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PRICE TWO CENTS
VOL. 7, NO. 107
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1928
TWENTY PAGES
ARRESTS ’EM
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HOURLY TEMFERATUHES
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OIL FIRM HERE
North Commerce, was shot thru
the heart late Thursday night.
An auto killed one man Friday
morning, another was killed by a
bullet Thursday night, while five
others are in hospitals due to ac-
BURGESS FUNERAL TO
BE FRIDAY AFTERNOON
APPEAL IS MADE IN
FALLS WHIPP NG CASE
Charles E. Peeples Uninjured in Forced Landing in
River Bottoms; Kindred Brings Cargo On to Texas
a side road near the B. H. Carroll
School on the Old Cleburne Road.
M. C. Counts, county agricultural
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ragua will leave here tomorrow
for the Central American coun-
try, its commander, Lieutenant
George Towner, said today. The
plane made a nonstop flight from
Washington to Miami yesterday
in nine hours and 40 minutes.
HICKMAN CALLS
SELF MESSIAH
lusion that he was to be the "mes-
slab of modern youth in crime,”
was harbored by Edward Hickman
when he murdered Marlon Parker,
defense alienists testified in sub-
stance, at his trial today.
To substantiate the testimony
of the psychiatrists, the defense
and later may branch out to other
business activities. _
Cosden met reverses two and a
half years ago and virtually retir-
Blaze, Which Burned Thru Heart, of Milling Center
For More Than 15 Hours, Extinguished Shortly
Before 10 A. M.; Damage $25,000,000
Company Established With
Headquarters To Be
In Fort Worth
freezing wind and darkness.
■ 12 Seriously Hurt.
Fourteen firemen were serious-
ly injured, and 250 persons were
treated for minor hurts.
More than 40 buildings were
in the direct path of the blaze
and were destroyed.
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FALL RIVER FIRE CONQUERED
FOLLOWING LOSS OF NEARLY
FIFTY BUSINESS BUILDINGS
ravenous appetite.
It's the little fellow who thinks
he can coast awhile.
By United Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Joshua
S. Cosden, for years a leader in
the oil industry, has recouped his
fortunes and has interested New
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Five Hundred Firemen Recruited From Nearby Cities
Help Battle Flames Against Odds of Freezing
Wind and Darkness; Under Control at 3 A. M.
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more than an hour as they watch-
ed the flames consume the hotel
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Complete Wire Reports of the UNITED PRESS, the Greatest World-Wide News !
Colonel Stewart May Be Sent To Jail For Failure To
Answer Questions Put By Investigators;
Walsh Issues Call For Tomorrow
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—The Senate public lands com-
mittee voted this afternoon to take steps for citation of
Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the Sandard Oil Co. of
Indiana, for contempt for refusal to answer questions about
the $50,000,000 deal of oil men in 1921.
The committee will report to ""*'1.3
। Mid he had no information Aai-
corning the formation of the new
company.
DALLAS SENDS POLICE
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komunce fuliowtd 1rs. w,*..
working,
themiev
FLAPPER FANNY S>
The ideal job it to do >
you pleate and get paid j
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night crowd, caught fire next, director, Henry M. Baker, to the
The manager led his customers | scene to survey relief needs,
to safety before the theater col- ___________________
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Wall Street Reports That
Former Millionaire Has
Fresh Backing
Burgess was found with a shot-
gun wound thru the left breast
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Pie* Based on Jury Being Shown
Photoe of Victim
By United Press.
AUSTIN, Feb. 3.—Appeal has
been made to the Court of Crim-
inal Appeals from the 46-day sen-
tence given W. T. HiH in Falta
County as a result of the whip-
ping of Wiley Ziegler inHarris
County. Hill was indicated for
murder. Ziegler having died after
the whipping.
New trial was asked on the
ground that pictures of the corpse
were shown the Jury and because
the jury did not think Hill would
have to pay court costs as well as
have the 45-day sentence.
Chicago-Fort Worth Mail
Pilot Crashes in Missouri
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ed f rpm the oil industry. He
sold his estate at Port Washing-
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SENATE COMMITTEE
For her bravery in arresting
single-handed a gang of white
slavers in Kenosha, Wis., Miss
Beulah McNeil, policewoman, was
promoted to a sergeancy and
given more pay. One of the men,
declared leader, was sentenced to
five years.
de Hauteville-Bell, 67, from her .
Boston home to Knpland, ' There
she met and married her tzychr-
old husband. Here they are up-
enher-return.-----—.i ' ' —
The Fort Worth Press
' * WEATHER: TONIGHT AND SATURDAY, CLOUDY, PROBABLY RAIN
denial of knowledge of the in-
side details of the Continental
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Stewart declined particularly
to comment on the 33.000.000
He made his regular stop at
Moline, III., and left there at
11:15 o'clock last night, nearly
two hours behind schedule.
When Peeplee . arrived near
Missouri City, motor trouble de-
Street was closest to the mills today at the disposal of flame-
and was the first to catch the swept Fall River, Mass.
full force of the fire. I * President Coolidge ordered the
Then the blaze leaped to Cen-1 army and navy to give every as-
tral Street and the Mohican Ho distance possible to the stricken
tel was destroyed. The Rialto city.
Theater, packed with the regular ~
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degrees. Miami, Fla., with 70
degrees, was the hotlest place
in the .. Thursday-:
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the Senate thia afternoon a reso-
lution recommending that Stewart
be brought before the bar of the
Senate,________ __________________ . .................
Whe.fi Stewart is haled before
the Senate the disputed questions'
will again be asked him, and
should he refuse, the Senate may
then vote to send him to-jail for
not more thn one year or fine
him >1,000, or both.
If stewart desires to resist the
Senate action, he may seek a writ
in the courts to prevent the Sen-
ate from haling him before it. If
he is Jailed, the only appeal open
to him is to seek a writ of habeas
corpus in the courts.
Senator Walsh of Montana in-
tends to provide in his resolution
that the sergeant - at - arms bring
Stewatt before the Senate tomor-
row.
Before Stewart was called, oth-
e deck or •
Saratoga
• publica-
y picture
n aircraft
ossed
Five members .of a family of
seven were burned to death when
their small frame cottage at
Deephaven. Lake Minnetonka,
was destroyed by fire last night.
The two survivors were severe-
ly burned but are' expect c to
recover.
By United Prema.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 3.
PAIN probably will"aecom-
I pany cloudy weather, is the
forecast for Fort Worth tonight
its property or preparing to flee
to safety. ------------- --------
Telephone operators, working at and a shotgun beside his body, on
FINAL
two sons. Brown and Warfield;
three sisters, Mrs. Van Zandt Jar-
vis, Mrs. M. W. Hovenkamp and
Mrs. Guy Perry; three brothers,
John-I., Duke E. and J; E. Bur-
gess, all of Fort Worth.
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new air mail service. between
Chicago-Fort Worth and Dallas
recorded its first accident today
when Pilot. Charles E. Peeples,
enroute to Kansas City from
Chicago, was forced to land in
a river bottom field three miles
west of Missouri City, Mo.
Peeples was uninjured.
, The pilot had, taken off from
Chicago more than an hour be-
hind schedule as a result of the
completely extinguished shortly before 10 a. m.
A complete checkup today revealed that 49 office
buildings and six houses either were destroyed .or damaged
by the fire. •------------------—
* • energy, every bit of. his intelll-
‘ business, and "he works hard at
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Half a square mile in the heart
of the business and industrial
section of the “Spindle City” lay
in ruins. Within nine hours the
flames, which started at 7 p. m.
Thursday, in the idle plant of the
Pocosset Textile Mills, had spred
with such fury that at times the
entire city of 125,000’ population
appeared to be doomed.
Plainclothes Men Will Aid In Law
Enforcement at Convention.
By United Pres.
DALLAS, Feb. ‘ 3.—Ten Dallas
detectives and plainclothes men
will be sent to Houston during
the National Democratic conven-
tion in June to aid officers of that
ARMY CHAPLAIN DIES
Officer Apparently Had Been Dis-
charged From Service
By United Brew. _ .
MANILA, P. I., Feb. 3.—Ed-
mund F. Savageau. apparently the
man whose resignation from the
United States army was asked for
the good of the service by the
War Department at Washington,
died at Sternberg Hospital here
early today.
Savageau died four hours after
an airplane brought him here
from Camp Stotsenburg, where he
was stationed. .
He was a Catholic chaplain
from Wisconsin and held the rank
of First Lieutenant. ,
The body via being held by Rob-
ertson it Mueller. .
Tom A. Powers, 32. 220B- Lin-
coln. sustained a broken collar-
bone at 6:15 a. m. Friday when
the Chevrolet sedan he was driv-
ing was hit by a Santa Fe en-
gine at Peach Street crossing.
Hoy B. Huff, 17, 3001 South
Pecan, driver of the auto which
killed McIntosh, reported to po-;
lice after the accident. Huff said
he was driving north on Hemp-
hill when McIntosh appeared to
step from the curb into the path
in to—and it exists only so long
as he keeps it, alive with the :
warmth of his own vitality. I
Men who show promise then I
fail need not seek a solution in
a new kind of tooth paste or a
current breakfast food.
The answer is: keep hustling.
host to the Prince of Wales in
1924. He also disposed of his
villa in Palm Beach. '
Since then the financier has
been regaining a fortune to use
as a hucleus for his new company.
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J. 8. Cosden has had an oil of-
fice in the Fort Worth National
Bank building in Fort Worth for
about two years, handling oil and
gas leases and production in West
Texas. . ...
The office here’ is in charge of
A. G. Reed, general manager.
Cosden is president of the com-
pany, but wM out of the city Fri-
NTAPOLEON was busy scheming
INuntirthe day of his death.
He started hustllng'when he was
* young man, and he kept at it.
Ty Cobb built up a fine reputa-
ton, but" he got paid for hus-
tling. When he quit hustling,
Cobb was done.
Rex Beach is a best seller, but
he tolls over every word he
writes. . •
The greatest pianist must keep
practicing; the greatest violinist
must labor hours each day at his
exercises.
The great men—the outstand-
ing men—the men who accom-
plish great things are the men
who keep practicing, who keep
Theater Crowd Saved. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3,—Gov-
The "Granite-Bleek" on- Mafnt ernment resources were
Accidentally Shot Thursday While
Out Hunting
Funeral services will be held at
3:30 p. m. Friday for William
Warfield Burgess, 56, 1601 Hur-
ley Avenue, who was acedentally
shot to death Thursday after-
noon. ______________
The services will be conducted
at First Christian Church, with the
pastor, Dr. L. D. Anderson, offi-
ciating. Burial will be in East
Oakwood.
Accidental death was the ver-
dict of Justice H. B. Balch at in-
quest in connection with Burgess’
death.
Thexpalnt him a monster, who
would betray a friend and assas-” (
"inAhazcharacteregraph editor tel, continued at their” tasks for
wanted to: know if I woqld like
to have these references to Ma-
motored Fokker marine plane.en
route-from-washington to Nica-
, who continue to hurl
res at the job with
. er witnesses had been heard in a
committee effort to controvert his
P -York financiers in backing a new
" extensive oil project, it was re-
ported in Wall Street today.
A corporation to be known rn
Cosden & Co., with an initial cu,
ital 61 >5,000.000, Is being organ-
ized and will have its headquart-
MEN who build bridges or run
IVI filling stations or sell gro-
- cedes or write poems or paint
pictures must learn that perfec-
tion comes only after hard work.
But perfection is not a piece
of gold one can earn, then lock
it in a vault. Perfection is some-
thing a man has blown the
breath of life into, something a
man has poured his own soul
day, ____
P. L. Appling, hler geologist, His body was found early Friday.
ton, Long Island, where .he wag, Another Injured As Engine
Hits Car
his cell in which he declared him-
self to be under the guidance of
a special providence.
District Attorney Asa Keyes vig-
orously protested the introdue-
tion of the manuscript, which he
called "hodge podge” and his. ob-
jection was upheld by Judge’Tra-
bucco.
The alienist testified in Hick-
man’s sanity hearing that his
questioning of the young murder-
er had brought out that Hickman
believed himself “greater than
Aristo Cristo has wandered1
little since then; Rosa, the
daughter, wandered far into
the Souh with her husband.
Fort Worth was the end of
the trail.
That wai two years ago.
Rosa has found that >6,000
doesn’t buy romance, or hap-
piness.
Friday she fled from her
camp home at a gravel pit on,
the edge of town.
There were mocking ragged
clothes on Rosa Cristo. There
was a great scar on her brown
agent, found the .body,.. .. eastern air mail plane from New
He is survived by his widow; York being late.
and Saturday,
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T WATCHED him work at high
L school auditorium the other
night. And. I mean work, for
while singing comes as natural
as breathing to him, he is a con-
scious artist.
Every' note, every passage—he
gave all of 4imself to each. Ev-
ery number 'drew from-him a
conscious, deliberate effort at
perfection. Nothing did he slur
or back off from. Not once did
he try to save himsef,.or take it
easy. N
He had a job of singing to do,
“ and he threw himself- into that
job..- He gave every ounce of his
lapsed. The Premier Theater also
was badly damaged.
The flames spread uptown and
finally ignited the big Durfee
Mill at 12th Street.
It was so cold that the streets
were turned to sheets of ice and
the charred walls in many places
were ice-coated.
Much of the fire-fighting appa-
ratus was coated with ice and
rendered useless.
Twisted Girders.
The “Granite Block,” for years
one of the main business build-
ings, was a mass of twisted gird-
ers. Firemen dynamited some of
the walls of that building in an
attempt to check the fire. But
it wns a useless attempt. Several
firemen were injured in the ex-
plosion.
Stories of heroism came even
while the most of the city was
guarding against destruction of
and eat steadily toward their
building. The telephone lines
Knocked to Curb.
Huff said he slammed on the
brakes, but the auto hit the man {
and knocked him toward the curb. '
Huff asked • someone at 3001-
Hemphill to call an ambulance.
Huff also told police that he could
not see very plainly because of the
darkness. He made a statement
to Assistant District. Attorney Mc-
Connell after repofting to police.
McIntosh is survived by a wid-
ow, three sons and three daugh-
ters. Funeral arrangements have
not been completed.
Powers attempted to beat the
finally were put out of commis-
sion shortly before midnight as
the ice and flames snapped cables.
The manager of the Rialto
Theater went Into the streets and
saw the approuting danger.
Theater Emptied.
Calmly ’and quietly he walked
thru the crowded building and,
row by row, in a very calm voice,
asked the patrons to leave. He
gave no reason for the request.
The brilliant glare of the fire did
not show in the building.
Sotaewhat puzzled, but without
sensing danger, the crowd moved
out of the bullding without panic.
A short time later the building
was in ruins.
• Residents living on the edge of
the business distri. t this morning
prepared toHeave their homes.
While there was no general exo-
dus, many fled from the path of
danger, carrying some of their
possessions.
The investment in property in
Fall River is immense. There are
la the mills 3,000,00A spindles,
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representing invested capital of
>25,000,000. Two of the great
mills were destroyed.
The city is a shipping and man-
ufacturing center on Narragansett
Bay. It, is 49.-miles southwest of
gee eliminated. ,. ’
I told him no—and told him
why. ‘
ITHE charges.against Magee, of
. course, aretatsolutely false.
If it. were anybody else, I would
refuse to print the charges be-
cause they would be libelous. I
am hot afraid' that Magee will
sue me.
Magee is a national character.
His expose at Albert Fall made
his name a household word. His
career and his record is known •
by everyone Who reads. And ev-
I erybody: knows that CarlsMagee
never shot a man in the back,
that he has never betrayed a
friend. that he has never assas-
| “inated anyone's character.
He has exposed fraud, he has
I uncovered corruption in public
I office, and once he had to save
Ihls own life with a gun.
L.But—"if I ignored these
■charges, if I edited this copy to
■pare Magee, It would place me in
■he position of coloring the news,
E would place me in the posi-
has. (Turn to fag* »
Rosa Cristo will sit in her
jail cell. In the ragged, vari-
colored dress she has worn
since her S"marrlage," until
the gypsy father comes to
claim her again.
She will not go again for
>6,000, she says. Rather, she
hopes she won’t, for gypey
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DIES WHEN
Declines to Talk.
“I must respectfully decline to
answer,” said Stewart.
“I never handled any of the
bonds,” Stewart said. “I never
heard of Teapot Dome until Sin-
clair got the lease. Nor do I
know of any bonds being given
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' BY JOHN SORRELLS ,
TF THERE is one quality com-
i I mon to outstanding men, I be-
t lleve it is the Capacity for sus-
I' talned effort. NA.
I - It’s the ability to keep husf
I tling.
i John McCormack is probably
, the world's greatest tenor. It not
the greatest, hets the most pop-
ular.
-r.. McCormack is a wealthy man,
a famous man. He can pack a
house with his name alone. He
A has reached the polat-where he
can travel awhile on his reputa-.
tion. e
But Mcfmak keeps hus-
tling.
engine across the tracks, it was
stated. He was driving east, on
his way to pick up some girls who
work with him at theSwift Lard
RerTnery.
J. Wylie, Cleburne, was engh
neer, and R. A. Clark, Cleburne,
fireman, on the engine. Robertson
& Mueller ambulance took Powers
to St. Joseph's.
Motorcycle Auto Crash.
David McNeely, 15, 1424 May.
and T. E. Kemp, 18, 121 West
Leuda, were injured in a motor-
cycle-auto crash on Park . Place
Thursday night. The motorcycle
on which the two boys were rid-
ing collided with the auto of C.
C. Smart, 3132 Travis.
McNeely received a broken leg.
Kemp sustained body bruises.
Spelman's ambulance took them
to City-County Hospital.
James Kilcrease. 16, son of a
section, foreman at Hodge, receiv-
ed a badly mangled left- leg when
hi. fell from a boxcar Thursday
night. He was riding a Cotton
Belt freight train to -his home
when h fell. Shannon's ambu-
lance took him to St. Joseph’s
Infirmary. Kilcrease's leg was
amputated Friday morning.
— Weird, Document Reveals
Slayer’s Thoughts
aveloped and he released two para-
eTchute flares.
wouldn’t steal for him. She
showed the bruise on her
shoulder.
“He said he’d cut my head
off. I'm afraid to go back.”
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Sun rises 1:23 and nets 6:03.
to any political party, govern-' {
ment official or any official of j
any State, municipality or terri-
tory of the United States.” j
"Why di you deny that you
had given' any of ‘these bonds to
a political party?" Senator Walsh ,
of Montana asked. "*a- 9
"I think I. read in the news- J
paper that you were looking into
some question like that, Stewart I
replied.
Stewart reiterated his yester-
day's story. He said he thought
it proper for H. M. Blacker of
the Midwest Refining Company
to take a commission on the oil ..
if he desired. He said Blackmer 4
forced him to pay • >1.75 for . 1
Mexia oil which the. Continental
had bought the same day for |
>1.50 under a contract which he
(Stewart) guaranteed.
Questions Statement.
Walsh questioned this state- !
ment because Stewart and Black- 1
mer first had negotiated togeth- 1
er to get A. E. Humphrey's !
Mexia oil.
Stewart denied he had any in-
terest in the Continental, and
Mid he did not know who did I
have. !
Walsh once asked Stewart why I
he hesitated in answering certain |
questions. - I
“That's my business,” Stewart |
answered. I
“Maybe I made a mistaka I
here/' Stewart told Walsh. “May- I
be you should be chairman of I
the board instead of me. Maybe I
I could have got the oil for 26 I
cents a barrel less, but I didn‛ I
do it. Does the Sonata giv you I
power to ask about what I didn’t I
do?” I
T. O. McIntosh, 58, 3009 Jen-
nings, died in a Haryeson & Cole
ambulance, after being hit by an
auto near his home, at Bowie
and Hemphill at 7 a. m. Friday.
R. Larog, 40, Mexican, 2022
a man without emotion and that
the murder was directed by “prov-
idence,” as a test
The witness testified that Hick-
man said that at one point dur-
ing the murder of the Farker
child he stopped his work and
played a phonograph record to
determine whether' he was ex-
periencing >any emotion.
Dr. Shelton said that Hickman
bellevee that if he hangs he will
be like Christ.
structures. Telegraph companies advsd
The postoffice and city hall— him they could get no telegrams
two of the city's most beautiful' thru.
buildings — were isolated by Lubin’s first job, he said, was
flames but did not burn. They in the Pocassett Textile Mills,
are constructed of granite. , where the disastrous blaze is said
The two buildings, in the light i to have started.
of the flames this morning, were' Lubin planned to leave Sunday
but stark, blackened outlines 1 for his hometown. He visits Fall
against a background of destruc-' River each year.
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By United Press. .
recruited from dozens-ot -nearby----MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb.3. -n/Aed Prtpa,
AT dusk one unpleasant eve-
M ning two years ago, two
swarthy men stood in the twi-
light at a gypsy camp in Bos-
ton and bartered for a 15-
year-old gypsy girl.
One of the men was young,
and eager. The other, middle-
aged, reticent, not eager.
The middle-aged man was
sad, for he was selling his
own daughter, as to the cus-
tom of his people.
But a bargain Was ■truck',
and the young man'went away
in the darkness with his
bride. The father fingered
26,000, the ma Rricea—..,
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What Would You Do?
(N another page of today's
U Press is a story about Carl
Magee.
Magee is.editor of the Okla-
homa News, a Scripps-Howard
newspaper. And he is involved
in a controversy with several
- members of the Oklahoma- Sen-
ate.
The printing of this story in
The Pres’s brought up a problem
for me to solve. Young men and
women who want to get in the
newspaper ^business would do
well to study this problem. Be-
cause it is not unique: It arises
in slightly different form near-
ly every day.
These Senators with whom
Magee is Involved launched a
very bitter attack against him.
They acuse him of having
shot a mn in the back in New
Mexico.
They accuse him of being as
quick to shoot off his mouth as
to-shoot off his gun.
the name *of Napoleon.
The necklace was Rosa's
wedding gift from her moth-
er-in-law.
The girl, pretty enough with
her deep brown eyes and soft
features to be a queen among
her people, was beaten be-
cause she refused to tell for-
tunes. She will tell her father.
“Fortune telling’s a fake
and I wouldn’t do it,” she
said in broken, queer sylla- >
bles. <
Aad her husband beat her
profits of the Continental Trad-
ing Company of Canada—$233-
000 of which was given former
Secretary of Interior Fall by H.
e F. Stnctotr. -shortly after Fall
leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair.
dais reported that 5000 to 10,-;-. . _ a m:
ooo egrsons were" out of work TiVe of Family Die
because of the fire. When Cottage Burns
Five hundred-regular firemen
- Lubin, Clothier Here,
From Fall River —----—lattempted to introduce a weird
Included in this list were the „ * document written by the slayer in
great Pocasset Mills, the Rialto „ Harry F. Lubin, clothier, >06
Theater, the Hotel Mohican, the, Main Street, Friday was attempt-
News-Herald plant;' the bus ter-1 ing to get in touch with five broth-
minal and numerous smaller i ers who lve In Fall River.
Boston, an41s 'miles SQfitheast of
Providence, R. I. ~
•Commerce • -aje 3
ported above freezing tempera-
tures. Amarillo, where the
mercury has hovered around 32
and beow for several weeks, re-
ported’temperature of 38 at 7
a. m. Friday, Abilene report-
ed 52 degrees at 7 a. m., just
one degree below that of Fort
Worth at the same time. Max-
imum here Thursday was 60
FORECAST HERE
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towns in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island and hundreds of
volunteers fought all night
against the heavy s of a
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 3.
Captain Joseph Donnellan, en
route to South and Central Am-
erican America by easy stages,
spent the night here'after a one-
stop flight from Atlanta, Ga.
The Chicago good will flyer in-
tended to leave for Miami, Fla.,
today.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Feb. 3.—The last embers of the
$25,000,000 fire which swept Fall River’s business and
industrial district during the night had scarcely been ex-
tinguished this afternoon when business men began work i
on a program of reconstruction. j *
The fire, which burned for more than 15 hours, was
shoulder. There war* tears la colas
the HYRBZ eyen, . wan.
U. S. MARINE PLANE
AT MIAMI, FLORIDA
Good Will Flyer Stops at Jack
sonville on Way South
By Unit ad Press.
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 3.—The tri-
NAB PAY BOLL BANDITS
By United Prens.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8. —
Three pay roll bandits were cap-
tured and a fourth made his ea-
cape after being wounded in. a
gun battle in North Philadelphia
today. A pay roll of >5.200 which
had been taken from Frank Ross,
messenger for the Colonial Trust
Co., was recovered.
Weatherman
Landis stated
Friday.
Only a trace
of rain was
reported here
Friday; just
enough mois-
ture to make
streets slip-
pery.
Texas Fri-
day, for the
first time
mas Day, re-
since Christ-
By the aid of the light he
made a perfect landing, but was
unable to stop his plane from
rolling before it crashed into a
tree:
The wings and the landing
gear were wrecked.
Peeples reported the accident
to headquarters here and me-
chanics were sent to his aid.
Herbert L. Kindred, southbound
pilot, was held up pending word
from Peeples. The mail was
brought into Kansas City by me-
chanics and Kindred took off fOr
Dallas.
The accident occurred at -3
o'clock this morning. d
city. —_______ - - — _ ,,
The men will bF*ent by Police of his aut,about 20 feet from the- 4
Chief Claude Trammell, following corner of Bowle, %
Midnight .. ..'....BAT *• m.
t a. ............. 8 A. m.
2 a. m.....,.54/0. A. m.
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• At her own teqaest, the girl
who brought >6.000 was put
in the county jail for safety.
The man who bought had
beaten her and threatened her
life, she said.
Bo Friday, a telegram went
from Fort Worth to Aristo
Cristo, “at a gypsy camp some-
where in Boston.” .. •
Rom had no money. Bo,
. to pay for finding her father,
she left with Assistant District
Attorney Bal MeConnell a
rag necklace.
Christ,” and that he was sent to
for all
Mrmen: ,. -—Ii. ... . a reyues maue uy nvusun vuuce
According to Dr. Shelton, Hick- officials, asking for aid from Tex-
man told'him that he was to be r --- —•— -- -------
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Sorrells, John H. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 107, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1928, newspaper, February 3, 1928; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1545992/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.