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THE DE LEON FREE PRESS
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9,1932
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Used Varsity’s Colors First Texas Relief
Too Many Clothes
Demos Getting Ready
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$150 Extortion Threat
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Bachelor, Music, Texas Christian University
Certificate, Miessner Institute, Chicago, Ill.
Mexican Held As
Violator Of Federal
Kidnaping Statute
Choral Club—Piano Club
PRIVATE LESSONS—$4.00
Studios-=-E. E. Gentry’s and B. F. Cox’s
Phone 22-W
Vicious Fish Grabs
Man Swimming In
Bay Near Houston
Folding Bed Closes
With Boy Inside It
Skeleton Found
May Solve 25-Year
Old Death Mystery
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept 3.—
Joe Thompson burned to death today
when his plane crashed in making a
forced landing near Seguin on a San
Antonio-Shreveport flight.
He was flying a large cabin mono-
plane owned by E. R. Thomas, local
oil man, and was identified several
hours later by a belt buckle.
Texas Flyer Dies
In Burning Plane
Pelicans
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A human skeleton found in a cave
near .Odessa may solve a murder my-
stery which for 25 years has baffled
police.
In 1907 a wealthy German named
Lentzel was last seen riding toward
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the Harding tomb at Marion, Ohio,
every month.
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cer.
Success Af the cotton highways in
South Carolina is promiseful of an-
other considerable outlet for cotton.
The roads, using cotton cloth as a
waterproof blanket as well as binder,
have stood up under six years of gen-
eral traffic, with small maintenance
costs. A stretch of road, similarly
built in Texas, has withstood the
grueling traffic over it for more than
two years and is reported still in good
condition. .
The Sherman Oil Mill Co,, employ-
ing sixty men, will resume operations
when the new crop of cotton seed
comes in, according to announcement
by Kay Kimbell, who reently acquir-
ed the property. A new com shelter,
giving employment to fifteen or
twenty workers, and a head-grain ele-
vator will be built on the property as
additional enterprises for Sherman. ,. ;
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 3.—
Parker O. Wilson today was under
an indictment charging printing and
engraving of Texas cigarette tax
stamps. The indictment, the first of
its kind here, was one of eighty-two
bills returned late yesterday by the
county grand jury.
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The Longhorn Products Co., Fort
Worth, is a new manufacturing es-
tablishment to make “brewers’ wort,"
used in big bakeries. Approximately.
$50,000 is invested in the new ven-
ture.
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SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 1.—G. W.
Brown, barber shop proprietor, today
asked police protection upon receipt
of an extortiod note demanding he
leave $150 at a designated spot. Brown
was threatened with the “same fate
as the” Lindbergh” if he summoned
officers.
Falls Dead At Play
RAYMONDVILLE, Sept. 1.—Fun-
eral services were held here today for
J . J. Mayfield, 59, cotton ginger who
fell dead while playing dominoes
with his son, Jack, 18, years old. Sur-
vivors include his widow, £--------, ,
Miss Louise Simons Rush Springs, Lentzel disappeared, the two report-.
Okla., and a brother in Lindsay, Okla. [W that he hadjeft and ^‘^hem his
Mayfield was bom at Batesville, Ark.
but operated gins at many points in
the southwest.
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ranch. The deeds, together with
articles of clothing identified as I.ent-
zel’s and his watch was found in their
possession, but they claimed he took
the train at Odessa.and left and the
fact that no one could furnish proof
to the contrary caused them to be re-
leased.
done' by
a -new <te-
There are nearly 100 concerns in
Texas manufacturing some articles or
articles for use in the oil industry,
production, pumping arid other phases
Texas-made oil machinery is in use
in every oil field in the world.
WACO, Texas, Sept. 3.—Circulars
charging unfair treatment from the
Waco and Orpheum Theaters, both
members of the Paschall-Texas chain,
were distributed here today by union
motion picture machine operators.
The circulars charged nonunion op-
erators had been brought into the
city by the two houses named. Four
other Waco theaters were cited as
“fair” by the handbill. The Waco and
Orepheum playhouses were formerly
Publix theaters, but recently were
taken over by the Paschall-Texas cir-
cuit.
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shiver in
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 6.—What
physicians »aid was heat prostration
claimed the life of a woman partially
identified as Dolores Martinez, who
collapsed on a drown town street yes-
terday. ---—
The woman was overcome by the
heat and, on being taken to a hos-
pital, it was discovered she was
wearing three pairs of heavy hose,
three underskirts, a woolen skirt and
a suit of heavy woolen underwear.
She regained consciousness at the '
hospital for a short time but could
give no information except her name.
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Many Noted Star*. and > Bevy ol
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS'
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AUDITORIUM
Prices • . 50c to $1.50
WACO, Texas, Sept. 3.—A Rosebud
Mexican was held today as the first
Texas violator of the Federal kid-
naping law passed following the
Lindbergh kidnapipg.
He is accused of sending a letter
to Ramon Molena of Burlington
threatening to kidnap Molena’s son
unless Molena placed $50 in a design-
ated spot. — 1 .... . ' .
Molena gave the letter to a Deputy
Sheriff, who turned it over to United
States Commissioner A. P. McCor-
mick, who issued a warrant.
MIDLAND, Aug. 6.—Martin Coun-
ty is selling cans to farmers on credit.
The commissioners passed an order to
tend farmers money to buy cans so
as to help them prepare food for
Winter. On recommendation of a
commissioner, any farmer in his pre-
cinct can make a note payable Nov. 1,
without interest for the purchase of
cans. The relief measure is expected
to result in, thousands of cans of veg-
etables and fruits being put up. Mid-
land County commissioners bought
four canning outfits to tend farmers.
Farmers Warned
To Eight Wagons
AUSTIN, Aug. 30.—Headquarters
for the national democratic campaign
in Texas will be opened here this
afternoon—-two days ahead of sched-
ule—it was announced here Jdoay by
Senator Margie Neal of Carthage, in
charge of the Texas organization. The
offices had been scheduled to open
Sept. 1.
Acid Bombing
In Theaters At
Tyler Injure 5
TYLER, Texas, Sept.' 3.—Officers
today sought persons responsible for
the explosion of acid bombs in two
Tyler theaters with consequent in-
jury to four women and one man.
The victims received bums, but
none was believed in a serious condi-
tion. ' The explosions came last night
oply forty-five miiiutes apart. Both
theaters were members of the Pas-
chall-Texas chain and have been using
nonunion operators for two weeks.
The sum of $13.50 for one not very j
fat dove is a pretty steep price. But
W. J. Inman paid it cheerfully Friday
in Justice of the Peace E. John Bald-
win's court after the Judge had fined
him $1 and required payment of $12.50
court costs in a case involving the
shooting of one bird Thursday on tne
Northwest highway.
Mr. Inman declared he was driving
along w.un an unafraid and impudent |
dove, quite unmindful of the opening
of the season during which his life ]
might be forfeited, dared him to take
a shot at it. Mr. Inman did—and un-
luckily dropped the bird. But just as
he picked it in1? Deputy Game Wa r
den Sam Turner picked him up, and
the fine was the result.—Dallas News.
To Improve Highway
Between Cisco, Ranger
Plan Dispatched By
Governor Sterling
Farm wagons operated on any de-
signated State highway at night with
out regulation lights will subject their
owners or operators to arrest, warn-
ed officers this week. It was stated
that all such wagons shquld be
Shooting On Highway
Costs Defendant $1,3
For Obeying Impulse
Under Indictment
For Printing Texas
Fag Revenue Stamps
\ SAN ANGELO, Sept. 1.—San An-
gelo has headed back toward pre-war
economies by setting up a tentative
budget of $128,880 in the general
Thia represents • reduction of $79,-
993.18 from two years ago and $37,-
607.22 in the last year.
Lightning Bolt
Kills Convict
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Aug. 5.—
TKarles M. Gnrfimett, convict on THe
Eastham State prison farm, was
killed late Thursday by a boltof
lightening, which struck him as he
worked in the field Lee Simmons, gen-
eral manager of the prison system,
announced Friday. Grimmett’s body,
Mr. Simmons said, was taken to Fort
Worth Friday. The prisoner had a
total sentence of ten years for bur-
glary of private residence in two
cases and theft in four cases. Sim-
mons said, and was accepted into the
prison system on April 4, 1931.
Approximately 25,000 persons visit
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9-Year Old Negro
Girl At Waco To
Become a Mother
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London has just opened, its thou-
sandth telephone exchange.
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A psychologist says that boys get
mad on the average, six times a week,
and girls, four times. Then they
More than 4,000 cotton gins in-
Texas are running or preparing to .
run for the 1932 season, giving erh- |
pioyinvirc vu of workers. .
While largely seasonal, no industry in I
Texas gives employment to as many
persons as the cotton industry.
AUSTIN, Aug. 30—The worst,
said W. E. Bussey of Texarkana to-
day, is yet to come. Because Bussey,
who rode to Austin in an improvised
buggy pulled by W. O. White of New
Bbston, must pull that same cart back
■ to Texarkana—with White as a pas-
senger.
White lost his first primary elec-
tion bet that Miriam A. Ferguson
would not lead Ross S. Sterling by
50.000 votes; but he won the . second
primary bet that Mrs. Ferguson would
— not win the rt«n-off by 75,000 v>tes.
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FORT WORTH, Sept. 1.—Open
bolls of cotton in fields throughout
th£ southwest beckoned today to the
unemployed.
Nearly- 1000 workers were sent
from Texas cities yesterday to the
cotton patch. Many of them went to
Williamson county, where fartners
are paying from 40 to 50 cents per
hundred pounds.
Singer Writes Words
A nd Music For Hymns
In Three Minutes
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There are said to be only three
men in the world actually known to
have publicly composed a song in
three minutes’ time and one of them
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((Happy Boy) Keer, gospel s'inger
and pianist, who is nationally known
to both radio ranxl revival audiences.
Mr. Kerr is here with Evang. Ray-
mond T. Richey to conduct a series of
revival services at Fair Park. • ■
f Monday night he will demonstrate
his ability at speedy composition. He
will call for suggestions from the
audience for new hymnal themes and
, will then write words and music for
the most popular title suggested,
playing and singing it from the ros-
—o n. ike trum a few minutes later.. He sings
The child, Mary’ Sue Dunn, was the j. . , _____ M___
of Crowley. She died te§g than twen-
ty-four hours after she hRd been
brought to Fort Worth.
The poison had been put on some
bread and placed in the attic about
two years ago, the parents said. The
little boy, while playing about in the
«attic found it and threw it down on
the floor, where his little sister was
playing. The baby put the crumbs in
her mouth and became violently ill in
a short time.
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In the slogans of Texas Cities can
-be- read quite en-4n4e»enting->*^»Fy ef-
a very interesting state. For in-
stance f Mission—Home of the Grape-
fruit; McAllen—City of Palms; Min-
eral Wells—South's Greatest Health
Resort; San Antonio—Where the
|iine Spends the Winter; Fort
;h—Where the West Begins;
Houston—Where Seventeen Railroads
Meet the Sea; Palestine—The City
Beautiful; Amarillo—The Helium
Qity; Waxahachie—Queen City of the
Cotton Belt; Lubbock—Hub of the
Plains; Sulphur Springs—Where the
Fruit Belt Begins; Borger—Carbon
Black Center of the World; Galves-
ton—Treasure Island; Clarendon-
In the Green Belt of the Panhandle: moat or eggs-
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The Pennsylvania State College has
found that feeding tobacco x>f high
nicotine content to baby chi^Jts made
them grow faster and larger. The
same diet in the fully grown fowls
made them healthier. The tobacco
acts'as an intestinal disinfectant, and
is said not to effect the flavor of the
Women Dress Well -—
In Van Zandt Co.
For $23.35 Per Year
.. CANTON—Careful planning and
buying, keeping accounts, and the
exercise of good taste enabled six Van
Zandt county farm women to dress
, well in the year ending July 1 for an
average of $23.35 each it is reported
' by Mrs. Mary Ethel Brandon, home.
demqnstration agent. The women were
wardrobe demonstrators for their re-
spective home demonstration clubs.
County Loans Money ! ITieir average expenditures were $6.73
Fnr Cannina Foods for out€r clothin£> 52.55 for under-
ror xanrung ruuus clothing $4 20 for materials for
dresses, $1.85 for hats, $4.75 for
shoes and hose, and $3.28 for acces-
series.
DALLAS, Sept 1.—Eighty-thou-
sand passenger car license plates ar-
rived here today aftqr shipment by
motor from St. Louis via New Or-
leans to Houston and were placed in
storage for distribution 4n December.
They have the colors of the Univers-
ity of Texas, orange numerals on a
white background.
J. T. Stovall, Houston attorney, was
swimming in the bay near his sum-
mer home not far from Houston last
Tuesday. He was swimming with his
arms extended when suddenly his left
hand was seized by 'a vicious fish
which attempted to tow him out to
tea. Mr. Stovall struggled fiercely
with the monster for a few moments
before being released. His left hand I
was badly lascerated by the sharp
teeth of the fish.
H. L. Bracey of the Houston tax
office, who lives on the bay near Mr.
Stovall’s . summer place, was swim-
ming nearby - and saw Mr. Stovall
was in trouble and started toward
him. It is believed the monster was a
shark.
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The amount of erosion
rain water is measured by
vice perfected by the U. S. Depart-
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Livestock Arena
13 FOOTBALL GAMES
BECKMAN-GERETY SHOWS
BAND CONTEST
FREE CIRCUS ACTS
AVIATION EXHIBIT
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3—The first
application to the Federal'Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation for emer-
gency relief from Texas was en router
to Washington today.
It was forwarded by Gov. Ross S.
Sterling on application of El Paso
county for $840,013. Of this $92,000
was asked for direct relief fund. The
balance was on projects which will
afford jndirect relief by employment.
Listed projects were: Storm'sewer,
$100,000; Alabama street afill Fort
boulevard, $82,250; Scenic drive,
$102,323; flood protection, $15,000;
street grading and structures, $50,-
000; drainage at Water Improvement
District farm, $50,000; Donophan’s
drive, $54,600; McKelligan canyon re-
surfacing, $15,840; Administration
Building School of» Mines, $175,000;
Main street to School of Mines, $25,-
000, grotjnds, Schools of Mines, $25,-
000; Mesa avenue to School of Mines
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and a lantern in front.
“The law governing operation of
farm wagons in the high ways ad. night
is going to be enforced,” a highway
patrolman stated. “Since it will soon
ba time for farmers to begin hauling
cotton to gin, I would suggefet that
they give attention to this matter
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ment of Agriculture.
. , _ ployment to thousands
In Baltimore 50.3 per cent of fam-
ilies own their own hoWfrs and 40
per cent own radios.
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Four hundred thousand roses will
formerly I Odessa accompanied by two men. produce one oyuce of -attar,
Springs, 1 Lentzel disappeared, the two report- grant oil.
Exports of liner\ piece goods from
the United Kingdom to the United
i States in 1931 totaled 33,056,000
square yards.
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There are 22 pebpte to the souare
mile in Texas.
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So scarce is salt in some parts of
Ethiopia that bars of the mineral are
used as money.
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Only relatives of the deceased sur-
round the grav^j during a burial ser-
vice. on the islands of Aran off the
coast of Ireland.
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Texas has 8,740 filling stations,
5,187 manufacturing establishments,
and 15,855 grocery, meat and com-
bination stores.
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Large eyes are painted near the
waterline of Chinese "hOBtH’ to rrrabte
the boats to avoid the water devil
and rteo itn way-at-night. —_—
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Cellophane shoes are now being
made, the body fabric being woven
from thread made by twisting strip
of cellophane around a cotton core.
The shoes are said to be light and
durable.
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EASTLAND, Aug. 6.—Recondi-
tioning of the Bankhead Highway be-
tween *G(sco and Ranger will-begin
Monday morning, according to J. D.
Blankenship of the State Highway
Department. Approximately 50 men
will be employed at $2.40 per eight
hour day for approximately 90 days
Blankenship stated.
station-to-station
Dr. Arthur Stout, probation officer
at Waco, requested City Health Of-
ficer Dr. Wilson Crosthwait, and Dr.
Ralpt Coffeit to examine a 9-year-old
negro girl whom he had discovered in
that city. The child has been preg-
nant four and one-half months. The
physicians advised letting the case
proceed normally as an operation at
this stogft. would-be dangerous. As-
sistant District Attorney, Sam Dar-
dnne questioned the girl and members
of her family Wednesday. Textbooks
quoted by Dr. Coffeit say that moth-
ers of about this age have compara-
tively easy childbirth. It is believed
this case will set a record for the fsTn Dallas this week. He i*s
United States but there is a record of
a Chinese girl becoming a mother at
seven. This story is from the Waco
News-Tribune.
When they informed James
Elam, 83, of plans to hold a family
reunion in his honor recently, he de-
manded that his funeral sermon be
preached at that time, arguing that
it was unfair to wait until he was
dead to preach it. He w’anted to hear
it himself. And, besides, he wanted
a happy funeral, which is assured
when the principal figure in the fun-
eral is' alive and well. ,
The Elam idea has much to recom-
mend it. When he is dead, says Pa-
triarch Elam, he wants no funeral
obsequies. “The Good Book,” he in-
sists simply “says *be ye ready at
all times,’ and I’m not ready until
my funeral is held.”
Uncle Jim had grown a group of
fat cattle, had them slaughtered and
made ready for the feast. There was
a barrel of ice tea to take care of
the hundred or more guests, and oth-
er preparations were in proportion,
with kinfolks coming in by all modes
of transportation, including mule and
shank’s mare. What could be a finer
,.. i tfuneral than that?—Dallas News.
The old-fashioned folding bed fig-
ured in another accident Sunday when
one of the beds folded up suddenly
as Clarence Earl Weatherall, 3, play-
ed on it at his home, 1030 Good. The
boy sustained a cut on the ring rin-
ger of the left hand.—Dallas News.
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Use of cotton for roofing, now well
past the experimental stage, is an-
other new outlet recently developed
for the staple. Cotton duck, painted
with waterproof paints, has been
found very satisfactory for covering
old roofs o'f metal or other material.
“Go ahead and produce more cotton^
and develop new uses for'rthe ’addi-
tional production” is the advice of
John W. Carpenter, president of Pro-
gressive Texans, Inc.
FOR SALE—$10 Electric Radio,
good as new, Gloritone, complete, in-
stalled $25.00, will sell on terms.—
C. L. Kinchen, De Leon. tfc.
While actual fighting "in the World
War ceased with the Armistice^ on
Nov. 11, 1918, the war did not end,
theoretically, until official peace was
declared on July 2, 1921.
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Rat Poison Fatal To
Nine-Month-Old Baby
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 5.—
Rat poison thrown from the attic of
their home by her 4-year-old brother
caused the "death of a 9-month-old
baby in a hospital here ^Friday.
The cnita, Mary ! in six languages.-Dallas News,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Giles Dunn , _______________
\ grow up, start to pay taxes, and are
A whisp of-brown hair and three
gold teeth closely fitted the*descrip-
tion given of Lentzel. His skeleton has
been sent to the State University-at
Austin in the hope of determining the
nationality of the persons. The names
of the suspects have lorig since been
forgotten by the oldest inhabitants.
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