Abilene Morning Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - October 3, 1926, Abilene, Texas ABILENE MORNING VOLUME 1 Associated Press Day and Night Wires ABILENE TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 3 1926 FORTY-SIX PARES Price 5 Cents NUMBER 29 DRIVER KILLED Mayor Opposes Limit In NT APPROVES SOME CHANGES Thinks Police Chiefs Office Should Be Under Com- Control Recommendations for changes in the Abilene city ment as made by a citizens charter committee to the Board of Commissioners Friday were endorsed Saturday by Mayor Charles E the sixth whici recommends that the salaries of the mayor com- missioners and city secretary be fised by the charter Mayor Coombes believes there should be no charter limitation of aries of these officers Salary Recommendation Recommendations for changes in the Abilene city government as made by a citizens charter committee to the Board of Com- missioners Friday were endorsed Saturday by Mayor Charles E the sixth which recommends that the salaries of the mayor commissioners and secretary be fixed by the charter Mayor Coombes believes there should be no charter tation of salaries of these officers The committee recommends that the salary of the mayor be fixed at an amount not exceeding per annum that the com- missioners each be paid a month for their services with the amount be fixed in the charter and the salary of the city secretary be fixed at an mount not exceeding Con- this recommendation yor Coombes said to the I find myself at variance with the salaries suggested in the sixth recommendation of the committee I think there should be no such charter limitation The charter can be amended only every two years and there should be enough elasticity in the salaries of the maximum is to be fixed to vide for adequate compensation the services to be performed and as the city grows without periodically having to a- mend the charter Committee Recommends The report of the charter com- of which H N Hickman is chairman included dations to change the method of electing school trustees that the office of chief of police be and under control of the Board of Commissioners that an auditor be employed that tery support be safeguarded by taxation that the salaries of mayor and commissioners be raised and that the city's i arles be enlarged I have read with much In- terest the recommendations made by the citizen's charter com- published in today's lene Morning News and it shall be my purpose to carry these recommendations into Mayor Coombes said In the main I indorse them but with some I find myself at variance The men composing this committee are loyal and patriotic citizens representing different business and professional interests and to whose good Judgment I cheerfully yield Trustees The first recommendation con- the election of trustees four at one election and three at the next and ing the remaining trustees to fill vacancies Is a pressing and needed change It takes time for a new official to become with the duties of his office and there should always be on the School Board a number of to properly link the past with the present and the future and to keep school affairs moving with as loss of time as possible By electing all the trustees at one election there Is too much danger of the school Buffering while the new officials are be- coming familiar with conditions and the duties required of them There Is no reason why cies should not be filled by the remaining members of the board The second recommendation la an important went on the Abilene mayor Under the ter as it is now stands vacancies in the office of city commissioners are required to be tion unless the vacancy occurs within four months of the next general election Chief of Police The of police should be an and not an tive office and sion should have full authority over the as OX PAGE 12 SEVEN PERSONS LOSE LIVES AS HUGE AIRSHIP FALLS TO GROUND IN FLAMES By The Associated Press Kent England Oct persons five of them passengers met death this afternoon when a French air union plane enroute from Paris to Croydon burst into flames only a few miles from its destination and crashed near here Every person aboard the great air liner was burned beyond recognition in the seething furnace The nationality of the five passengers was not definitely determined tonight but it was believed that they were all lish The pilot and mechanic were French Physicians stated that the charred bodies three men and two women were taken from the cabin but the French Air Union in Paris sued a statement saying that it was believed that there were two men and three women aboard of Victims The names of the passengers are given out by the line with the probably e o rect were as Gertrude Hall Margaret Stainton Flora Parker L Hamilton and Joseph Noble The pilots name was Mallett and the mechanic's Bowyer The addresses were not able At least one of the women sengers was alive when the plane struck the ground She died while the overseer of a nearby farm struggled unsuccessfully to rescue her The woman's terrified face could be seen through the roaring flames She was clutching her purse desperately Before the over- seer could get to was ob- by the flames and smoke Plane Dives to Earth Edward Sands the overseer told NEW FLOODS IN OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS Stricken Areas Already Have Suffered Heavily In Life And Property By The Associated Press Recovering from a flood which took a toll of six lives and millions damage Bribed Trooper In Probe of dollars two weeks eastern Kansas and in property ago f a correspondent for Press that he The saw the plane burst into flames near the tall when about 600 feet in the air It dived to earth The was followed by two explosions and flames 30 feet high shot into the air enveloping the wreckage and making it Impossible to rescue the passengers who were piled In a heap within the burning cabin The pilot was thrown several feet in front of the cockpit but also burned to death The weather was perfect and the cause of the accident had not been determined tonight The tragedy Is the second channel airplane accident in the nast two months a plane enroute from Le Bourget to Croyden ing near Folkestone causing the death of three persons and the in- jury of nine others One American was killed and six others were injured in this crash The plane was a sister ship to the plane which crashed today STAMFORD Texas Oct Roy Pernell 16 son of Mr and Mrs W H Pernell of this is In a Hospital here In a serious condition with a fractured skull as a result of an automobile accident on the highway one mile east of Saturday Pernell brother of Roy and another youth named Scott also were Injured less seriously when the automobile in which the trio were riding overtur isd FISHER TEST IS SHUT DOWN AT 3390 FEET Special to the ROTAN Oct bailing considerable oil Friday from its test on section 113 block 1 H T C railway survey Fisher ty the Ideal Oil company shut down the well today to await the arrival of casing Oil was struck at feet late Thursday A cave-In followed and casing was ordered for the 400 feet of open hole The test is on the Martin ranch 10 miles east of Hotan The Ideal company of Denver Colo ded the test la The the extent of which still is un- known came after the bit had bored through several feet of hard lime A light gas pressure Is re- ported from the well Rotan is crowded to capacity tonight Scores of operators and other oil men ar- rived Friday and Saturday Leasing la active tho price in the vicinity Oklahoma were menaced by high waters again early today Torrential rains Friday and which at some points measured eight inches sent streams out of their banks in lew places and as the waters flood several cities MILLER WILL LEAD VETS TO PORTARTHUR Seventeen From Abilene 2 From Anson Form Texas Reunion Contingent Abilene will have seventeen representatives and Anson two on a special Pullman leaving here Monday or Tuesday morning for the Port Arthur reunion of the Texas Division United Confederate Veterans The runion dates are October An Gen R A Miller is commander of the Texas ion and also commander of the local veterans camp Tom Green No 72 He will head the party He said last night that the time of de- parture had not been settled but that the Pullman would likely be attached to the Sunshine Special Tom Green camr will be sented by General Miller J A Ault lieutenant commander J J Robinson adjutant H L Bentley Listed Missing Man Was Trying To Start His Car COLEMAN Texas Oct Postmaster L M Wyatt of Silver Valley near here re- ported missing was found this morning He is an elderly man and had gone to Novice Re- turning he killed the and could not start his car Reports of his disappearance spread He was located this morning about 3 o'clock STEERING CONTROL IS LOST HASKELL Texas Oct MeacHam well known auto racer of Pawhuska Okla was instantly killed this afternoon at the fair grounds when his car left the track jumping a high embankment and breaking the driver's neck Meacham was rounding the curve of the track in the ond lap of the third race at a furious pace when his machine without warning plunged over the embankment landing feet below He had been having trouble with his steering gear Henry Carpender Defendants Notorious tery Are Granted rate Trials By The Associated Press NEW YORK N Y Oct 2 The New York Times will say morrow it learns authoritatively that Henry L Dickman former to rise threatened to j New Jersey state trooper has made an affidavit averring he judge advocate general of the as division on the staff of the com- John Kean Henry Johnson and L A Butler Sponsors and Matrons Miss Sarah Ault will accompany j Ranger policeman the party as sponsor of Tom Green Brothers Brought From Pen To Answer For Death Of Ranger Officer EASTLAND Oct Acting upon his own motion Judge George L Davenport of the was paid by La traffic was disrupted Damage to bridges and highways was reported Seavy Flee Danger Swollen by the heavy rains the Verdigris Caney Elk and Fall rivers and smaller streams were on a rampage Many families had fled from the river bottoms Warnings were broadcast by radio and other means to persons in valleys Bruyere Carpender to camp Mrs S A Bacon and Mrs Eunice Cline as matrons of Tom Green chapter Daughters of the Confederacy and Misses Bonnie Mae Christian and Dorothy Sande- fer as maids of honor For the state division Mrs D Stephens and Mrs John C Edwards both of Anson will go as and Misses Winnifred Fisher and Lynda Robertson of Abilene as maids of honor District Court this morning trans- ferred the cases of Luke and Cleve Barnes charged with murder growing out of the killing of at Ranger in February of 1925 to Palo Pinto county for trial at an early date Daniels was killed in a gun tle with what Is thought to have been a gang of automobile thieves in the outskirts of Ranger as was enroute home from the city after he had been relieved from duty by a brother officer The killing took place just be- fore daylight oh a Sunday morning and it is believed he lost trol of it The car a Chevrolet Special was badly damaged Meacham entered Friday's races but did not drive the same car as he did today The dent marked the first fatality on the local track Meacham was widely known In this section as a racer and before coming here raced at the West Texas Fair at Abilene Two of his brothers are on the way here and will accompany the body to Cleburne where burial will be made Roy Meacham killed yesterday at Haskell was a popular figure on the Abilene track During the West Texas Fair he drove a rolet Special and won third place in the five-mile event on the first day of the races He also raced here last year Veteran Of Indian Wars Dies At Port Arthur By The Associated Press PORT ARTHUR Texas Oct 2 P Nell 85 veteran of the Indian wars was found dead In bed here today Death was caused by his drop his of the murder case early in 1923 Cor- pender is of the four body chambers empty sons indicted for the murder of mayor Of Abilene T A Bledsoe Later an automobile with bullet Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall Js to the Arthur holes ln several places in the body The Sons of Veterans will be Daniels gun was found near higher ground Reports said that the gris had left its banks at Neo- desha and Altamont Kansas and Coffeyville Kansas further stream feared overflow Sunday which would inundate the out- skirts of the city Waters from the Verdigris had cut off highways north and east of Kansas the town which suffered worst in the flood of two Kansas weeks where ago eight Cedarvale inches of rain fell Friday bringing the total for the week to 12 inches isolated the Santa and Mrs Mills By The Associated Press SOMERVILLE N J Oct Supreme Court Justice Parker day granted the request of Special Prosecutor Simpson for a ance in the case by which Henry Carpender will be tried separately from the other three defendants As a result of today's ruling Mrs Frances Stevens Hall and her and will be the first to go to trial for the murders in 1922 of the Rev Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills November 3 was set as date for the first trial By The Associated Press NTW YORK N Y Oct Felix Dimartini private detective convention and is being boomed as the Sons next chief and Y P Kuhn drum major of the Simmons University Cowboy band official musical organization of the Texas and United Confederate Veterans ln bush near Cleve and Luke Barnes both of whom are serving terms in the state penitentiary are now in the Eastland county jail where they were brought some weeks ago on Fe and Missouri Pacific tracks j charged with being an accessory Mayor Coombes will make every j bench warrants Issued by Judge effort to in response to Davenport tent invitations He has been a j T great favorite with the veterans j since his speeches during the j lene convention last year j Amalgamation Sought The Abilene delegation backed j by the prestige of having in General Miller the mander will offer Gins Pass Mark For This Season WINTERS Texas Oct though there Is still a shortage of state com- cotton pickers In this territory Leaving his home in New York state as a boy Nell went west enlisting In the army Hla company was at the scene of the battle of Little Big Horn the day the Custer massacre and he In burying Custer's men slain by Indians a resolution written by Col H L Bentley to amalgamate the Veterans Sons of cotton is coming in fast Reports yesterday showed that more than bales have been ginned If Veterans and Daughters of the j the weather continues favorable Confederacy into one body i there is a probability that the Colonel Bentley said i mark will exceed bales this It has been sixty-one years since i week having been washed out The Big Caney river went out of Its banks there sending residents along the stream to the bluffs Water In Depot At Elk Kans 14 inches of water was reported in the Elk still souri river Pacific depot The and Duck Creek are rising there Sedan a town of in county Kansas was re- CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 i Mrs McPherson Undaunted Prepares For Services LOS ANGELES Calif Oct Undaunted by the attacks made upon her during the court hearing this week Aimee Semple son evangelist charged with a hoax in with her disappearance at Ocean Park last May today went about preparing for the Sunday services In her usual energetic manner She was preparing for what she de- clared would be the largest com- service in the world to be held at Angelus Temple row when more than five and communicants will be served with the sacrament after the fact In the j Lee surrendered at Appomattox The ginners of Winters have In- case was arrested in Brooklyn Courthouse The youngest Con- creased their capacity for taking night by two state troopers from federate veteran now living care of the crop haying Installed New Jersey was chief of the private detectives employed traditions of the old South and the gins were erected by the Farmers Mrs Frances Stevens Hall four j principles we fought for Unless Gin Company and another by the years ago when the bodies of the Sons and Daughters come Gin Company and the Carlisle and nearing eighty and in a few two new gins last summer none will be left to carry on the ing the total up to ten The new Decherd Enroute To Penitentiary AUSTIN Texas October A Decherd former state senator is on his way to Texas prison un- accompanied to surrender and be- gin serving a term on two tions growing out of swindling charges A five day furlough was granted him by Governor Miriam A son when he appeared before her Thursday asking a pardon to mit his getting to prison without being taken into custody before he arrived He is hoping for a don soon Seventeen of the 31 state senators signed a petition for his release and other petitions are now being prepared Decherd In 1917 husband and Mrs Evelyn Mills choir singer were found Robert H McCarter chief of the defense counsel in the present investigation previously had re- fused to produce Dimartini arrest is the fifth since the of the investigation our organization on equal Hinds Gin Company with us sitting in our sessions and jn addition to the ginning having the ballot and gradually duties the Western Compress absorbing us the story ot the j company has erected a large Southern Confederacy will soon be house for storage of cotton with n By The Associated Press La Oct Five persons were burned to death Saturday when fire destroyed the Sibley Hotel and an entire block at 30 miles east of here Pratt Ward Minchew section foreman his wife Mrs Minchew proprietor of the hotel two sons Arthur 15 and Pratt Ward Jr 12 and their nephew Ben of Castor La are known dead Three other persona are be- to have been burned to death A man and his wife and baby were seen to get off the train Ing from Miss and go to the hotel and register Their bodies are believed to be In the ruins but a sentimental memory We want the younger people to j take the torch and keep our j of approximately into the slaying under State j tions burning and to that end j Jersey special prosecutor pointed by Governor Moore OKLAHOMA CITY Oct Bishop Payne Thurston head of the Oklahoma diocese of the Episcopal church announced day he had resigned effective October 15 because of the tion of his health Five Persons Hurt When memorialize the U C V Is Derailed at Tampa next year to j By The mate the three bodies and low the old fellows to step aside while they are still able to step A fund sufficient to defray all expenses of the seven veterans DECATUR Cv persons were injured and a score shaken up and bruised when a Decatur to Clinton Illinois Carol Head 13 Dies Following An Operation Carol Head age 13 son of A F Head Poplar street died last i night at a local hospital following an operation earlier in the week i The body will be taken overland to Roby this morning by the Laughter Undertaking Company where burial will be made Deceased Is survived by his father one sister Mrs Vivian Henderson and two brothers Clarence and Homer i Arrangements are In charge of i the Laughter Undertaking Com- pany about for each man was Interurban car left the tracks scribed last week by Abilene three miles north of Moroa late ness men this evening Noodle Creek Oil Is Rich In Gas No Sulphur Fumes A pool of 40.8 gravity oil with gas that produces five gallons of gasoline per cubic j feet with no water or hydrogen sulphide It is these things that have brought and continue to j the large operators Into the Noodle i Creek area 20 miles west of lene that was opened three weeks j feet of gas daily This IK said by experienced the largest companies to be the richest gas found In a new well in Texas Being good for five gallons of gasoline per cubic feet the gasoline value of the well is ly as great as that of the crude oil It is significant In this west Exploration company's ton No 1 the southwest offset to the discovery well was 203 feet deep The Marland company spudded in at noon Saturday on the Mason tract the west offset and had drilled 50 feet at 10 p m The Phillips company Saturday closed a contract with Wheeler ago when the Phillips Petroleum i tion that the Phillips Petroleum and Swann for water rights on the company's Joe Winter well came j company specializes in the in at feet for barrels i tion of gasoline of the well from to aon for the I of James E The discovery well continues to flow to 1.000 daily The oil is entirely free from water Moreover the absence of sulphur not only is a reason for the high quality of the oil but enhances the value of the gas for purposes Richest Thf original well flowed barrel's Friday an off day On uliti production And it cubic section of Creek in Fisher county three miles west of the well Two dams will be built and the right-of-way for a Although gas In the Big Lake j pipe line has already been well has therefore brought In a peculiarly adapted to its needs field 125 miles south and that in the Panhandle field is heavy with hydrogen the Noodle Creek gas does not have this As a result casing crews are visiting the Phillips site dally to examine the gag They wish to locate where there are no fumes Other Tests Down j Creek each At Saturday in iu well cured Th's will solve the water problem for the which Is to spud In on the Walling south of the discovery well The Midwest and Marland ob- water only drilling a half dozen walla each but now are fixed to continue So the race now on at striving to Burglary Charge Returned Against Young Sanderson Special to Tho News COLEMAN Texas Oct F i Sanderson Jr charged with der In connection with the killing of his father September 31 has been Indicted by the grand Jury of Coleman county on a charge of burglary He made bond today and was released The burglary charge against Sanderson grows out of an officers made into killing of his father Three others were also Indicted It la alleged j that the home of Nathaniel ton a negro was entered August 29 and a talking machine pistol electric fan and two purses taken burglary indictment came a distinct surprise Sanderson re- cently opened a new meat market on Trial of the case charging murder haa been set for October IS no date set In the burglary IS GOING HOME FOR RECOVERY Injured Race Driver ing From Shock Denied To Interviewers Dick Calhoun confined at ths Baptist Sanitarium with injuries received during a race at the West Texas Fair left for his home in Cleveland Okla last night Calhoun suffered a severe vous shock as result of the dent and while his chance for complete recovery Is good at- tendants at the sanitarium denied reporters the opportunity of Ing to him for fear that it might produce a nervous relapse Events of the accident it is said are still rather hazy In Calhoun's mind and it was not deemed best for him that he be Interviewed He was conveyed to the station In an ambulance and was placed on a sleeper father who has been at his bedside left for Fort Worth morning is to meet hia son there and accompany him home Calhoun's conditions was closely of Abilene during his stay at the It was decided to take him homo In the belief that he will Improve faster with his family Calhoun was hurt when his car plunged over the railing and em- as it rounded the curve at the west end of the West Texas Fair track FIGHT LOOMS AH vn TAX MEASURE AUSTIN Texas Oct short division between the house and senate of the legislature here in special session on the best plan for increasing the per capita scholastic apportionment loomed Saturday The house favors a three cent gasoline tax as the best plan while many senators oppose that tax and favor an tion from the general revenue Representative F A Dale of Bonham author of the three cent gasoline tax and motor tion bills which passed the house by substantial margins told the Associated Press that house cates Of the gasoline tax would oppose of a funds from the general revenue for school purposes until the senate acts on the gasoline It Is conceded there are strong opponents to the three cent line tax in the senate and a number of house leaders have charged these are attempting to defeat the by keeping It In the on state until the legislature has adjourned By the middle of next week both branches virtually have cleared their calendars and forts will be made In each to adjourn sine die House gasoline tax advocates will oppose ad- the senate has acted on the Dale and ing to block adjournment will petition Governor A guson to call a second To Ask New Session An effort to place the on record as favoring a second seslon unles the gasoline tax is disposed of will be made Monday when a resolution to that effect will be offered The resolution is signed by Dale Wallace of ON PACE 13 The Weather partly cloudy probably scattered showers Jn north and portions day partly cloudy EAST and Monday partly cloudy to cloudy probably scattered showers to fresh southeast winds on the coast
