Avalanche-Journal (Newspaper) - July 21, 1929, Lubbock, Texas V And M College Contests Starts The Day On The South THE SOUTH PLAINS OWN NEWSPAPER VOL 3 MO 45 id 47 Pages T im 1 TEXAS SUNDAY JULY MEAKS BY ASSOCIATED Here There And With Associated Press i Strike Ultimatum Issued ORLEANS July 20 latum was served on both the car company and the Union day by the city commission coun to get together Monday and rt negotiations to settle the strike that has tied up trolley ser vice here since July 2 Calles On Way To U S MEXICO CITY July 20 Former President Plutarco Ellas left here at 9 oclock tonight Ion a special train for Laredo Texas Ion the first stage of his journey to Europe for a feW months of relax ation He will proceed directly to York where he will spend a days before sailing for France Police Held PHOENIX July 20 aur Phoenix police officers were ld for trial in superior court on of murder late today fol Dwing preliminary hearing here icy pleaded not guilty The of M S Freasier Ray Shockey iley Shockey and W A Walker lere charged with shooting to death be Bu in an alleged drug Dre robbery last January Border Guard Slain In m Donna Divorce CHICAGO July 20 divorce granted today to Edith Mason prima donna of the Chi iigo Civic Opera company from Polacco director of the same timpany The decree gives Miss Ma custody of their Lighter Grace No alimony A property settlement made out of illiams Heads Dry Group DALLAS July 20 W skine Williams of Fort Worth to was elected president of the exas AntiSaloon league at the ly annual meeting of the cx board here He pledged him to carry out aggressively the ces of the league Leahy Witnesses Called July 20 fP 100 witnesses have been call i testify in the sanity trial of Leahy convicted of the mur i May of 1926 of Dr J A Ram Df Mathis which is scheduled to Monday morning More than witnesses have been called by defense in its effort to support by Miss Amanda Dav of Taylor that she believed insane The defense that nt least three other lawyers will Join the tle staff for the trial To Hurry Back YORK July 20 J assistant to Trubee F Dn i assistant secretary of war for ition tonight announced receipt message from Capt Ross G ft army pilot on a round trip it to Nome Alaska in which the said he would not stop at Nome merely would circle the city and his return to New York Property Seized STAMFORD July 20 of Tunney retired boxing champion of tho was attached here today in suit brought by John S of Fort Worth charging of affections is the former husband o Catherine who is su Tunney for the same amount breach of promise Booze Smugglers And Yank Patrol Stage Gun Battle Bullets Zip As Ambush Set By Mexicans Results In Battle Tip Is Given To Guardsmen Several Wounded Blood Stains Found After Runin Near El Paso And Belief Is Several Booze Runners Were Injured By Associated Press TIL PASO July by J a large force of Mexican rum runners six American border patrol men early today fought a pitched battle on the Rio Grande near and drove off the attackers after one of their party Ivan E Scot ten 25 had been shot and killed The engagement occurred at San Island Bullets were ex changed across the river which forms the international boundary striking on both American soil Inspector Scotten fell with two bullets in his body and died instant ly Several smugglers were believed wounded The battle was one of the most desperate of a long of armed clashes in the last lew years in guarding almost miles of des country along the boundary against the forays of smugglers The border patrolmen have fallen into ambushes on several occasions Awaited Smugglers Scotten who recently became a member of the patrol and five other border guards were lying in wait or rum smugglers following a tip that a big was io be brought across Just before dawn H J Horsley chief tor stationed the six men at the Habeas Corpus Proceedings Heard In District Court Win Bond For Strickel Ruths Injuries Believed Slight j CLEVELAND July 20 j again it seems that the I ailments of Babe Ruth have been exaggerated and fears for his I I future prematurely aroused j After a rather gloomy forecast of the situation last night folj 1 lowing upon another injury toj the ligaments of one of Ruths legs Manager Miller Huggins to day talked more optimistically about the Babes condition and changes of returning to the game shortly The big fellow himseLf was onj the bench in uniform growling about being perfectly able to dot isome pinch hitting even if hej could not run very well or very fast BORDER Page 9 Sizzles In Heat 3USTOK July 20 Saturday in its hottest dru year the mercury climbing degrees nt p the bureau reported Pre for the year was 96 de j recorded June 22 ers Escape j Texas Officers AUSTIN 20 yp who rarly today while e establishment nt near I tonight apparently had f Mlc soort their escape urs of by from Io counties and a of blood i I rn making their break for m the pair left behind them a bl of stolen automobiles i ono vehicle in a creek I I and a second when I into a tree trail was last in of search failed I al any trace of the men maf today revealed that of valued at s i fM loot Situation Eases Both Nations Declare They Will Remember Treaty of War Abolishment Peace Is Conditional Br Associated Press Russia and China through ial spokesmen have pledged their loyalty to the Kellogg AntiWar pac and some of the International ten sion over the situation was felt to be relaxed by their de cision However each made it that this position depended upon absence of over acts by the other Commissar acting head of the Russian government anc Foreign Minister C T Wang of the Nationalist government their nations had not forgotten the obligations of a signatory of the pact Peace Is Conditional Both made their peace pledges conditional on abstention of their opponents from what de scribed ns warlike Foreign Minister Wang said that any move on the part of the Soviet to place troops within Manchuria will be viewed by the Chinese people and government as an act of Governor Is Left To Cut Expenses As Solons Leave Legislators Go Home As Moody Prepares To Slash Appropriations Left Executive Desk On By R W BARRY Associated Press Staff AUSTIN July 20 Texas legislature has shaken the dust of Sanitarium Will Build Large New Home For Nurses Four Story 16th And Avenue M Will Cost Plans Are Now Being Drawn Up Plans are now being drawn for a new 4story building to be used as a nurses home in connec tion with the Lubbock Sanitarium according to an announcement Sat by Dr M C Overton A site has been purchased for the new structure from Mrs Carl Bob eras a quarter block of five lots lo at the corner of 16th street and Avenue M four blocks south of the headquarters building Construction Sewn Construction is expected to start within the next 30 days Plans will have been finished by S B Haynes architect in two weeks when bids will be received and contract let soon after From the date of start ing estimates say that the building will be ready for occupancy in four months the new build ing will be used as a gymnasium a heating plant storage and trunk rooms etc The second floor will contain reception parlors and recre ation space while the third and fourth floors will all be used for sleeping quarters containing 75 rooms The entire building will be Rancher Makes Bond Of After Hear ings End Large Delegation To Attend Short Course This Year Austin from it feet leaving behind Texans Sooners Talk On Border OKLAHOMA CITY July 20 from the legisla tures of Texas and Oklahoma agreed here today on a for which might Ve willing to surren der its claim to acres lopped off from Oklahoma by a Federal Boundary survey but were not in accord ns to other terms which would hn involved in the transfer Oklahoma agreed lo pay Texas for sovereignty over the land but this was as far as the ne got Two proposals were submitted One by a member of the Texas and one by a member of the Oklahoma committee Both were rejected Sugar Tariff Row Revived WASHINGTON July 20 erost in the sugar tariff was IR 1ved today after disclosing that the plan of Senator Smoot Utah provided a maxi mum dun of P pound an Cuban ihr same as rate in the hUi a sheaf of money bills for Governor Moody to consider Now the legislature is through it is up to Governor Moody to whittle down the total appropriations if he hopes to have the automatic board set the ad valorem levy not to ex ceed 22 cents on the the pres ent rate Maximum Limit Is Placed He had sent the legislature back in third extraordinary session to re vamp the money bills because he said they exceeded the state revenue even with the ad valorem tax 35 cents the constitutional limit He said that total should not exceed He placed the maximum limit at The total of the vetoed bills was New bills passed and now before the Governor aggregat ed a reduction of more than The governor still believes appropriations are too high and has gone on record in favor of another session to further reduce them in the event he cannot do that work with his blue pencil Governor In Tight Position If he calls another session he will be criticized and if he deletes from the money measures there will be exclamations of horror from those budding who feel the sharp edges of the ax The facts are The four major ap bills for support of the judiciary departments and j throughout Will Help Sanitarium With the completion of the new structure twentyfive rooms on the first floor of the clinic building now being used as quarters by nurses will be released for enlarging of pa quarters According to the announcement shrubbery and grass will be planted for the beautification of the grounds while tennis courts and other play grounds will be built for recreation of the nurses The need for such a building has been evident for some said Dr Overton decision for its con struction came in line with the ex pansion program of the New Staff Men Added A PARTIALLY filled courtroom in xi which were a number of swarthy Mexican friends of the dead T jl man witnessed the release on 000 bond Saturday of W T Strickel I of Lubbock following habeas corpus proceedings before Judge Homer L Pharr in 72nd district court Mr Strickel is charged with mur der in connection with the fatal shooting Thursday of Francisco Ca rasco Mexican at Strickels Coch ran county ranch Attorneys Agree District Attorney Burton S Burks did not oppose the applica tion for bail and agreed with the de fense counsel firm or Vickers and Campbell of Lubbock that the case is bailable Order for the release on bond was entered by agreement R A Holland Ross Edwards and C L Adams are bondsmen After attorneys for the state and the defense had agreed on a 000 bond in the case Justice of Peace J P Taylor of Morton ruled Friday that the case was not bail Contests For 4H Clubs Of County Are Held Rotary And Kiwanis Clubs Will Help Send Delegates Resigns Post I able and ordered the defendants re moval to the Kockley county jail he was held until the habeas corpus proceedings were instituted yesterday And Miss Baird Will Head 25 To 30 Of County Farm Folk In Trip Down i To College Station by D F Eaton agent and Miss Baird home demonstration agent Lubbock countys delegation to A and M colleges twentieth annual summer short course which begins July 29 will leave next Saturday There will be about 25 or 30 in the entire party Saturday members of the 4H farm clubs of the county who were competing for places on the various and other divisions were selected after several weeks work in practice judging carried on by Mi Eaton and Miss Baird Thirteen Boys Seven Girls There will be 13 boys and seven Perjury Charges Filed On Texans Four Persons Among Whom Is Defendants Wife Are Indicted Following Lois Wilson Murder Case liott Liberty and Acuff Grain Ey Associated Press TYLER Texas July 31 Four persons including the wife of the defendant were under indictments here today in connection with tes timony in the Lois Wilson murder trial last March The indictments returned against Mrs May Wilson J L Farley Ed gar Cash and A S Wilson charged alleged perjury except that against Wilson who was charged with an attempt to have a witness in a ha beas corpus hearing testify falsely Wife Lied Claim Mrs Wilson was charged with roc Two new doctors and a dentist i having told the truth when she have been added to the working or Dr R L Powers doing general practice and in obstetrics for the past year asso with the St Louis maternity hospital is a Dr B J Roberts of Atlanta general prac tice and specializing in genito urin ary diseases also has established of fices in the sanitarium General den tal work is being done by Dr Y W Rogers with office in the clinic Sc GOVERNOR Pape 9 ARE FINED Fortune Telling Band To County Here Four gypsies Saturday morning plead guilty to charges of vagrancy n the court of Justice of Peace G a Scott and paid fines totalling together with lawyer fees of some Officers state that though the bands will plead guilty they never fail to hire a lawyer and transact their legal business The law of the state of Texas al most declares open season on gyp sies stating that any band is guilty of vagrancy where one or more make their living by telling for With The Fliers Four places all trying to break i I the endurance record of 246 j hours 43 minutes now held by j I and Roland Reinhart of nia were still flying at an early hour this morning as the Ava went to press Associated Press advices were jas follows Billion Dollar Houston completed seventh re j fueling and was more than 84 hours aloft St Louis more than 187 hours in the air j had eclipsed all records save that jof Mendell and Reinhart Kw Shreveport passed its 87th hour Missouri St Louis passed its 88th hour j Motors on all the planes were j I running smoothly testified she had met the Rev Fount Wallace Troup pasir on several occasions at the home here of Mrs Laura Dobbs The indictment against Wilson an uncle of the defendant charged him with attempting to have Mrs to testify falsely Indictments against Farley a former Troup constable and Cash also of Troup were in connection with testimony given regarding the movements of the pastor and Mrs Wilson Wilson was convicted by a jury here of slaying the Rev Wallace at Troup and was given a threeyear penitentiary sentence An appeal in the case is now pending girls in these teams as given below Dairy Potts Can yon Jack Stalcup Slaton Fred El C Pounds B Haught Shallowater Avle Liberty and George Railsback Acuff Poultry Aubrey Pounds Acuff and Edwin Merrill Hardy Special Earl Fine Posey and Ir win Reed Slaton Clubs Are Helping The Lubbock Kiwanis club is pay ing all expenses of the course for one of the members of the Purebred Hampshire Gilt club which is be ing sponsored by that organization This member has not yet been se I J Thornton president of the Texas Farm club boys federa After serving as president of the automobile com pany for more than a score of years John N Willys has retired Rumors are connecting him with an Ameri can diplomatic post in Europe Local Men To Go To Highway Meet In Altus Monday Carlsbad Cavern Group To Lay Plans To Give More Publicity To Koute To Be Invited Here Believing that a large slice of transcontinental highway traffic is being lost to Lubbock because of the fact that the Carlsbad Cavern high way from Oklahoma City to El Paso has not been well enough advertised a group of local citizens will tomor row attend a meeting of the Carls bad Cavern Highway association scheduled at Altus Oklahoma This highway has been logged tion will be among the Lubbock mapped and marked from county boys to attend also ma city to E1 Paso through Law Of the girls the following have ton and Altus Quanah and Lubbock Texas Lovington and Clothing Contest School dress Carlsbad N but there has not Downfall Covers Vast Section To Benefit Farmers Reports From All Sections Of Plains And East Part Of New Mexico Say Rains Highly Beneficial Everybody Happy Business Men And Planters Alike Welcome Moisture Which Will Help Cotton And Feed Greatly reports of generat B rains over a wide expanse of Panhandle and South Plains terri tory reaching into New Mexico and ranging as far north as Amar illo south to the T P at Spring and Abilene crop over the entire western portion oi Texas will be greatly benefitted amf prospects are bright for yields While local precipitations at late hour last night were said to W comparatively light with a fall d onetenth of an inch this will aid materially in the produc tion of fall crops Cotton through this section while just at this not particularly in need of rain will benefit Sarly feed in some parti reported to be in danger are insured by the extra moisture Prospects for business in the faD are brightened with the insurance of a well seasoned territory and business houses look forward to prosperity following the harvest oj bumper crops Reports of local banks show that trade conditions at this time are very good and thai deposits while now larger than have ever been bid fair to increase to figures yet unrecorded Special telephone and telegraph See KArNS Tatre Special Session s TI n Officially Ends dress Willie Hope Poultry Hud son Hardy Team Demonstrations Dyeing and renovation Wicker and Jewell Wilson Posey Approved footwear Elizabeth Hudson and Fay Midleton Hardy Ladies Will Go Included in the county j delegation will also be the following i ladies Mrs Ed Schroeder Wolffarth winner of first place in class one afternoon j been sufficient time for the routing j Watches Run Up And Sol Prather New t0 HP known ni IT i to oe Known ons QO Through Formal ity Of Traditional Times Five There At Close Sec FARMERS Page 9 Building Closes Good Week Here Boost For Lubbock Before the highway was created there were only three routes known that lead from Oklahoma City to El Paso by way of the Caverns These were by Amarillo Plainview and by the Bankhead highway Fort Worth With Carlsbad Caverns receiving bigger and bigger play the state of New Mexico is destined to become the nations greatest drawing card to tourist travel within the next few years is the belief of many who are acquainted with the facts it is claimed the Lee Br Press AUSTIN July 144 days to its credit and almost 112 years to go the legislature ad today With sine die adjournment set for noon the clocks in the respective houses were run up and formalities of quitting gone through at 9 a m Senators Gus Russek of burg president pro tern and Thom as B Love of the only City through Plainview has more traffic over it than any other road REUNION IS HELD Hodges Brothers Greet Old Friends After 30 Years Greeting each other for the first time in thirty years and recalling school day experiences Monroe Stringer of Childress W A Terrell J A and IS y Hodges of Lubbock are talking over boyhood days while Mr Stringer is visiting in this city with his sister Mrs W A Terrell and family The Hodges brothers Mr Terrell and Mr Stringer all attended school thirty years ago at Roberts now known as Quinlan Mr Stringer is accompanied here by his wife A good week of building permits was set with the issuance Saturday j of three permits totalling and bringing the total for the week to j approximately half for the entire month Valuations for the year now stand at while those of the month are in the shadow of one hundred thousand at Saturdays permits were issued J highway running from Oklahoma members of the upper house in at tendance In the lower house Rep Eugene V Giles of Aus tin wielded the gavel Representa tive Leonard Tillotson Sealy moved adjournment and Represent ative B J Forbes of Weatherford prayed The legislature is likely to be call ed again next winter to re port and recommendations of the penitentiary centralization commit tee See MEX 9 MRS GREEN IS DEAD Brownfield In Pioneer Passes Saturday Allen Brothers Legion Post Here Starts Campaign To Aid Tubercular Wife Of Penniless War Veteran ARMISTICE brought no A obvious happiness to Lee E Denny Sheltered beneath an bile shed this man keeps constant watch over his wife who suffering in the final stages of tuberculosis has little promise of lite They stopped at a camp ground three 3go that di 1 mate here would bring some imi provement to her There is the daughter May three and onehalf years old playing nearby oblivious to the suffering of her mother She plays in childish glee happy be cause charitable citizens had do sufficient eats for several days Mr Denny is unable to work be must with tut every hour of the day The Allen Brothers post local American Legion is receiving do nations for the family through Glen secretary of the post All funds will be disbursed to the family as food and clothing are needed said Mr Hess Milk and ice sre deliver ed to ths Danny by rhe Ava and Federated Aid Societies MUk aad Ice luad E Arnold for the moving of a residence outside the city from 1611 Eighth street D E Meredith is the E B Adock 000 for the erection of a rock ve neer residence at 2601 Nineteenth street E E Agnew is contractor J F Anthony for the erection of a frame and stucco residence at 2121 street L H Thomas is contractor COLLECTIONS ARE IN Mrs G M Green 25 of Brown field died early Saturday afternoon in the Lubbock Sanitarium after a protracted illness of about two months Funeral services are to be held this afternoon at Brownfield with the Rev E V May pastor of the First Baptist church of that city officiating Survivors are her husband two children Gladys and Eugene her father and mother Mr and Mrs J C Huckabee of Brownfield three j sisters Mrs E Eicke Mrs Clyde Bond and Mrs C B all of Brownfield and five brothers Lavelle Curtis Lewis J B and O also of Brownfield The Weather HAMS TO To Be Ad OLD Milk And Tee Fund Coming Along Nicely Report Reports from Mrs Mary Hinton treasurer of the and Federated Aid Societies milk and ice fund Saturday stated that a total of had been collected and deposited in a local bank this amount however docs not include collections from bottles during the past week or some other donations not yet reported Mrs W T Milam chairman OFFICERS HUNT CHECK Theft Of Mail From Doctor Here Ts i Officers are watching for the pre sentation of a government check for properly of Dr P M James of Lubbock loss of which was reported Saturday The chock had been Dr James from the treasury depart a u stated that during Friday and Sati ment and was taken from h local two new had been i office box together with other misi Sunday located in the city and they now Tiw check has j LUBBOCK i being aided miking families daily total j nr a of no ike M thief and Is Maximum 9 Minimum 54
