Obituary of Conn Gibbs Remembers Boyhood Friend
The People's Column notes the death of Everette Conn Gibbs, once a school classmate and UT roommate, lamenting departed friends and recalling their 1914 high school class and shared days. The writer reflects on friendship, faith, and time passing, ending with a note of continuation on page 5.
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Bryan Daily Eagle
The
Daily Eagle
Everette Conn Gibbs
Sweet
Myrtle James
Conn Gibbs
Conn
University of Texas
Prison Bill Passes Senate For Prison Rehab Funds
The Texas senate voted 29 to 0 to approve a free conference committee bill approving 550000 dollars for rehabilitation of the Huntsville prison plant and improvements to prison farms. The measure follows lengthy debate with administration criticism and support.
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Associated Press
Austen
Senate
Free Conference Committee
Huntsville
C. C. Small
Wellington
Bryan social notes and local plans announced
Joe Atkins of Waco and Rock Prairie visited Bryan en route to Houston. W H Benbow, a Tabor farmer, spent Wednesday in Bryan. Mr and Mrs N L McCullough plan a new home on East 26th Street with construction soon. The home will adjoin the Coles and near Travis school. J J Jones from College Station also visited Bryan for the day.
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Joe Atkins
Waco
Business Mens’ Assurance Co
Bryan
Houston
W. H. Benbow
Tabor
N. L. McCullough
East 26Th Street
Y. F. Cole
Travis School
Rock Prairie Community
J. J. Jones
College Station
Bandmaster Dunn Back from Meet
College station reports bandmaster Richard J. Dunn of A&M College Texas returned from the first annual American Bandmasters Association convention held in Middletown Ohio March 13 16. Only two Southwest representatives attended Dunn and Baylor University’s E M McCracken. The group aims to spur serious concert band writing raise standards and boost public support for bands. Notables present included John Philip Sousa Arthur Pryor Edwin Franko Goldman Herbert Clarke Charles ONeill Austin Harding.
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College Station
Richard J. Dunn
A. & M. College of Texas
American Bandmasters Association
Middletown
Ohio
Dunn
Southwest
Mr. Dunn
E. M. McCracken
Baylor University
Waco
Comdr
John Philip Sousa
New York
Arthur Pryor
Edrwin Franko Goldman
Herbert L. Clarke
Charles O'Neill
Canada
Austin A. Harding
University of Illinois
School funds received by F. M. Vance
County Superintendent F. M. Vance reported receipt of $2,325 rural school aid to be shared among six county schools and $3.50 per capita of the $17.50 maintenance appropriation. With 5,850 children, per capita aid totals $26,325, bringing the year-to-date to $67,275 and leaving $7 per cap still due. Rural aid allocations listed for Steep Hollow Reliance Kurten Edge Bowman Smetana.
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F. Mr. Vance
Steep Hollow
Reliance
Kurten
Edge
Bowman
Smetana
Bryan Declares Clean-Up and Milk-For-Health Weeks
Mayor E. J. Jenkins issues two proclamations fixing a spring Clean-Up Week from March 30 to April 5. The drive aims to improve health by eliminating unsanitary conditions, trash and fire hazards, from attic to basement, as part of a statewide effort for children’s health.
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Bryan
E. J. Jenkins
FE. J. Jenkins
Jenkins
Taft called 18th Amendment results glorious in Prohibition hearing
Horace Taft read a quote from former president William Howard Taft praising the 18th Amendment as glorious after initial doubt. Testimony on straw votes found them meaningless while Salvation Army colonel J W Jinkins relayed Evangeline Booth’s statement that prohibition removed a cancerous growth in American social life.
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Associated Press
Washington
William Howard Taft
House Judiciary Committee
Horace Taft
J. W. Jinkins
Salvation Army
Evangeline Booth
Episcopal Youth Discuss Value of Family Pew
Members of the Young Peoples' Service League of St. Andrew's Episcopal church hosted a supper in the parish house. Cadets from the Episcopal student group at A and M College attended with parents. The discussion, led by Miss Ellis Ballerstedt, centered on the family pew and its relation to reverence in religion and home ties.
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Young Peoples’ Service League
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Episcopal
A. and M. College
W.W. Daup
America
B. D. Marburger
C. A. Searcy
W. W. Daup
Betsy Searcy
Stanford to Speak at Smetana Community Meeting
J. Ke. Stanford editor of the Southern Agriculturist will address the Smetana Community Club Thursday night on Community Building. He is described as a pleasing speaker and the audience may expect a helpful message.
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J. KE. Stanford
Texas
Southern Agriculturist
Smetana Community Club
Stanford
Cotton Market Slips on Futures Decline
Cotton futures closed 10 to 20 points lower as nearby prices eased. Local spot quotations ranged from 14 1/2 to 15 cents.
Merchants Taught Effects Sell Life Not Things
Henry W. Stanley of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce told Bryan merchants and salespeople that buyers seek effects not items. He urged focusing on customers emotions, appearance, and lifestyle benefits in ads and displays. He compared turnover to a heart throb, key to profits.
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Henry W. Stanley
Merchants Services Bureau
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Business Institute
Bryan
America
Mr. Stanley
Man fatally shot. son held for murder at Baldwin store
Marshall dispatch reports W C Finnen, 45, killed last night at a Baldwin combination store and home near Caddo Lake. His 21-year-old son T C Finnen is charged with murder claiming self defense for protecting his mother. In Waco a second fatal shooting ends with Louis Janke, 21, charged with murder after Louis allegedly attacked his father A G Janke, 65, at Leroy home. he was released on bond.
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Associated Press
Marshall
W. C. Finnen
Baldwin
Caddo Lake
T. C. Finnnen
Waco
A. G. Janke
Leroy
Here
Louis
Janice
Tax Collections Still Shy
Mellon reports treasury figures show March 15 tax collection pace indicating first quarter receipts nearly met. By Monday close, income tax receipts totaled 99.666 million dollars, about 10 million less than last year at the same point.
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Associated Press
Washington
Treasury
Luncheon for East ern Star Grand Officers Today
Mrs. Thos. Lundin and Mrs. E K Yeager hosted a luncheon for Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star officers who arrived from Crockett after a school of instruction. Names of hostesses and guests include Beulah Rawlings Johnson City Bertha Berg Houston Mary K Pace Alvin Maude Coffey Houston and BE Yeager Thos Lundin St J Brown. A reception and dinner at Aggieland Inn followed, with a Bryan Chapter 222 meeting at the Masonic building later tonight.
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Thos. Lundin
E. EK. Yeager
Grand Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Crockett
Beulah Rawlings
Johnson City
Bertha Berg
Houston
Mary K. Pace
Alvin
Maude Coffey
BE. BE. Yeager
Thos Lundin
St. J. Brown
Bristow Son Plans Negotiations for Release
Gordon Bristow travels from Big Spring toward El Paso to negotiate the release of his father J. E. Bristow, an oil operator held for 3000 pesos ransom by Mexican bandits after being captured south of Teric Negarit Mexico. An American consul message says the emissary may reach Tepic soon as authorities bolster forces near the bandit region. The capture marks a rare active kidnapping in a region amid fanatical unrest and Mexican security efforts.
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Associated Press
San Angelo
Gordon Bristow
J. E. Bristow
Big Spring
el Paso
Teric
Negarit
Mexico
Juarez
Tepic
Bristow
Mexico City
Mazatlan
Aged Fort Worth Banker Dies At 93
Major K. M. Van Zandt, 93, Confederate veteran and longtime president of the Fort Worth National Bank, died today at his home from heart trouble after directing bank affairs for the past two weeks. He came to Texas in 1839 from Tennessee.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
K. M. van Zandt
M E Brotherhood Banquet Hears Rev Few on Hunger
The Huntsville district service featured Rev F E Few speaking on Hungry Men based on the Beatitude about hungering and thirsting after righteousness. He argued men seek happiness as life’s goal with varying zeal.
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Huntsville
F. E. Few
Ex-Premier Lord Balfour Dies at 92 in England
Woking Surrey March 19 Lord Balfour veteran statesman died today at his brother Gerald's home where he had been ill for a week. He was in his 92nd year.
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Woking
Surry
England
Humbert Speaks at Bryan Reading Club Meeting
Dr E P Humbert of College was the principal speaker at the Bryan Reading Club weekly gathering at the Womens Club House. Cadet Oscar Schott of A and M College performed two solo numbers as the club plans fundraising to support its annual Brazos County scholarship for a deserving girl.
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E. P. Humbert
Bryan Reading Club
Woman’s Club
East 27Th Street
Washington Avenue
Oscar Schott
A. and
M. College
Reading Club
Bryan and College
C. W. Crawford
Brazos County
Engineers Receive Color Flag at A and M College Texas
Major General Lytle Brown chief of the Army Corps of Engineers visits Texas A and M College for a two day stay. Gulf States Utilities Company presents a battalion flag to the Engineer Battalion of the cadet corps. Cadets and officials participate in a formal ceremony in Guion Hall with a thirteen gun salute.
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College Station
Lytle Brown
Corps of Engineers
United States Army
A. and M. College of Texas
Tom P. Walker
Beaumont
Engineer
Cadet Corps
Gulf States Utilities Company
Brown
Galveston
Guion Hall
General Brown
Hearne
Texas
Col
C. J. Nelson
Lewis A. Pick
Walker
J. We
Stamping Out of Illiteracy and Health Urged in Texas
Henry W. Stanley of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce urged the Bryan Lions Club to back a broad program of blindness prevention. He cited Texas literacy deficits, noting 300 000 citizens can neither read nor write yet can vote, and he highlighted Texas standing 50th in health protection and 5th in oil production.
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Texas
Lions of
Bryan
Bryan Lions Club
Henry W. Stanley
Merchants Service Bureau
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
International Association of Lions Clubs
United States
Stanley
Morrow Dissents In Decision on Malice Charge
Presiding Judge W C Morrow dissented as the court of criminal appeals refused rehearings in six cases and held that lack of malice in murder indictments could limit penalties to five years in prison. The Austin ruling affects how malice aforethought is charged in murder cases.
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Morrow
Associated Press
Austin
Court of Criminal Appeals
W. C. Morrow
Will Rogers wire from Beverly Hills to Bryan Eagle
A 1930 letter from Beverly Hills mocks prosperity as a commodity and mocks Hoover for promising delivery in 60 days. The writer urges action against the Republican party and jokes about lawsuits and judgments as examples of political sentiment.
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Bryan Eagle
Beverly Hills
Cal
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