Denton Record-Chronicle (Newspaper) - October 12, 1937, Denton, Texas ROUND ABOUT TOWN DENTON VOL NO 50 DENTON TEXAS TUESDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER Associated Press Leased Wire EIGHT PAGES Even as I have seen they plow iniquity and sow ness reap the Well does Heaven take care that no man secures happiness oy crime The Denton Pair Grounds was a busy place Tuesday morning mers and saws men and boys beau- women and girls preparing for exhibit in the al Building Indications at 10 o'clock pointed to the best show in the Building that has been seen here giving an idea as to what crops Denton County can grow and vegetables can be put up by housewives It's going to be an ex- hibit that will be well worth your while to see The poultry hog sheep turkey and livestock its too will be fine examples of the things in those lines that can be done by Denton County The en- tire citizenship owes a debt of tude to the Denton County men women boys and girls who make of the County Fair a success each year Monday night the Carnival was going strong with a good many people looking at the various shows The rides will be ready for today It's the same carnival that has been showing at the Pair for several years and tis said to be one of the the circuit ANNUAL DENTON COUNTY FAIR OPENS GATES TUESDAY AND FIVE-DAY SHOW PROGRAM ON Opener School Children's Day and Kids Ad- mitted Free Judging Begins Wednesday in Eight Departments Graham Band Tonight Three Wheeling Motorist Traffic Menace By Associated Press BRI ARE AIMED I've been growing that same corn on my place for the past 25 years said H L Smith of Argyle as he and Mrs Smith entered ten ears of Yellow Dent in the Fair Each year I have saved the best ears for he said and I have been satisfied with results Mrs Smith also was interested in the Argyle exhibit and she had entered some pears and canned fruits and vegetables The Denton County Fair got a bad break from the er man Tuesday but at noon the gates swung open for the 1937 five-day show without any dampening of enthusiasm risible It was School Children's Day and crowds of city and county pupils receiving free admission through the big en- trance gates are expected to head the attendance total this evening Most of the exhibits were in place when the gates opened to the public Six community exhibits displays from the women's department cultural department home stration clubs and the merchant's corn show highlighted the county attractions and the State Fair Shows from Dallas opening on the grounds Tuesday night were ready to furnish a carnival atmosphere in with the grey murky day the fair association drew as an opener Music and Rooster Tonight which has been ed as Aubrey Pilot Point and ger night Floyd Graham and his Aces of from Teachers College with a special stage show of song and dance specialty numbers will give a free show on the grounds Also scheduled for night is a rooster roping contest the first of its kind ever to be held BUFFALO N B Melrod was booked in police court on a reckless driving charge but Patrolman Walter G Maul said it was a new of- He testified he arrested rod for driving a mile and a half through city streets at 30 miles an hour with the right front wheel missing from his car I didn't know it could be commented Judge ert J Summers as he set the case for trial Thursday First Lady Has Only Cake It Is Roosevelt Custom Embassy Vehicles Are Fired On But No One Injured English Officials Gravely Concerned WASHINGTON Oct candles ed Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt's birthday cake at the White House last night even though it was her birthday The limitation is a Roosevelt custom The First Lady's gift from the president was a waterproof wrist watch Easy Chapei Bombing New Threat to Is COLUMBUS are going to burn up a city street to keep relief clients warm this winter City Council voted to turn over to relief headquarters for fuel more than impregnated wooden paving blocks torn up from a street where an old bridge was re- placed Foreigners The young couple sat at a night club table and cooed We could get married whispered the boy My father's a minister returned the girl in Texas In case of rain the con- ly Let's try it My father's a I test will be postponed Otis Fowler secretary of the Denton County Fair Association said Tuesday morning School children are asked to go to a ticket booth at the front en- trance of the grounds to receive ad- mission passes R L Proffer ty superintendent of schools and A O Calhoun principal of the ton Senior High School will be in charge of the distribution of ets Judging Starts Wednesday Judging will start Wednesday for agriculture junior agriculture bravado inst of the try sheep turkeys women s de- had been traced to bv the Prior to his connection with the home demonstration and Department ol Justice agents college London taught community exhibits Wednesday irio c n nn -1 from to p program from S C presented The Denton Country Carroll Garrison local angler bring cial the Denton the third prize for the State of ior High School will be given with 3 by the band and other entertainment numbers An old jamboree will be held that night also Friday night from to o'clock the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce will bring several acts including some acts from the Gainesville Circus and a prize will be offered in the husband calling contest that night Word has been received here that Dr H H Jack London for- mer manual training instructor at the Normal College is now con- with the Mississippi State College at Starkville Miss as di- rector of teacher-training in trade and industrial education The col- lege has an enrollment of over students and trains all the industrial arts and trade teachers for the state Several Texans are on the faculty Prior to Mississippi in the South Georgia Teachers College at Ga BANGOR Me Oct i men wiped out the notorious Indi- ana Al Brady and one of his today in a sensational five-minute gunfight on Bangor's busiest downtown street A third gangster wounded threw down his gun and surrendered One Federal agent was wounded The Al Brady 35 wanted for three slayings and several robberies Clarence Shaffer Jr a Brady mobsman The James Dalhover Brady mobsman head grazed by bullet The name of the wounded Federal agent and the seriousness of his injuries were not immediately made known The gangsters who long have terrorized the midwest with their forays upon banks and their armed First Aid j SHANGHAI Oct automobiles be- I longing to the British sy were day by two squadrons of anese warplanes None of the i occupants were injured The staff cars in which S S CHARTER AMENDMENT VOTE STORM CENTER OF MANAGER PLAN ISSUE ORDERED NOV Special Election Called by Commission out Dissent Zoning Code After Effort to Put It to Public Vote Loses A special election at which citizens will vote whetHer or not they wish the Denton charter and in which they will elect 15 charter commissioners to prepare such a new document if they do wish it was ordered Monday night by the City Commission without dissenting vote Date for the tion was set Nov 23 BERLIN Oct and Belgium are about to conclude a treaty of amity and according to sources close to the foreign office The treaty it was said today is patterned upon a similar pact with COVINGTON bread truck crashing into an electric wire pole in a heavy fog assistance for its driver trapped in the crack-up The truck snapped a wire and automatically turned in a first aid alarm The driver Roy Beazley ned at the fire department bulance which drove up as he succeeded in extricating himself from tiie wreckage Murray the assistant air attache of Poland If and when it is signed the British embassy was riding with treaty is likely to put an end several other Englishmen were at- tacked by the raiding Japanese planes near 14 miles south of Shanghai about 4 p m Although the three motor cars to Franco-British negotiations for a new Western pact like the carno security treaty Reichsfuehrer Hitler who dislikes multilateral agreements is believed bJ 4 i J -J r j carried the Jack the Brit- ito have started negotiations soon ish officials said the Japanese 1 after the Belgian king Leopold planes continued their machine gunning occupants jumped from the machines and sought cover The British asserted the cars urged his cabinet a year ago to give up the Franco-Belgian alliance in favor of a policy of neutrality Foreign office spokesmen disposed The order brings to the polls a political issue controversy over which has not yet flared into the open but which has precipitated vehement pro and con argument since it was first ed by the a month ago The storm focuses about the city manager plan for Denton a change several of the present com- missioners advocate which mjjst observers be the of the coming charter election Zone Code Election Lost The commission also into effect the Denton zoning code ter an effort to put that legislation to public vote for acceptance or re- failed by a vote When the zoning code was laid on the table Commissioner J E Fitzgerald who has repeatedly Steve Brodie SAN PEDRO ers truck driver was knocked 50 feet by an in- train He fell 20 feet from a trestle An emergency hospital reported his injuries One slight abrasion on the left side the matter with a shrug of the j ed voters should endorse the law could have been identified easily j and the stereotyped of- j before it was passed moved to lay and added there was no doubt that nothing is known it before the electorate at a special t T w ni I MA Tn f c n TTI the attacking planes were Japanese Russian in Machine With Murray and the other in the automobiles British officials stated was a Soviet em- bassy secretary named He but the matter was mentioned at the daily German press conference j with instructions to write nothing for the time being Brussels dispatches said a uni- lateral declaration of the ity of Belgian soil by Germany is had been picked up ten minutes be- expected shortly in the form of a Texas ii e Bass Fishing Contest sponsored by the Western Auto Associate Stores according to Charles Edwards ager of the local branch son's entry was a six pound large mouth bass which he caught in the Denton Club Lake on June 22 The award brings to rison a minnow bucket Hawaiian Wiggler Lure W S Plug Paw Paw Plugs Keep Alive Stringer 5 yards pure silk line Floating Fish Bag Edwards says that Mr Gilbert R Bailey of San Antonio won the first and C H Gillmore of San Angelo was awarded the ond The largest fish was an 11 pound small mouth caught in Florida The smallest was an 8 ounce large mouth caught in Ohio a special W will bei Twins Enter Contest Saturday morning at 10 o'clock a horse and mule show will be ed in the afternoon the boy and girl pony show will be held at 3 o'clock and Saturday night a cial concert and show by the piece State Future Farmer Band pol Bought Ammunition Brady and his two companions i went early goods store A squad of G-men stationed selves in a vacant building across the street with machine guns ed When Brady Shaffer and er emerged the G-men opened fire The gunmen surprised sought cover whipping out their pistols as they dodged behind posts and parked cars They blazed away in return and busy Central Street was swept by the chattering of machine guns and pistols Deputy Sheriffs and Bangor lice hastily cleared the streets of passersby who miraculously escaped injury and kept curious ers beyond range But the destruction of Brady and his men was not as simple as Finders Keepers McCALL ley led 50 treasure hunters in a search under a foot 19th century hotel board walk The searchers in quarters nickels dimes and pennies j Crop Surpluses May Be theme Of Fireside Chat Many Denton people saw and examined the called the world's finest bus when it was on exhibit Monday morning in front of the Nook Cafe South Locust Street from 9 till 11 o'clock The bus left Denton for Gainesville where it was again on display The new has many changes in its make-up all for the of its patrons The engine is in the rear instead of the front of the car and this it is said makes smoother riding less noise less danger of fumes and more space for passengers The was one of the Greyhound Line which operates through Denton to St Louis and Orchestra and a hog calling the killing of the more notorious contest and twin contest Tuesday j gangster John nf morning three sets of twins had Misses and Gynne Watson Denton and Janis Russell Lewisville and Misses Johnie and Mary Mason Denton Dentonite Makes Henry G Shands known to his many friends as Assistant Coach of the Eagles was in Dallas Monday where ne attended the ute luncheon at the Dallas ic Club for Gibb Gilchrist former Chief Engineer of the State way Commission The luncheon was tendered by Dallas friends for his having been way Engineer and to honor him by his appointment as Head of the Engineering ment of A M College Shands is a first cousin of the ed engineer FORT WORTH Oct Kiwanians here for the twentieth annual convention of the lahoma district Kiwanis tional this morning paused at the opening of the third day of their session to pay tribute to the memory of members who died during the last year Oklahoma City won first honors in the district gold division com- petition for larger clubs with an all-round program of activities The division trophy went to the Oak Cliff club of Dallas the division award to the Clinton Ok Kiwanians and the white division trophy to Me Allen The awards were made by L A McDonald Denton past district governor Ray Dickson and House have returned from Detroit where they the Pontiac Factory of which Dickson and Pat Hamilton are local distributors and Ray each drove back a new 1938 The Gibson No 1 oil test which was drilled to the 1616 feet depth is said to be a producer and mates vary from 25 to fifty rels per day when the hole is oly cleaned out New developments are expected in the Bolivar area and it is rumored that W E Scherle will soon start drilling on a block of acreage in that area that he is interested in Henry Ford says If you cut your own wood it will warm you Tax Commissioner Cleared of Charge Oct Com- missioner Albert K Daniel stood cleared today of accusations of false swearing in an expense account by verdict of the House of tions committee The group last night ly killed a resolution to force Daniel and Mrs Bernice Grieder secretary of the former racing commission of which Daniel was a member to re- turn state money they spent attending a national convention of horse racing officials in New York last summer ger who also fell before G-man guns The firing today went on for ifive minutes before Brady and Shaffer lay dead before the fied gaze of scores of Bangor zens on their way to work In the killing of Brady the De- of Justice ended a career which thy charge included the murder of an Indianapolis police sergeant Richard Rivers an Indi- ana state policeman Paul man and Edward Linsey a Piqua O grocery clerk Was Bank Raider Brady also led his mob in erous raids on banks in the Midwest the officer said He was known like Dillinger as a desperate criminal with a nervous trigger finger The government men declined as usual to discuss the detective work that led to the discovery of the gang's presence here It was ed that Brady on one occasion ed: 111 make John look like a punk But today the G-men made Al Brady look like John Dillinger that Chicago night when Federal fire cut him down as fled from the finger woman the storied Lady in Red Mother Daughter Are Found Poisoned TEXARKANA Ark Oct dead and her mother Potts was Mrs Guy or to that effect There's Potts 41 wife of a Miller County little doubt but that if cut in the deputy sheriff lay critically ill summer it will warm one and if day from the effects of what kept for winter's use it'll again cuting attorneys said was a serve its purpose mixture fore the attack when his car broke down Herbert Phillips British consul general said an immediate gation had been ordered although no details of the assault had yet been received by his office The embassy staff cars were en route to Shanghai from Nanking j on the same highway on which j two Japanese planes recently j injured the British dor to China by bombing and chine gunning which he was journey British sources received the news of the episode with the concern in view of the previous at- tack on Sir Hughe the ambassador Japanese Investigating Japanese authorities said the in- had been reported and they WASHINGTON Oct j were investigating but that no de- President Fireside tails had yet been received Chat tonight probably will touch j They explained that it appeared on a half dozen subjects it was j from the available information the said at the White House today but I British authorities had not their nature was not disclosed j ed either the army or the navy that Secretary Stephen T Early said British cars were making the j ney They added that Chinese were constructing strong new defense positions in the vicinity of hong and the presence of motor cars without neutral flags painted the top probably caused the diplomatic note There will not be a Belgian ministers said and the question of a treaty will not be raised AUSTIN Oct reducing current departmental appropriations vived a maze of parliamentary maneuvering in the Senate day marking the first major step in the economy bloc's drive for less state expense instead of more taxes election His motion was seconded by Commissioner R L Hopper but Commissioner Jack Johnson's ter motion to table the Fitzgerald proposal prevailed In the vote on passing the ordinance Fitzgerald and Hopper voted no Johnson Commissioners Walter Paschall and Lee E Johnson voted yea The commission asked City At- torney E t Key and Mayor J L Wright to confer with A F Evers seeking action on the Evers ing on the south side of the square for Italy They urged that the walls be torn PARIS Oct French i down to a lower level and that the proposal that Italy be given last barricades be removed from chance to agree to withdraw troops walks from Spain or face action has been drafted for submission to the i British foreign off ice today it was A resolution was passed giving the hangar to the Denton i AUSTIN Oct ers took command in the House today as that body continued wort on the general revenue raising recommended by committee Several hundred thousand dollars was shaved from the when the House voted to increase the sulphur tax rate to only per ton instead of the advocated by committee The present levy is An attempt to kill the amendment failed 75 to 66 Oil was next subject under discussion The committee mended the production levy on that resource be boostsd from 2 to 4 cent of value The also provided substantial increases in natural resources by the French government ing Italy's refusal to join with her and Great Britain In discussing withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain They were said to provide for the ed before 1 Oak Paving Ordered They ordered work on the ment to begin on Oak Street from the point where it now ends to opening of France's arms j nue I property owners having munitions for the Spanish ment in the event Italy again re- fuses to confer on the problem Britain Walks Warily LONDON Oct at least temporarily set back in the anteed all payments Also some gerous places on sidewalks over the city have been reported and Key will check on these reports and others pleaded for a moderate course in order that the proposal might muster the two- j thirds majorities necessary to put it into immediate effect He i gested natural resources levies be i boosted only 25 per cent instead of 46 per cent advocated by tee I Friends of the proposal hoped to send it to the Senate tomorrow Court to Pass on Valley Controversy WASHINGTON Oct The St Louis Brownsville ico Railway Company won a Court review in its tion that the Interstate Commerce Commission has exclusive tion in a controversy over the of equipment to the Brownsville Navigation Dis- of Cameron County Texas The high court to pass upon a judgment of the Fifth cuit Court of Appeals that the Federal District Court had diction to command the railway company to transport certain fic and to furnish cars for trans- between Matamoros ico and the port of Texas The railway contended the cuit court erred in finding that there is no car shortage and no emergency which renders ers unable to comply with the and further argued that the ICCC has exclusive jurisdiction the precedent reviewing the President's western set by a talk after last year's drought inspection Guesses as to the principal topic ranged from foreign affairs to the Federal budget but most observers believed Mr Roosevelt would em- the prospect of huge crop surpluses and his belief in the need for legislation to control production May Announce Session Some predicted he would announce an extra session of Congress for the middle of next month to deal with the problem The president's speech to be broad cast nationally at p m CST will be his tenth fireside chat since he entered the White House on March It will be delivered from the executive mansion ly before Mr Roosevelt leaves for Hyde Park N on an overnight train Belief that the President would discuss the crop situation and a special session of Congress was ed largely on the nature of his talks during his recent journey to the West Coast It was accentuated by the latest crop forecast of Bhe second biggest cotton yield in American general forecasts for bumper harvests in the big grain crops Crops Show Increase The Agriculture Department mated the year's wheat production at bushels an increase of bushels over the prospects a month ago and bushels above last year's yield The anticipated corn crop of bushels if the figures prove correct will be bushels above last year and 000 bushels above last month's A composite o indications for principal crops the Federal re- porting board said will show the prospective yields of 1937 crops to be 1115 per cent of the average yields obtained during the period The composite last year was 86.8 per cent wito and France something of the same tendency was noted in Paris Confronted by Premier refusal to enter talks about withdrawal of Italian troops from high-ranking Chinese cers While the Japanese army ed a heavy aerial bombardment on the Chinese Chapei sector on the northern fringe of the International Settlement a Spokesman said that weather the long over due Japanese big push would get underway in the immediate future Renewed Tne duel between the giant anese bombers and the Chinese an- guns newly in Chapei the foreign areas to heightened dangers The with its surprise attack from the Chinese defense guns started while the streets were med with crowds The Japanese planes skirted the town areas with their deadly loads while the Chinese shells burst over the settlement ii allies realized full well that adoption of a strong line now would create an immediate they seemed determined to i Insurgent Push nese I O Moves on Gijon HENDAYE Franco-Spanish tier Oct general ad- V S Professor Is Wounded by Turk ISTANBUL Oct Rev William Wool worth Jr 43 from Wallingford Conn was re- ported in grave condition today from a gunshot wound inflicted by a Turkish student at the American College of Tarsous in Southern Anatolia vance by Spanish insurgent troops pavement of city streets to test for in the Cangas de sector of I leaks in their pipes and not Gijon's southeastern front pushed j Asturian lines back toward the cayan capital today an insurgent communique reported The insurgent advance guard was said to have reached the village of and have property owners correct With tne session already more than the dangers thg upper chamber had A petition was heard from i unable to do any zens in the east part of Denton raising work due to the fact tax to have a fire plug installed at must originate in the House the corner of Paisley and Ruddell Streets This was referred to City Engineer W N Harris and the city water and light committee Stop signs were ordered installed at the intersection of Oakland Avenue and McKinney Street and on Bell nue at the intersection of man Drive Rev L P Parker pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church came before the commission asking for a restriction on the parking space in front of his church for persons attending services at the church only at the hours services are held in the morning and evening City Marshal I E Jones was asked to hely correct this Complaint to Key has been made claiming the Community Natural Gas Company is driving holes in the western Sella River less than 30 air miles from Gijon The vanguard had marched west from held by the insurgents since Oct 2 Cangas de was reported to have fallen opening the j way for the push The advancing i troops found a large number of j bodies abandoned by the 1 ing Asturians or government troops the communique asserted PETROLEUM DELEGATES AR- RIVING IN HOUSTON HOUSTON Oct gates to the Independent Petroleum Association convention opening here Thursday arriving today join ands attending the second day of Stand Before Episcopalians CINCINNATI Oct Battle Resumed on Green Estate DALLAS Oct tle of four inheritance taxes from the huge estate of the Col E H R Green produced House of Deputies of the more sidelights today on the Episcopal Church plunged back in- to warm debate today over a posal to liberalize its law on riage On one side were churchmen and laymen who urged that no riage at all after divorce be mitted on the other were advocates of repealing nearly all the rules against remarriage The argument revolved around a recommendation of a joint sion of the Episcopal General Con- the Mammoth Oil World Exposition 1 vention which after a nine-year were concerned with pending con- study proposed that bishops be on pollution to determine whether a waste disposal and the depletion communicant should be permitted clause of the income tax law to remarry trie millionaire's many sided ties Attorneys sought a slice of the fortune for Texas Florida Massachusetts and New York each state claiming the son of a wise Hetty Green as its own fide citizen Texas has valued the estate at more than Colorful asides in the testimony that began yesterday pictured the colonel as an active sort of person who liked to joke about his cork leg enjoyed the role of kingfish in a smal town promoted a minstrel show a built a greenhouse and tinkered with in- venting ing them he said He was asked to investigate and have holes filled if they exist Laboratory Bin Refused The Dallas Laboratory which has tested Den ton's water and ing the past year and who were re- placed by Dr M L Holland in September their contract expiring at that time continued to tain that on a technicality their contract had not expired and they submitted an account for ber which was rejected by the com- missioners A claim of the Niagara Fire In- surance Company together with an indemnity bond guaranteeing the city against loss and requesting a payment of to cover three interest coupons which were to have been stolen from the mail sack at the Denton railway station April 9 1937 was presented and on recommendation of City At- torney Key the city secretary was instructed to file the paper and pay the R B presented an amendment to the taxi cab nance requiring drivers to have lived in Denton for at least six months before receiving licenses a document he had suggested and been asked to prepare for study but it was not passed The Senate's economy movement advanced when members voted 23 to 6 for immediate consideration of a cutting from de- appropriations for the current biennium Some Senators said floor con- sideration should be delayed 24 hours allowing preparation of ments further reducing allotments A majority however thought a delay might be fatal arguing the should be adopted quickly and sent to the House Senator E M Davis of wood pleaded for postponement to allow him to write an amendment abolishing the Liquor Control Board To arguments a new liquor control law was necessary to eliminate the department Davis said wiping out its appropriation would make them quit Senators were ready to receive a favorable committee report on a concurrent resolution directing the Board of Control to estimate thru a field survey the funds necessary for aiding the needy bund and children Bales Now Ginned in County Denton County's 1937 cotton ning totals had climbed to 18.637 bales by Oct 1 the report of ty Cotton Statistician A A Evans showed today Up to the same date last year the total had reached only bales BANKS RESENT GOVERNMENT'S CLUMSY HANDS BOSTON Oct call to bankers of the United States to re- sist the assaults of the clumsy hands of government upon the ings field was sounded today by a Boston financial editor at the ing session of the annual con- vention of the American Bankers Association EAST Mostly rains Wednesday and in west and portions night cooler in north and central portions Wednesday erate east and southeast winds on the coast WEST Probably rains tonight and Wednesday colder in the Panhandle and and central Wednesday Probably al ruins and colder aad ta and west porticos
