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1 « Car Enthusiastically Ac* cepted, Buick Dealers Say In Telegrams - -- The new Marquette has met with j the enthusiastic approval of the mo- i torlng public from the Atlantic i Seaboard to the Pacific coast. This . is indicated by the telegraphed re- « porta of Buick dealers throughout the country to the factory at Flint ] Mich., which give evidence that: more than a million persons visited : the Buick show rooms throughout ; the country June 1st. to see the I companion car for the first time | Buick officials say the presentation of this new medium priced car has : been the most successful in auto-1 motive history. That the Marquette holds more than the usual measure or public interest displayed in a new car is Indicated, not only by the size of the throngs who have witnessed its presentation, but by the surprising- | ly large number of motorists who were willing to accept Its merits on the basis of its being a car built by Buick. From Maine to California, from the Gulf to the northern reaches of Canada, the Marquette has won almost instantaneous popularity. Marquette's unusual acceleration and get-awnv, its ability to dart swiftly in and around heavily con gested traffic, have already made j thousands of friends for it In the large cities of the country. And its rugged, tremendous hill climb ing ability and flashing speed have been recognized In equal measure. The building of a fast, powerful six cylinder automobile with a 114 inch wheel base and a Fisher-built body that incorporates new themes of luxury and beauty at a price ranging from $995 to $1035. Is an epoch in the annuals of the auto motive industry. No other car In its class has the finely tailored ex terior appearance that is found In the Marauette. Interest in the Marquette Is In tensified by the fact that It is a product of the Buick Motor company —a company which for more than a quarter of a century has been a l recognized leader In the production of fine automobiles The Buick will continue to hold its Identity ‘ as the leader In its price field and | the Marquette will be produced in a * separate unit of the mile-and-half >4 long Buick plant at Flint. |L As a result of the popular acclaim Cl accorded the Marquette and me fl large number of sales orders pro fj duced from Its presentation the suc I 11 cess of the new product is assured. Ford Suit Makes State Duties An Issue In Brazil RIO JANEIRO. June 29—f/TV— The recent refusal of the supreme court of Brazil to grant an tnlunc tion to Henry Ford against duties on the importation of rubber s®eds jtafrom one state to another, has ,/erved to draw attention to the •'multiplicity of these interstate tariff walls In Brazil. The consti tution of the country, lik® that of the United States, prohibits these f levies but the provision has been honored more in the breech than in the observance • In refusing the Ford petition th® high court explained that the find ing was based entir®ly upon the | faulty form In which the request I was offered Lawyers believp that If a technical1? correct petition Is presented to the court, the state of , Para’s tariff on rubber seeds will be H declared unconstitutional, giving a * basis upon which to fight similar Imposes throuehout the republic. The discussion has brought out . that many cities hav® followed the JT examples of the states and hare iCK pieced taxes unon products coming. * Into their limits, the duties being similar to the “octroi" taxes of Paris, jtt Along some of the railroad linps. lap , especially these north of this cltv. inf | duties have been levied cn goods in hk transit, even when the goods are In >ps car load lots. Recently an American fruit can rik nine corcipanv sent a reores«ntative »is( to Brazil to look for sites for new } plantations and canneries. Hp 1 4 found several tracts that appealed A to him but. was forced to dlsca-d them when h® learned that th» canned products would he suhie-t t *f to t»xes In several cities through ,¥ which they wouM have to pass to IA reach the seaboard 1 BAVARIAN CUSTOM IS SET ASIDE BY COURT MUFNCHFN-LAND. Bavaria. . June 29—(^> — Stranc® customs ro among tb« country undertakers of upper Bavaria were disclosed when \ the "comse watch®r" of the village Z nt St. Wolfgang was arrested for 'having appropriated th® almost pew 0hoots, socks, lpgvins and shirt of a i?m®',h*nic kiued in en «®rident. ’ with a show of offended lnn® ^Verse the accused toM the oour j*that, according to time honored ru.« th* wearing aon®r*l ps env | (Ulpne Wiled in P”* ®cc*dent h®com® I un\he nropertv of the undertaker J ^cdis fee was only in marks whirh. declared, was such a rsltnr sum II BVhat U had alwavs been understood ^Jh® might have »he einthfp'T as * if *yh® court with utt«r disregard SPm- c traditional custom sentenced {BPa,? grasnino undertrker to two ^LgCnths In tall- _ Train Schedules • Missonu PACIFIC LINES 12—To Houston. San Antonio 4 i ™-To Houston. 7:00 p. ra. jJ0' is—To Houston. San Antonio » 00 p. ra. No. IS—From 8t. Louis. San Antonio Houston. 7 30 a. m. No 13—From Houston 8:10 a. ra. I No. 11—From San Antonio and Hous ton. 8:53 P- m- _ SOrTHFRN FACIFIC LINES * No 3i9_From Houston. San Anto nio 8 :15 t. ra. *^No- *20—To Houston. 8an Antonio MVaTIONAL LINES OF MEXICO (Matamoroa Station) No. 132—To Monterrey. Mexico City. ^Na^lSk-From Mexico City. Mon ter ** 9'Xtuo GUANO! RAILWAY , . ’ To Foint Hab**-*3® • “■ from Polo* Isabel. « P- m. is ■' a h i 1 HUDSON CHIEF _I _ P. 1. AtTSTIV P. L. Austin ha3 been appointed manager of the Commercial Car Division. Export department, of the Hudson Motor Car company, manu facturers of the Greater Hudson and Essex the Challenger. Before entering the service of Hudson. Mr. Austin had traveled extensively abroad. He has been an automobile salesman, automobile dealer and automobile distributor. He will promote exports sales for the new Hudson product. The Dover, the new light commercial super-six delivery wagon, which It is under stood. will be presented around July 1st. PARIS POLICE LEARN TOURISTS’ LANGUAGES PARIS, June 29.—IV)—Five hun dred Paris policemen now speak some foreign language and one of them boasts eight English is the most generally sjjoken. There are many who know enough of several tongues to answer questions by tourists and there are quite a few’ with a very thorough knowledge of several languages, suf ficient to handle the frequent po lise cases involving highly excited foreigners who forget the little French they knew. All of these policemen wear arm bands announcing in a phrase what foreign language the bearer speaks. Ray Cottle. 73-year-old Los An geles policeman. has completed 40 years on the force without missing » day. Tariff Not a Popular Subject, for Few Know Much About It — Bv CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON. June 27.—The tariff is not a popular subject, doubtless because so few people know much about it. A lot of talk concerning something one does not understand naturally Is tiresome. It is no reflection on the public's intelligence to say that the tariff Is a mystery to it. It is a mystery to every body but a small group of spe cialists. The very reason why the folk who run governments always have been so fond of the tariff method of rais ing cash is that no one exceot «m expert, can see through it. It en ables the tax collector to get away with murder unsuspected. • • • At least that was the way It started—as a means of supplying the treasury’ with more money than the .average man probably would consider necessary If he realised | that he was putting it up. It works like this: A foreigner, exporting goods to America, has to pay a duty to land I them here. Of course he adds it onto the price of his wares; so his American customers pay it back to him In the end. However, the ver sion fed to the American public ; was tha*\ “The foreigner pavs the tax." Strange to relate. It was a yarn wMch a large part of this country believed for years. My lm i press Ion is that it Is pretty well 1 punctuated now. Such was the revenue tariff— originally. • • • Presently certain shrewd Amerl ; cans began to see how they could I turn it to their account in another way. Firstly. It was a very nicely cam ouflaged kind of tax. Secondly, it gave a great advan tage to American producers of ev erything that American consumers have to buy. That is. it enabled the former to boost prices to the lat I ter—while still slightlv underselling their foreign competitors, because S of the foreigners’ custom house j handicap. Thus the revenue tariff became a protective tariff too. The difficulty is: Inflated prices act and react in a , fashion to make protection’s bene i ficiaries everlastingly need more' and more protection—like a dope j ; fiend, constantly forced to increase ' ; doses of his drug or it loses its kick. American tariffs have crept high er and higher until today they are much the highest in the world s his 1 tory. The present tariff bill looks like elevating them to a point where | virtually they will prohibit imports ! —because nobody but American millionaires can afford the prices foreigners will have to charge here. If so America’s protective tariff beneficiaries will have practically an absolute monopoly. There are two objections to such a situation. 1. As soon as our protective tariff , becomes prohibitory, it will cease to be a revenue producer, and the government needs the money. 2. If we prohibit other countries ! from selling goods to us. they will ; nrohibit us from selling goods to them. Our exoort trade will stop. | Then what, will we do with our surplus, products?—which are quit? a problem to us already. • • # The rest of the world's threat against our export trade is no idle ! dream. 1 The state department actually is receiving hints at reprisals by for eign governments—to date includ i ing Fngland. Canada. France. Spain. Argentina and several small er countries—and the list lengthens every day. Economists recognize a difference jetween a tariff ••policy” and tariff “reprisals.” Tariff reps els amount to economic war. To be sure, the United States may not be afraid of war—but war is no Joke, either —especially the United States against the rest of the world. • • • This Is the problem the senate finance committee will be busy with all summer. The tariff bill, as passed by the representatives, was tentative, It is agreed. It remains for the senate committee, under Senator Smoot's chairmanship, to lick it into it? final form. On the theory that con gress would be in rec®ss. it has been assumed that Washington would be a quiet place this sum mer. In reality, no place can b* quiet where that tariff bill is sim mering. To the eye of the uninitiated it doubtless is an uninspiring-look ing hodge-podge of ingredients, sizzling monotonously in the sen ate finance committee room, but there is dynamite in that stew. W. B MONTGOMERY A1 ornev n» Law |I President Hidalgo Guarantee a Abstract Company Edinburg State Hank Bldg.. !; Edinburg. Co.. Seat Hidalgo Co. J 1 > ♦ >«»»#»#»»»####»## »###»##»»»»»»#/ # MCaTeg'iCTf-JBJOttTffiTI ,*'IBIff' 'JBflMBHCLjn* ■ it's Like | iAafl Treading On Air 1 A Sensation You’ll 1 Experience In I] Performance 1 Of the I S Weslaco Dealer De Sot< > Six I $ Turner Motor f | r Product of Chrysler | Company I Quick getaway—Ease in handling—economical in operation—comfort in riding—Pride of owner |j Edinburg Dealer ship—all these and more you will find in the new I | Hidalgo Motor 1 )cSoto Slx i p 'A product of Chrysler engineering, which means ■j tompany a combination of far sighted vision and resource- p ful genius that succeeds in accomplishing inspired ifl --- improvements. To say it briefly Chrysler En- I g Raymondville Dealer j gineering means.Progress. p Coulter Motor Seven body styles of the New DeSoto Six to select || I from and they’re priced $845.00 and up at the P Comoanv Factory. DeSoto owners are satisfied owners . ... ■ * " j Ask the man who drives one. ■ I Rio Gra de Motor Co. I ij Distributors bj II West Jackson Street Harlingen Phone 964 I MARMON MAKES RAPID STRIDE 0 Company at End of May Ap proaches Record For Entire Year of *28 So rapid has been the Increase in the business of the Marmon Mo tor Car company so far this year that the company, by the end o» May. was on the verge of equalling its entire sales total for 1928, the best year in Marmon history, it is announced by T. E. Jarrard. general sales director of the company. The close of the first quarter of the Marmon fiscal year, embracing the months of March. April and May, revealed that total factory shipments of Marmon and Roose velt cars during the period were the greatest of any previous quar terly total in the company’s 27 years in the automobile business. Mr. Jarrard said. "During the last three months.” the Marmon sales director contin ued. Marmon and Roosevelt ship ments from the factory have ap gregated 16,847 cars which is an Increase of 115 per cent over the same period of last year and which is within a few hundred cars of the sales total for the entire year of 1928. “The outstanding feature of this record quarterly business, aside from the fact that it greatly out distances any previous performance in Marmon History, is that the best gain over last year was established In May. the last month of the per iod The percentage of increase over last year for the single month was 174 per cent which is consider ably greater than the percentage of gain for the entire quarter, thus showing that the company's bu ness is being maintained in far bet ter proportion than in 1928 as tne season advances. “The record-breaking operations for March. April and May are all the more noteworthy when it is taken into consideration that the Roosevelt, the lowest priced straight-eight on the market, was not introduced until late in March of this year. This fact is concrete evidence not only that the Roose velt has gained a strong foothola in the market in the short time it has been announced, but that sales of the two Marmon ttnes or straight eights, the New Series 68 and New Series 78. are increasing favorably tn all sections of the country. “To have a\'ailab!e a straight-1 eight In the $1,000 clue has 1 finitely met the approval of the motoring public. Aa a matter of fact, the entire stralght-eight Uaa is gaining favor throughout Um country as motorists become family lar with the merits of this type eg car and realize that It may be par* chased and operated aa economically as cars of other design.” LOANS On Residence and Buai* ness Property Easy Term* Reasonable Rates Prompt Service Todd& Underwood 1057 Levee Street Brownsville. Texas c.nee>u‘“y^TSt the step-up idea in automobile buying has taken America by storo ' * * The New Pontiac Big Six has been called the “step- j up*" ear because it enables forward-looking people to step up in motor car quality without leaving the low priced field. And since the first of the year, when the new Pontiac was announced, the step-up idea in automobile buying has taken America by storm. Pontiac Big Sli, f?t5 to #05. f. o. b. Pontiac, Michigan, pitta g^. delivery charge*. Bumper», spring career ami loeejot abac It ! ]p •iuor'^rt regular equipment at alight ettrn coat. General || A Motart Tima Payment Plan amUahle at minimum rat*. 1 *9 Consider tlia deli.rred prire as well as the list price when rom Lirinx automobile salues ... Oakliud-Pun'isr delivered price. j cl ail. iMtl)i re.vinaiil. charter, for handling and fox Cneaciag II ^ whs. Ui. fiBM P.)nuat fUab iimU. UK* The Isom Motor Co., Inc. 820 Elizabeth — Brownsville, Texas l THE Sk'r rrp wr a NEW A I k AI - a d -i ifl pitoDt cT or K t §1 * mGENERAL MOTOR* mas: 400” Leads the I l*orld in allot or Car fatue tm - - ' i ■ if ? - . E l is is the Sedan you will huy,fif you Compare nn the ^00 Field WE will not need to urge you to buv the Nash "400” Standard Six Sedan if you only compare it to other Sedans in the $900 field. First of all, it is a Nash, built in the traditional Nash manner, with pre cision workmanship in every part. And second, it is a Nash "400”, and that means something in today’s line up of motor cars. It means more powerful, more durable, more enjoyable motor performance. The engine in this sedan is a new high compression type with 7 bearings in stead of 3 or 4, with aluminum alloy (Invar strut) pistons instead of cast iron pistons, and with full pressure lubrication to every single bearing point. Even the connecting rods in this Nash engine are rifle drilled, to supply oil under pressure up to the wrist pin bearings. Other **400” features which this car brings to you are the world’s easiest steering—a luxury and refinement of interior decoration far beyond expec tation at its price—size and capacity for five full grown passengers—riding ease attained by alloy steel springs in dividually designed for its size and weight, plus outboard mounted, Love joy hydraulic shock absorbers. And finally, no extra charge for bump ers, front and rear, Lovejoy hydraulic shock absorbers, spare tire lock and tire cover. There’s nothing except a spare tire to buy—none of these other items, customarily chargedfor as''extras'* at retail prices, to pay for, when you buy the Nash "400”! Price Range ^/. o. b. factory) of 23 Nash “400” Models, $885 to $2190 including Touting, Roadster, Cou/>c, Cabriolet, Victoria and Sedan Models • jk Archer-Deyo Nash Co. Brownsville Nash Co. Mercedes, Texas — Tel. 336 1327 Levee St. — Tel. 1366 I ~ "" """" " .......——.* ‘ '.. ' ~ ' ~ rr 1 * ~ ~r 11 ~ ~ "r 1 T'~ i