H. to and C. CIRCULATION Of The Record is growing, and is now more than '3800 THE VERNON DAILY RECORD VOL. IV, NO. 76 (A-P) Means Associated Press VERNON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1929 (A-P) Means Associated Press PRICE FIVE CENTS M'CLOSKEY CORRECTION AUTHORIZED Life Sentence Given on "Murder Ring" Charge Is Affirmed WEATHER West Texas: Generally fair, partly cloudy to unsettled tonight Thursday; colder Thursday.
HOME TOWN STUFF Paducah is a wonderful little city. That is not especially news, but this column is not a purveyor of news. The incidents which suggested the opening sentence of today's budget include a visit to Paducah last night by the presiding elder of this column to be guest at the annual banquet the Chamber of Commerce. The whole trip was a success. Elzy Youngblood furnished the car and did the driving, Andy Bourland did the speaking for the Vernon party, which is rather unusual, and somebody at Paducah furnished a splendid dinner, without cost to the guests from Vernon least.
40 Right now the people of Paducah are looking forward to a continuation of the growth of their town. Like Vernon, Paducah is expecting to get railway connections with Seymour over the Frisco, and the people over there are expecting still greater impetus to the growth of their town. In addition to the Seymour connection, Paducah is to get a rail connection with Amarillo which the people over there regard as fully as important as the connection with Seymour and from there into Fort Worth and Dallas, 4 During the recent past Paducah has profited by railway construction, through the extension of the Quanah, Acme Pacific lines into Floydada and the general improvement of train service over the line. Evidence that the Acme, which is 8 Frisco line, is doing better business furnished yesterday as our party drove into Paducah. No fewer than three locomotives were steamed and puffing about the Paducah switch That is a sight that one doesn't yards.
ordinarily see on the Acme line. Their locomotives seem to prefer going alone. At any rate they haven't been the habit of running in droves. in T. was pleased with his sions of Paducah.
He had formed favorable impression of the very through contacts with persons were familiar with its growth from reading Ed Carlock's paper lished at Paducah, which for some or other he calls The Post. reason But the writer of this column hardly prepared to find as splendid little city as Paducah really 8 They have substantial and modern buildings, splendid paved business atreets, with more in the process paving at the present time, and generally prosperous appearance. The Cottle County courthouse not, be entirely fair, very imposing, doubtless be corrected but this will Cottle County has in due time. paving its section of bonds for much of the dirt work highway finished. Within another already two Paducah will be connected or Vernon by concrete paving.
with raise considerable cotton They about 30,000 bales Cottle County, according to reliable past year, Paducah. No effort was sons in the figures given in the Chamto note of Commerce report. The figures ber have been different in that may ment. There are two former Vernon are now in business in Paducah. who Briggs, who for some Colley with the Vernon Cotton Oil was of this city, and 0.
T. Youngpany who is a native of Vernon vas in his father's business until he went to Paducah some ego, Press of the Dallas State speech at the banquet made a there wasn't a single night and in Paducah either ing scrape or last night. day Home. Mrs. V.
Weekley, who has from an automobile recuperating several weeks at the for dent mother-in-law, Mrs. C. of her was able to return to Weekley, home the Lockett community day. COURT DENIES SMITH PLEA IN STANTON CASE Penalty Assessed in Slaying of Two and Wounding of Third in Front of Bank to StandRangers Charged Conspiracy To Collect Reward. Austin, Jan.
life sentence for murder given Lee Smith in Callahan County for his alleged participation in a slaying claimed by Texas Rangers to have been a conspiracy to. collect bank robbery rewards offered by the Texas Bankers Association, was affirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeals today. The indictment charged Smith with murder of Hilario Nunez, one of three men shot while standing in front of the Home National Bank of Stanton, Martin County. Two of the men were killed and one was wounded. The case was sent from Martin to Taylor County, thence to Callahan County on change of venue.
LABOR UNIONS OPPOSE NEFF SENATE COMMITTEE GIVES SEVERAL HOURS TO TESTIMONY Washington, Jan. 30-(AP)-The Senate interstate commerce committee devoted several hours again today to hearings on the nomination of Pat M. Neff, former governor of Texas, to be a member of the railroad board of mediation but no cision was reached. The time was consumed largely by argument of certain Texas labor unions against the nomination on the ground that Neff is not tempermentally suited to sit a as a mediator in labor disputes. Thomas Stevenson, an attorney for railroad workers employed by the Texas Terminal Company, declared was not sufficiently City, acquainted with the mediation law to carry out his duties properly.
Senator Hawes, Democrat, Missouri, said he believed the opposition to Neff was based largely upon misunderstandings. "Some of those who have brought charges against the governor do not seem to have the proper background on the workings of the board," Hawes declared. CHURCH UNION PLAN STUDIED DENOMINATIONAL LEADERS MEET AT PITTSBURGH FOR CONFERENCE Pittsburgh, Jan. 30 (P) -Overtures of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America looking toward a merger with the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America drew leaders of both denominations to Pittsburgh today. Bishop Herbert Welsh, Pittsburgh, headed representatives of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Presbyterian church was represented by members of the general assembly's department of church cooperation and union, of which Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, Princeton, N. is chairman. CHAMBERS COUNTY DEEP PRODUCING AREA EXTENDED Dallas, Jan.
extension in the deep producing area in Chambers County of about a mile and a half south of the discovery well has resulted in the bringing of the Young-Lee Oil Company's Chambers County No. 1 well at Barbers Hill. The well came in at a depth of 5,260 feet, flowing 4,000 barrels a day through a half-inch choker. At least five offset wells to the new producer will be started immediately. Production in the Joe Bruner-Salt Flat field in Caldwell County has reached 17,875 barrels, gauged on Sunday, the highest on record.
Completion of a number of wells by the Humble Oil and Refining Company and the Shell Petroleum Corporation helped to swell the output. BOOTH GIVEN CHANCE TO ADDRESS COUNCIL London, Jan. injunction against the high council of the Salvation Army was granted in chancery court today by Justice Eve preventing it from acting on its resolution deposing General Bramwell Booth and electing a successor until after 8 further meeting of the council at which the general will have an opportunity of being heard. The justice said a mistake had been made in not giving the general an opportunity of stating his case before the council and therefore the resolution deposing him could not stand. DISABLED SHIP SAFELY IN TOW UNITED STATES CUTTER REACHES BRITISH FREIGHTER Boston, Jan.
-The disabled British freighter Silver Maple was safely in tow today, after she had drifted helpless in heavy seas for 250 miles since last Saturday. The United States Coast Guard cutters Tampa and Mojave reached the crippled vessel yesterday after a 900-mile dash from New England waters and they started towing her to Bermuda, 480 miles away. Her rudder was disabled. Meanwhile hope was revived for the mising trawler Seiner and her crew of 20. The destroyers Shaw, Davis and Wilkes acted on a report that a trawler resembling the Seiner was seen last Sunday drifting 12 miles southwest of Nantuckett Shoals.
Help was on the way today to the Norwegian freighter Terne, caught in the ice off Friar's Head, Nova Seotia, for nine days. The government steamer Sydney was dispatched from Halifax after Captain Bjorset of the Terne wirelessed his water supply was running low although he had food for ten more days. Another ship made good its escape from the winter perils of the Atlantic when the New Bedford dragger William H. Killigrew was towed into port here by the trawler Kingfisher after she had drifted helpless for eight hours last Sunday 165 miles southeast of Highland Light. A 60- mile an hour gale first swept her nets into her propellor then twice parted the tow line which held her to the Kingfisher.
Commission Buys Lot for Negro School Building The Vernon City Commission, in session Tuesday afternoon, purchased a lot at the corner of Dean and Antelope streets, in North Vernon, for a location for the negro school building, which will be constructed of material from the old city light plant structure, The lot was purchased for $1,900. Plans for the new high school building have not yet been presented by architects for adoption by the Commission. E. F. Rittenberry Company of Amarillo, were employed about two weeks ago to draw up plans for the new building.
PERMISSION TO BUILD NEW RAIL LINE ALLOWED Washington, Jan. St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico railroad obtained permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission yesterday to build ten miles of new railroad in Hidalgo County, Texas. The road will run from a point near Edcouch to Weslaco, connecting with the Brownsville line's Mission branch at the latter point. MEXICAN ARMY OFFICER ON WAY TO LOS ANGELES Mexico City, Jan.
Jose Maria Tapia, chief of the dential staff, has gone to Los Angeles and El Universal said today he had been entrusted with a "delicate commission by the government." It was announced trip was to attend to private affairs and there was no confirmation of it being taken for lany other purpose. HIGHWAY BOND PLAN REJECTED BY COMMITTEE Senate Wallops Five Measures Presented by Senator Love at Night Session--Action Expected To Be End of State Bond Movement. Austin, Jan. (AP) -The statewide bond issue plan as advocated by two committees appointed by Governor Moody to recommend a legislative program which would insure a permanent connected sytem of state highways, was rejected by the House committee on constitutional amendments yesterday. While the road legislation was receiving what will probably prove to be its death blow, the Senate committee on privileges and elections was voting down five measures proposed by Senator Thomas B.
Love of Dallas, leading bolter of the Democrats against the party presidential nominees, which would have forestalled any attempt on the part of the party to punish those of its members who forsook it in the general election. The same committee reported favorably a bill 'by Senator Martin of Hillsboro designed to keep the names of "Hoovererats" fro mthe ballots in 1930 as party candidates. Love gave notice be would bring his fight to the floor of the Senate. It was almost certain advocates of the bond issue idea of building highways would also attempt a minority move. Among the Love casualties was his (Continued on page two.) SUES OFFICERS FOR DAMAGES SHOT RECEIVED WHEN HE WAS HAILED AND SPED UP BASIS OF SUIT Dallas, Jan.
he was being held up, E. V. Hall, Tom Green County oil scout, speeded up his automobile when a posse attempted to stop him on the highway near Justiceburg, Garza County, a year ago and received 37 gunshot wounds in his legs, he sets out in a petition for $51,000 damages against two Garza County peace officers and others. A bank had been robbed at Sylvester, Fisher County, the Hall was shot, defendants have said in their answering petition, and when Han refused to stop and crouched down in his machine it was supposed he was one of the bank bandits. Several members of the posse were alleged to have fired into the automobile.
Harve Browning, alleged member of the posse, testified at yesterday's hearing, as did also Schuyler Marshall, former Sheriff of Dallas County, one of the defendants named by Hall. Marshall declared he not a member of the posse and had no connection with the shooting. He and Gordon W. Kennedy, he said, had been stopped by the posse just before Hall came along. Other defendants are Constable J.
G. Key, Deputy Constable Perry Crowley, Otto Nance, Elton Nance, Harve Browning, Carl Wood and Charles Bargsley, all of Garza County. Funeral Services for Mrs. Clark To Be Held Thursday Mrs. Georgia Clark, 50, wife of W.
Clark, died at her home, 2703 Bismark Street, at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning. Her death was not unexperted as she had been confined to her bed for sixteen months. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. br. E.
F. Lyon, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of which Mrs. Clark was a member, will officiate. Interment will be in East View Cemetery. Mr.
and Mrs. Clark moved to Vernon 24 years ago, coming here from Lamar County. She is survived by her husband and three children: Fay, Lee Roy and Fannie. She is also survived by her mother, Mrs. Virginia Carter of Vernon, and six brothers Will, Spence, Walter, Sam and Jim of Vernon Joe Carter of Minter.
Mrs. E. A. Clark of Rockwall, mother-in-law of the deceased, is here for the funeral, arriving shortIly before Mrs. Clark's death.
STOREY DELAYS INQUIRY INTO ELECTION IN HIDALGO Austin, Jan. 39 -(P) -Expressing the opinion that he was seriously in doubt if the House sub-committee of six delegated to go to Hidalgo County to investigate the contest for Representative W. R. Montgomery's seat was cloaked with power to open ballot boxes, Representative Cecil Storey of Vernon, sub-committee chairman, today asked the Attorney General's office for an opinion on the question. The trip will be delayed until the opinion is furnished.
DRY OFFICER'S DEPOSITS BIG BANK CREDITS FAR ABOVE SALARY PAID, FIGURES AT QUIZ REVEAL Washington, Jan. of Justice reports that Perry Howard, suspended assistant attorney general and Republican national committeeman for Mississippi, had deposits in two accounts here of more than $31,000 above his $6,000 salary over a period of 18 months today were placed before the Senate patronage investigating committee.Howard, a negro, was recently nequitted of a charge of selling postmasterships in Mississippi. Howard deposits, the Department of Justice reported it had found two checks for $500 each drawn on a Clarksdale, bank. Miller E. MeGilchrist, of the department, said one check WitS signed by Mrs.
C. A. Withington, of Tutweiler, and was dated June 23, 1927, the same day on which Howard recommended her as acting postmistress at Tutweiler. The other $500 check, he said, WaS drawn against the account of John H. Cook, United States Attorney in Mississippi.
McGilchrist said an inquiry showed Cook had explained that he loaned the $500 to the husband of Mrs. Withington and was later repaid. Senator McKellor, Democrat, Tennessee, demanded that Attorney General Sargent be summoned before the committee "to tell why this man Howard has not been discharged." The department investigator then produced a $250 cheek drawn by A. P. Russell, former postmaster at Magee, Miss.
Senator Brookhart produced 8 receipt for $50 from Magee given by the Republican national committee. "It looks like $250 was paid for this office," Brookhart said, "but only $50 of it got to the national committee." Fishing Season at Lake Kemp to End Tomorrow: anglers of this city taking adUndeterred by weather, chilling, vantage of the few remaining hours of the winter fishing season, which closes at Lake Kemp, 30 miles south of here, tomorrow at midnight. Scores of fishermen were at the lake today, and others are making plans to spend the final day of the season at the lake tomorrow. Crappie has been most prominent among catches this season. This kind of fish has been found more abundantly in water 40 to 60 feet deep.
The fishing season at the lake will 1 May 1. TROTZKY EXPECTED TO TAKE SHELTER IN TURKEY Constantinople, Jan. Trotzky, once head of the red army who has been in exile in Russian Turkestan, is expected to take shelter in Constantinople or Angora soon. The Turkish Government has agreed to allow his entry. W.
B. MITCHELL'S FORD TOURING CAR IS STOLEN A Ford touring car, property of W. B. Mitchell of this city, was stolen last night on North Main Street while Mr. Mitchell was visiting in the Texaco service station.
The car was stolen between 7 and 18 o'clock, Mr. Mitchell said. ROAD CONTRACT AWARDS AIRED IN OKLAHOMA Chairman of Highway Commission Tells Investigators Contractor Was Refused Bid Because Governor Did Not Like Appearances. Oklahoma City, Jan. 30-(P)- Henry W.
Leininger, chairman of the Oklahoma Highway Commission, told the House of Representatives investi-1 gating committee today that all bids 011 several paving projects in a recent contract letting were rejected because Henry S. Johnston, suspended governor, did not like the appearance of a representative of a low bidder. The American Paving Corporation of Omaha made the lowest bids on the contracts, Leininger testified, and the commission rejected them after the governor had called the commissioners and the organization's representative for conference. Leininger did not name the representative. Later the same corporation was low bidder on three projects, but received only contract, the commission chairman said.
He explained this was due to A practice of awarding only small projects to contractors new to the state. On another occasion, Leininger testified, Johnston opposed the letting of a contract to McGuire and Cavander, an Oklahoma company, because "He thought the contractor had been Leininger did not name a particular person. The chairman said the commission in one instance awarded a contract in Noble County, Johnston's home, to Tom Green, Oklahoma City contractor, over the Governor's opposition, becaues of the insistence of the commissioners. Leininger decounty, knowledge of whether Johnston instigated an injunction suit which prevented Green from carrying out the contract. Joseph Weldon Bailey, former United States Senator from Texas, and now a practicing attorney in that state, testified before a House committee investigating the official conduct of members of the supreme court.
He had reviewed supreme court decisions on primary election contests to determine the Democratic nominees for attorney general and members of the supreme court. TWO HURT IN AUTO MISHAPS MRS. A. C. SMITH AND MISS BURCH ARE INJURED IN CAR CRASHES Mra.
A. Smith, 3306 Wilbarger, sustained severe cuts on her forehend, and her small daughter, Frances, 5, suffered slight bruises, when the sedan car which Mrs. Smith WaS driving WAS overturned after a crash by a sedan auto en by Mrs. B. G.
Cloniger, also of this city, Tuesday afternoon about 5 o'clock at the intersection of Fannin and Bismark streets. Mrs. Cloniger and her two daughterm, Twila Jean and Mary Frances, were unhurt, although the automobile was damaged considerably when it crashed into a telephone post. At the same location last night about 8 o'clock Miss Opaline Burch suffered alight cuts about the eye and lip, when the car in which was riding crashed into a parked truck. Mra.
Irvin Gault, who was driving, a sister of the injured person, and her brothers, Everett Arlis, who were also in the car, were unhurt. ENLISTED PERSONNEL OF NAVY IS REDUCED Washington, Jan. 30-(P)-The enlisted personnel of the navy, outside of its aviation branch, has been reduced to a point where it is seriously affecting the efficiency of the United States fleet, in the opinion of Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of naval operations. Testifying before a house submittee on the naval appropriation bill, Admiral Hughes described the present situation as acute and declared an increase to 88,500 from the existing authorized strength of 000 men would be necessary to meet requirements during the next fiscal I year.
FIRE RATES IN VERNON WILL BE RAISED FOR 1929 Because fire losses in Vernon 1 for the three- period ending December 31, 1928, were heavier than for the three-year period ending with the same date in 1927, fire insurance rates in the city will be increused this year, effective March 1. Whereas, the city was allowed a 15 per cent credit on the rates during the past year, a credit of only 9 per cent 15 indicated in Fire Marshal Key's annual report, just completed for 1928, according to the computations of local insurenco men. on the ratio of Credit is granted fire loss to the aggregate premiums, based 0.1 the records of the three preceding years, and the ratio for the past three years in Vernon is 41.8 per cent, according to computations made by Local insurance men. However, Vernon men point out that Insurance Commission does not Fire always accept the local computations, the ratio indicated may be alterand ed. Reason for an increase in the Verrate is revealed in a comparison non of the records for the year 1925 with those for 1928.
The year 1922 was included in the period on the which the rate of the past year was based, but of course, gives way to the new year in the period on which the coming year's taxes are based. While the loss in 1925 was only $10.981.33, the loss in 1928 totaled 861,232.76. Insurance premiums on property within the Vernon City limits totaled $104,769.44 in 1928. Records by years follow: Year Premiums Losses 1028 $104,769.44 61,232.76 1927 118,316.82 27,698.23 1926 100.491.02 43,995.25 1926 93,928.96 10,981,33 1924 72,975.74 128,185.17 COTTON DUTIES BEING STUDIED SLIDING SCALE ON LONG STAPLE PRODUCT URGED IN PETITION Washington, Jan. -(AP) -Opening hearings on the cotton schedule of the tariff net, the House ways and means committee today received a petition for a sliding scale duty on long staple cotton which is 110 01 the free list.
Representative Whittington, Democrat, Mississippi, proposed that cotton one and one sixteenth inches in length bear a of seven cents a pounds, and as the length induty, creases a higher tariff be applied until one and five eighths inch cotton take a duty of 24 cents a pound. Except in the emergency tariff act of 1921, which carried rate of 7 cents en cotton one and three eighths Inches and longer, raw cotton has been duty free. Whittington argued that if long staple growers cannot get a fair price for their products it would disappear as did Sea Island cotton. If It is not grown in the United States, he added, American manufacturers would he placed at the mercy of the growers in Exypt who receive government aid. MELLON MAINTAINS STAND AGAINST DRY FUND RAISE Washington, Jan.
-Secretary Mellon in a letter to Chairman Anthony of the House appropriations committee today reiterated his opinthat the proposal to appropriate an additional $24,000,000 to enforce prohibition would not accomplish the purpose intended. The secretary said that under the terms of the amendment the fund would not be available for any purpose except that of increasing the personnel of the bureau of prohibition and the department of justice. It could not be used for an educational campaign, he declared, and even such essential incidental expenses as rent, office equipment, supplies and traveling expenses could not be paid from it. JENSEN UNABLE TO USE AUTO GAS IN AIRPLANE Roosevelt Field, New York, Jan. 30 -Unable to gain altitude in an attempt to establish a new solo endurance flight in which was using automobile gasoline, Martin Jensen, Hawaii flier, made a forced landing on the Beach of the north shore ol Long Island today, NEW FIGURES GIVE DEMOCRAT MARGIN OF 319 Wurzbach Forces Did Not Urge Addition of Figures Favorable To Republican, Admitting Justification of Both Changes.
of at the up 1 it a city who and pubI is. of is voted Lee is year in this permade docu- men years Com- and here years in to News last yester- been accihome W. her to- Austin, Jan. -Correction in the returns from Guadalupe County and inclusion of the vote from Bee County in the 14th Congressional District race were authorized by the state canvassing board, today, the new totals showing Judge Augustus MeCloskey of San Antonio with 319 votes more than Congressman Harry M. Wurzbach of Seguin.
Counsel for Wurzbach did not urge that the Guadalupe County correction be mdae giving the Congressman. 725 more votes than he was accredited with in the returns to the State to the exclusion of the Bee County returns which gave McCloskey a MAjority of 417, admitting that if either was permitted both should be considered. Hugh Robertson, counsel for Wurtbach, made an effort to have the board consider the Bexar County returns, alleging that they were illegal and fraudulent and did not show the true result there. The board decided it had no authority to go behind the returns as certified to it by the Bexar County Commissioners. It was decided that Judge key should return the conditional certificate of election he received acme time ago and have it replaced with a new one showing the new totals and setting out the facts with reference to the matters which caused the case to be reopened.
Wurzbach was represented by Robertson, his brother, Judge W. A. Wurzbach, and C. W. Anderson of San Antonio.
was THALIA MAN DIES TUESDAY FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR J. A. ABSTON WEDNESDAY J. Abston, 59, resident of the Rayland and Thalia communities for A. 25 years, died at his home in Thalia at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Abston had been in poor health for long time had been seriously ill only since Sunday, Funeral ser ices were conducted at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Thalia Cemetery, where interment was made, Elder Thomas E. Milholland, pastor of the Electra Church of Christ, officiated, Mr. Abston is survived by his widow, four sons and three daughters, Leslie Abston of Granite, Bert of Rayland and Claude, and Tom of Thalia, Mrs. Winnie PhilDips of Thalia, Mra.
Ethel Reynolds, Crowell, Mrs. Belle Thompson of Thalia. Besides his immediate family, Mr. Abston is survived by three sisters and two brothers. The sisters are Mrs.
A. K. Edna and Mrs. Maggie French of Thalia. Mr.
Abston moved to Foard County from Kentucky. NEW SENATE DISTRICT DEPENDS ON GOVERNOR Austin, Jan. The Berkeley Senate bill creating the 109th judicial district of Texas, already passed by the Senate, today needed only the Governor's signature to put it on the State's law books. The House passed the measure, which includes in the district Crane, Ward, Reeves, Winkler, and Loving counties. A second new district bill ing Briscoe, Floyd, Motley and Diekens counties will be acted on row by the House, having been ordered engrossed today.
NELSON THEFT CASE TO BE TRIED THIS AFTERNOON Trial of Henderson Nelson, negros charged with theft of a trunk, property of Ben IT. Roberts of this city, is Sixth scheduled District to Court be this held in Fortyafternoon. Trial of the case last week resulta ed in a bung jury,.
