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COOKE COUNTY NEWS THAN
ALL OTHER COUNTY PAPERS
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Slaying of Recluse
For Suicide
WEATHER
volved in
a head-on collision of
By D. HAROLD OLIVER
Missive She Received
train.
ADMINISTRATION
though she were out for a stroll.
OF RELIEF BY CITIES AND
STATES IS REC OMMENDED
said Mrs. Knox received a letter
Weekend Recess
and France and Great Britain to
watch the fascist shoreline.
vanced as the judiciary commit-
. hearings on the court bill.
struck her, he said.
ily.
dalena Sanders identified the girl
Several
"Perhaps you will never see me
and a dresser drawer had been
ber of the court have the benefit
sel, desperately fighting the fire
the middle—for about 65 yards.
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Decision on Auto
Strike Inj unction
. PITTMAN URGES
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SPAIN’S REBELS .
DRIVEN FROM A
STRATEGIC SPOT
HAWAIIAN
ISLANDSC
Double File Picket Line
Marches About Building
to Tune of Band Music
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ATLANTIC
OCEAN
To guard against "incidents" the
committee forbade patrol ships to
search suspected vessels or to op-
WASHINGTON, March 13 (AP)
Senator Pittman (D -Nev. 1, a ju-
' DETROIT, March 13 (AP). —
Circuit Judge Allen T. Campbell
world,
w-oman
EXECUTIVE FIRST DAY OF
VACATION IN GEORGIA
TERRELL.
(AP).—Nine
today deferred until Monday morn-
ing his decision on the petition of
Chrysler Corporation for an injunc-
tion ordering sit-down strikers to
Passengers Quit
Burning Vessel
FRUIT AS COLD
WAVE ARRIVES
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repetition of arguments.
Pittman said:
“I have no desire to induce the
present judges to retire. In fact
I would like to have the new mem-
j erate outside their specified zones.
Violations of the neutrality rules
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about 40 signed Italy and Germany to guard
the coast of government territory
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By SAM JACKSON
AP Feature Service Writer
OAKLAND. Calif.—Amelia Ear-
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Deputy Sheriff
Dies of Wound
Mollisons Agree
To Get Divorce
= PROJECTED EARHART FLIGHT
== WILEY POSTS KOUTE IN 1933
—— U.S. AMY PLANES' ROUTE IN 1924
Joe Minton, a former roomer at ( UNIFORM
the home of the wealthy recluse.
are Invited to Attend
Hiram Knox, a son, who had been
associated with his father in the .
lumber business was shot to death .
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and so tiny she couid lie held
in the palm of the hand, the
girl was fe. milk with a medi-
cine dropper.
ers and 2,200 Reo employes were
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vice-president of General Motors,
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of the arguments and opinions of required for four months to catch
down her land plane except the
doubtful terrain of a race track at
Rabout, New Britain. At Lae she
will use the field and shops that
accommodate the planes serving
the Bulolo gold fields in the in-
terior of New Guinea.
Charting the Weather
Intensive mapping of the weath-
er is in progress in Oakland to help
safeguard the first leg to Hawaii.
Missing Letter May
Be Important Clue in
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Demands for war materials have increased sc greatly that Belgians have been digging along
the World war western front recovering copper shell cases, shrapnel and bullets. This lot
shown here will be shipped to England. Work is being hastened so that the former battlefields
may be cultivated in the spring. (Associated Press Photo)
Thomas Cummins, (above). Re-
publican precinct captain and
witness in the trial of six per-
sons on vote fraud charges, testi-
fied at Kansas City, Mo., that
he and a precinct captain went
behind a church pulpit to ar-
range election tally sheets in ac-
cord;
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able in industry and agriculture.
“One heartening ray of hope is
the recently established social se-
curity program."
to the bill was approved, he would ■ elude union demands for a national
offer a constitutional amendment, minimum hourly wage scale and a
to prevent the court from being|30-hourweek.
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basis that the violator will be dis-
obeying regulations of his own
country cooperating in the inter-
The train was moving
1 miles an hour, he said.
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tomobile Workers of America and
brief response by cdrporation at-
torneys.
More than a thousand persons
lance with pre-arranged
plans. (Associated Press Photo)
ULU MEXIC
4,000- Mile Range
Miss Earhart has chosen the
RELIEF PROBLEM
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One Pound Baby
Born Prematurely,
Fails to Survive
ways superinten-
dent of the bu-
reau of air com-
KIND TO CHIEF
for settling the General Motors
strike, discussed the Chrysler con-
troversy at a conference with De-
troit labor leaders and said, “The
general industrial conflict" was
“serious and unfortunate.”
William S. Knudsen, executive
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in the interior of Oahu.
To ‘initiate’ Island Field
At Howland island Miss Earhart
will be the first flier to land on a
new field. There are only 11 resi-
dents to welcome her—all boys
from Hawaii—but the coast guard
cutter Shoshone will stand by.
Flight navigator as far as Dar-
win, Australia, will be Captain
said he saw the girl
remained in a corridor of the
Wayne county courthouse until the
judge’s announcement was made.
Outside a double file picket line
of union men encircled the build-
ing while a 12-piece band played
for the marching men.
60,000 Involved
SAN FRANCISCO, March 13
(AP).— Radio advices to the U. S.
S. Louisville today said the pas-
sengers of the burning motorship
Silverlarch had abandoned the
craft in lifeboats.
The Silverlarch carried a crew
GOVERNMENT TROOPS GIVEN
SIPPORT BY PLANES ON
BOMBING POSITIONS.
ejected.
Chrysler’s move came on the
heels of an announcement that the
U. A. W. A. and the General Mo-
tors Corporation had composed dif-
ferences arising from the G. M. C.
straight toward the
Cotton is a major crop, but there
are some fine cattle and chickens
on the place. He also wanted to
see once more his tw o mules "Tug”
and "Hop.”
The weather was kind to the va-
cationing chief executive on his
first day here. The sun sent the
thermometer above 70 as he drpve
his specialy built car over ’the
dusty roads and wound up by rib-
bing a golf, foursome that included
his secretary, Marvin H. McIntyre.
GUARDING OF
LAND BORDERS
TO BE PLANNED
yet,” the president shouted.
and foes of the bill. Some commit-
tee members on both sides already
were expressing disapproval of
in Hempstead in 1921.
from out-of-town, which if it can
be found, will furnish a positive '
coming - To Spur Vigilance
as To spur the vigilance of the
; naval patrol, the committee as-
: signed Italy and Germany to guard
WEATHER
Today noon, 48; low last night.
59; high, yesterday, 73; for year,
high 73; low. 16.
Gainesville and Vicinity: To
night and Sunday*, cloudy, rain
turning to sleet and snow; colder.
Shengha) -Sp‛
recognition as exclusive bargaining
agency for 67,000 Chrysler workers
I diciary committee member sup- precipitated the strike. Union of-
porting the Roosevelt court bill, ficers were summoned to circuit
, proposed today that the suggested 1 court today to show cause why the
1 -25 i sit-down strikers should not be
the present justices up on orders accumulated during
Three Reasons ( iled , the strike. The- Associated Press
hsusa x ssss
mentally free and not bound by and ler and Hudson production lines
(Continued On Page Three) Despite widespread strikes ind^
Keep it up Mac, you’ll get there which has been blazing three days
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DALLAS, March 13 (APi.
Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.) will
open opposition testimony Monday. i involved.
Vote Case Witness FEAR FELT FOR
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that would make some women golf- eight Americans, believed to be on
ers blush and doesn’t care who a world tour. Most of the crew
knows it, drove one straight down remained aboard the stricken ves-
The Pittman suggestion was ad- Hudson Motor Company plant at
Detroit and the Reo Motor Car
tee took a weekend recess in the Company plants at Lansing, Mich.,
— closed. Ten thousand Hudson work-
LAREDO, Texas, March 13
Deputy Sheriff Francisco Herrera,
37, stabbed Wednesday. died to-
day. Cesario Trevino was charged
with the slaying.
Herrera was called to the door
at his home and was stabbed witb
a table knife which had beer
ground to a point
warnings. —
East Texas: Cloudy., probably hart Putnam’s goal is to makeThe
occasional rams tonight andsun- first "rear flight around the world.
. dayturning.toset on colder n( If successful, she will achieve
extreme north portion, colder m these "firsts,” according to her
north and west portions tonight; arrangement director
colder in interior Sunday: freezing n director,
in northwest and north-central
portions tonight or Sunday. Gentle
to moderate southerly to easterly
LONDON, March 13 TAP). —
The warships of Great Britain,
France, Italy and Germany today
began taking over "beats” to police
the coasts of war-scarred Spain
and put teeth in the 27-nation neu-
trality agreement.
Further vital steps, supplement-
ing the naval cordon, remained to
be taken, however, before the
"hands off Spain” lines could be
drawn tightly about the civil war.
Three newly appointed supervi-
sors of the international blockade,
chosen as the neutrality commit-
tee ended months of bickering over
details and principles, planned to
meet in London Monday to com-
plete plans.
Frontier Agents Required
They must provide for recruiting
of frontier agents to be stationed
on the French and Portuguese
borders of Spain.
Each of the 27 participating na-
tions also must pass legislation or
f l promulgate decrees requiring its
ransacked when a neighbor found
the aged woman’s body sprawled
in her home last night. Detectives
found $11,000 in government bonds
and a cashier’s check for $1,600 in
the house.
Authorities said they did not
know w'hat the safety box con-
tained but neighbors said Mrs.
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FLIER—This is how she’ll look to navigator in rear.
Oklahoma: Heavy Meet and
snow, colder: freezing in south, be-
low freezing in north portion to-
| night; Sunday sleet or snow. cold-
I • er in southeast portion. Livestock
At an undertaker’s Mrs. Magt will be reported to the government
.2 ~—2— 12—‘121 2 ’ „ j of the suspected violator, on the
showers. The drop in temperature
was felt keenly because of the high
MORNING SWIM, j "dem"" —
MOTOR JOURNEY Nine Injured in
Headon Collision
27 Participating Nation*
Must Pass Laws Requir-
ing Ships to Obey Orders
mass naval flights have largely
dispelled fear of this 2,410-mile
hop, but aviation officials have
not forgotten the tragedies attend-
ing the Dole race in 1927 and the
last such flight when Lt. Charles
C. P. Ulm and two companions
were lost at sea.
Honolulu will not get to welcome
the famous flier as she will land at
died at 5:30 a
day in an
-"fmperatures below normal at hard way-circling the earth at
bedaning and rising thereafter. jits greatest circumference.
West Texas: Mostly cloudy, oc
casional rains in east and north
Portions except snow’ in the pan-
handle, colder in north and east-
centrai portions, freezing in north
with below freezing in the north
- with below’ freezing in the pan-
handle tonight; Sunday mostly
cloudy, snow and sleet with some
rain in north portion and rain in
Southeast portion. colder in east- .
Central portion. Livestock warn-
Mb in north portion.
Weather outlook for the week.
beginning Monday. Miller, “have just flown around
. Southern Plains and West Gulf J -
“states: Considerable cloudiness the North pole.
fint part of week with rain in
Coegt sections at beginning and in
mo portions in latter part of
ships to comply with orders of the
i international naval patrol. Then,
the committee hoped, the flow of
munitions and volunteers to Spain
would be halted.
The non-intervention committee
chose Admiral M. 41. Van Dulm,
former commander of the Dutch
East Indies fleet, to direct the neu-
i trality program, and put Admiral
J. S. C. Oliver, former Dutch
squadron commander, in charge
i of the naval patrol and Col. Chris-
I tian Lunn, of Denmark, in charge
of the frontier guard.
Observers believed the negotia-
| tors did not consider the Valencia
government’s charges that thou-
sands of Italian volunteers have
reached insurgent territory since
the committee ban nominally be-
i came effective February’ 20.
Weighing only I5> 2 ounces
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A 28g to fly the globe
8. its greatest
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w i miller the equator.
"Other fliers," says Commander
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Harry Manning, old sailing part-
ner of celebrated Captain George
Fried. Besides charting their
course by sun and stars, the two
will employ the radio range com-
pass, a sort of “homing” device
which guides the plane to any
given radio station. Two 50-watt
radio sets will enable Miss Ear-
hart to keep in touch,with the
world.
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LONDON, March 13 (AP).
Capt. James A. Mollison, Austra- ,
lian long distance flier; said today
he has asked nis wife, Amy John-
son Mollison, for a divorce.
“There is no ill feeling,” he said
"We are just going our own ways.”
T. Miller,
to fly
MADRID, March 13—(AP) —
Government troops, supported by
planes which dropped 492 bombs
on insurgent positions, drove en-
emy concentrations from strategic
Trijueque, 12 miles north of Quad-
alajara, the Madrid defense junta
reported today.
One complete artillery battery
was seized in the government coun-
ter-attack. commanders asserted.
The onslaught interrupted con-
solidating activities by the insur-
gents two hours after the advance
guard of Generalissimo Francisco
Franco marched into the town, the
government reports said.
The militiamen rained 200.000
machine-gun and rifle bullets on
insurgent concentrations to achieve
what Gen. Joe Miaja, junta com-
mander. declared was a “slowing
up” of the massed threat against
Madrid’s northeastern defenses.
Twenty-three insurgent tanks
were reported destroyed by squads
of government bomb throwers.
• VOLUME XLVII . ’ ■ GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1937 (Eight Pages) NUMBER 150
WARSHIPS BEGIN PATROL SPANISH COAST
HOUSTON, March 13 (AP».
Justice Tom Mays returned a ver-
• diet of suicide today in the death
■ of Miss Ann Kastner. 20 year old
nurse, who walked into a speeding
passenger train near the outskirts
of the city last evening.
Engineer C. B. Peters of the
Southern Pacific’s crack Sunbeam
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McIntyre, who has a handicap of 40 and the passengers were
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two automobiles on the west high-
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Mar 13way near here today, were serious-
(AP|.—President Roosevelt today ly injured.
charted the second day of his Muddy roads were blamed for
southern vacation to include a the accident. The injured: R. D.
morning swim and another tour of Crabb, Duncan, Okla., .suffered
the countryside behind the wheel face lacerations. Mrs. Crabb also
of an open car licensed “F. D. R.suffered lacerations. Dick Haynes,
No. 1.” Alma, Okla., broken leg; Mrs. Dick
From his little white cottage on Haynes, bruised knee; Emory G.
a pine-covered mountain overlook- ' right, district clerk of Rusk
ing the infantile paralysis founda-I county, . laceration and possible
tion, he planned to drive first to chest injuries: Mrs. Wright, frac-
a glass covered pool and splash in tured, left wrist, serious neck
the 85-degree water until lunch i wound; Mrs Tatum Brown, Hen-
time: derson, bruised knee; Mrs M. A
Then, he arranged to go' again Burt, Henderson, broken left shoul-
to his 2,800-acre farm several der ’ , Helen Brown, 12, bruised;
miles from the cottage to see how W ard, Donald and Glenn Crabb,
the spring plowing is progressing. Were uninjured.
PHILADELPHIA, March 13 The pretty brown haired girl
clue to the identity of the slayer. (API.— Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of seemed not to hear when he pulled
Mrs. Knox, friends said, had New York, told a regional confer- the whistle and bell cords and set
feared violent deaths such as ence of 30 mayors today that the I the brakes. Her head was held
overtook two members of her fam- nation faces a problem of federal high an instant before the engine
i" aid for 10 years to come.
enlarged beyond 15 members. He other
forecast it w'ould eliminate some 4 r 1 an ,aie
of the opposition to the president’s Sit-down strikers arising from
bill — , ■ the U. A. W. A. demand for ex-
clusive bargaining rights kept the
—l., , . Sixty thousand idle workers
ENLARGED COURT projected injunctive proceedings
aimed at removal of 5,000 strikers
....... . . _ who have held its eight Detroit
-NEVADA SENATOR BELIEVES plants for a week
MOVE WOULD ELIMINATE T *
MUCH OF OPPOSITION Insistence by the United Auto-
mobile Workers of America on
(By Associated Press)
A cold wave, bringing sleet and
snow, was bearing down on North
Texas today after scattered rains.
Fruit growers were hoping the
freeze would not damage the crop.
The weather bureau advised pro-
tection for shipments within a 100
mile area within the next 24 hours.
Rain helped the grain crops and
delayed farmers in some areas
where there had been recent rains.
Most of the South Plains region
had about three-fourths of an inch
of rain. Showers were general in
the panhandle.
Wichita Falls reported today a
half inch, Plainview .34, Lubbock
.52, Olney 1.25, Coleman .25, Sher-
man .17, Corsicana .47 and Austin,
showers.
Ln Gainesville, the early morn-
ing precipitation amounted to 1.06
inches, and the drop in tempera-
ture stood at 55, and by 2 p. m.
had declined to 48 degrees, with
the sky overcast and occasional
Australia, an d
The agricultural department
says the average 1936 cotton pick-
ing wage of 69 cents was an in-
crease of 11. cents over 1935 and 19
cents over 1934.
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of 12 persons in-
Rpmarsawnme LAGUARDIA SEES
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increase in the size of the supreme
court be unconditional and perma-
nent.
His proposal, the first from an
administration leader for a change
in the president's bill, would. en-
large‘the tribunal to 15 members
even if justices over 70 retire. strike which ended February 11.
Mr. Roosevelt recommended an The pact, yet to be ratified by
• increase ony in the -event older representatives of local unions,
- justices remained on the bench, I provided for seniority rights and
Pittman said if his amendment j other concessions but did not in-
Her twin-motored Lockheed
Vega sustains a 15,000 pound load
and carries 1,150 gallons of gas
with a 4,000-mile cruising range.
In the approximately 2,500-mile
hop from lonely Howland island
in mid-Pacific to Lae. New Guinea,
she will fly outside shipping lanes.
While she will pass over numerous
islands there is no place to bring
may ""66 FOR NEXT DECADE
death early yesterday. -----
LaGuardia, president of the U.
MustonserknanirorMayrorsaimnineFasher sister, who had left a not
, ... „ „ f tration in the various cities and which said:
years later, W. H. Knox, son of states. Industry and busines, are .
Hiram Knox by his first wife and improving. We are not far away again. 1 hope you. will be repaid in national program,
grandson of Mrs. Mary Knox, was from normal, but with improved some way for all the things ou
stabbed to death at Livingston methods of production, we cannot I have done for me-
A steel safety box was missing possibly-absorb all the men avail-
A e c.Aee-. cI.a-A, hnc honn _
‛ The Register s Kitchen Chautauqua will be held at Texan Theater—March 15,16 and 17
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evacuate the corporation's plant.
at‛a ponenenurannsunerd theuposte
arguments by attorneys of the Au-
NEW YORK, Mareh 13 (AP)
A mite cf lit- prematurely
born to Mr. and Mrs. Max
Post Thursday failed to over-
Temperature Dip Follows
Rin General Over a
Wide Area of Texas
Demands for curtailment of the Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan,
hearings came from both friends to whom went much of the credit
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