Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. [24], No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1936 Page: 7 of 8
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A Good Trick If Y
Explorer To
azardons Trip
Now In feet
Special Sunday Rates
r0ff LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALLS
ITHIN the next few week*,
Henry G. Slaughter, 28-year-
1 naturalist and explorer of
ashington, D. C., will trundle a
:ycle out onto the new Pan-
nerican Highway and begin an
pedition down the continental
ride. He will attempt to coni-
:te the first overland journey in
itory from the United States to
rhis will be the second time that
img Slaughter has attempted the
rardous trip. His first venture
k place last winter, but was
srarted by the combined efforts
[the Guatemalan rainy season
I the Guatemalan government’s
U tape.”
daughter left Texas last Decem-
L equipped with tent, hammock,
k revolvers, one rifle, ax, knifej
thete (a murderous weapon used
ibis instance for cutting througM
krbrush), first aid material,
shaking their fists in each othe
faces.
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CITATION BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To the Sehriff or any Constable
Zavala County — Greeting:
You are herebv commanded
summon A. W Marx by making pu
neat ion of this Citation once in ea
week for four successive weeks m
vious to the return day hereof
some newspaper published in yo
County, if there be a newsoaner nu
REDUCED PERSON TO PERSON RATES
AFTER 7 F. M. EVERT EYEING
' l'sh.-d therein, but tl not' thXm any
!KrS£S?!M 38th
— there be no
newspaper published in said Judicial
District, then in a newspaper pub-
1 olJl”, nearest District to said
38th Judicial District, to appear at
the next regular term of the District
Court of Zavala County, to be holden
at the Court House thereof, in Crys-
* °n the 2nd Monday in May
A D. 1936 the same being the 11th day
day of May, A.D. 1936, then and there
to answer a petition filed in said court
on the 16th day of March A. D„ 1936
in a suit, numbered on the docket of
said Court No. 2529, wherein Flor-
ence Marx is plaintiff, and A. W
Marx is defendant, and said petition
alleging that plaintiff, is a bona fide
, inhabitant of the State of Texas and
has been for a period of more than
12 months next preceding the filing!
of said petition, and has been a resi-1
! dent of Zavala County, Texas, for a!
I period of six months and more next!
||preceding the filing of said petition;!
, that plaintiff and defandant are le
gaily married, and have separated'
j that defendant treated plaintiff cru-!
elly, and cursed and abused her, and j
\ plaintiff alleges that defendant treat-1
j ed her with personal violence and j
[ slapped and abused her, and that I
Del Rio & Winter Garden Telephone Co,
^Hgbtt of sustaining him for
He Weeks in the event of an “Enier-
Heney landing.” He also carries
H Remington Portable typewriter
■tipped onto the handlebars of his
Hke. The latter item is used by
|paughtcr as he rides along open
Stretches of road. Many of the
voluminous notes for a hook he is
soon publishing were made in this
manner,.
After traversing the mountain
passes and deserts of Mexico,
Slaughter arrived in Mexico City
on December 21, hoping to con-
tl.Aic on at once through the jun-
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Guatemala, however It seems they j Henry G. Slaughter, 2&year-oId explorer and writer, who is planning a
have a law that nobody can cross | second bicycle trip over the new Mexican highway, is shown here with
their country without a special j his unique conveyance. On the Remington portable fixed to the handle
visa While they were deliberating bars, Slaughter types notes of his journey as he rides along. This pic-
tipon his ease. Slaughter, lingered ture was taken in front of the U. S. Capitol building on his return from
on for weeks in the Mexican cao- his :unn_miu ♦n*r» n__a____v^ ....._
GRANIT 1
or M A R B L I
on for weeks in the Mexican cap-
ital. To pass the time, he wheeled
)tis bicycle up the 18.000-foot ice
and snow capped peak of Mount
iPopocatapetl—a death-defying feat
shat had never been accomplished
before. The young explorer says
pf this: i‘ f
I “It Jook m<r four days to find
jwho would go* with me i
iijMpcn an expedition and it was
Hrainly lucky for me that I didn’t i
Rr it alone. Once in the ascent I !
fcpped and the guide, without |
Bsitation,' threw himself across . ./ i
his 3400-mile trip through Mexico, Central America and Panama.
America would he impassable at
present with any other vehicle.
Being a naturalist as well as a
writer, he not vinly obtains material
for his boolU hut also collects
snakes, frogs and species of small
mammals for the Smithsonian In-
stitution.
While on his first trip he was
unable to rca-h b:s ultimate des-
tination, Slaughter feels that it pro-
vided him with much essential
cihuatl, a sister mountain, the day
before—dead in one of the gorges
at the bottom of the mountain.”
Slaughter eventually obtained per-
mission to continue his journey
but, by that time, the rainy season
had set in and he was forced to
abandon his plans. He returned to
America on February 19th and im-
mediately began to prepare for a
second attempt.
This is Slaughter’s fourth year of
exploring. He travels by bicycle be-
cause it is the fastest way and
also because parts of Central
vvt nave many beautiful designs in granite
or marble and they are memorial monu-
ments which you will feel satisfied in placing'
Lac'll monument is an exceptional value for
such line stones and designs.
land Tiug
[both of
bushing
in with his spikes to
l^nd the bicycle I
Hr hadn't .acted
would
■=-- ........... ' -— _ i term, this writ with your return
~~ ' thereon showing how you have exo-
New Deal would not yield an inch 1 outed the same,
to conservative.-, within or without1 „Giv.e.n under my hand and the seal
continued and expanded his solution
of the issue, which is a good
His speech showed no sympathy
with the opposing conservative |
party, nor was any sympathy ex-1
tended to reastionarys within hisj
own party. Roosevelt’s policy has
been a “go ahead” policy which
means
one
the party. A1 Smith and Johnny Ras-1 ?!: , ®aiTGourt’ at\ of(jce Crystal
kob were not present at the speech; April, A. D.’ 1936. 1S th° ?th day °f
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they were out taking a walk in the: (Seal)
cool night air. j Disti
President Roosevelt should be re j —
dected. jjllllllllllll
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OPENING OF BROWNSVILLE’S I §
NEW SEAPORT, MAY 14-16 1
BROWNSVILLE, Apr. 27
something. His corporation
surplus tax is an attempt to bring
the government out of the hands of
the corporations back to the people.
All in all, Roosevelt has launched
nember, Pro*' the American people on to a new
kind of political philosophy.
,’s speech in To date, his administration has
More
than 100,000 people are expected to
visit Brownsville May 14, 15 and 16
for the greatest celebration in the
history of
. , ____________________ ____ this city—opening
kof the twen-J shown many results, which can be | Brownsville’s new seaport.
Brownsville, aided by other
pointed out on every hand. The most
evident result of his administration I tions of the Lower Rio Grande Val-
has been the increase of the national! lev, is completing arrangements to
income of the country, which has J take care of the thousands from
doubled since the advent of the other parts of Texas who will be
New Deal. here.
Roosevelt served notice that the , High spots of the hie celebration
When business begins to lag, many
business Jhouses cut their advertising,
especially in the smaller towns.
At the same time mail order bouses
and city merchants flood
towns with advertising. '
As a result more
; his only j
id bread, i
issue. He 1
How It’s Bone
Prak^Krr Empty
Vhiskey Bottles
ind Obey the Law
our money
goes to mail orders and city merchants.
The only way to combat this is co-
operation and advertising on the part
of local business houses.
And the best advertising medium
is your local newspaper.
taking part, on Saturday morning, |£
May 16.
8. The dedication of Port of Is
Brownsville, at the port on May 16. j I
at 2:30 p. m.
These events are to furnish some- ‘ §§
thing interestting every hour of the j 6
I day for the three-days of the celc-: =
bration.
The Destroyer Dickerson, the Cut- g
ter Saranac, and other boats will be! j§
open for inspection by Valley peo-jS
pie, but they are urged to come on j S
Thursday and Friday, at hours to be 3
announced soon,
as the crowd on
Saturday will be so large that it will
be impossible for fedl those present
to inspect these boats.
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WAR......by Radio
I got my daughter one of those
modern new radio receivers for a
birthday present the other day, and
now the whole family sits up late—
broadcasts
Zavala County Sentinel
“Your Home Newspaper”
too late—listening to
from Europe.
They are all about war. Germany,
France, England and Italy are filling
the air with arguments or news, all
emphasising the strained relntionj
which prevail cm the Europe;.') con-
l .
TTY Cathsrlns Lelby shews Lss Zlmbsllst the
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Hardy, J. H. Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. [24], No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1936, newspaper, May 1, 1936; Crystal City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1096832/m1/7/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .