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BULLISH MART
RAISES STOCK
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prices Make Jump Of Sev
eral Points At Op
ening
NEW YORK. Aug. I—**—Bullish
operations were resumed with con
siderable violence at the opening
of today's stock market. General
Electric jumped 5 points on the
first sale to a new high at 3.82 1-2
and Pacific Lighting opened three
points higher at l.U 7-8, also a new
top. Goodyear Rubber advanced
points and Westinghouse Electric,
Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Safewaj
Stores and Kennecott Copper ad
vanced a point or so.
Retentoin of the 5 1-2 per cent
discount late by tne Bank of Eng
land had a bullish effect on specu
lative entiment. despite the fact
that bullion dealers reported that a
million or more pounds in gold had
been taken from the Bank of Eng
land for shipment to France.
U. S. Steel common assumed the
market leadership by crossing 211
to another new high record. Buy
ing was influenced by unconfirmed
reports that a special stock or extra
cash dividend was likely before the
end of the year, with current earn
ings running at the rate of around
(20 a share annually. Auburn Auto
and Frank G. Shattuck also moved
into new high ground.
Merchandising shares were heav
ily bought in anticipation of the
publication of record-breaking July
sales statesments. Sears Roebuck
quickly ran up nearly 4 points, the
Fajr 3 1-2 and Montgomery-Ward 1.
Coppers showed a firmer under
tone. Greene Cananea being pushed
up more than 3 points before the
end of the first half hour and Ana
conda 2. Gillette Safety Razor.
Westinghouse Electric and Western
Union also extended their gains to
2 points, or more on the fust plur
ry of buying.
Public utilities were in brisk
demand, with buying influenced by
the decision of the New York state
attorney general holding the • re
cent power mergers legal. Rails
were slow in getting started al
though Pennsylvania quickly made
up the dividend of (l which came
off the stock today.
Foreign exchanges opened steady,
with sterling cables unchanged at
*4.(5 1-2.
Twelve per cent call money was
accompanied by a new rush of buy
ing orders which boosted U. S. Steel
well above 212. and into new high
ground. Columbia Carbon rose
14 1-2 points. Keith-Albee-Orpheum
prefererd rose 8 points. Gillette
Safety Razor 7. and Westinghouse
Electric 1st preferred 5 1-2. The;
close was strong. Sales approxi-;
mated 3,200.000 shares.
Strike Settlement
Boosts Wheat Price
CHICAGO. Aug. 1.—<*»—Influ
enced by settlement of Argentine
strike troubles and by prospective
larger exports from Argentina,
wheat prices here averaged lower
early today. Forecasts of showers
over most of the corn belt tended
to ease the corn market down also.
Starting at 1-8 off to 1-2 up.
wheat later showed setbacks all
around. Corn opened at lc decline
to l-8c advance, and afterward kept
near to the Initial range Oats were
relatively firm. Provisions inclined
upward.
FORT WORTH CASH GRAIN
FORT WORTH. Aug 1.—<P—
Wheat and oats continued m fair
demand on the Fort Worth cash
grain market today with both slight
ly higher. Other grains were slower
sale Estimated receipts: Wheat 253
cars, com 6. oats 10. barley 16, sor
ghums 13 and hay 4 cars.
Export grains: Expotters bid as
follows, basis delivered Texas gulf
ports: No. 1 ordinary export wheat
1.3901.39 3-4; No. 1 soft red mixed
3.381-2® 1,39 1-2; No. 2 barley 721 -2
®74.
Milling wheat: Mills bid as fol
lows. basis delivered T G. P.: No.
1 ordinary hard 1.401-201.411-2;
13 per cent protein 1.43 3-4® 1.45;
14 per cent 1.488® 149; 15 per cent
1.5201.53; 16 per cent 1.56® 1.57.
Dealers bids and offers on coars*
grains as follows, basis delivered T.
G. P.:
Com unchanged but draggy.
Oats: No. 2 red 59® 60
Barley: No. 2 slow. 73®74
Sorghums. Steady; sales few. No
2 milo per hundred pounds $1.75®
1.80; No. 2 kaffir 1 62®1.66.
Sorghum heads: Nominally un
changed
K. C. CASH GRAIN
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 1—
Wheat: No. 2 dark hard 1.31® 1.43:
No. 2 hard 1 29® 1.32 1-4: No. 2 red
133 1-201.35; No 3. 133® 133 1-2.
July 1.40 7-8; Sept. 1 46 7-8; Dec
2.55
Com: No. 2 white 1.03; No. 2 vel
Icw 1.050105 1-2: No 2 mixed
1.000101: Sept 1.05 1-4; Dec
1.00 1-8.
Oats: No. 2 white, nominally,
49050.
Wheat closed unsetled. 3-8c to
1 l-2c above yesterdav's finish. Com
closed at 5-8c net decline to l-8c ad
vance, oats l-8c off to 1-4®3-8c
gain, and previsions varying from 2c
setback to a rise of a shade
LIVERPOOL SPOTS
LIVERPOOL. Aug. 1.—OP.—Cot
ton , spot quiet: prices higher:
American strict good middling 11.46,
good middling 1106: strict middl
ing 10.86; middling 10.66: strict low
middling 10.41: low middling 10.11;
strict good ordinary 9.71; good or
dinary 9.31; sales 2.000 bales, in
cluding 900 American. Receipts. 13.
000. American nil. Futues closed
barely steady: October 20.1". Dec.
1016: Jan 101..; Mar. 10.22: May
10 24; July 10.23.
JOLIET, m.. Aug. 1.—Fatal!- ,
ties resulting from the explosion ct
pulvemed cost at the foundry of1
the Pratt Manufacturing companv
late yesterday rose to three todav
Six other of the eleven men injured
ars cot expected to liv*. I
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C1Z
NEW YORK. Aug. 1—</iV-Stock*
strong; U. S. Steel again reache*
Nitrate 6s and Reading Coal 6s at
new high. Bonds irregular; Lautaro
new highs.
Curb irregular: Electric Investor.,
crosses 300.
Foreign Exchanges mixed; sterl
ing drop 1-8 of a cent.
Cotton steady; unfavorable wea
ther.
Sugar higher; steady spot mar
ket.
Coffee advanced; trade buying.
Chicago
Wheat firm; black rust reports
from Manitoba.
Com steady; firm cash markets
Cattle steady to weak.
Hogs higher.
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CHICAGO. Aug. 1.—liflpj—Hogs;
16.000; unevenly ten to 25c higher
on lighter weight hogs, butchers
showmg less advance; top 12.25;
butchers, medium to choice 160-300
lbs 10 50-12 25; packing sows 915®
I 10.20: pigs 10.75® 11.75.
Cattle: 5.500; calves: 2.000: very
uneven; steady to weak market on
most killing classes, values ruling
generally 50c 3 1 00 lower than a
week ago: top steers 16.40; bulk
12 50® 14.75; slaughter classes, steers,
good and choice 950-1500 lbs 13 00®
16 75; fed yearlings, good and choice
750-950 lbs 12.75616.00; heifers,
good and choice 850 lbs down 12.506
14.75; cows good and choice 8.506
12 00; bulls, good and choice <beef*
9.50611.50; vcalers <milk-fed> good
and choice 13.00615.50; stocker and
feeder steers, good and choice 11.50
® 13.00.
Sheep; 15.000; active steady to
strong: native lambs 13 25® 13.50;
fat ewes 5.0066.50; feeding lambs
quotable steady; lambs 12.856 13.85;
ewes, medium to choice 150 lbs down
4 756 6.50; feeder lambs, good and
choice 12.50613.65.
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 1.—(*>*—
Hogs: 5.000; fairly active, uneven;
15635c higher; top S11.75 on 190
210 lbs; butchers, medium to choice
200-250 lbs 10.75611.75; packing
sows 8.3569.65; stock pigs 9 50®
10.30.
Cattle: 1.500; calves: 400; killing
classes slow; around steady: Stock
ers and feeders dull weak; Rood
light weight steers 1410; slaughter
steers, good and choice 1100-1300
lbs 12.25616.15; fed yearlings 12.25
616.00; heifers good and choice 850
lbs down 11.00615 00: cows, good
and choice 7.75® 11.25; vealers j
<milk-fed* medium to choice 7.506
12.50; stocker and feeder steers 10.50
® 13.00.
Sheep: 4.000; lambs active. 156
25c higher; odd lots sheep steady;
top Idaho lambs 13.50; lambs 12.50
3 13.60; ewes 5.003 6 75.
FORT WORTH. Aug. 1.—'F'—
Hogs: 800; no bids on rail hogs:
truck hogs 15c higher; truck top
10 90; bulk better grades 180-230 lb
truck hogs 10 60*110 90.
Cattle: 2.700; calves: 900; slaugh
ter steers quotably steady: four
car-lot of good fed sters 12 50; trade
in she stock and low cutters very
dull, uneven, on coach-bid basis at
week's full decline; few good fat
cows up to 8 25. but bulk of desir
able grades 7 00*17 25; butcher cows
mostly in $600 range; other classes
generally unchanged; light sausage
sorts 6.00*7 6 50; slaughter calves
and. vealers slow, mostly 25*? 50c
lower: better grades heavy fat colves
10 50*110 75.
Sheep: 1.700: all classes steady:
fat yearlings 10 25: good 2-year-old
fat wethers 8 25*5 835. good fat.
aged wethers 735*7735: fat truck
lambs 11.501? 12.00.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES
NEW YORK. Aug. 1.For
eign exchanges irregular. Quota
tions in cents:
Great Britain, demand 484 11-16; J
cables 485 1-4; 60-day bills on banks
480
France, demand 3 91 11-16; cables
3.91 15-16
Italy, demand 5 22 5-8, cables
522 15-16
Demand; Belgium 13 90: Germany
23 81; Austria 14 09; Brazil 11.87;
Tokyo 46 85: Montreal 99 75.
BUTTER AND EGGS
CHICAGO. Aug. 1.—.Ft—Butter i
higher: receipts 7.475 tubs; cream-!
erv extras 43 1 -2c: stapdards 42;
l-2c; extra firsts 41 1-2*7 42 l-2c;
firsts 40*7 41c; seconds 38*7 39c.
Eggs unchapged; receipts 5.811
cases.
S. Y. COTTON
NEW YORK. Apg. 1.— F>—Cot -
top futures opened steady; Oct.
19.29; Dec. 19 50: Jan. 1941; March
19 64; May 19.78.
N. O. FUTURES OPEN
NEW ORLEANS. Au . 1—«F—
Cotton futures onened sterdv. Jan
19 38; March 1C 56: May 19.70-bid;
Oct. 19 17; I ?c. 1938.
N. O. COTTONSEED CLOSE
NEW' ORLFANS. Aug 1— <F —
Cottonseed oil closed steadv prime
summer vellow 845 prime crude j
762,.-*»787,i. Jan. 878; Feb 878:
Mar. 887; Aug. 855: Sept. 870; Oct. |
873; Nov 873: Dec. 875.
N. O. SPOTS CLOSE
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 1.—r.F —
Spot cotton closed quiet. 4 points
up Sales 322. Low middling 17.70;
middling 19 20; cood middling 19 85:
receipts none. Stock 44.832.
U. s. BONDS
NEW YORK. Aug l.—<F—Gov
ernment bonds: Libertv 3 1-2.
32-47. $97 2: 1st 4 1-4. $99 *th 4 1_4
$98.92 Treasury 4 1-4. 47-52, $98.25.
N Y. COTTONSEED CLOSE
NEW YORK. Aue. 1.—<.F—Cot
tonseed oil closed steadv hut dull:
nnm° summer vellow 955: pnme
crude 762 1-2-787 1-2 Jan. 982;
Feb. 985; Mar 991; Aug. 950; Seot.
966 Oct 973; Nov. 965. Dec 977:
sales 800
TEXAS SPOTS
DALLAS Au*- 1.— F —n-t
tnn 18.65; Houston 19.00; Galveston
19.15. i
COTTON RISES |
$1 PER BALE
Market Open* Firm With
Advance Shown In
Fir*t Trade*
rffw ORLEANS. Aug 1.—WV
The cotton market opened today at
an advance of 51 a bale. Although
Liverpool cables were disappoint-,
initial buying was stimulated by
Secretary Hester’s consumption to
tal of 16.309,000 bales, which was
considered larger than expected.
First trades showed gains of 20
points and prices advanced a point
or two additional after the start
with October at 19.21 and Decem
ber 19.40. or 20 to 21 points net up.
Some realizing developed on the
advance, being attributed to Hes
ter’s carry-over of 4.679.00 bales,
which was considered rather bear- I
the market was unsteady but prices
shoved recessions of several points
from the highs.
Prices continued to ease off dur
ing the morning under realizing
and evening up of long accounts
in advance of the government re
port. October traded off to 18.90
and December 19.18. or 22 to 23
points down from the early highs.
The decline attracted some trade
buying and mid-session the mar
ket was steady and 5 to 9 points
above the lows.
X. 0. FUTURES CLOSE
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 1.—'
Cotton futures closed steady at net
advance of 4 to 8 points:
Prev.
Open High Low Close Close
Jan 19.28 19.39 19.23 19.26 .
Mar 19.56 19.56 19.42 19.49 19.41
Mav 19.70B 19.60 19.60 1064B 19.55
Oct. 19 17 .19.20 18 98 19.04-25 19.00
Dec. 19.38 19.40 19.18 19.24-25 19 20
X. Y. COTTON
NEW YORK. Aug. l.—xtPi—Cotton i
opened steady today at an advance
of 3 to 15 points on a continuation
of 5-esterday's buying movement
which was supposed to reflect un
easiness over the progress of the
crop and unfavorable features in
the weather news. October con
tracts sold up to 19.30 and March
19.68. or about 10 to 16 points net
higher, but the advance met consid
erable realizing and the market
showed reactions of 10 or 12 points
from the best by the end of the first
half hour.
Liverpool just about met yester
day’s local advance and reported
that there had been covering and
foreign buying in that market. The
New Orleans season-end figures
placed the world's consumption of
American cotton at 16.309.000 bales,
including 1.053.000 bales of linters
and the carrv-over at 4.679.000 bales,
including 284.000 bales of linters.
After selling about 10 to 16 points
hieher on the early demand, prices
eased under realising while there
also seemed to be a little selling
from the south. December con
tracts reacted from 19.53 to 19.36,
or about 4 points belo^- vesterdav’s i
closing quotations, but the dtp
brought in further buying am. the
price rallied to 1950 later in the
morning.
The market at midday was firm
and about 10 to 13 points net high- (
er.
A private report was published
placing the condition of the crop
at 68 1 and the indicated yield at
14.845.000 bales.
Futures closed steady. 4 to 10
points higher; spot quiet; middling
1920.
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X. Y. FUTURES CLOSE
NEW YORK. Aug —Cot
ton futures:
Prev.
Open High Low Close Close
Jan. .19 41 19.49 19.34 19 46 19 36
Mar .19 63 19.73 19 54 19 66-67 19.58
Mav .19 77 19 86 19 69 19.82 19 75
xOct. 19.25 19.32 19.17 1925 19.20
zOct. 1925 1930 19 10 19 18-20 19.14
Dec .19 49 19 53 19.33 19.44-47 19.40
xOld. zNew.
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canvas every house in the city. The
town has been divided into 13 dis
tricts and committees are now
working in most of these. District
No. 1 is composed of Fronton. St.
Charles and St. Francis out lrom
Palm boulevard. The committee as
signed to this district is W. E. Col
lins. George TIillyer and C. E Cleg<t !
No. 2. Levee. Elizabeth and Wash
ington from Tenth to Eleventh, is
being handled by Charles Stuait
and Lawrence Olmsted.
No. 3. Elizabeth and Washington
from Tenth to Fourteenth, Clev?
Tandy. Emmitt Dodd and A. A.1
Hargrove.
No. 4. 'Washington. Madison.1
Tenth to Fourteenth. W O. Wash
ington and Ed Monsees.
No. 5, the State National bank1
block, Aziz block and El Jardm j
block, the Lions committee, headed
by R. A. Dunkleberg.
No. 6. Elizabeth. Tenth to Bank
ers' addition. H. L. FaTK. Mrs. E
T. Yates and Mrs. Lula George.
No. 8. courthouse proper. Bascom
Cox.
No. 9. Madison out Fourteenth to
and including Victoria heights, un
assigned.
No. 10 Fort Brown unasaigned.
No. 11. 12, 13 and 14, residential
sections, unassigned.
Meets Civic Club
Anyone wishing to aid In this
work should call on Chairman
Mockbee at the telephone companv
office in the Stegman building. He
has arranged so he or a represent
ative will be there throughout the
day. Mrs Mockbee will aid him.
The chairman has met with the
Rotary’ and Lions clubs and they
have pledged full cooperation. In
dividual Kiwanians and others also
have indicated that they will aid in
the work.
There are now four Boy Scout
troops in Brownsville, and there are
ample boys to make three or four
more troops. Mockbee states. The
troops are sponsored by the Meth
odist church. Presbyterian church.
Baptist church and the American
Legion. If the funds are taised. it
is likely that several more troops
will be organized, it Is said.
PASSES SPAIN,
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shafen hanger at 3:25 a. m . and at
3:29 a. m.. <9:29 p. m.. E. S. T.
Wednesday) was released by its
ground crew into the cool tarlight
night, tl circled the field once
appearing like a g-cat silver cigar
In the glare of the flood lights, and
then disappeared across Lake Con
stance.
Aboard the Graf Zeppelin r ere
18 passengers, nd its eftw, the
usual complement of 41 oificers
and men. a total of 59 In ddition
it appeared at departure a stow
away had succeeded in getting
aboard.
Ahead of the giant diigible ay a
trip of, probably, more than 4.000
miles, which at an average cruis
ing speed of 70 miles per hour might
be traversed in 60 hours. Dr. Eck
i
ener calculated, however, he would
need between 80 and 85 hours to;
' reach New York, which he planned
to circle before berthing at Lake
hurst.
An 80-hot1 trip would end the
voyage about 6 a. in., E. S. T. Sun
day. Dr. Eckenei . course from
here lay over Konstanz, on the,
Swiss bank o: Bake Constance, Ba
sel, Besancon, France, Lyons, down
the Rhone, and southwestward
along the Mediterranean coast to
Gibraltar. He expected to travel
from Gibraltar slightly north of the
Azores, varying his route according
to the weather.
Quick Start
The Graf s start from here vas
one of the quickest of its year of
life. The crew wen aboard at 2:43
a. m.. and the passengers two min
utes later. Removal from the han
gar. begun shortly after 3 a. m., was
accomplished without difficulty, the
dirigible rising slowly and easily.
Its new motors hummed perfecfly.
It was the third start of the
Graf Zeppelin for America, but of
the first two only the first repre
sented a successful o :an crossing.
When the police saw what ap
peared to be ' stowaway they called
to the officers of the zeppelin but
Hans von Schiller, navigator, re
sponded, “Oh, we haven't time to
take him off ”
The possibility was admitted
that searchlights playing on Lie
airship may have given the impres
sion of a man .umping.
Two women. Anna M Wong.
Chmese-American movie actress,
and Suzanne Boitard of Pans, at
tempted in vain to obtain passage
but were refused by Dr. ~ckener.
who said he needed the room for
the fuel.
Live Baboons
In addition to passengers the
Graf carried a large a jnrnent of
nml and freig' . including a num
ber of live baboons, four thorough
bred pigeons from Mu w’ong to
1 her brother in California, and other
matter. Its larder was well-stock
ed with fresh rood, to be prepared
{ by the new chef, Otto A. iz, for
the passengers.
The passengers spent the nig'it in
the hotel at rricdrichshafen, mak
ing merry and dancing in antici
pation of the t-ip today.
ZEP RADIO SENDING
CONSUMES 14 HOURS
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN. Germany. \
Aug. 1.—The Graf Zeppelin
during its fligh'. across the Atlan
\ tic. will chiefly use a wave leirth
of 2100 meters for radio work and
i of 53 meters for short wave radio
i work. The dirigible's call word will
! be “DENNE."
Approximately 14 hours each day
1 will be used for transmission of
matter from abroad the Graf and
; the remaining 10 hours used for j
reception of weather reports. The
I dirigible will work through Nord
; eich station in Germany and Cha- ]
! tham in America. In the morning
it will transmit on between 5.000
I and 8.000 kilocycles and in the,aft
ernoons between 8,000 ind 11.000.
STOWAWAY ON ZEP
| IS UNCERTAINTY
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
1 Aug. 1.—i/F)—There was much con
jecture at the Zeppelin works to
1 day as to whether a stowaway was
actually aboard the airliner, par
t ticularly as no men ion of him has
j been made in any messages received
j from the dirigible.
A man who < imed to have seer.
| a stowaway jump aboard the ship
wavered in his testimony today and
when hard pressed. Nothing was
heard directly from the Graf, lead
ing to the fear that the radio migTU
; have been damaged when the stow
J away was reported to have board
ed the ship, but this fear wa3 re
; lieved when the first message was
received at 10:30 this morning.
Maximino Perfecto and Hipolita
Zarala of San Benito. Tomasa Villa
real and Tomas Rivera. Lucio Solas
and Luisa Muniz.
No mariage licenses were issued
during the past 24 hours.
RIO HONDO SCOUTS
WILL ATTEND CAMP
(Special to The Herald*
RIO HONDO. Aug. 1.—Much en
thusiasm is shown among the 20
. members of the Rio Hondo Boy
Scout troop who are planning to
attend the Valley encampment op
ening August 7. The troop was re
cently organized with Clarence
Ullrich, scoutmaster, and Arthur
Kipper, assistant scoutmaster.
GRAF, ZEPPELIN ON U. S. TRIP AGAIN
1
Germany's transatlantic dirigible, the Graf Zeppelin, is sailing across the Atlantic to Lakehurst. X. J.,
the first week in August. Her only previous successful voyage across the Atlantic was last October.
Here are views of the spacious passenger accommodations: Top left, staterooms; right, the salon: center
left, pilot house; center right, kitchen; below, diagram of gondola.
BOMB RING
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over $300 in marked money and a
check for $240.
The police signal was sounded
and all of the men in the car that
had delivered the bombs as well as
those in the house nearby were ar
rested.
Lieut. George Barker, head of the
police bomb squad, said the most
important men in the bomoing in
dustry were under arrest. They in
cluded James Beic^stro, believed to
be the head of tlfe gang, who wa>
charged with a slaying a year ago
but never prosecuted, and Angela
Lucci, recently acquitted of murder.
Would Also Toss
The syndicate. Lieutenant Barker
said, preferred only to supply explo
sives but for an extra payment,
would do the tossing or planting aa
well.
Prices on the cash and carry' ba
sis have ranged from $10 to $150
for a single bomb.” he said, -and
tha extra charges for tossing or
laying have ranged from $50 to1
$100 and in some cases higher."
Lieutenant Barker said there was |
evidence the gang had been branch- I
mg out and supplying both bombs
and ‘'layers” to clients in other
large cities.
After the 12 men had been grilled 1
raiding squads were sent to some oi
their homes and were sent after
other men who had been implicated
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munist meeting and sent the dem
onstrators scampering.
In St. Denis, the northern indus
trial suburb of Paris and a hotbed
of commumus, where the com
munist mayor was arrested, there
was some agitation. Truckloads of
troops, squads of mounted republi
can guards and platoons of police
patrolled the streets but there was
no outward trouble.
POLICE QUELL TWO
MINOR OUTBREAKS
SHANGHAI. Aug. 1.—<;Pi—Two
minor communist demonstrations n;
the international settlement today
were suppressed quickly by police.
The comparative quiet was attri
buted by the police to raids recent
ly on communist centers in the in
ternational settlement and the
French concessions.
POLICE CLASH WITH
COMMUNIST RIOTERS
BUCHAREST. Rumania. Aug. 1.
—f/P,—Police clashed with 200 com
munist demonstrators at Kishinev
this afternoon.
Both sides fired shots.
PRISON COMMITTEE
INSPECTS PROPERTY
HOUSTON. Aug. 1.—rhe pri
son centralization commission began
an inspection of penitentiary pro
perties today with a visit to*th?
Harlem and Imperial farms.
The commission was established
by the legislature to recommend a
plan of prison centralization. It con
sists of the nine members of th^
prison board and nine legislators.
UNPAID TAXES
ARE ACCRUING
Assessments Behind
192S Pieced In De
linquent Class
————r
Penalties on unnald taxes assess
ed for the vear 1928 began to accrue
Thursday. Aug 1. as City Tax Col
lector H. Sterling put all owners
who have»not paid into the delin
quent class
Wednesday, last day for payment
of second Installments, was the
buataat day at the tax collector’s of- .
fice since January 31. last day for
payment of ft i installments.
The two-installment plan was
adopted by the city last year, and
both years In which it has been
practiced, a large number of citi
zens have taken advantage of It,
Sterling said
Several people were saved from
penalties for being delinquent by
reminders in The Herald Tuesday
and Wednesday. Quite a larg*
number read the notification at
dinner tables Wednesday and rush
ed to the city hall in time to jny
up before the doors were closed at
9 p. m.
Figures on delinquencies for ths
past six-month period and for tha
whole year on 1928 payments wero
to be available Fridav. Sterling said.
WESLACO CLUB ADDS
THREE NEW MEMBERS
(Special to The Herald*
WESLACO. Aug 1—A most in
teresting meeting was the weekly
Tuesday luncheon of the Business
and Professional Womens club,
with Mrs. Myrtle Smith. Mrs. Mo
line Tillotson and Miss Florrie Ha
gar added to the club roll.
Miss Mamie L. Martme who re
cently returned from the interna
tional nurses’ convention at Mon
treal. gave a most interesting talk of
er trip. An invitation will be ex
tended to Mayor D. E. Kirgan ta
speak before the club soon. Plan*
were also completed for the thin*
of a series of swimming parties that*
the members are enjoying.
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