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1 51ft TV Dr. Millard F. Swart "Starts the Day on tAe South Plains" QCiCMORNING ELEVENTH NO. 73 8 PAGES LUBBOCK, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933 MEANS "ASSOCIATED PRESS" Seven Men Are Buried Alive Under Tons Of Rock Angry Spouse Locks Hubby Out In Gold Without A. Got Because He Boasted An Eye For Beauty A elderly Lubhock man, who bears the title of uncle, told police yesterday he had not bwn'to bed for three because hta wifo had locked him out of their residence.

Would the police, he wanted to know, help him get his bed oat of his house? He explained the bed really a sort of a single cot." The old man said he had been sleeping In his hole-in-the-wall store downtown since a marital rift, and that he wanted to place the col there. After an officer had agreed to with him, the man decided It would be best for his son to face the woman. The son and the officer went to the residence, but the cot not The marital tangle bejan, so' police were told, when the shop keeper employed a pretty girl. The wife objected. In effect, so It was said, tho husband announced he would run his own business.

In retaliation, his wife declared she would run her own apparently had succeeded for three nlfhU. Plains Highway Contracts Made Two Counties In Letting Held By Commission The Associated Press) A USTIN, Feb. 8 construction contracts aggregating $800,344 were tentatively a.warded today by the Texas highway commission. award of the contracts will be made when the projects have been approved by the federal bureau of public roads, approval of the bureau being necessary since the work will be carried out with federal aid funds'. Pavinf Is Included Contracts awarded today provided lor eighty miles of highway improvement, including 31 of concrete paving; 24 miles of grading and drainage structures and 25 mlleS of caliche base and triple asphalt surface treatment-.

The commission planned'to receive bids tomorrow on additional projects estimated' to cost $1,000,000. Contracts tentatively awarded included, by counties: Contracts Awarded miles concrete paving from Ector to Bonham on highway 5, Froemming Brothers, West $121,424.20. miles concrete paving from Grayson county line to Ector on highway 5, Froemming Brothers. West Texas, $124,624.63. miles grading and 'drainage structures from Slaton to tho Lynn county line on highway seven, Field Brothers and $4,801.34.

miles grading and drainage structures from Post to Southland on highway 7, Field Brothers and McCelvey, Lubbock, $27,036.33. miles caliche base and triple asphalt surface from 7.2 miles See ROAD CONTRACTS Page 3 Chicago Bankers Summoned To Tell Of Insull Debacle CHICAGO, Feb. 6. MFV-A federal judge today summoned Chicago's big bankers to tell what they know about the Insull utilities debaxJe and the subsequent receiverships. Judge George A.

Carpenter ov- oVrecl subpoenas issued to inquire into charges the bankers conspired with Samuel Insull to "frame" the receiverships to their own ad- vnntage. General Pershing To Stay In Midland Until Saturday MIDLAND, Feb. 8 John J. PershiriK, who with his sister, Miss May Perching, is en route to Arizona on a vncntion trip, said tonight thnt he planned to remain in Midland tmtll Saturday. Bad weather nnrl the illness of a brother In the east caused the formr.r American expeditionary force commander to stop over here.

BILL FS OPPOSED AUSTIN, Feb. 8 house commit.lce on stale affairs voted today. 10 to 2, to make an nnfavor- nblc rrport on a bill by Representative. W. E.

Pope of Corpus Ohrlsti to abolish the child welfare division of the board of control. SBifi -BY- H.W.COI3LBY O1933 NEA SERVICE; INC. spnrkllnpr love story of the Rend. II, beginning Sunday In Tho AvnlnnchorJournal, nnd dnlly fust ailments thereafter on tho nrtkorln! page of the Lubbock Morning Avalanche Spectre Of Slow Death It Hovering Over Two Little Boys; III Omen Is Unseen i By Associated Press) ROME, Feb. spectre of slow death hovered over two Uttle boys tonitht.

But baby 'eyes don't see such ill omens so they played with their toys In pleeful mood. Late yesterday' Jimmy Doss, 3, and his brother, Clayton, 2, while playing 1 In the house found a box of poison tablets. They thought candy. Some time later Iheir mother, Mm. James DOM, discovered nine (ablets missing.

Panic seized her. Jimmy nonchalantly confirmed her worst fears. "Sure, me eat three," he Informed her, "and Clayton, he eat lots more than that." 4 444 444 4 444 4 4444 44 -4 4- 4 444 Gold Wave Claims Two Lives In Texas Pickett Given 99-Year Term Victim Of Attack And Husband Criticize Findings Of Jury At Santone; Other Charges Also Are Booked (By The Associated Press) SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 8. John M.

Pickett, 27, of Dallas, was sentenced to a term of from five to 99 years in the state penitentiary today by Judge W. S. Anderson of 37th district court after a jury had found him guilty and assessed his maximum punishment at a life term on a criminal assault charge. It wps learned later that four ballots were taken by the jurors during their three hours deliberation and that on the first ballots six voted for the death penalty, Findings Crhlcizerl Tho jury's findings were criticized by Mrs. Hazel Dillehay, victim of the assault, and her hisband, G.

W. Dillehay, who occupied seats on the front row when verdict was read. Pickett still faced several other charges. In one case he Is alleged to have shot Mrs. Dillehay twice with a revolver the night of tho attack, October 12, 1932.

Several burglary complaints have been filed against Pickett also faces a charge of murder In Austin, to which he was expected to plead guilty and receive a life sentence. In this case he is charged with fatally shooting Edgar c. Arledgc, a University of Texas student, while tho latter was sitting with a girl companion In a parked automobile on an Austin street. Local Record Is Broken By Drastic Drop Lubbock Reports The Lowest Reading Wednesday Over The Entire State With 17 Below Zero At 7:30. A.

M. Many Suffering Brilliant San Brings Hope Of Relief; Warmer Weather Is Forecast For Today; Damage To Stock Slight (By The Associated Prem) rrVWO men lost their lives in Texas J. Wednesday as the coldest weather in several years swept over all parts of the state. Temperatures ranged from 17 degrees below zero at Lubbock, in West Texas, to about freezing at Brownsville in the Rio Grande valley. They broke previous records for the month and in some localities reached minimums unequalled in thai history of the weather bureau.

The last comparable cold wave was in January, 1930. Physician Found Dead Dr. W. H. Woods, 62, a.

Kerrville physician, was found dead near his automobile after he had made a night calL A coroner said he had died of exposure. Frank Hackney, 18-year old newspaper carrier, was found frozen to death south of Dallas. He apparently had fallen from a trestle and broken- an arm and leg. While ho other deaths were attributed to the weather, many persons suffered inconvenience as they went about their work. Two firemen were Injured in collisions between their trucks i and autombbiles while speeding to fires.

Charity Groups Taxed Charitable institutions over the state were taxed to the utmost to care for the destitute and homeless. In Houston, public buildings were kept open and warm. A family of fsix vras found nearly frozen at Texarkana. They were hovering around a small fire in a lard can when relief arrived. Although large livestock losses were not anticipated, early.

crops were or killed. In East Texas particularly was the damage extensive. Many early gardens had been planted and fruit trees had started to bud and blossom. Sun Brings Cheer A brilliant sun all day-brought a note of cheer, however, and the inch or so of snow disappeared in See LOCAL WEATHER, 3 Lubbock Scouts To Hold City-Wide Rally Tonight Man Held At Roswell Says He Is Not Wanted For Crime ROSWELL, N. Feb.

8 (ff 1 A man booked here as Bob Lamnr, 33, denied tonight he was Robert Ranger Savage, wanted at Gainsvllle in connection with a charge of assault with intent to kill, Sheriff John C. Peck announced. Sheriff Peck said the man contended Lamnr was his correct name nnd Marlow, his home. He told officers he was not wanted for any crime. Anniversary Week Is Observed; Headline Event Scheduled Boy Scouts, young knights in olive drab uniforms bearing the fleur-de-lis adapted from knighthood of another day, will asemble In the junior high school auditorium tonight with brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, friends and volunteer leaders.

A city-wide rally, to begin at 7:30 o'clock, is the headline event of local observance of the 23d anniversary of scouting in America. J. A. Raley, a troop commit- tscman, will have charge of the program, which has music, tricks, and other entertainment, in addition to speaking and bestowing of Troops from other towns in the South Plains Area council possibly will attend. Founded By Englishman Scouting was founded by Lord Baden-Powell, then General Baden- Powell, of England.

W. D. Boyce, a Chicago publisher, who learned about it after a scout in London helped him and then refused a tip, brought the movement to America. Lubbock and other South Plains scouts will observe anniversary week, which began Wednesday-and continue through next Tuesday. 10-year program intended to have one our-year-scout-t rained man among every four youths 21 years old was launched throughout the nation January.

1 Particular-stress was placed at a recent annual meeting here of the South Plains council. Program Announced The program of tonight's rally, as announced'by D. T. Jennings, area executive here, follows: Music by Lubbock High orchestra, directed by H. A.

singing, led by K. CJapp; rope spinning, Bill Lewis; "The. Bone Shaking Gentleman From the States," Hollis Carroll; recognition of four-year scouts, Judge E. L. Pitts; "The Champion Tumbler of Texas Stubbs; song, troop No.

4's quartet; "The Rope-jumping Swede." W. McMurry; talk, S. A. Henry, district commissioner; president's award; to trcops which qualified George W. Dupree, court of honor chairman; "The Mystery Act," Dr O.

C. Bcone; taps, all scouts standing, led by M. K. Foster, jr. Cold Wave Is Market Boost Henry Wallace Is Regarded As Bet For Agriculture Post MIAMI, Feb.

8 Democratic leaders are regarding Henry Wallace of Iowa as the best bet for secretary of agriculture In the Roosevelt cabinet. This talk nt temporary headquarters here also brings into the farm setup of the new administration the names of other prominent agricultural leaders. A reorganization of the farm board is under study and through this medium undoubtedly other possibilities for the agriculture secretary will be taken care of. Bill Controlling Telephone And Telegraph Lines Is Up AUSTIN, Feb. 8 bill that would give cities full authority to regulate construction and maintenance of "magnetic telephone and telegraph lines" was given a favorable report today by the state affairs committee of the Texas house of representatives.

Representatives P. L. Anderson of San Antonio, author of the bill, said It would provide the through which cities -could negotiate with telephone companies to obtain reduced rates. He said if the bill was enacted citJes would be enabled, through control of the lines, to obtain rate reductions without costly court suits. O'Brien Refuses To Go For Ride So Gunmen Deal Out Death On The Spot HICAGO, Feb.

William O'Brien refused to BO out nnd be killed today so his enemies of'the beer business dealt death spot. He walked to a hospital, told about, the except to name names n.nd died. O'Brien was a restaurant owner in miburban Norwood Park, nnci, police said, a mcm- Ixsr of tho Tpuhy. gang whose have been blamed for numerous outbreaks of gunfire. His brother was killed nnd he was wounded threw years ago In a road house tight.

He had been in a North Clark 'street speakeasy for au hour this morning. O'Brien related, when' three men mot- him at the door as ho departed. "They Invited me for a ride, and wtip.n I refused they pulled gunn. put up a and was shot." That was about all he would tell Hogi Reach Highest Price In Four Months While Cattle Grains And Produce Score Good Advances Ths Associated Press) CHICAGO, Feb. weathe brought good news today in th markets for farm commodities.

Hogs reached the highest price in four months, while cattle, grains and produce scored advances. Depicted supplies, caused by snow and coM, sent the top for hogs to $4.15. the highest since Oct. 5. anc 51 a hundredweight above the year end market.

The day's gain of 15 cents was lost, however, in late trad 1'ig. Cattle Are Strong All cattle were strong to 25 cents higher at thf Chicago stockyards but shfep were generally steady to weak. Severe temperatures added to worry over crop damage reports the. winter wheat Conse quently, wheat futures here ad- viinced from a half to 3-4 of a cent while tho cash market also was up Corn, oats and provisions were up. Butter vanced.

and prices also ad- Brakeman Is Killed, Three Passengers Hurt In Wreck GREEN BAY, Feb. 8 A brakeman was killed and three passengers were injured at 6:30 a. m. today when a north bound Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, train was derailed two miles south of SobieckJ, WLs.

The brakeman, Otto Beck, of Milwaukee', was crushed between cars. A sleeper carrying seven passengers turned over. Cost Of Martial Law The Future Would Receive Slash AUSTIN, JFb. 8 senate finance committee adopted a proposal this afternoon to provide that the cost, of martial law in the future should not exceed $10,000 In any instance. The proposal was an amendment to the departmental appropriations bill.

It was'submitted by Senator W. K. of Aged Mother Offered As A Sacrifice With Strange Rites Son Presses Fingers Into Mother's Throat; Cross For Burning Planned (Bj Tha Associated Press) I NEZ, Feb; the hills of Kentucky today came the weird story of an alleged human sacrifice, offered up in the bizarre rites of a mountain cult. Praying and shouting, eight members of a family are in the Martin county jail here tonight in connection with the death of Mrs. Lucinda Mills, 72, mountaineer mother.

Strangled With Chain 'Officers who arrested them near Tomahawk, west of Inez, charged the aged woman had been strangled with a chain, drawn tightly about her throat. They said they broke into the barred home of the Mills family, far in the mountain fastnesses, as plans were being made to place the body on an altar. Rites that culminated in the alleged sacrifice lasted many hours, officers said, and preceded by a period of fasting that began in the Mills home Friday. Similar rites had '-been held frequently in the lit- mountain settlement, the officers since, revi- val- meeting last year when the village was aroused to a height of frenzy. Seven Are Charged Officers charged two daughters, a daughter-in-law, two sons, a grandson and two sons- in-law of the aged woman took.

part in the weird rites performed behind locked doors and shaded windows. All were arrested, seven of them charged with slaying and one as a material witness. Hours of praying, shouting, singing and dancing, cult members told officers, brought "divine commands" to offer the life of a human as a sacrifice. Son Kills Mother Mrs. Mills was chosen, they said, and her son John, clutch- London's Debt Plans Opposed At Washington Responsible Leaders Declare Present Settlement Plan Is Not Considered As A Final One From Britain Concessions Asked Borah And Rainey Say Payment Must Provide Concessions; Views Of Roosevelt Echoed In This Connection (By The Associated Press) ITTASHINGTON, Feb.

8. don's present debt settlement pluns are not being accepted in Washington as that country's last word. This was made very definite in congress today, for a scattering of unfavorable comment ran the determination of most responsible leaders to wait for a formal proposal to be brought up. They made quite clear that no Lausanne-patterned, 10 cents on the dollar settlement, is to even get to first base unless accompanied by most concrete benefits to the United States In all this, they merely echosd the already stated views President-Elect Roosevelt. Borah Is Opposed Senator Borah, the Republican chairman of the foreign relations committee, who remains influentia despite the Democratic control impending, said he was opposed to any settlement whatever that did no furnish definite trade concessions tiiis country.

One prerequisite, settlement, he held, was adjustmen of the currency, question. "A Jump sum payment," he said "would not do us any good of permanent nature unless we can find markets and restore the purchasing- power of the people." Described As Nonsense Rainey of Illinois, the House floor leader, called the 10 cents on the dollar basis for settlement "sheer nonsense." A general concern over economics manifested in the capital today, turned mostly on the tariff question. The house Democrats by a vote of 161 to four in party caucus, bound See BRITISH DEBT, Page 3 Seeks Freedom Marlon Nixon, screens star, is shown crying outside a Los Angeles courtroom as she filed suit for divorce from Edward Hillman, wealthy sportsman. She charged cruelty. Miss Nixon divorced her first husband.

Seriate Turns DownDenison As Appointee Governor Is Expected To Send Up Another Selection For Post; Daniel Is Confirmed For Insurance Place See 'WEIRD STORY Page 3 Distance Record Smashed By Pair WALFISH BAY, Union of South Africa. Feb. 8 Great Britain won the world's non-stop long-distance air record today when two officers of the Royal Air Force Squadron Leader O. R. Gayford ana Flight Lieutenant G.

E. Nichollets. landed at this little settlement after a flight from Cranwell airdrome, England. They had been in the air 57 hours and 28 minutes but they showed remarkably few signs of their arduous flight. Gayford and Nicholetts, who took off from Cranwell Monday morning, exceeded by 328 miles the distance record 'set by Russell Boardman and John Polando, Americans, in a flight over the Atlantic from the United States to Turkey in Three British Leaders To Come To U.

S. For Parley LONDON, was understood in Whitehall tonight a provisional arrangement has been made for Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Waiter Runciman, president of the board of trade and -subject to requirements of the April of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain to go to Washington for debt conversations with the mcomnig administration. If all three are able, to go, the three principal elements in the British national government would be represented, national labor, liberal, and conservative. Paymaster For Rebels Is Freed Of Mexican Charges JUAREZ, Feb. 8.

vndor nspertcd paymaster for the Escobar rebels in 1929. has' been freed of all penal and civil charges and will return to Juarez. Gonzalo Martinez Escobar, Juarea federal district attorney, today received a letter from Fortes Gil. Mexican attorney general, saying order of the president of Mexico, all real estate find property confiscated by the Mexican government will be returned, to Ateca. Five Dead In Hotel Flames Four Women And A Man Vic- Of Blazing Structure While At Least Five Others Are Seriously Injured (Dy Tho Assoclnted Pressl TISDALK, Saskatchewan.

Feb. 8. 'women and a man were burned to death and at least five other persons were seriously injured today when fire destroyed the Imperial hotel here. The dead: Mrs. C.

Couture. 45: her two daughters, aged 18 nnd 22; Miss Emma Rfiy. an employee of the hotel, and Praser Page, traveling salesman. IDr Associated Prtti) Feb. 8.

Governor Miriam A. Ferguson's appointment of Denison of Temple to.be chairman of the Texas highway commission was rejected by the senate today. The governor was expected to send up the.name of another appointee within-a few days, ijjnce there will be a vacancy on the commission after next Wednesday, when the term of Cone Johnson of Tyler will expire. Daniel Is Confirmed In the same executive session that turned down Denison, the senate confirmed Mrs. Ferguson's appointment of R.

L. Daniel of Victoria to be state life insurance Opposition to Denison's confirmation was directed at his activities as a contractor during the former administration of Mrs. Ferguson in 1925-26 when Denison had a. contract to build the so-called "experimental rtjad" between Belton and Temple. He also had some maintenance contracts under.the Ferguson highway commission' regime.

It would have required a two- thirds majority vote to confirm Denison.i How the senators voted was reported the vote was 19 to 11 for confirmation. No Hope Held That Workers Witt Be Saved Ten Thousand Tons Of DebrU Rears Down Softened To Trap Men In A Limestone Quarry Pit All Believed Dead Some Of Rocks Are As Large As Small Houses And Chance For Escape Is Believed Tp Be Almost Impossible (Br Associated Press) TjUoETCHER, N. Feb. 8. An JL avalanche of rock and dirt crashing down slopes without warning today buried seven workers'in a limestone'quarry neath 10,000 tons of debris.

Emergency crews worked steadily in ail effort to dig through the scrambled rock and stone, but they were digging without hope of finding any of the seven alive. "There is no chance for the men to be alive," W. T. Gibson, manager of the B. O.

Lime and Stone company's quarry where the cave-in occurred said. "It might take days to dig their bodies'out. There are probably 10,000 tons of rock on top- them. Some of the rocks are as large as email houses." Slide Starts Slowly The quarry extends over several acres, but the digging crew was working in one corner where a pit approximately 200 feet deep haa been dug. The slide started slowly and a great roar, crashed! down on the Helpless men.

"They probably never Wkfew what happened," Gibson said. "It was all so sudden." The seven trapped were Jim Moore. Frank Praetor, Styles Webb, H. Shipmand and W. Wooden, white', and B.

Collington and Walter Collins, negroes. All resided in this mountain town 12 miles from on the Hendersonville highway. They earned their living digging the limestone for building and fertilizer purposes. The exact cause of the cave-In had not been definitely fixed tonight, but Arthur Grady, quarry bookkeeper, and others recent rains probably had softened the sides of the quarry. Three Separate Bills Will Be Reported To The Senate WASHINGTON, Feb.

8 of a busy day of committee work on farm rellet measures, there emerged tonight the indication no less than three separate bills would be reported to the senate by the middle of next week. While several details remained ta be worked out, a banking sub-committee struggling with the farm mortgage problem reached virtual agreement upon the HiiU plan which would use $500,000,000 of federal credit to postpone foreclosures two years. Girl And Boy Are Held For Murder; Baby's Body Found POTEAU, Feb. 8 An 18-year-old girl, Doris Maxfteld, and her brother, Martin Maxfield, 21. were held on murder charges here today following the discovery of the body of a baby boy, near Splro.

Authorities said their sister, Mrs. Lois Maxfield, a divorcee, was the mother of the child, born the night before its body was found. Three Killed In Flimsce Of Plane DETROIT, Feb. 8 em- ployes of the Stinspn Aircraft were killed Instantly this afternoon when their plane crashed into a field near the Wayne county airport here. The dead were Owen chjef test pilot; Arthur Saxon, chief engineer, and Sam Benson, assistant chief engineer.

Airport officials said the three were making a test with an experimental tri-motor plane, and that they plunged to their death front a height of 700 feet after circling the airport. The cause of the plunge had not been determined. The plane was demolished. JOHNSON IS SINKING Slayer Expresses Pleasure He Escapes Death Penalty TEXARKANA, Feb 3 Janie-s Crabtree, sentenced today to life imprisonment for the alleged murder of Deputy Sheriff Melvln Brackman. will riot be tried for the slaying of Deputy Sheriff J.

C. Grain. Prosecuting Attorney Millard Alford announced. The 43-year-old slayer expressed pleasure that the death sentence asked by the state was not given. His attorney said an appeal would be filed from the Brackman conviction.

Frog Can Hop Five Times As Far As Flea Can Jump: Ask Us Another One (By Associated Press) ASHINGTON, Feb. combined efforts of three government departments today produced a decision that a frog can hop five times as far as flea can jump, A solution to this puzzling question was sought at request, of a curious-minded Oklahoman Sand who wrote Secretary Wilbur hr. was "trying to complete somn data on different subjects." Ho asked: "How far can a (lea jump- also how far can a Irog Jump? 1'inn ttirious about this and not asking for any sporting reasons whatever." The bureau of fisheries wrote Stanton a frog can cover a distance of five or six feet without difficulty, although Its normal leap is about three feet. Turning to a phamphlet on "Fleas and Their Control" it published in revised form last year, the department of agriculture kavnocl an ordumry flea can jump 13 Inches horizontally and seven and three-Iourthsv Inches vertically, And. Stanton was so notlliei.

TYLER, Feb. 5 Cone Johnon, state highway commissioner gravely ill at his Tyler home- was sinking tonight. Attendant! eported his condition much more than at any previous time his illness. th 1773-WiUiam Harrison fcont. L-ater becomes president! 1S14 -Samuel Tildevt bow.

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