The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 63, Ed. 2 Wednesday, July 14, 1937 Page: 7 of 12
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14, 1937
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Wednesday Evening, July 14, 1937
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FILLED WITH FUN!
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Schools Get Taxes
H-SU Graduate To
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Young Men's
Sport Shoes
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Objections Of
Wichita Falls
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Brisk Business
Cheers Nation's
Oil Industry
of his ne ice. Miss Lucile Reagan,
Baptist missionary in Africa. for/16
scouting activities. Abilene business
men will be hosts tonight to Boy
Scouts who went to the national
Jamboree. their scoutmasters, moth-
highway mishaps. Jesse Lee War-
ren. 30. of Mount Pleasant, died of
DRASTIC
REDUCTIONS
news-reel-magazine tells about John
D. Rockefeller and his philanthro-
Aerial Maps Of
Fisher County
Received Monday
24 pages filled with pictures all about Chicago
and the grand time you'll have there. Thrills
galore await you. Interesting and exciting
thing* to do every minute. Your day* will be
happy, fun-filled days and you'll be surprised
at how little it will really cost
Just fill in the coupon below if you want to
"Step Out and Live." You will receive your
book immediately absolutely free.
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Ready-To-Wear Department!
Present Stock Of Shoes Must
Be Sold To Provide Space!
As the suntanned scouts stepped
from the tram-early yesterday aft-
ernoon. an invitation and welcome
COOL BREEZY SHEERS
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W. J. Skinner, 48. perished of
burns and a skull injury inflicted
when a sawmill boiler at Texarkana
exploded. Two other men were in-
jured.
George W. Gunn. 30-year-old iron
worker of San Antonio, fell 35 feet
to his death while he worked on a
construction job.
the Paramount the first of next
week It is hailed as one of the
best of the year, based on Kip-
ling’s tale of men who go down
to the sea in ships.
Sport Shoes
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tics.
She is helped in making the film.
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Addresu.
City—
Women’s Florsheim
Shoes
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• Block
• Brown
Including All Colored Sandal*
Five lexans Meet
Violent Deaths
Highway Mishaps
Claim 3 Lives
od of transporting the agricultural
and industrial producta ot West and
Central Texas.
Newman said the waterway to
Dallas and Fort Worth would de-
stroy "our *2.000.000 milling in slat
ment at Wichita Falla He refer-
red to the Kell Milling and Elevator
company, of which he la manager.
Amon Carter, chairman of the aa-
-Summer washable*— light colored
—pastels etc , etc.
EXTRA SPECIAL
1600 PAIRS WOMEN’S
NOVELTY SHOES
Get this book
FREE!
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Entire Stock
Boys Shoes
Value* in $3.45
Out they go for
$1 95
Ackers Announces <43)
Stock Reducing Sale 3
To Make Room For New g e
$595
Hoffman, with other ex-service men, the wife and kids, and you can see
will sail for Europe on a 45-day the new edition of "March of Time."
They are to be used this year and
i Fhemsuturperoringenxtne Jane Withers Takes Holiday Today
tural conservation program. No one • ’
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STANTON, July 14 (5pl— Taxes
accruing to seven common schools
of Martin county for the month of
HEATING—PLUMBING
R.C. COCDELL
Mechanical Engineer and
Contractor
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vry young. She was a graduate of named alternate delegate from the
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$2500 Reward
■Will be paid by the manufacturer
for any Com GREAT CHRISTO-
PHER Corn Cure cannot remove.
Also removes Warts and Callouses.
35c at McLemore-Basa rug Stores.
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(The showings will be at 1, 3:30 and
5 40 on Sunday; and 2 30. 7 and
FLORSHEIM
SHOES
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mg the repairing has not been set 1
but the work will likely be started
in a few weeks.
Referring principally to the Classified Used
< ar Ads and the speedy convenienee with
which you can select a rap you’re dying tn
own at a price you can afford tn pay.
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1 E. O. Thompson, chairman of the scout officials of the Chisholm Trail a siasne
commission, and Charles F. Roeser, council, at a banquet at the Hilton swerved
president of the Independent Pe- - - - • -----"
larn-i it were true he had drown-
ed Something of a little story was
put in the paper next morgirg. ad-
ended with a "why." Well, this is
to give notice that now we know why :
they were calling. It deals with a '
snatch of a story we can't tell here 1
lowing an illness of six years. dividing lines and character of crops Jane Withers, the
The service was held in the home growing or stacked in the field can dynamaction. takes a holiday on
of her father and mother, Mr. and be classified. i~
Mrs. Jesse L. English, with the Rev. --------------------------------- the Paramount screen today and
H M Smith of San Antonio. a | eninn OFFicinl Tn iThursday.
I She turns sleuth. much to the
discomfort of the police department
‘and a mob of gangsters. From pre-
view shots, it is hard to determine
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Last Kites Held
For San Antonio
mid-week date and other incident- 1
als. it is something approaching a
feat that such a large and cros- '
sectioned crowd should attend. I 1
was disappointed in the drummer. [
Don't know whether he was Charlie
Price or not. because he didn’t stand
up as was advertised Guess he was
tired, like the rest of ’em. I was too
ROTAN July 14 (Spl j—County
Agent T. 8. Roensch received aerial
maps of Fisher county Monday
ne felts
black.
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Men’s Florsheim
Shoes
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troleum association, that the figure
of 297,496000 barrels in storage as
of March. 1937. showed operators
had not been guilty of over-produc-
’ ing and that storage stocks really
< were too low.
The Oil and Gas Journal's compu-
tation showed field operations so far
•his year were far ahead of those
of 1936 with 15.716 wells completed
up to the week ending July 10. com
I pared to 12.694 in the same period
last vear.
During the past week 642 wells
were completed, six more than the
week before. The list included pool
etxensioners in all the important
producing states.
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at look, 0
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from highway one and
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• STEVENS HOTEL 743 a. Michigan Ave, Chicago, m. •
: Please send your picture vacation book. "Step Out
minutes,” said Ed Stewart, who will G. R. Brooks, 54, of San Saba,
be chairman. Anyone interested is who fell under his own truck as it
invited to the banquet, said Stewart, was being towed, died yesterday in
a Goldthwaite hospital.
The Paramount offered a preview
of "Captains Courageous" this
morning, for the edification of the
press and delight of some of the
town s leading citizens.
The picture opens with a preview
for the public at midnight Saturday (
and continues through Tuesday.
business men, by scout leaders and Irish of Center was killed by a car
by several scouts who made the as Saddle Mae Marshall, 10, carried
Washington trip. “I'm not going to her across a street. The older girl
let any of them talk over three was injured critically.
can acquire several new and cool drew*
Opening tomorrow at the Mates- the. beginning to apprectate the
tie is a sure-fire attraction even gradual but complete change in
_ Freddie Bartholomew s character.
of the
half-pint of Property.” last picture of Jean Har-
low. has also Robert Taylor and
Welcome Banquet
To Honor Scouts
Jamboree Boys To
Be Special Guests
In appreciation of scouts and
One rack nt Summer Washable
Shantungs in whites and pastels--
and prints on navy and paste ’ back- i
grounds They'll keep you cool* _
AUSTIN, July 14 P—More than
400,000 head of cattle were process-
ed into 90.000.000 cans of meat by
the Texas relief commission ts
three years of its existence.
EASTLAND July 14 — <8pb—Ap-
plication to drill No. 1 C N. Ander-
son, one mile west of Cross Cut,
Stephen Jones No 182 survey. Brown
county, has been filed in the rail-
road commission office at atland
by E N Schaffner of Cross Plains.
As No 7 Anderson. dry recently at
total depth of 204 feet, the new well
will be a shallow operation the ap-
plication calling for work to 190
feet.
By the Associated Press
Five Texans died violent accident-
al deaths yesterday.
Three were injured fatally in
June amounted to $1,952.42. County .
Judge C. E Story, ex-officio county I O Keloor Bridge
superintendent reported. More than
three-fourths of the amount went RULE July _ —g- ____-
to two schools. Pleasant Valley and Judge Charlie Conner of Haskell
a rerun. “Personal
\ Cotton Dresses'
395
By ALFRED WALL
TULSA, Okla.. July 14. (P) Brisk
business in motor fuel brought new
predictions in the oil business today
that the tank wagon price of gaso-
line in the mid-west was due for
a rise
Most marketers here have felt the
price has been out of line since the
action of Standard of Indiana sev-
eral weeks ago in reducing the tank
wagon price a half cent on ethy
and regular and a cent on third
grade.
Several refiners proft
selves •amazed” at the amount of
gasoline being required by the
motoring public.
It was the general impression
that a tank wagon advance in the
midwest very likely would follow
the upward adjustments effected in
the deep south and Atlantic coastal
regions.
Crude oil producers, who have
been pretty glum in rec nt week?
over the price of their product and
One Group:
395
Values to 7.95
home was made to them by James
P. Stinson, C. M Caldwell fend
Mayor W. W. Hair. The Abilene
high school band, directed by R. T.
Bynum, played at the reception, at-
tended by several hundred Abi-
lenians.
"Words cannot express my grati-
tude for this banquet the Abilene
business men are giving these scouts
and leaders," said Executive Ed
Shumway this/morning. "I want to
ASK FOB A DEMONSTRATION
Let an Allen Wales Peortabla -Mf
Machine prove its ability to you
Write or Tezephone
CRAIN OFFICE SUPPLY
"Everythinz for the odfee"»
1113 N. 2nd Phone 4271. Abflene
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whether the cops or the gang is the thaerThgrheFtnpergtgementtCone
Freddie Bartholomew and
Mickey Rooney, above, are
shown in a scene from "Cap-
tains Courageous," coming to
WTCC Approves
oes Rice
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Goldsmith, the former receiving states that he has been notified that
537156 and the latter 5770.48. Col* the state highway commission has
lections included both current and appropriated the sum of 513.639 79
| delinquent taxes based on mainte- to cover the cost of reflooring the
nance and bond levies. Other schools bridge four miles west of Rule over
beside the two named which shared the Double Mountain fork of the
in the sum included Loyola; Wood- Brazos on highway 120 The work
ard. Lenorah.Bro“ --- I* to be done under direction of the I ptoneer citizen ot Ctsco, was
1 . state highway engineer through the informed this morning of the death
maintainance division Mr. Conner - - - -
: was advised. Definite date for start-
• pies, about Hawaii's chances to be-
' come the 49th state, and about
14.. (Spl —County 300.000. homeless babies. There are . Because of the nature of the story.
also other shorts it is necessary to see the film from
mapsarweretmade. "hen ~ And Thursday At Paramount And
One group shows large areas of *
Gives Philo Vance Competition
are "close-ups" and in which build- •
niht, July 10th at 11 o'clock, fol- mgs can be recognized and fences, By CHARLIE ELLIS
One Group:
500
Value* to 19 75
These dresses will pack nicely in
vour vacatton bag and see yon
through Pail dark crepes dark
print*— noveity Mika —Home light
prints- all sizes
5.91 value in laces yofles swisset
emhroiderirs—rastei and dark
shnes
ctsco. July 14. cBpi—Pineral
rite were held at 10 o’clock this
morning lit the Cisco AChrh of
Christ for Mrs Finley Wright, 56
wife of J F B Wright. Cisco land-
scape garner who died at the fam-
ily home here Tuesday morning
Vacdononifnsieurope
out of work due to circumstances officiated at her wedding. conduct- |
beyond their control. ing the service. I __ —
—---- -----2- | Juanita Louise English was born Hoffman, vice-commander
March 16. 1912 in Moran and moved .......-
9 15 on Monday and Tuesday. ,
CISCO July 14. (Spl —Wm. Rea-1 Some ot Bing Crosby’s fans were '
calling the office the other night to
Two months of Summer ahead - - - and The Popular stages
a sale of every Sheer in the house 16 95 and 19.75 values
----net* - - ■ chiffon* - - - marquisettes ... in black, navy,
rust, burgandy, ete, ete . . . they have their own slips! . ..
they’re well made . . . cleverly styled. - '
—Some print, on white!
-------- —Sheer, in Half Size, *1*0!
'SUMMER DRESSES
Fifth Division of the American Le- Angels Holiday.” a rampage by
Abilene Christian college and Texas gion, department of Texas, to the Robert Kent. Joan Davis and Sally
Christian university of Fort Worth, national Legion convention in New Blane. Here Kent is newspaper-
On account of her health her par- York City. September 20-23. at the man—screen version.
I ents moved to Kerrville in 1932, at Fifth division convention in Sweet- 1
which place she was married to water Sunday afternoon. Hoffman,' he tale concerns the disappear-
Tennyson Moses July 14, 1934. aft- chief draftsman for the-civ engl. ance of an actress as a big public-
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Over the opposition of Wichita Falls
representatives the West Texas
Chamber of Commerce was on rec- ;
ord today as favoring the proposed
canalization of the Trinity river
, from Fort Worth to the Gulf.
An all-day discussion preceded the
vote of the organization yesterday
Earlier the chamber's traffic com-
mittee submitted a report on the
project which found three points to
favor of and three points against as
far as the interests of West Texas
were concerned
President Wilbur Page and Man-
ager Dudley Foy of the Wichita
Falls chamber led the opposition.
Other opponents were M C. Burton
of Amarillo, representing the Pan-
handle and Santa Fe railroad and |
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Cisco Park Site
Being Surveyed
CISCO, July 14. (Spl)—Surveyors
arrived-n Cisco Tuesday to make a
survey of the 500-acre state park
site. In the party are Leslie F.
Crockett, J. T. Roberts and Olin
Boese. engineers and architects of
the national park sen-Ice. The sur-
vey is being made with the view of
establishing a CCC camp here.
The site for this park adjoins the
Lake Cisco grounds and those
qualified to pass judgment declare
its rugged scenery, canyons and
wooded area make it ideal for park ,
purposes, for which the land was i
secured and donated to the state
several years ago.
d and several
COLORADO, July 14,— (Spl)—
Martin County To
Hire H. D. Agent
STANTON July 14. (Spl > — A
county home demonstration agent, I
banished during depression days,
will again become a member of the
Martin county official family, the
commissioners court has decided *
Demonstration work will not begin
until September and selection of a
young woman for the position awaits
recommendation of Miss Kate Adele
Hill, district demonstration officer
Miss Joellene Vannoy, now of 1
Robs was the last demonstration
agent employed by the county sev-
eral years ago.
hotel, starting at 7 o'clock. plunged into a creek bed.
Talks will be made by several Fifteen-months-old Charlcie Lynn
Our Entire Stock of White Shoes Also
Blacks Brouns Blues—Not Every Size
n Al Shoes But You Will Find Your
Size in Some of Them.
$4-95
plied “Fort Worth is trying to de-
velop West Texas, not fight Wichita Fe
Palls."________________________________ g-
Reginald Owen. Taylor and Harlow
are about the same calibre, both
very, very pretty.
The largest jam-packed crowd I
ever saw at a dance in Abilene
sweltered and shuffled last night at
tour which will take them to
France, England, Germany and oth- Always tops in educational enter-
er European countries, tainment. the 12th issue of the
years She was a daughter of B
Reagan of Big Spring. Her death
was due to yellow fever, the mes-
sage stated.
Miss Mildred Whitaker, who receiv-
ed her degree from Hardin-Simr
mons university thus spring, has
been elected to teach to Colorado
Junior high school this year.
sue succeed, mim Louke Brad- Woman At Albany
ford of Sweetwater, who recently -
resigned as social science teacher to ALBANY, July 14— (Spl— Fu-
accept a teaching position in the neral service was held at Moran
Dallas system Miss Whitaker is Monday morning at 10 o’clock for
working on her masters at Hardin- Mrs. Tennyson Moses, who died at
Simmons this summer. She is the her home in San Antonio Saturday
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
-Whitaker of Colorado.
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the slim prospects of bettering it.
were heartened considerably
J AVORABLE CONDITIONS
In the first place, it was pointed
out an increase in the price of re-
' fined products would strengthen the
crude market, perhaps to the point
of a general increase to the crude
j price. Besides that, the report of
the bureau of mines on oil in stor-
l age. made at the interstate oil com-
pact meeting at Santa Fe. was con-
siderably more favorable than had
been expected.
Most producers were to hearty
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