Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 93, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 11, 1929 Page: 1 of 4
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Number 93
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
Volume One
WALKER SUCCEEDS ROBISON
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The Editor’s
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ROBIN HOOD OF
COLORADO TELLS
OF BIG SWINDLE
MOODY NAMES CHIEF LAND CLERK
IN OFFICE TWENTY ONE YEARS, AS
SUCCESSOR TO DELOVED ROBISON
HIGHWAY EIGHT
MEETING CALLED
A SUCCESS TODAY
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Competition Is
Keen In Daily
News Contest
Five of Assailants Are Jailed;
Carthage Sheriff Hunts
For Sixth Suspect.
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Knox Lee Says
Southwestern Is
Ready To Serve
Automobile Was Ziz-Zagging
at Time Woman Run Down
Japanese Man.
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Report Typhoon
In North Japan;
Shipping Slowed
Only Paper Between Longview And Beaumont With A Wire Service
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WINDHAMSNOTE
GOLDEN WEDDING
EVENT MONDAY
Austin, Sept. 11, (UP) —
Senator* W. A. Williamson,
leader of a movement for a
special called session of the
legislature to rectify discrep-
ancies in the Confederate
Widows’ Pension law, told the
press today that such a ses-
sion seemed assured of suc-
cess today.
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Success loomed as a result
of the enthuiastic Highway
8 Mass meeting held last
night at the Goodhope School-
house in the interest of the
recent state offer to asphalt
the proposed 80-foot road pro-
vided a full 100 foot width
was secured.
Thirteen property owners
met with road officials, and
eleven of this number signed
an agreement to allow fences
and obstructions to be remov-
ed from their property in or-
der that the 100 foot margin
might be achieved. The re-
maining two expressed their,
intention of doing so at a later
date.
Road officials spoke with
considerable optimism this
morning and it is believed
that the long-dreamed road
will become a reality before
winter comes.
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Popular Pair
Pledge Vows On
Sunday Morning
Austin, Sept. 11 (By United Press)—
Governor Dan Moody today appointed J. H.
Walker, for twenty years chief clerk of the
General Land office, to fill the unexpired
term of J. T. Robison who was buried here
yesterday.
Walker stated when informed of his ap-
pointment that his sole desire would be to
carry on the ideals of James T. Robison, his
beloved chief, to whom he said he was in-
debted for many sterling principles of ad-
ministration.
The new Land. Commissioner is said to
be extremely popular in the capitol and
found immediate favor with Governor
Moody and other state officials.
Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 11—
(UP)—While Solicitor John
Carpenter pushed vigorously
his investigation of the kid-
napping of two organizers of
the National Textile Workers
union, and a textile striker in
Gastonia, attorneys for the
labor organization here said
Monday night civil and crim-
inal charges would be filed
immediately against eight
rpen said to have been recog-
nized in the mob.
The three returned to Char-
lotte early Tuesday and went
to a hotel where they told
their story.
Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Rogers today announced the
approaching marriage of their
daughter Miss Hazel, to Mr.
L. S. Muldrow, the happy
event to occur on Sunday
morning, September the fif-
teenth, at eight thirty o’clock
in the First Baptist church of
Center, with Rev. J. A. Smith
of Lindale officiating.
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Lufkin Defeats
Nacogdoches In
Third Fire Test
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Lindbergh Back
From New Mexico
Airplane Search
New York, Sept. 11, (UP)
—Col. and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh, returning from
New Mexico, landed at Roose-
velt field early Tuesday night.
They had taken off from St.
Louis Tuesday morning.
Lindbergh flew west in a
speed plane to join the search
for the T. A. T. air liner City
of San Francisco which crash-
ed on a mountainside with its
eight occupants.
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Texas Officers
PayLast Tribute
To J. T. Robison
Of considerable interest
this week is t h e announce-
ment of the celebration of
their Golden wedding by Mr.
and Mrs. R. P. Windham at
their home on Tenaha street,
Monday, September the six-
teenth, from 3:00 to 6:00 in
the afternoon and from 7:00
to 9:00 in the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Windham are
one of the best known couples
in Shelby county, and have
hosts of friends who will de-
light in sharing this notable
occasion with them. A cor-
dial invitaton has been ex-
tended to friends and relatives
all over the county to be pres-
ent. No formal invitations
will be distributed.
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Convict Mother
For Burn inn* Her
Child To Death
Mt. Enterprise
Wedding Held
In Cotton Field
Nacogdoches, Sept. 10—
.(Special) — With cotton
pickers as witnesses, Clif-
ton Johns and Miss Elsie
Conner of Mount Enter-
prise were married in a
cotton field by the Rev. G.
W. Nelson of Caro, a few
days ago. Nelson reports
,that the couple drove up to
{the side of the road where
he was picking, produced a
Jicense, and asked to be
parried right there. Call-
ing nearby cotton pickers
sjto act as witnesses, the
preacher made the pair
man and wife.
Newcastle, Wyoming, Sept.
11, (UP)—Admitting that he
had assumed the role of a
modern Robin Hood, C. D.
Waggoner, Telluride, Color-
ado bank pres., told how his
“Main street shrewdness” had
cost Wall Street wizards over
$500,000, shortly after being
captured in Chambers Park
here last night.
Waggoner stated that he
alone conceived arid executed
the gigantic New York swind-
le to repay his depositors for
losses sustained through op-
erations of Eastern financiers.
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Witness Says
Mrs. Pantages
Was Reckless
TODAY’S QUESTION
What city of eighty
{thousand population has no
hotels?
Mrs. W. E. Willis won
yesterday’s subscription
when she answered that
Aldus Manutius, Venetian
printer, 16th century, in-
vented punctuation marks.
Honorable mention to
|VIiss Ruth McElroy, Mrs.
Shorty Baugh and Miss
Maxine Williams.
Who’s next?
Port Arthur, Sept. 10.—
Four 12-year-old boys are be-
ing held here following their
confession to the theft of 25
automobiles during the last
15 days.
They were taken before
juvenile court in Beaumont
Monday afternoon and
charges filed, police announc-
ed.
Appearing before the City
Council yesterday, General
Manager Knox Lee of Mar-
shall, head of the Southwes-
tern Gas and Electric division
in this section, stated that his
company was ever ready to as-
sist in every way possible, and
further added that he hoped
at sometime in the future to
make an announcement which
would possibly be in line with
the recent request of the City
Fathers.
Current bills were approved
and other business attended
to by the council in a session
filled with activity and inter-
est.
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Four Boys Admit
Theft of Twenty
Five Automobiles
Los Angeles, Sept. 11 (UP)
—A state’s witness testified
Tuesday that in his opinion,
Mrs. Lois Pantages was under
the influence of intoxicating
liquor when she drove her
automobile into that of Joe
Rokumoto, for whose death
sh'e is on trial, charged with
second degree murder.
Under direct examination
Harry J. Ledebring. contract-
or, said that he had spoken to
Mrs. Pantages as well as ob-
served her asserted zigzag
driving just before the crash.
Previous to Lederbrink’s
appearance on the stand,
County Attorney Surgeon, A.
F. Wagner testified that he
believed Rokumoto died from
shock and injuries caused by
the accident and not as the
defense maintains, from an
operation during which he
succumbed.
The first actual witness to
the crash was called by the
state late in the day. Cyril
B. Holmes, a machinist, said
that after Mrs. Pantages had
passed his automobile on the
right he followed her at 30
miles an hour to get the lic-
ense number of her car.
He said that Mrs. Pantages
was driving recklessly and
that at Serrano street Roku-
moto made an effort to avoid
the crash, but too late. Holmes
testified Mrs. Pantages made
no eifort to stop when the
crash was imminment.
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Charges Planned
Against Eight In
Kidnaping Affair
Lufkin fire fighters defeat-
ed Nacogdoches in the third
of a series of tests Monday
night ,and thereby assured
themselves a handsome
spread, all at the expense of
the Nacogdoches fighters.
Lufkin did the rescue work
and the three hose laying
tests in a total of 74 seconds.
Nacogdoches required 78 sec-
onds for the same tests, Luf-
kin thereby won two of the
three contests.
Jt is expected that the feed
for the Lufkin fighters will
be arranged within the next
two weeks.—Lufkin News.
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Harvard Starts
City Planning
School Shortly
Austin, Texas, Sept. 10—
(UP)—Texas state officers
and capitol employees paid
final tribute to J. T. Robison,
state land commissioner for
21 years, as the body of the
aged man was laid to fest in
Oakland cemetery here.
All state departments were
closed today while Robison’s
body lay in state in the Senate
Chamber of the state capitol.
The flag above the capitol and
the land commission building
flew at half mast.
The body arrived Monday
night from New. London,
Conn., where Robison died
with pneumonia at the home
of his son, Dr. J. T. Robison,
Jr. The body was accompani-
ed by Mrs. Robison and her
son.
Campbridge, Mass., Sept.
11 (UP)—The first School of
City Planning in the United
States is to be established at
Harvard University this fall
with the aid of t h e Rocke-
feller Foundation.
Plans for the school, almost
completed, call for an organ-
ization similar to that of the
School of Landscape Archi-
tecture and- the School of Ar-
chitecture, and housed with
these schools in Robinson
Hall.
A chair of regional planning
given to Harvard by James F.
Curtis at the end of the last
academic year will be the
nucleus about which the new
school will be formed.
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NO POLITJCS
Albany, N. Y., (UP)—The
World Series knocks politics
for a loop in the opinion of
Mayor John Boyd Thacher,
2nd. So he is not going to
begin his campaign seeking
re-election until after the
champions have been picked,
Carthage, Texas, Sept. 10
(Special)—Five negroes are
in jail here and a sixth is be-
ing hunted by sheriff’s of-
ficers following the slaying
Sunday of Constable John
Fleming of Clayton, Texas.
Arraignment of the quintet is
being delayed as capture of
the other negro is expected
momentarily.
Fleming was slain at a
negro church two miles south
of Clayton after he had shot
and killed Amby Castleberry,
slain when he attempted to
a negro. Castleberry was
shoot the constable and as
Fleming was bending over the
black’s body to pick up his
victim’s gun he was shot to
death by a nearby group of
negroes, three bullets entering
his body. Before he died the
officer fired three shots at his
assailants.
Those who are held in jail
here charged with the shoot-
ing are: Davies Willie Jean
j CWIU ncu V'CtSLie-
y berry, brothers of the slain
negro; Robert Castleberry, his
father, and Charley Thomp-
son.
Funeral services were held
Sunday for Fleming.
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Legislature To
Be Called Into
Special Meet
Tokyo, Sept. 11 (UP) —
Considerable alarm was arous-
ed Tuesday by reports of a
typhoon of increasing intensi-
ty moving in the direction of
Fukagaka.
An area along the north-
west coast was flooded and
many trees were blown down.
Three days of rain flooded
some 3,000 houses in Greater
Tokyo and temroparily dis-
rupted traffic in various sec-
tions. The rains continued
because of typhoon conditions
but the damage is compara-
tively small.
Some fear was felt for
coastwise shipping in the
north.
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And there’s Dr. J. M.
Rogers telling of the activities
of a certain ditching machine.
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Mrs. Charles Napier, perpe-
tually pleasant.
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G. M. Stephens—He’ll haul
your troubles away.
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Constable Jess Samples, of
Shelbyville, mentioned as a
possible candidate for the
sheriff’s office.
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Bob Cook, steady, reliable,
meets all trains.
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Sanders Lyles, mathematic-
al wizard at Rice Institute,
preparing for another “’ear of
school.
Our good friend C. B. Har-
rell, of the Grigsby section,
who is an inveterate reader of
the News.
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Miss Maxine Williams who
received honorable mention
for being second to answer the
daily question yesterday.
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Mrs. Frank Short, shop-
ping.
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Latest budget statistics on
monthly upkeep of an aver-
age chorus girl:—Hair waves
$10; face powder $2; lipstick
$2; eyelid blueing 65 cents;
mascara 10 cents; manicures
$4; perfume, free from gen-
tlemen friends. Total over-
head $18.75.
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member united press Center, Texas, Wednesday, September 11, 1929
Los Angeles. Sept. 10 (UP)
—Mrs. Josenhine Valenti, 19-
year-old mother convicted of
burning to death her eight
months old baby, Tuesday
was 'sentenced to life im-
prisonment in San Quentin
pententiary.
A 30-day stay of execution
was granted by Superior
Judge Marshall McComb
when Attorney William Chris-
tianson filed notice of appeal
from the conviction and Judge
McComb’s order denying a
new trial.
The defense request for a
retrial was based upon the
testimony of 10-year-old Es-
ther Garcia, who had told of
seeing Mrs. Valenti drop a
lighted match into the in-
fant’s carriage. The defense
pointed out that the girl had
admitted on the stand that
she did not know the truth
from a lie.
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