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FIRST WEEK OF
REVIVAL ENDS
Huge Crowds from Valley
Attend Each Service of
Wealaco Meeting
_ fSpecial to The Herald)
WESLACO, 8ept. 21. — Crowds
Continued to fill the big tabernacle
at each service during the opening
week of a four weeks' evangelistic
> ; ; ’ wn conducted by Rev. How
ard S^niliams of Hattiesburg,
Miss., with all churches of Weslaco
cooperating. Many visitors, in
cluding ministers from various Val
ley churches, are attending. Song
i, services are being led by Homer
Grimes of New York. Rev. Wil
liams was formerly the editor of a
large newspaper In Mississippi.
One of the outstanding features
of the daily program is the prayer
meeting for men held in the Ritz
theater from 10 to 10:30 each morn
ing. Over 100 men close their
places of business and attend this
service. The women of the city
hold a similar service under the
direction of Mrs. Williams.
Rev. Williams and his associates
were guests of the Rotary club of
Weslaco and of Donna this week
Mr. Grimes sang and played a
number of selections and Mr. Wil
liams followed with an interesting
talk on “The Three Philosophies of
Life.” Mr. Williams is a Rotarian
and was the organizer of the clubs
at Hattiesburg and Jackson, Miss.
Services will be conducted by the
local pastors in each of the
churches on Sunday morning and
in the evening a union service for
young people will be conducted by
Mr. Grimes in the First Methodist
church. The evening service, which
marks the beginning of the second
week of the revival, will be held in
the tabernacle where Mr. Grimes
and the chorus choir of a hundred
voices will conduct a half hour song
service prior to the sermon.
Monday is rest day. No service
will be held in the tabernacle. The
evangelistic party is to be taken
for a fishing trip off Point Isabel.
Sendees will be resumed Tuesday.
Wednesday night's services will be
dedicated to newspaper men of the
Valley.
Farm Bureau Men to
Speak In McAllen
(Special to The Herald'
MERCEDES, Sept. 21—A. E Mill
er and Fritz Englehart of Dallas,
members of the Texas farm bureau,
who are conducting a series of
meetings for farmers In the Valley,
are to speak Monday night at Mc
Alle n, it is announced, r f.d at other
points later in the week.
The speakers, working through
the federal farm bureau, are stress
ing co-operative marketing, pur
chasing and saving methods for the
I farmer. They addressed a gathering
in Miwcedes Thursday night.
Increase in Onion
Acreage Predicted
(Special to The Herald'
RAYMOND VTLLF. Sept. 21—Be
tween 4.000 and 5.000 acres will be
planted to onions this year in Wil
lacy county, according to the esti
mate of Mervin Hayes, of the Wil
lacy county Seed company, who has
spent some time visiting growers
during the past few weeks. The
increase is expected to be from 15
i to 45 per cent over the acreage of
the previous season Farmers
throughout the district are busy
preparing their land for early Oc
tober planting.
A shortage of good seed is report
ed, and growers are warned against
peddlers from northern cities who
have been attempting to sell a low
priced seed in the section.
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WHERE 20 PERISHED IN DETROIT CABARET FLAME
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Assoclaed Press Photo
Twenty persons perished and 50 were injured when fl ames swept through this Detroit cabaret just as the
revelry was gayest. Picture shows main dining room cf tne Study club, where life loss was greatest,
Officials blamed a cigaret tossed in the draperies.
VALLEY TO SEE
NOTED DANCERS
Ruth St. Denis and Ted
Shawn Perform in Har
lingen Nov. 6
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
will give a joint recital at the Val
ley fair auditorium on November 6.
at Harlingen.
In a program of solo and duet
dances, the two stars will exhibit
their latest creations. Among them
will be “Josephine and Hippolyte,"
a duet staged in the period of the
first empire, in which Miss St. Den
is at Josephine wears jewels which
w’eer the actual property of the
French empire, while Mr. Shawn in
a dashing uniform appears as Hip
polyte. who was a dangerous rival
of Napoleon's. Mr. Shawn will also
offer a new' Ramadan dance, a ri
tualistic number of Arabian ret
ting. the special music for which
has been composed by Ants Fulei
han, a Syrian composer of rising
fame.
A notable novelty by Miss St.
Denis will be the “Bas-relief irom
Angkor-Vat." the Inspiration ior
which was gained when she visited
the city abandoned hundreds of
years ago by the vanished race cf
Kymers and which still ranks with
the famous temples of Indii and
the pyrimids of Egypt amon-f the
architectural wonders of the east
ern world.
The musical part of the program,
always a highly important and de
lightful feature in Denislip.wn pej
formances, will be supplied by a
symphonic quartet.
PAIR SHOOT DUCKS
TOO SOON; FINED
Two men charged with killing
ducks out of season pleaded guilty
before Justice of the Peace B. L.
Cain Saturday morning and paid
fines aggregating $27.
The men were arrested by Joe
Longoria, deputy sheriff.
SHIFTING SANDS TIED DOWN
BY NEW DESERT HIGHWAYS
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A new highway flanked by an old board road (above) represents
California's new method of constr fiction to combat drifting dunes.
Sadden rains which once washed oat long stretches are guarded
a trains t by channels spanned by br id*eg (below).
BY OSCAR I.EIBING
< AP Feature Service Writer)
SACRAMENTO. Sept. 21.—<>P>
The shifting sands of the desert,
which battled the motorist's trans
continental invasion of California,
ha\e been conquered.
Broad highways, free of the sandy
clouds which once swirled and
drifted over the roads or whipped
below to undermine them, now en
ter the state through desert reg
ions over four routes.
Engineers have solved the prob
lem of “tying down the desert.”
Study revealed that only dunes be
low 30 feet in height moved with
rapidity, and new roads have been
built up to tiie level of the 30-foot
moving drifts.
To keep the sand fills from whip
pin out from under the new roads,
slopes are well oiled. To prevent
washing out under conditions of j
concentrated rainfall. channels,
were dug to carry off the floods
and bridges built to span the
breaches.
There Is little rainfall in the des
ert and for months a merciless sun
beats down on the vast, arid
stretches. But what little rain
there is comes all at once and
storms arc often of such excep
tional intensity that the whole
country flows with water.
Pushing an improved highway
through the shifting sand hills was
a project conceived by E. Q. Sulli
van. district engineer of the divi
sion of highways, and the district
he administers contains the princi
pal desert roads of the state.
The old plank road which once
pushed for six miles over undula
ting hills still stands, a reminder
of the days when the continuous
services of a crew of men and 15
head of muics were needed to keep
it open. Even then, during heavy
wind storms, it was closed at night
and occasionally in the day time.
High construction in desert reg
ions is costly, although dependent
on the locality and character of the
country. Sections paved in the Im
perial valley cost approximately
$49,000 a mile to grade, construct
culverts and surface with a 20-foot
pavement.
4 Valley Boys Are
Promoted At A. & M.
COLLEGE STATION, Tex., Sept.
21.—Joseph Harry’ Taylor, of Dal
las, 22-year-old electrical engineer
ing student, is cadet colonel of the
A. ar.d M. college of Texas cadet
corps for 1929-30, promotion list is
sued by Colonel Charles J. Nelson,
head of the military department
and commandant of the college,
with the approval of President T.
O. Walton, shows. As cadet colonel,
Taylor is cadet corps commander
and the ranking cadet officer for
tile new academic year. He is a
graduate of the Dallas high school.
Valley boys ranked as commis-,
sioned officers at A. and M. college
are as follows:
G. G. Harwell, cadet lieutenant j
colonel In the composite regiment j
including cavalry squadron, signal
corps batallion. engineer batallion
and band.
W. W. Trapp, Mission, first lieu
tenant, company D, infantry.
B. L. Hindman, Harlingen, second t
lieutenant. Company G. infantry.
C. C. Valle. Jr., Rio Grande City.'
first lieutenant, adjutant, second
batallion, field artillery.
Studio de Danse Is
Opened At La Feria
(Special to The Herald)
LA*FERIA. Sept. 21.—Registra
tions for classes at the Frances
Beddoes Studio De Danse opened
here Saturday afternoon, and reg
ular work began immediately.
Mrs. Beddoes. teacher, returned
only a short time ago from Europe,
where she studied during the sum
mer. She had special work in bal-1
let technique in England, and the
tango and adagio in Italy. She also
visited Germany, Holland and
Switzerland, where she got ideas for
folk dances.
BANDIT TEARS OFF FINGER
NAPLES—A bandit tore off the
finger of Signorita Maria Modetti to
get her diamond ring.
Boosters Needed By
Valley, Speaker Says
(Special to The Herald*
SAN BENITO, Sept. 21.—“If
California or Florida had a spot
like the Lower Rio Grande Valley,
all the world would know about it
in short order,” said William Clen
dennlng of the Port Isabel company,
in speaking before the Lions club
here Friday.
Clendenning declared that what
the Valley needs as much as any
thing else now is to form a Valiev
wide booster organization or cham
ber of commerce, and begin to let
the world know about the section.
He told of some of the possibili
ties of the Valley, stressing the de
velopment that should follow the
dredging of a deep water port at
Point Isabel, which has been
recommended by the U. S. army
engineers.
J. L. Crawford and J. Lee Han
chey were guests of the club.
BUILDS NEW BUSINESS
STRUCTURE AT LASARA
RAYMONDVILLE, Sept. 21.—A.
M. Watson, pioneer merchant of
Lasara, has awarded contract for
the construction of a two-story
brick and tile business house, to be
used as a utility business structure.
It will house a service station, ga
rage, grocery store and post office.
1,000 SCOUTS
IN FAIR EVENT
Valley Troop* To Stage Big
Demonstration On Nov.
30 Program
(Special to The Herald i
HARLINGEN. Sept. 21.—Approx
imately 1.000 Boy Scouts irom a’l
all parts of the lower Rio Grande
Valley fairgrounds here the after
noon of November 30. to give a
monster demonstration, accordin'!
to arrangements made by the fair
association with Tom Murray, Val
ley scout executive.
Murray explained some of the de
tails of the demonstration which is
to be given.
The scouts will give demonstra
tions of signalling, using several
different means, such os wij-wag,
bells, whistles, etc.
There will be demonstrations of
camp fire building without the use
of matches, and all klnd3 of rope
work. The scouts will tie knots of
many kinds and untie them and
will make rope.
One of the principal features of
the gathering will be the construc
tion by the scouts of a 60-foot
bridge, using nothing but boards
and rope. The bridge will be built
the scouts will pass over It, ana
then they will take it apart, ail In
the space of a few minutes.
The complete program will show
a number of other feature.?, Includ
ing the scout band, troop move
ments and maneuvers.
200 Expected At
C. of C. Banquet
(Special to The Herald j
MISSION, Sept. 21.—More than
200 are expected to attend the an
nual banquet of the Mission Cham
ber of Commerce to be held Tues
day at 6:45 p. m. in the basement
of the First Methodist church. /
E. H. Whitehead of San Antonio, i
assistant manager of the South Tex- i
as Chamber of Commerce, is ex- I
pected to be speaker of the evening. !
A varied entertainment program wiil [
be presented.
RICHARDSON—5.j
G. C. Richardson left Saturaay
afternoon for El Paso to represent
the Association of Valley Secretaries
at a meeting of representatives of
all sections along the Mexican bor
der which opens there Monday for
the purpose of formulating some,
l>oiicy in resi>ect to the immigration j
situation. Whitaker, of Mercedes, i
is also attending the meet, as a
representative of the South Texas
Chamber of Commerce.
Rchardson expected to meet in
structions from the board of directors
of the local chamber of commerce,
most of whom expressed themselves
as opiicsed to its passage. He plans
to return Wednesday.
The i>ersonnel of the meet in- i
eludes Itay Leeman. Corpus Christi: j
representing the South Texas
Chamber of Commerce: S. Maston
Nixon. Corpus Christi Chamber of
Commerce; B. P. Fleming. Las
Cruces, N. M, Elephant Butte Irri
gation district: C. P. Pardue, Loving,
N. M.. Pecos Water Users’ associa
tion: Lovelady. Fort Hancock, Tex
I as, Hudspeth county farm bureau;
committee of three, El Paso, the El
' Paso county farm bureau: J. P Cor
ey. Yuma. Ariz., the Arizona Cotton
Growers' association; C. V. Maddux.
Denver. Colo., Great Western Sugar
Growers’ association: C. B. Moore,
1 Los Angeles, Cal.. Western Growers’
Protective association: R. N. Wilson,
San Francisco. Cal., California De
velopment association; T. G. Galla
gher. Toledo. Ohio, Continental Su
gar company: Committee of three.
Don Ana county farm bureau, Las
Cruces. N. M. It Is expected that
the sheep, goat and cattle growers’ j
associations and seyeral other or
ganizations will have representatives
present.
Poultry Raisers To
Meet At Harlingen
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Sept. 21—The
poultry meeting which was an
nounced to be held at the fair
grounds here last Tuesday evening;
postponed on the account of rain, j
will take place Tuesday evening.
Sept. 24. a basket dinner at 7 p. m.
to precede the program which will
begin at 8 p. m.
The purpose of the gathering. I
sponsored by W. L. Freeman of
Freeman's hatchery, is to dispense
information concernnig features of
! the poultry industry, such as mar
! keting and - ientific methods used
i and to rouse general Interest among
! poultry raisers. W. B. McLeran,
formerly of California, now resid
ing in Mercedes, and a recognized
poultry expert, is to make a talk.
It Is planned to organize a free
poultry cohool where the study of
scientific poultry culture can be
taken up by all Interested.
Those attending are asked to
bring supper. Coffee will be fur
nished.
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Sunday Song Service
During Fair Asked
(Special to The Herald*
MERCEDES. Sept. 21.—A resolu
| tion asking that Sunday during the
■ Valley Mid-Winter fair at Harlin
gen be given over to an all-da v
sacred song service was adopted at
the Wednesday evening prayer ser
; vice of the First Baptist church
here. They ask in addition that all
| concessions, displays. entertain
ments, games and attractions be
closed on that day.
Copies of the resolution are to be
| sent to the managers of the fair
and to other churches of all de
i nominations throughout the Valley,
i asking that they join in the peti
< tion.
FIND 30 HERE IN NIGHT CLUB FIRE
Associated Press Photo
Thirty revellers sought safety in this tiny dressing room from the
flames which swept through the Study club. Detroit cabaret, costing
17 lives. Several of the dead were found in the dressing room. Others
were unconscious and injured severely.
TROOP FOUR
Troop 4 held it* regular meeting
Friday evening. The troop commit
tee was present at this meeting and j
they held a short meeting for the
purpose of electing a chairman. Mr.
McCarty was elected. Upon the
arrival of the boys, Joe Kowalski,
assistant scoutmaster, conducted
some drills. The meeting was call- '
ed to order and conducted by the
senior patrol leader, Justin Mc
Carty. Each patrol performed a
stunt after which the members of
the committee were introduced. Old
and new business was brought be
fore the meeting. The boys were
dismissed to play a few' games after
the scout oath was given. Those of
the committee present were Mr.
Ewing Clark. Mr. Ben Clark. Mr.
Love, Mr. Bowler and Mr. McCarty
The boys present were Justin Mc
Carty, Edwin Clark. Benford Bee
son. Gerald Wiggington, Fran*
Trayweek. David Pohl, Gordon Mc
Innis. Norman Clark. David Lacy,
Lavem Bowlen. Donald Abbot. Bob
Dixon, Clarence Johnson, Homer
Morrow, and Mark Mackles.
Homer Morrow transferred from !
troop one. Bob Dixon resigned the
office of scribe, and Mark Mackles
was elected.
MARK MACKLES. Scribe. ’
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Let Me Care for Your Hat Troubles
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SHAPING CLEANING
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BLEDSOE TULLS«
RACE ATTITUDE
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Would Be Candidate Pot
State Superintendent If
Public Willed
(Special to The Herald)
COMMERCE. Sept. 20.—J. M.
Bledsoe of Commerce has Issued the
following statement concerning his
reported race for state superintend
ent of public instruction in 1930:
“In view of the numerous encour
aging letters and telegrams received
recently. X feel that some more def
inite statement should be made rel
ative to my attitude and intentions.
For the present I $hall say that the
matter is being very carefully con
sidered. If it should be clearly indi
cated that I am the choice of the
school people and those most inter
ested in the educational welfare of
the state. I would not hesitate to
make the race for state superintend
ent; however. I do not feel that the
personal ambition of any man or
woman for political preferment
should prompt one to undertake to
override the sentiment of thoee
most competent to Judge.
"No one is likely to make the most
of hLs opportunitlles who is not
guided by a high and worthy goal.
It has been my ambition for a good
many years to sometime be qualified
and prove myself worthy of ftiling
the position of chief educational ad
viser of my state.
“By continuous and careful study
and a keen interest In the educa
tional conditions and needs of Tex
as; by sympathetic and helpful co
operation with every state superin
tendent for th epast 25 years; by
continuous sendee in teaching in the
public schools and colleges, and
three years In the state department
of education, as well as the added
preparation in college and univer
sity training. I feel that I have
gained sufficient strength, familiar
ity, and maturity to qualify me for
the office of state superintendent.**
AIRMEN FLY TOO LOW
CROYDON. Eng.. Aviators of the
local aerodrome have been warned
they fly too near surrounding houses
and offenders will hereafter be pen
alised.
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