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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1937
Page
1
The column urges every Texas citizen to study August 23 voting items, noting voters may represent multiple ballots due to this year's low turnout. It stresses constitutional changes are important, but says the writer does not advise how to vote and aims to inform rather than influence.
Administration leaders forecast a senate vote on the wage and hour bill by Thursday as a new court bill moves toward the senate floor. The judiciary committee was convened to approve the measure replacing the Roosevelt proposal. Anti lynching advocates plan to attach the Wagner Van Nuys bill as a rider to labor standards.
Mrs. H. H. Young of Houston visits Bryan to see daughters Mrs. Allan Kraft and Mrs. Chester Higgs and families. Arnold Cox and Carl O'Brien of Altus Oklahoma arrive to visit Melvin McNeely and J. W. Glenn families, with plans to return to Altus Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. McNeely host guests in the Hollloman garage apartment on Baker. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Martin Jr. go to San Antonio to bring parents Adolph Engel for extended Bryan stay.
Allen Military Academy announces Webb D Jenkins will head the music department and lead the band for the coming year. Jenkins, active in state public school band work for four years, is an AB graduate of Howard Payne College and has studied at Vander Cook School of Music. He assumes duties immediately and will plan band, orchestra and glee club activities.
Dallas Houston tests underway for rapid service with high speed locomotives planned for passenger runs between Houston and Dallas aboard the Sunbeam. A potential 10 hour Dallas to New Orleans route via Houston is discussed as a leading edge in faster rail travel.
Lions of Bryan travel home after attending the 20th Annual Lions International Convention in Chicago last week. Two groups arrived Monday afternoon with relatives and companions, including Mr and Mrs R A Booth and Mrs Zelma Booth of Dallas. The Booth party toured via St Louis Springfield Mo and Muskogee stopping at Eureka Springs Ark. Springfield Lincoln Monument note, R C Franks party also returned via Des Moines Kansas City and Oklahoma. The Coulter Smith family headed to Niagara Falls and east points, while S M Brown traveled from Chicago toward Detroit with plans to return home later in the week.
Gov. James V. Allred disclosed that 580 acres of marihuana or hemp in the Lower Rio Grande Valley were destroyed and that Texas would no longer permit the plant to be grown for fiber.
M Munoz of Mexico faced a driving while intoxicated charge in Justice R B Grants court with Game Warden J J Dean as the complaining witness.
City records show 49 people tested for malaria Monday at Bryan Emergency Hospital City Hall with tests to be sent to Austin for analysis. Dr. Coogle and Dr. Cherry will assist this week with daily free tests from 9 to 12 morning and 2 to 6 afternoon at the hospital.
Bryan fire department responded to a drowning at Allen Academy lake where 15 year old Helen Randall was found under water by Oliver Ryan. Rescue efforts by W. J. Landry and helpers failed and the area was posted with no swimming allowed.
Lamb County Olton reports unofficial returns show the county voting dry for the second year in a row after a Saturday election to decide whether beer sales would be legalized.
Police chief Roy Richburg and officers from Dallas toured the Pan American Exposition pee shows and declared certain acts indecent. As a result the Nudist Camp display and life class models wore clothes on Monday to comply with the edict and avoid raids.
Frank Stasny aged 80 years 3 months 26 days died at his farm home seven miles south of Bryan on Highway No 6 Monday at midnight after a long illness. Funeral held Tuesday at 5 pm at the family home conducted by Rev J B Gleissner. Interment Rector Chapel cemetery. Surviving widow Josephine seven daughters one son Hugo F Stasny twenty two grandchildren five great grandchildren.
David Nolan an Internal Revenue Service agent who helped secure evidence against Chicago gangster Al Capone and his income tax evasion case died Sunday at his Kansas City home. He was 54.
Charles N Williamson of Fort Worth dies of a heart attack. Funeral in Bryan at 11:30 a m Wednesday at the family lot in City cemetery. Service led by Dr W H Andrew with Masonic lodge involvement. Interment under McCulloch Dansby. He was a Bryan resident and uncle of Mrs R A Booth.
Mrs I J Rosprim received a report from her daughter Mrs Lucille Stransky of Savanna Illinois about a Sunday night accident near Hanover NL 13 miles from home. Lee Rosprim suffered a head wound and three stitches. Lucille had a broken leg and bruises. Mrs F J Stransky sustained two cracked ribs and bruises. Mrs Whitney had a broken nose and a black eye. The two Stranskys remained bedridden but improving. The group had just returned from Iowa when their car was sideswiped and dumped into an embankment, injuring all aboard.
Fred Gage recently elected Millican principal resigns to join Odessa high school faculty to teach Social Science. D C Wiley elected Reliance principal takes Gage’s Millican vacancy alternating duties with new Millican principal position.
James M. Lacy and Patsy Mil dred Jean Louise Lowe, Jno. Harris Jr. and L. B. Wolf are listed among parties named in a forthcoming legal filing or court matter. Further specifics are not provided in the available text.
Bryan baseball fans may see the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians clash at Kyle Field in spring, likely April 5, as part of a barn storming tour. The date will hold if not conflicting with college athletics. if not, a near date will be chosen after a conference with college authorities. A committee led by J. S. Caldwell will handle all arrangements.
About 125 officers from 37 Rotary clubs in the 130th district will gather in Bryan for a two day assembly starting August 2. Sessions will be at the La Salle hotel with a banquet at Bryan Country Club and a Texas A M campus tour beforehand. Houston governor A S Pimental and other district leaders will participate.
R. C. Franks longtime Bryan Lions Club secretary and former District 2S governor was elected president of the board of trustees of the Lions Blind Foundations of Texas Inc at Lions International in Chicago. Other officers include Tom S. Gillis Fort Worth vice president D E Bodeke Galveston executive secretary and Wil W Ford Galveston treasurer.
Brazos County faces a shortfall as the state withholds salary fund payments for the county attorney. The Legislature did not appropriate funds, preventing new payments beyond 1936 totals of 764.22 for January to March and 254.44 for September. If past due funds arrive, the county salary fund would show a substantial balance.
The Pierce Arrow sedan owned by G S Parker Jr was stolen Saturday from in front of a Kerrville hotel while Mr and Mrs Parker visited their daughter Della Margeret at camp. Parker said the thief had 30 to 90 minutes head start and no trace of the car has been found. The vehicle is notable for white wall tires and is uncommon on the roads. Kerrville authorities report no sightings.
Firemen were called Friday noon to a North Main Street rental owned by R G Bud dy Knowles where the blaze caused minor roof damage.
Chinese military headquarters said Japanese forces attacked Peiping shortly before midnight. United States marines fortified the international legation quarter after Japan demanded evacuation, with reports of Chinese troops and possible communist army mergers shaping the crisis. Hull instructed the U.S. ambassador to urge avoidance of hostilities in Peiping.
The 508-pound bale from Doc Henderson on the Gus Bade farm near Benchley sold for 21 cents per pound to the Brazos Valley Cotton Cooperative Association. It graded strict middling with a one inch staple. Henderson also received cash gifts from local chambers, seed sale revenue, flour, free ginning, and groceries totaling additional value. The first bale arrived last year on August 4.
Jack Boone known as the Brazos county watermelon king treated Bryan post office workers to a prize 85 pound melon on Thursday evening at 6 on the post office lawn. He also brought its twin 72 pound melon but the first proved too heavy for the men to handle.
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