Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 84, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1937 Page: 1 of 16
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GUNS BRISTLE AS MEN RETURN 10 JOBS IN HILL
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Bernice Felton
LONOKE, Ark., June 25 (UP)
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the complaining witness. She was
lured into the Cult from a Den-
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Caution for Peace
Guard to protect
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LONDON, June 25 (UP).—The Government Informed
the House of Commons today that there is grave danger of
but the
were saved
passengers
King, 39, from Harris county. He
for the Next Election
pense of the race repeal session of
bills were adopted
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the Senate late yesterday.
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A Ramble Among the Gu-
bernatorial Possibilities
Backstage
In Austin
First Trans'Cdntinental Hop
By Seaplane Completed Today
NATIONAL GUA
ONDUTYINAR
TORN BY STRI
BRITAIN HIKES
EXCHANGE FUND
Warden Wade Says
Someone Will Talk
Work Feverishly to
Spud Well on Time
Sweetheart of Ed Pace
in Serious Condition
in Corpus Christi
Moore, bartenders who witnessed
, the shooting, said Green fired
GIRL DANGEROUSLY
WOUNDED BY PISTOL
negotiations and Gov.
Davey’s order for the
In Congress
Today
ayes, nine noes; the dog raein
bill with 109 ayes, 12 noes.
LONDON, June 25 (UP). —
Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the
FEDERAL AGENCIES
MOVE TO LONGVIEW
LONGVIEW MAN I Where Mary and Buddy Will Say
SHOOTS WOMAN —----
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New Bills Are Fi
and Will Become
LIFE SENTENCE
IN PEN KILLING
the legislature. A second bill ap-
propriates $100,000 more.
Vetoed from the "rst bill was
$3,000 to pay for rented quarters
porter recently whether or not he
had plans for a gubnatorial cam-
See Backstage on Page 2 .
—Photo by NBA
and the orchestra leader in an
intimate closeup at the license
bureau.
Two Firemen Killed
MONTREAL, June 25 (UP).—
Two firemen were killed and 50
persona were injured today when
two gasoline explosions wrecked
the Laurier Garage in the north
end of the city.
for the State board of water en
See Vetoes on Page 12
Equalization Fund to
Be Increased
plains and Southwestern States where 12 persons died in
prostration and 18 others were drowned when they went to
--------------—------------ the water for relief.
(By United Press)
Fast Texas: Fair tonight and
Saturday.
West Texas: Generally fair
tonight and Saturday.
maculate conception" and a 17-
year-old girl in begetting a new
“world redeemer,” his associates
Auliffe was Slain early this morn-»
i ing with his own gun by Earl 1
Green of Lexingon, Okla., whom
these men has made any official ;
announcement ‘but both are ser-
NEW YORK, June 25 (UP).—The first non-stop trans-
continental flight by a seaplane ended at North Beach Air-
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he offered to drive home from
a saloon.
Green, who barricaded himself ,
in the back room of the saloon,
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was arrested at Petersburg, 12
miles southeast, last Thursday on
a report that he was ‘acting pe-
culiar.”
partment In this
State, with head-
quarters in Fort
Worth, and the
other is Frank
Scofield, chief of
the internal rev-
enue department i
with headquar-
gaged in sending machinery from
a test he has just completed in
Bowie county.
See Well on Page 11
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ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 25 (UP),—President Roose-
velt’s Supreme Cour program became a paramount issue
today at the start of the three-day Democratic “love feast”
on a Chesapeake Bay island. An attempt by Administration
leaders to compromise the controversy—and determination
of revolt leaders to stand their ground—was indiacted.
---• Sen. Joseph T. Robinson, D.,
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greade
about. One la to bring your son up i
be proud of him and the other is to
any signs of making anything of himself
all. One day my uncle called his son befo
him and he said, "Son, you’re a bitter dtsa
pointment to me. You ain’t nothin’ but
lounge lizard. All you think of la dresatm i
and going to teas and dances. You "«ver done a day’s work
your life. When I was your age I une’ta have to carry water I
five floors to a bunch of brick-layers.”
‘I Do’
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
uw.... .....— Joe Melton announced today that
27 The girl, Delight Jewett, wp?rthe State would ask the death
"tt- ——--L-- —2 penalty for BernicegFelton, 18,
charged with the murder of Vie-
Christ” in the cult setup, and
expected help from an Him-
marchers was the signal for the!
See Guns Bristle on Page 12
GOVERNRSIGN
ANTI-GAMBLING
BILLS AT N00
on the
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ably palatial residence of Louis
De Lighten in exclusive Bel Air,
a Los Angeles suburb. The In-
set shows the former film star
JIMMIE CLARK Neither
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., June
25 (UP) — Alberta Halberg, 22, ,
was reported in serious condition -
at a hospital today from a bullet
wound inflicted by her sweet-
heart, Ed Pace, 23, of Longview,
who committed suicide.
The shooting occurred at the
young woman’s home last night
after Pace asked her to go -swim-
ming with him. Miss Halbig wa»
shot in the side of the body She
told officers that there had been
no quarrel.
Pace shot himself in the head
See Suicide on Page 12
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Bein’ a father is a purty tedious pr
tion. There’s two things you have to
merce, announced officially today [
that three Federal Agency of-
fices will be transferred here
from Tyler, on Aug. 1.
District offices of State and
Federal re-employment headquar-
ALLREDTRIMS
EXPENSE BILLS
2.8, g goee
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iously interested. Crowley has--•... ...
made a little headway already. He KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 25 (UP).—The summers
made an address in Brownwood first heat wave abated today after a three-day siege of the
several weeks ago and sent cop- ~ ....
les throughout the State, accord-
When Buddy Rogers and
Mary Pickford clasp hands and
repeat a long-hearlded “I do,”
the scene will be this fashion-
With laborers working feverishly to complete setting-
up and to lay a fuel line to the trunk gas line in Henderson,
operators expect to be ready to spud .the Trinity test east
of Henderson before Saturday at midnight, the deadline
for beginning operations. w
George Sutton, son of A. M.
tor Gates, wealthy Little Rock
planter. Miss Felton was- the
companion of Lester Brockelhurst,
Illinois youth who was convicted
last night of Gates murder.
Melton said, however, that he
doubted if a death sentence would
be returned.
"Arkansas has never senetneed
---- See Killer on Page 12
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COOKER BURNS THREE
FORT WORTH, Tex., June 25
(UP)—Frank King, Fort Worth
policeman, and his two sons
were burned, one critically, to-
day when a pressure cooker ex-
ploded at their farm home near
Roanoke, Penton county.
Girdler Refuses to
Sign Contracts
WASHINGTON, June 25-
(UP)—Chairman Tom Girdler
at the Republic Steel Corpora-
tion today described the Wedem
al board named to mediate (be
steel strike as "both incompe-
tant and unfair” and mala "he
would not accept President
Roosevelt as a strike artiter.
Ing of struek plants
Collapse of Federal medtatio
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। two men forced Roy Smith, a
' ! cab driver, to drive them to a
Sutton of Tyler, drilling contrac-
tor, has arrived to superintend
operations.
The 126-foot steel derrick has
been erected and most of the
drilling machinery assembled.
ing Roman fleet, which now
dominates the Mediterranean,
both on sea and in the air. With
a plane overhead, two of the
, formidable modern Italian bat-
tleships sail majestically in a pa-
.....- rade of naval might staged for
General von Blomberg, German
War Minister.
Ark., Senate Majority Leader,
has announced that he "quite
probably” would call up the meas-
ure for formal Senate debate next
week.
Today, five Senators who led
the revolt against the proposal
drove here together from Wash-
See Fugitives on Page 12
OFFICER SLAIN
IN KANSAS Gin
(By United Press) >
Senate:
In recess.
Committees:
Agricultural subcommi 11 e e
continues hearing on Norris
Elood Control and Powel BiLl.
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’HUNTSVILLE, Tex., June 25
(UP) — Prison officials went to
Kilgore today in search of W. H.
Bybee, leader of 19 convicts who
over-powered a guard and escaped
from Eastham Prison Farm Tues-
day.
Tropical Radio reported today
that the steamship Guardian,
aground off the north coast of
Cuba, was in no immediate dang-
supervision of the East Texas ing to advices received by the
district composing 22 counties. | radio station here. I
Prime Minister Neville Cham-
berlain made- a dramatic speech
that to the startled members of
Commons struck a parallel to the
historic speech of Sir Edward
Gray late in July of 1914, on the
eve of the World War when he
warned of the danger ahead.
Foreign Secretary Anthony
With Archbold in the plane
were Russell Rogers, eo-pilot;
See Sea Hop on Page 11
(UP)—Co-defendants in the
Mann act trial of John West
Hunt,.follower of Father Divine’s
Harlem Cult, contended today
that he was "not right mental
HoursAhead
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yourself so your son will be proud of you
My Unde Waldo was a self-made man
and he was proud of the success he’d made m
life, but his won, Reginald, had never shown
BY JIMMIE CLARK
AUSTIN, June 25 — Two high
federal officials in Texas are said
to be interested in the 1938 gov-
ernor’s race. One is Karr Crowley,
asm solicitor for the
426826882 office de-
HUNTSVILLE, Tex., June 25
(UP)—A grim prediction that
“somebody will talk” about the
murder of Alton Crowson, Waco
convict, at a prison movie on
May 23 was borne out today and
H. J. Turney, 27, Houston thug,
faced a life sentence for the kill-
ing.
Warden W. W. Wade had pre-
dicted that traditional silence of
prisoners would break in the'case.
A district court jury found
Turney guilty yesterday of driv-
ing a crude dirk into Crowson’s
jugular vein as the unsuspecting
victim sat with 500 other con-
victs in the darkened prison chap-
el watching a Sunday morning
show.
Tumey, an airplane rigger who
See Pen Killing on Page 12
port today when Richard Archbold, sportsman pilot, set his
huge $250,000 amphibian down on North Beach Airport 17
hours, and 2 minutes after leaving San Diego, Cal.
The plane which Archbold, re-e
search associate of the American
Museum of Natural History, will
use in a scientific expedition to
the South Sea Islands circled the
airport and landed at 11:53 a.
m. (CST). It left San Diego
at 6:51 p.‛m. (CST) yesterday.
Floating ~I PRESIDENT LAYS NEW
ower DEAL PLANS BEFORE
. oneJ.. , ; without provocation when Me-
LUNGVIEW, lex., June 25/Aulifce mentioned taking Greed
(UP)—Grady Shipp, officer of home in a police car.
the Longview Chamber of Com- ——--o-------
Liner Reported Aground
MIAMI, Fla., June 25 (UP).—
pense Vetoed
AUSTIN, Tex., June 25 (UP)
—Gov. James V. Allrd vetoed
four appropriations made as rid-
ers on the bill carrying the first
$100,000 appropriation for ex- l
Streams of Men to
Steel Mills Increase
as Day Goes on
GOUNGSTOWN, -e.,aa25 J
(UP)—Maj. Gen. ilson D.
Light of the Ohio National
Guard, announced today, that
two plants of the Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Co., and one
plant of Republic Steel Corp.,
here would be reopened im-
mediately.
HEAT WAVE BRINGS 30 DEATHS
ters in Austin^ Mid.West Swelters Under Searing Summer
CLEVELAND, June 1
(UP).—Steel men went ba
to their jobs on the vast M
honing Valley industrial wi
front today on the heels
four terror-laden bomb e
plosions and the challenge
union leaders that “the stril
is still on.”
In the militia-guarded towns
Warren and Niles and in t
shadow of Youngstown’s smoi
less chimneys n -strikers beg
straggling back through the m
gates even before formal re-ope
Cooling breezes out of a high
pressure area in Canada and the
tending into the Midwest.
Mitchell, S. D., which had 109
degrees earlier in the week, was
one of the first sections to ben-
efit from the change yesterday.
The heat center had moved
Thursday to Kansas, where Phil-
lipsburg had 105 degrees, and
Concordia, 106.
Temperatures of 100 or more
were reported from El Paso to
Omaha, In the last two days. The
Nebraska cities of Grand Island
and North Platte were relieved
Thursday after a drop to 92 de-
grees where it had been 105 the
day before.
The fatalities were widespread.
In Oklahoma, four died from
heat and five were drowned;
Texas had two heat deaths; Min-
nesota. one; Wisconsin, one; Mis-
souri, one; Kansas, one; Nebras-
Bee Heat Wave on Page 11
Physicians said Shook’s injury i
was not critical.
The prisoner said he was H. E.
Riders on Race Bill Ex-
Proffers Assistance
and Is Shot
' KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 25 ,
(UP)—Patrolman Thomas J. Me ■
The son looked up and sayn, “Father, I want you to
proud of you. If It hadn’t been for your perseverane
k, I might- have to do somethin’ like that myselr."
Copyright 1937, Esquire Features, M.
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Some attached political signlfi-
FARMER CHARGED IN
Scofield was asked by this re- i
been a tendency for funds to move
toward London owing to dis-
See Britain on Page 12
MAN KILLS EDCTOR
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS * * * Home Town of the East Texas Oil Field ** FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 25, 1937
They believed Bybee, who was With a bullet wound through
once a member of the Clyde Bar- I the left side of her chest just
row gang, and Arthur (Skeets) above her heart, Valerie Bright-
, Whitten, another fugitive, were well, about 15, daughter of Mr.
seekir, friends in that vicinity, and Mrs. W.- J. Brightwell was
I Officers picked up the trail after in a critical condition at 2:30 p.
■ - - ... m today at the local hospital.
ly.7” • • Ai,
Hunt called himself “Jesus ‛e ;State to Ask Death for
PLAINVIEW, Texas, June 25
(UP).—Dr. E. F. McClendon, 69, .... . ...... ...
pioneer West Texas physician, ROME, June 25 (UI )- The
was wounded fatally here today Genoa Shipping Co. announced ---------- __ --...... . ----- __-- -C -mg-. ..
am- OFFICERS SEEK
Contractor Sutton is expected
to arrive here by Saturday from
Texarkana where he has been en-
fective at Once
AUSTIN, “Texas, June 25
(UP).—Gov. James V. Allred
this afternoon signed the
bookie shop and dog racing
bills passed at noon by the II
Texas Legislature. Ml
The bills were filed with the l
Secretary of the State and go •
into immediate effect. m
Conference Committee reports m
- 6:“,
morning the House of Represen- •
tatives finished the task by pass- •
ing the bookie shop bill with 110 A
ten and regional headquarters of er. Tugs have been dispatched
the Social Security Board of from Baracoa, Cuba and will at-
Texas will be moved here for tempt to free the vessel, accord-
SENT TO HIS AID for D;
. ver high school and Hunt crown-
Backing up llarys support of the ed her “Virgin Mary,” she said,
Spanish rebelsis ths ever grow- then he seduced her in several
States.
These things happened, she
See Herlem Cult on Page 12
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was shot by another officer and
was in a critical condition at
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After hearing a pistol shot, rel-
atives and neighbors found the
girl collapsed near the driveway
at her home at 1021 South Main
street about 1:45 p. m. She was
shot by a .32 calibre pistol.
She was rushed to the local
hospital in an A. Crim ambu-
lance. Attending physicians re-
ported her condition to be “very
grave.”
cargo of wheat was lost.
The company attributed the
See Liner Sinks on Page 12
PEN REFUGEES
. NEAR KILGORE Eden, joining in the debate, said:
------ I "There rests on’ the Govern-
Former Member of the ment the appalling responsibiiity
01" ~ to take no step to provoke con-
Clyde Barrow Gang flict."
R.:.. LI..T+. David Loyd George, Premier
being Hunted I See Europe on Page 12
News from Around the World t<
You Every Day
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ing to some of his friends. Not
only that, but he took a trip, |
recently, over the state with Poet-
master General James A. Farley.
rrjouemssnouumcenterene vosees
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DALLS, Tex., June 25 (UP)
—A. Morrow, 49, farmer of Rock-
.wall, Tex., was charged with mur-
der today in connection with the
shooting of C. R. Wilson, 50,
farm implement dealer, who died
early today of six bullet wounds.
Morrow walked into the sher-
iff’s office and surrendered a
few minutes after the shooting
yesterday. He was held in county
jail without bond. Preliminary
hearing on the murder complaint
will be held Tuesday.
Wilson was shot as he stood
in the offices of a farm imple
(ment manufacturing company.
Hhenderson ABailu Newg
~? East Texas’ Fastest 9 Growing * —? Newspaper
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General Hcpital.
Earl Jones and George L.
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I. _ faster House of Commons Told to Move With Utmost
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Exchequer, announced today that ihfr
the Government's exchange equal- ITAI IAN I INILD
ization fund would be increased | I AI I HIV I 111 I ||
by £200,000,000 ($1,000,000,000). """""""9% """""""
Simon explained (hat there had nRRArn OUMI/
"DVCRSuPK IN EUROPE
LAW TIGHTENS
GRIP ON HARLEM
nNER ATRi Ington to board naval academy
ULULIVEIH I E W, boats for the Democratic Jeffer-
r son Club on Wilson Island to
•FA+Ler spend a day with the President.
1 . HE. They were: Alva B. Adams,
on Trial in Colo.; Ennett Champ Clark, Mo.;
... See President on Page 12
Los Angeles ! ------o---
LOS ANGELES, June 25 (UP) BROCKELHURST
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Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 84, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1937, newspaper, June 25, 1937; Henderson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1559215/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rusk County Library.