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Broumsmllr HcralO __EstablUhed July 4, 1892 Entered as second-class matter in the Po6toffice Brownsville, Texas. .. r THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rates—Daily and Sunday (7 Issues) °®e *«»r ....18 00 Six Months .. Three Months...12^5 One Month.***[ AIEMBEK OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. HARLINGEN OFFICE: City News Co., 114-A West Jackson Street. TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE National Advertising Representatives Dallas. Texas, 512 Mercantile Bank Building. , Kansas City. Mo., 306 Coca Cola Building. I Chicago, 111.. Association Building. New York, 350 Madison Avenue, fit. Louis, 502 Star Building Loa Angeles, Cal., Room 1015 New Orpheum Bldg., 846 8. Broadway. San Francisco, Cal.. 318 Kohl Building. Sugar Futures Hit New Low Level Wheat hit the bottom in the closing days of Feb ruary. Cotton hit the bottom. Sugar hit the bottom. Indeed, raw sugar for future delivery fell to new low prices on the New York coffee and sugar exchange. Overproduction of Cuban sugar was responsible for the decline. There are American cane sugar producers. There are American beet sugar producers. Americans, per capita, are the greatest consumers of sugar in the wide, wide world. They say the country Is flooded wth sugar from the Philippines and the isle of Cuba Other competitors are the Porto Rican planters and the planters of the Hawaiian Islands. They are most ly Americans. Porto Rico is an American colonial possession. Ha waii Is an American colonial possession. As for the Porto Ricans, they are as poverty stricken today as they were when the Spanish hidalgos owned the Is land. Hawaii is said to be the gem of the Pacific. There are more Japs than there are islanders or Americans but the big sugar planters live in the states. There Is a consumer's as well as a producer's side and this is one reason why the tariff is a local issue as announced many years ago by the late Gen. Win- \ field Scott Hancock, presidential standard bearer of | the democratic party in a disastrous campaign. His laconic statement drew from Charles A. Dane then in the land of the living and editor of the New York Sun, this terse editorial comment: “Gen. Han- i cock is a big man—he weighs 250 pounds.’’ Demo- ' cratic prospects slumped and the burial of Hancock took place In November of that year. Prison Rat Holes Devour the Money Gov. Moody, in his radio address, broadcast for the education and information of the people, declared that from 1919 to 1929. inclusive, the prison system showed a natural loss of more than $5,500,000. To this he added a loss of more than $1,000,000 each on two other farms of the system. “Keeping the rat holes open” Is a very costly financial game. Now Just why should the prison hat holes be kept open? It will be for the people, the last and the greatest court of appeal, to return Judgment in their ballot box judgment at the polls in November. Moody Gets a Great Shock This is a story cwtsd by a North Texas newspaper Cn the morning of March 1: “ ‘I never heard of such a thing.’ was Gov. Moody's answer to an inquiry' Saturday with reference to re ports that he would announce for re-election as gov ernor for a third term ” Sure he was surprised. That was the Intention of the correspondent who had to furnish copy for his newspaper after a very dull day. “Smoking 'em out.*’ is an old trick of the trade. There are times when It works. There are times when the method fails. On this occasion the smoking out process evoked a chuckle from the shining mark vic tim and that's all. THE ONE RELIEF (Copyright, 1930, by The Associated Newspapers.) L The noisy “Reds*’ are fighting cops And shouting 'round the town; There's much complaining in the shops And stocks are falling down; I’m out of work, the larder s bare, I see no hope till Fall— But I don't care, for everywhere ' I hear the cry “PLAY BALL!” II. In Europe they are having floods, There’s talk of war in Spain; The farmers cannot sell their goods Or get their price for grain. My pocketbook Is far too thin To buy two postage stamps. But what the h-* The teams are In THE SOUTHERN TRAINING CAMPS! III. The wets and drys are In a fight And feeling’s running high; The psittlcosis spreads its blight In China millions die; The naval limitations meet Seems well upon the rocks But from the South come Items neat OF CIRCUIT CLOUTS AND SOCKS. IV. Three million men are out of work As Congress proves a flop; The drys are bringing us a Turk Who never touched a drop, There's lawlessness throughout the land We've never seen darker days, But in the press are stories grand Of SNAPPY DOUBLE PLAYS. V. Herb Hoover looks quite glum and sad, And so roes Davis, too; The butcher whispers “Business bad.' The baker says he’s blue; I've got the grippe, alas, alack! My trousers have a shine, But what’s the diff? Don't Connie Mack Say EMHKE’S GOING FINE? VI. That stock I bought a year ago Is now worth Just a dime; The papers say “Steel Trade Is Slow,” There’s No Decrease in Crime.” Such headlines these days I don't choose To give more than a glance; Give me the more important news Of HORNSBY. REESE AND VANCE. VII. The tariff outlook's very punk And magnates all look dour; The pessimists cry “Help! Were sunk!” In tones morose and sour; My wife is sick, my kids, forsooth Are starving one by one. But never mind: GEORGE HERMAN RUTH HAS SMACKED HIS FIRST HOME RUN! FAMOUS NAVAL SAYINGS REVISED “Damn the ratio! Full rpeed ahead!" “You may announce the tonnage when you are ready. Gridley.” “Don't shoot, boys; the poor devils are trying to figure their parity rating.” Rubio As a Reformer President Ortiz Rubio of Mexico has recommended to the governors of all Mexican states that they seek to prevent establishment and operation of games of chance. A statement to the press said the president's action was based on the desire to “protect social morality.” There are palatial gambling institutions dotting all the territory from the Pacific ocean to the place where the Rio Grande pumps its water into the Gulf of Mexico. Are these temples of chance to be pad locked by order of the president of the Aztec republic? If so. where will the American holders of the gambling concessions go for the play when they are banished bv the successor of Calles and Gil? Havana is the Monte Carlo of the new world. Cuba is said to be the freest of all republics. There the sky is the limit and the doors of the temples arc never closed. THE OLD HOME TOWN.Stanley ( Yassah- when \ sa\aPn/^ ) THEM TWO HANDS \ { easin' toward those \ ) LEMON PIES - » OUST ) _ / SMACKED DOWN THAT / W/NDOW, AND SMACKED^ H.\lT HARD - - AND DAfc /J -—isJL-'-rr 3 --——I j —■- - " " - It i LASSITUDE WHITE,“TWEE SECOND <3>fcL IN THE CENTRAL HOTEL KITCHEN, MADE A VERT IMPORTANT CATCH THIS i Morning - •_*?-* -J I “You're late. I’m going cut with Greg Du Pont.” READ THIS FIRST: Elanda Lee. twenty, auburn hair ed, gray eyed and very pretty, has just arrived in New York after sing ing for four years over an Atlanta radio station. She wants to sing opera. She is to live with her old friend. Dixie Durkin, from Jardon. Georgia, a little town along the Suwanee river, where she was born. Dixie is married and lias a baby two years old. When Elanda goes for her audition she meets Su wanee Collier, ukelele player. The owner of the studio. Gregory Du "*ont the second, a director and Suwanee, hear her audition. She sings a high-class operatic number and then she is asked to sing “Suwanee River.” She is merely told she will hear from the studio. She thinks she has failed. Because Suwanee is from Georgia, too, she le's him take her to dinner. Later she takes him home to meet Dixie and Bang and the baby. Andree adores him. and he and Dixie have a gay evening playing and Sin-Tin-; jazz son.rs, oi which Elanda does not approve. Elanda receives word to come to the studio, and Is of fered a murh smaller job than she expected—singing in a light opera chorus. She is in the office of Du Pont when his son comes In. The father hurries her out. almost abruptly. • NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER 6 Gregory King Du Pont III whis tled under his breath when Elanda with a flashing smile, turned and went out of the door. 'Papa, who's the prize bathing beauty?" Du Port, senior, hod little re spect for his spendthrift son. So he snapped at him, as usual. “Sh^'s not bathing beauty She's a ladv. Leave her alone!" “Going to be around the plant Is she. rena** Maybe you'll give me a job plaving a piccolo or—’ “I’ll give you a job going to hades! You're going there fast enough anvwav,” the older man turned his b?ck and walked to the window “Aren't you ever going to settle down and make something out of yourself?” Gregory’ Junior laughed. It was an arnu'fd. deep laugh. It jarred on his father's ears until he wished he were strong enough to take the young, lazy bounder and throw him out by his collar. The telephone rang and saved the day. When his father picked up the receiver. Greg ory, Junior, blew him a tantalizing 1 kiss and sauntered out. His father suspected he had gone in search of the new beauty—and he wasn't far wrong. Gregory King Du Pont, the younger, was. no one would deny, a fine looking young man. His face i was a trifle red from too much food and drink ar.d very little exercise. But he was striking in a big blonde, well-dressed. Beau Brummel way. He had been to several colleges. In and out of them in rapid succession, j Finally he managed to keep from being thrown out of one for his \’arious escapades long enough to get his diploma. Since that time his father had given him money j and more money to start h.m in ' something worth w hile. But Greg- j ory had squandered it and gone back for more until the older man had given the Job up as useless. WWBC was Du Pont senior’s life dream. The culmination of all his hopes. He had put millions into it. And enjoyed running the organiza tion as he never had enjoyed any thing before. His money had been made in oil. His son. an only child I had coaxed frequently to get into j i WWBC with him. But he suspected j it was because of the pretty girls emnloyed as artist around the slu* ( dio’s—and turned the proposal down j uatiy. Despite his money and position i Du Pont alwavs had been a sensible man. He loved his wife and never j had been temnted to leave the sacrificing little partner of his early struggles (or the butterflies that had thrown themselves at his feet since he had become rich. His ; I son was all ol the thinas that he j was not. He made up to the butter- I ; fly ladtes for his father s Ignoring I of them—and then some. Nelson Conn-11, the publicity di rector cf VVWBC, was one of the most popular ex-new paper men in i New Yorl. He knew new- and made I everv storv he wanted to put over i so interesting that it was sure to * I be given the preference over the other stuff used by the radio j editors of the various papers He , knew how to treat the newspaper j ‘ boys. Nelson was the winning and ( I dining publicity man who spent his firm's money freely on the ! newspaper men and women who ! came to hint for stories. He always got acquainted over a glass or a ! steak. . He was small and dark and wiry Full of nervous energy and always on the go. The minute Elanda walked into the room he sensed that in her he had good material for ■ .... ■ —r- 11 i (the grab bag _ J Who am I? From what country am I minister to the United States? Who is the U.- S. minister to my country? How many justices sit on the su preme bench at Washington? Who is the comptroller general of the United States? “Seek good, not evil, that ye may live.” Where is this passage found in the Bible? Correctly Speaking— Say •'aloud” not "out loud.” Today's Anniversary On this day in 1835. Samuel New comb. the American astronomer, was born. Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. Edgar L G. Prochnik; Austria; Albert Henry Washburn. 2. Nine. 3. J. R. McCall. 4. Amos, v, 14. 1 Star Lore STAR MOTIONS IN SOME FA MILIAR CONSTELLATIONS By Arthur DcV. Carpenter With the exception of two stars 1 in the big dipper of Ursa Major, the rest—five—are flying in unison, i. e.. they are real neighbors show ing they are actually related to one i another. Their proper motions I (change of positions on the celes tial sphere* are equal and parallel. The same is true of many of the stars in the constellation Scorpius. But Corona Borealis is made up of stars unrelated, for each of its stars has a velocity and a direction of motion of its own. After a long period of time. Corona Borealis will have entirely lost its cxownld&e form, „ JUST ONE DARNED TH ING ARTER ANOTHER | I w ,v pictures and copy. He jumped up I luickly. ‘You're the new singer," he jreeted her, without hearing her uime. “I can tell by the color 01 four hair.' Elanda smiled at him sweetly. ‘How clairvoyant! Mr. Du Pont >ent me down to tell you the story af my life.-’ "A gal with hair like yours ought lo have a yarn that would run into >everal volumes. Baby, what eyes tou have!" "The better to see you, my dear,’ she giggled affectedly. Well get along. Nelson held rwit his hand. ‘ You speak my lan guage. Red Head. I can see that.’ Just then the door flung open. It was Gregory Du Pont. 'Hello Nelson! Papa told me I was to come down and take a good look at the little girl from down Eolith and see whether she looked hungry', and if she did h* said T was to take you and the little girl ov* to dinner tonight." Nelson applauded: *T alwavs said your father was n eood Christian. She looks as though she had been living or crackers and ten for a week, to me Elanda was thrilled. She looked sit Nelson uncertainly and behind Gregory's back he gave her a fran tic signal to accept. She didn't need mimh coaxing. •‘I gave mv last crust to a poor old ladv last night I need nour ishment if I'm to rehearse several hours tomorrow." •Settled.” Greg looked decidedly nl^ased. “I'll see vou people here at five-thirty. We ll eat earlv then It's nearly five now. That'll give you time to make un one of your wild stories about the little gir! Nelson." When he had pone. Nelson sat M'-k and scratched his head thoughtfully. “Sweetheart, you don't lose much time, do vou?" “What do you mean?” Elanda twinkled at him. “Where did you meet Greg Dv Pont?” “In his father’s office, about ten minutes ago. His father Just intro duced us—and then dismissed me as though he thought I were going to snatch his little off-snrine right out from in under his nose.” “Papa was right. You did." Nel son laughed. “That isn’t going to do you any harm around here. Greg ory Du Pont, the third, is one of the richest bachelors in town. I could reel off a list of blue bookers p mile long who’d pt’e their right eves to be seen out with him. You’ll have a lot of enemies hanging around If he takes you up. But you’ll pet into the papers quick rnmieh—and that’s what you want in New York Publicity." Ftsnda looked uneertaln. “What k*nd of publicity? I’ve pot to he careful. I don’t want to get rrvved un In npv seendal.” “Don’t be a habv!’ Nelsoo laughed at ber pood-rpfured!v. “Tf you’rr rumored engaged to him and little SAMBO’S PHILOSOPHY fti “Prayin' Willie 'low he heah <S« call to ko an’ preach af'lnl Styv— hit's dem fryln’ size roostah’s learn In' to crow dal’s caliin Willie s things like that, It Isn't going tc ruin your reputation. 1 don t mean you have to be found shot In hi* apartment—or anything like that. "A girl with your looks—you know you’re a beauty, you're not blind—can have anything sht wants in New York, if she goes af ter it right. I hope you're the sort with sense enough to go after it There's no reason why In a yeat from now so if shouldn't be wearint emeralds. And not paying for them either." “You flatter me. Mr. Connell What do you want me to turn out to be—a pirate? You seem awfully sure that Gregory Du Pont is going to make a play for me. too, it seems to me." “He's the easiest fool in the world. He falls like a ton of brick? for every beautiful skirt he sees With what I know about this gam if I were a girl I’d be starring or Broadway in a year with a fall guy like that on the string. Id ever marry him if I wanted to.” Elanda smiled Men always wer? telling women what they'd do. Bui somehow, they newer seemed to b< I able to tell them how to go abom I K They had settled down serioush to planning a story about Flandr when Suwanee Collier breezed in— merrily. "Ah—the little gal from my na tive heath. I was looking for you I have tickets for the ‘Follies’— and if you're good I'll take you.’ Feeling proud of herself, Elanda shrugged. "You're late. Sorry. I'm going out with Gregory Du Pont. Junior.’ <TO BE CONTINUED* There are 136.027 volumes and 22.107 borrowers registered in the library of Hawaii. | aTtamm Blue Printing and Supplies Harlingen, Texas VALLEY PLATING WORKS *Ve Nirkle Plate Anything Phene 941-W or 55. Brownsville 1016 Madison St, / ©UK / Slavic / is AS PERSONAL AS IN! 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