“RICHEST BABY” TO WED REPORTER WARRANT VOID MANY TEACHERS SUIT IS FILED SEEK VALLEY Petition Seek* Judgment Superintendent Receives In Hidalgo Against 1000 Applications Company For Positions

(Special to The Herald * Cameron county gets her pick of EDINBURG, July !—A suit ask- void a wide field in educators ing a judgment declaring selecting countv warrants totaling $2.145 259. Mrs W R Jones, county superin- issued February 15, 1925. allegedly tendent. has on file in her office was filed in Judge J. E. Leslie's 93rd over a thousand from District court in Edinburg Thurs- applications teachers who wish positions In the day morning. The field Is not 8h«riff A. Y. Baker, county clerk inHSiiiitarriicrriiraiiiu county system. crowded newcomers but contain1; Cam E. Hill, and county judge A BY THE POLITICAL ANALYST by and were named among many with varied experience W. Cameron, AUSTIN. July 5.— capitol the eleven Hidalgo county officials university degrees at The 32 teachers who will mould named as defendants. sideswipes politics: Turning the first leaf of analys- Cameron county youths in the com- “Detection Feared* the is from the obvious surface facts of mon school districts during the have been se- The petition, which names as the governor's race as it now stands associated Press Photo coming year already D. C. Earnest, E. J. Pen- lected from the holdovers and the plaintiffs discloses elements of importance to John Nicholas Brown, once known as “the richest baby In the Lorraine W. Alien, W. E. Till- applicants. The following school nell. Clint C. Small and of still greater world,” and Anne Seddon Kinsolving, Baltimore society reporter, L. Litton. J. C. Berry girl are in the common school districts ery, Dr. Amos moment for R. S. Sterling. are engaged. arid P. W. Perkins, alleges that war- Palm Grove. Nogales. Villanueva. Sterling and Mayfield may be said were issued at the suggestion San Pedro. Encantada. La Palo; i. rant* to be the two first-division candi- of O. O. Norwood, Austin, ar.d that game of politics. Love has been one emphasized by his supporters and Cypress. San Jose. Las Yescas. Ana- v r. in the number be was re-! This map represents business conditions in every state in t: i. set forth July dates whose support will not and Hardin a totaling $516,850 of what has campaign voters cuates. Eriggs-Coleman portion sectional. There's a lot of territory Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald duced to cash long before date of v of the Nations Business, official publication of the Ci; her of C-uunerce of the United Statca. Except lor Mr. Sterling. Sen. In the flood of applications, one on Texas, and the votes can be called the “moleworkers ’, or inside the maturity "because the conspirator* Small was the latest candidate in reason stands out as to why much thinner over the entire of Val- feared that the frauds would be de- spread politicians professional politics the list; and his own entry was teachers wish to come to the area to reach a desired total, than atate tected,” and that instead of the for many years. Mayfield and Miller prompted by obvious dissatlsfact: ,'n ley. Most of the applications fee of 2 per if they are to come from any one that the educators have heard of usual approximately and Young are seasoned veterans at with those earlier in the lists. So f “10 cent EDGi \R WITT STRONG CANDIDATE of the several subdi- Cameron school as a mo, : cent, a of per plus SENATOR geographical county's charge mav be said that lie likewise share * the 10 cent” was made. visions. game. one and that they have heard per » ; in the benefit of the late of # • • • swing of this section rank with Bank Involved It is a paradox for the resource- voters into final alignment. possibilities Sen. Small's is tied the best in the state. The appll Texas as a representa- support pri- ful, skilled strategists of the area, -- The Edinburg State Bank is in- BY RAYMOND BROOKS of graduate, marily to one locality; but he has every trick of the tions come from all parts of th*B volved to the suit, the stat- AUSTIN, July 5—'The governor's tive of university ex-students, spon- using profession- OLD LAW •" petition sensed the of a . on but significance state, al, to get out on the stump ar.j talk ing “as soon as it got its hands race r.tay have humor, the sored before the legislature to Its MEXICO CITY. July '’—Mexico's of selec- wide thin—and in state afiairs. •With this wide range said warrants, in the sum of $765,- lieutenant governor’s has Witt. spread—even though about “less politics'* successful the plan which is in his he • • • new penal code contains the follow- tion. Cameron county is in a n to and with Senator Witt of Waco is one adoption, insisting speeches that 000, It likewise conspired Edgar the cream of ih" edu- has become the basic state be divorced from the idea of sec- If a is convicted lion to get the of the said George W. of seven candidates in the race for policy The biggest single factor that ing oddity: person approval the in- cational talent." Mrs. Ike Kiboe. the said L E. Tinkler, the lieutenant this for providing dormitories at ! tionalism. to growing advantage for of to shoot another, but Walton and governorship points attempting assistant 1 stitutions of learning. This Earle B and to a lesser county superintended’. treasurer and county audi- year. higher Mayfield, i Sterling, the amateur of politics, is he is to three county 'self-financed misses, subject years states. tor: to get its money His opponents pair off In a unique so-called dormitory >gree, Barry Miller, have profited this: respectively, the A person convicted manner. There are two former sena- was first adopted for a distribution of their stresses the fact that a imprisonment. in advance.” program" by general Everyone t: then for practically all of to shoot another and The United States leads The petition requests that the tors, J. D. Parnell of Wichita Falls University, ! vote. And the general uniformity large part of the vote is still un- attempting other in the state who inflicts minor is world on the production of coal warrants be declared void "that all and H. L. Darwin of Pans, repre- colleges system will be a bulwark of strength of hitched. Thousands of voters are only injuries, Darwin volunteered his services in to three months in with an estimated production o' officials be restrained from senting East and West Texas. C..airman Sterling. even this with subject only county ; undecided, late, only a this effort. • » • 2.500 000 metric tons year. recognizing validity of said war- There are two former house mem- three full weeks to g obefore elec- prison. This is Mr. Darwin’s third race | rants. that county officials be re- bers, Virgil Arnola and J. P. Rogers, The campaign is being forced into tion day. or . for the office of lieutenant gover- strained from paying levying both from a clear-cut division of candidates Mr. Sterling came into the race of the warrants And there are P. nor. taxes to pay any Sterling Strong into the camps of those on econ- much later than any of the others. taxes the war- of one of the old time leaders Former Senator J D. Parnell ol or collecting to pay Dallas, tnic issues and those on with Wichita Fails is his second political The voters were dissatisfied rants that be rendered of the prohibition crusade; and J. S. making ! judgment issues. ail the array of willing talent in the HOTEL and APARTMENTS the officials, the banking Hair of San Antonio. race for the office. Sen. Parnell has | MIRAMAR against Thomas B. Love and James E field. were dissatis- in the Senator Witt has been the active state in Aus- Obviously they institution and Norwood ; opened headquarters * SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA I and like Witt and Darwin l* Ferguson are exponents of the po- fied with all these candidates. Mr. .. that of both reform and tin. amount of $516,850, judg- sponsor prison .tical" the state. theory. Earle B. Mayfield is is the alternative. He now on cool this summer and the most ment be rendered against the in- tax reform measures in the present' actively canvassing j Sterling only Why not plan keeping visiting dealing with is a middle man. He Is free delightful spot in all California, built on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, in the amount of senate. He is 10 years As senator he was a close stu- largely politica' factors, ground demnity company completing half an hour from Bollywood and 45 minutes from tha heart of Los of the needs of his section. Ir through touching the oolitical as- of the and drawbacks of $75,000 as bond of George W. Wal- of continuous service in the upper, dent alignments Angeles. Y. Baker and the race he is making ar pects of even the business or econ- the old bouts of ton and against A. branch of the legislature, and rep- present 1 political wrestling The Hotel Miramar Is one of California’s great resort hotels, the beautiful omic the sum of $5,000 as his fight, and is urging issues. the situated on the Palisades overlooking the ocean. Guests of the Cam E. Hill in resented McLennan county, i II -—- anti- past. gardens This • t • Miramar the of tha Mirsmar Beach Club, which offers sureties on the bond of L E. Tink- home district, in the house two highway building that will take the division practically amounts enjoy privileges surf bathing, or an enclosed beach if you prefer, with a great indoor salt | His ex- county has sent him back at each per cent of the farmer; to professional vs. amateur in the to the ler. terms. lawmaking service •seventy Logic points greater part water swimming pool. with one election over all opponents. out of the mud. He joined tht realm of candidates. Into tends from 1915, only break of the unhitched vote milling Rates are reasonable. For reservations or further information wrtte Platform Brief first movement for con- R. S. during 1917-1918. highway Sterling is running for his the Sterling corral. MORGAN S. TYLER. Manager He has over the senate and has been a Senator Witt is 48. a and presided struction in Texas ! nioctive office. Small is seeking his It may be said this drift has ac- Vails Spends $4.08 as president pro tempore, and gain- of roads from the farm; native Texan. His district. McLen- champion first state office. counted for a degree of his growing |._ 1 ed actual experience in the duties to the markets ever since. U i; On So Far nan, Milam. Falls and Limestone The rest are old-timers in the strength that has been so strongly Campaign he offers to perform as lieutenant pointing out in campaign speeches LAREDO, July 5—P/—Campaign governor. The two Houston ex-members o: expenditure of $4 08 wer reported His platform Is brief: He “stand the' house served in the legislature Vails Texas-Oklahoma Free by District Attorney John A. for economical administration ol as desk-mates, only to turn out ri- in his report to the secretary o! Bridge Work Starts government, equalization of tax vals for the same state office in j state in having his name placed on burdens and equal educational ad- campaign in which to a considerabh OKLAHOMA CITY, Okia., July 4 the Democratic primary K.llot for vantages for all the children of Tex- extent they neutralize one another'; —t.-Pj—Construction of a free bridge nomination as district attorney as. Believs in more business and el forts. BUY NOW over Red river between Gainesville, from the 4f 1 Judicial d .trict of less politics in government. Atty. Hair, located a Texas and Marietta. Oklahoma, will formerly Texas. “If elected, will endeavor to dis- Temple, h\, been interested as thi get under way immediately, Lew The district is of Webb, pose of the state’s legislative busi- representative of a group of depos composed Wentz, chairman of the Oklahoma Jim and Dimmit coun- ness at its regular sessions and avoid itors in various failed guaranty fun< NOW BUY Zapata. Hogg commission, said today the showed that to highway special sessions.” banks His campaign platform i ties and port He announced that Gov. Moody of chairman of each the Importance of the lieutenant largely made up of revisions an< the county Texas had signed the joint contract ..a e governor's office is well recognized of the state bankmf sum of one dollar sen: to Texas Oklahoma for regulations between and one on Since Witt entered public life, systems, as an outgrowth of tha his name placed the ballot. the bridge. lieutenant governor serves at in- The eight cent represent two The contract had been awarded experience. tervals as acting governor. Sterling P Strong at Dallas, fa cents stamps placed on each of the last and members of both April Former Sen. Darwin of Paris en- ther of True Strong, former housi applications sent bv mail. commissions and the governor of tered the senate in 1913 as its '‘baby member from Dallas and now can Oklahoma had signed it, but Gov. member” youngest man up to tha't didate for the senate from Nocona Moody withheld his signature until Gun Used time to serve in the more august has been active in local public ant Cop Buys yesterday, Wentz said. branch of the legislative depart- political afafirs of his home county on Life TIRES In ment serv- was in connec TIRES Attempt of government. He has issues in his efforts HOUSTON. July 5— P)—Emmett Texas-Mexican Rail ed eight years in the senate. lion with the fight that made slat George. 18-year-old convicted rob- Last year Mr. Darwin, University 1 wide prohibition a fact in Texa. ber, has sold to Patrolman W. H. President Reelected he used COOPER which — Armer the pisiol LARETJuly 5— V Miles T. fall in to kill the officer last trying Cogiey has been re-elected to suc- Road He for it. Bear got $2 One ceed himself as president of the Life of R. S. Sterling was convicted of robberv Story George Texas-Mexic tailway Co The BALLONS firearms and assault to murder by board of directors was also re-elect- BALLOON TIRES at whom he fired after he Armer. ed. It included Miles T. Cogiey, M. of Over Difficulties had robbed a shoe store. Triumph 440x21 ..... M. Levendecker. C. M. Fish, Char- $ 7.85 Armer went by the ’ail to dicker ! les Deutr. A. M. Bruni. J. Harris estate, which has built and i« 440x21 5.65 for the Practical of pital .$ gun. They calmly bargain- and August C. Richter. Understanding a SI,500.000 Murphy administering charity 450x20 . ed, these men who a few months 8.50 The annual report r. owed the People’s Problems Fits Him institution. He is a director an i ago had done their best to kill each -* 450x20 . 6.40 railway 4 f \ excellent condition, for several years was president ol other, and Genrsre said: For finally and en the best business in Governorship he Y. M. C. A. of Houston. 450x21 8.75 "Well. I'll teli you what I'll do. its history. In memory of Ross Shaw, Jr,, Since I won't have any use for the 450x21 . 6.45 " .vho died in 1924, Mr. Sterling gav gun. I’ll let you have It for $2 cash 475x19 .9.70 the Y. M. C. A. of South Texas a “8o'd.‘ 'said the patrolman, who Texas Turks Strut beautiful wooded camp on Calves 475x19 .. 7.65 wanted it "for a souvenir.” he Stuff in Palace ton Bay. Recently purchase-' 500x19 . . 10.45 .00 acres of the old SAN SABA. July 5.—(£*>—A pair . 5C0xl9 .... 8.10 British Want 49c homesite, this camp, for of Texas will strut before adjoining Turkeys donation to the State of Texas & 500x20 ...... 10.80 this summer. From Yank Soldier royalty a park. Mrs. Milton Stanley of San Saba 500x20 ... 8.30 SAN ANTONIO. 5- .Pi- Governor Dan July has shinppd two Narragansett turk- Moody appointe-i 500x21 11.25 Private Sam Sherman, service com- Mr. chairman of the stat eys to Willard C. Thompson of New Sterling pany, Ninth Fort Sam commission early in J927. 500x21 .. 8.60 infantry. Brunswick New Yersey. Thompson, highway Houston, is the center of another He and his colleagues, Commission 525x18 • • § if* • «v* • • 11.75 as secretary of the Live Bird exhi- war debt controversy ors Cone Johnson of Tyler and W. bit of the World Poultry Congress, 525x18 . 9.10 War department correspondence R. Ely of Abilene, reorganized the will forward them to the Crystal 525x20 12.60 received at Army here department, sponsored an lr.creas . headquarters palace at London. England, where informed officials that the British in "the gasoline tax, and for the pa- they will be exhibited sometime this 525x20...,. 9.55 government is collect hree and a haif years have carried attempting to month. 525x21 _ 12.95 for rations given Sherman while he on an intensive program of high- was in the construction and maintenance 525x21 .. 9.90 army of occupation in j CLOCK BANK way Germanv in 1920 The achieved success in a' 550x18 _ 13.00 sum sought is I 3ERLIN July 2—To encourage Having 49 cents, American money his and endeavor saving a German bank has been private public 550x18 ..... 10.05 Sherman says he was in the army issuing ''clock" banks. These clocks Mr. Sterling became a candidate for 550x19 13.40 of an occupation, but does not remeon- cannot be wound until a coin is in- governor through expressed de- ber having received British rations. serted in them, and this winding sire to be of further service to hi 550x20 ...... 10.35 that state lasts only for 24 hours. Conse- state; declaring progress 550x20 . ... . 13.65 Iron ore deposits of high value quently, if the owner of the clock and growth demands a business- 600x20 . 12.55 have been found in Peru on a pla- bank Wants to keep time, he has like administration of the state’s I teau bordering the Pacific. to insert a coin every 24 hours. STERLING was born on affairs, and that the man best 600x20 . 15.15 !>, ■■■■■■■■■■■. ■ ---- —. a farm near Anahuac, in fitted to give such an administra- 600x21 .lKr 12.90 ROSSChambers county, in 1875, one tion and meet the demands of the 600x21 • -• • • * • • of 12 children of parents impover- changing times should be elected. It} ••••:• uj 15.65 the Civil His father ished by war,^ He advocates relieving the coun- 30x5 Heavy Duty .. 19.70 was a in the Confederacy, 10x5V IQ 70 Lawnmowers for Sale captain ties of financial for ^ « • '« • f.t • • •> I I/O I v responsibility f|) and an uncle on his mother’s s'.de building state highways, and be- at San Truck Balloon 35.50 fought with Sam Houston lieves the people should be given 34x750 32x6 . Jacinto. an opportunity to decide at the 32.50 Early in his youth he left the polls whether they want a state m to engage in freighting Pro* bond issue, to be retired wholly e and merchandise across the with proceeds oi a motor fuel tax. be*.ween Anahuac and Galves- He proposes the refunding to coun- the of on i in a schooner. At age ties of money already spent ERVICE STATION a as a means of lift- COMPLETE at little state SUPER 20 he opened “genera! highways, : hand is©” store in his home ing the heavy burden of county- i rc. unity. road taxes, and developing a sys- From there he ventured into the tem of lateral roads. .1 field regions of Humble and His platform pledges construc- our Lake, establishing feed and tive and progressive executive ef- We carry a big stock of high roduce stores, and later expanding forts toward equalizing the tax Most Brands Motor Oils and Gasoline grade iis activities to include country burden, to the end that the small Popular banking. In 1898 he was married farm, ranch and home owner be to Miss Maude Abbie Gage. Five relieved and mineral wealth may Lawnmowers children have been born to them. bear its just share of taxtion. Mr. Sterling launched into the He proposes a modernization of BATTERY RECHARGING WASHING The* REST ONE is the cheapest oil business in 1910, purchasing two the prison system, useful employ- nreducing wells. Adding to these ment of and segregation Every lawnmower bought from us will be prisoners, properties, he organized the Hum- of youthful offenders. Mr. GREASING TIRE REPAIR Sharpened Free of ble Oil company. Sterling promises hearty Charge In 1925 he retired as head of the support of the rural and urban for one year Humble Oil and Refining company schools and the colleges of Texas We and Rebuild and parted with his holdings in it, A lifelong prohibitionist and total Sharpen, Repair to devote his time to other affairs, abstainer, he promises vigorous Lawnmowers private and public. enforcement of the dry laws and been a member of the all other law®. I rade in He has your old lawnmower and receive credit Houston Port commission since its He would give earnest attention on a NEW one inception, in about 1912, and chair- if elected, to problems of labor, man of the commission since 1921 eleemosynary institutions, agricul- which the of ture, conservation of natural re- Tire port Alexander during period been from sources, reform, Company Houston has developed judicial regulation T. of and “Brownsville’s Home Owned Tire Store” J. Rommer a dream into one of the major ports | public utilities, depart- of the country, and the city's size mental efficiency. Lawnmower Headquarters has been doubled. Finally, he pledges bis utmost PHONE 990—LET’S GO! TENTH AND LEVEE STREETS Rear Miller Hotel Phone 722 For a number of years Ross Ster- efforts to end factional strife in ling has served as chairman of the Texas Democracy, and to restore board of trustees of Hermann Hos-1 harmony. .

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