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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-03
c CAPIT0L HAS LINCOLN PLAY
 FOR SATURDAY
Love in the Rough" Will Be Shown for Last
 Times Tonight

Abraham 1incoln,' with Wall ter Huston in the title role will be the attraction tomorrow, Sunday and Monday, the first showing be- ing at the matinee performance to- morrow afternoon at the Capitol Love in the Rough" a musical comedy romance, will be shown for the last times tonight.
 In Love in the Rough" the scenes were taken at one of Cali fornia's most famous resorts, Lake Norconian Club near Riverside, a country recreational center with beautiful surroundings Golf match es in the picture were filmed on the spacious grounds.
 Charles F. (Chuck) Reisner di- rected with Robert Montgomery and Dorothy Jordan featured. and Benny Rubin, Dorothy McNulty and J. c. Nugent in the supporting cast.
 Whole Life Portrayed
 In Abraham Lincoln" the whole of Lincoln's life is paraded on the screen, from the time of his birth to his assassination at Ford's The ater in Washington just as he had realized a successful conclusion to the Civil War.
 Lincoln's heroic figure is seen in all it's multiplicity of strange moods
 Huston makes Lincoln a human being who loves and reacts to dis appointments as any other man might.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-03
MISS HALVORSEN
 GOES EAST TO BUY

Christine Halvorsen, proprietor of Halvorsen's, Inc, dealer in Wonl- ems wear, was a passenger this morning on the southbound steam ship Princess Louise. Miss Halvor- sen is on her annual buying trip. which will take her 70 New York and other Eastern market centers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-03
CANNERY WORKER IS WELL

Frank Miller. Hood Bay cannery worker, who entered St. Ann's Hos pital June 27 with an injured ankle, has left the institution. He is almost completely recovered.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-03
100 Speaking Parts

The cast, which numbers more than 100 principal speaking players, was chosen carefully. Una Merkel, plays the role of Ann Rutledge," |" Lincoln's boyhood sweetheart. Her love scenes with Huston are re- markable for their quiet beauty, and the scene at her death bed is tragedy, well acted.
 Kay Hammond plays the irras- cible Mary Todd Lincoln"
 Ian Keith is cast as the sinister John Wilkes Booth" whose shot ended Lincoln's life. Others in the portrayals are Jason Robards, as "Herndon;;" Hobart Bosworth, as Robert E. Lee" Frank Cam peau, as Sheridan" and Lucille La Verne, as the matron officiating at the birth of Lincoln.
Weekly herald., 1931-04-12

MORE NABEZN4A ACTIVITIES A11sn White of Chestoch chine made the lowest bid to take ths Six men in for the N4+BEZN4A MINES, as fsr as his r@adhouse. .Lir Pilot Harold Gillian flew the crew to their destination.
Weekly herald., 1931-04-12
THANK. Yorv MSS. 1YMi4u

THANK Yorr MSS. 1YllN
 I3e hope every school teacher likes her chi 1dren as well as Miss. Lyman doos us. She gave all us pupils an invi tation to her house, Easter Sun day morning. ith little. baskets of varid co1ored candy oggs as fovors to take homo.
Weekly herald., 1931-04-12

Tho HERALD has had requests f. rom different ones for schoo1 n- evs.so at times ue will pub1i s h g. little of it to p1e ase everyb- ody.
Weekly herald., 1931-04-12

Florence Ne1son~ furnished pussy willows for tho meeting ct the <. B. hall Friday night.
Weekly herald., 1931-04-12
Let Out This Time.

Let Out This Time.
 Mary Moore to teacher: 'Mery says: you don't punish .any5no for anything they don't do, do you Miss Lyman?
 Teacher: Certainly not t.Thy?
 Mary: Cause havnft done my ari- thmo tic.
Weekly herald., 1931-04-12

SCHOOL NOTES CONT.
 Top Noctch Cont.
 This seems to show that they had the very best of preparation up horo. Thoy are, Betty Boyer, Who won't to g Los Ange les High, 0and Bill Cameron Jr. who was graduetd from 8 Seattle High.
 BILLY MOORE tho seventh grade school boy and Our fine Lss1t Ed i tor came back to school Mond a yA. M.' He was abbseht more than 8 mo. to get his rup tured appendices rom-- oved. He brought back with him the offending c2pondi cs b77t in g. bott1. And kindly shoved it to any one who carod to see. Phi lip aspe cia1y vas vory 1Doh intere sted, B. as he thinks ID: tnt>t he wo77 Id like to be g. doot@r, kg Dr. Gillespie. Ella J .no does hor work better now since Silly is back. Billy i8 glad t2 5oc.7.so now he has some one to arG7~o Ji~th. .-5GL A1askans Mrs Lyman(teecherc to pupils W.T. itix2 composition on "Mi 1k".'
 :. "Ioris Kelsey, Thy have you only Vriton ton lines on "Mi 1k" when tho other chi1dren1 have wri ten pagos?"
 Doris Kelsey: Well I vas. Wri Ii Kg on Condenced Mi 1k".
Weekly herald., 1931-04-12

. NEARING END, OF SCHOOL YEllR
 School will close May 8.Vte arc looking forward :to Dur soho o1 picnic. :"
 Liter terrific struggles Philip finely finished his examination papor and at the end wrote: "Dear Teachor:1f yon sell any of my answers to the funny papers, I expo ct y.o7t will split fifty fifty with me-" @
 TOP NOTCH REuoE;D : : Ella Jane Kelsey has tho fine and rond T. re cord, of ell "L": and nothing but "A" on her rop- ort card. .For the whole yoar, r,"A" means g rank: of 96 to 100 26.Ven seventh graders in the states beat this record? TCo other Chi tina students have had "A" rec~ ords in high schools whore they went Outside. Cont. top of page
Weekly herald., 1931-04-12


 IND .E
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
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SCREEN LOVER
GETS DIVORCE
'Habitual Cruelty Actress
Tells Judge In Charges
OF Complaint

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 5=P-
The airplane elopement OF Ina
Claire. stage and screen actress.
and John Gilbert. romantic movie
actor. whose marriage was termed
tn ideal romance has crashed
IL the divorce courts.
The actress obtained the decree
yesterday on a charge OF mental
cruelty. saying Gilbert told her
they were temperamentally IN
suited 20 each other and that he
wanted to be left alone.
Although n private hearing had
been sought before Superior Judge
Joseph Sproul, the news OF the
case became public and spectators
trooped into the judges chambers.
Mss Claire's low-voiced teSti-
mony followed closely the charges
Of the complaint. asserting a
course or hab'tual cruelty which
resulted IN great mental pin and
suffering"
Gilbert. who eloDed by airplane
with Miss Claire. In May. 1929. 10
Las Vegas. New, did not attend
the hearing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Visitors Speak At
Rotary Luncheon

DR.. r. S. Blanck OF Washington,
d. c.. and E. NJ. Chase OF Los An
geles, department OF agriculture
department. heads, addressed the
Brownsville Rotary club at noon
WedneI lay, telling what they
hoped to accomplish through the
establishment OF a citrus by-prod-
ucts laboratory in the Valley.
Various b. -productS already bein
mace IIUm Gurus fruits were reIat-
ed by DR.. B.anck, and MIR. Chase
told Of the holding up Of the price
in California by profitable utLiza-
ton OF surplus crops.
A plea to all members Of the club
10 cast their vote in the city char
ter amendment election 10 De held
Oh Wednesday, Aug. II, wa made
BY r. 3. Creager.
Belief that working conditions
in Brownsville should prove more
peasant and more economical than
in the north was expressed by d.
Petrie Of Chicago. who will eStab-
llsh a leather goods factory here
within the next few weeks.
Slight increase in freight charges
will be more than made up by the
improved conditions here. he stated.
Music throughout the luncheon
was furnished by the Fl. Brown or
cheStra.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
TEXAS MURDER
SUSPECT FREE
Choir Girl Mystery Death
Case Principal Out
On Bond

SINTON. Aug. SIP Newton
Yarberry, %. charged III connection
with the mysterious death Of his
sweetheart, Miss Dorothy Symon,
10, Arkansas Pass choir member,
was at liberty under a $500 bond
today. His examining trial was held
here yesterday.
Clad IN a bathing suit, the girls
body was found Saturday night In
a grave strewn with seaweed about
48 hours after she left her home
in Arkansas Pass to attend choir
practice.
Sheriff S. F. Hunt testified New
ton Yarberry told him last Satur-
day he believed Miss Symons be-
came angered at her mother and
had left home, going either to Sour
Lake, Texas. or to Indiana.
j. III. Kell, Arkansas Pass night
Waterman, testified he saw the girl
and Yarberry standing near the
post office between 9 and 10 o'clock
engaged in conversation on the
night Of her disappearance.
Tommie Conner testified he es-
corted the Symons girl from the
Fowler home to a hotel. approx
mately a mile away. and left her
there, when she said Yarberry
might see them and be angry.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
100000 Are
HOMELESS In
FLOOD AREA
HYGIENE Conditions
Bad, Disease
lis Feared

HANKOW, China, Aug. Sup
Thousands were reported dead in
the YangtSe valley today as tina
great river rose 10 record heights.
flooding vast stretches OF central
China and threatening pestilenDe
and famine TO hundreds OF th0ll-
sands made homeless.
Accurate count OF the dead was
impossible, but the Chinese press
said several thousand died IN the
district of the tri-citieS, Wuchane,
Hankow and Hanyang alone, ami
many bodies were carried away BIZ
the YangtSe. The refugee problem
is becoming more acute. Already ~
Is estimated 100000 homeless airs
increasing this figure.
Railway embankmentI and high
roads are thronged with temporary
refugee shelters. HYGIENE condi"
tons in these camps are becoming
alar . ing and IL is feared disease
will spread rapidly.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

NEW YORK. Aug. 5-tP--Soma
OF the foreign banks doing business
in Mexico were said in Wall street
TO have protected themselves
against the provisions OF the recent
law establishing a silver standard
IN that country by specifying that
repayments OF the loans should be
IN gold or n certain fineness e
gardless OF any change which
might be made in the monetary
system. II is not known how gen.
eral this practice has been.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Banks to Reorganize

NEW YORK, Aug. SEA
plan for the reorganization Of the
closed Bank OF the United States
Will be announced within ten days
or two weeks, the Associated Press
learned from reliable sources to-
day.
II was understood that Arthur
". Little, a former director Of the
Bank Of United States. would be
chairman Of the board OF the new
organization.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-lP1-
While American trade with VIRTUE
ally all other regions or the world
declining during June. exports
TO Russia doubled those OF the pre-
ceding month.
The commerce departments anal
ysis OF foreign trade for the month
OF June showed that Russia bought
Sl2,6l8,056 as compared 10 $751;
879 in May and $751; 05. 642 In June,
1880.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Earth viii Pass Through
Meteor Path This Month

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 5.-P-
Meteor showers running so 10 100
shooting stars an hour are fore
cast for next Tuesday night.
They should appear some time
after midnight OF Aug. HIP. high
up in the northeastern sky. These
meteors have never failed to ap-
pear on time once d year during
the last century.
This year" saws DR.. Olivier OF
the University OF Pennsylvania.
at the maximum OF the Meteors
the moon will be about new and
hence will not interfere as 1t did
last year. This will mean for an
observer with a clear sky that faint
meteors can be seen and hence
numbers that may well run to from
so to 100 per hour after midnight
for the night Of Aug. ll-l2 and TO
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Pound Slurnps

LONDON. Aug. 5.-P-The sud
den slump OF the pound sterling
today came as an unexpected jolt
and set the experts guessing as 70
the underlying causes.
"Nerces" in the CITY OF Paris
the possible result OF the Russian
diet referendum Sunday was de-
scribed in many quarters as the
reason why the franc hardened
from 1880 to 1880 and the pound
shared the corresponding weakness
IN New York.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
OUTLET
FOR COTTON
MOVE STARTS
Conference Members
Oppose Production
Curtail Laws

AUSTIN, Aug. 5.-(P-The south's
cotton crop conservation c~onferees
were en- route home today, most OF
them resolved TO set in immediate
motion a movement aimed to end
in the passage Of laws drawn TO
curtail production.
The two-day southside cotton
conference called by Gov. Ross 5.
Sterling OF Texas ended late yes
terday.
Movement Grows
Leaders likewise rededicated
themselves TO their work OF finding
new outlets tor the South's main
crop. The movement 10 exploit new
markets gained much momentum
during the two-day conference.
A campaign OF advertising the
possible uses Of cotton was sEgg 81
ed by T. Arthur Edwards o. Lake
Charles, La, personal representa-
tive Of the governor Of Louisiana
Appeal TO Board
A resolution appealed TO the
federal farm board to make one Of
its detectives the finding OF more
markets for cotton.
The confereeS voted down a reSo-
luton by Lawrence Westorook OF
Waco asking the farm board TO
withhold its three and a half TI-
lion bales from the market until
after January /, 1888 and Thea dis
pose CT the cotton in small
amounts.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Rebel Plot Aired

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. SIP
Five Cubans and an American were
held for questioning by police today
in connection with a rumored rev.
dictionary plot.
Police said the man attempted
during the night to board a ship
off the Jersey coast. No details
concerning the reported plot were
revealed, nor was il made clear
what connection those being held
may have had with II.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Clark Trial Opens

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5. =Fl-
With the jury selected and the
opening statement Of the prosecu-
ton completed. the trial OF David
H.. Clark, former deputy district
attorney charged with murder, got
under way today with the sum-
moning OF witnesses.
Clark Is on trial for the murder
Of Herbert +. Spencer. former
sewspaperman and intimate Of
politicians.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
TEXAS SOLONS
CLEAR SLATE
Penitent Senators Withdraw
Bills Foreign To Oil
Conservation

AUSTIN. Aug. 5.=P-A peni-
tent Texas senate today cleared
from its calendar a number OF bills
not embraced within the terms OF
Gov. Ross S. Sterling's call assem-
bling the special session.
Sen. George Purl OF Dallas start
ed the attack on the flood Of bills
that had begun TO appear-bills
foreign 70 the subject Of conser-
vation the legislature was called
10 consider-and Sen. Clint Small
Of Wellington wanted the body 70
purge the calendar Of everything
not specifically within the call.
The senate did not 60 that far,
but individual senator's arose. one
by one, TO voluntarily withdraw
bills. explaining they sent them in
only because they saw other sena-
tors attempting to open the flood
gates"
There we're warnings that the
major legislation was being endan-
gered BY the number OF irrelevant
legislative subjects being intro
duced.
Senators who withdrew bills in
cluded walter Woodul of Houston:
w. r. Poage Of Waco; Small. Purl
and w. A. Williamson OF San An
tonic and Grady Woodruff OF De-
catur was prevented. by vote OF
the members, from submitting a
bill designed TO provide free school
tuition for transferred high school
students between Is and q years
old.
One OF Sen. Poage's bills, how
ever. was left in. II would require
payment. during the next two y;ars,
Of interest on county road bonds
BY the state. the money % come
out OF the gasoline tax.
Two or three other bills also were
allowed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Texan Shot Down

MARSHALL, Aug. 5.-CP-Clyde
Wagner, ~, lIneman, was IN a critical
condition here today with five gun
shot wounds in his body. Other
than 10 say the gangsters got me-,
he refused TO explain the circum-
stances which led TO his being shot
last night.
Police were unable TO locate any
eye-WitneSses to the actual shoa-
ing. One person told Of seeing an
automobile in which two men ana
a woman we're riding. drive away
from where Wagner was found.
Physicians said Wagner had q
chance TO recover.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

daily or more, Lieut.. Col. Cicero
Murray, in company with Adj.
Gen. Charles F. Barrett and Capt.
Fentoc Wood was 10 leave shortly
before noon for Seminole.
Sections PatroEed
Col. Murray visited the Oklahoma
City field early this morning, lind
ing operations at but u producing
wells which Were exempt from the
decree. Detachments OF state troops
patrolled some sections, ordered
70 maintain military control against
all orders save those OF the pres
ident or the supreme court or the
United States. J
Beginning with the Seminole and
Wew0ka areas, Col. Murray ana
Gen. Barrett were 10 start a tour
Of the states flush pools to enforce
the order, calling out national
guardsmen in nearby towns to aid
them. Murray predicted they would
have the task completed in a few
days. He was TO confer with the
governor today.
From Seminole TO Wewoka the
movement will spread 10 the Ia
tum, Chandler, Asher and others
OF the q flush production oil pools
affected by the executive order
issued yesterday by Murray.
Wells Remain Closed
The order, coming at the end OF
several day5 Of impatient waiting
by independent operators suffer-
ing from low oil prices, decreed
that each well should remain closed
under martial law until purchasers
agreed to pay a minimum of 81 per
barrel for crude at the wells.
AT Oklahoma City the shutdown
Continued on Page lO)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Killed, l6
Hurt In Wreck

YUMA, Ariz, Aug. 5.-Fl-The
engineer and fireman were killed
and is persons injured, eight Sc
riouSly, when the Southern Pacif-
les passenger train Argonaut, No.
l04, east bound Los Angeles 70
New Orleans, struck a rain-softened
section Of road bed 20 miles east
OF here at 2:30 a. III. today and was
deraIled.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
MARKETS
AT GLANCE

New York
Stocks: Heavy: American Tele.
phone leads decline.
Bonds: Weak; rails and foreign
decline.
Curb: Easy; utilities sag.
Foreign exchanges. Easy: Ar
gentlne peso M new 1881 low.
Cotton: Lower; weak Liverpool.
favorable weekly weather report.
Sugar: Easy; liquidation.
Coffee: Higher: local buying.
Chicago
Wheat: Easy: weakness LIVER
pool and Winnipeg.
Corn. Easy. weak coarse grains.
forecast favorable rains.
Cattle. Steady.
Hogs: Steady to higher.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Invading Hoppers
Out OF Control

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5. Up
Grasshoppers ~ravaging the fields OF
northwest and central states have
broadened their range 10 so miles
a day by taking to their wings and
have left little hope for their con-
troll this season
This information was made pub
lie BY DR.. w. III. Larrimer, ento-
mologist. on the basis Of reports re-
ceived by the agriculture depart
ment yesterday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Directors Named

AUSTIN, Aug. 5. -tPl-ReceSs
appointments Of Governor Ross $.
Sterling were confirmed today by
the senate in executive session.
Directors OF Lower Rio Grande
Water Conservation district: A. w.
Cunningham Of Harrington; II. l..
Yates Of Brownsville: z. c. Couch Of
Weslaco; Clay Everhard Of Pharr;
w. A. Harding Of Raymondville;
Horace Guerra Of Roma and +. 5.
Robertson OF San Benito.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

NOCONA. Aug. 8. -tFr-Defense
testimony was % be introduced to-
day IN the trial or DIN Robertson,
night Waterman. on a charge OF
murder IN connection with the
shooting OF Gus Lyles. a farmer.
The state. which closed its casa
yesterday, introduced testimony 10
show that Lyles was intoxicated nc
the time or the Staying. Witnesses
denied that Robertson was trying
10 arrest Lvles.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Doeg Defeated

SOUTHAMPTON. M. vi. Aug. ".
APl-Gregory ManEin OF Newark,
N. j.. ranked sixth on the United
States tennis list for 1880. today
defeated his fellow townsman John
Hope Doeg. national champion and
number one. 4-6. Ga, 60, in the
Quarter-finals or the annual
Meadow club tournament.
The degCat was the third for
DOeg IN his last three tournaments.
Ellsworth Vines, Jr., l9-year-old
Pasadena, Cal. player won from
the left-hand champion IN the fl
nails OF the LOngwOod and Sea-
bright tournaments.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05

half these numbers for the preced-
ing and the following nights"
All persons who watch the per-
se.dS this year r requested to
mail their counts 10 DR.. Oliver.
These should be given by the half
hour. and note any specially bright
meteors. or those with fiery tails.
The direction OF flight is wanted
and the clearness of the sky.
This information from the public
is useful for study OF meteorS. The
reports should be addressed IN DR..
Olivier az Flower observatory, Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania.
Although the perseidS appear
principally on two or three nights.
the Earth spends about a month
passing through their path. the
width Of which Is estimated at
millions OF miles,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Board Criticized

ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 5. Up
The farm boards proposal TO sell
sterilization cotton to Germany on
credit has drawn criticism from
southern cotton organizations.
Russell Clark. as president OF the
New Orleans cotton exchange sent
a telegram to President Hoover pre-
testing such action on grounds 1t
would be discriminatory" against
private merchandising.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Texan Indicted

WHEELER. Aug. 5.-fP1-Melvin
BUS" Walker was under bond OF
$1,000 today for the Staying OF
John Believer on a Wheeler street
Saturday night.
The Wheeler county grand fury
returned an indictment against
Walker for murder yesterday. He
made bond last night without max
ing any statement.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Texan To Die

AUSTIN, Aug. 4-E9-Gov. Ross
S. Sterling admitted today to
newspaper men that he was facing
a 'knotty problem" in determining
what 10 do with Clyde Thompson.
condemned to death. Thompson Is
scheduled to be electrocuted after
midnight tomorrow night. He was
alleged 10 have killed Lucien and
Leon Shook in Eastland county.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-05
Wreck Kills Two

VAN buren,, Ark, Aug. 5.-lP)-
The engineer and fireman OF Frisco
passenger train No. 703. south
bound. were killed in a wreck Of the
train at Smelter switch near here
early today. The dead are. Lee
Keithley. engineer Of Monette. Mo,
and William Weeks, fireman. Fort
Smith. Ark.