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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15

When the powerful Loboes Of Css-
CO, Texas go On the field at Browns
vile New Years Day to engage in
the first annual Battle OF Grape
fruit they will not be facing a
group OF individual stars.
The Valley will be represented in
that game by a smooth working
machine In tip-top condition. Coach
Dutch Rektorik OF Harrington. 20
whom the honor Of training the
Valley squad fell by reason OF his
Cardinals having captured district
hOnOrs. will attend TO that. Coach
Rektorik has chosen Coach X. "A,
Martin OF Weslaco as his chief Of
staff and these two already have
started drilling the men who are
TO make up the squad.
The first training session nc Mer-
,edes Tuesday afternoon proved
The 80 boys who have made out
standing records on their respective
teams during the past season are
enthusiastic over the coming battle.
These training sessions are to con-
tinue until schools are dismissed for
the Christmas holidays. On the
day after Christmas al 80 boys are
to be called together at some central
place and from then until the day
Of the game they will live as one
big family.
Intensive Drill
During the last week before the
game the boys will be given n course
ia higher grid tactics calculated
to cause the Cisco crew a lot OF
trouble.
With all the preliminaries cut of
the way, interest OF the fans turned
to the question OF who likely would
compose the starting lineup. That
is a question the coaches themselves
are going to find difficult to ans
wer. with % much stellar material
on hand. and for an outsider to at
tempt to make a selection Is rank
guess work.
On the squad are powerful lines
men and brainy. shifty and hard
hitting backs. The squad Is COM
posed Of Murray and Washam,
Harrington, Barnum. Edinhurg, Gar
ga, Mission, Earnest McAllen and
Ritter La Feria as ends. Ross. Mis-
sion. w. Lawrence. Harrington and
Young, Edinburg. centers: Cox, Nc
Allen. Karmeir, Pharr-San Juan
Alamo Waters. Harrington, Norton,
Weslac0 Wood and Valdez. Mission,
Dickson. Ia Feria, Bales. WeSlaco,
Eddy. Donna. Howlet, San Benito,
and Drury. Harrington. guards and
tackles, Patterson. Donna. Witt.
Weslaco. Landry, Mission. J. Law
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
Many New Members
Reported BY Club

Reports 4rom the annette cluD
aow IN process of organization here
v,erc TO the effect that sixty-five
MEMBERS have been signed and that
WY equipment Is expected within q
lew days.
This organization has quarters on
Fourteenth street. IN connection
with the Turkish bath, and ~
members already hold II as a great
city asset, where business men can
take recreational exercises.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
TOWNS Line UP
FAST QUINTETS
Schedule OF Last Year May
Be Folio Z d In
Reorganization
Especial to The Herald.)


HARLINGEN. Dec. IA Valley
amateur basketball league will
probably be formed at a meeting
called here 8 D. M. Monday at the
Moore hotel by "A. r. winningham
Of Edinburg. president Of the loop
last year.
All interester parties who are
contemplating entering a team in
the league have been invited to at
tend.
The schedule was run off smooth
" last season with the Valley d.
vided into upper and lower brack-
cts. 1t is probable that the lea
que will be re-organized on the
same basis this season.
II Is expected that the following
towns will enter teams: Edinburg
(firemen), Mercedes. Weslaco. nc-
Allen. La Feria, Harrington. San Be
nito. Brownsville ttown team .
Hargroves Brownsville and Fort
Brown.
Hargrcves and Fort Brown al
ready have begun practice sessions
and are ready TO place fast moving
cuints into the field.
Spitz Clark. veteran coach and
official, has suggested that the loop
be organized on such a basis as to
be eligible for competition In the
State Amateur Federation. Last
year the San Antonio Elks carried
off the title, succeeding the Mar
land Oilers of Fort Worth. II
would be possible through this
body for the Valley champions to
be IN the running for the state
title. Clark points out.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
BY A Y TALBOT. Jr.


A&1AO[A4NC4 AAC11 spurs 49,
BRECKENRIDGE. Tex. Dec. IA.
=P-The Breckenridge Buckaroos
struck twice through the air today
to defeat a fighting Waco eleven,
IA TO 8, and 60 into the finals OF
the state high school football race.
Once in the first period and
again in the fourth. Boyce Mag
ness. brilliant Breckenridge half
back, wound up and hurled long
passes into the arms Of his receiv-
ers for touchdowns. Pruitt caught
the first n q. Gary the second.
Aubrey Magnes5 added both extra
points.
The Tigers from Waco backed by
a glorious tradition made a noble
effort TO pull the fame out OF the
fire after the Buckaroos had taken
their seven point lead IN the open
ing period. They came back to
play their opponents on nor than
even terms In the second and third
quarters, and score a touchdown
after a sixty yard march down the
field. Their attempt at point was
blocked by Womlfcrd. big Brecken-
ridge tackle. however. and the
BuckarooS' second touchdown was
not needed.
IL was a spirited battle between
two powerful teams. with neither
having an appreciate advantage.
Although their celebrated spinner
was stopped most Oil the way. the
Tigers compiled nine first downs
to seven for Breckenridge. The
ability Of Boyce Magness to con-
sistently outkick the visitors was
an important factor in the outcome.
Goals Blocked
Twice IN the second period the
Tigers worked the ball inside Bre-
ckenridge's ten-yard line, only TO
find further progress blocked BY
the scrapping BuckarooS forwards.
Each time Magness kicked long
spirals out from behind his v
goal line 10 put his team out OF
danger.
Aubrey Magness. brother Of Boyce
and quite a football player in his
own right. paved the way for
Breckenridge's initial touchdown
when ne returned a punt to Waco's
twenty yard mark. Three plays at
the line gained only five yards, but
on the fourth down Boyce Magness
dropped back and Tipped a pretty
pass to Pruitt who took it on his
finger tips across the goal line.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
Hargroves Five Open
Basketball Season

Tuesday at 8 .. m. Brownsville
basketball fans will get their first
opportunity TO c the Hargrovez
amateur quint In action. AT that
time they will take Oh the Harlingel
basket tossers on the Fl. Brown
court.
Among the players cavorting IN
Hargrove colors are Charles and
Johnny Pickett, former Eagles.
Hanna and Lonnie Phipps Of FL Jar
din, Frank Gibson Of Pitt u, Cab
bert Of Miami u, and several others.
The Hargrove aggregation Is hold
ing prartice sessions at present on
the IT. Brown court.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
San Benito Football
Men Given Dinner

SAN BENTTO, Dec. IA dinner
dance was given to the members
Of the football team Of the San
Benito High school Saturday night
at the dining room OF the Stone
wall jackson Hotel.
Those giving the entertainment
we're p. NJ. Sherer, Felix Gay, IT..
@. Adamson, John 4. Lomax. and
j. "A. WEIGH.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
Valley Basketball League Object of Called Meeting at HarLinger
Purdue Tilt Is
1880 Opener Of
Bear Schedule

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dec. IA
R-Baylor University. one Of
the leading teams in the South
west conference. will be the
opening opponent for Purdue's
Western conference title defend
ing 1880 football eleven on &C.
tober 4, here. It was announced
today by Colonel N. A. Kellogg.
director OF athletics. Signing Of
the Baylor team gives Purdue
home games with Baylor. Wis
consin, and Indiana. and games
away from home with Illinois,
Michigan and Chicago.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
Stanford, Minnesota
Sign For Two Years

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. l4-Pi-
A two year home and home football
arrangement between Stanford Uni
versity and University Of Minnesota
was announced today by al. Masters.
graduate manager uf Stanford. The
first contest will be played at STAN
ford next Oct. IL.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
Tulane To Play On
Northwestern Grid

BATON ROUGE, Dec l4-R)-
Tulane university will 90 70 Evans
ton III, October 4. 1880 for an in
t~ersectional football game with
Northwestern university. DR.. Wn-
bur G. Smith. Tulane athletic direc-
tor announced today the signing Of
the contract.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-15
Cowboys Win
Class II Grid Title

HOUSTON, Tex. Dec. l4-F1-
Henry MILKY. 155 pound fullback,
who starts fast and drives hard.
Saturday furnished the punch at
Rice field that enabled Edna High
Cowboys 20 defeat Goose Creek r
to 6 and win the class 3 regional
championship Of South Texas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28

estimated that similar bands being Or
ganiZed throughout the nation include
100000 boys and girls who are learning
to play the mouth organ"
Organized Band During War.
Mr.. Hoxie organized this band dur
ing the World War while he was in
charge of community sings at Phila-
delphia. He heard of harmonica con-
test in connection with a trade show
and realized that teaching children this
simple instrument would prove good
introduction to music for them. Chill
dren f1ocked to his classes, and the first
harmonica contest was held in 1928.
The movement has now grown to such
proportions that it has the co-opera-
ton Of the nations leading artists and
many national associations.
Other appearances of the band while
in Washington Saturday will include a
concert for Vice President Curtis at his
rooms in the Senate Office Building at
! pm; concert in the music room of
the Homer L. Kilt Co., 1880 G street,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
HARMONICA BAND
TO GIVE CONCERT
Boys Will Play in House Office
Building Saturday
Afternoon.

An unusual musical organization, the
Philadelphia Harmonica Band, COM
po-ed of about so young boys, will give a
concert in the causus room of the House
OF Representatives in the House Office
building Saturday afternoon at 2
O'Clock. This event is to celebrate the
Tooth anniversary of the invention of
the harmonica.
The band appears under the patron
age of Representatives Carroll L. Beedy
of Maine, James M. Beck of Pennsyl-
vania, Phil D. Swing of California,
John McDufie Of Alabama, Fritz G.
Lanham Of Texas and William II. Coy1e
Of Pennsylvania.
Raymond Kraus to Be SOIOist.
Albert N. Hoxie is leader, and Ray
mond Kraus, captain of the band and
the 1873 champion, viii be the Soloist
at this concert.
These boys range in age from Z to II.
The director selected them from APP
proximately 10000 school children in
Philadelphia. The band has been Or
ganized only a few years, yet it is
known all over the country, and it is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
Indy Urges Youths to FlY.

Go up, young man. Col Lindbergh,
interviewed by the Daily Princetonian,
has modernized Horace Greeley. A
young man will find it enormously to
his advantage to learn to fly, the colonel
says. Just as any one can learn with
ease to run a 30-foot launch, although
skilled pilot is necessary for an ocean
liner, so one can learn to ny a private
plane without the enormous efforts In
volved to become a transport pilot.
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years on Broadway between Seventy
sixth and Seventy-Seventh streets, was
laid Tuesday.
All but five stories of the building will
be used for the hotel, to be known as
Manhattan Towers. It will be open
Rev. Edward Henry Emett, pastor, said,
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ITO those persons who express o belief
in the principles Of the Christian
Church."
DR.. Emett said the combined hotel
and chufch building was in line with
the policy of the church as q servant
Of the community.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28

at 4 pm, and a radio program broad
cast via WRC at pm. The band
already has played for President Hoover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
CORNER STONE is LAID
FOR CHURCH IN HOTEL
25-story Building to Be Erected in
New York Replaces Congre-
gational Institution.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 2S.-The
corner stone of 25-story combination
church and hotel, to be erected on the
site of the Manhattan Congregational
Church, which stood for more than 30
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
By Anne Hard.

NO waters in the world are more suitable to
these. Biologists have proved that oysters breed
them back and forth across an "optimum" of
these waters, and they require for their curious
lives water only partly salt, as waters are here.
Sailing vessels all rush out to get them
sloopS, skip jacks, Schocners, bugeyes, fishing
smacks. PUNCHES, painted curious pink used
to be there, but are no more. Here Is the great
est sailing and the hardest life known to our
coastal waters save that of the Gloucester men
on the fishing banks Put out with me from
Wnkedoodle Point and Monroe Bay to Kettle
Bottom Shoals.
The wind is right and there is no fog.
Scarcely faint gold light beyond the Mary
land shore tells where the sun will climb Capn
Harry in the bugeye James o. Wright is routing
the men from their hunks and the strong smell
of coffee from the iron cook stove-"drudger's
coffee" from pot historically never washed
the smell of "drudgers coffee" and salt bacon
and beans-a gorgeous breakfast-cutS across
the tang of the salty water and the froSt-tinged
trees as we tack out into the widening waters
and race for the "oyster Jumps" oyster Jumps
in Kettle Bottom Shoals-masses the size of a
city block in shallower waters rising from the
"oyster rock" irregularly in deep water
BY dawn we are there and other ships are
with uS-ShipS so many, so crowdtng, that
maneuvering for position becomes the high art
of sailing, ships missing each other by hairs
breadths-but missing, turning by inches. lying
on~their sides under soaring canvas while the
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sing of the halyards. the swap Of the canvas,
the put-put of the mems feet on decks awash
with water, the call of the capns voice. the
whirr of the winding tackle and the wash
of the splitting seas orchestrate the age-old
music of the men who follow the water"
The James o. Wright is beauty decked GU.
in fresh paint, Capn Harry says, like a lady
for party" She is 60 feet long. She carries
little gas-powered yawl hoisted to the davitS
Her spar colors show tan and white on bowsprit,
fore-boom and main boom made of native pine,
her logs are white and her rail is tan. She is
log boat" with no false bottom, bolted together
with iron rods and calked with oakum.
Now, her decks are sheathed with planking to
receive the oyster catch, and two "drudges" are
run over her graceful sides as she tits like
race horse rounding a curve.
The captain stands aft at the wheel, his blue
sea eyes watching canvas, dredges, winders,
men, take, weather. Slightly turned toward his
right he stands. with his right hand behind him
on the wheel.
LET her CO." he says He doesn't shout 1t.
He just says it quietly, but the men hear.
Instantly the great drudge" goes over one
side-a curious, baSket-like thing whose bot
tom is made of iron bars ending in points,
from which hand-knotted lines of heavy cord
rise up like sailors hammock to tie into the
hosting ropes.
These iron rods Scrape the oyster-rock as
the ship sails by, the netting bellies out to
ceive the take, the cap'n SeizeS the exact mo-
ment to throw in the clutch on the gas-powered
winch, sailing the ship and running the
dredges himself, the windlasS whirrS as it winds
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~ EACEFUL seemingly, as the clam,
the oyster of the Virginia and Mary
land waters now enters new phase
of that war to which for a genera
ton it has given its name-a war
fought with rifles. with machine guns, with
cannon. This new campaign proceeds under
the generalship of such brilliant and public
spirited young men as DR.. Reginald v. Truitt
of the University of Maryland with ammuni-
ton of ballots, political combinations, legisla-
tive action.
Now, as the oyster season officially opens
and you reach your fork down for the numer-
ously and platitudinously denominated "succu-
lent bivalve," reach for him lovingly, for who
knows how soon he may be disappearing utterly
from your table? And who but those who
have sailed these waters of the Chesapeake,
the Potomac, the York know the infinite
romance of place and personality which sur
rounds his capture?
Still hangs the crimson and gold upon the
late-leafed trees under the soft winds of these
Southern shores when in the dark before the
early dawn the first dredgeboatS put out from
Monroe Bay, from Solomons, from Old Point
Comfort and the many other harbors of this
land of half salt water which the oysters love.
BY their swift going you may know it is No
vember, for what these men call "drudgin'"
cannot begin before.
For two weeks the tongers have been at
work thrusting down their iron rakes with
wooden handles 20 to 40 feet long, and they
will go longing, these little boats, with their
crews of two or three men. But it is the
"drudgerS" who have made and make the
romance, the adventure the characters who
have made and threaten to kill this industry
which involves a value of nearly $4,000 900
and gives employment to nearly 10000 men
and women in Maryland and Virginia alone.
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the rope up to the deck, the men empty the
dredge onto the sheathing- pebbles, stones.
oyster shells-anything the river holds glshes
and oo2es as the ship runs on and the "cullers''
quickly, with their little Gull hammers, separate
the masses of oysters, throw back those under
the legal size and shovel back the mud and
sand while the sailors rush to end jb at the
Capn's order.
ESEIARD lce," and the James o. Wright
goes about ito make another lick" We
fill the dredge about every hundred and fifty
yards and here, off SWANS Point, we can make
about five ticks without going about.
With Sleuth-like quiet police boat runs by.
You know her by her black water line, just as
you know the buy boats by their single mast
and afterhouse and the little flag In the rigs
ging. These police boats State-owned by Mary
land and Virginia watching for law viola
lions, especially of two kinds; keeping oysters
under the legal size and using steam or gas
for power
At IL o'clock there is more food-bread and
meat and modern things from cans. And the
day Is over by in the afternoon. single
day is often enough to exhaust the oysters on
a rich lump.
But there are many days when the ships must
lie in harbor. The weather must be right for
ticklish work like this-but especially the wind
must ba riPht.
The little yawI-boat with its gas engine can
kick the bugeye out of the oyster rock at three
or five miles an hour, but when she is there
she will need strong wind TO furnish power
to pull the heavy weight of the dredges. And
If the wind is too high, the ships rising and
falling the mems "tarpalyuns" and rubber
boots mailed with frozen spray, the deck q
sheet of ice no man can keep his footing
Gentle though the wind Is on shore these
first November days in this Southern oyster
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~ EACEFUL, seemingly, as the clam.
the oyster of the Virginia and Mary
land waters now enters a new phase
of that war to which for a genera
ton it has given its name-a war
The Washington times., 1929-03-05
BALTIMORE PRODUCE

BALTIMORE, March 5.--Live
poultry-Chickens: Young. colored,
as to size. 36Q38c; broilers. 400 44c:
old, heavy, S0@31c; rnedium size, 81
@32c; 8 to S1a lbs, 29@S0c; leg
horns and other light stock. 29@3Oc:
rooster, 16@20c. Turkeys: Young,
8 lbs. and over hens. 42@43c; COB
blers, S2@36c; old toms, 2S@3Oc.
Ducks: White peKins, young, 4 lbs.
and over, SO@32c; puddle, young, 4
lbs. and over, 29@30c; muscovy,
young, lbs. and over 29@S0c; all
kinds. small and thin 2O@22c. Ca
pons, Z lbs. and over. 42@44c; slips
and smaller, 35Q37c. GuiReas:
Young, 90c0$1; old 4G@5Oc. Pigeons:
Young and old, per pair. SO@35c.
Dressed poultry-Undrawn, head and
feet on-Turkeys: Young, 400 45c:
old toms, 30035c. Chickens: Young.
S5@38c; mixed, old and young, 30
@S2c. Ducks: Young, 2S@30c.
Eggs-Market continues unsettled;
prices lower. On the Baltimore But
ter and Egg Exchange. nearby fresh
gathered firsts. 3 sales. 125 cases,
39c. Closing offerings, nearby fresh
gathered. firsts, 40c; bid, S9c. Re.
ceipts, butter, "a tubs; eggs, 1,1S5
cases.
The Washington times., 1929-03-05
Smith Heads for Home
Sporting Florida Tan

PALM BEACH, Fla, March 5
n.N.S).-Tanned by a season under
F'lorida's sun, ex-Gov. Alfred E.
Smith, of New York. defeated candi-
date for the presidency. was speed.
ing northward today aboard the
private car of William F. Kenny, of
New York.
The Smith party left here at 1855
last night. A brief stop will be made
in Washington Wednesday morning
and another at a point in Delaware.
Governor Smith will arrive in New
York late Wednesday.
While President Herbert Hoover
laid his hand upon the Bible in
Washington yesterday and took the
oath which made him President.
Smith leaned against a golf ball and
watched ii soar through the air. 1t
was one of his best shots of the
season, and he chuckled happily as
Kenny congratulated him on the
stroke
The Washington times., 1929-03-05
5DIE Of POISON
RUM, MANY
BLINDED

PEORIA, ILL.,, March U.N.s.I
Fifteen dead, a score or more
blinded, and many times that num-
ber critically i'll from poisoned liquor,
shocked Peoria today as police raid
ers began closing all speakeasies and
blind pigs"
Three alleged alcohol "crookers"
were under arrest.
Three thousand bootleggers are
said to have closed up shop as a
result of the alarming death rate
and the subsequent investigate
All of the victims have died with.
in the past ~ hours.
The total deaths from weekend
drinking Of nfoonshine may reach
90, according to Coroner William Il.
Elliott.
The death list to date:
Charles Holland, 30, and Charles
Heiple, 81, Of Washington, III.
Benjamin Teel, so: Marshall
Easley, so; Andrew Heaton. 65,
Lance Hitz, all of Vermont, Ill.
Mrs. Katherine Gary Of Wesley
IlIy, III.
John Dempsey. Harold Huddles.
ton, Richard Farra, Frank Ayl.
ward, Edward Baldwin and Mrs.
Ellen McFadden, all of Peoria.
w. A. Sammons, of Chicago.
Those arrested in connection
with the liquor deaths are Morris
Mansfield, Louis Fels and Walter
Niebert. While no specific charges
have been lodged against the men
they are being held in the county
Jail pending the conclusion OF Cor.
oner Elliott's investigation
Local physicians. cooperating
with Coroner Elliott, are hourly
additional cases of poison
ing.
Some of the fatal liquor, it was
said, had been shipped TO Gales.
burg and Decatur and several
other Illinois cities.
The Washington times., 1929-03-05
Buick, Founder of Auto
Firm. DYING q Poor Man

DETROIT, March u.N.s.).--
David Buick, "A, founder Of the
Buick Motor Car Company, and
whose signature appears on the
cleaning radiators of more than
1000 900 automobiles throughout the
world, was believed dying OF can
Ger in Harper Hospital here today
where he has been confined for
two weeks.
Buick has lived for years in OH
scurity and comparative poverty He
lost his holdings in the mammoth
automobile concern before they
brought wealth. Thin, emaciated
and gray-haired. the aged motor car
pioneer has been unable himself to
afford an automobile.
Since 1927 he has been employed
as an instructor In the Detroit
School of Trades.