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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5. CP-The
cotton market had a very weak
opening as Liverpool came in IS to
10 penny points worse than due.
First trades here showed losses Of
Is to II points and the market con-
tinued to ease off after the start.
largely on the proposed sale to Ger
many Of a large amount Of cotton by
the farm loan board.
Later in the first hour the mar
ket rallied on shorts covering, re-
covering 8 70 9 points on the early
loss.
The market ruled rather quiet all
morning. prices fluctuating mainly
within the early range. although
near the beginning Of the second
hour. December traded down 70 8.26,
or 20 points under the previous close.
Later prices gradually rallied on
shorts covering and taking profits,
October rallying 10 8.l2 and Deem
Der to8.32, or 6 70 Z points above the
lows. Traders appeared TO be wait
ing for the government report due
Saturday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

OIL MEASURE
IS APPROVED

AUSTIN, Aug. 5-tP-The house
today by an Overwhelming major
ity voted a favorable report on the
Wagstaff administration approved
conservation bill. The vote was l0l
TO 10.
The McGregor substitute bill,
which would have denied the state
the right 10 prorate and set an al
lowable production, was defeated.
102 TO 20 a few minutes before adop-
ton OF the Wagstaff bill.
House Must Pass Bill
The action was taken by the
house as a committee OF the whole.
Before the bill al be sent TO the
senate it must be passed by the
mouse. There was no doubt, how
ever, but that 1t would be passed.
The action of the house clarified
considerably the oil conservation
legislation A bill similar TO the
Wagstaff bill has been given APP
prevail by the senate state affairs
committee by a comfortable a
gin and its passage has been pre-
dicted without considerable oppoSi-
ton.
The Wagstaff bill would give the
conservation agency authority 70
set an allowable production and to
take into consideration production,
transportation and storage in fix
ing the amount. II also would per-
NIT the commission TO set an oil
and gas ratio TO determine the
amount OF gas that could be uled
TO lift a barrel of oil TO the surface.
Complete control over under
ground and surface wastage woulo
be vested in the commission and II
would have authority TO close down
oil wells where gas was being
wasted in commercial quantities.
Speed Up Procedure
The bill would speed up court
procedure in cases involving the
commission by giving them preced-
ence over all other cauoes 1t Woul
give the commission the right OF
injunction to compel obedience TO
its orders and the right TO receiver
ships of properties being operated
in violation or its orders AFTER n
orders were held valid.
The bill also would provide for
bond to protect the state and ad-
ching property owners from dam
ace pending determination OF an
injunction suit to restrain en-
-o-cemeht Of the commissions
orders severe penalties for violation
of the orders would be imposed.
A companion bill providing for
establishment OF an appointive con-
servation commission OF three men,
,ers was ready for presentation 10
the houre committee. Its sponsors
predicted its passage by a large
majority.
In the senate. one Of the wood
ward bills. companions TO the Wag-
staff house proposals, was set for
special consideration this after
noon. The bill set down would
create a new conservation commits
non. The conservation bill which
Is companion 10 the Wagstaff bill
pared in the house had not been
reached in the Seante.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Judgments Defaulted

Thirty-one default judgments
were taken in the Cameron county
court at law Tuesday morning when
Judge E. T. Yates called the docket
for an eight-week term.
From present indications. few. II
any. civil cases Will be tried at the
summer term. No cases we're set
down for trial. and only two motions
were slated for hearing.
There r only a few minor cases
on the criminal docket.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Marquis to Wed

LONDON. Aug. 5.-RJ-The Mar
quis OF Reading, once Ambassador
to the United States and later
viceroy TO India, will be married
tomorrow TO the young woman who
Of n OF rGeat Britain's foremost
statesmen.
His engagement to Mrs Stella
Charnaud, daughter Of the late
Charles Charnaud. who represented
Great Britain on the international
public debt mission to Turkey. was
announced today. He IS 70 years
Of age and she is 81.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
OIL EMPLOYEES

Continued from page ~
OF nearly 500 wells was completed
less than four hours after the
troops moved in. Stripper wells and
gaSSer5 furnishing fuel for drilling
wells, were exempted.
Sinclair oil employees, against
which company the governor aimed
fiery remarks in his executive
order. asked guardsmen for written
orders to close. but withdrew quietly
when they saw Col. Cicero Murray
in no mood for arbitration.
At another well Otto Bradford.
city field %proration umpire, met
momentary resistance only when
he threatened to destroy the wells
separator.
Draws Long Order
Going deeply into Oklahoma law,
the chief executive USED nearly 5000
words in drafting his order closing
the wells.
The principal points argued as
reasons for the shutdown were:
l.-Protection OF school children
Of the state. TN oil production OIL
school land produces a consider
able part Of the states revenue.)
2.-ConServation Of the states
natural resources and TO prevent
their waste and exhaustion.
$40 protect the taxpayers
rights 70 and in the revenues from
al. sources.
40 establish the guarantee o.
tie fourteenth amendment Of the
United States constitution TO in
dependent producers against taking
their property without due process
Of law
$40 protect citizens from
general monopolistic control OF
their natural resources by corrupt
combinations OF capital who pro-
duce, transport. refine and sell oil"
Supreme Power
Murray named the supreme
power Of the state" as his authority
Tor issuing the order.
The constitution declares tire
laws shall be faithfully executed
under the governor, Murray assert
cd. adding that the oil conservation
laws prohibited the taking of crude
CT from the soil where there is no
market demand at a price equiv
aient TO the actual value" OF the
crude.
He declared martial law areas as
"conaervator Of the peace through
out the state" the order stated. ad-
ding that he safety Of the state
was threatened by reduction or
wages and the number OF employed
~ 'monopolistic companies"
Published reports were that In
excess Of $500 persons would be
left lobless by the closing Of the
wells.
Murray attacked the Sinclair or
and Gas company and their aSso-
Gates whom he accused Of "ju-
dicial juggling through injunction"
He asserted their combined opera
tons OF producing. transporting.
refining and retailing petroleum
products caused low prices for
crude % increase their profits while
running smaller dependent firms
without such complete Industrial
facilities.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Five Wounded, One
Slain In Gun Battle

CONWAY, Ark, Aug. 5.-tP-Two
Faulkner county sheriff's deputies
were wounded, a negro was killed
and three negroes were wounded in
a gun fight near Mayflower. which
followed an attempt by the officers
TO arrest the negro who was slain
for stealing peaches today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK. Aug. 5. (P)-The
stock market drifted almost steadi-
ly downward in duh trading during
the earlier hours OF today's SEES
sion.
American Telephone was a weak
feature. losing nearly 4 points. Issues
off 2 to 3 points included Ameri-
can Can, Westinghouse. Pullman,
Western Union, and Eastman.
Losses OF a point or so were num-
erous, appearing in such issues as
General Motors, u. S. Steel, Con-
solidated Gas. North American,
Case, Dupont, New York Central and
Baltimore and Ohio.
Call money renewed at / IL per
cent.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Posse Seeks Negro

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Aug. 5. Cpl
Civilian possemen today joined
city and county officers In q hunt
for a negro who last night killed
Miss Augusta Williams, society
girl. and wounded her two girl
companions after keeping them
captive four hours following a
halfway holduD.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, Aug. 5. lP)-Cotton
barely steady today IA to Is points
lower with the general list selling
II TO IS points net lower during the
first few minutes under heavy gen.
eral offerings inspired by the weak
ness in Liverpool and a favorable
view Of weather conditions over the
greater part Of the belt.
October contracts broke TO sos and
January 10 8.39, but these prices
brought in a good deal OF covering
as well as some trade buying and
after the first rush Of selling sub
sided the market became somewhat
quieter with prices showing rallies of
6 OF 7 points from the lowest at the
end Of the first half hour. Liver
pool cables said the decline there
was due TO hedging and general
liquidation in the absence of prompt
buyers and reported that business
in cotton cloths and yarns was be-
ing restricted by the decline in q
cotton. Liverpool and the contineAs
were sellers here during the early
trading while there was also local
and wall street selling on the open
ing break.
The moderate demand encounter
ed on the early decline was quite
readily supplied during the middle
Of the morning and the compare
lively slight rallies were followed by
renewed weakness. Liverpool con-
tinued TO sell here up to the close
of the market abroad. while there
was a further liquidation coupled
with local and Wall street selling
which sent prices off to 803 for
October and 83l for January or
about 20 to 81 points below y~ester-
days closing quotations. The market
was quiet but within 3 or 4 points
Of the lowest al midday. The week
" report OF the weather bureau re-
ceived a generally favorable inter-
probation which contributed = the
late forenoon decline.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

ENNIS, Aug. 5. tP-Funeral SER
vices were set today for VIII Wa--
rem, AZ, Bardwell Deputy Sheriff,
who died last night Of wounds ne
received in pistol fight with G. w
williams. negro, Monday night.
Wi'liars IA almost instantly
killed w.,cl Warren and Albert
snipes. another Bardwell deputy, re-
turned his fire,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Pl-
The farm board has informed
eoutherners who protested against
the proposed sale of sterilization
cotton to Germany that no pro-
posals have been received thus far
from the reich.
Sens. Harris OF Georgia, Shep-
pard OF Texas and Smith Of South
Carolina. all democrats, have urged
that an ypossible sale be made out
OF the new crop rather than from
the sterilization holdings Of l,300.-
600 bales
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, Aug. 5. CP1-Much low
er Liverpool wheat quotations than
expected led early today to sharp
new setbacks in grain prices here.
with wheat. corn. oats future de-
liyeries reaching fresh bottom levels.
Liverpool reported heavy offerings
OF all descriptions OF wheat. with
Russian and Danubian prices slash
ed.
Opening 1-2-l IA cents down. the
Chicago wheat market afterward
showed but little power 70 rally.
Corn started 3-8-1 1-6 off, and later
continued TO sag.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
INDEBTEDNESS
IS SAID MORE
Than MILLION
Especial to The Herald.)

EDINBURG, Aug. 5.-Dissolution
Of Hidalgo County Drainage District
No. ! on ground that the district has
outlined its usefulness and that
functions for which 1t was rr/lized
are taken care Of by the county
flood control system Is recommended
in the semi-annual report of the
drainage commissioners given the
commissioners cert of Hidalgo
county late Tuesday afternoon.
The report OF the commissioners
claims that the sinking fund Of the
district should be approximately
100000 whereas there now stands
TO the credit OF the district the sum
of 81 R3o s.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Original Indebtedness.

THE only legitimate indebtedness
OF the C-ainage district is the orig
inal bond issue of $4,000, and at
this time there should be 500. 900
in the interest and sinking fund"
County Judge E. c. Couch stated
Tuesday on receiving the report.
There has been levied a tax ample
TO cover all other expenditures Of
the district and 10 keep the sink
ing fund up TO Its requirements,
the Judge said.
Warrants Of the drainage district
amounting TO Sis, 900 are said in the
report OF the drainage commission
ers to be held by the sinking fund.
These warrants, the report states.
are alleged to have been bought by
former drainage commissioners and
county officials with funds OF the
district as an investment"
Claim Alleged.
The report OF the new drainage
commissioners expresses the opinion
that such purchase was illegal.
Difficulty in securing records OF
the drainage district Is mentioned
In the report rendered Tuesday.
It is estimated, however, that war
rants of various kinds now outstand-
ing against the district will total
81, O00, 900 and perhaps $4,000 0O.
One of the former drainage COM
missioners is now under indictment
on two counts, both alleging forgery.
Another indictment charges two Of
the former commissioners jointly
with a former county judge, alleging
forgery.
Affairs OF the drainage district
have been a political issue in Hi
dalgo county since the first active
fight against the Baker regime was
started in 1924.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Warrants Outstanding.

1t Is also claimed that the out
standing warrant indebtedness of
the district stands between 81 ,OO0,-
900 and $4,000 900.
Drainage commissioners appoint
ed by the commissioners court IN
January. 193lNare r. r. Ohls, @.
z. Langford and w. Drummond.
Report rendered by the commits
sioners covers the first SIX months
OF the current year.
Suggestion that the district be dis
solved was received favorably by the
commissioners court, according 10
w. H. Atwood, Edinburg commits
sioner, and County Attorney Bryce
Ferguson has been instructed by the
court to make an investigation 20
the end that the legal entity Of the
district NAV be wiped out.
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The Alaska fisherman., 1931-10-15
and healthy basis.

ana neaICny baSlS.
 Evidently business wants an impoverished re- sident trade for they do not give any assistance in alleviating the peonage system. And because of the crass ignorance and bull-headed prejudice they themselves auffer. If they satisfied wit1 that condition, they should not blame any admin istraton They should take responsibility for their own refusal to help eradicate the evils
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-10-15
POVERTY AND CRIME

Students of political economy and of civil government are agreed that poverty, misery and crime go hand in hand One is forced to admit tlat most of the general cussedness of mankind would evarorate if economic conditions were inn proved.
 A health council Investigating representa- tive American city reported that 90,000 people of that city live in it's Submerged tenth"- part of the city which is dubbed the economic grave yard.
 Ten percent of the inhabitants of that city live in per cent of it's area; it contributes II per cent of the citys brths but only per cens ol the hospital births; infant mortality reaches 16 per cent, unemployed takes 18 per cent and it con- tributes "A per cent of the citys charity cases IT ger cent of the citys iligtimate births come from that "Hells Kitchen 20 per cent of juvenile delin- cuency, 35 per cent of it's murders and 49 per cent of it's houses of prostitution from that bit of HelIs Half Acre.
 Vice, crime, misfortune and unhappiness are
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-10-15


 Amend the Declaration of ndepence to in- clude the right to work as one of the inaHenable privileges of mankind was demand voiced by President William Green at the recent connven- tion of the American Federation of Labor in Van- couver, British Columbia.
 Said President Green: "The right to work is sacred right that every government, no matter what it's form, must guarantee if it is to endure
 He rebuked the national Money Bags for fail ing to find solution for the prsent economic de- preston and he declared that by joining with la Tor in it's program to relieve the existing condition the financial system will be able to eliminate the possibility of similar crises in the future
 we are meeting in the midst of grea- in ternatdonal emergency he said. Distress and suffering prevail throughout the world. The dis location of cur economic structure is prtnounc- ed that We are beginning to wonder if the system itself has failed
 ''What shall we say of a system that relegates men at the prime of life to the human scrap heaF ard that knows no remedy for the situation than A reduction in the standard of living?
 we cannot lift ourselves out of the misery oi depression by the reduction of wages, which can only add to the depression
 "The economic situation must be so changed that every man and woman may have an oppor- tunity to share in the work that is available. Me- cnanical progress has made it impossible for this to be done x *
 "I warn the people who are exploiting the workers that they only drive them so far be- fore they will turn on them and destroy them. They are taking no account of the history of na tions in which governments have been overturned. Revolutions grow out of the depths of hunger"
 
 HAVE WE MADE PROGRESS?
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-10-15
THE ALASKA FISHERMAN

rtgraphs we are bound to ask have we made any progress:
 From all parts of the civilized world come complaints of industrial depression; of labor con- demned to involuntary idleness; of capital massed and wasting; of pecuniary distress among busi- ness men, of want and suffering and anxiety among the working classes.
 "All the dull, deadening pain, all the keen nladdening anguish, that to great masses of men are involved in the words "hard times" aff1ict the world today.
 "Ths state of things, common to communities differing widely in situation, in political insti tutions, in fscal and financial systems in density Of population, and in social organization, hardly be accounted for by local causes.
 "There is distress where large standing armies maintained, but there is also distress where the standing armies nominal; there is distress where protective tariffs stupidly and wastefully hamper trade, but there is distress where trade is nearly free; there is distress where autocratic government yet prevails but there is also distress where political power is wholly in the hands of the people; in countries where paper is money and in countries where gold and silver are the only cur rency.
 Evidently, beneath all such things as these, we must infer common cause"
The Alaska fisherman., 1931-10-15
HAVE WE MADE PROGRESS?

More than fifty years ago Henry George wrote Progress and Poverty" Reading the following pa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
STOCK PRICES SAG
AT SHORT SESSION
Losses Not Large, but Trad
ina Holds Near Minimum
Levels.
BY CLAUDE A. JAEGER,
Associated Press Financial Editor.

NEW YORK, July 25.-Financial
markets dragged through a halliday
with a somewhat heavy tendency to-
day.
Losses in stocks generally ranged
from minor fractions to little more
than a point. Bonds were fairly steady,
save in the foreign division. The turn
over in stocks held around the recent
five-year minimum, with a two-hour
turnover of, roughly 100000 shares.
With prominent traders mostly out
of town, price trends were without much
Significance. 1t was noticeable, how
ever, that United States Steel, which
lost points yesterday in response to
widely published reports that the
dividend would be reduced next week,
encountered no further selling of i'm
portance and closed off only a small
fraction.
If. indeed. as it has been suggested
in some quarters, the widely reported
forecasts of cut in the steel dividend
were put out as feeleT for the effect
upon financial sentiment, the limited
selling which ensued might convince
the directors that a reduction in the
dividend would do little harm at this
time.
National Biscuit was soft SPOT, SELL
ing off neaEly 2 points. Although this
company eaxned all but four cents of
its dividend requirement for the first
half of the year, the fact That the up
ward curve of its earnings was inter-
rupted for the first time in IA years
seems to have been used as bear
argument.
Miscellaneous issues losing point or
so included American Telephone,
American Can, Bethlehem Steel, East
iAI
Chemical, MathieSon Alkali and Case.
Gains of about point were shown by
Public Service of New Jersey, Stewart
Warner and Stakeholder. The last
named was helpsd by advance esti-
mates indicating that its Second-quarter
earnings report wiN show an improve
ment over the like period of last year,
largely through reduction of expenses.
Although some of the chemicals were
again somewhat heavy, it was reported
that the International Nitrate Salesh-
cartel might be rescued, after its recent
collapse 1t is felt that Chilean inan-
cial difficulties may make an accord
with the European group imperative,
and save the chemical industry from a
furry Of price cutting
The estimate of the Youngstown dis
trict steel operations for next week indi-
Gated a sharp gain from a week ago.
Next weeks output was placed at q per
cent of capacity, against 81 a week ago,
and Al per cent currently
Report from Paris that sterling ex-
change had risen sufficiently to make
further gold takings from London I'M
profitable was received favoEably here,
but it was felt in international banking
quarters that the real test will come
next week Wall Street banking circles
regard the fresh drain upon London's
gold as distinctly unfortunate, and are
watching developments closely. Sterling
exchange on New York was again
f1rmsr. but the franc was also in de-
nand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
Il YEAR 1881 TO DATE

CRepoed by w B & co, Bm D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
FOR WEEK ENDING JULY rs. 1891.

Average price Of so stocks. 1888 130.AS II
Same period q year ago. "a
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BONDS.
PJJBIICt UTILITIES.
MISCELLANEOUS

5000 Barber & Ross. Inc, 6l2s. 1889
$500 Columbia Country Club 51as. 1880.
1000 D. c. Paper Mfg. LIST Is. 1887 .....,
100 WASHINGTON Market SIS, 1895 .......
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-10
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

ers. Meetings of locals of the NMU
in the hills are evading the gun thugs
and electing delegates A thousand
elected delegates are expected as well
as many visitors.
Tom Coyne, a victim of a criminal
syndicalist frame-up following the
visit of the Dresser Committee, has
been released on a bond Of $4,000 fur
nished by the International Labor
Defense. He spent "a days in the
Middlesboro Jail.
In all the coal camps of Kentucky,
and literally covering the country
side are leaflets announcing the Dis
trict Convention of the National
Miners Union which will be held in
the X. of P. Hall, Pienville, on Dec.
10. The gunner are running wild
trying to stop the convention.
Gunner trailed Dan Brooks into
Tennessee and arrested him IN Chat
tanooga, according to reports.
Every mine in Harlan County has
elected delegates to the District Con-
vention, whidh will be held in Pine
vile next Sunday. New locals are
being organized in mines where
hitherto none existed. Every mine in