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4 ROUOSTD ABOUT I TOWN How forcible are right 1 but what doth your arguing reprove? Job 6:25, DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE VOL. XXXIV NO. 129 DENTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 11, 1935 Full Associated Leased United Service EIGHT PAGES Roundabouting in the days of i May, 1882! A reporter of the newspaper accompanied Wilford Stroud to the Justin picnic, given by the "Lam.o Light Cfub." Others" who( attended from Denton were L. L. Zumwalt.

J. R. McCormick, John R. James Christal. J.

G. Boyd, J. G. Mars. Sam Hawkins.

S. Bradley. B. F. Paschall, Dolf Stanley, Virgil Flow.

Will Shields and Tod Will Geers is now associated with the and is authorized to make advertising rates, job work or any other contract for the 'mite' society met at the home of A. C. -J. F. Raley had become a registered pharmacist, having passed the State Board examination' at Harris and Miss Sadie Myers were dance at Sanger was attended by Denton people, including Frank O'Brien and Miss Pearl Bradford, James Sartin and Miss O'Brien, Mert Whayne and Bettie Handwriting Expert Asserts Hauptmann Wrote Ransom Notes Whayne.

Henry Neely and Miss Todd Collins, Joe Long and Miss Erne Wright. Jim McKnight, Miss Myrtle Curley and Will G- C. Woodson who is to conduct summer normal is in the Normal College for special advanced is- talk of a new Baptist faculty was chosen for the public schools, consisting of J. W. Conway, superintendent and teachers.

J. L. McReynolds. Misses Berta Inge, Lizzie Barrett. Texie Eg2n, Celena Burns.

Ola Eads, Etta Jones, Kate Karnes, Talbot-, Lou Harm. J. L. Williams was selected as superintendent of' the negro school Docksteader, operator st the railway station, had a brand new typewriter, a number two. No Ransom Bills In Circulation Since Arrest.

Naturally, Denton will not have as many guests as it did last Saturday when probably the largest daytime crowd ever assembled in Denton was here, but, taking past Saturdays as guides, there is no question but that many, many people from over the county will be in Denton. Each one of them who will be here will appreciate convenient parking space in the business districts, and each Denton individual who parks his car out of the business section just for that one day will be doing Denton in- titutions a favor, a.s parking space is an essential to good business. By WILLIAM A. KINNEY (Copyright, 1935, Associated Press) FLEMINGTON, N. Jan.

handwriting expert today named Bruno Richard Hauptmann as the writer of the 14 ransom notes received by CoL Charles A. Lindbergh after the kidnaping of his 20- months-old baby The state struck two other important blows in its effort to send Hauptmann to the electric for murder. A government agent testified that to his knowledge no Linabergh ransom bill has appeared in circulation Hauptman's arrets. The same agent, Frank Wilson, testified the first ransom bill to come to light after the payment appeared at a Broadway bank in York not far from the Majesic apartments where Hauptmann as employed before the payment was made. The defense scored with the same agent on the stand when it estab lished that a slip signed J.

Illlilll ill Crowd Gathers To Hear Further Kidnaping Details "Of all the indices of Texas business conditions, perhaps none offer more definite and specific proof of progress than the annual statement of large insurance company which for. 32 years has done fouisness in every nook and -Corner of Texas, but which writes'no business out of Texas," says President C. president of the Southwestern Life Insurance "The Southwestern Life does not go. outside the State for business, and it is by far the largest United States company, operating in only one state. "By reporting an increase of more than fifteen millions insurance in force in 1934, the first substantial gain since 1930, this Texas institution offers significant evidence of business improvement in Texas." "A record of the company's size for the' past five years writes the history of the depression.

Up to the end of 1929, the Southwestern had made large gains annually for many years, having doubled in size during the previous six years, but in 1930. 1931 and 1932 lapses and surrenders began to be felt and notwithstanding the production of many millions of new insurance by the company's agents, the total volume in force fell off. Recovery commenced in 1933 when a gain about- million and a half was recorded. But in 1934 a substantia eain of fifteen millions has jus been announced in the annual report to the policy holders." FLEMINGTON. N.

J. Jan. will be no ses- sion of court in the trial of i- Bruno Richard Hauptmann to- morrow. Justice. Trenchard so held after defense counsel re- quested such an adjournment to.

give handwriting ex- penis oppohrtunity, to ex- the Lindbergh kidnap notes. Hh FLEMINCTON, The Lindbergh kidnaping ransom nature preempted attention today at the murder rial of Bruno Richard Haupmann as the prosecution started out to prove the notes came from the pen of the alien ex-convict defendant. Although the trial session promised to be replete with the technical testimony of handwriting experts, the court was well filled three quarters of an hour before convening time. Albert. Osborn head of the statvs handvo iting experts, entered the court shortly before it was called to order.

Wilson was the first witness called. Mild-appearing and bespectacled Wilson did not look anything like a crack Federal operative. Ke tolii how he had been assigned to the Lindbergh case soon after the kidnaping occurred. Wilson" said that he, Elmer Irey and Mr. Madden, other Federal agents went to the Hopewell home together.

Then he was asked about prepara- tiior, of the $50,000 in ransom bills. "It was done at the J. Morgan Company," he said. "A package of money had been made available and prepared but without obtaining the serial numbers. AI this time I directed them to have two men work en each piece of the numbers of each side and paying attention to the kind of currency.

That is, FDR Jr. Seems to Feel Fine ST. LOUIS, Jan. moving picture corporations" and six individuals were indicted -today by a Federal Grand jury on -charges of conspiracy to violate'the Sherman Antitrust Act. The offense charged is a felony, punishable by a prison sentence of two years and a fine of $10.000.

Corporations named in the indictment are: Warner Bros. Pictures, Vitaphone Corporation; First National Pictures, Warmr Bros Circuit Management Corporation; General Theater Enterprises, Paramount Pictures Distributing Paramount Pictures Distributing Corporation; Paramount Pictures Distributing Companies, R. X. O. Distributing Corporation.

Individuals indicted are Harry'M. Warner, Herman Starr, Abel Cary Thomas. Gradwell Sears, George J. Schefe and Ned E. Dipinet.

Mischief-Makers Outlawed By New City Ordinance Mischief-makers are dealt whether it were a gold note or some to an ordinance adopted by funds or the Faulkner," which accompanied exchange of $2,980 of the ransom money at the New York Federal Reserve bank was not, in Hauptmann's handwriting. Asked About Faulkner other kind of money. I City Commission Thursday "I instructed them to use gold, This ordinance rotes whenever possible. I also the Grinning with a smile his famous father might envy, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

right, shook hands with Constable Joseph Cummings of Orange County. after paying a $10 fine on a speeding charge. Cummings caught Roosevelt driving at 10 miles an "hour, he says, a charge to which the president's son pleaded guilty. BROAD PROGRAM OF SOCIAL SECURITY TOLD BY PRESIDENT TO CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS Would Provide Unemployment Insurance, Old Age Pensions And Public Health Aid; States Would Co-operate. PER SUPPORT OF STATE EDUCATIO INSTITUTIONS PROPOSED IN BILL AUSTIN, Jan.

gen- icent; $25,000 to $30,000, six per cent; vision. No direct federal aid is involved, The secretary of labor said ther3 also was a "small covering; up aid to public health for states provide medical care. which eral appropriation bilsl to provide of the state turn inn onnnro WASHINGTON, Jan. A broad social se- cv.j Ity legislative program was outlined to congressional leaders today by President Roosevelt, providing for unemployment insurance, old age pensions and public health aid. Secretary Perkins, rJiairman of the President's special committee on uie security program, explained federal grants were involved only in providing funds to states which have lav's for of the aged and indigent.

The plan also would set up a federally-sponsored old age pension system to be controlled and supported by states. Likewise, the unemployment insurance program is to be administered by states under Jederal super- disturbances of various kinds, instructed them carefully, to retain duding the ex lodi of lire orks the -original sheets on which the; nn tbp night, sovfrmnent for the next two years designed to arb hvere introduced in the Texas Senate today. on the streets. Conviction vio- nurabers were' recorded so they;) lation of the provisioi3 g-. of the micrn4- Vm ncnrl la for 1 ot fr-raT -j; might be used later at" a trial: The agent told the jury he likewise suggested this list be kept in the custody of one person.

Bills Recorded Wilentz asked who had the custody of that list. "Mr. Stewart Wilson Creighton." -Wilson sr.id. He was shown a sheaf of papers The significance attached to this and to identify them. point by the defense was emphasized in its cross questioning of the government man about the investi- "Yes sir.

These are the original Q. On April the payment gation of J. Faulkner" and of the ransom you have Maybe, you wouldn't have though it. but it's true that Arthur Maddocks was, at least when -a young gter, a The Coloradc Springs p'ci-er tells something his prowess as a rider and hunte 29 years ago: "Nine-year-old Ar thur Maddocks, son of Mr. and Mrs C.

Maddocks, 21 Cheyenne Boulevard, who recently came into public notice by assisting in the rescue of a younger brother who had fallen into an irrigation ditch at Ivywild, has again broken into public view by skill and daring 1 as a horseman. The youngster was one of the Thanksgiving party, who spent the day in coj'ote hunt northeast of Colorado Springs, which in killing two coyotes and three rabbits. None of the party rode with more skill or determination than the little fellow, said a member of the party in speaking of the youngster's exploits. His "horse was often in te hlcad, and he was the first in at every kill. He stuck to the saddle like a cow-puncher, often at times when the hazards crossed made us hold our breath for safety." A line is the shortest distance between two points.

That holds for any two pockctbook and your list of wants for example. Follow, the straight line, and you'll save time, trouble and money. Use the advertising columns of the Record-Chronicle as guide posts. In them, you will find late news of what's to be had in the markets of the Denton. No need to meander atpiit from store to store.

comparing, pricing, judging, guessing values. The advertisements tell you the namc.s of the merchants and the manufacturers you can depend on. There you read what's new, what's favored, what's offered confidently lor your about the subsequent suicide of a man of that name. (Two days after the exchange of the ransom gold notes was disclosed Jerome K. Faulkner, an advertising copywriter plunged to his death from the top of the Chrysler Building.) Wilson, who is chief of the intelligence revenue, said he investigated several Faulkners but couJd not trace the man making the exchange.

Identification of the handwriting on the ransom notes as that cf Hauptmann was made by Albert S. Osborn, who examined both the notes and specimens of Hauptmann's handwriting made after his arrest. The State considered it-one of its strongest pieces of testimony to link Hauptmann to the actual steal'ng and killing of the baby. Previous testimony was concerned principally with identification of Hauptmann as the ransom receiver. The first ransom note was Jett on the window sinn of the Lindbergh nursery when the baby was taken, and the State contends that the writer of that note was the on Page Two) a conference with Col.

Lindbergh? A. I did. Q. As a result of that confer(Continued on Page Two) Would Retire Large Amount Of Poor Farm Land "WASHINGTON. Jan.

huge program to spend $675.000,000 in buying up peer land and retiring it from farm production was recommended to President Roosevelt today by the National Resources Board. The purchasing would be extend- eded over 15 years, 5,000,000 acres being bought each year at an annual cost of $45,000,000. Tliis farm land, comprising 450,000 farms, should' bej withdrawn from, agriculture, the board said "in order that both the natural and human resources of the nation may be conserved." The report, drawn by the board's land planning committee, was supplementary to the- board's earlier study--which President Roosevelt told Congre.ss would guide the expenditure of four billion dollars ir, his new work-making program. "dinarice would draw a fine from $1 to $100. The ordinance says that is shall be unlawful for any person to molest any female in any public assembly; unlawful for any person to disturb an audience at any theatre or other exhibition by boisterous talking, whistling, etc; unlawful for any person ro enter anyplace of public amusement without paying an admission fee or with-r.

out the consent of the lessee; unlawful to enter into a residence or place of business for any unlawful purpose; unlawful for any person to loiter on the property of another without being able to give a good account of himself; unlawful "to loiter on the school ground property or other public or private property at any time under suspicious circumstances; unlawful to explode fire works on the public square or street or within 100 yards of any- business house; unlawful to throw soda water bottle or any other thing capable of inflicting injury to any public assembly. Other Matters Discussed Several other matters came before the commission for discussion, including congestion of parking and traffic in front of the First Baptist Church and the First Me- SANTA MONICA, Jan. It- Dispatch in paper, "Ford employs 10,000 more men, highest since the peak of '29." And the aulo show here and in New York was booming. Now how does it come that the auto industry don't just sit still and holler. "We could recover if the government would just lay off us awhile." No industry is restricted and taxed more than autos, so the government certainly ain't "lay- in? oft 1 them." Say, see where the Supreme Court is about to put the gold back in the dollar.

I didn't know it had been out of there till. I went to Europe (where I didn't have any business anyhow). Anyhow, we are living during anexcitinj week. Yours, McN'aught Syndicate, Inc. Relief Workers Find Way To Child's Mind Is Through Stomach AUSTIN.

Jan. The Texas Relief Commission has taken advartage cf an old adage to increase school attendance 1 Commission dieticians figured that if a heart could be reached through his stomach a child's mind might be reached in like manner. In co operation v.ith local officials the commission embarked on program of supplying needy children with hot lunches. Attendance jumped find the wor 1 of the children iml proved air.iost imir.fidiateJ.y. a Relief Commission report said today.

"The children are ir.ost eager to have thr school lunch and make every effort to be present, in tmtier work," Mrs. Helen S. Swanson, consulting said. thodist Church. An ordinance regulating parking at the Methodist Church was ordered drawn for presentation afc tonight's meeting of the commission, and the congestion at the First Baptist Church was referred to the police committee.

The question of requiring Denton citizens to register before voting in order to determine qualified voters was discussed at some length. Repairs of damage to the big diesel engine at the municipal power plant were discussed briefly, an-3 action is in prospect Senator John S. Redditt of'-Lufkin, chairman of. the Finance Cooa- said he to start hearings in the week beginning Jan. 21.

The bills which totaled 10 per cent less than current appropriations, will be the basis of hearings. Totals for each year were: Execeutive and administrative e-d partments juicdiary educational institutions $1046,046, and eleemosynahy institutions S3.168.833. A chain store tar bill was introduced by Representative F. Lindsey of Anson and toners. A sliding scale of license fees ranging from $3 for one store to S500 each for chains of 50 or more was provided.

Approximately. 70 bills, providing among other things for reducin teh amount of the poll tax, for $3,000 000 aid to the Texas Centennial and for Senatorial redistricting, were introduced in the House. Hear CoL Owsley Meanwhile, a joint session of the Senate and the House heard an address by Alvin M. Owsley of Dallas, Minister to Rumania and former National Commander of the American Legion. Another joint session was for the canvassing of election returns for governor and lieutenant governor by a joint committee.

Jas. V. Allred will be inaugurated governor and Walter F. Woodul, Lieutenant Governnor en Jan. 15.

Would License All Stores Lindsey's bill called for the licensing of all retail stores. Failure to obtain a license would be a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of $500 fine or 30 days in jail or both. The scale of license fees follows: One store S3; two stores each S6; 3 to 5 stores, each $25; 6 to 25, 5100; 25 to 50. $250; in excess of 50, $500. Thei act would be effective July 1, 1935.

Repersentative John A. Atchison of Gainesville, introduced a bill would levy an excise tax 530,009 to $40,000. eieght.per cent; $40,000 or more ten per cent. Would Reduce Poll Tax The bill to reduce the poll Vtaic from $1.75 to $1 was introduced by Representative "Edwin. Tillery of Na CQ2.QQches.

ecorts in. previous Legislatures have met defeat. Representative John W. Fain of Weatherford would limit thd state advalorem tax rate for the next two years to 67 cents per $100 valuation instead of the present 77 cents. Representative R.

A. Fuchs. stock farmer from Brenham, proposed a state law to keep livestock from running- at large. Motorists long have advocated such a law, with many stockmen opposing it. In an effort to help the financial condition of the schools, Representative Jasper N.

Reed of Texarkana sent up a bill which would permit a property owner to pay. half or all school taxes even though he is unable to pay. other taxes at 'the same time. Bills to permit the available- school fund to continue to. receive all the cigaret tax revenue through the tnex two years were offered by Representatives Charles H.

Tennyson of Wichita Falls and A. M. Aiken Jr. of Paris. Louisiana Nesnro Shot to Death by Mob in Jail Cell FRANKLINTON, Jan.

Wilson, 30-year-old na- gfo convicted of the slaying of Delos C. Wood, chief deputy criminal sheriff of Washington Parish, as seized by a mob of citizens ear- today, shot to death in his cell ana his body -was taken from tbe ail and dumped on the road three miles north town. Ebers Gets 99 Years for Slaying WICHITA FALLS, Jan. Ebers, giant Clay county convict was found guilty of murder an sentenced to 99 years today by jury which heard him tried for the killing of Percival Graves in Wichita's county jail. The jury deliberated one hour and 25 minutes.

vey of 13.000 graduates, Dr. Charles G. Wrenn. Stanford director of vocational guidance, came to the conclusion lawyers were the hap- iest persons in their Engineers came next. Lawyers Happiest STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.

his observations on a stir- on the net incomes of retail and grocery and clothing stores. The tax also was in a sliding basis, increasing with the income, as follows: Incomes of $10.000 to $15.000 one per cent; $15.000 to $20,000, two per cent; $20,000 to. four per SUSTAINED GAINS IN RETAIL SALES AND CONTINUED RISE IN INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY SHOWN 17EW YORK, Jan. gains in retail sales volume and the continued rise in industrial activity, says the Dun Bradstreet Weekly Trade Review, poir.t to a realization of the favorable first quarter business results which have been estimated generally. Developments thus far in January added the summary.

"only have served to intensify the brightness of trade aspects for the ensuing "Instead tof as WPS expected, following the broad scope weets total." to which buying developed during December, consumer demand has become constantly stronger thus far in January. "Running contrary to the trend in December, industrial operations now are forging upward at a faster than distributive totals. "The response to January clearances, which featured retail activity, was more general than that accorded such events in the last threei years. In spite of less favorable "weather retail sales here pushed somewhat ahead of lakt Elderly Man Is Found Near Here, 111 of Exposure John Thompson died at 1:15 p. ra.

Friday. Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock Saturday morning in the Schmitz Funeral Home, followed by burial in Oakwood cemetery- Revs. Chas. W. Estcs and J.

D. Grey be in charge of the services. Very sick and weak, apparentl. from age and exposure, a man wh gave his name as John Thompson was found near Dentcn, in wooded field just off Ihe Dalla HigWway. Thursday night.

Th elderly transient gave his age a about 80, and said he was from th Middilewest, journeying to Hous ton. County and city officers wer called to bring him to" Denton an he was taken to the Denton Hos pital'for emergency treatment. Hto was reported in serious condition Friday morning. Rev. J.

D. Grey, pastor of the First Baptist Church. If ay Bring Frisclf Associates Back in Kidnap Trial LEIPZIG, Germany, Jan. (P) The possibility was seen today, irough inquiries here, that ve Atrhur Johnson of York taking the United States Hana Fisch, Commissioner Spaude of he Leiepzig police force and a for- corporal who trained Bruno tlchard HRUptmann in the German rmv. WASHINGTON.

Jan. Sam Rayburn, of the house Interstate commerce committee called on Congress today to remova the "cancerous growth" of "abuses" of public utility holding companies. "We want you to consider," the Texas Democrat whether or not the congress should undertake to regulate these superholding companies or lay down a policy under which they will disappear." Declaring that the abuses, left alone, "will jeopardize all of our financial institutions and perhaps destroy the republic," Rayburn, said that "there is no necessity for a holding company." He also said Congress must se-2 to it" that" natural sas fields are protected. He was giving the House a preview of soon to come from the printer on investigations his committee has. made by congressional order:" His denunciation of holding companies recalled indicar in, administration quarters TecehtVjr'tnaV up ior-governmental curbs on holding companies arid pipe-lines.

"The abuses of the holding company-are Indeed a major influence that brought on the great depression," Rayburn said. No Word Here on 2c Cotton Loan County Agent G. R. Warren has received no word as to when he might expect to receive checks rep- esenting the 2-cent loan on 1933 plow-up option cotton, he said Friday. Between 200 and 300 Denton ounty farmers applied for the loan and numbers of them are making inquiry at Warren's office.

will be given immediately when the checks come or word is sent from the Washington loan division as to when they will come, he promised. Cute Squirrels Turn Out to Nuisances (By Associated Haskell Couple Burned in Auto HASKELL, Jan. and Mrs. J. B.

Patterson to death last night in their car when it plunged into a deep ditch and caught fire a few miles south Of Haskell. The elderly farmer's body was almost consumed by the flames while that of his wife was turned badly. Patterson was moving 1 a trailer loaded with household goods for his son from a farm near Haskell to another south of Rule when the accident occurred. The son was driving a few miles behind him. NEW Mrs.

Elizabeth Mandel wants the state conservation commission to let her shoot some squirrels. The squirrels are running all over her house. When they first appeared about five years ago, Mrs. Mandel and her family thought they were "cute" pets, but they have been increasing in number, have gnawed their through the roof end floors' and have caused, considerable damage, including the destruction of a persian rug. -Mrs.

Mandel wants a permit to kill because the season on squirrels closed Dec. 31. Spring Jumper Daiiing, a farm appraiser, is out to beat the spring. He found a grasshopper in a frozen meadow near Fowle, BL, and says it proves that spring may be just around the corner. Its disposition, said Daiiing, was chipper but drought, heavy snows, and two-zero waves had left the agile one a triffie emaciated.

More Highway Bids to Be Received AUSTIN. Jan. projects wero added today, to the construction program on which the Texas Highway Commission' will receive bids Jan. 18. bringing total estimated cost to $765.000.

Projects advertised were by counties: over Farmers and West Farmers Creeks on Highway 5. Hays 6.9 miles grading and and Rev. C. W. Estes, pastor of drainage structures San Marcos to the Central Presbyterian the Comal County line on Highway discussed the case with County 2.

Judge George Elbert but at noon Hamilton and miles Friday definite plans for aid wers grading and drainage structures waiting signs of a definite chang3 from the Bosque County linel to east in his health. of Hico on Highway 67. Monkey in Stripes the monkey inmate the state- prison, was in "stripes" today, Jabbo made a "break" for freedom yesterday, clambered over the walls and made his getaway. They caught him a block away as he stopped to play with, a dog. On his return prisoners dressed him in xmiform used to designate recalcitrants and prisoners recaptured after escaping.

OKLAHOMA: Fair tonigfcl; Saturday, partly cloudy and wiraer. EAST TEXAS: Mostly probably occasional rains in west and south portions tonigbt and Saturday. Light to moderate mwtly easterly to southerly irinds tn ths coast. WEST TEXAS: Mostly and unsettled tonight and Satw-.