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'terbaCk.
Mrs. Shock Wins Golf
CrOLun at Arn1u.NnUu

Mrs. T. M. Shock defeated Mrs.
r. M. Osborne, 2 and /, to win
the women's golf championship
Of the Army and Navy Country
Club. Mrs. Shock had a medal
round Of 81 to 81 for Mrs. o.
borne. Other results.
Second flight. Mrs. Upham defeated
Mrs. Keefer; third flight Mrs. White
defeated Mrs. Royce; fourth flight
Mrs. c. r. Moore defeated Mrs. An
feated Mrs. Calver: sixth flight, Mrs.
Jones defeated Mrs Kimbrough.
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The team has all the assets
that 60 to make up great grid
iron machine. weight, speed and
experience and the Kentuckians
figure if they cannot gain a
place in the sun this year, it will
be just too bad.
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Washington Huskies
In Conference Game

SEATTLE, Wash. Oct. 16.-
The University Of Washington
and Idaho meet in a conference
game here today. The Huskies
are favored to win from the
Vandals, although Idaho has been
showing increased strength as
the season PROGRESSES.
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Marines Will Meet
Campbell College

The fighting Marines tackle the
Campbell College eleven today at
2:30 O'Clock at Quantico, Va. A
large crowd is anticipated.
The Collegians have a star in
Willard, giant fullback, while the
Marines will rely on Young, quar-
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SUDDEN RISE

Ed Danowski, alternating regu-
lar on the Fordham varsity eleven,
was unable to win a place for
himself last season on the fresh
man team.
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SOLICITORS, CANvASsERS.
AGENTS 50
Business Opportunities

CANVASSERS-To sell neckties: an excep.
tional opportunity. 1909 F st. N. W.
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That is the way the boys out
around Lexington, KY, rate 1t,
and they are not slow TO say
that it is the best eleven that
win show its wares in the Capt.
tai City sector during the 1881
campaign.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
American Business Is Looking Brighter Steel President Declares

and trussed him up with wire.
gag was stuffed I'm his mouth.
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LINDYS BACK
Home AFTER
LONG FLIGHT

NEW YORK, oct. 24-tF- The
Lindberghs, after flying across the
continent in 80 hours and ~ min
utes, ran into delay last night at
the very end Of their journey home
from China-but il was automobile.
not airplane, trouble that caused
it.
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh, flying from Ro< Springs,
Wyo., where they had taken off
early in the day, put their borrow
ed plane down at Newark airport
at 9:28 o'clock last night.
Two motorcars from the home OF
the late Sen. Dwight Morrow were
at the field. The LindberghS enter
ed one while their baggage was
placed in the other. Their car had
not reached the airport exit, how
ever, before 1t blew a tire, the
filters transferred 10 the other ma
chine and departed for the Morrow
home at E~nglewood. They declined
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NOTICE TO THE
PUBLIC

THIS IS TO NOTIFY that I have
taken charge OF MATS CAFE. my
old place that I have been running
for many years and viii be managed
and operated by me on the sane
place where I give good service 10
nv customers like 7 have always
been.
Thanks and appreciate your visit.
TEATT'S CAFE
Matt Sepich. Proprietor
II. Matamoros, lamps, Mexico
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
STANDARD OF
LIVING MUST
Be KEPT UP

NEW YORK, Oct. 24-tR-Amer-
ican business Is looking brighter
to James A. Farrell.
The president OF the United States
Steel corporation, speaking before
the fortieth annual conference OF
the Iron and Steel Institute last
night, said:
Here and there are industries
which have already experienced
requickening impulses OF consumer
demand. There has been a slowing
down Of the declining trend in our
export trade, and a reversal. last
month, OF the unfavorable balance
of trade OF August.
indications Favorable
These favorable Indications,
while not as pronounced as We
would wish, tend 70 strengthen 2
conviction that the resources or n
nation are being modified IN an
effort TO shake off the dependency
which has hampered enterprise and
the lack of confidence wnich has
curtailed consumer demand.
Mr.. Farrell said favorable results
ALREADY are apparent from the
banking pool recently inaugurated
by President Hoover.
The biggest danger, as Mr.. Far
rel sees it, lies in theorists and
reformers who would tamper with
the basic business organization OF
the country first toward socialism
and then toward communism. He
said:
Some Of the schemes set forth
for the reorganization Of American
industry would place industrial
concerns in the unenviable position
OF the chauffeur who is haraSSed by
back seat drivers"
The country. he continued. must
resolve "at all hazards TO maintain
its standard Of living. He condemn
ed too drastic price cutting and
unfair competition IL factors en-
dangering that standard.
Optimism Voiced
Mr.. Farrell said that recent con-
ditions are not the fault OF hmer-
lean business. Since recent events
In Europe, including the suspen-
sions in many countries Of the gold
standard, "the root OF the distemper
is no longer sought in any defects
inherent in our industrial economy,
but in a combination Of factors
among which American industry
PLAYS but a minor role as a con-
tributory cause
The note Of optimism in Mr.. Far
rells address echoed similar opti-
mism expressed yesterday By Charles
Nj. Schwab. head OF the Bethlehem
Steel corporation.
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a police escort, explaining their
desire 10 make the trip as un-
obStrusively as possible.
Neither appeared fatigued BY the
days long air journey. but they
had little TO say in response 70
many questions asked them as they
climbed from the plane.
Col. Lindbergh said his plans for
the immediate future were I'M
formed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
MERCEDES SETS
TRADES DAYS
Especial to The Herald.O

Especial to The Herald)
MERCEDES, Oct. 24-Following
a meeting Of the executive COM
mittee OF merchants this week,
Saturday, Nov. IA has been def
initely set for Mercedes first trades
day.
This will be the first OF three
such events, the second set for
Dec. 10, and the third IN January.
Placards have been ordered ana
will be placed in the windows OF
merchants participating in this
event.
More than 40 business houses
have signed up in the campaign,
with others expected to join.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
Waterman Robbed

DALLAS. Oct. 24-P-H. B.
Hicks. night Waterman. was yer
powered by two negroes and a
white mar while making his rounds
at a building in the bl mess dis
trict here last night. His aSsail-
ants. who were armed with pistols,
robbed him Of his keys and pistol
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
Pharr Youth Wins
Oratorical Honor

PHARR, Oct. 24-Billy Goldberg
son of MI. and Mrs. @. II. Gold
berg Of Pharr. won the distinction
Of an orator when he was award
ed first place in the Jewish de-
clamation contest which is fos-
tered by the University OF Texas
through the Hillel foundation.
AS a reward he was sent TO Waco
10 compete in the state Jewish
defamation contest. Billy Goldberg
IS a freshman in the University OF
Texas, having graduated from the
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo high school
last June.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
SCARE RUMORS.
CIRCULATE ON
ELECTION EVE

LONDON. Oct. "a. (R)-All parties
in the most harried and strenuous
election campaign Great Britain
has witnessed in years rounded the
turn today with eyes right, and a
SILVER of fear lest the ghost Of the
notorious "Zinovieff letter. walk
again on the eve Of the voting.
Lord Arnold, labor peer. warned
the electorate there would be IAN
attempt TO scare the people" with
something ike the famous purpc-t-
ed Russian documents which ap-
peared at the last minute in the
1~i campaign and TO which the
labor party attributed its defeat.
There also were whispering that
the labor party had up its sleeve a
disclosure of secret financial c1r-
respondence" which would be aim
ed at blasting the prospects Of the
national government and its fol-
lowers.
Both Claim Victory
In the meantime, both sides
claimed victory today, with the vot-
ing only three day away. Support
ers Of Prime Minister Macdonald
assured the country he would be
given the Id tors mandate" he
asks, by a huge majority in par
lament. The oppositionists, led BY.
the veteran "Unc.e Arthur" Hem
derson, former foreign minister, lust
as confidently predicted the ma
tional governments defeat.
The campaign has been one Of
the most bitter the country has
known in modern times. Speakers
have been howled down hundreds OF
times, heads have been Dashed and
some candidates have gone about
with bodyguard5.
Women In Race
In London financial circles TODAY
a landslide for the Macdonald
forces was pre6 ted but in other
quarters IL was pointed out that
London Is "a long way" from the
great industrial centers Of the
midlandS and the north where
there is much unemployment and
the cuts in the dole" count as a
most important factor.
Women candidates have shoulder
ed their share OF the hurry burly
campaign, among them Lady Astor,
native OF Virginia; flashing, petite
and fiery NJ can Lloyd-G George,
daughter and close companion OF
the veteran liberal leader; Margaret
Bondfield, who was a member OF
the former labor cabinet and first
woman 10 hold a cabinet post in
Britain. and England's own Mary
Pickford, the Hon. Mary Pickford
c. B. E., who is the conservative
candidate for Hammersmith, North.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
WEATHER SUMMARY

Barometric pressure was relatively
10 moderately high over the greater
portions Of the United States this
morning, and moderately low over
Bouthern Canada and over the upper
Great Lakes. wisconsin and Mime
sofa. Scattered showers occurred
within the last % hours IN Texas
and Louisiana. and nj a few other
widely separated places in the coun-
try. Temperatures were near the
I%easonal average in most sections of
The country.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25

Loosely paraphras;ng Kipling, n
might declare that north is north
and south Is south and never the
twain shall meet" but the poles have
undoubtedly been drawn closer to-
gether by two great airlines which in
time, II not in distance, have drawn
the two so close as to make them
next door neighbors Of Brownsville.
Reaching its fingers northward to
tap Canada at Toronto and Mont
real, the far reaches of New Eng
land at Boston, the hub Of bust
ness in New York, the westward
sunshine Of the Pacific at Los An
geles, and the Old South at Atlanta.
American Anyways makes North
America a neighborhood to Browns
vile, while the ruins OF the Mayas,
the broad stretches OF the Amazon,
the relics Of the Incas and the wide
pampas Of the Argentine are but
a metaphorical hop. skip and Jump
from any resident OF Brownsville.
District Linked
Thus the Valley of Everlasting
Sunshine, nearly in the middle Of
two continents, has become, due TO
Pan American and American Air
ways, next doo- neighbor to the
farthest points in the Americas.
Being the crossroads of two contin-
entS Is a new experience for Browns
vile and its effect has scarcely be-
come apparent.
With air transportation offering
speed that is beyond competition, it
is destined that Brownsville Will
stand alone III intercOntInental travel
between the SiameSe continents and
will offer its own support to existing.
primarily oceanic, lines Of trans
portation between them.
In the web Of the histories OF the
two companies, they have, in the
short years Of operation, written
romantic and sometimes spectacular
chapters for the annals Of trans
portation. The isolation Of the south
ern republics has been washed away
IN the slip streams Of the tri-motored
transports Of Pan American ships
and there are recorded times when
succor first reached haTrassed cities
Of the southern countries and az the
Yves tIndies by Pan American planes.
The weather reporting wireless sta
tions Of the company have. in such
times, been the voices which gave
the world news Of the disasters.
From the freshly written reports OF
American Always there are no
chapters on storm relief, but there Is
pathos and more often comedy be-
hind the ticket stubs Of many OF
its passengers. Men and women pell-
melting to loved ones in trouble have
been quietly placed aboard the
planes and dispatched at two miles
a minute. Walls Of rare serum. too
precious TO entrust TO mail pouches,
have been carried by pilots in their
uniform pockets while they streaked
through the clouds in a real race
against death.
Importance Seen.
These are samples Of the stories
that have become known. and they
are doubtless even more exciting 10
the imagination which have been
lost in the tide Of traffic. Such in
cidents strike the sense forcibly TO
a realization of the Importance Of
the new transportation boon.
OF course there are amusing and
sometimes comical events which off
set the depressing ones and in the
aggregate passage over the airlines
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
Banker Found Dead

BROWNFTELD. Oct. 24-F1-
Andrew A. Copeland. former Of
fetal OF the Brownfield state bank.
died here today OF a bullet wound.
He was found az his home with a
pistol lying by his side.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-25
WEATHER

For East TcXas: Partly cloudy
Saturday night and Sunday; not
much change in temperature.
Light to fresh Southerly winds on
the coast.
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TIDE FABLE

High ari low tide at Point Isabel
Sunday. under normal meteoro-
logical conditions:
High ........ 1.58 a.. m: 3:44 D. m.
Low ........ S.46 a. m; 9.27 D. m.
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BULLETIN

(FirSt figures, lowest tempera-
ture last night: second. highest
yesterday: third. wird velocity al
8 &. m; fourth, precipitation in
last q hrs)
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RIVER

There will be no material change
in the river during the next "a to
SO hours.
Flood Present 2i-Hr. xi-Hr
Stage Stage Chang. Ram
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FLYING BOMB CALLED MIG1TIER
WAR WEAPON THAN BIG GUN
Elmer A. Sperry, Jr., Who Helped Develop
Robot Pilot, Says 1t Will Revolu-
tionize Fig hitting.

everything off the map. Then the
human pilot could fly back and sit
down to breakfast
"The big guns of the World War cost
tremendous sums. To get Big Bertha
into place they had to use hundreds of
men and strengthen bridges and rail-
ways to bear the weight. Then, after
a few shots, they had to get a new
gun.
ITO do an infinitely bigger Job by
aerial torpedo means only the destruc-
ton of a cheap airplane and a few
relatively inexpensive gadgets."
Idea Declared Practical.
Sperry, who is now consulting engi-
neer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., de-
clared he was talking not about a
vision, but a practical thing. Back in
1925 William L. Saunders, chairman of
the Naval Consulting Board, said the
aerial torpedo invented by the elder
Sperry, who died In 1890, would have
been used by the United States to hit
targets 100 miles away during the
World War if the arnistice hadn't in
tervened. About nine years ago, in
tests for the Army, the flying bombs
struck targets 80, so and 90 miles away
with ease.
The robot pilot, an essential feature
OF such bomb, was developed through
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20
UNSPIRITUAL NATIONS
DOOM is FORECAST
Home Missions Official Reports
Vast Regions of Unevangelized
Sections in U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 20.-Dr. E.
D. Kohlstedt, corresponding secretary.
officially reported to the Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension of the
Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday
that political, unspiritual democracies
are doomed.
His report also urged Outstanding
of the mind and heart of the Ameri-
can, not only for the sake of the United
States. but for the entire world, and
it deplored vast regions of unevangel-
lied rural regions and scores of sadly
neglected city centers."
He said recent surveys show that 81
per cent of normally Protestant rural
population - approximately 10000, 900
persons-are not members of the Prot
estant Church.
THE range sections Of the West
mountain regions Of the South and
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 20.-"Big
Guns! scoffed Elmer A. Sperry, jr.
They'll play a minor role in military
tactics of the future. The flying bomb
is the thing"
Sperry. who at SO has the enthusiasm
of STRIPPING explained today how the
robot pilot, developed by his famous
father with the admiring son helping.
will revolutionize warfare if the world
is ever afflicted with another war.
Meanwhile it is being devoted to
peacetime uses. The Eastern Air
Transport today officially sets it to work
flying air liners between New York and
the South
"A flying bomb or aerial torpedo"
Sperry declared, lis the cheapest way
to deliver ton of explosive to an OBJ
jective. A gun is the most expensive.
Short Life of Big Guns Cited.
Say you want to destroy an am
munition depot 500 miles away. A big
gun couldn't do it, but an aerial torpedo
could. You'd simply fit cheap plane
with a robot pilot and some other
gadgets and load it with explosive. Then
one dark night it would take off by
itself. with another plane following
controlling it by radio.
When the flying bomb reached the
depot, down it would plunge, blowing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20
23YEARS IN PRISON,
! CLAIMS Innocence
Convicted Slayer Requests
Illinois High Court to
Clear Name.
BY the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, November 90
Jesse Lucas, who spent % years in
prison for a murder which another
man is reported to have confessed from
his death bed, today asked the Illinois
Supreme Court to reverse itself and
clear him of the stigma of murderer"
The plea, which attorneys termed
extraordinary because it had no basis
in specific statutes, produced purported
affidavitS from witnesses who helped
convict Lucas in 1909 for the Staying
of Clyde Showalter at Mount Carmel,
Ill, declaring their testimony at the
trial was perjured.
It was filed Just a day after Harry M
Phipps, who prosecuted Lucas, wrote
Gov. Louis L. Emmerson that Inter
estS' behind the ex-convfct, in efforts
to obtain exoneration, omitted some
essential facts and distorted others"
Offers to Aid Governor.
Now practicing attorney in Chicago,
PhippS offered the executive his as
sistance ito arrive at all possible facts
in the case in the cause of pro-
lection of life, liberty and happiness
against the common criminal"
Lucas plea, charging he was con-
Victed through conspiracy of witnesses
and others, declined a pardon as IAN
inadequate remedy" because it would
presume him guilty, and asked the
Supreme Court for complete exonera-
ton under the following article of the
State constitution
Every person ought to find a GER
tain remedy in the laws for all injuries
and wrongs which he may receive in
person, property or reputation"
Specifically, the bill asked the high
tribunal to correct a judgment it en-
tered 81 years ago unfolding Lucas
conviction in the Wabash County Circuit
Court and grant him a new trial. to grant
a rehearing and modify or reverse its
original opinion and find him not guilty
or to grant such other remedy or re-
lief as Is meet and proper within the
discretion of the court and is inherent
in its power TO do justice"
False Testimony Claimed.
The purported sff1davits were signed
by Myrtle Mercer and Oma Johnson,
both Of whom declared that they gave
false testimony against Lucas at the
trial to gain freedom from the Wabash
County jail, where they were lodged as
material witnesses, although they pro-
tested, the aff1cavitS said, they knew
nothing of the murder.
Lucas was released from the South
ern Illinois penitentiary at Chester last
August and granted a parole by the
Ind, brought to light confession she
said she took from George Pond, a
friend, on his death bed.
"Made-to-order" automobiles are the
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backward communities OF New Eng
land, Ohio, Michigan and many other
States reveal widespread neglect Of
rural missionary fields" he said. "Only
40 per cent of New England's popula-
ton is claimed by any church; SO per
cent of its population under 10 years of
age is unidentified with church schools.
Utah has seven counties with no active
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20
FASHION SHOW PLANNED
League for Hard of Hearing Set for
Farce and Style Revue Here.

League for Hard of Hearing Set for
Farce and Style Revue Here.
A unique fashion show, with the
bellies of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries lined up side by side, will be
staged tomorrow evening at the Arts
Club by the Washington League for the
Hard of Hearing.
The farce, "The Lost Elevator" will
be presented, along with the style show
by the Pierce Hall Players, who have
donated their services to the league
benefit.
Patronesses of the entertainment are
Mrs. John Blake Kendall, Mrs. r. S.
Woodward. Mrs F. l.. Fishback. Mrs.
c. w. Richardson, Mrs. J. Q. Rice, Miss
Helen Nicolay, Miss Spofford, Mrs.
Charles L. Marlatt, Mrs. Reese E. Nc
Dufie and Mrs Asa Reyes. Miss Nico-
lay planned and costumed the scenes
and directed the rehearSals.
Nearly 1875, 900 workers in Sweden are
expecting wage reductions on January
i, when collective wage agreements in
several industries will be Cancelled.
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the years by the elder Sperry. Per-
fected with the aid of the son, 1t Is In
principle very much like another SperTy
automatic pilot, called by mariners
iron mike" which keeps heavy steam
ships ploughing true course Tor Gays
through the sea.