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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-13
GOLF is

JACKSON. Miss June l3.-P-
Golf. as far as this city is con-
cerned. is democratic. A recent sur
vay o fthe flight winners in the city
park championship shows an upper
strata of niblick wielders boasting
two high school students. a refrig-
orator salesman. a caddy. a parks
attache. a railroad man, and a high
school coach
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-13
Mediterranean FZy
= ~Lnfestations Found
In $50 Localities

WINTER GARDEN. Fla. June Is.
With the hoSt-free period Of the
Mediterranean fruit fly having be-
ONE operative on citrus fruits the
irst Of the month. a check up of
ne area actually included in No. /
zones has been announced by the
aste plant board collaboration. This
shows In the neighborhood Of $50
infested groves. farms or premises.
extending all the way from the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-13

II Is similar to the action required
to move by way of automobile. For
the time being the national guard
will handle the railroad work. act
ing directly under the direction OF
the quarantine officials.
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-02-28
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Spokane
woman
SPIDER" BRINGS
CROWD AT HIPP

Will Maylon has written a play!
What's more, he has produced it and
you'll see it at The Hippodrome for
the week starting Sunday next. MIR.
Maylon has been at work on this play
for some time and has delayed its
presentation until now because he has
not found suitable-or we should
say, title. To get il before you dur
ing the present season, however, H.
must produce it now and still dissatis-
fed with his own title suggestions, n
has decided to offer his creation as
THE Play Without A Name" and
leave the titling to you. He does not
expect you to do this for nothing. lie
is going to give $4,000 in cash an
other valuable prizes for the best titles
suggested-and somebody is going to
win this $4,000 in cash and the other
prizes for just little effort. Get the
particulars and submit your suggestion
without delay. We are not gong 10
tell you about Mr.. Maylon's play.
You must see it to enjoy 1t. And you
will thoroughly enjoy it-and perhaps
recognize some of the home folk it
was written about.
This week The Maylon Players are
presenting the greatest of mystery
plays, "The Spider" Many say this
is by far the most thrilling and baff-
ling play in which the popular local
stock company has appeared. Harry
Jordan is splendidly cast as Chat
rand" hypnotist and magician and
Will Maylon. Margaret Nixon, Hazel
Hedger, Caroline Edwards, Jack Rich
ardson. Clelah Cooper, J. Barrie Nor
ton, Arthur Siegrist and a cast OF
Al "a
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-02-28

Nothing can shake his confidence
and nothing can stand against his
dominance when Nance Desmond.
vivid and fascinating, returns to the
Irish country village, ii is owen Kee-
gan who woos and wins her and takes
her home for his wife, disregarding
the jealous fears of his splnster daugh
ter Ellen, and ignoring the fact that
his son Michael was a rival OF his
for the love of Nance.
And the fates weave the story to
its inevitable conclusion. Embittered
Ellen stirring continually the sparks
o; suspicion and unrest; the young
blood of Nance and Michael calling
each to each; the tower Of strength
which was Owen Keegan crumbling
in its pride and through the rashness
to which that pride had driven him
and so gradually, inevitably things are
stripped away. till the curtain falls
upon the broken old man, mumbling
by his hearth fire in the wreck of his
own life and the lives of his children
and his young wife.
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-02-28
AUDIAN OPENS
"OLD ARIZONA"

Ray A. Grombacher will score
another triumph as theater man
ager tomorrow night when he opens
the Audian, the latest showhouse
to come under his management and
one which Spokane has known as
the Clemmer. The theater is the
first theater in the United States
To bear the name Aud an" mean.
ing sound, and eminently fitted for
Vitaphone or sound picture the
alter
Lew Keller, publicity manager
for the theater wants theater pa
irons all to know that the accent
is on the first syllable of the word
and not on the last one.
The picture for the opening week
is "In Old Arizona" II is the first
outdoor all-talking Fox Movietone
feature drama in which more than
twenty stars speak their parts.
Warner Baxter, who is credited
with having marvellous speaking
voice, plays the lead. the part OF
Cisco" Kid" that very colorful
bandit of the romantic days of the
old Southwest Dorothy Burgess
is the girl "Tonia Maria" and a
score of film stars and featured
players are in the supporting cast.
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-02-28
Zonta Club Names Delegates

The delegates to the Pacific Coast
Zonta Club convention at Seattle were
selected Monday when the club met
for it's weekly luncheon and program
at the Davenport Hotel. Those who
will leave for Seattle Saturday are
Mrs. Minnie Gisness. president; Dr.
Leila Fishleigh, Miss Margaret Gr1-
ham. Miss Mildred Christian, Miss An
na Olson. and Miss MARI a. Dayen-
port.
Chapter Az. p. f. o.. will meet at the
home of Mrs. J. II. Peterson for its
election and installation of officers.
Mrs. J. f.. Hoyt will give a brief his
tory of Chapter AZ.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
New Afghan Sovereign Takes Throne
Against Own Wishes, Friend Declares

visit Afghanistan. Friends who were
living at Peshawar Tin British India,
the very frontier of the country over
which Amanullah ruled at that time)
had written to me and advised me to
go by no means to Afghanistan. So
I asked Nadir Khan whether there
really was so much danger in going u
Afghan stan.
Both Envoy and Friend.
my country is a happy, smiling,
peaceful country he replied. YOU
will be absolutely safe there, and you
surely will be welcome there
II said good-by to the envoy. AS I
was about 10 get into my car somS-
body called me. and Nadir Khan came
out of his garden, without a hat, ana
stopped for a moment at the side Of
my car-there was quite a rain pour
ing down in that moment-and he
handed me little package and said:
LAS minister. of AfghaniStan in Paris
just told you that everything would
be we'll with your trip to my country.
An envoy must speak that way. But
allow me now, as a friend. to recon-
mend to you to be careful and always
on the watch out while you are in
Afghanistan, and do accept this little
present which you may flnd useful out
there
"Nadir went back into the house The
package contained heavy revolver ana
200 bullets"
Evening star., 1929-11-17

stand, much in the same spirit as do the
Parisians on the terrace of their cafes,
watching the whole world go by Up
until short time ago the native-born
'Cubans had a stranglehold on this shoe
shining business. But lately Italian
Americans have arrived and established
little shops which have cut considerably
into the home talent
No one can say that Cuba is not po-
litically free. The CubanS have their
own elections, and elect CubanS to Of
fee. They have Cuban President. and
have just built a $15,000,000 Cuban
capitol building.
This capitol building was constructed
by an American construction company.
but when it was completed and paid for
the Americans withdrew, just as they
did few years back when, after they
had built up Cuba itself, they withdrew
and left her to her own resources, pro-
viding, of course, no Cuban government
should ever make any foreign treaties,
or give any foreign concessions or do
anything which might appear they were
forgetting who 1t was who had given
Cuba its hands-up. There is something
called the Plat amendment which takes
care of this matter, believe. and which
might be foreclosed If Cuba started get
ting too free.
Now in case the reader might think
the writer is waxing facetious about
Cuba Libre," want to go on record
as stating that there are only minority
of native Cubans who would prefer
Cubas becoming something just for
Cubans. The majority of them are
reconciled to having their children and
grandchildren become Americans. The
young generations in the Cuban schools
..
taught English at the same time they
are being taught Spanish. The children
of those Cubans who are quick to see on
which side their bread is buttered send
Evening star., 1929-11-17

cigars that are rolled by Cuban hands
Cor is it by American machinery?).
Cuban cigarettes are great when one
becomes accustomed to them, but visit
ing Americans rarely remain long
enough in Cuba to acquire the taste; 81
they buy American brands sold III
American shops.
Cuba has its own currency: that Is,
should say, 1t has its own silver specie.
THE smaller denominations are really
not silver, but there is no point in
ever, and 9ll bank notes of larger de-
nominations are none other than our
own perfectly good yellow and green bits
Of paper, printed in Philadelphia OF
Washington, or wherever 1t Is we print
our currency. The value of the Cuban
dollar doesn't fluctuate and cause
Cubans uneaSiness for the very simple
reason 1t is good old American money.
Besides, the Cubans don't handle much
of this money anyhow, except in tips
This is one item II admit this in order
to be perfectly fair to the Americans)
that still goes to native-born Cubans.
Most of the walters. chambermaids, taxi
drivers and fiunkeys at large are
CubanS. However, most of the barkeepS,
who rather top the list in the matter
of receiving tips, are cid veterans of bars
that we're legitimate back in the days
before prohibition struck Broadway.
Chestnut street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. Their honest, Irish faces guaran-
tee their unwillingness to continue III
the American speakeasies of today.
Shoe Shining Is Industry.
The American visitor is not an hour
in Hanava before he realizes that one
of the big industries of Cuba is shining
shoes. The cool, porticoed sidewalks
are literally lined with shoe -shine
chairs. where perspiring bootblackS
massage the recumbent feet of those
who sit as If en- an elongated reviewing
Evening star., 1929-11-17

"Nadir Khan, the new sovereign
and sovereign against his own wishes,
it seems-of turbulent Afghanistan, is
a man of remarkable courage even in
that wild and warlike country, where
everybody is courageous and pays lit
tie attention to dangers and risk of
his own or other lives" writes "Chalux,
in La Nation Beige of Brussels.
He Is a man of great will power,
tenacious, firm. He sweeps away OBJ
stacles and goes straight toward his
aim. He has proved that now in a
striking fashion.
"A few months ago he arrived in
Southern AfghaniStan, where he had
hurried upon the news of the flight of
Amanullah, his king and his relative,
who had lost his throne because he
stayed too long away from his coun-
try and wanted to impose a detested
Europeanism upon his strong and IA
natical population.
so this 60-year old warrior, ex-
minister of Afghanistan in Paris, who
saw his country once more in the pangs
OF civil war and anarchy. decided to
oust the usurper, Bacha Sakae Habi-
bullah, and to re-establish the old or
der. Orientals have an innate liking
for diplomatic and political games and
GIICkS, DuG L QOn Z DelleVea tf1at NaQlf
Khan, whom I met several times per-
sonally. wanted to satisfy. any personal
ambitions.
'Nadir lacked money and war ma
terial. But the powerful and fanatical
.MullahS,' enemies of all Western re-
forms. who rightly or wrongly regarded
him as an old Afghan, q pure and
orthodox Mohammedan. recruited an
army for him.
Acts Part Of Stole.
"The rest is known. Within a few
weeks, Nadir and his followers started
from Kandahar. defeated the troops
OF Bacha Sakao and reached Kabul, the
capital. Here again, he showed his
nerve and stoicism. The usurper Flau
fortified Kabul and kept hostages there,
among them several members of Nadlr
Khans family whom he threatened To
kill in case Nadir would attack the
town. Yet Nadir Khan ordered his
troops to lombard the city.
"Nadir Khan is cultured. subtle ana
possesses certain finely ironical hu-
NOR, as the following anecdote proves
Three years ago / met him fire.
quently In Paris. He was always cordial
when he entertained me in his legation
building in the suburb of Passy I was
on the point of starting on q trip
around the world, and had decided "
Evening star., 1929-11-17

their children to schools in the United
States proper. They return to Cuba in
due course. 100 per cent Americans.
even though they owe allegiance to a
foreign land. They realize that thus, in
the course of evolution, the CubanS OF
the future will be able to take care OF
themselves better in business deal with
any other Americans.
Cubans Not Puzzled.
Until that time comes the chief busi-
ness deal they are worrying about is the
tariff. Greater minds than mine have
been puzzled by the schedules of the
American tariff, but there is no puzzle
ment in the minds of the Cubans. They
are remembering what has happened TO
them in the last 20 years or so, and they
feel perfectly clear about what will hap
pen in the future If the proposed new
sugar schedule goes through.
There was a time. when the United
States entered the World War, when
Cubans actually caught up with the
mirage composed of independence
wealth and liberty, which they had
looked upon in the distance for many,
many years during the Spanish occupa-
tion.
AS many of us remember, sugar was
to ship 1t abroad to our own soldiers
as we'll as to soldiers and citizens of
cur allies. Also, sugar was needed in
the manufacture of explosives. So We
Americans took Cuba to one side and
said: Nov here! We've got to win the
war, and We must stand shoulder to
shoulder"
Cuba had not exactly figured that she
was called upon to get in on the war
but with Uncle Sans genial right arm
around her shoulder and being told that
I'VE" we're both vitally interested in
making the world safe for democracy
the fiattery was so subtle that Cuba i'm
pulsively agreed to furnish sugar at only
slight advance over her old prices
instead OF stopping to profiteering. AS
1t was. the Cubans made some fortunes
overnight, but nothing to what they
could have made il they had boosted
the ante and just sat tight. The Cubans
went even farther at being included in
big league company and organized a
little army which they offered as sort
Of premium coupon along with every
pound Of sugar.
Dance Of the Millions.
Nevertheless. as I said. the Cubans
made more money than they had ever
known existed and basing their actions
on the theory that the war would never
end. they went out and bought them
selves pink and blue palaces, patios
fountains and marble porches on which
they sat in their inevitable rocking
chairs and where in the cool of the eve-
ming they could compare notes as to
the profits that were rolling in.
This period in Cuban history was
called the Dance of the Millions" and
what they didn't know about dancing
they learned overnight.
Then, as every one knows, the war
ended. Almost Immediately the bottom
dropped out of the sugar market and
the Cubans, having somewhat hastily
spent all their profits, could not raise
the price of maintaining all their newly
Continued on Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1929-11-17

Balbus and Napoleon. Emphasis on
"difficult."
~ ~
THE NOBEL Thomas
Mann, the German novelist, author of
"BuddenbrookS." The Magic Noun
tain" ETC., has been awarded the 1929
Nobel prize for literature. Prof. Owen
w. Richardson of Kings College, Lon
don, renowned for his work on the
theory of electrons (ze Richardson S
Law'D, gets the 1928 prize in physics.
and the Due de Broglie the 1929 prize
in physics. The due is great!grandson
of the due who was Lafayette's chief
lieutenant in the American Revolution.
He entered the French navy, retired,
and rejoined it for the war. serving
therein with distinction. His researches
on the nature of matter are notable.
The chemistry award for 1929 is divided
between DR.. Arthur Harden, professor
of biochemistry in London University,
and Hans Won Euler. professor of bio
chemistry in Upsala University, Sweden,
son of a German general. Both, of
course, have done important creative
work In their field. Each award carries
with 1t about $4,000.
* 4
NOTES divorce rate is in
creasing with extraordinary rapidity in
England.
A new ecumenical patriarch of the
Greek Orthodox Church has been in
stalled at Constantinople-Ph II.
Exigencies of space forbid detail of
the fantastic political developments in
Poland, but am constrained to observe
that in the light of these doings one
begins to understand Polish history
and the liberum veto. Yet, though one
is apt to despair of development OF
political sense In Poland, the country
Is coming on very we'll economically,
AS "a dictator, Pilsudski is in a class
by himself, quite unique: his bizarre
methods seem adapted to a bizarre
nation. What will happen when Pill
sudSki goes?
Georges Tchitcherin has voluntarily
retired from the post Of foreign COM
missar of the Soviet Russian govern
ment because Of long-continued illness.
There seems no doubt, however, that,
had he not voluntarily retired he would
have been forced to retire. A notable
man. but he does not see quite eye to
eye with Stain ct Gle. Moscow has
not yet developed a graceful method
of kicking upstairs she should do so
The governments of Guatemala and
Honduras have accepted the invitation
Of our Government to discuss at Wash
ington. under the auspices of our Gov
ernment, their old boundary dispute.
which involves bananas growing re-
gion on the Atlantic littoral.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Is to erect a 1OO-story office building
in Madison Square, New York, to be
quite the tallest building in the world,
and to accommodate $4,000 persons
It's own neighboring campanile will be
quite dwarfed.
Evening star., 1929-11-17
BY HENRY w. BUM.

The following is a brief summary of
the most important news Of the world
for the seven days ended November 16.
GREAT BRITAIN-Sir Ronald Lind
say has been designated to succeed
Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassa-
dor to the United States. Sir Ronald
is now permanent undersecretary of
state for foreign affairs and chief of
the foreign Office His diplomatic cx-
perience is very great. He entered the
diplomatic service in 1898. He has
served at st. Petersburg, Teheran, Paris
and The Hague, and has been Ambas-
sador to Turkey and Germany He is
of Crawford and is So years old. He
knows his Washington. having served
several years on the British embassy
staff here, and his wife is an Ameri-
can. 1t is thought he will assume
his new post early in February.
Sir Esmond Ovey, formerly Ambas-
sador to Brazil, is to be the new Ambas-
sador to Russia.
X X
FRANCE.-I reported last week that
Tardieu's new government received
vote of confidence by majority of IL.
The figure was actually 10. The four
Right parties voted solidly for the gov
ernment. OF the Left Centre parties,
some 6 members voted against the gov
ernment and ii abstained, the rest
voting for the government. OF the 1875
Radical Socialists, 109 voted against
the government and Is either voted for
the government or abstained. OF the
many groups in the Chamber only the
Independent Socialists and the Com
muniSts voted Solidly against the gov
ernment. The conciliation of the in
transigeant II members of the Right was
undoubtedly due to the finesSe and cold
reasoning of Tardieu to the eloquence
of BRAND should be ascribed the de-
fections from the Radical Socialist
ranks; while the two share in the honor
majority; achieved by sort of wiz
ardry. How muc hof it can be held
and how long?
We are informed that, deSpite a
recent statement to the French Cham
ber, the implication of which seemed
to be somewhat different (perhaps it
was not accurately reported), Premier
Tardieu has given assurances that,
provided the German plebiscite of De-
cember % favorS the Young plan and
provided commercialization of German
reparations bonds has been started be-
times, the Rhineland will be completely
evacuated of French troops by June 80
next.
Il X X
SPAIN-Here after a long interval,
is an important item from Spain.
Primo de Rivera, Marques de Estella, Is
the most amene of dictators; in respect
of his humorous amenity, he is Caesar
ian. But it is a type that lends itself
to misconstruction; enemies are apt to
mistake courtesy and forbearance for
weakness The time comes when it is
necessary to bring them up with a
round turn. That time seems to have
come with Primo de Rivera.
Not that he is showing his teeth; a
Caesarian never shows his teeth. None
| the less he is Enthusiastically intimating
/ that he is boss of the show; he is tell
| ing the critics of and agitators against
the dictatorship where to get off,"
He issues a communique announcing
important changes of policy. He calls
halt to the march toward normality.' y
The reconvening OF the National Con-
sultative Assembly" to put the final
Evening star., 1929-11-17


tramp photographer" and that
4 little republic-where Americans go
each Winter by the thousands to
| drink in the warm sun and the foreign
atmosphere and possibly little OF the
foreign beverages-is all worked up.
For a long time Americans have held
up Cuba as Exhibit A" to prove that
our country has never had any pred
atory intentions toward the various
little nations clustered around her feet.
We could, they say, have easily annexed
this island, but did not. Instead,
benevolent Uncle Sam took down-at-
the-heels Cuba, washed her behind the
ears, taught her the benefits to be de-
rived from plumbing, sent her to school,
established the schools, dressed her up
like a millionaire's child and then not
only gave her independence, but Law
iShed on her vast amounts OF tourist
money and what not.
Look" they say, "at the millions of
dollars American tourists leave each
year in Cuba! Staggering Simply
staggering"
"All very true" say the Cubans
Americans do leave large sums of
money down here. But where do they
leave it? In the hands Of other Amer
icanS!"
My Cuban friends say that now, %
years after she was freed. the island
practically belongs to Uncle Sam. They
don't seem to object to this so much;
what they are all worked up about is
that Uncle Sam is again preparing to
slam the tariff door in Cuba'S face.
And they say that If the higher rates
on sugar go through. not only will the
Cubans themselves suffer. but things
won't be so good for the American dol
lars 600 900 900 of them invested in
Cuban sugar, nor for the millions more
invested in other Cuban enterprises.
The Place Is Ours.
You can't wander around Cuba for
even short time, as I have, without
realizing that the Cubans are right on
one point at least We have moved
into the place and taken possession.
The Americans own all the big hotels.
The $25 per day which the visitor from
the United States pays for his or her
comparatively modest room and bath.
plus the price of three square meals
and the customary all-night cabaret
fees, all go into the hands Of American
proprietors. We also own the street
railways, the railroads, the taxicabS, the
sightseeing cars, the airplanes and the
steamboats,. Sugar, Of course, is the
big source OF Cuba'S income, but it
seems that the sugar plantations are
mostly owned and operated by Ameri-
can interests.
= Tobacco growing and the manufac-
ture of cigars are, strange as 1t may
seem, in Cuban hands. but one hears
that the tobacco planters and manu-
facturers depend to a considerable ex-
tent upon American banks to keep them
financed. And forgot to add that the
Cuban banks are branches of our very
best American institutions. Also. dur
ing the last decade, Americans have
gotten to be great cigarette smokers, and
no longer relish the wonderful Havana