The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 248, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 17, 1928 Page: 1 of 6
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NUMBER 248
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SHIP BUSINESS
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P. A TO ORANGE
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MAURICEVILLE
TO DEDICATE
CLEANUP DRIVE
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IN PAST MONTH
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pastor
now
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company
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Weather Delay*
Cabbage Shipment
From Local Farms
the’Bremen, to send back to Greeni I
Island with the repair parte
Vinton K. P. Band
To Furnish Music
ForDrange Feed
Ing to locate a few drums of ben-
Sol, the high pressure fuel used by
Fu-
up
Rycade Resuming
Work in No. 13
to
the
Fxtensive preparations have been
made by Mauriceville citizens for the
dedication of the new church build-
In* junt completed at that place for
the Baptist congregation
little
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500
suicide
wwhose
permit the catch to go down
throat of his raptor
Teachers Attend
Galvez Sessions
audit
year
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Culp.
Nelson Selected
By Rotarians as
Director of Club
District Highway
Supervisor Visits
iployed at
several
and |
that
active
Non-Jury Trials
In County Court
COAST AVIATOR
HOPS FOR S. A.
Partly cloudy tonighe ao4 Wi
nesday, warn tonigt. Modem
to fresh southerly wind.
State Political Leader
Will be Buried in
Austin Vault
Cameron Parish
Expert Learning
More About Fish
Aided Thru Work
at Dock*
Business At Port Now Flourishing Auditor Finds
Few Errors In
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CAL SAYS FLOOD
BILL EXTORTION
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Baptist
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Baptist Church Burned
By Fire Replaced
by Citizens
OVER TWO MILLIONS PROVIDED
FOR WATERWAY WORK IN SABINE
DISTRICT IN JADWIN’S REPORT
Rouge and New Orleans $28,000:
Bayou Ponfouca $16,500:
Uttle Caillou bayou $35,000,
Week's Campaign Finds
Good Progress in
All Sections *
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A high compliment was paid Or-
ange county oficials by C. II. Win-
terhaler, a public accountant. In his
report after having made a complete
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THRIVING WITH
RECENT RECORD NECHES BRIDGE
“DENIAL BRINGS
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The Orange Leader
• • ORANGE. TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1928
and Schiller
pending an investigation.
County Attorney Goens at . Tyler
said that he would insist that Wil-
son be held without bond arm that
no < bargee had heen filed
side-fins were too large
between warring
Munday morning.
widow and a youpg daughter
of the county records for the
ending January 11, 1927, was
the docks
AUSTIN, Tex., April IT—R. Har-
per Kirby, whone dath yesterday
swept away a tentative compromise
the past
by swallowing
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• 6 « the triumvirate was bound for this
--- city to obtain parts necessary to re-
TROUP, Tex . April 17— The Rev
Fount Wallace, 25-year-old pastor of
the First Baptist church of Troup,
was shot to death in a drug store
here last night. Loys Wilson, filing
station and garage owner, surrend-
ered to officers at Tyler. after the
shooting, but would make no state-
ment.
neral arrangements
James Douglas, district highway
supervisor for the Texas highway de-
partment, with Houston headquar-
ters, spent yesterday looking over
the Orange county state highways
and inspecting the work that is be-
in* done by the several bridge paint-
dedication servires will be
close of the conference in Beaumont,
that the Port Arthur committee ap-
pear before Orange county commis-
•loner* and work from this end for
the bridge project
Ope of me objectione advaaead by
J. E Turner, commissioner of Beau-
mont. against another bridge bond
issue election was that the Jefferson
county commissioners court had no
assurance that Orange county would
build an approach on the Orange
ernor that he would peturn before
T leaving and finish the conference
Prof E B Stover, superintendent
of Orange schools, will have a prom-
inent part on the program for the
third annual convention of the
Southeast Division, Texas State
Teachers association, to be held in
Gaiveston April 20 and >1.
Mr. Stover is a member of th#
executive committee of the division.
Other instructors from Orange are
also expected to attend the Qalveston
sessions
Major. Fitzmaurice
were forced down
suggested, at the
DALLAS. Tex., Apri 17.—Proper-
ty Inas estimated at $150,000 was
done, and telegraph and telephone
nervice was interrupted for a few
hours here last night when fire de-
stroved the John L Jones Furniture
lucius Lynn* ard, Albert Do-
mingue motored to Sulphur Monday.
Zan Courmier motored to Chou-
pique Munday.
Several days ago the state depart-
ment’s power painter, which dis-
tributes paint by means of a me-
chanical sprayer, was brought to
deavor-
submitted to the
trsdln* post of Natashquan,
miles from Greenly Isis nd and
A part of today forenoon was
spent by local attorneys and litigants
in soln* over some non-jury cases
in county court before County Judge
DeWitt C. Bennett
This is non-jury week of court,
which is the last week of this term,
as dlutrict court begins hero next
Monday.
OIL NOTFN
The well being drilled in lower
Chowpique woods tested salt water
at a depth of 4500 feet. Many per-
won« familiar with oil welln express
their opinion that it will be a pro-
ducer if drilled deeper, as thia test
showed live oil.
The Ilex Petroleum company, two
miles north in (‘houpique woods,
have reached a depth or 3700 feet.
This company will prohably make a
test at a depth of 4200
The Canadian steamer Montcalm,
which_has been battling with Ico
floes In Belle Isle Straits since Nat-
urday attempting to reach Greenly
inland, Ws still several score or.
more miles from her destination,
held off shore by the ice barrier.
Dave Nelson, who is in charge of
the W. H. Stark agricultural and
stock Interest* in this section, says
that while the spring crop of trucks
escaped being killed by cold weather
that threatened death to everything,
there has been a great set-back giv-
en the growing crops on account of
Motive Unknown
Witnesses of the shooting
friends of the minister said
while Mr Wallace had been i
weeks,
la additien to the good wages
drawn by the dock workers, who as
a rule spend it all in Orange, there
haye been several paydays made by
the ship owners to the crews dur-
ing their stay here and quite a large
percentage of the supplies for these
ships have been purchased here
pair the plane.
Major James Fitzmaurice left
Greenly Island yesterday in a relief
plane piloted by Charles A. (Duke)
section $584,100;
Red River below Fulton,
$50,000;
Southwest Pass, Mississippi
$365,000;
Minsissippi river between
church of Port Arthur, will preach
the dedicatory nermon.
An old fashioned dinner on the
ground will be a feature of the oc-
casion.
The new church building which
takes the place of the old structure
dentroyed by fire several weeks ago,
has nine Munday school rooms in
addition to the main auditorium and
is modernly equipped, even to the
church baptistry. A modern Carbide
lighting system is almo included in
the list of conveniences
A cordial invitation has been ex-
tended to the public to attend the
dedicatory services st thia church
next Munday.
WASHINGTON, April 17—Presi- I
dent Coolidge regards the pending
flood control bill as the most extor-
tionate measure that has passed any
branch of congress since he has
been president
He does believe that neither
the senate nor the commit tee were
acquainted with its ramifications and
he is nurprised that the measure
passed the senate with so little dis-
evasion
The president attributes the rais-
ing of the administration bill from
approximately $200,000,000 to $14o,-
000,000 largely to agitation by lum-
ber Interests
While not wishing the coverament
to take over lands of lumber com-
panies without just compensation the
president believes the opportunity
shoufd not be seized to involve the
government in large damages by ob-
taining land to carry out the flood
relief proposals.
section $771,000,
Sabine-Neches waterway
•00;
this county. The machine
Irish Member of Crew Slayer Give* no Reason
in Quebec to Buy for Act; Gives Up \ 7 * ■
to Tyler Cops V in ton
being used on the bridge across Cow
bayou m orangefield The machine
will be used in painting all of the
steel bridges and may be used in
painting the new bridge across the
Babine river. ft is understood.
A conference was held with mem-
bars of the county commissioners
court by Douglas during his etay
bore yesterday.
Alford Stark, a camp superintend-
ent employed by the Orange Cam-
eron Land company, in Cameron
parish. La., arrived home today to
spend a short time with his family,
•ays that he has added considerably
to his knowledge of wild life during
the past few weeks
Among other things he observed
recently were the snake* in tht
section He watched them to learn
their main source of food, with the
idea of learning whether or not they
were the greatest enemy to musk-
rats. He has come to the conclu-
sion that snakes do not have the
privilege often of devouring musk- ,
rata, although they do make in-
roads on young rabbits, as well as
bird life, such as young marsh hens
in observing conditions along the
lake front recently, he found nu-
merous dead catfish He found that
there was an average of 50 dead
catfish to the shore mile and be-
lieves that the fish were killed as a
result of dynamiting by oil men in
making surface tests of land In that
Section.
In one place Stark found a large
garfish dead on the lake shore and
found that the gar had committed
Mr Kirby had given more than
1 $2,000,000 to various church, edu-
cational and philanhropic Institu-
tion*. During the 1919 Texas state-
wide prohibition campaign, he trav-
eled 55,000 miles in the interest of
the cause and spent $100,000 of his
own money.
Only one pallbearer for the fu-
neral, W. A. Keeling, ever has held
state office The others are Austin
residents.
FORRCAST
East Mu: Tonieht And Wed
nenday partly cloudy. Warmer to-
night nr.pt In eztreme northeant
portion
Louimlana: Tonight fair. warmer:
Wednenday partiy cloudy.
PkINON ALS
Sustes Benoit and Luke Perry re-
turned yesterday frona a fishing trip
on the Ma bins river. They report a
surcemsful cate h of catfish.
<’. J. Moss is recovering from a
long siege of sickness.
Raymond Perry and K Smith went
to Hackherry yesterday on a busi-
ness trip
FRESNO, Calif., April 17—Jim-
my Angel, veteran aviator. took off
here at 6:17 o'clock this morning
on a projected 25,000 mile flight
around Mouth America His first
w heduled stop was Mexicali, Mex-
ico. to obtain a customs clearance
before heading for Guaymas, Sonora.
550 miles south of the borer.
him to the county seat.
Mr Wallace is survived by his
The principal item in trannactions
of the Rotary club at its weekly
meeting and luncheon at noon today
waa voting on the tie occurring last
week between Dave Nelson and
Doug Pruter who were two of the
nominees to fill six vacancies on the
board of directors at last week’s
meeting
Nelson was elected in the run-off
today
Due to the fact that there were
so many absentees, the program was
cut shorter than usual today.
There was only one steamer load-
Ing In port this morning. following
the departure of the U. M. shipping
board steamer West Tacook, which
left this morning for Lake Charles
Almost a full cargo of lumber and
timbers was loaded on the West Ta-
cook at the municipal docks here.
The cargo will be discharged at Am-
sterdam and Rotterdam.
The Norwegian steamer Lovstak-
ken is still receiving cargo.
The Norwegian steamer Aaro left
New Orleans for Orange yesterday
afternoon, according to information
received by Fred C. Schulte, local
port director
Business Good
The benefits that are being de-
rived from good business being
handled at the municipal docks is
hardly realised to the extent that it
should be, accord lag to B. F. Brown,
a member of ths wharf and dock
commission, who calls attention to
the fact that from 175 to 200 men
cold condition of the
Effort* of progressive Port Ar-
thur and Jefferson county citizens
to promote the erection of a bridge
across the Neches river on the Or-
ange-Port Arthur highway, to dis-
place the ancient ferry now in use.
may become centered in Orange
county.
This became apparent today af-
ter the Jefferson county commiasi on-
erm court refused the petition of a
committee from Port Arthur for an-
other bond issue to provide funds
for the bridge
Work With Oranwe
C. W Moore. R. O. Zollinger and
Allen Smith, the Port Arthur boost-
ers. were told that another bridge
bond issue was untimely in Jefferson
o'clock. Rec.
of the First
sary to put the Bremen again in run-
ning order As soon aa they are se-
lected Hchi Her is to rush them back
to the Bremen.
The fliers' plans then call for
Captain Hermann Koehl and Baron
Gunther Von Huenefeld to fly the
Bremen here to pick up Major Fitz-
maurice and continue on to New
York—the goal they set for them-
selves when they headed out over
the Atlantic from Ireland last Thurs-
day Schiller would set ns guide
for them in his plane
Strip Sister Ship
At Montreal, where it had been
flown from New York for just that
purpose, was the sister- ship of the
Bremen, the Junkers F-13, with sll
the necessary parte for repairing the
ocrah plane it was expected the
F-13 would be flown here today so
that no time would be lost in at rip -
’ ping of the needed parts and start-
ing them for Greenly Island.
county it
Earller messages from the frozen
north where the Bremen waits ns id
the filers expected to hop off Wed-
nesday but it is believed now that a
hopoff will not be possible before
late in the week
Mill Marooned
Miss Herta Junkers, representative
in the"United Mtates for her father-s
company, builders of the Bremen,
flew the F-131 to Montreal from
New York yesterday in three and a
half hours. With her were Fred
Met hoir, her Pilot and Erhardt Jun-
kers, her brother A Junkers me-
chanic with additional upart parte
was here waiting for them, having
been sent ahead by train
No Shortagen
There were neither mhortages nor
“overs'' found in any of the official
records reviewed, according to the
auditor, who found but few iels-
nificant error*, such aa would oc-
cur in any business concert! in the
course of a year’s time.
Regarding general conditions the
auditor's report said "In eonclu-
Mon, I desire to state that I noted
some improvement exists with ref-
erence to the manner of keeping
necounts of the county in the treas-
urer's office In the respect that many
of the leaves of the old ledger have
been ansembled and transferred and
that otherwise memorandum ac-
counts have been written up in con-
nectiun with disbursementa. This is
a step th the right directioni"
Total Indebtedner
The auditor’s report shows that
the bonded and current indebtedness
county in grand total ia $2,815,320.-
49,
The bonded Indebtedness, which is
totaled at $2,127,293.48, ia listed as
follow*:
Repair Bridge bonds, dated June
10, 1902, $1995.
Jsil repair bonds, dates Jan. it,
1*01. $1995.
Court house refunding bonds, date
April It. 1903. $33,500.
Fridge bunds, of date Jan. 10,
1*04. $10,000.
Road bonds, of date Jan. it, 1904,
$15,000.
Special road bonds, Jan. 1, 1906,
$200,000.
Road and bridge building bonds.
May it. 1919, $923,000.
Special road bunds. May It, 1922,
$575,000.
Road and bridge funding bonds,
Ser. 1, May it, IMS, $191,506.
• Road and bridge funding bonds.
Her 2. April 1, 1925, $16,297.
Special road district No. 1 bonds,
tUg 1. 1925, $69,000.
Koad and bridge funding bonds,
Sept 15, 1925, $90,000.
Under the head of warrants out-
standing the amount ia totaled at
$24,037; navigation district bonds.
$336,000; current indebtedness to
the Orange National bank, secured
by bonds owned by the county,
$78,000
ground.
Except for the unfavorable weath-
er conditions, It I* believed that
there would have been a train load
of cabbage ready for shipment out
of Orange county by this time.
However, it is believed that favor-
able weather for a few days will re-
sult in overcoming the troubles
caused by cold damp weather.
TYLER, Texas, April 17.—Attor-
neys for Leia Wilson, SS, Troup
Carageman In jail here In connec-
tion with the death of Rev. Fount
Wallace, 25, pastor of the Troup
Baptist church, said no application
for a preliminary hearing would be
made today. They indicated the
hearing might be requested tomor-
row or Thursday.
QUEBEC, April 17—The two
German member* of the. trans-Atlan-
tic plane Bremen were waiting at
Greenly Island with their damaged
plane today as the Irish member of
from this city by a violent snow-
storm. They hoped to continue the
flight today to Quebec if neces-
sary they could land at Murray Bay
where a special train would be pro-
vided to bring them the rest of the
Projects in southern states for
which money was set aside include:
Louisiana -Texas intracoastal wa-
terway. New Orleans-Maid ne river
OTTAWA. April 17—(By the Ca-
nadian Press).—A message from
Quebec this morning reported that
the crew of the trans-Atlantic mon-
oplane Bremen was on its way from
Greenly Island to Murray Bay in a
relief plane jointly piloted by C A.
(Duke) Shiller and Dr. Louis Cusin-
ler
BREMEN FLIGHT TROUP PASTOR ,
TON.Y.WAITS SLAIN, GARAGE County’s Books
PLANE REPAIRS MAN ARRESTED At $2,815,330.48 in Annual Checkup
Finances Are in Good Order
After having been off bottom for
the past few days as a result of shale
encountered, the Rycade Oil corpor-
ation was back drilling in No 11
E State, at a depth of 5670 feet.
This well is within 300 feet of
the deepest hole ever put down la
the gulf coast territory.
A careful examination I* being
made of all formations drilled
through at the extreme depth that
has been reached
in campaigning against alleged vie
condition* he had no enemies of
whom they knew. They were un-
able to offer a motive for the slay-
In*.
Mr Wallare was standin* near the
front of the store talking to the
proprietor, A. B. Parbutton, when a
man entered suddenly, shouted “pre-
pare to meet thy God," and fired
from a 45-calibre revolver
The bullet panned through the
right aide of the minister and ntrue k
a youth, Vernon Evans of Troup,
wounding him only slightly. The
minister was dead when medical aid
arrived
Parbutton said that nave for the
shouted warning no words pansed
between the slayer and his victim
After the minister fell, the man who
did the shooting left the store, en-
tered an automobile and drove slow-
ly away.
No Bond Allowed
Wilson mid that before driving to
Tyler he changed his clothes, shav-
ed. and str supper Afterward hr
picked up a frlrnd who arcompanied
IGe. Luttrrloh. keeper of records
and El of Orange lodge 98, Knights
of Pythias, and secretary of the en-
tertainment committer for the May
1st barbecue to he held by the order
at Hogan's park on Little Cypress,
han received a communication from
the Vinton Knights of Pythias band
to the effect that they will lie in Or-
ange for the celebration at Hogan's
park
This fraternal band has its own
private conveyance and makes trips
over Texas and Loulsiana in the
cause of Pythianirm, They are now
planning a trip to Canada next year
to a convention of the order.
The committee on arrangement*
announce preparation* going forward
which will Insure the event at Ho-
gans park on May 1st to be one of
the best ever held In this section.
Progressive Movement
May be Centered
in Orange
The clean-up campaign is going
forward on a basis of individual
work There has been some good
progress made during the past few
weeks preceding this week, which
was scheduled for winding up the
campaign
David H. Coers, Orange county
Boy Scout executive, expects to re-
ceive the first . paper gathered by
the Scouts Thursday to he sold to
the Houston Paper Stock company.
In accordance with a previous an-
nouncement.
Coers Mated this morning that he
had already secured s place to store
the paper and that he would receive
it once or twice a week from the
boy*
Those who have old newspapers,
magazines or old books they wish io
discard, may turn them over to
name Boy Scout, or may call the
Seout office at 714. Coers stated this
morning
With the money earned in gather-
inf papers, the boys may pay their
camp foes.
court in session yesterday afternoon-
The task of suing over and mak-
ing a report on the Orange county
official records la an easy one as
compared to other counties, accord-
ing to Winterhaler, who says that
this is due to the systematic man-
ner in which the county records are
handled.
citizens of both Orange and Jefer-
•on counties who believe the bridge
a stepping stone in progress, and a
necessary Item in the future build-
ing of the Sabine district. Those
who favor the bridge, and feel the
need of such a structure to sup-
plant the ferry, declare the vonition
asumed by the Jefferson county
com mimeioners court is just another
example of Beaumont opposition to
any form of progress which doe* not
favor Beaumont with a lion’s share
of accrued benefits.
Proponent/ of the brldge, they de
clart, will not rest until the struc-
ture is built snd Orange and Port
Arthur are connected with a means
of transportation similar to the Sa-
bine river bridge at Orange which
connects the slates of Texas and
Louisiana. h a
side of the stream in the event a ■
KIRBY FUNERAL
Employment Situation
WASHINGTON, April 17.— MiI-
Ilona of dollars were set asdic today
by Major General Edgar Jadwin,
chief of army engineers for rivers
and harbor* improvement during the
year beginning July 1. More than
$7,000,000 was allotted to the Mis-
sissippi river of which $4,350,000
will be expended between St. Louis
and Minneapolis.
Another large project for which
funds were awarded was that on
the Delaware rier from Philadel-
phia to the sea, the war department
setting aside $2,150,000 for thia.
More than $3,600,000 was opprov-
ed for the Missouri river, $3,000,000
to be spent from Kansas City to the
mouth at St. Louis.
The allotments are made from a
lump sum appropriation prevloualy
provided by congress fur that pur-
Galveston harbor $188,500;
Calverton channel $640,000;
Channel, Gnlvetson harbor to Ter-
aa City $230,000; e wan
Port Bolivar channel $16,500;
Houston ship canal $510,000:
Freeport harbhor $72,500;
Channel. Aranras Pass-Corpus
Christi $300,000:
Port Arannas $166,000;
-Louisiana -Texas intracoastal w a-
terway, Ka bine river-Corpos Christi
ROTARY HAM 100% MRFTING
At the meeting of the Vinton Ro-
tary yenterday noon a hundred per-
cent merlin* was reported. The
club haa been having good attend-
ance for the past several months,
and for the month of March ranked
fifth in the distriet with attendance
of 96 per cent.
To make the attendance record
still better, a new system was orig-
I Inated Five names were drawn
from the hat and thone Rotarians
were made captains, with four other
Rotarians under them it is the
duty of the captains to nee that the
members are present. The penalty
for the squad having the lowest per-
centage of attendance for two
month* is paying for luncheon for
the entire eluh Thim organization
formed a week ago and yesterday a
hundred per rent meeting was re-
ported There will be a very tough
battle between the five muada to
keep off the hottom
The eluh derided tn journey to
Lake Charle= Tuerday. April 17th.
to be zuest- of Mr. Cline and the
lake Charles Rotarv club, and to
visit the ("line laundry after lunch-
eon The meeting was adjourned at
one o’eloek so that the duh eould
meet the Dallas hoostersa who were
here for a short stay on their way
to Texas and home
factions which might have been con-
summated fifteen minute* later, was
to be buried here late today
Mr Kirby. *7-year-old capitalist,
died in service of his ideal of* strict
prohibition—an ideal to which he
had given years of his life and much
of his funds -
He left the state capitol hurriedly
yesterday afternobn forgot! ing his
waiting automobi and walking to
his home where he slumped on a
couch and failedeto arise.
Kirby left the office hurriedly to
complete Last details incident to his
plan to take an early evening train
with the Mayo nanitarium as hla ul-
timate destination. He told the gov-
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