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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-16
GiUe Benefit Party

Mothers Alliance of Alpha Delta
sorority entertained with benefit
card party at 2:3o today at the
Lumley tearoom. Mrs. w. F. Shirtz
was chairman in charge, assisted by
Mrs. Theodore Philpott and Mrs. c..
O. DOdSOn
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Retiring Irvington Club
Leader Will Entertain

Mrs. James H Butler. retiring
chairman of Irvington Union of
Clubs, will entertain with a tea
Wednesday afternoon. to 5
o'clock. at her home. 5718 Oak ave-
nue.. in honor of new officers of the
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Pyg-COnUentiOn Meetings
of VIC. T.U. VIII Be Held
Thursday at Clayb00I

c. T. U. will be held Thurs
l. the ClaypooI hotel at 1915 and 2 O'Clock
convention proper will be called Thursday night at
will Mrs Boole has chosen
is the Price of Prohibition
executive committee
Stanley president will the
welcome Memorial charge of Mrs Stanley will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-16
ueetip0 Is Called

Gloom Dodgers. Inc, will hold an
important business meeting tonight
at the home of George MittcrhouSe
Jr.. $3.50 Central avenue. All COM
mittee chairmen and members are
requested to attend.
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Anniversary Celebrated

Mr.. and Mrs. B. w. Aiken. Flora.
observed their golden wedding ami
ve7sary Sunday at their home. Din
ner was served at noon. Open house
was held in the afternoon.
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Business MeetinG

Girls Friendly Society of Christ
church will have its first business
meeting of the season, following E
O'Clock dinner at the parish house
Tuesday night.
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UeetinQ Slated

Members of Catherine Merrill
Tent. No. 9. Daughters of Union
Veterans of the Civil war. will meet
at TT. Friendly. 512 North Illinois
street, at s tonight.
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SOrOTitu to Meet

Miss Mary Alice Burch, 1851
North Healing avenue. viii entertain
members of Beta chapter. Phi Theta.
Delta sorority. at her home tonight.
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Hostess for CHAPTER

Miss Katherine Ashcraft, 432 Leeds
avenue. will be hostess for meeting
of Dleta Rho chapter. Phi Pi Psi
sorority at her home tonight.
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Golden WeddiHq

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Shepherd of
GreenSburg. will celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary at their
home Sunday. Sept. %.
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Tri-Art Club to Meet

Regular meeting of Tri-Art Club
viii be held at 7:45 tonight at the
\. W. c. A,
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Celebrate Anniversary
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas J. Pefley of
Dora. will observe the Sixty-siXth
anniversary OF their marriage Tues
day.
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A dark red tweed coat has big
collar of raccoon, in fine skins Of
dark tone.
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SOroritn Session Slated

Regular meeting of Iota Kappa
sorority will be held tonight at the
home Of Mrs. Edwin MusSelman
6148 Buckingham avenue.
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Tuesday night, through courtesy
Of the American Legion, the film,
odd Glory will be shown, and
talks given by Mrs. Mamie w. Col
vim, president of w. c. T. u, New
York: Miss Cora Frances Stoddard,
Boston, and Mrs. Flora D. Richard,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
FAIR BEST in SOUTH TEXAS
Uses
Much Citrus
Demand For Grapefruit Is
Strong Despite Slow
ness of Oranges
Especial to The Herald)

NOpGCldl 10 Lie x16I
WASHINGTON, April 2o.-In the
following, received in the foreign
service of the bureau of agricultural
economics, Edwin Smith, fruit spe-
cialist of the bureau in London, dis
cusseS the European market for
American citrus fruit with special
reference to the potential market
for grapefruit in Continental Eu-
rope.
There has been a general recess
sion in prices for oranges during the
past week March 16 to 23) although
Spanish oranges arrived in smaller
quantities and the best quality made
some advance in prices. Many Span
iSh oranges in a weak condition sold
for lower prices, whereas the best
California Navels sold for from SO
cents to rs cents per box below last
week'se figure. 1t is said that peo-
pie are tired of oranges, since they
have had it dinned into their ears
since December that they should eat
large quantities Of oranges to pre-
vent influenza and there is no doubt
that consumption has been heavy
during the past three months
Another factor influencing prices
has been the increased movement OF
California oranges from New York
since the price of oranges from
Spain and Jaffa reached a point to
make ns-shipment profitable.
California oranges are to be seen In
all British markets and this illus
trates how fluid supplies are when
Continued on Page Ten.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
FLY over
MEXICO ROUTE
FIRST22DAYS
Customs Inspector Re-
ports 308 Arrived;
Estimate AS Many
Went Other WAY

Approximately 600 passengers
travelled into and out Of Mexico on
planes of the Compania Mexicana
de Aviacion, local air mail contrac-
tors, in the 22-day period from
March 9 to March 81, according to
w. L. Biggs, customs inspector at
the airport.
Inspector Biggs reported to Will
liam Neale, deputy collector of Gus
toms for the Brownsville district,
that 308 passengers arrived from
Mexico and it is estimated that
approximately the same number
made the trip in the opposite di-
rection.
In the same period exports OF
5000 $40 worth of merchandise was
exported through the local airport
into Mexico. The bulk of this is
represented by new planes taken
into that country for the Pan-Amer-
lean Anyways, Inc, of which Com
mania de Aviacion is a branch.
A large porto nof the business
was merchandise of various kinds.
Imports for the same period to-
tailed ST, 002.
One hundred ships reached the
airport during % days from Mex
leo.
A large portion of the business
rivals that were made by the planes
of the International Air Transport
company, bringing in fish from Soto
la Marino. A greater portion of the
imports are represented by the fish
brought in for the Tex-Mex fish
cries.
This volume Of business exceeds
the expectations of the company to
a considerable extent, officials agree,
but a part of it is believed to have
resulted because of the revolution
in the southern republic.
With the rebellion practically con-
trolled, the business-paSsenger
freight and malls continuing in
satisfactory volume, officials declare
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
Zoning of Country
Land is Suggested
After New Research

the land owners, the county, and
the state.
Is this land hopeless? asked the
state. No, said the new land &C.
onomics division after it analysed
the soil, studied the trees, took the
temperature of the streams, cross
examined the populace, an dascer-
tanned the land requirements of
peculiar but prosperous industries.
Farms are unsuccessful here and
there, said l.. r. Schoonmann, the
division director, but they have been
unsuccessful for so years and the
people do not know this. It is safe
to assume that if so years of toll
have not produced good crops that
this land may never be good farm
land.
This particular information was
secured by a laborous examination
of the records of sale and other
legal documents covering thousands
Of farms, and as far as is known
is the first time a study has been
CONTINUED on page eight
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

This is the 2oth of a series Of
articles prepared by the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
to be published weekly in this
newspaper for the information Of
its readers on real estate matters.
Up in northern Michigan a mil
lion acres Of land has been aban-
doned by people who could not
wiring a living from it. The state
has seized it for delinquent taxes,
but it would much rather have
seen its owners prosper and it dir
ected a group Of able men to find
out if possible what was the matter.
The result of the investigation
led Michigan economists into new
fields of research and points the
way to the possible coming Of forests,
farms and sWamps, says the Nat
ional Association OF Real Estate
Boards.
For the Michigan Land Economic
Survey discovered that people stub
bornly tried to farm land that had
not produced successful farms in
so years while fertile areas lay idle.
It found that uniformed people
tried to farm steep sandy hills
which are the poorest possible farm
locations and which they purchas-
ed because they came from Illinois
and Indiana low lands and were
afraid of floods.
The survey revealed that idle
swamp land was valuable for the
increasing muscrat trapping bust
ness, that huckleberries could be
raised and canned In a wilderness,
and that the forest growth in GER
tain territories would be large
enough Is years from now to supply
paper mills not yet constructed.
And the deSirability to a state OF
many private hunting and fishing
preserves Is recorded on maps that
show what wild animals can expect
to get to eat in certain Michigan
forests, for rich men will pay more
for hunting lands where game can
find food through the winter.
Starting on the treory that a
wise" use of the ground will cut
down on land failures, and finan-
ced by the state legislature, this
new division of the Michigan de-
partment of conservation has spent
seven years in studying the past,
present and future o f 10 idle
Michigan counties. These coun-
ties are located in northern Mich
igan, where so per cent of the land
lies idle where wild" land develop
ment has languished, where land
values are low and tax revenues
lower, all q matter of concern to
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
FISH H. DROWNED
IN FIGHT WITH FISH

MARSHALLBURG, NJ, C.3P)-
Fish stories are common in this
town on the North Carolina coast,
but Julian Brown, owner ot an is
land in Core Sound, has a new one.
Brown says he recently saw an
osprey, or fish-hawk, dart into the
water, fix its talons in the back of
some kind Of fish, give a shrill cry
and disappear under the water.
The water was watched, but the
fish-hawk failed to reappear. Brown
says. The assumption is that the
fish-hawk attached itself to the fish
so tightly that it was unable to re-
lease itself.
OSpreys get their food by darting
into the water, grabbing an unwary
fish in their claws, and going to the
shore to feast on their prey,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

Learner The Dell CulLuT6 c1uD dilQ
the Public Health Nursing ass)-
citation. These clubs are presenting
her as a compliment to the stu
dents of the high school, the junior
college, and the citizens of Browns
vile.
Though one Of the youngest
speakers on the American lecture
platform, Miss Pennybacker's rich
cultural background, her thorough
grounding in literature and Ian
guages as well as her natural gifts,
have enabled her to win an envia-
BILE position in her chosen field.
The only daughter of Mrs. Percy
". Pennybacker Of Austin, Texas,
former president Of the General
Federation of Women'S clubs, she
was educated in Texas, Philadel-
phia, Vassar college, France, Ger
many and Switzerland. The early
grounding in literature and Ian
guage planned by a thoughtful pa
rent, has stood her in good stead.
If one learns German in a Munich
boarding school at the age of IL,
and French a year later in a Nor
man chateau, it Is a comparatively
easy matter, in ones twenties to In
terview Austrian, Czechoslovak and
Russian celebrities Of the theater.
Secretary to Mrs. Gait
However, before Miss Penny
hackers interests were centered en-
the theater, she enjoyed two re-
markable experiences which gave
her an insight into public affairs.
Soon after graduating from Vassar,
she served as secretary to one of
the greatest women Of our time,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, leader
OF the suffrage movement. This
was during the last throes Of the
suffrage campaign when the die
hard states of Vermont, Delaware,
South Carolina and Mississippi
were being brought to the fold by
workers for the national suffrage
amendment. Miss Pennybacker
considers it one Of the great priv
ileges of her life to have seen Mrs
Cats master mind at work, and
to have witnessed her remarkable
handling Of men, women and stu
atoms.
Not long after this, Lady Aston
came to this country on her light
ming speaking-trip, flashing like 8
gay and scintillating comet through
the east and middle west. Miss
Pennybacker Travelled with her
serving a. her private secretary;
here she learned the meaning OF
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
EXPRESS TO GO
VIA AIR LINES
Pan-American to Contract
To Handle Business For
Mexican Railroads

Contract between the Pan Ameri-
can Anyways, Inc, and the Mexican
National railways for the transport
of express by planes throughout
Mexico and to make connection
here with planes for points in the
United States and at Merida for
south and central points is to be
completed in the next few days.
Terms of the agreement have
been decided to the satisfaction of
both parties, according to w. L.
Morrison, local representative. 1t
remains only to be signed.
The contract will expedite the
delivery of express to all parts of
Mexico, saving from one day to
three weeks on shipments from
the border here, Morrison said.
While the rates will necessarily
be high, it will provide quick SER
vice for emergency needs which the
aviation officials believe will prove
highly beneficial to mining, oil
drilling and other firms
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
COMPANY PLANS
IMPROVEMENTS
Central Power And Light
Keeping Pace With Val
ley's Fast Growth

The growth, development and
prosperity Of south and southwest
Texas and the faith in its future
that its citizens and investors in
all parts of the United States dis
play, is no where indicated more
certainly than in the activities and
new construction planned for 1929
by the Central Power and Light
company, according to a statement
made by e. B.. Neiswanger, presi-
dent and general manager of the
company.
The company contemplateS i'm
provementS and extensions to its
properties in South and southwest
Texas which will total in excess
Of $6,000,0 900 in tbs year 1929. Such
sums of money as will be invested
during this year, and as have been
invested in this territory for the
past several years, are of necessity
obtained from investors from prac-
tically all parts of the United States.
During the course of the year many
Of the larger investors from other
states are drawn to south and south
west Texas for the purpose of per-
Sonally investigating conditions Of
territory in which they r finan-
cially interested. Many Of these
people visit this section Of the state
unknown to company personnel. On
the other hand scarcely a month
passes but that visitors by pre-ar-
ranged plans are conducted over the
territory served by the company, for
the purpose Of personally inspecting
the company's operations and the
territory which it serves. Needless
to say, no opportunity is lost to show
and explain the future possibilities
Of development In south and south
west Texas.
An increase In the use of electric
service In the Rio Grande Valley
has resulted in the company in
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
OSBORN ELECTED HEAD
OF McALLEN
Especial to The Herald.)

McALLEN, April 20.-Mayor F.
E. Osborn was elected president OF
the Rotary club here, succeeding G.
D. Martin, who stated at Wednes-
days meeting that he will leave
McAllen soon for another business
connection. Mayor Osborn was
vice president during President
Martins term.
Five directors were chosen at the
same nesting, j. G. Paxton, G. 0.
Rockwell, w. H. Moon, D. w. Web
Der and Stockton Fountain. To
these will be added Mayor Osborn
and Secretary w. E. Rhodes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
SPUD PRICES
ARE ANALYZED
Values Tend Down When
Production Exceeds 3.6
Bushels Per Capita
Especial to The Herald.)

NoRSO@1
WASHINGTON, April 21.-When-
ever total potato production for the
United States has approached or
exceeded 3.8 bushels per capita Of
the population, the price has tend
ed downward during the season,
but the price trend has usually
been upward whenever the yield
fell below 80 bushels per capita,
says the United States department
Of agriculture publishing the re-
suits of potato marketing studies
by the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.
During the last twenty-seven
years, according to these studies,
growers were usually justified in
holding only when the indicated
crop was far below the average, or
was not much more than 8 bushels
per capita. In other years. the
chance Of profit to growers was too
uncertain to balance the added
risk, cost and Shrinkage. Growers
who acted according to early fore
casts, selling at once when heavy
yields were indicated, or selling at
convenience in cast Of doubt, and
holding only in very scarce sea-
sons, apparently had a chance of
being right three out of four
times, judging from the outcome
Of seasons since 1900.
Production in the Iate-potato
states, it is pointed out, is the
most important factor in deter
mining the seasons price level. The
situation may be affected slightly
by the indicated competition with
imported potatoes and with sweet
Continued On Page Eight
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FINES INCREASED

LUFKIN, April 20.-Pl-The av-
erage fine for a misdemeanor Of
tense In Angelina county in the
future will be SIT instead OF S12.70.
The new justice fee law, according
to the ruling of the county attor-
ney, requires the assessment of 81
as a trial fee, hence the increase
Of $3.50 In future convictions.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
BOX PLACED IN FRONT
OF McALLEN OFFICE
(SpeciaI to The Herald)

McALLEN, April 20.-A courtesy
box, where patrons Of the local
postoffice may drive up and de-
post their mail without leaving
their car. has been placed on the
sidewalk beside the office by Perry
Hudson, street superintendent.
The idea has been tried success
fully in several larger cities and
its adaptability to McAllen was
seen as a remedy for congestion
around the postoffice and time
saver for local business men. About
twenty-five feet of parking space
adjoining the box has been closed
to parking.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

Der of Commerce, will preside at the
business sessions. Mr.. Middleton is
expected to arrive at the convention
city aboard the Presidents Spe-
cial," a special train named in his
honor that will start at Paris and
pick up delegation sat various other
points, including Greenville, en-
route.
E. H. Astin, Bryan banker and
planter, and a vice president Of the
regional organization, as general
chairman of the convention commit
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

tee, is the man at the helm of the
extensive program of arrangements
for the coming meeting.
Business sessions of the conven-
ton will be held in the auditorium
of the First Baptist church Of Bryan.
The spectacular pageant. scheduled
for the night of May 6 and at which
the queen Of East Texas with her
court of East Texas beauties will
reign, will be staged within the
arena Of the athletic stadium at the
A. & M. college of Texas.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

BRYAN, Texas, April 20.-As host
city for the third annual conven-
ton Of the East Texas Chamber Of
Commerce, Bryan will become the
mecca for thousands Of visitors May
ST. Tentative estimates on the
crowd expected rang all the way
from $4,000 to $4,000. In any event,
indications point to the largest cou-
vention assemblage in the history of
the organization.
John D. Middleton Of Greenville,
president of the East Texas Cham
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
McALLEN HIGHS PLAY
WINS SECOND PLACE
(Snecial to rhe Heraldl

McALLEN. April 20.-McAllen's
high schools one-act play cast.
composed of Mary Virginia Bar
ron. william Maitland. William
Blair. Burgess Stutzenbecxer. and
James Pate. placed second In the
semi-state contest at San Marcos
Tuesday.
Breckenridge high school In San
Antonio placed first. Other schonts
entered we're Lockhart. Alice. Tem-
pie and Gonzales
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
BRAMLETTE ACCEPTS :
POSITION

McALLEN, April 2o.-Superin-
tendent j. D. Bramlette has def
nitely decided to accept the posi-
ton offered him as superintendent
of Kingsville schools and professor
in the teachers college in that city,
according to his announcement this
week. Superintendent Bramlette
was formerly a principal in the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
:Superlatiues of My
Life Lecture Topic
WMiss Pennybacker

1.-THE Superlatives of My Life" is the subject chosen by Miss Ruth
Pennybacker,. prominent lecturer, for her Brownsville appearance at 8
(. m, April %. She will speak in the high school auditorium
Miss Pennybacker comes here under the auspices of the City Fedora
ton Of Womens Clubs, with the Cooperation Of the Civic league, the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

Joaquin Mora of McAllen, jun
Cor inkthe department of architec-
tire. was awarded first mention
this week on a problem, An
AQUARIUM" submitted to members
of the faculty.
Mora has won several prizes with
his work in architecture. He is
editor Of the bulletin board de-
voted to items of interest to stu
dents of the departments
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

Mrs. j. L. Rentfro OF Browns
Vile. formerly Miss Alice Ballard,
a popular university coed: arrived
a. Austin Tuesday to be the guest
~ Mrs. Earle E. Simms for the
week. A number of informal al
sairs have been planned In her
honor.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

Three Valley students were elect
al TO NJ Epsilon Tau Tau, bur-
,esnue scholastic society for wom-
an at It's regular April meeting.
They are Salome McAllen and Es-
ther Weller of Brownsville ana
Mary Margaret Glasscock OF Har-
lingen.
Although a rather high scholas-
&c average Is n Of the require
ments for admission into the so
ciety, N. u. T. T. is an emery"
scholastic fraternity, intended as a
take-off on Phi Beta Kappa, ma
tsonal honorary scholastic frater-
nitv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

This is the 29th of a series Of
articles prepared by the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
to be published weekly in this
newspaper for the information Of
its readers on real estate matters.