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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-29

ever produced in the Southwest. has
turned literary in a valorous effort
to salvage a few dollars from the
game he loved-the game that made
a broken old man of him at an age
when he would have been ut his
zenith in any other career.
Half-blind and a wreck Of the ring
terror that fans Of the Southwest
once idolized, the game little battler
Of a decade ago has devoted an en-
tire year TO the preparation Of his
ring memoirs. The fruits Of his
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-29
Newspaper Buys
Motor Trucks for
Delivery Service

Because of the growing need Of
speed, the Chicago Tribune has sold
its last delivery horses used in the
downtown streets.
at was deemed no longer safe TO
use them because of the crush Of
traffic" said a sales report.
Detroit automobile men noted with
interest the passing Of the last horse
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-29
PATIENCE

4 partv Of Fl~orida-bound tourists
- ~ Alabama detour came 70 q ford
II ! flooded creek. In the middle o.
the stream was a battered car, with
water flowing wei its floor and a
family sitting in apparent content
Your engine drowned?" asked the
tourists.
yep" said one Of the home folks
placidly. ..,-
How are you going TO get outE
well, it looks like the rains over:
Creek will go down in a couple OF
hours or SOL"
She. Indignantly: "Sir, where y
your chivalry? p
He, proudly: Traded It IN on this
Snappy Ski"
why does the price Of gasoline
keep going up?" demanded a fussy
customer at the filling station.
Il really can't say, lady. but maybe
it's getting scarcer since everybody
started using these patent cigarette
lighters"
UNCLE EB. HE SAYS
The absent-minded professor down
the street has sold his old horse and
bought a car at last. | saw him yes
terday trying to polish it with a curry
comb.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-29
Hoo-Dye Shock
Absorbers to be
Sold By bennett

The bennett Motor Sales company
have been appointed exclusive sales
and service agents for Hoo-Dye Hy-
draulic shock disorders in Cameron
county, according TO Jesse bennett,
head Of the local firm.
Hoo-Dye hydraulic shock absorb
ers have long been sold in this local
ity through a San Antonio agency but
there has never been any service ia
c~ilities here, bennett stated.
"Hoo-Dyes have rapidly assembled
the ladder of fame in the sutomo-
bile assessory field and are now fac
tory equipment on Lincoln, Pierce
Arrow. Rolls Royce. the new Ford
and many others" he said. "snd in
fact they are standard equipment on
every stock a in America selling
Cor over $1,000"
bennett will carry 4 stock Of Hoo
Dyes and parts for all cars
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Broken Ring Ace
Writing Book To
Help In Old Age

DALLAS, Tex. July 2s.-CP-Bob-
by Waugh, held by many critics to
have been the greatest little ringman
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-29

JOY RIDE TRAGEDY
HARRINGTON. Ill.-Herman Cur
it's. father OF four children. and Miss
Edna Palm were killed on a JOY ride
when their auto was wrecked.
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Motor Vehicles
Registered III
Over Last Year

There are TIL more licensed motor
vehicles in Cameron county now than
there was at a similar date last year,
figures in the office Of Tax Collector
J.. j. Fox revealed this week. Ii
censed vehicles of all classifications
totaled 12,674 against 1903 last
year.
Present ~listinEs include: Pleasure
cars. 1882; trucks, 2,37S; motor
buses los; tractors 4; trailers IS;
and motorcycles "a.
Even date figures OF last years
show that pleasure vehicles have
gained 5l2 and total year figures
show a gain Of PA.
Comparative figures on trucks
show a gain of SIS over even date Of
last year and $50 over total year fig
ures.
Motor buses last year numbered
135 against los so far this year. This
is a decrease Of so. A decrease OF
IS is found in comparison OF even
date figures.
Trailers have increased 27 over last
year. Even date figures Of 9S and 65
revealed a gain Of 33.
There are p motor cycles now in
comparison 70 255 az an even date
last year. Total last years figures
were %.
Transfers so far this year num-
Der 1886.
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Boyd's Estimate
OF Valley Cotton
Crop Near Yield
Especial 70 The Herald

AENNLAAA ~ ~ ANAI%1
Il SAN BENITO Oct. 6.-H. p. Boyd.
vice-president of the Valley Gin
and cotton prognosticstorg
extraordinary, who hasn't missed /;
guess on the cotton crop Of the Val
lev ~ more than a few bales in many
seasons IL going to be just about eX-
actly right in his guess at the begin
ming Of this season. as shown by the
latest available figures.
These figures. compiled by the Of
fieials Of the Valley Gin company.
show that approximately $4,000 bales
OF cotton have been ginned in the
four counties 70 date
Mr.. Boyd's estimate az the begin
ming Of the cotton shipping season
was $4,000 to 10000. his guess finally
placing 10000 as the outside maxi
mum. There remains 500 to 1000
bales of cotton to be picked in the
Valley. is is estimated, which will
put the local man very little of on
Mr.. BOYD Saturday afternoon. Is
tirated the crop Of the Valley as Of
October /, for purposes OF compari-
son with official government report
nc the crop 10 that date. in order 20
check the accuracy of his figures on
ginninrs so far in the Valley.
His figures show $1,000 bales q
cotton ginned TO October ], this
amount being distributed among the
four Valley counties, according e
Mr.. Boyd's figures, rs follows; Hi
dalro county. 40.s29 bales; Cameron
county. $4,000; Starr county, 1858;
Willacy, 1905.
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disposition to close out long con-
tracts for over the weekend and
the approaching crop report was
probably increased by the relatively
easy showing of Liverpool and re-
ports of favorable weather over the
greater part Of the South. The de-
cline brought in a considerable vol
ume of trade buying and covering.
however. and prices held fairly
steady during the middle Of the
morning. easing slightly in the late
trading under continued liquida-
ton combined with a little more
Southern selling.
Closing prices were the lowest OF
the day with December at 1872,
showing a decline Of 10 points from
the high price of last Monday. Two
more private crop reports were is
sued, n of them making the con-
dition 54.5 and the indicated crop
14,175,000 bales compared with an
estimate Of 100000 bales a month
ago. The other placed the condition
at 53-S and the indicated yield at
1922. 900 bales compared with H.
1866 600 a wear ago.
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N. Y.COTTON
CLOSES down
December Shows Drop
Of 20 Points Over
Week Trading

NEW YORK. Oct. t.-tP-The
cotton market was lower today un-
der further liquidation O. Ing ac-
counts in preparation of Mondays
government report. Trade buying
and covering on scale down orders
was in sufficient volume to hold
prices fairly steady arotnd the
is 3-4c level during the greater
part Of the morning. but a little
more Southern hedging was report
ed in the last half hour and De-
cember sold off to 1872 n the
late trading with the close barely
steady at net declines Of 4 TO IL
points.
The market opened steady At an
advance Of l point to a decline Of
. points and soon showed net osses
of 1 to 7 points with October SELL
ing off TO 1881 and March to 1856
under realizing or liquidation. The
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THOMAS GIVEN
VALLEY DATES
Will Deliver Series OF
Hoover Talks On
Oct. Is to 20

II. Bascom Thomas has been as
signed by Anti-Smith democratic
headquarters at Houston to spend
the week from Oct. is to 20 speak
ing in the fifteenth congressional
district, DR.. S. X. Hallam, Valley
chairman, was notified late Saturday
by Alvin S. Moody.
An itinerary for the week is TO be
worked out by DR.. Hallam in CO.
operation with E. B. Ward of Corpus
Christi. joint chairmen for the dis
trict, and will be announced as soon
as possible.
Thomas had been booked 10 speak
in Harlingen on Friday, Oct. y, DR..
Hallam said. but under the new
schedule a substitute date will be ar
ranged.
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Increased Yield
Of Citrus Seen
Result of Rains
Especial to The Heraldl

SAN BENITo. Oct. e.-The pre-
diction that the delay in ~ripening
of citrus fruit in this section, caus-
ed by the heavy rains Of Septem-
Der, will increase the yield by 25
per cent due 10 the increased size
Of the fruit. was made here Satur-
day afternoon by r. c. Whittlesey.
field manager for the Texas Citrus
Fruit Growers Exchange.
Mr.. Whittlesey said that the plant
Of the Exchange here probably will
be opened by October 20. The Ex-
change has made arrangements 70
handle any fruit OF its members that
ripens before that time through its
other plants.
Frank Allen. who has been in
charge of the operation of other
plants Of the Exchange, will be man.
ager Of the plant here.
Some Of the machinery for the
local plant is already on hand, and
practically all OF il will be here
within g few days. and will be in
installed as the building ia finished
The steel work on the structure is
completed, and the floor and walls
are being finished now.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-07
STOCKS Co Up
IRRECULARLY
Heavy Buying of Auto
motive Shares Is
Days Feature
BY STANLEY w. PRENOSIL
ASSOCIATED Press Financial Editor)

ASSOCIATED Press Financial Editor)
NEW YORK. Oct. 6.-P)-Heavy
buying Of automotive issues, several
of which advanced to new high rec
ordss featured resumption of irreg-
ulariy higher price movement in to-
days stock market. Extreme gains
in the active issues ranged from l
to nearly s points, but some OF
these were cut down by the usual
weekend profit-taking. Final quo
tations also revealed a number Of
soft spots, several Of the losses
ranging from ! to 4 points.
Trading was unusually heavy fer
2 half holiday session, With the
ticker 80 minutes late at the close.
Blocks of 5000 to $4,000 shares ap-
peared on the tape at frequent in
tervals. Powerful pools, plentifully
supplied with funds, furnished the
bulk Of the buying power. Wall
Street heard that some of the lead
ing market interests had arranged
largo loans abroad at much lower
rates of interest than those prevail
ing here, but these were not con-
firmed.
Merger rumors again played an
important part in the days proceed
ings. Concurrent strength and ac-
tivity Of the pressed steel car and
universal pipe issues, all OF which
reached new high ground. was
based on reports that a community
of interest was being established
between these two concerns and
Blaw Knox, preparatory 10 the for
nation az a huge equipment merger
which might take in the Baldwin
Locomotive company.
The Radio Corporation has ar
ranged 10 purchase an interest in
keith-Albee-Orphem Inc, presum-
ably to acquire an outlet for its
photophone device. Tho Fairchild
Aviation. United Biscpit and Safe
way Stores companies announced re-
capitalization plans. the last named
arranging for Al stock split up.
Chrysler ran up 70 n new high
record az 40 IL and then fell bach
below 139 for a slight fractiona.
loss. Hupp moved up 4 points L
a new high at 81 and Hudson
climbed nearly s points TO %. the
best price since last May, and ther
yielded slightly.
New high records for the year
we're also established by Pressed
Steer Car common and preferred
Universal Pine. General Ice Cream
McKeesport Tin Plate, SpeFel May
Stores. Eisenlohr and several 9th
ers. American Smelling and "A. VI
Byers also showed conspicuous
strength.
Selling pressure was quite effect
i've against Montgomery-Ward
American International. Lehi Val
lev. 81. Louis Southwestern anC
Pittsburgh & West Virginia all az.
2 70 4 points.
Time money and commercial papei
rates held steady.
Foreign exchange trading wa.
quiet, with price movements irreg
ular.
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tn LECTURE

can BENITO. Oct. 6.-Judd Nor
.;r,e- Lewis. Houston newspaper
s~aInmnist. will lecture at the local
49, srhool auditorium October IL
h.. the auspices of the San Be
w. culture club. il was announced
Saturday.
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INSURANCE. OPPORTUNITY

Old line Life Insurance company
with over $50 million in force desires
several more Valley representatives
City real estate loans made through
agents. Send for free leaflet al
Reasons Why" IL pays TO line up with
US. Address Manager jefferson
Standard Life ms. Co., 5il East
Travis ST., San Antonio. H-l56
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TO PREACH

SAN BENITO. Oct. 6.-Rev. c. S.
Kinney. new pastor Of the First
Baptist church here. arrived Friday,
ard will preach his first regular ser.
mon at the church Sunday.
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EMPLOYMENT
Help Wanted

WOMAN for housework. Must be
experienced cook and speak English.
References required. Mrs. Wood
ward, Quarters 4s. Fort Brown.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-07

FOR SALE-Two lots in Edinburv.
three lots in San Benito; 80 lots In
Brownsville; seven lots outside
Brownsville city limits; twenty per
cen cash. balance in one, two. three
and four years; or monthly payments
IL preferred. B. l.. Hinkley, Browns
Vile. Han
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-07

BUDAPEST.-Ja Jan Dusalkz was
granted a divorce on the ground that
his wife had tried TO starve him to
death.
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REAL ESTATE
Buy or Exchange

FOR TRADE for Valley land, 800
acres in Guadalupe county, New
Mexico; l24 acres In Howell county.
y. III. Schlicht. Burlington, Okla.
Missouri. with some improvements.
J-60
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LOTS ON FRoNToN street for
trade for close in business bots.
box us, herald. ia
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REAL ESTATE
Farms For Sale

CANADA! ALBERTA Canada hard
wheat lands invite you. Grow happy
and prosperous growing wheat.
Schools. markets close. Low taxes.
Fine climate. SIS 10 $50 acre. Yields
70 40 bushels. Write. Jordan
Howey, Medicine Hat, Alberta.
J-57
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ForSale

100 acres finest quality VAL
ley citrus and truck land,
100 acres in cultivation, 4
miles from good town, quar-
ter mile Of paved road. Has
own permanent and album
dant water supply for irriga-
tion. Can install your own
pump and irrigate nc very
little cost. Only state and
county taxes. Good for sub
division.
BOX 1853, Brownsville, Tex.
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Own Your Own Home, Pay Like Rent

Own Your Own Home, Pay Like Rent
Furnished home N lot 5oxlO0 with city conveniences, built about
three years ago. painted inside and out. frame house with shinge
roof. Price $4,000. Terms $500 cash. balance $500 per month at
6 per cent interest.
New stucco o paved street, West Brownsville, all modern and well
located. Priced ut a figure lower than cost 20 construct. Cool
bedrooms. Large fireplace. Spacious living room. Handy kitchen
and breakfast room. Liberal terms. Pay like rent.
New, modern six-room brick, in fine residential part Of town.
$4,000 cash and balance like rent. Only g per cent interest.
floors throughout. Builtin bath tub. shower. all modern convent
ences. A real home in a beautiful location. Home ready to occupy.
$4,000 cash, balance less than rent.
We have many other choice offerings. Let us explain our easy
finance plan that will enable you to own a home in Riverside Park.
Brownsvilles newest restricted subdivision.
Complete Insurance, Loan and Rental Department. Very reasonable
rates. Our office offers you every service.
II you want to sell, let US help you. Before buying. consult with this
office.
Foster-Moothart Company
CRoMACK BLDG. PHONE 40.
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LAND BARGAINS-l52 acres-2s5
acres-Donna district, cultivated.
Nothing better. Priced low. Wire.
write or Gallo. III. Swallow. Alamo.
Texas. Y-22S
GRASP THIS OPPORTUNITY: Five
acres In new townsite on S. P. on
highway. Citrus soil: trees looking
good; can be sold in lots; priced for
quick sale. need the money. 400 =.
Stehger san Benito. L-sO
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Situation Wanted
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

FOR SALE: Beauty shop in best
town in the Valley. Consider car
rs first payment. Address JAS, care
of Herald. jas
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Salesmen--Agents

WANTED: Ambitious. industrious
white person to introduce and sup
ply the demand for Rawleigh
Household Products in Brownsville
and other nearby localities. Make
sales Of $50 to $500 a month or
more. Rawleigh Methods get bus
mess everywhere. No selling ex-
perience required. We supply pro-
ducts. sales and advertising litera
ture and service methods-every-
thing you need. Profits increase
every month. Lowest prices; best
values: most complete service. w
T. Rawleigh Co., Dept. TX6022.
Memphis. Tenn. I-2s3
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FOR LEASE BY OWNER: Filling
station and tourist camp in Harlin-
gen city limits on San Benito high
way. Harrington Land & Investment
Co. Moore Hotel building. J-47
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-07

MAKE $1,000 before Christmas sell
ing exclusive personal Christmas
cards; distinctive steel engraved de
signs. Expensive sample book free
Wetmore. James & Sugden, Roches
ter, N. Y. I-225
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-09
American Fights
ToFreedom From
Mexican Bandits

MEXICO CITY. Jan. e.-tPl-Ly-
man F. Barber. American mining man
whose home is in Los Angeles, has
escaped from the bandits who had
heen holding him prisoner. for ran
som ever since he was kidnapped De-
cember IL.
Barber. made desperate when he
overheard the chieftain Of the band
say that he would be killed on Tues
day unless a ransom of $4,000 was
paid. attacked his guards on Satur-
day night, overpowered and killed
four Of them with stones and bottles
for weapons.
The place from which he escaped
was a bandit camp in the mountains
in the state Of Mexico about half
days journey from Cuernavaca. He
ran most Of the way 20 Cuernavaca
and reached Mexico City last night,
i'll and exhausted from his experien-
ces.
The American embassy has inform
ed the Mexican foreign office Of the
circumstances
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-01-09
FATHER and
HOUSEKEEPER
Hid FROM MOB
Man, Woman Charge
Each Other az Slay-
er of 3-Year Old
Girl I'm Kentucky

GREENUP, KY, Jan. s.-tFt-
While approximately 1000 excited
and curious visitors from threa
states viewed the beaten and scorch-
ed body OF Mary Magdalene Pitts, q
three-year-old girl hete, somewhere
In Kentucky the child's father and
his housekeeper, secretly jailed 20
prevent mob violence. accused each
other of staying the girl.
The father, Robert Pitts, IS, said
his housekeeper killed the girl while
he was away from his farm, accord
ing 20 officers. In a still unfinished
confession he accused the woman OF
putting the child through N long
course Of torture, officers declared.
He told that she held the girl over
"a stove until its back was blistered
and scorched and then when the
wounds had partly healed, rubbed
salt and turpentine into them and
later tried twice 10 hang the child in
the barn. He declared the woman
did this, officers said. because she
feared the child's mother who had
left Pitts, might return.
Mrs. Mar ? Frazier, the housekeep-
er, who is In expectant mother, said
Pitts killed the girl because be
wants me TO hang"
The girl died last Thursday and
Pitts and the housekeeper were ar
rested later when Or. T. Morris, who
treated the child, told officers that
he found an iron poker IN the hona
which fitted a wound in the ehild's
head. He also said her internal or
gans were bruised, her entire body
was cut by switches and her stomach
contained brown spots which Inn
thought might have resulted from
pepper.
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IOWABANKEn
TOLIVE HERE
George White, Daven-
port Capitalist,
Back Soon

George White, capitalist Of Daven-
port. Ia, has severed his business
connections in that city, and will
come 10 Brownsville, where he has
spent the last two winters, to make
his home, according to information
received by friends here Monday.
During his stay here Mr.. White an
nounced that he had become SO i'm
pressed with the possibilities Of the
Valley and his investments that he
would come here to devote his en-
tire time TO them IN the near future.
Mr.. Whites first visit TO the VAL
ley was an accident. He had started
with his family on an automobile
tour 10 the South but had no desti-
nation in mind. Il suppose you are
going to the Valley" was the greet
ing he received at every filling sta
tion where he stopped to replenish
his gasoline supply. This continued
until he was convinced he was bound
for the Nalley-and SO ne came.
He owns a home in Brownsville,
acreage in FL Jardin. business prop
erty in this city and a farm near
Edinburg.
A letter received from him Monday
said he hoped to be able to leave his
home within the next few days.
The same letter contained q clip
ping from a Davenport newspaper
which told Of Mr.. Whites retirement
from the White-Phillips company,
which he was instrumental in or
ganizing 10 years ago.
He has been a resident of Daven-
port for the past 2l years, and has
been connected with the banking
business almost all his life. He be-
gan his career as q member Of the
staff Of the Commercial band, Of
Mulford. Ia, in 1897, and later re-
moved to Traer, Ia, from whence he
went to Davenport.
At the time Of his retiremcnt he
was q member OF the board Of Gov
ernors Of the Davenport Country
club, and of the board Of trustees
Of the St. Luke's hospital and the
Trinity-Episcopal church. He was
also on the board Of directors Of the
Union Trust and Savings bank, and
a member of the Rotary club.
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New Bills Seen
For Men Held In
Robbery at Cisco

EAsTLAND. Tex. Jan. 9, dad
ditional indictments charging mur-
der against Henry Helms, Marshall
Rstliff and Robert Hill, in jail here
charged with robbery by firearms OF
the First National Bank Of Cisco and
with the murder of E. Bedford,
Cisco Police chief were expected
when the grand ury reconvened here
today as q result Of the death Sat-
urday night Of G. w. Carmichael, 20
lice officer.
Carmichael. so. was shot when
bandits engaged officers in a gun
battle Immediately after the robbery
Of the Cisco bank on December %.
Bedford was killed in his tracks and
L. z Davis, one Of the four bandits,
was mortally wounded.
Charges Of robbery by firearms
stand against each of the surviving
robbers. as a result of the forcible
taking Of an automobile from Wood
row Harris, Il, of Rising Stas- Trial
Of the three men on the bank rob-
berry charge is set for January is.