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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER
IN COOKE COUNTY
SERVING 25,000 PERSONS
VOLUME XLVIII
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY. TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1938
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NUMBER 12 H
Gas Rate
Federal and State Inquiries in Solons
Violence
Cut is
Kills 15
Pecan Shetlers Strike Started
Upheld
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CHESTER. Ill., Feb. 14 (AP).-
bill tomorrow and Maverick sth I
Flint,
streams but their conditions were
nite trace of the fugitives after j not to be compared with those pre-
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Roy Bedichek, a director of the
defense, and in no way does Ho.
Texarkana.
that broke up the meeting was de- I
Japan May Tell Plans
theless clever and shrewd,'
quest was made unofficially. •
Saturday Japan refused to t 'll
unofficial reply* on naval
coi-
HOUSTON, Feb. 14 (AP).
to close the aisles.
Dean Is Improving Not Scare Texan
Frank'" Wilcox.
shake of his head and the assertic
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Rules Rumania
with 11,791,287 on December 31.
the saddle.
and 6,689,943
Miss Marjorie Nichols, 18-year-
Sparcevich, a miner, was crushed audience.
tonio, was back on the job today.
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In the 90‘s, its manager was C. see fit to renew it
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Doors of Lindsay Hotel Closed for
First Time in Its History Saturday
Roy Henderson,
School League
Official, Dies
New Michigan
Floods Drive
One Killed, One
Is Captured in
Burglary Attempt
Complete Hearing
Of Three Prisons
Spread Dragnet
For Insane Killer
C. M. Cureton Has
Major Operation
Relief Figures to
Reach 11 Billions
Burglar Alarm Is Aid to
Mississippi Policeman
In Thwarting Robbery
Carpenter Killed,
Son Is Accused
These triplets, held by their nurse, Mrs. Vearl Goode, were adopted
by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Allison, Rogers, N. M., school teachers. They were
Chairman of the State
Industrial Committee
Incensed by Mayor
Highways Blocked, Much
Serious Damage Is Done
By Latest Inundations
. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14 (AP).
One accident; it takes more than
in the hospital's shoe repair de-
partment. One of the makeshift
keys was found.
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Maverick’s Contention
Maverick contended that the .
$6,000,000,000
“emergency"
TQYKO, Feb. 14 4 APi'.- The Ja-
panese foreign office spokesm in
intimated today that Japan might
be willing to provide naval co n-
formation, refused to divulge . a-
pan’s future naval building pla is.
“Let's have a naval conference,
however irritated nations may be,"
plorable."
700 Persons Attend
The meeting attracted 700 list-
said. “he had a keen sense of right
and wrong and never flinched from
his duty, no matter how hard a de-
cision might be.”
Henderson, ill since November,
The state commission decided to
start its hearing this afternoon.
Two state rangers were pressed
into service to serve papers.
The State Industrial Commission
scheduled hearings on the heels of
a demand that Donald Henderson,
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Parley
merged in water of Indian creek
in South Comanche. Justice George
C. Wetzel withheld a verdict.
Man Dies of Blow
Ralph Fox, 37. brewery supply
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Directors of Athletics
For the Interscholastic
Loop, Dies at Legion
O. O. McIntyre, 54,
Famous Newspaper
Columnist, Dies
l struction, the spokesman did npt .
j amplify his statement other thn
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German-American
Ten Persons Victims of
Traffic Mishaps During
The Weekend in State
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When Kunze yielded for ques- consider
tions, former Assemblyman Fred-ment" r
Senator Tom Connally (right) (D.-Texas) inspects a painting of
himself by Howard Chandler Christy (left) in Washington. The por-
trait will be hung in the Texas capitol at Austin. .
Cotton Use for
January Greater
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (AP).
The Census Bureau announced to-
day that cotton consumed during
January totaled 434,740 bales of
lint and 44,892 of linters, compared
PWA. rivers and harbors, housing
agencies, etc.
The current fiscal year’s
of the total, including the extra
|250,000,000 is $2,009,000,000.
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Dr. Miron Cristea (above), pa-
triarch of the Rumanian Orthodox
church, has been named premier
and virtual dictator of Rumania.
His government succeeds that of
the anti-Semitic Octavian Goga,
resigned.
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was widened today with no defi-
Supreme Court Acts on
Laredo Case; Hailed as
Presaging Other Changes
During the cattle boom days, front door.
The Lindsay was the best known I The hotel was built by the late
hotel in this section of the coun- J. M. Lindsay, pioneer Gainesville
try. Cattle barons, whose fortunes capitalist and financier, who also
ran into the millions, were its reg- established a bank, built a street
ular guests, and many were the car line, and performed other serv-
big cattle deals that were com- ices to the city of Gainesville, of
pleted under its roof. | an enterprising nature. He was a
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (AP).
Treasury accountants figured to-
day that the extra $250,000,000 re-
lief fund, now being considered in
congress, would swell to $11,391.-
400,000 the total relief expendi-
tures of the Roosevelt administra-
tion by next June 30. .
This sum will have been spent in
five years for the Works Progress
Administration, cash relief, the
Civilian Conservation Corps, and
the old Civil Works Administra-
tion.
It does not include an additional
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in disputes over eligibility of play- > on the outskirts of Post. Texas,
ers, but his work had made him ' and three men were jailed in von-'
widely and favorably known. nection with the death.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (AP).
The house appropriations commit-
tee said hearings had been com-
pleted on the request of the jus-
tice department for $1,500,000 to
begin construction of three federal
womens prisons. , -
The department estimates the
total cost of the three proposed
prisons would be about $4,500,000.
‘ but that the sum asked in the 1939
fiscal year's budget would be- suf-
ficient to carry on construction for
at least twelve months. Additional
. appropriations could be asked as
the work progressed.
Details of the types of prisons
proposed, and the sites they will
occupy, will be worked out by the
department only if congress ap-
propriates the money. It may be
one or all of the prisons will be ex-
clusively for short or long term of-
: fenders, and it is possible they
may not all be only for women in-
• mates.
skull. He said a charge of first
degree murder would be filed.
“We came to listen quietly and it says it is to 'promote
to ask questions we thought were , and does the opposite.”
necessary,” he said. "The outburst: _______
DETROIT, Feb. 14 fAP).—New
Michigan floods over the weekend
drove hundreds of families from
their dwellings, blocked highways
and caused damage far more seri-
ous than last week's inundations.
The property loss at Mt. Clem-
ents alone was more than $100,000.
Mayor Donald R. Westendorf said.
The Clinton river at that point
went on the worst rampage in 35
years, inundating more than 700
acres within the city.
the door to international
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speaker's platform by police, al-
though he protested at leaving.
. The bluecoats broke up fight
after fight, throwing participants
down a stairway exit in the build-
ing. and restored order after a
quarter hour of effort.
States for
struction information if the
was killed near Fullbright when he lations Board, announced he ex-
fell off a tractor and was crushed pected labor board charges to be
under its wheel. Tom James, 34, j filed “momentarily.”
Comanche workman, was found |
dead, his bruised body half sub-
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 14 (AP).
A burglar alarm and a load of
buckshot enabled Police Inspector
A. E. Crawford to make this re-
port today:
Dead: W. E. Burnett, 37, Glade-
water, Texas.
Jailed: Roy E. Johnson, 31, Ok-
lahoma City.
The inspector -said the one was
killed and the other captured Sat-
urday night trying to burglarize a
Clinton, Miss., garage after an es-
cape from a Texas jail and a crime
spree in three states.
While the two men were prowl-
ing through the garage of Charles
and Ned Ratliff, the inspector said,
the alarm summoned from their
nearby home the owners who shot
Burnett dead and found Johnson
under a car.
Crawford said Burnett had faced
cumulative prison sentences total-
ing 175 years “for various crimes
in Texas and other states.” The of-
ficer quoted Johnson as saying he
was “wanted from coast to coast”
for robberies and forgeries and
faced a 9-year sentence for forgery
at the time he and his companion
escaped last week, from the jail at
The observatory “talking clock”
in Paris, which automatically an-
nounces the correct time every
ten seconds, is consulted approxi-
mately 5,000,000 times a year by
telephone.
with 433,058 and 46.462 during De-
cember, and 678,786 and 62.959
during January last year.
Cotton on hand' January 21 in-
AUSTIN, Feb. 14 (AP).—C. M.
Cureton, chief justice of the Su-
preme Court of Texas, was re-
ported in a satisfactory condition
today after a surgical operation.
Court attaches said the chief
For the first time in more than H. Paddock, and in a room of the
half a century, the doors of the hotel was born Charles Paddock,
Lindsay Hotel were locked Mon- who was destined in later years
day. i to become the world's “fastest hu-
Wilson Gilbert, who had been man," 100 yard sprint star of
manager of the hotel for several Olympic fame. Young Paddock now
years, locked the front door and is business manager of a Long
turned the keys back to the own- Beach, Calif., newspaper.
ers, Lindsay Embry and H. L. Several times during its history.
Frasher, Saturday night, thus end- fire has broken out in the hotel
ing a tradition which began when building, but never was a blaze so
the then finest hotel in North Tex-, serious as to interrupt the recep-
Thompson ‘"Please d
. AUSTIN, Feb. 14 (AP). — Er-
nest O. Thompson, member of the
railroad commission, today hailed
the U. S. Supreme Court decision
in the Laredo gas rate case as
presaging lower rates generally
for Texas.
three brothers, Ralph of Fort
■ Worth, Harry of Fort Worth, and
Paul of El Paso.
cotton growing states, 1,489.994
bales, compared with 1,449.365 on
December 31, and 1,755,065 on
January 31 last year.
In Texas
Representatives of both federal
and state governments arrived to-
day to begin a searching inquiry
into conditions surrounding the
two weeks old strike of pecan
shelters.
Everett Looney of Austin, chair-
man of the state industrial com-
mittee, immediately became in-
sensed at Mayor C. K. Quin's fail-
ure to provide a hearing room for
the body. County officials found
the investigators a place in the
courthouse.
Strong charges and counter-
charges were hurled. Chief of Po-
lice Owen Kilday; claimed certain
of the strike leaders as “commu-
nists” and Looney labeled Quin a’s
a “dictator.”
der by congress, in advance
war, to dictatorship."
The bill, recently revised, we
operation cm advice of physicians
who reported they were well
Grand Rapids, Lansing.
Congressman W. R. Poage of ____
Waco and Miss Frances Cotton of -I I a•
Eastland were married here today j F ormer H US 1.1 Tiff
at the home of her mother, Mrs. •
Kerin Butler (above), New York
construction contractor and son
of Justice Pierce Butler of the U.
S. Supreme Court, died of in-
juries suffered when he fell from a
speeding train near Greenburg,
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Traffic accidents accounted for
more than half of the 15 violent
Texas deaths during the weekend.
Three died from blows, one was
drowned, and one injured fatally
in a grist mill accident. An inquest
verdict was withheld in the death
of another.
Ernest Eldridge Southern,
charged with the burglary of a
warehouse at Pilot Point, Denton
county, last December, was injured
fatally when an automobile plung-
ed off the Dallas highway near
Denton.
gowns costing thousands of dol-|bry said Monday. Mr. Gilbert’s
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min in the Sierra Nevada.
Heavy rains along the upper
Sacramento river heightened ap-
prehension in the Colusa-Sacra-
mento area, where levees were
weakened by saturation, and where
some 25.000 acres of rich farming
land already were inundated.
. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (AP).
The Supreme Court today af-
firmed an order of the Texas Rail-
road Commission, requiring the
United Gas Public Service com-
pany to reduce its gas rate for La-
• redo from 75 cents to 55 cents per
1,000 cubic feet.
The tribunal sustained a deci-
sion by the court of civil appeals
• for the third judicial district of
Texas, which upheld the rate re-
duction. *
Chief Justice Hughes delivered
today's opinion.
United Gas contended the order
r was confiscatory.
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Clothes Clues
In Death of Man
SWEETWATER, Tex., Feb
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Likewise, it was the center of grandfather of Lindsay Embry,
------------— ----- social activities, and to its elabo- ' one of its present owners.
justice had been in ailing health rate balls, came the society belles' Tift hotel will be closed until a
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Alvin Woods, 17,- attempted to
swim a slough on the Trinity river
10 miles northwest of Cold Springs.
Texas, and was drowned. Marvin
Anthony, 28. was killed in a fight
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 14 (AP).—
Funeral services will be held here
tomorrow at 10 a. m. for Roy B.
Henderson, 47, athletic director of
the Texas Interscholastic league,
who died at the veterans’ hospital
at Legion, near Kerrville, yester-
day.
Henderson had held his position
as athletic director since 1920. He
had been connected with the Uni-
versity of Texas since 1914, start-
ing as assistant director of physi-
cal education. During the world
war he was basketball coach at the
university.
spent for
MEMPHIS. Tenn., Feb. 14 (AP)
The Rev. Israel Harding Noe, the
former fasting dean of St. Mary’s
Episcopal cathedral, made ready
to leave his hospital bed today,
and return home. He has gained
40 pounds.
Later he will go to Johns Hop-
kins hospital, Baltimore, for
further treatment, with the con-
sent and approval of the Rt. Rev.
James M. Maxon, Bishop of Ten-
nessee.
The 47-year-old clergyman, who
had sought to prove the immor-
tality of man with the help of
God, collapsed January 23, after
22 days with neither food nor wa-
galloping horses for the snow
white farm around the track at
Santa Anita Park.
Last Friday a riderless thor-
oughbred carshed into her mount,
but as Marjorie tells it, the acci-
dent was distinctly minor.
“I didn’t even fall off. We Tex-
ans always keep our seat.”
For two years, at Epsom Downs
and Arlington Downs in Texas, the
brown-haired five-foot miss has
been conditioning horses.
She's been crazy about horses
since she was a baby.
And the reason she came to Cali-
fornia. with her parents’ consent,
was the closing of the Texas rac-
ing season.
“I live with Jockey Eddie Yeager
and his wife. My ambition is to own
race horses of my own some day,”
she said.
that sent tons of snow and rocks | speaker to “settle it outside,” fist
crashing down on the Silverado! fights flared throughout the hall.
Kunze was escorted from the
Magnolia, Ark., shot a night
watchman, robbed a cafe of $400
eluded: r .
In consuming establishments in Hutner
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A police dragnet spread for a
criminally-insane killer and his . .
companion who escaped from the Pontiac. Utica. Rochester and Ionia
I Illinois Security hospital Saturday were suffering from overflowing
NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (AP).
O. O. McIntyre, famous col-
umnist whose “New York Day
By Day” column was printed
by newspapers throughout the
country, died today at his
apartment.
McIntyre would have been
54 years old on Friday.
He died at 2 a. m. His Death
did not become known imme- .
diately.
MeIntyre was born in.
Plattsburg, Mo., the son of
Henry Bell McIntyre. He was
educated at Bartlett’s college
in Cincinnati.
He wes married to Maybelle
Hope Small of Gallipolis, O., in
1908. They have no children.
Oklahoma: Partly cloudy, colder,
cold wave in southeast portion,
hard freeze tonight: Tuesday part-
ly cloudy, continued cold. Live-
stock warnings.
East Texas: Cloudy, probably
occasional rains in south portion
tonight and Tuesday; colder to-
night and Tue sday with freezing in
extreme north portion. Gentle to
moderate - easterly to northerly
—(ds on the coast.
West Texas: Mostly cloudy,
probably occasional rains in south-
east portion tonight and Tuesday;
colder in north and east portions
tonight and in extreme southeast
portion Tuesday.
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Dr. Edwin A. Elliott, regional
Herman Landreth, 21. a farmer, director of the National Labor Re-
FIRE AT TEXARKANA _
TEXARKANA. Feb. 14 (AP).—
Fire swept through the Standard j
Paint company here yesterday, |
causing an estimated $25,000 dam- '
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WEATHER
, Gainesville and Vicinity—To-
night and Tuesday, cloudy, oc-
casional rains; colder’ tonight.
Today noon 48. High yesterday
74. Low last night 48. High for
year 79. Low for year 15.
rather than discouraging races ...
armament building," did not slut
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January in cotton-growing states
numbered 16,897,958, compared
with 17,280.348 during December,
and 17,661,254 during January of
last year.
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not be reported favorably. p
“It claims to prevent profitet
ing and equalize the burdens i E
grew out of disputes with speak-
ers broke up a bund rally last
night. Nearly a score of police
were called into service to quell
the disturbance.
G. Wilhelm Kunze, representa-
tive of the bund's national head-
quarters. said he had “no imme-
diate plans” for continuing his
speaking tour of New York state.
An expression of regret for last war," the Maverick-Izac statement
night's disturbance came from said, “and it does neither. it
George A. Mead, Erie county claims to provide for the national
American Legion commander. ‘ ’
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Policemen Are Called to
Quell Disturbance at
Buffalo Headquarters
As Hammer challenged the
Maverick (D-Texas i formally 1414
vocated such a conference. Thk
said Japan and other world po
ers might be willing to ease t lie
world situation by discussing cui bs
on world navies.
Senator Pittman (D-Nev.), who
route from Cookeville to visit rela- in a small town “just across the
tives in Texas. - ■ | Louisiana line,” and committed
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CONGRESSMAN WEDS | La., and a small town between
EASTLAND, Feb. 14 (AP). — I Minden and Homer.
A. W. Kessell, 55, formerly of
league, lauded Henderson as an or- Shreveport,
ganizer and administrator, and
010 w. a-.gu., —,--- crick Hammer, who said he was
i named by Justice of Peace Thomas the storm entered its 19th consecu. i not speaking for any particular
I. Decker in an inquest verdict of tive day, floods which had already group, asserted:
that to scare a Texas gin out of compart Reofetms ££ “^^beeauViT^" su"d
fornia came a report of the latest tary regimentation.
■ known victim of the storm. Tonyj “Coward!” came a cry from the
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more than 24 hours of freedom. vailing at Mt. Clemens where ap-
Officials of the state institution proximately 400 houses were
, . . . at expressed fear Paul Harrison, 35- rounded by water and refugee sta-
Wa8,1ound od.my year-old hammer slayer of three tions had to be set up.
_ , . Pros cut ing Attorneyimen and a woman, might seek his ■ A relentless February thaw and
Ned Stewart said p , former wife, whom they said he at- l torrents of rain caused the latest
showed Kessell d.e o a rac t tempted to kill when he ran amok' overflow of Michigan rivers,
in 1931. e ; Much colder weather was fore-
They blamed Harrison, described I cast.
an “dangerously insane but never- i In the Grand Rapids area the <
_2____1____ " ’ ", for the I tributaries of the swollen Grand | eners, and by arrangement with
escape of blond, blue-eyed Peter river began to recede , early this । bund officials, representatives of
Florek, 22. using keys made from morning but it was feared the re- j Buffalo's war veterans were on
y
(AP).—Clothes found yesterday a
quarter-mile from the spot where
the body of 68-year-old J. H. Pen-
dergrass was discovered a week
ago were regarded today as clues
in the death of the Cookeville,
Tenn., traveler.
Six youths found a blue serge
coat, a vest, a pair of shoes, and
an overcoat, scattered over an
area about 50 feet square.
Police Chief N. B. Nall, differ-
ing with an inquest verdict of
murder returned by Justice S. H.
Shook, has said he believed Pen-
dergrass died of exposure. Pen-
dergrass disappeared while en-
room in Houston, died from a cere-
bral hemorrhage caused by a’ blow
which fractured his skull. Dr. J.
Herbert Page, county health offi-
cer reported officially. Roy Dancy.
47. restaurant proprietor, was
charged with murder in connection
with the death.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sanders. Jr.,
of Houston, newlyweds, were killed
near Waco in an automobile col-
lision. At Ocahoma, Phillip Spears,
a farmer, was injured fatally as he
worked on a tractor.
William Collins, a Dallas me-
chanic, died after he was crushed
against the column of a concrete
underpass. He was riding on the
fender of an automobile. Mrs. W.
A. Turner. 51, of Madill, Okla., was
injured fatally as she crossed a
street in Dallas.
Clark W. Parrott, 32, was in- i
jured fatally when a fly wheel a
a grist mill at Frankston flew from
the shaft. The body of Ben Beach,
28, an attorney, was found beside
his wrecked automobile near Ham-
ilton. His automobile apparently
struck the side of a culvert.
Justice Decker said family trou-
on January 31 last bles preceded the shooting.
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Cotton spindles active during
a ceiling for prices in event I of
war.
The house military committee
will resume consideration -of' he
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disarmament conference, desp ite
hints that the administration w
cool toward the idea.
Senator King (D-Utah) and Rp.
foreign relations committee, si g-
gested, however, the time is i ot
ripe. “Political antagonisms" : re
so strong, he said, as to spoil the.
France her naval buildig
. had been at the hospital since Feb.
Sulphur Springs, Texas. 1, under treatment for a liver dis-
The inspector said Johnson told I ease.
him he and Burnett, after the es-1 Survivors are the widow; four
cape and before reaching Clinton, I children Roy Jr., 12; Lucy Ann,
had robbed a motor company at 17; Mary, 20, all of, Austin; Mrs.
R. C. Scott of Hobbs, N. M.; his
mother, Mrs. Anne E. Henderson
of San Francisco; a sister, Mrs.
Will Marsh of San Francisco, and
I to point out that such a repy ,
, would be “legally binding.” : I
crowded forward, police rushed in: He answered a question on :
whether Japan might be willing |o
■ a “gentlemen's agrek-
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BUFFALO, N. Y , Feb 14 (AP).
An organization campaign of the
German-American bund marked
time today, stalemated by the fly-
ing fists of American war veter-
ans.
A 15-minute free-for-all that
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ership of striking pecan shelters,
and a reaffirmation of allegiance
to Henderson hy strikers' heads.
After a mass meeting yesterday
at which the support of Henderson
was voiced and charges that un-
American influences were affect-
ing the strike denied, strikers
promised more signs and stronger
resistance today to efforts of po-
lice to break up the strike.
A committee representing the
Mexican Chamber of Commerce,
and the League of Loyal Ameri-
cans, after twice meeting with
Henderson and two state CIO of-
ficials. had demanded that Hender-
son withdraw before support was
tendered the strikers.
Henderson is president of the
U n i t e d Cannery. Agricultural
Packing, and Allied Workers
Union, a CIO affiliate.
suggested Maverick. “It may save
a war.-’
Senator King said he was par-
ticularly interested in keeping the
taxpayers of all countries from be-
ing saddled with new expenses.
Meanwhile, a bloc of Progrs-
sive-Liberal house members fe-
nounced the pending bill designed
to take the profits out of war. I
A statement signed by Maverik,
chairman of the bloc, and R ?p.
Izac (D-CaHf.), said the measure
would not prevent wartime pr of-
iteering and represented “a surrn-
arch supports Harrison obtained lief would be only temporary. j hand to ask Kunze questions fol-
No fatalities or injuries were re- lowing hs speech. the United States, Great Britain
ported from any point in the state. A bund spokesman, flanked by 1 and 1
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W est Coast Storm . American flag and a swastika em-
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14jblem, was-, interrupted as he pre-
(AP>.—The Pacific coast, wearied; pared to introduce Kunze.
by a prolonged siege of rain, snow “Take that swastika!”
and high winas that has caused j someone shouted.
I nearly a score of deaths, disrupted" Men in the rear of the hall
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Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 121, Ed. 1 Monday, February 14, 1938, newspaper, February 14, 1938; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1459085/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cooke County Library.