The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 90, Ed. 2 Friday, October 16, 1931 Page: 9 of 12
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. Line Completed
^AN BENITO Oct. 16.—Offices
BP®* L. E. Meyer Construction Co.
been discontinued following re-
cent completion of the high voltage
ir* between San Benito and
Brownsville
*
The line which carries 30000 volts
has Just been tested by engineers for
the Central Power and Light Co. for
which it was built.
A rust-proof aluminum wire for
constructing window and door
screens is now on the market.
WiisSJ
■Is It coflee that Is
packed and stored in
cans which are sup-
posed to keep it fresh
9»r weeks aud months?
••Or is it the same as.*
Which is coffee that
is never stored (even
one day)--but is de-
livered to your gro-
cer by fast trucks as
soon as it is roasted.
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^ ^______
miration
Ci » FEE
■
is always
FRESH
I . ...
jTHere is no substitute for freshness. Nor is it possible
for true freshness to be canned. That is why Admira-
J; ;tion Coffee is rushed by fast trucks direct to your
grocer fresh from the roasting ovens. That is why No
Single Can of Admiration Coffee Is Ever Stored!
“ Why is Admiration Texas’ favorite and fastest selling
high-grade coffee? Simply because no other coffee
equals it in freshness flavor aroma and uniform cup
quality. Ask your grocer.
: DUNCAN COFFEE COMPANY
"An All-Texas Institution”
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COURTS DROP
SUITS AGAINST
COUNTY TRIO
Throwing those who filed charges
against Cameron county officers
for a complete loss charges against
Fred Turner San Benito officer
were dismissed in the Cameron
county court at law Friday morn-
ing .
Charges Dis '«c.1 .
Thursday afternoon the charges
against Deputy 8herlff R. I. Lon-
oria and Deputy Constable Crock-
ett Ferrell were dismissed in Jus-
tice of the Peace Payne’s court
in Harlingen.
Turner was charged with speeding
and arresting R. M. Edmondson in
San Benito without a uniform
which is required by law. Turner
is a deputy sheriff and a special
San Benito officer. In view of the
fact that the arrest was made In
the city limits and that he was
speeding in line of duty the charge
was dismissed. The county attor-
ney’s office held that the “uniform’'
law did not apply to city officers
within the city limits.
Negro Files
Longoria was charged with
searching M. A. Jefferson's car in
Harlingen without a search warrant.
Jefferson a HarlL.gen negro filed
the charges. Deputy Ferrell was
charged with searching Jefferson’s
home without a search warrant.
Both cases were dismissed be-
fore Justice Payne.
Florida Is 'Ring
Picking’ Fruit
(Bv Staff Correspondent.)
SAN BENITO. Oct. 16— Another
good reason why Valley growers
should Irrigate in order to produce
larger fruit was brought forward
Friday.
It was learned that Florida Is
“ring picking” its fruit and plans to
market only 70’s and larger.
The market is demanding large
fruit but Valley fruit so far has
been very small.
“Duncans were small enough but
much Marsh seedless now coming
up is worse” said one shipper.
Another said that some fruit was
getting soft and dropping from the
trees.
All agreed that there was time
enough to Irrigate and still pro-
duce larger fruit.
The variation in price for large
and small fruit is reported consider-
able.
Many shippers are advising the
growers not to market any fruit
until they can increase the sire.
It is very doubtful a number said
whether there will be any quantity
of Marsh moving before Nov. 15.
Duncan shipments have fallen off
considerably as the supply was
nearly cleaned up. Duncan prices
are said to have dropped because of
their small size and not altogether
because of a real decline in demand
for grapefruit.
Joint Strawberry
Meeting Is Set
(Special to The Herald.)
WESLACO. Oct. 16.—There will
be a meeting of strawberry growers
at the Stephen F. Austin school in
Weslaco. Friday Oct. 16th at 8 p. m.
This meeting is called in response
to a request from strawberry grow-
ers who are not in either associa-
tion.
At a meeting on the 9th these
growers indicated that they would
like to belong to an association Nit
would not Join when two associa-
tions were in existence. At the
meeting members of both the Low-
er Rio Orande Valley and the Val-
ley Growers associations Joined with
the outsiders in asking for a Joint
meeting of members of both as-
sociations and outsld* growers.
Purpose of this meeting Is to lay
information and facts before the
members with a view of bringing
about a condition wherein all grow-
ers can get into one organization.
Bevil To Get Post
fBy Staff Correspondent)
HARLINGEN. Oct. 16.—Fred Bevii
of McAllen will leave Oct. 25 for
San Diego where he will be assigned
to a post in the U. S. Navy according
to George A. Kramer. Valley district
naval recruiting officer.
A brother is already in the navy.
Bevil. who is a son- of Mr. and
Mrs. George Bevil. was chosen from
among 400 applicants and Kramer
said it was hard to make a choice
from among the many suitable boys
who desired to enlist. Kramer is
looking for a quota increase : ;xt
month. Only four boys from Texas
were enlisted this month.
Telephone Program
fBy St-" Co 'soonaent)
SAN BENITO. Oct. 16 —The Rio
Grande Telephone Co. gave the
Rotary club fast service Thursday.
The program chairman ..scover-
ed at 10:30 o'clock that the pro-
gram scheduled for that noon had
collapsed. He got Ed Mockbee.
manager of the Brownsville ex-
change on the phone. At a auarter
of eleven he called the McAllen
office and ordered a switchboard
sent to San Benito.
At program time the switchboard
was set up and Mockbee was show-
ing the Rotarians what takes place
when a telephone call is placed.
Misses Gladys Copeland and Lor-
raine Dameron of the San Benito
exchange assisted.
Mockbee brought out the fact
that there is no danger while talk-
ing over the telephone during an
electrical storm because all for-
ATTRACTIVE CLIMATE
8EATTLE Wash.—The climate of
Walla Walla site of the state prison
is attractive—even to convicts. Wal-
ter Muller. 27. arraigned before Judge
Otis W Brinker fer theft and giv»n
from six months to two years in
iail pleaded with the 1udge to send
him to Walla Walla. *T like the cli-
mate better your honor.** he ex-
plained.
Seventy-five miles an hour will
be »he average normal car speed
in the next five or ten vears auto-
mobile engineer* predict
GANDHI HAS BI RTHDAY PARTY
Associated Press Photo
When Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday anniversary was celebrated In
London members of the Indian Women’s association met at King
George’s hall and presented the leader of India’s nationalists with a
garland of flowers. Gandhi seems pleased with the gift.
MARKET NEWS
BEGINS WORK
The first morning report on
c&rlot shipments arrivals etc. of
citrus was issued today by the state
and federal market news bureau
here with W. D. Googe supervising.
The report shows 23 cars of citrus
fruit out last night bringing the
season total to 553. Thursday’s re-
port follows:
Grapefruit: So. Calif. 1 Fa. 52
Texas 21 total U. S. 74 cars. Porto
Rico 117 cars. Total to date this
season 1389 cans; last season 2325
cars.
Oranges: So. Calif. 178 Fla. 1
total U. S. 179 cars. Porto Rico 2
cars.
Mixed Citrus: So. Calif. 3. Fla. 1
total U. S. 4 cars.
Rio Grande Valley:
Grapefruit 22. Mixed Citrus 1 to-
tal 23 cars. Total movement to
Ua^e this season—Oranges 2. Mixed
Citrus 9 Grapefruit 553. total 534
cars; to same day last r ason—
Oranges 9. Mixed Citrus 35 Grape-
fruit 309 total 353 cars.
Destinations of Valley movement:
Grapefruit: 10 Houston; 4 St.
Louis; 2 Shreveport; 1 each Peoria
Chicago Omaha Ft. Worth Tulsa
Dallas.
Arrivals and track reports:
Philadelphia: Arrived 6 Florida.
2 Texas 3 Port Rico on track 7
cars.
P.ttsburgh: Arrived 2 Forida. 2
Texas on track 4 cars. Offered for
auction 2 Florida cars.
Cincinnati: Arrived 4 Florida. 2
Texas. 1 Isle of Pines on track 8
cars. Offered for auction 5 Florida
2 Texas 1 Isle of Pines.
Baltimore: Arrived 1 Forida on
irack 9 cars.
Detroit: Arrived 3 Forida 1
Texas on track 2 cars.
. Boston: Arrived 5 Florida on
track 4 cars gold 6 Forida.
Dallas: Arrvied 1 Texas on track
1 car.
Ft. Worth: Arrived 4 Texas on
track 5 cars.
City Briefs
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Dancing every Saturday night at
Del Mar Inn Pavilion. Also seafood
dinners every Friday Saturday and
Sunday. Lunches at Eat Shop all
other nights. Eve^ thing open ail
winter. Adv.
N. V- Hugo left Friday morning
by plane for Mexico City. Arriving
in Brownsville Thursday were N.
B. McDavitt A. Burkett and A. L.
de la Barra all from Mexico City.
Try frozen Pixie’s' Punch orange
and grapefruit 440 West Elizabeth.
Adv.
M. R. Woods of Corpus Christi is
a local caller.
J. M. Luckie of Laredo arrived in
the city- Thursday.
From Washington D. C- is A. O.
Galloway.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Pratt Irby of
Dallas are here.
J. Guez of El Paso Is spending a
short time in Brownsville.
San Antonio callers are A. L.
Diviney. Alfred N. Sack F. Liehten.
John H. Cauhoun G. G. Wright
and Theo Kaplan.
W. E. Bobo of Decatur 111. ar-
rived in Brownsville Thursday for
a brief stay.
From. St. Louis is Robert Peck.
F. M- Marley of Como Miss. Is
here for a short time.
Dallas visitors in the city are
C. S- Wells. George W. Bellar M.
W. Booth V. Ogden Hopkins and
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Marks.
F. A. Fitzpatrick of Detroit.
Mich has arrived in Brownsville to
spend several days on business.
A. M. Rengal of Houston is here
also J. E. Burnett.
C. Trevino Gomez of Laredo is in
the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Scantlin
of Galveston arrived in Lrownsville
Thursday.
Frank Brasleu of Corpus Christi
is spending a short time in the city.
WOOD WON’T BI RN
PITTSBURGH—A wood that
won’t burn has been developed near
here in the laboratories of Dr. P
G. von Hildebrand w.’l known
chemist. Because of its flame resist-
ing qualities it is thought that this
lumber will be of great value to the
building industry- The chemist first
reduces the wood into a fibre. ats
it with his method and then presses
It back to lumber again. It is said
to be as strong as steel.
GOOD ADVICE
Brown: Do you Jcnow. I’m losing
my memory. It’s worryir*’ me to
death.
Jones (very sympathetically):
Never mind old man Forget all
i about it!—London Opinion.
JAPAN LOSES
BAN ATTEMPT
WASHINGTON. Oct. 16. ——
America has accepted the League
of Nations invitation to sit with
the league in its efforts t~ prevent
war in the Orient.
GENEVA Oct. 16.—Of)—Prentiss
B. Gilbert United State consul
general here and observer at delib-
erations of the League of Nations
council received tonight from
Washington his government’s af-
firmative reply to the council's In-
vitation to participate in consider-
ation of the Manchurian problem.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 1«. —(/P>—
The formal invitation from the
League of Nations for American
representation in its efforts to pre-
vent war in Manchuria was -eceived
at the state department this morn-
ing. and while no action was taken
on it immediately it a_ indicated
the American representative at
Geneva previously had been au-
thorized to accept.
SFA HIDES CITY
MOSCOW—A city believed to
date back to between 200 and 400
B. C-. has been located by Russian
scientists on the floor of the Black
'Sea near the southwestern ex-
tremity of the Crimean peninsula.
The city was known as Khersoness.
and is now located under about 40
feet of water.
MARKETS1
NEW YORK STOCKS
NEW Y'ORK. Oct. 16. (AP)—Rail# led
a general upward movement in a quiet
stock market today. Early hesitation was
quickly overcome when the earner is-
sues rallied on published reports that
an early decision of the freight rate
Increase was probable.
Atchison rose 5. New Haven 3 and
New York Central. Southern Pacific and
Chicago Northwestern 2 or more. Ameri-
can Telephone. Allied Chemical and
Western Union also sold a couple cf
points higher. U. 6. Steel. American C.
National Biscuit Borden. Westlnghouse
and Jdhns-Manvllie advanced 1 to Ui
Call money renewed at 2>i per cent
reflecting the advance in the redis-
count rate.
CHICAGO GRAIN
CHICAGO. Oct. 16 (API—Grains
tmded upward early today. Influenced
bv an unexpected advance In Liverpool
wheat quotations and bv Indications
of good export business overnight from
North America. The market however
quickly ran Into profit-taking. Open-
ing 1-4 to 7-6 cents up. wheat after-
ward held near the initial limits. Corn
started unchanged »o 1-4 advance but
subsequently reacted.
NFW apBvseoTtON
NEW OP”"'*" “ -- ' API—The
cotton market opened barely '
Although Llverpc-- <e in somewhat
better than due. first t-artes here show-
ed losses of 2 points. Prices continued
to ease off after the start malnlv on
hedge selling and December dropped to
6 08. January to 6 19 ar.d March to 6.40.
or 3 to 4 points tinder ye*terd*v‘s close
Near the end of the first hour th'
market was a shade steadier and had
recovered 1 to 2 points from the lows
hut was still two points under yester-
day's close.
NEW YORK COTTON
NEW YORK. Oct 18 (AP>—Cotton
"ocned stcadv todsv at a decline of ?
»o 3 points on overnleht 'idling order*
from the south comblr*d **dth T’ver-
■^oo! selling. Prices essed c'f to 8 ng for
December or about 4 to * noints ne'
’ow»* during the first few minutes of
trading
There also was scatt«r1rg Unuldattoo
but offerings were absorbed bv trade
buvlnv at the de-Hne and the— *
—newal of the demand for December
Relieved to be far eastern aecmints
This was sufflcent to steadv nrlces and
-su*e rallies of a few oo'nts. with
December *ellln* ”D fro m6 08 to 6 18
and March from fi 38 to 8 45.
Llve-nool cables attributed steadi-
ness there to trad* buving and orlcc
fixing snfj —no-tod » tslr cloth busi-
ness with Egvpt and South America
TTTT T W V ’
Arkansas Thinks
Pink Fruit ‘Decayed’
(By Staff Correspondent.*
SAN BENITO. Oct. 16— Fred
H. Scheer. manager of the
Stonewall Jackson hotel and
Mrs. Scheer were dining at a
hotel where they were guests in
Hot Springs Ark.
They had had some Valley
grapefruit sent up and the hotel
employes had been asked to
serve some. The hotel manager
came up and whispered so that
they might not be embarrassed
that the grapefruit • s “de-
cayed.’’ He said he knew it was
decayed because it was pink!
Mr. Scheer then told the sur-
prised manager who In 30 years
of hotel work had never seen
pink grapefruit that this was a
choice Valley product.
The Scheers have Just return-
ed from Arkansas.
A. ^ ^ -s.
WATER BOARD 1
NAMES CHIEFS
(By Staff Correspondent'
SAN BENITO. Oct. 16.—Officials
of the executive board of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley Water
Conservation association were elect-
ed at a board meeting here this
morning.
Officers are: Gregg Wood of Mis-
sion president; Frank Robertson of
San Benito secrets ry-treasurer; and
Sam Botts of Harlingen vice-presi-
dent.
Members of the board present
were: Neal A. Brown. Edinburg; C.
L. Hunter El Jardin; Clay Everhard
Pharr; C. H. Swallow. Alamo; H. L.
Yates. Brownsville. Horace Guerra
of Roma was the only member not
present.
The executive board of the con-
servation association *as appointed
recently at a meeting of the govern-
ing body composed of delegates
from cities and districts in the as-
sociation st a meeting at Mercedes.
First action of the executive board
this morning was to assess member
districts one-half cent per acre on
gross acreage.
The board also voted to notify L.
M. Lawson of El Paso American
member of the International Water
commission that the association had
been farmed.
Plans were made for an early
conference with Lawson.
San Benito was named permanent
meeting place of the association.
HOW LONG D Y<JT LEEP?
It has been found that a person
20 years old will sleep an average
of 16 years. 8 months. 3 days and
8 hours before he dies if ne lives
an average span of year*.
Harlingen Lions
To Give Barbecue
(By Staff Correspondent)
HARLINGEN Oct. 16.—Members
of the Lions club told of experiences
in giving lifts to strangers at Thurs-
day's luncheon Polk Hornaday tell-
ing prize winners.
HaroM Loaney urged that the
style show for benefit of the com-
munity chest be given generous sup-
port The show will be held at the
legion wrestling arena Wednesday
night.
Thursday night the Lions are go-
ing lo have a white-wing barbecue
at Pres. Harvey Oler’s camp on the
arroyo and former members are in-
vited as well as wives of members.
For use In saving drowning per-
sons. a life line of 250 yards haa
been devised In 8outh Africa which
will shoot more than 250 yards
from an ordinary rifle.
Central Cash Grocery
633 Eleventh Street Brownsville Texes
SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY OCTOBER
16th & 17th 1931
Sugar Slu 48c
Baking Powder c.“ AVc?n . £
T^l**1 4 C* Van Camp’s No. 1 Can per can .... 6c
JL Lj/\i3 Phillips Delicious No. 2 Can per can .... 10c
Dried Apples 2 Pounds for .
Soap p & G or Crystal White 10 bars 28c
Sweet Potatoes Pound ... b_b_hbbimiJ3c
P A 'TC.I TO Van Camp’s Large lip
1 OUr Bottle Per Bottle . * 1 *■*
Pork and Beans £ £&■'*:*" 4c
Shortening SZ15c
Toilet Paper £“£? 8c
TEA &'°<& :4:lb:cn’.2Qc
Pancake Flour im'\ 12c
171 mu* « Wb-Sack 17c
* lOUr Food 12-lb. Sack.29c
MILK ^ c.n::.:::::
Lux Flakes grh 10c
Cookies S^X u 19c
Coffee c:„Admir“ion:. 30c
Salad Dressing 8 or J‘r 13c
Cherries g!£c£& g.ho„.74c
Sauerkraut sP.°kec.yn No 2 -cn 13c
Potatoes r.t 18c
APPLES Per Dozen . . . 16c
MILK Per'can 2PC
Peaches P»byc:;No:24 Can 18c
Butter 32c
BACON Sliced per pound.20c
SAUSAGE Pure Pork Mb. Cup.20c
BACON SQUARES per pound.14c
BOLOGNE Big per pound.15c
VEAL Round or T-Bone Steak per lb.20c
HAMBURGER MEAT per lb.10c
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