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MORNING EDITION
of Tht
PAMPA DAII/i NlSWS
VOL. 1, No. 152.
PAMPA MORNING POST
Serving Pampa and Northeastern Panhandle
THfi NEW PAMPA
Fastest Growing City in Texfti;
Panhandle Oil and Wheat
Center.
(AP) Features and Comics
PAMPA, GRAY COUNTY, TEXAS,FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1931.
(Full Al* Loused Wire)
PRICE FIVE CENtS
AMERICAN IS EXECUTED AT ROME
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STERLING UNDECIDED ON SESSION
SLAYER OF POLICEMAN is ON TRiAL
HER BEAUTY WINS REAL LAURELS
T T T
CROWLEY TESTIFIES ON
KILLING COP IN
NEW YORK
officer's Tun failed
CAN SCARCELY READ OR
WRITE IS TESTIMONY
IN MURDER CASE
MINEOLA, N. Y„ May 28. (/P) —
Francis Crowley, 19-year-old gun-
man, took the stand today and told
In subdued nasal tones how he had
shot and killed Patrolman Freder-
ick Hirsh at North Merrick several
weeks ago.
He was a willing, almost eager
witness, but his testimony was giv-
in tones so low it could scarcely be
heard at times.
The night of the killing, he said,
he was seated with Helen Walsh.
16, in an automobile in "Black Shirt
Lane," North Merrick. Patrolman
Klrsch and his companion. Patrol-
man Peter Yodice approached.
"What did they say to you?' ask-
ed Charles Weeks, of defense coun-
sel.
"One of them said, 'by the way,
take off your hat'."
"Who said that?"
"The cop who ain't shot."
"What did y<m say then?"
"I saitl, 'don't do nothing and
leave her go. She had nothing to
do with it. I'll go with you.' They
wouldn't do that. They said 'naw.'
I was just sitting there lor a min-
ute. The gun (Hirsch's) was up
against my stomach and I reached
in my pocket and heard the gun
click twice.
"I pulled cut my gun and fired
three shots and X could see the oth-
er cop i Yc-dice) running through
the bushes. I kept on shooting and
pretty soon I had no more bullets
and I grabbed hold of the gun the
cop had. I pulled the trigger and
kept on pulling until I fired one
shot and then we drove away."
It was brought out in the testi-
mony that Crowley could scarcely
read and that he could write only
his name and other simple words.
The prosecution rested its case
today after Crowley's confession
had been read into the record and
technical experts had testified.
City Jail Gains
A Few Boarders
"Tlie city jail was empty for two
days last week but this week is dif-
ferent," Chief Downs ;,aid last)
night. "We have six occupants at
the present time and more than a
dozen have been fined and releas-
ed since Sunday night," he said.
With one or two exceptions the
urrests were Tor drunkenness. All
were men excepting four.
"X guess the 'beer joints' run out
of medicine late last week and have
Just received a fresh supply," the
chief said.
"They won't have it long because
we are going to take it away from
Ihem," Night Chief Bud Cottrell
said.
Twenty-Eight Boys
To Receive Badges
Twenty-eight local Boy Scouts
will receive merit badges and two
will reccive second class badges at
a Court of Honor in the Central
Baptist church at 8 o'clock tonight.
Parents of all scouts and persons
Interested in scouting are especially
invited to attend the court which
will be under the supervision of the
Rev. A. A. Hyde, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church.
Assisting in the work will be C.
A. Clark of Panhandle, executive
of the Adobe Walls council of
which Pampa is a member. Scout
masters and committeemen will also
take part,
OFFICER KILLED
EL PASO, May 38. (/P)—Aurelio
Martinez, 38, Mexican customs of-
ficer at Ouadalupe, Chihuahua, op-
posite Fabens, Texas, was fatally
wounded today when his pistol fell
from ita holster and was discharged.
A bullet ranged upward through his
body and lodged In his chin. He
died in an El Paso hospital.
Joe A. Duby of LePors was a busi-
ness visiter lure yesterday.
Although the Pampan lias re-
solved ot quit talking so much
about the depression, he must
mention a comparison made with
It by Judge J. 11. Barwlse, general
solicitor for the Denver railroad.
Speaking to the Pampa Lions,
Judge Barwlse said that, like
many a prairie fire, no one knows
from whence it romes and whith-
er it goes.
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No Time to Argue
The experienced plainsman does
not stop to argue over the source
and course of the blaze, but lays his
backfires to guard against the
flames. He destroys a small area
to halt destruction of a larger one.
.... Construction of the Denver
railroad will cost Pampa and Gray
county citizens considerable money,
but they will receive immeasurable
benefits in return and they will be
building a backfire against the de-
pression and other depressions to
ccine.
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The railroad men were easy to
interview, for the reason that
public relations is part of their
duty in the game of getting busi-
ness. Tliey do not make the mis-
take of leaving newspaper men's
questions unanswered. They
courteously give the desired in-
formation then, if some of it
should not yet be divHiged, they
say as much and give reasons.
Only inexperienced public and
private officials are afraid to
tak«> newspaper men into their
confidence.
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Progressing Slowly
Those Pampa Lions are not get-
ting smarter faster. Some time ago
this writer gave them a "pop" quiz
with negligible results. Yesterday
Dock Hicks repeated the exam and
have no more response. It must be
admitted, however, that distinct
signs of approachins intelligence
were shown.
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Imagine the Lions' embarrass-
ment when little Miss Martha
Bi wers of Sklatook, Okla., 6 years
old, answered question after ques-
tion from memory and seemed to
enjoy the discomfiture of Lions
who could not recall the answers.
They were not easy questions. For
instance, name ' the ships on
which Columbus sailed in search
of a new world! Children yield
remarkably to training when giv-
en patient attention.
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"American Boy day" will be ob-
See COLUMN, Page G
BREAK ALTITUDE MARK
IN OBSERVATION OF
STRATOSPHERE
scientists-uninjured
SPEND NIGHT IN BALL
ON GLACIER NEAR
OGER OURGL
M'LEMORE PRESENTED
MEDAL FOR SAVING
NEGRO FROM MOB
ATLANTA, Ga„ May 28. i/V)—W.
IC McLemore, of Shamrock, Texas,
former sheriff of Wheeler county,
will be awarded a medal for cour-
age and judgment in defending a
negro prisoner against a mob, Dr.
W. B. Alexander, director oX the
commission on'inter-racial coopera-
tion, announoed today. The presen-
tation will be made at a public
meeting next Sunday.
McLemore was the second Texas
sheriff to be awarded such a medal
recently, Walter W. Covington,
Beaumont, sheriff of Jefferson
county, having been presented his
last Sunday. Covington was honored
for his defense of Rainey Williams,
negro, against mob attacks last June
28 and 29.
On the latter day, as a mob ad-
vanced on the Beaumont jail de-
manding the prisoner, Covington
struck the leader on the jaw with
his fist and knocked him down. The
crowd dispersed hastily.
In the Wheeler county case, a
mob of 300 gathered at Shamrock
July 12 last, seeking the life of Jesse
Lee Washington, negro charged with
murder. Sheriff McLemore reason-
ed with the mob leaders and told
them any unlawful attempt would
be resisted with force.
The awards were passed upon by
a committee composed of Hugh W.
Dorsey, former governor of Geor-
gia; Mrs. J. H. McCoy, Athens, Ala.,
Marshall Ballard, editor of the New
Orleans Item, and Oeorge B. Dealey,
editor of the Dallas News.
SOLDEN, Austria, May 28. (/P)—
Safe after their balloon flight into
the earth's stratosphere, in which
they claim to have broken tjie
world's altitude record by several
thousand ftet. Professor Auguste
Piccard and his physicist compan-
ion, Charles Kipfer, landed on a
mountain glacier near Ober Gurgl,
last night and were resting in the
village there tonight.
Prcf. Piccard said the balloon, in
which they took off from Augsburg,
Germany, yesterday morning, had
reached a height of over 52,500 feet.
It was reported practically undam-
aged on the glacier and was to be
brought down the mountain to Ober
Gurgl.
The instruments also were intact.
The flight, Prof. Piccard said, was
"magni'Jcent beyond conception." In
all the nearly 24 hours the scien-
tists were in the air, and especially
last night when mpst of the world
had given them up for dead, the
balloon was never out of control, he
said.
The flight was continued through-
out the day and '-'arly part of the
night, he said, because it was im-
passible to bring the huge balloon
down out of the low pressure of the
stratosphere until nightfall had
cooled the air over the Alps.
The landing was made about 10
o'clock last night, but the two ex-
plorers had no knowledge of where
they were and they decided to
spend the night in the aluminum
ball cage attached to the balloon.
As morning came they stepped out
upon the glacier and began to at-
tempt to make their way down the
mountain.
They had scarcely started when
they met a rescue party coming up.
the rescue party, made up of the
school principal of the village, a ski-
ing instructor and a farmer, had
started out when villagers, in the
light ol morning, had described the
huge bag far up the mountainside.
The explorers were suffering
chiefly from thirst, members of the
party said after their return, and
they also were glad to fall hungrily
upon the provisions which the res-
cuers had brought. Both Prof. Pic-
card and Kipfer said, however, that
they were "feeling fine."
Prof. Piccard related how they
had kept close to the balloon all
night, fearing to take a Single step
in the dark with the precious in-
struments upon which are recorded
the data obtained in the flight and
also the altitude mark to which
they attained.
On reaching the village they also
telegraphed the University of Brus-
See EXPLORER8, Page 6
Treasury Deficit
At Billion Mark
WASHINGTON, May 28. MV-
The treasury deficit today passed
the (1,000,000,000 mark with indi-
cations that it would be reduced
little, if any, by the end of the fis-
cal year on June 30.
At the same time, high adminis-
tration officials expressed the opin-
ion that the Late summer might
prove the turning point away from
the depression. It was pointed out
that previous 'depressions had turn-
ed the comer when agricultural
crops were harvested.
Indications grew, meanwhile, that
the treasury would announce a long
term bond Issue next month to
raise money to meet the deficit.
The treasury statement for May
26, made public today, showed a $1,-
000.792.431 deficit resulting from
collections of (2,792,571,898 and ex-
penditures of (3,793,364,339 thus far
in the fiscal year.
DAIRY OWNgR SLAIN
PORT WORTH, May 38. OP)—W.
M. Poole, 41, dairy owner, was fa-
tally shot with a pistol and a shot-
gun at Euless, 18 miles east of Fort
Worth at 8:15 o'clock tonight. He
died in an ambulance before reach-
ing a Fort Worth hospital. Eugene
W. McMurry, 26, surrendered to of-
ficers at the criminal courts build-
ing an hour later,
Mayor and
School Head
Fight It Out
NEWBURYPORT. Mass., May
28. OP)—'There's a circus coming
to town tomorrow and Mayor
Andrew J. (Bcsy) Gillls has ord-
ered the police to see that no
youngster goes to school while
the clowns and elephan|i are
here.
The superintendent of schools,
however, has ordered an all-day
session and threatens prosecu-
tion of anyone who Interferes.
While the bewildered children
wondered what they were to do,
and their parents were equally
perplexed, Mayor Gillls and Sup-
erintendent Starr M. King were
firm tonight, one determined the
children would go to the circus,
the other insisting they'd go to
school. ,
Mayor Gillls, after an unsuc-
cessful effort to persuade Super-
intendent King to order the
schools closed for at least the
afternoon session tomorrow, in-
serted a notice in a local news-
paper today, announcing there
would be no school Friday. This
notice he followed with orders
to the chief of police to have
men stationed at every school
building with instructions to ad-
mit no one but the janitors.
Gillis said it was the custom
here to close the schools on cir-
rus day, that the children had
looked forward to seeing the
circus and that lie was going to
see to it they were not disap-
pointed.
MANY WIRES RECEIVED
PROTESTING FLOW
IN EAST TEXAS
study appropriations
I
STATE SHOULD HANDLEj
PROBLEM OF OIL
PRODUCTION
TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS
ARE INCREASING,
CHIEF SAYS
Traffic ordinances in Pampa are
to be strictly enforced, J. I. Downs,
chief of the police department, an-
nounced yesterday.
"Within the past few weeks traf-
fic violations have been increasing,"
Chief Downs said, "to a point where
they have become hazardous to the
general public."
Double parking in the downtown
district is the violation that Chief
Downs especially calls to the atten-
tion of Pampa automobile drivers.
In front of the postoffice is the
place that the ordinance Is most
frequently violated.
Cars turning left when driving
out of alleys Is another dangerous
violation.
Not stopping for stop signs and
turning to the right on red light
signals without coming to a com-i
plete standstill, are ambng other'
violations mentioned ty Cliiaf
Downs.
Joe Persky has been added to the
police force as motorcycle officer,
He has had several years experience
as a police officer, being connected
with the state highway department
for come time. He was also with
the police departments at Ponca
City, Okla., and Wichita Falls.
Before Joining the police depart-
ment, Mr. Persky was with the Cul-
berson -Smalling Motor company
here.
AUSTIN, May 28. </P)—Governor
Sterling said late today he was still
undecided as to whether he would
call a special session of the legis-
lature.
The governor said he had been
in conference most of the day with
oil men and residents of east Tex-
as. He said he would confer with
other east Texans and he hoped the
oil situation there could be worked
cut without tl e necessity of a spe-
i cia! session.
I "I have received telegrams from
I all over the country, some from
east Texas, urging that something
be done about overproduction in the
new field," Governor Sterling said.
"Conditions there have demoralized
the entire oil industry."
Wont l'olicy
"East Texas should realize that
unrestricted production would be
\he worst policy in the long run."
the governor stated. "The people
there are the ones who will suffer
'the most, because their wells will
be running water instead of oil,
I they will lose their gas pressure and
they will suffer from consequent
'low price."
"It would be wonderful if the
lease owners of the new field could
form one gigantic corporation and
agree to take the oil in such man-
ner and quantity that there would
be no oil or gas wasted. But of
ccurse the field is so big that prob-
ably could not be done."
Answering the statement of Sen-
ator Tom Pollard of Tyler that con-
gress should deal with the situation,
the governor said lie thought the
state should take care of its own
problem and he did not believe Tex-
k
ttrr-
FOR PLOTTING
COURT CONVICTS MAN
ON SEVEN COUNTS
IN MURDER PLOT
planned assassination
WAS KILLED AT DAWN
TODAY IN DRILL
YARD AT ROME
BULLETIN
ROME, May 28. (flV-Mlchele
Schirru, naturalized American,
was executed at 4:27 a. m. today
after his conviction last evening
on a charge of plotting against
the life of Benito MusaollnL
It's laurel blossom time in the i'ocono mountains and the states of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York will be represented in a ten-
day celebration. Strikingly pictured here against a background of the
fiowers is Miss Elsa Beamish of Philadelphia, who lias been chosen as
queen of the festivities in the mountain resorts ller coronation will
take place at Stroucbiburg.
See GOVERNOR, Page 6
Orderly Production
Plan Is Outlined
DALLAS, May 28. (if)—The spe-
cial oil committee of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce at the end
of Its meeting here announced late
today that It had outlined a plan
for orderly production and market-
ing of Texas oil. Details of the
plan were not given. It will be
submitted to the directors of the
chamber, probably at a special
meeting to be called at once by
the president, Dr. N. D. Bule of
Marlln.
The statement announcing the
plan was signed by J. K. Hughes
of Mexta, chairman of the commit-
tee. It read:
"This committee lias suggested
the outline of a plan for the order-
ly marketing and production of Tex-
as oil, Including a fair and ratable
taking of the product from both
large apd small operators, which
its members bolleve will tend to
stabilize the Industry in Texas.
Lculse Miller, district clerk, left
for Dallas yesterday to attend the
court clerk's convention. She will
probably return to Pamjfc Tuesday.
Hearing Is Begun
On Double Murder
LOS ANGELES, May 28. f/P) —
The preliminary hearing of David
H. Clark, candidate for municipal
judgeship anc accused as the slayer
of Charles Crawford, politician, and
Herbert Spencer, former newspaper-
man, began before Municipal Judge
Carl Sturzenacker today after the
state had last a stubborn fight to
delay the case. Dr. A. F. Wagner,
county autopsy surgeon, testified
Spencer was slain by a bullet which
penetrated his chest and said Craw-
ford died from a bullet wound in
the abdomen.
As the questioning began, Clark,
once a deputy district attorney, sat
calmly at a table with his counsel,
Leonard Wilson and W. I. Gilbert.
Shortly before the case was called,
the prosecutor said certain police
officers had told Jean Riley, a wit-
ness, "to go home and keep your
mouth shut." The alleged remark
precipitated a clash between Ford
and Chief of Police Steckel, who
later announced he had ordered an
investigation.
Light Rain Falls
Here Last Night
A light shower fell here shortly
after 7 o'clock last night but the
fall was not sufficient tp help
crops. A heavy downpour was re-
ported six miles west of Pampa and
beyond Skellytown. Roads in that
direction were muddy, but not im-
passable.
Wheat in this territory needs an-
other good rain, farmers say. The
straw is again turning yellow and
heads are forming.
FLIER LANDS
MEXICO CITY, May 28. (/Pj —
Capt. Leon Diaz, Mexican flier, who
was attempting a non-stop flight
from Burbank, Calif., to Mexico
City, landed safely tonight at Los
Moehls, state of Slnaloa, it was an-
nounced by Col. Roberto Fierro
chief of civil avUttlon,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rose left yes-
terday on a business trip to Okla-
homa City,
FAMILY QUARREL. . IS
CAUSE OF DOUBLE
SHOOTING
TEMPLE, May 28. (/P)—Paul Su-
lak, 60, farmer living in the Red
Rnnger community 10 miles from
Temple, today shot and killed his
wife, Anna, 46, and then took his
own life. Justice of the Peace R. E.
Williamson returned u verdict of
murder and suicide.
Mrs. Sulak's body was found in a
corn field about 60 yards from their
home. She had been shot in the
neck with a pistol and in the side
with a shotgun. Sulak's body was
found near the house. A 12-gauge
shotgun lay nearby. He had shot
himself in the chest, taking the shoe
off his right foot to pull the trig-
ger with his toes.
A daughter, Sedonla. 15, one of
nine children, was working in the
kitchen at the time of the shooting.
She said her mother was In the
yard washing clothes when the
quarrel began. Sulak came to the
house and got a pistol. The girl
asked her father if he meant to
kill her, she said, and he answered,
"No, you have always been good to
me."
The children said their parents
had had trouble for some time.
Miller Arrives
On Pacific Coast
SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 28. (/P)
Piloted by Johnny Miller, the first
Autoglro ever to arrive on the Pa-
cific coast landed here this after-
noon at the naval air station on
North Island.
Miller set his plane down here
after a flight from Yuma, Ariz., In
about two hours.
Miller started west from Phila-
delphia, making the trip In easy
stages. He passed last night at El
Pasc, Texas. A brief stop was made
toduy at Gila Bend, Ariz, besides
one at Yuma.
It was understood here tonight
Miller will leave early tomorrow for
Los Angeles.
Youth's Condition
Reported Better
Ray Weedman's condition was re-
ported favorable at Worley hospital
last night. Wcedman suffered a
fractured leg and severe bruises to
his other leg in an automobile ac-
'cldent on South Cuyler street late
Wednesday ultornoon.
Tlie Injured youth was returning
from LeFors with a party of boys
when the head-on collision occur-
red. None of the other occupants
of either cars were seriously Injured.
ABSOLVES GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, May 28. </P>—
Chairman Stone of the Federal
Farm Board said today that failure
to accomplish anything substantial
at the London wheat conference
could not be blamed on this gov-
ernment. "We do not feel," he said,
"that what occurred was due to our
attitude,"
START FINAL
RAIL SURVEY
RAILROAD -OFFICIALS
GO OVER PLANS' OF
CONSTRUCTION
Engineers of the Port Worth and
Denver Railway company will start
today running a final survey for
the company's line into Pampa, it
was announced yesterday by Gen.
John A. Hulen, general manager,
who with a party of officials visit-
ed here yesterday to confer with
local right-of-way committees and
go over the proposed route ,lnto
Pampa. A definite line of approach
had been decided upon to near the
Pampa city limits.
A. P. Brlggs and his staff of en-
gineers are here and expect to fin-
ish their work in a few days.
A right-of-way committee work-
ing from the Wheeler county line
to LeForg expect to have a report
on deeds secured tonight, Mel B.
Davis, general chairman, said yes-
terday.
Other parties will start work Im-
mediately securing deecji for the
rest of the line. The Denver com-
pany is asking for anly right-of-
way and terminal grounds, while It
Is ready to spend four millions on
Its line from Childress to Pampa.
Changes Made In
Court Procedure
A change in the court procedure
was adopted by city commissioners
in session yesterday afternoon. Be-
ginning June 1, desk sergeants will
be allowed to accept pleas and as-
sess fines for minor offenses. The
change was made necessary to han-
dle traffic violations without having
to put offenders to the bother of re-
turning to city court because of the
absence of the Judge, who has other
duties.
J. J. Simmons is day sergeant and
H. L. Kenner, night sergeant.
City Commissioner
Looks Over Votes
City commissioners yesterday af-
•prnoon canvassed the ballots in
the recent library election and gave
an official report, which was the
same as the unofficial report pub-
lished following the election. The
commissioners reported that there
were 135 votes cast for the issue,
64 agairult, and seven mutilated,
making a total of 206 votes cast.
The Issue was to support the city
library by a tax of 3 cents on the
$100 valuation. Charles I. Hughes
was election judge.
Until Jan. 1, 1932, the library will
be self-supporting.
HAWKS GETS TROPHY
PARIS, May 28. </P>—Capt. Frank
Hawks, American speed flier, to-
night was presented with the 1930
trophy of the International League
of Aviators, at a ceremony at Mt.
Vernon, headquarters at the colon-
ial exposition, but he declined to
make a speech.
"I'm an 'aviator, not a speaker,"
he said when pressed to make an
address. "I can only siay thank
you."
ROME, May 28. </P) — Death
by shooting In the baek Is the
penalty to which a special trib-
unal "for defense of the state"
this evening condemned Michele
Schirru, Italian-born naturalised
American citlten, for plotting ,the
assassination ot Premier Musso-
lini by bombing.
Schirru is the first American citi-
zen tried in Italy by such a court.
Tomorrow at dawn he will be bound
to a chair in the barracks drill yard,
and a firing squad will aim a volley
at the base of his spine.
Fifty minutes deliberation en-
abled the seven military Judges to
find Schirru guilty on seven counts,
including the plot against the pre-
mier, possession of two powerful
bembs, the shooting of three police
officers, carrying weapons and be-
ing an anarchist.
Schirru, 82 years old, was natur-
alized an American citizen in 1IIM
In New York City, where he was in
the wholesale banana business.
Schlrru's small daughter, Carmelo,
Is still in America.
H$ was arrested here. Feb. 3 after
being sought for anarchistic activi-
ties in New York and Paris.
The trial was a whirlwind affair.
It opened at 9:20 o'clock this morn-
ing. An indictment of 2,5&0 words
was read, 28 witnesses were called
and 23 were cross-examined, in ad-
dition to an hour's testimony by the
defendant. The prosecutor and at-
torney for the defense each made
closing speeches lasting one hour
and the judges were out SO minutes.
Until the trial was nearly over
Schirru maintained an attitude of
bravado. He grinned so broadly at
the testimony of a woman boarding
house keeper that the president told
him, "be serious or I shall have to
put you out of court."
Officers for Lions
Are Nominated
Nomination of officers for the en-
suing year was held following the
meeting of the Pampa Lions club
yesterday noon at the First Baptist
church.
C. H. Walker was nominated for
the office of president. Others nom-
inated were: Carson Loftus, secre-
tary-treasurer; John Sturgeon, tall
twister; H. H. Hicks, lion tamer, ft.
G. Allen and Arthur Teed were
nominated as directors to succeed
Marvin Lewis, and I. E. Duncan.
Election of officers will be held
next Thursday.
The program committee for June
Is John Peake, H. Otto Studer, and
J. O. Gillham.
General John A. Hulen, general
manager of the Fort Worth and
Denver Railway company, and
Judge J. H. Barwlse, counsel for the
railway company, made short talks
at the uncheon.
Louisiana Crude
Prices Are Slashed
HOUSTON, May 28. <A>) — The
price paid the producer for crude
oil In the Lockport (Lake Charles)
Ijouisiana field went down today,
the Vacuum Oil company posting
reductions ranging from five to M
cents per barrel. No other organ lsa>
Hons announced cuts. It was said
unofficially only the Vacuum was
buying to any appreciable extent in
the field.
The company also announced it
had abolished the graduated gravity
scale for grade B crude and here-
after would buy only on the basis
of the two grades, A and B.
The new prices will be 60 cents
per barrel for grade A and 58 cents
per barrel for grade B.
WEATHER
WEST TEXAS — Mostly cloudy,
probably local showers In southeast
portion Friday; Saturday partljf
cloudy.
OKLAHOMA — Cloudy, scattered
thundershowers In south portion
Friday; Saturday partly cloudy.
EAST TEXAS—Cloudy, scattered
thundershowers In north and WMt
portions Friday; Saturday unsettled,
probably showers in southeast
tlon and in Rio Grande
Moderate to fresh southeast
on the coast.
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