The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1933 Page: 3 of 8
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THE LLANO NEWS, LLANO. TEXAS THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933.
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At Night in Death Valley; Modern Travel
Turns Dread Passage Into Interesting Trip
this one vantage point it is possible orK ,inu' the iottcro oi ana or pait SE VE NTYFTVE THOUSAND
BY ROY DUTTON
In the Dfe.las Morning Newt
to leak down upon the lowest point <1 the ocean. The: deposits were of
end then by raising the eyes to look tough coralshaped crystal formation*
across space at the highest point in brownish in cc lor, mad* by sand blow
| this country. The wind blew very inf over them. At a distance they
Dow restful and peaceful as we stood strongly across Dante's View and we resembled some kind of vegetation,
i'lctt there away out c>n the desert bad to lean against the balustrade About a thousand feet c ut ever th:s
away from e verybody and everthing 1( keep our balance. extremely rough format < n there s
DOLLARS IN BOGUS MONEY
Since me depression of jS29 and
the consequent scarcity of cash, mere
•ounterfeit money has been passed -
than in any other period of our his-
tory. The '.act amount of course,!
V The mere sound cl the mane
"lieutb Valley” makes one think of
the most weird and terrible place Jrn-
iinable, but in truth a trip through
ijcatb Valley is a wonderful advent-
| ia-e Instead of weird desolation the!
l jLjitor is su: prised to find a strange
' Wcliantment—beautiful in its barren-
less and roughness Of course In
the old days a trip through the Vai-
fey was a dangerous and hazardous
journey—and many went intr trie Val-
ley who never came out egain. But
today—it’s another thing.
On u inidafternoon .n October, my
under the stars. Stars! It seemed J Coming back to the main highway a real salt poc 1 a crater about sir f ,g undetermined, but certainly t has
there were myriad millions of them, (or rather to one of the highways in diameter at its irregularly shaped ,)et„ more -nan 175,000,000 in the last j
brilliant and scintillating and over leading into Death Valley, for there opening. Down in it is a pwl of ap- jeca^e
on the edge of the beautiful picture are r. any points of entrance) we parently fresh water but i d close :r-
that rim of Ihe cresccent moon hang- looked across at the Funeral Range, spec lion sat rysta.'B an he seen ir
ng as if suspended by invisible with its peaks barren of vegetation. >'•
j threads We watched it slowly drop but tinted with every color save Stain we were on cur way again out |
lift; view behind the distant moun- green. Whitish gray, buff, yellow, by the ranch. From here »< went
Mains to the west. Somehow I felt crimson and even jet black touched north toward the upper ebd of the
'that 1 was near the Great Designer its slopes and crowned its peaks, 'valley ,or, up. Steve Pipe Wells, eon-
Irf it a,;). Funeral Range got its name from the sisting of twi crater-like holes five:
! The- stars seemed so near that 1 ft(ft black limestone which has wash- <T six feet deep and or.ntaixnng fairiy '
II IIV VP in Tex ns
(inn You Enjoy —
Jravtlax-afion
THIS ROAD
map
Counterfeits are generally bills cf |
the smaller denominations. Count !
rfeit-; avcid larger bills, as tr».r.®
actiors in which $100 or higher - -
laminations figure nearly always
iur in hanks c large mercantile !
iic ise s employing experts. Thous
ate.*, <-f cases of eounterfeit*1. ranging |
from bills forged by experts and eiis
■ ^
. . . Shows Th®
Travel ax R o u t e
(CONCRLIi.
II I G H VC AY j
»♦<*“ '* * cculd reach lip and touch ^ tl,. .1*. of .b. »«n«ln. . Kri..uf«l by Sijfhly cre.„lzed
them. We stopped that night at
Death Vailev Junction in front of the
iambi.ng e<ne-story adobe Amargosa
Hi friend, Henry ( DeYoung, and 1 a. jlotfy surrounded by buildings of like
■ Las Vegas. N* vat.a, and drove to -fi* - -
Min Springs, Nevada, where we met
Junics Harnaday. better known a
Ills country as Jim He owes the
service station and he knows h s
desert country and Death Valley. He
gave us detailed Information as to
<n stripes resembling crepe. These About midway up the va.iey , ,
ate truly painted mountains remind- to north where the t.-m intuit * come!” «0,600 lots to com slugs made n
ing one of the Tainted Desert m closer together, draw g the valley; ark metropolitan tenements are
Northern Arizona. into a narrow neck, some small hills |tackled each year by the federal sec
A Grim Reminder or kn0,!s
Furnace Creek Inn affords ancth- nor,'R 1he val>^ “»'a,D WidfE*
cut. For this reason the part ei the
construction making up the Amargosa
community, all owned by the Pacific
Borax Company and hafeitated mostly er commanding view of the lower
by their employes. A genial voting end of Death Valley from its spacious 'fcl!e> to th< Tur.h has, l<* u
man, Mr. Wagner, greeted us from west veranda or from its cozy glass- atl ,jOSt Va]ley aod a
the veranda, assured us the car anti c.l parlor. In the lobby were mere
cover the floor and from J ™ service. This police unit of the
treasury department, by the way,
notwithstanding the reams of roman-
tic "bunkum” that have been writ-
ten about it, has only two functions
TR AVELAX utton is that freedomfrov
rfiiving strain that feeling of comiur.
creumy and relaxation that comes froo
dnving on Concrete Highways. This **»
official map of ihe Texas Highway Symra
shows the I'raWa* Route (Coikumi*.
Highways of Texas—Concrete highway*
on which you can enioy TRAVELAJ
uihm plus a saving of one cent per nwb
compared wnh ihe average cost of <1tmetf
ovei any other road surface Mai! the
coupon now for yOur free copy
srate valley by many
. o*. tents wruld he perfectly safe f the glass receptacles of the beaut- Government *P<tt, 1 '•<■*
the route nto and through Death ^... w>.i(rc they stood but advised unless ful violet hues: also some mineral de-
ley, and we noticed as we convers- ^ fcftd 8ntj.freez(> in tbe radiator Pbsits, turquoise and other gems; al-
that we had best drain it as it would ruany relics. The one thing among
possibly be freezing by morning We tr,#' nelics that made a most lasting 1 (
ed w.th him a large collection of
bottles and various glass container*,
the lower end of the vfelle
inally known as Death V<
ever, now the whole e; i
I by or.elin war or peace—to protect the per-
(,'id. Just '-'ina! safety of the president's and tc
>-vas orig- I keep conterfeit money out of circu-
How- Ration.
*-. some | Counterfeit g&r.g® are usually clos-
I ed affaire. They have little or no
Mie ''■'alley ’The olcr tones ranged
from light to deep beautiful violet
color fie. informed us that these
were originally clear glass but that
be had picked them up in ’he Valley.
♦ * ^*1 cclcr- H* ln,ome<J were at quite an altitude hv this time impression »Pon me was an old ox
|tbat these were ail originally clear aD(J thf nif,h.„ are cold from early fall ><*«• Bund out on the floor of the
riass ,bct tha. he had picked them in .Jntij lHif, spring. We were tired, and Valley, a rrim reminder of some un-
in it at crisp, clear, desert air. lulled 'ortunate prospector who with his
by the absolute quiet and stillness— list! perished in the \ alley of
"Did we sleep and how!" When our^ ath.
early morning call came we were surprised to seo here a
n t nearly ready to get up hut we c ^ken garden with fountain and pool
f fresh water brought down from the
near-by mountains,
A ir le distant a ranch is ir. plain
v <« with its varied vegetation of
Ufa.fa date palms and other form if
plan* life. Her» I was informed that
fresh water may be had and has been
croiten by digging wells a few feet
deep, sometimes twenty to thirty.
Death Valley is better supplied with
water than most deserts. Yet some
in width ai different o<
known as Death Valley
On the east side of ti-
the famous and be;: ' 1
Death Valley Scotty.
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varying
I'S
iOMSi nntOfllfRf It Highway*
j Portland Cement Association
! HOI Norwoexi Bldg - ■ Austin
{ (jtmUmtu Please send me s Free ’
I Copv of ihe Olhnai Map of the Tex* i
I HighwaySystenri,showingtheTra«ef» *
] Route in Texas
J (name)
i
• (address)
feJ ! connection with narcotic, liquor or
slot machine organizations. But
.1 ey
retie
immigrants who have exchangR#
their entire capital for a handfull esf
gar coupons. On Manhattan’s low-
er East Side bills bearing the fea
t ires of A!N*»*d E. Smith and Jaroer
LABOR RACKETtERING
The color trace ranged from light to tr, M Dante's View a® ear
e'eep tieautifu. violet hiee transft.tn- ^ .. possible. ®o up we got.
from their orgira) dearness ty
emu of expos tr t• r-.iiiar.- -i.■ *
j xn,J terrif . heat <f the sunlight as
J ii bema® dews upor. 'be floe-' ef it*
Valley.
The. Deter! *t Night
After an excellent oinnt * «< -ft
i rndlan Springs as dusk fad- H ntr
! darkness and drove forty ®x miles
farther north where we found good ^ <,K
toad leading iff to the west } this
t'Rrme it w«s nark, a c.-ear star-lit r ght ’
with a bright crisi*nt ootMne of a M-f- ‘ -
; liuutiful r.ew moor We dre.vi west- the floe:
| T/md for thirty milts on the desert. h* a irFf
• We- stopped, turned off the motor i-q ity ; - *g
I lights and got out of the ear. If I Tlire•
| live to be a hundred years eld mid TU-
S retain my faculties 1 do not believe I far
I will ever forget that feeling of ab® biig
* lute Htiiiness and alone r.ess Su< h a M; u
Contrast to the ntday ties .and high • el
The High «nd Low
After . wonderful breakfast ir ..
modern ,.rd beautiful dining room
we wire soon on our way again.
TV el og through mountain pa®se®
we iir.hed t< ;r altitude of six thou-
sand feet, wbe-« we found Dante’s
Vi-w v -r. ts most commanding out-
,p<n -he lower end of Death
f the old immigrant prospectors went
Yoi gaze straight down over r.]ie® in search of water, a gre-s'
;s if looking from the top many p-erishing before they found it.
t-ver dreaming that by digging down ,f ,hp ,omm’-inity
rider -he dry. hot sand that wafer
..id be gotten so easily. Ther- are
1*11 building Shining e
f the Valley appeared to
iake of water but in real-
smooth salt deposit
r.dred feet below sea level.
Last week there was an article in
the Democrat telling ci <.. a. .abor
tucketeering by outside painters and
parerhange^'se Horn* (vvne rs he re j
fell for tbe lure of cheap pr-i.es, and
local mm were victimized t v being
employed to do the work arc the al-
leged contractors who proved to be
cheap swindlers, pc? away w.th tbe
money.
Home workmen have stayed here
during the dull tin-® a.-.iJ t ,.ve con-
tributed the n part to th< p:i sperity
They are re.iable
. nd their guarantee in a job* tr,<ar.s
something, if the wi.-k is not satis-
-uch racketeers are the easiest mar-
ket fer spurious bills, as rum row
| has learned to its sorrow. A Canad
.u tot-, i J- Walker were passed with suryr®
: cm sn:p captain returned with $J11 -
* . p ^ /, p f I-* * ** ,*♦ r* r* i® inaf Qwco nil v A.
■ (KiO in counterfeit money paid him j ' *
' t)y American bootleggers, and many j
1 onnterfeits are passed on insus-
peeling speakeasy, customers.
In a re ent nstance a counterfeit
ting was far from a closed affair.
An unemployed salt in the New York
Seaman’s Institute needed nickels to
get uptown, so he made slugs for the
-ubway fare collecting machine When
ther staman discovered this, he w«nt
l nto -be business. Too many slugs i
appeared n the subway station and j
the manufacturer was discovered and
arrested. His defense was: 'If I’d
known the givment wa® again it
1 woudta even tried it.” More v*.re-
in another instance, new*
paper photographs of well k^iowx*
magistrates were pasted on poor
eounterfeits and passed readily
To baik counterfeits using good er
graved plates tb» secret service bar-
bunt up many safe guards. The -tr
gravers rogues gallery is one It rot!
tains a thousand specimens cf ~hr
work ol expert engravers who nave
made imitations of American correr.
Ea r engraver, like ar, artist
has r..s own peculiarities of su-'e
Ther t.oo, the manufacturers of cer-
tain types of presses usually used ler
i.nterfejtmg presses place Cbm
boots at t.b- disposal of government
rms necessary for the *<
ptile was a Brazilian ring which man- : ’~r * ‘ T
urate rt production ot notes are wv.
yi nt w some good waters from springs factory >< j nnow wl,« :*• i, find hem.
streams around the edeo ,,t -hr
way® w.th the ,r r,»-v« r cnoc.g str*«>n *
of traffic, both cf whi< n I have b« »n
accustomed to L many year®
we ra,®td our eyes and looking valley
ff »o the west bn that clear
jf. sun-lit morning we could see
r.t Whitney w here its snow capp-
sajestic head rise* to an altitude
rarly fifteen thousand feet above
• vel and - the highest altituci*
he United States. Thus, from
w.tt
Af
xrc
. great deal of it :on heavy
mineral deposits to ' ii' for
ng water, however.
At Salt Lake
-r . short rest w* v.>- *t to
. the lower end of the valley
»« went out to Salt PoUs .es’
cf ®alt deposits, evide.it!/ at
Certainly ti.ey should i- t-veri the
i-.eference They ...mot -. mp<-te
with a gr. f-e r who Ct < * - ct .' tend to
curry out his contract. There are
reliable contractors and * •■ -d work-
men here in every line, ..id you know
where to find them after tt- oh is
finished. Let them haniiv yc r work.
--Weatherford Demo era t
sLm’rhllf6doLr\tnd‘Scent “*>ly procurtd’ and ,he
with glass (enters r.nd thin casing®
f laref illy fashioned lead foil.
Of fell the cases handled by the
secret service, none was more
ff a suspicious combination of
. cks by aty one group leads to ira
med.ate investigation, as does the.
•purchase cf paper similar to flkaf.
ised fer bills »Jh (*r withuot siik
threads.
SiT.*‘* 1 SCO no i-ss Ilian :tn counter
f.-itirg rings organized like big bus*
’ -,♦».» houses, with separate- units fer
Motorists have 3 kinds of pockeibocks
•.. and Gulf makes an oil for each!
strange than one involving a num
b®r of tills expertly raised, or "lift-
ed” trim $1 and J2 to $10 and $20
figures They were not good enough
t0 pass bank tellers, but the public
was victimized of more than $200,000 mam.facture distribution and sale
before their source was found. Fed-
eral agents were balked by the fact
that the passer®, all of wboxn bad
timinal records, seemed to have no
i nnection with allied gangs or with
each other. Then someone noted
!ha: e,.i h of them had at oni turn or
notber teen confined in tb< New
Jersey state prison There an in-
v. st)g«:li<-:. disclosed a c ounterfeit-
1,g plant headed by Frank ("Death
House”' Flartnagan and Michael
Professor > lx . Finished products
were distributed through utgi ing
j risoner* *.nd the proceeds wen hid-j
'den to finance a general prison break
Notes sailed ly the government
r* gems ol the engrver's art. With
(he so* exception of the seal and the
-erial number, every hit ef the eteh-
lave been uucoverev!
'ity alone. One of
international ring
<1 more than $l,00t.
counterfeit notes in Nt-1*
with seemingly inexham-
for the rest of 1t»
Tb counterfeiters were
most dangerous in the history af
nation and were so perfect -*at
fv* gimiet-e-ye< hank tellers mif
; them only by memorizing the
b, rial number. Only one slip betray
,i tt.* ring H® was discovered tey
* «* i-.biar • between the engrtv
on (ns pe rsonal card and the
or the counterfeit note* List
*■, - kiind net ’ know the identity
,; tb* hi* n who had purchased hr»
plat* s. Lik* wise a printer, accnsrr
, hut Ik
time he
give ts
cunterfpr.
tii* i- products
in New Yeirk
:h*®< was tt
v i b had pa*
< 00 c $10
York City
ti- q.iantitie-
country.
the
I the
ing
WOTn
inp ift
executed with the fires*
pr* -
ty
he <
ngraver. confessed
c-Is ion
rn£;< hinery and by the
most
had
t*e*e ti
blindfolded each
expert
engravers Every not*-
* an
via*
drive
n to the j-lant to
example of 1h-- ndividual art ,-f
from
stru
tion
in handling a cc
15 to
"<■ , n^rav* r* Wh* n t: *
new
pres
* Hi
it the gang had no
i nd smaller bill* were issued
the
its
'rai, *
when it bought
public
was giver, aditional prole
ction
pile**-
♦ ligfntfi Uk a ted 1
exclusive use of the ik
Jj< sc
1 hro
ugt t
ttjs cltw and whci
t She fra* to "ua/rfr tbe pennies”
\Y,t y -yo-a-flo. w a
you can pick and choose! You
can pay what you u ant to pay—for oil
—and for gas!
For Gulf offers you your choice of
3 fine gasolines and 4 fine motor oils.
Each is at a different price—and each
is an a mazing value!
So buy your gas and oil to suit your
taste and your pocketbook. Come to
GuJf! Whatever you buy, you'll get the
finest product that can be made at
the price. And—once you come—
you’ll come often!
© >**». <
rmiimcH, pa
3 GREAT
GASOLINES
Gulf Traffic Ci as— A dewrd
Mt .white*on-ktiOt.ii ir» ^olme
Low Price
That Good Gulf Gawlme
—The famous FRESH 9*1$.
Higher is anti krock than
moat rejeuiar gasolines— oow
intrusted. No otra cost.
Medium Price
W Vox Ethyl— As hoe gas®
olioe as money tan buy, plus
Ethyl. Specially designed for
modero high tomi-rcssioo
motors.
Premium Price
4 GREAT
MOTOROILS
Gulf Traffic Oil—Stir’ A
ircior cuJ ***i], rurcrior to
m*oy oil> ki this price.
1 tr v • quart
plus tax
Gulf-lubt . . . Gull , sreM-
tiooal or» "hixh-milftxr"
moior oil (or Gulf Supreme,
"The HIO-irule-ao*hour oil. ")
25/
a quart
plus tai
Galfpruif—No finer motor
oil in tbe world. Refined by tbe
famous Alchlor process — ex-
dosht with GuJf.
35/
a quart
plus tax
And every
Gulf customer
gets these FREE
services:
1. Clean w indshield—*o
help you avoid
accidents.1
2. Fill radiator—lo keep
your motor safely cooL
3. Inflate tire*—to put
longer life into the mi
4. Check oil—to Mv< you
many repairs*
i
f •. 'jtK! statesman f--r -■ J
(irn.n; *k a direct hit at tb* !ift-
. :.g * ..ititerfeiters
'*!,.- . ujitiTfeit* are produced by
i! 1mm (*h'.t('griiphH
®t-l<i( n survive even tbe
th- averag* citizen.
. • i-ri.c1:* a mellK-d sel-
-• 1 i , i.iiterf* iters leaves
iudg* ly „n iff color Lilt-
r- .id • detected by any
-- . ite.-caiaM?:
r.i* rfeiung t y liinogfapLy or"
atfng the way bills are made
• - n. ml i ften produces very dan-
• in..* ■ intcrteit® and is the metb-J
<1 emp oyed by the targe |
Kang.
t • . r. h* . f •( the contrary, such
i ounterfeit* .ri not easy to detect'
by amateur test* Even spurious
coins < fen be made to ring more clear-
ly than the original. In fact, cc.ns
fresh from the mint sometimes ring
dully. Slik thread interspersed
through the paper of the bills is no
longer a guarantee against counter-
feits, for rings have long since dup-
licated such paper.
Hut such accuracy is not necess-
rry to deceive many members of the
American public Ever so often the
secret service gets complaints from
. ■ tit- *
Wtl-
( ff
Ear*
Unilt
w he:
I • : :
N. M-A '
th ignorant and rar«®
its own curTenry
records tell of on*
personally accepted
®i-t or three -leparate occaai j: * *-
tb* nan.* da. Until such car*-.-**
new*- r- turned t vigilance our.ti *
ft ter* w. c-ntinue to rob the : *
1, ci million* yearly
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Relieved By Taking Cardci
"I was weak and mn-down and
suffered quite a bit with pains i*
my side, writes Mrs. Nick Bar
raneo, of Beaumont, Texas. "I wax
nervous. 1 did not rest well af
night, and my appetite was poor.
"My mother had used Cardu!
with beneficial result, so I decided
to take it I surely am glad I did
for It stopped the pain in my side
and built up my general health
I took seven bottles In all.”
Cardiei tb solo at al drug store*
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The Llano News. (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1933, newspaper, July 27, 1933; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816555/m1/3/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Llano County Public Library.