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SEWER BLAST
ROCKSBOSTON
^5 Explosion Injures
40; Windows, Pav
ing Wrecked
I BOSTON, Feb. 15.—iff*/—Terrific
•xplo*i°n« o; sewer gas in the heart
oi the downtown shopping district,
which sent street paving, manhole
cover*, and ahattered plate glass
hurtling into the air, injured 40 per
f**** **** y*»terday. Thousand* of
home-going commuters escaped ia a
wild dash for subway entrances.
More than a score were given emer
gency treatment at hospitals.
Four explosions followed in suc
cession in the vicinity of Chauncey
and Summer atreets. Fire raced
along underground conduits.
Firemen with gas masks attacked
the flames roaring from the man
holes.
Police attributed the explosions to
a short circuit of electric power
conduit.*. Snow and ice had sealed
the vents in the covers which ordi
narily permitted gases to escape.
saysjustTce
SERVED BEER
Attorney Telit Okla
homa Probers of
‘Dutch Lunch*
OKLAHOMA CITY. Feb. 15.-<jP>—
While the wheels of Oklahoma's im
peachment mill grind slowly through
a mass of technical straw, investi
gators of the house of representa
tives sub-committee investigating
the judiciary are having their ses
sions enlivened by tales of a "dutch
lunch” at which the justice of the
state supreme court is purported to
have served "home brew.”
John W. Sartin of Seminole coun
ty, testified before the sub-commit
tee that when he went to the home
of J. W. Clark, supreme court jus
tice. with an attorney, to consult
the justice ebout appealing a case,
a "Dutch lunch” with "home brew"
was served. Ira J. Banta, Wewoka
attorney, who was representing him
m the case, accompanied him to the
justice’s house, Sartin testified, and
told him Justice Clark h.d assured
him the case would be reversed on
appeal.
Will Montgomery, another witness,
testified Sartin had told him he
iSartin) had gone to the home of
Justice Clark and that the judge had
furnished a bachelor’s supper, with
“home brew of his own make.” Sar
tin told him. Montgomery also testi
fied. that Justice Clark had told
the attorney “Let your case come up
to my court and I’ll reversa it.”
The statement of H. Tom Right,
Rogers county legislator and mem
ber of the board of managers prose
cuting Henry S. Johnston, suspend
ed governor on 11 articles of im
peachment, that the house managers
will attempt to close their case
against Johnston early next week,
brought from defense counsel a limit
of S3 witnesses the defense intends
to summon.
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hard water with Melo and no scum
forms.
Water soltened with Melo is a won
der! ul cleaner, with or without soap.
It makes the soap much more effective,
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ordinarily used. Melo only costs 10
cents a ran. You ran afford to buy 3
cans and keep one in the kitchen, one
in the laundry, and one in the bath
room. Get it at your grocer's.
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Are we becoming a
nation of cookie'snitchers? !
EThe power of Sunshine destroy the most glorious
Hydrox cookie-sandwiches biscuit recipe in sll the world
over the average man's ap- just because it’s nullifying
petite is almost sinfuL It the Book of Etiquette . ..
makes husbands pilfer pan- no ma’am ... you’ll always
tries ... It makes them find Sunshine Hydrox at
reach at table or take two your grocer’s in charming
at a time .. bon-bon packages ... or by
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KIWANIS BACK
CELEBRATION
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Enlarged Recreation
al Facilities Urged
By Dr. Pammel
Full support of the chamber of
commerce in the airport celebration
Feb. 25 was pledged by the Browns
ville Kiwanis club at its meeting
Thursdsjr.
The club will aid the celebration in
every way possible, officers say.
The meeting was featured by an
address on city recreation facilities
by Dr. L. if? Pammel, widely known
head of the department of botany at
Iowa State College, Ames.
The visitor strongly urged that
these facilities be increased. He said
the Valley has numerous historical
sites that ahould be preserved, men
tioning the battlefields of Resaca de
las Palmas, Palto Alto and numerous
spots along the old military highway.
These could easily be combined into
historical monuments and recreation
spots at onte, the professor stated.
Dr. Pammel read excerpts from The
Brownsville Herald. Houston Post
Dispatch and the Daily Oklahoman in
bringing out his points. One stated
that a city that had spread out and
put up skyscrapers but failed to pro
vide recreation facilities for it* in
creasing population had failed to
progress.
He endorsed the park policy of
states. Sinee Dr. Pammel has been a
member of the Iowa park body, 40 of
the state's 45 parks have been estab
lished. The professor also recited
statistics on national parks intended
to show that local facilities should be
increased. Dr. Pammel emphasised
his opinion that some park typical
of the lower Rto Grande should be
established.
The noted professor is very favor
ably impressed with the Valley. This
la his first trip to Texas since he
worked on a cotton root rot survey
41 year* ago. He expect* to remain
in the Valley until the middle of
March. Mrs. Pammel is here with
the college herd.
Due to the claim agents conven
tion, the musical program of the club
was continued until next week.
Four visitors were presented.
Hoover Starting
Study of Florida
Flood Situation
MIAMI BEACH. Fla.. Feb. 15.—<**)
—President-elect Hoover left bis va
cation home on Belle Ise at 8:30 a.
in., today for a two days' automobile
trip through the Lake Okeechobee
district of Florida.
He is making the journey at the
invitation of Governor Doyle E. Carl
ton so he may have a close up view
of the conditions which in the view
ei Florida officials call for federal
aid both for flood control and the
improvement of navigation.
With him were the governor who
arrived at Miami early today, and
! who was a breakfast guest of Mr.
Hoover: members of ihe Florida
drainage board, and Representative
Frank R. Reid of Illinois, chairman
of the flood control committee of
the house of representatives.
Major General Edgar Jadwin. chief
of army engineers, who already has
proposed to congress an appropria
tion of more than seven million
dollars for flood control in the Ever
glade district, waj to join the party
rear Canal Point, on Lake Okeecho
bee. as he made a special trip from
Washington in order to accompany
ELIHU ROOT TO SAIL
TO WORLD COURT MEET
NEW YORK. Fab. 15.—<iP>— Elihu
Root, who is 84 years old today, will
sail for Europe at midnight on the
Italian liner Augustus to accept an
invitation of the League of Nations
to sit with jurists to revise the
statute of the world court. Al
though not acting as a representa
tive of the United States govern
ment, he is expected while in Eur
ope to try informally to l&y the
groundwork for acceptance of the
American reservation*.
RATE TO SAN ANTONIO
IS OFFERED BY S. P.
A low round trip fare of 813.65
from Brownsville to San Antonio
has been granted by the Southern
Pacific Lines for th# International
Exposition and Liva Stock Show,
which will be held there from March
1 to 7, it was announced by Wills
J. Carter, assistant general freight
and passenger agent.
Tickets will be on sale Feb. 77 and
26, and will hava a return limit of
March 10.
This round trip far# is one and
one-third way fare. Half fare on the
same basis has been granted for
children.
In Legislature
(By the Associatet Prase)
Thursday:
Senate prison bills set for spe
cial order Monday.
House passed pharmacy bill.
Revised bill prohibiting seining
inlets on Texas coast passed by
senate.
Highway department investigation
recessed until neat Wednesday.
Land office investigation -“cessed
subject to rail after all day session.
Give Your Child
Enough Vitamins
For Good Health
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Valet Pays Big
Fine On Liquor;
Chrysler Silent
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HONOLULU, Feb. 15.—(A*)—Wil
liam Reid, who came to Hawaii aa
valet to Walter P. Chrysler, Amer
ican automobile magnate, was out
81 bottles of assorted liquors and
$405 in cash today because the
eighty-second bottle broke.
Mr. and Mrs. Chrysler and their
daughter Bernice and son Walter
P., Jr., arrived here on the steam
er Malolo from San Francisco Wed
nesday for a short vacation enroute
to the Far East.
When the Chrysler luggage was
being removed from the boat there
were certain bags that Reid re
fused to let porters handle. He
took them off himself. An odor
of liquor attracted the attention of
suspicious customs officers. The
bags were found to contain whis
key, gin, rum and champagne. The
odor came from a broken whiskey
bottle.
A fine of $5 a Dottle was levied
on the valet. Reid appeared at
the customs office yesterday and
paid $405 at that rate. He did not
say to whom the liquor belonged.
Mr. Chrysler made no comment
for publication.
CLAlAGENTS
FINISH TODAY
Delegates to Wind Up
Sessions With
Banquet
Delegates attending the conven
tion of the Southwestern Claim
Agents’ association, in session here
since Wednesday, will adjourn with
a banquet Friday night at the Mata
moros Cafe. No business session
was scheduled for the day, the
agents leaving for a tour of the
lower Valley at »:30 o’clock.
Guests of the Brownsville Cham
ber of Commerce, the agents were
taken in automobiles to San Benito,
Harlingen, LaFeria and to towns in
Hidalgo county. On the way they
were given an opportunity to in
spect packing plants along the
tracks of the Missouri Pacific ard
Southern Pacific railways.
At noon luncheon was served at
Weslaco, after which the trip back
to this city was to oegin. ft also
is planned to show the visitors sev
eral citrus orchards and the return
will be a leisurely one. returning
here about 4 o'clock, for the ban
quet which will begin at 8 o’clock.
Delegates are to leave for their
home towns tonight.
On Thursday night the claim
agents. Valley shippers and their
wives were guests at a banquet
served at the El Jardin hotel. The
Missouri Pacific and Southern Pa
cific railways were hosts.
Appreciation at services rendered
and with present conditions as to
adjustment of claims, was expressed
by Valley shippers, short talks be
ing made by Cleve Tandy of Tandy
A Sons. Brownsville, and Davis
Wade of Wade A Newton, San Be
nito.
Suggestion as to improvement as
equipment was made by Tandy, who
urged that better cars for handling
truck and vegetables be used.
He recommended that cars he
equipped with at least 10,000 pounds
ice bunkers, such improvement, he
contended, woutd help to bring truck
to its destination in better condi
tion.
Announce Close
Of Shary Tract
MISSION, Feb. 15.—Roy Olmsted,
manager of the Southwestern Land
company of Dallas, today announced
the closing out of the 600-acre Shary
tract north of Mission, extending
from the three-mile to the five-mile
line. This tract, which is said to be
one of the Valley's premier citrus
developments, is all irrigated by un
derground pipes.
The tract had been on the market
only three months. Mr. Olmsted said
and was sold off in tracts ranging
from four to ten acres.
Much interest has been manifest in
this tract by developers and irriga
tion men over the Valley, as it was
the first to have an extensive under
ground irrigation system. The water
system was put in by Campbell 6
Congdon, local engineers.
—
Day in Congress
Friday:
Senate takes up Jones bill to in
crease maximum penalty for prohi
bition violations.
House considers private calendar
and special rules.
Judiciary committee of house has
up Legunardia resolution for in
vestigation of charges of Federal
Judge Winslow.
Thursday:
Senate rejected Caraway bill.
House passed legislative appro
priation bill.
House military affairs committee
reported out Madden Muscle Shoalt
kill.
I Dora
t come!
Teday, and every day, a let oi
women count their time to suffer
As regularly os the months ecrac
'round, comet pain that is borne In
silence. "It’s Nature,” women suy
But it isn’t!
Women who hare always bad the
hardest time, have no pain nt all
from the day they discover Midol.
Midol is the special preparatior
of specialists, and is not a narcotic.
It does nothing to the menstrual
process. It does stop the pain—<i
five to seven minutes! So it is only
common sense to use it. And i1
rests just fifty cents, at any drag
■tors in tiny carrying ease of alum
inuau
O WARNED
OF DERELICT
'Mad Oiler’ Taken Off
Alloway In Uni
Mak Past
SEATTLE, Feb. II.—</p>—Warning
that the disabled freighter Allo
*iy was adrift and menacing navi
gation at Unimak Pass, Aleutian
islands, was broadcast by the naval j
radio station here today after un
successful efforts had been made by
the coast guard cuttsr Chelan to
tow her to safety.
The hopes of James L. Posey, of
Seattle, oiler, and storekeeper of
the Alloway, of receiving a gener
ous reward in salvage because ha
stayed with his ship after the other
S3 members of the crew had been
rescued, received a setback as the
Chelan reported the derelict had
ben lost in the fog and darkmss.
Posey was called "the mad oiler
of the Alloway" because he refused
to leave the ship last Tuesday as a
fierce storm drove her toward the
rocks of Oiktak island. After serv
ing single-handed for two days as
the captain end crew of the freight
er Posey was taken aboard tha Che
lan last night. The Chelan’s physi
cians pronounced him physically and
mentally sound.
The Alloway, e freighter carrying
a cargo of 1,000,000 feet of lumber
and 600 tons of wheat, was bound for
Japan to be scrapped when the
storm overtook her last week. At
tempts of the steamers Bronnoy
and Montauk to tow her were un
successful. Tuesday night all of
the erew except Posey took to life
boats and wore picked up by the
Montauk. Posey refused to leave
t’ e ship.
The Montauk, believing the AIlo
wey would be dashed to piects and
that Posey, crazed lv the storm,
would go with it, .teamtd away to
Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
Posey located the emergency radio
set of the Alloway and without ex
peritnce in operating it, managed to
keep the air full of meaningless
dots and dashes for two days.
Meanwhile the Chelan went to his
rescue.
Son Born to Mr.
And Mrs. Alamia
An eight pound son was born to
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Alamia at the
family home at 714 Adams streat
Friday morning at 5:40 o’elock. The
baby was named for his grandfath
er. John B. Alamia. Both mother and
child are doing well.
Believed to have set a record, in
surance wgp procured foT the boy
through the W. O. W. lodge within
several hours after his birth.
This is the third child born to the
family.
England to Seek
More Naval Cuts
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-CAV
Sir Esme Howard, the British am
bassador announced today that Great
Britain soon would intimata efforts
to bring about further limitation of
ruvil armaments between the prin*
eipal naval powers of the world.
The delay in congressional pass
age of the fifteen cruiser construc
tion bill had retarded British ef
forts toward further disarmament,
the ambassador said, but now that
the measure is enacted ho held the
ground was cleared for new discus
sions. Any new parleys, he said,
would certainly proceed on the as
sumption that the recently author
ised cruisers would be built.
NOTED PHYSICIAN VISITS VALLEY
Dr. and Mr*. H. A. Lyle tf Chero
kee, Okla. art spending a*few days
in the Valley as guests of Mr. and
Mra. W. C. Coleman at La Feria.
They spent the day in Brownsville.
Dr. Lyle is one of the most prom
inent physicians of northern Okla
homa. After leaving tha Valley they
will go to Florida and Cube.
Southwest Girls
Want Dean Fired;
She’s Too Strict
SAN MARCOS, Tex., Feb. 15.—(&)
_Two hundred students of South
west Texas State Teachers collage
demanded resignation of Miss Mary
C. Brodgen, dean of women, in *
mass meeting here last night.
Nineteen cherge* were preferred
against the dean, who haa been at
the school for a number of years.
These, accompanied by a petition
will be presented to Dr. C. E. Evans,
president of tho college.
Among the complaints art that
Miss Brogden will not permit girls
to walk through ^>wn on Sunday
afternoon*, too rigid regulations
with regard to dato alips for first
year girla, refusal to allow girls to
talk with boys except during date
hour*, holding girla responsible for
the conduct of their visitors, pro
hibiting girls from meeting their
brothers, prohibiting clubs from
meeting after six p. m.
OTYELECnON
(Continued from page one.)
he was joined by each of the com
missioners and the mayor.
In discussing the proposed bond
issue it was pointed out that the
short-time warrants carry 6 per
cent interest, one of the earlier is
sues bearing 7 per cent. These could
be retired with long-period 5 to 5 1-2
per cent bonds, it was stated, and
would cease to be a heavy burden
on taxpayers.
The suggestion was made that the
city commission confer with finan
cial leaders of the city, and it is
probable that definite action will be
taken at the next regular meeting.
A petition presented by the Mis
souri Pacific Lines for a franchise
to construct a switch track in the
alley between St. Francis and Fron
ton streets to Third street, receiv
ed favorable action from the com
mission. A report showed that the
majority of property owners affect
ed had no objection.
Another petition from the same
railroad requesting permit to con
struct a second crossing across
Fourteenth street in Victoria addi
tion was opposed in a petition signed
by 35 residents of El Jardln and
presented by C. L. Hunter, manager
of the El Jardin water district. The
city commission deferred action un
til the next meeting.
The old Alice road adjoining the
Los Ebanos addition was closed by
a formal vote of the commission
upon application of property own
ers.
The matter of radio interference
as the result of faulty wiring on the
city’s lines was discussed briefly,
and a committee composed of W. H.
Williams, former manager of the
electrie plant; R. L. Green ?„nd
George C. Meyer, city electrician,
was appointed to make a survey of
the city system and discover the
cause. The city has recaived many
complaints from owners of radio
sets who state that the interference
it often so great as to render their
sets useless.
Box Bill Passed
By U. S. House
WASHINGTON. Feb. IB.——
Without a record vote, the house to
day passed the Box bill to make
more stringent the regulations gov
erning the entry into the United
States of persona coming as visitors
to seek employment. The measure
now goes to the senate.
BOOTLEGGER RAID NETS
RICH PATRONS* NAMES
NEW YORK. Feb. 15.—(*V- Pro
hibition authorities had in their pos
session today a list of wealthy per
sons who they believe were patrons
of a raided firm of bootlegger*.
Raiding the premises of the Mon
roe Lamp and Equipment company
in Manhattan and the International
Postal Supply company in Brook
lyn, the agents said they not only
found the customer list hut 1500.000
in high grade liquors and documents
indicating the firms supplied the
bulk of the liquor for big dinners
and social affairs.
uture famous leaders
who eat Ralston
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Precious
little bundle
of energy ...yet
so helpless ... so de
pendent on you to help him
grow to be a strong and healthy
man.
The matter of his food is vitally
important. Careful mothers give
their youngsters Ralston . . . be
cause it provides vitamins for life
and growth, proteins for firm flesh,
mineral salts for strong bones and
sound teeth, carbohydrates for halt
and energy, and bran for proper
elimination.
Babies need all the food valuta con
tained in Ralston. So do growing
; children. Serve it tomorrow. It's
| easily prepared in a few minutes.
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[ Per JU&y—OrangeJvte^Rataoe with Cream.
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Structure Begun
At San Benito
SAN BENITO, Feb. 15.—Construc
tion work on a $15,000 business
building for the Rio Grand* Hard
ware company here has been started.
The new building is to be 50 by
120 feet, and ia located at North
Sam Houston boulevard and Hay
wood street. It is being built by
Frank T. Phillips.
The company, which now s locat
ed on South Sam Houston boulevard,
expects to move to its new home
about April 1.
BABY BLOWN INTO POND
I.EMONT, 111.—A perambulator
containing a baby was blown into a
deep pand here, but the child was
rescued.
toughs...
quick action
plus safety
The Special Tacschcer Process,
bv which PERTUSSIN is made, has
created a quicker and safer coug*
remedv. It loosens the phlegm, soothes
the irritation and quiets the cough by
removing the immediate cause. Because
it is free from Dope, it is harmless, evea
for little children. That is why Dtxtors
have prescribed it for 35 years.
Ask asry dmcfr tr druggist
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BABY DESERTED ON TRAIN
CHICAGO.—An abandoned girl
baby was found on a train arriving
here from St. Louis.
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