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HEALTH UMTS
PAY RETURNS
Full Time Services Main
tained In 467 Counties
Of U. S. '
Full time county health service
hays returns of from 100 to 3.000
per cent on the sums invested in
the 467 counties of the United
States where it is maintained, says
a statement just issued by the
United States public health service
Cameron and Hidalgo counties
both maintain full time health
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5 statement said:
“There are in the United States
about 2,500 counties or districts
comparable to counties wholly r>r
in considerable part rural to which
local health service under the direc
tion of whole-time county or local
district health officers is applicable
and in which such service w’ould >
highly advantageous. The number
of these units of population in
which such service was in opera
tion at the beginning of the year
1929 was 467 as against 414 at the
beginning of the year 1928.
“Experience indicates that the
best foundations for rural service
in the United States is the county
health department under the direc
tion of a qualified whole-time coun
ty health officer. It becomes mere
and more evident to those concerned
with practical experience in -.be
public health field that agencies
concerned with the promotion of
specialized health activities, such
as typhoid fever prevention, hook
worm control, tuberculosis preven
tion, malaria control, venerial dis
ease prevention, or child and ma
ternity hygiene can perform most
effectively and economically by com
bining their specific Activities iu
with and making them a part of a
well-balanced comprehensive pro
gram of local official health serv
ice under the immediate direction
of qualified whole time local health
officers.
“Efficient well-balanced whole
time rural health service through
out the United States wrould co>t
about $20,000,000 a year. Apart from
loss of human life, human health
and human happiness, our national
economic loss annually in wagd
earnings and other items incident
to preventable sickness because of
lack of reasonably efficient county
health service is estimated at over
one billion dollars. Money invested
for well-directed whole time county
health service yields to the average
local tax-paying citizen an annua!
dividend in dollars and cents rang
ing under different local condition
from 100 to 3,000 per cent.
“The practical value of pervious
ly organized wdicle time county
health units in times of disaster
was remarkably demonstrated in
the flood in the Mississippi Valiev
in 1927.
“All evidence ob*ained in the
course of prolonged studies of the
subject supports the claim that tne
dollar invested for well-directed
comprehensive whole time county
health service yields to the public
welfare more than any other dol
lar obtainable by taxation of the
people can bo made to yield in nor
mal times.
KVfckH MAY TRY FOR
SECOND AIR RECORD
SHREVEPORT. La , July 23.—(/Pi
—Failing in their first attempt at
an endurance flight record. W. Cur
ry Sanders and Van Lear Leary.
Louisiana aviators, held hopes of
trying again.
Their plane, the KWKH, which
began its flight at 10:30 a. m., last
Wednesday, was forced down at
7:17 o’clock last night five miles
from Shreveport, due to motor
trouble.
The aviators had been in the air
approximately 123 1-2 hours.
Smart. New
Costume
Jewelry
Brooches •
y Pendants
Necklaces
Rings
Earrings
, , . and numerous other pieces
delightfully fashioned of bril
liant stones—new metals—at
tractively arranged and de
signed.
The greatest collection ever seen
In the Valley. See this array—
today!
VIEWS OF PLANE THAT CAN CARRY 100 PASSENGERS
This giant Cornier flying boat, built at Friedrichsha'en, Germany, has 12 motors and accommodations
for 100 passengers and their baggage. In a trial flight over Lake Constance it carried 25 passengers.
.Above, a general view; lower left, a model of the plane; lower right, the control board.
Strict Regulations
Protect Valley From
Mediterranean Fly
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. July 23.—Another general tightening of quarantine reg
ulations against Florida fruit has been put into effect, which will make it
almost an impossibility for any fruit infested with Mediterranean fruit
fly to reach this section, according to M. H. Ford, inspector in charge of
the enforcement in the Valley.
REPORTER GETS
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FIRST HAND DOPE
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ON TRAFFIC LAWS
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. July 23.—That
the city traffic ordinances in
Harlingen are being enforced is
no longer questioned ty a repr ' -r
for the Brownsville I’-raid.
He approached a local arm of
the 'w, Lieur. of Pol: e Cage
Johnston, with proper humility,
and asked:
“'Chief will it be okeh to change
my hearing until Wednesday, I
have to go out on a story to
moiTow?’
Johnston looked at the card,
and broke into a hearty laugh.
““Your paper hasn't had any
stories on our cnforcen mt cam
paign in Harlingen, has it?” he
asked.
“'No.” the newspaperman an
swered. “ but it’s going to right
away. ’
And the officer demon trated
eighteen other ticket stubs that
he had given out in on? round,
and said they are being fined by
the dozens every day by City
Judge R. L. c. udoin.
So the newspaper man takes
pleasure in notifying people that
the traffic laws are being en
lorced. in Harlingen.
New Takeoff Style
Planned By Tokyo
Flyer At Tacoma
TACOMA. Wash., July 23.—(JP)—
A new wrinkle in taking off for a
transoceanic flight was to be tested
here today by Lieut. Harold Brom
ley, preparing for an aerial dash to
Tokyo.
Bromley announced he would test
the feasibility of having another
plane fly overhead to guide him
down the runway. His Lockheed
monoplane City of Tacoma is so
constructed that he must fly prac
tically “blind” until the ship is well
in the air.
With the plane guiding him.
Bromley behoves he can hurtle at
full speed with greater safety down
the 5.400 foot runway.
If minor adjustments to the
motor are completed today and the
test flight develops no need for
further work on the plane, Lieut.
Bromley will wait only a favorable
weather report to take off for Japan.
REPORT SECRET ARMS
EXPLODE, KILL MANY
ATHENS, Greece, July 23.—(JP>—
It was reported here today that
there were many casualties and
great damage Monday at Souvlievo
Bulgaria, when a secret store of
munitions accidentally took fire
and 3.000 shells exploded.
—
The newspaper Politikas at Bel
grade published what purported to
be a suppressed Sofia report that
a munitions depot near the village
of Sewlijeff exploded recently
wounded 50 persons, some of whom
died. Several thousand shells were
exploded. It was said the govern
ment forbade the press to publish
the story.
& And it is almost certain that any
' such fruit reaching the Valley
would be seized immediately and
■ destroyed.
"There is no reason for people in
the Valley to get panicky over the
discovery of some Florida fruit at
La Feria, although it emphasizes
i the need for every resident of the
! Valley to maintain a strict watch,
j and to help in every way to pre
vent infestation ’n this section,”
Ford said.
•Tntering of fruit such as that
found at La Feria will probably not
occur again, and the fruit was, of
course, inspected in Florida, or it
would not have been on sale. Still
the regulations preventing entry
of such fruit will be tightened in
every U'ay, in order to remove this
; threat in the future.”
Danger In Texas
Ford explained that the greatest
danger of an infestation of the
Mediterranean fruit fly in the Val
ley exists not in the possible ship
ments of fruit from Florida here,
but in an infestation in some near
by point, such as East Texas.
"Shipments of Florida fruit to
East Texas might result in a light
infestation in the peach orchards
there, which are a host fruit for the
pest,” Ford said. "This infestation
might not be detected for some
time, and during that time consid
erable quantities of peaches might
be shipped into the Valley. These
would constitute a grave danger to
this section.
"We are taking eve”y precaution
against such a danger, by inspect
ing all fruit and other hosts fruits
shipped into the Valley. Inspectors
in our department have been going
through all shipments of peaches
and other hosl fruits before they
are taken out of the cars, and in
this way the danger reduced to
practically a minimum.”
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO. July 23.—Possi
bility of infested citrus fruit or
other fruit from Florida reaching
the Valley is considered exceedingly
unlikely by J. E. Bell, chairman of
the Valley fruit fly cleanup com
mittee. who was in Florida a short
time ago.
Bell v/ent through the entire in
fested area, and said the quaran
tine regulations which are in force
there are the most rigid that he has
ever encountered in any other sec
tion. for any other reason.
"It is impossible to travel more
than a few miles in an automobile
without having to get out of the
car, have your baggage searched,
the car locked up and fumigated,
and other precautions taken to pre
vent spread of the fruit fly,” he
said.
Bell emphasized the importance
of keeping a close and continuous
watch in this section, however.
THIRD MARINE IS
DEAD AFTER CRASH
WASHINGTON. July 23.—(/Pi—
Lieutenant Clarence M. Knight,
United States marine corps, passen
ger in an airplane which crashed
near Ocotal, Nicaragua, yesterday,
killing its pilot and mechanic, died
of injuries during the night.
Word of his death was received
today by the navy department.
Two other marines killed in the
crash were Captain E. D. Howard
and Private Robert K. Moody. The
airolanc fell into the Coco river.
Lieutenant Knight's home was
Chambersburg, Pa., where his widow.
Mrs. Gladys L. Knight, resides.
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FOLKS, ANYHOW?
<Special to The Herald)
GAN, BENITO, July 23. — A
healthy howl of protest is being
voiced by the negro population
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley
to the new Mexican immigration
regulations.
Although these regulations are
a handicap to the American
whites, and impose many restric
tions and obligations on them,
they are a complete bar to the
darkey, as he can no longer cross ■
the Rio Grande into Mexico.
“Boss, what dey keep us out ob
Mexico fur?” one colored boy here
said. “Ah laks mah beer after
suppah.”
Many of the negroes are report
ed to be leavin'’ the Valley on ac
count of these restrictions.
Famous Playwright
Marries Actress; On
Honeymoon In Tyrol
NEW YORK. July 23.—<.P;—Eu
gene O’Neill, playwright, was mar
ried in Paris yestedray to Carlotta
Monterey, actress, and former wife
of Ralph Barton, illustrator, it was
announced today by Harry Wein
berger. O’Neill’s New York attor
ney The couple are spending their
honeymoon in the Tyrol.
This is O’Neill’s third marriage,
his first wife. Kathleen Jenkins, of
j New York, divorced him in 1912
He married Agnes Boulton, who
j also had been previously wed, in
i 1918.
In obtaining her divorce decree
this month, it was announced Mrs.
O’Neill received “proper provision”
for hprself and two children, Shane
and Ona. Both also had children
by previous marriages.
Mrs O’Neill, in announcing her
divorce suit, said it was to give her
dramatist husband “the illusion of
freedom always demanded by the
artistic male.”
CHINESE SHIP SINKS;
62 PASSENGERS DROWN
SHANGHAI, July 23.—i/P,—Sixty
two Chinese passengers of the China
Merchants Steam Navigation com
pany steamer Hsinkong were
drowned Sunday when the ship col
lided with the Japanese steamer
Tatsuno Maru of Weikhaiwei during
a fog.
The Hsinkong sank within 20
minutes. Forty-two of those aboard
were picked up by the Japanese
steamer which was en route to
Kobe, according to the company's
information. Fog hindered the
rescue work.
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BROWNSVILLE
MAN PRAISES
WOMAN OF IT
“While in New York City re
cently I renewed my long ac
quaintance with Burton Davis,
whose wife, Clare Ogden Davis, is
:he author of ‘The Woman Of
It,’ and the result of the visit was
that I was honored with a copy
Df the new book, with the com
pliments of the author.” says
J. M. Stein, former publisher of
The Herald.
“The first thing I did when I
got it was to get right into it
with both feet. I found the story
a most absorbing one. I will
honestly admit that I began it
with some doubts. But the first
chapter convinced me here was a
real worthwhile story, with a
new angle—one that gives food
:or thought in this day of woman
suffrage, woman in office. It was
;he first book novel that I had
read in years. I refused to lay it
iside until I had finished It.
"I commend this book especially
to women ■who are interested in
public affairs. And I promise
them that they will have ample
food for argument and dis
cussion.”
“The Woman of It” is Clare
Ogden Davis’ first venture in the
novel field. And already she is
at work on a second novel, hav
ing retreated to a farm some
sixty miles out of New York City
for leisure and quiet.
APPROPRIATION
BILL SLASHED
Moody Vetoes Items of
$48,000,000 Measure
Passed By Solons
AUSTIN, July 23.—(IP)—As* a
sample of what his work will be on
the $48,000,000 general appropria
tion bills. Governor Moody has ve
toed $29,861 from the educational
and departmental emergency meas
ure passed by the second called
session of the 41st legislature.
Also he disapproved the $100,000
Crockett memorial bill, providing
for construction of a building in the
town of Crockett to the memory of
the Texas hero from whom it got
its name. He had said previously
he would not approve the bill at
this time.
He filed w-ith the secretary of
state without his signature a bill
creating a new road law for Llano
county.
Items deleted from the emergency
appropriation bill included $10,000
to rebuild a Lam destroyed by fire
on the Ramsey state prison farm;
$8000 to complete unfinished work
for preservation of the General Sam
Houston home at Huntsville; $5000
to pay salaries of instructors at
John Tarleton Agricultural college,
Stephenvilie, during 1928-29, and
$3000 for printing at the same in
stitution; $1161 for the replacement
of defective electrical service lines
at Southwest Texas State Teachers
college, San Marcos; $700 for repairs
at the same college, and $2000 to
pay the mileage, per diem and ex
penses of members of the depart
ment of education.
Europe .+y/elt a*s
In Heat Wave As
Many Seek Water
LONDON. July 23. —(IP)— All
Europe sweltered today in a heat
wave which tended from Moscow
to Rorrfe and t’e astern Balkans
to the British Isles.
No immediate prospect of relier
was held out although in Great
Britain the temperature was cooler
than a day or so ago. Accompany
ing drought gave official concern,
not onf in F^glmd, but in y vls of
the continent.
In Germany temperat e of 95
fahrenheit were records' over the
week-end with thousands in Eerlin
fleeing for relief to the lakes and
woods surrounding the capital. The
rush to the water caused many cas
ual 3, not only in Berlin but in
other parts of Germany, where
drownings v. e frequent.
France endured a temperature of
around 90 the Azz*. few days. The
weather prophets assu.ed the pre
spiring present conditions probably
would persist.
Crazed with the heat Gaetan
1 _ux, 61, sh and killed his v/ife,
two daughters, two sons and then
himself at Gilon Castle in the Ar
dennes forest. he t.x bodies were
discovered by a : ’ant, wrho
promptly tainted.
AIRCRAFT HEAD IS
HURT BY PROPELLOR
DETROIT, Mich., July 23.—UP)—
Edward F. Schlee, president of the
Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corporation,
who with William S. Brock flew
from Detroit to Tokyo two years
ago, suffered a fractured skull when
struck by a plane propeller at the
Detroit city airport shortly before
7 a. m., today. His condition was
said to be serious.
TARIFF RUMOR
CONFLICTING
i Upward Revision Expected
By Some; Others See
Rate Modification
_
WASHINGTON, July 23.—<^>—
Conflicting expectations are being
formed on the basis of scraps of in
formation emerging from the closed
room where the republicans of the
| senate finance committee have es
| tablished themselves for the task of
i rewriting the house tariff bill.
On the one hand, inferences are
drawn which lead some observers to
believe their bill is to be as general
as that passed by the house in the
scope of its upward revision of tariff
rates while, on the other hand, in
dications are cited to support pre
dictions that the proposed increases
will be considerably modified.
In the latter category is classed
the request of Chairman Smoot to
the tariff ocmmission for a list of
imported commodities which enter
American trade in such relatively
small quantities that they amount
to less than ten per cent of total
consumption.
While that is taken as a sign that
the committeemen are seriously
considering an extensive modifica
tion of the house rates, an opposite
interpretation is placed on the state
ment of Senator Shortridpe of Cali
fornia, one of the members engaged
cn the task.
‘The republican party.” h*> said,
“proposes to enact a tariff law
which shall have due and first re
gard for American men. women and
children—on the farm, in the mines,
in milk or factory—for the producer
and consumer alike—who, without
adequate tariff protection, will be
forced into competition with poorly
paid, cheap labor, of other and less
prosperous countries.”
Senator LsFollette of Wisconsin,
a member of the republican inde
pendent group w’hich is organizing
in opposition to general tariff re
vision. meanwhile, has called upon
President Hoover to express his
views on the house bill.
Nations May Seek
To Better Ocean
Record of Bremen
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LONDON. July 23.—i/Pi—'The
challenge of the North German
Lloyd liner Bremen yesterday mak
ing the Atlantic crossing of 4 days,
17 hours and 32 minutes probably
will be answered
It is expected here that an inter
national scramble for speed honors
will folk v almost immediately with
Great Britain, America. France and
Italy participating, and Germany
adding the Europa shortly, which
should do as well or better than the
Bremen.
The Cunard line, owner of the
Mauretania, wh*se former record
was beaten yesterday, made no
statement of attack on the German
record, but it is understood the line
has a new race under contempla
tion, and it is expected the Maure
tania will attempt to show she is
capable cf better than she has yet
produced.
The two new ships of the United
Stat ; lines to be begun soon prob
I ably should show as much speed, or
| more, than the Br len. Italy and
France, to meet the competition
will almost have to enter the lists.
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Border Town Is
Depopulated By
200 Overnight
CALEXICO. Calif., July 23.—i/p)
—This border town awoke today to
find its population decreased, tem
porarily at least, by approxi
mately 200 persons.
Across the. border in Lower
California, the village of Mexicali
greeted the day with the knowl
edge that it had gained a similar
number by the overnight exodus
from Calexico, the result of an
order by the Mexican government
requiring that foreigners working
in the country must take residence
there.
A mass meeting to protest
against the ruling, which went
into effect yesterday, was sched
uled for today by Calexico business
men. Previous protests sent to
Gov. Abelardo Rodriguez of the
northern district of Lower Cali
fornia brought the formal state
ment that he thought the order
would be modified before it went
into effect.
No modification had been made
early today.
WASHINGTON, July 23.—(A*)—
Immigration Commissioner Hill
said today that the United States
had no intention of taking any
action with regard to the Mexican
government’s order requiring for
eigners working in Mexico to reside
.in that country.
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! FORCED TO PAY
VICTIMS’ BILLS
Judge Orders $100 Fee For
Two In Hospital Re
sult of Crash
Philipe Cervantes was required lb
put up S100 toward hospital bO!s
and Jesus Leal was fined $25 P>y
Corporation Judge A. A. Browne
Monday as the result of a crash at
First and Jefferson streets Saturday
that put two people in the hospital
with broken limbs.
Leal was driv'ng a light sedan
when the accident occurred. He
crashed with a spring wagon occu
pied by Doreteo and Eulogia Agui
lar and Rogerio Esquivel. Doroteo
sustained a broken leg and Eulogia
a broken arm. Rogerio. a youth, was
released from the hospital after a
cursory examination.
The two injured persons, resi
dents of Ramireno, are still in the
hospital.
It came out in the evidence in
duced that both Cervantes and Leal
left the scene of the wreck after
parking the car nearby Cervantes
said he had to r ash a check and it
I was near three p. n. so he had to
get to the bank. He returned to the
scene of the wreck after cashing
| the check, he stated.
The car was owned by Cervantes.
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