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SOCIETY
Continued From Page Nineteen)
Of the officers Of all branches Of the
United States service.

OI tIe Objects Oh Ill Va VIC
United States service.
Mr.. and Mrs Max George Dennison
Prentice entertained at dinner party
for IL last evening at the Greenway
Inn, the occasion being the anniversary
seated at one long table which was
decorated with silver vases of pink
butterfly roses and pink taper candles
in silver holders. Bridge was played at
their home on Porter street, where
the same decorations were carried out
as at the dinner. The list of guests in
Guided Mfr and Mrs. Henry Gordon
Edmonds, Mr.. and Mrs. William Ker-
lin. Mr.. and Mrs. Oren r. Lewis, Mr..
and Mrs Albert Law, Mr.. and Mrs.
Verne Simmons aud Mr.. George
Brandt.
Mrs Harriet Hawley Locher, presi-
dent of the SorOptimiSt Club, will be
hostess to the members of that organi-
cation Saturday, May 25, at her sum
mer home. Loneagle Ledge, Wellington
Villa, Fairfax County, Va. The feature
of the days entertainment will be the
hydroplane races, the course of which
carries them over Mrs. Locher'S prop
erty. Miss Edith Place Of the Greater
London SoroptimiSt Club will be the
honor guest. Miss Place, in touring
the United States, is visiting the Sorop-
timist Clubs of the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G.. Burger will close
their apartment in the Wardman Park
Hotel tomorrow and will go TO Cincin-
-aati, where they will be for some time
before returning to the hotel.
An entertaining evening is being
planned by the Junior Club of st.
Anthony's parish May %. Cards will
begin at o'clock and dancing will last
from until IL o'clock.
The committee in charge of the af-
fair includes Miss Agnes Stock, chair
man; Miss Mary Halden, Miss Jane
Roach, Miss Doris West, Miss Dorothy
Burch, Miss Elizabeth Hurley. Miss Eva
Hatton, Miss Mary Howe, Miss Sarah
Howe. Miss Dorothy Harrington. Miss
Frances Eagan, Miss Helen Eagan, Miss
Catherine Bealman and Miss Mary
Barnes.
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Mr.. and Mrs l.. c.. Burger will close
their apartment in the Wardman Park
Hotel tomorrow and will go to Cincin
-.ati, where they will be for some time
before returning to the hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-24

Slip-over Blouses Of Satin and
Crepe in printed and plain colors. J
Trimmed or tailored styles. Spe-
cially priced.
Other New BIOnses 10 $I9.75
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
ESSEX HAS
new BRAKES
New Design Makes III
Impossible For the
Brakes to Drag

Full floating. self ~aligning. two
shoe four wheel brakes provide two.
way braking efficiency on the new
Essex Challenger.
The brake shoes float in position
and present the full surface Of the
lining at the instant of brake sppli-
cation.
With this design Of floating shoe
it is impossible for the brakes e.
drag. This improvement will in
crease the service life Of the brake
and furnish a trouble free brakinE
system. Ordinary brakes have from
80 per cent to so per cent efficiency
upon application when the car is
reversing The Essex Challenger
full floating brake shoes provide
100 per cent efficiency either for
ward or back.
These shoes are lined with a pres
sure nodded lining. This lining Is
impervious to water and oil, pro-
viding full brake pressure power
under all weather conditions. Tests
conducted showed that service wear
did not detract from their efficiency
because the lining is identical in
texture throughout.
The whole braking system is an
example Of simplified design typi-
cal in the new Essex. A single adj
iustment can be made without tools
is provided to compensate for wear
This is the only adjustment neces-
sary to maintain the full effective
ness Of the braking system.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27

plan under the title of the Trans
continental Hard Surface Highway
Association of America. A campaign
to lay the benefits of the project be-
fore the people is being launched in
every section Of the country. Mean
while. the entire project, with sug-
gested means for its accomplishment,
IS already before congress in the
Holiday bill. The United States Good
Roads Congress has endorsed the
plan.
Art Hall, the man behind the plan,
is a mild-mannered, self-effacing fell
low with a penchant for roads. In
Illinois he's officially known as the
father Of good roads"
Many years ago-when the auto
Mobile was a novelty-he conceived
a plan for paving roads throughout
Vermilion county, Ill. People were
staggered by the cost Of the project,
but it went through and Nermilion
county became the pioneer in hard
roads. Every town and hamlet in the
county was connected by a paved
highway. They're still in use today.
W. +. Holiday, who maintains a
law partnership with Hall, was a
member of the state legislature when
the $50. 600, 900 bond issue came up,
lie pushed it through. Today, that
same w. p. Holiday is serving his
fourth term in congress. He is a
member Of the powerful %appropria-
tons committee and he's prepared 70
push Halls greatest project as hard
Epi as fast as conditions warrant.
Briefly, Halls idea is to connect
every large city and state capital by
a system Of roads made from the best
possible material and laid out on the
basis Of the mathematical fact that q
straight line is the short distance be-
tween two points.
Every political jog"-as Hall calls
them-would be eliminated. The
roads would be 30 feet wide for 25
miles outside every city Of 10000 or
over. and so feet wide for 10 miles
outside cities Of 500. 900 or over. Belt
lines would be built around cities Of
200, 900 or over. All road markings
would be uniform; so would traffic
rules.
If and where the federal govern
ment should utilize parts of state
roads already existing, the state
would get a refund.
Five transcontinental highways
would be provided. One would run
from New York City 10 Cleveland,
pass south Of South Bend and around
Chicago, thence straight west to
Smith river on the Pacific coast. A
second woud run from Philadelphia
through Columbus. O., Indianapolis,
Ind. Springfield. ILL.,. and Denver. to
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Westport. Cal. A third would start
at Columbia. y. c., and pass through
Memphis, Tenn, Oklahoma City
Santa Re, and on TO San Luis Obispo.
The fourth, beginning at Savannah,
Ca, would take in Montgomery,
Jackson, Fort Worth and Phoenix,
terminating at Los Angeles. The fifth
would begin at Jacksonville. Fla,
and pass through Mobile, Austin, FL
Paso, Tucson and wind up at San
Diego.
Nine or ten roads would run from
the northern border to the southern,
in the various sections Of the coun-
try.
Shorter routes, faster travel and
tremendous advantages in time Of
wal arc cited as some Of the bene-
fits to be derived from the proposed
system.
Proposed Taxes
IL is proposed that the secretary
OF the treasury levy and collect a
federal license tax, not to exceed S3
for passenger cars or $40 for trucks.
A half tent a gallon federal gasoline
tax is also proposed. With 20, 900
pleasure ears and 100000 trucks and
buses. and with approximately H.
600, DOC, 900 gallons Of gasoline sold
each year, the annual revenue is esti-
mated at $3.50, 600, 900.
Hall believes that this project,
systematically begun and carried for
ward, would be a boon TO the country
as a construction task. absorbing I'M
employment and turning back into
the regular channels enormous sums
Of money paid out for wages, ma
~terials and the like.
The Transcontinental Hard Sur
face Highway association has been
incorporated to function without
profits Of any kind.
As for Hall, he has spent thou
sands of dollars in his past campaign
for the purpose of educating the pub
lie to see his aims. He lives n simple
life. He is not even among the out
standing attorneys Of his commu-
nity-so far rs legal achievements are
concerned. He makes no effort to be.
While his partner. Holiday, makes a
name for himself in the halls of
congress, Art Hall plugs along with
his road dreams.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
BUSINESS IS
said FAIRLY
ACTIVE HERE
Building Permits In
Texas Have Shown
Gains Since October
Reports

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. 25.-Measured
by building permits, the building In
dustry in Texas made a fairly good
record in December, according 10
Bervard Nichols, editor OF the Texas
Business Review, issued monthly By
the Bureau OF Business Research at
the University of Texas.
"After reaching a peak last
March, the trend was downward I'M
til October" Mr.. Nichols said.
''Since that time. permits have show
cd q gain. The dollar value was not
only above that in November bet
also nearly s 100000 more than the
total in the previous December.
= Even though exceptional increases
were recorded in two of the larger
were recorded in two OF the larger
cities, gains over the entire state
were more numerous than the losses.
permits granted during December
In the SO cities reporting 20 the
Bureau of Business Research were
Sill ,1OS,s 49, compared TO S9,496. 060 in
November and S1O,3l1,736 in De-
cember, 1927. Nineteen cities re-
corded increases, against losses in
thirteen. Austin, Beaumont, Hous-
ton, Laredo and Waco show very
large gains over December a year
ago. On the other hand. Abilene,
Amarillo, Fort Worth and Wichita
Falls report losses.
"The state building record for the
year Is a little less cheerful. This
is especially rue Of the least half.
For the year permits totaled $780,
197.152, compared 70 s127.6l0,544 in
1927, a decrease Of IL per cent.
This situation is due largely to the
high interest rates obtaining over
the past year and TO the slightly
higher building costs. Then. too,
Texas has had a very extensive
building program over the past few
years, and a temporary slackening
is TO be expected. In the first half
of 1928. permits were far ahead OF
those of the same period in 1927,
but rs the year progressed the gain
was changed to a small loss. The
upward trend over tho past two
months Is more encouraging, how
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27

Every Cooper LonrA
Service Cord Tire iH1
Internationally Guar
anteed against syery-
thing that can hap
pen TO a tire, excent
Of course wilful
abuse, for the entire
first year Of its life,
regardless OF mileage.
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ever. and possibly indicates that
the low point has been passed for
the time being.
Engineering and construction
projects let during December in
Texas amounted to $17.000,000 Com
pared 70 December, 1927. this i an
increase OF % per cent but a de-
crease Of IL per cent from the No
vember figures. The december con
tract total brought the amount Of
new construction actually started in
the state up to 1921 .409,0 900 for the
year. an increase Of 6 per cent over
awards in 1927
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
X is SHOPPING
FOR NEW

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 26.-F1-The
government Is studying q proposal
for the purchase of several new war
Vessels, OF small type and speedy
They would be used principally IN
chasing smugglers-
The warships now in service are
for the most part out of date and
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
Between the
Wave Lengths
BY c. E. B~UTTERFIELD

ASSOCIATED Press Radio Editor)
Distance has come back"
Secret circuits and other stunts
| touted as the only reliable means Of
bringing in signals from 1000 miles
or more fail TO get the credit this
time. Wavelength moving day at
tains that honor.
Slip up to any gathering of listen
ers, expert or otherwise, in this aft
er-Christmas period. and one will
hear discussed the latest in logging
feats. Some one-knob dialers have
returned to Dragging what they did
in the previous evening hours, a few
showing no hesitancy in saying that
an overseas station was in their list.
That period of the past during
which quite a few stories were broad
cast to the effect that the radio fam
ily did not care for distance any
more seems not to have cast IT'S
shadow before. The present has
gone back" a little further TO the
lays when distance hunting was the
prime factor in the purchase or con-
struction Of a set.
While the receiver designed TO give
ultimate selectivity is one that will
provide more stations, almost any
kind of a set in the congested dis
tricts will pick up at least five or six
from out of town.
When the full advantage is taken
BY set designers of the broadcast re-
assignment and its clear channel
lanes, in addition TO adapting their
equipment 70 the latest tube develop
ments, logs Of the 1929 receiver buy
ers will have a prominent section for
other than local transmitter listings.
Present circuit and set designs may
do about as good a job OF distance
fishing as anything the immediate
future is to bring. but the radioite
always lives in the hope that the
world will be his broadcast play
ground through the medium Of some
engineering marvel.
Since the radio receiver became
q plug-In device like any other cleo
trical appliance. it seems to be par
ticularly attractive 70 the rodent.
Nearly every other day brings 70
light a new story built around the
death OF a mouse which had erawled
into a receiver either for nesting
purposes or for a cozy corner The
warmth generated by the AC set NAV
he the principal cause Of the migra-
ton. Discoveries Of the demise are
made in various rays. including the
non-functioning of the receiver bv
a short circuit through the animals
body.
B~roadcasting stations are not i'm
mune from the inquisitive mouse
either. One who made its home
afield wandered into the OUTLYING
.ransmitter house Of wCAU, Phila-
ielphia- IL attempted to run across
I condenser. causing a short cirryit
and stopping the broadcast Of n
speech.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
DOG SCHOOL TEACHES
PUPS TO GUIDE BLIND

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Jan. 26.
-tP1-A high school for dogs will
be opened here this spring BY Mrs.
Harrison Eustis.
The dogs will be trained 10 act
as guides and general assistants to
blind persons. The course will last
six weeks and is believed to be the
only thing of its kind in the world,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27

As Wallace A Battison twisted the
dial OF his short-wave receiver. he
matted with pleasure. Out OF his
i~oudspeaker came the pleading CT 4
lonesome man:
sweetheart, / want you to take
the next boat home. Try 10 get the
Leviathan-' To which a feminine
voice made answer:
Il can't possibly pack In time
% make that I've rot 80 any new
clothes. dear-but Ill try 10 yet the
uext ship.s
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
b. LANES Z. MckENNA

b JAMES 7. HchENNA
DANVILLE, H., Jan. EFF the
luck of Arthur Hall holds true 20
form, the United States in the not
far distant future will have some
thing radically different in the mat
ter Of roads. and Brownsville and
the Valley will be on q national high
way chain.
II will cost five billion dollars,
You'll pay your share in ne form OF
a federal license fee and a federal
tax on every gallon Of gasoline you
use.
Nationwide Campaign
You'll hear more Of Hall and his
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27

slow, with the result that smugglers,
utilizing speedier craft, easily out
distance their pursuers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27
TAMPICO DIVORCES
DOUBLE MARRIAGES

TAMPICO, Mexico, Jan. 26.-LF-
Divorce petitions filed in Tampico
during the last three months are
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27

more than double the number q
marriages. "
The newspapers blame the niGh
cost 0f living and poor business con
ditions for the flood Of divorce cAsea'
explaining that the burden OF man
tanning a home has become so grea-
that married life is now a luxury
which many no longer can AFFORD
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-27

LOST SISTER IN VI =
BIRMINGHAM. EnE.-Nrs- Mary
Horton, long sought by her sister
has been located az 2117 Moss Way
Santa Barbara. California.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
AUSTRALIA LEADING

MELBOURNE, Jan., 10, (P)-Aus- tralia is now leading by 327 runs in the third cricket test match with England.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
CAPTAIN WILKINS COMPLETES WORK
 IN TIE ANTARCTIC
FIRST PHASE FINISHED; WILL CONTINUE STUDY, FLIGHTS
 NEXT YEAR

NEW YORK, Jan, II, (Ao)-Having completed the first phase of the Wilkjrs Hearst expeditions work in the Antarctic, Capt. Wilkins an- nouncad in a radio message to the New York American and associated Hearst papers that he will return to America to prepare for the second phase which will be carried on next year from different base.
 The announcement was made following a new 500 mile flight yes terdav during which Capt. Wilkins searched Graham Land in the hope of finding a suitable and more souther]y base to enable him to con- tinue explorations further south. Turnout the present season no such base could be found.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
PROSPERITY OF FISHING INDUSTRY
 RATHER SPOTTED
SALMON PRODUCTION CONSID- ERABLE UNDER NORMAL,
 STATED
(By J. H. MattheWS)

NEW YORK, Jan., II, (P)-The prosperity of the fishing indus try has been rather spotted dur ing the past year.
 The New England fisheries have been developed to a considerable extent over previous years due principally to the growth of the 1acKaged-fish trade. Increased landings of haddock, the principal variety filleted, amounting to more than 100 per cent over 1922, when this method of marketing was first employed.
 Production of the middle Allan tic states was less as regards some varieties, while others were taken in increased quantities. The south Atlantic and gulf states report production as about normal. The shell fisheries of the entire Atlant- ic and gulf coasts are in better con- dition than for several years.
 The shrimp and oyster indus tries report larger packs than in 1927, while the sardine pack of Maine was smaller than in 1927. The menhaden industry experience ed it's fourth successive poor year.
 On the Pacific coast the hali- but catch was about equal to that of 1927. Salmon was curtailed through scarcity of fish. The Cal-, ifornia sardine and tuna fish pack was greater than in any year since the postwar depress- ion.
 The outlook for 1929 is much brighter for packaged and canned fish; the fresh fish market will be governed more by supply than by demand.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
HUMAN FACE TRACED ID ANIMAL ORIGIN
 PROFESSOR REPORTS

NTEV YCltH., Jan. Il, (P)-Man owes his mobile" face to humber animals that preceded the antfro- Doids, from whom he directly de- scanded, the American Association for the Advancement of Science was told today. The early animals transformed facee from the charac- teristics ol infIexjble masks.
 This report was made in a paper or Mans Debt to His Animal Ar cestols' by Prof. William K. Greg ory cf Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural His tory.
 From these humber and earlier ancetors, he said, both the anthro- ooids and man gained adoption to temperature changes, a skeletal structure and the beginning of a mammalian brain which finally led us into untrodden paths"
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
FAMOUS ALASKA
 HUSKIE |S LOST
 IN W|LDS SEATTLE
ONE OF THE DOGS OF SEPALLA'S TEAM OF TWO YEARS AGO,
 IS SOUGHT

SEATTLE. Jan. Il, (P)-The can inc hero, one of the huslies whu pulled sepalla and diptheria anti toxine into Nome two years ago, is lost in Seattle and is believed to T.. wandering heWildered and friend less in the wooded section of Bea- con hill
 Passing thru Seattle yesterday with hie owners wife enroute to the dog team races being run by the famous driver in Maine, the dog was cared for the night at the ken nels nf G. M Babcock Shortly after 5 o'clock the huskey eluded his guards and departed for the hill with Babcock in pursuit.
 For seven hours the man and dog played hide and seek on the hill and at midnight the hunter was forced to return empty handed.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
BOOMERS SENECA
 HOTEL IN SEATTLE
 ESCAPE FROM FIRE
TIMELY WARNING OF NIGHT CLERK CAUSE SAVING OF
 ALL LIVES

SEATTLE, Jan., II, (P)-Ten persons were rescued by firemen from flames which ate it's way through the Seneca hotel in the downtown section of the city late last night and which endangered the lives of 50 roomers.
 Although the 10 persons who were trapped were carried out un- conscious, none were seriously il- iured. No lives were lost. The fire chief estimated the loss to the hotel and adjacent hoselry, two stores and laundry, at $75,OOO.
 The 50 roomers credited the night clerk to saving their lives owing to his timely warning. The clerk is D. w. Parade; he spread the alarm through the building when he saw smoke curling thru .a floor. An explosion, apparently of a gasoline tank in the rear of the laundry, shot the flames across First avenue and spread the blaze through the hotel before the firemen arrived.
 Twenty-four fire companies brought the blaze under control T=.ithin shalfs an hour and extln- uuished it after midnight.
 Mrs. Nellie Ashton, who was Kept from jumping from the thlro story by the cries of onlookers, was recued by Patrolman w. M. Palmer who dashed into the hotel ahead of the firemen, siezed the woman as she collapsed, and safe " gained the street where cheers from the crowd greeted him.
 The crowds hampered the fire men who were keeping a cordon about the area. Police were unable to identify man who was carried semi-delirious from the building crying Get the other man! Get The other mani" Attendants at the City hospital ascribed his con- elition as too much alcohol and shock.
 w. B. Wood, who thrilled the crowds by leaping from the 4th story to an extension ladder, was not satisfied when brought to saf- ety and tearfully pleaded with the firemen until they returned and carried out his eight canaries.
 The origin of the frs has not been determined.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
O|L PROSPECTS FOR YEAR ENC0URAGING
 SAYS AUTHORITY
(By J. Edgar Pew)

DALLAS, Texas, Jan, II, (R)- Oil prospects for the Mid-Conti- nent field, both in prices and pro- duction, are encouraging for 1929.
 The opinion of southwest oil men is that the crude market has maint aimed a relatively level trend ,hruout the year, considering the amount of oil marketed during the period.
 Price prospects for 1929 are en- couraging because operators have shown unmistakeable signs of starting drilling operations only when a new source of output is needed.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
FISH SCIENTISTS
 E|VROUTE TQNORTH
 cDNT|NUESTuD|ES
TWO MONTHS STUDY OF ALAS Ka HALIBUT FISHERIES
 WILL BE MADE

SEATTLE. Jan, II. .jR-Heading for the Gulf of Alaska to continue it's Photographic biolegical investi- cations relating to halibut, a party of scientists and representatives of the Int ternational Fisheries Com mission sailed today aboard tlle power schooner Dorothy.
 Richard Butt, 9 graduate of the University of Washington has charge and is assisted by J L. Kask, a graduate of the University. The crew of seven will be gone for two months.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
ROAD COMMISSION
 ENGINEER GILLETTE
 MARR|Es IN TACOMA

TACOMA, Jan., II, (P)-Major Douglas Hamilton Gillette of the Alaska Road Commission, and Miss Dorothy Kvme, daughter of Mrs Walter Ellis of Tacoma, were mar ried Tuesday, @as
 Only members of the immediate family and close friends were pres ent. The newylweds left for trip to California and will return to Ia coma before leaving for Juneau where they will make their home.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-01-11
MINT ABANDONMENT
 RECALLS GOLDEN DAYS

CARSON CITY, Nev., Jan., II, (P) Silent, breeding, gray, the United States Mint Building here stands in massive silence as a reminder of the days of silver and Nevada's $ |golden age of mining.
 The Treasury Department of the United States has recommended it's complete abandment. For nearly two decades only two persons have ,lsed the building a secretary of the Civil Service Commission and an aSsayer.