Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 28, 1931 Page: 6 of 8
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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1931
lS-^That Lucky
A hong Shot, But,
Number!
WHERE BODY OF EDISON LAY IN STATE
Boy, He Hits ’Em
days the affair should be held—
whether one. two or Wee days In
succession. After the first Trades
Day program is held, If successful.
o'.her Trades Days will be planned.
Many of the business men who
spoke on the subject1 polnte^rnit
other towns that have tried
Days and found them successful.
Speak in Favor of Mere
Among those speaking In favor of
the move were: Gus Rosenberg, O.
B. Canon of Dublin and Canon, C.
Y. Early of Walker-8mith Co., W.
D. Armstrong of Armstrong Jewelry
Company, Henry Wilson of Plggly
Wiggly, J. F. Renfro of Renfro
Drug Company, Grady Harcrow of,
The Brown wood News and Sunday
Record. Rufus 8tanley of Hopper is
Stanley. Mrs. J. W. Jennings of
The Shop of Youth, Roy Morris of
Aust in-Morris Company and Hans
Schrocder of Brownwood Floral
Company.
Present conditions call for progres-
sive and wide-awake business men
who ask people to come to their
? MENARD. Texas, Oct. 38—(AV"
Sr. William Judd, husband of Wln-
nlt Ruth Judd who la charged with
the murder of two Artoooa women,
in WO married the i 17-year-old
arm*. DoUle Colwell of
Minard. The couple was married
in the Kimble crunty courthouse at
junction and Mrs. Colwell was a
witness to the ceremony. Judd had
practiced medicine In Menard.
The newlyweds went to Phoenix
aad In one month the bride died.
Dr Judd is reported to have told
Mrs. Colwell in a letter that death
M the result of acute indi-
rection and heart disease.
Mrs. Colwell said Dr. Judd came
to Menard 'early In the year 1930
wttt a Dr. Longino. intending to
meeting. With the new highways
and Improved roads leading out of
Brownwood In every direction, ithe
town embraces a much larger terri-
tory and is entitled to an increased
trade, it was pointed out.
Business men of Brownwood are
behind the rc-we one hundred per
cent and the some seventy-five per-
sons at the meeting pledged full
support and cooperation in making
Trades Day a glorious success as a
movement which win benefit Sthe
entire city.
■ • •" * J NEA Bureau
Thirteen an unlucky number? Well, hardly! Listen to this: Both the
Rrv. end Mrs. William H. Deacon of Malden, Mass., were bam oh the
13th day of a month, and so was their baby son. Therefore, when they
baptized him. they chose ts do It on Sept. 13th, which is their wedding
anniversary. Two cousins who were present at the ceremony each has
a b nhday anniversary on the 13th day of a month. Here father, mother
’• and son are pictured shortly after the baptism.
Among them were Margaret Bond- candidate# to remain in their con-
field. the nation's first woman cab- stitutneies until results of an glec-
inet member. Tom Shaw, Herbert tlon are declared, pressure of gov-
Morrlaan. J. R. Clynss, Arthur V. (eminent business forced Mr. Mac-
Alexai der. H B. Led Smith and Sir Donald to return to Downing Street
Een Turner. (before the announcement! of the
Rest Its of the election were slg- Seaham count, in which his own
nalizcc todry by a burst of enthu- fate is sealed. i ' — *
siasm on the stock exchange and' The announcement Is expected
a gem nal marking up of prices of , ^ afternoon
gllt-ed red offerings and industrials ' teremoon.
lirokers-Banker. Happr { Comments By Preaa
Deal-rs and brokers arrived long, „ . ' „
before 10:30. the official opening1 LOKDON, Oct 28 —,£>/— The
time.* ind cheered heartily at the Daily Express owned by Lerd
MOUNTAINEER ARTILLERY—No
wander those scutum bin folks are
famed for their marksmanship—just
loci: at the kind of “cannon” they
use. Here's 8. B. Fann. TermaMM
mtuntalneer. powder horn and all.
showing his 24-pound, eight-foot
muzzle-loader with which he puts
bullets through a target 00 . feet
away and no bigger than a quarter,
at the National Rifles Mate has at
tlmony of Maddi made cut a com-
plete case against relator, he Wing
an accomplice witness, the law
steps in and prevents conviction un-
less his testimony be corroborated
by other evidence tending to con-
nect relator with the offense charg-
ed.”
Edwards' body had been foued
beneath a bush on a residential
street, the stat? contending he had
been lured into an automobile, shot
to death and his body thrown from
the car.
Frank Ada mo aJao was indie led as
in nddrimrih/a
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 3b—<;P> —
With Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed
aSaywr of two women, reported undqr
observation In the county jail by a
an accomplice
After long and exhaustive tests, Studebaker engineers approved Philco Transltone Radios as optional
equipment. The unit Is completely and neatly mounted In the front driving compartment. Only the dirl
(at extreme right! is visible to casual examination. The remainder of the set is snugly stowed away. It
is fastened under and behind the dash Immediately behind the dials, where it is accessible, but does not tn-
lnterfere with leg room. Loudspeaker is above and behind the steering column.
and only 49 were elected.
Mr. MacDonald, pleased at jhis
own victory, was elated to le*m
that his son. Malcolm, also had b~\-.
elected on the national labor tick-
et. He described the outcome of
the election as a national govern-
ment victory and not a victory of
parties.
He called a meeting of the cab-
inet for tomorrow morning, loglnt:
1 no time In putting into effect his
own definite and clear-cut policies
She’s Tiniest Cop
Oovemor Rolph yesterday. Mm' : - - — - - ’
'Judds attorneys said they would thought suffered several thousand !
* dahn an error was made In the is- dollars'damage. The thermometer
jnance of the extradition paper* *clock M ^ frDTlt ot ^ incubator l
[however, was still working this
FbSee^held for quest u>ntr*Yman morning after going through the ter- t
k giving the name of Fred Williams, J rifle heat of the fire. . ' Aoout 2,500
. a transient. He walked Into the eggs were in the incubator and were
* police station and said he had aided ruined, it is thought. About 1.000
Mrs. Judd in slaying the two women baby chicks that had just been
Whose bodies were sent to Los Ange- batched were killed by the lire. 1
Is* in trunks. Police placed little There were klso slight damages to
credence in his story. the refrigeration machinery and the
4-4-*. _ •' r' cold storage vablta. There was con- J*
'■ Judd’s First Wife < •: siderable water damage to ail fix-
, PSOENLX. Arizona. Oct. 28—(AA tures and st:ck in the main build-
* —Examination of records here to- ing. but there was no'damage to a
day disclosed that the first wife o# con.-uderabie amount of feed whicn
* Dr. William CL Judd, husband of was stored in the adjoining building . I
Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, charged Whole Block Threatened
with the ilaying of Miss Hedvig For a time the fire threatened to
Samuelson snd Mra Jtgnes Le Rot, spread over the whole, block of frame
died in Pnoenixjin July, 1920 . buddings. A group of stalls in city t
A Phoenix physician, now dead, aa^on yard, part of whicn Is located I
signed the deafh certificate, giving directly oacfc of the produce build-
- the cause of death as "narcotic. ing, caught but the blaze was soon
poisoning * l [extinguished.
At the time. Dr. Judd was an as- '■ The Brownwood Volunteer Fire
slatant physiemn at the Arisons Department did expert fire fighting
Stale Hospital for the Insane. Au- iq control the blaze. Trucks from
theritles mid Dr. and Mrs. Judd taaotral and No. 2 fire stations an-|
had been married "about a week sacred thy alarm and 1uoo feet ox'
when Mrs. Judd, listed on the death | ^ were laid ip ffitiijth* fire. 1
certificate as 'Mrs. Lillian Judd.'j Both T. E. and J. E. Witcher com-*
<**•£•" ^ ^ j "7 _ I mended Fire Chief Ranee Pettltl.
j take up the reins of gang leader*
| ship in Chicago, now that Al Ca-
pone is kicked up in-Jan ss an Si-
j come tax dodger.
“Dago Lawrence” Manga no, list-
' ed by the Chicago crime commis-
sion as a “public enemy” was,ques-
tioned on the subject yesterday, fol-
lowing reports that his followers
had been planning to form a new
syndicate to take the place of Ca-
pones but Mangauo was prompt
With a denial.
“I don't want to be king fur a
day." he told Chief of Detectives
1 William Schsenuker, implying that
! he would expect to be killed If he
assumed Capone’s place as a gang
leader.
Mangano was taken to a cell and
informed by Sclx.erx.aXrr that he
would be am-ted sv»i
of Schoemaker's men
Al Still ia Jj
cmcAoo. oct. at.- . .
pone remained in the county jail to-1 Ii
day wi.de his attorneys decided what nat
to do next. <
Granted a supersedeas writ that
allowed him to stay out of the pen-
itentiary during appeal to the Su-
preme Court, but denied bail, the
gangster was ordered kept In custody
with no credit toward his eleven
year sentence in Leavenworth for
lax evasion. *****
Defense Attorney Michael Ahern
a big r lajority, will restore the con-
tide net of foreigners in sterling-: , y
This ii considered the main factor
tending toward better international for
dealinr s.
So Urge a
These he outlined several da.
ago. asserting that the fovemmvn:
had three outstanding tasks—to
stabilize the pound sterling, to bal-
ance British trade and to negotint'
international agreements regardmu
World War debts.
So Urge a majority has not gone
to a pfrty singe 1S32
erals had 370 seats in __ _ _____I________
The top-heavy conservative margin rule."
is highly significant and as sensa- The Manchester Guardian,
tional a development as any other staunch liberal paper, expressed lt-
aspcct of the election. ! self as far from pleased at the
The party's sensational gains prob- strong hold it foresaw the conserva-
abiy will throw a net set of problems lives would have on the destinies of
Into Mr. -j MacDonald s lap and he tne new parliament. The Guardian
indicated as much today when the supported David Lloyd Oeocge in
early returns clearly showed the his opposition to bolding an elec-
sweeping conservative victory. HU non. leday It expressed particular
first statement was to the effect that fear for the fate of Prime Minister
the victory was to the national gov-[ MacDonald "among the cohort of
eminent and not to individual par- tones wnich will surround him."
j- I Ji Majority Increases
Laborers Disappointed LONDON. Oct 28—(JP>—On the
LONDON. OcV. 3i.—<;p>— Men in' basis at 967 available returns the
starched white shirt fronts and standing of the parties tn the House
swallow-tailed coats qua pretty worn-, of commons ss a result of yester-
« to dUmoud* .nd MU,im. OrK IKnl .IK** ~ ** «*-
cheered themselves hoarse last night 0
in Mayfair's hotels because of the Coneervatlves ..................447
nationalist government** election Wattonsl Liberals 4----------- 63
victory./v Labor Opposition .............' 43
n the lib-
House.
SEAHAH HARBOR, DIRHAM
Eng.. Oct. JS—<jp>—Prime Minister
J. Ramsay MacDonald was reelected
to the House of Commons frem this
constituency. I * -
He was in a three-cornered fight
running against William Coxon. a
schoolteacher, the regular labor
candidate, and George Lualey, a
communist.
The Prune Minister s majority was
5.951. t
r time any in tw. 1929 election, running as
sw him. the labor candidate against a con-
servative, a liberal and a cotnmun-
I ' .1st. he p iled 35.915 votes for a ma-
#p)-AliCa- jority of 29.794.
' l election he ran ae the
labor candidate.
TIME TO RENEW ! ‘
The Bulletin One Yetr,
$4^0 ■; W:
We specialize on Small
Jjshtpmenu of choke Pecan.
The potential total m support of | and Pecan MeaU. Looney'ii,
the national government thus was _______
522. cpposltlon 43 and doubtful 2. [-- n 1
Your Child’s
Uve in the Epping Division of Es-
sex county, was elected to the house - ,
cf commons m a three-cornered VIvlAII
secured a war majority In the
House of Commons this morning
with 309 seats out of 333 returns,
reported, and hall the electorate
still to be heard from 1
The party standing tqye the con/
arrvativcf 392; national \ labor M;
liberals 39; opposition labo*\24;/In-
dependents one. ['y' •
Thus the national government
had 309 of the 915 seats, the oppo-
sition had 24 sad one was doubt-
ful.
MacDonald* government rode the
crest of one of the most surging
electoral tides of British polity his-
tory. a sweep of votes that flatten-
ed the labor party/and aU but ob-
literated David Lloyd Oeorge's lib-
erals. \ /
i Most of the tew> ring heads of the
labor party wsM down. One of the
first to fall wgs “Uncle Arthur"
Henderson, foreign minister In the
late labor cabinet, one of the found-
ers of tM party and Its leader after
Mr. MacDonald was repudiated
Will Soon K< build
!aaid he might go to Waahtogton to
apply for ball to Justice Van De-
van ter, the Supreme Court member
assigned to the seventh Judicial cir-
cuit. If he were refused bail there.
'Aberis indicated he might ask to
have the writ of supersedeas vacated
so Capone could be taken to Leav-
enworth to start serving his sen-
tence, pending further legal action.
While Capone • lawyers were work-
ing for him, the gang leader re-
mained In a hospital ward oaD on
the fifth floor or the jail. He eats
the jail's cornmeal mush or oatmeal
with his morning coffee and stewed
fruit, but has hu> luncheon sent in
by his family.
Arthar Ilardav
LONDON. Get 28
Hayday, president c
Trades Union oound
by over 5.000 votes
of Nottingham west
Lady Aster B selected l
LONDON. Oct. 28 - yP - Lady
Nancy As tor. the first woman ever
to be elected to the House of Com-
mons. will cut a greater figure than
ever when the house reassembles
in December, r * j
Thus far. as a result of yester-
'qay's voting, nine wompn members
hbre been elected, all of them con-
servatives, and It stems probable
they win beicnptain.xi by the Vir-
ginia girt who has made a distin-
guished piuqc for herself In British
Reliable school statis-
tics reveal that ONE
out of every FOUR
school children bat
poor vision 4 virion
vative opponent in yesterday s
tlon. At the last general el
his majority was more than 1>
ney General, represented the State
of Texas. .
General Welters, in an answer fil-
ed to the contempt citation, claimed
that in Ignoring the federal court’s
temporary injunction and enforcing
proration of the Brock-Lee wells he
was obeying an executive order of
Governor R. 8. Sterling. /
firemen were fighting desperately to
1 conquer the fire, a man ventured a
|tew feet inside one of the buildings' ^Jrrv.,
r'and rescued three small kittgns. i "vrV?;
Amazed at such unusual happenings,
the three kittens, wet and JoSSm
MaeD—aM Fate Uakaewa.
The fate of the prime minister
himself, after tbs bitter contest in
his own conrtiturnry at Seaham,
was not known through all the dra-
ma of the returns last night aad
this morning. The votes in the
Seaham division are not counted
until afternoon.
J. H. Thomas, dominions secre-
tary and one of the old labor cab-
inet members who stood by Mac-
Donald in the organisation of tbe
labor party, was victorious in a
similar battle at Derby, however,
and this was taken as an indica-
tion of tbe result in MacDonald*v
At the last election, tn 1939, Lady
Aster only aquecrhl into the house
with a majority of 211 vote* over
her labor opponent. This time, tn
a straight fight, her majority waa
10,204.
An three socialist women mem-
bers of parliament met detent yes-
terday. They were Ma^aret Band-
field. first woman to achieve n cab-
inet place; EDan WUkinaon and
MBs Mega Lloyd George, daugh-
ter of David Lloyd Qearge. running
on a liberal ticket, defeated A.
Hughes, conservative, by n majority
of mere than 4.000 votes.
V David Lloyd Oeorge, whose liberal
party was virtually smashed In the
voting, was elected in the Carnarvon
district of wales, the constituency
he has represented for years in the
House of Commons
BODIES OF FOUR MEN.ARE
. RECOVERED, CAUSE CITED
JACKSON. Os.. Oct 39—<JP)—
Forties of four meft who started
across Ocmulge* riv/r lake in a
small boat Sunday have been re-
covered and their deaths attributed
by a coroner's -jury to accidental
drowning. Tlte bodies recovered
were those of Bernard Gaston.
East Point. On, C. C. Smith, At-
lanta, White, and Willie Willis and
Duden Oruncs, Jasper county ne-
aid Ml by
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