Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-11
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EACH PURCHASE Of a bottle Of
smuggled liquor is encouragement TO
the smuggler who brought it across
the line.
He il encouraged to continue the
practice.
He makes a living at IL, or mere
than a living.
Then an officer appears on the
scene. The smugE.er IS caught he
sees months or years in prison. His
source of revenue cut off. His free
dom threatened.
The officer shouts Hands upi"
The reply comes through the bar
rel Of a pistol.
The smuggleT. hoping to escape
across the Rio Grande loses no time
in defending himself.
That's how Horace Johnson, deputy
sheriff of HarIingen, met an untimely
end.
Horace johnson had a reputation
az fearless officer. He was a pop
ular officer.
zens paid him homage Sunday when
they participated in perhaps the
largest funeral ever seer in the Val
ley.
UP IN NORTH TEXAS. in the
Dallas section. cotton Is generally
about two inches high.
Moving south. toward the Valley
the traveller is impressed with the
variation in climate and season.
AS the traveller moves the cotton
becomes taller and taller. until in
the Valley it is found in mature
stage. in blossom and in boil.
Another month. ard with more IA
vorable weather conditions than has
existed in some sections of the Val
ley. a record-breaking cotton crop
will be moving.
THE VALLEY obtains recognition
in tie Saturday Evening Post.
In one Of Will Rogers diplomatic
letters to President Calvin c. Cool
idge.
Deals with his trip last winter to
Mexico City.
Mentions Brownsville several times
rs his border crossing point and the
fact that it was here he had lunch
? cen.
"My Dear Mr.. Coolidge: Well. here
am on my way back home. Just
flew in from Mexico City. And, say,
don't overlook this Valley down here
on the Rio Grande that | flew over
today. Why. never saw as much
junk raised on one little plot in my
life. That wouldn't be a bad place
to tell your friends TO drop a little
investment. Mellon mas saved up
most Of his salary there. and IL he
will just stick il anywhere down here
in Texas it will fix him so he won't
have 10 argue with Couzens and
congress all his life
ON THE PRINCIPLE Of II don't
care what YOU say about me in your
paper. Just so YOU mention my name,
the following. from the same issue
Of the Saturday Evening Post. also
mentioning Brownsville. is being re-
printed.
IL is an excerpt from an article on
radio reception and programs Il have
met"
Here tbs:
Il once. 10 be completely candid
heard Brownsville, zeAas-that is,
knew ii was Brownsville. was
gambling on long distance reception;
il was necessary to identify both the
call letters and the location, and
had heard only part Of the latter.
"Well, in Brownsville there was a
club in progress coat-hanging
club. it seemed: anv number OF
Jacks and Neslevs were being inter
rogated and invited to hang up their
coats-to come right in. II was evil
IDENTIFY hot in Texas. but in Pennsyl-
vania. in winter. was hotter.
could have roconciled myself 70 mu-
sic. survived a lecture. but coat
hangers club"
Anyhow. he mentioned Brownsville
by name. That was worth something
OVER IN the potato growing sec
tions Of Virginia and the Carolinas
they are Worrying about the low
prices received for potatoes.
They held a meeting and evolved
a plan.
They talked in words which potato
growers of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley OF Texas understand.
Here is their plan:
Secure the cooperaticn Of the grow
ers and the shippers to the end that
the potatoes will oe marketed 50
that all No. POTATOES will be al
lowed to rot in the fields.
That shipments will be restricted
70 an (. o. b. sales basis rather than
on consignment and that minimum
prices are going TO be suggested By
pricing committee.
This plan was agreed 10 by grow
ers and shippers controlling $4,000
carloads Of potatoes, or IS per cent