Brownsville herald. [volume], August 01, 1929, Page EIGHT, Image 8

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EIGHT MILES TO
FLNISH HIGHWAY
Work to Cost $175,000 To
Shorten Route North
By 50 Miles
Paving of Willacy county's high
way from Raymondville north to
the Kenedy county line was author
ized by the state highway commis
sion Wednesday afternoon, accord
liig to a telegram received here by
County Judge O. C. Dancy from
Nat Wetzel, chairman of the WiU
scy county good roads committee
Grade end structures for thr
road, which is about eight miles in
length and which will complete a
north and south concrete highway
tnrough the county, were completed
more than a year ago. Willacy
county officials have repeatedly pe
titioned the highway commission to
order the stretch paved, but this
was refused on the grounds the
highway did not connect with any
road through Kenedy county.
Orders to pave the Willacy coun
ty road now are believed to indi
cate that a road through Kenedy
conty soon will be opened. The
state highway commission has been
spending considerable time and ef
fort in trying to get this road op
ened.
Building of the highway north
from Raymondville and construc
tion of a road through Kenedy
county would shorten the distance
to all up-state points by about fr1
miles, engineers estimate.
Money to pave the Willacy high
way already Is available, proceeds
from a bond issue voted two years
ago. It is estimated the paving will
cost approximately $175,000. The
county will pay all of this sum but
the state will reimburse the county
50 per cent of the cost at a later
date. The work will be supervised
by the state.
Pittsburgh ‘Strip’
Rocked By Explosion
PITTSBURGH. Pa.. Aug. 1.—(.Pi
More than a score of buildings in
the “strip’' district were damaged an
estimated $100,000 early today by an
explosion. Police and fire officials
believe it was caused by a bomb.
A thre story hardware establish
ment was destroyed, and fronts of
buildings for more than a block
were shattered.
Scores of persons were thrown
from their beds, but no serious in
juries were reported.
Budget For County
Is Being Prepared
County Auditor J. J. Bishop Wed
nesday was working on the budget
for the new fiscal year, which be
gins August 1.
"It's not a question of setting
the budget to suit oui needs, but
one of keeping our needs within
what we re going to be allowed.'’
Bishop said.
The county for the past several
years has witnessed an increase in
^expenditures for carrying on county
business, but only in proportion to
the growth of the county.
EDITOR INDICTED ON
CIRCULATION FIGURES
PLYMOUTH. Ind . Aug. 1—Clay
W. Metsker. editor of the Democrat,
‘former member of the Indiana leg
islature and a prominent resident of
Plymouth, recently was indicted by
a federal grand jury’ in South Bend
on a charge of perjury*. It was al
leged he made false statements in
his report on circulation to the fed
eral government. He is said to have
claimed a circulation of 2,456 daily
whereas it is alleged the circulation
is 1 350.
Metsker, who was arrested by
United States Deputy Marshall Wil- !
liam Cordier. of South Bend, posted
A bond and was released.
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MISSOURI U. DEAN
MAY ATTEND PICNIC
(bjiecial to The Herald)
McALLEN. Aug. 1—Walter Wil
liams. dean of the school of Journal
ism at Missouri University, has in
dicated in a letter to Stockton Foun
tain that he may come to the Valley
again this year to attend the Mis
fouri picnic, which is to be held in
September.
Dean Williams, recognized as one
of the leading authorities in jour- j
nalism Instruction, was guest of
honor at the Missouri picnic in Mc
Allen last year and spent several
days in the Valley.
MISSION BUILDING
PERMITS $78,325
(Special to The Herald)
MISSION. \ug. 1.—Building per
mits for the first seven months of
the year are $78,325 60. according to
figures compiled at the city hall.
The past month*- figures include
two modern houses and the remod
eling of another or Dunlap avenue
by Splawn Bros., these houses to
be used as rent property.
ILLINOIS THREE-CENT
GAS TAX EFFECTIVE
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.—MV-Illinois’
three cent gasoline tax law went
into effect at midnight. This state
was the last to adopt a gasoline tax
State officials o..ticlpa e $52,000 -
000 revenue from the tax within the
next two and ne-half years.
P. O. RECEIPTS INCREASE
(Special to The Herald)
MISSION. Aug. 1.—Mission post
Office receipts inc -sed from $19,
362.21 at the close of the fiscal year
of 1927-28 on July first to the
amount of $19,781.56 at the close of
the fiscal year July 31, 1929.
BELGRADE, Jugoslavia. July 31.
^#*1—The arsenal at Sarajevo was
lestroyed by fire last night, damage
amounting to 8,000,000 dinars, or
About $1,500,000.
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MOON MULLINS — Mamie’s Idea of Heaven
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GEORGE WASHINGTON SPENT $160,074
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OF PUBLIC FUNDS IN REVOLUTION,
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OLD PERSONAL LEDGER REVEALS
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—<*>»—
George Washington's revolution
ary ledger, showing that as com
mander-in-chief ol the new re
public's forces in its long war of
independence he spent only
$160,074 of public funds, has just
been removed from the govern
ment’s files for the use of Amer
ican historians.
The ledger covered the eight
year period from Washington’s
assumption of the revolutionary
arm's command in June, 1775. to
the signing of the peace treaty
at Pans, and for nearly 150 years
has lain thick with dust in the
records of the government s gen
eral accounting office.
In It, Washington daily record
ed with quill and ink his expenses
and with careful and explicit no
tations accounted every expendi
ture. noting whether it was for
“household expenses” reconnais
sances of the enemy's forces'' or
for purchase of equipment and
filling aboiit 100 pages which now
form a priceless manuscript.
The ledger shows that between
1775 to 1781 he spent $17,617 on
his spy system, listing various
payments to.“unnamed persons.’
The book presents a chronolog
ical summary of Washingtons
movements In the revolution and
each of ni$ battles. For the first
two years, he itemized his ex
penses in terms of pound sterling,
but after 1777 his accounts were
in terms of both dollars and the
English currency, the latter col
umn being headed "lawful
money.”
Washington evidently did not
attempt to conceal from the new
American government his re- |
verses on the battlefield. In his
1777 accounts he recorded ex
penditures “during the retreat
through the Jersesy to Pennsyl
vania” and later in the same year
a $1,037 item for expenses on the
march from Germantown, Pa.,
“until we hutted at Valley Forge
for the winter.”
Frequently entries were made
for reconnaissances of the com
mander-in-chief “sometimes with
and sometimes without the armv
but generally with only a party of
horse." The expeditions, these
records shew, were to scout the
British forces or to lay out the
American army's battle plan or
defensive positions by personal
observation. They constituted a
malor item of his accounts—a
total of $42,755.
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Hudspeth Attacks
Box Bill At Meet
DEL RIO. Texas. Aug. 1.—(7P>—
San Antonio and Brady were the
foremost contenders for the 1930
convention of the Texas Sheep and
Goat Raisers’ association at the
second day's session of this year’s
meeting today.
Yesterday s program was divided
between business and pleasure. Con
gressman Claude Hudspeth in an
address renewed his attack on the
Box immigration bill and Dayton
Moses. Fort Worth attorney also put
in a word against it.
Before the convention is ended,
about 1400 head of choice sheep
and goats will be sold.
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CONVICT*. ORATOR CAUGHT
LONDON—Two escaped 'convicts
from Pentonville prison were recap
tured while ’ aranguing a commu
nist audience from soap boxes.
Second False Fire
Alarm Made In Week
A second false fire alarm within
a week was turned In Wednesday
night in the vicinity of 12th and
Polk streets.
The fire department made a rush
call to this spot at 10:30 p. m. hut
found nothing. Recently a false
alarm was turned in at 14th and
Polk streets.
The police department have sev
eral suspects in the neighborhood
under consideration.
EDELSTEIN RETURNS
FROM JOURNEY NORTH
M. Edelstein, owner of one of
Brownsville's largest furniture stores !
and others in the Valley, is bad:
after a trip to the north. He was
attending to business matters at hi
Brownsville store Wednesday.
YOU 'RE %
LOSER/
Prompt payment is a lifeline
thrown to a man afloat on the
perilous Sea of Finance. It is
the line that will draw you
safe and sound aboard the ship
Good Credit. He who spurns
it is left behind when the ship
steams out of reach. To be a
passenger on the worthy ves
sel Good Credit or a hopeless
drifter — which? DON’T.
SPURT THAT LIFE LINE!
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Brownsville Retail Merchants Assn., Inc.
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Find Body of Man
Robbed Last Week
SPRINGFIELD. Mo., Aug. 1.—(tf)
The body of Charles L. Stanley, 60.
retired Frisco railroad engineer,
kidnaped and robbed here last
Thursday, was found near Lynn
Lane, near Tulsa, Okla., according
to word received early today There
was a bullet wound in the head.
Stanley, with his wife, came here
to visit last week and on Thursday,
while standing by the Frisco gen
eral offices, was asked the direction
to Joplin. Approaching the ma
chine, occupied by a man and wom
an, Stanley was forced Into it when
the man drew a platol. Stanley
was blindfolded and taken Into the
country where he was robbed of $1,
200 cash, a diamond stickpin and a
Vetch.
Held prisoner 36 hours, Stanley
was released and made his way here
Saturday, where he reported to po
lice. He later returned to Tulsa.
NO WAY TO USE BEERGLASS
WELSBADEN, Oermany. — For
the first time on record a wife was
fined here for hitting her husband
over the head with a beerglass.
Home In San Benito
Is Damaged By Fire
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, Aug. 1.—Fire of
undetermined origin about 1 a. m.
Thursday caused damage of from
$2,000 to $3,000 at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Cannon in the 200
block of South Austin street.
The fire truck answering an
alarm found the blaze well under
way with flames lashing through
the roof. The fire started in a
clothes closet.
Mexican Amnesty to
Rebels Is Extended
MEXICO CITY. Aug. 1—{A3}—Th?
time limit for the surrender of re
bels through Mexico, which expired
Wednesday night, has been extend
ed 24 hours to enable Insurgents in
the more isolated sections to learn
of the proposed amnesty. To com
ply they must turn over tnelr arms
to federal headquarters and be giv
en a safe conduct home.
Fully 5.000 rebels have surrender
ed since the government announced
its amnesty and it is estimated only
a few bands remain in rebellion.
“THE BEST MOTOR OIL
IN*THE WORLD” j
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Is this an extravagant claim
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or a plain statement of fact ?
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W"E have long hesitated to say that we helieve
Pennzoil to be the finest and most economical
lubricating oil you can buy. Yet what else i3
-here to say? Consider these facts:
(1) Pennsylvania fields are universally accepted as
the source of the best crude for the manufacture of
the finest lubricating oil; (2) Pennzoil is refined from
Pennsylvania crude of supreme quality—and nothing
else; (3) It is made by the world’s largest refiners of
pure Pennsylvania oil; the refining methods employed
a quart
This seal it more than a pledge
oflOOfy Pure Pennsylvania. Ji w
our guarantee to you of Highest
Quality finished Motor OiL
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being the most advanced in existence—the famous
Pennzoil process; (4) Pennzoil lasts twice as long as
ordinary oils—is more economical regardless of price.
We would not for a moment imply that there are not
good Pennsylvania oils other than Pennzoil. Our state
ment is simply a guide to the motorist who wants to be
certain of obtaining highest quality Pennsylvania oiL
Penrusoil is sold from Maine to California. Look for
the Pennzoil sign. The man that displays it believes in
quality merchandise. He is a good man to deal with.
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Fire Destroys Six
Quinlan Build |
QUINLAN, Texas. Aug. 1.
Six business bu Idlngs, two on«
and lour wooden structures, were
destroyed by fire of undetermined
origin here arly today. Loss was
j estimated at $100,000.
j The buildings housed three gen
. eral merchandise establishments,
; two cafes and a warehouse. Anoth
er building was damaged. Fire de
partments from Greenville and
Terrell helped combat the flames.
How School Teacher
Gained 18 Pounds
and New Energy
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writes Mr. Linus L. Clark, “and from
my study I was convinced that Iron
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than that, Iron ized Yeast brought
more energy, greater endurance and
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You can believe letters like this.
Thousands who were doubtful at
first write they gained 5 to 20
pounds often in 3 weeks. “Skinny"
limbs changed to graceful round
ness. Skin clears. Tired feeling
vanishes.
Only when Yeast is Ironized Is it
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Go to any druggist today and get
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jyou are not delighted, money back.
FROM DRUGGIST OR
MANUFACTURER
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