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ORANGE. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1927
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HIGH MKPRS
— Wallace Beery
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weeks of drifting under the summer
of
GRANDJURY
NEW SESSION
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rather hard to make
the
work together, the distance
Charles
to
conslderably
Mrs. J
the
After having recessed for a week.
and
will be cnducted by Rev. W
There
cireles today.
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HOME HEATING
GAS TROUBLES
Funeral Service
for Suicide Held
in Orange Today
Kellogg’m iliness dates from a severe
shock on account of th* tragic deth
of her brother-in-law Sam Klogg.
who died of burns receive several
days ago
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nor’s
and
over-
gov-
welming vote to disregard the
ernor’s order.
I the re-
to enforce
child and that the acedint was un-
avoidable'.
mation given detectives here by A. A.
Priec, the girl's father.
ternoon.
Services
the Orange county grand jury
convened this morning.
Awarded Damages
In Steel Injury
but Lost Another
1H eTTects nt th* Calcameu river
bridge betas out at Lake Charlee are
manitesuog tthemmeives here by mow-
her Sewn and curtanling tramtie over
t)fia mection nt the Old Spanish Trail.
Bedoit Succumbs
to' Long Illness
SEA CANNIBALS
REVEALED FROM
FLOATING SHIP
Tomighe •
ctondy with
eo
dolt, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and
sister who now lives in the state
Ohio.
Mostly Imaginary, Says
Oklahoma City •
Gas Man
Texas City Bank Theft
Suspects Thought
In Houston
Reds Threaten Troops
If Used Against
Pickets
Former Business Men of
Orange Relieved of
Responsibility
Reported Today or
Thursday
Bridge Disaster
at Lake Charles
Slowing Traffic
mhs. KRAGG nx
Mrs. John Kellogg was reported as
being in a critical condition at her
it was underetood that the grand
jury would probably report another
batch of bills of indictments either
today or tomorrow.
dmws but an compared to whae It
waz before the bridge was wrecked.
Parties reaching here last night
arouna 10 o’cioek mid that they left
' Lake Chartes at 4 o’clock in the ar-
ust
Active Organizations
Meet to Prepare
Schedule
airplane from Detroit to Los Ange-
les, left her. at 9 a m today for E!
B. S.
the
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ULLETINS
from her home. He is at liberty un-
der $1000 bond,\according to infor-
Chest Slogan
that It h
E==THE Orange
horn* in West Orange tcny.
This threw
uproar and i
“Pearce shot me, but bless his heart, he didn’t
intend to,” were the feeble words mumbled by Mrs.
Lillie Bloodsworth regarding the man who sent a
bullet through her body and then fired another bullet
through his own head, as she lay on her bed at the
hospital today.
“They tell me Pearce is getting along alright and I
hope he is,’’’hope he is,” the woman whispered as she
were
They
COLD WAVE ISN
MOVING EAST New Indictments May be
his threat to use all
Iekerson, associate pastor of
First Presbyterian church.
•un for the ship and its
the meeting Into an
Austin. as commis-
conducted by Rev
within an egg, each with its |
shell but the smaller egg serving
larger in lieu of a yolk A prev
offering of the some hen had’
eggs in one shell but the freak
broken before its construction
suspected.
hospital here lte Tuesday. (
Loucks reported to police h*
driving the car which struck
Soon, to
empty.
There i
ternoon. The ferries both at Orange
and Lake Charles were crowded. It
was stated.
DALLAS, Nov.
day forenoon. ,
The jury had been out on the'.
• ease for about 24 hours when “a ver-- and Raymond Hatton, movie coneg
diet was rendered. • dans flying in a Ford-three-motored
IM CL A PF FWW DEF
UN onAFE GIVENSTATE I, c -
INMINEWAR Woman Says of
-zoit ..y jol
a German ambassador to the United
of States it was learned in diplomatic
JANSAS CITY. Nov 2—A cold
wave originating in the Rocky moun-
tain slates. moved eastward today
after breaking up geveral weeks of
Fhi"weight-reductng machine, exhibited during the recent electrical
show in New York, is said to be like the one President Coolidge has
just installed in the White House gymnasiuhm. Miss Cura Stephens (left)
and Beth Milton of the Follies, are pictured demonstrating it.
STOCK HOLDERS
In a trial in district court yester-
day afternoon D. Mossiker and Good-
man Aronson, former merchants of
Orange but now of Dallas, were re-
lieved of responsibility of stock as-
nessments or the ’ Guaranty Bond
Rank & Trust compnny, a defunct
concern.
A snit was brought against them
demand that picketing stop
twelve, but how soen the half erased
men succumbed to starvation may
never be known Th* bodie of two
and the bones of eight fill in the
story of th* voyage of death The
bther two perhaps chos drowning
as an alternative to maddening star-
vation.
stoner of hanking of Texas, to re-
cover fur stock assessments.
Testimony offered was to the af-
fect that both Mosalker and Aron-
son had transferred thelr stock to
W, W. MeGarr, who was cashier of
_ the now defunct bank, a year prior
to the time when the bank was
' closed.o, , ,
in the case of C, O. Austin vs
Asa Noguess- suit on note. in behalf
of th* Guaranty Bond Bank & Trust
conipany, tried In district court here
yesterday, the jur found_in favor of
the defendant oft that phase of con-
tention, wherein the plaintiff had de-
nf*d signing the mortgage including
reference to all cattle and the in-
crease owned at that time by the de-
fendant, Asa Noguess. However, the
court ruled a foreclosure judgment
’as no report submitted
moaned in pain from the
bullet that ploughed its
way through her abdominal
cavity. There are no hopes
entertained for the wo-
man’s recovery.
“The girls that know me come
in here and cry and then go oM
out," the woman said again, as a
friend stroked her forehead in an
efort to comfort her. “But there
ain't no use to cry about it; of
course, it's awful, but it can't be
helped," she anid.
apprrfently followed long
DALIAF, Nov. t.— "Nested eggs"
and because of the fact are the newest poultry prouct. Mrs.
t * ■ “ *i h W. A. Switt of Cleburne brought to
the office of the News here anjegg
GERMA ENVOY
BERLIN, Nov. 2.—Dr. Frederick
Wilhelm von Brittwitz-Gafron, coun-
cillor of the German embasy at
Ko me.has been confirmed as succes-
sor to Baron, Ago von Maltzan, late
“I was wtandmg in tbe mom and all
at once Pearce pres ned his pistol
against my side and somehow pulled
the trigger. I sereamed and told
him that he had shot me. He said,
O, did I?' I fell back on the bed
and Pierce snid, "if I've shot you.
here I go with you and pulled the
trigger."
"Oh, T hope the poor fellow gets
along all right," she continued as
she begged for a smoke, which was
denied her 'by attendants.
While manifesting anxiety about
the man who had dcubtlems fatally
shot her, the woman remembered 1
her father, Oliver Bloodsworth, of
Starks, La. She wanted to know if
he had come andahe was told that
her brother, Luther Bloodsworth had
done after him.
"I‘m so proud that papa’s going to
come to see me." she said.
Luther Bloodswarth, of Beaumont,
read the newspaper recount of the
shooting in Beaumont where he was
employed by the Gulf Pipe Line com- j
pnny, and hnstened to her. He said
that Lilli* had been married, but
that she and her husband were sep-
arated about seven years ago and
that she had taken her maiden name
bac k
Paso They arrived in Dallae at 5
p. m. Tuesday.
POKGERY
DEL Ri, Not.’ 2.Edb‘Aell
home unknown hers, was dven.a
three year penitentiary sentence here
today for forgery The ofenscharg-
ed Involved a check for $6 25 using
the name of a business wome" here.
Informed of the minors action.
Governor Adams announced that if
picketing becomes general again the
state would step in to assure ef-
fective patrol of mine pre perties. He
reiterated his statement that picket-
ing was illegal and that the state
would nut tolerate breaking the law.
Deputy Talks
Mose Granger, who has heen rat
in the $100,000 elas of nil men, be-
cause* <>f his extensive eil land and
royalty holdings and who is known
as a peace officer rather, extensively,
went to the hospital to have his
wound attended to. He received a
bullet wound in the right arm in the
enactment c f the double tragedy, the
indications being that th* first shot
fred by Merriman at the Bloods-
w rth woman struck him, after pass-
ing through her body.
Granger said this.morning that he
was entering the room where Merri-
man and Mrs. Bloodsworth were at
her home, at 1012 Front street, and
that as he pulled the screen door
open with his left hand, the right
hand being laid across his body. Mer-
riman fired, the bullet striking the
woman ae she stood between the
bed and door In the room and then
strek him.
He heard the woman exclaim,
"You’ve shot me" and at that me-
—
resulted in nn
stolen from Hugh Banner of Hous-
ton Runner reported the car was
stolen from in front of- the Phaza ho-
tel about 9 p. m on October 27.
Roofing tacks, similar to those
thrown out of the bandit cr ot de-
the water casks were
HOUSTON, Nov. 2 —The search for
two bandits, who held up and robbed
the First National hank of Texas City
of 12SOO Tuesday afternoon shifted
to Houston Wednesday when the
bandit car was found near the Union
railroad station on Texas avenue by
Motorcycle Officers Davis and Tay-
lor.
Whether the robbers are still in
He uston or caught a train from the
statin wna puzzling police. The ban-
dits entered the city with the car
despite the police patrol on all roads
leading into Houston.
was identified as one
The deceased who conducted a
tailorshop on Market and Division
streets for the peat several years, is
survived by one eon, Henry Bedoit,
of Mobile, Ala.; a brother. Henry Be-
~W, K. Dickerson, associate pastor of
the Lutcher Memorial Presbyterian
« hurch. Interment was in Evergreen
cemetery. (Inder the drection of
Ortmeyer A Son. funeral directors.
Besides his parents. the deceased
leaves l*o brothers, M. E. Merriman
of Slagle,. La.; Steve Cleveland of
Vidor; seven sisters, Misses H. B.
Brewer, Beaumont; Mrs. If. E. Har-
vey. Galveston: Mrs. J. W. Weaver,
Ft. Worth: Mrs. H. C. Myers, Mri
Frank Poland, Mr. Fdgar Willey
and Min Lolloe Cleveland of Orange.
Funeral services for Pierce Merri-
man. 38, who ended his own life by
firing a bullet through his head at
2 20 yesterday afternoonq. were held
from the residence of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs T. H. Merriman. at
408 Moss street at 2 o’clock. this at-
state highway division engineer of
Fort Worth. i
Avo VICTIM
DALLAS, Nov. J — Robert Poole
Funicane, two-year-old son of Mr.
And Mrs. W. L. Funicane. wm struck
by an automoblle Monday and will
be buried Wednesday. He died at a
his order; he was hooted down. Call-
ing attention to offers of Governor
Adams to call meetings of opertors
and representative miners met sim-
ilar treatment.
••■Ignore the promises of capitalis-
tic Governor Adams," shouted Kris-
ten Svanum, strike leader, who was
"releaned from jail yesterday. ‘The
I. W. W. is being double -crossed at
every turn of the road. Promises
are made only to be broken. We
have won this strike but our efforts
have been in vain if we stop pick-
eting now," Svanum added.
lay pursuing automobiles.
also correspond to tucks thrown out
by the robbers who fled after at-
temnpting to hold up the North Ft/
Worth Stock Exchange bank a month
ago, leading Detective Chief W. F.
Kessler to believe the same men
planned both holdups.
The Norh Fort Worth bank rob-
bery failed when one of the holdup
men accidentally discharged his pis-
tol and sounded an alarm The rob-
bers became frightened and ran with-
out getting any money. Tacks were
thrown from the back of the fleeing
car, Just as they were In ths Texas
4 ’tty robhery.
ment Granger said that he darted t~e
back on the porch and hrd the
other shot. He sld that Mn. Ede
McOee, who accompanied him to the
hospital, had seen Merriman when
he shot himseif, however, the wo- <
man did not show a disposition to
rehearse what sho saw when quez- d
tioned by a reporter. Granger left
the prmises where the shooting oc- J
curved. Immediately, as h* feared
that he was badly wounded at the
time.
In the dining room of the horn
which wan the scene at the traged», —
the table had been met with plates > S
■ nd food for atx, accordine to om-
cers, 5 ■ "a"
An examination of Merriman’a
reveqled that both bantu were !
powder hurned and that there 1
mall powder burn npot • th
trance of tha bullet wound JuMi
the left nr*- The bum« n
downward, remind out at tha
of the Stall on Iha gtunt manl
heed , > F ' . ,
KINAP amL
FORT WORTH, Nov, 2—Pol
today were nearchine for Voni
Price, 14 who almeppeared from h
home in Amartiio on October 4, a
U believed to be in Fort Worth.
A mat was arrestea in Amarli
and cherged with kidnappine in co
nection with • the eiris departa
the woman tola how it Mpp
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash . Nov.
2.—Grim evidence of starvation,
death and canniblism on the high
seas has been found here on th
derelict Japanese fishing schooner
which drifted 4000 miles acrons the
Pacific ocean.
Picked' up of shore by a passing
llper and brought t Port Townsend
yesterday, the 2 5- foot craft bore the
lifeless bodies of two Japanese nea-
yhen and the blenched bones of eight
bthere all hng dead.
A rude ship's'"log" painted in nn-
tive Id lograms nn a thin cedar board
in the cabin of the vessel revealed
the tragedy that rode at the helm
of the three-masted boat on Itf aim-
less journey of eleven monthcacross
the Pacifie.
Motor trouble soon developed ami
the craft wan carried by current and
strm farther and farther o sen
while the men worked tirelessly but
In vain to repair the engine.- The
want rice supply dwindied as the
uneventful days,of drifting and wait-
ing went hj On March 6, three
months after the start of the voy-
age. th* last grain of rice was gone
OMAN, DEPUTY GIVE STORY OF SHOOTI
m' ram * “ em aQj ‛egma «d dea dgp u 1 ' ' - ———
BRIDGE JUBILEE
PROGRAM WORK Like the Machine Coolidge Uses
raw wEDDIG
noLrwooD, Callt, Nov. 2—
UM Murphy, film actrem ana lend-
Ins women for Mont. Blow an-
moumeed today that mhe wouta be
marrted MU month to Mervyn Le-
W. jn« mereen directot. .
when the grand jury adjourned last
week. Quite a number of witnesses
summoned for the grand jury were
waiting in the court house lobby
thia morning.
Hince there are two ferries en-
RAP HIWAY BOARD
DALLAS, Nov. 2.—Charges that
state highway offielals were “playing
politics" were mads here today by
memhera at the co unty commission-
DENVER. Colo.. Nov. 2.—Indus-
trial Workers of the Wcrld today
challenged Governor W. H. Adams
to carry out his threat of state in-
terference in the Colorado coal strike
by voting to resume picketing after
conforming for a day to his decree
that sueh -aetivities must stop.
Led by strikers shouting “tn hell
with martial law'" and ."kill the guy
who don’t want to picket," 400 mi-
ners in a riotous meeting at Walsen-
burg I. W. W. headquarters, last
night voted to picket mines in south-
ern Colorado again today.
When the chairman of the meet-
ing called attention to the gover-
AIK MAIL
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 2.—El Con-
tinental. Spanish language newspa-
per. quotes Cosmee Hinojosa, Mex-
ico’s general postmaster, today as
announcing that air mail and pas-
senger service win he inaugurated
next January between Mexico City
Vera Cruz, Progregso nnd the Amer-
lean border.
unusually warm weather in
nirth west and southwest.
Thermometers in Kansas
western Missouri stood tn the upper
thirties this morning, a drop of
more than 30 degrees from yester-
days maximum Snow flurries and
rain were reported from the Da-
kotas to northerr Oklahoma.
Th* drop in temperature which in-
terrupts growth of second crops of
fruit at many oouthweat points, start-
ed thousand* ot ducks and geene on
a delayed southward migration.
J. J. Bedoit, 44, died at the Fran-
era Ann Luther hospital at 9:15
this morning after nn illness of nev-
eral months.
The funeral will be held from the
Ortineyer A Hon funeral parlors at
4 o’clock this afternoon Services
A verdict in the case of T. E. El-
lis vs. the U. S. Fidelity A Guaranty
Insurance company. In a suit to re-
cover damages in the sum of $3600
for alleged injuries sustained while
employed by the Orange Car A Steel
comnpanp, was brought in in district
court yesterday afternoon.
The Jury gave th* P taint i judg-
ment for $1400, but found against
him in another phase of the verdict
having to do with answering ques-
tiona involved regarding the alleged
injuries This dase was tried Mon-
With only a week available in
which to complete arrangements for
celebration of one of the greatest
events in Orange's civic history—for-
mal opening and dedication of the
new million dollar "Sabine river
bridge—items in the celebration
plans were rapidly shaping today
for an historic jubilee on Armistice
day to commemorate the occasion.
Matters pertaining to a definite
program were to reach some nature
of a climax in the chamber of com-
merce hall this evening at 7:30
o’clock when there .will be held a
special called meeting of chamber of
commerce members, retail merchants
association, American Legion and
an other citizens who are interested
in--Mirg in promoting the success
of the big venture.
Tonights meeting was to be the
first concrete evidence cf joint en-
deavor to perfect program plans. Sev-
eral weeks have been spent In pre-
liminary committee meetings of Vin-
ton, Lake Charles and Orange dU-
gene and in compiling a list of inyi-
fations which have now been sent
to nenry 1000 national and state per-
nonages of both Texas and Louisiana.,
The way was paved for a smooth
working celebration of the bridge
opening with the recent statement
from Governor Simpson, of Iouis-
ianh, that he would lend his offie ial
support to the end that the Louisiana’
side of the bridge road dump be
completed and hasten the Gow of
traffic over this important ink of
the Old Spanish Trail.
Previous to Governor Simpson's
announcement, delays in program
formation have been charged to the
uncertainty of road work on the
other side of the span.
Orange will tenight lay plana for
bridge jubilee entertainment as host
to several thousand visitors. .The
meeting is expected to result in een-
trail xing committee work and a
complete program may soon be an-
nounced.
HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 2. — En-
trance of gas utilities Into the house
heating field has been accompanied
by many trials and tribulations, J.
W. Duvall of the Oklahoma Gas and
Electric company. Oklahoma City,
told delegates to the southwest divi-
sion, natural gas department of the
National Gas association, at its con-
vention here today.
It was the principal address on
the program and discussed house
heating with gas. Mr. Duvall's con-
clusion was, however, that “the
small home owner need not suffer
today for the lack of satisfactory
heating equipment, fcr never in the
history of the gas appliance business
has there been such a wealth of well
designed and efficient heating equip-
ment, even though the home owner
had experienced difficulties In the
beginning, due,* Duvall thought,
somewhat to faulty installation.
In the conversion of coal equip-
ment to gas, Duvall thought it could
be better handled by the utilities
than by plumbns, who "iden of a
ccnversion job sometimes was to
place a aheap -gas burger in the
fire door of the coal equipment in
such a manner that it could read-
ily he removed for coal burning."
Discussing the continuity of gas
supply, Duvall asserted it is Gwaya
upmost in the public mind. "It ap-
pears to be the general opinion," he
to|d delegates, "that when, natural
gas is gone, gas designed heating
plants will no longer be useful. Of
course, he said, such would be the
case if the natural km industry was
not looking further into the future
than thelfe,ofnaturat gar it hr
reasonable to "expect, he said, that
no community of 10,000 or more in-
habitants will be without manufac-
tured gas when natural gas passes.
In this section of the country, where
millions of dollars have been invest-
ed in gas transmission lines, it is
reasonable to suppose that these
lines will be used for the transmis-
sion of manufactured gais when the
proper time arrives. Th* gas—will
be manufactured at points along
these transmission lines where eco-
nomic conditions warrant.
Another matter which had disturb-
ed the public, th* speaker sold, was
periodic interruptic ns on the flow of
gas. Duvall termed them annoying
but th* inconvenience, he thought,
was more imaginary than real.
Duvall insisted that "gas is the
ideal and ultimate fuel Tor house
heating because it possesses th* es-
sential characteristics of an ideal
fuel to a much greater degree than
either solid or liquid fuel and de-
clared ft is "the opinion of the gas
industry that molution of the gas
heaing problems, euch n» they are.
Is in better built homes, well inku
later, because such construction r*
du*ea th* maximum hourly demand
on the distributing system, places gas
for house heating withi a teach of
the average home owner and. last
but not least, helps to cnserve the
natural resources of this country.
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