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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1931
Page
1
The People's Column notes Bryan's holiday attire and bright street lights that attract visitors from neighboring towns. Citizens praise the season’s beauty and the City Commission's efforts to enhance the town’s festive appearance and year round appeal.
Mr and Mrs H P Smith and their two young sons with Mrs Smiths sister Miss Verna Stuart of Poplarville Miss Verna Stuart plans to join Heber Stuart in Poplarville on Christmas Day W O Alexander of Allen Academy returns from Belton after attending the Texas High School Press Association meeting A guest speech by Miss Helen Pool of Waco highlighted the press banquet Mrs Susie Dickinson and John Dickson of Hempstead visited Bryan Brooks Stevenson Jr and family welcome a baby girl Beverly Ann both mother and child are reported healthy
The San Antonio Light reports Commonwealth Bank and Trust, closed October 6, will reopen before Christmas. Citizens subscribed to new stock, officials state depositors will lose nothing, withdrawals had forced the closing.
Vernon Dec 16 A Wilbarger county survey of school pupils found 464 of 3382 children with perfect teeth and 9339 dental defects reported across the group.
Murky conditions stop the search for F. C. Bonham and J. L. McLerath, Houston sportsmen missing since last week, as Galveston weather delays investigation and rescue efforts.
Representative Rayburn of Texas announced an inquiry into public utility holding companies as the first item of the program. He will push a bill to place railway holding companies under the Interstate Commerce Commission, asserting the commission should handle eastern consolidations.
Clarendon December 16 Miss Juanita Granger of Dozier Collingsworth County claims honors as a champion woman ball puller. She averages over 1000 pounds daily and pulled 1109 pounds in one day recently. For five consecutive days she pulled 5057 pounds.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee favorably reported the Johnson resolution demanding that Secretary of State Stimson produce all notes with foreign governments on the Manchurian situation and all instructions to American representatives at the League of Nations sessions. It was reported after sharp discussion and an attempt to defer action until Stimson could be heard. The committee laid aside the protocol for American adherence to the World Court until domestic problems before Congress were decided.
State highway officials and county commissioners say many dirt roads in the county are nearly impassable. John E. Blair, division highway engineer, inspected the Kurten road and noted the new roadbed needs rain to be ready for paving next year. If rain delays drag road work, farmers may be marooned.
About one-fourth of every dollar from Texas four cent per gallon gasoline tax goes to highway maintenance on designated systems while just over three-quarters funds new construction. Comptroller George H. Sheppard estimates about 20 000 dollars is spent annually to collect the levy from a 32.99 million total, a small share of the state budget.
Ten men with machine guns and sawed off shotguns robbed the Roachdale State Bank in Roachdale Indiana early today taking 4500 dollars in cash and bonds. They cut telephone and telegraph cables isolating the town and guarded railway telegrapher F R Jarvis and operator Pauline Smith. The bank sustained heavy damage and the loss was insured.
Mr and Mrs J M Fountain and daughter Rosemary and E J Fountain will travel by car to Bonham to attend the marriage of Miss Irene Risser and Mr Claude Miller of Dallas. Rosemary Fountain will be junior bridesmaid in pink taf feta with pink chrysanthemums. The ceremony will be in the bride's mother's home in Bonham on Saturday December 19 at 430 pm. The couple will live in Dallas after a holiday honeymoon.
Rain in Bryan reached 1.10 inches today before noon. Weather officials noted the rainfall amount as a measure of the day’s storm activity.
Suburban Bank, a Houston area bank, directed its affairs to the state banking commission. John Dyer was named liquidating agent and began work immediately after the decision. The last statement showed deposits totaling $314 330.
Special to The Eagle reports rain tonight for New Orleans and Bryan areas with unsettled conditions. East Texas sees rain tonight, cooler in the northwest, and partly cloudy unsettled conditions in the east Thursday. West Texas includes partly cloudy and cooler conditions in the southeast tonight, with generally fair weather Thursday.
Stockholders of the Bryan and College Traction Company meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms voted to reduce capital stock from 27500 to 7500 and to declare a cash dividend of 12.50 on each of 500 issued shares. Directors approved the move and elected Edge Coulter Sullivan Lawrence Jr Astin Chance Adams Wipprecht Bolton Lawrence Howell as directors. The board organized with Edge as president and Coulter as vice president. The company originally issued 500 shares at par 50 each and carries no outstanding indebtedness.
The American Legion Post and Auxiliary plan their annual Christmas party at the club house on Friday December 18. Invitations are for members only with a Christmas tree Santa Claus and afterglow games and refreshments. Members urged to attend.
Anton T. Rutgers Von Rozenburg once a German Imperial Air Forces captain known as the Black Devil of the Western Front will address Bryan public school children at 3 15 p m Thursday in Stephen F Austin high school auditorium. He describes the war from the German view, notes its horrors and waste, and urges peaceful settlements. He served 34 months in World War I 19 in the aerial service four with Von Richthofen and spent six months in trenches nine months in hospitals. He has lectured in 47 states to about 1000 schools and organizations. American Legion members and local clergy are invited as guests.
A blaze starting in a dry goods store spread to two adjoining buildings causing an estimated $40,000 in damage. Fire crews from Haskell Stamford and Munday battled the flames to contain the fire.
The Bryan club heard D L Wilson outline Rotary committee roles and President Waldrop describe Rotary as a service group that builds community leaders. Charles Hillier was elected chairman of the On to Mineral Wells Convention committee for the May 2 gathering and a large delegation is planned.
Snow sleet and rain cover North Texas and Oklahoma with up to six inches of snow in parts of Oklahoma and four inches between Texline and Amarillo. Rain fell across the region as temperatures ranged from 30 to 38 degrees.
The Sheep and Goat Raisers Association of Texas shows interest in a parasite found in Uruguay that kills cactus and could be brought to the United States by the Department of Agriculture. It feeds on cactus and dies after the plant is killed, with Australia reportedly using the insect successfully.
Rev Basil Bravi pastor at St Anthony s Catholic church Bryan has been made a Chevalier of the Crown of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III for services to Italians in the state and elsewhere. A formal investiture date is to be announced. The honor was conveyed to Father Bravi this morning by V Gallina Italian vice consul at Houston.
Cotton and grain markets showed minimal movement with futures up 1 to 2 points. Local middling cotton prices ranged from 5.5 to 6 cents while wheat activity remains muted.
The Bryan Reading Club held its final meeting of the year on Tuesday from 3 to 5 pm with the theme Bible Days. Hostesses Miss Lucy Harri son and Mrs. Henry Harrison Jr. decorated the rooms with roses and chrysanthemums. Mrs. W. E. Wimberly led the program after a brief business session, with Bible quotations during roll call, a piano duet by Mrs. J. H. Con way and Mrs. Charles Cochran, and a Christmas reading "Mary and Joseph" by Mrs. J. P. Coby ne. The Junior Choir of the First Baptist church closed with Christmas carols directed by Mrs. E. H. Gibbons and Mrs. C. W. Simmons.
Secretary of War Hurley urged re election of Hoover at the final Republican national committee meeting. He mocked Democrats for lacking a program and claimed Hoover has one. Laughter followed when he said Democrats owe much to Jefferson Jackson Cleveland and Wilson but never as much as John Raskob.
Undersecretary Mills warned the Hoover moratorium must be ratified to protect the nation’s reputation. He argued intergovernmental debts depend on moral principle. Secretary of State Stimson echoed the plea to the House committee. The panel planned to hear Rep. McFadden who attacked the moratorium.
Lonnie Hill of near Paducah reported an egg shaped like a giant peanut. The unusual egg measured about half an inch in diameter at its largest point and drew local curiosity.
Texarkana dispatch reports Will Thomas, 33, died of pneumonia after serving as a juror in the Sam Day murder trial. He voted on his sick bed, the case involving the killing of Sheriff Walter Harris of Miller county with Day sentenced to life.
Rev. Roy S. Holloman delivered a Christmas season program at the Lions Club on History in the Light of the Bible. He offered that even in troubled times God moves nations and people toward a divine purpose, encouraging confidence in the Bible’s guidance.
Chairman Burns of the Appropriations committee predicted the House would pass tomorrow an emergency 200 million dollar appropriation to meet payments on veteran bonus certificates. The bill also allows funds to establish more employment agencies for the Labor Department. Other deficiency appropriations asked by President Hoover to be considered later.
Fort Worth, Dec 16. Girls at Texas Christian University hold a slight edge in student leadership with 33 of 64 offices held by women across class bodies and societies, while 31 are held by men.
In Mukden on December 16 thirty Chinese irregulars and five Japanese troops were killed in Machiatsai. A Chinese prisoner claimed about 1000 Chinese planned to break Japanese lines. A Japanese detachment killed 20 to 70 bandits at Kaotaitze with no Japanese casualties.
Three couples in Brazos County filed notices of intention to marry with County Clerk Jess B. McGee on Tuesday. The pairs named are Arthur Harris with Elnora Lewis, R C Brognon with Ima McCulloch, and Robert Gray with Alice Harris.
The American Legion AuxiliaryHealth unit under Mrs M M Erskine prepared twelve wrapped boxes for Kerrville State Hospital, containing sick room articles to brighten Christmas for veterans in Government Hospitals across the state.
Will Rogers notes in Mukden that a League of Nations commission will inspect ground he already occupies. He jokes he can do the job cheaper and submit the same report in shorter form. He recalls being offered the North Manchuria governorship by General Ma in Harbin and hints the league must act quickly.
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