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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1935
Page
4
A letter from W H Gordon chief accountant of County and District Road Indebtedness of Texas to Judge Hen J E Spies backs refunding road district bonds into a county wide issue. Petitions circulated require 250 signatures to order an August election to consolidate bonds and reduce the tax rate with most precincts paying less or the same.
Denison newspaper reports Rev Floyd Akin of Bonham chosen to fill the Nazarene church pulpit after Rev G F Webb departed for El Paso. Akin and wife arrive Thursday for an informal church reception and will reside at 227 West Texas. Mrs Akin is a trained musician and expression teacher. The couple will live in Denison.
Plans for a new road to serve the Go bt community between Bonham and Gober proceed with work begun. The route will bypass the Bois d Arc bridge and connect near Hillcrest Stock Farm to provide travel until the Gober bridge and dump rebuild are complete.
A Pampa Texas resident visiting relatives in Fannin County reports extreme dryness. The story notes three year old frogs cannot swim due to drought conditions, illustrating the severity of the drought in the region.
federal agents prepare to present secret evidence to a grand jury as they seek indictments of Harmon M Waley and William Mahan in the George Weyerhaeuser case. J Edgar Hoover says Mahan planned the abduction a year before and dug underground pits near Spirit Lake Idaho and near Tacoma with chains to hold a victim. George Weyerhaeuser, 9, was held in the second pit after the May 24 abduction.
Dr. John R. Brinkley had his Kansas medical license revoked, a decision upheld by U S District Judge Tilman D Johnson. The judge said Brinkley’s methods were so notorious that ignorance by the Board was impossible and condemned his actions. Brinkley then moved from Milford to Del Rio, expanding his clinic amid radio broadcasts.
Donald Ray Brannan 11 son of Mr and Mrs Horace Brannan of Hillsboro drowned Tuesday afternoon after falling from a board in Jefferson Davis State Park Lake three miles east of Hillsboro. CCC enrollee J M Barnett recovered the body after twelve minutes in the water. Resuscitation failed. He is survived by his parents two brothers and one sister.
Federal Judge R L Williams decreed the first Lindboren law execution for Arthur Gooch in Muskogee Oklahoma on September 13 for the kidnapping of Paris Texas officers R N Baker and H R Marks last November. Amebrose Nix was killed during the incident.
Former assistant secretary of commerce Ewing Y. Mitchell testified before the Senate Commerce Committee that he has no evidence of direct bribes in government ship subsidies. He proposed a grand jury investigation to determine if criminal acts occurred in granting millions to private operators.
W H Roeser a 60 year old wildcat oil operator died in Fort Worth Texas just as news arrived of a fresh oil strike in an Anderson County well He had won and lost three fortunes in the business and reportedly planned to capitalize on the new discovery before his death shortly after hearing the news with lunch underway and a doctor not yet arrived
Columbus Ohio June 18 A note picked up from a road near London Ohio reads I am Virginia Perry 65165 Broadway Indianapolis Ind Am being kidnapped and attacked and my abductors are taking me to New York City Police highway patrolmen launched an intensive search. Ninety five of North Carolinas 109 counties are represented in the student body at North Carolina State college.
Paris dispatch reports that a majority of the French naval committee believes Britain abandoned the Washington 1922 treaty by entering a new naval agreement with Germany. The panel aligns with the government that France has free hands on naval policy and anticipates an Anglo German naval race.
The Western Union Telegraph Company was sued by the New Jersey Supreme Court for 3,600,000 dollars alleging violation of gambling laws through the sending of "chain" telegrams. The action was filed in Trenton on June 19.
A government survey shows the horse and mule population fell by 10 million in 15 years with 11.8 million horses and 4.8 million mules alive Jan 1. Production and demand gaps persist as racing expands in 22 states and colt production falls short of 1.5 million needed annually.
San Antonio June 18 Major Porfirio Zablan of the Philippine Islands constabulary died Tuesday from injuries after a plane crash near Keidalin Kendall county during a night cross country flight to Sabi nas and Pearsall He was scheduled to graduate with fifteen cadets from Kelly Field Saturday John Kneupper found the wreckage Kelly Field ambulance arrived too late for the major The body was brought to Cleburne Texas Also notes R H Crank grows white barley tobacco on farm.
Mutineers at the Lansing Kansas state prison coal mine surrendered to officers led by Warden Lacey Simpson after wrecking the mine. Guards held captives unharmed. officers used ventilator smoke to force surrender. Ring leaders to be punished. three rioters’ demands rejected including removal of Dr. Parker and immunity.
Hubert Whitsett 18 former Woodrow Wilson student was killed at 5 40 p m Tuesday near East Grand and Clermont East Dallas He died of a fractured skull before a physician arrived He was the 64th traffic death in Dallas this year Raymond Perane 15 of 1223 Caldwell drove the car involved Patrolmen A H Hubbard and C O Cauley investigated the crash
The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the death sentence for John Trapper, a negro, for the murder of J. W. Haygood, a white police officer in Uvalde, killed last February.
Orange June 18 Attorneys for Rev Edgar Eskridge 42 former pastor of First Baptist Church here plan to ask for a change of venue when the murder case against him is called for trial tomorrow They say large portions of Orange County residents already have decided he is guilty of murder of Ed J O Reilly the genial city police chief shot three weeks ago in the business district Defense counsel J J Collins of Lufkin says a fair trial in this county is impossible due to prejudice and notoriety surrounding the case
A federal nursery for the shelter belt is projected across the Midwestern plains and planned for Hardeman County Texas near Quanah.
Wharton Texas reports 35 city blocks underwater as the Colorado River climbs three inches per hour. About 600 black residents and 200 Mexicans are housed in boxcars and on trains at Southern Pacific and Santa Fe property. Refugees are in three camps with rolling kitchens. Red Cross and Wharton Chamber of Commerce coordinate relief.
The relief administration announced a request of 4,743,000 dollars for flood control in Cameron Hidalgo and Willacy counties Texas. The project would involve floodway clearing excavation control structures protection of structures and flood control measures for Rio Grande watershed storms.
The Texas Highway Commission sought a $2,000,000 emergency allocation from the Bureau of Public Roads for flood related road and bridge work in central and south Texas following severe floods last week.
A man, Jimmie Brent, was struck by lightning Monday evening on a farm six miles east of Mineral Wells Texas. He died instantly while gathering peanuts near an orchard during a rain storm as a lightning strike passed through the area. His body was found on the farm by relatives who had been talking to him earlier.
Fire tore through a New Orleans store causing extensive smoke and heat damage. Officials estimate property loss in the thousands with departments assessing impact on local commerce and successors.
Temperatures reach a high near 87 and a low around 65 as fair conditions begin the day. Tonight in Texas a fair, partly cloudy sky continues with mild winds and cooler overnight temperatures.
Valley gins report their first bale of Texas cotton this season with local mills awaiting further loads. Officials note steady early picking and rising demand as growers push to begin harvest openings.
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