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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ENNIS, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 26, 1934
FOUR PAGES TODAY
VOL. XL NO. 349
Cyclone Leaves 23
War Vet Leads
Officers Where
Dead In Mississippi, He Slew Family
Georgia, Alabama
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 26.—Win-
ter tornadoes cut an erratic path
of destruction across three South-
ern states Sunday night, leaving
in their wake more than a score
of dead and dozens of injured.
Incomplete information from the
s ricken communities, many of
them virtually cut off from com-
munication, placed the fatalities
at thirteen in Alabama, eight in
Mississippi and two in Georgia.
Two occupants of an airplane
were injured when the craft crash-
ed in the storm near Ashland,
Ala.
The storm struck first in rural
western Mississippi, near Meridian.
Six members of the family of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Calvert at Center
Hill, Miss., were killed when the
twister tore their home apart. The
Calvert’s eldest daughter miracu-
lously escaped the falling timbers
that killed the other members of
the family.
Two were killed at Kewanee, near
Center Hill. More than a dozen
were injured and the storm was
felt far down into Mississippi.
Ex-Pastor Suspect
t Oklahoma City, Ok., Feb. 26.-
Four badly decomposed bodies, said
|by officers to be those of the wife
and three children of Joe Cane,
Little Rock, Ark., Veterans’ Hospi-
tal phychopathic patient, were
found in a roadside grave five
miles east of here Sunday by au-
thorities directed to the scene by
Cane.
' In a purported statement to hos-1
pital officials last week, Cane ad- I
mitted he killed his wife and chil- !
Idren last June, returning to the i
spot the following day and burying |
the bodies. He reiterated the state- |
ment Saturday to two officers who ;
returned him here.
County Attorney Lewis R. Morris
said murder charges would be filed
.against Cane, who was held in the
Oklahoma County jail.
’ Directed by Cane the officers
‘drove to a lonely lane Sunday
morning. They halted when Cane
screamed: "Stop, my God. There’s
the spot."
A few hours later deputy sher-
iffs and county jail trusties uncov-
ered the four bodies, fragments of
clothing, part of a shovel and a
woman’s purse.
The officers said Cane’s purport-
Explains War Vet’s Headache
Nine Dartmouth
Students Died E
8 Lost Lives In
Carbon Monoxide Wrecked Air Liner
Hanover, N. H., Feb. 26.—Nine |
Dartmouth students, all members
of the Theta Chi fraternity, were
killed here Sunday by carbon mon-
oxide poisoning while asleep in
the fraternity house.
The dead were:
WILLIAM, S. FULLERTON, 20,
of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
EDWARD F. MOLDENKE, 21,
New York City.
WILLIAM M. SMITH, JR., 21,
Manhasset, N. Y.
EDWARD M. WENTWORTH, JR.
21, Mount Dera, Fla. |
AMERIGO S. DE MASI, 21, Lit-
tie Neck, N. Y.
HAROLD B. WATSON, 21, Wil-
ton Maine.
WILMOT H. SCHOOLEY, 21,
Middletown, N. Y.
JOHN J. GRIFFIN. 19, Walling- '
ford, Conn.
ALFRED H. MOLDENKE, 20,
New York. |
In Utah Snowbank
Air Mail Martyr
Veers Into Alabama.
From there the storm apparently
veered eastward following the tor-
nado belt through Alabama where Episcopal Church
more than 300 lives were lost in North Bellmore.
William Henry DuBois, 32-year-
old ex-minister, pictured at the
time he was rector of the Apostolic
An X-ray photo of the head of the vic im of continual headaches,
ed statement revealed the bodies f James P. Sherryof Rochester, N.
as those of Mrs. Gracia Cane, 25; Y„ showing the knife blade M(ar-
It is believed the knife blade was
driven into his head by a burst-
The students were last seen alive
by members of the fraternity who
did not live at the house but who
had been playing bridge during the
evening with the victims.
The deaths were discovered by
the house janitor, Melton B. Little.
He told police he visited the house
during the morning to fix the fur-
nace fire. He noticed, he said, the
Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 26.-
The mangled bodies of seven men
and one girl, passengers and crew
members of an airplane that left
here at 2 p. m. Friday, were found
Sunday night in the twisted wreck-
age of the craft.
The plane took off from here in
foggy, misty weather. Its journey
from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne,
Wyo., terminated only thirty miles
out cf the local airport.
The dead:
PILOT LLOYD ANDERSON,
Cheyenne, Wyo.
COPILOT J. DANIELSON, Chey-
enne, Wyo.
MARY CARTER, Stewardess, Salt
Lake City.
E. I. Walker, Rock Springs, Wyo.,
automobile dealer.
J. J. Sterling, mayor of Benton
Harbor, Mich.
W. B. BERGUND, Boone Iowa.
MARCELLUS ZINSMASTER, Des
Moines, Ia.
| BERT McLAUGHLIN, Perry
March, 1932, as storms cut through
the state.
Twelve deaths were reported to
the sheriff’s office at Ashland, Ala.,
of Christ at
L. I. DuBois is
Edna Merle, 6-year-old daughter; row) that had been embedded in jing shell during the war. Being red
Leroy, 4-year-old son, and Johnnie his skull since the World War, all
identification of the bodies was im-
possible.
are checking up on possible con-| At Wynnewood Mr. and Mrs. W.
nection with the murder of 15-1 C. Stanton of Wichita Falls, Texas,
I now under arrest following com-
plaint of a 14-year-old boy. Police
May, 2-year-old daughter. Direct unknown to him. Sherry- had been
hot it cauterized the wound and
Went undetected for 16 years.
in Clay county, and there were year-old Mary Helen O’Connor at parents of
stories of homes blown to bits, trees Massapequa, L. I., last year,
uprooted, highways blocked and ——.---------------_
the slain woman re- /
ceived the tragic news in silence
lack of medical supplies and at-
tendants for victims. One death
was reported in another section.
One of the first to tell of the
devastation about Ashland was an
unidentified man who walked there
from the Shady Grove community
to appeal for aid for the injured.
The identified dead included the
Rev. Mack Wheeler of near Ash- 1
land and Mrs. Nannie Kaizzian of |
the Calera, Ala., community. |
North Georgia Hard Hit.
Utilities
Head Slain
At Seguin
shortly before noon. They made no
comment other than to say they
Faith Mission
Asks Donations
Seguin, Texas, Feb. 26.—Gerald
W. Peck, wealthy Chicago invest-
From Alabama the storm crossed ment broker, and president of the
into Georgia and whipped the north | Texas Hydro-Electric Company,
central part of the state. In the was shot and fatally wounded to-
Bethel Camp Ground community
near Carrollton, a little more than
a score of miles to the south and
west of Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. Will
day in the office of A. J. Wirtz.
attorney for the company and
former state senator.
1 Tom Hollamon, Sr., 67, prominent
Phillips were killed as the tornado Guadalupe county land owner and
blew down their home, a former United States marshal,
A doen homes were leveled at was arrested on a charge of mur-
McDonough, Ga., and there were
would return to Oklahoma City
when called by officers.
Cane, alleged to have beaten the
four to death with a shovel on a
’picnic outing June 6, refused to
give statements to Morris or Sher-
iff Stanley Rogers. The officers
said he repeatedly admitted the
killings but declined to discuss the
details.
A legal statement from the vet-
eran will be sought by the county
attorney’s office Monday.
C. D. Pierce, one of the Okla-
homa City detectives who returned
Cane here from Arkansas, said
C. ne told him, “You had better
talk to me now because Monday
I will be dead." He was guarded
closely through the night.
advices cf wreckage at Jonesboro,
Hapeville and Jackson, all in the
Atlanta district.
In Atlanta a deluge of rain fell,
flooding the streets in many parts
of the city and hailstones as
large as lima beans were reported
in a suburb. Black clouds enveloped
the city just at dark and the wind
rose sharply, but there was little
damage reported there. Air mail
and passenger planes were ground-
ed throughout the storm area.
Red Cross officials announced
immediate plans to aid the stricken
districts.
Nine Spectators
Killed at Finish
Of Racing Event
Rosario, Argentina, Feb. 26.—
Nine spectators at the finish of the
Grand Premio Nacional automobile
race were killed Sunday when they
lushed into the path of the car
driven by Ernesto Blanco, the first
to finish the final lap.
Just after Blanco’s car, traveling
at high speed, crossed the finish
line it ran into the crowd of spec-
tators, who had invaded the high-
der. A. C. Linne, county attorney,
said that examining trial for Hol-
lamon would be held this afternoon.
First of Triple
Murderers Gets
Death Sentence
Foreign Legion
Loses Five Men
Fighting Rebels
Faith Mission, located at 209 N,
Main St., has been, operated for
the past thirteen months on faith
. that the Lord would supply our
needs. He has in a most wonderful
way done this. We fed.many thous-
lands and never have we had to
turn any away, for which we thank
the Lord.
We have never before bad to ask
for funds, but as conditions are
growing worse all the time, we feel
that to be able to meet all emerg-
encies that it is expedient that we
ask each one for a small amount.
As the Lord puts it in your heart
to give. It will not be a burden
that way. And as soon as condi-
tions get better we will not come
to you for help.
We are in need of vegetables and,
food, wood, flour, meal, bread,
clo hes for men, boys and girls.
The Welfare directors have taken
over the Mission. The superintend-
ent will continue in charge and
2 Damage Suits
From Auto Crash
Near Corsicana
i Adagir, Morocco, Feb. 26.—Open- i
ing a mopping up drive against j
rebel Berbers, last of the white
j Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 26. barbarians, in the storm-swept des-
; Death in the electric chair is the jerts of the almost unknown Bani
penalty which . Jury in local Mountain regions, the French For-
Criminal District Court Saturday eign Legion Sunday lost five men.
decided was the just desserts or Seven were wounded.
W. D .May for his part in the The opening battle was fought
| Handley triple murder, in storms of sand and rain. Gueril-
| The state's ease of circumstantial ; la bands fiercely attacked a force
evidence, marshaled by District At-under «» coirmand of General
torney Jesse E. Martin, appeared Catrcux, inflicting the casualties,
to have left no room for doubt in /Two of the slain were officers.
I the minds of the jurors. The death
penalty on such evidence is un-
common.
May took the death penalty with
out flinching, blew cigar smoke at
the ceil ing and then turned to of-
1 ficers who returned him to his
cell. His wife left the courtroom
in tears.
will still manage under the same
rule of faith in the Lord. Philip-
plans 4:19, "He will supply all our
needs according to his riches in
glory."
We fed last week: 320 transient
people, 26 home people, 13 families
helped, and 86 beds were furnished.
The fireign legion is fighting
against heavy natural odds in the
desert. Two armies have been sent
on a campaign to conquer the re-
Iowa.
Nose down, in the snows blanket-
ing Parley’s Canyon, in the Was-
atch Range, was sighted by Pilots
Don Brough on and Ed Greer.
They radioed back to United Air-
lines headquarters. It was a United
Airlines ship flying the regular run
to Cheyenne. L. B. Jameson, pub-
lice relations official for the com-
pany, commandeered a fleet of au-
tomobiles and rushed toward the
scene of the crash.
The canyon is a steep one. Front
the east it runs toward the Salt
Lake Valley in which nestles the
city of Salt Lake.
Struck Canyon Wall.
Lieut. Dudward Lowry, of Mil-
waukee, U. S. army pilot, who was
killed in the crash of his plane
near Napoleon, Ohio. He was fly-
coal gas had caused an explosion,
which had blown open the furnace
doors and had disconnected the
pipe which led into the chimney.
| Some one, he said, apparently
had heard the explosion and had. : 1 ... .
bank. This was the first fatality
propped the furnace doors closed,: 4
. . .since the army took over the air
jbut in the semidarkness of the mail
cellar had not noticed that the |
Corsicana, Texas, Feb. 26.--M.
N. Counts of Dallas entered suit
here Saturday for damages of $10,-
100 against Ruth V. Flater, social
service worker for the Harris Coun-
ey Welfare Board, Houston.
The suit involved injuries alleg-
ed to have been received by
Counts in an automobile accident
six miles south of Corsicana last
Jan. 12 on Highway 75.
The defendant named filed suit
for damages of $46,550 against
Woodall-Martin Company in the
same court for injuries received in
the same accident, alleging Counts
was driving the motor vehicle
which figured in the collision.
W. C. Sheppard
Brother of Texas
Senator, Is Dead
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 25.—Walter
Clifton Sheppard, prominent New
York attorney and brother of Sen-
The best cf all was spiritual ator Morris Sheppard, died Sunday
work, one man confessed Christ i at his home in Elmhurst, N. Y.,
as his savior. Nine requested pray-
er.
Very respectfully,
J. B. MILLER, Supt.
Huggins to Overton
For Western Union
Miss Griffin Here
A. H. Huggins, who has been
manager of the Western Union of-
fice here for the past year and a
mainder of the vast Moroccan ter- half, has been transferred to Over-
ritory.
Defense attorneys indicated a
new trial would be asked Monday
and if this is denied the case will
be appealed.
way. Blanco was unable to avert
the accident. |
The Chilean driver, Emilio Kar-
stulovic, won the Grand Premio
Fat Stock Show
Boosters Due Here
Three Indicted
In Midlothian
Bank Robbery
ton, Texas, and he and Mrs. Hug-
gins left this afternoon for their
new home.
This is a nice promotion for Mr.
Huggins. Although not as large a
town as Ennis, the office com-
mands a better salary. He has becn
in the service of the Western Union
ing the mail from Chic, go to
Cleveland when he ran into a fog
furnace pipe was disconnected. He | —
said he visited the boys’ sleeping
rooms and had closed some win-
1 dows, as was his custom. He ob-
served the students in bed, appar-
ently asleep, he said.
The windows had been opened
Former Prison
Guard Suicides
only a very small width-he assert-1 -
ed, because of the zero tempera- |
tures prevailing during the night.
A + Wav. chio = Apparently Lloyd Anderson, the
—24444642 chief pilot, failed to gain sufficient
Waxahachie, Texas, Feb. 26.—-
He left the house and did not re- Suffering from a pisol wound in
turn until about 3 p. m. Sunday, the head Frank A Harris 59 for
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5 Million
For Relief
Agreed To
event, covering the 924 miles from
Rosario to Resistencia and return
fifteen hours, six minutes, twenty-
Tuesday 9:50
Waxahachie,
a. ITL Indictments charging three Okla-
homans with burglary in connec-
thirty-two years an attache of the
penitentiary system, serving from
‘prison guard to farm manager, died
soon after the gun was fired at
his home here Saturday:
Members of his family said he
gave up his work four years ago
altitude while passing over the city
from the airport five miles west of
town and crashed into the canyon
wall.
All persons in the plane, as near
as could be determined, died in-
stantly, ,
It was the first fatalty in five
years on the major run cf the
United Airline between Salt Lake
City and Chicago. That period of
and returned home, because of time represented 13,090,000 miles of
failing health. He made his home
with his father, A. T. Harris, 88;
his brothers, B. C. and I. V. Har-
ris, and his brother and sister-in-
Austin, Texas, Feb 26—Issuance
of $5,000,000 additional state se-
curities for relief of the destitute
was agreed upon today by the con-
ference committee appointed to ad-
(just differences between the two
houses of the legislature.
■ The committee also decided to
incorporate in its report a provi- !
sicn for cancellation of half of the 1
original issue for which no bid-
ders were received. That amount
is $2,750,000.
his sisters, Mrs. W. F. Skillman and 1
Mrs. Cullen F. Thomas of Dallas, |
were notified. Mrs. Thomas left
Sunday night for Elmhurst, where
burial will take place at 3 p. m.
Wednesday.
Mr. Shepp. rd, member of a dis-
tinguished Texas family, was well
known throughout his native state.
He was reared in Pittsburg and
Texarkana and was educated at
the University of Texas. Surviv-
ing are his wife, three sisters, Mrs.
Skillman and Mrs. Thomas cf Dal-
las and Mrs. J. Bryant Heard of
Danville, Va., and two brothers.
Senator Sheppard and Major Paul
Sheppard of the Canal Zone.
Mr. Sheppard was the son of the
late John L. Sheppard. United {
Scouts Collect
Much Clothing
For Ennis Needy
States
law, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Harris.
Colonel C. O. Adkins returned a
verdict of suicide.
air time.
The bodies were in, the plane,
bandly mangled -
The snow at that point was ap-
proximately four feet deep.
The plane had landed with' ter-
rific force, nose down, between two
Harris was reared in Falls pine trees, on the rocky, snow cov-
County. He was a member of the ered slope of the canyon.
Odd Fellows lodge at Ferris. Serv-
ices will be held at Venus.
Suspect Barrow
Of Kansas $7,100
Was No Fire.
The motors, al hough buried in
the snow, were intact. There was
1 no fire.
| Facing east, the nose of the
plane was pointed up the canyon
wall, lodged tightly between the
(Turn to Page Four.)
Bank Robbery 20 to 24 Degrees
Galena, Kan., Feb. 26.—Possibil-
ity that Clyde Barrow, Texas des-
perado, engineered the robbery
Saturday of the Galena National |
Bank, in which $7,100 was obtain-[
ed, was strengthened Sunday night;
Registered Here
Early Monday
In response to the charge deliv-police said, by information that a
ered by President Franklin D. woman who appeared at a local; Old Man Winter paid this sec-
Roosevelt to the Boy Scouts on lgarage earlier in the week had tion another, and belated, visit
Mobilization Day, Feb. 10, to col- been identified as Bonnie Parker, Sunday. Following showers before
accomplice of Barrow.
Sources of the identification was
not revealed by police. They said
lect clothing and household ar-
tides for the
needy, the Boy
Scouts of Ennis have been busy
making a house to house canvas
of the entire city.
Probably one of the largest col-
the woman identified as Bonnie
Parker inquired at the garage for
daylight, a brisk norther hit here
about 7:30 when the thermometer
stood about 62, and by 10 a. m.
had dropped 27 degrees, to 36, and
reached a low of 30 by noon. Then
for a while in the afternoon, the
a road map and later apparently
joined two men in a motor car of mercury climbed a little, going to
the same description as the one 35 at 4 D. m., and then began re-
brought to the RFC offices here used in the robbery. ceding and by 7 p. m. stood at
to be distributed to the needy of’ ------31. ...
Ennis. Another truck load is ex-n • IT. . ■ Continuing a nosedrive it reach-
'ed a low of 20 to 24, according to
congressman from ’ Texas I lections of old clothing and house-
for many years before his death in
1902. His wife was the former Cor-
hold articles ever assembled were
for several years and came to En- .
nis from Bunkie, La., where he was nelia Virginia Coleman,
Texan.
manager.
---Miss Rena Griffin of Temple
Texas, Feb. 26.— has been named manager of the
A number of business men of ticn with the recent looting of the
Fort Worth will be in Ennis Tues- First National Bank of Midlothian
day morning about 9:50 to extend were returned by the Ellis county
two-day race over the dirt and an invitation to attend the Fat grand jury and warrants were sent
macadam roads of the unsettled Stock Show to be held in Fort immediately to the Tulsa. Ok., po-
Chaco region. | Worth March 9 to 18.
four and one-fifth seconds. Kar-
stulovic drove a Benz car in the
Ricardo Caru, driving a Fiat,
took second place.
Blanco ran Sunday’s 462 miles at
an average of 75.63 miles an hour.
lice department.
They will stop at the Chamber, The men billed are, Joe, Bill
cf Commerce where a group of and Willis New.on. Complaints
Ennis citizens will welcome them, previously had charged the trio
A series of Goodwill trips has and Mrs. Minnie Newton. Wife of
Ennis office to succeed Mr. Hug-
gins and assumed charge ofher
duties this morning.
Miss Griffin has been in the
service for three months, having
been served as relief operator at
Rockett and Belton, Texas. She
was employed as clerk at College
Station for six weeks. She received
her training at Belton and Tem-
plc. .
also
a
Argument Over
Chili Cost Life
At Fort Worth
pected to be collected today by
the scouts.
, Today the case workers in the
I RFC offices are assorting the
been arranged by the Fat Stock’Bill Newton, with burglary in con-
Mrs. A. P. Kidd is back at the
Mr. and Mrs. Bert McKee were show for advertising the coming nection with the bank job at Mid- King Cotton Store, after an ab-
visitors in Dallas Sunday.
exposition
in order
Pair Hastens to
clothing and various other articles,
and distribution will begin imme-
diately.
Scouts are to be commended for |
this splendid piece of work and it
Wed After Five
Years In Prison
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Zeb Davis this morning at
10:45 at their home on Route 1.
interest in livetsock.
to stimulate Jothian.
sence of several days on account
Further investigation of the Mid- of the illness ,cf Mr. Kidd, who
Everyone in Ennis is invited to lothian burglary is anticipated has been quite sick. His condition
be at the city hall at 9:50 Tuesday when the grand jury resumes its is much improved and he is now
morning to welcome the visitors, session this week, able to sit up some.
Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 26.—An
argument ever a bowl of chill cost
Millard L. Horn his life and re-
suited in murder charges being fil-1 more opportune time, with
ed Saturday against J. A. Pitcock, sudden drop in temperature.
Horn died alter a fist fight:
outside a restaurant during which i
he was knocked to the ground
and fractured his skull on a stone,
according to witnesses.
could not have been done at a
Ex-Italy Mayor 111.
Jesse M. Parker, of Italy,
McAlester, Okla., Feb. 26.—Nancy
this
for-
Horn had finished his chili and merly mayor of that town, is se-
Harrell. 22, and Martin L. Carkeek
celebrated their release from the
state’s penitentiary Saturday with
a wedding.
The two, who had served five
i years from Tulsa county for grand
larceny, went immediately to the
courthouse after their release, cb-
tained a marriage license and were
married.
various thermometer reading, by
6 a. m. Monday. There was thick
ice outdoors, but none indoors, so
far as has been reported.
This continues February as the
coldest month of the winter, a
record that has stood for many
years, with a few exceptions.
Today has been clear and cold.
The Weather
Tuesday Fair, Warmer.
was leaving the cafe when Pitcock, riously ill at his home, following
just coming to work, declared that an a lack of throat trouble that A prison guard whose duty it
he had not paid for the food. The has left him almost unable to was to see they took a train out
fist fight ensued. ‘speak. I of town; acted as a witness
Fair, much colder in south por-
tion Monday; Tuesday fair, rising
temperature. Temperature Monday
morning 24.
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