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GAINESVILLE. COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 15,-1937
VOLUME XLVII
NUMBER 196
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RECORD BREAKING FLIGHT PLANE AND CREW
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House After Passage by the Senate
Escaped Texas
to Tenant Farmers
minutes later by Bill Ritchie, who
was postponed until after burial Grieving senators will join tomor-
Chickasha,
their epochal
Years in Berlin
July 151
the
house approved the
distanced
then disabled a farmer’s
share
circumstantial
The three fugitives, officers said,
former pastor practically complete
license plate, stolen near
Ardmore
Texas convicts.
authorities
pounds.
The Weather
ha-
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retail stores in 43 cities.
haciendas
small farms
We will
if necessary,
expropriate the lands
dershirt which had been washed re- taneously. The plants do not live
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cently.
Newton, wife
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in Creek
To Inspect U. S.
Plane Factories
Leaderless Demos
In Senate Divide
Into Factions
Quezon to Buy Up
Filipino Estates
con-|
near i
made for some time.
Armies of China
And Japan Poised
J For More Fighting
the-Mississippi river at Louisiana,
Mo., a few hours before Newton's
arrest was identified as that of
lend $10,-
125,000,000
SHORTEN TRAVEL TIME
NEW YORK, July 15.— AP
-•-Soviet Russia’*= trans-Polar
aim en lipprd anywhere from
12 to 23 days from the normal
sell Wilkes at 2 a. m. today by
Miss Myra Hanan, who has made
her home here with the Rev. and
By NATHAN BCBERTSON
WASHINGTON, July 15 (AP).
Senate Democrats, leaderless and
Money Presumably Stolen From Slain
Woman Is Recovered; Minister Is Held 1
Vice President Garner to
Represent President at j
the Burial Rites
{
Mrs. C. E. Newton since her child-
hood.
He quoted Miss Hanan as say-
ing the Rev. Mr. Newton, 51, a
northern Missouri Baptist minis-
ter for 30 years who yesterday was
charged with the slaying of Mrs.
Kelly, had given her the money
which he described as “valuable
papers" Tuesday when he left to
officiate at a funeral.
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oil station here.
Wilkes said Mrs.
group to Minco and then
distanced.
To Go to To Be Held Sunday]
Capital In Little Rock, Ark.
York Late This Month,
After Tour of Country
West Texas: Generally fair to-
night and Friday.
.C.
ferred today on arrangements for
the service—the fourteenth of its
kind in 70 years—in the gold and
marble senate chamber.
Forty-five senators and 23 rep-
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Measure Authorizes the
Lending of $85,000,000
M. Q. Rogers, farmer near Aus-
tin, Tex., owns a 9-year-old gold-
Trio Spied byOfficers Near
Outdistance
A question as to whether Mrs
Robinson might receive an interim To Sail for Home from New
appointment to succeed her hus- - - - -
band was met with announcement
__,__________________I ' State Funeral At Capital
The actual opening of hostilities} WASHINGTON, July 15 (AP).
at the state capitol that it was un
likely any interim appointment
would be made.
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rOtary of agriculture to
000,000 this fiscal year.
ing for 48 hours, but:
The Chinese government’s for- j
eign office spokesman in Nanking
BERLIN, July 15 (AP).— Wal-
l ter Simons, former president of the
German Supreme Court and for-
mer foreign minister, died today at
the age of 75.
A jurist of established reputa
. tion in pre-war days. Dr. Walter
, Simons was one of the leaders of
! Germany in the birth-pang years
Mrs. Kelly. Examination disclosed flight will qualify under the rules
scalp wounds. Blood was found on of the International Aeronautical
the Mark Twain bridge over the Federation was indicated by Ma-
Mississippi at Hannibal,‘Mo., and I jor Edison E. Mouton, whose com-
near the bridge approach in Pike mittee inspected and found un-
/Gainesville and Vicinity
Aight and Friday. partly cloudy.
Today noon, 91; low last night,
77; high, yesterday, 94; for year,
high, 100; low, 16.
fashionable First Church at 3 p. m • « •
The Rev. Bascom H. Watts, pastor, p , np.
and the Rev. James Thomas, long- Kliggian H zarg
time friend of the Robinson family, HEHPIwAI I llvl □
• . u.„ , ment.
housing bills. | Mentioned with Bailey were
Democrats opposed to the court Congressman John L. McClellan of
measure and some who previously Malvern and Homer Adkins, inter-
100 years before flowering.
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Holdup
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No Charges Filed Against
Pair Taken in Custody by
Dallas Officers
night and Friday: probably scat-
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broken the seals on the three bar-
ographs and the gasoline tank.
Majpr Mouton praised the de-
sign, primary construction and the
Convicts Flee
Washington, July 15 (AP).
i he senate sent to the White HyAm GffioAwg
House today a compromise tenancy E I Vlll UIIiCI 3
m.
Pursuers in Stolen Car
hold-up.
Alarm From Oak Cliff
The alarm followed a similar one
in Oak Cliff earlier in the night
when a pool hall proprietor near
Lancaster and Ninth warned the
department a man in an Oklahoma
car had asked for a well-known
character and confided he wanted •
to rob a safe. . I
After the second call a cordon
of officers patrolled the exposition
area, thinking the man might be
Pete Traxler, fugitive from the
confused, divided today into two
factions fighting for control of the
party machinery and the legisla-
tive program.
The unexpected death of Sena-
tor Joseph T. Robinson of Arkan-
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UVALDE. July 15 (AP). —
Vice President Gamer announced
. today he would go to Washington
directly from Little Rock, Ark..
where Sunday he will attend fu-
neral services for Senator Robin-
son.
Garner expects to leave Uvalde |
Saturday. He declined to comment
on the effect Senator Robinson's j
death might have on the fortunes
Proctor said the money was
in the next, and $50,000,000 in the
third year at three per cent for
farm producers.
presumably had been taken from
Mrs. Dennis Kelly. 45-year-old
church worker, whose battered
shock of his unexpecte death yes
terday. citizens looked for a suc-
cessor but none emerged clearly in To the right are the record- ;
the grief-tinged speculation, breaking Russin aviators, after
Leaders said no action would be they landed in a pasture near San
made until after the funeral to Jacinto, Calif., following a success-
which many of the nation * high- ful li ght across the North Poe,
est, including Vice-President John being greeted by Gregori Gokh-
N. Gamer, will come.
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was sounded.
State and local
PARIS, Mo., July 15 (AP). —
Prosecuting Attorney Tom Proc-
tor of Monroe county announced
today recovery of $1,930 he said
of the accused minister, “made a i
(written statement concerning her -
knowledge of the case,” last night.
Oklahoma: Mostly cloudy . to-
The contents of the statement
were hot made public, however.
Proctor said, "We consider the
in total sales 30 per cent. : tered showers in
The report was based on 15,465
$1900 from the
Bank recently.”
Body Identified
ST. LOUIS. Mo . July 15 iAP>. fish that is 15% inches long, 11
The National Retail Credit Asso- 1 inches around, and weighs two
said the government had ordered
reinforcements to North China to
support the 29th army, which has
been fighting Japanese troops for
the past week.
The spokesman said six divisions
(about 80,000 men) were standing
by “somewhere in North China.”
The Japanese war office an-
nounced in Tokyo that troops will
be dispatched from Japan proper
• to North China to aid Japanese
troops regularly garrisoned there
and units of the Japanese army in
Manchuria rushed to the battle
• area last week.
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. Development of Crisis That
Will Result in Renewed
Hostility Expected
By the Associated Press $
Armies of China and Japan were
poised today for action in North
Pete Traxler, fugitive Oklahoma i
outlaw, first seen in the vicinity ■
when they purchased gasoline at '
had been critical of the Roosevelt nal revenue collector of Little
key.
The convicts, believed led
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. July 15 "
(AP).—Arkansas will bury with
simple rites here Sunday her illus-
i trious son—Senator Joseph Taylor fl
Robinson. 3
The state donned official mourn- "
i discovered on the Bart Welch farm
anear Tekamah, Neb.
man, soviet consul general at San I
Francirco. Left to right. Pilt
The body will be taken to the Gromoff Gorkham, Co-Pilot Yum- I
Henry Hundre’ser fired four modest family home and later re sheff/ and Navigator Daniil.
shots in a Chicago jail at a dis- moved to the rotunda of the capitol Above s a close-up of the huge
tance of three feet at John Arde- where it will lie in state. single - motored monoplane in
county, Illinois.
“We discovered a large hole in
the floor of the Newton garage,"
the prosecutor said. "It was a
freshly dyg hole, and evidently hhad
been intended for a grave. We also
found four loaded revolvers in his
(Newton'S) house, as well as
stained trousers, a shirt and an un-
V.. S. Smart mhade the arrest after
'a parking lot employee near the •
Pan American Exposition told Of-
ficers Philpot and Fisher a strange
man in an Oklahoma automobile
had asked him to participate in a
Final congressional action came ,
The regular funeral ritual of the
charged with attacking Hundrei- Methodist Episcopal Church. South,
ser’s 9-year-old daughter. will be followed in services at the
young man and a companion they
left at Ashur, Okla., Tuesday. told
of robbing a sandwich stand at
Sherman or Gainesville Friday
night and escaping with $80. .
The youth was sullen and re-
fused to talk.
"Here at Time of Killing”
The girl said she thought she re-
membered the prisoner s saying he
was in Dallas about the tim a rob-
ber shot Neilson four times in an
attempt to loot the former real
estte man’s filling station and
store, four miles west of : Maple
avenue.
Detectives found their suitcases
contained khaki clothing similar to
that in which the Neilson killer
was dressed.
The automobile also contained a
pair of Texas license plates, a bot-
tle of whisky and complete toet
outfits.
Officers said the black sedan of
motor of the giant craft. allies in the Spa reparations con- derprivileged.
----------------- I ference of 1920 and finally accept- "I intend that the
Twin century plants Mrs. B. W. ing under protest the Dawes plan - shall .be cut up into
Giles of Austin, Texas, planted 25 as adopted at the London confer- for the common people,
years ago, recently bloomed simul-, ence of 1921. f — huiete he lendel if
‘ . . . Simons was born September 24,-
A pretty blonde young woman,
who said she was from Gainesville
and was recently divorced, was
| questioned by Dallas county offi-
cers Wednesday night, in connec-
tion with the arrest in Dallas of a
23 year old Norman, Oklahoma,
j youth, who Chief Deputy Sheriff
Bill Decker said, fitted the descrip-
i tion of a robber who shot and
killed Samuel Neilson, Sr., at Dal*
las, July 6.
The young woman said she had
I known the suspect only four days,
• and told of having participated
with him and a companion. in the
• holdup of an El Reno, Okla., fill-
ing station Monday night.
She was quoted as saying the
gun in the car had been used in the
holdup and was stolen from the
house of her father in Gainesville.
The couple were taken into cus-
tody by the officers while sitting
in a car parked in front of a soft
drink stand on Forest avenue. A
.45 calibre frontier model pistol
loaded with new high-powered am-
munition was found in the automo-
bile pocket.
The girl told detectives the
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China if the crisis there developed , .. ,
into widespread conflict. 1 taken to the home of Sheriff Rus-
There had been no serious fight-
a ing in the area surrounding Peip-
of the party and the congressional
program of President Roosevelt.
had been summoned to the scene .
. - with Jack Schafer, manager of the ' of the beloved leader. row in a state funeral for Demo
swimming pool, by several small 1 The administration senators cratic Leader Robinson (D.-Ark.) j
boys, who had seen Rowe wade into ’ were lining up for Senator Barkley i for 24 years one of their dominant |
the creek. of Kentucky for party leader. Most!
Efforts to revive the man were of the opposing group was sup-
made with a respirator from the porting Senator Harrison of Mis-
Brooks Powell Funeral home. and sissippi.
by members of the Texas Power & I ; Senator Byrnes of South Caro-
Light Company crew, schooled in ' lin also figured in the leadership
resuscitation methods, but a phy- ' picture, but some senators said he j
sician pronounced him dead after I would back Harrison. Byrnes, like resentatives will accompany
efforts to revive him had been . many others, refused to comment body on a special train to Little ■
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somewhat unsettled near the coast
ds tonight and Friday. Gentle to fresh
asscutherly winds on the coast.
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giant soviet, shin and pronounced
it a marvel of compact efficiency.
That, the record-shattering
Remains Silent on Effect of
Robinson's Death on the
President’s Court Bill
1 body was found late Tuesday float-
ing in the Mississippi river near
Louisiana, Mo.
and most beloved members.
Leaders of both parties con-
Administration Supporters
Determined to Push the
Court Reform Measure
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will officiate. Barney Phillips,
chaplain of the U. S. senate, will
preach the funeral sermon.
। Burial will be in Roselawn Me-
' morial park on the outskirts of
Little Rock.
which the fliers set a new world’s
distance record 'of nearly 7,000
miles.
Tuesday.
The measure empowers the sec-
Although tenants i and
1 months interim in 1925 between croppers winl be given title imme-
the death of President Friederich diately they cannot sell the prop
. Ebert and the first inauguration
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a popular, light make, was the-
same type used by the killer here.
It bore Oklahoma plates. Detec- ,
tives J. T. Luther. Fred Keith and
travel time in
The large brick mansion the
Garners live in here was very quiet j
all day yesterday after the vice
president received the news of
• Senator Robinson's death. When
newsmen appeared, he had a pre-
pared statement for them. Other-
wise he talked little.
, Of Robinson he said: “The coun-
try has lost a great statesman . . .
I have suffered a great personal
loss.” He added he last saw Sena-
' tor Robinson just before departing
. from Washington recently on his
five-week “vacation.”
Hazard* No Guess
■ Mr. Garner hazarded no guess
on the possible political effect of
• the senate leader’s death in the
midst of the bitter fight on the
president’s court proposal.
During the weeks he has been
home engaged with his fishing,
squirrel hunting and pecan trees
the yice-president’s cheeks have
‘ taken qn added ruddiness and his
eyes spark*. Friends said he had
not been im better physical condi-
tion in years.
» He has, however, kept in close
touch with Washington by mail
and wire.
ciation today listed Borger. Texas. |
as the “boom" spot for sales and
collections in June.
The Texas oil town had the
greatest increase in collection! ►
over June. 1936—22 per cent; the I
biggest boost in credit sales— 30.5 I
per cent and the largest increase
of Field Marshal Paul von Hinden The measure also authorizes a
Tentative plans called fr one hereafter he was head of Ger $10,000,000 appropriation this year
or two davs in I os AnPejes then Thereafter he was head or Ger for purchase and retirement of
an overnia tIn S foJ'a day’s many’s supreme court until 1928, submarginal land and $20,000,000
visit in San Francisco From there ‘ In still later years he appeared in in each of the next two years,
viSi.Pa r rancnCo E rom - several important juridical pro- [
with recovery of the $1,900:" I the aviators plan to fly a .com- [ ceedings, was twice nominated for
When Newton was arrested early mercial transport plane to Wash- a vacancy on the permanent court
yesterday officers said they found ington, thence to New Y„ork. ( for international justice at The
only $10 in his possession, where they probably will sail for ; Hague and was recognized as one
Wilkes said Mrs. Kelly was Russia, July 25, of the world’s leading .....
known to have withdrawn “about; Praises Craft on international law.
Paris Savings. T Claude Ryan, builder of "The j
Spirit of St -Louis, the plane Col was director of the judicial depart-
The body of a woman taken from New York tl pdherghxafewefron ment of the foreign ofice and was
storeneafBriagecrek A„.la™ Bus Driver Hurt
Fatally in Wreck
officers, who ' .
central portions.
East Texas: Partly cloudy.
with adoption of recommendations
of a conference committee named ,
to compose house and senate dif- CHICKASHA, Okla.,
ferences over the legisla tion. The (AP)- Three escaped Texas
compromise victs were sought by officers
here today after the felons out-1
Louis Rowe, about 58 years of
age, was drowned in Elm creek,
about 400 feet south of the munici-
pal swimming pool, Thursday aft- Prograr
ernoon shortly after 3 o’clock. ment °
The body was recovered about 15 Postpone Hostilities
of the republic and was made
president pro-tem for the two
were taken after landing in a cow
pasture. They had battled fog all
the wav down California, gone as
far south as San Eiego, and cir-
cled back. The pasture offered a
long runway for a safe landing,
then they shot down from the fog
tanks at 6:25 a. m., (P.S.T.)
by a .trio identified as escaped
ing today while the senator's
stricken widow and close relatives
sped by train to Washington to
return his body.
Recovering slowly from the
route an'’ aorroximately 25
but I kow the estate owners are
। willing to sell."
At the end of the world war he pXIMn(VQRKL, ^LiV^e | Eorge IS Boom
Philippine Commonwealth, arriv-! 3P0LI or 3216S
made German commissioner-gen- ing from Europe enroute to, M-
eral at the Versailles peace confer- nila, 331 today . tends the
ence He resigned when that pact gponsorestagislationthe phzidppines
was drawn up and never ceased mong the common people,
denunciation of its terms as op- •T am calling a special session
pressive to his country. of the national assembly upon my
Simons' statesmanship was con- return,» he said. "I will ask it to
cerned chiefly with the post of appropriate, money collected from
foreign minister which, he held in the excise tax on coconut oil to
the cabinet of Konstantine Fehren- purchase some of the great —
bach in 1920-21, an interval which ciendas o2 the Philip Jines and to
saw him resisting demands of the create public work jobs for the —
allies in the Spa reparations con- derprivileged.
A rye plant bearing 71 hea
and containing 3,550 4 ernels w
sped in pursuit, spied the fugitive rRFFNVII LF July 15 (AP —
trio north of Kuttie, chased thelGREEMV--Esruy..n
1t The driver of a Dixie Motors Coach
bus was fatally injured and three
passengers were slightly hurt
when the vehicle plunged down a
20 foot embankment near here5 on
the Commerce highway today.
J. M. Holloway. ‘ 35, of Dallas,
driver of the bus, died of his in-
juries in a hospital here several
hours after the accident. His left
leg was severed below the knee. ,
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days ihe “other way”! around
the wor!a.
Eight from Moscow to San
Jacinto, Calif.
wheplinz over the top of
the vorld; the sinzle-motored
plane spanned a distance of
6,703 miles in 62 hours and
five minutes.
By ordinary travel metnods,
boat and train, the same trip
from the seviet capital to
Southern California would re-
quire two weeks on the short
A total of 120,000 Americans
engage in fishing as a livelihood.
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Body of Louise Rowe, 58,
Found in Elm Creek
Thursday Afternoon
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Walter Simons,
Former Head of
German Court, Dies ,h . .
bill authorizing the government to
1 lend $85,006,000 • in the next three
I One-Time Foreign Minister years to help tenants become farm
Succumbs at Age of 7 5sowners
SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 15.— '
AP The newest* flying heroes of
The state law requires that a the soviet union, a non-stop fecord i
general election to fill the office of more than 6,700 miles-from
be called by the governor in not Moscow to San Jacinton, Calif,, to
less than 60 nor more than 120 their credit, started out today to
' days from the time the vacancy inspect American airplane fac-
occurs. tories and the world’s movie capi- j
sas, for 15 years the party leader, ' risG° high BrrRe“cds b2en rapid . The Russian conquerors of time | p. Im ryAn onI 2; 1 1 G. m + 4 W L4A
left administration supporters de-1 and uninterrupted, was regarded and space. Pilot Mikhail Gromoff. P (E HI I CEEL“ y LBIIl OvIlL UU TV kU"
termined to push through the court by many as a certain candidate for Co-Pilot Andrei Yumosheff and •
bill and such other Roosevelt pro-. the senate, but he declined com- Navigator Sergei Danilin, motored
posals as the wage and hour and ment. here last night from March Field,
erties for five years.
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U. S army base to which they
oursin oeilore Huntsville penitentiary.
pursuing offiers and The man offered no resistance
gunfire. When the farmer‛hid"the I when arrested. Officers gave.dtm
1 no opportunity to fight, converg-
ing from both sides of the auto-
by I mobile with drawn pistols.
were in a car f bearing a Texas
Pair Burned Clothes
Sheriff Wilkes said Miss Hanan
and Noel Newton, son of the ac-
cused minister, "admitted burning
some women’s clothing the son
found in his father’s car Tuesday
night when he drove the machine
to Moberly.” The son operates an
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