a a a a a a a a WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1931 WICHITA FALLS RECORD NEWS Phone 4391 Want Ad Headquarters Walter Cline Chief Speaker At Vernon Dinner; Plans Outlined Special The Record News VERNON, Texas. Jan. Ver. nou mapped an ambitious course civic, industrial agricultural, highway, and railroad facility development Tuesday night when 150 members and friends of the chamber of commerce assembled at the Wilbarger hotel for the annual membership banquet, During the coming year the organization will work toward the completion of the Frisco and Rock Island extensions: will seek the early construction of the Red river bridge linking Texas and Oklahoma: will push the additions to the federal building: study for better farm marketing conditions; develop the trade territory: and work with other civic bodies for educational progress, including the addition of junior college courses to the high school curriculum. jects in "the program outlined and brief were the main proenthusiastically supported at the meeting, most of it a continuation of work already inaugurated.
C. Fred Russell is chairman of the program committee. The membership re-elected J. L. Showers as director and chose Will I.
Stephens, William Martin, Ed Gossett, and Dr. J. A. King as new members of the board. Retiring are C.
M. Bourland. C. M. Ladd, U.
S. Davis, and E. O. Youngblood. The entire group will meet together Wednesday morning to elect new officers for the year.
Wilson Presides The meeting Tuesday night was opened by President G. H. Wilson toastmaster. The opening song was led by Rev. J.
M. Perry of the Central Christian church with V. L. Norsworthy at the piano. Rev.
E. L. Moore offered the invocation. Two Skulls Mystifying To Officers Severed Heads of Man And Woman Discovered at Laredo LAREDO, Texas, Jan. 27.
(P) Discovery of two skulls today, in a burlap bag on the south side of the Rio Grande, started Mexican and American officers on an investigation that tonight had led them nowhere. The skulls were those of a blonde woman and a brunet man. hair remaining the scalps, and a bullet hole in each. They were found in a patch of chaparrel bush near the Mexican bank of the river. Two boys playing along the waterfront found a new burlap bag, which rattled when they kicked it.
Opening it, they found the skulls, apparently of persons recently killed. Mexican authorities were notified and came to the scene, finding the bullet holes. A post-mortem was held at a hospital, but no further information was revealed. The bones were then ordered buried. It was thought the woman at least of American or European extraction, since few Mexicans are blondes.
Queries were broadcast over Northern Mexico and South Texas, but no reports of missing ard Boyce of Nuevo Laredo could persons were a received. Consul Richgive no information of such occurrences. Officers thought it possible the skulls had been left here after a killing elsewhere. Close search failed to find other parts of the bodies. SLOW RAINS SOAK FIELDS Crops and Pastures Aided By Precipitation A warm, drizzling rain fed the grain fields and range lands of Northwest Texas all day Tuesday.
The slow, continuous precipitation, which measured .60 of an inch in Wichita Falls at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, was general all over this section of the state and was held to be material benefit to pastures and winter crops. Unusually warm temperatures prevailed and prospects were for more rain through the night and probably Wednesday, Fort Worth and Denver railroad reported a downfall similar to the one in Wichita Falls all the way from Childress to Fort Worth and along the Wichita Valley through Abilene, Stamford, and The Katy registered rains to the south, with no precipitations of significance to the north or in Ok- SPUR--The Spur experiment sta- RAINS GENERAL OVER STATE DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 27. (UP) -Rains fell today in Central Texas with the wet belt extending the uppermost northerly portions of the state to the lower Grande valley. Precipitation varied from .01 to .96 inches.
Amarillo and Port Arthur were the only cities reporting with clear skies. Low ceilings hampered flying and lateral roads were reported impassable in many sections. tion registered a .32 inch rainfall here late Tuesday after an all-day drizzle. The downpour, soaking slowly into fields, will be of great benefit to farmers. ELECTRA--A slow, continuous rain fell here all day Tuesday, measuring approximately half an inch and continuing through the earlier part of the night.
QUANAH-Harde man county soaked up a gentle rain which fell all over the area Tuesday and Tuesday night. Mrs. M. J. Bailey Claimed by Death Mrs.
M. J. Bailey, 78, died Tuesleg, afternoon been at a a resident hospital of here. Wichita Falls seven years, coming here from Denver, to reside with her son, C. H.
Bailey, 1403 Twelfth street. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock ers, pastor of the First Baptist from chapel pa of the Merkle Undertaking company. Dr. O. L.
Powchurch, is to be in charge. Burial will be in Riverside. Surviving are the son, C. H. Bailey of Wichita Falls, a grand-' daughter, Miss Ruth Bailey.
Dr. McKenney to Speak At Optimist Luncheon Dr. Stephen S. McKenney, pastor of the First Methodist church will be the principal speaker the Optimist club luncheon at the Kemp hotel Wednesday at 12:10 o'clock, it was announced by Ira Brown, secretary of the club. reading Hamilton Other entertainment, will be and several violin selections by Miss Loraine Mathis.
VOTE EXTENDS TAX PENALTY Committee to Work on Relief Bills Today (Continued From Page One) bill and substituted one by Representative Weinert of Seguin which would postpone collection of all taxes until Oct. 15, the tax payer to pay interest at 10 per cent from Feb. 1 but no penalty. The senate appointed Senator Oneal, Purl, Woodward, Parrish and Holbrook to the free conference committee with the house represented by Representatives Weinert, Barron, Young, Gilbert and Motfett. The committee was to get down to business tomorrow morning.
30 Bills Introduced Thirty bills were introduced today. 19 in the house and 11 in the senate. Senator Martin of Hillsboro introduced a bill limiting commercial vehicles to a load of 5,000 pounds. Martin also introduced a bill to permit officials to try persons charged HOWARD WIRES PROTEST ON WEINERT BILL Arthur C. Howard, Wichita county tax collector, wired the committee on revenue and taxation at Austin Tuesday an urgent recommendation that the Oneal tax split-payment bill be relief.
adopted and as a protested measure of against needed substitution of the Weinert bill. Objection to the Weinert bill. as voiced by Mr. Howard, is that it will embarrass Texas counties financially by encouraging taxpayers to wait until Oct. 15 before making tax payments.
with the sale or delivery of liquor either in the county where the sale was made or in the counties through which the liquor was transported. Presidents of state colleges appeared before the house and senate appropriations committees to ask emergency appropriations for summer schools totaling $422,700. A resolution endorsing prohibition and pledging support of' the 18th amendment was voted out favorably by the house liquor traffic committee after being altered materially to remove objectional references to members of the president's Wickersham committee who dissented from the majority report. Senator Woodward of Coleman introduced a bill to reorganize the 51st judicial district to include Tom Green, Trion, Schleicher, Coke and Sterling counties. Redistricting BIll A bill expected to be the center of a heated controversy was introduced today by Representative Metcalfe of San Angelo.
It provided for redistricting the state into 21 congressional districts, the state now having 18. The bill would split up the district now represented by Harry Wurzbach, only Republican the Texas delegation, by placing San Antonio in a separate district. Comal county, one of Wurz bach's strongholds, was placed in the 10th district. Wurzbach drew a large portion of his strength from Comal county and San Antonio. He has not denied stories that in the event his old district was split up, he would move to San Antonio and be a candidate for -election from that district.
Metcalfe's bill to redistrict legislative districts was to be introduced late this week. Bills introduced in the house proposed the preferential primary system; construction of a $500.000 state highway building; abolishment of the three-day requirement of the marriage license law; nomination of the judiciary the convention system; fire, tornado, wind storm OLD GOLD TAKES DETROIT "IN MOTOR CITY SITS IN ON RIPLEY'S FOUR- -BRAND CIGARETTE TEST. YES, O. G. WINS! Won't somebody some city some section please step up and lick OLD GOLD in one of these fourbrand just for variety? Take Detroit! I took it or rather OLD GOLD in stride.
Greeted the Mayor. Stood in the middle of the International Bridge. Raced all over town, with four leading brands of cigarettes to be sampled by Detroit's busy populace. And what happened? The same OLD GOLD story! The same OLD GOLD win! This time by a margin! I tell you this famed throat -ease of OLD GOLD is fact, not fancy. That's why O.
G. clicks in every taste-test. Music was furnished by the 25-piece Vernon High school orchestra under the direction of Paul' Goetze, Visitors from Seymour, Wichita Falls, Lubbock, Electra, Chillicothe, and were introduced. R. E.
Shepherd of Wichita Falls accompanied by Mrs. Shepherd enter: tained with songs and later joined Mrs. Wayne Holmes, Wichita Falls in duet numbers. L. A.
Wilson, new chamber of commerce secretary was introduced and welcomed into the organization. D. Cline, of Wichita Falls, as principal speaker of the evening drew a warning picture of present trends of thought in America as dangerous to the nation. 'Too Much Wind' "It takes more wind to play a saxophone and a trombone than to play a violin." he asserted "but hisdoesn't show that the SaXOphono and trombone have had much influence in the affairs of the world. The violin has.
Figure that out for yourself." Mr. Cline asserted that the ple are, taking things too lightly, buying too much on the installment plans, failing to appreciate and support work and aims of earnest leaders in citizenship. "The present condition in our gOVernmental affairs is nothing more than we had he declared. "We can expect just such conditions until the citizenship as a whole wakes up to a real interest in and concern with public affairs." "Our government more than anything else depends upon good citizens and with only such support can it endure. Let us join hands, go at it doggedly, save your home and mine, your government and mine." A.
J. NORTON OF QUANAH DIES Veteran Ranchman And Builder Succumbs Special to The Record News QUANAH, Texas, Jan. A. J. Norton, 72, pioneer Hardeman county ranchman widely known throughout Northwest Texas.
Tuesafternoon succumbed to a long illness in a Quanah hospital. Born in Johnson county. Mr. Norton came to Hardeman county from Stephens county 44 years ago and since that time has been leader in the development of the section, He acquired extensive holdings in ranch lands and has been a breeder of fine cattle for almost half 8 century. In association with his son, Edgar F.
Norton, two years ago he extended his holdings into Glenn Rio and the Nortons are owners of thousands of head of stock in that area AS well as in Hardeman county. Always identified with the progress of the county, Mr. Norton was especially successful in a colonizing plan carried out in the northwest section of Hardeman county several years ago. He subdivided an extensive acreage and sold it to tenant farmers on long time, terms, making it possible for renters to become home and land owners and adding much to the welfare of the community. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 Thursday afternoon from the First Christian church.
Rev. Ben M. Edwards of Dallas, Rev. H. H.
Neely of Henrietta, and Rev. H. N. Gilmore of Fort Worth, all former Quanah pastors, have been invited to conduct the services. OF BELIEVE IT or NOT- PROVES IT CREATOR CREATOR OF BELIEVE IT IN NOT OLD GOLD CONCEALED.
NAME CONTES? EVEN THE SWIMMERS at D. A. C. took the test. Old THE OFFICIAL BOX SCORE won't pick 0.
G. hereby certify that the following is a true and (Signed) complete conducted audit of the Robert test of the four leading cigarettes by Ripley, in Detrott." OLD Brand X. GOLD. ....251 .171 Brand Y. 196 THE lac.
Brand .159 TREASURE (Signed) J. LEE BOOTHE, Certified Publie Accountant ALL OF THEM Loritiard NOT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD P. DeMolay Chapter To Confer Degrees The second degree will be conferred class of candidates at the quarterly ceremonial Hope chapter, order of DeMolay, Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the blue lodge room of the Masonic temple. The candidates, Roscoe Robinson, Harry Ayers, and Robert Young, will receive the degrees conferred by the degree team composed of Philip Kouri, Bob Crocker, John Cole, Kenneth Wagoner, Odell Ballew, Lillard Jackson, Daryl Daniel, George Napier, Edward Napier, Presley Lomax. Jimmy Maxwell, and Warren Griffin.
At the election of officers which will follow the degrees, a master counellor to serve for the next three months will be selected by the chapter. Medals will be awarded to Philip Kouri, attendance; Odell Ballew, attendance: Lillard Jackson, attendance; John Cole, attendance and petitions. The annual banquet dance will be held on the following the ceremonial. At that time the principal speaker will be W. D.
Cline, chairman of the board of advisors for the chapter. All master masons are invited to witness the ceremonial. "FLU" EPIDEMIC ATHENS. Jan. 27.
(US) -All schools and theaters were closed here today because of the influenza epidemic. and hail insurance for schools; licensing of chiropractors and establishment of 8 state chiropractic board; creation of the office of building and loan commissioner. A bill was passed in the senate setting the maximum compensation of Dallas county officers at 000. It was introduced by Senator Purl. VERNON DEATH TRIAL OPENS Defense Loses Fight For Continuance Special to The Record News.
VERNON, Texas, Jan. two days of arguments over a motion to postpone and a second motion to continue until next term of court, the examination of jurors started at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the case of the state of Texas versus Emmett Thompson, charged with the murder of Homer Crabtree near Lefors on Nov. 5, 1930. Tuesday afternoon Fred Weeks of Wichita Falls delivered a fiery address to the court giving the state's objections to the defense motion for a continuance. The defense alleged that two missing witnesses were of importance to the defense.
One, Miss Nona Holland of Bargsdale, could not attend on account of the illness of mother, and the other, H. H. Watchendorf, was said to be absent because his wife is ill at San Antonio. The state produced a telegram from Miss Holland stating she knew nothing about the case other than what she read in the paper. After listening to the arguments Judge W.
N. Stokes overruled the continuance motion and ordered the selection of jurors to start. Homer Crabtree was killed in a fight on his place near Lefors. Thompson and Carl Hefner were arrested and jointly indicted. Hefner was tried at Pampa and given 99 years.
The Thompson case was transferred to Vernon on a change of venue. According to testimony brought out in the Hefner case, Mr. Crabtree stomped and beaten. His scalp was almost torn from his head and his face was terribly disfigured. The Crabtree and Thompson families are both very prominent in Gray county.
The defendant's aged father, J. S. Thompson, has been in the court room with his son during the two days. Interest in the case heightened today when it was learned that the dead man. Homer Crabtree, was born in Wilbarger county.
His mother, Mrs. J. L. Crabtree, and four sisters, Mrs. W.
R. Orr of Wellington, Mrs. W. A. Stubbs and Mrs.
C. Bjerg of Amarillo, and Mrs. Pearl Caldwell of Dallas, are all in Vernon to attend the trial. The witnesses summoned to attend the case are all present and have been around the courthouse all day. Seven jurors had been examined when court adiourned at 6 o'clock tonight.
Dale Baldwin, farmer, was the only one taken to hear the case. Deaf Hear Again Through New Aid Earpiece No Bigger Than Dime Wins Enthusiastic Following Ten-Day Free Trial Offer After 25 years devoted exclusively to the manufacture of scientific hearing-aids, the Dictograph Products 180 North Michigan Chicago, has just perfected a new model Acousticon that represents the greatest advance yet made in the recreation of hearing for the deaf. This latest Acousteon is featured by a tiny earpiece no bigger than a dime. Through this device, sounds are clearly and distinetly transmitted to subnormal ears with wonderful benefit to hearing and health alike. The makers offer an absolutely free trial for 10 days to any person who may be interested.
and a letter will bring one of these remarkable aids to your home for a thorough and convincing test. Send them your name and address ANNUAL FINAL CLEANUP DAY Pot Luck DOLLAR DAY Odds and ends accumulated from the season's sellingall cooked up in an appetizing porrage for a great Bargain Feast, making room for new spring merchandise. Thursday, Friday and Saturday Men's Felt Dress Hats Former values $4.65 up to $8 to be closed out, choice of the lot Choice, Each $1 Men's Dress Caps About 150 in lot. Former values $1 to $3. For Pot Luck Day SpecialTwo for $1 Interwoven Sox Regular 75c values, black brown.
tan, champagne, gray and white. Pot Luck Day Special Two Pair $1 Men's Dress Shirts Collar attached, fast color madras, $1.95 values, and entire stock $3 and $4 collar to match Demi-Bosom shirts- Each $1 Initial Kerchiefs Regular $1 and $1.50 box of three Kerchiefs. Special close out- Two Boxes $1 (Six Kerchiefs) Tom Sawyer Shirts For boys, regular values from 95c to $1.25. fast colors, some slightly soiled. Two for $1 Boys' Leather Helmets -All sizes, special for Pot Luck Day Each $1 Play Suits Indian, Aviator and Football.
Sizes 2 to 12 years. Values to $3.95. Special close outChoice $1 THE Che Sol Lasty Seventh and Wichitan to Attend Rites for A. J. Mitchell Tom Fulton, secretary of the M.
V. Tank company, will attend funeral services for Amos J. Mitchell, vice president of the concern, in Findlay, Ohio, the family home, Friday. Mr. Fulton Tuesday left Houston, where he had gone to assist with funeral arrangements following the automobile accident Sunday in which Mr.
Mitchell was killed. Frank Mitchell of Independence, a brother, also commenced the journey with the body to Findlay. Mr. Mitchell's death resulted as he was the HoustonGalveston near Houston when his automobile skidded and crashed into a ditch after he had swerved to avoid another machine. He was unmarried.
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Choice, Each $1 Men's Button Leg Breeches Values to $3.95, about 16 pair in the lot to be closed out. Special- Pair $1 Men's Regular $1.50 Ties -All neat patterns, good assortment of colors. Pot Luck Day Special Each $1 Winter Underwear Values to $2, men's fine ribbed cotton and part wool union suits- Pair $1 Fancy Suspenders $1.50 and $3.50 values, Hickok and Pioneer brands. Special Two Pair for $1 Boys' Sweaters Values $2 to $4.95 coats and pull-overs. Sizes 24 to 36.
Each $1 Boys' Caps Values to $1.25. One lot 5p6- cial sizes to 7, for Pot Luck DayTwo for $1 Boys' Blue Denim Pants Wide elastic waistband, red inserts in legs, wide bottoms. SpecialPair $1 Boys' Blue Chambray Shirts -Military trimmed. Special Pot Luck Day Two for $1 Finck Painter and Plaster White Overalls $2.65 values, few pair left. Choice of the lot.
Special Pair $1 Men's Flannelette Shirts Tan or gray, good and warm. Regular $1.25 values. Special Pot Luck Close Out Sale Two for $1 Silk Mufflers About 22 in the lot, full size silk squaresTwo for $1 Men's Dress Shirts One lot. broken sizes, collar attached shirts, former values to $2.50, some slightly soiled. Special 2 Shirts for $1 Linen Initial Kerchiefs Finest quality, hand rolled hems.
Regular values $1 each. SpecialThree for $1 Boys' Golf Sox -Regular 50c and 65c values. medium and heavy weight, good selection patterns, Three Pair $1 Boys' Sweat Shirts -Regular $1.25 values, good and warm. Special for Pot Luck Day at Two for $1 Juvenile Zipper Suits $4.95 values, pants, jacket and helmet, all to match. Limited quantity, Suit $1' HUB CLOTHIERS Dres.
Indiana 50 Pair Boys' Shoes and Oxfords -Tan or brown. values to $5.85, solid leather. Sizes to 6 for big boys. Per Pair $1 Men's Silk Ties Entire stock values $1.50. In one big lot for Pot Luck Day SpecialThree for $1 150 Fancy Silk Kerchiefs Regular $1 values, wide sortment of patterns and colOr8--- Two for $1 Men's Dress Gloves $1.45 to $5 values, slightly soiled.
silk or wool lined, some unlined. Special, Pair $1 Men's Silk Shirts -Tub silk, silk pongee and jacquards. Values $4 to $10. Special close out Each $1 Boys' Outing Pajamas and Sleepers, sizes 12 to 18. values 95c and $1.25.
Special close out at Two Pair $1 Boys' Knickers and Shorts Sizes 3 to 17 years, values up to $4.95. Special choice of the lot- Pair $1 Corduroy Longies Elastic top, wide bottoms, with colored insert, $1.95 valuesPair $1 Tom Sawyer Blouses Sizes 3 to 10 years old, fast color, 95c valuesTwo for $1.