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POWER CHARGES
GREATLY VARIED
Recognize German Air
Force Forbidden
By Locarno
SUPREME COURT MAY
HAVE ALREADY MADE
DECISION ABOUT GOLD
THREE IN JAIL; TWO IN
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DALLAS, Feb. 4. (UP)—When
the Government brings to trial a
group of persons charged with har-
boring Clyde Barrow and Bonnie
Parker, it will be able to produce a
witness who was asleep in the ton-
neau of an automobile near Grape-
vine when two State highway pa-
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EMPLOYES AND CUSTOMERS FORCED j
TO KNEEL AS ROBBERS LOOT TILL• ]
Changed Auto* and Reported to Have
Doubled Back Through Carthage
IN RESTAURANT WHEN SEV-
ERAL MEN CAME ALONG
FOR HER
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EUROPE A G R EES’
ON AIR ALLIANCE
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Tong War Casts Fear In Chinatown
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.
Dawn of New Year’s Day in San
Francisfio’s crowded Chinatown
found the district under heavy po-
lice patrol today because of a tong
feud.
Police stood at streets bordering
the area and warned Occidentals
that they were entering at their
own risk.
In naming attorneys whose
offices were destroyed by the
fire in the Mays and Harris
Building Saturday morning, tbc
name of R. T. Jones was omit-
ted by mistake. Attorney Jones’
office was badly damaged by
the disastrous fire as were all
other offices occupying the sec
ond floor of the building.
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BUTCHER SHOT
BY BUS ROBBER
STATE EMPLOYMENT <~Sn?
AGENCY IS SUGGESTED
BY GOVERNOR ALLRED
1.” The Locarno Treaty of 1925
in which Germany, France, Bel-
See Europe Page 10
MINE WORKERS HEAD
RENEWS ATTACK UPON
RICHBERG ACTIVITIES
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East Texas Fastest Growing Newspaper
SHERMAN, Tex., Feb. 4 (UP)
- Ches Estes. 36, city marshal of
Whitesboro, died here early today
of gunshot wounds received yes-
terday when he tried to arrest a
drunken youth.
Officers said the youth was in-
toxicated on liquor purchased with
county relief money.
rid
them
and that
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trated wealth in Precinct
Rusk County, it makes an
standing illustration of the
eral inequities of taxation.
on
and tall man”
“somewhere in Naw
somewhere in Naw York
'y on the Weehawken
on tha night of tha kidnap-
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FLEMINGTON, N. J. Feb.
(UP)—Counsel for Bruno
Kichard Hauptmann wedged
another piece of testimony
into the record today design-
ed to prove that Violet
Sharpe, housemaid for Mrs.
Dwight W. Morrow, partici-
pated in the Lindbergh kid-
naping.
Mrs. Anna Bonesteel, proprietor
of a Yonkers, N. Y., restaurant,
testified that Miss Sharpe and an-
other girl, entered her establish-
ment- about 7:30 p. m. on the
_?lt of the abduction. She could
not recall the other girl’s name.
Miss Sharpe, who committed
suicide when she was being ques-
tioned about the kidnaping, was
carrying a blanket, according to
Mrs. Bonesteel, and seemed very
nervous. She said Miss Sharpe
left the restaurant about 9 p. m.
when several men in an automo-
bile called for her.
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GOVERNMENT CLAIMS TO
HAVE NEW WITNESS WHO
SAW EASTER MURDERS
Wt4
V*' •
A Chevrolet coupe with yellow wheel* and bear-
ing license number 901.233 was found near Fair Play
this morning, indicating that the robbers of the Car-
thage bank changed cars there and made good their
escape. _ /
answering th*
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. (UP) —
President John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers returned to
his attack on Recovery Coordina-
tor Donald R. Rlchberg today in
the bitter fight which is arousing
fear of spreading unrest along the
industrial front
Lewis issued a rejoinder to Rich-
berg who had defended President
Roosevelt’s extension of the auto-
mobile code. The extension is un-
der fire by labor leaders who
claimed they were not consulted
concerning the action.
The mine official today charged
See Richberg Page 10
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 4 —
(UP)—Two men Were in a hospital
here and three others were held in
city jail as a result of an explosion
and fire which, destroyed a rame
house here today. Police sai<( a
100-gallon still cause? the explo-
sion.
They destroyed 55 gallons
whisky, nine 100-gallon
mash and five 50-gallon
filled with mash, they reported.
The still was wrecked.
Only 75 day* from today untU tha
East Texas Cnamber of Commerce
convenes in Henderson. Every ci-
tizen should plan how to do some-
thing to make Henderson's part as
host city be a success.
MERITING in connection with
’ ’ the proposed road bond issue,
my friend George Manning of the
Overton Press expresses his dis-
approval of the proposed issue in
a quite interesting and forceful
discussion as follows:
A girl was the cause of the trou-
ble. A member of the Four Fami-
lies Tong purchased pretty Fong
Choy from a man who represented
himself as her father. After the
purchase price had been paid and
the marriage performed, the girl
disappeared. Police learned she
and her “father” had fled to China.
See Tong War Page 10
BERLIN, Feb. 4 (U»)-
Hugo Junkers, one of the world’*'
foremost airplane conatructore, I
died at Munich Saturday, a new*
agency dispatch said today.
The airplanes that made Junk-
ers name famous are known in i
many countriee. He wae called by ,
some the German Edison. He wa*h|
the inventor of the all metal air-
plane and as head of the Junker* '
of
vats of
barrels
Violet Sharpe Seen Carrying
Blanket Night of Kidnaping
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____________ Witness •
ou testified in the Smith
*. Ycf.
Q. That was the cate in which
a woman lost her eyes! A. Yes.___ __________ ____
> Q, And you w» called, ax a tain things I could go home.
----*■ '?»** the accidtetfl
LONDON, Feb. 4. (UP)—Great
Britain and France today offered
to recognize German rearmament
under proposals that would send
the air forces of neighboring Eu-
ropean nations against any nation
that started a war.
Three days of negotiations be-
tween the premiers and foreign
ministers of the two great world
war allies were brought to an end
with a communique which envis-
aged a complicatad series of
ional treaties whose authority’*!. h.
would be th»- bombing airplanes of „
their signatories.
The agreement regarding mutual
aerial defense was the real issue.
It was based, according to an-
nouncements, on two treaties al-
ready in existence:
Raid Ends Huge Counterfeit Flood
A 21-year-old handsome blond youth, labeled the nation’s mas-
ter counterfeiter, is in Toledo, O , jail and a ring which passed
bogus bills which may total millions is shattered, federal
agents say, following their seizure of the plant shown above.
Clarence Alfred Brown, inset left, a lithographer, is held as the
“brains” of the coiners, and his father, one brother, and two
others also were arrested. The ring, agents said, was turning
out excellent imitations of genuine bills and had been trailed
| for two years.
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producing territory has for
most part fallen in that precinct.
However, I wouldn't go on record
as saying that much production is
yet to be uncovered in other pre-
cincts.
trolmen were killed, it was learned
today.
The two patrolmen were killed
by Clyde and Bonnie on Easter
Sunday, April 1, 1934, the Govern-
ment will contend, while they were
waiting on a side road near Grape-
vine for a group of friends and
relatives to meet them.
The Government witness, it was
learned, will be able to testify that
he was asleep in the rear seat of
the car occupied by the bandit pair
See New Witness on Page 4
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Jones’ Office
Burned in Fire
Abandoned Car Found Near Fairplay Show*
ft
cashier were made to eft on th*
floor.
The robber* were unable to en*.
ter the bank vault which w** ata-
trolled by a time clock Mt fog
10:30 a. m.
While one of the me* raaeaca*
ed the cashier's cage and a email
safe which Cashier Roe* wee
forced to open, two customer* *n* •
tered the bank.
Car Number Taka* . »
The customers also were foryet* .■
to *lt on th* floor. • j -
After seising all avatMtaJ:
money the two men fled In that*
See Carthage Pag* 10 ShH
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FEDERAL TAX REFUNf
TO HUMBLE COMPAQ
IS J629J53 IN ISM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP)—
The Bureau of Internal Revenue
distributed almost $19,099,4*9- H*
In 1084 in tax return* tfiaa «
1988, it reported to congrta to
it reported refund* of MM*4>
202 21 during fiscal M»4, otaM*
ed wit!. 057,703,119.44 in 19#
The decrease was generail
buted to th* tre*jmry’* C
See Refunds Pag*
AIRPLANEMAKERDEAD
Would Protect Home Labor
from Transients and Political
Pull on Public Works
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UP)
Wide variations, ranging as high
as 343 per cent in some cases, in
electric power rates charged the
public by municipal and private
utilities were reported today to
the senate by the federal power
commission.
The commission, acting under a
senate resolution, launched a nkr
tionwide survey during the last
six months (nfco residential elec-
tric rates in 1 PI cities of 50,0QJ)
or more populhtbn, Which covered
49 per cent of power consumeraln
the nation.
The lowest rates in cities of
100,000 or more were in Cleve-
land and Tacoma, Wash., the
highest in Miami, and Jackson-
ville, Fla., and Yonkers, N. Y.
In cities from 60,000 to 100,-
000 the lowest rates found were
in Cleveland Heights, O., Holyoke,
Mass., Lakewood, O., Madison,
Wis., and Springfield, Ill., the ’
I highest in York, Pa., New Ro-
chelle, N. Y., Mt. Vernon, N. Y.,
and Atlantic City, N. J.
Although the commission found
that differences in rates were of-
ten justified, it upbraided utilities
See Power Rates on Page 4
(UP)^> An outbreak between the Hip^
Sings and the Four Family Tongs
was anticipated.
Chief of Police William Quinn
forbade Chinese to explode fire-
crackers with which they habitual-
ly welcome a new year. Quinn fear-
ed that under cover of such noise,
tongsmen might attack their ene-
mies with machine guns or rifles.
AUSTIN, Feb. 4 (UP) — In
emergency messages to the Texas
legislature,-Governor Allred today
employment agency and suggested
that University of Texas and A.
& M. College be used for an ex-
periment in lump, appropriation?.
He propo.’W'd that the employ-
ment agency be under direction of
the state labor department. It's
creation will be state acceptance
of provisions of the Wagner-Pey-
ser act.
Under that act the federal gov-
ernment will furnish $195,000 ac-
cumulated funds and $142,000 for
future employment supervision in
re-
as
future employment supervisioi
Texas. The state will be
quired to furnish a fourth
much for future operations.
See State Labor on Page 4
HOUSTON GRAND JURY
TOLD TO INVESTIGATE
OPEN WHISKY SELLING
NO. 27*
TRIO ESCAPE AFTER CARTHAGE ROBBERY
West Taxan Indicted
DALLAS, Fib. 4 (UP) —Th*
Concho Refining Company of P—
Angelo and its preaident, ~
Lavery, have been named ____
indictment returned by the fed-
eral frrand jury charging failure
to comply with federal statutes
governing oil refining and taxes
on oil, U. S. Diet. Atty. Clyde 0.
Eastus said today.
The case will be called at the
present term of federal court
The Weather
Tonight and Tomorrow
Eaat Texas:
Fair, some-.-
what warmer!
in the west
portion to-
night; Tues-1,
day fair.
West Texas.
Fair, some-
what warmer
in the east
portion to-
ntght; Tues-1-
day fair.
Sfjs
It*
^OusL. Coleman
AUSTIN, F.b. 4 (UP) — The 1
Taxes Railroad Commission today d*y.
ordered e hearing to be held Feb.
18 hero as a basis for fixing per-
mitted oil production in all gas,
and oil fields of the state for
March.
Mother Never to
See Baby
A baby whose mother never
will see it is thia one, held by
Nvrse Vqra McKreli fa a Den-
ver hospital. A J8-year-old girl
gave birth to the boy, after
failure of a legal fight'for an
operation that would j>reve.'it
the birth. Thu fatfte^, 43. la
serving la 20-year *entenoe
for aaaaulti.ig the girl. By or-
ders of the young mother’*
family, the child will be offer-
| ed for adoption.
♦*
’ Two men answering th*
description of th* bandit*
who robbed the First Na»
tional Bank of Carthage ofl
9970 were reported surround*
ed by possemen eight mils*
north of here today neag
Fair Play, Tex.
The auapecta were seen to *nt*r
dense underbrush nsar Fair Play
and possemen immediately b*g*n
an encircling movement hoping
to drive the men from their hid*
ing place and capture them. j
The Flrat National Bank was
robbed at 9:15 a. m. by two man,
on* of whom waa aald to r***mbi*
cloaely Raymond Hamilton.
Posses Follow
Three bank employe* and two
customers were intimidated by
th* robbers, who threatened th*** :
with piatola.
The men entered th* bank,
leaving their automobile parked
in front of the institution, th*
motor running.
J. V. Cooke, teller, Robert F< , ,
Ross, bookkeeper, and A. L. ROM,
MSAesm maria ta ah* SMB ■ fllht*J£Lte
, Feb. 4
28, Tyler
butcher, was near death to-
day from a pistol wound suf-
fered last night when he re-
sisted two unmasked robbers
riding as passengers who
held up a
(Copyright, 1935, by United Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. (UP) —
Indications that the Supreme
Court has decided the gold cases
and that the opinions will be writ-
ten by Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes and Justice Willis Van De-
vanter were given today in the
court.
The indication of what has gone
on in the court’s secret conference
came at the reading of today’s
opinions.
It is customary for every mem-
ber of the court to deliver at least
one opinion. Neither Hughes nor
i Van Devanter delivered any today.
The result was an unusually short
j decision session lasting less than
i two hours.
! The natural deduction Is that
' the two Justices who did not act
have been too busy to do so. Ths
gold case is the only one of out-
standing importance and almost
the only case left undecided after
See Gold on Page 10
Salesman Suicidas , ..... ____,____
DALLAS, Feb. 4 (UP) — Works at Deaau. He died th*
George B. Bandy, 35, novelty T " “ '
salesman, plunged from an eighth
story window of a downtown hotel
here at noon today, suffering .in-
juries whiob physicians feared
would cause hie death.
Bandy registered at the hotel
about an hour before • the fall.
Ten minutes before he was found
on the pavement, two street rail-
way employes saw him with hie
feet dan gllng from the window!
and thought he was a window
washer.
Strenatbe* Oil Law ’ *
AUSTIN, Feb. 4 (UP) —Two
bills to make easier the railroad
commission's enforcement of oil
. . See Flashes on Page 4
OIL FIRE
The Hend*r*onrtSsr department
answered a call to the railroad
yards at noon today where they
extinguished an oil fire,
pump used for refueling ens
and waste oil on th* *rs**j
low waa ignited tn some uaRn
manner and eansed ro*a*tel
*m»kejuthmi*h no aprio*e 1
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tpHE first paragraph of George’s
* editorial admits the need for
roads and especially the heavier
type of highway for the oil field,
but also raises the objection to
taxing the oil field properties to
pay for highways in other parts
of the county.
He puts the proposition rather
plainly. Yet it is a known fact
that some pieces of property have
always been taxed to pay lor
highways that didn't pass near
them, but because of the concen-
1 of
out-
gen-
HOUSTON, Feb 4 UP)—Fed-
eral Judge T. M Kennedy today
Instructed a special grand jury to
investigate "how all these saloons
they say are operating in Hous-
ton can do so without breaking
federal laws."
The judge said the matter has
him puzzled
"If you will investigate. I think
you will find they are dispensing
either smuggled liquor, liqi f r on
which the tax has not been paid,
or liquor which has been brought
into Texas, a dry state, in inter-
state commerce,’’ the judge said.
The special grand jury, waa
called principally to consider a
large number of cases in which
persons ar* being held in jail
pending grand Jury action.
Paragraph I
March the 2nd is the date
set for the election to deter-
mine if Rusk County will vote
for a three million dollar bond
issue for the purpose of build-
ing a system of hard surfaced
roads. I don't suppose it will
make any difference to my
customers but I am opposed
to it. Not that we don’t need
the roads, for we do, but we
need them in the oil field
Where the traffic is heavy.
Since we need them there and
since we are the ones who will
pay for them, why go and
vote a three million dollar
bond when one million would
build 50 miles of paved roads
that would cover the oil field.
Paragraph 2
This Commissioners
eincy pays over 75 per
of all taxes paid now, if this
bond issue would carry it
would add more taxes on all
but more than 75 per cent of
that three million would have
to be paid by this district.
Why should this district he
made to pay for building
roads in the oth«'r three pre-
cincts.
Some will answer you that
we were blessed with the oil
field and shouldn’t mind pay-
ing a greater part of the tax.
Well, if no other reason, there
is a law that says something
about the money being ex-
pended in the precinct from
which it conies.
in the past we have not ob-
jected to the other precincts
taking our money and using
it for the good of all, but it
they are going to
don’t want to pay them to
drag their feet and that is
what they are going to try to
do with a county-wide bond
issue.
Paragraph 3
We wonder why it was that
a. press report stated that
JVore than two hundred sign-
ets uve oi ‘“'-.n * bi'"TTeiide. son
Isn’t it possible' sthat there
isn't a man in Henderson who
wanted to put his name on
the petition? We are wonder-
ing who was responsible for
the petition being circulated.
Note we said responsible, and
that doesn't mean the man
who actually carried it
around.
about what happened to this girl’s
father.
Frederick Pope of defense, ob-
jected to the questioning.
"We are attempting to show
that this witness testified for a
promise of money and when pay-
ment waa not made he recanted,
his testimony,” Wllentt said.
The court directed the attorney-
«oner«l to rephr-Me bi* questions.
Q Didn't you make an affidav-
it later that you teetified Meely?
Defense objection to the attor-
ney general’s question wae sus-
tained.
Q. Wil! you say now that you
did not testify falsely in this
Smith caseT A- Not to my knowl-
edge. . The lawyer told me that
if 1 didn’t want to testify to eer-
Hauptmann’s Friend Says Frisch Left Package
,udI:EMi^GTO‘»’ J•• Feb- 4* Wilentx handed the witness aWyowr story .nd ..id you h.d ta^*A. Not about the accident, but
(UP)—Peter A. Sommer, who second nhotogranh. improperly? A. No »ir., -K—* *•--------
Q. How many cases have you
testified in? A; About two, I
guess.
Q. Tell us what they were? A.
The Brooklyn Railroad.
Q You testified in the Hall-Mills
case? A. Yes.
Q. Did you testify as a finger-
print expert? A. No, as an op-
erator for a detective agency.
Q. So you worked as a finger-
print expert for the defense and
then ybu testified for’ the stete
in the Hall-Mills case? A. That’s
right.
Discrepancies Found
By Federal Body
In Studies
"PARAGRAPH two of his edito-
X rial lays further stress on the
fact that Precinct number one
^pays 75 per cent of the county’s
ad valorem tax. He even stresses
it to the point of referring to it is
“OUR MONEY.”
By reason of one of those acci-
dents which are unexplainable, the
bounds of the precincts in Rusk
county were laid out long beiore
there was a suspicion that the
mineral rights might be valuable,
and by the same accident the oil
producing territory has for the
(UP)—Peter A. Sommer, who
testified he saw persons resembl-
ing Violet Sharpe and Isidor
Fisch crossing the Hudson River
on a ferry boat with a small child
at the time of the Lindbergh kid-
naping was recalled today for
cross-examination at the Bruno
Richard Hauptmann trial.
*‘Attorn.y General David Wil-
• ntz questioned Sommer on the
“•mall man and tall man” ha
think* he eaw
Jersey or
or poaaihly
ferry” on t
ing.
Q. You testified Friday that you
saw a small man? A. I didn't see
the small man again.
Q. Is this the man you Mt-
helping the woman with the beby?
A. n locks fery similar.
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passengers
Sunshine bus five
miles south of Winona, near
Tyler.
The robbers escaped in an auto-
mobile which had followed the
bus from Gladewater, where the
two men boarded the bus.
robbers obtained $40 from
eight passengers.
-----, Logan, riding in the rear seat
requested establishment of a state beside one robber, knocked a
pistol out of the robber's hand
when the man drew it, but in turn
was felled by the robber. A negro
See Bus Rebber Page 10
$ ’
second photograph.
Q. Can you say which of these
helped the woman? A. This one
resembles the man (pointing to
the left photograph.)
Q. You wouldn't swear thia was
the man? A. No, but there is a
great resemblance.
Q. Did you see the short man
the ferry boat?’ A. No.-
Wilentz brought out that on
Friday Sommer said he saw the
short man in the boat.
Q. Do you want to chango your
testimony now? A.-Yas, I do.
Q. You are a professional wit-
ness, aren't you? A. I don’t
know whether I qualify . . . ’’
Q. Don’t you coma to court and
testify for n. price?. Haven't you
on occaaions toatified for money
sal. thaw. whoa the moaey waa
not forthcoming. you
A ND George fails to ccnsider
Xx. that, so far as I know, there
is nothing in the Constitution or
statutes of Texas which would
prevent the county commission-
er's court from re-defining the
bounds of all districts ir Rusk
county and splitting Precinct
Number One in such a way as to
make parts of it fall in what is
See Uncle Gus Page 10
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