The Taylor Daily Press from Taylor, Texas • Page 1

Fields To Be Opened Saturday By L. W. V. men who succeed best in this world are always cheerful and hopeful. They go about their business with smiles on their faces take the changes and chances of this life unafraid, facing the rough and smooth alike as It comes.

THE beach at Los Angeles a bather bit one of the the other morning, and now they let anyone fco in swimming after midnight and until after 4 a. m. But reasonable people ought to be asleep then anyway. I 'HAT Honolulu merchant whose body was found inside a big shark the other day wasn't as fortunate as friend Jonah in his experience with the whale. I CHICAGO what call a city of opportunity? They 3eem to be able to scare up more different ways to get rich quick there than any place in the world.

Gasoline bootleggers are making more money, they say, than the boose tunnets, and according to the newspapers Texas has been soaked for about 12,000,000 of it. EE in the paper wheje rats are attending movies in increasing numbers and Texas sevms to be getting her share of them. Can It be possible that the tone of the pictures shown in being lowered, or perhaps we should insist upon only rat-proof pictures'being shown? A ND now Harry Woodring. governor of Kansas, has found an-! other in the He says that while Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas have closed down their oil wells In an effort to bilise oil prices, the big companies are importing all the crude they want and at prices they want to pay. Something else to worry about.

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THURSDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 3. ym. 5 CENTS Per Copy New Cotton Report Is Being Prepared STERLING WILLING TO GIVE COMMISSION ORDER A TRIAL AUSTIN, Sept. 3.

(UP Ross Sterling has informed the Texas State Railroad Commission, it was learned this afternoon, that he is willing for their order opening the East Texas oil field on Saturday to go into effect and be given a trial. Martial law will be modified to permit this and soldiers will be used to help carry out the commission order, if needed. ARE mil FIGURES WILL ONLY Pays Huge Ransom CL0SIN6 MARKETS WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UP) A revised estimate of thp 1931 cotton crop will issued by the department of agriculture next Tuesday. Indications today were that the figures would show little deviation from last month's estimate of 15.584,000 bales, a report which sent cotton prices into a sharp decline.

SENATORS OPPOSE WELL DONE, THOU FAITHFUL (AN EDITORIAL) The commission this afternoon sent out telegrams to the 24 supervisors appointed for the field instructing them to report for duty. These supervisors will replace former supervision by umpires employed by oil companies. The State Railroad Commission late yesterday reissued an order permitting operation of the field to the extent of 225 barrels per well per day from Saturday at 7 The Railroad Commission is to1. a- Oct. 31 at seven.

It has be commended for its refusal to be 1 been closed down by martial law IE Bank of the United which cloaed last December. is points going to pay its depositors 30c. No doubt the depositors have felt that way (or some time. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.

(UP) Cotton prices gave a surprising demonstration of steadiness in tiad- ins on the local exch.nn« today In I a automobile survey the face of break, in 1 lo the amo of boll weevel damage. For lb ties new lows for wheat and gin- mpn from eral weakness in outside commodity ljse (Q sunset coverlnR nearl I markets- 000 miles. i At the close the list was 2 to 4 Charles Rosenthal of L. 24-year-old broker, who had been missing for 17 days, suddenly reappeared at a New York police station. He said he had been held Members of the department's for ransom, and that he had been ion crop reporting board have com- released when his mother paid the of kidnappers $50.000.

amount lower, or practically unchanged from the opening levels. Although the close was at the bottoms for the session the undertone of the market was good at all times rFHE United States treasury la inland fluctuations were confined to 1 the hole more than $295.000,0001 a 10- point range, and Mr. Hoover is figuring on an other bond issue to remedy the sit- While extreme secrecy surrounds all activities of the board, in the trale indicate that tions in the south during August have had little effect on the general cotton situation. The Board faces a busy period before its report is made public. Its members probably will spend FACES CHARGES OF KILLING COUSIN But this old of rowing money to pay back the money already borrowed to pay back the money you owe never did get a fellow anywhere except deeper in.

sharpest decline of the late mer today. Activity increased to nearly two shares, triple the recent turnover. Scores of leading industrial and shares were carried to new lows for the year or longer as suc- cesive waves of selling swept over market from tiie statt of trad IE girl who was inhibition evidence in Buffalo reached the linai half hour of trading after; MTnrva most of Monday night in a locked jiaom. The story is still told of a NEW Sept. 3.

ILP) secretary of agriculture some years Led by a 3 point break in steei ago who forced his way into the common lo its lowest level since Board room and was kept under 1922, the stock market suffered its jock and key until the Board was ANK robbers held up a bank at Broken Bow. yesterday and got away with $5500. Alfalfa BUI ought to do something about that right away. recently with or for a developed ateadl dry agent named Ralph Dell. Th.

0 (n Xmoou real trouble seems to have been her Inabillty to carry the evidence. Too much of a load for a young girl. ready to release its report. LEGION AIDS IN COTTON PROBLEM ness in the Bears contered their attention on a variety of individual Issues dur- I ing the morning trading and sue I in driving sharply I 'HAT New York bullet-proof vest I iuWer, jn the afternoon they shift- 1 Inventor was lucky, he? lhell. operations to steel com The veat waa shot full of holes but fortunately for him he wearing It at the time.

luon on 'lie theory a new low in that issue would send the whole market lower. Shortly later steel broke to 82 7 a loss of 3. 1-4 -THE trouble between the Pope: points and fractionally below its I and ha, bean early. June low of 18. whU-h again.

Guess what was the lowest since the post-wari In order to relieve the unemployment situation in this community and to aid in solving the cotton question, committees of the Graham D. Luhn Post of the American legion are now at work on these problems. The committee on unemployment is making plans to aid in combat- DALLAS, i-fept. 3 Yelverton, 28-yeat-okl farm hanl, today faced charges of murder in the slaying of Vernon Tompkins. 24.

former football star of Irving high schooi. Tompkins was shot and killeo yesterday as he tinkered w-ith an I automobile motor on the farm of Charley Culbertson, a mile west of Sowers. An attack on Mrs. Yelverton. ai legedly made by Tompkins, her cousin, was given as the cause of I the slaving.

In his cell at the Dallas county jail here, Yelverton explained that he went to work each morning at 2 milking cows for Charles Stovall, his employer. The cow barn is located some distance from the home. Tuesday night Tompkins slept the Yelverton home, both to protect his cousin while her husband was away from home in the early morninu hours, and because his own mother, Mrs. Sallie Tompkins was visiting relatives in Oklahoma. About 4 Tuesday morning, Mrs Yelverton telephoned Stovall asking that her husband return home immediately.

told me of the attack, an! call settler rTtHE Japs finally gave Hugh i Herndon and Clyde Pangburn permission to go ahead and try that non-stop flight across the Pacific to Seattle. they they get where goln MAN BEATEN BY BANDIT DIES SAN ANTONIO. Sept P. J. Burkhardt.

45, Jobless carpen ter who was beaten and trampled when he concealed his only dollar from a bandit, died today in a hospital here. Burkhardt left home Tuesday in his automobile In search of work. An armed man leaped upon the running board and forced Burkhardt to drive to the country. The carpenter hid $1. the money he had with him, in the car.

When the bandit searched him and found nothing he became furious and the carpenter down. Burkhardt regained consciousness late in the day, struggled to his ear and drove home despite a concus- alon of the brain and serious internal injuries. He lapsed into unconsciousness shortly after his arrival and was rushed to a hoapical yesterday. ay, below deflation period of 1921-22 The entire market leading issues breaking their early low marks to strikiiiK ground of the low levain reached before the moratorium rally of early June. inv the coming winter months.

A resolution is being diawn up by i that she had -creamed and jumped CMISIMi SELECTED NEW YORK STOCKS I American Can I American Power and Light American Smelting American Tel. and Tel. Anaconda Auburn Aviation Coi Bethlehem Steel A. M. Byers Canada Dry J.

I. Case 484 Chrysler Curtiss Wright Electric Auto Lite 37 i Electric Storage Battery 51 Foster Wheel Fox Film General Electric General Gillette Safety Razor Goodyear Houston Oil 38 International Cement International Harvester 3 Johns Manville Kroger, G. and Liquid Carbonic 22 Montgomery Ward National Dairy 33 Paramount Pubtix Phillips Petroleum Prairie Oil and Gas 10 Pure Oil 8 Purity 21H Radio Sears Roebuck Shell Union 5 Mi Southern Pacific 70 4 Standard Oil, New Jersey the comimttee on cotton which provides that legionnaires shall pur- wit hill! chase cotton clothing and suits, and that the state department of the American legiwn adopt a cotton uniform to be worn by legion members when attending meetings and conventions. This resolution is in keeping with the plans of Earl Eat Sweetwater, newly elected state commander, to adopt such uniforms in Texas and send copies of such resolutions to national Fourteen members of the Taylor post have already paid membership dues for the 1932 legion year, and i a drive is now in progress to get 50 members of the local post to pay their dues before October when the 33 29 16811 23 180 34 37 out of tht bed and thut her cousin had fled after taking his Yelverton s'ii-i Yelverton took his wife to a sister's home and ie- turned to the Ntovall farm where Thompkins was slain, The gun used was borrowed from Cubia Tompkins, county cattle in spector and uncle of the slain man. Funeral an mgemente for young TompUin.

will he made on the re turn of hi- mother from Sulphur. Ok. AUSTIN, Sept. 3. fna-j jorliy 01 Texas senators against enforced cotton acreage reduction, Ross Sterling, said 1 be a boob, to call a session ot the legislature I to cnact cotton legislation that they! say they oppose." lie asked.

The' House by a large majority has de-1 clared for the cotton session. The governor indicated that he not 'o he influenced by market speculation in dealing wth the cotton situation. An Austin delegation came to his office pointing out reports of advanced quotations 011 the mere prospect 01 a Texas cotton session. They urged ae ion tomorrow 011 a cull, pointing out that there will be a market holiday over Labor Day and that the government crop report will be out Tuesday. government report is going to be Sterling predicted.

The delegation were tirging too Uiat the governor jnake public the names of hi! legislators who have failed to go on record su that peop'e desiring action may communicate with them. One wrote bluntly that he was againgt any legislation that would put the farmer in jail for planting cotton. COUNTRIES FRIENDLY, SAYS ST1MS0N NEW YORK. Sept. 3.

Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson arrived on the Leviathan today with political peace and good will in the world. He was particularly pleased, he said, with the and conciliatory spirit coerced into substituting the biased will of a small minority of oil operators for its own judicial findings in me oil conservation hearing. Unfortunately the Governor is misleu not accepting the judgement of the commission. the law of this state, the the charged with the duty of making regulations in conformity with law ior the prevention of waste in the production of oil and By the constitution and statutes of this state the Atorney General of Texas not the governor is made the legal advisor of the Railroad Commission.

In issuing the conservation order, the Commission has sought the advice of their legal representative as to the powers conferrei under the law. In determining the best method for preventing wa.ste, tho Commission has based its find- I tngs on legal eviJence introduced in a public judicial hearing. i Commission has refused to be per- suaded or influenced by the clam- I our of the organized selfish min- ority who cry for price fixation in the guise of preventing physical waste. The commission has seen fit to recognize and respect the legal limitations of its powers. The Commission has seen fit to recognize that it represents and arts for the whole of the people of Texas and only for the minority who insist on a suspension and disregard of nil law nni constituted authority to attain their selfish ends.

Such courageous action on the part of the Commission well merits the commendation Don Thou Good Faithful TO ATTEMPT since Aug. 17. Mimeographed copies of the order will be in the oil field today. The commission force worked late into the night mimeographing it and sending out copies to the big mailing list of operators in the field. The order differs little from the one ageed upon by Commissioners C.

V. Terrell and Lon A. Smith earlier in the w't ek and then objected to by Commissioner Pat Neff. Neff joined in signing the new order, which contains 1 provision for an oil-gas ratio, for which he has contended. The order prohibits use of more than 700 cubic feet of gas to the production of a barrel of oil.

Commenting on the preceding order, Governor Sterlinu had said that a permissible production rule put in a per well bagis would ruin the field in months by preci- SCHOOLS OPEN IN TAYLOR SEPTEMBER 9 on page 8, col, FLIGHT TOKIO, Sept. 3. (UP) The Jap on the Leviatnan touay anese government today issued prediction of a new era of permit to Don Moyle, Los Angeles or flier, and C. A. Allen, his companion, to attempt thp Pacific taken Hlive; The Taylor Pu'idic Schools will open Wednesday morning, her 9 for registration.

The ers will arrive during Saturday and Sunday of this will spend Monday and Tuesday In In- stitute work and in reorganization for another year. The colored schools will open Sept. 14. All new pupils who never before attended the Taylor Publio Schools are requested by R. H.

Brister. superintendent, to report at their respective buildings at 2:00 Tuesday afternoon, tember 8 for registration and enrollment. Mr. Blister states that more time can be devoted to each individual case by taking new pupils on the day previous to the regular enrollment. Pupils wishing make-up examinations may also report to their respective buildings for examination in any subject Tuesday afternoon, September 8 at 2:00 All grade children from one through seven are requested to report to their respective buildings at 9:00 o'clock, September 9 for a full day's work.

All high school will be registered on that day in the following order: 8th grade report in? promptly at 8 Wednesday morning, 9th grade at o'clock, 10th grade at 1:00 and 11th grade at At the close of registration on the part of high school pupils books will be issued immediately so that the high school may be able to do a full work on Thursday, September 10. Before high school pupils register they will be reqnlred to go through the dental clinic after wrhieh they will be admitted to the high school registration room. The dental examination is the only phase of the physical examination that will be carried out during registration day. Plans are being made to have all the other this year conducted during the regular physical education period. Physical examinations will not be held in the ward schools until about the second or third week school.

Complying with the recent law admitting six year old children to I the first grade Taylor schools will accept all of them for first grade work who are six years old on or Pistol in hand. Williams leaped befoie September 1. Children who INVESTIGATE SLAYING OF BOB WILLIAMS HENDERfON, Texas. Sent. 3 (UP) The slaying of Bob Williams, once chief of police at Wink en ex-convict, by a posse of officers near London yesterday was to be investigated today by military authorities.

Major C. E. Parker was appointed head of a board of inquiry by i (len. Jacob Welters, commander of the East Texas militia. Williams was identified as one of two men w'ho robbed the Pelican State Hank, Pelican, Monday of $2,600.

The former oil-boom I police chief was slain when he re- sisted arrest by deputy sheriffs Homer Gary, Edwin Holt, an i Ran- I Thad Carver. The officers halted a truck in which Wiliams and a companion I were fleeing. The fugitives sought to turn their machine around when the officers appeared, but it was too at He woul 1 not be Officers opened fire national convention meets in De troll. The dues will then be hand- IJ 1 II I ed to the new national commander! £4 Li COTTON RECEIPTS Today 1-2 Total todate Studebaker ......................................16 Texas Corp .......................................5 Texas Gulf Sulphur ....334 Und. Elliott ....................................40 (Continued on page 4, col.

3) I soon as he has been elected. MRS STARNES PASSES AWAY Mrs. C. Starnes a resident of Taylor since 1903, died at the home of her son, J. D.

Starnes, at 9:30 Wednesday night. Mrs. Starnes was born in Franklin County, Tennessee, April 8, 1851. In 1871 she was married to H. C.

Starnes, who died in Tennessee thirty years ago. Mrs. Starnes moved to Texas in 1903. Hnd since that time has made hi 1 home with her son, J. D.

She Is survived by four sons, J. D. Starnes, Taylor; Joshua Starnes, Taylor; G. W. Starnes, Thrall; Charles Starnes, Thrall; two daughters, Mrs, Baran, and Mrs.

T. M. Flagg of Tullahoma, thirty and twelve great grandchildren. Arrangements for funeral services have not been completed. CRUSHED TO DEATH IN PIT non-stop flight across ocean- I Williams was killed in the exchange The fliers had their plane City of 0f bullets.

A shot had broken his iet Tacoma in readiness and planned neck. His companion was captur- countries, especially between al once for Sabishiro beach ed and placed in jail here, trance and Germanj where they will begin the perilous Williams' wife, living in a squalid received a new spirit of courage and -The secretary, asked about the lht. news.I ports that hei husband ws tn ex contest, in which the first I convict. He had served a pontten- a non stop flight be-i term in Oklahoma for an ex- he' Press robbery under the name of Joe Roehat. Governor Holloway had granted him a parole.

Meanwhile Hugh Herndon Jr. and 0fficer8 had been tu BUard Clyde Pangborn waited government! thp tl.nt.hoiw# uf williams when action on their application for aj Louisiana aivised them of sded to the bank robbery. They found $35 journey. in gold In a thermos jug at Will, 1 The fliers already are at work un iams home was identl- From the information which has to me 1 believe that present financial situation in Europe. issued the following statement month which has elapsed since the close of the 7-power con- 1 ference in London has given us a 'chance to begin to appraise the iv- U.ults of that conference and of the various which piece and have followed it.

tent near London, appeared at the Moyie and Allen already of-; doorway yesterday to confirm ie- einliy papers pilot to make tween Japan and America will given $25,000, come to me 1 neiieve tnai imany has received a new sp 1 it of courage and confidence. The result of the recent plebiscite in Prussia the fact that the day wnen tin German banks reopened the dep is exceeded the withdrawal' gfther with many other similar all point to more hopeful conditions and spirit. think there is now good reason to believe that these Kuiopcan statesmen, taking advantage of the respite granted Mt New York to Tokio through Russia.1 bank employes at Pelican and if the permit is granted before Moyle and Allen depart they may race them across the ocean. FORT WORTH, Sept. Robert Price, lti, was crushed to death in a gravel pit here yester day a few minutes after he had been given work.

J. D. Henson, contractor, and three employes, left the gravel pit In a loaded truck after directing. Price to scrape down another load. foundations returned the youth was which a l.i of peace and economic moratorium as well as the lecom- mendations of the contvi are beginning gi idiulU to lay of political good structure pi asperity ONE BROTHER-lN-i IN LAW FOR SHOOTING KILLED PRISON RIOT When they half buried beneath heavy gravel, a large boulder lying on the upper Anally bt.

res part of his body. Also on Leviatl John J. Pershing. i- kll I I I TRAIN SAN ANTONIO. Texas, Sept.

3 body of Philip Saun ders, president of the Standard Earth Company here, was enroule day to Harvard, 111., for ADEN. Abaria. burial. He wa, killed instantly Mahatma Gandhi, when a Missouri Pacific engine struck his coupe near the plant- Saunders, a former at Streator. ill.

bad invested of dollars in southwest Tex- JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 3. (UP) Jack McGregor, dead and his former brother in law, Jim Gourley, Jacksonville blacksmith, was in jail today as the result of a shooting on the street here late yesterday. McGregor was struck bv five shots and fell GANDHI ON I 1 almost inatantly. WA 1 Gourley is a brother of McGreg UP) lion cloth, siiMotinit lv thousands of curious A 1 wti Somalis when he came mie here from the steamer a today The Mahatma is en mute to London to attend the seconJ lound table copfeienee on Indian affairs.

divorced wife, who lives here. He Hurivndered to Deputy Marshal Hoyt who tur ned him over to county offici rw McGregor a pt ison term for bootlegging three years ago. He returned hWe from Arkansas this week and visited his former wife only fa few hours before the slaying, BARCELONA, Spain Sept, 3. (UP) Fatal noting broke out today during a general strike called in sympathy with rioting prisoners in Barcelona jail One man was killed, two men and a woman seriously injured and several slightly injured in a shooting affray in Carmen street. Police warned strikers against sabotaging the telephone lines and the strikers forward, fired.

Telephone lines were cut in all parts of the city and communication with the outside world Intel rupted. Clashes aiao occurred at the Argo Tnunfo and in the Rembla flares. A church was set afire in the suburbs, In the rambla Flores, market strikers shot a guatd three times, wounding him seriously. are five years old on or before September 1 may be admitted to the kindergarten school upon payment of $150 per month tuition. The kindergarten school will be I conducted from 2 00 until 4:00 In the Kindergarten building under the direction of Maurine Leather wood.

These children will be expected to report at 2:00 o'clock, Thursday, September 10. Children in grades one to five inclusive are expected to observe, the division lines as in previous years so far as attendance at the ward schools ts concerned. The kindergarten building will house grades, kindrt garten. low first, no high second. West Eni will house gtales one through five, section each.

Twelfth Street will house one first grade, one second grade, two third grades, tw'o fourth grades an I two fifth grades. All of the houses selling school supplies in Taylor have a Hat of the equipment needed for each grade ind children are expected to consult them in regard to purchasing of equipment. In closing, Mr. Brister sard: tife anticipating a good year. We shill appreciate the same excellent cooperation we have had In pre- i vious years.

We should like to have you visit'us more. We are alt ways open to constructive criticism and suggestions. We again pledge you our very best efforts in our common task --------o--------------Possible Slayer Of Is Held JOHNSON CITY, Sept 8. Sheriff J. S.

has gone to Fredericksburg with a suspect rested at San Antonio the possible slayer of Tom Gray near hero Aug, 14. He is to bw confronted with two people who saw Gray companion shortly before shot body and his overturned oar were found. Gi ay was route ft om Phoenix to Austin. Tho suspect waa picked up merely The populace, fearing a food shortage, formed long lines in front description of of bakeries to get bread. panion,.