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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
STRIPER
INVENTED BY
CAMERON MAN
Machine Operated By
Men Does Work of
81; Several Ordered
By State Engineers

That a Cameron county genius.
E. E. Wilmuth. maintenance fore
man of the Cameron county engi-
neering department.. has solved the
problem Of center striping high
ways at small cost. was the opinion
of state highways engineers who re-
Gently inspected a machine Will
muth is now operating on county
highways.
The highway department engi-
neers we're SO favorablv impressed
they Immediately ordered construc-
ton Of several of the machines.
Center stripping of highways here
tofore has been an expensive and
arduouS task. Painting crews Of
the state highway department. each
crew consisting Of eight men. COM
plete approximately three miles per
day. The Wilmuth machine. oper-
ated by six men. stripes approxi-
mately II miles Del day. at an av-
erage speed of l ID miles per hour.
The cost of materials. which here
tofore has ranged around S18 per
mile IS reduced to less than $40 per
mile by use of the machine.
The machine which is operated
IN conjunction with a truck. is de-
signed to center stripe either 16 or
l8-foot paving. using Texaco 81 as
phalt filler. which is applied hot,
IN lleu OF the aSphaltic paint for
merly applied by hand. The hot
asphalt cools and dries in a few
minutes. whereas asphalt paint
does not dry for several hours.
The 5-inch stripe is placed exact
ly in the center Of the paving, the
position being gagged by a flange
on the front wheel of the truck
which holds the wheel directly over
the edge of the paving. The strip
ing machine. which is attached to
the truck like a Sidecar to a motor
cycle, carries an oil heater to melt
the asphaltic compound. The pipes
which carry the melted asphalt to
the pavement are surrounded bv a
water Jacket filled with superheat-
ed steam which prevents cooling of
the asphalt until it reaches the
pavement. Projecting in front of
the machine is a converted near
burner" utilized as a blow torch to
heat the concrete and assure
proper adhesion of the asphalt.
One of the features of the in
genlous mechanism is the
ment whereby the asphalt is an
piled to the pavement. A consistent
How OF the fluid asphalt is assured
py a valve arrangement. and the
Spreader. which works on a spring
deSlgned to overcome inequalities
OF the surface. spreads the asphalt
evenly to the full width of five
inches. AS the asphalt cools and
dries quickly. it does not adhere "a
the tires of vehicles which NAV
cross the stripe within a few min
utes after the asphalt is applied
Wilmuth is contemplating seclIr-
ing a patent on the machine. High
way engineers state the striper
would effect a saving running into
the hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars annually. and would be in de-
mand III all states in which extern
slve highway programs are under
way.
All Cameron county highways
are being striped with the machine
The Ell Jardin highway was COM
pleted Thursday. the machine ac-
comprising in five hours WORK
That under the hand system would
nave Kept eight men busy three
DAYS.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
FAIR ACTIVITY WILL
GET UNDER WAY MAR. II
Especial to The Herald)

HARLINGEN. Mar. l. - Valley
Mid Winter Fair activity which Is
to be instituted at the first meet
ing Of the year, here on March II,
will be continued throughout the
spring and summer. and until the
time of the Fair, said John T. Floore,
manager.
Mr.. Floore urged that chamber
of commerce secretaries in each
Valley city and community arrange
at once for the selection Of q COM
munity chairman. as all the chair
men r to be at the meeting to
discuss proposed changes in the
score card for community exhibits.
The fair dates have been set for
Tuesday, November Is, through
Sunday. December /, which is one
day longer than the Fair of last
year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
GROWTH SEEN
In MEETINGS
Gains Expected Of 2-City
Banquet And Visit Of
City Plan Expert
Especial to The Herald)

a SAN BENITO, March 1.-The
San Benito-Harlingen good will
banquet Monday night, and the Wis
it of Gardner S. Rogers, city plan
authority, to these two cities later
in the week are events which are
expected to throw new angles on
the city plan and development Sit
uation in San Benito and Harrington,
according to civic leaders of the two
cities.
Plans were being discussed to
have an outline of the development
plans of the two cities presented to
Mr.. Rogers, and to ask him to touch
on some of the points of growth
and coordination. However, this is
indefinite, and may be discussed at
the meeting Monday night at the
Stonewall Jackson hotel here.
THE joint meeting Of Harrington
and San Benito people, and the
visit of Mr. Rogers are events which
have aroused residents of this city
to a study of growth of the two
cities, and of the necessity for a dl-
rected development between them"
said J. E. Bell, secretary of the San
Benito Chamber of Commerce. 1.-THE
banquet has brought to the realiza-
ton of many San Benito people the
fact that Harrington and San Benito
are actually growing together at this
time, and that some plan should be
worked out to take advantage OF
that.
Some Of the benefits Of co-opera-
ton in this growth can be seen in
projects already under way. Great
savings can be effected in joint
projects between San Benito and
Harrington. Golf courses, play
grounds. airports. driveways, and
other such projects can be SO located
as to be equally accessible. to San
Benito and Harrington, and thus both
cities can get the benefit of them at
half the cost which n city would
have to bear.
"These things will be discussed
Monday. And Thursday and Friday
of next week we expect much light
to be shed on them by Mr.. Rogers
More than 200 residents of Har-
lingen and San Benito are expected
to be at the joint banquet Monday
night. The high school band of San
Benito is to furnish music.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03

This is the twenty-second Of a
series of articles prepared by the
National Association of Real Es-
tate Boards to be published
weekly in this newspaper for the
information of its readers on real
estate matters.
What Of the gaudy billboard
which intrudes itself into a resi-
dence district. the sign which girds
the tree or telephone pole, the
roadside shack which is made
more ugly with bizarre advertise
mentS? Do they affect values?
What of the taxpayer who help
ed pay for u highways at the
rate of $4,000 to $4,000 a mile?
Is his tremendous investment to be
given consideration or shall the
property owner, whose lands adj
join the highway, be permitted to
cut off sight of forest, glen and
dell, or to obstruct the view at a
dangerous highway intersection by
the erection Of an ugly shack or a
billboard?
In several states in this country
legislation has been enacted in an
effort to regulate such DETACHMENT
and the United States supreme
court may be called upon to help
answer these questions in the near
future. according to the National
Association of Real Estate boards
in its weekly article on subjects of
interest to property owners
The association quotes on the
billboard situation, Mr.. Ward c.
Clifford of Kansas City, Mo-, who
for the past two years has been
chairman of its outdoor advertising
committee:
There is no question that bill
boards in purely residential dis
tricts are highly undesirable and
undoubtedly depress land values.
and prevent the ready sale of home
sites in such districts, says Mr..
Clifford. "Billboards undoubtedly
have a place in outdoor advertis-
ing, but it should be confined in
cities to commercial districts.
Cooperating
"And among the first to recog-
nize the fact that unrestricted use
of billboardS is detrimental to the
community and in fact to the bill
board business itself has been the
Outdoor Advertising Association Of
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
Mexican Rat Hound
Desired By Kansas
Woman; Sends Query

Does any resident Of the Lower
Rio Grande Valley possess a sur
plus of Mexican rat hounds?
Pearl M. Godfrey, who resides at
Iopeka, Kans., has a yearning for
Mexican rat hounds, and desires a
pair.
She would prefer the animals to
be OF n color. either red or black,
and from 3 to 6 months old. Her
preference also runs to the smaller
type of rat hounds rather than the
large breeds. Incidentally she vents
pedigreed animals only.
The Brownsville Chamber of
Commerce is endeavoring to fill
the order and provide the Topeka
lady with the desired CANNES.
The first inquiry Of the cham
Der Of commerce was directed to
some of the dog wise" gentlemen
OF the border. who stated they had
cat and coyote hounds in great
abundance; that coon and possum
dogs could be supplied by the ton
but no Mexican rat hound had
been seen on the border since
clearing of the brushlands had
forced the mesquite rats to seek
new quarters.
One gentleman at Point Isabel
offered to supply a fish hound
highly trained for both reddish and
sea trout, but expressed the opin-
ion that this dogs peculiar in
stinctS and abilities would prove
valuelesS on the Kansas plains.
The secretary of the Brownsville
Chamber of Commerce is in a
quandry, and is sending an S 0 S
to other Valley secretaries. If any
Valley resident can produce a
Mexican rat hound. he desires to
get in communication with such
| person at once.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
BY c. E. BUTTERFIELD
ASSOCIATED Press Radio Editor

NEW YORK, March 2.-(A9-
Herbert Hoover will become presi-
dent Of the United States within
the hearing of the world.
MicrophoneS by the dozens will
be at numerous vantage. points in
Washington March 4, to pick up
every word of the event. From
them will radiate sound in the
form of electrical energy to be car
ried by wire to broadcast stations
scattered from Canada to Mexico
and from coast to coast.
Besides, there will be hooked in
numerous short wave tranSmitters,
companions of stations on the
broadcast band. These will send
the signals around the world SO
that any American, no matter his
location, may have available the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
School Chiefs Meet
In Sars Benito Will
Be Social Affair
fSnecial 70 The Herald)

SAN BENITO, March "A So
cial gathering is to be held by Val-
ley superintendents and principals
here Monday night. instead of the
usual business meeting, according
to announcement of Supt. T. j.
Voc Of local schools, who is max
ing arrangements for the meeting.
The banquet is to be held at the
Sobre Las Olas cafe. and more than
200 persons r expected from all
parts of the Valley.
A program of entertainment Is
being worked out, in which pupils
of the San Benito schools will take
a part. The senior high school
girls pep squad will act as wait
resses, and a humorous playlet is
to be given, with music by the
high school orchestra.
This will probably be the only
purely social gathering of the edu-
Gators of the Valley during the
year, and other meetings being
business sessions.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03

Life Story
Reads Like Extract
From Fiction Page

powerful and opulent American en-
gineer at ease in Cairo or West
Branch; San Francisco or London;
in the great cities of the world, in
Russia, Mexico, Burma, China.
Romantic adventure and riches
came to Hoover as he showed his
shoulders into places on the globe
where white men had never gone
before. The long trail has taken
him over the South African veldt,
through the Australian bush, into
the stored jewel mines of the Pha-
roahS in Asia Minor and into the
iron mines of the Romans in the
Alps.
The odessy of adventure leads
down broad Pennsylvania avenue,
and the chubby-faced Quaker boy
OF Iowa comes into his destiny.
In background, training and
achievements, Hoover is distinctly a
different type of executive than any
gone before. Many executives were
soldiers. Hoover was, too, in a
manner of speaking. He served a
machine gun at the siege of Tient-
sin and he helped put down riots in
Russia when the first revolution
OIeu dpOTIlVe1y.
Herbert Clark Hoover is 55 years
of age. He was born August 10,
1874, in West Branch, Iowa. At
nine years Of age, he was left an
orphan.
Jesse Hoover, the village black
smith. his father. died Of typhoid
fever when the boy Herbert was six.
The mother, Huldah Minthorn
Hoover. provided for the family
Herbert, Theodore his older BROTH
er, and May, the ~youngeSt-as best
she could-but she died Of pneu-
mOnia three years after the death
of LESSEE Hoover.
After the mothers death, Her.
bert went to live with his uncle,
Allan Hoover, a farmer of Cedar
County. Iowa, not far from West
Branch. Brother Theodore-"Tad'
went to live with another uncle
and May remained with Grand
mother Minthorn.
At the age Of 10, Herbert went
to live with another of his moth
er'S brothers, DR.. John Minthorn.
who had opened a Quaker settle
ment in Oregon. Herbert attended
an academy that DR.. Minthorn had
founded, doing chores to help pay
for his keep.
His next jump was as an office
boy in his uncle'S real estate office
in Portland. A chance remark of a
stranger upon the mysteries and
possible profit in engineering start
ed Hoover on his career. He deter
mined to work his way through Le-
land Stanford University in an en-
~gineering course.
Upon being graduated. he worked
in a mine in Grass Valley, Cal,
then became affiliated with a Lon
don firm of engineers and thence
forth strobe rapidly into his career.
West Australia was his first field.
Then China, on a government mis-
sion to develop iron and coal de-
posts; then an engineering trek
over the globe.
He leaped into world notice in
handling distraught American visi-
tors in London in 1914 after the
outbreak of the world war, and from
then on, his efforts in humanitarian
work took up his time until Pres
ident Harding gave him the port
folio Of commerce secretary in 1921.
Hoover'S first steps on the politi-
cal path were timid and somewhat
uncertain. In 1920, the question
was publicly raised as to whether
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
BIG INCREASE
IN MIXED CARS
IS PREDICTED
New Rate to Go Into
Effect March S, Ex-
pected to Expand
Valleys Markets

Lower Rio Grande Valley growers
and shippers will save approximate
ly 5000, 900 annually as a result of
the mixed car rate ordered into eff
feet March 5, by the state railroad
commission, according to estimates
by rate men. This estimate is based
upon the 1929 mixed car move
ment which exceeded 5000. cars.
Rapid growth of the mixed car
business also is predicted by ship
perS, who point out that the prin-
cipal value of the new rate is not
the reduction but the fact it will
permit them to place mixed cars Of
vegetables or mixed cars of vege-
tables and fruit into small markets
which are unable to handle straight
cars of the various commodities.
The order affecting mixed cars
Of vegetables, as issued by the state
railroad commission provides:
when two or more OF the above
commodities are shipped in a mixed
carload, the carload rate on each
commodity shall be applied on the
weight thereof, using estimated
weight per package where author
lied, subject to a minimum weight
On the mixed a of 10000 pounds.
When the aggregate weight Of the
mixed a shipment does not
amount to 10000 pounds, add to the
weight of the heaviest loaded COM
modify in the shipment sufficient to
make minimum weight of 10000
pounds except when the shipment
consists Of two or more commodities
Of equal weight, weight sufficient to
make the minimum weight Of TO-
600 pounds shall be added to the
weight of the lowest rated commod-
ity.
This rule shall be used only
when its application makes a less
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
THOUSANDS OF
LETTERS NOW
IN POSTOFFICE
Special Cachet Will
Mark All Mail Co
ing Out On Lind
bergh Plane =
HOW TO MAIL
LETTERS FOR
FIRST FLIGHT

American air mail-5c first
ounce or fraction
Mexican air MAILS centavoS
QSc) for first ga ounce or frac-
ton.
American stamps on sale In
Brownsville; Mexican stamps in
Matamoros.
Letters to Mexico City to re-
turn to addressee may be mailed
In Matamoros. Such letters will
carry the Mexican stamp and
Mexican cachet only. To carry
American cachet arrangements
must be made with postmaster
at Mexico City for return bv
forwarding instructions and
necessary postage. Send inter-
national money order; do not
send American money or draft.
Northbound letters from
Brownsville, carrying the Ameri-
can first flight cachet, will be
returned to addressee il routed
by way Of San Antonio and Dali
las.
All letters to receive the
American flight cachet must be
sent or given to Postmaster G..
". bennett at Brownsville.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
WILLACY PRECINCT
No. 6 is A
Especial to The Herald)

RAYMONDVILLE, March q
Friday the county commissioners
court OF Willacy county passed an
order creating a new justice and
voting precinct, which will be
known as precinct No. 6. The new
precinct will include the territory
about San Perlita, and will stretch
east to Reddish bay.
This action will convenience peo-
pie Of San Perlita and the entire
section east Of Raymondville, who
heretofore have been included in
one Of the Raymondville precincts.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
BY L. A. BROPHY

ASSOCIATED Press Feature Editor.)
WASHINGTON, March 2.-(P)-
Herbert Hoover in becoming thirty
first chief executive of the United
States enters upon the greatest ad-
venture of a life filled with the stuff
Of which fictionists make plots.
AS he made his way to those well
banded words of ambitions goal
fame and fortune-he could easily
have stepped into character in
many novels.
There was, first, Hoover the or
phan. Then the young American
mining engineer, Drawing the mys-
terieS of China. Then Hoover, the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
GAME OF DEATH
Playfullv

CHICAGO Playfully pushing
each other off the sidewalks, Ruth
Jensen finally pushed 13-year-old
Walter Kilgallen in the path Of a
motor al and he was fatally hurt.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-03
JAZZ HELD BLASPHEMY

SHEFFIELD, Eng.-FOr singing
jazz tunes outside a chapel while
hymns were being sung within, two
girls were fined for blasphemy.
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come on at II on Saturdays, but we
do halls and baseboards and lava
tories until the tenants begin to
leave at one. And last Saturday I'd
done four suites of Offices before l
went in to do Mr.. Hayward's-and
seen him, like I told you. So it
must have been pretty near 2
say from fifteen to five minutes Of
two"
you like Mr.. Hayward mighty
well, don't you, Lefty? He's been
good to you-about tips and SO on?"
McMann asked suddenly.
Letty's lined, pale face flushed a
dull red. "Of course I like him, sir,
he's a good, kind gentleman, and
I'm sure"
ST though sol" McMann inter-
rupted grimly. "All right, what
next? When did Mr.. Hayward
leave? I suppose you're going to be
very helpful and tell exactly when
he did leave?"
Both Ruth and the scrubwoman
glared at him then, but McMann
did not seem to mind. He did seem
little nonplussed, however, when
Lefty answered defiantly:
mo, sir, I'm not, because I don't
know when he did leave! I wasn't
IN that corridor then. When Mr..
Hayward come back took my pail
and mop and broom and went
around the corner to an office I
knew was closed for the day, be-
cause it's always closed all day Sat-
urday.
"And from there I went to the
Office next to it. I didn't come back
to Mr.. Hayward's Office till after
half-past two, like I said, and I
didn't see him again.
The hope that had routed Ruth's
overpowering fatigue when she had
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remembered that Lefty Miller had
seen Jack on his return to his Of
flee died violent death, leaving the
girl utterly crushed, and so tired
that she felt she could not even lift
her eyes again, no matter what hap
pened.
If only Lefty had waited, had
watched for Jack to leave. had been
in his Office from two until ten min
utes past two, SO that she could
have refuted Bill Cowan'S damning
story about the telephone call!
II Il
VXTHILE McMann continued his
W questioning of the cleaning
woman, Ruth sat in small, inert
heap in her chair, staring with de-
spair-dulled eyes at her lax hands.
Dimly she realized that McMann
gained no further information;
Lefty had not worked in the corri-
dor on which Borden's offices were
located, hence had not had oppor-
tunity to witness the arrival or de-
parture of the dead promoters Wis
itors; she had not hard the shot
fired, or, if she had, had not noted
it consciously; when she had
cleaned Jack Hayward's Offices she
had not glanced across the airshaft,
through Jacks window to Borden's,
had, therefore, neither seen the pro-
moter nor noticed whether his win
dow was closed or open.
AS to Jacks gun, Lefty had never
seen it, she said; on Saturday, when
she had wiped off the desk drawers,
the bottom drawed had been closed,
and she had not opened it, or any
other drawer.
Ito Be COntinued)
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THIS HAS HAPPENED

AElC ms
RUTH, LESTER, secretary. finds the
H RDGk BoRDsN gy Monday 1AT moTning
sprawled beneath the airshaft window
OF his private office. He was shot some
time between one and four Saturday
M'MANN, detectives sergeant, aues-
tons the following suspects: Ruth. MRS.
mother of his two children, who ad-
mits calling on him Saturday afternoon;
RITA DUBOIS, night club dancer, who
says she called on Borden Saturday aft
bin he promised her; JACK HAYWARD.
Ruths hance, whose office is across the
narrow airshaft from Borden's..
Hayward says he returned to the
hts and, Ruth's matinee tickets left on
his desk. McMann's belief in Jacks
guilt is strengthened by the testimony
Of MICKY MORAN. and OTTO PFLU-
6 eS 5aofs fr RaydS w hod tells Gf of f ha1
ing heard Jack threaten Borders life.
A detective is sent for CLEO GIL
Benny SMITH, Borders Office boy, says
he returned to the office Saturday after
noon to get Ruths gun for target prac-
tice but it was already. gone. ASHE.
Borden's manservant, tells McMann of
woman with beautiful contralto
voice OF whom Borden lived in fear.
MINNIE CASSIDY, scrubwoman,. tells
of going to Borden's office at 1870 SatuE-
day. answering his phone while he was
out, and of telling the woman with
beautiful alto voice. that Borden re-
fused to talk to her then but asked her
if her husband knew some woman with
a beautiful contralto voice. The widow
haughtily evades the question. LEFTY
MILLER, scrubwoman in Jacks wing Of
the building. is brought in for question
Now GO ON WITH THE STORY