Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-30
i'm OUR
VAL.L.ElY

respond TO Red Cross requests for
funds for relief.
San Angelo, for example, is q con
sidersbIy larger town than Browns
willie.
That city was given q quota Or
$500 and few days ago was still
having some difficulty in reaching
IL.
Brownsville had a quota Of S400,
and has raised more than double
the amount, with considerably less
effort.
Houston and San Antonio. each
ith az least forty per cent more
opulation than the Valley, are hav-
ng difficulty in raising their quotas.
ct yet having raised half the
mounts called for.
Tho HarIingen radio station sent
ut IN appeal over the Valley and
esponses brought a thousand dol
iars or more.
Pharr raised over $500.
San Benito more than $500
Other communities have not been
heard from, but IL is safe to say the
Valley hes raised some $4,000 or
more.
JACK BINNS, the famous wireless
operator, has = column in Golfers
Weekly.
In the issue Of October s. he car
ries some comment on radio station
KWWG Of Brownsville, and It's Coat
hangers club.
Here is what he has 20 say:
''lt may be difficult for most
artists to put a joke over the radio
so that it clicks properly in the ma
jority of the loud speakers, but
down IN Brownsville they have a
team that Is registering regularly
They call II the Coat Hangers club
why, ! do not know. The charter
members and officiating officers are
Bob Crabb and Jack Dedmon, the
jokesters, who are assisted by Okla
h ~ Bob and Tom Barber. the mu-
81 geniuses of the club. Every
Va hesday at midnight these boys
betake themselves to tho roof of Fl
Jsrdln hotel where the studio Of
KWWG is located, end for three
hours they entertain the night owls
of the Western Hemisphere and
parts Of the Far East. too.
LHE ENTHUSIASTIC residents
Of Brownsville will tell you that
KWWG j. the southernmoEt radio
station in the United States, but I
should be afraid to mention this lest
the boys down in Florida come down
on my neck like a ton of bricks.
Moreover, I am a peaceful citizen.
and this is not my fight. anyhow
am merely here to tell you that
IL all the nonresident members Of
the Coat Hangers club are paying
dues the four boys will soon be
able to make frequent trips across
the Eio Grande.
NOW, THERE is nothing start
ling about the clubs programs, but
the spirit in which they are given
has won a host Of friends among
the night-loying listeners. Tom is
quite q ballad singer and strums a
guitar as accompaniment. Oklahoma
Bob is an expert with the mouth
organ. These two get going with
college songs and cowboy ditties,
and then are followed BY the two
jokesmiths. II you have any doubt
about the line cf patter goirg ever.
YOU should see the mountain az mail
} that comes to them.
4 SOME TINE when you are jaded,
NJ sleepless. and have the urge for dis
nee, fiddle around the 277.6 meter
ting of your radio set in an effort
pick up the station whose call
etters, KWWG, invite you 10 "kome
TO the Worlds Winter Garden" The
u resulting program will soon take
the jagged edge of your fatigue"
TOTAL RAINFALL for September.
ns recorded in Brownsville by Unit
ed States weather bureau, was s.91
inches.
Which has given the ground the
best seasoning that II has had in
many months.
Now clear weather.
That is the need just now 10 give
farmers in the Valley an emporium
ity to get their fall crops going.
Clear weather Saturday, the first
OF its kind in weeks.
With indications that IL will con
tine for some days at least.
Though. Of course. one can never
tell.
INFORMATION-unofficial. which
has reached &. A. Leake. chief clerk
Of the railway mail service for
South Texas. indicates that Mexico
plans establishment Of air mail ser
vice between Tampieo and Mata-
moroH-
That would he an extension Of the
Mexico City-Tampico service, which
Il now operating.
And would give direct communica-
tion BY air from Brownsville 20
Mexico City.
The Laredo-Mexico City route will
open Monday. It will carry mails
from Chicago to San Antonio. thence
on to Laredo and Mexico.
The Washington-New Orleans
Houston service has no been estab-
shed.
Perhaps Il is awaiting the opening
a coast route via Brownsville to
xico City
hat Is the belief III some in close
ch vith air mail matters here.
VALLEY GREEN LEMONS are on
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