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1934 Will
Reward
Hard
Work
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A
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1934 Will
Reward
Hard
Work
MIEM. I* *
ER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 22, 1934
FOUR PAGES TODAY.
VOL. XL NO. 346
Acaraguan Rebe
C. of C. Banquet
,, Tonight 7:30 At
General Sandino | Christian Church
And 3 Others Killed
Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 22.—
Gen. Augusto C. Sandino, famous
rebel, was killed with his brother,
Socrates Sandino, and two friends
by National Guardsmen at mid-
night on the outskirts of Mana-
gua, a government communique
indicated.
The government statement read:
"The government officially states
that the action of the guardia na-
tional in killing Sandino was con-
trary to the instructions of Presi-
dent Sacasa to guarantee the lives
of Sandino and his followers while
they were in Managua.
“The president severely reproves
these acts of some individual
guarasmen and has ordered an
immediate investigation and is re-
questing congress to give him the
necessary facilities to maintain
public order."
All outgoing messages were cen-
sored.
Reported slain with Sandino were
his former Generals Umanzor and
Estrada.
Schwertner Bank
Robbed of $8,000
Early Wednesday
Slave Ring Suspect *
Isabel Tate, 18-year-old beauty,
who is held in San Francisco by
department of justice agents in-
vestigating an alleged white slave
ring. She is one of six suspects,
three men and three women, al-
legedly involved in shipments of
——— girls from San Francisco to Hono-
Georgetown, Texas, Feb. 22.—The lulu.
First National Bank of Schwertner,
twenty miles northeast of George-
town, was
robbed of $8,000
yeggs early Wednesday.
. The burglars entered
At Death Spot of Belgian King
Kidnapers Fail
To Get Publisher
In Chicago Hotel
Hitler Will Join
England in Move
j Everything is in readiness for
the Chamber of Commerce banquet
to be held this evening at 7:30
at the First Christian church with
J. E. Keever, president, presiding
as master of ceremonies.
i J. R. McMurray will lead the
opening song and the invocation
will be given by Rev. J. D. Grey,
pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist
I Church.
| Music will be furnished by a
string orchestra.
The following program has been
arranged:
Solo, selected, George Barney, Jr.
Song and specialty, Teddy
Charles Norman.
What the Chamber of Commerce
Means to You, Dr. Fred L. S ory.
Address, Hon. John Erhard.
BREAKFAST AND
FRIDAY MORNING
Committees for the Chamber of Telephoned to London and radioed the spot in the ravine near Na-
Comerce membership drive will
meet Friday morning at 7:15 at
the Serve-U Cafe for breakfast be-
fore soliciting new members for
the organization.
M. S. Vanderslice, membership
chairman, asks that all the mem-
bers of the committee be there
promptly at 7:15. Pep talks will be
1 made by the president, J. E. Keev-
er, Dr. Fred L. Story, J. R. Mc-
Murray and Rev. J. D. Grey.
A number of new members are
| expected to be added to the rolls
i this week.
to New York, this pic ure shows Until
where the broken body of
sorrowing subjects of the late King their beloved ruler was found.
Albert of Belgium grouped about I —International Illustrated News
Weather Man Is Pretty Boy Floyd
Clyde Barrow
Good Guesser,
Statistics Prove
Washington, Feb. 22.—The weath-
Escape Officers
Butte, Mont., Feb. 22.—Over 1
Chicago, Ill., * Feb. 22.—A bold
plot to kidnap E. P. Adler, 61,
newspaper publisher of Davenport,
Iowa, and haul him in a huge
trunk was foiled Wednesday when
Adler tore loose from the clutches
of two sluggers in a Morrison Ho-
tel corridor.
Ten minutes later, while Adler
and detectives exsmined the room-
ful of kidnapers’ paraphernalia—
gags, gun, sponges and trunk—one
of the clubbers slunk back to the
scene of the attack and was cap-
tured.
The five-foot sample case found
in the room adjoining Adler’s had
been perforated to provide air.
The two men, taking room 538
by special request, had said they
were book salesmen. Adler might
have been crammed into the trunk,
bound and gagged and toted down
the freight elevator without excit-
ing suspicion.
Slugged on Head.
His head aching from two severe
blows on the skull and ear with a
pair of blackjacks. Adler confront-
ed the prisoner in the state’s at-
torney’s office and positively iden-
tified him as one of the two at-
tackers. His confederate escaped.
The arrested man proved to be
Charles Phillips, alias Fred Mayo, T
and he said the other man was |
Jack Wyman. Phillips admitted tot
police they had intended to kidnap
Adler and hold him for $40,000
For Disarmament
Stars A-Waltzing
A happy reunion of movieland
friends takes place on the dance
floor during a party at Palm
Berlin, Feb. 22.—Chancellor
Adolph Hitler will join forces with
Great Britain in a supreme effort
to start a new movement for dis-
armament, it was reported here
Wednesday night.
The chancellor, according to well
informed persons, approved an
English memorandum hr principle,
following a long and cordial con-
versation he had with Capt. An-
thony Eden, British Lord Privy
Seal, at the British embassy.
It was understood that Hitler de-
cided to bury whatever doubts he
is reported to have had about cer-4.
tain features of the proposed Brit-
ish plan in order to strengthen
Eden’s hand in the latter's ne-
gotiations with Premier Mussolini
in Italy shortly.
Persons close to the situation
wondered Wednesday night whether
Mussolini will join in a possible
front with London and Berlin
against Paris on the question of
armaments.
Conversations between the Chan-
cellor and Captain Eden will con-
tinue Thursday, and it is under-
stood that they will touch on the
English proposal of postponing any
; Action on air forces for two years.
One Obstacles is Seen.
This angle may prove a stumbling
block to the general negotiations
Beach, Fla., as Gene Raymond and
Mary Pickford, screen stars, tread
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er man isn't really a bad guesser frozen roads and in howling gales, |
—look at the statistics and see 'Montana peace officers Wednesday J
■ whose guessing is off. | night searched for the nation’s two i
Dr. Charles C. Clark, acting most notorious uncaught bad men, ’
_ a measure together. They seem to
Nine Methodist
Colleges Will
Be Continued
be keeping off each other’s toes,
, between the British arms expert
for both are smiling as if they en- and Hitler. However, Eden indi-
joyed the dance.
Band Leader Gets
cates his optimism over the' out-
come.
Captain Eden came here Monday
from arms talks in Paris.
Chancellor Hitler's visit to the
British embassy Wednesday w s
chief of the United States bureau, Charles Pretty Boy Floyd and
was asked while before the house Clyde Barrow.
$10300 Judgment ! R TIT
n j f A 1. Nude, Dallas
ror Loss of Arm
Washington
through *
Birthday
by
the front door, burned through a
3-inch steel door of the vault with
an acetylene torch and made a
hole in the strong box inside about
five inches square.
They fished $1,970 in cash and;
about $6,000 in Liberty bonds,
treasurers’ warrants and valuable
- papers, through ’the opening and
fled, was
F. L. Tegge, cashier, told officers
that the yeggs left their acetylene
tank and that the safe was half i
full of water, used in protecting
the contents while entry was ef-
’ fected.
The water was still warm when
the looting was discovered.
appropriations committee about the
percentage of accuracy “of your
forecast."
“Through a long number of
Honored
Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 22.—An-
nouncement that Texas Woman’s 1
years,” Dr. Clark replied, "with as
accurate a check or verification as
we can get on them, they are from
College and eight other Methodist ‘80 to 90 per cent correct. That is
schools hi Texas will remain open for the forecasts from 24
The pair,each sought for many
crimes, were believed in the state
after being reported at Thermopo-
lis, Wyo., heading northward.
Floyd was the quarry in a wide-
spread hunt by Oklahoma officers
last Saturday and Sunday, but was
Stephenville, Texas, Feb. 22.—
o 36
and probably continue operation hours in advance."
.not taken.___-
Seen in Big Sedan.
Graham Smcot, Brownwood band 1
leader, was awarded a $10,300 judg-
ment in us tret court here on Wed-T
Philanthropist
Guilty of Fraud
his first since assuming office. Ac-
companying the chancellor in the
frier dly gesture were Foreign Min-
lister von Neurath, Propaganda
Melvin Traylor
Left Most of
Estate to Wife
Washington, Feb. 22.—In ways
George Washington never envisaged |
the nation paid homage today to *
his 202 birthday anniversary;
President Roosevelt hoped to get
away from his desk long enough to
visit Mount Vernon, one-time home
and present resting place of the
first chief executive.
Most of the government depart- 1
ments were closed. Postoffice em- 1
ployes throughout the nation were
given a day off if they could be
under present administrations was
made here Wednesday.
Action ending a dispute of sev- ’forecasts.
era! months on a proposal to close'
a number of the schools or turn
them over to the communities in
which they are located was taken '
Tuesday night at a meeting in
Waco of the Joint Commission on
Methodist Educational Work in
Texas. Decision against consolida-
tion, closing or relinquishing con-
trol of any of the institutions is
final and does not require ratifica-
spared.
I Like the president, both senate ticn by any other Methodist bod-
jand house worked. Both planned gies.
Some changes in the present ad-
tribute during these sessions.
The agricultural adjustment ad-
ministration, continued without a
break its 24-hour activity of three
eight-hour shifts.
Chicago, Feb. 22.—The will of
the late Melvin A. Traylor left all
of his personal and household ef-
fects to his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Y.
Traylor, with legacies to his broth-
ers and sisters.
After payment of the bequests,
which were described by associates
as modest, the remainder of the
estate was left in trust with the
First National Bank, of which Mr.
• Traylor, was president, as trustee.
Income from the trust fund after
provision for Mrs. Traylor’s father
and two children and a sister, is
given the wife for life. At her
death the trust fund is to be di-
Drive Is Urged
On Bootleggers
By Roosevelt
vided into two equal parts for the
And that accuracy percentage
includes both rain and temperature
State Court
House at Austin
nesday against the Walker Smith | Denver. Colo., Feb. 22.—I. Rude,
Company of Brownwood for al-Denver and DailaS; Texas, clothing
1 ■ leged damages received in an au-imerchant and philanthropist and
a blue or green sedan, carrying tomobile ash 1 sbha11a1200100a00 ano DadantroDist, and
comobile crash near Stephenville Michael Heller, his partner, were
June 8, 1933, in which one of convicted of using the mails to
Smoot’s arms was cut joff. Smoot defraud, when a sealed verdict was
sued for $25,000., 3 opened in Federal district court
The jury specified $300 for hes- Wednesday.
They were charged with misrep-
resenting the value of clothing in
Minister Goebbels and Rudolf Hess,
Word from Thermopolis to the
department of justice here said
two heavily armed men who ans-
wered descriptions of Floyd and
|Barrow, roared through that little
town Tuesday, headed northward.
The front windshield of the car
had been shattered, apparently by
gunfire, the department officers
Is Recommended
here learned. The car carried Illi-
nois license plates.
pita! expenses and car damage,
$6,G00 actual damage and $4,000
exemplars damage. Smoot testi-
fied that the loss of his arm great-
The car was reported seen at profession
Sheridan, Wyo., just south of the
ly reduced his efficiency
in his
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Former Navarro
ministration of the schools are ex-
pected to be made at the next-
meeting of the commission on June
19 at Southern Methodist Univer-
sity in Dallas. A proposed plan for
administration of the schools by a
Austin, Texas, Feb. 22 Erection 1
of a state’s court building at Aus- '
tin at a cost of $500,000, of which \
the state could contribute $150,000
and the federal government the
remainder, was recommended Tues-
day by the senate finance com-
mittee.
The senate voted to include the
’central board of trustees will be'
considered. Major changes in local
J administration of schools is con-
sidered unlikely since the plan
proposed to the commission calls
for each college to have a president
to work under the direction of the
central board.
Washington, Feb. 22.—Urged by !
President Roosevelt, the adminis-
tration has undertaken an intensive
drive against high liquor prices
and bootleggers.
The government has brought a
new weapon to bear on the boot-
“Because of the publicity given
to the possibility of Southwestern
closing its doors,” the resolution
read, "we wish to state that the
institution shall continue at
Georgetown.”
Montana line. ■
Sheriff John A. Parker of Ther- 1
mopolis telephoned that he had
been told by Mrs. Frank Anderson,
who lives near there, that two
Grand Jury to
recommendation in the supplemen-
tal appropriation bill, which totaled
approximately $215,000 before the
heavily armed men stopped at her
house for water Monday afternoon.
She picked Barrow’s picture from
a pile in Berfillon headquarters as
that of the man who got out of the
| Probe Death of
Dr. E L Thompson
advertising mailed to prospective
customers.
The maximum penalty for the
conviction is five years’ imprison-
ment and a $10,000 fine, each.
Federal Judge J. F. Symes did not
sentence the prisoners at once.
Rude's benefactions in Denver
and Dallas gained him consider-
able publicity.
Couple Killed
Near Abilene
car. The other, she said, remained I Shreveport, La. Feb. 22.—The 1
seated in the machine. cases of Wayne Ross and "Fat"
M. Birley of Billings, Keen, Pleasant Hill, La., youths, |
charged with the murder of Dr. 1
Sheriff E
Woman Shoots
Husband Then
Abilene, Texas, Feb. 22. Henry
Brit Turner, 39, and his wife, Mrs.
Cinnie Melton Turner, 38, are
decd, result of a double shooting
late Tuesday night in the farm
home of Turner’s brother, Bill
Turner, ten miles south of Abilene.
The bodies were brought to an
undertaker here Wednesday morn-
ing. Justice Esco Walter and deputy
sheriffs went to the farm to hold
I an investigation. No motive for the
tragedy had been advanced.
Bodies of the pair were discov-
, legger, one designed specifically
benefit of Nancy F. Traylor and to wreck his modernized system of
Melvin A, Traylor Jr., the children, pouring the illicit product into
If they leave no children the trus- legal channels. Treasury officials
tee is directed to distribute $50,000 said this was the new war samp
to Mr. Traylor's brother's and sis-which became effective a fort night
ters equally or their descendants ago.
Under this law every liquor con-
tainer must bear a stansp. Behind
the stamp are an elaborate in-
and the remainder is to be desig-
nated as a perpetual trust, the net-
income of which is to go to North-
western University.
No estimate of the value of the
estate was given.
In addition to the provision for |
his family under the will, a sub-
stantial amount of life insurance I
also was left in trust with the
bank for the benefit of the wife
and children.
The specific bequests included
$1,000 each to M. M. Traylor, Ma-
lone, Texas; George T. Traylor,
Lockney, Texas; Mrs. A. B. Brown,
azLockney, Texas, all brothers and
s. sisters, and the same amount to
• the children of Mrs. H. F. Bybee
cf Lockney, a sister, who died.
Provision is made for $100 a year
payment to any children of Mrs.
Bybee until they reach time age off
18. The same amount as to the
brothers and sister is left Mrs.
Hester Traylor of West Point. Miss.,
a sister-in-law.
F.* * ma ered by Mrs. Bill Turner when.
HercA l with her husband and Mr- and Mrs.
AXX2XD 11 vi OCA Glen Hudson of Midland, she re-
-—— turned home from a theater party
into Northern Wyoming. His in- be presented to the Sabine Parish | Canton. Texas Feb. 22_Mrs I in Abilene. Mrs. Brit Turner was
grand jury Monday, Sheriff E. L. C. Carter, about 35, shot her hus-
Edwards of Sabine Parish said band three limes and killed herself
ere. at their home early Wednesday.
OSS and Keen are at liberty un-! J. F. Dodson, deputy sheriff,
der $5,000 bonds. Sheriff Edwards said Carter told him that Mrs.
said. They were arrested last fall Carter began shooting while he
shortly alter Dr. Thompson’s life-‘slept, but only wounded him in
dess body was found in his car at the legs and arms. He said she
easant Hill. He had been shot to then fired once into her chest and
death, died almost instantly.
Thompson visited Pleasant Hill A 4-year-old son of the couple
a few days prior to his scheduled witnessed the shooting
trial in the federal .court here cn Carter said he managed once to
a charge of sending obscene ma ter take the pistol away from his wife
Ross and unloaded it, but he lost
addition. u
i A DAT Mont., said he had learned that
AcAcim the CommumEE miro-aondidrioyel doir ed dhroum: V a ra de lmitueeyepoII
I that a direct giant of $350,000 ; ther paturda 3 n______, . d. . be presented tn Tia re 2
could be obtained from the federal
government for the project. The
committee made the state appro-
priation contingent upon receiving
the federal grant.
The building would be located on
state property and would house
the state supreme court, court of
formation came, he said, from s
person "who ought to know.”
In Sheridan, Wyo., the sheriff’s :
office announced it had had a tip
Saturday that
walking in the
with a woman.
Floyd was seen
residence district
Little attention
The commission pledged the serv- criminal appeals and attorney gen-
ices of the committees appointed eral’s offices.
from its membership to assist seven
of the nine schools in working out
their problems. Kidd-Key College
at Sherman reported itself in posi-
tion to solve its financial situation
without the aid of the commission.
S. M. U. does not come under the
jurisdiction of the commission since
it is not held solely by the Metho-
Offering rewards of $1,000 for
the capture of Clyde Barrow, south
west desperado, and $500 each for
Raymond Hamilton and Joe Palmer
whom Barrow aided to escape from
the Texas penitentiary, was ap-
proved by the committee.
was paid to the report then.
Senate Votes
To Restore Full
Federal Pay
through the mail to the
youth
spection system and the provision dist church in Texas.
that if it is not used or is illegally i Other Methodist schools in the
I used
long prison sentence awaits state are Westmoreland College at
the offender.
Reason for Stamps.
One of the major reasons for
the stamp was the discovery that
the bootlegger was finding means
of slipping Iris wares into the
shelves of legal liquor stores, along
wi h legitimate and tax-paid goods.
In this manner the outlaw industry
was disposing of some of the esti-
mated 30,000,000-gallon stock that
prohibition repeal left on its
hands.
jSan Antonio, Lon Morris College
at Jacksonville, Weatherford Col-
lege at Weatherford, Wesley College
at Greenville and McMurry College
at Abilene. '
Announcement of the commis-
> sion’s action was made here by Rev
C. Q. Smith, of Cisco, secretary of
the commission, Rev. C. A. Sprag-
ins of Denton is chairman of the
body, Rev. J. W. Mills of Beau-
mont is vice chairman and Rev. O.
P. Clark of Abilene is chairman
101 Face Death
On Ice Floe
Moscow. Feb. 22.—Cut off from
rescue by storm conditions on a
bleak ice field in Bering Strait, 101
survivors of the sunken steamer
Cheliuskin were reported Wednes-
day night in grave danger of
perishing on a drifting and break-
ing ice floe.
Washington, Feb. 22.—Thirteen
democrats joined an almost solid
line-up of republicans in a senate
revolt against the economy act
Wednesday and by a single vote 1
put through a proposal to restore I
the whole 15 per cent federal pay 1
slash July 1.
The victory encouraged the com-
bination of republicans and demo-
crats who want to go farther than
the administration on veterans'
benefits, which will come up Thurs-
Would Make
Contributing to
The stamp tax, it was made plain, of the executive committee
was only one of the levers the ---
administration has sought to pry
the bootlegger out of his fortified
position. A general tightening and
modernization of the laws
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Acting Postmasters Named.
Washington, Feb. 22.—Acting
with postmasters apponited Tuesday in-
----'Deluded Palestine, Texas, J. W. Hen-
rV
strength and she regained it after
a s ruggle, reloading it and turn-
ing it on herself.
Campaign Bribe
Arrested For
Radio Station
Without License
Lawton, Ok., Feb. 22.—Federal
Austin, Texas, Feb. 22.—Gover- .authorizes late Wednesday arrest-
nor Miriam A. Ferguson Wednesday‘ed John R. Wilson at his home
submitted to the legislature a bill here on charges of operating a
dead with a wound above the right
breast, and her husband,- shot in
the region of the heart, was dying.
Both were dressed and .lying on
a bed. Near Turner’s body was a
single-barrel .410-guage shotgun,
with a. discharged shell in the
magazine. An empty she was ly-
ing near it, indicating th gun had
been fired, reloaded and fired
again. Officers said they found
powder burns on Turner’s body,
but no note was found.
The Turners were married in
1913 in Navarro county and came
here in 1915. Officers said the
couple had been estranged, but re-
cently were reconciled, after Tur-
i ner’s return two months ago from
i California. He had been unemploy-
| ed lately.
Mrs. Turner’s body will be sent
to Mount Pleasant, where her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Melton,
reside. Turner will be buried at
Tuscola, this county. The couple
had no children. •
Justice Walter, returning from
the farm at noon, said he was
that would make any person em-
ployed in a state department who
24 to 30 Degrees
Friday Forecast
day for decision, but democratic 1 contributed to a campaign fund of
leaders saw a possible veto if the the official by whom he is em-
radio station without a license.
Wilson pleaded not guilty and was lent.
withholding a verdict for the .pres-
house
tions.
released under $1,000 bond pending i
a hearing set for Friday afternoon. 1
concurs in the liberaliza-ployed guilty of bribery. -------
It was revealed in testimony FORMER TEXAN KILLED
Senator Byrnes, democrat, South taken by a legislative committee
Carolina, leading the administra- recently that it was the custom, in
ticn fight on the economy sections, a number of instances, for employ-
BY FALLING TREE LIMB
The Weather
Hugo, Ok., Feb. 22.—A falling
A brisk norther today sent
the mercury down, and a late
forecast is for 24 to 30 degrees
Friday morning, if it, is clear. ,
opened up the bill to new veterans’ les of a department to raise a limb struck and killed Clarence |
Friday Fair, Warmer.
legislation when his motion was campaign fund for the head of the Harris, 32, near here, while Har-
suspended the rules was adopted .department during campaign years, ris was cutting wood. Harris mov-
—————--—- • She submitted several other bills, ed to Hugo from Paris, Texas, in
(Turn to Page Four) all of a local nature. 1911
East Texas: Partly cloudy, colder
Thursday; Friday fair, not so cold
in northwest portion. Temperature
Thursday morning 46.
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