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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10

signed to benefit the present own
ers OF such appropriations:
Therefore, be il resolved by the
water conservation committee of
the Joint Association or Cameron
Hidalgo County Water Improvement
Districts:
That this body 20 on record rs
being u~nalterably opposed 10 said
bin and the proposal to tax such
water appropriations and that II
oppose the enactment Of same By
all e in its power"
Frank S. Robertson Of San Be-
nito was named to 20 10 Austin IN
conducting a fight against this bill.
He probably will leave the latter
part OF this week.
Places Burden on Valley
There are any numDer OF reasons
why the proposal to tax water APP
preparations is unfair TO the VAL
ley" said MI. Robertson Monday
after the meeting. 1t Is proposed
TO levy a tax Of two cents per year
on each acre foot OF water which
might be taken and used from this
states waters. This would mean
that the Valley. which owns go par
cent OF the states water apprOpria-
tons. would be compelled TO pay
about $40. 900 a year for the main
tenance Of the board.
The board proposes to use a
part OF this money for various sur
veys which would Erbably result IN
the development Of other irrigated
areas In competition with the VAL
ley. With the Valley paying the cost
OF these surveys IL II evident that
such an arrangement would be most
unfair TO this section. The state
as a whole Is more interested IN
such work than this particular e {
ton especially since the federal gov
eminent is making or intending "a
make al the surveys this section de-
Sires.
The proposal also IS most I'M
fair to the most taxed individual
we have and that Is the farmer who
bears q heavier burden I'LL the irri-
gated areas than elsewhere. "A tax
on the alter used would have to b.
paid for In the final analysis BY tie
farmer.
Most Of the Valleys water rights
were secured before formation OF
the State Board OF Water Engineer.
in 1913. yet one Of the penaltie:
provided for in the proposed law /.
the voiding Of such rights for fail
ure 70 pay the tax. Valley districts
feel that they have a vested right X
their appropriations which would bt
endangered by the passage OF thi,
legislation. Water rights would re,
vert back 10 the state where appro-
priations failed to pay the tax.
The bill states that Is intends [,
relieve the general fund of the ex.
pense Of the board yet its benefit
are general rather than Of Specia
aid to this section.
Purposes or the fund TO be raise
by the proposed taxation are Sc
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Island Publisher
Heads Press Assn

HOUSTON, Feb. 10.--F9-Louis
c. Ebert Of the Galveston News
and Tribune Is the new president
OF the Texas Newspapers Publish
ers Asset alton. He was elected at
The meeting Of the organization
here yesterday.
OtheN officers were j. l.. Greer
OF the .)enison Herald. v~ice-pres-
ident. "A. T.. Clarkson Of the Hous-
ton Post-D Dispatch, secretary-treas-
lrer t~re-elected), and @. j. Palmer
Of the Houston Chronicle, counsel
Tor tre-elected). Corpus Christi was
selected as the next convention city.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10

nually for members Of the board.
and $500 for the secretary.
In discussing the matter. it was
stated that no attack was being
made on the board but that the OBJ
lection was 20 taking It's mainten-
ance out OF the general fund. where
1t belongs because OF It's general
benefits.
The motion passing the resolu-
ton was made at the meeting BY
Clay Everhard OF Pharr and was sec
onded by DR.. S. X. Hallam Of
Brownsville. Mr.. Robertson and A.
Montgomery then were delegated
to draw up the resolution embodying
the sentiment OF the meeting.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
NEW YoR

NEW YORK. Feb. 10.5lPl-An-
other active bullish demonstration
gave way to profit taking on the
stock exchange during the earlier
trading today.
Prices mounted rapidly during the
first half hour when leading shares
extended yesterdays gains by a
point or so but when the pace
slackened traders began to realize
on their profits and American Can,
American Telephone. Bethlehem
Steel. j. I. Case and General Motors,
among others. dipped fractionally
under Mondays close.
Auburn Auto scared is ID TO 1911
and then lost about half the rise.
Industrial Rayon was again buoy
ant. climbing more than Q. AT their
best prices international Business
Machines. Eastman Kodak, r. II.
Macy and Houston Oil were up 2
to ? 1-2 and there were extreme
gains Of l TO l ga in U. S. Steel.
New York Central. General Flee
trio. Westinghouse and North
American.
Call money renewed at l IL per
cent.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Tax Receipts Will
Be Mailed-Tarpley

t0RGNAA4 ~ ~ AA~A 4A4HF
EDINBURG. Feb. 1O.-If taxpay-
ers do not receive their receipts at
the end Of two weeks. they may in
quire Of the tax collectors office,
which will check up the inquiry
and make an immediate reply. II.
Tarpley, tax collector OF Hidalgo
county, said this morning.
we are getting stacks and stacks
Of inquiries ever since the 1st of
February. but we feel we can save
time by working on getting out the
receipts instead Of answering the
letters. as a deputy can get out a
receipt in almost the time a letter
could be written" Tarpley said.
Tarpley expects all the receipts TO
be made out and mailed to the tax
payers within two weeks.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
R~aymondville c. G.
Opposed to Project

TbF SUIT
RAYMONDVILLE. Feb. 10.-The
local chamber Of commerce will
oppose the proposed action TO div
ide Kennedy county. the north half
OF Kleberg and the south half OF
Willacy In the interests OF the Hug
the-Coast highway. II was announ-
ced today BY r.. y. Robinson, secre-
tary.
Such a project Is being sponsored
by several Willacy county citizens,
and is actively supported BY Davis
z. Decker. president OF the First
National Bank of Raymondville.
A mass meeting mas been called
for Feb. 20 TO discuss the division
and consolidation OF counties.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Guards Placed To
Protect Woman

FORT WORTH. Tex. Feb. 10. 1P)
A police guard was placed at the
home Of B. F. Kennedy here last
night TO protect his wife against
possible harm from extortionists.
Mrs. Kennedy Is a daughter Of Z. r.
Page. banker OF Redwater. who re-
Gently received a note from Dallas
threatening his family with harm
unless s.. D was paid.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Starvation Kills
Birds In IN. k

BISMARCK. N. D.. Feb. 10. Up
Thousands Of birds have been found
dead In the streets Of Bismarck and
Mandan since Saturday. A. w.
Ecklund. bacteriologist or the state
health department. said he believed
they died of starvation and exhaus-
ton because they started their
northern migration too soon and
cOuntered adverse weather. The
birds were a species Of sparrows
known as Lapland Longspurs.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Del Curto to Confer
With Valley Shippers
(By Staff Correspondent.

tBy STAFF correspondent.
HARLINGEN. Feb. 1O.-J. M. Del
Curto. state entomologist. will con-
fer with Valley shippers regarding
the proposed changes in the Green
Fruit Law which are included in a
bill drafted by Polk Hornaday. for
mel representative. at a meeting
TO be held at the offices Of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley Shippers
association the latter part Of the
week.
All shippers OF the Valley. whether
members Of the association or not,
are invited TO the meeting. accord
ing to c. ID. Wallace, secretary OF
the organization.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Day In Congress
Tuesday senate

Tuesday - Senate
Continues debate on compromise
relief fund.
Special committee continues in
vestigation or post office leases.
Interstate commerce committee
considers report on railroad mer-
gers.
Agriculture subcommittee opens
food price investigation.
Lands committee resumes inves-
tigation Of Kelley oil shale charges.
Agriculture committee ope n S
hearing on legislation to regulate
operations Of cotton and grain ex-
changes.
House
Debates navy supply bill.
Ways and means committee con-
tinues hearings on measures to ban
importation Of convict-made goods.
Veterans committee plans to act
on si2,500.0 900 hospital program.
Monday - Senate
Passes billion dollar independent
offices appropriation bill.
Conferees on war department ap-
preparation bill tentatively rejected
amendment for distribution OF 90
100000 bushels Of farm board
wheat.
Received $344, 342. 900 annual navy
appropriation bill from naval af~
fairs committee.
Representative Parks attacked
100000 drought lean compro-
mise.
Census committee heard requests
to approve bill setting number or
representatives at ATS.
Ways and means committee pest
p0ned action on bills to bar immi-
grafton OF convict-made goods.
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VOWS

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guest into all international gather
ings. This spectre will not be laid
and world economy will not be free
until economic common sense and
justice finally have their way. This
question is the greatest factor in
disturbing the peace of the world,
and 1t is a paramount problem OF
Germany'S foreign policy"
Cooperation Needed
The economic position OF the
whole world has shifted since the
Young plan was adopted. he said,
and the nations are more inclined
nov TO apply common sense to the
reparations problem.
But little has been shown Of the
spirit Of international cooperation
which would make the fulfillmenr
Of our obligations easier" he de-
clared. This, coupled with our fl
nanciai needs and the misery of
our people, brings this issue into the
foreground Of our foreign policy.
Our opponents know we will not
renounce the Young plan and our
creditors know We never will give a
guarantee that the plan can be
fulfilled"
As for disarmament. he said, the
nations will have to show their
hands at the conference next Feb
ruary.
AT that time the case for which
we have been pleading for years be-
fore the bar OF public opinion will
be brought to a definite issue. we
shall see then whether there will
be disarmament or not, as for me,
1 will not make any prophecies.
Our viewpoint is simply that we
have a clean legal title to demand
general disarmament and that we
can no longer stand for delay in
its achievement
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Search River For
BODY Customs Agent

NEW ORLEANS. Feb. l0-tPl-
The Mississippi river was being
searched today for the body OF
John Lawrence Kelly. Al. customs
agent who drowned yesterday in
the Chalmette slip. The officer ac-
c.dentally slipped from the deck OF
the revenue cutter Davey while on
duty and disappeared.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Sixty Nine Lost AS
Steamers Collide

TOKYO. Feb. l0-P-Sixty-nine
persons were feared lost today IN
a collision between the French
steamer Porthos and the Japanese
Kikusul Maru in the harbor dur
ing a heavy snowstorm yesterday.
The Japanese vessel sank quickly
and the Porthos. after picking up
twenty-five OF her complement. re-
turned to port with small damage.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
New Zealand Death
Toll List Mounts

LONDON. Feb. l0.-4Pl- The
governor OF New Zealand today
cabled the dominion secretary thai
known deaths in the earthquake
there last week so far number "12
and the injured 954. but the cas-
ualty list is still incomplete.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
Retired Business Man
Dies AT Harlingen


HARLINGEN. Feb. I0.-Williarl
Henry Van Sandt. So. retired restau-
rant owner. died III his room in a
Harlingen hotel at 3 p. m. Monday.
Only known survivor OF Mr.. Van
Sandt. who was unmarried. is a sis
ter. Mrs. T. j. Sidener, who resides
at 40 +. MontrOe ST., Harrington.
Pending funeral arrangements. the
body Is being held at Thompson's
Mortuary. and viii probably be ship
ped TO the former nome OF the de-
ceased az Middleton. Ohio.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank the Browns
vile Fire Department and all our
neighbors who assisted us during
the fire. w. =. Adams and family,
ADV
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-02-10
MARKETS


INV ORLEANS, Feb. 10-Pl-
Cotton had a firm opening in
sympathy with better Liverpool
cables than due. First trades show
ed gains Of nine to Is points. While
the market eased off a point OF
two after the. start, it soon rallied
again owing to bullish private
cables stating that the continent
and Bombay were buying and also
on the action of congress in grant,
ing an additional 500, 900 900 TO
the farm board. May advanced to
Il.O3 and October TO 1852. or IL to
IA points above yesterdays close.
AT the end OF the first hour. the
market was steady and near the
highs.
The market continued TO improve
during the morning mainly on the
sharp advance in stocks which slim
ulated trade buying and price fix
ing by the mills. There we're also
reports OF a revolutionary outbreak
in Russia which stimulated cotton,
wheat and stocks. May traded as
high as 11.06 and October at ll.57,
or II to 10 points above yesterdays
close.
At noon. the market was very
steady ands at the highs.
CHICAGO, FEB. f0-fP- Profit
taking on price bulges turned
grains downward early today after
fresh upturns. Initial advances
were influenced by a steep jump in
Liverpool wheat quotations and BY
stock market buoyancy.
Opening unchanged 10 3-8 cents
higher, wheat afterward under
went setbacks 10 well below yester-
days finish. Corn also started un-
changed to 3-6c up and subse-
qUently showed losses all around.
KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 10. Up CU.
S. d.. Alloys, 1000; mostly 10
higher: top. 7.65: packing sows,
5~.50-6.l5; stock pigs. 700-7.65.
Cattle. 5000; calves, 1000. killing
classes very slow. weak to % low
er: stockers and feeders steady t.
weak: steers. good and choice 600
900 lbs. 7.50-li.50; 900-l500 lbs.
7~.75-1I.50: common and medium SOC
lbs. up 5.00-8.25: heifers. good and
choice 550-350 lbs. 6.25-9.75; cows,
good and choice 4.50-6.25; vealers
(milk-fed medium to choice $50
$50; stocker and feeder steers, good
and choice 6.50-9.O0.
Sheep. 10000: lambs fully sc
higher: sheep $3.50 higher: lambs
good and choice 90 lbs. down 8.25-
9.10; ewes medium to choice 150
lbs. down 3.25-4.75.
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CHICAGO. Feb. l0-GP-CU. S
d AD-Potatoes. slow: sacked per
cwt Wisconsin round whites 1.30-
lao. idaho ruSsets l70-1.75: Col
Crado McClures branded 180-190.
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scented as El Paso, Houston. Austin,
Galveston, Fort Worth, Dallas.
Riot at Boston
BOSTON. Feb. 10. tP)-Nine per-
sons were arrested, two Of them
women. and a clergyman was
knocked down by the horse Of a
mounted policeman when police dis
persed an unemployment demon
stration OF communists on Boston
today.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-10-01
End ANNUAL COUNTY WIDE
POTATO SHOW TO Be HELD
Dates For Exhibit Set for OctO-
Der % and "a; Interstate Show
To Be Held In Connection
WILL BE THREE CLASSES

The second annual countrywide po-
tato show will be held in Oakland
on Friday and Saturday, October %
and "a, it has been announced.
The Interstate Potato show, usual
ly held at Morgantown during Farm
ers' Week, will also be held in Oak
land on the same dates, according to
a letter from L. S. Hartley, in barge.
There will be three classes, the
certified seed class, All club class and
the open class, John H. Carter, coun-
ty agent, stated, so that there will be
a class for anybody in the county who
wants to enter an exhibit.
In the interstate show, there will
be exhibits from all parts of West
Virginia and Maryland.
"The show" Mr.. Carter said, sis
being held for the purpose of arous-
ing interest and improving the pota-
to industry in the county by distribut-
ing better seed and increasing the
yield"
Complete data on potatoes grown
by the Oakland Commercial Potato
club, composed of 20 boys who used a
power sprayer and sprayed potatoes
regularly during the growing season,
will be given out at the show, show
ing cost, yield, net profit, etc.
Potato specialists will be present to
Judge the exhibits and discuss ques-
lions on the potato industry. Litera-
ture ON production and marketing of
potatoes may be had, and charts
showing common potato diseases will
be on display.
Last year a total of so exhibited,
80 of them exhibiting certified seed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-10-01
YOUTH is BADLY INJURED =
WHEN HIT BY AUTOMOBILE
James Beachy, s, Grantsville, Is
in Serious Condition at Hospital

James Beachy, eight-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Beachy, of
Grantsville, was struck by an auto
mobile driven by Mr.. H. V. Leighton,
of Loeb Lynn, at the noon hour Mon
day and seriously injured.
The lad suffered a blow on his head
and a fractured right leg. He was
taken to Memorial Hospital, Cumber-
land, by R. T. Broadwater, Grants
vile, where the patient has been I'M
der the care of DR.. w. A. Oracle since
his admission to the institution.
1t was reported this morning that
he had sustained fractured skull and
had not regained consciousness. The
fractured leg has been placed in a
cast.
The boy ran in front of the au-
tomobile on the highway near his
home in Grantsville and according to
those who witnessed the accident, the
driver could not avoid striking the
child. The lad is a nephew Of DR..
N. 1. Broadwater of Oakland.
Mr.. Leighton was enroute home
from Cumberland when the accident
occurred.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-10-01
Struck by Hit-and-Run Driver

Mrs. Roscoe Polling, of Mountain
Lake Park, was painfully cut and
bruised last Thursday evening about
six o'clock when she was struck by
hit-and-run driver at point near
Thoburn Inn, at the Park.
Mrs. Polling has stated that the
car was a Dodge sedan with no spare
tire on the rear of the machine and
that she was so dazed by the blow
that she was not able to identify the
driver of the machine or to obtain its
number.
Darwin Martin and Joseph Turney
of the Park, went to her assistance
Immediately following the occurrence
and brought her to Oakland where DR.
limbaugh rendered surgical aid. Nc
bones were broken, but Mrs. Polling
was cut on the head, her right side
and left hand and lost considerable
blood as a result of the cuts she re-
ceived.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-10-01
GARRETT COUNTY TO ASK
FOR 1882 MUSIC FESTIVAL
Committee Selected at Meeting
Monday Evening To Extend
Official Invitation
LAKE is BIG INDICTMENT

That Garrett County would ask for
the Music Festival of the Allegheny
Tableland Association for 1882 when
it's members meet in annual session
at Brookside on Friday, October 16,
was decided at meeting of about rs
citizens in the City Hall, Oakland, on
Monday evening.
A committee, composed of Rev. C.
A. Shilke, chairman; o. T. eraser
and Mayor Grover C. Stemple was
named to extend the invitation offici-
ally to the Association and its repre-
sentatives. The inducements to be
offered include the possibilities of a
beautiful water pageant on Deep
Creek Lake for Saturday, with a sa-
cred music festival on Sunday in the
famous amphitheatre at Mountain
Lake Park which has a seating capac-
ity of 5000 and standing room for
nearly that many more.
Garrett county's invitation will not
be the only one, it is understood, as
Aurora, w. Va, and Davis, W. Va,
have also planned to ask that the mu-
sic festival be held in those towns.
Form Permanent Organization
A permanent county organization
was also formed at the meeting on
Monday with the following members
from Oakland: James A. fowler, Rev.
C. A. Shilke, H. A. Loraditch and G.
C. Stemple. Each town or section in
the county will also be represented on
this committee, and all members will
work in conjunction with the county
vice-president of the Tableland Asso-
citation, which at present is Delbert
Davis, cashier of the First Nationel
Bank, Oakland.
Mr.. Davis was chairman of the
meeting on Monday night and o. 7.
eraser was secretary. Those present
included Senator H. W. McComas, A.
D. Naylor, Mayor Grover c. Stemple,
Miss Lottie Loar, representing the
Oakland Civic Club; Mrs. Benz. H.
Sincell, several members of the Oak
land Rotary Club and others.
The meeting at Brookside Inn on
October 16 will begin with session of
the executive committee at one o'clock
in the afternoon. The general meet
ing of the Association will begin at
800 o'clock. Supper will be served at
900 o'clock and after that the meet
ing will be resumed. More than one
hundred persons are expected. The
meeting will be open to all those in
terested in the Tableland plan.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-10-01
Joins the Imperial Executive
Staff as Advertising Manager

Mr.. ]. H. Randolph, general mana
ger-treasurer of the Imperial Ice
Cream Company, with executive of
fees at Parkersburg, West Va, an
nounces the appointment of Mr.. Ray
c. Voitle, formerly of Wheeling, W.
Va, as advertising manager of the
company.
Mr.. Voitle has been connected with
the Wheeling Intelligencer and the
Wheeling News as member of their
advertising staff. Prior to that time
he held the position of advertising
manager of the Wheeling Telegraph,
a former evening publication in
Wheeling, which was merged with the
Wheeling News in 1929.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-10-01
MASKED BALL TO FEATURE
HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION
To Be Held In Offutt's Hall-the
Parade Will Be at Z O'clock

A masked ball and dance, with q
number of prizes for the best cos
tunes, will be one of the features
of the mammoth Halloween celebra-
ton to be held here on Friday, o.
tober 30, under the auspices of the
Oakland Volunteer Fire Department
The dance will be held in Offutt's Hal
on Second street.
The celebration is being held or
October 80 instead of the 31st, sc
that all the merchants may close their
establishments and take part in the
merriment.
The festivities will begin promptly
at six o'clock with the mummers' pa
rade at seven o'clock. There will be
bands, drum corps, other organiza-
lions and individuals and a large num-
Der of prizes awarded for various cos
tunes worn in the procession by the
marchers.
Oakland will gaily decorat with
numerous colored lights, corn shocks
and other things emblematic of Hal
lowe'en, the committee stated. Sec
ond street, from Alder street to Lib
erty, will be roped off and the major
portion of the merriment will take
place within this area. There will be
amusements, and $50 will be giver
away to some unknown individual.
The committee, which is composed
of Emroy Bolden, Paul Mc1ntire and
Archibald Shaw, has held several
meetings and plans are progressing
for the fourth annual affair in an en-.
couraging manner, the committee
stated.