The Waxahachie Daily Light from Waxahachie, Texas • Page 1

More Tha 10,000 Reader: Every Day Waxahachie Daily ight Own FULL UNITED PRESS SERVICE ON WORLD BY PRIVATE WIRE Home Paper -Since 1893 VOLUME XXXVIII (5c Per Copy) WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS, Queen City of the Cotton Belt WEDNESDAY AFTEPvNOON, AUGUST 12, 1931 NX). 121 Youths Deny Murder, Burning Of 2 Couples Photographed By An Artist ItO DOG DM Is IN si NOIOI I M. lit WASHINGTON, i i'iinifni over on i ront of tho ark Hotel ended to i ali H. Diggs. and kilted Wii ian.

45 year old la Chat ta non ira. lav TED i run son i I 1: 11 I Ml NT; i III: It Wh Lost it. Three former defunct People's 1 were under indichi. Jury reco re her County ter the property of hable ou the bond ounty's deposits. P.

J. casi nus, J. und C. were indicted on 1111 on in a private solvency The posits between Jul ill. when the hank No Indictment loguinst Bemard 1 with his father mediately after The grand jurv county failure to carefiflly bond eecuring the In i in ni en ed that and administer the i liable on bond.

hi ome an old story to Janet Cay nor. in tin business hate had her pose for Rt ently, lor the first time, she posed fur etrr and artist with the camera. The r. ork with Charles Farrell in Iudios a ui is soon to start in another th Ht WIDE PF GAS RATES SHOWS VARIABLE PRICE PER THOUSAND 11 THOMAS C. CLUCK nited Press Correspondent) Man Dead From Gunshot Cousin Waxa 0 i -i i iRT Wo verdict TH.

wounds turned today In th. yesterday of M. retired fanne The awed man's yesterday on married daughtei Grapevine, the li red charges rels of shotgun, Willis had lieen In solerai yours, it wie i li fill I I.IIIH« I RENDERED i oi J. it 'M i NTONIO, K. W.

tjot N. it! At ppenbt cf of Has'v. first on ud or I ulcidt tatti Ut sa tante The Tarrant oui a cousin of Vlderman In of Waxahachie. be councilman stated that bave tided the tuner, 'ices, but (or the fact that I not feeling well. (X Ma When through In clean Howard Nel winter supply of CANNED WHEAT-EVER EAT ANY? I'a usual Methods of Using Explained by monstra Grain for Table as Season Soie at Hand Are pANNED and economical ot min No.

1 16 pounds Min Fill No process 40 pressure, and plact 2 cans with 17 minutes at 15 Remove from in cold water. clean, dry, label cans and wheat is a palata Dm ood. This is statement Of Miss Irma C. Ross, county home th in agent. is something new for tliis section," said Miss Ross.

really, make very edible dishes. No doubt man' people, interested in thrift P'h! now, will want to know how to prepare She gives the methods as follows: I stunted for rioe i with meats and gravy. Clean and wash the thor- whuat mav he a oughly. Soak overnight in as much water as wheat soups Next morning drain and wash and macaroni, wheat again, to remove some ot, s. May be used the dark brown color.

Cover instead of rice. )iot water and boil five minutes, recipe. Stirling constantly, I 4. Pill No I cans with it oi wheat. Add 1-2 teaspoon salt and with water boiled cans pres- ounce.

pounds cooker When cool, store (Note: It is much get wheat cleaned at meat amount is being suggest Ions 1 Whole easier to mill if a canned.) Regarding Use. wheat may be macaroni, and Queer Quirks In Strange! 444 444 News Of Day CHICAGO, Aug. heavyweight as big as Primo Camera, Italian giant, has entered the Central A. A. U.

Outdoor Boxing champion- sliips August 25, 26 and 27. He is Joe Junta, Glen Ellyn, 111., weight 250, height 6 feet, 5 inches. CFTHBERT. Aug. 12.

With his family following in the family automobile, B. J. Wiggins left here today in custody of a Gregg County, Texas. sheriff, for Longview-, where lie will luce trial on charges of embezzlement. Wiggins, 31, waived extradition.

He was arrested as he drove through Cuthbert with his wife and two children. TULSA, Aug. A backless pajama suit is strictly boudoir attire in Tulsa. When Miss Dorothy Jones, 23. was arrested for wearing such a garment on the street, Judge G.

Ed Warren ruled a backless pajama was intended for sleeping purposes only. He fined Miss Jones $9 on a charge of wearing inadequate clothing. a iai 1 ENID, Aug. Praised as the hero of fire here in which he aided in the rescue qf 50 prisoners. Joe Ingram Vaa accused of setting fire to jails get a change of Sheriff Joe Cavin accused him of starting the jail fire here several weeks ago.

He was transferred to another jail where lie set fire to his mattress. He was in the fireproof Grant County jail today. substitute for rice VS CITY. Aug. With four southwestern states en- iii efforts to bring about utility rates, the United ess has polled the larger cities ot these and four additional states to determine the prices being paid for natural gas.

Officials of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas have set up mar: mery for investigation of ates. To these were added neighboring states of Colorado, Louisiana. Mexico and Arkansas in the situation. Rumbles of discontent have found echoes from the smallest 'gimlet to the largest cities in the -eetion a region dotted by my' raid: of wells from which fuel gushes in trillions of cubic iiich much is dissipated in the air. The struggle between the bil- I linn-dollar Cities Services interests state administrations of Kan and Missouri; a pending elec- ion Oklahoma City with a i small deposit will hold your 1 long-term franchise or municipal which ownership in the balance; Fort Worth's recent acquisition of the distribution facilities; Shreve- I port's discontent and thwarted lit! igation on rates- these are out- jstanding examples.

Five thousand cubic feet of nat- oral gas at the burner tip costa i t.SO in Leavenworth, and Empo. ia, Kansas; in Arkansas I City, Kansas, till towns of approx- iimately 15,000. At the gates of Ial' three the rate is th cents per Fhousand cubic feet. I The maximum burner tip rate in Oklahoma City and Tulsa is cents, while the gate rate is 25 cents. On a 40-cent gate rate, Joplin, Missouri, has a consumer price of 77 cents per 1.000 feet plus a 50-cent monthly consumer charge.

On the same basis, St. Joseph customers pay $1 for the first 50 feet and $1.25 per 1,000 for the next 2,500. Fort Worth citizens ended a long-drawn controversy by voting for municipal ownership and securing a contract with the Shamrock Natural Gas Company for 25 years. The agreement calls for fuel at 30 cents per 1,000 feet for five years, with slight upward graduation for successive years. Thirty miles east of Fort (Worth, Dallas consumers pay 16 2-3 cents for the and 75 cents per OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug.

raiders looted and burned the R. O. Williams grocery today alter hauling away an undetermined amount of groceries. wakened by the starting of a truck engine parked at the side of the grocery, Mary Bradley, who lives near the grocery, discovered the store building was in flames. A moment explosion tore out the small budding's later an part of walls.

Aug. 12 18 was charged i tuts CHILD LOST IN MOUNTAINS BELIEVED KILLED BT LIONS PRICE OF STOP FINE IS UP I I Ignoring of Traffic Signals Here Brings Up Ire Of City Officials, Who Declare It Must Be Ended JAIL BUT TALK LYNCHING HEARD CROWD GROWS. OF going to cost street stop-signal crashers more than fourteen times as much to disobey the traffic law in Waxahachie from now on formerly, according to announcement today by city officials. situation has come to a sorry said City Mar- it any shal John cr.n’t put up with Officials said it was apparent that drastic measures must lie resorted to in older to end the menace to life and limb. said the chief, worse to have signals that are not obeyed than not to have any at all.

people who rely on their observance are liable to be run down any time by those who pay no attention to the Chief Hutchison said the mayor is co-operating in the war on this trouble. told in- this said the marshal, "that while fine has been $1 in the past, henceforth it will be 1 4.65.“ LITTLE ROCK, Aug. 12. Benjamin Saul.j wandered away from a moua-j cabin at dusk, Monday, was IX feared today to have been slain by one of the mountain lions which infest the wild Jarre Canyon region. A posse of 50 ranchers, rangers men yesterday found continual traces of the lions throughout their search of five mile area around theILawrence.

38. that they and at one point an(l cremated two 'teen-age ed faint, small foot prints, onlv to (couples at dawn yesterday on a flush one of the big cuts from a road near the village of (Clump of bushes not ten yai away. The men were back in Washte- The footprints were the first jr.aw county jail today resting be- trace of the child since he fore more questioning after cluh- ARBOR. Aug. Twentv-four hours of has failed to shake the denials of Paul Keene.

and his broth 38. that thev rayed fore into the timber around par- swinging officers? forced their way ent's cabin. through a crowd of 2,000 around The posse, all men of the (he jail last midnight and took mountains, and veteran woods- men back to their on men, resumed its search at dawn near the murder scene, today. They had searched until action by the troopers last night, and even aftei deputies is credited with still- Hunt was abandoned Dm' a few much of the talk of lvnching sleep, established rangorihean1 in thf. croWd.

i outposts where lout searcher huddled ove. watchfires lhrough-1 v.ctims of the Quadruple slaying were Gold, 15, of Cleveland. Harrison, 16. also of Cleveland, and their escorts, Thomas Wheat- lej), 17, of Denton, and Harry Lore. 16.

of Ypsilanti. the i De i the night in the hope might be attracted hv flames. The baby bad been 36 at seven this n.ora-!1 ling, and searchers believed that had fUipcaped the mountain Two score picked criminal in; there are bears in the i vesiigators today continued raids would near dance hulls, roadhouses and haust ifen now from exposure and i. far tulio use speakeasies within a of food and water. Another Booze Track Hijacked City of MAX SWEARS OUT COMPLAINT SAYING TRIP AGAINST HIS WILL.

ALSO FIXED $11.000 IN LEGER LAM VIOLATIONS. AL- CARTHAGE, Tidwell, in jail here today with the murder of Alvin Bierce, 4 6, his uncle, who officers at first thought had been killed when his gun caught as he climbed through a fence while hunting. Bierce was killed on March 11. Tidwell a written statement to officers, said his desire to get $570 in insurance his uncle was keeping for him as guardian, had caused him to kill Bierce. He said he shot Pierce as he crossed the fence hunting and then placed the shell in gun, making it appear accidental.

I ABILENE, Aug to find out about of goats today in J. W. Caton, Taylor and Callahan County landowner, being held under $1,000 bond on a charge ot i C. E. Terrell stvore Out claiming trip tuej two men made to Fredericksburg oh the night of Aug.

2 was made! against his will. Caton ue. ed the trip was made to obtain in-, formation about the price of goats ork. was tin Terrell wished to be released i under the NEW YORK, Aug. 12.

Jack (Legs)' Diamond was sentenced to serve four years in At- jtanta and pay a fine following his of con- I to violate the prohibition i act and possession of I still. The sentence, handed down by Judge Richard Hoj Kansas, a jurist 20-mile radius of the uiurder in the hope of tracing move- the voting couples Tuesday night before the flames of their burning automobile gave i The Keene brothers, reputed rho lived in a in the woods near the funeral pyre, were taken into custody wbep officers sitr- prised them washing bloody clothing and scraping lots from feud aM hele were blood and Inal.led Qhpy were a varnish stain, ai- A police found a noihing about their gloo- -uanie as George Ulv retreat suggested recent paint- T.honia^vandbriiig dazedly about before the grilling was in- a 1 kfior.tly after midnight. after dawn today, they admitted the stains were blood, said they were acquired in a drunken brawl among themselves companion lad been as sins, of they drove into Dallas with a lead in New of liquor from New Orleans. The DALLAS, Aug. hijackers robbed a truck loaded $yjD0 and bleeding from a illicit deep Wound in his forehead.

Thomas told officers he and his as maxim urn law. from a contract in which ed 700 acres of Taylor ranch, land from Caton change for 22 head of go. sentence marks ta. Death Unites Couple Estranged Some Time Back Diamond Coun i era! prison a career of lawlessness in his youth, in which theinot teer, hoodlum and gangster! even been sent away for a ma-; i or crime. His only previous conviction came from desertion front (the United States Army in his youth.

hijackers forced the two to. drive back to the outskirts of the, to the they we attacked! first time and robbed of heir truck and cargo. companion could; 7 located today. 1 two weeks ago. Dr Herbert W.

Emerson, of the Uasteur Institute of the University of Michigan, today was contouring stains on the Clubs and clothing with samples of the blood. A report was ex- 1 time for the coroner a his afternoon. SAN ANTONIO, Aug. i- How death united a couple who estranged in life was revealed the inquest toduj for 1 rank his wit and Lejnen. Justice of the Be I Sta pen bee re rn eu and suicide.

Four shots united after their Mrs. Lejnen, nf Oi Mar, Vloi- ace H. 'V. a verdict of -LIES LEAP Wife of Notre Lamented Coach at Home he two ini in! i prei of 25. had several snots in while Lejnen, 37 Dot himself through A letter written to his and showing she had to initiate divorce proc old of the estrangeraein SOUTH BEND.

Aug. Mrs. Knute Rockne, widow of the Notre Dame football coach, ireturned yesterday front Califor- where she watched the film; ing Of Spirit of Notre i in which Frank Carideo laud other Notre Dame stars par-j 'ticipated. Mrs. Helen Pierson, Angeles, former schoolmate, ELECTED JUDEE FORMER fit attorney XVAXAH HIE HOSEN TO PLACE.

Plans Air Flight HUMAN TORCH SEEN BY OTHER VV EFFECTS RESCUE. ARRESTS BEING MADE CASES BY DEP ARME ED BSD A IX COIN IS REMOVED FROM LUNG for pudding rice pudding food add Which wheat Wttf in milk Seal (slew'i For a breakfast water, cook four minute- minutes, serve with "bole or ore. with fresU oi fruit. Sixteen indictments were returned by tbe Ellis County Grand Jury for the present term of court prior to adjournment Tuesday afternoon. Adjournment was taken subject to call.

The session of the inquisitorial body this week was its second. the first grind of business having come after the organization meeting not long ago. All of the true bills returned were felony counts. Arrests of persons indicted were being made by the department Wednesday and an nouncement concerning the ar rests was expected to by I first feet 1,000 for the next 19,300 feet. Laredo, border Thursday, town 500-odd miles has a flat rate of 75 cents per LIVERPOOL.

Local grair 00b feet with a 10 per cent die- merchants expect light arrive' of count for prompt payment. Con-1 Danubian grain during th til ing engineers have been em-'aprt of August. iloyed to study the situation atQ- in arc repotted El Paso, where the consumer pays lie considerably less than vis- (Continued on page 2 trial. A penny that had been in a lung of Billy Jean Kvdtlell, months old, ot Palmer for two was removed at office of a Waxahachie ialisi Tuesday afternoon. The Wednesday at Waxahachie Sanitarium, having been taken there following lemova! of the foreign running fever, ing tlie seriousness of however, it staled that tiis condition "as satisfactory.

Billy Jean sucked penny into his lungs Sunday at the home of His parents, Mr. ami Mrs. H. B. Reddeii of IVilinfr.

The speci 'iist who ed coin from Rcd-Hl' ubonl two weeks ago pin, point mi 1 Waxirfunltie FORT WORTH, Aug. 12. Flames that leaped from tltej i or of his car critically burn-! 37, of Arling- late yesterday as he drove I along the Grapevine highway. He I rushed to a hospital here i I attendants said his injur-j would probably prove fatal. I Stephens' cloth.o- were burned I from his body.

Only li'nis remained on his feet i i when the human was I dghted by A. R. Kennedy, Ar( I UngtOji real estate man. Kennedy I i.ook off his shirt, tied it a- waist, closest round the injured man and carried him to tbe physician. Stephens was unable to explain sudden blaze.

Lived in Infirmary 77 Years. HAMILTON. O. Mrs. Kate Barton, 86, died recently at the Bntl-r Cr nty lufirmary here bad been an inmate for 1 7 ey Mi.s.

B.arfon, "ito had 1 1 man years, her- i it some Perry S. Robertson of Fan Antonio, formerly oi axHhaclt.e: been elected special judge of 'the 73rd District Court, accordii to word received here today. Some years age. Mr. Robertson set ved Waxahachie as citv aitm- Iney.

He married a Waxahachi.tn, Ethel Davis, daughter of the late Col. J. S- Davis. Mr. Robertson formerly was judge at San Antonio.

A San Antonio newspaper tells of Mr. Robertson's election us of the largest votes ever I to be cast here in an elect on ot a judge, turned out Monday, wlien 330 San Antonio lawyers cast ballots in election of Special Judge to serve during the special term of the 7did. District Court. County Judge, Ferry Robertson was elected to serve during the Special Term which began and wdll run un! til September 12th, Robertson, was elected, on tbe first ballot over three other candidates, by a majority of 77 over the closest competitor. Robertson received 193 vote Rnv Marshall.

J. Ed Wilkins, 20, 1 I a tt land "hen I was placed I ways kttj i' "'tit lie was buried the in the casket. Her doll Frank Kurtz, 18-year-old Los An geles diving champ, is now prepar- Jessie W. Davis i resided ing ior an attempt to break the lr the meetlag. and Jetty Maz- transcontinental dying rec- zoia, regular clerk of the 73rd.

holds the junior acted as secretary. This is I record at present the last to convene of the three national 'courte "1rh ti.ie. terms here this tummer, and will i only bandite Civil.