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YOUTHS HELD
IN KIDNAPING
OF TEACHERS
MUSKOGEE, Okla, Sep. l.—iA'
—Two youth* were held today foi
the kidnaping of two teachen
from their classrooms in the
Woods’ country school.
Lee Hyatt, 17, and Dolphus PhU
NPptt, 21, were arrested on Sugai
^fountain in the automobile stolen
tnree armed ruffians from Mrs
£fola Durham, 25, after they
ha. kidnaped Mrs. Durham anil
Lawrence Panell, 30, before the
eyes of their frightened pupils
yesterday.
i he teachers were released un
harmed after a wild ride toward
tie Arkansas border In Mrs. Dur
ham’s car with one of the kid
naper* at the wheel.
_ Hyatt and Phtlpott, who said
they were farmers, denied connec
tion with the erne. The twe
teachers were summoned today tc
attempt to Identify them. Mean
while, officers sought a third sus
pect.
Sheriff Jim Sanders of Cherokee
county arrested the two youths
last night when he met them as
he was returning to Tahlequah
after giving up the kidnaper hunt
VALLEY TENNIS
ENTRY CHANGED
The last date (or entering the
Valley tennis tournament to be
held In Edinburg, Sept. 4 and a,
has been changed from Thursday,
Sept. 1 to Friday night, Sept. 2
This change was made to accom
modate a number of players who
could not make entry before that
date. All entry blanks accompanied
with the fees should be sent to S
W. Patrick at Edinburg. The fee;
are one dollar for each singles
ertry and 75 cents for each dou
bles player.
The trophies have arrived and
are on display at the O. K. Phar
macy in Edinburg. Two silver
cups will be given the winners ol
the doubles play and a trophy will
bf awarded the winner of the
—llrgles play.
a classy tournament is awaiting
^Hfie Valley tennis players this yeai,
^■2 entries in singles and 5 doubles
Vteam have sent in their entry
blanks. Among the leaders for
singles play are Bill Southwell,
captain of the McAllen city team,
Clair Hudson of Weslaco and num
ber on« player on wire Edinburg
college Bror.c team last year. Ivy
Lee Doty, of Pharr, and winner of
tlie high school bi-dlst: ict title
for the past two years S- V Pat
rick, captain of the Edinburg ciry
team. Others entered for singles
play are: Chidlow. Harty, Reidell.
Lloyd Crawford, of McAllen; Nor
man Schrager of Edinburg; B.
Patrick. J. Rogers. George Steph
enson and Percy Adams of Kings
ville and members of A & I varsity
teams.
The entries for doubles are
Patrick and Southwell, winners of
last year's tournament. Doty ana
Chidlow. Cox and Reidell, R. Pat
rick and J. Rogers, Geo. Stephen
son and P Adams.
LETTERS to
tfc EDITOR
Editor. The Herald,
Brownsville, Texas.
Har. ingen, Wednesday, paid
tribute to one of its’ young men—
Frank Bowen, a volunteer fire
man, who died In the line of duty.
I was and hope still am, an hon
orary member of the Harlingen
Volunteer Fire Department and
am quite familiar with the risks
and sacrifices those boys and ev
ery member of every Volunteer
Fire Department In the Valley
take. Frank Bowen's life was un
necessarily sacrificed; the wonder
A- more of those fine boys who
KV" dedicating their services for
ihr love of the game, and the
protection of yours and my prop
erty are not similar victims be
cause of a thoughtless public.
In your "Our Valley” column
a few days ago, you mentioned
the we.i-.ness of the public in fol
lowing & fire department to fires
and endangering not only the lives
of the firemen but property as
•well, by "ganging up” ard pre
venting unhampered work
Here <s a suggestion that may
help ta avoid another Frank
Bowen casualty. Here in San Be
nito, f^r instance, when the de
partment leaves on a run, a police
man follows; likewise dozens of
cars filled with curiosity seekers.
Why can't the police officer station
himself two blocks from the scene
of the alarm and prevent every
one from approaching the scene
unless they may hare particular
business there? Those who may
have. will have no difficulty in
Identifying themselves and can
pass if necessary-.
This rale can be put Into op
eration in every town in the Val
ley and i hope it will be Immed
iately. n might be the means of
saving the life, to say nothing of
the property of more than on*
person.
Yours very truly.
Geo. A. Toolan, San Benito.
RAT WON Ol’T
KNOXVILLE, Tenn —Little E
W. and E. J. Daniels, 9 and 11
years old respectively, came out
second be-t In a battle with a rat.
H«arir.^ & noise under the floor
of their home. E. W., the younger,
reached his hand through a ho re
r.o grab the rat. Then he yelled.
*al J*rk‘d it away. He had been
Bis brother then tried it,
wfln the ,'oune result. The children
were tre»;ed at the hospital. The
xat got i way.
Pollen arains have been found
floating n the air during the
aprinc season 13 miles from the
flower.^
Where Does Movie
Stars ’ Money Go?
Here are two Hollywood movie stars who are “paupers” so far as
the Los Angeles county tax assessor is concerned. Gloria Swanson, who
has made millions, pays taxes on a harp, while Constance Bennett, In
set. pays taxes on $200 worth of furniture and that’s all.
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer
HOLLYWOOD—What do the
movie stars do with ther money?
A great many people have won
dered about that for a long time, j
But right now it’s tire Los Angele*
county tax assesor who is the most
perplexed of all.
According to the personal prop
erty assesments for the current
year, a great many of our reputed
ly wealthy screen stars really have
very few possessions. Just' what
they have done with those four
figure weekly pay checks is hard to
say.
Charlie Chaplin has more wealth
in ready cash and negotiable securi
ties than any other person In this
county according to the record* . His
stocks and bonds at the present
market prices are valued at $7,687.
570. Added to this Is $295,600 In cash
and solvent credits and a $700 auto
mobile.
He denies that he is worth so
much, however, placing his weal'h
at approximately one-fourth the re
corded figure.
That doesn't sound like much of a
rar for a man in Chaplin's position
does It? But wait? Greta Garbo's
ear has a value of only $220, accord
' ing to the assessor. Aside from that
! auto, all she has is $122,000 in stocks
and bonds.
* • •
And as for poor Gloria Swanson—
we're Just about ready to shed teais
i for her. After all the millions she
has earned, the only thing she tr*s
in the world as far as the tax as
sessor could determine is a golden
harp valued at $350. Wonder who
really owns her automobile and all
that beautiful furniture in her Bev
erly Hills mansion?
Nor is that the worst. There's
nothing to do but to break right
out crying for poverty-stricken Con
stance Bennett. This charming
young actress who lias earned as
high as $30,000 a week has no per
sonal wealth at all outside of furl
ture assessed at $200.
What, a contrast between Connie
and her sister. Joan. Joan never has
been within reach of Connie in re
gard to salary. Yet she has one of
the classiest cars in Hollywood,
judging from its assessed value of
$1100. Besides that, she has a piano
valued at $2000.
I don’t know just what Connie
does for transportation because I
happen to know that she owns
neither roller skates nor a bicycle.
Douglas Fairbanks owns stocks
and bonds listed at $608,000, but the
bulk of his property is in real es
tate. as is that of Mary Piekford.
Apparently the best furnished
home in the film colony is Harold
Lloyd's. His furniture Is valued at
$102,940. in addition to that he has
stocks and bonds worth $174,450 and
two automobiles assessed at $700
each.
The records also show that per
sonal property of the film stars
compares favorably with that of
California's industrial magnates. K.
L. Dohenv, reputed to be the
wealthiest, man In Southern Cali
fornia. owns furniture worth only
$26,500 only about one-fourth the
value of Lloyd's. However. Dohenv
also owns pictures worth $20,000 and
a yacht valued at $100,000.
VETS ASSAIL
ARMY OUSTING
SACRAMENTO. Calif., Sept. 1.
I —The 33rd i/ncampment of the j
! Veterans of Forign Wars has term
ed the army's rout of bonus
seekers from Washington, D. C., as
"criminally brutal."
The convention late yesterday j
unanimously adopted a resolution
in "solemn protest" against the
use last July of “charging cavalry,
drawn sabres, fixed bayonets, with
guns loaded and ready to shoot,
with tanks (whose use the United
States would prohibit in times oi
wart against unarmed men, women
i and children weakened by hunger
and unemployment..**
The resolution, introduced by
I Joseph Carl Thompson of New
i York City, past state commander
of New York, was adopted with
I shouts of approval that drowned
1 Commander-in-Chlef Darold D.
DeCoe's simistion it be referred
to committee.
The resolution stated “the pres
ident summoned the United States
Army to rout and maim a pitiful
and Inoffensive crowd of ragged
and unarmed bonuseers.’*
The Veterans of Foreign wars
were advised by the resolution to
i remember "the veteran's strongest
j weapon of defense is the ballot.”
Rites Held For
J. J. Mayfield
fSpecial to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE. Sept. 1 — ;
Funeral services were held at the
Baptist church here Thursday
morning for J. J. Mayfield, well
known Raymondville cotton gin- 1
ner. who dropped dead Tuesday
j evening from heart disease.
Mr. Mayfield was playing domi
noes with his son. Jack, when he
suffered the attack.
Rev. Virgil W. Hailey was in
charge of the funeral services.
Mr. Mayfield came to the Valley
in 1924, moving first to McAllen.
He came here the following year
Survivors are Mrs. Mayfield, a
daughter. Jewell Mayfield, 16. *
j son, Jack, 18. and a brother living
in Oklahoma Deceased was 60
years of age.
Mellon Sails Back
NEW YORK. Sep. 1.—
Andrew W. Mellon is on his wav
back to resume his post as am
bassador to the court of St. James.
1 Before sailing last night he denied
i a report he had conferred with
Montagu Norman, governor of the
Bank of England, who is visiting
I this country. i
MOBILGAS’ IS
NEW PRODUCT
"Climatic Control” Is being made
availab.e lor the lirst time to local
motorists with the introduction of
Mobilgas’ by the Magnolia Pe
troleum Company, according to P.
G. Garza, Magnolia agent at
Brownsville.
This new motor fuel, Mr. Garza
said, provides an entirely new
quality in gasoline which has been
uesignated as "Climatic Control”,
descriptive of the fact that Mobli
gas manufacturing sptarifications
have been preatlJusted to meet va
riations in climatic and driving
conditions.
Every car owner has observed
how sensitive the engine in his
automobile is to changes In the
weather conditions. We have all
experienced diificulty in starting
on cold mornings, or loss of power
irom a "starved” motor in hot
weather, Mr. Garza said. These
symptoms indicate that the gas
oline used is not adapted to the
climatic conditions in which the
car is being operated.
Climatic conditions cannot be
controlled, but Magnolia has suc
ceeded through the preadjustment
of manufacturing specifications to
produce a gasoline which will as
sure the highest usable level o!
performance under all driving
conditions and changes in the
weather. This is being done at
Magnolia refineries in the manu
facture of Mobilgas.
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE—
WITHOUT CALOMEL
And You'll Jump Out of Bed in
the Morning Ratin’ to Go
It you fed aour ar.d sunk and the w.'/d
looks punk, don’t swallow a lot ot rslta,
mineral water, oil, laxative randy or chewing
gum and etpect them to make you suddenly
sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine.
For they can’t do it. They only move the
bowels and a mere movement doesn’t get at
the cause. The reason (or your down-and-out
feeling is your liver. It ahould pour out two
pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
If this bile is not flowing fredy, your food
doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels.
Gas bloats up your stomach. You have a
thick, bad taste and /our breath is foul,
akin often breaks out 11 blemishes. Your head
aches and you feel down and out. Your whole
system is poisoned.
It taken those food, old CARTER'S
LITTLE LIVER PIto get these two
pounds of bile flowing fredy and maka you
fed “up and up." They contain wonderful,
harmless, grntle vegetable extracts, amazing
when it comes to tasking the bile f a fieelj
Rut don't ask for liver pills. Ask for Carter's
Little Liver T ils. Look fur the name Carter’s
Little liver Pill* on the ted label. Resent a
wlatduta. Sic at all H#a.
SCHOOL COSTS
ARE REDUCED
AT EDINBURG
(Spf'ial' tc the Herald)
EDINBURGH Eept. 1.—A reduc
tion In the Edinburg Consoli
dated Independent School District
budget for the coming term a
mounting to $27,720 was announced
Wednesday at the school business
office.
The budget for operating expense
during the coming year will be
$110,360, compared to $138080 last
year. Reduction has been made
steadily since the present board
members took office, it was stat
ed. Operating expense budget in
1929-30. it was pointed out, was
$159,000.
I'tmost Economy
The aim in further reductions
this year is to secure the utmost
economy without damage to the
efficiency of the schools, and it is
on tais basis that reductions were
authorized by the school board,
headed by H. C. Aderhold. For
this reason, teachers’ salaries have
been reduced less proportionately
than have other items of expense.
Teachers : r were paid a
total of $103 000. This year the
budge’, calls for a total in faculty
salaries of $91,756, less than 11 per
cent reduction. Other expenses
have suffered a more severe
slash in being cut to $18,606. This
Includes superintendent's salary.
transportation costs, supplies, Ja
nitors and so forth.
To Reduce Debt
There will be no reduction in the
number of teachers. The lower ap
propriation for salaries will be ef
fected entirely by salary reduc
tions and not in reduction of the
faculty.
The school district hopes to re
duce still further the indebted
ness (overdrafts and open ac
counts* during the present year.
The 1930 debt of $71,000 has al
ready been cut down to $33,030,
and it is hoped that by the ena
of the 1932-33 term it will be re
duced to $20,000.
Valuations will be still lower
during the coming year, it was an
nounced, being set at $13,500 000. Va
luations last year, it was said,
were $17,053,012, and In 1930 were
$29,554,298.
Percentage of collections could
be much better, it was said, since a
steady decline in collections has
been recorded. In 1928-29 the per
centage of collections was 93 6 per
cent: in 1929-30, 77.3 per cent: in
1930- 31, 689 per cent; and in
1931- 32, 63 8 per cent.
Ceballos Rites
Santos Ceballos. 29. formerly of
Brownsville, died Tuesday morn
ing at Victoria, where he hsd been
residing for a year. Funeral ser
vices were held Wednesday in Vic
toria. Survivors are his wife, of
Victoria, two brothers and two
sisters, living In Brownsville and
one brother In McAllen.
BOTH IOPFJESS
Two boys were discussing absent
minded unci.». One said: “My uncle
is so absent-iainded that he went to
get on his bicycle and fell because
l it wasn't there."
N’ADOO WINS
NOMINATION
FORJENATE
BAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1. (.TV
William Gibbs McAdoo, member ol
the Woodrow Wilson cabinet, and
young Tallant Tubbs, San FrancHco
rope manufacturer, will be oppon
ents in the November election for
the California senate seat held by
Samuel M Shortridge, republican.
With only 336 precincts unrecord
ed of the state’s 10,531, returns from
Tuesday's primary Indicated defin
itely the nomination of Tubbs, re
publican, and McAdoo. democrat,
and the defeat of Shortridge, for 12
years California’s Junior senator.
All but one incumbent congress
man seeking renomination appeared
safely ahead of opponents and that
one. H. E Barbour was only 11 votes
behind Glenn M. de Vore for the re
publican nomination by unofficial
count with cne precinct missing.
Tubbs Is an advocate of elimina
tion of the 18th amendment from
the constitution. McAdoo Is run
ning strictly on the democratic na
tional platform, in which there is a
repeal plank.
The fight for the senatorial nomi
nations found the republican vote
j split four ways, not counting the
) trailing fifth candidate, while Mc
Adoo had but one formidable rival.
TIED FOR LIFE
In India, after the wedding
! ceremony, the bride and groom are
tied together by the corners of
their garments to signify that they
are united for life.
Boy Scout Killed
PAMPA. Sept. 1.—</Ph- Harry
Dunlap. 14-year-«ld Boy Scout,
was killed last night when he
tumbled off a truck in which he
and other Pampa boys were re
turning from a summer camp In
New Mexico.
Apparently he was struck by a
car travelling in the opposite di
rection after he fell. His body had
been dragged about 50 feet.
The boy was not missed for
some time. It was about an hour
before his mangled body was found
on the highway west of Pampa.
MERCEDES SETS
TEACHERS MEET
(Special to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Sept. 1—Supt. E.
H. Poteet states that the first
faculty meeting will be held here
Saturday morning at 10 o’clock.
The senior high school class will
register with Principal W. W. Gay
Friday afternoon, all students to
enroll Monday morning.
All teachers who make up the
faculty this year are from last
year’s roll. There are five less
teachers this year. In keeping with
the economy plan mapped out by
the school board there will be no
salaried music teacher tn the
schools this year
Prof. Otto Miller, graduate of
the Conservatory of Music ot
Schwerin. Germany, and a former
member of Sousa's band, recently
of Houston, will direct the or
chestra and music In the schools
on a tuition basis.
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