Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1930 Page: 1 of 12
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Falls 175 Feet
J Off Bridge But
Is Not Injured
Quiz Stepmother in Girl’s Death
SYDNEY, N. 8. W.,Oct. 23.—
(JFV-While working on the great
new Sydney harbor bridge, said
to be the world 1 large*: arch
bridge, a workman named Kelly
today fell 118 feet Into the har-
bor. i'
He hurtled doom feet first and
as he struck the water a column
of stray 20 feet high shot into
the ah. Kelly swam ashore not
much worse for his experience
and is now wondering whether he
established a high plunge record.
So far as is known the reoord
heretofore has rested with Stere
Brodle, who Immortalised his
name by jumping off the Brook-
lyn bridge 133 feet above.the wa-
ters of the Bast river.' _
lng, had admitted she alone was to
blame for the death of her ten
year old step-daughter, Leona, whose
mutilated body W»s found In the
Berkeley Park lake October 14.
Clark mid Be had obtained the
admission from Mrs. OXOdghliu aft- [
er a grilling of six and a ban,
hours. The womans Iron nsrve
broke and she was earned to her
cell In the matron s quartet* of the
city jail on MMtrge of a complex
mental and physical breakdown
Captain CUrk decunad to com
ment on details of the confession
••Neither'MM, OLoufhhn nor my
self was In condition to f» Into de-
tails when her admission can*".
Captain Clark declared. 1 expect
to get a more detailed statement
2 MYSTERY
SAN ANTONIO. Oct 3»-<*>>-
Police today were Investigating two
mysterious shootings which claimed
one life and placed a second victim
at the door of death.
William C. Wentworth, 17, son of
C. MM. Wentworth, was dead of a
C. W. Wentworth
Shot fired late Wednesday near the
Aransas filling station Hs died al-
most Instantly. A pistol was found at
his tid«k
The second Victim was " nomas
Sanches. 38, a tans worker, who was
near death by a charge from a shot-
gu% ni , n
The shot was fired on the A. P.
aim bier' tench erven miles from
the eBy. Mrs Sanches told Justice
of the Peace ft W. Stappenbeck she
H IS FATAL
2 Youths Die
After Beaten,
Placed on Fire
Wilder Fireki).
Warning Issued
Megro Is Given 1
, Deatn Sentence',
French G\
to China
Fair Stockholders
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ism ASHED TO AID JOBLESS
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There is an old hymn about
•Where duty calls or dagger be
never wanting there," and tie have
always followed that advice, never
wanting to be where there was
anything resembling duty, although
thus far danger baa never
threatened us It ie our duty to
work, rain or shine, but the more we
work on a rainy day the more we
dent like It; end when a day like
this comae along, with a alow driada
of rain and nobody stirring around
the streets, the temptation to Hold
up and take a nap h almost too
great a strain upon our will power.
- D f * •
DUT here Is Mr. Brack, challenging
** us to work. He sent us a message
leek night pointing out that 1m had
paid three dollars and something for
a year*!, subscription to this
/THEREFORE, being driven to labor stump against former Oovernor
•*• Hke a galley slave thsd wraps the food S. Smith of New Ynrfc .As
drapegy of hie eouch about Mat and cratie presidential nc
bee down to plnaeant dreams, as 1838. ■
William Cullen Bryant wrote about,' Ibe third d (the democratic ^party
we take up the docket for the day, nominees who ha* opposition
—• --— unknown' Hugh D. MerrtU of Anrlfton. who h
the paper where the deer end
llsrlrsiM or In Bunches end lots of
fresh air. Yours Truley.N .
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I The pictures are quite attractive,
and the only reason we do not run
them in the paper where the deer'
and Mexicans are so closely grouped
la that the pictures of the Coolldge
dam were adeqariety pubMied in
this new?pa per when the dam was
dedicated last March. If we continue
form of government,
every few yean,
come when every
country wf& have a
mlllkm dollar concrete dam in
It with the
ten foot
president's name on a
ot brass
work. -
1 • • • •
h the Roosevelt dam out la
New Mexico and the Ooobdge
dam In Arizona. Snd the Hogver
dam out to Nevada or somewhere
but not a single Democratic dam in
the whole country exoept the one
that Is to be built in Paean river
near Brown wood And
think of it, that dam has
propedy, named, and we would hke
to name it. right here and now. It
oughtllo be and'jre are goto* to
Insist that it shall be called the
Looney dam, la memery of
who labored so long and so
the construction of the
project and who served as
of the Board of Dtreetors
water district until hie death
him from that post.
• • « •
work an tbs water project
under way fer a little more-
than twp yearn, but thirty yean
telling Brownwootf
that Such a project must be built,
hie time end
energy to the matter. So It must be
ee the John B. Looney dam
• • • •
reason most of these “marr;
■to and repent at leisure1
■alto ire filed by the todies
to besaase after mantota the men.
has no time for
£35£Sp*»
wee burned about the fi
Oei. 33—(AV~ A
to eo-
sounded today by Col Arthur
Woods, Preeldnfj Hoover's relief di-
m-tor, after a conference at the
White House.
woods, who arrived here
op k iettaf organisation conferred
for an hour with tlM President, ttee-
rstotfy Lamont Secretary Hurley end
under Secretary Mills of the Treas-
ury.
Aftor ths conference Woods indi-
cated a formal request to Industry
to cooperate In giving as many jobs
as possible would be made aeon.
After the White Her ire conference,
Ooiooal Woods returned to the corn-
conf erred with
Lamond and began to
hie headquarters' personnel,
d B. Hunt, who was seom-
the new campaign
to the
on'
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White, James C. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1930, newspaper, October 23, 1930; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1041354/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.