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SUN 1m Night Football For Tri-Cities Looms-Read Article On Sport
AWTQ ‘ THE TRI-CITIES FIRST-FIRST IN THE TRI-CITIES T"
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I ttinidanU
•bout'her.
Heraud W()
’ that her leg, 5
and d'»figur* j
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Canned Fd
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Allen Smother,!
the envy J
the neigh
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five-day old
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bwely alive[|
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THE TRI-CITIES
K- 1
FIRST—FIRST IN THE TRI-CITIES
gf K. LEE Ganders will
the lights this year
0f, a number of public
citizens materialize. *.
football is the latest de-
of the sport and has
gs to recommend it. Lo-
always desire to keep
0f $e times. Hence, plan
It Elms Field.
Bote?s of the idea believe
will be increased suf-
llyto pay, the cost of install-
lights in the first year,
ring at night when it is cool
Uer on the boys and makes
letter playing, tests have
i Houston Lighting and I’ow-
npany has agreed to make
Installation for actual cost
Sis will save many hundred
i for the athletic association.
, jt is up to Roy Elms, head
| to whip together a winning
■ation this—his second year
lass A company.
« * *
I NEAR as we can figure it
le gist of Mayor Myers’ r>-
i Mark M. Carter concerning
ght plant contract is that
> Myers intends for the peo-
' Goose'Creek to have their
ht and power plant wheth-
i want it or not.
« * »
RIES KAMP, secretary of
Harris county Democratic ex-
> committee, says there were
^jber »f irregularities in vot-
; the July 23 primary and
l precinct committeemen that
must be observed in the
on August 27.
| charges that many people
arked ballots into the polls
them in marking their
allot, that at least one wo-
|left the polling place with
allot and,secured asgijtince
^rking her ticket.
( State laws were drawn with
' to protecting each voter in
jght to cast his ballot for the
late he favored. These laws
be , enforced to the letter
:tion officials who fail in
(duty should be removed from
(Mens. -
- •
LING RAINS which drove
I mercury down Thursday
|ht welcome, relief frpm the
ring heat which has prevail-
l several weeks past,
the rain did little besides
the atmosphere for a
THE TRI-CITlES SU
m
Reading This
Newspaper Keeps
You Informed
Of Local Affairs
VOLUME 14—NO. 55~
OF GOOSE CREEK, PELLY AND BAYTOWN
GOOSE'CREEK, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST fl/lMl
to Daily Tribii PRICE FIVE CKWjl
POWER PLANT DIJUNCTION IS ISSUED
• • TF * * * * * * * * * * * * ■ * . * * * '« • » - • * • * ■. |
Houston Bus Driver Slays Bandits'
PAIR SLAIN
IN ATTEMPT
ATROBBERV
or Saturday, enter a jail cell, and
remain behind the bars until tried
,, with 19-year-ohl Ab Walker on a
Hijackers Felled When Charged that they murdered her
I . 1 i \/- ■ n [playboy millionaire husband.
Intended Victim He- Ab Walker, secretary and nil-
fuses to Heed Order Sstant companion of Smith Key
to Hand Over Cash I'"** l“'i' * ll" 11 A «—*
‘Torch Singer’ Wanted In
Death Of Mate Is Missing
WINSTON SALEM, N. C., Aug. I Attorney Albert*'’ Holman, her
■> (CP)—Libby Holman Reynolds, | father, is en route here. He noti-
the “torch singer” ^ Broadway, | fied Sheriff Tranaou Scott that
was expected to surrender today | ^
HOUSTON, Aug. 5 O)—Con-
fronted with the choice of-giving
his own life or taking another, a
mild-mannered bus driver took the.
latter course today and two men
were slain as they stepped aboard
his vehicle, apparently to rob him.
The dead men wer; Elgin Milli-
can, 28, and his nephew, Willis
Henson, 17. The death-dealing
driver was S. E. Webb, 2N, f thor
of an infant son and owner of a
small home in the suburbs.
Had No Choice
*'B1’didn’t have much choice in
the matter,” said HVeljb, pale after
his experience. “I’m not what you
call an expert pistol shot, but
wdien a man is shooting lor h,?
life he can do some pretty fancy
shooting, I guess.”
Webb was turning his bus about
at .the suburban terminus for the
Last trip to town just before day-
hre ;,k when young Henson came
aboard. He stood on the ,steps
and inquired if it were the J&rt
bus to town.
Pistol Under Seat
As Webb replied, the older man
stepped aboard, gun in hand, lie
commanded the driver to “stick
tobacco millions, w s placed in ja.l
shortly alter the grand jury in-
dicted hip) yesterday.
Libby Holman Reynolds,,the Cin-
cinnati girl who went to New York
and made good in the play-street
of the world with, a throaty, sen-
suous, singing of typical Head-
way love ballads and blues songs,
was believed to be in New York,
Cincinnati, or en route here.'
need spend no county money
looking for Libby. He wrote to
him fcarlier, promising to produce
Libby here whenever needed.
Scott, however, asked authori-
ties in New York ami Cincinnati
to priest the widow.
Neither Libby nor young Walk-
er, once in jail, will lie permitted
to leave, udder bond'as North Car-
olina law forbids such rele .se. The
present criminal court docket is ,
crowded, so it is unlikely that [K'on marched into town several
tfiey* will be tried before'a special thousand strong today with bands
B.E.F.CAMP
IS EMPTIED
FORjLEGION
Veterans Are Ordered
To Leave Johnstown
by Dark as Park is
Needed for Fete
' JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug. 5 (UP)
j—The Pennsylvania American Le-
POISED FOR HOP
Elvy Knlep, the only Esthoni-
iti woman to hold a pilot’s li-
:ense, who today was at Old
Orchard. Me., with Roger Q-
Williams, trans-Atlantic flyer
with their monoplane Olympia,
in which they plan a long dis-
tance flight to Greece. The fly-
ers refused to dihtuas their
plans.
City .Restrained Erom
Carrying Out Contract
On Municipal Utilities
Wilson In Houston today issued
rder against the City of Good*,
carrying out of any of the pro-:
tract for & power plant with the
session may lie ordered.
Such a session would be in Sep-
tember, probably, if ordered. The
local bar is expected to request
. session at that time.
[playing and colors flying as the
i ragged remnants • of the bonus
army moved out under orders . to
j “be out of Ideal Park by night.”
[ And as the city’s guest ligt
grew., due to the influx of several
hundred legion units planning to
celebrate Legion Day, the troubles
of the beuraggled bonus army
grew.
Trains Lacking
pi • r ‘l i I C- f D The bonus army still lacked.
Lon roe i HIT Jsiled lfl; rlgures tLXpected to trains, trucks, and gasoline' and
| the 3,009 still here had no break-
fast.
I Transportation will' be provided
j (Continued on Page 6)
TWO MEN HELD IN BALLOT RETURNS
DEATH OF WOMAN BEING TABULATED
Fatal Beating At
Oil Camp
' CONROE, * Aug. 5 (UP)—Two
Ready For Canvass
By Board
DALLAS, Aug 5 (UP)—With of-
me.-i were held without bond here^ficSt returns from ~15 counties
today, one .charged with murder! l^kirtg, Albert Sidney Johnson,
and one as an accessory, following
a fatal beating administered Tues-
day to Mrs. Maude Stockton, 28,
'em up -
! cotton crop is in need of a Instead, Webb reached under ih
[downpour, but spotted shew- se^t and drew his pistol.
those of Thursday have J “When 1 reached, ter my gun,
leficial effect. , . i sai<j Webb later, “I saw bis
* * -t* | tighten- on the butt of the pi A
urn Brothers, operators of ] . (Contteued on Page 0)
gin, have repaired their
at Beach, an oil boom settlement
near here.
Lloyd Johnson, cafe operator at
I Beach, was charged with murder
and Jack Morgan, his friend, was
[charged as an accessory,
County attorney A. A. Turner,
secretary of the state Democratic
executive committee, announced
J today he expected tabulations of
the Democratic primary election
ATTACK IS FATAL [ BEAUTY PAGEANT
District Judge Ben F. Wilson ra Houston today issued
i temitorary restraining order
Creek which p events the
visions of a purchase contract for & power
Municipal Utilities Company of Kansas City. »f|^|
Application for a temporary order, temporary injunc-
tion and permanent injunction was filed this morning by
Mark M. Carter, who resigned as city attorney Monday,
ieid & Strickland, and Ross, Wood, Lawler and Wood, Hoa§.'j
on attorneys. . *
Date for a hearing on the temporary restraining order
das been set for Monday, August 15.
The suit against the city was filed in the names of
CARTER DENIES
CHARGES MADE
BY MAYOR MYERS
Former City Attorney
Issues Statement
On Attitude
«J. D. Hunnicut, A. J. Rich, A. 8.
McClendon. C. H. Upton, A A.
I Weber, W. S. Newberry, H. H.
Duke, C. E. Stewart, D. W. Alpha, I
W. E. Kerr and D. W. Jones. M
The Suit name* the City of Gooee
Creek, Majter C. R. Myers,
Commiaaioners William Quarts, C.
L. Watson, J. J. Redmohd and R.
C. Goodman, tha Municipal
In a second statement issued It,
conjunction with his resignation
as city attorney because of a con-
tract let by city commission to the
Municipal Utilities company for
erection of a city-owned power
plant here, Mark M. Carter today
answered Mayor C. R. Myers who
had previously criticised the city
attorney. ' * " •*-*^»*
"Inasmuch as Mr. Myers has
would be completed before the
committee meeting in Fort Worth
Monday.
Johnson expected today and Sat-
urday’s mail would bring in returns
from the counties unreported.
Tabulations of his office, he said,
tested it out and now are
’siting for the first bale to
’ expect this event in about
pfs and then there likely will
noticeable improvement in
conditions. Money paid
will go into circulation
will be little left over
! fanner after his expenses
l0ugh the price of cotton has
upward trend recently
fly will break as soon as the
■op begins to come on the
in any considerable quan-
riCAL CAMPAIGNS seem
[ getting under way rather
f°r the ruii-off primary
i 27. Large crews, of work-
•ni-sy in the headquarters
f ^ndidates, two for sheriff
- for governor, and the
1 can be expected to start
' time now. . ,
ftef campaign donations has
the movement no little.
PAIR END LIVES
IN SUICIDE PACT
hand,wh° "investigated the womans conformed.closely to the unoffi-
i death and filed the charges, said j cbi[ returns of the Texas election
[the woman "was beaten horribly j i)Urea(j,
!about the head and face and was; MacGregor May Get In
[mauled about the body.^ j official counts indicated Doug-
j Ttfrtmt ascribed jealousy as the j ]gp McGregor of Houston may go
fnotive for the beating. j jn the run-off against Sterling P.
A charge of murder was filed j strong for Congress-at-large,
against Johnson shortly after Mrs. ,p|ace three. Unofficial count of
Stocktons death, and a charge of [ election bureau returns were
Former Resident 0 f
Pelly Dies At
Home of Kin
Goose Creek Girl Is
Entered in Island
Contests
Mayor C R. Myers today said
he waa set lurprtawt that *
temporary raetraialag order had
hem Uatted «jpM the 0^9
Gooee Creek proWbtttaf the wf-
rying out of the contract fee
the conatracthm of mankipet
light and power plant. J|jjg
“I expected that to happenf
Mayor Myorw said. "Wo de Mt §
know yet just which lawyer* *
will handle the Bitnatlon for the
dty, but the cnee win he placed ,
'in the Hittur USmitm i*w- -
yew.*. *
He refuaed further comment.
. spen fit to center his fight on me
TO AGED WOMAN OPENS TOMORROW ;:?™
plant in Goose .Oreek for the pur- Handley, and Edwin E. Lund
pose of getting the minds of the
people off the question involved, !
Mrs. Bettie Whitlock, 84, was j —~—
found dead in bed early today, at GALVESTON, Aug. 5 (UP),
the home, of her nephew, C. P. The advance guard of “personality
West, Dear, Daytown. Heart tcou- [contest” entries from three south-
bie was given as the cause of her [we3tern- states were expected here
death in a verdict given by Justice i ■ , , . '
„ . _ ■ ■ ' _ [tqday to prepare for tomorrow s
of the Peace T. B. Bevil, of Liberty, h "
Mrs. Whitlock jvas a former res- of the event, which in part
idenl of Pelly, having lived there years has been called the "Inter-
about. lfi years. She was known national pageant of pulchritude,
in the Tri-Cities as “Auntie" Whit-
San Antonio Man And ^
Woman Found at
Auto Camp
SEGUIN, Aug.
(L’.R)-
that Joe Burkett of San Antonih t ««ke her home with the nephew t
led McGregor in this race by 3,000 | about four months ago.
Whether other charges of being votWi Strong was far ahead of I Funeral service.'i hviil be
^an accessory are filed will depenu | (.{(her of the two in the voting,
■ upon the evidence secured at; For Gongress-at-Large place t,
Cecil bn son’s preliminary hearing at i pjnj{ Parrish of Lubbock maintain-
1 p. m. Friday before County p,j a good lead over W
Wise, unemployed street car mot- Juf)ge R , H, Weatherly with Williams of Fort Worth according
orman of San Antonio, and ms i whomrt'he charges were filed in
to Johnson’s returns. Parrish will
go intof the run-off against George
B. Terrell of Alto.
Davis In I-ead 51
Returns received by the execu-
tive secretary showed J, H. (Cy-
elone) Davis, 79-year old former
congressman, was leading Oscar
F, Holcombe, former mayor of
Houston,. for congress at large,
IOUND TOWN
i Cuthrell driving to Work
♦•thusiasm over prospects
football,at Elms field
dy Darwood standing in
A. C. Drew and com-
regular payday crowd*
up the streets
.........
Pit* dodging the cars
the street,., Roy Elms
« jam ... . traffic
• Perspiring brows at-
to find xome Oort of
J-gmlthmlssing:
hell... Sheriff T. A.
^•kibg calls ... wash-
out on a downtown
* J, R; Haw*
SES m
wife were found dead of poisoning, in thcv-bsenc» from the c'tv of
in a tourist camp cottage near the justice of the peace, it was re-
here today. 1P0^1-
,, .... .. Aohnn Mr. Turner indicated' that he
Identification was effected when r .. ....
,, would oppose granting bail to the
his sister, Mrs. Lena May May- maI1
ton at Fort Worth, telephoned San j ^f0 (|ato has been set for Mor-
Antonio police after receiving a j gan’s examining trial and no bond
special delivery letter from Wise has been fixed for him.
telling lier of intention of the cou- j The funeral services for Mrs. place two. Holcombe took an early
pie to commit suicide. iStocvktotr at 4 p. m. Thursday jiead inthe primary returar'but
San Antonio police, acting on was ■ attended by her husband, | (Continued orf Page 6)
the information from Mrs.’ Maytor truck driver for an oil coihpany.
at Port Worth, immediately start- j The husband is said to live ' a j . w • n a . | • ITT* rp jy
ed the hunt for Wise and his ‘wife, short distance from Houston. , \ Jf$# J\OSS utCVlltiP I O i CtR6
They had left their home in a ---— ‘ • ■ - :
rented automobile.. Shortly after-
ward a fisherman at Lake Mc-
Queeny, between San Antonio and
Seguin, reported he had investi-
• (Continued on Page 6)
take this means of answering the
indictment he has made against
me personally,” Mr. Carter said in
opening his statement.
“1 did not mention his name in
my letter of resignation," he con-.
tinued, “other than to address the *
same to him as mayor, nor in the
letter given the Tri-Cities Sun
explaining- myi reason for asking
the city commission to accept my
resignation. Not ,one word have
I spoken against the installation
The first beauty scheduled to ar- j of a city oWtihd light pjamt. My
rive was “Miss Shreveport’’ in the [reason for resigning, and the crit-
.. ... icism I have made of the action
i of the city commission had to do
held .at! year^ld brunette" “Miss **ort I and has to do with the manner in
3 p. m. Saturday from Paul U. Worth,” who in private life is j which the contract was let.
Lee funeral home, with Rev. Ervin Mrss Iris-Reeder, 17-year-old high j “The people who know me best
Jackson, pastor of Grace Methodist j school girl, was" due to arrive by ,*n MBe city know I would be
church officiating. Burial will be ; plane.
in Gedarcrest cemetery under di- J Miss Airdath Brown of San An-- .
rection of Paul U. Lee funeral di-1 tonio, who will be "Miss Lower Rio i a rea V- e says
lock. She went to Daytown to
[the last person in theworld to pre-
j vent the dream of our mayor from
He says that
ia light plant owned by and oper-[plant, ha* applied for »
ated under the supervision of the
city, will, ’bring, not only relief
rector. [Grande Valley,’1 also,.was expect-
Survivors include one sister, Mrs. led today.
J. 0. Joney,- Bremond; five j “Miss Oak Cliff" from Dallas
nephews, C. p. West; Bob Jones, jhas been selected, the contest man- e<J Ught ^
Ernie; Ragland Jones of Yoakum, fttfeAient aittiounced, but her aanl® • lower tax rate’and finallv a co
Dudley Case, of Pelly; and Horace IhaS* not been rcceiwsd. The city
Case of Dayton; five nieces; Misses of Dallas also will have hn entrant.
Essie and Alice Jones, of Bremond; Other cities to be represented
Mrs. Ruth Lawrence, Fort Worth; in the contest are Harlingen, Beau-
, Mrs. Mavis McCoy, of San An- Orleans, Crowley, La
tonio; Mrs. Polly Jones, of Reagan. [Oo<-PUH. Chmti, [Rosenburg,
tie# company, Cecil R. Haden, J. B.
Handley, and Edwin E. Lund as
defendant*. , _ ['T*
The City of Goom Creak, in «t
special session here last week, en-
tered into a contract with the Mn-;
nicipal Utilities company of Kan-1
sag City for the purchase of a
municipal power plant at $800,000.
Haden, Handley.and Lund, matt-;
(Continued on Page I) J
CHARTER SOUGHT
BY BUILDING FIRM
Power Plant Contract
Holders A»k For
StatePermitr---ll
Municipal Utilities
the firm with width Gooaa
city commission signed ■
for construcHon of the
municipal electric tight and
charter at Austin. ,1
Incorporators named in tha ap-
the public, in a way of reduc- plication an Cedi R. Hayden and
COUNTY BUDGET
IS STRENGTHENED
A* total of *28,000 in four bud-
gets has been shifted (by Harris
• county commissioners to bolster
Stump To Help Governor
New
JjBraunfelsj GposA Greek and Hot
[Springs, Ark. \
j The girls will vie for the title
(of “Mips -Personality” and for an
•airplane trip to New York and way
points with a series of personal
appearances at theaters scheduled
a
lower tax rate and finally a com-
plete elimination of all dty taxes'
“A Wonderful dream if true. 1
am frank to Ray I do not know
whether this could be accomplish
ed or noti If I could but-i^M| be-
tieve the half of it then -ymm he
(Continued on Page 6)
DELINQUENT TAX
COLLECTIONS UP
DALLAS, Aug. 6 W-R)—Texas, j Marcos tomorrow night, and the 'an route wjth perhaps a movie con-
now accustomed for almost a de- i question whether there will be a trBCt jn the offering. Accompany-
cade to the spectacle of one hug- j Bailey-Davis debating team In the injf the title and the irip will ^
W-.w eh . j *. icounty emnnnssimjersv’M DpiBivi band speaking for his wife for I congressional race. ** a cash prize of $lf>0.
jNegroe* fcxecutea m I depleted county budgets to balance (Governor, will be treated tonight [ Mrs. Sterling, a slight, home-. The contest will last through
Death of Dairyman funds until September l. !to a reversal—a wife speaking for maker type of woman,, will, be , Sunday.
. “ i The funds were shifted from thfiiher tosbantl for governor, The | speaking in McCiennan county, | -
P08TP???PLANS mnxt-'zszz
More than, $800 delinquent times
has been collected since suits wero
filed against 232 delinquent# a
week ago, Paul 3. King, dty tax
assessor and collector, said today.
Since filing began, the city
collected $811.55, or more
htff the Tffiwawr
July; 1, Mr. King .said., i;
At the beginning of the fiscal
Edwin F. Lund df 1720
and J. B. Handley of 4708
Kinney street, Houston.
The principal office of the
is to be located at
. “r.ling to the application.
. I1I.M Capital Stack
Capital stock authorised is $10*-
000 of which $4,000 is 1 ** *-
Hayden, a like non Iqr
and $200 by Lund.
The purpose of
tion, as set out
of tha
contract for
i A-*, swot* a# fhd Texas state!equalisation fund, at-tha sugges*) Ir ........ ,
StentiaS here today for the|?on.of County Auditor Harry L. 'of .“The Fergusons” for years; eliminated .candidate, carried the J Completion of the
o7"Frank Kempf, a white [Washburn, who
dairyman; on June 15, 1921. , sum# of money from
John L. Green, 19, walked from'coijurt# to meet W .
tures were
7 ’ county with more than 5,060 votes, j 0f the East Harris
ponent,'wt& second. Tom Hunter,,
various now they can speak of ‘The Ster- , .
' lings”, - The Stertrngs need many Huwtsr; a^Gc wwciauun ««
ired j Mrs. Ross S. Sterling’s first votes to win August 27. Sam. Me-} and outlining of plass
•planned campaign'
the made at Waco
the vari- spotlight today in
m' speech, to be Corkle, district attorney at,Mexia, work for the coming run-off pri- tha
tonight, held the will appear with Mrs. Sterling at; mary were delayed, when the wet
- s zzizs. srrjs ’i£ « x
Mexia tonight; plan, for ond te Mrs. Ferguson there white Harris County Democrats Assoc.a-
the Fergusons’ opening at San ,:(Coatinued on page 6) tion were present, Mr. Alpha said. • said.
was taken.
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