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VOL LVi.
NUMBER 304
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THREATEN TO European Nations INDICT NEGRO
PRESIDENTS DROUTH COMMITTEE STARTS INSPECTION
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TO SAVE MEN
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1 day afternoon when fire swept the
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France with its
comparatively
government re-
nev-
Aug.
20
the Repub- (AP).
An ired prosecutor, who
ranger statue presented by King
LAST PRIMARY ABSENTEES
who
will be present.
* today that the state division of
charities would
termination to
save Spain from
GEORGE NORRIS
Drifting helplessly in
not affect the $500,000
By ROBERT E. GEIGER
HORSES STAGING A
right to state those
added.
Our country has grown to
back in Texas
So, rt least, be-
government’s
EXTENSIVE CAMPAIGN
headed
today on a 300-1
CHICAGO, Aug. 20 (AP). —The
consent of Mrs Hewitt as guard- 1 mile jaunt.
The temperature was near 100
ed.
■feebleminded” and
left
oversexed " They also declared a Kansas yesterday
They traveller:
(Continued on Page Seven)
rival.
r
Accused Leader of Bloody Plot,
Tells of Russian Fascism Plans
conspiracy trial of Zinovieff and 15
By CHARLES P. NUTTER
ciated Press)
commandant by Lieut. Col Werner
Tulsa, Okla.: Sept.
6, Oklahoma
City; Sept. 7, McAlester, Okla.
Russia on the road to Fascism.
Accepting the full guilt for the screamed:
Bogden,
Huge cataracts from each side
The Weather
sary staff because of his expert-
today in a dramatic moment at the at Leningrad.
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VARIANCE SEEN
IN INTEREST IN
SECOND PRIMARY
NEW EXTENSION
TO ANDERSON-
KERR OIL FIELD
cess of their ticket."
John D. Hamilton.
damage
pending
Aug. 20
national
suit Miss
against
when they found he was on vaca-
tion in Wisconsin but sent him a
telegram to "express our appre-
ciation of the standard of public
service which you have set and of
prison,
Stevens
tember
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Coast guardsmen here expressed
doubt the vessel would be found
without prolonged search. because
of strong currents in the area.
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CHARITY WARDS ARE
CENTENNIAL GUESTS
had
was
to-
mother
This suit was filed by.Attorney
R. P. Tyler, a witness in the crim-
inal case, who also protested the
dismissal
in which he said he was "so op-
> timistic about the outcome in No-
vember because the fundamental
issues are becoming clearer daily
in people’s minds "
for president in the
paogn.
ence.
Fuerstmer, the propaganda min-
istry said, had killed himself, "pre-
sumably because of nervous strain
and overwork.”
A spokesman, confronted with
reports the village vice-comman-
dant had committed suicide be-
cause of his demotion from the
lieves Charles E. Baughman, chief
clerk in the state department of
agriculture.
Baughman said there were ap-
CLAIMS DAUGHTER,
DISCLAIMS HER TWIN
STRANGE CREED IS
REVEALED AT TRIAL
Killing of Stenographer in
Chicago Hotel Room Be-
lieved To Be Solved
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Untaxed Fags By
Texas Exchanges
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LABOR CHIEF IS IN
SERIOUS CONDITION
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Colvin of New York, the presiden-
tial nominee, said the candidate
would travel at least 25,000 miles
HEARING OPENS ON
INSURANCE CASE
With the Fascists rebels—Ger-
many. Italy.
Maintaining strict neutrality
England.
Loyalist forces of the socialist
i the idealism which has been your
! guiding star.”
sympathy for the Fascists is Pre- 1
mier Mussolini of Italy who has
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12 MEN DRIFTING
IN HELPLESS BOAT
growing out of the slaying.
His transfer here from prison . ‘heir
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FREE SPEECH PLEA
OF LEGION CHIEF
BERLIN, Aug 20 (API— The
< reich propaganda ministry said to-
day Captain Wolfdant Fuerstmer.
vice-commandant of the Olympic
village, had committed suicide. •
■ can not be run from Washington.”
Assailing what he described as
h ' A
By The Associated Press
Absentee voters in Texas run-
off primary showed a varied in-
terest in the outcome of Satur-
day’s election.
In Dallas and Travis counties
East Texas: Partly cloudy to-
night and Friday. Gentle to mod-
erate southeast and south winds
on the coast.
West Texas: Generally fair to-
night and Friday, except local
thundershowers in extreme west
portion this afternoon or tonight:
slightly warmer in the panhantle
tonight.
mained lined up politically with
the Loyalist government but
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (AP)
heavy seas
Hence the lineup of the Euro- DALLAS AND TRAVIS COUN-
TIES TOTALS FAR BELOW
declared r . • stand all day calmly denied the act
“I went all the way from oppo- cusation and said he was not a
President Roosevelt’s special drouth committee, headed by Rexford Guy Tugwell (in shirtpleeves), shown
on the C. M. Peden farm near Dalhart, Tex., as they examined a feed crop. Others in the group: H. H.
Fennell, regional soil conservator st Amarillo; H. H. Bennett, director soil conservation service; Mor rd
Cooke, chairman of the president’s committee on drouth; Lewis C. Gray, head of the land utilisation
division. Col. F. C. Harrington, chief engineer of the WPA and Col. Richard C. Moore, army engineer.
(Associated Press Photo)
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fer pf $215,000,000 assets from the
old Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
Company of California to the new
company.
George T. Cochran, W H. Davis,
Louglas E. C. Moore and Stanley
M. McClung, directors of the old
DEFY CHIEFS Aligned With And WHO ADMITS HE
TO SAVE MEN Against Loyalists SUEW WOMAN
_ HUSBAND SUSPECTED
OF SLAYING WIFE
or taken prisoner at Avila, north-
„ west of Madrid, in an engagement
Prohibition party laid claim today yesterday, the government report-
to the most traveled candidate i ed.
l Bennett Cerf (above), New York
publisher, was named In the Mary
Aetor child custody suit in Loa
Angeles. Cerf admitted in New
York that he had gone out with the
film actress on several occasions
(Associated Press Photo)
presidential nominee, declared :
that the "business of the country
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (APl.
A battery of attorneys represent-
ing virtually every warring group
went to court today for hearing I
of a show-case order on the trans-
unexpired term ending January 1.
1937, but the McLennan Demo-
cratic county executive committee
must select a nominee for the gen-
eral election.
WEATHER
Gainesville and Vicinity — To-
night and Friday, partly cloudy.
Today noon. 100; low last night
75; high yesterday, 100; for year’
high, 114; low, 8. 3
4.
NEW WATERFALL TO
RIVAL NIAGARA
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Aug 20.
(APLA waterfall higher and
larger than Niagara will be turned !
on September 11 when President
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DROUGHT COMMITTEE PAYS
VISIT TO NEBRASKA HOME
OF STATESMAN
_ .___________ ■ party to a reported conspiracy to
lution and terrorism and actually murder men named to actually
fascism.” ! carry out the assassinations of
Testimony that a 1934 plot to Stalin and others
11 Stalin failed hecauce the sec- According to the testimony.
-------- --6--, ocu retary to Zinovieff committed sui- Bogden was to have killed Stalin
spectacle would last only a few , cide rather than carry out his at the time the dictator’s chief aide
hours, but would be recorded by chieftain s orders was presented Sergei K. Kiroff, was assassinated
news cameras. ! today in a dramatic moment at the at Leningrad.
n
Rescue Workers Would
Force Their Way Into
Gas-Filled Air Shaft
Cross Currents of Civil War 1 Named in Astor Case
Eddies Through Capitals
At Buitraco, it was announced.
I loyalists loosed a heavy artillery
‘Continued On Page Stx»
LONGVIEW, Wash.,
(AP).—Ray Murphy.
GUARD IN FT. WORTH
FORT WORTH, Aug. 20. (AP).
-Two armed guards sat outside
the death cell on the sixth floor
of the Tarrant county jail today.
Within the cell from which he
once tried to escape was O D.
Stevens, alleged leader of a gang
held responsible for the T & P
mail robbery here in February,
1933 and later for the murders of
three men at Handley.
Brought back from the federal
lican national chairman, brought heard a judge dismiss mayhem
an aerial campaign tour to a close conspiracy charges against two
at Sedalia. Mo . w.th an address doctors in the sterilization of Ann i
is awaiting retrial Sep-
14 on a murder charge
Pasg
ube
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without her consent does not con-
stitute mayhem is a gross miscar-
riage of justice," he said.
Heiress in Seclusion
MNas Hewitt. petite heiress of
the estate of Peter Cooper Hewitt,
wealthy inventor, was in seclu-
"I guess you’d Bay they
own creed. I think that
was surrounded with such secrecy I what bound them so close
that only a few knew of his ar- | sether for three years.
SAN FRANCISCO ATTORNEY
CONSIDERS APPEAL FROM
RILING OF THE JUDGE
SAN FRANCISCO,
COMPLIMENT IS
PAID SENATOR
Roosevelt presses a button in
Washington opening 12 giant conspiracy.' alleged to
needle valves at Boulder Dam.
ROCHESTER, Minn., Aug. 20
(AP).—Governor Floyd B Olson,
the nation’s only Farmer-Labor
chief executive, was in ."very seri-
oua” condition today.
This was announced by Dr. Wil-
liam J. Mayo, at whose clinic Gov.
Olson has been undergoing treat-
ment for a chronic stomach ail-
ment. It was the first official
statement that has condition was
serious.
and make about 400 speeches in
35 states before the election.
Dr. Colvin, now on a 10-day tour
of California, began his campaign
June 7. He has been hitting the
trail alone ever since.
The schedule of major appear-
ances for Dr. Colvin, beginning
Sept. 1, includes:
Sept. 1, Phoenix, Ariz.: Sept. 4.
Dallas, Texas; Sept 5. Enid and
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1936 cam-
new Socialistic
for the
. Ing from horse racing taxes To
date, the department has received
$204,258 from this tax.
"In a few years. Texas farmers
government marching on -Teruel
and Granada expressed their de- the away-from-home
ic national committee, in his first
• political broadcast since the con-
ventions, said the Republicans were I
"vainly hoping that enough voters
be frightened to secure the suc-
nominated in the last Democratic
primary without opposition.
Judge Scott was also a member
of the Texas-New Mexico boun-
torrent plunging 180 feet down- .
ward into the bed of the Colorado I . ..... az ue wa, .0. -pp
river. Five thousand cubic feet of sition party power to counter-revo-
water per second will pass *
through the spillways.
John Page, acting commissioner _____________ [-- _
of reclamation, and Ralph Lowry, kill Stalin failed because the sec-
construction engineer, said the
' In Berlin Has Committed Suicide
The spokesman said Fuersther
had been supplanted as village
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (AP)
A strange religious creed that may
Have bound Raymond E. Johnson
and Midi Takaoka bi a romance of
ast and west was disclosed in
Johnson's preliminary hearing to-
day on charges of murdering the
petite Japanese dancer and as-
saulting his asserted rival, Wil-
liam Bachand.
The 25-year-old stage beauty
her throat slashed with a butcher
knife, died on the lawn of her Los
Angeles home Aug 11.
A sister of Johnson, Mrs My
ricn Taylor, told the court:
They were both very religious
although I never saw them go to
church.
dangerously as the committee members
AUSTIN, Texas Aug 20 (AP).
Horses and mules are coming
commander of the American le-
gion, in a speech prepared for de-
livery here today, told the state
legion convention that "the way
to true Americanism is not to be
found by groping through the fog
of blind passion.”
“The fact that some of us may
disagree with the views of others
does not give us any legal or
moral right to interfere with their
COLUMBUS, O. Aug 20 (AP).
Columbus obstetricians indicated
Gainesbille Dailo RRegister
Hewitt has
greatness upon the free exchange
of views among our people.
The American legion is com-
mitted to a program of combat-
ting communism. The same man-
date committed us equally to
combat fascism. Hitlerism or any
other alien ism' which becomes
subversive of our form of govern-
ment. . . .
GOV. ALLRED’S DUTY TO
NAME SUCCESSOR FOR RE-
MAINDER OF TERM
ian in 1934 because Ann was
WACO. Aug. 20 (AP).—Judge
Sam R. Scott of the 19th district
court, died in a hospital here early
today after an illness of several
weeks. He was 73 years old.
The jurist was born in Georgia
and came to Falls county, Texas,
at an early age. In 1893, he was
appointed by Governor James
Hogg to the newly created 54th
DALLAS, Aug. 20 (AP).—The
Centennial Exposition opened its
gates today to more than 4,000
Dallas county charity wards and
promised them tickets to the Har-
lem WPA negro presentation of
"Macbeth.”
Luling, Leon and Grayson coun-
ties were to be special guests dur-
ing the day.
Tomorrow a 17-gun salute will
greet Senator Morris Sheppard
when he visits the Centennial
grounds. He will unveil a Texas
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 20 1936
- ■ ' - ............
Edward E. Blake, national cam-
paign manager for Dr. D. Leich
formers from Midway night spots
driving. All will race in their
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MOBERLY, Mo., Aug. 20 (AP)
Their patience frayed by two days
of fruitless rescue efforts, a grim
company of coal miners today
threatened to defy officials and
force their way down a water-log-
ged, gas-filled airshaft in an at-
tempt to rescue four fellow work-
ers entombed in a collapsed mine
tunnel.
Arnold Griffin, chief state mine
inspector, directing rescue opera-
tions. posted a special guard at
the abandoned air duct to keep
men from entering.
Attempts to reach the impris-
•ned miners through the air shaft
were abandoned yesterday by Ar-
nold, who said the narrow vent
was filled with deadly black
damp
_ have in- “You are responsible
chided the intended assassination death of Bogden (A.
_ ( of Stalin and other high soviet fig- Zinovieff’s secretary.)”
of the canyon waU will j in in a ures, the famous aid Bolshevist Kameneff who had been on the
A message from the disabled
clipper, intercepted by the Radiol
Corporation of America, said: "No
rudder and heavy sea. Captain ad-
vises will be forced to abandon
ship unless aid received. Able to
maintain radio service approxi-
mately three hours longer.
MOSCOW. Aug. 20 (AP). — dAntS, suddenly jumped up and
Gregory Zinovieff. accused maker faced Leon Kameneff. who with
of a b'oody plot against the soviet Zinovieff is accused of leading the
regime of Joseph Stalin, testified conspiracy to overthrow the so- ______
at his trial today the terrorist viet government with the support company. filed notice they would
plot, if successful. would have put of Leon Trotzky, famous exile. | present motions today to set aside
Reingold the original liquidation order made
Their habiliments will be aug-
mented.
Attendance yesterday brought
the admission figures to 3.021,300,
the day’s total being 34,133.
ertheless pressed its plans for a
strict neutrality pact among the
powers.
In England the complexity of
the rebellion found the complexion
a middle-of-the-road policy with
an embargo on arms to the Span-
ish belligerants.
Siding with France was Soviet
Russia, whose press hailed the
struggle of the Spanish Socialists. I
Gommunists and anarchists
against the Fascists.
(By Asscoiated Press!
The cross currents of the bloody
struggle in Spain eddied today
throughout the capitals of Europe.
Germany, whose national social- .
istic regime is sympathetic to the
cause of the Spanish Fascist reb-
els, stomped an iron clad boot into
the picture with seven Nazi war-
ships speeding toward Spain under
forced draft.
In an ultimatum to the Loyal- ’
st Madrid government of liberals,
the government of Adolf Hitleri
said it would hold the Socialists in
Spain directly to account for con-
tinued search of German vessels '
on the high seas, such as that re-
ported to have taken place aboard
the Reich liner Kamerun. I i
ll Duce Sympathetic
Joining the Nazis alignment in
mine's super structure, causing put 200.000 of his warriors into
the vertical main shaft to crum- ( war games and kept Italy's class
ble. of 1914 recruits mobilized.
PROSECUTOR IS pa
I__i Restrains Sale of
. proximately 12,000 well-bred colts S ion, ani Tylersaid she .had no
-worth $1,250,000, ranging Texas { statement to make.
pasture lands today where two I , The young woman, who testi-
and a half years ago there were itied the operation was performed
. scarcely 1.000 They wee bred ‘ without ber. consent, charged in
odc ctil 1 # .w her civil suit she was tricked into
from 296 stallions and jacks of the ,1. s... im « Ii. dan
finest blood strains in the country of EnritnncePlenetatsd P
studs' register an i igh grade j Affidavits of the doctors. intro-
’ stud inciuding Belgian, percher- ‘duced at their trials, said the op- I The committee
onmorgan saddle stallions, leration was performed with the Chadron, Neb., I
were purchased with funds accru- ' 1 - ■
his fist.
Vice Commandant of Olympic Village
pean powers was:
With Madrid Socialist govern-
ments -France, Russia.
560 miles off Guadalupe island on
the Lower California coast, the 12-
man crew of the San Diego tuna
clipper San Joaquin today faced
at least another day's wait for
aid. e
Answering distress calls from
the 120-foot craft last night are
the steamer Surlies, 200 miles
away, and the coast guard cutter,
some 700 miles distant.
talning custody of both girls The |
woman's husband. Mrs. Magruder
said, was willing to let the mother
have one girl, which he contended
was another man’s daughter, but
. refused to surrender the other, of
, which he professed to be the
father.
Leading obstetricians here, de-
clining to be quoted by name, said
that divided paternity was pos-
sible but would be hard to prove.
They said blood tests might indi- i
cate that a man could not have
been the father, but could not es-
tablish identity of the father
CHICAGO, Aug 20 (AP). —
Mrs. Clara Knecht. 32. was found
dead in.her west side apartment
ast.night and detectives held her
husband, Frank, pending an in-
vestigation. p
Sergeant William Grady said
Knecht told him he discovered his
wife drinking in a tavern, brought
her home, struck her several tlmeg
and left her in the living room.
Upon his return shortly afterward,
the sergeant quoted Knecht, he
found her lying dead on the floor.
Gradys aid the woman’s skun ap-
parently had been fractured
“While it is ever true that we
must be vigilant in protecting our ■
country against subversion, by PRO PARTY TO MAKE
whatever name it comes into our
toward 1 midst, it is equally important that
in moments of over-zealousness,
however well-intentioned they
may be, that we do not permit
ourselves to resort to un-Ameri-
canism."
Associated Press Staff Writer
"It would seem a decision that McCOOK, Neb., Aug. 20 (AP);
The president's committee seeking
a long range plan to end drought
damage swung northward today
after paying a compliment to Sen-
ator George Norris. Nebraska Re-
publican.
Chairman Morris L. Cooke and
his associates rang the door bell
at the Norris home here last
night. They were disappointed
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ast,
"gi6A
views," he I
in San
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 20
(AP).—District Judge Hardy
Hollers today granted tempor-
ary restraining orders forbid-
ding exchanges serving regu-
lar army detachments at Dal-
las and Fort Worth from dis-
tributing cigarettes on which
the state tax has not been
paid.
The order was issued on ap-
plication of assistant attorney
general Pat M. Neff, Jr., act-
ing for Comptroller George H.
Sheppard. Hearing on whether
a temporary injunction should
Issue was set for August 31.
The state alleges the ex-
changes were not Instrumen-
talities of the federal govern-
ment were not on government
reservations and cigarettes
sold by them were subject to
taxation.
Action against approxi-
mately 70 Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps exchanges were un-
der consideration. The comp-
troller’s department said taxes
on cigarettes sold through
such exchanges wou’d total
about $250,000 annually.
von Gilsa because the latter out-
, ranked him in the army.
At the same time it was learned; Before the propaganda minis-
another popular figure in theter’s statement, Olympic press
Olympic organization, Gustav headquarters had announced Fuer-
Kuhne, had died suddenly, with the, stmer “dropped dead” yesterday
cause as yet undetermined, “probably from a heart attack the
Kuhne, inspecting chief of the aftermath of overwork.”
North German-Lloyd Steamship) Both Fuerstmer and Kuhne had
lines, had been chosen for an ex- worked hard for the success of the
ecutive post on the village commis- ) Olympics had succeeded to mak-
and ranchers will be selling horses ,
and mules to out-of-state buyers
instead of purchasing from them
as they used to," Baughman said. ;
"We now have 235 caretakers
who keep 296 stallions and jacks
for us over the state Few coun-
ties are without these high grade ’
breeding horses. There are more i
than 2,000 applications for these
animals in our files ”
chief, disclosed • that a Columbus have any child unsexed for any!
woman had asked her help in ob- , reason.
A midget auto race also is
scheduled tomorrow, with per-
and Granada expressed their de- the away-from-home voting fell
termination to save Spain from far short of first primary totals
fascism by the end of ugust » ?n Dallas county the tabulations
Bravery Inereases ' I just before the leadline last night
Bravery of the loyalist trone showed 340, votes, considerably
the government 4 P ' below the July >5 number. Travis
erehsa Venment..1gaid,, was in-county (Austin* reported 357.
Ergned, Yrepor of.acts ofmore than a thousand under the
savag Y, ruelty and pillage al-j first primary's lvote.
legedly committed by the African I AL.., .: .
legionnaires from Morocco Amarillo likewise showed a
Former I slackening interest, the vote be-
tinez Barrio a ier Diegot Mar- i ing 440 or about 60 under the last
soldiers p- ii ’ i dd essing Madrid 3 second primary,’ while Beaumont
soldiers called upon them to "take1 reported 450 ballots.
again the oath we took at the be- n __
gnnog ofnthe ",8 bet-greterrTotetndntYn tWpr*
slaves ” die than live as I mary, 369 compared to 329 in
A S.... . , | July in other sections interest ap-
A government broadcast urged' parently flagged. Longview re-
citizens to disobey orders from , ported 418 absentees to 600 in the
rebel generals calling to service I first primary, Brownsville 181 to
soldiers who served under the last 1 278, Corpus caristi 118 to 168.
five conscriptions. Sherman 96 to 854, Denison eight
“If you cannot do anything to 58.
else”, the government broadcast' —--------------- •
advised citizens of captured MAN UNDER HEAVY *
towns, "flee from the city. Those,
who gave you orders (rebels, I
promised on their word of honor ‘
to defend the republic.
COMEBACK IN TEXAS , „ . , . ,
sterilization of a 19-year-old girl
• Continued on Page Six)
I despite the dismissal of charges
have a difficult | against Dr. Tilton E Tillman and
task straightening out a reported Samuel G Boyd
case of divided paternity of twin i "It is a terrible blow to the
girts, now ten years old. youth of California,” declared
Mrs. Luetta Magruder, division Fourtner. “Now, any parent can
Four men rescue crews working
JUDGE SAM SCOTT
four miners were entombed Tues-
down," Knox called for "fewer
laws and better laws."
On the other side, Chairman
James A - Farley of the Democrat-
-.
h.-.
“epco3G
Wme2
thg thousands of athletes comfort-
able in the model village con-
structed for them and had become
popular among members of the
American and other teams.
The war ministry publishing an
obituary notice of Fuerstmer’s
death, said he “died unexpected-
ly'’ and was mourned by the min-
g g -2. - istry as a "loyal and efficient of-
Post.ocommandant, expressed ficer, a helpful and lovable com-
Pticism- t rade, whose memory we honor.”
I T. Reingold, one of the defen-
PATTEN’S NO. 4 BELL FINDS
GOOD SAND 600 FEET WEST
OF NEAREST PRODUCTION
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An extension of 600 feet to the
! west of the productive area of the
' Anderson-Kerr field, two miles
southeast of Gainesville, was re-
corded when Tom C. Patten, Inc.,
No. 4 Bell, topped a rich sand at
1951 feet Thursday. It is reported
this sand is three feet higher than
in the No. 3 well.
This is the fourth extension In
succession for the field, as a result
of drilling by the Patten Com-
pany. The first three wells on the
Bell tract are reported as prob-
ably the best in the field and are
flowing into storage.
Location for No. 5 has been
staked and drilling will start Im-
mediately. Patten stated
New Looading Rack
The Katy railroad has com-
pleteri grading work and rails are
now being laid on private siding
being constructed for Patten Pipe
Line Company. Drane Tank Com-
pany of Oklahoma is constructing
a 20-car steel loading rack over
which high gravity oil from the
field will be shipped.
Patten Pipe Line Company now
has enough allowable connections
to run their lines to capacity and
should start the pipe lines, gath-
ering system and Shipping within
the next several days. Mr. Patten
indicated.
S ruth Offset Completed
DeGrazier & Vance No. 1 Eliza-
beth Bell fee. a south offset to the
Patten No. 1 Bell, was completed
Thursday for a splendid well. It
is now flowing through tubing to
storage, while their No. 2 which is
466 feet west, is drilling at 1200
ieet.
"regimentation"- and "cracking
Alcatraz Island
Francisco bay.
dary commission. _i
It will be the duty of Gov All- working clothes, except perform-
red tn n-m, " u-, , •A i er who have attracted attention
red to name a successor for the . I N .
15 in their roles of the Diving Venus,
apple dancer and Lady Godiva.
by presiding Judge Douglas L. Ed-
monds last month.
Judge Edmonds appointed Sam-
uel L. Carpenter, state insurance
commissioner, as conservator and
liquidator of the concern. Carpen-!
ter sued Cochran and seven other
former Pacific mutual officials
for $511,651.
Carpenter alleged the defen-
dants were liable to the amount
because of illegal “transfers, gifts,
donations and contributions" in
connection with their operation of
tbe firm's stocks and assets.
Hewitt, considered appealing the !
ruling today and said he would
fight to try the young woman's
mother on the same counts.
Terming the ruling as "bad
precedent.” Assistant District At-
1 torney August Fourtner said he
I would appeal the decision on the
। grounds of error.
He added he will continue ef-
forts to extradite Mrs. Maryon
i Cooper Hewitt from New Jersey,
Defense Jubilant
Defense Attorneys I M. Golden '
and Harry McKenzie, jubilant at I
their victory, said further prose-
cution of the doctors was pre-
eluded unless a higher court ruled
in favor of Fourtner’s threatened
appeal.
Fourtner said the action of Su- ;
perior Judge Raglan Tuttle did
CHICAGO, Auk. 20 (AP).—The
Cook county grand jury was re-
ported today to have voted a true
bill charging Rufo Swain. 27 year
old negro, with murdering Mrs.
Mary Louise Trammell. 24, for-
mer Knoxville, Tenn., stenog-
rapher in 'her South Side hots!
room Saturday night.
Assistant State’s Attorney Mor-
ris Meyers who earlier had an-
nounced he would ask a murder
indictment said wain confessed
the crime.
“They are now attacking the
republic, insulting, arresting and
killing authorities.”
Several refugees arriving from
Granada charged fascist acts of
savagery there. Loyalists from, ad-
vance positions at Huesca could
see several houses within Granada
aflame.
500 ( asuaities
Five hundred rebels were killed
the doctors and her
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. WASHINGTON, Aug 20. (APj.
—Amid a burst of activity among
top flight figures in the major
camps of the presidential cam-
paign. Guv. Alf AI Landon turned
eastward todayfin the Republican
drive to defeat the New Deal.
While President Roosevelt, at
Hyde Park, arranged further
, drought conterences prior to his
swing into the scorched western
farm country on a ten-day tour,
the Kansas governor set out from
his summer ranch at Estes Park.
Colo, on a trip to carry him
through nine states.
Leaders of both major parties
continued to thrust at opponents.
Speaking before the United Re-
tail Merchants Association , last
night at Hagerstown, Md. Col.
’ Frank Knox, Republican vice ।
LANDON OFF ON
FIRST TOUR OF
HIS CAM
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President Arranges More'
Drought Conferences Be-
fore 10-Day Trip
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