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23 MEN BELIEVED KILLED
G. O. P. STA^bARD-BEARERS
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June 30 Last Day
To Pay 1931 Taxes
DEADLOCK HOLOS
IN PARLEY OVER
Employes Named,
Salaries Set, As
City Heads Meet
me final blast sent streams of
fam’ng oil along the decks of the
MCI FLOYD i
IN DARING FORT
SCOn ROBBERY
WORCESTER, Maas . June 17-
()—A new discovery which he seid
would change the history of elec-
Retail Baying
Pot ver Broadens
much blocking of
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weekly to insure absolute purity with
water treated each day We have
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Four of the bandits entered the
bank while the fifth stood guard
outside with 3 machine gun. Short-
ly after the five men drive away
a posse of several hundred men
was in pursuit.
Call Jury Panel
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any of the others, shook the dam-
aged ship I -
air when the first blast occurred
rs 100 workmep were rushing re-
pairs on the Cymbeline in the great
Vickers drydeck. The dock was built
in England and towed across the
Atlantic to Montreal.
Association. and Tom Frazier, hog
and sheep salesman, expect to be
here to tell of the things happen-
ing in the livestock business.
approved by Intercollegiate
.ing authorities.’'
the memory of at least two events
which bid for places in political hts-
lory One, of course, was the sud-
den upward surge of sentiment for
prohibition repeel. curbed only after
a real convention battle The ether
was the Anal victory yesterday Vice
President Curtis in his candidacy
for renomination.
For a time, evert toward the end.
It appehred Curtis was on the verge
of defeat, despite the fact every
key man in the convention under-
stood President Hoover wanted hio
running mate of 1928 kept on the
ticket There was wet oppositicn to
placed cn the runningboard of the
car. She screamed loutily as the
automctile started and the bandits
released her at once
Eula Kepley and Mildred Eau-
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the prement week-end.
Two Important Hapeni
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Payments Suspended
Until Close Of
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Would Wipe Slate
Clean Of Debts,
’ Reparations.
France Insists Trade
Barriers Be Lifted
Ten Bodies Recovered At Nopn As Search For
__ Others Continues; 63, Including 15 Firemen,
Treated For Injuries.
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Dudley Evere, County Agent
here from 1923 to 1926, with Mrs
Everett, has been a guest of Mr,
and Mrs. O. L. Fowler Everett is
their heads out the windows They
were released as son as the rob-
bers had driven * few blocks from
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Ell Hargraves, Denton citizen, has
his own ideas about ’Ashing’. good
and poor, and tlao expremed KT
Other Blasts Follow
A number of minor explosions oc-
curred and an hour later, while fire-
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aemains in the car co as not to
WOhmpede traffie the three minute
Saturday after-
the Court House
with a military funeral in the shad-
ow of the uplifted torch on Bed-
lew's Island For years he helped
the soldiers show off the statue to
visitors. He was only a mongrel,
but, says Sergt. James P Boyce,
"Ha was a great guy."
chief waa Gead. He had been noted
for his courage. His body. missing
for several hours, was found be-
tween the vessel and the duck. The
steel plates of the Cymbeline were
so hot tkt the interior of the ship
could not be penetrated by rescuers
until nearly noon.
No estimate has been made of the
sight on whether to authorise an
! on bonds for further public
Thomas said his poll of the Sen-
ate had shown about two-thirds of
the membership was ready to vote
againet the measure.-----------
Man, Daughter
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The jury panel for Monday, be-
ginning the third week of the Dis-
trict Court summer tevm and the
last week of the civil docket, has
been called as follows:
H. Spain, J H Barnes. Wayne
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kidnapcd three young women em-
ployes and fled with an undeter-
mined amount of money scooped
from the bank counters. The nos-
tages fere released before the ban-
alts’ ear left iwn.-
Lee McCreedy, city tireman, vtw
approached the bank durig tha
held up. raid he recognized one of
the bandits as Charles “Pretty
Boy' Floyd tiom pictures which he
has seen of the notorious Oklahora
gunman McCreedy said the robber
he recognized as Floyd warned him
U retrain away from the bank
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counties in Texes, and I believe one
of the contributing causes for the
success of diversification. dairying.
Poultry and terracing is due the
work done by one of the Arst agents
to Penton County—thelate , Dr
Craddock. He was' a most able
agent and took great pride in his
work, and even now there are evi-
fiances of the start of h's work
here.” Everett went from here to
visit the Washita Farm, in Okla-
homa. where he at one time work-
ed with the Chapman interests.
City delinquent
Taxes Coming In,
But Slow, Report
Payments on delinquent taxes
are coming in to the City of Den-
ton. a check of City Secretary J.
W Erwin's collection books shows,
but collections remain slow and the
present time finds the c'ty enter-
ing the summer period which norm-
ally cerries the smallest totals of
Over $500 has been collected, to
date this ihonth: The average, tk-
New Discovery, to Change
Entire Lighting System, I s
Announced by College Speaker
paymenu provided all the other
governments concerned will do the
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Todey a new product of the Kell-
ogg Company. “Whole Wheat
Flakes”. goes on the market in Den-
ton. The city has been sampled and
the product is on sale at all grocery
stores, it is announced. This is an
entirely new product and is put up
to a new patented, easily opened
container, telling for • low price
An extensive newspaper advertis ng
campaign will be carried out on this
product and the Kellogg Company
expects it to meet with success such
as their other producta have merie-
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elation and known throughout the
dominion for his courage was killed
with four of his men.
The bodies recovered were those
of Fire Chief Gautheir, Paul Hen-
richon. J. Debrienne, J Hamelin
and R. Noel, th efour firemen who
perished with him; and Jernes WU-
eon, John Riddell. James Corbett.
Donald Gunn and witham Ather-
ton, all employes of the Vickers
Company ,—
Blast Hit* Steepers
The first explosion ripped through
the sleeping querter* of the crew
of 34 Several of the sailor* were
thrown into the water and rescued
by rowboats. Others stumbled about
until they found a way out All the
works. The senate bill, sponsored
by Democrats is flatly opposed to
any. The house, by adoption of the
Garner bill. Is recorded for an out-
lay of »1.300,000,000. Senator LaFol-
lette, the Wisconsin Republican
Independment, demands a five and
a heli bilion dolar -bond. issue - .
DEMOCRATS GET
J. J. Park ano aom standirer,
progrem chairmen of the Denton
County Form Club for this Satur-
day night’s meeting, have invited
two Fort Worth men to make the
principal talks. John C Burns, head
ing the year-round payment*,
about $1,000 per month.
Stenoxapher kianapea Me WouhtngonnneamhwalEuttima NEW YoRK Trooper, thestatuetmsts
Wash, the commencement orator.
He stated the new method of light-
ing would be available for use with-
in a gear. T.
"Something is happening in the
field of light, for a new discovery
will soon change the history of
electric lighting." said Mr. Dono-
van. - ’
"I Ta satisfied, after spending
hours in the private laboratory 61
a ariend, that the discovery has
been made and will soon be an-
nounced through the technica) rnd
illuminating press, and, that with-
in one year It wiu be to practical
use.
The formal opening of the Crystal
Cascade Swimming Pool will be
held Saturday afternoon Several
specialty stunts will be offered in
swimming, diving, water-play and
law will not be observed, but there vessel Ite force threw severei in-
. - - - - - jered men into the waters, their
asked by the Lausanne Reparations
Conference to join with the Buro-
pean powers in their temporary ex-
tension of the Hoover moratorium
until the conclusion of the parley
Nor does the state department
expect that such e request will be
made, as thta government has d-
dared repeatedly that only after
the European countries have made
some agreement among themselves
on reparations and war debts will
it be prepared to hear separate pro-
posals for some rearrangement of-
the Hebts agreements with the
United States.
The Hoover moratorium ends
June 30, but no large payment* are
due to the, United States until Dec.
15.'
Consequently there is ample time
to deal with the United States be-
fore any , actual default occurs
belief for needed changes in the
present regulation* when he give*
this interview. “I notice that old-
timer’ says the fish will not bite for
the next two weeks. Now, he is no
doubt a first class angler and has
splended ideas regarding the finny
tribe, but he hes just missed his
guess thirty days for they have not
been biting for a month." In giv-
ing his Adece about the present reg-
ulation he continues, “I contend
that we should not be allowed to
sell fish caught in the waters of
Denton County, and the closed sea-
son should be three months instead,
of two, though I think we should
be permitted to fish at all times for
catfish and carp. And there's one
other feature I think should be
changed I believe that' the regula-
tion should reduce the number of
white perch from 20 to 10 for e
single day’s catch. as if we protect
our stock of fish by not allowing
them to be sold and place a Imit
= on the number, then we would have
plenty of gdod fishing all the season
' and our lake would soon become one
of the greatest resorts in this part
of the country." )
to dauble parking in the business Tears streamed down the faces of
—-— —-n- - ---t— • t the firemen when they learned their
gins, R: A. Duwe, Lewisville: J R
Boyd Frisco; J B Ererett, H Bas-
sinzer, Hebron; E. L. Heath, O. A.
Peterson, W, H Irwin, Rcanoke.
Cases Set
Set for the week, on the appear-
ance docket, are:
Monday J P Sita et el. vs Dess
Walthall et aL, injunction; Wed-
nesday. Mrs Ada L. Grice et al. vs.
Fidelity Saving* and Trust Co. of
Missouri. et al.. injunction; Thurs-
day. Walter Mays vs Charles O
Thomas et al, suit on note and
toreclosure of lien
On'the civil trial docket the fol-
lowing are set:
Monday. Willle Pearl Hume et al
vs Elizabeth Hume et al., to try
title and for damages; First State
Bank of Denton vs C. G Miler et
al, suit for debt; I. N Meyers et al.
vs. Wisley King. for damages; T.
L Tennison, trustee vs. H. 8 Mas-
bill.
"There is only one difference,"
he said. "They were designed lor
the railroads and the banks and
the House of Morgan, while under
this bill they are designed for re-
lief of human misery."
As the vote neared. Senator
Thomas <D„ Okla I chief - bonus
“Double parking must be stopped
to Denton,” said Traffic Officer Roy
Moore, and starting this coming
Mondcy. June 30th a .car can be
left for only three minutes to
double parking. By that, I mean
that the driver can not lawfully be
away from his automohse, when
double parked, for more than three
minutes. Of course, I the driver
in addition Red Croes guards will
be on constant duty for the safety
of our patrons During the summer
months special swimming lessons
will be given and classes, will be
organised to teach life saving
methods All diving boards rnd
water play apparatus are of the
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Herbert Hoover and Charbes Curtis, nominated by the Republican
National Convention to Chicago to succeed themselves as president
arid vice president, respectively. - •
EAST TEXAN DIES FROM AU-
TOMOBILE INJRIES
NACOGDOCHES June 171AP»
'—injuries suffered to an automo-
bile accident resulted today in the
death of Henry B. Turner 38, of
Gladewater, at a hospital here He
was hurt yesterday Plant were
made to return his body to Olade-
water for burial ’
engaged the services of Taylor Cash. ..
who will act as Chief Guard, and “ tne
K TORONTO—Mrs. Foster H
ills the original •"Flying
Grandmother," believes more
grandmaws ought to take up
hying. She said so when she
stopped here en route by air
from Newark. N. 1.. to a uni-
versity class reunion at Madi-
son. Wis. “Older women have
leisure," she said, ’and they
ustally have no dependants."
CHICAGO-There’s a man on
Long Island who thinks Joseph I.
Prance shculd lead a third psrty to
work for the welfare "of all the
people. Soon after the former
Maryland senator was ejected.from’
the platform at theG. O. P. Con-
ventiori. he received the new party
suggestion in a wire signed •■Rich-
ard Knaust, Copeague."
_______________ men were fighting the flames and
>, manager,’who said, searching ’ for victims of the blasts,
another detoneticn, mare sever than
crew were saved, although man the automobile and made to put
of them were injured. - - — - — ~
Prohibitaon xorces nave been call-
er to meet at 4:30 o’clock Sunday
afternoon. June 18, at the Central
Presbyterian Church, to discuss or-
ganizing for the campaign preced-
ing the vote on the submission ques-
tion to ‘he July 33 primary The call
was issued by W E Loveless, chair-
man of the Hying Squadron to
Denton County
All persons Interested in prohi-
bition are urged to attend the meet-
ing, Lovelefs said. It will .be a gen-
eral citizens’ gathering, and any
question those present wish to dis-
cuss will be brought up.
Loveless has rteetved a state-
ment from Dr Daniel A. Poling
that the tatter has reconsidered hts
resignation as chairman of the’Al-
lied Campaigners and trill continue
to that position until Dec. 1, 1832
New Flight
Mark Claimed
DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 17, 1932
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MONTRE A J o June 17.— (AP)—A aeries of ter-
rific explosions ' c‛,6 il tanker Cymbeline wide open
in Montreal Hat. 00 nd brought death to an esti-
•mated total of 23 1. * % ' iuries to 63.
Near Relief Action
WASHINGTON, June 17——
Aggressively clearing away the mass
of legislation awaiting enactment,
congress pushed on today toward
dispose! of Its final bg issue—re-
lief for the unemployed.
Indications pointed to action on
this troubled question in the senate
tomorrow, with a major struggle in
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Denton Thursday evening, announc-
ing his speaking date here It
seems that be has the next shert-
est platform before the people thia
year—"Follow the Law."
m. wozin.1 ruketccv waxv. that followed the first eexplosion.
of the National Livestock Market Flaming on Shot 100 in the
r final blast Fire Chief
aexheir, former president
omlnlcn Fire Criets’ Asso-
FLEAS OF GUILTY IN CORPOR-
ATION COURT
Plea of guilty to charge* of drun-
kenness waa entered-in Corpora-
tloh Oourt Priday morning, and fine
of 112 70 assessed. Thursday the
second speeding case this wook waa
disposed of when a guilty plea was
made and a $5 fine paid.
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
O Atkins. W. L Freeman, Ben
Hampton, Clem . Sullivan, Clovis
Brown, Sanger; C. E Miller, J. M.
Dantet L Hunn, Joe F Phimtps:
Aubrey; H. A. Curry, Justin; Floyd
FORT SCOTT,, Kas., June 17.-()
--Five unnikiked bandits armed with
a nachine gun held up the Citi-
zens’ National Bank here today,
slugged Harry Parrish, assistant
cashier, and Leslie Wolfe, teller.
GROESBECK June 17-(P—A,
C. Sharp, 55, and his ’♦-year-old
daughter. Ester; wire rgund stabbed
to death in their apartment here
yesterday. Coroner Irs Lawley re-
turned a verdict of murder and
suicide He snid Sharp apparentiy
killed the girl as she slept and
Ulen took his own Afe. He had suf-
fered bustness reverses
Mrs Sharp died several years
ago.
LIQUOR WAR FLARES. ONE
DEAD, ONE WOUNDED
DENVER, Oolo.. June 17.— CAP
—Denver’s sporadic liquor war
flared anew last night, one man be-
ing slain and another beaten. Mor-
ris Cohn, 32, previous liquor law
violator, was shot three tunes in a
battle over a huge liquor'cache and
died several tpurs later in a hos-
pital.
pending the roll-call by listening to
their leaders counsel against) any
disturbance. (
Proponents of the legislatio. for
the most part, occupied the Aenate
floor. Most of-those opposed, con-
fident of enough votes to kill the
legislation, remained quietly in their
eeat
One otmhe speakers, ′ 72,
Wis '. said he was no new convert
to the proposal to pay the bonus
immediately— -
Question of Time
There Is no one who denies the
obligation The congress of the
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
Penton County enthusfests of
fast motor boat racing will have
opportunity thia Sunday afternoon
at seeing some of the speediest
boats, most daring drivers, in ac-
tion at Lake Pallas The Penton
Boat Club is sponsoring the event
and invitations have been accepted
by 5 speedesters from Tulsa. 2 from
Shreveport, 2 from San Antonio.
m from Fort Worth. I from Dills*.
^Knd Denton will have 3 entries In
"the ten events, starting a 230
-"o'clock. •
CONGRESS
Senate:
Debates bonus bill
Economy conferee* seek agreer
ment on Federal savings progrem.
Banking committee resumes stock
exehange inquiry
House • *
considers the Cochran kidnaping
bill / '
Shannon committee ivnstieates
government competition with busi-
considerable dscussion amone the
commissioners, two of whom indi-
cated they felt a "Denton man
should have been given’ tt.e place
Murray whose family l ves here
and who told the commission he
had made this his residence since
1839, has been holding a traveling
job, he explaln-d.
The plan also necesettates let-
ting out two patrolmen from the
city force, and City Marshal Lee
Knight said he had notjted John
Gale and I. E Jones they would be
off after July 1.
Appointments Approved
Members of the commission, who
said that tome citizens had appar-
ently thought the commissilon had
decided on the new persennel, sald
they granted it made clear they were
not, and under the city charter
covld not take that au'hority.
A motion of Commissioner T. R
Brooks that all be rat died except
the addttionil motorcre'e ozAcer.
In order that that positing be con:
osidered further, was lost for want
of a second and after prolonged
discussion a thotion by Commis-
sioner Charles Crain received the
votes of Commissieners Frank
Hodges and J. N. Russell and car-
lied, ralifying the five appointees:
Murray, Moore, Paschail, Gentry
and MeQalllard Commisstonet W.
H. Hawley was unable to be pres-
ent
With the exception of that de-
partment th- city heads appotnt-'
tees of last, year were renamed to
tire same positiens
The scalnfics were these finally
। announced and adopted in the city
budget for the fiscal year.
Salaries for the next two fiscal
yrears were set and appointments of
the department heads rattfied by
the City Commission meeting
Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock at
the municipal builctig
The police force shift worked
out for trial was formally o k.d and
the appointment nt J. H. Murray
"Briefty, carbon dioxide gas in- :
troduced into clear gas tubes under
proper electric current produce* s
stedy white light having all the
quasittes of aaygit iomuch desft-
ed by mercenthte houses selling '
clothing or textiles. This light re-
places all the attempts of arc. in-
candescent and luminating gas
tubes of the past, and it is so super-
ior in results that they are no rivals.
“Our ligiesing is as obsolete a* it
well can be. I dare sey there is
ecarcely a lamp fixture in your home
that is not designed as though it
were made to hold a candle. We
are going to take gas-filed tube*
and arrange them around our rooms
in rows of three or four tl the cor-
n‘ce level and regulate intensity by
the number of tubes we turn on.
Borne at the tubes have shown
therapeutic value and wm help out
our ultra viclet ray defciency."
ters et al, suit on stock subscrip- - ....
non.- Tuesday. C. D Judd et al y< tic.lightinE.was announced-tedAy,
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 17.
—(P— A new record lor a trans-
continental flight between sunrise
and sunset Ia claimed^ by Captrin
James B Dickson
D’ickson, making a 3-stop flight
with three passengers - yesterday.
computed his flying time for the
2,480-mile trip from Newark to
Santa Monica as 14 hours, 48 min-
utes. He said the elapsed time wss
two hours more Stops for food and
fuel were made at Indianapelis,
Wichita, Kas, and Albuquerque
On February 28. 1931, Allen Van
De Mark flew from east to west
coasts with three passengers in. 15
hours, 54 minutes ying time, land-
ing at Los Angeles, 16 miles east
bt here.
NEW YORK, June 17—(P- Re-
tail buying power continued to show
considerable breadth the past week
and trade aetnity was further stim-
ulated by active commodity buying
in certein wholesale markete in an-
ticipation of excise taxes recently
adopted by Congress according to
the weekly mercantile trade re-
views ...
Under the new split-payment
plan, June 30 to ths last day to
pay the last half of 1831 taxes, nc-__
cording to Mrs Mae C. Pierce,
county Lax collector.
The first half payment on 1931
taxes was made by Nov. 30, and
taxpayers were given until July 1
tc pay the rematnder of their taxes,
paying taxes at two periods of the
This is the first year the plan of
year has been used.
"After June 30, a 10 per cent pen-
alty, six per cent interest, and 2 .
in costs must be paid on real es-
tate that is delinquent," Ma. Pierce
said.
speak in Danton
— noon, 4 o'clock, on
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June 17,—(AP)
CHICAGO, June 17——The
big Republican show is over, but
the Democrats are moving in with
an even more imposihs array of
political stagetilmmngs, and -the
pause will be only temporary
Maving renounimated Hoover and
Curtis, chosen Everett Sanders of
Indiana their campaign manager,
and melted down 'he great varie-
ty of prohibition views into a plank
promising submission of a plan for
modification, the hosts of the G
O P ovacuated their Chicago
launts during the night with no
lost motion.
within a week, the Democrats
will be in Chicago, in -the same ho-
tels. preparing lor the opening of
their own convention, in the same
over-grownstacum on the West
Side Monday June 37. The van-
guard was here before the Ropub-
licans Were beyond the olty Hmits.
Advane agents of a down presi-
denfial candidates will be getting
hcadquarters spac in shape over
Freemen, Q. w. Meadows. W A
Hicks. Allen Sapp, D. C. Sockwell,
u r»W>1Keci y E.. sponsor, predicted the bill would
Headlee Pink Underwood Joh be beaten by a two to one vote.
Shipp, J. A Craven, C. L Richey, C. — J - - - -
C. Proffer, Denton; T. 6 King, J
United States had determined thet
there was an obligation. I need not
discuss the validity of that obliga-
tion. • '
"The only question before con-
gress is whether we will pay now or
r T1 • J 11/ I wa t until 1945?"
For I nira Week ' Blait»contend<id.tharthe»l^»-
1UI --ud I-m 000,000 in debentures which
n • . • , P a authorized the reconatruction cor-
District U O U r l poration to issue were ot "identi-
• ----- cally the same chzracter, as the
—--- obligafons proposed in the bonus
lilm Thore was a novement for
a younger and more speltacular g-
ore And there was en important
undercurrent of opposutton grow-
ing out of the social war which
TH gbeen waged In wasnmgton
over precedence, beween Mr Cur-
tis' sister, Mrs Dolly Gann, and
Alice Longworth.
Against this combined opposi-
tion. the Oursis people played an
interesting gam*. At their head
was Mrs Gann herself, receiving
donstantly at her holed, present. In
a box at every convention session.
lawn Mr. Hatcher was
EAST TEXAS: Partly cloudi to
somewhat unsettled and contin-
ued warm ton’ght and Saturday.
Fresh southerly winds on the
coast.
WEST TEXAS: Generally tair
tonight, slightly cooter in the -
Panhandle; Saturday partly
etokLkiomA: parG, coua,
tonight, not quite aa wares to
woof portion; Saturday parity
cloudy, seatiered showers inegst
portion, not so warm in south
and east portions.
I ask the people of Denton to help
in stopping 7
W Gregory Hatcher candidate
for Raliroed Commissioner will
debt and foreclosure. Thursday.
Laura Dooley vs. North Texas Pro-
tective Associstion, suh on ineur-
ance certificate: Denton County
vs. Mrs E C. Powen administra-
trix et au., suit on exetas fees.
Ten bodies had been 9 • ;
at noon, nine hours after
blast, and 13 others were b
to be in the wrecked tanker’s
P.rteen of the inpured were L
men called out to combat the fama
CHICAGO, June 17,—Well,
the old Republican convention
of 1932 went either into history
or the ash an at 3:30 Thurs-
day afteruocn. and say, I saved
by "Injun" Charley Curtis for
the vice presidency. The rasceks
was just ieady-te stab, him when
we caught' ’em, so it's the same
old vaudeville team of Hoover
and Curtis. They nominated
Hoover, but after a tough fight;
18,000 out of 19 000 yelled for re-
peal last nigtit, but the 1,000
had a vote, so there wasn't X
vote in a carload
Curtis beat, three good men.
all of ’em MeNider is especially
a promising young fellow, but
he's got plenty time. Wednesday
night was a real session. 11
sounded like something, but
that's because there was 12,000
Democrats in the galleries De-
mocracy and the right of free
speech that you- hear so much
about had a setback there yes-
terday
Ex-senator France wanted to
withdraw his own name and
propose the name of Calvin
Coolidge 'for President. Well,
that machine just bundled him
right into the alley. That was
the real sensation of the con-
vention. The only way you
could have got Calvin Coolidge
before that convent on would
have been to have it come in
under an assumed name. Dur-
ing all the revings of the ac
com-plishments of the Republi-
can party not one mention was
ever made of Coolidge, so when
Snell and his strong-arm men
stopped France and bodily
threw him of, there is no pos-
sible cabinet job can ever be too
high for them.
See you at the Democrats',
where they will let anybody
nom’nate everybody. Ydurs,
--d ■■
Britain offered to wipe the
slate clean of reparations y (
and war debts at the inter-
national economic confer-
l ence here today, but France
1 insisted that elimination of —
trade barriers was more im-
portant than cancellation of
war payments.
STOCKHOLM—Night clubs a
-la United States hare Swedish
soloes worried. They stay open
Uli dawn, with jazz ruling m-
preme. Now the kiksdag is con-
sidering a MU to make curfew
ring >na m regardless
------
at present manager of an 8,000 ecre _,
farm near Bay City, where they
grow principally cotton, corn and
rice with a general assortment of
row crops. He said. "It’s always been
good to get back to Denton, which
by the way. Is one of the ‘ best
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Germany's spokesman, in a tem-
perate address, made no reference
to repudiation of reparation but in-
diceted that it might be necessary
to declare s moratorium on private
debts, of which are owed to Ameni-
■cans,4
The ■ most important concrete
achievement of today's session was
the acceptance by Great Britan,
France, Italy, Belgium and Jr pan
of a temporary agreement to sus-
pend reparation payments from
June 30 when the Hoover mora-
torium ends, to the close of the
present conferene.
" Asks Cancellation AU Debts
This sidetracked a suggestion that
the Hoover hohday be extended an-
other six months It assured con-
tinuation of the conference at least
until next month.
Neville Chamberlain, speaking for
the Mac Donaid government, assert-
ed Great Britain is ready to waive
her claim to 2,000,000,000 lbs: in war
House Firm * Against
Hoover Furlough Plan
Little Hope Is Seen
Of Ever Reaching
Agreement.
WASHINGTON, June 17.
— (AP)—House and Senate
conferees on the economy
bill broke up again today
without an agreement and
one of the conference mem-
bers said they were “hope-
lessly deadlocked.”
Another meeting was called for
this afternoon to try to reach an
agreement cn the controversy over
President Hover’s furlough plan,
which the house conferees are op-
posing in favor of streight pay cuts
for gocernment employees.
Most of the conferees were pessi-
mistic over the chances of obtain-
ing an agreement, however, and
forecast the bill would have'to be
sent back to the house and senate
for further instructions
ECONOMY Bill
" --4— ’ *
Conference Adjourns
To Afternoon As
Efforts Fail.
WASHINGTON, June 174
Hundred* of ragged—but orderiy
war veterans looked down from
packed galleries today while the
senate neared a vote expected by
leader* to kill all chances at im-
mediate peyment on the $2,400-
000,000 Soldiers’ Bonus.
Outside, several thousand form-
er service men, who had trekked
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