Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 50, Ed. 1 Monday, July 28, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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FIVE CENTS PER COPY
CENTER, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1930
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
NUMBER 50
VOLUME TWO
MRS FERGUSON’S LEAD MOUNTS UP
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Returns; More Tomorrow
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BOTH ARE POPULAR MARGIN IS OVER 7000
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Hair
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Sheriff
(Continued on Back Page)
LAD ACTS AS HUMAN FISHING TOOL
TO BRING BIT OUT FROM OIL WELL
hours.
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SAMPLES NOSED
OUT BY NARROW
FIGURES TODAY
MARTIN DIES IS
PILING UP HUGE
LEAD OVER BOX
SECRETARY GIVEN
TWO WEEKS LEAVE
TO ATTEND MEET
FERGUSON WILL
MAKE SPEECH IN
SHELBY COUNTY
JIM’S WIFE LEADS
STERLING BY OVER
FIFTY THOUSAND
Race Expected To Reach Fev-
erish Intensity As Leaders In
Both Camps Vie For Votes.
CENTS
PER COPY
Dies Carrjies Eleven Of Four-
teen Counties In District;
Orange County Gives Big
Majority.
Orange, Sabine, San Augustine, ■ Young
Hardin, Jefferson, Angelina, ISmall
Nacogdoches, Jasper, Panola
and Newton.
Box carried his home coun-
as
to
had
not
Ferguson
Mayfield
Love
Sterling ..
Miller
Loven
YOUTH KILLED BY
GUN ACCIDENT
941
.249
1195
.171
1471
325
.420
1658
3275
204
.18
Jolley ....
Gunnels
Patterson
Payne ....
Pullen ....
Commissioner General Land
Office
...784
1779
2600
1696
3463
1530
3655
1085
.929
.403
1773
.906
2963
2254
2745
.826
1581
Jefferson
Orange
Newton
Sabine
Jasper
Panola
Nacogdoches
Shelby
Tyler
Hardin
Angelina
Harrison
San Augustine
Cherokee
Clint Small Clings To Third
Place; Love Is Fourth And
Young Fifth As 245 Counties
Report Incomplete.
TELEPI
TO TH
Dallas News Describes Victory
Of Orange Candidate As
Most Spectacular In State.
Mills
Sheppard
State Treasurer
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Gold Is Only Brew
1511
.550
Becker 618
Allred 2276
State Comptroller of Public
Accounts
Ball
Clark ....
Davis
Christian
Box
4924
615
476
828
1063
1710
2129
2148
876
1236
2217
2441
715
4090
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Darwin
Parnell
Attorney General
Bobbitt
1139
.480
1272
.330
635
Commissioner of Agriculture
Maddux 1921
McDonald 803
Waller 388
Freeman 431
West 381
King
iI
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Center Daily ^evvs
Farmer Jim Tells Claude Gib-
son He’ll Be In Center Soon
To Thank Friends For Over-
whelming Vote For “Ma”.
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Latest Shelby County
.2571
.. 663
.. .280
1044
7
25
320
41
j
lost the bit.
volunteered to
hook a line on it.
foot in the loop of a cat line
and was dropped out of sight
in the 16-inch hole. The well
had not been cased, and dan-
ger of a cave-in was imminent.
Johnny came up smiling, and
drilling was. resumed shortly
thereafter.
O’Banion 1225
Samples 1198
Walker 1280
Bright 316
Smith 649
McKenzie 495
Justice Peace Precinct ,1
Pleasant 649
Parker 519
910 Carroll 555
Thomas 2632
Cureton .■? 2283
Judge Court Criminal Appeals
Lattimore 2950
Stephens .." 2235
Congress 2nd Congressional
District
Walker 3223
Burks 405
Johnson 1230
State Railroad Commissioner
McClelland (Hatcher 1539
\ ! Patton 622
908
Chief Justice of Supreme
Court
W. J. Lawson, secretary of
the local Chamber of Com-
merce, was granted a two
weeks leave of absence in or-
der that he might attend the
school that will be held at the
side and the youth lived eight Northwestern University start-
ing August 4th.
Martin Dies of Orange con-
tinued to pile up a staggering
margin of votes over the in-
cumbent Congressman John C.
Box, according to a telegram
received by local friends of the
doubt had existed regarding successful candidate this morn-
the possibility of O’Banion and ing.
Former Governor James E.
Ferguson will come to Center
very soon to pay his respects to continued to add to^VNfl
legions of Shelby county ity in the Texas primSu,
friends who gave his wife ap, returns today from 245
overwhelming victory over ten
Dies j
8623 ‘
2333
692
1120
1638
1947
2495
3031
747
1516
3766
2221
1432
1143
San Angelo ,Tex., July 28—
(UP)-—Chester Brister, 23, of
Lometa, died here today from
a shotgun wound in his side,
sustained when the weapon
toppled from a stack of bank-
ets he was pulling from a closet
shelf. The gun discharged
and sent the pellets into his
Dallas, Tex., July 28 (UP)
—Mrs. Miriam A. Fergusftn-
Burns
Powell
Samford
County Clerk
Chandler
Banks
County Attorney
Warren
Lane
Beloit, Wis., (UP)—Beloit
police and deputies investigat-
ing the mysteries of a newly
discovered cave here found
that visions of pirates gave way
to bootleggers and the musty 1
smell of treasure chests was
replaced by the penetrating; I
fumes of hidden brew.
Jim O’Banion earned the
right early today to enter the
run-off on August 23rd with
J. B. (Bert) Walker, leader in
the race for sheriff of Shelby
county.
For forty-eight hours much
Unofficial returns for Shelby
county are shown in the column
below. The state races and
the sheriff’s and county judge’s
race are complete; the other
races are complete with the
exception of the luwicnauu,
box. x lfTat‘on
Tomorrow’s News will in-j
elude precinct races. Returns
on the offices, of commissioner,
cotton weigher, constable, etc.,
were not completely tabulated
at press time today.
United States Senator
Mitchner 409
Henry 998
Sheppard 3386
Governor
Hobbs, N. M., July 28 (UP)
—*In the oil fields hereabouts
Prince Darab Mirza of the
House of Kadjar is just Don,
a good scout and regular fel-
low, his companions report.
They would never have known
he was of royal lineage had an
identification card not been
misplaced .
Queries disclosed that he
was a descendant of the Per-
sian dynasty nobjlity which
Tax Collector
Brittain -...
Scates
County Treasurer
Childs '
Beck
Matthews
released today.
In a telephone conversation
with Claude Gibson, his local
campaign manager, Ferguson incomplete returns,
declared himself well pleased <
with the vote in Shelby coun- .
ty. “Tell them my wife and I
are mighty proud,” Farmer Jim .
said. “I’ll make a speech at
Center soon.”
Gibson said that the exact
date of Ferguson’s appearance
here would not be made public
until definite plans had been
arranged. “I’m sure Shelby
county will be glad to hear Jim
and I know his wife will beat
Sterling in the run-off,”
concluded.
Before a large crowd Sun-
day afternoon the Center All
Stars continued their winning-
streak by defeating Dickie
Kerr’s Boosters, of Houston, by
a score of 6 to 4. <i y
The game proved to be one
of the best exhibitions of base-
ball that has been displayed on
the local diamond this season.
Kerr started the game for
the visitors, but was removed
in an early inning to be replac- pour in.
ed by a youth that was unable
to keep the locals in check
during the latter part of the
game.
Lynum again showed his
ability and held the visitors to
only several scattered hits.
At the beginning of the sixth
inning Kerr’s bunch was lead-
ing by one lone score. Hous-
ton had a 4 to 3 lead only by
Lieutenant Governor
Witt
Arnold .......:
ty, Cherokee by a considerable Rogers
majority which will probably
reach proportion of three to Strong-
one. He also carried Harri-
son and Tyler counties. j
Friends of Dies were point-
ing this morning to the over-
whelming majority poled by Storey
him in Orange county. The
vote is nearly five to one and
promises to grow larger
small rural boxes continue
. His opponents
predicted that he would
carry his home county.
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Sheep-Goat Raisers
Rio Grande City, Tex., July
28 (UP)—Nerve beyond the
usual attribute to a 12-year-
old lad was required for the
hazardous feat of descending
235 feet into the earth to fish
for an oil well bit—a task
Johnny Dickson executed with-
out ado.
His father, J. L. Dickson,
'driller of the McClain No. 1 in
the Starr County wildcat field,
Dies 3031
Box 2148
Representative 10th District
Parker .953
22 Jones 3052
Wharton 1244
District Attorney 4th District
Gray 1994
Anderson 3089
County Judge
Planning To Meet
Brady, Tex., July 28 (UP) —
The Texas Sheep and Goat Lockhart
Raisers’ Association will hold
its convention and 13th annual
sale here for four days begin-
ning July 30th. An extensive
program of business and en-
tertainment has been planned.
The youngster
go down and
He put a
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Tax Assessor
Samples opposing Walker.
However, with every box in the
county complete today the un-
official count is as follows:
Walker 1280, O’Banion 1225,
Samples 1198, Smith 649, Mc-
Kenzie 495, Bright 316.
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ALL STARS DEFEAT
KERR’S BOOSTERS
SUNDAY; SCORE 6-4
No Indication Yet Of Which
Defeated Candidates Will
Support August 23rd.
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FLASH!
With 58,162 votes accounted
for in the congressional race,
Martin Dies was leading John
C. Box at 3:30 this afternoon
by a majority of 7,226 votes.
Dies polled 32,694 votes with
Box registering 25,468.
The counties are as follows;
unofficial:
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alker, O’Banion In Run-off For Sheriff
PRINCE IS REGULAR SPORT DOING / |
HIS WORK WITH OIL FIELD CREW 1
___ \ I
was overthrown in 1925. Dur- yi
ing the revolution members j
the House of Kadjar fle$j|
parts of the world1.'
Darab Mizra enrolled
officers’ training school at W
Cyr, the school attended 1.
Prince of Wales.
The prince was sen®
America to study oil first ■
by an Europea ncompany.B
works hard and is just o»
the boys, his fellAy workerH
port.
The message gave Dies a
victorious majority of 7,226
votes. His triumph was de-
scribed by the Dallas Morning Walker
News today as “one of the
most spectacular races in the
state.”
Returns show that Dies car-
ried eleven of the fourteen Putnam
counties, these being Shelby, I Moody
ties, 69 of which were com-x
opponents according to returns plete, gave her 199,698 votes.
Ross Sterling also increased'
his figures, his vote reaching
a total of 143,954, according to
Tom Love
cinched fourth place with 68,-
346 votes. Clint Small was
third with 106,717.
Miller, Mayfield and Young
ran along poorly with Loven,
Walker, and Moody barely gefci
ting recognition from the le- '■
gion of voters who centered
their preference upon Mrs.
Ferguson and Ross Sterling. /]
Sterling P. Strong moved . ( i
ahead of Senator Edgar Witt of
Waco today in the race for
Lieutenant governor. Strong , H
had polled 139,025 and Witt
crowded him closely with 138,-
141 votes.
Senator Morris Sheppard
approached a landslide in his A
race when returns showed him \
to have 404,436 votes ovei
Robert Henry of Houston an(
C. A. Mitchner.
James V. Allred held a com-f ■
manding lead over Robert Lee\ . ■
Bobbitt in the attorney gener- ! ■
al’s race assuring a hot contest \ 1
in the run-off. Allred had \ j
223,268 and Bobbitt had 202,- i
[561.
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