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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
Channel Frontage
ON THE BROWNSVILLE
SHIP CHANNEL
FOR SALE
I~~A~A~~

On july 3, President Hoover signed the
Brownsville Port Bill. The appropriation
bin now pending before the present Con-
gress carries an appropriation Of the money
necessary 10 complete the Brownsville Port
The faith and credit Of the United States
Government are now definitely and ire
vocably back OF the project. The NaviEa-
ton District Commissioners realizing the
tremendous Importance 70 the Valley Of
this new port and the need for relieving the
present financial stringency Of the Valley
are working night and day, bending every
will and every means 10 the immediate COM
mencement OF actual work on the Browns
Vile Channel. Representatives Of the Dis
trict upon their recent return from Wash
inEton stated that work would begin upon
the new port within sixty days.
AT last, the Valleys dream Of deep
water has come true
The owners Of a mile and q half or chan
mel frontage have investigated channel front
prices and have discovered they range from
$2,5OO.OO TO $25,OOO.OO per acre on ports
having a tonnage equal 10 or less than that
Of Brownsville. Experts hired by these land
owners have placed the PRESENT value OF
chip channel lands owned by them at
100000 per acre. The same experts, w.
G.. Burchfield and Brother Of Houston, lead
ers in their craft in the South, after inten-
siye studies, have estimated the value or
these Iands at $3,50O.0O per acre the day
the first boat passes them.
This is the Valley Port, and the owners
OF these lands wish 20 share with Valley
citizens the profas which will inure 10 own
ers or channel frontage.
No stock selling. No promotion No
agents. Bona fide investors desiring aP-
p~ointments may deal directly with the own
ers by addressing communication to P. o.
Box 447 or Phone asa, Brownsville.
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

IA universal hunting license.
FOR this reason: The farmer he says
he IA one himself-rarely ever
shoots a gun; but some transient
Or hired workman nr some tres
passer. shoots ont tine whole cpTey
uf quail. Now. since TIE iB violating
no law. 10 shoot iii season without
having a license for home county
hunting. the man can't be punished.
TO require the license would keep
most of the kind of men who ignore
the law where possible separated
from guns. he thinks.
Probably the game department ls
going 10 compromise 10 the extent
III letting their bill say that ~ is
all right for "A farmer 10 hunt game
III open season ON his own farm
without going to town and paying
the state $50 for the authority
10 do 10.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
The Sealed Trunk
BY Henry KitehelI Webster
Copyright b. The BobbsMerrnl Go. wNU Service

Copyright b. the Bobbs-Mern c.. wNU Service
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
Brownsville Has:

J. A population In 1881 of over $4,000.
= A mean average temperature or Is.
8 Bank deposits. SS.O00. 900.
A. -Four railroads. seven paved highways.
>. international airport. five air lines.
8. A S6.000.000 deep water port financed.
Z. The best climate. soil In the world.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

The contents or the stomach cf
IA seal captured ln the Arctic ocean
n few years ago indicated that the
animal had dived To "A depth of
5000 feet
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
CHAPTER ~

THE first thought that flashed
A into her mind when STE saw
the ona who was sitting NJ the
specified table was that there must
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04
CRACKS IN
THE DOM =

II newspapermen have loneed for
the millennium or "A newspaperman
in the governors chair and a news
paperman holding down hts outer
office. they have met II.
Gov. Sterling Is publisher of the
Houston st-Dispatch. And Paul
Wakefield, hts assistant private sec
rotary. iS a newSpaperman or long
experience, with notable foreign
service III his record. and "A thor
ough appreciation OF the working
newspaperman's needs and view
point guiding him.
Wakefield, from the first day.
proved himself an ideal man in hits
particrlar-often trying and diff.
cult-joh.
Sen. PoaEes plan 20 cut the num-
Der of counties down 10 100 la sure
to bring IA thronF az local officials
t0 the capitol in protest. and sure
to find the strongest sort OF oppo-
siticn alI along the lire. RI would
not be surprising to see the people
approve III. III the legislature gives
them the chance. regardless OF the
5000 people nov living out az the
government feed box that N would
turn to other activities.
"A serious question which an OBJ
iector easily could stir into meas
urable opposition In any group III
counties proposed 10 b. merged.
would be the rival claims for the
new county seat and courthouse.
III might remind people OK Bleed
ing Kansas fights e moving
cOurthouses. H. recounted from ear
IN memories of Eel Howe.
But ID and other phases cf the
local government take-up would
save the people something like tl0.-
COO. 600 n year. all ar which IA TN
addition 10 the Sl0l. 10000 state
government costs of last year.
Rep. Eugene W. Giles, Co-authcr
with all the legislators or Travis
Williamson. Bastrop and Caldwell
counties for a three-year closed sea-
son on quail and wild turkey. sup
ports the game commissions bill for
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-29
ur
St0re!!

Mrs. Housewife has many interests
competing for her attention. She
can devote only small part of her
day to shopping. Obviously she
cannot visit ALL the stores in an
effort to shop to her best advan-
tage.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-29
BASEBALL CAMPS THREATEN CITY
WITH WAR AS PRELIMINARY TO
HOT CONTEST TOMORROW NIGHT

War-deep, dark, rumbling war
threatened to engulf El Centro to-
day as the city-s most prominent
men lined up in opposite camps.
hurting ncomplimentary words
anG horrible threats at one anoth-
er.
On one side Penny Richmond
captained the forces which threat
ened 10 disrupt the town. while on
the other Fire Chief Tom Reams
and Fire Commissioner r. Z. Couch
marshaled their forces under cover
Of greatest secrecy.
Edgar Nance, looking on from an
entirely impartial position, took the
post OF arbiter.
The cause for so much threat
ened trouble is a baseball game at
7:30 tomorrow night on Wilson
field. when Richmond's "Rinky-
Dinks' will meet the Fire Hall
Boys" in a contest that may 60 nine
innings, or more if the score is
tied. or less if clubs are brought
into play otherwise than on the
baseball
Richmond showed his ha n d
plainly today when he announced
the members Of his team as Colonel
zinn, Bill Clements, Romeo Smith,
Bert Lemons, Burt Underwood.
Pinkey Loud, Jake Verberg. John
ny Zurcher, Cal Mousseau. Tommy
Cow Thomas. Earle Richmond.
Frenchie Hirigoyen, and Fred Gil
anola as relief pitcher.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-29
SPORTS PARADE
OFFERS VARIETY
IN T0DAY'S NEWS
BY HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. %. U.P)-Be-
ing nothing more than a few per-
sonal observations on the 1881 base
! bail season, which only two days
/ ago was laid away in lavender and
cid spinach:
Biggest flops-Ye olde clouter
Hack Wilson, and the Brooklyn
Robins.
Best rookie-Paul Derring of the
Cards.
Most valuable players-Lou Geh-
/ rig, Yankees and Chuck Klein, Phil
lies, who did everything but take
up tickets and NOV the outfield.
Most improved pitchers = Lefty
Gomez, Yankees, and Leroy Mahaf-
fey. AS.
Biggest bores - Nick Altrock
and Al Sohacht, "funny men"
OF the Senators. The boys might
have once been funny, but so
was the gag about "who was
that lady / seen you with" etc.
Most successful experiments
! Those of John McGraw and
Joe Mccarthy, in switching in
fieIders Freddie Lindstrom and
Ben Chapman to right and left
field, respectively.
Biggest pain in the neck-Pat
Malone, big, strong man of the Cubs
Most successful "flop"-Wes Fer
rell, Indians, who, although off
form, managed to win % games.
Most overpai1 players-Hack Will
son and Dazzy Vance, Robins.
Biggest comebacks - Those Of
joey Sewell, Yankees, and Sunny
Jim Bottomley Cards.
Most upsportsmanlike acts - Pat
Malone's attack on a sports writer
half his size, and the shower OF
bottles the St. Louis fans awarded
Freddie Leach Of the Giants, for
grand catch.
Uniuckiest players-Lou Gehrig,
who was robbed of the home run
championship by Lyn Lary's bone
head play, and Taylor Douthit, who
was shipped down the river to the
Reds by the Cards.
Athletics Unlucky
Unluckiest club - The Athletics.
believe it or don't. The world cham
pions had twice as many injuries
as any outfit in either league.
Sweetest defensive outfielder-
Paul Waner, Pirates.
The biggest slice Of bologna
Ruth and Gehrig hoping Gehrig
and Ruth would win the home run
championship
Second biggest slice-Oscar Melil-
les Il owe it all to spinach" yarn.
Biggest heroes-Lefty Grove and
Babe Ruth.
Most consistent club-CincinnatI
In the cellar all the way.
LUckiest players Waite Hoyt,
Wally Roettger, Andy High, Lewis,
Krausse and those other guys who
got dropped ker-plunk into the
world series glory and dough.
Best infield rooKie-Pepper Mar
III, Cards.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-29

While Penny charged Ch lie f
Reams and Commissioner Couch
with a breach OF faith in that they
have sneaked their men onto back
alleys and vacant lots in the past
few days to engage in secret prac-
t!ce, when they promised they
would not practice, Chief Reams
retaliated with the charge Rich
mond intends to put all his men
onto the field at once.
To do this he will intimidate Ed
gar Nance. the umpire, Reams de-
clared.
Only one thing are the opposing
leaders agreed upon. That is that
the game will be q benefit to help
pay for recently installed lights on
Wilson Field.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-29
SOUTHERN CALIFoRNIA
LEAGUE WARNS ROCK
ROLLERS

MONTROSE. Colo. U.P)-To pro-
tect mixers and fishermen from the
playful the Izaak Walton League
will erect signs on both sides Of
Black Canyon warning against
rolling rocks into it," The practice,
league members declare. sooner or
later will result fatally The alleged
nuisance most frequently occurs in
MontroSe county.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-29
Cubs FavOrites To
Win City Series

CHICAGO. Sept. %. U.P)-The
Chicago Cubs today were to 5 IA
vorites to defeat the Chicago White
Sox in their city series opening to-
morrow at Wrigley Field
Charley Root, who blanked the
White Sox. SO, in their recent char
ity game viii pitch the opener for
the Cubs Either Red Faber or Ted
Lyons will pitch for the White SoX.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-29

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Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-29
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The Weather

Los ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair tonight and Wednesday with
moderate temperature, gentle,
shifting winds.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Fair tonight and Wednesday with
normal temperature; moderate north
and northwest winds offShore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-25

proprietor Of the pitch" He organ
lied q strike. He walked out, but no.
body followed him, for unemployment
is as keen q sorrow to professional
checker players as to artisans or labor
ers or white-collar men. So Karl had
his strike to himself. He fitted 1t out
with neatly painted sign which said
something about broken agreements,
and paraded up and down In front of
the pitch" in an effort to persuade
the public not to patronize the game.
Somehow or other his silent plea failed
Of effect. Karl was permitted to loiter
around, unmolested, until he CHANGED
to lean up against the front Of shop,
the proprietor of which. fearing the
effect Of such a picketing upon his
business, complained to the police and
Karl was driven of and has vanished,
perhaps gone to the port Of missing
men. sign and all.
This Is narrated for the sake of his
tory, the history of the game that be-
gan back in the days when man
scratched rude lines upon the sand and
made squares and laid down and picked
up bits of stone and small bones and
thus entertained themselves and &C.
qrlircd possessions for which they had
not labored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-25
Findings Is Not Keepings.

Five thieves recently in Chicago
held up the employees of a bank and got
away with over $1,000. In their flight
to the motor car waiting for them out
side one of them dropped package
which, it was later discovered from the
holding slip, contained $700. Immedi-
ately there was a scramble by the pedes-
TRANS and at the finish only single
ten-dollar bill was retrieved by an agent
Of the bank.
Just what difference there was be-
tween the bandits" who entered the
bank and swooped up the contents OF
money drawers and the crowd outside
who fell upon the dropped bundle OF
bills defies definition. The thieves who
made the raid were at the least cour-
ageous enough to dare the protective
devices of the bank. While they had
Che advantage of surprise and the pos
Session of guns, they were assuredly
hervy and game. The sidewalk scram-
blers for the dropped bills were just
bcavengers.
~ The question Of who Is honest, and
how, is not easy to answer. Nobody
seems to know just what he would do
IN an emergency in which his scrupleS
were faced with an opportunity to get
for nothing something belonging to
some cne else. There Is, Of course, only
re TNAs, OF honesty, and it Is a. We
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-25
Recall of Seattle's Mayor
Shows City Power Contest

There Is something inviting about Gov
eminent machinery which permits the
electorate to register its will promptly
and effectively against unpopular ON
Gals, but the same devices are capable
of easy abuse in catering to sudden and
perhaps nl-founded opposition against
city oficials."
Charges of the use of slush funds
against the defeated mayor" are
recognized by the San Jose Mercury
Herald, with the fear that Seattle, If
it continues its present course, will soon
be politically in q class with Chicago"
The Portland Oregonian holds that
Seattle needs to turn from the coun-
sells of men who experiment with
theories on cities which men Of o very
different type have builded."
Outside newspapers" remarks the
Seattle Daily Times. have had no
difaculty in finding out that the tax
situation In Seattle and the condition
Of municipal finances leave much to be
desired. Seattle has been plentifully
banned for running into debt beyond
its needs and for extravagant ventures
in utility ownership and operation.
Some of the outside newspapers said
Seattle was bankrupt; others said that
II Seattle were not already bankrupt
1t was surely on the way. Even those
that spoke of Seattle in the kindliest
way, spoke with words of warning. .
Quoting the Oregonian as advising the
need of new leaders for the city, the
Daily Times concludes: The Ore
gonian, Of course, was not thinking
merely Of new faces around the city hall
or a shift in the municipal pay roll per-
sonnet. The Oregonian, it Is easily
seen, was thinking Of Seattle's present
need of civic leaders Of the type of the
men who built this city, and that is
something that Seattle would do well
to think about"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-25

rule. It reads Thou shalt not steal. "
The money dropped on the sidewalk by
a fleeing thief was not treasure trove.
Nor, indeed, Is a pocketbook found IN
the street with no trace Of the owner.
The finder must try to find the owner,
must use every effort to do so. In the
Chicago case there was, Of course. no
question as to the ownership. Not a
person in the swarm that grabbed for
the dropped bills had any doubt on
that score. And probably every one
who got bill scurried OF with It
quickly, to avoid detection and loss Of
the money. He was. in short, a thief
himself.
It would be q wholesome happening
If some of these sidewalk scourerS were
to be identified and prosecuted. OF
course the big thieves got away. But
the small fry are just as guilty of theft
and should be punished. The example
would be good one for the correction
of the trait Of taking things that belong
elsewhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-25
Higghligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

out the consolation of any immediate
payment. These men claimed that they
themselves and their families were suf-
fering severely as the result of this dis
appointment. In our opinion. the mu-
nicipality, if it cannot meet all its OBJ
legations, should pay first of all its la
borers, who have no resources except
their small and hard-earned wages.
= X
Figures Show
Italian Worker Poorest Paid.
Italia, Paris (exterritorial publica-
tom According to statistics compiled
by the International Commission of La
Dor at Geneva, the Italian workman Is
by far the most poorly paid of the
proletariat anywhere. The figures fur
niShed by the commission show not only
the comparative wage received, but the
relation of earnings to the cost OF &C
tual necessities per capita.
In England these two factors are abb
solutely correlated-that is to say, a
mans earnings represent and are based
upon a careful estimate of what it will
cost him to live. So in the labor COM
missions tabulation in the case of the
workman in Great Britain mans av-
erage earnings and form of expenditure
are both set at 100, for purposes of COM
parison with the respective earnings and
expenses of workmen in other countries
These contrasts are very interesting, and
We reproduce them to show the
wretched state of the italian wage
Garner. In the first column shown below
is indicated the composite figure for
food. fuel, clothing shelter and light.
In the second column appears the index
figure OF the relative salary received:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-25
A Checker Strike.

It would surely seem that the history
OF draughts, or checkers, as the game
is known In this country, has been quite
definitely written, even though the ORR
gin OF the pastime is said to have been
obscure and that the record Of its de-
velopment does not run back further
than the art of printing. For CEN
turtles the game has been static, with
only a few modern variations like the
developments in card games to please
the present-day taste for completely and
gaming. But there have been recent
happenings in the game. nevertheless,
worthy of note. For instance, there has
been a professional checker player
strike. Can the past centuries match
,, that for novelty and surprise2
Down at Coney Island checkers Is
played professionally during the hot
weather season. A concessionaire has
strip of beach front and under tents
he sets up stands ut which the public
may play checkers, or chess If taste
prefers. He hires professionals in
both games and invites the non-profes-
sional public to pit its skill against the
professional. If the challenger wins,
the game costs him nothing. II he
loses, he pays q dime. Of which the
pro" gets q moiety. These business
players take on all corners, and usually
beat them. They work, in effect, on q
commission. If they lose, they get
nothing. Thus skill at the ancient game
is essential to earning the modest liveli-
hood that the enterprise affords these
melancholy masters.
One Of the professional checker
players In the combination was, until
recently, an otherwise unidentified per-
son known as Kari. He was more than
ordinarily solemn and silent. Recently
hs came Ia q disagreement with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-25
Hoover and Mellon
Air Talk "ScrambIed''

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
When the average American read
that President Hoover In Washington
and Secretary Mellon In Paris carried
on radio-telephone conversations about
the moratorium negotiations, he was
likely to think that this was pouring
highly confidential ofncial matter into
the ear of the wide, wide world. Some
correspondents took occasion to COM
ment on the disadvantage OF the RADIO
phone, in that codes could not be used
for extended conversations. Other cor
respondents suggested that the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Mellon had resorted to
American slang to mystify Europeans
who might have picked the converse
ton on the air.
Any of these SurmiSes Is less inter-
esting than the facts in the case. II
an enterprising radio amateur or an
ofncial operator had listened-in on the
Presidents discussions, he would not
have understood q word. In the radio
transmission Of telephone conversation
the sounds are scrambled" BY an in
genius device where they leave the wire
and take to the air. On the other side
Of the ocean the sounds are unscram-
bled to make ineligible words as they
60 on the land wire.
The scrambled sounds might be picked
out Of the air by any receiving set
But even II the set had an unscram-
bling attachment it would be useless
unless the operator knew the exact
combination to At in with the scram-
bier at the sending end. And the pos
sible combinations are all but INFINITE.
On the air, therefore. the Presidents
conversation was reasonably SAFE from
Q listening world. When 1t got on the
wire. however, It was IS susceptible 70
wire-tapping as II Mr.. Hoover were
talking from the drug store booth
around the corner from Mr.. Melons
hotel. But, OF course, overlapping Is
not done in the best governmental so
ciety.