The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1934 Page: 1 of 8
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BAY CITY. TEXAS
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934
FIV E CENTS PER COPY
Candidates Worried
Wreckage of Car in Which Three Were Killed at Grade Crossing
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thy
As Primary Day Nears
NEVERTHELESS 1,000,030 VOTERS
ARE EXPECTED TO CAST
BALLOTS.
By WILLIAM M. THORNTON,
Staff Correspondent of Dallas News.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 14.—With the
first primary election but two weeks
away, the campaign still is one of the
strangest of many years. It has more
than one peculiarity.
The hesitation of the voters to make
choices for governor and other state
offices has been the occasion for more
discussion than the candidates them-
selves. The reluctance still prevails
to an unexplained extent, Choices
eventually will be made as voters
are expected to go to the polls in
large numbers. In fact it is believed
approximately a million will exercise
their privilege.
There is no denying that the vari-
ous candidates for high office are get-
ting hot and bothered as election day
draws near, but they have not been
able to arouse a corresponding en-
thusiasm among the voters. The lat-
ter still are diffident but are warming
up as the time approaches for them
to make their selections. As a result,
the candidates should have larger
crowds during the ensuing two weeks
and also be able to arouse a far great-
er interest in the election than here-
tofore. It is expected that when the
candidates cal leach other ugly names
the crowd will cheer and once again
Texas hustings resound with the old
battle cry of "pour it on." It has
been sadly lacking so far.
Voters necessarily are making
choices and human like, they will be
prepared to shout loud and long for
the object of their belated decision.
That will pop up the campaign to old-
time heat and it is expected to pass
out two weeks hence in a torrid
finale. The early indifference may
prove to be the calm before the storm.
A reading of the statutes says the
attorney general may do those things
but other laws vest the local prosecu-
ting officers with such powers and
make it their duty to enforce the
liquor and anti-gambling statutes.
Small's point is that Allred could
proceed if he wanted to but refuses
in order to not alienate the liberal
and wet vote in liquor and gambling
centers. Drys who want Allred elect-
ed may secretly be chanting an amen
to this course of vote getting.
Tom Love and Small.
Small has not always been for re-
peal. He now says the federal gov-
ernment promised the states that the
open saloon would not be tolerated
when repeal came and that he wants
them closed, with a suppression of
gambling. Small is almost poaching
on the political moral ground the drys
have assigned Allred, but he insists
Allred failed to drive the lobbyists
from the capitol and is now ravingl
about their evils.
Much surprise was manifested over
the public announcement for Thomas
B. Love of Dallas, bolter in 1928, that ‘
he would support Small for gover-
nor. Doubt was expressed as to
whether it will help Small. Some
think it will hurt the Amarillo man,
as most of the moralists are already
lined up with Allred and Love's sup-
port will draw none of them to Small.
But on the other hand, many of the
liberals, conservatives and those who
vehemently resented Love's bolt of
Al Smith and the Ferguson guberna-
torial nomination and now are sup-
porting Small may be driven from
him by the Love alignment. They
Shown above is the wreckage of an automobile in which three persons lost their lives early Thursday when
the machine was struck by a Texas & Pacific passenger train at a grade cro in on the Mansfield road, near
Claiborne Avenue. The victims were M - D B. Moseley, 40, of Buckeye, Texas, and her young nephew and
niece, the children of Tom Moseley, of Rodessa, La. (Courtesy Shreveport Journal >
Where Train-Auto Tragedy Occured Early Thursday 12th
TEXAS WOMAN,
TWO CHILDREN
LOSE LIVES
ntracoastal Canal
Ass’n Reorganized
can not see where Love can help
Small in any way and fear he may-
hurt him.
Love's turn to Small is all the more
evidence that Small is regarded as
poaching on Allred’s domain of the
extreme moralists. This is to add zest
to the campaign and enliven the dull-
ness of its early stages. Love's sup-
port of Small may become an issue,
particularly in South Texas, where
there still is keen resentment over|
Love's party bolts and where his dry-
ness is objectionable to thousands of |
antis and liberals. This element al-
ways has fought Love and disliked
Allred Is Criticized.
Already the candidates are hurling
bigger and better tricks at their op-
ponents with the main theme as in-
sincerity. Allred is accused of play-
ing wet in South Texas and dry in
North Texas. The same charge is be-
ing made against Tom Hunter who
months ago, said the wet-dry issue
would not be an issue in this cam-
paign. The fact is, that it promises to
assume an even greater prominence
following the decisive way that Mis-I nor contest, the race for the United
Sissippi voted Tuesday against state States senate, and, in places, the at-
repeal by 2 to 1. This will bring that torney general’s marathon, it still is I
issue to a direct issue among all the apathetic about the others. Only oc-
candidates. ... . I casionally does one hear of the lieu-
Clint Small and Edgar Witt both tenant governor aspirants, the candi-
are for submission and state-wide re- dates for comptroller, treasurer, rail-
peal. while C. C. McDonald and Mau- road
ry Hughes claim to be the original
wets. These four may have to make
some explanations following repeal's
overwhelming defeat in Mississippi
and it may have its effect in Texas.
Allred is an admitted dry and was
indorsed by the drys at Houston who
also condemned race track and other
gambling. Small says Allred is akir
to a hypocrite, because, as attorney
general, he has not moved to close
wide-open saloons, dog racing tracks
and other forms of public gambling.
Small argues that it is Allred’s obli-
gation to wipe out all such places.
his politics, therefore it may be sus-
picious of Love's candidate.
First and Last Name Advantage,
While the voters are talking much
more than formerly about the gover-
commissioner, agricultural
commissioners or any of the others. A
large percentage of persons on the
streets ask who are running for these
offices, apparently not knowing the
candidates and not having any inter-
est in them. It constitutes part of the
oddity of the campaign.
All of this means that the voters
will vote blindly by thousands, not
knowing anything about the candi-
date selected and arriving at a choice
by mental accident. It is not an in-
telligent vote by any means. This is
where the first and last names on
the ticket will have an advantage.
Traffic was blocked by scores of curious that gathered about the scene of the tragic accident early Thursday
morning on the Mans ield road near Claiborne Avenue. Part of the crowd is shown above in a photo taken im-
mediately after the crash in which three persons were killed and a fourth seriously injured. Some of the curious
are seen stooping or looking down to the ground at splotches of blood at the point where bodies were found.
Courtesy Shreveport Journal.
JESSE WILLIAMS,
NEGRO KILLED
AT VAN VLECK
NEGRO STRUCK DOWN WHILE
WALKING ON HIGHWAY;
LIGHTS BLIND DRIVER
F. S. TAYLOR GIVES REPORT OF
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MEET
Newly Elected Presi-
dent Gives Account
Of Detroit Meeting
Sen. Holbrook To
Attend Hamilton
Dam Meeting
MRS. D. B. BROWN,
DIES SAT. MORNING
Bay City People Inter-
ested In Porject, Will
Be Present To See Re-
vival of Dam Work
From Senator T. J. Holbrook to the
Chamber of Commerce today came a
letter that he will attend the meeting
tomorrow in the Hamilton Dam site
above Austin. He urges that many
from this section attend as this is to
mean much to this county. The dam
partially completed, will be finished
with government loan and grant and
the occasion of this festival tomor-
row there is the renewal of the giant
project.
Here is the senator’s letter to Mrs.
Mary Martin:
Galveston, Tex., July 16.
Mrs. Mary Martin, Secy.
Chamber of Commerce,
Bay City Texas.
Dear Mrs. Martin:
This will acknowledge receipt of
your letter of the 13th. Immediately
after its receipt on yesterday, I call-
ed us Mr, C A. Erickson and
learned that Mr. Carey Smith and
others from Bay City had planned to
make the trip to Hamilton Dam to-
morrow.
I am glad you brought this meet-
ing to my attention, as I regard this
the most important improvement un-
dertaken on the Colorado River since
the raft was cleared at its mouth. I
noticed alsothat the federal govern-
ment has made an allotment of some-
thing like $40,000 to be used in dredg-
SHREVEPORT, La., July 16.-
Death claimed the fourth victim of
Thursday’s passenger train-automobile
crash, when Mrs. Gladys Brown, 23,
of Buckeye, Texas, died this morn-
ing.
The other victims were Mrs. D. B.
Moseley, 35, of Buckeye, and her
nephew and niece, John and Ruth
Moseley, children of W. T. Moseley,
of Rodessa, Caddo Parish.
Funeral services for Mrs. Moseley
and the two children were held at
Rodessa yesterday.
Mrs. Brown's body will be sent to
Houston, where funeral services will
be held Sunday, Mrs. Brown is sur-
vived by her husband, F. W. Brown;
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Brast; six sisters and one brother,
all of Houston.
Dr. Willis P. Butler, Caddo Parish
coroner, has completed an investiga-
tion of the crash and termed it “due
to an accident.” He blamed neither
the railroad nor the motorists.
Jesse Williams, negro, was killed al-
most instantly last night, when he
was struck down by a car driven by
Robert Lee Sisk, at Van Vleck. A car
was approaching the car driven by
Robert Lee Sisk and evidently blind-
cd him, causing him not to see the
negro who was on the highway walk-
ing.
The negro’s body was brought here
last night about 1 o’clock.
Wharton Man’s Car
Is Stolen Here
Last Night
Mr. Cap Kiser of Wharton had his
car stolen last night while attending
a picture show in Bay City. He had
parked his car in front of the Nuck-
ols Hotel and when he came out of
the picture show his car was gone,
The car was a Tudor Ford, 1930 mod-
el. license No. 999-844.
ing a channel through Matagorda Is-
land at the mouth of the river. That
that my constituents living on the
lower reaches of this river may have
their riparian rights preserved in ev-
ery respect. It is my belief that when
once completed, this dam will be an
everlasting benefit to all who are
served by this watershed. I hope your
rice growers received substantial re-
I lief from the waters coming down
from the lake at Btownwood during
is needed badly so in flood time the
driftwood may be carried out into the
open gulf.
I leave here this afternoon for Aus- the past few days,
tin, and will accompany the party up Aconina voN en
to the dam in the morning. I shall
keep close tab on this matter all the
way through, and do my best to see
Assuring you and the people of your
county that it is a pleasure to serve
them at any time, I am. Sincerely
' yours.—T. J. Holbrook.
F. S. Taylor, newly elected presi-
dent of the Bay City Rotary Club,
gave a detailed and interesting ac-
count of the Rotary International
ROOSEVELT SIGNS
BILL TO CONTROL
GRAZING IN WEST
President Signs Taylor
Bill Just Before Leav-
ing On His Cruise
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.-
President Roosevelt signed the pub-
lic domain bill, known as the Taylor
Bill, to regulate grazing on the pub-
lic domain in the West, just before
departing on his cruise, according to
a bulletin of the American Game As-
sociation. This bill gives the secretary
of the interior power to set up grazing
Convention in Detroit at the meeting,
of the club today at the BayTex Ho-
tel. Frank Shaw Taylor elected as
delegate to the convention from this
club picked out the high spots and
gave the important events leading up
to the days of the convention and at
the convention. He praised highly the
I programs given, was unstinted in his
praise of the genial hospitality of the
city of Detroit and especially the va-
rious automobile concerns there who
furnished automobiles and drivers for
the Rotarians and their families.
| Mr. Taylor told of the election of
Tom Brooks as district governor of
this, the 47th District to take the
place of Mr. Winslow, who suffered a
| fatal stroke at the convention in De-
troit.
(Shreveport Times )
Death rode the rails in and near
Shreveport Thursday when three per-
sons were killed and three injured,
one perhaps fatally, in two railroad
crossing accidents.
Mrs. D. B. Moseley, 35, of Buckeye,
Texas, and her niece and nephew,
Ruth Moseley, seven and John Mose-
ley, 11, of Rodessa, Caddo Parish were
instantly killed when the automobile
driven by Mrs Moseley was struck
by a fast Texas and Pacific passen-
ger train at 7:30 a.m at the Mansfield
road intersection, just a few hundred
yards from Claiborne Avenue.
Attendants at the North Louisiana
sanitarium at midnight held ilttle
hope for the recovery of Mrs. Gladys
Brown, 35, also of Buckeye, Texas
She was riding in the front seat of the
Moseley automobile.
Oil City Couple Hurt.
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Bird of Oil City
suffered slight injuries when their
light touring car was struck by the
Flying Crow,” crack Kansas City
Southern passenger train at 6:50 p.m
Thursday on the railroad crossing on
the government dam road near Moor-
ingsport, 18 miles nort hof here. The
automobile was reported "stalled"
on the tracks when the crash oc-
curred.
Railroad officials reported the mo-
tor of the Bird car died as it mounted
the inclined crossing, stalling on the
tracks. The train, operated by Doug-
las Davidson of Shreveport, plough-
ed into the vehicle and dragged it for
about five feet before it hit a signal
post. The automobile was demolished.
Victims Were Going Home.
Mrs. Moseley and Mrs. Brown were
re turning to their home after a visit
with Tom Moseley in Rodessa. He is
a brother of the tragedy victim’s hus-
band. Mrs. Moseley was returning her
niece and nephew to her home for a
reciprocal visit. They had left Ro-
dessa at daylight.
According to statements made by
witnesses to Dr. Willis P. Butler, par-
ish coroner, Mrs. Moseley failed to
see the train and interpreted warning
signals as indicating the departure of
a freight train which had just passed
the crossing, Alexandria bound.
The Texas and Pacific train, known
as the Louisiana Limited, was pro-
ceeding into Shreveport from New
Orleans via Alexandria. O. J. Woods
of Boyce was the engineer.
Mrs. Brown had not regained con-
sciousness at midnight. She received
a fractured skull, fractures of both
legs and internal injuries.
Brakeman Witnessed Tragedy,
The train crew after being question-
ed by Doctor Butler was allowed to
continue. The trainmen are to appear
at the official investigation to be
held this morning in the coroners'
courthou e office. W. R. Alexander
of Marshall, Texas, was fireman on
the train and W. W. Cowen, brake-
man, was riding in the cab of the en-
gine at the time of the crash and was
an eye witness to the tragedy.
Alexander told officers he first saw
the Moseley car, which was going
south on the Mansfield road, when it
was approximately 100 yards from the
Mrs.B.D. Moseley
Is Killed Near
Shreveport, La.
Move Is Made In Order
To Meet Changed
Conditions
Accident Happened
This Morning
Will: OF EMPLOYEE OF UNITED
NORTH AND SOUTH OIL COM-
PANY KILLED WHEN TRAIN
STRIKES CAR
Mrs. B. D. Moseley, of this city,
wife of an employe of the United
North and South Oil Company, was
killed instantly this morning when a
car in which she was riding was
struck by a train. Mr. Moseley’s niece
and nephew and Mrs. Fred Brown of
Buckeye, also occupants of the car.
were seriously injured. They were
taken to Shreveport to a hospital.
Funeral arrangements are pending
the arrival of Mr. Moseley in Shreve-
port.
LAKE BROWNWOOD
FLOODGATE SHUT
BROWNWOOD, July 16. Ptersist-
ent efforts of a crew of workmen
Sunday night had apparently shut
off the flow of water from Lake
Brownwood through a flood gate
which has been open several days.
Only six inches remained for the
gate to be completely shut and work-
men said it would be entirely closed
by Tuesday. A sixty-foot length of
pipe, slammed down on the top of the
gate hundreds of times by an engine,
turned the trick.
The gate was opened June 27 to al-
low water to rush 500 miles down the
Colorado River to the drouth-stricken
counties of Wharton and Matagorda,
center of rice fields.
There was still ten or eleven thou-
sand acre feet of water in the lake
Sunday night, 55,000 acre feet having
rushed through the gate.
Even the most delicate fabric may
be cleaned of ink stains with a tea-
spoonful of lemon salts diluted in a
saucer of hot water. Soak the fabric
a .short while, paint over it with a
brush dipped in a solution of glycer-
ine and water and follow that with a
few drops of ammonia solution.
rage. It was there that n card bearing
the name of W. T. Moseley of Ro-
dessa was found.
The crowd was kept back by police
and members of the sheriff’s depart-
ment while the official investigation
was under way.
Shreveport friends of Tom Moseley,
father of the two children, recalled
after the accident that Moseley lost
crossing. The car, he said, slowed- ----------------.
down as though it were being brought ll son by drowning several years ago
to a stop and then, 50 yards from the
crossing, suddenly picked up speed
again as if the driver had decided to
attempt to beat the train to the cross-
ing.
The Moseley's were formerly resi-
Wadswoth Ranch
Receiver Named
I ANGLETON, July 14.—An echo of
the Missouri State Life-General
; American Life Insurance Company re-
organization was heard this week at
Angleton when Judge M. S. Munson
appointed George R. Burke of Bay
control units on 80,000.000 of the 173,-
000.000 acres of unappropriated public;
domain in the West.
The act is "to stop injury to the
City, receiver for the 13.000 acre
Wadsworth Ranch in Matagorda
County. This property which is being
actively prospected for oil was an
asset in the state of Texas of the
Missouri State Life Insurance Com-
pany.
The petition for a receiver was
filed by R. C. Healy of Houston who
I claims an interest in the ranch prop-
erty as a partner of the Missouri
State in its ownership and develop-
public grazing lands by preventing
overgrazing and soil deterioration, to
provide for their orderly use, im-
provement and development, to sta-
bilize the livestock industry depend-
ment. It makes the insurance com-
missioner of Texas a party to the liti-
| gation and reviews the history of the
negotiations leading up the the taking
I over of the assets of the Missouri
ent upon the public range, and for
other purposes." .........
President Roosevelt issued a state-
ment declaring that "the federal gov-
ernment, by enacting this law, has
taken a great forward step in the in-
terests of conversation, which will
prove of benefit not only to those en-
gaged in the livestock industry but
also to the nation as a whole.' ’
Overgrazing of livestock on many
areas has brought about starvation to
the native grazing wildlife, such as
deer and antelope, conservationists
point out. Many of them have made
State Lief by the General American.
Mr Healy is represented by Attor-
ney Vern D Adamson of Dallas.
Preceding the report given by Mr.
Taylor, Oscar Kiser, chairman of the
budget committee, handed to Joel
Coleman, secretary, a report of the
budget drawn up for the year. It was
read and adopted.
A meeting of the board of directors
was held following the luncheon.
RENTALS PAID
COTTON LAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 16.-
Cotton adjustment payments on the
1934 crop now exceed $30,000,000 of the
first installment of $50,000,000, the ag-
ricultural adjustment administration
announced today.
Practically all rental contracts ex-
cept from Oklahoma are in, and the
irst payment on them is virtually
complete in some states, it was said.
As soon as the first payment is clear-
ed. payments on the second $50,000,000
installment will begin, after a check;
of acreage has been made to deter-
mine what producers are complying
with their contracts.
Adjustment payments by states,
number of checks and amount in-
Shouted Warning.
Alexander said he shouted to
Woods but that Woods failed to bear
him. He shouted again just as the car
and train collided.
The impact, while it crushed the
car, did not appreciably jar the train.
The car was dragged for 15 feet be-
fore the train could be stopped.
Mr. Cowen substantiated the state-
ment made by Alexander.
“The car slowed down like it was
coming to a stop,' 'he said, “but in-
stead of stopping it just seemed to
coast along until it was hit."
Signals Were Working.
All employes of the railroad and
numerous other witnesses said signal
lights at the crossing were on and
that the warning bell was ringing.
Lewis White, negro employe of the
Mansfield Iron and Supply Company,
witnessed the crash from the front of
the supply company building. The
car, he said, was traveling at a me-
dium rate of speed when it approach-
ed the crossing. A freight train travel-
ing westward had just cleared the in-
tersection on one of the two tracks
di nts of Shreveport
Last Rites Today.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Moseley
will be conducted at 3 p.m today
at Rodessa, under the direction of
McCook's funeral home. Services for
the children will be conducted two
hours later, under the direction of
Roseneath.
Extent of the injuries of Mrs. O. C.
Bird, 63 of Oil City, who was a vic-
tim of a train and automobile crash
at Mooringsport, had not been com-
pletely determined late Thursday
night. The woman wh owas being
treated at the Highland sanitarium
here, suffered a deep gash on her
head and numerous cuts and bruises
about both legs. It is probable, at-
tendants said, that she suffered inter-
nal injuries.
Mr. Bird, 67, an Oil City merchant,
was cut ont the hand and ankle. He
was treated at Mooringsport and fol-
lowed Mrs. Bird into Shreveport.
Bird Didn’t Hear Signal.
Bird, according to his own state-
ment, was driving his old Model T.
Ford at the time, and being slightly
deal failed to hear signals warning
motorists of the approach of the train.
On the tracks he saw the lights of
the train.
"If I had stepped on the gas I might
there, passing between the approach-
ing car and the Louisiana Limited, have cleared the train,” Bird said. "In-
HOUSTON, Texas, July 13.—Reor-
Iganization of the Intracoastal Canal
Association of Louisiana and Texas,
to meet changed conditions, was an-
nounced at headquarters here today.
Under the new setup C. S. E Holland,
organizer of the association more
than twenty-five years ago and its
president continuously since that
time, assumes active direction of the
organization’s activities. Roy Miller,
active vice president, will continue in
that capacity, devoting as much time
to the association’s work as other du-
ties will permit.
Prominent in the reorganization
scheme is the question of two com-
mittees which become a permanent
part of the association’s setup. One,
composed of five members—experi-
< need water transportation operators
will be known as the utilization
committee. The other, consisting of
seven prominent citizens of the in-
terested territory from Houston to
Galveston to the Rio Grande, where
the canal is yet to be built, will be
known as the construction commit-
tee. These two committees will have
charge of the major activities of the
canal association, namely, the utili-
zation of the completed section of the
waterway from the Mississippi to the
Houston -Galveston district and the
prosecution of construction work to
the Rio Grande.
The reorganization plan was work-
ed out by Mr. J. S. Cullinan of. Hous-
ton, chairman of the association's ad-
visory council. In a statement issued
yesterday, Mr. Cullinan said:
We are proud of the results ae-
complished through the years of the
past in assuring construction of the
Intracoastal Canal which will give to
Texas and the entire Southwest the
benefits of inland waterway transpor-
tation in connection with the Mississ-
ippi and Ohio River systems, with
their 14,000 miles of navigable chan-
nels. Now that the waterway is about
to be opened to the Houston-Galves-
ton district it is essential that we give
consideration to its proper use. When
congress authorized its cons truction
it provided that the secretary of war
should receive satisfactory assurances
that by the date of its completion
adequate facilities, that is to say,
terminals, towboats and barges, would
be available to handle a certain
amount of commerce. The secretary
of war accepted the assurance of our
association that this requirement
would be met. While it is not intend-
ed that the canal association itself
will go into the barge line business,
it is obviously our duty, considering
the assurances we gave, to see to it
that the necessary facilities are as-
sured if we are going to enjoy the
great benefits which the canal of-
fers to all of the southwest and par-
ticularly the port cities of Texas.
"Our canal association has never
assumed an attitude of antagonism
towards any particular form of trans-
portation. We have always urged the
fullest development of all means and
methods of transportation, including
railways, waterways, highways and
airways, and their co-ordination into ,
a well rounded and properly balanced,
system of transportation in the pub-
lic interest. Unfortunately our efforts
in this respect frequently have been
opposed by other transportation
groups and we assume that some of
them ,either through selfishness or
shortsightedness, will undertake to
oppose and if possible prevent the
full utilization of the canal. We feel
that the use of the canal in the
movement of certain commodities,
such as heavy freights and raw ma-
terials, is so vital to the further com-
mercial growth and industrial devel-
opment of the cities along its route,
that we can count upon their con-
tinued and enthusiastic co-operation
in the e fort we shall make through
the association's new program to see
to it that the canal serves the pur-
poses for which it was and is in-
tended.
"Besides the utilization of complet-
ed sections of the can'll, it is of course
our duty to continue our efforts to
finish the project in its entirety as
clude.
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
207,957
79,121
3,656
13,495
$8,557,414.22
$3,101,694.88
$ 173.613.32
$ 511,525.12
A decidedly attractive way of pre-
paring baked potatoes is to remove
them from the shell after cooking,
mash them with butter, salt and pep-
ver and a well-beaten yolk of egg.
Then replace them in the half-shells
and brown them in the oven. They
taste better and they’re much more
easily handled at the table.
MRS. J. H. McCROSKEY
fights to exclude livestock grazing _________________,
from public lands, maintaining among! everything, cattle
other arguments, that these public the grass so close
lands should be held for public prop- erosion are easily
erty-—the wildlife upon them. Sheep, tionists declare,
it is said, have been particularly
harmful. They ruin the grazing for
included and crop
thoil and wind
sired, conserva-
Mrs. J H M Croskey died at her
heme in Markham Saturday night at
12:30 a.m., age 69 years, 3 months and
2 days after an illness of seven
months, caused from a broken hip.
Mrs. McCroskey is survived by her
husband, two sons, Jim of Fresno,
Calif., T. K. of Markham, two sisters,
Miss Emma Kuykendall of Markham
and Mrs. Haggard of Newgulf. Funer-
al services at Hawley Cemetery this
afternoon, Monday, July 16 at 4 p.m.
Rev. Robert Paine officiating. Funer-
al arrangements under the direction
of Walker-Matchett Funeral Home.
Mrs. Moseley, White said, apparently
believed that the warning signals were
for the freight train and failed to see
the passenger train until it was too
late to avert the crash.
Identified by Papers.
Identity of the victims was not de-
termined immediately but police by
means of papers found in the car,
checked with Buckeye, Texas, and lo-
cated relatives of the women.
Doctor Butler, who arrived on the
scene less than a half hour after the
tragedy, viewed the bodies and or-
dered them moved to funeral hon.es.
The bodies were hurled 20 feet
from the automobile.
Hundreds of persons were drawn to
the scene as the report spread through
Shreveport. They found the ground
- nittere a with food as the ughr the group
had been planning a picnic. A broken
portable phonograph lay near the
crushed car and beads from a wom-
an's necklace were strewn on the
ground.
Evidence and the position of the
bodies showed that the two women
were riding in the front seat of the
car and the two children in the rear
seat. All windows were down.
Shortly after the accident the car
was removed to a Jordan street ga-
stead, though, I slammed on
brakes." ,
The car stalled on the tracks and will be
before either Bird or his wife could
originally planned all the way to the
Rio Grande. We believe that those
the communities to which the canal has
| been, or shortly will, be completed,
glad to continue their co-
move the train struck its front end
Bird was thrown sidewise across the
operation until the entire construc-
tion program is carried out.
| “In order to finance the program
steering wheel and door, Mrs Bird WC will ask all interested localities
was thrown through the windshield to extend financial support upon the
for a distance which Bird said must basis of an equitable division of the
have been 40 or 45 feet. She landed required budget. Every community
along the route will be invited to
participate and we anticipate their
cordial support.
"Mr Holland, president of our as-
sociation since its birth, is assuming
active charge. Mr. Miller, our active
in gravel and cinders on the side of
the railroad track. The car was de-
molished.
First aid was given the couple in
Moringsport, after which Mrs. Bird
was sent to Shreveport for treatment.
She was accompanied by Mrs. C. C.
Casey of Texarkana, wife of the
vice president, whose time is now
largely occupied with other duties,
will co-operate with Mr. Holland so
far as his time will permit.
I bespeak for the association and
its new program the loyal support of
the various interested localities in the
confident belief that during the two-
year period contemplated we shall
be able to assure not only the full
utilization of the great waterway as it
bridge foreman.
Editor's Note: The following account
of the railroad accident.....which "tunic
the lives of Mrs. D. B. Moseley and
Mrs. Gladys Brown, wives of two oil
well drillers for the United North and
South Development Company and
two children, niece and nephew of
Mrs. Moseley, near Shreveport, La.,
last Thursday is published that the is completed section by section, but
many friends of the families strick- also its final completion to the Rio
cn may read how the tragedy oc- Grande.”
cn may read how the tragedy oc
curred.
The article is from the Times; the
pictures, courtesy Shreveport Journal.
Headquarters of the canal associa-
tion are in the Second National Bank
Building in Houston.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1934, newspaper, July 19, 1934; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696348/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.