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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-18

Is expected to reach Brownsville on
Friday. February 20 at noon, over
the Missouri Pacific The party viii
then go Immediately to Matamoros
to give the trippers a glimpse OF
the life on the other side Of the
river.
The special will be train Of fif-
teen cars, five Of which will be ex-
hibt cars, seven pullmans. and
many features will be carried such
as q piano and radios for enter
tainment. ri Is said that the party
has a number OF high-powered
speakers to tell Of the merits Of
their part Of the nation. =
Some time Is expected to be spent
in Harlingen, the party to reach
there on Friday morning at $3.50
o'clock.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-18
GOV. MOODY ASKS DELAY

AUSTIN. Dec. 1B.-tFD-Governor
Moody today appealed to Governor
Walter z. Kohler Of Wisconsin to
intervene with that states real es-
tate board and ask that action I'm
restricting sale OF Texas real estate
to citizens Of that state be defer
red until Texas can be heard.
Governor Moody was advised that
the board contemplated forhidding
Wisconsin realtors from selling Tex
as real estate after January /. He
said such action would be discriml-
nation against Texas.
He said he understood a delega-
tion OF Texas realtors would go 10
Wisconsin to ask hearing before
the board. They advised Governor
Moody the order had been based on
instrumentation
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-18
FREEZE TONIGHT
LOCAL WARNING
Half Hour Before Sunrise Critical Period
Little Damage To Crops Expected
Clouds May Prevent Frost

to below freezing predicted
Valley Wednesday night Warnings against the cod
hit the section this last have been issued by wv
weather bureau Brownsville.
which has been sweeping the northern and western
portion Wednesday
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-18
PROTEST WISCONSIN RULING


MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. 18.-(P)
"A number OF kilograms from Tex
as associations urging them TO use
their influence toward a modifi-
cation OF the action by the state
real estate brokers board In deny
ing license for sale in the state
certain Texas lands today had
raised the Ire Of real estate men
Of this state.
Perry @. Powell, secretary Of the
Milwaukee Real Estate Board, was
indignant. I'VE are not going TO
use our influence" he said. IF
the Texas ir ,rests have any pro-
test, let them appeal TO the
courts"
william Doll. assistant secretary
or the brokers board, said the
land statesmen will have to show
their merits" before licenses were
granted or renewed.
One of the kilograms was from
the Fort Worth Association OF
Commerce. II asserted the boards
findings were unfair, erroneous
and founded on bias and preju-
dice" 1t intimated that II the ac-
ton were not reversed Texas might
retaliate by refusing 70 purchase
from Wisconsin manufacturers.
Other messages were received
from william p. Southwell, presi-
dent Of the San Antonio Junior
Chamber OF Commerce, the United
States National Bank OF Galveston.
william. Cameron and company,
Waco, Walter E. Montieth. Hous-
ton, and w. NJ. Blantcn, vice res
'dent OF the Houston Chamber OF
Commerce.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-18
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow. under normal meteorolo-
gical conditions:
El&n ss.srasr..Y-.s44.s oa14 W. His
Low 1882 "a. rl-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-18
RIVER FORECAST

There win be no material change
in the river during the next "a hours.
FLOOD Present 74-Hr 94-Elr.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-18

no all cash and carry customers
do you know that one week from
today Is Christmas day2
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13

The business expansion now under
way in Maryland is making itself felt
in nearly every industry. Particularly
is this true with the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company of Balti-
more City which furnishes telephone
service throughout the State. This
company now operates more than 202,-
900 telephones, which is an increase of
about 10000 during the past five years.
Five years hence the company expects
10 operate about 243,000 telephones, ac-
cording to Graham K. McCorkle, gen.
eral manager of the telephone COM
pany.
To provide the necessary facilities
for this anticipated growth, the COM
pany's construction program calls for
additions and improvements to the
telephone system in the State involv-
ing gross expenditures of more than
$2S,000,O0O.
This five-year program will include
new central offices and office buildings
involving expenditures of $4,400,O00:
telephone equipment including private
branch exchange systems and asso-
ciated apparatus, $6,000,000; long dis
lance facilities including pole lines,
wire and cable, $2,900,000; and under
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13
S28. 100000 EXPENDITURE
FOR MARYLAND TELEPHONES
Five Year Construction Program Provides Additional Facilities
in Every Section of State. Will Operate $4,000
Telephones by 1884 is Estimate

ground and aerial cable extensions,
pole lines and wire s1O,5OO,OOO.
Plans are under way for the con.
struction Of five new central Offices
and major additions to switchboards
and associated equipment in a number
Of existing offices. Fifteen hundred
miles of open wire copper toll lines
and $50 miles Of toll cable will be
added to the system by the end Of
1888 in order to meet the increasing
demands of the public for telephone
service, Mr.. McCorkle states. The
placing of long distance lines in these
storm-proof cables not only provides
additional facilities for the growth of
the toll service, but also materially re-
duces the storm hazards Of sleet, wind
and rain in the maintenance and oper.
alton of these telephone lines.
While the telephone was more uni
versally used in Maryland last year
than ever before, approximately 1885,
100000 local calls being made, it is
expected that at the end of the next
five years the yearly calls will num-
Der about 350,0O0,OO0. Telephone
users are now making 15,250,000 out
Of town calls each year. Mr.. Nc
Corkle estimates that Maryland tele.
phone users will be making about 49,.
100000 toll calls annually by 1888,
which is an increase Of nearly fifty
per cent over the number now being
made.
During the last few years a very
appreciate improvement has been
made in both local and toll telephone
service. This improvement has been
most marked in out of town calls. The
average interval between the time a
telephone subscriber files the call and
the time he starts his conversation or
is given definite report has been de.
creased from three minutes in 1925 to
IL minutes in 1929. While this is a
striking improvement in the service,
still further Improvements mcy be
expected.
Today about IS per cent of the toll
telephone calls in Maryland are COM
pleted or the subscriber is given a
definite report without hanging up his
receiver. Where the calling party
knows the number of the party
wanted in the distant place a toll call
is made in practically the same way
as local call.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13

ment Department of the Bell Tele-
phone System is an simplifying appa-
ratus which Is now installed as
permanent unit in many institutions,
where almost any number of people
can hear speakers who in no wise
need strain their voices.
The Huntington (West Virginia),
Herald-Advertiser Company has in.
stalled public address system that
has brought pleasure to thousands
and thousands of people. This COM
pany is the publisher Of daily morn.
ing and afternoon paper. When i'm
portant events are announced, people
gather in the streets on the two sides
OF the building to hear the returns.
Public address system installations
in nationally known institutions in.
clude the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore; Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minnesota; Mills Memorial Hospital,
San Francisco: Sacred Heart Church,
Pittsburgh; Grace Church and the
Central Synagogue, New York City;
Miami Beach Chamber Of Commerce:
Municipal Auditorium, Minneapolis;
and the City Auditorium, Frederick
Maryland. installations Of the public
address system are also found In
many amusement parks, some of the
outstanding including the Million Dol
lar Pier, Atlantic City; Playland Park,
Rye Beach, N. y; Watonowan County
Fair Grounds, st. James Minnesota.
and many others. The Lord Balti.
more Hotel. Baltimore, and the Hotel
Washington, Washington, D. c., are
also equipped with public address
systems.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13

When Mark Anthony said Friends,
Romans, countrymen, lend me your
ears, he very probably addressed a
small audience, some of whom were
able to hear what he had to say, while
others on the outskirts of the group
very likely looked at each other in a
blank sort Of way and wondered what
it was all about.
According to the encyclopedia Mark
Anthony was at the height of his
power about 80 B. c. Strange as it
may seem, from that far distant date
until the second decade of the TWEEN
tieth century, there was no change in
the method Of a speaker getting his
message across to large audiences.
Public speakers not blessed with
stentorian voices were handicapped in
addressing large gatherings whether
In the open or In auditoriums, churches,
schools, and theaters having poor
acoustic properties. Frequently such
speakers were unjustly criticized when
In reality they were doing their level
best to be heard. But the natural con.
ditions were against them to such an
extent that they could be heard by
just few.
With the Presidential Inauguration
of March 4, 1921, a great change was
brought about in public speaking. AT
that time the Bell Public Address
System came into use and since has
been used on similar occasions and as
we'll at State inaugurations and for
many other occasions where large
groups assembled.
The public address system de.
Veloped by the Research and Develop.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13
SUNNYSIDE

Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon Snyder and
children visited Mrs. Martha Snyder
near Brookside, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Moon and
littleson, Edward Grant, visited rela-
tives at Eglon on Sunday.
Mr.. Albert Fulk and family have
moved in Mr.. Howard Stahl's house
Mr.. L. L. Stahl is having his house
reprinted. Mr.. Ellsworth Moon is
employed at the job.
We are having lovely weather and
the farmers are busy cultivating their
corn.
Mrs. P. P. Gortner and son Forrest
visited Miss Emma Brindle one day
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13

ella and Martha Miller, George Mil
Ter, Elizabeth and Robert Dewitt, Ev-
erett Weitzell, Louise Dillon, John P.
Speicher, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Rhoads
and Miss Grace Wyant, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. E. Spoerlein and son Francis, and
Mr.. Roy Spoerlein.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13

the week. mon ydersM evening where
Mr. o. T. eraser j. H.
Carter, county called Solo chickens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-21

Tim a swing and he flies over. With
one leap I follow him and fall into
a ditch that lies behind the hedge.
Our faces are smothered with
duck-weed and mud, but the cover
is good. So we wade in up to our
necks. Whenever a shell whistles
we duck our heads under the water.
After we have done this a dozen
times, I am exhausted.
Let's get away, or I'll fall in and
drown" groanS Albert,
Where has it got you?' I ask
him.
"In the knee. thir
Can you run?"
81 think -"
Then out!"
We make for the ditch beside the
road, and STOPPING, run along it.
The Smelling follows us. The road
leads toward the munition dump.
If that goes up there won't be a
man of us with his head left on his
shoulders. So we change our plan
and run diagonally across country.
Albert begins to drag. "You go, I'll
come on after" he says, and throws
himself down.
I seize him by the arm and shake
him. "Up, Albert, if once you lie
down you'll never get any farthes.
Quick, I'll hold you up"
At last we reach a small dugout.
Kropp pitches in and bandage him
up. The shot is just a little above
his knee. Then I take look at
myself. My trousers are bloody
and my arm, too.
Albert binds up my wounds with
his field dressing. Already he is no
longer able to move his leg, and we
both wonder how we managed tc
get this far
Fear alone made it possible; we
would have run even if our feet had
been shot olive would have run
on the stumps.
I still can crawl a little. I call
out to a passing ambulance wagon
which picks us up. 1t Is full OF
wounded There is is army medical
lance corporal with it who sticks
an anti-tetanus needle into our
chests.
At the dressing station we ar
range matters so that we lie side
by side. They give us a thin soup
which we spoon down greedily and
scornfully, because we are accus-
toned to better time, but are hun
cry all the same.
'Now for home, Albert" I say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-21
CHAPTER XVII

A BOUT o'clock we start the
IA meal. 1t lasts till 6. We
drink coffee until 7:30-oficers'
coffee from the supply dump-and
smoke officers cigars and cigarets-
also from the supply dump. Pune
tually at 7:30 we begin the evening
meal. About 10 o'clock we throw
the bones of the sucking pigs out
side the door.
Then there Is cognac and rum
also from the blessed supply dump
and once again long, fat cigars with
belly-bandS. Tjaden suggests that
it lacks only one thing: Girls.
Late in the evening we hear new
ing. A little gray cat sits in the
entrance. We entice it in and give
it something to eat. And that wakes
up our own appetites once more.
Still chewing, we lie down to sleep.
Burning houses stand out like
torches against the night. Shells
lumber across and crash down. Mu-
milton columns tear along the street.
On one side the supply dump has
been ripped open.
In spite of all the flying frag-
merits, the drivers of the munition
columns pour in like a swarm of
bees and pounce on the bread, We
let them have their own way. If
We said anything it would only mean
a good hiding for us. So we go diff
ferently about it.
We explain that we are the guard
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big red arm chairs as well. They
stand inside the bed, and we sprawl
back in them as in a theater box.
Above us swells the silken cover like
baldaquin. Each man has long
cigar in his mouth. And thus from
aloft we survey the scene.
Between us stands parrot cage
that we found for the cat. She IS
coming with us, and lies in the
cage before her saucer of meat, and
purrs.
Slowly the lorries roll down the
road. We sing. Behind us the shells
are sending up fountains from the
now utterly abandoned town.
n
A few days later we are sent out
to evacuate a village. On the way
We meet the fleeing inhabitants
trundling their goods and chattels
along with them in wheel-barrows,
perambulators and on their backs.
Their figures are bent, their faces
full of grief, despair, haste and
resignation. Their children hold on
to their mothers hands, and often
an older girl leads the little ones
who stumble onward and are for
ever looking back. A few carry
misunderstanding dolls. All are
silent as they pass us BY.
We are marching in column; the
French do not fire on town in
which there still are inhabitants
But few minutes later the air
screams, the earth heaveS, cries ring
out; shell has landed among the
rear squad.
We scatter and fling ourselves
down on the ground, but at that
moment I feel the instructive alert
ness leave me which hitherto has al
ways made me do unconSciouSly the
right thing under fire; the thought
leaps up with terrible, throttling
fear: "You are lost"-and the next
moment a blow sweeps like whip
over my left leg. hear Albert cry
out; he is beside me.
"Quick, up, Albert" I yell, for we
are lying unsheltered in the open
field.
He staggers up and runs. I keep
beside him. We have to get over
hedge; it is higher than we are
Kropp seizes a branch, I heave him
up by the leg, he cries out, I give
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and so know our way about, We
get hold Of the timed stuff and ex-
change it for things we are short Of.
What does it matter, anyhow-in
a while it will all be blown to pieces.
For ourselves we take some choco-
late from the depot and eat it in
slabs.
Almost a fortnight passes thus
in eating. drinking and roaming
about. No one disturbs us. The
town gradually vanishes under the
shells and we lead charmed life.
So long as any part of the supply
dump still stands we don't worry;
we desire nothing better than to
stay here till the end of the war.
Tjaden has become so fastidiouS
that he only half smokes his cigars.
With his nose in the air he explains
to us that he was brought up that
way. And Kat is most cheerful.
In the morning his first call is:
Emil. bring in the caviare and
coffee"
We put on extraordinary airs,
every man treats the other as his
valet, bounces him and gives him
orders. There is something Itch
ing under my foot; Kropp, my man,
catch that louise at once" says Leer,
poking out his leg at him like a
ballet girl, and Albert drags him up
the stairs by the foot,
Observation-Disclosures at
ease, Tjaden; and what's more,
don't say What say Yes, Sir
now Tiaden!" Tjaden retorts in the
well-known phrase from Goethe S
"Gotz Won Berlichigen," with which
he is always very free.
After eight more days we receive
orders to go back. The palmy days
are over. Two big motor lorries
take us away. They are stacked
high with planks.
Nevertheless, Albert and I erect
on top our four-poSter bed COM
plete with blue silk canopy, mattress,
and two lace coverlets. And behind
it at the head is slowed bag full
of choice edibles.
We often dip into il; and the
tough ham sausages, the tins of liver
saugages, the conserVes, the boxes
of cigarets rejoice our hearts. Each
man has bag to himself.
Kropp and I have rescued two
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count, TO supper and a following
game of chess.
This was repeated quite often
in the course Of the next few weeks
and we became good friends. I be-
came more and more interested in
the plans Of Count Zeppelin.
1.-TWO or three months later I
IL happened to meet Count Yep
pelin in the early evening on the
street in Friedrichshafen. He
greeted me, and I soon noticed
that he was in a depressed state
of mind. He then toll dine that he
was in great difficulty, and did not
know any way out.
LAS a result of the revolution in
Russia, where the countess pos
sessed vast estates, he had lost
most of his fortune.
He did not know how he would
be able to gather enough money for
the building of a new airship, as
nobody had confidence in his idea,
and he was considered irrational to
waste the rest of his fortune for
such a folly. All official institutions
and the public we're against him.
II tried to comfort him, con-
scious of the meaninglessness Of
my phrases. But, at last I said to
him: 'Excellency, will try to help
you at least in one respect, as well
as can, namely in the effort to
win public opinion for your cause.
"I believe the Frankfurter lei
tung, where 1 have good connec-
tons. will be of some significance
to your work
"THE count thanked me, but I
l. felt very we'll that he did not
derive any great hopes from the
results this support by the press
would bring about.
And this showed his whole atti-
tude toward the importance Of pub
lie opinion. Later he changed his
views on the subject.
Thus 1 became, first of all, the
journalistic helper of Count Yep
pelin. I report this incident, which
is for me one of highly historic
meaning, rather in detail because
in many quarters the opinion pre-
walls that I was a journalist by
profession, and thereby came to
the work of Count Zeppelin"
And so was established friend
ship to be followed by business as
ISOLATION which was destined to
bring to realization the dreams of
Count Zeppelin, transform the
student of the northt into a man of
action, and life him from his
library into the clouds, there to
conquer the winds, and lay the
foundation for a new vessel of
transportation which eventually
would circle the globe.
Ito Be Continued
NEXT: DIR. Exkener makes his
first flight in an airship.
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CHAPTER XVI (Continued)

CHAPTER AAVl (ConLlnueo)
I stay to finish frying my last
four pancakes; twice have to drop
on the fioor-after all, it means four
pancakes more, and they are my ia
yorite dish.
Then I grab the plate with the
great pile of cakes and squeeze my
self behind the house door. A hiss,
a crash, and I gallop of with the
plate clamped against my chest with
both hands.
1 am almost in, run like a deer,
sweep round the wall, fragments
clatter against the concrete. I tum-
bic down the cellar steps, my ell
bows are skinned, but have not
lost single pancake, nor even bro
ken the plate.
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CHAPTER "

I'm a spring morning of the
~ year 1906, as I was working in
the garden Of my house in Fried
richshafen. my cook came running
towards me and said: Count Yep
pelin IS here and wants to talk to
your
"She was quite excited, for Count
Zeppelin already was at that time
a well-known personality. perhaps
not so famous as considered an orig
1nal, for he was cavalry general
who had got the idea into his head
that he wanted to fly, and already
had experienced many disappoint-
mentS.'
Thus begins the story of what
proved to be a momentous meeting
between DR.. Eckener and Count
Zeppelin, as it was dictated by DR..
Eckener when he was in New York
recently at the close of his round
the-world flight.
1t was the first meeting between
the student with the call of the sea
in his blood and the dreamer who
would ride the clouds.
DR.. Eckener then was more than
40 years old, and had devoted his
recent years entirely to the study
of economics and writing His had
been the secluded life of the stu
dent, Zeppelin's the active life of
an army officer. Zeppelin now was
the struggling inventor, Eckener
the critic. One was Silvery-haired
and aging, the other in the full
vigOr of life.
TT was clear spring morning.
Il The waters of Constance, the
lake which was to be made famous
by these two men, glistened a clear
blue in the early sunlight. But, to
return to DR.. Eckener's dictated
description of what was said and
done:
Il told the cook to bring the
count to the house. I quickly
made myself a little tidy and went
into the room where I found the
count writing
HE arose and without further
preliminaries, showed me a page of
a newspaper and asked: Did you
write this?'
1T was an article in the Frank
furter Zeitung. 1 answered in the
affirmative, for had. indeed, made
a report in that paper with regard
to the latest disaster of Count Yep
pelin's airship, the Stranding of
the same in the Allgeau, in very
objective, and for the person Of the
count, a very friendly way.
The count continued: I thank
you for what you say about me per-
sonally in this article. 1 am glad
to have met you at last, since we
have been trying to find out for a
long time who might be the author
of the reports about my flights in
the Frankfurter zeitung that are
signed Or E"
"'You reports are friendly and
prove of technical knowledge, but
they contain some erroneous con-
ceptions. and 1 have come to give
you some information in this re-
Spect.'
I'VE discussed a few questions.
and the count said on leaving: DO
you play chess? If so, I would
like to invite you to a game one
day when I am in Friedrichshafen;
then we can best talk over my
affairs
Il answered in the affirmative,
and, really, a few days later a
groom from the hotel came to me,
inviting me, in the name Of the