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Evening star., 1935-09-08
.S|DWELL SCHOOLS
IN SD SESSION
Enrolment Large as Prep.
arations Are Made for
Reopening.

The Sidwell Friends School at 1909
street and 1901 Wisconsin avenue
will open their fifty-third session Sep
tember % with a large enrolment
of boys and girls. ranging in age from
kindergarten through the high school
years.
Additional parking facilities at the
street school have been provided
by tearing down the old building at
1919 I street and the gymnasium.
All athletic work will be carried on
at the suburban school, with its new
gymnasium and Is acres Of playing
fields. An eighth grade has been
added and additional facilities pro-
vided.
Mr.. Albert e. Rogers, formerly as
sistant to the president, graduate
manager of athletics, and executive
secretary of the alumni association OF
Haverford College, and with II
years teaching experience at the VIII
liam Penn Charter School and
Moorestown Friends School near
Philadelphia, has been appointed as
sociate principal
Walter N. Brown of this years class
has been awarded the Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology regional
scholarship given by the Washington
alumni of that college Don Powell
has received a scholarship to Wesleyan
University. Middletown. Conn; and
Louise Alexander a scholarship to
Swarthmore College. Over $50 gradu-
ateS of Friends School have attended
leading colleges and universities
throughout the country in recent
years.
Miss Jennie Turnbull, supervisor of
girls athletics, will be in England
until October with the American
women's lacrosse team.
Evening star., 1935-09-08

laboratories and a greenhouse. Pairs
of physics and chemistry laboratories
are arranged with lecture rooms ad-
joining. Special rooms are provided
for wood working, the metal crafts and
printing.
Food Laboratory Provided.
An unusually complete suite for in
struction in home economics has been
provided on the second floor in the
rear of the main building. It con-
tains a food laboratory, q clothing
laboratory, and a room for instruc-
ton in child care. In all, there will
be four major and four minor rooms
devoted to this department, which will
be the finest in the city.
Woodrow Wilson is the first Wash
ington high school with school bank
built specially for that purpose. Lo-
Gated on the first floor Is vault and
regulation tellers' compartments.
Two art rooms, two mechanical
drawing rooms, one blueprint room,
an armory and rifle range, two music
rooms, and two rooms for oral Eng
lish complete the instructional facili-
ties of the main building.
In addition there are storerooms,
book rooms, a teachers dining room,
D pupils cafeteria and kitchen, Offices
and conference rooms. Both the cafe
terra and the auditorium have been
acoustically treated so as to absorb
sound.
Total Cost Is S1,200,000.
Total cost Of the building amounted
to S1,200,000, while the furniture and
equipment, now being moved in, were
purchased for s150.000. Congress has
provided $4,000 for landscaping of
the grounds, but the contract for this
work has not yet been awarded. A
stadium capable of seating 5000 spec
tators will be built later.
Only the first unit of the AnacoStia
Senior Junior High School now is be-
ing constructed. Wings will be built
before it becomes a senior high school.
The structure, fronting on Sixteenth
street southeast at Ridge place, is 1872
feet long by 149 feet deep. There
are IA class rooms capable of housing
approximately 800 pupils.
An auditorium will seat TOO. Be-
cause of lack Of funds, no gymnasiums
have been provided in the main struc-
ture. This deficiency will be met,
school officials say, in additions
already authorized.
There are domestic science room,
an art room, a print shop, q metals
crafts room and a woody work room.
Plans now under way call for COM
pletion of the two wings by February,
1887. They will cost $350,000. The
main unit was constructed at a cost
Of S388,000.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
223 900 Employed in Hotels.

Nearly 223,000 persons in Scotland
are now employed in hotels and other
forms of personal service.
Evening star., 1935-09-08


non -congested organization may per-
nit"
To meet serious overcrowding
throughout the school system, officials
are seeking to have $18,041 ,339 in
corporated in the 1887 budget. This
represents a S6,579,289 increase over
the current appropriation.
Details Of the budget proposals re-
veal plans for % building projects
and IS items for acquisition of school
sites.
Funds are asked for plans for three
new senior high schools, to be built
in Takoma Park, near Sixteenth street
and Rhode Island avenue northeast,
and near Twenty-fourth street and
Benning road northeast.
Other requests are for sites for new
Junior high schools near Massa-
chusetts and Cathedral avenues and
near Eighteenth street and Columbia
road, and an appropriation for COM
pletion of the site Of the proposed
new jefferson Junior High School In
Southwest Washington.
REQUESTS are made also for purchase
of sites for schools for crippled chill
dren, one to be located near Childrens
Hospital and another near Freedmen's
Hospital.
For construction and enlargement
of school buildings the Board OF Edu-
cation and Supt Frank w. Ballou
asked a total of $4,2ee,000. For the
present fiscal year the appropriation
for construction totaled but SITS, 900
For land purchase school authorities
are asking s1,7o4,o0o for 1887. The
item for the present year Is $4,000.
For the operation of the school
system the proposal is $12,041 ,050, as
against s10,632,050 for the present
year. Among the increases sought are
s382,70O for employment of 234 new
Evening star., 1935-09-08
SACRED HEART CONVENT
REOPENS SEPTEMBER 23
Offers Courses From Kindergarten
Through Four Years of
High School.

Studies will be resumed at the Con-
vent of the Sacred Heart, 1717-19
Massachusetts, avenue, September 23.
The school is one of many similar
institutions under the direction Of the
Religious Of the Sacred Heart, founded
In France in 1900 by st. Madeleine
Sophie Barat, chiefly for the educa-
ton of girls. It's aim is to train stu
dents to take their place in the world
as Christians.
Courses include a general four-year
high school course, q college prepara-
tory course, an intermediate and ele-
mentary classes, and kindergarten.
Little boys are received in the kinder
garten and through the fifth grade.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
INCREASE OF 1000
is ANTICIPATED HERE
WHEN SCHOOLS OPEN

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Evening star., 1935-09-08

teachers OF these. 126 would be for
white schools and 108 for colored
schools.
Other items calling. for large in
creases are the operation of the Com
munity Center Department. which
would be expanded, and for purchase
of furniture. equipment. repairs and
improvements to buildings and
grounds.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
New Plan for Gregg Shorthand.

Mrs. Margaret Miller of the Wash
ington School for Secretaries was the
first shorthand instructor in Wash
ington and the third in the United
States to teach Gregg shorthand by
the Leslie functional plan. The plan
was first used here in April and since
July l all classes started in this school
have employed it.
, 1935-07-24
Port Publicity
Man Appears AT
Lions Luncheon

Brownsville Lions at their regular
weekly luncheon at the FL Jardln
hotel Tuesday noon heard George
a. Tolan publicity director for Port
Isabel. who traced for them the his
tory OF the port project.
Toolan reviewed the early days in
the history Of this section when. in
the late years of the 18th century
Port Isabel was IN use. He pointed
also TO the coming OF railroads, and
traced the history OF the drive 70 re-
build the port with money from
Valley cities. Toolan climaxed his
speech with comments on the open
ing Of the port which has been set
IoE July 80.
A baseball game originally sched-
uled for Tuesday night here be-
tween members of the Brownsville
and San Benito Lions clubs has
been postponed until next week, II
was announced.
f. D. Sauber was admitted TO the
club at the Tuesday luncheon as a
new member. Bob Collins, San BENZ
To. was a luncheon visitor at the
club meeting. IN the absence OF j.
Fl Snow. president, who Is attend
inc the international Convention in
Mexico City, Robert T. McMinn,
vice president, was in charge.
, 1935-07-24
WELL RUNNING

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man IN lot q. block 10. in the Las
NIestenas tract about eight miles
northeast OF here. The well. a rank
Wildcat, has started blowing gas
ana fresh water without warning :
For the past three days the drill
ing crew has been trying 20 remove
the drill stem and testing tool from
the hole after II stuck around a
depth OF $500 feet while attempting
a drill stem test Sunday OF sand
around 6.685 10 6.720 feet.
The gas pressure Sunday night
Iccsened and stuck the wall packer
which held the tool and drill stem
I'm the bottom OF the hole. The drill
stem is now being rotated slowly 20
prevent sticking again. while the
operators are determining the best
method OF procedure. Reports that
the well Is running wild and spray
ing oil and gas, II was stated, are
incorrect.
, 1935-07-24
BOWEN WILL
SLASH TIME
Full Advantage of Swift
Planes 10 Be Taken
BY Airline

Change In schedules Of Bowen Air
Lines between Brownsville and points
north In order to make quicker con-
nections with Pan American, shorten
the time on the ground ut various
steps. and In general to improve the
service was announced here Tuesday
by w. M. Motley. representative OF
the line.
The new improved schedules viii
become effective July "a.
The Cultee plane which Is used by
Bowen IL one OF the worlds fastest
airlineTs, and full advantage OF It's
speed Is taken In the schedules WHICH
call for only three hours between
Brownsville and Dallas.
The northbound plane leaves
Brownsville mo 1880. only m short
time after the Pan American plane
from the south arrives az the air
port. The plane formerly left at l:55
p. N.
The plane will arrive I'm Dallas
under the new schedule nc $500. m.
instead Of mt Sis under the old
schedule.
The southbound plane leaves Dali
las nc $50 a. m, and reaches
Brownsville at li;SS on tbs new
Similar new schedules. which are
the fastest available. are 10 be put
into effect 10 conform with Par
American Anyways schedule from
Mexico and American Air Lines
schedules TO and from Dallas-Fort
Worth and the north. east and west
Motley said.
They provide double daily service
between Fort Worth and Dallas and
San Antonio. as well as Houston"
The plane which leaves Browns
vile at 1880 reaches Corpus Christi
which is a flag stop. l:O5. San An
tonic at l:55. Austin nc 2:30. and
Dallas at $50.
The southbound plane leaves Dal-
las at $40. reaches Austin az 9.35
San Antonio at 1910. Corpus Christ
al 11:1O and Brownsville nc 1I.59.
Rapid connections are made "a
New York, Chicago and other
points.
, 1935-07-24
Liquor Charge Filed

Antonio Perez, about 36. resider
Matamoros. was bound TO the fed /.
grand jury in $3.50 bond Tuesday
when given ap reliminary hearing
before u. S. Commissioner Carries q
Watson on customs liquor charges.
Perez entered a plea of guilty.
He was taken into custody Monday
night near the Tomates bend hy Bor-
der Patrclmen II. K. Phillips and
Urban Farrow. The defendant is al
legged to have had three 5-gallon cans
Of mescal. a gallon bottle Of mescal
and a quart Of mescal in his posse
sion at the time OF his arrest.
The patrolmen also reported de-
stroying a small boat allegediy used
by the defendant in crossing the
contrahand liquor.
, 1935-07-24
FISH FLAYED
BY DEMOCRATS
Republican Scion Scorched
For His Statement On
Impeachment

WASHINGTON, July q. R1-A
bitter political dispute over wheth-
er President Roosevelt had violated
hts oath TO support the constitu :
ton and whether ne and his con-
greSsicnal leaders should be i'm
peached threw the house Tuesday
into an uproar.
Representative Warren CD-NC)
started the exchange by referring
TO a newspaper interview given by
Representative Fish (R-NY) in
which the latter said that II the
president were impeached his lead
ers should be too.
Describing Fish's remarks as
"slurs and insinuations." Warren
added:
Ever since the gentleman became
the republican presidential candl-
date Of Congressman KnutSon OF
Minnesota and former Congressman
DePriest he seems 20 have lost ali
sense OF proportion and frankly
many OF us doubt If he even knows
what Is going on In the house"
He reminded that only last week
Fish's remarks were expunged from
the record when he used the word
"snoop" In reference 10 Representa-
tive Patman D-Texas).
Il don't think the gentleman from
New York Is hurting either the speak
er or the president" Warren said.
Representative Rich CR-Pal re-
piled Immediately by attempting to
read a newspaper editorial which
argued that the president had vic
lated his oath 10 support and pre-
serve the constitution.
Democratic objections blocked the
reading. but Rich reminded that
the president had asked Representa-
tive Samuel B. Hill D-Wash) to
expedite the Guffey coal stabliza-
ticn bill despite doubts. however
reasonable" was to its constitution
atty.
ANY man who makes that state
ment." Rich continued, should be
severity criticized. III any man SO v!o-
lated his oath OF office he ought to
be impeached.
Roosevelt is a socialist. and not q
democrat"
, 1935-07-24
WARNING
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gathered to cheer him and marched
up to the city in a demonstration for
him.
When the break between Cardenas
and Plutarco Elias Gales came, Por-
ties Gil came back into power and
once more started 70 ircn out the
situation In Tamaulipas and gain
control OF the state.
The ~agrariStas backed Cardenas
and Oil. during the hard times o.
the last few months IN the rural sec
tons Of the state. peasants have suf-
fered and discomfort amcng the
farmers has been nral.
The agrarians quickly answered
the call for action and flocked to the
standards OF the agraristas. demand
ing a change in the state govern
ment.
In Mexico. q city government gov
ems the OUTLYING rural districts. sim
liar TO counties a Texas. The Mata-
moros municipality governs an area
40 miles In diameter.
The general belief Is that the army
garrisons are backing the agraristss.
and that Villarreal and his follow
ers will leave office.
, 1935-07-24
Seniors Leave Gift
For High School Here

Placement Of new bronze numerals
on the doors Of the rooms in the
junior college-high school building
here, has been recently completed,
the parting gift OF the high school
graduating class cf 1885.
The entire building is being re-
numbered. the new bronze numerals
replacing the former plain cardboard
figures. 1t Is the custom OF each
senior class in the high school 70
leave something IS a parting gift
and though the new numerals VI
ordered last spring they have \
placed Just recently. Jane Scan
was president of the class which with
103 members was one Of the largest
IN Brownsville history. Mrs. Hertha
, 1935-07-24
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than 10000 square miles Of the
Shantung countryside.
Governor Han Fu Chu OF Shan
tung sent an urgent telegram 10
Marking reporting nearly 5000. 900
OF his people homeless.
The neighboring provinces OF
Hopei, Honan and Shensi are also
seriously hit. Chinese press reports
say the refugees are clinging 20 the
remnants OF dykes under a pitiless
midsummer SUI and dying like
flies.
Efforts are being concentrated to
prevent the spread OF the water into
northern Riangsu province. where
a farming population OF 10000 0 In
the low lying districts surrounding
Hinghwa is menaced.
Dykes Collapse
The most strenuous labors failed
to forestal the collapse Of the dykes
surrounding Hanyant Lake on the
shantung-Kiangsu border. where the
waters stood eight feet higher than
the neighboring land. When the
barriers went out, the flood deluged
the countryside. destroying every
thing in its path.
The Yangtze has dropped slightly
but no relief Is In SIGHT for the
flooded areas which will be covered
with water fer weeks to come.
Government authorities and relief
agencies said the YangtzSs devasta-
tim az the five provinces affected ~
SO immense that IL still Is impos-
sible to estimate the total losses.
, 1935-07-24
Legion Post VIII
Name New Officers

Members Of the Brownsville Amer
lean Legion post will elect new Off
GERS at their regular meeting Thurs
day NIGHT. The officers who are chos-
EN- will take over their new duties
st formal installation ceremonies on
AUGUST 8.
Present plans call for election OF
delegates from the Brownsville post
to the state convention OF the Amer
lean Legion 10 be held IN Dallas.
August 31-September 8. Elections
have been set IN order that new post
officers viii have assumed their
duties before the convention opens
, 1935-07-24

Slush pit was dug last week on
location on block 397. which is APP
proximately four miles northeast OF
Rio Hondo. Five thousand acres CON-
prise the drilling block.
Headquarters for the new oil well
will be at tie Mac MiZe office here.
Mr.. Mize, { ner and produce man,
hes been active in rounding up leas-
es to further the possibilities OF an
oil well for the Rio Hondo com
munity.
For some time It appeared that
drilling operations would be drop
ped, but interested citizens busted
themselves In leasing additional
acreage to fill gaps in the drilling
block and the well is now a certain
~. Anderson made the announce
ments TO The Herald after he had
made a check on the map OF the
eases to determine whether suf-
ficient acreage had been leased 10
Justify drilling.
@. II. Colgin, Brownsville. trustee
for the Browne Tract properties,
has leased approximately 4.300 acres
with Anderson on this project and
probably is the largest Lessee in the
drilling block.
Considerable activity IN leasing
operations in this vicinity and the
entire BAY county has been noted
within the past year. The w. T.
Daniels well, across the Arroyo Co
dorado after many set backs due tc
boiler trouble, Is now laying pipe
10 bring water TO the well.
Anderson, who is drilling five
wildcats in various parts Of the
country. will move his family TO
the Valley from Salt Lake City and
may locate his home here. AT pres
ent Anderson Is staying at Meal
len.
, 1935-07-24
IL Injured. One Is
Missing In Blaze

PEORIA. July %. Up Fire
which swept the huge s6.500000
Hiram Walker distillery following
e terrific explosion was brought IN
der control Tuesday after causing
dama0e estimated at s2.700.0 00.
Twelve men were injured in the
blaze and searchers were seeking the
body Of John Barton, ar emplove,
missing since the olast in the
rackhouse where lie was working.
, 1935-07-24

ABILENE. July 70. Up Buford
q. Fatsl Brian. 16. one on the
Youngest c0tsaEe fA-tball stars il.
Texas. died Monday night OF pneu-
monia. He had undergone an op-
Grafton for appendicitis last week.
"A sonhomore nc McMurrny college
here. Brian won all-Texas confer
ence honors nc Center last fall. He
was only Is years old at the first Of
the football season.
, 1935-07-24
Jap Press Bitterly
Criticizes Italians

TOKYO, July %. P- The Jap
anese press, aroused by Italian press
attacks on Japan, gave vent TO
bitter feeling Tuesday, expressing a
belief that The Italian criticisms
were officially inspired and that
the bringing up of the racial ques-
ton in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute
was proving provocative to Japan.
A foreign office spokesman said
that thus far no particular protest
has been planned, but that jap
anese diplomats everywhere have
been warned not 70 be misled by in
f~lammatory press reports.
, 1935-07-24

NEW YORK, July "a. (R-The
stock market settled down to a quiet
trading affair wednesday and fluc-
tuations IN all groups we're narrow
with the exception OF farm imple-
ment shares, which enjoyed q good
demand at advances Ct / TO 2 points.
Other financial and commodity
markets we're a bit uneven. Wheat
and other grains averaged a shade
higher during early dealings but
cotton pointed lower under liquida-
, 1935-07-24
Woman Who Killed
Husband Dies Also

CARDWELL, Mo, July %. Up
Mrs. lone Allison. 81, OF Cardwell,
who shot and killed her husband.
j. v. Allison and fired four shots
az a woman companion at a base
ball park in Senath Sunday, died
In hospital at Pargould. Ark, Mon
day night from self inflicted bullets
wounds.
Mrs. Allison had followed her
husband to the park. Shs went un-
der the grandstand, located him
and called out Having a good time
Honey?' AS he turned. she shot
him.
, 1935-07-24

situation as follows, stating at the
conclusion that he has received
Geographic communications from
President Cardenas supporting his
position, and declaring that he will
work the situation out without
bloodshed.
There are some groups Of enc
mics Of the government around
Victoria, but few Of them are
agraristas. Most OF them are peo-
pie who opposed me IN the last
election. Some are in the city and
some outside, but there is no dis
turbance.
THE number OF agraristas and
others IN the Victoria section op-
posed 70 me is about 1900, instead
Of $4,000 or 10000 as reported"
At this point I asked the gov
ernor, who Is behind the trouble2''
He answered, "Portes Gil and his
political followers" (Portes Gil Is
former cabinet member and head
Of the National Revolutionary
party
He continued: The legislative
authorities Of the state are support
ing me There are seven state
deputies. and they are all my sup
porters. Likewise the judicial forces
Of the state are supporting my gov
eminent.
Yesterday my political enemies
rushed the little town of Llera. in
the mountains near Tula. They
took the town because the authori-
ties were in Victoria. When the
authorities went back the town was
turned over TO them without blood
shed.
, 1935-07-24

Rehnet was sponsor for the class.
Other work mt the school build
ing includes waxing OF all class room
and office floors. Formerly the floors
have been treated only with oil. Saw
ings which will be effected in up
keep with the waxed floors will more
than Offset the slightly added ex-
perfse in waxing them az present,
according to school officials.
, 1935-07-24

Joaquin Martinez Chavarria, CHIEF
Of the customs for the Mexican fed
eral government at Matamoros, left
Monday afternoon for PiedraS Ne
gras. the new station TO which he has
been assigned. The new chief OF the
MatamorOs customs Is General Man
uel G. Larraga, who arrived in the
border city late Monday to assume
MS new duties.
, 1935-07-24
JUDGE DEFIED


peals and see what power ! have
Testimony late Tuesday brouEnt
out "a sudden cutburst from Thomp-
son. Monroe wise was the witness
He had said he knew at was coming
off" and had heard them plan
ming 10 kill both me and Melvin
The reference was 10 the Staying
on n fellow convict for which Thcmp-
son and two others were cnargeu.
Thomson interrupted proceedings
by rising and shouting:
That's m blackfaced lie. You
know you are n llar."
state attorneys called more con-
victs TO testify wednesday IN the
trial on THOMPSON. convicted STAY
or OF three men who ~ fighting to
escape the electric chair FOR the
fatal stabblnR ~ Everett Melvin. Re-
trieve farm prisoner.
, 1935-07-24
TODAY'S MARKETS

ton in later months and foreign
silver held unchanged at 67A cents
an ounce. Domestic corporate bonds
we're fairly steady but u. :. govern
ments did little.
Foreign currencies we're set on
edge BY the Holland guilder which
was under severe pressure as the
result Of economic and political pres
sure against the Hague government.
Shares holding within miner frac-
tions either way Of Tuesdays finals
included some Of the leading indus
trials that have provided recent mar
ket leadership. Among these were
u. s. Steel. Bethlehem, Chrysler,
General Motors. Du Pont, Westing-
house. General Electric, Loew's,
Montgomery Ward. American Tele-
phone, North American. Cerro de
Pasco. Sears Roebuck, Liggett &
Myers b" Kennecott and Stand
ard of N. j.
Farm implement shares getting /
to 2 points higher included j. I. Case,
Deere, and international Harvester.
American Can also improved its
quoted value around / point on small
demand and Public Service Of N. j.
gained about that much. Union
Pacific lost more than a point un-
DER equally light offerings.
While the stock market was neg
lected and did little either way, Wall
Street was agog over the second
quarter earnings OF General Mot
which will be published after Z
close Of the market Thursday. A n.
Of between $i.10 and SIPS a share
on the common stock Is the general
expectation.