Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 224, Ed. 1 Monday, December 6, 1937 Page: 1 of 10
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TRADE PAPER’S
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LABOR BOARD
TWO OVERTON
MEN INJURED
RICH EXPORTER
SHOOTS SEC’Y
AND HIMSELF
TELLER FAILS TO
IDENTIFY SUSPECTS
IN BANK HOLDUP
STATE RIGHT TO <
APPEAL CRIMINAL
CASES IS UPHELD
Unemployment Funds
To Aid Unemployed
CHRISTMAS
SUPERSTITIONS
FREEMONT M'COLLUM
RORBER, FUGITIVE
ELUDES OFFICERS
Government Allowed
To Try Aluminum Co.
On Anti-Trust Law
Subpoenaite
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forbidding all "unnecessary" labor
on the Sabbath.
State’s Attorney Ernest F. Ber-
ry said warrants probably would
be obtained today against the vio-
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played by the patient himself.
The old time trouper, who used
to do a vaudeville act in which he
exposed himself to the flame of
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more working days.
Despite the shortness of time for
legislative action the House Labor
Committee ordered the wage-hour
See Congress on Page 5
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Dr. C. G. Engle
It’s the "wearin' of the glue” for Santa’s helpers, po-
licemen and firemen who have been busy for months re-
pairing toys for distribution to children of poor families
Christmas morning. You can help, to, by providing food
FEDERAL JUDGE DLL
Houston, Tex., Dec. 6 (UP)—
Federal Judge T. M. Kennedy
was reported in a serious condi-
tion at a hospital today. He has
been ill for several weeks. Fed-
eral Judge T. Whitfield Davidson
has occupied his Federal District
Court bench.
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ous lacerations/and bruises on
legs and arms.
It is thought that Mrs. Dow-
learn's car turned over as it fail-
ed to negotiate a curve. She was
thrown clear of the car into a
barbed wire fence paralleling the
highway.
HoursAhead
Later News
PLUS WORLD’S BEST FEATURES
Valuable Machine is
Placed on Display at
Daily News Office
and clothing through your contibutions to the Dail
Good-Fellow Fund. Share the work and the fun.
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—A defense witness in ths gov
ernment’s Anti-Trust price fixing
case today credited the rise in
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John E. Shat ford, El Dorado,
Ark., former national coordina-
tor of the refineries section of
the petroleum code under the
See Witness on Page S
MEDICAL SCIENCE
STRIVES TO SAVE
LIVES OF BASIES
Believing it will cause them to
live in harmony for the coming
year, families in Scandinavia
place all their shoes together at
Christmastime.
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: One (Stickupf Within the Law
(By United Press)
East Texas—Fair, not so
cold, frost in scattered sections
of Southeast portion tonight;
Tuesday fair and warmer.
of harmonica music
’ The two men viewed by John-
son and other employes of the
Fort Worth bank, were arrested
today before daybreak as they
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News presenting the Iron Lung
to Dr. C. C. Engle who receives
it for the Henderson Hospital.
Upper right shows (left) H. A.
Daley (right) Walter Smith who
originated the idea of purchasing
the machine through popular sub-
scription, Inspecting the machine
in the News office. Lower pic-
ture shows Nurse Winifred War-
ren demonstrating the Iron Lung
with Nurse Jewel Platt inside.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UP) 4 monopolize helium production in
The Munitions Control Board ‘ ■
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 6. (UP)—
Deputy U. S. Marshal James P.
Lavelle gave the tool kit back to
the doctor, paid rent on the full
dress suit and the messenger’s
outfit, and took the laundry wagon
back to the stable, admitting to-
day that he had lost a week-long
game of hide-and-seek with Char-
lie Chaplin.
Lavelle had a subpoena to serve
on Chaplin for a deposition in a
See Subpeonaite on Page 5
STEUBENVILLE, O., Dec. 6
(UP).—Hartley W. Barclay, edi-
tor of a trade magazine, this aft-
ernoon defied the National Labor
Board by falling to appear when
Ahis name was called at a hearing
to produce records of a magazine
article criticizing the Board.
George Ketchum, president of
a Pittsburgh publicity firm, like-
wise did not appear when his
name was called, a subpena hav-
ing been issued for him apparent-
ly also in connection with the
Barclay article.
LONDON, Dec. 6 (UP)—It was
rumored in London society cir-
cles today ahat the Duke of Wind-
sor is planning a brief visit home
for Christmas when the whole
royal family will be gathered at
Sandringham.
BULEETIN, 5 --
NANKING, Dec. 6 (UP)--
Seventeen Japanese bombing
planes dropped tons of ex-
plosives on the Nanking water-
front today not far from where
the American gunboat Panay
waited to remove Americans
from the capital.
Mrs. Joe Dowlearn, wife of a
Joinerville contractor, critically
injured as her auto overturned
on the Henderson-Tyled highway
near Tyler Saturday night, was
moved to the Henderson hospi-
tal Saturday morning by A. Crim
ambulance. Mrs. Dowlearn was
taken to a Tyler hospital after
the accident by passing motorists:
Attendants at the local hos-
pital described her condition as
“very unfavorable" at noon today.
Her injuries consisted of a frac-
Itfs Here! Come Inspect New (Iron Lung
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (UP)—
The House Ways and Means Tax
Subcommittee today agreed to
two technical changes in adminis-
trative features in the revenue
laws to aid taxpayers claiming
loss deductions as sentiment grew
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Dec.
6 (UP)—A Duval County posse
followed a cold trail today in a
search for Freemont McCollum,
40, bank robber and jail breaker,
after weekend rains in the Be-
navides section.
Jailer John Ganc revealed to-
day that McCollum took strenu-
ous exercises for weeks in prep-
aration for a “long seige” as a
fugitive. The information came
from several of McCollum’s eight
companions who fled from the
Nneces County jail here a week
ago.
Sheriff William Shely said
Duval County officers notified
him that the bank robber enter-
ed an oil worker’s shack near
Benavides Saturday night and
posed as an unemployed rough-
neck to obtain food, a bath and
a change of clothing.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UP)—
Mariano Fanti, wealthy exporter
and father of four children, lay
dying in Kings County Hospital
today, the victim of the same gun
he used to slay his blonde secre-
tary, n widow and mother of two
grown-up girls.
Police said that the 37-year-
old feather-down merchant con-
fessed to shooting Mrs. Ellen
Pemberton Nolan a few seconds
before he fired a bullet through
his own head while the two sat
in his new sedan narked before
a Brooklyn saloon late yesterday.
Jealousy was said to be the
motive, the two having bgen
heard in spirited argument a Tew.
minutes before the shooting. Mrs.
Nolan, shot through the cheek,
died almost instantly. .
“Don't lie to me,” passersby
reported Fanti to have shouted,
“I saw you with him this after-
See Exporters on Page 5
It’s Here’ The Iron Long you
have heard so much about and
have waited to see is on display
in the Daily News’ Lobby. Yes
you’re invited to drop by and in-
spect this marvelous machine that
will bring Henderson’s hospital
facilities up to modern in the
“nth” degree.
The respirator that has proven
so valuable in treating all forms
of diseases and accidents that af-
fect breathins especially infan-
tile paralysis was delivered to the
Daily News office this morning.
It, will remain here throughout
Wednesday for inspectiou, then
it will be placed in its permanent
home in the annex of the Hen-
derson hospital. The machine war
made possible by popular sub-
scription after the News asked
the publie to donate to this worthy
were revealed by the Government
today when it announced arms
export licenses amounting to
more ' than $3,000,000 were auth-
orized to those Nations in No-
vember.
DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 6 (UP)
—Freddie Johnson, Fort Worth 1
bank teller failed today to iden- :
tify either of two suspects held ,
here as the robber who took $1,- i
000 from him ast Thursday in ]
____________________________ Heavy impending arms
in Congress to put business relief’ ments to China, Japan and
ahead of all else on the program buv au anvuveu a or
for the special session. adjacent to the Far Eastern war,
The special session has but 15
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UP).
—The Supreme Court in two im-
portant decisions today upheld
the Government's fight to prose-
cute anti-trust charges against
the Aluminum Company of.Amer-
ica in the New York Federal
Court and approved State taxa-
tion of the income of Federal
contractors.
See Anti-Trust on Page 5
CHICAGO, Dec. 6 (UP)- »
first step by medical science to-
ward control of the cirulent, un-
kown disease which has taken 2
tie lives of 11 newborn and
threatens seven others at st
Elizabeth’s Hospital nursery was
revealed today by a staff pedts-
triclan. ."
The accomplishment wag de-
scribed as a "minor refinement of
technique of treatment” but phy-
sician hoped it might aid in sav-
ing the lives of the Infante still
isolated in the nursery ward.
The malady, characterised by
acute inflammation of the"intes- 8
final tract and usually fatal with-
in 24 hours, has baffled patholog-
lets and toxicologists: Physlcinna
have recognized the ailment only -
in recent years as a new and di-
tinct malady.
As the death of the elevendi j
victim was announced Dr. Benja-
min Levin, head pediatrictan at
the hospital staff, said a meanai
had been determined to offset ex-M
haustion of bodily fluids one of
the malady's principal nymptoma J
BELLOWS FALLS, Vt., Dec. 6., NEW YORK, Dec. 6. (UP)—
(UP)—More than 500 persons'■’’The surgeon who cut off Fred La
faced arrest today for violating Reine’s only remaining leg in
the State's 160-year-old 'blue law' Emanak -dalia -- •
today granted an allotment of
17,000 cubic feet of helium to ag-
ents of the German Zeppelin
Company presumably for opera-
tion of a sister ship of the ill-
fated Hindenburg on a trans-At-
lantic route.
By act of Congress after the
loss of the Hindenburg at Lake-
hurst. N. J., the United States
Government was authorized to
ibra, • "four fractured
cause instigated by Walter Smith
and H. A. Daley. Theirs were tho
See Iron Lung on Page 5
/TRINITY FIRM
SHANGHAI, Dec. 6 (UP) —
Great Britain protested to Japan
today against the Quhu bombing
in which three British ships were
struck, a British Naval comman-
der wounded, and 34 other per-
sons killed.
Herbert Phillips, British con-
sul, announced that representa-
tions had been made but said that
further developments must come
from London over the incident
which has created serious Anglo-
Japanese tension.
Meanwhile, the Shanghai, Muni-
cipal Council was scheduled to
meet to conside a new protest .ov-
er what foreigners interpret as a
new move by the Japanese to take
over police powers in the settle-
ment.
The council was expected to
consider developments concerning
seizure of four Chinese, including
one woman, by a Japanese con-
sular police in the Great Eastern
Hotel. The quartet later was re-
leased.
It was also reported, without
confirmation, that Japanese had
hauled a Chinese from a ricksha
in the Avenue Haig.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UP).
—Government officials are count-
ing on unemployment compensa-
tion benefits of as much as a mil-
lion dollars a day after Jan. 1,
• to help solve the problem of in-
creasing unemgloyment, it was
learned today.
Payments of benefits to unem-
ple, ed under the Social Security
laws begin in 21 States and the
District of Columbia on Jan. 1.
By July 1, 1939, all 48 States will
have unemployment compensa-
tion. _
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WASHINGTON, Dm. a (UP)-'
The Supreme Court today up-,
held as constitutional, the Con-
necticut statute authorizing the
State to appeal verdicts in crim-
inal cases. The statute was at-
tacked as a violation at the
Double Jeopardy clause of th*
Federal Constitution. 5
The court's ruling came on the
appeal of Frank Palko, under
death sentence for killing *
Bridgeport, Conn., Mucemana
PaHpegrg ' wopaspnystedntd
to life imprisonment. The State
appealed and a first degrecdur
der conviction resulted from th* '
new trial.
The decision, written by Juntice
Cardozo, was agreed to by eight
members of the court. Juatice
Pierce Butler dissented.
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BEAUMONT, Texas, Dec. 6
(UP).—Three U. S. Army air-
planes searched coastal marsh-
lands of Jefferson county unsuc-
cessfully today for M. M. Cook,
55, Dallas civil engineer, one of
two missing duck hunters.
Air and land parties also went
to the onion bayou section of
Western Jefferson county to
search for Frank Thomason,, 27,
sporting goods store employe who
became lost while hunting with
See Hunters on Page 5
OVERTON, Tex. Dec. 6 (Spl)
Barney Skaggs and Dick Ragil-
io, both of Overton were seriously
injured Saturday afternoon near
Fairfield, when the car in which
they were riding crashed into a
ditch and overturned. The acci-
dent was blamed on wet pave-
ment.
Ragillio suffered severe head
injuries and lacerations. Skaggs’
injuries consisted of a badly in-
jured shoulder, four broken ribs
and a head injury.
Both returned to their homes
here after receiving treatment for
their injuries. "
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Heavy Arms Shipment
From U. S. to Orient
it, provided officials of several
departments were satisfied that
it would not be used for military
purposes. -
The German dirigible operators
are anxous to bbtain helium to
use in their ships because it has
a satisfactory lifting capacity
wthout being explosive as was
the hydrogen gas used in the
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UP) — |
The Supreme Court ruled today
that the State of Texaa may sue
in Texas courts for confiscation
of alleged hot oil now in pomaa
sion of receivers for the Trinity
Refining Company.
By its ruling, the tribunal re-
versed a Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals decision which held that
the Northern Texaa Federal Dia-
See Trinity Firm on Page S
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