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NO. 294
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MAN ARRESTED AS HARRY
Gets on Wrong Lot
COURT CHANGE ACCOMPLISHED
BILL sought
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Quit Soon.
WASHINGTON, July 23.
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800.131.03
$1,313,332.86
At his regular Friday press con- ed to consider the immediate danger
bell of the Karpis gang still
in
81,313,332.86
definite. Leaders expect to canvass
y
China had been averted and a last-
FOR TEACHERS’
Stucky, succeeded late yesterday in
to-date
2,000-acre fire.
MEETING HERE
to be erected."
Van Sickle. both of East Missoula.
tion.
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counties are expected
the third Sanusi
custody
Relief From July
Boy. O. boy, you never saw such
in Middle West
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vention the largest number of white
Borah iR-
Ida), and Austin (R-Ver).
ickory
mond C Kincaid. 33. salesman at
the car
com-
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would be asked to co-operate
spokesman
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said in announcing plans for the
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ata.
Motorcycle Accident
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ecepted
usiness
ABOUT
TOWN
PRESIDENT FEELS SOME OF
ORIGINAL OBJECTIVES FOR
CAMPBELL NOT MEMBER OF
KARPIS GANG, NOW IN PRISON
Snake
Couldn’t
Take It
Opponents of the original Roose-
velt court bill were given control I
Lull in W ind
Aids Firefighters
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of drafting the new measure Six
of the eight subcommittee members
QUICK ACTION
ONWAGE,HOUR
ver Lautz as he drove Into the ga-
rage at his home on the southern
d with the commis-
investigation, which
Bobbie Cole, young son of Mr and
Mrs. Tom Cole, Pilot Knob com-
munity, was brought home from
Mineral Wells, where he has been
under treatment, for a rest at home.
bringing out the bodies of two men
who were burned to death in the
MISSOULA, Mont. Juty 23—()
—Men fighting the forest fire in the
the man forced Lautz to drive two
miles south on U 8. Highway 71
president felt that as a result of
his fight for changes in the Su-
preme Court membership, the tri-
bunal had altered somewhat its at-
"Denton County expects its teach-
ers in the city. In the county, and
in the two colleges to cooperate as
hosts and our guests are to be enter-
joint congressional committee has
it about ready.
Some House leaders said the bill
Most Divisions
of Trade Better
shortly before the March 15 in-
come tax deadline
Wheat
sion's tele
Officials of Two
Counties Want to
Try Pete Traxler
ing settlement of the long existing
differences between the two coun-
tries was near.
A foreign office spokesman said
Early Adjournment
May Curtail Program
Congress Expected By
i~ Some Leaders To
CONGRESS
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100.000.00
33,172.04
2,808.75
657.38
3.834.00
1,172,869.68
CARTHAGE, Mo. July 23—(P—
A gunman, suspected by officers of
being Charles Chapman, fellow fu-
gitive of Roy • Pete" Traxler from
a Texas prison farm, kidnaped a
University of Missouri student here
today and stole the youth's automo-
bile.
legislation.
He said that before the presi-
dent submitted his court bill on
Feb 5 the court had held the Ag-
ricultural Adjustment Act unconstl-
ment to open negotiations for a
settlement of the fundamental Sino-
Japanese issues and would respond
to any change in the Chinese for-
eign policy.
Although there has been no om-
cial- announeement it is widely ac-
8am
Umn.
cancy tn the commission’s member-
ship Vice Chairman Irvin Stewart
resigned recently to affiliate with
the national research council
said, from the standpoint of citizens
needing health, education or relief
services
man Manning 8. Prall at Boothbay for destruction of currency bearing
Harbor Me, created a second va- gold redemption pledge.
the commission said resulted in a
422.000 000 annual saving to tele-
phone users Gary is the commis-
sion's present general counsel
Eugene O Sykes of Mississippi
has been acting commission chair-
man since Prall went to Maine on
July 1 and will continue as its head
until President Roosevelt names s
new chairman
veltian demand for a court reor-
ganization had an enormous effect
on the court. During years when
court agitation was prominent, he
said, the courts listened and made
their decisions more along Judicial
lines than legislative Unes
That situation prevailed. he said,
until the administrations of Presi-
dent Coolidge and Hoover when the
courts, he asserted proceeded more
along legislative lines.
Park Program
Set for Tonight
cf war past Japan said she was
ready to approach settlement of the
fundamental issues between her and
China.
But in Peiping, Chinese listed new
Japanese military activity and ex-
GREENVILLE, 8 C., July 23
—(—A contractor nursed a
$5,000 headache today * __
Several weeks ago a buyer
purchased a lot from a real es-
Sebate. “Diatiet of Cotumbia tax
bill.
Labor committee votes on Weg-
ner housing bill.
Cite* Recent Decision* Upholding New Deal
Legislation; Want* Congress to Go Further
Than Opponents Have Agreed.
Put At. Head Of
List of Possible
Legislation.
Judiciary committee begins draft-
ing substitute court bill.
i) we today:
Considers Bonneville dam author-
ity legislation.
Banking committee resumes study
of MU to reimburse Federal reserve
DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 2a, 1937
named to head the subcommittee,
which Chairman Ashurst (D-Ark
said he hoped would submit a pre-
liminary report by next Thursday
others named were: Dieterich <D-
estible
e day.
heat’s-
Two Mentioned
for PralFs Post
WASHINGTON, July n —(—
EIGHT PAGES
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8 474,004.42
2,196.42
30,000.00
7,001 00
Costly Cure
BLUEFIELD, W Va —Bam B
Freeman found a sure cure for
the bugs and insects in his gar-
den—now he wants a cure for
the cure.______________
Terrapins he turned loose ate
the bugs but then destroyed his
tomato plants
-$1.89
ya wf,
Taken on “Underworld” Tip, Believed to Be
Another Harry Campbell, Escaped Convict
From Texas Penitentiary.
Hearings Due on
New Farm Bill
The gunman, about 38 years old superintendent bringing to the con-
and heavily bearded, accosted Oro- ventton the largest number of white
could be held until next session be-
cause it would not be needed until
everything and it was the kind
that "mother makes."
The well will be spudded in Fri-1
day morning, according to announce- '
Baldwin, 14. and David Manning. 7.
All lived in Laurel, Md.
The driver of the truck said he
was blinded by the lights of an ap-
proaching car.
FORMER TEXAS SUPREME
COURT MEMBER DIES
ABILENE, July 23 —(— William
E Hawkins former member of the
Supreme Court of Texas, died here
today
Senator Borah suggested expand-
ing the bill, If possible, to cover
receiverships.
To Start Drafting
McCarran called the subcommit-
tee to begin work tomorrow Ashurst
cupant of the truck. was taken to
(a hospital suffering from a head
injury and possible skull fracture.
Kincaid’s body was taken to Abt-
The man, caught as he jumped
out of a first-floor window, admit-
ted Ids identity. Cliffe reported,
and told how he walked away last
Pebruary from the Texas State
prison farm at Huntsville, where
he was serving 25 years for robbery
of a Galveston bank in 1832.
A check of fingerprint records,
Cliffe announced later. defnttely
established the man's identity. Al-
though their names are the same
Cliffs said the man was not to be
confused with the Harry Camp-
bell of the Karpis gang, who was
sentenced on May 12. 1936, to life
imprisonment st Leavenworth peni-
tentiary for the kidnaping of Ed-
ward O. Bremer. St. Paul banker.
Other in Prison
Departments of Justice agents
said their records showed Camp-
window of the car
Th? dead were Bernard Lammer,
21, driver of the car, his three
sisters, Mildred, 18. Anna Ma. 13.
Newton Vanvorhees sustained an
injury to his left wrist Thursday
when a pencil he was sharpening
stuck into his arm, breaking off It
was necessary to cut out the pencil
and afterwards take a tetanus se-
rum
toriums and classrooms in Denton! Heat Wave Seen
make addresses at Eh5 first general |
Carl I Wheat of California and j
Hampeon Gary of Texas were dis-
cussed today in informed quarters '
as possible appointees to the com-
munications commission. ।
The death of Commission Chair -
T
Suspected Pal
of Pete Traxler
Welfare Work Wcordingsuren 7
c II J rector of the department of phi-
' rouping Llrgea losophy and education of s c. W.
ly days %
ir fam- %
tain farmer, awaited sentencing to-
day. convicted of the kidnap-siay-
ing of Dr J C B Davis of Willow
Springs. Mo
A possible attempt to escape from
the Oregon County Jail by means
of a soap pistol ruse was frus-
trated last night, officers said when
the “weapon” was taken from him.
Kenyon was assessed the death
penalty by a jury of mountain men
yesterday
22 Injured When
Bus Hit* Gasoline
There's some talk about a YMCA
in Denton, but. as yet. no definite
steps have been made toward that
project, which, undoubtedly. would
be a forward step, especially for the
youth of the city.
R C. Patterson, superintendent
of Denton Pubhe Schools, has re-
turned from Austin, where he at-
tended the summer session of the
University doing work on his Ph.
D. degree. He has twenty hours
work now toward his doctor's de-
gree "It is most essential these
times for a teacher to keep abreast
of every phase of education, as dur-
ing the past few years many changes
have taken place and they continue
to change,” he said
Some four or five hundred peo-
ple attended the spudding-in cele-
bration of the Miller Bros oil test,
about one and a half miles south-
east of Aubrey Thursday night Op-
timtam reigned supreme, add those
Aubrey people are most confident
that oil will be discovered in their
arsa if they throw a party for an
oil well, there's no telling what
kind and how big it will be. Judg-
ing from the party Thursday night
HUGO, Ok., July 23 — Appar-
entiy suffering as much from chig-
ger bites as from a gunshot wound
over his heart, Roy "Pete" Traxler
was heartened by visits from his
wife and mother as officials of Use
counties today prepared to demand
he pay the death penalty for armed
robbery
“Hello honey how are yourz mne-
ed Mrs Nell Tingley Traxler. xs
ing the wounded desperado yester-
day.
"Hello," Traxler replied wanly,
scratching his chigger bites, souve-
nir of a 12-day game of tag irough
session scheduled for Friday March
11. at 7:20 to 8:30 p. m in the
Teachers College auditorium
"I cant tell you the kind of im-
provements that will replace the
burned structures," said A. F Evers,
owner or three buildings on the'
South Side that were damaged by
fire recently “I am having the j
buildings cleaned of all debris and
then I will be in better position
to decide the character of buildings
deferring until next year other ad-
ministration proposals, such as gov-
| ernment reorganization and crop
teachers of any county in attend-
ance. with the exception of the1
WASHINGTON. July 23 •—
The Brookings Institute, an inde-
pendent research organization, sug-
gested today grouping of Federal
Welfare activities—including labor.,
i the legislative situation with Pres- i
ident Roosevelt to learn which i
tary Wallace Members of the House
Committee said it would take them -----1
at least a month to get it in shape Approximately 3,000 teachers and
A bill to continue low interest administrators from 21 North Texas
Senator McCarran (D-Nev) was
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Contractor Builds
$5,000 House, But
Bud Duncan, who has been sick
for several days, was down town
Friday morning and he was wearing
his weather-chain as usual Joe
Chambers wanted to know if the
weather would be right for fish-
ing. but the prophet wasn’t giving
out much information, saying, “It’s
all right if you carry a slicker and
a parasol.” No doubt, the slicker
could be used for rain and the para-
sol for sun That's a safe predic-
tion.
EAST TEXAS: Cloudy t pa0,
oloudy tenieht and Saturday OCR
He to moderate southetty -jure «■
the
OK 1.A BOM At Partly ,1,^ s
unsettled tonight and aturdaj.
ARKANSAS AND WEST TEXAS:
Partly oloudy tonight and Beter-
day.
administration's wage and
| hour bill today at the top of
i early date of the distinguished edu-
cators and speakers whose services
who discussed the president's atti-
tude toward the week's climactic
developments in the court bill fight
said that it was up to Congress to
decide whether reasonable general
legislation was to be enacted There
was no indication whether the ad-
ministration would make an effort
to get additional legislation at this
session
Court Long Problem
Colby Marshal County at-
and Bon Carter. Bryan
etgommey, came here to seek
' of Traxler. Colby was “el.
a congressional program that
old boy by pulling him through a may be curtailed by early ad-
1 - ■ ‘journment.
Majority leader Barkley said the
Senate wuold debate the measure j
next week.
As modified by the Labor Com-
tained in a manner which will
phase them and which will make
rates on certain farm loans was
enacted yesterday over President
Roosevelt's veto. The Senate voted
to override the veto 71 to 19 after
the House had acted similarly 260
to 98
Tile President was expected to
’ ask for passage before adjournment
■ of a bill to plug tax loopholes. The
and Pauyne, 29: and his two cous- i
ins, Frances Haker, 17. Pernces
education, heaith, and relief agen- them wish return" Turrentine
cles—under the Labor Department ' -enm6
The situation now “is one of ad- meeting
ministrative confusion.” the report' •
late office and told the bon-
tractor to. build him a Root)
house on it.
When the new home oner
prepared to move in, he fhund
the house had been built on the
wrong lot
mittee, it would let a board fix
minimum wages up to 40 cents an Doomen
hour and a maximum work week of ' voomed
Mr and Mrs R H Hoffman, Jr.
will leave Saturday morning for
Colorado, where they will spend the
summer, or at least until such
time as va Special Session of the
Legislature may be called Mr Hoff-
man said. "We are not fully decided
where we will be, but first we will
go to Denver”
A G. Mitchell. Denton motor-
cycle officer, suffered painful bruises
and abrastons when the motorcycle
he was riding overturned on North
Locust Street Thursday afternoon
about 3:30 o'clock A truck going
north which was in front of Mitch-
ell turned left at Congress Ave-
nue He was too close to stop Mitch-
ell said In an effort to stop his
machine, he applied the brakes, and
the motorcycle fell over on its side,
skidding several feet with Mitch-
ell pinned under it.
He is resting nicely at his home
on Egan Strit and possibly will
return to work Saturday
ference, the president declined to
comnment on the Senate’s action
yesterday. To reporters crowding his
office he appeared smiling and in
good humor. He parried a question
as to whether he contemplated fur-
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When one used to think of natural
gas, one naturally thought about
heating or cooking, but these days
many more uses have been found
for gas A look at the modern gas
appliances and conveniences for
Texas people on display at an ex-
hibit, sponsored by the Lone Star
Gas System at the Greater Texas
and Pan American Exposition in
Dallas, will give an idea of the
various uses to which natural gas
has been utilized for the conven-
ience of people. The exhibit fea-
tures cooking appliances, general
heating, water heating, refrigera-
tion, air conditioning and indus-
trial uses. The exhibit shows how
the gas industry is bringing improv-
ed servcle to consumers A dally
feature is the free cooking demon-
stration that is given in the model
gas kitchen.
I Miimo^r^ comenptuna X i Hearing Due in
measure. U B-bls to include reg- - ‘Goss ip Slaying’ | 6qa
ST. LOUIS, July 28.— {AP)—Acting on an “uner-
world” tip, Detective-Lieut. Martin Cliffe and a raiding party
of six officers surrounded a rooming house at dawn today and
arrested a man they believed to be Harry Campbell, escaped
Texas convict.
NEW YORK, July 23 —(P— Twen-
ty-tWo persons wert injured today
when a big bus loaded with city-
bound commuters collided at Rock-
away Beach with a gasoline truck
which exploded The explosion
sprayed the wrecked vehicles with
naming fuel.
One passenger, drenched with
blazing gasoline, was thrown into
twelve feet of water in nearby Ja-
maica Bay by a fellow victim He
was pulled out of the bay badly
burned.
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not less than 40 hours. Products i
made by children under 18 would
be banned in Interstate commerce
The House Labor Committee has
yet to approve a wage and hour
bill. Influential members, however,
predicted the House would enact one
before adjournment.
Aside from that proposal and!
: the substitute bill to speed up lower
Federal courts, the program was in-
----- By Assoctated Press ----
JERSEYVILLE, Ill. — Elmer
Holder's pet rattlesnake could
dish it out but he couldn’t take
it
Angered by the slamming lid
of its cage. the reptile struck,
missed the lid and sank its
poisonous fangs deep into its
own body.
Twenty minutes later it died.
was disarmed.
She testified she arrived about
that time and that she was attack-
ed by Elvin in the fight she said
she obtained the revolver from Mrs
Allen shot her school girl chum
when Elvin and Mrs Allen advanced
on her
Convict Farmer
for Kidnaping
pasture and that an argument and ALTON. Mo . July 33 —«Rob-
scuffle ensued in which her mother ert Kenyon, youthful Ozarks Moun-
Weathe!
control.
—---- -- . | Neither House nor Senate Com-
Myrick said Lee Coy and Ray mittee has done anything with the
GALVESTON*1 Juy23(_Har-
ry Campbell was given a 35-year
sentence here in 1833 on a charge
of slugging and robbing R B Mu-
nive, an employe of the Eiband de-
partment store. of a 85,800 payroll
The robbery occurred just after Mu-
nive had left the First National
Bank
Campbell alao was arraMad in
most certain" Traxler would be bald
MS'SKJS.'tt.
tsy would permit Traxler to re-
main in Oklahoma and face the
armed robbery chargea
Conviction of armed robbery car-
ries a death penalty in Oklahoma
A short time before Traxlers wife
visited him, his mother, Mrs Frank
Hasabrook, on a visit to her son.
declared she wished the world
could see "Pete's side of It."
“My boy was always good and
truthful." She said as she declared
her son's career in crims was start-
ed by an old charge at Paula Val-
ley. Ok.. Of which he wasn't guil-
ty." ______.
Allred Silent on
School Tax Row
so that the court had upheld the
Wagner Labor Act as the Washing-
ton minimum wage law also. An-
other gain, this spokesman said,
was that the country had been
made court conscious and constitu-
tion-minded
PossTbly indicating a conciliatory
attitude between the two factions
in the court bill fight was the fact
that Senator Burke ID-Neb), a
leader of the opposition, called up-
on the president during the morn-
campaigning
The spokesmen Indicated
said Attorney General Cummings
lene where funeral services were
planned for Saturday
tional Forest and Coroner Guy
The administration
crop control and "ever-normal gran-
ary” program advocated by Secre-
The administration spokesman
reviewed the problem of the Fed-
eral Judiciary since 1813 when, he
said, the late Theodore Roosevelt
campaigned for president on a court
vetz pet coyote has developed
a taste for beer and hamburg-
ers.
Jinx lived on milk for a
while, but one day the milk
failed to arrive. Moravetz tried
him on a glass of beer
Since then Jinx will have
nothing else—plus a hamburger
or two
EVANSTON, Ill.—Ten times
in more than a month a burglar
has entered Evanston homes,
pulled down the blinds and ran-
sacked the places after helping
himself to food and drink in
the ice box
The crimes were petty, but
Irritating to police
So Chief William O Freeman
offered a weeks vacation with
pay to the officer who captures
the burglar
were opposed to the
plan.
had Men achieved.
This was coupled with a hint that
the chief executive believed a more
complete and permanent attain-
ment of his goals would require
court legislation beyond that which
the senators who virtually killed
his court bill have been willing to
accept
Court bill opponents, forcing the
measure to be sent back to the Sen-
ate Judiciary committee yesterday,
agreed to certain procedural changes
in the lower courts. They won
agreement from administration sen-
ators. however, that there would
be no change in the Supretme Court
Enlargement of the Supreme Court
had been a principal point of what
administration leaders called the
president's judicial reform program
Declines to Comment
Chinese and Jap PREEstBradoeama-sdmidz-
I death in a flaming auto here early
Reports Confusing: pareeapasengerruckr 5*^!
S .Olit over. A seventh died later of his
On War Situation The truck driver rescued a year
W ASMINGTON, July 234 C II
—(AP)—Leaders placed the Grown Up
....... DENTON. Mont.—Ray Mora-
NEW YORK, July 23—4—Most
divisions at trade moved forwar
this week, giving more definite
signs of the end of summer slack-
ness Dun & Bradstreet said today
in the weekly review of business
Retall sales ware estimated at
from 3 to 8 per cent ahead of the
preceding week and from 8 to 30
per cent better than at this time
last year, wholesale markets were
busy with reorders and were rid
of the speculative influences which
beset them a year ago
More favorable shopping weather
was noted in most centers, which
played its part in enabling stores
in New England to report increases
over last year of » to 18 per cent;
Eastern states 8 to 18; Middle West
15 to 38; Northwest 18 to ■; South
13 to 18.
i after the shooting with the an-
nouncement she had shot May in
president’s self-defense . . ——--7.---
Ready to press the murder charge odessaufor anol well supply
=^the’^W fo: “Od^v^
oner's jury that the argument pre- truck at Odessa V. H. Clark, oc-
ceding the shooting arose when Mrs
Allen accused Jessie and her mother
of ' telling lies on Elvin."
“Elvin spent a month with her
Uncle Bill in Vivian," Mrs Allen
tlod the coroner’s jury. Jessie told
that Elvin had a baby while up
there She told Elvin's fellow, Percy
Methivin "
At the inquest Jessie said her mo-
ther. armed with a revolver, had
met Mrs Allen and Elvin in the
change program - .
For 15 or 30 years thereafter, the Mitchell Injured in
spokesman continued, the Roose-
Leavenworth.
Early in June. Cliffe related tn his
report, the man said he obtained
between 11,000 and 82,000 tn a rob-
bery at Little Rock. Ark. The offi-
cer quoted him as follows: '
"I held up a place in Little Rock.
Ark.. I think it was a bank, and
I got somewhere between $1,000
and 82,000."
Cliffe described his prisoner as
being a "quiet, soft-spoken man
who talks as though he were a
Southern gentleman."
HD; McGill (D-Kans);
(D-Tex); Van Nuys
OMahoney (D-Wyo);
I By Associated Press)
Diametrically opposite reports
from Chinese and Japanese threw
he current North China crisis into
new confusion today just as the two
r weeks of tension was believed to
have been ended.
In Tokyo, the government received
reports of Chinese troop withdraw-
als from Peiping and was dispos-
The Denton Farm Club will meet
in regular bi-monthly session in the
upstairs dining room of the Amer-
ican Cafe tomorrow tSaturday)
night Secretary Warren, back from
a trip to Durango, Colorado, on a
fishing expedition with Paul Dun-
kle and Dayton Warren, does not
say just what the program will be.
but it may be that he will get
Dunkle to talk about fishing rather
than "dues are due."
Mont., apparently became trapped
by the inferno while attempting to
reach safety They abandoned their
tractors, with which they were
edge of town Brandishing a pistol host county. The prize money la to
be spent for equipment in the office
of the winning superintendent
where the youth was put out of Announcement will be made at an
And God bieMed the seventh day.
and sanctified it: because that in it
he had rested from all his work
which God created and made.—
Genesis 2:3.
In contemplation of created
tilings, by steps we may ascend
toGod.—MEton.
AUSTIN, July 22 ——I—-Governor
Tamas V. Allred declined to say Re
day what he thought the Mate
Board at Education should de x
ther with reference to the per tapr-
te scholastie apportionment.
A meeting at the board here to-
morrow was called by three
bers after Ohent Banderford. _
dent, refused to take that action,
and a fresh outburst in the con-
troveray was expected.
The education board recently set
an apportionmemt of 822 for next
year, compared with the current >
818, and later the automatie tex
board, at which Governor Allred Is
a member, slashed the ed valorem
levy for school purposes from 20
cents to seven centa on the RB
valuation.
The comptroller's department has
estimated the seven cent rate wtth
revenue from other sources woula
permit purchase at needed text-
books and payment of a 820 appor-
tionment
"There's every indication of pros-
perity to be seen in the country
these days," says J P Magee “We
all know that Denton County had
a wonderful wheat crop; we know,
too, that a fair corn crop, better
than ordinary, is assured and the
county never had a better cotton
prospect than right now Of course..
cotton has a good way to go yet
before we can count on it, but
with continuing favorable condi-
tions, the county should have one
of Its best cotton yields." '
MIDLAND. July 23—•P— Ray-
■ out the state will be heard.
To Elect Officers
The second general session will be
held in the auditorium of the Texas
State College for Women from 1:20
to 3 o'clock Saturday Three out-of-
state speakers will address the group
At this meeting officers will be se-
lected for the year, and a 825 cash
prize will be awarded to the county
working for a logging contractor.
nearPehemetnep"prunged“aAn:
cepted that the North China cri- ; main fire.
sis which brought China and Japan --------
. . , .. Japan was ready to consider any
oSta^m-ity^ the proposal from the Chinese govern -
i a maximum of $5,000, mostly to the
COUSHATTA. La., July 23.—•P, I liquor store stock.
The fatal “gossip shooting” of pret- After citizens rushed out of their
ty May Elvin Allen, 17, had an air- homes by an early morning earth
ing in court today at the prelim- shock that swayed several bund-
man- hearing of Jessie Pepper, also mgs. they paid little need to the
_ - 117. accused of killing her life-long recurring shocks
Connally ( friend. ’________:__________
< D-Ind>: May Elvin was shot July 5 dur- n:1 o f
ing a cow pasture quarrel on the j < ’ll Salesmen
' plantation where the Allens and v ,.. , . e _
Peppers lived side by ride Jessie Killed in Crash
surrendered at the sherif s office
eetmtg « SnFMDdrmanedinAmiana
’ the woods with the law—bow axe
' you?" 29%
Mrs. Traxler is free on 85,000 boua
1 on a Federal charge of harboring
1 a fugitive She is accused of hid-
ing Traxler and Fred Tindol, wih
1 whom Traxler and seven other
। men fled the Huntsville, Tana.
- state prison farm. She wes captur-
ed Tuesday when she fainted ane
wax found in the fugitives’ car af-
ter the pair dodged a posse near
Aylesworih, Okla
Mrs. Traxler mentioned the poe:
sibility Traxler might be retufmet
to the Texas prison farm.
"No, I don't want to go back to
Huntsville anymore,' he e exert to.
He is under a 99-year sentence
men? Ior armed roDDery.
Labor committee continues study
of wage beer bill
Rivera and harbors committee
continues hearings on rerional
planning MIL
Yesterday:
Senate sent court bill back to
judiciary commitee.
8—to overrode president’s vote
on extending tow farm loan interest
rates.
House amended Interior depart-
ment appropriation bill
LaFollette committee eriticimed
Chicago police tactles in strike
Takes Youth. Car
the upper nineties but forecasters
said mine and shifting winds would
bring cooler weather from Western
Canadian provinces in close pur-
suit
The 12-day heat wave early in
July mainly affected the northern
tiers of states from the Rockies to
the Atlantic and waa blamed for
nearly 400 deaths
WASHINGTON, July 23—(—
The Senate Agricultural Committee
voted today to hold a series of
hearings throughout the country
on the admintstrations new farm
bill, providing for more stringent
production control of five major
crops
Senator Pope (D-Ida). Senate
sponsor of the bil, said the com-
mittee action meant there was "vir-
tually no prospect" that the legis-
lation would be enacted this session.
The committee proposed to name
a subcommittee of five to hold the
hearings At least one would be held
to each of the five crop arena
Pope said hearings would be held
in regions growing cotton, corn, to-
bacco. wheat and rice, and prob-
ably would continue until midwin-
ther campaigning for his court pro- pressed fear it foreshadowed a ma-
gram by saying he nas not done any ’ jor eAnaneea driveto consolidate • ,
the cause of the present incident, the wind tocon- ,
„ . .__ . . , trol the blaze in the rough coun-
—Returning,, Normal try along the south and east edges ’
। TOKYO, July 23 —P—Japan rap- or the fre area
utude toward moan nncint. idly returned to normal today.as Eleven men, directed by Super- would quit between Aug 7 and 15.
invdsedruardveraopsentsPrnmiajosiaszeneranabeliekerew.tnat.warwith visor E.B. Myrick of the Lolo Na-------------------------
to th? verge of war over control Alcl,. Ql. 1.
cf the rich region around Peiping /ilUSMI 9 llU ken
Tokyo will insist on retaining the b\ Earthouake
. " -- -----—lne - i present method-of working through •
eatsithere was. Plenty and -oreat 1 in the Hopeh-Chahar political eoun-1 PAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 23 _(
Laterpzurkntsasassersrdenttaa to ttout bvlocniZuthtittes. ^rtoiTto^eVX^X
have discussed with the president The real agreement wil come, how- quake disturbance ever recorded
rm^y mier alloperator ! - ^yesterttay many
oesmmnxonnertonhwithmaxtrther manbjestivesgooutiinednby, the dorestthrcgocal agreement and shocks. fur"or them ^re“^
LH. Miner Roundabout knew that Pmitdtions “now Pmpobed.under ’^‘wm^ffice published today guregdoer the interorfromrair-
"MI ller. Bros the.operators The judiciary committee set I the terms of the truce agreement 300 mlles south to Anchor-
for. the — 56, but he dnt know about its work by forming an eight- reached by Japanese military offi- During the asstsmanc. .n.
that it was a friend 01 some few man subcommittee to draft the new cials and local Chinese authorities compins. banks and utility
vearsback-when Miller and Round- reform bill applying only to the i ---------------- companies, banks and business
about were friends in the Unlversi- lower courts The committee un
Judge Mustatn acted as master of
ceremonies and introduced Melvin ulation of bankruptcy and receiver-
Miller. who made a short talk in ship fees
which he said that all information -
concerning the test would be given
to any one -at any time.
The weekly program tn the band-
Shell tn City Park, sponsored by
the Juniqr Chamber of rv-nataana
under the direction of Harweu
Shepard, chairman of entertatn-
ment. wil begin at 8 olelock to-
night. •
Entertainment win constst of neV.
oral munial numbers and tap
dances by local entertainers
WASHINGTON, July 28.—(AP)—A high administra. SIX BURN TO
tion official said today that despite the Senate’s emphatic re- ____
jection of Supreme Court enlargement. President Roosevelt
felt some of his original objectives for court reorganization
measures he wants considered. -- ,
sm----- ce EXPECT 3000
This, they agreed, might meant --- >
at the Elband store, in the fall of
1832 and robbery gf the store safe
of 12,600, but evidence against him
was held insufficient.
germ 3
child ;
1*8 of 1
•
ir raw :
risk of <
EUR- t
northern division of the Texas State
Teachers Association to be held in
Denton. March 11 and 12.
Major problems now confronting
: teachers of the North Texas dis-
trict will be discussed at the two I
general session? and two sectional [
meetings to be held in various audi-
_----ML--Eees
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