The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 170, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME XVI
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i MEX. PRESIDENT
-Órtez Rubio R¿sts Easi-
ly. Wounded Ip
Jaw
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Believe Followers Of
Defeated Candidate
yt- Responsible ..
- MEXICO CITY, "Feb. 6. (AP)—
pascual Ortiz Rublo, president of
Mexico since, yesterday noon, rested
easily today at his home with a
wound from a '38-callber pistol shot
. In his cheek and jaw inflicted by an
j'assassltF two hours after his inaug-
uration. ' ' . 1
Hlajihysiclans and his secretary,
who was with him when' the at-
tempt was 'made on his Ufe, believ-
ed he would be recovered suffi-
ciently within a Week tó assume the
duties of his new office. \ ,
Meanwhile, Emilio Portes Gil,
who lurried the presidency over to?
Ortiz Uuliio, in his capacity of min-
ister of the interior in the' one-day-
old government, conducted 1 an In-
vestigation of the shooting, which,
he (believed was the development
oía widespread plot. "\ !
y'y Assassin (¿rilled
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The assassin himself was held In
the Mexico City military headquar-
ter ,' the subject of a Inmost eontin-
AJous questioning cino^ 2:30 p. m.,
yesterday when . he tired six shots
—at bt ttie president
«8 he left his rat .cabinet meeting
at the national palace. Seven oth.
ers, their names not divulged, were
held by police. ■ .
Police finally settled upon the , as-
sassin's identity as tianiel, Flores,
22, from the little town of Charcos.
San 1 ,uis Potosí. Although he ear-
Hod fi small, picture of the Virgin
of Guadalupe in ¡ hi pocket; they
did not believe his "crime had a re-
ligio'us motive, but. la|d it rather to
a plot of "Vasconcelistas" as ad-
herents of the defeated presidential
candidate .1 ose, Vasconcelos are
known. 1
' None of six others wounded by
■! the shots from Flores' gun- was ln-
jUl'.edr seriously. One of the sir.
shot* red- gwwd the ear and sci^lp
-■.of Señora I>e Ortiz Rublo, another
graze I the ear Of fhe president's
young niece, Señorita Maria Posh,
while the . chauceur of the presi-
dential ear received a bullet Wound
"In his shoulder.
v7'-- Bystanders Hurt
Three bystanders were wounded.
One of then), d. tíarmOf Jimenez.
• till is in a hospital wltha wound
op his forehead. Two others Whiwc
names were nbt Wtade public re-
, reived «light wounds. t
Precisé Information as to just;
what had happened whs backing for
hours .after the shooting. First re-
ports that the president's sister and
daughter were in the car were re-
ceived with later information that
the automobile was occupied by
only ve persons, the president, his
wife, niece, chnuceur ( and secre-
tary. Senor Cliazaro, of whom' only
Ch.iziiro escaped, unhurt.
The president hud just concluded
hit first meeting with new cabinet
¡n the nat-lomil palace when the
attempt was made,. As his auto-
mobile departed from the palace
from the «ate of honor a well-
dressed young man standing behind
the presidential guards, was seen
to lift hs arm and lire a revolver
Heiss Resigns To
Go With Life
Insurance Co.
O, M. Heiss, who for the past iten
and a half years held the position
of credit innn at the general offices
Of the JUitCher & Moore l.umlter
company here, has resigned his po-
sition to accept a position with the
Volunteer State Ufe Insurance com-
pany of Chattanooga, 'Penn. lie.
will he associated with J. M, Mln-
top, general agent of. the company.
s l>uring the time that Sir. Ile(sjiv
has resided in "Orange he has been
identified with the principal civic
movements of the. city In various
ways. For the past few years he
has served as-a member of the city
school . board and has worked ex-
tensively in ' behalf of the commu-
nity chest and the organizations
supported by it. Soon after lo-
cating''here he w«S madji choir di-
rector of the, First Haptist church,
a place that he held until a few
months ago when he resigned.
Mr. Helss, who will be accom-
panied by his wife, his daughter,
Miss Rena, and son, Oustave, Jr.,
will move to Houitoir in the near
future. S
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Knst
day, and Hdht
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Orange, Texas, Thursday, February. 6, 1930.
ARMY PATROL GETS VALUABLE WINTER FLYING DATA
High Water
Drive for Wider
Old Spanish Trail
lligh water has Succeeded Where
elmpietjce plight lKivé Calloii, accord-
ing. t" reporis from the- -lowland,!
bordering the Old Spanish Trail in
Orange couivty. i
>|ai y landowners are said to tuive
lieeii won over in tly idea of do-
intiint and for widening Of the Or-
.•yige-iieauniom division in tint be-
j/iiel that their lands Would be bét-
' tier ilmlnld. "y p wider 1ii:jhwuy.
County Judge l)i*\\'lti C. llennett
expects soon to revive Hit- campaign t
at the occupants.
Overpower CJnnman
A motorcycle policeman.
San Clllan, member of the
den Hal
,
¡VfÍKÍfíf •>?'
Jorge
presi-
g'uards, Jumped from his
machine and with others Overpow
MAN, "KILLED
IN ACTION" IS
YISTFOR HERE
Carried as Dead . By
Government; Whs
In Hospital
Seventeen pursuit planea end one trl-motored transport ship which made the arduous (light from Self-
ridge Field, Detroit, to Spokane, Wash., are making their way back to the /Michigan banc.. Major
Ralph Royce, commanding the patrol, believes the flight has been of great Value in demonstrating what
■hips could do under extreme winter weather conditions ^and in showing what improvements are neces-
sary for safer winter flying. Photo shows a general view of soné oí Um pianos at Newman take, Was*.
ill tills
trail.
coupty
widening
Says City Water
Here Free From
Contamination
City water is free from all Im-
purities which might eause disease
of any kind, Dr. M. E." Moler, city
sanitary officer cjeclared today, of-
fering as evidence the signed re-
ports from K. \\\. Hohls. M; 1)., of
the Texas State Hoard / o£^ Health,
Austin. . : ,
These; reports show that there^ Is
no danger of. contamination from
Orange city water.
• .Samples . of city water from the
well and dliferent hydrants áfce; sentj
monthly to Austin for analysis by
the board of health. . '
"4t is rumored," said. Or. Moler,
"that thei[e are 7.1 ^lls'eM of typhoid
fever in Orange. '! made a survey
this I morning and find -"'that there
hayé^not been over fix cases of tv_
phoid fever reported in the last two
months. Most of those cases nre
oútside the 'city limits."
ENTHUSIASTIC
Sole Survivor of 157
Men Shot ( Up At
Belleau Woods
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Harry Miller,'"dend"' for 11 years
was a visitor here today, accompan-
ied ,hy his Wife,- who drew Ills life
insurance payments for many years.
Harry, with an engineer outfit* of
the Fifth IT. S. Marines, "dletd,"
according to government records,
during the (tattle of, Belleau Woods.
As it turned ,out. however, only a
part of Harry was deft in He I lean
Woods with the 1.68 othei* members |
of his company. '•
ANNIVERSARY
Additional Committee
Chairmen Are
Named
At
As
east 200 Voices]
sked By Evan- 1
gest
\
ered the guninan who offered vir-
tually no resistance. The president's
chauffeur, meanwhile, despite his
Injury, speeded the car through
$&$>' the crowd to a Red Crosn hospltol.
A censoi sh11> waa placed on out.
going press nrtattar, and it was sev-
''""•■Jtal. hours later before the presi-
dent's injury was knoyvn outside of
Mexico. ,
The minister of w*#, General Jo-
aquin Atiifcra, participated In the
questioning of Plore , who declared
he was a mertkn^ «"V^e^ no
personal III witl toward Uenor Ortlt
Rublo, bmt) thought he shpuld 1 *
removed from tho présldenc* íor
coutt)tt^i§||S
vsotuated
What was left was taken to Ber-
lin by the Germans and two years
later Harry woke up to find out Ije
was alive, the war over, asd that
the hips, part of his skull hone, an
he was minus both legs, shot off at
arm and numerous brain cells.
German specialists, urtd a Ger-
man Bed Cross nurse, Fran Fred
Schwart*, had tolled over him In-
céssastly during the two years of
coma. He remained In. the Oer.
man hospital until a little over a
month ago. /
Miller pays high tribute to the
treatment accorded him by tile Ger-
mans. When he left the hospiUvl
they had built him a new arm,
various parts of bin sl;ul| anil fitted
hint out with a pair of legs, which
took months to develop. He. had
also learned to speak the German
.language, ?
Miller \va.s recently 'reunited with,
his wife and l S-year-oW"" daughter
Hn Dallas. He has been visiting an
aunt in Dallas and ■vfas here selling
needles as a means of livelihood;
pending settlement of a claim
against the federal government for
$7X!>0 hock pay and *157 a m"nth
compensation for the remainder of
his life. « i
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"The nurse, Ppwu Pm.I Sch warts
wanted to come bacfe to America
with me, hut I felt thait a. man in
my condlton had tip rieed for mow
than One wife," declared Miller.
Week's Program Outlin-
k ed by Area
v Council
20 YEARS OLD
Sermons On Scouting tó
Feature Sunday
. y Services v
Scouts of the Sabine^ Area Coun-
cil today were celebrating the twen-
tieth anniversary of the scout move,
ment with a program which will
last through Thursday, February
13th.
Below Is "fhe birthday cake of
events, from which each Scout is
expected to cut a slice," according
to . announcement by the council:
Friday, Feb. 7. Sponsors- Day—
This special day provides for troops
that are sponsored by groups' of
citizens or institutions and oppor-
tunity to express their ' appreciation
for help received. /THiops and pa-
trols are urged tó special "good-
turns" for their sponsors,
Saturday, Feb. x, Anniversary
Day—Scouts and lenders .ill (over
Amerlc* will recommit themselves
to the idetils V>f Scouting at K:lr> p.
m. A rally will prlfTíably be I held
here. ¡
I Sundny, Feb. 2", ' Scout Sunday—r
Scouts will 'attend their resj|i>ctlyc
churches in n lK|ay, 1n full uniform.
Scout sermons. Will be preached at
the different churches. Bev, N. H.
Melbert of the Firm
church will present his
a Veteran flag intid follow with a
Continued on Page Four
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Methfidlst
trop with
City Health Officer Reeves Urges
Citizens Report Typhoid. Quit Talking
Dr. J. K. Reeves, city health
omoer.today lasucul the following
fltatement in. conncetlon wHli
oonthmed report* of a typhokl
'W
«(• (Peopni Of
Wfw
slncp Ujp first day of Pehraarj I
make w ports on Saturday of
esrh week. M I Imtc no knowl-
rdie of sutii I 'can make no re-
port of it. ¥t«**e quit talktog
of It or coininunlcnc with ntc
concerning K. ■
"If rmi will do your part., I
A very enthusiastic me^tiiig of
the Gypsy Smith , revival execuilVe
coinnillioe and coinniltte^' c|i:ilr-
in'n wan held last niglii a( the
,l"*lrst I'ro^l'yt-eiian" eh^ireh with
Itcv. — 13. T. • Detvlte; general chair-
man, presiding^
With th A'XC« pjlion of tlie.„.j¡halr-
j men of the women's ciimt^littees
¡and the pruy'er meeting conimittee,
all were present.
i ' • " . ""■
Win. M. McDonald, chfflrman of
'the music committee, after review-
ing- some of the instructions given
by the evangelistic party, wherein
it was stated that at least " nil
i voices should compose the choir.
¡ named the commltti-es representing
I the various churches.
, Committee chairmen named were:
Xlrs. J. K. Harrison, St. Paul's Epln-
I copal church: Miss Ml i a Mqe flos
I well, the First christian chuW'h;
Mrs. Sue Mpsley, the First .Metho.
' dlst churoh; Mr«, .loh(i W. Hart,
| the First Presbyterian church! Wpi.
j M. MeDonatd, the Kirst Baptist
I church; J.., F. Ilmnniers. the West
Orange Itaptlst church: Hex. VV. K.
St Dickersop. the Presbyterliui
chapel; Mrs. Leslie Itogers, Baptist
church of V'inion; Mrs. H. A. Wat-
son of Deweyville; Ernest Vnnce of
Orangeflcld.
Other members will be added ' to
the miiMc committee, it was an-
nounced, as the ' necessary Informa-
tion is ascertained by the general
chairman of the music division.
A, !•:. Josephson, chalrfnan of
the ptlbflclty cotpmlttee, named A.
I'*. Bum, as ah assistant to be in
charge of the newspaper publicity
anl in connection with his report,
the photograph of Gypsy Smith. Jr.,
the evangelist, and his linger, were
shown.
D. W.f Strikes, chairman of the
ushers' committee, nominated the
following \ sub-chairmen represent-
ing the various Churches: Dick j
Wood, the Christian; Hunter Hetft-
ty, the Haptist: Kennle Hubert, ilie
West Orange Haptist; P. H. Curry,
th«!-' Presbyteriani XVi A. Sims, ' the
Episcopal. 'I'bere are several other j
sub-committees to be named later.
3. E. Harrison, chairman of the
finance cofhmittee. named the treas-
urers of the various churches as
Mih-chalrmcn: ~It. P. TtlVpin. Pres4
byterlan; . E. E. McFarland. Bap-
tist; cMp.: Wilson, Methodist, and
HI C. Arnold, Christian. Other
churbh treasurers will he named on
the comntlttce, It was staffed.
1 T, A. Howel. chairman of the
building committee, named on his
committee, C. C. Leedy. A. McCorJ
kle a ful A. It. Melena and expects
to name others,
- Bach committee chairman was
requvated to calí a meeting of his
Appointive members at the earliest
possible tlrtte in order to further
formulate plana Mid to report back
at the next general meeting of the
contmitteaa at 11 <,é"
the com-
wlll be
Vidor To Have
Phones, Lights
And Power
Citizens of the Vldor community
",re rejoicing over 'the approaching
Installation of telephone' service,
Théy will be served frbm the
Itenumont exchange. Vidor also
will have ejectrlc li^ht and power
service. The work of creating poles
along the i Orange and Beaumont
highway Is well under way at this
time, Power, light and telephone"
liues will occupy the- same poles a
part of- the.j distance going into
Vldnv. i
Twd Narrowly
Escape When
Car .Hits Truck
1>. .1. David, Sylvan Tleacli, TeXas,
café keeper, wfls under arrest here
today after driving ~hts Chevrolet
coupe into a parke I Ford truck anil
trailer near Vldor yesterday.
ground under
escaped death
Two From Here
Enter Houston
Open Tourney
I .Tames H. Cochran and Glenn
Crisman, local golfers/ will enter
the Houston open golf tournament
Friday and Saturday, representing
Orange.
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WOMAN TELLS
Delay of Several Days
Will Follow Set-
ting Casing
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Big "Drilling Campaign
Predicted By
Oil Men
Two' men on^ the
Sheriff
(lie truck Hi' rrmv Iv-
or serious injury. ... N
DaVld was run-down by
Pate Hrovvii. ('lmrges of drlvint
an unlicensed car aiM reckless driv-
ing. Were fllCjl, '
DRY AGENT
Brother Insisted Sh?
Stop First Car Over
Hill
i
Identifies Two Members
of Alleged
1 Gang •
Contract Is Let
For Big Barge
Contract to construct one of the
largest oil barges built In this sec-
tion for several years has been
placeil by the Hlgman Towitig
company of this city: with the I ,ev-
ingston aitd Chltenden ship yard.
The barge Is lo be 37 feet wide' by
170 feef In length and 0 feel deep.
A 40-horsepower •. motor will be
instnlied on the barge for the pur-
pose of operating pumps that' will
pump oil into and out of the barge
and the power, can be utilized oth-
erwise in hoisting and lowering ob-
jects. Tile- huge barge Will , be
built throughout of i Oregon IIr
which has already been ordered
ánd shipment front the Pacific coast
has already been Pitóte,
Good progress is being \mndc in
this yard in the work of construct-
ing, a motor tug lo" be used at the
Neelies river ferry on the Grange.
Port Arthur highway,
A barge 24 feet wide, SO feet
long and live feet and eight inches
deep, will be IfftTnched today at this
yard. Another one of the saine di-
mfusions was launched if week ago,
'líbese baVges were built, f/ir file
ieade due to t.he fact that they are"
in gemtral demand.
SAN AXTONIO, Tes., Feb,
Early completion of testimony was
foreseen here today when the trial
of Mrs. AItha llarbaiigh, ch.alrged
with niúrder in connection with.the
killing of Captain Charles Stevens,
prohibition agent, last September.
whs resumed before .fudge VV, \V
MeCrury.
The hlglt point of the trial was
reached when Mrs. Harhaugb tdofc
the stand' yesterday. She h id been
Identified as the decoy who stopped
the car carrying Stevens, at thi< top
of a hill six miles ''from''Irian Arito-
ti!i>. Stevens was slain at the 'liftt-
torn of the hill by a gang, One of
whom was killed In tin exchange of
Shots. Her brother l.ynn Stephens,
also is under Indictment ' in the
case, I tit has not been arrested,
Reaming to set Casing; prepara,
tory to a screen test was the report
this afternoon ofthe Veteran Oil
company's Henry Heed wild-cat
well. _ . ..
Although there will be a delay of
several day after the casing hrt*
been sel for the final teat of thin -
well, there is a general feeling that
the well will become an 'Oil pro- -
ducrr and that followlnK Ifi devel-
opment, Ifta.t there- -w|ll be i> drilling
campaign such as has neve,' been
seen In this section
That there will bp more offsetting •
necessary in this field than ha« oc-
curred In any Held In the gulf roast
territory for years. If the well la
successfully brought In, I predicted
by nii n , fai(nlllar with the develop*
ment of Ofil ileitis
AccprdliifV to representatives of
the Veteran Oil company* nfier the
reaming has been completed, as-
other core will be taken1 and theft
the casing will be set.
There is tin hand, u.t the well ttft
(he ii 3-S Inch casing necessary to
set the well, Which I* to lie ce-
mented and then give the centenf
time to set before drilling the plug
10 set screen.
A recoWl price for .the latest Or-
iinge county oil rila.v was reported
registered today when an unnamed
man paid 1200 an acre for tVve -acre*
near tile" Henry Ueed wild-cat. now
preparing to (est an oil saOd picked
up yesierdiiy.
. The report Is uncontirmed/ tlH
Instrument' not having lieen re-
corded. .
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The
mlttee attend, fl
Cabbage May Be
Replant ed
Cabbage growers pf Orange coun-
ty who had between 600 and 100
acres, of the crop wiped oUI by
cold i *re considering replanting In
whole or In part. It Was reported
hbre yesterday. \
Plants will probably be available
If it la decided to replant, although
plants were llkewlw destroyed in
December.
night of Sept; 24.-, She re-
lated. .she was at her sister's home
When Ivynn Stephens entered. He
wore no clothes, the . defendant
said, and with hitti ;.wys .loe Hoh-
i rner. also under a 'murder iTidlct-
nieftt. a man named ' Thurman and
severul other men. She testified
Stephens had beeiv acting rjnéerly
for" several weeks
« The witriess related her brother
made her get ihftii an automobile
,wll|i .hint, a.pd drove into the eqiin-
trv for several miles. ■ A second
car arrived " wltW "Skeet* ■ Hobrechti
The only perM^n^i she could identify
were ffobteeht /md doe Itohmer, '
Kb < silid liér brother told itohmer
to take her lo the .top of the hill
and instructed ¿Iter In stop the llrst
car that came over tire hill. She,
said she protested, but was silcpee i-
bv rtohmCf. ° ,f
The Mir Carrying . the- federal
agents came/ oyer the hill. She
walked from"* her wr, which, .par-
tially- blocked the road. No .father,
ent wor'l wits spoken, she testified,
and she declared she heard no
shooting, " i
The state contends she flashed n
light in the officers' east* and then
waved It Ovér her head as a ¡signal
to the men at the foot of the hill.
When the Officers proceeded, they
\yere tired upon. ,
Brady Jury To
Be Kept Out
. Indefinitely
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COI'UT ItOOM. Vnstln
I'Cli II. (Al'l—Jliptlgc .1. O. Moore
liullcutrsl today Uuit tlic .folm
W. Itrnilj (irfy, nnlw ll rraclte#
a vi'fdli'l, iruiiiil Ik* held for ntl
liidetlnit^ tinte. ?>
MODERN CAESAR CONQUERS COLORED
* * ♦
SECTION BECAUSE 'DEY MADE ME MAD'
- A eon(|uorliMi colored faenar
mnrclMrf, tlirooarh nortlieast Or-
ansre tato taat nlglit leavltnc In itls
«mi terror Mid panic among
his negro ronirtrymen. We wield-
ed wlrkedljr. eye-wit««w-t said. a.
«ka fW-Mrd
prlKoner by t>¿l«uy KlierllT
i.eorge t.ilison.
I.Ike Ills namesake, Cnesar was
ln<td«v(l by logical motives:
"Well, Null, dey leu' made
mad and t «lerhleil .I'd ,trlin 'em
Oowm."
Kaeaar l as been In Jail
n chante of liiwui
ACSTi.V. ( Feb. 6. (AP)— Dead-
locked for inore than 8tt hours, the
Jury in the trial of John W. Brady,'
former jurist, charged with, stab-
bing to death Ml** l<ehlla Hlgh-
stiilth, stenogr.uiher. last ííoy^ffl®
continued Its de.lll>erat<ion " today.
Reported: standing to to 2 for
con^ctlim with,/ a heavy penalty,
t the Jury twice yesterday reported to
Judge .!. U. Moore It was unable to
reach a verdict, 13ach lime Judge
Moore "ordered It hack for further
deliberations.
The case went to the Jury late
Tuesday after more than two week*
had been eoufsmed In the selection
of ti Jury anil the hearing of testi-
mony. The dcretise sought \l$ show'
Hriidy was ittsane a a result of
txpesslVe drinking. The prosecution
contended 'lirady. was sitne.-
. Crowds thit swarmed the court;
house durti,IK the taking of testl.
«ion y were absent after the ca a
ivertt to H'e Jury and the hours wore
im with tin Indication that the jur-
ors wii' any nearer an agreement.^
than, when they It rat started de-
liberations. ~ '
A. O. I). Hlghsmlth of Oa.vtov
Tex., father Of the «lain girl,
for home after bidding él
good-íiye. ' ' ' cr - ^
Hrady remained confident ih 1
Cell in the county Jtiil where he
been held singe the night of •
killing-
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