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THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 11, 1936
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DEFEATED IN COURT
BRITISH NAVY BOATS
ORDERED INTO CHINA
EXPENDITURES
OF GOVT. HIKED
Catholic President
Death List
HARB8RER OF KARRIS
GANGSTER CONVICTED
TO HANDLE BIG
CROWD FRIDAY
Final Vote All That Is
Needed to clinch the
Coveted Honors
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PARTY LEADER
Convention
Today
5000 Voices Will Be
Heard in Centennial
Cotton Bowl Chorus
G.O.P. CONVENTION
SIDELIGHTS
PARIS CAFE WORKERS
JOIN IN SIEGE STRIKE
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BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
PUBLIC HALL, CLEVELAND, June 11 (UP}—Herbert
Clark Hoover’s political career is ended today as he may have
wished it to end—in circumstances that were pleasant, among
faces that were friendly and on an occasion of his own choos>
ing.
He faced the folks last night<-
and all was forgiven. In the hot'
blast of the Klejg lights and un-
der the eyes of the party which
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F.D.R RECEIVES
HUGE WELCOME
IN TEXAS TODAY
Fervor of Soldiers of
South Undimmed
10 RIBS BROKEN IN
AUTOMOBILE MISHAP
NEW YORK, June 11 (UP) —
Justice Salvatore Cotillo today
removed from the Supreme Court
calendar the petition of Frank
Wallace asking that he be granted
a declaratory judgment naming
him the husband of Mae West.
Wallace contended he married the
film star at. Minneapolis in 1911,
but. Miss West denied this.
Justice Cotillo said the case may
be restored if Miss West is prop-
erly servert by a Ftrmmrrrw:-----
President Faces Busy
Week-End at Texas
Centennial
Heavenly Halo Seen
as Omen of Victory
TOPEKA, Kan., June 11 —
(UP)—A solar halo appeared
over the mid-west today and
Landon followers immediately
took it as a victory omen for
their man.
Weather bureau officials
said the scientific explanation
was that light from the sun
was shining through ice cry-
stals at a certain angle.
right and wrong.”
J. J. Collins, chief defense attor-
ney, brought out through ques-
tioning that Dr. Day examined
Eskridge at the request of Gov.
James V. Allred who was acting in
behalf of Orange county authori-
ties.
TYLER, Tex., June 11 (UP) —
The Texas Press Association’s
annual convention opened today
with R. J. Edwards of Denton be-
ing boosted for vice-president of
the organization.
Following out a custom of ele-
vating vice presidents to the
place of presidents, H. J. Jack-
son of Coleman, now vice-presi-
dent will be elected to the honor
office.
Louis C. Elbert, president of the
association and publisher of the
Galveston News - Tribune, will
open formally
an address. 'I
cords, and industrial plants
join in. Thsrs will'ba fil’d*
and aireM aad balia,f
Byrns, speaker of the house of
representatives. Mourners are
shown crowding around the mau-
soleum in which Byrns was bur-
ied.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 11
(UP) Federal Authorities today
closed their books on the notori-
ous Barker Karpis gang as Myr-
tle Eaton began a six months pris-
on term for harboring a fugitive
member of the desperado gang.
Shejilso was fjhsd,.$1,000.
She was convicted last week of
harboring and concealing William
Weaver, who is serving a .ife term
for his part in the $200,000 kid-
naping of Edward G. Bremer, St.
Paul Banker.
Fugitives Believed
Minnesota
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HOUSTON, Tex., June 11 (UP)—Dr. Giles W. Day, Ga^
vestnn psychiatrist, said in district court today he believed
Rev. C. Edgar Eskridge, Baptist preacher, was sane when he
killed Police Chief E. J. O'Reilly, the minister’s former friend.
He was the third mental experts 1 --------
to testify for the prosecution at I
the preacher's murder trial that I
Eskridge was sane at the time of !
the slaying [ not Interfere with his knowledge
"I cannot say what his condition | of the public Interpretation of
was four days before,’’ he said,
"but it Is my opinion that he must
have been sane at that time ”
Dr. Day did not answer directly
whether or not he believed Esk-
ridge knew right from wrong at
the time of the -killing.
‘‘.Any person who commits
SAN JACINTO BATTLE-
GROUND, HOUSTON, Tex.,
June 11 (UP)—President
Roosevelt and his party ar-
rived here at 12:25 p. m. to-
day to make the second ad-
dress of his southern tour.
His yacht, Captiva IT, docked
at the Battleground, and the chief
executive was greeted by Col. An-
drew Jackson Houston, son of Gen.
Sam Houston, hero of the conflict
100 years ago which freed Texas
from Mexico.
A waiting auto took Mr. Roose-
velt to the east section of the field
to a grassy knoll where be will
speak.
A cordon of soldiers, sailors,
the president’s bodyguard and a
detail of police was formed quick-
ly about the President as he step-
ped toward the welcoming com-
mittee from his train in Houston
earlier in the day.
His greeters were: Mayor Oscar
Holcombe; Jol.u T. Moore, Hous-
ton’s oldest surviving former may-
or; A. D. Simpson, banker; George
A. Wilson, Houston labor leader;
James Anderson, chamber of com-
merce president; J. Perry Moore,
president of the Sons of the Re-
public of Texas; Mrs. Carrie
Kemp, president of the Daughters
of the American Republic.
M. E. Foster, editor Emeritus of
the Houston Press; Roy Miller,
Roosevelt orgaization manager for
Texas; Lieut. Gov. Walter Wood-
ul; County Judge W. H. Ward; R.
See President on Page --
MP¥~bYLE C. WILftON
U. P. Staff Correspondent
PUBLIC HALL, Cleveland,
June 11 (UP)—Gov. Alf M.
Landon is the Republican Na-
tional convention’s choice for
President and only one thun-
dering shout this afternoon or
tonight remains to make it
official.
His rivals wilted today and re-
leased their delegates, who began
to plump their votes Into the Kan-
sas basket. It may not even be
necessary to ballot, for the dele-
gates arc now in a mood today
to put Landon across by acclama-
tion.
The nominating starts this af-
ternoon. Most delegates con-
sider the issue closed. Landon's
managers ceased to work for his
candidacy and hurried to the ho-
tel room of Sen. Authur H. Van-
denberg of Michigan an attempt
See Landon on Page 11
as Supreme in Their Field; The News While It’s Real News
Whether peaches can be grown^ness as a money crop,
in commercially successful quanti-
ties In Rusk county Is a question
on which John R. Alford one of
the largest growers will talk en-
thusiastically but who declines to |
be committed to an opinion on the I
topic.
Although at the present time
Mr. Alford is harvesting a huge
crop of peaches from a 25-acre or-
chard four miles northwest of the
city he is reticent about telling’
anyone they ehould enter the buai-
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He simply
points out that this section of the
country has most of the elements
needed in making good fruit crops
which include climate, proper al-
I titude, correct soil and an average
I rainfall of about what is required
for best results.
At the present time he 2300
trees in the Alford orchard are
loaded to the ground with fruit,
even to where he haa found it ne-
—osary to.prop hundreds of trees
See Peach Crop oa Page 11
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G.O.P. CONVENTION BECOMES ONE-MAN BATTLE
PRESIDENT VISITS SAN JACINTO
[ Speaker Laid to Rest
IRVIN S. COBB.
Copyright, 1936, by North
American Newspaper Alliance,
The nation’s highest officials
were among th-se who journey-
ed to Mount Olivet Cemetery,
near Nashville, Tenn., to pay
their final tributes to Joseph W.
CANTON. China, June 11 (UP)
- British naval authorities order-
ed the gunboats Cicala and Taran-
tula to abandon their normal rou-
tine patrol duties today and stand
by at Canton.
Reliable sources reported a
great antl-Jauanese demonstra-
tion wrt Ttimnrd- -hrro-tmnomiw. new^vTEk? J^*m“upF -
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PUBLIC HALL, Cleve-
land, June 11 (UP)—Oppo-
sition candidates fled today
from the Landon steam-
roller and the Republican
national convention lan-
guished in recess waiting
for a tardy platform which
must be disposed of before
Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kan-
sas is nominated for presi-
dent of the United States
tonight.
Landon is slated to be
named by acclamation. His '
opposition is gone.
PUBLIC HALL,
land, June 11 (UP)—The
Republican National Con-
vention recessed at 3:08 p.
m. until 7 tonight when it
will reconvene to adopt a
platform and acclaim Gov.
Alfred M. Landon as 1936
Republican P r e s i dential
nominee.
PARIS, June 11 (UP)—Em-
ployes of the big Paris cafes join-
ed the “siege strike” epidemic to-
day and, ceasing their work, re-
mained in occupation of the prem-
ises.
Such famous places as Maxim's
and Weber’s were affected. • \
Workers in butcher shops and
drug stores struck, also remaining
in occupation of the places where
they are employed.
In the north, the strikes seemed
ending. Dispatches said 270,000
coal miners, textile workers and
metal workers returned to their
jobs today.
HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS’
By Alley
A MAN’S C'Y'AR AIN’
NO SAT’SFACTI ON TO
'IM NOT LE55'N HE
DRIVE IT AN’ W’EN HE
DO DRIVE IT, HIT’5
JES’ A WORRlMENTlH
Over 500 Rusk County school
children will go to the Centennial
Saturday to sing In the massed
chorus of 50,000 voices, the largest
undertaking of Its kind in the
world. The songs will be broad-
cast over a coast-to-coast hook-
up over one or both of the nation-
al networks from 10 a. m. to 11
a. m. from the Immense Cotton
Bowl on the Centennial grounds.
All of the children who participate
in this event will be admitted free
to the Centennial grounds. Super-
intendent L. A. Woods of the
State Department of Education
will be In charge of the mammoth
singsong.
Shiloh, Carlisle, Gaston, Wood-
glen and Oak Flat will send school
buses. Other children will go in
cars with relatives or friends. All
will meet Inside the exposition
groundss at nine thirty and pro-
ceed to the Cotton Bowl. School
superintendents and principals’^!!!
be in charge of the children with
sponsors for ever ten of the youth-
ful singers.
The children have been practlc-
See Children Sing on Page 11
TOPEKA, Kan., June 11 (UP)
—This prairie town prepared to-
day for its biggest celebration
since the Armistice. The people
are ready to whoop it up for Alf
Landon, their governor when the
signal comes that he has received
the Republican Presidential Nom-
ination.
Full realisation that one of their
citizens actually is going to lead
his party for the highest office
came to Topeka today.
Engineers down in the railroad
yards got up full steam and pre-
pared to tie down their whistle
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went into the ditch with him in
1982, he made his comeback and
his last exit.
"Hoover Day" was not a part of
the program. “Hoover Day" just
happened. It began happening
in mid-morning when crowds wel-
comed Mr. Hoover from a Chicago
train. It continued deep into the
afternoon as handshakers beamed
on him and recalled old times.
But “Hoover Night’’ was the
occasoin, a indication, a reconcilia-
tion and a good luck-good bye all
in one. The Hoover speech tipped
the delegates into the first uproar
of this markedly restrained gath-
ering. They whooped and shouted,
lugged uielal-lieavy state stan- 4
dards in jostling parades around
and around the hall, refused to
subside on the call of their
chairman and finally were sent
home like unruly children by e
motion to adjourn which wee put
and carried almost by ruse.
Healed
parently were healed in the sun-
bath of esteem which drenched
the former president. It was just
less than four years ago in this
same hall that President Hoover
appeared on this platform enroute
to a most awful licking. He and
most of his audience knew what
was coming, although not realiz-
ing how little faith the i . ‘
left in his administration.
Worried, unhappy and welling
already with the tears that flow-
ed on the next Inauguration day,
Mr. Hoover stood in tragic soli-
tude. The bitterness of 1932 was
Long in leaving Mr. Hoover but it
may be gone now. I saw him
through four dark years across
his wuarish desk on. White House
See Hoover Out on Page 11
(By United Press)
Resolutions subcommittee hits
unexpected crisis when disagree-
ment arises with Gov. Alf M.
Landon over vital planks; re-
cesses early today until 9 a. m.
for new attempt to iron out dif-
ferences.
Former President Herbert
Hoover goes on to New York
after stirring convention i
dress rouses delegates to
minute ovation.
Convention called for 11 a. w.
Meeting with prospect of nomi-
nating President before adopt-
ing platform unless resolutions
committee compromise is reach-
ed.
Bandwagon movement to Lan-
don continues with first ballot
nomination conceded; vice pres-
idential situation still tn doubt
with keynoter Frederick Steiwer
leading pack of hopefuls.
San Francisco Boy Re-
fuses to Talk
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people had
:ion. _ j . •'ffl
SAN FRANCISCO, June 11—
(UP)—Sight of a blood stained
hammer today failed to shake the
stoic silence of a 15-year-old boy
who was arrested after his mo-
ther was found near death, suf-
fering from a skull fracture and
puncture wounds of the head.
The youth was Lawrence Block.
He was booked on charges of as-
sault with a deadly weapon at
city prison and transferred to the
juvenile detention home while
fingerprint experts studied the
hammer.
Lawrence, son of Mrs. Edith
Ellentuck, -17. by a former marri-
age, was found in his mother's
See Youth Held on Page 11
Expenditure - for government —
federal, state and local— for the
fiscal year 1934 aggregated $14.-
449,000.000 more than $1,000,000,-
000 in excess of tjie previous post-
war peak reached in 1932 and
compared with $12,232,000,000 In
19.33, a national Industrial con-
ference boar-1 survey showed to-
day
Per capita governmental ex-
penditures rose to $114 11 against
$97 26 for 1933
Federal expenditures for 1934
accounted for $6 784,000,000 or
47 per cent of the total. This is
more than $2,000,000,000 above
the level for the two preceding
years.
State and local expenditures
continued the downward t trend
which started in 1981.
DALLAS, Tex., June 11
(UP)—Plans to handle one
of the largest crowds ever as-
sembled in the southwest
were completed today on the
eve of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s visit to the Texas
Centennial Exposition.
Mr, Roosevelt will speak to the
nation from the Cotton Bowl, Ex-
position Stadium, at 10:30 o’clock
Friday morning. In the after-
noon he will dedicate a statue of
General Robert E. Lee, erected
in a suburban park.
Many Southwest dignitaries will
meet the president in Dallas.
Gov. James V. Allred of Texas,
Gov. Guy B. Park, of Missouri,
Gov. Richard W. Leche of Louisi-
ana, and members of the Louisi-
ana legislature are to arrive Fri-
day morning. The legislature
plans to hold a session here, the
only meeting ever held outside
the state.
Need of a seyen-pas;
car to carry the pro',
tour of the city _____r_.
stymied centennial officials,
cal automobile dealers had
to offer, but the problem
See Dallas on Page 11
“TRIGGER MAN”
BY UNITED PRESS
' J East Texas—Partly cloudy to-
< night and Friday, slightly cooler
5 Northeast portion tonight ;< warm-
' er Northwest portion Friday.
West Texas—Generally fair to-
night and Friday, except showers
in Panhandle tonight;
North portion Friday.
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DETROIT, June 11 (UP) —
Dayton Dean, “trigger man” of
the Black Legion, today impli-
cated "Colonel’ ’Harvey Davis in
an alleged plot to “get" William
Voisine, village president of
Ecorse, homicide squad officials
reported.
The confessed slayer of Char-
les A. Poole, victim of a ‘one way”
black legion ride, told Inspector
John Navarre that in February
of this year he was summoned by
Davis to “get your gun and we’ll
go out and get Voisine.” '
The Ecorse city official, a
Catholic, was opposed by the
black legion element for re-elec,
tion to his post.
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SHREVEPORT, La., June 11
(UP)—Remaining members of the
Confederate Army today were to
choose a city for their 1937 con-
vention and elect officers for the
coming year.
United Confederate veterans,
holding their 46th annual re-
union, showed that the years had
not dimmed their enthusiasm.
Gen. Harry Rene Lee, Nashville,
commander-in-chief, struck the
keynote with an announcement
S£e V. C. V. on Page 11
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS * * *
ST. PETER, '
(UP) -Lawrence
member of the
gang, was believed fleeing through
Iowa today with two other mad
fugitives from the Minnesota
state hospital for criminal insane.
Devoir, Albert Soroko, Minnea-
polis murderer, and Donald Read-
er, Minneapolis bank robber, were
believed seeking a hideout in the
Ozarks.
Only other man still at large
of the 16 who brake from the hos-
pital Sunday night was Frank
Gibson.
Tony Smith was found 15 miles
from here last night, seriously
weakened by lack of food.
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Minn., June
1 Devole, former
Barker-Karpis
With ten ribs broken, C. A. -
Charlton of Joinerville was in ,
serious condition today at the Io- .
cal hospital. Mr. Charlton was
struck by an automobile Tuesday 1
--------sftejmoon wlwm he started.-to_walk (
across the Tyler highway at Join-
erville.
X-rays Wednesday at the local
hospital revealed 'that in addition
to the ten fractured ribs, 1r
Charlton has a fractured collar-
bone. He has been having
hemorrhages of the lungs.
With Irving S. Cobb
SANTA FE, N. M., June 11.—
We’ve been skirting the sun-
baked domains of one sizable
group of early American fami-
lies who don’t care who’s be-lng
nominated at Cleveland, or
whiVII Ire nominated at I'hila-
delplk'a. No matter which side
wins, these folks still will fur-
nish the raw material upon
which blithe amateurs of the
Indian bureau work weird expe-
riments In the name of civiliza-
tion.
Nothing worse can happen to
them than already has been
wrought by well-meaning med-
dlers and earnest muddlers, un-
der this administration or that
—for Instance, trying to make
farmers out of Apaches, a task
akin to training caged hen-
hawks to Imitato cuckoo clocks.
, should their reser-
’some mi’acle prove
productive, the white man will
crowd them over into a remoter
thirst-blasted area where a
horned toad would have to go on
relief, or else starve to death.
The vanishing American can’t
complain that we’ve ever failed
to expedite his vanishing act
for him.
Work on an eight mile gravel
stretch of the Henderson-Tatum
road is being retarded by a scarci-
ty of laborers, according to E. M.
Walker, resident highway engi-
neer.
"Approximately 75
common laborers are
once on
said.
Applications for employment on
the job. a federal aid project, must
be made with Miss Faye Lewis,
manager of the National Re-em-
ployment Service office in the
courthouse.
“The jobs pay 30 cento an
hour." Miss Lewis said. "Only
Rusk county residents are permit-
ted to work on this federal aid
project. We have called approxi-
mately 250 men who have regis-
tered for work here, and hope to
have most of the labor available
within a few days. Each worker
is permitted 10 hours a week "
The eight miles of gravel arc
being laid at a cost of approxi-
mately $38,000. Work on the link
was started about two weeks ago
by Ernest Loyd, highway con-
tractor. but construction has been
intermittently shut down because
of the shortage of labor.
Tribune,
r the convention with
Tom Raney Jr., Ty-
ler attorney, will give the speech
of welcome.
After the opening session’s
business has been completed,
members and visitors will go on
a conducted tour through the
Smith County rose fields and on
a trip to the soil erosion station
near Tyler.
At the evening session, Ernest
Thompson, chairman of the
Texas State Railroad Commission,
See Texas Press on Page 11
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