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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-17
Rotary Committee
To Pass On Tourney

SAN BENITO, Oct. 1.-THE mat
ter Of a golf tournament among
Rotarians was placed in the hands
OF a committee composed of Ed.
Brady. II. G.. Marshall and j. l..
Bates.
This committee was appointed
by President w. w. H%ousewright at
the Thursday luncheon at the
Stonewall Jackson Hotel and prob
ably will confer with q similar
committee from tile Harlingen
club.
There were fire prevention talks
at the luncheon by y. q. Louthan.
who spoke from the standpoint Of
the taxpayer. and by i. A. Tedder,
fire chief. who sought cooperation
of the public.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-17
Especial to The Herald)

HARLINGEN. Oct. 17.-Earl
Mule Frazier. famous Baylor
university hurdler OF other DAYS
who is now selling sporting goods
and referreeing football games, was
a visitor here Thursday.
Frazier has refereed a number Of
college games. including Southwes-
tern conference tits. this year. He
was an official in the Battle or
Grapefruit at Brownsville last year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-17
Fruit PROBERS
FEELING HURT
Claim Made That All Citrus
Going Out of Valley
Meets Tests
Especial TO The Herald.)


dARLINGEN, Oct. 17.-Resent-
ment over the reports that green
fruit is being sent out of the VAL
ley was expressed here by j. c.
Powell, who is in charge of en-
forcement Of the state green fruit
law, who said that although state
inspectors car certify the maturity
nf fruit they cannot pass on its
eating quality.
The reports are a reflection on
the work Of the state inspectors,
he said.
When fruit meets maturity tests
there Is nothing for inspectors TO
do except certify to this even
though the product would have
been much better had it been left
on the trees. The fruit has been
lacking in sufficient Juice content.
Tor n thing, he said. He charged
also that early maturity Of some
sefkded varieties had been forced BY
x9bS watering.
Much OF the grapefruit should
y ieIt on the trees until the rains
and sunshine put the golden grape
fruit in a better condition for ship
ping and eating" he said.
Florida has already shipped
about 5000 cars this season into
the open market and in order 70
get a fair price for Valley fruit our
high quality must be maintained.
ne declared.
Everybody knows that water
melons may be ripe enough for the
negro's Juneteenth celebrations but
that they will taste a lot better
In july and the same sort OF thing
holds true for grapefruit. II may
be ripe now technically but would
have a better flavor and more juice
later"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-17
SUMMARY

The high pressure area and at
tendant cold wave has moved east
ward and spread southwark and
now controls the greater portion o.
the United States west of the Mis-
slssippi Valley. being crested over
Montana and Wyoming and ada
cent Canadian provinces. Much
colder weather has resulted from
the northern Plains and Rockies TO
n-Orth-central Texas and the Mis-
sissippi valley. Moisture has beer
widely scattered and unimportant.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-17

MEXICO CITY. -t5-The 100000
peasants TO whom the government
issued arms in 1928 TO help stamp
out the de la Huerta rebellion are
being organized into species OF mil
tia. five regiments having already
been formed in the state OF Vera
Cruz.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-17
New Warehouse
ESPECIAL 10 THE Herald

Especial % The Herald)
SAN BENITO. Oct. 1.-THE Van
Transfer company is having a
warehouse built on the Missouri
Pacific right Of way west Of the
:ity. The warehouse Is to be 36ss50
feet.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-17

GLASGOW. @P)-To shelter the
workmen engaged on the Glasgow
Inverness highway from the Scot
fish winter army huts have been
moved into the area. The road
program calls for use Of 5 5000, 000.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-17
BULLETIN

First figures. lowest temperature
last night; second. highest yester-
day: third. wind velocity at s a.
m: fourth. precipitation in last "a
hours.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
VETERAN DRUGGIST
OF GEORGETOWN DIES
DR.. William Scherer, 80 Years in
Business Here, Succumbs
to Heart Disease.

DR.. William Scherer. 81 years old, for
more than 80 years in the drug bust
ness at the corner of Thirty-fifth and
o streets and widely known in George
town, died at his home in Kensington
Md, today. Death was due to heart
disease.
DR.. Scherer had been Ill three weeks
He conducted the business with his
brother, DR.. Charles Scherer, by whom
he is survived.
Starting in business long before the
days Of the chain stores, DR.. Scherer
has maintained in the windows Of his
store through the years the blue and
red bottles reminiscent of the drug
stores of years ago, making the store
one Of the picturesque places Of George
town.
DR.. Scherer was graduated from the
Maryland College of Pharmacy, in Bal
timore, and later was graduated with an
M. D. degree from the College of Ply
SicianS and Surgeons, Baltimore. He
was a member Of the Kensington Lodge
Of MaSons.
Funeral services will be conducted at
the residence in Kensington Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. DR.. Fred
A. Kullmar. pastor of the Warner Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church. Kensing-
ton, will officiate. Interment will be
in Union Cemetery, Rockville, Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
RADIO CHAIN HEAD
PLEDGES LAW AID
Paley Promises Cooperation, but
Pleads for Sound Bust
ness Basis"
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSS
William S. Paley. president of the
Columbia Broadcasting Co., in testi-
mony before the Senate interstate COM
nlerce committee today pledged CO.
operation in broad, constructive legisla-
ton" to improve broadcaSting, but urged
that nothing be done to prevent his
company from continuing on sound
business basis"
The committee is holding hearings
on the Couzens bill, which ~'ould group
radio, telephone, telegraph and cables
under the control of a new commission.
Paley testified that his system de-
pended solely upon the sale of time
for sponsored programs and value of
public support. He said that the Column
bia System had no entangling alliances
and served no special interests.
THE one thing hope above all else
is that no legislation will be enacted
which will prevent us from continuing
on a sound business basis" he said.
I'm conducting Columbia on what we
consider to be a sound business basis
we must necessarily keep uppermost in
our minds the need of rendering real
public service.
Questioned by members Of the com
mittee, Paley said the system prior
$l72, 400. In 1929 he said he hoped a
profit would be shown, although the
figures were not yet complete.
The revenues in 1929, he added, were
about $3,500,000.
The programs. he said, were divided
as follows
Symphony, opera and chamber music,
26 per cent: civic, 2 per cent; religious,
4 per cent; instructive, IA per cent: dra-
matte, 8 per cent, and popular music,
% per cent. The balance of % per cent
programs.
The system, he continued, was con-
trolled by the Paramount Famous
Laskey Corporation, which. owns half
the stock, and IL other stockholders.
Its political reporter, Frederic William
Vile, Paley added, receives SITS weekly
for his services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
The Farley Background
Anglo American Parity Continues to Hold
Attention of World Diplomacy.

The American Navy, for instance
with its bases scattered far apart. wants
to build large cruisers. The British Navy
wants smaller ones. How shaIl large
and small cruisers, with differing guns
of different age and design and speed
be balanced off one against the other?
1t is useless for the layman to NIL his
mind with the technical elements ana
the formulate Of higher mathematics
which must enter into the answer 20
! this question.
Even the naval experts are having
trouble providing the solution, as they
will be asked to do at London. There is
precisely the same difference between
them over the relative fighting power OF
ships as there is between automobile
manufacturers over which type OF car
is best for the average driver.
To compare two fleets scientifically is
like determining which is better pro-
vided for, the man who owns an old six
cylinder coupe and a new four-cylinder
touring car, or his neighbor, with an old
eight-cylinder sedan and new motor
cycle.
Experts Seek "Yardstick."
Nor have the naval experts any trade
manual, like that Of the automobile
dealer, to guide them. They still are
seeking q yar0SClck WHICH VIII endUle
them to lump together and measure &C :
curately such elements as size, speed.
gun capacity and dozen besides.
In the main, the difficulty arises only
as to cruisers. The other types Of ships
are not of great concern as between the
two countries. But the British have
been unable to see why the United
States needs so many OF the biggest
type, 10,000-ton cruisers, with their g.
inch guns. So far as the practical APP
plication of parity goes, this is the
major unsettled question.
OF course, in the end, the whole prob
lem must be solved by diplomatic COM
promise, rather than by mathematics,
Tor parity in practical application can
be no more than a relative term.
Even II the two navies themselves
we're exactly equal, there still would re-
main the question of the relative mill
tary value of naval bases, and the po-
tentialities of arming merchantmen in
time of war.
Despite its complexities there is, OPP
timism in both Washington and London
over the question of parity. At this
writing 1t is, perhaps, the one major
project Of the conference which appears
nearest solution.
(Tomorrow: 1895 the Next Probable
Milestone)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
EIGHT PERSONS HURT
IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS
James Craig, 18-Year-Old Youth,
Seriously Injured When Auto
Skids Into Ditch.

Eight persons were injured in traffic
accidents last night. James Craig, 16
years old, of 1903 c street southeast
was the only one reported to police
as seriously hurt.
Craig, accompanied by two compan-
ions, was driving into a road leading
to the home of friends near Forty
ninth street and Central avenue about
8 o'clock, when his car skidded and
overturned, landing in a ditch.
passing motorist stopped and took
Craig to Casualty Hospital, where he
was treated for severe scalp wound
and q possible fracture of the skull.
Four persons were injured shortly
after 8 o'clock in collision at Rhode
Island avenue and Fourteenth street
between automobiles driven by Guy b.
Butts, 20 years old, of Rockville, Md,
and Sarah Hammer, colored, 81 years
old, of 1853 Girard street.
Butts and Ruth Myers, the latter re-
siding at Plaza Apartments. who ac-
companied him, were treated at Emer-
gency Hospital. Sarah Hammer and
Lillian Cooper, the latter also colored,
residing at 925 Eighteenth street, also
were treated for bruises.
Pvt. r. w. Hopkins of the eighth
precinct, on duty at Florida avenue
and Seventh street, about 1880, was
struck by an automobile driven. police
reported, by Ernest Green, colored, l745
X street. The officer's right knee was
injured. Green was charged with reck-
less driving.
Mrs. Bernard E. Reichardt, 40 years
OF of 1924 Ninth street; John F..
" mpson, So years old, 1901 Nine
tcenth street, and Joseph Braxton, col
ored, SO years old. 1475 Florida avenue.
were the others hurt, all being struck
by cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18

Proctor, Mrs. w. B. Ridgely, F. p. H.
Siddons. Ben T. Webster, Myron Whit
ney and Edward c. Yonkers.
William j. Eynon is also vice chair
man.
Arthur HELEN, vice chairman; Fred
erick M Bradley, Dwight Clark, David
E. Finlay, William j. Flather, Jr; j..
Eugene Gallery, G. G. Morgan, william
K. Quinter and Paul E. Shorb.
w. w. Everett, vice chairman; David
E. Buckingham. j. S. J. Clark, G. Fenton
Fadeley. Max Fischer, George w. Harris,
j. Philip Hermann. Walter S. Pratt, tr.,
and Roland Whitehurst.
Harold A. Brooks, Karl w. Corby,
Charles d. Drayton, Mrs. Wilbur j. Carr,
Mrs. Alvin E. Dodd, Maj Henry p. Err
win, Mrs Henry H. Father. Julius Gar
finckel, Mrs. Joseph H. Hines, Mrs.
Reginald S. Huidekoper. Richard W.,
Hynson, DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, Mrs.
Halbert E. Payne, Mrs. John Jay O'Con-
nor, l.. Corrin Strong and Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman.
Thomas Bell Sweeney, vice chairman:
Thomas w. Brahany, F. H. Brooks. Mrs,
Frederick Brooks, Mrs. G.. Mathews
Dick, Mrs. William E. Doeller, Mrs.
Charles Brayton, Frank S. Hight, Fred
erick s. Lee, Chester Lockwood, Mrs.
William Beverly Mason and Spotwood
White.
Robert " Fleming, vice chairman: Y.
e. Booker, Victor Deyber. A. G. Father,
Charles G. Glover, jr.: Richard w. Hyn-
son, Raymond Marx, Mai Julius I. Pew.
ser. w, w. Spaid. Corcoran Thorn and
Wilmer j. Waller. z
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18

is an inhumane weapon Of war, both the
British and American Governments
have expressed a desire to abolish the
submarine altogether. The italian gov
eminent has also come to accept this
position apparently on the theory that
in the event of a future war French
submarines would threaten the Italian
food supply.
Both Japan and France, on the other
hand, are opposed to the abolition OF
the submarine They believe 1t Is q
necessary means of defense against the
battleships of other powers.
French Want Submarines.
France does not believe that the sub
marine is any more inhumane than Is
the bombing plane or poison gas, ana
Frenchmen fear that England and the
United States wish to abolish this In
strument not for humanitarian reasons:
but to weaken the naval strength OF
France. France cannot afford TO pulio
the huge battleships which are now
found in the American ana a,.. br ,,aSn
navies. But France does insist upon
the right to build submarines as
means OF defense against such pettie-
ships. A.. o,,
government launched an enormous
cruiser-submarine named the Surcoui'
the largest subnarine in the world.
This submarine Is said to have radius
of action of $4,000 miles and speeo
of 10 knots. 1t is capable OF diving ~
feet deeper than any other submarine
in existence. The Surcouf Is armed
with four 5.5-inch guns and IA tor
pedo tubes. 1t will carry $50 men.
Unless the United States and the
British Empire are prepared to make
equivalent concessions it seems unlikely
that the French government Will agree
to wipe out one OF the most powerful
arms of its fleet.
Nevertheless, submarine construction
per ton is more expensive than the con.
struction of any other kind OF naval
craft. and some of the leading French
authorities, such as Admiral Castex, are
now publicly stating that the value Oh
the submarine may be exaggerated;
The only concession which the united
States and the British Empire may make
to France in return for abolition OF the
submarine lies in remuneration OF their
battleship supremacy. The possibility
of Joint agreement upon battleships
and submarines will be discussed IN
the final article.
(CopyriKht, 1890, by North American News
paper Alltance.D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
LONG ILLNESS Is FATAL
TO JARVIS B. MOULDEN

home, 1880 First street, yesterday after
long illness. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Nettie Angus Moulden; three
daughters, Mrs Louise Mayes and Mrs.
Edna Gather of Washington, and Mrs.
Edith O'Donnell of East Riverdale, Md; :.
son, Robert Moulden of Orlando, Fla,
and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the
TeSidence Monday Win tne rev; James
E. Church South, officiating Masonic
rites will be administered by Mount
Herman Lodge, No. 179, of Hyattsville,
Md. Interment will be in Glenwood
Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
COLD ADDS TO DANGERS.
Families Marooned by Break In Levee
South Of Decker, Ind.

South Of Decker, Ind.
VINCENNES, Ind, January 10 (P.-
Zero weather carried on the wings Of q
sharp north wind brought added misery
to marooned families in the flooded dis
trict OF the Wabash and White Rivers
today.
The Wabash had dropped 4 inches
here this morning, the gauge reading
appeared over, but blocks of ice were
appearing in the channel, and may
cause damage to bridge abutments
The crumbling of 100 feet of levee on
White River 5 miles south of Decker,
Ind, yesterday afternoon poured tor
rent of flood water over 10000 acres
OF farm land in Southwestern Knox
County.
The levee had held back water to a
depth Of Is feet, and the levee was 20
feet high at the point of the break. The
break was unexpected, and came from
below the water line.
100 Families MarOOned.
The roar of water passing through
the broken dixie could be heard for 5
miles, but the water Immediately spread
out like an immense fan, and the mum
dated area Is only few feet deep. APP
proximately 100 families were marooned.
Citizens of Decker, assisted by the
Red Cross here, made immediate efforts
to organize relief. Motor boats were
sent down here on trucks and all avail
able boats in Decker were pressed into
service. Little was accomplished dur
ing the night because the wind made
the waters rough and the motors were
frozen.
Efforts to reach the flood victims
were to be resumed this morning, An
aviator also prepared to continue
flights over the inundated area chart
ing water-bound homes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18

over the laws of the seaways have filled
a bullying chapter Of diplomatic protest
and retort and once-in 18l2-broIght
them into armed conflict. Years ago
they became the leaders in the race
for world naval supremacy.
Agree on Battleships.
In 1921. at the Washington confer.
ence, they agreed upon equality between
themselves as to battleShtps-the larg-
est type of war craft-and airplane
carriers.
In 1927. at Geneva, they disagreed
pointedly over an equality In smaller
vessels.
In 1929. President Hoover and Prime
Minister Macdonald definitely commit
ted their respective countries 10 the
principle that the two greatest navies
should be made as nearly equal as may
be possible.
It is for the conference which meets
In London January 81 to make practi-
cal application of that condition of
equality. to which diplomacy has at
tached the name of parity"
In theory. parity means the exact
pairing of of the two navies, ship for
ship, gun for gun. In practice that can
not be done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18

Continued from FlTSI EhBc.l
as the American program might thus
have been greatly upset.
Correspondents going aboard the
George washington at Plymouth SCI
the American delegation straight tc
some extent. and what doubt remained
was believed "a have been dispelled In
the long 6ofSefsation between Col
Stimson and HEemier Macdonald later
in the day.
himself would say nothing about what
they had talked of, merely remarkine
that he had a pleasant chat and had
"enioyed q nice cup CT the prime minis
ters tea" He was smiling and iovial
in some contrast to the rather tired
worried expression he had when rush.
ing almost precipitately from Padding
ton station to Downing street.
Early Talks Suffice.
Unless at the initiative Of the jap
anese themselves, there will be nc
further conferences between the Amerl-
can delegation and that from Toxic
Col. Stimson considering that the pre-
liminary conferences held at Washing
ton with Reijiro WakatSuki and his
| colleagues as they passed through en-
route to London had Sufficed.
A busy week end was ahead OF the
Americans and other delegations, with
probability that only a few of either
| the national representatives, their as
| sistants. or the naval experts would
get to play any at all. Most OF the
Americans had their golf clubs, but the
delegates at least appeared to have
| every minute Of their time scheduled
4 for days to come.
; The British papers, which have beer
| considering the approaching confer
ence with unusual apathy, seemed to-
| day to have awakened TO the fact thai
| the worlds most important show vii
| be held in London for the next few
/ weeks. The stories of arrival OF tho
| Americans crowded even murder
stories-for which many OF the British
papers have an unusual prediction
+, into second place.
The Evening Star in an editorial per
haps struck the keynote OF the Amer
lean welcome saying, I'VE offer on be
half OF the Englishman as taxpaye
and q good citizen OF the world on
warmest welcome to Mr.. Stimson ant
his fellow delegates on the Georg
Washington.
They come to return some of tn
spiritual cargo of the Mayfiower and II
the phrase OF another to bring in tn
New World to redress the balance o
the Old They have behind them tn
great tradition of non-militarism an
they have come to break into the clos
circle of European thought with freshe
ideas deyelopsd in the great democrat
of the West"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
ACTION IS DROPPED
|. IN CRASH OF MAST
No Violation of Building Code
Seen in Dropping of Weight
Through Roof.

No further action will be taken by
the District regarding the radio mast
that fell on the roof of the Chesapeake
e. Potomac Telephone Co. Building
yesterday, Building Inspector John w.
Oehmann announced today.
The mast, which was one that sup
ported the aerial of the old station
WCAP, fell through the roof as it was
being lowered by the Samuel j. Pres
ed from the ceiling injured three tele-
phone operators.
No Permit Issued.
Shortly after word of the accident
reached the District Building, Col. Och
mann sent j. j. Mcguire, one of his
inspectors, to the scene. Mcguire re-
ported that apparently no permit was
issued for the work and that the meth
cd of guying and the position, of the
sings along the length of the pole
was not clear.
Col. Oehmann explained today that
the building regulations require per-
NIT for the removal of any steel radio
mast or tower more than 20 feet In
height. Such a permit had not been
secured by the company, he said He
explained that the company had in
quired at the building inspectors Of
flee If permit would be necessary to
take down a radio mast" and some
unidentified employe replied that no
permit was necessary.
Regulation Not Sweeping.
Col. Oehmann said that most radio
masts, such as those on private resi-
dences, do not come within the regu-
lation.
Some hours after the accident had
been reported permit was taken out.
Col. Oehmann said that as far as could
be determined there was no violation
of any building regulation in the way
that the work was being done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18
THREE WOMEN TO SPEAK.

Three women of the Southern Pres
byterian Church will deliver addresses
at a meeting for women Monday at
pm. at the Central Presbyterian
Church, Sixteenth and Irving streets.
The speakers are Miss Janue Nc
Gaughey, secretary of the department
of women's work; Mrs. John Bratton,
chairman of the committee on worn-
ems work, and Mrs. j. F. Hooper, chair
man of the woman'S advisory COM
mittee
Mrs. Bratton will speak Wednesday
at pm at the Church of the Pill
Rrims, Twenty-second street and Park
way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-18

that some political agreement along
these or other lines will prove essential
to the success of the conference. This,
In any case, is the direction the minds
of diplomats are now taking.
AS for the Japanese claims, nobody
views them otherwise than seriously,
but 1t Is felt that the French claims are
so much larger that the Japanese at
first will be satisfied mainly to wait and
see what happens to the French before
pressing their own case.
The United States. too, It is argued,
might better wait and see while before
it throws its whole support to Great
Britain against France.