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WORKSTARTS
ODD BITS OF
COTTONCURB
By Assoclatea Prens •
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Beer Asked to
Aid Employment
House in Asking
For Salary Cuts
South Carolina
Solons Meet to
Pick Only Good
Cotton Is Advised
olution constituted an attack with
a feather duster" whereas the leg-
islature has "the big stick'" with
Turkey Raisers to
Visit Breeders
AMENDMENTS OFFERED
, TO BILL; SENATE DE-
LAYS DISCUSSION OF
MEASURES.
merged or abolished entirely, which
would tend to make more efficient
ried no radio
Un worried by
weather over the
operation ot such functions
The people can, and will.
PORTS; MEDICAL SUP-
PLIES NEEDED.
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Mid-Air Blast
Cause of Crash
Fatal to Twa
legislature would have the power
to retrench in other ways, in addi-
tion to cutting salaries.
Governor Sterling said last week
he would not submit anything oth-
er than cotton relief legislation.
entai ugen-
eitirens who
ces could be
taken off after the clostug of the
colleges.
Havana. He also needs more ban-
oanges to ^are for the wounded
which thus far have hot been count-
ed.
Commander Morrow and a staff
of Navy doctors so far have treat-
ed 350 wounded persons. There were
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ms goverm
away with
Resolution Asks
Cut in All State I
A p p ropriations
Three Aviators
Carrying Storm
Photos Killed
"u Wire
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Thomas Russell, who hid her
husbands talk* teeth end then
Ml a tempting meal before him.
> has been punished Her hus-
band beat her tip. She had him
arrested. A judge freed him.
City Court Has
Quiet Monday;
. One Fine Paid
.Ps
ably showers on West Co
erate to fresh earterly to
winds Ml the roast
needed. he said, although two boxes
of anti-4schcid and
3,4
Zantiqietanus
ilrplane from
The amendment to limit cotton
acreage to 35 per cent of Ute eul-
rzutpa Mes was Md MX aa a
seeking a one-third reduction and
the group demanding cotton pro-
hibition next year
Adherents of the plan of Gover-
nor Lone for cotton prohibition in
1932 were prepared to offer this pro-
gram as a substitute for the re-
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BL* "K
500 KNOWN DEAD
IN NONDONAS
$5 and paid by a defendant enter-
ing a plea of guilty to the/charge,
in Corporation Court nere MMondar
morning. No other cases Were up
for tria, . ' ' *
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Sept.
14——J. C Massie, profes-
sor of mathematics at Fayette-
ville high school, claimed today
he has trisected an agle with a
a straight edge and compass.
Tie plans to issue a brochure,
explaining the achievement in
detail.
Here is how he said he did
it, a method for which he claims
he has yroof:
"Given the central angle, in
in circle 6. AOB.
"Draw cord BD perpendicular
ftom B to AO.
“On BD construct an equi-
lateral triangle BDE. and on
the opposite side the isosceles
triangle BDK. join the remote
vertices E and K, the line EK
intersec long circumference at
C Then angle AOC is one third
of angle AOB."
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cf bread among other thimgs, were
on a flight from Lisbon to New
York today.
Willy Rody, Christian Johanssen
and Fertando Costa Viega hopped
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4 8 S PENNILAND, AT SEA. +
Denton cunty is facing a win-
ter when unemployment and im-
poverishment will make a serious
condition that will strain funds of
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duras this 4Eternyon."
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er, the plane left Miami shoriy af- The storm struck at Hermosillo,
ter dark with a package of pictures | capital of Sonora, approximately
that had been transferred from an- 600 miles north of Mazatlan.
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ANYTHING FOIL
FAMILY ROW i > -.
COLON, Panama
past two years by Pilot Point citi-
zens. he stated, and one girl has
been adjudged insane—according to
a physician. an insanity brought on
Public Schools opened Monday
morning The streets were 'alive'
with the kiddies, all seemingly very
happy at the return of school days.
The streets of Denton hereafter
win see more kiddies so it’s up to
the auto drivers to be even more
has reached the point where its
citizens are unable to pay as they
should, and aa a result donds, even
salaries, have gone unpaid That’s
a bad state of affairs, and all hope
(that condition will neve- exist in
Texas. Yet it does seem time for
the government to retrench in its
expenditures, as all assessed taxes
have a way of getting back to ‘he
people
it is said that one of every ten
of the people in the United States
is in the government employ in
some form. and from that it might
be inferred that the Government is
supporting the people, rather than
the people supporting the govern-
ment. As Adam Smith said the
happiest governed people are those
who enjoy Peace, Easy Taxes and
Tolerable Administration ot Justice.
Point, and Will Holbrook at Navo.
The latter will take the place of
Will C. Brown, former depuy who
has gone to Kansas City
Aprlication for a constables dep-
uty at Little Elm was considered
but not granted.
Parvin Taylor, represented by
John Speer, was granted permis-
sion to change the direction of a
road across his land south of Den-
ton. at the end of Avenue A.
Regular court day for W, A. Mat-
hewa. Justice of the peace was set
at his request for the last Monday
and Tuesday of the month. the first
day to be devoted to the civil
docket .and the other to the crim-
inal doeket.
A report frofu’ the jall -regarding
pr’sohers who had completed serv-
ing out fines and costs was approv-
ed..
The court was adjunned at noon.
HARD TO GET TO
WORK BY 5 P. M.
MADRID—Five p. m. is such
a terribly early hour that sel-
dom is a quorum ready when
congress is called to order.
What with late night sessions,
day committee hearings. three
hour lunch and an hour for
coffee. It takes a real hustling
congressman to be on time.
more bodies floating down river
from the interior made an accurate
check of the dead Impossible* Cre-
mation was resorted to because of
the tear of disease.
COLUMBIA, & C.. Sept 14.—(P
—An extraordinary session of the
South Carolina general assembly
convened here today to consider
I measures to relieve the cotton sit-
uation
In his message to both houses.,
to put the facts in writing at his j
disposal, so that proper application
could be made to the state insti-
tution authorities.
"Every effort is made to put cases
like this in the state institutions,"
Davis said, "but sometimes it to
impossible for them to be accom-
modated there, and the cases have
to be handled locally. This winter,
we are all going to have to put our
shoulder to the wheel."
Appointments Ratified
Appointment of two deputies by
Sheriff G C. Cockrell was ratified
ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 14-(P—
Governor Russell said in a telegram
today to Senator Margie E. Neal,
secretary of the Joint agricultural
committee of the Texes legislature,
that he would convene the Georgia
legisiature in extra session imme-
diately upon action by Texas in
passing cotton prohibition legisla-
tion "for 1932.
Governor Russell's telegram fol-
lows:
“I will convene Georgia legisla-
ture immediately upon action of
Texas legislature in passing cotton
prohibition legislation for 1832 I
am of- the opinion the majority of
cotton farmers and members of the
AUSTIN, Sept 14—P—A reso-
lution designed to bring about a
five to 15 per cent reduction in
salaries of virtually all state em-
ployes was introduced in the Sen-
ate today by Senator J. W E H.
Beck of DeKalb, chairman of the
nance committee
Salaries between $1,500 aand s2,-
750 would be cut five per cent, be-
tween $3,751 and $5,000, 10 per cent
and above $5 000, 15 per cent. Ap-
propriations for maintenance and
upkeep likewise would be reduced
15 per acent.
Dr Beck pointed out tills was a
period of retrenchment in both pri-
vate and governmental affairs and
that several businesses had found
it necessary to cut salaries. He ex-
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changes Necessity has been called
the 'mother of Invention'. Econom-
ic reasons have brought about the
most drastic changes in life. social
or political.
We all know that the Legiela-
tures have, from session to sesson,
searched for more things upon
which to place a tax, and they have
done so with reason, too, as mod-
em day government exacts more
support than in the past. Tax mat-
ters have been followed up. raise
after raise, until property taxes
have become somewhat ■unbearable:
farm land has reached the point
where taxes make doubtful pront-
able investment; taxes on homes
have reached the point that no in-
centive, other than pride of pos-
session, can be found to induce a
man to want to own a home-;ts
cheaper to rent.
lt'a economically unsound when
such condition exists— woen the
farmer or farm owner finds U most
difficult to pay his taxes from his
income; when the renter can live
for lees by not owning. A country
of home-owners is without question
more stable than a country of
renters, and there can be no criti-
clam of the renter under present
conditions. But would it not be
well for the government to offer
inducements to the home -owner
rather than penalise him for he-
coming one?
Under our present system each
Legislature has been “forcef to seek
something a** to tax—It may be
an income tax. a peddler’atax.ia
truck driver’s tax, a. cigarette tax.
a gasoline or oil tax. or any othet
taxable commodity. Tere are many
people, and more arriving at the
same conclusion each day, who be-
lieve that it would be well lor the
legislature to seek means of reduc-
superficial.
U. S. Consul Taggart, who was ♦ 12:40 P- m. (CST today in let- *
other plane from Belize Heavv
rain began falling shortly after its
departure.
portions swept Mazatlan. one of
the largest cities of the west coast
and cremating the dead from las.
week's hurricane, now estimated at
more than a thousand. went fo:-
ward.
The suburb of Mesopotamia was
menaced by flames that spread rap-
idly in spite of unceasing efforts
on the part of soldiers and civilians
to block their path An inflamma-
ble liquor warehouse was in the
path of the conflagration and fears
of an explosion spurred the nght-
ers to frantic measures
Scores of bodies were burned on
five greet pyres almost in the cen-
ter of the once-flourishing city, now
in ruins. At least 700 bodies were
buried in crude trenches dug on
the cemetery by convict labor. SUU
A plan to help rellev the cotton
situation is advanced by C. P
Buchanan He advises. farmers - to
pick only the good cotton fof the
markets, gathering the small bells
and other undesirable staple end
storing It for winter feeding to
. . _ cattle The poor cotton will make
no matters at thatt ttme avigtgood teed ana renew ihe market 6T
been set for an afternoon sesston: much undesirable staple he Hid
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AUSTIN, Sept. 14.—(—The sen-
ate today Joined the house in re-
questing Governor Ross S. Sterling
to submit (he question of reduced
salaries for state employes ' to' the
present special session ol the leg-
islature
A resolution to that effect by
Senator Tom Deberry of Bogata
was adopted viva voce it was sub-
stituted for one by Senator J W
E. H. Beck of DeKalb, which would
have called on the heads of the
various departmenu to have insti-
tuted semi-voluntary salary cuts of
five. 10 and 1$ per cent
Proponents of the Deberry sub-
stitute claimed that .he Beck res-
provisions of the peddlers' tax
which recently became effective
Another resolutin to ask con-
Prank Keel says that some of
his friends are in error when they
call him ‘Pilot-Keel’. He says that
he doesn't even pretend to be an
aviator, tho at times he will fly
somewhere with a friend Keel and
Walker Jagoe were preparing for a
flight. Keel sitting in the cabin
when Jagoe started the engine. At
the contact, the plane started off
down the field, and since Keel, not
knowing how to get it off the
ground, guided it into the pump
house on the aviation field. The
plane was damaged, but Keel was
not hurt.
WASHINGTON Sept U —(P—
. that now, while able-bodied per-
r tons could flat some work, they
' should be forced to do so, and any
1 relief funds available saved against
i the coming winter.
Case Discussed
Mayor Fred Hayden of Pilot
Point appeared before the court to
present facts of a charity case at j
that c‘ty. a mother and six chil-
dren. four of whom he said are
under 10 years ol age and should
be placed in the state home for
neglected or abandoned children. 2s
the family is not able to see they
are kept in the necessities of life.
The family has been supported the
Turkey raiser* orDegton"coun-
ty. under the the auspices of the
Denton County Tunfaey Growers
Association, will make a tour of the.
county Thursday, Sept: 17, to study
the artnictal management of tut- <
keys. The tour will start from the
taxes as long as they have the
go Chicago, and even a Texas city, per cent in 1933 and 1934.
Ask Peddler Tax Change
The senate adopted 2 resolution
asking the governor to submit the
subject at exempting producers and
retailers of farm products from the
VERO BFACH, Fla. Sept. 14.-
UP—1Racing ' northward ' through
storms with news pictures of the
damage wrought by the hurricane
that devastated Belle. Britton Hon-
duras, three men were killed last
night when their airplane crashed
There were Indienttons that the
macl.ine had caught fire, for, the
corresrontent said a wide ara of
the incadow in whin the plane
crashed had been brnnd over. His
ol the ri.lp littered the ground.
The dlapatch did not say whether
the bdie: of LeB.t and Mesmi
were buzned nor why: Marcel
Domrat. the third man lu the i'>)p
had been hurt.
ami. of Mexico today, but no damage
in the face of threatening weath- J was reported.
several amputations but for the
most part of the operations were ♦ transAtiantic airplane D2072 4
- - - 4 circled over the Pennland at 4
Oklahoma r Partly cloudy tonigat
and Tuday. probably stiattered
sheiezra-im north partion Twegday
ana Ih fxtretie mormh partton «o-
nigh; cooler in horthwest tong6d
and la north portion Tuesday.
was approved as deputy at Pilot
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in response to a letter, asking
that Roundabout give his views on
taxes and public ofTicos’, this in-
terview with himseir to offered for
friends to shoot full of holes
May It be said here that there
is no intended or implied criticism
to present, past or future office-
holders. as Roundabout believes
that Denton County has always had
as efficient, as honest officials as
can be found anywhere. They’re all
right and perform their duties, as
they see them, in a creditable
manner. It's the system that's
wrong. There are many, many dtl-
zens, both private and office-hold-
ing, who believe the present system
is antiquateq and needful of reme-
dial legislation.
Economic conditions have always
brought about changes to meet the
requirements. and it would seem
that the time has arrived for
enough to support themselves and
the mother. 1 tion but it should have a tremen-
Judge Davis instructed Hayden dous effect. Dr. Beck said
United States had been sighted by an American steamer
off Bermuda. -4, .
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LISDON, Sept. 14 (—Two Ger- Ic . "
mans and a Portuguese, each for । Senate I n I
tined ty a jug of water and a loaf •-dI J • *
4 Sept. 14.—UP)—Tie Gorman 4
gross to consider cancellation of
war debts was referred to the com-
mittee on federal relacions.
Cons’derable opposition develop-
ed against the Olsen bill when it
was disclosed it contained no pro-
vision whereby the Texas law would
become inoperative if states pro-
ducing three-fourths of the cotton
failed to enact laws calling tor sim-
ilar or greater reductions.
The. committee reported 11 plan-
ned to offer a resolution calling tor
the teg’stature to convese in speclal
session Jan. 31, 1932, to repeal the
law in the event Texas' lead was
not followed by other states
While it was generally admitted
in the house the Long pla was
comstitutional many members doub-
ted if -it could be enforced.
fliers made an auspicious take-off
with a parting shot not “to let the
wind die down." Johnseen taxied
the ship for nearly a mile, pulled
It aloft with a long climb into the
Wind and shot away to the south.
A crowd. Including Laura Viega,
sister of the Portuguese, traveled
over broken roads and streams to
an improvised airport on the banks
of the Tigus River to see them off
Miss Viega did th christening with
a bottle of champagne.
SWITZERLAND OPENS
SUMMER RESORTS
GENEVA — Switzerland is
trying to become a summer re-
sort Some 90 bathing beaches
have been in operation this
summer. Most of them have
circulating ice water coming
down from snowy peeks into
lakes. Tourists use them large-
ly for sun bathing. Natives
swim.
plained that the state was facing • N .
a large denett unless revenue was (AfUSlder CottOll
increased or expenditures reduced
Salary reductions could not be
compelled by a legislative resolu-
memezze
this, to offer an amendment em-
Amendmeuts Offered
After a special sub-committee
reported favorably to the House as
a committee of the whole on a bill
by Rep J. J. Olsen to Umit acre-
age in 1932 and 1933 to not more
than one-third the cultivated ac-
reage, two amendments were at-
tered.One would reduce this fig-
ure to 35 per cent and the other
would increase it to 50 per cent.
Considerable sentiment prevailed
in the House for the plan to re-
strict acreale to one-fourth the
cultivated area. The proposal had
the support of J. E McDonald. Tex-
as agricaiUiral commissioner and
of Rep. Lawrence Westbrook, chair-
man of the House agriculture com-
mittee.
Managua on Saturday to
take charge of medical re-
lief, said today the total
known dead from last week’s
hurricane which laid the city
waste did not exceed 500 to
date._____________
Of these, he said, 300 ten burn-
ed to death and 50 were carried out
to sea as the tidal wave, which
followed the hurricane, receded. He
dented reports that the known
dead thus tar are greater than that
number, but be said that when
more denie Informa Umi is avau-
able, the* figure might be doubled
Anti-typhoid term to badly
MOSCOW, Sept. 14,—(0— The
airplane Hyphen II in which Jo-
seph Lebrix and Rene Mesmin were
killed In a crash near Ufa on Sat-
urday was literally blown to pieces
in mid-air by an explosion in the
American Airways. No information .
. was obtained from the message as/Cenrmia + A
at Oslo, three miles south of here, to the storm's Intensity UEVI 8 Id I O R I
The dead: E A. Edwards 39, staff ----- 1---- - -
photographer for the Miami Dally I
Herald; George H. Oibson, 26, chief
pilot for the Curtiss-Wright Flying
Service, Inc. and G. R. (Roe) Mc-
Broom. 22, co-pilot. All were from
LISBON, Portugal, Sept. 14.—(AP)—Radio reports
received here today said the plane in which Willy Rody
and two companions took off yesterday for a flight to the
Representatives of labor today laid by the commission after a discus- dent reported today from the scene
before the American legion unem- sion with the sheriff John Burgess at the wreck,
ployment conferehce a suggestion---------- ' - ■ — -■
Rash Aid To Victuns in Stricken Honduras City
between the faction
Governor Blackwood urged the
special session, the second in the
history of the state, to pass a law
forbidding the planting of cotion
in 1932.
“Our prompt action.'' he said,
"will probably encourage other
states that are trembling in the
balance of indecision and, insofar
as we may know. South Carolina
may be the determining factor in
this great struggle in the Interest
of southern agriculture The far-
mers. In accentuated tones, have
said that it is their wish tout this
law be enacted."
MORE MOVIES
FOR RUSSIA
MOSCOW—Russia now has
34,000 movie theaters, the num-
ber have quadrupled in less
than four years. Forty soviet
—Alms have been sent- to the
United States this year.
duction measure, and. falling in
NOGALES. Artz.. Sept. 14.— mL If Texas Adopt:
Rain and wind of hurticane pro-
sericusly hurt, has been sent to I 4 itude 45.55 noxth, longitude 4
Tela. ; 4 54.29 west (395 miles east of 4
!♦ Halifax. N 8.1 and proceeded 4
4 m a westerly direction 4
REGISTRATION UND E R
WAY MONDAY; NO ES-
TIMATE OF ATTEND-
ANCE AVAILABLE.
Work of the 1931-32 ses-
lion of the Denton public
schools got under way Mon-
day, with the day devoted to
registration at the high
schools and classwork at the
ward schools. These are the
frst of the Denton educa-
tional institutions to begin
work this fall, the two col-
leges being scheduled to
open next week.
“At this time, we can make no
estimate of the enrollment," Supt.
W T Doggett said, "but from all
indications, it will be about the "
same as at this time the past
year."
Classes began Monday morninz
in the ward schools. At the Rob-
ert E Lee School, a total of 275 pu-
pils began work and at the West
Ward school the enrollment was
174. At the North Ward School, 225
pupils enrolled for the year's work
Monday morning.' It waa reported.
The Fred Douglass School < col-
ored) reports the largest initial en-
rollment ih the history of the
school. with 243 beginning work
Monday morning. At the same timo
last year, there were between 105
! and 110 enrolled.
Claasep wil begin at she two
high schools Tuesday morning at
8:25 o’clock. Doggett stated. There
are 60 teachers in the Denton pub-
lic schools, and approximately 55
students from the College of In-
dhuzsntal 'Arts will practice tram
during the first semester.
HOUSE BEGIN!
. Trisected Angle
Airplanes and ships rushed food and medical supplies to Belize, British Honduras, following two hurri-
canes which killed several hundred people, including 12 Americans, and injured about 600 Here is an air-
plane view of the stricken city, made before the disaster. The picture at the upper right shows how Red !
Cross nurses are ministering,to those, left homeless. Lower right to an United States marine corps vlane!
Commander, T. L. Morrow, At Nicaragua, the kind that flew medical supplies to the stricken area The map shows the location of
U. S. N., who flew here from Beltze, the arrows indicating the paths of the two hurricanes that converged on the city.
West Texas: Partly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday: probably show-
ers in the Panhandle and extreme
west portion; coo’er In extreme
north portion Tuesday,
Eas Texnm: Generaly fair to-
night; Tuesday partly eloudy, pro*
AUSTIN, Sept. 14—(AP)
—Antagonists in the fight to
decide whether Texas should
prohibit cotton planting in
1932 or merely reduce cot-
ton acreage met on the floor
of the House of Representa-
tives today, as debate began
on various cotton relief pro-
posals. A vote was not ex-
pected before late today or
tomorrow.
The Senate failed to start dis-
cussion of two bills reported Sat-
urday by its agricultural commit-
tee. one embodying the cotton pro-
hibition plan for 1932 championed
by Governor Huey P. Long of
Louisiana and the other being sim-
ilar to an acreage reduction bill
reported favorably in the House.
Senators apparently wished to see
the outcome of the battle in the
house between cotton prohibition-
ists and reductionists
W. C. Orr, Of the First State
Bank, was ’all-smiles' Monday
morning The bank wes in receipt
of a check for $2827 from the State
Guaranty Fund, being a final set-
tlement of the amount due the
bank here from the funds collect-
ed under the old guarantee law
covering State banks. Orr said,
"This money has been tied up for
four years in the Guaranty Fund,
and State Banks over Texas will
participate in the final settiement.
The distributlon at this time means
the division of something like $2 -
000,000 among the member banka.
Sure, it brings a 'smile' to all of
us."
that the legalization of beer be
urged «« • means of providing em-
ployment for more than 1,000,000
men.
M. J. McDonough, president of
the building trades aepartment of
the American Federation of Labor,
urged action by the next congress
to legalize the brewing industry,
characterized by him as formerly
the fifth largest industry in the
country. ,
He estimated -that within six
months as many as 1,250,000 men
would be employed, in addition to
benefit being provided other in-
dstries.
(Opening the conference, Ralph T.
O’Neil, natioraf commander of the
ydegion, told the assembly of three
score represents ttves at states,
cities, industry end labor; thatthe
legion considered the present un-
employment situation comparable’
tothc. crisis presented by the World
Storm S trikes Mexico
MIAMI. Fla, Sept. -14——
Sweeping westward across the Car-
ibbean sea. a tropical storm struck
inland near Payo Obispo. Quin-
tana Roo. Mexico, today, said a ra-
dio message received here by Pan-
. at 9:30 a. m. (3:30 a. m., Central
Standard Timet and expect to be
in America in 40 to 42 hours. They
were reported to have passed over
the Island of Fayal in the Azores
at 11 4 a m.. C. S. T
Their plane is a Junkers all-met-
al. once owned by Charles A Le-
vine and christened the "Esa" just
before the start in honor of Ro-
dy s young bride It was heavily
laden with 635 gallons of" gasoline
and 165 gallons of oil, enough for
46 hours in the air at an average
speed of 93 miles an hour It car-
which to force salary cuts it the ; by her under-nourished condition
governor would let the lawmakers I If the young children could be
use IL The Beck resolution would.placed in si stat* institution. Hay-
have had a persuasive effect rather den said he believed they could be
than a compulsory one. Under made worth-whie L citizens of Texas,
terms of the Deberry resolution the and the two oldest boys could work
. DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
•— XXXINO. * 3 DENTON, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 14, 1931
Heavy rains fell at Empalme, So-
nora. yesterday and today.
Iv ASHINGTON.' Sept 14.—(,
The weather bureau today Issued
the following storm warning
"Advisory 10 a. th., tropical dis-
turbance is centre! this morning
about ope hundred miles east-
northeast of Belize, moving west-
ward. With slowly increasing in-
tensity. It is attended by gales and
probably winds of hurrioane force
near Ite center, ahd it will move
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court house In Denton st « a. m.
but those who find it Inconven-
ient to ome here for the start are
invited to Join the caravan at any
point, according to Mrs. Claude
Underwood, secretary of the asso-
ciation.
The tour to not limited to mem-
bers of the association but is
open to all interested growers.
Schedule of Toor
The schedule of the tour and
places to be visited are as follow*
Leave Denton 8 a. m.; 8:10 to 8:40
a. m., W D Sutton. Denton; 9:20
to 9:50 a. m.. 8. A. Gibson, Roan-
oke; 10.30 to 11 a. m., Walter Pet-
erson, Juatin: 11:30 to 12 m.. Chas.
Bryson. Justin; noon. Wilkins pas-
ture. Hickory Creek; 1:30 to 1:50 p.
m., H B Hainey, Krum. 2:30 to 3:30
p.m. Joe D. Waide, Sanger; 4:40
p. m., Woodie Chapman. Denton.
TRANSATLANTICPLANE REPORTED COUNTY FACES
SIGHTED OFF BERMUDA MONDAY CHARITY NEED
300 BURNED TO DEATH,
NAVAL OFFICER RE-
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careful than they have during the " -----
summer months. And the prople one speeding line was assessed at
^ving on WnaooksBel and North........~
of Bob Neale’s busses, "whenbonke
Judge T. Ha Davie told the county
commissioners at their meeting
Monday morning.
I "For the past three weeks the
county has refused all charity to
I able-bodied persons who want
money or food,” the judge stated.
"Cotton pickers are needed over
the county, and while they will not
make much, they will make enough
to live on "
Judge Davis indicated he felt
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BELIZE, British Honduras. Sept i
14—IP—Fire threatened to com-
plete the destruction of storm and I from Juncal Do Sol, about 30 miles
flood today as the work of burying loom Isbon, yesterday morning
BELIZE, British Hondu-
| ras, Sept. 14.— (AP)—Lieut.
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
_tA
SKATES 1,950 MILES
TO CONVENTION
DETROIT—After a long
skate Jack Hyland is on hand
awaiting the conventlen of the
American Legion. He was on
the road 34 days and eight
nights and used up four pairs
of roller skates making 1,900
miles from Wilson, N. C.
ASTROLOGER
IN PROTEST
NEW YORK—Rises an es-
trologer in protest. Hal Olver
wishes to debate • for charity
against John Mulholland, vice
president of the Society of
American Magicians. The so-
ciety offered to aid the police .
In ridding the city of mediums,
fortune tellers and astrologers.
Olver would prove that astrol-
ogy is a science.
Inland over northemn British Hon*-- Georgia general assembly favor a
“ "" - * cotton holiday in 1932"
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