BROWNSVILLE HI WINS INTERSCHOLASTIC DISTRICT MEET : «•-<£. \ —*- -—______. a little playhouse called the Band- box. on East Fifty-seventh street, C. of C. to Ancient Iron Horse Theater Guild Marks at $35 an evening. With $2,000 they DONNA TAKES Display . hoped to finance the presentation G.M. STAGING *An antique shop. tween Brownsville and Point Isa- signal from the tower of what is of two plays. railroad seeped bel. The engine was brought here now the old Masonic hall when ft antique shop, Tenth The first, “Bonds of Interest,” was from in 1868 when the of in Valley trqjhtica. Belgium the train departed with a large Anniversary a failure. The second, “John Fergu- 'SECOND PLACE VTnat's v/fflt the Brownsville short line was established by Jose consignment of money. a drama which St. SPECIAL WEEK John chamber of Commerce will Sr. It was The off officers. son^was park Celaya, brought by janitor tipped Ervine, its never _ From Its author, expected seem in the bear future. boat from the Old Continent to The old was loaded with Humble jf.i*• engine Beginning to see produced on the stage. But > two donations of old rail Point Isabel and was over enforcers of the brist- sources, lightered grim law, it got a foothold and ran for 156 J djlrownsvill© Youth Makes have'been made to the the bar and on com- with a arsenal. The Cars Parade Here equipment placed newly ling young performances in New York. The Saturday! J chamber’s board of directors. pleted rails there. bandits were greeted with a vol- Great Jump in Sand Pit play made no money, but the The- Showrooms To Remain l One of the oldest locomotives in It was and of lead and black spick span then—the ley powder. ater guild was launched. | 22 Ft. 3 In. the United States has been given last word in a new and revolution- have been “k t/Bjr Leaping Negotiations already Today the guild has 26,000 annual Open At Night the chamber by C. R. Tyrrell, ary lien of But now, entered into for transfer of the | 1 development. subscribers in New York. It occu- president of the Rio Grande Val- even the redoubtable aged equipment' and it is expect- “Casey” pies its own playhouse along Broad- high school led the ley railway. Tiofilo for- Jones might faint at the sight of ed to be erected in the park in of 36 Brov/yville Crlx^ll, way, and has plays running at pres- parade General Motors cars mer of the Matamoros- it. The old snorted the near future. There is a pos- 8 group. afternoon and won operator engine ^nd ent in three other New York the- here Saturday afternoon opened the 9 t^oterday Santa Crua car line, also has giv- puffed its way between the Point sibility that the exhibit will be local of the G. M. the track and field honors of the aters. Its companies have toured phase spring J| en one of the oldest narrow cars and Brownsville when the only erected in the Missouri Pacific The cars the entire country, and it will con- showing. were new mod- 9 district interscholastic meet with a that used to ply hi^Une. other way out cf the Valley wras park, however. els taken from the ® duct subscription seasons next year showrooms <51 These will be thoroughly bur- an ox-trail to Austin. It was interest in the anchor of total cf 49 1-2 points. Their nearest Huge in 10 cities outside New York from the McDermott Motor Co.. The Ah- B nished up and mounted on a short named the “Ayala” for Jose Aya- the Reina de la Mar. now on dis- competitors were the Donna boys Boston to St. Louis. Its first bott, Buick company, the Isom 9 narrow track in the chamber of la, its first driver. in the chamber play *" play grounds, Motor and the who accumulated a sum of 38 1-2 to be sent abroad, “Porgy” is on company, Stevenson commerce , adven- j| park. Among many stirring wielded considerable influence on Motor company. 1 points. The old locomotive has rested view in London. tures the old Iron Horse the board of directors in accept- cars were In the If McAllen third with 23 1-2. witness- Of the six members of the guild’s Following pa- placed full many a year at the local yards ing the engine and car. The an- rade: ed was an attempted hold-up. board of managers, four have been Cadillac, LaSalle, Oldsmo-1 and Mercedes got in on fourth place of the Rio Grande Valley chor was recently taken from the v railway, it from outset—Lee Simon- bile, Buick, Oakland. Pontiac and P ahead of San Benito with 12 marks.' over Bandits intimidated the court- with the after making history a. long channel at Point Isabel where the Chevrolet. The and *> Lawrence Moel- bugle drum® Newman of Brownsville startled period on narrow guage tracks be- house janitor and ordered him to boat sunk son, Langner, Philip many years ago. corps of the American Legion head* the athletes that gathered for the ler and Helen Westley. Simonson, ed the parade, a contests with his sensational broad who 10 years ago was a young ar- tist out of has be- Showrooms of all the General Mq- 9 jump of 22 feet, 3 inches. Overstreet just Harvard, Stimson Against Ban scenic tors agencies in the city have bean* of McAllen was close behind the come the giuld's chief design- a director. elaborately decorated and will re-91 leaping border town lad and'placed On Free From WEST’S WATER er and frequent Sugar main until 9 m.. BODY FOII1 Moeller, a playwright, has turned open p. Gladioli*® second in the same event. Miss Will be given to each adult attend-® Considering the dirt path the Islands to direction and adaptation. Philippine actress all her has ding the showings. m run on. Bellefont (Continued from paee one.1 (Continued Prom Page One) Westley, an life, dash men had to Radios will It » roles in furnish music for of Mercedes did well In the century prosecution’s theory, declaring friends overrode an attempt to di- played 35 character guild th*9p who has been demonstration rooms and there will® when he it of? in 10.2. That would be “to the best interest of the WASHINGTON, April. 20.—UP)— vorce future leasing of university productions. Langner, stepped be a good number of attendants on S athlete state” not to do so •'at this time .” lands from his department, and re- active in the business affairs of the means the young might clip Secreary Stimson has informed the hand. J® He did say. however, that neither stored him to balance of by guild, is one of New York's leading the 10 flat marks or beter when he house and means committee power, rum nor had ways and A film, hits the cindered alleys. running robbery any requiring that the new board of patent copyright attorneys. “Proved,” showing tftfli in the state's A that if restriction of free The executive director of the grounds of the G. M. com-H Quite an arrav of athletic pres-, place hypothesis. proppsed two regents and the land commis- guild proving watch and other valuables were is a Theresa Helburn.. She at Milford, will pects exhibited their wares, and the sugar imports from the Philippines sioner must act unanimously on woman, pany Mich., bfli® found in the was a teacher at Byrn Mawr and show-n at the Queen theater Mom-® -Results show that the Valley docs reporter's clothing is carried out, it would be “inevitably any lease matter. when critic for the Nation be- and of next track men. his body was discovered. dramatic day Saturday week.® have some promising as a of trust The report on his Investigation The disappearance of Williams, interpreted betrayal fore she came to the guild as a This two-reel film shows all of The results of the meet follows; will be made in the session, the® who the United States toward a de- early reader. She has held her tests the cars over® — formerly lived at Muncie, Ind.. by play pres- proving given 120 High* Hurdles Gabrlsh, members who are arriving caused an intensive already ent the course. It is said to bet® Donna, first: Leslie. McAllen, sec- search. Im- pendent people.” post eight years. rough here for the opening day under- and migration officers from Brownsvillle The state head told a decade the has educational entertaining. 9 ond: Overstreet, McAllen, third; department stand. In guild pro- to El Paso at one time were ordered The movement here is part of a® Seoten, Edinburg, fourth. Time, the committee that the proposed re- duced in New York to aid in the search for the The water priorities bill also approximately national week. It is the first time 16.5. missing ! striction was unnecessary to protect ® and the entire was holds of of 70 plays, of which 20 have been by the local concerns have co-*H 100 Yard Dash—Bellefont, Mer- youth country American beet or cane sugar in- promise plenty vigorous fully circularized. Numerous false leads action when the lawmakers take American 22 in a of its kind. 9 cedes. first; Newman. Brownsville, terests as free entry of Philippine authors, by English, operated project were but there was no it second: Lome’’:. Brownsville, third; followed, sugar into the United States “does up. and 24 by continental playwrights. trace of him until the body was not and cannot affect the of Sen. Walter C. Woodward of CHURCH INSTEAD OF JAIL jp Champion, Brownsville, fourth. price Eleven plays by George Bernard found at a shallow' point in the river. in the American market.’ Coleman, who has already reached BELFAST.—Patrick Moran, agedt® Tim- 10.2. sugar Shaw are among the number, in- Stimson said the Austin for the session, recently said 16, escaped a jail sentence for theft® 889 Yard Run—McLure. Donna, Mr. issues lies cluding “Back to Methuselah, “Arms and Gov. has agreed to submit on his promise to attend church® first. Time 2 minutes. 8 seconds. Police Make between Cuban Philippine sugar Moody and the Man,” and “Saint Joan.” Chicago rather than between and this after it was left over every Sunday for two years. "_X 220 Low Hurdles—Overstreet, Mc- Philippine subject, Three by Eugene O’Neill have been domestic He added that the of in March. Allen. first: Cox, McAllen, second; Search For Patrons sugar. undisposed presented, among them the notably This bill all vio- MARITAL APPENDICITIS 9 Lesslie, McAllen, third; Gomes, present attempt to restrict sugar may reopen the j successful Interlude.” “Strange CHICAGO.—A week after Brownsville, fourth. Time 27.5. Of Firearms Dealers from the Philippines “comes direct- lent controversy of the Brownwood ! Edgar.® The guild has done three Franz L. was operated Gn for® v 220 vard dash—Bellefont, Mer- ly from those interests which have irrigation district-Insull power in- j Thompson Ten years old this spring, the Th eater guild of New York has become Molnar plays, including “Liliom,” Mrs. Thompson’s epJ.® fccdcs. first; Newman, Brownsville. CHICAGO. April 20.—OP)—Hav- invested in Cuban sugar.” terests over state permits for: appendicitis in a decade a major factor in the American theater. Below is the tiny and “The Guardsman,” three Sid- was also 9 Chamcion, Brownsville, ing information as to the means building power dams in Travis and pendix removed,. sfccnd; J playhouse where it started in 1919. Above is its board of managers: In ney Howard plays, among them the McEowan. Rio Hondo, Chicago gangsters have of obtaining Burnet counties, and of restrictions third; the top row Theresa Helburn, Philip Moeller, Lee Simonson and Helen Pulitzer prize winner, “They Knew SCALPED BY MACHINE 9 fourtrt. Time 23.9. machine guns, similar to those that laid by the state water board on Westley; in the lower row Lawrence Langner and Maurice Wertheim. What They Wanted;” and the ne- ST. LOUIS. Mo.—Miss — mowed oov/n seven men in a north the amount of water that the 440 vard dash Rodrigues, drama Dei^K side last Ct. gro “Porgy” by Dubose and Callao’s scalp was torn off wheaf® Brownsville, first; Donna, second; garage Valentines day, Brownwood district might impound By C. D. SEYMOUR M Washington square negotiated for Dorothy Heyward. It presented Ka- her hair caught in a rotary maJ® marched for two ALIAZAN Brownsville, third; Pharr- police today pa- for domestic and irrigation pur- (Associated Press Staff an Todd. Writer) old stable and planned to con- pek’s “R. U. R.” sponsored the first chine. M fourth. Tune 57. trons of firearms dealers. poses. NEW Ban Juen-Alamo, YORK, April 20.—(£>-The vert it into a small theater for the Broadway work of Riofcard Rodgers first; The testimony yesterday at the , West Texans Call for Law Theater is > One mile relay—Donna, fuel for the for the guild celebrating its tenth production of amateur plays. The and Lorenz Hart in the “Garrick BURIED BY SAND into the St. Valentine’s mas- i supply trucks CHILD ® second; ^dinburg, inquest The west Texas people, including fire commissioner frowned on Townsville, trip through the pass. anniversary. the Gaieties” of 1924, and was notably CHICAGO.—Eight-year-old Amy® Time sacree yielded two names of inter-1 the of Raymcndville. fourth. West Texas Chamber Com- In the of 1919 a project. third; Steven Oswald and Frank spring group of successful with Andreyev’s “He Who Thomas was buried and suffocated est. merce, have called for a law that ® 3 min., 45 see. j fConfirmed from one.l players in the of So went town and rented Gets a sand Thompson. It was believed they pace neighborhood they up Slapped.’ by a slide in pit,J® Pole vault—Ruthland. Donna, NOGALRS. Sonc-ra, Hex., April i would put power generation down might possess valuable information first; McFarlan. Donna, and Sum-, the final in fourth place in the list of prior of the killings. 20.—UP)—Perhaps major Donna, tied for second. claimants for the impounding of mere. In the meantime from Los An- battle in the Mexican revolution 12 feet. is in the near future in water in streams. They want cities Height geles came the news that Charles expected throw—McFarlan, Donna, and domestic users, riparian owners Discus W. Lloyd, under arrest there for southern Sonora, reports received Brownsville, second; and general Irrigation projects all first; Cable?, prohibition violation had been iden- here indicated today. third; Men- to come ahead of power claimants. Crowell, Raymondville. tified by a veteran of the internal A rebel army of some 8.000 was fourth. Dis- They sponsor a measure to give ses.', Brownsville, revenue department as a former said to be encamped at Masiaca, feet. such claimants the right of way tance 104 1-2 member of the gang of Hymie Weiss, Sonora, about 35 miles from the Browns- over other permits. Broad jump—Newman, slain by hoodlums on the steps of new rebel base at Navojoa. San Me Alien, Sen. Woodward will, when the ! ville. first; Overstreet. the Holy Name cathedral some years Bias, Sinaloa, a short distance be- Donna, third; matter is submited, the second; Ruthland. ego. low Navojoa. is occuDied by a sponsor j fourth. priorities bill, to recent Longoria. Brownsville, strong federal army. A meeting of according * statement. Dirties 22 ft., 3. in. MAY REACH AGREEMENT *ese two contending forces is said San Benito, SV •• put—Adamson, > be imminent, with the outcome The prison relocation fight, in- first/ Earnhardt, Brownsville, sec- ON COLORADO RIVER d matter of speculation. volved in Gov. Moody’s attempt to third; ond; Samano. Brownsville, Preparations are under way for get a general “concentration’’ bill fourth. Dis- Cabler. Brownsville, YUMA. Ariz., April 20.—(JP)—At a big engagement, it was evidenced that will leave a board free to OF INTENSE READER tance 41 ft., 9 in. the close of a two-day meeting here today by arrival of a troop train select the site of a new prison INTEREST High jumo—Overstreet. McAllen, the Arizona and California, Colo- here carrying 1,000 rebel cavalry- plant, will break early in the ses- 11 second; first; Hendrix. Edinburg, rado river commissions sent a tele- men from the Cananea sectors. sion, this being one of the three third. Earnhardt. Brovmsville, gram to J. A. Donovan, chairman of Rebel headquarters said the train matters that will be laid before the Height. 5 ft.. 11 in. the Colorado river conference, in would go “southward." These legislature by the governor in his Browns- first Javelin throw—Cabler. I Washington, asking him to call a troops were believed to be enreute message Monday. ville. first: Adamson. San Benito, | meeting of the Arizona. Califor- to Navajoa. The general appropriations bills second; Ewing. Mercedes, third; nia and Nevada representatives at 11 will wait until later in the session, Weller, Brownsville, fourth. Dis- once. though the senate finance commit- tance 142 feet. Members of the two commissions SANTA FE TO SELL tee already has completed them here had been said their meetings and the house appropriations com- "most successful’ and that LINES prog- IN MEXICO mittee now is working daily to get Flee Homes been made towrard an I Farmers ress had them ready for the opening of the agreement on the Colorado river new session. As KANSAS CITY, April 20.—(JF}— Engineers Fight problem. They declined to comment Speaker W. S. The Kansas City Star will say to- Barron, who was on the reason for asking an imme- here this IN CIRCULATION OVER Levee Break morrow that the Santa Fe railroad week, expressed the be- Against diate conference with the Ncvad lief that | all has determined to divest itself of matters can be dis- commission. posed of in 30 SNOW LAKE. Ark.. April CO.—-(F) ttv Orient lines in Mexico. The days, but many of the members —United States engineers express- paper said its information was con- disagree with this A COMPLIMENT IS PAID belief. 6 MONTHS PERIOD ed hope tonight that they would firmed from authentic sources in _ | save the Mississippi river levee RETIRING D. A. R. HEAD Texas where W. B. 8torey. Santa which has crumbled near Knowlton. Fe president and other officials FAILURE OF DEBT but hun- a few miles from here, hare been on an ij WASHINGTON, April 20.—UP)— inspection tour. dreds of persons had fled their EXPERTS INEVITABLE A was paid Mrs. Adam homes in fear of a crevasse. compliment retiring treasurer general PLAN BAND CONTEST March,f Skiff:, gasoline launches and Wyant, PARIS, April 20.—(7P>—F a 1 n t | of the Daughters of the American barges carried the refugees through that Revolution, here tonight at the ban- DALLAS, April 20.—GD—Plans hopes the reparations com- the back water to places along the mission annual con- have been started for the state wide yet may reach a comprom- Pacific railroad tracks quet closing the 3§th 1929 Missouri band contest to be held here in con- ise were todav b 1 gress of the organization. reviving slightly 1 ' i box cars where provided improvised nection with the 1929 Texas state the departure of the Oerman dele- of a break The presiding officer, Mrs. Robert > homes until danger said a committee to Berlin Net fair, named by the gates to consult the Ger- paid . a break at Reed, former vice president general passes. Two years ago Texas man Ai who did not deliver her prepared Band Teachers’ association cabinet, but in general it wa- the same point cost 27 lives. under whose average dally spech. in introducing Mrs. Wyant auspices the contests felt that failure of the experts to will be held. to thousand delegates read a reach a settlement was inevitable. circulation thet ~~" 1 '■*1 MAY RECOMMEND TO .. 1M r* y letter, which sne said was dated OM INVESTIGATE PRISONS “the ’White House,’ saying that Mrs. M Wyant had been considered for sec- retary of the treasury in the Hoo- GREEN 20.—(F)—An PARIS HOUSTON, April ver cabinet and praising the finan- j of escapes from the treasurer Investigation cial genius of the former i 300-Lb. .... The of news— may be Barrels, per pound 12%c I j £§ greatest coverage Texas penitentiary system general. recommended by district attorney s 100-Lb. Barrels, per pound .1.3%^ Ijl and of market the offices of Karris and Tarrant territory—in a result of revelations Ex-Kai3er Stricken 28-Lb. . 15c- counties as Cans, per pound Lower Rio Grande made here today by Carl Lawder, Valley the As News Comes of 14-Lb. 16c held en a charge of aiding Cans, per pound.... j’ pi it was escape of Bob Silver, Death of Brother O. B. Houston; quotations subject to prior sale, 'j learned. money order or check must accompany order. District. Attorney R. A. Stuart of, BERLIN. April 20.—