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f. i i if i i- 1 1 it'll V- fi CORSICM 1NESS MUN DM RIIEYJIOSPITAL J. ELSER WAS FOR YEARS IN BOOK BUSINESS HERE WlThs following item, taken from City (Kansas) Union Ht-hif Monday, November 20, will be lead with sad Interest by many lift Corslcana, who will remember iu Blser as a courtly and polish- irentleman of the old school. He Inducted a book "tore and sta- business here for many Years and resided here some time sifter retiring from business. His brother, MaximilUan, mentioned in following article, died only a few weeks ago in Fort Worth: Death of Louis Joseph jF 4 V-" Louis Joseph Bluer died at the Post Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas, 19, 1933, after a short -Illness.

Kr. Elser was born In Corning, N. December 26, 1853. When only a boy in his teens, he and his older broth or, Maximillian, Started out together. Their first employment being with railroad telegraph business.

Both were telegraph operators. Their business ventures took them to Louisiana and Texas where, for several they had charge of the con- structlon of the first railroad and telegraph lines in those states. Later they were in the book and stationery business in Fort Worth, Abilene, Gainesville and Corsica- '-ftflL A Jtft.fi Vjn 1879, while in Fort Worth, Mr. JClser became acquainted with Jen- jtle Garner, whose family had -znov- ftd to Texas from New York. They "were married at Canoes, N.

October 4, 1882, her family having returned there permanently, tvFrom this union their only child born, a son, Max A. Elser. Later, Mr. Elser and his family jnade their permanent home in QOrsicana, Texas, where they resia- ed until Mr. Elser retired from Mness.

After a short period in East, Mr. and Mrs. Elser purchased a home at Mountain View, California, residing there until re" ly when they Joined their son, Col. Max A. Elser at Fort Kahs.

Mr. Elser is survived by the wife, Mrs. Jejinie G. Elser, the Max A. Elser, Lt.

Col. Q. M. four grandsons, Louis Ed- A.i Robert and Max A. and a sister, Mrs.

Emma -v 1 hi i services will be from the Sawtell Funeral Home, itioh city, Kansas, at 2 p. lay, November 21, Chaplain O. Wllcox, U. S. Army, will fuct the services.

Interment Albany Rural cemetery, Al- York. iVi i 1 If "-f ued From Page One.) Installed in the Hart home regular line was tapped. was fixed that the source any telephone call to the Hart could be traced in a matter Twice such calls were and sheriff a officers raced source only to arrive just late Wai Traced. night of November 16 word to Sheriff William J. of the kidnapers was from a downtown garage.

Sheriff Em iff garage within 60 see- ithe call was traced, ar- as Thurmond was receiver in a pay hours, Thurmond Heating Holmes, stronger and more than Thurmond, sisied for a while but also. Thurmond, 29, had been mem- hie San Jose fam- 1 iff -f lisi men said they seis- in -his automobile car and another illes north of here. The took their victim to the bridge across San they bound le youth and struck itoe hsad with a heavy tn he resisted. They said tw him over the rail as 1 weakly. 'it fttrufffUng Form.

id added that he fired from a pistol in the of the struggling form, went to San Francisco first telephone call and returned to San Jose, the greatest body hunts in In this area in years by foot the bottom bay dragged. Holmes tohd were taken to San as a precaution possible lynching move- The federal grand jury in- them on charges of uslnff in an attempt to extort. to kidnaping charges returned to jail the strongest possible against the prisoners, officers the search for the body. Hart offered a $000 Shortly after 9 a. m.

yesler- badly torn body was found Dalve and Harold of Redwood City while near the bridge. LYNCHING (Continued From Page bombs. Blinded and weeping, the attackers fell back. By this time some 3,000 persons had gathered to watch. The 35 officers in the jail building sent out a call for more tear gas.

All lights In the building were extinguished, Second Attack Opens. The blinding tear gaa from the first three bombs was atill hanging like a thin veil about the building when the second attack began. Several of the attackers took from the post office building a piece of steel pipe 8 Inches in diameter and about 20 feet long and used it a battering ram, smashing in tho jail door. Officers turned loose another barrage of tear gas, monmentarily stopping the assault. After waiting a few moments for the gas to lift, the mob stormed ahead once more, playing a fire hose on the building as it advanced.

A second group seized another pipe and joined the attackers. The steel doors of the jail gave way and the mob poured in, encouraged by cheering thousands outside. Sheriff William J. Kmig, whose quick action had resulted in the arrest of Thurmond while making a ransom demand by telephone to the Hart home a week after the young victim had been put to death, was knocked senseless. Other officers were manhandled and brushed aside.

The mob demanded Antone Serpa, recently convicted of man- ulaughter in the slaying of Leonard Ramonda, a ranch foreman, but deputy sheriffs persuaded the group to let Serpa alone and tho invaders pressed on. Thnnond Dragged Out. In the cell which had imprisoned David A. Lama on, now under sentence to hang for the murder of his attractive wife AUenc at Sanford University last May, the mob laid hands unon the whimpering Thurmond, dragging him to the street and raining blows upon him. Holmes struggled as he was dragged from the cell that once had held Douglas Templeton, now serving a life sentence for the murder of his aunt.

Likewise he was dragged out and beaten. Cheers, jeers and catcalls from thousands of watchers became the death march of Thurmond and Holmes. Down the alley between the court house and the partially constructed postofflce and across the street in the palm fringed park they were dragged. Officers, who had given up the fight, were clotf- ed out of the picture- as the approving thousands lined the bordering streets. The mob selected the limb of a tall tree, looped a rope about the unconscious neck and hoisted him aloft while the crowd whooped its approval.

Tho clothing was torn from the lower part of the body and he hung there half elad. The business of choosing a limb Holmes required about ten minutes. A tree some 200 yards from where Thurmond was dangling was finally selected. He WEB stripped of all olothing and jerked upward. Ghastly Scene.

Street lights and flashlights shedding intermittent gleams through the leaves, gave the scene a pcu- Uar ghafitliness. The crowd, augmented by thousands who had crnergegd from the theatres just in to witness the gruesome climax, quieted. Photographers whose equipment had been seized in the earlier stages of the spectacle were not molaeted. The body of Thurmond was cut down finally and the crowd swarmed into the park to break souvenir twigs from the hanging limb. The aasemfcled thousands were beginning to drift away when the body of Holmes was taken "down.

Hours after the lynching the tear gas still hung about the jail like a sinister veil. The floors of the building were filled with wreckage. Two steel barred doors that had been smashed wore barely hanging on their hinges and the heavy pipes that had served as battering rams lay in a corridor. Not an arrest was made. The only shots that were fired, with tfee exception of the charges from tear gas guns and bombs, were the two that started the attack on the jail.

Officers Injured. Sheriff Emig, after recovering consciousness, stood by, helpless, until the crowd had wreaked 1U vengeance. Then he went to a hospital for treatment. Howard Buffington, a deputy who was struck from behind while pleading with the mob, and State Highway Patrolman Nick Gladner, also received emergency treatment Several persons were struck by flying missies or burned by tear gas burte. Earlier in the evening In Sacramento, when Governor James Rolph, was asked if would call out national guardsmen to reinforce the officers, the chief executive said: "What, call out troops to protect those two guys? That's the sheriff's Job." Informed later that Thurmond and -Holmes had been lynched, Rolph said: the best lesson that ever siven the coun- HOG SELLERS MUST PAY PROCESSING TAX ACCORDING AAA RULE Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T.

Helverlng stated today that It has been brought to the attention of the Bureau of Internal Revenue that in many instances farmers -id others are slaughtering hogs and selling the products to consumers without payment of the processing tax. This is a violation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act and regulations therunder. which provide that any person who slaughters hogs for market must file appropriate returns and pay the processing tax thereon. The tax applies even in the case of the producer who slaughters his own hogs and sells or otherwise disposes of all or any pan of the products. Heavy penalties are provided for violation of the law or evasion of the tax and any person who slaughters hogs and sells all or any part thereof should confer with the collector of internal revenue for his district who will assist htm in preparing and filing the required returns.

try. We showed the country that the state is not going to tolerate kid- naping." The lynchlg was the first in California in 13 years. The last time a mob took the law into ita own hands was December 10, 1920, when George Boyd, Terance Fitts and Charles Valenton, San Francisco gangsters accused of killing three police officers, were hanged from a tree after being dragged from the Sonoma county jail at Santa Rosa. Believe Son Innocent. SAN JOSE, Nov.

the tragedy-darkened home of John M. Holmes, lynched by a mob for the kidnaping of Brooke L. Hart, his father and mother faith in his innocence here today. Maurice Holmes, the father, for 30 years a respected tailor in the community said: "My son was innocent." Near collapse, the father disclosed that he visited Holmes in the county jail Sunday a few hours before the son, was dragged out to his death by the howling mob. "Dad," the elder Holmes quoted his son as saying during the visit, "I swear to you I had no part in this thing." In a home at Campbell, a short distance from San Jose, the parents of Thomas H.

Thurmond, victim with Holmes of the mob vengeance, sat with their grief. Thurmond, whose sister sings in a church choir and whose brother is a minister at Chico, was a regular attendant at the church services. YOU BtTT Xnaa piM- City Book Store. ft 5 i i Little te Wftf parte long- cost, no soore, sold BTJX7TBIO Bin. Ha; SAN JOSE, Call Alexander Hart, mother of Brooke L.

Hart, the finding of whose body yesterday led to the lynching of his confessed-, kidnapers, Thomas H. Thurmond and John M. Holmes, was reported in a serious condition today. Mrs. Hart has been ill, and relatives said they feared mental trouble as a result of the developments.

Kean Gets In Print. NEW YORK. Nov. Passage of a feleral anti-lynching law as soon as congress convenes was urged today by United States Senator Hamilton F. Kean of New Jersey, in a statement issued in connection with the San Jose lynching of Brooke Hart's abductors.

"Law and order must not be replaced by mob violence." Senator Kean said. "I favor the passage of a federal antl-lynching law immediately after congress meets. Only in this way can we end disgraceful mob rule." Meat Demonstration At Richland Tuesday The second of a series of meat cutting and canning demonstrations will be held Tuesday morning begnning at 8:30 at the homfl of Mr. and Mrs. Carson Mayo, about one-half mile east of Richland on Highway 75, according to an announcement made Monday by C.

C. Morris. Dates and places for other demonstrations will announced the near fuure, EYE WITNESS (Continued From Page One.) Holmes, I'm not but one of the lynchers rushed up and grabbed him by the neek and told him to shut up. Another fellow cracked him io the jaw. "Holmes went down and when he got to his feet another man hit him, and another until he lay sprawled at their feet, unconscious.

"They pulled him to bis feet and stood him against a wall, still unconscious, while others Kept hitting him in the face with their fists. They finally put a rope around his neck and dragged him head first down the steps, "Then they went, up on the third floor and found Thurmond hanging by his hands to the Iron gratr fng of a high window inside the lavoratory, where he thought they wouldn't see him. "He didn't try to deny his Identity but. he came out sniveling and his face was very white. I have never seen human beings look so terrified as Holmes and Thurmond.

Begged for Hts Ufe. "Th urmond kept repeating, 'Don't string me up. For God's sake don't string me And they hit him as they did Holmes and dragged him down the steps with a rope around his neck. "They took both men across the street, threw the rope ends over tree limbs and jerked them roughly off their feet to die. "There were women and children in the crowd and they saw that whole thing in the park.

Some of the children were babies in their mothers' arms, "I heard a number of women laugh, even after it was all over, and say it had been a good thing. "That mob seemed to be The tear gas never fazed them. They came through it with eyes streaming and smarting but determined to get those men and lynch was all that mob cared about. 1 BARROW (Continued From Page day after the couple escaped after a roadside gun fight with the sheriff here they appeared at a farm belonging to brother of Floyd near Adhina, Okla. Although search was directed toward Oklahoma, officers in North TOTES maintained their watch for the pair.

It was revealed today that Billy Parker, 20-year-old sister of Bonnie Parker, was in jail here upon the request of Maxey. DALLAS, Nov. for Clyde Barrow, gunman who shot his way out of an trap last week, entered today in the Dallas-Fort Worth area after authorities received reports of his being seen In this vicinity. Arthur Wesley, a negro, told of being stopped in a wooded Dallas suburb by a man asking directions to a certain side road. The negro said the man, who brandished a machine gun, boasted he was Barrow, youthful desperado wanted for several killings and various robberies.

Another report came from Deputy Constable W. W. Parker of Car roll ton, a town north of Dallas, who said he was riding with another man on. a truck North of Arlington when two couples drove up in a car, stopped and asked the way to Dallas. Parker said the party evidently had been drinking, and that the driver was addressed as They hurried away without Parker being able to question them.

The officer said he had no weapon. Later last night constable from Terrell reported to Fort Worth officers that he saw an automobile without lights parked in a pasture between Mansfield and Arlington. When he went to investigate, he said, he found two men and two Sanctuary 111 LIQUOR FO ON BRADY RANCH BY CUSTOMS OFFICERS vited Although It often has been reported that manv Cuban patriots are out "gunning' for former President Gerardo Machado, who fled his revolt-torn country, the ex-dictator doesn't seem much perturbed as he is pictured strolling; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He is said to be contemplating permanent residence in New York.

women heavily armed. As he approached, the car was driven away Fort Worth police started in intensive search for the dark green coupe. Barrow haa been a fugitive from, justice for months and until last week, when he slipped out of a trap set by Sheriff R. A. Schmld of Dallas county, he had been successful in keeping under cover, although officers said they knew he had bee in the Dallas area for some time.

His mother lives in Dallas. Traveling with Barrow is Bonnie Parker, who is reputed to be as willing to shoot it out with officers as her companion. W. D. Jones, 17, who officers say admitted having been an soclate of Barrow, has made a statement to officers and newsmen in which he credited Barrow with participation in the killing of several men.

The statement also charged Barrow with taking part, in certain Roses Cat Flowers and Rose Bnshea Call at Mines, Burson and Pearson THE ART SHOP 1698 W. 4th XM Use a Daily Sun Want Ad for quick results. BRADY, Nov. liquor valued at approximately $7,000 was seized by customs officers in a raid at a ranch seven miles north of Brady. The ranch owner, two of his sons and two other men were arrested and the officers indicated that complaints would be filed at San Antonio charging them with smuggling and conspiracy to defraud the government by evadingg the tariff.

The five taen were jailed here. The contraband, consisting of 1,900 of Cuban alcohol and Belgian cologne, spirits, was found late yesterday in underground chambers in a sheep pen on the ranch. Officers said the chambers were well ventilated and fully equipped for processing alcohol with charred oak shavings for retail sale. An investigator who pretended to be a geologist located the The raid was conducted by A. P.

Cummins and £. C. of the customs service, and City Marshall Grover Chambles. The customs officers believe the ranch, was a distributing point for this section of smuggled alcohol and other liquor. They were of the opinion the liquor was shipped here from New Orleans by way of San Antonio in cases with spurious labels.

Dairymen to Hear Marketing Expert Tuesday Morning J. L. Thomas, dairy products marketing expert of the Texas A. M. College extension service, will speak to the dairymen of Corslcana Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the Corslcana Chamber of Commerce on the dairy market-- ing agreement! one of the phases of the agricultural adjustment act.

The marketing agreement is virtually a dairymen's code and a full attendance of ttje milk producers and sellers is desired for the meeting, Much Liquor Was Found During Raid In East Corsicana i Sheriff 'Hufus Pevehouse and Deputy Sheriff J. M. Westbrook confiscated 76 1-2 gallons of liquor in a raid conducted in East Corslcana Saturday afternoon. No arrests were made. No one was at the house where the whiskey was cached when the raiding officers Corporation Court Two charges of disturbing the peace, two of parking too near a fire plug, one of intoxication and breaking glass on sidewalk, two of Intoxication, one of intoxcaton and dsturbng the peace, one of affray, and one.

of vagrancy appeared on the docket of the court Monday morning for the action of Judge H. S. Melear. FOR FOR FEWER coios ISHOKTER coios Noil VAPORUI fftto: fc (Full details of Vicks Colds-Control Plan in each Vicks packegs) VICKS PLaNfOR8ETTtfl CONTROL OF COLDS Banks Sick and Conva Mr. and Mrs.

A. Hlghnote are the parents of a baby boy, born this morning at the P. and 8. Hospital. Both the mother and baby were said by hospital attendants to be doing fine Monday afternoon.

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Make Your Banking Arrangements Corsicana Clearing House Association First National Bank I State National Bank -i if- WEATHBRFOBD students College who live Ivarro county are invited tend the college's which will be held Roy O. Boger, president the college has announced. Features of the day's en msnt will be fye banquet students at 12 o'clock. At 2:45 o'clock the WeVitherford will meet the pecatur College Indians, may determine the football pions of the Central College Conference. Res for the banquet should be immediately.

Cotton Are edMon L- 1 1 bow and at the Five cotton checks wen Monday morning by County C. Morris, amounting to leaving approximately a hun more to be received before tne 1933 reduction campaign it completed Jn this county. The total receipts for his county to date are in 4CM checks. Plans arc rapidly being ed for the launching of toe in Navarre- county moment the WM snapped the month of December. our cameraman was in danger of tt if he George Was University, who is an expert with Mn the long bow, the weapon that made I ramea In William TelL Book Store.

ABE Ideal Book Store RTMENT el them at Ci Relative of Kerens ie Nov. Dallas Robinson, aged 37 years, died Saturday and the funeral was held here Monday morning at 10 o'clock; Surviving are his wife, father, Joe Robinson, Dallas four sisters; Mrs. J. Wright, Ellis, Mrs, C. T.

Rendon, Kerens; Mrs. B. O. Cannon, Rusk; and Mrs. C.

W. Anthony, Italy; and a brother, Walter Robinson, Kerens. i Carnival and Pie i With plenty of pie, carnival attmte, and music. You will get money's worth. The White's pel Home Demonstration will expect yon and your frien at the school house Wedneida J.

lovely top will be given away. Also dressed turkey. Here la flier' to buy a real home-baked for your Thanksgiving dlaacr Admission 5 and 10 oen SHOP HAT BROWN 217 PRESENTS Featuitn Dinner Evening Afternoon i Genuine Mandruccd 'I ,1 Our New Creation -i UBIA OXFORD 1- ft i 11 'fr.