Corpus Christi Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 6

Page THE CORPUS CHRISTI TIMES WEDNESDAY MAY 26 1937 Baldwin Meets With His Cabinet for Last Time Today Hollywood Sights and Sounds On Capitol Hill Unidanfified foreign Consul Shot as Spy by Basque Soldiers Work Will Start Next Week on New School Buildings Dr Word Announces the Opening of Uis dental offices 413 Medical-Frofcssional Bldg rhnne 3211 Oklahoman Paroled in Slaying of Woman Is Killed by Officers Is Found Carrying Maps Marked With Gun Positions with whistles etc and they enma to American Unired Smites lamd of the free Hooray! Noo York! Noo Haven! an all lints west! What a contry! The -m of golden mopportunity! Ev vrrything is gonna be fine now! So he starve to death for three year Sueeeea at Last Two days later he took corse in correspondens school "Do you wan to be a Trock-Driver" And ha stody Spanesh an bookkipping so they make him Sales Manager and Head of the Engine Room Look Mary the third raise this yeeri And that maka me good and tired Then on top all that come along Robbin Coons and aaya he wants to take a vaccination an go away tor a rast and will I be collumist for one day Nossir! I won do it! You think 1 gonna let him play while I work? 1 gone on a sit-down sinkCa -y 4 let us clean and moth proof YOUR WINTER CLOTHES SINCE 1966 PHONE 266 A MIGHTY GOOD LAUNDRY MEN'S SUITS Cleaned and 50c Pressed No bottor aorvleo at any prieo DEL MAR CLEANERS 1606 Stoploo St Phono 1663 A1 WESLEY SEALE A Resident Manager ANNOUNCING Wl palley From this date forward my shargas will ha 1100 far aya sr neia throat and ainua treat manta DR HALSTEAD Bpasiaiist ar Noao and Throat MS MadoFrof Bldg BILBAO Spain May 26 lV-A foreign consul It was learned to-- day has been abet as an insurgent spy by the Basque govern tnent Neither the consul nor his eoun-' try was identified but it was learned ha was caught carrying military Maps out of beleaguered Bilbao Basque secret police who had trailed the nun for weeks arrested him as he was about to board a British destroyer en route to France At the pier authorities demanded to see the contents of his brief case 'He pleaded diplomatic im-tnunity The Basques contended that under international law consular representatives were not en titled to that protection The foreign representative insisted a search of his person would be an insult to his country and re stated until the Basque special police tore the brief case from his bands ---J In it they found the military maps marked with their gun positions A two trial resulted in a desth sentence' -The consul was shot at dawn without a protest from his country Basque officials described the execution as the end of only one case of seemingly well-organized spy plot among foreign By FARKYAKARKUR (Guest Columnist for Robbia Coons) I am was ridding in the peppers that everybody is gone on a sti-down strike so I figger tired too so I gess I sit down Mebbe you stand for it but 1 sit down Jess the sam Why? get oxcit-ed and I tell you This is my risson 1 and stuck with it When I was a smoli boy in Greece (two years ago) I use to work for a fella and he had a daughter who' Parkyakarkua was een lov with her etc Wall one day 1 was working in the fields mowing the grass and the horse ran away "Gee Whiz!" I explained' horse and all work makes Parky a big dope" Two days later the daughter run away too and then I found out she was in love with foe horse and not me Three months later they were married Life Is Like That The fanner who I was working had another daughter- in fact she run away too One by one they all run I found out later they came from a long line of Marathon Runners She run away to Paris and there she meet a fella who is a great beeg musician He only played beeg music He was a tuba player And was that guy fool of hot air Wall they got married and he played in the Paris Symphony Orchestra He was one of foe head symps And one day he got a Job on the Heel de France a big boat BIGGER-rBlIIER Nixon Bldg ToL CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS Mambort American Institute of Aeoountanta Carneiro Chumney Co CORPUS CHRISTI BROWNSVILLE BAN ANTONIO 'f- A LONDON Msy 26 MV-Prlme Minister Stanley Baldwin met his cabinet for the last time today at No 10 Downing Street where he has presided for nearly nine years through three separate parliaments Next week Neville Chamberlain will be Prime Minister of Great Britain and Baldwin will in his own words have "passed into the probably to become an EarL Last night he made history by entertaining the King and Queen at dinner at his official residence No 10 the first time a Premier has been so honored by his soverigns in almost a quarter century -i: Work to the last was the slogan Baldwin carried out today He scheduled a two-hour cabinet session on agricultural policy and higher salaries for members of parliament before taking a final official farewell of the men with whom he has served through one of the most trying premiership in British history 1 Reports are current that after his expected resignation May 28 the 70-year-old premier will be made an Earl in recognition of his services during the general strike of 1926 and the Edward crisis of last December West Texas Cattle Baron Succumbs SAN ANGELO Texas May 26 UP) West Texas prepared today to bury' one of its leaders Frank Harris for many years member of a partnership which controlled a cattle domain of a quarter million acres- Harris 71 died yesterday after a week's illness His funeral was set for this afternoon He had been in the -ranching business- from early boyhood starting out like foe son of many a cattleman with a few cows when he was a youngster For a while he worked in his bank at $23 a week but soon returned to his work on foe wide Texas plains With his father two brothers and a sister he became a partner in the 7 cattle Co which extended its 230000 acres' over many West Texas counties In 1928 foe partnership was dissolved -When he died Harris owned ranches in Crockett Irion Sterling and Tom Green counties He was president of foe Harris-Luckett Hardware Co here His survivors Include his widow and three sons Wayne Leasel and Ted San Angelo three daughters Mrs Harrison Fort Worth Mrs Zeb French Dallas and Mrs Paul Smith now living in Louisiana a brother Ralph Harris San Angelo and a sister Mrs Eugene Cartledge Austin SUPER RETREADING- VULCANIZING ALL WORK GUARANTEED SWEET AND LONG Long Call 311 1215 Leopard St HALSELL ELECTRIC (0 224 Staple Telephone 2438 PAINT CO Your Bed on While You Safely Race to Houston This roomy large berth offers earn- fort comparable to your bed at home Sleep aerenrly aa you glide to your uafco np there refreshed What more could you ask? Try it The natural bridge near Slade Ky stands 100 feet in the clear and is estimated to contain more than 13000000 pounds of rock IYONNE FRANKLIN Pa Th CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGIST Announces The Opening Of Offices On MAY 15th AT SUITE 410 Medical Professional Bldg ROOFS ASPHALT GRAVEL COMPOSITION SHINGLES TILE SLATE ASBESTOS Also Repairs LYDICK ROOFING CO 2125 Mestina St Phone 4616 AUTHORIZED SALES AND SERVICE Reside till air-eondilJoneil Sleeper the flortlrr 1 Jinilecnlso offers through Coach nervier Kelsey Morrison Shot to Death in Guri Fight' FAIRFAX Okie May 26 (Pi-Violent death in a fiun battle on foe main street here marked foe end of one of the principals in foe "reign of in the Osage hills which took half a dozen lives in foe early Kelsey Morrison 40 paroled in the 1 killing of Anna Brown wealthy Osage Indian after he had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment was shot down last night in a gun fight with two policemen The policemen Ray Hale and Jim Clark escaped Morrison's fire but foe shots scattered persons idling along foe streets One bullet smashed into a car Four men in foe machine escaped injury Hale reported Morrison had been drinking and that he tried in a nice way" to get Morrison to go home No investigation was planned Mayor George Chambers said Mrs' Brown was slain May 1 1921 Witnesses at foe trial testified Morrison was paid $1600 for slaying her by Hale wealthy Osage County rancher known at the "King of foe Osage Hills" -V- Hale and John Ramsey were given life sentences for the death of Henry Roan an Indian Hale was charged with paying Ramsey to shoot-: -Mrs sister Mrs Smith her husband and a servant girl died in an explosion of their home here1 and Ernest Burkhart received a sentence of life after he pleaded guilty of murder in the case The prosecution contended Hale engineered foe killings to exterminate the family and acquire money left them by Mrs Brown and Mrs mother Anna wealthy Osage Indian Investment to Aid 'Dust Bowl' Farmers Totals $10000000 WASHINGTON May 26 ttV-The resettlement investments to aid farmers in foe "dust -bowl" totaled more' than $1000000Q today Officials said foe agency in nearly two years has loaned $8 000000 to 18200 fanners in the area made outright grants of $1-815194 and spent $905888 in acquiring 284784 acres of land These figures do not include expenditure -by foe soil conservation service the Works Progress Administration and other agencies- Weather bureau officials said foe outlook in the "dust is as bad as a year ago although prospects of another major drought are not so great Cane Tops May be Used for Motor Fuel DETROIT May 26 WV-Possi-jbility of salvaging cane tops for motor fuel alcohol has caused Louisiana cane sugar producers to test potential value of waste organic matter Dr Owen Baton Rouge consulting bacteriologist told foe farm chemurgic council Louisiana alone is producing and annually destroying approximately one million tons of cane tops containing approximately six hundred thousand tons of available Juice and 40000 tons of fermentable sugars "The volume of motor fuel that this waste Dr Owen said last night "in its potentialities brings us to 5820000 gallons With a ten per cent blend of alcohol as a motor fuel this amount of alcohol would suffice for two and a half months supply for 9 every Louisiana motorist" INSURE IN SURE Insurance AUTOMOBILE BONDS FIRE WINDSTORM DINK CO TsL 1183 803 Nixsn Bldg Ken BY HARRELL LEE AUSTIN May 26 W)-Rcgard-less of the harsh things said two years ago against foe lee system of compensating officers proposed constitutional amendment authorizing a return to that method slid through foe legislature with surprising ease The house vote was 126 to 0 and that in the senate 27 to 3 Both branches acted the same day Opposition sprang up however mmediately after foe public learned of foe decision and foes of the proposal expressed confidence it would not get nearly so large a majority at the polls August 23 Governor Allred' who voted with the majority two years ago for discontinuance of foe fee system strongly urged submission of the amendment 1 I he said "that foe abolition of the fee system with al lits faults was one of the biggest mistakes we ever have made The cost to foe state under the salary system is 70 per cent above what it was In addition it is absolutely bankrupting the coun- -v The chief executive said foe new method not only had proved very costly but had "utterly failed to produce as good a type of service as under the old system" Former Senator George Pur of Dallas a member of foe legislative committee which investigated -operation of the lee system promptly took issue with foe governor He said an argument that a pay should be based upon the number of fires' in a community would be just as logical as one that foe remuneration of a sheriff should be determined by foe number of arrests be makes in a given period Purl said chances of foe amendment being adopted would be increased because office holders would unite in its support The first persons to speak here in opposition to foe proposal echoed his view The railroad commission each year gives foe senior petroleum engineering students in foe University of Texas and A and College a week of training in foe oilfields'- -7 Commissioners recently received a letter in which foe 34 A and seniors expressed their appreciation for an opportunity to spend a week in foe East Texas field the largest pooL The students are given practical experience in making bottomhole pressure tests testing casing and other engineering work 'Each June foe commission offers jobs to a number of the outstanding new graduates of Texas A and NL Texas Tech and foe College of Arts and Industries at Kingsville Burglary of News Stand Investigated by City Police "City police this morning were investigating foe burglary Monday night of foe Corpus Christ! News Stand in which $10 was taken from a box hidden on a shelf and a large quantity of pennies were left untouched The burglar entered through a rear window by prizing a large glass pane out and by prizing loose foe window bars The cash register was broken open but a large hand-full of pennies was left The $10 concealed in a small box on foe shelf was found however Officers said today that burglars attempted to enter foe Smith store on Mesquite Street Monday night but were not successful Edna Munson of Livingston Texas reported to police that her small overnight case containing a quantity of clothing had been stolen from foe bus station Nolan Morris of Royal Courts reported his Western Union bicycle had been stolen from North Beach Bath House yesterday afternoon -A 3 by 6 Indian rug brown and red was reported stolen from Garcia 411 North Carrizo Street Mafoieu of foe Power Equipment Co Amusu Building reported that two claw hammers had been stolen from his automobile yesterday afternoon Police were holding several men for investigation Special Session Opens Tomorrow AUSTIN May 26 MV-Reports that local option on the issue of horse race betting might be offered in the special session of the legislature convening tomorrow met a cool reception today from Governor James Allred The governor Indicated strongly he would not compromise in his demands that foe law legalizing foe certificate system of wagering be repealed outright and auch betting be placed again under the ban of gaming statutes A proposal to permit horse race betting where authorised by local elections was offered as an amendment to an outright repeal bill and rejected in the general set sion of the legislature Just con-il eluded Later foe repeal measure died "The evils of rare track gambling be wiped out by local the governor said MIDGET KILLED DALLAS May 26 Eleanor Stublitz 22 four-and-a-half foot midget performer with a circus was killed here last night when she was struck by an automobile at an interRectlon Johnny Leal 38 of Ventura Calif her midget companion waa Injured seriously Five Structures Will be Erected Here Construction on five small school buildings which will relieve the crowded condition in local public schools will be started immediately after school doses this week Dr Hereford su-serintendent of foe Corpus Christ! independent School District said this morning He said the board of trustees meeting this week had voted to begin construction at once The five projects will cost approximately $24300 according to an early estimate of the board's building 'committee The wood frame structure at Cheston Heath School will be torn down and six-room permanent stucco building erected in its stead A two-room stucco building will be constructed at Solomon Coles School A two-room frame stucco will be erected at David Hirsch School A four-room portable frame structure will be built at Edward' Furman School and a similar structure will be built at Menger School The portable buildings will later be made into one building when other school buildings are erected thus further relieving foe crowded conditions in schools Hearing Dismissed for Dead Woman's Son DALLAS May 26 A habeas corpus hearing today for Hiram Knox grandson of i Mrs Mary Knox 91 who was beaten to death last March was dismissed today Judge Grover Adams was advised Knox was released from custody at Abilene by officers who were bringing him here from Big Spring Detectives Buchanan and John Daniel and Denver Seale special investigator for foe district attorney left here yesterday for Big Spring to question Knox who was held on forgery charges He had made $13000 bonds in the forgery cases there but was held "for on orders lrom police authorities here' The halvas corpus action challenged police to bring proof they bad evidence sufficient to warrant holding him or "forever holding their peace1 Seale telephoned District Attor- ney Andrew Patton from Abilene that he and the officers could not reach here in time for the hearing Patton instructed that Knox be released but he permitted to ride with them to Dallas Whether he did was undetermined Man Asks To Be c-Introduced to Wife NEW YORK May 26 Adolph Renke 28 asked to be introduced to his wife when they appeared in federal court to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud foe government- by spurious marriage that lady my wife?" he aske 1 an attendant He explained he had not seen her since foe wedding three years ago -Renke a Lithuanian obtained a preferential visa as the husband of an American citizen soon after marrying University of Alabama coeds made decidedly better grades for foe first semester of this year than GIPSY SMITH Will Speak and Sing First Presbyterian Church Nightly 1pm Except Saturday You Should Hear Him ANY MATTRESS Before you buy a mattress of any kind we suggest you sea our complete stock of Inner-Spring Mattresses at a price any one can afford to pay Renovating one day Service Quick Service Reasonable Guaranteed City Mattress Co PHONE 195 Just Ask For Anyplace where Borden's Ice Cream is sold and you will be sure to enjoy the delicious new flavor that is being featured as Borden's "FLAVOR OF THE MONTH" ICE CREAM "If It's Bofdn-i It' 6-t fo BORDEN'S 80 Yaars With aa eke a per than driving your car! 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