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NO. 20
PRICE 5 CENTS
SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1936
VOL. 6
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Held Sane and Guil-
ty by Dallas Jury
Californian Says Plan Remains Unshaken by
Congressional Inquiry
DANGER OF RIFT
AGAIN CAUSES
GRAVE CONCERN
HIKE IN STATE
TAX PAYMENTS
Thoughtlessness
Cost $1,000
NEW TRIAL ASKED
FOR PHIL KENNAMER
Pencil Eraser Taken
From Boy’s Ear
TWO KILLED WHEN
AUTOMOBILES CRASH
DWIGHT BEARD
SENTENCED TO
Maritime Union Deter-
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Autopsy-Reveals Crim-
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Woman Killed
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GEORGIA NEGRO
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Mayor Says Business
as Usual
OKLAHOMA CITY. April 11.
(UP)—The Braniff Airways, Inc.,
tonight announced the addition of
two new daylight runs which will
practically double the company's
service between Chicago and San
Antonio, Tex.
The new service will be known
as the "Centennial Flyer," and
will go Into effect April 15.
JUDGMENT AGAINST
JIM FERGUSON UPHELD
If
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sheriffs Express Faith
in Two-Fist6d He-
Man Type Officer
Calles' Son Refused
Re-Entry to Mexico
Former President of
Mexico to Live in
California
ON IRON MAN’IN
POLITICAL COUP
91st Annual Session to
Open Monday
ILLINOIS PRIMARY
ELECTION TUESDAY
5 Per Cent Gain Over
Past Year
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TURKS DEMAND
RIGHT FORTIFY
DARDANELLES
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OVERTON, April 11 (Spl).—
A reported meningitis scare sev-
eral miles cast of here, has made
no development in the past two
days. Rumors of the scare had
been reported to the local health
authorities, and Mayor Timber-
lake called a council meeting Fri-
day afternoon, with five doctors
present. And according to Mayor
See No Meningitis on Page 11 '
PERSHING CHAUFFEUR
FINED FOR SPEEDING
Claim Security of Na-
tion Has Become
“Uncertain”
CHICAGO, April 11 (UP)—Illi-
nois’ bitter primary campaign to-
night swept toward an end at
Tuesday’s election with candi-
dates from presidential preference
to aidermen engaged in heated
exchanges, relief officials in jail
on charges of threatening WPA
workers, and voters bewildered by
rows and alliances.
Sen. William E. Borah's charge
that his chief opposition for pres-
idential preference of his native
state was from "these miserable
crooks up In Chicago who are on
the payrolls of many great cor-
porations’’ drew prompt response
from his only opponent, Frank
Knox, Chicago newspaper pub-
lisher.
NEW YORK. April
—Dr. Francis E. Townsend fore-
cast in a speech here tonight that
the Townsend movement would
emerge trpnj the present Con-
gressional inquiry unshaken and
with renewed courage to fight
for the |200-a-month pension lor
persona over 60.
His prediction was made in his
first public explanation of the1
BATAVIA, N. Y., April 11.- -
(UP)—For eight years 14-year-
old Anthony Severe complained
of deafness in his left ear. To-
day the deafness was gone- and
sp was a pencil eraser removed
from his ear drum.
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS. * * *
CALLANDER, Ont., April 11
(UP)—The Dionne quintuplets will
participate In a real fashion pa-
rade on the verandas of the Dafoe
hospital tomorrow, parading in all
their Easter finery.
Each will sport a new bonnet,
shoes and dress. They will wear
tbeir winter coats and leggings,
but underneath them will wear
dainty new dresses to mark Eas.
ter.
Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe, their Iphy-
slcian .said the babies had enough
Easter eggs sent them from
over the continent, “to stock
candy shop.”
PAWNEE, Okla., April 11 (UP)
An appeal for a new trial for Phil
Kennamer, convicted of man-
slaughter in the slaying of John
Gorrell Jr., was filed in district
court today.
The appeal was based on a claim
Of newly discovered evidence and
alleged intimidation of witnesses.
. The Henderson Daily News Carries Full United Press Leased Wire Service, Full NEA Picture Service and Features, Recognized as
DALLAS, Tex., April 11 (UP) —
Dwight Beard, former North Car-
olina football player, was given a
death sentence today for the hold-
up killing of John Roberts, retired
Dallas policeman.
The district court jury which
convicted him had deliberated since
Thursday evening and showed no
sign of agrement until the verdict
was returned shortly after 9 a. m.
today.
Beard, escaped life-termer from
the North Carolina penitentiary,
pleaded Insanity as a defense He
heard the verdict stolidly, with no
See Dwight Beard on Page 11
Ital ian armies
DALLAS, Tex., April 11 (UP)
—The fifth court of civil appeals
upheld today a personal judg-
ment for $51,164.40 against for-
mer Gov. James E. Ferguson.
The judgment was entered Dec.
1, 1934, by District Judge R. B.
Allen, in a suit brought by the
Dallas Joint Stock and Land Bank
on a note for $40,000 executed n
1923 by Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson.
The judgment was established
the 626-acro Bell
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idantifl
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ly as detectives fingoi. ____ __
photographed him and refused to
give his name.
The four were arrested tn •
North Pallas apartment house.
Dallas detectives and depart-
ment of justice agents began ques-
tioning the four, not only tn eon- ■
nection with the Luer kidnaping
but also regarding the $«.000 rob-
bery here last week of the Borden
Milk Company office and the
$5,200 robbery a month ago of the
Progress Wholesale Liquor Co. Of
Dallas.
Detectives armed with machine
guns surrounded the apartment
after the arrests were made, pre-
sumably to await the possible re-
turn of two other persons sought
for questioning.
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East Texas: Partly cloudy, *k-
msr on coast Sunday; Monday
partly cloudy becoming unsettled
In south portion. Moderate south-
It's when you feel washed up that
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partment of interior.
"I did not understand that I was tempting to R«t ____________
included in the exile order," young from Mejdco City,” but so far had
Calles said. j been unsuccessful. •
GENEVA, Aprif 11 (UP)
—Turkey delivered a note to
the League of Nations today
demanding the right to re-
fortify the Dardanelles Strait,
demilitarized by the Treaty of
Lausanne after the World
War. **
The noW^ras sent also t«4he
British, Bulgarian, Frendi, Creek.
Italian, Japese, Roumanian, Rus-
sian. and Jugoslavian Govern-
ments. It pointed out- that the
guarantees of Turkish security
under the treaty had become “un-
certain and inoperative” in view
of the re-arming of the powers.
Therefore, it said, the treaty
“can no longer in practice shield
turkey from external danger to
her territory.”
The note urged signatories of
the straits annex to the Lausanne
Treaty to “enter negotiations
with a view to arriving in the near
future at the conclusion of an
Sed Dardanelles on Page 11
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Texas Weather
DALLAS, Tex., April 11 (UP)
-Sixty-four Dallas -merchants
donned their linen dusters and
straw hats today and prepared to
leave tomorrow on a trade tour of
Texas cities, to advertise Dallas
and the Texas Centennial Exposi-
tion.
The tour itinerary will Include
Brownwood, San Angelo, Big
Spring. Abilene, Lubbock, Ama-
rilla, Wichita Falls, Breckenridge
and Cisco.
Flapper fanny Says:
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** East Texas’ Fastest Growing **Newspaper
another daughter,
Moore, address given
“Texas,” a
car.
Bearing little resemblance to
his famed father, Alfred E. Smith,
Jr., is shown here as ho appear-
; cd at a Washington hearing to
bar use of mails to the Golden
Stakes Contest, alleged by postal
attorneys to be a fraud and a
lottery. The junior Smith is vice
president of the organization,
sponsoring the latest fad of a
fortune for a dollar.
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OLD-TIMER LAW
ENFORCERS KICK
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 11
—The nation’s chemists, those ex-
plorers of the laboratory and
field, gathered here tonight by the
hundreds for the 91st annual
meeting of the American chemical
society, the largest professional
organization of its kind in the
world.
A registration list of more than
2,000 is expected by Monday
when the five-day meeting gets
under way. Seventeen divisional
and 80 local sections will be rep-
resented. More than 300 address-
es and papers will be presented
on virtually every phase of an
Sec Chemists Meet on. Page 11 "
I maritime federation of
| Pacific determined to
strike action against
ROME, April 11 (UP) -The en-
tire northern Italian army In Eth-
iopia is advancing rapidly south-
wards, press messages from Ital-
ian general headquarters said to-
night.
The vanguards have passed Cob-
bo on the road to Dessye. accom-
panied by Azebo Galla rebels and
Raia Galla tribesmen who are am-
bushing an<T’attacking the flee-1
ing Ethiopians.
The regular army corps, with
heavy artillery and tanks, left
Koren and Sakota for Magdala,
just northeast of Dessye. The
Fourth Army corps was carefully
mopping up the Tembien region
west of the Takazze fiver.
Italy informed the League of
Nations today that she Is observ-
ing the international rules of war-
fare in Ethiopia.
See II
NEW YORK, Apr. 11 (UP)
—Nancy Evans Titterton,
comely 34-year-old author,
was criminally assaulted be-
fore she was strangled to
death and thrown into the
bathtub of her exclusive
apartment, an autopsy reveal-
ed tonight.
Police said the assault was the
only motive for the murder al-
though approximately $5 was miss-
ing from the victim’s purse.
The body of Mrs. Titterton, wife
of Lewis H. Titterton, an execu-
tive of the National Broadcasting
Company, was discovered late yes-
terday.
See Mrs. Titterton on Page 11
CHEMISfSMEET
LOS ANGELES, April 11
(UP)—Gen. Plutarco Calles
arrived in California late to-
day for an indefinite exile im-
posed by a Mexican govern-
ment he once ruled with an
iron fist. He was met at the
airport by his son-in-law, Fer- j
nando Torreblanco, who came '
here from San Diego, Cal.
Two Spanish speaking Los An-
geles city policemen, Sergts. S. R.
Lopez: and Ed Romero, met Calles I
at the airport, and were ordered I SAN FRANCISCO, April
by police chief James E. Davis to | j j (CP)—Labor feuds on the
keep guard over the former Mexi. p .f. , , prfr..nt
can President during his stay here. 1 AC1I1C toast water!ront near-
Accompanylng Calles were Luis | fd a showdown today with the
See Exile imposed on Page 11 j maritime federation of the
take
strike action against the
Grace Liner Santa Rosa when
it docks at San Pedro Monday
from New York.
The TlXJ1 ' edro ’council of the
federation, meeting last night, vot-
ed to establish picket lines around
the Santa Rosa’s dock, with the
result that union Longshoremen
will refuse ' to work the vessel’s
cargo, it was learned relfably.
Charges by employers of mur.
der. mutiny, sabotage and Insub-
ordination in port and aboard
ships at sea clashed with union ac-
cusations that steamship operators
are sending vessels to sea with no
See Coast Labor on Page 11
SECRET RECORD
Puerto Rican Clipper, with 25
persons aboard, overturned
and sank in the harbor In. #
collision with a fishing boat
today, drowning three of the
seaplane’s occupants. ’
The dead, all drowned, werq:
E. Ramon Martines,'New York.
Eric Battray Brough, London,
England.
Amdoo Lopes, dining steward. .
Several passenger* received mi-
nor injuries.
Among the passengers who es-
caped were Jose Iturbl, Spanish
pianist and conductor, with his
secretary, Miss Jean Dalrymple,
and the former Callborne Footer,
Broadway actress. Miss Foster la
the wife of Maxwell Jay Rice,
manager of Pan.American Air-
ways of Brazil. Miso Dalrymple is
the wife gf -Ward Morehouse,
American playwright.
The plane, bound from MlaM
for Natal and Rio De Janeiro, Bra-
THREE HELD FOR
KIDNAP IN 1931
Trio Arrested in Dallas
Saturday ,3.
DALLAS, Tex., April 11 (U?)
—Three men and a woman were
arrested here for questioning to-
day in connection with the kid-
naping three years ago of August
Luer of Alton, Ill.
Detectives said the prisoners
were nationally known among
police. ' •
One of the men gave hto name
as “Blackie” Doyle, of 8t Louis;
of the others said ho wae
iy Miller, and the woman
fled herself as Doris Adanab.
third man grinned doris|ve-
DALLAS, Tex., April 11. —
(UP)—Mrs. D. L. Hood of
Hempstead, N. Y., a tourist,
halted her automobile in Grand
Prairie, near Dallas, to fill a
thermos jug with water. She
laid her purse, containing cash
and jewelry valued at $1,000,
on the rear bumper of the car.
Mrs. Hood told sheriff's depu-
ties today she forgot to pick up
the purse before she drove off,
and appealed to them to help
her find it.
DANIELSVILLE, Ga„ April 11
—A 74-ycar-old judge dramati-
cally deputized an angry mob of
100 masked men today and there-
by averted an attempt to lynch
a negro.
"I declare you all deputized as
officers,” Judge B. T. Moseley
shouted from the jail steps to the
mob which had battered a two-
foot hole in the wall of the Madi-
son County jail in an attempt to
obtain Lint Shaw, accused of an
attempted assault on a white girl.
"I recognize most of you here,”
the judge added.
The crowd quickly dispersed,
leaving only a dozen loiterers,
and a detachment of National
Guardsmen from Atlanta, under
the command of Maj. Walter 1).
Elliott, took Shaw out of the jail
here, went first to Athens and
then left for an unannounced
jail.
The negro was given medical
aid at Athens. He was wounded
in the shoulder and head when he
stabbed and struggled with two
deputy sheriffs last night as he
See Georgia Negro on Page 11
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CIRCULATION
For Friday, April 10th '
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AUDIT BUREAU OF CIBCULATIONB
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., April 11 (UP)—Alfredo Calles, son
of the former president of Mexico who was exiled from his
country yesterday, was refused entry to Mexico today.
Mexican immigration officials,v>----—_______
in refusing young Calles permis- I merely accompanied my fath-
sion to enter Mexico so as to rc- ’cr to the l’o,'der> and planned to
(O C(ly. „M
were acting on orders of the de-1 terior order."
Young Calles said he was "at-
an explanation
WASHINGTON. April 11 (UP)
—Evidence that friends and foes
of the Roosevelt administration
are leaking records of individual
crop control payments to the
press for partisan advantage ac-
cumulated today as Allan Hoov-
er’s name was added to the list
of New Deal beneficiaries.
The former president's son in
Bakersfield, Calif., confirmed a
report that he had received $4,800
from the late Agricultural Ad-
justmeen Administration. The
younger Hoovers benefit was part
of a payment on a crop not grown
on the Greenfield ranch near Bak-
ersfield. He is part owner of the
property.
New Dealers unofficially ex-
oee AAA Leaks on Page 11
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Like theTTheT it produces so
luxuriously, the benign Bermuda
climate makes romance bloom,
too, bringing young men and
women together from far and
near. Chatting together at the
Hamilton Hotel are Natalie Ful-
ler of Boston and Theodore
Roosevelt, 3d, of New York.
AUSTIN, Tex., April 11
(UP)—Boots and saddle law
enforcement was in revolt to-
night against card
finger - printing,
methods of Texas’ new
partment of Safety.
Sheriffs of the Southwest object-
ed to L. G. Phares, former State
motor patrol chief, becoming per-
manent director of the safety de-
partment. They wanted big-hatted
•I. B. Arnold, twice elected sheriff
of Bee County.
Capt. J. W. McCormick, head
ranger and exponent of the old-
style of shooting from the hip, wag
being held in the department only
See Old-Timer Law on Page 11
NO MENINGITIS
NEAR OVERTON
I vldual freedom and national *o!id-
arity.
Thouaand* of rejoicing oltlun*
gathered to wltnea* th* flr«t
work of demolition.
GENEVA, April 11 (UP)—
Grave danger of a diplomatic
drifting apart of Great
Britain and France over the
Rhineland and Ethiopian
questions was seen here to-1
night.
International negotiations
were in recess until next week,
but those diplomats of the Lo-
carno powers who remained
here, recognized that there
was slighjf hope of mending
the sericnis breach in Franco-
British views if the wrangling
continues Over methods of set-
tling the Italian-Ethiopian
war.
Britain’s strategic position was
regarded as unquestioned, now
See Danger of Rift on Pago 11
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QUINTTO STAGE
EASTER PARADE
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New Togs to Be D on-
ned for Promenade
TURLOCK, Cal., April 11 (UP I
- Crawford C. Shaexfer, who is
General John .. Pershing's chauf-
feur, today was fined $50 in city
court for speeding. General Persh-
ing, present when Shaeffer was
arrested, was not in court.
"I'm sorry I can't impose a
heavier fine,” Judge H. C. Carlson
remarked as he assessed the maxi-
mum penalty.
General Pershing _was repre-
sented by three officials of the
California State Automobile asso-
rt atkon. ft was indicated the
fine would come out oi the Ci."
eral * BockeL
ADVANCE FAST.
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Northern Area Puts Upl
SAFFORD, Ariz., April 11 (UP)
— Two speeding automobiles met
at a curve near here last night
killing two persons and injured
four others. Three of them criti-
cally.
The dead:
Fred Roy Hall, 35. Oklahoma
City, driver of one automobile.
Mrs. Emily Payne, 40, Virbcn,
N. M., mother of 12 children.
The injured were:
Ezra C. Payne, husband of the
dead woman and driver of the
other automobile; Vetta Payne,
16, his daughter; Ademlma Payne,
15, another daughter, and Joe
only as
passenger In Hall’s
AUSTIN, April 11 (UP)—
State Comptroller George Shep-
pard today reported five per cent
increase in gross receipts taxes
in Texas for 1935 over 1934. In-
creased sulphur producton caused
most of the increase. Payment
on all was $2,326,755.
BRITAIN STRIVES 10 AVERT NEW EUROPEAN CRISIS
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1 Calles Arrives In Los Angeles
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12 (UP)«>troubles that caused resignation
of two of the movement’s leaden.
He rqgreted, he saitj, that R. E.
Clements, co-founder of th* Old
Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd.,
and Kep. John 8. McGrowrty of
California, found it necessary to
withdraw from the organisation
but assured hi* foliowen that the
movement would carry on.
See Towneeqd ton Page 4
Inside Info Given on
AAA Payments
Home-Town of the East Texas Oil Field * * *
CARACAS, Venezuela, April. IA fl
(UP)—The government today be-
gan razing the Botunda, notorious
prison for political offenders,
where opponents of the late Dic-
tator-Presdent, Gen. Juan Vicente 11
Gomez, wore jailed and tortured.
In its place the new Plesa do la
Concordia will be laid out. It ie
intsnded to remind Venezuelans of
the end of the oppressive Gomec
'regime and the re birth of indl-
Miami Bay Scene of
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urday Morning ,
PORT OF SPAIN, Trini-
dad, April 11 (UP)-Tl>« biff
Pan American Airways plans
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