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CUBANS ARE
KEPT ON EDGE
BY SHOOTINGS
HAVANA, March 14. —(AV- Al
i though repeated outbreaks of
M' shooting gave Havana another
restless night, the government of
President Carlos Mendleta appear
ed to be gradually winning Its
battle to restore order and retain
authority.
Thousands of rounds of ammu
nition were dlsch*"ged In the city
under the cover of darkness, despite
continued enforcement of the
drastic curfew law requiring the
streets to be cleared after Ip. n
A police lieutenant was wounded
by the fire of a rooftop sniper. Two
stray bullets crashed through the
window of the penthouse apart
ment of Richard Armstrong, Amer
ican newspaper correspondent,
passing not far from where Arm
strong was sitting.
Police visited Amstrong's apart
ment a few minutes later along
w.th that of another American
news man. Richard Melton of Bax
ley. Ga. They departed after up
setting furniture and finding no
thing to arouse their suspicions.
The yacht Caroline on which
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr , Lady Ash
ley and a party of friends are
making a cruise dropped anchor in
the harbor, but none of those
aboard came ashore.
Several sections of Havana were
without Lghts for a time after a
fusillade of bullets cut power lines.
While striking workers returned
to their employment In Increasing
numbers, tte government exerted
•very effort to round up persons
suspected of revolutionary activity
It was learned some 50 were lm
prisoned in Cabana fortress.
Among them. It was reported,
was Alfredo Canal, prominent ABC
society leader and secretary to a
former Cuban secretary of the trea
sury.
More than 200 employes of the
department of commerce and the
Havana Electric Railways company
were arrested on charges of being
unwilling to work.
Five Cubans were arrested and
quantities of arms and ammuni
tion seised in a raid on the Lopes
Serrano apartments, where several
Americans live.
McAllen to Save In
Refunding of Bonds
_ (Special to The Herald*
MERCEDES. March 14.—Refund
ing bonds lor the city of Mercedes,
to the amount of $1,061,089.91. have
been approved by the comptroller
of currency in Austin, and new bonds
are being exchanged for old. About
85 per cent of the bonds have been
exchanged, according to City Secre
tary J. C. Lear, who also stated that
the remaining 15 per cent will be
somewhat slow.
The new bonds will be exchanged
for all of the bonds, warrants, script
and nrteaowed by the citv up to and
including 1931 and through a great
ly reduced Interest rate, will effect
a saving for city taxpayers of so
proximately a quarter of a million
dollars.
The Weather
East Texas (east ol 100th meri
dian) : Fair and warmer Tnursday
nignt; Friday partly cioudy.
Light to ire&n southerly winds on
the coast.
RIVER BULLETIN
There will be no material change
In the river during tne next 24 to
36 hours.
Flood Pretest 24-Ur. 24-Hr
Laredo
Rio Grande
Hidalgo
Mercedes
Brownsville
Stage
27
21
21
21
18
Stage
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0.9
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TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
Friday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 3:09 p. m
Low.7:31 a. m. 8:56 p. m
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Bunset Thursday.6:38
Sunrise Friday . 6.39
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure was moder
ately low over the Canadian north
west and adjacent states Thursday
morning, and moderately high over
the central and south-central states.
Except tor light to moderate preci
pitation over the northeastern and
extreme northwestern states the
weather was generally fair through
out the country' during the last 24
hours. Temperatures moderated
somewhat practically throughout
the country since last report.
Brownsville 8 a. m. <EST) sea
level pressure 30.26 Inches.
12
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18
10
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10
BULLETIN
'Pint flguir*. lowest temperature lest
Bight, second highest yesterday; third.
w.uu vetuoiy at o a. m . louriu. prec
ipitation in last 24 houisj.
A onene . 52 78
Anuriuo .. 4o 72
Ananta . 4o a8
AUbtUi . 48 78
Button . 24 28
bivU »NflV 11 JiK •.. oh 16
Br vine Airport. 47 77
Cxucago . 28 38
Cleveland . 2o 42
Corpus cnristl. 58 70
Daunt. 52 70
Dei Hk) . 52 78
Denver . 46 70
Dooge City . 48 70
El paao . 50 78
Fort Smith . 48 70
Houston . 54 74
Jacksonville . 48 64
Kansas City. 40 58
Lot Ange.es . 54 82
Louisville . 30 42
Memphis . 48 66
Miami .. 56 70
Minneapolis . 26 30
New Or.eans. 54 68
North Platte . 40 68
Oklahoma City .... 50 72
Palestine . 54 74
Pensacola .......... 52
Phcenix .. 52 76
g , Louis.. 34 54
Sa.t Lake City. 44 66
San Antonio . 52 76
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Sheridan . 40 72
Shreveport.56 <4
Tamps . 48
V^burg .«... 52 70
Washington . 34 40
WllXS'.D . 40 48
WTmin*.cn . 46 56
W innemucc*. 28 70
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FEATURED AT CLUB ROYALE
Gypsy Lee Wilson and Madaline Jennings, pictured here, are newest
dancers to appear at Club Royale night club, east of McAllen, their
booking having been announced Tuesday by A. J. McCoU, club’s operator.
The team is called one of the best duos of its kind in the Southwest.
Wilson and Jennings recently completed an engagement at the swanky
Rainbow Gardena in Los Angeles, and have appeared at the Sylvan club
near Dallas and the Crystal Palace. Galveston. The girls ccme to the
Valley directly from Galveston McColI. e«**o»i—*ed th**t the dancers,
who do novelty, acrobatic and tap numbers, will appear each night of
the week except Monday with Eddie Hess orchestra, which is now
playing at Club Royale.
Rio Hondo To
Take Part In
County Meet
(Special to The Herald!
RIO HONDO. March 14— Stu
dents of the Rio Hondo schools will
participate in the County meet at
San Benito. Entries will be made
in the literary and track events at
the neighboring city.
High School track and field men
who will participate are: Norwood
Black. Wayland Waters, Ewald
Wagner, Horace Baugh. Richard
Hollon. James Clark. Morris Bishop.
Hampton Kennedy. Joe Brown. Bill
Hill. Justice 8mlth. Prank Kuhn.
John Kuhn.
Students who will represent Rio
Hondo in the Journalism contest
are: Wayland Waters. Lillian Kach
tik. Mack Mize Jr Marjorie Volk
man. Ronald Schultz, Melbourne
Ricker. Julia Lynn Wright. Ewald
Wagner. Raymond King. Helen Wat
son. Belva Brockhaus.
Those taking part in the high
school spelling are: Lillian Kach
tik. Lucille Watson. Margaret Bul
lis. high school declamation: Edith
Jones. Belva Brockhaus. Julia Lynn
Wright. Marcella Mitchell.
Junior high oounty meet entries
for declamation are Betty Ann
Hodgkin, Junior Grantham; Junior
1 111 '
high baseball, boys: Ollbert Escam
illa, Ross fimun. Elias Garza. Har
old Briaendine. Claude King, Henry
Watson. Mike Luna. Paul Myers.
Fred Rotz, Anas Wa.vs, Antonio
v arza. Junior Grantham. Jack Mize,
Melvin Kosta. high school base
ah. boys: James Bishop. John O.
Baugh. P. J. McMurtry, Edward
Baiienger. Richard Wheeler. Ron
ald Stewart, Chubby Wilds. Walter
31ore. Early Jones, Boyd Herring
ton. Bobby Cowgill, Gene Cow gill:
un.or huh gins baseball: Lupe
Garza. Consuelo Garza. Prances
Salinas, Ermlna Cortez, Lora Faye
Elliot. Rita Garza. Mary Jo Mill,
Faye Early, Verna Burgess, Wy’.ene
McCurtry, Mildred Moore, Ruth
Howard, Peggy Brannon, Al’da
Moreno: high school baseball girls.
Violet Grantham. Faye Hill. Lela
Taulbert, Evelyn Myer. Winifred
Carpenter. Katherine Knight Mari
ztlle Mitchell. Wynona Snook. Dora
Clements. Johnie Belle Powell, Doris
Owens, Sarah Lee Saner.
Junior high spelling: Ruth Hatch,
Leighton Anderson.
Seventh grade arithmetic: Melvin
Kosta, Pius Davis. Junior Huh E&
Gay Writing, Mildred Kenedy.
The name “Bossy' was given to
cow’s from their generic mme of
• Bos." Cattle, buffalo, and bison are
all near-relatives, and come under
this classification.
An opftque glass, through which
i person can .look to the outside, but
inside, has been put on the mar
ket.
SECURITY FOSS
SPUTSCHIEFS
WASHINGTON. March 14. (/4*>—A i
disagreement between Secretary Per-1
Kin* and the house way* and mean*
committee over social security ma
chinery remained unsettled Thurs
day. __.
It had reached the point where one
democratic leader suggested Mia*
Perkins should be barred from a
final conference the committee will
have with President Roosevelt before
presenting the bill to the house
The major points of the dispute
are two: Miss Perkins says the soc
ial insurance board, which will
handle much of the social security
plan, should be under her depart
ment of labor: the committee has
voted to make the board independ
ent. The labor secretary contends
tha» all employers with four or more
workers should be subject to the un
emDlovment insurance tax: the com
mittee. over her orotest, raised the
figure to 10 workers.
Thotieh the committee’s hearings
ended three week* aao. It w's learn
ed Thursday that Miss Perkins has
continued Informal discussions with
committee member* attemotin* to
-et them to change their minds. They
have been adamant.
84 San Benito
Studes Due To
Get Diplomas
(Special u> Tb« Herald)
HARLi^GEN. March 14.—There
aie 84 students in the 1935 high
i chool graduating class, according
.o D. M Denton, principal.
The girls far ou.number the boys
with a total of 55. There arc only
39 boys In the class.
The girls are: Beatrice Alvarez.
Gladys Anderson, Jane Arnold, EUva
dill. »'tty Berly, Barbara Bosma.
Dorothy Bosscm, Dorothy Brown
Mary Kathryn Bundy, Mary Annice
Bush. Jane By-ield, Frances Chas
tain, Lois Chaudoin, Cleo CUlton.
Jane Davis. Bessie Davis, Betty
Dean. Oenefa Ellis, Christine Grant.
Jamie Lee Green. Dorothy Gres
lam, Marcella HarT, Nora Haynes.
Cherrle Healy. Emilia Herrera, Mary
Anne Holland. Sara Hosfeld.
And Kathryn Jones. Mary Lee
Coniakowsy. Rosemary Kunkel. Dora
Lamon. Jchnnie Lee Laycock. Jean
McClendon. Vera Mae McCUntock
! Virginia Milster. Cornelia Mitchell
Alleen Moore. Elisabeth Myrick
"lorence Ortbals. Frances Peek. Mary
Belle Perkins. Virginia Pile. Mildred
Qinnn, Marian Rains, Marsaret
Tamsey. Mary Belle Reeder, Kath
ryn Riley. Lauara Shaw. Mary Sue
Shelly. Dee Ann Svkes, Doris Thomo
son. Christine Whitley. Wilma Wil
liams. Betty Yates. Ruth Yates.
Boys: Roy Adams. Albert Aron.
Clinton Beck. Jimmie Brittain. Al
I >r Chaf in, Warren Dowdy. Joe El
rcd. J. G. Farmer. Don Gran-rer.
i Ttmmie Homung. John Junkin.
victor Lambert, Qarthell Lamon
Eugene McElroy. Robert McNett.
Mayo Morris, Reginald Muggli. Dan
Murphy.
And Vance Oehme. Harry Raner.
A. J. R'.ely, Gregory Rodriguez Bur
dick Shaw. Jack St’ck. Elliott Staop,
®evero Valadez. Edwin Whittaker,
Walter William*. Revnaldo Zamora.
Mercedes Students
Prepare For Meet
MERCEDES. March 14— Definite
work is being accomnlished in the
various nhases of Interscho’atMc
League work In preparation of the
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Hidalgo county meet March 23 and
30. Saturday. March 23. the athletic
meet will be held In Donna, and
Saturday, the literary events will
take place at Mission
Many students have entered the
contests. Entries are as follows:
seniors. Lillian Hessel. Peggy Deav
crs. Lillian Tam. Pearlie Gordon.
pphine McNeil. Dorothy Borchelt.
Dorothy Gordon. Shirley Starling.
Glenn Jane Fikea, Robert de la
Torre. Charles Settle*; ward achoola:
Bot Fraaer. Adalbert Garza. Oodene
Bailey. Collen Dodson. Charlene
Dodson. Elma Ann and Charlotte
Onderdonk, Mildred Nebenzahl. Al
bert Solis. Barbara Jean Kindley,
Sara Ellen Herndon. Alta Mae 8mith.
Ilene Nell.
Declamation: Dorothy Qordon,
Prances De Larrey, Sara Virginia
Henry, Theresa McAuley. Mary
Rosalind Saladlno Phyllis Gailoway,
Billy Ed Perry, • armon Jones.
Leonard Schwarz. Joyce Drave. Lil
lian Hesael and the members of the i
sixth grade; typing: seniors, Mattie
Lee Breeding. Jack Brown, Oweaa
Stone. Lynn Jones. Wilma Newman;
ready writers: seniors, Joe Gon
zales. Dorothy Sue Perry. Jailors.
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