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THE LATEST IN BANDITRY
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may come up, but that isn't
strong as the certainty that
firing of "Doc" Stewart and
hiring of Clyde
athletic coach by
Charges of failing to render
after an accident, driving a
while intoxicated and carrying
pistol were filed against him.
his
and
the
had
her
former appeared to be doomed but
eforts were being made to reach
agreements on the latter with in-
oications that these efforts might
take several hours
pended sentence and his brother.
Earl, on similar dharges, was Judg-
argued with
age for some
given a two-year
ice to the State
cd a juvenile
suspended ke
hills from here
Springs Valley.
The new strike
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PHOENIX. Arlz , March 16—Lured
by reports of a new gold strike rival-
ling the wealth of the Weepah, Nev
field, caravans of prospectors today
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CITIES SHUT OFF
btos or lets the bill become a law
Fithout ms signature is a matter
T considerable doubt
moves by those branches of
state government today.
Governor Moody addressed
lines replace 6-inch matiia
te Carrier Street lme wil
into a 12-inch main en O
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License Fee, Penitentiary Reorganization and
Textbook Bills Under Consideration Final
Day of Session.
Dynamite "planted” in a country rood by payroll bandits wrecked these
Iwo can. It happened near Pittsburgh. The bandits got off with *102,000
The robbers waited for the cars to come along, then set off the "plhnt" by
electricitv, batteries being hidden in s nearby tree Five men in the payroll
party were injured
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Riley said Earl was nearly 18
year old and that George was
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Hooper audgmQway and
Temperature
Maximum yesterday ....... 78
was reported at
Man, Kidnaped
as Baby, Found
by Mother III in
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k Whether Gov. Moody
AUSTIN, March 16.— Legislative clocks were run-
ning two hours behind time at noon today, the hour set for
adjournment of the regular session, and it seemed likely
that the House and Senate would continue to work until
late this afternoon or tonight.
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OEvectic weck—"hectic" being abont
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Escribe the situation in legislativ"
Earcles. and tiie members are show-
Eng the efTects of the long hours
1. Eend hard work
m Oossip here today was that the
—Erasoline tax raising the presen:
Eax to 3c a gallon and continuing
AUSTIN, March 16— The April
meeting of the regents of the Uni-
versity promises to be a warm ses
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were wending their wAy
main on Ea
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PROBE OF PRIMARY ABOUT INSTALLED
EXPENSE SATURDAY
STERILIZATION BILL PASSED
MONTPELIER. Vt.. March 18,—
Validity of One
Cent Gas Tax is
Upheld by Court
Weather
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♦ preme Court when it granted ♦
♦ the State judgment for the ♦
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Thursday cloudy wth local
showers, colder tonight . In
northwest: colder Thursday. ,
West Texas: Tonight partly
cloudy, colder, freeling in Pan-
handle; probably frost in nouth-
west; Thursday fair, colder in
southeast.
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Failure to Give Aid Charge
FORT WORTH, March 16.—N
C. Buchanan, who shot and killed
two bandits when they attempted
to hold up him and a woman com-
panion and was himself badlv
wounded, was arrested Tuesday
night after a girl had been struck
by an automobile near Handley.
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AUSTIN, March 15.—This
been a crowded session of
Highway Commission. Altho
the Athletic
SHAMROCK, March 16.
—Four men were killed ad
one perhaps fatally injured
in an explosion at the gaso-
line absorption plant of the
Columbian Gasoline Corpo-
ration one mile west of here
today.
The dead:
Jack Todd. P W Melton, Lason
Chance. C. B Belk
The injured man is Bob Griffin.
He is not expected to live.
Gas from the plant which sup-
plies Wichita Falls and many oth-
er Northwest Texas cities with
natural gas was shut off.
The plant was under construc-
tion and an investigation is being
mode as to the cause of the blast.
The sunshiny weather that had
revalled sih Saturday gave way
b clouds Wednesday morning and
he Weather Bureau forecast is for
Lore cloudy weather Wednesday
light and Thursday. Temperatures
•uesday approached real summer
me with a top registration of 76
•trees, according to John W.
rain, and Tuesday morning's
aintmum with a water-saturated
tmosphere was 58.
MEXICAN CHILD DIES TUES-
DAY AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
Fidel Mata. 11 1-3 months old
infant of Mr. and Mrs Lorento
Mata, Mexicans living on the L. E.
Sherman place •12 miles west ct
Denton, died Tuesday after a
short illness. Funeral services were
held Wednesday morning with
burial in the Stonyasemetery.
NEW ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN
AT C. I. A.
Miss Lottie Peters of Portland.
Orc., has begun her duties as assist-
ant librarian at the College of In-
dustrial Arts. She succeeds Miss
Maric Farmer. wo resigned to ac-
cept a position in the University
of Chicago lbrary. Miss Peters did
graduate study in the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor the first
semester of this year. She had pre-
viousl been librarian at Pacific
University, Forest Grove, Oregon
cf Highway 40 over which
present designation comes
Denton, already is surfaced.
No Arrests Made on Elght
Indictments By Grand Jury
No arrests had been made Wed-
nesday morning on the eight in-
dictments returned by the grand
jury Tuesday noon, according to
Sheriff W. 8. Fry D. L. Gaskin,
against whom two indictments of
forgery were returned, was in tall
at the time of his indictments but
others indicted have not been ar-
rested
The jury which heard the case
of T. . Morris vs T. H. Jones, egh-
version of property, still was out
Wednesday afternoon after 1
received the charge of the
about 10 30 Wednesday morning.
Argument by counsel in the ease
which involves the disposal at a
stock of groceries at Sanger, was
taken up Wednesday after testi-
mony had been completed. 3a
In addition to thia case two erm-
Inal cases were disposed of, two
divorces were granted and a num-
ber of civil orders entered by Judge
Owsley Tuesday afternoon and
Wednesday morning.
Earl Rainwater, charged with
AUSTIN, March 16.—The) House
Tuesday concwred in a Senate
amendmnt to the 3c gasoline tax
I.ill and the measure is now up
to the Governor
The Senate amended the bill,
originally passed by the’ House
levying a 3c tax, to make the 3c
lute continue until Sept 1, 1928.
and then to be reduced to 2c.
House and Senate conferees on
the automobile license tax bill
were in deadlock Tuesday night,
but with the hope of reaching an
agreement on the amendments put
into the bill by the Senate after
passage by the House
“Snow. sunshine, rain, mud and
sandstorm furnished the varietv
or a journey Tuesday, said Grov-
r 8. Campbell, who returned
’uesday night from a business trip
pat extended to El Paso and into
Lew Mexico. "We left Alamagordo,
r, W., Tuesday morning with the
hountains and some of the higher
Imd covered with snow we got
tuck by poor gasoline on a moun-
ain, had a puncture, ran into deep
hud and then into a West Texas
andsterm that almost blinded us.
ut covered 610 miles in the day's
ide."
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March
18—Heavy casualties were suffer-
ed by both sides in yesterday"
battle between conservative and,
liberal troops at Muy Muy, it was
reported here today.
The liberal were defeated, reports
to the conservative capital said,
but it was understood the result
was not decisive.
Two American aviators employ-
ed by the conservative government
took active part in the battle
Forty liberals who attacked Aco-
yapo were reported to have been
driven off, but the colonel com-
manding the Government garrison
of 30. was killed.
Liu for the eterilization of the eu-
xenically unfit has been passed by
IM Vermonk Vogbiature . . 2
A message to her several
days ago that a man resemb-
ling her son was seriously ill '
of pneumonia brought her to
Borger where she identified
him by a mark on his face.
Mext T. U. Regent Meet Nears Pmpeciors Trek
to New Gold Strike
1: into the available school
wtuld have been offered.
before the committee, whether he
appeared, whether questions were
put to him and whether he de-
clined to answer.
A jail sentence is mandatory if
a conviction is returned. The pen-
alty is from $100 to $1,000 fine and
one to twelve months in a ‘com-
mon jail".
Closing arguments to the jury
vere to start as soon as court
anvened.
vote. They have used
ieasures in which members
FIND $30,000 OF PAYROLL
PITTSBURGH. March 16.—A
surpect held in the pay roll rob-
bery in which two motor cars
were blown up by dynamite led
detectives to a field and ' found
630,080 at the missing currenay.
Neither the Senate nor the
House clock will be allowed to
register 12 o’clock until both
houses have decided what they wl’
sion. There is a possibility that
the Hogg-Stark feud in the board
untl its next session and to
the County Judge and
I Commissloners of Denton
r to aitend the bearing ana
him. He learned that
mother lived in Houston
set out to seek her. In
meantime the mother
spent long years seeking
lost son.
AUSTIN, March 16.—The tobac-
CWtax measure, passed by Lthe
Puse under u the influence of
steam roller methods, went to its
death in the Senate when that
body refused by a vote of 17 to
10 to take it up out of its regular
older.
Floor leaders for the bill an-
nounced significantly that it would
be taken up at the special session
and that meantime supporters of
thie tax could seek to influence
members in its behalf
if the bill had been brought up
lr the Senate an amendment to
put three-fourths of the levy into
the general fund instead of all of
not wait until next session."
Ree also said he was willing to
contribute $1,000 or perhaps more,
from personal funds to flinance
the impounding if necessary.
Following decision of the com-
mittee to gather in the Pennsylva-
nia ballots. Senator Keyes Repub-
lican. of New Hampshire, chairman
of the audits and control commit-
tee which approves expenses, refus-
ed to sifgn an expense voucher for
$1,000 to allow David S. Barry, ser-
geant-at-arms of the Senate to go
into Pennsylvania and get the
ballots.
Dropping the Pennsylvania bal-
lot discussion with the statement,
“we’ll soon show them whether the
committee is dead,” Reed made it
clear in no uncertain terms that
he is not through with politics
“I'm still in the swim and fight-
ing hard,” he declared
It had been widely reported the
Missouri Senator had declared he
would soon retire from public life.
, “I won't run for the Senate
again, but that doesn’t mean I
won't remain in public service."
Mention of his possible presiden-
tial candidacy, brought only a
smile.
thqugh my resolution was blocked
‛ during.thefinni hours, oconerens, i
) pound the iubuzonud ballots and it
House and outlined a stand almost
opposite to the House on land
sales provisions of the pending re-
organization bill. A few minutes
before the House defeated an ar-
tempt to give conferees a free
hand in adjusting Senate and
House diferences on the bill.
Breaking up their session this
afternoon conferees will recom-
mend to their respective houses
that their disputed land sale pro-
vision be stricken out and the bill
passed to other phases of the re-
organization will not be killed also,
Representative Battetwhite, leader
of the House group, said
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Holbrook President Pro Tem
AUSTIN, March 16.—Senator
Holbrook of Galveston was elected
president pro tem of the Senate
here today in the closing hours of
the session.
W*er on Prison Bill
AUSTIN, March 16.—Differences
of the administration and the
House on the reorganization of
the Texas prison system were
sharply defined in two respective
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Earl Rainwater, 18, and George
Ramwater, 15. negro brothers
charged with burglary and thett
over the value of $50. "swapped"
birthdays for the duration of the
elder’s trial in District Court here
Tuesday.
The two boys were charged with
having burglarized the store oi J
E. Skinner at Hebron and were in
fall here. Tuesday afternoon dur-
ing a lull in the trial of a civil
suit County Attorney Hooper tele-
phone the jailef to bring “the
youngest" of the two negroes to
the court house.
Earl Rainwater appeared before
the judge, said lie wanted to plead
guilty to the two charges against
him. He said he was 15 years old
and Judge Owsley was getting
ready to judge the youth a juve-
nile and turn him over to his fath-
er on a suspended sentence. And
then Riley Rainwater. the boys'
father, took the stand. 1
MEASURES ADOPTED
AUSTIN, March 16.—The impor-
tant acts of the 40th Legislature
which adjourns sine die at noon
today may be counted on the fin-
gers of one hand. The unimportant
> measures’which were killed num-
ber more than 1,100
At the end of last night's session
these important bills had been
passed
Revision of the state libel laws.
A 3-cent gasoline tax
Motor bus administration.
Repeal of the Ferguson amnesty
bill.
The bills of general importance
have all been taken care of. The
clock is likely to be urned back
today as the closing hour draws
near in order to close all pending
business.
One important measure. house
tobacco tax bill. is likely to fall by
the way-side.
Of constitutional amendments
submitted the most Important was
the one which seeks to separate
ad valorem tax levies so that their
revenue can be applied to county
purposes.
No highway legislation was pass-
ed except the gasoline tax bill. This
measure will take $13,500,000 year-
ly fiom motor car owners. Part of
this, about $3,000,000 will go to the
public school fund.
The Moody text book reform
bill is now before free conference
and probably will be disposed of
before the session ends
31,173 Hens Now Pledged to
Deoco Poultry Association
R. M. Evers. committee chair-
man, said that the total number of
hens pledged to theDenco Poultry
Association TuesdaV night was
31.173.
The following have turned m
signed contracts since the last re-
port: 8. A Gibson, Roanoke. P. T
Underwood. Denton. John Miller,
Krum. Mr Conchman, Aubrey, P
J. Cantrell, Aubrey, J A. Brewer
Aubrey, R. H. Cashion. Aubrey.
A meeting at Sanger Monday
night was well attended and much
interest evinced. A number an
nounced their intention of joining
the association.
A meeting was announced for
Pilot Point for Wednesday night
MIDLOTHIAN MAN A SUICID2
MHDLOTHIAN, March 18—Eu-
gene Hurt, 53, Santa Fe agent her
for many years, killed himaek by
AUSTIN, March 16 Because of
errors in the court's charge, the
Cuort of Criminal Appeals today re-
versed the seven-year sentence Im-
posed on John Miller of Georgetown
on conviction of murder in connec-
tion with the Healy alleged Klan
street nght Sept 5, 1923
$600,000,000 Expected In
First Quarter Income Taies
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WASHINGTON March 16— Six
hundred million dollars. Secretary
l it lion's estimate of income tax
payments for the first quarter of
the year, will be realized, it was
indicated Tuesday when millions
of dollars poured into the Treas-
1r7 from collectors thruout the
United States.
grand jury. Brook
death whie M lay
vrvtmFv
that the condition of its finances
made it oppose taking over any
more maintenance than it already
had. Question as to which would
be the Commission s policy—to
save its own funds the mainten-
ance of a few extra miles or to
put off on the traveling public the
constant and growing expense ol
covering nearly three more miles
I he fun-economy idea seemed to
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It was stated before the Com-
mission that a majority of the
Denton County Commissioners
Bourt did not want a redesignation
khat would cancel the southern
designation -that it would like to
have both routes designated, but
wrould not ask for a north route
8 a preference, albeit that route
meant U miles of maintenance by
he state as against six miles hy
the southern route.
The matter ended with a dec?-
ori by the Commission to defer
LEGISLATIVE NOTES
AUSTIN, March 16—The Beck
bill placing motor busses under su-
pe rvision and control of the Rail-
road Commission is now up to the
Governor, the House accepting re-
port of a free conference commit-
tee.
Counties under 30,000 population
vculd be affected by the maximum
fee bill on which a free conference
committee agreed Tuesday night.
Officers in such counties would be
permitted to keep all their fees.
The House engrossed another bill
to make $10,000 the limit of fees
fer county officials. Representa-
tives of the larger counties op-
posed it.
The bill permitting city councils
t segregate white and negro citi-
zens was finally passed.
The House passed a bill Increas-
ing compensation of grand jury
bailiffs from $3 to 64 a day The
House passed Senate bill inrereas-
ing the fees of constables, and an-
other bill Increasing the fees ol
justices of the peace
A bill limiting the fees of high-
er institutions of learning to $30 a
year was passed Tuesday
Cowboy Mine about 125 miles from
here C W McGraw, a veteran pros-
pector, is credited with the discov-
ery
Orc running as high as $60,000 to
the ton, has been assayed by the
Arizona assay office, according to W
W Lawhon, a prominent Arizona
mining man.
Lawhon has been working on the
ground for several weeks and already
has staked out several claims.
Other prospectors had been at
work secretly for weeks since first
indication of the strike. Using both
old fashioned and modern mining
methods—pick, shovel, dynamite and
pan—they have unearthed a large
amount of gold, the value of which
has not been determined
in one of the properties a nugget
weighing 22 ounces was found
DALLAS, March 16.-The con-
quest campaign of Texas Baptists
for $2,000,000 to pay institutional
debts is to be extended until next
Tuesday. Today had been set nt
the final day for subscriptions but
Dr George Truett, general director
of the campaign, announced that
a large number of churches which
have taken collection have net
had time to report. Incomplete re-
turns indicate that considerably
more than $1,000,000 has been
pledged, he said.
or Carrier Street and Oakland
Avenue to relieve congestion at
the sewer mains tn North Denton
will be completed next week I
weather permits continued wot*
on the project, according to H. T
Brewster, city engineer. The work
will be completed at a cost g1-
about $2,700 and bring to an end
the trouble which has been caus-
eh by small sewer mains in that
part of the city.
Ten-inch mains from Congres
Avenue to Hann Avenue and fiom
Oakland across to Carrier and
north on that street to the "man-
hole at the intersection at Canter
and Oakland are being laid. Thes
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Early Verdict Probable
WASHINGTON, March 16,—The
Sinclair contempt of me Senat
case goes to the jury today Au
early verdict is likely.
When lawyers for both sides
have concluded closing arguments,
shortly afternoon. Justice William
Hitz will charge the jury to deeide
if Harry P. Sinclair, wealthy oil
magnate, violated Section 102. of
the revised statutes three years
ago when he declined to testify be-
fere the Senate oil committee,
in view of Justice Hitz' an-
rouncement of the instructions he
will give the jury, Governmnt
prosecutors expected the jary to
bung in a conviction in sbort e:
der: They claimed the defense ha.
practically admitted the questions
route from his ranch
eta County, to visit
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BORGER, March 16.—B. E.
Hill, 26, lies at death's door—
in the general hospital here
with his mother, Mr. Clifford
Clark of Houston, whom he
has not seen since he was
kidnaped 25 years ago as a
five-months-old baby by a
German nurse, at his bedside.
Hill, taken to Germany by
the woman who, he says, kid-
naped him, fought on the side
cf Germany in Uie world war.
He was it years old when he
finally learned that the wom-
an whom he regarded as his
mother was in reality the
nursemaid who had kidnaped
reform school in each case.
In the case of Consuelo Wood-
ford vs. Glen W Woodford, divorce
was granted and care, custody,
maintenance and education of a
minor child was awarded the plain-
tiff, costs of the suit taxed against
the defendant.
In the case of Madie Dansby vs.
J. C. Dansby, divorce was granted
as prayed for. 1
The following divorce cases were
dtsmissed: Della Wardlow vs. Ed
Wardlow; H. C. Walker vs. Rosa
Lee Walker; K M. Cook vs. Gladys
Co >k
Following were orders made on
the civil trial docket:
First State Bank of Pilot Point '
vs John Trapp, suit on note, dis-
missed at plaintiff's cost; Louls R.
Lindenborn ve. orus O Rose, sulk
on will, application of Sullivan.
Speer & Minto to withdraw from .
the cause granted; W. W. Bradley
vs w s Fry et al., suit for dam-
ages, continued by consent with- t
out prejudice to defendant's right
to contest pauper’s affidavit; M. L
Cox et al. vs. Faulkner A oodner,
dmiagesc, dismissed on motion of
plaintiff; W. J. Springer vs. City *
of Dallas et,al., overflow damages,
continued on opplicatlon of deten-
June term; T. M. "Tenaley to. CMC,
danU Mt for Bret W. seqond week T
of Dallas oF«L overflow damages. -J
continued on application of defend-
ant. set for Bret day, second week, : ac
June term. $ 1-
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Council—which must be approved
by the regents—will bring a pro-
test from alumni and others
The lines will be drawn on a
pro- and anti-Stewart basis. Slew-
art's contract expiree in June and
alumni are working to get it re-
newed.
An effort to secure a mail vote
from the regents has been aban-
doned on the ground that it should
be taken up in regular session
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Radiotrons.
WCCO Minneapolis-SC. Paul
(416) 11, p. m. Far North
broadcast. ,
(All time given same as Dal
las.)
Commission has taken the position
that it has no money to give and
that its income will be probably
too low to take care of its present
prbjects, the delegations from
many counties continue to appeal
and to appeal for aid on various
new projects.
A delegation from Denton Coun-
ty seeking redesignation of a par.
ol Highway 39 was “among those
present" at the session Tuesday.
The net results of the visit were
exactly nothing, the Commission
announeing that it would take no
action on the matter until the
I Commissioners Court of Denton
I County made some recommenda-
tion. Members of the delegation
said that would get nowhere from
the. fact that .the court sems to
I oppose making any recommenda-
tion,
I Denton citisens asked that the
thigh way, which was designated
lover the south end of the dam at
[Lake Dallas in 1924, be redesignst-
ed to come by the north route,
Mkhich is 2.6 miles shorter. The
formal conversation of the Com-
blisston. however, was that the
borth route would require the
maintenance by the State of nine
more miles of road, taking advan-
tage of the fact that the stretch
t effect until Sept. 1. 1928, when
♦ would go to 2c. would pass That
he tobacco tax would not pass
hr Senate The Austin American
his morning had a front page
editorial denouncing Die impost-
ton of nuisance taxes in Texas.
Fhe bill was railroad thru the
house largely" thru the leadership
of Speaker Bobbitt, but the Senate
L Ilf either kill it or so amend It
is to make the House refuse to
oncur, it was predicted before the
ession opened today.
Among the belated Senate bills
inally to pass the House was the
cpeal of the Ferguson amnesty
aw passed b.y the 39th Represen.-
ative Fred H. Minor of Denton
ailed up the bill by a son of leg-
slative coup, quite unexpected oy
he minority opposing it, and it
as passed to engrossment and
tnally passed Minority opponents
f the amnesty repeal have sought
piligently to prevent its coming to
DETROIT, Mich., March 16
Senator James A. Reed, Democrat
f Missouri, in an interview with
the United Press today, declarea
ne had summoned the primary
fund investigating committee to
meet in Washington Saturday tr
the purpose of proceeding with the
Pennsylvania inquiry.
Reed said he probably would not
be able to muster the full com-
mittee. but that he was of the
cpinion the alleged ballot frauds
o‛ two Pennsylvania counties
should not rest until next session
of Congress
Permanent Body
"The investigating committee is
a permanent body," Reed said. "Al-
'Tt's been a loh time but I al-
lows I knows dat boy's age," Riley
declared.
George then was brought up from
the jail and his father, still on
the witness stand, took over the
examination of his son and finally
got him to admit that he was the
younger of the two boys.
George was given a two-years
suspended sentence to the State
reform school, after he had been
judged a juvenile and turned over
to his father.
Earl Rainwater, in possession of
his rightful birthday again, was
remanded to jail pending his trial
before a jury
Wednesday morning Earl Rah -
water was again brought into
court. He entered a plea of guilty
to burglary before a jury which
found him guilty and gave him a
five-year suspended sentence.
BADKrS BEST
THURSDAY’S FIVE
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March 15.-2Te Legii-
Hours Rescued By Workmen
EUQUAY SPRINGS N March
16—Entombed for 13 hours in a 70-
foot well, Jeff Ashworth was rescued
today He had been pinned by caved-
in Walla and was rescued after a
group of worknen dug away the de-
bris.
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MORRIS CASE GOES
TO JURY WEDNESDAY
AafEnuc-. T‛
WASHINGTON, March 1G—A
plea for a verdict of guilty was
made by United States District
Attorney Peyton Gordon today to
the jury which will pass’1 on the
contempt of the Senate charge
against Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy
oil magnate.
Gordon said . Ihe questions they
must decide had been proven bv
tiie Government.
The Jury is expected to receive
tiie case early this afternoon.
Gordon was followed by George
F. Hoover, associate defense
counsel
PITTSBURGH Pa.. March
18.—Three sensational payroll
hold-ups in this district in-
cluding the bombing of an
armored automobile last week
when a bandit gang escaped
with $104,000 were cleared up
this afternoon. District Attor-
ney Samuel Hardner said
• when he made public a confes-
, sion by Joe Jaworski.
" Gardner said the man con-
fessed that the bandit gang of
five members was responsible
for the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Company hold-up Friday
and that during the past four
years the same gang staged
two Christmas payroll rob-
beries. getting away with a
total of $69,000. In one of
these hold-ups a guard was
killed.
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