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Launch Moves to Speed Boca Chica Highway Paving TOURIST PLAN * ALSO STARTED Chamber Protests Reported Action to Remove Bor der Army Posts Two moves important to develop ment of a larger tourist traffic in Brownsville were launched et a I meeting of the bc-vd of directors of the Brownsville Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening. The first was naming of a com mittee to confer with county offi cials in an effort to speed paving of the highway to Boca Chica. Thk committee had been requested by County Judge O. C. Dancy. T1 c other move was to name A Dickinson, Jr., chairman of a com mittee which is to draft a plan foi entertainment of tourists during > h coming winter. . The directors discussed extension of the city limits; authorized G. c. Richardson, manager, to employ additional help and order a supply of passport blanks in preparation for issuing tourist permits for visits to Matamoros; ordered letters ad dressed to Congressman John N. Garner and Senators Morris Shep pard and Tom Connally protesting the reported plan of the govern ment to close Fort Brown and other border posts; appointed a commit tee to confer with the city commis sion relative to request of the Amer ican Legion for a fund to defray ex penses of the drum and bugle corps to the national convention at Louis ville, Ky.; and voted to invite the Fort Worth Association of Com merce aerocade to visit Brownsville the latter part of September. Road Committee The committee on Boca Chica road composed of R. B. Rent fro, W. B. Clint and E. J. Tucker was in structed to confer with Cpunty Commissioner Sam Bell and obtain his views concerning paving of that highway. They then are to assist in securing all rlght-of-wray not al ready secured, confer with Mrs. Neils-Esperson Stewart concerning free access to the beach and to as sist in any way possible to speed plans for extending the paving. Be lief was expressed in the discussion that a cheaper paving than concrete should be used on the last three or four miles of the road near the beach so the loss would be smaller in case it was destroyed by a high tide or storm. ... • , Dickinson was authorized to pick hisown committee and draft a plan for entertainment of tourists during the coming winter. It was indicated that the tourist room of the chamber of commerce building would be utilized for this purpose for the present and that a tourist club would be created with this room as a center of activities. Plans for employing a hostess also were discussed. Outlines Flan Dickinson outlined a plan for cut ting another entrance into the tour ist room, providing large awning covered porches outside the room. L" placing sun-umbrella covered tables " in the park and constructing cro quet and horseshoe pitching courts. All of this could be done for a few hundred dollars, he declared. ' several members of the board present told of tourists last winter complaining that no provision was ‘ made by Brownsville for them to meet other tourists, that nothing was provided in entertainment and Uhat "there wasn’t even a place to pet a drink of water and a place to sit down and watch the people pass by." This condition must be rem edied. the members of the board^ agreed. It was decided by the directors to contribute $25 to an exporters’ di rectory of the United States which is being compiled by the depart ment of commerce. A gift of $200 had been requested. Richardson was asked to confer with Mayor Cole conceniing plans to extend the city limits and to ap pear before the city commission Friday to urge action on the matter. Turn Down Band Offer The board voted not to assist In support of a band at present on ac count of the lack of funds. Richardson was authorized to hire a clerk and to keep the cham ber of commerce open each night until 9 or 10 o'clock for the purpose of issuing passports to tourists who desire to visit Mexico. The cham ber also will be kept open on Sun day and holidays for the same pur pose. The manager reported that the T^exican Aviation company had ex pressed a willingness to entertain the aerocade of the Fort Worth As sociation of Commerce. Officials of the company said there would be no landing of serviefe charge for the 15 j or 20 planes to be in the party.j Richardson reported. The usual charge will be made for gasoline and oil. of course, it was explained i The Fort Worth officials had' written to the chamber of com- i merce asking if thev would be wel-! come. Thev also desired informa-! t*on if the local flying field was |&rge enough to accomodate so Jbianv planes. 1*4 “They will be invited to come to Brownsville.” said Richardson, ‘‘and | they will be informed that their 15! or 20 planes will not overcrowd the j field in the least, as there have been ‘ 200 ships on it in the past.” Richardson also was instructed! to ask the city commission to issue j 8 permit to the Rio Grande Valley , Gas Co. to extend its mains to the ! property line of the chamber of commerce in preparation for in- i stalling gas heaters in the building } - Tax Installments Are Due Wednesday Citlv Tax Collector. H. Sterling Tuesday announced a notification j to tax payers that Wednesday. July 31, is the last day for paving the I second installment of city taxes for the past year, and issued a warning that penalties including interest j on the balance due the city will ac cur*» from August 1. The city for the past two years has allowed property owners to pay their taxes in two installments, and this year, some three-fourths took advantage of this liberal offer The city has lost very little in affording citizens this convenience, ^Sterling said.__ _ ^_ BEING AN ARISTOCRA T! HAS ITS ADVANTAGES But, Says Winifred Black in Commenting on Professor McConaughy’s Advice to His Students, It Is Hardly a Becoming American Pose Bv WINIFRED BLACK What on earth is getting into the college professors, anyhow? Professor Rogers told the students of a great American college the other day that they must be “snobs” if they wanted to get on. And now President McConaughy, of another good big American col lege, tells young men to be “aristocrats in training and conviction.” What in the name of common sense did these two men mean? American aristocracy!—where is it? and who are the aristocrats? Did they come from the First Families of Vir ginia? How many of them had grandfathers who bought their wives on the pier for two hundred pounds of good Virgina tobacco? How many of them had ancestors who came over in the Mayflower—good, honest, hard-working, courageous carpenters and joiners and blacksmiths and farmers? Half of them couldn't write their own names and didn’t want to write them. What was there aristocratic about a farmer with a flail in his hands or a shoemaker with his awl in WINIFRED BLACK his pocket? • Where did it come from, this American aristo cracy. and just exactly what kind of a joke is It anyhow-? A giant may be a husky fellow with a pair of broad shoulders and a good strong back and a kind and honest heart, but when he begins to pose as a dwarf—what is the matter with him. The people who founded this country crossed the wild and stormy seas and faced hunger and death and untold privation because they were not aristocrats and did not be lieve in aristocracy. We own the earth, we Americans. We have money and brains and courage and energy. The world swings before us like a great round ball of pliable putty and all we have to do to conquer it is to stick our thumbs into the putty and work our determined will of it. Let’s keep our feet on the ground —the good solid ground—and let j those who can boast of nothing else j boast of “aristocracy.” | That word comes with not much j grace from the lips of a plain Amer ican. e monei U SIDELIGHTS B RIVOLI—SAN BENITO A singer of brilliance and an ac tor of attractive personality and mimetic talent, Morton Dowuey, who created a sensation in the Club Casanova in New York, will be seen in Pathe talking and singing picture production throughout the current screen season. Mr. Downey is starred in the Pathe dialogue picture, “Mother’s Boy.” a Robert T. ^.ane production which will be seen and heard at the Rivoli theater, San Benito today. Downey was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., and as a boy his fine tenor voice attracted attention. He was discovered by Paul Whiteman, with whom he sang for four years. He then went to "Europe where his voice was trained and he sang with great success in London. Paris and Ber lin. Returning to the United States in October, 1918. he was signed for the leading role in • Syncopation,” and makes his second appearance on the screen in "Mother’s Boy.” ‘ Mother’s Boy,” written by Gene Markey, is the story of a young ten ement dweller in New York who begins his career as a delivery boy in a delicatessen store. His singing attracts the attention of a poor violinist who undertakes to train him for an operatic career. Owins j to a theft committed by his rascally brother, he quits his home under a cloud and while his doting mother grieves for him, he carves out his career and wins. There is a strong love interest in the story which has been finely developed by Director Bradley Barker. The cast includes several stage artists of reputation, among them being Helen Chandler, leading wo man. long featured on Broadway; Osgood Ffrkins of “The Front Page” fame: Barbara Bennett, daughter of Richard Bennett, a well known Broadway player; John T. Doyle, a prominent actor, and Bedyl Mercer an English actress recently with the Theater Guild, and others. ARCADIA—HARLINGEN “What kind of a voice has Adolph Menjou?” Curious film fans, who have been asking that question for a long time are now to have it answered. The suave and elegant Mr. Men jou has just completed his first all talking picture. “Fashions in Love," opening Thursday at the Arcadia theater in Harlingen, in which the talks and sings. The story of "Fashions in Love,” Herman Bahr s well known and popular play, places Menjou in the role of a famous concert pianist. -- AMENDMENTS LOSE IN STATE DALLAS. Tex., July 30.—(/P>— The Dallas Morning News said :oday that returns it had com oiled from more than two-thirds of the state “may be accepted as indicating the decisive defeat ;o enlarge the supreme court to aine members and raise the gov ernor's salary to $10,000 annually. The News figures, from 172 | counties, shows the following re j suit: Governor’s salary: for 46,048, I against 67,793. Enlarged court: for 46,141, against 68.175. “The lead established cannot oe overcome, it is believed, by the returns from the counties still to oe heard from,” the News said, ‘and on the face of the returns presented the fate of the amend ments i$ sealed.” QUARANTINE IN FLORIDA HURTS BOOZE RUNNERS WASHINGTON, July 30.—(/P— The quarantine by federal and state authorities in Florida against the Mediterranean fruit fly was said today by Assistant Secretary Lowman of the treas ury to have worked a hardship against rum runners a/id hac. forced them to seek other ave nues of entry into the United States, especially through the Ca - nadian border. Trial of American Resumed In London LONDON. July 30.—(•£*)—Richard Joshua Reynolds, wealthy young American standing trial on a man slaughter charge growing out of an automobile accident, took the stand at resumption cf the re-trial made necessary by last week's sudden halting of the case. He said that at Burnham he was dazzled by the headlights of an oncoming car and found that he had mounted the curb; he had no idea he had struck a man on mo torcycle and backing into the road again he proceeded on his jour ney. FLAGMAN RACES DOWN TRACK TO PREVENT WRECK SAN ANTONIO, July 30.—— Scores of passengers on Katy train No. 5 inbound from the north, were saved from disaster at 8:17 a. m. today when T. R. Tuller, switchman, raced up the tracks and flagged down the fast express as it bore down upon a derailed Southern Pacific engine in the yards at the South Presa street crossing. Despite Tuller’s race with the oncoming train, the Katy engine crashed into the stranded S. P. switch engine and almost cost the life of C. H. Chowning, engineer. Victor Schertzinger, the composer director. directed the picture and wrote two n~w song hits for it, "Delphine,” which Menjou sings, and "I Still Believe in You.” sung by Fay Compton, famous English actress, who plays opposite the star. Lindy’s Discovery of Lost City Disclosed SANTA FE, N. M.. July 30.—(/pi —Civilization which flowered in Central and North America at a time when Charlemagne's military genius was consolidating a vast empire in Europe, are surrender ing the secrets of their ruins to this age with Col . Charles A. Lindbergh a prime mover in the research work. The glory which was Maya—ex emplified by archaeological dis coveries of the Aborgines’ knowl edge of architecture, astronomy, sundry arts and writing—is being emphasized through the medium of the airplane. It was disclosed here yesterday that Colonel Lind bergh, aided by his bride, is tak ing a keen interest in archaeology, and has contributed to the histor - ical scroll the discovery of an an cient Mayan “lost city” in the Yucatan jungle. The find was made w’hile Col onel Lindbergh was making his Pan-American “good will” tours but the story of the colonel's in terest in air photography of such ruins is one which had to be patched together and eventually verified after a lapse of almost a year, in which he exhibited his usual disinclination to talk about himself and his activities. His interest aroused by the Yu- i catan discovery, Colonel Lindbergh consulted Dr. T. C. Merriam, pres ident of the Carnegie institution of Washington. At Dr. Merra. i’s suggestion, he agreed to photograph in Arizona end New Mexico localities known to contain ruins as well as unex plored regions. It was during h: stay with his bride at the archaeological camp at the Pecos ruins in this state that the photography program was initiated. Perhaps no other civilization of the new world, - ith the ex'option of the Aztec Tndians in Mexico, has spurred historians to greater romantic fantasies than the May ans* __ ANNOUNCENEW AIR SERVICE' One-Day Passenger Line Between Mexico City And Dallas Planned A one-day aerial passenger service between Mexico City and Dallas will be put into effect Aug. 1, when the Texas Air Transport plane will leave here at 1 p. m. instead of 4 p. m. as in the past. With this change in schedule, it will be possible for passengers to board the Mexican Aviation com pany plane in Mexico City at 7:45 a. m., connect with the T. A. T. plane at Brownsville and arrive in Dallas at 7:30 p. m. St. Louis could be made by morning. This makes St. Louis and Mexico City only 24 hours apart over the joint air line-rail route. The T. A. T. plane will await the arrival of the Mexico City plane here. leaving as near 1 p. m. as possible. Reports as to what passengers wish to continue cm over the T. A. T. will be radioed here from Mexico City so as to facilitate the work of customs officers at the airport. Simultaneously the T. A. T. line I has announced reductions in rates to 10 cents per aerial mile. From here the fares amount to Corpus Christi $13.10, San Antonio $26.20, Austin $33.70 Waco $43.30, Fort Worth and Dallas $52.70. Excursion rates of one and one half rate have been announced. These will be on sale Aug. 1 to 15 with a return limit of Sept. 30. POLICE BATTLE WITH ARGENTINE STRIKERS ROSARIO, Argentine, July 30.— {JP)—Demonstrations growing out of the general strike in progress here have brought about armed con flicts between police and strikers. I Teresa Garcia, daughter of Car los and Braulia Salazar Garcia born July 22, 1929. HOOVER STARTS WORK FOR CHILD WELFARE WASHINGTON. July 30.—<#)— Looking to a national scale organ ization in behalf of the nation's "greatest asset,” its children. Pres ident Hoover has set his planning committee of experts to the task of preparing the groundwork or fact and experience for a4 White House conference, probably a year or 18 months from now, on child health and protection. -- Showers Drenching Brownsville Vicinity Approximately .55 inch of rain fall was recorded at the Browns ville U. S. weather bureau after a hard shower between 1 and 1:30 p. m. Tuesday. Intermittent showers would liXe lv fall during the remainder of the afternoon. W. J. Schnurbusch. meteorologist said. The rain was accompanied by a great deal of thunder and other electri “1 dis turbance. 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