Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 190, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 27, 1937 Page: 1 of 10
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MURDER WITHOUT MALICE
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were:
Explosion Wrecks Alaskan Mine, With 14 Re-
ported Dead; Building in Minne-
apolis Collapses
GOLFERWILL
MAKEMILLION
criminal trial today into a con-
tract that guarantees him a mil-
lion dollars in seven years for
displaying his talents as a golfer.
See Golfer on Page 10
r Hen-
le now
saving
See Oil Suit on Page 10
JUDGE I
PREP
She lopks a lot like Mary Pick-
ford, but that is not Erna Sack’s
chief claim to fame. The blonde
Dresden opera star will come to
the United States to sing in New
York’s Carnegie Hall and demon-
strate her remarkable coloratura
soprano. Miss Sack sings regu-
larly in the octave above high O
and can reach C above high C.
Wednesday
cinched the
assembly plant employes here was
ordered by Police Inspector Win
Frits today after Harry Bowen,
38, of Kansas City, former organ-
iwer for the Committee for Indus-
trial Organization, named them as
members of the group which kid-
naped and beat him yesterday.
This development followed Gov.
The murder trial of
rell, charged with the
ing of Grover DoWle
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IRON LUNG FUND
Donations of *17* Jump the
Iron Lung Fund to $1,472.18
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James V. Allred’s angry
tion at Austin that he
$25, Pine HUI Methodist Mis-
sionary Society M. X A P. W.
duh $100. Kas Redwine $25.
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vine driller, on3 the ev
June 16, neared an end
mony, was completed by
and defense just beror
this atternoon. Judg
Brown recessed the co
he prepared to charge
hospitals sweepstakes today, left
for San Francisco Monday “to |
sell part of his ticket,” f.
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Tried for Fatal Sh
ing of Wealthy E
ing Contractor
} State Loses
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Oct 27
(UP) — President Roosevelt’s
chief objective for the next year
is to balance the budget.
Mr. Rooseyelt said he hoped—
and expected—to hold Federal
spending within revenue during
the 1988-39 fiscal year. He pre-
pared to hold an important con-
ference with high officials here
Friday. . ,
€, producing s<
roduct to the
Montague I Freed of
’ Holdup Charge
peals here today affirmed a dis-
trict Court decision by which At-
lantic Oil Producing Company re-
tains title to 500 acres of the
East Texas oil field along the
Sabne river. Involved also was
icsccu
Oil Land Suit
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 27
(UP)—At least two persons were
killed, 10 or' more were inured
and two others were believed
burled in the wreckage today
when two floors of a building col-
lapsed.
The dead, employee of a whole-
eale fruit company, were identi-
fied tentatively ae: a
Max Zellickson, clerk.
Mrs. Anna Olson, chief booker.
Authorities said approximately
25 persons were in the building
when it collapsed. At noon, they
believed all but two of them had
been removed.
Rescue crews, working their
way through tone of debris to
Scores Solons for Not
Providing Pension
Money for Aged
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 27 (UP) ♦boundary “would cross the Sa-
Tk- Thi- Ca-- fiwit A- bine river seven or eight times,”
Justice J. H. Baugh wrote in the
employes said. He is a brake-
man for the Southern Pacific
Railroad.
They did not know Whether he
found a buyer for an interest in
the winning number.
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 27 (UP)
—Texas legislators went home
today empty-handed to face 115,-
000 old age assistance recipients
who may be without State aid this
winter.
The legislature ended its 30-
day “tax-raising” session early
this morning, without providing
new revenue for Social Security
projects or any other purpose.
Clocks were turned back to per-
mit adoption of $800,000 extra
rural school transportation aid,
See Solons on Page 10
BALANCE THE BUDGET
OBJECTIVE FOR YEAR
TEMPLE, Tex., Oct. 27 (UP)
—Two transients were killed and
18 ears of a 87-car Missouri-Kan-
sas-Texas freight train were de-
molished when the train was
wrecked near Troy, eight miles
north of Temple.
The bodies were brought to an
undertaking home here and a
justice of the peace opened a
court of inquiry to determine the
cause of the wreck.
The men killed were riding in
a flat car loaded with iron pipe
and were crushed when the pipe
fell on them as the car over-
turned.
Most of the cars of the freight
were loaded with,baled cotton.
Dallas, if necessary,” to stop such
outbreaks of labor violence.
The Governor denied, however,
that he bad any intention of de-
claring martial law.
Bowen insisted at first that he
wished to drop the entire affair,
then admitted to police, in the
See Arrests on Page 10
HOOVER CALLS~ON PARTY
TO DENOUNCE NEW DEAL
Order Arrests
In Flog Cas
Refuses tgakParti
I ■. Power Meet
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Oct. 27
(UP)—Twehty-two persons were
killed and dozens" injured today
when an electric train crashed
into a crowd waving goodbye to
a trooptrain. The crowd jammed
the trackside and it was pre-
sumed that the engineer of the
electric train did not see it in
time to stop. *
they said rather gleefully they
had done their work well. I don’t
think I ever heard of a better job
of scuttling, myself. I saw a few
See Allred on Page 10
a State claim for $7,800,000
worth of oil already produced
from the area.
The decision rules that the Sa-
bine river is a boundary line of.
suirveys. The State had contend-
ed for a meandering line design-
ed by disrtict calls rather than a
traceable marked line.
The meandering line which the
State calimed was the correct
5 KILLED.
HURT IN TWO
BOSTON, Oct. 27 (UP).—For-
mer President Herbert Hoover,
sharply denouncing his successor’s
administration. called upon ths
Republican party today to eman-
cipate the country from the “mor-
al degeneration of current Gov-
erament .methods,” and do justice
to-“tbs great economic middle
class"—the truly “forgotten men.”
Emphasising that "I do not
want any public office,” Mr.
Hoover told the Republican Club
of Massachusetts last night that
the party must furnish the "mor-
al and intellectual leadership”
which the people will require
when the “inevitable day of du-
fellow ' Committee came in to notify me
the Senate was about to adjourn.
Paralysis Proves Fatal
to Noted State Jurist
and Layman
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 27 (UP)—
Associate Justice O. 8. Lattimore,
member of the State Court of
Criminal Appeals and noted
Baptist layman died this morn
ing as the result of a stroke of
paralysis last Saturday.
Judge Lattimore, 72, resided
at Fort Worth prior to becoming
a member of the court in 1919.
Previously he/had been member
of the State Senate from the Fort
Worth district.
Labor Peace Attempts Deadloci
16 KILLED IN TWO DISASTE
WEST TEXAS.—Fair Wed-
nesday and Thursday, cooler in ’
southeast portion Wednesday.
TOKYO, Oct. 27*(UP) —Japan
today rejected Belgium's invita-
tien to attend the nine-power con-
ference at Brussels Nov. 8 to dis-
cuss the far eastern crisis.
The rejection was not unex-
pected. The leading Minselto and
Setyukai parties, as well as other
political groups in the lower
house, had agreed that a “polite
rejection" of the invitation was
“preferable.”
The Japanese reply saw in the
Belgian invitation "some connec-
tion with the League of Nations,
which already has given moral
pupport to China.”
Train Kills 22 and
Injure* Dozens, Japan
SHANGHAI, Oct. 27 (UP)—
A wall of fire tonight encircled
the International Settlement,
where United States Marines
and sailors mounted barricades
with bayonets fixed as Japa-
nese troops stormed through
the Chinese sections of Shang-
hai and occupied all strategie
military points.
SHANGHAI, Oct.’ 27 (UP)—
United States sailors and marines
were instructed today to defend
their positions with gunfire as
waves of refugees and Chinese
soldiers, many gravely wounded
were swept up against the boun-
dary of the international settle-
ment.
Pressed by victoriously fight-
ing Japanese troops, who occupied
the city proper at dawn, panic-
stricken mobs of Chinese, num-
bering thousands, besieged the
boundary line. Standing orders
were issued to United States
forces to fire at any time in self-
defense.
_ PARIS, Oct. 27 (UP)—The
Duke of Windsor, proclaiming
hinnelf "a very happily married
man, told the Anglo-American
Press Club at a luncheon today
that he and the Duchess had no
intention of leading an idle life
and hoped to make some contri-
bution towards solving the world’s
grave problems.
The speech emphasised the
close partnership of ths Duke and
Duchess. Throuhout it was "we”
and not"!’’.
EAST TEXAS.—Fair Wed-
nesday and Thursday, sUghtly
cooler • in east and south por-
tions Wednesday.
persons.
Victims of the accident were
Sid Whitten, Van Zandt’s com-
panion, and Mrs. Ethel Andrews
of Fort Worth, occupant of the
car driven by her hueband, Thorp
Andrews, Fort Worth attorney.
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NO FOUL PLAY.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Oct
27 (UP).—The body of Doyle
Perego, 36-year-old cook, was
found in the ship channel today.
City Officer E. JU Atklesson said
there was no evidence of foul
play.
derson. Iese than $200
needed and the life
equipment to expected
ordered this week. I
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct 27 (UP).
—Gov. James V. Allred refused
today to discuss a printed specu-
lation that he would run for a
third term on a platform espous-
ing a unicameral Legislature.
Sleepy-eyed, he met news con
vespqadehta after remaining at
the Cnpitf until 3 a. mHe said:
“I am not half as much con-
eerned about what I am going to
do as what a lot of unfortunate
people are going to do. I have no
detailed statement - to make until
I have checked into what was
done.
“When the Senate Notification
DALLAS, rexas, Oct. 27 (up.Te
— Immediate arrest of three Ford
Funeral arrangements are set
tentatively for 2 p. m. tomorrow
at Austin’s University Baptist
church of which Latimore was a
member and Deacon. Details of
the funeral were not completed.
See Justice on Page 10
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Teer Stop* Warrant*
For Old Age Pension*
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 27 (UP).
—Writing of warrants for pay-
ment of old age assistance for
November was ordered stopped
this morning by Chairman Claude
Teer of the State Board of Con-
trol.
Warrants are mailed on the
15th of each month, under the re-
cent system adopted for pay-
ments. Teer hoped to complete
arrangements for Issuance of pay-
ments by that date.
"If we pay $250,000 a month on
our bank indebtedness, we will
have to reduce the November
payment about one-third,” Teer
estimated. t
He Mid he had telegraphed to
Board Member John Wallace, who
is in Wichita Falls, to return for
a conference. He also requested
Federal authorities for a Confer-
ence to determine what can be
done.
The cause of the
was not learned.
First reports of the
came from Harry Dra
foreman, who telepho
asking the nurses, physi
medical supplies boss
mine.
as* practically
suscn
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct.
27 (UP)—Fourteen men were
reported killed in an explosion
that set fire to the Evans-Jones
coal mine at Jonesville, 70 miles
north of here, last night.
Z. J. Laussac, vice president of
the company, returned here from
the mine and reported that the
bodies of six men were recovered
and there was no hope for eight
other men trapped in the work-
ings.
Five miners escaped after the
blast, he said. . n
Laussac reported that the six
bodies recovered were so badly
mangled and burned that he
doubted if they would be iden-
tified.
He said that the fire wu
tingulqhed late tost nigi
that mine guParaa
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UP). .
—Peace delegates of 7,3005000
organised American workers
reached deadlock today in efforts
to reunite the American Federa-
tion of Labor and the Committee
for Industrial Organization and
recessed their historic peace con-
ference for one week.
Alternate peace proposals, re-
jected by both factions, will be
See Labor Meet on Page 10
Chocolate Drop* May
Have Cost $2,500
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HOUSTON, Tex., Oct 27 (UP)
—Mrs. Kenneth McCalla, wife of
a former Harris cotnty attorney, ‘
was positive today that her young .
son spent a 1913 Liberty head I
nickel for chocolate drops two I
yeA« ago,. *to
She said that the niche) even
might have been the one for
which coin collectors have offer-
ed a 13-year-old Mexia boy *2,500.
Her. nickel's date was clear, she
said, but that of the Mexia coin
reportedly was dim.
Mrs. McCalla said that she
had kept the nickel in a trinket
box for more than 10 years, but
two years ago Kenneth Jr., took
it to a corner store and bought
candy.
"I guess Junior got his money's :
worth out of the candy, though,”
smiled Mrs. McCalla.
COMANCHE, Tex., Oct. 27
(UP)—Presley Van Zandt, 20, of
Zephyr, was under indictment to-
day on charges of driving while
drunk and of murder without
malice, in connection with an
automobile collision July 7,
which resulted in death for two ...
Hours Ahead
popoTskR.Later News,
PLUS'WORLD’S BEST FEATURES .
DANVILLE, HI., Obt. 27 (UPh
—Fire defied efforts of rescuers
to remove bodies today from the
debris of a Wabash Line train
wreck in which three persons
were killed and 29 injured.
Bodies of the, engineer and
firemen of a passenger train
• which smashed into the rear end
of a stalled freight train near
Catlin were believed still in the
wreckage. Rescuers were forced
back by flames which consumed
si»box cars, three mail cars, an
expresscar- and a passenger
coach.
All the dead and injured were
in the passenger train, which had
been speeding from St. Louis to
Detroit.
______ The dead: —
HARRY DRAPER, Decatur, Ill.,
. engineer.
HARRY POE, Decatur, fireman.
B. S. MAGGERT, Butler, Ind.,
mail clerk.
Only nine of the injured re-
See 5 Killed on Page 10
90 minutes work how many were
dead.
I . Many of the injured were said
to be in a critical condition.
Bulletin
CHICAGO, Oet 27 (UP)
— Another $10 bill—part of
the $50,000 ransom extorted
from the family of Charles S.
Ross, 72, who was not returned
Kart A. Crowley, solicitor of the
Post Office Department, will ar-
rive this afternoon for a visit
with Postmaster A. A. Gary,
Mr. Crowtoy is on a tour of East
Texas.
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.
Oct. 27 (UP)—John Moni
stepped from the jeopardy
Hendengon Hailu Rwg
5 East Texas* Fastest 5 Growing * •-? Newspaper
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS • * • Home Town of the East Texas Oil Field * • * WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27, 1937
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Visits Here
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Big Awards from Race
in England
DUBLIN, Oct. 27 (UP)—Amer-
icans won approximately $3,000,-
000 in the Irish hospitals sweep-
stakes on the Cesarewitch, the
result of the race showed today.
Total receipts of the sweep
were $13,475,775 of which $7,913,-
765 was awarded in prizes. The
zemnegen went toehe Irish hom
pital”nd for expenses. Ameri-
cans nbught about Katt of the
tickets and drew in proportion.
Those who drew tickets on the
first, second and third horses
won respectively $150,000, *75,000
and *50,000 each. Hundreds of
other Americans won $1,920 each
by drawing horses which did not
qualify for the big money or did
not even, start; $500 each in con-
solation prizes, and $41,376 each
in residual prizes.
Seven Americans and Canad-
ians drew Punch, the winner, and
will receive $150,000 each.
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(| LOCAL IRON LUNQ FUND IS NOWU
•ver to Federal Agents today
by a Chicago newspapev.
Miss Roche Gives Up
Appointment
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UP)
—Miss Josephine Roche, issis-
tant secretary of the treasury,
has submitted her resignation
effective Nov. 1, the United Press
learned today.
Miss Roche, treasury officials
confirmed, intends to return to
the post of president of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Co., which she
held before receiving her appoint-
ment to the treasury post.
President Roosevelt received
her letter of resignation on Sept.
14, but has not yet accepted it
It was understood, however,
that the acceptance will be forth-
coming within & few days be-
cufe[ Miss Roche has indicated
oat ft praretat she rer:
turn to ghde the affairs of the
coal company.
"The winner”
OGDEN, Utah, Oct 27 (UP)
—Ralph J. Harrell, of Ogden,
who won $150,000 in the Irish
Sorrell, was on the stan
morning and testified that
occasion, several months i
the fatal shooting, Dowies
coms to his home at Mt.
prise looking for the de
and that Dowleam was ar
the time. Sorrell’s brother
ner Sorrell, also was a
this morning and substs
the testimony of the tathe
See Judge Brown on Pai
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FAVOR UNITING.'
DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 21
—The North Texas Confer
the Methodist Episcopal *
South, at Ito annual sessia
voted heavily in favor of
the three Methodist Chur
the United States. The vo
255 for to 13 against
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Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 190, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 27, 1937, newspaper, October 27, 1937; Henderson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1559321/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rusk County Library.