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RADIO SYSTEM IN HI SCHOOL Benito's New Structure Has Latest Class Room Announcing Idea CSpeclal to The Herald.) 8AN BENITO, April 28.—One of the Innovations to be incorporated into the new senior-junior high school building to be constructed here will be a system of radio an nouncing. according to Supt. Thom as J. Yoe. By means of this system the prin cipal of the school will be able, by pressing a buzzer button, to caii the pupils to attention in their various classrooms and make whatever an nouncements he desires. He will be able to make the announcement in any or all of the rooms without calling the pupils into the auditori um. ■ This system will be similar to that employed In some hotels to call patrons. Mr. Yoe says that the school also will have & number of other dis tinct features including a nature room where animal and vegetable life peculiar to the Valley will be displayed and studied. There will be Inbuilt glass cases in the walls which may be illuminated at night. Objects of historical nature also may be displayed. The' San Benito school district recently voted a $320,000 bond Is sue out of which a combination physical training-cafeteria - manual training building will be the first to be erected. It will be the pur pose of the board to furnish night physical training classes for the business men and boys of the city and to provide other recreation for them. Every city needs a commu nity center of this type, Mr. Yoe says, and the gymnasium facilities will be available to the citizens of San Benito after school hours. rwowtH I sidelights! RIVOLI—SAN BENITO Tuneful, dramatic and with elab orate aeta dwarfing thoae of the greatest Broadway revues. "Be Your self,*’ starring Fannie Brice in an all-dialogue musical comedy, opened at the Rivoli Theatre. San Benito yesterday. Out of an elaborate night club setting which gives Miss Brice an opportunity to sing several "hit” numbers in that amusing and dis tinctive manner of hers, and a prize ring background, Thornton Free land. directing for United Artists, has woven an original sound film— a comedy with dramatic highlights and a musical extravaganra that does rot bore one with recurrences of theme songs. "Be Yourself* Is an outstanding laugh-producer and presents the In imitable Miss Brice in all those lu dicrous foibles of accent, gesture and song that have earned her her place in the theatrical world as per haps the greatest American come dienne. Formerly she has been iden tified with vaudeville and the elab orate stage revues of Ziegfeld: now she belongs to talking motion pic tures and she proves herself as distinct a personality as Chaplin himself ENGAGED "Do you mean the Court to un derstand that you stood by and saw this man -strike the poor wo man again and again?” asked the Judge. “Yes. I saw it all,” replied the witness. “And why didn't you make an attempt to interfere?” "Because I was filling my pipe." —Hummel. Hamburg. Is this a O^MN Af/UtA^r or5 ,/ DEPARTMENT s STOP t: 0 Merchants and clerks appreciate the convenience of an extension telephone. It removes the necessity for leaving a customer while sns^erlns a telephone at the other end of the store. Phone calls are handled with a maximum of ease and your customers will appreciate the Increased service an extension will - enable you to give them. I '■ .toa-v-c ■ rjr**fv3ff njy ... ^ ... w . I =i’=" _ .ajiiL1 .rrr— a—-^j=r—. _ _ . ■ --. Texas’ New Crop Champions —-— . — j HOMER . THIGPEN Oliver Person, Marshall, won the TocatlonaT Cotton Contest with an average production on a ••acre fleM of Ml pounds lint per acre. The highest record la the 4*H Cotton Club Contest vu made by Homer Thlfpen, Henderson. who produced on hie one-acre plot 1110 pounds lint. Lamar Farris, MadlsonTltle, topped the 4-H Corn Club Contest with a production of 111 bushel* on a one-acre field. EXAS farmers again have the chance to demonstrate their ability in economic crop pro duction. Four official crop production con tests have been recently announced in the State. These include junior vocational cotton and corn con tests, and cotton and eorn contests for 4-H Club boys and girls. Application to enter the contests should be made at once, according to the announcements. The rules may be obtained from county agents, vocational instructor*, or the agricultural extension service of Texas State College of Agriculture. "Through friendly rivalry, the crop contests have proved an ef fective means for improving the farm practices in the State,” says R. H. Bush, Texas Manager of the Chilean Nitrate of So3a Education al Bureau, which is cooperating in conducting the contests. "The win ning of the prizes is incidental to the bigger objective which, after all, is the increasing of the farm in come by means of lower costs and larger acre-yields. "As a result of the contests, hun dreds of farmers.” he declares, "have been thoroughly convinced of the advantages of pedigreed •seed, liberal fertilization, thorough cultivation, and disease and Insect control methods. They have discov ered that the practices employed In producing a high yield on a three or five-acre field may be profitably applied to the entire farm.” INDIAN MOB' ! IS dispersed! Two Killed by British Police At Demonstration In Bombay BOMBAY. India. April 28 — X) Two Indians were killed and ‘three wounded In Madras Sunday, when British police opened fire upon a mob. The rioters stoned the polic*. injuring both the commissioner, his deputy, and others, and finally the police opened fire. Elsewhere in India there was a week-end of comparative quiet seen by some observers as the lull before the storm Mahatma Gand hi himself marehinc with devotees to capture what he said were gov ernment salt, pans at Dharasana. continued to preach his doctrine of non-violence and to deplore rioting at Chittagong, Peshawar, and Mad ras. CLOTH BURNED KARACHI. India. April 28— While a British war plane hovered overhead. 8.000 Indian Nationalists today burned a pile of foreign made cloth fifteen feet high in in auguration of a new phase of civil disobedience and r* live resist ance. The protesters first went in a procession throuch the streets of | the city, three camel carts filled with the cloth accompanying them. I A mass meeting was held and reso [ lutlons adopted condemning the | government. HOURS AND HOURS How long will it be before she makes her appearanoe?" “She’s upstairs making it now." ' —Pele Mele. Paris. , Cameron Courts >. ---J 8U1T8 FILED IN DIST. COURT No. 9468—Rio Grande Valley Trust Company vs. First National Bank of Mission. Texas, et al, Garn ishment after judgment. No. 0469—V. L. Conrad vs. H. C. Harding, et al, Debt. CIVIL DISTRICT COURT No. 9149.—Hazel Brown vs. Alt geld Brown, Divorce Grant and Plaintiff awarded custody of child. No 9265s—E. G. Anguera vs. W. H. Carothers, et al. Judgment for plaintiff. • No. 9343.—Earl E. Agen vs. Ethel M. Agen. divorce granted. No. 8890.—Realty Trust Co. vs. Hugh H. Reed, judgment for plain tiff. • No. 8894 —Realty Trust Co. vs. Elizabeth Torrans. judgment for plaintiff No. 8991— Realty Trust Co. vs Joe F. Hauft. et al. Judgment for plain tiff. No. 8895— Realty Trust Co. vs. Harlingen Development Corp., et al. judgment for plaintiff. No. 9107 —Realty Trust Co. vs. Mrs. Annie C. Herren. et vir. Judg ment for plaintiff. No. 8895—cRalty Trust Co., vs. Metropolitan Investment Corpora tion. et al. Judgment for plaintiff. No 9040 —Realty Trust Co vs. H H. Burchard. et al. Judgment for plaintiff. No. 9057—Realty Trust Co. vs. Frank C. Brunneman. Judgment for plaintiff. No. 9095.—Realty Trust Co. vs. Mrs. Lualee Btirrhard, et al. Judg ment for plaintiff. No. f)0P8.—Realty Trust Co. vs. Francisca Alvarez et al. Judgment for plaintiff. No. 9iio.—Realty Trust Co. vs. A. L. Brooks, et al Judcment for plain tiff. No. 9439 —F. L. Denison vs Fire stone Tire & Rubber Co. Transferr ed to Federal Court. No. 9438 — F. L. Denison vs. Fire stone Tire & Rubber Co.. Transferr ed to Federal Court No 9396 —O C Woods, ext friend of Clifford Woods, vs International Harvester Comoany of America. Transferred to Federal Court. CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT Hon A. W. Cunningham. Judge No. 5165—State of Texas, vs. Jack Reed. 2 years, suspended. No. 5168 —State of Texas vs. Ma nuels Moreno Castillo, passed for deportation. No. 5969 — State of Texas ts Lige Creek. Transferred to Nueces Coun ty. No. 5171—State of Texas vs. J. W. Dempsey, 1 year, suspended. Court adjourned for the term COUNTY COURT Hon. Oscar C. Dancy, Judge No. 1849 —In rc Estate James La Gro, deceased. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Furnished by Valley Abstract Co. Cameron County Valley Orchards Rel. Co. to Me* Cleod Hood Co.: East one half blk. 61. McLeod-Hood Prop. 1, 4.96 ac. $10.00. C. L. Harrison to C. W. Colgin: That portion of San Pedro de Car ried rs ft. conveyed by Bartolo Gar cia et al. $10.00. Pedro Longoria. Narciso Longoria to Jesus Cavazos: Lot 4, blk. 4. Lon goria Townsite. $10.00. J. M. CAeen to t>. R. McNamara; Blocks 19 and 33 H. L. 6z W. Co. Origl Sub. Sur. 290. $10.00. W. A. Taliaferro to A. P. Talia ferro; the south 15 acres blk. 9. Parker Sub. Dana Lands. $10.00. D Snakenberg, Nettie Snaken berc to Dr. Geo. L. Gallaher: Lot 8. blk. 1. Otto Adition, Harlingen. $3,000.00. Mack Mize. Gertrude E. Mize to Rio Hondo Ice Co.; Lots 15 and 16. blk 41. townsite Rio Hondo. $1,000.00. James-Dick-Farm Mtg. Co. to Otto D. Christ, Clara E. Christ; Blk. 197. cont. 11.29 ac. block 198 cont. 10.68 E. S. Qt. C. D. & E. sub. El Jardin sub. $39,546.00. Al. F. Parker to Al and Lloyd Parker; Blk. 47. Sh. 17. 9. 15. E. S. ' Gt. Browne Tract. $10.00. C. C McSpadden. Kate M Mc Spadden to Al & Lloyd Parker Inc.: Grove “I" townsite Olmito. $10.00. G. G. Henson, John T. Lomax Ho. & Brownsville Dev. Co. to Amada Martinez: Tot 10 blk. 106, [Brownsville. $10.00. I Amada Martinez to Gertrude C 0 Schamberg; the west one half lot 10 block 106. Brownsville. $10.00 G. G. Henson, John T. Lomax, Ho. and Brownsville Dev. Co. to Gertrude C. Schamberg; lot 4, block 109-A, Brownsville. $650 00 Osco tyorris to Diego Tristan; the south one half lot 1. block 41, Har lingen townsite. $500.00 Juanita Salinas de Mart.qgsz et al to Jo6e Angel Martinez; one half mt. in tr. in fe. S. Gt. Field of Juan Salinas et al. €10.00 J. F. Ratliff to Mariana Robles; west one half lot 7, block 2, 8th addn. Sa Benito. $10.00 G. C. and Blanche Bell Richard son to R. H. ELsaman; lot 24. block 3, Los Ebanos addn. Brownsville. $10.00 Lorenzo Gonzalez. Delia Gonzalez, to J F Ratliff, west one half lot 7, block 2. 8th addn. San Benito. $10.00 Marciano Robles. Leonardo Ro bles to Lorenzo Gonzalez; lot 5. block 4. 10th addn. San Benito. $10. A. Wayne Wood. tr. to Troy Matt hews; lot 859 and 860. Colonia Vic toria. city. $10.00 Port Isabel Irrig. Co. to Mike Mil ler, Ernestine Miller; southwest 2 1-2 acres, block 28. Bayslde Dev. Co. Box Ranch, Bayside Gardens. $5,000 James-Diekinson Farm Mortgage Co. to R E Sex’erns. Caroline L. Severn*; 13 22 acres farm block 208, El Jardin sub. $7932.00 Miguel Pacheeo to Jose Trevino; lot 912, 913, 914. Colonia Victroia, Brownsville, siu.uu M D. Kennedy to Cenobio Saenz; lot 33. block 19. Garden Parks sub Brownsville. $109.00 C. S. Morton to Sam J. Baker, first tract beg. at N. E. comer block 129 F. L. and I Co. SH22 E. S. Gt. $10.00. VV T. Carpenter to Roy C. Portei and Alta V. Porter; lot 13. block 4 Benoist addn. Harlingen. $10 00 J. G. Bennett, H. L. Thomas tc Chas. W. Kyle; lots 4. 5. block 4 Garden Parks sub. Brownsville. $1C Julia E. Buchanan et al to Chas H. Brown; five acres of block 64 D. 8 Sub. $10 00 Port Isabel Co. to Mrs.’Ebba C Johnson; lots 6 and 61A block 59 lot 3-A block 8. Point Isabel. $4000. Mrs John J. Young to William J Young; a 65-foot frontage on High way 12. Brownsville extending back 1672 ft. $10.00 D. B. Meadows to W\ H Watson lot 11 blk 4, Taylor addn, Harlingen $10.00 G. G. Henson, John T. Lomax ! Ho. and Brownsville Dev. Co., fcc Brigido Rodriguez, lot 6, block 224 | Citv Brownsville. $450.00 E. W. and Hattie E. Marshall tc Sabin K. Wder; block 149. Espiritu ' Santo Irrigated Lands Co’s. Sub ' h. 1 E. S. Gt. 10 acres. $10.00 R. A. and La! Hightower et al tc W A. Darling; the southwesterly halves of lots 6 and 5 block 132, city Brownsville. $10.00 PARKER FIGHT UNABATING Nomination As Justice Goes Before Senate Late Today WASHINGTON. April 28.—(fP)— The nomination of Judge John J. Parker as associate Justice of the supreme court will be brought be fore the senate late today with » bitter controversy and a close vote in prospect. For the second time this year a determined effort will be made to prevent confirmation of one of President Hoover's appointees to the nation’s highest tribunal on the ground that it tends to increase the court’s majority of conserva tive opinion. The nomination is vigorously pro tested by labor and negro organi zations, the former contending that Judge Parker is prejudiced against the working man and the latter that he has shown a bias against the negro race. The labor allega tion is based upon a decision In which Judge Parker upheld the so called "Yellow Dog contract’’ and the negro complaint upon asser tions made by the nominee in a campaign speech in 1“20. Teachers Applying For Valley Schools SAN BENITO. April 28—Applica tions for teaching positions in the San Benito schools are on hand from all over the United States, some teachers from as far away as the New England states. Wyom ing and Washington seeking to come here, according to the San Benito school j>oard. In nearly every instance the ap plicants have stated a desire to settle in the Valiev but some ar? prompted by the spirit of adventure to spend a year or two teaching on the border. Many of those wishing to settle here have relatives or friends in the Valley. The board of trustees recently re-elected all teachers who wish to return but there will be some vacancies due to resignations and new positions create*. Anpointments to fill these places will be made soon. NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals addressed to Cameron County Water Improve ment District No. Fourteen of Brownsville. Texas, will be received at the office of the President of said District, in Room 312, Merchants National Bank Building. Browns ville. Texas, until 12m May 27th, 1930. for furnishing all necessary equipment, materials and labor for constructing certain improvements for Cameron County Water Im provement Di^rict No. Fourteen, owner, of Brownsville, Texas. Bidders must submit certified check for two per cent <2%> of the amount of the bid, payable without recourse to the order of Cameron County Water Improvement District No. Fourteen, as guarantee that the bidder will enter into trie contract and execute bond and guarantee in the forms provided in specifications within ten days after notice of award of contract to him. Bids with out required check will not be con sidered. The owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive formalities. In case of ambiguity or lack of clearness in stating the prices in bids, the owner reserves the right to consider the most ad vantageous construction thereof, or to reject the bid. Bidders are expected to inspect | the site of the work and to Inform themselves regarding all local c<#-i ditions. Instruction to bidders. Proposal Forms. Specification and plans. En gineer’s Report and Profiles show ing the work to be done, are on file at the office of W E Anderson, En gineer for said District, at San Benito, Texas, and will be furnished bidders at the cost of $100.00. Bidders will be required to make a lump sum proposal for the entire work covered by the plans and spe cifications, including furnishing re servoir site, right of way. water rights and title to pumps, pipe lines and canals row serving the lands of the district. Payment will be made in the bonds of the District. Dated this. April 25 .1930. Cameron County W'ater Im provement District No. 14. (SEAL' Bv Lute P. Stover. President. | S. K. Hallam, Secretary 4-28-5-12-19-4t 3732 j[ WIN A NEW DODGE! ‘ 500 FREE VOTES ; «... 500 FREE VOTES JESSE DENNETT, INC |j Valley Dodge Distributor This coupon when properly filled out and neatly clipped and returned to contest headquarters. Miller ‘ Hotel, Brownsville, Texas, is good for 500 votes for the contestant named. * % Name • .... » • • . • • • i<l». • II St. Address or R D. • • • • • :• ux'j• • • •«*»•••:«! I j City.State. | MONTY’S MONTHLY Pioneer Valley Magazine $2,500.00 IN PRIZES V_ Quits D. A- R. Mr*. Marvin B. Roeenberry, wife of th* chief Justice of the Wiscon sin supreme court, has resign from the D. A. R. because, of the na tional organisation's policy on world peace. : WEATHER SUMMARY The weather was rather cloudy and unsettled practically through out the United 8tates at the morn ing observation, but rains were still mostly light and scattered thru out the country during the last 48 hours. Temperatures were near the seasonal average practically thru out the country this morning. BULLETIN First figures, lowest temperature last night; second, highest yester day; third, wind velocity at 8 a. m. fourth, precipitation in last 24 hours. Abilene .. 60 86 .. .26 Amarillo .. 52 68 .. .44 Atlanta ............ 58 68 .. .00 Austin ............ 66 86 .. .00 Boise . 44 60 .. .18 Boston . 44 68 .. .00 BROWNSVILLE ...73 82 11 .00 Calgary . 40 .. .. .36 Chicago . 44 56 10 .10 Cleveland . 48 60 12 .08 Corpus Chrlsti. 72 78 10 .00 Dallas . 64 78 .. .00 Del Rio. 60 84 .. .98 Denver . 46 70 .. .01 Dodge City.... 54 68 .. .00 El Paso . 58 84 14 .00 Fort Smith. 60 76 .. .00 Helena . 36 60 .. .04 Houston . 64 80 .. .00 Huron . 46 54 12 .00 Jacksonville .. 68 74 12 .00 Kansas City . 52 56 .. .00 Louisville . 56 68 .. .00 Memphis . 64 78 .. .00 Miami . 84 78 14 .04 New Orleans . 64 80 .. .00 North Platte . 48 62 .. .00 Oklahoma City I... 62 66 10 .00 Palestine . 62 80 .. .00 Pensacola . 66 72 10 .00 Phoenix . 58 86 .. .00 Port Arthur . 70 80 .. .00 Roswell . 48 66 .. .44 St. Louis . 54 60 .. .28 st. raui . 44 60 .. .oo Salt Lake City .... 44 60 .. .02 San Antonio . 68 84 .. .08 Santa Fe . 40 66 .. .00 Sheridan . 44 66 .. .08 Shreveport . 64 86 .. .00 Vicksburg . 62 82 .. .00 Washington . 54 72 .. .00 Williston . 50 <44 .. .04 Wilmington . 58 74 .. .00 7 KILLED BY FALLING SHIP More Then Dozen Injured A* Sight-Seeing Plane Smashes Crowd FAYETTEVILLE. Tenn.. April 38 _- —Eight members of nearby farming communities who climbed to a railroad enbankment to watch a Sunday airplane exhibition lay dead today, victims of a sight seeing plane which crashed into the spectators. More than a doren others were injured, four critically. The pilot. Milton P. Covert, 23, Columbia, Tenn., who with two companions escaped uninjured, was held in Jail in another county on a technical charge of murder pend ing a hearing today. Covert was exonerated of blame by the man ager of the exhibition and Sheriff M. W. Rhea, but the officer said he removed the pilot to a neighbor ing Jail as a precautionary measure r gainst possible violence. Spanish Entering Golf Vocabulary 'Special to The Herald.) SAN BENITO, April 28—A Span ish vocabulary of miniature golf terms is in a fair way of being compiled by promoters of the mid get courses here. ‘Miniature golf” has been tran slated Into ‘•Golfecito.” meaning literally’ "little golf.” The name has been adopted for a course on the resaca here opposite the Artec binding and near the Mexican section. The Spanish equivalent for “fore” has been decided to be "culdado” which means "look out there, thou dumbbell ” or something like that. Endurance Flier Is Honored by Friends FORT WORTH, April 3S—UF— Fliers, friends, and business asso ciates planned today to honor with last rites Jim Kelly, Fort Worth endurance flier who for a time w?s co-holder with Reg Robbins of the world’s refueling flight record, c. W. Mennis. Fort Worth oil Ope rator, and o: F. Williams, kawa. Okla. W Kelly and Mennis were Saturday night when the cabin plane in which they were en route from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth crashed in a storm near Alvord, Wise county, north of here Wil liams died here yesterday in a hospital. His body was taken to Por.ca City, Okla, for burial O. C. Ross, Oklahoma City ou operator, was recovering in a hr. pital here from a broken shoulder, sprained ankle, and cut* on tfc* head. Thirty Prisoners Going to Texas Pen HOUSTON, April 2»—Closed since March 5 to incoming felons because of overcrowded condition*, gates of the Texas penitentiary system are to open this fceek for receiving 30 more prisoners. Lee Simmons, general manage-, estimated that more than 30ft pris oners had been accumulated in county Jails over the state sir.c** the prison board ordered prison authorities to refuse acceptance of prisoners. During the time the system wiu closed it* population was reduced from 5,100 to 4.800 prisoners COLORFUL VEGETABLES Fresh vegetables often lose their color because they are cooked too long Asparagus. Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, spinach and cabbage rarely need more than 10 minute. cooking; peas, carrots, parsnips and turnips between 20 and 30 m:,nt« and squash only about 20. * APACE For more than a quarter century the Merchants’ National has served this section and has aided in the commercial development of the community. As its financial needs have multiplied and become more diverse, so this Bank has grown to meet the enlarged demands of its customers. We offer you the same friendly and efficient co operation that has been our policy in the past. Call and discuss your financial problems with us. Capital Stock Originally paid in $100,000.00 Increased from earnings ...... .. 150,000.00 $250,000.00 Surplus Fund, earned ... 275,000.00 A MERCHANTS' NATIONAL BANK I © R* © W N S VlLLt •.•_T fL X A 9 m Lowest Prices DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER! k ft An dby lowest prices we do not mean prices that we CLAIM to be the lowest, but prices that PROVE to be lowest when you compare them with any other tire prices in Brownsville. EVEN STAR DE LUXE TIRES, BUILT OF THE COSTLIEST MATERIALS, AND THE LARG EST, HEAVIEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL TIRES MADE, ARE PRICED RIGHT, BECAUSE HICKS OWNS STAR RUBBER COMPANY. ) . Hicks Rubber Company, Distributors’ Only Store in Brownsville Is at 820 —lizabeth A Texas Institution, with more than 140 stores and associated stores, and own ing the Star Rubber Company. No longer dependent on any other manufacturer to maintain highest quality. D. T. HICKS. FRED HICKS E. A. HICKS Hicks Rubber Co., Distributors 820 Elizabeth Telephone 1477 Brownsville