
the efofrt of the international wa
ter commssion in connection with
the proposed treaty with Mexico
covering distribution of the waters
of international streams, was the
contention made by the Joint asso
ciation of Cameron-Hidalgo water
improvement districts in a brief filed
with the federal power commission
Wednesday.
The protestants represent the 14
irrigation districts of the lower Rio
Grande Valley, comprising approxi
lands situated in Cameron and Hi
dalgo counties, approximately 350,
000 acres of which is under culti
vation.
The brief was presented by Prank
Robertson of San Benito, secretary
of the associated districts, and Clay
Everhard of Pharr, president of the
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo irrigation
district.
Application by the Maverick coun
ty district for a permit to divert
1,500 second feet from the Rio
Grande for power purposes was filed
with the federal power commission
several weeks ago. The district was
granted a permit by the state board
of water engineers to divert that
volume for power and irrigation
purposes was filed with the federal
power commission several weeks ago.
The district was granted a permit
by the state board of water engin
eers to divert that volume for power
and irrigation purposes. The federal
law requires that a permit also must
be secured from the federal com
mission before the diversion for pow
er purposes can be made, the fed
eral board having no jurisdiction
over diversions for irrigation pur
poses.
Contending that the waters of the
lower Rio Grande produce much
greater values when used for irri
gation than when used for genera
tion of power, the protestants set
out their claims as follows:
“Along the Rio Grande, in both
the United States and Mexico, there
are more high grade lands than can
be irrigated by the most economical
use of all awter that can be made
available by fullest practicable con
trol. Such of these lands as are
properly cultivated under irrigation
produce crops of great value and
become delightful homesltes, while
those without irrigation are prac
tically non-productive. On the other
hand, within reasonable distance of
these lands there are extensive de
posits of fuel—gas, oil, coal and
lignite—that are capable of supply
ing all the power needs of that sec
tion for centuries.
“In this situation the value of
water for power generation is rep
resented by the difference in costs
of producing power from fuel and
from water, which, unquestionably,
is small. At Eagle Pass it has been
endicated that for the generation
of power the value of one second
flow of water for a period of one
year is $150. Such flow when im
pounded and properly used for ir
rigation along the lower Rio Grande
serves as much as 300 acres and
produces net values amounting to
fully 100 times the value of such
water for power development of this
section while all the power needed
there may be generatd from fuel
at reasonable costs.
“The applicants for the Eagle Pass
power permit contend that their use
for power development would not
be detrimental to irrigation inter
ests because water used for power
is returned to the river without loss.
But we respectfully submit that de
velopments now taking place in both
the United States and Mexico ur
gently demand the construction of
great storage works and control of
the river flow as nearly in accord
with irrigation needs as is practica
ble. The maintenance of a constant
flow of water through the Eagle
Pass power plant is inconsistent
with benefits unless there are ex
No such works now exist, and it is
tensive impoundment works below,
not known f their construction is
practicable.
“The international water commis
sion, United States and Mexico, is
now studying the Rio Grande with
a view to prepaartion of a plan for
the full development of its water
resources for the proper benefits of
the people of both countries in ir
rigation, power and other uses. To
permit a power plant at Eagle Pass
to acquire a right to use a constant
flow of water would seriously em
barrass ths commission in its effort
to arrive at an agreement with Mex
ico respecting all questions of the
Rio Grande situation, which agree
ment is necessary to the prosperity
of our section.”
The Maverick county application
has been before the federal power
commission several weeks, and it is
expected that the decision will be
announced at an early date.
FINES INCREASED
LUFKIN, April 20.—(/P)—The av
erage fine for a misdemeanor of
fense in Angelina county in the
future will be $17 instead of $12.70.
The new justice fee law, according
to the ruling of the county attor
ney, requires the assessment of $7
as a trial fee, hence the increase
of $4.30 in future convictions.
Zoning of Country
Land is Suggested
After New Research
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This is the 29th of a series of
articles prepared by the National
Aasociation of Real Estate Boards
to be published weekly in this
newspaper for the information of
its readers on real estate matters.
Up in northern Michigan a mil
lion acres of land has been aban
doned by people who could not
wring a living from it. The state
has seized it for delinquent taxes,
but it would much rather have
seen its owners prosper and it dir
ected a group of able men to find
out if possible what was the matter.
The result of the investigation
led Michigan economists into new
fields of research and points the
way to the posible zoning of forests,
farms and swamps, says the Nat
ional Association of Real Estate
Boards.
For the Michigan Land Economic
Survey discovered that people stub
bornly tried to farm land that had
not produced successful farms in
50 years while fertile areas lay idle.
It found that uniformed people
tried to farm steep sandy hills
which are the poorest possible farm
locations and which they purchas
ed because they came from Illinois
and Indiana low lands and were
afraid of floods.
The survey revealed that idle
swamp land was valuable for the
increasing muscrat trapping busi
ness, that huckleberries could be
raised and canned in a wilderness,
and that the forest growth in cer
tain territories would be large
enough 15 years from now to supply
paper mills not yet constructed.
And the desirability to a state of
many private hunting and fishing
preserves is recorded on maps that
show what wild animals can expect
to get to eat in certain Michigan
forests, for rich men will pay more
for hunting lands where game can
find food through the winter.
Starting on the treory that a
“wise” use of the ground will cut
down on land failures, and finan
ced by the state legislature, this
new division of the Michigan de
partment of conservation has spent
seven years in studying the past,
present and future of 10 “idle”
Michigan counties. These coun
ties are located in northern Mich
igan. where 50 per cent of the land
lies idle where “wild” land develop
ment has languished, where land
values are low and tax revenues
lower, all a matter of concern to
the land owners, the county, and
the state.
Is this land hopeless? asked the
state. No, said the new land ec
onomics division after it analyzed
the soil, studied the trees, took the’
temperature of the streams, cross
examined the populace, an dascer
tained the land requirements of
peculiar but prosperous industries.
Farms are unsuccessful here and
there, said L. R. Schoonmann, the
division director, but they have been
unsuccessful for 50 years and the
people do not know this. It is safe
to assume that if 50 years of toil
have not produced good crops that
this land may never be good farm
land.
This particular information was
secured by a laborous examination
of the records of sale and other
legal documents covering thousands
of farms, and as far as is known
is the first time a study has been
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EXPRESS TO GO
VIA AIR LINES
Pan-American to Contract
To Handle Business For
Mexican Railroads
Contract between the Pan Ameri
can Airways, Inc., and the Mexican
National railways for the transport
of express by planes throughout
Mexico and to make connection
here with planes for points in the
United States and at Merida for
south and central points is to be
completed in the next few days.
Terms of the agreement have
been decided to the satisfaction of
both parties, according to W. L.
Morrison, local representative. It
remains only to be signed.
The contract will expedite the
delivery of express to all parts of
Mexico, saving from one day to
three weeks on shipments from
the border here, Morrison said.
While the rates will necessarily
be high, it will provide quick ser
vice for emergency needs which the
aviation officials believe will prove
highly beneficial to mining, oil
drilling and other firm*.
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Convention of E. Texas Chamber
To Be Staged at Bryan May 5-7
E.H. A.9tin, Bryan., canvervtiort
Committee chairmart,
gogyent\,oi\ wUl held, at Btya«f'w
BRYAN, Texas, April 20.—As host
cdty for the third annual conven
tion of the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce, Bryan will become the
mecca for thousands of visitors May
5-7. Tentative estimates on the
crowd expected rang all the way
from 25,000 to 50,000. In any event,
indications point to the largest con
vention assemblage in the history of
the organization.
John D. Middleton of Greenville,
president of the East Texas Cham
ber of Commerce, will preside at the
business sessions. Mr. Middleton is
expected to arrive at the convention
city aboard the “President’s Spe
cial,” a special train named in his
honor that will start at Paris and
pick up delegation sat various other
points, including Greenville, en
route.
E. H. Astin, Bryan banker and
planter, and a vice president of the
regional organization, as general
chairman of the convention commit
tee, is the man at the helm of the
extensive program of arrangements
for the coming meeting.
Business sessions of the conven
tion will be held in the auditorium
of the First Baptist church of Bryan.
The spectacular pageant, scheduled
for the night of May 6 and at which
the queen of East Texas with her
court of East Texas beauties will
reign, will be staged within the
arena of the athletic stadium at the
A. M. college of Texas.
SPUD PRICES
ARE ANALYZED
Values Tend Down When
Production Exceeds 3.6
Bushels Per Capita
(Special to The Herald.)
WASHINGTON, April 21.—When
ever total potato production for the
United States has approached or
exceeded 3.8 bushels per capita of
the population, the price has tend
ed downward during the season,
but the price trend has usually
been upward whenever the yield
fell below 3.2 bushels per capita,
says the United States department
of agriculture publishing the re
sults of potato marketing studies
by the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.
During the last twenty-seven
years, according to these studies,
growers were usually justified in
holding only when the indicated
crop was far below the average, or
was not much more than 3 bushels
per capita. In other years, the
chance of profit to growers was too
uncertain to balance the added
risk, cost and shrinkage. Growers
who acted according to early fore
casts, selling at once when heavy
yields were indicated, or selling at
convenience in cast of doubt, and
holding only in very scarce sea
sons, apparently had a chance of
being right three out of four
times, judging from the outcome
of seasons since 1900.
Production in the late-potato
states, it is pointed out, is the
most important factor in deter
mining the season’s price level. The
situation may be affected slightly
by the indicated competition with
imported potatoes and with sweet
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FISH-HAWK DROWNED
IN FIGHT WITH FISH
MARSHALLBURG, N. C.—(jP)—
Pish stories are common in this
town on the North Carolina coast,
but Julian Brown, owner of an is
land in Core Sound, has a new one.
Brown says he recently saw an
osprey, or fish-hawk, dart into the
water, fix its talons in the back of
some kind of fish, give a shrill cry
and disappear under the water.
The water was watched, but the
fish-hawk failed to reappear. Brown
says. The assumption is that the
fish-hawk attached itself to the fish
so tightly that it was unable to re
lease itself.
Ospreys get their food by darting
Into the water, grabbing an unwary
fish in their claws, and going to the
shore to feast on their prey,
\Superlatives of My
Life1 Lecture Topic
Of Miss Pennybacker
“The Superlatives of My Life” is the subject chosen by Miss Ruth
Pennybacker,' prominent lecturer, for her Brownsville appearance at 3
p. m.. April 23. She will speak in the high school auditorium.
Miss Pennybacker comes here under the auspices of the City Federa
tion of Women's Clubs, with the co-operation of the Civic league, the
Learners, the Sell Culture club anaa
the Public Health pursing asso
ciation. These clubs are presenting
her as a compliment to the stu
dents of the high school, the Junior
college, and the citizens of Browns
ville.
Though one of the youngest
speakers on the American lecture
platform, Miss Pennybacker’s rich
cultural background, her thorough
grounding in literature and lan
guages as well as her natural gifts,
have enabled her to win an envia
ble position in her chosen field.
The only daughter of Mrs. Percy
V. Pennybacker of Austin, Texas,
former president of the General
Federation of Women's clubs, she
was educated in Texas, Philadel
phia, vassar college, France, Ger
many and Switzerland. The early
grounding in literature and lan
guage planned by a thoughtful pa
rent, has stood her in good stead.
If one learns German in a Munich
boarding school at the age of 11,
and French a year later in a Nor
man chateau, it is a comparatively
easy matter, in one’s twenties to in
terview Austrian. Czechoslovak and
Russian celebrities of the theater.
Secretary to Mrs. Catt
However. before Miss Penny
backer's interests were centered cn
the theater, she enjoyed two re
markable experiences which gave
her an insight into public affairs.
Soon after graduating from Vassar,
she served as secretary to one of
the greatest women of our time,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, leader
of the suffrage movement. This
was during the last throes of the
suffrage campaign when the die
hard states of Vermont, Delaware,
South Carolina and Mississippi
were being brought to the fold by
workers for the national suffrage
amendment. Miss Pennybacker
considers it one of the great priv
ileges of her life to have seen Mrs.
Catt’s master mind at work, and
to have witnessed her remarkable
handling of men, women and situ
ations.
Not long after this. Lady Astor
came to this country on her light
ning speaking-trip, flashing like a
gay and scintillating comet through
the east and middle west. Miss
Pennybacker traveled with her,
serving as her private secretary;
here she learned the meaning of
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COMPANY PLANS
IMPROVEMENTS
Central Power And Light
Keeping Pace With Val
ley’* Fast Growth
The growth, development and
prosperity of south and southwest
Texas and the faith in. its future
that its citizens and investors in
all parts of the United States dis
play, is no where indicated more
certainly than in the activities and
new construction planned for 1929
by the Central Power and Light
company, according to a statement
made by E. B. Neiswanger, presi
dent and general manager of the
company.
The company contemplates im
provements and extensions to its
properties in South and southwest
Texas which will total in excess
of $6,000,000 in the year 1929. Such
sums of money as will be invested
during this year, and as have been
invested in this territory for the
past several years, are of necessity
obtained from investors from prac
tically all parts of the United States.
During the course of the year many
of the larger investors from other
states are drawn to south and south
west Texas for the purpose of per
sonally investigating conditions of
territory in which they are finan
cially interested. Many of these
people visit this section of the state
unknown to company personnel. On
the other hand scarcely a month
passes but that visitors by pre-ar
ranged plans are conducted over the
territory served by the company, for
the purpose of personally inspecting
the company’s operations and the
territory which it serves. Needless
to say, no opportunity is lost to show
and explain the future possibilities
of development in south and south
west Texas.
An increase in the use of electric
service in the Rio Grande Valley
has resulted in the company in
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SIX-DAY SHOW
WILL FEATURE
NOVELSTUNTS
Circus Playing Daily,
Musical Comedy
Promised By Floore;
Mexico Has Day
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. April 20.—Many
new attractions to be provided this
year for the first time will make
the Valley Mid-Winter Fair the
leading exposition in all South Tex
as, according to John T. Floore,
manager. The fair opens Tuesday,
Nov. 28, and continues through
Sunday, Dec. 1!
Among features being considered
are a circus to play before the
grandstand daily instead of the
usual one or two acts of vaude
ville; a large musical comedy pres
entation by a recognized road show
company to play in the auditoriuA;
a huge building to house the Home
States exhibits and provide a meet
ing place for former residents of
other states; a new building to
house the automobile show; better
horse races and a six day exposition
instead of the usual five days.
Plan Buildings
Sunday, the sixth day of the fair,
is to be known as Mexico Day and
«ae of the best programs of the ex
position is to be reserved for that
day. An effort is to be made to se
cure a permanent exhibit from the
Mexican government as a feature
attraction of the show.
In addition to all this, the pres
ent buildings will be refinished and
redecorated, with a general Im
provement all along the line.
Negotiations are being carried on
with the circus at present, Mr.
Floore said, and he expects to be
able to announce the contract sign
ed in a short time.
An effort is being made to secure
“Red Robe.” a Schubert musical
comedy which has attracted much
favorable attention, to play in the
auditorium at least one or two
nights during the Valley exposition.
This is one of the most elaborate
and pretentious attractions on the
road at tha present time and, if se
cured, will provide a clas of enter
tainment seldom seen in the Y*i-i
ley.
To Crown Queen
The usual coronation of the queen
and queen’s ball will be held but on
a large scale than ever has been at
tempted In the past. The usual
pageant will be eliminated, being
replaced by the musical comedy,
and this will permit Valley talent to
devote more time to making a color
ful spectacle of the coronation cere
mony. The queen is to be selected
soon but her name will be kept
secret until the day she is enthroned
during the fair.
The Home States club is a new
organization and a new department
of the fair has been created to care
for them. The club Is composed of
smaller groups from various states
who are now making their homes In
the Valley.
It is planned to provide a build
ing to house an exhibit from some
twenty or thirty states and to give
these citizens a place in which to
meet their friends.
The automobile show is to be
housed in its own building for the
first time, if present plans are real
ized by the directors.
Seek Mexico Exhibit
A football game is to be a feature
offering on the first dav and an ef
fort will be made to have Valley
coaches so arrange their schedules
in such a way as to permit the Val
iev charfipionshlp being staged on
this day.
A serious effort is to be made to
enlist the Mexican government in
the exposition to such an extent
that the Mexican exhibit will be
come a permanent and imnortant
Dart of the exposition. Manager
Floore. accompanied by Sam Botts.
mayor of Harlingen, and Finley
Ewing are planning to leave within
the- next few days for Mexico City,
where they will seek to interest
Portes Gil. president of the South
ern Republic In a permanent Mex
ican exhibit. President Gil is a
vice president of the exposition, hav
ing been named to that office while
he was governor of the state of
Tamaulipas.
Better Races
The Valley delegation will ofter
a free lease on a site in the fair
grounds provided the government
will agree to erect buildings and
maintain a permanent exhibit there.
They will seek to have this done in
tiro® for the fair this year.
The Valiev Mid-Winter Fair is
a member of the South Texas Cir
cuit of Fairs this vear for the first
time and this will be result in brine
5ng much better race horses to the
fair than have h®en seen there in
the past. Mr. Floore said. The
horses will race five days and auto
mobile races will b® presented on
the last dav of the fair.
Reservations for exhibit space
alreadv are beginning to arrive at
the offices of the fair association in
large numbers, officials declared.
McALLEN HIGH’S PLAY
WINS SECOND PLACE
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fSoecial to The Herald)
McALLEN. Aoril 20.—McAllen’s
high school’s one-act play cast,
composed of Mary Virginia Bar
ron. William Maitland. William j
Blair, Burgess Stutzenbecker. and
James Pate, placed second in the
semi-state contest at San Marco?
Tuesday.
Brackenridge high school in San
Antonio placed first. Other schools
entered were Lockhart. Alice, Tem
ple and Gonzales*
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