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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-15
TEXAS CROPS
SAID BETTER
Combined Figures Are
Reported Over Ten
Year Average

AUSTIN, Nov. 15.-LP-Texas
crops are better this year, as a whole,
than usual, Ii. II. Schultz, federal live
stock and crop statistician, reported
today.
Combining all crops, yields per acre
have been above the 10 yea average.
Texas farmers, in many instances,
have been able to liquidate their in
debtedness, particularly in the east
ern section of the state, where diver
fication has made greater progress.
Seeding of a large acreage Of wheat
oats ana barley "A been active and
moisture conditions are generally
favorable at present. Harvest is
drawing to a close earlier han usual,
since the fall months have had a
minimum of bad weather. Prepar-
ations for next years crops have be-
gun. Live stock is in good condition
almost universally and will go into
the winter in fair to excellent shape.
Despite difficulty in getting a
stand and injury from insects. and
see-saw rain conditions, the Texas
cotton yield per acre is several
pounds above the 10 year average. A
production Of 5,150.0o0 bales was in
dicated November i. Owing to the
favorable turn in the weather after
August, less than the usual amount
Of cotton was lost and the price level
has encouraged the gathering Of much
that is wasted in other years.
Most Of the corn has been harvest
ed, with yields in some instances less
than expected. An average yield Of
21 bushels per acre Is indicated.
which is two bushels above the 10
wear average but two bushels below
that Of last year. The total crop is
expected to be 1O1. 346, 900 bushels.
An average yield Of AZ bushels of
rice Is indicated for this year against
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-15

as for 1927. The production il esti-
mated at $685. 900. Three--f-ourths
OF the crop threshed by November !
showed q 90 per rent quality COM
pared with last years 80 per cent.
Grain sorghum has done unusually
well in those counties not affected by
drought with the result that 81,
025.000 bushels equivalent production
for all purposes and not merely for
grain. are indicated against ~55,734,0O0
in 1927.
Production Of Texas peanuts viii
exceed that Of 1927 by some 7,5O0,00O
pounds, making a total yield Of IT,
100000 pounds. Yields are running
above those OF last season.
Pecans are being harvested In
range mostly between 10 and III cents
with a somewhat higher figure for
superior types.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-15
HUNT 2 GIRLS, 2 BOYS
LOST IN CALIFORNIA

LAKEPORT, CAL, Nov. 15.-R1-
Searching parties today planned 20
widen a search for four University
Of California students missing since
they started on a hike to Upper Lake,
last weekend. Fear was expressed
that the automobile in which the two
men and two girls, left Berkeley had
skidded off a mountain grade in heavy
storms which recently swept the
country.
The students are Miss Anne and
Minna Transporter, ~2l-year-old twins
from Logan. Utah, Robert III. Keller,
q, Los Angeles, and John r. Demp-
ster, Is, graduate from Berkeley
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-15
Baptist Body
Refutes Peace

DALLAS, Nov. 15.5R-Delegates
to the annual convention of the Bap-
fist Missionary association of Teas
here yesterday voted down a resolu-
tion intended to effect a reconcilia-
tion between hat organization and
the Baptist general convention.
The resolution. introduced by the
Rev. Allen O. Minkle Of Lockhart,
suggested that committees be APP
pointed from the two groups to set
tie differences.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-15
LIVED Under FIVE RULERS

Mrs. NJ. McKeown, who recently
celebrated her one-hundredth birth
day, boasts that she has lived under
five sovereigns, George ", William
~. Queen Victoria, Edward VII ana
the present King. She was able 10
read without glasses the letter OF
congratulations from the Bangor
Borough Council. Mrs. McKeown is
able to recite from memorv a number
of Psalms and Collects. She lives in
Bangor. Ireland.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-15
Man Recovering
From Gun Wound

EDINBURG, Nov. 15.-Manuel S
Velasuuez. floormnn at the Edin.
burg Review, was recovering Thurs
day from a painful injury suffered
when a gun he was cleaning Wed
nesday accidentally discharged send
ing a bullet through his leg just be-
low the knee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
AutoqraphS Air Letters

Postmaster Robert H. Bryson for
the past several days has been
spending his idle moments during
work hours and at home in auto
graphing letters to be returned by
air mail to stamp collectors, Aug. l,
when the new air mail postage rate
goes into effect.
The present air mail postage rate
Aug. l will be reduced from 10 cents
each half-ounce to cents for the
first ounce and 10 cents for each
additional ounce.
Today Bryson said he had re-
ceived more than TOO letters to be
autographed and mailed to stamp
collectors on the Chicago air mail
flight the evening of Aug. l. 1t was
expected several hundred more
would be received between now and
that date.
The reduction is expected to
treble the amount of air mail let
tiers and parcels.
No special cancellation has been
provided for the occasion, but the
new scent air mail stamps will be
used for the first time then.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Sets oCaI Record

Kermit Micklethwaite, advanced
flying student at the Hoosier air.
port, Kessler Blvd. and Lafayette
pike, set an altitude record for the
airport this week when he reached a
height of 1880 feet in a Travel Air
biplane with an OX-5 engine.
Not having sufficiently warm
clothing, Micklethwaite became so
cold at that height that he was
forced to return to the earth.
Thursday he made another at
tempt, wearing warm clothing, and
with only a light load of gasoline,
but ran out of gasoline at a height
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
MOVIES THRILL RUSSIA
Daredevil Stunts Of Americans
Easninafa Snrrinf r,.nr,,ar

Daredevil Stunts Of Americans
FaScinate Soviet Crowds.
By United Press
MOSCOW, July 27.-Motion pic
ture thrillers of the type which
dominated the American screen
some years ago are still at the
height of popularity in the Soviet
Union.
American westerns" daredevil
jumping, melodramatic serials
some of them apparently years old
and long ago discarded at home
can be seen in scores of cinema
houses here.
They foster a peculiar notion of
American life among the more
literal minded Russians who have
come to think of the United States
as a place where folks do breath
taking stunts and make hairs
breadth escapes every day of their
shocking lives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Aviation
GREAT ADVANCE
FORECAST FOR
AIR INDUSTRY
Guard.FIier Visions Ocean
Routes, Storm Control in
Few Years.

at is safe to say that all army
aviators agree with Colonel Billy
Mitchell that the air service shoulc
be separated from the army anc
navy" Maj. R. F. Taylor, 18th
Observation Squadron. Indiana Ma
tional Guard, said in a talk Oh
Aviation Progress" before the In
dianapolis Real Estate Board Thurs
day.
THE war department, however
has made some great progress ir
aviation" he added. ut has some
of the most modern ships in the
world, but we have so few they are
only samples"
Weather control for benefit Of
aviators and farmers in the moi
distant future was forecast by Tay-
lor.
I'm forty of fifty years, at the
most" he told the realtors, "scien-
fists will be able to break up storm,
before they get started, and will bt
able to regulate precipitation.
FOresees Ocean Roads
"In not more than Is or q
years We will have regularly estab-
lished ocean airplane routes, using
huge planes with a dozen motors
and refueling at floating islands"
Taylor described advance Of avia-
ton in the United States from the
early efforts of Prof. Samuel Lang
ley, who provided the Wright broth
erS with their inspiration.
when I compare the early air.
planes with those of to6ay, have a
great respect for the pioneers who
risked their lives in developing the
airplane," he said.
There have been no Government
subsidies for aviation since 1903
when the War Department appro-
priated $4,000 with which Langley
built plane that fell in the Poto-
mac on its trial flight, he said.
The Higher the Safer
WTlBuG DTOGIleIS Ildue GIlclI liz
flight in December, 1908" Taylor
said. I'm their early flights, the!
stayed as near the ground as pos
sible for safety. Now aviators con-
slider the greater heights safer
1.-THE World War gave aviation {
great impetus, resulting in develop
ment of new type fighting machines
Fastest planes in the war travelled
about 125 mile an hour. Now thu
army has planes that will fly $50 o.
more miles an hour.
"Planes used by the Indiana Ma
tional Guard, the latest army types
including the Curtiss Oil, are a.
far advanced over the war type
as the war types were advanced owe,
the Wright brothers first plane"
Army f1iers did not get parachute
until 1925, Taylor said.
lone doesn't realize how much ;
parachute means to a f1ier until h
sees friend after friend die I'M
necessarily when a wing breaks o.
the plane bursts into flames from
machine gun fire.
"Parachutes would have saveC
many lives in the World War. Al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
HooSier Airport Head Flew
With Famous Family
as Pioneers.

Announcement Thursday that
Katherine Stinson, who was one of
the worlds greatest aviators from
1912 to 1918, has retired from fly
ing, today recalled to Bob Shank,
Iioosier airport president, his bust
ness association with Miss Stinson
and her flying family" thirteen
years ago when Shank was learning
to fly.
After making two fairly success
full attempts to fly an airplane with
out instruction, Shank was taken
under the wing of Katherine's
brother, the now famous Eddie Stin-
son. and was given instruction.
Taught in Texas
Il first met Katherine in Chi
cago," Shank said, when she was
flying an old model Wright pusher
type plane. Eddie was building two
planes, one for himself and the
other for Katherine, at the time,
and I helped build the ships.
"A short time later Eddie and I
went as instructors to the Stinson
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

that is necessary in using chute
is to jump and wait until clear of
the plane before pulling the cord.
A parachute will operate safely at
any distance greater than $50 feet
above the ground"
Flying an airplane, mile for mile,
is as safe, if not safer, than rid
ing in an automobile, Taylor said.
"Seventy-five per cent of plane
accidents are avoidable. Newspapers
usually print stories on all airplane
accidents, but they do not tell of
the safe flights" he said.
Taylor urged the realtors to mark
their subdivisions with arrows point
ing north for benefit of fliers, de-
claring some of the smaller towns III
Indiana had better air marking
than the larger cities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
u, S, AVIATION
EXPERT VIEWS
AIRPORT SITES
City Delays Purchase of
Land Waiting Report
From Washington.
Aviation

With a promise to forward a
recommendation on the best site for
a municipal airport early next week,
A. P. Taliaferro, United States De-
partment of Commerce airport eX-
pert, returned to Washington today
after inspecting prospective sites
here Thursday afternoon.
Taliaferro arrived here at noon by
train and was taken by G. L. Harrod,
general manager and Paul H. Moore,
aviation secretary, Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce, for an auto
trip to fourteen sites.
Later Taiaferro and Moore were
taken for an airplane trip over the
city by Lieut.. Matt G. Carpenter to
view some Of the sites. from the
air. Taliaferro refused to comment
on any of the sites until his written
report is completed.
Must Zone Airport Area
The Chamber of Commerce is
working in cooperation with Mayor
L, Ert Stacks airport committee in
an effort to obtain a municipal air.
port. 1t vas stated the industrial
commission has four airplane factor
les in view which may locate here
if adequate airport facilities are pro-
vided. One, a 100000 concern, re-
quires a 400-acre airport.
In addition, for indianapolis to be
made principal stop on the Trans
continental Air Transport plane
train route, an adequate. landing
field must be provided.
Need for coming ground surround
ing municipal airports to prevent
erection of undesirable industries
and high buildings was cited by
Taliaferro.
Declares Condition Ideal
The Department of Commerce
gives first-class rating to airportS
$500 feet square with proper equip
ment and hangers, he said. Such
size tract would contain about $50
acres.
IT think conditions around In
uldIdpOllo are 1dNOIdD4G 10 d6IO~
nautics. The climate and geo.
graphical conditions appear to be
ideal for commercial aviation"
Taliaferro declared
Taliaferro said a city is obligated
to furnish ships an adequate place
to land if it desires to keep pace
with aeronautics development and
bid for the commercial business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Bob Shank Recalls Early
Flying as StinSOn Pupil

Flying School at San Antonio,
Texas, managed by Katherine's
mother"
In 1916 Shank and Eddie Stinson
opened a flying school at Houston,
Texas, which they operated until
Shank and Stirson became Army
instructors when the United States
entered the war, in 1917.
Stinson taught Shank to fly in
two hours and forty minutes.
Old Course Four Hours
"It was easier to learn to fly the
old fashioned ships" Shank said,
because they we're slower. Of
course, there were more crashes.
The usual instruction time was
about four hours"
The usual instruction time re-
quired now is about ten hours.
Katherine Stinson, who once held
both the duration and long distance
flight records, now is living in Santa
Fe, N. M, and is the wife of an
aviator, M. A. Otero, Jr., New
Mexico State auditor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

The many patrons and friends of
the H. H. Mayer Jewelry and OPP
teal Company, located at 40 West
Washington Street, will be pleased
to learn of the appointment of DR..
]. L. Showers as head Of the optical
department.
DR.. Showers is a thoroughly cap
able optometrist and optician, hav-
ing practiced his profession in In
dianapolis for many years.
The optical department Of the H.
H. Mayer Co., Inc, under the direct
supervision of DR.. Showers, will
give personal attention to each and
every patient, assuring them of
complete optical satisfaction.
A thorough examination of the
eyes is given absolutely free.-Ad-
Vertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Hunt Coyotes From Plane
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CLEARMONT, Wyo., July 81
Bob Garrett and George Ostrom,
hunters, have devised a new game
requiring many kinds of skill.
Shooting coyotes from an airplane
is considerably more comfortable
than shooting them from horse
back, at any rate, Ostrom says.
OStrom is a former Government
hunter. He and Garrett started out
looking for coyote that had been
making raids on a herd of sheep.
They found it after an hours hunt
and Ostrom killed it with a shot
gun as the coyote streaked for
safety,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Flies With Air Mail

A passenger on the Embry-
Riddle Company air mail plane
from Cincinnati to Chicago Thurs
day evening was Frank Chino, adj
vanced student of the Embry- Rid
die flying school at Cincinnati. Chino
made the trip to obtain experience
in using navigation instruments on
the plane.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Plans Huge Plane

By Tunes Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 81
Building of a forty passenger plane
at cost of 100000 is planned by the
Lawson Aircraft Company, which is
negotiating to move it's plant here
from Trenton, N. J.. The company,
capitalized at $1,0OO,000, was formed
four years ago.
The local Chamber of Commerce
rejected one offer of the company
to come here, but there are indica-
tons asnew offer on another basis
will be made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Seeks Airport Data
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
SEYMOUR, Ind, July 27.-The
airplane division of the Ford Motor
Company, Detroit, Mich, is seeking
data regarding airport possibilities
here following appointment of E. c.
Granz as Jackson County distribu-
tor for planes manufactured by the
division.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Planes Pass Inspection

BIZ Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 81
Federal inspectors have approved
five Waco planes used in passenger
service at Dresser field, local air.
port.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
High Ambition

~ LHtteu FfeSS
PALO ALTO, Cal, July 81
Allan Hoover, 21-year-old son
of the Republican presidential
nominee, may enter a flying
school.
Alan had brief fight over
his fathers home, the Stanford
campus, and the lower San
Francisco Bay region late
Thursday with the United
Press correspondent. He rode
in a big tri-motored, all-metal
Ford ship operated by the
Standard Oil Company of Cali
fornia.
Young Hoover sat in the
cabin smoking a cigaret
throughout the flight. He
said he had been III the air
several times previously.
Like his father, he has been
tremendously interested in avi-
alton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Cat Dropped From Plane

MADISON, Wis, July 27.-Al
Meyers, commercial airplane pilot,
was sought here today on a warrant
obtained by William Busse, county
humane agent, who charged Meyers
with dropping a cat 1900 feet from
a plane to see if it would land on
its feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Air Tour Near End

MILWAUKEE,, Wis. July 81
Assured of victory in his long race
for the Edsel Ford trophy, barring
accidents, John P. Wood, Wausau,
Wis, hoped off with twenty-five
other pilots on the next to the last
leg of the national reliability air
tour at 1902 a. m. today. Chicago
is todaY's destination.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

His particular route never has
been Travelled, but he predicts
trial trip within a short time. Thus,
with Picking but four days away
from New York, he believes that
hundreds of plane owners will be
dropping in on the Orient within
a very few years.
His route is as follows-New York
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Town Hall Sold for S23 so

WINSLOW, Ind, July 27.-The
town hall here has been sold to w.
o. Barnett for $3.50. 1t was used
not only>as meeting place for the
town board, but also housed the
town Jail, fire department and was
used in elections as a polling place,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

of 10000 feet. The first attempt re-
CURED two and a half hours and
the second an hour and fifteen
minutes.
Micklethwaite plans a third at
tempt in day or two with warm
clothing and more gasoline.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Active at GreenSburg
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
GREENSBURG, Ind, July 27-A
committee composed of representa-
tives of various civic organizations
is collecting and studying data with
prospect of establishing an airport
here. Charles Thompson and Rob-
ert Bass, aviators, have advised the
committee that suitable field can
be obtained for about $1,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Student Gets Plane

A new Waco 10 biplane was de-
lievered Thursday by Lieut.. L. I.
Aretz, Lafayette airport manager, to
Carl Volter, indianapolis. Volter, a
student of Aretz. took his solo flight
Monday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Filters on Business Trip

By Times Special
VINCENNES, Ind, July 27.-Reed
G.. Lands, son of former Federal
Judge Kenesaw M. Lands, came
here from Chicago by plane on a
business trip.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

to Cochrane, Ont; Fl. Churchill,
Hudson Bay; FIT. Rae on Great
Slave Lake; TT. Norma, on the
Mackenzie River; Fl. Yukon, Alaska,
Nome, Alaska; thence over ninety
miles of ocean to Anadyr and Ok
hotsk in Siberia, where the Trans
Siberian railroad is met. Then to
Pel1in by way of Vladivostok.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
In theAir

CONDITIONS AT $3.50 A. M.
Compiled for The Times by Government
Weather Observer j. H. Arlington and
Donald Mcconnell. Government aeron-
autical observer.l
Ceiling unlimited visibility 2 miles.
hazy; barometer, 1898; wind west, 9 m,
D.. h,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27
Filler Stops in CITY

Pilot Howard Behr, flying from
Wichita, Kan, to College Park, Md,
in a new Travel Air biplane, stopped
overnight at the Indianapolis air
port.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

for establishment of a flying school.
Howard Duggleby, who has ESQ
hours of solo flying to his credit,
would be the instructor. 1t is
planned to locate the school ear
Rensselaer, or the Kankakee River.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

Within two years, says Vilhjalmur
Stefansson GnseD, famous Arctic
explorer, the air mail will be flying
over the great frozen wastes, from
New York to Pekin, Here is the
map of the route StefanSson says
he has outlined for persons now
engaged in planning such ~ service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-27

Large scale maps, easy to read
Two double page maps, all transcon-
tinental and named highways with
pole markings)
Seven double page and one single page
maps, detail state groups
All motor roads in United States and
Lower Canada, uniform marking,
indicating paved, improved or IN
improved
Federal road numbers, state numbers,
and distances between towns
Ali Federal highways in red
Small city maps showing routes in
and out
Double page maps II 80 inches
Single page maps l l IA inches
Size of Atlas folded IL inches
Complete-up-to-date-the only road
guide you r I'd for any kind of
motor trip
New Britain herald., 1928-10-12
H0RAN GOT Two PAPERS
REFERRING TO ACCORD
French Newspaper Says Hearst Cor.
respondent Paid $4,000 to
Attachc for Documents

Paris. Oct. IL R}-Announce-
ment was made today through the
Havas News Agency that Harold
Horan after vain attempts to ac-
quire the text Of the Franco-Bri
ish naval accord. succeeded in OBJ
tanning two documents referring to
it. The announcement said that
through a person connected with the
foreign ministry. Horan had regu-
lar relations with one Of the serv-
ices Of this government department.
1t was stated further that this
person in the ministry received the
documents from young attache on
the foreign staff. The degree Of the
latter's responsibility has not yet
been esta blished. but Foreign Min
lister BRAND will submit a complete
record of the affair to the council
of ministers next Tuesday and per-
NIT the cabinet to judge whether
further action is required.
The individual newspapers OF
Paris also pay considerable atten-
tion to the case. L'Excelsior says
that $4,000 was paid for the docu-
ments.