davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1935-03-22
Gross Earnings
OF C.P&L Show
Large Increase

Total gross earnings Of Central
Power and Light company and sub
salaries. which serve lie COM
munities with one or more classes
Of utility service In south and south
west Texas. amounted 70 s7.i69, 1895
in 1884, which represents an in
crease Of 1854 SOL rs or Sac over
1888. Electric revenues increased
Sl62. 270.57 or 36E. while ice reve-
nues increased 43.B0340 or $50
over 1898. Water revenues increas-
ed S27.0l6.70 or Ats over 1888.
Operating expenses before provi-
sion for retirements, storm damage
and taxes, increased si30.36el IS.
practically all OF which, according
to the company's report. was due 10
the increased costs OF operations
under NRA provisions. The provi-
sion for retirement for the year
1884 was S755, $50 "a, or an increase
Of sl4l ,950.3l over 1888. In addi-
ton, the management, realizing
that storms have occurred which
resulted In unusual maintenance
expenditures, and desiring TO pro-
vide against a sudden similar
unusual operating expense charge
In the future. has provided out Of
1884 earnings an amount OF si04.-
330.l7 as a contingency reserve for
possible future storm damages.
During the year there was pro-
vided for Federal 81 tax on sales
OF residential and commercial cleo
tricity, S93,i26-l6 which was former
ly paid by the consumer. There
was also provided for Federal cap
ital stock tax Si2,102.
After deducting operating ex-
penses. including provision for re-
tirement, interest on funded debt.
general interest and amortization.
there remained a net income Of
S26l .27l4 40 available for preferred
stock dividends as compared with
s335.l2722 for 1888. On August 4.
1884. the company resumed the
payment Of preferred dividends,
which were discontinued on Febru-
airy !. 1884, by the payment or 3d.
cents per share o nthe 6e5 Preferred
Stock and 43as cents per share on
the 7Ge Preferred Stock.
, 1935-03-22

calmly accept the misfortune OF the
10. 000. 900 farmers who tend the
worm, who comprise 20 per cent OF
Japan's population.
Millions Feel Blight
Today silk is produced on 2.200.-
900 Of Japan's $4,000 900 farms. 1t Is
thus the whole or partial liveli-
hood OF 40 per cent OF Japan's agri-
cultural population. or Of $4,000. 900
people. Silk Is sometimes the far
mer's only cash crop and the only
other cash crop he Is likely 10 have
is a small output OF rice.
Silk Is also the livelihood OF
some 1000 failures (reeling es-
tablishments), big and small, en-
ploying about 10000 japanese. silk
also is the livelihood Of several
thousand midllemen and techni-
clans OF various sorts.
The big Japanese iinanciers, the
Mitsui and MitSubishi and the rest.
have not been idle. They are mobile
men and won't remain static for
long. While they defend the silk
work on the one hand. they fight
the revolution Of the nozzle on the
other. And fight 1t sensationally.
Farm Problem Acute
Between 1891 and 1884 Japan's
synthetic production leaped le8
per cent. from 48.600, 900 pounds to
lao, 000, 000-or 30 per cent OF the
u. 8. production. Japan's synthetic
silk has become her third largest
export. Last year the export value
OF Japanese rayon was $50 900 900
as against s86, 900 900 for raw silk
and S8l DOC. 900 for cotton cloth.
The profit margin isn't nearly so
great as the old silk profits: Japan
has to import her rayon raw mate
, 1935-03-22

France IL not the whole deck but
10 Is the principal card In the game
Laval, with Premier Flandin and
most of the other cabinet members
present turned the ratification ON
the t-eaty into a kind OF Franco
Italian fiesta To celebrate the end
Of fifteen years Of misunderstand-
ing"
Deputy Franklin Bouillon sharp
liz attacked the governments set
Element as "too generous" but Laval
defended IL with the assertion that
nothing important had been sur
rendered.
Laval called MuSSolini his friend"
and said cooperation between the
two countries vas necessary Tor
peace. but Franklin ouillon re-
preached the government for allow
ing the country 70 think that Eng
land had failed 10 keep her word"
saying that the truth was that the
declaration OF London. entered into
by France, "legalized German avla-
ton" and England was merely seek-
ing TO get Germany back into the
League OF Nations.
The French note to Berlin. said
, 1935-03-22
BRITISH OPPOSE
COLONY TALKS
CCopyright. 1895. bv the Alp.

VCOpNTlEnl, 1850. ON TIE Ar
LONDON. March 22.-Great Brit
ain is opposed 70 any discussion on
the return OF former German COL
onies to the reich during conversa-
tons between Sir John Simon. for
eign secretary. and Reichsfuehrer
Adolf Hitler, II was officially said
Friday.
In reply to a question as .
whether the subject OF colonial re-
storation would come under discus
sion at Berlin Monday. a govern
ment spokesman said the subject,
not being covered in the Anglo
French proposals for security last
month. should not be entered on
the conversational program.
The German naval question. how
ever, will not be barred. and reports
10 naval circles from Berlin indi-
Gated the reich will demand a fleet
nc least equal 70 Italy's and =
ably compared to that Of France.
The naval question discussion n
considered correct because the
French communiQue. which Is
the basis for the conversations az
Berlin. provided for negotiations on
al phases OF arrnaments limita-
ton
, 1935-03-22
GERMANY,
FRANCE URGES
Copyright. 1895. by the APP

Copyright. 1885. by the APP
PARIS. March 22.-Pierre Laval.
foreign minister. told the chamber
OF deputies Friday that France
seeks TO regroup the allies" TO euro
Germany.
His statement was answered by
the deputies approving the Franco
italian African accord BY the un-
usually top-heavy vote Of 555 10 Q.
Che accord. signed Jan. o IN Rome
by Laval and Premier MuSsolini.
exchanged colonial territories In
Africa. provided for q purely lateral
accord OF Central European ques-
tons, and included a consultative
pact)
France Is strong and will not
give up" Laval told the deputies.
, 1935-03-22

Franklin-B ouillon. makes that re-
turn t0 the League impossible add
Ing, rthe restoration or conscrlp-
ton ~ Germany'ss declaration nf
war To the civilized world"
Said Laval: Nothing la ne Rome
accord lnfrtngea the soRmrplnntv uf
the territorial lndepende 1ce ~ Fthi-
opia which IAN guaranteed NV tho
rRnco-Angln-Italian trHnty."
, 1935-03-22

"A certificate or Distinction" hazf
been received by y. O. Ford and
Sons, Brownsville insurance agency.
from Raymond T. Mauk, Texas I'm
surance commissioner.
The certificate was awarded tho
firm for having the lowest loss rn-
ton among It's policy holders OF
any Brownsville insurance agency.
Russia leads the world I'm number
Of suicides
, 1935-03-22

rails. But the business u still &C
celebrating.
Meanwhile the raw-silk industry
languishes. And its millions OF
workers have no such "cut" as the
financiers.
What Is Japan TO do about siIk7
What Is she to do right now2 The
big silk interests. while they are
gaff for q long time-if they have
to. But just how badly off Is the
farmer we've accused them Of ex-
ploiting2
The fact remains that the jap
aneSe farmer Is not only up against
those natural elements that he is
so remarkably equipped 10 with
stand. He happens also 70 be up
against his taxes. A typical two
and-a-half-acre farmer with a
small mulberry orchard under cul-
tivation would have been lucky TO
get IS for his cocoons last year.
And the average farmer today
owes back taxes and pivate debts
amounting TO $500.
Export Trade Vial
The answer Is obvious.
The farmers plight Is not only
distressing TO him and bad for the
empires general psychology; II Ia
also OF immediate fiscal conse-
quence to the state.
In the last four years Japan has
learned with great thoroughness
how much she depends on her
share OF the mutual trade rela-
tionShips between Japan and the
U. S. (she shells us "a silk Of about
IS per cent less value than the raw
cotton we sell herr. Japan would
not care 10 do anything that might
harm this ailing but vitality i'm
portant customer.
When you consider the govern
, 1935-03-22

lis silk; the businessman was able
10 get II unbeiievably cheap and
underSell the world.
Their CHEAP silk became Japan's
biggest business and with their
silk profits they set themselves up
in heavy industry. they modernized
both Japan and themselves.
America Rich Market
Meanwhile they kept selling silk,
and particularly TO the rich, luxury
loving u. S. After the World War.
the u. S. had such a boom as had
Tever been heard Of. The glamor-
ouS silk industrv became more CLAM
orous than evef-selling four times
its pre-war volume. and selling
these enormous quantities almost
entirely 10 the u. 8
The japanese businessmen, who
controlled the silk trade, took huge
profits.
on these. and on the profits from
the other industries that silk had
made possible, Japan became Ur-
tually drunk With the splendor OF
bis business. Meanwhile. the actual
raising Of the silk remained on the
tiny farms. Japan still paid the
farmer his minimum. medieval
wage, and il had almost forgotten
that his silk was the foundation Of
the empire.
Then Came 1929
Since 1929 the boomtime u. s..
that paid SIS a pound for 50 per
cent Of Japan's raw silk has be-
come the penny-and credit pinch
ing u. S. that wonders how it ever
got that way. II still takes 80 per
cent Of the silk ex~ports-this Is
important to remember - but 1t
takes il cheap or not at all.
So between 1929 and July. 1884,
the silk price plunged from S. to
$l.l5. Since then IL has crept up
10 about Sl.50. But the japanese
siIkmen are still wondering wheth-
er they can possibly have reached
the bottom. And you can't make
money on raw silk at $3.50 a pound.
Having used the silk farmers as
the lowest steppingstone TO its
industrial greatness, Japan also
taxed them heavily, while going
light on industrial taxation. And
today Japan's militaristic govern
ment taxes them still more in
order to keep swelling Japan's pres
tige with newer and more deadly
war machinery and an aggressive
policy on the continent OF Asia.
So the farmers taxes are almost
inevitably and dangerously in
arrears. and there is a hard SYM
Dol of the fact: he sells his daugh-
ters to work in the empires cotton
mills. And very often he sells his
daughters into prostitution.
Ard when you have e all this.
there Is still worse-the second Of
the hard unglamorous facts Of the
silk industry.
Rayon Changes Scene
In those same boom days when
silk had its fanciest successes,
rayon-artificial silk squirted out
Of cold mechanical nozzles-was
getting up great momentum.
So far the japanese businessmen,
the Mitsui and MitSubishi and the
several other great commercial
houses. have played their usual
canny roles. They have coolly dag
noSed the trend and have gone
the rayon business themselves.
AS q matter Of fact. rayon got
its japanese start in the early
twenties. but in three short years,
working at their usual miraculous
they have built Japan into
the second largest rayon producer
IN the world following the u. 81
and the nozzles Of Japan squirt
their ffbers all over the Orient.
, 1935-03-22

A bushel Of fruit In Idaho does
not equal a bushel in Tennessee.
The 'bushel" varies from state TO
state In this country and differs
for various commodities being
measured.
, 1935-03-22
Hidden Crisis in Japan, Where Ruin Perils
Millions in Silk Industry, Shown by Survey

The real story OF What's Wrong
With Japan"-a political conflict
between the NipponeSe militarists
and financiers. with a crisis In ia
pans vital silk industry leaving her
millions OF poor silk farmers lin
the micdle"-naS Just been reveal
ed in a thorougngoing research made
BY Fortune Magazine. BY special ar
engagements with the publishers OF
Fortune. The Brownsville Herald.
through NEA Service here presents
highlights Of the Fortune survey:
Copyright. 1885. by Time Fortune
C~orporation)
japanese businessmen don't belly
ache. But you don't want 70 be
fooled by this iace-Saving. just be-
cause a Japanese businessman
doesn't howl is no reason 70 sup
pose he isn't Ia pain.
Consider the japanese raw-Silk
industry. for instance:
You will see about as serious an
industrial jam al you can find in
the world today. You will see a Jam
that IS desperate not only for ia
PANS raw-silk industry, but for the
whole economy Of the empire.
When Japan was opened TO world
trade-it was only in 1854. remem-
ber-one of the first things her
precociously smart businessmen did
was TO buy the farmers silk (they
had been raising II for their own
use since NEUROLOGICAL tines and
resell 1t to the world.
The Japanese farmer could live
on a few cents a day; he gladly
took tire smallest, medieval pay for
, 1935-03-22

A huge music box on the island
OF Walcheron. Holland, plays clas-
steal selections from Mozart on the
half hour. and Beethoven's Moon
light Sonata or the hour. Twenty
five hundred musical combinations
are possible on the huge cylindrical
keyboard.
, 1935-03-22
FREIGHT CUT
EXPECTED TO
Save SSOO,OOO

Reduced freight rates which the
Lower Rio Grande Valley viii have
next season. according to ANNOUNCE
ment made recently by railroad Off
Gals. will effect a saving Of from
100000 to 100000 annually to the
Valley. according to estimates made
by shippers in this section.
The saving will be about twice the
cost Of the differential on outgoing
vegetables. ii Is estimated, and will
be Of particular benefit in putting
the Valley on a parity with Compel
ing territory.
, 1935-03-22
Public Is Invited To
Hear Special Sermon

The Masterpiece Of Eternity" Is
the sermon subject for Sunday
night at the central Christian
church.
do you know what this Master
piece In? II has 70 do with man:
with you, with every one. Into II
has gone the infinite work OF God
but apart from you II would never
have come into being. Not only so,
but without the coming OF Christ
and the completion of his work the
Masterpiece Of Eternity would have
remained a beautiful dream.
"AS it Is. however. II Is an awe
inspiring fact. II Is a reality whose
significance only a comparatively
few have cpmprehended. You are
invited 70 hear this sermon Sunday
night and 10 enjoy the great con-
gregational singing. Remember the
time Is $780," II was announced.
, 1935-03-22

WIN 8AAEt14 - az AAA& =
reduced. Only small reductions
were made IN cabbage rates, in
creaSes being made in the rates OF
this vegetable out Of The Corpus
Christi Robstown section. The diff
ference will be 81 a ton on all ship
ments in favor Of Corpus Christi
as against from 50 10 $3.50 q ton In
the past.
Rates on beets. carrots. turnips,
parSnip, radisheS, and rui abagaS are
reduced from s 1853 TO Si.32 to New
York. which is the largest reduction
made. Corpus Christi's rate was cut
from Sl.44 10 sl.26 on these COM
modities. Reductions TO other points
are proportionate.
On corn. cucumbers, garlic and
eggplant the rate 70 New York was
cut from sl.63 to Sl.50. Corpus
Christi's rate remaining at Sl44.
On tomatoes, peppers, squash.
spinach. onions. the rate was brought
down from Sl.73 to Si.6l. as against
q rate OF sl.53 for Corpus Christi.
Similar reductions we're made in
beans. peas. and other produce.
One OF the most important chan
geS, and n which Is expected 10
revive the Valleys best industry, Is
the establishment OF the same rate
for clip-top or full top beets. Last
year a higher rate was put into eff
feet on full top beets, and II ser
iously hurt the Valleys beet indus
try.
On the whole the rates bring the
Valleys rates down 10 a point where
they compare favorably with other
sections, and will not retard develop
ment.
Reductions put the Valley rates
back almost TO the point where they
were before the raise on September
10 of last year according to Frank
Hall Of Mercedes, member Of the
committee.
Il believe the railroads realized
VOC after the higher rates went into
effect that the result would be a
curtailment OF shipments. and they
soon decided 10 help make an adj
juStment," Hall said. MIR. Stahl Il.
H. Stahl OF Weslaco) and / have
been working with the railroads on
this matter for almost a year. and
they saw the mistake and told us so
soon after the higher rates went
into effect"
In Mr.. Halls opinion the most
important reduction Is that on the
rate of carrots. beets and turnipS,
which is sliced about SIS a carload.
There is no change made in
cabbage, although the equalization
Of our rate with that OF Corpus
Christi by raising theirs will prevent
the troubles we have had in the
past" the Mercedes shipper said.
Hall said the estimate OF $50 a car
reduction on vegetables. and $780,
900 annual saving Is approximately
correct.
Hall said the new rates will EN-
courage greater production and
shipments from the Valley during a
normal year. He said he did not be-
lieve the railroads would encounter
any pronounced opposition from
other sections in putting the rates
into effect for next season.
They will not be put into effect
this year.
, 1935-03-22
Port Vital Factor

Development OF deep water trans
portation facilities in the Valley un-
questionably was a vital factor in
influencing the railroads in recon-
mending the reductions. investiga-
ton showed.
One high railroad official visit
ing the Valley Monday with the
group of rate men told a Valley man
that the railroads were preparing 70
make reductions TO meet water
rates. Since such commodities as
citrus. cabbage, potatoes, onions,
and some other vegetables can be
handled readily BY water trans
portation, v e lower rates are con-
sidered certain in the future.
w. <. McDavitt, veteran produce
dealer. said the reductions In rates
announced by the railroads will be
OF tremendous benefit TO the Valley.
He said the reductions will cut about
s35 a a off the Valleys freight bill
on vegetables, as against a sl2 70 SIS
O car this section pays in differen-
tial.
THE most important phase OF the
reduction Is that II places us on a
parity with competing territory,
McDavitt said.
The reductions In most instances
are made through changes in CLASH
fications. and most rates are reduced
TO where they were a year ago, be-
fore they were raised by the Con-
solidated Southwestern case.
, 1935-03-22

lis silk; the businessman was able
10 get IL u~nbeiievably cheap and
undersell the world.
Their Cheap silk became Japan's
blggeSt business and with their
silk profits they set themselves up
in heavy industry. they m%odernized
both Japan and themselves.
, 1935-03-22

Here's a very fine assortment Of
high grade shirts in white, blue or
fancy patterns. Collar attached.
Guaranteed TO give satisfaction
even nc this low price! Sizes I4-l7.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
HOWARD GRIDDERS
IN KEEN STRUGGLE
Scrimmage Line-Ups So Evenly
Matched Coach Refrains
From Naming Team.

TWO Howard University elevens. SO
evenly matched that Coach West
dared not designate a first" team,
started a regular scrimmage yester-
day. which eventuated in a real foot
ball contest" so genuine were the
actions and enthusiasms of the play
ers. Although no names were men,
tened, it is thought that West has a
fair notion of who will be in the line
ups of his two teams, which play a
double-header next Saturday against
Miner and Cheney Teacher Colleges.
Those two contests will open the sea-
son for Howard.
"Giggles" Stallings captained one
team and the regular captain, Hart.
the other, and in the end it was
Stallings' eleven which was on top by
7-6 margin. Stallings started the
fireworks by galloping 10 yards for a
touchdown and adding the game-win-
ming point with placement. john
son. Pryor and Perkins led the come
back of the Hart team, the first
named going over for the touchdown
from the 1-yard line.
Pryor, new man, looked excep-
tionally good, while Oxley's work was
outstanding.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
WILSON TEACHERS
BEATEN IN OPENER
Start Schools Gridiron
Career With $50 Loss
to Shippensburg.
HIPPENSBURJ Pa Septer

~ HIPPENSBURG, Pa. Septem-
Der 28.-Getting a jump on its
opponent by scoring early in
~ the first period. Coach Gulian's
Shippensburg Red and Blue foot ball
team opened its grid season by de-
feating Wilson Teachers of Wash
ington. 80 TO 0, in the first foot ball
game in the history of the Capital
City school.
Shippensburg presented veritable
wall for the Tutors and only on a
few occasions did the invaders pene-
trate deeply the home territory. The
score was 21 to at the half Coach
Gulian sent in a fresh team COM
posed of second and third stringers
in the third period and within 8
minutes after the opening of the
second half, the Red and Blue new
comers had crossed the opposing
goal line for two counters, bringing
the score to 80.
Wilson threatened once when Davis
snatched one of Shippensburg's
laterals and raced II yards before
Sweeney brought him down. Will
sons warriors then lost the ball on
downs.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY
UPSETS CAVALIERS
Overcomes Early Lead to
Defeat Sloppy Virginia
Eleven, IL to 7.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Ine Associated Press.
r UNIVERSITY. Va, September
Sydney Tigers
claWed their way to a 12-
~ tot victory over an over
confident and careless Virginia eleven
this afternoon.
Proverbial underdogs, who have
for more than generation played
the Cavaliers without gaining better
than tie, Hampden-Sydney came
from behind as Harold White
smashed over touchdowns in the
second and fourth quarters.
Harry Martin scored for Virginia
in the hrst five minutes Of play
after Leonard Trell had recovered a
tumble on the 10-yard line.
The Cavaliers attack functioned
well in midfield. but they could not
score because OF their own frequent
fumbling and brilliant defensive
play by the Tigers whenever their
goal line was threatened.
Virginia outgained Hampden-
Sydney by ten first downs to six
The Cavaliers covered l53 yards
with their running attack to "a for
the visitors and added 80 yards or
passes to "a for the Tigers, but the
Cavaliers fumbled frequently ano
tried laterals that went wild five
times for losses or to be recovered
by the visitors.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
RICHMOND HELD TO TIE
Randolph Macon, With Light
z Team, Scores SO Upset.

RICHMOND, Va. September 2S.-
A scrappy Randolph Macon foot ball
team today pulled an upset by hold
ing the Richmond Spiders to SIS
tie. Cleverness and courage enabled
the Jackets, outweighed 20 pounds to
Q man, in achieving the deadlock.
Randolph-Macon scored in the first
period when Paliscak, on a fake re-
verse, tossed pass to Jimmy Bair,
who crossed the Spiders goal line
Richmond didn't tie the score until
the third quarter, when after an ex-
change OF punts Bobby Vaughn, left
halfback, took the ball on his own
35-yard line and raced IS yards down
the sidelines and across the visitors
goal for Richmond's only score.
Richmond drove to the Jackets l.
yard line and again to the l9-yard
marker in the last period, but In each
case sturdy opposing line pushed the
Spiders back Richmond made 10
first downs, Z more than Randolph
Macon.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
DUKE IS IMPRESSIVE
MAILING GAMEC0CKS
Blue Devils Show Big Punch in
Line and Backfeld to Run
Up 40 Score.
pu the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DURHAM, N. C., September zo..
- Dukes power house attack, fronted
by a doughty line that smashed opposi-
ton ruthlessly on offense and defense
proved far too much for a lighter but
scrappy South Carolina eleven here
today and the Blue Devils swept TO an
impressive 47-to-0 triumph.
wallace Wade's men had complete
command of the situation at everv
stage. and but for the dawnmg
moments Of the contest the Palmetto
state eleven never came near the Blue
Devil goal.
Clarance (Ace) Parker, the spear
head of Dukes running attack, led a
long list of ball carriers who piled up
impressive yardage, but it was Elmore
Hackney, a Durham boy. who time
and again brought the 5000 or more
fans to their feet with end sweeps and
elusive running.
Evening star., 1935-09-29
HOLY CROSS SHOWS
I POWER TO WIN, 1870
Conquers Heavy Providence Team
With Overland Marches of
40 and go Yards.

BY the Associated Press.
WORCESTER, Mass, September
w 28.-Holy Cross powerful eleven
smashed its way overland to a
12-to-0 victory over an equally heavy
Providence College team today.
A 44-yard march, featuring sue
cession of slashing runs by Capt.
Nick Morris, brought the first touch
down.
Strong and stubborn on defense,
the Friars checked the Crusader
threats thereafter until the closing
quarter, when another scoring parade
got underway. carrying go yards to
the Friars' goal line.
After each touchdown, Red Kidd.
Crusader quarterback, failed to
convert.