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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
NEW EDUCATION SYSTEM
IS ENFORCED IN ITALY
Ten-Year-old Pupils Are Allowed
to Enter Vocational Train
; ing Schools.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ROME, September 16.-Many thou
sands of italian children attending
school today for the first time were
confronted with a new set of the ever
changing conditions under the Fascist
regime.
Most Of the changes conferred around
the increased importance given to
schools for industrial, agricultural or
commercial training. Pupils who have
passed through the fifth grade are given
the opportunity of choosing courses.
They can continue through the eighth
grade, taking ordinary academic SUBJ
jectS, or they can go Immediately to a
vocational training school and prepare
for an industrial, agricultural or COM
mercial career. Any pupil 10 years
old can enter a vocational training
school.
The Fascist regime by concentrating
Jurisdiction over every educational
activity throughout Italy in the hands
of the ministry of education at Rome
has enabled the minister to shift school
teachers from districts where they have
been too numerous to other areas. Other
changes regulating appointment of
teachers and their pay have been made
by the government in its effort to lessen
hliteracy in Italy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
SUICIDE NOTE BARES
CATTLE RING CLUES
California Ranch Foreman Believed
to Have Ended Life to Escape
Thieves Wrath.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
YREKA, Calf, September 16.-The
suicide of a ranch foreman was believed
by authorities yesterday to have re-
vealed clues to a ring of cattle thieves
which was prepared to shoot any men,
Der who disclosed its secrets.
G. H. MoeSSer, foreman of the Alamo
ranch, shot and killed himself in the
ranch bunkhouse Friday with a cattle
mans revolver. He left a Six-page note
under the pillow Of his cot. saying he
had killed a man in New Mexico and
another in Arizona, and that he had
escaped from a Nevada jail, after he
was arrested on a charge of horse
stealing.
The foreman had been involved in a
cattle rustling case in which G. L.
DietZ, 20-year- old member of a wealthy
Siskiyou pioneer family, was accused
of shooting cattle.
Dietz was arrested by two deputy
sheriffs who hid in brush and saw him
shoot at steers driven into gun range
by MoeSser. Both MoeSser and Dietz
then accused each other of having
preached the proposal of forming a
cattle-stealing combine. Dietz added a
sensational charge that Moesser trapped
him to bring about his capture and
collect a $4,000 reward posted for the
arrest Of cattle thieves.
The information contained in the
long note left by Moesser was being in
vestigated by authorities who hoped to
round up the leaders of the cattle
rustling ring. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
CHURCH AND DRAMA
SOCIETIES MERGED.
Or. S. Parkes Cadman Named
Head of Group Which viii
Seek Better Plays.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClNIeo ETeBS.
NEW YORK. September 1s.-Merger
Of this country's three largest orSani-
cations of playgoers into the Church
and Drama League of America, with
Rev. s. ParkeS Cadman, D. D., as its
president, was announced yesterday by
the leagues executive director, George
Reid Andrews.
The Drama League of America, with
headquarters in Chicago; the American
Theater Association and the Church
and Drama Association, both with head
quarters in New York, were the three
organizations which formed the merger.
giving the new league a membership Of
90, 800.
Headquarters for the new organiza-
ton, which includes local chapters in
Chicago. Cincinnati, indianapolis, Pitts
burgh, Boston. Milwaukee, Tacoma and
st. Petersburg. Fla, have been estab-
liShed in New York.
Its purpose Is encouragement Of bet
ter motion pictures and better and more
plays, produced professionally and
through the Little Theater and similar
amateur movements. It also will Spon-
sor play-writing contests. foreign tours
for the study of the theater and estab-
lishment Of subscription audiences in
larger American cities.
John w. Davis is honorary president
and DR.. Cyrus Adler and Prof. William
Lyon Phelps are among vice presidents
of the league. which includes in its
board Of directors Rev. James Cannon,
jr, Of Washington. D. c.. and Rev.
Harry Emerson FoSdick, Otto H. Kahn,
Rabbi Nathan KraSs and Felix War
burg, all Of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
M'CL|NT0CK WILL
BATTLE IS ENDED
Guardian, Acquitted of Stay
ing Charge; Cousins and
FianCee Share in Estate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 16.-The Chi
cago Tribune yesterday said contesting
claimants for the 81 100000 estate Of
William Nelson McClintock, wealthy
young Chicagoan, who died under mys-
FERROUS circumstances flve years ago.
had reached an agreement for settle
ment.
william Darling Shepherd, who was
McClintock'S guardian and who was ac-
quilted Of charge Of Staying his ward
by administering typhoid germs, will
receive half of the estate and the re-
mainder will be divided among Miss
Isabelle Pope, McClintock's f1ancee. and
two groups of cousins. from Ottumwa,
Iowa, and from California. the paper
said.
Under the terms of Mcclintock's WILL
Shepherd received the entire estate,
with the exception of an $1,000 an
nuity for Miss Pope.
McClintock died late in 1924, after
Miss Pope had made vain attempts to
marry him on his deathbed. After his
Shepherd lost his plea to probate the
will, but won on an appeal The de-
ciSion was given after two years.
Early in 1927 the cousins filed suit to
break the will, charging 1t was dictated
by Shepherd. A few months later Miss
Pope filed suit for a widows share, al
leging Shepherd had contrived to pre-
vent the wedding.
In May of this year, Circuit Judge
Phillip p. L. Sullivan ruled that the
cousins were legal heirs and Miss Pope
entered into an agreement for settle
ment In the event either group was sue
cesSful.
The cousins are: Luella Yokum. Min
ME KerstenS. William Eaton, Ira P.
Eaton, Charles E. Eaton, archie Eaton.
Viola Eaton and Maud Walker, all Of
Ottumwa, Iowa. and Bertram and Will
liam Eaton of California.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
AV|AT|ON'S FUTURE
OUTLINED BY KLEIN
Assistant Commerce Secre-
tary, in Radio Address, Tells
of Rapid Strides Made.

Constant use Of air transportation is
rapidly breaking down what remains OF
the isolation Of European nations. DR..
Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary Of
Commerce, said in a radio address last
night from Station WMAL.
Europe, he pointed out, appears to the
American as a continent of many small
nations, and air lines which would not
be subject to the rules of interstate
commerce in this country cross, in Eu-
rope, the frontiers Of several countries.
This traffic he characterized as a mighty
factor In promoting international good
will.
Europe" DR.. Klein said, "has a
higher ratio of miles of air lines to the
total area than has the United States,
but ours are being extended rapidly and
new ones established. In Europe, how
ever, the lines are subsidized. while the
majority of ours are paying their way.
THE sightseeing flights, aerial taxi
services, and training courses offered by
most operators of transportation lines
have proved very profitable, in most IN
stances, and the passenger air lines are
being operated t. 81 ready for the prof
Its which are very apparently about to
be realized
European Rates Lower.
European air travel rates, because OF
huge government subsidies, are much
lower than in the United States, DR..
Klein stated. The government subSi-
dies, he pointed out, range from SO to
90 per cent Of the total revenues OF the
companies.
'The object of this subsidy is, OF
course, to keep the air lines in regu-
lar operation, to increase and MAIN
tain the number of planes capable OF
making regular flights over long dis
tances carrying loads, and thus to have
available in emergency mighty machine
for military USE" he continued.
DR.. Klein described the struggles OF
American aviation concerns to stand
on their own feet after the World War.
There WERE" he said. Every few air
lines in operation in this country five
years ago and not any that showed a
profit from its operation. The Gov
eminent operated a transcontinental
mail line at a loss. Then suddenly
two events gave our industry its chance.
The Government turned over the trans
continental air mail line to private
contractors and Lindbergh's immortal
flight and those which followed 1t
turned the Nations eyes to the air.
Air Transportation Future Assured.
"A network of lines sprang up: planes
began to be no longer curiosities; reg
llar schedules were fixed and In many
cases followed with as great success as
the railroads follow theirs.
American aviation is proud that this
achievement is on a Sound basis. 1t Is
very apparent that air transportation
has come to stay in the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
FUNERAL OF KVALE
HELD AT BENSON, MINI.
Congress Member Had Served as
Norwegian Lutheran Pastor in
Town-Sons Palibearers.
~ tha Asaociated press.

~ the Associated Press.
! BENSON, Mimi, September 16.-
Rev. o. j. Kvale, seventh district Repre-
sentative, who was burned to death in
his cottage near Fergus Falls last Tues
day night, was buried here yesterday
in the community in which he served
as a Norwegian Lutheran pastor before
he went to Congress in 1922. His six
sons, Paul, Ingolf, Alfred, Walter.
Arthur and Robert, bore him to. his
grave.
Rev. M. o. Andrews, who succeeded
him as pastor of Our Savior's Church,
presided over services at the church.
Senator Smith w. Brookhart of Iowa
expressed sorrow of the Senate, while
Representative Harold Knutson OF st.
Cloud, Mimi, paid respect to Mr..
Kvale's ability on behalf Of the House
Of Representatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
DIANA MANNERS TAKES
ROLE OF REAL MOTHER
En- glish Society, Public and Press
Congratulate Her on Arrival
of Son.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 16.-English
society, public and press today showered
congratulations on Lady Diana Duff
Cooper, famous beauty, who is the
mother Of son, born yesterday. This
Is her FIRST child, although Lady Diana
has been married 10 years to Alfred
Duff Cooper.
For years her name has appeared in
headlines in the press of Europe and
America, first as Lady Diana Manners,
the toast Of London town, then as the
accomplished wife of the smart young
captain of the Grenadier Guards, whom
she accepted after rejecting marriage
offers from princes, dukes and
millionaires.
Three years ago Lady Diana played
the part of the nun in Max Reinhardt's
production of THE Miracle" in the
United States. She has been a movie
star and a political campaigner for her
husband, who held seat 9n Parliament.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
Canada Governor Advised to Rest.

: TORONTO, ontario, September is
IP.-Viscomt Wilmington, governor
general of Canada, has been advised by
physicians to take q rest. He was
seized with a fainting spell on the golf
links Saturday and left shortly after
ward for Ottowa. For some time to
come he will accept no public engage
merltS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
BOstOn's Famous
Quincy House, 100
Years Old, No More

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, September 16.-The
doors Of the Quincy House, IA
nous Boston hosiery, were closed
yesterday upon 100 years Of mel
low history.
Built in q day when money was
so scarce that the lease stipu-
lated the rent should be paid
in pounds Of pig iron, grains OF
gold or bushels of corn, the
quincy House has seen most Of
the great and the notorious pass
through its doors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
Lima Coast Air Service Resumed.

BY Gable to The Star.
LIMA, Peru, September 16.-Bi-week-
ly air service to points along the coast
were resumed yesterday by the Fawcett
Aviation Co., after a two-month suspen-
sion, pending arrival of new planes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16

New Zealand now has more than 49,
900 900 sheep and lambs, the largest
number since 1920.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23

The unanimous vote of the cham
Der Of commerce here was voiced at
q meeting held last night, with a
number Of citizens Of San Benito
present, and taking part in the dis
cussion.
Mayor J. Scott Brown and two
other members of the city COM
mission were present.
Mayor Talks
The government proposition was
explained by Mayor Brown. He read
a letter from L. G. Elliott, division
extension superintendent Of the air
ways division Of the federal depart
ment Of commerce. In this letter it
was explained that if San Benito
will buy a suitable site, level it, and
place two runways on it, and lease it
to the government for e nominal
sum, the government will light the
field, and maintain it as a govern
ment field, allowing all other planes,
however, private or commercial, to use
the field. 1t will be operated as a
municipal field, with the depart
ment Of commerce bearing the ex-
pense, in order to have it for use as
an emergency field on the night fly
ing route that Is to be opened from
the north to the Valley.
The matter was discussed for
some time, with practically all those
present in favor of furnishing the
field. and a vote of the directors of
the chamber of commerce showed
ell of them in favor of it. The
chamber recommended to the city
commission that action be taken at
once.
Issue Warrants
1t was suggested that the city is
sue warrants to secure funds to pur-
chase the land desired, and then re-
tire these warrants later with a re-
funding bond issue.
Requirements Of the government
for a Class A field call for three
runways. each $500 feet long. This
would require about 40 acres of
land.
This city probably will purchase
$50 acres of land, in order to have
sufficient additional space for build
irgs and other uses.
Although several sites are under
consideration now, little mention
was made Of definite locations.
City commissioners are expected
to make immediate arrangements
for options on desirable sites, and to
take definite action tomorrow night,
accepting the proposition of the de-
partment.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23
Martha Jane Quits
In Speed Race On
Mississippi River

NEW ORLEANS, July 23.-P-
The race to st. Louis between the
speedboat Bogie and the express
cruiser Martha Jane, which started
from New Orleans Sunday after
noon, settled down today to an at
tempt by the Bogie to better the
historic record of the steamboat
Robert E. Lee. The record Of 90
hours and 81 minutes between the
two cities has stood since 1870.
The Martha Jane, left far behind
by the Bogie in the first jump of the
and missing for seventeen
hours, tied up at Natchez, Miss, at
11:50 o'clock last night, after an ex-
perience with motor trouble while
the Bogie raced on against the Lees
time to Memphis. DR.. Louis Leroy,
Memphis sportsman, said when he
left Greenville, Miss, at $50 last
night the Bogie's motor was per-
forming well.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23
Negro Slayer On
Train Guarded By
Militia Troops

Eufaula, Ala, July 23.-(P)-A
special train, bringing Lester Boyer,
negro slayer, and n hundred and
fifty national guardSmen called out
by Governor Bibb Graves to protect
him from threatened mob violence,
arrived here at 8 a. m, today.
The train was met at the station
by an orderly crowd estimated at
from 1000 to 1900. There was no
disorder.
The guardsmen surrounded Boyer
on the way to the courthouse where
he was placed in the prisoners cage,
preparatory to the opening Of the
trial.
No effort Ta made to dispense
the groups around the courthouse
square. Court attaches announced
rs many as could make their way
into the courtroom comfortably
would be admitted.
E. w. Norton Of Clayton was ap-
pointed by Presiding Judge j. S.
williams to defend Boyer who is
charged with the murder Of Jack
Hines, mechanic, and an attack on
Miss Beatrice Clark, 18, as the two
were motoring four miles from here
on the night of July 10. The negro
confessed when arrested week
later. Solicitor iom patterson rep
resented the state.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23
MANY FRIENDS
AT ZOE RITES
Funeral Of Former Browns
vile Youth Attended By
Scores of Visitors
Especial to The Herald.

e TO Inc
AUSTIN July 23.-P9-With
nearly 100 out-of-town visitors from
many parts Of the state present,
impressive funeral services were
held for Sam M. Yoe, former Buda
youth, at Liveoak cemetery neal
Buda Monday afternoon. Voc vas
killed in an automobile accident at
Salina, Kansas, last Friday. Serv-
ices were conducted by the Rev. E..
w. Marshall of Brownsville.
The youth was the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. T. j. Yoe OF San Belito,
Mr.. Voc having formerly been head
Of the Brownsville schools and a
member of the university faculty.
State Superintendent S. NJ. n.
Mars ana President H. Y. Benz
dict of the university were among
mourners. The boys parents from
San Benito and his grandmother,
Mrs. Yoe of San Saba, his brother,
Thomas zoe of San Benito and his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. D
Meador, we're present.
Lavish floral offerings adorned the
grave.
Active pallbearers were Henry
Meador, C~hildress; Ross Meador and
O. z. Meador Of San Antonio, and
j. E. Meador of Denison.
Among those from out of town for
the funeral were MI. and Mrs. M.
K. Dupree of Houston; Mrs. Lenora
hayward, Beaumont; Mr.. and Mrs.
E. G. Dodd, the Rev. E. W. Marshall,
Mrs. Webster and daughter, Mrs.
E. A. Anderson, IRIS. Margaret John
Hill and Raymond Hill, Brownsville.
Miss Alma Prestin, Frank Pierce.
MI. and Mrs. H. w. Thocker, Miss
Lozona and James Vessermoke,
San Benito.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Jones, Miss
ThediS Jones, Henderson; Glenn
Williams, Mrs. Toone Wilson, New
ton Wilson, Lockhart.
DR.. @. E. Evans, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
T. Harris, Mrs. Ed Evans, Mrs.
Phillips and w. G.. Barber, San
Marcos.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd StaffeI, Mrs.
Morrow Staffell, Miss Margie Stat
fel, San Antonio.
Pres. H. Y. Benedict, DR.. B. F.
Pittinger, A. M. Blackman, Miss
Annie Webb Blanton, Supt. S. M
N. Mars, E. j. Mathews, Mr.. and
Mrs. J.. NJ. Fertsch and daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Ross, Miss Enola
Shipherd, Mrs. s. H. Evans, Frank
Evans, Miss Ruby Henderson, Miss
Opal Gilstrap and others Of Austin
Virtually the entire citizenship Of
Buda attended the services.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23
Mrs. Burton Davis
In First Hits
Woman In Politics

Texas, cradle Of fighters, personal
and political, has produced the first
novelist brave enough to declare a
real woman is not equipped to hold
a high political post and should not
aspire to it.
And this novelist is Of particular
interest to many residents Of
Brownsville and the Valley, because
she is the wife of Burton Davis,
FORMER Brownsville man and for
several years a member of the staff
of The Brownsville Herald.
"The Woman of It" is the story
Of a woman governor of a south
western state. Clare Ogden Davis,
who wrote it, was personal secretary
of Miriam A. Ferguson, first woman
governor of Texas handling Mrs.
Ferguson's contacts with the press
during the more tranquil first year
of her stormy term Of office.
Several million American women
may not agree with the conclusions
of Mrs. Davis. Others will. 1.-THE
Woman of It." published this week
by j. H. Sears & Co., ia E. 32nd St,
New York City, is considered by po-
litical experts who have read ad-
vance copies as certain to start a
nationwide controversy among club
women and feminists and between
advanced" women and conservative
men. Mrs. Davis will thrive on the
fight. Behind this red-headed and
vivid newspaper and magazine
writer, born on a ranch In Bosque
county, Texas. is a line Of pioneer
ancestors who fought redcoatS at
Bunker Hill, Indians from New York
state to Texas, the Union army,
carpetbaggers and cattle thieves.
Graduated from Baylor College in
1918, teacher of history in high
schools at Bonham, Arlington, and
Cleburne for four years. Clare Ogden
paper writer by joining the Fort
Worth Bureau Of the Dallas News
in 1917. She was star reporter Of
the Fort Worth Record for two
years. In 1920 she was married to
Burton Davis. newspaper man. She
became the first woman staff COR
respondent of the Dallas and Gal
weston News, working out of their
Houston bureau in 1924 and was
a special writer for the Houston
Chronicle in 1885, until she went
to New York with her husband. Her
exploits as a reporter working on
difficult and dangerous assignments
are still talked about among Texas
newspaper men. Since 1926 she has
been a magazine and syndicate writ
er in New York. The Woman Of
1t" is her first novel.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23
Man Who Ran Boat
On Rio Grande Dies
Here Al AGE of 78

Jose Maria C%ardenas, for more.
than so years a resident of Browns
vile, died at his home at 1718
Roosevelt Monday,at the age of 70.
Funeral services are to be held
at 5 p. m. Tuesday at Our Lady
Of Guadalupe church. and the re
mains will be inferred in the old
city cemetery.
Cardenas was born in Otumba,
Mexico, in October Of 1851. In his
early life he was a sailor, serving
first on the gunboat Guerrero, and
later on the river boat BesS, which
piled between Brownsville and Rio
Grande City. Giving up the boat
ing later, lie became a carpenter,
and spent the remaining years of
his life here. He had retired from
active practice Of his trade some
time ago.
Surviving him are his widow,
Francisco M. Cardenas, three
daughters, Mrs. A. M. Marquee and
Mrs. Mike Attille, Of Brownsville,
and Mrs. Henry Pagle, of San An
tonic. and two sons, Jose Cardenas,
living in San Antonio, and Anas-
tacio Cardenas, Of Breckenridge.
w. A. Darling is handling the
funeral arrangements.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23
Unions VIII Ballot
Tuesday On Question
OF Joining Car Strike

NEW ORLEANS. July 23.-(P)-
Members of the allied unions in New
Orleans will meet tonight to bal
lot on the calling of a general
strike in sympathy with the street
car mems strike which today con-
tinued in a deadlock.
Efforts of the commission council
to end the strike on friendly terms
previously having failed, the coun-
Gil continued their conferences and
asked both sides to hold their exec
utives in readiness for overtureS.
After their meetings Of yesterday,
the countil was informed by the
railway company that its board
would receive for consideration fur
ther proposals that the union,
whom they declined to recognize,
might offer.
The union men have been out
since July 2. Cars are being oper-
ated on some lines by n%on-union
men protected by deputy United
States marshals.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23
Harlingen Charter
May Be Amended By
Vote of Reside n s
Especial to The Herald)

HARLINGEN, July 23.-Proposed
amendments to the charter Of the
city Of Karlingen will be submitted
TO residents Of Har1ingen in a short
time, as the proposed amendments
have been published in legal no
tees by order of Mayor Sam Bolts
in accordance with laws covering
the matter.
The amendments we're asked to
be submitted to voters by a petition
signed by the required number of
qualified voters, and presented to
the city scR1e time ago.
They limit the salaries Of the CITY
commissioners. provide for a park
board. make it necessary to present
a petition with names OF only 20 per
cent Of voters for a recall election
and limit amount Of warrants that
can be issued by the city commits
sion.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-23
WOMAN SHOOTS SELF
AFTER KILLING MATE

SAN ANGELO, Texas, July %
LP,-Jealousy ove her husbands
supposed attentions to other wom-
en- was blamed by officers here to-
day for the death last night of Mr..
and Mrs J. J. Hourahan Of Dallas.
Police said Mrs. Hourahan shot her
husband and turned gun on herself.
The husband apparently died at
once, but Mrs. Hourahan lived until
she reached the hospital. Very lit
tie is known about the Hourahans.
as they had teen here only 10 days.
The shooting took place at their
hotel room.