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Survey Shows 800,000
Homes Are Needed
In U. S. Annually!
For Several Years
Mother - in - Law Did
Not Know of Affair
Until News Account
Rfevealed Facts
Indian Sweetheart Is
Questioned in Probe
Of 3 Murder Cases
In N. E. Oklahoma
All Kinds of Ideas
Be Incorporated
Train Equipment
Draw Travellers
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Appointment ,
Director of the processing and
assigned to
Ferguson,
filed
final stages In the four-month aer-
ial survey of air routes conducted
by the Lindberghs since leaving the
United States.
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GOLD PRICE UNCHANGED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UP) —
The government today fixed its
price for newly-mined American
gold at $34.01 an ounce, unchang-
ed from the previous three days.
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See Strange Death on page 3
NATAL, Brasil, Dea. « (UP)—•
Col. and Mr*. Charles A. Lindbergh
flying a true course for 1870 miles,
arrived in their big seaplane in th*
Natal harbor at 12:55 p. m. E. 8.
T. today after a spectacular flight
from Bathurst, British West Afri-
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This photo shows an aerial view of ed at the conclusion of their 1870
the airport and seaport at Natal, mile transatlantic flight from
Brazil, where Colonel and Mrs. Bathurst, West Africa. The flight,
Charles A. Lindbergh, above, land- routed In map, marks one of the
FIRST MARRIAGE
CLOSE SECRET
TO MAKE TRAIN
SERVICE BETTER
Athletic Council Head living near here,
Says Position Will
Not Be Filled Until
Some Time Later
Williams] Mrs.
ithcr of ‘.he 28-year-old
second
Joy in
employment in
field.
A report on the survey outlines
construction possibilities totaling
See Btfidling os Page 6
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UNITED STATES
ON DEFENSIVE
AT MONTEVIDEO
Latin America May
Try to Talk Debts Haywood Patterson,
J e 1 fend anta to hr retrh
And Tariff Changes
At Conference
irlng since their depar- * 1
lew York on July 9
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For Capture of
Negro Murderer
______ ______ T$700 Will Be Given tc
One Nabbing Negro
Killing Woman at
Kountze Saturday |
KOUNTZE, Tex., Dee. 6 (UP) |
Tile search for David Gregory,
LINDBERGHS COMPLETE HOP ACROSS ATLANTIC
COUPLE ARRIVES
IN BRAZIL AFTER
16-HOUR TRIP
Anne Contacted Radio
Stations Throughout
Flight, Transmitting
Various Bulletins
Romance at Dallas Murder Trial
’WOOLLEY KEPT
reached
a dis-
WASHINGTONj Dec 6 (UP)—
The government intends to take up
the case of the train caller who
says "Umphff’’ when he means
Ashtabula. The unintelligible train
announcer is. only one of the wor-
ries of coordinator Joseph B. East-
man, whose job is to rehabilitate
the nation’s $26,000,000,000 railroad
system.
See Rail Plans on Page 6
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. Dec. 6
(TTP)—United States delegates to
the Pan-American conference were
on the defensive today, watching
efforts of Latin American dele-
gates to inject the debt and tariff
problems into discussions.
At each committee meeting of
the conference, the problems bob-
bed up. Mexico, Peru and Argen-
tina took the lend in suggesting in
8ee Pan-Am on Page 6
here today.
Benavides.
Tuesday, was
South Texas.
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COMMITS SUICIDE
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6 (UP)
—Dr. W. Dewey Wightman, 41,
prominent Los Angeles physician,
shot and killed himself as a tragic
aftermath to a domestic quarrel
over "another woman,” police an-
nounced today as they released his
titan-haired wife from custody.
Elliott Roosevelts
Reported Expectant
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6. (UP)--
Reports that Mr. and Mrs. Elliott
Roosevelt, son and daughter-in-law
of President Roosevelt, were anti-
cipating the birth of a child late
next spring, brought neither con-
firmation nor denial from young
Roosevelt today.
"I have nothing to say to that
report,’’ he said, ' and I certainly
would not make any premature an-
nouncement of such a fact.”
The President's son, and his wife,
the former Ruth Googins, plan to
spend the Christmas holidays with
Mrs. Roosevelt’s parents in Fort
Worth, Texas, Roosevelt revealed.
He added he might visit the
White House some time in January.
The couple have been making
their home in Beverly Hills since
their mariage in Burlington, Iowa,
last July. He is aviation editor of
a Los Angeles newspaper.
greeted by cheering thousands,
swarming on every vantage point
along the rocky shore*.
Rowboat*, motorboat* an*
launches jammed the river Potengy ' 1
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Man Runs Amuck at Hotel
KillingWoman and Himself
Daughter Badly Hurt^
And Hotel Manager
Terrorized by Mad
Man at Hot Springs
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Dec. 6
(UP)—Jack Walton, 30, of Chica-
go, fatally stabbed a woman, criti-
cally wounded his daughter, terror-
ized a hotel manager, and then kill-
ed himself here today*
A few minutes after Walton In-
vaded a hotel room, Mrs. Stella
Shattas. 30, and her daughter,
14, both of Chicago, ran out
screaming and bleeding from stab
wounds.
Mrs. Shattas dropped dead a few '
feet from the door.
Funeral Is Held for
Senator Parr’s Sister
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Dee.
f) (UP)—Funeral services for
Miss Lillian Parr of Benavides
and Corpus Christi, sister of State
Senator Archie Parr, will be held
Burial will be nt
Miss Parr, who diet
widely known
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas,
Dec. «. (UP)—Eligibility of Ted
Spencer, fullback on the Texas A.
&. M. Southwest Conference foot-
ball team was under "complete in-
vestigation” by the college athlet-
ic council today, according to Dean
E. J. Kyle, council chairman.
The dean declared a full report
regarding Spencer will be made at
a Southwest Conference meeting
In Dallas Saturday.
The question of the player’s eli-
gibility was reported to have been
Sec Spencer on Page 6
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Diphtheria Scourge
Hits Isolated Point
WINNIPEGOSIS VILLAGE,
Man., Dec. 6 (UP)-Traveling
against icy winds and over snow-
choked wilderness trails, Dr. M. E.
Medd, reached an isolated diphthe-
ria scouraged settlement 50 miles
from here with toxoid to Immunize
50 children.
Dr. Medd and Miss E. Ring, pub-
(lie health nurse, set out on the dan-
gerous journey by snowmobile
when word reached here yesterday
that one child was dead aqd more
were dying of diphtheria in the set-
tlement at Duck Bay.
News of the outbreak
the outside world when
traught father placed his stricken
son, William Campbell, 5, on a dog
sled and took him 16 miles through
bitter cold to the Pine River Indian
Reservation.
Cmapbell notified Dr. Medd, who
See Diphtheria on Page 2
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Q ANTA Claus will be here Friday
LJ night. Bring the kiddies in to
ses him. It will be Henderson’s
Christmas party to all the children
in Rusk county and in neighboring
counties if they will accept the in-
vitation.
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fpHE Merchants-P.-T. A. Carnival
■ opens tomorrow afternoon. The
ladles have worked faithfully to
present some entertainment worth
the money and you will not be dis-
appointed.
When we old-timers went to
school they didn’t have the PTA.
Your mother only went to school
with you on the first day unless
the teacher wrote her a note and
told her you'd been playing hookey.
Parents didn’t understand the
teacher's problems, teachers didn't
understand the parents, the stu-
dents didn't understand either side
but were seemingly between two
fires.
But the desire to excel in schol-
astic work doesn’t seem to be as
strong as it used to be. Students
seem satisfied now if they make a
mere passing grade. If they “get
by”, they seem content.
tural adjustment administration
William Irving Westervelt, won’t
live this one down:
A newsman received a query
from a Western paper concerning
a college professor who had been
appointed as technical assistant to
the General. '
, “.When was he appointed, Gen-,
/AOURT house clocks still hay-
wire. I am told that they can
be fixed and running ami then a
bard bolt of lightning will stop
them again. They must have been
bought under some sort of a guar-
antee. There are clocks that will
run, lightning or no lightning. If
a newspaper bought ft printing
press that wouldn't print papers,
its manufacturers would hear a
loud and hearty wail.
Not so with the public's business.
A clock bought is a clock bought
and whether it keeps time or not
is seemingly unimportant.
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HOUSTON MAN DECIDES
NOT TO KILL HIMSELF
HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 6.
(UP) Tom Thrift, 65, cut his
left wrist, cut his throat, stab-
bed himself over the heart three
times, drank a bottle of iodine
and then jumped into Buffalo
Bayou. His Intentions were to
commit suicide, but he changed
his mind at the last minute and
climbed from the bayou.
"When I hit that cold water
last night I decided I didn't
want to die, after all, ’ Thrift
told detectives. “So I thumbed
a ride to the hospital.
"I was despondent,
know why.”
Attendants said he would live.
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AUSTIN, Dec. 6 (UP,— No
coach has been selected to succeed
Clyde Littlefield as football mentor
at the University of Texas, W. E.
Metzenthin, chairman of the ath-
letic council, declared today.
“That’s not so,” he said emphat-
ically when informed of reports
that Jack Chevigny, understudy to
the late Knute Rockne and coach
of St. Edwards University's first
championship eleven, had been se-
lected for tue position.
See Coach on Page 6
Scottsboro Negro Is
Sentenced to Death
DECATUR, Ala., Dec. 6. (Ul’i
^eral?” asked the newsman. ^Roosevelt, high In official circles,
1 “Appointed?" queried Gen Wes-
marketing division of the agricui- tervelt; "why, I never heard of the
fellow. There must be a mistake.
I’ll call my secretary."
The secretary said certainly,
General, you appointed the profes-
sor yourself a couple of weeks ago
and sent the appointment to Sec-
retary of Agriculture Wallace to
'be approved. The General gulped.
A. good friend of President
meat to the Federal Constitution.'grand council
amusing himself these days by as I
ing his acquaintances whether
they’d like to see the “new Roose-
velt dollar.” They always say yes.
He then produces a flfty-cent piece
and smiles knowingly.
A not so good friend of Mr.
Roosevelt asks the same question.
He varies the procedure by pro-
ducing a quarter.
WICHITA, Kan., Dsc. 6. (UP)
—City Detective Joe Maness today
was believed to be in the vicinity
of Tulsa, Okla., on a search for
Jack Wisdom, suspect in the slay-
ing of a Wellington farm hand and
the abduction of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Pritchard of Wichita.
Maness left Coffeyville for Tulsa
yesterday after questioning Emily
Foulke, Wisdom’s Indian sweet-
heart. The girl told Maness Wis-
dom had boastedto her, two days
after the Pritchards disappeared of
“killing Large and two Wichita
deputy sheriffs."
See Murder Probe on Page 6
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (UP)—
President Roosevelt expects 4,000,-
000 men to be at work by Dec. 15,
under the civil works authority.
It was revealed at the White
House that 2,000,000 men already
are on the job and that another
1,000,000 will be added by Satur-
day. Response* from all parts of
I the liquor business through his the country Indicated a tremendous
appointment as distilling code au- enthusiasm for the CWA which is
headed by Harry L. Hopkins.
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Maine 37th State
To Repeal Prohibition
AUGUSTA, Me., Dec. 6. (UP)—
Maine, the original prohibition
State, today became the 37tb Stat*
DAI.I. \S, Tex., Dec. 6 (I'!’)
— A grief-stricken mother told
from the witness stand today ot
the romance and mariage of Toy
G. Woolley to he'- daughter, whom
negro, cliarged with attacking and Iw >
slaying Mrs. Mellie
Brockman,’ 2S, wife of
,. , was spurred to-
day by posting of $500 reward for
his capture by the county and
^ZOO^by U’e state.
Two rangers were
the case by Governor
Sheriff Miles Jordan filed the
charge against the negro who fled
Saturday night when oificers
went to Ins home to question him.
Mrs. Brockman was attacked,
shot to death and her body
on fire to hide the crime.
rjMAl dragnet oi the law brought
A 15 persons before the bar of
Justice Ward’s court Tuesday. A
few of them paid their fines, some
of them made partial payments
and some of them merely plead
guilty but couldn’t pay. Their
names don't matter because few,
If any, of them are known by their
right names.
Charity was too slow. And, who
likes to beg, anyway?
The women merely followed the
line of the least resistance when fi-
nances ran low. They ar« truly
children of the depression. You'll
find them scattered along the
highways all. over the country.
They, too, are a part of that 64 mil-
lion who are “getting by.’’
They would welcome a chance to
go into a government-operated
camp where they could havj food
and clothes and learn some kind
of a self-supporting trade. It would
be lots better than the way they
are now forced to-A/o. •
By H. O. THOMPSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
(Copyright, 1933, by United Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (UP)--
Construction of some 800,000 resi-
liences is required annually for
I the next several years in the
Clarence Norris, seoond of the ne- , United States according to an NBA
gro defendants to be retried in tile survey of the possibilities of rc-
Scottsboro assault case, was con-
weted by a Morgan County jury
I here today.
The jury fixed the penalty at
death, the same as in the case of
■ - , first of the de-
1 fondants to be retried and similar
ly reconvicted.
By 15 of December t® surrender original prints ot pho-
. tographa of the lynching scenes, to
help identify those active in the
affair.
Waiter Gartan, 43, was held in
default of *1,000 bond on a charge dH
of malicious destruction of *rop»
erty. Gartan was accused of at-
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PEAKING of clocks, the time-
piece with the chimes on the
First National Bank has changed
its tune. It used to play Three
Blind Mice. Now it starts off a bu-
gle call
Sec Uncle Gus on page 3
tachtng a chain to the jail door
before a truck dragged it off. J
Italy to Pay Million , 1
On Debt Installment
ROME, Dec. 6. (UP) — Italy
will make a "token” payment of .
*1,000,000 on its war debt install-
ment due the United Stat** De-
cember 15, it was announced to-
day. The payment was decided
<?n at a meeting ot the Fascist
■cti.-cd of killing.
i Joyncs, widowed mo-
uuditor':,
v.ii'c, Mr.-. Dorothy Mane
Woolley, told a
story of the courtship and
riage.
Tile mot Iler said sh“ had known
Woolley ..lice a ww day- betore
See Woolley on Page 6
POLICE STUDY
STRANGE DEATH
AT MONTE CARLO
American Girl Died of
Poisoning and Boy
Friend Unable to
Explain Details
MONTE CARLO, Dec. 6 (UP) —
Police sought vainly today to ex-
tract from the incoherent mumb-
lings of an American boy the solu-
tion of a Macabre mystery present- Ar IRA II I II A p ft fl
ed when they burst into a hotel VLIIU! UIM| LIIU
room and found him cranking a wLaSilltj II I 11 U I tri I
phonograph near a bed on which i AIIARFATrR
xi: “Li.n Am r ,n g rl MAN SUSPECTED
The Americans arrived here'B«. A ■ MV
Thanksgiving Day and registered 111 B|l|[*nrn pMOE
Marie Wilson, 20, and Fred Wil-1 111 lYlUIlULlI UhOL
17, brother and sister, of New
r»« Stranes Don th nn nilPP 3
DAILY NEWS HAS MESSAGE^
FROM BRAZIL IN 6 MINUTES
In exactly six minute* after
Lindbergh landed in Natal,Bra-
zil, the news of his landing came
In on the wife at the Daily News
office. He landed there at 11:58
p. m. and the message coming
over th* wire here closed at
12:01.
This Is considered remarkable
since the news was flashed by
short wave over the Pan-Ameri-
can Airways facilities to New
York, where it Was given to tlM
United Press. From N*w York
it was relayed through Kansas
City to Dallas and to Henderson.
The new* event was trans- .
mltted faster than th* a**nge
person rruld copy it M ma^y
times on * typewriter.
* The Lindberghs had traverse
the South Atlantia ocean in * -t«
straight airline, landing at 1 p. m,
16 hours out of Bathurst
The flight completed 19,000 miles
ofaerfltom _
ture from New York on July 9.
The Lindberghs came down to a
city that had declared an unofficial
holiday in their honor. They wer*
where it sweeps into th* ocean near
the new Pan-American naval ate«
port. >
See Lindberghs on Pag* < ,
LYNCHING PROBE
IS CONTINUED IT 1
ST. JOSEPH, Mils I
Official Learns MucK
By Questioning Men
Suspected in Mob .. j
Outbreak Recently > j
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dm. «. (UP*
—Assistant Attorney General W.
O. Sawyers "aid today h* was con-
fident on* of th* eight men under
arrest poured gasoline on th* body
of Lloyd Warner, negro attacker *•»
who was lynched and burned by a
mob here last week.
None of the eight held had been J
charged, but Sawyers said h* had
obtained valuable information by
questioning them.
He said he had learned where
the mob leader* obtained a 10« 4
chain with which they pulled oown
the door of the county jail and ex- , .4
pec ted to learn identity of the man
who placed a rope around Wsr-
ner’s neck. , # jj
Sawyers requested police to ptoS
up several other* suspected of par-
ticipating' in the mob action.
He planned to ask newspapers d
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
FOR THOSE GIVING TO
HIGH SCHOOL FUND
“Let’s make this one an Old
Fashioned Christmas.” This, in
brief was the decision of the
Junior High school chorus when
the question arose as
organization could do of a worth
while nature.
The chorus wanted to do some-
thing to bring added Christmas
joy to the needy for Christmas. Its
members realize that the present
relief funds do not. provide for
candy, toys and other Christmas
need., for the little children in un-
fortunate financial circumstances.
See Carols on Page 6
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EMERGENCY COUNCIL
WASHINGTON. Dee. 6 (UP) —
President Roosevelt today an-
nounced the creation of the Na-
tional Emergency Council to con-
solidate, coordinate and raise the
efficiency of the entire recovery
program.
County Demonstrator
Names Prize Winners
Miss Lijtye Thomas, county home
demonstrator has announced the
winners in two contests held
among the rural women of the
county under her direction recent-
ly.
In the McCall doll dress contest
See Contest on page 3
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thority. Is possessed of a wife who
achieved fame by inventing
prohibition cocktail.
It 1* made of fruit juice*.
Mrs.- Doran’s prohibition cock-
tail is a tasty drink, much better
than the William Jennings Bryan
cocktail which one lady prohlbl- ______
tlonist mixed of half near beer and *o ratify the Jtat (repeal) amend-
Dr, Jansa M. Docaa. highxdqkuI{half grape juice. 1 "
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