Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 184, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 20, 1936 Page: 1 of 10
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The Henderson Daily News
PRICE 5 CENTS
HENDERSON, RUSK COUNTY, TEXAS * * * Home-Town of the Eart Texas Oil Field * * *
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NO. 1
King Quards
AVat ch Over
Mrs.Simpson
Pathetic Rites for Head of
Transient Mexican Family
GOVERNOR SAYS
NO NEW SESSION
AMYMOLLISON
CRASHES PLANE
PARKERS SURRENDER
TO U. S. MARSHALS
PRESIDENT TO
LEAVE CAPITAL
FRIDAY ON TRIP
Noted Woman Flier Is
Slightly Injured
OIL ALLOWABLE
BY COMMISSION
Fort Worth Student
Leaves Texas U.
Administration Is En-
couraged in Recov-
ery Measures
Later News, and Hours ahead
of any other paper.
Mate’s Love Grows
Cold for Actress
Attorney General to
Take Stump for FDR
Fire Breaks Out on
Berengaria at Dock
RUSE SOCIETY MEETS
IN FT. WORTH TODAY
LOU GEHRIG MAY TAKE
TARZAN PART IN MOVIE
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pieces of wreckage.
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police unfind
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Steel Defense of City
HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS
By Alley
HELEN KELLER
TEACHER DIES
Philippine Clipper
Welcomed at Manila
MISSING YOUTH SUPREME COURT
FAILS TO ACT ON
NEW DEAL CASE
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Lou Gehrig. New
MAKE HEADWAY
TOWARD RAISING
STATE'S BUDGET
Single-Shot Oil Tax Is
Left ’ ’on Ice” Until
Later Date
TEXAS LEGISLATURE WRESTLES
WITH TAX PROBLEMS OF STATE
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BANK. ESCAPE
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Bandit Pair Scoops Up
Lowe Cash-and Es-
Religious Denominations
Join to Fight Communism
the
Cumberland Terrace.
fore noon she left.
Her automobile drove
front of the house.
was 1 _ 1„ 1. „
the chauffeur who drove off
around the block and picked up
Mrs. Simpson, who made her exit
Sec King Guards on Page 8
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Sunday was a sorrowful pause
for the Epemenio Martinez fam-
ily on their way to the Miss-
issippi Delta to pick cotton.
Sunday afternoon the tear stain-
ed mother herself placed the
five youngsters in the Model T
pickup to resume the long jour-
ney. There was no strong Ep-
enenio to help her.
Saturday afternoon the rag-
muffin family wheezed
Henderson in the rickety
2 KILLERS DUE
TO GO TO CHAIR
EARLY FRIDAY
Mexican and Negro
Put in Death Row a1
Huntsville
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 30--(UP)
—Antonio Carrasco and El me
Banks, negro , both will be eleft
verse reports on both have beer
received by the Governor from
the Board of Pardons.
Carrasco was convicted of kia
ing Mrs. Mary Smith, bodies of
Mrs. Smith and her husband Rileji
Smith being found in a burning
ranch house near Van Horn. Ca»
rasco worked on the ranch, I
Banks was convicted of killing
Deputy Sheriff Redwine of Lynn
County in an attempted jail brfalq
ABOARD LANDON TRAIN
EN ROUTE TO LOS ANGELES,
Oct. 20 (UP) — California crowds
gave Gov. Alf M. Landon a warm
welcome today as he swung across
See I resident on Page 8
Plans Speaking Tour
Through Industrial
States of East
BY HENRY T. GORRELL
United Press Staff Correspondent
(Copyright 1936 By United Press)
MADRID, Oct. 20 (UP)—Madrid was tense today witl
thrill of horror at the sudden realization that the National
armies were almost at the city gates.
People know now, and they did*----------_
not know before, that the situ-
ation Is desperate and that hordes
of pitiless foreign legionnaires and
Moors are within a few miles of
Greater Madrid.
Excited radio broadcasters
shouted out the danger to the city.
The necessity for a steel defense
was blazoned In screamnlg news-
paper headlines. Militiamen were
ordered out at daylight In front of
office buildings, shops and coffee
houses to hand out leaflets to
workmen, announcing the immi-
nent danger and appealing for
courage.
Housewives, market baskets on
their arms, formed long lines be-
fore shops to obtain their rations
of meat, vegetables, bread and su-
gar.
The shops were slower in open-
ing than they had been.
At the central railroad station,
thousands crowded. An extraor-
dinary number of trains puffed on
tracks in the yards, steam up.
ready to leave for the south. They
included troop trains.
It was reported without confirm-
FASCISTS READY
“TO SEIZE II. s;
Say 1,000,000 React
to “I.ay Down Lives’
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UP)
—President Roosevelt will leave
Washington late Friday night on
a campaign invasion of Indiana,
Ohio and Pennsylvania, with a
major speech scheduled at Fort
Wayne, Ind., it was learned au-
thoritatively today.
Mr. Roosevelt will visit Toledo
and Akron, O., and on the return
swing will stop at Scranton, Pa.,
in the heart of Pennsylvania’s
coal mining territory.
At Scranton, it was understood,
he will speak in connection with
the celebration of John Mitchell
Day, a day the Miners have set
aside to honor tiiat labor leader.
But Epemenio drove out the
wrong road, out the Nacogdoch-
es highway. He was feeling
strangely sick. Beyond the forks
See Transients on Page 8
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Her husband told her that he
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thought It best that he leave—
and so he did, Binnie Barnes,
above, charming English screen
actress, told a Los Angeles
judge. Miss Barnes was granted
a divorce from Samuel Joseph,
London publisher, after a five-
ndnute court appe arance They
were married in 1931 and sepa-
rated in 1934.
FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct 20
—(UP)— Two hundred rose fan-
ciers were expected today to at-
tend the Annual convention of
the American Rose Society.
The two day convention onen-
ing here tomorrow will include a
Junket to the Dallas Centennial
Exposition Thursday and to Tyler’s
famous rose gardens.
atlon that nationalist*, by a tel
rifle airplane bombardment brok
the railroad to the east coast I
a point near Alcazar De San Juai
120 miles south of Madrid.
Nevertheless train* were leal
Ing and many more awaited <M
der*. Troop trains were prepare
to take reserves to Aranjuez, 1
See Civil War on Page 8
(By United Press)
EAST TEXAS—Unsettled, rain
north portion late tonight or Wed-
nesday and in South portion Wed-
nesday."
WEST TEXAS—Mostly cloudy
rain in panhandle, colder north
and west portions tonight; Wed-
nesday partly cloudy and colder,
probably rain in Rio Grande Vai-
72 LOSE LIVES AS SHIP FOUNDERS MYSTERIOUSLY
%MADRID TENSE WHILE
OFF JAVA COAST REBELS POUND GATE
Planes Make Heroic . ——:
Rescues of 43 of I 78 Situation Becomes^Desperate
Found in Wreckage 1 ___________
To Flash Through Air at 340 M.P.H. |
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20
(UP)—Three procedural vic-
tories before the Supreme
Court today gave the admin-
istration encouragement in
carrying out New Deal recov-
ery and reform measures.
The court refused to pass on
controversies affecting the social
security act, the truth-ln-securl-
tles law and authority of the PWA
to make loans and grants for pub-
licly owned municipal power sys-
tems.
Opponents of these measures
had asked the court to pass upon
lower court rulings holding them
valid. The acts, however, are in-
volved in other suits upon which
See Supreme Court on l uge 8
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 20
—(UP; — Karl Browder, Commun-
ist Presidential candidate, return-
ed to T‘ i re Haute with a copy of
the U. >S. Constitution in his pock-
et today for a second attempt to
make a campaign speech without
being jailed.
Stepping from a day coach at
12:17 p. m., Browder was receiv-
ed by 200 persons, including one
newsreel cameraman, five photo-
grapher.-, 15 newspapermen and
six somewhat, embarrassed police-
men. Nobody cheered or booed.
old. 200-pound baseball player to
Hollywood began shortly before
the world series which the Yankees
won from the IGants.
NEWSOME TRIAL DEC. 7
HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 20(UP)
__District Judge Langston G. King
today set Dec. 7 as the date for
the murder trial of Ray V. New-
som. 30, charged with the slaying
of Mrs. Clara Middlekauf, "
With a meat cleaver a week
NEW YORK, Oct. 20,—(UP)
—Gerald L. K. Smith, follower of
the late Huey P. Long who recently
showed motion picture audienc**
of how he did his “Rabble-rous-
ing act,’’ announced today th*
formation of a Fascist organiza-
tion to “Seize the Government of
the United States.’’
His aim, he said, Is a following
of “1,000,000 Patriots’* willing
to lay down their lives to save the
country from “An International
See Fascists on Page 8
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Tutors Afflicted Wom-
an for 49 Years
AUSTIN. Tex., Oct. 20
(UP)—Moving quickly and
without debate the Texas
House of Representatives to-
day voted to tax carbon black
1-2 cent a pound and to in-
crease the State’s parimutuel
“take” to 50 per cent.
Final vote on the carbon black
bill, which was introduced by R.
E. Quinn, Beaumont, was 106 to
19. Three attempts to suspend the
rule and vote final passage yester-
day failed. At present there Is
no tax on the manufacture of car-
bon black. Opponents of the bill
have said that no other states tax
carbon black and that for Texas
to do so will harm an “Infant in-
dustry.”
Quinn estimated that his bill
would bring slightly in excess of
See Legislature on Page 8
East Texas* Fastest Growing Newspaper___
TUESDaV AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1936
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MANILA, P. I., Oct. 29(UP)
—The Philippine Clipper, carrying
a group of prominent men and
women, including Juan Trippe,
president of Pan American Air-
ways on a preview trans-pacific
passenger flight, landed here at
5:43 p. m. (l.:43 a. m. P.S.T.)
A large crowd, including many
Manila City officials were at the
Cavite Docks to welcome the
passengers when they came ashofe.
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JOCKEY KILLED
FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 20
(UP)—Joe Gordon, 30, excercise
boy at Arlington Downs, died to-
day of injuries suffered when es-
cohigh, two-year-old horse he was
working out, galloped over him.
Gordon’s skull was fractured by
the flying hoofs. The saddle girth
broke, throwing the rider under-
neath.
AMSTERDAM, Oct. 20
(UP)—Seaplanes, landing re-
peatedly on the sea amidst
floating wreckage, saved 43
persons today of 178 reported
rescued from a mysterious
disaster off Java to the
steamship Van Der Wijk—
perhaps the result of an un-
der-sea quake.
Called to the scene by a heroic
Netherlands wireless operator who
stayed in his cabin and wynt down
with the shy), the planes raced
from Batavia.
Seventy-two persons, including
11 Europeans, had been lost, re-
ports said.
Native fishing boats were plying
in and out amid the wreckage
picking up survivors. Two native
boats alone saved eight Europeans
and 31 natives. Twenty-two per-
sons were seen drifting In a sailor
sloop from the Van Der Wijk and
were believed safe.
The airplanes arrived to see
many persons floating on the sea,
holding on to tables, chairs and
pieces of wreckage.
They alnded repeatedly, in great
Old Age Assistance
Being Demanded
into
car.
They were geeking the highway
eastward toward the white acres
of the Delta. Others of their race
had told them of how plantation
owners there were paying? 1 a
hundred and up for cotton-pick-
ing. There they would make
the “mucho-dinero.” Perhaps
it would even be “zapatos” for
the ‘'piBflii ”
Phone Servic
From 8a.rn.to4p.rn. all department* a
reached kg calling PHONE N(
After 4 p. m. and on Sunday morning c
follows:
Circulation Dept, (downstairs) — ....... ......
Business Office (upbtalrs) ______ „
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 20 (UP)—
City Police here today were in-
vesting the disappearance of 19-
year old Dwight De Lano Soun-
ders, Fort Worth, Sophomore at
the university of Texas, missing
from his apartment here since
last Wednesday.
Saunder’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Saunders, Fort Worth,
arrived in Austin last night to
aid In the search.
Friends of Saunders could give
no reason for his disappearance
They said he has mude a high
scholastic average in h’.s univer-
sity work, and has taken a great
interest In economic and social
problem*.
Saui .lcru had been filed as a
candidate for the office of student
assemblyman from the college of
arts and sciences. Last Wednes-
day night he contacted Jimmie
Brinkley, student president, and
withdrew' from the race. He has
not been seen or heard from since
that time.
City detectives had made no
headway in the investigation
early today. Saunders w6.s de-
scribed as slightly under six feet,
weighing about 150 pounds and
probably wearing brown corduroy
trousers, a brown jacket and
slouch hat. He took no other
clothes with him.
DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 20 (UP)—-Protestants, Catholic* .
and Jews mingled today as church leaders of all denomina* S
lions met to devise ways of combatting Communism.
The meeting was sponsored by*-
the Texas conference of the Amer-
ican forward movement, a non-
political organization made up of
patriotic forces throughout the
country.
The movement, leaders pointed
out, had a two-fold purpose of
■'making the entire country under-
stand the dangers with which it is
confronted,” and to bind together
forever all the forces of true
Americanism.”
The meeting- open to the public,)
had an attendance of about 1,000,
Including ministers from small
towns and rural areas.
Speakers included the Rev. J.
See Communism on Page 8
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 20 —
(UP)—Fire broke out in the liner
Berengaria at the docks here
this afternoon, but was extinguish-
ed after half an hour.
The flames affected several ca-
bins on B deck on gie starboard
side, below the bridge of the
Trans-Atlantic liner.
MINDEN, La.. Oct. 20 (UH —
Police authorities said today there
was ' little chance”'of making an
arrest among the “500 to 1,000"
women who stopped a Louisiana
and Arkansas railroad train here
last night and demanded the crew
resign m sympathy with striking
"Big Four" erifiloyeH of the road.
Sheriff O. H. Haynes of Web-
ster Parish aald the train pro-
ceeded on Its way to Hope, Ark.,
at 1:10 a.m. today, several hours
after it had been stopped by the
women at a water tank. Another
engineer had replaced engineer
Mark Willis, who was removed to
his home about eight miles from
Minden.
Sheriff Haynes said Willis was
“bruised” but not seriously In-
jured by the women. He was
See Amazons on Page 8
20. (UP)—
__________ York Yankee
first baseman an<J the most val-
ab!e player in the American Lea-
gue, will consider swinging from
trees and beating his
"Tarzan in motion pictures,
they kick through with enough
dough," his manager, Chrtr";-
Walsh, said today.
Negotiations to send the 32-year-
FOREST HILLS, N. Y„ Oct. 20
(UP)— M s.rAnnSieluda-Da
(UP) •— Mrs. Annie Sullivan
Macy, companion and teacher of
Helen Keller for 49 years, died to-
day, She was 70.
Mrs. Macy died at 7:50 a.m. in
the home she shared with Miss
Keller and Miss Polly Thompson,
who is Miss Keller’s secretary.
She became ill last summer,
then appeared to be recovering,
but retrogression set in last week
and it was evident to her friends
that the end -was near.
The results of Mrs. Macy's
See Keller Tutor on Page 8
ORPINGTON, England, Oct. 20.
(UP)—Mrs. Amy Mollison, f « ious
British flier, crashed and was
slightly, injured near here today
while en route from Paris to Lon-
don.
She landed in a field where
houses were being built. Her plane
caught in a rut and turned over on
its back. Mrs. Mollison was bruis-
ed and shaken but not seriously
hurt.
She was taken to a doctor’s
house hv truck and given first aid,
after which she continued to Croy-
don field, outside London, by auto-
mobile.
MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.,—(UP)
—Ellis H. Parker Sr. Burlington
County chief detective and his son
Ellis Parker, Jr., surrendered to-
day to the United States Marshall
here to answer indictment* re-
turned against them in Newark
in connection with their investi-
gation of the Lindbergh baby
murder case.
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“Time Flies”, Captain Frank
Hawks expects to achieve a
cruising speed of 340 miles per
hour, with a possible maximum
of 375 miles per hour with the
engines wide open. Wind tunnel
tests on the model were conduct-
. ed under the supervision of Dr.
I Alexander Klemin, head of the
Guggenheim School of Aero-
nautics at New York University,
. who declares the plane will
"sei, new standards in stream-
I Ining.”
LONDON, Oct. 20 (UP) — A
detective normally assigned to
King Edward aided Mrs. Wallis
Simpson today in her elaborate
precautions to conceal her move-
ments about London.
Mrs. Simpson apparently spent
night at her new home In
“ A little be-
FRONTfcNAC, Kan., Oct. 20
(UP)—Two robbers held up the
Miners State Bank here today and
escaped with currency estimated
betwe«n$900 and $1,200 after
striking an employe and a custo-
mer with blackjacks.
The men slugged Phillip Vessa-
dini, cashier ,and A. N. Arveson,
a customer, when they failed to
lalse their hands promptly.
Two other employes and anoth-
er customer watched the robbers
scoop up the cash and escape in a
black sedan without license tags.
Polic.e believed the men fled South
on U. S. Highway 69 toward Pitts-
burg.
The robbers appeared intoxicat-
ed, bank employes said. Both wore
overalls and leather jackets. They
were described as being over six
feet in height.
Police investigated the possibil-
ity they were the same men who
robbed a St. Joseph, Mo., bank
yesterday.
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AUSTIN, Oct. 20 (UP)—The
Texas Railroad Commission today
set November oil production in
Texas fields at 40 barrels a day
less than the U. S. Bureau of
Mines estimate of market demand.
Total allowable production was
made 1,109,260 barrels a day. East
Texas field was allowed 439,392
barrels daily.
The November allowable, to
take effect at 7 a. m. Nov. 1, com-
pares with purchasers’ nomina-
tions for 1,407,726 barrels a day
and an Oct. 18 allowable produc-
tion of 1,206,044 barrels.
Cayuga field’s promised raise to
meet contracts was not included
in the Navember production order.
The field was decreased instead
292 barrels a day. Long Lake was
decreased 209 barrels.
Yates Pool which complained
yesterday that its oil gas ratios
were increasing as production was
See Oil Allowable on Page 8
BROWDER UNMOLESTED
IN TRIP TO TERRE HAUTE
chest as
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Rodent Puts Fort
Worth in Dark
FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 20.
Street car* stood idle and homes
were dark in Fort Worth last
night, all because a rat was in-
quisitive.
The big rodent climbed over
the wires in the distributing sta-
tion of the local electric power
company, shorting the circuit
and blowing condenser fuse*.
Twice in 20 minutes *11 service
in the city was cut off for in-
terval* of about a minute. For
20 minutes, the eity was light-
ed from *n emergency power
line.
Two hour* later, workmen
found the rat, burned to a crisp.
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 20 (UP) —
Gov. James V. Allred said today
that if the present session of the
Texas Legislature docs not pass
a revenue bill to finance old age
assistance he will not call a
fourth special session for the
purpose.
"If a bill ca^xpot be passed at
this session, I do not believe one
would be passed at another spec-
ial session,” Allred said. He be-
lieves this session will pass a tax
bill.
He declined to forecast his
action on proposed deliberalization
of pension payments.
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 20—(UP)
—Texas’ Attorney General William
McCraw today announced that he
will speak in behalf of the Nat-
ional Democratic Party .n Wich-
ita, Kan., Saturday night.
He will leave here by plane at
noon Saturday.
McCraw recently addressed a ral
ly in Vinita, Okla. He said that
he will also apeak at Lancaster,
Penn. With U. S. Atty. Gen. Homer
Cummings, o’n Oct 29. Not def-
initely included in the tour but
tentatively scheduled was an ad-
dress at Norwich, Conn., soon af-
ter the Pennsylvania rally.
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