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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

If YOU missed ous on the party
leaving Saturday, just get in your
application to your chamber Of COM
merce office at once, and II enough
such applications are received,
another motorcade will be run in the
near future.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

Yesterdays Herald contained the
interesting information that all
places in the Monterrey motorcade
had been filled and that applicants
we're being daily turned away at
the various Valley chamber Of COM
merce offices.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

IN Cameron county there are
1857 residents duly qualified by
law TO exercise the right of suffrage
during the present year. Tax Col
lector Jim Fox missed il a little
when he gave a preliminary esti-
mate Of 5000 poll taxes 70 be paid.
but our guess Is that he would be
glad 10 miss II every time-if the
number exceeded his estimate.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

DR.. Kasey Is one Of those Valley
druggists who just couldn't keep
out Of politics and was drafted
as mayor Of the Queen City.
Whether It Is the drug business
or not, that same business has con-
tributed plenty Of politicians ana
office holders in both Hidalgo ana
Cameron counties.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

II you want to get anything done.
get a busy man to do IL. and GER
tainly no business is more exact
ing ii its demands than is the oper-
alton Of a drug store-which may
account for the way in which poll
tics has taken hold Of our Valley
druggists.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-04

Just right off the bat we can
think OF Frank Osborn, present
mayor of McAllen, who doctored
and presided over a drug store IN
that city for many q year during
the earlv DAYS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
ROMANCE
ENDS IN SHOOTING
Wife Charged With Wounding
Husband as Police Probe
Poison Plot.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUCSON, Ariz., April 2S.--A campus
romance formed the background today
for q police probe OF the shooting OF
Thomas X. Marshall. so, and a report
his wife, q semi-invalid. may have been
the victim of poison plot.
Marshall was wounded dangerously
bv I'VE shots yesterday. Mrs. Marshall
G3, the owner of real estate valued at
$500, 900, was placed under $4,000 bond
and charged with assault with intent
to commit murder.
Mrs Marshall who came from Boston
In 1899 as Miss Louise Soucar to teach
In the University OF Arizona and mar
Iied Marshall, q student, refused to
comment.
County Attorney William G. Hall said
Marshall attributed the shooting 10
jealousy At the same time Hall said
test OF Mrs. Marshall's blood by the
county chemist revealed traces OF poi
SOIL.
Hall said Marshall told him that his
wife had accused him of associating
with their housekeeper, whom she dis
charged a few weeks ago, and admitted
Mrs. Marshall had complained some one
was trying to poison her.
Mrs. Marshall taught Latin, French
and Botany at the University of Arizona.
She intrusted Marshall, student with
the task of renting her properties, and
commissions paid his way through
school,. They married following his
graduation in 1904,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28

Again and again. until it has become almost the nvarabe
rule Silent installation has been the beginning of
Silent" Street Silent neghborhood a
"Silent" town.
Not only will search in vain find the equal this record
other oil burners but you will find few products in all
industry of which it is
The fact is that the great majority of all Silent
Automatic sales practically
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
farmers IN SOUTH
IMPROVING COTTON
Soviet Threat of Competition
Moves Farmers to Cut
Cost of Growing.

| BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, April %. - Southern
| farmers have taken steps to meet the
threat of Russian competition in the
world cotton markets.
Economy of production, improved
quality of staple and more homegrown
| feed and food are three Of the weap-
ons being used as the result Of cam
paigns formed early this year In sew
eral States.
Authorities now predict that the 1881
cotton crop will be produced at less
cost per pound than any crop since the
World War. J. c. Holton. commission
err OF agriculture in Mississippi. points
out that cheaper cotton may be pro-
duced by the Use of added machine
power, by soil fertility, artificial or nat
ural, and by general economy.
Russian Quality Gains.
1.-THE Russian government" Holton
! said, has employed experts to super
wise the production of cotton: they have
supplied the most modern machinery
for cultivating the crop; they have sent
to America and probably other coun-
! tries for the best seed available, and
they are producing uniformly high
quality of cotton which has staple
superior to the bulk of American sta
pie"
Cotton experts at the South Caro-
lima College of Agriculture say that
cotton contests conducted over Pc
Rod of five years already have brought
about Improvements. both as to lower
I costs and better staple.
In Mississippi, which along with
Arkansas and Louisiana has two dis
| tinct types of cotton farming. an effort
has been made to encourage the growth
of better cotton through organizations
| called "One-Variety Cotton Communi-
ties" Here all farmers in a given area
plant only one variety Of cotton. Sew
eral farmers Of the community furnish
seed for all others.
Home Feed Is Program.
Coupled with these projects Is q wave
OF enthusiasm for production Of food
and feed crops at home.
One evidence of this enthusiasm is
the growth of the dairy industry in
practically every State. More Winter
crops such as Austrian peas, vetch,
oats, rye and wheat we're planted last
Fall and Winter than In any recent
year. Reports indicate larger corn
acreage in most States. Home gardens
and canning projects have become a
necessary part of every farm program.
The trend is strong toward the plant
ing OF more than one cash crop.
We must produce better cotton than
Russia does, at lower cost than Rus
STA does" Is fast becoming the slogan
of the cotton belt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28

for big rush OF business when the
new six-week residence law becomes
effective. Friday. May /.
The two judges OF the District Court.
Benjamin r. Curler and Thomas r.
Moran, have drawn plans by which
they said they expected q decree could
be granted every 10 minutes In nom
contested cases. The present calendar
system will be disposed Of II the judges
recommendations are approved by the
local Bar Association. and cases will be
set for hearings and assigned to the
courts by the county clerk.
The new six-week law is retroactive
Persons who have resided in the State
for the specified time prior to Friday
may file at once. The county clerk es-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
DEFUNCT BANK HEADS
IN ARKANSAS INDICTED
Five Men Named by Jury on
Charge of Receiving Deposits
When They Knew Insolvency.

by the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 26.-Five
former executives of the defunt Ameri-
can Exchange Trust Co. Of Little Rock
were indicted late yesterday by the
Pulaski County grand jury on charges
Of receiving deposits when they knew
the bank to be insolvent.
Prosecuting Attorney Carl z. Bailey
last night confirmed reports the indict-
ments had been returned, but declined
to name those indicted.
The Gazette said they are A. 3.
Banks, president of the American Ex-
change; John M. Davis, chairman of
the Board; J. H. Stanley, executive vice
president; r. H. Thompson, vice presi-
dent, and j. G. Conway, vice president
and secretary.
The grand jury returned no bills
against IS other officers, directors and
employees Of the bank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
PLEAS FOR BANK ACT
Australian Premier Urges Passage
by Legislature.

CANBERRA, Australia, April 28 Up.
Premier Scullin. speaking before the
House OF Representatives today, made
an earnest plea for expeditions adoption
of the commonwealth bank act. The
act, which would place the banks gold
reserve at the governments disposal,
embodies his hopes of saving Australia
from an interest-payment default.
The measure already has passed its
second reading.
The premier said he had been advised
1t would be impossible to renew or re-
issue E5 900 900 1928 900 ,000) in treasury
bills which are falling due in London
June 80, the only way to avoid default
being to ship the money to London,
which the bill authorizes. He COM
mented that he trusted the Senate
would pass the measure
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
Dies in slum.. Leaves ss2 900.

Mrs. Margaret Mcvey, who lived In
tenement In slums district OF 0las-
gov. Scotland. died recently leaving an
estate of 862 900. She bequeathed 81, 900
to st. Andrews Roman Catholic Cathe-
dral, Glasgow, with the request that
masses be offered for the repose Of the
souls Of herself and her late husband,
and SIS, 900 to the Archbishop OF Glas-
gov for o diocesan fund for the educa-
ton Of young priests.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
Army of ''Saw Flies
On Way to Battle
Ontario Wheat Pest
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
LONDON, April 28.-Ninety
thousand saw flies" each carry
ing a cargo of destructive para
sites, sailed yesterday for Belle
vile, Ontario. to do battle against
the little insects which menace
the wheat fields OF Western
Canada.
The Parasite Zoo" is travelling
under the auspices of the EN-
pire Marketing Board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28

tirnated from 100 TO 400 persons were
eligible.
The present divorce record for one
day was reported TO be 50 petitions,
granted by Judge Moran and former
Judge George A. Bartlett.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
RENO'S DIVORCE MILL
SET FOR RUSH FRIDAY
Decree Every Ten Minutes Is Plan
of Two Judges for Opening
Of Six-Week Stay Law.

BY the Associated Press.
RENO, New, April 28.-The ma
chinery Of Reno's famous divorce mill"
was being oiled today in preparation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16
TT CEENTO I'M NTE 71, HAYWOOD
l. OAL1N1O i ~ WILL b4 BROUN

raucous sound of Junior beating his
drum.
Don't beat that blame drum!" l
shout at him. He comes back with
the wholly logical query of 'Why
not?"
Now, in such circumstances the
average parent is stumped for an
answer. He's inclined to give one
which isn't wholly truthful.
He may say that it's wrong to
beat a drum. And that God doesn't
like little boys who make too much
noise. That's stretching the imagi-
nation.
There's nothing to prove any such
superstition. After all, as far as
morals go, it's just as righteous to
beat a drum as to read a murder
mystery melodrama about an an
nouncer who gets stabbed with a
paper knife.
The parent ought to be wise
eonugh to put morals out of the
question. I think his proper reply
should run like this: II want to
read book, and you want to beat
drum. I'm a great deal bigger
and stronger than you are.
ct can lick the life out Of you.
And so I'm going to read the book,
and you're not going to beat the
drum" That's a fair and square
| answer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16
Nervous California

California was a brave and adventurous
state. 1t welcomed, even beckoned in, the radical
spirits Of the effete east 1t was built by pioneers
and Adventures who had little respect Tor the old
and settled ways of life It's remarkable progress was
due in no small degree to this vigorous frontier spirit
of courage, daring and experiment.
This spirit persisted down into the present CEN
try but it appears to have petered out about 1910
Hiram Johnson, in his crusading days seems to have
been the last Of those intrepid men who won for
California not only admiration for her material de-
veopment. but respect for her social progress and
love for her romantic past.
Since 1910 California has been exhibiting a bad
case OF nerves" This began when Los Angeles de-
cioed to bid for municipal development through a
ruthless opsn-shop policy This policy produced the
dynamitng Of the Los Angeles Times building and
the conviction of the Mcnamara brothers.
Fifteen years later Upton Sinclair was arrested
on the streets for reading the first amendment to
the federal Constitution. Today Los Angeles has q
body Of official Cossacks and spies which would have
commanded premium in the service Of Alexander
III Of Russia.
San Francisco decided not to lose population or
industry to open-shop Los Angeles so she followed
suit This brought the Mooney Billings scandal,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16
DE n CNN1, FREDERICK
1\G1 AOO4 lands

THIS drought has done one good thing at any
rate it has brought to attention the fact that
water actually is more important to human welfare
than booze.
Alva A. Sweet, SS-year-old Civil war veteran OF
Iowa. lust has passed away He was one of the party
that captured jefferson Davis when he attempted to
escape in the habiaments of lady.
JEFF was one of our first female impersonators.
The other day New York gangster was buried in
$4,000 casket and there were $4,000 worth OF flow
1t costs lot to hold gangsters funeral but it's
worth every cent Of it.
w the navy telling some secret Of the national
defense but to bat the last day by telling
all about small airplaine for use on submarines.
Tt told all ah5ut it. how 1t could be folded I'D in
three minutes and dropped into eightfoot torpedo
tube.
The navy would better lay of General smedley
Butler and court-nartal those birds who constantly
broadcast what should be kept dark.
Amelia Earhart the first woman to fy the At
lantic, now married and it may dawn on her as the
years pass that weather bureau forecast rough
weather the sea Of matrimony.
According to word from Washington, the large-size
bank notes rapidly are disappearing.
In this respect they bear a marked resemblance
to the small-size bank notes.
GOVERNOR RITCHE Of Maryland Is actively
NJ organizing his boom for the Democratic nom
ination for President
We should say that Ritchie Is close to the White
House. geographically. speaking. but not otherwise.
According to reports from Minneapolis, Andrew
J. Volstead is out of danger after his operation for
APPENDICITIS, which should take great load of the
mind of RaSkob
We hope these robins that have come north took
the precauton to bring their red dannes with them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16
Tax Solution

Aside from the shifting Of methods OF
raising taxes from property to income, one
solution for the tax problem lies in cutting
the appropriations for various enterprises
which might be termed luxuries.
Much was heard in the last campaign
about the funds placed at the disposal of the
Governor and his lack of judgment in dis
tributinq those under his uncontrolled juris-
diction.
Less has been heard of this phase Of pub
lie finance since the legislature assembled al
though some curiosity might have been ex-
pected.
An inquiring legislator might find 'emer-
gencies in fifteen dollar ash trays and dis
cover how it is possible to add to the list OF
employees after the legislature has fixed the
number definitely.
Control of all unbudgeted funds by board
on which the state auditor and treasurer have
voice, instead of placing funds in the hands
of any single official, might have the effect
of saving dollars for the taxpayers, or at
least causing more strict Interpretation OF
the word emergency"
Inc people are dSheu edCH JC"A III
enormous sums. They pay in indirect tax
alton more than twenty millions of dollars a
year for good roads. That this money is paid
in small sums on each purchase of gasoline
does not make the total smaller nor the less
tax.
Unless the legislature sees fit to estab-
lish different method of supervising road
building, it might be wisdom to divert a
large portion of these funds to schools and
other purposes during the period of depres-
sion. Roads, under the present system, are
in the luxury class.
Saving the peoples money is quite as i'm
portant as new means of getting it out of pri-
vate pockets into a public till
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16
Journalists as Historians

John H. Finley, editorial writer for the New York
Times and himself noted scholar and educator
uttered words of sound in address at Brown
university on journalists as historians. He pointed
out that the better grade of journalist is just
searcher after truth as the professional historian:
"Since have become journalist find that rot
even research professor is more eager to know the
truth or more eager to tell it than editor, and
find too that the editor usually is much better able
to tell the truth than the research professor because
he knows how to speak to the ordinary mind
1.-THE newspaper man must know the truth fully
it be known be ready and fearless to tell it,
and then know how to tell It,"
DR.. Finley might have gone further and exposed
the hollow sham in the pretense which sets the his
torian a pedestal far above the journalist with
respect to the reliability of his writings.
In journalism trained observer is sent out on
an assignment He gets an adequate "fll-in" to give
him the background of his work. He carefully OBJ
the situation to be described and analysed He
is present the spot personally interviews the i'm
portant characters absorbs all the local color and
sets down his observations, knowing full well that
any bad error will subject him to editorial censure,
If not put his job in Jeopardy.
He knows, moreover, that interested parties
vertically lined up to pounce upon anything which
may be alleged to be an error of fact.
Here we have f1rst-hand account of an occur
renee by an expert in recounting such things He
may overdramatize the word picture, but if he is
good reporter like Samuel Hopkinson Adams, Silas
Bent or Sinclair Lewis, his account will be based,
above ALL on an effort to give his readers an &C
curate impression of what has happened has been
said But this is mere journalism"
In due time these daily products Of reportorial
effort get bound up find their way into an anti
quarian library and get brown and crumbly. On this
appears bespectacled candidate for the degree
of doctor Of philosophy a bearded savant already
associate professor of history Both are grounded
in the mysteries of the historical science Of Bernhei
Langlois and others.
Without any considerable intimate knowledge of
the background local color or personalities involved
in the journalistic tales, they take down these news
paper volumes.
They copy copiously, paraphrase the stories Of
the reporters and editors, perhaps long since dead,
string together their materials make an exact and
impressive foonote recording each issue consulted
and compile the list of daies they have moved from
the dust at the end Of their erudite monograph
This is serious history" Of the most immaculate
vintage WE'LL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16
Cars Deep in Mud

A MOTHER traveller stalled his
L A engine when the water came
up to the running board. He got ouc
to fix it, but just as he lifted the
hood, he looked up to see a wall Of
murky ooze about to break over
him, and climbed on top of his car
for safety. The water rose to with
in six inches of his roosting place
before receding.
Some of the stranded cars sank
two or three feet in the mud be-
fore they could be dragged out.
Bus lines were put out of commits
sion. The only way the Southern
Pacific could get its trains through
Friday and Saturday was by routing
them over the Santa Fe. It went
back on its own track, however, at
II o'clock Saturday night and now is
running on schedule.
Outside of the money loss, a little
flood like this doesn't mean much to
the Southern Pacific, which cut it's
eye teeth on the Colorado twenty
six years ago, saving the Imperial
valley from destruction when even
Uncle Sam threw up his hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16
For NeWSreeIS

TN a statement regarding the new
4 film, the Eastman Kodak Com
pany adds:
"A further characteristic Of Su-
persensitive panchromatic film is
the greater ability it will give
newsreel cameramen to make &c
lures under difficult conditions,
both at night and in daylight in
sufficient to make clear pictures on
film of the speeds previously in use.
Prize fight pictures, taken under
incandescent lights, will be better,
and previously impossible indoor
action scenes like hockey games and
basketball games will become pos
sible.
Successful motion pictures of
action on theater stage, photo.
graphed from the balcony, were
made during the tests that preceded
announcement of the fllm-a feat
considered difficult.
1.-THE sensitive emulsion Of the
new film is very closely related to
one prepared for astronomical pho
Biography, as we'll as to Superseded
panchromatic plates put into use by
newspaper photographers during
the last few months for action pho
Biography under artificial lights.
Astronomers, it has been learned,
used the new emulsion recently in
making observations seeking to dis
cover whether there is water in the
atmosphere of Mars"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16

which still remains an ugly ink spot the map OF
the sunkist state.
Today the state is a morass of criminal syndical-
ism laws, red flag laws and the like, which have
claimed their many victims. The Anita Whitney
Yetta Stromberg, Marcus Graham and Imperial val
ley cases are in many ways more outrageous thar
the Mooney-Billings case. In the latter, at least
somebody committed crime
The latest Of California nerves" has arisen
from CALIFORNIA; refusal patiently to await the enact
ment Of Ham Fish's proposal to herd the reds ur
the gangplanks for foreign Chimes An honest Span
ish laborer. John vilarino lives in Los Angeles He
showed his loyalty to the supreme civic ideal OF
Los Angeles by producing eleven children to help
in the race with San Francisco and environs
But he was suspected Of membership in the Com
munist party This sent shivers up the spine of the
fifth largest city in our union. The red squad de-
scended on his home in good old czarist fashion, ter
rhed his wife and children, and searched his home
without warrant
The California authorities are trying to get Vii
arino deported, on the ground of membership in the
Communist party. He is held under an innngra-
ton inspectors warrant until the case can be dis
posed Of by the department of labor
The American Civil Liberties Union is f1ghtine
the deportation proceedings on the grounds Cd that
evidence seized without search warrant is invalid;
Cd that mere membership in the Communist party
is not just and legal ground for deportation and Cd
that If Viarno is deported his family will be with
out support.
We recommend compulsory course in state his
tory for the California schools and for all institu
tons carrying on adult education in that great COM
monwealth. The citizens seem completely to have
forgotten their civic past
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-16
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :

knowledge of feeding, the use of ex-
ercise, changes in costume, and in
deed a complete change in the
social attitude toward the child.
A disease called chlorosis, fermer-
ly, extremely prevalent in young girls
because Of lack of proper feed
ing or sunshine and outdoor air,
now practically is extinct.
Moreover, when an unreaSoning
fashion caused a craze for slender
ness to sweep across the adolescent
groups in this country, malnutrition
developed.
Associated with rnalnutrition
comes a decrease in resistance
against the germ of tuberculosis and
today the tuberculosis rate for ado
leScent girls is increased, whereas
the rates in tuberculosis for all
other groups are decreasing steadily.
The adolescent girls of today are
the mothers of the future. Bodies
weakened by malnutrition give birth
to children even less able to resist
and to overcome the vicissitudes Of
life.
Fathers and mothers begin with