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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
LalO Forcing Rendition
Of Liens for Taxation
Proposed by W. r. Hall

A Law requiring holders or vendor
lien notes to plead and prove thar
such notes had been rendered for
taxation before the holders can
obtain a court judgment against
property, Is the suggestion OF M.
f. Hall. Cameron county attorney,
as q measure to tighten the tax
burden on the people.
Such a law would enable collec-
ton Of taxes on vast intangible
holdings which are not rendered for
taxation now as required by law.
Collection OF this tax would aug
ment the valuation rolls to such
an extent that a sizeable reduction
could be made IN the tax rate all
ever the state, Hall believes.
Used as Club
The effect Of the proposed law
would be that holders or such
notes would be forced to render
them for taxation, or they would
be unable TO collect on judgments
when the property holder r maker
defaults Tn payments. III would he
an effective club to force rendition
Of intangible assets which are often
kept from the eyes Of the tax as
SCISSORS OF the state.
As the matter now stands. the
man who purchases lands with a
down payment and vendor lien
notes pays the taxes on the pro-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
CUBAN LABOR
Is ON STRIKE

HAVANA, Feb. +CP-Cuban Ia
Dor groups fell short today Of their
goal Of a general strike In protest
against recent political develop
ments, but a dozen or SO OF the
larger organizations answered the
call and their members remained
away from work.
The strike began at 8 .. m. yes
terday. Linotype operators, car
penters, ~plasterers, cigar makers,
stevedoress metal workers, builders
sponge fishermen and deep sea
fishermen being included in the
walkcut.
IL was uncertain how long the
strike would last. Although called
for "A hours, II appeared that some
elements wished to prolong II, par
ticularly II the street car employees
who r fighting a reduction IN
pay Of five cents per hour, al be
persuaded TO join. The issue has
been further complicated by the
arrest OF several OF the strike lead
ers.
Although the strike is not gen.
eral, much OF Cuba's commerce
and industry are affected The
larger Havana papers did not pub
lish today and other activities were
curtailed. Some labor leaders pre-
dicted that with the end OF this
strike others would begin, affec-
ting all lines Of trade
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
How Weak Nervous
Women Grow Stronger


II you only knew-ycu rundown.
Rnemic women - who are dragging
yourself around On your nerve
what q wonderful increase In strength
and healh Tanac viii give You, you
wouldn't hesitate a moment about
going TO your druggist and getting q
hig bottle OF this splendid medicine.
Mrs. Dora RobiEIard, Of Bellingham
Mass, RID. !, Box ~, says had
no digestion Q appetite. Sick head
aches laid me up In bed three days at q
time. / couldn't even delight house
work. Now | do all our cooking and
washing IN addition TO the other work"
Tanlac is as free from harmful drugs
~ the water you drink-only Natures
cun medicinal tonic herbs. Druggists
know this and for the past 10 years
have recommended It 20 men and
women who need q quick pack UP"
that win put them On their feet and
give them a new interest in Life.
So confident are the makers Of Tan
lac that IL you are not helped by Il,
you get your mcuey back On request
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

perty In question. Law also re-
quires that holders OF the notes
render them for taxation, but this
Is seldom done, officials assert. II
Is extremely difficult for assessors
to ferret out such notes when hold
ers attempt to conceal them. Pay
ment OF taxes by the holder or the
property and also by holders OF
the notes Is not double taxation,
the state supreme court has ruled.
Unfair, Hall Says
The manifest 'injustness os our
present SYSTEM" Hall says, lis
made apparent by the common oc-
curence Of a small landowner who
undertakes to buy property at a
price Of, say $4,000. The purchaser
pays down $1,000 cash, and ex-
ecutes vendor lien notes for the
balance or $1,000. This purchaser,
who really owns only a part OF
the property in question must pay
taxes on IL all while the holder OF
the $4,000 note, having something
which he can, and usually does,
hide. pays no taxes on bis equity
In the land" Hall said.
This proposed bill win smoke
the noteholders out like smoking
a poSsum out OF a sycamore tree,
because If he ever wants 10 COL
iect his note In court. he will have
To prove that Ii had been rendered
regularly for taxation" the county
attorney stated.
Halls suggestion is timely. as
Governor Ross Sterling used sin
tangible assets as a part or hts
campaign plank and the moot
question In the legislature now Is
how 70 reduce taxation for the
small landowners during the fl
nancial depression.
Those Promises
I've been farming all my life
and have heard tine farm relief
promises OF every campaign. But
n<ling is ever done about It. The
money lenders do the lobbying and
the farmer gets nothing but empty
promises. Under the law I am
proposing. the Law makers will have
an opportunity 10 show us where
they really stand on this question,
Hall declared.
Hall plans to study the law from
all angles and II he finds It feasible
In all respects 10 make an effort
tc have II passed by the state
legislature. The law would not be
confined to vendor liens but would
extend to notes secured by any
form Of lien
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
BY BERR FURNTAN

WASHINGTON, Feb. A. tPt-
Tropical showers TO make jungle
cobras feel at home. are the latest
addition to the new reptile house
at the National Zoo.
Five Of the largest glassed in
cubicles now being handicapped to
look just like real snake haunts
have been equipped with summary
sprinklers to soothe the snakes. es-
pecially when shedding their skins.
DR.. William NJ. Mann, director,
explained showers Of warm water
in cages ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
to jungle heat would quickly create
the humid atmosphere 50 welcome
10 a big snake when he wriggles out
Of his old skin.
Large lizards, also. may be al
lowed TO baSk in the warm showers,
as well as in artificial sunlight Of
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

GREENvTLLE, Tex. FEB. A.. R-
Funeral rites were set Cor this aft
ernoon for Charles ID. Jones, 65.
prominent Greenville banker and
capitalist who died late yesterday
at his home. after a protracted ill
ness. He was vice president OF the
Greenville National Exchange Bank,
president or the GreenviIle Build
ing a. Loan Association and q
stakeholder and director In most Of
the larger industries In Greenville,
In addition TO having large real es-
tate holdings.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
OIL STORAGE
TEST WORKS
Oil and Gas From One Field
Run Into Depleted
Area

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb A. Up
The Union Oil company OF Califor-
mia announced today II had been
successful In running oil and gas
from one field into the semi-de-
pleted wells of another field for
storage purposes.
The experiment was said by oil
men 10 be an important one toward
solving the problem OF economic
storage.
The company reported It had dis
posed Of $1,000. 900 cubic feet Of nat
ural gas and 10000 barrels of oil
in this manner. Other companies
were said TO have undertaken stor-
age projects In q similar manner
but not upon the scale used by
Union Oil.
Company officials said oil of "a
degrees gravity had been pumped
into semi-depleted wells which had
been producing petrolt IN OF IL
degrees gravity. Upon being placed
on the pump, the storage wells
yield oil Of 80 degrees gravity.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
WOULD TIGHTEN
DEAN PENALTY
House Committee Would
Ease State Prohi
Statute

AUSTIN, Feb. 4EF-The house
COMMITTEES on criminal jurisprud-
ence last night voted nine 10 four
70 tighten the penalties Of the Dean
law. the states prohibition enforce
ment statute.
TIE vote was on q bill by Rep
resentative Petsch OF Fredericks-
burg. Representative Anderson and
Kayton OF San Antonio had in
PRODUCED a similar bill.
The committee took its action
after hearing Mrs. Claude De Van
Watts, state president OF the w.
{. r. y. express opposition 10 the
move and after hearing an earnest
argument against It by Rev. B. j,
Forbes, representative from Wealth
erford.
Representative DonnelI OF Hills
boro who said he was a prohibi-
ZIONIST and an anti-saloon league
said he believed more convictions
would be procured by virtue OF
lessening the penalties OF the state
Law.
The bill would assess a fine or
jail sentence or both against first
and second offenders. Under the
present law, q penitentiary SEN
tence OF at least one year Is man
datory even Tor q first offense.
Proponents Of the bill said its
purpose was TO make the state law
conform more nearly TO the fed
eral enforcement act.
Representative Hines Of Linden
spoke for the bill, He stated that
when the legislature made a trip
10 the prison system during the
last session he found several youths
who had been sentenced for vio-
lations Of the Dean law.
Il suggested 10 some Of the 9TH
err legislators that those OF us who
had also contributed to the viola
ton OF the Dean law stay and
take those youths places" Hines
said. They replied that II we do,
there won't be enough left to take
the train back 70 Austin"
Representative Forbes predicted
that when and II the bill should
be passed, every bootlegger would
give q cheer and there would be
sadness IN the ranks OF those who
had led the fight for prohibition
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
Homelike Surroundings
Are Provided Reptiles
In National Zoo HON.

correct equatorial intensity, Great
ed by ultraviolet ray lamps.
For reptiles or more temperate
zones. an S5-foot skylight OF vita
glass has been installed TO check
effects of the suns direct rays.
Across the building from vitaglass
row Is another tier OF cages under
an S5-foot skylight OF ordinary
glass. DR.. Mann said he would
make extended tests to determine
which tier his flock thrives best.
Glaciers, painters, and landscape
artists are now busily putting the
finishing touches on the new house
to be opened to the public the lat
ter part OF February.
When 1t Is finished 1t is 20 be a
study-laborattcry for scientists as
well as a place for children TO
come and gaze and ponder on pc
culiar creatures.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

EASTLAND. Tex. Feb. a. Up
John Foster. %. and hts SON. Ru-
fus RED Foster, 20. we're killed
instantly late yesterday when their
automobile was struck at a grade
crossing near here by a Texas a.
Pacific passenger train. Foster. q
farmer, lived at Flatwoods. four
miles south or here. The son was
n tool dresser nc an oil well being
drilled near the crossing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
Day In Congress

Wednesday, Senate
Continues consideration or indie
pendent offices appropriation bill.
Takes up conference report on in
terror appropriation bill.
Reconsiders nominations OF three
members Of power commission.
Owen ID. Young appears before
banking committee investigating
banking conditions.
House
Continues debate on District of
Columbia annual appropriation.
Ways and means committee re-
sumes hearings on veterans COM
pensation payment plans.
Banking and currency committee
considers bill TO clarity state taxa
ton Of national banks.
Tuesday, Senate
Began consideration OF independ-
ent offices appropriation bill.
Henry NJ. Robinson. Los Angeles
banker, testified before banking
committee.
Banking subcommittee agreed 10
conclude hearings on Meyer nomi-
nation Thursday.
Commerce committee agreed "a
vote Thursday on measures TO cut
importation Of foreign oil.
Lands committee continued in
yestigation OF oil shale lands with
Solicitor Finney on stand.
Conferees failed TO reach agree
ment on SOS, 900 900 Red Gross re-
lief fund.
House
-Four members Of special commit
tee reported they found no grounds
Tor criticism or censure OF Federal
Judge Anderson Of Tennessee.
Agriculture committee approved
bill to establish a 10-cents a pound
tax on yellow oleomargerine.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
Again Heads
State Water Board

John Norris has been re-appoint-
ed chairman OF the State Board OF
Water Engineers, the group which
has jurisdiction over Valley irri-
cation projects. according to infor-
nation reaching here.
Hold-over members OF the board
are "A. II. Dunlap and Charles
Clark.
Permits 70 take water out Of the
Rio Grarde must be secured from
this board. sAR
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
San Benito Man
Is Rodeo Entry
CBy Staff Correspondents

10y CL6lI CCITeSpOlOeQL1
SAN BENTTO. Feb. A local
touch will be added to the rodeo 70
be staged at the ball park begin
ming Thursday with the entry Of
Homer Henry, resident Of San Ben
ito. in all open events.
Henry, who has lived here about
a year. has had considerable expe-
rience In rodeos all over the South
west.
Farmers OF this territory also will
bring IN their outlaw mules and
horses for the cowboys in the ro-
dec outfit to ride.
The rodeo will last through sun
day and Is being sponsored by the
American Legion.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
r. H. Lane. Mr.. and Mrs. X. G.
Bushkirk. MIR. and Mrs. l.. ~. Ohm
stead. Mr.. and Mrs WV. g. Early.
MIR. and Mrs. q. ". Dodd. MIR. and
Mrs r. r. Cummings. Mr.. and Mrs.
T. II. Mcneil, Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Call, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Cobb. Mr..
and Mrs. Bruce Eubanks, Glenn
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
SUMMARY

Barometric pressure was relative
" 10 moderately high over the re-
gion between the Rocky and APP
palachian mountains this morning,
and relatively low over the far
eastern and far western states. AS
a result the weather was fair to
clear practically throughout the
United States since last report.
with temperatures seaSonable 70
slightly subnormaL
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
Insurance Company
Increases Business

HARLTNGEN. FEB. "A sub
stantial increase was shown in
their business. Valley agents of the
Volunteer State Life Insurance Co.
said at a meeting here and they de-
ciared business conditions general
Nv TO be sound
Orville r.. Ely is district manager.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
GOLD SPILLS
THE BEANS sos ~
Upsefs rivaI bronds with Sweepine
Victory In RipIey's Iofest Tosfe-Test

They held another tea
party at Boston the other
day. Down with the tyranny
Of habit!'' was the cry. Lets
End out which cigarette really
tastes the best
From Back-Bay to the Fish
Ing Docks, IL was another Bos-
ton rebellion. Throwing brand
prejudice overheard more
than a thousand Boston smok-
ers compared the four leading
cigarettes, with the brand
names hidden.
They didn't know which was
which. All they wanted was 70
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
Economic Classes
Report Enrolment
CBv Staff -Correspondent)

SAN BENITO, Feb. Miss Win
ME Grunkenmeyer. high school in
structor in home economics has al
ready enrolled q large number OF
women in the adult home econo-
mics classes to be held every Mon
day night beginning Feb. 8. Class
es will last from sever 20 nine
o'clock. There will be no charges.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

Maxifield, Mrs. Haley. Miss Bare
more, Mr.. and Mrs. }. d. Buck. II.
r. Allen. Archie Brand and Miss
Verne Ferguson.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
BULLETIN

F1rst figures. lowest temperature
last night; second. highest yester-
day; third, wind velocity at 8 a.
m; fourth, precipitation In last "a
hours.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

The Chinese port of T1entsin
serves as an outlet for the products
of an area about half the size on
the United States.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
Children need not steal
vour health

YS@b H~iH
There should be no health penalty
attached to motherhood. There isn't
among really healthy women. Elk
pectant mothers WHO think OF the
baby's health as well as their own.
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Every package of il contains {
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

pick out the best tasting ciea-
rette.
At Lexington modern
Minute Men needed hardly a
minute TO give o. G. a 2 70 A
victory. At Bunker Hill, OLD
COLDS cool, throat-easy
quality completely routed the
enemy.
"No taxation without repre-
sentation'' ..- said the Boston
of long ago. "No throat-tax...
and unlimited smoking joy:
says the Boston of today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-17
SEEKS WIDESPREAD
CONFIDENCE GANG
International Ring Alleged Re-
veaIed by Arrest in Rome
of Americans

Rome, March 17.-F-Police Of
four countries hunted Tuesday for a
dozen members of an alleged inter-
national confidence gang revealed
with the arrest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles L. Spencer, Albany, N. Y,
and Leo l.. Davidson, native of Kan
sas City, Mo-, charged with a $3.50
swindle.
Davidson hanged himself Monday
in his cell with a loose made from
his underclothes.
Police of England, Germany and
Belgium who were notified of the
arrests were asked to round up COM
panions of Davidson and the Spen-
GERS. Spencer was said to have oper-
ated in Brussels, London and Berlin.
Mrs. Spencer was released Tuesday
but remained under police observa-
ton.
Berlin police and the American
consulate were asked for further in
formation. Police found 10000 lire
(about S 1900 among his effects. Of
ficials also were puzzled as to why
he should have committed suicide in
the face of a prison sentence which
could not have been longer than two
years, and believed he must have had
q previous prison record.
A British army colonel, B. b. Pay
master, caused the arrest Monday of
Davidson and the Spencers. Author
tiles withheld his name but said he
told them Davidson SOld him S35 nm
worth of fake stock.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-17
PROBE MYSTERIOUS
DEATH OF ANOTHER
new YORK WOMAN
Will Analyze Organs Of Red
Haired Dancer for Traces
Of Poisoning

New York, March 17.-@-The
death under mysterious circumstances
OF q second woman vice graft witness
against police was being investigated
Tuesday.
Miss Lucia Dickens, red haired
dancer who used the name Of Georgia
Gray, died Saturday night in Bellevue
hospital after an illness of four days.
Though the cause originally was di-
agnosed as pneumonia, DR.. Charles
Norris, chief medical examiner, Or
dered a chemical analysis of her or
gans to determine whether there were
traces Of poison.
Miss Vivian Gordon, Broadway but
terfly, who accused Patrolman An
drew G. Mclaughlin Of framing her
on a vice charge in 1923, was strangled
to death Feb. 26, and her slayer is
still at large.
Under the name of Violet Smith,
Miss Dickens was taken to the hos
pital last Friday from a West 72nd
street apartment, allegedly suffering
from bruises and other ailments. She
was identified by John A. Markey, an
attache Of the district attorneys
office.
She testified in the perjury trial of
Patrolman Leigh Halperin, who was
acquitted, and was under 81 900 bond
to appear against his partner, Daniel
Sullivan. The policemen were associ-
ates of Harry Gibson, stool pigeon,
she said, and had paid him to play
the unknown man" act in entrapping
women. Gibson previously jumped
$500 bail in Baltimore and still is
missing.
The girls grandmother, Mrs. r. E.
Doolittle, said In Augusta, Ca, that
Miss Dickens had written her for
money several months ago, saying she
wanted to return home because she
was tired of the crowd I am running
with" She was Informed of the death
in a telegram signed only H. G. Bar
ber." She is on the way here to claim
the body.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-17
CONSERVATION BODY
WOULDBEPROV|DE
BY MINNESOTA BILL
Is Third Proposed Plan Along
This Line; Debate Girls
Minor Age Bill

st. Paul, March 17.-R1-A bill to
create a state conservation commits
sion Of seven members. appointed by
the governor, was introduced In the
Minnesota house Monday. The COM
mission would appoint q state conser-
walton commissioner. Three other
conservation plans already had been
introduced.
The house spent the afternoon
making up its mind on q bill and then
reversed itself within five minutes.
Twenty-Five members participated in
debate IN a measure extending from
10 to 81 years the age girls might be
classed as minors for employment
purposes. As q committee CT the
whole, the house voted. 56 to 40, for
indefinite postponement. Then after
the committee had dissolved, the
house voted, 81 to IS, to reject the
committee report, so the bill auto
m~atically reverted to the calendar.
Reckless drivers who cause a death
but without q design to effect
DEATH" would be guilty Of negligent
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-17
Jug0slav Officer
Is Killed by Bomb

Belgrade, Jugoslavia, March 17.-(R
An army officer, Major Rekalovitz.
was killed Tuesday by one of three
bombs with which efforts had been
made to blow up the military aca-
deny.
Bombs exploded at $50 a. m. and
again an hour and q half later but
caused no serious damage and the
bombers left no clue except one bomb
which failed to explode.
Major Rekalovitz was testing it
when it blew up, causing injuries
from which he died.
No arrests were made.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-17
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