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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04
THE SILK WORM
NO LONGER RULES

Prophetic of what may happen to
the cotton industry, is the short story
short because recent-of rayon, the
artificial silk which is sweeping the
textile world into its train of beauty
and utility.
Rayon has already cut heavily into
the silk market, and even Japan is
busy turning the chemical yarn of
this new product into the cloth of
commerce.
In 1929 the American cotton farmer
cultivated almost 46 million acres,
l14,S28, 900 e-hundred-pound bales of
cotton, which sold on the market at
about 1914 cents per pound, or total
of over one billion dollars. That
sounds like big money. But it was
slow, and hard-earned.
In 1929, there were % rayon estab-
lishments in this country, which en-
| ployed about 80 thousand wage earn
ers, who turned out product valued
at $149,276,487. This was quantity
estimated at about 121 100000 pounds,
and the market value given by our
commerce department was about $1.18
per pound.
In 1911 this country produced $780,
600 pounds of rayon; in 1920 the pro-
duction was 100000 pounds, and
the market value was about 81 a
pound. In 1880 it was more than ten
times that; and the price was down
to $118 per pound.
The weight of cotton produced in
1929 was over z billion pounds.
But rayon is threat which is pro-
duced by a mechanical imitation of
| the silk worm. 1t comes from big
metal cylinder containing a chemical
solution of wood pulp--or something
equivalent in fiber or cellulose-un-
der a pressure. And the little metal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

lets pour back into the United States
for destruction part of the strength
gained by the use of American-made
mass production machinery.
And there is another side to the
picture. Wage earners in the United
States, to total of more than six
million, are out of work. Those that
have work are menaced with reduc-
tions of wages, and thousands have
already been forced to accept reduced
wages-the most disgraceful blot on
our industrial history.
Great bank, including some that
have profited from trade with the red
tyrants of Moscow, demand that
American workers, already underpaid,
accept still lower wages. This makes
for the kind of desperation that re-
sists red propaganda with decreasing
vigor, and all too often falls victim
to its hideous spell.
With these plain facts before them,
what are American industrial lead
ers thinking of today, that they gam
BILE so lightly with fate?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04
AND THIS
While Industrial Leaders
Gamble With Fate!

Behind very important doors the
menace of communism is discussed
these days. Behind other very impor-
tant doors great industrialists and
bankers are reaching for all the SOW
let gold they can get, giving fine mod
ern machinery in return.
Behind many factory doors Amer
lean workmen are discovering that
American machinery in Russia, with
communist conscript labor, is making
products that can be SOLD in oul
Atlantic seaboard states for less thar
they can be MADE for in our owr
factories.
Behind many Southern farm house
doors big bottom growers and miser.
able share-croppers are waking up te
the fact that the red soviets are OF
the verge of taking over the worlt
cotton market, to the desolation o.
our Southern workers and producers
Behind other Southern farm hous,
doors the cruelty exploited grower!
of tobacco are being stricken will
the same fear, with pellagra stalking
through farms and market places.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

Behind other farm doors in the
great wheat belt of the Middle West
the growers of wheat are being made
sick at heart by the knowledge that
the hammer and cycle have replaced
that Stars and Stripes over the grain
cargoes that fix the world price of
wheat.
Behind certain great bank doors ii
is perfectly we'll known that Amer
lean machinery, financed by American
dollars, has made possible this red
invasion of world markets with crops
and products that can be sold at ANY
PRICE because the soviets run vast
monopoly for political purposes-anC
those political purposes sum up tc
one awful thing: world revolution
against democracy.
Ford and General Electric and 9th
ers can survey their shipments to the
soviets with the certain knowledge
that in furnishing machinery they
furnished MUNITIONS OF WAR fol
the soviets, for the soviets wage wal
with the machinery of production, un
til they get ready for the other kline
of war.
Meanwhile the strengthened SOW
let machinery in Russia strengthens
| the communist machine in the United
States, and we hear of red riots anc
fresh red onslaughts against bona
| fide organizations of labor. The SOW
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

eliminated in rayon, as it is in silk.
Some of the chemists have been
experimenting with the cotton plant,
turning it into a chemical soiution,
from which chemical thread was
pressed through the spinneret. And
the verdict thus far is, that the whole
plant bollweevil, seed, and all
can just as well be made into a thread
which requires no picking or carding.
international Labor News Service.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

spinneret shoots out the semi-liquid,
which hardens into thread on ex-
posure to the air, fine--or finer ac-
cording to the desire of the man wht
adjusts and operates the great me.
chanical silk worm.
Silk, in 1929, was worth $4.s8 pei
pound Which as compared with the
chemical yarn price of $1.18 per
pound, accounts for the vast increase
in the rayon industry throughout the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

advertising and all such things to be
paid, before one can count the profits
on the business; but it is plain that
as the number of rayon plants in
crease the price will come down.
The spinning of these chemical
threads into yarn requires from Is
to 500 of the threads. according to
the use to be made of it, but the
whole process of picking and carding,
as is necessary in cotton and wool, is
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

world.
The possibilities of reduction in
price are shown in the margin of
the value added by manufacture" as
shown in the census returns on rayon.
The cost of material, containers, fuel
and purchased power for rayon was
$33 POI 900; the wages paid amounted
to $44,704,000; and the value of the
product was $149,176,O00. OF course,
there are rent, insurance, interest,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
GRAF ZEPPELIN
ATLANTIC

P~ERNAMBUCO. Brazil. Sept. 2. up
-Germany's aerial envoy. the Graf
Zeppelin. was the center Of an ad-
hiring throng today because OF her
5.000-mile nonstop flight across tine
south Atlantic from Germany on
clock-work schedule.
DR.. Hugo Eckner brought her In to
the new mooring mast at 6:10 o'clock
last night, within 20 minutes OF nis
estimated time for the cruise. He
figured she had travelled 5,003 miles
in 70 hours at an average speed Of
about 20 miles an hour. She left
Friendrichshafen Saturday night.
The airport crew, assisted by a
company of soldiers, tied her up on
a ~rain-soaked field eight miles fAom
here and the crew and Is passengers
alighted to earth for the first time
in three days. The provincial gov
ernor and his staff boarded the
dirigible for a look-around and sll
went TO hotels for a welcome cele-
bration.
The airship :. scheduled to leave
tomorrow night on her return trip
TO FriendrichShafen and he- ninth
crossing Of the Atlantic In both
directions.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
Valley May Get
Insurance Slash

HARLINGEN, Sept. 2.-The heavy
penalty placed on the Valley be-
cause OF storm destruction along
other parts OF the Gulf Coast. not
ably Corpus Christi and Galveston.
may be removed at a hearing to be
held in Austin by the State Board
OF Insurance commissioners Tues
day.
<. r. Rigney. president OF the Har-
lingen Insurance Agents Assn, said
that a reduction in the Valley rate
Is expected.
Tornado insurance Is required by
loan companies before they will
finance construction. The Valley has
had TO pay the same rates as af-
fected sections In the past.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
WEIGHTS FAIL
TO KEEP BODY
UNDER WATER

WEST COLUMBIA. Sept. 2.-tP1
The body Of a man shot through
the head and weighted down . n
three weights was found in the
Brazos river just below the bridge
at East Columbia this morning.
The mans neck and waist were
bound with barbed wire and q
piece Of brake drum OF an auto
mobile. IN old piece of skillet and
a wheel from a tractor we're used
to weight his body.
Money In Pocket
The man was about so years old.
dressed In q new black suit, two
tone shoes and had a $40 bill and
some small change in his pocket
Around his waist was a cartridge
belt filled with bullets and a scab-
bard leading Justice of the Peace
j. L. Main to the theory that the
nan was an officer )f some kind.
The revolver was missing.
Houston prohibition agents are
investigating in the belief that the
man may have been a part-time
~undercover agent working out OF
the Houston office.
The man was partially bald and
the fringe Of hair around his head
was black.
Had Watch and Ring
He had a gold watch In his
pocket and a gold ring on his right
hand OF which was engraved the
letter IS"
The body was first seen by a
woman who lives near the bridge.
Despite the weights Ii had come to
the surface. She notified Justice
Main.
Justice Main said he believed the
man had been in the water for 2
or 3 days.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
City Briefs

We have a number OF nice cot
tages with and without baths now
ready for occupancy. Del Mar. Inc.
ADV.
Dallas visitors in the city are
j. c.. Flynn, Jr., and Clayton q
Shangraw.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Sticks OF Kan
a City are in Brownsville.
A. Hennenberger OF Dallas Is a
local caller.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. Kemple. Jr.
OF McAIlen arrived in the city Tues
day.
T. S. Sinclair from Paris. France
registered at a local hotel recently
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. r. Harrigan O
Dallas are in Brownsville.
Cecil McGlothin is spending a
short time in the city. His home II
in Brownwood.
From Dallas is Miss Anita Patter-
son. Miss B. Lyle also Of Dallas is in
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. j. Money OF Tiff
fin. o., are callers liz Brownsville.
Visitors from San Antonio includ-
ed James Friend. c. A. Malott. Mr.
and Mrs. George Hall, q. L. Jones
c.. e. RanSleben, r. j. Jaubers and
A. II. administering.
From Bos--l is "A. Brown.
w. j. Smith of Corpus Christi is In
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Kingston al
Houston are spending several days
in the Valley.
Manuel Besteiro, Brownsville pio-
neer resident has been i'll at his
residence, 1882 Jefferson St, for
the past II days. He is improving
now.
Leaving by plane Tuesday we're
the following: James Russell, Jr.
NJ. r. Varela and Andres Guerra,
all for Mexico City. Arriving on
the daily plane were Olga p. de
Gomez, v. v. Roberts and two
babies. d. G. Richardson. A. l.. de
Ia Varra. divisional airport en-
gineer. I. F. Raley. radio operator
from Tampico. r. z. Griffin. Sal
vador and j. McConiecat, Tampico
Arriving on Wednesdays plane
from Mexico were r. G. Stewart on
his way to Houston, r. z. Cooley
and j. A. Russell. Jr. Passengers
leaving were Mr.. and Mrs. M. Colsa
and their mother, Mrs. A. p. Colsa,
10 Mexico City
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
HIDALCO COURT
SETS TAX RATE

t0ptClAi 10 Inc
EDINBURG. Sept IA decrease
In the tax rate ranging from $3.50
to $50 on the 500 throughout the
county results from the tax levy
placed BY the commissioners court,
according to figures computed by
c. d. Turner, county auditor. yes
terday.
Total state. county and road dis
trict tax rates were ann unced BY
Turner TO be: Edinburg territory,
1882. 1880, 4.52, a decrease or go:
Mercedes territory. $3.50. 1890, $5.c2,
a decrease of $40: weslaco terri
tory. 1927, 1880, s462. a decrease
Of sl.35.
Alamo territory. s2.l2. 1891. s4.72.
decrease OF s2-6Q: Hidalg- territory.
1912, 1890, SIT, decrease OF $1.75:
Mission territory. S2-27, 1891. $4.l2.
decrease OF $1-85: McAllen territory,
s2.87. 1880. s4.37 decrease OF $50:
Donna territory. $3.50. 1880. $4-52,
decrease OF s2l00: Pharf territory,
s2.l2. 1880. SAP. decrease OF s2.40:
and san Juan territory. $2.l2. 1890,
S4.42. decrease OF $40.
Average delinquent tax in Hidalgo
county. from the 1880 tax roll will
average In excess or so per cent,
according 10 Turner's figures. The
percent Of 1890 taxes delinque I nj
July 81, 1881 follow:
Edinburg and Mercedes. IS: wes-
laco. 40; Alamo. A: Hidalgo. "a:
Mission. so: McAllen. a.: Donna
81; Pharr, 81, and San Juan, 81.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
vyESLACO GROWERS
TO WIRE STERLING
fSnecial to The Herald

NNT1EIIAi ~ 4 AAtAAAA-f
wFSLACO. sept. PAT a mass
.nsstinc ~ cotton growers held here
last night growers of the Weslaco
area voted asking action J the
-rexas legislature to alleviate cotton
nrsce conditions in the South.
plans discussed at the meeting
THAT an $50 100000 'und be raised
a. b,,v 100000 bales OF the Farm
boards cotton TO be destroyed:
that congress be requested to set a
r,inimum price OF zoe n cotton:
that low grade cotton be burned:
that legislation be enacted prohibit
snr cotton planting on the same
acreage successive years: n that
BANKERS refuse to make loans to
Growers who refuse to reduce acre
age at least one-haA
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
SCHOOLS LIGHTED

Five floodlights. so placed ia
bring out the attractiveness OF the
junior college and high school
buildings and grounds at night,
have recently been placed on the
south side Of Palm Boulevard by
the city OF Brownsville
with the winter tourist season
approaching, the city desires 10
present the best possible front ID
visitors" City Manager z. a.
Rosenthal stated. land We also
want to be sure that none OF ouI
visitors miss seeing our fine educa-
tional plant
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
Valley Health Unit
Gets More Nurses

SAN BENITO. Sept. 2.-Three
nurses will be added to the person.
mel OF the Valley health unit this
month, completing the organization,
according to d.. w. Z. Spivey, head
Of the unit.
Miss Mamie Smith has already
taken over her duties in Willacy
county, Mrs. Maria Ordonez Seely
will be located at Rio Grande in
Starr county and confirmation OF
the appointment Of Mrs. Z. B. Ba-
ker to be located at Edcouch In Hi
dalgo county Is being awaited.
This Is the only health unit In
Texas containing more than one
county, said Or. Spivey.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
Harlingen Works
For Convention

HARLINGEN. Sept. "A num-
Der of Harrington organizations are
planning to wire the district COVER
nor during the 1891 Texas Oklahoma
convention in Oklahoma City next
week inviting the 1892 convention
to this city. 1t was announced at the
local club meeting Tuesday
Curtis Clark Of Corpus Christi,
one time lieutenant governor. was
a visitor.
Mr.. and Mrs. x. p. Belden enter
tanned with violin solos with piano
Accomplishments.
Ned Sondock announced prog
ress of plans for an inter-club golf
tournament.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
INTENTIONS FILED:

Catarino Perez and BlaSa San
chez. Santa Rosa: G.. L. Law, Har-
hngen, and Opal Lee, renning.
Tex: Luis Delgado and Virginia
Hernandez, Brownsville; r. w. Du
Bose, Nashville. Tenn, and Edith
Crump, Harrington.
Licenses issued:
Dario Cortez and San Juana
Cavazos, Brownsville; Dcnaciano
Cortez and Dolores Noyola. San
Benito; G. II Heidelberg and Ruth
Coulter, Raymondville: Roman T..
Garcia. Jr., and Perl Griffin,
Brownsville: Morris 3. Brown. Ed
inburg, and IDA Reyes, Dallas.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
Is Federal Men
Inspect

0by DLFII OUTTeSTUNItULT
HARLINGEN. Sept. "A force OF
25 federal inspectors took to the cit
rus orchards OF the Valley Tuesday
following a conference In the More
los fruit fly quarantine offices here
Monday. at which plans we're dis
cussed.
Inspectors will continue until end
of the shipping season next spring
M. II. Ford Is acting inspector IN
charge until the return OF p. A
Hoidale who has been gone two
years on Mediterranean fruit rs
work in the Southern states. Hoidale
who recently visited his parents in
Norway. is expected to return abou;
Sept. Is.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02

SANFER, Calf you want to
blame something for the earth
quakes which shake the world every
now and then. you can blame the
moon. Maxwell w. Allen. local
scientist. has reported that the pull
of the sur and the moon on the
earth operates 10 determine the
time of earthquakes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
MAGNETIC

INDIANAPOLIS. Shirl Herr.
wealthy miller and seedman. has
invented what he calls a magnetic
balance with which he hopes 10
fir ancient buried treasure. on
passing over the hiding place OF
the treasure. the balance is sup
posed to indicate where ii Is buried
by dipping.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
(By Staff OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

= Ut F8EE1TEAN
SAN BENTTO. Sept. IA fall
from a horse which she was riding
at the Sam p. Sparks home near
here where her parents. DR.. and Mrs
III. M. Ratliff OF Austin are living
temporarily. resulted in a broken arm
for Minnie 4 atliff. nine. She was
caught on a clothes line.
Or. and Mrs. Ratliff are teaching
courses IN the training school at .hc
Methodist church.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
GROWERS
IRGE A

MISSION, Sept. 2.-An appeal
was made to people OF the south at
d mass meeting here last night to
buy one or more bales OF cotton at
an average price not to exceed $50
a hale in the hope Of increasing
the price OF the 1891 crop.
Resolutions were adopted by Val
lev growers AT the meeting calling
an the Federal Farm b lrd ito sell
or transfer 80 a private organiza-
ton cotton at a price not to ex-
coed -four cents a pound.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
Phipps' Resignation
Accepted By Board

HARLINGEN. Sept. 2.-Resigna-
ton OF Paul Phipps, for many years
superintendent OF Harrington public
schools. was accepted by the school
board at a meeting here last night.
Phipp's successor will be determin-
ed at a meeting Of the board sche-
duled for Tuesday night. Frank
Davis. president Of the board. said
this morning that several educa-
tors are considered for the position.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
Harlingen Legion
Elects Officers

10y 6tE- lUrltSpONutUII
HARLINGEN. Sept. New off,
GERS will be elected BY the Harrington
post OF the American Legion at he
meeting Thursday night, according
to M. r. Montgomery. adjutant.
Nominations have been made but
1t Is thought that some OF those
nominated will withdraw. Mr.. Mont
gomery. nominated for commander,
said he would withdraw.
Reports also will be heard from
delegates to the state convention
held In Ell Paso last week.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
A PENALTY a c

ROME-The death penalty for
murder has been restored in Italy
as a result OF a new Fascist penal
code. Italy was tic first European
county to abolish the death penalty,
and since 1890 that crime has not
been punishable by death except for
high political crimes.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02

tBV STaII COfTeSEUI-eUL-T
SAN BENITO, Sept. Prank Al
len Sawyers. 60. Monte Grande grow
er, died at his residence last night
shortly after 8 p. m.
He moved to the Valley Is months
ago from Homer. Neb.
He Is survived by two daughters:
Mrs. Grace White OF Nebraska and
Mrs. Frances Christensen Of Lam
airs. Iowa.
The body will be forwarded tc
Iowa tonight by Thompson mortu-
airy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
SharyAduocates Three Year. Loans to Southern Cotton Growes by Banks

Voc. J. p. Ellis. Claud Dodson. 7. b.
Housed and wv. +. Curtis.
Surviving are two sons. d.. James
Casey OF Madison. Wis. and Lyle Of
San Benito. and two daughters.
Misses Byrdine and Norma OF San
Benito.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
Casey Rites

10Y oIdII OUI. t~SpuIlutIIIT
SAN BENITO. Sept. 2.-Funeral
services were held at 1880 Wednes-
day morning from Thompson's Fun
eral church for Mrs. Ella Casey, who
died at the age OF So at I 100 Tues
day morning.
Rev. G. S. Mckinney. San Benito
Baptist. assisted by Rev. O. W. Bos-
from cf Harrington, was IN charge Of
the services and interment was had
IN Mont Meta Memorial Park here
P~allbearers were J.. ". Biibro. ". j
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02

IDABEL. Okla. Sept. 2-JP-
Three robbers held up the Nc
Curtain county bank OF Broken
Bow today OF about $500 and fled
into the mountains north 0. there
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
GRABBED MAN?

Los ANGELES.-The Sahara
desert. and not the Cobb desert,
was the cradle OF man. Is the belief
of Or. Arthur Torrance. Los An
Eeles explorer and scientist. DR..
Torrance. Just back from the
southern Sahara, claims to have
found nearly positive proof OF his
belief among natives OF that Sec
ton.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02

"A recent invention Is q new steel
rake for cleaning lawns or garden
ing. IT has teeth OF such shape
that the device cannot become
clogged.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02

Instead OF being driven, more
than 100000 aluminium alloy
riyets have been squeezed into the
framework OF the United States
Nays newest dirigible.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02

Ffrewood may be obtained in
exchange for potato Feelings or
other food refuse hitch is of no
further use. through an automatic
machine recently installed In Ber-
lin.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02

Airplane passenger service will
be established in China from
Shanghai 10 the Siberian border
where 1t will connect with a Soviet
S, vice TO Europe.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-02
TOO LATE To CLASSIFY

LARGE ROOM and bath. also 5
room apartment, near schools. Call
GAS. SIT
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-02-13
CIVIC CLUB TO MEET FIRST FRIDAY IN EACH MONTH

At the February meeting of the Civic Club, which was held in the library last Saturday afternoon, it was decided to hold the March meeting at the home of the presi- dent, Mrs. H. R. Coulter, and to change the time of meeting to the first Friday evening of the month instead of the first Saturday after noon. Some definite study program may be decided upon at that time and suggestions will be welcomed A study of Alaska has already been suggested. All members and other women of the community who are interested are cordially invited
 The question of caring for the books received recently from the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- tional Peace was discussed and it was decided to leave them with the corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. O. Johnson, until "a special bookcase is secured The books may be obtain ed for the present, therefore, by calling at the laundry building.
 Later in the season the club ex- poets to give rummage sale for the benefit of the hospital, and a card party is on the program for "a date soon after Easter.