Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 270, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1938 Page: 1 of 16
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NO. 270
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 28, 1938
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS
PRICE 5 CENTS
VOL. 7
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SAN' FRANCISCO,
Jan.
Roadside parks east of Odessa
in
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Roosevelt's
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Simms
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been sold to Vice Mongers for ' who works,'
$150 and transnorted from one I “In sucre
near
from a connection with highway
giv-
Son to Commit Suicide
Swamp President
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 28. (UP) ,
Cal.
at a fishing lodge near Orlando.
message
sweetheart, who
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miles
a reservior
Record Crowd For
Texas Weather
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President's Ball
Md.,
Jan.
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line employe and
Help Fight Infantile Paralysis
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Senate Committee Charges
State Leased Land Too Cheap
REQUESTS REPORT ON
PRORATION SCHEDULE
R. R. Commission
Hearing Railroads’
Rate Increase Plea
THIRD TERM
BOOM fOR FDR
RECEIVES BOOST
AWARD CONTRACT
FOR COULEE DAM
Boiler Explosion Is
Fatal to Engine Crew
Lawyer Refutes
Theory Wright
Planned Slaying
Of His Wife
Three Deaths
Have Already
$6,800,000 to be spent in the next
fiscal year.
2. $150,000 to be appropriated
been struck by a truck earlier in
the day as she crossed the street
In front of her home.
Wanner said no Inquest will
held.
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Morgen thau
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vrguiuz.uiion, as
ing labor leader
See Third Term on Page 11
SAILOR CHARGED IN
MURDER OF GIRL
cent
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MIAMI. — Robert R. Williams,
above, mayor of Miami, Fla., faces
another inquiry following indict-
ment with four other city offi-
cials on charges of soliciting a
bribe from the Florida Power and
Light Co., in a rate case. The In-
dicted men are alleged to have
offered to vote for repeal of a
rate fixing ordinance.
Water front Raid Nets
Bandits $25,000 Payroll
FRIENDS SAY
PAUL WRIGHT
LOVED WIFE
STATE HIGHWAY
TO GET BIDS FOR
BIG PROJECT
Only Decision of
Federal Road Bu-
is Awaited
reserve in the next fiscal year.
( 3. Authorization for $6,080,000
1 for army dies and material equlp-
| ment of which $5,000,000 would
NEW DISEASE
IS FOUND IN
HILLCOUNTY
Indicted Mayor
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP).
—Five Texas businessmen have
been Invited to attend the confer-
ence of "little business" leaders
called by Daniel C. Roper, Secre-
tary of Commerce.
They were C. S. Boyles, Jr.,
Lufkin Daily News, Lufkin, Tex-
as; Richard Gill, San Antonio;
William A. Hall, manager of the
Noelton mercantile Co., Noelette,
Texas; R. L. Thornton, president
of the Mercantile National Bank,
Dallas; Freeman Burford, presi-
dent of the East Texas Refining
Co., Dallas; nnd Joe Weingarten,
Houston.
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MELBOURNE, la., Jan. 28.
(UP) — The boiler of a 100-foot
locomotive ‘exploded today, kill-
ing the engineer and fireman.
Explosion of the Great Western
freight locomotive was heard for
several miles. The engineer, F. A.
Holmes, 46, Des Moines, and the
fireman, W. F. Krantz, 42, Des
Moines, were killed. Tillman Hart-
zer, 35, a brakeman, was injured.
Seventeen empty cars were derail-
ed. The train was en route from
Oelwein to Des Moines.
Republican minded, but because
conscious.”
“Labor sees in 1
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BALTIMORE,
'UP).—1
— the Star Spangled Banner has
been streamlined.
A jazz band played for the first
time here today a “modernized"
version of the National Anthem,
unchanged for more than 100
years. The time-hallowed song has
had its face lifted.
Vincent Lopez, orchestra lead-
er, announced he had rewritten
Key’s version to make it “squeak-
less” and more easily sung. It
takes a vocal gymnastic to sing
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 (UP).
—Friends testifying at his mur-
der trial today described Paul A.
Wright as having been ardently
in love with his pretty young
wife before the night last No-
vember when he killed her and
John B. Kimmel, a guest in his
home.
Wright, 38, a former president
of Union Air Terminal, was said
to have surprised Mrs. Wright
and Kimmel, his business asso-
ciate, in an embrace. He is ex-
pected to describe the scene in
detail to the jury Monday.
Kenneth M. Stevens, a Detroit
lawyer, was called by the defense
to refute the State's theory that
Wright deliberately planned to
entrap and slay his wife, using
Kimmel as an opportune excuse.
Stevens said * he introduced
Wright to the woman, after she
was divorced from a Detroit
newspaperman, in 1932. He said
"Paul told me she fulfilled all his
dreams and that he was going to
marry her if he could win her."
Stevens w«s heefe man at- ILelr
wedding. He said Iff caYne here.
See Friends on Page 11
GIRLS EXPELLED
FROM SALOONS IN
CLEANUP OF FRISCO
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 28 (UP).—A chance to make millions
of dollars with an investment of $48 in a State leased oil
tract was detailed at a session of the State Investigating
Committee here todaW.
DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 28 (UP).
—The Texas State Railroad Com-
mission opened a hearing in Dal-
las tonight for all railroads oper-
ating in Texas seeking a rate in-
crease.
Several roads asked for intra-
state Increases of four cents per
hundred pounds on fresh meats
and packing products and five
cents a ton increase on commodi-
ties for which a rate to 60 cents
to $1 a ton Is now charged. The
roads sought an Increase of 10
cents per ton on rates for crush-
ed stone, sand and gravel.
First witness to testify was T.
E. Popplewell of Fort Worth,
president of the Texas Crushed
Stone, Sand and Gravel Associa-
tion, who voiced the Association’s
opposition to the rate increase.
I. S. McConnell and C. B. Mc-
Kiernan. also of Fort Worth, tes-
tified in behalf of meat packers
opposing the freight hike.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP).—President Roosevelt
day warned Congress that America’s National defense is in-
adequate for National security and called for an $800,000,-
000 long-time naval building, program, immediate start on
construction of two additional dreadnaughts and two new
-----------------------<S>naval cruisers.
He asked additions of more
than $20,000,000 to the present
billion dollar defense expendi-
tures /(called for in the 1939 fiscal
year.
Mr. Roosevelt asked—in view
of war alarms spreading through
the world—that Congress turn its
Immediate attention to enactment
of legislation designed to elimi-
nate profiteering in any future
war and to equalize burdens of
any possible war so far as pos-
sible.
Mr. Roosevelt’s 7-point defense
program provided:
1. Authorization of $8,800,000
PORT ARTHUR, Tex., Jan. 28.
(UP) — Mrs. J. L. Lewis, wife of
the captain of the American tank-
er Nantucket Chief seized by
Spanish Nationalists Jan. 18. said
today that Secretary of State
Cordell Hull had assured her of
Captain Lewis' safety.
"All Well,” Hull’s
read. "Vessel held Palma. Officers
and crew safe on board. This all
available information.”
Palma is a Nationalist-held port
on the Island of Majorca in the
Mediterranean.
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East Texas’ Fastest Growing Newspaper
tween the piers.
The payroll was delivered to
pier 62 yesterday in three arm-
ored trucks Todqy Arthur Calnan,
assistant timekeeper, and two
guards Joseph Sharkey and Henry
Reid, set out with it for pier 61. |
In the passageway they found I along the coast,
themselves confronted by the gun- banana plantatioi
men. I munications lines.
but Morgan was unaware of this
as he was not at the building at
the time the fire broke out.
The three-story hotel burned
to the ground and Morgan’s
charred body was no tfoi^nd for
several hours. Three other per-
sons, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Craw- 1939 cost of this program
ford and Mrs. George Honeycutt,
were also trapped in the blaze
See Funeral on Page 11
"LITTLE BUSINESS"
LEADERS MEET
INVITES BURFORD
! long-
----o--
Honduras Hurricane
Takes Heavy Life Toll
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 28 (UF)
—Three million;’ dollars worth of
highway contract;! will be bid
upon here Feb. 21 if the Fed-
eral Bureau of Roads approves a
complete list of projects recom-
mended today by the State High-
way Department.
Thirty two projects were in-
cluded in the list varying ij^size
from small rogds'dc narks to a 27
mile stretch of road surfacing on
highway' four in Ochiltree County.
Important projects in the list
include:
Railroad grade crossing elim-
ination and Trinity river bridge
for Lancaster Avenue Fort
Worth.
Paving highway 40 from J 1th.
„»rc.-.t in l.emn to Kaufman.
Grading and drainage struc-
terday, were to bo held this after-
noon at 3 o’clock at the Central j
Baptist Church here.
Morgan was trapped
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NEW YORK, Jan. 28. (UP) —<>two guards In a passageway be-
Four bandits, in a waterfront raid,
today escaped with a $25,000 pay-
roll of the United States lines. The
, money was being taken from
pier 62 to pier 61.
The first report of the robbery
said the bandits all were armed
• with machine guns. They took the
i payroll from a line employe and
Attend The President's
(UP)—Hili County
. ’ "_j to del
ject. i source of a disease
Glus is author of a bill which
has l>een Introduced in the Senate
providing for outright <
tion of all bank holding compa-
nies in the next five years.
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wage security for the man
v".” Gildea said.
W. M. Harris admitted that he would be a millionaire if
-^the land becomes a big producer.
"But the State will make mil-
lions, too,” he added.
"But if the tract is dry
State will have lost $24,000 cash
that was bld for it and rejected
in favor of royalty," Sen. Joe Hill
of Henderson raid.
As described to the Committee
Harris and others assigned in-
terest in two tracts in the Gulf
of Mexico which had been award-
ed on bids of $1 an acre and high
royalty to Hentho-Nelson Oil
Company. As consideration the
company is putting down a well
on one of the tracts.
Harris came to Austin from
Oklahoma and opened an office.
He is a youthful, darkhaired,
heavy-set man who answered in-
quiries without hesitation.
The tracts arc among a group
of coastal areas off Jefferson
county that were marketed last
summer by the Land Department. (
The particular tracts r““
Faddin Beach.
An investigation of
tion was -added to the,
yrogranv'-teday with a - -—.——— —
full report on changes in prora-
tion schedules after Issuance.
Full report from the State Rail-
road Commission on increases in
allowable oil production autho-
rized subsequent to issuance of
general State-wide proration
schedules was asked by the State
Investigating Committee today.
Sen. Joe Hill of Henderson
made the request. He said he
wanted a report on when the in-
creases were granted, to what
fields they were granted and
why. He also wanted information
on whether public hearings were
held after the usual State-wide
hearing before the orders were
changed. He asked that the re-
port cover a three-month peiod.
Land Commissioner William H
was questioned at
WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 (UP)
—Secretary of Interior Harold j
L. Ickes today awarded a .
442,210 contract for completion of hie father was believed the rea-
of Grand Coulee Dam to a com- ' ““ " •
bination of contractors who bid
under the name of Interior Con-
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas. Jan.
28 (UP). Frnnk Furst, 45, un-
employed butcher and sailor, was
charged with murder today in
connection with the death of his
he was afraid
would ■’quit" him because he was
“out of a job and broke.”
The sweetheart was Ruby Hill
Tate. 20, pretty taxi dancer. Her
14-year-old sister, Melba Joyce,
found her unconscious in her room
yesterday, fatally wounded by
four bullets Melba Joyce told off-
icers that Furst was in his own
room which he rented from the
girls’ mol her.
To Be Streamline.
—
riMGRE. Md., Jan. 28 the song as Key wrote it, ti
Page Francis Scott Key I’declared.
- - “ Mrs. William A. Becker, pt
dent of the Daughter* of
American Revolution, aniMM
she favored a campaign to ni
the country anthem-mind*®
revising the song. She laj
Lopez to demonstrate hi* al
tation at a meeting of them
R. executive committee la Wl
tngton next Monday. Lopet*
cepted, but declined to eay..il
would lead the ladies in MB
See National on Page
contract awarded hy the govern-
ment since 19 11 when a contract
for Boulder Dam amounting to
approximately $48,880,000 was
lot.
When completed Coulee Dam
will he the world’s most massive
q » /”" • 1 V’ll 1 I ’hasonry structure, involving
O. <jlH ISJllea I placement of approimately 5,250,-
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 28 I 000 cubic yards of concrete and
Xowae T exaalsi* /"'mi* 42 ♦ «- ' CrCntinfr n Yt» ** rvi 11 ^.11...
day became Bexar county's sixth
traffic fatality of 1938. The child
By United Pre«»
East Texas: Warmer ex-
cept in extreme Northwest por-
tion tonight; Saturday cloudy,
warmer in extreme East por-
tion, colder in Northwest and
North Centra! portions Satur-
day afternoon.
We t Texas: Partly cloudy,
warmer except in Panhandle
tonight; Saturday partly clo'fdv
in South portion, cloudy mid
much colder in North and Fast
Central portions, warmer ir
extreme West portion. Live-
stock warning in North nor-
tion.
Loui! lann—Fair an*’ warmer
tonig'd; Saturday increasing
cloud less, warner; general to
moderate Southwest winds on
Coast
National Anthemj
» are ,
ing material evidence that this
wage consciousness will be felt
in American public life.” | lures on nignwa
He praised L. John Lewis, nnd highway 97
UMWA President and Chairman--
of the Committee for industrial Contribution Letters
Organization, as “the outstand- — ..
ing labor leader of our time.” OWamp HreSldent
girls from all barrooms
city today during
Jeanne Walters, a
Montana girl, who said she was
held a prisoner i
by a white slavery ring for sev-
I eral months. , r
Miss Walters’ account of having j better
$150 and transported from one | -
I city to another caused police and i third term the miners
Federal Agents to act in cities ing material evidence
I from here to Los Angeles.
More than 40 men and women
were taken prisoners, some held
under bonds as high as $50,000.
--
Lewis Safe, Secretary
Hull Assures Wife
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras,
Jan. 28 (UP)—Winds of hur-
ricane proportions lashed the '
coast of Honduras today, taking
a toll of at least 17 lives when l
three boats sank, and causing,
widespread damage to planta-
tions.
Five passengers were drowned,
Including one woman and a child,
when Ilin Schooner Claudia sank
off Omoa. Seven others were lost
when the Schooner Juanita went
down in La Ceiba Bay and five
lost their lives when the Schooner
Jonvo sank near Tela.
The gales caused much damage
esepcially to
>ns and com-
Poor Uncle Ssm! He's losing his allure for the ladh
First Barbara Hutton renounced her citizenship. Now Mi
Cornelius Dresselhuys, the former Lorraije Manville, h«
ess sister of Tommy Manville, has broken off her relatio
with him to become a subject of Queen Wilhelmina'
Netherlands. She’s pictured above with her Dutch diploi
husband and daughter by a previous marriage.
Mrs. Dresselhuya’ |8,000,000 fortune will remain hi’
__United States. - ’
WOULD END BANK
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 (W).*
-High admlnlat ration official*
conferred with Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
today on means of curbing or
eliminating bank holding compa-
Thc officials were all member*
of an Interdepartmental commit-
tee set up to study the bank hold-
ing company question. The hold-
ing company question Is one of
several including Federal lending
to small business, studied in ef-
forts to meet business recession.
None of the members have re-
vealed specific suggestions for
legislation dealing with bank
holding companies. "" ____2
last week said that he and Sen.
Carter Glass, D., Va., are in
ance the prediction of spons* s,
all is virtually in readiness for
the President's Birthday Ball at
the Auditorium tomorrow night,
Larry Rice, Rusk County chair-
man, has announced. Tickets have
been on sale for several days and
committees in charge believe a
sell-out is a near certainity.
The local ball, one of thousands
being ringed throughout the Uni-
ted States in a fight against in-
fantile paralysis, is being spon-
sored by the Charles P. Ranirte I
—
With a record-breaking attend-American Legion Post. Seventy
. ------- per cept of t]le proccejs wi]| g0
to the local post for child wel-
fare work in Rusk County, the ,
additional 30 per cent to go to
National Foundation of Infantile
Paralysis.
Playing for the gala afair will
bo the Kilgore Junior College
orchestra. Rice has also an-
annouwed that a musical pro-
gram has been worked out for
the enjovm'-nt of those who wish
to attend the affair but do r.ot
See Record'on Page 11
be spent in fiscal 1939.
4. Spending of $2,000,000 to in-
I crease army munitions reserves.
5. Authorization for a flat 20
ment. Mrs. Morgan had previous- Per ^ent increase in
Iv been carried to safety by Bob : strength a program estimated by
Morgan, brother of the deceased, Congressional leaders to involve
-- - • • an ultimate total cost of $800,-
000,000 (M).
6. Authorization and appropria-
tion for start of work in fiscal
19"9 on two additional capital
ships and two additional <jrulser».
Roosevelt die* not estimate the
said it would be "very small.”
7. Authorization and appropria-
tion of $15,000,000 for experimen-
tal naval vessels in the 1939 fis-
cal year.
The new defense program would
add $20,800,000 to the Nation’s
1939 military and naval costs,
plus whatever might be spent in
launching the proposed new
dreadnaughls and cruisers.
"Tension throughout the world
is high," declared Mr. Roosevelt.
“Armies are fighting in the Far
East and in Europe; thousands of
civilians are being driven from
See Message on Page 11
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. (UP)
The White House was so swamped
with letters bearing ten cent con-
tributions to the National Founda-
tion for Infantile Paralysis today
that neither President Roosevelt
nor his secretaries up to noon re-
ceived their official mall
More than 30,000 letters came in
on the first delivery, in the march
of dimes’ campaign which is a part
of the foundation's drive for funds. I
The mail clerks were swamped j
and an extra crew was called In. j
I placement of approimately 5,250,-
(UP).—Mary Louise Cruz, 6, to- creating
velt for a third term.
28| ( ________5 „ ...
(UP)—Police expelled unescorted i submitting eight resolutions urg- |
n.!vio oil Kownnmo jn the i ing Mr. Roosevelt's ree’"''*:''’i '
general | Gildea said labor supports
19-ycar-old ■ cratic minded, not because it is . county.
« *1 *.Xo *. 1,00 | OO Oo WVO « OO >1 OO ol loisl l.onw.t A C r_l~ LU 1• V ** -- ’
’ * | not require Federal
in bawdy houses it’s wage
»rv rincr fnr ‘'LflboF ■ ............-
| exemplification of the ideal of , elude San Gabriel river bridge j McDonald
Georgetown; pavement of i tance with persons who have come
Five State projects which do
, '. -I aid were
Roosevelt an ; scheduled for biding. These it'-
JJ___1 1 zoltiJn Qon f'.nkvid viupr hridtrf
and approaches for highway 104 | length yesterday on his acqualn-
ll(> WUI AS tjuotra aaiu UPflT ("sCOrjfCtoWn *t of I nnvarzna whn hav* rnm*
“In suggesting Rooseveit for a highway 111 in Jackson county I See Senate on Page 11
* ■ -■ ■ ------ — ’ from a connection with highway [
172 to Matagorda county line,
and grading and drainage struc-
tures on highway 95 near Elgin
' ’’ ’ “7 near Floresville.
$34,. . Grief over the unexpected death
l^i.:__I nf hia fufh*r wna hallavad tha r««.
sen today for the suicide of Carl
Barnes, of Huntsville, Tex.
_ Dr. Luther Barnes, the father,
struction Company of Oakland, died yesterday of a heart attack
Cal. j at a fishing lodge near Orlando.
It wiis the largest construction I The son went into an adjoining
room t__2 1.1___'2.___X r_________-l -
head In the presence of hl* mother, deville performer who
nes« difference*, wa* set
C. B. Morgan
Life in Hotel
Fire Thursday
ARP, Jan. 28 (Spl)—Funeral i army anti-aircraft additions, with
_ ( enn nnn to ho cnnnt in thp novt
Rcrvices for C. B. Morgan, 42,
who was burned to death in the . 2 w() to De appropriated
Gunther Hotel fire at Arp ye;-|for increasing the army enlisted
ii'nun 4 zs Im linl/l Trtlc affOU.
at 3 o’clock at the Central
.- .. 'n Uie
hotel fire when he went into the
building after the blaze had al-
ready made much headway, ap-
parently to rescue his wife, who i
was ill in their seccnd story apart-
ment. Mrs. Morgan had previous- I-
ly been carried to safety by Bob j strength
ultimate total cost of $800,-
Been Reported *
This Week
HILLSBORo7~T*x., Jan. I
"complete agreement" on the sub-1 sought today
iect. source of ■
I typhoid that has'cost th*’liv*J
------three resident* of Malona, *
elimlna-' miles southeast of here, I
------ stricken 10 others.
Felix Drake of Malone |
— --- February 10 of what was thoU
Father’s Death Causes Xiftl •I”1
The first symptoms of j
disease were pains in the leg
abdomen, followed by chill*. ■
See Disease on Page 11’J
Trial Set for Man
Who Killed Hia Sod
FORT WORTH, Tex**,
.... (UP).—Th* trial of Chart**:
and shot himself through the Haynes. B7-year-old fbnnaL3
mq his sister, Mrs. Kenneth My-'shooting his *on because
ers. ness difference*, wo* set tda
The family came to Orlando for by District Attorney Will R. H
ar. annual fishing outing. ; ker for Feb. 14. Hayne*,
Justice of the Peace T. J. 8. of a ventilating fan ma
be ing company, 1* at i
| $10,000 bend.
ing Mr.
...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UP)
—Rep. James H. Gildea, D , Pa.,
today urged applauding delegates , n avi
at the United Mine Workers Con- Street
vention to draft President Roose- | Giuvhik nnu ur<«ui»Kc nv»uv- ,
velt for a third term. j tures for nine miles of highway
Commending the delegates for , 64 in Smith and Rusk counties.
i—-:_vx ----1..,.---- Roadside parks east of Odessa
! reelectiod, j and wc.J of Pecos on highway one
. j a general I Gildea said labor supports a third 1 and roatfe-ide planting on the same
cleanup inspired by the story of term “not because it is Demo- ' highway near Simms in Bowie
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