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14 PAGES TEXAS, SBg? WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930. US' With 3 Jurors Se lected, Teachers Save Frost, Small Town Near 7 117 1 11 Li mid lis For y's Judge Ca Waco, oy rury Brsd Anot AAA er venire or zuu pring Wind Storm i Of i building in Frost fhat was not demolished. Six freight cars were hurtled from the railroad switches one being turned directly across the main line. The depot was moved off its foundations. The twister travelled from Frost to Irene, Hill community, about eight miles routhwest, demolishing several business houses and residences but no one was injured.

Considerable damage was done to farms and farm improvements. Shortly after the arrival of the Corsicana train, a sandwwich shop was set up for workers and injured. Sheriff Rufus Pevehouse and depu JIM JEFFERS The Austin American Staff jyALLAS, May 6. Because all they knew was what they read in the papers, from which they formed opinions about what ought to be done with Judge John W. Braly, the majority of 70 veniremen examined today disqualified themselves to hear the case of the Austin jurist, on trial for his life for the murder of Miss Lehlia Highsmith.

The bailiff was the busiest man in the courthouse by far so fast did the court and the attorneys excuse prospective jurors because they had already decided what they thought ought to be done in the case, or because they opposed capital punishment. Nineteen of them said they would not vote for the death penalty Considerable Damage Done By Rains Here AUSTIN felt the grip of spring a-- i By the Associated Presa jpiFTY one persons are known to have been killed and at least two others are believed dead as the result of a series of tornadoes which dipped down on widely separated sections of the state Tuesday. Communities of Central Texas near Waco, including the toym of Frost which was demolished," bore the brunt of the storm. The tornado which hit parts of McLennan, Hill and Navarro counties formed over Waco and swept into South Central Texas striking between Runge and JCordheim near San Antonio. The twister swept a path 300 miles wide missed B-num, by about two miles, and struck at Frost.

Telephone and telegraph wires, crippled by the storm, delayed and made reports from the stricken areas fragmentary. It is possible that the death toll will run considerably higher when a complete check can be procured. The identified dead were: J. C. Kleespie, San Antonio (Randolph field).

Near Frost, Navarro county, Lee Roy Bagley, nine months; Gib Cogan and Tom Eogan; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bowman; J.

D. Lee; Ed. Fatterson; A. L. Bell and child; Mrs.

Lee Wooley and child; John Fly, 50; Johnnie Ficw, 19; Mary Currie, SO; Jones Currie 35; and a negro infant. A 15 year old boy at Ensign near Frost. In Hill county, Mr. and Mrs. E.

F. Isbell and their child, Brandon. An unidentified Mexican killed near Spur. Crops And Oil Fields In West Texas Badiv Damaged Near Runge, Karnes county, Ferdinand Machost and his wife; three children of Pancho Villareal: unidentified man on farm east of Ken. nisi suuerea consiaeranie damage.

After the second, which ended about 4:30 p. the sky cleared and the prospect for Wednesday was for a sun-shiny day. These were the effects of the storm: Three persons were injured. Hull houses at the Farmers and Ginners oil mill and the Austin oil mill were destroyed. The residence of John Kruse.

1006 East First street, was demol ished. The Pierce Petroleum building at Second and Nueces was unroofed. Plate glass windows were smashed in four downtown business houses. Injured Negro Recovering Many trees were blown down, and several other residences were moved off their blocks. This damage resulted of a storm which swept over Austin about 10 a.

m. A total of 2.52 inches of rain fell during the 24 hours ending 7 p. m. Tuesday. The rainfall during the night was .08 inch, during the morning 2.08, and in the afternoon .36 inch.

Damage at the two oil mills was estimated at about $10,000 by Will Caswell, principal stockholder in each enterprise. The hull houses will be rebuilt, he said. Persons injured were: ROSCOE BUNTOX, negro, who ed-v' Mrs" Otto Fuhrken, two Mexican workmen on the Fuhrken farm, eignt oi a lanuiy ot nine Mexicans on the iarni of Louie Duderstadt. W. M.

Fly of near Mertens. A Mrs. Hoff and Charley Wolf, Spur. A Miss Anderson of Masse j'. Nine persons were reported to the Waco News Tribune as having been killed in communities near that city.

An unidentified Mexican was killed and four were injured when a house was demolished 12 miles from Spur, in Northwestern Texas. II. J. Nichols, Corsicana aviator, flew over Frost afterward and said the tornado apparently came from the southwest, traveling in a northeasterly direction and cutting a path about 10 miles long. Fifty or more persons were injured in various parts of the state, those most seriously at Randolph field, Runge, Frost, Bynum, Brook, ins, Mertens and Spur, although several were reported injured in Dallas by glass shattered by the wind storm.

The wind storm which tore a path across West Texas damaged crops and near Coleman, Eastland and Dibrell demolished derricks in several oil fields. under any circumstances. 200 Veniremen Called Out of the 70 examined today and 20 questioned yesterday, three Jurors had been chosen when the recess was taken late Tuesday, and Judge Charles A. Pippen directed the sheriff to summon 200 more veniremen to report at 2 p. m.

Thursday in order to avoid a delny if the present panel Is exhausted before a jury is chosen. The special panel included about 300 men, although 600 names were drawn from the jury wheel. The power of the press In moulding public opinion without design was never more conclusively proved. More than a third of those examined so far have declared that newspaper accounts of the killing and of the evidence submitted at the first trial have convinced them as to the defendant's guilt or innocence and that no amount of evidence could possibly remove it. Some of those opposed to the death penalty were as pronouncd in their views.

One man said he would impose the death penalty in an extreme case of premeditated mur- der, hut that he would not vote for it in the case on trial. Three Put in Box A printer, a hardware clerk and an automobile salesman, all men of religious convictions, having families, were accepted as jurors Thurs- (Continued on page 4 column 6) Notes on The Nose Count DALLAS. increase of 101,421, or fiS.S per cent. WORCESTER. increase of 16.B41.

or 0.2 per cent. ABILENE, 23.120; increase, or 125 1 per rent SWEETWATER, increase of or per cent. NIAGARA FALLS, N. 75.3'"6; increase of 24.400, or 4S.5 per cent. PILOT POINT, Denton county, 1104: loss, 305.

SHAWNEE, 23.276; increase. 782S or 54 per cent. FATE. Rockwall county, 192; decrease, 137. MABANK.

Kaufman county, 963; no comparative figures. Justice precinct five, ROCKWALL county, 570- increase, 91. BALU.NUJSK, 41S7; increase, 1420. COLEMAN, 6077; increase, 3077. SEYMOUR, 2626; increase, 501.

AUGUSTA, 50, 659; increase of 7111, or 13.5 per cent. ALBANY, Shackelford county, 2420; increase, 951. Precinct three, SHACKELFORD county (including 0u5 in Moran), 1745; increase of ISO. Pythian home, WEATHER-FORD, 134; increase of 14. Precinct eight, CALLAHAN county, 2167 (including 601 in Putnam); increase of 251.

SANGER. Denton county, 1099; no comparative figures. PENS A LA 31.455; increase of 420 or 1.3 per cent. BILLINGS. 16.332; increase 1232 or 7.4 per cent.

ren ties Walter Hayes and Jack Floyd were directing the relief. Fire broke out following the storm but was soon brought under pont.ro!. Twelve men were saved from death by taking refuge in the vault of a bank. Many believed other bodies would be found when the debris was cleared away. It was estimated that 40 business buildings were demolished and about 75 residence structures.

First aid stations were set up all over the town and the relief situation seemed well taken care of. storms twice Tuesday, and in the was struck by timbers when the Farmers and Ginners Oil Mill was wrecked and who was taken to Se-ton infirmary in an unconscious condition. Bunton had regained consciousness Tuesday afternoon and was reported resting easily. JOE ADAIR, superintendent of the oil mill, who had three fingers almost severed when a door slammed on his left hand at the mill. HEXRV WILLIAMS, who received hashes about the head.

The John Kruse home at 190S when the top of the house, 'inc'lud- ing ceilings, was picked up by the wind and hurtled about 20 feet across the yard. Furniture and interior rooms were damaged by water. Mrs. Kruse escaped injury as she had left the house about 10 minutes before the storm, Mr. Kruse said.

Several barns were torn away and at least one house was unroofed in the Oovalle section when the gale twisted across that section east of Austin stationery supplies of the. department of education. Windows In the office of Mark Marshall, motor transportation director, were broken by hail that preceded the morning downpour. Work in the capitol was practically suspended after both morning and afternoon rains, when lights were put out and elevators stopped by break-down of the capitol power lines. Rotunda of the capitol was water-spattered from rain blown into open doors at the top of the dome.

Trees in the capitol grounds were damaged by the wind, and one of the large trees by the old courthouse was twisted off 10 feet from the ground, its top falling over a portion of the Congress avenue sidewalk. S.P. Freinht Office Damaged The Southern Pacific sustained slight damage as the high wind tore away the roof over the loading platform- at the freight depot on East Fourth street. Morris Burns, local freight agent, said the wind sheared the roof next to the office and set (Continued on page 2 column 1) Arguments Aunt Het By ROBERT QUILLEN 'i ain't never tried to kick Fa's shins under the table at a party since the time I missed him an" made the preacher drop his upper plate in the soup." Warehouse Roof Blown Into Mexican's Front Yard Here ines 6T Frost tonight. Seventy-five panicky children were in the school when the storm was seen approaching.

Miss Lois Rogers, Hillsboro, and Miss Millie Yar-brough, Mertens, knew that to stay in the frame structure meant death. They herded their small charges into an open cotton field nearby and there every child was made to lie down along the rows of fresh green cotton. From this place of comparative security, they watched the twister engulf the school house and tear it into bits. No child was hurt. The jail was the only public Early Replacement Of Warrants Urged By C.

C. Directors Issues For Short Period With 'Call' Clause Is Taylor's Suggestion On the contention of business men that the higher interest in courthouse warrants over that of bonds will double the final cost of the county's new courthouse, chamber of Commerce directors Tuesday night unanimously voted to confer with county commissioners on feasibility of so issuing the warrants that they may be re. placed by bonds within a year or other short period. Pres. Charles B.

Cook reported the question to directors, with the statement that "we all want a courthouse. These differences of opinion are being discussed, and the matter is reported to you for such consideration as yon Oeem fitting." Others promptly joined in with the suggestion that if possible to save the estimated $500,000 excess interest involved in a warrant issue, it was properly a matter for the chamber of commerce to interest itself in. Plain Business "It is not a matter of politics: it is plain business," Former Pres. Ralph C. Goeth declared.

"I know-no body whose duty it would be, more than the chamber of commerce, to interest itself in such a question." On suggestions of Directors C. A. Wilcox, George Dowell, Albert Taylor and others, it was pointed out that warrants may be issued for a short period, with a "call" clause in them, providing that they may be taken up if refunding bonds are issued. Mr. Taylor pointed out that if a bond issue should fail, even when it meant saving this money to the county and even though it is now certain the county must build a courthouse then the county still could go ahead and build on warrants.

Committee Named Mr. Goeth also emphasized this same point. He asked that a committee be named to confer with the commissioners and ask the inclusion of such a right to take up the warrants quickly in the warrants themselves. This was unanimously approved and Mr. Cook will name the committee probably Wednesday.

Question whether the warrants for the courthouse already have been placed under contract was raised. It was estimated that bonds could be issued at 4i per cent interest, and sold at a premium, instead of warrants at a much higher rate of interest, and sold at a discount. NECHES MUD-HOLE TO EE PAVED On petition of every property-owner in the two blocks, the City has agreed to the early paving of Neches street between East Sixth and Eights streets, S. Ferris reported Tuesday night to his fellow-members of the Austin Cham-ber of Commerce hoard of directors. This will provide paving to Junior High school, and will replace an almost Impassable mudhole In wet weather, it was pointed out.

Mr. Ferris was active in securing the signatures of the property-owners, und personally presented the petitions to City Mgr. Adam R. Johnson. He expressed deep satisfaction that the paving will be laid promptly.

REDUCED WATER RATE IN SUMMER ASKED Austin will be a place of beautiful gardens, of vivid green lawns and well-kept yards an oasis of well-watered grass and shrubbery during the parched summer months if a recommendation of Austin Chamber of Commerce directors, sponsored by Joe Koen, Is followed. The directors voted Tuesdav nlsht to request the city council to grant Pupils Carired Into Cotton Patch Just Before Wind Wrecks School Building By the Associated Press CORSICANA, May 6. Two school teachers who kept their heads and stuck by their jobs while a black funnel which they knew carried death swooped down upon their little school, were the hero 4 in 1 By the United Press BEAVER DAM, May 6. Four kittens, conjoined by abdominal attachments, are on display at the farm of George Kukok near here. The kittens are normal in other respect, visitors to the farm say, and seem to be as playful as ordinary kittens.

No two have the same color markings. Taylor Gains 25 Population During Last len xears Williamson Metropolis NW Boasts 7459 Persons, Count Reveals The population pf Taylor, Williamson county metropolis, has increased over 25. per cent during the last decade, and now 7459 persons reside within the city limits. This report was made public Tuesday by Census Supervisor C. F.

Heidenreich. In 1920 there were 5965 persons enumerated in Taylor. The gain was 1494. Taylor is the largest city, other than Austin, in Central Texas, and its steady growth, reflecting the general sound economic condition of this section, is revealed. In the new figures.

Three precinct reports from this census district were also announced Tuesday. They were: Precinct 6, BASTROP county, this year 1S57; decrease 226. i'recinct TRAVIS county, this year 1751; decrease 323. Precinct 4, excluding Rockdale, county, 342; decrease 855. luruiinuue, census oooks were being rapidly audited in preparation for closing Wednesday nieht Census enumerators will be busy uirougnout Wednesday at the dis trict offices in the Post Office build ing.

Names will be received at telephone 43 id and from callers at the Chamber of Commerce throughout the day, and all reports will be vertiiea by the enumerators, Mr. Heidenreich said. The folios will be sent to Washington Thursday where the report will be audited again, and from there the official nose count for the city will be announced. BARRY MILLER ON TRIP DALLAS, May 6. (UP) Lieut.

Gov Barry Miller, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Evelyn Miller Pierce, left here today on a "speechless campaign trip" which will carry him through North and East Texas. cost Sunday, June 8, 1930, representation at the International convention of the church in Washington, D. C. Oct.

14-23, 1930; on Christian stewardship, state missions and Christian education were described as special objectives of the Texas brotherhood in the report of the future works committee, adopted unanimously by the convention. Conference Thi Morning Wednesday morning's program will begin at 8:30 o'clock with three conferences. One on "Woman's Work" will be led by Mrs. W. W.

Phares, Dallas; one on "Bible School Curriculum," by Prof. II. L. Plckrell, T. C.

Fort Worth; and one on the "Pension Fund," by Jack lluppertz and F. F. Dawson. Dr. H.

D. Clueliek, head of the Father Sees ife And Child Perish In Storm Austin Oil Man Attacks Railroad Drilling Permits Effort To Be Made Today To Regulate Young County Field The state of Texas through its railroad commission Wednesday is to sit as umpire in a fight over very rich oil land drilling boundaries in the newest Young county production brought in April 8 by James P. Nash of Austin and his partner, R. F. Windfohr of Graham.

These two independent opera, tors are seeking to have tile railroad commission examine the field and determine a policy of granting permits which will best serve public Interest, before allowing drilling i.ii the Roek Island inn-foot right of way, which runs through the heart of the field. Protests Unavailing A drilling lease on the right of way has been granted by the Rock Island to Montrief and Montrief, plumbing" contractors of Fort "Worth. A'-cording to Nash, replies to tekurams of protest sent by the firahnm f'hamher of Commerce to the Unrk Island have P'dntod to Anion O. Carter, Fort Worth publisher, as the major influence in lease grant. The Montrief group lias admitted to him that Carter is personally and finnneitillv interested in the opera' ion, Nash said.

Nash and Windfohr own two leases split by the. Rock Island. The Mef'loml No. 1. which came in April with a flush production of barrels and now is making about barrels of nil a day, is on one side of the railroad and another well, one of three Nash and Windfohr now have going down, is on the other lease.

Midway between these wells, the Montriefs now are building a derrick, only 225 feet from the McCloud No, although the railroad commission has not yet granted them permission to drill. This permit is being asked at the hearing today. Sjc1 to Have Derrick Moved Nash and Windfohr will ask that the Montriefs and Carter be required to move their derrick farther away from their producer, and will seel: to have the railroad commission, after inspecting the field personally, adopt the policy agreed to by the various lease owners in the field that wells shall be spaced at least 600 feet apart. This policy was agreed to in an effort to keep down the recovery cost in the field, In which the oil bearing strata lies at considerable depth. Should the Montriefs be granted permits to drill the Rock Island right of way at intervals of 300 feet, three wells would be sunk within 200 feet of each other nt each point, off-sets by lease holders being drilled 50 feet from the Rock Island property line.

If the Montrief permit Is granted for the location the derrick now occupies, the whole conservation program of the field will he voided and the action will force, according- to Nash, a series of five wells along a lino of 000 feet, three of whieh are unnecessary for full recovery of oil. One Well to 10 Acres If the drilling arrangements of leaseholders in this tleld are carried out, there will bo one well drilled for each 10 acres. A right of way strip 100 feet wide has 12 acres for each mile of right of way. Were right of way leaseholders permitted to drill each 300 feet, it would be possible for such holders to put down 10 wells on approximately 10 acres of oil-bearing land. There are now 16 wells drilling in the field.

At Frost at least 16 were reported dead though an exact report not be procured due to broken telephone lines. Two Tornadoes Hit Residents of the town said two tornadoes struck, about 15 minutes apart. Incoming relief workers said the first sight they saw on entering the town of 1,000 was a debris-strewn cemetery, with sheet iron, lumber and papers scattered among the grave markers. Several ambulances which had to ford two streams swollen by a week of rain, were stalled. Before they could aid the stricken the drivers and workers had to push out their automobiles.

League Wooley, seeing the cloud approaching, went to the school, house for his child. He returned home just as the storm struck, killing his wife and child. Late Tuesday night he had not regained consciousness. Many little children lay on improvised cots or in their parents arms, mangled and bruised. Panic stricken little negro children were huddled together with bandaged heads.

Debris Not Moved No effort was made tonight to remove the wreckage of the buildings for fear the walls would crumble and fall on workers. The wreckage laying free was made into bonfires to light the gruesome scene. One man escaped death by grasping a large tree, the top of which was torn from the trunk. Some of those who saw the cloud, said it "bounced along'1 and appeared to be in two sections. The wind blew the roof off the Pierce Petroleum Corporation's warehouse at.

Second and Nueces and carried it 50 feet across the street and dumped it in the back yard of a Mexican home nearby. The flying roof struck the top of the Mexican house and damaged the roof, then fell across an automobile in the back yard but did not damage the car, it was reported. Part of the Pierce warehouse roof was blown into a tree across the street near the Quality Mills. No damage was done by the storm at the plant of the Walker Properties association, W. F.

Gohlke, general manager, announced. The wind lifted the home of Frank Salinas at 1402 L'askell street off its foundation and set it down a few feet away. Although Salinas was in the house with his wife an.l four children at the time, no one was hurt. Several other houses in the 10th ward section lost their porches and chimneys, it was stated, whr-n the wind st-emed to cut swath across that section toward the river. Roofs of houses on East First street were also damaged.

Courthouse Tree Blown Down The ropitol basement was flooded, with damage to a large quantity of The Morning Poor Pa By CLAUDE CALLAN "My rich Uncle Dave don't yem to worry any over the flp'sibility of losin' his soul, lit acts like he's got it in. sured." Foil Worth Man Elected Head of Missionaiy Work Twister Passes Into Gnlf of Mexico R. H. Foster, Fort Worth attorney, was re-elected president of the Texas Christian Missionary society at the first business session of the Texas Christian con. ventton Tuesday afternoon.

Leo Johnston of Greenville was re. elected vice president of the so-ciety, and Colby D. Hall, Fort Worth, was again named secretary. The financial goal of the missionary society for the fiscal year 1930-31, by vote of the convention, was placed nt $65,000, or $1 per member in the organized churches of Texas. Emphasis on church attendance and communion service on Pente At least 16 were killed when a cyclonic storm swept through a thick, ly populated farming community between Notdheim and Runge late Tuesday afternoon.

The dead and injured were taken to both Nord-heim and Runge while physicians from Cuero, Yorktown, Kenedy and Karnes rushed to the stricken areas. Injured Cared For Nearly 20 injured had been cared for late Tuesday night and at last reports the storm's path was at the edge of Karnes and Goliad county, where it evidently had lifted and passed out into the Gulf of Mexico. Observers traveling on the highway between Corpus Christi and San Antonio say the storm cloud did not appear funnel shaped like a tornado, but was a low black mass, tumbling forward and traveling faster than tornado clouds usually progress, (Continued on page 12 column 7) I (Continued on page 2 column 7),.