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VOL. 9, NO. 78
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1,-1930
TWELVE PAGES
PRICE TWO C
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PAISLEY,.GRIEF
BOWED,PLANS
FIRE NOT DANGEROUS
Raise Without Givin
.Case Will'Go Back to. Courts-
EY; Scotland, Jan. 1
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day a
By United Timm.
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der of the eliding scale, the ner
com pan
and Ikis grief-
w
manufacturing
the
•fore hand whether he is likely
find ore.
ferers.
to, the theater as a special treat
, holiday matinee.
get
a thounad words!”
ratic alik
the gas company came before the
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d them.
f
ixits
either side of the screen. THea-
elude such improvements as
new city hall. *800.900; audito-
system
afternoon
runways
partment.
more than they now say,
with
' /9
$1,300,090 of
which
in 1928.
lent me his baton and I broke
Railroad
meeting Thursday.
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is just another chapter in thi
ule was being effected.'
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and represented to the council that
in order to prevent their property
city
of
package for which she had
ceived a notice yesterday'.
WOMEN POLICE PAY
RATE UP TO COUNCIL
structure
*100,000
me\
Bur
iced
I
Thousands saw the new year in
at private watch parties all over
\Construetion and -enlargements
to Hhe Texas- & Pacific Railwax,
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cents per hundred.
Next 20.000 cubic feet, 6.67
cents per hundred.
There was no commission ap-
,pointed then, no blue prints, no
delays., .no shrinking from re-
-r
Both men and women will
used.
b-.
ated
arilk-
hrs n
e, H.
opened...............
Mrs, Hall, was lacerated
slugs from the bomb.
Relief Fund Raised.
A. fund, already mounting to
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Can and Monnig Charge Tiat Company ‘Dictated’ News
Raise Without Giving Council a Chance)’
•ues.
When he has that information, -
escaped if
free.
The fire
quential..
MAN’IS JAILED IN
PLAYING OF FATHI
Control of Disease Called
Fallacy by Scientists
It Is Still Man’s
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IDENTIFY FIRST
AUTO VICTIM
s—lor tne moment—winked slyly at the pronounce-
■ot. Senator Borah, Seymour I.owden, et “
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Hurt New Year Morning,
Condition Critical
“Raleigh Broome, 23, 1639 East
Tuekr Street, was in St. Joseph's
Bomb Received in Mail As
Christmas Gift
The Outstanding Newspaper Story of the Year
by America's MostFopular Fiction Author.
on this day of days, friend visit
friend, bringing food and drink
—and Scottish housewives hold
-to the superstition that ill luck
will follow it the first to put a
foot across the threshold on Hog
Ma-Nay is not dark.
But Death was the first to put
a foot across Paisley’s' doorstep
Dreary Skies to Become Generally
Fair, Landis Hays.
Dreary skies of New Year's Day
will be followed by generally fair
weather Wednesday night.
That is the prediction-of Weath-
erman D. S. Landis, who also fore-
casts somewhat colder weather for
1930, funds fer which have been
appropriated or to be provided,
in. a bond issue thia spring. In-!
ousand commisions- be-
y had acted.
phone company there • sought to Commission of Texas, Judge J. C.
increase its rates’contrary to the; Wilson, the master, and the three-
Light sprinkles of-rain fell at
Intervals Wednesday morning. .
1929 was a hot year, the annual
Panic Horror Is
Placed at 69
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1929 Gets Merry Sendoff
And 1930 Noisy Welcome
Terpsichore Trudges Home Heavy Footed While Jolly
Old Bacchus Nurses a Headache
Fort Worth's new rates were
m: : a ai nt P5P wa8 IEDVIUEU L• m 'oiun ul lib PiOUIlY,
proxe Evi.serviceeregulationscwi+Houson recently when the tele- 1 tribunal, including the
inside. be violated by the City Coun- phone company there.sought t ' .
Job to Propose
in Kansas City
Mrs. Margaret Bromley, 88, . 1___________ J-..
serious condition from . shock; I we never have approved such
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MAY A D D $4,350,000
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construction of two dams to im-
pound witers for big lakes to be
built from • a *6,500,000 bond
-issue.
The 1929 building activity in-
l in 1927,” Rouer said,
'"they furnished; the council with,
a statement that purported to
show the valuation of the com-
be determined at the Council's
Avenging Parrot
- 62mdaz . -
38117,
,000. ’.
thousands of dollars, has been
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FIGHT ONAGAS RATE,
NOW STATE HIGHEST ’
a
re-
•'Immediately after the com-
pany's new rates were explained,
the Council' was handed an ulti-
Fy United Press,
VANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 1.
n When it comes to pro-
posing and getting results,
it’s still a man's job. •
In 1928, leap year and the
year for women to propose;
there were 4580 marriage li-
.'tenses issued in Kansas City.
Improvement Schedule for.. 7
1930 Nearly Double
, Last Year’s ad
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WASHINSTON, Jan. J. — A
bomb delivered thru the majls to
a home in Scat Pleasant, Md.,uva viie musus
exploded while the family, in-'schedulewill net the
Remaining projects of
the exits had been
dn ine enemeer nover nar
build a bridge until he has e
■r
including the completbomof Lan-
ctor Tards, have east *6,000; Wet Party in Dallas;
County CTerk Hollis Will Present
‘air With Papers.
The fi st couple filing a notice
of intentin to marry in 1930 will
get their Fcense free of charge.
Also, the required physical ex-
amination will be provided with-
crushed and trampled to death
when a flaming film, throwing
dense smoke thru the audito-
rium,/started a stampede for the
doors.
An assistant operator, 1 5 years
old, discovered a blaxing film,
threw it into a container, and
hurled it into the street. But
before this act of heroism had
been performed, the theater was
in an uproar arid the auditorium
was a pandemonium.
tempt to mediate the two-year-
old controversy.
! "AM •—‘EnM5P auM 5-}5-
With the CouncHmen in Ponition of business Dec.
a window and climbed
The Seat . Pleasant postoffice
is a contract station, operated fn
the store of Fred L. Watkins,
(!■■■■■■■■■■ waft "nnA THRILLING MYSTERY SERIAL'.'"...............................................
Fort Worth pays more f
■other city in Texas and the 1
fight to hold down the rates. I
This was indicated Wedne
Council, after the Fort Wortl
doubled its minimum rate, ef
Domestic rates wre jur
cubic feet for the first 1,000
feet for the first 700 per moi
Under provisions of the remain-
Explodes in Opeping.
The harmless looking ‘ parcel
was placed on a table in the
home and the family gathered
around it la happy expectation
of a belated present. As the box
was being opened, there was a
terrific detonation and the fam-
ily was torn with missiles.
The explosion was reported .to
has been,, sold.
Chief roadwork will he that
of widening the Jacksboro High-
way to the northwest, and else
southeaat of here; theBurtesom
Highway, and a bridge ever the
West Fork of the Trinity River,
linking the Jacksboro Highway
with the Henderson Street north-
importance completed or still un-
der construction/ ate:
Lake Worth/bridge. $198,000:
streets, $1,622/365, 18 miles or
which is finished: airport hangar
and "apron,”/*32,410; 24 miles
of sidewalks,/$100,000; 11 miles
tai police were aiding Maryland
auth’orities in ivestigating the
bombing. • .
। Preliminary information re-
The victims had been admitted ceived by the Postoffice Depart-
to/the theater as a special treat ment indicated that Mrs. Hal.l
—at three cents apiece—tor a sent Wf young boy to the Seat
will of its City Council. 'Judge court, found those’fact* to
Just what action the City of be true. The company early real-
Fort Worth will take to prevent ized that it would be necessary to
the new rates being effective will formulate a new pian in order to
put into effect the unjust rates ft
Civi Service Does Not Prevent Ac-
tion, Carr Says
after counsel for the company con-
ferred with the City Council Tues- council
he will act.
But in the first big crisis of
his administration—a big crisis ..
at any tme—Hoover wasn’t ‘ on
his bicycle, running away.
Senator Connally can hold any
opinion of Hoover be wishes. and
for the good of his political
fences, he can picture the presi-
dent as he will.
But nothing Mr. Connally can
•ay—nothing anyone else can
WAF—will diminish in any way
fm glory of that real achieve-
ment,
• » » •.
Texas Prisons •
TTHE Society of Penal Informa-
-L tion scores the Texas Prison
Bystem in a report1” sbmitted
some days Ago . . .suggesting that
th whole sstem be overhauled.
‘There’s nothing new in that.
Everybody in Texas knows the
prison system is a dead horse,
•nd everybody is convinced that
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Councilmen said they were dis- ' "Under authority, granted by a
------- • _2- • » three-judge United Statu court.
With few adults-toHle
the children ryefed for
Pcetions ____—
"Vt ork wl> start earl/'in April
on the national census in Tarrant,
Wise and Denton Counties, accord-
ing to J. W. Stitt, supervisor.
More than 400 applications have
been received for the 125 positions
as enumerators to be open. The
applications have been forwarded
to the U. S. Census Bureau where
they will be acted upon. -
1s one achievement no man can
deny him. W
The\full story of that achieve- [ hall, fire alarm, signal
ment has not yet been written. and ZZZZ.ZZZ.
Like many things Hoover does,. uon building, hagar,
I wasn'tyspectacular. . . j and a larger "apron” i
I refer-to, the recent collapse am Field. *500.000.
ot the stock market.
sponsibility‛,,no sidestepping a voyerpasses'ror'theTPproject
k-notty problem. , , 1 '
He moved swiftly, he moved
of storm si
Street drainkge system, *
anTkwo underpasses, $2a0
All consumption In excess of (
50,000 cubic-feet will cost 5.5
cents per hundred. - N
ments to stave off the rate hike.ja reasons ble-ret urn on a fair
This step was resorted to at value of its property, and every
e gahcompany, indicated to
Souncilmen.
cil's setting salaries to be paid po-
lice women., ' .
City. Manager’o: E. Carr made
that statement Wednesday. In ex- |
plaining that the council also sets
salaries ~ paid policemen.- Civil
service rules do not stipulate
amount of such salaries, Carr said.
The council will designate, sal-
aries to be paid policewomen, who
will be added to the police force,
within the next few .days. Their
salaries will be comparable to
those paid sergeants -andrhakies.]
' Effort will be made to get wom-
en with a college educatfon or its
equivalent, according to'Carr.
it will go to thei first couple ap-
pearing at his office after it opens
for business at 8 a. m. Thursday.,
The requirements are that both go
to the office, both.live in Tarrant
County, and that neither has been
married before. TRe free license
applies only, to white persons. '
(RASH KILLS FIVE
By United Press. .
BERLIN, Jan. 1;—Five persons
were "killed and six seriously in-
jured at the. Est Prussian town
of Insterburg when a train,struck
a motorbus Wednesday. ' ‘
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rates. ,
/ Furthermore. Monnig declared,
the company claims the new
it About
• Complete Wire Reports of the UNITED PRESS, Greatest World-Wide N
The Fort Worth Pr
, \ . THE WEATHER: FAIR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY; SOMEWHAT COLDER THURSDAY. . . •
Investigation of Fatal Shooting at
Lamesa Continues
LAMESA, Texas, Jan.4. — In-
vestigation of the fatal shooting
of A. J. Durham continued today,
while Robert Durham, 32, his "son,
was held in the Dawson County
Jail. -
.Durham was slain with a dou-
ble-barreled shotgun, three
charges entering his body. There
were no eye witnesses , to th
shooting.
Leslie Hall, 16, finger ampu-
tated; Thomas Hall, 8, minor in-
juries. *
LOVER s an ftnyiaetr, And
*1 tin engineer nwer start Ata
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plete. knowledge about the depth
of the river, the width of the valk
"Statistical figures of death
rates give but ope small phase of
-the pieture.'Dr- White said. "The
rue of incidence of tuberculosis in
young girls, the studies of inci-
dence in school children that show
we are still about where we were
day, at the Fort Worth .Club-
$103,000 Net Increase.
The session was asked by the: pany’s property as of Jan. 1, 1927
counsel, stating they, wished to and revenues and expenses at the
discuss the company s position. close of business Dec. 31, 1936.
■ 4
rpo get capital and labor to-
- 1 gather at a table and tell the
one there Would be no wage re-
ductions and the other • there
would be no requests for higher
wages—that was not the action
of a Nervous Nellie of. a Weak
\ Sister. ' _ '.
To nform the insurance men
that they would not call their
loans on building projects.. .that
was no side-stepper’s work,
.'Hoover has appointed various
commissions to find out a multi-
_______ude al things about public-is-
cd were the Electric Building and
its annex (for a theater), exhibit
buildings for the/ Southwestern
Exposition and Hat Stock Show,
and a *780,000 addition to the
city sewage plant/
, Lesser Projects,
of $7.20
put .into effect a rate
that would give them
of fraud and deception that has
marked every other step in the ar- ‛ ‘
tempt of the Lone Star Gas Car- j
poratiqn ..to increase the Fort |
Worth rates.
Councilmen declined to, state fiscated an a result of the rates
what developments would follow then in force and in effect, the
should consumers withhold pay-|company was making in excess of
itself was inconse-
100.
Ik
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pen consumer—and ‘there, being
about 35,000 of them it ap-
pears the income will far1 ex-
ceed *200.000 annually.” Mon-
nig said.
"I am willing that they boost
their annual reyenue to -$183,-
000, providing' the new rate
would be $r per hundred cubic
feet for the first thousand.”
Monnig potnted out.
Hits Small Consumer.
Under the new arrangement,
the burden is on the small con-
sumer ,the» person who is least
able to bear this burden, accord-
ihg.to Monnig.
"The company's appeal fop a
conference with, the City Council
turkey to devour and in many
cases an extraordinary capacity
for ice water.'
Krrival of Young 1930 was the
according to the Postoffice De- "The Council virtually had
' nothing to say at the eonfer-
Mrs. Nora Hall Brady. 19, was ; ence," City Manager O. E. Carri
d,n
Highwaya, $2,700,000. Arsgcleton SarathhatAdtoncemz.
Hard-surfneed roads and oth-/fait had been placed in the na
erwis improved highways linked tionis falling birth rate from the
up with Fort Worth-will cost ' disease once known as the white
$2,700,000. The county voted plague. There still are probably
a $4,920,000 issue for this worknore than 160,000 deaths a year
i" 1078 61 mn non "hinh ' rrom that malady In. this country,
he added.
policemen were on duty until af-
ter 2 a. m.. were jammed with
traffic until that time.
But -Young Master and Miss
Fort Worth were free of alcoholre
headaches for the most part. Out-
1 side of pyrotechnics . arid Lusty
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Royal Street Bridge, $250,000;
and $2,000,000 for streets, $1.-ica ,
0-3256 ohtehnd"rpashes and! " Dr White speaking before th
Snr the TAP nrotert medical section of the America
out cost. . . -o- ---------
The license will be the gift eP Thursday.
County Clerk Chester Hollis. .
tabulation of Landis, made Wed-
nesday.shows. Aggregate temper-
atures ran 101 degrees above nor-
mal.
Extreme temperatures here dur-
ing the last 24 hours wire; 63 and
77 degfes."
Extremes this date last year: 47
and 24. .
.Extremes this date all years:"
76. 1917;- 8, 1911.
Baromeer 7 a. m. Wednesday,
29.75. Humidity. 89.
Sunrise 7:33 a. pi. Sunset 5:34
p. m. ,
# LINDBERGHS SPEND,
. DAY IN ST. LOUIS
crowd rushed out: A constable
CITYTO SPEND
40 MILLIONS
FOR BUILDING
' —
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Additional ) Projects May .VI/46
Bring Total, to —(K**3
$45,259,706. 1"-----
Fort Worth's spirkt of prog- _ Terpsichore shuffled home with.heavy feet and Bacchus
ess in 19300wi cost *40,909,- sought relief in sedatives today after one of the most en-
7og. - । thusiastic nationwide New Year celebrations in recent years.
Development activines here The blare of jazz bands helped drown out such un-
during 1 929 have cost $20,981, pleasant memories as the stock market crash, and old
Bacchus—for the moment— winked slyly at the -
ments i * ” " ‘ ~ • — -
eluded *1 1,264.644 in private and PFNClIC TAKINC HERE
municipal building, much of which I -ENPUP IANIO nEnE
win not.be finished before, sum-' TO -BEGIN IN • APRIL
mer. This includes the Fair and ; —___
Dulaneybriil dings and the FIFst Applications Are Received for 12,5
Methodist Church. ‛ 1 -
; rium. *600,000; new central fire ByUottedpren
fire alarm, signal system DES MOINES, Iowa. Jan. 1
site, *500.000; ndministra- Popular belief that tuberculosis is
------ *----- runways no longer one"of humanity'll dread infirmary. Wednesday
at Meach- ; scourges and is now under control with- a fractured skull, the first
rFwronamncedriellhstetaztheauto accident vietim ot 1930.
United States Public Health Serv- , Broome was struck shortly af-
ter 6 a. m. Wednesday by an auto
thotefven by N. Euchey, 3229 Cren-
7 shaw. on the cut off road-between
In the Dallas Pike and Riverside.
2 Euchey assisted Broome-and re-
i ported to police; He said fog par-
resident is a,disappointment to
Us friends and has shown a
*koeful lack of leadership."
Senator Connally’s focus of at-
tack is the president's appoint-
feent of various fact-finding com-
mittees, -■
Capital Police Aid.
Seat Pleasant is just outside
the District of Columbia. Ca*-
has proposed. -
"It rapidly increased its operat-
ing expenses, and expended money
supposedly in improvements in ex-
cess of $1,000,000, including in
those extravagant expenditures, an
office building costing more than
$300.0,00. All of the expenditures i
mentioned "were made right in th
face.of sworn affidavits presented
to the City Council that the com- —
liany i uropm iy was (wing eMfia-—-
rated and that it could not raise
money in order to make pressing
improvements. .
One Company Owns Stock
ATThe Lone Star Gas Corpora- :
tion, a corporation organised un-,
der The laws of the state ot Dela-'
ware, with its offices in Wilming-
ton. Delaware, and 'Pittsburgh,
Pa., and wih no office or record*
in the state of Texas, owns all ths
stock of the Fort Worth Gas Com- I
pany and more than 99 per cent of
the stock of the lone Star Gas
Company. This proceeding for «b
increase in rates was instituted
and promulgated by the. officials
of the Lone Star Gas Corporation.
"Two-thirds of the gross reve-
nues of the Fort Worth Gm Com- 1
pany are entered upon its books as J
an expense item anu which amount
goes to the Lone Star Gas Com- • l
pany, and no attempt has ever 4
been made to show that such ex- • |
pense Is elther fair or reasonable. I
’ Pays .More for Gm
The result of that arrangement . I
is that the distribution company I
of Fort Worth pays more for its
gas at the gate van any other 1
city in Texas.
"The action of the company in
calling the City Council to a lunch- J
eon to announce that the company I
was going to arbitrarily put into I
effect the excessive rates that it I
meingmarrstttn at thessraem"pe, * now proposing, to put into eftect
Will Continue Routine Inspection
Trip On Thursday,
ST LOUIS. Jan. 1. — Clonel
and Mrs./Charles A. Lindbergh
probably, will take off from St.'
Louis tomorrow, continuing their
inspection of TrarsontinentalAir
Transport Company airports.
The Lindberghs, heavily clad,
arrived here yesterday after a
I [flight from Indianapolis.
„( PROPERTY RENDITION
“Ol BEGINS THURSDAY
This is simply passing the
uok: the senator says, indicat-
ng that the_president lacks spine
to tackle ankof’the hard Rrob-
hems himself. X X
That’s pap Er Democrats. N
What Hoover is doing as pres
dent IF essentially what he has
one all of his life.. . accumulat-
fig knowledge about a matteh
before he decides on.....the. merits
»f the case.
"wtw"wVETeiieonIMINIIINI[ J
25 years ago."
south artery. K_ The speaker went on to say tht
‘ On January 21, the distrIefTSciene slilf hopes to work out a
water board w|ll let contracts for [means’ to help the. sick or to re-
duce thy time of cure, which now
FIRST TQWED N 1930 nEp-wEAFHEp-g
-GFTS FRFF I ICFNSF COLDER WEAI HER IS
sknskkk LICENSE FORECAST THURSDAY
. _________ — the mad
stampede and fire yesterday in
; tha Glen. .niution. picture .theater.
Scots tradition demands that
Next 19,300 ettbie feet, 14
by , cents per hundred.------J
Next 10,060 cubic feet, 7.23 A
leg, the strength ot beams, they
cost of the project, and a blue
imprint to go by. ' \ -------
1 The engineer never sets out ' 1930,
to tunnel a mountain without . |
khowing how thick the mouo-
tain 1s, what isthearacter of
ihe earth, and variou otl
V teresting and necessary
\ of information; he never starts
- B sink a mine without knowing
killed. Her mother, -Mra Nora ! asserted.
Hall, 45, was blinded, "others the company was going to effect," mpu,uVunow5ng‛ .W1"
injured Included: .a new rate that would net them I theireinereased valuations, would
appointed in the action of the
attomneya, and especially ware
DEADLINE TODAY FOR
• WAR COMPENSATION
Lists Close Tonight. for Former
Service Men
Wednesday, (Jan. 1.) was the
deadline for ex-service men to ap-
ply for adjusted compensation.
Appnektions will be received at
Washington - urp to _ midnight,
Thursday, according to Miss Mar-
garet McLean, executive secretary
of Fort Worth Chapter, American
Red Cross.
Veterans who served,at least 60
days preceding Nov. 11, 1918; may
apply, Miss McLean said. .
• Relatives of ex-service men who
hate been missing for seven years
als9 may apply.
averages about two years. He then
outlined the possible nature at
scientific discoveries. /
from being confiscated, that it
would be necessary for them to
the city.
Firecracers boomed over the
pavement and even, in the mid-
night shows. Downtownatreets, i started for the relief of- the suf-
where traffic lights Kd weary
"With an increase
3C "oene eK 2"sst5
llam Monnig Sr., councilman, Wed per monthi However, he ex-
nesday Nlained, fhe utility is not oper- "
"The new rates will dumphted by the Lone Star Gas Com-
householders' bills at least $7.20 pany. which controls 99 per cent
per year, which is almost rob-o. the stock in the local con- ’
bery.’’ he declared, in stating there; cern. ,
would be a "lot more" to this' , Statements also were made by
matter than merely announcing i City Attorney R. E. Rouer and
that the company is going to tn- y- J-'-, Wright, manager of the
crease its rates. ~ ’ 6 * FUIT WUrtfl ' UWT CUflTpinj.
The new rate was announced . When the representatives of
April 30 Last Date for Owner's
valuations
Owners’ valuation of personal
and* real property by Tarrant
County taxpayers will begin
Thursday in the office of J. Lester
Wright, tax assessor.
Final Mate for rendition of prop-
erty is Apri 30. Owners have been
advised by Wright to make their
renditions when they pay current
taxes. ! / .__•
cember 31. Obviously, they did
not come Into the conference
with any idea of mediating this
controversy, but only to state
their argument while the sched-
Carr and
*163,000 annually, according to}
its counsel. . •/
The new rates are:
First 700 cubic feet, 16.67 i
cents per hundred (this in- f
'chides the 10 per cent dis- F
epunt), leaving a net of 15')
dents). ' 1 //
HIn 1929, ft man's year,
1 4857 licenses were issued, an
[ increase cf 297.
eluding several children, was
grouped in the kitchen -today-.
Mrs. Nora Hall was killed and
several members of the house-
hold injured.
It was said the bomb had
been wrapped as a Christmas
present and exploded as it was
Blaze in Film House Quickly KARI V TADA
Extinguished, But Children THIIILI IUKI
pDiein stampede BY SHRAPNEL
’ Rescue Worker’s Story.
Many families lost as many as
three children. Michael Arley,
a volunteer rescue worker, gave
the following account of the dis-
aster. He said: >
"I was stafding near the/thea-
ter when I saw smoke. Fhen the
TO BURY DEAD
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Final Death Toll in Theater
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"u...............................'""""BEGINNING FRIDAY IN THE PRESSavemwwwniwI
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ter operatives tried to quiet
them, but the crowd's frenzy
was overpowering, and-- within a
few minutes piles of screaming,
horror-stricken children were
jamming every door. .
The fumes of carbon dioxide
gas. spread thru the big ball, suf-
focating scores who might have
BY JOHN SORRELLS
ENATOR TOM CONNALLY,
1 home for the holidays, pauses'
fere long enough to pay his
pacts to President Hoover. ..
Ith the statement that the
Hally obscured a parked auto on
which the tail light was not hurtl-
ing. He-turned but suddenly but
struck Broome, who apparently
was changing a tire.
Broome was taifen to the hos-
pital in a Robertson-Mueller-Her-
per ambulance. By checking the
nunber of the auto police learned
it belonged to Claude Harwell,
who identified Broome. He said
Broome had attended a party at
hhts home on Dorris Street. River-
side, Tuesday night and that he
had let Broome take the car.
His condition was said to be
critical." ' „
Wiliam J. Satterfield, Inspector
.of the Washington postoffice di-
SL+ofsion who began an officlat in-
‘4- qutry at once.
eurely, •
\ Industrial leaders, banker*,
A heads of great" insurance . com-
\\ panies, labor leaders-—these
N passed in long file thru his o-
fice.
W And when the last one was
L jBW, the crisis had passed. It
V was definitely established That
N thera would be no panic.--------
VW ' • • • • •
NNe cannot read the history of
\ V the twelve panics this coun-
try has seen Without considering
\Hoover‛ maneuvers without- a
Vast respect for the man.
\ One cannot read the history of'
Trant's administration, and the
years following—or the era of
Hamilton and Jefferson, with-
out an increasing regard for
this man's integrity and intel-
lect.\ ' •
In a grave national emergency,
he wa on the bridge in slicker
,\ and boots, body braced against
the storm.
\ And he stayed there until the
ship had weathered it...stayed
there and maneuvered it thru
with consummate skill__——
(e can parap^agse! that a • bit
Nwouldtod • thatt other
(/dents — Republican and
occasion for noisy merry-making fhj New
at hotel narties. tunner duh* Ji-
theaters. ' " stricken
CITY WILL CONTINUE
Major strkets ng""completed
are: South Main, Rio Grande to
Magnolia, $102,895; Hemphill,
*140,000, and Berry Street; from
Eighth Avenue to the Muny Golf
Cour.se, $94,685. “
Projects tentatively planned for
the year, but for which official an-
nouncement has not been made,
are:
Santa Fe passenger station and
a revamping of their, yard, $1,-
000,000; 10-story office building
for the Home Abstract .Company,
3800,000; new Majestic sTheater,
$1000,000; FTst Baptist Church,
,500,000; TCU Stadium, $250,-
000, and a new building for a de-
partment store here, *800.000.
Property lor the latter already
has been obtained.
Fire Bonds Voted.
Funds for the new fire improve-
ments were provided in a $500,-
000 bond issue voted last summer,
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least, *163,000 yearly. Since1 be necessary.
j a ; Accountants Employed
jump in revenue for the utility, "The city Immediately employed
'considering it unreasonable, it is competent accountants and engi-
[obvious that the proposition we neers tocheck the accuracy of the
| had prepared in an effort to me- stafemende presented, and that in-
diate the matter would not be I vestigation showeg that instead of
considered.'' • the company property beinz con-
gon the small consumer ,
N th larger user pri-
_________the compan*,4
ingxhe latter * patron- 1
L Morris, vice president
"first-footed”/ Paisley to-'
_ ind the usual tabyous cele-
bration of Hog Ma-Nay, the Scot-
tish New tear, was abandoned
for -the, grim task 4L
Tlfiidren, victim* OC
"We were told that
counted its dead instead
cakes and bottles'.
ratesNre virtually the
s those"s force at Dallas,
ken of tihnew rates was
LISTORY may deal with Hoov-
XI eras it pleases, but what-
ever mistkes and blunders Time
writes azhast-.hig-record, there
Noi
• \ ■ • —ee 2
I Thke is but one way a con-
Kmeay benefit from the low
Ihegirhum. according to Council: j
meh This is by "leaving town.”
awg-g-
HOME
V" n
__. ________J Some Fort Worttiers• —*
\ The line's building program Trade Booms Relish Ice Water
ror,1930 wil require 18,000,000 ■ P” dX'm 4rs“ tan l —if an eve-1 Fort Worth had a brand new
gBasides thezproject aircadrningor dissipation inspires Ft- set ot New. Year resolusions to
Shedmisix totr. “Improvmentsormation. this city, ought to beibreak Wednesday, more holiday
are expected to materialise’, to I overflowing with resolves today,
cost an additional $4,350,000. Ry far the most raucous New
raccr w Thia -wasLdisclosed‘Wednesday ; Years" Eve on record kept the
other in--knfter checking up costs of proj- 1 early - to - bedders awakemost of
r items Peets definitely scheduled for the the night. Some 100,000
coming year, arid of costruction crowded the downtown streeth un-
drk the current period. ti aftermidnight, A
- N \\ rap Program. The party was "wet." There
Outstanding improvements for got ‘heir fun out of tooting horns
1930 wiul be thebuiiding such, hut the most of them
gram.of the.T&P. a. 13-atoryput strong reliance on hip flask?
passenger station, an eight-story , For holi da . .
freight'terminal and relocation of r l ‘ . , a... n.a
Allmtrackaum’petween ■ rosperourreventn2n h±R and
X otheranson proende 80 buhd. cluha oyeriowed With guesta ho
ingproerama.afe: " mypdhergcoreaworppnaaredntr"nk,
.J J expansion.to be pro- usual, and a holiday session of
vided in a.12,500,000 bond is-1 police court will be held for their
sue; postoffice and federal office benefit today
buhding. and site, $1450,000: No fatalities were reported'
radio range beacon. Meacham ______________________________-_
Field/*1.000.900; aviation build-
ing. *1.000.01)0; Masonic Tem- TliDrnAili AOIO
as--: p8.rdp-onandtneratedMHUBEKCUEUSS—
t”; to 605 more than 1100 CURE FAR OFF
members of the Council assured.
All but Albert E: Thomas de-
clared they would be present to
take definite action. Thomas
recently underwent a serious op-
eration nd consequently is un-
.aSlc, to attend.
Monnig Wants Facts.
Mon nig declared the company’s
counsel refused to divulge cer-
tain InformstioH- aslid of them;
particularly concerning the ex-
penditure of *1.000,000 during
the last two years, which officials
of the organization claim was
invested here.
■ It is on this Investment- that
the counsel is basing Its new
000.
Municipal expenditures, for
schedule will bring
*163.000 yearly. ’
I \ • • • X‛
HTRAT S the engineer's method,
L axd that s Hooyer’s method.
pt Ik X little slow. kn<L It I* not
gery spectacular. . .but it is fair-
ly sure. \ '
• The stoty goes that someone
(od Ben Jonson -Shakehpeare
vevercortected\a mahuscNkt to
hee extent, or .crossing out sin-
dle word, knd Jonson Nkeplled,
Evould to Vod he had crossed
Bi
They were Pleasant postoffice to
The first thing I'saw was a pile
of moaning children six feet high
at the foot of the staffs leading
to the balcony. I passed them
out thru the window.”
Deputy‘Fire Master John Wil-
son told the press: •
"When my men heard there
were children inside there was
no holding,them. They dashed in.
"At the farthest end of the
theater, on each side of the
screen, there is a passageway
with nine or ten steps. We
found these’ steps packed with
children.”'
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4. ■ • V
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59
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/
Was merely a gesture.” Carr
said.
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ot impressed Wha-therbitrar
rove without be Quitting discuse
ion as tixhadben told would
ir its domestic gas than any
ity Council will continue its
Sdhy by members 8g the City )
I Gas Company arbitrarily
ectiyexTuesday.
ped from 6%c per hundred . 1
to 16.67per hundred cubic-----4
th. X \
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