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. 1928
ORANGE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26, 1928
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 146
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DENTON,
Dec. 26—The
Exchange National bank. one of the
leash, whs presented with a
Several
of directors.
A marriage ceremony as complete
as that performed in the most tash- | alyzed the man to the extent that he
Joe Salazar, employed
name
Mrs. Hester Lewis
Fog is Case
combination
scaled a wall surrounding the
Copper,
with
General Electric |
statue and other works of art.
AND BREAKS NECK
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touched a stray spray of
Local Scenes In
five
many benutiful floral
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publication. just off
of which Stan-
ARGUMENT OVER
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NEARS PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT; PROTOCOL DRAWN
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massed
of
and
vlously sent an answer to a similar
questionnaire which asker ire n def-
burst into flames during
mas celebration yesterday.
bearers:
Brown.
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him.
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Weds Couple On
Court House Lawn
Captain
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a corps
Who Died Monday
Is Buried Here
Liberty Theatre
To Be Converted
Into Skating Rink
J rome Bur-
after noon.
Exchange National
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Institutions
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BAKE OVEN IN
CAFE EXPLODES
FRED THOMSON,
MOVIE HERO, DIES
Fort laraen and
Cause of the
plained.
One Arrest On
Christmas Eve
Postoffice Has
Rest After Rush
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the
Deceased Had Been
Resident For
Six Years
WRECK VICTIM
IS IDENTIFIED
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ONE DEAD; TWO
HURT IN CRASH
2 Others Face Charges
After Confessing
Robbery
STOCKS RESUME
UPWARD TREND
FIVE NARROWLY
ESCAPE DEATH
Absence Discovered
A veritable cloud of gloom over-
FAMOUS STATUE
IN THIEVES LOOT
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ON MID WINTER
VACATION TRIP
Hundreds Cheer as First
Family Reaches
Brunswick
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Car Owners Rush
To Get Licenses
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Eight Others Injured
Crash, Apparatus
Demolished
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more popu-
onte here exploded yenterday. The
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PEACE AND GOOD WILL OF CHRISTMAS SEASON IS
Benson and
the dceased
issue is devoted to descriptions
a new
i received by Orange
Accompanying
party was Frank
The only Xmas Eve offender of
the law found in Qrange county was
LAlford Stark
ed in Brunswick
the person of a Mexican giving
WASHINGTON. Dec 26.
to the new publication.
tint chureh, Claude
Fur Ani-
treasured gifts
men Interested
emerged from the train and posed
for photographs.
and made
cAno0 i SAnta Fe
New K
PHenix ’Mexico §
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3 30 yesterday
Irrigation tor seven stales is promised in the revised Boulder dam bill calling tor a $165,000,000 flood
control, irrigation end power project on the Colored o river, passed by the' house and now bearing the
signature of President Coolidge. Photos show, lett .above, the site of the proposed dam on the Colorado;
right. President Coolidge as he appears when signing a bill; center, hts signature; below. Representntive
Swing, lett, and Senator Johnson, right, sponbors of th eui with a map showing the states beneritting by the
legislation.
imun Latrobe and
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• InHinn of. the points M Innt in 'Ho ‘polntment bt juadee on the tribunal
Wilson Brown; his personal
cian. James F. Coupal, and ।
Minister Diex Medina
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•pending ' failed to show up for breakfast.
Here 40 Years
English portrait painter. Mr.
The apparatus.
p. m. today
hundred persons.
two governments.
entitled, The
and left immediately for Sapelo Is-
land for their mid-winter vacation
i as guests of Howard E. Coffin.
ephone, Creene Cananea
Deceased Is Believed To Have Fallen Into Sabine
River Because of Darkness Early Yesterday
Morning As He Went After Firewood
Flames Spread
Flames leaped from all parts of
the building housing the distilling
and refilling dopartments, threaten
Ing five tanks, each containing 5000
birrelf of wax oil and right tanks
each of 1000 barrels of kerosene.
A series of explosions rocked the
district. imperiling the Ures of Bre-
men and hundreds of residents who
congregated on the site of the old
Etna chemieal works where a ser-
ous explosion occurred during the
world war.
Company officiah were unable to
determine in* the absence of an in-
vestigation what caused the fire.
peace and god-will of the Christmas
season was reflected today in the
Bolivian-Paraguayan dispute which
seemed nearer a peaceful settlement
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idge’s mi
onrl os
report would
diately .
Three shots directed at
ed to find their mark.
I ionable church or home was solemn-
ised on the court house lawn here
Christms afternoon by the Rev E.
A. Ingram, pastor of the First Pap-
Ort mr yer and
tors.
FLORENCE. Italy, Dec. 26. — A
bronze statue of St. Francis attrib-
uted to Dcnatello was stolen during
the night from the villa of Walter
Spellman. an American. The thieves
TAYLOR, Tex-, Dec 26.—Trapped j last night
on the second floor of the H. E. Tay-
lor dwelling when the first floor
he and his family v
the day with relative:
young man came after
the press.
Son, funeral direc-
Among the most
I Hendrift yesterday
accident was unex- j
SAN ANTONIO. Tex . Dec 26.—
Te unidentified young woman kill-
• ! in the wreck of the International-
Crest Northern passenger train Sun-
day night near Palestine, has been
‘dentifted as Mias Laura Goelitz, 20.
«uhtr of Mr., and Mrs. G. A
Goelitz of San Antonlo,
The porens said yesterday ’ their
daughter waa on her way heme
from Chioaso.to ape nd. the holidays.
that territory
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. necessary to dispatch the incoming
mails on Christmas day, and to dis- <
patch special delivery mall, as a re-
sult of which the local post office
crew enjoyed a rest yesterday after
an arduous week.
made by numerous friends t
1 eased and family.
First Faptist church of this city of-
fie iating. Interment was in the Dor-
man cemetery under the dire* linn of
I where he was born and reared. He
AT p I A * conducted a book store in Orange
IKeW HeDilcatlon and in Beaumont and later started
i"ctures carigd in her handbag
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HRNRIETTA, Tek., Dor l«—An
nrxument over a, Christmas prewent
waa snia to have led to the fatal
shooting of Bill Dunpan, 40. at his
ranch 25 miles from here yesterday.
. Babe Hickman, brother-in-law of
Sundan, surrendered and wns chara
ad with murder.
E. W Brown, Jr.. H. L.
Hunter Huddle. Mr De
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OF CO. STOCKS
Two Shots
Ornes shot twie and Hall fell,
mortally wounded. Keller threw his
gun Into an alley and ran after Or-
nes had fired two shots at him. Coo-
ney surrendered Later Keller was
found in a hotel.
. Police said Keller and Cooney told
them they came here last week. ran
sheet of money and hatched the
plot to rob the flower shop aafe
while attending a motion picture
show.
At Redlands, President V. L. Duke
of the university declared all three
students had good records
Ingram. pastor of the
of the bank examiner.
Officials of the bank would make
no statement regarding the action
of the directors, but one was ex-
pected later in the day. The bank
was capitalised for $100,000.
be submitted to the conference
Agr 3 This Wc-k
The hope was expressed that he-
fore the end of the week both Par-
aguay and Bolivia will have agreed
to the protocol now in the process
of formation. If the protocol is
of that
clashed on the border early in The-
cember.
Committee Agroe
A special committee named by the
Pan-American conference has a greed
on the general terms of a protocol
to be sent the two countries for ap-
proval. This action was taken yea-
terday after Bolivia replied to a
questionnaire sent her by the spe-
cial committee. Paraguay had pre-
of conciliation would follow. The
work of actual mediation would he
left to this tribunal.
Ministers in (harge
The protocol being drafted for
the ronsideration of Holt via and
Paraguay is in charge of a com-
mittee consisting of Dr. Victor Mar-
of newspaper correspondents and
photographers.
A citizens committee extended a
welcome to the president as he step-
ped from the train. Mrs Coolidge,
leading her little red chow on a
pumper and hose cart\ leaped from
the roadway on a curve and som-
ersaulted down into the gully be-
low. The fire truck was wrecked.
A heavy fog obscured the driver's
vision.
The fire started in the filter plant
and was thought to have been check-
ed, but a hidden smoldering spark
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ELUDES WIFE’S | Funeral services for Mrs. Hester
Dili I PTC. AygG Ann Lewis, 75, who died Monday
DLL—: * A LaL- morning. were held from the resi-
ton st
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2«—Fred C
Thomson, screen actor featured in
western roles, died here about mid-
night. e was operated on for gall
stones three weeks ago.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 2< —Two vol- I
unteer firemen were killed and eight
• others injured, five seriously, when
their apparatus plunged down an
embankment today while speeding to
a fire in the plant of the Carnegie
Refining company at Heidelberg
The fire, which started early yes-
terday. waa still raging early this
morning. Loss was placed at $500,-
000.
The dead firemen were Adolph
Bonnett, 20, and Joseph De Petro.
45.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20—The up-
ward trend of stock prices was re-
sumed at the opening of today's
market. Initial gains of a point or
So were recorded by American Tel-
After a day of rest at the office
of the county tax collector. Orange
county car owners lined up again
this mominfg to produce 1929 li-
cense lags in an effort to avoid the
rush and to put themselves beyond
the sphere of interference by traffic
officers of the various localities
where, it is said, much attention
will be given to cars to see that
they are properly equipped with H-
cense plates after January 1.
qunrrel and suggestions for the
makeup of the proposed conciliation
tribunal
Replies Sntusfnctory
The special committee, named for
the purpose of aiding in the me-
diation of the controversy, said that
the replies of both Paraguav and
I olivia were considered satisfactory,
agreeing on basic points and that
after further information from the
by the Kirby Lumber company at
Bessman. The Mexican waa a I leg
ed to hve been taken in an inebri-
ated condition by Deputy" Sheriff W.
W. Firesheets at Texla. The dep-
uty brought the man on to Orange
and turned him over to Sherift Pate
Brown, who placed him in the coun-
ty jail. A charge of druniness was
filed in Justice of the Peace J, p.
Tatum’s court.
Records of the post office here
Indicate that Orange people enjoy-
ed one of the most delightful
Christmas holidays in the history of
the town, if the volume of business
handled through the post office is
to be relied upon as a business
barometer. Postmaster H. C. Ar-
nold followed orders from the post-
master general to the effect that
here should be no work done by the
was unable to save himself.
Rested Easy Monday
Mrs Wignail, wife of the deceas-
ed. stated that she went into the
room of her husband shortly after
10 o'clock Monday night to see that
he was covered up; that she spread
an additional blanket on the hed.
He was apparently resting easy at
that time, she stated.
The next morning, Mrs. Wignail
heard her husband when he arose,
probably about 6 o'clock, as was his
custom to arise early, In order to
make coffee. She fell asleep after-
wards. not realising that anything
had happened until her husband
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DALIAS, Dec. 26.- Eluding suc-
cersfully bullets fired at him by hts
wife, Jens Williams, negro, stumb-
led over N rhalr and broke hf*
neck here yesterday, dying imnte-
via Wignali, a member of the fac-
ulty of the Orange high school; one
brother, John Henry Wignali. and
Mrs. Mary Billington, both of Leeds,
England.
Funeral services will be held
from the residence at 405 Front
street at 4:30 Thursday afternoon.
Rev. Joseph B. Dobbing, rector of
St. Paul's Fpiscopal church, officiat-
ing Interment will be in Evergreen
cemetery. The local Odd Fellows
lodge will conduct ritualistic cere-
monies at the grave.
Orange county rice farmers who
were somewhat disappointed be-
cause the rains prevented them
from finishing the work of thresh-
ing before the holidays, will en-
deavor to complete the job before
January 1, provided weather condi-
tions remain favorable.
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Clad In undergarments. socks
and house slippers, the body of
Wiam Wignal, aged 63 years, was
fished out of Sabine river at 10.45
o'clock this morning by Cleo Me-
lain, a local boatman.
Discovery of the body solved a
mystery of more than 24 hours du-
ration. following the disappearance
of the man from his upstairs room
at the Wignail home. formerly
known as the Ochiltree home. at
405 Front street. Christmas morn-
ing.
business institutions here,
to open today. A sign was
on the door, saying. "This about the station, cheered lustily as
elozed by order of the board I the president and Mr. cwollage
the presidential
Missouri Pacific,
and Nash Motora
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Gulf Re-
fining company of Houston, a sub-
sidiary of Gulf Oil corporation, has
sold its employes $18,000,000 in
Gulf oil stock at $80 a share, the
company paying one-third of the
pi ice as a Christmas gift. The stock
is now selling on the New York curb
market around 5142.
BAN ANTONTO, Tex,, Dec, «_
Pedis Donin, coko, waa merlousiy in-
jured a(d lira, of a more of holi-
day merrymaker endangerea when
* bake oven in th. kitchen of a
Bolivia, and Eligio Ayala, Paraguay-
an delegate to the conference Par-
aguayan and Bolivian representatives
I to the Pan- American conference at-
• tended the meeting of the special
i committee yesterday.
Work on General Truty
While the protocol was being
shaped, other members of the con-
ference went ahead with work on a
general treaty of arbitration and
coneiliation affect in« the American
republics.
Miss Ruth Reese being the contract-
ing party.
A company of some twenty to
twenty-five who had accompanied the
young couple to the court house
witnessed the marriage, in which
the ring ceremony was used.
The couple, bent on marriage, had
sought diligently for some time be-
fore a Baptist minister could be
found. Rev. Ingram having just
rea« hed home from Jasper, where
The deceased came to Orange
When a young man, about 40 years
ago, from Manchester, England.
1893
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one daughter. Miss Fla-
ration of louisiana, is author
An auographed copy from the
। author was received by Alford
Stark, manager of the East Cove
trappers’ camp for the Orange-
Cameron lai nd company.
The new copy, which contains
around 1000 pages, includes a num
ber of photographic scenes of the
Orange-ameron Land company
trapping activities and much of the
any time since troops
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Blue, Eddie Hartfield, Vaughn Sea-
■trunk and C- W. MacFarlane?
Members of the First Methodist
choir sang.
The deceased had been a resident
of Orange for six years with the ex-
ception of about one year spent in
Florida. He is survived by his
widow and a brother who resides in
Canada'.
FORT LAVACA, Tea., Dec. 26.—-
i Leonard Elliott, 36, mechanic. wan
killed and Miss Fessie Gnrner and
( Miss Christine Calhoun were Injur- .
ed slightly when an automobile ov- |
erturned on the highway between .
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BERKELEY, Calif. Dec. 26.-
Shot by a*policeman while fleeing
from a building where he had rob-
bed a safe, Thomas Donald Hall, 21.
a sophomore at the University of
Redlands, Redlands. California, is
dead and two juniors of the same
school face arraignment here to-
day op a burglary charge after con-
fessing participation in the robbery.
Needed Money
Hall’s companions, William Corn-
•well Cooney, 21, and George I.
Keller, 28, declared they robbed the
safe because they needed Christmas
money. At Del Rosa, Cal., E. E.
Hall, father of the slain student,
■aid young Hall had all the money
he needed and expressed the opin-
ion the boy had participated in the
robbery for a thrill.
The police version of the affair,
which occurred yesterday was tht
the patrolman, Thaddeus Ornes.
* heard a noise in a flower shop on
his beat and encountered the three
students when he investigated.
When Ornoe commanded them to
throw up their hands Hall drew a
gun and commanded him to do like- ■
wise.
Mr and Mrs. E. G. Drnke and
baby and Mr. and Mr. H. R. Hud
non reachthe yard Just as the
mecona floor fell in. Loe was en-
timnted at $10,000;
throughout Christmas day when
the fact became known that Wig-
nail, one of the best known and
most honored citizens of the city,
was missing.
Due to his custom of arising ear-
ly in the morning and sometimes
going about his affairs for some
little time, his absence was not
realised until after breakfast time,
which was shortly after 5 o’clock.
An investigation of the room oc-
cupied by the man revealed the
fact that none of his clot blag, out-
side of a suit of underwear, his
socks and house slippers, were
missing, his glasses and other ar-
ticles being found where he bad laid
them on retiring the night before
Search Startc
As soon as it became known that
Wignali was missing, there were nu-
merous volunteers for service on
duty, some dragging the river, and
in the meantime Walter Block, a
deep sea diver, with his diving out-
fit. made a careful earch of the
rtver bottom in the vicinity of the
home, which is on the river bank.
The search was renewed this morn-
ing. Block having started searching
again in his diving suit. Cleo Mc-
Lean. a local boatman, using a fish-
hook drag, located the body in wa-
ter about eight fee deep, about 20
feet from the bank.
A careful survey of the situation
has caused most people to conclude
that the man had started on a hasty
rty to gather up some wood which
had been stacked on the river edge
In the yard and that, being without
his glasses, and perhaps in the dark,
he stumbled and fell Into the water
and was drowned. His weakened
condition, caused hy a three weeks
attack of the flu. and the sudden
chill of the water, it is thought, par-
sons hardy escaped before
structure collapsed. _
PRUNSWICK, Ga- Dec. 26.—
President and Mrs. Coolidge arriv-
Funeral services for Charles B.
Hood, 62, who died Monday night
at 9:45 at the Frances Ann Lutcher
hospital, were held here from the
Ortmeyer & Bon funeral parlors at
4:20 yesterday afternoon. T. J.
Horne, a loeal minister, officiating.
Interment was in Evergreen cem-
etery.
teaching instrumental music. He
has hern teaching most of the time
since coming to Orange. For many
years he has been closely identified
with the three branches of the Odd
Fellows lodge, also being a past pa-
triarch of the grand encampment, I.
O. O- F. of Texas. He had been
secretary for many years of Iris
lodge No. 125, I. O. O. F.; of Or-
iental encampment No. 109, and
Canton B. Hubbard No. 20.
He was a stockholder In the Sa-
bine Supply company.
William Wignail was born March
7, 1865. He was educated at the
University of Cambridge, Oaks Win-
slow. He received his musical edu-
cation in Belgium.
R. E Richardson, proprietor of
the Orange Amusement ciub, stated
today that he had completed all ar-
rangements for construction of a
modern skating rink at the old Lib-
erty theater on Front and Sixth
streets and that he expected the
new place of amusement for this
sea you to be available within the
next few days. This arrangement
will not conflict with the boxing
matehes previous scheduled for this
plce.
hung Orange
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