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Catastrophe in China
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poultry products.
Lattle Unemployment
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upper and lower
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appear that the high-
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Swollen by unprecendented rains.
because of the great fertility.
| natives able to do so were fleeing
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Yangtze Klang which already has
relief needs
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New Laws Change
Court Procedure!
Some Radically
Witt leaves by
Plane for Long's
Cotton - Parley
Mass Meetings
To Protest Oil
Well Shutdown
Two Boys Slain
In Melon Patch
CITY HEADS ASK
GAS RATE PROBE
Spain Forbids
Sale of Churches
the country has "ever
a will rank »*U>*
NEW ORLEANSC. Aug. 21.—
The special committee of the
New Orleans Cotton conference
will recommend to the confer-
enece some time today a plan
that adopts in "principal" the
"No-1932-cotton crop” proposal
Sterling Leaves
Troop Details to
General Wolters
bf the • city, the independent
the common school districts.
tch on the Merri-
it night. Merriweth-
of driving while
add a length of
Council today decided to float *
bond issue of ten million dollars.
Mexican < about $3,0008000,5 as soon
in order that rates Inside the
city limits of corporate cities may
contemplates making an additional
1 supplement commodity loan when
the delivery season is uaaderway.
Claims Conflict
in Cubap Revolt
Press Services Not
To Give Lottery News
Welfare League sa:
has been found in
Ing a defe
Intoxicated
er used a shotgun The victims were
not armed.
Conference Committee Favors
No Cotton in 1932, Purchase
Of 8,090,000 Rales This Year
watermelon,
wether farm
AUSTIN, Au/ 31 —(P—Governor
Ross S Sterling was back at the
capitol today after a two-day busi-
ness trip to Houston
Pecan Co-op to
Receive Loans
commodities and construction and
operating costs are rapidly return-
ing to a normal level."
Funds Available Tomorrow
Teachers College Has Largest Senior Class in
History; C. 1. A. to Confer Degrees, High
Schools to Award Diplomas ,
ON ROAD
IED
DEATH TOLL
IN THOUSANDS
the owner can have it by eas-
ing. The gas company baseball
team played the inmates' team
recently
in detense of the church s legiti-
mate interest* "
Linghergh' Plane
Towed to Safety
Labor Regime
Facing Crisis
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deliveries that are ex-
m the 1931 crop and to
est peddler tax in Denton County
would be $18.75, $10 to the State.
$5 to the County and 83 75 to the
City.
a ring
on and
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—2
----Unusmally real weather has
caused President Hoover today
to postpone his week-end visit
to his Rapidan camp until to.
morrow.
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rings, and..
tools in it.
A total of 340 students in Denton, attending the sum-
mer session of the North Texas State Teachers College,
the College of Industrial Arts, the city and demonstration
high schools, are candidates for graduation at the close of
the school terms, with graduation exercises taking place
Monday and Tuesday. ,
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U. S. Wheat For
Brazil Coffee1
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AVSTIN, Aug. 31 —(— Edgar E
Witt, Lieutenant Governor, left by
plane at 7 o’clock this morning for
the New oleans Cotton confer-
ence called by Governor Huey Long
of Louisiana.
Witt did not pianto make the
trip but the Louisiana executive was
isistert and offered to 'send a
plane. "I couldn't turn that down."
Wittt remarked as he prepared for
his first air journey. . .
Mayor
He made
the
new
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court procedure and effect a sav-
ing of time and money for state
and county However, since in order
to so waive Jury trial there must
be submitted in writing the request
and consent pt the prisoner, of his
attorney, or if he has no attorney,
of the county attorney, and lastly,
of the judge. It is held by some un-
likely that very many district court
trials here will be conducted with-
out a jury.
A ruling which I* expected to at-*
feel quite a few in Denton is that
which provides for suspending sen-
tence in misdemeanor cases so that
the prisoner can go out and work
to earn his fine instead of having
to Ue H out- in jail. with no funds
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terms of toes of life but in the num-
ber of people affected. “
"It is estimated that 31,000,000
people are affected and that 10,000,-
000 are home less and destitute."
The Yangtee, ranked as the most
important river in China, is in the
south-central part of the country
and drains an area larger than that
drained in the United States by the
maximum sentence that could be im-
posed was a two-year term in the
penintentary, a 90-day sentence in
Jall.'a 8500 fine. or both fine and
jail sentence. Now Juries convict-
dairy, poultry,__ , .
frutta, jvegdablea, ltvestock, ani-
mals, meats or any horticultural
ever reached in this state, ths reso- ! the river system has flooded a wide
lution asserts, but now "cost of area of regions densely populated
be fixed by the eity governments. ■
the resolution states, an effective
regulation of transportation costs
will be available to the Railroad
Commission Aug 33. the resolution
reminds.
Swift, assiatant director of In-
sular and foreign operations at the
Red Cross. "—not a* reckoned in
MAN HANGED FOR HOLD-UP
MURDER
FLORENCE. Arts, Aug. 21—(—
Herman Young was hanged at the
state prison here today for the mur-
der of John Dy*. Tucson, during a
holdup The condemned man walk-
ed to the scaffold unaccompanied
and refused to make any statement.
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Flee From Hankow
HANKOW. Aug 31 —(P—1 Believ-
ing Hankow doomed to destruction
by the Yangtze River flood, all
carry out the organizations ex-
panded merchandising promram.
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DENTON, TEXAS,
-msm
ODD BITS OF
appltes to their trade.
subdivision 4, Peddlers—says
"There shall be collected from ped-
dlers an occupation or license tax
from each according to the popu-
L lation of the counties in which he
peddles, according to the last Fed-
night and Saturday.
East Texas: Partly eloudy In north,
occasional thundershowers In south
portion tonight and Saturday. Light
to moderate easterly to notherty
winds og the roast.
Arkansas and Oklahoma: Gen-
erally fair tonight and Saturday ,
Ohio, the Arkansas.
Rivers.
DALLAS, Aug 31 —4—1 Plans for
conducting a series of mass meet-
ings in South and East Texas to
protest declaration of martial law
in the East Texas oll field, were
made at a meeting of a group of
East Texas Independent refiners
here today.
The first of a series of meetings
will be at Woolridge Park, Austin;
Monday night. Ooi. Alvin Owsley.
Dallas attorney, and O. C. McDon-
ald. of Wichita Falls, will be prin-
cipal speakers.
The refiners said they had "called
FORMER STATE SUPERINTEN-
DENT MES IN MARLIN
MARLIN. Aug 21.(P-w. T.
Doughty. M. fonder state super-
intendent of public. Instruction, died
here last night. Funeral arange-
ments were pending today.
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While two revenue measures, the
peddlers' tax and the cigarette tax,
have been the most widely discuss-
ed of the new legislation, several
other laws passed by the Legisla-
ture during its recent session in-
volve more or less radical changes
of criminal and civil procedure in
Texas.
Of especial interest is a provision
that in felony cases where the pun-
ishment is less than capital, a de-
fendant may waive jury trial if he
wishes to plead guilty. The purpose
of this new law was to speed up
MADRID, Aug. 21.—(P—A gov-
ernment degree forbidding the sale
of church property in Spain was
published today along with a pas-
toral letter of criticism from Card-
inal Primate Pedro SeguraY Saenz,
an exile in France.
The decree provides that movables,
immovables, royal concessions and
benefits ot catholic church orders,
institutes and establishments can-
not be sold, transterred or alienat-
ed
Notaries are prohibited from au-
thorizing or registering any legal
Iistrument pertaining to scales of
church property, cbmmercial agents
from carrying out Such transactions
and Spanish foreign authorities
from authorizing the withdrawal of
chureh stock ar funds.
and White
Melon Feast for
City Officials
A feast of iced water melons was
enjoyed by city officials and em-
ployes, members of the city plan
commission. fire preehtion council,
park board and Are department in
the City Park Thursday night. Mem-
bers of their families also were
Formerly the
board said, "will enable this
national co-operative to handle
defendant .on' his personal recog-
nizance or on bond during the sus-
pension , ‘ 1
Hit at Drunken Drivers
A new set of teeth has been put
•In the law providing punishment;
for persons convicted or driving
Unemployment to
Be Discussed at
President’s Cam p
VALUABLES SAFE
AMONG CONVICTS
NEW YORK-Valuabtes can
be perfectly safe among con-
victs The Brooklyn Borough
Gas Company has received a
letter from Sing Sing Mutual
lnnomorrvntornemwntwim htenr as poasible to meet immediate food
Another River Overflow*
SHANGHAI, Aug 21.——An-
other Chinese river was on the ram-
page today, causing floods hardly
less destructive of life and property
guests.
Mayor B. W. McKenzie was host,
n short talk in which ap-
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West Texas: Partly cloudy to-
Peddlers over the State are trying
to get mtormation as to the new
law, passed by the regular session
of the Legislature, which imposes
a tax, according to whether he
peddles on foot, in a vehicle drawn
by animal or motor. Several local
peddlers have applied to County
Attorney Street for information, as
to the conduct of their business,
and a* to whether or not the law
BRYAN. Aug. 31 y(P—ETTorts to
identify the body of a man found
dead on the highway South of Mil-
lican yesterday have not been suc-
cestul. No papers were found in his
clothing He apparently fell from
a truck and struck his head on the
pavement He was about so-years-
old, weighed 160 pounds and was
killed thousands and left upwards
of 30.000.000 persons homeless.
The newest inundations were
along the banks of the Hwal Ho.
which runs through Northern Hon-
an Anhwei and Kiangsu provinces.
TEXAS COMPANY POSTS
I FIRST MAJOR RAISE
SINCE SHUTDOWN IN
Greatest Catastrophe
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—•Ph.
Flood waters of China's fertile val- (
ley of the Yangtze River may be,,
churning up one of the worst cala-
mities of the age.
Chinese report* on the disaster
as interpreted by Red Cross omietals
indicatea the flood is the greatest ' ___J
today as the great stream began to
rise again
Hundred* of thousands of resi-
dents of Hankow and its sister
cities. Wuchang and Anyang, felt
the depths of despair as they saw
the waters advance once more after
having receded from the record
levels of yesterday
The majority, however, was un-
able to escape. To hundred* of these,
death was a welcome release from
conditions in which further exis-
tence seemed impossible. ., :
ceived as a result of the shutdown
this week The tax tor enforcement J
purposes is one-tenth of a cent per :
barrel. The production' thi week
probably would have been around
800,000 barrels a day so the tax
30,000,000 HOMELESS
WITH 9,000 SQUARE
MILES UNDER WATER;
CROPS LOST.
WORLD NEWS
Dealers of cigarettes in Denton
have been busy the past few days,
selling the cigarettes without the
three cent per package tax, which
becomes effective at midnight this
Friday night. Several dealers have
been trying to figure ways in which
to place the stamp, as the stamps
now-being issued will npt adhere
to the cellophane wrapper: how-
ever, stamps in the future will be
so made that they will stick to the
cellophane. One dealer said Friday
morning, "Yea the cigarette busi-
ness has been mighty good this
week—we sold 1,000 cigarettes to on*
customer, and many others have
been laying in a supply in order
to save the three cent tax."
The dealers make just as much
profit on selling the cigarettes now
as they win after th* tax becomes
effective, as they in no way profit
on the tax imposed The last legis-
lature passed the. three cent tax.
which with the six rent tax im-
posed by the Federal government,
makes nine cent* per package tax
on 20 cigarettes, or nearly one-half
cent per cigarette which the smok-
er has to pay for his little pleas-
ure. j
MAN FOUND DEAD
UNIDENTIFI
HAVANA, Aug 31 —(P--An out-
break of fighting in Havana in which
one man was killed caused the gov-
ernment today to tighten Its grip
for a showdown'with the rebels.
Insurgent leaders said the revolu-
tion was hanging in Qne balance and
that the Issue would be settled in
a few days, while official sources
clung to their contention that the
movement had been thwarted ex-
cept for isolated uprising*.
Spasmodic firing between bands
of rebel sympathizers and loyal
soldiers occured yesterday An at-
tempt also was made to burn the
house of Senator Wifredo Hernan-
dez. close friend of President Macha-
do.
NEMURO, Japan. Aug 31—(P—
The Lindbergh monoplane progress-
ed a short distance toward Nemuro
today—at the end of a tow rope.
After haying been stranded since
early Wednesday because of a fog
and motor trouble off Ketot Island,
the "Black Hole" of the Kurile Ar-
chipelago. Colonel and Mrs. Charles
A. Lindbergh were forced to accept
the aid of the government steam-
ship, Shimushiru Maru, in getting
their helpless plane to an anchor-
age safer than the wild little island
410 miles northeast of here
They reported by wireless today
they were being towed to Huroton
Bay, Shimushiru Island, 15 miles
southwest of Ketoi. A later message
announced the arrival. Colonel
Lindbergh said he would spend two
or three hours working on the motor
and then test it.
of Governor Huey P Long with
an appendix sponsored by U. 8.
Senator Thaddeus Caraway of
Arkansas providing for the
purchase of 8 000,000 bales of
cotton at eight cents a bale by
the Federal Farm Board.
FORMER KING -t
ARRESTED BY MISTAKE
PARIS—Newspaps have a
story about a man in Geneva.
Switzerland, who forgot his
latchkey, started to climb in a
window and was grabbed by
police for a burglar after putting
up a stiff fight. Police discover-
ed they had Amanullah, form-
king of Afghanistan.
as steering committee headed by E
A. Culberson, who had been quot-
ed as saying the situation of the
independent refiners had been ex-
aggerated and Wal there were more
than 200,000 barrels of oil available
to them at 60-cents a barrel.
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m-ermemdey e.
A resolution urging investigation
of gas production and transporta-
tion costs by the Railroad Commis-
sion. with a view to securing cheap-
er domestic gas rates here, was
passed by the City Commission at
a called session held Thursday
night. Mayor B W. McKenzie stat-
ed Friday morning.
All commissioners except T. R.
Brooks were present, the meeting
being held during the city employes'
picnic at the City Park.
The resolution was drafted as
part of the campaign determined
upon at the recent conference of
city heads in Dallas, when the
Twenty-One Cities League, of which
Denton is a charter member, voted
to work with the Texas League of
Municipalities in urging the Inves-
tigation In a letter received here
by McKenzie, Harvey Draper, sec-
retary of the League, stated that
the 593 cities and towns of Texas
were being sent copies of the reso-
lution with the reuest that they
.pass ft and send it on to the Rail-
road Commission.
"E"pRe eT Floods Cause Greatest
CRy Regulation implied ' a ratastrophs
—___________________The resolution urges the Rau-T
resptin.ta the cunty r„docordnstroad Oommtsston "to nx estaotish
to the law, Ute county Judge may}and determine proper rate ached-
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person fined and may release the made by gas utilities engaged in
the business of producing and trans-
portiag natural gas from the wells
to cities and towns for domestic
consumption. in order that the duty
that has been imposed upon the
governing body of this city to reg-
ulate the rates to be paid by its
citizens for naetural gas may be
effectively discharged."
The rates of gas companies were
established in Texas at a time when
prices were the highest peak they
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON, Aug. XL—4—
An agreement was signed today be-
tween the Brazil’- govermment
and the Federal Grain Stabiliza-
lion Corporation for the exchange
of 1,050,600 bags of coffer for 25,-
000,000 bushels of surplus wheat.
Few States Affected
HOUSTON, Av|. 21.—P—The
Texas Company Friday announced
advances in crude oil prices, cov-
ering Texas, Louisiana and New
Mexico fields, ranging from 11 to 30
rents a barrel. The new postings
are effective Saturday
North Louisana, North Texas,
North Central and Centdal Texas
crude were advanced from 11 to 30
cents a barrel. Below 39 gravity was
posted at 46 cents, up 11 cents with
a 2-cent higher differential for
each degree of gravity up to and
Including 60 gravity, topped at 70
cents. Thirty-six gravity and above
was formerly posted at 40 cents.
EMS
WILHELM BUILDS
MODEL OF OLYMPIA
DOORR, Holland—Wumelm
Hohenzollern is employing his
knowledge of avchaelogy to di-
rect construction of a model of
Olympia as it looked in the days
of the Greek games. Gustav
Oberlaender of Reading Pa., sup-
plied th* funds. The. model ls
five feet square.
while intoxicated
STOCKTON. Kas, Aug 31 —(2
—Two youths were dead, a third
slightly wounded and Arthur Mer-
rtwether, farmers son. was charged
with murder today as the result of
• watermelon patch shooting near
here.
The dead William Francis, 17.
and Jack Screen, 16.
Leland McCall, 19, was wounded
in the leg
Merrwether, son of J. C. Merri-
wether, admitted firing on the three
Indications were mat he would------------------
continue to leave details of the East than the great inundation alons the
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—(—
The Associated Press. Internation-
al New* Service and the United
Press have assured the Post office
Department they will co-operate
fully in its effort to free the malls
of unlawful matter concerning
sweepstakes lotteries.
The announcement was made to-
day by Arch Coleman, acting post-
master general. It said:
"Throe news associations here-
after will not distribute to thelr
members and clients matter relat-
ing to sweepstakes lotteries- either
in storles or photograph*—just a*
they always have refrained from
handling matter relating to the
numerous other kinds of foreign
lotteries patronized by plflyers in
till* country."
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DENTONLJRINGNEXTWEEK
time, not to exceed two years, for
which the defendant can not drive
on public streets.
A fourth piece of legislation of
special interest to some residents of
this city is that which abolishes the
former state law against the operat-
ing of motion picture* theaters on
Sunday, and leaves Bunday-law re-
gulations to local option
County Budget Required
Another lew will necessitate
county officials to prepare a budget'
each July showing the proposed ex-
penditures of Denton County for
each coming year, itemizing the list
so each year's expenditures may be
compared with those of the past
year, and showing how much is ex-
pected to be taken in, and how much
spent, aqd for what, during the 13
months A public hearing on the
proposed budget must be held be-
fore its final adoption.
Similar budgets will be required
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 31—(—
In the quiet of his Virginia moun-
tain fishing camp President Hoover
will weigh and discuss the unem-
ployment' problem over the week-
end with Walter 8 Gifford, newly
appointed director of relief activi-
tie*.
In addition to discussing plan*
and policies for the new organiza-
tion. the president, with the advice
of Gifford, will select a member of
additional names to be adrird to the
list of the advisory committee an-
nounced yesterday.
Mr. Hoover reached into all walk*
of life to pick a group of three score
men and women cn wham he and
Gifford will depend for advice the
coming winter. The names of labor
leaders and social service workers
were alongside those at former
public officials and heads of great
industries.
Gifford in Full Charge
The burden of organising relief,
however, will fall heaviest on Gif-
ford. The president has informed
him that the whole force of the
administration will be at his dis-
posal and has let It be known at
the White House the telephone mgR
will have a completely free hand.
The advisory committee will be
exactly what its name indicates,
the White House said. The enttte
administration function will rest
with Gifford and with Fred C Crox-
ton, whom the president has chos-
en as assistant director Crox ton
has been acting chairman of the
president's emergency committee
which will be absorbed by the lar-
ger Gifford organization.
No announcement has been made
as to how the Gtfford group will
be financed.
Bonds for Flood Relief
NANKING China. Aug 21—()
—The Nationalist Government
WHITEWASH SPECIAL .
MAKES FAST RUNS
LONDON—The Whitewash
Special makes a fast run every
to often over the lines of the
Greet Western Railway but car-
r.« no passengers. Observers
aboerd note every jolt on the
track and drop a splash of
whitewash to mark the spot.
At Teachers College, the largest
graduating class in the history of
the-eollege will receive degrees next
Tuesday evening when exercises are
held at 8 o'clock in th college au-
ditortum. There are 213 candidates,
with 60 students applying for bach-
elor of arte degrees and 153 tor
bachelor of science The summer
graduating class at 1930 numbered
202.
Senior activities at the Teachers
College started Thursday with a
"fun frolic" in the recreational
park, followed by a midnight mati-
nee at the Palace Theater.
89 (X L A. Candidate*
The College of ^industrial Arts
also has a record summer graduat-
ing clasa. Thera are 80 candidates
for degree* at the commencement
service* to be held Tuesday morn-
ing at 9 oclock in the C I A au-
ditorium. Dr. C. E Evans, president
of San Marcos State Teachers Col-
lege. wil etve the address. Seven-
ty-seven received degrees in Aug-
ust last summer.
The number ot graduates for the
entire scholastic year including
those students receiving master's
degrees and the mid-term graduat-
ing class, I* 387 The total number
of graduate* for the scholastic year
of 1939-30 was 378 Six received M
A degree* tn June, the first mas-
ter's degrees conferred at the col-
lege There are seven candidates
for master's degrees at the summer
commencement. The graduate school
was inaugurated at the college in
uet* manufactured by Hmm.
rbe law. of toWU. IB M eyes of
the legislators was enacted for the
protection of the bustness which is
fi-ref to pay taxes, which must be
adddd to the cost of goods sold,
and on which tax money the gov-
ernmhent is operated.
In addition to the Blate tax, there
is also a County Tak and a City
Tax imposed on peddlers in Den-
ton County, From the figures giv-
LONDON, Aug. 31.— (-Resigna-
lion of Ransay McDonald's lagor
government became a possibility to-
day te an outgrowth of great Bri-
tain's economic and financial erisis.
The situation became more com-
plicated and difficult as the cabinet
maneuvered In vain to reconcile
widely devergent views as to how
the budget la to be balanced and a
deficit of half a million dollar*
avoided
Th* cabinet adjourned this after-
noon without arranging to meet to-
morrow or Monday, thus delaying
settlement of the crisis over the
week end.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-0-
The National Pecan Association,
. Central Sales Agency of the pecan
co-operative* with headquarter* in
I Jackson, Miss., today was granted
facility and effective merchandising
loan commitments by the farm
board.
ar agricultural product*; or
IFeraon* wbo sell, any at the
product* mentoned in th* section
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thousands of Chine a a
have been drowned and mil-
lions of dollars worth of
property has been destroyed
by floods sweeping over vast
territory in what may prove
to be one of the greatest ca-
lamities of the kind in mod-
ern times.
The swollen Yangtze has taken
its toll of life and left 30,000,000
homeless Hankow itself, a city of
836.000. was threatened with destrue-
tion. and there was a faint hope of
saving any of the livestock in th*
flooded area. , -
Eighty counties in the north cov-
ering an area of 9.000 square miles (
are under three to 10 feet of water
pouring from the Hwalho River.
The summer crop has been wiped
out, there is no hope of a winter
crop and engineers say the flood
conditions will last for several
months. There is no estimate of
the loss of life, but it is known to
be heavy.
The government at Nanking 1*
floating a 810.000,000 bond issue for
flood relief.
The Tennessee Textbook Board
at a recent freeing adopted books
written by Denton teachers when
they decided to have taught in
their public schools Masters and
Floyds High School Chemistry:
I Chemistry
Jesters and
otebook,’ and
anton’s Ad-
imar W N
« and L. P.
ted with the
Bachers Col-
m. prior to
Texas campaign entirely in the ex-
perienced hands of his" field com-
mander. General Jacob F. Wolters
The governor spent most of his time
this morning considering other mat-
ters. The Governor had not inti-
mated when the process of dimin-
ishing the approximately 900 militia
men in the oil area would be start-
ed.
Approximhately 80,600 which would
have come to the railroad commis-
ral eensue
Denton County will come under
the telasdifcation, tetween 15.001
and 80,000 population, so will be
taxed on that basis.
The foot peddler is to pay a tax
of 8350; the animal vehicle peddler,
86, and the motor vehicle peddler.
$10.
Every peddler defined above shall
pay said tax annually, on or before
September IM of each year to the
tax collector of each county in
which he peddle*, and a receipt
shall be iasued therefor and said col-
lector shall issue,a license plate to
be furnished by the Comptroller
in Ute same manner that license
plates are issued for motor vehicles,
and the same fees of office shall
be allowed said collector; which
said plate shall be securely fasten-
ed to said peddler's vehicles on the
drivers side A separate tax shall
be paid for each vehicle or instru-
mentally defined above which said
peddler operates and peddles from,
and the Comptroller /shall adopt
rules and regulations for the en-
foroement, thereot. Nothing herein
shall be construed to inhibit any
city or town from regulating, li-
censing or taxing peddlers.
The law define* a peddler. "The
term peddler as used herein means
an itinerant trader or peddler in
a town or in country, who carries
his merchandise or commodities
with him or his principal's goods or
wares for sail, and who then and
there sells and deliver* them to
ocher persons or dealer*, provided
however, that the term 'peddler'
shall not be held to include;
I—Producers and grower* of farm.
wil take place next Monday eve-
ning At ihis time, all graduates
faculty member*, the administra-
Uve staff and parents of graduates
will be guest*
«8 High sehoot Grade * ।
Both high schools, ' which has
been under the general supervision
of Dr L. A. Sharp, director of the
Teacher* College Demonstration
School during the summer session,
will close Tuesday The demonstra-
tion and city high schools are to
hold joint commencement exercises
Monday evening at the Teachers
College auditorium Dr. Harold
Brenholtz, a member of the Teach-
er* college faculty, will give th?
commencement address, and Dr
Sharp will awash the diplopias
There are 28 candidates for grad-
uation in the demonstration high
school, while in the city high school
20 are applying for diplomas.
The West Ward elementary school
is scheduled to close tomorrow at
noon, according to Dr Sharp The
elementary grades in the Demon-
stration School were completed at
the close of the first six weeks' ses-
sion.
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KILGORE Aug. 31.—(P—The
troublesome Mid-Continent oll sit-
nation seemed to be setting into a
eontest today belween muntamen at
Otlatioma and Texas and the com-
panies wbo control the area’s crude
prices
Critics of the martial law regime
m East Texan receiveds a shesp
answer from Brigadier General Ja-
cob F. Wolters last night. some-
what irked by reports the shut
down had caused it grave unemploy
ment situation, General Wolters is-
sued a manifesto in which he said
an Investization by military author-
ities disclosed "little. If any, unem-
ployment."
Oklahomas figh for higher
prices, enforced for more than two
weeks by Governor William H
Murray's militiamen, brought more
predictions from oil men that high-
er prices through the mid-conti-
nent area were inevitable. Cicero
I. Murray, the Governor’s cousin,
forecast a 11 per barrel posting for
Oklahoma, probably today.
. college. The
he Southern
, the presi-
-egg, was a
College
This financial assistance, the
amount of which was not disclosed.
precration to services rendered by
the group was expressed. e
AUSTIN COLLEGE ENROLLMENT
INCREASES
SHERMAN, Aug. 31 — Substantial
gains made at Austin College un-
der the new administration installed
last year promise to oontihue the
coming year. Dr. E B Tucker, the
new president, states. The enroll-
ment last year, and likewise in the
present summer school, broke all
previous records, despite the bu*l-
ness depression. —
The demonstration graduates will
present a play. “The Trysting
Place by Booth Tarkigton. this
evening at 8:15 o’clock in the Teach-
ers College auditorium The public
la invited to be present, and there
will be admission fee. immediately
following the exereises Monday
evening, the graduates will be guests
of the faculty at a reception in
the community house at Teachers
College
The eity high school students are
given their choice of receiving their
diptomas at the Joint commence-
ment at this time or waiting until
the mid-term exercises at the high
schools in January but every can-
didate for graduation at the city
high school plans to receive a de-
gree Monday evening, Dan McAl-
ister. principal at the city high
school, said
SHERIFF CREDITED
WITH A8SI8T
SAN RAFAEL, Calif —Sacte-
mento fans are crediting Sheriff
M, B Sellmer of Novato, with
an assist. Pitcher Tony Freitas
of the Scramento team was do-
ing five days in jail tor speed-
ing He was needed in-a game
against San Francisco. So Shep-
iff Sellmer unlocked hl* cell add
rent him along in charge at a
deputy to pitch the game.
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TULSA, Okla.,Aug. 21—
(AP)—The first major in-
eredse in the price of Mid-
Continent crude oil since the
Oklahoma and Texas shut
downs were made effective
came today when the Texas
Company posted a top price
gf 70 cents a barrel for high
gravity Oklahoma oil.
The company's new schedule
range* downward to 46 cents a bar-
rel tor oil of 39 gravity and below.
It represents an increase of 30
cents a barrel for high gravity oil
The company * former prices were
95 cents for oil below 36 gravity and
40 cents for oil of 36 gravity and
। above.
The new prices, effective at 7 a
m., tomorrow apply to Oklahoma
only.
The company made no comdent
in announcing the higher prices.
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