The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 150, Ed. 1 Monday, March 25, 1940 Page: 3 of 14
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MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1940 Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151 I
WPA to
rejects
hwell today
ference here
• WPA offi-
, paving and
t following
moval.
1 ask Major
strict WPA
the visit here
ator H. P.
ite WPA au-
ward an on-
on of streets
are needed,
trict officials
cy would be
more clearly
which the
4 be eligible
TALLLTT
Ernie Pyl
Mule Keels Over Deed Atop
A Snake Which Bit It, Yet
Native Survives Four Bites
By ERNIE PYLE
Press Roving Reporter
THANK YOU for your loyalty
throughout the year. This is our
way of expressing our appreciation
to the women of Fort Worth and
vicinity. Regardless of how timely
the merchandise—regardless of origi-
nal costs—prices drop sensationally
for this startling sale event.
CARMELITA, Peten, Guatemala, March 25.—In the thatch-
roofed warehouse here at Carmelita lie great stacks of cream-colored |
blocks, waiting to be flown to the coast and eventually to land in
the mouths of millions of stenographers .
This is chicle. It is half way between sap from a tree and a
stick of gum wri ped in waxed - *,
paper. c
At the warehouse, the Chicle
Development Co. (the buying con-
cern) has a man who tests the
chicle blocks brought in by the na-
in my mouth. It had no taste at |
all. But its chewing consistency j
was exactly the same as that of a
Sale Starts
TODAY
UU loce
LORI
The ax falls! Prices take a landslide:
Values that make this the best Anni-
versary Sale ever! What a break for
you with spring in full sway, and
summer but a stop away! Stock up
your wardrobe. Be here when the
doors open, and get in an this festi-
val of record-breaking, price-smash-
lag bargains.
Additional Courteous
Salespeople
being re-sur-
of a special
pre by Perry
ngton, assist,
gineer. An-
includes Mag-
Yuma and a
aits approval
uarters in San
ast week-end
Is were told
ject probably
there this
ing sent to
OCERS
Y LAST
eautiful hall
ers with each
re of -
COFFEE
China Dinner
Saucer In the
illow pattern
ound package.
TED DAILY
FEE 00.
JN ST. 2-9093
ephone
,000 in
sands
nt of
am
stick of gum.
“Do the chicleros themselves
chew much of this?" I asked.
"Do they chew it!" my friend
tivea on mulebaek. 1
. He token a little drill-core of _____. ____
chicle, heats it, and runs it said. "Constantly. And in terrific
through a chemical test to find gobs.”
the amount of moisture in the I said earlier that the chief
block, cause of death among the chicleros
These chicle blocks run about a was pneumonia. The second cause
third water, although you'd never is snakebite.
. know it to cut into one. for they In this jungle is the deadly fer-
seem dry inside. The price is grad- de-lance, or as it is known locally |
ed according to the percentage of the barbs amarillo, pronounced |
water. “barba-ma-ree-yo.” In Spanish, it,
The Price Scale means yellow chin or yellow whis-
. Chicle that tests 33 per cent wa-kers.
ter brings $34.50 per 100 pounds. I The stories I could tell you about ■
Chicle with only 24 per cent water the barba amarillo! A close friend D
brings $39.03. Chicle of more than of mine was in the jungle a month ■
33 per cent water is refused, ago, with a pack train. One of the D
Chicle of less than 24 per cent wa- (natives stopped to tighten his sad- 9
ter is unheard of, die girth. He put one "foot back ■
Now the chiclero doesn’t get all into the bush not more than six
this $34.50 for his 100 pounds [inches. The others heard him ■
About $5 of It goes for freight to scream. They jumped off and ran ■
the seaboard, and $7.50 goes to to him. He was dead. That quick. ■
the Guatemalan government in Fell on Snake
royalty, and1 755 cents to freight- The chicleros working out of 1
handlers, and about $9 to the con- Carmelita lose an average of four | ■
tractor. The chiclero usually gets mules a year from the barba ama- ■
about *12’ 0 . rillo. Just this season a mule sud- ■
The average chiclero gathers Idenly keeled over. When they!
about 2000 pounds of chicle in a lifted it up, the snake was under- ■
season, although the best ones can neath. Death had struck that ■
make 5000 or more. Their income mule so suddenly it fell onto the ■
runs between $10 and $15a week, snake that bit it. ■
Out of that they have to repay [ And yet, I met a c|jiciero today
the contractor for their mules and who has been bitten four times by M
grub. . u [barba amarillos. His name ism
Doesn’t Buy Yachts Thomas Requena, and there is no I
So you see the chiclero isn’t explanation for his being alite. ■
buying any yachts off us jaw-wag- He’s just a freak, in that respect, 1
ging customers in the States. Yet He la from British Honduras, ■
while he is working he does get and speaks a little English. His ■
more than most Central American last bite was only three weeks D
labor, ‘ago. He was lying belly down at | 1
The life of the chicleros is ala waterhole, drinking, and the 1
hard one. Health is not good snake bit him on the thumb. He
among them. Dampness and cold still has a blue rag wrapped ■
take their, toll in pneumonia and around it.
rheumatism. Malaria and dysent- [ And just a few days before I | ■
ery are common. How they can came here, one of the chicleros
be the cheerful, friendly people killed a barba amarillo not 100 ■
they are I don’t know, yards from the TACA radio shack, j ■
Although these men are born It lacked two inches of being seven 1
and live and work in the hot trop- feet long.
ice, they are so protected from the Jeepers creepers and shades of
sun by the dense shade of the jun-1 William Wrigley, as we say in our | ■
gle that when they go out in the chicle jungle jargon.
open, to work on a new landing ----------------------
field for the planes, they frequent- . . L I' LJ L
ly collapse with sunstroke. City Marshal $ Hunch
After the chicle is tested it is Pacovere 1
put into burlap sacks, about seven NCFPTer F99T
blocks to a sack. The men carry By United Press.
it on their backs to the waiting ENNIS, March 25—City Mar- ■
plane, it is packed carefully in the shal Sam Estes played his hunch •
cabin (to avoid shifting in the air) that a hitch-hiker's suitcase
and off it goes to Puerto Barrios contained stolen goods, and he
and America, won.
A fast twin-motord Lockheed [ Estes was driving down a city ■
freighter can make five trips a street when he noticed the hitch-
day, winging out 27,500 pounds hiker carry a very heavy suit- ■
between dawn and dusk. We did case. The youth noticed thatiH
a little figuring, and found, it (Estes was an officer and declined D
would take a 20-mule train seven to accept a ride unless he went D
months to take out one day's plane all the way to Fort Worth. The
haul. marshal agreed, but said they,
1 took my knife and cut into a would have to stop at the city •
light-brown block of chicle. It hall to determine the weight of
was gray inside, almost the color the hitch-hiker's suitcase.
of finished chewing gum When the suitcase was opened. ■
"Go ahead, take a bite of it,” Estes found that it contained an
my friend said. "It’s all right.” electric drill and motor stolen
So I cut off a hunk and put it 'here several days earlier.
our
307 HOUS T
WOMEN'S STYLE CENT
ANNIVERSARY t
SPECIAL! 2
Regular 1.99 and 2.99 % |
HATS
CARTWHEELS!
SAILORS! j
BRETON'S!
TURBANS!
HALOS!
Roughs
Sisals
Pedalines
All Colors
NOTE: Regardless of cost,
our brand new stock of hats
is years — unlimited choice
during ear Anniversary
SALE ONLY.
Economy Section
ANY
$1.24 or 94c HAT
NOTHING
WITHHELD
NOT A HAT IN STOCK
MORE THAN 2 WEEKS
VEATAHII
Specially Purchased For This
Great Anniversary Sale
DRESSES
Reg. $2.69
Values
Sizes
12 to 20
We scoured the markets to secure
such dramatic values for this record-
making event. Becoming styles la
the latest manner. Dash and smart-
ness seldom found in dresses so In-
expensive,
MATERIALS COLORS A
• Spun Rayons . Heaven Rose
• Beautiful • Heaven some
Prints • Court Blue
• Shantungs • Stripes
• Acetates • Navy
SPECIAL
Anniversary
- Value
at. . Fort Worth’s
Best Buy
SATIN
} SLIPS
$
for
REGULAR
$1 VALUES
• Tailored
• Lace
Trimmed
• Rip Proof
Seama
• Sizea 32 to 44
“FAY LOU"
Three-Thread Silk
HOSIERY
Ringleu
Splash-Proof
Unconditionally
Guaranteed
2 for
Single 9
Fair 59c ■
Thousands of women
throughout A m erica
choose Fay Lou silk
hose for longer lasting
nattertag loveliness.
Double reinforced solid silk foot.
Outer heel with stretch welt.
COLORS:
• Joy
e Flir
e Ser
E
Sensational Scoop!
Our New York Huger
Scooped The Market
W hen He Purchased
These Heautiful
Sports
COATS
and
TOPPERS
At This Special Low
Price
BARGAIN
FLASHES
Printed Cotton
DRESSES
Smartly styled, fast color percale
frocks. Dainty colors for neat
home wear. Sizes 12 to 30 and 38
to 82.
Set.
95
Made to Sell for $12.95
and $16.95
Choose from fitted flares or swag-
ger styles In this super value col-
lection. Every coat an individual, i
outstanding fashion success, i d
• Tweeds • Twills • Nubs
Sizes 12 to 20—38 to 52
SWEATERS
Including:
• Boucles
• Cardigans
• Crew Necks
$1 VALUES
2 for SI
SKIRTS
Summer Styles In
ph • Gabardines
A • Shark Skins
AP • Novelty Crepes
REGULAR
$1.99
Anniversary Salt
BLOUSES
Dainty Summer Styles
• White Batiste
• White Pique
• Frothy with Lace
59<
Regularly $1.00
Anniversary
Sale Priced
Sensational Values
Satin GOWNS
Regularly $1.95
Bemberg crepes or
pure crepe satins,
e ontrastingly SETS
bound. Full eut. ■
Sizes 12 to 40.
Summer
Slack Suits
Anniversary Price Only
Comfortable, wearable
styles ter year pis- 62T41/n
mics, gardening and epPOP
around Ik. house. **
FI7R
COATS
Anniversary Sale
Price Only
5 4
95
Newest 1940 Styles in Blend-
ed Mink, Squirrelette, and
blocked Lapins.
OTHERS:
$39.50 tO $69.50
• Use Our Lay Away Plan
• 2-Year Service Guarantee
• Free Storage!
Mannish Tailored
SUITS
.
Regular $9.95 Suits
A good investment anytime, as
an almost year-round costume
... an exceptional buy ai this
low Anniversary Sale Price.
Black or Navy. Pastels, ten.
Others
$6.95 to $9.95
“WHERE SMART WOMEN DRESS BETTER FOR LESS”
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 150, Ed. 1 Monday, March 25, 1940, newspaper, March 25, 1940; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1685463/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.