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JUDGE CLEARS
1 COURT DOCKET
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Kent Continues Disposing of
Cases In Civil Dis
trict Court
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r Judge A. M. Kent gave no indica
• tion of a let-up ir. business of the
July term of the civil district court
as he continued to clear the docket
of cases Thursday morning. Other
cases were continued.
The cases dealt with Wednesday:
Eagle Pass Lumber company vs.
Juan Perales et a!.., debt, judgment
for plaintiff as per decree on file.
Jfc'.'fil Allen vs. A. D. Dickinson et
an commissions, settled and dis
missed at cost cf defendant.
The American Land company of
Texas vs. J. M. Bailey et al, title
and possession, dismissed at plain
tiff’s cost.
I Antonia Escoteda de Lopez vs.
Silvestre Lopez, divorce, decree of
divorce granted plaintiff as prayed
and restoration of name, Antonia
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| H. O. Williams vs. Eunice L. Wil
liams, divorce, decree of divorce
granted as prayed.
The National Loan and Invest
ment company cf Detroit, Mich., vs.
R. C. Hapse et al, debt, judgment
for plaintiff by default against de
fendant Finwood corporation, for
debt, principal, interest, attorney’s
fees and costs, continued as to de
fendanant R. C. Hanse.
San Benito Bank and Trust com
pany vs. H. R. Ammons, debt and
foreclosure, order of court entered
| ; July 16 set aside and held for
naught, judgement by default for
plaintiff as prayed for debt, princi
pal, interest, attorneys fees, and
costs, and foreclosure of chattel
mortgage lien.
First National Bank in Browns
ville vs. Hilliard Smith, Jr., debt,
judgment for plaintiff as prayed for
debt, principal, interest, attorneys
fees and costs.
Juan de Putte vs. C. H. Morris,
et al, continued under the rule with
out prejudice to please on file.
JOBBER MUST PAY
OR STAY IN JAIL.
WARRENTON, Mo., July 25.—(JP)
—Bernard S. Reiss, once a St. Louis
shoe jobber, has spent a year be
hind bars here because he hasn’t
paid his debts.
Reiss, a voluntary bankrupt, says
he cant; that his money was all
lost in a few months of gambling.
Federal Judge Charles B. Faris
doesn’t believe his story and or
derd him to pay $27,345 or go to
jail in contempt of court.
Cpunsel for Reiss contend that
he is virtually a prisoner for debt,
in violation of the constitution, and
a rehearing is being sought. Reiss,
however, says he sees no possibility
of ever paying his debts and ex
pects to spend the rest of his days
in jail.
Attempts to recover $3000 lost on
a bad loan led to his gambling
orgy, he says. He came to this
country as an Austrian immigrant
when a youth. He is 34 years old
and has a wife and four children.
China Has General Sympathy
In Present Row With Russia,
Washington Writer Indicates
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WASHINGTON, July 25.—Ever
since Russia went Bolshevik, any
trouble she has serves her right, in
most of the rest of the world’s
opinion.
Consequently, Washington diplo
macy concurs with diplomacy near
ly everywhere in sympathizing with
the Chinese government’s policy of
kicking the soviets' representatives
out of northern Manchuria.
If the Chinese were to try kick
ing Japan’s representatives out of
southern Manchuria, it would be a
much more questionable proceed
ing.
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Even as between China and Rus
sia, the situation is recognized as
amounting to a serious threat
against Asiatic peace.
The Russians may submit quietly
to being kicked, and they may not.
Japan certainly never would sub
mit to it for a minute.
In these times of widespread in
terests, once a row of this sort
starts, nobody can guess where or
when it will stop.
In short, sympathize though they
may with the Chinese republic ver
sus the Russian soviets, interna
tional experts, here anti elsewhere,
are somewhat uneasy. Theoretically,
they enjoyed seeing the Muscovite
menace booted, but if the menace is
going to act ugly about it, they
would almost rather it hadn't hap
pened.
Manchuria is a fine farming re
gion—nearly half Mexico's size—
with more than twice Mexico's pop
ulation—in about the latitude of
the northern United States—very
valuable.
Map makers always include it as
part of China, but really it is a long
time since the Chinese had much
to do with running it.
Russia has bossed the northern
half; Japan, the southern.
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Built by Russians years ago, in
the czarist period, right across the
Muscovite sphere of influence, is the
Chinese Eastern railroad—a 1,000
mile link connecting the Trans-Si
berian system with the Russian city
of Vladivostok on the Pacific.
Besides paying good money on a i
big investment, it is mighty impor
tant to Russia—economically, polit
ically and as a military pronosition
A Japanese line called the Chi
nese Southern feeds the mikado's
area.
The roads were built—and subse
quently operated—under the terms
of extra-territoriality treaties with
the old Peking government.
In other w’ords, Russia took her
own home laws in China with her,
for the benefit of her own citizens,
and her own properties there. The
Japanese did likewise.
It was as if the German-owned
rayon mills at Elizabethton (Tenn.)
were subject only to Berlin regula
tions.
Naturally, no self-respecting gov
ernment would accept such an ar
rangement, but the ancient Peking
government was not self-respecting.
Extra-territoriality prevailed in
China for generations—not only
Russian and Japanese extra-terrl
tiriality, but extra-territoriality in
favor of all the world powers, Amer
ica included.
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However, when the Chinese re
public of today began coming into
being, it started to squawk about
this foreign rule on China’s own
soil and gradually it is making some
impression.
Germany lost her special rights as
a result of the war.
The other nations surely will have
to give up theirs ultimately, but are
slower in doing so—with the excep
tion of Russia.
No sooner were the communists in
control than they waived all their
extra-territorial claims in the Orient
as a gesture of friendship, they
said, toward their neighbors—but it
may not have been unadulterated
altruism; perhaps they hoped to win
the Chinese to communism.
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Anyway, the soviet leaders can
hardly have expected the Chinese
to take their gesture quite so liter
ally as to gobble Russia’s Manchu
rian railroad.
Yet' that was exactly what fol
lowed.
The non-plussed soviet leaders
suggested that they would like at
least a voice in the line’s manage
ment.
The Chinese republicans were not
so strong then as they are now. Pos
sibly they deemed it wise to string
the Bolshevik! along for a while in
stead of antagonizing them imme
diately. At all events, they gave them
what was supposed to be a 50-50
break on the road's managing board.
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The division of authority never
has worked well. The railroad's
Russian and Chinese directors have
quarrelled constantly; their Inter
ests clash.
The Chinese accuse the Russians
of trying to communize China.
The Russians accuse the Chinese
of planning to grab their railroad.
Both are right, doubtless.
It has been evident all along +hat
the rival governments have been
striving to beat one another to
something decisive.
The Chinese simply got there first.
Hence their action in pitching the
soviets’ representatives — railroad,
diplomatic and miscellaneous—neck
and crop, out of China,
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Now will there be a fight?
The Chinese must be prepared
for one, or they would not have
gone as far as they have.
The soviets talk a lot about their
military strength, but seem slow to
prove it. Still, .their stake is enor
mous—not only their railroad, but
their only speedy means of commu
nication between European Russia
and the Pacific, as well a; huge com
mercial and political interests in
northern Manchuria.
An indignity to its official repre
sentatives counts with some coun
tries also.
Oh,, they have an excuse for fight
ing if they feel like it.
$65,000,000 Road
Bond Issue Passed
By South Carolina
South Carolina, which recently i
approved a highway bond issue of
$65,000,000, expects to complete her
state highway system within the
next three and a half or four years.
This means that in that time some
2,000 miles of hard surfaced roads
will have been built and that 1500
miles will be otherwise improved.
This amazing aspiration is held
forth by C. E. Jones, chairman of
the state highway commission. The
bond issue is now before the state
supreme court for official sanction.
The South Carolina bond issue,
which in effect marshals a small
part of that state's actual and po
tential resources for immediate use,
will enable the state to introduce
mass production into roads. Ob
viously roads can be purchased
cheaper in large quantities. South
Carolina expects to let contracts fer
lengthy mileages to builders equip
ped with the most efficient ma
chinery.
Modern highway builders, with
their gigantic paving mixers and
motorized equipment, now lay
pavements with the ease of laying
carpets. One paving outfit may
place as much as 1000 feet of pave
ment in a day without anyone get
ting unduly excited. Yet it is this
knack of getting the pavement
down quickly that foretells the
eventual smooth paving of all well
travelled routes.
The early usage of the '•back
bone” highways in South Carolina
will bring returns that will far more
than offset the interest on the
bonds. That state’s chief method
of obtaining highway income is the
gas tax which was recently raised
to 6 cents a gallon. According to
Mr. Jones, the mud roads prevalent
in South Carolina during several
months of the year collect a much
greater tax than 6 cents a gallon.
He asserts that when the new
paved highways are opened to trav
el the increased business and pleas
ure utility of the highways and the
lessened car operating costs and
maintenance costs of the roads will
show a decided profit for the state.
FIGHT IS PREVENTED
BETWEEN OFFICIALS
AUSTIN, July 25.—(/P)—Interve
nors prevented a fisticuff between
James Shaw, banking commission
er, and W. Gregory Hatcher, state
treasurer, following meeting of
the state banking board.
Shaw struck Hatcher once after
Hatcher had invited Shaw outside
to settle a difference between them,
spectators said.
The Funeral
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ary cliapel. Splendid
motorized equipment.
Twenty-four-hour service
every day in the year.
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OLD CARILLONS
CHIMING AGAIN
Bells Made In 1730 Lose
Rust And Ring First
Time in 50 Years
LISBON. July 25.—(/P)—The cele
brated carillons of Marfa, which
have slept in rusty peace for nearly
50 years, once more are making
glorious music which can be heard
10 miles.
These great double sets of chimes
born of the caprice of a megaloma*
niac king, are said to be the finest
in the world, and were made In 1730
by Nicolas Levache, who planned
the Forlimont carillon in Belgium,
and William Withoiock.
King John V of Portugal, who
strove to copy his cousin Louis XV
of France in pomp and lavish splen
dor. built the enormous marble
monastery of Marfa, the biggest
pile in Portugal.
It occupies an area of 40,000
square meters, and everything with
in is proportionately huge. There
are 4,500 doors and windows and
880 great rooms or salons.
The peculiarity of the duplicate
sets forming the carillon is due to
the vanity of the Portuguest king,
who, tradition has it, when told
with bated breath that a set of
chimes such as wanted would cost
no less than 1,500.000 “curzados.”
answered carelessly, "I did not think
it would be so cheap. I-will have
two sets made.”
The bells, after nearly two cen
turies spent in delighting courts and
countryside with continual music,
fell suddenly silent. Something
went wrong with the instrument by
which they are played, and for
more than two score years rust has
gathered and the chimes were for
gotten.
Now in the national restoration
work undertaken by the dictator
ship it was resolved they must be
saved. The repaired chimes are a
novel and overwhelming attraction
to a generation which scarcely
knew of their existence. The de
serted village c? Marfa is festively
preparing for crowds of visitors;
closed inns are opening their doors.
Sixty-Five Taken
To Jail In Raid
On Dog Race Track
CHICAGO, July 25.—<£>)—'The
Laramie dog racing track in Cicero,
often spoken of as “A1 Capone’s,
dog track,” was raided by 40 police
men from the state’s attorney’s of
fice, despite an injunction track of
ficials recently obtained to prevent,
“lawless arrests.”
The raiders reached the track at >
the end of the fifth race, just as the
prices in the certificate mutuels j
were being posted. They refused to j
let track officials pay off winners and !
smashed the doors of the offices
and ticket booths when they were
refused admittance.
Sixty-five track officials and
ticket sellers were arrested.
ANITA STEWART WEDS
BANKER OF NEW YORK
HOLLYWOOD. Calif. July 25.— i
(yp)—Anita Stewart, motion picture I
actress, and George Converse, New '
York banker. r>-ere married here at
noon Wednesday in a private wed- i
ding.
Following a reception the couple
planned to leave on a honeymoon to
Honolulu.
Miss Stewart is 28 years old and
her husband is 29.
Each has been married once be- j
fore. .
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Men’s and Boys’ light Men’s un d e r w e a r
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FLOUR .27c
Shortening %z^%::u\ly2z
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Preserves20c
Peaches &■* 22c
Cocoa e„.7c!
Ginger Ale ssa.14c
Pork & Beans sssra.8c f
Beans ss^c- ..11 hc I
Tobacco lockage1; ^ 25c j
i t w 79c!
1-Pound Can . * |
Fish Flakes &°r~. 12c
Vinegar i~ 15c
Pickles ssr;j~ 12c I
Marmalade sssstj-sn’. 35c
Sardines u.r^.14o *
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Boiled Ham ^.,50c .
Cheese &, 28c
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