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SWEETWATER, TEXAS FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1930.
VOLUME X
NUMBER 84
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A9GRY TEXAS MOB FIRES COURTHOUSE AT
SHERMAN IN WHICH NEGRO BURNS TO DEATH
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wver Nominates Owen D. Roberts For Supreme Court Bench
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THIRTEEN DIE IN FACTORY DISASTER
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Jury Is Completed for Trial of Judge John Brady
And Opening Testimony Is Taken in Murder Trial
Plant at St. Josiph. Mo., ia
Wrecked By Ijxploaion;
Probe is .Started
\ OTHERS MAY* BE DEAD
j Cause Not Determined; 46
Employes In Plant At
Time of Blast
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.,"" May 9.(U.R>—
Tlie smoke blackened bulk nf a fac-
tory inside the big Armour & Com-
pany plant greeted workmen here
today, the tomb for thirteen persons
who lost their lives In one of the
most devastating Industrial acci-
dents In the history of this city.
Others were believed burled In the
debris.
Puffing steam engines, derricks
and tractors tore at the twisted
■wreckage of the smokehouse which
literally was lifted from the earth
late yesterday when an explosion
tore through the six story building.
Forty-six employes wore In the
plant at the time of the explosion.
Exact eause of the blast was not
determined. Strong odors of escap-
-iUR amonla gas from demolished
refrigeration equipment prevailed
after the bla3t, but theories that
this created the exploglon were dis-
counted. A new gas main had been
laid to the plant recently. Armour
company officials from Chicago
worfe reported enroute to make un
inquiry.
The heavy structure was lifted
Into the air and dropped in a
crumpled, twisted heap. Fire, which
broke out after the explosion and
raged for a Half hour, added to the
horror o fthe scene.
The explosion occurred about
3:30 p. m., when the majority of
workers were homeward bound.
Senator and Congressman To Be
Summoned To Texas To Testify
In Creager’s Famed Libel Suit
HECEiVERSHIP
OF CISCO
ASKE8
Dead Are Identified
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., May O.(U.R) —
The dead in the Armour and Com-
pany plant explosion here were:
The dead: Gerald Munden, 21,
Arthur Paul Rogers, 27, Earl Paul
Rogers, 27, Earl Walter Hansen,
32, Dexter Bowlin, 28, Hay Rick-
man, 34, Miss Verna F. Durkin, 20,
Miss Margaret Willis, 20, Matilda
Horan, 42. Mary Durkan, 33, Jam'e::
Staples, 20, Charles Moore, 20
and Mathilde Loar.
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Marrs Unable
To Be Here For
Trustee Meet
S. M. N. Marrs, Htate superintend
ent, will be unable to attend a gen-
eral meeting of seluM trustees to
be held here abon'. the middle of
May, he has nrtllfed Will H. Scott
county superintendent.
Mr. Marrs was invited to aid in
planning work for next year, es-
pecially regarding seventh grade
standardization. Pressing business
at the capital was given us the
reason for not attending.
No date for tho meeting has
been set but it probably will be
announced within a short time Mr,
Scott stated. Trustees of each
school in the county are to attend
THE WEATHER
’.Vest Texas: Fair
tonight ana Sat-
urday. Cooler In
north portion to-
night.........
East Texas
Mostly cloudy to-
night aud Satur-
day with scatter-
ed thunder show-
ers. Cooler in
northwest por-
___ tlon tonight and
Cool in north portion
Saturday.
Flying Weather Texas and Ok-
lahoma—-Mostly overcast. Scatter-
ed thundershowers over east por-
tion. Partly cloudy over west por-
tion. Moderate to fresh southerly
surface winds except westerly over
extreme west portion. Fresh to
strong southwesterly winds up to
G.000 feet except westerly over ex
tretne west portion. Gale force in-
dicated above 3,000 feet.
ABILENE. May 9.0J.R)—Hearing
n“rry on the petition of four eastern men
BROWNSVILLE, May .9. (U.R)— J
Five congressmen and a senator j
were requested today as witnesses
In the R. B. Creager $500,000 libel
suit against Collier’s weekly mag-
azine.
Collier’s chief counsel, Charles E. |
Kelley, asked Federal Judge Eaten |
to authorize suppoenaes-for Sens-'
tor Smith W. Urookliart and Con-1
gressmen F. R. Lehibach,
C^|*«»r appointment of a receiver for
he town of Cisco will he heard by
Brookliart headed a senatorial Judge Wilson in Amarillo oh May
committee which Investigated 30.
southern patronage. Lehibach head-
ed a congressional committee that
investigated political conditions In
Hidalgo county and elsewhere. The
others tpok part in the investiga-
tions.
I want those witnesses to tell
what the plaintiff said to them per-
sonally when they came down
here,” Kelley said. “These wit-
nesses conversed with him pet son-
ally about Hidalgo county."
Owen P. White, author of U19 ar-
ticle on which Creager, Texas Re-
publican national committeeman, is
suing the magazine, was put on the
stand.
‘They told me that a rotten, cor-
rupt situation, both politically and
financially, existed in Hidalgo,
county,” White said.
He told of. conversations with
several men who charged that j
gratt and corruption were running
away with the county, that there'
had been reckless expenditures ofj
public funds and lhat citizens
could not see t lie county's financial j
records.”
"I was told,” White said, ‘that
A. V. Baker, Hidalgo county sher-
iff and Democrat, maintained a sov-
ereignty over Hidalgo county Mex-
ican voters and controlled the
county that way.”
f DALLAS, May 9.IU.R) — Twelve
men who were taken from the |
| peaceful environs of their homes to
I become public characters for the
! next few weeks marched Into the
.jury box in Judge Charles A. Pip-
pen's criminal district oouvt today
and heard opening testimony in
the trial or John W. Brady, former
appellate court judge of Austin.
Brady went on trial for murder
In knift/.llllng or Miss Lelhla
High smith, pretty supreme court
stenographer of the rapitoi city.
The jury which will weigh his fate
consists of the following:
Alvin O’Brien, printer; R. M.
Brantley, hardware merchant; E.
F. Brownlee, auto salesman; W. .1.
Moorman, plumber; G. H. Gautlt,
farmer; A. R. Lewis, waterworks
owner; J. E. Poston, electrician;
W. L. Miller, waiter; O. B. Walker,
machinist; Paul Quisenberry, car-
T'» -isrs; tsjstsrt&jss-
Ohio, Robert D. White, Charles P. | Would Give Death
Bullard and John Brandon of New j None 0f the jurymen have any
York, claim they hold more than ] scruples against infliction of the
WE TODAY
It Conics 48 Hours Alter
That of Parker Hail
Been Rejected
A PRIVATE*LAWYER
Won Fame as Prosecutor
In Famous Teapot Dome
Land in Ector Co.
Alabama Girls Get Life Terms
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death penalty, they asserted, and
none had read the detailed ac-
counts of Judge Brady’s first trial
iu a hung
$1,150,000 in Cisco city bonds,
$2,000 of which is now past due.
The action writes a new chapter
in the financial affairs of the. city. )|n Austin which ended
Only a short time ago Mayor J. M. jury.
Williamson and W.J), Stathnm, city | Brady’s defense will be tempor- ................ .
secretary of Cisco were indicated ary insanity, induced by overindul- j Philadelphia last night,
on charges of certifying falsely in!genCe of intoxicating liquors. His He js a Republican, though not
connection with the taxuble value I attorneys will claim that his once L.Bj,,r,ially active in politics. His
| reputed great mind had deterlorat-[ plttetic<, in Philadelphia has been
1 ed to such an extent over a course. ]af,gejy corporation practice, and he
| of several years that lie was not , vanks ds 0!le of t)u, outstanding
■ aware of his crime until bom’s j lawyers ol the country. However,
latter Miss HigTismiths braised op|)oa|tton „buh might have
body was found in front of her np-1 (iCyelo^d because of his cotpora-
l'lr'rh7statewm contend that Brady 11011 Uractlce long since has teen
I slew Miss Highsmlth during a ,no-1 dissolved by bis handBng of the
ment of jealously when he learned i nrosecution of foi mer Secretary of j
she had been keeping company Interior Albert B. 1* all, E. L.
villi another man. Death In the el- beny a.:d Harry F. Sinclair in the
ectric chair will he demanded by j oil cases.
WASHINGTON, May 9 (U.R)—The
nomination of Owen J. Roberts, of
Philadelphia, prosecutor of the
naval oil cases, to be associate Jus- ' nfa Birmingham Bureau
Convicted of the murder ot Harry Cunningham, Scottsboro. Ala., farm-
, President lioov.-r •*, these two girls have Just begun serving life t ntences in the state
The nomination was made nl- | women's prison at Wetumpka. Myrtle Graham, 17, right, admitted stab-
most exactly 43 hours after the
senate rejected Judge John J. Par-
ker of North Carolina, for this post.
In selecting Roberts the presi-
dent. reached into the front rank of
the American bar for a man whose |
attainment as a private lawyer and
whose prosecution of the Teapot
Dome cases has won him the high-
est legal standing.
Roberts was hele yesterday, but.
the White House denied he had
seen the president. He, returned to
bing Cunningham while Newby Motes. 19, left, present at the time, was
held as an accessory. She elected to stand trial with her friend and
share her fate.
of city property.
MRS. R. Q. LEE
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Governor Moody Announces That!
He Is "Fi<iursnji on Getting in
Race”; Flays Mayfield-Ferguson
ARGUMENTS! N
lURBEft CASE
STARTED
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Ten Members of Osear Mc-
Donald Post To East-
land Meeting
Ten members of the Oscar Mc-
Donald Post o ftlie American Le-
gion have been named delegates
and are to leave Saturday for
Eastland to attend the regular dis-
trict convention of the Legion it
was announced Friday.
Other Sweetwater
are also to attend the convention.
The group is to he headed by V.
Earl Earp, 17th district committee-
man.
Delegates are George Winter,
Harry Phelps, Don Farris, Roy
CoRtephens, L. A. Eberle, Elza
Roland, Oluis. E. Paxton, R. S.
Calvert, W. B. Hnekabee, and 11.
T. Marshall.
Three of this group, Mr. Phelps
Mr. Farris and Mr. Eberle nre mem-
bers of the district resolutions
committee.
Rangers On Guard at Trial
SIIERMBA", May 9. (U.R)—Wliijo
Texas rangers stood guard to pre-
vent any violence, George Hughes,
41-year-old negro, charged in three
Indictments with criminal assault,
went on trial in district court here
today.
Discrepancies in Flection
SAN ANTONIO, May 9 (U.R)—Dis-
crepancies revouloil during the can-
vass of the votes cast in San An-
tonin's 81,975,900 bond election
which carried by a majority of 302
brought charges of irregularities
today from the faction which led
tho rigid in opposition to (lie bonds.
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2.000 Dead In Quake
TEHERAN, Persia, May 9. (U.R)
An earthquake in the vicinity of
ttrumlah Lake killed 2,000 persons
and caused widespread damage, de-
layed advices receiv'd today said.
The (t'tlmale was unofficial. The
earth movement was most vlolont
ut Salmas and Uruminh.
Slip is Seeking Congres-
sional Office Formerly
Held By Husband
Mrs. R. Q. Lee of Cisco, who Is
seeking election to the congression-
al office made vacant by the death
of Colonel Lee, is a Sweetwater
visitor today, arriving during the
morning anil attending the meeting
the state.
District Attorney Henry Brooks
of Austin outlined the state’s case
against “this man Brady” for stab-
bing to death Miss Highsmlth last
Nov. 9.
Pictures Seduction
He pictured tho seduction of a
girl of 23, by a middle-aged man ot
this afternoon of the City Fedora-165. Brady met Miss Highsmlth in
tlon of Women’s Clubs. '1925, became infatuated with her
Mrs. Lee is accompanied by C.1 and introduced her to his wife,
H. Fleming, who is directing her . Brooks contended In his statement
campaign and formerly was in j that the veteran jurist's "fatherly
charge of Mr. Lee’s campaign. | interest” in tile girl led to her tra-
A luncheon was accorded Mrs. glc death because of jealously.)
Lee by a few of her friends at the Brady procurred the girl an ap- j
noon hour. It was given in the din- ] ailment and when she later attenip- i
ing room of the Blue Bonnet Hotel, jted to extricate herself from olili- I
gations heaped upon her by Brady, i
In* threatened to kill her, Brooks
said.
He described Brady's attendance
at the Texas-Baylor football game
last Nov. 9, the day the slaying
took place. After the game Brady
went to the apartment lie had ob-
tained for Miss High smith, but
later called a cab and went home
All tills, Brooks and the state con-
tended, was done without assis-
tance, although it is alleged Brady
had been drinking.
Coleman jury
Is Discharged
COLEMAN. May f).(U.R)— Unable
to agree after more than 24 hours
deliberation, in the case of Mrs.
Louiiso Leharon, charged with mur-
der in the fatal injury in an auto-
. mobile accident of Garland Roy
Legmunaires | Freeman lllf, jury was discharge !
last night and a mistrial ordered BOMBAY, May 9.(U.PJ—The most
by Judge K. J. Miller. stringent precautions for the pro-
Tile jury, according to reports, teetion of Europeans in India were
was deadlocked on penalty. j taken by the government today ns
minors of impending attacks by
were re-i
The arguments of these cases be-
fore the supreme court have he-
‘tome classics ir, the • legal profes-
sion. Though he lost the jury con-
spiracy trials against Doliuny and
Sinclair, he won his bribery ease
against Fall and won all civil cases
to dissolve tile oil leases . In these
decisions, the U. S. supreme court
upheld Its contention of fraud In
some of the most emphatic lan-
guage ever to emanate from the
highest bench.
STORM ora
• TOLL
Death List In Bunge Area
Ih Increased Today
To Thirty-Five
RUNGE, Tex., May 0.<U.R>— The
death list from the Runge-Nord
heim area rose to thirty-five today
with the dath of Herniina Guer-
rero, in a Cuero hospital. Her fath-
er, Valintin Guorrera, also was in
r. hospital there. IHh recovery ia
doubtful. Her mother, also injured,
is expected to recover.
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Constitution and ‘Ay-Law.-
Adopted; Studying Zon-
Ordinancc
Tlie City Plan Commission met
in regular monthly session Thurs-
day evening with nine members
preront. In tho absence of the
chairman, H. R. Bandies, It. C.
Crane was appointed u < chi'lrmali
pro-tern unil presided during the
meeting.
E. F. Nelnast, chairman of the
committee to draw up a constitu-
tion and by-laws, made a report and
tlie constitution and by-laws were
ndopte dns recommended by the
committee,
Tlie zoning committee reported
t hut a city zoning ordinance was
being studied by the members and
that E. S. Noyes, consulting engin-
eer of Dallas, had been requested
independence seekers
ceived in Bombay.
Rescue Work at Frost
FROST, May 9 (U.R)—Rescue and
salvage work went on today as it
has since Frost was devastated
by a tornado Tuesday. Eleven mo-
tor hearses wound through the
wreeltngc to the debris-strewn
cemetery with Hie bodies of twelve
storm victims Thursday.
IVtneral services for the ten ne-
groes who were killed were not.
i held jointly, many of tho hedtes be-
Thurs- ing sen! to other towns.
i , a ... ii Almost to the minute of tlie
dav to Appreciative Aud- ume the storm struck two days
iencc at Auditorium ! before, the rites begnn. Not a
i church remained standing, and ser-
"Thc Cameo Girl”, a Harrington vices were held at the home of L.
Adams production, was presented j A. Morgan. The Rev. \V. W. Riche-
Thrcsday night to not a large hut son, pastor of the Methodist chuhch
First Presentation
BY RAYMOND BROOKS
Staff Correspondent
AUSTIN, May 9. — Gov. Dan
Moody will be a candidate for gov-
, enter, he said Friday noon. "I am
i figuring on getting into the race,”
lie said. “Tlie prospect of being
forced to choose in the run-off be-
_____ j tween James E. Ferguson, a dema-
FORT WORTH Mav 9. (U.R)— Ar-1 KCgue who has been impeached for
, , , corruption, running in his own
guments in the John Alstip murder lme or nam„ o( gomebody
trial started at 10 a. m. today, and | L>ip(., and Mayfield, a political .
the case was expected to reach the ! quack and a demagogue, is not in- assuied.
. ' ,, ! vitiug to the people of Texas."
jury by 4:dt) p. m. The six fasros he recently emt-
Aisup is being tried for the mur- j merated to he his platform. These
der of Will Tate, negro, he shot were: Adjust taxes to relieve mi
, , .,....... ti,,-, just but dens on farms, homes and
down In a tohbr.y att mi ) r,jai property, modern prison sys-
First State Bank of Polytechnic j tem i0bby-free legislature, public
April 10. j utilities ccntrol, equalize educa-
The defendant took the stand ' 'imml opportunities.
I In any event it is understood the
Thursday night in his own defense.: governo'r w;n not make a formal
His testimony was almost a cate- j announcement for some time. He
gorlcal denial of statements made) has a number ol speaking engage-
' ments before schools and orgamza-
by state witnesses. | tions. It might lie embarassing for
Alstip said he had got a tip tnat | j0 have an announced eandid-
l exas Banker*, L" n <1 <* r
Capt. Frank Hamer, ^ in
In First Tilt
NEGRO IS HELD
Black Is Charged With An
j Attack on White Woman;
Fire Trucks Galled
! SHERMAN^ May 9. (UP)
—Foiled in its attempt to take
George Hughes, negro, from
| the district court room here
■.t here he was on trial on three/
charges of criminal assault, a
mob fired the court house
where he had been locked in a
vault for safe keeping and
roasted him alive.
At 3:30 p. m. the court
| house, a two story brick build-
ing, was gutted by flames,
and spectators said it was ab-
solutely impossible that the
negro could be alive.
A witness also declared
: hat it was a virtual certainty
that he hau not been spirited
away before the flames
reached the vault.
Ali county records were de-
stroyed, and the couH house
property was a total loss.
Apparently satisfied in
having reached its objective,
the mob dispersed as such
when the negro’s death was
ill” bank was to he robheil fronting on the program although poli-
Will Vincent, negro chauffeur. He|ticg Wouhl not he discussed. Tho
said he-had not gone to Chief of j formal application for a place on
Police Henry Lee with the tip at, jj10 democratic primary ballot need
once because ho had an under- not be made until Jvte 2.
standing with W. L. Zent. San An- The governor pointed out care-
gelo chief, that Zent was to tell I fully that he was not announcing as
I.ee, ja candidate at this time. His de-
’ He declared Will Tate, one of the j duration, however, is considered
killed at the bank, had|as a practical assurance that he
AUSTIN, May. 9. 'U.R)—Col.
Lawrence McGee of Dallas and
fifty men of the Texas nation-
al guard were ordered to go to
Sherman to prevent violence
this afternoon.
negroes
pointed a pistol at him as the neg-
ro fled from the bank.
Testimony given by two women
who said they were eye witnesses
to the shooting of Tato, was vigor-
ously denisd by AIsup. Tho wom-
en had testified AIsup continued to
fire at Tate after he had fallen to
the ground In a church yard.
: will run. If elected he wifi be the
first to hold the governor’s office
three terms.
Gasoline Price Hiked
NEW YORK. May iMU.PJ—Stand-
. ard Oil of New Jersey has advan-
! ced the tank car price of gasoline
half a cent gallon to 9c It was an-
| nounced here today.
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an appreciative audience. Tlie play
is heing sponsored by the Junior
high school and more than 125
Junior high school sludonts are tak-
ing part in tho show.
The final performance Is sche-
duled for tonight at 8 o'clock at the
City Auditorium.
Miss Martha Swartz is directing
the play and has worked with the
Undents dally for tlie lust several
weeks.
This Is the fourth presentation of
the Junior high school In dramatic
I
for suggestions regarding the ton-.that Its final performance will
lug ordinance, one of the most succesuful.
was In charge.
Son of Bishop
To Face Charge
Flocds In Ceylon
COLOMBO, Island ol Ceylon,
May 9. (U.R'—Thousands of natives
were made homeless today as un-
precedented floods swept the i.;-
land after several days of torren-
tial rains. Railway service was
completely disorganized, and the
floods were still rising.
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CONGRES STODAY
(By the United Press)
DALLAS, May 9. (U.R'- First di-
rect word of the charges to be fil-
ed against Bishop James Cannon.
Jr., for his activities in behalf of
prohibition against Alfred E.
Smith during the 192S presidential
campaign, came to the general con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church hore today.
The charges will come by mail j
from the Rev. Rombert" Smith, ot’
SHERMAN, May 9. (U.R)—Fire
started by a mob seeking Goorge
Hughes, negro, menaced Sherman
this afternoon.
When rangers ar.d other peat^e
officers repulsed the mob without
their quarry, who was on trial on
three charges of criminal assult,
! the enraged men filed the court-
house.
Hughes had been locked in a
vault on tlie second floor of the
court house, nnd angry words went
about to ‘roast him alive."
Shortly after 3 p. m. the build-
ing was swathed in flames, and
hart been vacated but for the im-
prisoned negro.
A him wind swept tlie swirling
ent tier... and although the building
is Isolated m a block, it was feared
the flames would spread.
Firemen were helpless, as the
mob had seized the hose as it was
strung uut and chopped it to pieces.
Emergency calls had been sent
to Denison and other nearby towns
but no help had arrived at 3:15 p.
I m.
i With the cour.house, a brick
building, doomed and no hope re-
maining for tho black, the mob
"as apparently satisfied to stand
is_ back and watch their destruction.
More than 5,000 persons milled
about the streets from the entire
community. Many were attracted
by the trial, and when word of vio-
lence went out, a steady stream
poured Into town.
As the afternoon wore on the
wot) grew more violent and set lire
to the court house. The blaze had
gained headway so fast that all of-
fices were cleared and a general
alarm went out for all tho avail-
the i mitral Texas conference is
Senate
Continues debate on District
Columbia appropriation bill.
Lobby committee continues ...
vestigntlon of Anti-Saloon League. I cl.airmail.
______ Commerce committee continues I Smith ntay find it possible to
NEW “YORK May 9 (UP.)— Jantos hearings on house rivers and bar- chanf i- his plaits and come to tho
M. tfuxou, Jr,! eon’ ol the bishop bors bill. ) conference himself, the United
coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese | House i Frees learned, Lay delegates from
of Tennessee, was Indicted by the Continues consideration of naval tlie north Georgia conference be-
grntid Jury toduy on a charge of appropriations Mil. | lieve he will he here
second degree murder. ! Immigration committee hears Bishop Cannon hint-elf has de-
Maxott allegedly heat to death t I’ollee Commissioner Grover Whn- i lined to make any statement about
David Faynler, 73, last month. (leu of New York City. the charges.
Washington, Ga . according to the)8’'® ‘“'e equipment iu the city.”
Rev \V. A. Shelton of Emory Uni- When tlremen and police rushed
versity. On., chairman of the north [ J"0 crowd they were held back and
Georgia conference. They will be i 11 V ils fared the building would be
addressed to the Episcopacy com | entirely destroyed,
mitt, of which F. 1’. Culver o.
Members of the mob took hose
and other equipment away from
Hie firemen ami kept them away
front the blaze.
SHERMAN, May »<U.R>—An an-
gry mob was prevented from re-
moving George Hughes, 41-year-
old negro, from the district court
room here today when Texas Ran-
gets and members of the sheriff’s
department hurled tear gas bombs
utul used clubs to disperse them.
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