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CHAPTER VIII
ii
Clouds o. portsnt-


In the hard days that followed,
eonya know 4 nre Of ecstacy among
the dark shadows Of disaster. Wher-
ever suffering and death entered the
lowly hogans. there the steady hands
sf Starr Stone were bulwark and
I help Thoy rode together In tho
dawns, meeting On this and that high
level, and at the twillghts. when they
separated, she to 70 back to the ranch,
he to that mysterious limbo from
which he had emerged Where he
spent his hours away from her 6onya
did not know and was afraid to ask
again. She only knew that his long
hands were gentle n 4 woman's with
= hungry child, holding \ cup t.
pArched lips, bathing hot dark faces
with little rag. and once he brushed
and braided tbs black hair Of ! dead
mahaia before they buried her.
And that day Sonya wept against
his shoulder for sheer misery at tho
tragic fate which had made of this
man m outcast and pariah.
10 the hectic days passed. with little
count Of them and these two working
together 1t their humble tasks. Once
che girl told him, you're no lost soul
~ you'd have me think. You're of that
brotherhood Of which Christ spoke
when he said. III 70 do It unto tho
leAst OF these. my brethren, 70 do II
unto me- Servers OF the world" And
he had made no answer.
They kissed each other now at part
ing, softly. ~ II the thing they held
between than was 30 precious that 4
careless touch might destroy 1t utterly.
10 the man there Was tragedy and
stark sorrow In every touch OF Sonya'a
lips, her hands, the tender brushing OF
her cheeks against his. He was blessed
nsyond all dreams, humbled beyond all
Imagining.
And he know how neeting this para
Aiss must be, how soon life and its
mandates must take him away from
her forever. It was this knowledge
which made the enchanted days 10
short, 70 unreal
And by the end Of that week the
strain lsssensd. Everywhere her peo-
pie were getting up from their hogan
floors, thin brown shapes with big
eyes In their dark faces, and no moro
were lying down. The epidemic was
dying out. Those that were left boz
gan to be busy making new hogans
before the summer should be gone, for
they would not live in any house where
death had been. They feared the
tchindis, or ghosts Of the dead, and
malevolsnt spirits. But they looked
ut Sonya and Starr Stone with long
looks, unfathomable looks, and some
times woman touched the girls hand
tentatively. or 4 man said some clipped
cultural word which the latter could
not understand and Sonya interpreted
''Hosteen Little Man says we are this
Healing Winds" Or. "Our medicine Ii
better medicine than Yellow Bucks"
And Yellow Buck had been very bus,
IN all tho hogans where Sonya wal
not. performing ceremonies, singing
chants and making medicine OF bill
own.
And now Life made ready to take 1t
reckoning. She had lived In thes
rushing weeks, lived very fast, YER
full, known the dark Of sorrow. OF pity
and the light Of great Joy. the plea,
xRs Of good work well done. She ha
bloomed In tho glow OF such love .
re had never dreamed Of, what tim
- could spare to 1t. and felt a
though she vera richer. more vital, I
all the reaches of her nature. Nov
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Campaign "Punch"

Sugar and whisky are the prime In
gradients for good punch. They
have been used lavishly In the punch
the Republican candidates intend to
force upon their Democratic opponents
In the Middle and Far West during
the coming fall elections.
Some OF this campaign brew explod-
ed while being bottled In the closing
days OF the Seventy-thlrd congress,
There would have been more suds on
the floor had 1t not been for the strict
limitations on debate imposed In the
house during the last days.
The bottling of this punch has been
In the hands Of former Republican
Representative John @. Schaffer Of
Wisconsin. who was defeated for re-
election 10 the 1882 Democratic land
slide. but who will run for congress
this fall either for the senate against
La Toilette, or as representative from
his Milwaukee district
All summer the former congressman
has been assiduously working with
business aid corporation directories
tying certain officials In the present
administration up with Cuban sugar
companies and domestic distilleries
through interviewing dlrectorates and
direct connections.
Joined with the wisconsin politician
sre incumbent representatives from
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SEEM HEARD
around the
National Capital
- Hv CARTER rIELD5

Washlngton.-A phase Of the econ
omy program Of Budget Director Lew
Is Douglas which seems slated for tho
discard, since so many senator's and
members Of the house have gone back
home. is that of forcing the retirement
Of all government employees who have
been on the pay roll for thirty years.
The protests against this plan began
pouring into Washington some time
back. At first they only came from
people who were then over the thirty
year period or rapidly approaching It
Government employees who still had a
few years TO go before attaining thr-
ty years service assumed that the rul-
Ing would be changed before 1t ever
had a chance to hit them.
But time has passed and the ruling
has not been changed. Beginning
about month before adjournment, the
protest mail on this point began to
reach such flood tide that 1t ap-
peared to be organized. Employees
not only In Washington but In vlr-
tually every post office, custom house,
Internal revenue bureau and what-not
In the country clamored to their SEN
ators and members OF the house for
mandatory action by congress to force
Douglas to desist. 1t Is quite likely
that II there had not been such
hectic rush to adjourn, something of
the kind would have materialIzed.
But adjournment was reached with
out action and then the senator's and
representatives for the most part went
home. In short. they got back where
employees fearing the retirement act
could get at them. And they heard
plenty.
The employees attacked the plan of
course because they are personally In
terested In changing 1t. But they also
make an attack on two other grounds.
Many OF them In the customs Offices
and internal revenue bureaus. ct
cetera, entered the service when they
were very young-thousands Of them
as young As eighteen or nineteen. I'm
der the Douglas plan they would be
retired when only forty-eight to ffty
years old. They point out that many
OF them have fixed obligations Some
are buying houses. Some are paying
high insurance premiums Very many
are supporting families. The cut In
salaries was not 10 bad. Tho Is per
A.x&
pie them. But reduction to ! pension
basis. coming on the heels OF what to
them has been tough time due to the
cut. and coming just as the cut Is be-
Ing partially restored, would leave
them high and dry.
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May Cause Hardship

Failure OF the senate to heed the
pleas OF Senator Robert ]. Buckley Of
Ohio In the closing hours for passage
Of his amendments to the federal re-
serve act, was the biggest disappolnt-
ment OF the whole session OF congress
50 far as the treasury. comptroller OF
the currency and banking fraternity
are concerned. The administration Of
ncials had very ardently urged the
adopting OF these amendments but they
were caught In jam.
A peculiar phase OF the situation In
that no one WAS really opposed to
them. Some casual references were
made t6Nheir being written In Wall
Street. and that sort OF thing, but
canvass OF the senator's afterwards dis
closed that this was Just Idle chatter
and that no one really meant It Sem
ator Buckley Is confident that they will
be adopted In January. but In the
meantime, according to the comptrol-
ier's office, considerable hardship may
be caused. and quite unnecessarily. BY
their failure.
For example, one OF the amend
ments, changing the banking act OF
1888, was to permit orderly liQuida-
ton OF the assets and securities OF
securities companies affiliated with
banks, which are members OF the fed
eral reserve system, when such COM
panies are placed In formal liquidation
and are transacting no other business.
Its purpose was to prevent such COM
panies dumping their assets on the
market In q rush to dissolve before the
date fixed In the law. Such dumping
would not only result In sharp sacri-
fees on the part OF the stockholders
| Of the companies because the effect OF
the dumping would force down the
price below what 1t should be, but In
addition the effect on the whole mar
| ket would be bad.
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.ndl8G
SNOW SUMMER THOUGHT

There's a great deal of gossip
floating around"
Eyes," answered Miss Cayenne,
"and some that doesn't float, but Is
aimed to smash In and hurt some
body. Gossip Is like the snow that
would vanish harmlessly enough II
some one didn't mold 1t into missile
with a rock Inside"
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sugar beet and grain states Of tho
West Mr. Schafer's Washington work
has been done 10 their Offices.
Just how potent this Schafer brew
will be remains to be determined.
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TO I'M CONTINUED.


The old Romans had elaborate flu.
neral ceremonies. II warranted by
rank OF the deceased, the procession
passsd through IT, Forum, and N era
ton was there pronounced
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A Busting Burr

Visitor-I should think by the
look of things nothing ever happens
here.
Natiye-Oh, 1t be pretty lively
place for It's size. Why, last sum-
mer we had an eclipse of the sun
here-Boston Transcript.
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Il lost my pocketbook at the
races"
"Was there much In It'll"
How do I know what was In 1T
/ had not had 1t five minutes =
Hummel Hummel (Hamburg).
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No Real Efficiency

These old employees point out that
there Is no real efficiency In the plan,
although the government saves the DIFF
ference between tho retiring salaries
and the salaries OF clerks just enter
Ing the service. This Ii moro than OF
set. they say. BY the much greater a.
fciency. due to long experience. of the
older employees. They make their
chief drive with respect to clerks who
would be retired around 1fty to nfty-
Ave. No serious argument Is made
against retiring employees whose eff
cheney has been lessened by advancing
years.
The government makes the small net
saving Of the difference between the
two classes of salaries. II does not
have to pay the pensions These come
out of the retirement fund.
And right here lies one Of the real
grievances of ali federal employees
against the measure whether they be
In danger OF early retirement or not.
The point 10 that this plan by whole
sale retirement Of large numbers Of
employees would cut heavily into this
retirement fund. The employees charge
that In two or three years 1t would
entirely use up this backlog built up
by deducting from each pay check OF
federal employees over long years dur
Ing which they have looked forward to
retirement
The original retirement plan WAS
very carefully figured on life insurance
statistics. The amount to be taken
from each employee was calculated
roughly on the idea OF employees being
retired when well up In the sixties.
Also the probable length Of life during
which the pensions would be drawn.
The Douglas plan knocks all this gal
ley-west
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A wise old owl goes to
school. Found on a street in
Kansas City. Mo-. Hootie.
a barred owl. was given to
the pupils of a school there.
And now he refuses to
leave, even when the class
room windows are open.
{ Associated Press Photo.
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Acrobatic car. Three
occupants of this sedan
suffered only a mild shak-
ing up when it plunged
from an icy road, climbed
a guy wire. and stayed
there. 1t happened near
Des Moines, Iowa.
g Associated Press Photo.
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of Infantile Paralysis (Poliomyelitis) before
and after treatment by PNEUMATIC THERAPY,
which has been remarkably effective in many chldrens
diseases and deformities For information Phone MET.
2488 Sutherland Mfg Co.. Inc. P. O. Box 362, Wash.
in9ton, D. c.
, 1934-12-06
Expert Describes
Care For Lawns
Especial 70 The Herald

NEnnrinA 10 Inc AatEh4AN
HARLINGFN, Dec. Show 20
prepare A lawn 50 that II will re-
tain moisture and remain green
when other plants shrivel for lack
OF water was described by Mrs. c.
w. whitehead Of TT. Worth who
has the contract for l~andscaping
the grounds Of the new federal
building.
She started work this week and
one OF the principal ingredients she
places in the soil used is peat moss
from Iowa which holds 20 times It's
own weight Ia water. "A 10
pound bale OF this moss Is used for
every cubic yard Of earth. This Is
almost half and half. The moss Is
a humus and keeps the soil mel
low and moist.
Mrs. Whitehead adds five pounds
OF arSenate OF lead TO every 1000
square feet OF ground to grub proof
the soil. This treatment prevents
grubs and some other insect pests
from bothering roots OF plants.
Bone meal is used as a fertilizer
in proportions OF 20 pounds TO ev-
cry 1000 square feet.
Mrs. Whitehead makes a Spe-
cialty OF government work, and
also has the contract at Browns
vile. She Is buying all ohtainable
nursery stock IN the Valley from
Baker-Potts and Pitchers OF
Harrington.
, 1934-12-06
EAST TEXANS
FLAY ICKES

RILGORE, Dec. 9. F-Removal
or Secretary Harold T. Ickes as oil
administrator was urged by speakers
at a mass meeting attended by APP
proximately 1000 persons here
Wednesday night.
Sam Goldman. Kilgore merchant,
who presided, urged all present 20
send kilograms 10 President R0ose-
welt asking for Ickes' dismissal.
President Roosevelt should be
ashamed 10 have a man In his cabi-
net that would close down the in
dustry and throw five thousand
men out OF work when the gov
eminent Is spending millions 70 feed
the unemployed" State Senator Joe
Moore Of Greenville told the gath
ering.
A resolution. directed az Secre-
tary Ickes, said:
Resolved. to demand the res
ignation Of Secretary IckeS because
Of his action, du 70 inexperience
and unfamiliarity with the oil bust
ness In east Texas or wilful design
10 suppress and destroy the indie
pendent refiners in this area"
Other speakers protested against
the Thomas-D Disney federal bill OF
similar action and declared against
discriminatory enforcement OF state
and federal oil regulations.
Senator-elect Joe Hill OF Hender-
, 1934-12-06
Full Solution to Island
y = = = = = = = = e
Deaths Lies in Location
= = = = y y = y y
OF Empress and Friend

Los ANGELES, Dec. 6. R-Sud-
den death 10 a world-famed nudist,
solution OF an equatorial death mys-
terry. and the strange disappearance
Of a baroness empress" was the
news flashed from one Of the worlds
loneliest islands Thursday by q
party OF Smithsonian scientists.
Captain @. Allan Hancock, mas
ter owner Of the exploration cruiser
Velero III, found the maze Of mys-
terry, tragedy and adventure when
his scientific party landed on the
old convict Isle OF Charles, 500
miles off the coast Of Ecuador.
DR.. Friedrich Ritter, self-exiled
Berlin philosopher and raw food
faddist, who during his six years
on the lonely island regarded Cap
tain Hancock as his most intimate
friend back In civilization, died
from a paralytic stroke November 81.
The equatorial death mystery OF
waterless Msrchena Island where
two mummified bodies were seen
Nov. IL by o tuna clippers crew was
found BY Captain Hancock 70 be Q
triple death tragedy.
He identified two Of the victim:
as Alfred Rudolph Lorenz. former
Partisan of Charles Island, anc
Trygve Nuggrud, Norwegian sailor
OF Chatham Island. The other wa
N~uggrud's negro boy helper, whose
body has not been found.
The strange Baroness Elo.se
Bonsuuet de Wagner who, DR.. Rit-
ter had written 20 Captain Hancock
held a clue 10 the strange drams
mySteriously left the islands July )
with Robert PhillipSon. Not a wore
has been heard from this couple fol
five months.
Shortly before she vanished, Cap
tain Hancock reported, she drove
/ Lorenz from Charles Island, OF
which she was the self-styled en-
press.
His plea FOR food and water vert
refused by the Baroness. ISLANDERS
said. Without supplies. Lorenz. Mug
grud and the negro boy sailed n
the Norweigian's launch for Chat.
ham Island, so miles south o.
| Charles.
Storms. and probably engine
trouble, drove them 100 miles TO the
north. where their bodies were
found on the barren, waterless Is
land Of Marchena.
Important pages IN the tragic
story were left blank by the dis
, 1934-12-06
Temperatures
For November
Above Normal

Temperatures were above nor
NAL N November and rainfall
below normal, according TO the
monthly meteorological summary
issued BY the Brownsville weather
bureau.
The mean temperature for the
past month was 7l.8 degrees as
compared TO a normal Of 672. The
warmeSt November on record In
the Valley was In 1909 when the
mean was Ola. The absolute max
lmum for this month was SO In
1906 and the absolute minimum IN
So years was q in 1911. The high
est point reached by the mercury
the past month was SO on the
third day and the lowest As on the
thirtieth. The greatest daily range
was 26 degrees Novmber 4 from a
low Of s to a high Of 70 and the
least daily range six degrees Nov
ember 10 when there was a min
imum or rs and "a maximum Of
70.
ANuAAAA0AA az o1OWA4oNAAAC was OA4N
Sc o fan inch as compared to a
normal for this month of 1888. The
rainfall in various other parts OF
the Valley ereatly exceeded the
Brownsville precipitation, however,
The Valley enjoyed a wet Nov
ember in 1880 when there was a
total fall Of SOS inches. At the
other extreme was November. 1908.
when tiI-e was not even a trace OF
rain.
The accumulated deficiency In
rainfall since January ! Is $40
inches.
The wind movement totalled u
5l3 miles averaging l0.4 miles per
hour and pincipally from the
southeast with the maximum vel
ocity 80 mph. from the north
west on November 20. The max
imum velocity this month since
1892 was "a m.p.h. in 1880.
, 1934-12-06

appearance Of the empress and the
death OF Or. Ritter. His mind surg
ing with the tummoil OF the isolat-
ed island where he had sought peace
six years ago. the former Berlin
student died IS days ago.
He and his mate, Frau Dore
Strauch ROerwin. who told Captain
Hancock or L0renz's exile, were the
first colonistS to arrive on the for
mer penal island, once the haunt
Of pirates.
Three years ago the baroness ar
rived. bringing with her Lorenz and
Phillipson. employees OF her Paris
gown shop. Then came trouble.
Ritter complained Of the AFRO
CANT young woman dominating dull
young men" There we're stories Of
capturing sailors, casting away a
Shipwrecked honeymoon couple, n
wild woman ~parading in silk pan
ties with a pistol dangling from her
waist by a silver cord.
The Ecuadorean government in
vestigated last January but decid-
ed the stories were grctesque exag-
gerations.
, 1934-12-06

scn said least Texas welcomes en-
forceIent but we want enforce
ment without discrimination. I don't
believe In making fish Of one sea-
ton and fowl OF another"
Jules Constantin, president OK trHe
Independent RefinerS association ok
east Texas. said TO my way on
thinking the days Of hot oil are
over, and with proper and Just adj
miniStraticn In other parts OF the
state and country, IL the system OK
regulation ~ ne discriminatory.
! think We can conquer this situa-
ton and operate our plants"
Charles Cope. Independent pro-
ducer. said I'm hts opinion the east
Texas field Ia "the only one being
prOrated."
, 1934-12-06
ARROYO DREDCE.
WORK RUSHED.
Especial 20 The Herald)

Especial 20 The Heraldl
SAN BENITO, Dec. Screws Of
the Atlas Construction company
are working feverishly to get the
electric dredge ready to start work
by Monday on the series OF three
cutoffs to be dug along lower
reaches or the Arroyo Colorado TO
straighten channel Of that stream
under a contract with the Inter
national Boundary commission.
Monday Is the time the men on
the lob have set for themselves 70
get the dredge going. "A high VOL
tage line especially for this Job has
been built from San Benito over 20
miles away. The dredge Is anchor
ed in the arroyo with her nose
pointed across the lowlands through
which she viii soon cut q new
channel eliminating several miles
OF arroyo bends. The new channel
Is 10 have q bottom width Of 100 feet
and depth Of nine feet.
The dredge Ia equipped with a
cutter which will bore through the
soil. Powerful motors attached 70
a suction pump will suck the soil
away from a point Just behind the
cutter and deposit II behind levees
and spoil banks several hundred
feet from the arroyo. Several thous-
and cubic yards OF earth a day are
expected TO be gouged out by the
dredge.
The dredge Is located az unit NO
1, the furtheSt upstream. This is the
largest unit IN the series Of three
some 100000 cubic yards Of earth
needing to be moved TO provide thi:
initial cutoff. Approximately 1850
600 cubic yards will be moved un-
der the entire contract.
When the new channels are cut.
the arroyo will be shorter by sew
eral miles. The cuts viii be a part
Of the Valley flood control system
permitting easier egreSS OF flooc
waters which drain into the arroyo
That the Arroyo Colorado Naviga-
ton District is considering taking
advantage Of the work being done
by the commission is shown by tbs
fact that IL contemplates extend
ing the channels into the bay, max
inE " possible for vessels OF shall
low draft 20 come up the arroyo a.
far as Harrington.
, 1934-12-06
Revival to Begin
special ~ The Heraldl

Especial 20 The HerHldl
SAN BENTTO, Dec. 6-Rev. j.
w. Allbritten Of Raymondville viii
preach at a revival series az the
Methodist church from Jan. q q
Feb. 10 with Victor Harrison OF
Winnsboro. Texas, In charge OF the
choir and young peoples work.
, 1934-12-06
Movie Sideights
CAPITOL

AANAAOA
High pressure coaohing IN SIX
months has blended a Franco-lta-
liam personality with intensive
English stage training 10 present
4 me- Hollywood star In her first
Hollywood picture.
The girl is KEITH Gallian. Her
vehicle is Marie Galante," show
ing Thursday and Friday al your
Captol. Brownsville, ar aoapattoh
81 the romance which Q tne
Prix de Rome as 3 novel a couple
of wears ago. She is playing OPP
posite Spencer Tracy, with a strong
supporting cast including Sleg-
fried Rumann. Helen Morgan. Ned
Sparks. Robert Lorraine, Leslie
Fenton, Arthur Byron and Steplh
Fetchit.
Miss Miss Gallian arrived IN
HOLLYWOOD last Christmas Eve. a
stranger in q strange land, speak
ing scarcely half a dozen words 81
Fnrlish despite her stay IN Lon
don' she was miSerably lonely.
So she concentrated on learning
English.
, 1934-12-06

Five hundred thousand Koreans
residing In Manchukuo are mer
without a country since the new
country passed a law prohibiting
people without passports or official
consular registration from leasing
or owning lands In the new empire
These Koreans struggled them
selves across the border into Man
churia while It was Chinese ter
.ritOry.
, 1934-12-06
FLASHES OF LIFE

WEST FRANKFORT, III. -
When q dog shoots a man. that's
news, too.
Harry Choisser. IS, laid his gun
on the ground while hunting. His
dog stepped on the trigger. The
gun went of and the charge
struck ChoiSSer in the left leg.