Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 261, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 17, 1933 Page: 1 of 8
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Today’* New* Today,
Y, AUGUST 17,1933
Machado in Exile
Sheriff Hero of Gang Gun Battle
——
local officers today watched
highways leading to Dallas an a
’tip that armed outlaws were head-
•d In this direction, determined to
attempt delivery of Harvey Bailey
from the Dallas county Jail.
R L*te jesterdav several carloads
Of officers, armed with machine
Runs, tear b:mb« and rifles, left the
fttfrral building for a destination
they refused to divulge
“We r0 on something hot.* was all
jthey would say in reply to ques-
tions, § r
From Fort Worth and Houston
came reports, believed to be from
f undercover men of the department
of jUfeUte; /that George Kelly, no-
torious “machine gunner,’ was
headed toward Dallas with a for-
uuduble company of gangland aide:,
H was presumed. if the report
had foundation that KOfiy.i for
whom an ^xteruive search has bvn
WASHINGTON. Aug. 17—John
Lawson, a hero in union labor
history who used to be shot] and
shot at by coal company gunmen,
eame to the bituminous code gear-
ings here—as a coal operator
Twenty years ago he was sent to
prison on an Indictment charting
him with 13 murders.
Today he is vice president of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. Tfcalp the
concern made famous by Mlsa# Jos-
ephine Roche, who l*s
presidency five years ago. Inv. ed the
United Mine Workers to oi
her mines and has since operated
successfully while paying top wages
in Colorado’s only unionised, coal
area.
above four hundred In this city
alone, and considerably over five
hundred for the county, according
10 committee ertlmatce Modifica-
tions of the blanket code have beets
authorized for several trades and'
industries, as a means of easing the
burdens involved in the wage amt
hour provisions of the plan.
l umplioa-i Mjv Be Beeureg
The procedure by which temper-!
> of the*
Ge-eperales With Data*
Mias Roche and Lawson cal ie to
help formulate and to support the
general coal code which Rocky
Mountain and other con pun.es
worked out with President J 4in L.
Lewie of the U. M. W. Mia Re -
told how greatly reduced ope fating
costa and increased production per
man had been achieved: if her
mines despite increased payrilja. |
Lawson, a tall, gray-haired. «pcc-
taeled. rugged but soft-spoked man
who has always worked for work-
ing men. has direct cfeazfe of
Reeky Mountain's labor relations.
In lhll-14 he was on the U. ft W.
international board ^ bad charge
since the Charles F. Umchel
*ng. planned to attempt to
tnley. Ills companion In crime
for the oil
ha rIron man'* of Cuba a few
hoars before, Gerardo Machado, de-
posed piesidem was a smillpg exile
--a :na:. without a country—when,
la* shown herS, he armed by plane
at Nassau after fleeing for his life
i \ if from Havana
Mates could be induced! to favoi the
removal of the amendment from the
•natltution. But today the most
^cunistic prohibitionist, if honest
with himself, can not Imagine anv
method by which repeal could be
prevented, and even Texas to ex-
pected to give Its endorsement to It.
• • • •
This situation may be analyzed
in a number of different a ays ac-
ary exemptions from some
provisions Of the blanket code may
be seouredlii not complicated. It
was explained today. The Chamber
of Commerce Is the local agency
through which exemption applica-
tions are to be r^ade. Any employ-
er finding himself utterly unable to
meet the requirements ’ of the
blanket code In all their details may
; put as many of them as possible in-
to effect, and then in a letter fried
With the Chamber Of Commerce
may ask exemption on such provis-
ions Sa can not; 'conveniently be
met at this time. Such a letter,
however. binds the employer to
In the meantime Fort Worth of-
ficers were pondering a telepram
purportedly sent them by Albert L.
Bar-" he id in Denver by federal
sgents who believe he ia the Oeorge
Bates wanted In connection with
the Urschel kidnaping.
The ’elepram bore the signature
of “Oeorge L. Da via," known to be
Happening along as four gangsters put Ferris Anthoni rtfiilsn. “on
the spot' on S downtown Kansas City. Mo., street. Sheriff Thomas B.
Bash emerged victor lb s spectacular gun battle, killing two of the aa-
mssiito and captunnc a third single-handed Above Sheriff Bash, right.
are entirely
1W today, as id that he had 1
M«d by President Hcwver du
(the last political campaign to I
■ for, “Political purposes,*’ a st
ment approving a loan of $90,C
000 • to the Chicago bank of wl
[Charles O. Dawes former \
president, is head.
The 'enator said that while
ratement of approva; was not
fmglly issued, he did approve of
sa tone of us appear io think.
Public opinion, fickle and changing,
swings against us or against the
things upon which we place much
valve, today; bat tomorrow It may
change again to our advantage. We
do not believe in becoming too
greatly excited over anything, on
account of excitement being weari-
some. When we recall some of the
Dr. Mollie Armstrong has received Saturday were held under heavy
rotice of her appointment to the guard in the Dallas county Jail with
tometry by 0ov. MiriakTi. Fergu- [
ton. Two vacancies
hoard this week. Mrs. 1 Armstrong Bailey's
was appointed to take the place of prsooer’s
Dr. *. T. Jen Ison of Ban Antonio “That I
Dr. w. Duke Pittman of Mexia. --- r
8tate Board cf Examiners in Op- bonds set st S total of 4300.000.
[ Federal Commissioner Lee
on the Smith In a hearing yesterday fi
James A. Moffett, former $ 104,000
I* year vice-president, of the Stand*
■rd OU Oompany of Indiana, favors
a price fixing arrxnremem Ha
asrtsted Ickes in leefeing the code.
Johnson refused flatly at the tear-
inf to consider any price fixing pro-
vision. Since then, he has nid that
ir sufficient proof were submitted
feat production could be contrasted,
he might consider inclusion of sash
an arrangement in some codes. ^
The original code submitted by
the American Petroleum Institute
r.cluded a provision Sot price fix-
ing. It asked the Pr-siden; to set
“from time to time" and
minimum prices for motor fuel and
otter refined products
Simpson was elated at (he pros-
pect* of a quick agreement an the
oil code. He declined to confirm the
Price fixing reports.
The task of preparing a revised
pods for the ndustry was toned
over to Ickes and Moffett after oU
feeders conferred here lor a week
without being able to reach ait
agreement
A stubborn argument raged
'round a provision In the American
Petroleum Institute code itetegstlng
to refiners the rfetaft to define prices
of petroleum products offered for
TV-safe. Independent distributing
groupb vigorously ’opposed this form
T comment was
lenty of bond
rS^lHeopy C Damage
Is Done By Floods
In MexicaThursday
MEXICO Cnr,' Aug. 11—(AV-
Heavr crop damage was caused to-
day In Tampico and IPanuco by
floods of the Tames* and Panuco
iisers. It was feared that the ast-
ers would rue and threaten the
residential sections of the two dt-
Rivers In fee state of Chihuahua
also Were reaching flood stage"
Floods were feared along fee Con-
'AU8TIN. Tfexas, Aug. 17—{A')—
Lawrence Westbrook, director of
the Texas Rehabilitation and Relief
Commission, today said that an ef-
fort is being made to hold in re-
serve as much as $2 000 000 of the
federal government’s allotment of
$2,573,120 for August to meet
emergencies m the event the pro-
posed $20 000.000 state bond issue
fails to meet fee approval of Tex-
as voters.
If the bond issue is rejected by
Texans, the federal government will
cut off all nelief funds for fee state}
thus leaving the state to provide
for Its own needy during the wtn-
BFNTONVILLA, Ark . Aug. 17—
4’ (h'ne Johnson, whom officers
believe to bej a confederate of the
Wilbur Underhill gang of escaped
K a 1*1 as penitentiary desperadoes,
was critically wounded and his wife
>lightly wounded todav in a gun-
fight with a posse of officers In
the hills twenty five miles south-
west of Benionville
Sheriff O. L. Maples and Okla-
homa and Kinm officers surprised
a group of alleged associates Of
_ . L -i- v m. A fight
sides used
whose term expired, was reappoint- (CONTINUED ON PAGE
been off the board the last four
years.
The appointment was made
earlier in the week but Mrs. Arm-
strong did not receive word until
she returned from a series of op-
tometric meetings held in Amarillo.
Lubbock and Coleman She repre-
sented tte Texas Optometric As-
sociation at these meetings. Dr. E.
B. Alexander, vies president of tte
American Optometric Association,
lectured st each of tte meetings
and also explained tte national
code for the optical Industry
At the Coleman meeting, which
was for optometrists of this dis-
trict, 26 were present and tte dis-
trict was • [reorganized Monthly
educational meetings will be held.
The next meeting win be held Sept.
10 in Coleman and thereafter will
be held in various towns over the
district. Df. Arch Harbour of Cole-
man was elected chairman of this
district and Dr. O. B. Stanley of
Abilene was elected secretary.
aa^ fashion as it has donethrough Schwab, chairman of the bo* rd of
oR tte ages. Oandhl is feiaatealifeiBethlebem 8(061 Corporation, tot tte
jZttsrt another fast, tte war aebig ^i^6 Houi,• J
Wk still unsettled, fanners are srtttl JP*? hour With tte
fempialning about tte need of rain,“**!*?■ '»sk«d tfthey
tbs Republicans an still hopeful of *** discussed tte steel code, Ttylor
Sy£&^TitehfeSl^riL yo£*hLi*5tteiegetPy(iutnej»
Car tteStiSMan!*1- """ P«rident.“
followed in wl
machine guns.
Johnson was sought as the slay-
er of Patrolman Charles Bruce at
McPherson, [Kateas. on last May-
ON. Aug. 17-
Agrlculture Wi
vwm t*gv-u; uui ui§ wav wiu*
ter months.
Hatedwtembers Of ■+
Machado*8 Secret
Police Are Hunted
chitto which
Grande at
EXCEPT, of course, there is a new
“ day every day foe every one of us,
and it might be a very nice day if
we looked st it as a child looks at*
everything We have often thought
that this world undoubtedly is a
most adoring piece to a little child,
who has seen ae Utile and is finding
so much to see, and has sufficient
imagination to make everything he
sees really important
required to pay debts to the govern-
ment amounting to leas than $10,-
000.000 out of the $110 000 000 they
will receive In benefit payments
It had been announced prior to-
day tha money owed for seed and
I THE WEATHER
11*# i * »*y unnliiin
- HAVANA, Cuba. Aug. W—<;P>-
Hunt for hated members of tte
ousted President Machados secret
police force organization continued
today with the capture of Jose Del
Valle after a gun fight.
After an exchange of shots with
soldiers, soma of whom he wound-
ed. Del Valle attempted to escape
over tte roofs of buildings.
EAST TEXAS —Thundershowers
northeast porfion afternoon or
tonight Thundershowers south-
last tonight. Frtdgjr.
WEST TEX AS—Oenerally fair
feed loans, etc., to the government
would not have to be paid out of
the money the government 1* to pay
for the destruction of several; mil-
lion seres of cotton.
Mrs. George F<
Dies Today at
Home in Ft.
Tentative plans for the proposed
state park st Lake Brownwood,
which will be carried out if ar-
rmnggmeots can' be made for its
designation, call for mueb Improve-
ment work and building to be done
by a‘government camp of 200 men
which would be eetabUshed at tte
paiti according to local« officials
who talked with D. X, Oolp chair-
man Of the Stale Paries Board, who
was hers last week to inspect tte
more than 500-acre park site on the
These plans are tentative if the
park l> established and Mr. Coip
said that the plans would be flexi-
ble to tte wishes of tte citisens.
.Week by Federal Govenunrnt
All tte work would be done by
Hem Wife of Brown woex
was In Fort Worth at
her mother s death.
the Federal government and the
park after it was completed would
be turned back to the State to
maintain and keep up for all time.
ExpendllBto of thousands of dol-
lars would rpaolt from the establish-
ment of the park it is stated.
Lake Brownwood through this
park could be made tte playground
of Texas and people would oome
here from long distances and many
mcettnga and conventions could be
bald at the- park in tte opinion of
those working for tte establtor-
ment of the park, f
Reports today were feat plan for
tte astabllshmem of the park are
moving forward and definite an-
nouncement could be ma<fe loon Mr
Co’.p already has accepted the site
and said while here he gns sure the
park would be established If the
^WASHINGTON,, Aug. 17—Cotton
planters scheduled to get about
OIUIPOO.OOO for arr-aim reduction
under President rtoosevelt’s agricul-
tural recovery program, will get no
Checks unless they have plowed
the bank, and on that theory held
them as accomplices in fee holdup.
Tte robbery attempt faj>4,tet*Q
Oeorge Littlefield, assistant caxhfer
at tte bank, opened fire on fee two
bandits who entered the lobby,
Littlefield tried to set off a fourglai;
alarm, but the apparatus .would not
of taxable prep-
ately $’0,000,000,
nt about $7oo.ooo
.al valuations for'
OT ago the total
re .than $13 ooo -
Processing Tar an
1 .Textile I m ushy*
Hat Stopped Baying
OHMNVmjT s' a. Aug. 17-
VPhf- tealtte, P"evident of
tte South Carolina cotton Manu-
tacturers Association today «ea*d
the impotetton of rt federal prntefe
tog tax in Che textile industry had
resulted in tte stoppage of baying
Gay Waggoner G
Bodyguard Aft<
Threats By Gi
under their cotton by next Wed-'
nesday. August 23. fee agricultural)
adjustment adix.nistrauon an- !
notmeed ywterdaf.
As soon as they send to Washing-
ton certificates at performance
proving that they have plowed
under from 26 u 90 per cent of
their crops, the checks will be mail-
ed to them, said iC A. Cobb, chief
of eotto" n~vduetion section
About i ,031 .ooo cotton grower*
have offered to sRmtnate Dart of'
their crops end about 170,000 offers
f| is the first year that the
il tax for interest and sgiking
i for fee city and school dfe-
)ias been dlyided. Heretofore
fecial tax has bean ahotii as
at* for the city and sclioo ciis-
vxnbtam. This year fee city’s
y and She
1 dfetricN Is 31 cents. Seventy
of tte total goes Into tte ttty’s
road* and trails would be con-
structed. tte work to begin before
Tecember 1. Underbrushjteould be
cfeaibd out and the site in general
would be Improved anc beautified
lfSMtof.1 teeter and sewer systems
for the park would be built. Tte
State would maintain the park
and keep one er two caretakers
there all fens. The camp would rt-
COLORADO SPRINGS
—Our Waggone r 50, millt
man of Fort Worth. Tn
protected by an armed t
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