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THE DAILY SUN
GOOSE CHEEK. FELLY, BAYTOWN, LA PORTE AND SURROUNDING AREA.
louses
lirts
lirti
ts
BNTERFEIT Pro-Jap Uprising In
ONE) TRAIL South China Feared;
EADS HERE ^anton Is Attacked
cal Officers And
I. S. Agents Seeking
i Find Source of
ogus Half-Dollars
<#I »wf United State* officer*
r were following a trill of
tetfeit money in the Tri-Cities
ring the passing yesterday
noon of a bogus 50-cent piece
•Jtown.
Counterfeit coin received
iy was traded at the Brit-
ivens Lumber company for
of lumber by a Mexican
two cents in change,
Seek Mexican —-.................—
Lpt Roy Young and Deputy
% Bay Allen received a de-
_r yard and today they were
topting to find him for ques-
about where he received
(win. They expressed the be-
I the Mexican Was irtrioeent in
j the money, but believed he
I aid them in traeingits ori
Jlf ■ ■ * •
t was revealed today that oth-
half-dollars hive been
d here and in Houston re-
tly, and that a United States
officer had been in Bay-
i this .week trying to follow a
picked up in Houston.
Suspect Sailors „
tficers would not comment, but
I believed that the govem-
officers suspect sailors on
m and other ships from New
may be the distributors for
| coir* for an eastern ring,
apt. Young, however, said that
J extent of the passing of coun-
ted money here had not grown
|Kriou8 proportions, but cau-
business houses and .of
to wafch for IKem.
I the eoms picked up here are
d and have a flat sound
i dropped.
(Copyright 191* By U.P.) •'
CANTON, China, Feb. 4 <BP>—By Telephone to Hong Kong)—
BAKERIES IN
HOUSTON HIT
IH PRICE CUT
NEW OIL FIELD FO
IN OFFSHORE BAY TE
This ■ m
All the Local New*
Plus State, National
And Big Foreign New*.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARyT"1938
Martial (aw was proclaimed today aa this great metropolis of South JLabor
China was subjected to mass dirrraids by 30 or more Japanese air 1
planes.
The city was in a panic over report* that a pro-Japanese upris- j
ing was planned. Troop* exercised iron control over the thousands i
of Cantonese who ventured forth into the streets between raids. The i
clatter of anti-aircraft fire coincided with sporadic booming of {
^bbm'bs"dropped in the outskirts.
Kiyer Blocked
The air raids were accompanied
by an attack of Japanese warships
of the liocca Tigris forts defend-
ing Canton at the mouth of the
river. Foreign shipping was or-
dered to leave the river and seek
V safety * " ‘
Council And
Chamber Here Rap
Slash Ordered For
Bread Sold Hefe
1000 MEN WITH 1000 IDEAS FOR HELP
STATE HOSPITAL
INMATE KILLS 3,
WOUNDS OTHERS
Aged Slayer OutgU
After Fleeing
From Asylum
TEWKSBURY, Mass.,- Feb. 4
<1110—A 70-year-otd inmate of lhe
Tewksbury atote infirmary went
berserk today and killed three
fellow inmates. Two others were
boom etectcd By
The steamer
the Chinese.
Shing Cheomg,
price war on bread” and today
which tried to get out, Was too late th« Cr«* Chamber, f6f
and was turned back by the boom. Commerce whed condemnation
When the ship returned here, pas
*engers described bombing on both
sides of the river and said they
saw a formation of 80 Japanese
planes flying aroundi '
They reported that e Japanese
^ticaHy wounded. ^ iM mas. pIane hadbeen .hot down by anti-
fled but was captured in Lowell,
four miles away.
The old man, John Mack, crept
out of his bed in the darkened
men’s ward at 4 a,m. In some
way he had obtained a pistol.
Without warning and apparently
without discrimination he pumped
bullets into sleeping bodies.
> Others May Die
attempt to assassinate Mayor
Chung Yuento, Shots were heard
and i
, . bullet penetrated the steel-shut
*' *^-r wounds. John tered window of a JapaneBe. regi.
, 76, and John O’Donnell, 55, dent.g home. jt wa8 generally be-
were so gravely wounded that J lieved that the ghotg were fjred by
physicians feared they would die, j men involved in a plot to rise
The pistol fire aroused the hos-. agajn8t Canton authorities,
pital. Doctors, nurses and order-1
Michael O'Keefe, 70, was killed,
outright. Edward Merclen 70, Jl'Ti!® „ "rn.7rtfli
and James McGee, 78. died toon the TOT«h»n
afterward
Lewis,
aycraft guns south of the city.
Street Patrolled
Every precaution was taken
against any attempt at disorder.
foreign diplomat was stopped five
times within 10 blocks.
Rumors of every sort flashed
through the city—the most tangi-
Pretest* agauurt the breitd, wa.
being carried on her* was launch-
ed by two groupstoday as the
price of bread w** dropped, to 10
cents a loaf by all Houston ba-
keries. ■ ', .
Laat nltbt the Tri-Cltiea Cen-
tral Labor, and Trades Council
condemned "the action of Hous-
ton hakerie* in prt ■ ipiUtitig ft _
six Houston bakeries.:
This telegram was sent to
Houston bakeries;
• We feel that involving the Tri-
Cities area in the Houston bread
war i« highly unfair to our local
bakery and merchant* f
Principle Unsound
"We believe .that the wholf
principal la unsound and that the
Soldiers patrolled all streets. One ultimate losa will be borne by the
e___Mh. 1 /.Aneumar "Th*
local consumer. The Trl-dtles
Central Labor and Trades Coun-
cil has already gone on record
opposing this prlee war. Wa
ble one thae there had been an would appreciate an, expression
from your company.’’
The telegram was signed by
C. F. Martin, president Of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Meanwhile, grocerymen who
have expressed regrets at the war
IE BILL
ATT BY PERKINS
Secretary Hits
Applying Railway
Act to Sailors
found old men groaning in agony
biood-soaked cots. The alay-
er had fled,—— ----- —
Three hours later, policemen in
a patrol car saw the old man
slinking along a Lowell street.
They leveled their pistols at him,
ahd he gave up.
in A bo omen
AH but O’DonneH were (hot in
the abdomen. He was wounded
in one lung.
I Forty, state policemen were de-
ployed through woods near the
hospital and 25 cruising cars pa-
trolled neighboring roads.
It waa not learned where Mack
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 <U.R>
Labor Frances Per-1 obtained the revolver.
, in a statement to the senate O’Keefe
tehee committee, today oppos-
ite labor provisions of the
maritime bill.
died
Instantly._______The
grpans of the
I *ay frankly that I think that
Wd be a mistake to enact this
I or anything like it into law,”
^ Perking said.
' bill contains labor provis-
l which would apply mediation
I arbitration principles of the
iy labor act to the maritime
screams and
wounded threw the ward Into" "a
panic. Mack already had van-
ishedwhen nurse# and doctor*
arrived. ._____________._______.. . ,
An urgent air raid alarm start-
ed at. 1 a. m. At 7 a- m. there
was a series of alarms. Several
groups of JajMfiese planes were
sighted in the south and west sub-
urbs and bomb detonations were
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LA PORn SEEKS
$8400 WPA GRANT
Trustees Authorize
Gillette to Sign
Application
B*rltime commission ”evi-
UY considered that the pro-
of the railway act would
wor)l In the shipping indua-
because “some very impor-
nodlficatlofi*” were made-j
JContimieo on Page 2)
found Town
[J* lhe TriX’itiee: Walt Baum-
watching a takeoff . . .
”• Coli*y drawing the color
t of red, black and white . . .
Heiman bearing up
r'Y u»der the heavy load
• tacky Newberry passing out
• • . George Provost
about a new book he is
b> get around to reading
_•«» aurprising how many
You don't know when you
w net their names down in
lr*« type ... The big Inter-
I speaker in Houston last
*»id no nation can live
pKsrif, and several from the
'We* baasd him make the
• • • Noted from La
.today: Mr. and Mr*. A.
! 7IY'ri« ... We wonder if
rrmow » elated to
l; McUmore. the United
C ,port* writer . . . C. W.
,.„tfllin* about the times
_tU* Lola Lane visited in
And now ahe’a
Ittill m<*t
i he game young woman
[ >«o*e who knew ■
'!». Iowa
Albert
telling
i!
her up in
. Why are
Brouasard
- P#r,*: Mayor Sharp
^announcement in a few
J1 ‘»n’t political elth-
Yne Shi reman in a
with visitors at
•Joe Dunham ,
*
Two Japs Seized By
British at Singapore
SINGAPORE, Feb. 4 (^-Po-
lice detained two Japanese today
dbeuments they pos-
sessed, as maneuvers designed to
test the strength of Great Brit-
ain’s new $100,000,000 Far East
em naval base reached a. climatic
phaae.
~ Defending submarine!. of“ Oie
Redland force today sighted Blue-
land destroyers of the “enemy”
fleet which i* supposed to be at-
tacking Singapore.
Radio riews of the sighting
brought Redland airplane* which,
by bombing, drove off the destroy-
ers.
WANTS DIVORCE
CHICAGO, Feb. 4 <CJ>) -Frank
Janecka *ued hia wife for di-
vorce In superior court today,
charging that for the past month
she haa prepared nothing for hi*
daily meals except knedllcky and
zely—dumpling* and cabbage.
The La Porte school board to-
day had authorized President Fred
G. Gillette to execute an applica-
tion to WPA OB the basis of an
$8400 project outlined and made
up by the board with the s.id of
government officials.
' The school will provide $1830
of this amount, and the WPA will
furnish the remainder— provided
the application is" accepted and the
grant made.
scaped, concrete walks will be con
structed around the buildings, ad-
equate drainage will be provided
and two hard surface tennis courts
will be constructed.
" The board” vote?- to accept IRe
(Continued on page two)
Simone Simon Is ^
Pneumonia Victim
HOLLYWOOD, FeO TOR)— Si-
mone Simon, the Httle,French film
star who was stricken yesterday
with bronchial pneumonia, was
considerably improved today, ho«-
pital attendants reported.
Physician* described her condi-
tion as "fair." They said she spent
a comfortable night and that her
temperature had dropped consid-
erably.
were making plana bo register
a Ann protest with the Houston
firms. Several were considering
banning the Houston bread (tom
theif Stores ~
•Hit Wednesday
The bread war has been car
ried on in Houston for ’several
weeks, and hit the Tri-Cltiea
Wednesday ’ when one Houston
bakery reduced the pound and
one-baht loaf to 10 cent*. It baa
been selling at 12 cents In cash
stores and 13 cents in credit
stores.
Other bakeries did not meet
th lowered price Wednesday or
Thursday, and Seeger’a Bakery
In Goose Creek announced it
could not reduce price of bread
and continue to.operate. It had
not reduced its price today. “Yes-
terday official* of several Hous-
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Shown here is a view of the
stormy and uprosriou* semion
that marked the general as-
sembly of the 1090 ’ little bu»i-
ness* representative* a* they
met at Washington to discuss
way# and mean* of pulling
Iwndvn out of the recension
rut.yThe photo »how* a section
of the delegates sll elamoring
to be recognized.
Little Men Head For Home
After Uproarious Meeting
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 «j>> —
Representatives of the adminis-
tration-'* smalt buotacaa men’s con
ference wilt report to President
Roioaevelt today on a series of
*ubetanUany anti-New Deal fSSo-
lulions adopted In two uproarious
sessions
' ’rtj. business men scattered to
SAFETY COUNCIL
TO EXPAND WORK
.--yv, , ; ■
Junior Organization
Planned; to Join
National Unit
.omen after discussing* re-
cession remedies. They left ;g|
committee of ll men Who spent
last night compiling a report on
With large enforcement appro*
WASHINGTON, Feb, 4 «JJ»t - pflatldo* unW e*r«Bf IhWTWtb.
LUDLOW PLAN TO
BE DEBATED HERE
Plana for creation of a junior
organization and for affiliation
President Roosevelt today
declared that it waa not fair
to ridicule the small business
men or the efforts of their
conference.
Mr. Roosevelt expressed his
opinion at hie prims confer-
ence ns ho awaited a visit by a
delegation repreeenttag the
business conference which will
submit resolution* incorpor-
ating views of the gathering.
proceeding* which wrtll be sub.
mlttpd to Mb. Roosevelt today.
era) term*, with sevemte funds-
mentals of New Deal policy. They
73-F00TBAND
OF FORMATION
IS REPORTED
Production, Teat
Submerged Land to
Be Made Next Week
ByTracfOwnera
The quest for oil in submerged
land* of Galveston bay Just across
M&L fnm the Tri-CRie*
today gppiirefitly had met with
success in its first venture,
Driller* on th* State Land No.
1 tost, about a mile out from the
mouth of the bayou, today were
preparing to set casing to the bot-
tom of the hole, with every Indi-
cation favorable for a new Gulf
coast field.
The decision to set casing and
make h production tost waa made
today after coring* from the hole
at 6030 feet revealed a solid sec-
tion of (bale with oil bearing
xtreaks of sand.
73-Foot Section
Th# streaks were reported show-
ing from 6966 feet, where the sand
•was first picked up yesterday,
through to the present bottom hole
depth, a total of 78 feet of oil
streaked shale.
Indications that the well, being
drilled by the Standard Oil com-
pany of Texas in conjunction with
proto* Vt^SiSu*'
er than to seek new legislation
They allied for further reatria*
(Continues on page 1)
with state and national a#socta: j ln
Measure Reaction
Politicians received more thaii
one laugh from the .proceeding#, f
One observer, jerking a thumb
ANOTHER BRITISH
FREIGHTER SUNK
Rebel Planes Bomb
And Machine-Gun
Coal Slip
BARCELONA, Feb 4 flJB —
It was asserted officially today
was shown by the fact
er# will not make a drill stem test.
They indicated the ahowing was
sufficient to warrant setting of
casing without running either an
electric survey or making the drill
fttlBIII tmt, r ;
Plan Production Teat
A production tost will be made
some time next week, depending
oh completion of the casing set-
ting job. A 73-hour period-dee
cement to set after casing is run,
is required.
In the Cedar Bayou ana, the
Merit and Ingot companies were
. still undecided today on which dir
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the Tri-Cities safety council. | marked: "Snow white and the 700
The council met last night ab dwarfs.’’
Horace Mann Junior high school j PpWcal Washington, however;
and developed plans for extending I measured the conference In terms
its work. . > |<rf reaction to current n«W poll-
Karl Lowe Springer, president,1 ciea.
Hear Houston Men 8B*C| 'a®1 n**ht that ^ locai j It generally was believed that M*.- .
organization's work can b« made]the conferees wars not steered by'reported Uto attack,
nxmr-effeettoa through - af fllia--js;fBiTnlxtTfft>r>H IkWIgrir-^iWrtlj-.' "jfbait and a govern-
tions with the state and national the conclusion# Mggeated In re»o-lm(.(1, jjuna, Mv*d the remainder
Young Democrats to
pf | that two seaplane* from th* na-
in the Balearic#, bombed and sank
the British steamship Alctra 20
miles southeast of Barcelona. .
The attack waa mad# at 6 45
a.m„ It waa said. Ll
Member* Of to# A If Ira * crew,
arriving h«re by rowboat, flrat
1
STOCKS CLOSE TODAY
Cosrtesy
CITIZENS STATE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
Am*r. Mar. ...
Anaconda Cop.
Cit. Service
Comm. Solv.
Con#. Edison
Com. Oil -~
Cur-Wri.......
Freeport Tex.
Gen. Motors
Gulf ................
Humble ...........
Kirby .............
La. Lan^J
Lambert ----------
Loril lard
lNAt Dairy ......
Nat. Power
Ohio Oil..........
Pure POll .....■■••••
.......21 14
■ *
Elec. Power k Light ........ 8 3-4
Skelly ............................. »•*
$oc. Vac. .................. 14 7-8
Stan. N. J..................—47 8-8
Sun ................... 50
Salt Dome ........................... 17 1-2
Sunray Oil ...... 3
Texae .........-......................... 39
Tidewater -.............. 13 3*4
T X L .........1--------—...... 10
T P C O ..................-........ 8 1-4
U. Gas .............................. 3 3-4
U. Corp.....................-........ 2 »-4
U. 8. Steel ......................— 80 5-8
Wilson Co.............................. 4 1-2
Kroger Ore. ;...............- 15 1-4
Nash Kel.................... 9 8-1
El Paso Natl. Gai ....... 17 3-8
Amer. Rar.......... 12
Elec. Bond k Bh................. 7
A debate on the merita of the
Ludlow amendment which calls
for a national referendum
declaration of war, will feature
-the meeting-tonight--of the Trt--
Ctllea Young Democrata club.
Simon Frank, former captain
of the debate team at the Unt-
veraity of Texaa, and now a Hous-
ton attorney, will have the af-
firmative aide In the debate,
Lewis M. Dickson, president of'
the Harris county organization of
Young Democrats, will present
the negative aide. The meeting
la scheduled to begin at 7:30
p.m., Victor Lannou, secretary of
the local club, announced.
As an extra feature, the Tipi-
ca orchestra, Mexican band from
Baytown directed by Antonio
Banuelos, will furnish music, Lan-
nou said.
C. A. Pickett, of Houston, pres-
ident of the Young Democratic
clubs of Texas, In advising Lan-
nou of the acceptance of Frank
and Dickson to debate, said that
“both of these young men are
brilliant young attorneys and will
do the subject justice. You are
Justified In urging a record at-
tendance."
•J
' ’if*
organizations.
E. W. Bueiow, of Baytown, and
Dan C. McGary, of Gooee Creek,
will b« in charge of the Junior
council, with Boy Seoul* of lhe
district and members of the stu-
dent patrol of schools in' the
Goose Creek aystem forming the
base for membership. Sergeant
L. D. Pyle of the Houston police
department ha# been asked, to
bring equipment here and give a
safety .demonstration. *.*,
Classes ln safety work are to
begin at Robert E. Lee high
school under auspices of the coun-
cil next week. The primer of
safety, approved by the state
will be used. This text is being
used very effectively by the Aus-
tin school system, and wa* ree*
ommended to the council by L.
G. Phare*, chief of the Texas
highway patrol. - All student*
wishing to participate In Uita
work are requested to apply for
the course at the high school.
The executive board of the
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Profit From Nayal
Air Crash U Sought
lutlons adopted. These resolution* of the men the Alctra’*
will be the basis of toe report to mWi lt wu Mid officially, and
be submitted to Mr. Roosevelt
by General Chairman Frgd itolh.
a British observer of the interna-
July Cotton, N. Y.
Erie By........
Roosevelt Approves
Housing Bill Change
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 0>_
The White House today announc-
ed that President Roosevelt has
signed amendment* to th# federal
hoMing act designed to spur a
projected $248)0,000,000 building
boom. ->
Mr. Roosevelt signed the hous-
ing smendment* yesterday, the
White House said, during a day
spent in hie White House quarters
has pure up on nis dess nun
the pest fortnight-
* *______ j—
HAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 4, <C.Ei
The navy's war games paused
today while a board of' Inquiry
attempted to retrieve some prof,
liable information from Wcdnes
day night’s disaster the collis-
ion of two bombing plane* that
cost 11 live*.
“Out of this regrettable and
coatly accldant," Rear Admiral
Charles A. Blakely said, "We may
arrive at a new aafety feature
aircraft maneuvers."
The two giant planes locked
wings while being maneuvered to-
ness and a aauall each of
rii
of Cleveland, *Ohio, and the chair-
men of the 10 committees which
drafted them for submission to
the conference a* a whole.
The conference agreed, ln gen-
BRIEFS
I1ANKOW, China, Feb.. 4
(UK) — Mr#. Kuo Mang-Prn,
embittered because all her
relatives had perished at Us*
hands of the Japanese, pre-
tended to khs a Japanese
prisoner and hit off hi* nose
and ear, advices from Hsu-
angcheng said today.
INGLEWOOD, Calif., Feb.
4 q;j»> _ A woman’* body,
wrapped In gunny sacks, was
found today near Centlnela.
Police said the body appar-
ently had been tossed from an
automobile,
PAKIN, Feb. 4 (UJb —At
the rowhake of telephone
rotiversaOons between Parts
and l-ondon which lasted all
afternoon the government an-
nounced tonight It had order-
ed formally the sinking of
••pirate” submarines by the
French warships of the Medl.
terranran control fleet.
KCDHCRY, Ont., Feb. 4
(U.»—Five men were killed to.
day and 19 Injured when the
N.x 5
committee who was aboard.
A Swedish agent of the non-
Intervention control wu aboard
the British steamship Endymion,
sunk apparently by. a eubroarlne
torpedo off Cartagena.
The official statement said that
the seaplanes first dropped three
tombs at the Alctra and then re-
turned to attack with two more
bomb*.
The Alclra sank at once with
th« cargo of coal it wu bringing
from Great Britain, It wu said.
A member at the Alcira’a crew
said!. to ___________j
••The plan#* first machine gun-
ned us and then relumed slowly.
’The planes dropped three
bombs and made three hits.”
LONDON, Feb. 4 flip) -Great
Britain deckled today to take
(Continued on Peg* 2)
Trouble In Brazil
I« Hinted By Solon
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 CP*
Rep. John J. McGrath, D., Calif.,
questioning Admiral William D.
I-eahy before the house navel af-
fairs committee, uid tod*y that
the United State* may have oc-
casion to use it# navy in Brazil
in the "very near
"In the very
| | 1 sra___#!
making'
o’TtoT1 tJwarik
ul
LAND OFFICE QUIZ
SPLIT^ HEALED
Heath Is Roused At
Insinuations Made
By Senator
AUSTIN, J8#br-4-SLEl—Di#seB-—
aion in the state senate Investi-
gating committee wu apparently
smoothed over today u the body
continued It# study of State land
leasing.
Sharp word# passed yesterday
afternoon when Sen. R. A. Wein-
ert of Seguln objected that Sen.
Joe Hill of Henderson ought to
toll former Secretary of 8tate W.
W. Heath If he I* accused of any-
thing while Hill bored into HeatE’a
bank account. • *
Rapa futnuatioa
Weinert bad been absent from
numerous sessions. When he ob-
jected, Hill retorted “I want to
know If e member who hasn’t been
attending is going to rise up and
take charge. I want to know if
this committee is going to work
together. If we are going to play
ring around a rosy, I hive other
business at boms.”
"I do not object to investiga-
tion,” Heath uid, "but I do not
want ft by iMlnuation.”
Hill asked particularly about a
$4,700 time deposit Heath uid
Ik —------—A-J smaham Meaivul
11 rcprwwiwio nionpjr iethybu
from ule of bank stock and ac-
cumulation of saving* of himself
and wife. "It does not represent
any money received for dealing
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