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VOL. XXVI NO. 283
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DENTON, TEXAS, MONDAY Al TERNOON, JULY ! 1, 1927
WILL CONTEST
EM) OE AMERICAS I.O\C I /.//,// /
WIDE SEARCH UNDER WAY TO
CASE NEARS
LOCATE UNKNOWN SLAYER OF
COMPLETION
J. C. TERRILL. JUSTIN FARMER
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Tax Rate Is Set Monday
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negro
Ellis County Resident Dies
Grapevine Boy Drowns as
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Man Killed at Home After Returning From
Church Sunday Night; Slayer Thought to
Be Negro.
DALLAS PHYSICIAN
SHOT; WIFE HELD
ed
on
Clarence Nix. divorce
of
They are dressed in clothes borrowed from
water-soaked uniforms.
POSTPONED DUE TO
O’HIGGINS’ DEA T H
THREE BOYS SAVED
FROM DROWNING IN
CITY PARK SUNDAY
Mi?
th«
CRAWFORD IS HEAD
OF TRUCK GROWERS
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ice
OUT
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morn-
court
JUDGE
CHARGE,
WHICH
WILL BE HEARD
PREPARING
FOLLOWING
ARGUMENT
immediately
whether F
expelled
should ro
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and
suit
Six of
on
negro
f ir work
An 1
showed
hous'
been
near Argyle
and C. H
plea
rihn
the
>no-
Bonhani
Initiating
About
AM* MISSING
SAXONY
DRESDEN. Saxony.
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and
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MEET MONDAY
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rooms at
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of dead and
missing in the cloudburst in Sax-
ony last week today was placed at
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May evening.
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Moore. ex-
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Many Persons Injured In
Earthquake in Jerusalem
Ireland Following Slaying
Free Slate Vice President
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KIMES SENTENCED
TO LIFE IN PRISON
many houses were cracked by
shock No details concerning
casualties were given.
total ot
Rceord-t lironicle
C Owsli . The
$20,000 actual
damages
Dr. and Mrs. J. G Varner for- ■
merly 'pastor of the First Presby- i
"If DeMton had some of the in-
dustries that Sherman has to pro-
vide a payroll it would certainly
who is
Merri-
1 Ins wife
church
from
West Texas: Tonight .nd
Taesday partly elnudy, proba
My ahowers In west and north
portions. ‘
PARIS. July 11 -Georges Clem-
enceau. most famous man of
France, today was surrounded by
relatives summoned to his bedside
by doctors who manifested concern j
at their patients condition
Failing visibly, the "Tiger"
been unable to throw off the effects
of a cold and his 86 years of stren-
j nous life have made Inroads on his
( Illi.I) KILLED IN WRECK AT '
ELECTRA
July
Is dead
were returning
overturned near Watauga late
Buatoy night Cap Taylor was
drMw te car, which waa damag-
ed lb a oonatoerabte extant.
I’- oil
an i
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Smith
ng a
Lccom-
ren. a
TWO WOMEN SLAIN
IN NEW YORK HOUSE
J-Sb . *i*f 11
AMOClATKn rKF.MM HF.KMCa
iNirrn rnrsM hkkm< k
Woman Seeks Aid
When the shooting started
Terrill started running from
house and reached the Jusitn-Fott
Worth Highway which lies about
10t: yards west of the Terrill home
She hailed a car lint, upon finding
it was loaded with negroes she
again became frutiitctied and start-
DENTON
•lap. is very similar
too, Hensen said.
Mint at liiHir
According to tile account given
officers of the killing. T< rrill and
his wife returned from Jn-tm
where they attended church, alxiut
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MAN FOUND DEAD IN CHICKEN
COOP
SAN ANTONIO. July 11 The
body of Mike Agiierra Janitor at
Mun Avenue High School. was
found dead last night in a chicken
coop In the rear of his home A rope
was around his neck, but police say
there was no evidence of strangu-
lation. and arc conducting an In-
vestigation.
■■■•$ '4 V.-ib-
lT
Tempera tura
Maximum yesterday
Minimum today ...........
Barometer Reading
7 a. m. today ...................30.00
Relative Humidity
7 a. m. totor
Uvtd onty s |
HARRIS CHILD DIES
x KRVM SATURDAY
Mctsey Viola Harris. 3-months-
cld daughter ot Mr and Mrs. O. C.
Harris of west of Krum, died Sat-
urday nftemoon The funeral was
held Sunday with burial In the Bol-
ivar cemetery.
the comlmstibb's ;
m' officers found
ELECTRA. July 11 -FrwncU ‘j
Boudreaux ♦ is dead and his
mother. Mrs F J. Boudreaux, la in J
a critical condition as the rMti* Of
a collicion between their car and ■ (
one driven by Mrs. W A Bcasicv
The child s Jugular vain was cut in ». ]
the accident and he
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NO CRIMINAL CASES rv
' TO TRIAL MONDAY CESER PARLEY
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"I would like to call attention to
' the fact that swimming is prohi-
z bited in the lake and the creeks in
the Oity Ptrfc," said City Engineer
H. T. Browater Monday "The wad
ing bool was built for the use of
small children and it is a violation
nf the regulations for anyone to go
into the water elsewhere."
NEW YORK. July 11- Many per-
sons were injured in a tremendous
earthquake which shook Jerusalem
today, says a Jerusalem dispatch
to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The dispatch said the the walls of
the
the
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their case
morn- I
>ui uuermg reoutial tes-
and the morning session ;
William E. Jones, director of mu-
sic at C. I. A. and Mrs Jones were
given a rousing “send-off" Satur-
day afternoon when they left for
Indianapolis where she is to visit
while he goes to Chicago to study
with Herbert Witherspoon The
couple was showered with rice and
their baggage was plastered with
stickers tn regular "honeymoon
style" to encourage fellow travel-
ers to believe they were “newly-
weds."
DALLAF. July IL—Dr
E Hubbert, prominent in
can I^egion "circles. was shot five
times at his home here today His
condition was reported serious.
munity had offered a reward of
$500 for apprehension of the slayer
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SEVEN INJI RED IN AMHSEMEN I
DEVICE
DALLAS. Julv It—Seven per
sons were injured, one probably fa-
I tally, when the renr car of a min-
iature train at a local park leaped
the track and overturned last night
The accident, occurred as the train
was rounding a bend A babv was
saved when its father Uuew it clear
uf the overturning car, __r__T (
No Cluew Found
Terrill told ot 1 leer .
' i ivenitiR
house
SALLISLAW. Okla . July II
Matthew Kimes. Oklahoma bank
bandit, today was sentenerd to life
imprisonment for the killing la t
summer of Perry Chuculate, depu-
ty sheri.
8.000.000 Former
Soldiers Seek to
Prerent II ar fare
Murdocl
was set for
the case of
MAN CHARGED WITH BIGAMY
BROUGHT HERE
Denutv Sheriff Ed Posvell return-
ed Sunday from Vernon, bringing
Harrv Chowing from that place
Chewing was indicted bv the grand
jury on • charge of bigamy.
the assassination
the Flee States
Kevin Christopher
Government's vice
Minister of Justin
woman s legs had led today to a
double murder mystery and the ar-
< i of a man suspect.
The trail finally led to a Brook-
Im house where the dismembered
boity of another woman was found.
rii<- victims were Miss Vera Brown-
iiill. 60 and Mrs. Alfred Bennett.
48. wife ot an Iceman and mother
ot four children.
Police were holding on a homlclda '
i barge Ludwig I .or 38. janitor ot >
the house where Miss Brownell
lived.
It was understood that Doctors
Laubry and Florand after an exam-
ination of the patient this after-
noon. informed the family he might
recover, but that relatives should
remain with him in case a crisis
developed A crisis might eome at
any time, it was thought.
William
Amer!- I ^eld that
lision with another plane
thrcc-ship formation
above the earth The f
was exccutmi: a croc
when the lieutenant's upper wing
was grazed by the landing gear ot
the plane above him A large piece
of the wing was torn away .md the
plane went into a spin
The tax rate for common school
biatricts tn Denton County was set
at a meeting of the County Com-
missioners' Court Monijay
Ing At the same time the
canvassed tire returns of the school
tax election in the Helm school
District Tile election carried 9 to
4 and raised the tax from 15 cents
to 75 cents on the 3100 valuation
The ■ orders setting the tax rate
and the certification of the school
tax election were the only
made by the court Monday.
(HTicers in Dentmi nml neighboring
ing a thorough
to lie a negr<\ v. h
home three miles
the door to
from church about liin'tO
Mrs Terrill ran Im
when the shooting stain <1
officers, and aside item
I he slayer to be a negro
I unable to furnish a des< i
| the man and officers .tn
Views as to his iden'ir.
Five bullets from a p. oil were
fired into Terrill's bodv an exam-’
ination showed, and two seriou
bruises, apparently inflicted with a
blunt instrument, were on ins head
His body was found m the
his home.
- jj
unties are mak-
■ar< li tor the unknown assailant, thought
shot and killed .1 (’. Terrill, 43, at his
>uth <>t' .lustin while he was unlocking
his home after he ami his wife had returned
o’clock Sunday night.
Hssistanet
I he told
lx llevm :
i she was
liption of
e Wl'hoilt
i SAN AMONI<>
| ond Lieutenant William Howarth,
studrnt in the pursuit section of
the advanced thing school, Kelley
Field, was l:.Ilea when his plane
crashed on I>tm<an Field
morning
Lieutenant Howarth I.nine is in
Harvey. Ill
T1 e accident resulted from a col-
’ in h;s
ooo feet
formation
overturn
’ t
Here are the four men who flew across the ocean in the America, photographed
few hours after their plane had come down in the English Channel. They are, left to
right, George Noville, Commander Richard E Byrd, Bert Acosta and Bernt Balchen.
I ri nch villagers to replace their own
This photo shows the end of Commander Byrd’s long flight—the big plane America resting in the waters of
the English < hanm l a few hundred feet off the French coast at \ er-Sur-Mer, where it came down after a night of
blind wandering m the tog and rain over the mainland. The picture was taken a few hours after the plane had come
down.
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|lt . Ofc. ,_______rj ■, t M _ L _1
+ LUXEMBURG,
+ Representatives
4- ex-scrvic ■ men.
4- Germans and Austrians
4- weie alius m the world war. ♦
4- lodiiv finished a two-day sea- ♦
+ slon which has been devoted to ♦
4- trying to promote a better un- ♦
4- derstandir.g and do what the ♦
4- veterans of lx>ih sides can to ♦
♦ make future wars impossible. +
4- The as.,ociation adopted a res- ♦
+ olutfoa declaring that frank- ♦
4- nes.s in international relations ♦
4- would remove the causes of ♦
4- war
SAN MARCOS. July IL-Effort
of attorneys for Mrs Rebecca Rog-
ers to obtain a continuance in ho
trial for robbery of the Buda bank
were partly successful this morning
and court recessed until this after
noon to enable her attorneys to
prepare a written motion for a
oentinuaner
Robert Cofer. Mrs Rogers’ attor-
ney. said that a continuance was
sought on the grounds that Dr C.
W Ramsdell, in whose office the
girl worked at the time of the rob-
bery. is now in New York cn route
to Europe. He said that his testi-
mony was Important.
Gofer Indicated that Mrs Rogers
would plead tem|x>ra.ry insanity as
a defense
HARRIS
A
DENTON KIWANlANtl ATTEND
BOOL DEDICATION
Mr. and Mrs O. M King Wardo
Fonts and L. A. McDonald of Den-
top Attended the barbecue and pro-
gram given at Camp Ki wants by
the Dallas Klwanls Club Baturday
evening on the occasion of Uie ded-
ication of a new swimming pool
at- the camp. The pool was dedi-
cated by L. A. McDonald, lieuten-
ant governor of the Texas-Okla-
homa DUtrict, Klwanls Interna-
tional Miss Mabel Frances King,
daughter of Mr and Mrs O. M
King is swimming instructor at the
camp, and several other C. I A
students are serving 4ii various ca-
pacities as Instructor^ to Girl
Scouts spending outings at the re-
j creation center.
*£ommon School District
GENEVA. July 11 fYistpone-
ment of today's sitting of the naval
reduction conference at which th<
troublesome cruiser question was
to be threshed out was decided
u|Min this morning at die sugges-
tion of Hugh Gibson, head ol tin I
America delegation
His recommendation was m.idi
as a consequence of the assassina-
tion in Dublin of Kevin O'Higgins,
vice president
state cabinet.
LOUISIANAN FACING DEATH
SENTENCE TO APPEAL
MONROE. La . July 11—Attor-
neys for Vernon Scruggs, 23 found
guilty of the murder of Miss Mil-
dred Thoma*. It, by a district court
jury here Sunday, will appeal his
conviction today. The conviction
automatically carried the death
penalty.
and tired into it. it w.ts .aid ex-
amination showing that live .hot.,
had taken effect
DALLAS M AN DIES IN AUT0.
(RASH SUNDAY
DAU.as. July 11—T. C. McDer* t
nan 29. advertising salesman of
Dallas, was instantly killed near
New Braunfels early Sunday whan
the automobile in which he was
riding was overturned. His mother'
lift Dallas for Chicago Saturday ’ >
and did not learn of his death tin* ■
til she arrived there Sunday night.
der and lefaued under bond Tin
couple had bean separated for sev-
eral monthx.
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X Two negro mi n picked ip v
4- on suspicion ot living conne< t +
+ .d with Hu fatal ^hiMHing ol •»'
♦ J C Terrill were leleaseii 4-
+ about 2 o'clock Monday after- +
♦ noon after being questioned b. +
♦ officers here They were pick- •?
+ rd up on lla Dallas Highwai 4-
4- about noon Monday and +
4- brought to Denton
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10 30 Sunday nignt
M W YORK, July 11—A trail
”iii(i) started Saturday with the
, finding ot dismembered parts of a •
the house looking
He was told flint tticy had
to, him and was advised
to go to another place some <IG
lance away They watched him un-
iil he readied the railload
tlicv had lull descriptions of the whpn tb(,v SIHrtcd to < iiurcli
three mt n who fired eight shots, T,.rrlll M)ld sh„ ihouglit she
into O'Higgins' body as he was on thp n<1Rro ,.tll! m()V|nu aWav
Ills wav Io mass shortly lx lore noon||llp lioufic pbl. said that the drxirs
yisfetday jiir.d windows of the house Wire
locked before tle v went to church
i Officers fiom Dinton went to th •
place to make an investigation Sun-
I day night mid Monday morning
County Attorii"V Elbert Hooper
I went to the scene of the slaying to
I Investigate Hooper said tliat no
i motive tor tie killing had been
! found and that no clews that might
I cstablirfi the man's identity had
been discovered
It was rcfxirted in Denton Mon-
i'licy drove
their car into thy garage and walk
lid to tiie house. Terrill was fumb-
ling with a key al IL< d<x>r of the i
j house when a man walked from the’ the Denton County Truck Growers
hOlUM ‘ A 41 4
al
Eart Texas: Tonight
Twedaay partly clouAy.
Toftigirt
Helpless Chums look On
— I
GRAPEVINE. July 11 FI. Bet -
13-year-old son of Mr and Mrs.
Floyd Berrv. was drowned in a
tank four miles west of here Sun-
day nftcriKxvn Six of his young, ____ .
companions looked on helpless to] day that citizens of the Justin coin-
assist him when lie got into water
over his depth.
The body was recovered aft< r
had been in the water an hour and
efforts tn resusclate tile lad with a
pulmotor were futile.
July 11— ♦
of 8.000.000 ♦
including ♦
who ♦
DENTON NEGROES HURT
■ WRECK SUNDAY NIGHT
Cap Taylor and wife. Roberta
Mary and George Whitten, negroes,
received severe cut* and bruises
around the face and Roberta
Whitten Buffered two broken ribs
when the automobile in which they
from Fbrt Worth
Watauga
Cap Taylor
WAXAHACHIE Julv 11 The bul-
let-riddled bodv of Bobbie Maxwell.
22. of Maym-arl was found behind
a Mnv)xarl store Sundav morning
Olin Mercer. 30 a farmer of near
Maypearl, was later arrested and
charged with murder
Witnesses said that Maxwell was
shot twice while standing in a drug
store, and later when lie was in the
rear of the grocerv store hr was
riddled with on or more charges
from a shotgun
W S. M’.ore of ( .villi- for-
mer District .Indite .1 Denton and
Cooke ('oimtus. Sc yIiv filed in
Gainesville two addi'nmal suits for
damages in winch Is- seeks to re-
el,ver a total of $71’000 from
1 ienton
Judge A C Owslt ’.
against Owsley is f”i
and $20,000 exemplary
while that agam t the Record-
Chronicle is for $l >ooo actual and
$15,000 cxemplaio damages
The suits are based, according to
the |>etition filed on a speech al-
1< god to have been made by Owsley
July 21 and portions of the speech
said by the jx til ion to have been
published In the Record-Chronicle
Moore previously had filed four
t nits for $15,000 each against the
Record-Chronicle, (lie Gainesville
signal and W O Davis, the suit*
lielng based on an article said to
have been written by Davis and
printed in the two papers.
li nd
yesterday of
"strong man. '
O'Higgins, the
piesident and
and of internal allairs.
Regarding the situation a-s a cris-
is President William T Cosgrove
called a meeting of the Cabinet last
night. After the meeting Cosgrov.
issued a statement assuring Ireland]
that the assassin's bullets would not' |p f (|(|k Sllndil,
succeed m terrorizing the country npg|.o (,an„, |() ll)p t.,,.
The situation, however. n::iv dcvrl I
op beyond ins or his Government's pr) W(,rj<
control, it was feared. | . ■
Although no jirrc.sts had been
made, pohe reported they believed
.... .. ............ U1,.
shots |.
The charge to the jury in
case
being drawn Monday
t ar-
gument would get under way
some time Monday after-)
noon.
'Die plaint is rested
when court opened Monday
ing without oflenng rebuttal
timony t
was devoted to argument of attor- |
neys ever the charge to be submit- |
ted to the Jury
While Judge McKinsey, who is I
hearing the case of Cecil P
man et al vs. T E Carruth et al
in which tiie pUlntlffs are seeking
to break the will of the late John
M Paine which left the bulk of his
estate to the Carruth children had
not fixed the time to be allotted to
argument it was thought that each
side would be given alxiut six
hours
aAt 2 o'clock Monday afternoon
court still stood adjourned and it
was not known at what time the ]
court s charge would be completed I
Civil War Threatens in
’■* A* r'-
I I. Crawlord of*
was named president
i McDowell was elected secretary of
• . > O. I, I , ... Z .... ...ft. TX.. mlr Z", I ' ■ • •
when the temporary
organization j was completed at a
milling of truck growers in the
.'lumber of Commerce room£ 8at-
utiDy afttonooi'.. About fOLtruck
ttfmcrs attended the meeting.
According to plans madflutoj
snciation will not beMtoK
year and tW hUpe _
. “ UM niaar
Denton County who ,'4
be an ideal city." said former May-
oi H. V. Hennen, who has been in
Sherman some time in connection
with the street paving program th*t
is under way there. He pointed out ]
the cotton mill and the garment
factory as being outstanding in-1
dustrtes in Sherman which employ !
mxny people The Sherman citizen- j
ship, that city being a school town
also, ia very sir^ilar to that of Den-
the Paine will contest
was
and it was thought that
terian Church here, were given g |
town party on the lawn of the
•resbytertan Church in
Taat Thursday night,
Varner's pastorate there
100 attended and a program and a
talk by Varner were given Varner
recently resigned the presidency of
the Milford Presbyterian College to
accept the pastorate at Boniiam
DROWNS WHILE
MING IN TANK
FORT WORTH. July 11 Floyd
L Berry J3. son of Rev. and Mrs
Floyd Berry, of Dove. 20 miles
northeast of here, drowned Sunday
while swimming In a stock tank
The body was recovered half an
hour later.
ivzuuwugj V41X7 OIK
was charged with assault tn mur- ;
« S^VER
AUSTIN. July 11
cptinit a $1 000 bribe
legislation against H H
I pelkd former member ut die Legls-
I la lure, were dismissed m criminal
district court todav ”ii motion of
i District Attorney J I) Moore, who
the defendant s plea ot
"former jeopardy was good "
Opposing attoiniv.
Launched a fight o..
' Dale Bonham !,•
and indicted woli M.ote
”1 minor wftnes-
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DUBLIN, July 11 Civil wai
tlneatened today to return to Ire i n.pr w|Upb th(.v |h.|1,.v,. ,h„ s|nv,
beeau.se of the a.wsa.s.slnation Qk lnt(, |lb. ^,-Hmg with the m
U ntion of killing both Terrill and
when they returned from
rhe tools had been brougli'
....... the tool-house on the plive
land this fact leads officers fo be
1 lleve that Terrill likely was shot
jwith his own pistol.
VtNTDN G1KL8 ATTEND PREti
ITTIQUAN CONftkENCR
Mlaae* Margaret Blewett and Vel-
ma Purcell. C. I. A. student, at-
tended the Presbyterian conference
in Waxahachie from Friday til)
Monday and report a large attend-
ance from over Texas and Oklaho-
ma. Mrs. Leona Blewett, registrar,
will remain till the cjoae of the j
conference on Thursday. July 14 !
FIVE FINER AHREHRED IN CITk|onc*‘ nigged constitution
COURT MONDAY
Five fines were assessed tn city
court Monday morning. Three were
$5 each for speeding and two were
$1 each for failure to observe the
boulevard stop signs
. — ...........
Mrs Hubbert surrendered to po- j *
lice following the shooting She j at
to trial m abMix t
ses
ed running down flic road toward
Justin A car occupied bv white pet
sons picked up tie woman and she
went to Justin and officers accom I
pamed her to the house.
Investigation of
1 that the place had
looted Entrance had been gained
thru a north window and clothing
from dresser drawers had been
I emptied on the floor A pile of pu-
lpers and clothing in one of the i
i xjms, with a kerosene lamp, from
which the top had been removed.
i indicates that the robber slaver had
intended to burn the dwelling A
] watch and a pistol are known fo I
| have been stolen
In addition to
found in the hou:
ar. ax and a heavy machine ham-
mer which they lx lie
NTH YORK. .Inly IL—While
police were trying to unravel
tiie ruvstcry of the axe murder
of two women today, the de
composed head of a woman
was found in Brooklyn which
ixilicc thought might pofcsihlv
lx- (lie head of Evelyn Martino.
20. a friend of the two women
killed.
No criminal c:gw*. wen; to trial
in District C' urt here Monday and
the first cast's, to b< fried this week
have been set for Wednesday The
case of Ed Allen charged with
driving a car wnile intoxicated,
was continued Monday on mol ion
of the defense and the case of Cc-
I cil Sexton, theft, was continued by
agreement.
Tiie case of D
charged with forgery
| trial Wednesday and
| John A Gray, charged wifi, mak-
ing false bank entries was set lor
Thursday Julv 14
Divorce orders made follow
J N Elkins vs Bi ulali Elkins,
divorce granted: Mildred M Cribb
VS W J Cribb <ln once granted
and maiden name of Mildred Miz-
ncr restor'd io plain.tifl Pending
the outcome of tiie case of willlr
Nix vs Clarence Nix. divorce, the
custody of minor children was
awared to tin plaintiff and Ihe-Be-
fendant was charged witli paying
for their maintenance
John Callahan 12. Noble Calla-
han. 10. and the 10 -.i.it-old son ol
Tony Villanueva b.uely esca|x'd
drowning just above flic new dam
in tl(e Citv Park Sund.iv afternoon
Die boys had been v immmg and
tiie water was di-cpi-r than fhev
thought, and tlu-y wi- unable to
swim to the bank
Other boys dragged two of the
boys, who had cone under for the
second time, to the bank and dived
and brought the Mi-\i'.»n to the
Rebecca Rogers Requests S";,"™™!,':;!!!™™
n ,, , I, had sunk lot Hie thud imu whin
Continuance; Insanity Plea i — Puned nom .h.. - k
Indicated Rj Her Attorney MOORE FILES TWO
MORE DAMAGE SUITS
north side of tlw
I "Hey" and tired a shot ,al l - rrill
TerrlU turn, d and starttoi lor tie
man and was shot twice behm-i CL
leaching file i dg«» ot the |>A'h H
then turned from Uie mail and
started running across the ya»Ij and
fell a short distance front the housi-
Tfic slaver approached thp.'t»d^ until next
< xprrssed that all persons
iH-nton or in I “
raise truck will join tiie organiza- ; ‘
fion. The purposes of the asaocto- • z
non is to standardize the produc-
tion and marketing of truck crops.
Protest* Innocence
He protested his Innocence after
12 hours of questioning. The police
tlieorv wa.s that Miss Brownell was
slam tor robbery and Mrs. Bennett
killed when she chanced to sur-
prise the murdered at work
W bile police were working
Hie murder of the two women an- ,
oilier mystery cropped up in a cel-
lar in flic lower East Side where a
plumber sent to repair a water
leak in a tenement came upon two
bundles containing the dismember-
'd (wirtions of a man's body Po-
int ■ believe tiie victim had been
d'-ad several months. Identification
was not established.
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