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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17

Yet Laura ingalls,. one OF the
smallest and apparently the frailest
OF them all, has set her eyes across
the sea and has determined to DO
alone what 50 many OF her sister
fliers could not do with the help
OF men.
The first woman to try an ocean
flight was Miss Mildred Doran who
set out with two men on August
is. 1927 on an air race from the
west coast OF Hawaii. She and hei
companions were lost at sea as
were two other men IN another n
try IN the race and still two more In
q plane which tried 10 rescue them.
Two weeks later the first Allan
tic flight participated In by a wo-
man began. With two men the Prin-
cess Ludwig Lowenstein- Wrthem
LADY Anne Favillel took off in
England for Canada. They we're
never heard from.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17
One HAS
EVER SPAWNED
POND BY AIR
Of 10 Women to Make
Try Five Have Died
In Atlantic

NEW YORK, July i7-tP-Avia-
TORS at this jumping off place for
Atlantic flights look on diminutiye
Laura ingalls, as a feminine David
who has selected as her Goliath the
ink which has presided over prac-
tically every ocean flight in which
women have taken part.
81 the ten women who have act
ually started on such adventures
tive have persisted: one was injured
III a crash, another was rescued
only after being flung into the sea,
two turned back, and only one
reached the other side although
not In the country she had intend
ca. Others planned ocean flights
but for one reason or another never
reached the point OF takoff.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17
LAREDO PLANS
CITRUS PLANT
Modern $4,000 Packing
Shed Ready For Bust
ness BY October

LAREDO, July l7-F7-A modern
citrus fruit packing plant to cost
about $4,000, which will clean,
sort and pack from one to two car-
loads OF citrus fruit per day. viii
be under construction for August
g. Richter. Laredo merchant. by
August IS and ready for business by
October !. The plant will be man
aged by Horace Z. Watson.
Exact location OF the plant has
not yet been decided. Equipment
has been ordered from a Florida
manufacturing concern. Watson will
be assisted in starting operations
by citrus experts from the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
The packing plant viii be large
enough 70 handle requirements Of
the Laredo district at this time.
and as the citrus fruit industry
expands II is proposed to enlarge
the plant.
Estimates are that from Is TO 30
carloads of citrus fruit will be har-
vested in the Laredo district this
fall and winter.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17
News That's Good

HOUSTON. july l7-P- The
kind OF news everybody likes:
Don't work too hard during this
hot summer. Take IL easy. III YOU
don't. you're likely 70 get a sun
stroke. or otherwise Be overcome By
the heat"
Or. Allen G. Hutchinson. the city
health officer. came III that fashion
10 the aid OF the tired man and
woman.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17
LIONS WANT
LUNG MOTOR

10y 1AGAA
HARLINGEN, July 1.-THE Lions
club. which last week suggested
that the county place a lung motor
on Boca Chica Beach. this week
added the suggestion that some ar
rangement be made to keep II az
the bath house and that the life
guard maintained there be in
strUcted In its use.
Discussion took place as TO
whether the club should challenge
the winner or the loser OF the
baseball game played Thursday
night between San Benito and Har-
lingen Rotarians.
B. !. Martin explained the
Bonehead clubs plan to move up
Christmas in order to stimulate
business and Of a plan to take
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17
Plan Early War
On Winter Tramps

tBy stan CONSEQUENTLY
HARLINGEN. July l7.-It il
hoped TO clear Harlingen streets
OF beggars during the approaching
winter, 1t was said at N meeting OF
the Salvation Army committee this
week.
The committee was organized
with r. l.. Hill as chairman. Mrs.
+. s. Herren. vice chairman: DR..
NJ A. Childress. secretary; and III.
+. Looney. treasurer
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17
|Diminutiue Laura Ingalls, Will Dare Woman Atlantic Ocean Flight link

care OF birthdays which fall on that
part Of the calendar which would
be eliminated. He indicated that
perhaps there would be no reason
for observing Thanksgiving.
u. M. Halliburton. who recently
joined the Benedictine ranks. was
made TO sing the Prisoners Song,
and pass the cigars.
Misses Katherine and Frances
Jennings danced. Their mother,
Mrs. .. r. jennings. payed the
piano Accomplishments.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17
MATAMOROS TO
GET STATION

Matamoros is to have a radio
hroadcasting station.
This became known here today
with the announcement that a re-
mote control studio OF KWWG,
Brownsville station. Is to be opened
in Matamoros Sunday night.
A special program for the open
Ing. TO be held at the city hall
Sunday evening. is being worked
out now BY managers Of the sta
ton.
Among the speakers will be
Mayor Roberto Garcia Of the city
Of Matamor0s. and g. &. Richard
son, manager Of the Brownsville
Chamber Of Commerce.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17

PARIS. July 17AP-Paris was
amazed today to learn that 7r.ncess
Anna Obolensky Troubetzkoy. a
young bride. had ended her life BY
jumping from the rampartS or the
Eiffcl tower while the city was cele-
brating BastiIle day Tuesday.
II was assumed that she was an
ordinary Russia emigre till advices
from New York told OF her recen.
marriage there and her intention
TO rewed her husband by n Russian
orthodox ceremony In France.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17
Bridges Opened

OKLAHOMA CITY. July 17-tPl
-Belligerent methods OF Governor
william Henry Alfalfa Bill Muir
ray worked when court actions and
conferences failed, and as a result,
motorists moved over free bridges
az two points across the Red River
between Oklahoma and Texas to-
day.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-17

In October Of that year Lilii Dill
LEM, Austrian actress. started out
in a Junkers plane from Germany
and got to the Azores but there ar
ter many delays the flight was
abandoned and she returned BY
boat.
While she vas waiting az the
Azores Ruth Elder hoped of IN
America with George w. Haldeman
"a fly the southern route 10 France.
They made a forced landing off
the Azores and were rescued by a
steamer.
The only other woman 10 try an
ocean flight In 1927 was Mrs. Fran
ces Wilson Grayson, who t->k off
for Harbor Grace two days before
Christmas with three men. All were
lost.
In March OF the next year the
Hon. Elsie Mackav took off In Eng
land with Captain Walter Hinch-
life. Neither was ever seen again.
In June 1923 A lelia Earhart and
Mabel Boil both planned Atlantic
flights. but Miss Earhart go away
first and Miss Boil abandoned her
flight.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05

aska trip says:
 Was glad to hear from you. My self and friend had a most won derful trip to your wonderful coun- try. We enjoyed every minute of the trip.
 T am besieged by hundreds who heard of me making the trip and of course I had to make report to each one.
 T believe I will find some more travellers for the coming year to Alaska"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05
CANNERY WORKERS AT
 SAN JOSE C0 0N
 STRIKE; WAGES GUT

SAN JOSE, Aug. 4, (P,- With 200 extra officers sworn in, and 30 firemen detailed for police duty every cannery in this district Was patrolled by armed guards, marking the development of the third day of disorders, growing out of the cannery workers strike over wage cut.
 Chief of Police telephoned to de- partment of justice officials in San Francisco, asking an investigation by immigration officers with view of deportng alien reds charged by the chief of police with being the agitators in the present trouble.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05
HAVANA STRIKE

HAVANA, Aug 5. (P)-The 24- hour strike ended wiht 100 per sons under arrest and four wound ed. Workers Ian a new strike in few days as a protest; IS cities are affected. Bombing of street cars occurred here and police and strikers exchanged shots.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05
tx K < < 4 4 4 4 4 < \ < Babe" Hayes < < Column * K 4 4 < < 4 \ < < < < <
 Especial Gateway Feature)
 (By Babe Hayes

1 c. w. Hawkins, of WatertoWn, Da- kota, who with Mrs. Hawkins made the trip a few years ago speaking of same says:
 Tt makes me feel good every time I think of all the fun and the whole hearted friends I met on my Alaska trip. We are coming up again and are going to stay all sum- mer. You can use our names, Babe, in any way to boost your cause, l will answer any questions they may ask me regarding Alaska. honest ly think a trip to Alaska is the best trip in the whole world. have been 1 nearly all over the globe and like Alaska; think it the jewel of the whole USA. that is covering some ground. We want to come up and get some more of that pure air and beautiful scenery"
 * s: ;: *
 Maxwell S. Greene, prominent insurance man of Chciago was thru Alaska in 1927. Speaking of the trip he says:
 T take this opportunity to thank you also for your helpful attitude towards me and other tourists, and , especially for introducing me to MT. Barndollar who hospitality helped to make my visit in Anchorage so pleasant"
 Peter A. Waller of Kewanee, H. inois, head of the Boss Glove Co.,, accompanied by his family made the trip to Alaska number of years ago. A short time ago he wrote me regarding his trip, ex- cerptS as follows:
 T have not been in Alaska for some time and I certainly would like to make trip up there again because it is one of the most en- joyable that I have ever taken"
 ss < ;: <
 A. R. Case, prominent railroad man of Chicago, speaking of his AL
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05
VALLEE IS DEPENDANT

NEW YORK, Aug. 5. (P)-Rudy Vallee was made defendant in an action in the Superior Court, ask ing for an accounting of the prof It's of I'm Just a Vagabond Lover"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05

If you haven't tried RORLUCK'S Danish Ice Cream you have missed something good. Sold only at the Candy Cottage.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05

Have you tried our Seattle Ice
 Cream? Dry ice-packed. Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05

New size golf balls, assorted prices, arrived on this boat. Urbach and Valade.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05

Developing, printing, enlarging and framing at SYLVIA'S.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05

Don't miss the '"ralkieS!"
Seward daily gateway., 1931-08-05

A. R. Case, prominent railroad man of Chicago, speaking of his AL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

youngsters, but the majority of healthy children
are average, normal children.
The next step OF Prof Patarsons investigation
was equally interesting. He now attempted to
find out whether certain types of body build
tend to develop in the individual an inferiority
attitude. Does the little short man buster
and become aggressive as a compensation for
feeling of smallness? Does the fat girl in this
age of slender profiles become sensitive and
moody over her figure?
He found that studies had already been made
along this line, and here again results were
negative. If you have feeling of inferiority
you would probably still have it no matter what
your height weight. Short men were little
different from tall men in this respect, although
there is slight tendency for them to be sens:-
tive about their height. Yet in the realm of
temperament, Prof Paterson found his only
Significant relation with physique. There is
some connection, it has been discovered, between
certain types of body build and certain types of
mental emotional disease. Not that all per-
sons of a particular physique are susceptible to
the associated malady. But sufferers with Ger
tain types of insanity are clearly shown 70 be
of certain physical makeup.
Repeated examinations of the patients at
insane hospitals have shown that the short, fat
person is nearly always the victim of the manic
Oppressive type of insanity, while the tall, thin
person is more often the victim of the disease
dementia praecox. On this point Prof. Paterson
is confirmed by q more recent study made by
DIR. Walter Freeman of st. Elizabeth's Hospital
the Government hospital for the insane in
Washington
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and mentally. The dramatic quality of the ex-
ceptional trait captures attention, and straight
way you are the lookout for additional
examples"
geniuses we can be equally successful in picking
out men of small or even puny frame but
mighty intellect. Napoleon was not tall or
impressive man, but no one has questioned the
power of his mind. Steinmetz, electrical wizard
of great fame, was badly deformed physically.
OF literary note was Samuel johnson, a very
fat man, but no Falstaff. And G. K. Chester
ton, who is of so similar a build that he has
been called upon to play the part of johnson
in pageants, has a scintillating wit quite COM
parable with the brilliance of his tall, thin
contemporary George Bernard Shaw.
Next, Prof. Paterson studied head sizes and
shapes. And here again he found no evidence
that persons hat size could be substituted for
his I. @. index of his mental capacity.
The small head and receding forehead of q
familiar type of imbecile might give the i'm
preston that the skull contours are significant
in revealing mental deficiency. But another
type of imbecile, the victim of hydrocephalus,
has an abnormally large skull.
Both the size and the shape of mans head
has changed as he has developed from one
stage of civilization to another, and each race
today has its own characteristic head shape.
But within any single race differences in head
shape do not seem to accompany differences in
mental capacity.
There is considerable difference in head size
between men and women, but Prof. Paterson
suggests, the person who would urge that q
similar difference in mentality exists between
the sexes would find his position embarrassing
if not quite untenable."
cit appears that variation in head size is a
function OF race, sex and family stock" he
concludes. 'It does not vary between indi-
viduals in correspondence with intellect"
Another picture which Prof Paterson calls
untrue Is the familiar one of the child prodigy
who constantly appears in the pages of fiction
and on the screen of the motion pictures as
an anemic, puny specimen whose whole energy
is consumed by the workings of his brain
skinny weak and hidden behind enormous
thick-lensed eyeglasses.
WHEN nearly 10000 children were examined
as to both physical condition and intelIi-
gence scientists found that no relation existed
between various physical defects, such as NAL
nutrition, tonsls and adenoids, and condition
of teeth, and the mentality of the children
Anemic children, children with signs of tuber-
culoss, children with heart trouble are neither
brighter nor stupider than the ones who could
qualify as being in perfect health; there are
also some very bright children among those
in poor health: there are also some very stupid
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refuse invite the scavengers, who pick over the
waste even as it is cast aside Water sellers,
both those who dole out drinks from goat
skins and the higher order of itinerants who
peddle sweetened concoctions from brass con-
tanners, clamor for attention. Walking nve-
and-ten-cent shops offer bewildering range of
small articles, combs, brushes toys, knives
gaudy toilet appliances matches, cigarettes
an unimaginable range of trihes borne on trays
or in baskets, usually carried on the top Of the
head
Everywhere are bootblacks, persistent little
beggars who will not take denial from a for
egner and who are not innocent of the low
trick of soiling shoe to give an excuse for
insstance upon rendering service. One of these
followed me for half dozen blocks in the hope
of gaining my patronage, although my shoes
were well polished. watched him closely
to see that he did not trick me, as had been
warned Of the gaminS game.
The streets of Cairo! Indeed one might
recite their charms their novelties their ageS
old occupations and customs for many pages
without exhausting them. May they never
cease to interest and charm visitors! May the
march OF modern efficiency and civic improve
ment be stayed to spare the Mouski, and the
Sharia Taht el-Rebba and the Sharia Hosh
for the industry Of the people and the delight
of the tourists! If Cairo straightens and widens
all its streets it will lose half its charm for
the stranger, and it win suffer In purse in
consequence For the bazaars of the Mouski
and the other institutions Of the Olden time
are equal to the Pyramids in their lure for the
visitor. So
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fists as well as laymen to explain this improved
superstition At first it was thought that the
size of the brain was important in determining
intelligence. And, of course, large brain would
require at least fair-sized skull This idea
was discounted when it was found that the
quality Of the brain-its texture-waS more i'm
portant than either its area weight.
The phrenologists and physiognomists have
worked out elaborate systems to explain what
they believed to be the relation between the
external appearance Of man and the inner
mechanisms Of his mind and emotions.
More scientific students of physiology and
anatomy have brought forth che nical theories
TO explain this same assumed relationship. The
pituitary and thyroid glands, say some, control
the building OF bone and muscle and also the
development Of the minds of human beings.
This would account, they have urged, for the
tall, lean Cassius with hungry look, who thinks
too much,' well as for the fat Falstaf who
is good natured, but not so bright.
But now, after so much discussion as to why
big people are brainy this psychologist, who is
also s.atistician raises the very fundamental
questions it true?
Prof. Paterson has taken the rather original
course of avoiding all theories and arguments,
substituting for the the weighing of statisti-
cal evidence. He gathered from many sources,
and from the work of many scientists, figures
which tell the size and shape and other physi-
cal characteristics of all sorts of paople-genius,
fool, insane and just plain John Doe.
As a result he has reached some startling
conclusions. The first is that physical size is
no index TO mental ability.
Individuals representing the extreme limits
OF variability in physical size may be expected
to exhibit any degree of intelligence from high
to low" Prof. Paterson writes =
AS an experiment to illustrate his findings,
he selected from among the students at the
University of Minnesota one of the very tallest
and also one of the shortest
THERE was difference of 20 inches in their
heights. The one who measured six feet
five inches, actually an inch more than the
famous President did, was discovered to be
superior mentally to most of the college
students. But so also was his antithesis who
measured only four feet nine and a quarter
inches!
ut is apparent is Prof Paterson's COM
ment, that the pedagogical and educational
significance of physical size is far less than
early students and even some of our contempo-
rary writers have assumed. Indeed there is
reason to affirm that physical measurement of
school children should concern the teacher only
in determining the size of desks and seatsl"
Prof. Paterson tells how the fallacy about
relation Of size to intellect may have grown up
Much Of our thinking about human beings
is fallacious" he said, because of our tendency
70 pigeonhole and classify. There Is O strong
urge to classify mankind into types, physically
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
NEWEST IDEAS ABOUT BRAIN POWER

Blondes Are Just as Likely TO Be Brainy as
Brunettes, and the Size Of Il Hat or Shape
of aHeadHas Nothing toDo Min the
Qualiyof the GruyNatterMside HeSkuH
Nor Min Disposition Of Character.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
BY MARJORIE VAN DE WATER.

EFF gentlemen really do prefer blondes it is
because their color sense is appealed to
by baby-blue eyes and -glinting
hair, not because they are any different
= in mind OR tennerament from their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07
CONTRACT AWARDED
FOR SCHOOL ADDITION
Local Man Gets Hine Junior Job
Police Private's Pay Raised
SIS Monthly for Work.

The District Commissioners yester-
day awarded to Frank L. Wagner, Inc.
a local contractor, contract for the
construction of an addition to the Hine
Junior High School, consisting of a
gymnasium and three class rooms, for
$50 899.
A contract for the construction of the
Fifteenth street replacement sewer, be-
tween Constitution avenue and street,
was let to Corson g. Gruman for
$3,906.35
The Commissioners approved SIS
monthly increase in pay for Pvt. M. w.
Hanger, eleventh precinct, for his work
in connection with the arrest of Joseph
H. MCGUIRE and Robert L. Ponton, who
are said to have admitted that they
broke into the post Office at Port To-
bacco, Md.
The Commissioners refused a pension
to the widow of William N. Still, a for
mer District policeman who committed
suicide. The decision was based on a
ruling of the Court Of Appeals that the
widow of policeman who ends his own
life is not entitled to the benefits Of the
pension laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07
STEWARD BACKED
BY i. S. EMPLOYEES
Letters to Federation Head
Prior to Referendum Ask
Action on AT. L.

While returns on the referendum sub
mltted by the National Federation OF
Federal Employees to its 408 locals on
the question OF withdrawing from afhli-
alton with the American Federation OF
Labor will not be received at the Wash
ington headquarters for some time daily
indications of the feeling Of the mem
Dership of nearly $4,000 are being re-
ceived.
Prior to the announcement that the
referendum was to be TAKEN. while the
Executive Council was still considering
the question OF what action should be
taken because of the American Fedora
ton of Labor's reputation of the per-
sonnet classification principle, Luther 9.
Steward, president of the employees fed
Grafton, was In receipt daily of numer-
GUS and insistent demands that some
action be taken. Within the last few
days these voluntary suggestions from
the membership have continued to ar
rive in increasing volume.
80 that proposal to break away from
the not always dependable support OF
the American Federation of Labor IS
sprouting from the ground up" eX-
planned Mr.. Steward today. 1T Is not
engineered by officials Of the federation,
but it is their action in obedience to
the insistent demands of the members"
In pointing out why the returns on
the referendum will not be in for sew
eral weeks at least, Mr. Steward said
that the locals to whom the referendum
was addressed are located as far west
as Manila, as far east as Paris, as lar
north as Anchorage, Alaska, and as far
south as the Canal Zone.