Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1933 Page: 3 of 4
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Chevrolet Sales
In July Increase
155 Pet. Over'32
Not since 1929 have July sales of
new Chevrolet cars and trucks equall-
ed the figure attained in the month
just ended, when dealers reported de-
livering to consumers 07,H20 new units,
H. J. Klingler, vice-president and gen-
eral sales manager announced today.
This compares with reports sales of
20,547 last July and represents a 156%
increase over the same month last
year, Mr. Klingler said. Only three
times in the 21-year history of Chev-
rolet have July sales gone ahead of
this year and it is significant that the
company leads the low-priced field by
a greater margin than ever.
One Person Tallo to
Ten Million People
It is uncanny that the President can
sit in the blue room of the WhiU*
House and give his message to ten mil-
lion people at one time. Yet, that is
just what is being done.
When Marconi was spending sleep-
less hours trying to perfect an instru-
ment that would carry the human voice
thousands of miles through the ether,
little did he realize what a contribu-
tion he was making to the work for
the convenience and pleasure of the
People. Marconi discovered the princi-
' pie, but many thousands of others have
j added to and improved the original,
and there is yet hidden away some-
j where for others to discover, many
'other
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tion.
Dealers ended July on a sharply ris-
ing sales curve, Mr. Klingler said, the
reports for the last third of the month
nearly doubling those of the first ten
days. All indications point to good
sales activity in August, the first few
days of the month showing an unusual
buying trend.
Sales for the first seven months of
this year totaled 372,772 new cars and
trucks as compared with 279,772 in the
comparable period last year.
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injury when her angry sweetheart
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Tyler, Texas
Name
mail box to post h;r letter to the Gov-
ernor wh > referred it to the Texas
Re habilitation and Relief commission.
"Texas must come to the rescue of
dear old people like these," the direc-
tor commented. "They cannot be left
Austin, Texas, Aug. 10.—Having j to starve. Their neighbors are in al-
sold their furniture, books, and clothes,1 most as bad a plight as they. Their
civil engineers, teachers holding mas- j county can't help them because it can-
ter's degrees, salesmen who have paid j not collect its taxe^. The only way
income taxes, and railroad men, are they can be helped is with Federal
223 Texas Counties
Organize; Support
Relief Bond Issue
now having to accept aid from the
Travis County Relief Committee, Mrs.
Elizabeth Gardner, county administra-
tor, reports to the State headquarters.
"These people have not appealed to
us for help, but have been reported to
us by their neighbors," Mrs. Gardner
explained. "We had six such cases in
one day and for the past month there
has been a noticeable increase in this
type of destitute person.
"We were asked to go to the home
of a 'former university instructor, who
was displaced by a man with doctor's J
degree. He and his wife had lived by
coaching, after the wife who had also j
been an assistant instructor, lost her,
position. This year, many teachers at-
tending summer school have not been
paid for a year, or th ir salaries have j
funds, and these will be cut off Sep-
tember 1 unless the State indicates it
needs help by voting the relief bond
amendment."
ZASU PITTS MADE
NERVOUS HANDS
WORLD FAMOUS
CO-STARRED WITH SLIM SUM-
MERVILLE IN "HER FIRST
MATIJ" SUN. & MON.
The true story of ZaSu Pitts' ex-
pressive hands has been revealed by
no less a person than ZaSu Pitts her-
self.
been cut, and cannot pay for coaching.
This couple was living in a bare room,
with no light, water or gas. They
would not accept groceries unless they | t'^Uy ^different-' screen actress wer
could work for them. The man was
Austin, Texas, Aug. 10.—A total of
223 Texas counties are now organized
into complete campaign units for the
support of the proposed constitutional
amendment authorizing the legislature
to issue relief bonds .according to Wil-
liam Strauss of Houston, chairman of
the steering committee directing the
drive. Each county has a campaign
manager, publicity director and man-
agers of the speakers' bureau.
"The response of the Texas news-
papers, especially the weeklies, has
been highly gratifying," said Mr.
Strauss in speaking of the campaign.
"I know the people of Texas. They are
not selfish. They are not heartless.
They will not let women and children
go hungry. When the newspapers of
the state have shown them that hunger
will sweep the state if this amend-
ment is defeated they will vote it over-
whelmingly."
Gasoline Tax Army
Finds Much Money
MASS MEETING
Even before the advent of talking
pictures the lissome hands of this dis-1
eral
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aid already extended their
un-
allowed to rake and clean yards.
"These people have always contrib-
uted to the less foi'tunate through wel-
fare agencies. This year ,with the de-
mands increased a hundred times, the
agencies are having to operate on less
than half of their usual income. And
that means that the children, old peo-
ple and men unable to do heavy labor
jobs provided by the R. F. C. will
starve or go cold unless Texas votes
for this $20,000,000 bond issue to be
voted on August 20th."
talking in a language that all could |
understand. Fluttering all over the i f»'Ployed would have long ago been
screen they unfailingly registered the,'n desperate staits. I hey implored
YES—IT WILL RAIN
TOMORROW- MAYBE!
Austin,
8o, "who,
Address
It's b-tter to be careful a thousand
times than to be killed once.
While I. Francis, of Mills, Calif.,
was away from home, thieves carried
I away his windmill and tower.
Miss Eleanor Kearney, a chorus girl
of Chicago, wha had imbibed too much,
landed in a cell for kicking off a po-
liceman's cap.
Effer Sal
An EFFERVESCENT
Saline Laxative
Corrects Faulty Elimination
and Toxin Poison
Aug. 10.—Josh Hopkins,
because of a rupture, has
to be waited on like a baby" by his
wife, O'l, and suffering from stomach
trouble, has watched anxiously out his
window all spring and summer for the
slightest indication of rain. He lives
in the dryest section of West Texas.
"It'll sure come tomorrow," he smil-
ed wanly at Mary as she propped him
on the pillow. "Then we can plant."
But it didn't The wind blew. Dust
storms swept across the horizon. The
ground on his little farm was bare
and hard as the top soil was wafted
away. '
Mary had been hopeful too but only
she knew of the diminishing supply
of canned fruit and the increasing
difficulty of securing meal for the corn
pone Josh loves so well.
Last week Mary reached the limit
of her resources. She had been hearing
of some aid extended to the poor folks
down on the creek, living in a tent.
"Josh and I have been here a long
time and always did our part with
taxes and things," she reasoned to her-
self. "I'm going to write to the Gover-
nor, because I believe she will help
us."
Cautiously she slipped the ruled
tablet and pencil to the kitchen table
so Josh could not know, and when he
was having his nap she hurried to the
changing moods of their owner, and
did perhaps more than any other one
thing to set her apart as a motion pic-
ture artist.
But in the beginning they were look-
ed upon as a positive handicap, and
only unremitting hard work eventual-
ly transformed them into an asset in-
stead of a liability.
When Miss Pitts did her first mo-
tion picture work, she was eighteen
years old, and was one of the awk-
wardest and gawkiest girls who ever
came out of Kansas. She never knew
what to do with her hands, and the
trouble was vastly magnified when
she got before a camera. She tried to
be nonchalant but was entirely lack-
ing in poise, and suddenly, without
any apparent reason, would find her
hands waving about in all sorts of un-
likely attitudes.
For a long time she tried to control
thesp involuntary calisthenics, until
finally she began to realize that, after
all, they might be turned to good
account.
But the cumulative effect of these
fluttering hands was to put her def-
initely in the comedy class. Erich von
Stroheim was always one of her few
who considered ZaSu a tragedienne,
and in some of his pictures, such as
"Greed" and "The Wedding March,"
she played extremely tragic roles. But
more recently Universal cast Miss
Pitts in a sad role as the mother in
"All Quiet on the Western Front," and
at the first preview of the picture her
appearance was greeted with roars of
laughter, and the sadder she became
the more hilarious became the audi-
ence. Befor^ the picture was released
all these scenes were made over again,
with another actress in the role of the
mother.
Miss Pitts is at the Queen theatre
in "Her First Mate," the boisterously
funny Universal comedy in which she
is co-starred with Slim Summerville.
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those present to use all their influence
to secure adoption of the proposed
amendment.
In discussions it was brought out
that the federal government has sent
$13,000,000 to Texas for relief work
already and that if the state votes the
proposed bond issue and that should
not be enough the federal government
will furnish all other funds needed. It
was stressed that if the issue is de-
feated it will be equivalent to telling
Washington that we do not need fed-
eral aid. This might result in the state
losing several proposed public works
projects.
It was also stressed that the bondf
if issued will never be paid with ad
valorem or property taxes of any kind
on Texas homes, real estate or farms,
and that the total debt would only
amount to 50 cents per year per per-
son.
At the conclusion of the meeting a
resolution was unanimously adopted
calling on the people of Texas to sup-
port the proposed amendment.
Whereas, the Federal Government
has in the recent several months car-
ried the burden of caring for the hun-
gry and destitute of Texas and is at
the present time caring for in excess
of one million two hundred seventy
thousand citizens of this State; and
Whereas, the Federal Government
cannot, will not, and should not be ex-
pected to continue to carry this bur-
den if the people of the Empire State
of Texas are not willing to carry their
just share of this burden, and will
cease to provide the needed funds im-
mediately in the event the people of
Texas do not vote favorably for the
proposed constitutional amendment
authorizing the issuance of emergency
and relief work bonds on August 20th;
and
Whereas^ if the people of the Em-
pire State of Texas do not on August
20th pass this amendment the entire
burden of caring for the hungry and
the destitute of Texas will fall upon
the already overburdened communities
of this State with no possible means
or plan of caring for them; and
Whereas, no people will survive or
ought to survive who do not care for
the hungry and provide for the desti-
tute; and
Whereas, the emergency relief work
as provided for in this proposed bond
amendment is an integral part of the
program of the President of the Unit-
ed States for the rehabilitation of this
country;
Now, therefore, be it resolved that
this meeting, composed of representa-
tive citizens and taxpayers from all
sections of Texas, go on record as
unanimously indorsing the proposed
relief amendment and call upon all
good citizens who have faith in this
State and a Christian regard for their
duty to care for the needy and desti-
tute, to rally to the support of the con-
stitutional amendment on August 20th
to the end that Texas shall not be
found wanting.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 10.—Comptroller
George Sheppard's gasoline tax en-
forcement "army" ef detectives and
auditors, created by the legislature
last March, recovered the record sum
of $300,000 in "missing" gasoline taxes
during June, at an expense of but
$15,000.
This is the gist of a summary of
June activities released to the Texas
Good Roads Association today by J.
W. McReynolds division chief at the
request of the comptroller.
Comptroller Sheppard, elated, saw
in the figures "proof" that if the peo-
ple will help, Texas can save the pre-
| dieted $4,000,000 a year in gas tax-
es heretofore stolen.
"Consider what this means to the
taxpayers," the comptroller said, "It
means that in February, the month
before this new law was passed we
were headed for a $2,500,000 decrease
in annual gas tax revenues, but now
we have wiped out and are moving at
the rate of $1,500,000 increase.
"Here's how: the state's gas tax in-
come in February was $207,415 short
of the same month a year ago, or
nearly 10 per cent. March was almost
as bad. Thousands of cars were not
being used ,and bootleggers were run-
ning wild.
Then this new law, making evasion
a felony, went into effect March 21.
Our staff went to work. In April the
decrease over 1932 was very small, in
May it had been turned into a small
increase. These June figures show we
collected $122,3870 more ga£ taxes in
June, 1932.
The motorist nearly always pays
this tax at the filling station, whether
it's passed on to the state or not;
when it's not, the schools, the bond
and the highways are being robbed.
So is the taxpayer who must make up
the difference. That's why we are
asking the public to look for evaders."
Century of Progress
Outlined by Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Pitman
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Elmore Lewis of Allendale, S. C.,
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nation and its kinship to the progress
and prosperity of the country and its
bearing upon the basic and raw pro-
ducts produced by the agriculturists
of the country. He pictured how, if
and when the canal is completed to
Corpus Christi, the coast lines of the
states affected and especially the coast
of Texas will become the pleasure
stream for the yachts and boats and
small craft of the wealthy of north
and cast. Step by step he carried the
value of the canal project to his hear-
ers, delineating in a convincing way
its advantages and especially the value
to the land owner of having the canal
as a part owner of his possession.
Mr. Miller, after concluding his talk,
was warmly congratulated upon his
masterly grasp of the situation and
assured by many of their hearts co-
operation in the work before the peo-
ple of our county.
Mr. Ed C. Baker, county commis-
sioner and lifelong resident of Mata-
gorda, was the master of ceremonies
at this history-making meeting, which
was so liberally attended by Mata-
gorda citizens and others from Gulf,
Wadsworth, Bay City and Palacios.
In turn he introduced Commissioner
George Harrison, Hon. Jack Barnett,
both of Palacios; Judge A. Harris and
E. O. Taulbee of the right-of-way
work. All these gentlement made
splendid talks and enthusiastically and
most intelligeritly endorsed the move-
ment assuring all of their continued
and necessary co-operation. In prac-
tically ever address made, the con-
dition of the Colorado River, its re-
lationship to the canal and the grave
danger of any failure to dredge a
channel for it to the gulf was stressed.
In this connection and as soon as
Mr. Miller eoncluded his address the
following resolution recently adopted
by the Matagorda Chamber of Com-
merce was presented by H. J. Wil-
kins, engineer in charge of the dredg-
ing at Matagorda. The resolution was
read and placed before the meeting
and unanimously adopted. It will .ac-
cordingly, be sent to Major Marks,
United States engineer at Galveston,
to be sent by him to the authorities
at Washington.
The resolution follows:
"Whereas at a meeting held on this
date at Matagorda, Texas, at which
meeting a majority of the citizens of
said town of Matagorda were present
and participating and which meeting
was presided over by Amos E. Duffy,
presdent of the Chamber of Commerce
of Matagorda, the following resolution
was adopted by an overwhelming
majority, to-wifc:
"Be it resolved that the citizens of
the town of Matagorda, Texas, and
the property owners in said town and
surrounding territory, are in favor of
the extension of the mouth of the
Colorado River so that the same shall
empty directly into the Gulf of Mex-
ico instead of into Matagorda Bay for
the reasons, among others, that the
mouth of said river empties into Mat-
agorda Bay, and is now and will con-
tinue to be a menace to all property
not only in the vicinity of the mouth
of said river but along said river in
Matagorda and Wharton counties, and
by opening said river into the Gulf of
Mexico same will aid and be of bene-
fit to navigation, a* well as sanitary
conditions and industries.
"And be it further -resolved that the
people of Matagorda art; wholehearted;
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pitman returned
last week from Chicago, and report a
very enjoyable trip to the World's
Fair.
Among many enteresting things
they have mentioned are the Hall of
Science, the Electric Building with its
marvelous achievements, the Trans-
portation and Travel Building, dis-
playing the true meaning of 'A Cen-
tury of Progress' from the early mode
of travel to the present-day largest
steam locomotive in the world. The
Hall of States, the Museums, the
Aquariums and the largest fish habch-
eries in the world.
Every nation on the globe was rep-
resented in buildings of their own
country, thus displaying a 'Fair of the
Entire World.'
The Fair Grounds are built along
the water front of Lake Michigan,
some seven and a half miles. Lake
Michigan has an area of three hundred
miles in length and ninety miles wide,
and has a fleet of boats, dirigibles and
seaplanes as an added pleasure for
the visitors. There have been over six
million visitors in the grounds up to
the present time, and the City of Chi-
cago has a population ef three and a
half million people and a net-work of
car lines and transportation facilities
second to none.
The World's Fair is both educational
and entei-taining, from the sky-ride
of Amos 'n' Andy, Ripley's Believe It
or Not, to the highest achievements of
science and art, including the sight-
seeting trips through the city of sky-
scraper buildings and beautiful parks.
The trains, with their unexcelled
speedy and comfortable transportation
are carrying thousands of passengers
daily to and from the Fair Grounds,
and upon arrival in the city you are
greeted cordially by City Officials,
Travelers' Aid Societies and Commit-
tees who cheerfully help you in find-
ing hotel and apartment accommoda-
tions.
Mr. and Mrs. Pitman make special
mention of Mr. Geo. E. Adams of the
Official staff who so graciously assist-
ed them in seeing the high points of
interest in both the Fair and the city.
ly in favor of and will support any and
all moves looking to the betterment
of navigation and the other things
hereinabove mentioned by having the
Colorado River extended so that it
will empty directly into the Gulf of
Mexico instead of into Matagorda
Bay."
With -this the meeting, the most suc-
cessful in recent years, was brought
to a close.—Bay City Tribune.
Animals Keep Sunday
An interesting fact concerning the
lions, tigers and leopards in the New
York Zoo is related by the director of
the park.
Describing the feeding of the var-
ious animals, he states that these big
representatives of the cat family are
fed only red, raw meat, with an oc-
casional (Tash of cod-liver oil. Beef is
generally used, but horse meat is also
given them at intervals. But the inter-
esting thing concerns the day of fast-
ing these animals must undergo once
a week. The director says:
"Sunday is their fast day, and they
know it. On week days just before 2
o'clock the whole cat house livens up.
The tigers pace about the lions stretch
and watch the front of their cages, the
leopards leap over each other and like
as not the pumas start an argument
that may get serious before their
keeper reaches their cage. But 2 o'clock
on Sunday is just 2 p. m„ and passes
with no more attention than any other
hour."
Now the question is, how do these
animals know when Sunday comes?
Can they count the days? There
seems to b« no other explanation; or
if there is the director doesn't give it.
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