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Snmmsuflle Herald Established July 4, 1892 Entered as secona-ciass matter In the Postoffice, • Brownsville. Texas. THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY MEMBER 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. Subscription Rates—DaRy and Sunday (7 issues) One Year.19 00 Six Months. *4.50 Three Months . *2.25 One Month .75 TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGt'E National Advertising Representatives Dallas. Texas. 512 Mercantile Bank Building. Kansas City, Mo., 306 Coca-Cola Building. Chicago. 111., Association Building. New York. 350 Madison Avenue. St. Louis. 502 Star Building. Los Angeles, Cal., Room 1015 New Orpheum Bldg., 846 S. Broadway. San Francisco. Cal., 318 Kohl Building. HARLINGEN OFFICE Arcadia Theater Building. Phone 1020. The Vanishing Packets The last Mississippi river packet steamboat line has gone from Memphis, Tenn.—and if you have any feeling at all for the color and romance of a by-gone generation, that announcement is guaranteed to make you a little bit melancholy. A few days ago the Valley Line Steamers, Inc, sole survivor of the Memphis packet lines, put its three steamers up for sale and discontinued operations. Memphis, as a result, is without packet steamer service for the first time in more than a century—for the first time, as a matter of fact, since the Mississippi had any steamers at all. Of course, there is still traffic on the river. The big barge fleets are said to carry a greater volume of freight annually than the old-time sidewheel packets did in their hevdey. Furthermore, this kind of trade Is increasing. Enormous cargoes come down the riv er each month, to spill into the funnel at New Or leans for shipment to the East Coast, to California and overseas. But who can get excited over barges and tugboats? Those old steamers represented a bit of romance left over from a more leisurely and colorful era than our own. They were survivals from a generation which, in retrospect, sometims looks more attractive than ours. And Memphis was lapped in the glamour that they gave. Trying to Imagine Memphis without packet steamers Is like trying to Imagine Gloucester, Mass., without fishing schooners. It just isn't right. The picture looks wrong. Memphis ought to do something about It Probably it's a mistake to get sentimental about it. After all, the Mississippi valley is a greater artery of commerce now than it was in Mark Twain's day. Its cities are more prosperous. Life is easier for a bigger percentage of its people. The railroad and the auto mobile, w'hlch slew the packets, have certainly been blessings to the valley, as to the rest of the country. But we have lost something, just the same. Our modern age is efficient and progressive—but it gives us no substitute for the gleaming, white-paint-and bmsswork packets of the old days. It is, in fact, just i little bit dull. The loss of Memphis’ river steamers lymbolizes the tendency of the age. Idiotic Enforcement The muddle-headedness of which some policemen ire capable when they go out to enforce Sunday "blue lawrs'* is sometimes almost beyond belief. In Philadelphia the other Sunday two working boys’ clubs played a baseball game, with a group of kids from an orphan asylum as their guests. No ad mission could be charged, and no fewer than 10 po licemen were present to see that no fee was collected. At the end of the fourth inning the boys tried to take up a collection from the crowd to pay the day's expenses—baseballs, ground rent and the like. They promised to give any surplus to *he police department, to be spent on charity. But the police were adam ant. As soon as the hat started to go around the po lice broke up the game and arrested the boys in charge. Stunts like tha* are simply silly. "Blue laws.” so called. are designed to prevent the commercialization of the Sabbath. A game like this one ought to be in nocuous enough for anyone. The Once Over f U; EL PHILLIPS \s==eac====J========= a..■ . THE SUMMER VACATIONIST'S RELIEF FUND (Copyright, 1930, by The Associated Newspapers.) Today inaugurates the 1930 8umxner Vacationists’ Relief Fund, now in its third year and with more | work cut out for it than ever before. The purpose of this fund, as most readers know’, is to bring succor to thousands of vacationists suffering at summer resorts. Their condition is more pathetic than ever this year, due to lack of shade, poor food, defective ventilation and one thing and another. Unless brought back to the comparative comfort and coolness of their city homes at once, many of them will suffer excessively. • • • ■ This season the plight of vacationists is more heart-breaking than ever, largely because of economic conditions. Summer hotel proprietors have retrench ed more than ever, it seems, with the result that these establishments are about as low in the scale of com fort as they can get. Whereas in other more prosper i ous years a hotel proprietor would mend the porch rail so a guest could lean on it without being pitched into the yard, and put a comfortable chair or two in the lobby, nothing of that nature has been done this summer. In fact, letters from suffering vacationists reveal that in some hotels there are no chairs at all. The few on hand when the season opened collapsed the first time anybody sat In them and the manage ment refuses to make replacements. • t • • Economy in the aeration of summer hotel kitchens is reported to liave gone the limit atid many vacation 1 ists are reported near starvation. The following let ter is typical of many: Fund for Relief of Summer Vacationists: Dear Sir: I sincerely trust the fund will repeat its splen did work of former summers this season. You have no Idea of the pitiful plight of persons caught in many so-called shore resort hotels and boarding houses Just now. My husband and I and two children came to this place a week ago. It was advertised as ; a de luxe hotel on the ocean front, but It Is a mile j and a half from the nearest water, which is nothing but a creek. We are being charged $32 a day for two tiny rooms in the attic, overlooking a public garage. The place is stifling. We have to carry drinking water from a well 200 yards away from the hotel. The menu consists almost entirely of stewed prunes, steamed clams, com fritters, blueberry pie and bad coffee. Unless we are rescued at once it may be too late. A Mother. • • • • Are you not touched by this communication? Do ! you not feel the urge to aid without delay? Send In your contribution now. Remember there are thou sands of your fellow beings suffering on summer va ' cations. Unless food is sent to some of them they will perish. It is your duty to help succor these un fortunate fellow beings and provide funds to bring them back to their homes and their Jobs, the only places where they can find real comfort and satisfac tion. after all. • • • • It will not cost as much per head to bring summer vacationists home this year as In the past, due to the changed financial situation. This summer it will he possible to bring back one adult for $8 or four for $30. We hope to handle the children at the rate of $4 each or four for $15. Think of the great army of swelter ing. hungry, nerve-shattered vacationists undergoing all the miseries of life at Inadequate shore hotels and sitting there waiting and watching.for signs of relief! Let your heart go out to these poor people. Send In your donation today. The Fund Standing From a cured vacationist .$2 00 Uncle Jake . 100 Ladies Aid Society . 3.00 Happy City Dweller.10 Total . $6.10 Summer Pests Get the axe For Gilbert Strawn: At 6 a m. He mows his lawn! Down the well With Lester Hawk: He wets his lawn But floods the walk! The hemlock cup For Luther Bowers: He wants the world To praise his flowers! Some mom In oil Boil Hector Brace Who lets his auto Engine race! Our Boarding House . ... By Ahern / VMHur? NMETflsJ \ j WOUQ GOOD. ^vlOc.'b *T* ”TAv\ t_ -TV4* ^"lEAvY CuTA I -Them ? vajhv* , 1 UKE NAiME: “T i 1 ^CX'EAW'- 'T . yj -rHev? y ' X. KJE.W/» y liiii -/.-—ft' i~i A 1 / woU \NOOLDn' L\VCE\f USSEM, \ f 'em T'SQuEAK pAUO~*F IF wooR OO MAM a MOO Cm \ CuT WCoR HA\R - \ HEAR MINE AM*.WHEN WOO WAUW ) MOW - OR, DOW N "fiR’ A1SLE. / w AiT t NOW - J VCUR S>QOEAV<W \ WAitll 'AT/ SHOES "fRACTEp \ BuGGW /jf "fi-V HULU CHoPvCHS l G\Ts 0W / \ 'TEM-iHuU "TO VCuRy V._ J/ VbvRAiR CUT.*_^ X" I ■’■"WffiSSf"' AOMEMT£> WEO HUE -lb DvE OVER TME 8ARK»MGr DOCjEs. vJ .LV' c»mo»t *0 MWice. inc ____________ - -* BEGIN HERE TODAY Dan Rorimer, former New York newspaper man, who Is now writ ing scenarios for Continental Pic tures in Hollywood, gets a letter from Ziggy Young, an old friend in New York, telling him to look up a girl named Anne Winter, who had come from Tulsa, Okla., to crash the pictures. Dan complies reluctantly, as he is distrutful of Ziggy, but Anne proves to be charming. She has had stage experience—in stock companies, which Dan tells her is the best foundation for an extra to have. Anne gathers that he is a little dissatisfied with things at Continental. Rorimer tells Anne about some of the discouraging things of extra work, but he really believes she will ‘make the grade," and he thus assures her. The following Monday rehearsals begin on his picture, an adaption of a story he had written. That evening he learns that Anne is to work the following morning, making the second time she has found extra employment. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER V "You do?" said Dan. "That’s swell! Tell me all about it." I’m to report." Anne Winter said, "at Grand United at nine to morrow morning." •'Nbthtng but the biggest and best for you. eh? Do you feel like cele brating? I'll be tied up at the Wampas dinner until nine, but—" "No thank you. N ne o'clock with makeup on. That means Anne Win ter goes to bed at 10 at the very latest.” She added that it took her nearly two hours to put on a movie makeup. “Well," said Rorimer. “ you might let me call for you In the morning. have to be at the studio at nine myself. ai\d the Grand United lot is r ght on the way.” Anne assented and thanked him. "If you're sure it won t be any trouble." "Not at all—see you at 8:30 . . . Goodby." He hung up the receiver and be gan to get ready for dinner. Paul Collier came up to the room soon afterward, bringing with him Jim Donnelly, a public ty man at Continental Pictures. Collier loudly demanded a drink. “Or no dinner for you Rorimer. You're being honored tonight; Wampas is particular.’* “And exclusve,’’ Donnelly added. “How are you, Rorimer? I under stand we're starting production on your story." Collier said, “Some day you'll have to get Jim Donnelly to give you some of his recipes. Dan. The kid s good. . . . Tell him about that one, Jim, wr.th the tea in it—and the cider cocktail." I “I don't like cider," said Dan. “Did you ever mix it with gin and bitters?" Coll er wanted to know. “By the way, did yo . get in touch with Ziggy's iriend?" “I'll say I did, ’ Dan said. “Well, what was she like?* “She’s the swellest girl I ever met. And that goes." he added. Collier sat up straight. One hand shot ip to hs black, sleek head as it he had been shot. • Well. Ml be hanged!” he ejaculated. "You wouldn't kid me," he added, search ing Dan's face with suddenly curi ous eyes. He turned to Donnelly and said. “Get ‘he fill-in on this. Jim. This guy Zggv Young, back in New York, is the biggest practical Joker that ever lived. I mean l.e really is. . . . Isn't that right, Dan?” • • • Rorimer smiled. “Just about," he said. ‘Just as an illustration," said Colier, when Dan was on 1 way out here, Ziggy wires me a lull de scription of him, explaining who and what he is, and tells me to get a cop and go down and meet his train and arrest him. Just to humor him, I went down. I ddn't have time to look up a cop with a sense of humor, so I got hold of Johnny Riddle and the two of us pulled the fake pinch . . . But Rori mer knew right away that Ziggy was at the bottom of it.” "At Toledo." Rorimer said. “I'm not thinking of movie gos sip; I’m thinking of one great big story—The Hollywood Story. I'd like to be able to write it some day. And that's Just what I'd call it— The Hollyood Story. “You and I,” he said presently, “and all those fellows at the din ner. know very little about Holly wood. after all. You're inside of a studio writing stuff for pictures* They write blurbs about the pic tures and the people that make them; and I'm gadding about all day. interviewing this star and that, watching them do their stuff in front of the camera. I suppose I get around as much as the next one. but I don't know what's really going cn. "Where Is this story of yours— 1n these mountains over there?" Rorimer asked. “I'm not kidding; I'm serious. The story's not complete without extras. Think of the thousands of them—men and women of all ages and descriptions—hanging on and waiting and hoping that by the grace of God lightning will strike them somehow and they’ll get a break that will bring them fame. It’s pathetic, you know it? It's a damn sight worse than that; it's almost unbelievable tragic." “I know it " said Rorimer. “But once in a w,hile one of them crashes through." he added, thinking of Anne Winter. “And for every one that does, think of the hundreds that can't hope for anything better than an occasional dav's work at seven and a half to $10!" Rorimer said “Well, they can't say thev weren't forewarned; no body holds out any hopes of star dom to them." “Yes. but this thing called Hol lywood has a glamour about it that's as Irresistible to them as a snake's eyes for a fascinated bird. The ranks are overcrowded, but still they come—and will continue to come. The producers’ associa tion does what It can to keep ou' the unfit, and it warns them all The Main Stem Intimate Glimpses of the Valley's Alley BY j. r. Along Elisabeth Judge Oscar C. Dancy .. walking to work from his West Brownsville residence .. the Judge does this every day and says the exercise is healthy .. Z. A. Rosenthal, R. B. Rentfro, and J. T. Canales In a t conference .. we saw them through a window .. Margaret and Edgar • Brown .. brother and sister .. buy ing supplies for Ye Olde College Inn .. L. E. Rendon. Matarrorob, own er of a curio shop .. talking with Demeterio Salazar, big Mexico City mogul .. Mr. Rendon is active :n civic affairs In the sister city across the river .. Rolland Friedman .. driving along the ma n stem in his browr. and black buggy .. “Jiggs” Bansbach telling of a successful blood transfusion .. he furnished the blood for his wife .. incidentally, i they have purchased a newr home in Los Ebanos .. • • • Texas For Texas Tourists The krai chamber of commerce j is up on its hind legs and is pushing a move to keep Texans at home on their vacations. Why go out of the state on trips when every climate, every type of scenic beauty, is available in Texas? That's the question, and the an swer is in the back of the book. 9 9 • If one wants snow and cold weath er, there are mountains m the state , that are continually blanketed In white. If one wants arid, dry cli mate. there are plains and deserts galore. If one wants seashore life, there is a coast hundreds of miles long, coming to a head at Point Lsa bel. Every knd of entertainment from ping-pong to golf. By coming to the border a Texan can get a glimpse into something exotic, a foreign atmosphere. • • • If there is anything missing. *t ;s in he imagination. If there is something lacking, the peison that thinks so is slightly “off” in the ca beza. More power to the •/ amber of commerce. • • • Ladies. Bev.are. Ther? is one woman Jrtth a mas culine complex who found that she , might have been wrong, after all. Senorita Cel a Mo. t .an, Mexi can actress, decided that bull fight ing was not so hard, after all. and that she could vamp the \iilain on the stage site could just as easily go Into the arena and make goo-goo eyes at a bull and slay him. • She f md, much to her sorrow, that this was not the case. The bull was not susceptible to her charm*-, and gored her. She woke up n the hospital with a surprised expression on her face, and sev eral stitches in her side. • • W Rain Farmers all over the United States are clamoring for rain, and plenty of it. With all this hue and cry for the popular H-2-O. along tome' a chap | w'ith a suggest on. Suggestions are j always gratefully received, and there ; will l many who will accept this one for its face value. This chap says that the reason It hasn’t rained for such a long period of time is because of the increasing number of radios. It will be rememb- . ed that last year a ps edo-scienttst stepp-vi into the limelight by saying that the severe winter was caused by radio waves cv. t ng off the sun. • w w The present idea-:, onger suggests that radios be silenced for period of time, and let the rain fall. First thing we know, someone will step forth and blame the crime wave, or the large number of ton sil operations, on the rad o. WWW Long Live the C'aief President Hoover has named Gen eral Douglas MacArthur to succeed . Charles P. Summerall as chief of staff of the United States army. MacArthur was formerly Major Gen eral. but calling him gene al new is okay, we hope. General Summerall was a visitor j in Brownsville not so long ago. and promised, v-hile here, that the local fort ’ m Id be remodeled and re paired. We hope the new general 1 has similar plans, and that Fcrt Brown, ancient and historica-ly fam ous, v i not be overlooked. “Ziggy wired me that he had a hangover and asked me to take an aspirin for him." Jim Donnelly stood up. "I gather ” he said, “that Dan looked up a girl friend of Ziggy’s with fear and trembling—” • And with maledictions on Zig gy's head," Collier put in. •‘—-and was disappointed because she wasn’t what he had expected." “Is she really that good. Dan? Collier Inquired. “You’re not going back cn that little O Neil gal 1 in troduced to you, are you?...What a blond she...” "She's an absolute knockout, raid Dan. “and that settles It." Collier said, “Hollywood's full of knockouts’’ "Yeah? But I noticed you went over to Long Beach Saturday night.” Collier said with assumed dig nity. that that was strictly his own affair. “ Affair' is good.” said Donnelly. “Come on; well keep dinner wait ing.” J . After dinner a quorum adjourned to someone's apartment for a poker game. Rorimer, who had ceased caring for the game, and Collier, went for a walk. They walked out Hollywood boulevard toward Vine street. The rain had stopped by late afternoon and there was a moon, but the night was chilly— cold enough for top coats. Collier kept up an inconsequen tial chatter for a while, but Ror imer s responses were monosyllables, and presently Paul fell silent and they walked together, each busy with his own thoughts. It was some time before either of them spoke again. Collier, stop ping short, said they had gone far enough and ought to turn back. He said, thoughtfully: “There's a great story In this town, Dan." “It's full of stories,” said Rori mer, thinking of Collier's daily col umn. “You crack one every day, dont you?” | Out Our Way.By Williams 5AV • ^ vdHtL£ Vo" BoVS 15 ^ fcUStfY KAMPV iM PAY vJAYER-r ^ Vo7 MIGHY PitJE PauiAi LlUPER I I i:yA FEATHER Poster| I/ OKA BOARPi ViiLL. j [ oiA-r a hakapfol. * l OF FEATHERS, AaT f I CAKi MAKE-oP l LIKE A PEUCAKi ? vw fisH HAv/E To , BE PECEIvJEP » ) ^HEV,-OXSoM 4 AS* TH * \ MAtToR Tb f X THRavM OVJERBOARp HIS UPPER t AM* LOvMER ,( PLATES OF V -Tfe.&'fH “To / ME ! -•'"THEM I I CAM SuiiM ) AROUMP f UMPER v4A*TfeR L AM”* smap sf AT F«SH WITH IV mV Hamps RPE.RS Vrqv\ ^ r CAPt'AlAi^-ta CQOK,1a CRSvU ^ _MB. U 9 PAT. Off. Q-fe> - _ __^ what to expect—but there's no way ! of stopping a person rrom trvtng 1 to get into the movies. And when ! they do get in front of a camera, what are they? Just atmosphere— a by-product.’* Collier flipped away his cigaret, continued: ‘ What are their emo tions? What do they think about? The stars—the big figures of Hol lywood—we all know about. Every body knows about them. But the extras who provide the atmosphere for the industry—who knows about them? True, they’re listed at Cen tral Casting, and they’ve got men up there who can remember what a girl looks like when her name is announced over the phone. But they're Just names and types—a fat man with a bald head; a slender blond who can wear sport clothes. “How do they live? Before I came out here a year and a half ago. I subscribed to the popular notion that the restaurant and barber shops would be full of wait resses and manicures who came out here to crash the movies. It isn't true; Dick Charles says he's known only a few in all his exper ience. And anyway, if they did take a steady Job some place, they wouldn't have a chance to work ar. extras. *’I sometimes wonder what It would be like if some giant hand could scoop up all the people con nected with the motion picture industry, from the highest down to the lowest, and throw them Into a giant hopper and have them come out of the little end as one composite person — Know what I mean0'* P.orimer nodded thoughtfully. “Sort of a least common demon! nator of Hollywood?” "That’s l\ And, man, what p storv that person would have to tell!” ■'You'll never get It,” said Rori mer. “I know it; but I can continue to think about it — Here’s Henry’s; let's go in. I could do with a slab of that eftgnog pie.” (To Be Continued) Weslaco Excursion To Mexico Favored WESLACO Aug 6—Two Ray mondville ladies have announced that they are desirous of making the trip to Monterrey and Saltillo, bong I considered by the Weslaco Cham ber of Commerce. A man frcm De troit dropped in the office today and announced that he wanted to go and indicated that he expected some friends in frcra Michgan who would also join the party, provided they ; reached the Valley in time. Two Weslaco couples and a young lady from Weslaco have also signified their intentions of being members of the p. rty. This trip is tentatively set to de part froir Weslaco on Friday morn ing. August 13. Definite r -range - ments will be worked out for the , trip and all t me will be utilized j without waste. Luther Hughes. president of the chamber of com j merce, asks anyone who would be • interested In me king the trip to call at the chamber of commerce office at the Community House m Wes laco. for particulars. —- ■■=- '■= Juicy Steak Supper 50c Anthony’s Waffle Shop 517 12 St. Phone 983 ALFRED TAMM Photostating. Blueprinting and Supplies Harlingen, Texas KEYS MADE FOR EVERY LOCK We Change Combinations T. J. ROMMER Rear of Miller Hotel Phone 722 LOANS On Improved City. Residence and Business Property Todd & Underwood Corner Eleventh and Levee Sts., | Phone 183 Brownsville In the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Texas, Brownsville Division. In the Matter of ) J. W. Gardner and wife, ) No. 230. In Lillie Reed Gardner > Bankruptcy. TO THE CREDITORS OP SAID BANKRUPTS: Notice is hereby given that on the 5th day of August, 1930. the said J. W. Gardner and wife, Lillie Reed Gardner, of Harlngen, Cam eron County, Texas were duly ad judged bankrupts and the ' first meeting of their creditors will be held at the office of Ira Webster, in the Stegman building. Browns ville. on the 16th day of August, 1930. at Eleven (11) a. m. at which time and place the cred tors of the said J. Gardner and Lillie Reed Gardner, bankrupts, may appear, prove their claims, elect a trustee, examine the bankrupt t-nd transact such other business as may prop erly come before such meeting. 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