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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
TEXASSCHOOL
USESFORDSON
State Institution Gets
Expert Teachers of
Ford Plant

Cooperating with the State Board
Of Vocational Education of Texas,
the St~ephenviile Chamber of Com
meree. and Tsrleton College, the
Ford Motor Company, Dallas branch.
assisted materially in the success Of
a recent Part Time Machinery and
Agricultural School at Stephenville.
approximately one hundred farmers
and farm hands were enrolled in the
classes studying modern methods IN
the use Of farm machinery.
A. crew Of specialists in the use OF
the FoTdson branch 10 show how OPP
erations should be conducted in the
most economical manner.
The purpose Of the school, accord
ing to Mr.. Mustard, in charge Of the
Fordson units, was not to sell, but
to teach the best way in which the
different machines offered for sale
by the company should be operated.
A number Of nationally known
manufacturers Of farm machinery
furnished the implements used at
the school together with men fam
liar with their use as instructors.
The school was divided into q
number Of divisions each Of which
covered some particular phase Of
farm operation or system. The ma
chinery course included divisions OF
field operations with instructions in
handling the tractors and machinery,
followed by actual field work in
breaking land, bedding and planting.
A large field, heavily turfed, was Sc
lected and turned. narrowed, bedded,
and planted by the farm boys them
selves.
Another division was devoted TO
the care and upkeep of machinery,
Instructions were given in taking
down and r~eassembling the various
units of farm machinery. Lessons in
repairing also were given.
A class in auto mechanics was in
cluded. Under the supervision OF
trained re~pairmen, motors OF tract.
ors and of passenger cars were over
hauled and repairs made. This Is ex'
pected 20 prove Of advantage 70 the
| farmer owning either n tractor oil
an automobile, enabling him to make
minor repairs without losing time OF
undergoing the expense Of taking
his equipment to q garage.
Two tractor-powered feed mills
were in operation, to which the
surrounding farmers brought wagon
loads Of corn, maize, cane, and other
feeds for grinding. Instruction:
were given in grinding and mixing
this feed for dairy and poultry use
with explanations on balanced ia
| tions and the various kinds Of feeds
Demonstrations in insect contro'
attracted much interest, owing t
the presence Of the boil weevil, boil
worm, and leaf worm In nearby ter
ritory. To show the value Of dust
ing, demonstrations were given viii
both motor and hand-powered ma
| chimes.
Glasses in terracing TO preven'
erosion, in animal husbandry, il
feeding. judging and sanitation, were
also held.
This school was the first Of thu
kind attempted in western Texas
Because Of the interest shown, man,
others are being planned for the
coming year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
Prince Didn't Know
His Own Mas Place

LONDON RD-"Ma's Place" might
indicate any on Of a number o,
places in America-the kitchen, an
old farm home, q restaurant-sny
place. In London, however, MAS
Place" indicates only one thing. and
that is one Of the largest hospitals
in EnEland's metropolis. And the
ana" OF the combination is no less
a person than Her Majesty, Queen
Mary.
This is brought out in a biography
Of Britain's queen written by Kath-
leen Woodward. just published. The
hospital took its title, according to
Miss Woodward. from a converse
tion between Will Thorne, Labor VI
p. for Plainstow, and the Prince Of
Wales at q dinner where Lady Astor
was hostess.
Thorne turned to the Prince and
said, 81 have just come from visit
ing my daughter in the hospital"
"Oh, I'm sorry" said the prince.
what hospital Is she in?"
Thorne stared incredulously.
(which place? Why, your mas place,
Of course"
Throughout London the hospital
remains known as MAS Place"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
Daughter Of Aviator
Takes to Air i'm Bag

BERLIN R-Margarets Baumsnrt.
daughter Of a German war ace, has
gone back 20 the very beginnings Of
aviation and has taken 20 the sky in
a balloon borne upward ~ hot air.
She called her balloon "Montgol-
fiere," after a balloon Of similar ma
ture in which back in 1883, the
brothers. Stephen and Joseph Mont
golfiere, assembled in Annonay,
France. Since then. Fraeuiein Baum
cart claims. nobody has repeated the
pertinent.
A special iron stove vas CONSTRUCT
ed for the new "Montgolfiere.v in
which straw and wood were set on
fire. The hea; was let into the bal
loon. and as soon as the "Montgol-
fiere" was filled Fraeulein Baumrart
took her place in the gondolA and
started off.
She rose 70 a height Of about $50
feet. Then. as the balloon began to
cool off. she descended slowly, reach
ing the earth three minutes later
several hundred feet away from
where she started.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
u. s. TRUCKS
USED IN EAST
Dodge Man Finds u.
5. Cars Dominate
Market

DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 8.-Suther-
Hand Pileh, representative Of Dodge
Brothers, Inc, In the Near and Far
East, has just returned 10 the home
office after a years trip of nearly
10000 miles. Mr.. Pilch visited prac-
tically every city of commercial i'm
portance in Egypt. Palestin, Persia,
India, Siam, Indo-China. Malay States,
China, Japan and the Philippines,
studying the conditions under which
motor ears and trucks, particularly
those manufactured by Dodge Broth
ers, are being marketed.
American made automobiles and
trucks predominant in the countries
visited by Mr.. Pilch, he says, almost
to the exclusion Of those manufac-
tured elsewhere. He reports that the
meyket for American made vehicles
Is expanding rapidly in India, al
though the British, Italian and
French manufacturers are making
strenuous efforts to regain their one
time supremacy which has been prac-
tically wrested from them by the
United States.
Trucks manufactured in America
enjoy q practical monopoly in India,
Mr.. Pilch states, except for govern
snent and municipal use. CAS- India
Is governed by England il is only
natural that British trucks are used
by the government he says. How
ever, American trucks even have a
foothold in this fisld, the mail con
tract In Bombay being serviced BY
Dodge Brothers and Graham Brothers
vehicles"
Returning to the United States Mr..
Pilch visited Hong Kong and shang-
hal where all business is at q stand
still because Of the civil war that has
been raging in China for months.
China has Just imposed a 80 per cent
import duty which. Mr.. Pilch reports,
will undoubtedly still further reduce
motor imports 70 this market.
In Japan Mr.. Pilch found automo-
bile sales comparatively good de-
spite the recent financial crisis. The
splendid new roads that have been
built from Kobi TO Osaka and from
Yokohama 10 Tokia. coupled with
other ambitious road Developments
now in progress. should make this
market for United States cars and
trucks well worthy of intensified
sales efforts, he says.
The work Of the American Finan-
cial Mission in Persia, under the di-
rection OF DR.. Millspaugh. and the
recent arrival in that country Of an
American roads engineer to take
charge Of the development Of roads
FOR the Persian Government will in
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
Germany Licenses
Woman Air Pilot

longer Germany's only Styling
Fraulein." Miss Marguerite Won
Etzdorf Of Berlin has just gained
her first pilots certificates at the
Stalker Flying School, and intends
making a speciality OF advertising air
stunts.
Flying Is the only Job with any
prospects for women" Fraulein Won
Ttzdorf says. There Is not that
terrible competition that makes II
80 difficult for women 10 earn a
living"
The new German aviatrix. who Is
about 20. took the first opportunity
TO enter the Stalker school from
which she qualified in four months.
"Piloting airplRnes calls for GER
tain faculties witch are hardly TOM
non in women generally" she said.
But all my family love flying and
] find ! am thoroughly suited to IL. ["
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
CAR EMBLEMS
APPROPRIATE
Franklin Lion Is Sym.
bolic of Valor and
Value

Manufacturers have ever sought
appropriate embIems for their com.
moditions. No emblem has ever sig
nified so close a relation to the pro-
duct as does the Franklin Lion on
the Airman ar, II. II. Franklin,
President of the Franklin Auto
mobile Company Of Syracuse, New
York, points out.
Six hundred years before the time
Of Moses, the lion became one of the
prominent gods Of Babylon and down
through the ages it has grown uni,
yersally TO signify strength, endu.
rance and fearlessness.
And the emblem has particular
significance to the Franklin family.
1t is related that when the feudaI
lords and seigneurs Of old France
swept down 10 the Sea Of Marmora
with the hold armies Of the Cru.
sades, each knight bore painted up
on his shield q heraldic device, later
surmounting this with the turban OF
the first infidel he slew, ard still
later affixing above the turban OF
its representation, crest-some.
times in the shape of a spiked he'll
met, sometimes In the shape Of a
unicorn, and sometimes in the shape
Of a lion.
The FARMLAND or Franklin knights
chose the lion. And that lion faith.
fully reproduced by Eleb Derujinsky,
noted animal sculptor, sits on the
forepeak Of the Franklin hood. II
you look at 1t closely, you will dis
cover that its base is n small cir
cular plaque with straited edges. re-
plea Of the turban Of a Turk 900
years dead. who passed 70 his Mos
lem paradies when the Gsscons and
Franks Of Hugo de Vermandois
swarmed beneath the turreted walls
Of Canstantinopie, shouting "God
wills it,"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
Dog Racing Craze
Captures England

LONDON Pf-England has gone
crazy over greyhound racing. Four
new tracks opened within q week
and three more are pla ed. TN
White City track in London has an
attendance Of 100000 per week The
total attendance per week at the
eight large tracks in England is es-
timated at 100000.
Winston Churchill, Chancellor OF
the Exchequer, is wearing n broad
smile. The government benefits to
the extent of $4,000 n wees from
amusement and betting taxes. When
Mr.. Churchill compiled his budget in
April greyhound racing had not be-
gun. so the whole of the revenue is
gravy"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-09
ROLLER CRUsHEs CHILD

PORT JERvIS. y. Y. - Playing
around . garden roller, S-year-old
Agnes Kendall was badly crushed
when the machine turned oveE.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
COMMITTEE PLANS
OCCUPY LEADERS
House G. 0. P. Group Con-
tinues Study of Scheme to
Abolish Minor Boards.

The House Republican committee
on committees expects to reach
decision tomorrow on the proposal
discussed yesterday to abolish a num-
ber of minor committees which, it
was said, have met infrequently In
recent years but which have furnished
year-round jobs for a number of en-
ployes. These committees are those
on railways and canals, industrial arts
and expositions. woman suffrage, alco-
holic liquor traffic, two of the three
election committees, and consolida.
tion into one large committee of the IL
committees on expenditures in various
Government departments.
Consideration of this question pre-
vented the Republican committee
from taking up the problem of filling
vacancies that have occurred on vari-
Gus major House committees.
Before this is reached at another
meeting tomorrow. it was indicated
an effort might be made to smooth
over differences that have developed
over the selection of Representative
elect Estep of Pennsylvania to the
ways and means committee.
Some members have protested
Estep's choice on the ground that a
new member should not be assigned
to an important committee like ways
and means when older members in
point Of service are clamoring for the
post.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
D. c. HEADS AGAIN
|. HIT POWER PROJECT
Reiterate Objections to De-
veIopment on Upper Poto-
mac, Including Great Falls.

The District Commissioners today
reiterated, in communication 20 the
Federal Power Commission, their OBJ
lection to any project that might
jeopardize the water supply of the
District or the preservation and utili.
zation of the upper Potomac region
for park areas for the National Capt.
tai.
The Power Commission had referred
to the Commissioners an amendment
hled with it by the South Branch
Power Co. Of West Virginia to it's
application for a preliminary per-
NIT for water power development on
the Cacapon River and South Branch
or the Potomac, so as to enlarge the
project to include construction of
dams and powerhouses at Chain
Bridge and Great Falls.
But since the Commissioners have
not seen the plans for this project,
they were not in a position to offer
any specific objection. Their general
objection was made known to the
power commission for the reasons
stated. The views of the Commission
ers on this general subject We're re.
Gently communicated to the United
States District engineers Office in
connection with the application of the
Potomac River Corporation for the
development Of the Potomac River for
WaterpoWer.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
FOUR ARE INJURED
IN TRAFFIC M|SHAPS
Bicycle, Horse-DraWn Ve-
hicIe and Motor Truck Com
bine With Auto in Accidents.

Lot Noe, Soldiers Home Hospital,
was bruised about the face when
the bicycle he was riding collided
with a motor truck driven by John
A. Johnson, colored. Of 108 Pierce
street at North Capitol and l. streets
yesterday afternoon. Noe was given
first aid at Sibley Hospital.
William Kettle, colored. 40 years
old. of 324 Anacostia road northeast
had his leg injured when the horse
drawn vehicle he was driving was in
collision with an automobile driven
by Earl Eckloff Of 4044 Gait place
northeast on the road ner Benning
shortly before IL o'clock last night.
Kettle was taken to Casualty Hos
pital.
James Boyer, colored, % years old,
of 1916 n street was knocked down
and slightly injured by an automobile
driven by Mrs. j. E. Fichett, 1855
Newark street, as he attempted to
cross at Vermont avenue and l. street
shortly before o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon. Boyer was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital in Mrs. F'ichett's car
and treated by DIR. c. i. White for
injuries and shock.
Edward Schaney, colored. 30 years
old, of 1901 Brooks street northeast
walked against an automobile on
Deane avenue northeast at about $3.50
O'Clock last night and was injured
about the head and knees. He was
treated at Casualty Hospital by DR..
Lawrence Murphy.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
BROWN FOOT BALL SQUAD
HONORED BY ALUMNI
loyalty to and Support Of Univer-
sity Team Urged by Grads
; at Dinner Meeting.

Loyalty and support for the Brown
University foot ball team were ex-
pressed by the Washington alumni OF
that institution last evening at din
ner at the Cosmos Club. While the
season for the former iron men" was
unsatisfactory, words Of praise and
encouragement for individual players,
officials and coaches We're uttered.
Alfred Gurney, alumni secretary of
Brown, made the trip to Washington
TO address the graduates. and he re-
ported the latest news Of faculty in
creases, building operations and edu-
cational methods. He stated that the
present freshman class is the largest
in the history of the. college. Plans
were made for the appearance of the
Brown musical organizations in this
city.
Officers We're elected as follows:
President. Daniel ID. Grubbs, '26; vice
president, Mark +. Coles, '26; secre.
1ary-treasurer. +. Miles Flint, '27
executive committee, Arthur j. Sund.
lun, II; Charles r. Stark, jr.. '07;
Ernest r. Cleaveland. IA, and Daniel
G. Chace, 1900.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
POLICEMAN FINED $50.
Trial Board Penalties Williams for
Drunkenness.

Arrested on November % for driv.
Ing an automobile while intoxicated,
Policeman r. E. Williams of the sec.
ond precinct was arraigned yesterday
before the Police Trial Board and
fined $50 on the charge of being
drunk. AS he had previously paid
SIS in Police Court on the count
of reckless driving, the board con-
sidered the case as settled.
Williams was arrested following a
collision with the car of DR.. +. w
Braden. former police surgeon. on 1
street.
Policeman e. M. Taylor of the
Traffic Bureau was fined $25 by the
board for discharging his revolver
without sufficient cause. The eyi.
dence indicated that while pursuing
two colored men in the Southwest
section of the city on November II,
Taylor fired his revolver into the air
in an attempt to frighten them into
stopping.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
EARLY COMPLETION .
OF ROAD IS SOUGHT.
Special Session Here Tomor-
row to Plan Canada
Panama Highway.

Plans for the early completion of
an international highway extending
from Canada to Panama, and possibly
into South America, will be pushed
forward tomorrow, when the execu-
tive committee of the American Road
Builders Association convenes here
for a special session.
The committee will make specific
plans for the good roads conference
to be held in Cleveland from January
8 to 13. One of the main features to
be discussed will be special session
of road officials from South American
countries, who will determine the
feasibility of the proposed interna-
tional highway.
AT the meeting tomorrow will be
Charles M. Babcock, chairman of the
Minnesota State Highway Commits
sion and president of the road associa-
ton; S. +. Beatty, vice president, of
Chicago; c. NJ. Connell, past president,
Philadelphia, and Frederick Reimer.
East Orange, n. J. Other officials of
the worlds largest good roads or
ganization who will be present at the
sessions and who are not members OF
the committee are the following:
Charles M. Upham, managing di.
rector of the associations; Bertram
Wait, New York City, William Ogden,
Chicago; Col. r. Keith Compton,
Richmond; John E. Tate, Richmond;
III. X. Bishop, chief of construction of
the United States Bureau of Public
Roads, and Paul l.. Griffiths. Pitts
burgh.
The meeting is expected to ma.
terialize considerably the intangible
plans for an international highway
connecting the nations of North and
South America. Several nations have
accepted invitations to send
delegates to the January conference
at Cleveland. twenty-five thousand
will attend.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
Residence Nuisance.
CHARGES Discrimination
Trade Board Notifies New Orleans
Grocers' Association. {

The Federal Trade Commission yes
terday ordered the Wholesale Gro
GERS Association of New Orleans ana
It's members to discontinue attempts
TO lessen competition by discrimina-
ton against non-members.
Members Of the association were
said by the commission to have com.
pined to force their own system Of
distribution on non-members and
manufacturers, which the commission
held In violation Of the Federal TRADE
Commission acr.
The association, the complaint said,
opposed the distribution of goods di.
rectly from the manufacturer to the
retailer. and attempted ''by boycott
and other means of intimidation and
coercion to compel manufacturers and
producers to sell their groceries and I
products only to wholesale Dealers.
Evening star., 1927-12-02
COMPULSORY HEAT
FOR TENANTS SEEN
Fowler to Ask Law Requir-
ing Apartment Landlords
to Give Service.

Primarily as a health measure, DR..
William c. Fowler. District health OIL
Ger, proposes to ask legislation requir-
ing all apartments and boarding
houses in the District to furnish heat
with other service to tenants during
cold weather.
The health department also is con-
sIdering an amendment to the anti.
smoke nuisance law. to regulate the
smoke nuisance in private residences
winch are now exempt from regula.
ton.
There is no law in the District COM
pelllng landlord to maintain heat
at a temperature commensurate with
the demands of health, DIR. Fowler
said, with the result that scores of
complaints are being received from
tenants. Powerless to intervene In
the absence of such a law, DIR. Fowler
explained that all he can do in certain
cases Is to appeal personally to the
landlord on the ground of health pre-
caution. Sometimes such appeals are
eHectlve and in other cases they are
ignored.
Test Case Made.
During tn influenza epidemic at the
time of the World War, the Health
department made test case in the
uStIlcI court which resulted in a court
order requiring the tenant in the case
TO furnish heat. That decision. how.
ever, DR.. Fowler explained, was re-
sarded as an emergency order and is
not binding at the present time.
Ine anti-smoke law besides EXEMPT.
ng buildings used exclusively for pri-
Vate residences, also exempts stear,
shovels, roundhouses and locomotives
entering and leaving Union Station.
In the opinion of DIR. Fowler, all these
should be included.
Residence Nuisance. =.
Since the introduction of bituminous
,oal DIR. Fowler said, the private resi-.
iences form perhaps the greatest nui.
'ance. The present law regulates the
of smoke from stationery en-.
;Iines,. but does not pertain to steam
novels and similar appliances used
requently in the downtown sections.
dore than one builder has changed to
oke or hard coal at the suggestion of
he health department, but as in the
ase OF apartment house. wrongs. DIR.
'ow!er is unable to issue any health
equation.
Evening star., 1927-12-02

satisfaction in making purchases in
a small crowd than in a dense one, )"
he said. ''Then again by distributing
the shopping period over a longer
space of time the physical and mental
strain on the employees in the business
establishments would be correspond
ingly lessened.
This action Of the merchants in
Washington, presenting their COM
plete holiday merchandise lines late
in the month of November, enables
the purchaser to do his or her shop
ping with more ease and comfort and
at the same time lessons the danger
which may result from minGling in
densely crowded places" said Dr..
Fowler.