The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 161, Ed. 1 Monday, January 8, 1940 Page: 6 of 8
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CUSTOMS HAS
GOOD INCREASE
Brownsville Fig u r e s
Show Gains
Lntr.es and export dec 1 rations
continued to show increases here
In Decei -er. the United States
Customs office reported Friday.
There were 623 entries and 733
export declarations mad? ir De-
cember compared with 598 and 586.
respectively for the same month
a year ago
Simultaneously the customs of-
fice announced that 7.267 entries
were mad* luring 1939 as well as
7640 export declarations
There were 178.012 conveyances
entering the United States from
Mexico here ard 665.744 passen-
gers for the year
Notable was the fact tha’ air
travel ?Jso contin>;cd to -how an
increase Th~re w ere* 482 air pass-
engers entering the United States
in December compared with 365 for
th* same month a year ago.
Ed»ic»tors Plan
To Attend Meet
A number of the Valles s school
•uperintencients are expected to at-
tend the educational policies confer-
ence to he held in Austin January
1? end 12
7nc two-das- session for educa-
tional administrators will confide:
1 CANADIAN STATESMAN I
i _'
HORIZON* A*.
1 5 Pictured i
Canadian ■
official John
Buchan or
14 Manifest.
16 Bugle plant
17 To analyze.
18 To hesitate.
19 By.
20 Cant.
21 Brink.
22 Cures.
23 To spread hay
24 Malt kiln
25 To subsist
27 To plant
29 Symbol for
iron
30 Spider s home
31 Form of “a."
33 New England
34 Woman
36 Deposit at
river mouth.
38 Entrance.
39 Tennis stroke
40 Court.
42 Ocean.
43 Half an em
Answer to Previous Puixle
44 Point.
45 Unit of work.
47 Approached
stealthily.
52 Hurrah'
53 Part of a
curved line.
55 Occurrence.
56 Witticism.
57 Hatred.
59 S'nee.
60 Skirmish.
62 His official
title. Governor
- of
Canada.
63 He is an
autnor or ——
also (pi ).
VERTICAL
1 Danish weight
2 To supervise
3 To pardon.
♦ Percussion
instrument.
6 To rub.
7 Shrub yield-
ing ipecac.
8 English title.
9 Mineral
spring.
10 Market.
11 Insists upon
12 Having teeth
all alike.
13 To soak flax.
15 Transposed.
22 To dull.
24 He took-
in 1935.
25 Misrepresents.
26 Spooned up.
28 He represents
a land rich in
mineral ——
30 Soft plugs.
32 Gaseous
elemen*.
35 Mother.
37 Pound
41 Business
44 Father.
46 Broad smile.
48 Grandparental
49 Limb.
50 To recognize.
51 And.
52 Assumed part.
54 Billiard rod.
56 Encountered.
57 King of
Bashan.
58 Mister.
60 Musical note.
61 Electrical unit
policies and possibilities of educa-
tional methods.
Prominent speakers lor the lout
sessions of the meeting mil include
I>. George W. Cox. state health of-
ficer; Dr T. O. Walton. T'xe. A
and M. president; Dr John W
Studebaker. commissioner of educa -
tlm nom the U S office of educa
tion; Dr. Homer P Rainey. Uni ver-
ity of Tc::as president; C S Potts
d«*8n of the Southern Metnodist
Unit entity school of law ; and Dr
Car! M Roenquist. professor of so-
ciology. University of Texas.
Dr. I*. A. Woods state school sup-
erintendent will preside over the
session.
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Stein, J. M. The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 161, Ed. 1 Monday, January 8, 1940, newspaper, January 8, 1940; Brownsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1405384/m1/6/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .