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MERCEDES NEWS-TRIBUNE
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1931
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Sedan Wins Famous
European Classic
We will give a Three-in-One Non-Overboil
Aluminum Cooker, Absolutely Free, with
each Gas Range purchased in any Valley
office during August.
with each Gas
Range purchased
during August
At|Mercedes
Churches
Kingsville, August 6.—As the end,
of the summer term approaches for
Texas College of Arts and Indust-
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Shocks By Electricity
In Household Circuit
Very Dangerous
You will find a cordial welcome
awaiting you at all services of
the churches of Mercedes
June Stands Out As Most Encouraging
Month Since Beginning Of Depression
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f phone would ring and some one
t would ask her to go some place.
But there is no telephone.
Have you ever been all dressed up
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Christ Episcopal
Washington avenue at Third street.
Pastor: Rev. J. S. Budlong.
Services every Sunday morning at
9 o’clock.
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From Constipation
Ice keeps milk, meats, vegetables, fruits,
cooked foods in a fresh, wholesome condition
and by minimizing the growth of harmful bac-
American Lutheran
Illinois avenue and Third street.
Pastor: Rev. William N. Durkop.
German services every first Sun-
day at 9 a. m. and every third Sun-
day at 3 p. m.
Sunday school and Bible classes
at 10 a. m.
English worship at 11 a. m.
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Church of Christ
Ohio avenue and Sixth street.
Sunday school at 10; preaching
service at 11; prayer meeting Wed-
nesday evening at 7:45.
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Rio Grande Valley Gas Co.
«—If it’s done with Heat, you can do it BETTER with Gas.”
J. L. SPETTIGUE. Manager
Mercedes, Texas
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Makes Brilliant Record
For Speed And Re-
liability
Christian Science
Texas avenue and Fourth street.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.; Sun-
day morning services at 11 a. m.;
Wednesday night services at 8.
A reading room in the church op-
en every Tuesday and Friday from
2:30 to 4:30 o’clock.
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Improvement Program
Planned For McAllen
And Hidalgo Airport
Low Voltage Held
Menace .To Life By
Medical Authority
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warm season by properly preserving foods with
plenty of Central Power And Light Company's
The prices of our Ranges are already reduced to an
unbelievable low point, and with the gift of one of
these indispensable cooking utensils, the purchase of
a Gas Range during August should be your outstand-
ing bargain purchase of the year.
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table medicine which
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of men, women and chil-
dren, and which you
should try when troubled
with constipation, indi-
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First Methodist
Virginia avenue and Fourth street.
Pastor: Rev. C. E. Bludworth.
Sunday school at 9 a. m.
Morning preaching service at 10.
Sermon subject,’“Why It’s Hard to
Believe.”
Sunday evening preaching serv-
ice at 8 p. m. Sermon subject, “An
Inevitable Choice.”
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Catholic
Vermont avenue and Third street
OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH
Oblate Fathers.
Pastor: The Rev. Francis Du-
passieux O. M. I.
Sunday masses: 6:30 to 8 a. m.
Week day masses: 6:30 a. m.
Services every Sunday evening at
7:30 o’clock.
Donna, each the B. A. in the school
of liberal arts.
There are two graduates from La-
redo, two from Houston, and ten
from Kingsville in the group this
summer. Twelve are in the school
of education, one in the school of
agriculture, two in business admin-
istration, one in the school of agri-
culture, two in business administra-
tion, five in the school of home ec-
onomics, and fourteen in the liberal
arts school. Because the engineer-
ing school has not been going long
enough, there are no graduates from
it yet.
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Lake Charles, La., writes: “When I
let myself get constipated, I feel dull
and sluggish and all out of sorts, not
equal to my work. When one has
this feeling it is time to take some-
thing before he feels worse. I cer-
tainly have found Black-Draught
quick to relieve. I used to have se-
vere sick headaches and suffer a
great deal. I found this came from
constipation, and that Black-Draught
would correct it. That is why I be-
gan using THEDFORD’S ENA-13
Black-Draught
month it was only half that propor-
tion off.
“Cotton export trade . has made
great advances, a deficit of 500,000
bales at one, time turning into a
gain at the end of May with the
value of exports in May slightly ex-
ceeding the like month a year ago.
Cotton cloths dull and weak until
mid-June, steadied and showed gains
of 1-8 to 1.4 cent on numerous
makes.
“With what is said to be the
strongest statistical position in May
for ten years past, petroleum prices
were low. Perhaps the reverse of
this is another way to state the sit-
ries, interest grows in the graduat-
ing exercises.
There will be thirty-four student
graduates at the August convoca-
tion, which with the 26 granted
their degrees in June, will make
sixty for the year.
Valley students in the graduat-
ing class are: Carl W. Huser, Don-
na, B. S. in agriculture; Miss Una
Mae Fair, Donna, bachelor of bus-
iness administration; Mrs. Florence
Scott, Rio Grande City, B. S. in ed-
ucation; Miss Ruby Henrichson,
Weslaco, B.S. in home economics;
Miss Lorena Yates, Harlingen, B. S.
in home economics; B. E. Bailey,
Harlingen, B. S. in the school of
liberal arts; Miss Allie Haney, Rio
Hondo, and Miss Vera Hubbard,
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Washington.—The month of June
stands out as the most encouraging
30-day period since the present de-
pression began, says Frank Greene
in his monthly review of business
conditions in Nation’s Business mag-
azine, published by the chamber of
commerce of the United States.
“It would be exaggerating to
say,” he observes, “that business in
June responded by an outburst of
activity. But there was unques-
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One reason why the old times were
better was because most of the
laughing was done by the men.
penses. The employment index, ac-
cording to the Bureau of Labor,
dropped to 74.1 as of May and pay
rolls to 66.6 of the 1926 average as
against 87.7 and 87.6 per cent re-
spectively in May last year and
99.2 and 104.8 respectively in 1929.
Lumber with 54.6 per cent of em-
ployed in May as against 73.2 a year
ago seems the poorest general line,
with stone, clay and glass and land
vehicles following. In addition, the
Bureau of Labor has given figures
of wage reductions affecting 45,000
to 50,000 for some months past.
“Strikes seem to have come to the
fore a little, the principal one being
of bituminous miners in western
Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio
where 6,000 to 8,000 men are but
and prices have been stiffened there-
by? Hosiery makers in some num-
ber have also been idle for the same
cause in Philadelphia.
“Cotton and cotton cloth were ac-
tive in June with a decline to the
middle of the month and an equally
sharp rise in the last ten days with
cloths rather lagging behind the raw
materials which dropped from 8.55
early to 8.25, the lowest of the year,
in the first third of the month but
rose 2 cents or 20 per cent from
June 9 to June 20 when it reached
10.40 cents. In early June it show-
ed a drop of nearly 50 per cent
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SACRED HEART CHURCH
Missouri avenue and Sixth street
Oblate Fathers.
Pastor: The Rev. J. M. Lyons 0.
M. I., assistant.
Sunday mass: 10 a. m.
Week day masses: Tuesday and
Friday at 6:30 a. m.
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Funeral Services For
A. C. Long, Los Indios
Farmer, Held Monday
Kenosha, Wis., Aug. '6.—Conquer-
ing the tortuous, 12-kilometer ascent
to Parnis Mountain in 11 minutes
flat, and distancing a field of 32
fast cars, a Nash Convertible stock
Sedan won the famous European hill
climbing classic of the Automobile
Club of Athens, Greece, and hung
up a brilliant record for speed and
reliability in the recent annual
event according to official reports
received here today.
Second place in the Athens com-
petition, which compares in sport-
ing and automobile interest with the
old time Pikes Peak Hill Climbs in
Colorado and the Tour de France,
was won by a Nash stock Cabriolet
in 11 minutes 41 seconds. Thus the
twin- ignition American cars cap-
tured first and second honors among
all cars entered and first in their
respective power classes.
The thirty-two motor cars enter-
ed in the annual classic represented
every rank and power from the two-
seater Fiat to the largest, compres-
sor-equipped Mercedes and Bugatti
racing cars, according to Georges
Lazanis, Nash distributor for Greece
under whose derection the two Nash
cars were entered. The run is from
the low levels of Athens up the
steep and winding automobile road
to Parnis Mountain, 940 meters
above sea level. There are 29 sharp
turns on the course, which is con-
sidered one of the, most difficult
competitive runs in the world. Both
of the winning Nash cars were
strictly stock automobiles, privately
owned and entered without special
racing preparation.
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Large Number Valley
Students To Graduate
At Kingsville College
First Christian
Texas avenue and Sixth street.
Pastor: Rev. G. W. Hay. Asso-
ciate minister: S. E. Colglozier.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.; N.
O. Jacobs, superintendent. Classes
for all ages.
Morning worship at 11 o’clock.
Evening worship at 8 o’clock.
8 p. m. evening preaching service.
Tuesday, 3:30 p. m., W. M. S.
meeting, Mrs. J. C. Potts, president..
Wednesday, 8 p. m. prayer ser-
vice. Choir practice following.
Ice retards deterioration of foods, and thereby
reduces waste in an extensive measure.
Give your Ice Service Man instructions to
keep the refrigerator FULL. It has been found,
by repeated tests, that your refrigerator actually
consumes less ice when the ice compartment
is kept FULL!
uatiop. That is that the lowest
prices in ten years have made for
the strongest statistical position in
that time. Certainly the feeling in
that industry has seemed to be rath-
er more cheerful than for a long
time.”
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Shocks of electricity of even such
low voltage as that found in the or-
dinary household circuit are ex-
tremely dangerous and may cause
death, Dr. Horatio B. Williams of
New York City has pointed out in
a report to the , American Medical
Association.
Heretofore when people have died
from shock with supposedly low
voltages of electricity, such as from
household circuits and appliances, it
has been explained on the ground
that the voltage had suddenly be-
come greater than the usual 110 or
120 volts. Dr. Williams offers an-
other explanation based on physio-
logical rather than physical grounds.
Within recent years medical sci-
entists have learned that electricity
under the pressure of a very low
potential, often much less than 10
volts, affects the heart, causing a
sort of tremor or wavering in its
usual contraction, which physicians
call fibrillation. Instead of the
muscle fibers contracting together,
they each do it separately without
coordination. When the current
passes through one part of the
heart, this fibrillation occurs with-
out interferring with the circulation,
but when the current passes through
another part of the heart, the cir-
culation stops7 at once and death us-
ually follows in all large animals.
When the human skin is dry it is
a good non-conductor, but when it
is wet, large enough currents could
pass to cause fatal fibrillation of
the heart, Dr. Williams suggested.
The skin is rarely absolutely dry.
Perpsiration keeps it somewhat
moist and when this is copious, or
when the skin is wet with soap and
water, an electric current could eas-
ily pass through it. A slight cut
or bruise of the skin also greatly
lowers the resistance to electricity.
Household electric power lines are
customarily grounded on one side.
Contact between the other side and
any part of the body becomes dan-
gerous when the skin is wet enough
to conduct. Water pipes, drain pipes,
radiators, sinks and the conduits in
which the power wires run are all
usually well grounded, which, to-
gether with the fibrillation theory,
explains the numerous causes of
fatal electric shocks of persons
touching electric appliances, while
in the bath tub, for instance.
“A person in a bath tub, making
through his wet skin an excellent
contact with the grounded drain
pipe, runs a deadly risk if he hap-
pens to touch the metallic shell of
a fixture which is in electrical con-
tact with the ungrounded side of
the circuit,” Dr. Williams said. "Fix-
tures are not supposed to be in this
condition, but there are so many
opportunities for them to be or to
become so that the danger is ever
present.
“It may be dangerous to touch
electric lamps and appliances with
wet hands, especially when there
are cuts and abrasions of the skin
and particularly when there is a
ground contact, as when one is in
a bath tub.”
Another danger spot is the chain
pull switch with which many lamps
are equipped. In some there is an
insulating link, but many do not
have this, Dr. William observed. A
safe practice is to tie a piece of silk
ribbon to the chain, particularly in
the bathroom, kitchen and cellar.
Home repair of electrical equipment
may also be a source of danger.
Even when the equipment works all
right, the home repairman may not
have properly grounded or insulated
it.
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Frank W. Stevens of Santa Ro-
sa and John W. Schneider of Mc-
Allen left Monday for Houston to
undergo final examinations for en-
trance into the United States navy.
Both are re-enlisted for their third
term, having previously served in
the navy eight years.
George A. Kramer, Valley re-
cruiting officer, said Lewis A. Tur-
ner of San Benito, Bertie Lee Mc-
Farland of Harlingen, Glenn L.
Ginbach of Alamo and George Her-
bert Seigler of Harlingen are to
leave August 10 for the navy.
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Immanuel Lutheran
Washington avenue and Third street
Pastor: Rev. A. Bartling.
Sunday school and adult bible
class at 9:30 a. m.
English services at 10:30 a. m.
German services at 8 p. m.
Funeral services for Alvin Clar-
ence Long, 37, Los Indios farmer
were held Monday morning at 10
o’clock at the Thompson chapel in
Harlingen with the Rev. W. B. Oli-
ver of Harlingen officiating. Mr.
Long was killed in an automobile
accident on the Military Highway
near Carricitos Saturday.
Mr. Long was well known in the
Valley having lived here since 1915.
He is survived by. his wife; two
children, Billie Joe, four years old,
and Henry, 1 year old; by his moth-
er, Mrs. H. T. Long of Corpus
Christi; and by several brothers
and sisters; J. W. Long, Mrs. W. F.
Davis, Mrs. L. N. Clark, Mrs. M.
Pease, and Mrs. G. C. Oliphant, all
of Corpus Christi; Mrs. A. Z. Kane
of Dallas; R. L. Long of San Be-
nito and C. F. Long of Harlingen.
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Valley Boys Leave
To Enlist In The
United States Navy
mark approximated although a
number of makes are being distri-
buted in excess of a year ago.
“The employment situation has
certainly not gained much among
the leading industries. Building
with its kindred lines has been
slacker than expected and the lead-
ing labor organization lays part of
the blame for the smaller number of
dwellings being erected on the ne-
cessity of ‘doubling up’ to save ex-
tionably a further accentuation of
the better morale; and a number of
lines, notably copper, cotton, cotton
goods, most of the cereals, leather
and similar basic materials, sold in
greater volume at higher prices al-
though some speculative purchases
seemed to have been realized upon
later. Prices of the cereals did not
maintain their strength.”
Failures, the review points out,
decreased a little from the corres-
ponding month a year ago, the first
development of this kind in 13
months.
“The net result of the month’s
happenings,” Mr. Greene says, “cer-
tainly deprived that month of this
year of its reputation for dullness,
while hot weather, plus the advent
of the vacation period, allowed of a
fair retail trade and helped collec-
tions. Wholesale and jobbing trade
and industry naturally saw a slight
easing off in activity.
“That the business community
appeared to have been jolted out of
the rut in which it was travelling
cannot be denied but that this same
business community will proceed im-
mediately to perform any great won-
ders is improbable.
“In retail trade the public now
recognizes that trade volume has be-
gun to draw ahead of a year ago,
a fact which already seemed cer-
tain to those observers who had seen
that the comparatively small de-
creases noted in May by chain and
mail order stores were a measure
of values rather than of volume.
“Hot weather was general in the
later days of June and in early
July. This forced the concededly
large winter wheat crop to matur-
ity and gave a marked impetus to
the growth of corn. These resulted
in some large private estimates,
nearly a billion bushels advance
over last year’s harvest for corn
(With a good sized gain in wheat.
The growth of cotton was stimulated
on its estimated 8 to 12 per cent de-
crease in acreage. Spring wheat in
the Northwest, especially Montana
and North Dakota, lacking mois-
ture, had apparently gone back but
there was left, however, a good net
gain in the total wheat crop" over a
year ago. The general crop prospect
seemed to leave little to be desired
from the standpoint of quantity al-
though the question of prices is com-
plicated in the case of wheat by
the immense carryover on July 1 in
the hands of the Farm Board’s aux-
iliaries.
“Not all of the events of the
month have been favorable. Iron
and steel buying slumped off fur-
ther and in the July Fourth week
capacity dropped to 38 per cent as
against 57 in the late winter peak
and 75 last year with a possibility
that the 30 per cent capacity of
last December might be reached
again. A dull July but a later pick-
up of some of the lost trade is ex-
pected by trade authorities.
“The automobile output for June
was closely repressed and July is
expected to see the year’s low water
A program of improvement and
development for the McAllen-Hidal-
go municipal airport has been an-
nounced, by the airport commission.
An underground system to fur-
nish gasoline to planes will be in-
stalled, a large tank to be buried
near the hangar.
Other features of ‘the improve-
ment work at the airport include
the clearing and improving of the
large caliche runway and the re-
moval of weeds from the entire
field. The weed removal work will
necessitate considerable labor yet'
will vastly improve the appearance
of the landing port.
The new airport commission, nam-
ed some several weeks ago by the
city council, has now started its
functions and is working on a num-
ber of plans to increase the use of
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First Presbyterian
Missouri avenue and Fourth street.
Pastor: The Rev. C. P. Owen.
W. C. Swarner, Sunday school su-
perintendent; Mrs. G. E. Eddy, choir
director; Mrs. H. T. Stotler, pianist;
Mrs. John N. Pace, president of the
Women’s Auxiliary.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Morning worship, Sunday, 11 a.
m.
Evening worship Sunday at 7:30
p. m.
Auxiliary circle meetings Tuesday
at 3 p. m.
Midweek service Wednesday at
7:30 p. m.
Choir practice Wednesday 8:30 p.
m.
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First Baptist
Fifth and Missouri
Pastor: Rev. E. V. May.
10 a. m., departmental Sunday
School, W. E. Perry, superintendent.
11 a. m., morning preaching ser-
vice.
7 p. m., B. Y. P. U. meetings;
Fleet A. Lentz, director.
Spring Fag — Stretchy — Drowsy
— Stupid — Tire — Head-achy —
not sick but don’t feel good. Just a
few signs that you need that most
effective liver stirring Spring Rem-
edy. “OXIDINE.” Try a bottle.
Ask your druggist.
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