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AIR TRAFFIC sEchm

C~HICAGO.-For tho NRtAcanl
Races here this year, n huge &c
and 90" sign win @ntrrl private
plane traffic which threatens "a
create air congestion over the air.
port here. Private pAnnes VIII h9
allowed TO land on tho field only ah
certain times durln- tine program
III they have "a red light agAinsb
them. they must wait until a green
light flashes before they can land
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-29

persons residing In the rural sec
tons Of the district. There are four
towns within the geographical linn
its OF the district, but which are not
included. They are San Benito, Rio
Hondo, La Paloma and Los Indies.
The average sized farm Is between
% to 80 acres and the bonded in
debtedneSs Is approximately Sl0-50
per acre. m extremely low figure.
or the $500 acres in the district
$4,000 acres are irrigable and $4,000
acres are under irrigation for crop
raising.
The resaca has long been con-
sidered the sense OF the main canal
or the system. This Is approxim-
ately 80 miles long. but a main
canal In the Browne tract Is about
lG miles long and the So canal Is
about 9 miles in length. Laterals all
run from these canals.
The principal crop raised in the
district Is cotton. Figures for the
past three years show. IN acres:
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since the second year OF oper-
alton.
Then we formed the district. Cam
eron County Water Improvement
District No. 2 was formed and voted
5000, 10000 in bonds to take ovei
and rehabilitate the project. The
bond holders foreclosed their lier
and wiped the old company off the
map. The property that had cost
over Sl.500,0 900 10 build was sold to
the district for $500. 900 and the
other $4,000 worth Of bonds were
sold for par and put into improving
the property.
The district now has assets OF
S2,20l. 557 and only owes S550.00
in bonds, so that in u years since
the district was formed we have
built up a system with a net worth
Of 5 1,630,479.
Transportation
IN 1907 there was not a road on
the San Benito tract. except a few
narrow crooked trails through the
brush Realizing the need fol
transportation our main canal was
designed as a barge transportation
cnal. All bridges over the main
canal had a 20 foot clear span, with
head clearance of not less than Z
feet above high water. All our main
canal locks were built to pass barges
2Ox60 feet in size, the barge system
was never used, however.
D-tFm--z " ~4---
In 1910 Sam Robertson again had
a dream. He realized that lack Of
transportation was retarding devel-
Opment, SO he conceived the building
Of the Spider Web" railroad system.
His idea was 70 build a system Of
railroad loops over the district, SO
that no farm on the San Benito
tract would be over two miles from
a loading station. Time viii not
permit going into the history OF the
project. however, in three years we
had built 40 miles Of il on the San
ienito tract. We had the loop south
1 town built with three spur tracks
tilt off OF IL, n OF which goes to
II pump plant, making US the only
ant in the Valley with a railroad
ack 10 the pump house door.
We had 1914 miles of track north
San Benito. and the other side
that loop had the right OF way
AIRED and about six miles OF grade
lit when the Frisco road went into
ownership IN 1914 and stopped the
work.
We now have about 10 miles Of
railroad line in this district and 80
10 40 miles Of paved highway be-
sides IL TO IA miles OF paved streets
in San Benito.
Canal System
We have 27S miles OF district own
Cd and maintained canals. which are
kept in good repair and clean. Since
1920 We have not built a single wat
er delivery gate nor check Of any,
thing but concrete construction. We
have replaced practically all fumes
with concrete and al our main
road canal crossings are concrete
inverted syphons.
We have replaced about 1000 wat
er gates with cast iron, water tight
gates. We have several miles OF
concrete lined canals and four years
ago We adopted the policy Of CO.
operation with the land owners in
building underground pipe lines. it
1t Is q district owned ditch and the
adjacent owners want IL piped the
district pays ga of the costs. II 1t is
a private or community field ditch
we pay IA OF the cost. Under this
system we have installed about 40
miles Of pipe irrigation lines. in
sizes from II inch to "a inch diam
eters. About half Of this Is In dis
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O HER FAULT

Mistress: Do you think you VIII
settle down here? You've left many
lCbs.
Maid: Yes. MN. But remember,
+ didn't leave anv Of them volun-
t1rilvi-Passing Show.
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With roads and air lines being
opened up from the Valley into va
rious parts OF Mexico an increas-
ing number OF tourists Is expected
to pass through the Valley. They
will find many modern hotels in
which to stop over either on the
way to or from Mexico. And Mexi-
can citizens coming to the United
States also will find the accomo-
dations most excellent. Upper left
shows the Stonewall Jackson Hotel,
San Benito; left center, McAllen
Hotel at McAllen; lower left. Madi-
son Hotel, Harrington; upper right.
El Jardin Hotel, Brownsville; right
center. Reese-Wil-Mond Hotel, Har-
Iingen; Robb Hotel. Edinburg.
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THE TEST

a: Your maid plays the violin.
Has she got A good ear2
=: Oh YES: it'll fit any keThole
III the house.-Answers.
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that disclose the progress Of the
district through the lean and fat
years.
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The water rate in the district as
we'll as the flat rate and the bond
tax has also shown some figures
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SKIPPER LIZZIE

The acreage N orcharuS
$500 to 5000 acres.
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Congratulations

The San Benito Chamber Of m extends
its heartiest congratulations to the Valley as a
whole we feel sure that this is going to mean the
beginning of an era of prosperity for the Valley
beyond the expectations of even those far sighted
men whose efforts made this port possible.
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Sold Scattered Tracts

Our land sales we're badly scat
tered over the tract. but when we
sold a tract OF land and the pur-
chaser wanted vIter, we gave IL TO
him regardless Of the cost. on ac-
count Of this policy. before we had
U canal construction completed.
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All Quiet" and "Kamerad''

A THOUGH Washington seems to
"A have been given the go-by by that
inspirationalE film, "All Quiet on the
Western Front" there are still vague
rumblings as to the possibility of its
coming in to town, and therefore-or
not, as you will-the story that James
v. Bryson offers below may be of gen.
eral interest:
1T is beautiful; indeed, I can say no
more" The speaker was Erich Re-
marque. the 32-year-old author of IAN
writer, Mr.. Bryson I'VE were seated
at lunch in the fashionable Kaiserhof
Hotel, in Munster.
Half an hour before Remarque and
his charming wife, with one or two
film executives, had sat in a theater
in the little town of Munster looking
at the film which Mr. Laemmle had
created out of Remarque's book. Re-
marque had arrived at the theater,
driving his own car: He had come from
few knew where. When we parted later
in the day he set off again for the quiet
spot where he has buried himself away
from notoriety
1T was 10 o'clock in the morning
when l first saw RemarQue. I had
flown from London TO Berlin and from
the German capital to Munster, the
little town in Westphalia. I admit to
intense surprise when l saw him. He
is 80, admitted. but he looks 10 years
younger, and is Paul Banner In the
flesh.
I'VE shook hands quietly and walked
into the theater and took our seats in
an atmosphere charged with electricity.
1t was Remarque's first glimpse at the
wonder picture which has grown out
of his book. We might have been turned
to stone for all that passed as the film
flickered through its tale OF glory, war
and death.
And when it finished Remarque got
up and walked out. There were tears
in his eyes. He could not speak.
Later, in the Kaiserhof, he told me
the reason for those tears--why he al
ways looks so sad and never smiles.
He told me heartrending story that
for IA years he had kept to himself and
then immortali3ed in the book OF All
Quiet on the Western Front
He told me- through his interpreter,
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morning after 1t is enough for him
to know that the Snowman has put his
puppets back in their box and that
they will emerge tomorrow night and
repeat their written performances It
has been said that dramas stop but
never end. That the persons involved
have no future and are dismissed by
the playwrights just as their problems
become acute StiA, / was content on
Monday night to be unworried by the
prospects of Miss Dahlen and Mr.. Davis,
jr., when after most anguish evening,
they went out into rainbow dawn,
leaving seven corpses behind them.
X \
In my infrequent consultations with
authors and producers l have limited
that good show might be made of
a mystery play in which the murderous
villain would be frankly supernatural.
1t is practice of mystery melodra-
matists to blame the butler for killing
the old banker, while causing suspicion
to fall upon every one else, from the
ingenue to the gardener. Occasionally
1t is the hero who is handcuffed by the
detectives and carried away to prison,
confessing his crimes. The cooks, the
chauffeurs and the leggy chambermaids
are often indicted for assassination, and
as in the case OF THE Ninth Guest"
the most pleasant role in the cast, the
sane and maniacal college professor,
played by Alan Dinehart, expires at the
conclusion, killed by his own capricious
deviltries.
Mr.. Davis does not request me to cor
rect his plays desiring no suggestion
from everyday journalism NeVerthe-
less, one Is bound by ones duty to ones
public to criticize the Davis habit of
making the theater falser, by artificial
speech and spurious action, than it
ought to be. The art of the playwright
IS to make incredible things credible
Mr. Davis fails to do this in THE
Ninth Guest" and his efforts to fool
us are onerous and mechanical. 1.-The
Ninth Guest" would be a more startling
entertainment If its heinous crimes were
committed by horrid and unexplain-
able ghost. instead of by such an eti-
quette actor as Alan Dinehart. l hope
that some day Mr.. Davis will be game
enough to give us show in which
haunted houses are really haunted, and
the evil spirits thereof will be spooks
instead of actors.
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Theater Guild Prospects.

As considerable stimulus to whet-
ting the theatrical appetite, comes
report from the National Theater,
where the New York Theater Guild
Acting Co. plans to hang out its banner
during the coming season.
1t seems that the Theater Guild will
present flve productions in their second
subscription year. the company includ-
ing such favorites as Alfred Lunt,
Lynne Fontaine. Earl Larimore, Tom
Powers, Henry Travers, Violet Kemble
Cooper, Albert Carroll, Helen Wesley
and many others.
Green Grow the Lilacs," new play
by Lynn Riggs whose "Borned in
Texas" will also be produced this sea-
son by Arthur Hopkins. will be the first
Guild presentation Of the season, COM
ing to the National the week Of Octo-
Der Is. This viii be followed-no date
set as yet-by Maxwell Anderson's
Elizabeth. the Queen" in which Lynn
Fontaine will assume the title role, Al
fred Lunt, Percy Waram, Albert Car
roll being also In the cast.
Coming afterward, at unannounced
intervals, the Guild viii offer THE APP
pie Cart, Bernard Shaw's latest con-
tribution to political satire, in which
Tom Powers and Violet Kemble Cooper
will have the leading roles; "Garrick
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that the boys of All Quiet were his
war comrades, that the old schoolmaster
called him and his classmates to war
even as Kantorek does in the Aim and
book. Remarque answered the first call
ana at the age of only 16-he had the
worst of war. He was terribly wounded
in the side.
Although Remarque told me little of
All Quiet, he had much to say on his
next work 1t is tentatively called
'Kamerad' 1t is to be delivered to
Universal for filming on October l.
I'm All Quiet on the Western Front
he said, I allowed Paul Banner to die.
/ had no peace of mind to continue
the story of my own battles out
there most of my comrades we're
killed, but those who were not live in
'Kamerad.' 1t will be their story and
my story-the story of many young
men who went to war from the school
and came home to what?
IAN Quiet is the beginning. KAN
Grad carries on the story to a greater
point lam sure you will agree"
las to the man himself. He is sad.
He is shy and as timid as a gaelic
almost too timid to shake hands"
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Letter From New York
By Percy Hammond.
OpOHf9H

IN THE Ninth Guest the first of
the seasons fleSh-creepers, Owen
Davis strives to brighten us with
4 one of the most fearful false-faces
that has ever disguised his benign
physiognomy. For so gentle a man,
and on occasion, so fine a dramatist,
Mr. Davis is strangely satanic at times,
seeming to take delight in causing our
knotted and combined locks to part In
fits of terror. He is much happier in
saying "Boo!" to us than in soaring us
gradually by such plausible tales as
"Detour" and "Icebound" While
was not among those who whistled on
Monday night to keep from being
afraid, there were moments during the
many murders when feared that THE
Ninth Guest" itself would perish, the
victim of its own poisons.
Mr. Davis is the author of hundreds
OF works. His output exceeds in num-
Der the combined census of Bernard
Shaw, Edgar Wallace, Shakespeare.
Ibsen, Pinero and Harry B. Smith. Yet
seldom has he been guilty of repetition.
The Ninth Guest" explores a new field
of what Mr.. Walkeley used to call the
drama of curiosity and horror. Eight
characters find themselves at a Borgian
dinner party given in the city's Hottest
penthouse by an absent and mysterious
host. AS they wonder what, in the
phrase of the playwrights, is the mean
ing of 1t all, he speaks to them over
the radio, booming them to death.
Every means of egreSs from this alarm
ing roof is closed, and there they are,
as one of them observes, caught like
rats in trap" Death, the radio tells
them, is the ninth guest One by one
they expire by pistol shot, poison or
electrocution until at the end only
two are left-an endearing newspaper
boy (Owen Davis, jr) and an anemic
and upright artistic from the California
film lands miss Brenda Dahlen). AS
the curtain falls they are to be seen
leaving the slaughter house arm-in-
arm, on their way to the marriage de-
partment of the City Hall.
X \ X
The true drama lover never Won
ders what happens to the characters in
play after the author has finished
with them at half-past IL. He is not
interested in the developments of the
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National Activities.

WHEN the doors of the National
Theater open on September % the
attraction will be THE Pagan Lady"
featuring Leonore Uric. This is to be
followed by the Fred Stone extraVa-
CANA, "Ripples," the week of Septem-
Der 90.
October 6 will see the premier of
Might Owls" a new musical comedy
sponsored by George w. Lederer. other
productions will follow in close sue
cession.
Incidentally, word comes from the E
street managerial helm that requests for
weekly reservations are being filed care
fully and will be filled in the order OF
receipt, patrons being notified in due
time as to the exact location of their
seats. ~
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Gaieties," the Summers best intimate
revue, launched on its first tour, and
either Shakespeare's Much Ado About
Nothing" Schnitzler's 1.-The Lonely
Way" Lenormand's THE Coward"
Savoir's "Lui," Tretoakow's Roar
China" or Behrmans 1.-THE Second
Man"
Washington theatergoers are remind
ed not only of the saving in cost by adj
vance subscriptions to these plays, but
OF the allotment OF the be- seats for
subscribing early. hs.rlption blanks
may be secured at the National Thea
ter or from the Theater Guild. 2&S
West Fifty-second street. REV YORK
City.
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IL Prof. Ray K. Immel, and will
cover the technical as well as the
academic phases of the talking picture.
Paramount, it is rumored is to have a
Prosperity week." beginning October S,
with all sorts of advance publicity ex-
PLOTS.
After saying that golf has broken up
more homes and widowed more m led
ladies than prohibition and other things,
Film Daily quotes Mary Pickford a. say
| ing: "Dcug's only ambition now is to
break 10. / told him wished ne would
hurry up and make 10, so we could live
normally again"
1t is said Pathe proposes to comb the
country in search of new Pearl White
as star of their revivals of "Perils of
Pauline" and Exp is of Elaine" She
must have athletic ability, coura ;e,
beautiful figure and other box-off1ce
qualities possessed by the original Pearl.
Ann Harding has begun rehearsing
for her next picture, THE Greater
Love-" with Harry Bannister, her hus-
band, who is to play opposite, Eugene
Walter wrote the original play, and
Tollo Lloyd, New York stage director,
made the adaptation for the screen and
will direct.
Emmett Flynn, who directed The
Shannons of Broadw ;" has joined the
Fox scenario department, and his first
assignment is THE Connecticut YAM
kee," in which Will Rogers is to be
starred.
The Modern Drift in Shakespeare
Easy Mark" Antony enters. SEE Cleo:
why didn't you come home to dinner
-er-an out-of-town buyer came in;
had to take him to chow at Childs' and
to a talkie" SEE Cleo Operating her
cooling SYSTEM: "Oh. yeah?" Fadeout
as she laboriously lifts an edition of
the Film Daily Year Book from table
and hurlS it at Mark, who collapses.
Six productions in technicolor now
under way include Fifty Million
rians" CTiffany), East Is West" tUni-
versaD, Rose of the Rancho" para
mount, Babe in Toyland" and Heart
of the Rockies" (R-K-O).
Fox it is announced, has decided to
retain the title of "Liliom" for the
Ferenc Molnar play, which will have
leading roles liz the Tim version.
Jack Oakie will have Harry Green
with him in his next Paramount pic
ture, which Is to be called Sea Legs"
Loretta Young, who has been made a
star by First National. will appear next
with Conrad Nagel in The Right Way"
The Ohio censor board has required
the title of The Matrimonial Bed the
Warner Bros picture. to be changed to
THE Matrimonial Kiss" for showings
in Ohio. The picture was seen here
recently.
Following the wa1e or Charles
Buddy Rogers, who has signified his
wish hereafter to be called simply
Charles Rogers, Eddie Cantor hobs up
with the request hereafter to be c. ID
Edward Throckmorton Cantor--and why
not?
Fox is to put East Lynne" the ia
nous old heart-breaker of nearly CEN
tury ago, on the screen. Joseph Urban
is t, create the settings. Tom Barry to
write a moderntzed version of the story
and Bradley King to make the scenario |
The names of Anr Harding, Give |
Brook, Conrad Nagel and j. M Kerri- |
gan are mentioned In connection with |
ths ssst and FyVk Lloyd viii do the !
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Photoplay Attractions
R.k.O. keIHhS

Eddie Peabody as master of ceremonies.
Bob West comes from a long and sue
cessful engagement in Publix and Fox
theaters throughout the country. His
organlogues are of the highly entertain
ing type. Eddie Peabody is called the
King of the Banjo"
The Fanchon and Marco Sunshine"
Idea, another important unit, features
Vince Silk, clever monologiSt, with Bar
ton and Young, clever comedians; Ar
line Langan and Norman Selby, ball
room dancing team Mary Lou in synco-
pated songs and dances, and Richard
Wally as the human pool table" A
new bevy of Sunkist Beauties rounds out
the Sunshine" Idea, and Fox Movie
tone News completes the program.
R-K-O NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
IN "Manslaughter," the feature at
R-K-O Keith's, Paramount has
brought together three unusual person.
alities of the stage-George Abbott, the
director Claudette Colbert and Fredric
March, in featuring the Alice Duer
Miller story, which, since it's first APP
pearance in 1922, has been best seller.
"Manslaughter" is the story of a
wealthy girl, careless and thoughtleSsly
selfish, who falls in love with serious
minded and ambitious district attorney
but resents his criticism of her mode
Of life. Then tragedy overtakes her
and she faces a term in prison with the
district attorney fighting against her
Her love turns to hate when she finds
her wealth and influence, her beauty
and her wiles are unable to save her
from justice. In prison she finds a
ruthless system among people who rec
ognize no social distir ctions, and learns
the true bitterness o. isolation. Then
she becomes more friendly and finds
life easier. Freed from prison, her one
thought is revenge against the district
attorney, but when she meets him she
realizes that she loves him.
'ManSlaughter' Is a gripping story,
with exciting aquaplane racing. palatial
homes of the wealthy, a thrilling auto
mobile accident. dramatic court trial
and a riot in the women's prison
Claudette Colbert as the willful, capri
cious heroine is said to be magnificent
all the way through.
EARLE-"One Night at Susie's."
RILLIE DOVE and Douglas Fairbanks,
~ jr., have the leading roles in the
First National and Vitaphone produc-
ton, lone Night at Susie's," this week
at Warner Bros Earle Theater. This
production, termed one of the strongest
dramas screened this season. fringes on
the underworld, and deals with a duo
Of lovers who hope to leave behind them
the stigma of past associations.
Billie Dove is seen as a girl who Is
featured in the chorus. Susie is played
by Helen Ware, who is fence" and
friend of rival gang and gang leaders
Whatever her own life. she has ambi-
tons for her foster son douglas Fair
banks, ir).
The surrounding program will in
clude Charles Ruggles in The Hot-Air
Merchant: a Looney Tune cartoon,
CONTINUED ON Second Page
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y SuNklSTGIPLS" on R7raoe
FOX (S7o7e)
STAGE AND SCREEN ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEF

STAGE AND SCREEN ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEK.
COLUNfBIA-Grea Carlo Romance" This afternoon
evening.
Fox-John Mccormack in Song My
noon and evening.
R-K-O KEITHS-"M anslaughter" This afternoon and
evening.
EARLE"One Night at Suses" This afternoon evening
PALACE-"Dough Boys" This afternoon and evening.
INSTRUMENTATION Sailor Behave" This afternoon
evening.
GAYETY (Buresque)-"Bare Facts" This afternoon and
evening.
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GAAANA ~~A@sA - ANANA a AAAAA n
in the supporting
cast.
On New Year eve
young Harry Arm
strong rushes to his
grandfather Bishop
Armstrong. to tell
him of his great
love for an actress
whom he intends to
marry. The bishop
tells him a story
from an episode in
in his own life SO
years back. Tom
had become madly
infatuated wit h
Rita Cavallini, an
exotic young Italian
$1,000 rs.zrs..,. NJ
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Paramount at Fox.

RUTH CHATTERToN and Give
Brook in "Anybodys Woman" soon
to be shown at the Fox, is now in its
second week at the Paramount The
alter in New York City. This, Incl
dentally, will be the first Paramount
picture ever to be shown on the Fox
screen. The Sea God" another Para
mount with Richard Arlen and Fay
Wray, also Is booked for the Fox for
an early showing. 4