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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
South America Sees
Improved Business

WASHINGTON. June 30.-tPi-
Definite improvement in business
conditions in a number of South
American countries has been noted
by American trade officials.
The department Of commerce said
today in It's weekly review that a
sliNlt but perceptible upward
trend was reported from Brazil and
Argentine with fairly good business
in Porto Rico.
The improvement in Brazil ana
Argentine was credited largely TO
Improvement In exchange. Dep
artment representatives in Brazil
reported that domestic industries
have been the chief N-neficiaries
Of the improvement but that during
July resumption OF buying import
ed merchandise TO repleniSh de-
pieted stocks may be expected.
The Argentine improvement was
credited both 70 better peso ex-
change and higher grain prices.
The crop outlook was reported as
favorable. Dizziness continued in
mining activities.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Resignation Of Wet
Officials Demanded

ATLANTA. June 30-P-Resig-
nation OF office holders who say
prohibition cannot be enforced Is
demanded by Georgia dry leaders
and a group Of their followers.
Resolutions expressing full faith
In prohibition and asking that
every official who says enforce
ment is impossible resign from an
office which he has thereby traitor
ouSly betrayed" we're adopted at a
mass meeting here last night after
addresses by former congressman
William D. UpShaw. DR.. Mary
Harris Armor, w. G. r. u. worker,
Atticus webb. superintendent OF the
Texas Anti-Saloon league, and w.
A. Covington. one OF the sponsors
OF Georgia's prohibition law.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Robbed, Got Mad,
Ditched Robbers

CARROLLTON, Tex, june 30
PIT makes Ben Myers, Car>S-
ton grocer, mad as a hornet" 70
be robbed. Two men held MIN up
today and robbed him OF $50, as
he was delivering groceries IN the
edge Of town.
The more he thought about II,
after they drove away. the angrier
he became. He jumped into his
car and chased the robbers, crowd
ed their car into a ditch and BY
threatening them with angry
flourishes Of his automobile crank,
compelled them 10 return the
money. He drove back TO Carroll
ton. leaving the robbers with their
car stranded in the ditch.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Set Date For Rate
Increase Hearings

WASHINGTON, June 30-i.l-
Hearings on the railroads petition
for a Is per cent rate increase were
set today by the interstate COM
merce commission 10 start on July
Is.
Only petitioners and parties sup
porting the petition will be heard
at the outset.
Other hearings beginning August
81. will be held for cross examina-
ton OF witnesses presented al the
initial hearing and for submission
OF evidence BY protestants.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Huge Beet Grown
On Valley Farm

RAYMONDvILLE. June 90
Monday afternoon Luster L. Bost
a farmer living about six niles east
OF Raymondville. brought into
town one Of the largest beets ever
seen here. II was thirty six inches
in length without the top and the
largest circumference was sixteen
inches. 1t tipped the scale at thir-
teen pounds. II was a stock beet
and Mr.. Bost has an acre and a
half OF the beets which he claims
will run at least fifty tons to the
acres.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Lose Lives
In Arkansas River

PONCA CITY. Okla, June 80. Up
Two young sisters and their aunt
lost their lives in the Arkansas river
near here last night.
Eleanor Dotson. Q years old. her
sister. Esther. Is. and their aunt.
Mrs. Pearl Hunter. 81. drowned last
night when they stepped into a
deep hole while bathing near the
sisters home O mile east Of here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Calls Self
Head

WASHINGTON, June 30.-Pl-
The mill Of political speculation
turned today upon Senator FeSs's
announcement that he expects TO
remain temporary" chairman ci
the republican national committee
until the conventions next year.
He has held the position since
last year. succeeding Claudius II.
Huston. who resigned. IL has been
said repeatedly in political circles
that the Ohio Senator would leave
his post before congress convenes
in December. Fess, however. an
swered the rumors yesterday with
these words:
1T appears that I will now serve
until convention time next year"
He made the announcement after
a call upon President Hoover, but
said ne had not discussed the
Craftsmanship with the party chief.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
American To Pilot
The Graf Zeppelin

WASHINGTON. June 30-Rl-
Coast guard headquarters n
nounced today that Lieutenant
Commander Edward II Smith, in
vited 10 make the flight to the
north pole on the Graf Zeppelin
as the American representative. has
been asked 70 navigate the huge
airship in its polar flight.
Smith intends 70 study ice con-
ditions during the flight. For years
ne has been the chief ice expert in
the international Ice patrol con-
Quoted by the coast guard In steam
er lanes IN the north Atlantic
ocean
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Jury Gets Gordon
Murder Trial Case

NEW YORK. June 30-P)-After
hearing testimony for more than
two weeks. a jury In Bronx county
supreme court retired early this
afternoon to determine If Harry
Stein ard Samuel Greenberg are
guilty OF the murder Of Vivian
Gordon. once a figure on the shady
side o: Broadway.
The body Of Miss Gordon. a rope
knotted around the throat. was
found on the outskirts OF Yonkers
five months ago. Her fur coat had
been removed and the rings strip
ped from her fingers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
MARKETS
AT GLANCE
NEW YORK:

NEW YORK.
Stocks: heavy; U. s. Steel
breaks par.
Bonds easy: foreigns heavy.
Curb heavy; small losses In
dull trading.
Foreign exchanges irregular;
Spanish peseta strong.
Cotton lower: easy cables,
poor trade demand
Sugar steady. trade support.
Coffee lower. European SELL
ing.
CHfCAGOf
Wheat stealy: insufficient
rain American northwest.
Corn steasIy: bullish weather.
Cattle Irregular.
Hogs lowlr.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Consolidation Of
Four Lines Looms

NEW YORK. June 80. tPl-Rall-
road circles here considered II pos
tible the last Of the principal steps
IN the plan CT the Eastern railroads
for a gigantic consolidation into
four lines might be taken late to-
day.
The executives Of the lines gather
Cd this morning 10 hear the report
of George +. Slade, arbitrator Of
the pennsylvania railroads demand
for trackagc rights on the nickel
plate
Possibly no final decision will be
Immediately announced since num-
ero,,s details need discussion.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Fatalities Now
Climb to rs Tuesday

ST. LOUIS. June 30.-GP-Fatal-
titles in st. Louis and the metro
politan area from heat exhaustion
had climbed TO AZ today since the
hot wave began June IS with II
additional deaths late yesterday
and today.
Yesterday was the fifth consecu-
tive today the temperature reached
100 degrees or higher.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Graf Prepares For
Excursion In Arctic

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany.
June 30.@Pl-The Graf Zeppelin
left early today on a practice cruise
as far as Iceland in preparation
for its scientific excursion into the
Arctic next month.
DR.. Hugo Eckner was in command
and among the II passengers
aboard we're his daughter Lottie.
Frau Won Schiller. wife OF one Of
the navigators. and Lieut.. Com
mander Edward II. Smith Of the
United States Coast Guard.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
More Claimed
In Auto Accidents

HOUSTON. June 30. R-Automo-
bile accidents had claimed the lives
OF two more persons today.
Charles Monsur. 81, died from
injuries received In an accident near
Nome last Saturday and Clayton
p. Mcpherson. 81. Of Friendwood.
stranEled under his overturned car
on the League City road five miles
from Friendwood last night.
Monsur was en- route to Beaumont
10 attend a funeral when his car
struck a concrete post. y.
Mcpherson Is survived by his
bride Of six weeks and his mother.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Water To Be Cut In
West Brownsville

Water will be cut off In West
Brownsville from 10 p. N. TO mid
night Wednesday in order TO allow
connection with the new pipes In
that section, II was announced Tues
day.
The section TO be affected will oe
from Twelfth and Elizabeth streets
west
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Berlin University
Closed For z DAYS

BERLIN. June 80. -IPN- With
Berlin University closed for two
DAYS TO prevent a recurrence OF the
political fuss that marred its aca-
demic quiet yesterday. students to-
day carried their differences to IN
der den Linden.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
NV Staff CORRESPONDENT

SAN BENITO, June 30.-Active
solicitation Of memberships in the
Rio Grande Valley Vegetable
Growers Cooperative Association,
an organization being formed IN
der the auspices Of the Texas
Farm Bureau Federation, will get
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Permission Refused
To Stage Meeting

HAMBURG. June 80. -tP-The
faculty today refused permission TO
students at Hamburg University 10
stage an anti-versailles treaty pro-
test meeting.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
When His Car
Crashes Into Truck

FAREWELL. June 30.-tP- Hugh
Kennedy. Muleshoe business nina.
was instantly killed last night
when hts car crashed into a truck
on the highway n mile west OF
Farwell
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
FRANCE FIRM
In ATTITUDE l
ON STAY
Final Decision Nav
Be Reached On
Wednesday

WASHINGTON. June sO-tH
High administration author
tiles described the status of
Franco-American negotiations
for n debt moratorium today az
serious.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
Postoffice Bids Will
Be Called by July 18th

Bids for the construction OF
Brownsville's new S450.000 federal
building will probably be asked by
July Is. according to q telegram
received here today from Ferry
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30

PARIS. June 30zPl-The French
senate sustaine dthe governments
course on the Hoover plan today by
a vote OF 1877 to five, about 100
abstaining.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-30
THE WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy Tuesday night and
Wednesday. possibly with local
showers.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26
The Plains of Abraham

ing force. Yesterday, black with
tragedy and grievous with it's pain,
was a long time ago, but, with Toinette,
today had become tremendous liv-
Ing present. Gently her fingertips
touched his shoulder. Then she looked
with him toward the east and the
Richelieu-and what lay beyond.
From the moment they had risen
to their feet, Odd had stood as rigid
as caryen wood in the white-coated
grass with his muzzle leveled toward
Lussan's meadow. Something definite
had come within his reach, which
made it unnecessary for him to meas
ure the wind, and suddenly. there rose
above other sound the wild and raucous
crying Of blue Jay, and cawing of
alarm among the crows. A second
and third blue jay joined the first,
and their tumult came to an end when
piercing bird call terminated sharply
in single screeching note.
"That was an arrow" said Jeems,
beginning to string his bow. "More
than once have had to kill noisy
blue jay when creeping up on game"
He drew Toinette into the shelter
of the house and called Odd. A few
minutes later-swiftly moving, somber
horrors in a world of shimmering
white they saw the Mohawks come
out of the edge of Lussan's meadow.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26
DON'T
let q Cold Settle
in your Bowels! !

Keep your bowels open during a
cold. Only a doctor knows the inn
portance of this. Trust a doctor to
know best how it can be done.
That's why Syrup Pepsin is such
a marvellous help during colds. It
is the prescription Of a family doc
tor who specialized in bowel trou-
bles. The discomfort Of colds is
always lessened when it is used;
your system is kept free from
phlegm, mucus and acid wastes.
The cold is s'broken-up" more easily.
Whenever the bowels need help,
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is sure
to do the work. 1t does not grippe
or sickeh; but it's action is thor
ough. 1t carries off all the souring
waste and poison; helps your
bowels to help themselves.
Take a spoonful of this family
doctors laxative as soon as a cold
starts, or the next time coated
tongue, bad breath, or bilious,
headachy, gassy condition warns Of
constipation. Give it to the chill
dren during colds or whenever
they're feverish, cross or upset.
Nothing in it to hurt anyone; it
contains only laxative herbs, pure
pepsin and other mild ingredients.
The way it tastes and the way it
acts have made it the fastest SELL
ing laxative the drugstore earliest
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26

mothers hair on his cheek. Only it
was Toinette and not his mother. She
must have come to him before the
dawn broke. Her head was resting
on his shoulder and his arms were
about her as they had been about his
mother. His movement had not awak-
ened her, but now slow Tightening
of his arms brought tremor to- her
lashes and deep breath to her lips.
He kissed her pale face, and her eyes
opened. He kissed her again, and the
act did not seem to disturb her any
more than it amazed or shocked him.
There was responsive greeting in her
eyes.
Then she sat up straight beside him
and faced the rising sun.
The air was so cold that she shiv-
cred. Every shrub and briar and
blade of grass in the clearing glistened
with frost. The coat she had brought
from the house slipped from her Shout
ders, and Jeems drew it about her
again. They stood up, and strength
returned into the cramped limbs. For
a little while they did not speak.
That they belonged to each other
was truth which pressed itself on
them without effort or confusion.
Toinette was not ashamed that she
had come to him nor that her act had
proclaimed what pride and false preju-
dice had so long hidden from him in
her heart. Her eyes glowed with
light which shone softly out of fathom-
less depth of pain and grief. She
wanted him to know how completely
the folly Of her pride was gone and
how glad she was that it was he who
stood beside her now. They might
have been years older, so calmly did
the sense Of surrender and of posses
sion hold them. Except for the ten
derness in her eyes, Toinette was I'M
changed. But Jeems felt himself taller
at her side and something had en-
tered him which was like the spirit
Of conquerer. 1t was another world
now. A vast mystery ahead Of him.
Something to fight through, to win
from, to live for. Mysterious, it was
still very real. 1t set his heart throb-
bling with an unappalled and challeng-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26
x*x* NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. M
Impressive Scenes in Fijian National Dance

The meke, or national dance of the
Fijians, plays an important part In all
ceremonies on the islands. AS many
as two hundred young natives, most
gorgeously dressed, will take part In
a meke, which may be described as
legend told In song and dance. Some
times 1t deals with famous tribal
battle Of old.
The dancers carry either spears or
clubs, and 60 through many of the
movements of the battle-the stealthg
approach to the enemy's lines, the
hurly-bruly of the combat, and then
the triumphant return when the
warriors are greeted by their chiefs,
their sages, and their women. For an
hour or more, without the least In
terval, meke will continue its way,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26
THE STORY


With his English wife, Gather
Inc, and son, Jeems, Henry Bu-
lain, French settler in Canada in
174s,, cultivates a farm adjacent
to the Tonteur seigneurie. AS the
story opens the Bulains are re-
turning from a visit to the Ton
tours. GATHERINGS wandering
brother, Hepsibah, meets them
with presents for the family. To
Jeems he gives pistol, bidding
him perfect himself in marksman-
ship. Jeems fights with Paul
Tache, cousin of Toinette Ton
teur, whom they both adore.
Next day Jeems calls at the Ton
teur home and Apologies for
brawling in front of Toinette.
The Tonteurs go to Quebec. Four
years pass. War between Brit
ain and France flames. Jeems re-
turns from hunt to find his
home burned and his father and
mother slain. He goes to the
seigneurie and finds the manor
destroyed and Tonteur and his
servants dead Believing him
an enemy, Toinette wounds
Jeems and denounces him as an
Englishman. Jeems returns to
his murdered parents and the
girl follows him. She becomes
convinced her suspicious Of
Jeems were wrong.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26
Ancient Symbols
of Resurrection

The first temple to Ceres, the Ro
man goddess Of grain, was built In
496 B. G. to commemorate the deliver
ance from great famine. at the an
Gent festival Of Ceres it was prac
tice to fasten burning brands to foxes
tails. The foxesEor corn spirits, az
they were called-were turned loose
and left to burn, so that their ashes
might charm the grain and produce
an abundant crop. During this festi-
val grain was scattered about the
earth and thrown upon people, be-
cause it represented fertility-the
germ Of life. Our modern custom of
throwing rice on newly married couples
can be traced to this old pagan fes
tivity.
Long before Christ the Romans
burned newborn calf and scattered
the ashes over the soil to induce the
earth to yield much grain. This Gus
tom was later introduced into China.
and as late as 1904 porcelain images
of cows were presented to farmers In
the spring to bring good rice crop.
In north Germany. Scotland and
England the shepherds used to wor-
ship Pales. the shepherds god, in the
springtime. The sheep were first puri-
fed by brushing and washing, then
sulphur was burned about them. At
night the shepherds lighted great bon.
fires and danced among their sheep
by the light of the moon and the fires.
In the morning the shepherd looked
to the east, toward the resurrected
sun, and washed his hands In dew. In
some sections of Europe the shepherds
still dance at Eastertime among their
sheep, which now typifies the slain
Lamb of God.
The lamb is one Of the earliest sym
bols Of the resurrection. Among the
Christians of the East young lamb
is always eaten on Easter Sunday.
During Passion week hundreds OF
spring lambs are brought into the mar.
ket places and sold for the Easter
feast. This is great time for the
children of the household, who make
friends with the lamb as soon as 1t is
brought home They tie ribbons
around it's neck, legs and tail and hang
garlands of flowers about it's body.
Often the father finds 1t difficult to
separate the lamb from the child. But
a lamb must be slaughtered for the
Easter feast, so two lambs are usually
bought-one for the children and one
for the festival. The spared lamb be-
comes the children's inseparable play.
mate. At bedtime they argue with
each other to decide who shall sleep
with the lamb. Perhaps this old Gus.
tom inspired the famous nursery
rhyme, MARY had little lamb and
everywhere that Mary went the lamb
was sure to CO., Washington Star
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26
Are You "Hitting
On All SKI"

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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26
By James Oliver CurWOOC
q by Doubleday Doran Co., Inc.
WNU Service.

seemed a live thing that had barred
all sound from solemn hours OF medt-
tation, and he soon began to feel Its
influence. Slowly and irresistibly 1t
brought the desire to close his eyes
and sleep, and he rose to his feet In
struggle to keep awake. Odds teeth
clicked and his eyes cleaned with I'M
dimmed vigilance.
For hours they watched together
and marked every changing shadow.
They skirted the edges of the open,
advancing step at time and with
as little noise as the owl wings that
now and then floated about them.
They scanned Lussan's meadow, and
Jeems climbed tall tree to see II he
could discover glow of fire. At in
tervals he returned to the house and
looked in at Toinette. 1t was after mid
night when he sat down again, and
soon the stars seemed to be laughing
at him and to be drawing nearer as
If they had beaten him in a game.
They closed his eyes. Odd rested his
heavy jaws between his forepaws and
gave a deep sigh. Reconsideration
sleep.
With an effort, Jeems reused him
self. He saw Odd at his feet. Day
had come, and the sun was rising. He
sensed these things first, in a flash
Of wakefulness, and then felt weight
against him and the softness Of his
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-26
WORLD
AR
VAR MS
by Lieut.. Frank E. Hagen
"The Records of the Sixth"


When the old soldiers of the army
were good ones, you couldn't find their
equal in wartime value, anywhere
One of the best of the good ones was
Sergeant Major Ullrich of the Sixth
infantry, an outfit attached to General
Pershing himself during part of its
career.
There was little of the military In
Ullrich's appearance. He was
"paper" man almost solely, the SER
geant major being, in effect, the gen,
eral manager of regiment.
No recruit was so Insignificant that
Ullrich didn't know all about him be-
fore he'd had single pay day in the
Sixth; no detail escaped his wise old
eyes. And most of what he learned he
kept on file simply by entrusting it to
memory.
Shortly after war was declared, the
army did an almost unprecedented
thing. Ullrich, the enlisted man, was
commissioned major and ordered to
report to the adjutant generals de-
partment at Washington. The old
timer was to round out his thirty
years. service as an officer.
Wearing his majors uniform, old
Ullrich babe good-by to two of his
closest friends. They've spoiled
a id good sergeant major to make
an awfully poor major" he confessed
to Col. Matthias Crowley of the Fifty
fourth infantry. Then, tears stream
ing down his face, he shook hands in
farewell with another colonel Robert
Noble of the Sixth infantry. Ullrich's
own regiment, and stumbled down the
road.
Noble stood on the porch of his
quarters, eyes following Ullrich until
the erstwhile sergeant major had al
most disappeared. Then, with shrug
of the shoulders toward the departing
soldier, he said sadly to his adjutant
captain, there go the records Of the
Sixth infantry"