Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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CENTER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930
NUMBER 83
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MEMBER UNITED PRESS
VOLUME TWO
FRENCHMEN HOP OFF FOR DALLAS
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DARING FLIERS LEAVE LONG ISLAND
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Sidewalk
THIS MORNING ON LAST LAP OF COL
Review
EASTERWOOD’S PARIS-DALLAS PRIZE
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The hearing on the bond had
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TEXAS DOVE HUNTER BITTEN IN
ATTEMPT TO SNARE RATTLER
Revised
m. the following Monday In
snake from under a brush heap pital for treatment.
sentences has been served.
WEST INDIES FEEL STORM’S FURY IN
GALE WHICH TAKES LARGE NUMBER OF
LIVES AND DESTROYS WHOLE CITIES
and himself when he was frus-
trated in an attempt to attack incline of the east seawall to-
the 13-year-old child of a neigh-
bor.
Frank Teague in town,
life-long friend of ours
has made good.
H. H. Jones, Jr., contemplat-
ing an advertising campaign
with some unique features.
Mrs. LaReid Oates with her
husband.
They plan to stay a while with
their friend Leo Bird.
th ere’s
nuisances
the
in
C. W. Wilson, negro chaplain
at Huntsville, who asked this
time in which to get Washing-
ton “mentally and spiritually
MEN WHO WENT TO
LEGION MEET TO
COME BACK TODAY
Make Trip to Orange First To
See Martin Dies, Congress-
man-Elect of This District.
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State Discovers
supplies for the stricken area.
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Kills Trio and Self
Zenta, Jugoslavia, Sept. 4—
(UP)—In a state of drunken
insanity and rage Gabrie Bud-
asch, a 60-year-old Zenta pea-
sant, stabbed to death his' wife,
Carthage Man Released On
Bond At Hearing of Appeal
Held Here.
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of
If Successful, Airmen Will Add
$25,000 to Their Pockets,
But Must Make Non-Stop
Journey To Texas City.
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THE WEATHER
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East Texas—Partly cloudy
and somewhat unsettled in the
southern portion tonight and
, Friday with local showers in
some areas. Somewhat warm-
er in the north portion Friday, line road.
FEDERAL BUREAU
ANNOUNCES MORE
DROUTH TROUBLE
according to local promoters.
While the line-up is as yet un-
certain, it is said that practic-
ally the same team that handed
Black Jack a shut-out last Sab-
bath will be used.
Enough interest has been
aroused to assure almost two
hundreds fans from Center
making the trip, early reports
Reports have it that Clyde prepared” for the execution.
Downer will drive Ed Norris to
The Reviewer takes this op-
portunity to thank the readers nesday in request for clemency plan. They must pass from 2
According to a telephone call $25,000 cash of Coi.
from his son, Mr. John Lynch
reports that John Willis Lynch,
T. D. Kimbro and Oz Metz, at-
tendants at the State Legion
Convention in Austin, left Aus- completed within 72 hours,
tin yesterday for Orange, Tex-
as, where they will see Martin
Dies, Congressman-elect from
this district.
Mrs. Guy Willis and a con-
genial gathering at the golf indicate,
course.
The execution date, Septem-
ber 12, was the same as the
date set for the electrocution
of Luz G. Arcos, convicted in intoxication charges, they were squad of planes took off to
Medina county of murder. The‘
Governor had not acted Wed-
V. B. Shofner was allowed
at liberty on a bail bond set at
$10,000 by Judge Brown of the
District Court here yesterday.
The examining trial of Shof- him to yodel,
world today learned that the ner,
catastrophe had left the city.
A recent census gives its pop-
ulation at over 50,000.
The Red Cross is preparing
to give relief immediately.
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“"“"’•.''SHOFNER’S BOND
SET AT $10,000
BY JUDGE BROWN
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Terrific Tropical Hurricanes Moving West To U. S. Coast
Communications . 1
Relief Being Rushed To Af-
fected Areas; Will Reach U.
S. Coast In Thirty-Six Hours.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 4
(UP)—A violent tropical hur-
ricane was moving westward
toward northern Cuba and
Florida today leaving the West
Indies city of Santa Domingo
wrecked and in urgent need of
food and medical supplies.
Alter communications with
the island city had been brok-
en for 18 hours the anxious
M. B. Simon, dean of
Center sport authorities,
front of the store
Dallas, Texas, Sept. 4 (UP)
—The intrepid French avia-
tors, Coste and Bellonte, be-
gan the second leg of their at-
tempt to obtain the offer of
Easter-
wood of Dallas, Texas, for the
first flight from Paris to Dal-
las with one stop in New York
City and both journeys to be
morrow or Saturday. The
teams meet in Carthage for the
first time in weeks.
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NEGRO SLAYER
GRANTED STAY
OF EXECUTION
ing is said to be difficult due to
debris on the field. Ships are
Sponsors of the game say
that a more definite report of
States and to the City of New
men York. Among the welcoming
today (events was a parade down
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TRAIN STRIKES TRUCK
Houston, Texas, Sept.
(UP)—A negro man and his
son were killed and another
was injured early today when
their milk truck was hit by a
railroad motor car on the Air-
Austin, Texas, Sept. 4 (UP)
—State Auditor Moore Lynn
sees the possibility of recover-
ing several thousands of dol-
lars in inheritance taxes on
cases considered closed. In-
vestigation by the auditing de-
partment reveals that Texas
has accepted a much lower
valuation than that used by the
Federal Government.
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Mystery Solved
Mrs. Brad Collier and Annie the game will be released to-
Mae Innis out for an early
morning spin.
Center Daily News
Washington, D. C., Sept. 4
(UP)—A further shrinkage in
corn and feed crops due to the
drouth last month aggravated
the plight of American farm-
ers, an official survey indicated
today.
Prospects for the corn crop
are below the two billion level.
Water for stock remains
acute. The August rainfall
for Texas was only fifty per
him by cent of normal in Texas, the re-
asking port showed. In Oklahoma the
fall was ninety per cent; in Ar-
kansas it was fifteen per cent.1
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BASEBALL GAME
WITH CARTHAGE
PLAYED SUNDAY
Sterling Bailey casually
sauntering down to his shop.
Someone in this town is out-
doing the thunder god Thor
and is manufacturing some
unholy noises in the early
hours of the morning to disturb
the rest of those in.the Land of
Nod. If it keeps up
going to be some
abated.
held in connection with
the fatal stabbing of Thurman
Wall on election night, in Car-
thage August 23, had been de-
cided in Carthage last Satur-
day. After the testimony of
The storm is not expected to,'two State witnesses were tak-
reach the American coast forjen, Shofner was remanded to
some 36 hours.
A late dispatch today said! action of the grand jury
that over 300 were dead and j Justice of the Peace D.
900 injured in the Dominican Dovovan.
Republic alone.
The insane aslylum in Santa been appealed to the District
Domingo was wrecked and the J Court now in session here and
inmates escaped and added to was decided yesterday.
the terror in the city. | The State was represented
Local relief was described as | by Porter Anderson, District
inadequate and airplane land-! Attorney, and B. W. Baker and
" j..~ p p Long, attorneys of Car-
thage, retained as special
on the way from San Juan with prosecutors; the defendant was
represented by the firm of San-
ders and McElroy of Center.
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CAR HITS SEAWALL
Gloversville, yr. Y., (UP) —
After William Cole made his
23rd appearance and William city this morning at
De Mura his 34th, in court on Eastern Standard Time, and
Galveston, Texas, Sept.
(UP)—iMiss Bonnie Rouse
Fort Worth was seriously in-
his son, his 17-year-old mistress jured when the auto which she
was driving overturned on the
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 4
(UP)—Coste flew over this
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ordered to serve their 59 day|cort the Frenchmen toward
sentences on the “installment”!Louisville. Revised reports
show that the fliers will be in
p. m. each Saturday until 7 a. Dallas at nine o’clock tonight.
The delay is due to unsettled'
w’eather conditions encounter-
ed.
Dock Fitts, local youth, was
bitten on the left hand by a
, rattlesnake pilot while out dove
hunting, south of the city, and
was suffering much pain from
the wound, but was said to be
out of danger by attending
physicians.
James Parmer and Cecil] The Center nine will play
Champion carrying packages'Carthage in baseball Sunday,
from the postoffice.
The practical jokers are up
to their antics again. It seems
that there is a traveling man in
these parts who bears a
markable resemblance to the
recording artist, Jimmie Rod-
gers. The jokesters spread
the story among a group of
boys standing around that the
famous singer was in the store,
and these kids followed the
traveler to a local cafe and
there embarrassed
crowding around and
pouring i
down from the brokerage of- J
fices high above. A speech by
the debonair Mayor Walker
Taxes Too Small ended the official schedule.
The route of the ship to j
Texas will carry them a little' :
to the north of this section of
the state and they will en-
counter much of the weather
we are having here now, ac- J
cording to the United States J|
Weather forecast.
A rousing welcome has been |
planned in Dallas when the| |
aviation idols swoop down! I
there this afternoon at five o’-j j
clock. J. Waddy Tate, ^theal j
Hot Dog Mayor of Dallas, wil^l
duplicate Mayor Walker’s art®
of congratulating the flieris, ■
of the famous j and will be assisted by Gover- j
axv/x aim piuuimciii men
day. Three men riding in the
car at the same time were un-
injured.
Their plane,, the Question
Mark, lifted itself from the
runway at the Curtis Airport
John W. Lynch I on Long Island, New York, this
was the campaign manager of;morning at 7:54, Eastern Stan-
Dies in the recent successful! dard time.
contest ... and understoodj While in New York City the
that the party went there to,fhers were met by city and
ascertain if Mr. Dies could visit governmental officials arid bf-
this county before he goes to ficially welcomed to the United
Washington, D. C.
The group of Center men
were to leave Orange f
and are expected to arrive here ^roadway and Wall street with
sometime this afternoon or to-'the gusts of confetti pouring
night.
Palestine, Sept. 4 (Sp)— after holding its head with a
forked stick and grasping it by Carthage for the game Sunday,
the tail.
The snake wriggled its head
free and bit Fitts on the left
hand before he could get out
of its way. His companions of News who have endured
corded the arm just above the [ ;
Fitts had started to jerk the‘wrist and rushed him to a h os- the
Beaver Dam, Wis., (UP) —
The mystery
“breakfast roll thief” has been'nor Moody and prominent
solved here, but officials were in Dallas and the state.
without power to prosecute the' The greeting for the French-
“thieves.” Louis Kopplin, i men will be climaxed by the
who was an early riser accom-'presentation of the $25,000,
' plished what authorities had cash prize of Col. Easterwood1'
on, been unable to do for days,if they are successful in making
state when he discovered a squirrel the trip from New York City.
Intervening cities on the
route reported that the plane
was flying low and with no’
evident engine trouble.
Dr. Duke, Dan Liem, and E.
I. Bruce relating some hair-
raising stories.
I jail without bond to await the
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TELEPHONE IT
TO THE NEWS
Unsung Heroes of Center:
J. E. Nicholson, a Christian
gentleman, who has aided us in
retaining our faith in human-
ity.
presented for Arcos Tuesday.
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5 regular writer of this ; Phone us your social items— jail until the equivalent of the
, space. I we will appreciate them
Austin, Sept. 4 (UP)—Jess
Lee Washington, negro, sen-
tenced to die in the electric
chair at Huntsville Friday for
a murder in Roberts county,
was given a seven-day reprieve
Wednesday by Governor Dan
Moody.
The stay was granted <
recommendation of the s’ £.12--. \
parole board at the request of escaping with a roll taken from
a sack left at a residence here..
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Lynch, John W. Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1930, newspaper, September 4, 1930; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1356983/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.