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West Texas' Own Newspaper THE ABILENE MORNING NEWS The Weather WEST TXXAS la west VOLUME 5 2 A. EDITION ABILENE, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 25,1 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS NUMBER 15? IL FIGHT HEADING TO COURTS Brownwood Youth Kills Bride Then House Passes ModifiedBill For Natural Gas Tax Tarns Gun On Self pr fntlVIPtPfl of Misunderstanding between MeSson Wake- i I I I I i and His Wife of a Week, Former Dorothy Cause of IVIisunderstanding between Melson Wake-1 field and His Wife of a Week, Former Dorothy Bess, Not Known; Inquest Is Held (By the Associated Press) BROWNWOOD, IHrch as a secret between tbern in death the cause of their misunderstanding, Melson Cropper IVake- i IS, son of a wealthy and prominent Brownwood family, and Dorothy Bess Craft Wakefield, 19, his bride of a week, were dead today, 1 victims of a shooting at the Wakefield home last night after they re- turned from an automobile ride, I They were married Marcs 17 at De! Kio ar.3 returned to 'Brown- i wood March 19, living since that time at the Wakefield home. i The youth's mother, Mrs M. had suspected any trouble between i "Wakefield, told officers she heard I them that have caused the shooting. The young wife was the daughter of and Mrs.

Shelby Craft of I Brookesmith and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shields, who just as her son pulled the trigger were killed in a -triple shooting at i of a shotgun, sending a.

charge into Brookesrnith last May 15. She was the couple return about 12:30 m. heard them tiptoe upstairs to their bedroom, then after 30 minutes or more of silence, heard a shot. She rushed i to their bedroom jPorfo Rico School Boy Forgets Lines as Hoover Listensl Yotrogstsr Grins and President Smooths It Over, Thanking for Beeeption lias Ovm breast. His wife lay mortally -wounded.

Dr. T. 3. Bailey, physician, called out both the youth and his bride were dead Tchen he arrived. Justice E.

T. Perkinson conducted an inquest during the day and his verdict was awaited. A double funeral was planned tomorrow. Mrs. "Walxefield said she never the fifth member of the Shields family to meet violent deaih by gunshot wounds.

The boy's father, M. S. Wake- field, died suddenly of a heart at- i tack last November. Justice Perkinson said no cor-; oners verdict would be returned Witnesses Offered by Defense, for Abilene: Man Charged with! Bank Robbery. (By Thf Associated Press) SAN JUAN, P.

IL, March xras a big day in the life of Lazaro Rivera, a nine-year-old schoolboy who "was selected to make a speech, of thanks to President Hoover at a rural school near Cida Deep in tfee Porto Rican mountains. "Mr. lie began firmly, want to thank you for this school, for the honor of your and for--and for Amended Measure Places: Tax of 23-4 Per Cent! against Producers'; Gross Receipts. (Special to tke News) (Bv the Associated Press) AUSTIN, March 24 See Page 4 IN HOOVER SAILS WAVE FOR VISIT IN YORK! VIRGIN ISLES He hacL forgotten his speech- He i-r, TT TUT TUT T. A -ci bis head, then looked up GEAHAM, Marcil a JIT.

grinned and shoved I win Spicer of Abilene was con- i an envelope into the presidents honsa today passed its first i 1 victed liere tonight by 5 the manuscript fcej revenue raising- bill of the ses-j in 30th district court on 1 3 i I i 031 voting favorably 103 to 19! ine president smiled, put nis arm; charge of onrglary in connec-1 the showers, Datted! an amendea biu by Bepreseru tion with, ths robbery of the him on the back and thanked bimjtative Sanders of Nacogdoches i Jean State bank, and assessed a i for Sne reception. 0 i eY a on natural gas; six-year penitentiary sentence. Witness Claims He Saw Brothers Run From Death Scene Youthful Defendant in tingle Slaying Trial Cairn as He Is Pointed Out by Man Who Was Standing in Subway i (By tne Associated Press; CEEVIIXAL COURTS BUILDING, CHICAGO, March Brothers was pointed out in Jndge Joseph Sabaths courtroom today as the man who ran of a pedestrian tunnel last June immediately after Alfred "Jake" Lingle, Tribune crime reporter, was assassinated, Warren Williams, a former railway brakeman novr employed by tae I estate's attorney, said he was stand- i Qtr at the entrance of the sb- i New "Allowable Figure i Statewide Questions Up First Day. lie of Violence Shakes, Due JEarfy -Today A City; Victior1s ifmss; Has -in- by Racketeers (By Tbe Associated Press) YORK March Final Day In Porto Rico Bj- Tho Associated Ptcssi ARIZONA, March 24--Bacfc berations of nine murders in 3Sj aboard this White House" i hours shook Greater Kew Toik to-j fc end of a strenuous nisht. --r Porto Rico, Presioent Hoover con- i Seven slayings occurred in tee 24! Dawn i tinned his Canobean craise The verdict was returned at 7:50 o'clock, after the jury had; deliberated hours and So; minutes.

ISo Defense Witnesses I District Attorney Sam rt-j i -prove the tie- fendant participated 'in- SB acetylene 1 torch robbery of the Jean bank, March II, when niore than SL50Q i was obtained from, the vault after a hole had been cut into the top. i Defense counsel offered no wit- nesses. States witnesses included J. G. i prodTicsrs.

Sasders estimated I jthe tas: would raise approsi- mately $650,000. bill, if passed by the sen- ate and approved by the go v- ernor, would levy gi-oss re- tax of gas pro-r or imorted! to Attempt to Get Action Today hours up to last midnight, revealed tvro more. In addition, a billiard parlor operator was burned to death in a fire blamed on racketeers, and a policeman who remarked he was "sick and tired of everything," took his own life. Andrew (Boots) Djarnato. who toward the Virgin Islands.

Before morning the Arizona is due at St. Thomas but the president will not debark until after breakfast. Hoover today made the first pres- See SPJCEB 4 Funeral Held for Widow of Picket! (Special to The Kews AUSTIN, March off second best in their first brush with opponents of the 3200,000,000 state in Tesas other states. Argued AH Day I Tote on the bill came after it had i been argued almost all day arid after members of, the economy bloc 1 nad sought to include a provision in tlae bill whereby the proceeds from the tax would be used auto- matically to reduce the state ad Governor Kills Washington Gin Marriage Plan The Associated Prrss OLTMPIA, WasSL, Marclt .24. --A measure seeking- to prevent nasty marriages has leen Tetoed br Governor Eoland H.

Hartley, as "aaotier attempt at uplift by legislative enactment." Known as the of application for and issuance of a marriage license. "Tnis bill," Governor Hartley said last "impugns the honor and integrity of county auditors, ministers of tbe gospel and all others authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony." i a man come running out of the turmeL He ag-zagged i through traffic, simost got hit by a I car, and ran within a foot ana I half of me." WiBiams testified. iThen he pointed out the calm I youthful defendant, seated at the I counsel table as the man. I Employed by state (By the Associated Press). AUSTIK, March 24--East Texas, the bone of contention in tiie oil industry, was men- inferenGe today as the railroad commission began its "proration isowevsr, ihroTigJi former Cfev- emor Dan Moody, thedr connseL served notice tKat if their" new field wars ordered restricted Batter be takea to dual duties sus- pects ia file- Ungie slaying.

He ssid he had gone to St. Louis. New York, western Illinois and Wisconsin to look at suspects or pictures of underworld characters. Assistant State's Attorney Brooks announced he expected to call three additional to testify to- Most of 'is I up by witnesses wi value of prorarion geiieraL hearing was on the statewide prc- i ration figure to be sec" br the rail- See BROTHEKS TRIAL, Page 4 wide highway bond issue, pro- valorem tax. The amendment, of- Bv The WASHINGTON, March Fu- Kenny, a Greenwich Village character, was struck down during a speakeasy brawl.

The weapon was a baseball bat. The death of Rudolph Kanze, 50- i place in the march of progress" In cremated tomorrow, after which a year-old proprietor of a Duinont, 1ST. billiard parlor, was the table again tomorrow. tabled. The senate voted 4 to 12 to sup- i house.

tax of three-eighths cents per 1,000 feet on all gas produced. Amendment Adopted I An. amendment by Represents- tive Young of Wellington, however, i was adopted which levied a tax or; an amendment to the 2 per cent on the gross receipts. constitution to permit voting of Young's amendment was amended i progressiveness, declaring: "I know, 0 "Mother Pickett." and represent- of no finer achievement than of Confederate societies. of the people of this island," whoj Li eu t.

Geo. E. Pickett, a grand-1 state nishway bonds, said when: in turn, on motion of Rearesenta-! rose "from stagnation to a lngn! SC said the body would oe asked Balchen Starts Survey by Air in Hope of Locating Others i Testimony in Port Arthur Slayer's Tria! Will Begin Today Rv The Associated AUSTIN. March 24---1 the city was crowded -mtb. oil men attending the state wide proration bearing before the railroad eoramisslon, the senate voted 30 to 0 to pass a bill by Small to from proration.

The bill exempt wells in tion from ten to iO barrels and from 2,000 feet cr less to 3,500 feet deep. It was estimated removal of wells from proration. increase Texas approsiraaiely 60,000 bar- the resolutioa be itive Vaughn of Greenville, to set; Worm Fund Today single generation There are "grave problems" still i ashes, gated on the theory that slot ma- con ron pjng Rico. Mr. Hoover chine racketeers may have been re- an( one tnese the danger sponsible.

that the population may increase Gang war, business rivalry, labor mor rapidly than available Indus- troubfe and. rackets were some of try may provide for. the causes of murder, in the opinion After his address, he conferred at of Investigators. The Harlem government- house with Governor racket, which is coming before the who said later he eye of invest was seen in strangling of a 19-year found dead in a Harlem room. It The recalls the strangulation three Juan negro women several weeks ago un- progress der similar circumstances.

at the Police were hunting out Fiore i panied throughout by cheers of; for floor action DUO Grimald! in connection with the school children lined along the! asid perhaps fatal wounding of his i route. brother. Eddie, Brooklyn gangster. ii, 1 i brought UD during tomorrow's ses- the tax at 23-4 Der cent. place would oe seleci-ea for the sion.

i Senator Small it appeared i the proponents of the bond issue lO VO1 OR trying to ram it down ths throats of the people. He stated the amendment had remained on the I table for a long time, and that it By The Associated Press) should not be taken up without first AUSTIN, March house as specia or r. hadi tomorrow was scheduled to take up; bill be Rep-! re Associated a AUSTIN, March house reimburse criminal jurisprudence committee was shunted the to permit action on a bill to levy a tax on natural gas. i present statutes possession is See LEGISLATURE, Page 4 Robert Schreinger, 42, a plain I clothes policeman, shot himself to death near Central Park. i The Woman Fires as Neighbor Child Knocks at Door i CHICAGO, March of; DALLAS, March when; the late Levi Leiter's millions re- he was mistaken for a robber mains the United States, he knocked on the door of a neigh- aToe llate court today upheld bo nouse last night, Tnomas Ai- i 3en Goad, 5.

son of Mr. and Mrs. O. i Joseph Leiter's right to serve as T. Goad -of Dallas, was in a critical trustee of the $30,000,000 estate of LEVI LEITER'S MILLIONS TO REM A Court Rules against British Nobility Heirs Who Sought to Oust Trustee Young's amendment; was adopted 90 to 26, while Vaughn's substitute was adopted 66 to 56.

A serious parliamentary tangle re- i suited when the voting machine; failed to record a vote properly. The i vote was on an amendment by! cent and the machine showed the amendment adopted 55 to 62. A check: of the vote almost- 45 minutes later, however, showed the amend-! ment lost when the vote was tied at 54. West Texans on Hand i Vaughn had offered i an amendment to set the tax at 4 per cent. The amendment was voted down, 74 to 49.

i Under the bill as originally drawn by tax would have yielded $3,000,000 annually. A large delegation c-f West Tex- i ans was irt the gallery during the; debate on the bill. Opponents of the Sanders three- eights production levy and the (By Associated ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Mar. from the twin terrors of fire and ice.

the sealer Sagona today landed in and Injured survivors of an explosion which blew up the sealer Viking off Horse Island. They brought with them first hand stories of the disaster and of the long fight against high piled ice floes to rescue the 1-5 men saved after the explosion. More than a score still were missing after a week's search of the half frozen ocean by a fleet- 01 sealers, but the quest was carried on from the air today by a veteran of Arctic adventure, Bemt Balchen. Balchen Makes Survey This flier, Byrd's pilot over the South Pole, took off from Comer Brook for Horse Island this afternoon made a three-hour survey trip. Ke was engaged by Dr.

Lewis Frisssll of New York, father of one of the two Americans missing-Varies Frissell, motion picture pro- (By The Associated Press) BEAUMONT, March last and perhaps technical: iy most exacting task in the murder trial of A. B. Johnson--selection of I the jury--was concluded today and court was in recess during the aft- condition today. jagrchant-prince father-- turn- shooting today, sobbing out the nobility heirs that he be ousted for story when she called out demand- mismanagement. i Representing many pages Burke's pe ra se, the appellants ing to know who was knocking at the door of her home and received no answer she fired five times a pistol.

The Goad child had gone to her home to ask the time, so his mother could set a clock. Rear Admiral Plunkett Dies WASHINGTON, March Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, 67, retired, died of heart-disease tonight in the Naval hospital, from Judge Dennis Sullivan's superior court approval o'r Letter were his sister, Lady Marguerite Hyde, countess of Suffolk 'and Berks: Lady Cynthia Mosley, the baroness of Ravensdale and Lady Alexandra i Mctcalf--daughters of the late Mary Letter Cureon. another sictcr, and i wife of the former viceroy of India. Levi's children over the At- lantic--marrying imo England's aristocracy.

Only one--Joseph-- in Chicago, to enter business i with his father. Joseph's first big See GAS TAX, Page Sec SHIPWRECK, 3 i When the 12th man went into the box. the time for Johnson's explanation of why he killed Ottis Lee Adams, a 22-year-old Port Arthur refinery ambulance driver, drew near. Tomorrow the submission of 'testimony will begin. What the defense will try to show, nobody, savxthe lawyers and Johnson, knew, but- the case will concern Elizabeth Johnson.

17-year- old daughter of the team foreman. She died on December 17. 1930, in an automobile parked in front of the First Methodist; church of Port Arthur. A bullet was in her body and the small rifle from which it- came was in the machine. Nobody See JOHNSON CASE, Page 4 deaV was i failure.

"Old" rne Houston Woman JOSEPH LEITER Armour broke young Leiter's co: on the whsat market--putting dent of $9,030 000 in tne Leiter for- tune. The three appellate judges-- Kickham Scanlan, Otto Kemer and Martin' Gridley--also upheld Judge! Sullivan's ruling That Letter should i make an of Wyoming! ranch lands mar.agment of the: Leiter stores, anrl purchase of i i the Ziegler coil mines from the i estate. In tho 2S years of his manage- ment, has increased the working capital of the estate from approximately $13,000.000 to more, than $17,000,000 The Wyoming rauch lands were the chief bone of contention in tP.c litigation. The Erglish heir? charged, ar.yv.io other things, that Leitcr waricd appropriately 000 in developing ranching in- 1 treats. Held in Detroit on Theft Charge (By The Associated Fn-ts DKTROIT, March Al- len.

28, of Houston, Texas, was ar- i raigned in recorder's court yester- day charged with stealing $86 from Ralph B. Olsen, Chicago salesman, on a Chicago-Detroit train. She pleaded not guilty and was! placed under $5,000 bond to await trial. I J. J.

Fitzgerald, special officer for the Pullman company, said the; woman, also known as Ella! Berry, had been a repeated train rider and thai he watched Her i from an upper berth or a Pullman car. Twice, he said, she left Her berth and climbed nt "occupied uppers, reaching down into occii- pied lower berths. One of the low- crs, he said, was c-cupicci by TSCH DEFENDS HIS UTILITY LL AS HEARING CONTINUES Former Senator Wirtz and Judge Nelson, Representing Independent Telephone Men Lead in Attack on Proposal AUSTIN, March was continued tonight by the house statt- affairs committee on a bill Representative Petsch of Freder-' icksburg to establish a state public utilities commission. Pewch defended the provisions cf the bill against attacks by Judge: Nelson, representing the indepcad- telephone operators, and Former Senator A. J.

Wirtz or" claimed the bill would fairly meet all legitimate objections of the i utilities. WLru: said the dual conlrcl fea- ture of the bill would make inoperative while Petsch argued it was the only workable system could be employed. The bill would permit the municipalities 10 fix the rates, based on figures furnished by the state commission, giving the companies the right to appeal to the commission and to the courts. The bill has been favored by Governor Sterling. Wirtz also took issue with the Sec rETSCH TJ1LL, Fasc i Mellon Observes His 76th Birthday i By The WASHINGTON, March clrew Mellon was 75 today but it was jusr another day to Iiirn.

The treasury secretary, iias served ur.der three his birthday working--at the desJc 'he has occupied more than ten years. Tyler Movie Men to Face Charges i (By The Associated TYLER. Maxell of three Tyler motion picture theatres i were at liberty under bond today after being arrested yesterday on charges of operating sflows on i Sunday. Complaints against the trio were signed by a Tylr- minw- tcr. The eases were set for trial i April 20 in counti court, I road comrnission.

effective after i April and whether or not to ini- pose proration on the new -Sast Tesas area. The East Texans, representea i an imposirig battery of attorneys I headed by Dan Moody, former gov- ernor. sought to show that prora- i tion figures had been based on mar- i ket outlet rather than on the re; striction necessary to prevent phys; ical waste. Operators of the new field had safe they had a market; i outlet for almost all the oil they I were producing. I Price Fixing: Scheme Moody sought to show further" that proration was a scheme of and that as such the railroad commission was powerless to impose it because it had no au' thority prevent economic waste.

Sast Texarss were ready to wage a srrong fight- against proration before the railroad commission, but they admitted they would seek court relief if the matter shtmkl be decided against them. Addressing Robert E. Perm of Dallas, chairman of the central pro- ration committee, today. Moody said "we plan to beat you here if pos- See PKORATION. 3.