The Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1929 Page: 2 of 14
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CITIES SEEK
A-l-A RATING
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Applications of Towns For
High Classification of
Airports Pour In
WASHINGTON July 5.—(JPh-
Classification of airport facilities
of the country under department of
commerce regulations has been
started by the airports section of the
aeronautics branch of the depart-
ment under Col. Harry H. Blee.
More than a score of cities prqud
of their airport projects and eager
to be placed on the official air map
have applied for ratings and the
application forms and instructions
have gone forward. Within a short
time it is expected field workers
of the airports section will be at
work inspecting the various projects
The “A-l-A” rating will be the
highest given by the department
of commerce and it was pointed
out airports must exactly meet the
regulations laid down by the de-
partment before being so classified.
When an airport applies for an
'A-l-A rating and cannot meet the
requirements it will be given a
lower rating if desired until such
time as the higher requirements
are satisfied.
Just how many cities have air-
ports which can meet the A-l-A
specifications officials of the air-
ports section are unable to say.
They point out that few of the larg-
er projects in the country have been
completed.
Field facilities landing area and
night lighting equipment govern
the rating under the airport regu-
lations. The first letter designates
the type of general equipment. The
figure indicates the area classifi-
cation and the second letter the
kind of lighting equipment.
Hangar facilities wind Indica-
tors obstruction markings repair
shop equipment weather reporting
facilities including radio for re-
ceiving reports fire fighting and
first aid equipment personnel and
rest room and restaurant facilities
are taken into consideration in the
rating for general equipment.
An effective landing area of 2.-
500 feet in all directions is necessary
for a “1” rating.
Beacons boundary lights lighted
hangars hangar heating obstruc-
tion lights ceiling projectors land-
ing flood lights time of operation
and night field personnel govern
the third symbol of the rating.
Pontiac. Mich. was the first of
the cities to request a rating for
its municipal airport.
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i Free Publicity 18
i Attacked by Head
Of Newspaper Body
1 ASHEVILLE N. C. July 5.—{/Pi—
j Free publicity that has “no ear-
marks of legitimate news” was
criticized by John A. Park Ral-
eigh N. C. publisher and chairman
of the Southern Newspaper Pub-
lishers association board in his re-
port to the annual convention here
Thursday.
i “Can we reasonably extend our
efforts to develop new readers and
| create new buying power for legiti-
i mate advertisers as long as we open
1 the door for the gate crashers?”
he asked after describing “press
agents” “public relations men” or
“information secretaries” as per-
sons “who get easy pickings” at the
expense of the newspapers.
(By The Associated Press)
TORONTO—Hundreds of Amer-
ican motor cars were in Ontario to-
day. Border stores were permitted
to sell only two bottles to a tour-
ist. At Coburg sales while the boat
was In were forbidden.
MEXICO CITY—Border authori-
ties were instructed to keep the
bridges across the Rio Grande open
until 5 a. m. this morning and again
tomorrow morning.
NEW YORK—Forty-five feet un-
der Wall Street 100 bottles of West
Indian rum 125 years old have been
unearthed by sandhogs excavating
for a skyscraper. The corks wTere
petrified . Some of the sandhogs
nearly became so. The excavation
is on the site of an old wharf.
NORTHAMPTON. Mass. — Lee
Ping Quan chef of the presidential
yacht Mayflower sent a cake for
Calvin Coolidge's 57th birthday to-
night
NEW YORK—The cage of Uncle
Bam. American eagle in Central
Park was decorated with flags to-
day. The bird was captured near
Palm Beach in April and present-
ed to Mayor Walker. The flight
that ended in a forced landing in
Florida has astonished naturalists.
BUFFALO. N. Y.—The well dress-
gentleman shall wear braces
alias galluses alias suspenders
which will hold up high-waisted
trousers with 18 1-2 inch bottoms.
So decrees the national convention
of clothing designers.
NEW YORK—Men’s clothes are
three times as heavy as women’s.
The extension institute weighed the
rainment of a dozen men and a
dozen women. The women’s varied
from one pound six ounces to 3 1-2
pounds the men’s from 6 3-4
pounds to 10 1-4. "The average
man” comments Dr. Eugene L.
Fisk "is grossly overclad.”
The clothes of a girl of 18 weigh-
ed in as follows dress 8 ounces;
lingerie 4; hose 2; shoes 8. Total
1 pound 6 ounces.
ROMA EXPECTS 1000
BALE COTTON CROP
(Special to The Herald)
ROMA July 5.—The gin at this
place has turned out seven bales
to date and the estimate is that
there will be a little better than
1000 bales of cotton ginned here
this season. This will be a shade
better than last year but way un-
der expectations. Late winds in
LJune burned the crop severely and
kdii shorten it about 1500 bales.
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TROTSKY IN EXILE
PRINKIPO Princes’ Islands Tur-
key July 5.—(/P)—Leon Trotsky
exiled bolshevist chieftain has set-
tled down unmysteriously like any
well-behaved exile and is writing
as most exiles do his autobiography.
But mystery still plays about the
willed garden and spacious villa—
once the property of a Turkish
grand vizier—which the banished
partner of Lenin has rented for the
summer. That mystery is his wife.
What Madame Trotsky is think-
ing what she is doing with her long
days of exile in a strange country
how she is bearing the separation
from her two daughters and her
younger son. whom she had to leave
back in her lost homeland nobody
knows.
Madame Trotsky receives no vis-
itors and grants no interviews. Oc-
casionally she may be glimpsed at
a window of the great villa of
which she has become mistress pro
tern a fair-haired blue-eyed rather
rotund little woman c:ad in a dress-
ing gown.
Occasionally too she emerges
from the walled garden with her
husband and her son for a drive
through the pine groves of this
most princely of the Princes’ is-
■ lands. But she is no more approach
able than a Turkish “grande dame"
of the old Ottoman school.
The wife of the great man reads
little talks little kitchen gossip
reports. For the most part she
merely sits. But at the same time
her servants let it be known she
is a model bourgeoise nousewne
thrifty and exacting.
At last and at least for the sum-
mer she has a house to command
after weeks of virtual imprisonment
in cramped quarters in the 8oviet
consulate and the subsequent brief
sojourns in two rooms of a Pera
hotel and a three-room flat of a
Greek proprietress.
The one comparatively happy
member of the Trotsky family seems
to be the son Ivan. Although like
his father he is debarred from any
political activity in Turkey and
emulates his mother in steadily re-
nouncing the consolation of unbur-
dening himself to the press he
seems to be deriving some fun from
his exile. Certainly he is athletic
and healthy.
Trotsky the father may be done
for physically and politically but
soviet Russia and the world at
large yet may have to reckon with
Trotsky the son.
Heavy Rains July 4
Break Roma Section
Drought of Weeks
(Special to The Herald)
ROMA July 5.—This town cele-
brated July 4 with more rejoicing
than usual for at midnight it was
ushered in with a gentle rain which
continued to fall all night and is
still falling at this time inundat-
ing a vast area of land on both
sides of the Rio Grande that was
badly in need of Just such a rain. A
long drought was broken. Young
cotton in Mexico had begun to
droop and die cattle were suffer-
ing for water and grass and even
the people were facing a grave sit-
uation because of the severe spell.
The Rio Grande rose seven feet
and eight inches in exactly seven
hours yesterday and then fell back
to nearly normal stage in less than
five hours. It was one of those
mystery rises and must have come
from a heavy rainfall on the up-
lands of Mexico between Mier and
Guerrero.
OFFICERS BELIEVE
MURDER IS SOLVED
BATESVILLE Ark. July 5.—(/P)
—Authorities today hoped to solve
the mysterious slaying of Morris
Osborne well-to-do Cord. Ark.
merchant with two murder war-
rants—one against his widow of
four days and the other naming J.
P. Baber 21 Batesville athlete.
The 21-year-old widow Norma
has been in jail here since the
young merchant was found slain
Monday night in his home at Cord
a fe wmiles from Batesville. Bar-
a few miles from Botesville. Bar-
ber has been missing since the
crime became known.
STEALS AN EGG
OLDHAM Eng.—George Cotteril
aged 19 wa sarrested for stealing
an egg for his sick mother.
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Centralized Cotton
Market Planned For
Edinburg Growers
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG July 5.—Efforts are
being made to establish a central-
ized cotton market here by a group
of cotton growers and Interested
parties headed by Clinton Fraser
Sr. cashier of the First National
bank.
The compress to the north of the
Edinburg has been chosen as the
meeting place for the cotton grow-
ers and buyers. Sponsorers of the
move assert that the compress is
the logical place for the market as
all cotton shipped by rail ultimate-
ly must go there.
LYFORD
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Felon and
Jewel Clanton from Blanchaid.
Okla. arrived here Monday and
will be here during the cotton sea-
son. They are located in the J. S.
Robert’s home.
A baby boy Jerry Wentz weigh-
ing 10 pounds arrived at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Adair Baldridge.
Mrs. Charles Harpin and daugh-
ter Ethel Marie left Monday morn-
ing for Burnet county Texas where
they will visit with relatives and
friends.
Rev. A. Bergman and family are
expected Friday from Kenedy. On
Saturday Rev. Bergman will meet
with the confirmation class of the
church.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Craig and
daughter Janice and the Misses
Evelyn Redlund and Lillian Soren-
sen attended the picture show in
Harlingen Monday night.
Mrs. Chriss Cloninger and two
children left Monday morning for
Hugh Springs Texas to visit with
relatives and friends for several
weeks.
Every
Bank
Has
Personality
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• A bank’s personality becomes evident in the way-
it serves its patrons.
The Merchants’ National Bank believes most
people select a bank in the same way that they
choose their friends — on the basis of personality
and reliability.
And so this 25-year-old institution is always
working to make its personality and reliability
even more attractive.
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Capital and Surplus .. $500000.00
MERCHANTS
NATIONAL BANK
B R. O W N S VI LLfi • • TE X A3*
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WRITER HAILED
BY BULGARIANS
Journalist Said to Have
Brought Liberty To
Europeans
NEW LEXINGTON Ohio July 5.
Simon Radeff Bulgarian en-
voy to the United States hailed
Januarius" Aloysuis McGahn
American Journalist whose writings
brought liberty to the Bulgars as
“the symbol of America” to all Bul-
garians in a speech Thursday at
the tomb of McGahn in the ceme-
tery here.
Radeff here by royal commission
placed a wreath on McGahn’s
grave at the climax of the cere-
monies attended by several thou-
sand people.
McGahan was a romantic figure
who followed campaigns from Si-
beria to the West Indies. He was
decorated by the Russian govern-
ment for his stories for the New
York Herald as he followed the
imperial drive to Khiva in 1871. He
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later brought the Russian* to the
assistance of the war tom Balkan
state during the Turkish sultan’s
drive of 1876 and the Bulgarians
recognized his services yesterday in
an order by King Boris III that a
wreath be placed upon the monu-
ment over his grave.
McGahan reported the Turkish
advance in the Balkans for-the
London Times and the London
News. His accounts of its atroci-
ties brought an investigation by the
British government which had sta-
tioned a fleet in the Dardanelles.
They were confirmed and the fleet
was withdrawn as McGahan rode
from town to town receiving the
acclaim of thousands whom he urg-
ed to resistance.
He lived to see the northern
armies push the Turks to the Bos-
phorus before illness contracted in
his campaign caused his death a
year after its close in 1878.
PRINCESS MAY WED
BUCHAREST Rumania July 5.
—(JP)—There were reports in court
circles today that Princess Ileana
was about to become engaged to
a German prince whose name has
not been disclosed. It was said
Queen Marie shortly will go to
Salzburg for a few days where the
young people will meet.
Economic Equality
Is Farmer’s Right
Educator Declares
ATLANTA Ga. July 5—(ff>—Sec-
retary Hyde told the National Edu-
cation lassociation Thursday “a
place of economic equality and op-
portunity for the American farmer"
must be found. “There are hap-
pily many thousands of prosper-
ous farmers” he said “but agricul-
ture as a whole has had too small
a share of national prosperity. This
nation cannot afford to view with
complacency any inequality among
the old people.”
The answer to agricultural prob-
lems is not to be found “in any
single scheme of state craft” he
held but measures such as the tar-
iff development of inland water-
ways and other cheap transporta-
tion and research to find new mar-
kets and new uses for farm pro-
ducts will be generally beneficial.
Further development of reclama-
tion projects he declared “should
await the time when such action is
economically necessary.”
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TWO DAYS FOR BIGAMY
LONDON.—Mrs. Dorothy Noles
convicted of bigamy was sentenced
to two days in prison.
American Leaves For
Europe in Small Boat
BOSTON July 5.—(5s1)—The Elsie
Mackay a 16-foot open boat
equipped with a second-hand out-
board motor set forth from this
port today for Havre France. Her
lone occupant David O. Turner
23-year-old Norwegian whose chief
asset appeared to be pluck was
confident his craft would reach the
other side of the Atlantic safely in
about two months.
An attempt to get away a few
days ago ended abruptly about a
mile down the harbor when engine
trouble developed.
The boat carried 75 gallons of
gasoline which Turner predicted
would suffice until he reached St.
Johns N. F. where he intends to
i refuel. Turner plans .to subsist on
canned food. The sky will be his
roof at all times. His bedding con-
sisted of a few blankets and a strip
of canvas.
Turner had planned to navigate I
without the aid of a compass but1
shortly before he left an admirer
presented him with one. His total
financial resources were about $50.
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EXPLAINS BATHROOM
SINGER’S SUCCESS
CHICAGO July 5.—(/P)—Bath-
room baritones learned Thursday
why their voices sound so sweet
while shaving and so sour when in
the parlor.
V. Ford Greaves who has been
conducting experiments in acous-
tics in the Newcombe-Hawley lflfc
oratory .said the bathroom heft#
small provides unusual sound re-
flection because the walls are
smooth and close together.
"This condition” he said “reson-
ates. or builds up weak and feeble
voices making the result sonorous
and frequently even majestic.”
Iowa’s poultry and eggs last year
were valued at $72000000.
Mme. Leon Trotzky shown with h er husband and son now is the
mysterious member of the exiled bolshevist family.
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“IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN BROWNSVILLE’’ I
Starts Saturday
JULY 6th to 20th
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All Summer Merchandise must go!
Mens Suits —Straw Hats—Extra Pants —Caps
Shirts—Underwear are reduced for our
July Clearance Sale
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I Two special lots of Tropical
I worsted suits will go at
I $9M & $11=
Men’s linen and nurotex suits
with two pair pants regular
$19.50 on sale at
$16=
Tropical worsted suits 2 pair .
pants all silk lined regular <
$24.50 on sale at
$1950
Regular $29.50 now
$2450
Regular $35.00
$2950
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All Straw Hats
20% off
Men’s Spalding bathing suits
20% off 1
MEN’S SHIRTS 10% OFF I
Men’s underwear of all kinds §
10% off I
Men’s Pants regular $6.00 j|
and $7.00 now I
$495 I
Special lot of Arrow col- I
lars will go at |!
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