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OIL INDICATED
NEAR QUITMAN
Trouble in Identifying
Aged Man at Brownwood
Henderson’s Family Theatre
Prices 10c-30c
Saturated Sand Reported in the
Deep Rock Tert Within Few
Miles of City
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Bustle Will Feature
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iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
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Mrs. A. W. Short has returned
from a visit in Fort Worth.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bates of
Ranger were guests of Miss Marie
Flahie and Mrs. Dorothy Odom,
Wednesday.
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state
does not wish to destroy property
in the attempt to restore prices.
The 17 major firms operating
in this area employe 3,200 men,
Murray said. He said he under
stood the shutdown would cause
but a minimum of unemployment.
_HRNPEPSON DAILY NEWS. HENDERSON. TEXAS
UNCLE SAM TD KEEP HANDS OFF
w"”“ s"”“ IN BIG OIL FUSS IN OKLAHOMA
So Far Big Companies Are Making No Import-
ant Move to Combat Martial Law Rule
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Miss Ruby Compton, employe of
Packman’s, is taking a week’s va-
cation.
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Mrs. L. D. Roberts has return-
ed to Dallas after a visit with her
mother, Mrs. C. W. Tipps.
Mays & Harris
“7116 Store of Better Values
Miss Bettye Mae Hedge
spending t(ie week in Kilgore.
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Mrs. John L. Slover and Miss
Agnes-Watson are spending today
and Fridrfy in Dallas.
Credit is an accommodation but if the privilege is abused, it
becomes a financial burden; not only to the seller but to the
buyer as well. We are rating every person using credit in Hen-
derson. It behooves you to take care of your accounts as agredU
Surely you do not care to be placed on the DON'T PAY list
Hot checks lead to trouble.
NE WORLEANS, Aug 6
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QUITMAN, Tex., Aug. 6 (UP)
—Deep Rock Oil Company report-
ed today it had cored saturated
sand in its test four miles south-
west of here, giving Wood county
its first indication of a producing
area. The Deep Rock test, No. 1
Maude Smith, is in the southeast
corner of a 40-acre tract in the
L. Johnson survey.
Jo, Zill
Mrs. Chandler Dickerson and
children, and Miss Cecil Seelbach,
left for a visit with their sister,
Mrs. Barrett Renfro, in Denton.
Ms. D. R. Allen has returned
from a vacation trip to Oregon,
and is the guest of her parents,
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Spivey.
NEW YORK, (UP()—“Peter
the Great” is unique among his
kind. He recently celebrated his
25th birthday, which is another
rare event for one of Pete’s race,
who usually pass to the Great
Beyond before arriving at this
.staid old age.
If Pete has any intention of
passing on he failed to demon-
strate an early demise as he gob-
bled up two bales of hay in his
quarters in the Bronx Zoo. Pete
is the huge hippopotamus that for
many years has been the center of
admiration of the millions of vis-
itors at the zoo.
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Read the News Want Ads.
Miss Sally Hedge has accepted
a position with the Louisiana Oil
and Refining Co.
CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (UP)—A
new all-time for all wheat fu-
tures was set today on the Chicago
Board of Trade when September
wheat dipped to 47 5-8 cents a
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hickey
have returned to their home in
Los Angeles, Cal., after a visit
here with Misses Maggie and Em-
ma Yates.
Mr. and Mrs. D. P. McElroy of
Houston are guests of their par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rives.
Sherman, said there had been dis-
satisfaction at Sherman and at
Denison with rates charged' by the
Community Natural Gas Co. to
city customers. The rate, Barron
said, is 75 cents per 1,000 cubic
feet. *
Mrs. Hargis and daughter. Ruby
Mae, of Center, wpre visitors in
Henderson, Wednesday.
Miss Dorothy Ann Day of Hous-
ton is the guest of Mr. and Mr?.
C. W. Gray.
Mrs. B. F. Condrey and son,
Ben Rogers, of Lubbock; are vis-
WA8HINGTON. Aug. 6. (UP) —
The future policy of (he govern-
ment toward sale of grape prepara-
tions from which wine can be made
in the home may be shaped by the
prosecution resulting from rnkis on
a Now York City “wine brick” shop,
according to belief here today.
Although a Supreme Court deci-
sion hns held illegal the sale of bot-
tles, caps and .other paraphernalia
used in making intoxiennts, there
has been no such ruling regarding
grape concentrate which may turn
into wine.
Attorney General Wm. D. Mitch-
ell has said he contemplates no rec-
ommendations for legislation on the
subject.
Mr. and Mrs. Williamson of
Houston are guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Randolph Wheelis.
contrary decision in tills case, it
hns been pointed out, would bo em-
barrassing to more than one branch
of the Federal Government.
Prior to the raid yesterday, the
shop did a bargain counter business
with throngs crowding for the priv-
ilege of paying $2 for a brick whlclf
would convert water into port,
sherry, burgundy, tokay, cham-
pagne and other wines if permitted
to remain in the jug “too long.’
Early in the afternoon, two flnsh-
lly dressed young men attracted by
the possibilities in the thriving new
business, had suggested tp the man-
ager of the shop, Charles W.
Schenk that ho "ctit them in for a
share of the profits.”
“We're doing a legitimate busi-
ness so we cut in no racketeers,”
Schenk replied in effect.
A short time later his shop was
visited by the ordinary prohibition
agents.
Schenk denied he or his employes
had violated the law.
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Wooden Plow His Favorite.
PUTNAM, fa., (UP)—Whirr-
ing of airplane prOpellors and roar
of tractors mean nothing to Jo-
seph Havlik, 82, oldest* farmer in
Linn county. He still uses an old
wooden plow which he made for
himself some 40 years ago. He
has never ridden In an automobile
nor an airplane.
Surely you do not care to be placed
Watch your checking account.
It pays to pay promptly.
RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
T. J. FORTENBERRY, Mgr.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 6
(UP)—Moody-Seagraves Produc-
ing Company reported today it|
had abandoned its No. 4 O’Connor,
ih the Refugio field, after it made
salt water at a depth of 6,435
feet. Coast Drilling Company re-
ported its No. 1 Lambert a dry
hole at 6,532 feet.
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Texas roads.
A former employe of Hickson
told officers the identification was
positive. A permit, allowing re-
moval of animals from one county
to another an<J issued to Hickson,
was found in the.man’s clothing.
A niece of Will Vestal appear-
ed before police, however, to claim
the body as that of her uncle. A
picture of Vestal she presented
officers resembles the dead man.
Five others identify the man as
another individual.
If a coroner’s verdict identifies
him as Hicks< f , he will be buried
here. If he is identified as Ves-
tal, the body will be sent to Okla-
homa for burial.
Area Will Fight
2-Cent Barrel Tax
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By MARY KNIGHT
United Frews Staff Correspondent
FARIS, Aug. 6. (UP)—The first
showing of Paul 1’oiret’s winter
fashions before a select group re-
vealed that the bustle has become
more than a hint in the new styles.
The Paul Polret bustle is as much
a bustle as it was when grandmoth-
er manipulated hers beneath yards
of petticoat. The petticoats are
missing, however, which makes the
bustle infinitely easier to manage.
Some rest in tho conventional
place foe bustles in these models,
others are placed just below tho
belt line, while some begin a few
inches further down,
stances tho material used to form
tho bustle-effect is continued on in-
to a train.
The gowns, less severe in their
teturn in bygone days, were those
of the directoiro period where sug-
gestions played the greater part of
accorppiishnient. High waistlines
were in evidence. Square necks
further accentuated the period.
A demure costume which dispell-
ed the need of gloves included a
black net cuff, terminating a long
and tight net sleeve, fulling #>m-
plotely over the hand and reaching
to the top of the longest finger.
The novelty of the evening con-
sisted of elaborate gowns made of
silk Jersey. This material never be-
fore had been used. It is sheerer
than the quality used in sports bushel,
dresses and suits. I
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Germany to Buy
American Cotton
19-Year-01d Boy Must Pay With
Life for Murder of Shook
Boys When He Was 17
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas. Aug. 6
(UP)—Clyde Thompson, 19-year-
old blue-eyed blonde convicted oi
murdering Leon and Lucien
Shook, brothers, at Eastland in
1929 will walk through the “lit-
tle green door” of the state pen-
itentiary early tomorrow morning
to pay the supreme penalty.
As the* boy paced the narrow
length of the death sell here to-
day, only one avenue of escape
remained. Gov. Ross Sterling,
who granted the condemned youth
a stay of execution last May, may
intervene again.
Thompson, alleged to have mur-
dered the brothers just “to see
them kick,” will be the youngest
man ever led to the big golden
oak chair in the death chamber.
Thompson was just past 17
when the crime was committed.
Defense attorneys sought to prove
he was under 17, but state and
scholastic record blocked the at-
tempt.
He was twice given the death
penalty, the first verdict being
reversed by the court of Criminal
Appeals. Efforts to save the youth
by pleas of insanity failed.
Thomas Davis, also charged in
the Shook slayings, was given 10
years imprisonment on one charge
of murder and five-year suspend-
ed sentence on the other.
Two men will follow Thompson
down the walk that leads but one
way for condemned men. Dave
Goodwin, rhyme-maker and far-
mer of Bowie county, is scheduled
to be executed Monday for slay-
ing a man in a dispute over hogs.
On Friday, Aug. 14, Joe Shield,
Brown coupty, will pay for the
slaying of his wife and her par-
ents. Last week Gov. Sterling
granted him a 15-days respite in
which to secure forgiveness from
his two daughters.
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PRINTER DUKE LEAVES
TO TAKE OVER ESTATES
Canal Completion Seen.
NEW ORLEANS, La., (UP)—,
Completion of the Intracoastal Ca-
nal from New Orleana to Galves-
ton Bay within three years ap-
pears certain, Roy Millar, vice-
president of the Intracoastal Canal
Association of Louisiana and
Texas, said while in New Orleana
recently. Miller stated that every
effort will be made to complete
the rights of way work between
Galveston and Qorpus Christi soon,
and it is probable the waterway
can be completed to Corpus Chris*
ti within three years.
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Ca»t Iron 'Duck Wai Too Much.
ASTORIA, Ore., (UP)—“Eats,”
best duck dog in Clatsop county,
has met his match. With Sherifi
Harley Slusher, his master, h«
entered a shooting gallery just as
a gun was fired. “Eats,” leaped
over the counter, tried to re-
trieve a cast-iron duck. After a
futile battle,'he gave up.
AUSTIN Aug. 6 (UP)—Neith-
er House nor Senate of the Texas
Legislature had passed a bill to
create a new commission to ad-
minister oil and gas conservation
laws when they recessed until 2
p. m. Both branches were .con-
sidering amendments to commis-
sion bills said to have the approval
of Governor Ross Sterling.
The House followed the Sen-
ate's action in reducing salaries of
commissioners from $7,500 to
$ >,000 annually. It agreed to
place the gas utility division of
the railroad commission under jur-
isdiction of the new commission,
if it is created.
The Senate debated amendments
to place tho board-of water en-
gineers, the reclamation engineer,
the park board, the board of min-
ing engineers, the game, fish and
oyster commission and the fores-
try reserve? under jurisdiction of
the new commission.
Both bills, as they read at noon,
provide for a commission of three
members to be appointed by the
governor.
WASHINGTON, Aug. fl—(UP)
- Officials said today ths Federal
Government would pursue a hands
off policy toward Gov. W. H. Mur-
ray’s forcible closing of gusher
oil wells in Oklahoma.
Solicitor E. C. Finney of the
Interior Department, said no gov-
ernment or Indian lands here af-
fected by Murray’s order, jvhich
In many in- is being enforced by National
guardsmen.
Officials of the Federal Oil
Conservation board double t that
Murray could long continue
shut down, designed to force
increase in crude oil prices. Un-
less California and Texas take
similar action, they pointed out,
large producing fields in those
states could easily take over thd iting Mrs. George Rogers’.
bassador Frederic M. Sackett( the
German government offered to-
day to buy from the Federal Farm
Board 600,000 bales of United
Stated cotton and to acquire an
option on an additional 200,000
btilcs
From most reliable sources it
was learned Germany’s proposal
was transmitted to Washington
last night.
President Hoover’s further sug-
gestion that Germany purchase
American wheat was temporarily
shelved, pending conclusion of the
cotton deal.
Experts seemed to believe that
similar agreements on wheat could
be made on a small scale.
The German acqiuescence to
Mr. Hoover’s suggestions was ex-
pected to produce favorable reper-
cussions in both Germany and the
United States, both from the
standpoint of public pinion and of
economics.
Germany stands in need of
both cotton and wheat, according
to experts, and the purchase from
America was expected to help in
strengthening prices and develop-
ing confidence.
The offer stipulated, It was
learned, that it would be on a
basis of1 a monthly average of
prices on the New York Cotton
Exchange, or the monthly aver-
age of the New York-Bremen and
Liverpool Exchanges. Pay would
be in buyers’ dollars notes at 4 1-2
per cent interest.
Readiness was expressed to pay
on delivery of goods.
The estimated value of the cot-
ton involved in the German offer
was between $30,000,000 and
$40,000,000, it whs said.
It was learned the United States
had not made a specific offer, but
had advised Germany that the
Farm Board was ready to dispose
of 1,100,000 bales of cotton and
1,225,000 tons of wheat on a long
term credit basis and that it would
accordingly welcome a German
offer.
A report today said United
States copper producers intend to
seek a similar accord here.
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ST. LOUIS CLAIMS
NEW AIR TITLE
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SAN ANGELO, Tex.. Aug. 6
(UP)—Two producers rating
1,795 barrels daily and two dry
holes were reported today in five
West Texas counties. The pro-
ducers were MvGinnis & Donnell-
Texas Company’s No. 1 T. A.
Jean, Fisher county, 1,725 bar-
rels daily, and Pat Moran et al’s
No. 1 Sweatt, Ward pounty, 70
barrels daily. Five locations were
staked in four counties.
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Must Lead Way to
Get Any Action Now
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Wren Nesi* in Scarecrow.
WOODMONT, Conn., (UP) —
“What’s the use?” says Salvatore
Miliano. He erected a scarecrow
to keep the birds away from a
valued cherry tree and found a
wren’s nest in a pocket of the coat
a week later.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 6.—
(U.P.)—The valves of Oalaho-
ma’s petroleum industry virtually
were closed today, cutting bff the
state’s daily average flow of a
half million barrels of oil on a
glutted market.
Khaki-clad soldiers patrolled
the state’s (wo largest oil produc-
ing ex Oklahoma City and
Seminole—to make certain not a
drop of oil is produced in accord-
ance with Gov. William H. (Alfal-
fa Bill) Murray's martial law
edict, effective, the Governor says
until oil rise? to $1 a barrel.
The shutdown was almost com-
plete today. At his headquarters
at the Seminole City Hall, Lieut.
Col. Cicero I. Murray, field mar-
shall of the Governor’s oil field
army of occupation, estimated
that 90 per cent of Oklahoma’s
flush oil wells had been closed.
The governor’s order, a popu-
lar one with the masses of which
he is the self-styled champion and
with the independent oil men, had
met with no official challenge
from major oil companie.i, the
target of the drastic action.
However, court action threat-
ened as the next move of the op-
erators to combat the order which
has stilled Oklahoma’s principal
industry and made of its best
fields a desolate, oil smeared wild-
erness of derricks.
Harry F. Sinclair, the usually
aggressive chairman of the board
of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Com-
panies, alone answered the gov-
ernor’s attack on him. Murray
was vehement in singling out the
multi-millionaire, whom he
called his arch enemy, as the
“mostly responsible for the
pressed oil prices.”
“If the absurdity and injustice
of the governor’s proclamation is
not clear to all who read if. any-
thing I might say about it would
be wasted breath,” Sinclair said
in a formal statement.
‘‘All the proclamht ion<-
troons in the world cannot
one cent to the price of < d.
“We have far more concern
about the outside world’s opinion
of a state whose affairs are at the
mercy of such an act as the gov-
ernor’s proclamation of martial
law.”
which mail is shunted to nil parts
Farmer Laugh* at Dapraacion.
KEATS, Kan., (UP)—Roy E.
Edelblute, farmer neat here, will
not have to worry about hard
times this year. His wheat crop,
10 acres, averaged 72 bushels an
•ere, his 14 cows yielded $700
worth of milk in six months, a
daughter just got a job to teach
school, a son is working his way
through Manhattan College and
the youngest boy ia helping on the
I MUD.
Mr*. Gibson Entertain*.
Mrs. Joe Gibson entertained
Monday evening with a lawn par-
ty, honoring Vernon Price, of
Waco.
Various games were played dur-
ing the evening, and a watermelon
feast wa$ enjoyed by about twen-
ty guests.
Miner’* Pan Found.
CRATER LAKE, Ore., (UP)—♦
k rust-eaten gold mining pan
bund here is believed to have
•longed to John W. Hillman, who
beorerod th,, lake in 1853. The
«n was found by Fred Patton,
workman, near Hillman’s old camp
iMr Watchman peak. Hillman
•d been in search of the fabled
Mt Cabin gold mine when he di«- ” e ■——— reoucuon on att ciaues <m
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BR0WN.W00D, Tex., Aug. 6
(UP)—An aged man found dead
face down on a sack of corn eight
miles south of here, today was
tentatively identified’ as Tom
Hickson, for years a wanderer of
SEMINOLE, Okla. Aug. 6. —
(U.P.)—Military shutdown cf the
greater Seminole area was being
effected like a business transac-
tion today.
Although 200 National guards-
men stood ready to carry out Gov.
W. H. Murray’s martial law edict
to close the wells and keep them
closed until oil rose to $1 a bar-
rel, operators agreed to the shut
down voluntarily.
Operators brought to the mil-
itary headquarters located at the
city hall lists of wells they claim-
ed were exempt from the order
Such wells, they showed, had
considerable water encroachment
and would be ruined by shut-
down. Lieut. Col. Cicero I. Mur-
ray, the governor’s cousin, who
was in command of the state-
wide shutdown move, studied the
lists.
Where proof of water
corachment was shown, ho
empted the wells as the
PHILADELPHIA, (UP) — At-
tacked on all sides by the “mod-
erns,” ripped from the required
list of t^e University of Penn-
sylvani" and spurnpd as being a
'nguage. the mother ton-
F orace and Tacitus still
vn in Philadelphia,
•e 16 languages stud-
00 junior and senior
students and 1,400
of Pennsylvania men
', Latin ranKs second
3 tongue—French.
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’POPOTAMUS
REACHES RIPE OLD AGE
NEW YORK, Aug. 6
The closing tone barely steady.
Jan......846
March .. . 866
May . 880
July .....891-
Aug............-
Sept..... .........
Oct....... 812- 813
Dec. .837 837
Spots Middling,
quiet, no sales.
Bafron asked fir the ruling af-
ter Attorney General James V.
Allred declared he intends to en-
force a general scaling down of'
rates charged by utilities in Texas.
Upchurch held that the Legis-
lature requires cities of over 2,000
population to regulate utility rates
by ordinance. This is an ines-
capable duty, he said. He cited
another statute directing that dis-
satisfied utilities may appeal to
the railroad commission for a re-
view of the rates set.
Upchurch advised Barron that
the Supreme court, in J928, had
ruled in a case brougnt by the city
of Denison against 'the Municipal
Gas Co., that the railroad commis-
sion ckn of its own initiative reg-
ulate utilities only where they op-
erate outside cities or between
cities. •
(UP) St.
kridwn as the “cross roads of the
patlpn” because of its central lo-
cation, now is known as the "cross
roads of the air” after years of
struggle to establish itself .as a gi-
gantic airmail center., •—-
The first airmail was flown here
on October 4, 1911. The flight was
in the nature of a stunt, mail be-
ing carried from Kinloch Park to
Fairgrounds Park by Walter
Hrookins but it was the first time
mail had ever been flown. So re-
cent establishing of two new mail
routes with St. Louis as a pivot
point has an added significance.
These two new routes, one
southward to Memphis and New
Orleans, the other a direct route
east to New York, actually have
increased the service here to the
point where the Chamber of Com-
merce has a sound basis for its
"cross roads -ot the air” slogan.
St. Louis previously had a direct
airmail line to Chicago, and direct
air mail service to the southwest.
In addition a line to Evansville,
Ind., links with the Nashville-At-
lanta route, while mail for the Pa-
cific Coast is shunted through
here via Kansas City.
With these established lines, and
the two new ones, St. Louis be-
comes a great airmail junction, in
AMARILLO, Texas, (UP)—It’s
a long, long way to Tipperary,
but when the titles and original
estate of the Duke of Welling-
ton awaits one there, the distance
is considerably shortened.
So thought James Wellington,
wandering printer, who walked in-
to the composing room of t?ie
News-Globe here and walked out
with a royal title and an estate.
Wellington is the son of Orms-
ley Augustus Wellington, who
chose poverty and American free-
dom to the teachings of a private
tutor in the Castle of Welling-
ton, Ireland. When Jame visited
the office here, he learned his
father had died last March at
Shamrock, Texas. James Welling-
ton, itinerant printer, had be-
come Lord of Nenagh, County of
Tipperary, Ireland.
Lord Wellington
set out for Tipperary
session of the original estate of
the Duke of Wellington, of whom
he is a direct descendant.
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Pulley Rescue* Dobbin.
SCIO, Ore.. (UP)—When Far-
mer Frank Pruitt saw the off
horse of his mowing team disap-
pear into a 10-foot well to the
sound of breaking boards that
covered the well, he knew he was
up against a problem. It was
solved by improvising a pulley
and dragging Dobbin back out
with another team.
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32 Potatoe* in One Hill.
FORT MADISON, la., (UP)—
Prosperity is on the way back,
solemnly avers Mrs. J. T. Salyars.
She found 32 potatoes all above
average size, in one potato hill in
her patch. In another hill there
were 22 potatoes.
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storage shall not be restricted so
long as it is done to prevent phy-
sical waste. The bill la contra-
dictory.”
Judge Brachfleld said that East
Texans in the Legislature would
oppose Gov. Ross Sterling’s re-
quest for a change rn the tax on
oil from two per cent on value to
two cents per barrel. The House
voted 73 to 44 today to print a
bill making the change, although
a majority of the committee which
studied it recommended that it
not be passed.
“Such a bill would be merely
an attempt to get $1 a barrel for
oil,” Judge Brachfield said. “It
would be ruinous for East Tex-
as. where our oil is selling for
fifteen and sometimes ten cents
per barrel.”
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Cable Rate* Cut.
NEW ORLEANS. La., (UP)—
The All-American Cable Company
has announced a reduction on ca-
bles from Argentina, Bolivia, Bra-
zil Chile, Paraguay, Peru and
Uruguay to New Orleana, thus
putting the Creacent City on a
parity with New York. The re-
duction represents a saving of 8
to 10 centa a word on full rate
cablegrams and a proportionate
reduction on all claaaea of deferr-
836 8.15— B
March ........ ... 863 864—855 856
May ......881—881 - 871—873—B
July ..........890 890 889— 885 B
Ott......812—816 800 804—05
Dec......... 83.5 837 823-825- -...
Spots — Middling 7,83, tone
quiet, no sales.
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Held for Killing Brother-in-Law. ’
SHERMAN, Tex., Aug. 6 (UP)
-—Duff Lewis was jailed here to- I
day on a charge of murder in con-
nection with the fatal shooting of
his brother-in-law, Ralph Burba,
at Whitesboro, 18 miles west of
here, late last night.
Twice While Driving Along the Road
7, I •• ' _
OONROE, Aug. 6. (UP)—Charlie
Nelson, 17-year-old negro, one of
the two sought for the slaying of a
Magnolia constable and the wound-
ing of a Justice of the peace, was
captured shortly before noon today
four miles east of Ruffsmith.
Tom Byett, 40, Magnolia con-
stable, was shot in the back of the
head last night and died in Baptist
Hospital in Houston. Justice of the
Peace B. H Dulaney, 60, was shot
twice. He was in Parkview Hospi-
tal at Houston today.
Farmers from the neighborhood
Were about to spirit the negro away
When Sheriff Binford of Harris
Oaunty drove up and took him in
•barge.
Picking pp the scent near Tom
Rail early today, blood hounds took
up a clear trail down Willow Creek.
Hundreds of farmers trailed the
hounds by automobile, on horse-
back and on foot.
The negro was captured by a'
kroup of four farmers who shot at
hlftt several times, but missed.
GQNROE, Aug. 6. (UP)—Offi-
cers and armed citizens were beat-
ing through the woods and under-
bgpsh near here today on a hunt for
two negroes who killed a constable
and wounded a Justice of the peace.
Tom Byett, 45, constable of Mag-
nolia, was shot in the head last
qjght and died in Baptist HoSpTtal
IhMOUston.
Justice of the Peace B. H. Du-
50, was shot twice. He was
Itt Parkview Hospital in Houston
today.
They were shot late yesterday af-
ternoon as they drove along in an
|Qtomoblle with their negro pris-
oners between Conroe and Magno-
lit; About S9 miles from Houston.
Posses were tramping through
th# Woods all night searching for
be negroes.
They were taking them to the
fpunty jail at Conroe, where they
Y#r# to pay fines of |10 each as-
Msed by. Justice Dulaney for theft
1$ tn Automobile tire.
Th# pegroes were placed in the
WRr Seat of a two-door sedan while
PI Pfflcers sat in front. Dulaney
rad driving.
JAbout eight miles from Magnolia
Jultfhey, who was unarmed, was
'tattled by a | pistol shot. One of
hC negroes had pulled Byett’s pIs-
ol from Its holster and had shot
ilpi in the head.
▲e Byett slumped, Dulaney let
?• the steering wheel and seized
h< barrel of the gun to wrench it
rftR th# negro’s hand. The second
»grd {railed Dulaney’s hand off the
reason, The pistol Was fired
wlce, both bullets striking Dula-
Dulaney brought the car to a
top, the negroes, still handcuffed
Ogother, leaped from the machine
.nd ran into the underbrush flank-
th# highway.
“I #aw that Byett was wounded
Mtically,” Dulaney said. “He was
Dftlmbllng to himSelf and was
Ipmpsd over in the seat. So I
Itfed him out of the car and laid
lu# bn the ground.”
Ranch Rodeo
. , And Circus Broke
^(Continued From Page One)
’•J’hat was the signal, and a
ACK ‘going the rounds, was speed-
exhausted., Another went the
am# way.
Brown, nearly seven feet tall,
rfth A ten-gallon hat and wind-
shipped faqe, explained the eit-
*We’re just sittin’ tight,” he
•ra, “cause we don’t want to
lave no accident on the way back
o Oklahoma. They want to get
is to agree to two weeks pay all
round, payable when we get to
h* .ranch. What the boys are
'raid of is that after the train
'Ulis out the railroad bulls ’ll get
rders to throw them off, except
'or what’s needed to look after 1
he stock.”
Over in the Indian village, pic-
aresque with wigwams, braves in
tor# shirts were practicing war
rhoops. Pinto ponies stamped
ind. switched, longhorns sidled
—__d at the urging of a rider
n a bald-faced horse. A crack-
d phonograph played jazz tunes.
Downtown lawyers conferred,
.ew Wentz, wealthy Oklahoman
rho holds a mortgage on the show,
ras represented. He is under-
tood to have guaranteed trans-
ortation to the ranch. But the
roupers want pay.
American Legion officials con-
brred with employes, of whom
ome 200 are war veterans. The
sgion is sponsoring a benefit per-
brmance, proceeds to go to the
■nk-and-file, either in cash or as
ration fund.
On# thing appears certain—
i?l_Ruanc^ Wi,<> Weilt Show is
"rough, its spectacular career
iwed, If the troupers have any
?y* JI?1* timers who taught
om Mix and Will Rogers a trick
r two say they’re tired of being
it down.
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