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*" 1 THE DAILY SUN
HIROER Bill
FOR TORTURE
Le Others Held On
I Manslaughter Charge
[After Four Men Are
[Roasted In Cells
lpHlLADKLPHTAt^ptr20F
Iffie superintendent, -deputy war-
R . guard captain Md two
were indicted, today by the
EL jury on murder and man-
Cter charges growing out of
deaths of four inmates
|j Philadelphia county prison.
KLem William B. Mills, Deputy
K~L Frank A. Craven, Guard
# James McGuire and
. Alfred Brough and Fren-
ch each was indicted on
counts of murder and four
3 of manslaughter.
Bad Been Arrested
I Smith and Brough previously
\ been arrested for alleged hom-
ijfcin a surprise move by Mayor
Diris Wilson at the outset of
stigation of the deaths in the
itor-Hned “Klondike" punish-
4 eellbiock during the week-end
*£?« guards against each of
tom four counts of manslaugh-
, were handed up, were Robert
m, William SUines, Thomas
iaugh, John Mulherin and
per Weaver. All previously
: been relieved of their duties
| tie prison. ,,,
I Two Exonerated J
I The grand jury exonerated two
tSm physicians and two guards
|f any responsibility. They were
k-, George F. Enoch and Han*
and guards Samue
4 ordered -heJcL^_--
1 coroner’* jury in connec
I with the case.
nt District Attorney John
said .that the murder
. were “general" and could
Jfc either first or second de-
Iwarder. The otter indictments
* said, were on both involuntary
I voluntary manslaughter ini all
reparations will be made im-
psiely for the trial, according
pthe ptosecutor. The Indictments
handedup. iaiadgs Theodore
» by Jury Foreman Donald
POWER
WARE BARED
Cause Probe
Turns To Aims
;Of Future
m. Sept 20 <U£)-
of the Colorado River
4 of last July had turned more
•My today into a study of
* Plana of the lower Colorado
r Authority. -
P**® McDonough, general
T Of the lower Colorado
WE ATHE
EAST HARRIS—Fair tonight,at
ednesday; slightly warmer We
VOLUME 20—NO. 78
GOOSE CREEK, PELLY, BAYTOWN, LA PORTE AND SURROUNDING AREA
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Mi 1938
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36 Are Shot As Czechs And
Nazi Border Forces Clash
liOBATTLES
HER DEATH IS BEING PROB|D
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Nine Are Killed As
Crack Trains Crash
In Head-On Smash
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20. flLfi)—Nine persons were killed and,
juore than 40 injured today when a brakerrwn became corifused^and
threw a mainline switch which sent a westbound passenger train
crashing into another train waiting on a siding, !
The Southern Pacific announced that Eric L. JacoHson, a brake-
man on the East-bound Californian, threw a switch as the Argonaut,
running from Los Angeles to New Orleans, approached, He violated
one of the road's rules when he unlocked the switch," the announcement
said. Jacobson had been a brake-
HITLER WILL NOT
TOLERATE DELAY
'Bwi’ib
kfiPMslI
Settlement Must Be
Made Immediately,
Berlin Reports
(Copyright, 1988, By V. P.)
BERLIN, Sept. 20 (UD-Adolf
Hitler . intends to insist on Im-
mediate and almost unconditional
acceptance of his full demands at
a conference with Prime Minister
Neville “ ‘ * ‘ “ "
f Authority was to be qUes-
4 further today after being
M-d»y witness yesterday when
P*«*te senate committee renew-
llitopdr,.
wtime a report on th* flood
, sad the handling of she ex-
round Town
*• (h. Tri^wos; Not. to
7 see L. J. Bem-
“•M he might buy those ex-
J*df (dubs you lav. , v .
wa* a five-way realty
the air on Texas avenue
H weeks ago, and sure
‘what happened was what
1 «P*ct of five guys trying
W together -nothing! . . .
w Welahimer, whose serial
now running, was a cub
with Bob Matherne
'J? "*'» in Cleveland, O.
s««mo to Brown Magnesia:
12? ^uld be *lce for the
DOW If
seats was a bit
i Harry Blum u having
I™** fun getting that store
TH.;;CUud* "p10" fet-
mCS som* cltoUn« out
^ Kent's
mT name for Jack Hes-
i»H, -^Pshot." , . , Annie
■Pttrte and Ethel Levine
^-dongJauntUy ... An-
,^»t* and MatUe Lou Yel-
, drink,
just
mmi
, ! on the
n>* of
Britain probably tomorrow, at
Godesberg on the Rhine, it was
understood today.
Hitler, trllmphant, does not in-
tend to tolerate any haggling by
Czechoslovakia or any efforts to
delay or attenuate Its capitulation
by diplomatic negotiations.
Brief Time Limit
He intends to insist that his de-
mands upon the Czechs be met
within a brief time limit, probably
(See Hitler Will, Page 2)
seen far away cross the flat coun-
try. It was 2 a.nt. and most of the
pas&ngers on both trains were
asleep. '
The engineer of the Californian
had swung down from his cab. His
fireman, C. E. Morton remained
in the cab. Ordinarily the Argo-
naut would have roared by but this
time, as It hit the switch, it veered
to the fchfe and at great speed
crashed into the engine of Che
Californian. There was no time to
■PPly brakes,
The
ALDERMEN BALK AT
ORDINANCE REPEAL
PeiljrReguIatrons^OrF
Hiring Employes
ring Lr
Will St
and
> Ordinances governing the hir-
ing of PeUy city employes will
stsnd, as the result of refusal of
aldermen to rescind three recent-
ly adopted resolutions which con
form to statutory provisions.
At the meeting of the hoard of
aldermen last night, Alderman C.
H. Oliver sought repeal of the or-
dinance which provides that each
alderman may hire men fat his
own department, with th. consent
of the mayor, and that no extra
employes will be added while regu-
lars Are on vacation, and a third
governing those eligible for vaca-
(See Aldermen, Page *J
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man 18 years.
The trains met at the siding 180
miles east of Los Angeles, in the
desert. The, Californian, running
from Los Angeles to Chicago, had
THE SITUATION |
By UNITED PRESS
PRAGUE — Czech cabinet de-
cays decision din surrender of
Sudetenland to Germany, Poland
and Hungary move for “dismem-
berment” of republic. , Twb grave
frontier clashes renew threat of
sudden blow at Czechoslovakia'. by-
Adolf Hitler. One reported killed,
35 women wounded/
LONDON —(Prime Minister Ne-
ville Chamberlain due to see Hit-
ler again at Godesberg, probably
tomorrow, ‘to complete Sudeten
deal. Parliament may meet next
week for bitter debate on foreign
policy.
Berlin — Hitler, on verge of
greatest triumph, will insist ori full
and quick acceptance of his de-
mands for the'Sudeten area.
PARIS - End of French “cor-
don sanitaire” designed to sur
AREWAGED ON
SUDETEN LINE
Reply From Prague
Is Dispatched to
London And Paris;
Contents Secret
PRAGUE/, Sept. 20. (U.R) —
The Czech reply to Adolf Hit-
ler’s Sudeten demands was de-
livcred to the British and French
tonight. The nature of the re-
ply was not revealed.
. BERLIN, Sept. 20 (UP) — Two
grave clashes on the Czechosicr
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uirtf" Germany after world war jvakta frontier were reported today
by the official German news bu-
reau while Adolf Hitler prepared
to Invite Premier Neville Cham-
berlain of Great Britain to a con-
ference on the minority problem.
’ First, the agency in a dispatch
from Goerlitz alleged that several
hundred men in Czech army uni-
form raided the frontier at Selden-
berg and wounded 17 German
border officials.
Soon afterward the agency as-
serted that nine Sudeten Ger-
, attacked a ezeeh oustoma
seen as result of surrender to Hit-
ler demands.
MOSCOW — Soviet Russia un-
likely obstruct Sudeten deal but
official circles believe Britain and
France have endangered future by
surrender. - '
WARSAW - Poland tells pow-
ers she wants to be cut In on any
deal for partition of Czechoslo-
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BUDAPEST - Regent Admiral
Nicholas Horthy sees Nazi field
BOTHMURDER
AND SUICIDE
^ULULU
Note la Found, Other
Evidence Points To
Foul Play; Victim
Was Maidservant
Officials today were seeking to
learn whether Rose Mattern, 26,
Houston housemaid, whose body
was washed ashore at Bay Oaka,
near La Porte early today, was
murdered or if she ended her own
: life. v -
Evidence was at hand to support
both theories, and Justice of the
[ Peace John Kiibler of La Porte,
was awaiting the outcome of an
autopsy before handing down his
inquest verdict. “ ^
Head Bruised
The body was taken in to Jef- M
ferson Davis hospital, Houston,
where county authorities were to ,3
perform the autopsy. 'M
The body of tha Woman . wot-jj
found iTTjTJ aun- today by W. F. ' M
a pier into the bay , |
Rose Mattern
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Supreme Court Saps ‘No’
But Flowom Saps ‘Yes
By W. L. PENDERGRAFT City Attorney
I’ll bet the Texas supreme court
will be red in the face when it
reads the opinion of my friend,
Ervin Flowers, Goose Creek city
attorney, in regard to whether pro-
ceeds of the proposed municipal
light plant can be used to pave
streets, build extensions to water
and sewer systems And make other
isity improvements. -
Although Judge Flowers never
does come right out and say pro-
ceeds of the plant can be used for
such a purpose, he does hint-that
such a thing might-be possible.
What he does say is that "the
excess profits can be invested in
the general obligation bonds and
warrants of the City of Goose
Creek, and thereby relieve the
burden of the taxpayers."
But the judge fails to explain ^uoted tbe state statutes with ref-
how such investment would “re- erence to this subject ih his article
lieve the burden on the taxpayers." ..........
It is true that surpluses in any
sinking fund can be invested in
bonds-which have been voted by
against the building of a munici-
pal plant, arguing that under sec-
tion 3, of Article 1118a, the city
would have to charge a rate high-
bonds purchased with such sur-
pluses mature before the money
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STOCKS CLOSE TODAY
—: - Courtesy
CITIZENS STATE SANK AND TRUST COMPANY
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Anaconda Cop.
e ttiwring'out W,
Allied Stores ...............-........ Id
Amer. Mar, .................... 11-16
Amer. Rad. ---------—- 16 ®"8
Comm. Solv. ................
Cm. Aircraft —
Cona, Oil ...............-——
Curtiss Wright ........
Curtiss Wright A. ....
Elec. Bold A Sb.....
Power It Light
El Paso NaU. Gas _.
Freeport Sulphur ........
Gen. Ele;trlc .............
Gen. Motors -------- . ...
GUdden Paint---------
nd ---------
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33 5-8
...... 9 1-4
....... « 1-2
....... 8 1-2
...... 4 5-8
...... 20 3-8
....... 7 1-8
... 9 14
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....... 30 1-4
40 5-8
___45 3-4
....... 20 5-8
....... 15 1-2
....... 39 1-2
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Lambert .................. ..------... 18 1-2
Lorillard ..... 19 1*4
Murray Corp. 8 3-4
Nath Kelvinator ,............. 8 7-8
NaU. Dairy ...............— 12 3-4*
Ohio Oil ..................- ........ t T-8
Packard Mot...................... 4 7-8
Phillip* Pet, ;iz........... 39 1-2
Pure , Oil 9 3-4
Skelly 24
Soc. Vac. . ........ 13 3-8
St. Oil Ind. ...................88
st dir 53 M
Sun Oil '.wwtei’c 81
Sunray Oil —..•—*♦*•«*••*—**..... 3 5-8
Texas Corp. ..................... 43 1-8
Tidewater Corp. ~ J*
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7 1-4 .United Aircraft ................... 24 5-8
. ______.. , Ervin Flowers
last night issued the following
statement in- connection with the
campaign for issuance of |320,000
in revenue bond* to finance con-
struction of, a municipal light
{riant in Goose Cr$ek:
To the Hon. Mayor and
Commissioners,
City of Goose Creek.
GeftttetB*!):
At your request', I will answer
the article appearing la the Dally
prisoner. This’attack, it was in-
dicated, was in retaliation against
firing by Czechs'on Sudeten refu-
gees. fleeing across the frontier
to Germany.
Either incident was packed with
(See Czechs, Nazis, Page 7)
Sun under Sun Kants of Saturday,
September 17,1938, with TeferdSCe
to whether the city can use the
excess or surplus funds of a mu-
nicipally owned light plant for
any purpose other than meeting
the obligations of the indebtedness
of the municipal plant.
The very able editor correctly
..... Sectlofi 9, of Article
118a, the city could not use the
excess or surplu* profits of the
the plant had been paid for.
In answer to the first argument,
which is purely one of supposition
and propaganda, I rerer to the
%ble editor to the fact, which fact
is taken from the yecords, that
there are now operaUng in the
United States 2,000 municipally
(See Flowers Gives Page i)
FOUR STATES IN
ELECTIONS TODAY
O’Connor, Flayed By
Roosevelt, To Know
Fate Tonight
By UNITED PRESS
Four states—New York,
Jersey, Massachusetts, and Wis-
consin-held primaries today, but
in only one was there a race at-
tracting national interest.
That "one was In New York
City's 16th congressional 'district,
where Rep; John J. O’Connor,
chairman of the house rules com-
mittee, denounced by President
Roosevelt as a traitor to the New
Deal, and opposed by a candidate
endowed by Mr. Roosevelt, sought
re-nomination.
O’Connor was the fourth of the
(See Four States,; Page 7)
Pee Wee Ewing Hurt
In Auto Accident
W. O. (Pee Wee) Ewing, offi-
cial in the Baytown Country club,
was recovering todiy from* injur-
ies received in Houston during the
week-end when his car was aide-
swiped by a truck.
Ewing suffered a broken left
arm Jn-tte accident.
THOMAS GRIFFIN,
REFINERY PIPE
FOREMAN IS DEAD
Funeral Rites Will
Await Arrival of -
Relatives
Thomas Griffin, 63, of Baytown,
foreman of the pipe department
at the Baytown refinery of the
Humble OH and Refining company,
died in a loeal hospital at 4 a.m.
today.
Mr. Griffin had been seriously
ill for the past three" weeks, and
was taken to the hospital Sunday
night. He had been in ill health
for several years.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced by the Tri-Cities Fun-
eral Home where the body is being
held. : .
Born in Sheldon, Iowa, on April
- - (Sue Thomas Griffin Page 2>~~"
U.S. Won’t Enter European
Crisis, United Press Told
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 <tU9*~
The opinion was expressed in high
places today that a foreign effort
waa being made to force the Uhit-
ed States to “pull Europe’s chest-
nuts out of the fire" and that the
Roosevelt administration wouldn't
do it. \ i
That opinion reached the Unit-
ed Press from a source so friend-
iy to the admlnlatratiOTr-that It
S 3-4 would appear to
what
Deal policy makers are
today. , ' ,
his conception of
tog administration, ami remarked,
to substance;
There Is now an effort being
made to make the United States
pull Europe’s chestnuts out of the
fire. President Roosevelt, tow-
ever, is not going to bs another
Charles Evans Hughes and hold
the bag as Mr. Hughe* did after
the Washington arms conference.
PAIR JAILED IN
HIGHLANDS THEFT
Pair Admit Stealing
Surveyor’s Tool
At School
Burglary of a contractor’s ma-
terial house at the Highlands ele-
mentary school Oh June 1, was
solved today with the arrest of
two youths who made signed
statements admitting the theft.
They are S. J. Fishgr, 23, of
Highlands, and Joe Martin, 22, of
Baytown. ,
They were arrested by members
of the sheriff’s department and
are charged with burglary and
felony theft- for stealing a sur-
veyor’s level, valued at $150 and
bplonging to F. J. McMUlen,.engi-
neer on the Highlands project.
Deputy Sheriff H, C, Spence
said the youths admitted stealing
the level, and throwing.it into a
lake near Highlands after break-
ing it up. - -
Information’ obtained at High-
Fisher was arrested last night
at Highlands by Deputy Sheriffs
Ray Allen and C. B. Arnold, and
Martin was taken into custody by
Deputy Sheriff George B. Scott,
Hurricane Shifts
To Remain At Sea
PLANS TO BUILD
UGHT PLANT TO
DEPEND ON USERS
Commission Says 70
Per Cent Must Sign
If Grant Fails
Unless 70 per cent of the users
of electric energy agree in advance
to buy their supply from the city,
construction of a municipal power
plant will not be attempted if a
PWA application for a grant is
denied.
Unless at least 50 per cent of
the people agree in advance to
buy city power, the plant will not
be built even if the PWA funds
are made available. .
These conclusions were reached
last night an informal discussion
of the municipal power plant at
the conclusion of the regular week-
ty nfeettog of Gooke Creek^cilF
.commission.........................-......-......—
The decision on how the voters
of Goose Creek feel about the pro-
ject will be shown Friday when
they go to the polls to express
their sentiments over the issuance
of $326,000 in revenue bonds to fi-
nance the cost of the plant.
M. T. Garrett, manager of the
engineering firm retained to arid
the city in the construction of the
plant, attended the meeting here
last night.
Others present were Mayor J.
H. Meek, City Manager John W,
Harkins, Commissioners J ac k
Ward and E. A. Williams and City
Attorney Ervin Flowers.
Tbriefs
Lemkin, near
at the summer home of E. P. Ed-
mondson, also of Houston.
Her face and head was badly
bruised, there was a bruise on her
chest, and her hair was matted .
with clover burrs. Imbedded in
one of her stockings found float-.
ing in the water, were more burrs. j|||
Her skirt was missing and «
stockings and shoes were gone-1
Note Is Found SB
Lending credence to the suicide 'M
theory was a note found at ,the "MB
sumn^r home of H. J. Glauser. of M|
Houston, for whom she had been j *
employed for more than a year. 'fl
“I’m sorry,” the note read.
“Don’t look for my body.”
Glauser, who identified the body f|i
at the Tri-Cities Funeral Home SB
where it is being held, said that
(See Body of Page 2) ..
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LABOR COUNCIL IS
SCORED BY UNION
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Electrical Workers
Local Raps Light
Plant Stand
mm
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tell
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in a movement to construct a mu-
nicipal light and power plant to
Goose Creek was condemned by a
resolution adopted last night by
Local 945 of the electrical work-
ers here. . I
The resolution was passed at a
meeting of the local at the W.
O. W. hall with no dissenting
votes. Ig
The resolution' was aimed at the
actioi" of the Tri-Cities Central
Tradfis and Labor Council endors-
ing the municipal light plant "pro-
posal, on which votera will cast
ballots Friday. - .1
A. J. Bannon, president of the
Houston Trades and Labor. Coun-
cil, and business agent for Local
66 of the electrical worker*, ad-
dressed the tooettog and it wpa
after his addresa the reacriution
was passed.
Bannon declared that organized
labor ia “tolsplactog its efforts in
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. (UJ»
—Senate Majority Leader Alben
W. Barkley, Democrat, Ky., re-
vealed today that, if necessary, supporting municipal projects,” on
he would aid the re-election tlje grounds that municipalities do
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 20 Ml —
The federal hurricane warning
„ _________________system, totoouweed today that the
That reference-was to thF rtmv humcarie ilia1, Rui imperlledTfie
campaign of Senator Millard E.
Tydings, Democrat, Md., whose
defeat President Roosevelt un-
successfully sought in the recent
Maryland primary.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 20. M>-
- Psychiatrists 4oday^ examined
former Celveland Heights street
cleaner who shot the suburb’s
city ianagir, Harry H. Canfield,
during a council session. Canfield
was not wounded seriwuly.
ST. LUUIS, Sept. 20. (UJO _
Arthur Schading, 51, ez* of the
St. Louis electrical trade unions
sod principal figure in * taught
of disputes to the union field,
was assassinated by two men
late last night as he stepped from
hi union headquarters.
ference summoned to 1921 which Bahama Islands and Florida for
... ....., mm ■ AUSTlN. Sept. % <CB — An
attempted to deal by treaty with ^4 hours had changed its course Jntreoe 0f $49,328 in the deficit
:ol the general revenue fund was
announced today by Charley
Lockhart, state treasurer.: The
Pacific problems and before which
the world with a
-Hull attitude to this proposal that naval powers dis-
inciuding an tn-
have believed
i
land will dissipate Itself at sea. |
The storm, wMch arow 1,000
miles across the Atlantic toward
the southeastern Floridi coast,
abruptly dmnged IU course last
night. Today it was about 300
pay all general revenue war-
“ M"d'a
not” enter into contracts with or-
ganized labor and do not pay
union wages.
He said that his experience aa
business agent for Local 66 had
proved that it 1s unwise for or-
sueh governmental objective*.
Pardon Board Head
Replies To Harrell
AUSTIN, Sept. 20 (UJD-Bruce
Bryant, chairman of the Texas ®
.hoard of pardon* and parolee, to-* 1
day replied to Rep. E. E. Harrell
of Paris who hast week aald he
will offer a bill to the next legla-
totattg to move all the board ta I
HurSvtUe, seat of the main peni-
tentiary.
Bryant agreed with Harrell
that all members ought to be to
one office and suggested that es- *
tablishment of the board as a
whole at Huntsville might be pro-
hibited by the constitution which
locates the seat of government ’
Austin.
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