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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 7, 1936
VOL LVI.
(Eight Page*)
NUMBER 217
WILLIAM MAHAN SEIZED IN SAN FRANCISCO
Farm Leader Dies .
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WASHINGTON, May 7 (AP) —
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degrees, 20 minutes, west longi-
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Some of the money was the Wey-
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ONE MAN LOSES
MAINE CHILD
former resi-
Waterville, Me.
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Night By Prankster
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prankster.
lobby.
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Despute Reported
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WASHINGTON,/May 7 (AP).
WASHINGTON, May 7.(AP).
FORT WORTH, May 7 (AP)-
TEXAS NEWSPAPER MEN
] AUSTIN. May 7
I API. — Fu-
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friends.
Other major items in the last
titled "Down With Capitalism.
Know Your
and In west and north portions marked by independence,
the house
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He had the independence
for relief
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ranging the bonds.
der several weeks ago after the
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Red \Flag Flies Over
U. S. Court Building
FITZGERALD’S
FUNERAL IS HELD
IN AUSTIN TODAY
case and an Ohio mail robbery.
Hoover said $7,300 was found on
neral services for Col. Hugh Nu-
gent Fitzgerald. 73, dean of Texas
newspaper men and chief editorial
was
intelli-
f
denburg at noon today. At that
time the airship was at 48 degrees.
POLICE DOUBT
CONFESSION OF
BROOKLYN MAN
Hawkins. Charles E. Marsh, Judge
Sidney Staples, Sully B Rober-
deau and Dr. H. L. Hilgartner, Sr.
Pallbearers for the Dallas serv-
Republicans held a
causus last night. i
other defendants were continued । -
W. J. Holifield was sentenced to I
a year and a day in El Reno re- -
the
led
was expected originally to reach
Lakehurst Saturday afternoon.
Tbe luxurious 813-foot ship pro-
ceeded swiftly, smoothly, almost
noiselessly on its journey after the
Harry Campbell and Two
Others Taken Today at
Toledo, Ohio
delay in the departure.
Rising lightly and easily from
its base while thousands of resi-
A baba,
location.
floor today for a showdown fight
over PWA policies.
The big money bill was reported
Hoover said the ransom money
had been turning up at regular in-
tervals in the Pacific Northwest,
with serial numbers altered.
Crime technicians in the bureau
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It will lay only in an egg case
। that Gibson keeps in the cellar of
tute.
The president’s views were read
at the institute's annual meeting
which also heard Juntice Hughes
An amazed capitol awoke today
to find the red flag of communism
flying over the huge marble temple
of the supreme court of the United
States.
made in the record elapsed time of
56 hours, 30 minutes—a saving of
24 and a half hours compared with
the former time.
his eoat. "I didn’t know I was on
a dead end street until it was too
late."
the leadershiy i of Rep.
, N. Y.), about 50 house
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statement of their position:
“1—We believe in adequate ap-
propriations for the relief at the
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LANDON WINS
SOUTH DAKOTA
BY 972 VOTES
New*
be
Woman Would Pay
Water Bill*, But
IMPROVED CRIMINAL
LAW IS ADVOCATED
WASHINGTON, May 7 (AP).
Improvement of criminal law was
called essential to "a modern ad- i
ministration of justice" in a mes- :
The area of Cooke county
is 902 square miles.
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ELATED BY LOVE, SUITOR
DRIVES CAR INTO CREEK
: a lengthy illness.
In a brief service conducted by
the Rev. Fr. William Blakeslee the
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FOUR SENTENCED
IN SWINDLING CASE
are due to failure t provide an
adequate number of judges to at- l
- tend to the work of the courts.”,
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Gainesville and Vicinity — To-
nignt and Friday, cloudy, cooler
tonight
Today noon. 78; low last night,
G2; hign yesterday. 89; for year,
high, 95; low, 8.
WWW
Aj $2,364,299,712 deficiency appro-
priation bill carrying $1,425,000,-
000 for relief went to the house
radio his house for storing freshly gath-
sus- , ered eggs. If the door is closed
SEEKS LIBERTY
IN MURDER CASE
delayed departure from Friedrich- rpaiinryet pnet tne Du"
sharen last night at 9:30 p. m. reauof. iden “ of the De-
and 43 > 13.30 n m EST i partment of Justice. announced
ann.6r (3.30 p^m. EST) today the capture of William Ms-
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Companion to the "City of Los An- cago and Deaver next month. The
geles," the Chicago-San Francisco present running time between the
train will also mke the run in 39 > two cities is 27 hours, 45 minutes.
HUBBY’S SLAPS E
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GAINESVILLE
"Main Entrance”
TO
CENTENNIAL
EXPOSITION
1936
material for sewing rooms over
the district.
Zeppelin Sighted LONG HUNTED
1,000 Miles From IN KIDNAPING
English Channel OFTACOMABOY
i I , Part of George Weyerhaue-
next.
Under
Snell (R.,
pended sentence and Samuel J. .the hen cackles until it is opened.
I Lewis' plea of guilty on the indict- 1 _____________________ _
west become effective the
York-Los Angeles run will
ser Ransom Money Is
Found on Criminal
dent of Maine, had confessed to
the slaying of Maty Proulx, 7, of
By EARL AYKROID
(Associated Press Staff Writeri
CHICAGO, May 7 (AP). —
Railroads, whittling at time, plan
to narrow the continent by more
than a full day soon.
3332*
(In thin spaee. The Register
will publinh Sally, one tnet
a beat Galnesville end Coeke
eount y. It la suggested that
renders elip three Sally facta
aaS nave them far future ref-
erenee. Thia meries la fm-
tended to better arqunint lo-
cal eitikenm with their heme
town and ew.fr Mthat they
may be belter qunhried fa aa-
awer euentions of Centenninl
eelehration v imi t era this year)
nd courage,” Rev. Blakes-
the sea.
Whether the seizure was cona-
ered permanent was not immedi-
America, held up the start for
more than an hour to await the
evening cool and the arrival of a
party propriation bill. 1 3CC -.i, --- -j -_____•
Senate acceptance of differences j Rocsevelt for continuing work
with the House sent the legisla-
l tion to President Roosevelt.
A reduction of 11 hours, 45 min-
-Another fast train scheduled to utes.will be made by the Burling-
make its appearance next month ton and the Northwestern when
is the Northwestern-Union Pa- both roads inaugurate 16-hour
cific’s “City of San Francisco ” streamliner service between Chi-
intelligence to understand public _________
i questions and the courage to sup- • him with slaying his wife and her
port them. Texas has lost an out- ; daughter six years ago.
standing citizen and the church a[ Bond in each case was set at
In a simultaneous raid on an-;
other apartment, federal agents j
apprehended Sam Cokar, described
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, The Weather
COMPLETE ACTION
ON MILITARY BILL
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the announcement upon his return
plane carrying mails from Frank-1 from Cleveland. Where he directed
fort. । the capture of Harry Campbell,
The veteran commander said his aide to Alvin Karpis, public enemy
desire to obtain the latest reports j No. 1, wanted in connection with
on North Atlantic weather condi-1 the Edward Bremer kidnaping
within six months Other counts
against him were dismissed.
Alfred Lightblau was given a
one-year suspended sentence and
was ordered to pay a $250 fine
within six months on the conspir-
acy charge.
j eras court here. Cases of eight tiai nomination
count indictment which charged
Home Town
guard, picked men assigned to
protect the dignity of the nation's
highest tribunal.
Frantically the guard and a big
detachment of metropolitan police
on air’—I felt happy.”
Charles explained, wringing out
NARROW MARGIN BETWEEN
KANSAN AND BORAH IN
BID FOR EIGHT VOTES
BOSTON, May 7 (AP>.—Police
Captain James Sheehan said to-1
day that Harry Asher, 33. of I
Finally a fireman mounted
Friday. Fresh and < occasionally gence 1
strong southerly winds on the lee sail
coast. ! i to stand for his convictions, the
using the malls to defraud.
Monro Manning, reputed
seer, received a five-year
1 Communist
Apparently
The agents rushed Campbell
• shortly after dawn as he and the
girl emerged from the building,
presumably prepared to leave
Toledo
.'“Campbell showed I little resist-
• ance,” Hoover said. He intimated
the fugitive attempte.il to reach a
.45-calibre revolver found on his'
person.
dents of Friedrichshafen cheered, Minory street. between 6th
the Hindenburg skirted Germany's j
western border during the night, i
7th avenues in San Francisco.
of Chicago, asked
Keys Quads Gather
Dolls To Take To
ice were Karl Hoblitzelle, Murrell taken from the Pecos river ir. 1950
Buckner. Martin Crane, E. J. I were identified as those of Mrs
Kiest, W. L. Crawford, Jr., James Garton and her daughter by a for-
Shaw, Harry Seay, Ed Doran. ! mer marriage, Joyce Lynn Rob-
Charles E. Marsh, Dr. L. H. Hub-ierts, 10. Mrs. Garton's mother
bard. Thomas B- Love, Henry, made .the identifications by cloth-
bodies of a woman and child
JOLIET, Ill. (AP). — Charles
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ne.
“She said ‘don't force me, to go,
! to New York. I don't want to go!
The next slash will come with
the scheduled inauguration of the
Santa Fe's 39 hour, 45 minute
emblem struck consternation into
the ranks of the supreme court
fire in which one man lost his life
destroyed two large buildings,
causing a loss estimated at $500,-
000 here early today.
Austin Williams, hoseman from
Central fire station, was killed —
crushed beneath tons of brick as
a wall crumbled.
The Amarillo Sash and Door
' company was the first building to
go up in flames.
The fire, the largest in Amar-
illo in several years, spread north
in the block, claiming a relief sup-
ply station for this district and the
Bishop warehouse.
Much turpentine was stored in
the sash and door plnt. Firemen
believed the turpentine exploded
In the huge building also were
several carloads of dry lumber.
In the Bishop warehouse were
many drums of motor oil, several
motor cars, and a general line of
merchandise storage.
In the supply station from
which both food and clothing were
distributed to the 20 north coun-
ties of the Panhandle, there were
Must See Bookie*
DALLAs, May 7 (AP). —
The bookies got to her first.
A Dallas woman owing a
delmquent $36 water NII
formatory and was given five- Parker county, has a white leg-
year suspended concurrent sen- horn hen that believes in direct
fences in other counts of the 14- action.
WHAT PRISON . . .
was built by its inmates? . ■
employs alert dog as prison
guards? . . uses scientific
modern methods to turn
young men from the crooked
path that leads to• Alcatraz?
Read the answers in an ah-
sorbing series by William M.
Pinkerton. Associated Press
staff writer, starting tomor-
row in
Banner Was
Raised in
____ ___ i raignment in connection with the
S " WE May 24, 1935 kidnaping of nine
CRUMBLES SUDDENLY 5200.00 rnsmzwas pal rr
- ‘ 1 the boy's release
AMARILLO, May 7 (AP). —A’ -
han. long sught public enemy and
remaining principal in the $200,-
000 George Weyerhaueser, Jr.,
kidnaping case.
Hoover said Mahan was taken
in San Francisco at noon. He made
। erhaueser ransom money. Hoover
said. serial numbers having been
I altered.
Hoover said Mahan admitted
I identity but did not confess his
I part in the Weyerhaueser kidnap-
| ‘ng
When asked by a reporter if
I Mahan confessed. Hoover said:
loyal son." | $5,000 after a Pecos county gand| the Northwestern-Union Pacific's ing of three and one-half hours
Pallbearers for the service were jury returned the indictments yes- new streamlined "City of Los An-! When the new’ schedules to the
.former Governor Dan Moody. Ed terday. Garton's attorney, Thomas geles.” The Santa Fe train is
Crane. J. C. Clopton, James A. R. Bidgell of Dallas, had indicated scheduled to make its inaugural
~ — x no difficulty was expected in ar- trip westward from Chicago next
--gi-c thi ho. Tuesday. The “City of Los An-
Garton was charged with mrr- geles" will make its first run
‘ ‘ h " "n from Los Angeles eastward on
May 15.
of southern Ethiopia with the cap-
ture of of the important town of
Apparently raised in the night Jijiga, and pressed into service
, a prankster, the fluttering I Haile Selassie S own imperial po-
lite to “mop up? not torn Addis
Ababa.
Plane Lands
ST. PAUL, May 7 (AU).-A!
TWA’plane presumed to tie carry-
ing Harry Campbell, last of the
Karpis mobsters Involved in the
$200,000 Bremer kidnaping landed
at the municipal airport at 11.56
a. m. (central standard time) to-
day. [
ANNEXATION
OF ETHIOPIA
ANTICIPATED
Rail Service Restored
By order of their military com-
mander, troops took over all traf-
fic on the narrow guage line and
restored normal service. Stefni
reported.
The railroad is Ethiopia's only
modern carrier and the only mod-
ern egress from Addis Ababa to
cruised up • the Rhineland and
crossed the Netherlands on the
। writer for the Marsh-Fentress
newspapers. were held today, at- i
tended by high state officials and a telephone call for the captain i
| of the supreme court guard, sum-
! The body was taken to Dallas moning him from his home,
for additional services and burial At the base of the pole was
| at 4 p. m. He died yesterday after I found a copy of the Lampoon Har-
| vard university’s humorous maga-
' zine. It contained an article en-
Sheehan said, however, he did
atelymade known. ony today.inontPlaon .mehapradenaainshee
the.Erench government letit.be stated he "positively" committed
Waskuncron. May 1 .AP,.- wm p^eSa S “ i
cm... i T,. . , . Sheehan said Asher made the
Simultaneously, Italy s armies Ifolowi na statement •’ !
all but-completed the subjugation 1
----- 1 -- 5 "I met a little girl in Water-
ville and I asked her if she would
like to go to New York with me.
I said ‘would you like to go to
New York and meet my folks. I'd
like company on the road.’
lofty extension ladder. Swaying-
precariously, he touched the flag
with a gasoline torch tied to the
end of a long pole. The emblem
caught fire and was destroyed.
The government began a wide
hunt for the prankster who had
raised the banner bearing the
hammer and sickle. Authorities
suspected he might hail from Har-
i vard university.
Brooklyn. N. Y., a
American woman Found
WASHINGTON, May 7 (AP).
Cornelius van Engert, minister to
Ethiopia, notified the state depart-
struggled for an hour and a half ment today he had located Eleanor
to get the flaming emblem down, I Meade, ) ew York woman jour-
but without success. I nalist, who had been unaccounted
for among Americans in Addis
burg, opening a projected series of I route’ to the ocean.
regular voyages, ' that a record, The great ship was bathed in
[ trip might be made. The Zeppelin (Continued On Page Eight)
WEATHERFORD. Tex (APi.
W. M. Gibson, a farmer in
. out. His car was nearly sub-
i two-h o u r ‘merged.
a ii . after which “When I left her I was driv-
Snell read to newspapermen this
- ilm RRegister
Federal men surrounded the
Toledo apartment building during
tp night. Hoover said.
Some were posted inside the
"His newspaper work
(Copyright, 1936, by the Asso-
ciated Press)
NEW YORK, May 7 (AP). —
The S. S. Champlain reported to-
day that it had sighted the Hin-
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sage from President Roosevelt to- | I----
day to the American Law Insti- ! BODY TAKEN TO DALLAS FOR
RI RIAL; WAS DEAN OF
Mahan's person when federal
! agents took him into custody on
DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION
, Asher had been taken into cus- MEAS URE,PROVIDES FOR
pc its today said a §erious dispute tody and was held as a vagrant’ , 82,364,229712 F NDS,
had broken out between Italy and when, Sheehai said, he made the I --OST MAJOR PG OONE ..
th? French company controlling , confession, j • ...... i - ...
th? Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad!
over the transportation of troops;
-and war materials.
anywhere.’ I said be a good girl . . ------- .....1 . , ,, ~
anntcamkemettome.she said no I ACT Ap MA AR
"We walked up to some bushes Mnl UUI-VIHleIl
I put my arms around her.” n.., , « „c,
eashsmtaatonebwhensheesalaa. MONEY BILLS IS •
that I took an iron bar out of! Wu,mu.
my pocket and hit her twice on I HHIHW 4 5«H
the head. Then I took to the road.1 DI UILI IIUiI
I did, “not abuse her. I went to '
r___ -- ! Auburn and Augusta and then to
DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland.. Boston."
May 7 (AP),— Unconfirmed re-
Dr. Hugo Eckener, commanding
his third Zeppelin on a venture
across the Atlantic to North
agency, a fund designed to keep
• the authorized strength of the
• corps up to 350,000 and provide
[ an average of 2,066 camps in ’
; the • nine months’ period until
March 31. 1937.
office here, had been unable to
positively identify the altered
notes. Hoover said.
GatineshiWle
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said, was a 19-year old girl who * ? | - I ’r ■
claimed to be Campbell's wife. j it l d Wh
2" Railroads Whittling Time, Soon To
........ .........! Narrow Continent By More Than Day ।
Decree Expected To Be
Issued Today In Rome
By Grand Council
pated.
Hoover did not disclose
source of Information which
to Campbell’s apprehension.
Federal men denied that John
Brock, of Tulsa, Okla., in jail here
charged with participating in a
$46,000 Garrettsville, p., mail train
robbery, for which Karpis and
Campbell were warned, provided
the “tip ”
Building Surrounded
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HARRY ASHER CLAIMS HE1
KILLED SEVEN YEAR OLD '
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These sisters looked so much alike William Carlson couldn’t tell
them apart, but he always managed to strike his wife, June, (center)
she testified before getting a divorce in Chicago. Her sisters, twins,
Rose Wemstrom (left), and Marjorie, told of the family fights. (Asso-
ciated Press Photo)
by Hoover as a minor figure in
the decimated Karpis gang.
Hoover disclosed that he flew
to Toledo from Washington last
night and directed Campbell’s
capture.
The G-men’s chief also led in
the capture of Karpis. He declined
to say how many agents partici-
----— "Super Chief” trip between Chi-
FORT STOCKTON, Tex., May 7 cago and Los Angeles- a reduc-
(APt. — Wilbur Garton, Corpus; tion of 21 hours and 45 minutes,
Christi wholesale liquor dealer which will tie in with the three J •p
sought liberty on bond today in and a half hour reduction put into' York Central's "20th ventuny , - ( - .
two murder indictments charging effect last month by the eastern • and the Pennsylvania's “Broad- for next fiscal year, Republicans
*: i"h _• 3 *i । her roads. . way Limited" were recently re- raised a concerted demand that.
. Matching the speed of the Die- duced on the Chicago-New York 1 WPA be dismantled and replaced
Bond in each case was set at sel powered "Super Chief' will be run to 16 hours. 30 minutes, a sav-. with a system of federal grants to.
! $5,000 after a Pecos county grand I the Northwestern-Union Pacific's ing of three and one-half hours ! states.
* ...... -- - - . . | ; Administration leader*, however, ’ Singer
expressedconfidence gthat the LOuise Blossom of Joliet to marry
fund, contained jna deficiency bill him. She said
ome 32,000,000000 woud starting home, drove right through
pass tne house this week or early .a dead end street into Spring
Creek. . »
--------- big measure to be cleared before
hours, 45 minutes, a reduction of adjournment were $458,831,860 for
21 hours, the social security program; $65,-
The pioneer 39 hours, 45 minute 550,000 for public bull lings, and
train to the Pacific Northwest, the $39,900,000 for the Tennessee Val-
Northwestern’s “City of Port- ley Authority.
land", will observe its first anni- Administration leaders express- ment’s conspiracy count resulted ।
versarv next month. Traveling - •
ever a. former 59 hbur, 45 minute would pass ^e house
run, the streamliner has success-
The incident provided much ---- :
merriment to a crowd of early COLVIN NOMINATED
morning passersby, who gathered] Rv MDV _ Drv
at the scene offering advice and! D- int UKI rAKI I Congressional action wan complet-
philosophic comment. { i ed today on the record peace time ky the appropriations committee
But it brought nothing but dis-| NIAGARA FALLS, May 7 $572,446,844 war department ap-1 With $75,000,000 of the $1,500,000,-
may to the guard, who at the(AP) The Prohibition party propriation bill. ‛ 1000 originally asked by President • -
crack of dawn had discovered the nominated Dr. D. Leigh Colvin of Senat acceptance of differences । Roc sevelt for continuing work re- Eour of 12.persons.chareed in con-
revolutionary flag waving atop an : NW York City for president to-
80-foot staff, directly in front of day-
the building, which is on Capitol —_L _
• Hill.
carloads of food and much raw complete but unofficial returns
ing and, rings.
• tas-- •
public service rendered by Col.
Fitzgerald was emphasized.
Independent In Views
speeches, that additjonal federal
judges be provided lo speed the
disposition of litigation.
Justice Hughes said that “where
delays are the most serious, they
CLEVELAND, May 7 (AP).—
Harry Campbell, 36 limping pal
of Alvin Karpis, erstwhile “public
enemy No. 1,” and two others fell
into a G-men’s trap at Toledo, O..
at dawn todav and was captured
Hke his eanoland leader a week
ago in New Orleans, without the
firing of a shot.
The capture was personally
made bv J. Edgar Hoover, and a
squad of bureau of investigation
agents.
Announcement of the capture
was made by Hoover here, who
flew to Cleveland after the trio
had been apprehended.
Hoover said Campbell already
was on his way to St. Paul by
plane to face kidnaping charges
in the Edward Bremer abduction
“ case.
“ Taken with Campbell,. Hooveri
ABOARD THE ZEPPELIN
HINDENBURG, En Route to
America, May 7.—Germany's gi-
gantic new airship, The Hinden-
burg, forged steadily westward
I through clear skies today, headed
across the North Atlantic on its
first flight to the United States.
The Zeppelin, bearing 107 per-
sons, 3,300 pounds of freight and
20 sacks of mail, headed ' on a
course over the English Channel,
southwest to the Azores and then
west to Lakehurst, N. J. i
So favorable were conditions for
this pioneer flight of the Hinden-
1
nad. '
East Texas -cioudy. probably
local thundershowers late tonight
and Friday; cooler in northwest
and north-central portions tonight ’
recommend in one of his rare
SICUX FALLS, S D.. May 7
(AP>. — Governor Alf Landon of
Kansas won South Dakota’s eignt
Republican preference delegates in
Tuesday’s primary by fewer than
1,000 votes on the face of nearly
i wesm-eamAE u J . “85- week or early next week,
fully maintained the schedule be- . 1 „ f .
tween Chicago and Portland, Ore., Kepublican Demande
since last June 8. I As leaders convened.
Operating schedules of the New debate President Roosevelt’s re-
t Central’s -20th Century”, quest for $1,500,000,000
cd confidence the bill as reported in a one-year suspended sentence
late this and an order to pay a $730 fine.
tabulated today.
Returns gave the Landon-
pledged slate which was listed as
uninstructed on the ballot .42.702.
compared with 41,729 for Senator
William E. Borah, a majority of
973 for the Kansan.
Although not legally bound* to
vote for Landen at the Cleveland
aled the water depart-
ment:
“I guess you think I’ll never
get down to pay that bill,
but don’t cut off the water be-
cause I’ll Im* down this aft-
ernoon.
• “I can’t come now because
I have to get to my bookie’s
for the first race.”
Just before Joe Murray
• closed the water department
office yesterday afternoon,
the telephone rang again.
“I can’t pay but half of the
bil because I lost* $90 today,”
the same woman told him.
Murray gave her one more
day to pay before cutting off
her water. ' |
Bv The Associated Press
A Saturday night decree of to-
tal annexation for conquered Ethi-
opia was predited by well inform-
ed sources in Rome today a fait
accompli for presentation to Mon-
day’s League of Nations council
meeting at Geneva.
These sources said the Grand
Fascist council and the Italian
Cabinet, meeting within a half
Hour on Saturday night, would ef-
fect tne decree law. annexing all
of Haile Selassie’s beaten empire.
' Thi accomplished feat, the Ita-
Ilans said, would permit of no
। league discussion.
: Today, Stefani (Italian) news
agency reported, the Fascist army I
of occupation took complete:
charge of the French-owned Ad-
dis Ababa- Djibouti railroad in
Ethiopia, from the Negus' former
capital to the boundary of French
Somaliland.
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WACO, May 7 (AP-The
Keys quadruplets assembled
an assortment of dolls today
before leaving for Canada to
call on another set of famous
sisters—the Dionne quintu-
plets.
in addition to gifts, they
will present the Dionne girls
with invitations to attend the
Texas Centennial Exposition
starting next month at Dallas
The Keys—Mona, Mary,
Leota and Roberta—will be
accompanied by Pat M. Neff,
president of Baylor Univer-
sity, where the sisters are stu-
dents. .
tude. The position indicated, the
Hindenburg to be about 1,000
miles out from the English chan-
nel.
Mile, Reno (above), for years
prominent as an Iowa farm leader,
died at Excelsior Springs, Mo,
from a heart attack. (Associated
Press Photo)
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