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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1938
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GRAYSON FUGITIVES INDICTEDj
eomCTED, SENTENCED IN ONE
HMI, 15 MITES NT LONGVIEW
OmvUM
AFTER LB O’DANIKL was DOB-
inatsd for Governor, the state tax
'rate was set. the Mg rate was end-
ed. the President had finished his
fishing trip, and people had quit
putting nickels in the parking met-
ers, R seemed to this premier col*
-• umnist that everybody could settle
down to enjoy the remainder <rf the
summer in peace and tranquillity it
not in actual comfort. But here
arises a problem, like Banquo's
ghost, to reopen s controversy which
was alleged to have been settled
weeks ago. and it Is likely that there
will be no reet after all.
i f i « , L-.
Norma 8hearer, after long delib-
eration, has decided to decline the
proffered role of Scarlett O’Hara in
“Oona With the Wind.” and now
an the feverish anxiety of choosing
another star to portray the little
Irish lady who was the storm center
m Margaret Mitchell's book must be
Buffered again. Instead of Searir.t
Mies Shearer will appear with Clark
OaMe in Mldtote’ Delight.” Proo- |
ably an' appropriate name for the
Him. 1 1 I
• • • •
Three Men Given Terms of
50 and 10 Years Each
Kan
ms Opponents
liil
LONGVIEW. Texas. Aug. 2 —
(UP)—It took Just one hour and IS
minutes today to indict, convict and
sentence three Orayson county fugi-
tives who came out losers yesterday
in e series of gun battles with Gregg
county officers. • \
The three bandits—two of them
suffering from bullet wounds re-
ceived yesterday--were sentenced to
60 years each In prison. The men
were Jack Geesling. Arthur Whitten
end Kid Willis. (. •
Geesling and Whiten were shot
and captured by two Olsdewater
policemen yesterday after holding
up Ben Terry, an elderly oil lease
watchman, and his wife, stealing
their automobile, and robbing a
sandwich stand. J
Willis was captured in the Sabine
river bottoms a few hours later.
Bill Umphres. a fourth outlaw who
escaped from the Grayson county
Jail with the others and partici-
pated in the Orsgg county Crimea,
ticflpcd ' \
The law moved fast after Whitten.
Oeealing and Willis were brought
to the county Jail here yesterday,
The cases were laid Immediately
before the grand Jury. At 10 o’clock
this morning the grand Jury re-
' turned Its Indictments, charging the
trio with robbery and car theft,
we noted a waeting no time. Assistant Dts-
th“l trlct Attorney Kermit Smith took
the men before District r Judge
the South, clarence B. McOaw, The trial
started. By 11:IS It was wear and ,
Judge McOaw sentenced each of j
th(ue the defendants to So yean In <prison i 1
on the robbery charge and 10 yean 1
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pi
Clyde Reed
Mi
Japs Strengthen
Drive on Hankow
30,000 Fresh Troops >
Rushed to Battle in
River Valley
pected to leave for Shungking soon.
| More thin 200,000 workers were
ilo service building fortl-
sutslde the city and in the
.
Today, tye Japanese opened a new
Offensive north of the Ysngtse river
SHANGHAI. Aug. 2—(UP)—Ja-
pan threw 30 000 fresh reinforce- ________
menu into the Yangtse Valley bat- tn ^ attempt to break the Chinese
tie today, hoping to occupy the resistance which had halted for the
Chinese provisional capital at Han- moment, i heir campaign against
kow as quickly as possible and meet Hankow
the crisis with 8ovlet Russia in the The Japanese admitted that their
north. i drive
The Chinese claimed, however, Seen
that they w?re meeting the new
drive up the Yangtze with flank tl
attacks from tie north and south
30 miles west of Nanking, which
threatened to sever Japanese com-
munications.
The United States Embassy was
moved for the second time since
the start of the war today «\«
Ambassador Nelson T, Johnson left
Hankow for Chungking, the new
“inner capital" far in the interior. !
Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson
and his staff moved embassy docu
up the Yangtze valley
hal Led. but claimed
n lnfurclng columns from
province striking from the
reached the Chlneae river
Vest of Kluklang.
It appes red to foreign military ob
Servers h< re that the Chinese had
abandoned their plans to withdraw
Hankow and had launch-
ed a counter-offensive instead.
diplomatic spokesmen
Rua-o-Japanese tnci-
some military cir4
we ret increasingly disposed to
view the situation us
THREE NAMED IN
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LOTTERY RACKET
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BY TH0S. DEWEY
nearer to
l a cour
Although
still regarded Ru
i as ‘local."
JUST the other day
■ complaint from
Mlaa flbesrrr born in Canada and
never acclimated In the South,
might find difficulty with the south-
ern language of the story-In wlntn
she waa about to appear, if
Is anything that arouses a South
vroer’s indignation' It is a conscious cm the car theft charge
EARlY LEA,
TAKEN BY
I!
menu aboard the United
Gunboat Luzon, which
the Gunboat TuLulls,
river toward Chungking
capital, where the Chinese Foreign
Office moved laat week.
The Embassy temporarily
located u board the Luzon es
States ,norr -*ri ms.
escorted by
steaim-fl
ng, the
Up. said that
new
C33
be indicated
u not been
shortly before and after the fall of
Nanking last December.
Other foreign diplomats
l
harbor s!
were ex- Japanese
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NEW YORK. Aug. 2- (UP)—
District Attorney Thomas E Dewey
today charged that two city mag-
istrates arid a former district at -
orney were Involved in the l&ttery
racket of which Tammany Leader
James J. Hines waa alleged tu
have been one of the dlrecttrs.
In a bill of pauituiais by Hines'
counsel, Dewey said that H.nes or
other defendants' In the lottery
i case had bribed influenced or tn-
1 linddated Magistrate Union Cup-
shaw and the late Magistrate
Francis Erwin He did nut specify
MBS ANE DROPPED ON KOJO
IT SOVin AIRMEN; TENSION
lETNEEN NATIONS SHARPENED
whether it was Hines or one of the
ether defendants wlio did the brib-
ing.
Dewey at the same time named
New
Reich Jews Rally
Behind Him
' i* ‘ -
1 -t/
persistency reported
that the
Usu|ally well-informed office
for the post month it had
without con-
SuvieU were
for war These reports
that drvelopmenU had
expected1 before autumn
because tire would then form in t~e
Vladivostok, preventing a
naval attack.
William C .Dodge, former
York county district attorney, as
having been directly Involved ii\
attempts to “fix” lottery cases.|
Shortly after Dewey filed his
bill. J. Richard «Dixie» Davis, turn,
potentially against his co-defendnt Hlnew.
pleaded guilty to charges of parti-
cipating in the ulleged $100‘,000,00y
a year lottery racket. s ' ]
By changing his plea to gtalty.
the1 former “kid mouthpiece,* for
the Dutch Schultz gang scaled the
first part of his bargain, with Dis-
trict Attorney Dewey -a buiq.un
made, after long negotiations
Kan . Aug
today gained
contest fqr
effort upon the part of an actor or
actress to imitate the currently ac-
cepted “dialect" of the deep South.
|< It just can’t be dooe.
• • • •
As a matter of fact, there Is no
BOMthern dialect. Southerners use
Just like other people. It
in which they use it
•Hat u distinctive, and that
M one of the things that can not
be successfully counterfeited. So
Mris Shearer has declined,
popular request, to appear
fine old Southern story, an# here
back the nation's number one
problem to disturb us again.
At 11:20, Sheriff J. B. Davis, of
Orayson county started back to
Sherman to try the trio on charges
filed against them there before they
escaped from Jail.
two count ss
almost a Pro
language
Is the ms
L0YAUSTS MOVE
ON TERVEL AREA
ivyularj republican organization
cause 4f his alleged
ipveraor
Initial
the norm
U. 8. Senator in the
f f trial and li Co nplete *i e
2 'UP
w
jrlmaiy
to report
to one i a
the Rev. Gejrald B. WIli-
ans repudiated by
ipg BEST solution of which this
critic thinks would be to abandon
the whole idea of filming
With the Wind.” It is too good a
surf to be garbled by the film cut-
ters. and to be misinterpreted by the
alien directors who would convert
HENDAYE. French-Spanish Fron
upon tk;r Aug 2—(UP-A new Loyalist
• 0,6: offensive which threatened the
shell-torn town of Teruel. scene of
one of the Spanish war’s biggest
battles, was reported in government
du-patches today.
Bald-headed Oen. Jose Miaja.
commander-in-chief of the Loyalki
central army, dispatched scattered
units kito the Teruel area and
forced Qeneralis*lmo Francisco
Franco to withdraw troops from the
T
reiigi-us intolerance.
RECORD VQT
!E IN Ml
riciai
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Raid From Sky It Third inj
History on Jap Soil—
Soviet Tanks Active
TOKYO, At«. 2— > UP) —Soviet
war planes cross the Korean border
flying in formation tonight, hovered
over KoJo a^d dropped bombs, a
. Korean army communique said.
It was the third time in history
that Japanese soil has been attacked
' from the air. The other occasions
Were the bombing of KoJo yesterday
d the Chinese attack on Formosa
4J
and tli
last winter.
The Japanese islands proper have
never been attacked, although Chi-
nese planes flew over them early tlua
‘iWi
Ire
dropping leaflets but not
The Dome! Japanese News Agency,
! which carrie 1 the Korean ooramun-
loe had no
nh of damage or casualties.
The raid
Headed by Rabbi Leo Baeck.
above, of BerUh. Germany's remain
dur- ring 300000 to 360.000
PIONEERS OF COUNTY .
AUDITORIUM WEDNESDA
■oJ»U°ii nv
TO MEET IN
Y MORNING
1 Brown Count, Ptotwer A*ocla
needsy. morning at about 2:30 in M'
annual reunion or convention, with
the program as president.
The meeting will be Informal, with
dresses, and most of the day will be
renewal of friendship among men and
in'the county fifty years or
ng men
toofflrL
At the noon hour a basket dinner will
meet tomorrow. Wed-
Auditorium. for their
B. Savage directing
few scheduled ad-
to fellowship and
lomen who have been
■
L
lortum on tables arranged by
will provide their own dinners
rians and ice cream will be pro
meeting is for
) lOfsyros witi ^
the RoUry Cl
. Coffee will b
Tivichd by like
spread in the And!-
lub. and all who come
^ _^|be served by the Rota-
by ligerested friends.
The meeting is for all citizens who hive been In the county
fifty years, all of Whom are regarded us n embers of the Associa-
tion. but the general public will be welcomed to the fellowship
of the day. President Savage said todaj
lug which Dewey permitted DSvls
to leave Jail more than 40 limes
to vlqlt his sweetheart, the red-
haired Hope Dare, a former show
girl. - ' '!
The second port of tlie burgaln
lr. for Davis to testify againal
Hines, one of Tainmany Hall a
moat powerful figures, when llinrs
g'es on trial on the lottery con-
spiracy charges of Aug. 16.
between 8oiiet Russia and Japa^a
over their border dispute In the
Vladivostok region of Eastern Si-
| peria. along the Ul-defined frontiers
bf Siberia, Korea and Manchukuo.-t
Tlie Korean command in an earl-
ier communique said Russian inf an-
Jew* h.v» HT tt»ld taqks attacked Japanese-
troops tn the disputed
hill sector, f
C
Ip:rned a national federation to deal ^anC^>tU*n
With the* Retch's anfi-Jewlsh gov-
Ail of Germany s Jewish
information on the ex-
Aiui-pt .ied the tension
Clisngk
eniment.
:<Ocit tics formed the united front
tanization to facilitate etntgra-
in.
JL
1
CITY.
(UP)
"Gone
in whal appeared to
prinuirV contest to
Sngunto front’in the south and tlie
It into a picture. Those who have Gandesa sallept to the northeast. i twe
completed the tremendous project At one point the Loyalists came cf
|4 of reading^all of It are entitled to „ within sight of Teruel when th?j tha
1 freedom from competition of those occupied several trenches on La Go-
who would be satisfied with a film Mur la Hill. 13 miles south of the T
ronton. Those still working on the city. The hill, however, is domlnat-i for
Herculean task of reading it should ed by the 6.000-foot Javalambr* ’ Just:
the prime
in Thomas
antte. Jr., known to the press
C public as the “Boiler Kid" he-
me for the past twenty-eight
npq he has lived in an iron lung,
tenaciously to life whiiJ
the devastating effects
44 an attack of infantile paralysis.
• •• •
VOUNO 8NITE says he is going
* ps hast the malady that has so
goroly afflicted him. Pressure Wlth-
Nt the mechanical contraption that
ksspa him alive is being slowly but
readily reduced. “It won't be long
now before X get out for keeps,”
Iss says* 0(1(11 cheerfulness and
persistence merits success. Remem-
bar tbs story of Samson and Delilah?
Hs fooled bar throe times, and then
nagged him daily until “his
goul was vexed unto death,” and fi-
nally be told her the secret which
Wc sought to lean;
gets results when
e can. Every nagging
that. Bunday, the 31st,
nna tbs birthday of Homer Andrews.
of gw police department, and C. A
White, of the mortuary department.
k Ycnterday. August 1. was the birth
m 4J. of iffflard Homines, of the bank
teffife Congratulations.
peak which remains in Nationalist State
hands.
To the west of Teruel. the Loyal
a radius of 30 miles. One was
Grieg os. 30 miles west of Teruel.
Another was Ouadalaviar, four miles [
south of Ortegas. The other was
Frias, 26 miles from Teruel.
There was no Indication, however,
; that the Loyalists intended an of*
fensive
oyd C
attraction a
» democratic
division
Bupreme
t con tea s. even that
A xwt bare their attention diverted.
• • • • ________
One of the most heroic persons in To the west of Teruel. the Loyal-1 Senator,
this esuntry of heroes is Frederick uts captured three villages within thw b ittle
Rep ibllcans
lmpobnt figh
again*
colled
large
vole
lings.
Teruel. which - Justice James
changed hands last December in one
of the war’s largest battles. The
Loyalists were scattered and had no
connected lines.
Aid of G-Men Asked
In New Harlan Trial
4 con-
w.uld
took a
who
fight for
the
'FLOOD RELIEF
In
wganiza
I clitics.
ope
The ufaier
the U.j S
K
DAMAGE CAUStb IN TEXAS BY
HIGH WATER DESCRIBED AS
V-MAJOB CATASTROPHE- *
KAN
SABA
IGHWAY
todaj| to
, the Oolo-
10
numbers so
•gainst Judge
Pendergast’s
Governor Stark.
vote snd the
commissioners here
iush orders to the
more {democratic 1
officials
to be
Election
0 ballots
LONDON. Ky.. Aug. 3—<UP>-
Brien McMahon, chief governor
prosecutor in the Harlan coal
spiracy trial, said today be
ask J. Edgar Hoover, head of the
Federgl Bureau of Investigation, to
send more O-men Into “BlOody.
Harlan" county Immediately
gather additional evidence for
retrial.
The original trial, which cover-
ed If weeks of testimony, ended In
the birth-! «ral court Jury that had
ed scarcely
after faffing
jm D. Trippgtt. 29. Waco at
4*d in a Hospital here late
Priest,
plcneer
peace
U of I heart
died in a
conducted
hr
ballots
they
* V
■fHfl
backed by
swelled the
of elation
hid to send
era for 9,000
cted !,|00.-
AU8TIN. Aug. 2.—(UP)—-Red
Cross officials, reported
Oov. James V. Allred that the
rsdo river flood has beoooM A
major catastrophs."
After receiving detailed figures Ott
existing conditions, Allred sent trie-
| grams to mayors of Texas cities
■gain urging public contributions to
,1he iiooooo relief fund. The Ns
-I Ilona 1 Red
Cross announced In-
crease of Its emergency appropria-
tion from IIOPOO to *29.000 and esti-
mated at least 0125.000 will be need-
Flood damage has occurred In 12
counties and affects 280.000 acres.
Howard Bonham, assistant to the
manager of the Midwest Depart-
ment of the Rad Cross, reported to
the governor. There are now 180
local Red Cross worked and 28
workers In the flood ana.
conditions were reported
good, due to alertnam of the State
Mfe Department.
Statistics given to thi governor
not Include a final check on the
river areas, when tnvwtlga-
stffi are In progri
show 190 homes destroyed. 912
160 barns
23 GIVEN DEATH
IN MADRID f RIAL
MADRID. Aug 2—(UP)-Tweh-
tv-three persons were sentenced to
death and others were given long
prison term today at the conclu-
sion of mass trials on rtuu-ge# pi
high treason snd espionage. 1
Of 196 defendants, only 25 a ere
{ acquitted outright. Sixteen Were
i considered unsympathetic to the
’ regime and held for further inves-
tigation. Others received pn*on
j term# ranging from six to 30 years.
ELECTRIC CHAIR
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i;
Later the
tern HJt
casualtiH
c fhcer»
wounded sli
Ctiangkuf'
| Thi
casualties
known
been left
It wss
attack had
1
SUPPORT OF GOVERNMENT
PLEDGED—THREATS OF
WAR
VOICED
MOSCOW. Aug. 2 f (UP) War-
like threats were voiced today at
dernon-stiatlmis of Russian workers
AREA INCLUDED
FOR EMERGENCY
CLAIMS V. BOSS
PROJECT*
ANTONIO. Aug. 2—(UP)—
Chairman Robert Lee Bobbitt of
the Texas highway commission said
today that the commission was
g “stepping up" its pro-
several emergency road
project*. Including shoulder stabl-
on Highway 76 between
and Huntsville. iil
highway commission In rt-
NTSVILLE. Tex
The “cheese
Hou-V.on was
with the electrocution of
22-year-old'. Italian, at
penitentiary here.
Boss, a marijuana addict.
/mUL;
Over new clashes between Soviet
Iruops and Japanese-Maachukuo
forces which were reported from
the Siberian frontier.
Workers gathered In the meeting
alls of various factories to express
•of the government and in-
llon over "new. insolent pro-
bation by Japanese militarists,
official attitude, however, was
described as “calm and collected
The Tass News agency distrlbut-
2 _ W a communique which said that
Russian troops had stormed arid re-
captured a hill from which they had
nice Bo&> bwn drtven ^ superior Japanese
the state Ior sk»g the Siberian-Manchu-
Aug
truck murder”
dosed
3f Vine
meeting here yesterday heard ■ 12L03 a. m.
to bis death denying that he was
guilty of the killing of R W Al-
bert. Brenham Cheese salesman, In
Morris county In March. 1936.
*1 had been'gmoktng marijuana,
and I don’t know, what I did.” was
the final statement of Boss ss he ^
Was placed in tbe electric chair at
feu >-Korea border I
wen^|| ^Yontler guards at Karelia adopt
army haadquar-
announced Japanese
97 soldiers and three
and <7 soldiers
the beginning of this
Incident.
estimated Soviet
380. of Which 79 were
their bodies having
the battlefield.
that the Infantry
been preceded by two
airplane bombing attacks on the
Japamwe-Manchukuan lines.
Soon afler the arnovnc< imnt
lteodquarteig of the central Japan
defense ana at Osaka an lounri-i
“light control" treatm\tom eftcc
tive forth vlth as a precaution
against air]dane attacks.
A Furrlg l Other informant axi-
nounted rei eipt of inform ticn that
three Russian bombing i4ai.es zt-
teckfd in lie Changkufeit? area it,
4 a. m.. ar d bombed anc m; chine-
gunned Japanese troop pout! ms. I
Later tpe Korean army head-
quarters at {Seoul iKeIJo) onr nutoed
in a communique transmitted by the
Domet Agehcy that 10 Rujfci.in air-
planes in ! formation bombed the
area at 7:30 a. m.' The communique
said that ihe Japanese did not re-
taliate. ■ | ‘
A second communique said that
a battalion of Russian trot.?# sup-
l*rtcd by nine tanks attacked ths
Japanese at 9 a. m.
such a
ita. who
will nod]
for
948*00
trained
Health
Braly,
"'l
legations with petitions fori
improvement projects affect- j
than 50 counties. The
was to last two days, but
Into the night last
I tearing* were completed and
adjourned. Jj
other emergency pro-
eipected to receive special at-
were the building of t
xidge across Brady Creek
and the stepping up o:
-year road program in
county to afford em-
for hundreds of persona
and Jobless by floods
devastated the area 10 days
Boss was pronounced dead at'
12106 A m.
The convicted man announced
ed this resolution:
•The red fumy win give
lesion to the Japanese
Ilia re gone so far. that
be able to come to their
a |ong time. We always
te of mobilization and will carry
any order of our government
destroy the enemy."
orkers tn the Red Triangle fsc-
at Leningrad said:
We have no doubt that our
rious frontier guards will be able
tUSTIh
Al<
letter for
FIRST LETTER IS SEN I'
TO “iOOVERNOK" O DANIEL
Ate-
gov.! W.
2-(UP)-Flist
Lee O Daniel”
6ds
tnaea fog came to the state capttol *tuda
gro tn aj ■ was addressed in care of ot\ Ji
■rill Mmi 1 \r >n>i un... .
Bobbitt said
Brady
days ago he had given up hope to render crushing resistance to the
The Ku;e ^-oundrels who have gone too
will throw theiq ofl
let land.
creek bridge would be start-
aocn as possible. He Srid
a * Of the WPA and the PWA TEXAS U. STUDENT FINED
AUSTIN,
sentence.
Pardons snd Parole* an-
nounced yesterday it would not;
clemency for Boss, and
James V. Allred refused to
reprieve after a Huntsville
psychiatrist declared Bom was sane.
The state accused Bom of stab-
bing and beating Albert to death,
then robbing him of 1129 and leav-
his body in the refrigerator com-
t of a cheese delivery truck.
Boss first was given a preliminary
sanity trial at Houston, and then
the j wss tried on the murder charge at
Cueru and Lockhart.
V. Allred The letter tote* a
Antonio puat-mark.
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IN TRAFFIC DEATH CASE
2— (UP) — Russell
Texas atu-
was fin-
y Jud*
negligent
m
from Etectra
today by County
8. Matthews for
in connection
death January 29
Rowley of Austin,
ease was
from Injuries
iteo, an. tNutowubae
waa.feitentAfeMkRfe
'♦Let all big or small Fascist
of prey remember that the
Soviet union, at the first
of the party, the
the great Stalin will stand up ai j
one man for their free motherland ”
Ootncldently It was announced
that Constantin Snietanln. Russian
Fonbassy Charge D’Affaire* at To| j
kyo. had been Instructed to protest
In the most energetic terms to thi j
Japanese foreign office “and te draw
Well, [
I'll Tell You
BOB BURNS
Its
gravest consequence* of tha
of Japan mflitartetg.”
Grain Firm Lowers
Wheat Crop Figure
<m
and
down fcotee.
are at Ue Vi
Food Factory
is A waiter.
Laat time I
Uncle Had over
the menu?” He
CHIOAOO. Aug. 2.—(UP)
James E. Bennett Ac Cb.. today
timsted U. 8.
929 ooo.ooo bushels, off
from the July
Sometimes H
get kinda dis-
couraged Out1
hero
uood
act llfc*
which fork to
use and how
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