The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 6, 1938 Page: 1 of 6
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(§ to Be Based
„ Laws Requiring
ita On Profit And
crises Annually
, city or Pelly today had tak-
i first steps In Instituting to-
on against utilities operat-
*re by instructing City At-
Shannon Morris to file
lacking a total of $647,100 in
penalties represent $100 a
four years delinquency oh
t of the Houston Lighting
rer company and the Gulf
Natural Gas company, and
year on the part of the
^western Association Tele-
company.
Reports Required
j Attorney Morris said the
|ties are collectible under laws
i require public utilities oper-
in cities governed by gen-
atutes, to file before March
i year, reports on the cost
of their properties In the
[ the gross and net profit and
[operating and maintenance
ees, to determine If the an-
income falls within the
per cent limit set by the
L.M. Butler Fal
Injured When Thr<
Doctor, Not
Quins Gaspins
After Exams
CALLANDER, Ont., July 6
(HI!)—The physician-in-chief to
the Dionne quintuplets admitted
today that they were too much
for him.
They keep getting healthier
and healthier, he said, and put-
ting them through their regular
examination has come to be
more than one man can accom-
plish without strain.
The physician. Dr. Alan
Brown of the Toronto hospital
for sick children, checked up on
the sisters' condition last Sat-
urday.
They were so “vigorous and
active" he complained, “con-
stantly plying me with questions
and examining my Instruments,’’
that the examination was
"strenuous and tiring’’—for him,
not the quins.
MASSEY STAB Dr. Dudley Now Has Time CarsHitOnHighw
n" t »lku $1«*J*« tk,iil M* IA — M ilO WaaA ft LI. A.
SUSPECTHELD For Fishing After 21Years
IN GALVESTON
COUNCIL VOTES
$92,296 BUDGET
FOR GOOSE CREEK
Tax Rate of $1.40
Expected to Be
Retained
A $92,296.50 budget for the
1938-39 fiscal year was adopted
last night by the Goose Creek city
commission. -
Adoption last night was tempor-
. „„H.r veneral «Y* and contingent on a public
“ ope . g th ? ht to hearing, a formality demanded by
he said, have the right to
ate rates charged by public
|[Sm PeBy WH1, Page 2)
|« FATM
LAMAR MULLER
Ident of Lee High
[Will Be Buried
Tomorrow
Muller, MS, of 422 East
c avenue, a member of the
• class of Robert E. Lee high,
k died in a local hospital at
| a. m. today,
i had been ill for the past two'
A throat infection waly
as the cause of death,
eral services will be held at
|Pifst Baptist church at. 9:80
tomorrow, with Bev. A. 0.
|le, the pastor, officiating.
! body will be taken overland
Union Springs cemetery in
ches county by the Paul
Funeral Home, where fo-
nt will be under direction of
IU. Lee.
rtvors are the parents, Mr.
| Mrs. W. F. Muller, two broth-
[Farris Muller and Edgar Lee
all of Goose Creek; his
-rSrents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
his grandmother, Mrs. R. F.
and great-grandmother,
B. F. Muller, and great-
other, Mrs. Efoora Bird-
(See Illness Is Page 2)
law.
To Set Tax Rate
City Manager John W. Harkins
said he would announce the date
for hearing soon, so that it can
be held and the budget finally
adopted in order that the tax rate
can be set within two weeks,
He said he expects the present
rate of $1.40 on the $100 valuation
will be adopted again for the new
year.
The budget approved last'night
lists expected^ disbursements of
$92,296.60, and expected receipts
of $93,090, compared to the $90,-
090 receipts estimated last year
and the $96,241.81 actually taken
into tiie city's cash till.
Receipts Over
Harkins pointed out to the com-
mission last night that the actual
receipts showed $6,161.81 more
than the estimated amounts.
Disbursements last year, how-
ever, were $6,063.81 above the es-
timated amount. The budgeted ex-,
penditures were $874154.50 and
the actual amount spent was $92,-
(See Council Votes Pago 2)
Reported Unchanged
PORT CHESTER, N. Y., July
6 (Ui)—The condition of Supreme
Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardo-
so was reported unchanged today
from last night.
The Jurist became "somewhat
weaker” laet night after gaining
a little strength during the day.
round Town
n Ihe Trj-Cittos: Duke Jones
ming to take the prise for
far-out drives at the golf
ving place . . . Pee-Wee
jng contributing a small
* of ciggs to a hard-working
* that didn’t have time to
°«t and buy their own
s- 2pas^ r= ^2,^"
he waa “holding hto own this
morning.”
Hempstead Mechanic
Is Arrested; Signs
Statement Telling of
Attack On Isle
Fernand Sarria, 86 - year • old
Hempstead mechanic, today was in
jail at Galveston under a charge
of assault to murder in connection
with the stabbing at Galveston
Sunday of Harry Massey, of Goose
Creek, assistant manager of Gulf
Cities Natural Gas Company.
Sarria was arrested in Hemp-
stead late yesterday by Galveston
and Tri-Cities officers, at the ga-
rage where he is employed.
In Oxygen Tent
Massey was stabbed through
the left arm and suffered a deep
wound in the chest. He is in the
John Sealy hospital, Galveston,
still in a serious condition today,
but much improved. He has been
placed in an oxygen tent as a pre-
caution against pneumonia.
Sarria, in a statement made to
W. F. Jackson, Waller county at-
torney, before City Detectives
Claude. Moore and I. M. Barb, of
Galveston, and Deputy Sheriffs H.
C. Spence and Ray Allen, of Goose
Creek, admitted the stabbing, but
said he acted in self-defense.
Minor Mishap
Massey was stabbed during aq
argument over a minor traffic
mishap on the Galveston seawall
boulevard, in which Sarria claim*
(See Massey Stabbing Page 2)
TRIO FLEE FROM
GREENVILLE JAIL
Floyd Hamilton Pal
Leads In Escape
• From Cells
GREENVILLE, July 6 (UJ>>
Three men—one of them a for-
mer companion of Floyd Hamit
ton—escaped from the Hunt epun
ty Jail today.
The fugitives were Melvin Hal-
ley, 36; hto brother, Woodrow
Halley, 22, and V. C. Wofford, 26.
All had been convicted of burg-
lary and were awaiting trial on
additional charges.
Sheriff Frank Wolfe dlacovered
that the men were gone when
he went to their cell at 6:80 a.m.
'They first sawed the bars of
„ t /*>__I their cell window,” he said. “Then
Condition of CardOZO ^ they tore up blankets, knotted
them Into ropes, climbed out on
an adjoining roof, and tot them-
(See Trio flee, Page 2)
STRICKLAND HONORED
SAN ANTONIO, July 6 (UJ9-
Flags on state buildings were low
ered to half-staff today in memory
of Jeff J. Strickland, former togto-
ailment.
STOCKS CLOSE TODAY
Courtesy
CITIZENS 8TATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
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f Jacobs in to chock up on AJBer*. Mj&v .—•....... “
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Anaconda Cop.....................36 1-8
...... 10.1-4
Frank Wernlein remark-
foat "it’s too full” and so
Pf out a bit of the water
■ H»rry Harvey being looked
and found—an hour later
I®- Herring hitting it off on
P down the alley , . Bill
**vfof from a P. O. wln-
• • • J. Rhea Kelley trying
wt on the track of a Houston
directory here ... W. T.
** »iji be the Tri-Cittes re-
*«tative on the new grand
7 delegation.
» La Porte: Calder Ewing
in the Goose Croak Ro-
J**»n - - - La Porte's first
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empaneled on the new
* ", Arn-
Cit. Service new
Comm. Solv. .................— 8 3-d
Con. Aircraft .......—
Cons. Edison ...!......29 1-4
Cbns. Oil ..........................- I® W
Cur. Wright .......................... * J-8
Elec. Bond & Share............ 9 6-8
Else. Power * Light 12 14
El Paso Natl, Gas.......— 24 5-8
Erie Ry. —....--------------— 8 3-d
Freeport Tex....................- - 28 8-8
Gen. Motors-------------------8» 8-8
Oulf ............................-.....44
Humble —.....——--------70
Kirby —......-i~-------------- 8 7-8
Kroger Oro. —...................17 1-8
La. Land-------—^.......-.....- 8 1-4
Lorillard .......... 17 1-4
Nash KM. —........-.....- 10
Nat Dairy —........—-------15 O'4
Ohio Oil
U S. Steel
WQaon Co.
July Cotton N. Y.
July Wheat
Houston Oil
Hudson Mot
Katy Pfd.
White Truck
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Skelly .............
Soc. Vac.....
Stan. N. J. ......
16 1-4 Salt Dome ...............—
Sunray Oil ...............
Texas ---------—................
Tidewater —------...
T X L .................:.....-
T P C O
V. Aircraft.....-.............
U. Oorp.
IT, Gas
.....Oil
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... 0 84
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Retires From Career
Which Began In
Pelly Shack
By FRED HARTMAN
In February of 1917 Ray L.
Dudley of Houston, then a young
publisher, sent his father, Dr.. N.
L. Dudley, a telegram. The mes-
sage, sent to Dallas, went some-
thing like this:
“Believe you would like to prac-
tice in Goose Creek.”
And now after 21 years, four
months and five days from the
morning he hung up his shingle
in what is now present day Pelly,
Dr. Dudley still believes hie son
was right.
He retired last Saturday after
completing a deal for hie clinic
from his bed at home where he
is convalescing from an illness.
"I leased the hospital to Dr.
(H. I.) Davis, sold him the equip-
ment, gave him my practice and
also—he added with a smile—my
accounts receivable,” Dr. Dudley
explained.
He has been in the thick of
things here for over 20 years
watching Goose Creek grow into
a metropolis in its own right.
UI just had a hunch Gooes
Creek would amount to some-
thing,” he said. His home was
the fourth house built in this city.
It sits on the corner of De Fee
and Ashbel. Earlier houses were
two on Pearce street, belonging
to the Pearce family, and the |
present home of Willi* (Doc)
Cobb, across the street' from the
Dudley home. -
The lumber set out to be
brpught from a planing .mill at
Dayton to Goose Creek for my
home '/as confiscated by the gov-
ernment. It was wartime, but by
a little maneuvering they finally
got my order here,” he said.
Bought Six Lots
He bought six lots on . West De
Fee and a lot on Texas avenue at
Ashbel.
mr
Luther Marion Butler, 59, of 418 West Humble, Gooes
dead and three youths and a girl are in a hospital here aa the after-
math of a three-way automobile collision on Highway 146 at East
Texas avenue at 11 p.m. yesterday. '
Butler, an employe of the production department of the HarL,~
Oil and Refining company, died at 8:80 a.m. in the Lillie-Duke
pital frun a fractured skull and other injuries.
. Ed Richmond, 21, of Evergreen, is conceded but a slight chase*
to live. His left arm was amputated, and he is suffering from a cod- •
eussion of the brain and scalp wounda. I
S. H. Killian, 16, of Mont Belvieu, has a fractured fog.
concussion of the brain, and nw
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Dr. N. L. Dudley
He sold the Texas avenue lot to
J. Guberman and sold two of the
De Fee lots for far more than he
Paid for the seven lots.
When he sold to Guberman, he
retained a 10-foot atrip across the
back of the lot. That atrip now
is leased to Culpepper’s. The lease
provides that he can use all the
space from “11 feet above the
ground to the sky.”
"Just to show you how much
property value has advanced in
Goose Creek in 20 years, I consid-
er that 10 by 25-foot strip today
to be worth more than the entire
block, bounded by Texas, Ashbel,
De Fee and Gilliard streets, when
I made the Burchase,” he said.
But for an argument over $160,
Dr. Dudley might today have
(See Dudley Retiree, Pag* 2)
700 ARE DEAD IN
JAPANESE FLOODS
Kobe Is Hardest Hit
As Cascades Crush
Business Section
TOKYO, July 6 (UJD-The offi-
cial death toll in storms and
floods which swept the main Is-
lands of Japan from points north
of Tokyo to south of Kobe neared
the 700 mark today aa
workers combed devastated areas
for hundreds of missing persons.
Kobe’s business district was es-
pecially hard hit.
Water reservoirs broke. Rail
and wire communication between
Kohe and Tokyo was uaralyted.
Highways were Impassable.
Water in Kobe’* main street
was 10 feet deep. All business
was suspended.
Press dispatches reported 70
persons drowned or buried under
landslides in Nlcblnomlya village.
Little damage, however, was re-
ported In the great industrial city
of Osaka—a chief munitions mak-
ing center-adjacent to Kobe.
The Kobe prefectural govern
ment estimated that 441 bodies
had been recovered in the pro-
vince. The government also re-
ported a preliminary estimate of
1200 houses inundated to a depth
of more than 10 feet
Japan was prepared to go to war
to aid Germany at any time that
such a course was deemed nec-
He said that the Japanese sd-
mind Adolf Hitler and placed him I BAS
the aana dais as “a great HOUL’
statesman" with Prfridrat Roosq-iHer ,20th
waa
National League
Wins All-Star
Dfeam Game Tilt
CINCINNATI, July 6 ®RI -
Before a sell-out crowd that
overflowed the Cincinnati Na-
tional league park here today,
the All.Stars from the National
league defeated the American
leaguers, 4 to 1 in the annual
renewal of inter-loop “dream
game” rivalry.
Getting off to an early lead
and protecting the margin
throughout the tilt, the repre-
sentatives of the senior circuit
had all the better of the mid-
summer baseball spectacle.
Officer Says Japan to
Fight for Germany
SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 6 «J.P)
—Capt. Ziro Hadano, commander
of the Japanese training shin
Kalwo Mare, asserted today that “ontgosnery-Ward and Allis Clad
STOCKS DECLINE
AS BUYING SAGS
Railroads, Aviation
Shares Hold Firm
Against Trend
NEW YORK, July 6 to
Stock# receded at a moderately
active opening today. Bonds and
cotton ware steady.
Soma rakroan and aviation
sharea firmed ngauuii the trend.
Farm shares displayed steadiness.
Steels, communications and uttli
ties receded.
United States Steel opened 1600
sharea *& 08 1-4 off 1-2. American
Smelting opened at 48 1-2 off 1-2.
Du Pont and American Telephone
lost a point.
FraMeaa! declines were noted
in North American, General Mo-
tors, Consolidated Edison, Inter-
national Nickel, Western Union,
to 81. Chesapeake * Ohio mad#
a similar gain to 81. Chrysler sag.
ged 1 1-4 polnta to 64 54.
July 6 am
i l O-pound son—
39-year-old Mrs.
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NATIONS PONDER
REFUGEE PUZZLE
32 Countries Join
In Conference to
Decide Fate
At the Invitation of President
Roosevelt, delegates of 32 nations
met at Evlqn, France, today to
consider means of opening their
border* to destitute refugees, In*
eluding nome.ese Jews from Ger
many and Austria.
Of the 32 nations, 21 are In
North and South America, tradi-
tional refuge of the oppressed
Germany was not represented, nor
was Italy.
Jewish leaders urged the con-
ference to persuade Great Britain
to open Palestine to more exten
sire Jewish settlement. Even as
the delegates met, however, news
was received from Palestine of
further grave disorders between
Arabs and Jews,-so that It seem-
ed unlikely Britain would want to
antagonize the Arabs further by
admitting more Jews.
The problem of aiding refugees
from Spain also was before the
conference.
The Insurgent drive on Yaton
da continued its seemingly in-
evitable course, the nationalists
driving steadily down the eastern
(S#e Nations Ponder, Page 2)
GOOSE CREEK AND
PELLY VOTE TAXI,
ZONING RULINGS
Taxis Ordered Off
Streets; Hearings
Scheduled
Two new steps in municipal reg-
ulation had been taken today by
the cities of Goose Creek end
Pelly.
The Goose Creak commission
last night Passed on first reeding
an ordinance for regulation of jit-
neys, service cars, taxis and any
and all other vehicles for hire.
Zoning Commission
The Pelly board of aldermen
enacted an ordinance creating a
toning commission
Provisions of the Goose Creek
ordinance, which will become ef-
fective July 81 are that no public
street or alley can be used for a
public stand, for any taxicab, auto
or any other motor vehicle, wagon
or other vehicle operated or let for
hire.
flMFfoe
Penalty for violation is a max-
imum fine of $1001
The ordinance was drawn to
meet the ruling of county court-
at-law which held the ordinance
levying a license fee against serv-
ice cars and taxis to be invalid’.
The Pelly ordinance provides
for s commission of five members
to draft s series of ordinances
setting out fire zones, a building
code and provisions for condem-
nation of buildings considered
health and fire jiazards, pod for
race segregation.
To Hold Hearings
The commission members will
be appointed by Mayor W. C, Wil-
liams, and after they have drafted
they will
their recommendations,
hold a public hearing.
If any change* are made as re-
sult of the hearing, they will be
incorporated in the final draft to
be reported to the board of alder-
men.
The aldermen will hold a public
hearing on the final draft before
passage of the ordinances Placing
the recommendations into effect,
City Attorney Shannon Morris
said.
Purposes of the zoning plan, he
added, are to assist the Petty
Housing Administration and for
general Improvement of the city.
Bandit Killed, Two
Shot In Gun Battle
Detroit, July e <u»- An Ar-
ksnaaa bandit was dead and tWo
others were in a hospital today
after a gun battle with police
along busy city streets.
Thirty-seven shots were fired In
Union Pacific firmed 1-2 point the chase that extended for two
miles and led
Henry Ford tu
The d#ad man waa Brys Wag-
non, 26. Ms wourided compan-
were his brother, Louis, 21,
25. Ail were
They had be en
one day, and the
their
BRIEFS
KANSAS CITY, Mo, My 6
<UW—The record flow of wheat
through the Ransaa City market
continued today. Receipt* for
the day were 1,280 carloads—
1.980,000 bushel*, making the
receipts for today and yester-
day 7,604,000 bushels.
WASHINGTON, July 0 <U»_
Independent moving picture op-
erators are urging tins national
economic committee to Invent!
^re^rsaeFsanau! x^rsa^usasusu^gy wt# S08
gpto the multi.milHoo doUar
“movie trust," It wa* leaned
today.
rivrrhead, if. Vm Mr «
lU.Rl—Assistant District Attor.
my Lindsay & Henry charged
today at the trial of etx Nasi
—p officers that members of
ti»e German-American Bund sob-
pledge nltogtaaee to AAeW Hitter.
GEORGE WEST,
merous cuts and bruises.
rj. c. "Bob” Hunter, 10, ot
Goose Creek, received severe
scalp wound* and cuts and bruises,'
Dorothy Dobbs, 10, of Mont Bel-
vieu, has s wrenched back and
cuts and bruises.
In Hospital
All but Killian are in the LUlto-
Duke hospital.
John MUlsr, 10, Douglas Clapper,
19, and John Bond, 16, all of Bay-
town and Katherine Dobbe, Mont
Belvieu, were teoa sertouely injur-
ed and after emergency treatment
were released from the hoepftal.
Butler, Richmond, Dorothy
Dobbs and Killian were brought to
the hospital In threw Paul U. La*
ambulances. Killian today was re-
moved to the Methodist hospital
in Houston for special treatment
Butler was returning to hto
home after work, ssd was coming
south on Highway 146.
Th* other two care were going
north on Highway 146, traveling
at a high rate of speed, officers
were told by witaose**, and wars
running side by side down the
(See Oar Crash, Png* 2)
CHINESE WAR TOLL
IS PAST MILLION
Conflict Ends First
Year With Peace
Hopes Dim
SHANGHAI, July 6. 0I» - Tho
first year of the Chineae-Japanee*
war has cost more than s million
lives.
These men and women and chil-
dren, have perished on far flung
fields of battle; in bombed cities;
in flooded river valleys; and from
disease and famine in the wake of
war.' ■ f?
Japan has won almost all th®
battles in this war that began out-
side Peiping a year ago tomorrow,
She now occupie# 75 per cent of
China’s commercial and industrial
areas.
And yet, according to the con-
sensus of qualified foreign observ-
ers here, she is little nearer to the
succesaful realization of her ob-
jectives than she was six months
MgQ,
The battlefields on which be-
tween 1,000,000 and 2,00),000 men
have been mobilized by both sidea
spread out over an area more than
half the size of Europe.
Foreign military attaches and
welfare workers estimated that
about 450,00 Chinese soldiers have:
been killed and 850,00) wounded,
Chinese civilan casualties were
estimated at 500,000, including
75,000 killed.
lignite same sources estimated that
casualties were mors
of which roughly
. ......_ » foiled. .
Although the Chinese J
driven far Inland and t
nese are in possession of
the principal porta of
their vast revenues,
prospect of peace.
Odd Fellows J
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No. 960,
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