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, 1937
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Saturday Evening, July 17, 1937
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
PAGE SEVEN
3
KRBC
Frank Reeves, Jr.
Of Texas And Arizona Said
Honor Of Covey
I
Paying respects to Ross 8 Covey
dent. 200 Lions of District 2E ga-
2
Out-of-town Lions were guest* of
barbecue at
8)
me
under
lends
3
“0
Two-year-old
will
to
Worth and
were
SUNDAY
mar-
J
rd
4
Well bum for six months was $1.-
LABOR AT A
d Body
GLANCE
IY
In one sense of the word. fee col-
ARS
4 44—Wilma Tripp pianist
here.
Paode 8300
__On this basis, the office accrued ex-
Returning home to complete ar-
Fee collections by County AtUr-
ew line Inter-
range men is for an attempt to shat-
4
ter all records from 50 miles up to
1 his salary. 8370 in
ed on a cross-country trip he ob-
stenographer and M3 40 in misce!-
Radio Chains
np Body.
(Continued from Page One)
but the resulte have been disap-
)py
AUSTTN July 17—(—Dr. e E
Bleachabie prime
Prim# crude
Dec 3 69b Jan ' a 71b
U. S. is Watching
( HIEAGO Fl Tl REs
Cotton futures clos-
11 92
ed
Financial
vers
foreign policy urged 'national and
1281 Jeanette
Phone 5647
Six Big Bargain
A few of the escort* were tn shirt
sleeves
Finally, driven by the water thejof international agreements uphold-
cat jumped down to the side of the | ing the principle of the sanctity of
h
President Rooseveli
Grain
I
< Ml< AGO
sur-
commitments
Station Captured
•nd Southern Pacific
turned
•nd
December S
Out
Livestock
E
G-h-FaI marK-I
IF: 621,700 total
Charge Man With
always ’ends its machinery.
0
This
Storm Kills 45
The Reporter-New
3 e
it is needed for work in precinct 1
away or flooded.
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Commissioner Asks
Return Of Fresno
Species Causes
Police Call
NYA Has Boosted
School Enrollment
California Lion
Train Due Here
thered in Abilene last
their quarterly session.
time and distance on Utah’s glis-
tening salt flat* 125 miles west of
here.
ney Esco Walter amounted to $1,-
015 06 while expenses were $1 800 as
followed the barbecue and preceded
the ball game. George Thompson of
Sweetwater presided.
Abilene Trucker
Buried At Hubbard
ty two weighed 89 pounds
Cotton
cleared around 16 75. Feeder lambs
brought $7 with yearlings around
$6. Aged fat wethers were reported
touch today with the Sino-Japanese
situation after Secretary Hull in a
Fair Park at 6:30 and at a softball
game between the local Lions and
the Exchange club following the
meal.
A short program honoring Covey
time however, someone took the re-
vol ing fresno from th* lot on Lo-
breakfast i* served perched on the
china closet sat the scented animal
Log
1420 KCS
•» the aud-
horus and a -
sts until the
unced yes-
edit would
airport. Of-
ck-up that
it dur pri-
the books.
the federal
erican Air-
Stanford told of
telling of hi* six
ackney will
> to be on
ng thereof
lice Chiefs
f Hackney
ual meet-
closet and
death via a
our present
w cars now
NEW ORLEANS,
oil elosed steady
wethers were quotable up to $6.
The top steers consisted of two
sum-
nom-
R _1' urC World Hears What Governors
Comedies Sixteen
e a man in
lls. it makes
sic is enter-
it ion friend-
with a cor-
stion where
ght—to the
Ring atthe •
served at least 50 per cent of the
driver* 'hog' the highway.”
“Many driver* wander.' he added,
endangering motorists traveling at
toon. __
Cat Of A Certain
pressed his disapproval of the sys-
tern, while Allred praised its effici-
ency in Texas
DISAGREE ON CULMENCT
Their views differed on one point
bag carried it to the country and
there left it without the honor of a
burial.
But what the lady wants U) know
is this—“Will I ever be able to use
mi arbor again?"
ppointed to
exas Tech---
bbock Fel-
egree from .
IO. 2
LNUr
004
C?O.
Phone 4201
road and all motorists would con-
sider the other fellow, there would
higher speeds. Slow drivers resent.
being passed and often refuse to j
heed a warning to move over." he
A skunk cat held » e fort early
today until tremendous odds in the I
KRBC audience was at the Texas
Cowboy Reunion at Stamford July
2 where he obliged with chuck-
wagon Interviews of old-time cow-
boys in addition to answering ques-
ticns put to him by Bentley.
Changes Cause
Economic Chaos
C. A. KORMAN
-Metal Weatheratetvptng „
Contractor
Estimates Gladly Furntahed
controversy the United States care- (
Tully has refrained from making any
Afternoon
12:30—Alfred Alexander, organ re-
Saturday he issued a plea for re-
turn of the $350 tool, which he 1s
confident has been borrowed by a
exvenditures. I acted
$2,514,947,207 85 starte
5 00—Tuning Around. Standard.
5:30—Dreamers Trio, NBC.
5:45—Chimes Concert. First Pres-
byterian Church.
age to be expected and
i* operations on botn
cauttous
July 1 29 Sep-
Morning
8:00— Lucian Webb s Singers
8:15—Corinth Baptist Church.
8:30—Church of Christ.
9:00—Rex Kimbrough.
9:15—Merkel Quartet
Stooge Followers Can See The Three
Dopes Tomorrow; You Dopes Can See
Hopalong Cassidy At Majestic Today
By CHARLIE ELLIS
You guys who go goofy about the rmma
tiwig- will want to go to the Ma- .tm8zk
2222 * B ■■ M
: : 1 H t I >■ 3 MEFadag
ieturi (itkifs and Fa
•
phonist.
3:00—Sunday Song Service, NBC.
2 30—Rochester Variety Program.
3:00—The Green Room, Standard
4:00—Tucker Twins, Annette and
Jannette.
5 00—The Dansante, NBC.
5:30—Oklahoma Outlaws. Stand-
ard.
tet
9:45—Stamps Quartet
present economic chaos la due t
“the people of the world changine
, their minds"
"Economics and other aortal aci-
ences are not baaed upon Iabora-
, tory facts but what pieopie thmk,*
he said.
“The economic thinking at the
period of mercantiism preceded the
Lalasez Fatre theorles at the past
150 rears and the world to now
entering upon a new period at
thought “
form of policemen ith guns over-
whelmed it.
An emergency call was received
by Britt Morgan and Sam Beam city
of c
cour
but
TAXES-
(Continued from page one)
I
See Sunday's Issue of
purchased at $950. Fifty steers av-
eraged 1 022 pounds.
! South Texas steers sold at $9 for
1 19 steers scaling 1.181 pounds and
$8 50 for 23 averaging 948 pounds
for the Account of Murchisen and
Walston. Menard and $8 for 25
steers weighing 1.398 pounds for the
ollow routes
ngineer and
ssible dam- a •
pursuit of policy and from inter- ■ hotatd “ numeroun mnaiancen
flight of capital from the republic, broke
to ita lowest level in termns of the dollar
since 1926.
Bonds developed no definite trends and
commodities were uneven
wife an<i something of himseit. Ha
only weighs 230 pounds now, hav-
ing lost 15 pounds during a recent
illness. He la six feet, four inches
tall
Stanford and his family will visit
the Pan-American Expositon in
Dallas after leaving Abilene, and
travel extensively in the western
part of the United States before
returning to Phoenix three weeks
hence.
Curious spectators, learning at
the dignitaries’ appearance at the
station in spite at the short notice
Jammed the KRBC studios for the
half-hour broadcast.
The governors’ unique program
partly atoned for the disappoint-
ment to both management and lis-
teners of the station who had look-
ed forward to four hours of broad-
casting from the Buffalo Gap re-
union grounds, but whose hopes
were dashed when it was brought
to attention of telephone onmpany
officials that only one circuit con-
nected Buffalo Gap with Abilene.
Uniform Liquor
Laws Proposed
nouncer and Reading with question*
incidents and allege* that anti- .
i Japanese propaganda inflames na-
tional hatred in China.
Morgan and Beam with a long stood to be concerned with prepara-
pole lifted the cat, dropped it in a Hons against any emergency requir-
know.
It
w! ' 2
Of pre
The girl*, a* a rule were not first
class dancers. A few however would
have felt at home on any floor.
Domestic cotton goods markets were less
favorable The week closed with tradinz
quiet and prices easler
October contracts opened at 1J 01 - Dec
at 12 03 Jan at 12.04 Meh at 12.07 end
May at 1? in Toward the end of the tirst
half hour active positfons had rallied to
initial transactions showed Bosses of one
I to four points
Days'
d the previous close C rn
t 4 up September 1 13*
AUSTIN Jtfly 17— Federal funds
through National Youth Adminis-
tration. In the opinion of Southern
Methodist University officials, were
responable, for at least one-third
of the enrollment nicrease at the
school last year
Students pald for part time work
scored a slightly higher average
scholastically than the entire stu-
dent body
Various types of work were giv-
en the group Including IIbrary ns-
ststance, laboratory work caring for
athletic fields playing in the school
band translating and compiling,
statistical research and historical
transcription
A number at NYA Siris assured
in coaching and refereeing intra-
mural games
customs receipta for the m nth 317 838.
292 no
irt. Consolidated Edison: __________
ephone, Kann-rar Cerro De Pasco In
SINO-JAP--
■ Continued from Page Une)
shares cancelled a 1-point
With screaming sirens and Driver international self-restratint."
Jesse Owen*’ speed the pair reached | His statement did not name eith-
the house. In an arbor where er Japan or China but said:
of Sweetwater. their retiring presi- SATURDAY
2:00- Dreamers Trio, NBC
1 2:15—Chamber Music, Standard.
mer yellow 9 35b19 56a
inal. July 8.72b; Sept
— —------—------ ------- . . The market at»o encountered a mod ar
48 hours of driving. Jenkins declar- ate.voume ot hedginK, but the offerinzs
. . . । soon dried up
ed on a cyoes-cnntFV tmn ne nh- m_____- »
Covey expressed his appreciation
for the cooperation given him by
t M ‘clubs of the district during his
—MTure of office.
loads from E E. Plaxcoe of Fort Covey's home Lions club honored
him Tuesday night in Sweetwater
penses of $8 819.75. against income
of $9 029 62. Actual expenses of the
office amounted, however, to $9,-
371 26
। 2 30— Matinee Dance. NBC.
3:00—Scanning the Headlines and
Markets, with Doug Doan.
3:15—Naomi Davis, reader
3:30—Artist* Roll Call, NBC.
4:00— The Gaieties, Standard.
4 15—World Book Man.
4:20— Novelties. Standard.
4:30—Afternoon Concert, NBC.
Bellevue which
Abilene Lions for
8
air in “the
When the
was silence
i a round of
account of Thomas O’Conner of
having borrowed it a month
more ago.
from $4 50 to $5 25.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK, July 17 —Cotton futures
opened steady, unchanged to 2 lower In-
fluence of higher cables was offset bv re-
newed liquidation. continued favorable
weather and the unsettled foreizn politi.
cal sttuation Oct 12.04: Dec. 11 98: Jan
! 11.97; Mch 12 05: May 12.06.
bolt for another assault against
la the heart interest.
Henry Fonda and Pat O Brien
are in the tops Stuart Erwin in
his usual sort of role.
The program is one of five units. |
whih includes a Porky the Pig car-
TOKYO Jul) 17 I—Forty-five
persons were tilled today by violent ti
1 wind storm* sweeping nN
NowKangawa and Gumma prefectures
Thousands of homes were washed
! this tended
he said. “I have always liked the
outdoors, and have longed for the
life of a cowboy "
Ending the fifteen minute inter-
view Bentley left Allred at the mi-
crophone to resume the broadcast
with Governor Stanford. For tne
next quarter-hour, the two govern-
ors exchanged observations on pro-
blems of state and brought out
points of comparison and contrast
in Arizona's and Texas' govern-
ments. "
They conversed informally with
Governor Allred presiding as an-
Evening
6:00—For Mother and Dad. Stand-
ard.
| 6:30—Studio Party. NBC
A 650 pound
unty tools,” said Webb. "The
sually we make a notation
fixed him
penses, .
strike riot in which 10 were killed;
photographer testifies "rocks thrown
into police lines” started the riot-
ing.
BOSTON —Settle steamship strike
which had isolated islands of Nan-
tucket and Martha s Vineyard for
four days; wage increases, eight -
hour day, and cosed shop among
provisions of agreement.
DETROIT—Governor Frank Mur-
phy calls conference between truck
operators and striking employes and
predicts “speedy settlement" of wage
dispute; union leaders announce-
ment of a 30-day truce disputed by
company spokesman.
children in a ranch atmosphere," Ayres, professor of economics at
the University of Texas says the
700 horsepower and is convinced it
will roar over the dr)’ lake bed.
called Bonneville Salt Flats at 200
miles per hour.
Jenkins expects to begin the run
about July 26 as soon as the three
ten-mile circular tracks are dry.
with this one adult because Hopa- ,
long was popular with him years
ago. He has since become very, very
tired of cowboys and stage holdups
and the gal who was nearly done |
wrong by •
But anyway. Bill Boyd, with both
guns blazing, comes back to the
Majestic screen today in "North of
the Rio Grande.
The picture at the Paramount to-
day. “ New Faces of 1937," is not a
colossal nor a stupendous show. But
it has in it one or two of the most
downright funny hilarious scene* of
any musical in the last ten.
The most screaming is the bnef
take of Milton Berle and a broker i
in the broker’s office (or snarer
Milton buys stock and it always J
goes down in the meantime. the <
broker sells him <D "a sweepstake 1
ticket. (2) a five-dollar bet on a l
race horse, and (3» a nickel punch 1
on the punch board. He never wins, i
Even Joe Penner seems funny.
next two years The bond will not
be renewed for two years, only one-
fourth of the value has been used
His wife and two children
I live
------------------
Traffic Offenders
Years Old Sunday
| CULVER CITY Calif. July IT—
I P—Sixteen years ago tomorrow
Hal Roach, having surveyed the
movie field and finding no pictures
"We advocate abstinence by all
nations from the use of force in
steer and a 570
night for
middiing 7 12 middline 6 87 striet low
middiing 6.62; low midding <13 strict
I ordinary a 62 goon ordinarv * 22
. Futures elosed quit' and steady: Oct 6.68
Jan 8 68: Mch * 694 May 8 71
COrroN PRODUCTS
a month.
Six children always are
CHICAGO, July
eents a bushei in
stimuiated enouzh
KANSAS
Hogs 100
pounds brought $5, a 435 pound calf
sold at $5 and a 410 pound calf
cleared at 84.50
A small package of cattle for Ot-
to Oberhouse of Vernon drew $7 50
for a 590 pound yearling. $6 25 for
a 520 pound yearling. $825 for 3
yearlings scaling 558 pounds and $5
for a 470 pound offering.
William Ricks, Crowell, marketed
5 calves scaling 286 pounds for $7 50.
2 calves averaging 267 pounds at $7
and 3 calves scaling 305 pounds for
$6 50.
A shipment of aged wethers from
through Abilene tomorrow morning
en route to the twentieth Interna-
tional convention to be at Chicago
The tram. scheduled to arrive at
9:40 a m. is made up of about ten '
cars.
Mr and Mrs Joe Childers will
board the train and go as far as
Dallas with the Caiifornians, where
they will transfer to the Texas
were larger than expenditures. Ex-
penses of the office amounted to $2,-
124.96 in salary for C. O. (Pat) Pat-
terson. $4,978 in salaries of depu-
ties; $1,297.60 in assessing fees;
Livestock News Lions Gather In
By
July 17. Cottonseed
Adolph Stieler, Comfort. In Ken-
dall county, sold at 85 25 One hun-
dred averaged 94 pounds and nine-
• 73b Oet. S Tib
(b-bid: a asked).
1:00 To Be Announced.
1 :30—Rcardo and Hito Caballeros
3 00—— Saturday a Club Matinee
1 OO— King • Jesters Orchestra.
3 15— The Bussex Handicap
4 00— News; Concert at Piano.
4 OS- Nickelodeon Movie Piay
4 30— Preas-Radio News Period.
4 IS—John T Howard Program
S 00—A Mesnaze '‘t Israel Prozram
• 30 Eadie Varzos Orchestra
4 0*—To Be Announced
4 30--Goldman Band Concert
T 00—Barn Dance on the Radio.
8 on—Cineinnati Bummer OperA
» 00-Rew. Art Bhaw Orchestra.
• 30—Jimmie Luncefor Orchestra.
10 00— Dancing Musie Orrhatra.
10 30—George O isen • Orehentra
Jenkins stepped up hi* Mor-
mon Meteor speedster from 500 to
trect \ without - letting us
implement was first missed ,
Cumnisstoncr R. F Dillard 1 rain
east and a new French financial irisis
Prites were wei jumbled at the now
I ► - r - fra f a
salary to
to use It
_____________ . - 4:15—Gypsy Fortunes,, Standard.
J230 03 miscellaneous; and 3740.67 4:30—Higgins Sisters, vocal duo.
for bonding of Patterson for the •“ "— T-— -—-
in your interviews of the old tim-
ers attending the Cowboy Reunion
and we feel that you will be an as-
set to our staff.
Your announcing schedule over
this station will ve dependent upon
your other numerous activities, but
consider our studios your whenev-
er you visit Abilene
Sincerely yours.
Max Bentley Manager KRBC
Doug Dean, Program Director
The Texas governor is through
with public life at the conclusion
of his present term, he told his lis-
teners Ir reply to an interview
query by Bentley
“Never again will I be a candi-
date for public office after I end
my second term as governor," he
emphatically asserted. "I, plan ter
enter the practice of law at that
time to replenish my personal fin-
ances, which will be in a straight-
ened condition when I leave of-
fice." •
LIKES RANCH LIFE
Asked to picture himself ten
years hence, .Allred expreased the
hope that in another decade he
would be settled with his family on
a ranch in West Texas
Mrs Allred and I would like to
retire in West Texas and rear our
are mem-
WPA is as-
streets and
r the strain
owed. Com- ,
pointed out.
n the res-
streets are
hang about anything butkeeping be fewer accidents.
(he people with juice to run tneir -__- -I______a
vacuum cleaner*. Margaret Lindsay
there met a glorious j treaties ”
44 caliber pistol.
lections of the assessor-collector
federation of women’s clubs for ex-
iermineotmngthesevarerentvaeatn s Traffic Safety Code
Hopalong has not become popular '
Given By Dare-Devil
Of U. S. Speedways
Be Courteous,
Keep On Your
Side Of Road
at th' treasury July IS
Receips $13.021.516 77
$24 850,121 40: balance, I
« a. TREASLRY
WASHINGTON, July 17
they pass
Harriet Hilliard could, have been
better if she had had better songs
to sing William Brady is too much
tenor
But three such guys as Milton
Berle Joe Penner and Parkyakarkus
could kick the gong around with
the three Marx brothers if they
were given the proper or improper,
script.
The midnight show tonight prom-
lies to be a nice bit of excitement.
Slim is the story of linesmen who
repair high tension electrical wire*
in storms, fight, and don t give a
change from last year and Tarrant
county including Fort Worth had |j F,e, n,i
nt reportedits tax assessment val- nave Rasy Day
Chamber* county in southeast Traffic offenders who have bat-
Texas had a $5,024,006 increase to 1 ted 1000 per cent the last’ two days
an 518810880 total to rank high on payment of fin** slumped to the
in valuation* 1 bottom today with three tickts
Counties Vat showed increases given nothing collected on back i
greater than three million dollars fines and three captases to be la- l
were Brazoria Duval and Ward sued.,
greater than two million Cooke Hi- •udge E M Overshiner fined a
dalgo, Refugio and San Patricia drunK $3 but admonished him to
Greatest decreases were reported never appear In corporation court
from Matagorda and Montgomery again under promise of a heavier
counties Matagorda values dropped pena ty- A charge of driving while
$3,510,815 to a $12,920,398 total drunK was transferred to the county
Montgomery $2,500,005 to a 888 court
-waiting for It* breakfast
The policemen were afraid
pound heifer sold at $7, a 655 pound
cow broug! • $4 50. 2 cows averaging
655 pounds sold at $3 50 2 steers
weighing 765 pounds casheed at
$550 2 yearlings averaging 455
You exhibited rare showmanship al organization."
Twenty-three states
Last rites for John Griswold, 32,
of Abilene, who was burned to
death when the truck he was driv-
ing overturned near Mineral Wells
early Friday were conducted at 10
o clock this morning at Hubbard -
The mishap occurred 18 miles
west of Mineral Wells on the Bank-
head highway. Officers said that he
evidently overturned while avoiding
a collision with a car by running
hi* truck from the road
BY FRANK REEVES, JR.
FORT WORTH, June 17— Light
supplies of cattle and calve* at Fort
7 Worth Friday sold mostly steady
with the previous days market A
distinct lack of quality was notice-
- able in all classes.
Hogs made a 10 cent advance to
a packer top of $11.60 and an ex-
g treme of $11.70 to outside buyers
s Packing sows were steady at $10
B down.
Fat lambs were slow but buyers
paid prices which were mostly
steady Other classes in the sheep
B yard* moved to the scales at un-
« changed values Fat lambs sold from
, $8 50 downward. Shorn yearlings
ing Invocation of the neutrality act.
Although China has requested
“some action in the far eastern
dey, Okla “Porky” Lee, almost
four, and from Ft Worth. Texas,
is the new fat boy Spanky Mc-
Farland. small for his eight years,
is from Dallas, Texas.
WASHINGTON. July 17 -~(P--
I eloned quiet andvunchanzed Sales 93 lou Madrid government.
XmU 20 ^.ih.’^, "22022,5271 mz-: 1 Europe«heavily armed ieaders
openly back the tw‘ Spanish iorces,
their confict might any day Ore the
powder trains to world-war araer.aH.
was under-
IT. Advances
DEFICIT-
(Continued from page one)
against expenditures of 82.926.97
Under the old fee system, the judge
was paid an ex officio salary in
addition to fees
Six months’ salary for Sheriff Sid
McAdams amounted to $2,124.96
deputies drew $4,978, and miscel- 1
buying to lirt Chirazo agination increased $388,850
9 30— The “Gospel In Song” Quar- Darla Jean Hoow just 6, and
I cute in a doll-like way. is the cur-
i rent leading lady She’s from Lee-
Ai Trace Orchestra- west.
11:00— Hour of Dancin«
«^<lnn. "mnah" . NBC BLUE NETWORK
•election* Dinan,, 12 x— rhe Crawtorda Orchestra
_______ ___ “ people’s front leaders for France
NFW ORLEANS SPOTS 1 , , . „ 41 1,na +1,
NEW ORLEANS, July 17 SDot cotton । to let down the bar* and help the
pointing The quick sweep of me-
chanized armies, the supposedly in-
vincible destructiveness of war from
the air and the power of big gum
have been disappointing Sometimes
aviation has been successful and
sometimes not. The full year of war
without victory tells the story.
The non-intervention naval patrol
has failed. Great Britain* new
planis to put obsegvers on ships.
TIENTSIN China July 17 PP--
well-meaning but careless citizen
There is also “Chicken A La
King,” a colpr cartoon.
The world knew what the gov-
ernor of Texas and the governor of
Arizona said to each other Friday
afternoon
Arizona’s Rawleigh C. Stanford,
with and for children, put the first and Texas James V. Allred ap-
• „ ... . peared on a special 30-minute pro-
Our Gang comedy into produc- gram of KRBC the Reporter-
uon. . . News station, on the Hlton hotel.
The serles has been going on They heard after their visit
since. This week, the one hundred together at the Taylor county old-
and sixty-third “gangster" comedy settlers reunion in Buffalo Gap.
was completed. The average since the birthplace at Governor Stan-
1921, has been nearly one picture ford, who was featured speaker of
the day.
Their “private program” follow-
By Associated Press
CHICAGO—Coroner's jury sees
newsreel of Memorial Day steel
henever a loan is made
California Lions
the Paramount Feature picture * I Victoria and Greta.
is “Slim." with Pat O’Brien, J M. Alexander of Abilene
Henry Fonda and Margaret keted a package of cattle.
Lindsay.
CHICAGO, July 17-
( The state department kept in close | SdAn .‘11/9011 Mch 0 11
drop at the opening and later tacked on
a gain Bethiehem, Republic and Siosa-
Sheffieid did better
Ahead most of the time Some siivved
at the last were Chrysier. Goodyear.
Sears Roebue k, f. 1 Rubber. United Air
ITT. July 17 (USDA)-
hing offered for sale mar
December recovered from it *4 to 13 00 --- -
and shortly after the first half hour was -----.---- -----
seing.at 11.98 with prices 1 10 4 polnts laneous expenses,
net nigher. r
NEW ORLEANS osu5A,* Despite f. SPAIN" *
vorable Liverpool cables, the eotton mar- •I Olli
ket here opened alightly lower today un- |
der week end liquidation and some sellingz
on the continued favors b * weather in the
belt.
7:00—Sunday Nite Jam Session,
NBC
8:00—Sign off.
policemen, early today for
Washington.
1242 general declaration of American
Abilene Lions, lead by President
C. C. Sellers, will greet a group of
Rudolf Friml, Jr., above, son
of the famous composer-of pop-
ular operettas, makes his motion
picture debut at the head of his
own orchestra in a musical,
"Friml’s Favorites."’ shown in
the midnight prev lew tonight at
. and presented him with a silver
plaque. He will be succeeded next
week by Tom Gillis of Fort Worth.
Dec 11.87
12.16
—-me s=32.
masqueraded as a girl. Joined the making, ina A hair-hour broad-
gang at the age of 18 months and ! cast featuring the principal speak-
stayed with it for nine years He and honor suests of the reun-
and Joe Cobb, the original fat boy
who lasted eight years, are the , Au- .V/ . ____
exceptions to the four-year rule. I BenUey concluded hla interview
Jackie Cooper and Johnny Downs | by presenting Governor Allred with
are the most famous graduates of a letter ozTiclally.appointing him
the Roach unit. Jackie was loaned 10 the star or KRBC announcers,
to Paramount for "Skippy" and and1tt was.in that role that.!he
then Roach sold his contract to oro adcast the . following. , quarter
M. G M. for 1140 000 Johnny grew hour with the Arizona chief.
up. left pictures for a while, and ' , I was the. secc nd tune within
now has returned to play Juveniles, two weeks thatAlred worked the
The first leading lady, Mary Kom- “““ as a KRBC announcer. His
man. is married and playing in- । initial performance before the
genue roles. Dickie Moore is active
; and so is Mickey Daniels, who plays
character juveniles. .
846 80. her deputies drawing $1,340 cital
and miscellaneous expenses amount- 1:00-AsSembly of God Church,
ing to S157.82, a total for the office | i 15—Song Styles, Standard. .
of *3 344 82 Income of the office in 1:30-sunshine Hour
fees was *882 20 [ 1:45—Jentry Scott Holmes, vibra-
AUSTIN, July 17—(PP—Uniform
laws from taxation and control of
liquor in the various states will be
discussed with other representa-
tives by Bert Ford, administrator
for Texas, at the national con-
ference at Mackinac Island, Mich,
July 19-24.
Ford said the purpose of the con-
ference was to promote interstate
cooperation in methods and devices
of liquor control administration
with a view to better enforcement
and effectiveness of regulatory
laws
"The Interchange of Ideas," he
said, "might prove valuable to us
since this is the first year Tezas
has been a member of the nation-
ket nominally ady: for the week lizhts
and butcher" nteady to IS lowen: "0"3 2*
Gnlveston showed exactly no
Evening
6 00—Dance Hour. NBC
6 30—Farr Brothers. Standard.
6:45—A. D Whisenant’s Sports
Parade
7:00—Swing Session. Standard.
7:30—Eventide Echoes. Standard.
7:45—Ranch Boys, NBC.
8:00—Studio Party, NBC
8:45—The Islanders, Hawaiian
Trio.
9:00—Veteran’s Clubhouse Dance.
9 30—Sign off.
% 4
I
shoot for fear of breaking the china, other nations
Desperation mothered the inven- , "We advocate adjustment of prob-
Uon of using a water ho*e to ad\an-1 lems in international relations by
tage. The cat didn’t like this, and j processes of peaceful negotiations
let it be known by loosing its nause- and agreement
ating odor in the arbor We advocate faithful observance
Allred served his “audition
there. Bentley termed it as he made
Governor Jimmy a KRBC announc-
er in appreciation for your micro-
phone work” at the cowboy re-
union.
The governor’s formal "letter of
appointment on the staff foilows:
Hon. Jame* V. Allred
Governor State of Texaa
Austin, Texas
Honored sir.
Having passed your audition suc-
cessfully and in appreciation tor
your microphone work at the re-
cent Texas Cowboy Reunion at
Stmford, you are herewith appoint-
ed to the announcing staff of
Radio Station KRBC.
ytdgly ju
Also rtpree^U ig Abilene at the They found that the new set-up in
convention will be Mr and Mrs. Texas with power vested in the
Sellers and Mr and Mrs W 8 pardons and parole board was simi-
Wagley, who will drive the distance lar to tne one used in Arinona for
several years, but Stanford ex-
Receipts tor the flora’ vear (since July
it $218,623,233 ne expenditures. i«23 987.-
22344 Tri in ing $102 21 7 144 u emer
gency expenditures, excess of expenditures J
$204 363 990 38 gross debt *34 597.383 -
37 4 35 ■ decrease of $142,416 70 under the
previous day oid assets 113,42* 449 168
7S. ineludins 11. 196 049 442 7* ot inaett’
Ehgineers of the communications
™'?"h.Tm«!rnreaUe.t, for Kmn ! :125 S"u
i have many request.* for loan u _ . . - . . . in. ana _______ h. mu.
M - — — 1 and west One airport was located •a wo "" wru"w.
. .2.1.2 j Among industriais United *•'
three miles north of Tientsin and I was higher, Industriais seiling lo
the second near Fengtai, five miles
from Peiping
said.
“If driver* who dislike speed
would keep on their side of the
levels five points above the previous ciose
LIVERPOOL srors
LIVERPOOL July 17 Cotton, no re- '
ceipts Spot qulet; prices two hizher: quo- ।
tations in pence American, strict zood
middiing 7 72 good middling 7 42 strict
H-—. The Japanese military command I
County Commissioner Luther took over' the last of Tientsin’s
Webb of precinct I u looktng for three raliway stations today suited
the Taylor countian who has forgot-t ou two atrports and began installa-
Un to return a tractor revolving , tion of an army communications
fresno to the county barn lot after | system.
or Barbed wirebarricades were erect-
ed around Japanese mills and ware-
houses designated for military stores
and for troop occupation
big family—
children and
But if you want to go to the Ma-
jestic today, you’ll get a serial with-
out cream and sugar. Or if you call
it sugar, you can see a silly sym-
phony cartoon in color. "Toby Tor- (
toise Returns." The serial is the
11th chapter of Secret Agent X-9."
That, of course, has nothing to do
with the feature picture, which I am
advised should be treated with no
little care.
It seems that Clarence E. Mul-
fords fiction character. Hopalong
Cassidy, portrayed by William Boyd,
has not been receiving the acclaim
here that is accorded him in other I
places. That is, I < is very, very pop |
ular with the kiddies but,...
Boyd has gained plaudits from
women’s dub throughout the United .
States, so the publicity blurb reads, j
and his pictures are especially en-
dorsed for children and have become
popular even with adults.
So Hopalong Cassidy has received I
no vote of thanks from the Abilene
NBC RED NETWORK
12.00—Tour Host -from Buffalo.
12 30— Golden Melodies, Orchestra.
1.00—Miniatures in Concert.
1:30— Revue for the Week End.
1 30—— To Be Announced 11 hr.)
3:30— Kindergarten via Radio.
4:30—Press- Radio News Period
4 M—Ford Bond or Baseball weaf: Al
ma Kitchan Songs—chain.
4:45—The Art of Living. Talk.
5:00—Spanish Revue Orchestra.
5:30— Jimmy Kemper and Sonas.
5 43—To Be Announced <1* m.»
• 00—NBC's Chicazo Jamboree.
« 30— Robin Hood Dell Concert
7 30-To Be Announced (30 m.)
8.30—Paul Whiteman's Band
• 00— Dancing Music Orchestra
9:0—Al Donahue and Orchestra.
10:00—The Crawfords Orchestra.
10-30—Charlie Barnet Orchestra.
< Ba NETWORK
12 00—The Madison Ensemble
12:13—Ann Leaf Organ Concert.
13 45-Tours in Tone. Orehestra.
1 00—Down be Hermans. Skit
1:30—Dept of Commerce Program.
1 43—Clyde Barrie and Baritone.
2 00— The Dictators Orchestra
2:30—The Dancepators Orehestra.
3 00—- Frank Dailey and Orchestra.
3 30— Four Eton Boys Quartet
3:45— Dorothy Gordon’s Corner
4 00—Ben Feld and His Orchestra.
4 30—Preas-Radio News Period
4 35 — Sports and Paul Douzlas
4 45 -Singinz Walters of West
•4.00—Ted Lewis and Orchestra.
5 30—Jaques Jolas at Plano
4 Oh —The Saturday Swinz Club
• 30— Johnny and Ruse Morxan basic
Week-End Potpourri -west
7:00— Prof Quit Quisles to eoast
7:30--Lazy Melody Program
• 00—The Hit Parade -coast to eoast.
8 45—Pa(t1 Chipin and Sons
• 00— Bunny Berizan Orchestra.
• 30—Gus Arnheim Orchestra.
NEW YORK-Several hundred
striker* protest arrest of nine pick-
ets seized after employes leaving
strike-bound shipyard plant were
•toned
COLUMBUS. O.—Last of nation-
al guardsmen evacuate steel strike
area; CIO continues to press suit
testing legality of use of troops in
labor dispute sones.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa—CIO steel
strike leader denounces formation
of a national citizens’ organization
as "seditious" and “revolutionary."
SWOC declare* it will file protest
against citizens movement with Na-
tional Labor Relations board.
PITTSBURGH—Move to oust flat f
glass workers union president nears
climax at convention.
SALT LAKE CITY, July 17.—(P)
—A man who has piloted automo-
biles 1,500.000 mile* without so
much as denting a fender, laid
down this traffic code;
"Be courteous and keep on your
side of the highway.”
He s Dare-Devil Ab Jenkins of
Salt Lake City, who hold* scores
of land speed record* and is warm-
ing up a 700-horsepower thunder-
in ports ahd along borders to re-
port whether men and munition*
are going to the warring factions.
France abolished the internation-
al control along the Spanish border
without waiting to see the new plan
Again there is pressure by many of
the French socialist-communist
GIRLS- _________
nr rokY rma. , ' (Continued Trom Ml we
sr applauded loudly. The band includ:
stock markt sesai on. ed among its
Mild profit W.|1W at the openinK, out The Love Bug Will Bite You If
prices down fractions to a point or more v,," nn wete. At '• as—eet
but fferings were so bids wore You Don 1 Watch OUt. Swee
pursuit ox poncy ana xrom inter-1 - „ipg.g-—— . Sue, 8 ugur Blues, Harvest
to ference in the internal affairs of year, tranarr. runhin t Ardndathe Moon " and many others, some fast,
— ' -*•— - -— shares for the two hours. । some alow
Traders apparently found no great stim- | The girls wore dresses which they
I ulation in another batch of favorable sec ..a, T0r... re L.., a, xat
ond quarter earnings statementa. Restrain, made themselves. If they do not
ing the buying urge >i was said, was thejhave the money for material the
tenseress of the congressional court bill sehonl huvs it
! fight, darkening war clousa over the far m-- --- -- ....
laneous costs amounted to $1,194.76 10:00—Victory Men s Bible Class.
The department earned $1,012.61 ! 10 45— Pacific Paradise Standard.
fees against expenditures of $7.- 11 00—First Presbyterian Church.
069.72, , 12; 00—Concert Master. Standard.
Salary for District Clerk Belle
Liquor Charges
। Charges are expected to be filed
in county court here Monday
I against one person for violation of
Is studying
estern uni-
. has been
I Richard
department
r the next
International I wheai abnit a cent at the openinK todav.
_____________..._____ rec____ : but the gaina were no’ maintained in the
ternational Niekel, Women, <»w Crown face of scattered profit taking MM
-Cork, Warner, Bros.c-Miram Wafkerroaim-- -Reports.ot a arming spread of blacK
+CoAlHsChalmners Armour Spierel Ine., rust both attet-the tanadian. bordetre-. ,
Motor Proucta, Santa Ft. N Y Centtal ated mueh uncertainty amo« trader at
i, • ou. . ...... Bond of $750 was set ter A. H the liquor law following a raid yes-
or- N>M«r. Hue.™ ana 1, 10′120 ia venier « se mumer Hilliard when hr waived examining terday afternoon at Merkel by in-
m AnMm-.ADe ”' " en vr.; wo "1"1200 "0′020. e before Mf-e of the Peace spec tors at the Texas Liquor Con-
1 .7 *«■ aww st /urs 9 • iJamis Gray Bledsoe Saturday on a gtrol board and the city marshal of
YOFk, July 17 Rar . qer-pom 5 / * aihe "eK.S 75 charge of crivine while intoxicated Merkel
quotation, T Shepjatand, top"inisve anai frah, Complagjtawa sigted by W W l Th* raid was made at a place on
KAJgA-cr, T “— I gpr ne '■ mi *1 most nat ves 0 2 West of city police department. | hig way No 80 about one mile west
KANSA8 CiTY,Jul, IT.Lproduce ana|r3irne. < 922 25 mGdumt,‘naeh after Milliard* arrest last night of Merkel and two End had! cases
PItr‘ umBoatm. tar ""* a wawaM trom 4 00. Huiard "a preparins bohd today ° beer were Mixed
tn excessive stapply *0-1 00 | war strictiv
__. .. .___Parer Brain fed uaht veariines and good heavv
Industriais •* ling lowe in- f ws stendy grass fat cows and heifers
r uded Great A11 a nt ic a Pacifie sher" in 25 50 lower s alers steady ■' ckers an 1 r 8 r * *
Drunken Driving
signs Fracttohaily hizher were Amertean i i6 25 ‘other K -I to choice natives 12 50-
Gas & Electric and Eleetrit Bond B share 15 00 butk «Fassers 4 75-11 50
Lower wre Niagara Hudson and Ur ted 2 . ’ 12 — - -a -----— ■
tauht A Peme--naie ne waa elishtiv .
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