The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 6, 1930 Page: 1 of 4
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SHANOIIAI. A 11 g, «. (APK-.Tnn-
ane«o dispatcher tndnr retmrted com-
mttnlsta execute-l 3000 Chinese af-
ter capturing chanr<ha Inst Tiipn.hv,
Additional war°hipi 'were being
Turbed to the red ;*oji by foreign
tovonimfit^., who'V' decisions to rp-
luforce ib" ^ivcr fjntrol wo*
has> toned by further outrages against
their nationals.
Eleven whit or were knówn to
hayo Callón -vkhIius of oommunHta
fiiwo last Wednesday.
Six American and three British
sailors bayo boon Winded in Rkirm-
.Isliof «between bandits <v>d giinbpats
- obtho 'Slani; river near Changsha.
DWnatehp- coii'in'iPil to toll of
"orómnuist depredations throughout
the Yanetw? vallev
n("'ort_cc frc"'1 . •'¿?.o£at.cd..i.afc.
i" trinan, IlnpoH. Kinncsi and
FtiUoin provinces «'iid nnmó>*oiis -r«^d
Hands numberi'ig- from..'a few bun-
'lr^'1 to 10 00O .niil^od towns awl
r'ifr.Ki t-oj-ror vlrtunllr unopposed.
;1?creienA|edrW«i from ("■hnneslm
-ild communists had withdrawn from'
that city, allnwine Hi a roturtl ol pre-
vincial defense force's, whose «.«at- t
tpfod members i'crc assemblin* t herp.
Foreiimern Were leaving, Kiulonnt.
ftUtnaral province."-in ¡.erekl. number ,
fearing an attack hv 10 O JO- reda re-
nortpd advancing upon the city from
thp west.
Between Klukiansr and Hankow,
along the Ya^gtae. communists loot-
ed and burned manv .Small viílazes,
apparently seeking to frighten peu -
ant« into .ioinitis tliPlr forpps.
.UiippsiiiPss^PonMMuod at Inch pitch"
in Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyanc..
Tlorts were rpportod planning to a(-
tnp|-. Hankow and voluntpor dofenop
iforiioH', woyp ' hoiiur formod thoro by
CbinoBp and rforoignors.
Xorth of Hankoo i'Pds oxtortpd
money" and supplies from bolplpps
íaímers. ^ V • j.
Meanwhile the ^government nn-
nonneód It '«•«« imtsterint! all available
forces in. an . effort to halt the ad-
vnneé • of northern rebel* into llonnii
innl Hli.'iiitunc prnyinces-
Change Weekly
S. Ao Programs
Bet!¡niiiiis this week. Captnin lohn
O. Churchill of the local, post of the
Salvation Army baa made consider-
able change in. his weekly programa,
acting ■on -inatr-uoilona from ' head-
quarters.
Hereeafter office hours !nt theSal-
vation Army hall on Front between
Third and Fourth k{reels will be
from 0 u. m-. to 12 m. and meet-
ings at the-hall will be on Tuesday
and Tbiirsday uights beginning nt ; S
o'clock Instead of on Tuesday and
Satnrdá.v nights as heretofore.
Sunday school will be held at 10
a. m- at tlie hall instead of at 3 p.
m., a# heretofore.
GOVERNMENT
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I.OXDO>f, Aug. ti. (AP) —- TIip
Ttritish aOvernnieiit today made, ur-
gent representations to the NankUr-t
v government for - the release of th*>
iniBsibnnries. Miss ' Riiith Xettleton
and Miss E.. J. Hnrrington. being,
held for '$50,000 ,1-ftnHom. ' *
Tt was Miss Xettleton vVbose_ fin-
ger had been reported put \ off mid
mailed ih n letter demanding J50,000<'
Minisler Lainpsoti, In Peiping.
toid the Chinese góverninentx today
that if the brigand threats of further
outrages were carried out the result,
would lie a deplorable and disastrous
reaction of public opinion througb-
• out the world and Chinese people and
government would lie disgraced.
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McALESTBK, pklA.. Aug. 0. (AP)
—A new pole? sitting record went by
the boards nt Hartshorne.ff near" here
early today whon .lack Doyle, 27,
jumped 25 feet to the ground upon
discovering [lis pérch in flame.^ H-
"~*wakene'i in time to avert burning
or being injured' or perhaps killed
l!y' a phone cull in his sleep. The
jump oecnrred nt 1:30 -tt'eWk tiii-'
mornine.
OOj'lc discovered, that someone bud
thrown gártoline on the (i by (i inch
pille which supported him. and set
lire to it.
"The pole sitter came down in thf
heat of health, albeit he returned to
dearth suddenly. He hail been upfiOfi
hou>«. He gained four -pounds While
on Xhe péteh. ' ' ■ '
Rains Briiig Aid
To Entire County
Tteceut rains have reached every
section of the county and have com-
pletely relieved droufth d«ma*ed ar-
ena. according to réporta from farm-
ers familiar with thf situation, pre-
vious to thin week thei'e 1mA heen no
general rain óver the county. More
rain will improvp corps, according to
farmers in town today.
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aAlNBflVt^tJS. 'Tex.. Art*. A
r - f?térTIñg-for-Oovernor cltih has been
organised here with Cecil Murphy,
local attorney, on cHairman. Plans
,ve been made for apeakerla tcj
. tto' county v.W
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WASniXOTOX. Aug. C. f.VP)—
The concentrated effort of eovern-
mpnt agencies was bent today to the
task of \ascertaining accurately tMe
needa of the ^rought-stricken' eonn-
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While reqiiesf for . belief wpre
pouring in. the department of agri-
culture and the farm board, at the
direction -of president Hoover, en-
gaged jn determining, both existing
conditions and the measures the
government could employ to' assist
the' suffering agricultural states- The
president .expects a report to bp
placed before him Monday.
A desolation equalling thq do-
struetion of floods, tornadoes and
earthquakes was described to / the
president in a teleeram for aid de-
spatched last niglit by governor
Sampson of Kentucky. A piré for
If- pWe|a mn t Ion for na fTon-wid'n p(rflj:-
pr meetings to ask divine aid for
rain came to the chief executive
from Alexandria, just across the Po-
tomac from, the capital. Food for
huihans as well as cattle was asketl
In an appeal from flie Virgin Is'
lands.
Meitiiwbilp rpports Of shower-" eon-
■tinned ' to ■'■•come from many sections
hut none told of steady, soaking'
downpours such as' are needed to
save parched erops and furnish feed
for Vast herds of caltle.
A rn-■ ,ot' hcyip come from prelim-
inary observations of the department
ef agriculture, which held tlint if
August and September produce nor-
mal rainfalls feed ferain eropH may
be hal-vested in fair quantities.
These would be better than aver-
age in New England and the south-
past,. 'average in Wiseoiisin. Minne-
sota. 'íown. South Dakota and Xe-
brarka. The yields of Tesas. Okla-
homa. Kansas and • parts of— Tolo^
tado and Xew Mexico would be ft
little below average while four-fifths
of the prnins might be saved even
now in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri. Arkansas and Alabama. ; A
three-fourths yield, \yotild result in
the strip bordering the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to the gulf.
It was ti big "if." however, that
governed these hopes as the weathor
bureau experts ftill sought in vain
for signs, of ronl relief ahead.
•BIG THREE' CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY
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Scarcely a year passes that this famous trio fails to get together on
the birthday of one of its members. Above, Henry Ford,,left, and
Harvey Firestone, right, aré shown with Thomas A. -Edison, .center,
on Ford's 67th birthday, at East Orange, N. J. All three are ,1poor1
boys who made good." The birthday meeting was coincident with
the arrival of youths from all over the country to compete for the
Edison scholarship.
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SOVIET ORGAN
Reed Funeral Held
At Vinton Today
Funeral services for Cecil Hn.v
Reed, two-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Reed who died at the
family reiiden«e In Vinton at 3-
o'clock .wsterday afternoon were
held at J o'clock this afternoon, Rev.
I.esley Rogers, prtstor of the First
Rnptist ' ehiircli1. officiating, with ili-
termant ih the Hiifman cemetery
near that plaee, under the direction
of Ortmpver & Son of Oriimre-
The child Is survived by his par-
ents, one brother, f\ Reed: Iff
Mrs. J.' S. Reed and Mr, and Mrs.
Finik l.ePoeuff. hi« grandparents.
Qpeár Brewer Is
Buried at Houston
Oscar Rrewer, aged about 4Í
vpnrs, a former Orange man./ who
died in Houston on Mwidnv; ••
buried in that eitv yesterday, The
deceafed married Miss Oussie Mp-
Crory. daughter of Mr. and Mrs, 3.
A. McCrory i«> Orange about Id
veafs ogo.
MAYOR MeOAVFR nETt'RTÍS
T - FROM BRI/TON
Mnvor Ed S. MpCarver returned
immp today from Relton where he
itnessed the commencement exer-
, of the Bajlor-Beltoi gradimtin*
, of which his daughter, Mls<
r wm a member, The mnv-
y" br v bis
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MOSCOWjt-^Uig. li: 't AFH—Pravda,
mouthpieep of the communist party,
today sounded a clarion call to the
proletarian mosses .and fommnnist
parties throughout the world to sup-
port the Chinese revolution.
"in each fb.ctor\ or enterprise and
in every part of í the world." the
paper snid, "there should be estab-
lished committees for enforcing the
policy of hands off i lio. Chinese ,revo-'
lutlon" ;
■Declaring thnt two lorge America^
munitions plaiits .and all tUo^Jtíapltíil-
ístie countries of the world are' ^up-
plying the Chinese reactionary gen-
erals with munitions and money,
Pravda urged the workers in all
these countries resolutely to oppose
nil shipments of munitions, to carry
on the active revolutiajir.v work
among the wdilllVn i of their own
countries, and to mobilise the masses
against imperialistic Intervention in
China- *" '•*■
BY LABOR CHIEF
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ROSTON. Aug. ' « tAP)—Henry
Ford today was criticized hv MntheW
W'oll. third vice president of the Am-
erican Fet^prntioii of Labor, for man-'
nfaeturlng tractors in Ireland and
then ¡importing them into this eoun-
try. Woll • siioke heftii'e tile—state
convention of tRp American federa-
tion of l nbor. .y ■
''American capital."' he said, "is in-
terested abroad not to elevate ' the
standards of/the workers but to 'ex-
ploit the cheap labor and the n'ssets
of Europe <(^nd Asia and place,_aour
own people in competition with
them- \\
... "Henry ,Ford is landed - 'an grcat\
indjrfstrialist\ whose policy si to let
people who can manufacture the
en pest supply the world. We nm\
look with apprehension upon -such ..a
philosophy with reference to the fu-
ture welfare of America.
"Today .he is not manufacturing a
single tractor In America. V They are
nil made In Dublin. Ireland, and im-
ported Into • the Fnited Stntes. If
that be ^American patriotism, let Am-
erica beware!"
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UOOSBVKIiT FIEI.t). N*. V. —
An aviatrlx who was picked tip at
sea iji á Isnfl plane in learning to
fly an amplliblsn. She is Mrs. Wsli
ter1 Camp, probably better known as
Ruth Elder, who -save she is pl«n-
ning no more ocean flights.
VtTA8HmntON.' r Paul a. >a-
of New TorV. talked himael'
a aentenee on a «bañé of
IE
Steps will be taken by not Inter
than the first of next .venr to eolleet
nil idpliniiueUt taxes due the ;Orange
independent school lion.ru, ;ll w9s. de*
elded by the city bonrU at- n meeting
held yesterday afternoon. ^ ~
It yvas thj> opinion of hoard mem-
bers that they had been sufficiently
lenient -With the proper!v owners due
to the financial depression that has
prevniled. It was saith that in oriler
to insure a nine-month term for the
schools for 1930-31 thatj it would be,
necessary for n very .lnrge percent-
age of the delinquent t,a?w money to
be .paid ''
. Several local attorneys have sub-
mitted propositions to collect the
delinquent taxes, although hp to the
prepent time ho contract has been
entered IntoXvlth nnYone for the col-
lection of back taxes.
Several matters in connection with
the coming- school, sessions beginning
September 4. received, ' attention at
this meeting. It wns announi-ed that
Superintendent E. R, Stover of the
Vity School*, who was away on his
racat io]i. would be back some time
next \teek.
Anti-Blue Law
Campaigner Her*
, A campaign against proposed Sun-
day blue laws- is /being \vn<red in Or-
ange by n repreijbntntive of the Am-
erican Liberty, f association. which
maintains Texa.'t headquarters at
Houston-
P. C!. Iloherispe, fi .representative
Of thp nssopiation rpfiched here this
morning with a. petition which bp
rrpscnteil to «erersl l«adine citispns
this , morning! • The petition is in op-
position to what is purported to be n
motirement fostered bv Hip Protestant
phtirplips to create laws tvo enforce
Sunday closing.
Hohenpee said that he had juat
covered Beaumont where he found a
very large percentage of the peo tile
opposed to the Sunday blue laws.
DOWNPOUR IS
"COffllT
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Widely- sepa ral eil- ,sections of Texas
today were en|n\iu'r .1 reiolto fri>m
the 'drought and hot weather of
'he l-i-t iw,, months. TluindeV "shpw-
crs yesteHnv watered Mapehed fields
end cno'ed 'be n(,ti<osplie¡'e. v
Preceded b' :i licvv wliwi a
do^njifHll .vertí'rOf'iy in Austin aiid
••iifPoui'diir;: re;i>>ns brought relief.
The wind ' assumed • nropii-iiotia of a
small (ornado íÍ¡ \l-irole '•'alls, where
damage estimated at b"t've«n Í20.-
noo and SSO'lini) 'was pipped eénter-
ing on the mill of th*> iVt tified ¡Víb-
ora torie . ,Ttie.
liw}* -I) Terrell comnussioper of
agti-'t'lture? terme 1 the rain a "Cod*
netid " ■*'"■
I •ip'ihnft. I' dd-veM co¡ity(vr report-
ed two inchea of rnin e.«d I.ameta,
Lampares county, one ineb.
Rain at Corsir'ána and'vicinity also
broke the intense heat. -
•A heavy downpour -nt Temple was
the tlrst orecipitatioti there In nearly
two months. ■>
llnlf an inch of rainfall was re-
ported a! C rand Saline, and Fortt
VVorth was favored with 1.5 inches,
Hallas en.loved a showej" of brief du-
ration, Rcnuhiont reported 1.-3I
inches and Port Arthur, .-S of an
inch. ;
Sweetwater and Lubbock received
slow, steady rains.
A considerable area in central
Texas surrounding Wncio alsm receiv-
ed a good raip nnjl án hour's down-
pour. measuring at least two * -inches
Wifs reported from northeast Tex/is
'ill -portions of tlregg. Smith. Panola
and Harrison/ counties.
SWEETWATER, Tex.. Aug. 6 —
C.pnPral rains were falling jover this
section of west Texas today v nftor
showers hail brought relief from
heat Yesterday. Three-fourths of nn
Inch had, fallen at . s a. m„ and it
was still, raining.
.WACO. Tex.. Au«. ' C, t Al')—The
rainfall here for, the past--S4 hours
totaled pno,and one-lialf4nt*hes-.. Re-
ports indicate the rain - w^s^ general
in this section.
Chester Barsley Is
Buried at Jennings
Chester, Bnrs|ey¡ 21. who sustained
a broken neck and backbone in an"
automobile wreck near' Me&phfo.
■freno., two week* ago. ivas buripd
St Jennings, La., yesterday.. The
young- man's mother, Mrs. Mary
UurSlejy lives at 3t|.S Henderson
streety this vltj. The unfortunate
young man had lived, here. He was
en route with his bride of a week
from Orange tp- IJet.roit where, he was
employed when overtaken by the ac-
cident. The young, wife.' of the dead
man also sustained very serLoiu: In-
jurien. and was niwide -to hjtvve .the
hospital when" iier husband died-
LOUISIANA GIRL
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NEW YORK. — Tt will be the
bouneing main ; If the I>lan of two
Brooklyn mechan les succeeds. Eleven
rubber companies have been Invited
to construct free of charge a huge
rubber hall In which Carl Ilerxoc
and Frit* Oo^l would bonnee over
the Atlantic to Europe. Thev con-
ceived the idea from a toy balloon
at the beafch.
NEW YORK. —^ Passengers on
the Incoming Majestic described a
novel sight. Twice a day the Ma-
harajah of Plthapuram. aii In
prince, would line up his «Iff.
sons, a daughter-in-law, four
WICHITA, ka.t., Aug. «;• (Ap)—
Captain Frank Hawkes arrival here
from St. Louii at 11.13 o'clock,
making tlie trip in two hours and
two minutes. Hp refuel here and
até. luncheon, departing at 11:45 for
Albuquerque. / N. M., his next refuel-
ing stop. '
C0U?:MBI?S. Ohio. Aug. «, (AP)
—•Captain Frank M. lawks, at-
tempting to establish- a traiis-conti-
nental air record between NSW York
and Los ■ Angeles, arrived at Port
Columbus at. 7:48 a. m,-, today, tip
hours and forty-eight minutes after
he left Cltrtiss field, New York. He
refueled here and left for St. Louis,
his next stop, at 8:04.
ASHLAN'p Ky.. Aug. (1. (AP)—A
fall costing bim his life ended Nel*
nlori MHntosh's fee-sitting here to-
day" after lie had heen up 400 bourn.
The lad who Is 10 years old, ¿lip-
ped as he leaned forward to pull up
hip lunch and toppled 4i feet to the
ground. His neck was broken.
Young Mcintosh hnd announced
that, he1 would comp down at 4 p. m.
today after 500 hours in the tree,
PLYMOUTH, Vt. — Rrfok to his
farm house liomestead for a brief •
visit. Calvin Coolidte has been pro-
vided with a diversion. A miniature
windmill he built In the days before
he became president and n^lch he
nsed to like o wstch spill luis- lieen
unearthed frqm the cellar by Mrs.
Coolldge and once again the former
president' sits- ion the plagia admir-
ing bis handiwork.
MAYS, I^ANDINO, N. J. In his
quarter of a eentnry as owner of a
candy «tore. John Underbill, ner-o
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CALVESTOÑ. Tex.. Atlg.'S. (AP)
-5-A blonde 17. year old high school
girl. Porothy Hell O off of New Or-
leans, worn happily and a bit differ-
entiv todav the titfc* 'Tt auty Queen
of the Universe." . *
In a hall Rwept./Wit^ clamorous
applnnso, Miss Cloff was selected as
the dual winner of the annual In-
ternational pageant of pulchritude
last night and topight *2000 in' prise
money and a silver plaque vyllj be
presented to her at a testimonial
dinner. She previously had been
named '}Xliss I nited Stat\j of Am-
erica" In the first judging event.
Already plans w^re on foot to
place her in moving pictures or on
the stagfe. Martin Starr of Nen'
York, assistant director of the pa-
gpiant, announced, that lie has be-
(•ome her manager and was expect-
ing " number of offers.
The girl. Iirounlit up to the micro-
'phone, as the^ liniidclapping thunder-
ed, to be littrodueed, looked rather
bewildered and snid ill a lialf-ehoked
voice only that she was "the happiest
girl in the world." Aroiind New Or-
leans she has been an ¡unateur radio
in*er. V " V
< Tlie new Miss Unlvprsé is tlye and
ill half feet tall and weighs 122
pounds. Her hair is loiig and gold-
en blond. Iter bust mensures S4
inches, her waist 2tf. hips 3fi. thighs
21, ankle 7 :i-4.
In t|ie initial parades last night
she wore an old fashioned ..evening
gown of flesli plok net trimmed with
bowkuots of Frinch blue l'ihbotir
Her Im tiring costume worn later. I In
the evening, was blue with . a white
belt. ' ■ - ,
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There were fourteen
the Boy Scot* Court
last niglit at Stark park,
a total of sixty-four mer.v
presented by the court,
crowd 'attended and-.'fif
by a band concert for ti
preceding the court by '
Stnr¡k Boys' band under
tion of W- E. S. XHckei
Ait address br .1. O,
presidehlt of the First Nfti
on the Scout "Motto,": "Be
Pd" was iT"fBBture of,
Mr. Sims tested ' the Scouts'
edge by rf few well chosen
The following award
by J. H. David, who presided
court;
Second Class: Vaughan
Attoin-aftii. AfífP ropf'wdj,
First Class: Douglas
Robert Haught, troot 4; Wllbti
ley, O us Alborn, Bentley IJ
and Dick Woods, troop í; S
Ogden and Elbert t.«e Pace. ,
of Deweyville; '' y;£Mg£ga
First Class Merit Bad«o*f:
Bland, painting mid woodefl
Ben Bcriiiir. plumbing, tr. 2: T!
floorer, cycling and basketry, tr. <■.;
John Carrol Kellis, woodwork; Wm. jL
Dunn, athletics, tr. 4; Leland BqW«
man, blacksmithing. safety, agricnl- t
ture, farm home and its. planning and
eonsefvat|on;\ Lynn ChUders. safétíV;
'pathtindiug. • tlrst aid to- ^anSt^als,
clvU'R, nutomobiling. public taftUb,
agriculture, handicraft. woodwork,
farm lioinq and its planning; BenajtLaBB
Polley. farm mechanics, farm hoiho :s*
and Its Planning, Pathflndlng. swlm-
ming. first aid to animals and ahíjiatl
industry; pick Wood , automobiling.
and electricity; Carlos Davis, ca
ing, physical development, gardei
handicraft, leatlmrcrnft. leather*
scholarship .and wood carving; Fl
Ogden, bookbinding. Hremanahlp.
painting and carpentry: BliU5 '-'§&£•
lent, bookbinding, poultry ksnp «Ht.
gardening, plumbing and <. first aid w
" Rn.v Scott.
Campbell Hwitaer.' swimmlngr Fmnk
Wjlliford. plumbing and gardening) '
Mífrehall Hearne, aútomoblllns and
plumbing, nil of tr. 21, DeweyviW:
Life Scout: Carlos Davis, tr. Jl,
Deweyville:
p,ron?.(? Palm: Oullfofd Shepherd,
tr. 1. * . V ■
O old Palm: Leland Bowmftn.; tr
The Palms are the next rank af-
ter that of Ea*jn Scoutl; they
In order, Bronw . Clold and Silver,
the Rilrer Palth ibelns tha
Sooutinf.
1 Sink Shallow
In Making Blast
Tests For Oil
Start Collecting
1930 Taxes Soon
A new Item 0/ equipment is being
used by «eopbyaioal survayota in. Or-
ange county- a miniature drillinit rig
is parried by the surveyor* who
use It In putting down si* Inch wells
to a depth of about 100 feet At the
bottom of these •' wells, dynamite
charges are fired with the result that
next week. Indication are that many the surface of the earth is not do-
people will pay their taxes in Aug- iftCüd. and that lietter results with the
ust.
M. O. Dayies. city tax asaensar
and collector, expects to have the
hooks open a ltd retnk- for the collec-
tion of taxes for 193/1 some time
Quite* a number of the property
owners have already paid their 19S0
school ¡axes to the collector for the
Orange independent iichool diatrict.
seismographs are obtained. Several
members of a party Of surveyor* of
the Hun Oil company reached Orange
today •■ preparatory to ' making new
tests lm this section. ■
Lynch Davidson Ooposed to Fergusons
But Says Sterling Is Unfit For Place
' HOUSTON Tesas. August B.-r-
Lyiiph Davidgon, in nn interview,
today still maintained ¡ that Small and/
Young were the best''equipped met
for the governorship o'f Texas, In
the first primary be recommended the
voter. centering 011 .these two. can'
dldaten to assure their being in the
runoff together, l.ater in the cjim-
sign he found Young failing to de-
velop sufficient strength and urged
the rotors to ¿enter on Small. Dn-
vidson expressed much regret that
SmalJ had not entered the runoff, hut
was highly elated over Iris, magnifi-
cent race; He further had to sat.
"Small was practically unknown in
the southern half Of the state, hut
polled a .most gratifying vota from
that section. No candidate ever re'
celved a finer tribute to his\ charac-
ter ami ¡recognition of his public ser-
vice than given Senator, Small by
his homevpcople. fly the term 'home
people' is meant the west and the
Panhandle where the vote for Sena
tor «mall was Indeed a 'block vote.'
Senator Small's candidacy has ren-
dered a real service by removing
from political life many v who have
engaged In promoting political tur-
moil* over ¿ period of years. The dis-
appointment 'I may feel oyer his de-
feat Is outweigh*! by tjle gratifica-
tion of contributing to ancb wtmiBf
and tarte*
before the Moody administration took
Ziffl e, when the Moody . rdmlnistfa-
tion and R. S- Sterling, its hlgkwaV
chairman, resurrected the *tate high-
way bond ijisne, my i«. upífiiij>n waa
continued with added vigor to cor-
respond to the increased/effort being
made to put it over. , When later Mr.
Sterling became a/Candidate for gov-
ernor and made 'Highway Bonds' the
campaign ¡ríumí. naturally I opposed
bis candidacy and that of Tom Love.,
the other advocate of this polltic-
conoróle lieresy and fallacy. On the
this is written eight hundred
ten thousand people ha* passed
judgment on this nueStlOIJ at tbo
ballot. Love and Sterling, -iuppojet-
ers of the bond issue, polled two
hundred and v fifty thousand votes.
The candidates oppoalng ti bond
issue polled Ave hundred and OfW*
nine thousand votes, which means to
say that approximately seventy per
cent of the people expressed them-
selves against the bond issue.. As 'I
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The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 6, 1930, newspaper, August 6, 1930; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142747/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Orange+County+-+Orange%22: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.