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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
Stock Market To
Be Quoted BY New
Electric Boards

NEW YORK. June 17.-tP-Arm-
chair spectators and investors
throughout the country will be able
to watch the progress Of their fav-
orite stocks in comfort when the
new automatic stock quotation
Boards have been installed from
coast to coast.
Ten-million share days will be
run through this electrical MASTER
piece with TO more commotion
than that Of a taximeter clicking
the RAISING miles.
The Western Union telegraph
company. which will control the
distribution and operation of the
new boards through its subsidiary,
the T~eleregister corporation. is con-
fining its plans for the present to
tie New York metropolitan district.
Ultimately. however. a transcon-
tinental circuit will be set up.
Robert J.. Dame. a French war
time aviation officer and electrical
engineer, perfected the apparatus
after working on it since 1922. -
row Is president Of the TelereE!ste-
corporation. having demonstrated
administrative capacity.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17

KEYSTONE STATE End
IN STOCK TICKERS

PHILADELPHIA, June l7.-tF-
A Speculative" map Of America
would show Pennsylvania second.
after New York. in the number or
stock and bond tickers In opera
ton.
More than 500 stock tickers are
in the state and % bond tickers,
based or exchange. records.
The total number of stock tickers
In 81 states is approaching 5000.
At the end Of 1923 more than 1850
Of these were In New York. Illinois
is third. New Jersey fourth, Cali
fornia fifth. Massachusetts sixth.
Ohio seventh and Michigan eighth.
Thirty-five cities in New York
are linked to the floor Of the ex-
change, % in PENNSYLVANIA, 20 in
New Jersey and II in Ohio. Mis-
sissippi had only one ticker oper-
ating at the end OF last Sew
eral western states had none.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
Sign Terms to Lay
Pipe For Zapata
County Gas Line
Especial TO The Heraldl

f9kGkAnA ~ 4AAI aA1f
HOUSTON. June 17.-Shipments
Of pipe to be used in construction
Of 4 gas pipe line from the Jen-
nings field in Zapata county direct
ly to Monterrey, Mexico, are ex-
pected 10 start within q week, fol-
lowing signing Of 4 contract here.
The contract was awarded by Unit
ed Gas Co. to Smith Brothers Con-
struction Co. of Dallas. The line
Is to be Of 12-inch pipe.
This line, which will be about rs
miles IN length, win cross the Rio
Grande at Roma. Texas. and pro-
coed on an almost airline to Mon
terrey. The right-of-way has been
secured for the entire line and
much Of il in Mexico has already
been cleared for pipe-laying ma
chimes.
United Gas company has fully
organized under all the require
ments Of Mexican law. an operat-
ing subsidiary. Cha MeXicana de
Gas, S. A. This company will oper-
ate as a transporting company sell
ing gas to the local distributing
company at Monterrey for domes-
tic consumption. In addition to
this, Cha Mexicana de Gas, S. A
has already signed contracts to sup
ply gas to many industrial enter
prices at that place.
Monterrey Is perhaps the seconc
largest industrial center In the re-
public and is the leading railroad
center in the northern part of
Mexico.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
OFFICE MOVED
TO IT'S GRANT
Chiropractor Includes Re-
ducing And Baths Al
New Location

DR.. M. X. Cook, chiropractor has
removed her office to IT'S Grant
street in order to extend her service
to baths and reducing. This new
service IS handled by Mrs. L. I. VIII
liams who has had several years OF
experience in this line OF work.
Steam baths, cabinet baths. turk
ish baths. mineral baths. and 9TH
ers are now offered by DR.. Cook.
This is a service that has been
lacking in the city heretofore" DR..
Cook says. "and we are building up
a large patronage. The baths are
especially effective during the hot
summer months"
DR.. Cooks reducing methods do
not call for diets. Surplus fat is
taken off with special machines and
messages. we are meeting with
success in this new line" the doctor
said. We succeed in taking off
from one to four pounds each treat
ment."
DR.. Cook is continuing her regular
chiropractic practice az the new To-
cation. Unlike most Of her pro-
fession. she also IS a qualified doctor
Of medicine. There are many in
stances where chiropractic and
regular medicine supplement each
other well. I never hesitate to rec
ommend medicine 10 a patient when
7 believe II would aid them"
a nerv-o-meter service Is offered
by the doctor.
"As In the regular practice Of
medicine. one finds good and bad
chiropractors. I believe. through my
various training and practice. I am
qualified 10 give creditable service.
I often offer a money-back euaran-
tee II I am not able to obtain re-
suits"
Dr. Cook. prior to taking up chi-o-
practic, nursed for seven years. Dur
ing these sears she believes she OBJ
tanned experience that was worth
much TO her in later. The doctor
studied medicine for three years ii
Minnesota. Later she graduated from
the Palmer School Of Chiropractic
az Davenport, Ia
She began her practice here a
little over four years ago.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
EXCHANGE HITS BACK
AT FEDERAL BOARD

NEW YORK. Jan. i7.AP-wall
street brokers see in the Chicago
speech Of President K. II II. Sim
mons Of the New York stock ex-
change. attacking the credit pro-
gram OF the federal reserve board.
a radical change in stock exchange
policy.
Instead Of remaining silent, ex-
cept when called to testify in Off
cial Investigations. as ii has done
in the past. the exchange appar-
emily has decided to adopt a mill
tant attitude.
For years the stock exchange.
through more rigid regulations OF
business and ethical conduct. and
more complete corporate publicity
has been removing or a~lleviating
the conditions which brought criti-
cism in former days.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
DeseL-Boettcher IS
Going Strong After
Years In Business

"A staff Of IL men and a fleet Of
three large trucks are maintained
BY the DIESEL Wholesale
Grocery company OF this city. Most
of the men have been in the service
of the company for a good many
years.
The concern has a large ware
house at Fronton and Fourth streets
strageticaIIy located near the rail-
road. Their service is Valley-wide
having gained a foothold in the
Valley some is years ago. A large
stock Of tsandard line groceries Is
maintained at the warehouse and
they are in a position to fill orders
over the Valley on short notice.
The local business Is a branch
Of the Desel-B oettcher house Of
Houston which has been operating
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
LISTED \ DROP

NEW YORK, June 17.-CP-The
New York stock exchange reports
a steady decline in the total num-
Der Of government bonds listed on
the exchange the last four years.
The face value of 81 listed issues
at the beginning of 1925 was ST.
OBS. 862. 042. BY the beginning Of
1929 this figure had dwindled TO
less than 1000. 900 900, distributed
among 70 issues.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17

over a long span Of years. The
company is owned by stockholders.
"A. G. Hipp has ben manager Of
the wholesale house here from its
beginning with only one break dur
ing the World war. Hipp also IS q
city commissioner and takes an &C
tive part i'll all civic affair.
Our company is an old and es-
established firm, and we feel that
we are able 70 give a service sec
ond 70 none in the Valley" Mr.. Hipp
said. Our existence depends upon
the quality OF the goods we sell
and the facility with which we han
die It. Had we not been handling
good lines and making our deliveries
quickly. we probably would have
some out Of business. We're about
is years old and still going strong"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17

SON ROBS MOTHER
CHTCAGO.-Mrs. Ella Reed had
her son, "a years old, arrested for
stealing her savings.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
RUSSIA SHIPS MORE on

MOSCOW, June l7.-tP-The
Russian Naptha syndicate has pub
lished statistics showing that Soviet
oil exports reached 100000 tons
during the first half Of the cur
rent fiscal year. ending April !.
This represents an increase from
l.I27.000 tons in the same period
Of the previous fiscal year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
Houston Building
Permits Reach Top
Mark Of $17,0OG,OOO

DALLAS, Tex, June i7.-tP-
Building permits for the year in
Houston passed the seventeen mil
lion mark last week as the Gulf city
ISSUED a total of S5l4,446. Calves
ton passed the million mark during
the same week. the ninth city in the
state to reach that total this year.
Building permits in dollars for the
rtata FnlIOur-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
West Texas Rail
Extensions Speed
Shipments to East

STANFORD, Tex. June 17.-tR
Pioneer railroad building this
year in the vast empire OF western
Texas. where as many new lines
were built last year as in the rest
of the nation combined. may *
coed the 1928 mark.
OF 225 counties IN the state near
ly Is are served almost exclusively
by the. 800 miles Of roads built
last year. More than so counties
a total ire as large as New Eng
land, still remain to be tapped by
the railroads.
A speedier outlet for Panhandle
oil products. as well as wheat. cat
tie and feed crops from ranch and
farm districts. has been made pos
sible by recent extensions.
Even today one may drive from
Austin TO I'll Paso. more than half
the width OF Texas. without Cross
ing a railroad for 800 miles. Among
the lines proposed for this year IS
a 103-mile extension Of the Rock
Island road. which added 90 miles
to its Texas coverage last year. The
new line would serve six additional
counties.
New lines that may total 200
miles are planned by the Orient
road. the Texas and Pacific and the
Santa Fe. Frank Kell OF Wichita
Falls. who has built several OF the
Panhandle's leading lines, has fur
Their projects pending.
Although no road has announced
plans for such an extension as was
made last year by the Fort Worth
and Denver company. totaling 204
miles. industrial leaders in west
Texas are confident this years new
mileage will surpass the 1923 total.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-17
BUILD MORE SHIPS

WASHINGTON. June 16.-lF-
The volume Of American shipbuild-
ing increased by 22.338 tons In
March. A nationwide summary
by the bureau of navigation puts
the total number of ships under
construction in the United tSates
at l79, against 143 a month before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

loss of revenue from taxation, as hum
dreds of cottage owners along Chesa-
peake Bay are ready to dispose of their
places bought on account of the fine
fishing formerly enjoyed. Maryland ma
tives along the bay who cater to the
wants of the anglers will also be de-
prived of a big source of revenue, and
this affects boatmen. lodging houses,
stores, gasoline stations, etc.
This year many who formerly were
not opposed to the purse meters are
now in favor of bill prohibiting their
USE It is doubtful if any legislation
in Maryland outside of the oyster ques-
ton has aroused as much interest, and
the Conservation Department of the
State of Maryland is more optimistic
this year than ever that the two bills
will be passed at this session of the
Legislature.
Conservative estimates have placed
the number of local anglers visiting the
many fishing grounds along Chesapeake
Bay and its tributaries at 5000 weekly.
These anglers agree that each trip costs
them from SO to SIS apiece, and thus
they have been turning into the hands
of Maryland merchants and boatmen
each week during the fishing season
between $4,000 and $4,000.
But this outlay was considerably
lessened last year because the anglers
we're returning home empty-handed
time after time. If there is one thing
that the angler wants, it is fair return
on the money invested in the shape of
fish. If he does not get it, he will soon
visit other places, and unless some &C
ton is taken by the present session of
the Maryland Legislature to offer local
anglers better fishing the number will
be still further reduced.
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fecting remarkably harmonious and
cooperative unit of Government serv-
ice. The spirit of loyalty which has
been manifested toward him by. the per-
sonnet of the Department of Commerce
during his seven and half years of
service there was displayed by the
smaller group that constituted the Food
Administration in the war and post
war period. 1t is this spirit that has
caused the proposal to be made for
special participation in the inaugural
parade, and the arrangement that has
been now reached to include this group
in the pageantry of the day is particu-
larly happy one, for it is both historic
and significant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
Marvland's Fisheries Bills.

Twenty thousand local anglers have
turned their eyes and ears to Annapolis
to see and hear what the present session
Of the Maryland Legislature will do
when the two bills looking to the pro-
lection of black bass and the game fish
Fl Chesapeake Bay are introduced.
Twenty thousand or more anglers
realize that unless the bill to prohibit
the use Of purse nets in Maryland wa
ters is enacted into law there soon will
be no fishing in Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries.
> Twenty thousand or more local an
glers also realize the necessity of Mary
land having black bass law similar to
those in effect in Virginia and the Dis
trict Of Columbia prohibiting the sale
and shipment of this game fish.
q" The Conservation Commission OF
Maryland is backing these two meas
ures, and the Izaak Walton Chapters
Of Maryland, Virginia and the District
Of Columbia are doing everything pos
blDle W push tIlcsc LWO DAllS W q cuS-
cessful conclusion.
Conservation departments of many
States have agreed that the purse net
IS the most deadly killer of fish and have
passed laws prohibiting its use. The
State of Maryland at present is block
ing the way, both in regard to thu
purse-net law and also for the protec
ton of bass. Virginia passed a bill fol
the protection of bass and the Congress
of the United States passed such Law
for the District of Columbia Illega
catchers of bass in the lower Potoma
and its tributaries ship their hauls u
the Baltimore markets With the closin
of those markets TO these fish
hogs this evil will be practically stopped
because the cost of shipping to farthe
points would be prohibitive.
Unless the Maryland Legislature en-
acts a law prohibiting the use of tn
Erse nets the State will suffer a bi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20

there were far more priests than min
listers. One Catholic prelate is reported
to have condemned 10000 witches. Au-
thoritieS disagree on the number burned
in the grand old matchmaking days of
/. the sixteenth and seventeenth GEN.
turtles. The minimum estimate is l0O,-
600 and the largest over a million.
Our Salem witchcraft, which resulted
in quite a few deaths, attacked us In
1881 and 1892. The last conviction of
witch in England was in 1922. but the
last in Germany was not until 1882.
George Washington was alive. The
United States was an independent Ma
ton. 1t was not so very long ago.
Witches of Both Genders.
AS time has passed witchcraft has
come to be more and more regarded as
the peculiar talent of women, and so it
Is the more surprising to find the men
Of York not only practicing the black
arts, but being called by the name of
witches instead of wizards. warlocks or
magicians. Quite likely, however. hyp-
notiSts In an earlier century would not
have been able to come into the open.
but would have set up as magicianS and
If apprehended by the authorities have
been burned to death. Thurston, the
stage magician, and the late Houdini
would not have lasted minute. Church
or state would have had them inStanter.
Or perhaps they would have become
gods. -'.'
To be sure. female witches have al
ways outnumbered the wizards. Horace
describes a witches Sabbath very en-
tertainingly and, in Greece, the women
of ThesSaly were especially famed.
A large part of witcheraft working
evil is attributed to the familiar, as 1t
was called; conceived to be actually
some animal into which a witch or
magician could project his personality
and go about unsupported, making mis-
chief. The story of Gyges' ring. to wear
which made one invisible. comes from
the earliest times. The familiar. has
been a recognized trapping since witch
craft has been practiced. There was the
Witch of Endor. of whom Saul, seeking
to raise up Samuel. said, She hath a
familiar spirit" Socrates referred to
his daemon which guided him.
Millions of people daily find some use
for the medicinal preparation called
witch hazel. Not so very long ago peo-
pie employed witches to locate under
ground sources of water so that there
they might advantageouSly dig wells.
The witches used what many people
use to this day-divining rods The
medicinal preparation referred to Is
made largely of the bark of the hazel
bush. which the witches employed in
finding water, SO, therefore, it is called
witch hazel.
| Many people are so afraid of witch
enemies that they keep their real names
secret. They have separate names
known to the public. In some cases
parents give the secret names. which
they do not disclose to the child until
MATURITY when he understands the ne
ceSsity for keeping the secret The
reason is that 1t is feared that II an
enemy knew the real name he could
conjure with it. possibly to do the per-
son harm.
And the old witch man, Rehmeyer,
fought until death to prevent another
| from getting lock of his hair for pre-
cisely the same reason-that he might
not conjure with it.
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The Democrats and Prohibition,

Representative Box of Texas, who
recently wrote to Gov. Roosevelt that
the forces which controlled the Demo-
cratic party in the last campaign
should no longer control, has told the
House that he will not continue as
Democratic whip of that body in the
next Congress. Representative Garner,
also of Texas, is to become the Demo-
cratic leader, and Mr.. Box pointed out
that it would not be reasonable to ex-
pect that Texas should have both
Democratic leader and Democratic
whip, and that 1t had been understood
that he would not continue as whip
after March 4, the close of the present
Congress.
But although Mr.. Box is withdraw
ing from the position of whip, he is
not back-tracking on his statement to
Gov. Roosevelt that John j. Raskob,
the present chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee, should give
up his present Office. His resentment
against the appointment Of Mr.. Raskob
to take charge of the Democratic or
ganization apparently is due to the
fact that Mr.. Raskob, in the opinion
of Mr.. Box, has sought to make the
Democratic party the wet" party of
| the country. He said in his address to
the House:
Early in the recent campaign Demo-
Gratis heard with diSmay that the ma
tional party organization had been
placed in the charge of a master Of
finance of the Republican party faith,
who, without becoming Democrat,
| took charge of the dishonored and per-
verted organization largely for the pur-
pose of using 1t to repeal or emasculate
| the eighteenth amendment, ratified
and cherished by every safely Demo-
cratic State and overwhelmingly adopt
ed by the Nation in a constitutional
way.
1t Is quite clear from the attitude OF
the Democratic whip of the House that
any further attempt by Democrats Of
the North and East to make prohibition
a major issue, with the Democrats TAX
i ing the wet side of the argument, will
be resented strongly by very large
number of Democrats in various parts
of the country. Mr.. Box does not be-
lieve that the 15,5Oo,o0o votes cast for
Gov. Smith indicate the strength of the
wet cause in the country. He calls
attention to the fact that, he himself
supported Gov. Smith in the recent
campaign, and the inference is that
thousands of other dry Democrats did
the same.
The next four years will see. the
question of prohibition and its enforce
ment strongly in the public eye. The
Democratic party, like the Republican
will have to determine what its attitude
is to be In the next national campaign
toward this subject. There is reason
to doubt, however, that an effort will
again be made to make the question
of prohibition an issue in national
campaign, other than its stringent. en-
forcement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-20
Dry Forces to Open Campaign
Here at Inauguration Time

folks are now much more terrible. They
dress for business and they go at their
stuff that way. Their notion seems to
be to make the vets, and not them
selves. look old-fashioned.
They are keen for the presidential
commission to inquire into possible i'm
provement of conditions under the
eighteenth amendment. They calculate
with much reason-that Mr. Hoover
will not direct that commission to in
quire into whether or not the eighteenth
amendment is good idea. They think
that Mr.. Hoover thinks that the amend
ment is legislative policy fully settled
for the time being by action of the
Congress and by action of the State
Legislatures which ratified the amend
nent. They calculate-3ustihably-
that Hoover will instruct, the commits
whereby the eighteenth amendment and
other Federal legislative policies can be
rescued from the present orgy of law
breaking.
Even at that. the proposed commits
sion has the enthusiastic support of
most of our outstanding vets
ANY inquiry of any kind by Hoover
is bound to do some good" says Sena-
tor Edge of New Jersey. distinguished
wet. to this writer. "A commission
which starts looking into any part of
this subject will be bound more or less
to look into the whole of it. The main
thing now about prohibition Is to get to
somewhere about it. Any commission
appointed by Hoover will be certain to
get to somewhere. You may say for
me that no matter who the men are
that Hoover appoints and no matter
what the instructions are that he gives
them, the whole thing will most aSsur-
eddy be managed scientifically, If it is
managed by Hoover, and am delighted
with the prospect"
Thus the vets are pouring out liba-
tons to Hoover while the drys are rat
Ting their bones for him. The dryS
are banking on his being pure. The
vets are banking on his being scientific.
Both are hopeful.