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PAGE TWO CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1930 Sterling Answers Mayfield Attack In Strong Speech Houston, July 31-- (P) Asverting that Earle B. Mayfield and James Ferguson "birds of Ross Sterling of Houston. IATO today scathingly answered an attack made 611 him candidacy by the defeated gubernatorial aspirant. Sterling, who will oppose Mrs. Miriam A.

Ferguson In the democratio run off primary for the governor's office. said: I Invite the support of all good citizens who voted for Earle B. Mayfield in the recent primary, I have not invited Mayfield's support and do not want It. "Mayfield belongs in the Jim Ferguson camp. In 1918 he and Ferguson entered into an unholy alliance under which the latter attempted to deliver his vest pocket vote over to the former.

Evidently they have now entered another alliance of the same sort. consider it fitting and proper that Mayfield and Ferguson, the one elected in 1922 on a Klan ticket, and the other defeated on anti-Klan ticket, should be roosting in the same tree. They called each other harsh names all over Texas. But they are birds of a feather, and no they admire each other. doubt, "Mayfield's charges concerning alleged campaign expenditures on my part are merely dying squawks of a discredited politician.

His porings about alleged violation of the primary election law are too silly to require comment." Endurance Fliers Pass 11th Night Above Air Field St. Louis, July endurance plane Greater St. Louis circled in the vicinity of LambertSt. Louis field tonight its eleventh night of sustained flight. Neither the pilots, Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine, nor the plane, showed signs of weakening as they approached the half-way mark of the Hunter Brothers of Chicago of 554 hours.

At 8:11 p. m. Jackson and O' Brine had been up 253 hours. PATRICK CARROLL DIES. Temple, July Patrick W.

Carroll, 71, in the insurance business here for the past 30 years, died today injuries received in an automobile wreck Monday. In the 90s, he was wellas a railroad man in Fort Worth, Galveston and Temple. MISS DEL RIO TO WED. Los Angeles, July Dolores Del Rio, film actress, announced today she will be married next Wednesday to Cedric Gibbons, film studio art director. The place of the ceremony has not been selected, but the actress said the weding would be "very quiet." Try classified ads for results.

Father Not His Daughter Amherst, July St. John today looked at the picture Wilson, Cincinnati smith, amnesia victim, and said that she was not his daughter, Frances St. John Smith, who disappeared from Smith college two years ago. The body of a girl found in the Connecticut river last year was identified positively as of the missing girl and so accepted by her parents. St.

John Smith said a former classmate of his daughter see the Cincinnati girl and her report, together with the picture, convinced him there was insufficient evidence to investigate further. Railroad Body To Meet Today Austin, Tex, July -Members of the state railroad commission were scheduled to meet tomorrow with L. D. Faker, supervisor of oil and gas for the commission, and decide upon procedure for placing the oil industry of the state production restrictions early date. It was believed all parties having objections to the plan offered at the hearing here yesterday by a committee of operators would be given a "field day" to their grievances and get them adjusted voice, satisfactorily, following which the general plan of the committee would be put into effect.

The plan calls for a curb of 000 barrels on the state's production for 90 days, during which time operators hope that purchases of oil will catch up on the demand. AUTOS CUT LOCKJAW Chicago. By replacing horses with automobiles, cases of lackjaw have been considerably reduced, according to Dr. C. O.

Sappington of the National Safety council. He explains that the is a normal inhabitant of the digestive system of the horse and that in the days of the horse this germ spread all over country. COWBOY EARL earldom of England now includes in its ranks a cowboy from the plains of Alberta, Canada. He is Joseph Trevalyan Perceval, ranch owner, who has heir to the title estates of Earl of fallen, Egmont. A London baker and a Lancashire optician were other claimants for the title.

BAN BILLBOARDS placing a heavy tax on billboards, which are becoming A nuisance in France, the government plans to tax them out of existence. Rates contemplated now include a levy of $24 for every square foot of billboards less than six feet in size. If this goes into effect all over the country some of the large billboards will bring a tax of $16,000. Caller- -Times classifieds for quick land best results. WHAT'S THAT, NORA- YES.

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And just washers suds recommend dishes! Get the BIG famous soapy, lasting try its package today. Guaranteed Brothers by the Cambridge, of LUX Mass. Lever washer and dishpan for tub, -water soap The granulated IN NEW YORKS NEW YORK, July is smiling behind its hands at a bid, of fluffy sword play between managerial prides. It you don't know Broadway you might not be expected to be Informed on fact that for years the New Amsterdam Theater has been the producing capital of Mons. Flo Ziegfeld.

Here, year upon year, his From Follies his blossomed office as the emanated rows the filled. information that the brand of Ziegfeld upon a chorine made her just a degree more beautiful than any other in the world. Which, whether or not it was swallowed by the public, did no damage to the pride of the girlies. Very well! Just up street a halt dozen blocks a certain Earl Carroll held forth in his seraglio of lovely femmes and, upon the entrance to their dressing room, he caused to be printed a sign reading: "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world." You can see at once that there was a difference of opinion. Be all this as it may, M.

Ziegwent out to add limbs to the Hollywoods. And while he was gone M. Carroll took over the New Amsterdam for his 1930 "Vanities." the Carroll sign has been changed to read, "Through these portals NOW pass most beautiful girls in the world." And just wait until F. Ziegfeld hears about that. Pastor To Face Serious Charge In Mississippi Fort Worth, July The pastor of the Four Square Gospel Light House tabernacle here, Rev.

L. P. Adams, Friday will accompany Sheriff C. L. Pace of Tishomingo county, Mississippi, to Iuka, to face an embezzlement charge.

Arrested Wednesday night on his way to preach a sermon, the Rev. Mr. Adams has been held in the county jail to which he was transferred at his own request from the city jail. He waived extradition Wednesday. The Rev.

Mr. Adams vigorously denied that he is guilty of the charge against him. He said he 18 a personal friend of Aimee Semple McPherson and was ordained in the Four Square Gospel church two years ago. Phoenix Bank Is Closed To Public Phoenix, July The Citizens' State bank of Phoenix closed its doors today and was placed in the hands of James B. Button, state bank examiner.

Button said a "steady, persistent withdrawal of deposited funds" forced the closing. A report to the state banking department at the close of business June 30, listed resources at 074.73. The report showed deposits of $1,022,309.18, and surplus and undivided profits of $7,365.55. The bank is capitalized at $100,000. Final Action on Russian Protest Washington, July hearings on protests against the action of the treasury in barring Russian pulpwood from this country because convict labor entered into its production will be held tomorrow by Assistant Secretary Lowman.

Lowman announced late today representatives of the Amtorg Trading corporation, the official Russian commercial organization, ship owners, charterersa and paper manufacturers would appear. The pulpwood was barred under section of the tariff act which prohibits entrance of any foreign product made in whole or in part by convict or forced labor. Mothers Organize After Baby Case Chicago, July The Associated Mothers of Illinois was formed today by a hundred women to sponsor state legislation to prevent a recurrence of a case similar to the present Bamberger-Watkins baby mixup in which two infants may have been transposed at the Englewood hospital where they were born. Mre. Grace Dibrell, who initiated the movement, was made temporary chairman.

Through a special committee the organization plans to offer suggestions in solving the problem of which of the two infants is the William Watkins' son which the Charles boy. The Bambergers still maintain they have the right baby. FIGHTING FISH Bangkok, fish fighting season is in full swing in this city's 10 halls devoted to that sport. Two fish are put into bowl made on them by fighting, patrons. The fish put up a vicious battle, tearing off their enemy's fins and taking huge pieces of flesh out of each other's sides.

A fight sometimes lasts for six hours. HAY- MAKING RABBIT Jasper Park, -Warden Davis, who has been studying the coney or rock rabbit, makes the statement that this is the only mal in the world which makes hay. It cuts grass when it is green, lets it lie in the sun until it is cured, turning it over daily, and when It becomes hay removes it to Its nest, where it is stored for winter. Caller- -Times classifieds for quick and best results. Des-Chailols.

10 miles farther along the dirigible's route, said the craft passed over there at 9:30 o'clock, and had covered a distance of only four miles in the last hour and A half. This Indicated the ship had run into a storm. At 9:13 o'clock the R-100 had been in the air exactly three full days since leaving England. Oklahoma (Continued from Page 1) four men over their fields, they were proceeding with realignment of the forces of candidates crowded out in the first election. and formulation of new plans of strategy.

None of the defeated candidates, including three former governors in the senatorial race and one in the governor's contest, had pledged his support to successful opponents tonight, but claims to the unattached following were made freely, In 3,108 of the state's 3,338 cincts Gore was leading WrightsIran tonight, 65,528 to 65,029. Henry S. Johnston, deposed governor, was third in the field of nine, with 332 votes; Lee Cruce, another former governor, fourth with 36,840, and J. B. A.

Robertson, a third former chief executive who campaigned for dry law repeal, 12,141. Corrected figures from 3,162 precincts gave Murray a total vote of 126,197, more than 60.000 greater than that accorded Buttram, who had 66,164. The lead of E. B. Howard, -congressman from the first Oklahoma district, over M.

E. Trapp, former governor, for third place, had swelled to more than $12,000 on the same compilation, Howard having 49,155 votes, Trapp 36,591. For some time they were closely matched. The total vote for the 3.162 precincts was 323,700, indicating a final total of close to 346,000. The democratic scramble among 14 candidates for the lieutenant interest Burns of governor's nomination, still provided Seminole had a fairly wide lead over his nearest opponent, W.

B. McAlester of McAlester, with 32,174 votes to 29,335 in 2,275 precincts. James Berry of Stillwater, however, WAS close behind McAlester, with 28,982, and C. S. Strong, acting lieutenant governor, was fourth THE CROW'S NEST And while on light, summery and facetious subjects, I am asleed to in- troduce the "butcherette." She's what a butcher would be if he were slightly more dainty." The first in Manhattan, MO comes the information, would be found eventually meat shop in the Hotel Bellclaire where a certain Samuel Slotkin had decided that meat should be merchandised even as bathing suits or Fifth avenue gowns, There will be display windows and cases.

And instead of the good old saw. dust floors that made butcher shops the, places that they were, there will be handsomely carpeted floors. The "butcherettes" will be pretty salesgirls from and show the -cases, sales even will. ribbone and rings are dispensed. While Mme.

Housewife is making up her mind whether papa would prefer calf's liver to pork chops, she can sit down at a modernistic table and read a cook-book or 8 magazine at least two weeks newer than might be found in a. dentist's office. The shop, in other words, will have the general appearance of a Fifth avenue shoppe, Truly, the world grows just a bit too dilettante for the likes of mo, In the old days, Walter was mixologist to some of Manhattan's most celebrated cocktail tossers. The historic bar-rendez vous of yesteryear, where the swells and spenders gathered, knew him well. Today he shakes-'em-up in one of the better whisper-lows.

At any rate, we fell to talking the other day and Walter loosened up with the Information that he was going "way out for his vacation. First time he'd ever wandered very far from the Manhattan trails, and he's whitehatred man. "I've got a son out there," he said proudly, "a cowboy and he's on a place outside of San Antonio. He ran away from home when ho was 17 and I've never seen him since. Funny--the country boys run away to New York and the New York youngsters run away to the west.

The other day I picked up a tabloid newspaper and there was his picture, sitting on a raring broncho, playing an accordian. Funny way for a New York kid to turn out--but I like it. So ma and are going out to see him ride a bronch and to take a 1ook at the west." GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) Dirigible (Continued from Page 1) time, but it would cruise about the field until morning. St.

Hubert Airport, July 31. (AP) -The British dirigible R-100, largest of aircraft, tonight was making slow progress down the St. Lawrence river valley, headed for. this airport, after repairs were made to a damaged fin which delayed her progress several hours. A message from Squadron Commander R.

S. Booth said the dirigible should reach St. Hubert by 10 p. m. (CST).

She was due at o'clock. The messages telling of the damage did not detail Its extent, nor its nature. When the big silver cigar neared Quebec at 4:10 this afternoon it was apparent she was in trouble since she was making slow headway and at times appeared to be standing still or drifting with the wind. A few moments later Squadron Commander Booth wirelessed the field here he had 8. damaged fin and probably would not arrive until tomorrow.

The mishap, coming almost at the end of the dirigible's voyage and Just 150 miles from her goal, recalled a similar occurrence aboard the Graf Zeppelin on her maiden voyage to America two years ago. Field officials said thunderstorms had started in the vicinity of the field and the storm was moving down in the Ottawa valley. "The ship was reported 90 miles from Montreal at 7:00 p. m. (EST), and under these conditions it is expected the ship will steer south until weather conditions improve, making the time of arrival un uncertain." An announcement issued at the field said.

At 7:30 p. the ship was 30 miles below Three Rivers and Its speed was estimated at 55 miles an hour. A later dispatch from St. Jean Says: Grandest Stomach Medicine in the World Relief Comes At Once But Better Still Indigestion Goes For Good. Get bottle of Dare's Mentha Pepsin from Barry-Hendrix Drug today with the distinct understanding that your money, will be promptly returned does not stop the most acute stomach distress quicker than any remedy you ever used.

Your stomach may be so distended with gas that you think every minute your heart is going to stop beating, yet with one dessert spoontul of Dare's Mentha Pepsin that dreadful feeling of suffocation will vanish in a few minutes. It's a wonderful iormula this combination of Pepsin with other good stomach invigorators-s0 nevex mind what causes your indigestien or gastritis, or how long you have had it, or many many other remedies you have tried, this is the one medicine that will make your old disabled stomach so strong and healthy that you can digest anyyou eat without the slightest distress. Even catarrh of the stomach can be banished in a reasonable length of time. And you know that when your stomach is in fine shape, nervousuess, headaches dizziness bother you. Avery regular druggist guarantees one bottle of Dare's Mentha Pepsin.

Barry-Hendrix Drug Co. sells lots of it. (Adv.) (Continued from Page 1) deep water at Corpus Christi within a very short time, The Southern Pacific is seeking it o. k. from the interstate commerce commission and if it receives this approval 19 ready to proceed with construction of the 113 miles of new line needed between San Antonio and San Angelo, The Southern Pacific already has trackage between San Antonto and Corpus Christi.

The route will open the rich oil and agricultural lands of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico to the port, (Continued from Page 1) wounded and 50 communists killed and others wounded. The vessel was raked with machine gun fire and the attackers silenced only after It opened up at close range with its three-inch rifles and machine guns. The Palos, which has rescued foreigners from Changsha prior to the communist raid, was in command of Lleut. Comm. R.

D. Tisdale of Baltimore, Following the attack the gunboat, undamaged, withdrew down the Slang river. Indications the communists were preparing to establish themselves through Rupeh and Hunan provinces were contained in dispatches from the affected area. They told also of plundering along the Peking-Hankow railway. Even Shanghal's foreign ments were under special guard.

Police patrols were doubled and authorities prepared to crush any disturbance With the bulk of its military forces massed north of the Yangtse to check the threatened incursion of. northern rebel armies, the government was in a weakened position in its efforts to cope with the communists. also was faced by defection within its ranks. Taffy, the "avorite confection of northern seaside resorts, traces 159 name to the South Sea island of Java. THE BOY BEHIND THE BISCUIT Ever see a boy behind a Shredded Wheat Biscuit? You will have to look quick before the biscuit disappears but wait and you will see him take another biscuit--and more milk.

The more he chews the crisp shreds of baked whole wheat, the more he likes it -and that's the reason he is a real boy, full of bounding energy and radiant health. Just as good for grown-ups. Delicious with prunes, baked apples, sliced bananas or any fruit. SHREDDED SHREDDED WHEAT WHEAT WITH ALL THE BRAN 01 OF THE WHOLE WHEAT SA8 80082 COPYRIGHT Hollywood THE HOLLYWOOD OD Reds On the beach at Santa Monica, Dan Rorimer proposed to Anne was a Hollywood scenario writer, and Anne, who had started as the road to fame as a screen actress. But Anne Winter knew only one love, and that was her work: she couldn't marry him.

What happened after that is told in one novels you ever read- The Hollywood Story" by Ernest Lynn, life in the motion picture capital of the world. Every person who is interested in the movies will be doubly love story with Hollywood as its setting. Watch For It It Begins Tuesday, August The Corpus Christi ERNEST STORY Winter. Rorimer an extra, was on so she told Dan of the finest serial a gripping tale of interested in this fine 5, in Caller.

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