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Cleburne Morning Review and Cleburne Daily Tiuwv—Consolidated Oct. 1, 1928
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CLEBURNE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1931
PRICE FIVE CENTS
OL. 26, NO. 280
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Old-Time Printer Turns Memory Pages
showers near coast.
2,000 50-pound sacks of, flour ’and
food
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Invite OU Man.
Curb Stocks.
RETURNS TO MAYBROOK,
Cities Service
in his honor at the Liberty hotel
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Children From Cor-
. sicana Home Here
Thursday Night -
Dur idea of a real old-timer
a man who can remember
en crimp news was unusual.
two bandits threugh five miles of
residential streets in uptown New
York after a payroll hold-up, New
Groves,
Copeland
JohnsManville
Kroger G & B
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Gilmore, and others whose names
do not occur to me just now.
I began the business of sticking
type on the. Bulletin. owned by
my father. in the fall of 1880. 51
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rhe ' old-fashioned Cleburne
d who sang of the girl he
t behind him, now has a son
o s got a girl that keeps up
Lh him.
Nhat Europe heeds is a uni-
state of mind instead of a
ited States of Euroe
the lodges will be held this even-
ing to arrange for the affair and
select the place where it will be
given.
here Thursday evening to present
an entertainment for the . general
public, it was announced this mprn-
ing.
These children, now on a tour ot
West Texas, will give the enter-
tainment under a joint program by
the local Odd Fellows lodges.
for
ther
par-
3 or
rne.
Three Are Wounded
In Bank Hold-Up
Anderson Gin
Farmers Gin .
Taylors Gin .
Total .....
WICHIIA Kansas Aug. 25 — (UP)
Three men were soot and wound-
ed in a gun battle between citizens
and four bandits who attempted
to rob the Valley State bank at Belle
Plaine today.
The victims were Byron Caln, ed-
H.
John
Jo,
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Commerce that organization s labor
department is receiving many calls
at this time far cotton pickers. It
is reported among the farmers that
the crop is opening very fast at
the present time and picking will
be in full blast by the end of the
present week.
Mr. Webster states that his of-
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GETS HONOR
ON MEMBERS
Purity Bak .
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Sears Roebuck
Shell Union Oil
Southern Pacific
Standard Oil N J
Studebaker . .
Texas Corp
Texas Gulf Sul
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Mrs. J. M Flatt
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THE KNOW ALL.
ittle know all seems te know
all about this world below,
kndws.
vould think, to hear him talk,
he's the father of all thought
beyond the shadow of a doubt,
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Trail Of Blood Leads To Automobile Tracks
• As Wounded Man Gets Away,
Follows Threat Note
and passed on,
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Child Here Has
8 Grandparents
rhe unemployment situation
Fa great relief to the hobo
doesn't have to be afraid
kt every fellow he meets will
er him a job. •
VISITS IN DALLAS..
Miss Stella Mae Bowden spent
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Texas Weather
Committee On City
WOMAN KILLED Manager Plan Given
been ordained to plan things
out.
Book of Books he knows by
heart.
this old world of ancient art
it another picture out.
he can tell us all about,
1 and on the know ail goes
get this message delivered, and
I will thank you."
The Times-Review has the let-
ter ch file and will be glad to
deliver it provided anyone can
give us the address of Mr Cash-
ion.
from the bank saw the men enter
and spread the alarm.
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Closing selected New York stocks
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Five Die As Police Battle New York Bandits
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Secretary J. T Webster was in-
10 1-2 structed to issue a formal ltter of
would be glad to co-operate with | v
the county agents and other civic I ‘
oiganizations in putting the project ' .
over. > I
Newspaper Bervice United Praaa
Wire Service: Central Preae Ser-
vice; Local News; Story.
No Hike In Gas
By Four Companies
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The rise in the price of crude
oil reported in East Texas and Ok-
lahomh fields has not, as yet, been
reflected in the local gasoline mar-
ket to any wide extent. Some fill-
ing stations have gone to 14 cents
a gallon, but four major companies
are still retailing at 12 cents a gal-
lon, including the tax, at their sta-
tions, and have not announced an
increase, despite the gain reported
in the price of crude.
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com to this cause. In this manher
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in getting 100 citizens to buy 30
not until two policemen had been
killed and 15 other persons, one
of them a child, had been wound-
NONSENSE
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Medarureda
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12 I both the farmers and the needy I
T 7-81 would be aided by using Johnson I
2) 1 -21 county products, and at the same ,
It us know how much
Graves,, O’Brien Moore,
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couples. three of the couples re-
siding here.
His grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. °G, L. Ferguson, 201 Madison
19 1-2' time the Kings Daughters would be
56 7-8 relieved from the necessity of buy-
RKET SQUARE SHOWS
NEED FOR BETTER
FACILITIES.
The committee to take first
steps .in an educational program
on the city manager form of
government for Cleburne has been
anncunced.
This committee resulted from
group meetings held by local civic
and business leaders and will
assemble in the near future to
When a vehic’e-zipped past
u in the good old days. It
s a sign that some’ horse
s "feeing his oats." Now it
a sign that some jackass is
ling his rye.
Eevernment is in vogue.’ These
representatives will appear on
the’program and give their ideas
of the plan and its, benefits..
The committee to work out
deails for the mass meeting fpl-
farmers, in the county who havoj
harvested abundant crops this year
23 1-4 might be able to donate wheat and I
while engaged in this Talbert end
the negro opened fire. They shot
thirteen times and th man went
four or 'fiv# steps and fell. They
went to Grandview and got Con-
stable H. Hunt but when they re-
turned the man was gone.
Hunt stated that Jie found much
blood on the weeds and grass and
that it led to where an automobile
had .picked the man up. From all
indications the extortionist was se-
verely wounded anti' a search of
hospitals in this section is being
conducted. -
Talbert and the negro did not see
the wounded man's face but they
believe he was white.
Constable Hunt reported at noon
that no trace of the man had been
found but that he had high hopes
of locating him in a hospital. If
tt man Is dead some connection
will likely be made with an under-
Miss Lucile McKee has returned Ford M Ltd - ...
to her home in Maybrook’ after , Gulf Oil Pa .
visiting here with Miss' Gertrude |Ntag Hud Pwr . -
Spikes. Standard Oil Ind .
and Mr. end Mrs. J. T. Williams
I of Egan. His greatgrandparents are
Mr and Mrs. F c Thetford. 209
Monroe, and Mr and Mrs. 8. L. Fer-
guson. Sr., 706 College.
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Garden Contest
Special Cosmos
where the city manager form of : die afer discharge or resignation
from the service.
P’anenydotalLichtus phan consist taking otabllshment somewhere, .
•A. PBR MONTU
•UC BX canaI m om ,
and a negro, who works on
his farm east ‘of Grandview,
secreted themselves near a
place where they had placed
running battle with their taxi driver to death, but
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Demand Grows for Monte Ward ._
Cotton Pickers
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According to J. T. Webster.; man- Prairia O & G
ager of the Cleburne Chamber of ■ Pure Oil
complete right-of-way The propo-
sition, as it now stands was re-
ferred to the chairman of. the high-
way committee, Jas. Ragsda e. wh
the assurance thatitwil be efh-
ciently handled at the proper time.
Charities Plan Discussed.
'Ilie plan recently put forth by
Henry P Lichte lor feeding the
. unemployed in Cleburne this win-
ter was discussed and given tait
approval and referred by.motion to
President Ward who is to confer
with Mr. Lchte and work out the
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The arival of Robert Vernon
Wlilfams into the world set an un-
usual record. ‛
He. Is the 18-months-old son of
Mr. and Mrs: R. S. Williams, 1106
! North Robinson. and he has eight
grandparents living. The unusual
feature of the record, however, is
that the grandparents are in foui
ago. There was John
Stanton Nall, Grover
Sol Lockett. Father
MANY DROWN
WHEN YANGTZE
RIVER RAGES
The aut hor of Grandview’s extortion plot has been
wounded but not captured. A trail of blood that led to
where an automobile picked him up baffled authorities to-
day as they searched this section for the man who was not
content with terrorizing Henry Martin, prominent Grand-
view farmer, but who carried his scheme for that muck
called gold to Alton Talbert, young bachelor and another
large landowner of that part of Johnson county.
Talbert' proved the undo-t -- ---*——-—— —
meeting of representatives of | itor of the Belle Flaine News, who
' * .......... sustained a flesh wound in the arm.
we believe that the condi-
Ln as it now exists would jus-
y our county) city and Cham-
r of Commerce officials in
ain broaching the question
th a view to getting this very
eded structure before anoth-
marketing season comes
bund.
(By United Press)
West Texas Generally fair to-
night and Wednesday.
meal would be available as
Tuesday in Dallas transacting busi-
he ness.
The special' flower bed contest
of the Yard and Garden Contest
being conducted under auspices of
the local chamber of commerce, an-
ncunces.thrkugh its secretary. Miss
AnnabcTRieviere, that the special
centest will be on Cosmos for the.
month of September and that en-
tries are now being received.
The Cactus bed contest was won
by Mrs. Finis .Johnson, the prize
being a shrub, donated by the Mc-
Donald FloraljCo.
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49 Bales Cotton
Ginned in City
who was stending across the street 1,11 Cement
iht Harvester
ing of the extortionist about - car containing money and’
midnight Monday when he
C C DIRECTORS
HOLD SESSION
Matters Of Vital
Importance Given
Consideration
bushels .of wheat or corn each, to
be ground into Hour or meal to be
distributed by the Kings Daugh-
ters. local official charity orgav-
ization; to those in need during the
winter months.
’ Tartly cloudy to-
Wdhesday. Possibly
when the author of the note
demanding such made his
appearance emptied two pis- "
tols and a shotgun at his
form.
Got Note Sunday.
Talbert, about 30 years old and a
bachelor, lives with his mother on
their place east of Grandview. Sun-
day he received a note which auth-
orities declare is in the same hand-
writ ing as that of a series sen# to
Martin. The note demanded 1500 ne *
placed in a can near a flowing well
at the Er"y gt!m^^.Ot tbe'Tslr
bert farm. It was threatened that
unless this be done Talbert would
suffer the same consequences as
had Martin, who hrs had two bards
burned on his farm.
The note- was found near the
mailbox in much the same manner
as the letters to Martin.
Put Money in Can.
Late Monday afternoon Talbert
placed an envelope in a'can with a
small amount of money near the
flowing well' Talbert and the negro •
hid and wetched the place, each
with a pistol and the negro with a
free has calls on file now for a ] Tex Pac cco
large number of pickers and that Und Elliott
ah comers, who really want, to work j U s Ind Air _
can secure employment in this line | U s Steel . ,
He has several calls for families, ; Vanadium
he states, where arrangements for | Westinghouse Ele
future tenentcy can be arranged. Worthington
Dr. A. C. Burns, past president
of the organization presided in the
absence of Judge I. T. Ward, pres-
ident of the Chamber of Commerce
at its regular meeting held Monday
evening at the directors room.
Eight of the twelve directors of
the organization were present, who,
among other things, discussed feat-
ures in connection with the desig-
nation of Highway 122, the Cle-
burne-Weatherford road through
Godly and Cresson. It was point-
ed out that as soon as this work
had been completed it would be a
main channel of traffic in this sec-
' tion.
Judge T K Darcy in his report
on the highway slated that the
commissioners court was awaiting
final approval of the survey by the
State highway department before
calling en the Chamber of Com-
merce to assist in securing the
for emergencies that night arise .
Farmers May Donate.
It was pointed out that many
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A condition obtains at the
resent time which should con-
Ince even the casual observer
nd justifies opening up the
lUbject again of the need for
etter marketing facilities for
he farmer folk who sell their
roducts on the market square.
Some of our best citizens
lave advocuted 'tile of
sanitary structure where the
roducts offered for sale may
le kept clean and sold in ac-
ordance with the state sani-
ary code for marketing food.
I One has but to not the con-
ation under present arrange-
Lent to be convinced that with
he merchahdise exposed as it
i to the flies, filth and con-
amination from the adjacent
t that best results cannot be
lad in trying to keep the farm
luff in marketable condition.
IA year or more ago the writ-
k flanked by several of our
lading business men advoca-
Id the erection of a market
alding, screened in will) con-
fete floors and running wa-
Ir, with stalls, or small rooms
fat could be rented to those
ho wanted to sell goods there
I a very nominal rate—in fact
Ke idea progressed to the ex-
Int that figures were submit-
a on cost of erection, but
r some reason the idea was
bandoned. 4
■it is said that we never miss
Ke water ’till the well runs
H»— and it would seem appll-
Eble to the local situation with
Igard to the market square.
Huring the winter months it
Hus not needed, so interest was
Kt and it was not built, but
|w that the necessity for such
■ building is so apparent, we
■come aroused again, but it
■ too late. The market season
Er the farmer awho sells his
Hoducts direct to the consum-
I is gone and they.. arc stiil
Ethout this very necesary im-
Hovement.
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creased loan value on adjusted
Compensation certificates, loaning
of bedding equipment by the war
department to the’©etrolt conven-
tion, pontributing. funds for veter-
ans employment service, over $20,-
000.006 for additional’hospitals and
soldiers home construction. desig-
nc ting Star Spangled Banner as
national anthem, creating a child
welfare bureau, granting right of
retired army officers and enlisted
men right to become citizens of
Texas and. hold public office. in-
creasing personnel of State service
department, creating chaplain ser-
vice officer at Kerrville hospital,
and passing an act making possible
flags to drape caskets of veterans
of any war, including women army
nurses under contracts. who were
not dishonorably discharged,: who
bloody trail, the cab used by the
bandits, and the driver, dead on
the pavement. More than 100
officers joined in chase and 1,000
Mrs. Murray Strick-
land Dies Under
Trains Wheels
mounted. York pclice shot the two men and
The crafts were cruising through_________
ethe flood ostensibly oir missions of
FORMER LOCAL
Silver Stars Given
-Officials Of Cle-
burne Unit'
set a "date for a mass meeting
of the citizenship on the sub-
* ject.
At this meeting it is hoped
to have representatives from
towns and cities of this section
Mr Lehte estimates that hy the nfght and
means about 100,000 pounds por
Yellow Men Killed
By-Thousands in
. Flood Area •
A supply of such flags will be
available at each county seat post-
office. The postmaster at the coun-
ty sest has been furnished with 11
supply of flags and application
forms. ■
Mrs. Marie Strickland, 23, who
was ground to death beneath the
wheels of a passenger train at Foi t
Worth Monday night, was a former
Cleburne resident.
She and her husband; G. M.
(Murray) Strickland, resided here
until a few years ago before going
to Fort Worth where Strickland
operates a cafe, according to re-
port.
Children wandering down ” the
tracks found the woman's head and
the rest' of her body, crushed into
bits, was scattered for ten blocks
along the right-of-way.
Mrs. Strickland, wife of the man
held last week in connection with
the death of C. D. Kirkland at
Fort Worth, read & newspaper story
shotgun About midnight a man
crawled on all-fours up to the well,
and got the can. He took the en-
vebpe and money from it and
invitation of C M Dad Joiner.,
to attend the banquet to be given .
Ferty-nine bales of cotton have
been ginned in Cleburne to the
present time according to reports
frem the three local gins. The aver-
age price paid for cotton seed is
$12 a ton.
Following are the gins and num-
ber cf bales ginned by each:
ed. Photo shows the end of the shotsiwere fired. The child died.
Silver membership stars have
been presented to Commander Hur-
ry J. Leonard. Adjutent B. L. Hig-
gins.-Jr. and C. C. Patterson, chair-
man of the membership committee,
of C. E. DeLario Fost of the Amer-
ican Legion here as a result of tho
pcst exceeding its assigned quota
this year.
It is expected that the Legion in
Texas will exceed 40,000 members
this yeer and CE. DaLario Post
will show 312 with a total of four-
teen votes at the El Paso conven-
tion now under way.'
Mr. Leonard has received this no-
lificatlcn from the Texas depart-
ment which also cites legislation
passed during the last session of
congress for the benefit of the ex-
service men.
Bills Cited.
This Iegisletion includes' in-
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aily Grind
By I. LAWEENCE DEAN
before the Monday night tragedy
that told of charges against her , .
husband, according to report. lows Home at Corsicana
"Darling, that sounds bad to me.”
She was said to have murmured and
left her husband and her two child-
ren in the cafe and stepped outside.
A boy's cry that a woman had been
sd
Anaconda .
Auburn Auto
Aviation Corp Del
Beth Steel ”. .
I-Byers A M
Canada Dry
Case J I
Chrysler _ : -
Curtiss Wright
Elec Au L . _ . .
Flee St’Pat - ._
and two of the bandits The ex- Foster Wheel
tent of whose injuries was not I Fox Films . -
learned. I Gen Elec . .
Three of the bandits entered the | Gen Motors
bank at the noon hour while the Gillette S R - -
fourth remained at the wheel of a Goodyear
waiting automobile. Elmer Blaze I I Houston Oil
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A letter which hearkens back’ pastures new, as I did many years
to the early days of the printing
industry in Cleburne has been re-
ceived by the Times-Review in
which the assistance of its em-
ployees is solicited in finding an
old friend of Jun Byrd, the friend,
being John Cashion, an old-time
boyhood friend of the writer, who
states that he would like to find
him if he has not "bent rhe fo.1t" 1 years ago this coming October. >
"wherever that | Abelleve Cashion is still alive,
g he was some few years ago, or •
— . ' his wife, or someone of his fam-
not a printer or newspaper man 1 ily, and if he or they are living
in the old burg who remembers 'it will be no great trouble to
PLAN PROGRAM
J. R. Wallis, Vestal Wright. W
E. Johnson, W A Scott, H. J.
Hensley, J. S. Butner. John A.
James, J. W Howard, A T. Dar-
nell and Fred Dickson.
"run over" revealed her death a
few moments later. No coroner^
verdict hed been returned this
morning ' pending investigation of
her death.
Mrs. Strickland is survived by her
husband and two children. Bobbig
Lee, 11 months old. and Charles, 2.1
MARKETS
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NEW YORK, Auz 25 (UP—
Use AND OTHERWISE.
One sure way of cutting
wn the cotton acreage would
to teach the farmers how
play golf.
rhe reason some Cleburne
Pls don’t blush all over is be-
use they can’t carry enough
age around in their com-
ets.
ing this Class, of food.
• Favor Community (enter.
Another action of the meeting
was to voice sanction of the pair
suggested by Mrs. E’met Smith to
establish a community -center in •
etburne. ‘The chamber of com- ’
merce directors stated that they i
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me. yet it is possible that Aaron
or Noel Wells, might yet be there. |
or Robert Ransone," Mr. Byrd |
I states.
I "AU the others whom I remem-
ber 50 years ago in Cleburne i
J have migrated to green fields and I
HANKOW, China, Aug. 25.— (UP)
—Storm folowed flood and plague
today in the valley of the Yang-
tze river where deaths were already
counted in thousands. Hundreds of
Chinese, many offering themselves
as sacrifices to the river’s angered
dragon god, were drowned in the
tcrrtffic storm that raged through-
out the night and was unabated
todey. Yellow flood waters in which
corpes floated with debris were
churned into fury.
The area resembled a storm toss-
ed sea. trousands of homes along
the river and frail craft riding the
flood were smashed by the wind.
Trees, were uprooted, walls were
knocked down, The storm flattened
elmest every structure that had es-
caped the Yangtze flood path.
Chinese national forces patrol-
ling the Wuban area reported the
capture of several san pans upon
which machine guns had been
fnnk
g- a.
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