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INDIA REVOLT
GROWS WARM
M. Gandhi Continues To
Preach Passive
Resistance
BOMBAY, April 74—UP'—British
authority in India was confronted
with an increasingly grave situation
today. With spread of the Anti
fovemmer.t movement, serious riot
ing and fighting with troops were
reported in widely separated sec
tions of the empire.
At Peshawar, important outpost
city near the entrance to Khyber
pass, one or more British soldiers
and 20 native rioters were killed,
reports said, when a mob protested
arrest of anti-government agitators.
A Lahore dispatch said the out
break was suppressed only when
Gurkha troops poured machine gun
and rifle fire into the mob. which
had held up an armored car and
burned it. Both occupants were
burned to death.
At another point in the bazaar,
a British sergeant on a motor
cycle approached the rioters, who
pulled him off his machine and
hacked him on the face with an
axe. He was said to have died of
his wounds. The deputy commis
sioner of police and other officers
were badly wounded.
Take City
British and Gurkha troops dur
ing the night took absolute charge
of the city, and were said to be
maintaining a strong guard at the
gates to prevent incursions by hill
tribesmen.
On the other side of the empire
in Calcutta a crowd heard that
Mayor J. M. Sen Gupta, impriaoned
for six months as a consequence of
his activity in behalf of the civil
disobedience movement, had died or
>been killed in prison. They stormed
xbe gates of the prson. demanding
to be shown Sen Gupta, dead or
alhV
The authorities refused to do this
although issuing a statement he was
alive nd was not undertaking a
hunf gtrike. Police ultimately dis
perse » Che mob.
14 Killed
In the Chittagong neighborhood
troops continued their pursuit of
the “insurgents” who Friday night
attacked the police arsenal, killing
six of the defenders. In a skirmish
yesterday Burma Valley Light Horse
killed 12 of the insurgents serious
ly wounded two, and arrested 14.
Meanwhile Mahatma Gandhf.
leader of the civil disobedience
movement continued to preach his
doctrine of passive non-violent re
sistance in Gujerat. In a speech at
the village of Bardoli he pointed
to the women volunteers, led by
Mrs. Gandhi, who had walked from
Jalalpur. and said:
“There are 100.000 palm trees
ffrom w'hich an Indian wine is ob
tained! in this tract. I want to make
a beginning this evening by laving
the axe on one or two of these
trees.”
BIG MELON CROP
BEAUMONT. April 24.—UP'—A
watermelon and cantaloupe crop of
500 acres in Jefferson county is In
dicated by a survey. This will be an
Increase of 300 acres over last year.
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Flying Scientist, Two Miles Up, to Photograph
April 28 Eclipse, Visible Over All of U 5.
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By ISRAEL KLEIN
Science Editor, NEA Service
An army airplane, sailing along
at 100 mile* an hour, nearly two
miles above the earth and carry
ing a scientist with a powerful
camera, will be the chief Instru
ment with which American as
tronomers will seek to check up on
the total eclipse of the sun on April
28.
This will be the first total eclipse
visible in this country since the one
on January 24, 1925, which darken
ed New York and New England and
was partially risible over a much
wider area. The 1930 eclipse will
reach its maximum over the Pac
ific coast, but will likewise be
partially visible over practically all
of the United States and Canada.
The eclipse—caused by the pas
sage of the moon between the sun
and the earth—will be total only
in a very restricted area: and al
though the darkness will come
gradually and disappear slowly the
period of actual totality will last
only one second.
Consequently, scientists are mak
ing elaborate and carfeully culti
vated plans for photographing the
eclipse at the instant of its maxi
mum.
Total In Northwest
Beginning slightly above San
Francisco and running northeast
over California, northwest Nevada,
the southeastern tip of Oregon and
central Idaho, the shadow formed
bv the total eclipse will cut a black
band less than half a mile wide
and ending somewhere in Montana.
Beyond that point the eclipse will
no longer be total.
Within that area, shortly before
11 a. m.. observers can see a total
eclipse. Twilight conditions will
prevail. Throughout the rest of the
United States the eclipse will be
only partial, decreasing in inten
sity as the distance increases.
In Carson City. Nev., and Helena.
Mont., for instance, the eclipse will
be 97 per cent. In Washington. D.
C., the heavens will begin to
darken shortly after 2 p. m.. and
at 3.23 p. m a maximum of 49 per
cent will he reached. In New York
the intensitv will be 54 per cent:
in Boston. 58 per cent: In Chicago.
64 ner cent: in New Orleans. 30 per
cent: in Atlanta. 36 per cent.
Because It casts such a narrow
band of shadow in its period of to
tality. and is of such a short dura
tion. the eclipse will be a real test
for scientists trying to photograph
It.
By keen mathematics astron
omers have calculated the path of
the eclipse and have set up sta
tions for observing it along this
path. But so narrow is this line,
that the slighest error in their cal
culations might find them off the
actual track.
It is for this reason that the “air
plane observatory" has been de
cided on in California. By this
means, the scientist in the nlane
high above the clouds and flying
at a speed of 100 or more miles an
hour, will be in the most favorable
position to take one or two photo
graphs of the moon at the instant
it completely covers the face of the
sun. Aloneside this plane may fly
another, the second plane carrying
another scientist with a motion pic
ture camera. The airplane idea is
a precaution in case clouds balk
ground cameras.
Dr. H. M. Jeffers, of the Lick
Observatory. Mt. Hamilton. Calif.,
Is to b* the photographer in the
first plane.
To observe the eclipse from the
ground, the University of Califor
nia scientists are setting up a sta
tion near Camptonville, Calif. At
this point, besides the regular in
struments for observing the eclipse,
three special cameras will be set
up along the shadow- path at Inter
vals of about one third of a mile,
with a photographer ready to snap
the photograph of the total eclipse
as soon as it reaches each spot.
In charge of the ground work at
Camptonville will be Dr. J. H.
Moore and Dr D H. Menzel, both
of Lick Observatory.
Before the eclipse reaches the
California coast, starting about 270
miles to the southwest. It will be
annular, or ring-shaped, the outer
edce of the sun peering over the
intervening moon. Then, as the
coast is reached, the moon will com
■ pletelv obscure the sun. After
leaving Montana, the eclipse again
will assume Its annular form and
will pass on into Canada and the
south Hudson Bay region, disap
pearing over the Atlantic ocean
south of Greenland.
Moody to Speak May
5 to Churchmen
FORT WORTH. April 24.—^—
j Governor Dan Moody has accepted
an imitation to address a meetlnp
for men in the Senate chamber of
the State Capitol durinsr the state
convention of the Christian Church
in Austin. May 5 to 8.
Senarate simultaneous conferen
ces for both men and women will
N» the feature of the convention on
*he evenine of Mav 7. accordine to
Dean Colby D. Hall of Texas Chris
•-in Unttgratty chairman of the
nroeram committee.
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This map shows how the April 28 eclipse of the
sun will be visible, in varying degrees, over practical
ly all of the United States. The time indicates the
moment of maximum intensity in the cities shown;
the figure indicates the degree—or percentage—of
intensity, counting total eclipse as 100 per cent. Thus,
as seen from San Francisco, the sun will be 99 per
cent obscured by the moon; from New Orleans, only
30 per cent. The solid line indicates the narrow path
of the total eclipse; the broken line, the annular (ring
shaped) form it will take as it continues. At the left
is one of the army's aerial cameras like that Dr. H.
M. Jeffers, flying scientist, will use; at the right, Dr.
Jeffers is shown with one of the intricate 6pecto
graph cameras that ground photographers will use.
History of County Jail Has
All Earmarks of Condition Now
That the present condition of the
county jail is not new in the his- (
tory of the city is shown by a re
port of the grand jury of Cameron
county as far back as 1860. The
county jail has always been a
source of controversy, according to
Rafael Cowan. Jr., who has made a
study of the situation.
He pointed to the minutes of the
district court, entered in Vol A,
pages 235-238, which reads:
"The present Jail consists of one
room only with brick floor partially
covered over with planks and
boards. The sick and the well, to
the manifest injury of the condi
tion of both, are thrown together.
"Those accused of the highest
crimes known to law, side by side
with those accused of minor of
fences. and all shackled down to
the floor at night for greater secur
ity against escape, the other fast
enings of the jail being deemed in
sufficient. Notwithstanding these
severe restrictions, escapes from the
Jail are frequent.”
It was disclosed that men and
women, black and white, are thrown
together in the same large room.
‘The food of the prisoners is in
sufficient for their comfort and
health. The usual allowance being
a 5-cent loaf of bread and cut in
three pieces for three persons, to
gether with a small allowance for
their breakfast, the same amount
of bread with a scant allowance of
soup and a very insufficient amount
of cooked meat for their dinner
comprises their allowance for the
24 hours.”
William Neale is quoted in the
"Evening Ranchero” July 6, 1876, as
saying in his centennial speech:
"Charitable institutions, or public
buildings, we have none, excepting
our city market place and our
miserable jail—that jail—no! that
institution ought not to figure in
history, for it is neither charitable
nor amendatory.”
Mr. Neale's speech was delivered
16 years after the grand Jury re
port, and apparently nothing had
been done about the situation.
Fast Typist
SAN MARCOS, April 24—UP)—
Geraldine White, Austin high
school girl, shattered the Texas
high school girls' typing speed rec
ord during the Univesity Interschol
astic League's district 23 meet when
she banged the keyboard for an
average of 59 words per ninute. A
typewriter company representative
stated Miss White's record was the
best reported from Texas high
school Interscholastic competition.
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Safety Whistles May
Oust Engine Blast
AUSTIN, April 24—UP)—The
shrill blast of the locomotive whistle
at grade crossings may become a
thing of the past if the new “safe
ty” whistles, now being tried out
by several lines on their passenger
trains, prove satisfactory. The ex
periments are aimed at increasing
the comfort of night travelers, often
awakened by the wailing of the
locomotive whistles as they blow
for the grade crossings and signal
towers.
The whistle has been designed to
throw the sound forward, only the
echo reverberating to the rear.
Pipes of the whistle are placed in a
horizontal position in the extreme
front of the locomotive and are
surrounded by n large cone which
throws the blasts forward.
The Invention is declared by rail
road men to be a decided improve
ment over the old vertical type. In
addition to increasing the comfort
of passengers, it does not deafen
engineers and firemen, they stated.
MERCEDES IS
NEAR TERM END
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Open House to Be Held O i
Friday for Patrons
Of School
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. April 24—Com
mencement activities in the Mer
cedes schools will begin Friday
morning, when open house will be
held at the South Side Grammar
school between 8 and 10 o'clock. At
this time the teachers and the stu
dents will be hosts to the patrons
of the school and the public. There
will be a display of work accom
plished during the past year.
On the evening of May 2. the senior
class play, ‘‘The Whole Town’s
Talking ”, will be presented at the
Junior High auditorium. This Is a
hilarious comedy and promises to
be one of the best school plays ever
presented here.
Spring Operetta
On May 9, the annual spring
operetta, presented by the students
of the South Side Grammar school.
"Spring Glow’’ will be held at the
Junor High, under the direction of
Miss Elizabeth Rogers, director of
music in the schools. About two
hundred students will participate in
the product4on.
The Physical Education depart
ment, under the supervision of Miss
Mary Nell Hadden, will stage an
entertainment at the Junior High
on the evening of May 16. This is
the first time this department has
ever presented a program and It Is
hoped that it will be an annual af
fair. Miss Hadden will give a
demonstration of the work taught
during the past year.
On May 25. the baccalaureate ser
mon will be delivered at the Junior
High auditorium, announcement to
be made later as to who will deliver
the sermon.
Class Stunt
Senior Class stunt night will be
held on May 26. On this night an
interesting program has been ar
ranged. including the class will,
class prophesy, class history, song
and other features.
On Mav 27, graduation exercises
will be held at the South Side
Grammar School, at which time
diplomas will be presented students
who enter high school next term.
On May 28, commencement night
will close the school activities for
1929-1930. At this time diplomas
will be presented those who grad
uate. Class honors have not yet
been bestowed.
38 Members
The senior class this year is com
posed of 38 members. Class mem
bers who are prospective graduates
at the close of the term In May are:
Ruth Wood, Virginia Winn, Canti
tos Trevino, Elisle Smith. Thelma
Runnels. Marie Lilly. Mabel Karst,
Elviara Hinojosa, Nell Harrolson,
Velma Giddle, Rafaelia Garcia. Dor
othy Edwards, Nina Duncan. Emma
Cfirbello, Audrey Ann Cuiper, Au
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BASTROP, April 24—By a
recent victory at Georgetown In the
district declamation contest of the
Texas Interscholastic League.
Franklin Darby Orgain of Bastrop
is believed to have set a record.
Only 13 years old, the victory at
Georgetown marked his second dis
trict championship in as many
years. When he was ten years old
he won his first Bastrop county
championship. That year he placed
third in the district meet, he won
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