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tp XXX XII I im tf1 Pr 8 PAGES Death Celebrates With 449 Victims Waco Sizzles In July Fourth Sun Hottest Dav This Season Registers On Mercury Tubes Thermometer Mounts to 97 Degrees, Which Is Two Above Am thing Shown So Far Parks and Picnics Triple Holiday For Texas Wife: She Celebrates HONEY GROVE July 4 Ed be entitled tn dav off front managing her hotel today It Independence Dav. It was her It het wedding anniversary, Roberts wont fishing. Call Citizens Out Grand Jurors Are Told of Power As Probers Organize Rush to From Scorching Dny Mils Highways; Lake NX a co Is Popular Jar -sur Judge Bartlett Reminds Them That They Arc Stronger Than President or Governor Warn got a scorching da for July JTourth The mercury reached 97 degrees shortly after noon, which is two degrees hotter than anything so far registered. Dr Stanley Block, teorologist, said Dr Block doesn't pect this to he a record for the immer, however. The thermometer will crack 100 many a day before autumn arrives, he predicts.

Take to the Wacoans took to the woods, the parks and creeks and the highways to help fight the heat. Cameron park mas crowded with picnickers. the earlv morning saw the roads lammed connection with am with cars, headed for the country, loaded with lunch ktts and fishing poles; iwimminE pools were given a big rush. Legion Has Party Empaneling a grand jury Monday, Judge D. W.

Bartlett told the inquisitors that their power is greater than that of the president of the United States or of the governor of exas The judge remark was not in particular charge fie did not call attention of the grand jurors to any special conditions which they should investigate restatement of the fart stood alone apparently as a sort of July Fourth reminder of the people power He had no comment. No Immediate Session The grand jury recessed as soon as organized, and will probably not Hundreds crowded to ter- tace on Lake Warn Monday night for the annual July Fourth picnic of the James A Edmond post ef the American Legion, marked by a bathing beauty contest. Picnics were held throughout the candidates were much in evidence, democratic primary election of July In the bathing beauty contest at Judge Bartlett said, the legion show Miss Dorothy Row. ton, 1003 North Thirteenth street, took first place and the title Miss V. Cox was named foreman.

Lake Waco." Miss Doris Martin, Other Wacoans on the body are 1422 Conner avenue, was second, Stanton Brown, J. W. McMurrain, R. Miss Madge Peters, 1001 North Potts, Woodward and W. N.

Fourth street, was third. Hundreds Orand. of the grand jury lfi Millions More Mav Be Listed In Benefit Payments s. Seamen, and of Vrtain Banking Institutions Included Linger Sums Mav i ided For Oiairman Altmeyer Now in Furopc Stiuhing Application of Old World Principles to Plan WASHINGTON, Julv 4 The administration will plare high on list of "must" legislation in the congress revisions in the social security act which bring: millions of agricultural workers un- i der its protection and pav larger benefits to those already covered, it was learned tonight Widespread in state en- ahlmg laws involved in the social program are Pxpecfed next ear hen most are ached- uled to meet Joint fedora! studies on manv of the proj- pci are in progress and reports are expected in midwinter Need President Roosevelt has impressed on congress the need of revising the federal law to meet found during the three it been in operation. He recommended certain changes to Chairman Arthur .1 Altmeyer of the security board and asked his group to prepare visions for submission to congress before it reconvenes in January.

European Method Altmeyer is in Europe examining the old world method with the most vexing problem facing his group how to kepp track of the movements of the transient or nomad worker These emploves abroad are checked through a stamp Roosevelt at Eternal Peace Shaft French Take Over Strategic Island In Japanese Area Heads Ktwarm liich NX Set ns TAcclk nt plane Buses in Kvupit I il I ii St of HIS Nipponese I lireal To Hainan Is Tip Vet ion Seen is Strengthening I lands Britain and Channel Ngainst I PAH! cupwtio islands here esf a cl the for The hv Frei Traffic Toll 2'1'i, Drowned 123. in Three Da vs 11 I rains and I lent lu FntaliU rU I I I lotnc Made Hi, rom -an non I I I I'Ri ireu hie Bomh ot her tn Pai Ja pa i 1 nearh the rc Hat 'h't erf war rated be foreign off iracels would espiane Their sp a importa. From Hainan i ip about miles southeast of Hainan and about 2SO miles east of Tourane one of the principal ports ihe pastern of Indo-Chins Hitherto the ha nerlesa Japan reported cup Hainan have caused been Rii, In automobile bareheaded the national anthem Is plaved as the flag draped mntiu- Krenr TIN TO PAGE 3 5 Taking office 'inoppxocd II Hatfield, aitotp of Oklahoma I itv, the new president of In lernaliorial Hatfield who lip from the pout of treasurer of fhp iirionlmtlnn, a In rleles ale, meeting In contention In o. Duce Declares He Take Wheat From Democracies I4need With Short Irop, hascist I eader Spurns I hrom I ibcral Nations Hi Thr i plosion i i fai 4 AP exHminiriK rne nniionai anioeni inp nag nrapen monu- ix ii 1 of dealing ment to American prace," In background, to I ole der The president spoke to an 0.000 persons at fhp dpdlcafion V. M.

Cox Is Foreman witnessed the event. Jaj (Capture Key Chinese City SHANGHAI, Tuesday, July mllitarx authorl jles today announced the capture Huknvr Japan's VariKt7e rrlver forces hammering toward Hankow, the capital In the hoart of hina. The fall Hukow, one of the principal barriers to brought the Japanese within I HO of the capital. Once the Japanese pierced IIu- outer defenses, military of- fieiaU said the capitulation wan almost with Chinese withdrawing, leaAing of munitions. other thsn Wacoans, are J.

O. Rhea, Lorens (i W. Rngland. Mc- Rloodworth, Axtrll Anderson, Moody; Clyde Roberts. Crawford; Dr.

J. R. Knight Eddy. (Doci Page was chosen TURN TO PAGE COLCMN 5 Justice (lardozo Better ondition of Supreme Court Judge Somewhat Improved PORT CHESTER, July i The condition of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin seriously ill with a heart ailment, was "a little bertpr today, a sick room bulletin said. 21,000 Are at Reunion Annual Cowboy Event Draws Huge rnwd to Stamford STAMFORD.

July 4 A hoi- Has Not Paid Poll Tax In 6 Years, Is Claim Tarrant County Tax Collector, Answering Candidate's Assertion, Produces Books FORT WORTH Julv 4 John Rourlund. tax collector-assessor for Tarrant county said to. President Cleans His Desk Getting Ready for Travel Roosevelt Runs Through Mass of Business While I Hcle a m's Other Workers I loliday WASHINGTON July 4 President Roosevelt America independence anniversary today Sir Hubert Plans Mihmartne 1 (plipped Mb I lectric Snout TORONTO tint lune 4 submarine expedition to the north pule in an undersea craft with an electric drill that will cut through the thickest Ice and with supplies to last for 10 veara proposed tonight hv Sir Hubert Wilkins fsrned polar explorer Woman Is Injured Mrs, II I White Truck Is in When Collision doorkeeper George Creasey and tdav crowd of 21.000 persons, Bv STAM.FV BLOCK Optometrist and Meteorologist 102 Sonth Sixth Street forecast Generally fair Maxi mum at 1 p. minimum 7: at 6 a. barometer humidity 45; wind miles, miles? per hour greatest velocity at 3 05 total wind for month Hourly 1 pin 97 7 a 732 pm a.m..

.1 p.m. 9H 9 Hi. I 10 a.m........... 11 97 p.in ..........91 12 noon. 7 92 (nvprnmpnt Forecast TFXAs Generally fatr Tuesday Wednesday; not quite so warm the Panhandle Wednesday.

Mod- ste wmds on the coast, mostly OKLAHOMA: Generally a i Tuesday and Wedne.ada>'. not quite so warm northwest portion we4- nesdav. NEW MEXICO AM) A RIZO NA Generally fair Tuesday and Wednesday, little rhange in temperature. Ken Murray Says: 110LLYWOOD -Well, at the latest of the Haugwitz-Reventlow romance and calling the Poor ttie Rich Girl, but Pncje Ken wring any gush ers out of his tear ducts too bad that once 111 a while Babs couldn't marry an American guy who just plain with a (fir! instead of bending vertebrae and kissing her fmeers svpry time he wants to say Howdv do But no. Rati? had tn become an international meal tickej say, those foreigners that took her for a meal ticket may have fastidious but.

bov. how they can their teeth into a Yankee fortune' 1 11 bet when old V. W. Woolworth opened his original tinware and nick-nack counter at Watertown. he never figured those hard-earned nickels and would some day be blown by Ri- v.era shooting boxes in Scotland and moated castles in Denmark was all right to snivel and call P.ahs a Poor Little Rich Girl the first time, when she broke up with that Georgian prince, hut.

can she ever learn a lesson Cliff Surber were named as bailiffs Tons of Steel Hits Him Fred WelU of Kiihhnell, Is Crushed to Death by Huge fleam DALLAS. July 4 (APi A man killed Sunday when a 2000-pound iron beam tell on him was deft initelv identified today as Fred Weils, 4.X of Rushneti, III. The beam fell on a construction job when a rope broke Runs Amok, Kills a BritUh Columbian Then Seriously Mounds Another and Is Slain PRINCE RI'PFRT. July 4 'I'P)- Mike Gurvich of Prince Rupert ran amok tonight and killed J. Service, acting provincial police I inspector, then shot and seriously; wounded Sgt.

Robert Gibson Police shot and killed Gurvich after he fled to his hotel. Speed Flyer in Trouble His Landing Gear Is Gummed I But He to Get Down LOS ANGELES, Julv 4 Freeing his landing gear after a half-hour struggle. Speed Pilot Paul Mantjt brought his rebuilt plane to a landing at Lnion air terminal, Burbank, at in to m. Manta, completing a speed hop from Wichita in 7 hours. J2 minutes, appeared over the field at 10 i)9 a m.

His elapsed time, officials said ended when he first reached the airport. Two Swim in Lake aco ing Gov. James V. Allred, attended the aftprnoon performance of the Texas Cowboy Reunion rodeo today, Leis Ackers of Abilene was elected blamed the president of the reunion. day O'Daniel, candidate for by discussing international affairs in governor, did not render poll tax series of lengthy conferences in in 19.T7 and for this reason it did Navy Ace Is Clider Top his White House study Throughout the day, while thou- nof appear on his fax statement, aands of government employes and in Houston Saturday the White House staff were taking a tax collector here for holiday he worked on an accumula- not giving him a poll fax when he tion of government that paid his property tax this year must be disposed of before he leaves "The poll tax was not added to Thursday on a speaking trip across my said.

"1 had a the nation. Equals Flight Made hv German, receipt for all my taxes but there and Has Claim to IIMHJ was no poll fax receipt Ask for It No on Schedule July 4 U'P) Lieut Robert Stanley. Bourland said it eustomarv San Diego, reported tonight a na- for the clerk taking a property rcn tional soaring contesct elidpr flight dition to ask the owner at to Washington, 1). equaling the fhp limp of rendition record set by Peter Riedel of Ger- wished to a poll tax many The 225-mile trips gave each pilot a claim on the J1500 prize. The assessor-collector checked records in his office concerning Dan- iel poll fax payment after the candidate made the charge in Hous- i ton The records found hv Rour- land showed, Bourland said, that in 1931 Daniel paid a poll tax Bourland said the record shows: The Year-hy-Yeur Record In 1932, ODaniel rendered his property with two polls, hut did not pay the poll taxes; in 1933 he did not render his property and did not pay a poll tax in the voting precinct in which he lived; in 1934 he Foot Doctors Select rendered his property and two poil taxes.

but did not the poll taxes; in 1935 he rendered his property and two polls, but did not pav the poll taxes; in 1936 he did not render his property and did not pay a poll tax in the precinct in which he reaided None of the political lieutenants who may be summoned later to advise on the best methods of promoting the candidacies of new dealers running for office son the calling whether he list today From Joseph Davies, former ambassador to Moscow, the president Fort Worth Named Next Site For Chiropodists At Closing Session, Texas Graham Scuddy Beau, mont, as President Dr Graham Scuddy of Beaumont was named president of the Texas Chiropodists' association Monday afternoon in closing session of annual convention at the Roosevelt hotel and Fort Worth was selected for the 1939 meeting place of the association. Succeeds a Waooan TYLER, July 4 tip. Mrs Whifp was in a critical condition tonight from injuries suffered when a truck drnen bv her husband, highvav employe, collided with a t'uel oil truck driven bv Mack Good rum of Arp Still in the Sawdust Mingling Top re to Al H. Barnes SARASOTA Ha July i rp 1 Top attractions of Ringjmg Bros and Barnurn and circus, the biggest show on earth, which was closed last in Scranton. Pa, tonight traveled north fur another attempt to complete the season, leased fb the Al Barnes part of the Ringling combine and Aunt Drowned Lavera Eason and Odie Knight I.o*e I at Grand Sallnp ORAND SALINE.

Juh i Eason 15, and her aunt, Mrs. Knight, 25, drowned to dav when a raff on which thev were aifttng tipped over throwing them into the water They were numbers of a awtm- (fling partv at a lake near here Captain Lost at Sea First Mate He Fell Overboard I.a*t GALVESTON. Julv 4 (API Captain lohn Henry Swindell, master of the British steamer Iddel- sleigh disappeared from his ship at aea June 3ft First Mat Herbert aaid on arriva' of the ship here oda The master presumably fell overboard A PR 1 LIA Italy, 'The so-called great not expect, to wheat denpife this year short crop Premier Benito Mussolini deeSared vehemently Il duce shouting hoarse! ad dressed of this grain grow ng area at ceremonies marking the first of sears har vest Won't for Aid While cheered under tha hot aun. the premier declared 'The Italian people will have rv for its life "Rut even if it had been lacking, Italy would never 1 aav vielded to seeking of any sort from the ao-called great de brief finished. Mussolini stripped to the waist, put on dark and pitched into a of newly harvested wheat which he helped the farmers feed to threshing a mio He ass them he could reaffirm that the I93S wheat crop would he superior in quality and sltghfiv inferior in quantity to the harvest Government estimated the vield would total 70,000 (SK) quintals bushe about, bvishelai short of the nation needs Earlier estimates had Indi' the crop would much smaller In the tm of the revised estimate.

il duce "The most recer-t and most hateful ape. at or of the anti-Italian and anti fascist front is crumbling in a Dogs I rail Lost Boy A hair Th 1 te 1 in Indi Memorial 25ft were kill total of a mirth nf Ju' fed led a mint Vs parted i killed her ht ntt! also An exceeding dav weei was fmi year ago iMHPr.vnrM hill nt OF IKK tTIOV PHILADELPHIA July Independence haii birthpksi American lti2 years agi the be- when cOSt AP) of as Tl'RN 7 "MN 4 Four-Year Old since Mindav Been Morning Denounces Air Raiding Bullitt in I.afavette Speech Murder of Women and Children Waco Bov Are Arrested and Face Charges In Court Two Waco youths were arrested bv city police Mondav for swim- ming in Lake They dived Dr Rice of El Paso Dr Scuddy succeeds Dr. William Loftin of Waco in the president chair. Other officers elected were Dr, C. H.

Holtz of Dallas, first vice preai- Even Inside Jail, Citizen Is Not Safe From Thieves PARIS, Julv 4 -H'Pi William Bullitt, I'nited ambassador to France, today denounced "the murder of defenseless women and children by air-bomhings when he fulfilled the traditional American Independence day ceremony of plac- 1 ing a wreath on the tomb of Genera! off the dam int the ake accord- TURN TO RACK PAGE. COU MN 4 I.afavette mg to officers who made the arrest, Complaints were filed against them in city court and they were released on bond. Otherwise the day was quiet in circles. Officer? had several complaints about boys shooting firecrackers, and stopped the practice One minor wreck occurred, at Third and Clay avenue, in which no one wan injured. Olive Branch Waved Govermir Townsend Asks Van to Run for Hoosier Senate Again INDIANAPOLIS, July Governor Clifford Townsend tonight telegraphed I'.

S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys, democrat, of Indiana, a personal invitation to become a candidate for renomination at the democratic state convention here July 42, This was the first open peace gesture made bv the strong sta'e house organization which had threatened to denv Van Tl'RN TO PAGE 2. COLUMN Ickes Asks Slash In Building Cost As Recovery Help; Secretary of Interior! Wants Material Men to Follow a 1 of Steel WASHINGTON, July 4 (AP) Secretary urged build ng terial manufacturers tonight to fol- low' the example of the steel in- dusfrv and reduce of their products He said in an address prepared for the Washington Star Radio forum that such a reduction, "if fol- lowed in other lines of business, as it ought to be, will be of material aid in the president program to help business and reduce unemployment." He added that reduction of the price of steel, or TURN TO PAGE 2, COLUMN 1 Racer 1 lits a Grandstand England HOIIOPS Organizer Arrested Police Take I. Man on of Strike Showdown NEW ORLEANS. July 4 A Police broke the qmer of the labor front here todav by arresting Joseph Lovett, C.

I organizer, from meeting of cabmen he had called out on strike from the Toye Brothers Yellow Cab company last The company announced it would resume operations tomorrow One Person hilled, 15 Injured Automobile Track AccMent In Man Lodged Behind Bars being sought, and not on Drunk Charge Re-1 mnn ports Fellow-Prisoners Got $6 From Him penny of had bepn HOHOKUS July 4 -O person was killed and 15 were reported injured today when a racing car ploughed through section of grandstand at, the Hohokus race track This is the atorv about five suspects allegedly robbing another of $6 It happened in city jail. A man who had been booked several days ago for alleged drunkenness Monday morning at time said $6 had been taken Nuys renomination because of his 1 from him by other suspects behind opposition to the court the jail bars expansion and governmental re- Policeman Armstrong said organization measures. four were in custody, another was Next day after the loser was jailed, Armstrong said, another man and a woman were locked up, and three others were taken into cus- todav on minor violations, it was reported Armstrong said two of the suspects have already been transferred to county authorities on alleged habitual charges Another was arrested when he came back Mondav to see about having his wife And another was jailed when he came to pohca headquarters with a shaving mug for a friend in jail. Armstrong ahead of Bulldog The other waa at large. ner.

Sigmund Freud Granted Privilege Never Before Awarded Anyone But Kings hinati ti Sh i tn And Crawl Wins For Seven Rattle Snake NORTH LITTLE ROC K. Ark, July 4 (AP) Sweet Stuff, using a combination shimmy and crawl, won that never before had been ac- Arkansas' first annual rattlesnake corded anyone hut a British king derby tonight before several him- famed Jewish psychologist, dred spectators The 1 a self-exile from Austria, has been five foot, seven-rattle reptile, owned a member of the royal society since hv Dr Frank Sweet, North Little Rock physician came under the Because his physicians have for- LONDON, July 4, Dr Sigmund Freud, old. saddened and sick, was granted a privilege today Hughes Finishes Trans-l S. Jump Nf-W YORK, July Landing at lov Bon nett airport, on the south shore of ong Island, at tf M. Howard millionaire porta- man fiver, tonight completed a one- stop transcontinental flight preparatory to a transatlantic hop to trip from Ichlta Kan where he spent last night, required only 1 hours, minutes, total flight time from Burbank, here he took off ter day morning, to pv York in fast, two motored airplane with which he may a record-attempting trip around Ihe world, was 13 hours, SS minutes.

Rio Grande Gives Up One Victim Of Wreck A. S. Hunt Stumbles Barefoot to Safety After Comrade Drowns; Body Not Recovered CERRO. July t-OV-A. S.

Hunt. W. of Denver, was found safe today at a camp to which he walKed tn bare feet after his companion in expedition down the turbulent Rio Grande was drowned when their boat capsized. Brought to AntonitO from camp. Hunt insisted on starting back at once in the point where the boat was wrecked on a huge rock in the Rio Grande's steep- wailed black canon Goea Back for Equipment Not seriously injured but apparently suffering from nervous exhaustion, Hunt went in an automobile to W.

P. Cater store north of Quests N. and on the east side of the river Hunt said he wanted fa salvage his equipment and supplies i A partv including Frank Johnson and Paul Strawn of Antonito, men ho found Hunt, accompanied i him. Hunt staved in Antonito only long enough to get a pair of shoes Companion Drowned Mrs Paul Straw reported her husband told her Hunt said he was convinced h.s companion, E. R.

Wake field. Si, of Denver, wn drowned immediately after thetr II; foot, blunt-nosed boat was wrecked on a rock in the black canon rapids, A short time after Hunt left Antonito, officers announced a pre- viotis report that Wakefield's body was recovered had been found to be headquarters except for signa- wrong. An ambulance that went to tsire Of king 1 N. to get body returned to Alamosa, Chinese to Quit Rome? ---------------------MRS, ROOSEVELT GOES BACK Ambassador Mill Shortly Leave the ROCHESTER, Minn, Jftly 4 Italian apital, Is Report James Roosevelt, wife of President son and HANKOW July 4 H'pi The secretary, left this afternoon bv Kuo Mm news agency reported to- i plane for the east She had been ESTES PARK Colo, July (APi Bloodhounds from the Colorado state penitentiary were whistled to the frail today of 4- year-old Alfred Beilhartz of Denver, lost in Rocky Mountain National park The bov has bepn missing in the vicinity of Fall and Roaring rivers since Ham yesterday Madrid In Heavv Shell Fire OKI July I hour-long bombardment bv long- silent insurgent today heralded the opening of General- Iwimo Francisco Franco's summer drive In this area Fiftv heav shells dropped Into the strppt during the bombardment, the population scurrying to cover. Thousands were caught unawares while on the or attending Expelled by German Nazis record nf Its members was taken to Freud house for his signature A society official said if.

win the first time the book had been removed from the wire two tongues and two hidden him to leave his St John win-j Wood home the charter hook of dav that the Chinese ambassador in visiting her husband in St. I scientific society, containing shortly will return hospital..