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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
SCHOOL SEEKS
CONTEST FUND
Sponsor Movie to Send 3
TO State Clothing Con-
test In Dallas

To raise funds with which to
send contestants from Brownsville
public schools to the state clothing
contest at Dallas, pupils of the high
school are sponsoring a benefit pic
ture show at the Queen theater
here Friday. Miss Myrtle Jennings,
who is assisting with the drive, an
nounced Thursday.
Students are to sell tickets on the
streets of Brownsville late today
and Friday. A part of the pro-
ceeds from the sales made on the
street will go to the fund. Tickets
sold at the box office of the theater
will not apply on the fund.
The attraction is Monte Blue in
Greyhound. Limited" advertised as
a thriller with plenty of action.
1t is the plan of Miss Mary Small,
in charge of plans for the contest to
enter three girls in the state events
provided sufficient funds are raised.
A chaperone will accompany the
party.
The entrants will compete for
prizes in the school costume di-
vision, the tailored frock division
and the travelling costume division.
The first is for students in first
year high and the other two for
second year students. Brownsville
entrants have captured honors in
former meets.
Brownsville entries are to be
chosen In a contest at the high
school here Monday. An original
field of 100 entries has been mar
rowed to Is to 20 entries in each di-
vision. The final entries will be
selected by d~isinterested Judges.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
boy KING TO
Wed DUCHESS
Match With Italian Prin-
cess Off Because Of Re-
ligious Obstacles

SOFIA. Bulgaria. April 11.-P-
Youthful King Boris, who seems
bent on marrying, may have to take
a grand duchess for a bride instead
of a princess.
Religious obstacles today seemed
destined to prevent his proposed
wedding with Princess Giovanni of
Italy, and talk arose of a possible
alliance with the Grand Duchess
Kira Vladimirovitch, 19-year-old
daughter of Grand Duke Cyril.
recognized as head Of the Romanoff
family by many Russian royalists.
Information in diplomatic circles
here was that both the vatican and
the Bulgarian church declined to
yield sufficient ground to make the
alliance with Princes Giovanni pos
sible.
1t was said the pope, among other
things, refused the italian princess
a dispensation to marry King Boris
unles offspring of the union were
reared in the Roman Catholic faith
This would be inadmissible under
the Bulgarian constitution which
STIMULATES the heir to the throne
must be a member of the Bulgarian
| orthodox church.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
TRUCK OWNERS CALLED
TO GATHER IN AUSTIN
Especial to The Herald.)

FORT WORTH, Tex, April II.
There will be more than 200
truck owners of Texas meeting in
Austin Saturday, according to rec
ords Of attendance checked In the
office of the association in Fort
Worth.
The program announced here by
Don G. Sanders, president, includes
several of the prominent business
men of the state who own and
operate large fleets of trucks. San
ders himself is president of the
Merchants Fast Motor Lines.
Former Senator Lloyd r. Price,
now an attorney of Fort Worth,
will deliver the principal address.
Others who will be in attendance
include r. S. Sterling, Cone john
son. Judge W. r. Ely. Highway
Commissioner Glib Gilchrist, state
highway engineer: L. G.. Phares,
chief licep~7zand weights inspec-
tor: Clart Gilmore, chairman
of the rsM commission and
Commissioners G. V. Terrell, Lon
Smith and Mark Marshall, in
charge Of the bus department.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
LOCAL MAN
is FREE TRIP WINNER

Hawkins White, agent for the
Southland Life Insurance company
at Brownsville, and his wife are
qualified to attend the annual con-
vention of the Southland Life In
urance Company at Kerrville, Tex
as. according to announcement by
Agency Manager w. E. Talbot. The
qualification is based IN production
for 1923.
The meeting will be held April II.
10, and 10. A number of unusual
entertainment features have been
planned for the agents and their
wives.
Special cars will be ruiz from
Houston, Dallas and San Antonio
where they will be consolidated into
a special train for Kerrville.
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4A0O1 nIll -
were available for beverage pur-
poses. On the return trip a less
Limited supply than that contained
In the kuedical stores will be for
Joseph Z. Sheedy, executive vice
president of the line, said there
would be no public bar in the shin
but liquors and wines would be
served to passengers in their cabins
and in the dining looms and smok-
ing rooms. Drinks will be served
at meals.
The same policy, Sheedy said.
would be put into effect aboard the
other 10 ships which Paul w. Chap
man recently purchased from the
United States shipping board and
which will make up the United
States lines fleet.
Sheedy said the company sought
no direct financial gain from the
sale of liquor, but deemed it neces-
sary to offore it for sale to put the
American owned vessels on an equal
footing with foreign transatlantic
liners.
Under the law ships are permitted
to carry n quart of liquor for each
five passengers and members of the
crew for medical purposes this
would give the Leviathan an allow
ance Of 700 quarts on this voyage
to Europe.
For the westward trip the Off
GERS were instructed to take aboard
a supply of liquor sufficient to last
to the 12-mile limit. There all over
the medical allowance would be
thrown overheard.
The Leviathan and other shipping
board vessels were made dry in 1923
on the theory that liquor should not
be sold on government-owned ships.
ALI other American lines whose
vessels touch foreign ports, except
the Dollar line, sell liquor.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
MINNESOTA COVERED
BY FOOT-DEEP SNOW

ST. PAUL, April 11.-(P-A snow
storm that rivalled a midwinter
blizzard today had most of South
Dakota and the southern half of
Minnesota under a white blanket,
in some sections more than a foot
thick. Sioux Falls. in South Da-
kota and Pipestone. Mimi, reported
the heaviest snowfall.
While the moistuer was expected
10 be great benefit to crops already
in the ground, spring seding oper-
ations will be delayed for several
daYs.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
TRIAL IN
DEATH OF GUTIERREZ

An examining trial for five held
in connection with the Staying OF
Manuel Gutierrez recently, was to
be concluded before the Justice of
the peace at Los Fresnos at 2 p. m.
Thursday.
Gutierrez body was found on the
banks Of a canal with a bullet
through his head near Los Fresnos.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
FINAL, VALUATION FIXED

WASHINGTON, April 11.-tP-A
final valuation on the property of
the International Great Northern
railroad which operates 1,105 miles
Of line in Texas. was fixed today by
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion as of June. 1917. at S33,948,650.
The corporations book investment
on the same date va S40,026.287,
while its capitalization was $685.
202.5s6.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
HEARsE BURIED IN SNOW

GLASGOW.-A hearse carrying
the body of David Murray to the
cemetery. near Aberdeen. was bur-
led in the snow and had to be
abandoned.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-11
LeUiathan, Six Years
A Prohibition Ship,
Has Liquor for Sale

NEW YORK, April 11-P-The Levathan, queen of the American
merchant marine and for six years a prohibition ship, was en- route to
Europe today with liquor for sale.
Ine me was making her maiden voyage under private American
ownership IS the flagship of the newly organized United States Lines,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-18
REGN HERE TODAY

MAIZE BROWN writes this story for
practice in a story-Writing correspond
ence school course. never intending IT
TO be published; She intersperse it with
notes to her instructor. She is con-
fdential secretary of FRANK SHERI-
DAN, wealth young Indianapolis lawyer,
mysteries. Sheridan is, guest at a
dinner party given at her Maple road
home by SHELIA WILDER, daughter of
WILLIAM OLIVER WILDER, Indiana
apolis manufacturer and inventor. The
dinner is in honor of two electrical ex-
perts who are negotiating for the pur-
chase OF Wilber's invention, a new type
Of electri light; other guests include
tor. Of Marion county Shelia's fiance,
and ANDY MASTERS, Shelia's hayward
cousin, who is entangled in a love affair
with MERCEDES RfVERTON, a steno-
grapher in the office of HOMER MEN
TON, an unprincipled criminal lawyer.
A few days before the dinner party
safe in Wilber'S experimental home lab
oratory is looted and a dairy of VIII
holds a secret of Shelia's birth. Sheri-
dan. in the role of amateur detective,
Is on the buglar's trail. Following the
dinner, WILDER demonstrates his inven-
ton consists of small metal cylinder
through which electric currents of vary
ing intensity are passed in the test.
After al the dinner guests have departed
SWARTz, a maid is found dead on the
laboratory floor by CLARA, the WILDER
cook. The coroner finds death due to
accidental electrocution. Sheridan, find
closed, is not satisfied with the accident
theory and starts his own investigation.
He learns that RILEY MORGAN.
robbery, had been a caller upon Lena
Now GO on WITH THE STORY
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am told, is very thick with Andy
Masters; they have cut quite a few
high didoS together.
IF I play my hand right with her
I may learn something to my adj
vantage, as the want ads advertising
for missing persons say. Get Homer
Mention on the phone, if he's in his
office. Tell him-oh, anything-tell
him he's wanted right away in the
county clerks Office. I want to get
him out of his Office. don't want
him around while I'm flirting with
the lovely Mercedes"
AS it happened, Mr.. Mention was
not in his Office. A feminine voice
informed me that he would not re-
turn that day and added: Thank
the Lord" The field was clear.
CHERIDAN bolted out of his Office
- and walked swiftly over to the
First National Bank building. 1t
was nearly 5 o'clock and he was
fearful Mercedes would close the
Office and go home before he had
chance to see her.
He took the elevator to the floor
on which Menton's Office was To-
Gated. AS he stepped out Of the
lift, a man peered around corner
of the corridor, looked about him
sharply, pulled his cap down over
his eyes and shuff1ed rapidly past
Sheridan toward the bank Of ele-
vator doors, just as the rec light
announced the approach OF de-
scending cab. q
Sheridan whirled in his tracks.
"Hey, you! he called, wait a
minute"
But his words were drowned out
by the clang Of the closing elevator
door and the cab plunged down
with its passenger Sheridan
punched the bell viciously and
reached a hand into an inside
pocket of his coat. He drew out a
card on which was pasted profile
and full-face photos of a mana
rogue's gallery picture.
1.-The man with a limp" he ex-
claimed. "Riley Morgan!"
(To Be Continued
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Ell GRECO PAINTING
Is FOUND IN WEST
Work Valued at $4,000 Sold at
$3.50 in Used Goods Store.


$3.50 in Used Goods Store.
81 SAN nsIso francisco, Nov. 49,
What is believed to be an authentic
Ell Greco painting, valued at be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, has been
discovered here.
The discovery was made by
George Barron, curator of the
Golden Gate Park museum, when
the painting, was brought to him
by Clark Johnson, who had pur-
chased it in a secondhand store
for $3.50.
On first appearance, the painting
appeared to be q poor attempt at
depicting a Persian rajah. Barron
put the painting through a process
that removes one coat of paint
without harming an older one un-
derneath.
When the process was completed,
the Persian rajah had disappeared
and instead was a painting of st.
Francis of Assist in an attitude Of
prayer.
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Here Tarzan babe them break camp, leave the
stacked gold and return to their native village,
their wives and children And you, Waziri?'
they asked. st shall remain here few days, my
children" he replied. When they had gone, Tar
IAN gathered uptwo of the gold ingots, sprang
into tree and ran lightly to a clearing, deep
within the jungle.
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The sun was just rising as Tarzan, with infin-
lite labor and at considerable peril descended the
great cliffs. Far beneath him he saw smoke
arising above the treetops Mani" thought Tar
zan, perhaps the fifty who went forth to track
me down" He set of at rapid trot across the
valley. Cautiously he approached the tiny camp
fire.
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CHAPTER TWEN1Y-ONE

MOTE by Maize Brown to her
IN correspondence school instruc-
tor: 1t is necessary again to inject
myself into this story, even if it does
break the continuity and does vio-
late your rules of technique. 1 want
to explain that it is very difficult
to record faithfully the part played
by Edna Rogers in this drama of
real life.
Although he relates to me in de-
tail all the other information he
gathers and the deductions he makes
as result of his Investigations, Mir.
Sheridan is strangely reticent in re-
gard to everything that touches Miss
Rogers. am compelled to resort to
his own Methods play CT imagi-
nation upon slender facts for logi-
cal Interpretation of events in which
she figures. This will explain the
rather Sketchy treatment of her &C
tivities in the foregoing chapters.
TT was late in the day following
Il the WILDER dinner party and its
tragic climax that Mr.. Sheridan put
in his appearance at his Office.
Knowing he had attended the dill
ner, I was wild with excitement
when read in The Times the story
of Lena SwartZs death. I knew in
tuitively that the whole story was
not in that article.
coofhfT1A
curiosity. for when he came in he
looked at me quizzically, smiled tan
taliz.ngly and with a mere word of
greeting, went directly into his own
office-and closed the door! He de-
lights in keeping me on pins and
needles under such circumstances.
In a few minutes, however, he
called to me and asked that get
Chick Severn on the phone. Severn
is a young operative of a conserva-
tive private detective agency. whom
Mr.. Sheridan sometimes employs to
make routine inquiries-to do his
''leg work" as he calls 1t.
I heard him tell Chick to check
I'D on the caterers employees who
had served the WILDER dinner. Then
I was called IN to the private office.
My steps didn't lag.
set your goggles firmly on your
patrician nose. my dear Maize, and
lend me the treasure of your wise
counsel" he began banteringly
"This is a case in which two heads
are better than one bewildered one >
I quivered in anticipation. Such
an opening always means an in
teresting session. I was not kept
waiting. He plunged at once into
the story of the WILDER tragedy and
painted vivid picture of the din
ner, the dancing. the demonstration
in the laboratory. the death OF Lena,
the coming of the doctor and the
coroner. the reporters visit and the
theories he discussed and argued
with Smedley and WILDER.
Each character in his telling stood
out like sharply cut cameo; every
Incident of the evening that had
come under his keen observation,
every scrap of conversation, how
ever trivial that he had overheard,
was detailed. not so much for my
benefit. I know, as to fix it all the
more clearly in his own mind. He
concluded with this summing up:
six questions, each more or less
interdependent upon the others,
clamor for answers. I have writ
ten them down" He picked up q
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Squatting about were his black Waziri war
riors. He called to them in their own language:
Arise my children and greet thy kingi With
EXPLANATIONS of surprise and fear the warriors
leaped to their feet. Tarzan dropped lightly
from an overhanging branch into their midst
and they almost went mad with JOY to see him
still alive.
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BY Martin

Tarzan related his adventures and told them
of the yellow metal he found. Also of his plans
to return and bring away some Of the vast
treasure. So, when dusk fell on the desolate
valley, they marched back to Opar. BY midnight
they had returned, each carrying load Of two
gold ingots. At the end of thirty days they en-
tered their own country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-16
SCHWAB SPEECH
TO Be HEARD BY
FACTORY HEADS
Steel Magnate to Talk at
Banquet Tonight at
Columbia Club.

Charles NJ. Schwab, chairman OF
the board of directors of the Beth
lehem Steel Corporation, came to
indianapolis today to speak at the
annual banquet of the Indiana Man.
ufacturers' Association at $50 to-
night in the Columbia Club.
Shortly after his arrival Schwah
left his private car to visit with
friends and business associates in
the city.
Meetings Of the Manufacturers
Association opened this afternoon
with reports of the organizations
work and discussion of a proposal tc
increase the directorate from sixteen
to twenty-four members.
A resolution proposing a reduc-
ton in corporation income tax rates
was discussed.
Members of the association also
considered the shipping facilities Of
fered by the Great Lakes-to- Gulf
of Mexico waterway.
Philip zoercher, member of the
state tax board, explained taxation
problems to the association.
At tonight's banquet members of
the Indianapolis section of the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers have been invited to hold
their meeting in conjunction with
the state manufacturers. Schwah
is past president of the A. S. M. E.
Frank Ball of Muncie will be
POSTMASTER and other speakers will
be William L. Taylor, former attor-
ney-general, and Governor Harry G.
Leslie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-16
SEEK MISSING
BUSINESS MAN
Police Asked to Search for
Otis F. Calvin.

Police of mid-Western cities were
asked today to search for Otis +.
Calvin, IS, president of the Indian
apolis Sand and Gravel Company,
who disappeared from his home,
1850 Graceland avenue, Friday
night.
Illness, resulting in a nervous
breakdown, is believed to have
caused Calvin to wander away from
his home.
Friday night he told relatives,
I'm going out to get a cigar"
He left the house and was seen
last by a clerk in the drug store of
Carl j. Reichel, Fortieth street and
the Boulevard place, as he pur-
chased the cigar.
Relatives say he had but small
amount of money and no rings or
jewelry of value when he left.
He wore a gray cap, brown over
coat and dark suit when left home.
He was 5 feet 6 inches in height.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-16
LACQUER BLAST HURlS
FIRE CHIEF 20 FEET
Leader at South Bend Unhurt as
$4,000 Damage Results.

PB Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. To-
Roy A. Knoblock, chief of the South
Bend fire department, escaped I'M
injured when he was hurled twenty
feet by an explosion DUNG a four
alarm fire.
The chief was directing firemen
in checking a blaze in the plant of
the Reliable Window Cleaners, a
shade and decorating company,
when large vat of lacquer explod-
ed, Only the fact that the chief
instinctively threw his arms to his
face saved him from serious burns
in the burst of flames that followed
the explosion.
Fourteen residents in an apart
ment above the store escaped injury.
The S. D. Moran radio store, and
the Reliable company building were
destroyed. Loss is estimated at
$4,000.
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ST0CKMAN TO
PRESENT REVUE
FOR ORPHANS
Studio viii Cooperate
With The Times for Fete
on Dec. "a.

Children at the orphans home
will be entertained through cooper
alton of The indianapolis Times
and the Stockman dance studios on
Dec. d.
y dance revue will be given, ar
ranged with a view to pleasing the
children. All children taking part
in the program are pupils of the
Stockman studios and were trained
by Ernestine Ewing, in charge of
the ballet department. For two con-
aecutive years they have appeared
in revues at B. F. Keith's theater
and other theaters here.
The program:
Military Buck-Elnore Volcu, Betty
Joe Stewart, Marjorie Ryan, Maxine
Heironlmus, Ida Mcintyre, Lori
enne BarroWs, Bobbie Heironimus,
Vernon and George Horton and
Kenneth Stockman.
Acknowledgment Scott.
Buck and Wing-George and Yer
non Horton.
Tiller Double-Mary Louise Swift
and Mary Louise Noe.
Rhythm Dance-Lida Mcintyre
and Maxine Heironimus; buck dance
by Marjorie Ryan; acrobatic dance,
Lorinenne Barrows; song and dance,
Norman Jean Wood and Elizabeth
Ann Schumacher.
Eccentric Dance-Elnore Vulcus;
song and dance, Betty Joe Stewart.
Duet-Wanda Jean Goodwin and
Betty Jean Danish.
Toe Dance-Margare Laughner.
Acrobatic Dance-Lida Mcintyre.
The Tiller dance will be given
by Imogene Laughner, Margaret
Laughner, Mabel Simmons, Robert
Ehlers, Madonna Cooper, Kenneth
Stockman, George and Vernon Hor-
ton, Maxine and Bobbie Heironimus,
Ida Mcintyre, Lorienne BarroWs,
Marjorie Ryan, Mary Louise Swift,
Mary Louise Noe, Elizabeth Schu~
maker, Norma Jean Wood, Betty
Joe Stewart, Wanda Jean Goodwin.
Elnore Vulcu, Betty Jean Dagllsh
and Margaret Scott.
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FLETCHER MEN TO MEET
Annual Christmas Session of Bank
Employees Scheduled.

Charles N. Evans, assistant
cashier of the Fifth-Third Union
Trust Company, Cincinnati, will
speak to $50 male employees OF
Fletcher Trust banks at the annual
Christmas meeting Tuesday nigr<
at the mems clubrooms at Market
and PENNSYLVANIA streets.
The women's club will hold its
Christmas party tonight. Christ
mas carols will be sung at both
parties and Christmas luncheon
will be served.
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DIVORCE COURTS CLOSE
Denver Judge InaugurateS Novel
Scheme for Christmas.

BIZ United Press
DENVER, Dec. 16.-There will be
no unhappy children as a result
of marital difficulties when Santa
Claus comes down the chimney in
Denver this year, If a plan agreed
to by county judges is successful.
Imbued by the peace on earth,
good will toward men, spirit, the
judges closed their courts today for
a two weeks divorce holiday"
Until after the new year they have
agreed not to hear divorce COM
plants or grant DEGREES.
By this plan they hope to bring
estranged couples together.
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week ago when he did not appear.
1t was charged that he entered a
soft drink place and demanded
liquor from Mrs. Mary Meharry.
When she refused to get it for him
he became rough, police said. Then
he obtained police aid for a raid Of
the place. AS the raid was made
he attacked Mrs. Meharry and
struck her several times before po-
lice could interfere, it was charged.
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PAGE 8

Crown Hill. DR.. o. w. F1fer win
conduct the service.
Mr.. Carter, a former druggist, had
been active in the business life Of
the city, at the time Of his death
being director of the MasSschu-
sets Avenue State bank. He was a
charter member of the Chember of
Commerce. The widow, sister and
four brothers. survive him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-16
CITIZENS BATTLE; IL DIE
Mexican Feud Ripens Into Fierce
Outbreak; Six Are Injured,

Bp United Press
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 16.-Twelve
persons were killed and six wounded
in a battle between citizens of the
towns of Santa Tomas and Santa
Maria Chiconautla, twenty miles
from the capital. The battle was
reported to have been the outgrowth
of a feud over recent Agrarian
disputes.
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BANK DIRECTOR DIES

Funeral services for Frank H.
Carter, rs, of 5000 Fall Greek boule-
ward, who died Sunday following a
long illness, will be held Wednes-
day at 10 a. m. at Hisey & Titus
funeral parlors. Burial will be in