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DENTGN, iTEXKS, ALECORD-CHRONIOLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1930
organizations, and having broadcast
Professors Hedren and-Lithberg, of
Codos May Fly Back
the sky.
as those of a polar bear leaves open
of the east and darted to earth,
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making the flight.
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ed them along and they rode the
ocean contest. After taking off from
stalwart mechanics, happy to carry
ed out the three he believed the discovery of the night, during which
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Trophy Awards
to Legion Posts.
Are Announced
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Acclaim Flyers
Easy—because they are so mild and smooth that you can smoke them
all the day through with never a suggestion of throat discomfort.
Colonel Easterwood's bankers and
attorneys said they had no knowl-
edge of the offer of the manra-
turer to pay the fliers to come: to
Dallas They said they had re
no communications from the i
ratives of the commit-
arged yesterday and to-
President Gaston Doumergue sent ment and prepared for their night
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funds investigating committee.
listening radio audiences of two con-
tinents, the fliers were borne swift-
ly to the city behind en esport of
motorcycle police and put to bed in
their suite at a Park Avenue Ho-
tel.
Detective Makes Charges
CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—W C. Dan-
nenberg, a private detective direct-
ing Congresswoman Ruth Hanna
McCormick's “investigation of the
investigators," was recalled to the
yesterday.
R. N. Maxon of the Bemis com-
pany also identified Wilson as a
man who posed under the name of
Dennis and came to Bemis' office.
so. Nova Scotia.
1;55 p. m.—Reached United
States coast at Great Wass Is-
land, Maine.
6:12130 p. meLanded at the
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The body was found after the boy
had been arrested for forging Wet-
ten’ name to $597 check with which
he bought a new car. He had been
employed by the chemist. Four
youthful companions of Thompson,
arrested tn the car with him, were
questioned today.
Acclaimed in France
PARIS, Sept. 3.—All France today
acclaimed the feat of two .of her
(greatest airmen, Dieudonne Coste
and Maurice Bellonte, in effecting
the first non-stop flight across the
Atlantic from Paris to New York.
While the capital still was experi-
encing the fint mad hours of cele-
bration. the government announ-
ced oste would be made ,a com-
mander of the Legion of Honor. I
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rejoiced over his. great flight to New
York, today promised by wireless
telephone that his comrade, Paul
Codos, could fly the Question Mark
back across the ocean again before
bad weather sets in. He told Codos
he had not yet been able to decide
when Codos should come to New
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the second to Honolulu.
Captain Bill Erwin, a Dallas fly-
er, was the only entrant. He had a
plane especially built for the flight
He perished in the attempt. On the
Pacific Coast he joined the Dole
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eastern Standard Time. «
Monday:
4:54 a m.—Left Le Bourget
Field, Paris. T
9:40 a. m — Passed over Ume-
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flight cannot be considered as mak-
ing FranechA’nerican aerial rela-
tions an immediately possibility, but
is a stage. We must have patience."
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ills companions fought their way
across the ice to White Island, where
they perished.
Diary Found
The diary was founr during exam-
ination of Andree's body in the lit-
tle Tromsoe hospital early this mor-
ning. It was the most sensational
To Elect Officers
AUSTIN, Sept. 3—Delegates to
the 13th annual convention of the
Texas Department of the American
Legion settled down today for their
final sessions in which they were to
hear an address by United States
fame shroud of snow and ice that
hid the bodies of the explorers from
the world. •
The day-to-day record of the An-
dree expedition's tramp on foot over
the ice from the point where their
balloon was wrecked to White Is-
land, where its members per'shed, is
contained in one of the two note
books found wrapped in an under-
shirt behind the explorer's back to-
day.
The other note book, which An-
dree lay down upon when dying and
protected with his body even in
death, coniains only- some geog-
raphical observations. These are on
the first pages, and the rest of the
book is blank.
NEW FALL
Dresses
$5.00 and $10.00
Ar-La-Tex-O Store
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REGIS RABBITS
Just received by track. Another large
shtpment due sonn. The rabbit rala-
ers of thia community are buying
Regis Rabbits. You, too. can make
money rnisine rabbits. Come out, see
them and talk it over.
REGIS RABBITRY,
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1313 Dallas Drive ,
Phone 7 P. 0. Box 261
preserved, had been much
probably by animais.
and storms. . a
Master airman to the last, Coste
flashed twice around the field in
the deepening dusk, then banked
sharply and slid Into a three-point
landing. ,
Crowd Greets Flyers
At the moment it seemed an end
to an epic adventure, but later it
was announced they would take off
in their plane tomorrow morning
for Dallas, Texas, and the 835,000
pot of gold that has waited for
three years at the end of the great
circle rainbow connecting the Texas
City and the capital of France. The
prize is that offered by Col. Wil-
liam E. Easterwood for the first Par-
le-Dallas flight, with a stop permit-
bribed by an investigator of the
committee to divulge information.
Wilson has testified he turned the
money over to his employer, W. C.
Dannenberg. The latter offered to
load to France.
Then, they flew nine miles far- •
ther and set their wheels to ebrth
at Curtiss Field. Valley Stream, at
6:13:30 (EBT) last night, behind
them 4,100 miles of ocean and fog
g in the field and he and Bellonte
, climbed wearily from the plane.
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campaign investigating committee.
He was to be asked more concern-
ing the strange woman he charged
had been “planted" in a closet of
Mrs. McCormick's hotel suite; and
more concerning. the charge that
operatives of his agency had been
bribed by investigators in the em-
ploye of the Nye committee, and for
a more detailed account of state-
ments that his wife had been shad-
owed and that she had been the
recipient recently of “weird" tele-
phone messages. - .
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Notice that it’s Camels now — your crowd and elsewhere
Camels are so good to smoke.
Camels^
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vor—they still retain the freshness
cf the vihe. Every can guaranteed.
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vestigation into the conduct of the
offices of Comptroller and Treas-
urer, were re-covered in greater de-
tail. The report was written by W
F. Carter Jr., first assistant State
, auditor
. Law Not Followed
A number of provisions of the
: law which had not been complied
. . with were enumerated. Carter point-
Conoco Ethyl Gas
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Crescent Filling
merely followed the methods of his
predecessors. -
The report recommended that the
working force be reduced to 14.
’ There were, when the_urvey was
made, 33 employee, of whom 17 had
been provided by the budget
it was found that bookeeping was
done largely by hand and the re-
port recommended that machine
methods he installed.
The report was the first of the
reports on departmental organiza-
tion which will be filed on all the
State departments as fas as surveys
are completed.
Mg. Later police reported Thomp-
son admitted forging a check for
8887 with which he bought the au-,
tomobile in Wetters’ name, and two
other checks for smaller amounts.
Thompson also was accused of tak-
ing 8163 from the safe and selling
the strong box to a junk man.
16-Yeur-ola Boy Held
BALTIMORE, Md.. Sept 3 —A 16-
year-old boy. Kennard Thompson,
admitted today, according to police,
that he had known for weeks of the
death of Herbert G. Wetters, a che-
mist. whose body was found last
night in the rear of his small estab-
lshmant in the western section of
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Easy to look at—good to look at—that’s your reaction to charm and
beauty. Easy to smoke—good to smoke — that’s the lure of Camels.
Good because of the natural mildness and fragrance of mellow tobaccos,
with all the delicacy and aroma preserved by scientfic skill in prepara-
tion and blending—good because there’s no over-processing or doctor-
ing—no flatness of taste.
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AUSTIN, Sept. 3 — Reorganization
cf the personnel and methods of
-the State Treasury-was recommend-
ai .rd Tuesday by Moore Lynn, State Au-
rumiitor, in a report of 115 pages filed
with Gregory Hatcher, state Treas-
-urer.
The report found that several pro-
visions of the law had not been com-
plied with; that the methods of
bookkeeping were not modem and
that the treasurer's staff ‘was larg-
er than necessary. The audit did not
deal with State funds but was 11m-
lied to personnel and methods.
> * Many of the facts brought out
in Lynn's survey of all State de-
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Dallas Thursday
V mitted forging Wetters' name to
J checks. Be was arrested Monday
2 when attention of police was at-
tracted to a new coupe he was driv-
Wright Pattmen of Texarkana.
AUSTIN, Sept. ——The Groesbeck their methods.
Post of the American Legion was Lloyd E Bemis, accountant for
awarded the trophy here today for the senate committee, testified that
having the beat and moat active one of Mrs. McCormick's agents had
post in the Texas department. The offered to roll him information
post was awarded the Rufe Scott about himself and his movements
cup and the deuartment award for and tell him how he might forestall
the sixth district. The Post amassed further surveillance because of his
a total of 987.5 points. 1----------u- e—--- ar..
The McAllen Poet was second in
Coote, who had arisen befor 9
o’clock and had a long distance
telphone conversation with his wife
in Parts, announced, after confer-
ring with associates, that he would
take-off on a non-stop flight to
Dallas with Bellonte in the "?" at
Aromirkenhedysanafdkroy Lennin.'
negroes, were charged with theft un-
dw the value of 50 in connection 1
with the loss of otton sacks by
Claude Vaughn." -
lJck Onive, Who had one of the '
■Mat' throwing arms ever seen :
There are 56 commercial air-
three stirring addresses, one by Josh der specify these tomatoes. You will
Lee, head of the Department of like the full pack, the excellent fla-
*. State Treasury
Reorganization
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later which led to a legislative in-tpiogeerxpet 0 onauthow’tdonrs:
loon met disaster and Andree and
BALTIMORE, Sept. 9—Suspicion
aroused after the admission by a
former employe that he had forged
H O. Wetters' name led police to
the discovery of Wetter’s body stuf-
fed in a barrel in his chemist shop
on Frederick Avenue His throat had
been cut and he had been dead
probably about two weeks, police
said. Until the discovery last night,
relatives of Wetter thought he had
been taking a holiday at Atlantic
the question what became of Frank-*
el’s body. - - -
He may have perished with the
wreck of the balloon or on the way
to White Island, or on the island
itself. His book may have been de-
voured by the bears that Dr. Horn
says often ravaged the camp, or it
may still be buried under the snow.
The identification of the bodies
of Andree and Strindberg, brought
back to civilization after being en-
tombed 33 years on White Island,
was made under dramatie circum-
stances.
The body of Strindberg was iden-
tified by his own brother, the sculp-
tor Thore Strindberg of Stockholm.
The dead man's teeth were recog-
nized positively.
So far as Andree is .concerned,
there has never been any real doubt
that it was his body that Dr. Dun-
nar Horn’s Norwegian exploring ex-
pedition brought thck early this
week. Confirmation was hardly nec-
essary, but it was made by the
Swedish professors Hedren and
Lethberg. experts .sent here espe-
cially for the purpose.
Andree Protected Records
Andree was found to have died
guarding to the last the story of his
attempt to reach the. north pole.
Protecting with his body even in
death the two notebooks containing
his precious records. The navigation
log, arid the two note books were
wrapped up in an undershirt and
frozen to his back.
Andree, hav’ng placed these prec-
ious papers at his back, apparently
lay down upon them when he reel-
contestants and was to compete for l_ 2____—- 2 --
the prize offered in that Pacific last , ten feet astride the backs of
Their faces were burned from the
sun and wind and lines of fatigue
were etched in the red skin. They
fumbled clumsily for the rungs of
the ladder with their feet. Their
legs numbed by the day and a half
in the cramped cockpits of the
little plane, they stumbled toward
tne hangar but willing hands help-
10,000 persons, many of whom had
waited for hours at the field, was
grouped along the guarding fences
as the clouds which had erupted
hail and rain but two hours before
cleared away and the half disc of
the moon showed its faint outline in
the American cost toward New
their thanks and thoughts to the] York. So many such flights have
Counter-Attack
on Detectives
Begun By Nye
CHICAQo, Sept I—A counter,
attack upon private detectives em-
ployed by Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick to shadow him was started to-
San Francisco he disappeared Into bo famed a burden.
Whisked through the formalities
Paris to New York, Dieudonne Cos-
te and Maurice Bellonte were ac-
claimed today on two continents.
what Col. Charles A. Lindbergh did,
in the opposite direction three years
from. S,
GL Easterwood also has u ajown land, New York City and civic
$25,000 prize for a one-stop R ime
to Dallas flight.
As the Question Mark came out PARIB,Sept.c3—aptain Dieu-
• " U ms donne Coste, while al Paris today
payment of the prize. He said At is
probable the money was posted in
either Paris or New York. He said
his bank did have authority to pay
the Dallas-to-Rome flight prize
money.
runway of Roosevelt Field, whehce
America’s lone eagle took off on the
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Having .
made the first non-stop night from
Ausi, Sept. 3—A resolu-
ttn calling upon the federal
government to take immediate
s’ops to liquid-te adjusted com-
pensation certificates to relieve
suffering among world war vet-
erans and their families was
adopted at the Texas depart-
ment American Legion conven-
tion today. The resolution was
introduced by Congressman
7 or 8 o'clock (EST) tomorrow
inorning, in the expectations ! 9
reaching Dallas in time to quallii
A9,sheEasterwopdpurse.spprmr a-,
i,Fhe fliers aid. not announce;, *
route they would take to Dallas bul 1
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positive Identification was made of
the bodies of Andree and Nils
Strindberg and the puzzling bones
brought back by Dr. Horn were
found to be those of a polar bear
and not of Knut Frankel, the third
member of the expedition.
For 33 years these diaries and the
log have been buried under the
gone wrong that instinctively Pari-
sians felt something might happen.
When finally, a few minutes af-
ter midnight, there came word of
the sighting the Breguet plane over
Curtas Field tile thousands gath-
ered around every loud Speaker
clapped each other on the back and
shouted, and quieted down only to
tear details of the landing nd New
York’s reception to the two men.
- Parts Celebrates
Newsboys were on the streets in
a few minutes bawling out their ex-
tras. *'
Thousands of Frenchmen gath-
ered in cafes and drank toasts.
Many I Frisians never went to
bed at all, scrambling home at dawn
to make thtlr toilettes before going
to work Radio broadcasts carried
the details of the landing - the
length and breadth of the land.
The deepest joy perhaps was that
of airmen. Louis Bleriot, first to fly
across the English Channel and an
old friend at both the aviators and
Colonel Lindbergh, declared
"Their splendid exploit dan be
considered as one of the greatest
victories of science over nature. The
two pilots awaited a propitious mo-
State officers for 1931 and choose a
convention city for next year
The race for commander of the
Texas department was especially
hot, with Hal Brennan of Laredo
and Dr. W. J. Danforth of Fort
Worth seeking the office. The fight
for selection as the 1831 convention
city also was growing warmer
The three main contenders were
Ell Paso, Corpus Christi and Miner-
al Wells. The convention also was
to elect a national executive com-
mitteeman and delegates and alter-
rate to the 12th national conven-
tion and pass on approximately 100
■ •solutions and several proposed
amendments to the constitution.
Yesterday the delegates heard
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Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream. a flood of humans, Coste stopped
M r- * . his engine while still 100 yards out
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the bones brought back byDr. Horn 8:00 p.m—Cave,position as
midway between Ireland and
public speaking of the University of '
Oklahoma; another by United Stat-
es Senator Morris Sheppard and an-'"
other by O. L. Bodenhamer, Na-
Hohal commander of the American
Legion.
Did You Know That You
Could Buy a
Plymouth Coach
. Fully equipped for. ’
$687.50
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Paris where Lindbergh first set his
wheels to the ground, and 37 hours
later they waggled its wings in
greeting over the TransAtlntic
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. Informed it was about 1,400 miles,
to reach the "blographical inform- air line, he said:
lation" collected about Senator Nye, .. “Good, well make it in about 1
he turned the guns upon them and hours.” — -— X-*7,
• ivestigating committee, pointed
_ out that the infractions found aby
the audit* were initiated befere his - fndentifieation by
administration and that he had
TrewBros.
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after-he deported for Europe. . •
Ernest Tennant, president of the
Dallas Bank & Trust Company, of
which Colonel Easterwood is aldi-
rector, said no arrangements had
been made with his institution for
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ago in 33 hours, 29 mihutes.
At 4:54 a. m. (EBT) last Monday
they pulled their little scarlet »es-.
qulplane labelled "?" off the histor+
a remark of Coste indicated they
would fly a direct air line instead
of following the air mall route thru
Cleveland, Chicago and Kansas
City.
“How far is it to Dallas?" he
asked. _ ’
SYRACUSE. N Yw Sept. —A
distinct step forward has been made
by agriculture, said Alexander Legge
chairman of the Federal Farm
Foard in an address here Tuesday ir
securing recognition of the fact thal
agriculture as an industry is entitled
to the same consideration at the
governments hands as other indus-
tries have received.
"Perhaps the soundest advice we
can give, to agriculture is contained
in one word organize," he said in
speaking at the New York State
Farm Bureau meeting at the state
Fair. “properly organised I cannot
see any reason why agriculture
might not go farther than industry,
ipasmuch asc most of your prod-
ucts are consumed every day and
several times a day and'the con-
sunption must be fairly continuous
if we are live."
Sammy Mandell, former light
weight champion, is to be his own
manager
red
ized death was near, and shielded
them ’Wlth his body as he slowly
froze to death.
As his body was found headless,
it is apparent that his precaution
was not an idle one, especially as
bears made frequent marauding ex-
peditions through the camp.
A formal statement issued by Hed-
ren and Lithberg said that only the
skeletons of the bodies of Andree
r44., no Adon (+u HV--V WIMI •79 BUM W“P .
SFilsgntatksnnarathomp- e“ocheesungrs"hcrst"pauehe“one,
eon. 16-year-old employe, had ad-
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tlcn. The cable companies said they
handled a tremendous file of con-
gratulatory telegrams. I
A kind at tenseness prevailed
throughout the capital all last eve-
ning as'radios boomed their mes-
Newfoundland ’ -
Tuesday:
6:00 a. m Passed over the
French Island at St. Pierre, to
south of New Foundland, fin*
North American landfall.
9:35 a. m— Passed over Can-
Knockless Mile*
on ,
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ak Eezrre az
they surged against the guard ropes
and the fences, testing the strength
and the temper of hundreds of po-
lice. "Viva Coste," many shouted
m the best Long Island French,
"Hooray for Costay," they yelled.
Greeted by Throng
Sensing the danger in the whirl-
ing propellor of his ship and fear-
ing that any moment the wall of
most important.
. First, the warrants paid register
of general, special and pension
funds was not being kept and had
not been kept. This ledger should,
under the law, show a record of war-
rants paid each day.
Second, a. monthly list should be
made to the State Comptroller of
all outstanding warrants. This law
waa paired in 1909, but it has not
been adhere to, the report said.
Finally, the pay warrants issued
have never been posted since there
is no ledger in which to post them
Attention was called to the fact
that two University of Texas. stu-
dents were employed as nizht watch
men and furnished cots in the treas-
urer’s office upon which to sleep.
Carter’s report recommended that
one night watchman be employed
and instructed to stay awake all
niehtponw. P de
Hatcher, when he was before the
U. C. Travelstead
216 East Hickory St.
i . Phone 1057.
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dt—inthe Texas league, now is a cap-
tain of harbor police at Havana
Cuba
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- Is the opening of dove sea-
son. Have a complete stock
9 of Winchesetr shotgun shells
and we have several good
shotguns for rent
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EVERY CAN GUARANTEED
Practically every grocery mer-
chant in Denton is selling Denton
County Tomatoes On your next or-
total points with 945 and was award- tective, Kenneth Wilson, followed In 37 hours, 18 minutes and 30
further testimony by Wilson, him- seconds the French aviators did
------------------------ in which he alleged he iwastuhatreT fheylee a rinaheroh aia
Texarkana; district, two, Beaumont; - - - - ■
distr let three, Mineola; district four
Greenville; district five, Dallas, post
number 406; district nine, Angleton;
district 10, Luling: district 11, Rose-
bud; district 13, Cleburne; district
131, Wichita Falls; district 14, New
Braunfels; district 16, Balmorrhea;
district 17, Ranger; district 18. Cilar
endon.
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(Copyright, 1930, and all rights
reserved in North and South Amer-
ica and in Japan, by the Associated
Press).
TROMSOE, Norway, Sept. 3.-
Discovery of a hitherto unsuspect-
ed diary in tie clothing of Salomon
Auguste Andree, aernaut explorer
of the Arctic, today excited high
hopes among experts that the whole
epic at the first polar flight attempt
to reach the North Pole might be
unfolded completely to the world.
With the help of this diary, and
of Andree’s navigation log, and the
other diary found by Dr. Gunnar
Horn last month in Andree’s camp
on White Island, experts hope to
reconstruct the adventures of the
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