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FRESH CRISIS OIL CHIEF WARN
IS BREWING IN
AGAINST CONTEM
r
FOG AND WIND BLAMED
FEELING IS MUTUAL
Stewart si
of her twin
asked for the
sent without hesitation for Mari-
Guaranteed Contract.
minute.
I trouble following
The courtroom was
/M ':•
■ “In time of war you will figh
When the session
adjourned
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about
folks, The sun was shining’when
worry
REMUS STARTS FIGHT
POSTAL SUBSIDIES
BILL IS ANNOUNCED
IN RAID ON POLICE
less skies prevailed over much
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Six More Weeks Of Winter,
If Mr. Ground Hog Is Right
the
his
interpretation of his testimony.
When Walsh began to analyse
Cline, chief of detectives. He iden-
tified it and said th* statements
therein were made voluntarily by
IFIS
OMPANT
session, Jerome Walsh, chief de-
fense attorney, said it was highly
improbable that Hickman would
take the stand as a witness dur-
Stewart admitted
teed the - contract
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er's victim Instead
sister.
When Hickman
about the Spring bonnet
M. Ground Hog slipped out
of his hole Thursday, as is his
wont to do each year.
- At just about the same mo-
ment Old Sol was doing his best.
: to get out from behind the hazy
screen that had been spoiling
his view all morning.
It was a sickly sort of glow, -
but the old boy made a good
enough showing to produce a
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IN FALLS HERE
summate the deal.
From these $3,000,000 profits,
the committee already has learn-
ed that Sinclair sent $233,000 to
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Dy United Prss.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 2.—
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In St.
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Judge Calls Recess After Photographs Are Shown To
Panel; Court Attaches Assist One Woman From
Box; Fox’s Pal Gives Testimony
Jugo - Slavia And Her Ally,
• France, Look Distrustful
At Italians
• The Life of Hoover
STARTS TODAY
ON THE EDITORIAL PAGE -
Senator Walsh Threatens To Bring Action If Head Of
Standard Company Persists In Refusal To Give .
Evidence In Petroleum Profits Deal
ovMLY rrEnATURES
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in Examinations
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TT is the simple story of a remarkable man— written
by a man who knew Hoover personally.
It is a gripping narrative of the career of one of
the world’s outstanding men—the story of a poor boy
who rose to be one of the nation's greatest engineers
and organizers.
Flying aTan altitude of around
800 feet, Dobie sald hi had no
first night air mail consignment
i Into the city airport four hours
and 25 minutes behind schedule
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<Y critical friend Mid it takes
- only 30 minutes to read The
ess from front page to back.
Let us say then, that it takes
1 hour to read from cover to
ver, a newspaper that is not
lilt on this time-saving policy.
In reading The Press, he has
red himself 30 minutes.
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COLONEL LINDBERGH
LANDS AT SAM JUAN
Will End Good Will Flight Next
Week In Havana
ing life, must be built to be read
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WATERWAY FUND ACCEPTED
By United Prens,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Secre-
tary of War Davis today announc-
ed he has accepted the offer of
local interests to adyamce about
$109,600 for widening the water-
way from the Gulf of Mexico to
Port Arthur, Texas. Work will h-
gin Upon receipt of the money,
which will be paid from future
Congressional appropriations.
Launches Attempt to Escape Ser-
vice in Insane Asylum.
By Unitea Press. " >
UMA, Ohio, Feb. 2,—The long-
delayed figtit of George Remus,
former millionatre Cincinnati rum-
runner. to obtain his release from
the state hospital for the crimin-
ally Insane fere, has been launch-
ed.
Attorneys for the former boot-
leg king, who was committed to
the asylum after his acquittal of
murder of his wife, Imogene. have
filed a petition for a writ of ha-
beas corpus, returnable at 2 p. m.
tomorrow.
The petition will be heard by
Appellate Judges Phil M. Crow,
Kent Hughs and Charles’L. Jus-
tice. The petition asserts Remus
has never been found insane and
sets forth that two of the three
alienists who examined him did
not sign the order of the Cincin-
nati Probate Court sending him
to Lima.
Complete Wire Reports of the UNITED PRESS, the Greatest World-Wide Ne
FRANCE PAYS INTEREST
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — The
Treasury today received $10,000,-
000 from France as an interest
payment on its $400,000,000 war
supplies obligation. France makes
semi-annual interest payments on
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928
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bonds of the Continental Trading
Company?" —— --—
“I never had anything to do
with any bonds of the Continental
Trading Company, j don't •re-
member knowing anything about
it."
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actions of Hickman to arouse the
least suspicion as to his motive in
asking -for the girl, Miss Britton
testified.
A' little more than two day*
later Hickman1' returned the dis-
membered body of the little girl
to her father and collected $1,500
ransom money.
By a chance of fate, the teach-
er‘s testimony brought out It was
Marlon who became the kidnap- .
burrow here today: Believers jn
the Ground Hog tradition declar-
ed there will be six weks more
winter.
Ground Hog came out of
wvev-----tn. m. ...,,..62.
ivi‘-"u2
i committee is seeking to ascertain
where the rest of the profits went.
" showed traces of tem-
id news photograph-
PRICE TWO CENT
"Well, I don't. kgow that the
bonds did go to Fak",
Av
jammed to-
Old Sol Out Just Long Enough To Allow Animal Weather
.Forecaster Chance To Look Over Shadow
man who may be the next President.
And in keeping with this paper’s policy to bring
out the facts, The' Press will followJin with a Ne
story of Albert Smith, outstanding among the Demo-
cratic candidates for President. ]
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plowing thru fog and rain an-
nounced to the world, today that
there- was little possibility of
the ground hog seeing his shadow
here.
The Press, to fit in the picture.
. We design it deliberately to
bbe read quickly. • .
I We plan it with a definite sys-
tem to tell the news quick—and
release the reader to spend as
■nuch time as he can at other in-
kerests.
I We realize he will not spend
kny great amount of time with
emy newspaper, for there is golf
tailing him; there is the radio
Whiting, there is the automobile.
And good roads ahead; there is
Phe movie theater, and the card
■able to claim his time.
■ And so we take as little of his
■me as we can—give him a swift
moving picture of the world, a
■tarp and accurate reflection of
PI that is interesting people the
■orld over—and then turn him
Pose to go about his other busi-
Northbound Ship Reaches
Chicago Ahead of
Schedule
, Forced to fight a sttechead-
wind and delayed three hours’in
j his start from Kansas City, Pilot
. R. L. Doble brought Fort Worth's
fected, and your equipment
rifles soon will be ready.
heaviest air mall quotas since air
mail service started two years ago.
. The last day-plahe north car-
ried a load of 38 pounds. Day
service has been suspended with
beginning of the night line.
First northbound night plane
carried 33 pounds, making a to-
tal of 71 pounds for the entire
day.
FF IS ne aeeident thet The Press m
1 reads quick. , ". - --
That is a definite news policy
h
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“What do you knw
criticism was a compliment. Be-
cause we go to a lot of trouble:
during the noon recess on Dec. 15
and came to the office and asked
for the Parker girl, according to
the testimony of Miss Britton:
The youth was informed that
there were two Parker girls and
Hickman replied that he wanted
liance between Italy and Albania
and precipitated the last Balkan
crisis. s
Fourthly, while these events
were occurring, Italian Premier
Benito Mussolini was telling his
Fascist militia: t
''Yuur organization is now per-
E recognize this changed
phase, and we are building
Thursday from Meacham Field on
a practice •flight to Galveston.
Stops were to be made at Waco
and Houston.
Marshall will make the return
flight Thursday afternoon, arriv-
ing about 7:30.
Texas Air Transport service will
begin Monday, Feb. 6.
New Schedule Out ,
Of St. Louis
’ A new airmail schedule to St.
Louis which, it is claimed, will
save almost a full business day
over railroad mail, which misses
the 4:50 p. m.MK&T train, was
announced Thursday by National
Air Transport.
Robertson Aircraft Co. line, op-
the youngest one, she said.
Marlon was then called to the. Hlckman--,-
office and "Was told that Het fa- erE4 V
late yesterday, the jury was plain-
ly affected by the proceedings.
The members had heard details
of Hickman's confession hereto-
fore undisclosed, including the ad-
mission of .the slayer that the
child was still living when he dis-
membered her body.
going to make out of it. I didn't
care, because I knew that the
market price' of oil was $2. That
oil was cheap at $1.75 and we
wanted it.”
25 Cents Lees.
The Continental Company’, It
‘TWENTY or thirty years ago
1 people had plenty of time to
devote to newspaper reading.
For there was little else to
do.
They hugged the stove on long
winter evenings and read long
dissertations on this or that;
read long and grandiloquent ar-
ticles about the Bacon-Shake-
speare controversy, read flowery
essays from the Washington cor-
respondent.
They read their newspapers,
line by line, and chewed the
evening thru on the meat found
there.
and pains to mak The Press
read quick—and I was happy to
kndw that we hit the button.
—a policy designed to meet the
changed, psychology of a news-
paper reading public.
It is a policy that keeps pace
with -the-changing manners and
customs of present day life.
It is a policy that fits the pat-
tern of a tapestry in which ts
woven the radio, the airplane,
the telegraph, the automobile.
Il is a policy designed for but
one thing—and that is to give to
thezreader all the news of the
woyid at a glance and release his
the for other aetivittes.
jury turned pale as the photo-
graphs Introduced thru the testi-
mony of George Watson, Los An-
geles Times photographer, a de-
fense witness, were passed thru
the jury box. _ -
District Attorney Asa Keyes had
begun to cross-examine Watson
when Judge Trabucco halted the
trial. The four women burst in-
to tears and the eyes of male jur-
ors were misty.
Mrs. Lindstrom was , assisted
from the jury bx while' the rest
of the jurors went to their hotel
to rest.
Welby Hunt, formerly pal of
Hickman, made his appearance'
and related what he knew' of the
habits of “The Fox.” The tall,
lanky kid bandit related how at
one time Hickman told him he
had an uncontrollable desire to
kill and dismember bodies.
Naomi Britton, a teacher at the
AAant Mich
mvuIt verHv - ~Hd-H- —464
School, Los Argeles, was called
by the defense, which is attempt-
ing to prove that Hickman la in-
sane and save him from hanging
Nemesis of John Barleycorn to
speak Here'Sunday
“Pussyfoot” Johnson, national-
ly known prohibition lecturer,
will speak at the First Presbyteri-
an Chureh, Sunday, 3 p. m.
Johnson, who has just returned
from the Far East, will talk on
"How the Orient Sees America.”
F. B. Ebbert, counsel for the
National 'Anti-Saloon League, will
also speak.
on, not knowing the two girls
were twins.,
Mrs. Mary Holt, another teach-
er at Marion’s school, -.followed
Miss Britton on the stand. .Her
testimony was substantially the
same as that of Miss Britton.
Slips While Bathing 1
Three persons are recovering
from injuries received Jn falls
late Wednesday.
Paul Coleman, 3212 Avenue J,
is in Baptist Hospital with head
cuts/ received when he slipped
while taking a shower bath at
the Recreation Building about
8:30 p. m. He was unconscious
when taken by Robertson & Muel-
ler ambulance to the hospital, but
was reported in improved condi-
tion Wednesday.
Mrs. Zula Barker, 1312 Sixth
Avenue, sustained injuries to her
back when she fell down the steps
at King's Tea Rooms, where she
is an employe. She is in Bap-
tist Hospital.
A fall from the curb at Col-
lege and West Leuda caused in-
juries to R. J. Davis, 1824 Thom-
as Place, at 6:15 p. m. Spel-
man’s ambulance took him to All
Saint's Hospital.
By United Press [
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2. — Fearing collapse of four
women on the jury trying William Edward Hickman for
the murder of 12-year-old Marion Parker, after pictures of
the child’s dismembered body had been shown them. Judge
J. J. Trabucco ordered a recess here today.
Mrs. Emily Lindstrom swayed slightly in her chair
and was, on the_yergeof-breaking down when District At-
torney Asa Keyes handed her a glass of water.
Even the male members of the------—------------------—
Continental made the $3,000,000
profits the committee is tracing,
but said he had to do it tosget the
oil. —
— Itwas justHke guaranteeins
a note after the note is paid,"
Stewart said.
For that reason he joined with
with the army. You are aware
that many peoples in the world
hate ok.? A
Incidentally, a League of Na-
tions committee was meeting si-
multaneously to prepare an anti-
war treaty.
LEGION POST OUT
. FOR NEW MEMBERS
Representative Says Franked Mall
is Causing Deficit
By United Press,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The
movement to make the U. S. gov-
ernment acknowledge its postal
subsidies-for what ahey are gath-
ered more momentum today with
the announcement by Rep. Clyde
Kelly of Pittsburgh, of his bin
to "squeeze the water out of the
postoffice department.”
Kelly said the postal service
could show a substantial operat-
ing profit were it not for the
franked mail carried free, and I
other items, which he says cost
the department about $90,000,000
per year. •
The deficit in the postoffice de-
partment last year was around
$28,000,000.
As a matter of fact,' the princi-
ple of the bill proposed by Kelly
is already Incorporated in the bill
to regulate and change postal
rates, now before the House Com-
mittee on Postoffice and Post
Roads. Hearings or this will start
early next •week.
the alleged shipment by Italywof
machine guns to Hungary—one of
the defeated world nations whose
armaments are restrited.
Thirdly; four members of the
JJugo-Slavian cabinet resigned.
One of them was the foreign min-
ister who signed a few weeks ago
former Secretary of Interior Fall
Iafter Fall had leased Teapot Dome
6 ko Sinclair.
hfT Stewart said he heard that A.
Officials Start Probe of Explosion
in Oklahoma Workings 1
By United Preen,
HARTSHORNE, Okla., Feb. 2.
State mine inspectors were inves-
tigating today of the blast in No.
7 mine of the Rock Island Im-
provement Company here last
night in which three lives were
lost. Seventeen miners escaped.
The dead are Frank and Mike
Russell, coal cutters, and Frank
Davis, jumper. The blast was be-
lieved set off by a spark from
the cutting machine manned by
the Ruseell brothers at the 500-
foot level.
. The three men caught in the
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they're mighty proud of these
two daughters, are the Emperor
and Empress of Japan, tho they
hoped one would be a boy. At
the lop is Rrincess Sarhiko Ussa-
no-miyo, aged 4 months; below,
Princess Sh igeko. Tero-no-miya,
aged 3 years—their latest pic-
tures.
ther was ill and that she was
wanted at home immediately.
Miss Britton continued.
Marion asked anxiously about
the condition of her father and
the youth told her to hurry along
and they left the office at once,
the teacher said.
There was nothing about the
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nounced the committee would give
Stewart another chance to answer
tomorrow and that if he persist-
ed, contempt proceedings wourd
be begun against him. He would
either be taken into custody or
cited to the district attorney for
court contempt action. Walsh in- has been shown, bought thi oil
The Continental firm made its for 25 cents a barrel less and the
money by buying millions of ।
barrels of" oil at $1.50 a barrel j
and without handling the oil sold , nan...
It immediately at 75, a bought er not t0 take his picture on the
Stnwart this oil from Continental. stand:; was obvlousl’ disturbed by
butsoniy. because he thought it the proxtmity.onewspapermentt
mi.’.. rr. naa 1a wng not ' the witness « chalr. and resisted
was cheep- on ! Walsh whenever they differed on
conqerned with what me cont-, " .
nental made out of the deal.
DENIES LACK OF SHELLS
Dy United Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—State-
ments that the United States is
without ammunition reserves are
“entirely unwarranted by the
fact Representative Barbour,
Republican, California, told the
House today,
— . . ..... v kan “Little Entente” demanded
younger Parker girl the teacher "League of Nations Investigation of
---i —lik —..S tn- tinrl ...
Six more weeks yet,
before you’ll have to
By United Press «
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Robert W. Stewart, chairman
of the Indiana Standard Oil Company board, refused to
tell the Senate Teapot Dome Committee today what he 1
knew about the mysterious disposition of $3,000,000 profits ’
of the Continental Trading Company.
“I never got a dollar out of the deal personally,” Stew-
art said. “I never gave any of the bonds to any political
party, any government official or any official of any
municipality. - Further than that I must decline an answer.”
Senator Walsh of Montana an-• ■ T
Insinuate I did, you are dead
wrong."
“I don’t insinuate you did, but
someone made some money out of
the contract," Walsh said.
"Well; maybe I'm shooting off
too fast here," Stewart said.
Vague About Bonds.
Walsh reminded Stewart that
Continental profits were involved
in bonds, some of which were trac-
ed to Fall.
"I didn’t know anything -about
any-bonds" Stewart said.
"You never heard about that?"*
"I can'# teU you what I hear -
I’ll give you the facts, but no
hearsay testimony.” ,
Walsh asked it Stewart had
heard qf the testimony of M. T.
Everhart, son-In-law of Fall, that
Fall got $233,000 of the bonds.
“I read something* about Ever- .
hart's testimony," Stewart an-
swered.
"Was that theifirst information
you had about the bonds,going to
Secretary Fall?” : ’
ows. In most eastern sections
shadows were light gray and
hazy, but distinct enough to
send the little animals back into
hibernation.—
First Plane Reaches Fort 1
Worth With Good Load, •
But Late
dafnfully tilted nose on the ‘
groundhog theory.
By vntted Prria.
DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 2.—Mr.
Ground Hog stood a poor chance
of seeing his shadow here today.
The day dawned cloudy.
Before The opening of today s a treaty of friendship with France.
‘ " This treaty caused a defensive al-
Officer'Attacked in Station At
Pgeblo, Colo, •.
PUEBLO, Colo., Feb. 2.—Two'
men attempted to hold up the po-
lice station last night and as a
result one of them is- suffering
from gunshot wounds and the oth-
er is in jail today.
The wounded man is Joe Mar-
tinez. His companion is Alfred
Fernandez.
The two went to a hallway at
the police station, where men are
permitted to sleep. Captain Jack
Sullivan came into the hall and
went into a private office, where
the men followed him, and when
he ordered them from the place
they attacked him.
In the melee that followed, Fer-
nandez took Captain Sullivan's
gun from him add fired. Thebuh o
let struck Martines;
for the murder of the little girl. .. 111
Hickman drove up to the school ,ng Ie Ial
HE looked at me quizzically,
land I explained.
But he pursued his line of at-
tack. “It reads too quick,” he
insisted. “I can read your pa-
per from front to back in 30
— minutes."
And again I thanked him—
and explained that it was our
,__idea, to make The Press a paper
one’ean real frour front to back
in 30 minutes. Or less, if pos-
sible. i
And again, he looked incredu-
lous.
L
the beacon
NIGHT FLYING Women Jurors in Hickman’s
ON MAIL ROUTE Trial Near Collapse After
INAUGURATED Crime Details Are Revealed BALKANSTATES
——— . , $ ‘ i — ।—• ‘ "
In six days, one reader-has
ed himself 180 minutes — or
ee hours.
In-a year, he, has saved him-
t 156 hours—six and one-half
P A week's vacation.
Ehe. average wage is about
■ 00 a year—or a little more
| $6 a day. '
■ a, year he has saved him-
■ more than $35.
Pie Press has more than 20,-
■readers in Fort Worth alone.
, (Turn to Page a) .
more weeks of winter.
That is, if your superstition
runs deeper than believing it's
bad luck to be kicked by a
white mule.
Mr.Ground Hog delayed re-
sumption of his snooze long
erpugh to tuck away a good
meal of coffee and spare-ribs.
Warmer temperatures, accom-
panied by partly cloudy weath-
er, were forecast for tonight
and Friday by Weatherman D.
S- T^ndla who turnftd n dla-
By Unifed Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 2.-
XUd Maa Ground Jtag . may- pull,
in his neck in Oklahoma at the
day's end without catching a
glimpse of his silhouette. Fore-
cast was "partly cloudy and
warmer.”
S
Drive to Be Launched at Meeting
Thursday Night
A membership drive will be
launched by the Bothwell Kane
Post of the American Legion at
a meeting Thursday night at the
Elks Club, according to R. F.
Poynor.
"The membership was raised
to 200 by a preliminary solicita-
tion and due to the success of
the initial drive we will start an
earnest one setting our goal at
1500,” Poynor said.
The Fort Worth campaign is
part of a State-wide drive, quota
for which is 40,000members.
By United Frau.
’ ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 2.—
If the Ground Hog is totally
blind,’he won't see his shadow
in the Northwest today. Cloud-
TODAY, newspaper readers
1 haven't that much time to
give to newspaper reading.
Outside is the automobile, '
.....panting to be gone on some er-
Trant of pleasure,--------------
Harry Sinclair, he said, to con- Later Stewart interrupted one
of Walsh's questions to ray: —
“I never made a dollar person-
ally out of this deal and if you
. the Continental,-contract* Stewart
he Euaran: I interrupted:
whereby the i .1 „ ... ... ..
— Well, nothing did happen; ev-
1 erybody made money and every-
thing is serene about this deal."
“Would yu sign a contract like
that for me?" Walsh asked.
'"You bet your life I would. I'd
just bet oh you 100 per cent every
time.”
erating between Chicagaland St.
Louis, will wait at Chicago in the
future for arrival of the NAT
plane from Fort -Worth at 7:30
a. m. Picking up air mail posted
for St. Louis the preceding night.
It will deliver it in St. Louis be-
tween two and a half and three
hours later, according to the an-
nouncement made by Divisign
Traffic Manager Charles B. Braun.
drodnd aA"! tongban n ot the reglon today.
his hole today and sleep off six n, vtted Presa.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Eastern
woodchucks celebrated their fes-
tal candlemas today by coming
out from under a white blanket
shaking the snow out of their
whiskers and seeing their shad-
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rHIS story is printed in this paper not to influence
X opinjon about Hoover in his presidential candi
dacy, but merely to throw light on the career of the
go
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By United Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.— -
The blast of -ferry boat whistles
Daily average is about 30
pounds.
Jerry Marshall, Texas Air Youth Hurts Hear When Her
Transport pilot, took off at 9 a. m. ' UUl nur- mead wmen he
w
' lights of the new airway. The
' beacons are spaced every 10
, miles. Smaller lights wink their .
signals -every, three miles.
The southbound plane is due
in Fort Worth at 7:30 a. m. The
mall hereafter will depart for
Chicago at 7:30 p. m. daily.
Herbert L. Kindred, piloting
the nohthbound plane which left
Meacham Field at 7:30 p. m. Wed-
nesday. was reported to have
reached Chicago ahead of time.
Inaugural date of Hie night fly-
ing to Chicago showed one of the
day with the prospect of Hick-
man's'father, mother and brother
testifying. The confession of
Hickman to the • kidnaping and
murder was shown to Herman
EIGHT DIEIN FIRES
Family of Six Killed In Philadel-
phia When Home Burpns
By United Press,
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.—Six
persons were burned to death in
a fire which destroyed their home
here early today.—Armando Man,
tlci and five of his family died.
WESTERN POINT, Md., Feb.
2.—Two small children at Mr.
and Mrs. Dorsey Carroll*- were
burned to death here today when
fire destroyed the apartment in
which they lived. The dead are:
Paul, 4, and Doralina, aged 4
months. -
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K. R. Bailey, police patrol
wagon driver, will become night
desk sergeant Thursday night, it
was announced at police station
Thursday.
Bailey is high man in civil
service examinations and takes
the place of Sergeant Bob Dysart.
Dysart goes to the North Side sta-
tion to take the place resigned by
Sergeant A. L. Ford.
Little Entente Demands
, Probe Of Machine Gun
Shipments
By United Press,
LONDON, Feb. 2. — A fresh
Balkan crisis, symtomatic of un-
dersurface nervousness in post-
war Europe, seemed brewing to-
day with a mixture of highly ex-
plosive ingredients.
It doncerned .the mutual sus-
picious of Italy,' on one hand, and
France and. Jugo-Slavia, her ally,
on the other.
First, the Italian Fascist news,
paper, Glonale D'Italia, published
what it declared to be a secret
French-Juge-Slavia military treaty
presumably aimed against Italy.
Secondly, members of the Bal-
blast died attar being brought to
th* surface. 1U war
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me...........mmM
The radio is waiting to be
turned on.
The movies and theaters have
their lure. —
r Life has speeded up. We move
fast. We take our business as
iwell as our pleasures on the run.
Science has opened up a wide
avenue of interesting things, all
claiming a share of our time.
And the modern newspaper, to
keep abreast of this swift-puls-
By United Press.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Feb. 2.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh ar-
rived at 1:40 p. m. local time
today in his Spirit of St. Louis,
after a 75-mile flight, from.. 8$.
Thomas, -Virgin Islands.
He planned to spend . Thurs-
day and Friday in San Juan and
leave for Santo Domingo Satur-
off 52 % pounds of mail and
dashed off for Dallas, southern
' end of the NAT airway.
' “Tired—and how!” was Do-
l bie's comment on his eight-and-
l a-half-hour flight, half of which
I was made over a sleeping world
- and the balance thru heavy fog
and in the teeth of rough head-
winds.
The flyer said he' was sched-
uled to take-off from Kansas [
jClty at 4 m.— Fog and ad-
| verse- winds threw the ship from (
Chicago three hours behind.
' schedule, however. . There was;
little sleep possible for Doble
with th plane looked for every
Thursday.
Dobie landed at Macham
Field at high noon. He threw
E. Humphreys of-the Mexia field,
after a Pure Oil deal, was willing
to sell the other half of his hold-
ings.
•'The board of my company
asked me to go to New York to
see Humphreys and discuss • this
thing,” he continued. “I called
him on the telephone and asked to
see him.
Met in Hotel.
"Mr. Humphreys said things
had developed to a point where he
was going to meet some gentle-
men in Blackmer’s hotel room
that morning. He asked me "to
be present.
“I went and found Humphreys
and his son, Beaman Dawes,
Blackmer, O'Neil and Sinclair. 1
had gone ,over there with the as-
sumption that Humphreys might
make a deal with us. I was told
by Blackmer there was no chance
of the Standard ,getting that oil.
He said the Sinclair Crude Oil
Purchasing Co. was going to get
the oil and that if I wafted the
oil I would have tp get it thru
that source.
•"He said I would have to pay
>4.75 a barrel for the oil.
"I didn’t know what they were
As Uncle
,/\ Panther
Sees It
BY JOHN SORRELIS
ITHE girl cleared the table and
A brought in the coffee.
And whatever the health ex-
perts may think about coffee, no
one can deny it gives impetus to
Informal conversation. The very
aroma of I* takes the wings of
fancy. I have seen newspapers
started and farms bought and
poems written—In the fumes of
a steaming cup. _ .
My companion at table put his
spoon in his cup and wound his
coffee up thoughtfully;
We had been talking about
newspapers in general, and The
Press in particular.
“Trouble with your sheet," he
said critically—"trouble with
your sheet is it reads too quick.”
There was a triumphant ring in
his voice.
I thanked him. To me, his
- day morning.
. From Santo Domingo Col.
Lindbergh was . to go to Haiti
Monday, preparatory to a fitght
to. HavanaGext Wednesday—the
final stage"ef his good will tour,
—to attend the Pan-Americah
Conference.
“PUSSYFOOT” AGAIN
VOL. 7; NO. 106 * ,
’ ROYAL JAP-ETTES
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