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Published in Texas City. A Leading Gulf Port, Ideally Situated for Industries
(Successor to the Texas City Mainland Sun)
VOLUME 14, NO. 46
(Successor to the Texas City Mainland Sun)
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1929
$2.00 Per Year.
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man will be loyal to all three.
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His Death by Drowning FOR MARLAND
CONFERENCE IS
WELL ATTENDED
CREATE A BOOM OUR FIRST GAME
SAYS MERCHANT HERESATURDAY
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Preparatory to the handling
approximately 1,500,000 barrels
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meeting a • report will be made on
the progress of the Chamber mem-
bership campaign which is in full
•force just now and which will come
to an end at the next regular meet-
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tanks are
painted.
Crude oil
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County Entomologist
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visiting her folks.
Two Hundred Meth-
odists Spend Two
Days in City
Famous Houston Vo-
calists Will Appear
at Auditorium
Marland May Merge
With Continental
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Puts Nev/ Roof
On Oil Tanks
All Four Trustees Re-
turned to Office By
Electorate
Cleaners Tangle With
Railroaders in
First Tilt
Boats Warned of
Floating Pipe Line
SUGAR CARGO COMING;
COTTONSEED TO GO
Prosperity Within Our
Power Says Louis
Keller
RAILROAD APPOINTS
NEW GENERAL AGENT
Jehovah your God is gra-
cious and merciful.
2 Chron. 30:9
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Two-Minute Sermon
By REV. GEORGE HENRY
Bob and Jim Armstrong spent
the week here with their parents,
Mr and Mrs. Oscar Armstrong. Bob
is a Junior at A. and M. College and
Ji mwill graduate from Dallas Cen-
tral High School this year.
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S. M. U. Coach to Be Speaker
Ray Morrison, S. M. U. athletic
head will be the principal speaker
at the YMCA in Galveston April
19 when the Ambassadors and other
teams and individuals are officially
awarded the county trophies won.
at basketball the past season. Mr.
Morrison is a former All-American
quarterback, and is famous for the
14-13 score which SMU registered
against the Army last fall.
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The local ball park will be
cleaned they will be
The total population on tenant
farms in Texas is about 1,250,000.
On owned farms it is 862,000.
for coastwise ship-
Sounds like a regular town
now.
If you don’t think so then
you didn’t hear the first try-
out of the new city fire siren
Saturday afternoon.
For several minutes citizens
didn’t know the cause of the
alarm but it was easy to tell
that it was a signal of distress
of some kind.
However, the siren blowing
of Saturday meant nothing
other than that P. J. Hayes of
the Texas-Louisiana power
company and city officials
were anxious to learn how the
siren sounded and whether
it could be heard by the en-
tire city.
No doubt about it being
heard—they heard it in La
• Marque—and hereafter when
there’s a fire there’ll be no
excuse for everybody turning
out if they want to go.
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Ivan Russell Boles, son of Mr. and
Mrs. O. M. Eoles of Texas City
Heights, was drowned shortly after
4 o’clock Friday afternoon while
learning to swim in the artificial
lake just west of the turn to the
A dispatch Thursday from New
York said that a merger of the Con-
tinental Oil Company of Denver
and Marland Oil Company of Pon-
ca City, Okla., would be announced
in the next few days.
A holding company to acquire
both companies is believed to be
the plan favored by directors of
both companies, with the possibility
that Continental’s name will be
taken by the new company.
Continental, a former Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey subsi-
diary, operates principally in the
Rocky states, although it has prop-
erties in Texas, California and the
mid continent. Marland recently
acquired Prudential Refining Com-
pany of Baltimore, giving it market-
ing and refining facilities for the
first time on the east coast.
J. P. Morgan & Co. interests are
bankers for the Marland Company.
LOYALTY ’
There are in the world today, as always, three great institutions:
the home, the state, and the church. The first is the institution of
Russell D. Harlow has left for
Two vessels are due here
soon to discharge and deliver
valuable cargoes.
On Saturday the Steamship
Sheaflance is due at this port
from Cuba with the largest
cargo of raw sugar brought
here this season. It is for the
account of the Texas Sugar
Refining Corporation.
On Monday the Tankers
Texas City Terminals Inc.,
expect the arrival of the
Steamer Koolmotor to take
on the sixth cargo of cotton-
seed products consigned to a
Long Island point. The cot-
tonseed has been coming in
here in tank cars for some
weeks. The Tankers company
expects to handle nine car-
goes of cottonseed products
this season.
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ment to the Marland refinery at
Baltimore, Md., will be pumped in
here via pipe line for storage. It
will remain in storage for longer
periods than in the past, it is de-
clared.
The quantity of crude scheduled
to be handled through Texas City
is fairly large.
Storm Halts Undertaker
H. B. Emken, returning from
Houston at midnight Wednesday,
was forced to seek selter as Genoa
on account of the terrific blow. He
saw several cars drowned out by
the rain and the roof blown off a
touring car. The lightning was so
severe and continuous the road
could be seen for miles.
company,
scene as
the city
Many times in millions of homes,
thousands of cities and many coun-
tries is deeply rooted a thought, a
wish, a hope for a boom. Just a
boom, no matter what kind, just an
ordinary common boom.
So there is a thought, a wish, a
hope for this mysterious something
here in our little town, too.
I believe that the real meaning of
this word is: Getting everything
for nothing or less, in an awful
hurry. In such a hurry that we
can’t have any.time whatever, even
to move our little finger to help the
coming along.
I think the first boom in the
world happened thousands of years
The Galveston District Methodist
conference opened fast Thursday
morning with a devotional exercise
led by Rev. W. F. Andrews of
Huntsville, Texas, followed by an
address of welcome by the Mayor,
which was responded to by Rev. Ira
F. Key, presiding elder. The rest
of the morning was given to reports
from the preachers of the district,
and a sermon by Dr. C. C. Seluman,
president of S. M. U. at Dallas. The
conference adjourned at 12:30 for
lunch served at the Central church,
by the W. M. S.
The afternoon session convened
at 1:30 for routine business. At 3
p. m. the conference adjourned for
a trip over the city and inspection
of the industries embracing a visit
through the Sugar Refinery and a
boat excursion, the boat being fur-
nished by the Terminal Railway
company, through the courtesy of
the general manager, H. J.. Mikeska.
Rev. Leon Picone, of Galveston,
preached Thursday night. Friday
morning the conference convened
at 8:30 for a business session. The
various interests of the church,
such as hospitals, schools, missions,
etc., were presented by the follow-
ing: Dr. D. S. Hotchkins, Dr. W.
F. Andrews, Dr. C. C. Selecman and
Rev. W. W. Watts. Superannuate
Endowment was requested by Dr.
J. W. Mills and the orphanage by
Rev. J. W. Gray of Waco.
Bishop Sam R. Hay closed the
conference with a message at the
noon hour followed by a fish dinner
for all delegates and visitors.
Approximately 200 delegates and
visitors were entertained and were
loud in their praise of the church,
the pastor, C. L. Williams, and the
people of Texas City for their hos-
pitality.
Wharton was chosen for the next
conference.
City Engineer H. O. Wray’s plans
have been accepted by the State
Highway commission for the three-
block stretch of paving to connect
the end of the Texas City-Galves-
ton cut-off road with the Sixth
street paving. The cost of paving
this three block strip will be paid
by Texas City.
It will be included in the state’s
advertising for bids in the cut-off
project so that the same contractor
who builds the 3.7 mile stretch can
build the three-block strip, thus
saving money and time and provid-
ing a fully paved concrete highway
from Sixth and Texas Avenue to
the Y. The state will receive bids
on the cut-off road until April 24.
boy out of the water and on the
bank. He had been in the water, it
is said, one and one half hours.
Moles had turhed a deathly blue
color and was stiff all over. Rigor
mortis had set in, said Dr. Scott.
There was no heart action. He had
a handkerchief tied over his nose
and mouth when discovered. The
body was placed in H. B. Emken’s
ambulance and brought to Emken’s
undertaking parlors.
According to his boy friends young
Boles was just learning to swim.
His buddy, Cleveland Howard, had
advised him never to go in the lake
alone as it was too deep for him
to navigate.
The Boles family came here two
years ago from St. Paul, Kansas, to
establish their home after two or
three previous visits, the climate
appealing to them. Young Ivan
cw ned a beautiful Shetland pony
and was often to be seen riding up
Sixth street. He is declared to have
evidenced unusual aptitude as a
toolmaker, he having a tool shop in
his back yard.
It is reported this week that Hor_
ton& Horton intend to fence the
property where the drowning took
place to prevent similar occurrences.
Petroleum Conversion
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scene of the first pre-season prac-
tice game Sunday afternoon at 3
o’clock when the flashy Texas City
Cleaners tangle bats with the Ter-
minal Railway aggregation, last
year’s city league champs. While
this affray will not be an official
league game, both teams will be out
for blood and the local diamond
fans may well expect a real exhi-
bition of baseball.
The Railroaders, with practically
all of last year’s championship
team on the field, seem to be quite
confident that they will start the
season by taking the Cleaners into
camp. Willie Smith, whose hurling
was responsible for the Terminal’s
success in the league last year, will
probably start on the mound, and
Joe Gay, husky backstop, will do the
receiving. This combination has
dealt lots of misery to the opposing
teams. Silent Swede Sandberg will
be on hand to snatch long flies out
in center field.
The Cleaners have an entirely
new team with lots of new ma-
terial that looks extremely good in
practice in addition to such well-
known old-timers as Waggoner,
Ayers, Baublewsky, Wood, McAuley
and Battestin. The new recruits in-
clude Allan, Southern, Elroy, Wil-
let, Browton, Roach and C. Divine,
a snappy, fast-moving bunch of
collegiate and semi-pro players, all
of them young, hustling and full
of pep. It will be a treat to see
these youngsters in action against
the strong Terminals.
Ayers, Cleaners’ pitching ace, will
probably start the game, with Elroy
right-hander, and Chutie Divine,
southpaw, in reserve. Battestin
will be behind the bat.
Through the efforts .of Swede
Sandberg an ex-big leaguer has
been secured to umpire the tilt.
ily is all right as far as she goes. He is one-third rightous. True to
his home and his country he is a two thirder. Faithful to all three,
he is fully developed, completely finished man; a man after God’s
own heart. A man without a family has no excuse for existence, and
under such conditions man would soon cease to be. A family without
religion and a nation that failed to recognize God would as surely
disappear. Loyalty to those whom we love and to the nation that
protects us demands loyalty to the God in whose hands are the issues
of life.
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crude oil this season from Winkler
county, Texas, the Marland Refin-
ing company here is in the process
of cleaning and painting its 17 stor-
age tanks in the industrial district.
Eighteen men, in addition to the
regular Marland force, are being
employed temoprarily, states Man-
ager Paul Axe.
The Marland company maintains
17 tanks here, nine of 80,000 barrel
capacity; three of 55,000 barrel ca-
pacity and five for gasoline service.
Nine of these tanks have already
been cleaned. Eight remain to be
cleaned during the next two
months. It requires two to three
weeks to clean a tank. After the
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Only twice in recent years have
more votes been cast at a school
election than at the one of last
Saturday when four of the present
trustees of the Texas City Indepen-
dent School district were re-elected
to office.
The total official vote cast was
269. Of this vote W. P. Tarpey re-
ceived the largest number, 196. J.
P. Jones, president of the board,
ranked second with 177. C. O. Am-
burn was third with 166 and P. D.
Harlow fourth with 159.
Voting on the four prospective
candidates for the board was as fol-
lows: Mrs. Lloyd T. Whitney, 96;
Mrs. Don Davison, 95; Milton E.
Agee, 96 and E. E. Hudson, 69. The
average vote for the present board
members was 174 and for the can-
didates for election, 89.
The voting was not very brisk un-
til about 4 in the afternoon when
citizens began to turn out. The
largest number of ballots was cast
between 4 and 6.
One of the features of the elec-
tion was the fact that a number of
voters registered their choice for
two members of the present board
and two of the opposition candi-
dates. But apparently enough vot-
ed a straight ticket to carry the old
board through intact. ■
Several ballots were cast on which
only one candidate was voted for.
These were thrown out. Several
others casting votes for three can-
didates, were accepted.
La Marque had a most exciting
school election Saturday ,with the
largest number of voters out in
years. The result was that A. O.
Schuman, W. P. Sweeney and R. L.
Adkins were elected. Mr. Schuman
received 82; Mr. Sweeney 64 and
Mr. Adkins 53 votes. A. A. McNary
got 57 and H. Naschke 41.
At Dickinson, J. H. Jones was re-
elected with a vote of 124. C. A.
Hartman received 36.
Paul Flora, E. M. Cole, L. B. Bish-
op and N. W. Pearson were elected
trustees of the Santa Fe school dis-
trict.
Owing to a tie in the vote given
E. V. Stevenson and C. E. Hoover
at Friendswood, it has been ordered
that a run-off election be held.
Cecil Brown was reelected to the
Friendswood board, with 54 votes
Twenty-two employes of the'
Snell Petroleum company on Thurs- 1
day began dynamiting for oil in ' Mrs. Ida Cox, Practice nurse of
the vicinity of Texas City. They I Texas City, is in Corsicana with her
will make their headquarters here i brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs.
and work the surrounding territory. | Jack Jones who are critically ill.
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Mrs. Helen B. Moore gave a most
interesting talk to the Business
Girls Monday evening at the club
room.
Mrs. Moore told about her ex-
perience as a lady member of the
Legislature. This is the first time
two lady members have served
simultaneously and the second time
any lady member has served. Mrs.
Moore was extremely interested in
Women’s Suffrage and was a good
worker in 1918 so this work was
not entirely new to her, she said.
There were 1400 bills introduced in
the last session and Mrs. Moore
had quite a number of bills with her
which she passed among the Busi
ness Girls for their inspection.
Mrs. Moore is especially interested
in Eleemosynary Institutions and
she felt quite honored to be made
vice chairman. These Eleemosy-
nary Institutions comprise institu-
tions for the blind, deaf, dumb,
feeble-minded and insane.
The Legislative representative
told of visiting some of these insti-
tutions, particularly those near
Austin and of the frightful condi-
tions encountered. The buildings
are badly in need of repairs; ter-
ribly crowded with great numbers
waiting to be taken in. Neverthe-
less the institutions do a marvelous
work in teaching the deaf, dumb
and blind.
Those enjoying Mrs. Moore's talk
were Misses Ruth Renfrow, Ara
Sutherland, Nora D. Howell, Azalea
Mikkelsen, Mae Vance Wren, Jane
Strong, Elsie Rohden, Queen An-
derson, Charlie Mae Carter and
Mesdames Howard Meredith, Paul
Daniels, Bryan Barry, E. A. Sutton.
The Terminal Railway Company
has issued notice to boat owners
and operators that on account of
dredging on the east side of the
Texas City channel in front of
warehouses B, C and E, there will
be a floating pipe line from the
dredge across the channel to the
warehouse B site.
To allow the passage of boats and
tugs the pipe line will be opened
promptly. The dredging is ex-
pected to continue for 60 days.
Texas City will act as host to the
farmers of the Galveston County
Mainland on Thursday night, April
18, when a big get-together session
of the Mainland Chamber of Com-
merce will be held in the new city
auditorium. The executive commit-
tee of the Mainland Chamber ex-
tends an invitation to every resi-
dent of the Mainland to attend this
meeting which will be among the
biggest of the year.
Principally a social gathering at
which the La Marque Concert or-
chestra under the direction of C
R. Sorey, will play, and at which
a number of short talks will be giv-
en by prominent speakers on sub-
jects of interest to the Mainland
it is expected that next Thursday’s
session will be largely attended
from every part of the county.
In addition to orchestral music
and speaking there will be vocal and
instrumental solos, after which re-
freshments will be served to all.
Featuring the short business .
The turnip louse and other kinds
of plant lice may be easily killed in
most parts of the county. The ma-
terial most frequently used to ac-
complish this is known as Black
Leaf 40. This material is a dark,
thick, oily liquid containing a large
amount of nicotine and is a by
product of tobacco. When this
liquid is diluted with the proper
amount of water and some soap
suds and sprayed upon plants at-
tacked by insects the result is usu-
ally deadly for the insect. The in-
sects are killed by the vapor given
off from the nicotine. In Black
Leaf 40, however, nicotine is com-
bined with other substances and it
requires weather of a certain tem-
perature to furnish sufficient heat
to make it give off the gas. In
spring and summer the necessary
temperature, 70 degrees Fahrenheit,
exists during at least a part of the
day.
Cool Days a Handicap
In Galveston county, however, the
crop is grown in mid-winter and
many of the days are too cool to
sufficiently fight the insect with
this material. Around this point
hinges the first part of the problem.
In the following way the Experi-
ment Station is trying to get around
the difficulty presented by the cool
temperatures of the growing season.
The station has for some time been
carrying forward a program of study
of new spray materials by which
they expect to find insecticides
whose efficiency as destroyers of
insects are not impaired by tem-
perature. Again, an attempt is be-
ing made to find a suitable way in
which to heat the older spray ma-
terials and more effectively liberate
the improsoned poison gases.
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Many are aware of the depreda-
tions of a species of aphis or plant
louse on the truck raised and grown
in Galveston, Harris, and Brazoria
and adjacent counties. That there
are many misconceptions prevalent
concerning this insect, its habits, its
ravages, and the methods by which
it can be efficiently and economi-
cally killed, has become evident as
the Texas State Experiment Sta-
tion has carried forward its study
of this problem under the direction
of its Division of Entomology.
The study of this problem is be-
ing conducted by the Texas State
Experiment Station at the Plant
Lice Laboratory, Alta Loma, and is
made possible through legislative
appropriation during the session of
1927. This appropriation was ob-
tained through the efforts of Gal-
veston county growers who had
tired of contributing to the upkeep
of a large number of the plant lice.
Some of the facts of general in-
terest that have been discovered in
working with this insect are its
range and natural home. It is
commonly supposed that the turnip
louse is native to Galveston and
neighboring counties alone. Upon
beginning the study of the insect,
some individuals were examined and
compared with the lice of other
parts of the country. This chief
pest of Galveston county was found
to be the False Cabbage Aphis (Tur-
nip Aphis) known to occur all
through the eastern and central
states. It has a wide range in the
state of Texas, being found as far
north as Dallas and east to Lou-
isiana and beyond and south to
Brownsville. Its western range is
not known.
I TO LATIN TOURNAMENT i
Central High School will ‘
be represented at the District $
Latin Tournament at Beau-
mont Friday with six contest- |
ants. Miss Elsie Emken and '
Miss Mary Anthony represent I
the low freshmen class; Miss- j
es Blake Allen and Mildred :
Gibbs represent the high !
freshmen class; Misses Nola |
Girardin and Birdie Mae Em- j
ken represent the Caesar class.
Miss Beulah Cornwell will ac- l
company the students to j
Beaumont although she is not ;
a contestant.
Examinations will begin at 9
1 p. m. Entertainment and j
the banquet will be from 5 =
to 11.
through Mrs. Howard, but it was
5:30 before the body was recovered,
after being located by Cleveland
Howard and Wendell Clark, and
rigor mortis had set in.
The body, which had been in the
water for one and one-half hours,
was stiff and blue and Dr. Dan
Scott, after a thorough examina-
tion, pronounced the boy dead and
beyond hope of being revived by
methods of inducing artificial res-
piration.
The Boles boy, who was going on
16 years of age, is survived by his
father, O. M. Boles, dairyman, his
mother, Mrs. Estella Boles and a
brother, Aubrey Boies. After ser-
vices at the home at 1:30 Sunday
afternoon the body was shipped
from La Marque Sunday evening to
St. Paul, Kansas,’ the former home
of the family. The remains were
accompanied to St. Paul by the bro-
ther, Aubrey Boles.
Young Ivan, who was a student at
Kohfeldt school, went swimming
alone in the lake that has resulted
from rain water collecting after the
removal of tons of dirt for the
The Kiwanis Glee club, number-
ing 40 of Houston’s leading business
and professional men, will be here
tonight for their grand concert at
the city auditorium under the aus-
pices of the Men’s club.
Tonight’s musical event is one
worthy of the largest cities and the
Men’s club is entitled to a vote of
praise for bringing this nationally
celebrated organization to Texas
City. Too, it was fortunate in se-
curing the Glee club’s services, par-
ticularly since the club will present
the same program it wil give at the
National Kiwanis convention next
month.
Tannhauser’s “Pilgrim’s Chorus,”
“Viking’s Song,” “Italian Salad,”
“I Hear You Calling Me,” and “The
Rosary” are among the numbers to
be presented by the Glee club chor-
us. The program will be conclud-
ed by Dvorak’s “Goin Home”. In
addition to the Glee club numbers
under the direction of Ellison Van
Hoose, Mrs. Roy Brand will give
readings; Miss Margaret Elkins will
render some violin numbers and
Leeland F. Dolan will play the
chimes.
The Trinity choir of Galveston;
the Sacred Heart church choir; the
Scottish Rite choir, the Girls’ Mu-
sical club and members of the Gal-
veston Kiwanis club, all will be here
for tonight’s event which is at-
tracting wide attention in the coun-
ty seat.
F. M. Burton, leader of the Scot-
tish Rite choir said this week that
the one number, “Italian Salad,"
was sufficient to attract him here
tonight. Mr. Peters of the Galves-
ton Piano company, declares the
program of the Glee club singers to
be a splendidly balanced one, inter-
spersed as it is with instrumental
and vocal music and readings.
ago somewhere in the Egyptian des-
1 ert, when manna fell from the sky
to feed the starving “chosen people”.
1 And then—coming a little closer—
the gold, the wealth, fell before the
Spaniards, ready to pick, when
America was discovered. Still later
in that very America, the gold boom
of California set the whole world on
fire and still later the “black gold”,
oil, shook up the whole United
States.
Once in a while we read, that
some lucky fellow became a million-
aire from one day to th other—or
one little community grew to a me-
tropolis in just a few years’ time.
Every time we called these occur-
ences a miracle, a wonder of nature
and so on and drop our head in a
humble, hopeful motion, that some
of these things will happen, some
day around us, with ourselves, with
our little town and—we keep on
hoping for a boom.
Yes! We do and in the meantime
we forget that Moses and his peo-
ple worked hard for the manna in
their own way—Columbus and his
seTected men were defying the high
seas, urged on by their own faith.
Many, many people worked hard
for their gold, those millionaires
planted their fortunes years and
years ahead and those towns laid
their foundation in just as hard a
ground as we have here—but with
more, much more hard work and
with definite aims ahead.
A few days ago I read an article
in one of our leading business mag-
azines from a prominent business
man, arguing that “The man who
sells (goods or labor) without profit
is a menace to the industry and
through his industry to society, and
that man’s business should be reg-
ulated by law.”
He is right, indeed! The bank-
ing business is regulated by the |
law since a long time. Why not
the rest of our business?
Did you ever take it in your head
to go to your banker and ask him
to let you have some money for less
than 8 per cent interest?
You wouldn’t dare to. But you
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building of the Texas City dike.
This lake which is said to be on
property owned by the firm of Hor-
ton & Horton of Houston covers
about two acres and is in places,
12 to 15 feet deep. Many of the
west end boys have been using the
lake for a swimming hole.
Boles went in swimming at
around 4 o’clock Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Howard, who was passing by
with her two daughters, is said to
have warned him that he should
not swim in such deep water, but
he persisted. Scon after reaching
her home, Mrs. Howard heard cries
from the little girls who had re-
Justice of the Peace E.
Stewart who is Coroner of
this precinct, declares he was
not summoned to the scene
of the drowning of Ivan Rus-
sell Boles last Friday, as re-
quired by law.
“A body is supposed to re-
main exactly where it is until
viewed by the Coroner but
the first I knew of the unfor-
tunate occurrence was when
the body was brought to my
office soon after 5:30. I sign-
ed the death certificate this
time but next time I will
think about it.”
Judge Stewart explained
that had the deceased pos-
sessed any jewelry, or money,
and it was lost or stolen, he
would have been held res-
ponsible.
“If the deceased had been
a man,” said the Judge, “and
had carried heavy insurance,
I could get into a peck of
trouble. in not being on the
scene of accidental death to
swear that the death actually ’
took place in the manner set
down. On a previous occa-
sion a body was moved with-
out my being notified and I
don’t want it to happen
again.”
Black Leaf 50 Advised in
Fight Against Plant Lice
Howard F. Hoffmaster, formerly
with the Swiftsure Petroleum Cor-
poration at Houston was engaged
this week as general agent by the
Texas City Terminal Railway Com-
pany. Mr. Hoffmaster will be in
charge of traffic movement for the
company.
mained on the bank to watch Boles
swim. She rushed over and learned
that Boles had disappeared under
the water. Mrs. Howard then walk-
ed a half mile to a telephone to call
the doctor and police department.
Within a short time word had
spread around the city and a crowd
had gathered on the bank of the
lake. Officer DeWalt, Cleveland
Howard, Wendell Clark, Walter
Remschel, Elmer Haney, Jimmy
Pitts and Pat Corrigan all dove
many times for the body but unsuc-
cessfully until around 5:30 when
Cleveland Howard and Wendell
Clark touched the body.
Crying “Here he is!” Howard, who
is said to have rescued the Boles
boy from the same water two weeks
ago when he got out beyond his
depth, dived and catching hold of
one of Boles’ feet, brought the body
Due to rust holes, resulting from
the sulphurous content in the West
Texas crude shipped here, the Hum-
ble Oil Refining company, has a
crew of men engaged in re-roofing
two oil tanks in the industrial dis-
trict. Another tank will be re-
roofed later. Asbestos roefing on
lumber sheeting is being used to
replace the metal roofs, this com-
i bination being thought superior to
I metal in resisting rust.
Several new men have been em-
ployed for the roofing job by Hum-
t ble. According to Superintendent
Ready eight ships of crude are now
t being sent here monthly. Whether
shipments would increase in volume
Mr. Ready can’t say at this time
but he is assuming they will as the
season advances.
Representative Ex-
plains Work at State
Capitol
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