Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 159, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 20, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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EIGHT PAGES TjODAY
VOL XXXVH1 HO. 159
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20* 1938
SENATE PROBERS
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ARE DEFIED BY
SUMNERGERARD
Divisional Regatta to Be Held Here
NAMED AS SITE
FOR RACE MEET
Attention Expected
WPA Administrator Takes
Executive Program
To Congress
WASHINGTON, April SO-(UP>
-President Roosevelt broadened b»«
aid to business program to Include
public utilities today while Works
Profreai Administrator Harry Hop-
Radio-Controlled
Auto8 Predicted
Accused Slayer
Asphalt Surfacing to Be
PlaMd on 7 MUes
Of Highway
NEW YORK. April S*-(UP>
Automobiles may be running on
electrical energy drawn from the
air In a few years. William A.
Van Duaer told the Orcttrr New
York Safety Council
They wlU have three wheel*,
enabling them to make 00-degree
turns; sharp blades that may be
dropped instantly to the pave*
ment to prevent skidding: photo-
electric cells that will keep them
from running past red lights and
control their speed.
Van Duaer Is traffic director
for the District of Columbia.' He
addressed a section of the Na-
tional safety Council In mm tan
On adrioe of counsel Elisha Han-
son, Rumeiy denounced the com-
mittee action as a “fishing expe-
dition" and refused to comply with
Low bidder on project for paving
seven miles of the Brownwood-
Cross Cut road was R. W. McKin-
ney of Nacogdoches, according to
announcement today by the State
Highway Commission In Austin. The
bid was 64A31S and contract la ex-
pected la be approved on that fig-
new M.M2 ooo.ooo recovery drive
with a 11250.000 000 appropriation
for relief. *
Mr. 'Roosevelt drove his recovery
program forward with fast-devel-
oping activities both OD Capitol Hill
and at the White House.:
Hopkins carried the executive
program to Congress, informing a
House Appropriations subcommittee
that the new relief fund Is needed
. Plans call for flexible base and as-
phalt surfacing on the road from a
point seven miles north of Brown-
wood. where present paving ends, to
a point north of the intersection
with Lake Brown wood State Park
road.
She new project will give a paved
road to within a few miles of the
state park*. J
The project for paving the flret
seven-mile eectigaj of the Browri-
wood-Croes Cut road was complet-
ed, in October. IBM R W. Mc-
Kinney of Nacogdoches aMo was
contractor on this job on a bid of
HUM. j f /
Local officials say the remaining
•vet >oa of the road to the Callahan
county line eventually will be paved.
CCC ENROLLMENT
HIKE EXPECTED
Stale Motion j
Rehearing in R. D,
Wichita Falla Tulsa
Motorless Flight Is
Checked for Award
EIGHT NEGROES
DIE IN CREEK
8MITHVILLE. Tex.. April 30 —
fOP)—Bodies of eight negroes, all
victims of a bridge collapse near
Upton. Bastrop county, weir brought
here today
The dead are Lee Lemuel. 60 bis
wife Seeley. 54, four of their chil-
dren and two grandchildren. .
According to word brought to
Smithvllle the group were in an
automobile that was driven onto a
bridge over Beaver creek which was
» flooded last night from heavy rains
In the vicinity Ae the automobile
reached the middle of the bridge the
Structure collapsed carrying the car
and occupants into the flood wa-
ters. Their bodice were recovered
during the nlgbt.
King Carol in Bed
With Attack of ‘Flu
BUCHAREST, Roumanla. April 301
—CUP)—King Carol, suffering from ;
Influenza, was confined to hls'bodj
today while his bitterest enemy he-
ron serving a prison term for having
Insulted a government official.
Cornelius Zeleo Codrranu. leader
of the outlawed pro-Nazi Iron
Ottards which allegedly had plotted
to overthrow the government and f
establish a dictator^ to must serve ;
sis months. During that time the
government will attempt to prove
that he was the chief plotter for an
armed inarch ou Bucharest to oust
Carol.
‘Uncle Dsvid’ Sends
Gift to Princess
LONDON. April 35—fUP>—A
Mysterious parcel arrived et Wind-
sor Castle today, postmarked Parle
and addressed u*; H R. H. Prin-
SMJDGID FINGERPRINTS
ARC STUDIED IN ATTACK
Clemency in Death
Sentence Is Refused
AUSTIN. April SB.—-(UP)—The
Board of Pardons and Paroles an-
nounced today that R had unani-
mously refueed to recommend cl -n-
ency for Johnnie Banks, nsgro, sen-
tenced to bo electrocuted at Hunts-
ville, Friday, for the murder of
AUSTIN. April 30.—(UP) —Finger
ante sent to the State Department
? Public Safety in an attempt to
•cover who slugged and robbed
Mms W. Ragsdale. Victoria sWor-
ry. were smudged, state police re-
vied today. 8o far the prints have
* been identified
gagadale. 68, had cashed a $500
Mck at a bank. He was attacked
Despondent Father!
Kills 2 Sons, Self
SEATTLE. April 30—fUP)-Jos-
eph Barrett, apparently despond-
ent over estrangement from his
wife, killed his two young sons, then
ended Ms own life with a shotgun
blast in the head, sheriff's officers
said today.
The bodies of Herbert, 11, and
William, 7, were found hidden In
a brush pile south of here bit
last night.
The body of Barrett, a 36-year-
old WPA worker, was found In a
bam several hours earlier.
$25,000 Reward la
Offered by Levine
NEW YORK. April |B.—(UP)—
Murray Lev|uk in rtmpalr over the
disappearance of hie 13-year-ol4 sen
offered a reward of $35,000 for in-
formation leading to the recovery
of the boy nnd $5,000 ter informa-
tion leading to the reoovsry of the
body. It was the first time the
lawyer had conceded that his son
might ba dead
Well,
PU Tell You
i A lotta private
| citizens are out
! 7 *T d * of work but a
I*- politician can
, always get a job
on one of them
. Investigatin’
committee*.
taxpayer a lotta money, but
>’• some satisfaction in know in'
they’re earning it.
r unde Hod is a politician
\ home and the other dsy he
, me a letter and said Tve get
$ on one of them investigatin’
nifhTW end I was never so busy
iy life. When I ain't invest!-
k* fm busy dodging the com-
es that’s investigatin' me.”
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hands over it
by Its shape,
pod that she
„ Meanwhile, Japanese mokes
claimed today that their forces
captured Linyl, B0 miles nortt
of suebow. In one of the two d
aimed at outflanking Obineee ]
in Southern Shantung Province
The other was sgalnat Han
wang, 60 'miles southwest of t
which the Ohlneee claimed ,
still occupied under great dlff
Wee. The Chinese said that
Japanese continued to bold Hai
Wang's railroad station and sei
villages north of the dty. ^7.,
The Japansse drives in Shan
provlnoe spessted to be the i
of a large scale campaign agi
Chinas main defenses along
HARRIfiBl ROH, Pa.. April 30.—
(UP Republican State Chairman
O. Edward Orsen demanded today
that Oov. George H Earle “resign
st once or^be impeached.” for hav-
ing accepted a 5*0,000 personal loan
from Matthew H. MfcCloskey. Phila-
delphia democratic loader and con-
tractor whoee ftfm is doing $11 ooo -
606 worth of building tor the state.
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White, James C. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 159, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 20, 1938, newspaper, April 20, 1938; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1025723/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.