The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1934 Page: 2 of 8
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Irate Senate Rebukes Huey Long, Then Gags Him; Jobs
and Wages Highest Since 1931; Senate Rejects
Higher Normal Income Tax Rate.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
riUEY P. LONG, the vituperative
senator from Louisiana, was
soundly spunked by the seuute Thurs-
day. Their patience exhausted. Demo-
cratic leaders united in administering
a sound rebuke for his conduct on the
floor. The proceedings were without
recent precedence in the senate. Fol-
lowing the blistering remarks hurled ut
the Kingtish, the senate clamped upon
him temporarily a parliamentary uiuz-
tle that reduced him to silence.
Senatorial veterans could not re-
member a similar occasion when a sen-
ator has been subjected to the humili-
ation of such a public chorus of dis-
approval from his colleagues. The
Louisiauian's behavior in the senate
has disgraced him in the eyes of tiie
nation. Senator Pat Harrison (Dein.,
Miss.), told Huey.
The Kingfish screamed his protests.
He shouted that Senator Harrison was
the kind of man who “would stick a
knife in a friend's back and drink Ids
blood.” This brand of abuse brought
Majority Leader Joseph T. itobinson
(Dem., Ark.), Senator Bennett Clark
(Dorn., Mo.), and others to their feet
and the senate rules were invoked to
stop the mouth of the yelling Long,
lie sat down and sulked in tiis chair.
The senate has fumed for days as
the excitable Long put on ids typical
exhibitions, shouting to the galleries.
Thursday found almost the entire body
in a wrathful revolt against these dis-
plays of temperament which have been
hampering the consideration of irn-
I*ortant bills.
Gen. Foulois
npHAT MaJ. Gen. Benjamin I). Fou-
X lois, chief of the air corps, and oth-
ers acted in “violation of the law” in
connection with tlie proposed purchase
of $7,500,000 worth of
army airplanes, is the
conclusion of a suh-
c o m mitt e e of the
house military affairs
committee that has
been investigating the
matter. The subcom-
mittee also fouyd that
Harry H. Woodring,
assistant secretary of
war, had attempted to
assure competitive
bidding for the air-
planes and thereby comply with the
law and tlie intent of congress.
The transaction in question dates
back to the first of the year. Army
officers, asking a public works allot-
ment to buy airplanes, made arrange-
ments to purchase them from special
companies without competitive bids.
Woodring, the.committee decided, in-
tervened and demanded competitive
bids he sought. Specifications were
drawn and proposals submitted to the
industry for bids. But the army Judge
advocate general held the proposals
did not assure competitive bidding.
The committee contended that in so
far as it had been able to find, Wood-
ring’s every act was to assure free
competition, yet his desires were
thwarted.
It mentioned, in addition to Foulois,
Brig. Gen. Henry Conger I’ratt, chief
of the army nir corps’ procurements
division. It said Foulois gave testi-
mony before the Itogers committee and
an appropriations subcommittee which
seemed to conflict.
/'CONTINUED improvement in busl-
ness activity during February and
March and expansion of employment
and pay rolls to the highest point
since the latter half of 1931 were an-
nounced by the Commerce department
in one of Its most optimistic reports
on business since
The average weekly wage was $19.81
in February, the highest since 1931.
The hourly rate of 55.8 cents per hour
was within 4.1 cents of February,
3929. The employment improvement
was general throughout manufactur-
ing industries. Seventy-seven of the
89 manufacturing industries reported
Increased employment in February and
79 reported higher total wages. When
classified Into 14 major groups only
the food group did not make an em-
ployment or pay roll gain.
Officials said it would be easier for
them to let the dairy problem work It-
self out by natural processes, but it
would mean starvation for the farmer.
They pointed out that the proposed
plan would affect some 4,500,000 farm
families, whose Income had been cut
In half during the depression and
whose products hud been selling at 40
per cent below prewar “parity.”
it Is proposed that dairymen limit
their output to conform with sales
quotas to be allotted uuder the pro-
gram. For their co-operation they
would he paid benefits derived from
collection of an estimated $165,000,000
in processing taxes. $15,000,000 of
which would be earmarked for even
distribution among three supplemental
relief pluns. Involving tuberculosis
eradication, purchase of surplus milk
to feed undernourished city children
and transfer of good cows to poor
farms.
nnHE house of representatives got
X busy Wednesday, suspended its
rules and grunted quick approval to
three important bills dealing with
widely divergent subjects. They were:
The administration sugar hill—sub-
ject of heated controversy for months
—which siiu through to nnai approval
without even a record vote. It in-
cludes sugar as a basic commodity un-
der the AAA. quotas domestic pro-
duction of sugar beets and cane, and
gives Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
power to quota imports of Cuban and
insular sugar.
The so-called Johnson hill, prohibit-
ing foreign nations which are in de-
fault on private or national obligations
In this country from floating their se-
curities In the American market. The
measure is the upshot of a senatorial
Investigation several years ago into
the nature of foreign borrowings in
the United States.
A resolution ordering a federal pow-
er commission inquiry into rates
charged for electric energy by private
power companies throughout the coun-
try.
IMMEDIATE comprehensive revision
® of the national railway labor act
to expedite and enforce the settle-
ment of disputes between the railroads
and their employees
and to safeguard the
right of collective
bargaining, was rec-
ommended by Joseph
B. Eastman, federal
co-ordinator of trans-
portation, in a letter
to Representative Sam
Rayburn, chairman of
. the house interstate
Jk • commerce committee.
Ills outstanding rec-
J. B. Eastman ommendations were
these:
The creation of a new national hoard
of adjustment, divided into four inde-
pendent parts, whose awards would be
enforceable in the courts.
The substitution of a new national
mediation board of three members for
the present board of mediation of five
members.
The inclusion of all companies which
operate equipment or facilities or fur-
nish service included within the defini-
tion of the terms “railroad" and
“transportation” in the interstate com-
merce act.
I’rovisions similar to those in the
temporary emergency railroad trans-
portation act of last year. Insuring
“the complete divorcement of railroad
employees and managements In the
choice of representatives to deal one
with the other” and providing ade-
quate means for the enforcement of
ihese provisions.
The national adjustment hoard
would be divided into four independent
parts to adjust disputes.
* '
A* \
stQOAK the rich” forces were de-
feated Thursday when the sen-
ate rejected an amendment to the rev-
enue hill by Senutor La Follette, Wis-
consin Republican, for a big increase
in surtax rates.
The vote was 47 to 30. The party
lineup showed 25 Democrats, 10 Re-
publicans and one Farmer-i^aborlte for
the amendment, with 30 Democrats
and 17 Republicans against it.
Estimated to produce $185,000,000
additional revenoe. .the La Follette
amendment called for a boost in the
normal income tax rate from 4 to 6
f>er cent, with surtaxes graduated up
to 71 per cent on net Incomes in ex-
cess of $1,000,000.
*■¥■'<) PREVENT extreme demorallza-
X tion in the industry and not to cre-
ate an artificial shortage, is the Intent
of the production control proposals
submitted to the dairy Industry by the
farm administration, administrators
asserted In an appeal for National sup-
port for the plan. The case for limit-
ing milk supplies was presented In a
( series of articles prepared by the AAA.
Gaston
Doumergue
A “COMMON sense recovery plan”
** was laid before the country
Thursday by France’s aged premier,
Gaston Doumergue.
The program, which
was officially approved
h.v a special council
of ministers at Elysee
palace, is comparable
in scope with Russia's |
five-year plan and
America’s NR A. It re-
flects. however, the
typical distrust of ex-
p e r i m e n t s by the
French peasant. It Is
marked by the same
simplicity and ab-
sence of ballyhoo
which has characterized all of “Gas-
tounet’s" actions since the dramatic
February morning when he arrived in
the Civil war littered capital.
The French program Is based on
the theory that if the government puts
its own honse in order and minds Its
own business, industry will recover by
Itself.
It all bolls down to a question of re-
storing confidence, but the methods
laid down for achieving this purpose
are nothing short of revolutionary for
France. The keystone In Doumergue's
edifice of recovery Is the leveling of
government expenditures down to in-
come, which means eliminating Imme-
diately the budget deficit of some
$1*79,000,000
(GENERAL JOHNSON said St his
vJ first press conference In six
weeks that he favored allowing the
licensing provision of the National Rn
covery act to expire in Jtane.
The general's attention was called
to a report that the President favored
extending the licensing arrangement,
which bad not yet been invoked in a
single case, and he Indicated that he
would be at the service of the Presi-
dent for further discussion of the
matter.
Inquiry in administration quarters
concerning the recent report of the
federal trade commission on the op-
eration of the steel code led to the in-
formation that General Johnson would
reply to this report shortly. The gen-
eral Is said to hold views diametrical-
ly opposed to those of the trade com-
mission respecting the regulation and
supervision of business by the govern-
ment.
A CTING under the power delegated
** to him by President Roosevelt
under an executive order. National
Recovery Administrator Johnson ap-
proved an amendment
to the bituminous coal
code Imposing a five-
day week of 35 hours
and revising Us wage
scale upwurd. figured
on a $5 base with dif-
ferentials, on the en-
tire bituminous coal
Industry. The amend-
ment is subject to a
hearing on April 9.
Authoritative sources
Gen. Johnson jn vvasliington agreed
that the operators would accept the
amendment, at least until after the
hearing and that the threat of a strike
is avoided at least until after that
hearing by the action of the NRA head.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, issued a state-
ment praising the action of the ad-
ministration and promising the co-op-
eration of the union.
npHE liberal Spanish republic has
X discarded one of the major pillars
upon which it was built. Marshaled by
the nominally moderate Radical party
that once was violently anti-clerical,
the cortes In an uproarious session put
7,500 clergymen back on the payroll
of the state for life.
For three hours before passage of
the law, which directly violates article
26 of the republican constitution, Pre-
mier Alejandro I.erroux’s supporters
and tiie shrunken left opposition
hurled insults and waved fists at each
other. Left fillhusterers were ready
with some 300 amendments, hut the
gag rule was voted before a single one
was proposed.
CAMUEL INSULL, fugitive utility
magnate, lias learned that Uncle
Sam has long arms. He thought him-
self safe aboard the chartered freight-
er, on which he escaped from Greece,
anchored at Istambul, hut Uncle Sam's
long arm tagged him and he was ar-
rested by tiie Turkish authorities. The
council of ministers immediately or-
dered his extradition to the United
States. Two eminent Turkish lawyers
on behalf of Insull filed an appeal with
tiie supreme court of Turkey against
tiie extradition order. But the appeal
was denied.
Unless the former utilities magnate
Is able to perform some new wonder,
his year and a half flight almost half-
way around the world has been
brought to an end.
O ()MK witnessed one of the most
magnificent Easters in its long
history as the capital of Catholic
Christendom. To the usual imposing
Easter ceremonies in St. Peter's
cathedral were added this year, by
special will of Pope Pius, the solemn
liturgical rites canonizing Dom Gio-
vanni Bosco, humble Turin priest.
Easter also ended the holy year pro-
claimed by the pontiff in commemora-
tion of the nineteenth century of tiie
crucifixion. Eighty thousand people
pressed inside St. Peter’s for the
canonization ceremonies and the pon-
tifical mass afterwards, and nearly
300,000 more were estimated to have
crowded into St. Peter’s square.
Among the crowds were 100.000 on
pilgrimages from many different coun-
tries.
'T'HE Civil Works administration
X has gone out of existence, and this
relief organization became the works
division of the Federal Emergency
Relief administration.
Under this title It will use some
$600,000,000 remaining from its recent
grant Of $950,000,000 for the year 1985
to provide relief for states, which aro
In turn to p»sr the money along to
cities and counties.
For a month district agents have
been working to perfect the machin-
ery for the change.
Meanwhile, administration officials
made it clear thut Industry was not
expected to take up the whole slack
of unemployment, absorbing the for-
mer OVA workers, In a day.
O KPRESKNTATIVER of the flour
milting industry decided to op-
erate without a code of fair competi-
tion. Their rejection of the NRA and
AAA marks the first refusal of an en-
tire Industry to accept the adminis-
tration's recovery plans. The decision
to go ahead without NRA affiliation
came after nearly nine months of
fruitless Aegotlatlons with the NRA
and AAA officials.
Government officials were represent-
ed as considering a legal teat if the
mlllera do not reopen negotiations.
There was some talk that the millers
might he put under a license.
The millera contend that the code
offered would have brought ruin to
the Industry and would have forced
up price* eff flour beyond the ability
of conenmer* to pay.
m Mr Waai*rn NvwsPasar Hvtaa.
Howe About:
Loafers*
Reign of Terror
Owning Your Home
C. Ball Sysdloata.—WNU Barvlea.
By ED HOWE
'T'liE loafer who looka to hla nelgh-
X port for more help than he la en-
titled to, has been troublesome
throughout the long history of the nu-
man race. The social plan of the ear-
liest family groups and tribes was
communism, but certain ones were idle
and troublesome, and refused to do
iheir share, so the plan, after many
trials, was In every case given up.
From that day to this, loafers have
demonstrated that communism will not
do: Communists themselves are to
blame for the long rejection of their
plan.
In olden days (the history hooka
say) all knew they must care for
t)iemselve8, so the idle were not very
numerous, and tiie industrious and
worthy were able to regulate them.
If a man was especially annoying, it
was permissible for anyone to kill him,
with consent of the elders. A trouble-
some woman was whipped by other
women. As late as the fine civiliza-
tion In Athens a man who would not
earn his own way was placed In charge
of a more efficient and worthy citizen,
and taught better manners. Loafers
were looked down upon, and not al-
lowed to vote; the more persistent
were made slaves, an*l forced to at
least eurn their own keep on public
farms.
There hqs been a great change in
modern times; the idle have become
so numerous and powerful that-a part
of every penny the industrious earn
goes to tiie support of tiie shiftless.
* * a
When one looks over old history, life
seems a continuing Reign of Terror.
Of nearly all the famous ancient
cities it is said they were destroyed
many times. Tiie story runs some-
thing like this: In a far-distant time
men discovered (say on tne river Nile)
n favorable site for a town, and made
it into a prosperous city. This pros-
perity attracted the envy of rival
tribes, and the city was utterly de-
stroyed, in connection with much
butchery. A long time after another
city was built on the favorable site,
and destroyed. This process of de-
struction kept up until the present
ruins represent tiie ninth cuch catas-
trophe.
The same story comes from tiie
Euphrates, tiie Tiber, the Aegian is-
lands, and wherever men have been
most active. But for this love of de-
struction we of today would be much
more comfortable and advanced than
we are; one Reign of Terror plunged
tiie world into darkness for centuries,
and men learned nothing new of vulue
to puss on to their successors.
• • *
I recall a time when every man had
un ambition to own his home. In
thest- strange days men are letting
their homes go on the mortgage, or
paying rent, or demanding that tiie
landlord give them more time. (I read
of one landlord who succeeded in put-
ting a tenant out, after tiie renter had
paid nothing in twelve months, and
this cruelty made tiie neighbors so
mad they burned the house.)
Men will again have an ambition to
own their homes, fix them up, and
care for them. Men who can’t rent
houses somehow get rid of them, or
the houses will fall down, and no new
ones will he built. There is always
finally an end to the fiercest battle;
I he drunkard sobers up. to meet the
realities of life again. Men are nois-
ily rattling around now, and refusing
to pay their debts, as they expect a
change which will render it unneces-
sary, but there will be no change In
(he old fundamentals; men must have
a roof over their heads, pay their
debts, make a living, and these things
are easiest accomplished by sober,
steady men.
• • •
I have long been very proud of a
common plug of a fellow named Wal-
ter Williams. He was a reasonably
good boy around home, and sent to
school for a while, hut never got his
lessons very well; he didn’t have much
school education when he graduated
from the grades Into the world of
work. . . . He became a good
workman. Rnd was promoted to fore-
man in due course. The neighbors
liked him every yeyr a little better,
and in time people in neighboring
counties heard niee things nhout him.
He never went to college or high
SQhool, hut took considerable advan-
tage of the education offered In the
school of experience. . . . The Inst
I beard of him he wns addressing an
enormous audience of celehrltles in
Berlin. He never went to a university
hut is now president of the Srate Uni-
versity of Missouri. . . . I’m glad
that an ordinary plug of a fellow Is
nhle to do that well In my country if
he will half try.
• • •
They tell of an old man who. when
reading, looked so uncomfortable and
dissatisfied that some one finally asked
him If he were III. “No." he replied,
"but I am so tired of literature."
• • •
What do I call truth? What I have
found true all my life; what 1 have
fully tested, experienced. I have trav-
eled many roads and always found
some kindly disposed person ahead of
me tias left a sign dearly Indicating
the shortest and easiest way. Such
Information has never failed uie and
I c*ll It truth.
, *.• * - r > '
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington.—Congress la showing
•very sign of wanting to be good boya
and girls and play
Now Ready ball with President
to Be Good Roosevelt. It ap-
peared when con-
gress decided to slap the President in
the face by overriding his veto of the
veterans' compensation and govern-
ment employees’ salary question, that
at last there was a definite and far-
reaching breach. Many persons here
thought the President had a recalcit-
rant bunch on his hands and that
there would be plenty of trouble dur-
ing the rest of the session. Such is
not the case; however, an<J, although
there will be differences arising, the
remainder of the session will show
few cases in which the wishes of the
President will be absolutely disre-
garded.
The reason for this sudden change
Is simple. An election campaign con-
fronts all of the members of the house
and 35 members of the senate. Aa the
thing has been explained to me by
numerous representatives and sena-
tors, they were In a political situation
where they felt they would rather slap
the President than the veterans. The
President can scold or spank them, it
Is explained, but the veterans have
votes that are a good deal rougher
than a spanking by the Chief Executive,
from the standpoint of politics. Now
tiiat the potential candidates can go
netore the veterans or tneir respective
districts and point with pride or some-
thing to a vote to restore the compen-
sation, the campaigning members feel
they are sitting in a good seat They
are reudy to be good.
1 am told that Democratic leaders
in tiie house and senate have had in-
numerable visits since the vet vote
from members of their party who
wanted to assure tiie administration
tiiat they are “regular" again and will
stay that way. Having obtained what
they thought they had to have to in-
sure'* their re-election, they will now
vote according to direction once more.
Then, when they start speech-making
in their home bailiwick, they will talk
loudly and long about supporting the
President in one speech and In the
next, if it he in a strongly organized
veterans’ area, they will shout about
their friendship for the former sol-
diers, sailors and marines. Ffom
which it ought to be apparent that the
whole thing was Just a part of the
great game of politics.
« « *
Democratic bolters could not have
overridden the President by them-
selves, and that fact
Just Playing gave the Republicans
Politics an opportunity to
play politics as well.
The Republicans In the house and sen-
ate saw a chance to embarrass the
President. They nudged the Demo-
crats from every angle to override the
veto and joined with the bolters on
tiie vote Just because it would put the
Democratic leaders on a hot spot and
would he offensive to the President.
That is the way the game politics is
played. If one looks back over the
records during the CooUdge and
Hoover administrations, plenty of in-
stances are shown where the Demo-
crats, then In the minority. Joined the
bolting Republicans and so-called pro-
gressives in votes that were embarrass-
ing to the President.
As a matter of fact, there still is
some doubt in the minds of many ob-
servers here whether Mr. Roosevelt
had sound reason for his veto. He
charged that the bill, as passed before
the veto, would add $228,000,000 to
the regular budget of the government.
That is true. But I cannot help re-
calling that there are two budgets,
now. One of them is the regular bud-
get and the other, many time larger,
is for emergency expenditures. At
least some of those Democrats, who
broke with the President on the ques-
tion, are asking why the government
has to cut down on its regular budget
while It expands and "throws money
away like water” from the emergency
budget. It does, cause one to pause
and think about It.
In other words, the thought of those
men. is: why Is it such a crime to
spend about one-fourth of a billion
dollars the way congressmen want to
spend it when the administration is
spending some five or six billions the
way it wants to spend that tre-
mendous sum.
Further, I cannot help recalling
that, when the economy act was passed
during the extra session Inst spring,
I reported to you that the curtail-
ment of expenditures for veterans and
for several other purposes under the
regular budget, was to be short-lived.
I aaid at that time that It would be
given back in pieces. Two acts of con-
gress since have restored a total et
75 per cent of the amount taken away
from the ^veterans, and the last act
of congress restored one-third of 15
per cent pay cut to the government
workers and will give them another
one-third beginning July 1.
• • «
There la trouble brewing for Presi-
dent Roosevelt In another political di-
rection. It la not a
More Trouble direct result of the
Brewinr overriding of his
* veto. That fact 6em
appear to have accentuated the diffi-
iem et
my Informants. The question that la
before the administration and leaders
of the Democratic party Is: what la
the attitude to be toward the progres-
sives and other Insurgents. It is
known, of course, that there are mem-
bers of the house and senate, elected
as Democrats, who have no more right
to call themselves Democrats than
aomes of the radical group of the
minority can claim to be Republicans.
They are Insurgents. There is no
other proper label. They hav# not,
do not and wilt not stand hitched »to
ar.y program for any great length of
time.
President Roosevelt and “Big Jim"
Farley know full well that the Demo-
crats must have the help of the so-
called progressives and thp radicals
in some parts of the country. This is
especially true in the Middle West.
But the administration cannot turn
against the militant and fighting young
Democrats who have fallen into line
solidly behind Roosevelt and the New
Deal. If it snuba them, “it acorns
the steps by which It did ascend" and
that la never good politics. The
younger group of Democrats take
credit for the smashing victory of
1982 and Mr. Roosevelt cannot Ignore
their clamoring for recognition.
Like a ghostly shadow across the
path, however, floats the forms and
laces of numerous powerful men who
broke away from Hoover and sup-
ported the Roosevelt candidacy. The
Roosevelt blessing already has been
bestowed upon Senator Hiram John-
son, a Californian, who was elected as
a Republican but who supported Mr.
Roosevelt's candidacy. Senator John-
son is up for election this year. On
the other hand, there is young Bob
La Follette, of Wisconsin. Surely, he
was a liberal all the way. He sup-
ported Mr. Roosevelt as against Mr.
Hoover. But Young Bob lias had bo
such blessing from the administration.
Indeed, “Big Jim" Farley has strongly
intimated that he wants to see Wis-
consin elect Charles Brougliten, a reg-
ular Democrat. And so it goes.
• • •
When President Roosevelt an-
nounced settlement of the labor con-
troversy between the
Wolman Not automobile industry
Real Neutral an<1 the AraerIt’*n
Federation of Labor,
and proposed creation of a hoard to
adjudicate the questions, every one
here thought naturally enough that he
would select a representative of the
industry and one of labor, with the
third man being neutral. The nat-
ural conclusion was that the third
member of the board would have no
ties with either capital or labor. There
wns much surprise, therefore, when
lie named Dr. Leo Wolman. of Colum-
bia university, New York, as the neu-
tral member. From what ^ can gather
around Washington, tiie appointment
of Doctor Wolman was a hit disap-
pointing to those who wanted a real
neutral to sit as a member of the
board. Frankly, the President did not
meet legitimate expectations In the
Wolman appointment, except, of
course, among those who sympathized
wholly with labor’s* contention in the
controversy.
Doctor Wolman’s knowledge or la-
bor questions cannot be denied. He
has demonstrated his ability and his
capacity to understand the problems.
The objection that 1 hear, however,
does not run to that phase of his
ability. Doctor Wolman has been as-
sociated directly or Indirectly with
William. Green, president of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, for many
years. However he may desire to be
impartial, however basically honest he
Is, the thought in many places ip
Washington is that Doctor Wolman
cannot be neutral a« that word !• ac-
cepted by the general public. He Is
human and be has sentiment. Those
two factors make It appear to many
observers that the settlement or the
automobile-labor controversy amounts
to nothing more than a postponement.
It will flare up again, but probably
will not take place until after the mid-
die of June when the President will
not have a law in effect that will per-
mit him to license the Industry.
The week’s best laugh: Federal
Home Loan hoard regulations require
that applicants for loans submit with
their applications, first, a “close up”
photograph of the property and. sec-
ond, a “street scene" that will show a
little of adjoining p-operty. These
photographs have the purpose and the
value, of course, of providing a gen-
eral knowledge of where the money
foes.
But the headquarters office of the
loan system was not quite prepared
for two photographs which it received
in connection with one application that
came from a colored man in a little
southern town. In complying with the
requirement that a “close up” photo-
graph be submitted, the applicant
overlooked the fact that it was of the
property and sent In a picture of him-
self, a photograph that disclosed the
wrinkles and gray hair of hla age as
well as two exceptionally large eyes.
For the street scene, the applicant had
himself photographed In hla. best bib
and tucker, namely, hla lodge uniform.
And he waa riding a
_______—
Wm.
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Dennis, J. R. The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1934, newspaper, April 12, 1934; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth863615/m1/2/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.