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ulte Hura Nnus-SIributta XXXVII (AP) Associated Presa (UP) L'ulted Prew (INS) Means International PAOFS (US) Universal 1 WACO, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1933 SINGLE COPY 5c (Spi Meana Special Fron Staff Correspondent NUMBER 138 Claims the Life of Young Waco Matron Sunday Noon tate Moves To End Lawlessness In Lower Valley District Attorney and Four Rangers Assigned to Investigate Floggings and Threats rand Jury to Start Investigation Monday idalgo District Attorney Tells of Alleged Swim dies by Certain Buyers' EDINBURG, April 30 (AP) laude Carter, of Harlingen, as- istant district attorney, said to- av witnesses would be called be- ore Hidalgo county grand jury, tomorrow, in an inves- igation of a murder plot gainst three of the Donna rrigation district to Him Carter, he would conduct Inquirv into the alleged piracy, assisted by four at ate soon he haa com- leted investigation of another case involving the flogging of two buvers at District Attorney Sid L. Hardin no complaint had been filed ith anv Hidalgo countv official bv ither Walter Weaver, Hooka Harry Ridgeway, as ended victims of the purported conspiracy Mystery Vi onian Kills Herself In Great Home LOS ANGELES. April 30-(APi The "mystery woman of Palos a wealthy recluse who for years tried to prevent anyone seeing her face, took her own life late yesterday with an thetic in her Beverly Hills mansion She was Miss Margaret Keith 49, daughter of the late David Keith, silver magnate She left a note saying: "I don't want to live if I can I see the beautiful trees and the sea Pm losing my sight, ao Pve decided to shove off Please let busvbodies into my house" No one ever seerned to know whv Miss Keith tried to hide her face from the world. Living in a mansion which cost nearly 000, she had only one servant a Japanese To him she gave her orders only by written instructions or through a telephone system irT her home atop the Palos Verdes hill overlooking the ocean, 23 miles south of here. The Men Allegedly Threatened Weaver formerlv mas attorney for he irrigation district: Ridgeway, anager and Hooka a director The three allegedly intended Ectima of a similar plot in 1932 in -onne non th ch men TURN TO PAGE COLUMN 5 Attorney Faces Prison Sentence Pope osvirtert Miaappll- cation of Publie LAREDO.

April Bis mark Pope, eit attorney of todav was convicted of mi sappili-a tlon of public funds bv a district jury, which assessed his punishment at three in the penitentiary ITestimony in the trial began ast ednesdav and was comp eied at noon yesterday. The Jury's verdict concluded with statement we further find that his violation of duty was wilful" Wacoan Struck By Auto and Suffers Serious Injuries Both of R. B. Legs Fractured; Right Arm Broken and Head (ait and Bruised North Sixteenth as injured at It) andav when struck by an he started to croas tha P. W.

Clubs End Temple Meet; Chairman Named iss Avcrlenc Murphy of Temple Chosen District Leader at Session Sunday TEMPLE, April Miss Averlene Murphy of Temple was elected district chairman of district 1, Business and Professional ens clubs, before adjournment Sunday of the two-day district meet held here She will at the expiration of the term of the present chairman, Ann Stallworth of Cameron Sunday a activities opened with an o'clock breakfast at the Kvie hotel, over which Mary Jone Higgins, Fort Worth past state president, presided Mrs Margaret Conger, had a place on the program, her subject being "flub and IHartisaiona There were club reports from club presidents and a general business session followed by open discussions A fervent tribute to the memory of Daisv Leake long active and influential in association affairs was paid by Maurine Hearn of Belton amtd a hush of profound solemnity. Miss Leake died at Texarkana several months ago en route to Ohio for hoped- for health improvement The breakfast broke up in time to Tornadoes In Two States Marked By Death and Ruins Vicinity of Lake Village, and Yazoo City, Ravaged by Wind Storms Property Loss in Latter State Is Half a Million Hundreds of 1 1 lomeless; Persons Known To Have Been Killed LAKE VILLAGE. Ark, April 20. i AP) A tornado swept across plantations southwest of here and up to the lake front of the outskirts of the city late last night, killing at least two persons, injuring 11 or more, and causing heavy property damage A few i houses were biown into the lake. Sheriff Calmes Merritt estimated the damage at $50,000 or more The known dead are a Mr Boyd, aged father of Dr Boyd, and a negress, Julia Alexander.

Reporta that a 10-year-old negro girl was killed and several negroes were injured across the lake from here were not confirmed The injured included Dr. Boyd. his wife and four children. Their home was demolished and they were blown a distance of feet across a highway. They were found hud- died under the lake bank.

A six- months-nld Donald, was carried this distance in Mrs Boyd arms and suffered only a few scratches. iHhers injured were Mrs Foster Renfro and her small child. and three negroes, and Jim Har- 1 ris, and Mike Reed. I lundreds I eft I lomeless By Mississippi Tornado YAZOO CITY. Miss, April 30 i More than persons were made homeless and property damage of more than was cauaed t'ldav by tornadic which killed at teast two and injured a score The two known to have been killed unidentified negro children Five of the most seriously injured are white persons including two chil- FACE TRIAL IN TEXAS SLAYING Congress Leaders Intend to Hasten Farm Bill Action Far Eastern War Clouds Lowering MOSCOW, April .10.

months dispute between Russia and Manchukuo over the jointly-operated Chinese eastern railway took on a VV i 1 1 tonight with the I lOUSC wemOLraiS 111 of a in Resort to Every Possi Mrs. Leroy Guyton Falls From Speed Boat and Drowned Legislation Early i Other Large Projects Then to Be Taken Up Accident Occurs While the Victim and Party of Relatives Were Enjoying an Outing which LI Shao Keng, Manehukuan I 1 chairman of the railway board, open- iMC Means to Complete ly challenged claim to ownership of the C. K. K. In reply, Kuxnetzoff, soviet vice chairman of the board declared it was a "direct that the soviet authorities were holding belonging to the railroad without authorization In soviet territory.

This question has been one of the points i i at issue between the joint Public Works Program the une i Rail marl elipf The counter-claim advance hy anu rvaiiroau I 1 I thp representative on the di- Measure I Be I ackled rectorate that such action repre- i "a direct attempt to break the DfVerS and Boatmen With 1 mS eeK Peiping-Mukden cover- Ing operations of the road. WASHINGTON, April The interchange was interpreted as A democratic congress will drive making acute the conflict between for final action this week on the soviet and Manchukuo authorities, gagantic farm re- I Martial Law In Iowa Tightened; Troops Control Paul Oakley, 20 (left), leader of a cult In the east Texas Coy Oakley, 25 (center), hit brother and "disciple." and Sherman CUyton, 30. are charged with slaying Invalid daughter. Vernice, 3, during Strange rites. The three are to go on trial May 1 on charges of first degree murder at Lenden, Tex.

(Associated Press Photo) Fanatic Killer Of President Invalid Child To Slain in Presence Go On Trial Today Of 20,000 Troops lief -mortgage refinancing-inflation bill to clear the way for President Roosevelt's proposals for a broad public works employment measure, railroad rehabilitation and power to negotiate reciprocal tariffs with foreign nations. House democratic leaders gave notice today they w-ould resort to everv means to speed the farm relief bill to conference tomorrow after i Qiicrtonrlinrf forcing a vote on the inflation pro- ISSUCCl vision -the parliamentary situation permitting They expressed nope of an early agreement with the senate to make the bill law and rush it into operation. Pressure for Swift Action Most of the Roosevelt legislative program already is well advanced down the legislative road. Pressure is being brought nevertheless on democratic congressional chieftains for Havnes, commander of the national swift action in view of the presi- guardsmen on duty in the county as desire that the special session a result of farmers' riots adjourn early in June before the By the order, the autohority of the world economic conference gets district, justice and police courts, under way in London. was suspended indefinitely.

Manv a controversial measure. The order was relayed by Havnea however, such as the banking re- after receiving authority from Major form-limited deposit insurance bil! General Matt Tinlev' of the Demand the week production control measure must yet be put over the final hurdles President Roosevelt rested todav on a cruise down the Potomac river aboard the government yacht Sequoia after an intense week of conversations with representatives of England. France and Canada on the vorld economic conditions, war Body Not Recovered Hours After Tragedy Drags Work All Sunday Afternoon But Without Success Falling from the speedboat in which she was riding with and relatives on Lake Waco at about noon Sunday, Mrs. Leroy H. Guyton.

25, 506 North Fourteenth street, sank beneath the Civil Courts in and drowned in of by 1 bounty, Scene of Farm Riots LE MARS, April Suspension of all civil courts in Plymouth county effective tomorrow was ordered today by Col. Glenn C. dren The tornado swept the western sec TVRN TO PAGE COLUMN 2 Counterfeiter Suspect Be Bank I hug itinerant Preacher to Face Judge and Jury at I inden; State to Demand Death Penalty Luis M. Sanchez (Cerro Shot Down; Had Just Finished iewing Recruits; Assassin Killed TURN TO PAGE 6 COL1MN 4 Ousted by of Two Oklahoma Sunimurih Removed Held at Identified Robber hi Hanker Tl'RN TO PAGE 3 I Elephant Attacks Keepers In Munirh Serious Injuries tft'NICH, Germany April 30 A bull elephant suddenly broke looae today in the Munich Zoological garden attacked the tor of the too. Heinz Heck and an attendant, toasmg both into the air Heck suffered coneuaeton of brain and two rib fractures while the attendant tradition if federal authorities agreed was severiv hurt about the head to his release LINDEN, April 30 APi -Paul Oakley, youthful Itinerant preacher, will face trial here Monday for the death of Rernice Clayton.

3-year-old PARIS April (AP)-W, P. invalid, allegedly choked to death in Deokhert held here on a federal an attempt to devils away, counterfeiting charge, was identi- Testimony at an examining trial for Oaklev his brother Coy, and ed todav as one of five men who father partic ipated in the robbery of the indicated the Oakley brothera State bank at Tupelo, Miss prayed and sang over the ailing JfKi2. child for davs before her death Edgeworth, teller of the while Clavton mutely watched the bank who wss accompanied here bv proceedings. members of the boating party to rescue her. The body had not been recovered at a late hours Sunday night.

Rot tom of Lttke Dragged Four boats equipped with grappling hooks dragged the lake in vicinity of the accident, about 100 yards in front of Johnsons boat landing on the north aide of the laka, and Joe Trippet and Brooks Pearson Jr. dived in futile efforts to lo- son sector and was decided upon aa cate the body. Sheriff B. Mobley a result of a conference between manned another boat which wia Tinley and state officials at Des Moines. Major B.

Rew, staff officer of the national guardsmen at Le Mars, said it was his understanding that under the order prisoners arrested in connection with the disorders would be tried under a military court martial This point, however, was not decided definitely. Plead for Peace As the military moved to tighten the grip of authority, rural pastors made nleas for the parishioners to TO PAGECOLUMN 6 LIMA Peru, April 30. -iJP' Luis OKLAHOMA CITY, April Sanchez Cerro, president of Peru Two presidents of Oklahoma Teach- uni'e December. wan assavsi- ers colleges were discharged bv the a ed dav a time after he had state board of education yesterday at I re ewed parade of (ifto voung the direction of Governor William recruits in Jorge Chavez park Murray. Eugene Briggs, His assassin.

Alebardo Hurtado de dent Southeastern 8tats' Teachers Mendoza fired severs shots into the president body the executive leputy sheriff of kert was the man toi on him hile and securities was bank. he would try to get Kelley. Tupelo, said who held a pist tn currency tsken from the Kelley said federal authorities to release Deckert to him for trial on a bank robbery charge Detkert, his innocence said he would fight ex- Hi and George Wilson, a neighbor, testified he was attracted to the Clay- IIN Secretary Wallace Busy on harm Plans He at the eriecton of Fifteenth avenue Powers sus- fractures of both knee, a fractured its the head sc tous for eral Sunday night he was pital atttndanta to be im kio North Twenty- was driving the car ers said Pow rosa the street accord- ficers snd Friedsam. see him, in frying to another car, struck was taken to Colgm Bill For Relief Of State Banks Body of Murdered School Found to Put Relief Measures Into Immediate Operation Will Be Adopted In a Kansas Woods trig to the 'who did not avoid hitting hospital bv Friedsam, assisted by Pickling and Morrow His condition was said to be serious, though not Put on Court Ctlven I hoire of Jail or Arroti Haiilkhment HANFTJRD, Cal April 3fl Fernando Osorio chortled I UP himself Measure Drawn W. K.

I lopkins of ProhahK Will Not Meet )pposition AUSTIN, April 3o Hu members con suited with Senator Hopkins of Gonsales preparatory to asking a quick committee hearing on hia bill to adopt for the state banking the same broadened powers recently conferred on the national svKteni bv congress The bill was parsed in the senate without opposition and likely will go on the umontested calendar for today when he thought of the time house action this week he was "banished from Kings county Arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace, he was told by Justice Harry Brenton that he could leave county for good, or go to )ail for 30 davs Osorio chose eaile Then he went home and moved into Tulare county just across the road The HH hlllllK KMNk Drlaiii'liUl unti etowtag MS, It adopts the federal authority for the state to allow solvent banks to liquidate without forcing them through the costly procedure of being declared insolvent and closed before depositors are paid Broadly, it gives the state avstem the benefit of the conservator system already applied to national and federal reserve avstem member hanks In the absence of Chairman A Johnson of the house committee on banks and banking who haa been it! since early in the session, Vice Chairman Palmer ill preside at the committee hearing on the Hopkins bill. fumi ti tsmaeratur Ir at rn mi 74 flentf sl charter lumini 4 3 For Killing hather Murder I S3 o' i 124 I bur Filed Against Oklahonus loiith An 13 ptr St lutai wind for total rain for month ont Huh Muurty rssdlnga ii at It I i tn ss st to X) st tl u. iKi at 13 noon; Si at i at 3 tin ai at ip 3 il SEMINOLE Okla April 30 (AP Murder charges were filed sgainst of Disappcard len Days Ago; Sash 'ord I ied lightly About I ler Neck BONNER SPRINGS Kss April 30 The body of a girl tentatively identified by officers as that of V'ogel Love, Kansas City, Kas first grade student miss ing since April lift was found todav in a wooded section a mile north of Bonner Springs A sash rord was wrapped about the net The body, fully clothed, upon leaf-littered ground The body waa found by Charles HagSer and Charles Fink, Bonner Springs railroad welders who were hunting mushrooms Urad a Week or More Physicians said the child had been dead a week or more Officers notified the missing girl TURN TO PAGE 3 COLUMN ft Proposed Tariff Truce French Approval Herriot Kei Message of I oiifi- dence from ILK DE FRANCE, at Sea April 30 (AP) Former Premier Edouard Herriot. returning home af- WASH INGTON, April 30 Whether to point plows into sprouting crops was pondered today by Secretary Wallace as he waved aside a Sabbath holiday to plunge into formulation of his program for exercising broad, emergency the farm relief bill, determined to make it apply to this year farm production The Iowan spent much of the day in conferences with his aides, driving forward his preparations for starting administration of the measure as soon as congressional action is completed probably mid-week He indicated he will make every effort to overcome the handicap to administration of the measure resulting from the lateness of its enact ment party started to drive from the park, and then himself was slam by presidential guards Two soldiers were killed and one officer, five soldiers and a civilian wounded during a melee which followed the assassination. Attack nines Suddenly The attack was so sudden that elaborate precautions which had been made to protect the president TURN TO PAGE COLUMN 7 Vale Fellowship For Three Texas Students Helen Dullas; A O.

Spain and Fpprijjht, Auatln, Honored NEW HAVEN, Conn, April 30 i AP Yale university tonight an- powers under awards to graduate school students from Texas, the Sterling fellowship to Helen Peak of Dallas, in physchologv; the Cowles fellowship in government to August Oran Spain, of Austin; and a university fellowship to Erell Sherman Eppright of Austin, New Customs Collector Sexton To He Sworn in at Monda) president of Northwestern State Teachers college, Alva, were removed. Fighting to Secure Bail Floydada Man and Son to Have Second Habeas Corpus Hearing April Hearing on a second application for a writ of habeas corpus for J. li. Readhimer and V. A Readhimer, his son.

in connection with the slaying of Stokes Campbell has been set for Wednesday. The application set forth that additional evidence not avail- wife the former Mr able at the first hearing would bs Woodsw- rth, about presented. lie Buried in New ork Body of Clay Stone Hriggii To Be Taken to Syracuse Today WASHINGTON, April 30 Accompanied by house and senate members and members of the family, the body of Representative Clay Stone Briggs of Texas, who died of a heart attack yesterday, will be taken to Syracuse, N. tomorrow for burial Tuesday. Vice President Garner, himself a Texan, and Speaker Rainey will announce the funeral party in the morning Briggs died suddenly during the midst of a conversation with his Louis Slayton sting for the lav as the house was in recess.

Gandhi Announces Young Woman Shot Another Fast For Dead In Her East A 3-Week Period Texas Farm Home Hindu eader Intends to 1 1er Husband Found PIOS IKK TFX AS WOMW DIES AMARILLO April 30 Mrs Emma Cornelius, pioneer resident of Texas, died todav at the home of her grandson, Harry Cor nelious, Amarillo business man Mrs SAN ANTONIO, April 30 (AP) Harry Sexton of Brownsville will take the oath of office of collector of customs in the San Antonio district Mondav, he advised Ed Cotulla, deputy collector in the office here by telephone today, Sexton, who was secretary of Congressman John N. (iive I All Food Beginning May Denies Playing Politics POONA, India. April 30 The aged and frail Mahatma Gandhi announced from Yeroda jail today that on May 8 he will begin another fast, this time a "three-week unconditional. irrevocable fast" in connection with his campaign against Un- tout hability and the caste system He summoned his son Devidas to the jail this morning and broke the a Nearby Critical in in manned dragging the lake. The searchers worked all afternoon without success.

Ambulances from Wilkirson-Hatch and Compton's wfera waiting at the boat house in case tha body was located Mrs Guyton was riding in tha boat with Pauline Driacoll. her sister Landon and Newell Young, hep cousins, and Misses Ferry and Anderson of Hico, when the tragedy occurred. Falls From stem Mrs. Guyton was sitting at tha stem of the boat when she fell TURN TO PAGE 3, COLUMN Imposing Parade Of Diplomats To American Capital Beginning Monday President Roosevelt Will Confer With Agents of Many Countries WASHINGTON, April Delicate questions of war debta, peace in Europe and the orient, exchange restrictions currencie- and tariffs faced President Roosevelt anew tonight with statesmen of half a dozen more nations descending upon Washington to join in the White house conversations Countries of Latin-America and the far east as well as Europe followed on the of the British an nadian prime ministers and th mer premier of France, ho memorable to Washingt i i the lMt week or Cafor- paid in Cornelius resided at Weatherford for Garner now vice president, will sue- news to him. For two hours the son 51 vears.

moving here a year ago ceed Roy Campbell. Memory of Confederate Dead Honored in Service emorial ance Lee, all placed there by a com- Sundav ('enters Around of Mrs i red 7 and Mrs harles Koch Monument hrected to Southern I lerocs Irving Young, IS, in connection with bis conversations in Washington rrwittrill urimtl fcAHT Tl in a 11, fair Monday, ulay cloudy to eloudv Ugh! ta i scmthefly on 11 (air Monday ars 1 Tuf-cu, Ohl vi partly to Tuodti St 'ii Mi ii; Monday Tanadar fa warmer norihwrat a ourih eeatrai Monday Monday Turaday fair gMdny, the fatal ahootmif of hia father, Melvin Young. 45. at Bowlegs yesterday. Criswell, assistant county attorney, aaid hie inveatigation did not bear out the vouth a assertion that he fired when his father attacked hia mother with a butcher knife with President Roosevelt, tonight received a message from the French government saying it approved completely the negotiations on the tariff truce question of the French delegation in the American capitol.

TEACHFH KHIlOHIMi AMARILLO, April 90 provement was reported today in the condition of Jim Crowder. 22, pr incipal of the Happy grade school, who suffered severe knife wounds Saturday In an altercation with Campbell, president of the Happy bank. POINO NI OVKl FORT STOCKTON, April 30- (AP) Im- Postponement of the trial of Mrs With the preaching of a memorial sermon by Rev, E. Stanford at First Methodist church Sunday morning, a memorial observance at the Confederate monument In Oak wood cemetery, and the decoration of graves of Confederate veterans with tings ami flowers during the afternoon, the Daughters of the Mary West chapter, U. D.

members of Pat Cleburne camp and others observed memorial and decoration day here. of Good Soldier Rev Mr Stanford preached on the requirements of a good soldier in his sermon The choir sang the favorite song of Lee and Jackson, I How Firm a The The adjutant of Pat Cleburne camp, Richard Harrison, read the mortuary roll for the past year, including Carothers, E. Ryalls. Making, W. W.

Dudley, W. Jenkins and G. Polk. Program at The afternoon Monument Bessie Sharp on murder charges in connection with the poison death of her husband, Telefus Sharp appeared likely today, baca use of uncertainty that her attorneys could church was decorated with baskets be present tomorrow, the date set of flowers Confederate snd I'nited for the 1 States flags, and a picture of Robert program was held at 3 around the Confederate monument in Oakwood cemetery, where programs are held each year Richard Harrison was master of ceremonies, Rev. Stanford gave the invocation, Harrison paid tribute I to Charles Anderson who last year had placed markers on graves of Confederates burled around the mon- ument.

Leon Sparks sang the song, in Our Fathers Claude Miller tried to dissuade his father but unsuccessfully. Thereafter the news was sent to various friends in India i and abroad. Denies Placing Politics In an interview the Mahatma denied the fast was a part of a deep politicl move "It is a process of he said simply. Mr Gandhi, who has been serving an indefinite term since his arrest on Jan 4, 1932, under a regulation permitting arrest merely for "good and sufficient reasons" connection with hia passive resistance campaign refused to give any definite TO PAGE 6, COLI MN 2 Nazi Germany Plans To Observe May Day Fur the First Time in History ele hration Mill He BERLIN. April 30 All Germany, especially the german workmen who hitherto knew only the Marxistic" side of workers' May Day demonstrations, will be taught tomorrow to celebrate this feast of From Knife Wounds SAN AUGUSTINE April 30 The bullet-pierced body of Mrs.

Oscar Wilson, 2f, was found today at her home in Magnolia community 14 miles southeast of San Augustine, and shortly aferward her husband, 54, was found in nearby woods suffering from serious knife wounds. Throat and rUt Maihed Wilson a farmer, was lying in the woods about Mtf) yards from his residence Officers aaid his throat and one wrist had been slashed ami he had been stabbed twice In the chest. He was conscious when taken to a hospital but physicians said he probably would die, He refused to make any statement, officers said oman Three Argentine Today tomor- baasador to on, arriving ntme envoy Deputy' Sheriff A Thompson found an automatic pistol which had been fired in the room where Mrs Wilson's body lav The officer said three bullets had hit the woman There was a bullet hole in each of the four walls of the room and one in the floor Mrs Wilson was the second wife of the farmer. Deputy Sheriff Thompson said Revolt in Isles of May signal Outbreak of Violence Fur LAS PALMAS. Canary Islanda.

April AP) Oil storage tanks labor in a national socialist manner and several fruit warehouses In the Even the reichswehr (army) will were fired today after a gen- participate for the first time era! strike had been declared here With May 1 legally declared a on the eve of May Day. duced John Maxwell who made the national holiday the new nan prop- Authorities said the strike had a principal address of the evening, an agamla ministry headed by Dr. Jos- revolutionary aspect and sent civii historical talk Flags had been placed eph Goebbela will meet a big test guard to protect the at the graves where iron croaaes of efficiency, for the organisation property, The government mean- were seen the marker of Confed- of the nation-wide festivities rests white ordered out troops to suppress graves. solely in its hands, any disorders. The new procession ri with Argentina an France, Thomas Le Brito join Felipe Espii, Arg here.

Then on Tuesday, Italy appears in the person of Gudio Jung, Musso- lin minister of linan-e, who cornea accompanied by a staff of eight ex, peits Germany, another of Europe's "big four, joins the parade on Friday when Dr Hjalmar Kachacht, dent of the reichsbank. rt aches New York with a pair of expert assistants. Mexico's minister of finance. Alberto Pani, arrr.es the end of the week. Accompanied by a party of nine, TO PAGE 0.

COLUMN Temple Man Dies In Hoad isliap TEMPLE, April 30 neral services were held Sunday al 4 p. from the Wright funeral chapel for (Lucius) York, 57, who was accidentally killed here Saturday. York met his death the dumping gear on a truck which he was riding tripped and unloaded him and a companion into the street, He fell in the pathway of a driven by Guest. Salado garage man, receiving injuries which caused his death 10 minutes aftei reaching a hospital. York was ployed at the city gravel pit of town, had finished his week's work and was en route home the accident occurred near the western city limita on the Belton road.

He had resided in 25 yeari and is survived by the widow and three daughters, Misses Ntlva and Malta York and Mrs. Cecil Jones of.

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