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VOL 10, NO. 229
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931
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PRICES DROP WITH COLOR CHANGES IN MEN’S SUITS
In the nitroglycerin
department.
♦ Hams, Galveston, veteran cloth- ♦ to serve in place of the tab,"
By MABEL M’ELLIOTT
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RAILWAYSAND
TRINITY GROUP
HERE FOR TILT
TURMAN FACES
KIDNAPING OF
TWO CHILDREN
Mother-in-Law Says He
Came Into Home and
Knocked Her Down
Provides Stumbling Block
At Hoover Wanted Flat
Delay on Reparations
ITALY PLACES
SNAG IN PAIN
OF DEBT PLAN
Testimony Taken May Have
Important Bearing on
Move of Congress
HEART OF
LIANE . . .
Leaps From Bridge'Where
Boy Friend Was Found
2•
al
f
HOPE GAS WILL END
SEWAGE PLANT ODORS
Hearing on Canalization
On River -On Before
Maj. Milo Fox
THE PRESS
TOMORROW
Wednesday
June 34
were
frae-
Had Been Given Custody,
But Failed to Post
$25,000 Bond
11 KILLED, 19 HURT
IN NITRO EXPLOSION
Is the name of the
new serial story of
love and romance
which starts in
NEW MANAGER
LIKELY TODAY
CEMETERY IS MOVED
FROM SITE OF LAKE
They e
Fourth
I to give
. A gre
g OB.
Council Meets Again
Discuss Favorite
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charge.
Sheriff Wright
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A kidnaping charge was facing
L. C. Turman, Fort Worth oil
operator Tuesday afternoon, whil*
he was believed to be in an air-
plane en route to the Mexican
border with his two curly-haired
children, L. C. Jr., 8, and Tom-
mie, 6.
The children were taken from
the home of Mrs. R. E. L. Brad-
GIRL FAILS IN
SUICIDE TRY
I
SECOND MAN SLAIN
IN STRIKE WARFARE
A CITY’S DUTY TO ITS SCHOOL CHILDREN
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ANOTHER HOT DAY
IS PROMISED HERE
TWO WORLD FLYERS
REACH HARROR GRACE
rj,
kEAD EVERY CHAPTER!
By JACK GomDO%
Vort Worth voters will have
poll tax receipt, with the list.
If the bond issue carries, 16
I new bullings will be constructed,
additions made to 14 others and
! two buildings rehabilitated.
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tag angle to the issue, it thoroly understood,
draw many opposition votes.
N • • •
said
in an
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night when a truek in whieh he
was riding erashed with a eompe,
niffton was dead when his body
was removed from the wreckage.
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Sheriff Wright sent telegrams
to all border points of both
Oklahoma and Mexico, asking for
the arrest of Turman
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from some private landing field,
or that he. may have driven
ft
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The building program will re-
quire five years to carry out. It
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GREENVI,L.E, June 23— Rue
Mil Clifton, 11, of Hopkins Coun-
may have
nephew of the
Manuel Garcia
—h •
Crippled School System Wil! Be at Stake in
$4,750,000 Bond Election Tomorrow
he believed cotton and wheat
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VET the city’s current expense for each pupil in
A 1930 waa 18 per cent less than the average of
these other cities. On school maintenance Fort Worth
is 70 per cent below the average.
Fort Worth provides only 82 per cent as much
equipment as the average. The school tax is less
than in 12 of the comparable cities.
Dr. Strayer’s school survey, adopted by the
school board as a model for the requirements here,
made three fundamental recommendations—an en-
larged building program, revised curriculum and en-
largement of administrative and teaching personnel.
The latter two cannot be effectively carried out
unless the first, the building program, is authorized
by the people tomorrow.
In the last seven years the scholastic census of
Fort Worth has increased 41 per cent. The 1931-32
term is expected to show an enrollment of 40,000 *
or an increase of 2,500.
In the term just closed 2,500 children were cared
for in half-day sessions.
principally buildings.
Polla will open at 1 a. m. and
elose at 7 p. m.
Votes will be received at 4 3
voting places.
Voters will find elsewhere in
today'* Press a complete list of
voting boxes.
To find the proper place to
vote, they should eheck the pre-
cinct number, a* given on the
president, and
rHE $4,7 50,090 building project would cover a five-
A year period. Bonds would be issued only as th*
money was needed. It is estimated the tax increase
th* tint year utter construction got under way would
not to exceed 4 cents on the $100 valuation.
It is reasonable to expect that long Mire that
time economic conditions will have shown decided
improvement.
It must also be remembered that a period of de-
pression is an ideal time to vote frond* tor improve-
ments that are needed urgently. Building costa are
low. The bond* are paid out over a 40-year periqd.
Unfortunately most bond issues are voted in bom
times when building costs are high.
• Further, it must be rememhered that the pro-
posed building program would make for labor and aid
the unemployment situation.
Fort Worth has 112,675 worth of weahh behind
every child in school. Compared with four major
Texas cities and 12 cities in nearby states Fort
Worth ranks second in financial ability to support
her schools.
ford, 3636 Purington
gratirying.signs to. officlals here, ty, was killed near here lute Imi
Carl William*, acting chairman “ -f ... .
of the Federal Farm Board, Mid
Bradford, his former mother-in-
law, said Turman had broken—
into her home and knocked her
down. V
Turman was recently divoreed
tured.
Robertson wa* burned early
Sunday when hie auto eaught on
fire as it overturned on the
Weatherford road.
Miss Blackwell le reported rest-
Ing well. A hit-skip auto driver
knocked her down in the 4600
Mock Camp Bowie Saturday nigh,.
She wm cat and bruised.
City Chemist W. S. Mahlle will
attempt to eliminate odor* from
the city'* Mwage disposal plant
with chlorine gas.
A shipment of the gai I* due to
arrive the middle of next month.
radius of 30
pres IN nOAp CHAMH
Gomez, were killed by the offi-
cer* when they stopped in Ard-
more on their way home from
school at Atchison, Kan.
The deputies said they fired
on the boys when one of them
moved as if to draw a gun. Ac-
cording to a third Mexican youth
in the party, the boys were car-
rying guns for um against ban-
dits. He said they made no at-
tempt to um them, however, even
the they had no way of knowing
that Crosby and Guess were of-
ficers.
M. C. Gonzales, attorney for
the Mexican consul at San Anto-
nio, has been conferring with
Oklahoma officials regarding ths
proseeution.
—Photo* by Kerr Studio.
A BOVE is shown L. C. Tur-
H man, Fort Worth oil op-
erator, who Tuesday was
charged with the kidnaping of
his two children, L. C. Jr., 8,
and Tommie, 6.
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rHREE thousand were housed in temporary build,
I ings. In all classes the number of pupils has
reached the maximum allowed by state law.
The population of Fort Worth, 163,000 in 1930,
certainly will approach 200,000, an increase of 37,000,
by the time the proposed school building program is
completed. Such an increase would add between 9,000
and 10,000 to the school enrollment,
if this issuer is voted down—what? An over-
crowded condition that would be all but intolerable.
Even more thousands of children would be compelled
to attend school in shacks, fire traps, ill-ventilated
and inadequately equipped buildings. The health
menace would be acute.
Fort Worth cannot make progress under such
conditions of school inadequacy. Fort Worth’s build-
ing program is now 10 years behind the system’s
needs. The very life of a city depends upon its
school system.
Vote for the bonds and a GREATER Fort Worth.
Fort Worth must not dodge the duty she owes her
school children.
on the
World Flyers to Hop For Berlin,
Moscow.
By United Press -
HARBOR GRACE, N. F., June
2 3. -— Wiley Post and Harold
Gatty, en route on a flight around
the world, landed here at 11:45
a. m. after a swift journey from
New York.
The flight from New York to
Harbor Grace was the first part
of the venturesome around - the-
world trip which the two men
have started in an attempt to cir-
cle the globe in 10 days. -
Before leaving New York, the
two said they would remain at
Harbor Grace for about four
hours, during which time their
craft—the "Winne Mae”—would
be refueled. Then they planned to
start for Berlin. Should their fuel
supply be sufficient, they will pro-
ceed on to Moscow.
Gatty and Post have made care-
ful preparations for the flight,
which is financed by an Oklahoma
oil man, after whose daughter the
plane is named.
Fort Worth today may get a ,n Ie nitrogiyct
sample of yesterday’s heat with- was head for a
Mexicans, Emilio
Voters will pass on the $4,750,-
000 sehool bond issue recom-
mended by New York experts
who made the sehool survey
here. The experts Mid they found
a wystem eommendaMle from a
pegagogie standpoint woefully
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IN KIDNAPING
Four Others Wounded in Vayette
County Cineh
By United Prema.
PITTSBURGH, June 23—A
store proprietor was shot to death
m he stepped from the poreh of
hl* store and four miners were
wounded today in the second fatal
outbreak in the Western rMMjft-
vania strike in two days.
The storekeeper WM slain when
coal and iron police and speelal
deputies attempted to disperse a
picket line of 74 mon who bad
gathered in front of his store in
Arnold City, Fayette County,
in a battle between i striking
miners and special deputles at
Wildwood, Allegheny County, yes-
terday one miner wm slain and
11 wounded.
Reservation! Are Indicated
In Paris Reply Due for
Delivery by Friday
I By United Press.
’ WASHINGTON, June 23—A I
I new com plication in President |
I Hoover’s plan for a one-year war
I debt and reparation* holiday fac-
I »d the cabinet today due to report*
I from Rome that Italy's acceptance
f i« conditional upon Germany
► abandoning her proposed custom*
| uhion with Austria.
The administration wm prepar-
I ed for some delay and counter dis- '
I cussion by France but the Italian 1
f development appeared to intro I
I duce an unexpected element.
High administration offielals I
I emphasize that the Hoover plan
I must be accepted seedily toob-
i tain the psychologieal benefit de '
l aired and thnt it will lose its force 1
, if tedious negotlation intervene !
French Reply Boom
The President’s plan is repre I
!sented as providing flatly for an”-
I all around suspension of war debt
and reparation* payments by im-
I portant creditor power* withont
tqualirication, reservation or add !
It Iona I condition* of any kind.
L Belief that the.French govern- !
ment will swing into line rest* i
The most serlously hurt are
three men suffering from fraetur-
ed skolls. They are; Sam Bar-
tala, 1801 North Vrey, in Baptist
Hospital.
Bill sradley, 40, 1500 Viekery,
in Napfist Hospital.
Lewis Wiggins, »•, 5516 Per-
shing, in All Saints Hosiptal.
Others injured are:
Hurted From Car
Wille Atehison, 10, 512 Lux-
ton, in St, Joseph's Hospital.
Al Robertson, 28, 1600 Yalr-
mount, la Cook Memoral Hon
Blast Knocks Man Off Chair Two
Miles From Scene
By United Press.
POOLE, Eng., June 23.—The
Royal Naval Cordite factory at
Holton Heath, six miles from
THE tchord bonds are in danger.
- First, on the surface then is an amazing laek of
interest.
Second, the size of the proponed ianuc brings fear
to aome of additional bnrHeneome taxes.
Many citizens favorable to the bonds are taking
it for granted that the election will carry tomorrow,
Hence, they do not deem it imperative that they
vote. Thia apathy probably ia the greateat danger
the bond issue faces. t
if all citizens who actually believe a revitalized
school program ia neceeeary both t educational and
material advancement of Fort Worth will go to the
polls; the bonds will carry. Otherwise failure loomt.
Fort Worth never has considered a bond issue of
greater importance. blond issues and special elee-
tions usually draw small votes. Let the sehool bond
election tomorrow be an exception.
away. It was believed he had
left the city with the children.
According to the story told
members of the district attor-
ney's office, the children were
playing in the front yard of
their grandmother’s home when
the father drove up in an auto.
The children ran into the
house, pursued by Turman.
As Mrs. Bradford attempted
to stop him, he was said to have
struck her down.
Mrs. Bradford said she would
not care to discuss the case with
reporters.
Rufus Garrett, attorney for
Turman, said he was not aware
Turman was in the city.
Had Custody Once Before.
This is the second time Tur-
man has had custody of the
children in a baffling flight, ac-
cording to Martin.
When the Turmans were first
separated Turman left the state
with them, later returning them
Into court. Shortly after Mr*.
Turman was awarded a divorce
and a property settlement. Their
home at 1207 Hillcrest was or-
dered sold. Two weeks ago dep-
uty sheriffs attempted to evict
Mrs. Tho*. Turman, mother of
Turman, from the house on a
court order, but were unsuccess-
ful.
ews Servic
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By ^nc povxt <
TV you have a brown suit.
“ throw it away. It will be
oat of style this fall. But
it'll eont you less to buy a
new suit.
For that new sult, Oxford
gray will be the predominant
color, while eanyon blue will
be the runntr-op.
There also will be a few
one-button coats, but two and
three buttons will be favored.
That's the newest ediet of
the Retail Clothier* and Yur-
ntshers, in sesnion here today.
They know what the men will
wear, because that's what they
have ordered.
And here's something else.
The 22Hneb bottom trousers
also have been ordered, but
they' be worn mostly by ths
ACho there woe no definite
■ '
their, chance tomorrow to put a
tertpsled school eystem on its
feet.•
Whether the city shall con-
tinue to send its ehsidren into
draughty shocks and fire traps,
gloomy basement room* and
storerooms, will be put up to the
will of the people.'
Williams said.
"Yeah, this I* good,” the
tall, good-natured South Texan
boomed, "the cuffs worn by
the dandy were separate and
were attached to a wristband
of the shirt by a cuff-holder.
And it was some job to hook
them on just right.
"The English called them
braces, the city folk* called
them suspenders, but we In the
country called them galluses
—and that’s what they were,"'
Williams declared. The popu-
lar slogan about suspenders
wa* "Will they last long,"
with a prospective purchaser
giving them a pull between
his hands at a test.
Some of these. customers,
after the pull test, would say,
"Well, seems like these gal-
luse* are not quite a* strong
m the lot you had."
The two
Cortes Rubio,
Bodies Are Exhumed to Make Way
for Reservoir
Eight bodies have been removed
from a long-deserted cemetery on
the site of the county conserva-
tion lake at Bridgeport.
Report of the removal of the
bodies to West Bridgeport Ceme-
tery was made to water board di-
rector* when they met late yester-
day.
Names of several of those bur-
led was unknown.
BULLETIN
George D. Fairtrace, city
manager of Wichita Falls,
Tuesday noon was selected to
be Fort Worth'* new city man-
ager at a salary of *12,000 a
year. 1
out clouds and the steady wind
that blew all day.
The mercury topped 94 degrees
yesterday, and may go two degrees
higher today, says Weatherman D.
S. Landis.
He predicts generally fair
weather for all Texas tonight and
tomorrow. The state was without
rain today.
Extreme temperature* here
during the 24-hour period ending
at 7 a. m. today wen: 94 and 75
degree*.
Extreme* thia date last year:
95 and 76.
Extrmes this date all years:
99. 1923: 63, 1903.
Wind 7 a. m. today, southwest.
Velocity, 6 mile* an hour. •
Barometer 30.03. Humidity, 72.
By United Press.
DALLAS, June 23.—A pretty
young woman not immediately
identified but known to be a
friend of Lewis Jimmy Brown,
today attempted to end her life
by leaping from the Holmes
Street Bridge, beneath which his
body was found Sunday.
She landed in soft mud and
no bones were broken. Tho she
was unconscious when taken to
Parkland Hospital, attendants
said that she was only slightly
hurt and will recover.
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4 a. m. .**...?! 10 a. m.
s.- « a-r
gency treatment at Baptist Hospi .
ul late yesterday,
Bartula wm hurted front bl*
auto, hie head striking a eurb,
when he lost eoatml of hi* ear la
Iha 1200 block North fray yeaUtr-
day afternoon.
Bradley wm riding ia an ante
driven by Sehooler, when it eollid-
ed with a ur driven by a negro at
Broadway and Boaz late yesterday.
The negro reported to pollee after
giving aid. Mehoolar was cut and
bruised,
Bieyele I* Struek
The Atchison bo/ wm riding his
bieyele at Besele and Luxton Um
night when it wm struek try an
auto. Y, Y. Kebaatlaa, 1020 Stel-
la, Mid that the boy turned dsreet-
Jy in front of hi* tar. He stopped
and rendered aid.
Wiggins wm hit by an auto la
Poole, was shattered by a territe
State.. without Rain for 24-HourRXLa‘anatoda"nJleven men were
er The explosion, which occurrea
he la Vreed on $5,000 Bond
Altar shooting haturAay Xight
An assault to murder charge
against Ura. Y, L. Keller was
ehanged to murder today after
Keller, 36, died la at. Joeepba
Infirmary.
Mra, KeUeTa bond wm raised
from $5,000 to 17,400,
Keller wm shot three times st
tha Keller home in Riverside
Kalurday night.
Mra. Keller contended that the
shots note fired in the exeitement
m her husband threw a goat at her
arm. She maid she did not have
her finger on the trigger, and in-
tended to frighten but not to shoot
him,
Keller was a Rock Island dis-
pateher.
He la survived by his widow;
mother, Mra. IV, M. Keller of
Fort Worth; a brother, C, 0,
Keller of Chiekasha, Okla.; and
three Matora, Mra. Koy Garrison,
of Kyan, Okla.; Miss Hallie Kel-
ler of at. Iquis, Mo., and Mrs.
C, V. Ray of Dunean, Okla.
Pending funeral arrangements
the body la at Harveson & Cole
Mortuary.
—
Slayers of Rubio’s Nephew Ready
to Go Into Court
By UMM Press,
ARDMORE, Okla., June 23—
William Guess and Cecil Crosby,
deputy sheriffs, will go to triai
today on charges of killing two
Mexican students, one a nephew
of President Ortix Rubio of Mex-
Ico.
Kramer, president of the Dallas
Chamber of Commerce; R. O. Du-
laney. president of the Fort
Worth chamber; Amon Carter,
chairman of the association’* ex-
ecutive committee, and Mayor
Pro-tem A. E. Thomas.
Bailroads Represented.
Among railroad men present
were T. H. Tallichet, of the
Southern Pacific, Houston; N.
H. Lassiter, Rock Island, Fort
Worth; R. S. Shapard, T&P,
Dallas; C. M. Spence, T&P, Dal-
las; G, A. Ryser, T&P, Dallas;
Fred L. Wallace, FW&DC, Fort
Worth: G. L. Oliver, SP, Fort
Worth; W. F. Murray, Cotton
Belt, Tyler; Col. G. A. Knapp,
SP, Houston; G. L. Fordon, SP,
Houston; H. E. Everhart, Santa
Fe, Galveston; W. R. Lance, Ab-
lene & Southern, Abilene; J. E.
Bailey, Missouri Pacific, Hous-
ton; L. M. Hogsett, FW&DC,
Fort Worth; A. H. Sturdevant,
Rock Island, Fort Worth; James
Erskine, Chicago, Rock Island,
and R. H .Schultz. Wichita Fulls
& Southern, Wichita Falls.
Tallichet took the floor to de-
clare that railroads had had noth-
ing to do with calling the hear-
ing.
Railroads, anxious over threat-
ened tonnage, and proponent* of
Trinity River navigation were ar-
rayed for open battle here today.
Both sides had a lon list of
witnesses to appear before Major
Milo P. Fox, U. S. army engineer,
to argue for and against canali-
sation of the river.
Major Fox was to relay his
findings to Washington via the
southern district office at New
Orleans.
Findings at the hearing, under
way at the Chamber of Com-
merce, were expected to have a
strong influence on future con-
gressional action on the project.
Major Fox, in opening ' the
hearing, told witnesses he de-
sired testimony on four points.
-These were:
1. Description of improvements
desired by the Trinity River Ca-
nal Association.
Fouts First Witness.
2. Savings in transportation
costs which the association con-
tends canalization will bring.
3. Traffie: facilities planned.
4. The extent of financial as-
sistance the government could
expect from towns along the
river affected by the improve-
ment.
John Fouts, manager of the
Trinity River Canal Association,
was the first witness called. He
was to be followed by Simon W.
Freese, Water Board engineer.
Fouts declared that the canal
association had presented its
case in full in the Reed-Byers
report on potential tonnage of
river barges and was willing to
rest its case on that.
Fox said he wanted only addi-
tional facts brought out at the
hearing.
Other representatives of the
canal association present were
Tom W. Carpenter, Dallas, pres-
ident of the association; A. L.
I
I whereas otherwtM Frane* would
I have to seek a moratorium. It is
) not believed she would rare to
do that because of possible In-
j jury to her credit,
Ogden Milla, under-secretary of
- the Treasury, has made elabo-
rate calculations on this differ-
1 enee and submitted them to the
French embassy. He Mid the
disparity wm relatively small,
Orficials Gratified.
Except for concern over
France'* attitude, which is miti-
gated by the conviction that in
the end she will not throw her-
self in the way of carrying it
oat, American official* are grat-
ified over the tarn of event* fol-
lowing Hoover'* Intervention in
the European crisis.
The last few days have been
a period of intense strain on the
higher official* here. They held
innumerable conversations per-
sonally and by long distance tel-
ephone, working with great ae-
crecy lest gome indiscreet slip
should upset the delicate balance
of the situation.
The outburst of approval from
abroad, from many Influential
citizens at home, and in the
press, and the buoyant upward
spurt of the market* brought
cheer and renewed courage here.
A Vital Factor.
"Judging by the action of the
principal market* of the world,
this action appears to be looked
upon a* a vital facior," Milla
said. "If it turn* the tide, this
will be a darned good invest-
ment for the U. S. Treasury."
The last sentence wm a refer-
ence to the possibility that Im-
proved bustness conditions. if
they result from the Hoover pro-
posal, would bring in revenues to
offset that lost thru tha suspen-
sion of debt payments.
The sudden rise in the cotton
market was one of the most
pital, --------- ----g---- ------, .
Miss Ossie Maekwel, 24, 2217 hampered by laek of equipment, I
Cantey, in All Maims Mgspital > -----------
•26155 MAN SHOT BY WIFE ARDMORE DEPUTIES
SATURDAY IS DEAD FACE TRIAL TODAY
States and Great Britain would
be suspended automatleally,
BLANTON DENOUNCES rr
By tnited Pren
ABILENE, June 22. —
A Thomas L. Blanton to-
day denounced the Hoover
moratorium debt plan, as-
serting that Americans are
"more concerned with their
own six million walking the
street* withont work."
In a statement issued here
Blanton, who represents the
17th congressional district
of Texas, termed ths Presi-
dent's proposal "an-unprece-
dented usurpation of legis-
lative power."
Blanton cited the $900-
000,000 deficit faced by the
U. S. Treasury and charged
President Hoover with fore-
Ing the U. S. to grant a
moratorium to all countries
while other countries are
granting moratoriums only
to Germany,
• agreement between the mer-
chants on prices, it was said,
quality clothes next Mason are
to be cheaper than in years.
"Thera is to be a greater
demand for hat* next season,"
one clothier said, "because
fewer people are going bare-
headed." He alto believe* cgp*
are coming back into stle.
He blamed the original "bare-
headed" move to automobiles,
saying bats were lost while
driving.
Shirts are to have dark
grounds with figures and wide
stripes. Sleeveless sweaters and
solid color sox are favored.
Neckties are to be fancier.
"The dandy of the Gay
Nineties woe known by hie
cuffs and the amount of linen
he showed below the coat
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Fort Worth’s new city managel-
may be picked today and appoint-
ed Wednesday, it was indicated at
noon when members of the city
council went into an executive
session over a luncheon table at
the Fort Worth Club.
The meeting of the managers
was called by Mayor William
Bryce, head of the manager com-
mittee, who said a report would
be made.
The council Monday had nar-
rowed the list of more than 40
applicants down to four, and it
was believed this list would be
cut in two today, if the final de-
cision is not made.
Rolitical wiseacres said the
choice probably would be between
George D. Fairtrace, now city
manager of Wichjta Falls, and R.
W. Rigsby, former city manager
of Charlotte, N. C.
The other two whose names
were left standing Monday were
S. H. Bothwell of Sweetwater and
V. R. Smitham of Big Spring.
Possibility of a local man get-
ting the job faded Monday after
Councilman William Monnig had
withdrawn his suggestioj of nam-
ing a local man, because of their
inexperience in city manager
work.
The new city manager will suc-
ceed O. E. Carr who resigned re-
cently to become manager at Oak-
land, Calif.
■ partly on efforts to convince her I
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Ilion were allowed to drift, a MAN IS HURLED FIRETRAPS OR SCHOOLS?
ier, said at the Texas Retail
Clothiers and Furnishers’ con-
vention at the Texas Hotel to-
day.
And Williams had a great
deal more to say about the
styles of the Gay Ninety pe-
riod.
"All of the dandles tried to
see how much of his Adam’s
apple he could expose," Wil-
liams said. "Altho they vrould
go heavily clothed, the dandy
wanted plenty of neck room."
"The well-dressed man of
the early nineties wore a shirt
with a stiff bosom—and I
mean it wm plenty stiff,” Wil-
liams declared. He explained
that at the end of this shirt
wm a tab which buttoned on
to other clothing.
Invented'a h°eparate b Yander
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debt payments to the United
under the Young plan covering
the postponable part of repara-
tions. The Hoover plan tells for
suspension of both postponable
and non-postponable. Payments Six Others Are Injured in
• /39 M •IISEL•
| But this additional loss to Auto Wrecks
France under the Hoover propo ;
sal would in practice likely be Mx persons ore in hospitals to-,
offset by the fact that French ; day, vietims of ante aeeidenta.
previously had Ned from Fort
Worth with their children, kep-
Ing them in hiding for a month.
Awarded Custody. -
In the divorce decree Turman
was awarded the custody of the
children for the summer months
by Judge Frank Culver in the
17th District Court, provided he
post a bond of 325,000, payable
to Mrs. Turman. The bond had
never been posted, and the kid-
naping charge resulted when he
fled with the children this
morning.
Mrs. Turman was visiting at
the home of a friend on the
Dallas Pike at the time of the
kidnaping, but immediately
rushed to the office of District
Attorney Jesse E. Martin, who
also was her attorney in the di-
vorce action, before he was
elected district attorney. The
charge was filed in Justice
Faulkner’s court, and Mrs. Tur-
man, weeping, went into confer-
ence with Judge Culver and Sher-
iff Red Wright.
Telegrams to Border.
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miles. Its force knocked a man
from a chair two miles from the
factory. ja
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Minteer, Edwin D. & Schulz, Herbert D. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 229, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 23, 1931, newspaper, June 23, 1931; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1552707/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.