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Enmitmu=AMae!
FEWFATALITIES
IN STRICKEN AREA
14 DIE MANY
INIURED WHEN
For Repeal Two
To One; Is 25th
BIG SPRING YOUTH KILLED.
COMPANION BADLY INJURED,
HIT BY TRAIN NEAR ROANOKE
that’s good enough. There is only
ome drawback to this "buying in
8 ptember," Women with charge
accounts and sending stuff on ap-
proval—they win do a lot of Sep-
tember buying, but Lord help Oc-
tober. when they start to return-
ing the clothes, because they did
not look good at the party. They'
say there la a hurricane down in
Brownsville. 35
quickest route
leads through
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LOUISIANA: Ger.
night and Thuridat.
It
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s,
holding on
last step to
order.
roofs and pitiful furnishings put of
the water and putting them back
together.
While the death list in all cities
and towns in the lower valley, re-
mained small today, all relief work-
ers predicted that scores of deaths
would be accounted tor finally in're-
gions throughout the broad and long
(Conttnued on Page rival
WASHINGTON. YBept 6—
President Roosevelt today directed
his Secretary of the Navy, Claude
Swanson, to proceed directly to
Havana, Cuba, aboard the cruiser
Indianapolis.
Swanson win sail from Anna-
polis at 4 o’clock today and win
arrive in Havana Friday morning
Leabing a White House confer-
ence on the Cuban situatton, Swan-
son said he would go directly to
Havana
He added he had no specific or-
ders
At the same time, Admiral H
Standley. chief of naval operations,
flashed orders for a concentration
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day and the old military highway
branching off " ~
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while it was too early to determine
the amdunt of damage to crops, un-
doubtedly it had been heavy, es-
pecially in the case of citrus fruits.
Temperatures averaged near nor-
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erate mestly northerly winds
the coast. -
When the Injured boy was being
first treated, the officers sought
to learn his name but his mum-
Bad Business
CHICAGO—Andrew Chtorelo
finds that a good place not to
drive a motor car is over a po-
liceman's toes
He did it the other day and
here's what happened:
He was charged with reckless
driving, using a fictitious state
license plate A Judge fined him
410 on each charge
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MONTPELIER. Vt. Sept 6.—•
—Vermont was on record today as
the 25th successive state to vote ft*
repeal of the 14th amendment.
A light vote was cast yesterday by
citizens of the Green Mountain
State, long a stronghold of prohibi-
tion forces, and by midnight the
complete vote of the 344 towns and
clUes was: * —
For repeal, 41,279; against, 20,572.
And when ye shall hear of wars
and rumors of wars be yet not
troubled; for such things must needs
be; but the end shall not be yet.
Mark 13-T.
lined in the proclamation as eco-
nomte reconstruction, trial of "de-
WILL
7 Rogers
' ‘says:
Whether a signal light had been
set against the milk trails and if
so, why the •gine crew of that
train did not see it in time.
Whether the brakeman of the
passenger train had proceeded down
the track to the rear’or the stand-
Wig flyer.
FORCES WAIT DEVELOPMENTS'
: 62%
16
J. W. Bovell may not be a snake
'charmer, but he is a snake-catch*
er Monday morning, in front of the
Post Office, he saw a snake on the
bumper of an automobile, which a
woman was driving. She had started
backing out, when Bovell saw the
snake and called to her, telling of
the snake on the bumper. The wo-
man started screaming, wondering
if it could get in the car. Bovell, like
a real snake-catcher, placed his
fool on the head of the snake,
mashing its head, and the etarting
part of the feat was that he did not
run when that snake colled around
his leg
lantic waters around Cuba.
It was emphasised at the White
House that the President is with-
gl
Meanwhile, more than a thous-
an marines were being concentrat-
ed at the Quantico, Va., base, in
readiness in case of danger for
foreign life and ptopert that will
warrant their presence in Cuba.
It was said at the White House
the president did not know of
this move, but that ha supposed
It was being doen by the Navy
merely as a precautionary meas-
ure to save time’in event marines
are needed
principal street here keeps a pet
hen for company. He says that
—------ -- .I, guveu-, it ducks ever time a paper is
ment, recognition of national debts. ' bought.
JEnevn hospita1 n Binghampton, "
had been stopped by a switch
storm which struck
Florida and the lower
Valley.-and said that
Meria to
than anybody else.
In a shower of broken dishes. The
impact of the colllaslon split the
wooden car like kindling
State. county/
prising enlisted soldiers and sail-
ors and civilians of varlous fac-
tions. led by the students' organ-
isation. «111 fight “for revolution-
ary vindications" upon -pure prin-
clples of national sovereignty.1'
These "vindications" were out-
Businesslike Hen
bLJL>AFKHT—Anewsboy on a
E smaller craft, destroyers and sub-
chaseds, to lie off within steaming
distance
AUSTIN, Sept. &—(P—James
E Ferguson, spokesman for
Governor Miriam A Ferguson,
told callers al Ms office today
that the legislature would be
canled » convene in special ses-
sion next Tuesday. The callers
quoted Ferguson to the effect
the official proclamation prob-
ably would be issued today.
AUSTIN. Sept. 4 —LP-Bellef was ■
expressed today that Governor Mir-
iam A Ferguson had decided to de-
fer for another week at least Is-
suance of a call for a special sea.
sion of the legislature to convene.
She said some weeks ago that
September 11 likely would be select-
ed for the legislature to meet Her
husband, James E Ferguson. said
last night no definite decision had
been made.
The legislature will consider legis-
lation necessary for the issuance of
state bonds, proceeds of which would
be used la relieving distress caused
by unemployment. A proposal to
amend the constitution to permit
the issuance of bonds not to ex-
ceed 420 000.000 was approved by the
voteps in a special election on Aug.
20
Other subjects also are expected
to be opened up to the legislature
for considering, Including a proposed .
sales tax and modification of the
anti-trust laws.
----- (By Amsoclated Press) -----
I By Associated Press)
- LINCOLN, Neb.. Sept. 6.—(P
—Otto Fallbeck, of Heming, a
farmer who appealed to Secre-
tary of State Harry Swanson to
please help him get his lost cow
back, is well pleased with the
results.
He notified the secretary that
he had not only found his cow
but that in addition there was
a calf.
Many Denton people expressed
appreciation of the Extra published
Tuesday night by the Record-
Chronicle. The Extra was put out
on account of the-atorm in the Val-
ley country- of Texas The afternoon
Record-Chronicle had carried all
the storm-news available up to that
time, but wire cnnections had not
been complete, so with the first
concrete news of the disaster, the
Record-Chronicle believed that the
people of Denton should have the
malinthe cotton belt, but frequent
Hept 6.-UP-Within showers and much cloudy weather
of an American de- ’ made it rather bad for the staple.
Rain Damages
Cotton in East
WASHINGTON, Sept 4—(By
contrast to the hot, dry weeks of
midsummer, too much rain fell in
some sections east of the Rockies
last week resulting in a generally
unfavorable maturing period for
cotton.
The weather bureau mentioned
Death Toll Expected
To Grow; Property
Loss Heavy.
BROWNSVILLE. Sept. 6.
(AP?-—The established
death list today from the
tropical hurricane which
swept the Lower Rio Grande
Valley Monday night and
Tuesday was small. The
known dead totals 11, as
follows:
Brownsville—none.
Matamoros, Mexico,
across the Rio Grande from
Brownsville, 6.
Harlingen, 8.
Rio Hondo, 2.
Injured requiring hospit- .
alization or emergency
treatment:
Mercedes, 7.
Harlingen, 48. -
Brownsville, 20.
Matamoros, 25.
at La
"Well. Why don’t you fellows come
down to Hopkins County?" asked
Eli Hargrave, former Denton dU-
sen "We've got various things down
there to eat—Imostly peas.” Mr and
Mra Hargrave spent Monday here
with Dr. M D Fullingim and fam-
tty and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Grogam,
both of which familkes admitted
that Hargrave ate as though he had
nothing in recent weeks other than
those Hopkins County peas “No, I
am not up here to teach the boys
how to catch carp." he said "I
think I'll be up in October and then
any one who wants to learn the
gentle art of tcarptng’. I be glad
to show ’em how. There are some
fellows up here now who believe
they know “ow‘, but they know
really nothing at all about it. There
l» Mitch Buckner- he talks Big
Carp, but he can't catch 'em; too
there's Bill Wilson—tie tells about
catching ’em but always giving
them away to somebody who eats
that most delicate fish. Bill really
knows nothing of the art Yes, there
are others who claim to know, but
they just know practically nothing
at all about catching carp I guess
the waters of Denton County now
have more carp than in months, as
rve been away from here for nearly
a year.”
miles. offered the
to Brownsville. It
citrus and truck
The College of Industrial Arts has
requested a sum of 4355,000 fromg the
Texas Public Works rund, to be
used in adding three more buildings
to the college plant ----
The request was made public
when tne application was filed Tues-
day with the advisory committee at
Fort Worth.
Previously, at the Board of Re-
gents meeting here last spring. it
had been stated a medical building
would be asked and some other
work at the local college, but the
extent of the plans was not given
at that time.
The application filed seeks the
purchase of an old building and
grounds and the construction of a
dormitory at an estimated cost of
4150,000. The infirmary sought would
cost 435,000 and a senior dormitory
would be built at an estimated cost
of 4170,000.
The first item on the program is
not given in detail and Wednesday
President L. H. Hubbard was out
of the city and could not be reach-
ed to learn which building and
grounds are referred to.
According to the story from Fort
Worth, the college has 430,000 avail-,
able and desires and advance for
the remainder of the sum needed
keting, accounting. labor, adjust-
ment and transportation commit-
tees.
ft was held possible this set-up
might be changed, as the code is
subject to alteration.
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Representative George C. Heater,
member of the Legislature. and who
is taking such an active part against
the Bales Tax. is well known in
Denton He is a nephew of J. T
Hester and la a former student of
Teachers College. When here he
lived with his uncle
organisation of national services
for an early return to normalcy,
and measures for creating a new
Cuba, "founded on the firm basis
of law and the most modern con-
cept of democracy."
ambulances to the scene Motorists,
traveling on a state highway that
skirts the tracks where they fol-
low the Susquehanna River, con-
verted their machines Into ambu-
lances. carrying Injured to oper-
ating rooms.
M H. King ot Elmira, engineer
of the milk train, running be-
tween Hornell and Hoboken, said
"I didn’t see the signal light in
time to stop. It happened too
quickly We were coming around
a curve."
At the end of the flyer was a
steel car with another next, and
the wooden coach of the type
known to railroaders as "an ‘old
1037,'” the one from which the
dead were taken, third. Ahead of
that were other steel coaches, in-
cluding the diner. Persons in the
diner were hurled from their seats
the pair were from Big Spring,
going to Denison, and that they had
gone to the grade to try to catch
a train and had gone to sleep
on the track.
Identification was made later by
the sherirrs office hero..
An inquest on Murworth was
held by Justice of the Peace W
A Mathews and a verdict of “ac-
cidental death" readied.
engine at work ahead
All of the dead were taken from
a wooden coach, that sandwiched
between cans of steel and three
cat from the end of the flyer,
telescoped like an accordion In
the hands of an enraged giant. One
moment before the coach had been
filled with homegoers. many of
them returning from vacations. The
next It was a mass of splinters
and twisted steel.
BINGHAMPTON. N. Y. Sept. 4
— •P— Fourteen persons were kill-
ed and 25 others injured, some ol
them so seriously they ar ex-
pected to die, as a milk train plow-
ed into a Chicago to New York
fiyer of the Erie Railroad at the
plte from McAllen to Brownsville,
40 miles The country is dotted by
numerous pretty, little towns sitting
astride the paved highway with that
section from Mercedes to Browns-
ville. 40 miles, obviousy having
borne the brunt of the storm.
In that whole stretch of two score
miles, no residence or business
property escaped damage in some
degree, with virtually all but the
strongest frame residents and brick
business buildings blown flat.
The main highway to Brownsville
through Harlingen and San Benito
remained obstructed by fallen uUl-
ities poles and wires and water to-
senger train that passed through 7
here at midnight Tuesday.
Allen Murworth was crushed-to- —
The Shady Side Club is having
more than its share at troubles in
these troublesome times. It's even
difficult now for an ex-president to
get a sumicient number of mem-
here assembled to make a speech
Tuesday afternoon in the hottest
cen of Ute day and on the shady-
aJde of the Court House Ex-prest-
"ent Thad Huggins was trying to
get enough members present to bear
hi* afternoon address. The last
Roundabout saw at him he was
making the rounds, telling the boy*
that he was going to make a strong
address and that he wanted all
members present
The boy moaned and called:
"Come here!"
Cockerell again asked what was
wanted, and when the boy's mum-
bled replies did not answer the
question. became suspicious at an
attempted holdup and got his shot
gun.
Throwing it on the youth, he
shouted: "Hands up!"
One hand went up, but the right
arm hung down. "I cant get It
up. I'm hurt," the youth told
Cockerell
The light from the farmhouse
door then fell on the injured arm
and the farmer say it was bloody.
He put down his gun and hurried
out to the youth's assistance.
They had to go to Roanoke to.
find a telephone and and from
there notified Denton County of-
floors. Sheriff G. C Cockrell, Dep-
uty Dallas Curtsinger and Dr J.
H.Hieks, county health officer,
hastened to the scene.
Warnings Saved Lives
BROWNSVILLE Sept. 6.—(—
None dead, fewer than 30 persons
injured seriously enough to require
medical attention but 400 persons
made homeless and millions ol dol-
lars of property damage with no
building escaping unscathed was
Brownsville’s hurricane toll.
Left Her Flat
SHARON, Pa.— Eerearter Mrs
Eleanor Mitchell will beware of
crooks in good samaritans’
clothing. Halted on the high-,
way by a flat Ure. Mrs Mitchell
was gratified when two men of-
fared to fix it
They started the repair work,
but suddenly abandoned it.
grabbed Mrs Mitchells pocket-
. book and fled.
stroyer a junta of five profession-
al men took charge today at the
second revolution-born government
CSuba has had in less than a
month.
Thia "executive commission for
provisional government," named af-
ter the rank and file of Cuban
defense forces had driven out
President De Cespedes and his
cabinet, wll rule until an actual
revolutionary regime is establish-
ed.
Its members met this morning
to outline their policies, to seek
the return of order, to demand
recognition by other nations of
the new administration, and to for-
mulate plana for electing a con-
stitutional assembly.
An earlier manifesto announced
the revolutionary movement, com-
than is realized from the sales, but
this newspaper has always believed
that It was Ite duty to give as good
. servi in news as la possible.
"Oh.. I’m just flirting around over
bere," said J. M. Vivion, former
) Denton citizen, but who for the past
y year has been living in Honey Greve,
’ Tm not saying just what Im flirt-
'Ing with. however. 'Ill say it's
not the usual cause ot ’flirting’ It
may be that we will return to Den-
akn to live, and rm over looking up
KDme matters that will have a bear-
Nk on our return."
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Well. If one could see the patch
of watermelons, grown on the W C.
Redfern farm, four miles Southeast
of Aubrey, be would never admit
that Denton County could not grow
•BIG’ watermelons. Mr Redfern ad-
mits to having some five-thousand
melons He brought some to Den-
ton Wednesday morning, depositing
three of them at this office the
three weighing three hundred
pounds The largest weighed over
100 pounds.
Mr. and Mra. J. A. Lofton are here
with her parents. Judge and Mra
Alvin C Owsley. They have been in
Austin this summer Where Lofton
was working on his master's de-
gree. They have taught in Whites-
boro Public Schools for the past
few years and have accepted their
appointments there for the coming
school term.
fanning regions and throughout Ite
length no house was left standing
Flimsy Structures Last
Literally hundreds of flimsy
structures, occupied principally by
Mexican fruit and truck farm work-
ers. were blown to pieces and pieces
were scattered far and wide over
the drenched countryside. —
Entirely ignorant of the disaster
which had befallen the entire re-
gion. each little Mexican family was
“Oil Cabinet” Is • Vermont Goes
Hard At Work
WASHINGTON. Best. 6.——
President Roosevelt is concentrat-
ing the Atlantic fleet in the vicin-
ity of Cuba for the protection of
American Uvea In event of vio-
lence there; but he was said today
to contemplate no intervention
and his latest information told of
no new disturbances.
The battleship Mississippi, now
cruising in Southern waters, was
ordered today to join the tour
other American vessels already in
the Cuban neighborhood.
Reports of continued unrest in
the outlying districts such as Oua-
tnamo and Santiago led the ad-
ministration to order a half dozen
WASHINGTON, Sept, t—(P—
Secretary Ickes "oU cabinet" to-
day plunged anew into the job
of organizing the petroleum in-
dustry to carry out its code of
competition.
The planning and co-ordinating
committee as aet up by the code
has yet to select Its permanent
chairman and to appoint the many
minor committees which are to con-
trol this industry.
Ra’ses in crude prices announ-
ced by various companies brought
no official comment from the oil
executives, but some of them re-
marked pribately that the increases
were normal and expected, and in-
timated further rises were like-
ly.
There were reports of the for-
mation of a special technic board
to aid both the oil cabinet and
the administrative efforts of Sec-
retary Ickes Besides this, there
The Farm Club of Pilot Point
Mil give a banquet on the Pilot
Point Public School grounds this
coming Thursday night. Sept. 7, at
7:30 o'clock. Several Denton peo-
ple have received bids to the af-
fair and It may be said that Den-
ton folks always respond to an invi-
tation from the Pilot Point Clubs
The Farm Club boys are entertain-
ing the town-boys this time and
the business men and Lions will be
guests rather than hosts as they
were st the last meeting which by
the way, was about the biggest
crowd ever in attendance at one
of the Farm Club-Town banquets
George Mansur, hpme service
chairman of the Red Cross, thought
that the marvelous escape with their
lives of all Brownsville residents was
due to the several days of warning
ahead of the storm and the con-
gregation in strong ptaces of all
persons who resided in flimsy or
otherwise dangerous structures
Brownsville residents also had
training in avoiding hurricane dan-
gars. Mansur pointed out, there hav-
ing been hurricanes, but of lesser
intensuty. July 4 and Aug. 4 before
“ee Spt 4
Valley Towns Desotate
A picture of desolation was com-
OKLAHOMA: Tetr tonight:
are authorized in the code sta- Thursday, partly cloudy. -
tietle ------- - TEXAS: Partly eloudy tonight
and-Thumsday UgU to moderate
ROUND
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TOWN
stumbled across fields.
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city's eastern outskirts last night. —— —____
~ hied replies were unintelligible and
all they could ascertain was that
death and G. A. Lovell had his
right hand mangled, was cut and
bruised and was left in critical
condition when the pair, hitch-
hiking and waiting near Roanoke
for the train to ride to Denison,
fen asleep on the track and wore
struck.
The scene of the accident is
about 15 miles from Denton.
The track mounts a steep grade
there, near the old Smoot Spur,
and from incoherent accounts given
by Lovell as he lay in the Denton
Hospital here. It was thought the
boys had gone there to Attempt
to board the train as It slowed
down for the grade.
News ot the accident did not
reach here until nearly 3 o’clock,
when a phone call was placed
from Roanoke, where thrnjured
boy and a farmer he haha roused
had gone.
The youth was brought to the
hospital where he received emer-
gency treatment. Later in the
morning an operation removed two
fingers of the hand, and at noon
was resting fairly easily.
The Big Spring victim was badly
battered. His head was torn, his
body cut; he had been dragged
several hundred yards as far as
could be ascertained.
The pair had been hitch-hik-
ing from Big Spring to Denison
First news of the tragedy was
intervention as the
be taken to restore
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“Liberty or Death”
NEW YORK-Eight years in
. a hospital for Incurable diseases
was too much for Mary Callan-
dra, 14. She escaped from,the
Hospital on Randail’s Island yes-
terday and tried to swim to the
Bronx shore against a strong
tide.
When a police launch ap-
proached her, she called
"Don’t come any nearer or
ill let mseir sink."
Two 'policemen jumped in.
overcame her after a struggle
and pulled her out.'
These two pictures were taken in
the stricken Texas valley district
just after , the disastrous aorm
which killed at least 144 persons and
injured hundreds more, swept en-
tire towns and compietely cut off
communications. These pictures, ta-
ken near Port Isabel, northeast of
Brownsville, were rushed by auto
over almost impassable roads to
Corpus christ and then sent to
Dallas by plane, bl the above photo
- • memmag be seen hunting tee badlea.
Tie lower left picture shows a
L wrecked building
busy today dragging pieces of walls, ot most of the warships in At-
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A Big Spring youth was killed
instantly and his companion, a
Denison boy, hurt badly, when
tragedy rode with the Katy pas-
about nowadays. He will do better
news as soon as possible. Therefore rby labor
the Extra. Such editions, of course
are not profitable to the newspaper;
in fact, they cost a great deal more
BEVERLY HILLS. Cal.. Sept. 4
—See some of the papers are
kinder excited over "what will
Henry Ford do." Well, that’s
the least thing we got to worry
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