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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-09
GUN Staying
IS DESCRIBED

GAINESVILLE, Oct. 9.-tF-
Charles Tune told Of a pitched pis-
toll and shotgun battle in the
Gainesville business district July
"a which claimed the lives Of two
men and resulted In the wounding
Of another, at the trial OF Frank
Bracken yesterday.
Tune, q policeman on vacation at
the time, said he heard gunfire and
glancing back. saw Walter Glenn
ents, city fire marshal, who was
slain in the affray, fall TO the side
walk.
The policeman testified he OBJ
served William e. Johns, motor
cycle officer who was wounded ia
tally, backing into the street, firing
a pistol as he went. and of Brack-
ems appearance with a shotgun in
his hand, and which he fired in
Johns direction.
Tune told Of opening f-e on
Bracken with a pistol and Of firing
four shots at him, one OF which
found its mark. He said Bracken
either crumpled to the street or sat
down when he was struck.
II was probable Bracken would
be the second person TO testify at
the trial today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-09
$4,000 GO ON
STRIKE WHEN
PAY SLASHED

BOSTON, Oct. e-F-More than
5000 jobs went begging in Mas
sacnusetts today as workers, in
censed by announced reductions in
wages or by unsatisfactory work.
Ing conditions, walked the streets
on strike.
The general strike movement,
having its center in the textile
city of Lawrence where approx
imately $4,000 men and women left
their looms and benches rather
thai accept a 10 per cent reduce
ton Of wages, had spread to 9TH
er centers today.
Conditions Flayed
In Boston, approximately 5000
Longshoremen we're refusing to
handle cargo on the coastal and
foreign vessels plying in and out
OF this port alth ugh the crux OF
their quarrel with the ship owners
was not entirely a matter OF wages
but centered with greater gravity
on q working condition.
In the textile city of Lowell. a
geographical neighbor of Lawrence,
strike talk had brewed several days
and was transformed Ito action
yesterday when more than 800
employees left OF he mills. An
announced ten per cent wage cut
here, also. was the motivating
element. Several hundred workers
In a hosiery manufacturing plant
IN Northampton, objecti g to wage
reductions, succeeded in forcing
the closing OF the plant.
Lawrence, with its principal in
dustry practically idle, is in the
worst predicament. Yesterday
strikers pickets succeeded in
drawing away sufficient workers to
cripple the last Of the large Amer
lean wooden company plants to
operate. In addition, the Pacific
mills and Arlington mills. employ
ing large numbers were silenced.
Blame Competition
The mill owners in this city
contend that unless a reduction Of
ten per cent in wages is made eff
fective their mills cannot survive
''the ruinouS compe .ition" from
other centers where the prevailing
wages are lower and, in some in
stances, the working day longer.
The trouble on the Boston water
front resulted from the refusal Of
local longshoremen to agree with
the ship owners to a wage scale
recently negotiated by the Inter-
national Longshoremen's u n for
the New York dock workers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-09
LOOP HOLE In
MILK BAN FOUND
CBy Staff Correspondent

HARLINGEN. Oct. 9.-Harlingen
city officials denied at the commits
sion meeting this week that the
milk ordinance recently passed was
a bar TO trade, saying that it had
been misread and misinterpreted.
The clause said to have been mis-
read was as follows:
mo milk or cream shall be sold
in the city of Harlingen that has
been pasteuriZed outside Of COM
missioners' precinct No. 4 OF Cam
Areron county. Texas. except as may
Vbe authorized by the city health
officer"
The exception makes 10 possible
for milk passing the proper inspec-
ton outside Of the precinct to be
sold in Harrington, 1t was pointed
out.
The commission also canvassed
returns Of the recent election and
declared all issues passed. Seventh
street is to be closed between the
junior high school buildings and
West street where 1t in~tersects a
triangular plat near Jackson street.
The plat was ordered sold to the
American legion for one dollar as
q club house site.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-09
This Pilot TraDels 73, 900 Miles
A Year Without Getting Anywhere
BY ARNOLD
NEA Service Writer

CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 9.-Rain
or shine. at 5 a. n. every day a
red bip,ane shoots across Municipal
Airport here, takes off, climbs, and
disappears.
The pilot &c halph Wensinge-,
who flys $4,000 miles a year with
out going anywhere, is constantly
looking for trouble. and frequently
finds It.
He holds the destiny OF pilots
and air passengers throughout the
east and middle west in his hands.
For upon his reports. flying activ-
titles proceed.
Wensinger Is paid according TO
the altitude he reaches In July
his altitude totaled 100 miles
straight up. He tries to make
about 10000 feet a day.
His job Is to explore flying con-
ditions. He scouts around in the
clouds with or without visibility,
and therein lies the adventure.
For instance, once he spun 1000
feet before he knew he vas in a
tailspin. Another time he came
out Of the clouds only 400 feet over
Lake Erie-and almost out OF gas.
Wensinger is contracted by the
United States weather Bureau to
make weather observations every
day Of the week. His ship Is a
standard biplane, powered with a
standard motor.
Between the struts OF his right
wing a queer looking gadget is
suspended on four shock cords. It
Is an aerograph, and Z. makes a
graph OF the entire flight. record
ing humidity. temperature and
pressure at all attitudes. He flys
about 200 miles a day.
He takes off and climbs at the
rate Of 300 feet a minute. At 1900
feet he levels off. He flys level for
one minute. Then he noses her up
again and climbs another 1900
feet. Then he levels off for an
other minute.
He continues this until he has
reached about 10000 feet. or until
conditions make 1t impossible to
60 higher.
The aerograph records all this.
While this is going on. Wensinger
charts every cloud within vision.
He writes down the kind Of every
cloud and reports its height and
base.
He makes notations OF ice for
nations on his wings.
Meantime radio messages are
coming in through his ear-phones.
Four directional beacons tell him
where he is. Flying blind. this Is
his only contact with the world.
He gets messages from WWO.
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the Weather Bureau broadcasting
station at Cleveland. by code.
WRDT. the city Of Cleveland
broadcasting station. sends him
messages by word. He turns a dial
TO tune one in and the other out.
Sometimes a message is sent
him that a storm had blown up
below him and he cannot land at
Cleveland. He is then told the
distances to the cities where land
ing is possible-some of these r
more than q hundred miles away.
On a warm day the temperature
at 10000 or 10000 feet is about zero.
Wensinger Is warmly dressed but
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carries no oxygen and often be-
comes tagged from lack OF it.
One warm day his wings picked
up a load OF ice. Unable TO e
anything because Of the density
Of the clouds. he didn't know
what happened. Before he brought
his ship into control he had spun
1000 feet. His wings gathered ice
II times during the hottest months
Of the year.
AS announcement. Wensinger is
paid TO reach high attitudes. He
gets s44 for the first $4,000 feet.
and 10 per, cent Of this. or $40
for each additional 1900 feet.
There Is no guess work in these
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-09
TWAS NO BULL

SEATTLE, Wash. Two youths,
armed with wooden Fwords and red
beach pajamas. we're playing tor
eador with Betsy" W. +. Musk's
COW. Musk wouldn't have minded 1t
II the boys had confined their eff
forts to a bull, but their antics with
Betsy cut down her milk supply.
Betsy no longer plays bull" with
the boys. and those two worthless
are now eating off the mantelpiece.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-09
CLEVER sLEUTHIlSG

FORT WORTH-Detectives Ed
Weatherford and j. W. Swinney
noticed Cecil Penny putting : wet
garden hose in his car and driving
away with II. Being 7et," the de-
tectives reasoned with one another.
that hose must belong 70 someone
else" They trailed Penny and, on
questioning him, found that the
hose was stolen and that Penny was
an escaped convict.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-09
License Cost
ThWarts Cupid

NEW YORK. oct. s-RJoe
Gordon and Beatrice Pickens
went yesterday to the municipal
building-object, matrimony.
They filled out their marri-
age intention and started for
the door.
That" said the clerk, will
be two dollars"
"Mmm." said Mr.. Gordon,
lingering his chin In deep
thought. He suddenly had an
idea. Turning to Miss Pickens
he said:
The gentleman wants two
dollars. Have you two dollars, by
any chance. sweetheart?"
She didn't. Neither did the
perfect stranger they he'd pick
ed up in the lobby as q witness.
Mr.. Gordon heavec a sigh
and Miss Pickens echoed IL.
They walked out.
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observations. wenSinger goes I'D
N brings down reports on actual
flying conditions. The lives OF
countless people depend upon his
accuracy.
La gaceta., 1931-09-17
DETENlDO Ell SOCIO DE
LEVINE BAJO LA ACUSA-
CION DE ASALTO

Bajo la acusaci6n de asalto
criminal fue arrestado aver poE
el diputado Keltner, Howard
Rice. indiyidno que ell martes
diera un escandalo en- West
Tampa, acompanado de Ed lie.
vine. agrediendo al vigilante
Wright.
Levine y Rice iban a ser jug
gados aver, en- la corte de poll
cia, pero ell %juicio hubo de ser
aplazado para hoy. Sc acusa a
Levine de asalto criminal y de
guar un autom6vil estando bo-
rracho.
La orden de arresto que sir
yiera Keltner fue extendida por
el juez Cornelius, de la Corte del
Condado.
La gaceta., 1931-09-17
NILES AsEGURA QUE
D'ARPA TRIUNFO CON


Ell candidate a Conceal por
la barriada de West Tampa, W.
NJ. Miles, derrotado en- las pri-
marias del martes por A. OAR
D'Arpa, derrotadS en- las prima-
rias del martes por Albert OAR
pa, inform6 aver por conducto
de sus abogados, a la Junta Ele"
toral, que en- ell dia de hoy pre-.
sentara un escrito oponieNdose
a Ia nomination de D'Arpa, por
irregularidades cometidas.
De acuerdo con ell resultado
de los escrutinios este ultimo
fue nominado por una mayorla
de Is, al obtener una votaci6l
de 400 contra 1894 Miles.
FL candidate derrotado mott
La gaceta., 1931-09-17

fic6 al Sr. Alfonso B. Nc Mullen
Presidente de la Junta Electo-
raj que basaria su oposici6n en-
ell hecho principalisimo de que
la JuntA Sc extralimit6 en- sus
funcioneS instalar una Segun-
da urna electoral Y I'm segundo
grupo de funciones en- el Cole
gO de West Tampa despu6s que
la votaci6n hacia varias horas
que Sc estaba efectuando.
Miles dice tambien que en-
su escrito de pro5esta citara
fraudes cometidos.
Los abogados de Miles son C.
Jay Hardee, Zewadski & Pierce
y Oscar P. Hilburn, los cuales
dijeron que ell escrito probable
mente serfa presentado hoy en-
la Corte del Circuito.
A petici6n de los abogados de
Miles, ell Sr. McMullen orden5
que los libros de inscripciones y
las urnas electorales del Colegio
Nun. 20 de West Tampa, fue-
ran encerrados en- la GAIA de
seguridad del Ayuntamiento.
Ell abogado c. Jay Hardee,
pidi6 a McMullen permiso para
obrener copias fotograficas de
las inscripciones que figuran Ell
los libros del COlegio a fin de
poder comparar las firmas con
las que aparecen en- los votos de-
positados durante las elecciones
del martes y las que Sc efectua
La gaceta., 1931-09-17

ran el primero de Noviembre.
McMullen conteSto a tai petit
ci6n en- el sentido que ell permiso
-olo ruede concederlo la Junta,
que personalmente 81 no puede
asumir la responsabilidad de &C
ceder a tai deseo. sin la previa
authorization de todos los MEM
bros de la misma.
La Junta Electoral Sc reuni-
ra hoy para certificar ell resulta
do de los escrutinios nominando
a los cuatro Concejales que
triunfaron en- las pasadas pri~
marias.
La gaceta., 1931-09-17
DEFUNCIONES

Mafi6 aver en- un hospital de
esta ciudad q Sr. Marcelino A.
range Fernandez, dc 70 amos, v
elmo que era de la Gala Quince
2lO2. lie s0brevive I'm solo pa
RENE, el ST.. Jose Arrange.
La fecha del entierro no hi
sido aun fijada.
La gaceta., 1931-09-17

Claro para hoy Y manana.
Lluyias. Nientos moderados, De
SO grades fue aver la tempera
tura maXima y de 73 la minima.
Marea alta a las 5:31 a. m. Y
:01 p. m. Marea baja a las
l2:39 p. m. y 1875 p. m.
La gaceta., 1931-09-17

Chicago peg6 27 hits en- log 80:
juegos y ell Boston, rs.
Boston &c, 12h, De; Chicagc
&c, I'm, O.
Boston &c, 13h lie; Chicag-
&c, 15h, Be.
New York &c, lOh, lie; Gin
cinnati 7c, 18Th, lie.
New York Sc, 11h, De; Gin
cinnati &c, Oh, lie.
La gaceta., 1931-09-17
LIGA AMERICANA

Cleveland Sc, Oh, De; Filadel
fla 7c, 10h, lie.
La gaceta., 1931-09-17

Chicago 1c, 3h, De; Boston g
4h, Re.
st. Luis &c, 10h, 2e; Washing
ton &c, 8h, De.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-18
BY HENRY w. BUM.

TIME following is a brief summary
of the most important news OF
the world for the seven days
ended January IT 1891.
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The Story the Week Has Told

as memorably of old for Austria, Hun
gary, etc.
Mr.. Haas would be consulted con-
corning railways, highways, shipping
especially on the rivers, the Yangtsze
in chief, and aviation. He has done
a lot of work for the League on Euro
pean river problems.
The Chinese government has in oper-
alton a hanghai-Nanking air service
and plans for the near future similar
Shanghai-Peiping and Shanghai-Ca
ton services. One hears that it has
signed contract with German COM
pany contemplating an airmail line be-
tween Germany and Shanghai, but that
consummation of the project waits upon
settlement of the controversy with Rus
STA over the Chinese Eastern Railway,
the proposed route, of course, being over
Russia.
The imagination Is, indeed, intrigued
by the above considerations.
4
EGYPT.-This is the two-thousandth
year since the birth Of Cleopatra, last
Queen of Egypt. She was undoubted-
" a lady of extraordinary intellectual
as we'll as physical charms, ard It's said
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Setting the World Right
BY BRUCE BARTON.
BY BRUCE BARTON.

think I could help or harm
my own business"
One thing which makes this
depression seem more dis
couraging than others is the
fact that all countries have
been so closely knit together.
In other periods of slow bust
ness we in the United States
did not worry because the
coffee market was bad in
Brazil or the corn plaster in
duStry had collapsed in Tim
buctoo. We had our own
troubles to fight.
This year our newspapers,
through their truly wonderful
news gathering forces, have
brought us all the bad tidingS
from everywhere. The result
is that the average American
business man is going around
trying to carry the troubles
of the whole big world.
I may be wrong, but my
idea about the other coun-
tries is that they are all hav-
ing serious difficulties, just as
we are, but in every one of
them there is a solid back
bone Of people just like you
and Notwithstanding, SEN
sible men and women who
have their homes and fami-
lies, who do not want to see
the social order overthrown,
and who are doing their in
dividual best to solve their
own problems.
Ultimately, I believe, this
silent majority will win.
In the meantime, when any
body comes into my Office to
discuss world conditions I
courteously ask to be excused.
I am trying hard to work out
my own salvation.
If everybody in the world
does that, the world will be
saved.
{, l93ll
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~ARLE CONWAY, an in
dustrialiSt, has a Gus
toner in MaSSachu-
- sets who makes cram
berry sauce.
One day when Wall Street
was thinking that the world
was going to the dogs earle
dropped in on this Yankee
manufacturer and found him
very serene.
They dined together, and
after dinner the talk turned
to world business conditions,
which, says earle, seem to
have eliminated prohibition
from conversation, so that
there is that much to be said
in favor of depression at
least"
The cranberry man said:
During the war I was max
ing cranberry sauce and we
were not able to get sugar
except at an eXorbitant price.
Every one in the industry
said we had better go out of
business, because we had to
have sugar to make cranberry
sauce, and sugar at 80 cents
a pound would stop sales.
Il went into huddle with
myself that night and came
to the conclusion that I would
let the customers decide
whether they would buy cram
berry sauce made with 30
cent sugar; that I had Just
one job in the world, and that
was to run my business, and
was going to let the world
take care of itself, and every
one else take care of himself,
and I was going to figure how
I could take care of my bust
ness and solve the problems
each day as they came along.
II did not think / was big
enough to help or harm the
worlds progress, but I did
(Copyri
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-18
Pacific Route Laid
Out for Dirigibles

Dirigible service between Hawaii and
the Pacific Coast will probably be the
first regular overseas passenger service
established. it was indicated here by
United states Senator Hiram Bingham
of Connecticut, who is president of the
National Aeronautic Association and in
close touch with aerial developments
Senator Bingham outlined brief1y some
of the plans of the Pacific Zeppelin
Transport Company, which is a subsidi-
ary of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corpora
ton, and urged that Hawaii proceed
with erection of a suitable terminal for
the dirigible. The territory has already
established landing fields and airport
facilities in most of the important
islands of the Hawaiian group, and has,
near Honolulu, an airport which can be
developed for dirigible Use. It is under
stood that when the Goodyear
Corporation completes contract now
under way for the construction of two
dlrigibles for the United States Navy,
it will begin to build the ship destined
for the Pacific Coast Hawaii service.
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| that she spoke fluently seven dialects
of her subjects. To be sure her be-
havior at Actium left something to be
desired, but that she could be brave
was seen in the manner of her death
The story of the asp has been sufficient
ly exploded by Rawlinson, but she did
in some way poison herself to avoid
appearing in Rome at the triumph of
Octavian go B. g.. Possibly chagrin
at being unable to engage the affec-
tions of Octavian was an equally i'm
pelling motive. Injuria spretae formae,
as they probably said in the Roman
, clubs. Cleopatra has inspired three
masterpieces play, Dry
den's "All for Love" and Bernard
Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra" Such
inspiration must procure forgiveness
for her faults as Satan is justified by
Millions portrait. From our viewpoint
her most atrocious deed was the poison
ing of her younger brother, associated
with her on the throne. but such dyn-
astic murders were differently regard
ed in Egypt and the Orient in those
days, and even down to quite recent
times She had three children by An
tony and it is or is not true that she
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never have bought a share of stock or
a bond vet we are railroad security
holders if we have a 10-cents-a-week
insurance policy or Christmas fund
in savings bank. Upon the stability
and safety of railroad investments de-
ponds the security of institutions in
which practically all of us have a tan
gible interest.
The officers of hundreds of savings
banks, for instance, recently awaited
with lively interest for the announce
ment of the earnings of a large Middle
Western railroad, the bonds of which
were legal as investments for savings
bank funds as long as the road earned
per cent or more on its capital. The
railroad and the banks were safe and
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East and on the lives of huge popula-

East and on the lives Of huge popula-
tionS.
It is estimated by a British author
ity that there are now Idle in the
world about LOO vessels aggregating a
gross tonnage of nearly 100000, being
over per cent of the deep-see COM
mercial shipping of the world. The
idle British ships are estimated to total
100000 tons, including many ships
built only last year. Moreover, the
cargo vessels in commission have to
lament much idle space. Ships are
being sent from Britain to Australia
in ballast to load grain. The situation
is not much better as Ngards passenger
traffic. The passenger lists. are thin:
Winter cruises are Cancelled. The worlds
deep-sea tonnage totals about 68000,-
600, including over 100000 tons of oil
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solvent, whether the carriers earnings
were up to the mark" or not, but the
laws governing bank investments are
rigid, and wholesale disposal of bonds
would have been necessary if the rail-
roads net income had slumped mate
rally. Good management kept the
earnings up to the legal requirement
despite a heavy falling off in traffic
during the year.
AS another instance Of the average
Americans interest-indirect but vital
in railroad operations, consider the
holdings of Just one insurance company
1t is one of the larger national and mu-
tual companies, but not the largest
People all over the country-poor, rich
and middle class"-have built up its
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BY SENATOR SIMEON D. TESS.

BY SENATOR SIMEON ID. TESS,
Member Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, United States Senate.
TINE average American-or at least
great many average Ameri-
cans-reading in the newspapers
on the last day of 1880 President
Hoover's announcement regard
ing railroad consolidation, probably re-
marked. audibly. or inaudibly, We'll,
that's none of my concern"
The fact is, however, that nearly
every one of our citizens of adult years
has some real concern with the prob
lens involved in railroad consolidation,
whether he knows it or not.
Most of us own railroad securities
whether we know it or not. We may
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assets until they exceed a thousand
millions of dollars And of that billion
dollar fund, for the protection of moth
ers and children and other dependents,
more than $2O0,0O0,0O0 is invested in
railroad bonds
The company is not unusual in that
respect; practically all the big insurance
companies and other sound financial
institutions hold the securities of our
railroads and consider them a good
investment
There's an even more direct interest
on the part of the public in our rail-
roads-and that is the interest of en-
ployment.
The railroads directly employ more
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