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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Sons Note Asks
$4,000 Ransom

MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 9.-tPl-Jonn
G. Cohren, West Allis grocer. was
directed in a note signed by his
22-year-old son, Gilbert, to pay slU.-
900 ransome today for the young
mans safe return from kidnapers.
Gilbert disappeared last night
after telling his father he was going
to the Gohres store, a few blocks
from the house. Later Gohres found
in his mail box a note written by
his son. saying.
Il am being kidnapped BY seven
or eight men. They are taking me
10 Chicago. They are forcing me 70
write this note. They demand
$4,000 ransom. to be left near
Mukwonago at 2 p. m, tomorrow.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Rubio Cancels Trip
To Pacific Coast

WINSLOW, Ariz.r Jan. UT
President-elect Pascual Ortiz Ru-
bio or Mexico will return tomorrow
10 Mexico, abandoning plans 70
visit the southern Pacific coast.
The president-elect announced az
Gallup. N. M. last night, that deli
cate health Of Senorita Ortiz Ru-
bio would necessitate an immediate
return to Mexico City.
The train OF the party left here
last night for the Grand Canyon
Of Colorado.
Senior Ortiz Rubio said he would
enter Mexico through Phoenix Ar
iona. and Nogales, Sonora.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Yantis Damage Suit
Is Further Aired

With reference to the suit Tor
damages against DR.. O. r. Yantis
in favor Of Morris Landabaum, III
which actual damages Of S2o ana
exemplary damages Of $3.50 were
awarded. attorneys for DR.. Yantis
further said that testimony show
ed hat the alleged attack on Mr.
LandabatIm was precipitated over
the belief OF DR.. Yantis that an IN
suit had been offered him rather
than because Of a bill against MI
Landabaum, which started the ar
gument.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Border Entry Ports
Have Normal Week

There Is no indication that
Eagle Pass IS profiting by conditions
AZ Laredo" o. ID. Deputy, customs
and immigration inspector here
Thursday, citing figures on the
business through the ports OF
Brownsville. Laredo and Eagle Pass
for the past week.
The government report shows q
total Of 20l cars through Laredo,
So through Eagles Pass. and 10 for
brownsville. or about the normal
flow Of business for each port, De-
putty said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
New Orleans Cotton
Corporation Bidder

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-tPl-New
Orleans was the first OF six south
ern cities today to present bids for
the new s3O.O0O.000 cotton corpora
ton headquarters.
Other cities represented included
Memphis. Tennessee. Atlanta, Spart-
anburg, 8. O.. and Dallas. Texas. A
delegation from Houston vas ex-
pected Friday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
TAKES HAND
State Department Acts To
End Laredo Row

WASHINGTON, Jan. o-tPD-
Acting secretary Cotton said today
the situation growing out of the
closing Of the Mexican consulate
at Laredo. Tex. waS engaging the
full attention Of the State depart
ment.
Beyond this the secretary would
not 90, but 1t was known he had
been communicating with Gov
ernor Moody Of Texas, and 1t was
understood the matter had become
the subject OF informal CONVERSE
tons between the American and
Mexican governments.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
'Pox Strikes Texarkana
Texarkana High Basketball Player Develops
Malady After Playing in Game

TEXARKANA, Jan. 8=P-Vaccnaton OF hundreds Of Texarkana
school children against smallpox started today following a school board
order issued a a result OF a Texarkana high school basketball players
developing the disease a few hours after playing in an inter-city game.
Health officers OF both Texarkanas and the Texas and Arkansas coun-
ties declared a mild epidemic existed. Hundreds Of children already
had volunteered for vaccination, and others will be forced To submit
health authorities said.
More than 10 cases, 81 in Texarkana, have been reported from the
two counties. No deaths have resulted.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
State Organizer To
Address Labor Meet
.inI - The Herald.l

Especial 70 The Herald
HARLINGEN. Jan. Bob Rob-
erts, state labor organizer, VIII be
III Harrington tonight to address a
meeting or the Central labor league
at 8 p. m.
He will speak on different phases
of organized labor.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
VALLEY DODGES
TEXAS FREEZE
Mercury Expected to Drop to "a Degrees
No Frost or Freeze in Sight
Most of Nation Shivers

The advance guard OF the cold wave. which has been sending ther-
moneters throughout the country tumbnng, reached Brownsville and
the Valley about nine o'clock Thursday morning bringing a prediction
Of from "a to SO degrees Thursday night.
No damage to crops Is expected, according to w. y 6chnubusch. chief
OF the y > weather bureau here. Rain and chilly weather is predicted
for the next few days.
Fridays forecast j. practically the same a. FOR Thursday with nc
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Rain and much colder tonight with
cold wave. lowest temperature near
freezing: Friday cloudy q partly
cloudy and continued cold. Loder-
ate To fresh northerly winds On the
west coast.
For East Texas Mostly cloudy TO-
night with rain in southeast and
rain or snow III northwest portion
colder in south and extreme east
portions with cold wave on the
coast: freezing 10 the coast eXcep-
III the lower Rio Grande Valley
where temperatures will be "a Nh
So: Friday partly cloudy somewhat
colder on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09

AS1NS 80 aAhAAL 80 dAAg SCI
tons or the Valley.
Meanwhile, the cold wave threat
ened citrus crops in California.
where Wednesday smudge pots
we're being used by growers.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 9-F-A
wintry symphony sounded today
over some twenty states or the MID
west, southwest and Rocky Noun
tains, the shr1ll notes of N northern
gale accompanying the whistle and
beat OF snow, sleet and cold rain.
Three deaths attributed to tho
storm were reported from Missouri
Oklahoma and Colorado. as were "a
multitude az traffic accidents aus
ing injuries 70 occupants ~ motor
cars.
Heavy losses of livestock were
feared a. far south at Austin. Tex,
with the snow and Ice still advan-
cling toward the gulf. At Henrietta
Tex, two inches OF sleet covered the
the now and Ice still advancing to-
ward the gulf. AT Henrietta. Tex,
two inches VI sleet Covered the
ground, a record at the weather bu-
reau. Sub freezing temperatures
prevailed al Ill Pas0. with snow
falling. With a minimum tenpera-
ture az is degrees at Amarillo. the
mercury still was falling this morn
ing. AT Okmulgee, Okla. 800 per-
sons attending "a revival meeting
fled from a frame tabernacle not
more than a minute before the roof
weighted down BY tons OF sleet and
snow crashed 70 the floor. The
congregation was warned by creak-
ing timbers.
In the upper reaches OF the Rocky
Mountains, where the storm orig
mated, sub-zero temperatures were
the rule. Snow swirled over Mon
tana, Wyoming, and parts of Colo
RADIO.
Airplane schedules virtually we're
abandoned over the southwest and
western mountain routes. Only one
plane left here yesterday for Chi
cago. and none arrived. The same
conditions prevailed III IT. Louis.
Bus lines were running late and
III some cases cancelled schedules
entirely. Railroads were c0mpara-
lively unhampered. Only three of
the trunk line roads running
through Kansas City reported trains
delayed.
NEW YORK, Jan. s-CPl- New
high marks for January tempera-
ture were on record today az many
points along the Atlantic coast
from Portland, Me, To Philadel-
phia.
The metropolitan area enjoyed "a
forestate or spring yesterday when
balmy breezes famed the mercury
lid 10 64. exceeding by q degrees
the previous high mark for the
corresponding day. Set In 1897.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9-tP-
Rain today brought some relief 20
California, which for three days
has been IN the grip OK "A cold
spell. but snow and blocked COM
munication hines ve5led the fate
of six persons battling with elem
ents in the high Sierra.
Fears for the safety or John
Nightingale. airport superintendent
at Stockton. and his wife and ~
year-old son, Stanley, believed to
NV marooned III their mountain
cabin Ar miles east of Sonora. In
creased after attempts To locate the
shack from airplanes and drop
food had failed.
Bitter cold. with the temperature
ID below zero III some places, and
low visibility hampered rescue
work.
The mercury lowered around the
zero mark In eastern Washington
and northern idaho, except In the
higher regions. where in dropped
10 10 degrees below. Snow was re-
ported a foot deep in Northern
Idaho.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Donna Man Slightly
Hurt as Car Wrecks

Especial 70 The HeraId.1
HARLINGEN. Jan. 81. nj.
Hurst Of Donna was released from
Valley Baptist hospital Thursday
morning after treatment for slight
injuries received when his car over
turned near here Wednesday night.
Hurst suffered several cuts, none
Of which were considered serious.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
1877 Cars Shipped

The Valley shipped 50 cars OF
fruit and 1873 cars Of vegetables on
Jan. 8. The Missouri Pacific car
ried 50 cars Of fruit and 50 cars
or vegetables. z cars Of fruit and
43 Of vegetables going over the
Southern Pacific.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Chief Returns

HARLINGEN, Jan. Bob john
SON. Harrington chief Of police, re-
turned to the city last night after
a weeks visit in his home town,
Roby. He went there to be with
his sister. who was seriously i'll, but
Is now much better.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Edward Box, Peace Pilgrim,
Succumbs at Florida Home
Noted Philanthropist Won Fame as Editor
Gave $780, 900 for World Peace Plan
Came to u. S. as Immigrant Boy

LAKE WALES, Fla Jan s-FHEdward w. Box, who came to this
country a 5 a n immigrant boy from the Netherlands and carved for
himself a distinguished position as editor, author and phlanthropst,
died at his estate near here today. He was So years old.
MI. Box became i'll shortly after his arrival with Mrs. Box from Merton,
Pa, four days ago, and his condition became critical yesterday. He
suffered from an acute heart attack.
As the donor Of a 100000 prize for a plan BY which the United states
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Shipments Diverted Here
Laredo Brokerage Firm Has Representative
In Brownsville to Cross Autos

With reports from Laredo and washington that the situation growing
out Of the vaIs-Cares incident is likely to be remedied in the very near
future, the first diversion Of shipments from the United States to Mexico
through Brownsville is due to arrive here tomorrow, Consul l. Lopez
Montero said Thursday.
Juventino Trevino. representative Of Brennan and Corrigan, important
Laredo brokers. is in Brownsville to attend to the crossing Of IL car
loads Of automobiles. Trevtno told consulate attaches that one senior
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
Meeting Postponed

HARLINGEN. Jan. 9.-Due TO the
inability Of Mayor Sam Bolts and
two commissioners to attend a
scheduled meeting Of the city COM
mission last night. the session was
postponed. "A special called meet
ing viii be announced later.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
RIVER FORECAST

There will no material change ln
the river during the next few days
F19od Present 24-Hr. 14-Hr.
60 &C.. ~Rwr pain
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TIDE TABLE

Hiah and low tide at Point Isabel
TO-DAY. under normal meteorolo-
Eical conditions.
High 100 VI hhs
Low 5.37 a. YIN.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09

The Reckless Can't Insure
Rio Grande Valley Trust C0.-Adv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-09
N VA1&E9
, BY CHARLES HALL

MOTHER "norther" seems 10
H have come and gone, but the
Valley Just blooms right along.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-19

cember is total number of 12,716 of COM
mercial pilots licenses had been issued, and
despite all conceivable handicaps the District
OF Columbia makes q fair showing with a total
OF so licensed aircraft, 1873 pilots and 1870 me-
chanics. This Is a big jump ahead of any
previous year. In the entire country an in
crease OF airmindedness is proven by the sta
ustics gathered from all sources, except Army.
Naval and other Governmental planes. On
December l. 1929. more than 3527O00 persons;
had taken flights In commercial planes. and
this means that one In every 30 persons in the
total OF the Nations population has confidence
In air travel The Department of Commerce
takes pride also I'm the recent expansion of
express by air, for In 1929 3468 $50 pounds
were carried This shows that express aerially
Is making even strides with passenger and air.
mail trafdc. New York and California con-
tend for honors in having the greatest number
or licensed planes-New York 1872 and the
Golden State. 518. Illinois rates third with
299 and Pennsylvania close behind with 2S5.
Michigan, where the manufacture of planes is
now associated with that of motor cars, has
ieaped into prominence in the past three years
and now registers 265 planes. Every State and
1nsular possession has registered some licensed
planes, although some, like Nevada, New Mex
leo and all the New England States except
Massachusetts,. show less than 10. Alaska has
fallen into the line Of progress with aircraft.
IL Pilots and Is mechanics. Hawaii has
planes, pilots and Al mechanics
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Women's Clubs was holding three-day ex-
hibition of aeronautics in order to promote
interest in the State. Massachusetts, vigorous
Congresswoman few to the convention, made
q rousing speech, accepted some slight hospi-
tally and winged her way back to washington
all within IL hours.
The Senate and House have many other
devotees of the air. Representative w. Frank
James Of Michigan is the unfailng friend of
the Army Aviation Corps. He is q practical
pilot and knows the mechanics Of the cockpit
from every viewpoint and he counts high rate
off mileage in the air. Representative James
sympathizes like brother with birdmen Of the
land defense and as ranking member Of the
House committee on military affairs he won a
decisive victory for them in the recent passage
of the bill giving allowances and other privf-
leges similar to those enjoyed by the various
grades in the Army. In this struggle Repre-
sentative James had the cordial cooperation
of Col. Lindbergh, who studied all the de-
tails and made some highly valuable con-
tributions to the bill. The baby Congress-
man." Melvin j. Mas of Minnesota, who was
one of the air heroes of the Marine Corps dur
ing the World War, is among the all-around
aviators in official life. He holds military hon
because of his martial overseas service and
after he returned to his home in st. Paul he
secured q commercial pilots license and later
he took thorough course in mechanics and
holds that license also. Not once in a blue
moon do either Representative James or Rep
resentative Haas move about except through the
air and, naturally, both are able coadjutors Of
Senator Bingham and of Senator Capper in
getting proper airport for Washington and
that within this dawning year.
For about seven years the Secretary of Labor
had been the cabinets only patron of flying,
but now he has a keen rival In the Secretary Of
War. Col. Hurley, being young vigorous and
progressive likes to ny, and Mrs. Hurley and
the three youngsters look upon it as tremen-
dously exciting. Like the little family Of Fred
erick Trubse Dawson, the young Hurleys are
Of the growing factors destined to instill "air
ease" into the Nation. James j. Davis began
to take airplane journeys along in 1922 and
before the present rush toward that end He
bgan as almost all busy people do. to save
time. But he has become committed to the
idea and no one would be astonished to hear
OF his buying his own plane and getting out a
pilots license, because, of course he has learned
all about the movements In these multitudinous
Nights. He usess a plane to save changing
trains on journey and for the thrill he gets
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portation and her enthusiasm for aeronautics
is contagious. She has never attempted plotting
and it is unlikely at least in the present
multiplied duties of her public life, that she
could give leisure to this ambition. But she
admits that flying rests her utterly, soul, mind
and body, and that three hours in the air
prove more beneficial than a days rest on
land. She can sleep more refreshingly and
inhale oxygen in the pure, high air above the
earth to keep her alert in the dust-laden, over
heated atmosphere of Grubland. All necessary
journeys made in her role as Representative
from Lowell are in airshipS and of all varieties.
Interested most profoundly in the veterans of
the World War, she makes many trips in their
behalf and then an Army plane is placed at
her disposal. But the air mail, commercial
planes all have served her purpose. Happily
her experiences have never been painful and
she has never been in an actual accident,
although she has skinned perilously close 70
several. In Summer Mrs. Rogers makes her
visits to the Fort Adams Citizens Military
Training Camp at Providence, r. l.. in this
congenial way. There four such estab-
lishments in New England - Camp Devens.
which is in Mrs. Rogers congressional district;
Fort Mckinley, near Portland, Me-; Fort Ethan
Allen in Vermont, and the fort at Newport
All these States permit the young men to
select their camp and to exchange posts in
the course Of their training Mrs. Rogers
being a stanch advocate of preparedness
visits them ALL sometimes flying to the four in
one day for a brief inspection. and thus ac-
complishing in daylight hours what would take
two days hard travelling by train or motor.
But what this intrepid flyer believes her most
notable contribution to national air mindedness
was her aid in having Lowell, her home city,
begin the manufacture Of planes. This Is
already proving a highly successful venture
aruf
plane was chrstened by Mrs. Rogers April
3, this year, and the staid citizens displayed
an unwonted enthusiasm and in a triple cause.
For their Congresswoman, who had talked
aviation and had finally gotten the manufac-
turing world right up to the minute in prog
ress In launching the City of Lowell and for
the excellent ginger ale which flowed over the
sides just as golden and sparkling as cham
payne when Mrs. Rogers broke the bottle.
This ale is a native product highly appreciated.
long and arduous air journey was that taken
last April to Dayton when the Federation of
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''They Are at 1t Again! BY Stephen Leacock

What snappy theatrical Winter this will bel
So runs it for all of U.S. Too busy, too
crowded too highly organized this civic life.
Yet here and there in the side corners one
sometimes stumbles against other lives than
ours; people who live in the backwaters of the
moving current and never feel its movement.
I have friend, for example, who belongs to
a geological society," 1t meets once every i've
years; when it meets, it listens to papers deal
ing with the question of the age of the old
Silurian Rocks of Labrador, whether 100000
years or, perhaps 100 900 900. My friend is q
vice president-very young for the Office, only
So. But already they talk of him as the presi-
dent after the next one-for the annual meet
ing of 1910. He read a paper in 1920 which
he hopes to carry forward and complete in 1860.
That's the kind of life-thereis peace and quiet
in that-none of this every other Tuesday and
every third Wednesday! The geological society
doesn't use the days of the weeks-just the five
years, 1880, 1885, 1910 and so on They say
that they form real and lasting friendships in
this way and get to know one another. If you
meet every Tuesday you remain strangers;
meet once in five years and you are brothers.
I KNOW another such quiet corner in life
the chess club. Its full name is the Players
and Amateurs International and Royal Some
thing or other. but they call it just the Chess
Club. This Chess Club never meets 1t is
always there. You may go in, if you know a
member at any time in the afternoon or eve.
ming, and there you will see them at five or six
little tables, shaded with green lights not
speaking, not moving-just sitting there. For
them time has stopped. It is always eternity.
The players of the Chess Club don't know one
another. They don't need to. They have
played against one another for years and years,
but they don't know one anothers Names
They don't know what time it is or what day
1t is or what season it is. Why should they?
They are playing chess. Sometimes they die.
But not often. Mostly they live forever Oc-
casionally, but only very rarely, they break out
into activity. Once, long ago. the club of which
speak played correspondence match with
Rejkavik in Iceland-for the best total in two,
years. But it shook them up too much The
pace was too swift. They recall sometimes,
but they don't dare to repeat it.
Looking at the quiet corners In our distracted
life, cannot but wish that we might initiate
and reproduce them little more than we do
Why can't the Civic Duty Club be content to
meet in 1880 and then adjourn till 1850? What
about asking the Amateur Players to put on a
show in 1915? T3aat would give them really
time to do 1t properly. And how about little
evening with a quartet for 1860?
Come, let's think it over for 20 years and
then see.
(Copyrisht, 193o)
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Columbia Breed Of Sheep

HE new breed of sheep, Columbia, which
has been developed by experts at the
sheep experiment station of the Department of
Agriculture located at Dubois, Idaho is fast
coming into popularity. It has been found tol
be the most desirable type Of general purpose
sheep so far obtained in this country.
The new breed was obtained by crossing Lin
coins and Rambouillets. The former contributed
size. mutton, form and length of staple in the
fleece, while the latter strain has added rug
gedness Of constitution and the nocking in
stinct desirable in range sheep
Results tabuiated over q three-year period
show the Columbia ewes producing 1I.a7
pounds Of wool per year, as against 10 80 for
the Rambouillet ewes and 828 for Corriedalee
For the same period the Columbia lambs when.
weaned weighed 70 pounds to 70 for the Corr
riedales and 50 for the Rambouillets.
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and for the absolute rest and pleasure Of the
transit. He rarely reads en- route and never
works. simply enjoys himself, maps and breathes
the ozone. He has flown all over the United
States to attend conventions, to make speeches
and sometimes just for the trip. The Secre-
tary will study time tables to catch fast train
at some remote station on his line and thus
save few hours besides enjoying the initial
flight. Last Spring Mr. Davis few to Houston,
Tex, to attend a convention held by the
Brotherhood of Enginemen and Firemen at
which he made speech. He then took fast
train to New Orleans, for he would have had
to wait for plane. and besides he had certain
work TO accomplish and he can write and study
on Pullman as well as at his desk in the
Department of Labor. From New Orleans he
flew to Spartansburg, s. c.. and, alighting just
in the nick of time, caught the Southern ex-
press. Dapper and rested, he appeared at his
desk the next morning just IL hours out from
the Crescent City