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Leased Wire Associated Press Reports Published Every Week-Day Afternoon he ernon aily ecord WEATHER West Texas: Tonight fair; frost in in Panhandle; Wednesday fair. VOL. Ill, NO. 299 (A-P) Means Associated Press VERNON, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928 (A-P) Means Associated Press PRICE FIVE CENTS MURDER TRIAL OPENS IN EASTLAND Identification of Negro Held on Assault Charge Is Made HOME TOWN STUFF A rebuke has been handed to this column, and to be entirely fair the rebuke will be handed right back to the rebuker. Mr.

Roy L. Ferguson sends word to this column that the West Vernon school has owned a Texas flag several years, and that no mention has ever been made of it. The news is very gratifying, sven If it is somewhat belated, but H. T. will insist that the fault is not his.

He has urged Texas flags and solicited news about Texas flags in Wilbarger County schools and has published all that was furnished him. Therefore, he must affirm that he is not at fault because of the failure to mention the West Vernon flag earlier. How can a piece of news be printed until it is reported? It is great to please both sides of a controversy. Recently this column did just that thing- It printed a piece and commented hereon. Both parties have sincc commended this column for laying out the other side.

It seems from news reports that young Mr. Hickman is to be hanged after all for murdering an innocent school girl. A subscriber writes in as follows: really seems too bad hat Hickman is to be hanged after I ail nts newspaper publicity. What a wonderful moVie contract he might get if only allowed to The movie magnates do seem to have a penchant for giving liberal contracts to notorious characters. There is too much of it.

It would seem that Mr. Hays who was appointed some time ago to reform the movies is a lax on his job. But, let us remember that it was Mr. Hays who peddled around some suspicious Liberty bonds furnished by Mr. Sinclair of Teapot Dome fame.

Remembering this we should not expect too much vigilance, A change in jobs often change a man. A picture post card has come from U. S. Davis, who is in Washington, D. C.

seeing the he pens. The card bears a picture of a great cathedral in Washington. One would almost expect Mr. Davis to send a picture of a beautiful golf course. The Hawkins school will be opened for use next Monday, according to an announcement carricd in this newspaper yesterday.

The new ward school is a model for arrangement and was erected in record time. It is a good building, but there is one thing about it that mars its appearance. Common brick were used on the east and west ends of the building when it would have cost only a very little more money to have had face brick on all four sides. ifc It costs as much to lay common brick as it does face brick, and the small saving made cost more in appearance than it was worth. But that will have to pass.

The building is finished and there is no use of being too critical about an otherwise splendid piece of work. Boomer Staton brought in a freight solicitor for the Frisco yesterday, but he get any business. Rooner threw the rain campaign all out of joint a few weeks ago, just this column was about to get started- If your crops are for lack of moisture, blame r. not H. T.

Birthday bargain rates on tion are in effect on this er now The Record will soon years old as a daily, If has done fairly well, your renewal. If you send it in any way. Maybe do better in the MOB FORMS AT GAINESVILLE, BUT DISPERSES Rumor That Black Had Been Returned to Scene of Crime Causes Menacing Crowd to Are Forwarded From Fort Worth. Gainesville, Oct. A.

R. Hassenpflug, attacked by a negro at her home near here last week, today identified a photograph of Silas Jorman, arrested in Houston, as her attacker. picture was picked by Mrs. Hassenpflug from 13 others taken to her bedside by Elbert Hooper and Ed Powell, County Attorney and Sheriff of Denton County, respectively, and J. M.

Leonard, Gainesville newspaper publisher. When the woman came to photograph she raised up in her bed and said: the The Cooke County grand jury this morning convened to investigate the attack. Charges of assault already have been filed against Jorman. J. L.

Gettys, County Attorney of Cooke County, announced that Jorman probably would be tried here on Monday- He is being held in the Tarrant county jail at Fort Worth. Widely circulated reports that Jorman had been lynched here today was explained by Gainesville officers in this manner: Last night about 150 young men gathered in front of the jail. They made rto attempts to enter or to ascertain whether Jorman was in the jail. A deputy sheriff appeared, saying to the crowd: Jorman is not in a cell here, but there are plenty of cells for you if you want The crowd dispersed. GRAND JURY SORES FRAT USE OF ELECTRICITY INITIATIONS IS CONDEMNED IN PHILADELPHIA BOOZE GRAFT DISCLOSURE CONTINUES Philadelphia, Oct.

special grand jury investigation in two months has resulted in the arrest of half a dozen district commanders of police and more than 30 detectives and patrolmen on charges of accepting bribes from saloon-keepers. And the end is not in District Attorney Monaghan, who is conducting the investigation, said today. The latest squad to be accused of collecting bribes for permitting the bcotleggers to operate is Unit No. 1, crganized especially for liquor raiding by Brigadier Genera1 Smedley D. Butler when ho was director of public safety here and disbanded when Mayor Mackey went into office last January.

Several former members of the unit are already under arrest. Testimony that one of the six proups of this unit received more than $25,000 in six weeks during 1926 was given by Eugene H. Tabbutt, a patrolman and former member of the ra'ding squad, and Frank R. C. Neubauer at the hearing of Samuel Griffin, also a former member of Unit 1, on charges of extortion, bribery and conspiracy.

Griffin, formerly known as the and now a hotel proprietor, was held in $25,000 bail for court. After his resignation from the police force in May, 1926, he is alleged by the District Attorney to have deposited $356,000 in four banks. Neubauer, who was a clerk for former Magistrate George C. Rowland, testified that he had acted as graft collector for the raiding squad and had collected approximately $4,000 a week. Of this sum, he said, he had received between $-100 and $500 a week from Griffin, whom the witness termed the and pay-off for a group of South Philadelphia saloon men.

Neubauer was the the principal witness against Rowland v.hen the latter was convicted last year for collecting about $88,000 in graft. I nters LOST IN STORM SUDDEN BUZZARD SWEEPS MOUNTAIN STATES SUNDAY World War Chiefs At San Antonio CHARGE KLAN 'COMMITTEE TO IS INSOLVENT Two famous generals, who helped to turn the tide of the World War in favor of the allies, are shown here os they talked over old days during the American Legion convention in San Antonio, Texas. To the left is Pershing; to the right, Lord Allenby, leader of the victorious British forces at Jerusalem. Action in Federal Court Atlanta Charges Misuse of Funds in Effort To Defeat Democratic Issued by Dragon. OPEN NEW OIL OPERATIONS IN SAN ANGELO TERRITORY CENTER OF INTEREST DROP REPORTED IN OIL OUTPUT FIGURES FOR ALL FIELDS SHOW HEAVY DECLINE IN PRODUCTION Austin, Oct.

Travis County grand jury condemned the use of electricity in any form in fraternity initiations at state institutions in a report of District Judge J. R. Hamilton today, fixing no penal blame for the death of Nolte McElroy, 19, of Houston in a Delta Kappa fraternity initiation at Texas University September 30. Mo Elroy died after starting to crawl through two pairs of springs charged from a house light wire in a stunt which other initiates had gone through before without harm. The grand jury recommended that the probe authorities ban such form of initiation.

no apparent intention to kill that might be called with such carelessness and negligence as a requisite by statute to constitute negligent homicide, either in the first or second degree, we close this matter with the report herein given, without further the report said. we are constrained to condemn the practice of using electricity in any form during initiations in any fraternity called with or an adjunct of our state institutions, because of an ever present danger to the subject, due either to change of conditions in the electric current or to the physical condition of the Week- of th i i Home Mr H. S. Taylor of Dallas, who li visiting her mother, Mrs. and family, has returned home.

Denver, Oct. was felt today for upwards of 400 deer hunters believed marooned by a sudden severe blizzard which swept Colorado, Wyoming and Northern New Mexico Sunday and yesterday, bringing a heavy fall of snow to many sections. Most of the hunters were scattered in the high isolated country about i Grand Junction, Colo, on the western I 126 barrel slope of the Rocky Mountain divide, nt water, in a No word has been received from them since the storm struck Sunday. Relief parties have pushed out from Grand Junction in search of small bands of the men. A searching party left Whitewater yesterday seeking a party of eight men marooned in the Uneompahgre forest, but believed safe from privations for the present.

Many hunting parties camped in the Dougla- Creek district, northwest of here which was buried in snowfall ranging from one inch to five feet in depth. The blizzard raged in across western Wyoming bringing heavy snow, which drifted steadily. The storm reached Santa Fe, New Mexico, driving summer weather before it. Denver received its first snowfall of the season last night, following heavy rainfall. Montana also had snowfall, with accompanying low temperatures.

San Angelo, Oct. end operations in West Texi fields apparently doubled the one pool and discovered a new low pool. In Winkler County oil men believed that increased production of two wells indicated that the Hendrick pool has been extended to twice its previously estimated length, or that a new pool had been found. Mining end Engineering Corporation of well, a mile south and slightly of the main Hendrick pool, of fluid, 12 per at 3,001 feet. This was considered an extension Ol the pool but some oil men believe that the No.

1 five further south, which flowed 1,367 bar- rtls of oil free from water in 12 hours and 45 minutes marks a new I ool rather than an extension. The well belongs to Richardson, Frank Kelsey and the White Eagle Oil and Refining Company. In Callahan County P. G. Hatchett Tulsa, Oct.

fields the only one increase in the daily a tion in light and hea total reports fr With Oklaho- rt an oduc- to re 13 United Stati mg October of approxim from the ing Octobe 6, rent issue of tl al. Oklahoma's i erage gra i all fields ing the wi in the sk end- ecrease ly 1 rt enc; 0 bar! for the to the cur- Oil and Gas Journ- Atlanta, Oct. A re ceiver had been asked today for the Ku Klux Klan in a petition presented in United States District Court here alleging that expenditure of money by hiph officials of the organization had caused it to become insolvent. The petition, presented yesterday to Judge Samuel H. Sibley of the Federal Court, who ordered it filed, charged that Hiram W.

Evans, Im periat Wizard of the order, and other officials, had spent Klan funds in opposing the candidacy of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, Demo- cratic nominee for president, because of his religion. It was alleged that the organization hail become insolvent, although it had collected $100,000,000 from its members which, the petition said, greatly in excess of the amount neccssary to pay is lawful and necessary expense Violation of Georgia law ing contributions by a corporation, or its officers from corporate funds of money to campaign expenses or for political purposes, in an election or primary held in this state, was charged. Evans in Washington yesterday declined to comment the petition presented by C. T.

Rice, who identi fied himself as a member of the organization. Another man named as defendant in the petition, James A. Comer of Little Rock, Grand Dragon of the Arkansas Realm and a member of the board of directors of the Klan, said organization was solvent. was not In politics, and unalterably opposed to Alfred E- had not, spent money for political purposes. In addition to Psraris and Comer, W.

F. Zummbrun, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and American building were named as defendants in equity. PLEA IS FOR HICKMAN FATHER OF YOUTH JOINS IN APPEAL TO GOVERNOR STUDY SITES FOR SCHOOL LOCATION A committee composed of W. K. J.

V. Owen, M. C. Culbertson, and K. P.

Robertson was appointed last night at a meeting of the Vernon Board of Education to consider proposed sites for the new' $250,000 high school building, bonds for which were voted here March 20. The city-owned lot on which is located pump station, Yamparika and Deaf Smith streets, the K. P. Hicks tract south of the pump station, and other sites are under consideration by the committee. MRS.

USMAN BURIED MONDAY MANY ATTEND SERVICES HELD FOR PIONEER WOMAN HERE DEFENDANT IS ARRAIGNED AS SLAYER OF TWO State Introduces Statement, Purported to Have Been Made, as Trial of Clyde Thompson Gets Under Way Youth To Be Tried P. Lismnn, long time resident of Vernon, who died suddenly Saturday afternoon, was laid to rest in East View Cemetery Monday afternoon. The long procession which followed the body to the cemetery was composed of friends of long standing with whom she has been associated church and social work. The funeral were conducted at the Presbyterian Church at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon by pastor, Dr. K.

Moore, assisted by Rev. C. A. Bickley, pastor of the First Methodist Church. The pastor paid tribute to her Christian character and worth to the Eastland, Oct.

of I urder against Woodrow Wilson Davis, 12 were dismissed today when the boy testified as a State witnesa in the trial of Clyde Thompson, 18, tor the murder of Lucian Shook. Lucian, and his younger brother, Leon, were shot and beaten to death tear the shack at Leeray. Woodrow Wilson brother, 'ihomas Francis, also under indictments growing out of the killings. The youngei boy took the stand this morning after County Attorney J. I- lank Sparks had asked the court to dismiss the charges against him.

will dismiss the charges if ha will tell the whole Judge Elzo Been said. R. Gresham of counsel for Davis family, told the court that Woodrow Wilson would be tendered as a witness in consideration of of the charges against him. It was expected that the State would dose its case by noon. It was believed that J.

R. Stubblefield, attorney for Thompson, would submit only brief defense testimony. The Shook brothers were killed Sep. tember 7. Thomp'im'i was railed MondaV morning.

The trial of Thompson promised to te one of the speediest io the history; of Eastland County. The jury for trial was completed about o'clock yesterday afternoon and a night session of court aw the State offer the bulk of its testimony against tho youth, includ- ng two statements alleged to havs made by him after his arrest. ummuntty in an eulogy which was loquent with imagery as he told of Objections of the defense to the sec he life, beyond. Dr. Moore likened oful of the individual by the days Elzo Be a me oi me individual ny the days of the week, rounding out the life as the sun of life Ho concluded tho address with a description of Heaven, basing it on the and 22nd chapters of Revelation.

Mrs. Lisman had been a resident of Vernon since I8H7, Always an ardent worker in the church, she had followed the fortune of the Presbyterian congregation since the little band worshipped in a small wooden were overruled by of Loui- 121,015 The narre most from total 5 total No. 1 fillet has yet to three miles tion and is pool. with oil at 300 feet. It ie drilled in.

The well is from the nearest produc- thought to mark a new i low Total ticaiiy The grand duction for the United States I pared to pre di bar- the St. fields nil re in Cumberlati instrumental! ful women nt handsome and built, the The church was of flowe Street. Through ar other the church, the edifice was plan- pastor stated, beautiful with its rs of autumn hues. The bodi younger bi and batter after hau becom word from i of Lucian Shook and his ither, Leon, bullet ridden were found near their relatives of the two alarmed at receiving no them. Thompson and two ntinued on page 6) about the chanci many net plect A choir sang old jleted the program of rai they Faith that was ders of for a final she was Miss Ca solo, with organ, pia derer of KVnl Un iurv Los An- Ec gallows, Puckett ar to die move to Railways Plan To Take Over Express Service W.

E. GANDY NOTIFIED of death Trial of Woman Mr. and Mrs. W. E.

Gandy have received a message stating that their son-in-law, Charles Champie, was killed in an automobile accident yesterday afternoon at Phoenix, and that their daughter, who was injured, is in a hospital there. The telegram did not state the extent of Mrs. injuries or the cause of the accident. Mr, and s. Gandy will leave tonight for Phoenix and their son John will join them in Port Worth and accompany them.

Body Man Found. Galveston, Oct. body of Andrew Nordstrom, 68, longshoreman, was found floating in harbor here today. Officers expressed the opinion that he had fallen asleep on a warf and rolled into the water. for Burglary Is Set at Houston Houston, Oct.

of i omse Magness, spirited away by State Rangers after she had been arrested at Austin where she had gone to attend the funeral of Jack Smith, former has been set for next Monday here. The woman faces three charges of burglary and felony theft in robbery of hotel rooms. She was indicted with Smith. Both failed to appear for trial here when the cases were scheduled. Mrs.

Magness has been in jail here since she was turned over to Sheriff T. A. Binford, Chicago, Oct. than three-fourths of th: major railroads of the country have approved a plan whereby they will operate their own railway express company, it was Bounced today by W. B.

Storey, president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ke road, and chairman of the uniform express contract committee for American railway executives. The roads may buy all the American Railway Express stock, Mr. Storey explained, or they may purchase the property. The American Railway Express now works by contract with railroads. Houston Switchman Killed.

Houston, Oct. to have been caught between cars of a train switching, H. Moffitt, 50, switchman for the International- Great Northern railroad, was found last night. body was nearly severed. Mothers Plea for Hickman Is Given to Public Oct, Eva M.

Hickman or C. C. Young to of her son, Wil- tn, was made pub- K. Walsh, of attorney for the Sacramento, Cal A letter from Mn appealing to prevent the execution Dam Edward ilickma lie here today by Jer Kansas City, chief condemned youth The letter said: you can under of a heart-broken mo mercy on my poor not let them kill hir my heart to sei for he was not bin open your heart to i Kira life in pris mercy only God ciation of my heart. My only kill my boy, but give him life.

(Signed) mother, Eva M. Waish announced he first would San Francisco, Oct. Di scarcely a shred of hope ti would succeed, two defen William Edward Hickman he Sacramento today to make plea to Governor C. C. California to save the mur 12-year-old Marian Parker, geles school girl, from the Hickman is under sentenn in Han Quentin prison Frid? Participating in this last stay the hanging was Thomas Hick- I man, father of the condemned youth, who left Los Angeles last night for Sacramento.

He arrived in California yesterday from El Paso, Texas, and i it was expected that Jerome Walsh, Kansas attorney led defense forces at trial, would join him at the 1 capital, coming from Washington, where he failed in an attempt to halt the execution. Robinson Swings East After Visit to Pacific Coast tc Lism The VERNON PLANS 200 FOR TRIP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SEEKS BIG CROWD FOR GOOD WILL PARTY the ith Mi Miss Fights Wind in Return to Base the taeling her, pieaiw have Edward, and This is break- id my boy killed, mseif. you my plea and give If you only show 1 know the apprn- nble and broken -er please Mrs. Robinson Idaho, Oct. T.

Robinsoi the Pacific tour of th speak at there will Utah, for i row night. The Derr nominee x. last night eral impro lamette Vs In his pi tor dwelt but dcviai Train Kn Route to Boise, 16. -(tVi Joseph today swung inland from Coast on his campaign nation. He planned to ioive tonight, and from drop down into Ogden, campaign speech tomor- Vice presidential joke at Portland, after having made sev- mptu talks in the Wil- i Oklahom at Hath night the with the 1 as fighting Oki, las fro night, it at the pi Indicatio point to a larger delegation forthe all-d; ay good will trip next Thursday thanthat which carried good wili into Southwestern (t klahoma iseveral days ago, Grady Shi secret ary of the her of name thii morning.

Corn it are now workii-g among th hou of tho city in to i rite rest about 200 persons fo ir the auto tour into seven towns of west Texas. About 140 compiled the goodwill party which visited Oklahoma CanN being placed in show windows of buslne giving the of ons who will represent each firmaid the number of automo ed, biles that Wr 1 be Tolbert, Chillicot he Quar ah Crowell, Mari iaret, Thi tl and Raylar.iJ will bo vis lited by tl ae good will delegation. In aach town the Vernon Chamber of Cam meree band 1 will render a concert, a itiien of each town will introducethe Vern on speakers, and fhght across SPECIAL PRIMARY IS HELD IN UPTON COUNTY the will he brief. RECORD NEWS EDITOR HAS RADIO IN HOSPITAL rtland address the Sena- largely on water power ed from his prepared the Governor to commute the sen- speech by including remarks on farm and failing in that re- i relief and tolerance in religion, quest that the chief executive appoint stressed what he called a medical board to inquire into the tarian legislation fostered by Gov- mental condition of Hickman, I ernor Alfred Cou for ry (her had It a De ed by an original pr field, who a margin Fowler ap election Fowler because tb ballot bound the nominees i of'stbe pr. 1 ton declared the eiect.oa illegal.

the today as a resu ion which was net ror on tho ballot-; nary. Sheriff J. O. Barron the first primary by 26 votes from W. C.

trently won votes. ttested the first primary pledge at the top of the the voter to support if the instead Judge C. R. Sut- While con on W. D.

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