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NAT COMPLETES
ITS 3RD YEAR
Airmail Carrying Concern
Now Ha* 40 Plan* And
35 Expert Pilot*
f8peclal to The Herald)
CHICAGO, May 11.—Its planes
flying 6.500 miles every twenty
four hours. National Air Transport,
carrier of air mail and express be
a f tween New York. Cleveland. Chi
-isro. Kansas City, and Dallas, has
completed three years of opera
tions.
On May 12, 1926. the first reg
ularly scheduled N. A. T. plane
made the first flight over the Chi
cago-Kansas City-Dallas airway.
That was the start of what has
expanded into one of the major
atr transportation systems of the
world.
During its first three years of
existence. National Air Transport
pilots and planes have flown a to
tal of 4.674,343 miles, of which 1,
614.445 miles were at night. While
piling up this tremendous mileage,
N. A. T. planes have carried a to
tal of 2.113,303 pounds of mall and
105.959 pounds of express.
At the close of 1926, N. A. T.
operated a fleet of thirteen planes
and had eight pilots on the payroll.
The daily mileage at that time was
1.990 miles, flown between Chicago
and Dallas. This dally mileage has
Increased to 6.500 miles in three
years. The company now owns a
fleet of modern cargo transport
planes and has thirty-five skilled
pilots to do the fixing, about half
of which is at night
On September 1, 1927. N. A. T.
took over the eastern section of
the transcontinental airway be
tween Chicago and Nesv York, when
the postoffice department turned
over the last of it* atr mall lines
to private contractors. N. A. T.
operates two round trips each
twent"-four hours between Chicago
and New York, the same between
Chicago and Kansas City, and one
round trip dally between Chicago
and Dallas. A short feeder line Is
also operated between Ponca City
and Tulsa. Okla.
The dally mileage of N A T. Is
exclusive of the extra sections op
erated to care for the great in
crease In mall cargoes since the
reduction of the air mail rate to
five rents for the first, ounce and
ten cents for eerh additional ounce.
During the last six months. N. A.
T. has flown three hundred extra
sections to care for the ma*l loads,
mostly over the New’ York-Chlcago
line.
Fourteen stations are maintained
bv N. A. T. bet wren New York and
Dallas, each with a fi^’d manager
L and crew in charge. The comnany
■ £has four division traffic offices,
w V'£,rp each p.t New York. Ch^ngo.
** Kansas City, and Dallas. These
offices are in charge of division
traffic managers.
General offices of the company
are at the Chicago munirinal air
port where N A T. operations are
centered. There too. is located the
general overhaul and repair shops
where scores of skilled workmen
keep the N. A T planes in the
first class condition so necessary In
scheduled air transportation opera
tions.
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KENTUCKY SELECTS ITS BEAUTY CANDIDATES
Winners in a Kentucky-wide beauty contest will compete in Louisville to select the state’s representative
to the Galveston. Texas, beauty pageant June 8-12 Left to right (bottom): Jessie Upton, Corbin; Faye
Owen. Irvine; Sara Brakefield. Ravenna; Cordelia Shearer. Winchester; Garr Butler, Paris; Frances '
Whitaker. Richmond; Frances Kinkaid. Beattyviile; Ruby Lancaster, Versailles. Left to right (above):
Mrs. J. E. Finch, who helped stage the contests; Edna Reid. Barbourville; Frances Ashbrook. Cynthiana;
Violet Nichols. Harrodsburg; Governor Sampson; Marie Duncan. Nicholasville; Helen Hollan, Jackson.
YEARS, ENVIRONMENT
CHANGE VIEWPOINTS
Florence, Who Left For the Big City, and Ellen, Who
Stayed Home, Meet After Fifteen Years, and
Florence Is “So Disappointed in Ellen'*
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By WINIFRED BLACK
Florence Is disappointed—terribly.
Not long ago Florence had the opportunity of going back to her
home city and her first thought on learning she was to go was that she
would see her old friend Ellen.
Florence and Ellen had been girlhood friends
and had always kept up a sort of desultory corres
V*v!mce—exchanging a card at Easter and Thanks
giving—and at Christmas time Florence would send
Ellen something she had picked up in the Latin
quarter or Chinatown, and Ellen would send Flor
ence a hand-made dresser -scarf with a crocheted
edge that Ellen had spent many hours making.
Both girls had married and lived many, many
m urt, staying in the same city and
Florence moving away to a large western city.
Florence had opened an attractive office in a
large downtown building and bad built up a some
what lucrative business. •
I met Florence on the street the other day and
afu-r hearing all about her trip. I asked her if she
found Ellen had changed any.
WINIFRED BLACK There were almost tears in her eyes when she
answered:
"Changed?—not a bit—there are the :ame neighbors—the neighbor's
children are growing up and she knows all the family quarrels, even how
many kittens the Maltese down the street has and to whom they're to be
given when they get a little older.!
And Ifad I heard about tly awful
time the Browns were having with
their oldest boy?
•Oh, yes, she reads the papers and
knows generally what is going on
in the world, but she's not m the
least bit interested.
-Her world is in a small circle
just around her neighborhood. How
in the world can a person live 15
years and not change?—I’ve always
heard if we don’t go forward we go
backward-well. Ellen has certainly
not gone forward—to my way of
thinking.
-No," Florence continued, “she ha3
no lines in her face and her eves
are serene and her hair has hardly
any gray in it at all. She is just
I happy and contented and that’s all
•one can say about her.”
As I left Florence I wondered
what there was about Ellen to so
disappoint her.
Now Florences face—well, you
don’t, know much about It. after all,
for you never see her without the
makeup—and Florence's hair is dis
tinctly grav and sometimes I no
tice a haunted look In Florences
eves—as if the world Is not such a
gentle place to live In. after all.
When you're In bulsness. it is a
fight to keep a little ahead of the
game, you know.
I don’t believe I’d be disappointed
In Ellen if I were Florence—some
how I’m afraid I'd be a little bit
envious—what do you think about
it?
To Discuss Soil And
Water Conservation
At A. & M. Conference
COLLEGE STATION. May 11.—
A conference at which soil and wa
ter conservation will be discussed
will be held at A. & M. college June
20-21. T. O. Walton, president of the
college, announced. The meeting
will be under the auspices of the in
stitution.
*The purpose of the conference.”
Mr. Walton said, “will be to develop
discussion and to map out a broad
and comprehensive pogram for
greater economic utilization of the
farming lands of the southwest. All
Institutions and Interests concerned
with the fullest development of land
in this great farming region will be
asked to participate.
MANY ATTEND ROOF
DANCE AT EDINBURG
EDINBURG. May 11.—Approxi
mately 400 dancers from practically
every town In the Lower Rio Grande
Valley attended the opening dance
at the Klossner Roof Friday night.
Music was furnished by the Joy
Brlngers orchestra.
This was one of the largest crowds
that has ever attended the roof
dances, which are held each sum
mer. It was announced by the man
agement. Dances will be held once
each week throughout the summer.
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Beautiful Yards
Award To Be Made
At Thursday Meet
Prizes in the yard beautification
contest sponsored by the Civic
League will be awarded at the
monthly meeting of the club on
Thursday of this week, according to
an announcement by Mrs. Albert
Smith, chairman of the beautifi
cation committee.
The yards will be Judged at some
time during the week, and will be
awarded prizes on the basis of gen
eral improvement and beautifica
tion. The number and value of the
prizes will not be announced until
after the awards are made.
There are about 60 yards listed in
the contest, which opened in Feb
ruary. The contest is an annual
affair. In connection with the civic
beautification which Is one of the
chief aims of the Civic league
Prizes are being donated by busi
ness firms and citizens of Browns
ville.
SCHREINER INSTITUTE
HAS VALLEY CLUB
('Special to The Herald.)
KERRVILLE. May 11—The Rio
Grande Valley club at Schreiner In
stitute. Is closing an active semester,
according to Bill Cannon, of Mis
sion. club president. The club was
newly organized after January 1,
with Marvin Downs of Alamo as
vice president and Albert Strahle of
Mission as secretary-treasurer. Oth
er members incldue Ralph Archer,
Lyford; Carl Evans. Phcrr; John
Haden. McAllen; Bill Hinkly. San
Benito; Bill Hensley. Pharr; Frank
Kibbe. Brownsville: Mack McDaniel.
McAllen; and Tom Sammons, Mis
sion.
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DEMSDENOUNCE
TARIFF BILL
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G. O. P. Measure Is Termed
Monstrosity And In
defeasible’
WASHINGTON, May 11.—<jp)—
Aware that movements were being
made to smooth out differences in
its ranks, the republican house
membership sat silently today while
Rainey of Illinois, democratic mem
ber of the ways and means commit
tee. delivered a denunciation of the
tariff bill framed by the republican
members of that committee.
The Illinois member termed the
measure a “Monstrosity without
parallel and indefensible In nearly
every paragraph,” and expressed the
hope that Pres Hoover would have
strength enough to “veto this bill
which so openly violates his wishes.
At the same time Byrns, demo
crat. Tenness-e. declared it already
had bepn m*»dc clear that the demo
crats in both the house and senate
would stand solidly against the "un
precedented and far-reaching pro
posals in the administrative section”
cf the bill and that It was likely
many republicans would join them
in opposing “the proposed surrender
of constitutional power" to the pres
ident.
Prior to the opening of the third
day of general debate. Chmn. Haw
ley of the ways and means com
mittee announced after a confer
ence with Dickinson, republican,
Iowa, that republicans on the com
mittee would hear any suggestions
from house members for changes in
the bill, and if found warranted
these would be offered cn the floor
as committee amendments.
Dickinson has been leading a
movement among rcDublicans from
ten Western states for ooportunity
to offer amendments to the agricul
tural schedule.
In his scourging address Rainev
further charged that the present
chief justice of the United States
supreme court was receiving $10,000
a year “in semi-annual Installments
from the steel trust in direct viola
tion of his own code of ethics which
he himseif drew for the American
Bar association.**
Representative Crnwther of New
York, republican member of the
ways and means committee, defend
ed the tariff bill, but sa.^ there were
several matters he hoped the house
would remedy.
The New York member said he
thought a duty should be imposed
on hides, leather and shoes.
Crowther also said in response to
a question of Rep. Gamer of Texas,
minority leader, that he would favor
a duty on oil.
PILOTS HAVE RETURNED
FROM BORDER AIR DUTY
GALVESTON. May 19 —m—Pilots
of the 19th squadron. United States
air service, have returned from bor
der patrol duty in Arlsona, and are
preparing their planes for annual
spring maneuvers at Wright field.
Dayton. Ohio.
Major John H. Jouett. command
ing officer, has qualified as an ex
pert serial guneryman. a rare dis
tinction among high officers of the
air corps.
KANSAS FLOOD
TAKES 2 LIVES
Third Man Missing After
Torrential Rain Inun
dates Towns
TOPEKA. Kan. May 11 —
Flood waters from torrential rains
today swept four Kansas towns and
brought death to two persons, but
late today generally were receding.
Jesus Medina and Elico Redri
gura. Mexican railroad workers, were
swept to death from the top of a
floating garage at Herington.
Telephone conversation with
Council Gorve told of heroic rescues
of persons stranded by Ewirling wa
ters. The water reached a depth of
two to three feet in Main street
business buildings.
W. L. Young, mayor of Council
Grove, accompanied by Walter
Leigh, using a garage door for a
raft, rescued Mr. and Mrs. William
Lara more and two children mar
ooned in a tree top from 7:45 a. m
until 2:45 p. m.
The fragile craft would accommo
date but three persons at a time.
Gypsum and Lindsborg, in the
central part of the state, were in
undated by near cloudbursts.
A third Mexican was said to be
missing at Herington.
Boats were at a premium and were
being hurried to Gypsum across the
farm lands in trucks. Several boats
weer sent from Salina.
Transportation also was hampered
seriously.
Property loss will be high. Be
tween 100 and 200 homes in addition
to busine-s houscse, were flodoed at
Council Grove.
Several persons were In hospitals
at Herington suffering from expo
sure and injuries.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs Fred Grote and Dr.
and Mrs. C. Sauer are here from,
San Antonio for the week-end.
W. T. Kern is here from Houston.
Frank W. Lyon and F. R. Day are
here from Dallas.
W. L. McConnell. Curtis Douglas
and Misses Lucille Douglas and Na
dine Clark were in town Saturday.
Misses Modena Roberts cf San
Antonio. Vivian Gould and Bee
Morgan of Houston are guests at
E! Jardin.
Louis Stern is here from New
York
Faul Chadirk of Mercedes was in
the city Saturday.
W. R. Gilliland is here from Su
gar Land.
Mr and Mrs. R. L. Oakes are
here from Dallas.
H. and D. R. Robertson of St.
Louis are registered at El Jardin.
R. B. Sturm and W. J Walsh are
here from Washington. D. C.
R. B. Douglas and Alfred Mathews
are here from Laredo.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ny of Corpus
Christi are here for the week-end.
and arc stopping at El Jardin.
W. N. Newmand of Denver is
stooping at the Travelers.
C. J. Finney of Gillette, Wvo, is
In the city.
Mr. and Mrs Frank Hanuck are
here from New York.
Jack P. Sampson is here from San
Antonio.
Paul Ehlers of La Pryor is here.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Carr of San An
tonio are «ruest at the Travelers.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralnh Devine and
son of Corpus Christi and Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Devine of Hannibal.
Mo., arc visiting here.
Lee B. Meller is registered at the
Travelers from San Antonio.
SCOUT TRAINING
SAVES BOY’S LIFE
JEFFERSON. Texas. May 1.—ttp\
Scout, training enabled Edward
Preston. 15. to have the life of his
chum. Henry Badger. 14. when the
two boys were traoped bv falling
earth in a cave they were build
ing.
Badger was Injured by falling
rock which Dinned him down, while
sand and gravel covered his body
Preston, free to move about, but
whose exit was blocked, went to
work.
He could see nothing but Badger’s
hand, but he calculated the position
of his chum and quickly uncovered
rrenry’s face, that the latter could
breathe. This done he wriggled out
of the cave and ran for help, which
arrived in time to free Henry, be
fore further falls of rock and earth.
Badger is not seriously Injured.
The Rio Grande Valley
Chiropractors Association
Directory
Dr. A. G. Anderson
114 W. Washington St Phone
470-J. Harlingen
Dr. Simon Beller
Brandon Bldg. Phone 109.
WVslaco
Dr. Myrtle K. Cook
State Nat'L Bank Bldg. Phone
703. Brownsville
Drs. Gohman &
Gohman
2 BIK*. N. Courthouse and H
Blk. E. Phone 179 Edinburg
Drs. T. A. & Loia C.
Lensgraf
San Juan, Texas. Phone 101
->rs. T. A. & Helen
Lensgraf
219 Indiana. Phone 209.
Weslaco
Drs. Watson & Johnson
Smith Bldg. Phone 145. Donna
Dr. J. A. Mainus
Brandon Bldf. Phone 195.
Weslaco
Dr. J. L. Patterson
Vela Bldg. Phone 290. Misakm
Dr. J. M. Peery
354 E. Landrum. Phone 492.
San Benito
prs. Pester & Pester
472 N. Sam Houston Bird.
San Benito. Texas
Dr. C. Ranzell
Cromack Bldf. Phono 756.
Brownsville
Dr. Luzia M. Truog
1320 S. Broadway. Phone 345.
McAllen
Dr. W. W. Woods
Cor. 9th and Cherokee Cts.
Phone 172. Pharr
Chiropractic will “Get you well and
keep you well”
3 YOUNG DUCKS
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ARE ADOPTED BY
* * *
BIG MOTHER CAT
DALLAS. May 11.—<*>}—Mother
cats have been reported as having
adopted rabbits, mice and the
such.
Now, a big. black cat, owned by
Mrs. J. M. Martin of Dallas, has
adopted a family of ducklings.
When the cat s kittens were
born recently she lugged them to
a corner in a barn. At the same
time Mrs. Martin reported she had
a setting of duck eggs hatching.
Almost immediately three of the
ducklings disappeared, Mrs. Mar
tin said. Three days later they
were found in the mother cat s
nest along with her kittens.
Since then. Mrs. Martin said
she had had several other settings
hatched, and that the big cat has
taken the same motherly attitude
towards the latest arrivals.
KING’S FREAK
DUE SUNDAY
Negro-Gorilla, Played Up
By Pres*, May Be
Shown Here
W. A. (Snake) King's half negro
half gorilla, heralded over the
United States in a Paris cablegram
to the Cmcago Tribune shortly be
fore King's departure for the U.
S.. Is due to arrive in Brownsville
Sunday morning by rail.
King, owner of Snakeville here
which furnishes animals to cir
cuses over the entire world, is re
turning from Europe and Africa
after delivering a consignment of
Mexican animals to the roval zoo of
Italy. According to the Parts dis
patch. King succeeded in smuggling
a half negro-half gorilla from the
French Congo.
King declares that this mixture
is not infrequent in the French
Congo but that none is ever allow
ed to leave the African country by
the authorities if they can prevent
it. King says his captive is the
onlv one ever to be brought out
of the jungles to the United States.
It is said to have numerous human
attributes and is very intelligent.
The Chicago Tribune played up
King s cablegram, using it on page
one.
King has not announced whether
the negro-gorilla will be on dls
| play at Snakeville.
DIPLOMAS PRESENTED
AT RIO GRANDE SCHOOL
(Special to The Herald)
RIO GRANDE CITY. May 11.—
With a well-planned and interesting
program given Thursday night at
the Dreamland theater, the gradu
ating exercises of the Rio Grande
public school were held.
George Lund, high school gradu
ate. was presented with a diploma
being the first eleventh grade
graduate. Thirteen grammar school
pupils received certificates of pro
motion.
The high school students present
ed a two-act play honoring the
graduates entitled "Junior Jum.”
DOCTOfTlEAVES ROMA
FOR SANTONE PLACE
(Special to The Herald.)
ROMA. May 11.—This flourishing
community will be without a doctor
after this week when Dr. G. H.
Cope, surgeon in the U. S. Public
Health Sen-ice. together with Mrs.
Cope, leaves for San Antonio where
he goes to assume new responsi
bilities in one of the San Antonio
hospitals. Dr. Cope has been in
Roma fcr nearly two years. Dr.
Martin, surgeon at the Rio Orande
station, will be in charge of both
ports until a surgeon is appointed
for Roma.
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W. R MONTGOMERY
!» Af^rney at Law |i
; i President Hidalgo Guarantee |t
Abstract Company '< I
Edinburg State Bank Bldg.,
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0. S. PLANES
MOVE ON OHIO
Greatest Assemblage of Fly
ing Craft Ever Known
To Be Gathered
COLUMBUS. O.. May 11—
The pride of the nation’s military
air power—the crack units of the
air corps—was moving on Ohio to
night to take part in the air
ground maneuvers May 15 to
May 25.
The concentration will include
more than 200 airplanes, the
greatest peace time gathering of
armed aircraft in the nation s his
tory. They are winging their way
from Pacific and Atlantic sea-]
boards, from the North and South.
to Wright Field. Dayton, and
Norton Field. Columbus.
Along with aerial tactics, and
bombless bombing raids, there will
be aerial reviews and spectacular
demonstrations as features of the
mimic war.
Ohio has been divided into two
states—the Red and the Blue
The problem for the maneuver is
the attack of the Blue armv upon
Columbus. Ohio, the capital *of the ;
Red state.
One of the features of the ma
neuver is to be a non-stop flight
from Fairfield. Ohio, to New York
and return.
The maneuvers will bring to Ohio
many of the foremost figures in
America’s military aviation, and
observers of many foreign countries
as well.
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Lo* Fresnos ’Phone
Exchange Is Opened
With 40 Stations
SAN BENITO. May 1! —The
Los Fresnos telephone exchange
was opened for business Saturday,
with 40 telephone connections.
Los Fresnos has been handled as
a rural line out of San Benito in
the past. The exchange is under
supervision of San Benito’s eeneral
office, with Mrs E. B Waller in
active charge at Los Fresnos.
Rates from San Benito and
Brownsville to Los Fresnos are th4
same as from San Benito to Har
lingen.
United Spanish War
Veterans Organise
Camp Wood At Laredo
LAREDO, May 3*
its objective the renew tag o# friend
ships made Ip the day rtf m tv*,
ing alter disabled comrades and
their widows and working for Instil
lation to fire vets and their families
just * compensation, the Leonard
Wood camp. United Spar... u war
veterans, has been organumi hem.
The ramp has 16 charter members,
and an effort will be made to in
crease this number by tnconrac-rg
others tn this secUoo eligfbk to.
Join the organisation.
Dr. J. A. Simpson was aSeeted
commander.
HOUSTONLEADS
IN BUILDING
Fort Worth Runs Poor Sec
ond In Permits Issued
For Week
DALLAS. May II .—■<*» -Mmujca
continued the terrific budding page
it has set since the first, cf the yaar.
with the result that permits thesw
totalled more i liars twice as much as
those of Fort Worth, second Mfbni
un the state this week Heurter.g
total for the year now Is more than
15 million, six ml* km more than ,
San Antonio's and IP million more *
than either Fcrt Worth or Daia*.
The compilation foe the week:
Last Year
Week To Date
Houston ...S7SI.4M IlMOMM
Fort Worth .293 7® 4JMM.7W
Dallas . 146 030 t.tlgJTS
Lubbock . 74.110 XlMJNB
Beaumont . 47.130 l lglJBS ?
Austin . 40366 *04,460
Wichita Palls ... 36.T80 Sit.ITS
San Aneclo . 30 AM KM. 114
Pampa . 3,10(1 £12.639
Corpus Christ! .. 3240 60931
Oalve-ton . 15 M0 093J00
Waco . 630290
Amarillo . 12,425 «7r»T»
Platnview . KVft» 99fl MO
Sherman . 7 440 n«4jo
Greenville . 4.onn 610111
Corsican*. S30 222,430
04 SOLD EVERYWHERE gg,
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