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New Britain herald., 1929-10-29
TEXAN FORT SCENE
 0F RED MASSACRE
Aged Man Lives Where Grand father Trapped, Killed Indians

,Pres:diO. Texas. Oct. oaETh" crumblinG walls of an old adobe fort slowly falling to pieces under the bright sun of the southwest, and an aged man who bdrowacs all day in the shades of a lorely rarch house, are the last lin!:s connecting th" great Big Bend country with it's bright, half-forgotten history
 Fort and man alike win soon b. dust. and that will be pity. With them will go the final touch Of the old frontier-thc old Tcxns frontier that was bloody, cruel an1 desperath and that has now the glamour Of the distant past.
 The walls of the fort C;rnot tell of the things they saw, and the man Ben Lcaton, descendant of fight ing men-is very old and can speak only in imperfect Spanisn, so that his story almost goes untold, 1oo But the story is there, ju st the sam2, and it is worth telling.
 Away back in the '5Os. when the Mexican war was a rccen. memory
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

and it's veterans were stil' restless young men, tho grandfather of the present Ben Leaton, just out of the army. ran an overland freight line from San Antonio to Chihuahua. in old Mexico. His lOute took him through the Big Bend. in the fertile Rio Grande valley. and he spotted the neighborhOod of the present town of Prosdio for his ranch.
 Leaton settled there in style. He built a great fort Of adobe bricks; a huge affair with vast open court and walls two feet thick, for Texas was wild, then, and maraudinG h. dians lived very near. LCaton be- came prosperous. His fields wcr" rich, his herds were lalec. a five mile canal brought water from the Rio Grandn, and everybody who travrlcd through this part ot Texas stopped overnight in his house.
 The Indians wanted what he had his cattle and horses especially But the tort was 100 strong for them so they tried subtlcty. They propos- ed peace, and tough cid Ben Leaton was taken in. He invited them to feast with him in his fort, and the braves came in full rcgalia, 10 eat his DarDecued steers and drink his Mexican fireWater.
 A great time was had by all. But when morning came Lcaton found the Indians had decampcd. taking with them the picl, of his livestock
 Leaton's friends wanted him 10 send for the soldiers and go after them But he had another idea. He lBade peaceful oycrtures 10 the tribcsmen again and they. thinking the white man was cOWcG. accepted them. Another great feast was or dered, and once more the red men came to the adobe fort Word of the affair spread wide, and hun drcds of Indians. from scores Of miles, came to eat the foolish white mans food and drin!; his liquor. In the courtyard Of tn, fort the | revelry continued till late. Then, 7 quietly, Ben Leaton and the other whites slipped out. The big doors were locked. Then the lnuZzles of half a dozen cannon. planted outside, 1 were stuck through the loophcles in
 the thick walls
 X moment later an unholy noise
 shattered the midnight stiffness.
 The half dozen cannon sent grape
 md canister across the courtyard
 rom every angle. Stout riflcmen
 with long -barrelcd muzzlc -loaders
 did their part. In 9 littlt while the
 last of the Indians was Ccad.
 Ben Leaton fixed burial mound. and tn" bodies were soon out of the
 way. Texas was like that, in those
 days.
 Somehow, old Ben Leaton never
 prospcred after that. His family
 fell into q bitter 1eud with relative named Burgess. over somo land, 1 One by one. the men ot each fam fly were killed of. They finally
 buried Ben him.elf in the very i graveyard where he had put the h.
 diams.
 So now, it's an aluo@t forgotten memory-just another O. the Big
 Bend country s stories that nobody bothers to write down. The old fort is falling into ruins. Mexican labor 1 CTS on a nearby farm have made their homes in It, and it's courtyard l i5 overeroWn with trees. The pres 1 cnt Ben Leaton lives in c Mexican hOvel near the fort. in typical McNi-
 can fashion, ,aZying away the days l in the shade in front of his house. But he is a connecting link be- tween the Texas of the present and ] the old days Of the wild and roman tic west.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

1 toward bettermcnt is the oppor- tunity which the adoption of the l Young Plan gives the German gov ernment to reduce thN tax load. 1 Obviously a tax reduction would prove a stimulus 10 business i Moreover the fear for Germany's l economic stability which many ! would be endangered if the Dawes l Plan continued much longer in i operation. has been removed with the result that the business and i financial community fa"cs the i'm modiatc future with increased con- 1 fidencc.
 1 The political outloo'; is viewed less conridentially. Foreign poli- tical problems. settled at the Hague conference. formerly united ] the parties forming thc govern mont. Internal problems again reclaim ascondancr and have al ready created bitter political strife. Although all parties agree that the i country's financial policy must be revised and that grcalc" economy must be obtained, the question of where to start cconomizing is caus- ing trouble, Days of fru'tloss hag- 1 gling over the governments new 1 Unemployment Insurance Bill fur nished an example of the internal . situation. Right-radcal clements, i groups around Adolphus Hitler. are also becoming more restless. and although it IS generally believed i tEat they are no longer a menace to the republic their activities are apt to insert great disquietude into the country's political life.
 ltalys financial budget shows a 1 comforting balance on the right ! side, and the succession Of con- mercial failures which followed the somewhat abrlpt standardizing of the lira at ;ts present figure are l gradually diminishing. By the end { Of the year commercial and indus trial bankruptcies are expected to averages.
 The country is politically calm under it's Fascist regime. Great progress has been made Curing the past two years in the field of re- claiming land, building roads and ships, and constructina houses. Italy has spent heavily foc improve ments. but the benefits are shortly to be roaped.
 The country is well on it's way to complete recovery from the dis astrous effects Of the war. The returns for 1929 of the wheat battle" organized by Mussolini show the biggest harvest in Italy's history. The saving to the coun- try's budget on this homegrown wheat is estimated at about half a billion lire.
 MoscoW's expectations for tn first year Of the Five Year PR O. Industrialization wet" exceeded in most respects. The total volume O. production indicated for the year was achieved in ten months The second year Of the plan. which began on October l. was sealed up- ward and there is some reason to suppose chat the scheduled amount A Of industrial progress will be ac- complishcd in four and a half or five years.
 Excellent Harvest
 The harvest has proved excellent in quantity and geographical dis tribution. The sections nearest the consuming areas brought in good crops All danger Of an actual bread shortage seems 10 have been eliminated. although the problem
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

Thomas and his allies are thinking and working hard. The situation was not made easier by the recent increase of the Bank Of England's s bank rate. The textile situation is at least temporarily in order, but the government must still deal with miners hours and wages. and inn portant negotiations between rail way employers and woI kcrs are still pending.
 The recent tariff holiday pcgo- tiated at Geneva and :he bargain ming at the Hague whereby Italy IS to buy one million tons of Brit ish coal annually are hopeful signs The position O British mandates in Iraq and Palestine will be the subject Of much parlia- mentary discussion. Disarm ment. especially on land. remains I major problem. The winter will be hard and will present an array of lluotty problems but the Labor government is attacking them with the Higor and cleanliness generally attributed to Il new broom
 Hague Benefits to France
 In France, the removal of the economic uncertainty caused by ,he heretofore uuregulated Dawes Plan is regarded as an outstanding benefit O. the Hague settlement. The principal financial advantage lies in balancing Frances war debt payments with amounts due from Germany. Withdrawal Of the Ehincland occupation armies five years prior to the tim, stipulated by the Versailles treaty will squelch dangerous unrest from Left groups and -miiitarists
 France relatively has no uncm- ployment, no strikes. A bumper wheat crop makes it urrecessary tC export gold for bread Her col onial possessions and protcctorates were never calmcr Prospects for vast public works are imminent. such as Trans -Sahaian railway, more tunnels in the Alps, the theo- retical Channel Tunnel. and q sys- tenn of airways linking France with the Mediterranean and the Orient. The Poincarists are ap- p1rently well entrencheG in their government positions. Finances are regulated, the tax return eX- cceded the 1929 estimate, Frances $ signature on the war debt accords has been honored, and separations money is in sight.
 The way has been paved for pro- nagandizing Briand's idea for I United States Of Europe. or at least ar economic and commercial fed : cration. Frances prestige in the League Of Nations is unshaken. Apparently France is one of the best places in Europe 10 spend the winter
 Wages in Germany at the end of June were almost 20 per cent above the average for 1925-27, while liv- ing costs increased during the same period only about seven per cent. The number or unemployed dropped to 950,000 in July. but is gradually mounting and is expected to increase during the winter when many outdoor activities are sus- pended. Still, the unemployment figure of last winter. when about 3,000,00o were out of work. should rot be approached this year. The basic industries, iron, steel. coal. Ignite, textiles improved during the summer and as autumn ap- preached showed no signs of de- pression. except textiles. This group remains somewhat weak de spite q recent improvcmt
 Coupled with this definite trend
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

cording 10 an announcement by his friends here. Preparations are being made for Sandino's arrival late this week Of early next week. Sandino left Nicaragua some time ago and. having been granted permission 10 reside in Mexico, took up quarters in
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29
SANDING COMING BACK

Mexico City, Oct 29 tP)--Aftcr re- siding for several months in Yuca- tan. Augustine S&ndino, NiCaraguan rebel leader, has planned visit to this city with the hope Of being re- ceivcd by President portes Gil. ac-
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

Merida after a brief visit to Vera Cruz. He avoided coming to the cap
 ital at that time.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

The Alps have been at the bottoh of the sea two or three times, ac cording to scientists.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-29

The harvest has proved excellent in quantity and geographical dis tribution. The sections nearest the consuming areas brought in good crops. All danger Of an actual bread shortage seems to have been eliminated, although the problem
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17
Indigestion
Goes Quickly,
Pleasantly

When YOU begin 10 suffer from
heartburn. gas or indigestion. IL;
usually the frult Of too much acid
in your stomach. The best way
the quickest wav-to stop yoiir trou-
BILE is with Phillips Milk of Magne-
STA. A spoonful in water neutralizas
many times its volume In stomach
acids-and does n instantly. The
symptoms disappear in five min
utes.
You viii never Use crude methods
when YOU know Phillips Milk OF
Magneisa. And you will never al
low yourself 70 suffer from over
aciditv again. n Is the standard
ants-acid with doctors and has beer
for over fifty years.
Your drug store has Phillips Mix
Of Magnesia. in f,nerous CSC ant
soc bottles. Full directions for it,
many uses in every package. In
sist on the genuine. A less rerfec:
product may not act the same.
Milk of Mag-esia" has been tho
y. S. Registered trade mark of tho
Chas. II. Phillips Chemical Co. anC
its predecessor Chas. II. Phillips
since 1675.-ACv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17
Especial to The Heraldl

MEXICO CITY. Sept. I7.-Dr.
Manuel Gamio. well known Mex
lean scientist. who has made a pro-
found study Of the Mexican emil
grafton problem. does not share the
opinion, expressed by the press and
by authorities time and time again,
that Mexican emigration TO the
United States has alarming" as
poets.
Mexico Is not thickly enough pop
ulated. he says. 10 constitute a real
menace 10 a country like the United
States. and in the second place
American immigration and census
statistics do not give a true picture
Of the situation.
While the Mexican immigration
department registers the outgoing
as well as incoming persons. the
United States bureau is mostly con-
cerned with the influx Of Mexicans
rather than the exit, DR.. Gamio
says. Furthermore. the United
States census figures are taken az a
time when Mexican harvest labor
is In the United States, but only
temporarily.
American restriction Of the Eu-
ropean immigrant, DR.. Gamio be-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17

MEXICO CITY. Sept. ia
measure providing for freedom or
the press In Mexico has been pre-
pared under the direction Of the
ministry Of the interior and is 10
De sent TO congress soon.
The law would provide that no
persons, wen when they are vested
with high authority. can hinder
freedom Of speech, no matter
whether the speech is oral, in script,
IN print, or in any other way.
Freedom Of speech is an inalienable
right and anyone attempting TO re-
strict IL shall be guilty Of a crime"
"A distinction Il made, however.
between anonymous and signed
material. The new law would pro-
vide that all published matter con-
tain either the name OF the author
or editor or the name OF the pub
fishing concern.
The maximum penalty for at
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17
SUITS FILED IN DISTRICT
COURTS. HTDALGO CO.


No. A-501, Francisco Longoria VS..
Manuelita Castillo de Longoria, di-
vOrce.
NO. A-5O2. Ramona Fuentes de
Torres VS.. Bernardo Torres. divorce.
No. A-503. j. G. Engleman, Jr. vs..
Geo. +. Lucas ct al, foreclosure lot
II. La Blanca subd.
No. A-504. Katherine M. Kirgan
ct vir VS.. Maude G. Smith ct al,
foreclosure, N. 80 acres lot 10, sec.
249. Tex-Mex. Sy.
No. Ass, B. S. Graham VS.. j. z,
Pentecost ct al. W. IL acres lot Is,
sec. 200. Tex.-Mex., Sy.
No. A-506. l.. ID. Matthews ct ux
VI. @. X. O'Bryan ct al. foreclosure
lot %. Wrights addn., blk. $50, Mer-
cedes.
No. A-5O7. National Loan a. Inv,
Co. VS.. j. w. Osborne. foreclosure
lot Z, blk. 4. Palm Heights. Meal
len.
No. A-495. w. Fl. Atwood VS.. c. I
Haven ct al. N. 10 of 8. 20 acres LOT
6, sec. 239. Tex-Mex.
No. A-495, Harding-G Gil Co. VS.
c. <. Beggs ct al. w. 80 acres lot 3,
blk. 10. Harding Gill subd.
No. A-496. Harding-G Gil co. VS.. J
Fl. Houston ct al. lot 8. blk. IS, Mo-
Tex. survey.
No. A-497, Harding Gill Co. vs.. q
Z. Carter et al. s. IL lot IL, blk. q
Harding Gill subd.
No. A-498. Harding Gill Co. vs.
Joe and Amey Parks ct al, ". IL
lot l, blk. Is, Mo.-Tex. survey.
No. A-499, w. A. Harding VS.. j
B. Blackburn ct al. lot 5. blk. z and
lot 8, Harding & Gill subd.
A-500, w. A. Harding VS.. RUBY
Griffin ct al, lot /, blk. AZ. Mo.-Tex
survey.
No. A-437. Lidislao Trevino vs.
Paula Gonzales de Trevino. divorce
No. A-488. j.. r. Beck vs.. Ameri-
can Rio Grande Land a. Irrig. Co.
farm tract 2l44. N. Capisallo dis
a. farm tract 2l45. N. Cap.
No. A-489, J. NJ. Hardin VS.. G. II
Hass. ct al. w. so feet lot 2, blk. 3
Donna townsite.
No. A-490. S. 3. Thompson VS.
Thelma Keeney ct al. N. 80 acres
Of S. 10 acres of w. 4I6 IL feet
blk. Is. La Blanca subd.
No. A-49l, Francisco GuajaFdr
Garcia vs.. Reyes Garcia. divorce.
No. A-492. w. II. Atwood vs.. g. I
Haven ct al. >. / acres lot @. sec
$50, Tex.-Mex. sur.
No. 7432. Leonor Perales dc Her
rera VS.. Placido Herrera. divorce.
No. A-483. Rettia Mae Walker VS.
Walter Walker. divorce.
No. A-484, Shannon Yvarro VS.
Librado Valdera &c Yvarro. divorce
No. A-435. NJ. L. Woods Co. Inc
VS.. Stanley A. Duval ct al. 10 acres
Of w. 20 acres, NJ. L. Woods Co
tract No. 2.
No. A-486. Z. r. Leak vs.. Chic
Lathrop Leak. divorce.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17
Enforcer Of Fruit
Law Opens Office
Especial to The Hersldl

HARLINGEN. Sept. III. C.
PowelLin charge Of enforcement OF
the green fruit law. arrived in the
Valley Monday. and is opening his
Valley offices again here.
Mr.. Powell will have a force Of
men AZ work BY the opening OF the
shipping season. October 4.
The fruit II much earlier this
year than II was last year. some CT
II having n sufficient sugar content
at the present time To pass the test.
There was a prospect that some
fruit would be offered for sale in
the Valley this week. as a local
grower said ne had fruit that has
already begun TO color. and ne may
put il on the market in the Valley,
as II passes the green fruit re-
auircmcntS.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17
Huge Acreage For
New Potato Cron

WASHINGTON. Sept. 17.-Flor-
ida and Texas garoWers Of early
potatoes have reported to the 5fI-
reau OF agricultural economies.
United States department Of agr;-
culture. that they intend TO plant
$1,000 acres for next springs crop
as compared with 81 ,080 acres
planted for the 1929 crop. This
increase is not excessive. says the
bureau in its September - report
On the outlook for early potatoes. IN
view OF the relatively low supply Of
old potatoes that viii be on hand
next spring. The bureau estimates
that stocks OF merchantabla po.a-
toes on hand January. l. 1880. will
be around $4,000. 900 to 80, 000.G 600
bushels on January /. 1929. With
normal yields. the greater paintings
in the two states would produce
about 100000 bushels as compared
with 3.277.000 bushels IN 1929, and
ven if production should reach A.
100000 bushels. the price OF ;he
crop. in the bureaus opinion. should
not fall far below the average Sc
cured in 1929.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17
REBEL NJ co TO
MEXICO

MEXICO CITY. Sept. l7.-LAndH
seized from rebels will be given to
the National University OF Mexico
II has been announced by Garcia
Teller. new president Of the tnstl-
tuition.
In a further effort to raise funds
10 support the university a cam
paign will be conducted among the
alumni, Teller said. A financial
board has been appointed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-17
GOVERNMENT SPECIALIST
SHOWS lS-DAY DIET MAY
HARM SOME INDIVIDUALS

A~LAttA0A GACCa
WASHINGTON, Sept. l7.-when
q doctor prescribes the same diet for
q lot Of his patients. presumably his
theory Is that they will thrive on it:
not that the diet will thrive on the
patients.
Even though the medico especially
favors some particular foOdstuff. tie
only fair inference is that he belle--s
those patients need plenty Of 1t.
Not until we learn that il Is a
foodstuff OF which the physician
himself is a large commercial pro-
Queer are we justified in wondering
II his natural desire TO improve the
market for 1t may not have influ-
enced him (of course unconsciously)
TO recommend it so highly. It does
not follow then that there is any
thing the matter with IL as a food
stuff.
No Less Valuable
On the contrary. quite likely 1t Is a
first-class foodstuff and a first-class
diet. The fact that the doctor is
making a mighty good thing out Of
the combination. as a side line TO his
practice. does not necessarily de-
tract one whit from its value.
Take the recently celebrated "l8-
day diet" for instance?
Assistant Surgeon General r. C.
Williams. dietary specialist Of the
United States public health service.
speaks exceedingly well of citrus
fruit.
He mentions II merely rs a series
CT condolences that the 16-day diet
appears to have originated in Holly
wood, that II is a diet especially rich
in citrus fruit, that Hollywood Is in
California and that California is a
great citrus fruit state.
All this proves nothing whatever
against the 18-day diet, DIR. Williams
agrees. He goes no farther than TO
say that 1t MAY be harmful. How?
Well, explains the doctor. individuals
vary and the things that all them
vary, too.
At best. as he points out the suf-
ferer certainly cannot cure himself
of q disease which really afflicts
him, by mistakenly dieting for
something else that he Is not n vic
tim of at all: and at worst his diet
Is liable to positively aggravate his
real complaint.
A physician should first determ-
the what the illness Is and then
prescribe the correct diet for II. II a
diet be required at all. insists The
assistant surgeon general
As for folk who simply are over
weight. DR.. williams suggests some
what less food al round; not on
just a few dishes alone.
They cannot safely overdo II.
either. he adds. for a pound a week
is about enough. no matter how fat
one may be, o the reduction will be
weakening: readjustment should be
gradual. For folk in sound health,
appetite Is a pretty reliable guide.
That rule Is not to be overlooked.
observes the specialist.
Agricultural Surplus
Finally. we must not forget that
these are times Of an agricultural
surplus. Farm production Is food
production In the main. What neat
er way Of unloading a redundancy
Of 10 than that OF persuading the
public TO eat II up7 1t that IS pos
sible.
II cannot be done. with an entire
excess crop Of everything. Maybe.
however. it can with a few COM
modities.
Give a thought TO that idea. IN
weighing the merits Of much press
ACCENTED diet fads, urges DR.. Will
liams.