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—- ,_ • THE VALLEY FIRST—FIRST IN THE VALLEY—LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—(/P) I'
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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR—No. 320 BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929 TEN PAGES TODAY 1 6e A COPY
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DOCTORS, physicians, surgeons,
•pecia lists—welcome to Brownsville
ard the Lower Rio Grande Valley
of Texas and Mexico!
You are now in one erf the heal
thiest spots to be found anywhere
in these United States.
Proof?
Why, of course.
Major Todd, former medical
chief at Fort Brown. United States
army post here, developed the fact.
He found that among the hun
dreds of men stationed at Fort
Brown the percentage of ineffect
Ives, month in and month out.
ranged somewhere around two per
cent. - - 3
That figure compares with more
than nine per cent In the post
having the next best record, and
from that on up to forty per cent
in other United States army cen
ters.
That’s Just another reason why
people generally are so happy down
here. They are well.
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Hundreds of the profession have
come to Brownsville for a session of
several days.
It is a season for discussion of
Important subjects, for the impart
ing of knowledge.
There are those among you who
will bring new truths which you
will ponder.
There are those who will bring up
old ones that have puzzled. Their
continued discussion certainly will
solve them, some day. And make
them so simple that you will won
der that the solutions were not dis
covered long ago.
It will be a busy session for you.
^ But there will also be time and
opportunity to play.
Brownsville and its sister cities
and communities . throughout the
L Valley are hsppy that you have
come.
And all wish for you a successful
gathering.
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I v VISITING PHYSICIANS will
I Kr-y1 *n the Valley a spirit that may
\ ▼ ove rather novel to them.
For example, they come here
upon the invitation of the Lower
Rio Grande Valley Medical Society.
The membership of this society
Is made up of practitioners in
Cameron county. H^ialgo county,
Willacy county, Starr county, and
Matamoros, Mexico.
The membership resides In some
twenty-five towns. A year ago.
when the Invitation was extended
to the Texas Medical association,
many of the doctors may have
wanted to hold the convention
proper In their own towns. But
they subordinated their personal
wishes, and agreed to the plan to
make it a Valley-wide inv.tation.
with the business sessions in the
Valley’s oldest town. Brownsville.
The Cameron county society Is
host but all the Valley Is helping
and every visitor will be given
opportunity to see all the balance
of the Valley.
And It’s worth seeing. That.
visitors, you’ll agree.
• • •
RALPH O. BRAY, publisher of
the Mission Times, and his staff
arc happy. And properly so.
The Times of last week came out
In enlarged size. Has gone to seven
column size from the six that held
from the time the paper was estab
lished. 19 years ago. to last week.
The change was made possible by
the installation of a ftne. new $8.
000 press, together with a new fold
ing machine.
In addition to all this. Mr. Bray
announces that the building occu
pied by the Times is to be en
larged. And the front will be re
modeled to the Spanish style, a
type of architecture that is grow
ing In popularity in the Valley, in
business as well as residential
structures
Congratulation? to the Times.
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LAST YEAR The Herald puh*
llshed photographs of the graduat
ing classes of the high schools of
the Valley.
Every senior class In every Valley
town was represented.
The feature was so popular that
The Herald undertook the task
again this year, at no small outlay
of trouble and expense.
The work was done in coopera
tion with A. Holm, photographer of
Brownsville, and with the further
cooperation of every superintend
ent and high school principal in the
Valley.
• • •
More than 400 comprised the
graduating classes last year. And
there Is approximately the same
number this year.
The Valley is very proud of its
gjt Is. And even more proud of
theVery fine material coming forth
—generations that will carry on
the development of the Valley of
the future.
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KEEP OFF the grass
That age-old and familiar sign
really should be observed at newly
developed Washington Park
The city wants the grass to take
root, to grow and flourish
But If citizens trample down the
earth, the little blades will find
life very uncertain.
The fountain, in the park center,
with its beautiful colorings observ
able only at night, la really the
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Levee Break to Flood 45,000 Acres
800 LOSE
FIGHT AFTER
NIGHTS WORK
Red Cross Prepares to
Care For 50 Families
Made Homeless By
New Onrush
KENNETT. Mo., May 20.—<JPh
An army of workmen lost a terrific
fight with flood waters of the St.
Francis river when the levee crum
bled seven miles northwest of Ken
nett last midnight. The break was
expected to i*mdate approximately
45.000 acres of farm land and cover,
Highway 84 to a depth of several
feet. No towns were endangered.
Between 700 and 800 men had:
been working desperately along a
stretch of levee 14 miles long to pre-'
vent a crevasse. While about 300 j
men were working at Millhouse
levee, considered the weakest point, I
there was a rumbling sound and a
roar as flood water swept away thej
dirt barrier and poured into fertile j
farms, ruining all crops in its path.
The sound of the rushing waters was
heard for miles and farmers were
awakened in time to make prepara
tions to leave their homes. The ere-!
vasse had widened to 200 feet this
morning.
The break occurred at a spot
considered the weakest in the levee
stretch where several hundred men
had been working desperately for
several days to avert a crevasse No
large town Is In the path of the flood
and it was believed all residents of
the area had moved to safety.
Hunrreds of other men were bol
stering two other threatend river
breaks inthe Mississipl .valley.
Great apprehension was felt at
Mounds Landing, Miss., where 200
men were strengthening the Miss
issipl dyke that went out with dis
astrous results during the 1927 flood.
While no immediate danger of a;
break was seen by engineers. Gov. |
Theodore Bilbo, of Mississipl, re
quested the Adjutant General to j
have state troops prepeared to move
Into the area in case of emergency
The reelfoot levee, ten miles south
of Hickman. Ky.. was reported
crumbling for a distance of 1500 j
yards and men were raising earth- j
works.
Possibly 50 families will be home
less bv night as a result of the break
They will be cared for by the Red
Cross, which established an emer-j
gency office here Saturday.
ST. LOUTS. May 20.—(An—For the
first time this year government]
flood warnings were issued yester
day here and at other points along!
the lower Mississippi river. It was,
the fourth time this spring, however, i
that the river had gone over flood
stage at St. Louis and a stage of 36!
feet was forecast for Wednesday ;
six feet above the flood mark. Thej
river was more than 32 feet early
today.
Slight danger was anticipated In j
the lower valley, government fore
casters said, as streams below St. |
Louis were not as high as two years,
ago when the last disastrous flood
waters of the Mississippi swept over i
the countryside.
NEW ORLEANS. May 20.—— j
Pounding waters, whipped by high j
winds, today had shaken the Mound j
Landing levee. 18 miles north of I
Greenville. Miss , on the Mississippi j
river. Army engineers prepared to j
bolster the wall against a possible
break.
It appeared today that ' free la
bor” would be utilized in working at
Mound Landing despite the fact
that Governor Theo. BUbo early last
night ordered 300 convicts sent toj
the scene to aid. The convicts were j
held at the prison farm when it was
learned government regulations
against nrison labor would nrevent
their being used. They will go to
Mound Landing, however. In case of
necessity, while national guardsmen
also were being held in readiness to
aid.
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53 PERSONS KILLED
IN BIG EARTHQUAKE
CONSTANTINOPLE Mav 20—
—At least 53 persons were killed and
39 in lured in Northern Anatolia last
night bv a disastrous earthouake.
The latest ret>ort stated 39 per
sons were killed and 33 injured atj
Sonchernl. near Sivas. Asia Minor
while 14 were killed and six in lured;
In the region of Chabin-Arahissar. j
‘POWER TRUST*”IS
CHARGED BY NORRIS
WASHINGTON, liar 30 —«■>— An
attempt by the "power trust” to buv
the press of the nation was charged
in th esenate today by Senator Nor
ris. republican. Nebraska, in review
ing testimonv in the federal trade
commission inquire into newsoaper
investments by the International
Paper and Power comoanr.
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Railroad Upsets
Valuation Placed
By Commission
WASHINGTON. May 20.—</F>—The St Louis and OTallon railroad
succeeded In the supreme court today in upsetting the valuation which
the government had placed upon it lor rate making and other regulatory
purposes.
Justice McReynolds, who read the opinion, asserted the law required
100 MEMBERS
OF AUXILIARY
REGISTERED
Women Drive to Mer
cedes To Be Guests
At Country Club
Picnic Supper
More than 100 women of the
State Auxiliary of the Texas State
Medical association convention were
registered at noon today at the
Junior college building and were to
be entertained with a drive up the
Valley this afternoon. The Mer
cedes Chamber of Commerce was to
act as host for this entertainment
for both men and women. Follow
ing the sixty mile drive, the guests
were to be honored with a picnic
supper at the Mercedes country
club on the Llano Grande lake, re
turning to Brownsville about 10
o'clock this evening.
The members of the executive
board of the Woman’s Auxiliary
will be the guests of the Woman’s
Auxiliary of the Valley County
i Medical Society at a luncheon to
j be given tomorrow at the El Jardin
hotel. At 3 o'clock the visiting
women will be entertained with a
drive covering points of interest
in Brownsville and the vicinity.
Cars will leave from the El Jardin
hotel, convention headquarters.
A dinner for members, visitors
j and guests Is scheduled for 7:30
, o’clock at Jimmie Holmes’ La Villa
Espanola in Matamoros. Mexico. A
wild game dinner will be served ac
companied by cabaret entertain
ment. An added attraction for the
evening’s program is a band con
cert by the 12th Cavalry band of
Fort Brown to be given at Wash
ington Park In conjunction with
the dedication of the new electrical
fountain.
Members of the Valley Auxiliary.
Girl Reserves and Boy Scouts were
stationed at the El Jardin hotel
and the school buildings today act
ing as hostesses, ushers and guides
to the visitors. Mrs. Del Perkins,
sponsor of the Girl Reserves, was
well pleased with the able and en
thusiastic supnort of the boys and
girls in assisting the doctors and
visitors with the organization of
th*tr convention.
Residents of Brownsville willing
ly opened their homes to the visi
tors. making an ample number of
rooms available for any late ar
rivals. .
Those assisting at the informa
tion booth at the hotel were: Miss
.Sophia Snlvev and Miss Henrietta
Signor. At the junior college Mrs.
Marshall White. Mrs. Joe Wells.
Mrs. Laura Houston and Miss Flor
ence Bell were assisting with the
general registration.
L. S. U. Extension
Division In Fight
Against Fruit Fly
BATON ROUGE, La . May 20.—
—Forces of the state department
of agriculture and the Louisiana
State University extension division
today went to war against the Medi
terranean fruit fly.
Meetings were held at New Or
leans, Baton Rouge. Monroe, Alex
andria, Shreveport, St. Joseph, Cov
ington, Thibodaux. Deridder and La
fayette. and more than 100 home
demonstration agents, parish agents
and specialists received Instructions
on a search for infested fruit.
Oficlals declared that outside of
Florida, where the pest was discov
ered. Louisiana was the first state to
organize a definite fight to safe
guard against the fly.
Mr. Wilson said the inspection was
largely prompted b ythe recent dis
covery of infested fruit in New Or
leans, Shreveport and Monroe.
CATS CANT SLIP
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UP ON BIRDS NOW;
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MUST WEAR BELL
CHICAGO, May 20.—(JP)—The
practice of Riverside (111.) cats of
having robins for appetizers, blue
jays for entrees and sparrows for
dessert has been brought to an
abrupt end by due process of law.
Alarmed by the growing death
list among birds, the suburb has
determined that henceforth all
cats must wear bells around their
necks, thus preventing their slip
ping up on unsuspected feathered
songsters and dining upon them.
Cats that are not so accoutred
will be executed nine times to
make sura.
DOCTORS’ CONVENTION OFFICERS
Pictured above are the men who will be in charge of the sessions of
the Texas State Medical Association convention here during the next
three days. They are, upper left. Dr. P. P. Miller. El Paso, president;
upper right. Dr. Holman Taylor. Port Worth, secret vy; lower left. Dr.
D. H .Hudgins. Forney; lower right. Dr. S. D. Naylor, Stephenville,
vice presidents.
Statewide Drive on
Epidemics Urged in
Public Health Meet
A statewide campaign to wipe out such communicable diseases as
diphtheria, smallpox, typhoid, etc., and forever prevent epidemics of such
diseases is considered an absolute necessity in the opinion of public health
doctors from every part of Texas, assembled in session at the State Med
ical association of Texas convention here this morning.
At the meeting, attended by about * • • •
fifty health physicians, the exist
ence of conditions which permit
epidemics of these diseases was de
scribed as a “crime,’' in view of the
ease with which epidemics can be
prevented.
The session was presided over by
Dr. J. C. Andersen of Austin, execu
tive officer of the state board of
health. No definite program was
carried out. the meeting being
thrown open from the beginning to
discussion.
Lack of sufficient funds for pub
lic health officials to carry on their
work efficiently also came in for
discussion at the session.
Dr. Anderson Presides
The meeting this morning was
opened by Dr. Anderson, who. aft
er a preliminary statement of its
purpose, called on Dr. W. A. King,
city health officer of San Antonio,
to tell what has been accomplished
there in the way of health work.
Dr. King, who is also a member
of the state board of health, first
deplored the lack of funds for pub
lic health work, mentioning the fact
that the budget of the state health
department. *165.000. is only slight
ly larger than the budget of the
city of San Antonio. Such a bud
get. he declared, is entirely inade
quate to carry on the work that
must be done to achieve better
health conditions In the state as
a whole.
In discussing health work in
San Antonio he brought out that a
combined camnaign of the health
department, physicians, and news
papers resulted in immunization of
16.000 school children against diph
theria. with the result that • an
epidemic now is impossible, and iso
lated cases are few and far be
tween. Immunization against
smallpox has been carried on to
such an extent, he declared, that
cases are very rare, and an epi
demic Is not possible.
Fumigation is ’Bumcomb’
In dealing with typhoid Dr. King
said that campaigns of imm'.mira
tion in San Antonio are not urged
to any great extent because of
satisfactory sc ;er disposal systems,
and genera! health, which makes
It very rare for a person to con
tract a case of typhoid. Enforce
ment of health conditions In dairies
(Continued on pa|t fivu.)
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HEALTH NOTES
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Here's to your health, folks—sug
gested slogan for the sixt. -third an
i nual convention of the Texas medi
| cos, for not only are the scientific
I sessions replete with health prob
j lems, but the abundance of enter
: tainment is making everybody
i happy.
The Junior College early Monday
1 looked more like a carpenters’ con
! ventlon as booth after booth went
] up for the varied displays of doctors’
< implements.
Easy to get around the convention
headquarters—placards in abun
dance. Who said physicians aren’t
efficient?
—
Doctor Works, B. O, B. L., B. M.
i all working at their assignments.
Not only were the Boy Scouts run
Siins errands but were getting in
' structions in salesmanship, peddling
tickets for the priae fight at Fort
j Brown Tuesday night.
| And the Girl Reserves, under the
i guidance of Mrs. Del Perkins, pag
ng doctors who have congregated in
! the secluded corners of the corri
dors.
Dr. W. G. McDeed of Houston
■ vice president of the Texas Radio
logical society, walks into the press
room, discussing blood count and
corpuscles.
The school bell rings every 4!
minutes during the morning. Col
lege students are taking their final
examinations. Some may need first
aid, their teachers say.
Some groups look like nurseries
Mothers bringing babies to the der
matological clinic.
Mrs. Monger, president of th<
Cameron county auxiliary, and Mrs
W. J. Vtnsant, both of San Benito
receiving and aiding about the cor
ridors.
Dr. H. K Loew of Brownsville cm
(Continued From Pact rival.
NEW HOPE AT
D rPARLEY
Prea. Hoover Communicates
With Young; Action Caua
ea Excitement
PARIS. May 20.—(JP)—News that
the American government had tak
en a hand in the reparations tangle
has changed the aspect of things at
the experts’ headquarters.
It is generally felt tt may alter
the whole course of the negotiations
and make poslble a settlement of
which nearly every one had begun
to despair.
The American delegation to the
conference was stated to have re
ceived “through the usual channels"
a communication from Washington
but no member was willing to make
any statement concerning it.
The news that Pres. Hoover had
communicated with Owen D. Young
through the American embassy
caused the greatest flurry in the
lobbies of the Hotel George V. since
the presentation of the Oerman re
ply to the allied memorandum that
almost broke up the conference
three weeks ago.
Speculation started at once and
spread throughout the building as
to just what Pres. Hoover had pro
posed to the chief American dele
gate. The general assumption was
that the message authorized a re
duction in the American share of
annuities and the question that was
on every one’s lips was: "How
much?”
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Late Bulletins
NEW YORK. May 20.—<AP)— An
nouncement of the supreme court’s
decision in the St. Louis and O'Fal
lon case was heralded in Wall street
today as an extraordinarily “bull
ish” development of profound im
portance in the financial history of
the American railroads. Stocks of
dozens of roads were quickly bid up
about $1 to $15 a share on the New
York Stock Exchange, and for a
time practically no transactions save
those in rails appeared on the ticker
tape.
NEW RECORD FOR 90
HORSEPOWER PLANES
JACKSONVILLE BEACH. Fla.,
May 20.—(i^1)—Laurie Yonge. Jack
sonville aviator, today claimed a new
endurance flight record of 25 hours,
5 minutes, for airplanes equipped
with 90 horsepower motors when he
landed his cabin monoplane Hotsy
Totsy here at 1 :Q5 p. m.
IT. S. WILLING TO LOWER
GERMAN REPARATIONS DEBT
WASHINGTON, May 20.—<AP> —
Secretary Stimson said today the
general feeling of government offi
cials and congressional leaders who
conferred with President Hoover
over a revision of German repara
tions payments to the United States
was that if other allied nations ac
cepted smaller percentage payments
this country coaid not do less.
BILL FIXING TUITION
AT $7.50 IS PASSED
AUSTIN, May 20.—(jP)—The house
today passed finally the Love sen
ate bill fixing tuition of rural school
students who move out of their com
munities to attend recognized high
schools at $7.50 monthly. The pre
vious fee was $5.
CASE AGAINST SHIRES
THROWN OUT OF COURT
DALLAS. Texas, May to.—(API—
Claiming counsel for Ida Lawson
plaintiff in a suit against Art Shires
Chicago Wliite Sox first baseman
wat only four minutes late Friday
when the case was thrown out of
court for lack of prosecution, attor
neys for Mrs. Lawson filed a motion
for reinstatement and continuance
in federal court here today.
MAN AND SON FEARED
LOST IN MARYLAND BAY
WASHINGTON, May 20—<JPh
Carey V. Hodgson, noted scientist
and assistant chief of the division of
Geodesy of the coast and Geodetic
survey, and his ten-year-old son
were missing today after being
caught in a storm yesterday while
alone in a canoe more than a mile
off Bay Rklge Maryland, in Chesa
peake Bay.
^ •
i»tne commission 10 give consiaera
tlon to reproduction values and that
this mandate of congress must be
enforced.
The methods used by the Inter
state Commerce commission in val
uing the nine-mile-long St. Louis
and O'Fallon were condemned by
the court, which reversed the de
cision of the lower court.
The bitter controversy, waged for
years over the valuations placed by
the Interstate Commerce commis
sion on railroad property for rate
making purposes, was ended in the
highest rourt in a substantial defeat
for the commerce commission.
In ending the controversy the
court overturned the valuations
used by the commission for rate
making and other purposes w hich
are approximately eleven billion dol
lars less than claimed by the rail
roads. Under it the commission
must scrap its valuations of years,
conducted at great expense to the
government, and prepare new val
uations giving consideration to re
production values.
The opinion will, according to the
government, result in a rapid up
ward revision of rates, although
counsel for the railroads during ar
gument of the case emphatically de
nied it necessarily would result in
higher tariffs. They asserted the
r. oads would be controlled by
what the tariff could bear.
Justices Holmes, Brandeis and
Stone dissented.
PARIS FLIGHT
IS POSTPONED
Proapect of Storms Cause
Delay in Trans-Oceanic
Hop of French Plane
NEW YORK. May 20.—I*3}—The
prospect of storms over the Atlan- j
tic for the next three days has
forced postponement of the start,
of the French plane Bemard-191 on
a proposed flight to Paris.
Armend Lotti, Jr., sponsor of the
flight, said it was unlikely an at
tempt to start would be made for
three or four days. Rene Lefevre
and Jean Assolant are the pilots
of the plane.
Roger W. Williams with Lewis
Yancey and Kenneth Boedecker
were preparing to take off from
Teterboro airport. N. J., today for
Old Orchard. Me., from where they i
plan to start a flight to Rome.
Ben Garza Elected
Leader At Corpus
By Latin Am-sricans
—
(Special to The Herald)
CORPUS CHRISTI, May 20 -
Ben Garza was unanimously re
elected president for the year in
the closinj sessions Sunday after
noon of the United La tin-American
Citizens’ association in its first an
nual convention at Allede hall here.
Mr. Garza had been appointed tem
porary president of the consol Ida -
! tion of the various Latin American
bodies on February 17. this year.
M C. Gonzales was elected first
, rice president: A. de Luna, general
| secretary, and Louis Wllmot. gen
| eral treasurer. The two delegates
(from each of the local councils rep
i resented automatically became
1 members of the supreme council
! under the constitution and by-laws.
Laredo was chosen as the con
' vention city in 1930. The date was
| set for Mav 1.
The Sunday morning session of
; the convention here opened by
singing America. Addresses were
t delivered by R. R. Gonzalez of
j Corpus Christi. and E. Idar of La
i redo. The program was intersper
j sed with a vocal selection entitled
“In the Heart cf a Fool” by F. R
Lozano. A message was read from
C. E. Castena upon the survey of
Dr. Davis of Austin, on the Latin
Americans of Texas.
Upon the convening of the Sun
day afternoon session by President
Garza, five musical selections were
rendered by Prof. Revuet&s with F.
Ramirez at the piano. Then fol
lowed the reports of the commit
teer selection of officers and choice
of the convention place.
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CONVENTIONTO
OPEN TUESDAY
Brownsville Radiates
Health As Record Is
Established In Early
Arrival of Medicos
Complete protram for
Tuesday on Page Two.
Brownsville rad i a t e d
health Monday as the sixty
third annual session of the
State Medical Association of
Texas opened its four-day
meeting with more than 300
members and1 100 visitors
registered at noon. While
the convention proper be
gins Tuesday morning with
a general meeting in the
auditorium of the Junior Col
lege, the first day's sessions
of four associated groups
brought what officers de
clared was a record attend
ance of out-of-town members
for the first day.
Registration was to continue all
day Monday and Tuesday, with In
dications that the attendance will
be even greater than estimated by
the Valley Medical society, official
hosts of the convention. For two
hours Monday morning the regis
tration room was crowded with doc
tors and visitors obtaining their reg
istration badges, tickets for airplane
rides and passes to the large num
ber of entertainment functions in
cluded on the convention program
“I am more than pleased with
what the local committees have pre
pared for us." Dr. Felix P Miller. El
Paso, president o! the association,
told The Herald Monday. “We have
had conventions in all parts of the
state, but I cannot recall a more
pleasant welcome nor a more whole
hearted co-operation of the host
group than we find here In
Brownsville."
The first day of the convention
- was purely social, with the excep
tion of the morning session* of the
Texas Radiological society, the Tex
as Railway Surgeons* association,
the Texas Neurological society, Use
Texas Dermatological society, and
a conference of the state health de
partment. New officers of the four
groups are to be elected this after
noon.
Discussions of insanity featured
the Nerological society meeting, over
which Dr. John S. Turner of raiii*
presided. Forty-two clinical cases
presented by physicians of the Low
er Rio Grande Valley featured the
meeting of the Dermatological so
ciety. of which Dr. Sutnev J. Wilson
of Fort Worth is president. Techni
cal discussions of surgery, with the
necessity of thorouglir.es.-: stressed
featured the Raiiwav Surgeon:;
meeting. The Radiological society,
of which Dr Davis Spangler is pres
ident. revealed at its meetings the
newest developments in the use of
X-ray equipment for diagnosis and
treatment. Immunisation in com
munities was the outstanding tapir
at the public health conference.
While many members of the as
sociated groups remained Monday
afternoon for the election of officers
and business sessions, most of them
Joined members of the Auxiliary for
a drive to Mercedes, where the
chamber of commerce, aided by the
Hidalgo County Medical society, wax
to act as official host to Ik j visitors.
A barbecue supper Is to be wryri on
the Llano Grande lake, near Mer
cedes, at 6:JO p. m. Monday, with
the return trip scheduled to start
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THE WEATHER
«
For Brownsville and the Valley:
: Fair or partly cloudy tonight and
i Tuesday; warmer tonight
For East Texas: Increasing elotad
iness tonight; corm-what wanner to
i south and west portions; Tuesday
■ cloudy; warmer in west and north
1 portions.
Light to moderate northerly to
easterly winds on the coast.
RIVER FORECAST
‘ There will be a slight rise in the
river from Rio Grande City down
during the next 24 to 43 hours.
Flood Present 24-dr. 24-dr
i 8t*** 8tll<w Clmg ■»’*»
> Eagle Pass .. 16 3 0 -04 M
I Laredo . 27 -0,1 404 .00
Rio Grande . 21 4 6 -0.1 JO
1 Mission. 22 4 6 -06 JO
San Benito . 23 10J -06 JO
Brownsville . 13 5.3 -00 JO
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isa
» hel tomorrow, under normal met
L eorologtcal condition:
>, High. 3 50 a. m.; 1:02 p m
* Low.10:03 a. m : 3:30 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
- Sunset today .. 7:0
Sunrise tomorrow . 1:41
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