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T. D. LIBRARY
GATHERS DATA
Tex&s-Mexico Histor i c a 1
Material To Be Copied
For Garcia Files
X AUSTIN, July 22—A plan work i
out by the University of Texas li
brary to photostat all existing ma
terial in Mexico relating to the
early history of Texas has been put
under way by Carlos E. Castaneda.
Latin-American librarian, who has
just returned from a month’s tour
el Northern Mexico, where he made
arrangements for the copying of
valuable material for the Garcia
Library.
It is estimated that about three
years’ work will be necessary to col
lect all the wanted material In
Mexico, but this estimate may have
to be extended. Mr. Castaneda's trip j
took in three states, Tamaulipas, j
Nuevo Leon and Coahuila.
In Brownsville, Mr. Castaneda
collected data on the early history j
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.'
From there he went to Monterrey t
and made a preliminary survey of |
documentary material in the State
and city archives. In Monterrey,
Mr. Castaneda found considerable
material dealing with the early nio
tory of Texas.
In Monclova, Castaneda visited
the descendants of the Ramon fam
ily, one of the first explorers of
Texas, and came in contact with
an unpublished history and several
valuable maps and charts. All ma
terials for which arrangements
were made this summer will be
photostated and received in the
Garcia Library within the coming
year.
GDNWJETS
UNEXPLAINED
Survivor of Fatal Fight Be
tween Officers Gives
No Light
MIDLAND, Tex., July 22.—UP\—
The explanation of a main street
gun duel between two veteran peace
officers here today rested with one
of the participants, believed to have
been mortally wounded.
Night Watchman J. C. Holcombe.
53. who shot it out with Chief of
Police King Reed before dawn yes
terday, fell to the sidewalk dead.
Reed was wounded seriously, and.
although a cab driver was said to
have been nearby when the guns
mddenly roared, information given
jut by officers indicated that after
talking with him they still had no
definite theory to offer.
The original hypothesis was that
Reed had issued an order that un
muzzled dogs must be slain, that he
had met Holcombe, who was accom
panied by a dog on his rounds, that
they had quarreled and drawn guns
to settle the argument. This belief,
lowever, later was put forward
>nly as tentative.
An inquest elicted no information :
She authorities would divulge. I
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Front pages of the daily news
papers provide endless stories for
motion pictures according to Charles
Furthmann, Hollywood author and
adaptor of many screen plays. His
latest story, the Josef von Sternberg
production, “Thunderbolt,” starring
George Bancroft, which is showing
at the Palace theater, McAllen.
“One of the biggest motion picture
successes of 1928,” Furthmann says,
"was first written on the pages of
Chicago newspapers. The plot of
Thunderbolt,’ written by Jules
Furthman and myself, had a similar
origin. A newspaper story of an ad
venturess who posed as an angel
faced innocent and duped a smart
man of the world gave us a start.
With this one character, which we
later subordinated to secondary
place in favor of a hard-hitting man
who was not afraid to take life’s
blows, we eventually evolved a com
plete scenario.”
“Thunderbolt,” an all - talking
drama, brings together again the
two men responsible for the out
standing screen success, “Under
world,” Von Sternberg, the director,
and George Bancroft, the star. It is
Bancroft's second all-talking picture,
the first having been the recent hit,
"The Wolf of Wall Street.” In
“Thunderbolt.” Bancroft is sunport
ed by Richard Arlen and Fay Wray.
RIVOLI—SAN BENITO
“Noah’s Ark.” the Warner Bros
spectacular film version of the
world's greatest calamity as chron
icled in the book of Genesis, in
which Dolores Costello has the
stellar role, was shown last night a<
the Rivoli theater, San Benito. It
lived up to all the extravagant
claims that have been made as to
its bigness, magnificence and awe
inspiring grandeur, and more than
lived up to it.
The talking sequences are splen
didly done. The voices of Miss Cos
tello, of Noah Beery, George O’Brien
and the other principals are dis
tinct and add power to the dramatic
and emotional scenes and enliven
the comedy. The symphonic accom
paniment and the sound effects aie
in keeping with the majestic pace
of the flbod sequences.
The story is in two parts—a mod
ern war story which culminates in
the destruction of a French village'
and the imprisoning of the princi
pal characters under the buildin6s
destroyed by the war, a flood cf
steel and blood which is the device
used for carrying the same set of
characters back into the days cf
Noah and the Biblical flood of
water. Miss Costello, the Mary of
the modern stoiy, beloved of Travis,
a young American, is the Miriam
of the flooded sequences, while
Travis, acted by George O'Brien,
becomes Japhcth, son of Noah, in
love with Miriam, Noah Beery, the
lustful Russian officer in the war
sequences, becomes King Nephilim
who commands the sacrifice of the
virgin Miriam to the idol Jaghut.
1000 DEAD IN
TURK QUAKES
Landslides Also Taking Toll
As Result of Heavy •
Floods
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22.—(fl»>
Latest reports from northern Ana
tomia state recent earthquakes and
landslides have caused the deaths
of one thousand persons. Ten thou
sand are homeless and without food.
As reports of the disaster con
tinued, the Turkish Red Crescent
society rushed aid to the assistance
of the victims while the Constanti
nople press appealed for the help
of the International Red Cross.
Shocks and landslides, the laiter
caused by torrential rains, were re
ported to be increasing the havoc
in northern Anatola where recent
inundations devastated the towns
of Surmene and Rizer.
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12:00-12:10 p. m.—Markets, weather and river reports.
12:10- 1:00—Musical program.
4:00- 4:20—Associated Press dispatches and Valley news from The
Brownsville Herald.
4:20- 5:55—Musical program.
5:55- 6:00—World Bookman, radio feature.
6:00- 9:00—Musical numbers, studio specialties.
TOMORROW' A. M.
10:00-12:00 noon—Request program.
Economic Status of U. S.
Women is Being Studied
By BESS FURMAN
(Associated Press Staff Writer.)
WASHINGTON, July 22.—(IP)—
Viewed in national perspective, wom
an’s place in the onward sweep of
industry is being analyzed in a doz
en special studies now in process of
preparation by the women’s bureau
of the department of labor.
Taken together, these studies
form an enlightening commentary
on the trend of the times—away
from a woman’s world that centers
in the home, toward a civilization
wherein economic pressure prevails
uoon women to become wage
earners.
In behalf of the 9.000,000 work
ng women of the United States,
the women's bureau, only govern
ment unit “manned” entirely by
women, keeps 40 highly-trained re
search specialists at work on field
surveys, personal interviews, com
oilations and tabulation of data.
Each report they make represents
a serious study, the result of many
months of scientifically-directed ef
fort. Only studies of national sig
nificance, or those requested by in
dividual states, are attempted.
The laundry and the “five and
ten” have been found to bulk large
n the national industrial scheme
of womankind. Two of the most
nteresting studies under way con
cern them.
Tn 290 laundries in 23 cities,
19.758 women workers were can
Find Body of Girl
Lost Since Wreck
Of Colorado Train
STRATTON, Colo., July 22.—VP)—
Missing since the wreck of the Rock
Island westbound train three miles
west of Stratton last Thursday
morning, the body of Julia Carlie,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A.
Carlie, of New York, was found at
roon Sunday in Spring Creek, 18
miles down stream from the scene
of the disaster.
Discovery of the girl’s body by a
party of searchers which had hunt
ed almost constantly for 50 hours,
brought to 10 the number of known
dead in the wreck of the train. Her
oarents also lost their lives when
a Pullman was plunged through a
bridge over a “dry” wash, weakened
by the pounding of a flash flood
against its supports.
The entire family was in the
coach which dived off the rails and
sank in 15 feet of water, carrying
all the victims to their deaths. Pas
sengers in the other coaches c::aped
with slight inluries.
A reward of $500 had been posted
bv friends of the Carlie family in
New York for discovery of the body.
‘KWKH’ STILL UP;
133 HOURS PASSED
SHREVEPORT. La., July 22.—VP)
The plane KWKH at four a. m.
Central time today had been in the
air 1131-2 hours. “Evervthine is
O. K.” Van Leary and William
Currey Sanders, pilots, reported.
vassed and it was found that 27.7
per cent of them were more than
40 years of age. One-fourth of
them, approximately the same per
cent, were widowed, separated or
divorced. Of 1.300 who specifically
answered the question of why they
went to work, 91.8 per cent replied
“necessity.”
Eighteen states were included in
the “five and ten” study titled
"Women ih Limited Price Depart
ment Store Chains." It was learned
that almost 85 per cent of the work-1
ers were very young.
Another national trend is the slow’
but distinct industrial progress of
the negro woman. While it was
found that large groups of negro
women still were in the unskilled
labor class, a considerable number
had gone into machine operating.
Field workers found one negro re
ligious paper where all the work
was done by women.
In a type study of Philadelphia
and the Lehigh valley, the wom
en’s bureau found that the foreign
born woman deserves great credit
for the place she is carving for her
self in American industry. Speak
ing little or no English, with no
factory experience, such women
successfully seek and hold jobs. Of
2,146 personally interviewed, well
over half were married and living
with their husbands.
Each investigation brings more
sharply to attention the married
woman in industry and the bureau
hopes soon to be able to make a
comprehensive study of that sub
ject.
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FRIGIDAIRE
RECORDS FALL
—
Shipments During First Half
Of Year Far Surpass Same
Record For 1928
especial to The Herald)
DAYTON, Ohio, July 22.—The
best half year period in the history
of the Frigidaire corporation was
enjoyed during the first six months
of 1929 with increases in shipments
of electric refrigeration units rang
ing from 64 per cent to 112 per
cent above those of the same period
of 1928. it was announced here to
day.
Shipments of household electric
refrigerators showed the greatest
increase with a gain of 112 per cent
over those for the same perod of
1928. Electric w^ater cooler ship
ments amounted to 82 per cent
above those for the corresponding
period of last year.
Each successive month saw rec
ords of the preceding month sur
passed. Production was increased
early in the spring when the un
precedented flood cf orders poured
into Dayton and soon the factories
were operating 20 per cent above
their normal rated capacity.
May's outstanding record of units
installed fell before that of June.
The increase is figured at 16.9 per
cent. Every record on the books of
this General Motors subsidiary
was broken during the first half
of the year, it wras said.
The half year also marked a
period of great engineering achieve
ment. The Frigidaire cold control,
a device for faster freezing and sep
aration of frozen desserts was in
troduced; two new household re
frigerators were placed on the mar
ket at the lowest prices in Frigid
aire history; an automatic room
cooler was announced; the mil
lionth Frigidare was manufactured,
and an entirely new line of electric
water coolers for factories, offices,
homes, and stores, was introduced.
Export shipments during the six
months increased 43 per cent over
those of the same period of 1928.
More than 100,000 Frigidaire units
are now in use overseas. The cor
poration has representation in 78
countries.
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REPORT INSURANCE
COMPANY PURCHASED
ST. LOUIS. July 22.—(JP)—The St.
Louis Post-Dispatch today says it
has learned the Missouri State Life
Insurance company cf St. Louis has
purchased control of the South
western Life Insurance company of
Dallas. Texas, for aoproximately
$7,500,000.
U. S. WHEAT STOCK
REACHES HIGH MARK
WASHINGTON, July 22.—UP—
Stocks of wheat of the 1923 crop in
interior mills and elevators on July
1, were estimated by the depart
ment of agriculture today at 40,136,
000 bushels, compared with 19.277,
000 bushels a year ago and 21,776,
000 bushels cn July 1. 1927.
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PROTEST BAN
ON OFFICERS
Slaying of Patrolman By
Rum Runners May Lift
Restriction
EL PASO, Texas, July 22.—(A*)—
Emphasis on the need for a larger
border patrol force and insistence
on the lifting of the regulations
prohibiting a federal official from
shooting at suspected rum runners
attempting to cross the Rio Grande
into the United States at night,
probably will be contained in re
ports to the labor department a
result of the slaying by rum %
ners early Saturday morning roi
Ivan E. Scotten, El Paso, immigra
tion border patrol inspector.
H. C. Horsley, chief of the border
patrol, said today it was almost
murder to send inspectors on patrol
duty. He said that not only were
alien law violators a menace to pa
trolmen but that hi-jacking had in
tensified within the last few
months, adding a new' danger to the
already hazardous duties of the
men who patrol the boundary line
between the United States and
Mexico.
14 Officers Slain
The death of Scotten brought the
toll of federal border patrolmen,
slain on duty, to 14.
Grim-eyed veterans of the border
patrol rode through the arroyos and
sage brush of their wonted “beats”
today determined to find the trail
of a band of men believed to have
been rum runners, who killed Scot
ton, when the officers were am
bushed in this vicinity yesterday.
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