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EIGHT SEEN AS CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR IN TEXAS |
HOT CAMPAIGN
IS PREDICTED
Mayfield, Ma, Sterling In
cluded In List of Pos
sibilities
AUSTIN, July 8.— (/P) —While
committees wrestle with uninterest
ing figures, the foot loose legisla
tors, waiting impatiently for the
financiers to get the appropriation
bills in shape, like tp speculate on
next year's state political cam
paign.
Formal announcement of Senator
Thomas B. Love of Dallas for gov
ernor has added fuel to the flames,
and everybody is counting on one
of the most colorful campaigns
Texas has ever witnessed.
As the situation stands now there
■will be a field of eight or ten.
There are now five avowed can
didates, Senator Love, Oscar B.
Holcombe, former mayor of Hous
ton; Representative T. N. Mauritz
of Ganado, advocate of an income
tax; Miss Katie Daffan of Ennis,
historian and active in the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, and
E. G. Senter of Dallas, writer and
lawyer.
Some now in might get out. At
the outset of every gubernatorial
campaign there are announced
candidates who decide later to pull
down before the horses are led to
the tape.
Mayfield Hinted
Lieutenant Governor Barry Mil
ler is depended on by a large fol
lowing to announce his candidacy
in due time. Gossip circulating
freely through the capitol has it
that Earle B. Mayfield, former
United States senator, contemplates
making the race. The same current
of talk carries the rumor that if
Senator Mayfield runs, former Gov.
Pat M. Neff of Waco will enter the
field. Senator Mayfield and Gov
ernor Neff had quite a spat lately
when the retiring United States
senator from Texas opposed the
confirmation of the former gover
nor as a member of the United
States mediation board. Senator
Mayfield had claimed credit for
getting Governor Neff the place,
and the Wacoan countered that no
one except former President Calvin
Coolidge was due credit. Senator
- Mayfield protested his confirmation
to a new term, and Governor Neff
did not get the place. Former
Gov. Oscar B. Colquitt, supporter
of President Hoover in the late
presidential campaign, was award
ed the plum.
Ma, Too
Another strata of gossip has put
former Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson in
, the race, in the event Senator
Mayfield enters.
Robert L. Bobbitt of Laredo, for
mer speaker of the house of repre
‘ sentatives, is a likely candidate, his
friends have announced. It is re
ported Governor Moody would look
j with favor upon the Bobbitt can
didacy.
West Texans are said to have in
mind booming Senator Walter C.
Woodward of Coleman or Senator
Clint C. Small of Wellington for
governor at the proper time.
R. S. Sterling of Houston, chair
man of the highway commission,
has been mentioned more than
once. The other day at a bridge
opening at Belleville, Sterling, the
principal speaker, heard himself
put forward for the governorship
by speakers who preceded him.
There are plenty available issues.
Mr. Love said he would run as an
anti-Tammany candidate, inferring
he would revive the acrimony that
developed last November, when he
and other democrats left their
party to fight Gov. Alfred E. Smith
for the presidency and carried
Texas on their side.
May Bar Love
Mr. Love was a candidate for
lieutenant governor in the last
primary and quit the race before
the run-off with Lieutenant Gov
ernor Miller, after several counties
had barred his name from the of
ficial party ballot because of his
announced determination to
scratch the ticket in the November
general election.
There may be a movement next
July to bar his name from the
party ballot, but it is reported the
most conservative democrats will
try to keep this fight down, since
they believe it would be water over
Love's wheel and give him an issue
to revive his campaign, whereas if
■ he is permitted to run as a demo
crat they believe his Tammany cry
will excite little interest.
Interesting issues such as reg
ulation of public utilities, submis
sion of an income tax for the ad
valorem levy and preservation of
the water supply to domestic users,
would provide locomotion for a live
campaign without bringing in ex
traneous matters.
Governor Moody has advocated
these things before an unfriendly,
or at least, an indifferent, legisla
ture. If he were not too orthodox
in his democracy he could shell the
woods with these issues and prob
ably win a third term, his friends
contend. They point out he could
at the same time campaign for a
legislature friendly to his reforms.
WEATHER SUMMARY
An area of high pressure, crested
over North Carolina, overlies the
west Gulf, middle Mississippi valley
states and the entire country east
of the Mississippi river except the
upper lake region and the extreme
North Atlantic states where the
pressure is moderately low. An
other “high” crestles over western
Montana and overlies the northern
Rocky Mountain and Pacific
states. Low barometric pressure
centered over Phoenix covers the
remainder of the country except
for a shallow trough that covers
the upper Missouri valley and
central Plains states. Precipitation
from light to excessive was report
ed from the Atlantic coast states
and in smaller amounts from the
Rocky mountain and upper Missis
sippi and Missouri Valley states.
Temperatures this a. m. are near
the seasonal average over the coun
try except slightly sub-normal over
the Rocky mountain states.
WEATHER BULLETIN
First figure lowest temperature
last night; second, highest tem
perature yesterday; third, wind ve
locity at 8 a. m.; fourth, rainfall
past 24 hours.
Abilene . 70 92 10 .00
Amarillo. 68 93 — .00
Atlanta . 72 92 — .00
Austin . 72 90 — .00
Boston . 74 92 — .00
BROWNSVILLE. 74 88 — .00
Chicago . 66 78 — .00
Corpus Christi .. 78 88 — .CO
Dallas . 72 90 — .00
Del Rio. 74 92 12 .00
Denver . 50 92 10 , .00
Detroit . 62 82 — .14
Dodge City. 66 98 — .72
El Paso. 76 102 — .00
Fort Smith. 72 86 — .00
Galveston . 78 86 — .00
Helena . 44 56 — .22
Huron . 60 84 — .06
Jacksonville .... 72 90 — 1.32
Kansas City .... 72 84 — .00
Louisville . 72 88 — .00
Memphis . 78 90 — .00
Miami . 72 86 10 .40
Montgomery .... 68 94 — .62
New Orleans .... 78 92 — .00
New York . 76 88 16 .00
North Platte ... 58 92 10 .42
Oklahoma City . 70 88 14 .00
Palestine . 72 90 — .00
Pensacola. 74 88 — .00
Phoenix . 62 106 — .00
Pittsburgh . 68 86 — .58
St. Louis . 72 82 10 .00
St. Paul . 60 80 — .20
Salt Lake City .. 58 80 — .00
San Antonio- 72 88 — 00
Santa Fe . 58 88 — .00
Sheridan . 48 54 — .48
Shreveport . 74 92 — 00
Tampa . 72 88 — .08
Vicksburg. 74 92 — .00
Washington .... 74 94 — .00
Willis ton . 50 72 12 .16
Wilmington .... 74 84 — 1.56 (
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Girl Writer Finds Runners Courteous
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(Editor’s Note: This is the fifth
and last article of a series on the
activities of rum runners along the
Detroit river.)
AMHERSTBURG, Ont., July 8.—
Before us stretches that section of
the Detroit river where the major
rum running activities of the pres
ent time are centered. Bob-Lo Is
land, and amusement park, hides us
from the U. S. side of the river and
protects the various gentlemen of
the bootlegging fraternity, lolling
about the export dock, from the
scrutiny of coast guard and border
patrol boats.
Rough, uncouth fellows? with in
solent manners?
You don’t know your bootleggers!
A great many of the “boys” look
like college youths on vacation, or
pleasure boat owners.
Not a loud word spoken.
Not a quarrel.
Not a sign of drunkenness.
That’s a picture of the modem
bootlegger who is in the business to
make money. He hasnt’ time to
waste at the dock. He wants to get
his load and dispose of it as quickly
as possible so that he can return for
another.
Some 20 boats are in the slip to
day, most of them making no effort
to load before the dock closes at 6
p. m. This isn’t going to be a very
auspicious night for work since the
moon will be full. Many of the boat
men prefer not to work on moonlit
nights since the danger of their be
ing picked up is so great. “Wait un
til there is no moon,” they say,
“then we’ll all be out on the river
again.”
However, some hardy souls are
making the risky trip to the other
side in broad daylight. There comes
a boat now returning after dispos
ing of the load purchased a few
hours before.
“Make it all right?” his pals call
out.
“Sure, easy, didnt’ see a govern
ment boat all the way over or back.”
Talk of a fund to insure safe pass
age is also heard. One man declares,
“Each boat pays $100—if a man
owns three boats he pays $300.
Usually the pot goes to $5,000. Of
course if we think the coast is clear
and a strange rum chaser comes
along or a new commander is aboard
the craft with which we have bar
terecUwe are out of luck.”
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Top, bootlegger at Amherstburg, Ont., covering the number of his
boat. Below, automobiles waiting near Detroit to distribute cargoes
brought in by speed boats.
This is vigorously denied by en
forcement heads.
Each boat can well afford to pay
$100 for protection since the profit
on a single case of whiskey will run
from $40 to $50. One veteran dock
employe says, “I have seen some fel
lows make as high as $3,000 in a
morning. The average speedboat
will hold several hundred cases of
whiskey or beer. Beer brings a
profit of two or three dollars a case.
Export Figures
“Every weei? from this dock, alone,
approximately 2,000 to 3,000 cases
or beer are exported, and from 800
to 1.500 cases of whiskey. More beer
is sold than hard liquor, since the
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whiskey represents a much greater
outlay of money, and the lass In
curred if the boat is captured or the
runner is forced to dump part of his
load is so much greater.
“The bigger boats which clear
from Kingsville are designed pri
marily for lake traffic, and they are
capable of carrying more than 1,000
coses. Is it any wonder that boot
legging lures the young and adven
turous when a man can make a
small fortune over-night by trans
porting a lugger of whiskey across
the lake with an almost dead cer
tainty that he will arrive at his des
tination with safety?”
Pity the Poor Bootlegger
"It’s a case of “liquor, liquor every
where and not a drop to drink,"
with the rum runners while they are
at the export docks. Provincial laws
are so strict that the breweries that
do business with the bootleggers are
not even allowed to give them a
glass of beer to slake thirsts brought
on by long hours on the river in the
sunshine.
Five boats have cleared in the
hour or so that we have been visit
ing Amherstburg. There has been
no excitement—no more thrilling
than watching any business man
about his affairs.
Here comes a boatload of photog
raphers to snap bootlegging ships.
Owners scramble to cover their boat
numbers and the rest of us rush in
side one of the dock houses. A
deserted wharf presents itself to the
cameras’ lens.
Resent Camera Attack
“We would mind if they would
come right in and ask for pictures,”
one brewery official remarks, “but
we do hate to be spied upon. We are
engaged in a legitimate business at
this dock.”
One looks in vain for the guns
which popularly are supposed to
bristle fore and aft from rum boats.
Tales of gun battles with coast
guardsmen and border patrol men
are heard, but on this side of the
river you will be told that the shots
: probably were fired by hi-jackers.
I “In all the years I have worked
on the liquor dock,” one veteran
says, “I never have seen a gun
aboard a rum runner.”
Just business men” plying a
dangerous trade—that’s the Am
herstburg picture of that peculiar
species of Americana—the rum run
1 ner.
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GIVE THANKS
FOR MONARCH
British Populace Holds Reli
gious Service For
King George
LONDON, July 8.—(J5)—George V.
king of England and of the British
dominions beyond the seas, defender
of the faith and emperor of India,
was consecrated anew Sunday in
historic Westminister Abbey by a re
ligious service probably unique in
history.
j The service was sponsored by his
millions of subjects in thanksgiving
and gratitude to providence in de
livering their sovereign from his re
cent grievous illness.
Many thousands of King George’s
British subjects, took an active part
in the service in and around the
abbey, while millions of others par
ticipated through the radio or by
similar services in various parts of
the world.
English history does not record
a similar ceremony.
A home like atmosphere was lent
to the ceremony by the presence of
the public for the first time at a
state thanksgiving service.
Nineteen years ago; when King
George succeeded to the crown of
England, on- the death of his father,
King Edward, he was crowmed for
mally and officially consecrated to
the task of ruling the far flung Brit
ish Empire.
He was crowned today with the
visible love of his people and conse
crated anew by the loyalty, respect
and admiration of his subjects.
The Duke and Duchess of York
were the first members of the royal
family to leave Buckingham Palace
today for Westminister Abbey. They
were followed by Prince George and
Princess Victoria, sister of King Ed
ward, in one car and by Princess
Mary and Viscount Lasce-les in an
other car.
A few minutes later a closed lan
dau left the palace grounds with
four nurses. Misses Black who still
attends the king, and Purdie, Davis
and Gordon who nursed his majesty
through his long illness.
Then the big palace gates swung
open qnd two open barouches, each
with scarlet and gold liveried coach
men and footmei. on the boxes,
came out.
In the first were King George.
Gueen Mary, and the Prince of
Wales. The second carried the Lord
and Lady in waiting and the Equerry
in waiting.
An immense crowd, many of whose
spectators had been waiting since
midnight, gathered along Whitehall.
As the king’s carriage came into
view there were cries on every hand
of “’ere comes the king. God bless
him.”
The emotional fervor ran high,
and there were tears of happiness
and joy at seeing the monarch again
in good health after his narrow es
cape from death.
CORPUS CHRISJI
FINANCIER DIES
CORPUS CKRISTI. July 8.—(AP—
Robert Driscoll, 58. financier and
president of the Corpus Christi Port
commission, died in a San Antonio
hospital todav. He was ill several
weeks, and died after the amputa
tion of a leg in an effort to* check
an infection.
He has been active in financial
circles in the north and the east.
He is survived by his sister. Mrs.
Clara Driscoll Sevier of Austin.
Texas. Democratic national commit
tee woman.
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Jury Contributes
To Pay Negro’s
Installment Debt
BEAUMONT, Tex., July 3.—f.TW
It was worth $6.80 to a Beaumont
negro to be ‘‘beat up" by installment
collectors.
The negro caused arrest of the
two men on the charge of assault.
A jury in corporation court found
them guilty and fined them $20 and
costs each. After hearing the negro s
story the jurors donated their fees
and took up a collection among
themselves to make up the total of
$6.80 to pay the debt.
EXTRA REPORTS
FOR AVIATORS
Forecasting . Service For
U. S. Is Planned By
Department
(Special to The Herald)
WASHINGTON, July 8.—An im
portant new intensive weather re
porting and forecasting service for
aviators was started on July 1 by
the Weather Bureau of the Unit
ed States Department of Agricul
ture along the New York-Chicago
San Francisco-Los Angeles airways.
This service, which was made pos
sible by a congressional appro
priation of $350,000, will have a
system of reports broadcast every
three hours by voice from four
collecting centers where there are
powerful radio broadcasting sta
tions of the department of com
merce.
These stations, located at Cleve
land, Omaha, Salt Lake City and
San Francisco, will receive tele
graphic reports every three hours,
day and night, from about 60 se
lected reporting stations situated on
both sides of the airways, and
about 100 to 200 miles from the
route taken by fliers. A strip ap
proximately 400 miles wide and
stretching from coast to coast will
thus be covered by this network of
reporting stations, which are about
60 miles apart. Aircraft are now
equipped with radio receiving sets
so that when information is made
available to aviators by broadcast
ing, it can be picked up along the
route, thus insuring greater safety.
TALK FRUIT
STOCK BANS
Conference of Agriculture
Department to Consider
Additional Moves
Some Daring Runners
WASHINGTON, July 8.—The ad
visability of placing further restric
tions on the importation of fruit
stocks, including cuttings or any
classes of them, will be considered
at a conference called by the Plant
Quarantine and Control Adminis
tration of the United States de
partment of agriculture for July 19,
1929, at 10 o’clock. The meeting
will be held at the offices of the
administration at 1729 New York
Ave„ Washington, D. C.
In explanation of the proposed
conference, the department refer
red to its announcement of July 25,
1928, excluding apple, pear, quince
and Mazzard cherry stocks, in
which the following statement was
made: “With respect to the defer
red actions as to the items Mah
aleb cherry, Myrobalan plum and
rose stocks, if in the judgment of
the department it should later
seem possible to consider final ac
tion relative to these stocks, a con
ference will be called and, if the
information presented should war
rant the department in excluding
such stocks, if safety permits, be
so fixed as to allow a reasonable
period for adjustment, both in this
country and abroad.”
At this conference it is also pro
posed to give consideration to other
fruit stocks, such as fig, nut, per
simmon, etc., which have been im
ported in Relatively small numbers.
Persons interested in rose stocks
are advised that it is not the in
tention to consider at this time fur
ther restrictions on entry of these
stocks and such consideration is
postponed pending the outcome of
investigations which are still in
progress.
The pest risk incident to bulk
importation of fruit stocks has been
fully discussed in connection with
previous conferences, the depart
ment stated.
TEXAS TRADE
IN GOOD SHAPE
Missouri Pacific Reports
Business Continues
To Improve
( Special to The Herald)
HOUSTON, July 8.—That condi
tions generally throughoutt he ter
ritory served by the Missouri Pa
cific continues to improve is indi
cated in the regular monthly load
ings and receipts from connections
statement for June released in St.
Louis today by President L. W.
Baldwin of the Missouri Pacific
lines. During the month there was
loaded, locally 94,442 cars and 40,
099 received from connections, mak
ing a total of 134,541 cars loaded.
This is an increase of 15,774 cars
over June last year, or 13.3 per
cent. It was also an increase of
4,185 cars over M^r of this year.
For the six months period ending
June 30, there was an increase of
6.5 per cent over the same period
In 1929. Local loadings during that
period increased 33,357 cars, the
total being 559,749, and receipts
from connections increased 17,631
cars, the total being 271.400. The
total loading for the period this year
being 831,149 cars, an increase of
50.988 cars.
The principal commodities show
ing decided increases in June are
wheat with a jump from 1,030 cars
to 3,136 cars; corn from 1,779 cars
to 2,201 cars; coal from 5,465 cars
to 6.163 cars and merchandise from
22,227 to 22,762 cars.
On the Gulf Coast lines the local
loading and receipts from connec
tions showed a slight decrease as
compared with June of last year.
Local loading was 7,483 cars com
pared with 9,433 cars last year and
receipts from connections were 8.
106 cars this year compared with
8,200 last year.
On the International-Great Nor
thern local loadings for June were
9,362 cars compared with 9,468 cars
for june last year, receipts from
connections this year being 11,235
cars compared with 9,992 last year,
an increase of 1,137 cars for June
this year over June 1928.
On the San Antonio Uvalde and
Gulf local loadings for June were
2,837 cars compared with 2,817 last
year and receipts from connections
this year were 701 cars compared
with 1,590 last year.
During the shipping season just
ended the Missouri Pacific lines
handled a total of 20,291 cars of
perishables out of the lower Rio
Grande Valley and 13,677 cars of
fruits and vegetables from the Win
ter-Garden section of San Antonio,
served by the International-Great
Northern and San Antonio Uvalde
and Gulf, a grand total of 33,968
cars compared with a total of 30,
462 fo rthe same period a year ago
this has been the best season in
the history of these two districts in
Texas and as a result general busi
ness conditions are excellent and
an increase in inbound traffic is in
sight.
EIGHT JONESES, 28
SMITHS AT COLLEGE
DENTON, Tex., July 8.—I/F)—
“Keeping up with the Joneses” is
a simple matter at the College of
Industrial Arts. Only eight of them
were registered here during the past
year, while 28 students named Smith
matriculated. Only one of the 28
was Smythe.
There were nine Browns and one
Browne. Prize tongue-twisters were
Katzung, Wellensick, Kishi, Uzzle,
Boseman, Wozencraft, and Kotapish.
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itching skin diseases. It kills_ germs,
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skin to health. Soap 25c; Blue *****
Remedy, $1.00. Ask your dru
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