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Gold Price Is Increased in United States Despite General World Drop
STOCKS AGAIN
FAIL TO NOTE
NEW MURES
WASHINGTON ,Oct. *8. f/P>—Dis
regarding a drop in world gold quo
tations, the administration again
today pushed upward its fixed price
for the domestically mined metal.
While the London quotation was
falling from 131.10 yesterday to
$30.57 today, the price of RFC nur
chases rose from $31.76 to $31 32.
Yesterday, It stood at 66 cents above
the world level and today $125.
Little Recognition
The only apparent recognition of
the decline on the London market
lay in the fact that the domestic
increase was at a smaller rate than
In the last several days when the
London quottion was trending up
ward.
As compared with the first price
aet on Wednesday, Thursday's fig
ures was 18 cents higher and Fri
day's 22 cents above Thursday. The
increase today was six cents.
Economists studying the develop
ment of the government’s new
monetary’ policy were quick to draw
the conclusion that today’s rise, in
the face of the foreign decline, was
evidence of a determination oy the
administration to run the domestic
quotation well above world levels.
Margin Increases
The margin between the Wash
ington and London rates has grown
steady. On Wednesday. It was 17
cents, Thursday 58, yesterday 66
and today $1.25. At the same time the
actual London price, in British cur
rencl, has risen and fallen. Today’s
figure was below that of Wednes
day.
^Dispatches from Denver and 3ar
Francisco reported a tremendous out
burst of activity among the miners,
eager to take advantage of the new
price, and of huge deliveries to the
mints in those cities.
Through raising and pegging the
price of gold. Pres. Roosevelt hopes
to induce a rise in the price of com
modities, on the theory th9t gold
and commodity prices are closely
related and automatically adjust
themselves to each other.
ARAB UNREST
Continued From Page One)
main cities yesterday, in which
•cores were killed and wounded.
How widespread and well organ
ised the Arab movement is can
hardly be gauged for few Europeans
understand the ways of the East.
There were indications, however,
that Arabs In a wide territory were
Sympathetic.
The Arabs’ call to action travelled
swiftly in their own channels, and
wild Nomadic bedouins moved into
the cities.
Agitations said their demonstra
tions were not directed against
Jews themselves, but against Brit
ish authorities for allowing ln
•rsases in the Jewish immigration.
Stones Are Hurled
In Haifa crowds of incensed
Arabs tried to smash automobiles
outside a railway station when a
▼oliey of shots was fired. Youths,
meanwhile, ran through the city
throwing stones.
To avoid gt .eral fighting police
proclaimed a curfew law but the
Arabs attempted to rush the sta
tion for the arrival of prisoners
arrested yesterday in the Jaffa dis
orders.
Armored cars of Seaforth High
landers patrolled Nablus, where one
was killed in clashes yesterday.
Troops aided police also in Nazareth
and Bafed.
In Jerusalem the government
founded up members of the Arab
•xecutlve, among them Aouni Bey
and Abdul Hadi, the latter a lead
er of the Independents and a promi
Ct fwyer. The Arab executive
promoted the demonstrations, j
drakeIstate
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the 16th cer ury sea Rover’s
, was placed In record.
Vligher Than Any*
Replying to a question as to what
court he was then seeking to es
tablish claim to the estate—embra
cing reputedly Oregon redwood for
ests, Egyptian cotton fields and 22
■quaxe blocks of valuable London
Ml estate—Hartze 11 told them It
was "higher than any court,”
Amos Hart .sock, reputedly Hart
cell's chief American agent while
he was in London, was the prin
cipal witness today. Hartsock admit
ted ownership of 80 receipt books
containing names of many donors
to Hartzell s fund. He estimated he
collected $55,000 from approximately
9 b00 persons since he was named
Hartnell's secretary m 1931. Most
Cthe money, he said, was cabled
the defendant.
iTri-County Growers
W*U Meet Monday
(Special to The Herald) l
HARLINGEN. Oct. 28.—An im
portant meeting of the Rio Qr&nde
Valley Vegetable Growers’ associa
tion. commonly known as the tri
county asoeiation, will be held at
the Reese-Wil-Mond hotel Monday
afternoon. Nov. 6. according to C
R 8tone of Harlingen, secretary.
An agreement with representa
tive shippers and other matters
which still need to be settled in
advance at the coming vegetable
season are expected to come up.
GOES TO HOSPITAL
(Special to The Herald)
RIO HONDO. Oct 28—W. C.
Hash station agent of the Missouri
pacific lines, is in Kingsville at the
Missotin Pacific hospital.
Nash, who has been ill for the
last several months, left this seek
on s leave of absence. He was ac
companied to Kingsville by Mrs.
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momentous radio address to the world shortly after Germany’s sensational withdrawal from the Geneva
Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations. At left, German eitisens read a poster, asking sup
port of the action of their government, which appeared on Berlin streets 24 hours after withdrawal
Rehabilitation To
Farmer Was Needed
Fi rst~Swartwout
(Special to The Herald)
3AN BENITO, Oct. 28.—If the
administration had given first con
sideration to rehabilitation of the
farmer instead of to industry, the
national recovery program would
have been further advanced, said
R. V. O. Swartout, re-elected man
ager of the Cameron County Vege
table Growers Ass'n., at a meeting
in the Water Bldg., Saturday after
noon.
He pointed out that more persons
GUN GOES onT
MAID WOUNDED
Joeeflna Benavides, employed as
maid in the Fausto Yturria home,
2034 Palm Boulevard, la in the
Mercy hospital with a bullet wound
through the leg as the result of
an accident early Saturday morn
ing.
The accident occurred when
Yturria was cleaning a pistol In
preparing for his customary Sat
urday trip to the ranch. He had
cleaned two guns and had loaded
the pistol, forgetting to put on the
safety when the maid arrived for
work about 7:20 a. m.
The attorney noticed oil on one
side of the pistol and was briskly
rubbing It when the rag caught on
the hammer, causing It to discharge.
The bullet went through the fleshy
portion of the maid’s leg above her
nee.
The girl was rushed to the hos- j
pltal and x-ray photographs were i
made of the wound. Yturria report
ed the accident to police.
clubsTlan
CONVENTION
|
A Valley-wide convention of La- j
tin-Amerlcan societies will be held
at the Benito Juarez hall, between
3rd and 4th on Jefferson, beginning
at 2 p. m. Sunday.
Many of the Valley and Ma*a
ir.oros societies have named dele
gates to the Brownsville convention.
The chief purpose of the conven
tion is to modernize the rules and
constitutions of the societies. It has
been announced. Mexican Consul S.
J. Trevino of Brownsville Is expect
ed to take a prominent part in the
convention. The session was pro
posed and organized by the Browns
ville club which is one of the oldest
clubs In the state, having been or
ganized In 1878.
Lands Record Tarpon
(Special to The Herald >
SAN BENITO. Oct. 28—R. H
Ward of San Benito not only has
caught eight tarpon this season but
snagged the grandaddy of them
all late Friday afternoon weighting
139 pounds.
The silver king, which was seven
feet, one and one-half Inches long,
won a rod and reel from the Camp
bell AUvo Supply Co., for the lar- I
test catch of the season. Tom Camp
Dell said he could find no record of
a larger tarpon.
W. W. Housewright, city com
missioner. who a few days before
caught his first tarpon, was with
Ward. The tarpon was played an
hour and 15 minutes.
Ward lost a rod and reel bat
tling a tarpon a few days before.
He landed the tarpon in spite cf
a broken rod.
IN NEW QUARTERS
'Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Oct. 28 —New quar
ters have been rented by Penry &
Powers, Harlingen real estate and
Insurance firm, and E. L. Dawis at
torney.
They were located in the First Na
tional Bark building until the storm
but have leased space at 112 South
First St.
Members of the firm are Joe
fenry, Jr., and J. L. Power*. |
V *
are dependent upon agriculture than
those actually engaged in It and
that If farmers were put back on
their feet, Industry would be helped
at the same time.
The Rio Hondo man charged
that labor had been able to dom
inate politics because of its voting
strength but that the fanners com
posed a bloc four times as large
and if they used their power prop
erly they would be able to get the
relief they need so badly.
Failure of various government
agencies to give much needed help
to storm sufferers in the Valley was
noted as a condition to be reme
died.
The directors’ reaction was to
vote to send Swartout to Houston
to meet with representatives of the
Farm Credit Administration who will
be there next week to consider new
agencies for relief of farm owners
In Texas.
Various growers approved edit
orial stand taken by The Browns
ville Herald recently in regard to
federal aid to the fanners of this
section and regarded speeding of
certain facilities as one of the re
sults.
W. T. McClanahan of Highland
was re-elected vice chairman of the
county association and Fred Sellers
of Santa Rosa was re-elected secre
tary. The new office of treasurer
will be filled by Denver Hance of
Highland.
Delegates to the Rio Grande Val
ley Growers’ Ass’n.. were named
some time ago. They are H. P.
Huntley of Primera, J. J. McCarthy
of Rio Hondo and R. Roy Ruff of
the Los Indlos unit.
The proposal that members of the
growers' association do business
only with members in good stand
ing of the shippers’ association
which is now being re-organized was
passed for the time being, the
county association believing that it
was a matter for the tri-county or
ganzation to decide.
The shippers are re-organizing
and expect to put a strong code of
ethics into effect. It was stated at
the meeting here that the growers’
association had been working on
several remedies for the marketing
association including a bonding law
and a compulsory grading, Inspect
ing and standardization law.
The association expects to “go to
the mat’’ on violations of agree
ments which may be entered into
between growers and shippers or
other agreements affecting the mar
keting situation. A fund will be set
aside to take violations of agree
ments into the courts to hold grow
er and shipper alike in line.
Growers are expecting to receive
and most shippers are expecting to
give contracts for future delivery
of vegetables, in an effort to remedy
one of the evils which ha.- existed
in the past.
•We are just as opposed to un
derhand work by the farmers as by
shippers," said Mr. Swartout.
The board of directors went on
record as favoring contrcl but r.ot
elimination of trucking. The secre
tary was authorized to send a let
ter to the Western Fruit Jobbers’
Ass'n. to this effect. The shippers’
organization had asked for opinion
of the growers in this matter.
It was brought out that there may
be a number of new units formed
in the near future. West Browne
Tract residents will meet Wednesday
night at Mystic Inn. La Paloma and
neighboring growers are to meet
Sunday afternoon. Combes farmers
are anxious to organize and so are
those of Stuart Place. New units
recently were organized at El Jar
din with C. H. Pinkley as delegate
to the county association and at San
Benito with W. E. Chenoweth as de
legate. Dr. H. Drucker. president of
the San Bemto unit, was proxy for
Mr. Chenoweth and reported a sub
unit of Mexican farmers being or
ganized. Willie Esparza is sponsor
ing a unit at La Paloma. A num
ber of older units of the association
reported that they would meet dur
ing the week including Santa Rosa,
La Feria, and Los Fresno*. Monday ;
and San Benito unit and sub-unit
Friday.
Directors of the county associa
tion will meet again Friday night, <
Nov. 10 and every Friday night
thereafter until further notice. ,
Unit delegates reporting at the <
meeting Friday were: George Stoh
ler, La Feria: Harry Fields, Prime- i
ra; R. Roy Ruff. Los Indios; C H.
Pinkley. El Jardln; William Kretz,
Los Presnos; Ed Alter. Rio Hondo;
Denver Hanse. Highland; Dr. H i
Drucker, San Benito; O. R. Couch, <
Briggs-Coleman. j
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LAVISH PUBLIC
EXPENDITURES
ARE ATTACKED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (JPV—
Secy. Ickes today told a delegation
which urged that the public build
ing program be speeded that he
was making every c'fort to estab
lish “a sane and national policy”
In that direction, and took occasion
to criticize lavishness in public
projects.
The Public Works administrator
reiterated “we are perfectly willing
to build any budding that is eco
nomically justified.”
To the contention at Rep. Crowe
<D., Ind ), leader of the relegation,
that unemployment would be dim
inished and men removed from re
lief rolls by Instituting \.e building
program on a large scale. Ickes
said "that doesn’t Justify us in
building a pyramid.” He directed
attention to the cost jf main
tenance which would follow.
The secretary said he believed
many of the proposed public build
ings could be constructed for a
third of he present estinated cost.
In the delegation were Chairman
Do ugh ton of the house ways and
means committee and Rep. Dies
<D.f Tex.).
CAMERON AIDS
ROOD CONTROL
Following the lead of Hidalgo
county, the Cameron county com
misLsoners' court Saturday agreed
to assume liability on any litiga
tion on titles and easements which
might grow out of the U. S. Boun
dary commission taking over the
flood control system.
This resolution, offered by Commr.
J. D. Ward of San Benito, was
passed in order to hasten wore to
be done by the federal government
on the floodways.
J. M. Lytle, project engineer of
the Boundary Commission, and H.
J. F. Oe vries, legal adviser to tne
commission, indicated that grub
bing and cleaning of the flood w vs
will begin Just as soon as legal
technicalities are cleared out of the
way.
The resolution appoints W. O.
Washington, county engineer, as
the county representative to work
with the commission on the flood
control works.
SHIPPERS TO
DISCUSS CODE
HARLINGEN. Oct. 28—A social
hour beeinning at 6 30 o’clock will
precede the shippers’ dinner at the
Reese-Wil-Mond hotel Monday
night at w’.ich time a code of ethics
and re-organization of the Sou’h
Texas Shippers’ .Association will be
discussed, according to L. F. Sew
ell, secretary.
A tentative code has been drawn
up by a committee composed of I.
R. Stahl, Weslaco: Frank Hall,
Mercedes: Cieim Tandy. Los Fres
nos; C. D. Kirk, San Benito; and
John Morris, Jr. Harlingen.
The framers of the code are hope
ful of an agreement with grower
organizations whereby farmers will
do business only with members in
good standing of the shlpoers as
sociation. Adherence to the code
would be one of the requirements.
Growers and shippers are expect
ing to hold another joint meeting
soon.
Edelstein Trade-In
Week Opens Monday
Edelstein stores of the Valiev, lo
cated at Brownsville. Harlingen and
McAllen, will inaugurate a ‘trade
in’’ week Monday, according to the
management.
Stressing the fact that prices are
due to rise, the Edelstein stores will
offer special inducements on trade
ins Used furniture will be accept
ed as part payment on new mer
chandise. A new stock of the latest
furniture has been received recently
by the Valley stores.
VISITS RELATIVES
HARLINGEN—Mrs. Monty Col
vin and daughter. Carotin, have
driven to Stuttgart. Ark., for a
month’* visit with relative*
POLITICIAN’S
KIDNAPING IS
UNDER PROBE
PIKES VILXE, Ky.. Oct. 28. UP)—
Organization of a searching oarty tc
seek Willis Staton, about 55. n>n
didate for circuit judge who was
kidnaped yesterday by four masked
men, was planned here today m
authorities sought to determine a
motive for the abduction.
Reports of the kidnaping were
brought by Joe Staton, nephew of
the missing man. who said the quar
tet stopped him and his uncle by
blocking their automobile on a hign
way shortly before dawn yesterday
as they were returning from a poli
tical rail at Pond Creek.
Young Staton said one of the four
men handed his uncle a paper and
said "sign that or die" and the
elder Staton replied "I’ll die."
After binding him to the auto
mobile, Joe Staton said, the men
drove away In their own car with
his uncle.
"He was kidnaped by political
enemies." Mrs. Staton declared when
informed of her husband's abduc
tion. She said her husband receiv
ed two letters in the past few days
telling him not to remain tn the
political race. Staton, formerly a
circuit judge, was a practicing at
torney and author. He lost the dem
ocratic nomination in the August
primary, started to contest the elec
tion, but withdrew It and announc
ed as an independent.
j League Contests
Changes Are Made
MERCEDES, Oct. 28.—According
to school officials, numerous chan
ges have been made In the Inter
scholastic League contests for this
year. Among them are changes
made in essay writing, grammar
school choral singing and spelling
No Idea will be given In essay
writing as to the topic Topics for
essays are to be mailed from Aus
tin and are not to be opened un
til the day of the contest. Former
ly the winning essays have been
sent to Austin for the higher con
test. but this year the contestants
themselves must go to Austin.
Instead of the regular songs used
for the grammar school choral con
tests, the following will be used:
“Sky Music." "True Story,” "Rjck
abye Baby," “Humming Bird”
“Sweet Kittle Clover,” “Bendemeer's
Stream,” “Home Road” and “Home
Home." Two-thirds of the words
ir the spelling contest will be taa
en from the student’s text book
TTie remainder will be taken from
the Interscholastic League sheer*
M’KEE MAY GET
FARLEY’S P
WASHINGTON, Oct 28. —
Whether Postm’r. Gen. Parley will
publicly put in an oar for Joseph
V. McKee, candidate for mayor of
New York, today became a lively
topic of speculation in the capital.
Even his best friends admitted
that the demand of Hugh S. John
son. the industrial administrator,
that McKee forces refrain from
using the Blue Eagle insignia in his
campaign, had put the postmaster
general, the political generalissimo
of the administration, in something
of a difficult situation and they
speculated as eagerly as anybody
else upon what he would do about
lv.
Although the White House has
reiterated that it was “hands off” in
the New York political campaign,
and Parley has answered all ques
tions about his interest in the situa
I tion with another lick at his gum or
, talk about the straight flush he
held that cost L. W. Robert, assist -
j ant secretary of the treasury. $100,
j nobody has pretended that admin
I istration circles were not interest
ed keenly in the situation that has
developed there.
The administration has been
aware too. that McKee has been
drawing closer to It within the past
week and that Piorella La Guardia,
his fusionist opponent, has been
asking “who authorized you to tie
up your campaign with the pres
ident?” in spite of that, the White
House reiterated Its “hands off”
policy and Parley, while speaking
a great deal on a tour of up-state
New York, said nothing at all about
the New York political situation.
CAMERON RECORDS
Marirage licenses issued: Miller
W. Harwell and Ellen Amy McDon
ald. Cipriano C. Caldez and Guad
alupe Maldonado. BenJ. Frederick
Gross and Lillian Sylvia Kveton.
James Nuchols and Frances 8ue
Scott.
HEAD MAN?
The report suddenly has start
ed to make the rounds that
Mickey Cochrane, above, great
Athletics’ backstop, will direct
the destiny of the Detroit Tigers
nent season. Mickey has been
said to be slipping with Mack’s
crew, which adda weight to the ;
Detroit reDort 1
Union Sympathy Pledged Farmers
"Sympathetic co-operation" of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men was pledged to the farm strike by A. F. Whitney, president of
the rail organization, left, after he conferred in Chicago with Milo
Reno, head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association, as pic
tured here.
Murray Threatens
With Troops Ickes ’
Drouth Area Talk
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. UP)—
Anger stirred some members of the |
Oklahoma congressional delegation
today because of a statement at
tributed to Sec. Ickes that the
drought-stricken area of the state
should be turned back to the pub
lic domain.
Sen. Thomas (D., Okla.i, said the
NAZI LEADER
IS HUNTED BY
FEDERAL MEN
—_
NEW YOBK. Oct. 28 —UP)—Heinz
Spanknoebel, pro-nazi leader was
hunted today by federal agents
under a 1927 law aimed at foreign
propagandists.
U. S. Atty. George Z. Medalie
said "he is now either in hiding or
on his way to the country.”
Spanknoebel, a storm centre in a
nazi-Semitic controversy which led
to the banning by Mayor O’Brien of
a “German Day ’ celebration San- \
day, was ordered arrested yester
day.
Medalie charged that Spanknoe
bel represented himself to be a
German diplomatic agent and that
he failed to notify the state depart
ment of his alleged mission, as re
quired by law. Medalie declared the
German embassy denied Spanknoe
bel was an official agent of Ger- j
many.
Medalie said the charges were
based on statements by Victor F.
and Bernard H. Bidder, publishers
ot German language newspapers
here, that Spanknoebel displayed
documents purporting to show that
he represented the “presse abteil’
(publicity bureau) of the Oerman
government. Official statements in
Berlin have disavowed Spanknoe
bel.
Spanknoebel was reported to
have sailed for Germany on the
liner Deutschland, but the skipper
replied to a radio query; "Span*.
noebel not aboard.”
MM VISIT
NEW STORES
^Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN, Oct 28—A grati
fying response was had by a num
ber of merchants on the 100 block of
Jackson Street who held formal
openings of their new places of
! business Saturday.
Thousands of persons thronged
to the various establishment on
this block who joined hands in in
viting the public to see their new
homes established or remodeled
since the storm.
The consensus was that the stores
had not merely been restored but
were more attractive than before
the storm, most of them taking ad
vantage of the opportunity to make
Improvements they had contem
plated for some time.
Among the firms was Julians
Booterie which increased its floor
space to salon proportions A great
er selection of footwear also was
available In the Increased snace.
Celebration day gifts were pre
sented to visitors aivl customers
at Simmonds Booterie. home of Ret]
Cross shoes which are no'ed for
their comfort as well as their stvle.
The Hertz Style Shop. Inc., after
being on a side street temporarily, I
was again a main street institution
with store space at 119 E. Jack
son filled with new and attractive
merchandise. Gifts were given visi
tors.
The famous Brown-bilt shoe line
was to be found at Deakin’s at 114
E. Jackson. Not only the B-o n
bilt ;hoes for adults and Buster I
Brown shoes for children were avail- j
able in all styles and sizes but a
an accompanying line of hosiery
was on display.
Among the firms participating In
the celebration was Harvman
Tucker. men’s furnishings dealers,
and Badway’s Cafe, onr of the
■popular eating places of Harlingen.
Kuppenheimer and other well
known line* are handled by Harry
man-Tucker.
entire delegation would go to Pres.
Roosevelt next week for an ex
planation.
Rep. Marland (D., Okla), said
Ickes made the statement in telling
him there was no hope for adminis
tration approval of any of the dam
projects in the area.
Marland quoted Ickes as saying
the government contemplated mov
ing 40,000 persons from the area,
perhaps to some point along the
all-American canal, in California.
"It’s preposterous,” he added, to
newspapermen, pointing out fami
lies had lived there and made their
living for decades and that the
drought was only during the last
two years.
Meanwhile. Rep. Johnson (D.,
Okla.) said he took the matter up
with Pres. Roosevelt today.
The president, he said, assured
him of his esteem for Oklahoma
and added he was certain Ickes had
made no such remark with serious
intentions.
Told, later, however, of Ickes’
reported statement to Marland
Johnson agreed the delegation
should go to the president.
Johnson said: ‘ We’ll protest vig
orously to the president. We’ll see
Ickes about it, too. and give him a
chance to tell us that."
“It's difficult for me to believe a
man would seriously make such a
statement. It seems the gentleman
is feeling his oats since he came
from Chicago to Washington. And
regardless of what Mr. Ickes thinks
of Oklahomans they com pa re~ very
favorably with his Chicago ma
chine-gunners."
WONT MOVE ONE
DAMN MAN Ol’P
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 28 <A*>—
Oklahoma’s entire National Guard
will be called out by Gov. William
H (Alfalfa Bid; Murray if Sec.
Ickes attempts to move Oklahoma, u
from the drought-stricken north
western section of the state, the
governor said tonight.
“As long as 5.000 national guards
can maintain quarters in Oklahoma,
they won't move one damn man out
of this state." the governor declar
ed emphatically.
MONTGOMERY VISITS
HARLINGEN. Oct. 28—M R.
Montgomery of Houston, was a visi
tor in the Valley over the week
end. He formerly was connected with
Valley offices of the Southern Pa
cific here but is now working out
of the Houston office 1
FEAR 26 LOST
LIVES DURING
L A KESTORM
FELKIRK. Man., Oct. 27. «*>—
Anxious relatives of 26 missing
men peered with wavering hope to
day out upon the sleet lashed wa
ters of Lake Winnipeg.
Somewhere out there were two
bouts which had been missing Him
days with the crews and oassen
gers. All of Selkirk.
One was the Luberc. With a crew
1 of six and 15 fishermen, she left for
winter fishing stations 251 miles
northwest of here less than 48 hours
before winds and snow tied up
navigation here.
The other was the Question Mark
carrying a crew of three and two
passengers.
Airplanes zlg-sagged over the
lake in the hope of finding the
boats.
So severe was the storm that in
shore craft were converted in ap
pearance to miniature Icebergs
The Luberc, a 90-foot oil burner
built at a cost of 828.000, Is owned
by the Lake Manitoba Fisheries Co.
The Question Mark, is a 50-footer,
owned by the Selkirk Navigation
Oo.
CHURCH SCHOOL
ISSUE HANGING
DENISON, Oct. 38. —1**—
ha usted by a stubborn battle over
the suggestion for state-wide reform
and consolidation of denominational
schools, which ended today in a
compromise proposal the North
Texas Conference of the Methodist
Church, South, tonight endeavored
| to hurry through the formalities of
business, in preparation for ending
the conference tomorrow.
One faction tn the convention had
favored adoption of a report of the
Joint commission on education, cre
ated last year by the general Texas
conference. That commission had
recommended sweeping reorganisa
tion and consolidation of Methodist
schools and Institutions. The other
faction advocated the appointment
of a new commission.
The conference compromised by
endorsing the commission's report
and referring It to a new commis
sion which would be named Jointly
by the five Methodist district con
ferences In Texas. The new com
mission would be composed of JO
men. Including three ministers and
three laymen from each of the five
conferences. As endorsed In a reso
lution by the North Texas Confer
ence. the proposed new commission
would, when necessity arose, func
tion as the Joint board of trustees
for the Texas Methodist system of
education and would be directed to
carry out or modify, if necessary,
provisions of the report presented
by the present Joint commission.
Devries Leaves
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Oct. 28 W. H. S.
Devries, counsel and acting com
missioner of the International
Boundary Commission, returned to
El Paso Saturday night following
several days in the Valley in con
nection with right-of-way business
for the flood control system.
He appeared before county com
missioners courts and others seeking
transfer of rights-of-way from
counties to the federal gcvemment
so that work on the $1,500,000 pro
gram outlined for the year may pro
ceed as rapidly as possible.
He was assisted by Sid Eldman.
Brownsville attorney, who will be
engaged with rights-of-way mat
ters for the boundary commission
for several months.
GET NEW MANAGER
L. C. Womack of Galveston has
arrived in Brownsville to become the
new manager of the Singer Cewing
Machine office here. Mr. Womack’s
family Is expected In the city this
week.
William Richter, former manager
here, has been with the company
for the past 17 years.
BEER
Distributor Wanted
A very fin* beer that haa never been offered In this
market. It is made in Colorado with the celebrated
Bockv Mountain water.
It’s new to this territory, bat is enjoying great pop
ularity and selling right up with the best known
brands in North, West, East and Southeast Texas.
The quality Is better than most; the price is competl
tlve; the brewery Is located near, so that freight rates
are low and service good.
We are Just now ready to enter the Southwest Texas
territory, but this is one of the beers that WILL STAY,
once It is established!
* We will accept only a GOOD distributor. If you aru
at present in the beer business, and interested in mak
ing a change: or if you have the qualifications to maks
a good distributor .... write, wire or phone for an
appointment with the Texas representative and th#
Sales Manager of the Brewery.
1200 Camp DALLAS Phone 2-241J