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ary 16, 1940
Tuesday Evening, January 16, 1940
GENERAL NEWS
THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
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Charges of Campaign Fraud, Threats
LONG MACHINE AT LOUISIANA
POLITICAL CROSSROADS TODAY
BY T. H. MALOY
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 16—
(UP) — Scandal-shaken Louisiana
nominates a governor today in an
atmosphere thick with charges of
fraud and threats of violence.
‘ Four candidates opposed Gov
Earl K. Long, younger brother of
the late "Kingfish" Huey Long, who
was trying to hold intact the rem-
• nants Of the Long political machine
which had been deprived of most of
Its leading lights through federal
prosecutions.
Foremost among the anti-
Long candidates was Sam Hous-
ton Jones, # lawyer of Lake
Charles, whose platform ware
“throw the thieves oat”
Another was James A. Noe, state
senator oil and radio station oper-
ator, who deserted the machine
• soon after Long’s assassination and
who enlivened this campaign with
charges that 8.000 persons were il-
legally registered in New Orleans,
and a demand that they all be ar-
rested when they tried to vote.
DRAWS FROM MACHINE i
James H. Morrison of Hammond,
who has twice paraded persons
dressed in prison stripes in the
streets here, labeled as state and
city political leaders, and who kept
. a monkey which he called "Earl
Long” on the speaking platform
during most of his campaign
speeches, was expected to draw
• slightly from the Long machine
vote. His tactics, similar to those of
the late "Kingfish,” had won the
administration of some of the old
Long campaigners
* Vincent Mosley of Opelousas" had
mostly an Opelousas following.
It is a democratic primary and if
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ity of the votes cast, the two leaders
will compete in a run-off primary
in 30 days. The democratic nomina-
tion is equivalent to election, al-
though republicans also are holding
a gubernatorial primary for the
first time since the 1890s. ,
Noe’s attorneys demanded capias-
es for the arrest of the 8,000 he
said were registered illegally, Jones'
workers backed the Noe faction in
this movement and promised that
their poll watchers would challenge
every one of the 8,000 and take pho-
tographs of them voting, if neces-
sary Noe's followers also appealed
to United States District Attorney
Rene Viosca to help prevent the ex-
pected frauds, although lawyers saw
no basis for federal intervention.
NAMES PUBLISHED
New Orleans newspapers publish-
ed most of the 8.000 names but R J.
Gregory, registrar of voters, made
a statement urging people to Ig-
nore the list because it had errors
"too numerous to mention.” He re-
fused to "scratch” the names from
the registration books, saying there
was no time for it.
There was the customary talk of
trouble in the •’sixth district”. Mor-
rison's home district, “the strawber-
ry belt” seat of several threatened
armed revolts during Huey Long's
administration. It also was reported
that “Goon Squads” had been or-
ganized, and that a vigilante "com-
mittee of one thousand” had been
meeting nightly for weeks
There were 9,000 poll com-
missioners and watchers assign-
ed to New Orleans alone, some of
them trained at “schools” con-
ducted by Jones, where they
were taught the tricks cf fraud,
and how to combat them.
Gov. Long promised that the ma-
chine under his guidance, would
continue the "clean-up" of thieves
and grafters, begun last summer by
' the federal government after Dr.
James Monroe Smith, -president of
Louisiana State university, now an
inmate of the state prison farm at
Angola, La . had confessed frauds
and irregularities totaling several
thousand dollars.
Long became governor last fall,
succeeding Gov. Richard A. Leche,
who resigned a few weeks before he
was indicted on federal mail fraud
charges. Seymour Weiss and Abra-
ham Shushan, other prominent
members of the machine, have been
convicted of mail fraud.
Drive for Finnish
Relief Going Over
Big, Sponsors Say
Magazines and newspapers—
great bundles of them—are stack-
ing up in the Boosters club ware-
house. Funds from sale of these
bundles, in carload lots, will go
to the aid I of civilians In war-
stricken Finland.
Abilenians have contributed
many of the bundles, but the larg-
er proportion has come from sur-
rounding towns of West Texas-
Coleman, Ballinger, Cisco, Ranger,
Stamford, Anson, and many other
points Bus and freight lines, co-
operating in the drive, are bring-
ing in shipments daily.
Cash contributions today had
reached a total of $42.36, including
1435 from employes of the Hoppe
Electric company.
Commendation from Herbert
Hoover, general chairman of the
I Finnish relief drive in the United
■ States, has commended the Boost-
1 ers club for its work in Abilene
and West Texas.Hoover has writ-
ten:
"I am deeply grateful to learn
of the effective work your organi-
zation has been doing in behalf of
Finland. I want you to know how
much I appreciate what you and
your associates are doing.” The
letter was addressed to Clarence
Solnick publicity chairman of the
1 West Texas movement.
Swift and Tusha
Bowlers Cop Games
j Swift and Tusha Tire bowlers
Faith, Hope, Charity and Brother—
QUADRUPLETS BORN IN ALABAMA HILL CABIN
Cowboy Coach to
Speak at Childress
Frank Kimbrough, Hardin-Sim-
mons football and basketball coach,
will be principal speaker at the
annual Childress Bobcat football
banquet on January 35.
x The local coach likely will show
movies of Cowboy games played
last fall as well as talk to the
Bobcat gridders.
By GENE PMLOWDEN
United Press Staff Correspondent
JASPER, Ala., Jan. 18— (UP)—
Faith. Hope, and Charity, newly
arrived in this world, were still
living today as was their unnamed
brother. Moreover, they had a good
chance to continue living. _—
They were babes delivered of
the same mother as the result of
one pregnancy. The miracle occur-
red in a two-room farm cabin in
the red clay hills 18 miles from
here Sunday night with an as-
tonished 65-year-old country doctor
presiding „
Today they were being fed
dried milk mixed with water in
the Walker County hospital
here. The hospital was not
equipped with incubators and
one was improvised for them.
Dr. H J. Sankey in the course
of a practice of 36 years has de-
livered 3,000 babies, Including 50
sets of twins: but he was not
prepared for a miracle when he
was summoned Sunday night to
the cabin of a share-cropper and
coal miner. Clyde Short
The temperature was 38 degrees
above zero, very cold for Alabama,
and a gusty wind whistled through
the hills. He drove 30 miles,
through the mining village of Nau-
voo. finally reaching the cabin.
The bedroom of the two room
cabin was 15 by 18 feet and con-
tained two iron beds facing an open
fire place. There was hardly room
to move. Mrs. Short. 36, and red-
headed, was in one of the beds, in
pain, and she assured the doctor
that her ’time” had come, though,
according to her mathematics, it
shouldn't come until March 25. He
quickly verified her diagnosis.
THE ‘MIRACLE’
He put Short to heating water.
He sent Mrs. Short's mother for
some of the neighbors and one of
the neighbors took the shorts' five
children, the oldest. 10- He moved
the bed around a little so it would
I get more of the heat from the logs
Ben, a Circus Boy, Is Leading.
Character in Under the Lilacs
In Under the Lilacs, which thelln again and eat from the table,
Abilene Panhellenic brings to Abi-knock over some dolls, and then
lene. Thursday afternoon to enter-stand on his hind legs to beg for
tain both children and grownups, forgiveness. •
the most important character is It is one thing to train dogs to do
Ben. a circus boy, the happy pos- set things to music with the trainer
sessor of a very clever trick dog, a in the ring with a whip to point the
white toy poodle named Sancho.
Louisa May Alcott’s greatest suc-
way, or to touch reluctant hindquar-
tens into movement.
cess was Little Women. Boys have it is quite another thing to train
been incidental in most of her a dog to do his stunts on an empty
stories, but in Under the Lilacs she stage, with none by to see that he
won games last night in the Indus- created a real boy, a sturdy, husky doesn’t swerve from his routine. How
trial bowling league, turning back lad who carried palls of water for we]j Sancho works will be seen when
Abilene Sheet Metal and Thorn- the elephants and camels and drove Ben. Sancho and Koko the monkey
ton's respectively in a series of two four ponies and a charlot in the come here Thursday, members of the
parades. There is nothing namby-' - - ---" —
pamby about Ben. When they were
cruel to him in the circus, he picked
up his dog Sancho and set out to
find his father, who had gone west
to buy horses and was never heard
It is quite another thing to train
burning in the fire place. Then he for and the babies washed he
boiled up his sleeves and scrubbed cooled some of the boiling water
in aftea kettle and fed it to them
holla
his hands.
At 8 p. m. Mrs Short gave
birth to a girl. Dr. Sankey barely
slapped her into a healthy scream-
ing. when a second girl arrived. He
slapped this one too, and handed
her to a neighbor woman Then,
to his amazement, a third girl
was born.
“Doctor,” said the neighbor wo-
man, "do you reckon that's all."
“No," said Dr Sankey, for though
the illumination provided by an oil
lamp and a flashlight was not good,
he could see that Mrs. Short still
was in labor. He had been unable
to give her an anaesthetic of any
kind and she seemed to be growing
very weak
""Hurry with that water," he or-
dered and went to work.
At 9:30 p. m.. one hour and 20
minutes after the first, the ‘fourth
babe—a boy—was born.
After the mother had been cared
from a teaspoon, drop by drop.
Then he wrapped them in blankets
and laid them on the bed, end to
end, their mother’s body giving
warmth on one side, the fire on the
other
He went home at 12:30 a. m.
and returned at 8 a m. yester-
day, with a bet water bottle-
blankets, and a can of milk.
He fed the babies with a tea-
spoon again, then came back to
get Mrs. Marguerite Rowland,
a nurse. At noon, an ambulance
took the mother and the babies
to the hospital
Mrs. Short said she wanted the
girls named Faith, Hope, and Char-
ity and could think of a name for
the boy later. Mrs. Rowland could
not tell the babies apart so, in
the “knitted caps, she put safety
pins, one for Faith, two for Hope
and three for Charity.
out of three.
Abilene Metal— Swift a c
Reed 148 153 127 Ward 15
Jones 1ST 171 131 LORE -
Clare Tree Major Children’s The-
Fields 109 109 109
Handcap 45 45. 45
Totals 772 782 761
Tusha Tire—
197 161 162
Cogdell 104 92 132
Powell 162 212 141
158 186
170 169
142 205
136 158
Totals 873 780 864
Thornton’s—
Plowman 146 141 102
Moore 136 124 110
Garner 130 82 134
Flenikn 128 126 167
Thornton 106 104 156
Handicap 129 129 129
from again.
Finding a circus dog for the play
who could be depended on to do his
Job wasn’t easy. Two of the most
famous teams were working at the
World's Fair in New York and were
Total 859 T22 7041 Totals 775 706 798 therefore unavailable. Besides, dogs
-----used to working in teams are rarely
good as individual performers. San-
cho must cross the stage, alone, one
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cue. pick up a basket and carry it
back across the stage. He must come
Joan Bennett's
First Husband
Tries Suicide
HOLLYWOOD Jan 16.—(UP)-
Joan Bennett's first husband at-
tempted suicide today, driven to dis-
traction by the thought of the beau-
tiful movie blonde-brunette on her
third honeymoon.
John Marion Fox, 28, was found
ater.
The cast of Under the Lilacs will
be made up of adult, professional
actors, as is always the case with
these companies, which produced
Rip Van Winkle here in December.
Mrs. Major gives two reasons for
having adults taking the children's
parts. One is that few children have
had the requisite training and ex-
perience necessary to carry the play
successfully through its seven-
months run.
Her second reason is that she feels
that all children should have a
normal, healthy childhood, and
should not have the responsibility of
performances thrust on them.
With the Panhellenic_patron plan
in effect, and single performance
available to elementary, high school
and college students and to adults
of the city interested in drama. In-
dications are that Under the Lilacs
will set up a new attendance record
for not only this Children's Theater
season, but for the four seasons the
Clare Tree Major plays have been
brought to Abilene.
Beer Elections in
Two Counties Likely
BAIRD, Jan. 18— (Spl)—A pe-
tition is being circulated in the
Topnotchers Warm
Up for Frisco Open
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 16.—IP)
More than 200 of the country’s top-
. ranking pros and amateurs took fin-
Oplin precinct for calling an elec- al practice shots today for ths $5,000
tion to vote on the sale of 33 per- San Francisco national match play
open gall tournament opening with
the initial qualifying round tomor-
cent beer, advices received ’here
say.
Oplin is the only community in
west Callahan county that has
legalized beer
Also, according to word received
here, petitions are being circulat-
ed in Shackelford county for a vote
on the issue. Albany and Moran
now have beer, while a point on
the Clear Fork north of Albany
vends hard liquors.
Youth to Prison
MCKINNEY. Jan. 16.—(PP)—Sen-
The Bargains
Are Here . .
and How! .
row.
Byron Nelson, of Hershey, Pa.,
the national open champion, is on
hand for the tournament, as well aa
Jim Demaret, Houston, Texas, the
Oakland victor, and his runner-up,
Clayton Heafner, Linville, N. C.
Rabbit Drive for
Newman Announced
J. P Boyd has announced a rab-
bit drive to be held in the Newman
community Tuesday and Wednes-
day of next week Jan. 23 and 24.
Hunters will gather at the school-
house early in the mornings. A
tenced to die In the electric chair
on Feb 17, J. W. Rickman, Collin,--------— —
county youth, headed for the state barbecued beef luncheon will be
prison today in the custody of offi-| served each day probably at the
cars Clay Jones home
Rickman was convicted of killing | Rabbits are unusually thick in
Motorcycle Officer Marlon Taylor in the community Boyd says. No drive
the spring of 1938, was held last winter.
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NOW-
by a fellow boarder in his rooming
house apartment. He had swallowed
50 sleeping tablets, and physicians
said he had only an “even” chance
to recover.
The one-time Seattle playboy left
no notes but police said he told
them that he tried to take his life
because his first wife married Movie
Produces* Walter Wanger last Fri-
day. /
He would rather die than live
without hope of remarrying the girl
he took as his bride in London in
1925, when she was 16, and who di-
vorced him three years later after
the daughter. Diana, was born.
"1 can’t bear the thought of
Diana being brought up by an-
other man," police quoted him.
Wanger and his bride apparently 1
had slipped out of town on their 1
honeymoon. Police were unable to
locate them
Friends of Fox were bewildered
by His action. The pieces didn't fit
together very well, they said in the
first place, Miss Bennett had been
married to and divorced from Oene
Markey, screen writer and producer,
between the Fox and Wanger mar-
riages. and they had a daughter.
Belinda, now six. In the second
place, as far as the friends knew.
Fox had made no previous attempts
at reconciliation—he had. In fact,
spent much time in court battles
with his former wife.
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