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Eighty-Five Million Will Be Due
On War Debt Payments June
15, and Payment Unlikely
Land After Non-Stop Flight
From Paris io New York
ON COCOANUT OIL
President Says Its Assessment
’ Was Violation of Agreement
With Philippine Govet.
WOULD LIMIT ICKES
CONTROL TO 2 YEARS
RAYMOND
INDICTED ON CHARGE
HABITUAL CRIMINAL
SLUGGED BY YOUTHS
WHO ESCAPE IN CAR
Charles P. Taft
Charles P. Taft, son of former
President William Howard Taft,
is attempting to settle the strike
of workers at the Electric Auto-
Lite company, Toledo, as media-
tor of the U. S. department of
labor.
WORKS HARDSHIP ON THEM
Asks That the Spirit and Intent
Of Philippine Independence
Act Be Better Followed
FUNERAL HELD FOR
MILAN COUNTY OFFICIAL
ONE KILLED, SEVEN HURT IN REFINERY BLAS
In putting the bandit pair "on the
spot.”
At the time Clyde and Bonnie
were slain it was rumored that
Methvin was held in the Shreve-
port jail. Officers denied thia,
the rumor persisted. More flto
See Methvin on w.
SUICIDES AFTER TWO
UNSUCCESSFUL TRIES
INSULL MONEY
Oscar DePriest Said to Have
Taken Money to Line Up the
Negro Vote for Utilities
plotted.. *
Jackson, who is* cripple, was in bed in a house
the highway from ttersf
ANOTHER THREAT
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East Texas Fastest Growing Newspaper
LONDON, May 28 (UP)—The
United States today delivered a
note to the government, remind-
ing it that the British debt instal-
ment of $85,670)000 would be due
Jure 15.
The note was delivered through
Sir Ronald Lindsay, British am-
bassador, who received It Friday.
It contains a statement of the
amounts due on the June and De-
cember instalments of last year, on
which Britain made token pay-
ments, as well as the advice that
the June 15 payment should be
made either to the treasury depart-
ment at Washington or the federal
reserve bank at New York.
The United Press learned, Imme-
See War Debts Page 11
C. P. LINK, OIL MAN, DIES
UNEXPECTEDLY IN HOTEL
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East Texas:
Generally fair,
warmer except
on immediate
coast tonight;
Tues day In-
creasing clou-
diness.
West Texas:
Partly cloudy,
probable thun-
dershowers In]
extreme west,*
warmer in the
north portion tonight; Tuesdey
partly cloudy.
Trio Thought Sighted in Guthrie,
Oklahoma After Taking Car
From Dallas Traveller
John B. C
ggx
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NEGRO LOSES LIFE
SAVING RABY CHICKS
If the diplomats of the world had
to do the actual fighting, war talk
would be reduced to whispers. See
Herblock’s cartoon on the editorial
page today.
The Weather
Tonight and Tomorrow
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BACKED HIM UNSTINTEDLY
Trade Commission Hears Testi-
mony of Transactions Dat-
ing Back for 14 Years
WASHINGTON, May 28 .(UP)—
A federal trade commissioner ex-
aminer testified today that the
Chicago legal firm of Schuyler and
Weinfeld paid "a lot of money”
received from Insull utility inter-
ests to Oscar DePriest, negro Re-
publican congressman, to line up
"the black vote In local elections."
U. M. McDermott, the examiner,
introduced part of the transcript
of an Internal revenue bureau :
hearing February, 1920, regarding (
income tax affairs of the law firm j
as part of the trade commission’s
utility inquiry into Insull political
and propaganda tactics.
Charles Weinfeld, partner In the
firm, told the trade commission
that "I have no recollection of the
exact testimony I gave before the
internal revenue hearing 14 years
ago but I believe the transcript is
correct.”
DePriest was elected to congress
in 1928.
The secret transcript of the in-
ternal revenue hearing, offered ip
evidence by Trade Commission
Counsel William T. Chantland,
quoted Weinfeld as saying, “in 1916
we were one of the mainsprings
in the Harry Miller campaign for
state's attorney and we spent an
enormous lot of money In differ-
ent newspapers In Chicago.
"Sen. Richard J. Barr was a can-
See De Priest Page 11
BRITAIN REMINDED
OF PAYMENT DUE U. S.
Drum Kxpl^uiau
Disturbing the quirt of a J
sent a spray like
Tri”?.’;— m burning ou some sevent
BKSBWSESgl
— -- - - -
- ollne storage tank which Mb
ignited and soon the flames i
over the lot.
8. A. Ask
yond recogni
as A> B. Lsu
Fr'.SM
These photos show Maurice Rossi,
top, French air expert, and his
navigator, Paul Codos, below, who
planned to hop off from Paris on
'.onstop flight to San Francisco,
via New York, weather permit-
ting.
Obba, May 38
r assassination
the United
» yesterday
•n Caffery, the
SAN ANTONIO, May 28 (UP)
—C. P. Link, well-known Houston
oil man, died unexpectedly in his
hotel room here today.
Justice of the Peace John Shook
found at an Inquest that death was
caused by heart disease.
Link is survived by his wife; a
son, C. P. Link, Jr., of Dallas; and
his mother and a brother, living in
Fort Worth.
Hamilton in the robbery
Carmine State Bank, in Fayette
county.
District Attorney Max
said that the state would seek the
death penalty for Hamilton.
A bench warrant was issued for
Hamilton, who now is In the state
penitentiary here. Later today
See Hamilton on Page 5
OFFICER SHOOTS HIS
FRIEND BY MISTAKE
HOUSTON, Tex., May 28 (UP)
—Funeral services were to be held
here today for Bobbie Anderson, 4,
who died here yesterday from in-
juries received when struck by an
automobile. The accident occurred
Saturday. He is the eon of Mrs.
V. W. Anderson, Houston.
CAMERON, Tex., May 28 (UP)
—Funeral arrangements were be-
ing made here today for L. B.
Fikes, 50, Milan county treasurer
for 10 years, who died at his home
here yesterday.
CHILD DIES AFTER
HIT BY AUTOMOBILE
GONZALES, Texas, May 28 —
(UP)—A Gonzales county grand
jury today began investigation in-
to the fatal shooting yesterday of
Henry Schmidt, 30, by his friend,
Deputy Constable Adolphe Wen-
ske, 40.
Wenske had arrested a youth at
a dance near Dilworth when sev-
eral persons attempted to liberate
him. Wenske said he struck at one
of the men with his pistol which
was discharged. The bullet struck
distance away.
NINE HURT WHEN BUS
SKIDS OFF HIGHWAY
(p
apparent J
against Jeff'
ambassador.
Four young white men in a car
without license plates crowded l_.
automobile - owned by Freemsm
Matthews, first secretary of the
EL PASO, May 28 (UP)—Eight
of nine passengers hurt when *
westbound transcontinental bus
skidded and turned over on damp
ground on highway No. 80, 48
miles east of Van Horn yesterday,
win arrive in El Paso late today,
bus officials said.
The ninth, more seriously Injured
was taken to the Kemp A Kemp
hospital at Pecos for treatment.
She Is Mrs. J. A. Wright Of Pitts-
burgh, Pa., cut and bruised on the
head.
Others who were Injured are:
San Robbins, 25, Hollywood, Calif.,
cuts and bruises on legs and right
arm. E. J. Sylvester, 22, San Diego,
bruises on hips and angle. Stew-
art Thomas, 54, Miami, 15a.,
bruises on chest.
Tony Gutierres, Laredo, dials
cated left shoulder. Evelyn Uv-
ingood, 24, Berkeley, Calif., cut on
right leg.» Robert L. Bell, 7, Ban
Diego, soato wounds. Dr. F. H. W.
v a w -,e- — — -—
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DALLAS OFFICERS
DENY KNOWLEDGE
OF HENRY METHVIN
Sabpoena Is Issued far Mm Io
Appear at Witness In Trial
For Billie Mace’s Bond
DALLAS, May 38 (UP)—Al-
though a subpena for Henry Meth-
vin was reported to have been sent
from Fort Worth to the Dallas
county sheriffs cfflce, local offi-
cers today denied knowledge of
Methvln’s whereabouts. /,
The man, who escaped from
Eastham prison farm and who was
reported to have aided officers In
trapping Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker in northern Louisiana last
week, was wanted in Fort Worth
to testify at a habeas corpus
hearing for Mrs. Billie Mace, sla-
ter of Bonnie, held on a murder
charge In the slaying of two high-
way patrolmen.
Both Sheriff Schmid and Deputy
Bob Alcorn, one of the killers of
Clyde and Bonnie, Insisted they did
not know where Methvin was.
Both officers declared they had no
dealings with him and that, so far
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I Cuban Ambassador
Admits Home Was ;
Atackad ^Previously
Prosecution Will Ask for Death
Penalty for Man Who Now
Has 362 Years Sentences
HUNTSVILLE, Tex., May 28—
(UP)—Raymond Hamilton, for-
mer gun-mate of the desperado
Clyde Barrow, was indicted here
today by the grand grand jury as
an habitual criminal.
The indictment listed the killing
of Major Crowson, Eastham
prison guard slain in a break in
which Hamilton escaped Jan. 16,
and the murder of J. N. Bucher of
Hillsboro, Tex. It also listed a
robbery with firearms case against
r of the
eluded in the recently signed Rev- *
enue bill contrary to guarantees
incorporated in the Philippine In-
dependence act, Mr. Roosevelt said.
"First the tax is a withdrawal
of an offer mads by congress to
the people of the Philippine Is-
lands. 1
“Second, enforcement of this
provision at this time will, pro*
fc/uKSSSttftiSXr®
Philippin<
Took an Hour Longer to Make
the Flight Than Their Fel-
low Frenchmen in 1930
which Mbtantly
e flames sproM
s was bulbed be-
■ in the fink flash
, another etaplsess
who is not expected to livev
Jesse Jackson, sleeping in the
frame house on the opposite side
of the highway from the refineAt
is in a critical condition at.tifi
SSftS®.4- k“?
P. D. Browed s*S & B.
mond are in the hospital bat thafl
burns are not considered as Ufa**
S
”2 but was released shortly bafMM
1UBVMMWP, A8TW* aWSCLMrV VI WMi J
to **• CUrb 0,1 Andrew Renfro, Mgro, wo UrtB
^y earrted ..machine gun.
They told (Ctarles Taylor, Amer- iLes 12/not
icon negro etanffeur «f the Mat- been defhrttetr dm
thdrtay’a YnaAbltM* "Vnn’ifa. fwn
Fireman Injured
Joe Goforth, Overton fliWMM
was treated st the hospital rigM
he nad been Injured about tha cya*
when chemicals blew into them M
he was making a hese connection,
Mrs. John Giles and children
were treated for minor bnou.
The Giles family also lived adflM
the highway from the soano at.'S
explosion, but were not director
in the path of the flytag flash «
burning oil thrown across the tagp*
- Kileore Saads Pampse
The Overton fire department
answered the alarm about 7dBT
this morning and at elevon o’clock
they were still there. The supply
of water diminished about 10:80
and it was neceimv to run a con-
nection to the Gulf camp about a
half-mile away to get more wi ‘
to i,.lx with the chemicab.
The Kilgore fire department
Bee Explooion on Pago 8
by the Kyle Citizens Bank and the authorised by the
Red White dry goods store and
grocery. A blacksmith shop also
lught fire. AU were destroyed.
Money and bank records were
saved by Its fire-proof vault. Loes
had not boon estimated.
ja.xsstfp***
--dor control after a t
tie.
SAN ANTONIO, „
(UP) Buckner Harris* Gt
lines auditor was deteesniAM SO t---tt: r -
commit suicide today, and ho did, L -
although it required oWWtf Mi *“*
UFlProt Harris iumpW M a- s4»- >UWW3 VU1LE
ond story window "of Ms horns. PROMINENT FT.
His injury apparently was Slight. ’
Then he slashed his left Wrist. ------
His mother, Mrs. B. Harris, at-
tempted to take the knife away
from him, but ha broke away and
ran to the rear of the house.
Mrs. Hanis followed. She found
her son lying dead with the knife
imbedded in hb chest.
SLOAN jrEW° KATY HEAD
WASHINGTON, May 38 (UP)—
Matthew 8. Sloan, New Toris, eras
„ “ ' j Intsestets Com-
meroo Commission today to be-
come chairman of the boasd of ths
Missouri - Kansas - Texas IMHKy
Company.
Be was authorised also to hold
directorshipo at the MiammHbM
--------sM-THcae lUriteer dtaMS—Ml
the blase un- Tens, the uHls- hST|M
six-hour bat- Northwestern Gann
of Texas, the WMMs
NEW YORK, May 28 (UP)—
President Roosevelt’s proposed oil
control bill should bo enacted but
limited to two years of operation,
T. S. Hose, petroleum engineer,
said today.
Charging $42,470 dally is being
diverted from legitimate operators
to oil bootleggers through inabil-
ity to control ‘‘hot oil” by present
statutes, Hose said strength of
the oil racketeers has been greatly
underestimated by major pro-
ducers.
“I do not approve of govern-
ment regulation," Hose said, “but
as the lesser of two evils I heartily
agree with the secretary of the in-
terior that the oil control bill
should be passed. I feel it should
be limited to two years, as within
that time such fields as Okla-
homa City will have ceased to be
a menace, and we will face a short-
age rather than an over-supply of
crude.”
WASHINGTON, May 28 (UP)
—President Roosevelt, In a special
message to congress today, re-
Ippine Islands. I in direct line of-the blast of fire released v
Pointing out that tha ax was in-
chargas wars pra-
j tor filing against
40, in connection
wounding of Hood
i a Paris, Tax., hos-
It from tffecti of
JCCESSFUL TRIES *ound* *>• m » cutting ---------------------------
weubted te a simitar af- |
fray with Phalps’ brother some
time ago.
WOMAN’S Wk THUATENS
, WOGTHIAN
nr « (UP)
Residue StiN Explodes and Careens Fifty Pteet to ColiapM Gate*
Kne WWShrt Fira Which -
4-'
One Man Unaccounted For * * '-.' 7
At 1:39 Ute aftanioM 8. D, Deaton, employe of I -i
the ptent had nsteboOrteeated. He was thought to have
been si hoaie.n—g isrtla'fbeen seen after the explosteB -
and fire. It wsvifoMkte that he was killed and his body ,
may be in thte wwrtTno caused hy the combined blast
and enauingJwIeewpb^jr.»•*>
S. A. AdarfWfW,-'former student at Abilene Christian
College was instmtrtbrkflted’this morning in an explosion of
a residue etill atteteirsdltaery ef the Oil Refineries Incorpor-
ated near Overixnt'antPefat others were burned by the flash
of the suddenly -teleaid:*U vapors.
The injured Wube A. B. Lane. P. D. Bagwell, Andrew
Renfro, negro, Virgil- Martin, 8. B. Richmond and Jesse
Jackson.
Lane, seriously burned, was walking down the highway
i occurred and was
when the drum ex-
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CHAMBER OF C0MMOK8
Wants You to Know, ThaSs >
- -tibt 1800 wells constitute a tterj
oil field. The East Texas fleW
to 10 times this large. ‘“’’fl
-
/"WING to Tyler to see a ball
VX game yesterday, we were not
only disappointed in the game, but
were forced to listen to the town
cup-up pull all the gags he had re-
cently memorized from year-before
last’s starch book.
Speaking for myself only, I can’t
say that I appreciated his stento-
rian voice nor his ill timed wit. He
left the impression with the fans
that he was a big time fan watch-
ing a bush league game and thor-
oughly enjoyed his raillery. He was
a pain. I wish he had taken his
40 cents and gone to the picture
show.
QPEAKING of Tyler, a friend of
O mine in his haste to get in the
park left 80 cents at the ticket
window. The memory of the
ticket seller was so bad that it
could not be remembered when my
friend went back to inquire. •
There’s nothing to be done about
it, I guess, but it did look slightly
cheap on the part of the cashier.
Everything considered, I expect it
would pay the Tyler club manage-
ment to hunt out the man thus
bilked and not only refund his
eighty cents, but apologize in their
nicest manner, because he Is in po-
sition to make it cost them a dern
sight more than 80 cents during
the present season.
fjlHE postoffice department is
1. seemingly learning to mer-
chandise its stamps in a frantic ef-
fort to cut down the postal .deficit.
The stamp collectors went heavy
for the Mother’s Day stamp. It is
said that 8 new stamps will be
forthcoming in the next few
months.
One of them will be the “Duck”
stamp. It wll be a postage stamp
but not for postage use. Only
county seat postoffices will handle
it and it will be sold only to li-
censed hunters of 'Wild fowl,
rpHERE is a little island country
A down in the South Seas, with
about one-eighth as much total
area as Rusk county. The biggest
part of the revenue from the lit-
tle government comes from the
sale of postage stamps to stamp
collectors, and the country has on-
ly one postoffice In its entire de-
partment. Most of the stamps are
never used for truly legitimate
postage.
And so, if the stamp collectors
throughout the world want to buy
the special issues of stamps and
See Uncle Gus on Page 5
FLOYD BENNETT FIELD
New York, May 28 (UP) —- TNi
silver monoplane Joseph LebriX,
bound from Paris for California,
completed a speedy crossing o|
the North Atlantic ocean today,
but was forced to land at this Long
Island airport—some 2,600 miles
short of thelr junbitious goal. Mo-
tor trouble forced them down.
—JThe monoplone, bearing Lieut.
Paul Codos and Lieut, Maurice
Rosai, landed at 2s#7 P.M., E.D.T.,
after a flight—through fog off
the Newfoundland coast— of 88
hours and 27 minutes. The only
other weetward flight from Paris
to New York was the epic aerial
journey of Dieudonne Coste and
Maurice BeUonte, in 1930, who'
crossed in 87 hours and 17 min-
utes.
The monftpfane suppdared unex-
pectedly over the airport, 'rirclinf
slowly and dumjfag gas as she
maneuvered for attending. The
fliers had been forced to reduce
their speed as they came down
the New England coast because
of motor trouble.
They also had cut off radio
communication and had neither
been sighted nor reported directly
after leaving Maine.
Rossi was the first to step from,
the plane.,
He was smiling as ho greeted
Raymond de la Mare, a French
See Second to Make on Page 5
MANHUNT FOLLOWS
GALVESTON MURDER SHERMAN JAILER IS
I SHERMAN, Texas, May 28.
> Jailer W. V. Graham was recover-
ing today from a slugging by three
I prisoners who overpowered him
i and escaped from jail here yester-
day. His injuries were not serious,
physicians said.
The three who escaped were o_
. Adrian Petty, Roy Batts and Geo. tihey’knew, Mrthvln had 'no part
Droddy, all charged with automo- * “
bile theft.
Graham was slugged when he
went to the second floor of the Jail.
His assailants hit him on the head
with a sock filled with sand. The
prisoners then took his gun and
| keys and climbed down the wall
■ from a second story window.
They fled from town in an au-
tomobile stolen from Mr. and Mra.
R. B. Camp of Gunter, who were
here for a picnic.
Sighted at Guthrie
GUTHRIE, Okla. May 28. (UP)
Three youths who broke Jail at
Sherman, Texas, Sunday after hit-
ting the jailer on the head with a
sock full of sand were sought in
this section today.
See Slugging on Page 5
KYLE, Tex., May 98 (UP) —
Carl Clark, negro, was burned to
death in efforts to rescue baby
chleks in a fire that swept •
block of Kyle today.
The fire, starting in a hatchery,
spread to a stone block occupied
GALVESTON, May 28 (UP) —
An intensive manhunt was on to-
day in Galveston’ following the
murder of a dredge boat worker
by striking negro longshoremen
and the kidnaping of a Bryan
couple by a carload of armed ne-
groes yesterday.
The dredge boat worker, Ralph
Hard, 42, employe of the Atlantic,
Gulf & Pacific Dredging Company
died a few hours after he was
wounded as he walked to the
dredge boat Pensacola.
Hardy told police before he died
that the negroes claimed he was a
strike breaker.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hansford
were robbed of $40 by six negroes
who forced them to gat in*, tneir
automobile as they were walking
•n a Galveston street yesterday.
Hansford told police the negroes
accused him of being a strike-
breaker. After cursing and abus-
ing his wife, Hansford said the ne-
groes released them on a country
road.
Codos And Rossi Forced Down At New York SH® OF FLAMES CROSSES ROAD
fe] Sees I™ S0L0N ls Mediator at Toledo I SECOND TO MAKE! French Ocean Flyers IsEN ATE ASKED . ANDJ™8J^RNS“
I Ji i,,.. ACCUSED TAKING EAST-WEST HOP ass| TQ REMQVE m FiroWKd
* IMQIII I 14 n M C V M Bhh’1 M°tor ^r°^e F°rce<l Them to | OnnniMIIT ml May Do Damage Totalling $100,000
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Schmidt, who was standing a short
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas, May 28
(UP)—Trial date for Raymond
Hamilton uud< aa habitual crim-
inal indUtttent wax Mt for June 11
here today. Be was turned over
to the Sheriff of Walker county to
await trial.
BERLIN, May 28 (UP) ---
The Graf Zeppelin was en route to
Brasil today, inaugurating its sixth
season in the South American ser-
vice, Sixteen passengers were
aboard.
NEW YORK. May 38 (UP)—
Captain Maurice Rosai and Lieut.
Paul Codoa, French transatlantic
fMera, have given no thought to
future plana, they told newspaper-
men late today.
So far they are undecided
whether to continue IMr flight to
the Pacific coart they aaid.
RIO DE JANEIRO, May M
(UP)—Tho French f------ ----
“Rainbow,'* mexcel
awx and a crew of three, com-
pleted a nonatop flight acrons the
South Atlantic from St Latex Sen-
—-w-' —ar i ■" «■.-w. egal by landing at 4 a. ;
Vollmar, Lm Angeim, broken noon at Natal. Northern BraaU
thaw's machine: "You’ve-got two
weeks to |te Ota.”
One of the aaasitante smashed
the windshied of the Matthews
car with his pistol, crying, “and
this is for Matthews.’’
The secretary himself was not
in the car.
Caffery revealed today fox the
first time that an attack was made
on his house about three weeks ago.
about mldrtlyht, when the occu-
pants of a passing ear fired, a do-
zen shots.
REDIUVaixd.jwr~ -
FACU MURDER CHARGE
i’ t'si,*f i msmomeentem to
CLARKSVILLE, Tex., May 38
(UP)—Murder c‘
pared hero today
Frank Phi * “
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