Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-14
I'm OUR
VALLEY

operation bU,OOO planes have landed
on 1t.
This is an average of $4,000
planes per year.
John A. Roetzel, while manager
of the local field estimated that
during the first six months of
operations here planes had landed
on the local field at the rate OF
5000 per year. This rate is being
exceeded at the present time.
Cleveland is a city of 100000 pop
ulation and is located on the main
air lanes of the United States.
BY comparison the record of the
local field is a splendid one and
seems to pretend a highly import
ant place in aerial activity for
Brownsville.
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC rail-
road plans to compete with trucks
in moving Valley cotton to ports
and congresses.
A special train originating at
Brownsville and Mission is provid-
ing overnight transportation to
Corpus Christi. Houston and Gal
weston are reached on equally as
fast schedule.
Flat cotton will be moved to VAL
ley congresses or to the ports by
the train. Compressed cotton is
picked up at Valley plants and
moved each night to the port.
BY this method of handling, the
seller Of cotton can ship from the
Valley at night and get his money
from Corpus Christi before noon
the next day, w. G. Choate, gen.
eral manager of the railroad, ex-
plains.
Before the train was put on
trucks were moving a large portion
Of the cotton from the Valley be-
cause Of the greater speed of
handling.
UP AT RAYMONDVILLE there
was talk of the Arkansas Pass Com
press Co. plant being removed from
that city because practically all of
the cotton was being moved from
the Valley on trucks before it was
compressed.
This caused the citizens to urge
farmers to take their cotton to the
compress before selling it, on the
theory that such action would tend
to force the buyers to patronize the
compress.
Whether this campaign or the
fast service by train would Sesult
in better patronage for the COM
press, and consequently save the
plant for Raymondville had not
Been determined.
THE PANAMA CANAL ZONE is
within a days flight of Brownsville.
This was successfully demon
strated Thursday when LieutenantS
w. t. Lawson and L. J. Carr set
down their ship on the municipal
airport here at Gas p. m. after
taking off from Colon at 8 a. m.
Thus the two army fliers accom-
plished what Capt. Ira G. Eaker
failed to do on two different occa-
Sions-and thereby demonstrated as
possible feat over which army
heads have been doing some puz-
zling.
Capt. Eaker, attempting the
flight alone, vas foiled both times
by unfavorable weather. On the
flight this way he would have been
successful, but he came down on a
muddy field at Tampico and could
not get into the air again.
The successful flierS started one
hour earlier than Eaker but they
made several stops enroute.
When planes make one day hops
to Panama from Brownsville, the
T. A. T. slogan, Save Day
Travey by Air" becomes doubly
true.
NEW United States currency is
still in the souvenir stage in
Brownsville.
Some clerks here and in Mata-
moros, not well posted, are reported
to be refusing the small bills in
payment for purchases.
You can't fool me with that
trading coupon one such clerk IS
reported to have told a customer
when he was offered cne Of the
small ones.
BEFORE SOME READER of The
Herald calls the matter to the at
tention of the editor:
We are aware that New England
Is not in Europe.
Friday headline said "Daven-
port Writes to Friends from Eu-
rope"
8Rut the story under it said Mr.
ard Mrs. Harbert Davenport are
visiting in the New England states
and have written to friends in the
Valley.
The headwriter saw the Eng
land" but failed to observe the
New" before it.
ROTARIAN OFFICIALS will in
Fade Brownsville Monday and
Tuesday. Presidents and secretar-
les of so south Texas clubs meet
here for a two-day conference on
activities for the coming year.
A program of entertainment
which will be staged to fit the
business program has been mapped
out. Rotary AIMS will be given
special attention and a number Of
them are expected to be here with
their husbands.
Brownsville welcomes these visi-
tors who place service abova eaIf