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TARIFF OP FOR
CONSIDERATION
Committeemen Refuse To
Divulge Contents of Care
fully Prepared Bill
WASHINGTON. May 7.—<;P>— j
The tariff once more took the spot
light of congressional Interest to
day aiter a lapse of seven years.
Ready for Introduction at noon,
the time tested issue of Issues sp
tpeered this time In the form of a
I'easure revising the Fordney-Mc- I
dumber act of 1922 In many par
ticulars. both as to rates on im
ports and methods of administra
tion.
Not until that hour was any
member of congress or any repre
sentative of the press allowed to
peep into the voluminous docu
ment to glean any facts about the
changes of words and figures which
It proposes.
Party lines were not expected to
shape up for the impending de
bate for several days as members
of the house desire plenty of time
to study the bill, estimated to con
tain approximately 85,000 words and
figures
Counting the time spent on pub
lic hearings, the measure repre
sented exactly four months of la
bor by members of the house ways
and means committee For seven
and a half weeks, the 15 republi
cans and 10 democrats on the com
mittee listened to thousands of re
quests* for tariff changes Then
the republicans, after adjournment
of the last congress, began the
preparation of the bill without the
aid of the minority, as is custo
mary for the party in power.
Last night. 1,000 copies of the
final corrected committee print
were delivered by the government
printing office. Needless to say
there were many efforts to obtain
fleeting glimpses into the docu
ments, but the cordon of secrecy
which the committeemen had
thrown around their product was
unbroken All that could be
learned—and that was understood
from the beginning—was that manv
rates had been boosted and that
the administrative sections of the !
law had been given a thorough
• overhauling.
I HARLINGEN
BRIDGE PARTY
SMr* M. I. Olsen, and daughter,
s. Bruce Eubanks, were charm -
hostesses for an artistically ap
nted bridge party given at the
l woman's building Saturday after
noon.
i The large club room was very at
tractive with tall floor baskets of
red and pink roees and other spring
Dow*;* attractively arranged The
spring motif was also featured In
V the tames, score pads and other ac
\ cessorias.
7 * Mb. C.i P. Lee won high score
idfi>;nd was ®lven 1 beautiful tall floor
“•x^isket of green and gold tints. Mrs.
H. H. Buchard won high cut and
was presented a tall floor basket of
blue and gold Mrs O W. Sprin
ger won consolation which was a
lovely fern basket in tints of green
and gold.
A delicious salad and sweet course
was served to 60 guests.
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CLUB ENTERTAINED
Mrs H. J. Goezke was the charm
♦ lng hostess to the Friday club at
her home on East Harrison street.
Spring was tokened in the orna
mentation of the rooms by the use
of larkspur and beautiful roses.
Mrs. R. M. Loving was high play
er for the afternoon and Mrs. H. H.
, Buchard second high.
Mrs. John Challes. a club mem
ber. who is ill at this time, was re
membered with a shower of mis
cellaneous gifts.
A salad and sweet course was
served to the following club mem
bers and guests: Mesdames A. M.
Letzerich. A. E. McClendon, C. B.
Myers, C. W. Letaerich. A. Golda
mer, A. H. Weller. O. N. Joyner. M.
I. Olsen. A. L. Brooks. R. M. Loving.
H. H. Buchard and W. T. Hodge.
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M.. and Mrs. John Brook has as
their dinner guest Friday evening
Mrs. F. B. Sec hr 1st of Corpus Chrls
ti.
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MERRELLS ENTERTAIN
Mr. and Mrs. T. H Merrell enter
tained Thursday evening with a
bridge party at their home on East
.Taylor.
Spring flowers in colorful hues
were used throughout the living
rooms where four tables of players
gathered for the evening’s game.
Mrs. 8ame Emerson won high
score receiving a beautiful chiffon
handkerchief. Mr. Emerson was
high for the men and was presented
a carton of cigarettes. Floyd Smith
received a deck of cards for high
cut.
Iced drinks were served during
the evening. At the conclusion of
■ the games the hostess served an ice
course to; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Emer
son, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Eubanks.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Duckett. Mr and
Mrs. Tom Sampson. Mr and Mrs.
Charles Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Smith. Mrs. L. R. Hollingsworth,
Misses Bessie Versa and Vera Let
aerich. and Bob Baker and Mc
Kinley Davies.
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SWIMMING PARTY
Miss Clarice Meyers entertained
with a swimming party at the Mid
way swimming pool Saturday morn
ing. After a nice refreshing swim
the party returned to Miss Myers’
home where her mother. Mrs C. B.
Myers, served them a delicious waf
fle breakfast.
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RECITAL w
Mrs. Floyd Smith presented her
Class of Melody Way pupils in a very
j Interesting and unusual manner.
4$*turday evening at the high school
jauditorium.
The Arcadia Shoppe decorated the
stage very artistically with tall floor |
baskets of peach cannas using a j
beautiful basket of pink rosebuds to i
adorn the piano.
These floral decorations made an
attractive setting for the evening s
entertainers.
Solos, duets, rhythm games, rhy
thy exercises and selections by a
rhythm orchestra were given in a
delightful way.
The pupils who performed during
the evening were Barbara Kimmel.
Alma Palmer. A. J. Wittenbach.
Woodrow Gavenda. Ovie Decker.
Sarah Morris, Tommie Fitzer, Vir
ginia Thomas, Doris Medlin. Jane
pa vis, Lola Mae Humphries, Frances
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WHERE TEXAS TORNADO KILLED S CHOOL CHILDREN
Seven persons were killed and 30 Injured by tornadoes in east Texas. Above Is shown a school
house at Slocum, a farming com munity of Andersen county. Child ren playing in the school .yard
rushed into the building when the wind struck. Two were killed and ten injured.
DISTRICT HEADS
GO TO AUSTIN
Valley Association to Op
pose Request to Irrigate
88,000 Acres
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(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Mgy 7 —The van
guard of Valley people going to
Austin to oppose granting of a per
mit for the Irrigation of more than
88,000 acres In western Hidalgo
county will leave tonight, arriving
in Austin a day before the opening
of the heating, on May 9
Frank S. Robertson, manager of
the San Benito irrigation district,
and secretary of the joint Associa
tion of Irrigation Districts of the
Valley, will leave tonight, and A.
L. Montgomery and W. E. Anderson
will leave tonight or tomorrow for
Austin.
Representatives of most of the Ir
rigation districts of the Valley will
go to Austin, as the Valley conser
vation committee decided that the
Hidalgo application will be opposed
by all districts separately, in the
belief that a stronger r-ase against
granting the permit can be made In
this way.
Applicants are seeking permit to
take 600-second feet of water from
the river, and are making no provi
sion for storage waters. Mr. Robert
son said It is ror this reason prin
cipally that the application Is being
opposed.
C. of C. Group Will
Make Goodwill Hop
Into Mexico May 22
The good-will committees of the
Brownsville and Matamoros cham
ber of commerce, composed of Lie
Ernesto Urtusastegui. secretary of
the Matamoros body. G. C. Rich
ardson. maanger of the Brownsvile
chamber, and A. Wayne Wood
plan to leave on a trip over th®
Maratlkn air route May 22.
They will fly on the regular
Corporacion Aeronaut ica de Trans
portes plane that operates from
here to Mazatlan daily, via Mon
terrey. Torreon and Durango. The
good-will trippers plan to spend a
day in each of the cities along the
route in an effort to better rela
tions between those cities and
Brownsville and Matamoros.
It is pointed out that the north
ern cities of Mexico have much in
common with this territory and
that trade between the two should
be developed.
Major Bernard A. Law, who is
handling the traffic for the C. A. T.
will leave here Wednesday in the
interest of business for his line
and will pave the way for the
chamber of commerce good-will
committee.
Chastain, Mildred Boatner. Geor
gia Wilbarger. Dixie Gohring and
Yolanda Lozano.
The melody way pupils have never
had any private lessons. They are
all class pupils.
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PERSONALS
Miss Chowning Moore of Van Al
styne, Texas, is a house guest of
Mrs. W. R. Heard for the week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M Hundley left
Monday night for New York City.
Mrs. David Wink returned yester
day after a weeks visit in Port
Worth.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E Bush spent
the week-end in San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Hardisty
and Miss Linda Hichins. advance
agents of the Passion Play, spent
Sunday at Boca Chica.
Paul M. Brunn and Walter Truex
spent Sunday at Point Isabel.
Mrs. R. M. Loving will have as
her guest for the week Miss Frances
Cain of Corpus Christi.
A. C. Macv left this morning for
a two-day stay in Mission and Mc
Allen.
Rev. A. C. Hageman left last night
for his home in Iowa.
Mrs. E. P. Hornaday will have
Mrs. Russell Houston, Mrs. Henry
Edds and Mrs. Chappie of Heb
bronville as her guests for the
week.
Loring, Director
To Passion Play
To Radio Program
(Special to The Herald.)
HARLINGEN. May 7—Harold
Loring. conductor oL music in the
Passion Play and nationally known
pianist and lecture recialist. Is to
present a concert from radio station
KRGV here at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday.
He also will play at the same hour
I on Thursday and Friday afternoons.
If his schedule can be arranged for
the engagement he will present his
final radio concert at 5 p. m. Sun
day.
Loring's ability as a musician and
his interest *in music caused the late
President Theodore Roosevelt to
send him among the various tribes
of American Indians to record their
music. He has lived on Indian re
servations throughout the West and
has learned Indian music and the
habits of the tribes as have few men.
Mr. Loring has been conductor of
the Passion Play for several years,
dividing his time with lecture and
recital programs. He now is devot
ing his entire time to the Passion
Plav. which is to be presented at the
auditorium here May 10 to 13 with a
children’s matinee at 2 p. m. Satur
day and a general matinee Sunday
at the same hour.
34 IN MISSION HIGH
GRADUATING CLASS
(Special to The Herald.)
MISSION. May 7.-Twenty girls
and 14 boys will be graduated from
the local high schools and receive
their diplomas on May 28.
Members of the class are: Misses
Eugenia Eppright. Katherine Kohler,
Carmen Barrera. Emilia Farias.
Cristina Longoria. Elena Farias
Mary Ferguson. Lillian Mayberry.
Melba Watson. Virginia Dare Gil
lespie. Vivien Card. Florella 8alter,
Dorthea Riggler. Margaret Riggler,
Margaret Cannon. Rosalie McAlles
ter. Nell Rexroad. Virginia Lee
Lambdin. Thelma Twitty, Euvora;
Broyles. Joice Windbiggler. Leston
Lawrence. Chas. Roberts. Pete Mur
phy. T. B. Waite. Jr., Noel Langham.
Ernest Madsen. Arcadio Guerra, i
Dwight Bellamy. Marvin Pullin. Ar
thur Volz. Esteban Martinez. Felix
Gomez and Miguel Olivarez.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached Sunday May 26. by the
Rev. West of Houston, and the com
mencement will be on Tuesday eve
ning. May 28. with Hon. Hiram Gar
wood of Houston delivering the ad
dress.
FARMERS MAY
NOT SET PRICE
0
Labor Shortage Due to De
portation May Result In
Program of Education
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. May 7.—Possibility
that no immediate steps will be
taken toward setting of prices for
cotton picking, in view of possible
labor shortage in the Valley was in
dicated today, on the eve of the
meeting of Valley farmers in the
city hall here tonight to discuss this
matter.
The meeting, which will be held
at 8 o'clock in the city hall here,
was called by the Harlingen Cham
ber of Commerce at the request of a
committee of farmers who appeared
at the chamber of commerce office
about this matter Saturday.
The move as outlined is similar to
that last year, when farmers agreed
to hold the price of cotton picking
down to $100 a hundred pounds
until late in the season, when all
cotton had been picked over.
It is considered possible that ef
forts of the farmers will be centered
in a campaign of education to in
duce all Mexicans in the Valley to
take the necessary steps to be legal
ly entered.
FIVEFRENCH
FLYERS KILLED
BOURGES, France. May 7.—(4V
Five French military aviators were
killed at the Avord aviation field
last night, their bombing plane
crashing to earth when a wing
dropped off.
The bodies could be taken from
the plane only this morning after
experts had removed two unexplod
ed bombs from the wreck of the
machine.
The crash took place after a num
ber of bombs had been launched in
practice. A wine suddenly crum
bled and the plane fell at terrific
speed. As it was falling a para
chute became detached, and wit
nesses were hopeful that at least one
of the occupants would be saved
but the parachute proved to be
empty and it was supposed that one
of the men. in desperation, had
detached it too soon.
R.M.A.MEET
BEGINS MONDAY
•
First Big Statewide Conven
tion of Year For Valley
Goes to San Benito
(Special to The Herald)
BAN BENITO. May 7.—Fire hun
dred copies of an attractive souvenir
program of the 1929 state conven
tion of Retail Merch' *s’ associa
tion, which opens here May 13 for s
three-day session, are being mailed
to all parts of the state.
The programs are being mailed to
presidents, secretaries and other of
ficers of merchants’ associations in
all Texas cities, and to other per
sons who will be here for the con
vention.
As the day for this convention, the
first state-wide gathering in the
Valley during the present year
nears, intensive preparations are be
ing made for the handling of all de
tails of entertainment, business ses
sions. etc.
Listing of automobiles for the
tours through the Valley has been
started, and every person who has
an automobile, and who will be
willing to help drive the merchants
through the Valley is asked to com
municate with {he merchants’ as
sociation office here.
Reservations for hotel rooms, and
rooms In homes are also being list
ed for the crowd of from 500 to 800
persons who will come from all parts
of the state.
An official decorator of the Inter
state Decorating company will ar
rive here Wednesday to start dec
orating the city for *ie affair. The
Chamber of Commerce and Mer
chants’ association are working to
getmr in this, as in other phases
of the convention.
ITte vanguard of officials and del
egates will start arriving Friday or
Saturday of this week, and a large
number are expected Sunday. The
manvaL ,Jele«*tlon will include
many of those motoring to the Val
ley from nearby points. The large
bul of delegates will arrive Su»r£v
night and Monday morning. *ir,d
on for the opening
business session Monday.
Automobile tours of the Valiev are i
tobeheM Monday attem^and
Tuesday afternoon, the first triD
™rtngM.°*oPoint Isabe1’ Brownsville
and MaUmcws, and the second
through the upper part of the Val-!
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PERSONALS
L. D. Barnes is here from Dallas.
W. H. Stanley of Houston is a
guest at the Travelers.
J. E. McAdams and Sam Weil of
Alexandria, La . are in Brownsville
on business. They are guests at
Hotel Jardin.
Fred Bennett of Mercedes was in
Brownsville Monday on court busi
ness.
C. L. Skaggs, president of the Cit
izens State Bank at Donna, was a
visitor in Brownsville Monday.
bhhwi iijwiff j
f^OCTORS quite approve the
quick comfort of Bayer Aspi
rin. These perfectly harmless tab-1
lets ease an aching head without
penalty. Their increasing use year
after year is proof that they do help
and can’t harm. Take them for any
ache; to avoid the pain peculiar to
women; many have found them
marvelous at such times. The
proven directions with every pack
age of Bayer Aspirin tell how to
treat colds, sore throat, neuralgia,
neuritis, etc. All druggists.
^Aspirin
Experts In Final
Conferences Feel
Debt Solution Near
PARIS. May 7.—The rep
arations experts today resumed con
fidential personal talks in a final
effort to come to an agreement on
a basis of the figures proposed by
Owen D. Young
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. head of
German delegation, conferred with
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Mr. Young this moraine and de
livered the text off certain condi
tions tinder which the aeramnar
are ready to aee^t the proposed
settlement.
These conditions were at onea
communicated to the French and
Belgian exparts who conferred re
garding them wtth Star Jonah
Stamp. British delegate, who boot
seems to be taking part of the bur
den of the final work of the con
ference off Mr. Young'S shoulders.
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