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Herald Promptly, Phone 13
Between 6:00 and 6:30 p. m.
and «nt will be sent to you by
special messenger.
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION CITY OF BORGEK, HUTCHINSON COUNTY, TEXAS
FORECAST FOR TODAY
WEST TKXAK: Cloudy and cold-
er with vnow in north portion to-
night, IfiniH-ralun" 14 to 24 degrws
in north portion; Hatuday umtrtthHl
roid«'r. UvcNtdik w ruiB(it in north
port ion.
VOL. 3—NO. 36.
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BORGER, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
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Manhunt Is Staged For Last Of Missouri Bank Robber Trio
SLAIN MAN IN
HOLDUP SAID
TO BE TEXAN
Captured Pal Says Bullet
Victim Is Willie
Hightower
POSSE GETS ONE
Two New Sheriffs Seek Third
in $21,500 Rob-
bery
WINS PRIZE FOR
ESSAY ON VOTES
MEXICO, Mo., Jan. 4 {API—A
hank robbery which became a man
hunt was the introduction of two
Missouri sheriffs to their duties two
days after they took office. Search
for Tom Davis, 40, of Chicago, want
ed for the $21,500 holdup of the
First National bank here yesterday,
war continued today.
One robber was killed in the es- j jviiss Katherine Merry, sophomore
cape, and the third was jailed. He j jn the Michigan State Normal Col-
iirst said he was John Matthews, 20 j lege, Ypsilauti, has won first prize
oi Dallas. Later he gave his name j for her school in a national contest
Old Man With Cane", Wanted
To Kill Me But Other's Objected
"Things Are Getting Hot Now
ATLANTA, Ca., Jan. 4 (AP) —
Kidnapers, death threats, drugs, and
a dirty shack formed the melodram-
atic of the story told today by a
pretty high school girl who has
found hound and gagged after two
day's absence from home.
Doris Turner, Hoke Smith hi jh
school athletic, collapsed last night
in a filling station. She had been
found nearbyp, bound at the ankles.
Two hours later the girl said she
had been released unharmed by a
"kindly old man with a cane" for
her from discerning where she was
after being held most of the two
days in a dirty shack.
The authorities started an inves-
tigation Wednesday at the request
of her parents, who had received a
special delivery letter from her to
the effect that she had been abduct-
ed by a stopped old man who cried
when he recalled that she resembled
his daughter, now dead.
The old man wanted to kill her,
she added. Other men objected and
whom police had been searching for | persuaded his companion to return
two days. i the girl to Atlanta because "things
Blindfolds, she asserted, had kept i were getting hot"
as John E. Bruck of New York City, j
He said the dead man was Willie
Hightower and the robber who es- i
i aped was Davis.
Hightower was wounded as the j
robbers sped through Auxvasse,
about 12 miles south of here. He
collapsed over the steering wheel I
and when Davis attempted to con- j
trol the machine it skidded into a ;
(Mich. Davis and Bruck took to the !
woods, a posse capturing Bruck soon
after.
|ft,500 was recovered near Aux-j
vasse.
for he best essay on getting out the
vote. The National League of Wo-
men Voters sponsored the competi-
tion, in which hundreds of essays
were submitted.
SLAIN
MAN SAID
HE
TO
FROM
DALLAS
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 4 (AP)
Willie Hightower, reported killed in j
an escape aftar a bank robbery af
Mexico, Mo., yesterday, was a for-'
mer resident of Dallas, police said
today.
Hightower, a mother and a broth-;
er lived at 2100 Garret Street here j
police said.
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FORT WORTH WOMAN
SAYS DEAD MAN IS SON
FORT WORTH, Jan. 4 (Ai'l
A man slain in •< tight with police &j
citizens of Auxvasse, Mo., a fid said j make Washington
Wil- i encouragement to
WASHINGTON
START WAR ON
'SPEAKEASIES'
Orders Police to Close Liquor
Joints; Penalty for Fail-
ure Is Loss of Jobs
WASHINGTON, Jan. I (AD — A
ten-weeks war on bootleggers and
speakeasies "to make the national
capital an "example" to the cities
of the country will be launched in
Washington next Sunday.
BITTER FIGHT FORECAST OR PACT
AS BORAH OPEHSSEHATE REBATE
Says Signatory Nations Not "Bound to Exert
Force in Enforcing Kellogg Treaty";
Cruiser Construction Bill Up
————— i
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (AP) —i claring that the 15 cruisers propos-
Holding its ••isttioli The Senate, the ed would still leave this nation be-
MAY BE JUDGE
EXECUTION ARRANGEMENTS MADE
AS LAST FIGHT IS STAGED FOU
MRS. A. LEBOUEF, DR. DREHEI
District Court Judge at Franklin, La., Refuses
to Name Sanity Commission; Hears
Testimony Himself
LAST BULLETIN
FRANKLIN, La., Jan. 4 (AP)—Judge James D. Simon
today ruled in the district court of St. Mary Parish that
M-s. A. Bonner LeBouef and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, sen-
tenced to hang tomorrow, were sane at the present time.
by a captured companion to be
lie Hightower, is believed by Mrs.
W. T. Hightower of Polytechine to
be her son.
Mrs. Hightower was
the death of the youth
day night by police Captain A. E.
Dowell, who gave her a detailed dea
eription of the dead man, about 24.
Hightower was described as havinT
black hair and being of slender build
llis right eye was said to be defec-
tive. The mother said the descrip-
tion fitted that of her son, who
wrote her a letter from St. Louis,
Mf>., Sunday, in every detail.
Charles Hale Being
Returned to This
County for Trial
Announcement was made this af-
ternoon that Sheriff Ownbey and
deputy B. L. Milhollon had gone to
Canadian to return Charley Hale
back to this county for trial In the
84th district court which convenes
next Monday on a chArge of murd-
ering Ray Martin in 1327.
Other laws from the county capi-
tal stated that A. R. Lewis i.\ being
held on a charge of disposing of
mortgaged property had been re-
leased under a $1000 bond to await
trial In the coming term of court.
Kellogg Peace Treaty was due for
its Baptism of fire today after chair
man Borah of the Foreign Relations
committee, its sponsor, had conclud-
ed his plea for raitfication, begun
yesterday.
Senator Borah brought the trea-
ty before the senate late yesterday
without .even a skirmish by the na-
; val construction bill advocates who
I have agreed to sidetrack their mea-
| sure for a "reasonable time" to per-
I mit action on the pact. He propell-
I ed the document renouncing war on
| its way in a two hour address i£ch
| went over until today when debate
j developed.
I Senator Borah will find his prin-
cipal opposition in his old ally in
nforce against the league of na-
... , ." ! tions and the world court, the silv-
ment with the nurpose ot preparing ... . ,
er haired senator Reed, democrat.
Missouri, who listened intently to
■ yesterday's proceedings.
| Anticipating opposing arguments,
the Idahoan yesterday contended
The campaign will be waged un-
der the auspices of the National
United Committee for law
"the National capital for the incom-'
ing administration pledged to 4 bet-
ter enforcement of the la wand to
an example and
the cities of the
nation."
Former governor Pinchot (if Pen-
| nslyvania, has issued a demand that
notified of I president Coolidge ask the Cnmmis-
late Thurs-j sioners of the district of Columbia
to submit a list of "Speakeasies"
and close them 011 penalty of losing
their jobs within a week.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (ff'i Another
sortie by Police Commissioner Wha-
len's liquor raiders caused more
than 50 speakeasy proprietors to be
in jail today Fifty places were
raided Wednesday night and 50 last
night.
The first tour of poo Irooms and
other hideaways o rooks and gang-
continued 011 I age S)
that the correspondence of the oth-
er world powers in accepting the
pact had not modified or changed
the treaty in the slightest. There
is 110 strength, he ,argued, con-
tentions that the "'gnatory nations
would be bound to exert force in en-
forcing the treaty.
The treaty cannot be considered,
lie declared, as having encroached
in Miy degree upon the right of ev-
ery nation of self defense. For that
reason he saw no harm in the par-
agraph of a British note 011 the tre-
aty which stipulated that the Brit-
ish reserved the right to protect its
territories.
Chairman Hale of the naval com-
mittee, put the cruiser construction
bill 011 its way in an address de-
LIMIT OF MAN'S MASTERY OF SKIES
REMAINS UNDETERMINED TODAY AS
"QUESTION MARK" BATTLES STORM
Vitaphone Ticket Sales
Start Again Tomorrow
After Holiday Recess
over a wide section of southern Cal-
ifornia in an effort to avoid creep-
ing fog blanket and cloud banks,
I need only land at this airport, pos-
j mark, mastering adverse elements sibly several days or a week distant,
! c.nd minor mechanical imperfections j to get official credit for eclopsing
'droned onward toward a distant ae-! that record as well as the refueling
j rial goal after having broken all ex- j endurance record of 60 hous, 7 min
METROPOLITAN AIRPORT, Los 1
Angeles, Jan. 4 (AP) The limit of 1
man's mastery of the skies 111 heav- j
iewthjm-air craft remanded unde-j
termined today as the question
isting world's endurance records,
i Nearlng the end of its third full
day alof the army's the army's tri-
motored enigma, which ascended at
17:26 a. 111. January 1, steadily ad-
Speclal workers assigned the tusk vanced toward lighter-lhan-alr rec-
tif disposing of the necessary j ords Miis morning alter having
umount of tickets to insure a vita-
phone for Borger, announced this
afternoon that the drive for the com
pletlon of the sale would be resum-
ed tomorrow.
Victor, Ohio Shawgo and Perry
Powill have tills special task and
were making rapid strides toward
Hie goal of success, when the holi-
days stopped them from their work.
Tomorrow's work will be the first
allied the decision to postpone (he
work until after the holiday season
had passed.
e-
turned to America one of the two
principal airplane endurance flight
record;) held aboad.
The time of the second European
record, a continuous flight without
refueling, was surpassed at 1:51 a.
m., today, coast time, at which hour
the resourceful five-man crew had
held the ship aloft for til! hours. 25
minutes, a full hour longer than the
record set six months ago by the
Germans, Jolianu Risticz and Wil-
helm Zimmerman.
The monoplane, groping its way
I utes, held by Belgians, wfk'b fell
| last night.
! Aeronautic regulations specify
1 endurance planes, in order to set a
new record, must emain up an hour
longer than the previous record-hold
er, and land at the same field used
for the takeoff.
Two dawns hence if the plane re-
mains up, and its army sponsors
now vision the ship as still in the
air possibly a 'veek distant, it will
be near to the existing endurance
record of a man-ma.de contrivance
which now is held abroad.
That record of 111 hours, 4 6 min-
utes of continuous flight was made
by the German built craft Zeppelin
in its lumping voyage from Fried-
i ricliHlial'en 10 Likehurst, N. .1., last
| fall.
low a naval party with great Brit-
ain.
Signs of the Approaching fight
011 this measure were seen 111 the
instruction of an amendment by
senator King, democrat, Utah, pro-
posing that the naval measure be
limited to an authorization of five
cruisers instead of 15. He also pro-
posed that the senate express its de-
sire to have the president call an-
other naval limitations conference.
Late News
IMPERIAL AIRPORT, Imperial
Valley, Cal., Jail. 4 (AP)—Refuel
ing sliip number 1 piloted by Cap-
tain R. (1. Hoyt landed shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock tills morning af-
ter making a successful gasoline
contact with the question mark.
Captain Hoyt said that li 0 gol-
loiis of gasoline were delivered.
The question mark had been in
the air more than 74 hours.
METROPOLITAN Airport, I.os
Angeles, Jan. 4 (AP)—The Mon-
oplane Question Mark flew over
Imperial Airport, Imperial Valley
at an altitude of about 5,000 feet
at 3.45 a. 111., today. At four p. 111.
when the drone of its three mot-
ors still could be heard the plane
had lieen in the air OH hours and
34 minutes on its record break-
ing sustained flight.
Robert P. Nevin, Dayton, O., at-
torney, probably will be named
United States judge for the south-
ern district of Ohio, after the first
of the year. He is a son of the late
Congressman R. R. Nevin.
Chapman Appointed
Deputy Constable
by S. M. Cummings
Officer Ben Chapman, next to old
est of Borger police in' point of ser-
vice, has become deputy constable
under Constable S. M. Cummings,
of precinct five With exception of
five months, Chapman has been on
the police force for two and one-
half years.
Constable Cummings, who suc-
ceeded Roy Macy, has been a Bor-
ger resident for more than 2 years.
MORECASES OF
NEEDY; CHEER
MEET TONIGHT
FRANKLIN, La., Jan. 4 (AP)—Judge James D. Simon
in the St. Mary Parish district court here today refused to
appoint a commission to inquire into the sanity of Mrs. Ada
Bonner Lebouef and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, sentenced to
hang tomorrow, but said he would hear evidence at this
time into their sanity.
This ruling came immediately after a petition request-
ing the commission was presented by James R. Parkerson,
of tiefense counsel.
Eugene Dreher, nephew of the condemned man, was then
called to testify.
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$100 FIHE FOR
THOSE TURNING
FALSE[ALARMS
Police to Take Drastic Action
Against Offenders of
This Kind
FRANKLIN, La., Jan. 4 <AP)-
Counsel for Mrs Ada Bonner Le-
j bouef and Dr. T. E. Dreher entere I
a last ditch fight today for the two
condemned to hang tomorrow foi
murder of the
man, James J.
husband
Lebouef
of the wo
Drastic action against offenders
who turn in false fire alarms was
promised today by Chief of Police
John Crabtree after another false
signal had been turned in from 8th
and Ma>n.
"Under our present City ordin-
ances, we can fine anyone turning
Sleepless and emaciated after
their long death cell waits, the wid
ow and the doctor nervously await
ed the decision of Judge James Sint-
011 in Parish court here today on
the application for appointment oi
a sanity commission.
ituivt Into Tears
When Mrs. Lebouef .ind Dr. Jjt
her were told yeBterday by Sheri;t
Charles Pecot that governor Huey
P. Long had disregarded the recom-
mendation for commutation from
in a false call $100, and we can also) the Pal'dou board, both broke down
make the person pay cost of making tan^ sobbed.
the call, which is approximately $25;
Chief Crabtree announced.
thing drastic will have to
Necessity of Work in
Seen for Borger
Destitute
"Some-
be done
to keep our fire signal system safe
I for those whom it is to protect, and
1929 the police department henceforth is
1 to arrest any person found guil-
| ty of calling the fire department
I without cause."
Continued requests for clothing
and bedding for destitute or needy
families makes imperative further
organizations for the Christmas
Cheer association. Cheer leaders
said today preceding the general
membership meeting, 8 p. m.. City
hall.
Final reports of various commit-
tees for holidays relief work will be
made and definite steps for work
throughout 19L'9 is to be made.
METROPOLITAN Airport,, Los
Angeles, Jail. 4 (AP)—Refueling
plane number one supplied the
question mark with 170 gallons
of gasoline in a seven-minute con
tact, at an altitude of 3,000 feet
over Imperial Airport a (1:30 a.
111. Today.
All Scout Troops
To Meet Tonight
All Boy Scout troops are to meet |
tonight in regular sessions for plan-
Resting Well Today
After Being Struck
By an Automobile
Struck down by an automobile at !
Fifth and Main late yesterday as he ,
darted into the street, James Roy |
Guinn, or "Little Shorty" as he is j
known to boxing fans, was resting!
well today in Head hospital. Wit-
nesses said the front wheel of the
machine passed over the child's bo-
dy.
First aid treatment was given in '
the office of Dr. W. T. McRae, near 1
the scene of the accident.
Mrs. Lebouef's 19-year-old son.
Ernest, fainted at the door of her
prison cell while visiting her.
Counsel for the condemned pre
pared to apply to the Supreme court
for a writ of mandamus to compel
the trial judge to appoint the com
mission should their petition before
him meet refusal.
Today the beach between Gove:
nor Loing and Lieut. Governor Paul
X. Cyr member of the pardon board
widened over Cyr's charge of fav
orisin in commutation of sentences
Guilty of Murder
Governor Long, in a. statement is-
sued at Baton Rouge, declared tha
after careful study of the Record.%
"in my mind there was not the sllgh
est doubt that Ada Lebouef and Dr.
Dreeer were guilty of as cold blood
ed a murder as we ever plotted and
carried out in the state of Louisi-
ana.
Jan. 4
Al'STIX, Jan. 4, (AP)—State
banks were asked for a report of
their condition at the close of
business on Dei-ember 111, by Com-
missioner James Shaw.
Five Civil War Vets
Die From Influenzp
'Not one person in Louisa 11:1
ning special new year work, Scout-1 The injured boy is son of Mrs. j thinks that any pistols or guns wen
master J. D. Miller said today. Mil- j Mae Guinn. The name of the driver j off accidentally on Lake Palourd-
ler is scoutmaster of Troop No. 2, I *ho is said to have been driving a • when James Lebouef died. The di
and is trying lo get underway a i Ford coupe, was not definitely lear- membering of Jim Lebouef's body
school for training adults in Scout j ned by police. After an investiga- and the weighing of it down with
procedure, as some activities of the j tlon yesterday, officers said th" ac- j angleirons was no accidental h p-
1929 schedule. | cident was unavoidable 1 pening."
; Mr Cyr, in his statement, attack-
ed the governor, saying, "if Ada Le-
bouef and Thomas Dreher are hans
ed it wil! be a case of judicial mur-
der."
Lebouef was killed July 1, 19'JT
during a night boat ride on the Lake
Palourde.
IMPERIAL Valley, Cal.,
(AP)_wi«. her three - ''- PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT AND
working jHTfrctly, tlio monoplane
Question Mark soai-ed across this
Islam! Valley completing the third
day of her flight at 7:2(1 a. in.
toda y.
FARM RELIEF GREATEST PROBLEMS
U. S. S. Utah. Jan. 4 (AP)—Be-
sides the selection of his cabinet and
the making of other appointments
of almost equal importance, Herb-
ert Hoover soon must give his at-
tention to two of the gravest prob-
lems before his administration—
prohibition enforcement and farm
relief legislation.
Suggestions emanating from Was
them,
ment
only
His idea was for thf
of a commission to !
enforcement abuses
appoint-
tudy not
hut the
workability of the law itself. The
selection of such a commission. Mr.
Hoover, he recoi/iizes, admittedly
I would be a difficult task especially
! in view of the tact that prohibition
| figured promptly in the presidential
I hington that the prohibition unit be campaign.
BEAUVOIR, Miss., Jan. 4 (/P)
thin, gray line of veterans, tried
and found true in the Civil war, to-
day was fighting another foe—in-
fluenza—which had swept down
upon the Jefferson Davis Old Con-
federate Soldiers' home here.
The disease, coupled with pneu-
transferred from the treasury de-
A patirent to the depatment of justice
meet no esponse from the president-
elect. It is asserted thai an act of
congress Is necessary in the first
place to bring about such a trans-
fer even if it should be deemed ad-
visable for administrative purposes
I which has not yet been concerned.
monia. has claimed the lives of five
, .... , Mr. Hoover readily recognizes the
inmates of the home since Wednes-t
day noon. Twenty-five others ar"
seriously ill and 108 of the old sol-
| abuse which have grown up in the
i enforcement of the dry laws and in
Consideration of the farm relief
diers, their wives and widows are
011 the sick list.
Governor T. O. Bilbo today of
I'ered his official and personal serv
ices to aid the veterans
the treatment of the subject during
his campaign he declared that only
an organized searching investigation
11. 1 lie fads and causes could deter-
FRANKLIN, Li ., Jan. 4, (/Pi
Lying on a stretcher, Mrs Ada B011
ner Lebouef was brought into tb •
courthouse today. She was precede 1
by Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, who
walked between the sherifl and
guard.
Sheriff Pecot, who has ministered
to ihe needs of the condemne t
man and woman during their 1'■
question undoubtedly will go over, months of imprisonment, said todm
until after the present session °f | he had sent to New Orleans foi a:i
congress. Mr. Hoover does not de-' executioner
sire to anticipate the action of this 1 have made final arrangement
congress, although the belief is gen- • for the execution," the sheriff said
eral that there is 110 more probahili- (
ty of action now than there was at BATON ROUGE, La.. Jan 4 (APi
the time the president-elect announ Mrs. Thomas E Dreher. with her
ced. he would call an extra session j two daughters, Polly and Dorothy
of the new congress to act it the came here today to make a personal
present, one failed to put through plea to Gov. Huey 1'. Long to Halt
adequate agricultural legislation. the execution ot her husband, l)i
The president-elect early t oday i Thomas E. Dreher, who with Mri.
was only two days from Hampton j Ada Bonner Lebouef has been con
I mine
the
methods for correct ing | pleasant wealhet
Rhoads and still was encountering
vlcted to bang Saturday for the mu<
der of Mrs Lebouef's husband.
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