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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-18
POSTAL RATES

The United states air mail postage
rate is S rents for the first ounce ana
10 cents for each additional ounce q
fraction thereof Letters mailed IN
the United states for the points IN
Mexico take this rate.
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T. YORK STOCKS

NEW IOhh, aug. 10 s-)-Ihe STOCK
market rallied briskly tO~ay. recovering
most OF yesterdays loss.
Oils ana merchandising issues attract
ed from n bulls. Issues ris-
Ing 2 70 I points included U. >. steel.
american Telephone. Eastman, Stand
ard OF N. j., Standard OF California,
Woolworth. Penney. Safeway. First
National Stores. Allied Chemical. Johns
Manville, Houston Oil. and Case. Auburn
pushed UP more than q.
Call money renewed at / IL per cent
NEW YORK COTTON
NEW YORK. Aug. Is. (APl-Cotton
opened barely steady today, II TO u
points lower under selling which was
evidently influenced BY further de-
clines in Liverpool.
n March 10 T.34. or - 10 - points
net lower ana within 8 to IA points
OF the low prices touched on the break
OF early last week. Offerings were well
enough taken 10 prevent a full res
ponse to the weakness abroad. however,
and the market steadied up 5 70 .
points from the lowest on trade buying
and covering by the end OF the first
half hour. There were reports OF a little
southern selling In the late months dur
ing the early trading. but the pressure
generally was not aggressive.
Liverpool cables reported hedgins
combined with London. continental and
Bombay liquidation In that market but
said there was a better inquiry Tor
cotton goods from the British home
trade and the continent.
The market was quiet later IN the
morning but held generally steady with
offerings light and prices showing raj
1. lies OF about 6 TO 3 points from the
earlier low levels. Liverpool was con-
sidered one OF the most active sellers
here on the differences. but after the
close OF the English market. the offer
ings from high tapered off and prices
Stcadied on a moderate demand ~
midday. October rs holding around $50
and March 6f2. or 5 TO 9 points net
iOvrcY.
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Air Mail Schedules

The schedule for the mail between
and Dallas Is announced
by the postoff'co department as fol-
Iowa.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-18
ROOM A. BOARD
WANTED TO PF'--
WANTED

Small apartment or duplex that
Is neatly furnished on pave
ment. Must have garage and
prefer electric refrigeration
Permanent resident. Write
fully. Box Ql86. Herald
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FOR SALE OR A

FOR SALE or trade controlling in
terest in 100000 capital hard
ware business. established fifteen
years, located in one Of the best
agricultural counties in West Tex
as. in county seat Of over 10000
population. near oil field; clean
hardware stock. Also have brick
building that will tslde with
stock III Hardware Company. Will
trade for bearing citrus fruit or
chard or other suitable property ~
Valley. Reason for trading on ac-
count OF other interests. Write. r
1874 Herald. Rl3i
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+ o SALE

AMONG our thousands OF consist
ent readers or these columns APP
pears today Bernice Afford, LIST
ard Washington. who is entitled
to a Guest ticket TO the Capitol.
Gail al Herald.
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Livestock & Poultry
HOTELS a. CAFES

NOW BIGGER and better-The
Mecca, opposite Legion arena, best
made Hamburgers: plate lunches
rs: ham and eggs Csc. Rll8
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Real Estate

FOR SALE. Is acres between Har-
iingen and San Benito, quarter OF
mile off highway. 3 acres one and
two year old trees. Modern 5-room
home. all city convenlences. $500.
Box 10, Harrington, Texas. rib
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shifting in his chair, or drumming
his fingers on the arm Of a witness
box, he betrayed his nervousness to
court and jury.
At times his voice became gut
tural in tone as he eyed first Roy
Adney, special prosecutor, and then
the jury that sat in front of him.
Mrs. Simmons seemed tuned TO
every word of her husbands plea
in her behalf. The care in her
eyes shifted for CLEAN of interest
as he spoke.
He even plucked toothpick for
bit Of evidence in his wifes favor,
by declaring that the toothpicks
she placed in her sandwiches and
took to the picnic were round and
smooth" while the three that he
found on his bun at the Lebanon
picnic ground were square and
rough"
He was called as the first state
witness because of the refusal of
Judge John w. Hornaday to sustain
a motion Of the state to exclude all
witnesses from the courtroom.
Saturday the curious can 90
back to their crops and football
scores, for Judge Hornaday has de-
creed a recess of the trial from to-
night until Monday morning at 9
o'clock.
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POVERTY TIGHTENS GRIP
And Park IdZerS See an Empty Future

get there" he said. But it's
none O. tn farm I'm wantin',
understand. Too much work
they'd give a man out there.
Nov, if I could think O. SOM
thin easy like, maybe with two
thousand bucks in it, why, I'd be
takin' the chanel in a minute.
Maybe get caught, well, the big
house fer the winter. An if 1 did
get away with it, man, it's me and
the two thousand fer the SOUTH
New Orleans, Jacksonville, Bir-
mingham 3. there's town for
the likes of ye."
n II Il
PUT apparently he wasn't
- thinking very hard about
where the two grand lay in its
nest. He only looked, without
saying anything more for the
time, out over the park, where
men sat singly and in pairs on
the benches, or lay in knots of
four or five beneath the trees.
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during which the street improve
ment has been planned, but never
undertaken.
The works board today decided
not TO act on bids for ten DAYS
which automatically sets them
aside. The board then will be faced
with readvertising for bids for the
fourth time in the last few weeks.
Decision against action was made
by the board after a fight between
asphalt and cement interests. A ce-
ment contractor alleged asphalt in
terests had bought" signatures of
persons who signed petitions for the
street to be paved with the ma
terial.
Widening and paving of the re-
mainder of the street east of Capitol
avenue, already let to contractors.
will be continued.
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kCOntiHueu from rage OucJ
talk to Jean so she would swallow
the tube Of the stomach pump.
"My wife was frantic. She plead
ed with us and asked My God,
can't you help her.
Returning to the picnic scene
story, Simmons told how he had
warned the group not to eat the
sandwiches.
ColIapses in Seat
"After I ate some of mine I7said,
Folks, don't eat those sandwiches "
he said. my eyes burned, I was
dizzy and felt like my knees were
going to give away
What was done in reference to
you and your wife after jeans
death?" w. H. Parr Jr., defense
attorney asked.
Simmons studied a minute, and
collapsed.
Mrs. Simmons broke out in tears
during the testimony and whim-
pered when Simmons told of stop
ping near indianapolis en- route to
Lebanon to look at bird baths.
The court room was packed by
early risers who we're thronged in
front of the county building before
in the morning. Many couldn't
get. seats. The majority of those
who were seated refused to leave
the court during the noon recess.
News Vendors Barred
Standing room value increased by
leaps and bounds after part of the
room was roped off to prevent too
many from lining the walls and
disturbing the hearing.
The court and attaches had diff
Guilty with newSboys who broke into
the courtroom during the trial to
sell an Indianapolis paper. The
news vendors were ordered to re-
main away from the courtroom.
Simmons, called as the first state
witness Thursday afternoon, set the
festive board-that ended in muir
der-for all the world to see.
Simmons repudiated from the wit
ness box statements he had made
earlier to Coroner Owsley.
II didn't shave in the Kitchen,
as the coroner's investigation said
I did, he declared in speaking Of
his own whereabouts in his home
while Mrs. Simmons was making
the sandwiches.
He declared his wife became i'll
from tasting one of the poison cap
Sules, but admitted he did not see
her taste the strychnine.
Sweeping hand across his brow,
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Baby Climbs in Can of
Water. Almost DYOzCnS

Only old Thomas Gilbert learned the trick
OF pulling himself to his feet he
his height
He discovered which
his mother Mrs Lydia Padge avenue was using
to hold water for hopping kitchen floor
Thomas dipped a rag His mother went into
another room
There splash babys feet beating
against the tin of the lard
Rushing into the Kitchen she found the down in
the His face upper part body were submerged
Selling the child Mrs Padgett screaming the house.
Halted by the hdS grandfather George Padget Mrs Padge
became historical while he the baby
Police said that through his efforts
At city hospital further medical administered
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La7v of Jungle Used to Dominate Working Man, He Asserts

awaited the psychological moment.
With winter coming on, resources
low and jobs hard to find, the
men have no alternative but to
accept.
You will notice no such cuts
have been ordered by the rail-
roads, because they first must
negotiate with well-organized
brotherhoods before changing a
wage scale"
Some employers, Couzens said,
point out that this is a free coun-
try and that men may quit their
jobs if they object to working
conditions.
Such talk simply depicts a
theoretical picture because we
have had circumstantial evidence
in the last two years that men
in this country are not Free" he
said.
l%They have been hired and fired
at will, required to work such
hours as their employers dictated,
and accept such wages as their
employers offered-this all on the
assumption that labor is a COM
modify and subject to the law of
supply and demand, which is the
theory of the jungle"
The theory that the wage scale
should come down because the
cost of living has been reduced
was declared unsound and unfair
by Senator Couzens.
n 4
II do not admit of the principle
l. that wage earners are entitled
to a living wage only, and that
when costs drop, wages should
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the people; we have state police
organizations and some phoney
commissions TO protect investors,
and an elaborate school system in
which to train the young, but
will be damned IF 1 have found
any organization to care for the
stomachs and physical well-being
of the youth of the nation.
I'VE have believed that our gov
eminent is for the people and
by the people, and is maintained
for their welfare, but our vaunt-
ed civilization has not yet pro-
crossed sufficiently far to see that
the government has a response
bility in securing a mans job or
his age"
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United Press staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1881. BY The 'Times)
BY CARLOS LANE

LIE sat on bench, imrnobile
l. Il as wooden Indian, staring
into a future where there was
nothing to see.
But there was a glinmer, per-
haps of Erin. in the blue of his
eyes, and the corners of his
mouth winked at his ears in an
habitual half-grin.
Burst blood vessels showed red
and purple in the skin of his
cheeks and jowls. A misty men,
DRY of the old country chung to his
speech as he answered the man
who wanted a match.
Maybe it's another of them
ye'd be havin'?" he asked, tender
ing the match. They pulled their
cigarets together a minute.
Winter soon," the older man
opined.
Yeah. Where you gonna sleep
when it gets cold?"
Dunno. Jail, maybe, if I can
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er keys and more imprisoned
words.
The handkerchiefs were lifted
to eyes by the Simmons family.
Every one, everybody, caught at
his every phrase except the Two
Stoics and they-well, they
Buddy Richardson, 4, and Jimmy
Small, 8, the sheriff's son-they
had quit their shoe measuring
game for the little friendly byplay
OF stufhng their fingers in their
ears and wiggling their out
stretched hands at each other,
donkey fashion,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
BUTLER TO SHARE ITS
GRID GAME RECEIPTS

Huge Crowd Expected to See EIks'
Charity Project.
Butler university will share the
proceeds of the Butler-Ball State
Teachers football game, Oct. 9, with
the Indianapolis lodge of Elks for
the benefit of the Elks' charity fund,
it was announced today.
Elks throughout the state are ex-
pected to send delegations to the
game, which will be played at night.
Muncie lodge members will be here
in a body to root for Ball State, one
of the five state schools of Indiana.
Tickets for the game will be on
sale at all Walgreen drug stores,
Gray, Gribben and Gray and Spald-
ings.
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be lowered correspondingly. If we
pay but a living wage how can
the great majority of our As
100000 workers ever hope to pre-
pare for times of stress?
If it takes all they make in
order to live, there can be no
provision for the future. A more
equitable division between capital
and labor of the fruits of in
dustry is in order, but it can't be
brought about when our so-called
great leaders arbitrarily tell their
employees what portion they may
or may not have.
Our government has provided
an army and navy to protect
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TINDALL'S fervent verbiage
l. grew louder. He half
staggered as if in pain to demon
strate how Mrs. Simmons felt
after she'd tasted the poison
capsules.
For Gods sake, can't you do
something's cried Mrs. Simmons
as she saw her two daughters
suffering from the poison and
nurses and doctors working to
save their lives" Tindall related
to the jury, in refutation of the
states charges that Mrs. Simmons
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
GUNMEN STAGE DUEL;
CHILDREN SHOT DOWN
Family of Five, Bystanders, Caught
in Cross Fire.


in Cross Fire.
BIZ United Press
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont, Oct. o.
Four gunner, two on each side,
carried on a ten-minute warfare
here today, wounding each other
and five members of family,
caught in the cross-fire.
The five bystanders, MIR. and Mrs.
Vito Rossina and their three chill
dren, were the most seriously in
jured.
The shooting occurred in the
foreign section of Niagara Falls and
after police arrived residents shut
themselves indoors and were I'M
communicative. 1t was learned,
however, that Stanley Kenno, As,
and Vito PERI, As, started to leave
their homes as usual this morning.
Louis Gatti, As, and Vito Depaucchio
came from another house and
opened fire. The five members of the
RoSsina family and the four gun
men were removed to the hospital.
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jurors we're palmed by TindalTs
words.
Every one but the Two StoicS.
And as Tindall held Mrs. Sim
mons character as being pure
as the driven snow" their case is
wholly circumStantial," or told
how impossible it would be for
crime like the one charged to have
been committed, 'for these chill
dren nursed at natures fountain,
that mothers breast" the Two
Stoics sat blocking the doorway to
the courtroom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
FINANCE BILL PASSES
Commons Approves Measure and
Sends 1t to Lords.

By United Press
LONDON, Oct. 2-The house of
commons approved without a vote
today the third reading of the
finance bill, making the budget eff
fective.
The bill was sent at once to the
house Of lords, where it was read
for the first time. The lords then
arose. Passage was scheduled for
completion Monday, after which it
will be approved by the king.
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He told of the family life Of
Mrs. Simmons. His kerchief
flashed from pocket to wipe his
brow. He dipped into the well
of pathos and wrote words for
all to hear.
Simmons cried. Mrs. Simmons
dipped a handkerchief to an eye.
Dale-a son-ducked his head.
Elizabeth, a daughter, lifted bit
of linen to her eyes. Court room
women rubbed wet eyes.
But the Two Stoics kept on
with their shoe-measuring game.
Tindall's speech swung to high
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
N. Y. LAND is ON BLOCK
Sale of s2s,OOO,OOO in Real Estate
Ordered in Foreclosure.
~ Tnffed Preea


NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-More than
S20,000,000 worth of real estate along
Broadway, including the thirty-four
story Benenson building, long a
Landmark in New York City's bust
ness canyons, will go under the
auctioneer's hammer, Oct. %.
1t will mark the largest sale of
real estate at auction following
foreclosure Of mortgage, ever held
here.
Foreclosure auction against the
Benenson City Terminal Corpora
ton, owners Of the real estate, was
brought by the Manufacturers Trust
Company when the Benenson con-
Germ failed to pay interest on bonds
held by the trust company.
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Train Victim Identified

Do CUtttu russ
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. a.
The body of a boy killed by a
Monon freight train here Sept. 16
has been tentatively identified today
as Lee Oldfield, whose home was
near Ottawa, III. The Identification
was made by Maurice Hart, Ottawa
police chief, who examined pictures
of the dead youth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
CONDITIONS IMPROVING,
ROBINSON DECLARES
Tells Real Estate Board That Grip
of Depression Is Weakening.

From sources close to the gov
eminent comes word that the
nationwide economic depression is
improving" declared Senator Arthur
R. Robinson at the meeting of the
indianapolis Real Estate Board
Thursday noon.
IT know times are bad and the
economic depression hangs like
pail over the country and the
world" he declared. Il hear that
conditions in other parts of the
country are much worse than in
Indiana. I'm sure, however, that
the general tone throughout the
country is better than it has been
for some time"
Senator Robinson also discussed
impressions obtained on his trip
in the Orient.
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BIZ Times Special
T EBANON, Ind, Oct. "A
~ fevered courtroom crowd,
hanging on edges of seats, lean
ing on window sills, "gobbled"
the words of Charles L. Tindall,
defense attorney. as he made his
opening statement in the trial of
his client. Mrs. Carrie Simmons,
for poisoning her daughter.
Cries outside the Boone circuit
court of "Extry piper, all about
the world SERIES" went unheard.
= Every one, everybody-bailiffs
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torial power as Stain of Russia"
Whether other companies will
follow the lead of the several big
corporations in cutting wages, Sen
ator Couzens was not prepared to
say. He expressed the belief that
many smaller concerns already
have reduced wages without at
tracing publicity.
MOTE the fact that these
IN business leaders have picked
out the start of cold weather to
issue their wage cutting ORDERS"
he said. ct would appear they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02

one, on whom the dust of the
roads still was caked, shared a
luncheon of cold, unbuttered and
unSweetened pancakes with an
other hungry man.
There was group of Mexicans,
one Slumbering on the edge of a
bench, from which it seemed he
must fall any minute. He was
sleeping off a marihuana jag. At
their feet stranger had dropped
a short time before, as usual
cumming match.
They chartered in native Mex.
Was it true, they were asked,
this marihuana-loco weed from
which flying smokes are rolled
could be bought here? That was
a rumor-
mo, senior. Yo no Sc. No tengo
:" struggling a shoulder.
A MOTHER of their nationality
L N joined them. The chatter
was rapid. He had been sent for
a bottle of liquor, but could not
locate one.
But, surely, senior. :"
We'll, go back, and look again"
who was the stranger? a COL
loquial idiom here described
him) e.. -
oh, muy bien." Satisfied.
No marihuana. But as the
stranger Strolled across the park.
a swarthy young fellow inter
copied him in more secluded
spot.
Dizzy dreams at two for quar-
ter, he offered.
The old Irishman nudged his
new-found friend as a girl. walked
through the park en- route down
town.
IF y had only the do-re-mi."
he sighed, and followed her path
until his eyes rested beyond her.
on dilapidated structure across
the street.
ATOW back in the old DAYS
\ there was a saloon" he
said. Il can remember back.
guess it were about in seven, thew
had an election and tn place
was open as wide as VII ever see
Whisky free, and five bucks fer
yer vote. I guess I voted a dozen
times"
yeah, but there amt no cleo
ton now. What are you going
to do for the dough?"
"Lissen," he muttered conf
dentially. "Jes go down to the
Circle tonight. Bout the time
the shows is all out. Hit 'em fer
dime, a quarter, anything they'll
be givin' We. Four or five smackers
night y can make. The towns
easy. Bulls lay eff, and the gents
have got it."
"Ain't got stake now. have
you?" he asked. "I know where
we kin git a drink, but it's four
bits. Good stuff, though"
Assured that the other half of
the crowd was as penniless as
himself, he sighed again, and re-
turned to his eternal staring.
It t.
GAY. pop" his younger friend
~ wanted to know. "How's a
man gonna sleep this winter, get
in jail, I mean, and still take no
chance of getting stuck in the
farm?"
Hit the poorhouses. But the
grub, it's lodSy. Me fer the Jail.
Bootleggin's as good as anything,
I guess"
1t was an idea, but not good
one. even at the time, the younger
man thought, as he rose to leave,
to go back from the indolent
watches Of the park where met sit
all day watching blackbirds and
sparrows pecking for crumbs, even
as they peck for bread crusts and
handouts.
NO." agreed the old man.
You're right. wouldn't be boot
leggin' long. If I had any liquor,
I'll be damned if Sellin' it I'd be.
I'd drink it meSeIf. S'lonc"
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tional honorary fra
ternity for first
year men, was an
nounced today.
Butler chapter of
the organization
was installed May
z. Officers of the
group are Ebert
Gilliom, president;
Pearce McC1ella0d
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
SIXTEENTH STREET
PAVING is BLOCKED

Paving and widening of Sixteenth
street from Capitol to Northwestern
avenues today was blocked until
next year.
The delay adds several months
more to the nearly seventeen years
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-02
ENDS 42-YEAR SERVICE
John Ferris, Former B. o. Agent,
Retired by Road.

Forty-two years Of service with
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
had ended today for John S. Ferris.
2209 North Delaware street. who was
retired Thursday.
Ferris served as passenger agent
Of the road in Decatur, Ill, for sew
eral years and wac transferred to
indianapolis four years ago.