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Lubbock Motorcade Leaves Monday On Tour Of Proposed New Highway te Serving A Great THE SOUTH PLAINS OWN NEWSPAPER Aimlanrhr-jlmtrnnl NO. 50 LUBBOCK, TEXAS SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1929 MEANS Aged Farmer Is Charged In Melon Patch Shooting Zeppelin Passes Half-Way Mark Of Pacific Hop Airliner Should Reach U. S. Goal Bv Early Monday Rad io Messages from World Touring Dirigible State Rapid Progress Ts Ruing Made To Los Angeles Soars Through Fog and Crew Are Nearing Last Goal In Globe-Girdling Attempt; Averages Miles FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 -Radio messages from the world touring Graf Zeppelin indicated that giant ai-ship late today was more than half way across the Pacific her brave fltgl from Ka-sumigaura s.

Japan, to Los Angeles, a distance of 5 470 miles. If the rate of progress which the Zeppelin averaged since leaving Japan 12:13 a m. C. M. Friday was maintained she was expected to be seen over San Francisco early Monday.

Adverse winds made it possible Seattle would no1 be visited and that San Francisco. on the great circle route of shipping, would be the first; mainland point of western circle: route of shipping, would the first mainland point of western America to sight the cra.fr. Breasting the winds over the vast waste of the Pacific Ocean, ing through the fog and the night, drenched with ram, the Graf bore its 19 passengers and crew of 41 on toward their goal. Onlv occasionally did the The People May Talk But You Fool An (Ole Fly CAMBRIDGE, Wis. Aug.

24. VF horse fly bit the horses; the team ran away; two children narrowly escaped; the farm wife was hurt and the dog bit a man twice. Aside from that, it will be a long time before folks stop talking about what the horsefly did yesterday. The fly was at ease and so were Ed horses when Ed drove into Oscar Lea's farmyard, but it wasn't long before the fly got restless, and the horses too. said one of the Lea boys; and he went to stop the team.

Bui the horses had started to run as he grabbed the bridle of one He let go after being dragged over a considerable part of the yard. One of the younger Lea children was playing directly in the path of the animals. Lea made a dash and picked the child up The horses made a dash too, toward another child. Mrs, Lea sprinted to the spot in time to save the child but was herself badly trampled. The team started doing a Ben Hur around the house with that, and Heath started after them.

But he tripped on the chain holding an excited dog. The dog did his part nobiy by biting Heath twice. That was about all that could have happened, and the horses stopped. Fifteen Cars Are Signed For Jaunt To Portales, N.M. R.

J. Murray To Lead Local Delegation Tomorrow In Connection With Other Sfouth Plain? Cities Fifteen Lady fliers Are Down At East Si. Louis Port Following Mishaps W. A. Wolfe Released Under Bond Of $1,000 On Charges Of Assault With intent To Kill Local Youth Friday i.

Leads Boosters May Haizlip Delayed By Broken Gas Connection Forced To Land Cars Are Needed Panhandle-South Plain? Fair Will Be Advertised Along Route From Here Through Elida, Portales National Air Races And Aeronautical Exposition Is Started At Cleveland JITH 15 cars signed up, the highway and trade trip com- mittee, under leadership of R. J. Murray, was making final plans last night for assembling 35 auto- mobiles to carry a larger delegation of local citizens over the proposed Lubbock -Elida- Portales highway Monday, when South Plains and New Mexico cities will unite in a motorcade which will terminate with a celebration at Portales, The local delegation will gather at the city hall tomorrow at 6 for the start. More Cam Needed need 15 or 20 more was the plea last night of Mr. Murray.

"The motorcade Is blets veteran commander, Dr. Hugo Eekener, give a position, for the ship maintained an average rate of 67 an hour since leaving Japan. At 1 nu C. S. the was given as 44 20 minutes north 1 tii- tude, and 174 degrees.

20 minutes west longitude. It was 2 486 miles on her way to Los Angeles, with 2.982 miles to go. County Agents To Meet Here What He Got Whoopee I Three Cross Country that it will be of dOu TT ole importance to Lubfc Asid Derbies Underway To Start Event A family row, in which a young couple, residents of Twenty-third street in south- we Lubock, were participants, was aired early Saturday morning In police court vhen the paid a fine of 525 on a charge of disturbing pence. According to persons residing near disturbers, the couple had several minutes quarreling in the street. (3v 1 Tomcrro thirty-five citizens leave on a tour of the pro- Aside pcvd new highway from this city from boosting the highway, the lo- Elida and Portales.

New Mexico, cai delegation will advertise the they will be led bv R. J. Murray, Panhandle South -Tains Fair, to be pictured above. In addition to cre- here September 30 to October ating interest in the proposed road, "We will expec CLEVELAND, Aug. 24.

i Aviation, the new young giant of automobiles in the he be held this ncfru od 41 1 i er.rc xtu Donations Boost Milk, Ice Funds the local delegation will advertise no less than 35 the Panhandle South Plains fair to he be held here fni industry, opened Its 1929 national continued. cars will be i air races and aeronautical exposi- needed to transport the Lubbock non here today with an assemblage High School band of 35 of aircraft, pilots, engineers and To Stage Programs equipment, the largest in its his- Programs will be staged by the tory. cai boosters and trade trippers Three cross country derbies were throughout the route, and they will approaching, one for women from swing around by Muleshoe and Pan- Santa Monica, another for handle cities on the return trip, men from Portland, Oregon, and a Novelties and souvenirs advertising third from Miami. At Dayton, army the fair will be given at each and navy fliers were resting for! Arriving at Portales at 1 o'clock their series of stunts at the opening (12 o'clock mountain the mo- of the tomorrow. creade members will be entertained National air race spectators will with a barbecue at noon, and a get to see how motorless aircraft I speak hi program will be held r- perform.

Gliders, with pilots sitting ing the afternoon. out on precarious seats in the open --------------------------and also in enclosures will be hitched to planes and automobiles Bv A-ia-istf ast st. louis, Aug. The fifteen contestants who made a one-stop flight from Wichita today in the National Air derby, Santa Monica to Cleveland. landed at Parks Airport near here this afternoon, one after being forced down and two others with minor mishaps.

May Haizlip of Kansas City failed to arrive with the group which landed one hour and -8 minutes after 2:20 p. but she repaired a broken gasoline line at 'Washington. and with the aid of a farm hand who was unable to crank the propeller, she continued her flight. Blanch Noyes First Blanche Noyes of Cleveland, the first to arrive here, smashed the landing gear of her plane as she alighted. Neva plane nosed into an adjacent roadway, stopping with tail up.

Neither aviatrix was injured. Their planes will be repaired in time for the takeoff for Haute, at 8 tomorrow when the more than morning. carloads of Lubbock Official computation of elapsed flying time to here showed Mrs. Louise M. Thaden retained the lead.

The contestants ranked as follows: Heavy planes: Mrs. Louise McPhetrdige Thaden. Pittsburgh, 16:27 57. Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach, See LADY FLIERS Page 11 Thousands Crowd Tabernarle Here To Hear Rev. Hai Lives Of Father Son Claimed Bv Swift Current Seventv-Foiir-Year-Old Man Confesses To Firing At Boys In Field Near City Late Friday Night Victim Is Better Thirty Shots From Twelve- Gauge Shotgun Lodge In Fourteen-Year-Old Lad; Pneumonia Is Feared MAY HAIZLIP Message For Young People Delivered In Services Of City-Wide Revival On Saturday Night Pair Whirled To Death In Attempt To Rescue Woman From Treacherous Whirlpool Contributions to the Avalanche- start a series of attempts to ap- Journal and Federated Aid Sixdetle.s proach the record of Robert Kron- Miik ami Ice fund aggregated $36.80 of Germany who soared to an ties Io Gather At state for the last week, increasing the altitude of 6.800 feet and coasted in Agricultural Leaders From Tun South Plain? Coun- Accident Victim Turns For Worse Experiment, Station Countv agricultural agents of 10 South Plains counties will gather next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the I ubbock state ex- perimmit station, three miles east of this r.

for field day meet? accord in; to Sterline C. Evans, district bv of Texas A. and M. extension service. Experiments now under way at the station will be studied at the meet.

To facilitate more efficient study of experiments county group meetings have been planned for the four days. The schedule fellows Tuesday Hale, Lamb and Crosby counties Wednesday Dawson, Lynn ami Garza counties Thursday Lubbock county, Friday Terry, Gaines and Hockley counties. Gaines And Terry Plan Field Day A Fldd Day for the purpose of studying farm conditions on the South Plains and West Texas will deni and Terry counties next Tuesday starting at. 10 oViOek on the farm of O. L.

Berry near Seagraves, according to an an- total of the campaign to $298.68, Mrs. Mary Hinton, treasurer, announced last night. the air 62 miles. Aviators will attempt to Jump with parachutes to a designated Thousands of peon ma mm nue last nicht as Re eondiru in the v-vide Lubbock, brought a me tended especial." tor you: The entire ccro sectio rrowded the Texas Ave- F. Ham, wiva! in After overcoming the handicap of a late start in he women's air derby, Miss Mae Haizlip, Kansas City, flyer, pictured above, yester- day was forced down.

She repaired the leak- gas line to her plane and continued to the next control, Hubbard To Speak To Tech Freshmen A. WOLFE. 74-year-old farmer living 1 1-2 miles southwest of Lubbock on the Slaton highway, Saturday morning was released on $1,000 bond following an investigation Friday night and Saturday of the shooting of Oscar Cothren, 14. son of Mr. and Mrs.

O. P. Cothren. 1118 7th street, Friday night. Wolfe, after the investigation, was charged with assault wih m- tent io kill.

He was bound over to await the action of the grand i Jury. Taken To Sanitarium The injured youth was rushed to the Lubbock Sanitarium Friday night suffering of approximately 30 wounds in the left side of his body. One of the shot, from a 12-gauge gun, lodged in the large blood vessel in his neck while several others punctured his lungs. His condition late last night was said to be some- what improved and that every hope is being held for his recovery. The greatest danger, according to phy- sicians, would remit from pneumonia or internal hemorrhage.

Officers were searching yesterday for three other boys said to have been with Cothren at the time of the shooting. The boy, while lying on operating stated there was only one other boy with him and that he did not --now his name, having met him a short time before in the park. According to a state- pie. the Bread and cakes were donated by jmark a team of crack stunt the Sally Ann and Dandy bakeries 1 filers from Troy, Ohio, will put and the local contingent of Na- ships through a galaxy of Uonal Guard. 'stunts.

Contributions were rs follows; I-ighter-thsn-alr craft also will Junior Shakespeare club, under have their day. with four semi- direction of Misses I ilu Mae Crav- 1 dirigibles from the Good ear- Alvin P. Risinger Shows Symptoms Of Meningitis Following: Accident Here Last Sunday Night The Ham TVeekb Program Page 11 and Bernice Phipps Junior department of the First Presbyterian Sunday school $6.50 General aid society of the First Christian church $5. Milk bottle contributions $15 30. company and the Detroit of Alvin Rising- or, 20-year-old Texas Tech student, last night became alarming with ei Aircraft new i ironl clad dirigible soaring overhead thai indication pointed to the fact that meningitis probably would develop.

Reports stated that a serious rtg- gives back fine nm, DAY, I'agc II Make Money In Jail DALLAS, Aug. 24 (JF) A negro held on a gasoline theft chin ge pleaded guilty today be ause he was by remaining in jail. How?" the judge asked. outside i t.an make of money craps. Only the other night I made i he gambling man was fined and told that he could it out in Buildintr Permit Total Is Boosted With the issuance of four permits Saturday building totwl for the week stood at $27,150 while that of the month was $180,600, representing 28 permits.

J. W. Wilson, contractor, was Issued two permits for erection of frame residences for W. H. Atwood, one at 1916 and the other at 1914 Avenue Each of the houses will cost $1,500.

Miller, contractor, was Issued a permit for the erection of a frame office building for Ruben Usher at 2209 Nineteenth street to cost $2,000, T. BrummetL contractor, received a permit for $3,500 for the erection of a brick veneer residence at 2413 Seventh street for R. T. Reece. The total was boosted to $2,816,111 for 458 permits.

CRUSHED TO DEATH Is Verdict For Youth At Borger Judge Accept Money Needed For Food DALLAS, Aug. 24 A man released on hts own recognizance the youth will live only occupied by yourh of; of surrounding towns brought one of the and interesting pres- his arrival here, was the sub- id he dwelt at length make good good standing of any of any community ReliabiHt; btressed is not so much abi 'Bv Associated GALVESTON Aug. treach- erous current that runs between H. Hubbard, president of the Galveston Island and the Brazoria College of Industrial Arts. Denton, county mainland thirty miles west md former dean ot men at Texas of here this afternoon took the university, will be Hie principal lives of Herman Girsch.

52, man- speaker at the opening meeting of ager of the Farmers Supply com- Freshmen Orientation week at Tex- pany of Giddings and his son Wal- as Technological college, starring ter. 23. manager of a large chain Sunday. September 22, according to lere. Miss Ella Birkman, 21 an announcement last night by Dr.

5 sister-in-law, nar- Paul Horn, president of the lo- See CHARGED, 11 Senator Tyson is Claimed Bv Death Senate To Adjourn Monday As Mark Of Respect For Tennt-ssee Solon and War General; Funeral Planned ture was city and te evangel forceful ions "Tests of Cl ject chosen on the thing: character anci future citizen store alter chs rowly escaped. Miss Birkman into the pass wht son were fishing a deep hole. Tl had started ouf re the father and and stepped into men saw her Air. Hubbard, one of the mg educators of Texas ant iui and interesting speaker a. ms sum utstand- a force- wiil take Fresh- that idity had developeti in his neck, that hts temperature has started to climb and that he was extremely stands the young people of today restless.

Should meningitis set in Rood stead a- is reliability," physicians are of the opinion that I a short i See REN AL, Page 11 to raise money to pay a fine While. for drunkenness brought in the Risinger was injured last Sunday SAVED BY ,11 MP 'vas a11 had, night when he was thrown head- DALLAS, 24 Hol- ociay. For food, he said, he had long against a curb on 19th street oubek, 31, of Los Yngeles. depart- arranged for a groceryman to as his motorcycle struck Joe Lowri- rnent of con merce aeronautics en- save his life te jump when 3 a snin and credit me" rHie judge gave him the fine back, telling him to buy his groceries with it. difficulty and started toward her but she recovered in time to catch the body of the elder Girsch.

who was overpowered by a whirlpool and carried under. Then the whirlpool caught the younger man he hurried to the rescue, also carrying him under. Guards Summoned Coast guardsmen summoned from the station half a mile away by other members of the party of nine, who were here on a weekend camping trip, rescued Miss Birkman. She was struggling to hold body in the current, unable to reach shore. The By Assoc a ted WASHINGTON.

Aug. death today Senator Tyson of Tennessee, at a sanitarium near Philadelphia, brought expressions of sorrow from his colleagues at the capitol. Senator McKeiiar. at Tennessee, spent the day in consultation by telephone with the family of the late senator and arranged for funeral services to be held in Knoxville Wednesday. Anxious to nay tribute to Tennessee's senator and world war general Vice-President Curtis and Senator Watson of Indiana, the nu- jonty leaders, arranged for a sen- Representatives Of Four atonal committee ro accompany the Nation? To Trv to hodv to the services On motion of lew Reparations Plan To Be Made Satisfy Demand of Great Britain On Division Senator the senate will adjourn Monday a mark of respect.

more, pedestralri. Lowrtmore sus- gtneering ir.viector tained a broken leg in three places, today by a parse" skull was crushed by the his plane impact. crashed here. TBv Associated Press) THE HAGUE, Aug. body of the younger man has not semaines of France.

Italy, Belgium yet been found. Coast guardsmen tried to revive the elder Girsch. They said they believed he died of heart failure h. and Japan worked tonight on the draft of a new offer on division of reuara: payments which it The Weather i as there lur.gs. was no water in his Biblical City Of Peace Changed To Armed Camp As Jews And Arabs Clash; Martial Law Declared Refunds Ready On Car Registrations BORGER, Aug.

24 Turner, 23, was crushed to death beneath his motor truck near Morse, Hansford county, yesterday. Funeral services for him were held at Gruver. Texas todav. 11 body was found beneath the overturned machine by TT. a "aocidoutal (By Associated l'ressl ERUSALEM, Aug.

state of emergency was proclaimed to exist over all Palestine tonight with clashes between Arabs and Jews spreading from the point of origin tn Jerusalem and with a death list of more than 50 already recorded. British warships and troops were enroute to supplement police forces. The calm restored in Jerusalem this morning after two days rioting In the streets was temporary. At 6 o'clock tonight the disorders were in full blast again. Death Toll 1 Dirty Jewish souices estimated the number Jewish dead at 30, With 35 other? vv-una- od and estimates oi the Arab losses much earlier had been 17 killed with others likely to die The injured numbered more than 200.

The The fighting had spread from night was the city" to the Jewish mar. a a suburbs of Yemin lation was Gdud Saul, Gdud Havoda and piano. Sephardim. Fears were ex- were t. pressed for the safety of Pataeh A Ttkwah, the oldest Jewish Am colony in Palestine and noted sa.cm 1 for its rich orange groves.

shue. Jewish leaders appealed to ask their race to cooperate with be the British administration in restoring order. They charged the Arab attack bore evidence croc ca: of organized warfare and that the com; the A mbs were well armed, es- pec tally with daggers It was Pm mat cvmmuiusi 11 appeared urging Arabs to fight he Jews and expel the English from the country. 1 city of peaceuto- artned camp under Part of the popu- ken. and warships ta Palestine, ion representing vs living in Jeru: Paul Knaben- St utcs consul, to American warship fied wit this offe previous creditors the sour an 1 a 31,000 ton bate Barham, the airier Courageous and Susses were reported lo sail for Jaffa, if jt rusalem British Refunds to all persons buying automobile licenses between May 23 anci June 16 now are ready to b4 made, according to an announcement Saturday from the office of County Tax Collector A.

J. Clark A state law was passed by the cent legislature allowing licenses to be deducted by months instead of made by the old law requiring quarter de- would duct ions. This went, into effect basis. May 23 but was not made known to the Lubbock office until June 17. All persons purchasing licenses between these dates may get a refund at the court house.

License receipts must be presented or the number, according to Mr Clark, and aii arc lequesced to look to the British. The offer being drafted would increase the British share of German annuities between 36,000.000 marks about $8.575.200) and 38,000.000 marks (about Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden demanded 84,000,000 marks or about $2 382.000 more than the offer now in making. If the i JF SCHOOL, VCDS HAve oRxSfMAL VTCAS, SSVT rstish chancellor is satis- the estimated yield of as he has not been with uimates by the other md has no objection to from which the rum it was thought that he compromise on that By shaking up the almost expiring conference today Snowden so stirred its blood as to give it new life. The chancellor in a letter to Premier Henri Jaspar of Belgium -aid he had had enough verbal pro- oosals and hat Hie tune was come to nut on na per whatever the other thejnselves lor a rex und. it at once.

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