Tri-Cities Sun (Goose Creek, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 29, 1931 Page: 1 of 6
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vacation,
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9 he
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ed.-thcrs,
28-29-30
FIVE CENTS
j, not a living wage.
JCING’
'ith
tAN ’- MARIE I
SSLER
iso
£ in “RIGGS
ETTER"
np News"
ray
’AY MORE
• ily Thfatro
tn is no defense for a firm
Individual who pays laborers
j public works so little.
||f contract for the work was sc-
at a figure which will not
jut a profit and still pay a
jjmum of 35 cents per hour
the contractor has lost sight
i bis duty to his country, his
and his home-community,
■jf g man is paid less than a
lug'wage his family goes hun
and ragged—or he fails t<
■ his bills.
[failure of workers to pay their
i Jays a heavy and unfair bur-
the merchant—lowered
MANDAMUS IN
RTERROW
m
T+ie--Ff?PCmgST!
BATH DAY
T—FIR!
(TIES
Right in front of, thousands
of Washingtonians Mis* Free-
dom, atop the U. S. capitol, get*
her neck and ears washed.
Arrow points to a workman
dousing Miss Freedom.
ft
EFFORT TO HAVE MAYl
SALARY HIKE OFFERED
VOLUME 13
NO. 50 (JOQSE CREEK, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1931 Successor To Daily Tribune”
sing power has the same
SHERIFF IS SLAIN ON RAID
Jf DOWN THE LINE-A low
scale for labor works a
hip on every phase of life—
schools and churches suffer |
the banker, the merchant, the |
ir and the lawyer,
.. members of the working'
i’s family are the real victims. I
wife and mother knows only j
ndgery—the children are denied
equal opportunity in the pur
it of We. liberty and happiness
idged to them by -the constitu-
, of the United States.
Planes Sighted Over Ireland
ARMED MEN
HUNT KILLER
IN THICKET
Tri- Citians
Plans at
Form Battle
Felly Meeting
Moonshiner Is Accused
Of Firing Fatal Shots;
Large Still Found By
Officers In Blrush
COMMISSIONER MASSEY
p the law requires that coun-
s award contracts for public
*ks to the lowest bidder.
If there is no way \>f which a
nimum wage scale can be in- TEXARKANA, July 29 (UR)—
ded in the contract then the '
• should be hanged. WaIter Harris- shenff of Bow,e !
[he old law of supply mid de-' county, was shot to death late j
d is one of the most difficult in. Tuesday while leading a raiding ;
To Keep High WageScale
FOUND SLAIN
Taciturnity of the Apaches
has hindered attempts of author-
ities to solve the mysterious
murder of Henrietta Scfimerlerv
23-year-old Columbia univers-
ity co-ed on the Apache Indian
reservation,,; near Holbrook.
Aril ■■■: ? Z'. I
Tri-Cities labor leaders ami offi-
OCEAN HOP
COMPLETED
cials in a meeting at the Pelly city'
BY AIRMEN
hall Tuesday night, voted opposi- __
tion to^ny wage scale lower than TrttOS-Atlantic
35 cents an hour and planned a A;J_J D,r \Y/„QfL,_-.
fight to obtain a standard scale ™aea DY Weainer,
on jobs prying 25 cents hourly
i world to evade and it applies, party on a moonshiner’s nest.
applies , j
Is
■* <t'-do«E«i5^;:^ajSs:
!>ty- I scouring thick underbrush south-
city, county, state and na- east of here in an effort to cap-
I governments must do all in
lir power to. malntairt the wage
|de. By doing this they will pro-
i jobs at attractive wages and
I individuals and private con-
i to do the same. .
> * •
' THE situaiien Tn
[the Tri-Cities area is no worse
in other sections but every
will do well to give his
[her support to the campaign
ture the man who fired the fatal
shots.
Charlie Massey, county commis-
sioner, was present and pledged his
cooperation.
Flyers
Aided
Pair Seeks To Lift
Post-Gatty Time
#
ill!
AS SINGLE ITEM FA!
Judge Campbell Rules Proposed Amendment
Relating 1 o-Pay Increases For Members of
City Governing Body Covers Only Subjec
of Compensation; Election Set for Sept. 18
LONDON, July: 29 U'.Ri—Two.
To Make Protest
pimes from America—-one bound
STERLING CALLS
COTTON MEETING
HOUSTON, July 29—(SP)—The writ of mandamus
sought by C. R. Myers, mayor of Goose Creek, and -j
comjwl separation of proposed salary increases before an
election was held on September 18 was denied by Judge Roy F.
Campbell in eighteenth district court here late today.
Judge Campbell said in his ruling that the plaintiffs had
failed to m^ke proper proof that the petition asking for tlie
election on a proposal to increase the salary of mayor and
for other charter amendments had been signed by the t*. „
(juired ten per cent of the qualified voters, but he would
assume in giving his opinion that the necessary number of
ogners had been obtained. ___r „ _ Tan
He also ruled there was no collusion or fraud on the
part of the commissioners.
The judge ruled the only question to be decided was
whether the .proposed section relating to the increase in
(alarms covered more than one subject. Jf®
"It is the opinion of this court that only the subject of
mpensation is included in the proposed amendment," hoi
Mayor Myers and other parties to the suit had sought*
have the proposal to increase salary of mayor to 12500
• yesr and proposal to increase salary of commissioners to
?J80O per year submitted as separate issues.
MarRM........
............. ■,, . „ . . . . • ....... ., Carter, asattdtney for the petitioners, had eon-
He was charged with the task M 8 fftpt « thfi ana Governors 15 States . Pr°I)OSetl onarter amendment covered two sub-
of meeting with International Pav- the other seeking to reach Istan-J . i l . a .. j >eci® *n Violation of the law. He argued that proposal to
ing Company officials, engaged in bul, Turkey, on non-stop flight Asked to Austin ‘
wn the Highlands-Cros- from New York—were sighted
**$*._*?"
Harris, accompanied by three
officers on the raid, was greeted'
by a blaze of gunfire from the'
bushes as he approached the
jnoonghiher’s retreat, He answer-
ed the shots to the brush until he
J;:v J'J
;;
was felled by a shot which struck
him fn the head and anotbpr which
testing the 25 cent wage scale! today.
in usei there. \ fba pipes previously had been
Mr. Massey presented letters reported over Valentin, Ireland,
from Dodds and Wedegartner, con-* Four In Planes
tractors for the Tabbs bay *4 .use- Clyde Panbom and Hugh Hern-
increase the salnay of mayor wag one subject and the pro-
i posai to increase salaries of the commissioners was an en*
Austin, July 29 O)—Governor*
of fifteen states where cotton is1
grown have been invited to meet!
with, Governor Starling in Austin
next Tuesday to discus* means
5 NEW MEMBERS
way, and from Don Hall, contractor don, Jr., r.re in one plane, seeking decreasing the cotton nroduction
for the Cedar Bayou bridge, which to hotter the record ofc Wiley Post
1 and Harold S. Gutty in their re-
■ ---------SfiiigBt;
, and Hus-
cracked his leg. J
Other officers found Joe Wat-
has been launched to secure goni negro, wounded in the bushes,
num of 35 cents per hour
(til labor on contract work in
1, lection,
t-
A
ODDS AND Wedegartner, con
tors on the Tabbs Bay project,
1’Don Hall, deserves thanks of
f tres for their, .pledge to Com-
•loBer Massey that they will
Sloy no labor at a wage of
. 36 cents per hour.
fAay man that comes on our
will get M certts per hour
'■ he cannot turn out 36 cents
of work-we will run him
writes Mr. Wedegartner.
M's the spirit. Pay a fair
Land then see that it is earn
Is Back With Three
wads a headline on the
page of the Sun for Tues-
; 1
M there is no exciting news in
• All his friends—and his ene
; to°’ ‘f he has any—expect-
m *° win prizes when he left
Bay St. Louis, Missiasippi,
• It's just an old Spanish
with Ivy llfrey, Goose
«’« nabob of the racing out-
motor. ......—
wmeday there should be
but the negro told them the man
who had fired uport the officers
had retreated further into the
heavy’ thickets'.
Description of the man caused
officers to believe he is known to
them,,aRd-ais&-Ahat he has 8 long
criminal record.
A iOO-gailon still was found,
hidden 'by vines and underbrush,
and Btiil burning after the ex-'
change of shots had been made,
Two gallons of liquor had been
run off.
Sheriff Harris was one of the
most popular officers in this sec-
tion. Arrangements were being
made this morning for funeral
services and interment,
, pledged 35-cents scale, _
C, R. Myers, iqpyor of Goose cent gjobe-girdllng
Creek, was chairman, of the.meet- sell Boaroman and John Polando
R,. -L. Carter, a member of are in the ship bound for Turkey,
the Gobse Creek city council, waa! . Weather conditions over the
, - - j
III!
the only member of the original
! labor committee present. George
Lowery and J. S. Ott.jire on vaca-
tions.
F. M. Fortune, author of the
ocean (and eastern Europe were re-
ported excellent. As a result the
Boardman-Polando team was not
expected to encounter much trouble
in their jaunt, while the Pang j
decreasihg ’
acreage on an Intemataonal
Joe Reid, city attorney and
torney for the defendants,
tended that the proposed
merit covered only ope
that of compensation for
/>___t . ... C....../N1 __ii.- . J*.
Conference Chosen
At Meeting
and increasing uses for the
are to be mgde
A Ull ftifbdeb - introduced in, _ _ ...
the current special session of the, K b P ° • T**!.1
fin,ahl,, offense to plsnt the asme i ^ were in'
The hearing closed Tuesday
: ternoon "after ; day atuf h
[had been consumed in haariiu
!a plea of abatement
by the defendants and j
Hon of evidence fn the
land with cotton, two ysars in
~ 1 ne mcvuiig was neio m
,, Baptist church basement and „
petition presented to the Gobsetbom-Hamibh tq.m was expected1 ’« Pf8*ide,1'iv,?r 9 I)r F'-Kobbi:
Bhl, oil, ■ l.nh ,»« fo, ,,fa,h o, ,h.,0,;T,.„ ^ lh<
DEPRESSION EVEN
HITS FIRE RACKET
Fire Chiefs Say Last
Blaze Reported
On JuneJ9
MORGAN’S POINT
mm in W i Ifamra: eu on tne uooae treea-naytown
I Ihn IJ I LANi’lI; r,lui bri<l8e on Goose Creek stream,
- * w a culvert on the Texas avenue ex-
as spokesman for the laborers,
Paid 25 Gents
Introducing men who had work-
cd on the Goose Creek-JBsytown
Objeetions To Plans
Must Be Filed By
August 7
VETS NAMF TWO
ex-"
tension road, and the Highlands
paving project, Mr. Fortune dis-j
closed that 26 cents an hour hjad
bqen paid laborers.
J. R. Tomlinson told of working
for 25 cents an hour on a culvert
Pie* Made at Meeting
- For Appropriate
iL _1: Uniforms
the American crq|> and therefore
should Wke the lead in remedying
“deplorable” conditions.
Niff OFFICIALS STROKE FATAL s -irwTl£~5r-
TO DEMO SOLON CHILD VICTIM
club
tooay included On^ir Dyer,
LEADERS IN FIGHT
ARE' CUT OF TOWN
ns, Mayor Myers and Attorney Car-
__ ter werq out of town when newe
of the ruling reached Goose <
and no expression could be obtaln-
under the classification of refined ^d as to whether or not an appeal
oil products; Isaac Jones, propric-1 be taken or whether tho
tor of an electric shop; B. B. Wil-I wulo be carried on in some
bom*, tailor; K.u.in M.-vris, mana- manner,
gcr of#th*> local gas company of-;
formerly wjis a member of the
Kingsville club and Pepdergraft j
, was at one time a member in'
veteran Democratic representa- yWWMvi,)<l
tive, died at his home here late
Fiyette, Mo., July $9 HU?)-
Congressman Sam C- Mayor, 62,
government to build a jler on
Galveston bay.
According to plans, the pier will
be 150 feet long with an eleva-
tion two and a half feet above the
water. It will be located 600 feet
west of Morgan's Point. *
The United States Engineer’s
More than one month has pass-
ed since a fire alarm has been
sounded in the Tri-Cities area ac-
which says “llfrey Fails cording to a report submitted by
(Win Race”
that would be as
r f°ry as the one about the
' *«o bit the dog.
, tbe racing boat tycoon
K* ^-Cities is seeking new
to conquer.
I ft. are B0 regattas
I. eal«ndar for August, so
'supporting pjans for a rac-
to be staged here.
^ enthusiasm already rife
Tri-Citian* and with the
. fans easily accessible,
rea«>n why one of th*
ng motor boat race meets
; nation should not be staged
••nnnally.
* *ood idea. Let'a put it
Sloane is g citizen of
,, rf*k- r...... ■
. » not acquainted with two
Rffi hpin<* IiaIJ L...
N. J. King, fire chief of Goose
Creek, and Q. S. Powers, fire chief
of Pelly.
The last fire alarm for a fire
inside the Goose Creek city limits
was the blaze in the Bob Gbwey
home, on June 10, Chief King
said.
office at Galveston has served no-
tice that any objections to con-
struction of the pier are to be fil-
ed with Major Milo.P. Fox, dis-
trict engineer, not later than
August 7. '
Detailed plans of the proposed
pier are on file at the engineer’s
office.
G. M. Smith of Highlands said
he now is employed oa tha High-
lands road job at 25 cents an hour.
He said 40 or 50 men received the
same pay.
O. T. Johnson of Baytown told
of working on the Baytown;Gaose
construction for 25 cents an hour.
No Relief
of Foreign Ware, at a meeting
held Tuesday night La the Bay-
town community house.
J, B. Hoilaway was elected of-
ficer of the day. F. B. Prtee was
elected chaplain. „ ...__,
S. W, Dobson made a plea for
Creek rqul Wdge througho'ut m apprejJrtate uniforms and a welt preUy Helen TSWi, Zf-yreToM ***‘*nl>iy »t Lwed
construction for 25 cents an hour, drilled squad for duty at special aim) in a Gnmnnort I., *"n ne*t Mondi y
Mr. Fortune then asked, “If its by Gw post.
squad for duty at special
military,- occasions participated in
Injuries Fatal To
IN GANG FIGHT
P. F. Hooper of Carlisle, Ind.,
. NEW YORK, July 29
child was dead and four
“ member of the Houston-Club* who,nH>nt <R*triet l»*t night.
has not missed a Rotary meeting
Pretty Follies Girl ^X,thanei8ht ynn'*to™
President Robbins announced he
Iwiievqjl he would be unable to at-
NEW YORK, July 29 TJ>)
While Harry Rilchman skng to
Follies audience late Tuesday,
SALESMAN LOSES
ARM IN ACCIDENT
an established fact, Mr. Mpssey,
that they are paying 25 cents an
hoar, is there anything we can do
about it.”
Mr. Massey replied “absolutely
nothing.” »
He explained commissioners
court w|u required by law to
cept the lowest bid on any project
and the court had no way .of fix-
ing the labor charges.
G. W. Armstrong suggested that
Commander G. K. Edge told, the
post that since its organization,
nine years ago it had held only 1Mt., m,(i
three mitigiry funerals. Service
for “Grandpa” Dickson Tuesday
was the third, he said.
Roy J. Kiser, of the Tri-Cities
Sun advertising staff was design-
ed as the post publicity depart
inent. 1,
follies girl, died in a Greenport, L,
hospital from burns received in
explosion aboard Richman’s
yaefit Sunday. Rtchman risked his
lifo td save her when the accident
Gordon Pulliam, 27, represenga-
Chief Powers reports the last tive of the International Nqws Ser-[ working on Harris county pro-
fire in Pelly was on June ll when vice, Wednesday was reported rest- jects be required to show a Hjarris
ing well at a Houston hospital county poll tax receipt. He told!
fololwing amputation Tuesday of of construction of the Houston city ;
his right arm as result of injuries market where poll tax recepits' mayor of Highlands, is in critical
Oakwood addi-
two Abuildings in
tion were burned.
The last fire in the Tri-Cities
was in Bsytown on Juno 24 when
a garage apartment building was
damaged. Both the Goose Creek
and Pelly fire departments an-
swered the alarm,
Wife of Highlands
Mayor In Hospital
Mrs. E B. Stratford, wife of tbr
Virginia Biddle, also of
Fri'iVs, severely burned in
biaKt. is expected to recover.
Play Center Gets
Volley Ball Court
Michael VengalH, 6, died in »
hospital this morning after hie J
brother Salvatorer 7, had given
[ him a blood transfusion, Michael
Bevilacqua, 4, who
nr wuuiu oe unaoie 10 HI- 4'vy“*,Mu*r w. wno ,,wu p
tend a presidents’ and secretaries' “long the sidewalk in a baby
at Laredo which D to be- J^K’bm^^ from wounds.^
John Kilgore,
vice president; was authorized
to’attend the meeting, if pi
In the event he is unable to be
present, W. W. Sloan will n&m-
sent the club at the conference.
Club singing was laid by Dr.
C, W: Spear. “ j || |
the piano.
Tlve intended victim in the
fire was hiding behind the
rert as the death car sped by
the gangsters opened fire. He
raped unhurt.
The l>*er war, which
shootings was believed by
|om Pruett played ties to have resulted from
raids on two Manhattan
An elegtric-lighted volley bail
count has been added to the Mexi-
can recreation center in Baytown,
making the pla;
one of the
yfipund
most complete In the Tri-Cittes
Cedar Bayou Board
To Meet Saturday
sustained in an automobile acci-
dent late Monday. ^ -
Pullj'.m was on his way to Hous-
ton from Goose Creek when the ac- businessmen,
doent occurred. He* had spent
j Monday at the Sun offtee here- i
weg# required,
Mr, Fortune attacked
j condition at Dr. N. L
the lack hospital on Ashbel street
Dudivy5s]
UNDYS READY
TO START TRIP
LLOYD GEOR<
CRITICALLY
LONDON, July 29
NEW YORK, July 29 <ttB-Mr*.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, radiol IJoyd George, noted
operator for her husband on a j er and war-time premier of <
pleasure jrip by air to the Orient,' Britain was reported
made additional tests of the (today at hi*-bome h>
plane's transmitter Wednesday
fore the trip was resumed J
Colonel Lindbergh departed i
Date of opening for school this
Reporter Weighs-and Wonders What’s Wrong
thunderstorms,
storms, or continue on to Otta-
wa. the first Canadian stop.
_ _ When it is a matter of At pnd better to do, by a Sun reporter,; tow one to catch the fancy of those
«» being held here on fall will be 'set by the Cedar Ba- jean and a Tri-Citian Wants to
ent School
ttfci:
1PWWiasare of
Saturday night.
t:i!
District know his exact
te arm , M )i! 01
attempts to lenrn it
was made'
president, j one of
study
for
i and he discovered thpt his weig
he will varied from 114 to 131
who are seduced by tints.
There tare tail ones and
taking his 17 pounds but seventeen
on more than
in fact, the different types give
S.TS1 rjtSKlS.'asS:
ortes. during “fre^k” looking machine*.
scope reading*
sidra of
are on the
» that come
from some of-the machine#.
and no two gsve the Sun reporter
the same results. If your pennies
last long enough when you get the' Port Lavara,
urge to take up a little slack on terday from
which a dull day, youll.find i
Mayor of Victoria
Killed In Accident
services were held '
Arthur Pennington,
is 68 years old.
The i
I*.....under the......<
area.
The playground equipment now
—, »» .■*» HHH«* —.----— .i^^^todttde* see-#aws, slides, zwings, ..__. ........................
of attendance |pt the meetings by I Mra.’ Stratford, who ia under and the volley ball court. Electric th” aftemo<>" f®r Dawson of Penn,
businessmen. “It is ss much to the the rare of Dr. J. D. StaWby of, lights permit playing at night as 7®'ne* ho'r"‘ 'Mrs' ‘^berghs King Georgi
interest of business men as it is to Crosby, was brought to the hos- well as day. Both ehildren and, f8™r’ wh*”! r0'"*
(Continued on Page 5) ' piul after a prolonged illness. adults make use of the playground.. J* ,< a' wht,! force< down by.
- — -i-■&*-— ----—re
Anoperationfor 1
WilUard 1
ho mat- an auto wreck i
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