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BOX MYSTERY
IS EXPLAINED BY
UTILITIES HEAD
poration Dividend Tax.
Britain Not to
inheritances
over $50,000 left to close of kin. the
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Chairman Doughton (D-NO) of
Ethiopia, were attempting to reach
be much narrower
crease in the present one-tenth of
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MEXICO CITY
SAYSDANGEROF
PEON REVOLT OVER
MAN SEVERELY
Villarreal developing into an arm-
had
several
The governor conferred
CARS IN CM
the
realizes Its purpose
of providing
on the relief rolls.
Assistant District WPA Director
Grady Walker announced
and no Italian women remain now
$10,000,000, tax $5,889,600.
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More Disorders In.
Terre Haute Area
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
The tentative measure would put
heavier taxes on all individual in-
Gifts would be taxed about three-
fourths of .that amount and would
be subjected to the new levies for
‘Manless Marriage’
Anulled By Consent
Of Bride and ‘Groom'
Three Killed and
Two Injured in
Motor Collision
hours last night with Barba Gon-
zales, minister of the interior, and,
while no statement was given out.
ITALY, INNOTETOLEAGUE,
PLACESBLAMEONETHIOPIA
FOR CONCILIATION COLLAPSE
today
the
TENTATIVE AGREEMENT ON
NEW TJX BILL REACHED BY
DEMOCRATS OF COMMITTEE
previous cases charging manufac-
turing liquor.
Ma wQ ba
wmh Ar-
li
LONDON, July 25.-I)—Sir Bam-
un Hoare, Poreign Secretary, an-
nozinced in the House of Commons
today that the British government
except those connected with the le-
gation.
than that—maybe from 13 1-4 to
14 1-4."
He added too. that the Democrats
ton income be
graduated levy
to 16 3-4.
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VOL XXXIV
License Export of
Arms to Nations
vict, fired one shot at his pursuers
and then fatally wounded himself
near here today
Japs Deny Arms Export
TOKYO, July 26.——A foreign
omce spokesman iasued a denial to-
day that Japan was exporting arms
to Ethiopia
The Japanese press, meanwhile,
apparently under instructions, made
only moderate comment in reply to
virulent attacks on Japan by the
Italian press
GENEVA, July 25.— (AP)—The Italian government
today sent the League of Nations a note in which it virtual-
ly blamed Ethiopia for the collapse of the recent concili
ation negotiation*.
Inheritance taxes, and to bring in
revenue promptly instead of only
years after an individual had died
and left a fortune.
tory adjacent to
permitted if aeco
HOUSTON, July 25.—(P—Three
young men were killed and a fourth
youth and a girl were injured to-
day when two cars collided a short
distance out on the Beaumont road.
Only one of the dead men had'
been identified He is Lloyd Smith.
30. of Liberty. Another is a man
about 23. believed to be from Alex-
Willing to Resume Session
ROME. July 35.—•P—An authori-
tative source said today that the
Italian minister in Addis Ababa has
made representations to Emperor
Haile Selassie stating Italy is will-
ing to resume the adjourned Italo-
Ethiopian conciliation commission
sessions
oped before this had it not been
for the big production in East Tex-
as coming in at about the time this
county was to get a play from the
big companies. “I know of several
other locations that will be made in
this county within a short ttme,"
he said
to the waste basket as fast as they
(conttnued on rags Four)
Fuu Erase Leased Wire
_______ United Press beviee
one per cent tax on capital stocks.
The inheritance tax rates would
begin at 4 per cent on the first $10,-
000 above an exemption and' reach
75 per cent of that part of an in-
heritance over 810.000.000
The individual income tax plan
would raise from 53 to 54 per cent
the present surtax on individual ex-
emptions. The maximum rate on in-
come over $10,000,000 would be 75
per cent against the present 59.
To all those rates must be added
the existing “normal" tax'of 4 per
cent which applies to the first $4,-
000 of every taxable income.
Issues Statement
After the Democrats had met for
more than two hours. Doughton ta-
sued a statement saying:
Surrounded by a possee seeking him
for the staying of Lee Whitman.
Greeley police sergeant, Jack Ptintz,
37, recently paroled Colorado con-
One Injury was reported. Mrs.
Edward MacBeth, 33. grabbed a sol-
dier's bayonet when he ordered her
cle 9 of the treaty of 1930. •
"The French government. I un-
derstand. inderpreta xe obugation
tinder the treaty in the same mat-
ner."
An authoritative source said the
ban on arms shipments would con-
tinue in effect at least until the
league council had opportunity to
consider the Italo-Hhlopian con-
troversy
The British government will re-
consider the question, it was learn-
ed, should the Geneva efforts to set-
tle the dispute fail.
It was said there was "a slight pos-
sibility of an arrangement by which
Villarreal would continue in office”
despite complaints against him
Governor Villarreal repeated his
flat statement: “I will not resign "
The minister of the interior held
audiences with a number of delega-
tions which presented oomplaints
and charges against the governor
and said he would prolong his stay
in Tampico until Saturday, prob-
ably going at that time to Culdad
WIRE BRIEFS
WASHINGTON, July 25—u-18
Its first vote om the compromise
bank bill, the Senate today kept
intact a provision requiring stale
banks with deposits of $1,006,000 or
more to join the Federal reserve
system by Joly , 1937, in order to
retain deposit insurance.
man and chief agent of the State
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
at Lake Dallas, will be among those
on call when County Court con-
venes its third summer term week.
Bill White Case
Set for Monday
as Sheriff Takes
Writ to Dallas
WASHINGTON, July 25.—(AP)—A tentative agree-
ment on a new tax bill to raise $200,000,000 a year, but
which does not include the intercorporation dividend tax
proposed by the president, was beached today by the
House ways and means committee Democrats.
car struck his from behind, knock-
ing him into the path of the ma-
chine coming from the other direc-
tion.
Hunter's car. which was purchas-
ed only Tuesday, was badly dam-
aged. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter were
en route to McKinney to attend a
picnic and had stopped in Denton
to visit Mrs. Mamie Sims, also of Wi-
chita Falls, who is spending the
recently met at Scheveningen; the
Netherlands
Premier Mussolini's government
insisted that conciliation and arbi-
tration was Interrupted there "sole-
ly owing to the fact that the agent
of the Ethiopian government put
forth claims to be discussed at
Scheveningen on questions exclud-
ed by the arbitration agreement."
(The Ethiopian nsezahar of the'
commission was reported to have
asked that the commission discuss
the question of delimitation of the
boundaries between Ethiopia and
the Italian colonies in Africa; the
Italians insisted that only border
incidents be considered by the con-
cillation body.)
Oliver Freeman, former citizen of
Denton and known to hk many
friends when here as "Dummy Free- - -______________________
man h the guest of friends here, had decided not to Include an in-
He said by hand-language. that it - — * ‘
had been twenty years since he
Jcft Denton that he had increased
his 8irt-measure, and that he could
see many changes in Denton for
the better
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• lass, meMtaneha Sestina, too.
COLUMBUS, KaS. July 28.——
Columbus' "manless marriage" was
annulled in court here this morn-
ing with the consent of both the
bride and the "groom." John W
Hamilton, w*6 represented both in
the case, announced
“It was a friendly suit," Hamil-
ton said. "They just said they were
both women and wanted the mar-
riage annulled."
The “bridegroom" in the marriage
was Alice Delores (George Hayes.
20, of Hockerville, Ok., and the
"bride" wy 14-year-od Margaret
La Vernta Kowler.
The action followed an edict by
Police Chief Al Maness of Richer.
Ok, where "George" worked in a
shoe store, that the girl must quit
masquerading in men’s clothing or
go to jaLL P.
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Suggests Possible New Effort to Reach Accord;
On Limited Questions; Nations Ban Ship-
ments of Arms.
number of eligible employables in
the district to be 11,879. If employ-
ment k provided for each one of
them at 8600 a year, the amount set
for the WPA program in Texas,
the total expenditure will be $7,-
127,400.
Of that amount $4 885,200 would
be spent in Tarrant County if work
k given to all of its 8.142 employ-
ables on the relief rolls. The num-
ber of employables in the other
counties of the district was given
as follows: Clay, 380; Cooke, 428;
Denton 381; Jack, 213; Montague,
532; Palo Pinto, 836: Parker 399.
and Wise 559
Carpenter said hia son gave the
box of cigars to Patton a couple of
days before the Sunday before the
House vote.
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“We have tentatively agreed to
have a surtax rate provision start
igat 8150.000 with graduate rates
life to 75 per ce—---•
over 810,000,000.
♦ urgently a season of the Coun- ♦
♦ ell of the League of Nations ♦
+ was received from Ethiopia to- ♦
< daly a short time after the ♦
♦ publication of an Italian note *
♦ blaming Tthiopia for break- ♦
♦ down in conciliation efforts. ♦
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France Has Peace Plan
PARIS, July 25 —(P— France’s
plans to stave off war between Italy
and Ethiopia by using to the utmost
’ the conciliation procedure of the
League of Nations were completed
today and submitted to the cabinet
for approval
Authoritative sources said Premier
Perre Laval sought to exhaust all
the resources of the league's con-
ciliation routine. This would allow
time for moderating influences to
be brought to bear on the dispu-
tants.
French authorities said Italy has
made it plain to them that it has
no present aitentton of quitting the
league, its action depending entire-
ly on what is done at Geneva.
French and British diplomats
were reported to have suggested to
Italy that it forestall league action
by raising the case itself under Art-
icle 13 of the covenant. providing
for arbitration, rather than let
Ethiopia or some other power cite
Italy under Article 15
WEST TEXAS—Tartly elondy, 10-
eal showers in southeas portion to.
night and Friday.
-
M ' dk
comes over 8150,000.
summer here on Carrier Street
They left Wichita Falls early in the
morning because their car was new
and they did not want to drive fast.
Because a number of the people
in the accident were unavailable, it
was impossible to learn the names
NAZIS MOVE TO HURTHEROURn
CATHOLIC POLITICS
BERLIN, July 25.-(—Naztsm
moved today to makes ta curt* on
"political Catholicism - complete, and
turning to a drive for elimination of
the Catholic press.
Monday, but today there seemed
doubt of that.
Asked why the committee had
not included the increase in capital
stock taxes and the new levy on
intercorporation dividends, the lat-
ter recommended by the president,
Doughton told newspapermen:
“I'm not in favor of too many
taxes."
Here are some figures to indicate
how much of an inheritance would
be taken by the government under
the tentative schedule:
860,000, tax 5400; 8100,000, tax $5,-
600: 8500,000, tax 8119.800; $1,000,-
Denton County
Has 381 Eligible
For WPA Jobs
FORT WORTH, July 25 —(— A
total of 87,127,400 win be spent in
the nine counties of thk district if
the Works Progress Administration
MEXICO CITY, July 25.—(P-
Official reports from Tampico said
today that order had been restored
throughout the state of Tamauli-
pas and that the danger of a peon
movement against Governor Rafael
of all those concerned and
many cars were damaged.'
that a count had revealed
The commission broke down re-
cently in the Netherlands where its
members, representing Italy and
GENERAL PAROLE GRANTED
HILL COUNTY MAN
ferences.
Conte Vinci was said to have
asked the Ethiopian sovereign if
he was willing for the commission
to meet again, particularly for the
purpose of appointing a fifth mem-
ber to act as arbitrator.
However, the minister was report-
ed to have made it plain that the
commission, even in case an arbi-
trator were added, would have to
limit itself to the discussion of in-
cidents which have taken place on
the frontier and could not include
in the negotiations the question of
the frontiers themaeives.
It was stated that no official an-
swer had yet been received from
Addis Ababa, but that it was known
the emperor was loathe to revive
the rommission except on a basis of
The case of Bill White, Dallas
ANGLETON, July 25—IP—The
tria! of Clyde Thompson, convicted
murderer chargea with slaying Ev-
erett Melvin, retrieve farm prison-
er. was in the final stages today aa
Jndge M. S. Munson prepared his
charge to the jury.
G W Chapman and Dr. Jack
JOhnson will provide the -program
for the annual ladies night meet-
ing of the Denton Farm Club thk
coming Saturday night. The pro-
gram chairmen promise an interest-
ing meeting and urge each member
to bring a lady guest The meeting
will be held at the usual place, usual
time and the meal will be served In
the usual manner. A large attend-
ance k expected.
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The annual picnic of the Grand
Leader was a very pleasant affair
in one vay, but in another Raymond
Kahn was not so pleased. Some
Carpenter Recalls
Books Returned
To Patton.
cept Representatives Maverick and
McFarlane, Texas Democrats.
"If I've ever seen Mr. Carpenter
before, I don’t remember it," Blan-
ton said. telling the committee he
had just been Introduced to the
rower head
Flanton said the only man who
had talked to him about the bill was
Robert W Hainey attorney for the
West TevxAs Utilities Company.
Before Blanton took the stand he
was introduced to Carpenter by Sen-
ator Connally ‘D-Tex.) Conaily
objected vigorously as photographers
began taking pictures of him chat-
ting with the power offlciak.
Blanton described Halney as a
"friend and pal" and said that he
had entertained Halney rather than
vice versa.
Blanton denounced Carpenters
salary of $20 non a year as "uncon-
ceivable."
“If he's worth $20,000, then the
chairman of thk committee, Black
of Alabama, k worth $100,000 a
year to the people.'- Blanton said.
"I'm backing this committee 100
per cent,” he added “Thk commit-
tee is doing wonderful work ”
Blanton remarked that if Cjut-
penter received a salary of 810,000
as “you and I do, Mr Chairman,
the other 810:000 could be used for
dividends to the people—there’s the
crux of the whole thing."
Black asked how many telegrams
Blanton got on the bill.
"They came in volumes from every
section of the country it was pro-
pnganda of the worst kind. It was so
Italians Leave Capital
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopta, July
25,—(—The Italian legation to-
day arranged for the transportation
of 46 Italians out of the Ethiopian
capital and ordered all Dodecane-
sian women and children to leave
the country.
The Dodescanesians are native of
the Aegean Islands over which Italy
has sovereignty. There are about
400 of their women and children
in the country. The legation advis-
ed the Dodecanesian men to leave
also, but it waa said a considerable
number Intended to remain.
The 46 Italians are the last re-
“sK SAS*-
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, July 25.—
Good deal of news in the papers
last day or so. Republicans feel very
copndent of taking over the gov-
ernment in a year and a half from
now, bat some of ’em like Bert
Snell and Ham Fish think that's a
little long to wait, and they are sug-
xestine letting Roosevelt out now
and taking the thing over them-
selves at once.
They holler about the constitu-
tion, well it says yon are elected for
four yean, but what's a constitution
when your boys need the work now.
Ham and Bert are giving Mott and
Jeff a run.
DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Last year Denton County did not
have its usual fine peach crop. but
thk year seems to be making up
for any shortage of 1934, both in
quantity and- quality The Elberta*
now on the market are as fine as
have ever been grown here, it seems,
due to the fine rains that have
fallen here during the summer
months. It k believed that more
peaches will be canned or preserv-
ed thk year than for a long, long
time. . .:_______ '
Dallas at noon, carrying the war-
rant issued for White, to execute it
if the man was at hk White Rock
headquarters. He also carried the
papers necessary to make bond so
that the game law official need not
make an unnecessary trip to Den-
ton. The bond would be made re-
turnable at Denton County Court
Monday morning, it was under-
stood.
White was charged by a misde-
meanor indictment with illegally
removing fish from the former
sanctuary at Lake Dallas dam.
Meanwhile, officers have had no
chance to execute any of the oth-
er warrants issued under indict-
ments where the persons charged
were not in custody. Several of the
men are not in thk section of the
state. One, James Lynch, charged
with forgery, ts'serving a term in
the United States penitentiary at
Leavenworth, Kan. Two were rein-
dictments against W B Butler and
Kirby Ashby. It was learned Thurs-
the isommiti
"probably will
Police put the boys up for the
night after discovering that no
such address existed as the one
at which they _ believed thel
uncle lived. Arrangements were
started .to return the boys to
their home.
The boys' only concern about
staying all night at a detention
home was that they might be
deprived of their pipes and to-
bacco They were right They
were. But the corngob pipes and
tobaccos were retumned to them
today.
The boys took turns pedaling
the tricycle from Montrose;
they said Alternately, one rode
on the cross-bar in the rear,
their trip took them two days,
they said.
glarlzed. He said that many things
of value. Including clothes, silver-
ware. money and jewelry were miss-
ing. but that he had not been able
as yet to check up the loss. "This
ought to be the last Mme." said
Kahn, "az. this is the second time
my place has been burginrtred and
hope the charm-time doesn't come."
dustrial section near the Columbian ,. . -- — --------
plant last night. A few “kayo" Jobs for aU the employables now
bombs which discharged nauseating on tha rlta‘ rene
gas finally broke up the gathering,
which is forbidden by Governor
McNutt’s proclamation of military
rules.
ranging from 10
wW not for the present, grant U-
----- ------—- -_____ cenau for the exportation of arms
a basis for conciliating their dr- from Great Britain to either Italy
* Ethiopia
He saia that the transit ncrom
British terrttory of arms destined
for Ethiopia would be permitted.
"Hire Is lust a sort of merry-gn-
___ ■ round, said one of Denton's rail-
fence philosophers. “A man, when
young, gets out and works himself
to death in order to accumuate
money and property In that. he
ruins hk health. If be works too
hard, and then when he gets old
and worn out as a result of his
+ — youthful labor, he turns around and
: spends all his money to get back
< . ’ his health. In the end, he probably
has neither. health nor wealth—Just
advanced years."
V >19 Mr. and Mn. Charles Love and
e son are new residenta ot Denton
and are domiciled at 1310 Panhan-
dle Btreet. They are members 0 the'
. First Baptist Chursh, he havin
been A deacon for seven years when
they lived at Bristow, Oklahoma
Mr Love comes to Denton County
under contract to drill an oil test
on the Mrs. Fannie Harmon farm,
two miles Northwest of Aubrey, and
the contract, he says, calk for no
definite depth but to go 150 feet into
the Ellenberger lime. tf necesessary.
“he well was spudded in Wednes-
day." said Mr Love, "and well be in
full swing within the next day or
so Mr. H. F Cox, a very success-
ful operator of Shawnee k the own-
er of the operation and he k very
oPtimistie about the location." Mr.
Love, also, is strong tn the belief
that Denton County has plenty oil
and that it would have been devel-
twenty-five people associated with . _ _________
the store and friends. Including Mr. two reasons: To prevent evasion ot
and Mn A Toplitz, of Dallas, were ' * " ...
guests for the annual picnic. When
Kahn returned home, however, he
found that his home had been bur-
Victoria before returning to
capital to make hk report
* GENEVA. July 25—A-A ♦ L
* A new note again requesting ♦
An unidentified man is in the
Denton Hospital in a serious con-
dition following an accident about
five miles out on the Dallas High-
way about 11:30 o'clock Thursday
morning when four cars figured in
a collision.
Mrs. P. E. Hunter of Wichita
Falls was brought to Denton where
she received treatment for painful
injuries. Hunter k suffering from
bruises and scratches. Mrs Hunt-
er sustained a gash across her fore-
head that cut to the bone, a severe
cut on the leg, bruises on arm and
back.
The man in the hospital had part
of the flesh torn from his forehead,
and it k thought that one of hk
eyes is seriously injured. He had not
regained consciousness early this
afternoon.
Passenger Injured
It k understood that the man in
the hospital'was riding with a man
from Tyler, who was not injured
and whose name was nbt learned.
The Hunters said that a car ahead
of them started to turn in a lane
while a car was coming from the
opposite direction When Hunter
quarters ranch in the county. it was
on the farm now owned and lived
on by Joe Waide, at Bolivar. and
it was there that the bones of John
B. Denton were interred, and af-
terward brought to Denton and in-
terred on the Courthouse lawn.
Chizum was one of the largest
rattle operators ever in thk sec-
Mon of Texas, having, It k said, a
million head at one time. He bought
cattle in South Texas, brought them
to Denton County where be fat-l
toned them on the excellent grass
here before sending them on by
trail to Abilene, Kanaax Th* trail 1 — —• —
made by his bringing cattle in here prontsthat a corporation makes
and driving themTout waskhowh as above 8 or 10 per cent on its capl-
the Chizum trail. It k this tra tal..and on corporation income
which was of such mat Imau The tentative decision to include
all Texas m thecatEt-ariimpodatto the last. “ it is not overthrown sub-
that Mrs Williams husregudsa zequentiy.ia a partial victory for
thencommisstonnt makN APproponea that the present flat
granteuggestedathatathemerker. ir 13 3-4 per cent tax on Al corpora-
Kdghway 24, alonxptheenegton income be replacea with «
be under construction soon, at the
Plae where the trail crosses the
highway.
AUSTIN, July 25.—(—Governor
Allred today granted Elik Ivie,
convicted in HUI County, at burg-
lary and sentenced to two years in
the Rantserter”eigneenorntnporis evidentiy propaganda they went*-
a clear record.
To Llrraet Exports
BRUSSELS, July 25 —I—Prime
Minister Van Zeeland told the For-
elgn Artairs Committee of the Sen-
ate today that Belgium had de-
cided today for the licensing of
arms exports to Ethiopia He said
the government's decision was dic-
tated by practical reasons cocern-
ing present circumstances
Medina County
Town Flooded
andrla. La. The third is a youth
* about IB. picked up at Dayton He
'* was believed from Lake Charles,
Parties With Solons
A man described previously by
committee members as a "mystery
witness" told the House group that
he had been on parties attended by
members of Congress but denied
that he haa done any entertaining
for them himself.
He was Bernard B. Robinson,
president of the B. B: Robison
Company, Chicago investment trust
firm.
. Chairman O'Connor said yester-
day he would be called to tell about
‘■lavish ' entertaining in a Washing-
ton hotel
The nattily dressed and smiling
young man testified freely that he
was in Washington doing everything
he could to help defeat the holding
company bill and that Associated
Gas and Electric Company footed
86,400 of hk 87.285 Washington ex-
penses from February to June, in-
clusive.
WASHINGTON, July 25.
—Questioned by Senate lob-
by investigators as to wheth-
er he recalled giving any-
one a box just before the
Hepse vote on the utilities
bin. John W. Carpenter,
president of the Texas Pow-
er 4 Light Company, said
today his eldest son, John,
had given a box of cigars to
Representative Patton (D-
Texas).
Meanwhile, the House rules com-
mittee investigating lobbying for
and against the utilities bill receiv-
ed testimony from Hugh Magill,
president of the American Federa-
tion of Utilities Investors, that the
organization spent 860,000 in the
last six months in the “interest of
the millions of investors it repre-
sents.“
Of thk arhount, he said 835,000
was spent against the utilities bill
and part of the remainder against
the Tennessee Valley amendments.
“I didn't give anybody a box of
cigars, but my son said yesterday
he gave Mr Patton a box of ci-
gars." Carperter said.
He added that his son had told
him yesterday about giving a box
of cigars to Patton because he had
invited him to go fishing.
At another time. Carpenter said,
Patton brought two books on live-
stock to the hotel for Carpenter's
son and took them out again wrap-
ped in newspaper.
Verily I say unto you, whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of God
AS a little child shall in no wise
enter therein.—Bt Luke 18:17.
tee asserted the range It was learned today.
- " Sheriff M. S. Webster left for
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 35-
(P)—Renewed disorders involving
striking workmen spurred national
guardsmen to strict enforcement of
martial law regulations in Terre
Haute today. ‛
A tense situation prevailed about
the mill of the Columbian Enamel-
ing and Stamping Company, where
presence of 323 guardsmen produced
scenes resembling an army camp.
Although the general strike that
paralyzed business for two days
had ended, 600- mill employes re-
mained on strike while Federal con-
ciliators continued attempts at
mediation.
Soldiers with bayonets on their
rifles met with resistance when
they tried to disperse a crowd of
3,000 persons miiing about twelve
points, a business district in the in-
n i ,
vealher
180.
Guard officers immediately or-
dered all beer taverns to close, and
directed the soldiers to enforce the
regulation against assemblage. Ooi.
Albert H Whitcomb, second in
command, said 500 to 600 guards-
men are on duty and added, 'I do
not anticipate the removal of more
troops unless things quiet down
considerably."
slowed hk car down to keep from maintne onted. .. uaze
hitting the car making the Eurn a Jning putside the legation staff.
___ . . . . - " . ou" and no Italian women -main no-
There mw be some ‛pollttcs‛ about
to break In the sunny-shady side
club, as W H McNabb, former pres-
ident of the organization, was seen
in a huddle with Dick Wood. Lon
Rowlett and O Q. Petty. Round-
about is not certain as to the na-
ture of the conference, as no infor-
mation was divulged to him.
Mra wiu Willams has written
the Historical Commission of the
Centennial in regard to placing a
marker or monument of some kind
in Denton County showing where
the Chizum trail, used by cattlemen
of Texas in the edrly days, passed
through the county. The Chizum i ... ...
Blanton Denies
Knowing Carpenter
WASHINGTON, July 25.—(R—
Representative Blanton (D-Texas)
voluntarily appeared before the
Senate lobby committee today to
deny that he had talked with John
W. Carpenter, president of the Tex-
as Power * Light Company, about
the utility holding company bill.
Carpenter told the committee yes-
terday he had talked with all mem-
bers of the Texas delegation ex-
an all-embracing discussion which
INIUREDASFOUR
the time limit expires today for the
work of the four omelliakons who
») with graduate rates wscaw
sr cent on net Incomes - kactured, and those two defendants " “ —
BOO. ! are already under ball bond in their
to move on, and was severely cut on
____ ___ _________ _________ tax ' the hands. Arrest of eleven persona
8769,600: 85.000,000. tax 82.449.800; brought the total detained by the
tee, 1__ troops since the strike started to
"We expect to have a graduated
corporation income tax under very
narrow limits of graduation.
“We expect to impose a moderate
excess-profits tax.
“We expect to have an inheritance
tax graduated up to 75 per cent on
inheritances over 810,000,000, with
8M.000 exemption.
"We expect to have a gift tax at
about three-fourths the fates of
the Inheritance tax."
He personally expressed the
"guess" that the bill woul raise in
the neighborhood of 8200.000.000 a
year in new revenue.
The plan was to get the things
agreed upon in bill form as soon
as possible so it coud be put before
the full committee early next week
for prompt approval.
Further Delay
Doughton had told Senator Har-
rison (D-Miss), chairman of the
Senate finance committee, that the
tentative bill would be ready by
DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25, 1935
Missing House Found
ST. PAUL--Mrs A A. Smith
has found her missing two-story
house
The house was condemned by
the city because of improper
seweage disposal, but Mrs.
Smith says the condition was
corrected
She went to look at the house
-and found needs growink
where it once stood
Investigation disclosed the
city had sold the 28 by 14 feet
building to a wrecker for 810.
and the latter had moved it 10
miles.
9 065
DO
Bale of Hay,
23 Carrots at.
Birthday Party
---- (Ry Associated Pea ——
NEW YORK There will be a
birthday party at Governors
Island Sunday. The cake will be
a bale of hay adorned with 23
carrots to designate the age of
the guest of honor. Bill
Bill is an Army pony at long
and brintant service
Lieutenant Harry Cullina
guided Bill through his early
training as a polo pony at San
Antonio, and then left him in
1939 to come to Governors Is-
land
Three years later bill was
transferred to the same place
Cullins was watching a polo
game He felt a sharp thrust in
his back and went sprawling on
hk face.
Behind him stood Bill, gent-
ly neighing.
Two Mountaineers,
Under 12, Display
Prowess At Tobacco
Smoking, Chewing
PTTSBUROH, Pa., July 35. -
(—Two pipe-smoking, tobacco-
chewing West Virginia mou -
eers—both stil under 12 gave
Pittsburgh—"the once-over" u -
day.
William L Poe, 11/ and Ns
brother. Robert, 9, arrived last
night after a 165-mile trip on a
tricycle from Montrose, W VB
near where they live on a tarm
with their grandfather.
After astounding a group d
marksmanship, the boys er
plained they same to thk city to
look for "Unele Stephen Poef
William added:
"We ain't seen our old man
lately but we kinds thought we
might find him here, too Last
I heard of him he was in Tex-
Natural
FAIRMONT. West Va-B
Lloyd Ganq, the man who is-
sues fishing licenses, asked the
applicant if he had ever been
naturalized. The applicant said
"no "
Ganoe said he was sorry he
couldnt issue a license
“I'm more of an American
than you are," the applicant
challenged He was too—a full
blooded Indian.
000. tax 8309.600: 82.000.000.
$60,000 Lobby Fund
By Utility Investors
Blanton Denies He
Knows or Talked
To Carpenter.
SAN ANTONIO, July 25.——
Residents of DHanis, Medina Coun-
ty town, were flood refugees again
today for the second time within
two months.
A kitchen was set up yesterday by
Red Cross chapters of Hondo and
DHanis. to feed the refugees who
were driven from their homes when
a 10-inch rain put the Rio Seco
channel out of banks and flooded
the entire business section
Two hundred CCC enrollees at a
state park 25 miles north of Uvalde
were marooned by a rise in the main
Frio River and 100 San Antonio
residents, gn, vacation at Leakey,
and 400 persons attending the Allo
Frio encampment in the Frio can-
yon were cut off by high water.
Long sections of the Southern Pe-
cine Railway and highways, main
arteries from San Antonio went to
Uvalde. Del Rio and El Paso, were
washed out.
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The government," said Sir Bam.
uel. "Is doing its best to make pob-
tlble the peaceful outcome of the
present unhappy dispute and would
not wish to do anything which will
rrejudice the situation, so it will
therefore for the present, not lune
licenses for the export of arm,
thk country either to Italy i
Ethiopia”
in reply to a questiom by George
Lansbury, leader of the Labor op-
Eosition, Bir safuel said treaty ob-
ligations necessitated permisston for
the shipment of arms into Ethio-
pia through British territory if re-
quested . ’
Provided in Treaty
Said the foreign secretary: "The
transit of arms destined for the gov-
ernment of Ethiopia aeroes British
territory or British protected terr-
ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA-
Partly elondy to cloudy ana umuet-
tied tonight and Friday.
EAST TEXAS-Faru, eloudy to
cleudy, local showers ta south pee-
lion tonight and Friday. Lgh ta
moderate southerty winds on the
coast.
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