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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-16
VALLEY GETS
new INDUSTRY
Spraying Company Nears
Completion Of
Plant

Word comes from Progresso that
Che Valley Spraying Company.
which is owned by G. NJ. Malone.
r. B. Creager, G. o. Miles and their
associates. is completing the con-
struction Of q lime-sulphur solu-
ton plant at ProgreSo.
Up to this time. Valley citrus
growers have been compelled TO
use dry sulphur dust OF lime-sul-
phur solution made by simply mix
ing the dry lime-sulphur in the
spraying machines. The busting
method Of insect control has prac-
tically been abandoned in Califor-
mia. except for Use against aphis
in the regions where there is little
wind. Owing TO the high velocity OF
winds in the Valley during the
spraying season. the dust blows off
Of the trees and a great deal Of 1t
is wasted.
New Method
Under the new method used By
the Valley Spraying Company Of
Progresso, the lime-sulphur ele-
ments are cooked and chemically
processed in a way to make a con-
centrate which Is later mixed with
water and can be sprayed through
any type Of machine. In this way,
by the proper mixing Of chemicals.
the toxic pOisons n much more
effective in their killing power
against the rust mite, red spider
and, to a certain extent. against
scale insects in the crawler stage.
This new plant will combine the
calcium oxide with high grade sui
phur and thus obtain a uniform
high grade product Of standard con-
centration. This product can also
be combined in its use with oil
emulsion, as 1t dilutes more readily
in solution than the dry form OF
lime-sulphur.
Widely Used
Large growers in California have
universally adopted the use of the
prepared concentrate. instead Of the
dry sulphur and lime, as the end
products IN this chemical mixture
are far more poisonous than the
dry form.
The new chemical works nearing
completion at ProgreSo consisting Of
steam boilers, sludge trays, settling
tanks, filters and storage, with cleo
trio elevators and conveyors, TO
handle the raw products from the
cookers through the whole process
TO the storage tanks, also built by
the Valley Spraying Company, and
Is Of large capacity. as the Direc-
tors are looking forward to taking
care Of the wants Of the entire VAL
icy.
The product will go under the
trade name OF "ProgresSo Brand
and viii be used exclusively on the
1000 acres Of trees at Progreso and
will be distributed by various job
berS and commercial sprayers
throughout the Valley.
A graduate entomologist from Call
ifornia, the first 10 come to the
Rio Grande Valley for commercial
purposes, will be in charge Of the
manufacture OF the material and
spraying operations, and his SER
vices will be available to those grow
ers IN the Valley who call upon the
Valley Spraying Company to do
their work. The erection OF this
plant viii greatly aid Valley growers
IN their pest control work.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-16
Marriage Licenses

Marcelino Rodriguez and Cirilda
Reglodo, Israel Cano and Juana
Longoria, Sabas Sefuentes and
Paula Sanchez.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-16

BRUSSELS R-Sabena. the Bel
gian commercial air line, mas or
dered ~ new tri-motored German
nlanes for use this spring during
the fairs at Liege and Antwerp.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-16

LIBON ga new 5000 ton liner
the Mousinho, has been commits
stoned for passenger and freight ser
vice between the mother country
and Portuguese colonies In Africa.
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This will interest the great producer some
what, but not nearly as much as your next
move. Quickly and noiselessly you crawl to the
rear of the car and climb snakily onto the
roof. When you have wriggled forward until
you are above the window at which he Is sit
ting, you hang over the side of the until
your face suddenly appears opposite his. Again
you put your finger to your lips.
"Kee Chang want fare" you say. When Mr..
Belasco puts his hand in his pocket for the
money you again disappear.
These tactics should be kept up until the
producer manifests sufficient interest to ask you
for a transfer and what you doing a
street car conductor when you ought to be
the stage in some Chinese play, and prestol
the path is open for your first engagement
OF course, there is a chance that you will
have no such good luck. You may wait for
months before producer boards your car, and
in that case I would advise that you take the
wolf by the horns, give up your job, and secure
a position as butler in Mr. Belasco's home-or,
say, the home of Arthur Hopkins.
MR.. HOPKINS is known as the producer Of
society plays-plays in which the actors
present the wealthy residents of Park or Fifth
avenue in New York AS soon as you have
been engaged by Mr.. Hopkins as butler in his
home, you should procure copy of the Book
of Etiquette and study it carefully. Then, some
evening when Mr.. Hopkins gives dinner party,
you will have your opportunity
Surprising that Mr.. Hopkins has invited
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones and Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis
AS soon as they are seated and the first course
has been served, you should touch Mrs Ellis
politely, but firmly on the shoulder and say,
I'm sorry, Mrs Ellis. but fear you using
the wrong fork" Both Mr.. Hopkins and Mrs.
Ellis will be grateful to you for calling their
attention to this breach of good manners, and,
as the meal proceeds, there will, no doubt, be
many other opportunities of similar nature,
such as: What pity that Mr.. Jones wore
black studs with full evening dress" or Mrs.
Jones, the napkin before your face when re-
moving something from your tooth, please"
After the guests have gone (Which viii quite
possibly be before the dinner has ended Mr..
Hopkins will, without doubt, offer you a splen-
did part in his next society play, and your
worries will be over.
And as for getting your name in lights that
is just question of time, few lights (Which
can be bought at any electrical store) and
knowing how to spell your own name.
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deed for the French terrible affair. And
how many British lives had it cost?
French secret service sought the creator Of
this masterpiece of trickery this work of art
in strangling, misty gray with its goblet of
crimson. Gradually there appeared the figure
Of the Master. But only gradually. For long
he a name, phantom, and not even
those who had seen him, like the staff Of the
vice consulate, knew just who or what he was.
They cursed him as The MaSter-and then
looked over their shoulders.
THE French secret service chief continued:
Every vice consulate man we set looking
for him, all over Switzerland. And violaI right
here in Berne one comes to me greatly moved.
I have found him!' he cries. In the Office
of the pOlicel'
81 assure you could hardly control myself
But certainly says my man. Prom the
hall saw him talking, laughing with high
police officer A typist told me he was q good
friend of the officer and comes often. He left,
he took a taxicab, he walked around block,
then to an apartment-house and into door
on the first floor. The concierge came out,
walked up the street. seized some news
papers from an ancient vendeuse I ran In,
rang his door-bell. There came to the door
a man of the height Of him whom followed,
but broader, darker, with heavier features Diff
ferent expression, in short, another man-and
in the uniform Of a captain In the German
Army. looked into the apartment a small
one; and I swear there was nobody else. The
man had seen go in-waS not there
i had just wits enough to offer a news
paper. The German oficer looked hard at me,
took the paper fumbled in his pocket, went
back into the apartment and took from an
overcoat some money-and again, I swear, the
overcOat was that of the man had followed,
the man Of the vice consulate. But this cap
tain was another man, or seemed So
1t was Capt. Won Einem, who voyaged
often by government permission between Ger
many and Switzerland, to care for German
soldiers interned here. For long we had sus-
pected that under cover Of this humane work
he was part Of their underground railway, q
messenger for and probably a recruiter of
spies ordered him watched day and night,
and soon our agent reported:
This morning Capt. Won Einem took the train
for Zurich. followed and at the station a
limousine met him. He closed the curtains.
The car drove slowly for half hour, then to
an apartment house in a quiet street. The door
opened and out stepped another man. The
captain had vanished. This new man wore
rather sportive civilian clothes, was short,
STOPPING I caught a glimpse of his face-not
that of Capt. Won Einem. Into the house went
my man. Around the corner brought basket
o. vegetables, turned up my coat collar and
went back. The concierge was surely German,
but woman was sweeping and to her said:
These are ordered by Herr Glauber, who
Just alighted from the automobile" 'a@e
"'"Get away!" she cried to me, 1--WE know no
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the French secret service in Switzerland had
been congratulating itself on its success in
getting men into Germany, and their reports
out again. The great German Spring offensive
of 1913 these reports said, would be stupen-
dous blow against the French in the Cham
payne, possibly linked with pincer attack on
the new and small American force near Toul.
So while other channels of information con-
tradicted, steps were taken to be ready On
March 81 the first great blow fell-not at all
on the French in Champagne or the Americans
in Lorraine, but on the British the Somme,
a hundred miles and more away. The French
could hardly believe this was the main at
tack, and their reinforcements were slow, all
too slow, to aid the hardpressed British Then
suddenly the spy reports from Germany be-
came queerly mixed
Expert checking showed them combina-
ton of truth and falsehood so ingenious that
it was almost impossible TO tell which was
which. Much Of the true information the
allies already had-and the Deuxieme Bureau
found that the Germans must have known
it. Horror-struck, they tested out their sup
posedly safe and sure information service
working from within Germany via Switzerland.
They ordered 1t to secure plans of the plant
OF the Badische Anilin Fabrik at Ludwigshafen,
the great German gas factory-of which they
had already plans they knew were accurate.
BY the underground railway bearing the pro-
per marks of the French secret service, came
back set Of plans labeled "Badische Anilin
Fabrik"-but they were not the true plans
The Germans had been tricking the French
secret service.
How? For how long? Here was a task
worthy the keen Latin mind, to be done in
desperate haste, for other German drives were
coming, even now were in preparation Where?
When? Not only had trusted source of in
formation dried up it had been polluted by the
enemy. And the trained agents who had cross
ed the German border so confidently, but who
seemed to have sent back false reports-where
were they?
IKE eager hounds the Deuxieme Bureau
beat the cover Of Switzerland and the
German border, and soon found q scent here
trail there, small bits that, put together.
revealed the dim outline of tragedy Every one
Of the 81 skilled agents who had gone into
Germany to md out about the great drive
had been doomed before he crossed the frontier
The Germans had let them walk into the parlor.
locked the door, watched from behind a cur
tain while they went about getting informa-
ton, noted every move.
With greatest pains they had found out
how the French spies sent back their reports
by secret messengers, code telegrams news
paper advertisements, whatever means. Then
the Germans had pounced. One French spv
after another had stood gray-faced before a
gray-clad firing squad. One by one the Ger
mans had snuffed them outr-and sent back
in their nernes fe'stfied rerorts. I. wac
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n GREAT many street car conductors
IL seem to be laboring under the de-
~ fusion that acting is very mys-
terious profession and that actors are
in the words of the poet, race
apart" I have often had conductors say to
me, Il wish was actor as though they
were expressing desire for something abSo-
lutely beyond possibility. I am not sure how
this feeling about the profession came to be
so universally taken for granted, but am sure
that it is not true. Anybody can be an actor,
and almost anybody can eventually realize that
greatest of all ambitions, the seeing of ones
in electric lights. For instance, suppose
you are a street car conductor, and suppose
further that at the end of 10 years you begin
to become dissatisfied with your job.
I'm sick of all this" you complain to the
motorman, as you and he and an old lady pas
Senger near the end of Jamaica avenue.
"Whatta da mat'?" inquiries the motorman.
"Oh, I'm sick of calling out the same streets
all the time" you reply. Elm street, Spruce
street, CORTLAND street. Washington street."
Washington YER great mana," remon-
strates the motorman "Whatta you got
against heem?"
Il didn't mean any offense to he who was
the father of our country" you make haste to
say, but can't you understand? Always the
same streets"
I'VE gotta go where de tracks goes" argues
the motorman.
That's just it," you cry. always where the
tracks go. Why can't we leave the tracks
just for once?"
Dat is practically bolshevism," says the mo-
torman. And you in uniform tool"
Sorry, old fellow" you apologize az didn't
realize what was saying. I must have eaten
something that did not agree with me-" And
with that you come to the end of the line.
End of the line" you call.
''What?" asks the old lady passenger, cupping
her hand over her ear
II said, End of the line" you reply.
"Oh, goody," says the old lady. Can help
you change the trolley?"
IF you WISH" you reply, with bow, and.
as soon as the trolley has been changed, you
ring the bell and the car starts back toward
town
THANK you," smiles the old lady, settling
once more down into her seat and you go up
forward with the motorman
Il been thinking over whatta you say" he
remarks land, If you doan lax thissa job why
doan you get another?"
I've thought of that" you admit. by golly,
] wish was an actor"
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"A what?" inquiries the other
"An actor" you repeat, like Booth. But I
never can be one. I guess I'll be a street
conductor all my life and with that you go
hopelessly back to the rear platform and NOPE.
A ND that is where you are wrong. You can
be an actor. There is no great secret about
acting. There is only one requirement-get a
start. Get some producer to give you part in
his next play. 1t doesn't make any difference
how small the part is, or how insignificant it
may seem. Take it.
But, you may ask, how can get producer
to become interested in me? How can get
him to give me this part? Here am you say,
a street car conductor with only Thursday
nights off, and Thursday night / have to take
care of the baby. How can find time to take
this decisive step?
That is easy. just keep your eyes open. Pro-
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ducers are only human. What is more. they
are democratic. They ride on street cars. All
you have to do is wait until producer gets on
your car and then show him that you can act.
The rest is inevitable
Let us suppose that the third passenger to
board your car on Saturday morning is David
Belasco. Let us suppose, Furthermore, that
Mr.. Belasco is about to produce a play about
Oriental life, with the scenes laid in sinister
dive in HGngkong.
Mr. Belasco enters the car and seats himself.
Slowly, and with shutting gait, you approach
him. When you are opposite his seat, you stop.
He looks at you, and you put one finger to,
your lips
"Kee Chang want fare" you whisper. Alice
same seven cents" and you point upward.
Mr.. Belasco naturally looks in that direction,
and, when his gaze returns to you, you have
disappeared.
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memorandum books to a small bag he carried.
Il shall examine these" he said, at my
leisure"
The Frenchman stepped forward.
Examine them here if you must" he cried,
"but you have no right to take them away"
Like flash the visitors hand went to his
coat pocket.
"Ah, have not?" There was ring of COM
mand in his voice. I'VE shall see. Let no one
move"
Ninbly he stepped to and through the door,
slammed it and shot the bolt Came the sud
den drumming of a powerful motor.
In another Swiss CITY, prosperous Swiss
merchant, perhaps trif1e pro-ally, received
call from Swiss secret police agent who in
sisted on seeing reports of his travelling men
in Germany. The Swiss agent showed badge.
masterful man-yes; middle height, wiry,
not quite 40. mustache, glasses, piercing black
eyes.
49, is the same man." said the French secret
service
Next day came a code telegram from Zurich.
The identical Swiss agent had called there
upon trusted allied agent, showing the badge,
and asked questions that could be asked only
by some one who had seen papers that might
have been in the vice consulate safe. He
seemed to be trail or two
at becomes serious" said the French. What
are she Swiss up to? Oh, is it, after all, the
Swiss? But that badge"
There are French Swiss as well as German,
and one of these reported next day:
"A high police official of Zurich says this
man is bona fide Swiss agent"
The Zurich official was German Swiss,
and had been long on the allied suspect list.
They could prove nothing, but they could
watch. Then came a report from Geneva
The British aviator x, here on leave,
has been seen much with a man about whom
we have been curious for some time. He passes
as OF the Swiss secret police, and speaks Eng
lish well. He seems not quite 49, middle
height, slim but strong brown mustache,
glasses black eyes, very keen and glittering"
Then like thunderclap, word from the
Deuxieme Bureau In Paris:
The British independent air force who con-
duct from airdromes in the American area in
Lorraine night bombing raids upon the Ger
man Rhine cities, believe that the secret Of
their system Of signaling by lights at night has
been betrayed to the Germans Several times
lately German airplanes have flown at night
over British airdromes, flashing British code
signals to light up. When this was done the
Germans bombed and machine-g unned the air.
dromes. destroying airplanes and killing and
wounding aviators and mechanics. There is
reason to believe they got this information in
SwftzerlenS"
SEAFsLt 49, they would the British could
find nowhere In the Royal Air Force an
aviator named x
But there was worse TO come. All this time,
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Herr Glauber here That was Herr Michael
sen, who has lived here this long time. You
have the wrong house"
And they told me at our. Zurich branch that
Mchaelsen is on our suspect list. He is at
tached to the German vice-consulate, in the
bureau for exchanging German coal for Swiss
milk, cheese and other products. He speaks
German, French, English and German-SwiSS.
That would make him a dangerous spy If he
were discreet enough. But he lives dissolute
life, drinking and women. Every dive-keeper
in Zurich must know him"
THE French chief leaned back and lighted q
cigarette.
What an affair, my friend" he said, with an
expressive gesture. "was the raider Of the vice.
consulate, with his Swiss badge, also Capt. Won
Einem of Bern, and again Herr Michaelson Of
Zurich? Which was his real IDENTIFY And all
this elaborate deceit by q Swiss agent merely
seeking neutrality violations? He could be only
one thing, a consummately clever German
agent, master spy.
His power went beyond the underworld. The
two Swiss police ofacers are only the beginning.
We cross his Shiny trail everywhere. We find
him or Won Einem or Michaelsen In touch with
highest and lowest. In the same day he talks
with Walther Rathenau, head Of the commercial
staff at the German legation which we have
long suspected did legitimate business through
back, then with bank teller accused of thefo
who then gets hrst-class Swiss lawyer and
provides high bail"
I'VE have heard something of it," the Ameri-
can said.
Wherever he goes" the Frenchman con-
tinued, this Master finds victims. There is
more than one crooked bank teller in his power.
He has bribed Swiss railroad conductors, hotel
chambernaids. telegraph employees. How do the
Germans know so well what happens to the
border? Customs inspectorsi Always he and
his agents seek out the morally weak-to cor
rupt them, make them weaker. Be a spy for
me, he says, or will betray you to the Swiss
police. Then to his police friends he gives
underworld information in trade for what they
know about our allied secret services here.
Perhaps even some Of our men are agents
doubles in his pay. He has plenty Of money
"a Mephistophelesl" the Frenchman ex-
claimed, with despairing rage. HE harms US
more than half their German generals He
steals the British signals, and destroys more
airplanes than Richthofen. Every day many
French and British and Italian and American
soldiers die because Of him It is the affair Of
=" of Us
An American secret agent and a man knotrR
as Zero" got together and plotted the UndofRg
OF the master spy. They succeeded, and that
ID0s one OF the greatest victoTies of the allies
The complete story 1Dtu be told In the second
fnstaHTcnt Of this Interesting N~'-~ tn The
~ SI4 'ars1s merit SUNDAY. ta4 .tst
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

An American secret agent and man kno1rR
as Zero" got together and plotted the undotng
OF the master sPy. They succeeded and that
The complete story sOill be told In the second
fNstaHTcnt OF this Interesting H-~'-e In The
- ~ 'at1 '9rsyss neEs SRRdor ,s .sus -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

GREAT many street car conductors
seem to be laboring under the de-
fusion that acting is a very mys-
terious profession and that actors are,
Nogales international., 1930-07-15

side a straightaway, the Grim
Reaper stalked, waiting to annex a
life as a toll for reckless, careless
and drunken driving.
Despite efforts of state authori-
ties to curb the rapidly increasing
number of fatalities on highways,
the death toll mounts.
Only three of Arizona's II coun-
ties-Apache, Mohave and Graham
boast of a record of no deaths
from January to July 80, while the
remaining are credited with Sc ia
talitieS.
In Santa Cruz county, nine hu-
mans we're sacrificed as result Of
motor vehicle accidents. Scores Of
others were injured.
Hit-and-run drivers took their
toll The latest was at Nogales where
an alleged hit-and-runner claimed
the life of a prominent figure in
the daily life of the Santa Cruz
city. He was Charlie Lee, 80, Chinese
laundryman. For 10 years, Lee had
been a resident of Arizona, and for
Nogales international., 1930-07-15

48 years had maintained a residence
in one shack.
In Pima county one of the recent
deaths was that of Mary Luna,
nine-monthS-old, who was thrown
from her mothers arms when an
automobile struck them. The mother
was attempting to rescue another
daughter playing in the street when
the accident occurred.
;. Collisions were credited with TAX
ing the largest toll, with pedestrians
being struck by automobiles holding
second.
Railroad crossing accidents claim
ed q small number of lives, the re-
mainder being credited to overturn-
ing of machines going at an exces-
sive rate of speed, and other causes.
Despite the fact highways are
crowded with Sunday picnic parties,
the largest number of deaths was
recorded on Saturdays with Sundays
placing second and Fridays third.