Corsicana Daily Sun (Newspaper) - August 15, 1930, Corsicana, Texas THE WEATHER East fair tonight and Thermometer Readings 8 12 9 l 30 2 11 3 i of the Daily Sun and Morning FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE AT A GLANCE NEW I pivotal issues i to it Irreg ular several new firm Bond AShan railed M Foreign Kx French franc holds Cot rains easy tli sap not n MM crop Cof frc steady trade firm bullish Canadian and firm mi crop nmi his her on ah steady to AUGUST PRICE FIVE CENTS to THREATE DROUGHT RELIEF PLAN IS WORKED ORGANIZATION FOR DROUGHT RELIEF STATES TO START WORK IMMEDIATE LY GOVERNMENT TO AID cooperation by the weather with drought relief plans is Showers have fallen dur ing the week in many of the affected states but the weather bureau said today Mis and portions of Missouri and Montana still were badly in need of more Administration officials today said any state in need of relief could take advantage of the setup agreed upon at the governors con The announcement was made after Governor Ritchie of Maryland had complained that his state was Eastern railroads today filed with the interstate commerce commis sion the schedules hich reduced by 50 per cent freight rates on livestock moving out of desig drought areas and grain and feed moving into the same ter Southern and Western roads are to take similar action Before governors who attended meeting here discuss again with Secretary Hyde the feasibility of providing Governors Leslie of Indiana Caulfield of Missouri and Cooper the agriculture They urged the date for allocation of federal road aic money to states be Of the allocations would not be made until late in December Secretary while reserving decision thought the plan was prac The weather bureau reported to day that rains have fallen in parts of the lower Mississippi and Ohio river valleys during the last 24 hours and in New York and New During the next 24 show ers are forecast for the plans including Kansas and Neb the Western West ern Southern Missouri Northern Arkansas and Northern The stupendous task of building up a network of state and county re lief organizations to tide drought farm families over the Continued on page 16 DEAF MUTE SLAIN BUT ROBBERS FAIL TO SECURE MONEY KANSAS Vincent a deaf was shot to death here today by one of two robbers whom he re single handed and unarmed in a holdup attempt at a bottling One robber held several drivers at bay outside the plant while the other forced two women cashiers into the vault and prepared to gather up about Weber dashed outside and struck tho robbers companion in the face five or six times with his fists be fore he was The man hearing the abandoned the money and the pair GANGLANDS SHADOW CREEPS OVER MIDDLE WEST AS SLAIN MEN REPORTED MANY The sinister shadow of Gangland spreads over the Three dead near another dropped by machine gunners at and new slayings at Detroit and Chicago add weight to the belief that the hoodlum element is The first tangible evidence that organized outlawry is seeking new territories for its gambling and is the usual symbol of the a bullet pierced shot from The latest victim is Joe Rockford killed instantly by the stream of bullets that poured from ar automobile speeding through one the towns main streets last Eleven bullets were fired into but police felt sure they were intended for well known Chicago who stood described by police as one of the chief executioners for the Morgan was one of the many suspects in two of Chicagos recent gang the slaying of Jake Tribune and the subsequent killing of Jack vice The three men killed near Paul Wednesday night were identified as bank robbers and gangsters of Kansas City and Police knew little of had quarreled over division of their loot to the belief that they interfered with an attempt on the part of the Chicago gang George Bugs to organize the twin city All three of the men were believed to have been members of a gang operating in Kansas Minneapolis and other Officers of a bank yesterday identified two of the bodies as those of members of a robber gang that held up the bank took and shot two passersby in making their One of the men thus identified was Harry alias Sammy another victim identified today was Mike Kansas pal of Frank the third slain whose had been started for Kansas and the bankers did not see it but they said his fitted that of another member of the robber Man Identified The third member of the gangster trio shot and killed near here Wednesday night today was identified as Mike Kansas Deputy sheriffs found the car used by slayers at It was abandoned on the outskirts of the its rear window HEAD WINDS CUT DIRIGIBLE SPEED ON RETURN TRIP ENGLISH NARROW LY MISSES BIG STORM BY EXPERT MANEUVERS ABOARD THE rains and generally unfavorable weather con ditions were encountered by the todav on the flight from homeward Better conditions were reported this and the passengers were hoping the Brit ish dirigible would reach the Irish coast tonight and Carding ton In the early hours of tomor A jazz coming in on the drowned out the lashing of the rain against the windows and the passengers were entirely un disturbed by the bad weather out There still was hope the big ship would set a new rcord for in spite of all the un favorable The cruised Britains steadily giant east recent and shattered by the fusillade of bullets could only guess at the motive for fired by police as the killers drove the Police said the car HIC itlL The theories ranged all the way In it was an from the conjecture that the rob gauge shot gun was 12 LOUIS FLIERS CONTINUE PILE UP RECORD MANAGER PREPARES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MANY OFFERS QUICKLY ing announced well be down when the motor stops Dale Jackson and Forest todav continued to circle leisurely over Louis field in their monoplane Greater the sustained flight rec ord far behind Skilled mechanics turned know ing ears but refused to hazard motor a guess on when stops running will the said they were unable to detect the slightest trace of a fal the While Jackson and con to fly on and their Man Murdered Wife Who Said Was uoing Away Ora mother of two was dead and her Tom was in jail charged with I killed her because she she was going away with said who had Pascoe told of who came to his house in answer to his summons last The young woman had been choked to death as she lay in Nearby were her two sleeping one four years the other There were signs of a Pascoe called officers about mid Come on out and get he Ive killed my He was waiting at the front door for the officers and held out his hands for the Go he Put them on ward today across the North At antic on its trip back home from The air ministry reported the position of the dirigible at 6 1 at north and which is about miles from Montreal and miles from Carding In the six hours since the last preceding report the dirigibles speed had been cut by a cross head excess of miles an hour to about 32 miles per and its average cut to about 55 miles per hour Should the dirigible not gain in speed over the remaining part of the journey her arrival at Card which had been expected at dawn probably will be greatly Newspaper representatives aboard the seeking to be got themselves in Dutch with the ships They vol to pump petrol to the engines in some fashion a dump valve had been left open and an irate officer demanded to know what they meant by pumping pe THRILLING MOMENT IN ENDURANCE FLIGHT Dale Red Jackson takes a stroll on the catwalk of The Greater Louis as he flies over the Louis Municipal Airport after breaking the endurance record recently established by the four Hunter Brothers in The photo was taken from another plantin The former holders of the en durance record recovered their lost and say they will stay up Forest Is copilot with Jackson in the long Continued on Page 7 I held her around the throat until she Haltingly and in English mark ed by a strong Spanish TRAINMEN KILLED IN WRECK OF FAST PASSENGER TRAIN strike while the iron is Im going to take the boys a state fair tour within two or days after they come lie said as he looked over a de luge of offers which will spell fi reward to the Of ers to exhibit at state theatrical and offers to write testimonials for manufactur ers whose products were used in the flight poured in on The flight already is paying fi returns to the An oil company is paying them or each hour they remain aloft than the previous Jut this offer will end after 70 The Greater Louis had been n the air 598 hours at more than 44 hours longer than the previous for sustained flight PLOT OF BARED BY YOUTHS HIRED TO KILL FOUR AT PRICE OF PER CHINK NEW Through the dark and mysterious maze of a fitfully warring China town today moved the menace of Tang slaughte on a cash For behind the arrest yesterday of three Chinese and a Filipino lay a story whose ferocity startled even The story was told by two white youths whose identities remain a secret with the police to protect them from the fate they were hired to mete out four On Leong at 5500 a A friend Detective toM hirri that as he in Bryant despondent over his itv to find he was approach ed by the Lamberto Eul vln asked him whether ho was The the youth then Murder Chinks at 5500 a was the The youth said he agreed and promised to bring a companion in to the Arrangements were made to meet at a 2Gth street laundry last The youth tip ped off Rosenberg who with four other detectives waited outside the laundry while the youths went The two were introduced to the Chinese who gave them their in with was to go They were told four Chinese had been marked for death at their hands last When the youths emerged from the laundry with the tht detectives seized but he put up a terrific struggle and was sub dued only 15 minutes of The detectives then arrested tht On the detectives found a revolver and a long In a told him he could make some package he carried were two re cy he had any and six long new nil I the youth In laundry were found cart said Whats the an a ten gallon land a large quantity of still Pascoe repeated this statement Beneath the twisted wreckage reporters at 10 city jail Pascoe told reporters he was born in Mexico and he married his wife after coming to TEXAS LIVESTOCK HAVE HELD OP WELL IN LONG DROUGHT SHEEP AND GOATS BEGINNING TO SHOW EF DRY WEATHER stock in Texas has held up re in the long period of but sheep and goats are beginning to show the effects of the hot dry the United States department of reported Ranges deteriorated during July and a critical condition the report Only a few scat tered localities received rain dur ins and only a few extreme counties reported ranges In excellent The condition of cattle on Au gust 1 was reported at 82 per cent compared with per cent on AFRIDI STILL THREATENING CITY STATES SITUATION ABOUT A foreign and political department communique today described situation of Peshawar where raid Ing Afridi tribesmen have been en gaged in an attack on the city as serious and one of considerable gravity and The raiders total strength about Peshawar was said to be about They moe about rap idly in gangs of 50 to 100 among the ravines and walled gardens and the communique said action is being taken against them but decisive action is at the present season when the crops are They edly are receiving food and assistance from villages in the neighborhood of and tha villagers have actually joined them when there appeared prospect of The communique said that a number of the hostile tribesmen bad left the district and returned to the villages but that rein forcements kept arriving and the for the past five Condi tion of sheep was 81 per compared with 87 per cent a month ago and per cent aver age the last five There has been little buying or contracting of sheen and the report If feed is available there will be a tendency to hold cattle and sheep where financial conditions Shipments of cattle the nast two months have been con below last vear with a small movement of steers and fat calves to The long time outlook for the sheep said the id Tor a considerable reduction in sheep both in this coun rv and during the next two or three which will place the sheep and wool in a better economic condition that at of a Southern railway passenger engine the bodies of two trainmen lay burled early today while wrecking crews worked to extricate Two coaches nnd a pullman car followed the engine from the tracks late last night when the speeding train crashed into a The cars did not and no passengers were 1 James and Jeff both of are believed to have met almost instant death when the engine crashed from the rails and turned George mall and express both of suffered minor when they weer tossed around In the mail car as it jumped the rails and came to a sudden must be regarded as critical unil the lost of the enemy have been definitely expelled from the There is ample troop strength in Peshawar and Kohat which are fully prepared for all Law Martial law was proclaimed today in Peshawar nd the districts which for fortnight have been beleaguered by Afridi AT AGE OF 103 The David whose 103 vears had given him the title of North Carolinas oldest minister and Confederate war died here Noted Mexican City of Is Feeling Awakening Hands of By CHARLES NUTTER Associated Frees Staff Writer This once sleepy little city where Charels Lindbergh courted Anne Morrow before Carlota and De La Borda is awakened from a half dozen centuries of its quiet disturbed by the hammer and daw nf the and his place now is a virtual museum of modern Mexican It was in the charming gardens of this place that Colonel Lindbergh wooed his one of the oldest cities in the was formerly known by the Indians as translated as the place of the The who captured in changed the Indian Popcorn Unable Withstand Heat In Field Pops You have heard the yarn about a mans popcorn popping in Held from excessive heat his teams of mules thinking it was snowing and froze to death This is a similar but the A well formed ear of popcorn as brought to the Sun office Thursday by who owns a farm cast of A number of grains of intact on had burst open as If had been sub to heat In a regular pop corn popping Many of the kernels hud white on and were in the act of The explanation given by Mimsey was that excessive heat from the sun rays hud popped the ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE Adhemar Do Bra zilian lay at deaths door in a hospital here today after an attempt at suicide in a strange and dramatic He probably will not The staff of his hotel said that early last evening a smartly dressed beautiful blonde unknown called and saw the consul in his After she left DC Mello sent two letters to be mailed and ord ered a glass of port apparently as an afterthought he Argen his intimate SPRINGTOWN MAN ASSAILANT OFFICERS HEAR SHOT AS THEY SEEK MAN TO MAKE ARREST FRIDAY MORNING sent for tine consul and Segui arriving found him Dock was shot and killed and Jop who was with the was found prob ably fatally shot several hours la ter after a difficulty early today at the home of Jim Poke north of Springtown In Wise coun shot in the died about G oclock this five hours after he was An ar tery was Ofi leers went to miles from the Matthews about As they approached the house they hoard a according to Sheriff George of We went to an outhouse at the rear of the yard where we believed the shot was said Sheriff We found Woody there with a pistol in his Ho had a bad wound near the One in the chamber of the der had been fired and one der was A charge of assault to murder against Woody was filed in Justice courts at Boyt Constable Isbell of Spring who accompanied the sheriff on the said that the first shooting was the result of a quar icl at the Matthews He said that Matthews was the only witness to the shooting of and had deliv ered a load of watermelons to Fort Worth Thursday and the two j planning to make another trip OFFICERS HOLDING ANGRY CITIZENS IN CHECK YORK ALLEGED DESECRATION OF FLAG CLAIMED AS TROUBLE ORIGIN ly agitated and I dining with he recount when my Brazilian colleague sent for He sobbed like a child and unfolded a sad tale to telling me how unhappy he I tried to cheer him up when suddenly a shot was De who had spread a Brazilian flag across his I did not sec him fire or soe the So I presume ho held it in his pocket and shot Bids Opened For State Oil and Gas for tho states supply of oil and gas for the next two estimated to cost or more a were under consideration by the state board of control The awards will not be made for several as it will be a difficult task to compile all the bids Nine oil companies submitted es Cows forming roughly a cows A tourist consciousness has brought about a building boom un dreamed of a short while there is a chamber of a tourist guide a half dozen swimming a hard surfaced highway between Mexico City where buses and pub lic automobiles operate on hourly and a smoothly run ning divorce mill where bonds can be severed in three Part of the boom is credited to American am who has a weekend home The ambassador fell n love with the town when he i the work as he has paid for other Potash Deposits in which Barrancas surround the i Jjj Ural Mountains PYTHIAN SISTERS ELECT Elsie Vandervort of was unanimously elected supreme chief of the International Pythian Sisters at the biennial convention of the order here to threatening of men and boys a sprinkling of held to a deadline today by sheriff Harry Tifft and six assisted by a dozen state at the communist camp at Van following threats last night to burn the Loaders of a mob of 200 persons from and Sayre and last night avo camp heads and the 70 children under their charge a half hour to leave before they set fire to the Authorities arrived just time to prevent the threat being carried out and established a dead line after dispersing the The trouble began last Friday when a societys offer of an Amer ican flag was refused by Mabel and leaders of the International Re lief Camp for Children at Van Et Miss Husa and Miss Holmes wero arrested on a charge of ing the flag after a mob had a red flag from the entrance and had burned a fiery cross At their hearing yesterday the two young women obtained a post until Mem bers LaborDe fense wero present at the The 70 children in the camp wero terrified when leaders of the wearing ordered the camp heads to leave before they burned Mob leaders said they were determined to the camp before the Inmates leave to the last day of Baby Tangle Again In Chicago Courts Tho baby tangle flared again In Chicago courts to after having been quiescent for a Attorneys for the Bam for a writ the from permitting any more tests of the babj which Walking has and she belongs to the Bam Attorneys pointed out to the court that It the be lieve the baby they have is not bul Ihe as they declared in court last should not bo allowed to it with further scientific examina tions the might endanger its life or The request for the restraining writ is especially aimed to further by experts whom the Barratt in New York and Wash CHILD DROWNS IN BARREL 15 Romino drown ed last night in u barrel of water members of the family had haul ed miles to their where the drought had dried up all the wells and The barrel was placed near a The one year crept too close and toppled Into the CONFERENCE OF BISHOPS IN LONDON SESSION TAKES STAND ON MATTER OF BIRTH CONTROL Tho Lambeth conference of bishops of tho Anglican which has just concluded strong Iv defend tho Christian standard of the family and of marriage and also took up the question of birth On this the conference agreed that methods of control might be used in those cases where there is such a clearly felt moral obli gation to limit or avoid parent prodded this were done in the light of Christian Birth control from motives of luxury or more con was strongly Cortes was the original landed Tho of the baron of The balmy I returning from in a encyclical ods climate and constant sunshine ap ported today that he had found were given wide motl pealed greatly to him and In 1530 potash deposits in the Ural moun in the London and he started building his tains whose vast extent he could tho report overshadowed even the he which still serves as the state Dieeo greatest mural is painting the his tory enacted by Cortes on the walls of the groat Morrow is paying for not yet Tho professor said opening of tho potash extending almost fifty whore two pits have voyage of the and the trou bles in It was remarked that If this newspaper display ac gauged public been completed recently with three the frequent contentions that the t moral obligation to limit or avoid the method must be decided on Christian onn of the resolutions The primary and obvious meth od Is complete abstinence from in as far as may be neces sary in a life of discipline and Nevertheless In those cases where there Is such a clearly felt moral to limit or avoid nnd whore there Is morally round reason for avoiding the conference agrees that other methods may be prodded this is done in the light of the same Christian Tho conference records its strong condemnation of any meth of conception control from VPS of luxury or mere The one of 70 passed by the passed only over bitter opposition of high church and those from the overseas branches of the U It was came to Mexico three years I renovation and rro to is a mere begin community has become indifferent passed finally by a vote of 103 to Hn whon all five I to religious matters seemed wide they of fie TNt condemned dl fy Russian agricultural Where there is a clearly felt
