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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-18
RIG TAX LIEN FILED

NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 18.-A tax
lien of $482,565.69 was filed in United
States district court here today against
N. Constantin, Tulsa. Okla, said ito be
president Of refining company. The
tax lien is against the year 192O-21, fix
ing taxes due at 1921, ,710.48 and pen
atty Of $160.855.2S.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-18
St. Edwards President
Is From Notre Dame
(By The Associated Press.l

SOUTHBEND, Ind, Aug. 18.-The
Rev. Joseph Burke. C. N. c., has been
elected president of st. Edwards col
lege, Austin, Tex, and has been sue
ceeded at the University cf Notre Dame
as. director of studies by the Rev. Leigh
Hubbell,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-18
SHIPPING LINE SOLD

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 1S.-The
American Export lines was sold to the
Export Steamship corporation of New
York by the shipping. board today for
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-18
THREE MEN RnR RANK

LAWRENCE, Kans., Aug. 1s.-Three
men robbed the Capital State Bank at
Lecompton on $500 in cash TODAY and
escaped in an automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
Gayety-" Jimmie Cooper
Revue.

Jimmie Cooper, with his broad grin
and ballyhoo, Is at the Gayety Thea
ter this week at the head of his Black
and White Company. Cooper has an
original way OF putting on a bur
lesQue production-in fact. he literal
~ sells It to his audience and makes
them like 1t. The first half Of the
show Is not up to the standard, but
with the clever auctioneering mann er
Of the producer the audience accepts
II much after the manner of the
youngster who takes his medicine in
soda water. Jimmie himself lays
particular stress upon the second half
as the best second act on the bur
lesque stage. II applause Is a gauge,
and 1t usually is, the verdict is sue
cess This second act. made up who'll
ly of dusky-skinned performers, Is
the fastest moving and most thrill
ing entertainment offered in bur
lesque.
The leading performers in the first
half are Jean Vernon, prima donna;
Midgie Gibbons. soubrette; Betty
Delmonte, ingenue; Chuck" Wilson,
comedian, and Hal Willis and Sam
Arco, dancers. This act Is carried
mainly through the efforts OF Cooper
himself in kidding" the chorus and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
Poll s-"Cape Smoke. 4"

Surrounded by the weira Influences
Of the African veldt and the eerie
mysticism of a witch doctor, a three
act comedy. camoufaged with meio-
drama during It's first two stages
had its premiere at Polls last night
under the title of Cape Smoke
which is the national drink of dia-
mond miners.
There is an unexpected twist dur
ing the third act, which would mar
the enjoyment of future visitors to
this play to disclose here. Let 1t suf-
flee to say that when the curtain
drops for the second act, three OF
four gentlemen under the death curse
of the witch doctor are ready for the
undertaken and embalmer, TO all in
tents, purposes and appearances
The fourth gentleman happens to
be a millionaire. Like a true Texan
with a desire for continuance of life
and much money to aid him in the
fiulfillment of that desire. he prompt
ly turns over half a million dollars
or so, in the form of check, to the
gentleman who Is to be the third to
die. But this doesn't stop things at
all. Before that victim can get out
of Africa and break the voodoo spell
he has been sent to the happy
hunting ground, II seems, by the
voodoo curse route. The last act
curtain goes up on what seems to be
a blunt and brazen steal from Out
ward Bound, in which 1t will be re-
membered. all the dramatis person&e
were in the spirit land from frs:
TO last.
With the rising Of the last acts
curtain, however, we are going to
leave you. The three dead men arc
there, as we'll as Dr.. Hammerstone
the mine physician, and Katherine
Bradbroke, the sister of q defaulte,
at the mine. One of the dead mer
IS quite comfortably drunk on cape
smoke. The other two are nicely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
under the influence. The doctor and

under the influence. The doctor and
he girl are sober.
Just remember it's a comedy, with
nelodramatic tendencies, and that you
augh at the whole thing when it's
over.
Charles X. Gordon presents the
play, which is by Walter Archer
Frost A Z. Arson directs the en-
tire production.
The play Is acceptably done on the
whole. 1t is quite in line with the re-
wing cycle of semi me lodramatic
and pure melodramatic productions
that seem to be getting back into popu-
lar favor. II the public really wants pro-
auctions like this, there Is no reason
apparent why this one should not
find a comfortably lucrative stay on
Broadway. Scenic effects are well
done, especially for the second act.
when lightning is used as the medium
for the third voodoo death by the
witch doctor.
Percy Waram as Hugh Caldwell,
victim No. 8; John D. Seymour az
Gregory Bradbroke, victim No. 2. and
Gerard Maxwell wiltshire, as victim
No l, furnish neat characterizations.
OF course, James Rennie stands out
as the Texas millionaire. youthful
and with the southern drawl, and
Ruth Shepley Is quite acceptable as
the leading lady.
This guarantee seems safe: Not one
in fifty who sees the play VIII figure
out the conclusion. And not one In
a hundred will fail to chuckle at the
wind-up It's comedy. Not a
tragedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
A NJ u Sc NJ E N T S

much discouraged bookkseper; the
mother. a splendid type of home
keeper but Overworked; two daugh-
tiers and one son, who are forced to
work among the almost pathetic
white collar" class. There also Ia a
cousin. whose incessant ranting on
the theme that the dinner jack ct and
laboring classes are far better of. So
cially and financially, than the great
white collar" or middle class, has
virtually made bolshevists Of his rela-
tives.
The story is wove around Joar
Thayer, the pretty and culture
daughter of the caste-bound family
who marries her millionaire employ
or. and persuades her husband I
spend some of the hottest weeks o
the Summer in her family's uncom
Portable nat. The young millionair,
does not condescend in the least t.
the girls family. but soon finds tn,
sultry nights In the stuffy tenement
the lack of privacy and the ceaseless
radical sermons of the cousin I'M
bearable. Ultimately, when the money
barrier threatens to wreck the domes-
tic tranquility of the family and the
young husband plans to give away
his $15,000,000 and join the white
collar" brigade, there is a complete
reversal of the attitude on the part
of the entire Thayer household, in
Guiding the cousin.
Clever lines and wholesome comedy
are sprinkled adequately throughout
the play, but the characterizations far
excel the plot
The cast is admirable. The great
bulk of the comedy falls on the Shout
ders of Clarke Silvernail. the Cousin
Henry of the Thayers, and Rea Mar
tin, the vulgar f1apper sister Mona
Kingsley plays Joan Thayer, and John
Marston, William Van Luyn. her mill
lionaire husband. Others in the cast
are Frederick Burton, as Mr.. Thayer:
Frances Underwood, as Mrs. Thayer;
Allen H. Moore, as Frank Thayer:
Robert w. Craig, as Tom Gibney. and
Cornelia Otis Skinner, as Sally Van
Luyn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03

1t In queer how careful q MAN can
be after he has lost his raoney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03

members of the company. much to the
edification of the audience.
The second act opens with whirl-
wind acrobatic exhibition by the
Seven Pashas, a troupe of Arabs of
remarkable athletic ability This is
followed by Hot Feet" a sensational
colored revue featuring Jazz Lips"
Richardson and Julian Arthur's JAZZ
zy musicians. This part of the show
is worth the price of admission by it
self 1t consists of songs and dances
by the race that originated Jazz"
and puts other performers into the
back ground as mere imitators. Last
nights audience demanded encores
exhaustion.
The scenic settings of this last half
of the show merit special mention,
the color scheme and lighting being
particularly good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
Belasco-"White Collars.

The somewhat ludicrous efforts of
a young millionaire to take the mask
of false pride off an impoverished
American family of the so-called
middle class" furnishes the super
structure of Edith Ellis white Col
lars" which had its Eastern pre-
miere last night at the Shubert-
Belasco Theater. The comedy has
been running out on the Pacific coast
for more than a year, and despite It's
little smacks of unrealism, probably
will meet with equal success in the
East, because 1t has entertainment
value of real merit.
white Collars" has purely Amer
lean locale, all of the scenes except
the opening being located in a crowd
ed New York tenement The family
portrayed consists of the father, a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
The Kandy Kids

A treat is IN store for lovers of bur-
lesque at the Mutual Theater this
week. Were it not for a lack in the
feminine principals, the performance
might be classed as the best at this
playhouse this season
Sammy Spears, the inevitable He
brew. and his partner, Johnny Weber,
in the almost extinct role of German
comedian, set dizzy pace in rollick-
ing fun. Weber perhaps, slightly
overplayed his part, his broken dialect
at times being painfully unintelligible.
The show boasts one player above
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
EXPORTS STATIONARY.
u. S. Sales to North American Ma
tions Remain Same.

Foreign trade Of the United States
during 1924, in spite Of the increased
volume OF exports, showed no great
change in the countries of origin and
destination. but North American coun-
tries failed to participate in the general
increase in the exports of this country.
For 1923 and 1924 the exports from
the United States to North America
were almost identical. while those to
every other quarter of the globe showed
marked expansion in 1924.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03

the average in Billy Reed, master
in pedal dexterity. He does decidedly
clever dancing, and last night was
forced to respond to four encores. En-
cores for male principals are few and
far between at the Mutual.
Flo Bennett, Jean Fox and Elsie
Raynor are billed as leading ladies'"
but Johnny Weber, in his Music
Master skit, uncovers several Choir
listers Of better ability.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
WRECKED BANK SOLD.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

DANVILLE. Va, February 3.-The
final chapter in the tragic history of
the State Bank of Virgilina, robbed
of more than a quarter of a million
dollars, for which Thomas G. Pool,
former cashier, is serving Is years in
the penitentiary, was enacted yester-
day.
The little brick building and all tn e
banking fixtures were sold at auction
to T. w. Chandler for $2,542.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
Honduran President Installed.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Febru
airy 3.-Afiguel PaZ Barahona was in
augurated as President of the repub-
lie Honduras. DR.. Barahona Is the first
chief executive In 20 years to enter
office through peaceful elections.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-02-03
DOCTORS START STUDY
OF ACCUSED UXORCIDE
Former Major Taken to Johns Hop
kins-Cerebral Operation
Is Considered.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press
BALTIMORE. Md, February s.
DR.. c. W. PresnalI OF Denver, Colo. a
former major in the Army, was ad-
mttted to Johns Hopkins Hospital
yesterday for treatment Of alleged
criminal tendencies. He was placed
under observation by DR.. Waller e.
Pandy, assistant professor OF clinical
surgery. and a cerebral operation may
be performed later.
According to dispatches from Dem
YER, DR.. Presnall was charged with
numbering his wife. The United
States Veterans Bureau became in
terested in his case and permission
was granted for his removal to John =
Hopkins.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-12
Revolution in Methods of Making Gas Almost
Certainty of Immediate Future
HARRY c. ABEL, President American Gas Association.

4l9RGk4 '" AOLLAh L ICE1uCIk AACINdA Vas AG0ONA1kAOAs
Revolution in the methods of manufacturing gas in America is al:
most a certainty of the immediate future.
This will come about because the industry will be called upon to re-
place the nations failing supply Of oil with gaseous fuel for industrial
heating.
The estimated available and disable supply of oil in the United States
is 9,0O0,O00O00 barrels and the present rate of annual production $780,,
100000 barrels. It is apparent, therefore, the supply will last only II
years. A strict conservation program, national in scope, seems to be the
only solution, and such a program means that the industrial plants of the
nation will be obliged to turn to manufactured gas for their fuel require
ments.
This means that in ten years the gas output will increase at least 100
per cent and probably a great deal more, and 20,000000 customers will be
connected to the mains of gas companies.
Progress in the gas business during the last two decades has been a
record of peak after peak, with three times as much gas consumed during
the last ten years as during the preceding ten. A striking fact is that
while the household use Of gas increased 100 per cent in the last ten years,
the use Of gas in industry jumped 1000 per cent.
We have got to make plans for a industry three times its present
size. If gas service does not replace industrial use of oil this year, the
change will be made next year or the year after. It is inevitable. To be
able to take on this business we must obtain hundreds of millions of dol
lars of new capital; we must make gas quicker, and make it in larger
quantities; we must have the full cooperation of the regulatory bodies,
and we must adjust rates SO that the cost Of service will be equtably pro-
portioned among all classes of customers.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-12
Traffic-Strangled Sections of Country May Find
Relief in New Plan
H. H. DUNN, in Motor.

GTN OMORROWS roads, according to the plan proposed and already
begun by the California State Automobile association, will be
Jk heavily paved highways, with curves and steep grades eliminated,
with no crossroads, no local traffic no left turns and no slow
drivers permitted.
The plan is to obtain a staight-or as nearly straight as possible
rght-of-way between cities. This rightof-way is to be 100 feet wide over
all. The outside 20 feet on each side will be occupied by a local paved
highway, each one Of which will carry one line Of local traffic. The
central 30 feet Of the rightof-way will be filed by the ~high-speed, trunk
line motorway, with two lines of traffic, one each way.
The Is feet on each side of this motorway, between it and the local
highway, will be occupied at distances of 10 to Is miles, with sidings,
through which connection between the main highspeed motorway and the
highways for local traffic is maintained. Between these adings, this 10
foot space will be occupied by parkways, where possible, otherwise by the
bare ground; possibly planted with trees.
Speeds on this through highway will be virtually unlimited, though
the first plan is to hold such speeds within SO miles an hour, with a mini
mum speed limit, Hrigidly enforced, of 80 or 35 miles an hour. The object
is to keep through traffic moving, to give fairway for motor trucks and
stages, and to eliminate local traffic entirely from the through motorway.
One of the principal hindrances to through automobile traffic today is
the interference of local traffic between the small towns.
Crossings will be eliminated entirely, by the passing Of the motorway
either over or under all other highways, railroad tracks, and SO on.
Stops in the cities will be enclosed areas similar to railroad stations
and there will be motor bus passenger stations, and motor truck freight
stations.
Low speeds will be required and enforced on motorists coming into
this motorway from the parallel local highways, or leaving the motorway
for such highways.
At cos%road intersections there will be inlets and exits to and from
the local traffic highways on either side, but none to or from the high
speed motorway.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-12
DO NOT TALK TO
DRIVER OF AUTO
There Is Too Much Driving
Being Done From Seats
in Rear of Car.

There is a sign in the front of most
city street ears bearing the words,
Don't Talk to the Motorman," That
sign with even greater emphasis might
well be posted on the front of every
windshield.
The driver Of an automobile has far
more need to devote his attention ex-
clusively to the work in hand, than
has the motorman. The latter has a
straight one way track ahead of him
with two rails to guide him, the motor
list has no such aids to safeguard his
eye and hand.
Distracts Drivers Attention.
Because passengers are in close con-
tact with the driver there is a definite
tendency to distract mis- attention. The
engineer of a locomotive is located
where he can give complete attention
to the work of operating the train.
What the passengers do or say, or
think, in no way affects the final re
suits.
Automobile passengers are to blame
for much Of the trouble drivers get
into. On a count of a number of seri-
Gus accidents tt was found that in
the majority of cases the drivers were
accompanied by passengers. The rela-
lively small number of instances where
lone drivers are involved in serious
accidents seems to support the theory
that there is too much driving being
done from the back seat.
Conversation is perhaps the greatest
single cause of automobile accidents
where passengers are being carried.
The driver gets too deep into a sub
ject that interests him, only to sacri-
flee his attention upon the matter of
driving. The less drivers and passen-
gers e about matters which
have no direct bearing upon the facts
at hand the better II. is for both par
ties. Some people feel that they must
offer a surfeit Of conversation in re-
turn for a drivers courtesy. Nothing
could be farther from the truth.
Timely Warnings.
Where a passenger is capable of
giving the driver valuable warnings
he should do so by all means, and the
driver ought not to resent being
warned when necessary. The passen-
ger sees the road from a different
angle. His advice may be Of consider
able value. There's a car coming to
our left stated in a m~atter-of-fact
way has prevented more accidents
than all the EXPLANATIONS and gasps
combined.
But to keep up a continual chatter
on the topics of the day is as danger
Gus as it is unnecessary and frequent
ly leads to a collision or an upset in
the ditch.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-12
Rubber Street Is
Constructed in Boston

The first rubber street ever laid in
America has been put down in Boston.
The rubber pavement consists OF
blocks 6 by II inches and 1 inch thick
The great difficulty in the way OF sue
e S of rubber block pavement hereto
fore has been the inability to keep the
blocks down, and to prevent them from
creeping. Cementing to the foundation
would not accomplish the result. It
is now being constructed with two
semi-circular flaps on n side and one
flap on one end of the base OF the
block, which fit into corresponding re-
cesses in the base of the adjoining
block.
Drive spikes are driven through holes
in the flaps into the bridge flooring, or
the special device used for concrete
road foundations. The blocks are laid
in hot rubberized cement, uniting the
blocks together and to the foundation,
making a ~water-tight roadway over
the street or bridge foundation.
The speed and accuracy with which
this rubber pavement can be laid was
exempli6ed by a crew Of four bridge
mechanics, a cement pourer, cement
layer, paving block placer and a
spiker, who laid the first hundred at
the rate of sixty square feet per hour
The first section of rubber pavement
laid has been in constant use for some
time, and much to the surprise OF
all observers, the sharpest horseshoe
calks, or the heavy steel tires make no
scratch or mark on the pavement.
AS the horses and vehicles pass over
the rubber paved section the lack OF
noise is at once noticed. showing the
~desirability of this class Of pavement
for streets around hospitals. particular
residences and high-class office build
ings.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-12
Creeper Is Convenient
During Severe Weather

A creeper is a very handy thing
about the workshop for getting under
the car to make a repair or an adjust
ment. 1t not, only provides a means of
getting under the ear, but keeps one
off the dirty and oily floor, as well as
protecting the health during cold and
d-isagreeable weather. 1t is so simple
to construct that no shop or private
garage should be without one 1t CON
sists of a frame made from two by two
ends and one-half by three boards
about three feet long. A pillow is pro-
vided for a headrest and caster rollers,
the latter permitting one to slide un-
der the car with it.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-12
Spark Plug Test

When there is reason to suspect a
spark plug of not firing properly it
may be tested by removing 1t from the
cylinder without disconnecting the
wire terminal and laying the metal
part of the plug on the engine. BY
turning the motor over slowly the
electrical circuit will then be com
pleted by the commutator, and, if the
spark plug is in working condition, a
spark will jump between its points. If
not, the probability is that the plug
needs cleaning or is short-circuited
and useless.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-12
Good Roads Facts

Elimination of grade crossings,
either by relocation CT highways or
rail lines, is urged by many as the
only perfect solution Of the grade
crossing problem.
Much progress has been made in
highway construction during the past
decade, yet the proportion of improved
roads to the entire road system is
relatively small.
In place of color bands for making
main highways, New York state will
use a system of numerals to designate
different routes. The numbers will be
painted in black on poles bearing a
nine-inch band of yellow. (.
Beginning at Philadelphia, the Bal
timore pike extends enthusiastically
through Media, Kennett Square, Ok
ford, the Maryland line. to Baltimore
and Washington. The route is entire
" improved and in excellent condition.
Improved highways make every part
OF Pennsylvania easily accessible.
Modern thoroughfares connect the CEN
ters Of production with the centers OF
consumption. 1t is possible to drive
1000 miles in a straightaway without
ance leaving improved road.