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Republicans Enter
Millionaire i'm Race

The Republican party IN Texas
will have a millionaire running for
governor, John r. Grant, owner OF
40 retail lumber yards. The dem
ocrats have r. 5. Sterling, Houston
millionaire.
The two rich men. however. do
not agree on the statewide bond
issue question, IL has been pointed
out.
According to Republican leaders
In the Valley. Grant Is a popular
candidate among those OF that
party in this section. He started
his career penniless, worked his way
into the millionaire class, and is
now the standard bearer FOR the
G. 0. p. party OF Texas. He. also,
is a Houstonia2, with an imposing
residence on the BelIaire Road.
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Death Postponed

WEWOKA, Okla, July PIP
On a motion Of defense attorney
John M. Stanley. formal sentence
ing or Paul D. Cole to die in the
electric chair at the state peni-
tenitary was postponed from today
until July Is by District Judge
George c. Crump.
Cole. former secretary Of the
Seminole county election board was
found guilty Of the murder in con-
nection with the killing OF Ernest
Irby. former Texas banker and for
mer drug store owner here.
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place secretly on July 5 while she
wa sin New Haven with her mother
visiting her brother.
Her brother another New Haven
outfielder. recently recalled by the
Waco club, brought his sister hack
to Texas. Mr. Powell remained in
New Haven.
william Sanguinet. Dallas plumb
ing contractor and Elizabeth's
father, said today he did not know
Powell and that the whole affair
VI Ba surprise to him.
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NobodySs Business, Says Bride

DALLAS, July l2.-(P-Miss
Elizabeth Sanguinet came home to
Dallas today from New Haven,
Conn, in company with her six
foot. 200-pound brother, Bob San
quinet, and promptly informed re-
porters sits nobody's business" when
asked 70 comment on her marriage
last Saturday to Alvin Powell, out
fielder Of the New Haven Eastern
league baseball club.
She did answer to being Mrs.
Powell, the marriage having taken
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Shamrock Negroes
HeedinR Warning

SHAMROCK. Tex, July 15.-fP-
The hundred or so negroes living
IN Shamrock were trekking rapidly
away tonight. o than SO having
left already. after threats we're
posted III the negro quarter last
night warning them 10 be zone
from the town before shutdown
Saturday."
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WASHINGTON, July l2-kP-
Expressing hope that the peak of
high tax refund years had passed,
the report of the joint c~ongression-
al committee on internal revenue
taxation made public today showed
p total or S75.672. sSa allowed i'm
over-assessments OF taxes I'm 1929
involving in excess or $4,000 each.
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WORDS BITTER AS
CANDIDATES TIRE
CBy The Associated Press

Seven perspiring and tired candi-
dates for governor Saturday and
Saturday night concluded a week Of
every day campaigning. each assert
edly confident that if he did not al
ready have enough votes "in his
vest pocket" to get into the runoff
he would have by time ne had spok-
en- two more weeks.
A majority Of the personalities in
dulged in during the past week con-
cerned Ross Sterling. chairman Of
the highway commission, but the
Continued on page -
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Campaign Gains
Despite Fire Of Opponents
Houston Newspaper Man Branded Leader
When Proposed Bond Issue Draws
Criticism of Other Candidates
By RAYMOND BROOKS

AUSTIN. July i2-Gans Of r. s. Sterling. chief advocate Of tax re-
duchon by shifting highway costs to traffic through q state bond issue,
and Clint c. Small, who has a substitute for half the plan and opposes
the rest, pushed other candidates for governor to the defensive and to
vigorous counter-attack during the past week.
Even more obvious than the advance Of these candidates was the des-
perate defensive efforts Of James Young forces which mingled the ac-
cesion Of able men into their campaign with . lashing and slashng
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There is not an

other musical or
g~anization in the
world like that
orchestra, and the
only one our non
unsteady trained
ear has ever lis
tened TO through
two entire sessions
and enjoyed all of
both. They come
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WASHOUTS

RIFLE, Colo. July I2-P- Two
highway bridges were washed out.
crews were trying 70 save q third
from destruction emo two railroad
bridges were swept away in floods
down Rifle and Elk creeks tonight.
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FATAL TC
HARLINGEN MAN
NJ. Wade Mcconnell Succumbs to Anestbetic-
Administered by His Roommate For
Operation on Tonsils
Especial to The Herald.O

HARLINGEN, July 12-N. Wade Mcconnell. sales manager of the
Valley Baking company. died here today fighting against the effects d
ether being given him for q tonsl operation.
The anaeEnetc was administered by his roommate and good friend.
DR.. w. T. Brackmeyer. osteopathic physician. at McConneMs request.
The tragedy occurred in the operating room Of Dr. J. =. Carroll. eve,
ear, nose and throat specialist who was TO have performed the tonsulot-
omy. Death came quickly DESPITE desperate efforts to prever A. These
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Port Site Survey Due Soon
Sale of San Benito-P Point Isabel District
Bonds Effected in Chicago
Especial to The Herald.)

SAN BENITO, July l2-Location Of the channel and turning basin
at Port Isabel will be surveyed within the next is or 30 days in the
opinion OF Judge j. @. Louthan, San Benno attorney for the San Benho-
Point Isabel NaHgato ndstrfct.
Sale of the bonds Of the district has been accomplished at Chicago,
according to wQd reaching here from Lon G. Hill, Jr. Z. II. Downs
and Mr.. Hill left last night for Austin to complete registration OF the
issue 50 that 1t can be turned over to the purchasers.
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choicest and juic-
lest pieces Of mud
for the last two
weeks. So during
the coming two
weeks honest cit
liens had better
prepare not TO be-
lieve all they read
that comes from
the stumps.
This time most
of the firing IS di-
|rected at one a
r. S. Sterling OF
Houston prtprpG
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WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley.
Fair TO partly cloudy tonight and
Sunday.
For East Texas: Mostly fair and
continued warm tonight and Sun
day.
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the race as clean as a hounds tooth
and SO far he has made a good job
Of letting the thrown mud trickle
on off. One Of the best ways for
Mr. Sterling to get back at them is
not to notice them.
How Jim Ferguson does hate not
TO be noticed! He likes to be notic-
ed for anything, just so he is noticed.
And somebody called Lynch David
son the self appointed political die
tator or Texas
If this thing keeps up we will
soon get TO where we can laugh off
special writer's coming to Texas from
other states.
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TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorol-
ogical conditions:
mgr t-Ol a. IT..
Low .................... ll.09 n. m.
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ron Y WINE Lley GO nOl
bring anything with them like that
shown in the accompanying cut they
make one think Of such things. and
roses. and romance. and moonlight
- will somebody kindly wake Us up.
A MINATED Annie says the eyes
n have 1T in the moonlight.
folks. we haven't said anything
about Arkansas in a long time.
Every time VIZ write anything
about Arkansas we find out that
somebody has accidentally read this
column Adds 70 our vanity. which
recently got Us out on a limb.
Last report we had from the land
-(of the ridgewalkers and cordwood,
vwe added Mrs. ". Z. Anderson Of
San Benito 10 our line OF new form
ed acquaintance. Mr.. Anderson
once taught in the University and
Mrs. Anderson is from Bentonville.
so they know what they are talking
about and keep us IN the straight
and narrow.
But 1t won't be long now before
the raZorbacks will be stropping
themselves against trees. and the
hickory nuts Will be tumbling down.
Correct us, If we are wrong, Mrs.
Anderson.
When the frost gathers white and
hoary on the fence rails. when the
applejack is in the jug. and the
quail are in the corn.-why don't
the ridgewalking girls put on their
shoes?
FEEL il that Brownsville really
ought to realize more and more
what she has in her great airport
service. The Brownsville Herald
wired New Orleans Friday morning
at $50 o'clock for q piece OF mer-
chandise 10 be sent "muy pronto'
BY plane and train. Saturday morn
ing at 7.30 O'Clock the package was
living on our desk, else you might
not have had this good newspaper
today. OF course. we should compli-
ment Wilbur bennett, postmaster,
So. But then A. w. Reed would
want his telegraph company COM
plimented and we have not yet re-
ceived our Fridays Harrington train
mail. Neither has Mr.. Reed paid
US that dime on that Will Rogers
business.
But Harlingen airplane field
boosters are at liberty to use this
In their campaign without asking
our permission.
CHURCH TIME.
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Assurance With Insurance
Rio Grarde Valley Trust Cos-Adv.
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There will be no material change
tn the river during the next few
days.
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HARLINGEN way where a GER

TIP HARLINGEN way where a GER
WI tain word has attracted great
attention, especially reams Of
Ink in San Benito. they now have
to other titles. Added to that of
Tycoon Andersen is TylIloon
Floore and Raccoon Barrett. That is
word received here yesterday re-
lates.
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CPEAKING of Raccoon Barrett, he
n came down to the big port city
yesterday to tell the engineer he
is bringing the Tipica orchestra TO
Harrington, and that he wished he
could also present 1t in Brownsville.
So do we.
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from MEXICO. WhiIe they DO not
bring anything with them like that
shown in the accompanying cut they
make one think Of such things. and
roses. and romance. and moonlight
- will somebody kindly wake Us up.
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Complete Line
Quick Service
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A MINATED Annie says the eyes
~ have 1T in the moonlight.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18
CHALLENGING THE SENATE

Speaker LongwOrth misses no Op-
portunity of putting the Senate in
its place. The House doesn't dote
on its Little Brother. Its strong cor
porate loyalty resents the meddle-
someness, air of superiority and ten
dency to 'usurpation" attributed to
the smalled chamber. Mr.. Long
wOrth's latest admonition takes the
form of a criticism of the phrase
"lower branch of Congress" as de-
scriptive of the House. The House
and the Senate are, as Lord Bryce
puts it, two perfectly coordinate
bodies," even if at times they CO.
ordinate imperfectly. One is no
more than the other. If there are
persons who permit themselves to
speak of one as "the upper branch"
and of the other as "the lower" they
merely show their fondness for in
exact language.
Writers who so offend may be ex-
cused as poor devils hunting for
synonym, however erroneous. The
custom arose probably in the States.
The property qualifications of a
State Senator were sometimes high
er than those of a member of the
House. At least one hopes that it
was not derived from Great Britain,
whose upper house" has been so
on its uppers since 1911. It
may be doubted if Mr.. Longworth is
serious in assuming that "the people
at large" are misled in their views
of the functions of the two parts of
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18
YOUR EASTER RABBIT

When you buy one Of those fuzzy
wuzzy Easter rabbits for the chill
dren, did you ever think how the
old idea originated?
In Germany the Easter hare, or
what is nearly the same thing, the
rabbit, is almost as much of fea-
ture as our Santa Claus at Christ
mas. German children were taught,
that if they were good and kind, and
minded their parents, white rab-
bit would steal into the house on
Easter eve, and secrete many Won
derful colored eggs. While the chill
dren were dreaming Of this, the
housewives were cOloring the eggs
in various hues and secreting them
about the house. You can imagine
the excitement as the children hunt
for all these eggs next morning.
Modern youngsters are too sophis-
ticated to believe any such medieval
yarn. But the older folks will say
there is an element Of figurative
truth in it. When people do kind
acts, unexpected influences enter
their lives far brighter than any
Easter eggs.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18
SHAKING HANDS WITH
THOUSANDS

President Hoover shook hands
with thousands of people at his
New Year reception. 1t is often re-
marked that all this handshaking is
a wearisome burden to Presidents,
and they should be relieved of it..
Yet Presidents seem to like the ex-
pressions of good will and support
brought to them in this way.
A President should be free to
meet the people in this way or not
to do so, just as he sees fit. He is
not sent to Washington to be pub
lie exhibit. No tourist should COM
plain that he did not get his moneys
worth because he did not meet the
President. But if it sustains a
President to grasp the hands Of the
masses, he will find thousands will
ing to stand in line for the privil-
ege.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18

of special days is in some cases new
ly required and in others authorized;
In Wisconsin, schools are permitteu
to devote one and one-half hours 10
celebrating Columbus Day, One-haII
hour in observing Left Ericsson Day
with suitable exercises, and at least
two hours for appropriate obserV--
ance of Armistice Day. But "school
must be taught for One-half day III
any event" In Kentucky a law OF
earlier enactment recommends thaC
the school children be taught thaI
John Fitch, a native son, invented
the steamboat.
Nine States enacted legislation
looking to the consolidation of school
districts and the strengthening OF
county school administration. Even
more general has been legislation in
recognition of the equalization prin-
ciple-in order that the poorer dis
tricts may not suffer educationally.
The empowering of school boards to
furnish transportation for pupils
tends to encourage district cOnsOll-
dation and to bring high school OPP
portunities to boys and girls remote
from cities and villages. Permissiye
Junior colleges" in certain districts
indicates the rise of this new type
of institution for local higher educa-
tional service.
There is hardly a backward look
in all the legislation of the year re-
lating to the public school.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18
TRIUMPH OF A WOMAN

Up to now, the women have found
it a pretty hard proposition to win
the big prizes of politics. They have
landed a good many minor offices,
and a few seats in congress, but in
the main the cards have seemed to
be stacked against them. The sue
cess of Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick
in winning the Republican nomina-
ton for United States senator from
Illinois, will encourage many others
to try for the higher offices. Per-
haps the day when we shall have a
lady president is nearer than many
of us think.
There still are some men who
would not vote for any woman for
any important office, no matter how
we'll qualified. They still think the
women should stay at home and de-
vote themselves exclusively to cook
ing the dinners. But times have
changed, and objectors Of that type
grow fewer each year.
Oo@
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18

The two forces are working hand
in hand as in wartime.
We have long realized that we are
a nation. 1t is heartening to be re-
minded that we are a united people.
If this partnership of Government
and Business bears fruit-and it will
the history of America written a
century hence will devote one chap
ter to the new era. But if Business
fails to meet the test of responsible
ity, or if government leaders fail to
meet the test of the working with
Business, then the experiment will
be accorded only footnote in small
type on that history's page.
We believe that both will make
common cause for the common good.
Invitation, challenge, an oppor-
tunity-all are there. julius Barnes,
to whom the President turned over
the job of mObilizing Business, puts
it soberly:
It would be an inspiration to all
who believe in self-government if
there could be constructed now an
example of teamplay so as to show
that voluntary service is superior to
compulsion.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18
THE SPIRIT OF IMPROVEMENT

Peoples minds fall into two class
es as respects their environment.
One set of people always favors
letting well enough alone They
look around at their disorderly
home place, and think it is we'll
enough, and not worth fussing to
improve. They see many unattrac-
tive and ugly features in their home
town, but they are not interested in
movements to substitute anything
better.
Then there is the type of folks
who are not fully satisfied with ex-
listing conditions. They see hand
some towns and attractive homes as
they ride around here in Delaware.
They want their home places to COM
pare favorably with the best ones of
the same type, and they are not sat
isfied with an inferior community
development. Blessings on these
folks! They are a constant stim-
ulus to progress.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18

Congress by these negligencies OF
lips or typewriter. The sermon
which he spins out of his text is in
consistent with it. He dwells upon
the equal and coextensive powers of
House and Senate only to say bland
ly that the House "in late years has
been the dominant factor in our leg
islative branch of government"
In "the major legislation" of that
period the House has had it's way in
main matters and "the Senate has
yielded time and again" If this
habit is maintained, Speaker Long
worth continues, as humor over
comes his solemn look of fact-find-
ing and pose of angelic detachment,
the labels upper" and "lower" will
change positions. This is excellent
fooling. It is also another notice to
Little Brother. Thereby his not too
amiable temper may get even sourer.
N. Y. Times.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18
A LITTLE NTTIATTYE

1t will often happen that towns
like Milford will feel for many
years that this or that public i'm
provement should be put through
And yet these people will do moth
ing about it. In most cases, if the
idea was practical, it could have
been put through without great diff
Guilty.
For instance, suppose some town
needs a certain fine piece of land for
a public park, and that the plan is
reasonable and practical. If some
organization would take hold of it
and have a petition for such action
circulated through the community,
people would generally sign it, and
the city fathers would then be rous-
ed to action. All it wants in many
such cases, is a little initiative.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18
KEEPING THE WOLF AWAY

Much is said by hopeful people
about the possibility of abolishing
poverty from this land of plenty. 1t
ought to be done. But to accom-
plish that, a lot of folks will have
to begin early on their policy of
thrift. If they act like spendthrifts
all through their early youth, pow
erty will probably follow them like
the tradition wolf at the door.
Every winter there are many peo-
pie who are close to the wall, and
who can hear the wolf scratching
quite fiercely at their door. Many
of them never began to wrestle with
that old wolf, until a too late date.
To abolish poverty, people need to
begin as boys and girls. Many
schools start them in a course of
saving money at an early age, and
they form such habits of economy
and prudence that the old wolf will
never get them. But there are others,
probably more of them, who as
young people spend money very ex-
travagantly, at least until they get
married. The boys blow in all they
can earn. They like to show off be-
fore their girl friends, to take them
around to expensive amusements
and do everything in the most costly
way. Many of the girls also blow in
considerable sums of money that
they might save. They constantly
fritter away sums for things they do
not need, and that could be depos-
tied in a good bank.
It is not suggested in the above
that either young men or young wo-
men should economic stringently
on clothes. It pays them to dress
nicely, but many of them go in for
dressing far beyond their means,
which accomplishes nothing worth
while.
When young people get ready to
marry, both of them should have
sums of money saved up for the ex-
penses of family life. Once they |
have that reserve against emerg-
encies, and have formed the habit |
of economy and thrift, the chances
that the wolf will ever get them are
very much less.
Milford chronicle., 1930-04-18
PARTNERS FOR PROSPERITY
editorial in Nations Business"
January 1930)

| Jduuafy 1S0O)
For generations we have been ac-
custOmed to look upon business and
government as hereditary foes. Busi-
ness, we were early taught, was al
ways trying to evade the law; gov
ernment was continually trying to
catch business at it. If we lost sight
of the eternal conflict for a moment,
some politician brought us to our
senses.
1t was as if we had two sets of
guiding principles - one for the
youth who entered business; one for
the youths brother who entered poll
tics. One was led to feel that his po-
litical economy must be literally
political; the other that his eco
nomics were "cOmmerciaI'-and that
business and mOney-grubbing were
one and the same.
Our One-time zeal to keep State
and Church separated now expended
itself on the separation of State and
Business.
We were told that business aims
only at making money, while gov
ernment aims at securing the pub
lie Welfare-as if the two objectives
were hOpelessly irreconcilable with
the public good.
But it is becoming more and more
apparent that business represents a
public trust. That trust is under
stood better day by day. Few knew
or cared-what the elder Morgan
meant 20 years ago when he wrote
to the Pujo committee, then investi-
gatinf the money trust" Today we
sense the deeper significance of his
words, when he said:
To us it seems as little likely that
the citizens of this country will fill
Congress with rascals as it is that
they will entrust their business and
financial affairs to a set of clever
rOgues. The only genuine power
which an individual, or a group of
individuals can gain is that arising
from the confidence reposed in him
or them by the community. These
are axioms which it seems almost
idle to repeat. They apply to all
business, but more emphatically, we
believe, to banking than to any other
form of commerce. To banking the
nation in casting up accounts, is ask
ing, where does Business stand? !
Where does Government stand?"
The unqualified answer is that |
they stand together. Through the |
President the government has spok-
en-. Through host of its leaders,
business pledges it's resources and
to maintain the mo-
Of industry.