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Hnmmsufllc Herald . fcatabluhee July 4. UUK, As • Daily Newspaper, ty Jeaaa O. Wheeler J- U. STEIN . Publisher Ralph l buell . Editor Published every afternoon <except Saturday) and Sunday morning Entered as second-class matter is the Postoffice. Brownsville. Texas. THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY 126A Adams 8t, Brownsville. Texas BCFMRFR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Pres* is exclusively entitled to the use of for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper, and tieo the local news published herein. TEXAS DAILf PASS* LUUUI National advertising Representative Dalian Texan 513 MerchanUi# Bank Bldg. Kansas City. Mo. 301 Interstate Bldg. Chicago, Ill, 180 N Michigan Ave, Laa Angelan Calif, 1015 New Orpheum Bldg. New York. N Y, 370 Leaington At*. gt Louis Mo, 506 Star Bldg, gan Francisco. Calif, 155 S&nsome Bt, SUBSCRIPTION BATES By carrier—In Brownsville ana all Bio Qranda Valley muea SSc a week. 75c a month. By Mall—In The Rio Grand* Valley, la advance: one year. 17 00; six months. $3.75; 3 months, gx By Mall—Outside of the Rio Grande Valleyi 75o per month; $9 00 per year; 8 months. $4X0 Thursday, March 28, 1935 How Things Get Done The infinite patience that lies in back of any great movement for the advancement of a community waa well illustrated Wednesday night when T. L. Evans of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, speak ing before a joint meeting of Brownsville service clubs, gave his hearers some of the “inside*' of ef fort* to secure the paving of the Matamoros to Vic toria highway. * In 1922, thirteen years ago, a group of Houston and Brownsville chamber of commerce officials made the trip by plane to Mexico City, seeking to im press upon the Mexican government that the Mata moros route was the logical one to follow in the building of the Pan-American highway from the Rio Orande to Mexico City. Thetr efforts at first met with success, then—as the result of things en tirely out of the control and the ken of citizens of the United States, the Laredo-Monterjey route was chosen Right then was the time to give up. by all rules and regulations. But right then was when the real movement for the construction of this Important road gained its initial impetus. Throughout the years, related Mr. Evans, efforts have been made jointly by Matamoros. Brownsville and Houston to impress upon the Mexican govern ment the advantage to that country of this road. And now success seems about to crown those efforts Assurance of the Minister of Communications of Mexico has been given that a start on the construc tion of the road will be made within the year, and from contact with federal officials in Matamoros we know that in all probability the road will be under actual construction in even less time. And when the road is finally built, the majonty of those who travel over it to Victoria and on to Mexico City will take it for granted. Just as most of us today take for granted this network of concrete roads right here in the Valley, thinking little and earing little of the years of work and constructive effort that preceded their construction. For that reason we believe it fit to pause right now, before the road is built, and carefully consider th* effort* that have filled the years, effort* that will finally result in the building of the Matamoros Victona highway and the bringing to this section of literally hundreds of thousands of tourste a year. - .. " .. ■ " ■ • Soil Need* Pre»ervation On* of the meat. Important measures now being pursued by the federal government Is the effort to check soil eroeion. The problem of erosion -which moat of us hardly reeognired as a problem at all. un til recently—was graphically presented In a recent apeech by H. H Bennett, director of (he Intenor De partment's soil erosion service "Most American soil has been tilled only a short time in comparison with that of Europe." he says. "Yet in the area east of the Appalachians, where 1 there was no erosion when the white man took the land from the Indian, there are now 100.000 gul lies 50 feet deep and a mile long ' America has wasted its soil resources more rap idly than any other country In the work! " It is worth remembering that our tremendous ag ricultural resources have been the foundation of our greatness. The task of preserving them is one of our most vital responsibilities. From War To War ■ A recent cablegram from Berlin, telling how Ger i many's new conscript army is being organized, con tained this sentence: -The military class of 1914—those entering their 2lst year—were expected to be called to the colors for s years training.” It is impossible to read that sentence without a feeling of very deep melancholy. * Por 1914 was the year the World War broke out; and this class of 1914 is composed of young men who were born in that year. What a tragic group of young men! Born in the year the world broke out In flames, many of them made fa •cries* before they had cut their first teeth, brought painfully through a babyhood rendered dif ficult by food shortage, blockade, and all the other terrors of the "home frortt"—and now. reaching manhood, called to the colors to prepare for a new war! Pate has been more than ordinarily unkind to these men. Pate—and ordinary, every-day human folly. Distress After Eating Studied for Cure By DR. MORRIS FISHBtIN Editor. Journal of the Americas Medical Association, and of Hygeia. Dm Health Magazine ' When a food disagrees with us we usually find out ! about it and avoid that particular food. Recently in stigators have been studying the question of dis tress alter eating, with a view to determining foods that are likely to cause such distress and the time when the disturbance comes on. First, several people were taken who knew that they always had distress after eating certain foods. They were fed these foods and asked to note how long after eating the symptoms appeared In some cases the distress comes on while the per son concerned still is at the table. In these cases the reaction Is definitely one of sensitivity to the food concerned, in which case the person is likely to be very ill. BOB In other cases there is some other factor which is a sort of revulsion against the food. In studying these cases it was found that in some usances the nature of the food seemed to be unimportant, since ; there was no given time after digestion and absorp tion and since, In fact, anything put into thfe stomach, even water, produced discomfort, or pain, or heart bum. or belching. * It was found also that people who have distress immediately after a meal usually eat hurriedly and at times when they are tired out, exceedingly keyed up or especially annoyed. •This is the disease of the mother who prepares the meal,” says an Investigator. * and then quarrels with the children or husband at the table ;it is also the disease of business men and women who gulp ddWn some food at a counter and rush back to work; and It is the disease of the president of a luncheon club: or of the traveling salesmanager who gives public talks at luncheons and dinners " • B B The mechanism of this kmc" of distress can be studied by the use of the X-ray. If the stomach is filled gradually aiy* with repeated swallowing movements, it* muscle fibers relax and the introduc tion of even large amounts of food does not greatly increase the pressure within the stomach. If. however, the stomach is filled rapidly and with out much swallowing, the muscle libers do not relax and there is discomfort. v Investigators years ago. showed that the mere idea , of eating will usually cause the stomach to begin to ! get ready for the food by putting out the gastric Juice. If food is taken hastily or in times of annoy ance. this preliminary flow does not take place. The Investigators also point out that the reason why people who get indigestion after eating like to chew gum is because the repeated swallowing after the meal starts the waves going down the gastro-in teetinal canal and stops the waves, in the reverse direction which produce belching. T arfi supposed to he an advanced thinker in this field But I am for a good old-fashioned marriage until death do us part. — Judge Ben B Lindsey. famotiF divorce court Jurist Marriage Is doomed in America unless we recognize reality and change our whole concept of the rela tions of the sexes — Judge Ben B Lindsey, domestic . relations expert _ A second-best navy is exactly like a second-best ; poker hand. —Homer L. Ferguson, Newport News | shipbuilder. SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK - - • - - - By R. J. Scott « _*__a The KHE V5l/A$ oF ToosHeTiA , ONE OF The few CHRISTIAN TRIBES of THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS IH SOVIET RUSSIA i STilL WEAR COATS-OF-MAIL, WORN BV -Their ancestors .The J , CRUSADERS I AT LEAST 80 VARIETIES OF MUSHROOMS ARE * poisonous Hiram h. REVELS. _ STAMPS ISSUED BY SOUTH AFRICA TO CE3LEBRATE. Tit CEN1%NARY OF The *45 MAT TREKIoFTHE BOERS - First ne^ro Stiotify WAS ELECTED im MISSISSIPPI To fill ouT She 1erm of Jeffersom DAVI5 , WHO LEFT THE UHrtfej> S1XTES SEMXTfc To DECO ME. president »f The Comfederac/ Young Porcupines are borm with -fktiR QU\LL5 OR A II —■ "ffl ! I I I_I The World At a Glance . BY LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Stall Writer) NEW YORK. March 38. Pity the senator who desires to be honest in his opinions, who actually seeks to serve the people. He is being ganged" by all sort:> of mass movements on one hand. And on the other hand the ad ministration holds a patronage sword over his head. Wall Street, which has been de nouncing those mass movements, again has become one of the worst of lenders. Now there la a suggestion that owners of utilities' securities march on Washington en masse and Intim idate congress in refusing to pass the bill regulating utilities’ holding companies — the measure which President Roosevelt desires passed. Already congress is swamped with propaganda organized by the utili ties. There are earnest and sincere crit ics who believe there is much wrong with the holding company bill as it stands—but those honest critics may not prevail because of Wall Street s efforts at “ganging ’’ The same sort of intimidation, on a smaller scale, who tried when the securities control bill was up for consideration. • II Other Movements Then there is the Rev. Charles E Coughlin. In his own eager efforts to bring about certain reforms, he causes an emotional "ganging" that actually, in the end. may defeat the very ends which the people seek. Suppose that a senator does not agree with the priest on the mone tary policies. Suppose the senator has made a lifelong study of the matter Suppose the senator be lieves he could serve the interests of the people better by following his own beliefs. Yes—then suppose what occurs to him when he follows his own con science. hia own belief. Not all senators are “with the in terests” against the people. Tnere are senators who assert, rightly or wrongly, that they go into fundamental questions far deeper than the Rev. Charlea E Coughlin There are senators who agree with Father Coughlin thoroughly on oth er matters, but honestly do not concur with him on all his money \iews. although they. too. believe tr government not private control of credit. They say they have a right to follow their own consciences, that they believe they are serving the in terests of the people with the high est degree of fidelity. They mould go even farther on social and labor reforms than Father Coughlin ad- j vocates. Yet there are efforts to “gang” j these senators along with the re mainder Yet they are very good Americans alwavs alert for the rights of the people • • • Hard Fighter* Nor. here is the view among lib era! senators, as nearly as we can get at It. Has there been a stronger fighter than Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska fpr fundamental rights'* Was it not he who first dared to battle the public utility monopolies, who contested their rights to public domain? And who has battled stronger for the rights of labor than Senator Robert F Wagner of New York? Nor what of these other men whose voices invariably are raised for the mass of humanity—Costigan of Colorado. Wheeler of Montana. Cutting of New Mexico. La Follette of Wisconsin. Couzens of Michigan Slur sb ad of Minnesota, Nye of North Dakota? They mention fundamental rights i constantly. But any emotions’ movement car riefeat them, can make It appear that those fighters In the front ranks are -obstructive'* They are the shock troops of democracy, and an emotional move- 1 ment. in wiping them out. also mav wtpe out the hopes of the multi tudes But that—as the senators see it — the people may learn too late The people ma: destroy their most valiant defenders. It was hardly any different in Italy or tnGermany. We re.lcve this is a fair represcn- \ tation of the opinion of the liberal members of the senate. • • • Idle Eager To Work There is another statement that gains during a depression: Oh. most of them wouldn’t work if they could." That is a conscience easer for the man who has against the man who has not. One of the best authorities in America contradicts the statement Sn/s New York City's commissioner of public welfare.‘William Hodson. a student of unemploy'ment prob lems. "I resent on their behalf the li belous statements and accusations that these people are not willing to work . . . There ought to be some decency and fairness in comments on these people . . . “If I had my way and the money. I would take every able-bodied per son oil relief end put him to work. News ■ Behind the News Capital and world goaaip, events and personalities, in and out at the news, written by a group at fearless and Informed newspaper men of Washington and New York. This column is published by The Herald as a news feature. Opinions expressed are those of the writers as individuals and should not be In terpreted as reflecting the editorial policy of this newspaper. WASHINGTON By IRA BENNETT Short — Sidney Hillman of the National Industrial Recovery Board took a page out of Rex TugweU s famous book of recantations when faced with a drumfire by Senator K>ng on the subject of Hillman s alleged radicalism. Kins sprang a leaflet of the Amal gamated Clothing Worker*' Union, of which Hillman is president, urg ing workers to develop "class con nousnes*'' and aim at control of the industry. Hillman disavowed the leaflet and denied that be was a radical. He made an emotional appeal for betterment of labor con ditions which brought applause. But his argument in favor oj placing service industries under NR A runs afoul of numerous court decisions which bar federal inteference with state business. Members of the senate committee dealing with the new NRA seem to be convinced that service industries should not be placed under codes. ' Hillman is strong on wage boosts through legislation but short on constitutional law.” observed a member of the committee. Brewing — Still another •‘reor ganization and coordination injec tion is given to NR A to keep the moribund institution alive until congress gives it another lease of Ule or kills it off. Donald Riehberg. handy coordinator, ts made head of the National Industrial Recovery Board and a labor representative is added to the board. The administration and AFL are backing away from a death feud. Each is afraid of the other — and , each has lost faith in the other — but they are trying to work togeth- i er for selfish reasons. President Green puts out a hint that FDR j will get behind the Wagner bill.! and FDR doesn't deny it — but he j has made no commitment for all that. The fur will fly when the Wagner bill reaches the floor, if it ever gets \ that far. It conflicts with Section 7a by outlawing company unions. ■ yet Bill Green wants both The industries are, active in trying to block Wagner bill — and they have Section 7a as a club. • • • Sound — Life insurance com panies are cocking their ears at the news that they can reap 5% on government-insured real estate mortgages — long-term paper that Just suits them. The New York Life Insurance company has decid ed to take $20,000 000 worth. Ad ministrator Moffett of the Federal Housing Administration ha* an in creasing list of insurance men ask lnp for Information. Financing of new const ruction under the mortgage-insurance sys- j tem is now on an important scale and rapidly growing. Building con tractors smell business The first activity began near Washington but is spreading through the country For the first time in history home mortgages Xraved and approved by the FHA are gilt-edged Investments, guaranteed by Uncle 8am • • • Trouble — Carter Glass exploded when he read Marrlner Eccles' sage observations before the house com mittee dealing with the banking bill, i Eccles opined that it was not so easy to bring about inflation — that it took a lot of skill and hard work j The banking bill gradually comes forward. Hke a mudacow out of the fog. to bump into the program for this session. Carter Glass has been accumulating munition* against the bill and against Eccles' confirmation as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. The inflation wing on the democratic side intends to make trouble. Big and medium-sized bankers are fighting the bill. Eccles admits to the committee that the Reserve Board under the bill would “be practically a central bank - • • • Farts — A lot of talk was stirred uo by the private luncheon party of FDR and Senator Borah. The word goes around that FDR placed infor mation before Borah that war cal culated to make him go slowly in trying to put teeth back in the anti trust laws — in other words, to de nature NR A by out lawing the con genial little price-fixing code agree ments of steel, cement, et al. Not that FDR favors monopoly, but he sticks to the idea of cooperation for recovery's sake. The picture of national difficul ties was black, they say. But Borah knows all that, and he is a hard man to budge. He ha« under taken the he-man Job of fighting the trusts. He charges them with profiteering on misery during the depression One way out. he says, is to prevent government relief money from being siphoned into Sally s Sallies sS/r Thr wrfp who m given plenty of rope « A DECISION THAT OUGHT TO BE MADE SOON A DEFINITE ISOLATION POLICY CALUM3 UMTEKHON @1F PtPlOMAYtC ACTION. ane> CySTMlMIWT AMERKAM COMMERCE HM THEEVENV flf ■ roesitow wa©§ A VIGOROUS INTERNATIONAL POLICY cmawxi ees OSHg>PiK/Wfi©M *8© noetugHMff v*C ,-^^©819 monopoly pockets at excessive pro fits. Many a president has tried bland ishments on the Lion of Idaho It's the first time the Charming Smile has been turned upon him. No* let’s wait and see what effect it had • • • Drought — Secretary Wallace wins cheers in his heroic struggle with nature. His order permitting I farmers uf plant spring wheat is recognized as a more or less grace ful retreat from an untenable po sition. The drought la bitterly op erative in the West In extensive regions it will not mattes whether Wallace permits farmers to sow wheat or not. No soil remains In which to plant, and no water with which to nourish. Instead of permission to make -- another crop failure what drought victims must havr la immediate re lief. The dust storms have carried a cloud'to Washington that brings the message: “Give ua help or we perish!" Part of the work-relief fund must be devoted without delay to drought relief. Debate on the foreseen ne cessity in advance of the disaster would have done Uttle good and might have alarmed the nation. DARK BLOND » CaPLFTON KENPCAKE • MSMEASBMtt.C. ■■CM HKRJE TODAY ■ IIXK ENT GRAVES. MmtOT to GEORGE MR1MGOLD. Sto* hr* mpiorrt la hto the* SsaR. la seal* she raahrs away aaR i*r latm at a hatrl aaAr* aa ai wrt aaair. JARVIS HAPP. AtoftaarvtohaS look lay (iraacM. rwatsHw RU Herat aaR aVrra t* hrly hr*. Hr •raAe hr* to a hraaty par lav whrr* •hr ta traaafarairA tat* a hraart flap* tahea hr* haaa*. tatraRartaa hr* aa hta arrtrtary. His saaa. NOR IS AN HAPP. war** Hllltrrat ayalnst his strphrafhr*. ROI.ERT CAISK. aaR tall* ha* a aaystrrt aw waaaaa ta hlarh rraalar haa aaair pawr* arrt hta atr*aa*th«v Ifllllrrat tails aatrrp A astar awakrai ha* aaR aha Sat* a aat# aaRrt hr* has* rradlo*. “TW warn a a ta hlarh aamtaa la have." NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XII j^JH.LICENT stood staring hi that fateful typewritten note She bad no means of knowing who bad sent It. nor eon Id she tell whether the steps she bad heard tn the corridor were those of a man or a woman. 8be wondered tt Norman had sent her this message. Sorely he was the only ons who knew of her interest tn the woman tn the black ermine coot. Bat bow mboat Jervis Happ? Jarvis was very, very shrewd, and tt was apparent that he knew more shoot what was going on tn tbs bouse than ha let on. Moreover, he. above all others, knew of her connection with George Diimgold’s murder. But bow about Robert Caine? He, too, bad surmised ber secret. He, too. mast know something of the woman in black. Milllcent shrugged ber unclad shoulders and. with tbe gesture realized tbat she was chilled. Sbe ran to tha closet, foand a robe and flung It aboot ber. She went to tbe window and looked out M was. sbe saw, commencing to rain. Drops were beating against the window and. aa sbe looked, she saw tbe rain grow In intensity until, within a few minutes, a fil ing wind was driving It In tor rents. Sbe turned once more to study tbe note. Why bad aba bean in formed of tbe presence of tbe mysterious woman? What was she supposed to do? Waa It Jarvis Happ who had left tbe message and who bad expected she would perhaps hunt up the woman In the black ermine cost, accuse ber directly of complicity la Drim gold's murder? A CI LUCENT knew only one 1 thing. No matter who had sent the note or what waa as pected of her. ahe waa determined to try to find out something abont that woman In black. Having reached this decision Mlllleaat Graves long oC her \ * * ... - M . ** * * drawing gown and started dress log hastily. Mlllicent, donning bar for eoat. slipped out into tbs hallway. The heat tn the bouse was low. and the corridors felt chill and gloomy. A nlrbt light burned at j one end of the corridor, giving > sufficient Illumination to enable her to see objects, although not as distinctly as would bave been the case bad there been more Il lumination. Now that she was In the cor ridor. she realised the Immensity of the boose, realised something of the oatnre of the task with which she was confronted. It was going *o be necessary tor ber to Bod a mysterious woman In a black ermine coat who waa some where In the boose. Where? She remembered Mrs Rapp bad proudly esbtblted the suite wblcfa she occupied, sod Miliirent felt certain the woman she sought would he somewhere within that suite of rooms Norman Happ bad mentioned a maid, hot so far Mil- ! Hcent had met no maid. When Norman had told ber of the maid. Mlllicent bad concluded that the woman most be absent, perhaps on leave. Had she returned? m m m rpHROWINO her shoulder* hack. | giving her chin s determined tilt. Millicent locked the door of her room and set off bravely down tbe eorridor. She turned to tbe left, followed the eorridor toward i the place where abe knew Mrs ! Hupp s rooms were situated. She was atill some distance from the door of the anlte when she heard the sound of voices Abruptly a door opened. Mill! cent flattened herself against the wall, gave a little gasp as she saw ' a woman clad in black ermine step into tbe eorridor. For a moment Millicent thongbt the 1 woman was coming toward her Then, with a shrug of the aboul den. a last murmuring comment to the person on the other side of tbe door, tbe woman tn black turned away from Millicent. Millicent heard Mrs. Uapp’a voice saying. “Plena* b* very care ful. I think he’s employed some one to shadow you.” The woman In black gars a low throaty laugh. A door dosed. The woman In the black ermine ooat walked rapidly down the cor ridor. away from Miltlcenu lllllicent hesitated a moment. Dare the run and accost the wo man? Could she accuse her of being Implicated in Orlmgold‘1 murder? Bach an accusation would, of course, alarm the house hold. U would also establish Mil Herat's own identity beyond dowfcl* No. there was only one thing ton her to do. That was to shadow this woman and1 And oat where she lived, then seek to tanrm something of her connection with the murder. Perhaps, having found out where the woman lived, she could trade Information vdh ^ Jarvis Happ. MflHcent watted until the warns* had rounded e corner In the cor ridor. Then she sped swiftly and silently down the thick aarpsi, panning at the corner to peer onl into the other eorridor. see CHE heard n door dsm-s door, apparently, located abont had way down the long corridor. hn| there was do one in sight. fighting bach her disappoint ment, Millicrat ran along the cor ridor. trying to locate the door that had slammed. She oame oa n back staircase which ehe had at» most forgotten, a staircase which she remembered ran to the kitchen and then to the garage. She lee nod over the banister and looked down. She caught a glimpse at a blech far coat. Running down the stairs. Mk» I leant heard a door elide bee*, beard the parr of a motor. She threw motion to the winds, ran rapidly, and waa la time M see a ear pall oat from the ga rage. a black sedan, with the curtains tn ths rear tightly drawn, so that It was impossible to see anything of ths person or persons who occupied It. She could almost have touched the car aa It slid oat Into tha darkness and. tor on# wild mo ment. she thought of rushing oat to try and climb to tha spare tire, bolding to ths trank rack, hot she realised the futility of doing this and swung her eyas to tha license number, determined to re member ft. The figures see rad th anisetree Into her memory—»JS41t. dimf looked around her la the garagtk wondering if she coaid find a ear in which she could follow. She mw the big UooutM In which Jarvis Hspp had brought her to the bouse. She wondered if. by any chance, keys ware la the Ignition. She flung open the door of the car. reached inside and groped with frantic Angers. There were no keyu in the car. Disappointed, she slid back toward the door, only to treese suddenly Into instant immobility* Someone clicked n light switch* •< and the garage biased late bril liance. s 0 I