The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 127, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1929 Page: 3 of 8
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RADIO TELE6RAPH NOS füSí INLAND
Fourteen Cities in Nucleus of Nciwcrk, V/ith Plans for
Twenty-nine as Wave Lengths Are Granted.
Plans for the immediate establishment of a radio-telegraph
system serving all the interior of the United States through four-
teen strategic cities just have been announced by General James
G. Harbord, president of the Radio Corporation of America.
The service will be managed and operated by the Corporation's
subsidiary, R. C. A. Communications, Inc.
The stations will be at New York, Chicago, Srn Francisco,
Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, New Orleans, Kansas City,
Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston and Washing-
ton, General Harbord's announcement reveals.
The establishment of the new ser- #-
vice, which will give the Inland cities
direct communication with the world
wide wireless networks radiating
from New York and San Francisco to
foreign countries, was made possi-
ble by the recent grant of ten exclu-
hoped will eventually be added to the
radio-telegraph chala.
"Establishment of a new service,"
General Harbord said, "will give the
leading commercial and industrial cen-
ter* of America a new, quick and rell-
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FAMOUS SOLDIER, IN
OFFICE, STILL RIDES
Sitting all day long, every day at
a desk—one of the moat important
desks in the United States—la an
active man whose picture, showing
him sitting erect oo a horse, would
be recognised instantly by thou-
sands of Americans. He la General
J. G. Harbord, now President of the
Radio Corporation of America. He
was Chief of Staff of the A. E. P..
commanded the Marine Brigade of
the Second Division in Belleau
Woods and Bouresches when the
division stopped the German ad-
vance at Chateau Thierry, and In
the Soissons Offensive in the bat-
tles of July 18 and July 19 he com-
manded the division.
There 13 Interest for the average
American, who always has the best
Intentions of keeping fit. in bow
General Harbord has managed to
be so successful ut it since his out-
door routine was changed suddenly
by lila new position.
lie accomplishes that by consis-
tent e-rercisa, including as a prin-
cipal item a doily horseback ride.
He kn <ps « horse in Central Park
livery morning, while tbe aver-
age i:.a:i ia lyínj; in bed. ho is
tip ¡".nd u:i eil. At 6:45 o'clock he
;■ rúüi! briskly ihrai'.r.h t'.ie wood-
f tl 1 rlc with h!:< friendo.
Helping To Build Texas c me™n Memdes has * Uncle Sam Calls
_____ plant already in operation employing
Panhandle-Plains of Texas, Inc., twenty-five workers with a total of
will send exhibits to eighteen exposi- fifty-five expected to be at work
tions and fains in different states soon.
this fall in the purpose of showing
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outsiders just what Texas can do.
_____ iper 01 aressei
To take care of the increased de- , May, Iowa, Missouri
mand incident to the gypsum plant, ranking ahead of it.
abandoning it'a own power plant to
take that company's service, together
•with
served
For Musicians
For Marine Corpa
Embryonic «axaphenists and aapir-
Texas «was the fourth largest ship- ;ng horn blowers are to be given a
per of dressed poultry to Chicago in' chance by Uncle Sam. Tbe principal
May, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas • requirement is that these young pee*
jple can read music. This opportunity
¡ is being offered by the United States
F°rt 3.000,000 in Marine Corpg t0 able-bodied men IP-
other industrial planta to be¡ "• *2,000,000 of it for subways tween eighteen and thirty years ef
, the Texas Public Servicc Com-i*nd ** * p,rt of th® p!an age; and besides being furnishad free
is building a new sub-station at; r, ■ $4,000,000 passenger station ¡ngtrument8i ¡rr,truction, uniforms,
Sweetwater. The gypsum company ja"d frei|rht terminal. A half million ug8tenance, etc., every man accepted
found purchasing current cheaper and °* the remainder is for additions to' wj¡j for h-g gJ)aj ^
more satisfactory than maintaining \the. muni<;>Pal a'rport a"d the make the Marine Corps Band, "The
mamder for a central fire station1
its o wn power plant.
and enlarged fire alarm system.
The above map shows the twenty-nine cities which the Ra-Jio Corporation of
America hopes to include In an inland radio telegraph networx soon. Work
already is under way to Qive radio telegraph service to fourteen of the cities,
on wave length? already granted. These stations will be at New Orleans.
Kansas City, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, St.
Louis, Cincinnati, New York, San Francsco, Boston and Washington.
sire channols and live shared channels
from the Federal Radio Commission.
"We hope to extend the system."
Genera) Harbord said, "to the full list
of 29 cities contemplated In out origi-
nal application as soon as additional
wave lengths are made available."
Other citlea whose commercial im-
portance and strategic location justi-
fied a place In the new radio network,
General Harbord said, were Philadel-
phia, Miami, Fia.. Savannah, Minne-
apolis. Memphis, Pittsburgh, Houston,
Norfolk. Buffalo, Portland, Me., Roches-
ter, Schenectady, Portland, Ore., Mil-
waukee, and many others whteh it Is
¡ abie means of communication with
} each othar.
"Hut its greatest significance, as
I the l;lilted States turns more and
1 more to foreign markets, to that it
brings Europe, South America and the
Orient closer to America through ra
dios new and efficient avenues of
communication."
Supplementing General Harbord'a
announcement, W. A. Wlnterbottom,
vice-president in charge of communi-
cations. revealed that the construction
program for the fourteen citiea was
already under way. Three million dol-
lars has been aet aside for the initial
expenditure.
Stylish Permanent Waves
$5.00
for Course Hair
$5.50
for Fine Hair and Other Beauty Aided
MAKE APPOINTMENT
Phone 161
Annie Rose Krenek
GOOD FOOD
is essential to good health. That's the kind
we carry. Fresh groceries . . . fresh vege-
tables.
Our hardware department is also complete
MANY YEARS IN BUSINESS
Simpson Grocery Co.
Bargains
# * * # *
IN FARM WAGONS
The Famous Oliver Line Can Save You
Money
See me before you buy
The Winchester Store
J. F. POLANSKY, Prop.
Phone No. 259
m M AMERICAN
HA Jio L ¡:.ÜS
Th • iis.ni.-m rat i. j of eight new 1¡:
fr-rnar:_jr. 1 r.< lio •¡•■rvlces In tlia lat't
r y H A. rimunteatloiiF. I : .
> ú¡:sry <:f the Radio Corporation
.)!' A nítrica are announced in the re
: t of the corpurs'.icu's directors, Ju;,:
. •> , t::klns rad:. :o thirty-two cow.
s .¡u -ide the l':iited States.
TIiih advance of America in Inte:
- : ;nai r.!'!!1 <o-.¡r.iunlcatlon is v
:-"i:t«-r of ureat importance to th
i'nited Stales not only because of tlu
•vift I accurate service thus in
:t" ..•;'.:d, a service which already has
brought down International cable toiit:
nit also because it shows the Unite*'
ates is holding apainst some difll
111y a leader: !ilp In radio communion
t on o( which Americans may we!'
' s proud.
The new Inernational radio service:
Inaugurated lu the year were to Mar
i .¡bo, Venezuela; Shanghai by the
way of the Philippines. Montreal.
Portugal. Australia by way of Mont
.-aI. Curacao In the Dutch West In
Jles, Liberia and Cuba.
TramvAtlar.tic c'.n- are In opera
ti'<n with tr.-elve different countries
Norway, Sweden. Holland, Belgium.
F.ance, C!re..t Britain, Germany, 11a!>
T..rkcy, Portugal, Poland and Libaría,
•vi:,i i:/cults so;>n to be established
•i Syria and Spa: i. Latin Aaierlc :i
• ■¡Ir 3 w !i v,- !i i: is in direct
•nmunlcntlon arc- Porto It Ico. Dutch
• in ¡is. Color.'.ila, Maraca i bo and
>, W-aesuela, Dutch Guiana.
. Ar.,i iiiina, Santo Domingo and
i ae cora; iny's trans-Pacific
•i-'- ia:r; on radio communicntii a
>. i i •; Japt.u, China, Front:)
• na. J ¡va. the Philipp!:.
'hi Fiji Island and Slam. It
> >v the ircuit with Mon-
> a . H-t'.UK wtih Australia.
SHE MAKES BIG GAIN
6EÜAÜSE OF A LOSS
Band of the Presidents." ^
Enlistments for this division are
A Mercedes company has been or-,'for band 8erv ce on,y ln of the
—7 — ! onni7ori fn kan/iio several bands from coast to coaat.
—is shown in the report of the U. s. :8 d to handle export of egge ... nnaiiminaw
Shipping Board. From handling 263,1'" ' « V.IUy_toto Mo,ico. ^ ^ "g c ^
in lsTJsTsí'óJ™" wfhí peákl A" <"■" «•' e"te,r th* ,b*"d ,."d ,"re ""T
of 4,675 619 ton. in 1827 Coreas butter'«t '■ «""« "«<! by th, Bordon ment ' th«'' «doption uid instruct-
oi 4,o.o,oxj tons in iu¿¡. Corpus jon 8tart8- Vacancies in he "Preai-
Christi s jump was even more dazz- p 1 waco. I . .. _
ling, its tctai in 1926 raving been only
54,941 tons and two years later 3,554,-
873 tons.
Remarkable irrowth in two Texas •
ports—Ttxas City and Corpus Christi I
dent's Band" are filled from the ranka
Out of 15,512 cars of tomatoes ot the olher Marine Corps bands. Thin
shipped in the United States up to organization is the personal band of
June 16, Texas has contributed 3,618 the chief executive of the United
cars. States and is stationed at Washington.
Just now a tour of the country by
A Jersey cow in the herd of the this band for the fall and 'winter is
West Texas Teachers College at being arrangfd. This band has been
. , __n , Canyon produced 648.-18 pounds of in existence for one hundred and
number of trees by 278,000, started ... . , , ,no.„ , . .
9ift Ki.n niA outterfat and 10,bo3 pounds of milk twenty-five years and is the crack
in 305 days. As a senior thi\ c year musical organization of the United
ok! she won the sate championship states.
'with 736.86 pounds of butterfat and
13,215 pounds of milk in 365 days.',
It
During the past year the East Tex-
as Chamber of Commerce held 404
farm meetings, put on a fruit tree
planting- campaign that increased the
236 bul! clubs to aid the growing in-
dustry of that section and created in-
terest in diversified farming that East
Texa- has never before had. Writing
ir. a chain of Texas papers, Will H.
Mayi< adds another feather to the
organization, saying: "It has so
thoroughly sold East Texas to its oSvn
peopl that they have quit moving to
This incentive with many others ifl
ln-ing offered by th? Marine Corps is
is quite possible, however, that a nation-wide campaign for enlist-
Trumpeters and drummem also are
wanted and in this case the limit is
the milk supply Svill iag behind the nients in all divisions of the corps,
c'emar.d, an.! that competition wi]l
never develop as keenly as some
othir sections and have become East anfcipate. Milk consumption per
Texa.- boosters," which, by and large, capjtai ¡s increasing every year. More lowered to 17 years, and the know-
probably is the biggest achievement peopie art, drinking milk, and using ledge is not required-
a' ' milk products. Milk is becoming more Intelligent aid is being drafted in
and more general in its use. The milk this work by the co-operation of all
Voluntary reductions in rate by tha
Dallas Power and Light Company, are
products plants are putting it up in' local postmastens, who have applica-
forms which can be stored and usad tions for enlistment on file, together
a part yi the campaign to bung niw a^ter an ¡n(jefjn¡te Period of time. The with attractive literature which sh(/ws
industries to Dallas and \v.ll -—
users around $150,000 a year.
save
supply is hardly keeping up with the the varied life of the marine, who
demand, in spite of the great dairy- travels all over the globe and at the
Earnest of the permanence of the in* expansion from coast t0 coast, same time at government expense can
dairy industry in Texas is seen in the!Ther* is no need of Worrying about perfect hifself in the sciences, trades
fact that within recent months more!over production, from the present out-.«nd arts for positions of trust and
than $2.000,000 has been invested in look, when it does come, if ever, the «"esponsibibty. If he applies himself
. . • Uie can fit himself for life m some
dairy, nulk and cheese plante. A new centrai Texas farmer should be the f , t de svouid he leave the ser-
cheese plant at the small town of one t0 come out on top. u8eful trftde should he ,eave the ser
Abernathy, Hale county, "with a capa-'
city of 1,000 pounds a day, and Deni-
son, Wichita Falls, Denton, Valley
vice, and which he acquired at the
kindly hands of Uncle Sam.
Central Texas Refining Company
has just opened a $150,000 refinery at
Luling Svith a daily capacity of 2,000
barrels.
The phenomenal growth of Lubbock
is indicated by the fact that from 670
B. H. Broiles' resignation as presi-
dent of the Bi-stone counties Cham-
Mills, Round Rock, Taylor, and other ber of Commerce was unanimously
points with several other Texas towns refused, and he was pressed into ser-
organizing or preparing to organize vice for a second term, starting last
companies for cheese making. Tre «week. The young Mexia editor has
Borden milk plant at Waco, the Car-'piang for advertising and colonization
nation plant at Schulenberg (with 0f Central Texas which no one but
a second planned for Sulphur Springs) jhe is qualified to work out, according telephone connections in 1920, in 1928
the new milk plants at Tyler, Sher-|to the voice of the members of his it had 3,043.
man, Marshall and several other cities! organization. He plans to develop a
! are also new factors in the dairy busi-1 campaign for telling the world about
n 'ss in Texas Central Texas, and details of the plan
Texas shipped m«re than one-sev-' be made kno\vn in the near future
enth of all the mixed vegetables
shipped in the United States in
I'.'28-29 ¡season. Totals: U. S. 35.000
cars; Texas 7,856 cars.
thc i The great variety
which can be raised on Central Texas
farms is the greatest advertisement
that can be had for this section, and
now is the time to get the products [
ready for display, at local, state and
national faire. Many counties and
communities are already at work on
agricultural exhibits. Last year's
exhibits at the Texas cotton palace
broke a'l previous records.
o
of products
M.s. Amy Boulter of 135 West
Mfthty-third street, New York, a wld-
•w with two young .tons, just ha« been
•ande,! a certificate for two hundred
hares of stock In the Radio Corpora
ion of America. The stock replaced
vo hundred shares of original no p:ir
aluc common stock represented by
wo certificates which wese lost after
Mrs. Roulter put them In Mie mail on
*av 22, 1923. The transaction which
ast has been completed was the hap-
py end ;>f a long wait by Mrs. Hou.'er
' r the expiration of the lepal period
:: which the shares represented ii>
he lost certificates might have li-
r.'s.. i;*, d for exchange
A pearl button factory is to be a
ntNv Texas industry at Brownsville
where the Automatic Pearl Button
Company, Muscatine, Iowa, has con-
tracted with the Cameron county
water improvement District No. 5
for the right to go into all irrigation
canals and resacas and take out clam
shells, paying at the rate of $1 and
52 per ton. the plant is expected to
bring fifty or more families to
MRS. AMY BOULTER
Many tkaea in those year* w!i
he was supporting herself and h •
jns by nurstr.g and renting some < '
lie rooms iu her apartment, Mr
Joulter says now, sho wished sb'
ould Bell her stock.
When tbe time of waiting was up ¡
'ew days ago Mrs. Boulter found thn '
'he $811 she invested through a bro
(•r on the InaUllmsnt plan In tlx
hsu new eetarprtee eC f«4k> baa
grown té epproklBelaiy (Ifl.000.
Run-Down
"About seven years ago, I
was all run-down, worn-out
k and never felt good," saya ^
¡U Mrs. Harry Cantrell, of
y Cape Girardeau, Mo.
chair would be more welcome
any time than my
work.
1 was bo tired
when I would arise
in the morning. In-
stead of being rest-
ed, I felt terrible.
"At last, mother
told me to tako
Cardui, and I did.
After tho first bot-
tle, I could tell
a difference, and
when I had taken five bottles
the tired feeling was ail gone.
I felt like a different person,
thanks to Cardui. I hope
that other mothers will try
Cardui I have been wonder-
fully benefited by it"
The West Texas Utilities Company j
is building thirty-one miles of 66KV
nes from Cross Plains thru Burkett
to Santa Anna to provide a two-way
service to Cross Plair«, *Burkett, Ris-
ing Star, Pioneer and the adjacent
oil fields.
AN EXHILARATING EFFECT
A bottle of Herbine on the shelf
at home ia like having a doctor in
thc house all the time. It gives
instant relief when the digestion
gets out of order or the bowels
fail to act. One or two doses is
all that is necessary to start
things moving and restore that
fino feeling of exhilaration and
buoyancy of spirits which belongs
only to perfect health. Price 60c.
Sold by
CALDWELL DRUG COMPANY
CALDWELL
BOT. WORKS
Distributor
R.,
J. SAVAGE
DENTIST
Office
Upstairs, Bowers Build-
lng.
Caldwell, Texas
Try Cardui for your troubles.
We handle all kinds of building material.
Buy long leaf lumber and save repair bills.
It lasts longer. Let us show you the dif-
ference.
Will Make Special Prices on Everything1
For Cash
Poultry Wire
Hog Wire
Barbed Wire
Special Prices On All Kinds of Paint
MUTUAL LUMBER (M.
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Cromartie, C. E. The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 127, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1929, newspaper, August 16, 1929; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth174862/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.