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Consolidated with Daily
Gazette July 28, 1924.
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The, Oldest Business
Establishment in
Hopkins County.
VOL. 39—NO. 180.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1939.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TURBULENT CUNGRESS CUMES TU AN END
ITEXAS CONGRESSMEN
WANT NO FIGHT
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Washington.—The Texas Congres-
sional delegation would hate to see
a “showdown" fight arise between
Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N.
Garner in the 1940 Presidential cam-
paign.
Reluctantly they made replies to
queries as to how they would stand
should such a situation arise.
On the one side there’s a party
loyalty to the Democratic chieftain,
on the whole sincerely admired. On
the other there’s close friendship, ad-
miration and high esteem for a fel-
low Texan.
Rayburn On Spot.
Best example of the dilemma is
said to be the case of House Major-
ity Leader Sam Rayburn of Bon-
. ham, friend and close advisor of the
President. Colleagues say he and
Vice-President Garner are each oth-
er’s closest friend.
Rayburn declined to discuss his
views, but other Texas Congressmen
with whom he has served many years
said if a final showdown did come he
undoubtedly would stick to Garner.
“The political views of the Vice-
President’s and Rayburn’s veirtainly
coincide more than do those of Ray-
burn and President Roosevelt,'’
commented a veteran TV»s' legisla-
tor, “not to mention the bond of
friendship between Sam and Mr.
Garner.”
Of the 23 merobO:
galion, including the two Senators,
10 said in more or less strong lan-
guage they would give Garner their
support should he seek the Demo-
cratic nomination. They were:
Senators Sheppard and Connally
and Representatives Kilday, Patton,
Mansfield, West, Kiebex,, £outh, Lu-
ther Johnson and Mahon. J
Representative Gossett explaining
he had never partScipu'-idi in intra-
party politics, said he probhnly would
support Garner if the Vice-President
sought the nomination.
Representatives Lyndon Johnson,
Thomason and Jones all said, in ef-
fect, that the Vice-President himself
had not made any announcement
and they felt they should await, not
precede, his decision.
Representative Poage said: “I
would, of course, be happy to see this
great Texan made President of the
United States.”
Representative Garrett remarked:
"Texas was signally honored when he
was elected Vice-President. She
could receive no greater honor than
for John Nance Garner to lead a vic-
torious democracy in 1940 in a con-
solidation of all the gains which we
have made.’*
Representative 'Thomason added:
“Of course, every member of the
Texas delegation in Congress is for
Vice-PryIdent Gamer.”
All of the delegation still in the
capital, including Representative
Beckworth, observed they had whole-
heartedly endorsed a statement ex-
pressing high regard for and confi-
dence in the honcaty, ability and in-
tegrity of the Vice-President. The
statement was drafted and read on
the House floor after John L. Lewis,
CIO leadar, had made a bitter per-
sonal attack on Gamer before the
House labor qommittee.
Those of the delegation not in the
city are Representatives Patman,
who returned to his Texarkana home
because of the illness of a son; Lan-
ham, en route to an international
.conference in Norway; Dies, recu
perating at his home in Orange from
illness; Sumners, who left here for
Georgia jo visit a sister and recover
from a recent operation.
WIDOW NAMED
SUCCESSOR TO
SLAIN SHERIFF
MRS. ERA GIBSON,
PIONEER CITIZEN,
OIES ON FRIDAY
Rusk, Texas. — Activity in the
Cherokee County sheriff’s office, in-
terrupted by the death of Bill Brunt,
the state’s youngest sheriff, and his
assailant, Creel, 42, was resumed to-
day under Mrs. Brunt. She former-1 ^ -
ly was Miss Mary Dias of Crockett. *g‘°u*t®n>
The new sheriff, only 25, was ap-
pointed yesterday, the day after he
third wedding anniversary and less
than twelve hours after her hus-
band’s body was found sprawled on
a road outside Rusk.
One of the principals in the dou-
ble killing, Miss Stanley, 25, an em-
ploye of Creel’s tavern, was in a
Jacksonville hospital recovering from
a leg wound received in the gun bat-
tle between Brunt and Creel. She
has been charged with murder.^
Brunt, a former navy sharpshoot-
er who returned Creel's pistol fire
after he had been mortally wound-
ed, had been trailing the tavern
owner, who had a load of beer in
his auto. Cherokee is a dry county
and Brunt was seeking to arrest
Creek. X
Funeral services for both men
were held today.
Mrs. Era E. Gibson, 85, pioneer
and highly respected citizen of Hop-
kins County, died at the home of her
son, Scott Gibson, in Sulphur SpgA.
Friday night. Mrs. Gibson was the
widow of the late W. P. Gibson, who
died in 1914.
Mrs. Gibson, who was born Miss
Era Scott in Scottsville, Harri-on
County, Texas, of pioneer citizens,
came to Hopkins County at an early
age. She was married to Mr. W. P.
Gibson at Pickton.
Survivors include one son, Scott
Gibson of Sulphur Springs; three
daughters, Mrs. D. P. McFarland of
Mrs. W. F. Minter of
Pickton, and Mrs. C. B. Turner of
Pickton. One sister, Mrs. J. T. Cham-
pion of Campbell, also survives with
numerous other rela’tives and friends
Funeral services were conducted
at the Pickton Methodist Church
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock,
with Rev. Clark H. Russell, pastor
of the First Methodist Church of
Sulphur Springs, in charge. Grand-
: ons served, as pallbearers. Inter-
ment followed at Pickton.
BROWNS' TRAIL
CAMP TO OPEN
MONDAY MORNING
San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 5.—'
The roll will be called promptly at
nine o’clock next Monday morning
at Tech Field, San Antonio, for the
first session of the trial camp to be
conducted by the San . Antonio Mis-
sions, St. Louis"Browns farm, ac-
cording to Guy Aircy, General Man-
ager of the Mission?. The camp will
last through Saturday, August 12.
Pat Monahan, veteran Brownie
ivory hunter, will arrive here over
the weekend to complete arrange-
ments for the opening of the camp.
Monahan and Zack Taylor, Missions'
Manager, will be in charge of the
workouts.
Interest in the camp has been
growing since announcement wa:
made about two weeks ago, accord-
ing t» Airey, who again emphasized
Jhc fact that every young player
with ambition and the physical
equipment to make good will be giv-
en every opportunity to show hi?
ability. The camp is open to all
young players between the ages of
17 and 23, weighing at least 150
pounds.
LARGEST REUNION
CROWD APPEARS ON
SATURDAY NIGHT
By far th^ largest crowd of the
week thronged spacious City Park
Saturday during the final day of the
annuul Hopkins County Old Settlers
Reunion. The big crowd arrived ear-
ly and remained late to enjoy the
entertainments at the reunion and
in Sulphur Springs.
When the V. O. Stamps Quartet,
radio singers of far-reaching fame,
appeared at 7:30 o’clock Saturday,
veteran observers estimated that the
greatest crowd ever to jam the park
was in attendance. The_ popular
singers’ program was applauded
heartily. The Friday night crowd
also was exceptionally large.
The twilight programs, arranged
by Mayor Allen E. Ardis and other
city officials in front of City Au-
ditorium, proved popular. A public
address system carried the messages
of speakers and voices of singers to
the crowds around the open air plat-
form.
BITTERNESS MAY
FOLLOW IN CAMPAIGN
PLUCKY TRUCKERS
SAVE AUTOISTS,
CHASM'S BRINK
ONE KILLED,
FOUR INJURED
IN ACCIDENT
AMERICANS REPORTED
LEAVING PARTS CHINA
BELGIAN EMBASSY
BADLY DAMAGED
BY JAP PLANE
(By A»*onat*d Frvml
Shanghai, Aug. 5.—It was report-
ed reliably today that Americans are
BIG AUTO STRIKE
IN DETROIT IS
NOW NEAR END
(By Awor>*u4 - *
Somerset, Penn., Aug. 5.—Ambu-
lance Driver Lowry reported today
that one man was killed and four
others believed killed in ah acci-
dent in Laurel Hill tunnel on the
state’s million dollar express high-
way near here.
Lowry said the men were trapped
under a rock fall.
TEXAS PIPELINE
INTANGIBLE VALUES
NEAR 50 MILLION
(By Amoriut#4 Ft***I
Chungking, Aug. 5.—The Belgian
Embassy was badly damaged today
in the fourth Japanese moonlight
air rijid here within a week. Bombs
fell in residential areas but no for-
eigners were known to have been
injured.
The French and German consul-
ates were damaged by Japanese
bombs yesterday. The United States
Embassy is the only, diplomatic prop-
erty to escape damage by Japanese
bombs the past three months.
preparing a hurried flight from tion season.
Kaifeng on account of Japanese
anti-American pressure.
American officials were unable to
learn the details of the situation at
Kaifeng because telegraphic com-
munications were broken. The first
udviees of the new turn in Japan’s
anti-foreignism in China were sent
from Kaifeng bv a courier to Cheng
Chow and telegraphed to the United
States Embassy at Chungking.
The Tientsin Japanese-controlled
press quoted Japanese army officers
there as threatening to “extermi-
nate” British interests in China.
(Bv Amonateit Frv$$\
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 5.—The terms
for settlement of the dispute be-
tween CIO United Auto Workers
and the General Motors Corpora-
tion were disclosed today.
The corporation won in it* fight
for no more work stoppage on ac-
count of labor troubles, at least for
duration of the 1040 model produc-
Albuquerque, N. M. —Two young
Kansas truckers were cast in hero'.)
roles Friday as they flagged down
traffic in the rain-swept darkness of
early morning at the lip of a yawn-
ing chasm washed out of Unjted
States Highway 66 by a rain-flood-
ed arroyo.
They were Morton de Moss and
Melvin Conn of Osborn, Kan., whose
produce-laden truck was wrecked
and burned when it struck a wash-
out twenty-five feet deep in the
transcontinental highway twenty
miles west of here.
Leaping to safety before their
truck struck the flood, the young
men succeeded in waving dovfrn car
after car running through the rain
and darkness toward the water-fill-
ed washout.
A woman motorist, driving into
there after daybreak, brought her re
dan to a screeching halt inches from
disaster only after Conn, whose wav
ing arms she hailed to see, hurled
an orange from his scattered load at
her windshield.
De Moss and Conn were modestly,
inarticulate and refused to be re-
garded as heroes or view their act as
unusual.
The UAW-CIO received bargain
ing recognition in the 42 plants of
the corporation, rival AUW-AEL
committees being excluded.
(Bv Avvoctatfd rrmui
Washington, Aug. 5.—£he vway
was cleared for adjournment of
Congress today when a point Senate-
House committee agreed on terms
of the $185,000,000 appropriations
bill, the session’s last major meas-
ure. Speculation upon the hour of
adjournment ranged from 8:00 to
5:00 p.m., CST.
The conferees agreed to retain in
the measure $119,599,901 foh use
by the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion to bolster farm prices. The
compromise bill went td the House,
where leaders believed it would be
accepted. The bill goes thence to
the Senate and once it has the ap-
proval of that body, Congress can
adjourn.
NINETY MILES OF
THREAD SPUN FROM
GLASS MARBLE
U, S, ATTORNEYS
MUST RESIGN TO
SEEK OFFICE
r»* Auoniatri
Washington, Aug. 5.—The tur-
moil and party chaos at the closing
of the first session, of the 76th Con-
gress appear to be merely a symptom
of turbulance that will go with the
Democrats into the 1940 presidential
campaign.
The gap in their "ranks has been
widening since the 1937 storm that
swamped President Roosevelt’s Su- *
preme Court plan. The possibility
that President Roosevelt may run
for a third term ha* had its eftects '
on the session, although this has been
hard for politician* to measure.
Vice President Garner has become
the rallying point for many opposed <
to a third term. His campaign man-
agers are proceeding on the theory
that the President will retire after
two terms.
•ifish
(Bv A**>rt+Ud Prtf A
Austin, Aug. 5.—The Comptrol-
ler’s office announced today intan-
gible tax values of 37 Texas pipeline
companies as approximately $40,-
250,0000.
(Bv Aa»or\aU4 fr#Ml
London, Aug. 5.—The British
Government announced today that
William Strang, special envoy to
Moscow, would return home next
week as the joint British-French mil-
itary mission embarked for confer-
cnees in Moscow designed to speed
conclusion of the proposed tri-power
mutual assistance pact.
COOPER MAN
IS KILLED BY
VOLTAGE LINE
HAVY RAINS
OVER TEXAS AID
GROWING CROPS
BOY GETS NICKEL
FOR RETURNING
S2,000 WALLET
Cooper, Texas.—Trosie Thompson,
37, was electrocuted Friday while at-
tempting to disengage a 6,900-volt
power line from a fallen tree twelve
miles northwest of here. His wife
and daughter, Derline, survive. The
funeral will be held Saturday.
_—--
New York. — The spinning and
weaving of glass fabrics has proved
one of the most popular industrial
demonstrations at the New York
World’s Fair.
Daily thousands of persons crowd
into the Glass Center to watch the
transformation of a glass marble
about a half-inch in diameter into
ninety-odd miles of flament finer
than human hair.
Hundreds of those congregated
about the glass cases which enclose
the complicated spinning and weav-
ing machinery take home a sample
of the glass fabric which is softer
than silk and more durable than any
other fabric known to man.
Washington. —In his first formal
interpretation of the Hatch Clean-
Policts Act, Atttorney Gen. Frank
Murphy Friday -advised two United
States Attorneys and an assistant at-
torney they can not run for public
office without first resigning.
Those affected are District Attor-
ney Charles F. Uhl of Pittsburgh
Pa., and his assistant, John D. Ray,
who are candidates for state offices,
and District Attorney James B. Fra-
zier Jr., Chattanooga, Tenn., who
said he is contemplating running for
| the Democratic nomination to fill
out the unexpired term of the late
Representative Samuel D. McRey-
noids.
It marked the first application of
the act: which President Roosevelt
signed earlier this week.
The law is designed to prevent
pernicious political pracitces and ap-
plies to nil except top-bracket feder-
al jobholders.
ROOSEVELT VETOES
NEW SENATE
BANKING BILL
(Bv AvvoriatvA PreuI
Washington, Aug. 5.—President
Roosevelt vetoed today a Senate bill
which would have granted another
lour-year extension wherein banks
must terminate interlocking direc-
torates.
A provision abolishing such direc-
torates was written Into the 1935
banking act and its application post-
poned once.
WEATHER
East Texas— Scattered thunder-
showers in west portion and near
upper coast Saturday night and Sun-
day. Warmer in northwest portiorf
Saturday night and in northeart
portion Sunday. .
West Texas—Scattered thunder-
showers in the Bio Grande Valley
Saturday night and Sunday. Warmev
in east-central portion Saturday
night.
(By Avvnci»md Prvm'
Rains ranging up to nearly three
inches were reported over much of
Texas Friday, but the heaviest falls,
generally beneficial to crops, drench
ed the Northwest quarter.
Two inches were reported at
Cross Plains, and the WichiAh Kails
territory generally received fryv
half an inch to two inches, in time
to save cotton. Most feed, however,
already had \>een ruined.
Lightning set fire to a 55,000
barral crude oil tank of the Conti-
nental Pipe Line Co, two mile*
north of Wichita Falls.
Ellis County, annually a heavy
producer of cotton, reported rains
ranging to an inch. Showers fell over
most of the Plains era. The precipi
tation in and near Lubbock varied
up to 1.45 inches.
Vernon reported 2,87 inches and
Clarendon 1.24 inches. Other re-
port* of precipitation came from
such representative cities as Gaines-
ville, Uvalde, Del Rio, El Pa*o,
Browtiwood. Idling, Mexia, San
Wac
Santa Rosa, Calif.—^j>hn Curtis,
16-year-old messenger and high
school student, was philosophical
about human nature.
While delivering a message, the
youth found a wallet. Curtis iden-
tified the owner from cards and im-
mediately pedaled to the address.
The wallet contained $2,000 cash.
The owner dug into his pocket and
handed the boy a nickel. »
LEGISLATOR QUITS
IN TITUS COUNTY
OLD FOLKS OF
WOOD COUNTY WANT
SPECIAL .SESSION
Msreos and
>. i *
The old folks of Wood County
met at the court house in Quitman
Saturday afternoon and adopted an-
other leaolution to be seat to Gov-
ernor W. Lee O'Daniel. The resolu-
tion culled for a special session of
the Legislature and set forth how the
pension should be paid and to whom.
—Wood County Democrat.
FIVE APPOINTMENTS
ARE MADE BY
GOV, O'DANIEL
Austin, Texas.—Gov. Lee O’Dan-
iel announced Friday the appoint-
ment^pf E. FT. Mimmg of Fort Worth
and M. O. Spier of Austin to the
Board of Barber Examiners for
terms beginning Out. 14.
They will succeed J. M. Burton of
Tulia and G. Fred Turner of Coop-
<»r. The holdover member is L. E.
Gray of Ranger, whose term expires
Oct. 14, 1940.
O'Daniel reappointed as pilots of
the Sabine bar, pass and tributaries
Capts. G. H. McFarland, C. F. Peter-
son and V. R. Weatbrook, all of Port
Arthur.
NAB TITUS COUNTY
YOUNG MEN WITH
BOOTLEG WHISKEY
MAYOR OF M'KINNEY
BUYS FIRST BALE
Austin, Texas. — Rep. Virgil A
Fielden of Mount Pleasant, serving
his second term in the legislature,
has resigned to accept employment
as a claims examiner with the Texas
Unemployment Compensation Com-
mission.
Filden began work with the com-
mission today.
McKinney, Texas.—Mayor W. B.
Mitchell, a/’M'cWnney druggistt, for
the fourth 'consecutive year purchas-
ed the firsg bale of cotton from the
1939 Collin County rcrop at public
auction. The Mayor paid 22c a
pound for the 440-pound bale, net-
ting its grower, W. K. Gant of For-
est Grove, $96.80, plus a $50 pre-
mium, which local merchants gave
The bale was picked Wednesday aft-
ernoon and ginned that night.
GARNER READY
GOME TO TEXAS
Washington.—Vice President Gar-
ner attended his last cabinet meet-
ing today before the adjournment of
Congress.
He said goodbye to the President
and cabinet members and on the
White House steps wished reporters
a “pleasant summer.”
DR. ROYAL RAMEY
AT ENCAMPMENT
NATIONAL GUARDS
Two young men who said they
lived in Titus County were arrested
by Constable George Williams and
Deputy Sheriff Frank Mote Friday
night with five one-half and three
pint bottles of alleged corn wlTis-
key. Both were lodged in county
jail.
Charges of possession of untax-
paid whiskey were filed against one
of them Saturday, while the other
was booked on a vagrancy charge.
Both city and county forces also
jailed a number of drunks Friday
night.
LOS ANGELES IS
CENTER OF U. S.
Dr. Royal R. Ramey, captain in
the National Guards, has gone to,
Palacios to spend two weeks at thw
National Guard Encampment. Dr.
Ramey is dentist for a regiment.
Sacramento. — Los Angeles, the
rabbit, center of the United States.
This is the revelation of district
biological survey office, E. L. Vail.
Rabbits are a $2,000,000 Industry
in Los Angeles, with 5,000 rabbit
produrers in the county laat year
shipping 1,000,000 fryer rabbits.
Equally as important were rabbit
pelts, with 85 per cent of the total
national output produced In tha sin-
gle Southern California county.
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