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Committee Will
Outline Highway
Legislation Plan
Squalls Damage
Airship En Route
From San Antonio
Tom Love Flays
Tammany Hall
School House Is
Wrecked by Blast
2 Children Hurt
IN TRIAL OF
ATTACKCASE
Hoover to Change
Style of Campaign
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DEMOCRATS GET
CAMPAIGN FUND
OF $2,753,192
Plans are being made for a “front
porch" campaign at his Maasachu-
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CHANGE OF VENUE IN
CASE TO SHERMAN
CONSIDERED MONDAY
BY JUBGE OWSLEY.
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here.
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KEMP CITY LAKE OPEN FOR
FISHING
KEMP, Oct 17z-The Kemp city
lake has been opened for fishing
and annual nnd daily pennits are
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the first day. The fate in
had been sentenced to die before
firing squads. .r,
WtlSONIK^MhtNTED IN KANIAS
PICHER. Okla.. Oct. 17.-Fred
Moreland. 37, held in jaU
Oct 17.
Morman,
■kr an
death penalty by a dlstrfdt court
jury here last night.
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a few minutes before 10 o’clock and
a verdict was reached in leas than
The case was given to the jury setts Avenue headquarters here for
nevt week, after his return from his
.New York speaking
given a brief trial. Within three
hours they had been found guilty
Snake Bite
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wa roblieiiea on No fir I ting at hunting Is allowed on a aeorct
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DENTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 17. 1928
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Greets Oklahoma
Al Smith Speaker
♦ OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 17. ♦ "
♦ —A barrage of overrlpa fruit ♦
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♦ eon. president of the Ok In- ♦
♦ home Farmers Union, when he ♦
♦ rpeke in behalf of the prpsi- ♦
♦ dentiai candidacy of O<?v ♦
♦ Alfred Smith last night at ♦
♦ Bethany, a small town n few ♦
♦ rilles west of Oklahoma City. ♦
♦ C ,T Stover of the salet, de- ♦
♦ partrient of the tmton who ♦
4 tttended the meeting said it ♦
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AUSTIN, Oct. 17.—An advisory
committee composed of one mem-
ber from each State senatorial dis-
trict will be appointed by Oov.
Moody to evolve a comprehensive
program of highway legislaiinn for
submission to the next IcgiaJature.
he said today.
The governor has written mem-
tors of the House and’ Senate tor
suggestions as to who should be
named for their districts for rncm-
bershlp on the committee.
Durinj the <0th legislature the
entire proemm of highway lectsla-
tion was withdrawn because it a ns
found to have a hopeless lack of
co-operation
The governor did not give hi*-,
views on just what trend he ex>
I’ects future legislation to take.
jury to testify in the investigation
I of the attack case
Accotding to wcjd received here
I feeling against the ntF.ro is run-
| niiig high in Sanger, Valley View
I Gainesville and yesterday
i Judge A C. Owsley issued a
which he de-
t the pcs-
■ negro would
le case was brought
it 1* k dif- | to trial.
Ave become'
Robbers Kidnap
Cashier in Raid
on Oklahoma Bank
TEXANS FEEL
FIRST TOUCH
OF WINTER
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Relief in Colorado
DENVER, Colo , Oct. 17,-Rising
temp'-intvres and rain today
brought promise of relief from the
mid-winter bhasard —which has
jwtpt the Rocky Mountains for
tlf’ee days claiming, tno lives mar-
, (xmlng several persons op Pikes
Peak epd endangering hundreds of
den hunters scattered thioi1,.ncut
the wild Colorado highlands
class that the
ever had, being
tt* next largest heM in the ownty
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in the water II hours. She bad a
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Wednesday Marks
Opening Aubrey i
Community Fair
atone in this part of Texas. Short
talks were made by the managers
an address on ’Service.’" ;
W. E. Mann, secretary of the Re-
tail Merchants Association, has re-
turned from Temple, where he at-
-----1 a convention of the secre-
taries of Texts. He said “It was a
I .splendid meeting, being attended by
I ■ more than one hundred secretaries
from wver Traas. It was one of the
■ 22Li2?tr^CM’* mteMn«8 1 h*ve
, attended; regular school on ‘credit’ nection with a
It ***** very — • •
u_l iiimiwiiag. ■ jU]y jg
»ould dieam
^anonymoua,
m that the
1ght to like
fy rail! that^ --
J- W Keefer, brought here from
Brenham Wednesday oy Deputy
Sheriff A. C. Howerton to d<And
trial on a charge of forger)’, al-
ready faces five prison sentence's
for similar offenses totalling 19
years, Howerton said. In addRich
faces complaints In three other
places on forgery charges
In trials at Oergetbwn Keefer re-
ceived a six-year term nnd a tour-
year term. Hr received sentences at
two years each aft. Nacogdoches afid
Brenham and a five-year sentence
at Goliad. Charges are pending
sgatnet him in Victoria, LaGrange
and Dallas, according to Hower-
ton.
Keefer is sllejcd to have raised ». ,
rftcck an. August -Miehwiek frrrm
11.50 to $31.50 last June.
county. . r i, j ' M
Amusement concersiona- for th
fair hava been 1st to tfm ~
Carnival Company.
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Hostess in N. Y.
Night Club Slain
NEW YORK, Oct? 17-The iiody
of Mrs. B. C. Wolch, hostesa In a
night club here, was found on the
bed of her home in Bunnys-ae
Queens today, by police who had
rone there to question her about
the arrest of her husband in con-
nection with the slAylng of a Sr.
Louis policeman
Mrs. Welch’s throat hod bnen
slashed and there were bruises on
her head. She was clad only ip eUk
underwetr. Bestde the body were a
hammer, a knife and a flatiron,
all bloodstained.
Police were said to be Questioning
Wolch. but refused to Rive any In-
formation concerning how he might
be involved in the Bt. Louis mur-
der. Tlie policeman was said to
have been killed during, a bank
robbery. ' . 1 .
.FROM HORSE KIUS
f GRAPEVINE BOY
GRAPEVINE. Oct. IT.—William
TIUry, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jess
Tlllry of four miles south of bore,
was killed Thursday in • fall from
i His body was found Mier
- JNh which started when the
i iderless hone returned home, .
,threshing the trees TULaA. ' OCi—17^-Tbrae mew
robbed a bank at Trnguc ncae
Chandler of between >3,000 and
$4,000 early this afternoLD-imd-fled-
wtth'“J T. Urban Isstatant cash-
ier, as their prisoner Urban vas
alone in the bank at the time and
the .poi bery-was not disccvwd Un-
til other officer? of the Institution
returned to the bank
The City of Dallas will contest
the right of Denton County to col-
lect taxes on land bought by the
city as a part of the lake basin. As-
sistant City Attorney A. A. Long
■aid Tuesday in answer to notice
that suits had been filed by Denton
County to collect delinquent taxes.
The same attitude is held by the
city now that has been followed
the past four years, Long said.
Water Commissioner 8. E Moss
of DuOtt IS still hopeful ol effect-
ing an agreement with Denton
County oKUcals whereby taxes on
..the land will be waived. He said
oe If he is brought W.000 pqrvMtng Dallas would allow
Denum County i__‘ ‘ ‘
•ndciimp m the
? Man Brought---
?far Trial Faces
19-Year Sentence
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baiuttie br •
[ears in pris-
EASTLAND. Oct 17. — Clyde
Thompson. 18. was found guilty of
murder in connection with the kill-
ing of Lucian Shook at Leeray in
September andt was aaswed the continually on the stump.
SHULER PLEADM KM
PORT OF HOOVE]
TEMPLE. Oct. IT—(Ml
ocrats were urged to forg
lines in the coming electas
Rev R, P. Shuler of Los
in an address in City Pai
Tuesday Right.— —
issue was the
pect of the pi ,
and he pleaded with
to support the Nlfiirt
dentlal nominee.
BOX
EaM Texas:
Thvsday fair, esa
st tatahl MMMl
"This is the first time in seven
pears that I have not had wheat
. grouted at this time of October."
/WM W. H. Parks. “1 am going ahead
“ With planting now and I expect to
SOW 135 acres to wheae Wheat ia
up in some fields; it looks pretty
well during the early morning, but
by noon it begins to look pretty
t0ck. Rain U needed badly, on. wheat
whefe R Is up and the grain now
being planted will not sprout i
a rain falls.
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Two hundred and forty-three stu-
dents have made application
iBU>duaUon from the Denton I
Mb*** thte VW. This Win te
targem graduating
Dsntan School has
. npineertng adviser; O. R. Wamn,
or
I Just how long will it take to
give hard-surfaced roads over the
entire country! In 1937-38 there
..MU. of highway im-
L Proved at a . cost of two hundred
and five million dollars. A large per-
eentage of the work done was of the
I -p-' .
Milburn McCarthy, Eastland boy.
is taking a big part in the Dem-
ocratic headquarters tn New York
McCarthy is w page in the United
i States Senate and when the cam-
paign was commenced this year he
waa selected to work in the head-
quarters and he is considered some-
what of a ’factotem' there.
Tuesday night established a rec-
ord for low temperature of this
fall; the lowest temperature here-
tofore this fall waa on September
Mh. when the thermometer went
d?*1* *° 5*. Tuesday night it was
three degrees colder, with a fifty-
one. Tonight and Thursday will be
• mostly fair, according to weather
indications.
McOl
men wi
five «■
here tn the I
833300 in d
mediately ’
them.
Here's Martha HUI, ll-yaar-old ■ 3®
Memphis, Tenn., stenographer,
who recently broka ths record tor
endurance swimming hF Staying
Me
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Ttto DMittm d^ pton bcmmlttre.
composed of representatives of civic
c.ru.in'zatlona,'was 10- nwet ** * . t a
O'clock Wednesday afternoon aljfai , ,1
X Ark., Octv 17.—Two
it smoked glasses locked
dp of the Citizens Bank
It and escaped with
today. Posses 1m-
rted a search for
I
city hail and discuss with planAing .
engineers the matter of securing a
muster plan for the city and to kc-
cvpt blds on preparation ol such a
plan. i. .
Members of the city plan enm-
mtttee are: W. M. Loveless, C- I. />,’
A.: A. C. McGinnis, Teacher* Ool- f
lege; Mrs. F. V XJarrieon, Federal < i
cd Clubs; Mrs. O. N. Adkisson, city.
school board; <L. A. McDcasH^^ra
Chamber of Commerce; O. D. BoB,-j
Ktwanis Club; H M. RusmD, Re- 443
tail Merchants’ Association; Rev. ,
William Fred OaSxrnith, Mlniatera’
Association; Brent O. Jackson, 1
County . Oomnflsstoners’ Court;
Mayor B. W. McKenzie and W. R. $
1 ak*V‘ Clly
^jXMrrnr rrirt afinM - - 1 -
seactary.
Word waa received that K W.
HocUcher at Fort Werth, rsfn-
sentative of Harland Bartholomew
<t Associates. JttF piaaiton. wouM
be here to attend the meeting, and
Major R A. Wood of Dallas was*
here Monday to look over Denton
nnd tt waa thought ho would either
bo here or send '■» preposition to
the meeting. Homer L. Frv and O.
H Koch, city plan engineers, also
were expectsd either to have renra- T
srntatlves here or send propositions
to the committee.
COOLER WEATHER PRE-
VAILS OVER STATE,
PRECEDED BY RAIN IN
SECTIONS.
DALLAS, Oct. 17.—The
first cool weathGr of autumn
was being experienced to-
day by Texas. The lower
temperatures which entered
the State yesterday in the
Panhandle prevailed to the
gulf coast this morning.
Ttmperatitres tn the tortles were
reported m sections of North and
Wt s’ Texas while the thermometer
nt Port Arthur registered 6W de-
grees witn a north breeze blowing.
Rain preceded the tompor'iture
drop in a number of sections.
—Panl®
negro, he^H
attack on MnlS <■
„ Pflug Jr. may b^
putting up signs that would advise District Judge O
travelers that they were in Dct- cause of statements phy-
the year thru, but I hope that some-
thing of the kind can be done for
the coming yefcr. Denton has much
to advertlse-as I see .it Denton
could put up such signs to advan-
tage. telling tourists that they are
to Denton, the city of schools.”
STi JOHNS, Newfound-
land, Oct. 17.—Commander
H. C. MacDonald, English
aviator, took off from Har-
bor Grace today in a moth
type airplane in an attempt
to—fly across the Atantic
ocean to England.
MacDonald, who is 38 years old
eame to Newfoundland it bout three
weeks ago and began assembling
his plane in preparation for the
attempt Although he said he had
had only 80 hours of flying, he was
confident that he could make the
flight alone in the small plane.
Since his arrival here he has been
awaiting favorable weather condi-
tions. He had deviated that he
would not take ofit until he had a
"hunch” that everything was right.-
MacDonald said that the flight
was being financed privately. Hi
was assisted in preparing for the
flight by A. F. Williams, a mechan-
ic. who accompanied him from
England. ,
The plane is but a midget com-
pared to Lindbergh's “Spirit of .St
Louis.” Known as an asrial sports
car. tt had been secretly prepared
in London for many wacks for the
flight. It has. a wiilT spread of only
SC leet and' when empty wofghs less
than 80C pounds.
Extra fuel tanks were fitted to
the phne giving it a range of about
35 hours sufficient for 3,600 miles
cruising.
May Be Teulrg Ship
HT. JOHNS. N. Fm Oct. 17—Lt.
Commander K. C. MacDonald of
Linden, who has been waiting for
tl’iee weeks for a favorable oppc«-
tunity tc at-tonipt a noi-slop :HgT.t
across the Atlantic from Harbor
Grace to England, took off with a
lull load at 11 -S«ll a. m. E8T today.
It Is not certain / whether he
meant to continue aenue the At-
. It waa behoved VM.ro
it to totyjyja
iram-Athmtie
VBA WoohlMpfoa Bur-aa
Senator Morris Sheppard. Texas,
author of the J8th amendment
and one o£ the leading drye in
Congress, hae offered his services
to the Democratic National Com-
mittee for an extended speaking
tour in behalf of Al Smith. Shep-
pard aleo introduced the bllle that
made the District of Columbia and
Hawaii dry. He eaye other 1921
ieeuee overshadow prohibition.
G E. Taylor, manager of the
Penney Store here, together with
all the clerks In the store went
to Fort Worth Tuesday night, where
they met with the Fort Worth and
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ueoole to hunt, run to the 84016 kllUn£- was set tar this ly the following week.
T7°rJ". n*p* i afternoon. Charges of murder I . J 'j .
■gaffitt Woodrow Wilson Davis, 12,1 to address a number of delegations
toy- when the boy took the' stand > East. Several requests have come In
as a i
UUU of the Shook ktlW
Lucan Shook and his brother.
Leon, wpre shot to death on the
night of Sept. 7. They were lured
from thrtr homes by Thompson on
the pretense of going fox hunting
and killed. According to the testi-
mony of Woodrow Wilson Davis.
Thompson had stated before the
killings that he was motivated by
a desire to "see ’em kick." hence the
slayings.
TriaJ Ret for Mordiiy
GAINESVILLE, Oct. 17.—Des-
pite lynching threats against Silas
Jcrman. 19-year-old negro, charg-
ed in two indictments with crim-
inal assault and robberv with a
deadly weapon. Judge A’vln Owslev
ennnounced late Tuesday tliat trial
of the negro would commence
Monday.
In announcing the trial daw
Jud,re Owsley said he would swear
in e number of special deputies and
clothe them with orders “to shoot
to kill anvonp who attempts to u»-
tcrfcre with the due process ol the
law " .
The Indictments against Jorman
grew cut of attacks alleged to have
[ beer, made on Mrs. A. R. Hassen-
untu 1 pflug. and the theft of the Hassen-
I pl lug automobile Oct. 8. Physicians
} attending (he woman said she. had
i stu- recovered sufficiently so that" she
| for I would be able to attend the tiiul
High Mm.dajt^
s the Jornian tos maintained ito inno-
tto'cence since his aneet wt ttte home
of Ms mother in Hoostoo. He is
Bi
.2! "1 want to exprm my recom-
mendatton at the picture. The I
King of Kings. " told Mrs. R. M.
Bains, who was among those at- I
tending the pruesntaden of that
pfrivre at the Palace Theater Mon-
day morning.
jemrre a matter of constantly dodg-
I Ing one line storm after another,
and at Memphis we w*rt caught
like rats In a trap."
CAMPAKN LOC
BY UNITED PRESS
Governor Smith, after speaking
In Sedalia, Mo., last night and call-
ing Republican prosperity n myth,
today was en route to Chicago He
will wake short stops at Bloomtha-
ton and Springfield, Ill., during the
Herbert Hoover turned his atten-
tion today to the speech to be made
in New York Monday. Hoover has
determined. It was learned, to make
more personal appearances between
now nod the close of the campaign.
Senator Charles Curtis at Ral-
eigh. N. C.. attacked Governor
Smith’s prohibition stand and said
the Coolidge admtniatratton had
worked hard to enforce the law.
Curtis returned to V asbington to-
day.
Tn a hastily arranged
Senator WUltom E. Borah at Sal-
isbury, N. C.. urged women voters
to uphold ths prohibition law by
voting for Hooter and Curtis.
. Senator JeJbeph'Roblnscn tn a
speech at Boise. Idaho, attacked _T _ ..
the speaking campaign of Senator .of acts against the government and
William E Borah saying hb noliti- "— ■—*— ---- - -
cal activities were not in keeping
with hia senate utterances against
Hoover.
CHILD SHOOTS MOTHER
RHE SLEEPS .
RATON. N. M-. Oct. H.taA
With *
SHERMaN Oct. 17.—A recital of
Tammany’s ’scandals" was mad'
by Senator Thomas B. Love of Dal-
las in an address here Tuesday
night in which he urged, defeat ol.
GOT. JUttad X Sn^ -ef New York
and election of Herbert Hoover.
The 10 scandals attributed to
T»mm.-Ap are- Qi..........
dal. ballot box scandal, pay roll
pudding, nubile vice scandal, niilk
scandal! ■. dty marshal aeendxl. | „
fccliooihouse scandal, gas eut-ofT
»candal, the scandal of increasing
crime and the Rockaway water
tcandal.
love said he does not question
the patriotism of Gov. Smith but
said “it would be no less then a
crime for me tc vote to spread out
over the United States the same
sort of government that Tammany
Hall Is now giving the people
New York.”
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Two champions out of th® west are
Aubrey Conner, 19, of Hillsdale.
Okla., shown ia upper photo, and
Oeorge McColm. 17, of Fremont.
Kas. They’ve been picked as the
champion 4-H club boys of their
dates, in view of their leadership
n many agricultural projects snd
their high records in farming.
ROUND
ABOUT?
TOWN
Dedication of Denton's new band
shell in CitjF Park, recently com-
pleted at n cost of abcut $4/w. will
take place at Ute first concert to ’»
riven in the rirncttire Thursday
evening at 7 o'clock.
A cc-neert by the Teachtrs Col-
lege 40-piece band will be given and
between numbers Mrs. IJ. J. Tur,
rantlne, chairmen of the Park
Board, will make a brief talk in
which she will present the shell to
the citizens of Denton on behalf
of the Board W. S. Miller, chair-
man of the City Commission, will
' Following the concert members
of tiie band will be guests of the
Retail Merchants’ Association at a
banquet at the Godwin Hotel.
Five Mexican
Rebel Leaders
Are Executed
SK.3Li.W3lV>
MEXICO CITF. Ont. 17—Five
rebel leaders, all of whom were cap-
tured after being wounded several
months ago, were executed just at
dawn Tuesday by federal troops in
Sgn Lute Pptosl, it became known
Brief dispatches today contained
information concerning the federal
action '*
The five were members of the
grand aroiv of Liberation and in-
cluded .General Jacinto Lewis,
who i> known as the inspector gen-
eral of the revolutionary forces in
the States of San Luts Potosi,
Guarajuato and Quartaro.
Several months aeo the rebel
forces in that area engaged in a
brief battte with fetora! tnmps.
The casualties were not grant. Gen-
eral Loyola and four of hie lieuten-
ants, however, were wounded and
Since that time they havo been
in hoepttAls reovering from their
Injuries. Mondey night the five
wera taken from the hospital and
VOL. XXV11I
DELAY UKELY tesySS
rord three
tet us to-
y Today’s |
an mudt- J
of chival- drf
»**’*!'?-WVtt
south of Me
mn yesterday. « —------
a“W» had left San. Antonio at
‘"■•fl a. m the dny before and ran
into dirtv weather that night after
Hoover s JNay in Smith's home , leaving Dallas, ftotn then on it be-
town will have nothing on the
“Sidewalks of New York” atmoe-1
phere about it. He will participate
in no parades. He will spend most
of the day far above the sidewalks
In hotel room ■conferences with his
Republican leaders, getting down to
the business of organizing the cam-
piagn for its final stages.
The battle for New York’s 45 elec-
toral votes has settled down to one
of the most intense struggles of the
campagln. and Hoover will seek to
turn the balance in his visit. --------
Ha will speak to 30,000 people
in' Madison Square Garden. The OC- .
caaton also will bring the first
campaign appearance of Vice
President Dawes, a pre-convention
supporter of former Governor F. O.
Lowden of Illinois, who hitherto has
been in the background.
$0 PER CENT DIVIDEND
CARDINAL CLUB
ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Ort. 17.—A 20
|w cent dividend totalling * >50,-
800 rem 2,337 shares of preferred
stock and 7.833 shares of common
stock of the St. Louis Card Ina's
>>all club was declared at a direc-
tors meeting attended by S m
Breadon, Branch Rickey. C. H.
Tevis, w. K. Stanard and William
Wahlngham.
. ..-r ,
i. returned here from
Hoover is expected to receive and lt app^rcd in
dismissed by the court ytaOer- -rom states in Uns area and to toe gS&g*--*““**»
state witness and recited de-1 the last few jjgys for^uch recep — » - tg.ytAr Battle
— ItlOtU.' BELLEVILLE, Ill.. Oct. 17.—A
Hoover is expected to make these successful 24-hour battle with vio-
more than "how do you do. glad lent line storms which hurled the
to see you" addresses and touch on rs I, world’s largest semi-rigid dir-
campalgn issues. , itible, through the skv "like a cr.t
Hoover plans to make many Im- dragged by its tail.”- was described
promptu addresses on this trip, as here today by Qapt. William E.
well as one major radio speech, that Kepner. veteran army airman.
will be either at St. aLouis. Minne- Kepner. do-winner of the last
spoils, Chicago or Milwaukee. national bal'oon race, was in com-
Hoover was highly pleased with mand of the 282-foot craft and
his Massachusetts reception As a crew of 13 on a training flight to
result of the enthusiasm which he the American Legion convention at
stirred among the crowds which San Antonio. Texaa, and brought
saw him and heard his impromptu It safely but seriously crippled back
speeches, some friends expressed the to its home hangar at Scott Field
among the people more. here at 1C:3O p. m. last night.
opinion that he should get out “For three of those 24 hours we
The Republican candidate turned thought any minute would be our
his attention today to his second last." he told the United Press. “Ev-
invaalon of the East, his trip to New cry aluminum girder in the nose
York Monday. He continued work of the ship was arumpled ltke pai
upon his speech which will ba a by »• J
gOfieral- dieii iisidon-of WVHW’Tasuee,""TfiTTr s"
with particular emphasis upon the
relations oft he government and
business. As in the Boston speech, 11:35
"prosperity" will be the keynote.
J. W Pender was elected presi-
dent of the Denton Co intry Club at
a meet Ing of the board of directors^
following a stcckhblders' meeting
at the elub house Tuesday evening
L. G. MctJray wns named vice pres-
ide t white O. D. Bell snd C E
Milter were elected seg-etnry nnd
treasurer, respectively.
The meetirjj was attended by a
large number of stockholders end.
betore the session a basket picnic
dinner was spread.
The board of directors for ti e
next year named Tuesday include
Bert Fowler, R. J. Edwards. Georg®
M. Crutelnger, H. M. Russell Fred
H. Minor, R. T. May, H. W. Mc-
Dade, W. R Hicks, W. J. McCray.
L. G. McCray and J. W. Pender.
the Denton County National
Rank was selected as the deposi-
tory of the club for the next year.
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Arkansas Bank Is
I Robbed of $23,500
Opening Wednseday morning. l&F' '
annual Aubrey Community Fair-to -.iA
i to continue through Friday after-
noon. Entries close at I p. st Xi J
. tlie first day. The fair is sponsored
by Aubrey merchants and all ex-
pensea have bag* provided ao ttuto
no entry fees win be charged.
Preeent indications are that moat
of the departmento at the fair wEl
have more entries than any fair
held there before officiate say. A
premium Ust of about >350 tuu. beeti
■ qy a11
exhibitors from any port of the
VERDIGRE. Neb.. Oct. 17.-Au
investigation was started today to
determine the cause of an explos-
ion that partially shattered a tiny
school house northwest of here and
injured two small children.
Deputy Sheriff A. L. Smith sold
today after an investigation that
dynamite or rjunpowder hi'd been
used nnd that one window had
teen forced.
The explosion occurred yesterday
outing the noon recess. With a
tenflic 'roar the stove exploded
tearing holes in the floor anti
wrecking the room. The stove was
blown into hundreds of pieces.
• Two children were Injured but
? J1 Uffc’’ the t**cht‘r' ha<5 kindled
«««»« of the th, flre but had gone to the far
end of the room and escaped In-
juries. The teacher and directors of
the school have no knoan ent-mles. '
it waa said. ;.”t
GARDNER TO BR TRIED ON AS-
8AUUT CHARGE
DALLAS. Oct. 17.—Bob Gardner,
under a penitentiary sentence for
rrtobety and scheduled to go to trial
Oct 25 on another robberv charge,
will also be tried on a charge of
assault to murder The charge was
filed against him Tuesdsy tri. cm- i
• • —, .
T1 . Dr- Jack^kltos, whq_ entered aev>
en Wlrtte Holland turkeys at the
Hl, Dallas Fair, said “I was mighty
well pleased with my exhibit os I
got five prizes from the seven eh-
"" 'trtiB; 1st and 2nd on young tom A;
■”q 1st, 3rd and 4th on turkey hens."
. , "Roanoke won’t get as much cot-
ton as it did last year,” said Dr.
Ht J. W. Roark, who with Mrs. Roark.
was tn Denton Wednesday morn-
ing. “We will get about five hun-
dred bales this year, I think, while
last year there were elightly more
| than seven hundred bales. The crop
this year was spotted." ->
r .
■"'DSpk designated for use of the
Arthur McNitzky Post of the Amer-
. lean Legion, have been received
here.'The capta are black with
BL. orange braid. The American Legion
emblem is on one side of the cap
and on the othcc side Is the number
*71’ which is the number of the
Denton Post
WASHINGTON. Oct. 17 —Herbert
Hoover win change his style of
campaign in the last two weeks
before election to provide more pub-
lic appearances. This will keep him
in the public eye during the critical
closing days when his Democratic
opponent. Alfred E. Smith, will be
i SCOTT FIELD Ill. Oct. 17.—Its
nose crushed and envelope ripped
the RS-1. United States army servi-
rigid dirigible, limped to ita hangar
here late last niglrt after a tgtttle
with line afipalU on the Misatoeircl
The tourist travel is
nearly over for this year, however.
I testify for three weeks or
I more, court officials said to-
day.
The court term here will hove
ended ty the tinge tlie woman has
recovered and Judge Owsley will be
holding court at Denton. He ccn-
ridered »oday transferring the trial
to Sh-rrran or ordering a special
term of court here with a special
Judge on the bench.
SUFFER AT
SCHOOL FRID*
A box supper win bg 1
gyle Friday night. Oct.
brosfit of the school. ■
of Teachers Ooltega will
ture show. The public to
there is no admiMton <
TtejDsnton High School Brones
__ Kano MMh actoooi
i Friday aftamoen -at three-
—The game will be played at
the Teachers Colby® «re -Sheriff B C. Powell were tn
'12Wl Npdrt« Of the Plano team •-
appraro they will put j».
for the contest. Go out there and
help the Denton boys win.
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The time was a few years ago i f,n(i'
When the pecan trees were prac-1 judge a C.
Urally the property of the public, lengthy statement in wbic
l A??* .owners ot trees dared Vrecantiops against
' to p*op*e KOln< s‘b,<’ lynching of the r_ ;
on theif ^tfld to get what^aecans be taken when the can—“
they wanted, but now it 1* k dif-1 to trial r. ’
ferent story. Pecans have
valuable crop—the returns from
| a pecan grove mean money to the
owner just as much as does his conr'
w or cotton crop H. C. Taliaferro,
who bM a pecan grove on his farm
L . Mid "White I have seen no one on I
I my place I know tliat there havu
i been people to gather pecans from 1
trees already thia year on land tliat
belonged to another. The nuts are
doC yet ripe snd *1*“——•**—•*• **•
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