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ORDER BALLOTS
TO BE PRINTED

The Cameron County Democratic
Executive Committee Monday morn
ing ordered the official ballot for the
primaries on July "a TO be drawn up
and printed. X was the last meeting
scheduled before the primaries.
Contract for the III 900 ballots to
be printed was let to the SHELTON
Brothers Printing Co.. only bidders.
They must be printed by Wednesday
when some Of them will be turned
over to II. ID. Seago, county clerk. for
distribution to absentee voters who
must fill them out before a notary
public. Absentee voting will close
three days before the primaries, ac-
cording to law.
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ASKING REMOVAL
OF RESTRICTIONS

Laredo j. sending representatives
from its Chamber Of Commerce to
President Gales, who IA on his VA
cation near Monterrey. to request
him TO remove all restrictions ON
tourists who wish to visit border
towns, according TO letter received
this morning by G. c. Richardson,
secretary Of the chamber Of com
merce, from c. Mum, secretary OF
the Laredo organization.
Tourists in Laredo who wish 10
visit border towns must get vaccina-
tion certificates, photos, and 70
through much Of the formality re-
quired here for a permanent pass-
port, according to Mr.. Richardson.
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Billy Disch Returns
For Visit in Valley

William J. "Uncle Billy" Disch.
famous coach Of championship base
ball teams in the Southwestern Con-
ference for the University Of Texas,
is back in Brownsville accompanied
this time by his wife and two chill
dren.
Mr.. Disch spent several days here
recently visiting with Bishop Clem-
ents, manager of the Brownsville club
in the Valley league. Although he is
scouting for big league clubs he has
announced no "finds- as yet to be
given ~big time" tryouts.
Mr.. Disch said while he was here
last time that he would return be-
cause he liked the country and want
ed his wife TO see II.
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Local Citizens
Go to Unveiling

Many Brownsville citizens left Sun
day for the unveiling Of the tablet
at Alice, county seat or Jim Wells
county, in honor Of Judge James b.
Wells. for 50 years d practicing law
yer in Brownsville.
Among those leaving for the cere-
monies were Mrs. James Wells and
Mrs. j. X. Wells.
The program at Alice was nched-
uled to begin at 10 o'clock this morn
ing.
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ROCKAWAY, n. j.. July 12.-tPl-
Refugees from the shell rocked area
surrounding the navy ammunition de-
pot at Lake Denmark returned today
to find their homes n war-torn no
mans land. The explosion which de-
stroyed the arsenal and rained
death on nearby towns. in two days
of fiery bonn mbardment has wiped out
an entire town, and made Of peace
ful mining valley a devastated area
rs desolate as those Of the Argonne.
Ten square miles about the arsenal
is an evacuated area. its roads guard
ed by sentries. their bayonets fixed
and rifles loaded. Refugees creeping
back to their ruined homes to search
for their treasures, 10 find pet ami
mails, TO reclaim whatever of their
possessions has been saved are al
lowed to pass.
another search, and moving kitchens
OF the army are other traffic al
lowed in the grim area.
Rockaway and Dover, larger towns
at the foot of the valley at whose
head the arsenal burns, have suf-
fered their damages. Shattered win
dows along the streets. some now
boarded by the inhabitants. wrecked
walls and crowded hospitals and re-
lief stations make Of these towns the
outposts of the war section.
Destruction Grows
As one advances up the valley, the
destruction grows steadily worse.
Mount Hope about two miles south,
over the brow Of the hill from the
burning arsenal is a dramatic Yer
dun. None Of the homes Of its
meagre mining population has es-
capped. Floors caved in and dropped
to the cellar, window after window
shattered, walls wrecked and little
dwellings destroyed mark the path of
exploding shells.
Brigadier General Drum after an
inspection last night ordered the
towns evacuated. All through the
iCortinued on Page Two.)
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BECINSEARCH
IN WRECKACE
FOR VICTIMS
Over200 Injured Cared
For in Hos pitfalls
Near Scene of Catas-
trophe

DOVER, n. j., July l2.-tPl-A re-
vised list of the casualties in the
Lake Denmark explosion this after
noon showed that seventeen persons
were known to be dead. Only three
of these has been identified.
Loss was estimated at sl0O.000.000
by army and navy officials. For a
radius Of thirty miles, houses were
shaken and automobiles overturned
on the highways. Shells. smoke and
fire checked the entrance Of investi-
gators and hampered relief work for
hundreds of civilians in a peace time
no mans land.
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MunitiOn Blast Devastates Large Area
BANDITS IN KAN S A S
y u y
CITY ROB VICTIM OF
= = y
EIGHT GOLD TEETH

KANSAS CITY, July l2.-tPD-
not satisfied with the $75 they
took from A. L. Smoot, two bandits
early this morning stood Smoot
against viaduct railing and ex-
tTacted eight gold teeth from his
mouth with pair Of pliers.
SmoOt, an electrical worker, is
sixty years old.
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SLdyeyS of HnntIey
Taken SanAnfOniO
Jail; Feared Escape
morning.

LAREDO, Texas. July 12-jPl-
Horminio CARA Williams and Cruz
Martinez, who were given the death
penalty in district court in Laredo on
July u. for the murder Of Sterling
Huntley. geologist OF Pittsburgh. Pa.
and San Antonio, and who later filed
a motion for a new trial which was
ovorruled and an appeal was taken
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LOVERS MAY PARK AS
y y 4
LONG AS THEY KEEP
y r y
QUIET, UNHILARI OU S

BRADLEY BEACH. y. j., July IL.
Parking lovers are 10 be tolerated
as long as they're quiet. But let
noisy hilarity lift its head and the
law j. TO swoop. During the sum
mer many motorists find Bradley
Beach road ideal for Indefinite noe
turnal pauses and oft times the
noise Of their love making be-
comes a botheration 10 the resi-
dents. Hence the new regulation.
Petting IL all very we'll; noisy
necking is out OF order.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-07-12

NEW YORK, July II LPE-Another
naval magazine exploded this after
noon at the Lake Denmark ammunition
depot when a sudden shift Of wind
sent fire caused by previous explo-
sions roaring down upon it. accord
ing to word received from Rear Ad-
miral Plunkett Fourteen more
magazines were said to be in the
neighborhood and in danger Of being
ignited.
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Robert Scott Pleads
Guilty to Staying

CHICAGO, July 12.-tPl-Robert
Scott today pleaded guilty to the
murder Of Joseph Maurer, a drug
clerk. for whose Staying the pris-
oner's brother. Russell Scott, has
been sentenced TO be hanged on De-
tober Is. n
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Reports $4,000
Jewel Robbery

CHICAGO, July 12.-(Rl- Wilbur
r. Brown, president OF Jewelry
concern bearing his name nc ITO
Broadway, New York. reported 70 the
police today that he had been robbed
OF gems valued nc $4,000. He said
three men entered his room mt The
Congress hotel. bound him with "
sheet and escaped with the stones.
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THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Lower Rio
Grande Valley: Partly cloudy tonight
and Tuesday; not much change in
temperature.
For East Texas: Partly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday. Light to mod
crate southerly winds on the coast.
Moderate to heavy rains have fallen
over eastern New Mexico and extreme
western Texas during the last two
days.
Daily River Bulletin
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LANDS Rig PIKE

PAUL SMITHS. N. ". July PA
six pound pike was caught BY Presi-
dent Coolidge from canoe In Lake
0sgood today.
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Daily River Bulletin

River Forecast
There will be no material change
in the river. except a continued slow
fall Mt Brownsville
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RADIO PROGRAM
OVER KwwG TUESDAY

12 o'clock noon-Weather and
river forecast. Guitar and songs,
T.. G. Barber.
o'clock Weather and river
forecast. Hawaiian music.
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HARLINGEN the other day award
ed a paving contract of eighty blocks.
II is HarIingen's purpose to put
raved street in front Of every resi-
dence.
Splendid. The more paving the
town has. the better is the town.
Brownsville also is facing the ne
eessity of an extensive paving pro-
gram, in which the property owners
doubtless will have an opportunity
70 participate. Elizabeth street Is
hearing all the enormous traffic
north 1t is overflowing with traf-
fic. Means other streets will have to
be paved, like jefferson, Levee' ST.
Charles, and others leading to the
highway.
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An Intriguing and Thought Compelling
Story Of the Love Affairs Ofa
Modern Young Woman.

To 50 near the place again =
can help Il.
she laid the keys on the table
and went out 81 the room.
That NIGHT when she came
home from b drive with Sarah
wink. the old piano was back In
the corner az the back parlor
where Il had stood Tor 50 many
years.
And the next morning the Lis.
ter twins came back To darling
Mrs.. Phelps for their music Ies.
sons once more.
IL was week later that Mother
Phelps talephoned for Sylvia 70
come % HiIInborO. aRanny wants
"a zee you, she said, ae Il that
were all the reason In the world
for sylvia dropping everything
10 60.
drop everything ana SO. leaving
Aunt Agony To explain her abb
eence rs three pupils who came
during the afternoon. And Aunt
Agony was much upset about it
she didn't even answer the door
bell when It rang tor the fourth
pupil.
vlvia found Ranny sitting M
II 4 wheel chair, looking like his
handsome self again. He was
Mttle pale. ana his hands twitched
nervotisIy. but aside from that he
looked very well,
asyVell," he greeted her cheer.
fully. 81 didn't quite succeed ~
killing myself after ells did
Like Ranny
How like Ranny that wasl he
was off.hand about the terrible
thing that had happened to him.
as he might have been about =
ride on i roller coaster There
was no mark Of tragedy on him
no mark az sorrow. either. The
phrase he comes up anallan8
described him perfectly.
Sylvia wondered if tls y had told
him about Babss death, a. she
stood looking down at him.
she finally decided that ~
couldn't know about il and 5tlll
Sc as cheerful Is he was.
syVhere do 60 from nereK'
Ranay repeated. u that Wnat
Peggy nodded and shrugged her
shoulders.
eWhat else could ] meanf" she
asked.
Her voice was low and 1lat.
ana almost without fesltng:
she was doing her level best
"a betray no feeling Of any kind.
no BE Continued Tomorrow.
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Tense Situations, Thrilling Cimaxes and the Aours OF
HOt-Headed Youth Feature This EngrOssing
and Exciting Serial Novel,

There must be other people
there who had been hurt In the
wreck, Where were the friends
who loved them as she loved
Ranny? Here Ia this very hotel,
perhaps. Suffering as she was
suffering.
she wondered II she really were
suffering. She felt nothing now
but q kind Of numbness that
spread over her, like paralysis.
The dawn had come up before
she awakened.
Her neck was stiff, her throat
was dry, and she ached all over
az IL she had been beaten.
she stretched herself, yawned
and looked around her at the un.
familiar room. For one mercikul
second she wondered where she
was--and then the horror of the
night before came back to her.
and she remernbered!
She leaned forward in her chair
and opened the window beside
her. letting the clean, cold morn
Ing air sweep into the rtufty
Soona.
II must battle. and call up
Aunt Agony" she thought, FOR
she was practical in most things.
s'And someone ought to wire
Babs' folks about her."
She heard Baba mention q fam.
lily several times, and she had
heard her speak Of Dakota farm
where two old aunts OF hers
lived. But she had no idea Just
how to reach them. Perhaps the
main library at home knew Babs'
permanent address. She must
telephone ana find out.
But she didn't move.
No VIII TO Act.
She seemed TO have no power
to set up and do anything. Her
whole mind seemed to have room
for nothing but her thought OF
Ranny, and presently she found
herself out In the air, on her
way to the hospital where he
lay in his deathlike sleep.
She hadn't stopped even to
wash her face and hands, but
was just as she had been the
night before.
Ranny did not die.
It was written in the stars
that he should be the only one
of the is people of the fatally
injured" list who did not die.
Three days after the wreck
the head nurse at Hope Hos
pital told Peggy that he was
going to get well.
Peggy went back 10 her little
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NOu Continue

DETER backed away from Peggy
\ with q friendly little nod.
10 see him go. no one would
ever have guessed that he was
leaving the one and only woman
IN the world for him. And IL
his heart was sore and heavy
and It was-he gave no sign
of It. He even whistled q little
under his breath as he walked
almost jauntily across. the lobby
and out Of the door.
Once outside. the whtstling
stopped instantly and the jaunti-
ness went from his step. You
could see him then for what he
was, q disappointed and unhappy
bachelor, approaching middle age.
When he left her. Peggy went
slowly up the stairs and down
the long, red-carpeted corridor
70 the room he had engaged for
her.
she went IN, locked the door
behind her and stood In the
middle Of the room, staring at
the red roses woven into the rug.
She stared at them. but she
didn't see them.
She was seeing Ranny as he
lay on the hospital bed, with that
chastity pallor on his face. She
could see him lying there like q
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before he was hurt. and x !
had told him then that Ia set
one, this never would have hap.
pened to him. He was running
away with Babs to force me 70
divorce him, don't you ser
silently Mother Phelps nodded
her head.
aThe only thing ! can't under.
stand Is why he never checked
out of the Antlers Hotel" Peggy
went on, putting her brush and
comb into her suitcaBes Els
bags are still there. 70 Peter
tells me-
Il suppose he went away with
that woman on the spur Of the
moment. That's the way he al
ways does things. Z Mother Phelps
unused. Hes always been like
tl1at-aII his life. When ne was
little boy he'd be playing
marbles Ia the hack yard one min
ute. and the next time ] looked
out Of the window he'd b. half.
way down the street. carrying
his baseball bal. =
Peggy didn't answer. She had =
sudden vision of Rantly 90
dirty, grubby little boy, playing
marbles and baseball. and sud-
den tears welled up into her
eyes. She could feel them, warm
In her throat, too.
s'I mustn't DO thia! she
thought, and when she looked up
from her packing her eyes were
dry again and her face stony.
Face Of Marble
That was the way she went
through the next four weeks
dry.eyed and hard.lipped. The.
gentle look that had given her
face its greatest charm was gone.
II was like face that Il chs
eled ont OF marble, almost.
Aunt Agony heard her crying
one night, went to her door, and
found it locked. She tipt0od back
20 her own bed, and had q hard
time falling asleep. The sound Of
that broken-ll earted crying seemed
TO echo ia her ears the rest Of
the night.
But in the morning Peggy came
down to breakfast looking as cold
as ever. When she tried to
smile as she said good morning,
the snliIG made her face look
more unhappy than before.
s'I.ve got TO get my plano out
OF the Little White House." she
said that morning. "Ic I'm going
to give music lessons again I'll
have TO have 1t. You see about
it, will you. please? / don't want
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i. LITERATURE. Which ancient
drama IL the finest gem Of Indian
literature?
2. HISTORY. whc discovered
the North Polel
8. GEOGRAPHY. What percent.
age of the sugar consumed in the
United States is produced from
beets?
4. BUSINESS. which are the
three chief financial problems con-
fronting the French government =?
s. MANKIND. How many homes
in the United States are equipped
for electrical service?
8. HUMAN NATURE. At what
age are boys prone to leave
home?
Z. GENERAL SCIENCE. Which
is the most injurious part OF the
highway for auto tires?
8. LAW. What is the purpose
of the model code Of criminal
procedure now being drafted by
the American Law Institute?
Q. CIVICS. Does the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution OF
the United States give negroes
the right to vote?
10. ART. Why did he Germans
erect @ magnificent monument to
Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen?
IL. MUSIC. Which Austrian COM
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TO THE
LOVELORN
3y Beatrice Fairfax
Tell Her the Truth
~Rvae ~nxxsssys A@r.

FEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
~ ! am . young man OF 70, and
for almost four years have been
going about, although not stead
lily, with q young woman OF 81.
She il good.natured, good look
ing, and everything one could ex-
pect a girl to be. She tells me
she loves me more than any one
else in the world, and I am con-
WINGED that she does.
All this time have been TAX.
ing her out more or less as q
friend, and have also gone about
with other girls. She has given
nae hints that she expects me
very soon to ask her to be my
wife. Although like her very
much cannot love her enough to
marry her. She would have . fit
IL told her this.
Shall tell her that / do not
love her enough to marry her?
Or shall I keep on going about
with other girls and gradually
drop her? A.
Since your friend has swallowed
her pride to the extent of teAing
you that she loves you more t9an
any one else, IN. face OF the 1act
that you and she have been going
about only as friends and you
have gone also with other girls,
I thing she IL not so sensitive
but that she will survive your
telling her the truth frankly.
Let her know in plain words
that while you value her friend
ship you are not in love with her
and do not care to devote your
self to her more than to- any
other of several girls IN your
circle of friends. If this plain
talk offends her all you can do
is to cease going about with her
altogether. A girl who takes the
initiative in making love to a
man must be prepared for frank,
direct truth from him.
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Test Your knowledge With
Times Daily Dozen
BY w. A. Wilbert, M. A.

poser was tho first great secular
IL. HEALTH. what Is d good
mosquito repellent Tor human
beings.
Answers to Yesterdays Questions
/. LITERATURE. The Book Of
Proverbs In the Bible Is generally
ascribed to King Solomon,
2. HISTORY. Alfred the Great
IL believed to be the founder OF
3. GEOGRAPHY. The great
rivers of the world drain into the
Atlantic Ocean.
4. BUSINESS. Group insur'
ance is less expensive than other
forms Of insurance and all the ap-
plicants under this plan are &C
cepted without physical exarnina-
ton.
6. MANKIND. True progress
depends upon 81 conquest Of ma
ture; ca good government and
social institutions; go opportuut-
ties for personal development.
8. HUMAN NATURE. "Amerl'
can schools should give instruc'
ton and training In health; occu.
pationa, the profitable use OF
leisure time, the formation OF
right ideals and habits, and c1tI'
zenship."
Z. GENERAL SCIENCE. The
corolla is that part of the flower
which IL usually spoken OF as the
petals.
8. LAW. A common carrier IL
absolved from liability for loss or
damage to the goods intrusted to
1t, il 1t can prove that the loss or
damage was occasioned by % Act
of God; (2) Act Of public enemy;
90 Act of the shipper; ca Nature
of the goods; or go Act OF law.
8. CIVICS. There are 10 mem
bers In the Cabinet Of the Presi'
dent of the United States.
10. ART. Archaeology Is the
study Of the artistic remains Of
ancient peoples.
II. MUSIC. The tuba is the
double.bass Of the brass division
Of the orchestra.
10. HEALTH Gas on the
stomach is often mistaken for
heart disease.
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dead man, barely moving the
sheet with his breathing.
She thought OF Rabs Delano.
She tried to be sorry because
Babs was dead. But she couldn't
feel any sorrow. She couldn't
feel anything.
Her brain and her soul seemed
to be merged in q passion Of
waiting. That was all she could
do-to wait! They had told her
so at the hospital. ''All you can
do IL wait. Mrs. Phelps" the
nurse had said In that hushed
voice OF hers.
Waiting ON Fate.
So there was nothing to do
but sit In this strange little room
and wait for the telephone to
ring and Cor the morning to
come.
Not bothering to take OFF her
hat and her coat, she switched
off the lights In the room and
dropped into . chair beside the
window.
She pushed back the curtain
and looked down into the main
street OF the little town, wrapped
in the stiffness of midnight.
She wondered how long it would
be before It was dawn. How
many hours must pass until she
could go TO the hospital again.
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STEEL CITY"
EXHIBIT

4 CONTRAST TO every other
A building On the grounds. the
Pittsburgh Building at the sesqui.
centennial International Exposi.
ton, in Philadelphia, win be dedi-
eatsd at appropriate exercises OF
July IS.
The structure, differing widely
IN line. color and form from the
other exposition buildings. is the
first example OF pure American
architecture since those shown at
the exposition Of decorative arts
In Paris.
The history Of the "Steel City"
Is portrayed by tableaux and mar
ratives arranged in the building.
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RARE JEWELS
OF INDIA

DARE jewels, worth more than
40 $1,000. 900, were carried more
than 5000 miles In the vest
pocket Of an ordinary sack suit
from India to the sesquicsnten'
NAL international Exposition, in
Philadelphia
The gems are part Of the ex-
hibit In the India Pavilion, which
ia a replica Of. the Tai Mahal.
The bearer Of the jewels was ac-
companied to the exposition by
five native servants. who remain
ed with their master day ma
night, armed with ancient Indian
weapons and modern pistols.
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FASCINATING
FRUIT

NNEE Bureau Of Plant Industry
Il of the United States Govern
ment has installed q fruit exhibit
In the Palace of Agriculture at
the Sesquicentennial international
Exposition, in Philadelphia, that
is so realistic and life-like that at
tendants are forced to prove to
visitors the fruits are made OF
wax.
The exhibit shows every known
variety of apple and other fruits,
colored by artists Of the bureau IN
WashiF.4teH,
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Read This First

PEGGY STAR RANDALL PHELPS for year
when him, because he's fallen in love with ner
ehun, SHIRLEY. -.
Peggy gives him the great satisfaction Of hcr
AUNT AGONY, maid who reared AUNT agony
Peggy PETER ILK the baneior Dnes o.
friend that hanny never
be faithful and considers tesy Wen aa q ~
opinion correct Tor sulgeIy
Of marries Peggy after ALI But their married NE
hates 90 DC
be love affairs in rapid succession usually With PsgEs
CANDLES Peggy
music keep the home together: -, -.
bay FANNY that she has nervous breakdown
ar he couldn't But he persuades her that
another
and they buy the Little White
months
friend OF PeggyH 3ABS DE
T.aN In night
think things He packs
that he
time making her mind
Little White House to pack
Clothes winter sleet storm
ont way back Peter WIKI gives them lift.