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DENTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 12,1937
Associated Preas Leased Wire
EIGHT PAGES
VOL. XXXVII
NO. 50
ANNUAL DENTON COUNTY FAIR
BRITISH CARS
15
ARE ATTACKED BY
JAPANESE PLANES
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BELGIUM MAY
JOIN NAZIS IN
AMITY TREATY
LOWER TAX BLOC
G-MEN SHOOT
TAKES CONTROL
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McC ALL, Idaho—Barber Shir-
this group so long as the Denton
fairs
went early today to
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woods store to buy ammun
British sources received the news
ed
squad of G-men stationed
Ing Italy's refusal to join with her
selves in a vacant building across
the proposal might muster the two- *
tack on
Japanese authorities said the in-
Fireside
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Tax Commissioner
Cleared of Charge
18,637 Bales Now
Ginned in County
OPENS GATES TUESDAY, AND
FIVE-DAY SHOW PROGRAM ON
DOWN AL BRADY,
MIDWEST BANDIT
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
Three - Wheeling
Motorist New
Traffic Menace
CHARTER AMENDMENT VOTE,
STORM CENTER OF MANAGER
Re-Marriage Stand
Before Episcopalians
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Den tonite Makes
Kiwani's Awards
as
f a
and Great
withdrawal
from Spain.
Mother, Daughter
Are Found Poisoned
Chapel, re-exposed the foreign areas
to heightened dangers The bom-
bardment with its surprise attack
said at the White House today, but
their nature was not disclosed -
Secretary Stephen T Early said
the precedent for the speech—pre-
EAST TEXAS Mostly eloudy, oc-
casional rains Wedmoday sad in
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Hugessen, the ambassador
Japanese Investigating
the American College of Tarsous, in
Southern Anatolia.
night, cooler in north and wet-
central portions Wednenday. Mod-
marched west from Arriondas, held
by the insurgents since Oct. 2.
Cangas de Onis was reported yes-
terday to have fallen. opening the
way for the push. The advancing
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AUSTIN, Oct 12—(P—Tax Com-
missioner Albert K Daniel stood
cleared today of accusations of false
swearing in an expense account by
verdict of the House of Appropria-
tions committee
The group last night unanimous-
ly killed a resolution to force Daniel
and Mrs Bernice Grieder, secretary
of the former racing commission of
which Daniel was a member, to re-
turn $463 state money they spent
attending a national convention of
horse racing officials in New York
last summer
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Even as I have seen they that
plow iniquity. and sow wicked-
ness, reap the same—Job 4:9.
Well does Heaven take care that
no man secures happiness by crime.
— Alfleri.
Al Brady, 35, wanted for three i
slayings and several robberies
Clarence Shaffer. Jr., a Brady
mobsman.
The wounded:
James Dalhover, Brady mobsman;
head grazed by bullet
The name of the wounded Federal
a
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Opener School Children’s Day and Kid* Ad-
mitted Free; Judging Begins Wednesday in
Eight Departments; Graham Band Tonight.
sens in the east part of Denton
to have a fire plug installed at
the corner of Paisley and Ruddell
Streets This was referred to City
Engineer W N Harris and the city
water and light committee. Stop
signs were ordered installed at the
intersection of Oakland Avenue and
McKinney Street and on Bell Ave-
nue at the intersection of Sher-
man Drive
Rev L P Parker, pastor of the
Central Presbyterian Church came
before the commission, asking for a
restriction on the parking space
in front of his church for persons
attending services at the church
only at the hours services are held
in the morning and evening. City
Marshal I. E Jones was asked to
colder Wedmeneday and fat werth
and weeS portioms tonight
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Denton County's 1937 cotton gin-
ning totals had climbed to 18,637
bales by Oct. 1, the report of Coun-
ty Cotton Statistician A. A. Evans
showed today.
Up to the same date last year,
ths total had reached only 12,558
bales
A special election at which citizens will vote whether or
not they wish the Denton charter re-written, and in which
they will elect 15 charter commissioners to prepare such a new
document if they do wish it, was ordered Monday night by the
City Commission without dissenting vote. Date for the elec-
tion was set Nov. 23. . e
The order brings to the polls a -
Special Election Called by Commission With-
out Dissent; Zoning Code Re-passed After
Effort to Put It to Public Vote Loses.
The young couple sat at a night
club table and cooed. "We could get
married easily." whispered the boy.
"My father's a minister."
“Okay," returned the girl prompt-
ly. "Let's try it. My father's a law-
yer."
Japanese planes skirted the down-
town areas with their deadly loads
while the Chinese shells burst over
the settlement
erate vast ang mo
the reeot.
WEST TEXAS:
western trip—was set by a talk after
last year's drought inspection tour.
Guesses as to the principal, topic
ranged from foreign affairs to the
Federal budget. but most observers
believed Mr Roosevelt would em-
phasize the prospect of huge crop
surpluses and his belief in the need
for legislation to control production.
May Announce Session
Some predicted he would announce
an extra session of Congress for
the middle of next month to deal
with the problem
The president's speech to be broad
cast nationally at 8:30 p m (CST
will be his tenth "fireside chat"
since he entered the White House
on March 4. 1933 It will be delivered
from the executive mansion short-
ly before Mr Roosevelt leaves for
and have property owners correct n. ___.ml., n.a
the dangers ' • hair gone, the upper chamber had
A petition was heard from ciU- been unable to do any revenue-
• peuuon "er "ot cut raising work due to the fact tax
BANKS RESENT GOVERNMENTS
"CLUMSY HANDS"
BOSTON. Oct 13 —(—A can to
bankers of the United States to re-
sist the "assaults" of the "clumsy
hands" of government upon the sav-
ings field was sounded today by a
Boston financial editor at the open-
ing session of the 63rd annual con-
vention of the American Bankers'
Association.
Chamber of Commerce will bring
several acts Including some acts
from the Gainesville Circus, and a
prize will be offered in the husband
calling contest that night
Twins Enter Contest
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock
a horse and mule show will be stag-
ed; in the afternoon the boy and
girl pony show will be held at 3
o'clock and Saturday night a spe-
The Denton Fair Grounds was a
busy place Tuesday morning Ham-
mers and saws men and boys, beau-
tiful women and girls preparing
botths for exhibit in the Agricultur-
al Building Indications at 10 o'clock
pointed to the best show in the Ag-
ricultural Building that has been
seen here, giving an idea as to what
crops Denton County can grow and
what vegetables can be put up by
housewives It's going to be an ex-
hibit that will be well worth your
while to see. The poultry, hog,
sheep, turkey and livestock exhib-
its, too, will be fine examples of
the things in those lines that can
be done by Denton County. The en-
tire citizenship owes a debt of grati-
tude to the Denton County men.
women, boys and girls who make
of the County Fair a success each
year.
Monday night the Carnival was
going strong with a good many
people looking at the various shows.
The rides will be ready for today.
It's the same carnival that has been
showing at the Fair for several
yean and tis said to be one of the
best making the circuit.
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DALLAS, Oct 12—(P—The bat-
tle of four states over Inheritance
I taxes from the huge estate of the
late Col E H R. Green produced
more sidelights today on the eccen-
tric millionaire's many sided activi-
ties
Atoorneys sought a $6,000,000 slice
of the fortune for Texas, Florida.
Massachusetts and New York, each
state claiming the son of a money-
wise Hetty Green as its own bona-
fide citizen. Texas has valued the
estate st more than $44,000,000.
Colorful asides in the testimony
that began yesterday pictured the
colonel as an active sort of person
who liked to joke about his cork
leg, enjoyed the role of "kingfish"
in a anal ITexas town, promoted a
minstrel show, a built a 13-acre
greenhouse and tinkered with in-
venting.
cial concert and show by the 110-
piece State Future Farmer Band
and Orchestra, and a hog calling
contest and twin contest. Tuesday
morning three sets of twins had reg-
istered Misses Lynne and Gynne
Watson, Denton; Misses’eanice and
Janis Russell Lewisville, and Misses
Johnie and Mary Mason. Denton
The gunmen, surprised, sought
cover, whipping out their pistols
"I've been growing that same
com on my place for the past 25
years," said H L. Smith, of Argyle,
as he and Mrs Smith entered ten
ears of Yellow Dent in the Fair.
"Each year I have saved the best
ears for seed," he said, "and I have
been satisfied with results." Mrs.
Smith also. was interested in the
Argyle exhibit, and she had entered
some pears and canned fruits and
vegetables.
Ray Dickson and Bill House have
returned from Detroit, where they
vistted the Pontiac Factory. of
which Dickson and Pat Hamilton
are local distributors Bill and Ray
each drove back a new 1938 Pon-
tiac.
gather
I J
fied gaze of scores of Bangor citi-
zens on their way to work
In the killing of Brady. the De-
partment of Justice ended a career
whih_thy charge included the
murder of an Indianapolis police
sergeant, Richard Rivers, an Indi-
ana state policeman, Paul Minne-
man. and Edward Linsey, a Piqua.
O., grocery clerk.
Was Bank Raider
Brady also led his mob in num-
erous raids on banks in the Midwest,
the officer said. He was known like
Dillinger, as a desperate criminal
with a "nervous trigger finger.
The government men declined, as
usual, to discuss the detective work
that led to the discovery of the
gang's presence here It was recall-
ed that Brady on one occasion boast-
ed
"111 make John Diinger look like
a punk.”
But today the G-men made Al
Brady look like John Dillinger that
Chicago night when Federal fire
cut him down as he fled from the
'finger woman " the storied "Lady in
Red "
Rev. William Woolworth Jr. 43, ing Asturians, or government troops,
from Wallingford. Conn, was re- the communique asserted.
ported in grave condition today -----------------
from a gunshot wound inflicted by Dfjttln
a 16-year-old Turkish student atDduue I\eSU,mea
The Gibson No. 1 oil test, which
was drilled to the 1818 feet depth,
is said to be a producer and esti-
mates vary from 25 to fifty bar-
rels per day when the hole is thor-
oly cleaned out. New developments
are expected in the Bolivar area,
and it is rumored that W. E.
scherle will soon start drilling on
a block of acreage in that area
that he is Interested in.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12,—•P—
controversy over which has not yet
flared into the open but which has
precipitated vehement pro and con
argument since It was first project-
ed by the council about a month
ago. The storm focuses about the
city manager plan for Denton, a
change several of the present com-
missioners advocate, 'and which
mgst observers take, to be the tacit-
1yacknowiedged issue of the coming
charter election.
Zone Code Election Lost
The commission also re-voted into
effect the Denton zoning code, af-
ter an effort to put that legislation
to public vote for acceptance or re-
jection failed by a 3-2 vote.
When the zoning code was laid
on the table. Commissioner J. E.
Fitzgerald, who has repeatedly urg-
ed voters should endorse the law
before it was passed, moved to lay
it before the electorate at a special
election. His motion was seconded
by Commissioner R. L. Hopper, but
Commissioner Jack Johnson's coun-
ter motion to table the Fitzgerald
proposal prevailed. In the vote on
re winy the ordinance. Fitzgerald
and Hopper voted no. Johnson and
Commissioners Walter Paschall and
Lee E. Johnson voted yea.
The commission asked City At-
torney E. t. Key and Mayor J. L.
Wright to confer with A. F. Evers
seeking action on the Evers Build-
ing on the south side of the square
They urged that the walls be tom
down to a lower level and that the
Word has been received here
that Dr. H H. (Jack) London, for-
mer manual training instructor at
the Normal College. Is now con-
nected with the Mississippi State
College at Starkville, Miss , as di-
rector of teacher-training in trade
and industrial education The col-
lege has an enrollment of over
2,400 students and trains all the
industrial arts and trade teachers
for the state Several Texans are
on the faculty.
Prior to his connection with the
Mississippi college. London taught
in the South Georgia Teachers
College at Collegeboro, Ga.
before Jar 1.
U. S. Professor Is
Wounded by-Turk _______
______ ' I troops found a large number of
ISTANBUL, Oct 12 —(P—The bodies abandoned by the retreat-
Britain in discussing
of foreign volunteers
surrendered One Federal agent
was wounded.
The dead:
CINCINNATI. Oct 12—UP)—The
House of Deputies of the Protestant
Episcopal Church plunged back in-
to warm debate today over a pro-
posal to liberalise its law on remar-
riage.
On one side were churchmen and
laymen who urged that no remar-
riage at all after divorce be per-
mitted; on the other were advocates
of repealing nearly all the rules
against remarriage
The argument revolved around a
recommendation of a Joint commis-
sion of the Episcopal General Con-
vention which, after a nine-year
study, proposed that bishops be au-
thorised to determine whether a
communicaat should be permitted
to remarry.
Sir Hughe Knatchbull-
Henry Ford says, "If you cut your
own wood. It will warm you twice."
or sump’n to that effect There's
little doubt but that If cut in the
summer it will warm one, and if
M7kept for winter’s use. It'll again
T serve its purpose.
TEXARKANA. Ark.. Oct 12—()
— Seven-year-old Folly Potts was
dead and her mother, Mrs Guy
Potts, 41. wife of a Miller County
deputy sheriff, lay critically UI to-
day from the effects of what prose-
cutins attorneys said was a poison-
ous mixture.
The British asserted the cars
could have been identified easily
and added there was no doubt that
the attacking planes were Japanese.
Russian In Machine
With Murray and the other Eng-
lishmen in the automobiles, British
officials stated, was a Soviet em-
bassy secretary named Shahov. He
had been picked up ten minutes be-
I fore the attack, when his car broke
‘ down.
Herbert Phillips, British consul
general, said an Immediate Investi-
gation had been ordered although
no details of the assault had yet
been received by his office.
agent and the seriousness of his
injuries were not immediately made Finders Keeper*
known. 1- —— ... —
Court to Pass on
Valley Controversy
WASHINGTON. Oct. 12—IP,—
The St Louis, Brownsville & Mex-
ico Railway Company, won a Su-
preme Court review In its conten-
tion that the Interstate Commerce
Commission has exclusive jurisdic-
tion In a controversy over the fur-
nishing of transporation equipment
to the Brownsville Navigation Dis-
trict of Cameron County, Texas.
Hie high court sgreed to pass
upon a Judgment of the Fifth Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals that the
Federal District ourt had juris-
diction to command the railway
company to transport certain traf-
fic and to furnish rare for trans-
portation between Matamoros. Mex-
ico and the port of Borwnsville,
Texas
The railway contended the cir-
cuit court erred In finding that
"there is no car shortge and no
emergency which renders petition-
ers unable to comply with the or-
der." and further argued that the
ICOC has exclusive jurisdiction.
FORT WORTH. Oct 12 — (P—
Kiwanians here for the twentieth
annual convention of the Texas-Ok-
lahoma district, Kiwanis Interna-
tional. this morning paused at the
opening of the third day of their
session to pay tribute to the memory
of members who died during the
last year.
Oklahoma City won first honors
in the district "gold division" com-
petition for larger clubs with an
all-round program of activities. The
"'silver division" trophy went to the
Oak Cliff club of Dallas, the "'blue
division" award to the Clinton, Ok..
Kiwanians. and the "white division"
trophy to McAllen The awards were
made by L. A. McDonald. Denton,
past district governor.
episode with the gravest
AUSTIN. Oct. 12—•P—A MU
reducing current departmental
appropriations $4,8i5,932 sur-
vived a maze of parliamentary
maneuvering In the Senate to-
day. marking the first major
step in the economy Moe's drive
for less state expense instead of
more taxes.
the International Settlement, a r ' n .
spokesman said that, weather per-iInsurgent Push
mitting, the long over due Japanese „°
S^te’0^ underway in the Moves on Gijon
Bombardmen: Renewed
Henry G Shands, known to his
many friends as "Pete." Assistant
coach of the Eagles. was in Dallas
Monday, where he attended the trib-
ute luncheon at the Dallas Athlet-
ic Club for Gibb Gilchrist, former
Chief Engineer of the State High-
way Commission. The luncheon was
tendered by Olichrist’s Dallas
friends, for his having been High-
way Engineer and to honor him
Jritither by his appointment as
Head of the Engineering Depart-
ment ofA.&M. College Shands
is a first cousin of the distinguish-
ed engineer
place when the gates opened to the
public.
Six community exhibits, displays
from the women’s department, agri-
cultural department. home demon-
stration clubs, and the marchant's
com show highlighted the county
attractions, and the State Pair
Shows from Dallas. opening on the
grounds Tuesday night, were ready
to furnish a carnival atmosphere
to competitiin with the grey, murky
day the fair association drew as an
opener
Music and Rooster Roping
Tonight, which has been designat-
ed as Aubrey. Pilot Point and San-
ger night. Floyd Graham and his
Aces of Collegeland from Teachers
College with a special stage show of
song and dance specialty numbers
will give a free 45-minute show on
the grounds Also scheduled for to-
night is a rooster roping contest,
the first of its kind ever to be held
in Texas In case of rain, the con-
test will be postponed, Otis Fowler,
secretary of the Denton County Pair
Association, said Tuesday morning
School children are asked to go
to a ticket booth at the front en-
trance of the grounds to receive ad-
mission passes. R. L. Proffer, coun-
ty superintendent of schools, and
A O Calhoun, principal of the Den-
ton Senior High School, will be in
charge at the distribution of tick-
ets.
Judging Starts Wednesday
Judging will start Wednesday for
agriculture. junior agriculture, poul-
try, sheep, turkeys. women's dew
partment, home demonstration and
community exhibits Wednesday
from 7:30 to 8:30 p. m. a special
program from 8. C W will be
SAN PEDRO, Calif—Fye Rog-
ers. 36-year-old truck driver,
was knocked 50 feet by an in-
terurban train. He fell 20 feet
from a trestle An emergency
hospital reported his injuries as:
"One slight abrasion on the
left side.”
on the same highway on which chance" to agree to withdraw troops walks.
two Japanese planes recently seri-. from Spain or face "action" has a resolution was passed giving the
ously injured the British ambassa- been drafted for submission to the. airport hangar to the Denton Coun- I
dor to China by bombing and ma- ' British foreign office today. It was ty Fair Association to be used by
chine gunning the automobile in learned to circles close to the for- - ' - _ .
which he was making a similar sign office. zma
rhe-suggestions" were drafted ion.
by the French government folow-
•tonal rains tonight and W«4»n4sy.
colder in the Fanhandle temich
and in north and eentral poruns
Wednesday.
OKLAHOMA Probebiy Itrull
said to have reached the village of
Roxas on the western bank of the
Sella River, less than 30 air miles
from Qijon. The vanguard had
over tee.
- 1 Friends of the proposal hoped
to send it to the Senate tomorrow.
With the session already more than
bills must originate in the House
Senate May Shave Bill
The Senate's economy movement
advanced when members voted. 23
to 8, for immediate consideration
at a bill cutting MAS 7 922 from de-
partmental approprlations for the
current biennium
Some Senators said floor con-
sideration should be delayed 24 hours
allowing preparation of amend-
ments further reducing allotments.
A majority, however, thought a
delay might be fatal, arguing the
bill should be adopted quickly end
sent to the House
Senator E. M Davis at Brown-
wood pleaded for postponement to
allow him to write an amendment
abolishing the Liquor Control Board.
To arguments, a new liquor control
law was necessary to eliminate the
department, Davis said wiping out
its appropriation "would make them
quit."
Senators were ready to receive a
favoratie committee report on a
concurrent resolution directing the
Board of Control to estimate thru
a field survey the funds necessary
for aiding the needy blind and des-
titute children
Uultimatum for Italy
The embassy staff cars were en PARIS, Oct 12—(P,—A French__________._________
route to Shanghai from Nanking: proposal that Italy be given ""a last barricades be removed from side-
lor High School will be given with
a concert by the band and other
entertainment numbers. An old fid-
dlers Jamboree will be held that
night also. Friday night from 7:30
to 8 30 o'clock, the Gainesville
The gangsters, who long have I
terrorized the midwest with their
forays upon banks and their armed I
bravado against officers of the law. .
had been traced to Bangor by the
Department of Justice agents, work-
ing with Indiana state police.
Bought Ammanilion
Brady and his two companions
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PETROLEUM DELEGATES AR-
RIVING IN HOUSTON
HOUSTON, Oct. 13—(—1 Dele-
gates to the Independent Petroleum
Association convention opening here
Thursday arriving today join thous-
ands attending the second day of
the Mammoth Oil World Exposition,
were concerned with pending con-
gression legislatson on pollution
waste disposal and the depletion
clause_of the income tax law.
sumably reviewing the President s
Easy Street?
eoLUMBUB, J.—rey are
going to bum up a city street
to keep relief clients warm chis
winter.
City Council voted to turn
over to relief headquarters for
fuel more than 150,000 creosote
impregnated wooden pavig
blocks torn up from a street
where an old bridge was re-
placed.
The Denton County Fair got a bad break from the weath-
er man Tuesday, but at noon the gates swung open for the
1937 five-day show without any dampening of enthusiasm
visible. It was School Children’s Day and crowds of city and
county pupils, receiving free admission through the big en-
trance gates are expected to head the attendance total this
evening.
Most of the exhibits were in -----------------------------------
_ presented
The Denton Country Club and Tauraday atthesmecimeaipe-
- - - — cial program from the Dsnton Sen-
First Aid
COVINGTON, Va.—A bred
truck, crashing into an electric
wire pole in a heavy fog, sum-
moned assistance for its driver
trapped in the crack-up.
The truck snapped a wire and
automatically turned in a first
aid alarm.
The driver, Roy Beazley, grin-
ned at the fire department am-
bulance which drove up as he
succeeded in extricating himself
from the wreckage
They°rdera Xk^X pave- thirglmajoritisnecssary,o put
i ment to begin on Oak Street from ttmto immediate etfect. He 5ug-
They were said to provide for the the point where it now ends to Ave- Eested. naturak resourees ev1e5. be
opening of France's frontier to arms nue I, property owners having guar- a0osted onl! 25 per centinatead
I Japanese autnortes saxa me in- munitions for the Spanish govern- anteed all payments. Also some dan- 46 per cent advocated by oommi
cident had been reported and they ment in the’event Italy again re- gerous places on sidewalks eve
were investigating but that no de- i fuses to confer on the problem. the city have been reported and
| tails had yet been received ------ Key will check on these reports
AUSTIN. Oct. 12 — ( tax-
ers took command In the House
today as that body continued work
on the general revenue raising bill
recommended by committee.
Several hundred thousand dollars
was shaved from the 810,000,000
proposed when the House voted
to increase the sulphur taut rate to
only $1 28 per ton. instead of the
41 AC advocated by committee. The
present levy is $1.03.
An attempt to kill the $138
amendment failed, 75 to 88
OU was the next subject under
discussion. The committee recom-
mended the production levy on that
resource be boosted from 2 3-4 to
4 per cent of value. The bill also
provided substantial increases in
imposts on other natural resources
and public utilities
Flea for Moderallao _
Rep Jeff D. Stinson ofDallas
and others pleaded for a “moderate
tax-ratsing course" in order that
The duel between the giant Jap- HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron-
anese bombers and the Chinese an- tier, Oct. 12—-A general ad-
H-aircran «uns, newly emplased in vanes by Spanish Insurgent troops
in the Cangas de Onis sector of
Qjon’s southeastern front pushed
Asturian lines back toward the Bis-
cayan capital today, an Insurgent
communique reported.
The Insurgent advance guard was
ley Innglebretzen led 50 treasure
hunters in a search under a 170-
foot 19th century hotel board
walk. —
The searchers sifted 835 in
quarters, nickels, dimes and
pennies.
Complaint to Key has been made
claiming the Community Natural
Gas Company is driving holes in the
pavement of city streets to test for
leaks in their pipes and not refill-
ing them, he said. He was naked to
investigate and have holes filled
if they exist.
Laboratory Bin Refuted
The Dallas Laboratory which has
tested Denton's water and milk dur-
ing the past year and who were re-
placed by Dr M L. Holland in
September, their contract expiring
at that time, continued to main-
tain that on a technicality their
contract had not expired and they
submitted an account for Septem-
ber. which was rejected by the com-
missioners.
A claim of the Niagara Fire In-
■urance Company together with an
indemnity bond guaranteeing the
city against loss and requesting
a payment of $80 to cover three
interest coupons which were al-
leged to have been stolen from' tha
mail sack at the Denton railway
station April 9, 1837. was presented,
and on recommendation of City At-
torney Key. the city secretary was
Instructed to file the paper and
pay the $80
R B Gamibn presented an
amendment to the taxi cab ordi-
nance requiring drivers to have
lived in Denton for at least six
months before receiving licenses.,a
document he had suggested and been
asked to prepare for study, but It
was not passed
Hyde Park, N on an overnight
train.
Belief that the President would
discuss the crop situation and a
special session of Congress was bas-
ed largely on the nature of his
talks during his recent Journey to
the West Coast
It was accentuated by the latest
crop reports—Friday's forecast of
the second biggest cotton yield
in American history—and yester-
da's general forecasts for bumper
harvests in the big grain crops
Crops Show Increase
The Agriculture Department esti-
mated the year's wheat production
at 886 895,000 bushels, an increase of
1,000,000 bushels over the prospects
a month ago and 26.000.000 bushels
above last year's yield
The anticipated corn crop of 2.-
561,936,000 bushels if the figures
prove correct, will be 1,0321000.000
bushels above last year and 11,000,-
090 bushels above last month's pros-
pects.
"A composite o fthe indications
for principal crops," the Federal re-
porting board said, "will show the
prospective yields of 1937 crops
to be 1119 per cent of the average
yields obtained during the 1923-32
period."
The composite last year was 868
per cent.
BANGOR. Me, Oct. 12—(—G-
men wiped out the notorious Indi-
ana gunman-gangsters. Al Brady,
and one of his mobsmen today in
a sensational five-minute gunfight
on Bangor's busiest downtown
street.
A third gangster superfically
wounded threw down has gun and
from the Chinese defense guns
started while the streets were Jam-
med with noon-day crowds The
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BERLIN, Oct. 12 — •P—Germany
and Belgium are about to conclude
a treaty of amity and nonaggression,
according to sources close to the
foreign ofFtee.
The treaty. It was said today, is
patterned upon a similar pact with
Poland. If and when it is signed,
the treaty is likely to put an end
to Franco-British negotiations for
a new Western pact, like the Lo-
carno security treaty.
Reichsfuehrer Hitler, who dislikes
multilateral agreements. is believed
to have started negotiations soon
after the Belgian king, Leopold,
urged his cabinet a year ago to give
I up the Franco-Belgian alliance in
favor of a policy of neutrality.
Foreign office spokesmen disposed
of the matter with a shrug of the
shoulders and the stereotyped "of-
ficially nothing is known presently,"
but the matter was mentioned at
the daily German press conference
with instructions to write nothing
for the time being.
(Brussels dispatches said a uni-
lateral declaration of the inviolabil-
ity of Belgian soil by Germany la
expected shortly in the form of a
diplomatic note.
(There will hot be a Belgian coun-
terpart, ministers said, and the
question of a Belgian-German neu-
trality treaty will not be raised.)
Carroll Garrison, local angler, bring
the third prize for the State of
Texas in the nation-wide Black
Bass Fishing Contest sponsored by
the Western Auto Assoclate Stores,
according to Charles Edwards, man-
ager of the local branch Garri-
son's entry was a six pound large
mouth bass, which he caught in the
Denton Country Club Lake on June
22. The thotrd award brings to Gar-
rison a minnow bucket. Hawaiian
Wiggler Lure. W S Plug. Paw Paw-
Plugs. Keep Alive Stringer. 5 yards
pure silk line, Floating Fish Bag
Edwards says that Mr Gilbert R.
Bailey, at San Antonio, won the
first prize and ■ C. H Oilmore. of
San Angelo, was awarded the sec-
ond. The largest fish was an 11 1-2
pound small mouth caught in
Florida The smallest was an 8 ounce
large mouth caught in Ohio.
Many Denton people saw and
examined the super-coach, called
the world's finest bus, when it yas
on exhibit Monday morning in front
of the Nook Cafe. South Locust
Street, from 9 till 11 o'clock The
bus left Denton for Gainesville
where it was again on display The
new super-coach has many changes
in Its make-up, all for the conven-
ience of its patrons The engine is
in the rear. Instead of the front, of
the car, and this, It is said, makes
smoother riding, iess noise, less
danger of fumes, and more space
for passengers The super -coach was
one of the Greyhound Line, which
operates through Denton to St.
Louis.
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as they dodged behind poets and
parked cars They blazed away in president
ST
Deputy Sheriffs and Bangor po-
lice hastily cleared the streets of
passersby who miraculously escaped
injury, and kept curious onlook-
ers beyond range
But the destruction of Brady
and his men was not as simple as
the killing of the more notorious
Indian-born gangster, John Dillin-
ger, who also fell before G-man
i guns The firing today went on for
i nive minutes before Brady and
I Shaffer lay dead before the horri-
- By Assoclated Brass ■ ■ ■
BUFFALO, N Y—George B.
Melrod was booked in police
court on a reckless driving
charge but Patrolman Walter
G Maul said it was a new of-
fense—three-wheeling-
He testified he arrested Mel-
rod for driving a mile and a
half through city streets at
30 miles an hour with the right
front wheel missing from his
car,
"I didn’t know it could be
done," commented Judge Rob-
ert J. Summers as he set the
case for trial Thursday.
-oung t
Crop Surpluses ourey:
the street, with machine guns pels- ‘ May Be Theme concern in view at the previous at-
When Brady, Shaffer and Dalhov- ] nr m: • J CI. .
er emerged, the G-men opened fire. UU1 F lreslde ’ hat
First Lady Ha* Only
21-Candle Cake; It
Is Roosevelt Custom
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1a—(
-Twenty-one candles decorat-
ed Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt's
birthday cake at the White
House last night, even though
it was her 53rd birthday anni-
versary.
The 21-candle limitation is a
Roosevelt Teustom: The First
Lady's gift from the president
was a waterproof wrist watch.
Embassy Vehicles Are
Fired On But No
One Injured.
English Officials
Gravely Concerned
Chapei Bombing Is
New Threat to
Foreigners.
bitterly-contested political issue.
They explained that it appeared Britain Walks Warily
’ ,. . .. 2J u 1 3 LONDON, Oct. 12—«= Britain,
British authorities had not inform- at-ne ote0
eateitherthearmyorlthe navyathat
British cars were making the jour- playing with Italy, today began to
neXo. aanca that - war. i sofe-pedal last week s hints at "de-
cTheyetaddedtthat Chinesn.were i cisiv action"and something of the
constructing stronganne w.defense same tendency was noted in Paris,
jigyg."*, : s8"cmm2agde
si™ iomprgbrmuy"esweginan
ianed high-ranking Chinese omn- resttom d S8
Cwhile the Japanese army launch- pratean immediate possibi-
X’stro^lyXld bonbrdmenapn a they Seemed determined to
sector on the northern fringe of _________________
SHANGHAI, Oct. 12-
(AP)—Three automobiles be-
longing to the British embas-
sy were machine-gunned to-
day by two squadrons of Jap-
anese warplanes. None of the
occupants were injured.
The staff cars in which S. 8.
Murray, the assistant air attache of
the British embassy was riding with
several other Englishmen, were at-
tacked by the raiding Japanese
planes near Minghong. 14 miles
south of Shanghai, about 4 p. m.
Although the three motor cars
carried the Uunlon Jack, the Brit-
ish officials said, the Japanese war-
planes continued their machine,
gunning after.the occupants Jumped
from the machines and sought
cover.
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