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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11
Increase Oil Field
Production In Okla.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Feb. liz
Allowable OIL production IN the
Oklahoma City field today was
increased $4,000 barrels.
Operators began producing their
wells under amended proration
regulations. signed by the state
corporation commission late yes
terday raising the daily average
prorated flow from 10000 to $4,000
barrels.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11
(Bv The Associated PresSl

HARLrNGEN. FEB. IL Three
Valley boys left Monday night for
San Diego. California where they
will be examined and assigned to
posts in the United States navy.
The boys are w. X. Parks, son
or Mr.. and Mrs. WI. @. Parks. Nc
Allen: william Henry Riesterer,
Jr., Mercedes: and Frank Alexan-
der Beatty. son or II. J. Beatty or
Brownsville.
All three have had one year or
college work. according to George
A Kramer. recruiting officer for
this district.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11
Grapefruit
Contestants Linger
fBy Staff CorrespOndentD

HARLrNGEN. Feb. li.-Several
Of the golfers who came TO partici-
pate In the Golden Grapefruit Open
here, r still i'm Harrington be-
cause they have been taken BY the
Valley and the local golf course.
Those still here include I'd
Stokes. of Denver. John DeF0rrest
CT Surrey, England. and Joe Ear
Of Waco.
"A number OF others would have
remained but for the fact that they
had made previous arrangements
for their time after the local tour
ney some having scheduled ex-
hihition matches.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11

A message has been received bv
Mrs. w. p. Bennett OF the death
OF her mother. Mrs. ". CO.. EnberErr
o. Dayton. Ohio on Tuesday night.
she leaves nine children. all liv-
ing IN Ohio, except Mrs. Bennett.
ard one brother. who lives in
Georgia.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11
WILL III BE KEPT

KNOXVILLE. Twenty
years ago. when Leonard Barnett
and Rachel Marcus were only an
hour old. their parents joined their
hands and solemnly promised that
the two cfGldren would wed when
they became 20 years old. Both
will be 40 on March "A Of this
year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11

BUCHAREST. Rumania. FEB. II
-tP-Lieutenant Edouard Krusch-
ka OF the cavalry school and his
father. IA civil engineer. we're ar
rested yesterday AZ Slbiu. charged
with espionage In favor OF the
Soviets.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11

PARIS. Feb. ll-tP-Crippled In
body but unbroken in spirit. War
rington Dawson. a special attache
at the American Embassy here.
calls himself "the man OF a thous-
and hands"
The thousand hands are those
of friends in France. the United
States and all over the world. who.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS DATA


Barometric pressure was moder-
ately high over the southeastern
and eastern states this morning,
and relatively 10 moderately low
over the balance or the United
States and the Canadian North
west. Except for a few very widely
scattered showers the weather was
generally fair to clear throughout
the country during the last "a
hours. Temperatures were also
seasonable 10 moderate throughout
the country except subnormal in
the southeastern and eastern states
this morning. with frost reported
from northern Florida and along
the middle Gulf coast TO New Or
1aane
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11
The Brownsville Port

backed by the United States Govern
ment il now assured, and the Naviga-
ton District Commissioners have stated
that work will begin On the channel by
February Is, 1881.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11

AADE ADAG
High and low tide &C Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteoro-
~mM@-==
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11
7he.se


B~urchfield & Bro, Second National
Bank Building, Houston) have stated.
after a thorough investigation. that the
land described will be worth $3.5O0.O0
an acre ny channel frontage the day
the first ship comes into the Port of
Brownsville.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-11

an acre for prairie land

seems an incredibly high price: vet.
that is what channel property experts
have estimated as the PRESENT po-
tential value of land lying between the
proposed Brownsville Ship Channel
within 112 to 21s miles from the turn
ing basin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15
A Fair Break.

One Of the best private hospitals, IN
a district Of good substantial village
and country people who do not regard
medical or surgical services as some
thing due them from the community
or the State, has an arrangement
whereby 90 per cent of all fees paid
the hospital by the patient are turned
back to the patients family physician
For the benefit of those who do not
know what a family physician is we
may explain that he is the doctor who
attends the patient before, during and
after the operation or hospital or sana-
torium sojourn. This 20 per cent divi-
sion of the fee is no secret split. 1t Is
clearly understood by every one who
enters the hospital; indeed it is plainly
figured in the bill presented to the
patient for services rendered.
Now and then some patient, even
after 'cholecystectomy. asks the at
tending physician or the general prac-
titioner who sends him to the hospital
or cares for him after his return home
to refund the doctors 20 ner cont share
or at least to divvy with him, but even
Il the doctor is spineless enough to
give up, the hospital does not care
every patient pays the 20 per cent and
the doctor receives it before tho hos
pital bill IS receipted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15

a social taboo Is something that Is
outlawed by group opinion. Why do we
have such taboos? The most ardent
tabooists cannot answer. The best you
can get out Of them Is that the thing
tabooed "is Just not done" 1t appears
that they are afraid that public opin-
ion is loaded with psychological dyna-
mite of some sort.
Any taboo Is q social stabilizer, O
shock abSorber against the psychic
jolts of individuaIism. The big idea is
to keep tbs social mind intact and
thus preserve the social body. The
most ardent taboo worshipers are NOR
bidly afraid Of public opinion, win try
nothing new.
Taboos are not 10 be sneered at. I
know Of no better way to estimate So
cial progress than to study group ia
boos. Not only thus may you measure
the intelligence of the individuals that
compose the group, but you may also
calculate to a nicely the probable fate
OF innovations. New ideas must be
congenial before they become con-
tagious. Social inertia-that is, fear OF
change-has It's laws, which are Just as
exacting aS the law Of falling bodies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15

0XYDOL is the latest word in soaps
~ "a real suds wonderl Not clumsy
and slow-melting like ordinary soaps.
Not puffed-up, air-filled bubbles! Oxy-
dol looks like fine corn meal. Every
quick-dissolving grain of Oxydol con-
tains two things-fine soap and a rnys-
terry ingredient.
This wonderful ingredient gives you
a bargain in suds! You get more suds
for your money. You use less soap.
About half cupful of Oxydol will give
you tubful of rich suds.
Studs that let you be lazyi Yes,
leave your clothes soaking Is minutes
in Oxydol's wonderful suds, and you'll
have next-to-no rubbing to do. Squeeze
the dirt out with your hands! Or, if
your clothes are in the washing machine,
start it-and get clean clothes In one
half the usual running.
Don't get tired. With Oxydol-so
safe and so rich-the hardest part of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. d.

Here is . suggestion offer for the
settlement OF two vexing problems Of
modern medicine, namely, the question
OF what to do with the general prac-
titioner or family doctor, in the present
frenzy for real and spurious specialism:
and the question of fair division Of
medical, surgical or special fees among
the doctors who earn them.
suggest that In any case where an
operation becomes necessary or advis-
able, or in any case where the ply
sician refers the patient to o specialist
for an operation or for any. special
treatment, the fees charged should be
divided f1fty-flfty between surgeon or
specialist and family physician. Moth
ing is this arrangement need deter
either the specialist Or the general
practitioner from giving back to the
patient,n he 30 desires, part or all OF
his share.
In view Of the practice Of cashinR
IN on popular notions about the gl-
per1or knowledge or skill of the special
list as compared with the ordinary
doctor" I submit that this proposal
is one which real specialists cannot
gracefully reject, and the other kind
do not matter.
Real specialists are those whose spe-
cial qualifications are recognized by
the general medical professioa and who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15
Household Methods
By BETSY CALLIsTER.

81 have some cretonne slip covers for
the living room furniture that are
somewhat soiled and / Would like ia
wash them myself. They are just right
size and would be useless If they shrank
Please tell me how to wash them so that
they will not shrink."-W. B.
There is no way of washing them
without some chance of shrinkage. II
they are washed in lukewarm water and
mild soap they run less chance OF
shrinking. The best plan would be to
clean them In gasoline. You should dc
this outdoors on q clear day. Use two
pals Of gasoline. Dip them first In one
and then in the second to rinse. Your
paint dealer will probably be able to
supply you with good cleaning gasoline
Every year when warm weather
comes we are visited with ants, and this
year am determined to keep them out
to start with. Last year they came
without any warning. One day there
We're none and when went into the
kitchen the next morning there were
droveS of them. Can you tell me OF
something that can sprinkle in the
cracks Of the floor to prevent them?"-
Mrs. J. T.
There are several prepared insect
powders that are helpful In some cases
These powders should be used plentiful
~ along all crevices and doorway
where the ants might make their en-
trance. Any halfway measures are O.
good as useless. advise you to 60
to your druggist and explain the Situa-
ton and ask him for SONS pure poison
for ants. The usual thing to do Is b
mix this with powdered sugar and ap-
ply to all cracks and crevices. Incl
dentally you should do everything you
can to close up possible entrances for
the naurauding hordes. You should
use putty or plastic wood in all cracks
along the Dashboard in the kitchen,
pantry and back passages Of your house.
(Copyrigat, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15
YOU CAN'T FOOL Her!

She's Hike you. She wants
the soap that makes most
suds. She's tried 'em all
messy soap powders and
slow-melting soaps. And
now she's using Oxydol.
Fine as corn meal. Yet
every tiny grain contains
soap plus the mystery
ingredientewhich makes
Oxydol a suds-winner!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15
EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY
BY DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.

Living IS both science and an art
So person cannot in the anteresa Of
sef-preServation make O Wholesale
abandonment Of the stock ideas Of his
group. even II they are scientifically
unfounded.
If you live. you must Hive by taboos.
II you discard some tabooS, you will
ind that others. usually more rational,
take their places.
(Copyright, 1872
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15
inexpensive Summer Trimming
BY MARY MARSHALL.

A reader asks for some suggestions
about inexpensive ways of trimming
Summer dresses, and 1t Is q question
that Is not dinicult to answer this sea-
son, because no matter how simple a
dress may be, it almost always has
some sort Of decoration added by way
Of trimming.
Buttons are frequently used. A num-
Der Of the new dresses of the sports
type have them arranged down the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15

Of trimming that looks like pleating
but which really consists Of loops OF
material. It is cut Into strips about 4
inches wide and then scanned up, turn
ed right side out and pressed to make
double strips of the material, and is
then cut into pieces or 4 inches long
which are folded over and applied as q
frill to the edge of the collar or else
where on the dress. The sketch shows
how this interesting sort of trimming Is
made-and one advantage worth noting
is that it will go through the washing
and ironing process and come up
smiling,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15

therefore enjoy the confidence Of their
colleagues; the kind your doctor calls
In consultation.
It Is high time that the long suffer-
ing general practitioner had q break. A
ffty-f1fty break would be the right
medicine.
Copyright, issi)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15
0xYDOL'S
mystery ingredient
revo|utionizes Washdav

your washday is off your shoulders.
And you'll be proud of winter clothes
and brighter colors!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15

Mothers been worrying over Betty's colored
frocks. For Mother soaked them clean with
soap that is supposed to get everything whittier.
Colors have faded. Now Mothers worries are
over. She is washing Betty's cute dresses in
double rich oxydol suds-and the colors stay
pull
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-15

front closing OF the blouse, sometimes
extending down the hip yoke as well.
There may be IL small buttons to
match the dress. White buttons are
sometimes used on q dark dress that
u finished with white collars and cuffs
Sash girdles with ends arranged at
the left side are gaining favor. The sash
extends nearly to the knees and Is
usually knotted at the belt line with
one end little longer than the other.
A navy blue silk dress has a sash Of
the navy blue silk edged with bands of
bright blue, yellow and red silk, which
also forms bands midway between shoul-
derS and elbows of the sleeves. A small
figured print dress has a sash of black
silk, with pipings of the black silk at
the neck and wrists.
There are all sorts of so-called self
trimmings that the home dreSsmaker
can easily manage. .Frills of pleated
material are often used and sometimes
these are of knife pleating, with the
pleats pressed out along the hem so as
to give q ripping, frilly effect.
The sketch today shows a new sort
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
LAY OFF, GANG
WARNS CAPTAIN
Grapevine Message Is Given
'Snooper' Raider.

Underworld grapevines today
brought threats to Captain Otto
Ray that if he didn't '1ay off" al
legged gambling joints in the city
ne would be the victim of violence.
Ray would not reveal the in
formant who had told him Of the
threats to get him." Neither
would he give, in detail, the con-
tents Of the message.
In the last three weeks, Ray has
promoted a series of raids on
places where, he charges, he saw
gambling under way and money eX-
change hands. Two of these cases
have been continued by Judge Cliff
ton r. Cameron and, in each in
stance, Ray has been scored by
Cameron and told he had no bust
ness in the places"
Il don't object to a man gambling
if he has the money and wants
to" Ray said. But when these
sharks sit around day after day
practicing how to trim some poor
fellow out Of grocery money, then
I'm after them"
Ray said there are gamblers in
the city who have perfected the
domino-poker game until player
has absolutely no chance to win.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
LDERS' WAGE
SCALE SLASHED
Employers Vote to Reduce
Pay 20 Per Cent.

Decision to decrease 20 per cent
the hourly wages of all craftsmen
engaged in building construction,
effective Friday, has been reached
by the Associated Construction EN-
ployers of indianapolis.
The proposed wage cuts have been
presented to the various union or
CARNATIONS Of the city concerned.
But even if the unions refused to
agree to the cuts they will go into
effect Friday, according to Fred w.
JungclaUs. president Of the en-
ployers' association.
The reductions will not affect
common labor.
Decisions to reduce the wages was
reached by the employers after a
study Of the situation since Jan. l.
Wages already have been reduced
from $3.50 to $1.25 an hour by the
local of the Brotherhood of Elec-
trical workers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
COACR'S PAROLE
is EXPLAINED
MerriIIviHe Man Pleaded
Guilty, Leslie Finds.

A guilty plea is answer enough
to charges that a defendant has
not had fair trial, Governor
Harry G. Leslie believes.
On parole papers for Kenneth
Hauk, Merrillville, Ind, athletic
coach, liberating him from the IN
diana state farm after serving
thirty five days of a siXty-day SEN
tence for contributing to the de-
linquency Of Merrillville school
pupils, Leslie recently found the
notation: ''This man did not get a
fair trial"
But Lake Circuit Judge Z. Miles
Norton, who sentenced Hauk, in
formed the Governor, Hauk had no
trial at all, for he pleaded guilty.
Ralph Howard, superintendent of
the state farm, and Roy Abrams,
Greencastle, and John G. Klinger,
Brazil, trustees, visited the Gov
ernor's Office today to admit their
notation was a mistake, but Gov
ernor Leslie did not alter the parole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
WOMAN DIES OF
POISON DRAUGHT
Chat Ends as Wife
Drinks From TumbIer.

After laughing and chatting with
her husband and other members OF
her family, Mrs. Ida May Eddie
man. 80, Of 721 Lexington avenue.
this morning suddenly drank car
bolic acid, resulting in her death a
few minutes later at city hospital
She had been reclining in the
arms Of her husband, Charles Ed
dlenan, and talking with her son
Cecil, %, his wife, Mrs. Violet Eddie
man, and a roomer, Ed NIooy.
Without warning, she walked to a
bedroom and picked up a glass half
full of the poison.
Holding it above her, she said:
I'm going to drink this"
She swallowed the contents of the
tunlbler before her husband or son
could reach her. Charles Eddleman
told police his wife had been failing
in health for some time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
HEAVY GUARD ESCORTS KILLER BURKE ON PRISON TRIP
MISSING DOCTOR
FOUND, REPORTS
NEWSPAPERMAN
Wealthy St. Louis Physi-
clan, Released by AbduC-
tors, Declared Safe.
ByUntfed Press

By United Press
ST. LOUIS, April 2s.-Dr. Isaac
D. Kelley. wealthy physician, re-
turned to his home at noon today.
more than g week after being
kidnapped, and ten hours after his
reported release from the abduct-
ing gang.
Kelley jumped from an auto
mobile that drove up in front OF
MS stone mansion, ran through
crowd Of reporters to q rear
door and entered It, slamming the
door behind him.
By United Press
ST. LOUIS. April 28.-The St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, in a copy
right story today, said that Dr.
Isaac D. Kelley, wealthy physician.
missing more than a week, had been
found by John T. Rogers. reporter
for that paper.
The story said Kelley admitted
he had been kidnapped and quoted
him as saying no ransom had been
paid, so lar as know"
The nliddle-aged ear and nose
specialist had been nysteriouslv
missing since called from his home
at 10 p. m, April 20, on what he
supposed was an emergency case.
The copyrighted story said that
Kelley was turned over by his cap
tors at 2 a. m. on a st. Clair county
roadside on the outskirts of East
St. Louis"
Rogers was conducted to the spot
by a man whom he met near his
home, after receiving an anony-
nous telephone call that a friend
wanted to see him." the story con-
tinued.
The physician was unframed.
He declared that, as far as he knew.
no ransom was paid for his release.
He had been in the hands Of his
kidnapeTs a few hours more than
seven days when Roge found him.
Except for lack of q bath and
change Of clothing, he appeared in
almost as good. physical condition
as when he left his home
At the Kelley residence, where the
wife Of the physician
and relatives had kept a vigil for
more than a week, E. R. Christman,
attorney for the family, declined to
comment on the copyright story.
I know nothing further, and
nothing about the story" Christ
man said.
The disappearance of Kelley, com
ing after series Of kidnapings
throughout the middle west, brought
a concentrated police search here
and in southern Illinois that failed
to bring the slightest clew as to is
whereabouts, despite raids on gang
hideouts, questioning Of scores Of
gangsters and following up Of every
slight clew
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
DRY LAW SILLY;
DESERTS CAUSE
Trip TO Europe Convinces
Farm Union Head.

By United Press
OKLAHOMA CITY. April 2s.-
His first trip to Europe convinced
John A. Simpson, president of the
National Farmers Union and
former Oklahoma dry, that prohi-
bition is "the silliest thing in the
world"
Simpson returned here late Mon
Gay from Europe, where he attended
the International Institute of Agri-
culture at Rome. %
why, they served two quarts Of
Wine with every meal on the boat
and never saw a single case Of
intoxication," Simpson said today.
II found the farmers a lot better
off than our own. I found it diff
cult to get drinkable water for my
wife-the only teetotaler I saw on
my trip through Italy, Germany,
Switzerland, Denmark and France.
"I guess we all will have to
change our views no matter how
hard We hang on to them" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
DRUGGIST TO BE TRIED
IN DELINQUENCY CASE
Bert Frank Charged With Truancy
of High School Boys.

Fifteen Technical high school pu-
pills this afternoon we're to testify
in juvenile court that they were
truants from school because they
found many things Of interest to
occupy their time at a pharmacy
operated at 500 North State avenue
by Bert Frank ..
Frank, who lives at 459 North
State avenue, is charged in two af-
fidavits with contributing to the de-
linouency of two high school boys,
and the others, authorities said,
would substantiate the complaints.
According to the charges, one OF
the two youths was hired by Frank.
The I5-year-old boy is alleged to
have made deliveries for the store
instead OF attending school. The
other is alleged to have been in
duced to participate in petty gam
bling
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
ENVOY TO BE QUIZZED
ON 'SLUR' TO BUTLER
Haitian Minister Scheduled to
Receive Note of Inquiry.

Haitian Minister Scheduled to
Receive Note of Inquiry.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 28.-A note
of inquiry is expected to be sent
today to Dantes Bellegarde, Haitian
minister, by the state department
his alleged reflections on
the military glory of Major Cen
eral Smedley D. Butler.
Neither Bellegarde nor Secretary
of State Stimson appeared to take
the matter very seriously. The de-
partment originally had planned to
question the diplomat Monday, but
finally decided to postpone the in
terview until today.
The affair started when a Wash
ington newspaper quoted Bellegarde
as saying that FIT. REVERE in Haiti,
for capturing which Butler received
medal of honor, did not exist.
Bellegarde told the United Press
he was nisquoted, and that he con-
sidered the incident closed.