•0 _■,..■ traffic volume year in history and the highest op- SV Bnmmsuttle IfrralO erating efficiency and economy ever attained. THE FIRE WORSHIPER l A reminder that the bus companies operating In July 4, 1892 _Eatabliahed 48 states have not lessened the freight earnings of the Entered u second-class matter In the Postofflc® rail systems of the republic. Prophets of pessimism Brownsville, Texas. in the not remote past predicted that the railways would be out of business and • THE E^OWNSVILLE HERALD PUBLISHING put by freight passeng- er bus lines. Well, the offilcal figures demonstrate COMPANY that the prophets of pessimism are prophets of bunk Subscription Rates—Dally and Sunday (7 Issues) One Year . $9.00 Where Prohobition Prohibits Six Months .$4.50 Federal Judge Duval West of the United States dis- Three Months.$2.25 trict court gave Romero Domingues, who pleaded One Month... .75 guilty to charges of having violated the prohibition laws, a sentence of five years in the federal peni- MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tentiary in Leavenworth and a fine of $500. This was The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use the heaviest penalty ever Inflicted in a liquor case In for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or the western district of Texas. Records show that not otherwise credited In this paper, and also the Romero had appeared before Judge West four times local news published herein. and that he had served a year and a day in Leaven- worth in 1927 on a narcotic charge conviction. This Harlingen Office. Reese-Wil-Mond Hotel, Phone 1020. should hold Romero for a while. TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE fr National Advertising Representatives Dallas. Texas, 512 Mercantile Bank Building. The Once Over Kansas 306 Coca Cola City. Mo., Building. By a L PHILLIPS Chicago. 111.. Association Building. — Avenue. New York, 350 Madison DABLYN CRYMES PROBES A BIG ROBBERY 502 Star St. Louis. Building. (Copyright 1929, by The Associated Newspapers.) Room 1015 New Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal., Orpheum Dablyn Crymes, the Great Detective, has been In- 846 S. Broadway. vestigating that New York banquet hold-up In which, San 318 Kohl Francisco, Cal., Building. according to the police, seven gunmen invaded a res- taurant and robbed all the guests lor no other pur- Under the Big Dome pose than to get from a Chicago underworld char- acter a murder contract carried on his The Gov. Moody has let it be known that the legislature person. Chicago man was a guest at the banquet and. accord- Will be convened in special session on Jan. 20 and on ing to the strange story, the contract he carried that the hopper will begin Its grinding. day legislative guaranteed the killing of two men for $20,000 and a within Subjects submitted: First, to locate prison was signed by a certain “vegetable king.** 20 miles of Austin. Second, to limit fees of county • • • • officers to $12,500 maximum. Third, to cancel Travis “I have found," report* Dablyn, “that the Chicago Lien a contract but a diary and tenant—listen, please!'* county’s courthouse lease. man carried not only docu- some eleven pounds of other incriminating nr.rtu imo rutai: to the members of the capltol press one gave him a i;". k nod and According the of the Lieutenant R$x Dallard and | ments." He then produced following copy Dr. ! clutching her letter in be laid before the big firmly gang, whether other subjects may Frank Gordon, both in love with diary: i both hands hurried out on her gessibn has not been disclosed but they quote the on International Carrot King and Patricia Blair, heiress and Red Monday—Called way back to her friends, stopping a New Year was in his best mood and wanted Cross driver, follow her to Paris governor as having said he had made had Jolly chat. He only to her- when long enough acquaint tried to him to let the contract they receive news of her kid- tne work of the session. four men killed. I get : self with the letter's resolution to limit ; naping. Previously, Patricia had contents. It but he insisted on bids. at my price, competitive a was after shq had read the letter A maximum of $12,500 “including fees should partially identified wounded avia- salary with Leek and Lima Bean Tuesday—Lunched tor. suffering from aphasia, as her that she began to realize in full be to office holders in the larger coun- acceptable Baron, who had written in asking me to quote prices twin brother, Jimmy, but Dallard I something of the debt cf gratitude ties. Texans their governor $4000 a year. They did not and Gordon, together with Nurse she owed those pay on bumping off six adults whose faces they I friends. Had it not court $8000. at Margery Lynne, believe the real been for them she knew’ now that pay their high judges like. I bid $10,000 each. He wanted them killed brother to be another aphasia vic- she would, in all have Mayor James J. Walker of New York had his sal- Finally compromised probability, the rate of three for $25,000. tim, who is spirited away from a ! returned to New York the un- from a year to $40,000. Know- for ary increased $25,000 to do the entire six killings within ten days $52,- Paris hospital. They fear a plot to suspecting tool of an infamous the game he handed the $15,000 in- rob the twins of their ing how to play 000 or money refunded. fortune. This scoundrel's plot to rob her twin seven charitable organizations of the city fear is borne out when Herbert brother of his crease to Wednesday—Nothing important. Killed a couple patrimony. I say 'please?” she asked. in length and said to be the long- 'Maxwell, the twins’ guardian, ar- At the thought of Louisiana Pair Pulls of New York. Scallion Car under Contract Jimmy, help- "Uhm—I got you. Pat!” said the of onion merchants for rives to take the fake Jimmv back less in mind and at the est In the state, has been establish- would make them- mercy right Irish soldier, smartly—because he Texans who are county officers iK'TO D to New York Follows Fast One in Texas the finding then of Herbert Maxwell, the man couldn’t, just then, to have saved ed along with others which will selves with taxpayers by handing the differ- 6789-B with of Pat and her man and popular Thursday—Busy all day on Contract relating to her she had alwals half distrusted, her his life, think of else to PARIS, Jan. 9—UP)—A three anything serve a total of more than and $12,500 a year to the worthy well friends the story of the Blair ! heart sank What had an 1,000 ence between $4000 Cucumber Magnate and Contract 4578-C with happened to say. It was odd. too, considering the woman driving automobile bear- fortune. I Jimmy? Would Maxwell who have not charities In their respective communities. Potato Pot»n- dare—? eloquence he had used in talking ing a Louisiana license stop- people previously known Yellow TUmip and Mashed • NOW GO ON WITH plate THE STORY) She shuddered. For ten million to this same a shart time had deliveries. a Texas is expected to exist on $4000 girl only off in Paris to dally If governor tate. dollars men—some she ped long enough men, knew, before that evening The route a sheriff or a clerk or a prosecuting old con- a long extends past the a year, why not Friday—Very dull. Seven murders under CHAPTER 13 would commit : ny crime. She work worthless check trick, em- the Prom ‘‘Just listen till I read ye what etc. Why the rank discrimination in the deep silence that fol- thrust the dread from a “7 and 11” combination Spring community. attorney, tract. No new business. possibility the to:. is to say for himself!” ploying executive lowed his question. Dillard her mind and hurried on. matter of salary between that of the chief Cauliflower King might waved the of- three times in a row for a total of Saturday-—In court on suit against have gained the cried the girl. She of a Impression that She found them. Dr. Gordon. of a commonwealth like Texas and the holder flat rate for ficial looking envelope. “It’s what $33. The was Identical for violation of contract. He accepted suggestions were things that sim- Lieutenant Dallard and Margery procedure Let mm frame year Christmas of the they call ‘the darb.’ whatever that office regardless of the population to unless given ply did not exist. I' seemed the two men in each case. The woman entered county taking rival for a ride, but refused pay almost Lynne, and the one cards and as if his Is.” she added as she drew out the photographs- or its wealth? summary of the facts woman who. deep In her heart, a store, a dairy office, and a fuel county a discount for cash. inclosed closely written sheet. “So the voters of Texas may come concerning Patricia Blairs kidnap- Patricia Blair instinctively knew company, purchasing merchandise, Peri laps some day • • • • lend an ear!” Co. ing had fairly stunned his listen- were her life's best friends. at a certain ad- Valley Office Supply and do to all concerned. They did than she milk for delivery out of their trance Justice ers. It They better.even 1 The following postal, taken from a visiting gunman, was that young woman her- were where she had left them, in tain address, and a stove to an Corner Elizabeth and Thirteenth self asked.