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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FRDAY, JULY 22, 1932
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Letters were being mailed to
1969 persons. They will act as
leaders in their block in the final
"fine-comb" cleanup.
.Each block captain will make a
last round-up of his block, asking
Between 35,000 and 40,000
Expected to Rush Polls
In Primary Tomorrow
PERFECT ELECTION
WEATHER FORECAST
luestion of Negro Votes
Undecided As Eleetion
• Day Nears
SMILE DAY TO
ENO CAMPAIGN
} would take his 600 followers
out of town by box car within 36
hours to start a barnstorming tour
of the country.
within 30 days.
"Ten days after that, the Rall-
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today,
"Ms" Claims Election
Ferguson supporters clalm Ma's !
Sterling at Waxahachie To
Make Last Appeal For
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that only two candidates are real-1
STIL SEEK CLUES
Police today had obtained
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“The police are not to be made
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Complete list of polling
places, addresses and the
presiding judges will be
found in this issue of
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they had in there," Welch said.
"When the little fellow lunged
at me, I was just about three
feet away and I fired twice.
"Then the big fellow started
coming out of the pumphouse.
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clues to the identity of five men
who attempted to hold up the Bal-
linger Street Pharmacy. The men
fled without obtaining any loot
when O. R. Murchison, owner of
the store, reeched for a gun. They
fired- one shf at him, but miased.
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creased poll tax payments in eoun- . would comply with written orders
ttes that have been Ferguson ! received from distrfet commission- i
strongholds in the past. —
west of Weatherford stood
(Turn to Page 3).
was two years ago and cite de-
Sterling. They say Sterling has
lost strength in East Texas be-
cause of martial law and' prora-
Fort Worth Woman May Have
Brain Injuries After Crash
Still unconscious after an auto
accident Wednesday night on the
Dallas Pike, Miss Fannie Carter,
3430 Mt. Vernon, was in a Dallas
hospital today with possible brain
injuries.
Miss Carter was Injured when
the car in which she was riding
with Mrs. VJola Seale, a sister,
and L. R. Isaacs, 516 South Ad-
ams, skidded into a telephone
pole. The three were returning
from Fort Worth to Dallas, where
they are employed in the federal
prohibition office.
the Langhorn case pamphlet of
the Sterling forces in his yard, he
would tu’his dog loose on then).
'He also‘denounced James E. Fer-
guson’s campaign of abuse of op-
ponents.
• An interesting late angle of
the .state campsign was the an-
nouncement here of L. A. Sey-
mour, candidate for agricultural
commissioner, that if he is elected
he will recommend that the legis-
lature cut the salary of the office
850 a month. It now pays 62,500
a year.
quarters," Waters cried.
after 10
be on
The official voting .slip
will also be found on
Page 10. Clip both out
and study them before
going to the polls*
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’ROME, July 22.—Dino Grandi,
retiring foreign minister, has,
been appointed Italian ambassa-
dor to London, it was announced
officially last night.
Grandi was recently removed
from Mussolini’s cabinet. In which
he was seated as foreign, minis-
ter. It was at first rumored that
he would asaume the ambassa:
dorship to America, as he had
previously expressed great appre-
ciation for the reception he re-
ceived on his recent visit with
President Hoover. Grandi is con-
sidered Il Duce’s favorite assist-
a ant.
residents to scour closets and
place a final bundle on their doqr-
steps.
The clothes harvest will be con-
centrated at three depots: Fourth
-and Commerce, 1229 South Main
.and the City Hall Annex at 10th
and Taylor. Bundles will be col-
lected at 2.p. m.
Chief of Police Henry Lee has
pledged policemen to handle traf-
fic at the depots. Bundles will be
। unloaded by Boy Scouts,
D. G. Liggett will be Smile Day
director.
™ KILLING OF YOUTHS
waiting on customers.
Welch was a policeman here
from 1910 to 1920, later going
to Arizona. He returned and
ent into business for himself.
Former Sweetheart of Lindbergh
Nurne Begins Trip Home
By United Press.
NEW YORK, July 22.—Henry
( Red ) Johnson, sailor sweetheart
of Betty Gow, nurse to 'the kid-
naped Lindbergh baby, is en route
to Oslo,- Norway, on the liner
Tongsbergfjord after an emotional
farewell in which a young woman
companion at the pier smothered
him with hugs and kisses.
Betty Gow wa% not. at the pier.
It was not known if permission
for re-entry was given- Johnson,
who had been held during the
Lindbergh Investigation for Illegal
entry into this country;
FDES oF STHOKE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22. —
George M. Rolph, retired presi-
dent of the American - Hawaiian
Sugar Company, and brother of
Governor James Rolph Jr., died
Thursday. He suffered s stroke of
apoplexy last Friday while driv-
ing his automobile near San Fran-
daco.
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our inches
"I don't see why he had to
shoot them. I don’t understand,”
they sighed today.
Miss Hearn last night told Mal-
colm Davis, deputy sheriff, that
she had pleaded with Rauh not
to "take this trip tonight,"
He had replied. she told Davis,
that A was "all right. I'll meet
you and the rest of the gang at
Crystal Springs."
Crystal Springs, dancing and
swimming resort, was where the
gay young crowd played almost
nightly, according to W. R. Stan-
ley, White Settlement Road, spe-
clai officer there.
"We knew the boys well,"
when they attacked htm
boards.
With steady hands, he
back at his counter
road Commission will be able to ---------
set. gate rates for the 200 Texas ! thought
County Chairman Hugh
his hand. I did not know what
cities served by the Lone Star,
the survey of its Texas proper-
ties having been completed , In
June,” he added,
Thompson warned tho Okla-
homa Corporation Commission.
Patman Says Bonus Will Be
Passed In December
By tnited Press.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, July 22.
Prediction adjusted service cer-
tificates will be paid World War
veteran* In December was made
in a speech by Wright Patman,
author of the congressional, bill
for payment of the bonus money
to veterans.
Patman, speaking before an
old settlers' reunion late yester-
day. said the bill had been mis-
represented and misunderstood.
He said the Senate will be ready
to pass the bill in December.
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diatrjcts but no race for U. S. sen- uurrA nmiAP
ator this )ear. Races for the Texas V-IK KF-IIKF
| legislature. district, county and WL I • IILI UwL
2aivoeedlcen"u,nepbrinsgue Tn rVKNIATr
Governor Ross Sterling plans to III rVALUAIr
elose his campaign for re-election "¥ "u-I-V-"-
at Waxahachie .tonight. Former —■ — J — ■
GoternorM+amA.FergusontstWashington Police Prepare
to close at Dallas where a closing
FMA” CLAIMING
NOMINATION ON
Birst ballot
looked to be a two-by-four, la
his hand. I fired twice at him
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TT takes more than a hand-to-
1 hand- struggle with two hold-
up men and thelr shooting to
unsettle the nerves of J. P.
Welch, groceryman at 210 Lip-
scomb.
Welch fast night took a gun
away from two young bandits,
pursued them and killed them
Remember them from
previous campaign years?
Whose jobs* are affected by to-
morrow’s voting, will"knoek off”
at noon to await the outcome of
the balloting.
Vote Early, Urge.
They gave
formation
Again this
Pinks will
streets
City Firm Will Check Lone
Star in Oklahoma
Contract for evaluating the
Lone Star Gas Company’s prop-
erties In Oklahoma, information
from which would be used in
fixing proper clty gate rates in
Texas and Oklahoma, today was
let to Hawley, Freese and Nich-
ols, consulting engineers here
who checked the Lone Star’s Tex-
as system.
Awarding of the contracct was
announced from Houston by Er-
nest O. Thompson, former Ama-
rillo mayor, here in the Interest
of his campaign for election to
the Texas Railroad Commission.
Valuation of the Lone Star's
entire system is essential before
the Commission can determine
j the amount of not return to be
allowed on Ha investment. From
W Attorney General James V. All- ' lice phnned to evict homeless way ,
K red will have his final say at Sul- , veterans from government build- I
IM phur Springs. Clem Calhoun, op- , togs at noon today with Com- i f -
E" poet ng him, will speak at Dallas, mander Walter Waters of the bo- ]
Ai horn* of the third candidate in ’nue army demanding .they be giv- 1—-
A the attorney general’s race, Er- en new quarters.
nest Becker. - Tu- eiuvu wi „ euusyieteui
Sterling forces claim that th* with "careful'observance of legal
Ferguson strength 4a less than it rights," Police Chief Pelham;
CHOT after, an attempted hold-
• up, two youthful leaders of
a gay young dancing crowd lay
side by side today In Shannon’s
Mortuary.
They had "paid the fiddler”
with their lives when J. P. Welch,
grocer, killed them in an alley
near his store.
Mourning over their caskets to-
day were Mrs. Patsy Wise, 19,
and her sister, Miss Naomi Hearn,
17, both of 3435 Aventfe F.
Miss Hearn was th* fiance* of
Ned Raub, 21, valedictorian of his
graduating' class at Odell High
School and star football player.
Her sister had gone with Wood-
row Burton, IT, Raub's pal.
Wisps of White Clouds Promised
By Landis
A perfect day for Fort Worth
and Tarrant County voters to
turn out and cast a record vote
was predicted for tomorrow by
Weatherman D. S. Landis today.
He predicted partly cloudy
weather, which means that there’ll
only be wisps of white clouds in
the sky,
Heavy rains were reported in
the northwestern part of the state.
Seymour received 2.62 inches;
Haskell, 2.16 inches; Childress,
1; Lamesa. 1.24; Lubbock, 1.28;
Quanah, T.30; Spur, 1.74.
Landis predicted a warmer aft-
ernoon than the past few after-
noons. The temperature will prob-
ably go between .14 and 99, he
said.
which let the contract, a week
ago that unless it auhorized he l
survey within 10 days, the Texas ! . .
Commission would untertake the
work.
The fixing of a definite, gate
rate is necessar before an equit-
able consumer rate plan can be
worked out, Thompson asserted.
WELL CATCHES FIRE
HOUSTON, July 22. Prepara-
tions were made by the Humble
Oil & Refining Company today to
dynamite its burning gasser. No.
4-B Lockwood, in the Rabb’s
Ridge field of Fort Bend County,
Bryce and Fairtrace Consider
Successor to Van Zandt
Consolidation of the Treasurer
and City Auditing offices is being
cpnsidered by City Council before
fixing its 1932-33 budget, Mayor
William Bryce said today.
Meanwhile, Bryce and Fairtrace
are receiving applications for a
successor to former Secretary-
Treasurer I. L. Van Zandt Jr., ac-
cidentally electrocuted Wednes-
day. Five were received yesterday.
"The etty,charter provides that
the city auditor and treasurer be
separate persons, altho both post-
. tions can be included in the same
department," City Manager G. D.
Fairtrace explained.
Should this be adopted, then
-appointment of a secretary would
be necessary, It was explained.
Henry Keller, assistant secre-
tary-treasurer. is acting in the
position.
GRANDI GOES TO
LONDON EMBASSY
And again they wfll give
you the very latest and
most complete returns of
the day's voting in Tar-
rant County and the
State. If you want elec-
tion returns don't buy It
for an extra unless it’s a
which caught fire Wednesday
when it blew in.
Economic Conditions, Warm
Campaigns and National
Races Spur Interest
Tarrant County ’ voters will ,
answer the promises and pleas of
the largest number of candidates
ip the county’s history tomorrow
with a record-breaking vote esti- .
mated between 35,000 and 40,000,
Added interest in governmental
affairs due to distressed financial
conditions and a predicted clear;
hot summer day, gave impetus to
the forecast of a record vote.
political wiseacres also saw in
the large' number of absentee
votes, together with a total vot-
ing strength of 49,506, other rea-
sons for believing the total num-
ber of ballots would be far in ex-
cess of the 30,385 cast in 1930.
More than 1500 absentee votes
were cast.
Weatherman D. S. Landis fore-
cast clear skies and-a tempera-
ture ranging between 92 and 98
degrees for election day.
Rallies Thronged.
Other factors which many be-
lieve will bring out a record vote
are: A hot campaign for the of-
fice of district attorney, Injection
of th 'prohibition resubmission
question into the primary, • the
election of three congressmen-at-
large, and the unusual fanfare-
created by the governor’s race.
Another reason for believing a
record-smashing vote will be cast !
is the large interest, shown in the
county speaking campaign, which
comes to a close tonight on the
courthouse lawn. The two groups
of candidates have been heard by
thousands at each of the rallies.
Banks will close thruout the
day. Many offices will be dosed
at noon. Courthouse officials,
EXTRA :
•Ion: that he has lost in his home
county; that he has lost in the
lower Rio Grande Valley because
of opposition of th* Hildalgo
County Good Government League
and that he has lost in Dallas and
other places heavily because of
M H Wolfe's candidacy:
Supporters of Hunter claim
there has been a "land-slide” to
him; that he will surely get in the
run-off and be elected in the final
primary and that if the first pri-
mary campaign continued a little
longer he, would win without a
run-off.
Leaders Lose Votes
The eviction win be completed! ' Thelon green; melons arerolling into the watery ion t
capital of the world—W eatherford, T> xae. These pictures (
_____ _____ ________ show (lower) W. E. Bennett, who brought some of the
Glassford said, in announcing he terst Tom Watsons into town; (top) one of the wagon
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E Wolfe Tom F. Hunter is closing
■ at Sherman and Roger Q Evans ; B» United Preas
■ at Austin. ' WASHINGTON, July 22.—Po-
I candidacies by some of their cam-
I paigning.
Many voters doubtless switched
(when former Governor Dan
I Moody, speaking for Sterling, was
made the target of an egg throw-
er at Palestine. At least his ad-
dress there was more warmly re-
, eelved after the egg had been
thrown than it was before. An
> Austin attorney, opposing Fergu-
son, declared publicly here that if
anyone attempted to distribute
advantage of the governments of-। By CLAUDE I„ DOUGLAS
Eentwanan them raliroad fare .T°M WATSON is King again in Parker County. The
Roy Robertson, crippled leader I long yellow cars are on the railway siding, and the
of the California battalion, who; people from 'round about Weatherford are preparing to
has been: at, odds with Waters see "His Majesty” off on another-annual trip which will
thruout the bonus siege. indicated take him into every section of a watermelon-hungry nation.
• Weatherford, capital of the+
Tom Watson watermelon king- i
dom, today is starting Ha fa- [
! With ’18,000 pieces . of used
new !'XT* » - r 1 clothing donated, . the Junior
dldn‛taskthecommissloners"pe Crop to Nations Markets chamber ocommeres wasma
mission to come and we aren’t 1 Ing plans today to double this on
-seeking their permission to stay.” -------- ------ Sunday, Smile Day, final day of
Between 350 and 500 Cars Will Be Shipped Out Of theahamber’" for the
wavhspdanhetorteranseristn.hek . Famous Tom Watson Country This Year
Hoover Signs Bill Cutting Hate on
Veteran Loans
By United Prens.
WASHINGTON, July 22.—
President Hoover, late yesterday
signed the Bacharch bill lowering
the rat* of interest, on veterans’
adjusted service certificates from
4 1-2 to 11 1-2 per cent, and per-
mitting the veterans to cash in
their certificates when issued,
rather than waiting two years as
p. m. add "dorg"led
O’
By GORDON k. SHEARER
United Press Corresponrent
AUSTIN, July 22.—Final ral-
lies tonight will close a nine-
weeks campaign for the Demo-
cratic nominations for governor,
attorney general, two railroad
commission places, one place on
the state supreme court, state
school superintendent, state agri-
cultural commission and three
congressmen-at-large
It is expected that more than
800,000 of the approximately mu-
lion qualified voters will ballot on
the 66 candidacies in the disputed
radeg. Whether negroes can vote
is still “in court.”
Besides these statewide races,
voters will In most counties, hate
•“.opportunity to express their
wishes on resubmission of the
18th Amendment.
No Senatorial Race
There are congressional district
races in most of the 18 regular
JOURNEY TO NORWAY
. ------- . .Thompson,, Is. to be completed
The FortWorth Press
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• Local Forecast: Tonight and Satfirday Partly Cloudy; Light to Moderate Variable Wihds.
Visitors from all parts of the
| make it apparent by their CITY MAY COMBINE
at me with what I
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TOMORROW NIGHT
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Small today again urged women
and unemployed men to go to the
polls early to make room for the
thousands of employed voters who
must vote later in the day.
Polls will open at 7 a. m., an
। hour earlier than in previous elec-
tions. They will close at 7 p. m.
The counting of ballots by'the
more than 800 officials and clerks
at the 106 precincts in the city
and county will start at 8 a. m.,
but no standings will be given out,
under strict orders of Small, un-
til after the close of the polls.
Counting Is expected to take at
least three days.
This year, voters must vote In
the precinct in which they live.
A record number of transfers
have been made.
Clerks calling ballots this year
must affix their name to each
ballot. This is being done, Small
, (Turn to Page 3).
mous product to market and be-
fore the season is out, before
the last stem is snapped from
the vine, from 350 to 500 cars
will have been shipped east.
Parker County's crop Is short
this year with shipments expect-
ed to total about half of a nor-
mal year's run, but the quality
is just as good as In the past,
melon growers say. The acreage
has been cut because farmers
anticipated depression prices, ex-
pected to range from 65 to $8 a
ton at the loading docks.
In years past, when conditions
were normal, from 812 to 618 a
ton was considered a fair price
and in boom times the top has
gone as high as 64 0.
In ratio, cantaloupes are
bringing an even lower price.
T. fl. Marsh, who lives north-
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the heroes of their crowd and
met here often."
The crowd, save for the two
boys, was at the springs last
night when a youth drove up
and shouted at Stanley:
"Hey, did you hear about those
two boys getting shot," he said.
The youth, unknown to Stan-
ley, said he was "100 feet away”
in a. car when the shooting oc-
curred, Stanley said.
Boon, Stanley continued, the
Raub-Burton crowd "melted
away.” Mrs. Wie* and her sister
appeared at th* mortuary shortly
County officials today were
making a "thoro investigation"
of the killing late yesterday of
two youths by an ex-policeman
who had determined "never t®
be held up without reslatance."
John P. Welch, 45, th* ex-po-
lice man, was back behind his
grocery counter at 210 Lipscomb
calmly working, after making a -
statement to the district attor-
ney.
The boys, who died shortly
after being shot In an alley og
the 600 block Daggett, are Ches-
ter Woodrow Burton, 17, and
Ned Raub, 21.
The Burton boy is the son of
Mrs. Maude Burton Cannon, 1205
East Lancaster, and Chester L
Burton, railway man now in
Amarillo.
The Raub youth, formerly of
Gorman, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Raub, on their way
here. Raub lived with relative*
at 2453 % Ellis.
Welch Tells Story
Welch said today he was work-
ing at 6:45 p. m. yesterday, tak-
ing inventory, when the boys en-
tered and asked for some can- -
ned fish.
Welch turned and got two caaa
from the shelves,
As he turned, he said, Raub
poked a gun into his ribs.
"What's this?" Welch asked
sharply.
" 'Nothing at all'," he said
Raub answered.
Welch then slammed ope can
against the gun and on* against
Raub's elbow and the two grap-
pled. The grocer got the gun and
the other youth started beating
him, he said.
" ‘Beat it, while we got a
chance’," he said Raub screamed,
and both boys dashed out th*
door.
Welch tried to fire the gun
as he ran down Daggett Avenue,
but it jammed, he said.
He ran back to the store, toss-
ed the gun on the counter and
told Mrs. Mattie Hullum, clerk
who had seen the fight, to watch
the boys.
Welch got a larger revolver
from living quarters back of th*
store, jumped In his auto and
pursued.
The grocer says the fleeing
pair ran down an alley near th*
Stafford Lowdon printing plant.
Ho circled his auto around th*
block to head them off, failed t*
sight them and then got out of
the auto and went up the alley
on the 600 block Maddox,
On one side was the plant and
on the other a high board fence.
Opened Door.
Welch opened the door of a
small pump shack near the plan!
with one band while he held
the revolver in another. .
"As I reached to open th®
door, tho little fellow (Burton)
’ va
idk h .
set right) Bill Johnson Jr., on the T. A. Willhite farm near
Boolville, who cut himself a pair of pants from one of
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