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ODD BITS OF
• Amoelated 0M*
WORLD NEWS
i^HIG UP LAST LEGISLATION
SOUGHT
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an
out, as more funds must be recely
rd from the pledges to carry on the
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Bureau
The United States senate loses several of its most colorful figures with
the Democrat# to fight
(2) Senator Fumifold U.
Democrat; (3) Charles H.
20 and the cash is likely to be a
Afteraccepting the senate boa-
busmess to venture out in such
the 1ghts mercileasly re-
to B e Bought
touch.
The latest and mist elaborate
t
for men.
ton, according to Mrs. R. J. Tur-
a boudoir scene.
bezinning with
Maud Tttle, Mary Frank Davis;
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Oklahoma: Partly cloudy.
as an emergency.
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Old Adages Disproved, Trust
In Them Leads to Real Harm,
Says Experimental Psychologist
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duced a
valorem
porated
Park
Tues-
equip-
Atlanta he left for Ormond
Beach, Fla., for a hunt for John
Boy* on Farm Are
Getting Fastidious
J About Their Shirt*
and cafeterias attended the hear-
ing before the House labor commit-
tee to oppose a bill that would cre-
ate an industrial welfare commis-
SENATE PASSES
10 HOUSE BUS
AUBTIN. March c4—he Senate
today disposed of 10 House bills on '
its calendar via the final passage
route, the largest number of bills
passed out by the Senate in any
one of its meetings this session.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHI, India.
March 4.—Mahatma Gand-
hi. Indian nationalist lead-
er. and Viceroy Lord Irwin
at noon today signed a truce
which ends the nationalist
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Rockefeller and golf or motor
With the Prince of Wales with-
in a year. He has been at a din-
d
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Fee Bill Report
Filed By Turner
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because the cities made th levies
without pashage of ordinance, be
validated. _____________ -.0
Bandits Get Big
Dinner Party Haul
and I hope each one who received
- one ot the notices will act imme-
. diately." "..... g,c - -:
pointed to that committee.
SERIOUS FIRE
IN JOINERSVILLE
1
Daughter of Vivian
Gordon Kills Self
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HOLLYWOOD, Ft#.. March 4.
Police oombed southeastern Florida
today tor four masked bandits who
looted a dinner party last night of
$1,500 in cash and $42,350 tn jew-
elry after lining up the diners with
a sub-machine gun and pistols.
The robbery took place in an ex-
clusive apartment house. The ban-
dits escaped,In an automobile.
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Disbursements follow:
Deputy hire, $3,783.29; maximum
to tax collector, $2,400; one-fourth
of excess to tax collector: $1,178.13;
excess due Denton County, $3,534.36.
New Equipment
and two-thirds of these likely will
take advantage of the M per cent
loan measure. It is estimated.
While none of the money has been
HERE’S TEST or
EDUCATED MAN I
NEW YORK—Outline of
DEAF CAN NOW
"SEE” MUSIC
NW YORK-Now comes a
piano which enables deaf to see
musiein eolor light bplbs. Bach
key lights up a different bulb.
Strut, Miss Zita Hatch, and "Tan-
go," MUtou and Miss Ruth Martin.
Hearings for Many Bills
AUSTIN, March 4-The Legis-
lature had several more important
hearings out of the way today as
a result of, working late last night.
Hearings in the House last night
on validation of West Texas min-
eral rights, restriction of oil pipe
Uno earninzs and. labor proposals
attracted large crowds.
The House committee on public
lands and buildings voted out fav-
orably the bill already passed by
jig
NO CHICKEN A LA
MARYLAND FOR HOOSIERS
NEW YORK—Would Hoosiers
eat fried chicken a la Mary-
land? It was on the menu of a
dinner of the Indiana Club ot
New York and was sent back
to the kitchen to have the bat-
ter removed and to be re-fried
in deep fat instead at in a shal-
low DM. .1
Senate Loses Colorful Solons
-hk: 3
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F ge, L-
AUDUBON. N. J.. March 4-Pp-
lide today read in the entries in
her diary for the last four days the
story of the shame over the life and
death of her mother. Vivian Gor-
qon, that led 16-year-old Benita
Bischoff to kill herself.
The girl, a freshman in high
school was found unconscious in
' ' “ 1k iLit, 5
ME' K
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Stan and authorise that body to fix
- -i-i--——" — in
effort, become expert only in mak-
ing the atrocious steps and shots
they have practiced."
Whether "early to bed and early
to rise” tends toward health and
s
Starts Promptly at 7145
The program will start promptly
at 7:45 p. m. and latercomers will
not be admitted until the close of
the first part, according to MFs. R.
J. Turrentine,. general chairman of
the style show.
Seven merchants to Denton will
have responded nobly to the cause,
and I again call on them to help
LIVING MODELS TO DISPLAY
LATEST STYLES FRIDAY NIGHT
■■ dE
MANY SOLDIER
LOANS BEING
Playground equipment is belng
bought for the two parks in Den-
grand finale will be an en-
displaying the most iormal
Tonnage Figures
For France, Italy
4-
ROME, March 4—It was learned
on good authority today that the
British-Franco Italian naval accord
gives France a global tonnage of
670,000 and Italy 441,000 as of 1936.
The French quota includes 84.000
the Pilot
oi-manw,
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ta’
.ma
Mopey in circulation Ooes work, and
drnmee
"hd it helps"
the benefit of the Womien’s Club.
Fashions ranging from lingerie and
sport wear to the strictly formal
clothes will be presented.
A program of entertainmet car-
rying cut six different phases of
the present modes will be shown,
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excesses in quelling Nationalist
demonskrations. Picket ng will be
-7 ' '
in hopes that we would not need
to make this call, but, as most every
one knows, there has been a great-
er need for charity work this win-
ter than ever before in the his-
tory of our town. Denton people
rumor was evidently pure rumor as
no one seems to know anything
definite about it. Several Denton
men have fortunes in the ‘making’
and some of the men here have
already received substantial amounts
for leases. Others here state that
work. It is urgent that the money
be sent in now—either to Otis
Fowler or R. W. Bass, Treasurer—' '
The report for 1030 filed by S. R.
Turner, former tax collector, in the 1
office of District Clerk R. L. West
shows that the county profted $3,-
634 36 as a result of his last year in
office. ‘ ,
During the year fees collected by
Turner amounted to $10,895.78.
Fees collected during the year
were as follows: )
State ad valorem and polk, $2.146;
house MH No 40. $744.98; occupation
taxes, $95.10; fees for assessing. $32.-
90. ----------
County ad valorem and polls, $1-
818.84; road tax, 0637.00; common
schools, 1203JO; occupation taxes.
050.04; house bill No. 40, $1,669,36;
compiling delinquent tax record.
——The truce dulminated negotia-
tions of weeks ’which reacheFful-
HENDERSON, March 4 —Explo-
sion of a gasoline stove in a two-
story frame hotel started a fire at
Jolnerville today that rased 16
buildings, and wiped out half of the
little oil town that sprang up al-
most over night a few weeks ago
when East Texas’ oil field was dis-
covered.
Work of the Henderson fire de-
partment. which made record time
in negotiating the six miles to
Joinerville, prevented total destruc-
tion of the long rows of shacks
which housed amusement halls,
stores and eating places.
ITHACA, N. Y.. March 4 -The
adage “practice makes perfect” is
disproved in the Cornel Univetsity
Department of Psychology.
So are other old saws Hke “early
t’bed and early to rise," "slow and
steady wins" and "You cant teach
an old dog new tricks."
- Folka trust the old rhymes so
implicitly, says Professor J. G. Jen-
kins. experimental psychologist, that
sometimes real harm is done.
For one thing, belief that "prac-
tice makes perfect” is responsible
for a flock of dub golfers. It is not
the amount of practice but the
quality which counts, says the psy-
chologist. He holds that the adage
should read ‘ You learn what you
. -T
t
OSE, WITH FILIBUSTER
practice," and he adds: ft .
i poor dancer and the dub
alike, after years of patlet
• Unyielding Oklahoma Senator kill* Many
Pending Measure*; Hospitalization Bill
Passed and Signed By President.
educated man by Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler: Correctness and
precision in the use of the
mother tongue, refined and gen-
tle manners, the power and
habit of reflection, the power
of growth and the possession of
efficiency or the power to do so.
Phillip Gordon, inventor and
pianist, said at a demonstration
of the City Federation of Women’s
Clubs and the ' Retail Merchant#
Asssociation. Proceeds will be for
MAN AND WOMAN HELD IN
i TEXAN SLAYING
MOUNT PLEASANT, March 4.—A
man and woman were held in the
Titus County jail „hete today in
connection with the fatal shoot-
ing yesterday of Henry Thompson.
36. near hla farm home 35 miles
test of here. Omoer said Thomp-
son and his 17T-year-old wife ha
been estranged. omcers investi-
gating the shiooting expected to file
Charges today.
No. 1 Vanity Bhop and Brownbilt
Shoe Store. Models: Misses Frances
Jackson, claldine Hughes, Zenith
Smith, Ruth Bteel, Edith Gross,
Moselle Lezg and Ann Cope
No. 2, J. C. Penney Col Inc. Mod-
democrat; t4 O _
(5) Ouy D. Goff of West Virginia a republican and a milllonaire; (6)
Frederic H Gillett of Massachusetts, 80-year-old republican
civil disobedience- campaign
--------------- and secures nationalist co- q
ner whtch.the presidentsattend- - operation in working out a
"" ne « qualified dominion status for
India.
Bill Ardis is director of the dance
program and the second number,
"The Dance Visions of 1031" will be
under his supervision. This will in-
clude: "In the Gay W».” Milton
and Miss Ruth Martin; "La Nuage,"
received as yet it is expected that
first checks wiU be here by March
be represented in' th event each
veznnng wa u ovuuou auene, having drawn numbers which will
presenting lingerie and sport wear, be worn by their models on this
- - - occasion. They are as follows:
Miss Gwendolyn Woodford; "Cha-
sin’ the Blues." Miss Mary Louise
Tobin; The Colleens." Misses Vir- l
ginia Craig and Carolee Blackburn 1
and "Sidewalks of New York,” Miss
Betty Russell. 1
" Men to Model Womens Wear -
The third division will display :
street and afternoon wear, while <
the fourth will be a humorous num- 1
ber presenting the latest modes for <
women, fashioned by men. Models "
for this event, called Moods of the 1
Moment, wiln be R. E. Jackson, Hob :
Gray. Russell Qutis, Ldren Mc-
Cray, Holford Russell. W N. Har- :
ris. Elmer Davis and B. B. Harris. ।
A patio, presenting models in the ;
most elaborate evening wear, with. I
a floor show, takes place in the
fifth number and is followed by a ,
cance program. incfujttng "Osar- i
das," Misses Virginia Craig and ,
Carolee Blackburn; "Mary! Miss
, I
REFUSES TO SUE
TAXI DRIVER
COPENHAGEN—Henrik Pon-
toppidan, 73, who once won the
Nobel prise for literature, in-
tends to take no action against
the driver of a taxi which in-
jured him seriously. "I had no
TRUCE SIGNED
BY GANDHI.
BRITISH
Industry Friends of the bill and
other opponent* will be heard lat-
er.
The major oil companies present-
ed a united front against the bill to
limit the earnings of pipe lines to
between six and 10 per cent. - -
10 Constitutional Changes
The Senate constitutional amend-
mente committee passed out about
10 proposed constitutional changes
in short order, not that it necassa-
rily believed all the resolutions were
meritorious but that it believed that
they should be passed or kiled
on the floor a
The House constittional amend-
ment# committee voted 16 to 4 yes-
terday to make a favorable report
on the proposed 8300,000,000 high-
way bond issue.
Kidnaping BUl Signrd
AUSTIN, March 4 -Governor
Sterling today filed with his signa-
ture the bill making kidnaping
punishable by death.
The new law was proposed by
Representative Petach of Freder-
Icksburg after the kidnaping of
Robert Cerf. son of a wealthy Cor-
sicana banker. It went into effect
immediately since it was enacted
-e
fillment in an agreement at 1:30
a. m. Shortly afterward Gandhi
left the viceregal palace in a
drenching rain to inform the Nat-
fonalist working committee at Old
Delhi.
While the committee voted unan-
imous approval of the terms Gand-
hi curled up on a straw mat at the
side of the room and went to sleep.
After he awakened he had Hs head
and face shaved. donned a spot-
less white homespun chaddar and
loin cloth and set out for his meet-
ing with the viceroy.
Amnesty Granted
In return for abandonment of the
civil disobedience campaign, which
The question—did the frost and
freest damage the fruit crop ma-
terially? There was a big frost with
considerable ice Wednesday morn-
ing and some people were -some-
what pprehensive as to the 1031
fruit crop. Most people talked with
Wednesday morning expressed the
belief that no serious injury would
result; some saying that the freeze
was not hard enough to do much
hurt, others said that a free* and
Trost 1UW Hill Li J the moon
would do little, if any, damage.
-1 Bof —-e
2-2 t CONGRESS COMES TO
amount of pledge wanted at th *0‛
time. Mayor McKenzie, president o. %
the Association, said, "I had been
rentine, chairman of the
Board. The poard, meetin
day, voted to buy playzrounc
Averase About 0460
Appl’cants thus far registered
probably will receive an average of
$400 it is estimated. On this basis
a total of 060,000 will be brought
into Denton as a result of the ad-
justed compensation loans. The av- -
erage amount to be received also
may run slightly higher than 0400.
In Renton County there are ap-
proximately 1,200 ex-service men
TO END NATIONAL CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE CAM-
PAIGN, ASSURE COr
OPERATION.
more than 40 republican members
President Hoover's signature makes
it law.
capital in the final hour to sign
some last minute bills and to say
good bye to the leaders. He remain-
ed in the president's room just out- .
side the senate chamber, where his
policies have encountered persistent
opposition from a dominant coall-
tion of republican independents and
democrats.
The tall, white haired Senator
Thomas, Oklahoma democrat, held
the floor in the senate in a stub-
born but futile attempt to obtain
* vote on a resolution for an in-
quiry of the oil industry. He want-
ed an embargo on oil importations.
Promptly at noon Vice President ।
Curtis and Speaker Longworth let
fall their gavels in the senate and 1
house, respectively, in obedience to
the constitutional mandate.
the departure of these six members on March 4, along with seven oth-
ers. They are: d) J. - “
Approximately 125 ex-
service men here had sought
loans on adjusted compen-
i sation certificates, under the
new insurance loan bill pass-
ed by Congress, up to noon
Wednesday and Applications
--are still being filed by Den-
, ton veterans.
V County Judge Walter A. Koons,
service officer for the Arthur O.
McNitzky Post. American Legion, is
I filing applications for loans for ex-
“ service men and hesaidWednes-
l day that several hundred loans
II likely would be made for Denton
I men.
the final three' hoar session. "
The senate was in an ugly mood
at the stubbornness of Thomas and
it even refused to adopt the house
resolution appointing a committee
to notify President Hoover that
congress had adjourned.
The Oklahoman indicated he
would yield the floor for adoption
of that resolution but the irate sen-
ators shouted objections.
“It is now 11:58." Thomas re-
marked. "And I wish to apologize
to the senate and to the country
but I have felt this action neces-
sary." ..8 • ■
He then continued reading a doc-
ument. ’
Just before returning to the
White House, the president was
formally notified of the adjourn-
ment by a house committee, led by
Republican Leader Tilson and Rep-
resentalive Hawley of Oregon.
mors' have been frequent in Den-
ton fof some months, and only re-
cently it was 'rumored* that a Den-
‘ ton negro had received a check for
868.000, payment for a lea*. The
The Louisiana Education Board
has adopted two of Mrs. Cora Mar-
tin's "Real Life Readers", making
contract# for the Primer and First
Reader. Last October the Texas
Board adopted two, the first and
second reader, and it appears that
the "Real Life Readers", primer and
first, second and third grade read-
er#. are gaining recognition in sev-
eral states. The books deal with
two phases of life—life on the farm
and the experience of a boy and
girl in the home, and the same
characters are used in the four
books, which are illustrated with ac-
tual photographs taken in several
sections of Texas. The pictures in
the first reader were taken tn and
around Denton and it contains pic-
tures of Denton Sounty people on
Denton County farms.
Mrs. Cora Martin is well known
here as she i# a former teacher of
the North Texas State Teachers
College here.
, ‘ '
A good many Denton men have
been interested for some months in
— the East Texas oil fields, some own-
ing leases, royalty ant. fee. Wayne
Freeman, with several other Denton
men, have recently taken on some
leases near Tatums. on the Rusk-
Panola boundary line. near the
Lloyd OU Corporation test. Oil ru-
Carruth, Bob E. Drake, Nellie Phil-
4,7.tm —- ----- -S W..a., P4VAL WZ*U WUWW1UW vAV HuuY IA
lips. •ee DeavenPor Maney a minimum wage' for women
Oates. Betty Ruth Penry and Jean “ m n
In 4 and pentral portions to-
algid; Thursdhy cloudy, coldef in
west and central portons.
East Texas: Increasing el -
ness, warmer itonight; TMw
risady and unsettled. Warmi
extreme east, colder in novu
portion. Light northerty to M
ly winds on the const toea
to fresh southerin.
West Texap: Cioudy and n
tied to norih, partly steady in 1
portion tonghanafhurda7;
er to northwest poruon tonight
to west and north portions n
WASHINGTON, March 4.-—The 71 at Congress ad-
journed today amidst a tension reminiscent of the most
exciting days of its two years. The contentious spirit that
has swept the Senate from the start prevailed at the end,
with a filibuster tying up all activity in the closing hours.
The house passed the $20,800,000 =--=--===
hospitalization bill before yield ng r N-1I — —-
to the farewell ceremonies which Tav I Aflorfor c
marked phe end of official lfe for - aA —VA-LI J
1" mueE
l .N2Awash
fifteen-sixteenths of the minerals
under their soil.
Representatives of laundries, man-
facturing plants. candy factories
wealth depends upon whether you
are a morning sleeper or an eve-
ning sleeper. The morning sleeper
Epends most of the ntzht getting
to sleep and obtains his greatest
rent shortly before awakening, while
the picture for the evening sleeper
la just the reverse
The researches of Dr. H. M. John-
son of Mellon Institute show, that
the average individual moves con-
stantly in his sleep. The person who
sleep# "like a log” is pure fiction.
“You can’t teach an old dog new
tricks" recently has begun to slip.
"For," says Professor Jenkins, “it
has’been shown that a person well
pust middle age can learn a given
skill almost.as rapidly as he could
have at any time in earlier life. It
is such vicious proverbs as the last
that require destruction for the
good of society and the attack is
made, not to show that al lold say-
inga are fals, but to show that ex-
pewimental verification, rather than
house approved an immediate ap-
propriation of 85*00*00 to start
construction. Senate paaaage -fol-
lowed quickly.
The unyielding Thomas filibuster
killed all pending legislation, in-
cluding the maternity aid act, the
Jenkins bill for a 00 per cent cut
in immigailon for two yean, a
batch of nominations, including
that of Representative Elliott, re-
publican. Indiana, to be assistant
comptroller general, and the Vestal
copyright measure.
pital bUl, in plate of tu own, the $750.30; balance on highway fees,
8X743*5.
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
.... Am. Napilu Miner Mar, the Senate validating the title of
el: » Misees Marilyn Miliere Mary certain West TV UBA landowners to
AnA..a F444+1, Mami tAamLr Tauis •T-e-- VYIDV AEMD MVW-E-S. IA
country soon wUl settle down to
normal trade and commerce while
the Round Table conversations pro-
ceed with a view to reaching an !
agreement on the future constitu- efi
tion of India.
- nesty for all political prisoners held
' for non-violent offenses, the right
of those residing on the seashore to
make their own salt and adjust-
ment# regarding the return of prop-
erty confiscated for non-paymen of
ta«M,
the National ata inaugurated a year
. v..w0.. Ju. ... -- ago inan effort to. gain idepen-
bad weather** he-expinined. ' dencefrom Great Britain, Gandhi
* wrested from thevceroy nam-
CHICAGO, March 4.—The
boys down on the farm are get-
ting fastidious about the clothes
they wear while mowinghay
and threshins wheat.
1. Eller of New Orleans, a
manufacturer, talked about tilts
before the convention of the
International Garment Makers’
Association.
“In the old days," he said, in
speaking of shirts, “The farm
lads wuld accept any color,
brown or gray. just do they
would cover their backs, but now
all they want is blue.*
He said they liked blue be-
canbe it doesn} show grease
so much.
* Booster* club plan to have the
Lake Dallas Park Ground in condi-
tion for people here to enjoy this
spring and summer. Plans are be-
—in made for the immediate clear-
inf of upderbrush on the grounds,
making ready for use of the land
allotted Denton by the City of Dal-
‛ ia«. Last year, thru the efforts of
■ Commissioner Walter Hodges and
the Chamber of Comemrce, a road
was built from the old McKinney
Road to the Park Grounds, located
about a half mile North of thie Al-
len Reed camp, e
Thomas Heflin ot Alabama, who* desertion of
! Al Smith, in 1838 cost h‛m re-election in 1030;
nmons of North Carolina, 77-year-old
iemucra; yusw wqen of Illinois.' defeated -'for the repub-
lican renomination by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, who lost to a . j ______ _____; ,
- L. Bleese, colorful South Carolina democrat; Ereat atd to business in Denton.
In addition to calling off the d‛s-
_____ _____ ... obedience cempaign, the National-
sealed defclencies in an artist’s - **• agreed, to forego their demand
for an official inquiry into pollce
ment plant shrubs install swings
and otherwise improve the new
park at the municipal pumping sta-
tion in West-Denton. A wading
pool is to be built as soon as the
weather permits. A Beauty Runa-
bout is a new piece of equipment
contracted for. • -
New bodies are to be bought for
the slides in City Park and more
shrubs and flowers are to be set out,
especially japonicai -and wistaria.
Mor planting is to be done on the
creek banks. The old equipment in
(lie park is to be repaired and addi-
tions will be made later
Resolutions on tbs death of M
B Whitlock, a member of the board
since its organization, wre adopted,
expressing appreciation ot his ser-
viees and sympathy to his family.
Charles Smoot was named chair-
man of the grounds committee to
succeed Whitlock, and A. B. Ivey,
new member of the board was ap-
tons of obsolete ships and the Ital-
ians 5,006 tons.
CONGRESS
Wednesday: i
Senate:
Considers number of confer- 1
ence reports and adjourns. 1
House: 1
convenes at 0 o’clock with
prospects of a filibuster.
Tuesday:
Senate:
Sustained veto of Muscle 1
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
___NO. 173 ____DENTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 4, 1931 pu aryaasetaq.paemazesnga w"
r n I fl Tashions for men women and chi!
For Parks Here
* 4---- Friday evening at t:« to the c. smmbie.g
A. auditorium, under the auspices CO5t me5, inetucin8 formM c
the boycott, Which is not punishable
under the normal laws of mdia,-
will be directed against foreign
goods, not necessarily Brit’sh pro-
ducts, with the objects of promot-
ing native Indian industries. AQ
extraordinary laws promulgated to
deal with civil disobedience will be
withdrawn.
May Renew Campaign
The true assures Nationalist par-
tic’pation in the forthcoming see-
ond round table conference to be
held in India, but Gandhi has said
that if the Nationalist demands for
Indian autonomy in finances and
military matters are not granted
by Britain there his followers ‘win
renew their agitation for separation
from the British Empire.
Financial and military supervi-
sion are the two principal reserva-
tions made by Great Britain in an
offer of "dominion status with safe-
guards" given to India by Prime
Minister MacDonald at the conclu-
s‛on ot the recant London Round
Table conference, in which the Nat-
lonalists refused to participate.
The truce concluded another
chapter of the struggle of Indians
to regain control of a veritabl
subcontinent containing 336.000.000
people after more than a century of
British domination.
Bridge Slaying
Was Accidents
Says Defendant
h - ■ ——- •
KANSAS CITY, March 4.—Mrs.
Myrtle A. Bennett, accused “bridge
quarrel" slayer, in testimony today
described the shooting of her hus-
band. John O. Bennett, as acciden-
tal. Her recital of the tragic end ot
their bridge game was halted when
she was overcome by emotion.
Speaking in a tow voice, Mrs.
Bennett began her testimony with
the bridge game which the state
contends led to Bennett’s death. As
she recounted her version of the
events climaxed by the tragedy, Mrs.
Bennett’s voice rose and she became
extremely nervous, finally breaking
down when she told ot firing the
bullets which killed her husband.
Ellen Jackson and Messrs. Edward
Taylor, Bill Penry and George M.
Hopkins Jr.
No. 4. Williams Store. Models:
Misses Eulallle Smoot, Ruth Mar-
tin, Mary Elizabeth Davis. Gladys
Bates. Ruth Dav’a and Mrs. Homer
Handy. " ' . '7-------F
No. 5. J. W. Gray, W p. Robin-
son. Models? Misses Silver Gray.
Mary Hiett, Dorothy Jim Gray, Eva
Joe Stanley. Pauline Gray and Mrs.
(Continued on Page Four)
Elaine Yerby. Doyoe Beene, Mary
Evelyn Blagg, Billy Smith and Lois
Taylor and Messrs. Douglas Bird
and Robert C. Murray.
No. 3, H M Russell & Bom Co.
Models! Misses Palmer Braley,
Frances Deavenport, Georgia Mae
The Bloodstone is the gem of
.2 March; the Violet is the flower of
the month, and Arics, in astron-
omy the ‘Ram’, appears. The motto
of March is “Be loyal to your
friend# and learn the value of si-
lence". The Vernal Equinox, when
the day and night is of equal lenzth,
comes on March 21st.
SEEKS TO HOBNOB
WITH NOTABLES
_ ATLANTA-William R. Cris-
sy. Philadelphia broker, con-
tinues confident about winning
a bet that he will dine with
Hoover, golf with Jones and
HOOVER SIGNS -
HOSPITALBILL
.. ....... ,
WASHINGTON, March 4.—The
veterans’ hospital bill was signed
today by President Hoover at the
capital within an hour after the
830,100,000 program was finally au-
thorizd by the House
Action came after the Senate and
House conferees failed to compose
the differenctes between th# House
113.500*00 binl, which specified the
various project#, and the Senate MH,
which leaves the allocations open
for decision by the executive branch
of the government.
Representative Lure of Massachu-
setts, chairman of the house con-
ferees. made the .motion that the
House recede from its position.
The bill was adopted by a viva
voce vote unanimously completing
Congressional action.
m-
Miss Janet Mason; "Orientale,"
Gwendolyn' (Woodford; “C. I. A.
________ the gas-niled kitchen of her
mere antiquity., must be regarded yesterday by her stepmother,
as the final test of their truth.” Eunice Bischoff.
. _ The fall of Vice President Curtis'
2 nESe euuguthome "00"" «ort
r -m nPspoke unceasingly thru
Comereial Cireles Pleased
BOMBAY. India. March 4 - Word
of success of the peace talks be-
tween Gandhi and Lord Irwin and
the agreement between them spread
like wildfire throughout the city
today. . 3
Commercial circles were most re-
lieved since they have been very ’
hard hit by the hartal# stoppages
of work) and other political mant- 2
festatiohs of the last year.
It waa felt generally that the
“On December 1, 1885, I landed
in Denton and went into business
with my brother” said R. H. Evers.
"We bought the A. K Fritzien store
and I have been tn business every
K day here since that time. Talk about
cold weather—that winter was the
coldest one that bos come within
my memory. My son, Wil Evers,
was a eman child and we almost
i froze. The famous norther ot Feb-
ruary 1899 had nothing on the one
which hit this country about Jan-
uary 5, 1886. It was so cold that it
fro* cattle and chickens and every-
thing that was not well fed and
protected.
L ———
"Our collections this month have
ben better than for a long time”
said M. L. RamCy "In fact, we have
received payments on several ac-
count# we had not looked for this
month, as the debtors had advised
us they would probably not ’see’ us
th's month, as they had money due
them and they were not expecting
to get it so soon. It seems, how-
ever. that they received the money
- on their ‘unexpected’ accounts, so
upon their receiving the money on
their accounts, they then in turn
paid u. A mtle money turned to
debt-payment has a way of liqui-
dating several accounts in one day.
kept within the normal laws of the
- a
The agreement recognizes that
MONEY SECURED BY
FORMER SERVICE MEN
HERE EXPECTED TQ
HELP BUSINESS.
-
-laa..
Shoals bill.
Received report from cam-
paign expenditures committee
on Pennsylvania senatorial con-
test.
Bent second defliclency ap-
propriation bill to White Hou*.
Ordered- investizatlon of con-
tracts for public building#. ,
Received notice of contest
against election of Ben. Schall, .
Republican, Minnesota
Passed a number of minor
bills.
House: '
Approved conference repct#
on second deficiency bill.
Accepted Senate amendments
to bi-for American women
marrying aliens to retain citi-
zenship. . y
Received recommendation of
army engineers for continuance
of Jadwin Mississippi River
flood control plan. >
Adopted resolution for in-
vestigation of oil- industry by
tariff commission.
Disposed of mlascellnneous bills
in night session. - v --
Denton County, Within the next
few months, will probably have a .
play that will be comparable with
East Texas field. Another loc
A44reckett HHo:
loh sked that Bd
les made by incor-
now tunenforceable
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