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IN COOKE COUNTY
SERVING 25,000 PERSONS
VOLUME XLVII
NUMBER 273
(Eight Pages)
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 14, 1937
HOUSE TO TACKLE LIQUOR SALE BY DRINK
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firearms.
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Interstate
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In Spain, the insurgents pressed
utilities
natural
Both sought means of bettering
LUFKIN, Oct. 14 (API.
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bor, or in industry:
Defends Howard
Slain By Motorist
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The Weather
Melba Moore (above), 16, was
northwest portion tonight;
Fri-
Police said ‘Johnson would
President Roosevelt, on March
north-central, slightly warmer in
north and west portions.
in the ditch. One
was
coast.
hearing in county court.
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Jam Over Anti-
Lynching Bill Is
Seen in Congress
Third Time in Nine Years Congress
Meets in Extra Session on Farm Woes
Year Old Girl Dies
In Auto Accident.
Says Col. Green
Spent $500,000
On His Rail Line
Chinese Carry Parasols
When They Go to Battle
Auto Salesman Shot to
Death at Residence
provision which permitted
argument, was that taxing
Woodrow Trotti, negro, was held
in jail here today for safekeeping
over
ume.
The
floor
It was the first tax bill approved
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! the independent convention today.
President Charles F. Roeser, Ft.
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to Committee
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western nations commit massed murder. The
Chinese have gone modern in many respects, but
they have some odd ideas about fighting. Look:
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Evangelist Is
Charged in the
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overruled strenuous objections by
lawmakers who urged him to sus-
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Admits Bill to the House on
Ruling of Attorney Gen-
eral’s Department
the 27-national committee fails to
agree on a method of getting for-
eign troops out of Spain, of scrap-
ping the neutrality pact and re-
suming open munitions shipments
to government Spain.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (AP).
When congress meets next month,
it will be the third time in less
than nine years that it has been
called into extra session to legis-
late on the “farm problem."
President Hoover, redeeming a
campaign pledge called an extra
of the compact commission called
the representatives of six signa-
tory states and 10 observers from
non-signatory states into session
in the huge coliseum. Across town
in a hotel, the independent oil men
met.
An address by Jesse H. Jones.
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Group and interstate all state welfare agencies was not
Compact Body in Session within the governor s call
Europe’s IT’S A FUNNY WAR:
Tension
Lessens
Oklahoma—Cloudy. rain in ex-
treme west portion, not quite so
cold tonight, Friday cloudy, rain
in west portion, somewhat warm
er.
(By The. Associated Press)
France lessened European ten-
A slon to some extent today by agree-
ing that the Spanish civil war vol-
. unteer question be submitted to the
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His Own Recommenda-
tions to Help Agriculture
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after Trotti was arrested. Threats
of lynching were heard. Officers
rushed him here in an automobile.
Cook said the negro gained pos-
session of his pistol in a scuffle
after the sheriff had arrested him
as a suspect in a liquor case. Trotti
was re-arrested three hours later.
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and simplification of the present
soil conservation program.
2. Obtaining for farmers, a fair
division of the national income, to
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Smith, of St. Louis, told the bank- the oil business the compact com- about 25 per cent, swept through
ers “we should stabilize and refine mission through conservation and the house, 119 to 23, last night.
Former Agent for Company
Testifies Stubborn-
ness, Initiative Costly
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apparently was
of the girl’s companions
9 wounded. The slayer escaped.
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- Development of Program
This new program developed
from Italy’s recent refusal to par-
ticipate in a triple-nation (France-
Britain-Italy ) meeting to discuss
withdrawal of foreign volunteers
€ from Spain. *
increase the purchasing power of
farmers. The agricultural adjust-
ment act. later invalidated by the
Supreme Court, was enacted.
At its session next month, con-
gress will tackle again the prob-
lem of putting agriculture on a
permanently profitable basis.
The principal approach suggest-1
ed to reach that goal is the “ever-
normal granary” fostered by Sec-
day, cloudy, rain in northwest and It lasted only a few years. retary Wallace.”
... l.i President Roosevelt, on March Most of the debate is expected
Fresh 9, 1933, called congress together to center on the methods of ob-
their requests not to allow
north and northeast winds on the to consider much emergency leg- taining individual compliance with
islation, including an attempt to crop control
Calvert
Upholds
Measure
by G>v. James V. Allred.
The proposal would permit sale
t of wl isky, gin or other spiritous
Woodul that a
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East Texas — Cloudy, rtain in session April 15, 1929, to consider
northwest,’ not quite so cold in farm relief measures. Creation of
— the federal farm board resulted.
The new president spoke after
Leonard P. Ayres, internationally-
known economist, declared there
was at present no set of conditions
which could result in a credit col-
lapse like that of the great de-
pression.
association convention
and the
but not discard our present bank- i the independent association
ing system. . . . There must be no through business channels and sug-
monopoly none in banking, in la- 'gested legislation.
Chairman Ernest O. Thompson ’
bullets by the Japanese army.
The shell explosiins in the In-
ternational Settlement were the
latest of the incidents in this con-
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In Geneva, China lodged a strong
protest with the League of Na-
4 tions agaihst alleged use of
asphyxiating gas and dum-dum ;
i By The AP Feature Service
QLOODY though it is, the Sino-Japanese war has
■ D its funny side for anyone used only to the way
proval o the local committee—“a
proper division between landown-
ers and tenants should be stipu-
lated."
7. The law should be adminis-
the measure, boosting. taxes on
SPANIARDS EXECUTED
PERPIGNAN, France, Oct. 14
(AP). Summary execution of 10
Spaniards who attempted to lead
a party of 300 refugees across the
border into the republic of An-
dorra’’ was reported today from
Andorra.
their attacks on the Asturian and 47 year old interdenominational
consideration of a definite plan >
within six or ten days. France and "
Britain will maintain a common a
• serves the privilege,'in the event' BRo ADswoRDS as old as China pt MMIES like these held the fort for Chinese troops at Shanghai Re
- “ have been deadly weapons in close treating soldiers put the papier mache figures in angha K
fi^g side by side with modern so reathat the Sa^ mova
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after he was arrested yesterday in
connection with the shooting of J
Sheriff Henry M. Cook of Nacog-W. Adams, newly-elected -(,.4.., II.I.
doches. The condition of Cook, dent of the American Bankers As- inUUSUIVs1EClC
wounded in the leg with his own’ sociation. today demanded a bal-j • J
These, he said, must be: .
“First a substantial decrease in
government expenditures.
“Second, an increase in taxes
more equitably distributed over a
much broader base.”
year-old girl was dead today and
five other persons had serious in-
juries as the result of an automo-
bile collision near here yesterday.
DALLAS, Oct. 14 (AP).—The
stubbornness and initiative of the
late Col. E. H. R. Green cost him
$500,000 on one occasion, testi-
mony had shown today in a hear-
ing over a four-state claim to tax
the Green estate of approximately
$44,000,000.
F. B. McKay, formerly general
freight and passenger agent of
Green’s Texas Midland Railroad,
testified that the Cotton Belt rail-
road, over whose tracks the Texas-
Midland operated between Green-
ville and Commerce, raised its
freight rate from 75 cents to $1.50,
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vice president of the Cleveland,
Ohio, Trust Company, declared
the prospects for profits in the
now’ the problems are those of ad- cherished depletion clause in the
justing policies and operations to income tax law’ a clause which
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France - Agrees Civil War
La., died in a hospital a few hours
after the crash. The parents were
in a hospital here also. G. H.
Starks, Dirk Luther and Harry
Neil, all of Montgomery, Ala., oc-
cupants of the other machine, were
suffering with head wounds and
lacerations.
The automobiles collided on a
narrow highway during a rain.
LUFKIN. Oct. 14 (AP). —
France and ’Britain were under-' --
stood to be uneasy over the pos- Estranged Wife and
sibilities of a diplomatic lash be-
sumer agnainst scarcity and the
seller against runious prices.
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men, because he “had seen him
(Rue) with his tarm around her.”
Frank Utterback, a collector for
a grocery company, said he was
at the Johnson home when the
small, gray-haired “interdenomina-
tional" preacher arrived, and heard
him say something to Rue about
“Going with my wife." He said he
left the house, and as he entered
his automobile, he heard two
shots.
Rue's body was found on- the
threshold of the front door. He
had been shot through the neck.
Mrs. Johnson, shot in the chest,
was found dead in the bedroom of
the three-room house.
Johnson surrendered at police
headquarters a short time later,
tossing a gun on Sergeant Sher-
row’s desk. ’ ,
Sherrow said he understood
Johnson had returned this week
from Ashland, Ky., where he had
Aragon fronts, and continued to preacher, who, Capt. Austin Price
bombard Madrid, in an effort to, and Detective Joe Harrigan of the
bring the war to a close with the . Lexington police department, said
least possible delay. j signed a confession relating the
Sir Geoffrey Clark, president of killing of his estranged wife and
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'Johnson’s home, declared:
' “I believe the Lord will forgive
, me.”
Johnson was quoted by Price
and Harrigan as saying he believ-
ed he was justified “because the
unwritten Paw gives a man the I
right to protect his home.”
The preacher was said by Price
arid Harrigan, to have signed a
confession admitting the shooting
to death of his wife, 42, and Wil-
liam Rue, 37, automobile sales
The child, daughter of Mr. and No Credit collapse Seen
Mrs. Byron Thigpen of Shreveport,
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conscious.”
Taking office at the close of the
63rd annual convention of the as-'
sociation, Adams, a Salt Lake,
City banker, proposed two steps
toward balancing the budget
BLAST KILLS SEVEN
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany,
Oct. 14 (AP).—A fire damp ex-
plosion in the Nordstern coal mine I
killed seven workers today and in-
jured two.
By OLEN W. CLEMENTS I A general tax bill estimated to
HOUSTON, Oct. 14 (AP). — yield approximately $5,000,000 an
Separately, but with the same pur- nually in new revenue headed for
pose, the Independent Petroleum the hazards of senate considera-
■ J tion today after passing the house
by overwhelming majority.
Climaxing long hours of debate.
- . Worth, attacked in a report to the
• Ayres said the emergency pe- delegates treasury department
riod in banking lies in the past and : threats to disallow the oil men's
U- S. Sailor Wounded
Ann American sailor aboard the
United States flagship Augusta 1
was wounded slightly by Japanese
- shrapnel during the* Shanghai en-
gagement. Aerial bombs also en-
• dangered United States marines,
causing them to take cover behind
sandbagged barricades. One ma-
consi deration because the bill
would reestablish the "open sa-
and had not been su:mitted
stopped to aid the man, whose car arraigned today in police court as
*•— *t-h A-e a preliminary step, and later
would be given a preliminary
non-intervention committee, as de- J
manded by Italy, but dn the other 11
♦ side of the world the Sino-Japa-
e nese conflict remained as menac-
ing as ver. j
W. R. Trotter, of Indianapolis,
Typographical Inion delegate,
earnestly protests at Denver the
refusal of the American Federation
of Labor convention to seat his
union chief, Charles P. Howard, as
a delegate.
wage-hour or farm legislation but
would throw a serious obstacle in
the way of the president’s three
other proposals.
These are government reorgani-
' zation, creation of regional plan-
ning authorities modeled after the
TV A, and strengthening of the
anti-trust laws.
Stirs Hostility .
No legislation in recent years
has stirred such determined group
hostility as the anti-lynching bill.
It passed the house this year, but
never has even reached the stage
" of formal debate in the senate be-
cause of filibusters.
When the farm bill is out of the
way, however, the anti-lynching
bill can be displaced only by a ma-
jority vote. In view of support
for the measure, senate leaders
, forecast its ultimate passage.
Whether southern senators will
try seriously to delay a vote in view
of the bill’s preferred legislative
status remains to be seen. Even
the most optimistic administration
' chieftains held out little hope for
quick action. *
Senate Agreed Formally to
Make It Special Order of
Business on Floor
Monarch butterflies migrate
like birds, flying thousands of
miles from tas far north as Alaska.
flict which have menaced civilians, t
• foreign and native, and aggravated I
the difficulties of obtaining a |
peaceable settlement. I
the cri
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> tween Soviet Russia, supporter of
the Spanish government and Italy,
supporter of the Spanish insur-1
r e fairly
TAYLOR, Texas,] Oct. 14 (AP).
The idea of giving the American
farmers a bounty to balance the
affects of a high tariff goes back
as far ns Alexander Hamilton,
Rep. Marvin Jones of Amarillo
said today in advancing tentative
points for federal farm legislation.
The chairman of the House ag-
riculture committee spoke at a
farm meeting called by the East
Texas Chamber of Commerce for
exhaustive discussion of what the
propcsed federal farm law should
include.
Jones' suggestions for a new
farm program he said inclqde:
1. Continuation. | improvement
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (AP).
Administration strategists, seek-
ing swift approval of a five-point
program at the special session of
congress next month, faced the
; possibility today of a prolonged
| jam over the anti-lynching bill.
The senate, in order to get out
I of a parliamentary tangle in Au-
gust, agreed formally to make the
anti-lynching measure a special
order of business immediately after
| a vote on farm legislation at 'the
next session.
This agreement, parliamenta-
rians said, was so worded that it
holds for the special session called
by President Roosevelt.
Leaders expressed the belief the
" j agreement would not endanger
EcKsHAWS are picturesque in peace time. To fighting Chinese they PARASOLS are essential to the which "he is entitled as a matter
are vital. Not well equipped with modern ambulances, they havepresseg Chinese soldier. He may carry a of right.”
fHese aneient , .. . modern rifle but his bumbershoot 3. Provision for an ever normal
these ancient vehicles into service for the wounded. goes along. I granary storage or warehouse
1 program with adjustment or con-
. Tm".........-- — trol provisions to assure the con-
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killed near Mishawaka, Ind., by a Johnson said he and his wife
middle-aged motorist who shot had been separated about a year,
when the girl and her two escorts Police said Johnson would be
' liquors in small quantities not
33 per cepft alcohol by vol-
A disperser’s permit could
Ayres, chairman of the A B. A Fhnncencorporationeanastaustisn
economic policy commission and sions by other speakers on pollu-
tion waste disposal and unneces-
sary and excessive drilling engaged
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banking business
bright.”
l Negro Arrested hi .Conscious of Deficit
Sheriff s Shooting — \ .-------------
Demands a Balanced Two Meetings to
Budget for Government j R,++or AL (;
BOSTON, Oct. 14 (AP).—Orval i UiV •n
quarterly meeting of the Interstate
Oil Compact commission got down 1
to business today.
. ; 4. Encouragement of search for
4 new uses and new markets.
5. Graduated reduction in pay-
L . ment to large producers so as to
h.l encourage individual fanning.
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pistol, was not consiered serious, anced federal budget and called.
j About 100 men gathered near upon bankers of the nation to
the jail in Nacogdoches shortly make "all of the people deficit
• but I did not shift the responsi-
i bility of decision in this matter to
I the attorney general,” he said.
I "However, the author and oth-
ers obtained an opinion of the at-
torney general that the bill was
; within the governor’s call. I re-
spect the interpretation and I
therefore overrule the objections.”
“I believe the bill has a major
purpose other than taxation. It
i considers the question of an open
; saloon which was the subject of a
called session during the previous
legislature, thus I disagree with
the attorney general."
The senate met briefly and. ad-
journed until Monday after mem-
bers sustained Lt. Governor
i gross proceeds of sales 10 per cent
and a locating the funds to old age
' pensions.
Thel bill contained a local option
j provision.
In overruling a point of order,
Calvert said he was not following
'his own judgment but respecting
... .... . .j lan opinion of the attorney general
Anne Kresge, 5 and 10-cent store heiress, and Marshall Duffield, giving the hor of the bill, R
_ former University of Southern California football star, leave Los An- ° Mre, of , ston
Provision preventing land geles by air for Detroit. They denied it was a trip to win parental con- , . ( th -ame,
owners from receiving the bene- sent for marriage. ‘ . .twastententoth -ram.
fits of the program if thev reduce ; .....-■-------. ■ ■ ------ of the constitution tha presiding
the number of tenants, without ap- - — _ _ officers of the houses of the legis -
Tb E T T 1 A T/E lature should decide these matters
Bankers urged to Make enamprimvconhercongtsnesproan
dure literally," he said. 'There is
I an honest difference of opinion.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER ‘
NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (AP).
Bruce Barton, who wants to
be known as "The Great Re-
pealer," said today if elected
to congress he would “move
to repeal a law a week.”
The advertising executive.
Republican nominee for con- ■
gressman from t h e “silk
stocking” 17th district here*,
said au* afternoon in a law
library convinced him “no
other nation in the world is
so ridden to death by legisla-
tion.
“I discovered that if I read
a hundred laws a day, it '
would take two years of solid
reading to cover them all,” he
said. ,
"Since the Pilgrims landed
on Hlymouth Rock in search
of a free and simple life, 75
congresses have passed 59,282
statutes. The last congress
contributed 11,000, and Presi-
dent Roosevelt last summer
signed 900.”
While the French council of
ministers was approving a plan of
isolating the Spanish war so it
would not cause a general Euro-
pean disaster, giant projectiles
were exploding in the Shanghai
International Settlement, killing
and wounding more than 100 civ-
ilians. i
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WEATHER I
Gainesville and Vicinity - To-
night, cloudy, rain; Friday, cloudy,
rain, warmer.
Today noon. 63; high yesterday,
62; low last night. 47! high for
year. 109; low for year, 16.
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France’s council of ministers ap- W2me
proved a three-point program, 1 2284
drawn up at a preliminary meeting ,68
yesterday, to ease the Spanish F 739
question. The plan in brief:
France agrees to submit the vol-
unteer question to the non-inter- 2
. vention committee but demands | -8
AUSTIN, Oct. 14 (AP).-
Spea ter Robert W. Calvert today
permitted the House of Represen-
tatives to tackle the highly con-
troversial issue of liquor sale by
"T-"-
Barton Says U. S.
Ridden to Death
By Legislation
LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 14
(AP). — The Rev. Miller Johnson.
| tered by local people wherever
! possible.
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