McAllen Daily Press (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 142, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 3, 1928 Page: 2 of 10
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There is a definite national need for
law Amplification, particualarly in
criminal statutes. At present therein
so much legal chaos attached to crimi-
nal paxes that justice is delayed, or
defeated.
And
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round Maubeuge in the Franco-Prus-1
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MARSHALL—Work started on con-
struction of Texas Milk Products Com-
pany’s new plant here. ““
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Established i* 1939
Published Daily Except Saturday
(International News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2—One
of France’s “impregnable" fortresses
—those massive fortifications sur-
rounding the town of Maubeuge, be-
reasonable '
jn most inst
11 marvel V* their
prices,
tees is
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des,
Let BOB-A-LAWN do the work you have been paying
to hqve done—Or doing for yourself.
, Qur experience during the past six
years has demonstrated conclslvely
that higher wages with an Increased
per capita production is a sure road
to prosperty and its attendant bless-
ings of a higher standard of living.
• It < people are all employea a( remun-
erative wages. a demand is created for
the increased productively resulting.
•The man who invests in swept clov-
er, matoure and commercial fertilizers,
better drainage, better cultivation,
better irrigation, better labor, rather
than buying or renting more land to
farm udder old methods, has small
need to worry about increased ton-
nage or larger returns.
setti the word shall be destroyed: but the nations in the world combined;
he that feareth the commandment
shall be rewarded.—Prov 13: IS.
PRAYER—May Thy word. O God,
ever be in our heart
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used in the construction of auto and
airpltut* engines. Until the discovery
of the I. G. Farbeniudustrle process,
however. It was impossible te produce
this metal in commercial quantities.
The bass of the new metal is magne-
sium.
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Scotland Undergoing
, Bootlegging Scare A*
Police Close Stills
s after a cutting.
While gasoline is about the most
dangerous all petroleum products
should be handled with tare. The Na-
tional Board of Fire Underwriters re-
ports that in 1926. 314,978,599 was the
amount of wasted wealth that went up
1n oil smoke. • -
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veevpovuv wappw wwvwb* wp>r | "Those who labor to develop the!
it la the “richest corporation, in the spiritual realities in the soul of man
world.” They fail to tell the other'kind through the magic of religion,
side of the story; that it *s owned by those who labor to enlarge men’s li-
nearly 409.000 individual American‘ slon of beauty through tfie apprecla-
stockholdera; that. Its wealth is mere-*tion of good music, good pictures,
ly in the aggregate of the capital re- good books, good plays spoken or film-
quired to furnish a national and an ed. and those who labor to promote a wlQt detached
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after the conflict France made of the
place a striking example of the "en-
trenched caihp.”
At the beginning of the World War,
it was thought that Maubeuge would
stand like a rock. But the fortresses
were built to combat gunpower. The
terrific detonations at Liege and Na-
mur, where the huge German siege
guns poured tons of high explosive on
other “Impregnable" forts sounded the
doom of all fortifications of this class.
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FIND NEW METAL TO
MAKE PLANES LIGHTER;
WILL HELP AVIATION
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(International News Service)
LONDON, England, June 2.—The
days of fhe autombile bandit in Eng-
land are numbered.
By an ingenious device for baricad-
ing main roads, Scotland Yard, Bri-
ttan’s famous police headquarters, be-
lives it has solved the problem of
preventing these bandits from escap-
ing after perpetrating hold-ups.
For almost a year, numerous experi-
ments have been carried out by the
"Yard” in a London garage. The
most efefetive trap devised so far con-
. HAHmIo FiAmPoIe.
Dip 1M«> 3ipkej>-
The farmer has enough handicaps* pies, its parks and playgrounds, Its
to overcome in the way of unfavorable
weather conditions and other variable
factors beyond his control, 1
further handicapping himself by neg-
lecting the very essential things which
are under his control and which to a
large measure help him to control the’
variable factors of. weather, Insect
pests, dtaease, etc.—Western Colorado
Beet Grower.
sist nf two steel drums, filled with
material to give them a weight of ten
tons each, connected by a wire.
The drums are anchored by a spiral
spring and when not in action the
linking wire will be concealed in a
slot in the roadway. As soon as
alarm is circulated the wire will be
raised bonnet-high by a lever and th?
obstruction marked by red laihps.
Any automobilist attempting to
rush the barrier 'would find himself
attempting to prdceed with a dead
weight of 25 tons attached to his car
—that is, the total weight of the two
drums, plus resistence of tl)^ spiral
springs, which can only be stretched
to an extreme length of fifty yards.
Tests conducted by the authorities
have satisfied them that the device la
the most practical yet evolvea.
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MANILLA—Building
way In this city.
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NACOGDOCHES—Highway between'
this place and Angelina River will be!
hardsurfkeed
that service such as the American peo-
ple enjoy could not be rendered by an
unconnected group of Individual com-
panies using different types of equip-
ment and methods of operation
1^ is always well to consider the
other side of the picture when kick-
ing about the size of thie telephone or
any other industry, when, sush indus-
try Is required to render, a universal
service in every nook and corner of a
country as large as ours.
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DRESSES
DRESSES
DRESSES
Yes, madam, every day
each express brings in new
dainty dresses — lovely
summer pastel shades, in
solid colors, and dainty
flowery georgettes that
seem \ to eajry cooling
breezes in their folds and
-in their pretty drjfpes.
Mor evt
I colld
yir/Traveling
ir Sports
Afternoon
places where concerts and lectures
and piny8 motion pictures are
without provided?
"A community might have unlimit-
ed lindustries with their payrools, and
yet be dead for Jack of the entertain-
ment and enlightenment and under-
standing of beauty that humanity
needs if it Is to live above the level of
the dumb brutes.
THE TIMES
IN il l M E S
•y R.U.W
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offers the latest developments and
improvements oh poj/er lawn mowers—It aways cuts
evenly and smootl
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A lawn
The Fish Are Biting and you
A Gasoline Is a dangerous article to
play with. The owner of a rooster
left his automobile standing in the
driveway at the rear of his house
wlple he went inside to get tools with
which 'to "repair a leak in the gasoline
line of the car. Along came a rooster
and decided to scratch for gravel in
the roedway It didn’t mean -any-
thing to him that gasoline was drip-
ping down beside him—Mb didn’t
know he might better have been scrat-
ching on dynamite! Evidently his
cldws struck off a spark, for the next
“It was 1
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Lovely GAGE Sports -
Hats and other
pretty hats.
Rogers Hornsby (right) and George Sisler (left), for-
mer managers, in St Louis, where they, piloted the Cardinals
and the Browns, respectively, are together now. Hornsby,
newly appointed manager of the Boston Braves, has obtained
George, of &rst base fame, from Washington by tbs waiver
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Stillman Bingham, Editor of the
Dultrth (Minn.) Herald, says:
“Did you ever stop to think that a!
community is as much Indebted to
those who enlarge and enrich Its spiri-
tual life as they are to those who
bring it new payrolls?
"Those who open and develop new
Industries do an Ibdispemeabte service,
for without payrolls no community
could live. But though these are nsu-
ally thought of as the community
builders, what would your community
be without those who build its
churches, its art galleries, its libra-
Lovely slippers, the style
of which will please you
and the reasonable prices
Just Received
ANOTHER BIG SHIPMENT
of SUITS
■ The efforts of the nation’s
. finest woolen mills and the
nation’s^, finest tailoring
houses have been combin-
ed in these lovely
SUMMER SUITS
That make summertime a
pleasure time
COOL STRAWS
CLASSY SHIRTS
GOOD OXFORDS
constructed a chain at forts across
northern France and considered Mau- fore the war and has already been
beuge one of the most important.”
Vauban’s most valuable legacy to
military engineers wba qame after
this was the "entrenched camp"—a
great central fortress relnged round
____ _ -’“•“-’'“d forte. The Franco-
international telephone service; that I wider sense of the glories of nature’ Prussian war of 1870 emphasized anew
Its actual earnings on each dollar In-'and their meaning as reflections of the
vested are very modest and would be. the dnfiuMe glory that it back of it all,
considered entirely too meager by the1 are as truly builders of the conunu-
average storekeeper or industry doing atty as those who work in brick and
busiuQM on a sina]l scale; that Ameri-* atone and concrete and steel to create
can telephone rates areeo much cheap- the industries out of which the com-
and the service is so much better than
in other countries that there la really
no comparison, that there are some
18,000,009 telephones in use in the
United States, which is many times
more than are used by all the rest of
been attacked this time in a wreck-
ing process to make way for growing
1 French Industry.
The btory of the gallant fighting a-jbe manufactured in large quantities.
Electron metal Is just as durable,
sian war and of the worthlessness of but is forty per cent lighter, than alu-
the great pile of cement and granite nrn.«- «- _» -----—. »_
when the Germans swept through Bel-
gium and northern France in 1914, is
told in a bulletin issued by the Na-
tional Geographic Society.
"Maubeuge lies almost on a direct
line between Paris and Brussels and
is just three miles within the French
border,” the bulletin said.
long recognised as a strategic point
at which to obstruct the advance of
hostile forces, striking down from the
north twoard the French capital.
UTthe KARLY DAYS
instant the air was full of tires, cus-! To’hang like stare an instant, and
bions, twisted metal and white leg-
horn feathers! That rooster will
crow no more.
....
inday, June 8,
Adorable/Tro
Partier And
' You
most
whic
only the price of the \
rial and the lovely si
at, •
$6.90, $9.SiO
$14.95 '
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a
minum. This is of the greatest Im-
portance to aviation, because it re-
duces the dead weight of the craft
and enables it to carry that much
more frleght and fuel. The crew of
the "Bremen” which flew from Bal-
donnel to Greenley Island had even
peeled the oranges it took along as
J food in order to take a few more drops
of fuel along, and those additional few
droips provided its salvation.
The discovery of the new process
has been made by the I. G. Farbenin-
dustrie, the great German dye trust,
“In the day of Louis XIV fortress whose chemical laboratories have
building was the most important of brought forth more than one revolu-
military activities. The times produc- 'tibnary product.
ed Vauban, at once the world’s masteij special plants at Butterfeld for pro-
fortress-builder, and besieger. He duction of this metal.
My—and the pushing power is fur-
f\ *
line engine—All you have to do is
York, former I. W. W. leader
and organizer of the coal strike
in 1918, is the Presidential
nominee on the workers’ ticket.
More than 3,000 party members
and delegates from 39 states
made, the nomination at New
York,
(International News Service)
<• . - - . BERLIN, June 2.—A revolution in
tween Paris and Brussels again has construction of aircraft is predict-
|ed by aviation experts os a result of
the discovery of a new manufacturing
process by which electron metal can
WlMii feeltfc
you know that yowr
get real pleasure out of
•-
Steel Rods -
Floats
Reds
So rapid has been onr civic, state
&. c
‘ cal. Ydt'lfflle effort ie>’made tr> cor-
rect them. , .
The legal system of the British Em-
pire Is more accurate and immediate
wrth the result that a higher percent-
age of criminals are caught and con-
victed. and crime Is discouraged. A
simple, but complete, criminal code
that Is unhampered by “legal” loop-
holes will do more to discourage crime
J tWuz> a thousand anti-revolver ihws
arid ordinances whjch merely restrict
► . the law-abiding eftfsen, to the eatoiy
z and ndvanage of the erftok.
Nb one objects to curbing the crimi-
nal, but there is widespread objection
*' to continually bearing down harder on
the honest man or woman w,
,rA lot of people '’kick” just from
foice of habit. Few people at home
are as polite to each other aa they are
when they are opt In company. Few
cutasns will praise our inntitotions
snd- InAastrles to eecb other as they
would to a foreign^.
We have many persons in public I
and private life who howl about the j
a w • 7 ' ‘ "
growth can be cut as satis-
factdrilyXnd with as little trouble as if it were only a z
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ta^ug of that “big ’un”, you’ll feel a lot safer if
is capable of holding him. And you’ll
average storekeeper or industry doing alty as those who work in brick and
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muadty gets its bread and butter."
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Maubeuge Falls
Before French
Wrecking Crew
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Enroute Going thru Philadelphia
Across Ohio’s winding stream
We came to Pittsburgh’s hills.
The fiery maws of furnaces
Illumine factories, mills.
The sparks fly high against the sky
. To flicker in the night,
V,!—nn KI.. n.n—fl .n C " -
Then disappear from sight.-. —-*
The ears attacked by roar and blast.
The nose by pungent smell,
As speeds the train to Horseshoe Bend,
A beauty none can tell.
Here Allengbenies’ mountains glow
In silent lunar .glory,
And mystic shadows slowly creep
O’er crags with age now hoary.
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DID YOU EVER STOP "
TO THINK
By Edson R. Watte
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McAllen Daily Press (McAllen, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 142, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 3, 1928, newspaper, June 3, 1928; McAllen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1284415/m1/2/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McAllen Public Library.