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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
CITY BUILDING
BILL REPORTED
Postmaster bennett Tells
Of Plans for Building
New Postoffice

WASHINGTON. June 11-tP)-
The second deficiency a%ppropria-
ton bill. reported today by the
House Appropriations committee
recommends expenditures OF ap-
proximately SIS, 000, 600 for public
buildings.
The proposed projects included
The following. which. unless other
wise specified are post offices.
Texas-Brownsville, post office
and court house. S430.000: Fort
Worth 81 AS .00n for post office and
authorization OF change In language
OF previous appropriation OF S1,215.-
0cC TO include court house and
other government buildings" Hous-
ton. post office and court house.
S16E. 900; Plainview, 1852 1000: San
Angelo. post office and court house
$500. 900: Wichita Falls. post office
and court house S725, 900.
With reference TO the Brownsville
rost office, Postmaster Den
nett today made the following state
ment:
soon after the press published
recommendations for federal build
IL gs in Texas in which was a rec
commentator or S430. 900 for the
Brownsville court house and post
office building I wrote TO Washing
ton expressing my belief that as
every concerted effort would be
made to place contracts for con-
struction contemplated this year as
rapidly as possible. I asked that
authority be vested in me to adj
vertise for bids covering the tenn
porary lease or suitable premises al
the earliest possible date. This let
t-r was written to the Assistant
Postmaster General in April OF
this year. My letter. upon receipt
was referred to the Treasury De-
psrtnent and on May goth the
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
IN a letter to the Postmaster Gen
oral stated that the proposed new
Brownsville post office Is included
r what is known as the Fourth
Installment' of the public building
program and has not therefore
been specifically authorized.
However. should IL be authorized
at an early date. it would not bt
possible at this time to say wher
proposals may be solicited for it;
construction. I am OF the opinion
however. that since action is beins
taken on the building program for
Brownsville as announced In today:
Geographic reports something def
mite will be learned within the
next days. whereuDon such further
information will be gladly furnish
ed By me 10 the citizens OF Browns
vile
when the appropriation has been
definitely decided the building will
be located on the present site OF
the federal building. which will
require the razing OF the present
building. Recommendation will be
raade TO extend the new post Of
fice building clear back to the alley.
The building In all probability will
be three or four stories high: all
Of the ground floor for the post
office. second and third floors for
customs. immigration. and other
branches Of the federal service. and
the fourth floor for the federal
court room and federal court Of
fees"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
Drug-C razed Mexican
Killed in Gun Fight

FL PASO June ll-lPl-An I'M
identified Mexican. under the in
fluence or narcotics. was killed near
here last night after a furious bat
tie with Fl Paso electric company
linemen and deputy sheriffs.
He had attacked Paul Coates. sub
station operator for the company.
at a station about five miles north
west Of Ell PasO. forcing Coates 10
take refuge IN a telephone booth.
Goats called the main office.
Other linemen and deputy Sher-
ifs came to the rescue. and. when
the Mexican attacked them, he was
shot five times.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
SAILOR BROWNS
MAKING RESCUE
u. s. Navy Sea Tradition Is
Upheld in Madness
Of Disaster

BOSTON, June ll-P-Rolling
waves, fog. fire. screams. and out
u II all a man who died true "a
United States navy tradition.
Such Is the story OF Seaman j.
b. Walker OF Rittery, Me. who
sank beneath n fire-coated sea
clinging to a woman he had hoped
10 save.
This tale OF heroism was tod bv
Seaman Fred Jam OF the ". SIS.
Concord. a passenger on the Fair
fax. The crash. the explosion like
that Of a monstrous fire cracker
bursting before ones ewes. stunned
those on board the Fairfax. Jam
said. A woman was hurled into the
air and landed across a deck rail
hanging limp and unconscious.
Slowly her body sarred toward
turning oil that covered the sea.
Heat and flames played about her.
Just as her weight drew her down.
ward. Walker ran to her. He threw
his arms about her legs In a foot
hall tackle. Her weight was too
much and slowly the two slid over
.he rail.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
DAILY
AIR LOG

Incoming passengers over the
Mexican Aviation company plane
Monday evening were Mrs. A. de
Michelon, Miss Amelia Michelon, ID
G.. Richardson. w. w. Bradley. NJ.
v. Hugo, w. D. McBryde and Mrs.
w. d. McBryde. The Michelons
we're from Tampico. Richardson,
Bradley and Hugo from Tejeria and
the McBrydes from Mexico City.
Plotting the Fokker tri-motor was
II. z. Gray.
The c. A. +. passenger plane out
Tuesday carried c. Schultz and A
Wessendorff as passengers for Tor
reon and K. X. Goodrich as passen-
ger for Monterrey. Harry Carmen
was pilot.
II. z. Gray piloted the outgoing
plane Tuesday morning with no pas
Sengers. 1t was the Mexican Avi-
alton company plane for the inter-
Tor of Mexico.
s. "A. r. passenger plane out Mon
day with Hal Egstace and z. II.
Hurley as passengers was piloted by
Kennedy.
Three passengers arrived Monday
over the S. A. T. ship from the
north. Andy Burke was pilot. The
outgoing plane was piloted by Chas
Pedley.
Bryant Robins piloted the arriv-
ing S. A. T. plane Monday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11

There is no animal" life In ocean
beyond a depth OF a mile and a
half.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
RAYMONDVILLE
new BUILDINGS
Several Are Remodeled As
Onion Capital Seeks
Room to Grow
Especial 70 The Herald.l


RAYMONDVILLE,. June il.-Sev-
eral weeks ago.. Howard Campbell
purchased two buildings on West Hi
daleo ave. from Judge Davis Z.
Decker and this week started re-
modelling them. The smaller n OF
the two now being occupied by the
Delta Guaranty Title Co. and
George Lochrie real estate office Is
the first one 70 be remodelec. a
sixty-foot extension Is being added
to this building and upon its COM
pletion 1t will be occupied by the
Willacy County News, which will
also occupy the office now occupied
by George Lochrie. Mr.. Lochrie has
made no statement as 10 what his
plans are or where he will move
TO.
The building 10 be vacated by the
Willacy County News will be reno
deled and a fifty-foot extension ad-
ded TO II and when ii Is completed
IL will be occupied by the Piggy
wiggly chain store. which will open
Just as soon as they can secure their
building.
The Delta Franklin Co. moved
Monday to their new location on
West Main street and their building
will be occupied by the Rio Grande
Hardware Co. Carpenters began
work Tuesday morning on this
building and are tearing out the
partitions and putting 1t in shape
for the Hardware Co.
"A storage building viii be built In
the rear or the present building. SO
by rs feet in size TO take care Of
their storage and implements.
The remodeling work on the old
Tacoma building Is progressing very
rapidly. The awning has been re-
moved and a lobby Is being built
in the center Of the front. from
which the stairway 70 the second
fioc~ will be nlaCcd. A parfiti-
divides the lower floor IN two roo \
but Judge Davis r. Dec'Ser. the oW-
or. has not made public who Will
occupy these two rooms. though II Is
understood that they are both rent
ed.
The Tacoma building Is one Of
he Oldest brick buildings In Willacy
county and for a number OF years
was the only brick business house
in the county. For a number Of
years II was occupied by the bank
and by a general store run by the
Tacoma Ranch interests.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
Convicted Man Loses
Plea for Rehearing

AUSTIN, June 1l-tP-The court
Of criminal appeals today o~verruled
motion for rehearing of Lus @. Ar
cos, convicted and given the death
penalty in Medina county for the
murder Of Jose Barrientes. a store
keeper, making the trial courts
judment final.
Barrientes was killed on Christ
mas day, 1923. whe he became in
volvod in a difficulty with ARGOS over
a bottle Of milk. purchased at Bar
riente's store.
The court also overruled a motion
for rehearing OF Thomas r. White
size. Jr., Harris county. given 20
years for murder Of his wife, Rosa
Whiteside, on June is. 1927. Mrs.
WhiteSide sustained fatal injuries
when she jumped from a window OF
her apartment, the state contending
that Whiteside agitated her in a
quarrel and so frightened her she
threw herself from the window.
Crocodiles have been known 10
attain ages upwards Of 90 wears.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
SUMMARY

The weather continued mostly
cloudy and unsettled throughout
the great central valleys and Tex
as since last report. with light TO
moderate rains nearly as wide
spread. Fair to clear weather pre-
vailed over the western and far
eastern states al the morning OBJ
servation. Temperatures have risen
somewhat in the states east of the
Mississippi river. and fallen slightly
over Texas and the immediate
y fhie morning
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
AID Club Meets AT
Val Verde Monday

Valley Advertising club will meet
a. Val Verde Monday. June is. ne
7:30. r. J. Meeker. president. an
npunced. Dinner will be served at
Tlffin Tea room. and a swimming
party Is to follow the business ses-
son.
All members are urged 10 attend
rs important business matters are
to be discussed, the president states.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
Student Found
Dead by Poison Gun

NORMAN. Okla, June 1l-lF-
The body Of John De Arcy, 20. OF
Wink, Tex. sophomore &C the Uni
versity OF Oklahoma. was found to-
day iii the grocery store here where
ne was employed. A coroner's jury
stated he had died from. acute in
digestion.
= rat poison spray gun was found
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11

near De Arcy's body. When last
seen last night. De Arcy told II. L.
Harris, store owner. that ne would
change his clothes and spray the
store before retiring.
Funeral arrangements awaited
word from the youths mother. Mrs
Rena DE Arcy or Wink.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11

Crocodiles have been known Il
attain ages upwards Of 80 years.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-03

Hicks Rubber Company, Inc, is located on the corner
Of Elizabeth and Ninth streets where we have been
serving automobile and truck owners for more than
four years. We strive to give the Brownsville and
Valley public the utmost in real tire values-and we
know that with the famous Daytons automobiles
will realize the utmost in tire satisfaction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
UNORGANIZED;;GET
CUT AND LAYOFF
Bosses Use Jobless AS
a Club Over Men

(By q Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK, N. Y.-The workers
OF the Steinfeld and Garfinkel Store
Fixture Co., of 1873 st. and Bird Ave.
have come up against a fact which
disproves that it is not all it is crack
ed up to be to be left to the tender
mercies of the boss.
These workers were exceptionally
specialized; and were made to work
an average Of 10 hours a day, 6 days
a week. In addition to working SO
hours a week. they were sped up to
the highest degree.
No Overtime Either
The bosses were convinced that they
had a crew that was ideal; they de-
cided to work them 1890 hours a
week Con the straight time basis
Then, seeing the great amount of job
less knocking at doors willing to work
at any price, and hearing no vtord
OF protest coming from their own
workers, Steinfield and Garfinkel took
a different turn, They handed the
workers hard luck story and handed
with it two dollar wage cut off every
days wages. Better times are COM
ing" was the tune they sang. The
workers. being unorganized, were
forced to take the drastic wage cut.
But 1t didn't stop there. AS soon
as the ruch was over, they were all
laid off, with the exception of three
favored.
These workers must realize that the
bosses are their enemies, not their
friends; that the only way to hit back
is to join the Building and Construc-
ton Workers Industrial Union, 16 W.
2lst Street, New York. Organize and
fight!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
COTTON PICKERS
FACE THE WINTER
WITH NO MONEY
Many Farmers Will be
Driven From Farms
tBy a Worker Correspondent


OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Jobs
are sure hard to get in Oklahoma.
The cotton harvest is about over and
that is about the only place there is
over, times will be worse. All pickers
can make is about seventy five cents
to dollar day, however, that is all
farmers can pay them for he gets
starvation prices for his cotton.
Ninety percent of the farms are mort
gagged and the rentil markers have
there crops and stocks-mortgaged
A large percent Of them will be I'M
able to pay the mortgages, which will
force them to leave the farm for the
city where there Is already mass un-
employment
The Oklahoma politicians have
been planning on relief for unem-
ployed for the last ten months but
we haven't got any yet.
The bosses are fearing hard vim
ter so they are putting on a big COM
munity fund drive and the most Of
this drive will come from the sweat
of the workers 1t amt going over
as big as they planned.
The workers are gradually waking
up to this fakery, they are dissatis-
fed with this rotten system and know
there has got to be something done.
SO we have got to reach the work.
ers with our propaganda for the
Communist program-the only pro-
gram that stands for the working
class.
I am going to appeal to workers
of Oklahoma to organize themselves
with the Communist Party and its
revolutionary trade unions.
To hell with the bosses and their
fake prosperity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
PHILA. NEGROES
FORCED TO LIVE
ON DUMP LANDS
1000 Jobless Seek Shell
ter Nightly
(By a Worker Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Sixty- eight
unemployed workers, all Negroes and
including three women, found shelter
in the dumps of that section of Phila-
delphia known as the "neck"-the
extreme southern portion of the city.
The police raided the dumps and
arrested all So of the workers who
were given terms" at the House OF
Correction.
Although winter has not yet arrived
with Its sleet and snow storms, north
west gales and billiards, 1000 work.
ers are now housed" in the police
stations every night. The number of
unemployed workers increase nightly
though at this time of the year thou
sands still find shelter" in doorways
corridors, anyways and secluded hooks
Suicides Increase
Suicides are increasing at a rapid
rate in Philadelphia. The Bureau OF
Health reports 10 suicides last week
No reasons are given in the report.
But gleanings from even the kept
press" make 1t certain that nearly all,
II not all, were a direct result of I'M
employment or disease due to the ills
Of unemployment.
Unemployment and strikes due to
wage cuts are the order of the day in
nearly all of the diversified industries
Of Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
2 MEN GANG QUITO
| AT u. s. RUBBER
Stagger System Here
Means Low Wages
fBv a Worker Corresnousent,

(By a Worker Correspondent
DETROIT.-Att the Detroit plant Of
the U. S. Rubber Co. three weeks ago
a new idea went into effect. A one
man gang on the shaping box in
stead of two.
Where two men turned out Is heats
a day, one man has to turn out 81
heats. The rate for two men was As
cents an hour and 80 cents hundred
tires. The rate for one man is A
Gems hundred and As cents an hour.
Cut Pay Too
Now they are putting into effect a
system of working 8 hours and only
7H hours pay.
This week our department went on
four 6-hour shifts so they wouldn't
layoff any men. That's swell but we
got slap in the face besides a cut
from A cents a hundred to 80 cents
a hundred.
On the walls in the Mushrooms are
written these words: When will the
spirit of Russia invade this country
and underneath, 1t Won't Be Long
Now!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
TERROR RACES AGAINST GARY FOREIGN BORN
Steel Workers Ans0ey By Organizing Into Metal Trades Industrial Union

attended the celebration of the
thirteenth anniversary of the Rus
sian Revolution on Nov. in the
Rumanian Hall. The hall was
packed. The speakers told how the
workers in the Soviet Union are
happy and are lettering their ma
terial, cultural and sanitary condi-
tions daily while the workers in the
United States are forced to ,un-
dergo the miseries and sufferings of
the unemployed who are walking
the streets.
BOSS TERROR.
On Nov. IA, Friday night, the
Bulgarian and Macedonian workers
In Gary were celebrating the thir-
tenth anniversary Of the Russian
Revolution In hall on 14th and
Adams SITS.
When the melting was over uni
formed officer No. 70 came into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
Bosses Create New Slave Institution
RULES OF THE HOME

This home is for working men only Those who are
SICK lnrm or ncapacitaed provided for elsewhere
Working men welcomed on entering the home
welcome to come, and welcome to satisfied Sur
plus credits can be taken up commissary at any time
The management the right to refuse to issue
credit card to any man.
Men are required to battle and wash their clothes be-
fore sleeping in the home and after that must battle at least
once a week.
On entering the home agree to work for credits
ana u no case t. ask expect for their SERVICES
credits are good in exchange for meals BEDS baths and
commssary. Credits not transferable
Credit cards be left each night with the clerk for
checking.
Every accepted agrees to cooperate with the man.
agement in keeping the place cean sanitary and orderly
Profanity and loud talking are strictly forbidden
he entrance door will be locked at D. M No admit
lance later without permission.
he management the right for cause to take
up any man credit card pay him off in commissary and
thereby cause his privileges at the home to cease
The undersigned hereby accepts and agrees to abide
by the above rules and conditions and work while here
TOR the best interests Of the Home for credits onIv
Signed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22

Ing their last card In the game TO
stop the workers from organizing,
to play one nationality against the
other, the American against the
foreign-born, the white against the
Negro, etc. Especially they are
tricky when they see that the Negro
workers are joining the revolution
airy workers organizations, which
is enough to prove the correct step
Of the Negro workers. On this
point there developed curious
situation: The socialist labor party
in Gary, "the most revolutionary
party of the world" takes the
bourgeois standpoint that socially
the Negroes must be segregated.
Naturally that they are pure sect
and on this question and help the
reaction as "theoriticians."
GARY STEEL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
N. Y. MUNICIPAL
LODGING Is HE'LL
No Blankets Or Bed.
ding Given
BY a Worker Correspondent

by WOrker correspondent
NEW YORK.-It should be made
clear to those workers who may be
looking to municipal bounty to re-
lieve their desperate situation Just
what they can expect from one of
the agencies dealing with the prob
lem of unemployment"
At the municipal lodging house,
even if it is a cold, rainy night and
your shoes and clothes are wet, you
must get place in the line about
five o'clock and wait till seven, when
the doors open. Else you are told
that the beds are all taken.
No Blankets Or Bedding.
If you come late, you sit at table
until twelve o'clock, and then spread
a newspaper on the floor, roll up your
coat for a pillow, and, if you can,
sleep for while. No blankets or
bedding are provided.
At hree-thirty, the lights in the
kitchen are turned on, steam misses
in the kettles and urns, pots are
banged, and everybody wakes up. At
four a Waterman comes along and
calls, "All up!"
Breakfast consists of half a bowl
Of oatmeal, two pieces of bread, and
a small cup of weak coffee.
Then out you go on the street
before five in the morning. This is
called nights lodging.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
RECALLS HORRORS
OF WORLD WAR IA
Yet Will Now Fight
for Workers Rule
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
MILWAUKEE, acknowledgements
the 18th, 1918 armistice was declared.
At IL o'clock sharp firing stopped and
the air cleared of the smoke Of
cannon powder. Only thirteen years
past since the world was set afiame
by the bosses and millions of work
erS and wealth destroyed.
I remember all the misery of trench
life, the fear for airplanes that car
ried machine guns and high explos-
ives. remember the German shells
whistling in the air, passing over us
and exploding pretty close.
Now Hunger For Vets.
Those that "honor" the dead heroes
are preparing right now to kill twice
as many in the near future war.
Since the world war was over a new
struggle faced the heroes of yester-
day. Broken down in health, nerves
shattered and a Veterans Bureau
with miles Of red tape and discrim-
ination. For those able to work they
faced unemployment, and plenty Of
poverty.
Must Fight Bosses.
No more sweet promises from the
bosses, nothing about nothing will
be too good for you boys when you
come back" In fact the heroes of
yesterday are the "bums" of today
begging for meal and lucky to get
flop in cold weather.
The past thirteen years taught me
lesson and believe hundreds Of
thousands like myself experienced the
same as did.
War is hell. But it is more than
hell to fight somebody's battle.
Workers and ex-soldiers! use your
past experiences to fight your own
battle in the future war not for the
bosses but for the workers and work.
ers only. Long live the Soviet Union.
-Ex-Serviceman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
Phila. Greek TOilers
Organize Spartacus
Workers Club Here
(By A Worker Correspondent d.

(By A Worker Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, "a. The
Greek workers, who less than two
months ago formed workers club,
have been singularly successful in
rallying the numerous Greek
workers In the food, marine, build
ing trades and other industries.
Already close to 100 workers have
Joined making this one of the
largest workers clubs In the city.
The club Is known as the Spar
tacus Workers Club and adds to
the viriIity of the entire left wing
movement in the city here.
A fine headquarters at which all
workers are always welcome, has
been fitted up and is kept in good
shape by the Greek comrades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-22
MOVIE BOSSES
EXPLOIT ,JOBLESS
Another Fake Solution
of Crisis
tBy Worker Correspondent

Wy d WOIhcE correspondent
SEATTLE, Wash.-The scab the
atre owners of Seattle are going to
solve unemployment (and incidentally
a problem of their OWN by allowing
unemployed workers to sell admis-
sion tickets to their scab houses.
They assure the public that their in
terest is purely a humanitarian one
This is clearly indicated by the fact
that they want the greatest number
OF people to benefit so they turn the
proposition over to an employment
shark who negotiates this scheme
with the workers at fifty cents a
head.
After the fifty cents is paid, they
sell the tickets at 10 cents a piece
and instruct the worker to sell them
for rs cents. All very nice isn't it?
To whom they might be sold is Of
course but minor consideration
Suffice to say few workers are SC
gullible as to fall for such a ridicu-
lous proposition, doubt if the own
ers themselves expect any workers tc
do so, but by so doing the scab own
ers pose themselves in their adver-
Using as doing something for the I'M
employed and on that basis appeal
for patronage that has dropped
somewhat since their lockout OF
union operators and their attempt tc
pass off a fake union onto the work.
ers.
w. H. B,