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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Oscar c. Dancy, Jr.
Passes Bar Exams

Oscar c. Dancy, Jr.. son Of Judge
and Mrs. o. c. Dancy Of Brownsville
has passed the bar examination at
Austin and expects to enter the
practice Of law in the near future.
according to word received here.
Dancy, Jr., Is now employed by O
law firm at Orange, Texas. He Is
well known here. having graduated
from the Brownsville high school
and also took work at the junior
college.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15

'AaL SeSt III the Ndlleys Was returned
after the most spirited contest In
the Valley. The action OF the board
In naming Judge d. r. Strickland OF
Mission as attorney for the district
had been opposed
Few changes In the personnel or
the officers or the boards Of direc-
tors Of banks In brownsville and
the Valley were reported. Names Of
all Of them had not been obtained
at noon Wednesday but preliminary
reports revealed that few contests
were due.
Returns secured 10 far aS possible
indicate the following lineup for
the water districts:
Cameron County
District =: Harrington, j. S. Blak-
eney, H. L. Starnes. J.. w. Wade, F.
II. Green, w. p. Bush. Z
District 10: Z. K. Ogden, Jack
Elliott, III. II. Whipple, John ".
Howicki, Horace Watson.
District IL: O. R. Tyrrell. w. III.
Pattee, II. M. Pattee, :. I. Jack
son, "A. p. Tyrrell.
District - II. II. Roddy, Z. w.
Grove, r. A. Rose, A. <. Klein. j.
NJ. Kopp.
District 10: P. w. Samuel, Harry
Num-, Lee B. James, j.. NJ. Saner,
w. <. Ross.
District Is: 5. Finley Ewing, IL.
w. Weber. Annie Orr Houghton, al.
j.. McE1wain, Ada M. Ewing.
District "a: II. B. Brady. :. O..
Glass. Lutte p. Slower, Major Swan,
A. w. Thornton.
District :. H. H. Banker, Z. K.
GoodrilF, H. f. Stevenson, w. r.
Boles, J. ,fcCarty.
District 2: San Beni.o-G. N.
Miller, ]. NJ. Penrod, g. A. Keys.
r. 8. Bone. and T.. w. Burgess.
The first four named are members
Continued on page tenl
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Theft Count Filed

Charges of stealing goods from
Fort Brown were TO be filed We'd
nesday against a dishonorably dis
charged soldier. The charges were
to be filed with u. $. Commissioner
<. X. Goodrich by city police.
Police searched the mans rooms
Tuesday and found goods which
were identified by soldiers as be-
longing 70 them.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Looks Like Somebody Wants
Brownsville In Monkey Business

Vile be interested in having a
Monkey Ijland?" Now faint not,
gentle readers but peruse on. I'VE
build them pictured on the en-
closed circulars from { ',0o0 up"
Said en osed circulars pictured
whole hosts of happy M keys wrap
ping their tails around available
objects and d~isporting themselves
in a general good time.
The chaml-- OF commerce has
not replied TO the lie or. Secretary
G.. G. Richardson is waiting TO
refer this monkey business to his
board Of directors. tn pause being
because Of the fac that no one in
Brownsville seems q know anythis :
about the mo-'-ey business.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley.
Cloudy and considerably colder to-
night, probably with rain; lowest
temperature near 30 degrees; Thurs
day cloudy or partly cloudy and mo-
derately cold. Moderate 70 fresh
northerly winds this afternoon and
tonight diminishing Thursday.
For East Texas. Generally fair
and continued cold In north, cloudy
and colder In south portion tonight
with freezing nearly to the east
coast; Thursday generally fair and
continued cold. Moderate 70 fresh
northerly winds on the coast this
afternoon and tonight diminishing
Thursday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15

1AOGClAAk vi AlAtGA Al1AA kOClGr
2-The development of a deep
water port which will give Mexict
a better contact with the industrial
world: and
"a less severe railroad grade to.
ward Monterrey which makes op'
Grating expenses 40 per cent love-
than at other ports.
Mail Quicker
Under new Mexican tariff law:
the consignee must sign the papers
and affix the necessary stamps be-
fore the crossing Of goods may be
completed. With airmail connec-
tions with the Mexican capital
Brownsville al ross goods several
days before any other port on the
Mexican border. A letter mailed
here Monday can be answered Mon
day night in Mexico City by the
consignee and sent back airmail the
next day. At Laredo the letter
most go the regular way and re-
quires five days. This point is par
ticularly important. brokers say, in
that some shipments. such as per-
ishable goods, require immediate
crossing to retain their value.
With the completion OF a deep
water port that will connect Mexi-
CO more thoroughly with the world,
international traffic through
Brownsville will grow tremendously,
bankers point out. Shipments
could be taken from boats here and
sent TO the Mexican interior much
easier than from the major ports OF
Tampico and Vera Cruz.
Greater Advantage
Shipments Of Mexican goods 70
the United States throush Browns
vile have a gradual decline in
grade all the way here. Shipments
going into Mexico r at a greater
advantage, railroad officials point
out. One freight engine ear haul
40 per cent more goods from Mata-
moros to Monterrey than the same
engine can haul from Nuevo La
redo to Monterrey.
Innumerahle men OF the streets
today were heard making two
statements: II am glad Laredo
has her port situation Strengthened
out after a month of stagnation,'
and The future of Brownsville port
is brighter than ever before"
Lie. Z. Urtusastegui is going "a
Mexico CITY as a representative OF
Matamoros Chamber Of Commerce
10 develop a spirit Of goodwill
among big shippers there who have
had consignments through Browns
vile in the past two weeks.
j. G.. Philen. jr., customs broker,
said Wednesday that he had re-
Gently increased his force almost
100 per cent and that he was add
ing one or two more clerks In the
next few days. He is happy over
business prospects.
While representatives Of Bren-
nan and Corrigan brokerage firm,
Laredo, could not be reached Wed
nesday morning. II is believed that
a permanent office is likely by the
forwarding agents.
Sometime in the future II is be-
lieved in brokerase circles here that
the firm Of Roberto zuniga, also OF
Laredo, will have an office here.
Many other brokers are looking TO-
ward this port as one with mighty
possibilities.
Mr.. Zuniga. also president OF the
Laredo Brokers association, Wed
nesday wired the chamber Of COM
merce that Although the new stu
alton makes unnecessary our NOV
ing to your wonderful city, We
again express our heartfelt appre-
citation for the aid and facilitie:
you were ready to extend Laredo
brokers"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15

There is little doubt but hat
Brownsville within the past week
or ten day has had more projects
presented, and suggest, s made to
the city commissic ,rs and the
chamber OF commerce. than prob
ably ever before in a like period
Of time; but 1t remained for the
chamber OF commerce to receive
Wednesday what is believed TO be
the prize protest.
This proposition comes from Gull
yer City, Californi. 1t is /, inter-
est the city in monkey business.
That 1 , can't literally and in no
other way.
Listea to this: "WoulC. your or
ganization or the city Of Browns
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Posse Captures Fugitives
Two Men and Woman Taken After Gun Battle
Object of Nationwide Search

PHOENIX, Ariz, Jan. l5-P-Chmaxing a wild west career pune
tuated by a kidnapping and two gun fights, Mrs. Irene Schroeder Of Ben
wood. w. Va, and two men believed TO be Joe +. Wells. Texas ex-convict,
and M. Glen Dague, husband Of Mrs. Schroeder, we're in jail here today.
The trio had been the object Of a nationwide search since the STAY
ing last December Of Corporal Brady Paul Of the Pennsylvania police
and the wounding Of Private Ernest Moore, near Newcastle. Pa.
They were surrounded and captured BY a posse In the mountains near
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
WATER
OFFICERSN NAMED
Spirited Contests Feature Some Elections
Pharr-San Juan Campaign Hottest
Valley Banks Also Elect

Valey-wtde water district elections, resulted In the retaining Of Bev-
eal old boards Of directors in banoting featured in many instances by
close races and large votes. In Cameron county proper, including f-
teen or sixteen districts, the old board OF District / with offices at Har-
lingen was supplanted by an almost new post OF directors, while at
San Benito the old board was returned to office with the exception Of
one new member.
The old board Of directors in the Pharr-san Juan district al q the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Mexico Traffic Development
AT Brownsville Port Looms
Airmail Service Expedites Border Crossings
Deep Water Would Boost Trade
Heavy Hauling Easier

While all Brownsville is happy with Laredo today over the opening of
the port there Friday, business men and all interested in international
trade see this cnys future for larger trade between the two nations as
brighter than ever before in history.
There arr three things, business men, bankers. and chamber of COM
merce officials point out, which paint Brownsvines future as a border
crossing point in the brightest cohrs:
1-Airmail connections with Mexico City which greatly expedite quick
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Jury Out on Case

The jury went out IN the case Of
Republic National Bank g. Trust
company VS.. w. L. Lehman. ct al,
suit on promissory notes, at noon
Wednesday.
The case had been under way for
two days.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Valley Trips Plan
OF Dallas Parties

Trips OF various types through
the Valley are being planned by
j. ID. Whules, field manager OF the
Century Indemnity Co. Dallas. he
has written the chamber Of COM
merce.
He has been supplied information
regarding all types OF amusement
available in the Valley.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Border Problems Studied
immigration Commissioner Asked to Appear
Before Congressional Committee

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5-R-steps necessary to patrol one o. the
longest boundaries any nation has attempted to guard claimed the at
tention today OF the house immigration committee as II moved TO carry
out the Hoover prohibition enforcement reorganization program.
Taking the lead over other committees which must pass upon various
phases of the program, Chairman johnson summoned Commissioner
Hull of the immigration bureau and other officials of the labor depart
ment for questioning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
SAME NUMBER
CAUSFS ARRESTE

RIVERHEAD. ". Y. l5-CF=
Becaus County Judge George
III. Furman had almost the same
telephone number in n. home
as nat In the roadhouse oper-
ated by Mr.. and MI. Herman
Kramer at Bellport, the couple
will be confined a year ! jail.
He fined a dc-en CHER road
house proprietors. But as TO the
Kramers he said: lot OF peo-
pie kept getting c on the
telephone when they wanted the
roadhouse. ] learned what their
business was"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Texan on League

DETROIT. Mich, Jan. i5-P1-
DR.. S. P. Brooks, Waco. president
OF Baylor University. has been elect
ed a vice-president OF the anti
saloon league Of America at a meet
ing Of the national board here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
RIVER FORECAST

There will be no material chang9
In the river during the next few days.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
1890 rkwm DnHn
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
TIDE TABLE

TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
today. under normal m~6teorolO-
gical conditions:
High 1900. I:47 a. m: 6:34 p. m.
Low ........ 1890 a. m: ll:02 D. m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15

nHAN told US the other day the
boss promised him many things
if-but the boss had never done
them. We asked him If hA had ever
Varied out his part of the If and
he did not seem so sur about that.
Why does he wonder why?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15

ALL over the state there is much
u racket over the fees collectors o.
delinquent taxes r receiving.
while suing on a percentage basis
Of what they obtain.
Many are astounded at sums like
$4,000 which + reported to be
realized in many cases, over a per-
iod OF a year. AS a result they are
saying the system should be abol-
ished and the county attorneys, who
are paid salaries. be shouldered with
that responsibility. 1t is said that In
Cameron county 1t amounts to about
$4,000 In fees.
County attorneys claim they are
blocked In the collection Of taxes In
too many ways too mention. evi-
IDENTIFY many Of them political. Back
era Of the new system are holding
that II a county commission Is quail
flied to let contracts running into
millions Of dollars. they are also
qualified TO let contracts for tax
collection on q fee basis. A neat
fight on this question may be stag
A. %,gvinc the newt legislature
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15

AND on top Of all this some one Is
n trying TO get the city OF Browns
vile in the Monkey business.
This will probably give waggish wri-
tiers opportunities to try their hands
out at punning and terse sayings.
But from all we could gather from
the letter on the matter, the pro-
moters are in dead earnest.
1t is proposed 10 build for the
city a monkey island 10 cost from
S2,500 up. No information was given
as 10 what Brownsville will do with
the monkeys after she gets them.
Personally We never could see much
in any kind Of monkey business.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30

of Discomfort This Country Not Communist Propa
ganda But Millions of Men Out of Work

ganda, But Millions of Men Out of Work
right soviet
Rightly probe do
with the notion that discon
Moscow" will make itself
ridiculous.
injustice No other
rubbing elbows
this worthy
of
Lenn knew that he said that
impossible in the United States
organized to block needed
reforms and turn attention righing
agent Moscow to
stir up their discomfort the
worked
calling rolling wealth. communist
that they getting deal They know
unworthy American citizenship if
they'd notre
We are and this
country Our national
thousand hundred mionares, have millions of
jobles months
that conditions improving little that
areun unemployed a month
of work
happy popagand along? Does
compelled choose between charity and
block propaganda is end unemployment The
avert revolution establish deal
Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
DOESN'T APPLY TO LABOR

The one-sided reasoning of mer
with property outlook is shown ir
an editorial in Barron's, financial
spokesman, published in New York
city, which protests against the gov
ernment's attack on the radio trust
IF any one of those defendants
owned a patent for any part of a
radio, under the laws of the United
States, it was the company's sole
property" says the editor. Holding
it tight within it's own control would
not be a restraint of commerce"
But note the difference when labor
attempts to hold "tight within it's own
control its labor power. This, the
United States supreme court has rul-
ed, is violation of interstate COM
merce.
Human liberty, inherent in man, is
denied when commerce is affected,
but patents, which are the gift of
government, must be protected, re-
gardless of the effect on commerce.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
GARNISHEEING WAGES

Like most things, the question of
the garnisheeing of wages is two
sided problem, and it will take much
thought to find a just solution. On
the one hand, we know of widow
with a tubercular daughter, who has
had no rent for five months from the
little fiat she rents to a worker and
his family. He happens to be work
ing, but getting barely enough to
scrape along. Yet she needs the
money; ought she to garnishee his
wages? On the other hand, the re-
lief agency found a job for a man.
his doctor heard he had a job, and
garnisheed his wages; the result was
that the firm said they could not be
bothered with it all, and dismissed
the man. In many cases, the barely
living wage of the worker, these
days, is garnisheed, so that he is
pulled down below the subsistence
level, and charity has to help out
that is, the taxpayer.-The Spring
field Tribune.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
DEADLY GRADE CROSSINGS

A new phase in grade crossing
accidents developed in the Southern
District of Illinois when court de-
cision awarded $4,000 damages to a
railroad against the owner of truck
who drove his vehicle in front of a
freight train, overturning the loco
motive and five freight cars.
This is a distinct reversal of the
idea that the railroad company is al
ways wrong. Thousands of railroad
grade crossing accidents have occur
red because of careless drivers who
never seem to learn that there is more
room behind a moving train than
there is in front of it-and infinitely
more safety.
Technically the auto driver contrib
utes in all cases-and so does the
railroad. Also do the people of every
state and nation contribute to deaths
and accidents where the grade cross
ing is allowed to continue as a death
trap.
The railroads hailing this decision
as victory will still more stubbornly
resist all efforts toward abolishing
deadly grade crossings-profts al
ways first, human safety last. Some
day the people will arouse and stop
this slaughter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30

sporting instinct that the government
allowed the monopoly to get good and
big before taking action. Perhaps.
Isn't it an indication of the queer
way our government has of doing
things that it should watch this great
combination grow up and then call it
into the ring for knockout battle?
The government has not only
watched the trust come to monopolis-
tic perfection, it has fed the thing so
that it could become the monopoly
it is.
The Radio Corporation of America
has had about all the protection law
could afford and it has had from the
federal radio commission almost
everything its heart could wish.
Meanwhile labor has been pushed
aside, denied even one cleared chan
mel.
To all of which must be added the
observation that nobody much ex-
poets the government suit will great
ly change anything!
In the midst of all the ruction about
the radio monopoly it is interesting to
observe that recognition is just now
being given to Kentuckian who
was he first to transmit the human
voice without wires.
Two years ago Nathan B. Stubble-
field, of Murray, KY, died in poverty
hermit. The undertaken who took
away the body tossed the wireless ap-
paratus into barn, in a heap.
A college president, DR.. Rainey t
Wells, has amassed the proof OF
Stubblefeld's genius. A monument
has been erected to the memory OF
the hermit inventor, who, in 1902 pub
licly demonstrated his strange mech.
anism.
This adds one more to the list OF
those who developed radio for the hu-
man race and who were pushed aside
by those who had either a better sense
of commercial ways or more power.
| full friends and allies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
OPTIMISTIC STATISTICIANS
AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Many months have rolled across the
face of the calendar since the big
crash centered attention on unem,
ployment.
Unemployment had existed in out.
of-proportion amount long before the
big crash, but the newspapers were
so busy with their joy singing about
dividends that such matters as un
employment weren't news.
But the crash changed the tune
Suddenly unemployment became
news. Also it became worse.
Then the so-called leaders got to-
gether at the White House and de-
cided that all should be made vel
again.
But something more than magic
was necessary and all has not beer
made we'll
Unemployment gives way with
such deliberate slowness that the
doctors are puzzled. They don't know
why recovery is so slow, or if they
do know they don't tell.
Unemployment is but little less
acute than it was three months ago,
and the gloom of despair is as deep
today as it was last winter, except
in minor degree.
Nothing is more tragic than un-
employment. Few human beings have
been more optimistic about it than the
statisticians. They gather up their
facts and they make their charts.
Everything will soon be fine. But
everything is not soon fine, nor, get
ting down to the bitter dregs of des-
perate truth, will it be in the imme-
diate future.
Suffering is less in summer than in
winter, but unemployment is not GO
ing to be cured by seasons.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
CLOSE SENATE VOTE
DEFEATS DEBENTURF

Washington.-The senate, by 43-
Al vote, waived its position on far
mers' debenture for export wheat
The senators also changed their posi-
tion on the flexible tariff when Vice
President Curtis broke a 42-42 tie.
The house opposed debenture and
favored the flexible clause. The sem
ate takes contrary position on these
issues. Conferences between the two
legislative branches proved fruitless
and the senate changed
The result is considered a victory
for the house and the president.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
TAXI STRIKE ENDED

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Local taxi drivers
compromised their strike that start
ed January II.
The walkout followed refusal to ac-
cept a wage scale of the Parmalee
Transportation Company, which had
just purchased three taxi concerns.
Last February the men rejected the
companys offer to return to work
without union recognition. The vote
was 1,153 to l. The compromise pro-
vides for recognition of grievance
committees and wage of 40 per cent
of receipts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
WORK OUT OF DOORS
INCREASED IN APRIL

Washington.-The employment sit
uation is not satisfactory, but there
are indications of an Improvement in
industrial plants the present month,
and further expansion of outdoor
work, said Francis |. Jones, director
employment service of the depart
ment of labor.
Curtailed schedules continued in
many major industries in April, Mr..
Jones said, with considerable idle
ness" in some localities. The bright
spot was an increase in outdoor ac-
tivities, he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
'INSIDERS" AWARE
SLUMP WAS COMING

New ork.-"Next July will mark
one year of declining business" says
a local financial journal. "The begin
ming of the turn downward in busi-
ness dates from last July, although
the depression did not gain momen-
tum until six months or so ago"
This statement should be of inter
est to those who accepted stock mar
ket announcement between July and
November, when the crash started,
that this country was entering on a
new business era.
While the public were gambling in
stocks, the "insiders" were unloading
and then the inevitable happened
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-05-30
That 68 per cent of the plants had

That 68 per cent of the plants had
maintained or increased production.
That rs per cent expressed no COM
plant at the reduction in hours.
That higher output per hour
throughout the week had been main
tanned.
Attendance and punctuality had
improved.
Morale of the working force was
raised.
1t is believed too early, however,
to measure the effect on production
and to make congratulations An
article in the American Contractor
for December z, 1929, by H. H. Fox
vice president, Turner Construction
Company, tends to support labor's
contention that production had al
ready reached such a pitch of activ-
ity as to warrant the introduction of
the short work week. This construc-
tion company has kept work charts
on jobs since 1913. These charts in
dicate that production started to
climb by 1929 From the above,
Mr.. Turner concludes, "it may rea-
sonably be assumed that labor is Civ
ing something for its increased pay"