Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 263, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 21, 1940 Page: 2 of 18
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JUSTICE COURT FILINGS
(Examining Trial Docket)
Clarence Horton, murder.
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Bonds irregular.
Curb stocks irregular.
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business of note during the week.
Prices were steady.
Cities Service 4 1-2
Elec BD&SH 7 3-8
Gulf 011 35 3-4
Humble Oil 613-4
Lone Star Gas 9 7-8
Niag Hud Pwr 5 1-4
Sun Ray 13-4
Cotton steady.
Wheat off about 1-4 cent and
corn off around 1-8.
FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP) —
Produce:
Poultry — Fryers 12-18; Hens
7-10; Turkeys 5-12.
Eggs — No. 1 candled 4.80-5.50
per case.
Butterfat 28.
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Jim Smith and Beatrice Morgan
(colored).
Earnest Flankland and Ammrie
Lee (colored).
J. M. Garrett and Adele Tomp-
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Alford M. Parker and Helen Inez
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QUALITY DAY
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May .... 1072
July . .. 1040
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For Operation, Stolen By Son
FORT WORTH, Tex. (UP) —
Cash grain:
Wheat 1 hard 107 3-4 - 109 3-4.
Corn 2 white 79 1-2-80; 2 yel-
low 76- 76 1-2.
Oats 2 red 49-50; 3 red 48-49.
Barley No. 2 63-64; No. 3 62-
63.
Milo 2 yellow 130-132; 3 yellow
127-129.
Kaffir 2 white 127-129; 3 white
125-127.
ENJOY THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE
STARTING TUESDAY, 1:30 P.M., JAN. 23
VALUABLE PRIZES • PRACTICAL SOUVEIIRS
EVERYONE IS ELIGIBLE
NO OBLIGATION
MERCURY ECONOMY CONTEST
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Chicago gangster, down here to
cool off.”
Detectives Buck Haddock and
Fred Littlepage heard of the con-
versation. decided to investigate.
They trailed the man to Del Rio,
caught him at Laredo, after a 400-
mile chase.
T: -a the man started explain-
ing. He finally convinced the de-
tectives today that he really was
just a cattle buyer from Illinois.
“That fellow tried to tell he how
tough he was, so I told him how
tough I was,” he explained to of-
ficers. "I was just bragging.”
He went about his business. The
detectives returned to San An-
tonio.
1124N; sales 450.
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Allied Stores 8
Am Can 115 1-8
Am Pwr A Light 4 1-4
Am Rad & SS 9 3-4
Am Smelt 56 7-8
ATAT 171 1-2
Anaconda 26 5-8
Armour of III 5 3-8
Avn Corp 6 1-4
Barnsdall 12
Bend’x Avn 28
Beth Steel 71 5-8
Rualer ros 0 7-8
Byers, AMU 5-8
Canada Dry 17
Case, J I 70
Chrysler 82 3-8
Comw A Sou 11-4
Cons Oil 7 1-8
Elec St at 29 1-2
Firestone pf 19 7 8
Freeport Sul 32 3-4
Gen Elec 38 3-8
Gen Foods 48
Gen Mot 52 1-2
CoCnsoliinted Edison 31 1-2
Gillette S R 6 1-8
Goodyear 22 1-8
Graham Pabjo 7-8
Gt Nor Orer 1-8
Hudson Mot 5 3-8
Ind Rayon 26 1-2
Int Harv 35 1 2
Int T&T 4 1-8
Kroger CAB 28 3-4
Liq Carb 15 1-4
Marrhall Feld 14
Mont Ward 50 7-8
Nat Dairy 10 5-8
Packard 3 1-4
Penney. .) C 94 3-4
Phelps Dodge 36
Phillips Pet 39 3-4
Pure/Oil 8 1-2
Radio 6
Sears Roe 82 5-8
Shell Un Oil 12 1-8
Socony Vac 12
Sou Pac 13 1-8
S O-N .1 44 1-8
Am Avn 24 1-4
Studebaker 9 1-8
Swift A Co. 23
Texas Corp 44 3-8
Tex Q Sul 33 3-4
Union Carb 80 1-4
Un Aircraft Corp 46
Unit Corp 2 1-2
U S Gypsum 85 1-4
U S Ind Ale 23
U S Steel 57 1-8
Vanadium 29 3-8
West Elec 108
Warthington 20 1-2
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Uncertainity In Wall Street Causes Sharp Decline In Stocks
HOUSTON, Tex. (UP) — Mid-
dling cotton closed Saturday at
10.94.
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May .... 1088
July .... 1058
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prices eased fractionally Saturday
in dull trading.
Opening selling in wheat carried
the market as much as a cent
lower. Local interests and com-
mission houses were chief sellers.
Buying by eastern houses and
elevator interests wiped out most
of the decline. There was scat-
tered week-end profit-taking.
Wheat closed unchanged to 1-8
cent lower, May $1.01 1-8 - 1-4,
corn unchanged to up 1-8 cent.
May 58 5-8 - 1-2. Oats unchanged
to off 1-8 cent, May 39 1-2B, and
Rye up 1-4 to 3-8 cent, May 71
1-2B. Soybeans closed 1-4 to 1-2
cent higher. May $1.12 3-4.
CHICAGO. (UP)—Cash grain:
Wheat no sales.
Corn: No. 1 yellow 59 3-4; 2
- yellow 59 1-2 - 60 1-4; 3 yellow
59 1-4 - 60.
Oats sample mixed 38, 4 white
41.
Rye no sales.
NEW YORK. (UP) — Cotton
futures set up gains ranging to
65 cents a bale in quiet dealings
last week.
At Friday's close quotations on
active months were 8 to 13 points
higher compared with last Satur-
day’s finish. The January old com
tract closed out Wednesday at
11.10 cents a pound, up 55 cents
over last Saturday.
Trade demand and some Wall
Street buying were chiefly respon-
sible for the week's advance. The
forward movement was restricted
by weakness in Liverpool, where
it was reported that Alexandria
interests were the chief opera-
tors.
During the week there was some
trade discussion of the possible
effects of any embroilment of
Scandinavia on the New York cot-
ton markets and a divergence of
opinion was noted. Some quarters
feel that if the Scandinavian coun-
tries are drawn into the war it will
mean the loss of the cotton export
business laboriously built up after
U. S. vessels were excluded from
the war zone. Others feel that if
the war spreads to Denmark, Nor-
way and Sweden it will result in
a price boom in the local futures
ring.
According to ring gossip this
week, many traders feel cotton
futures prices will be stalemated
around current levels of Approxi-
mately 11 cents for March and
10% cents for July delivery.
After a fairly slow market in
the first four trading days this
week, considerable encouragement
was taken from the report that
Friday's gray goods sales in Worth
Street amounted to around 25,-
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a handsome miniature Mercury 8 Coin
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kiddles. This faithful reproduction of
the 1940 Mercury 8 Town Sedan is both
a practical bank and an entertaining
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stocks to the lowest general levels
in more than four months.
With speculative sentiment dam-
pened by the tapering off in busi-
ness operations, trading in stocks
fell off to the slowest pace since
before the war.
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with a special gasoline meter, as far as
you can on one-tenth gallon of gasoline.
PRIZES FOR THE BEST MILEAGE.
(See them in our show window).
CHICAGO. (UP)
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I feel the Department of Justice
has a better organization than Mr.
Dies can ever exject to obtain.—
Representative A. J. Sabath, (D.,
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HACKENSACK, N. J. (UP)—
Jessie Simpson’s struggle to read-
just her life after losing both legs
under a train three years ago was
crowned Saturday.
She was married last night to
her childhood sweetheart and they
have gone south on a honeymoon.
As a bride, she was prettier than
ever, everybody agreed, and that
meant something because even aft-
er her disaster and long months of
suffering, she still had been able
to work as a photographer’s
model.
There wasn't a line of tragedy
in her face or slightest halt in her
walk down the aisle of the ehurch
on the arm of her father. She has
mastered the use of artificial legs
well enough to dance, drive an au-
tomobile, play golf and ride horse-
back.
No wedding ever attracted more
attention in Hackensack. The
First Presbyterian Church, with
seats for only 450, was packed
with 700, and another 300 stood
outside all during the half-hour
ceremony in weather so cold that
the shutter of one photograrher’s
camera was frozen. Most of them
were there to pay tribute to a
heroine, not from curiosity over a
crippled girl, because Miss Simp-
son was no novelty to people of
the town. She has operated a
beautv shop since she got the ar-
tificial legs.
The bridegroom was James R.
Steward, young advertising execu-
tive. They had been sweethearts
before the accident and his loyalty
and daily encouragement were a
great help in Miss Simrron’s gal-
lant fight after the accident.
Miss Simpson fell under a com-
muter’s train on her way to work
in 1937. The Erie Erie Railroad
settled a damage suit for $30,000
but the company is In bankruptcy
and the money has not been paid.
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NEW ORLEANS COTTON I
NEW ORLEANS (UP)—Cotton
futures closed steady.
(Old contracts)
YOU ARE INVITED TO SEE THE MERCURY ECONOMY TEST RUN CAR
AT OUR SHOWROOMS—JAN. 23, 11:18 A. M.
See the car that's setting records at every turn under all driving and weather condi-
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stayed there until a few days ago
when he was stabbed in a fight.
He then obeyed the inducements of
his mother to come home and was
turned over to law officers.
Mrr. Gomez said she believed
her son had taken other money
from her. amounting to almost
$800, which she also had planned
to use to regain her health, over
a period of several months. Police
said Gomez had been in trouble be-
fore, but begausa of his youth no
indictments had been sought.
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The use of the new 100-octane
gasoline in airliners means at least
a 25 per cert increase in power,
12 to 15 per cent reduction in fuel
consumption, safer takeoffs, longer
cruising range, and may even have
an effect on the size of the air-
fields.
When you need anything in the Hardware
or Furniture line, we will be pleased to have
the opportunity to serve you. We try at all
times to carry in stock what you will need
in these lines, at prices that are reasonable
and in keeping with the quality of the mer-
bring him back.
Gomez refused to
Paso, but came to
across the river in
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seasonal influences brought a
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Otis Van Zandt, a 30-year-ol
negro, is dead and Clarence
(Salty) Horton of Henderson,
faces charge of murder today after
a Friday night shooting on the
Greer Weatherford farm, three
and one-half miles south of Hen-
derson.
Horton allegedly shot Van Zandt
as he sat at the supper table Fri-
day night. He used a shotgun,
shooting through a window from
the outside. Then he went around
to the rear of the negro shanty,
forced his entrance through the
back door, and shot Van Zandt
again through the head at close
range, deputies from the sheriff’s
department said Saturday.
Horton, who resides in Hender-
son, did not give himself over to
peaceofficers, but went to his
home here and was getting ready
to go to bed when officers ar-
rived. Deputy Sheriffs Tatum
Brown, Gordon Strong and Rea-
gan Stone investigated. The
Weatherford farm, where the slay-
ing occurred, is located on the
Henderson-Bethel road.
The officers said that Van
Zandt and his wife had separated
about three weeks ago and that
she was living in Henderson. The
Horton negress had left her hus-
band last week. She was at the
table with Van Zandt and his
three children at the time of the
murder.
Horton, when questioned by the
district attorney's office Satur-
day, pleaded the right to protect
his home, the sanctity of which he
believed was being violated.
The dead negro’s body was
brought to the A. Crim Funeral
Home.
Open
Mar. .. 1113
May .... 1087
July .... 1050
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EL PASO. (UP)—How a sick
mother, whose son stole the sav-
ings she had laid aside for an op-
eration, preferred to see her son
in custody of the state's penal sys-
tem rather than continue the life
he was leading, was revealed Sat-
urday in an indictment handed
down by the El Paso County grand
jury.
Mrs. Matilda Corona Gomez,
who told investigators that her son
had stolen $112 she had saved for
a major operation, said she felt
that her son would be better off
"in custody of the law, even if he
is in jail, rather than go on the
way he has been going.”
Mrs. Gomez told officers that
her son, 19-year-old Alberto Co-
rona Gomez, took the money sev-
eral weeks ago and disappeared.
The mother located him in Mon-
terrey, Mexico, and, borrowing
money from friends, went there to
A. Crim
HOUSTON. (UP)—Miss Etta
Mae Maglaskey, 25, faced a mur-
der charge today in the shooting
of Miss Edna Mae Butler, 24, Fri-
day night while a crowd urged
them to "keep fighting.”
The slaying occurred in a taxi-
cab parked in front of a lunch
stand. Police said that John J.
Cutrupia, taxi driver, took one of
the young women to the lunch
stand where the other stood talk-
ing to a man.
The second young woman walk-
ed over to the cab and got in, Cu-
trupta said. A moment later, the
fight occurred.
“A crowd gathered and ribbed
the girls to keep on fighting,” Cu-
trupia said. “I tried to get them
out but couldn't.
‘They were pulling each other’s
hair and the girl on the bottom
started shooting.”
Miss Maglaskey walked off aft-
er the shooting but later surren-
dered to police.
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He Wasn’t a Gangster,
Just Trying a Bluff
heavier selling volume. Declines
in •tocks. however, were held to
relatively narrow proportions, with
a eignificant number of selected is-
sues countering the trend with
good gains.
Bonds also backed down Scan-
dinavian issues were weak. with
Norwegian bonds down to losses of
as much as 7 points. U. S. Gov-
ernment loans were easy and do-
mestic corporates had moderate
declines
Commodities were mixed. Wheat
at Chicago ws up more than two
cents a bushel and other grains
were firm. Rubber held gains of
around one-half cent a pound and
cotton, sugar, coffee, cottonseed
oil and cocoa were firm. Non-fer-
rous metals were weak with cop-
per down around one-half cent and
tin off more than a cent. Silk,
pepper, hides and wool also de-
clined. ,
Business news, judged seasonal-
ly was not unfavorable. However,
these were indications that the
seasonal slipback may now be
Starting and with Wall Street in a
bearish frame of mind those indi-
cations appeared magnified.
The Federal Reserve Board re-
ported that its adjusted production
Index (1923-25 equals 100) had
reached a record high of 128 in
•December. But effect of that re-
port was more than offset by es-
timates that this month’s index
number would fall to between 120
and 125.
The steel picture was somewhat
less encouraging. Operations dip-
ped to around 85 per cent. The
drop was smaller than anticipated
but the outlook was dull in view
of reports that much of the cur-
rent rate was at the expense of
backlogs.
Ward’s in reporting automobile
production for this week only some
3,000 units below the 111,000 total
of the preceding week, said that
prospects were for a downward
drift in the next few weeks but
noted that it was “remarkable that
the drift began at so high a level
and will proceed gradually.”
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Finland has again experienced
to the fullest that agreements
mean nothing at all to the rulers
of Russia.—President Kyosti Kal-
lio of Finland.
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Tiic spiri: of good nelghborl.ness
was again brought to the fore
when first among the states to
send a grand duchess to Texas’
own Mardi Gras, to be held in
Galveston, Feb. 1-8, was Arkan-
sas. Appointed by Gov. Carl E.
Bailey, Miss Katherine lone
Steel, debutante daughter of
Judge and Mrs. Will Steel of
Texarkana, will represent that
state at the fete’s activity which
promises to take on a more
glomorous and military caste
than ever before in its history
dating back to 1867.
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Carl Jaggers (above) last week
became manager of the State In-
surance Agency, and the State
Finance Co., both local concerns
with offices in the Haden &
Boucher Building. He succeeds
Finis Honeycutt who retired from
the post to resume his life in-
surance activities on a full time
scale.
Mr. Jaggers takes over the local
companies after sixteen years ac-
tively engaged in the retail auto-
mobile selling field. The past nine
years of that time was spent in
Henderson. Six years prior in
Chickasha, Oklahoma.
Mr. Jaggers said that both the
State Insurance Agency and the
State Finance Company would
continue a policy of aggressively
working in the interest of Hen-
derson and this area, maintaining
full service in both insurance and
financing. In the insurance field,
the agency handles fire, auto-
mobile, theft, public liability and
property damage, compensation,
hall, windstorm, and all kinds of
hazard protection. The State Fi-
nance Co., caters to loans on new
and used automobiles, oil payments
and royalties.
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NEW AUTO REGISTRATIONS
M. A. Propea, Henderson, Ply-
mouth fordor sedan.
A. W. Conn, Henderson, Ford
tudor sedan.
L. L. Skeeters, Kilgore, Ply-
mouth tudor sedan.
A. L. Mayeux, Henderson, Olds-
mobile tudor sedan.
G. B. Edwards, Jr., Henderson,
Mercury convertible club coupe.
Fred T. Erwin, Henderson, Olds-
mobile tudor sedan.
W. G. Bailey, Overton R-3, Ply-
mouth tudor sedan.
NEW YORK. (UP) — Cotton
futures closed steady in extreme-
ly quiet dealings Saturday. Final
prices were 2 points lower to 3
points higher. Opening prices were
4 points lower to 6 points higher.
In the closing minutes, price
fixing came into the market and
met selling by locals, together
with a few hedge offerings.
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