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HENDERSON, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 2, 1933
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resentatives today.
As Bank Robbers
Pneumonia Victim
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the wells belong to
Entertainers to
Be Here Tuesday
To Discuss Sales
Seeks Divorce
See Highway Suit on page 8.
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Bank Robber Is
Slain in Battle
Bandit Hideout
Believed Found
Tax at Athens in
Meetin" Feb. 9th
Appeals Court
Affirms Ruling
In Highway Suit
Widespread Search Being Made
for Third Woman Wanted
for Cleveland Job
Frederick G. Bcnfils Was One of
Most Outstanding Figures
in Journalism
R. F. C. President Recommends
Appropriation to Help
Unemployed
were
sergeant,
Local District Attorney Named
as Defendant in New Oil
Litigation
NO. 272
close 23 East Texas
proration violation
are
help-
and
fee
HUSBAND DRAWS TITLE
OF "MEANEST MAN”
jail without bond to
bank robbery charges,
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See RFC Funds on page 8.
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Thompson Calls
Royalty Owners
leeting Tonight
Rangers’ Search Proration Attack
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Demand Soldiers
On Texas Border
See Salary Cuts on page 8.
S. M. U. Band and
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Defense Begins
Testimony in Oil
Property Suit
Long Legal Battle Anticipated
as Attack Is Made on
Lease Agreements
R. R. COMMISSION ORDERED TO APPEAR IN COURT
Reform Offered
Increases List
Of Texas Judges
Bandit Escapes
After Kidnaping
Deputy Sheriff
^enberson itilu Jfrtos
TEAM SELLS FOR MORE
THAN FARM TRACTOR
judges of the nta. courts may va'i
In two district judges to ass’rt
them, thus making 46 judges pos-
sible instead of the 33 under ths
present system of 11 three-judge
court*. |
Recommendations raise the Su-
preme Court to a body of nine,
elected from different parts of the
State and reduce the number ot
District Courts from 128 to 99.
The Court of Criminal Appeals, the
county and justice of peace courts
are left unchanged. A vote on the
proposal at the next general elec-
tion Is suggested.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 2
(UP)—A new "meanest man”
has been discovered here.
He bought two jig-saw puz-
zles, mixed them together, and
then sent the result by mall to
his wife.
FALLS CITY, Neb.,
(UP)—Old Dobbin is making
comeback in the farm country
and here’s the proof:
At a sale on the W. A. Shock
Jr., farm, a team of horses and
a tractor were offered for bids.
The team sold for $104. The
tractor, an $800 model, brought
$164.
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living across the street, saw the
Mrs. E. S. '
SPENCER, Okla.,“Feb. 2 (UP)
— A night watchman surprised
four men looting the Spencer State
Bank vault early today and in the
ensuing gun battle one of the sus-
pects was slain.
The victim, about 45 years old,
had not been identified.
Night watchman Jim Doyle, 60,
saw the men enter the bank about
1:30 a. m.. He stood guard at
the rear door for two hours. Mean-
while, V. R. Wilcox, a merchant
Annual Banquet
Is Held Tonight
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 2. (UP) —
The marital paths of Edward Hill-
man, Jr., wealthy Chicago broker,
and his actress-wife, Marion Nixon,
led to the divorce court today.
The actress charged her hus-
band with mental cruelty in asking
for a divorce and an injunction re-
straining him-from molesting her.
A temporary order was granted.
She charged Hillman called her
"vile and opprobrious names” in
the presence of their friends. On
several occasions, his haggling
kept her awake all night despite
her required presence at the stu-
|dlo next day, she alleged.
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AUSTIN, Feb. 2 (UP)—The
third Court of Civil Appeals here
today affirmed the District Court
decision against former Governor
James E. Ferguson and others who
sought to enjoin letting of con-
tracts by the State Highway Com-
mission.
The suit was heard by District
Judge Carl Runge, sitting in 98th
District Court here. He decided
that in absence of a showing of
abuse of discretion the State High-
way Commission was within its
power in making contracts for
road work within the estimated in-
come of the highway department
for the fiscal year.
Contracts totaling $4,000,000, in-
cluding large amounts of unem-
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Introduction of testimony by the
defense in the case of A. D. Gas-
ton et al against W. W. Holland et
al, involving 199 acres of oil pro-
ducing land, began at 1:30 o’clock
this afternoon in Fourth District
Court. Defense attorneys antici-
pated that they will not conclude
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erated.
The others escaped in two auto-| .J *7
obiles. The Intruder, h,d ! >nR «y«r»n aga.nst debt
conditions In Oklahoma flared
j late yesterday when angry farm-
AUSTIN, Feb. 2. (UP)—Th*
civil judicial council Increased
rather than decreased the number
of Appellate Court judge* in it*
recommendation* for judicial re-
form, it was figured out today.
The constitutional amendment
that was proposed by the council
calls for reducing the number ct
courts of appeal from 11 to 9.
It p*»v*deA however that
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UP)—
A renewed demand for return of
troop* to Fort D. A. Russel! at
Marfa, Texas, was before the
House today, with two new* ac-
count* of Mexican bandit depreda-
tions since the post was abandon-
ed read into the record.
Rep. Ewing Thomason, El Paso,
■aid the war department’* decision
to abandon the border fort was un-
warranted and had left 600 mile*
of the international boundary un-
protected except for a few Texas
Rangers.
He notified the House citizen* in
the section were arming them-
selves to resist bandits, whom ho
•aid had already made foray* into
Presidio county, not far from Mar-
fa and the abandoned calvalry
post.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, (UP).
—Appropriations of $150,000,000
more federal funds to aid the un-
employed was recommended today
to a senate committee by Charles
A. Miller, president of the Re-
construction Finance Corporation.
Miller, testifying at a banking
and currency sub-committee hear-
ing on the Wagone? bill to in-
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Farmers Kidnap
Ouster Agents
LIBERTY, Texas, Feb. 2. (UP)
Three Houston women, two ot
whom are in jail here, were under
indictments here today as suspect-
ed leaders of a notorious Texas-
Louisiana band of bank robbers.
Each was indicted on three
counts charging robbery with fire-
arms in the Jan. 6 holdup of .the
First National Bank of Cleveland,
near here, in which $1,700 was
stolen, followed by a gun battle.
One of the women also is sus-
pected in the attempetd holdup ot
the State Bank of Spring, Harris
County, prior to the Cleveland
holdup.
District Attorney C. E. Smith
and Sheriff L. V. Hightower re-
fused to reveal the women's names,
saying they were suspected in doz-
ens of other crimes occurring in
Texas and Louisiana occurring
over a long period.
The third woman was the object
of a wide search.
Officers said the women were
suspected of plannin gthe holdups
and aiding men confederates in
getaways after execution of the
jobs.
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Feb. 2 ter of the scheme, as outlined by
Mr. Roosevelt. Jt would have the
combined purposes of encouraging
both urban and rural development,
and of serving as a governor to
regulate private power price*.
Mr. Roosevelt described hi* pro-
gram as "something no country
ever has attempted before on ao
vast a scale.” If it met with suc-
cess, it would serve as a model for
similar undertakings in other
areas. The states affected by the
Tennessee plan would be Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
rect employment to perhaps 200,-
000.
Cheep power would be the cen-
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 2. (UP) —
Two State Rangers left today with
Mrs. Ida L. Hunsucker on what
was believed to be an attempt to
identify places where two men
sought in the killing ot Deputy
Sheriff Joe Brown of Rhome might
be hiding.
The Rangers were well-armed
and their chief sergeant, Bert
Whlsnand, refused tv reveal where
they were going. It was believed
additional Information on the kill-
ing had been obtained and that the
woman would try to aid in check-
ing it.
The men sought are Glen Hun-
sucker, the woman's son, and John
Stanton. Both are charged and
the woman has named her son as
the actual killer. She herself is
charged with murder and was with
the men at the time Brown was
shot.
Whlsnand said Asbury Craven
and Sid Kelso, the Rangers with
Mrs. Hunsucker, had been assign-
ed to devote their entire time to
locating tne two accused men.
"They are going to stay on the
job until they get the men or
someone with more authority than
I have takes them off,” he
dared.
TEXARKANA, Ark., Feb. 2.
(UP)—Homer Bramlett, 36, charg-
ed with an Oklahoma bank rob-
bery, was sought through ‘Texas
and Arkansas today after a daring
escape from an Oklahoma jail, in
which he kidnaped a deputy sher-
iff.
Held In the Garvin County, Ok.,
— • answer to
Bramlett
obtained permission to visit his
guard of
men and telephoned
Poole, bank vice-president.
This phone, on a party line, rang
the bank telephone. Frightened
by the call, the men fled. I
opened fire with his shotgun,
said his gun jammed after the first
man had fallen.
as saying they took orders
company officials and not
the Railroad Commission.
Twenty special rangers
working day and night in
ing Io enforce proration orders.
Thompson indicated the number
would be increased if violations
did not cease. The rangers’ on-
ly duty, he said, is to protect com-
mission employes.
Some oil, men blame renewed
violations of proration on belief
in some quarters that the three-
judge federal court which heard
injunction suits at Houston will
hold proration ihvalid.
Razor Victim Is
DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 2 (UP)—
Another court attack on the
State’s oil proration law* govern-
ing production in the rich East
Texas field was made her* today.
Attorneys for Burton Drilling
Company, owners of a lease on flf- *
ty acres tn Rusk County, received
from Federal Judge W, H, Atwell
an order demanding the presence
of the Texas Railroad Commission^
ers and the Attorney General in his
court Monday, Feb. 13, to show
cause why they should not be re.
> An open forum discussion of the
proposed State saies tax will be
held at Athens Thursday, Feb. 9,
by business men representing the
11 counties of District 8 of the
area served by the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce. This will
be the third of a series of six such
district meetings to be held by the
East Texas chamber. A number
of local citizens are expected to
attend.
A full use of credit facilities
of the Regional Agricultural Cred-
it Corporation will be another im-
portant subject to be considered at
this conference.
Tlie annual banquet of the Hen-
derson Chamber of ^Commerce will
be held tonight starting promptly
at 7 o’clock in the main dining
room of the Randolph Hotel.
Names of the officers and new di-
rectors to serve during the en-
suing year will be announced at
this time.
Many reservations have already
been made and it is anticipated
that one of th> largest gatherings
ever to attend a similar event will
be on hand for the attractive pro-
gram arranged for this occasion.
“Looking Ahead” will be the
subject of an address to be deliv-
ered by Victor H. Schaffelmayer,
agriculture editor of The Dallas
News and one of the foremo-t
authorities of this section on |
problems of the farm and indus-
try. |
Following is the program:
Toastmaster, A. H. Gardner.
Invocation, Rev. E. G. Cooke,
pastor First Methodist Church.
Banquet.
President’s report.
Report of ballot committee, Eu-
gene Lacy, chairman ballot com-
mittee.
Introduction of guests.
Quartet selection;' Mrs. R.
Hooker, Mrs. Jcpse N. Phillips, A.
H. Gardner, Wf, A. Griffin; Mrs.
R. T. Forman, accompanist.
Program of work for 1933, F. G.
Cook, chairman program of work
committee.
Address, "Looking Ahead,” Vic-
tor H. Schoffelmayer, agricultural
editor IS£1CS News.
Announcement of new officers.
Music during banquet furnished
by Mrs. J. B. Powell.
HOUSE VOTES CUT IN SALARIES
OF TEXAS JUDICIARY MEMBERS
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Three Women Are
Under Indictment
See Proration Suit on pag* 8.
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Lee Taylor who was cut Monday
night and seriously wounded near
the Gregg-Rusk County line, was
reported as greatly improved at
the Kilgore Hospital where he was
taken after being injured.
J. F. Hall was arrested on a
charge of assault to murder as the
result of the cutting. The bond
was reduced to $1,000 after the
condition of his alleged victim was
pronounced not dangerous.
Mlnnard, the Magician
Minnard the Magician,
< young man to be watched’’ is one
of the outstanding features of
the 1933 Mustang Variety Show
which comes to Henderson Tues-
day for a performance at the
High SchjJdT auditorium.
MinnardT’is a professional magi-
cian with four years o{ experi-
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home at Storey, ynder
Deputy E. A. Jones.
En route, he drew a pistol he
had obtained In some unexplained
manner, disarmed the deputy and
forced him to drive here, a dis-
tance of 300 miles.
Jones was released near here
shortly before midnight last night,
and Bramlett fled In the deputy's
car.
Roosevelt Plans Gigantic Public Development Project
(UP)—The greatest public devel-
opment project any nation ever has
attempted is planned by President-
elect Roosevelt 4n the Tennessee
watershed, it was revealed today.
A gigantic program combining
public power development, farm re-
lief and employment is planned by
Mr. Roosevelt, with Muscle Shoals
as the fountain-head.
Parts of a dozen states would be
affected by the plan, which Mr.
Roosevelt said would put 60,000 to
75,000 men to work in its first ___________
year, and eventually would give di- Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and
East Texas: Fair, cool-
er. Frost in interior to-
night. Friday fair.
BERLIN, Feb. 2 (UP)—Police
raided communist headquarters
throughout Prussia today In their
search for documents to prove that
the communist party activities are
illegal.
The offensive began a few hours
after Chancellor Adolf Hitler had
denounced communism In his first
manifesto to the pation, and poli-
ticians believed his government
would seek to outlaw the entire
communist party.
The raids were similar to the
“persecutions” against which' Hit-
ler’s Nazis protested before they
came into power this week. Res-
taurants and cafes patronized by
communists were raided, as was
Liebknecht House, Berlin commun-
ist headquarters. Nineteen com-
munists were arrested on charges
of resisting the police.
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Registration Is
Extended Until
First of April
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parts of Mississippi, Arkansas,
Missouri and Louisiana.
As part Ot his sweeping pledge
the experiment, he indicated.
The Arkansas and Columbia riv-
er valleys were suggested a* other
regions to which the development
plan might be applied later.
Asked if this was his answer to
technocracy, Mr. Roosevelt replied:
"I never thought of it in that
light.” |
"A great deal of thought has
been given to land utilization," be
said. “For the past 80 years, how-
ever, as states and as a nation, we
have been attacking the problem
piecemeal. Governor Plnchot of
Pennsylvania and the late Presi-
dent Roosevelt were the first to
arouse the ^°° tapbr-
of a "new deal” for America, the
Preeident-elect hopeo to Initiate
this year the first steps of the pro-
ject, which calls for:
1. Greater land utilisation.
2. Reforestation and afforesta-
tion.
3. Elimination of marginal lands.
4. Grater hydro-electric power
utilization.
5. Reduction in unemployment
Mr. Roosevelt explained the Ten-
nessee river watershed was picked
for the experiment because more
data pn its resources was available
than on kny other district.
Land surveys, flood control and
certain economic advantages, com-
bined to make the area ideal for
BY GEORGE K. SHEARER
United Press Staff Correspondent ' |
AUSTIN, Feb. 2, (UP).—Re-
j duccd salaries for Texas judges
were voted by the house of rep- |
resentatives today.
Under the new schedule
preme court judges are cut from
$8,000 to $6,000; civil appeals
judges from $7,000 to $5,000 and
district judges from $5,000 to $3,-
750. Judges of the court of crim-
inal appeals which is final in
criminal cases, are allowed the
same as those of the supreme
court.
Rep. George Parkhousc of Dal-
DENVER, Feb. 2 (UP)—Freder-
ick G. Bonflls, publisher of the
Denver Post died today from pneu-
monia. He was 72 years old.
Bonfils had been ill for several
days, suffering from an abscess in
his ear for which he submitted to
a minor operation Monday, and
from influenza which developed in-
to pneumonia.
Oxygen was admiiikitered to him
last night but death came at 6:15
a. m.
Ono of the last survivors of the
days of individual journalism, Bon-
flls was one of the most widely
known men of the west.
His father, Eugene Napoleon
Bonfils was for many years a pro-
bate jujdge in Troy, Mo., where
Bonfils was born, Dec. 31, 1860.
Bonfils' grandfather, Francois
Bonfils, was born in Corsica and
played as a boy, according to leg-
end, with Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Marion Nixon
AUSTIN, Feb. 2, (UP). — Ex-
tension of time for operating au-
tomobiles under 1932, license
plates' became a reality today
when the house of representatives
finally passd the senate bill ex-
tending the time until April 1 for
taking out 1933 licenses.
Governor Ferguson has already
announied approval of an exten-
sion ’ if thought necessary by the
legislature. Besides extending
the time, the act relinquishes
penalties and interest that ac-
crued when the old licensing per-
iod expired at midnight, Jan. 31.
' FORT SMITH, Ark., Feb. 2,;
(UP).—The hideout of three gun- j
men who kidnaped two Fort.
Smith police is believed to have
.been located in Oklahoma, Foster'
I Porter, motorcycle pajrolman, de-
clared today upon his return from
I Tulsa, Ok.
Porter, one of the kidnaped of-
ficers, brought with him photo-
graphs of two Oklahoma fugitives
whom he identified ai two of the
three kidnapers. He and Bob
Williamson, chief of the city de-
tectives, were kidnaped Tuesday
following a gun battle with three
robber suspects.
LONGVIEW, Feb. 2, (UP) —
Oil proration enforcement
grievances of royalty and
owners will be discussed at a
meeting of Greg county royalty
and fee owners called here to-
night by Railr 4 Commi'kionor
E. O. Thompson.
Thompson will feel out senti-
ment regarding his shutdown of
wells for alleged overproduction.
Today he awaited granting of in-
junctions to
wells on
charges.
Seven of
the East Texas Refining Com-
pany.
Thompson said these were re-
opened yesterday after his men
had closed them down. He quot-
ed refining company employes
from
from
Flapper Fanny Says
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Mother Assists B“r,”n“ft
Company Makes
CHEROKEE, Ok., Feb. 2, (UP)
Alfalfa county farmers served no-
. . t foreclosures on
' farm mortgages would not be tol-
erated.
j The first violence in the spread-
mobiles. The Intruders had knock-
ed the vault knob off and had be-
gun cutting with an acetylene
torch. They took $20 from the till.
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