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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01
ZIG SHIP
FOR FRENCH NAVY

SAINT NAZAIRE. France, July 1
Disqualification that nine ships
larger than any French vessel are
being built in other countries has
fastened plans for a new French
%suDer-line to De launched in 1881.
This port. which was visited by
more than 100000 Americans dur
ing the World 20 3 seriencng
new activity as France pushes plans
TO accommodate the new ocean palace
and make Saint Nazaire one IF the
great shipbuilding centers of the
world.
German labor and technical skill
are taking Part in the construction
to the extent Of more than $4,000. 900.
rms IS in the form Of ~reparation
payments in kind.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01
Scientific Boat
Leaves Pit. Isabel
On Yucatan Trip

The 28-foot sloop. Fortuna, carry
ing a party Of five Houston men en-
route to Yucatan on a scientific
journc-, is on its way along the
southern coast Of Mexico, following
its landing at Point Isabel Satur-
day after weathering a heavy gulf
storm.
The boat. which left Houston
Monday night, landed for more
fuel. Hans Nagel, Houston zoo
keeper and director Of the party,
came to Brownsville for the addi-
tional fuel.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01
OHIO COLLEGE HONORS
N. Y. BANKING CHIEF

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 1.-(P)-
Albert H. Wiggin, chairman Of the
Chase National bank in New York
will become "Dr. Wiggin" soon when
Kenyon college in Gambierf, Ohio,
confers on him a degree of doctor
Of laws.
Mr.. Wiggin neve attended a
university. He was a student at
Dwight school and the English high
school in Boston until his seven
teenth year when he went to work
for a bank.
He will become chairman and ex-
ecutive head of the new Chase-Na-
tional Park merger and will receive
the degree for his services to in
ternational finance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01
BANANA BOOM AIDS
COLONY OF FRANCE

CONAKRY, French Guinea, July
1.-P-This French colony expects
to provide the mother country this
year with half, and in two years,
the whole Of its supply Of bananas.
This is made possible by the in
stallation Of a modern cold storage
plant and the introduction Of spe-
cial transportation methods.
In 1920 the colony exported only
FOG tons Of bananas while in 1927
it produced $500 tons. In addition
to supplying the needs of France
plans are being made to invade the
world markets in the near future.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01
TICKER TAPE A
WALL STREET CHURCH

NEW YORK. June 1.-iP-A
house Of worship draped in ticker
tape is the predicament in which
Trinity church finds itself after
each parade up lower.
Wall streets own "Chautaudua
salute" consisting Of miles of ticker
tape dumped from windows hun
dreds Of feet above the street. usu-
ally leaves the steeple, ~buttresses
and surrounding tombstones OF
Trinity looking like Coney Island
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01

Fifteen years after the money was
spent. the French parliament ap-
proved the budget Of 1914. War
caused the delay.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01

More than $40, 1000, 600 will be
needed to repair the roads Of France
destroyed by heavy automobile traf-
flc in the past year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01

Merger negotiations under way
would place all French aviation
lines under one management.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01

Shipment Of blooded cattle from
Canada to Australia has become an
important export item.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-01

Aviation is weaving a network Of
passenger lines throughout the
southwest SO that travelling is pos
sible in almost every direction.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
Couple Married AT
McAllen City Club

McALLEN. Texas, Nov. line
Allen Visitors Club. recently open
ed by the McAllen Chamber OF
Commerce as a recreation center
for visiting residents Of Texas and
other states. Sunday was the scene
OF the wedding Of two visitors when
Miss Mary Belle Stuckey, daught-
er of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis r..
Stuckey of Spring Hill. Kansas.
and Mr.. ID. r. Finley Of Donna
we're united in marriage by the
Rev. Gift M. Epps. pastor OF the
First Methodist Church OF Phnrr.
Mr.. j. q. McKibbenS and Miss
Elsie Pearl Truskeett stood with
the couple.
Mr.. and Mrs. Finley will be az
home at the Truskeest Ranch
northwest Of Donna.
Mrs. Marie Warren. hostess at
the McAIlen Visitors Club. il more
firmly convinced than ever That the
club Is a worthwhile project.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11


McALLEN. Nov. IL McAllen
building continues It's upward trend
through the lightning OF the hOli-
day season and no lct-up forecast
for at least two months.
Construction work on the new
S45. 1000 j. G. Penney Company
building has now reached the Sc
cOnd floor and the walls OF the
two-st0ry brick. concrete and steel
building are practically complete.
An $4,000 brick and tile building
Is now under construction on South
Broadway three blocks south or
the Penney building. which when
completed will house the McAllen
plant OF the DR.. Pepper Company
OF Brownsville. The company's Val
ley headquarters are located IN
Brownsville and the erection OF the
McAllen plant Is expected to pre-
sage the expansion OF this firm IN
the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
McAHen Tax Quarrel
May Go Into Courts

mSALLEN, Nov. u-LegaHty Of action taken by the City OF McAlen
r41 n. provisions Of the special charter Of 1927 which brought into the
80 limits ot McAlen about 5000 people and doubled the area OF the
"nsn wn De questioned before the United States Supreme Court. It
~ indicated by citizens Of the districts brought into the city by the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
Mercedes Methodists
Elect New Officers

Especial to The Herald)
MERCEDES. Nov. 1.-THE fol-
lowing new stewards for the First
Methodist church OF this place
have been elected. T.. III. Henry.
president; J. A. Glover, treasurer.
J. vi. Reynolds. secretary: III. r..
Tidware, o. l.. Pirtle. Paul Guest,
A. B. Riley, Robert Miller. ID. w.
Glasscock and L. d. Golbreath.
G. A. Carlson. chairman, j. T.
Haynes. g. r. Wood. "A. ". Brown
and II. r. T5dmore have been
named trustees Of the property OF
the church.
". w. Gay has been made sup
erintendent o. the Sunday School:
Gilbert G~lasscock. president OF the
Senior league. and Mrs. 4. I. Col
breath, superintendent 0f the
Junior league.
Mrs. Harold Roland Is president
o. the Wonan's Missionary society.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
Great z Minute
Cold Believer
Takes Country

The sensation OF the drug trade
1B Aepircnai. the two-minute cold
reIlever. authoritatively guaranteed
ny the laboratories: tested. APPROX
ed and most enthusiastically n
dorsed by tho highest authorities.
and proclaimed By the people al
ten times as quick and effective az
whiskey. rock and rye. or any other
cold remedy they have ever tried
To get rid % that cold. step into
the nearest drug store. hand ths
clerk 500 for a bottle OF Asplronal.
the liquid cold remedy. and tell him
20 serve you two teaEoonsfuL With
your watch in your hand, take the
drink at one swallow and call for
your money back IN two minutes IL
you cannot feel the distressing
symptoms % your cold fading away
Don't be bashfui. for al druggists
invite and expect you 20 try IL
Take the remainder OF the bottle
home 10 your wife and children.
for Aspircnal is ty far the safest.
rTpst effective. easiest 10 take ard
IRE most agreeable cold remedy FOR
children as well as adalts. Quickest
relief for catarrhal Group and chill
drensa choking I'D ct night. Al
drugg1ats carry and guarantee As
uir0rai. the largest selling Ecul1
cold remedy In the world (adv)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11

REQUEST TO BLIND
London--Francls w Percival be-
queathed his box in Albert Hall for
the use OF blind musicians.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
EDINBURG CLUB ASKS
NON-MEMBERS TO MEET

EDINECPF. %ov. ii-Buslness-
men 81 Edinblr- Eno are noG men,
hers ~ ne Young Mems Business
League have been invited 10 The
regular meeting OF the orzaniza-
ton Tuesday evening 20 acqualrt
themselves Nth the ACCOMPLISH
ments o. the hague.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11
Highway Department
Base at McAllen

McALLEE. Nov. 1.-The state
highway department Of Texas sat-
urdaT returned a signed contract
70 z. z Phelps Of McAllen for the
lease Of property IN the northwest
portion of MrAllen 70 b. Used a.
the Hidalgo County base Of opera
tions for the department
The department formerly main
tanned tie Eldaiso county head
quarters In Pharr.
The location leased - one block
north Of the South Texas Produce
Conpany's packing shed on the
Southern Pacific riznt-of-vay and
is AZ the corner Of Beechnut Avenue
and North 2lst Street. q space $50
feet square being leased.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-11

@@e~A ~ uucCtIl& mere. /.
Inc reason for taking the case in
70 the high tribunal is to definitely
and permanently settle the disagree
ment which arose between residents
OF the annexed territories and the
city commission when tax assess
ments we're made in the property for
the years Of 1928 and 1929. Resi-
dents OF the annexed sections de-
elared that city taxes. added to the
water district and other taxes al
ready imposed upon their property
and with which other residents OF
p city Of McAllen did not have
70 contend would make the total
taxes so high as to be practically
prohibitive Of payment In some in
stances.
In an attempt 70 settle the dis
agreement. residents Of the annex
ed sections made three different
proposals TO the city commission
which the latter promptly refused
70 consider because OF tax discrimi-
nation and other reasons.
Prior to presentation Of the three
propositions looking 10 a settlement
OF the disagreement, residents OF the
annexed sections made UP q fund
approximating $1,000 with which 20
take the matter into court in case
q compromise was not affected.
Whether this amount has been in
creased is unknown.
An advertisement appeared in Nc
Allen newspapers the latter part Of
the week. signed by committee, !"
which stated In part that "a large
number Of property taxpayers have
agreed to contest the extension Of
the city limits. II you do not join
in this suit, your property will not
be protected. but Ii you desire this
protection, leave your check for your
pro rata part at the office Of -"
In this blank space was inserted the
name Of q local firm.
10 has been pointed out that In
taking the case into the courts 70
establish the legality OF the city's
action, no open fight Is designed Or
desired. The object is 70 learn
whether. in the eyes OF the Law.
the newly annexed portions Of the
city are legally sections Of the City
OF McAllen and as such subject 70
taxation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Insurance Legislation

Inasnuch as insurance companies are subject to
strict legislation in order that the public may be
safeguarded, perhaps there is no more important bill
before the legislature than the proposal to SO change
the basic rates as to greatly reduce premiums.
The first consideration is safety to all companies.
This is insured by the laws which require reserve funds
to meet all expected death claims.
1t is asserted that the rates are now based on
mortality statistics assembled more han sixty years
ago and are not upon the actual experience of in
surance companies.
1t is proposed to change from this basis to one
which recognizes the actual experience, not of one
company, but of all companies, over a period of a
half century.
The proposal is not confined to Indiana. The
same effort has been made in other states. In a
very few it has succeeded.
1t is to be expected that so great a business as
that of insurance would not accept legislative change
without a protest.
But it is true that if the proposed change is one
which would protect the policyholder and save him
a considerable portion of his premiums, it should be
made. The price of protection should not be ex-
cessive.
On the surface there can be no quarrel with the
proposition that insurance rates should be determined
by experience. 1t is undoubtedly true that in the
past sixty years the ordinary span of life has been
heightened. Science has conquered disease. The
medical profession has made tremendous advances.
Epidemics are stemmed. Sanitary conditions have
been vastly improved.
1t is absured to believe that a business which is so
rigidly regulated by law should object to a regulation
which considers these new and changed conditions.
Inasmuch as practically every citizen is a buyer
of insurance, this proposed change deserves more
than ordinary scrutiny and consideration.
If insurance rates are too high, because of a failure
70 recognize changed conditions, the basis should be
changed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Wrestling With Crime

URINE an6 efforts to suppress it
~ have come to occupy a good
deal of attention in this prosperous
land of ours.
Not only congress, but forty-two
state legislatures are wrestling with
the problem, yocally at least.
Suggested remedies run all the
way from amending the national
constitution to the reinstatement of
whipping posts.
Some cry for mercy and some for
force.
Half a dozen states seek relief by
copying the Baumes law of New
York. In as many more, California
being one, moves are on foot to
abolish capital punishment.
The outstanding feature of it ali
is that we do not seem to know ex-
actly what we are up against, much
less what we ought to do.
Each crime and each phase of
Crime is becoming more and more
of a mystery, but not half so much
of a mystery as is the increase of
crime in a country where people are
supposed to be growing happier
through prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Musical America?

That was a fine compliment the New York con-
cert manager gave La Porte, Ind. 1.-THE center Of
musical America is the title he awards that town, be-
cause 8 per cent of its population attends concerts
regularly.
Or perhaps this is rather a rap at the rest OF the
United States, which musters an average of only 4 per
cent of such music lovers. Those would-be centers,
New York ans. Chicago, turn out less than l percent.
Statistics may De a poor way to measure art or
count culture, but La Porte must be a better place in
which to live than the thousands of American towns
and cities whose highest ambition is to have the tallest
building, or the busiest crossroads, or the biggest
something else in the world.
We can dream of a better place even than La
Porte-of a singing town which produces its own
concerts. What has become of the choral societies
and singing fraternities of the last generation?
We can't afford to dispense with legs because we
have automobiles, nor with play because We have
professional sports. Why should home and COM
munity die out, just because we have professional con-
certs and radios?
There is no copyright ON this idea in case any
other town wants to start a friendly competition with
La Porte as "the center of musical America"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Melville E. Stone

The following tribute to Melville E. Stone, coun-
selor of the Associated Press, who died Friday, was
made by Roy w. Howard. chairman of the board,
Scripps-Howard newspapers.
THE name OF Melville E. Stone and that of the
Associated Press, a great man and a great organiza-
ton, are inseparably interviewer. The Associated
Press organization rightly claims Melville Stone as
its own, but all American journalism is heir to his
memory and the beneficiary of his genius.
mot unnaturaIly his colleagues in the Associated
Press stress the Importance of a great principle which
he brought to a successful development-the principle
of cooperative news gathering and dissemination.
But his contribution to American newspaper develop
ment was even greater than that. in that he more
than any other man raised the standard of ethics and
fixed mdelibly en- American journalism the principle
of absolute impartiality and complete separation of
fact and opinion in news reporting.
This outstanding difference between American and
foreign journalism has come to be the measure of
efficiency and effectiveness of de mocracy il this
country. as compared with that of any foreign de-
nocracy."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
REINFORCEMENT

The constitution of the United States has many
admirers, but no paid lobby in Washington to advance
its interests.
And SO the bill to reapportion membership in the
house OF representatives lies neglected while the sem
ate debates other matters, important, but not funda-
mental, as this is.
1t is an interesting coincidence that the senate is
concerned with fixing drastic penalties for persons who
hout the controversial prohibition law, while at the
same time is itself guilty of f1outing the basic principle,
and express provision Of the constitution, on the right
ness of which there is no dispute at all.
Time is passing rapidly. In two weeks this congress
comes to an end. If it comes to an end without ap-
proving the pending reapportionment bill, the first IN
recent years which does no possible injustice to any
section of the country, it thus may set an example
of law defiance which no amount of filming and I'M
prisonment of prohibition violators can counteract.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Morbid SightSeerS

THE old idea that poverty was
4 the principal cause of crime and
that crime was bound to decrease as
poverty decreased seems to Esave
been exploded.
It certainly offers no explanation
for such tragedies as that which
occurred in Los Angeles Saturday
night, when young Edward L. Do
heny was killed by his confidential
secretary, who later committed sui
eide.
We drove past the Doheny estate
about 10 Sunday morning. There
were guards at every entrance.
There needed to be.
SightseerS already had begun to
gather, men, women and children,
even mothers with babes in their
arms peering over the flower Dor
dered wall, scanning garden, ter
race and lawn, staring c%uriously at
the big stone house.
Nothing to indicate that violent
death had entered here only a few
hours before, that two men on the
sunny side of forty lay dead, that
five little children had been sud-
denly orphaned, that their widowed
mother was in a state of helpless
collapse, that an iron-nerved mil
lionaire of 70, never known to cringe
at misfortune, had sunk beneath
the crushing blow, nothing but the
guards, to the closed gates, the
autos, moving ever so slowly or
parked beside the road.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18

lights. Magnetic storms which disturb the compass
and throw telegraph lines and cables out of order
are also most common at these times.
These terrestrial results do not seem to be the di-
rect results of the magnetic nature OF Sun-spotS, but
rather to some intense radiation from especially bright
faculae near them.
There is no evidence to connect s~un-spots with
thunderstorms or rain.
Above the suns surface or philosophers is the solar
atmosphere. a layer of luminous but transparent
gases.
The atmosphere consists of two parts. First, there
is a LAYER composed of the vapors of many chemical
elements extending to a height of a few hundred
miles.
This is called the reversing layer, because it is the
action of this layer which causes the dark lines in
the solar spectrum.
Above the reversing layer is a layer OF very light
gases, chiefly composed of hydrogen, helium and cal
cium vapor rising TO a height OF several thousand
miles.
This layer is known as the cromosphere or color
sphere because of its reddish or pink color when seen
during a total eclipse.
The chromosphere is directly visible only during a
total eclipse because at other times it is completely
swallowed up in the binding white glare OF the pho
tosphere.
1t can. however. be seen at any time by using the
spectroheioScope.
Floating in the chromosphere are great clouds OF
yapor, chiefly of calcium and hydrogen. These clouds
have been named dccculi by DR.. Hala
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

believe that it is possible for &C
quired characters, as these mutila-
tons are called, to have their in
fluence and they believe that if the
mutilations we're persisted in long
enough the results would eventU-
ally be noticeable in the offspring.
DR.. o. A. Beadle has called at
tention to the fact that peculiar
formations of the jaws or teeth may
be inherited. In one family he
traced the sporadic absence of one
or more teeth of both sets through
three successive generations.
In studying defects of teeth DR..
Beadle became convinced that there
are three types of ~congenital teeth
defects: first, those that are due
to bad nutrition and which are not
inherited; second, those that are
inherited but which do not appear
regularly, and third, those that are
inherited and appear consistently
in the offspring.
The exact cause of harelip is not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-18
Inheritance Study FaScinateS Scientists

understood. A German investigator,
Werner Birkenfeld, finds that in
Europe there is one case Of harelip
ror cleft palate to every 2,400 chill
dren that are born. Boys are af-
fected more often than girls in the
ratio of three to two.
In 20 per cent of the cases there
was evidence of other cases in pre-
vious generations of the family. Fur
thermore, patients with harelip were
found in most instances to have
other defects of structure as well.
1t has now been definitely eStab-
lished that extra fingers and toes
tend to be inherited. A disease
called brittle bones runs in families
and a tendency to bleed called
hemophila is directly inherited, in
deed, it is sex-linked, being Inherit
ed only through one of the exes.
More and more it is becoming
evident that improvement in the
race is dependent on a study of all
of these factors Of inheritance.