Pampa News-Post (Newspaper) - December 28, 1930, Pampa, Texas COPY 13 Full AP Leased Wire THE PAMPA SUNDAY NEWSPOST SUNDAY DECEMBER 16 PAGES AP Features and Comics PRICE FIVE CENTS Texas University Student Charged With UNCLE FILES ELIZABETH HIS FINANCES IS FOUND SLAIN DENIES IS SON OF MINISTER AT AUSTIN HAD GUN IN CAR PORT charge of murder was filed tonight against Robert University of Texas in connection with the death this af of Miss Elizabeth The charge was filed with Just Ice of the Peace Butler by As sistant County Attorney Mc Whorter upon a complaint filed by Andrew uncle of the dead Williams is the son of Williams of former pas tor of the South Methodist Tells of Triangle in his cell in city jail told in the presence of a newspaper man a story of a men and a woman cf his engagement to his sweetheart being broken off after she had begun to receive attentions married He told of from Aus tin last Saturday with the inten tion of Yuletide with his a junior at Port Arthur high school and a leader of the younger lovers quarrel and finally ta him to the office of Glenn pas the First Methodist the man who succeeded his father in the pastorate here two years Made Pistol He said he had a caliber re volver which he had made out of a rifle in the laboratory of the state Ha brought the gun here for he On returning from the he told he found Miss Johnson slumped in her with the wea pon McWhorter said that the basis of the was Johnsons ex pressed charge that young Williams had killed the girl in the ac cording to his best The breast of the girl was scorch ed by flame f romi The pursued a While no autopsy has ben Justice cf the Peace Butler said he believed the bullet had struck the girls Left It In Car in a statement to police this prior to the charge of murder filed by the girls he had the weapon in or der to shoot himself in the hand in proof of his love for the When he left the car to enter the church to consult with Flynn effort to have the pastor intercede in winning the girl bock to he left the gun in the car who shortly after the shooting was sat in hie jail cell calm and While refusing to discuss details of the affair he denied he did the shoot IS 1ST TO Staffs of the Rox theatre and Iho new La Nora theatre were guests of at a banquet in the Schneider hotel dining room following close of bus iness last An elaborate menu was and after the banquet the forty present saw a preview of lut the La Special guests of the occasion included the men installing equipment in I tho new building and Alfred and There will be no 11 oclock serv ico at the First Methodist church this Murrell Fiancee A gaunt giant pushing huge hilk From under vaporous clouds Straining endlessly at immovable A stray Breath of a Whirls away the net or And leaves A gaunt giant pushing huge brown A lone star stood And trembled in the very ecr of its being Until It fell Mute trees And a gray wind sobbed In uncontrollable grief Until it looked and saw A glow of light Still hanging in the HAB I T U A L OFFENDER LAW MAY BE USED FOR SENTENCE If Ace Pendleton is found guilty of First National bank in it may be mandatory for to give him a under Texas habit ual offender Raymond All district said like most other has a law which requires the court to charge the jury to give life sen tence if it finds that the defendant has been convicted of felonies three Allred has already un earthed four convictions against the alleged bank He has nob yet examined entire Pendleton is being held in the county jail under a indictment charging him with rob bing the First National bank He will be brought to trial early in January in Judge Clifford 114th district Community Chest workers yester day were made happy by the gift of to the fund by the Texas com The hope was expressed that oth er companies in this ter would likewise The fund is still about short of the An instance of the good faith of those applying for aid was given by welfare Two men received orders for When they went to the he asked them questions and at length offered them The men took money back to the Chest headquarters with the state ment that it should be given to others more Lon said that he had chosen all of his but that their names would not be announced until after he goes into It is un that all of the new ers arc Other county officials who will take the oath of office on 2 arc county judge county commission precinct 3 tax collector Louise district clerk James and justices of the peace Sher man county HALL PRACTICE SET Baseball practice at the University of Texas will start February 1 with Uncle Billy beginning his twen tieth year M mentor of the Long of presiding has horn diamond He haswon telephoned last night that on ac count of the snow he would be un ablo to Sunday school at will bo the only service at the church this 18 Southwest conference Matthews Episcopal will have a special service at U Area To Suffer With Prairie Out o cor for small independent oil producers of northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern who will lose their market outlet January 1 when the Oil and Gas com pany withdraws as a still was in a plastic stage Representatives of a dozen of the larger purchasing and pipe line called into conference here by president of the American Petroleum concluded their meeting today with out having agreed on a definite pro gram of A committee was formed to carry on the task of seeking to apportion the distress approximately 000 barrels among the princi pal purchasers of This made up of one representative from each of the companies in the con held a preliminary session and adjourned until president of the Carter Oil uas named Reeser telegraphed a detailed re port of the conference to Secretary Wilbur of the interior The conference was held closed doors and Reesers report was not made public Following the Reeser said difficulties were experienced in attempting to reach a solution agreeable to all of the companies represented but he still was hopeful a satisfactory plan would be de Every one of the major crude oil interests of the Mid Continent area has shown a desire be helpful in absorbing the dis tress oil that will be left without a market outlet in settled areas of he but economic conditions are such as to make it most difficult to work out any plan that will be acceptable to all of the A smaller headed by Young president of the Carter Oil with the executive heads of each pipo line company or purchaser as This com will out ways and means of allocating the crude pro duction which otherwise would be left on the operators While the trend of todays con ference not quite as hopeful as that of we are all of the opinion that some plan will be evolved by this committee whereby every barrel of settled production will be taken and ON CITI HI 15 KET No program for the formal open ings of the city hall has been ar ranged tu City Manager laid Formal open ing of the public located on the main will be held at tho same time as the opening of the Workmen are levelling the grounds of the new municipal and if the weather per thei grounds will be put in shape soon for tho planting of trees and shrubbery in tho The ground will be worked so that when the grass is planted and tomes up it will be artistically to the curbing that sur rounds the BANQUET IN WORTH SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 5 Gray county Independent oil oper ators will be represented at the banquet to be given by the Inde pendent Petroleum association of Texas on the 5 at Fort Worth by Mel associa tion and Ed It Is possible that also a will Sauls bury could not be here last Roche is another tor of the association who lives in Jimmy attorney general elect of will be the leading speaker at the according to a telegram received yesterday Claude executive vice Directors from all parts of Texas will attend the business sessions during the day when they will draft a to be submitted to the legislature in The associations attitude toward the proposed gas tax will be The banquet will be attended by the directors and Fort Worth and Dallas members of the Tom Cranfill of at the Other speakers at banquet be Senator Clint Small of ton and Pink Farrish of Lubbock and Representative Dewey Young of In the first week in of of the association and Pan handle members of the legislature are due to visit Pampa and the Gray county oil fields for the pur pose of gathering information re garding the petroleum industry in the They will be guests of the local and Chamber of Comerce while It was sug gested that they would be better equipped to pas on legislation af the oil industry by visiting the Lon railroad com is also due to be ED IN Funeral services of Mc former resident of who died in Pampa Thurs were held at 4 oclock yester day afternoon in Greenwood ceme Services were con ducted by James Thomp pastor of the First Presbyterian McGrath Is survived by four and Love of and and a step Kansas Marriages increased per cent in Oregon this year while divorces increased per manager of the Panhandle visited in Pampa Though meager in some depart ments and totally lucking in the Pampa library in the city hall was for the news thai Sinclair Lewis had been awarded the Nobel prize for literature in For a shelf in the library are two copies of every volume written by the redheaded from Sank except one of his inferior nov And the Lewis books uro and well indicating that they have been read a great many Main Street appears to have been mcst ibut has seen consistent James Both Elmer Gantry and Ar have wellworn Not only is Lewis In tho but there are novels by the authors who last wcel at Lewis were the only significant ones in For Instance The Sun Ako by Ernest Hem ingwa M A Lost One and Death Comes for the by Willa Gather The Case of Miss Annie by Louis Brom field Dark by Sher wood other signifi are not represented the Stephen Thomas James Branch Eu gene On the ether American au thors who are in clude Harold Zune Peter Charles Dick Van Governors Daughter to Wed Her wedding will be the in more than 40 yearn to be held in lie mansion of Miss Suzanne shown herr in her is the daughter John Pollard of Vir and will be married on January I to Herbert Lee Miss Emily Louise n will be her only attendant and the ceremony will be performed by the Good of COUNTY OFFICERS ARE REQUIRED TO KEEP ANNUAL RECORD Report forms to be used by every county and precinct officer who takes fees as compensation have been received the office of the county Beginning January the county district tax tax county justice of thu peace and county will be required to keep a record for the entire year that will show the amount of and compensation collected by the official during the year ending on December 31 amount of fees and compensation charged and not col the amount paid or to be paid to deputies or assistants ex claimed by officials deductions the amount of fees and compensation due from tho At the end of the these re ports will be presented to the county commissioners and the state audi Keeping ol records is in conformity with a slate en acted one year which becomes effective January Before the en of this only counties with a population of or more required their officers who accepted fees as compensation to keep rec PRODUCTION LOWEST IN SEVERAL YEARS FOR LAST PERIOD HEAVY SNOW FALLS IN PAMPA SATURDAY AFTERNOON T I ICY RAIN HITS EAST SEABOARD SURF IS POWERFUL TALES VARY ON GIFT OF KODAK DURING CHRISTMAS TREE Of Local Accounts Vital As Year Is Closed Invoicing time is here and firms of the city are eager to close their in the best possible condi tion for the Payment of accounts now is of Greater importance at any other lime of the Keeping money in circulation and when one perrons pays a debt he enables his creditor to meet other ilt is surprising how far a few dollars will go in a and how accounts will be cleared up by reason of someone having started the rotation of Pay your accounts timely advice to and McDonald and baby daughter spent the holidays with parents in sheriff of Gray county skeptical yesterday when a half dozen negroes of Mic flats at to convince him that there is no Santa Most of they endeavored to make believe collectively or individual were Santa and cer tainly knew nothing about how one Marie came into of a camera which Fred said was stolen from his The alleged theft was discovered when Maries husband brought the camera to Freds yesterday and inquired tho price of inti mating that he would it to As Marie it was the kind ol i you pull She aver red got it off a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve at a cafe in the and thai one Jasper was the author of Jasper declared that IIL was the that he had been and that he never saw the camera He added I that even attended the Habitues of the cafe told the that the camera was never on the that Marie brought it from her room while the lifts were being handed out by one Maries agrees with his j wife that nave her and that was the One thing they all agree on Zollie act ed as Santa So the sheriff and deputies agreed that the thing to do was to find and hear what he had to But turning the Hats inside the deputies report ed Zollie was night they were hunting Mean Marie and Jasper glare at each other through the bars in county i Personal tax assessments In Cook county Chicago totaled 000 hi 191U and approximately 1U years Harry Leslie of Indiana undergone 13 He was injured in a Purdue football spe cial wreck in Not since 1920 has the daily pro duction of crude oil in the Pan handle been as low as it was last week when 70per cent proration slashed the output to The compared with the daily production of the previous was the largest on record hit lie As the Pampa area was hardest daily production of Gray nty was a decline also a tremendous the daily production dropping from 090 barrels of tho previous week to a decrease of Due Next Week A bigger drop in all the counties is due next and in the suc or until the allow able production of barrels is Proration officials and the Texas Railroad commission announ ced two weeks ago that the allow able production they fixed Fort Worth two weeks ago must be The huge decline does not mean that less oil is being taken now than On the opera tors last week sold as much oil as they did in the previous The only difference is that the produc tion nf the wells was The pipe line runs remained practically the Under tho new proration all operators are due to be since some oil will be taken from 175 leases which have b e e n unconnected for several are rapidly be ing connected to the pipe The allowable production for Gray county is about or approximately barrels less than this weeks laily The order n 70 per cent cut in the production of ill wells in the The big drop In the last week was not clue solely to Many including shut down their wells during Christmas For the first time lost week in no new locations were made in Gray There were only three all of which indicates that the production de of the various companies laid off last In Carson Holmes 3 section block hud an initial production of 150 It was drilled to a total depth of 100 feet and shot with 100 quarts from Gray county completions wore as follows Empire Gas and Fuel companys 1 section block total feet ini tial production million cubic feet of gas from Gulf Production companys 2 A section block total feet initial pro 110 from Production of I he various conn compared with that of the pre vious week is as follows producing 085 a loss of producing a decline of producing a decrease of bur producing 129 a loss of 43 no pro loss and no producing 319 a decline of 270 producing 440 a loss of Deer are the most numerous nf bit animals in the national their number totaling almost THE WEATHER OKLAHOMA rain or snow in cast portion be coming generally fair Sunday night awl Monday somewhat colder Sun day unit in past portion Sunday EAST prob ably rains in east portion Sunday generally fair somewhat colder Sunday and Sun day Moderate southerly winds on the northerly by Sunday WEST fair Sunday and Monday somewhat colder in south portion By The Associated Press Heavy snow fell in the Panhandle and Plains sections of Texas yes bringing what farmers said was much needed moisture for wheat The weather was not extremely cold and little wind was reports Pampa said there was a thick white blanket over the North Plains the snow meas uring three inches in depth at Snow came down so at times traffic was halted and highways were slippery in that It was the first real snow of the winter in that although tho eastern portion of North Texas re a good snow a week ago to Falls All Day Snow fell nearly all day in Aiu arillo and at times buildings only three and four blocks distant hidden from view by the falling reported the fall general over the western port of the extending as for cast as Memphis and also was in the snow sec Snow varying from mere flurries to eight inches in depth fell the southern portion of tho Pan handle Plains reported eight inches six inches Hart and three inches two and a hait inches two and one inch and a lighter fall at Floydada and Peters Mercury Drops A drizzling rain which turned to sleet late today gave Texarkana a promise of its first snow of the The temperature dropped from 4G to 30 during the San Antonio reported a temper of 50 degrees at G a weather forecast of local rains night and warmer although fair and coler weather for Sunday was accompanied by a maximum of By The Associated Press There was lots of weather yes on both coasts of the Uni ted They were burning smudge pots all up and down to save the oranges and lemons in tempera ture that even in Southern Cali fornia was below East Has Cold A wind was blowing down off tho icebergs and fog In the north Atlan tic brought sonw and icy rain to the eastern Along the New England coast the noreaster rose to 00 miles an piled powerful surf along the shore and menaced Tho weather bureau in Washing ton issued a storm predict ing heavy weather along the NeW Jersey Snow and ruin in the east extend ed inland as far as and There was Jin the north and parts of Pennsylvania sleet in the middle includ ing New York City and rain In Snow Predicted Forecasts generally predicted snow or cloudy weather for tha eastern seaboard and Ohio valley for the early part of but fair weather for the Great Lakes While fruit crops in Northern California wore said to have beell Injured by the cold spell Pacific government observers in the Southern California citrus belt said there little damage there although the temperature was below Austin Infant Is Buried Yesterday for Margaret Ann Infant daughter of and who Friday in wero held at 5 oclock yesterday afternoon at tUe Austin 025 North the James The Infant was born in December The Malono Funeral horns was in charge of the funeral
