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COMMISSION TO
LET CONTRACTS
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Highway Group Will Make
Awards For 247 Miles
Of Road Work
AUSTIN, July 27.—Contracts for
fconstruction of 247 miles of high
way and four highway bridges ara
Scheduled for award at the two
month session of the highway com
mission on July 31-August 1 here.
Twenty-two counties also are ap
plying for future construction or
designation of new highways. Three
extensive projects are to be submit
ted, designation of final links in the
Waco-Beaumont highway; hard
surfacing the old military trail
over which Robert E. Lee traveled
before the Civil war. between Aus
tin and Mason, and taking over
for state operation of the San An
tonio road, from near Nacogdoches
to Lareda, made a state highway
by legislative act.
Bids have been called for 61.9
miles of concrete paving; 113.6
miles of grading and structures;
52.5 miles of asphalt and bitum
inous surfacing, and 19.3 miles of
reshouldering, enlarging structures
and removing dips, and for four
bridges.
Hearing on applications so far
Submitted include:
Travis, Williamson, Burnet, Llano
fend Mason counties: Robert E. Lee
Highway association request that
highway be asphalted; Houston,
Leon and McLennan, designation of
remainder of Waco - Beaumont
highway; Madison, Leon, Brazos
and Robertson counties, survey and
maintenance of old San Antonio
road; Llano county, construction of
north-south highway througn
county; Lamar and Collin county,
new road from McKinney to Paris,
new roads from Lavon to Royse
City, and from Farmersville to Mc
Kinney; Panola, surfacing 15 miles,
Babin e river to state line; LamD
county, financing highway work;
Nacogdoches county,, new road from
Sacul to Summerfield; Hunt and
Fannin: New highway from La
donia to Commerce; Jim Hogg
county, new highway from Jour
rianton to Rio Grande City; Chil
cires scounty, relocation of high
ways 4 and 5 through county;
Shelby county, offers aid to sudface
Timpson-Caledonia road; Robert
son county, asks new designation
Grayson crossing, on Navasota
river, to Bremond.
Construction Schedule
Following is a schedule of con
6truction work on which bids will
be opened and contracts exceeding
53,000,000 awarded:
Concrete paving: Carson county,
30.7 miles, Lark Siding to near
Conway; Baylor county, 20.9 miles,
Seymour to Archer county line;
Harris, 5 miles, Houston to Hous
ton Airport; 7-8 miles, to Liberty
county line; Limestone, 8.6 miles.
Elm Creek to Mexia; Tarrant, 6.7
miles, 12-foot strip, Ft. Worth to
Arlington; Fort Bend county, 2.2 1
miles, Rosenberg east.
Bituminous and asphalt surfac
ing: Trinity county, 23.5 miles,
Groveton to Neches river; Reeves
county, 1.3 miles, through city of
tToyah; Tarrant county, 1 mile with
brick pavement, Katy railroad to
Fort Worth; Brazoria county, 6.3
miles, connecting with concrete
road; Cass county, 1.8 miles. At
lanta north; Rusk county, 10 miles,
Henderson county; Hudspeth coun
ty, 13.8 miles, Lasca to McNary
bridge.
Grading and drainage structures:
Jeff Davis county, 1-2 mile, Wild
Rose pass; San Patricio county, 19
1-2 miles, Angelia to Odem to'sin
ton; Hudspeth, 5.7 miles. Carrizo
divide: Aiistin county, 8.8 miles,
East Mill creek to Industry, Tex •
Fayette county, 9.8 miles, Schulen
berg south; Somervell and Johnson
counties, 2.6 miles, between Glen
Rose and Cleburne; Anderson, 4
miles, Frankston to Neches river
Gray county. 7.4 miles. Carson
county line to Pampa; Palo Pinto.
« mde- on relocation of highway
1-A; Tarrant, 8 miles, Johnson
county line north to Katy railroad
Kinney county, 4 1-2 miles, Brack
ettville west; Grayson county, 8.1
miles, Whitesboro east; Wharton
5'°45^- 13 4 miles, Matagorda line
to El Campo; Henderson county. 5.6
miles, Eustace to Kaufman county
line; Burnett county, 12.3 miles
Switch C°Unty hne t0 Suddeth
Concrete dips, replace
culverts, approaches to bridges
Bexar county, .155 miles, Atascosa
®®”Ani°nlo: Eastland, 19.82
miles, Eastland to Palo Pinto
county line; Harris county. 4SI
brWEcPPr0aChK ‘° San Jacl"»
Bridges and approaches: Mont
gomery county, timber bridge over
82* anTiS, KiI'neS' brld'e
Elm creeks; Ellis and
Dallas, Grove creek bridge under
pass under Texas Electric, Refl
Oak creek bridge, and Bear creek
inter-county bridge. k
$25,000 Posted For
Rome-Dallas Flight
DALLAS. July 27_r<p,_Cnl w
M. (Bill) Easterwood. Jr. chewing
!£? avlation «nth.3?
ast, today posted a certified check
£ ?he°°fUn 3 ,OCal *«*
In* V" “r t P*ne to complete a
--stop flight from Rome to Dal
A prospectus for the content
«£222 the trip must te
completed by September 15 iq*?o
By permission of Premier Benito
Mussolmi, all planes will be ne
mitted to start from the National
Aeronautic association airport at
Rome.
Rules of the contest will permit a
stop at New York City. Two lare«
lakes near Dallas will proved a suit
able landing place for a seaplane" if
that type of ship should win the
contest.
Col. Easterwood said that four
Italian ships definitely had entered
the test and that he expected one
of them to make the attempt pos
sibly within a month.
HUGO STINNES, JR.
FREED ON FRAUD
BERLIN. July 27.—(jp)—Hugo
Stinnes. Jr., son of the German
post-war industrial magnate, was
declared not guilty today of at
tempting to defraud the German
government in operations with Ger
..piaA war loaq jftond^
♦
Slayers Express Satisfaction
Following Witchcraft Murder
Above, the Burgess home roped off to keep the curious away, and one of the last pictures of Mr3.
Fairchilds, taken 20 years ago; below, left to right, Eugene Burgess; his wife, Pearl; their children, Bur
nett, 27, and Eugenia, 17.
Bv BLANCHE DRAPER
KALAMAZOO, Mich., July 27.—
Because of a strange hallucina/ion
which led them to believe that an
aged woman, an inmate of a
widow’s home, had the power to
cast an evil spell over them which
could cause their death, Eugene
Burgess, a laborer, and his wife,
Pearl, are imprisoned in the Kala
mazoo county jail. They are await
ing trial in connection with the
brutal slaying of Mrs. Etta Fair
childs, 75 years old, while the aged
woman, an invited guest at their
home, was seated at the supper
table.
Officers are puzzled by the mys
! tifying angles of the crime. Alien
ists are confounded by the strange
mental aspects of the case. The
city of Kalamazoo is appalled by
the horrors of the slaying, the first
witchcraft murder within its boun
dary in the entire 100 years of its
history.
And in the meantime Burgess
and his wife express themselves as
perfectly satisfied with their deed,
and happy that they have made
the city safe for their family, and
relieved humanity of the danger of
the ‘‘evil spell.” A son, Burnett. 27,
is also held, though a daughter,
Eugenia, has been released.
Less than two decades ago the
Burgess and Fairchilds families1
were next door neighbors. They
\Vere even close friends. Both fam
ili*s upheld the tenets of the
Christian Science faith. The women
of the two families visited back and
forth almost daily. Then Mrs.
Burgess, it is said, became interest
ed in a "higher thought" cult. And
frequently their discussions were
along religious lines.
One day they quarreled. Then,
for years they were estranged. In
the meantime Mrs. Fairchilds’ hus
band died, and she went to the
Merrill Home for Widows to reside.
One day she met her old-time
neighbor. Mrs. Burgess, on the
street. They spoke. A friendly
conversation ensued. Mrs. Fair
childs was invited to the Burgess
home. And the kindly old woman,
lonely for the friends of yesteryear,
was happy. She told the other
widows at the home of her joy.
Burgess’* Confession
The other day she went to the
Burgess home to call. Mrs. Bur
gess invited her to stay for supper.
Burgess came heme. Mrs. Burgess
and her guest were seated at the
table waiting for him. And then,
according to his confession, he came
up behind the little round-shoul
dered old woman, who was just a
trifle deaf, struck her over the head
with a lead pipe, dragged her from
the dining room to the parlor of
the home where he wrapped her up
in the parlor rug, tied her tight
with heavy cord, fastened a con
crete block to her body, and, when
all was dark outside, threw hr.
into the cistern at the rear of ttr.
little home.
Then they turned out the lights
and closed the house. Presently
Eugenia, the daughter, came home,
slipped into the house, and to her
room unaware, she says, of the ter
rible crime which had been com
mitted within the four walls.
Then came a telephone call at
the Merrill Home for Widows. It
was a woman's voice, asking if Mrs.
Fairchilds was at home. Within
five minutes the telephone in the
home of Prosecutor Paul Tedrow
rang. Again it was a woman's
voice that spoke. And it told him
that Mrs. Fairchilds had been mur
dered at the Burgess home.
Woman Retracts Confession
Then began the work of the offi
cers. The arrest of Burgess, his
wife and daughter and the subse
quent arrest of the son, who lived
across the street. Scores of times
Burgess had reiterated his confes
sion that he killed the woman. Mrs.
Burgess, top. confessed that it was
she who did the killing, but then
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entirely retracted her confession.
The son has refused to talk.
Not once has Burgess or his wife
shown a particle of remorse. Not
once have they shown a bit of sym
pathy for the slain woman. Not
once have they broken down. Their
only emotion is one of continued
satisfaction and an apparent sense
of freedom from what they call
“the spell.”
“If you only knew what that spell
could do to you,” they say over and
i over again, “you would be glad we
did it. That woman could make you
have any kind of disease. She has
! killed hundreds of persons with her
i spell.”
“Kindly, Serious-Minded Woman”
And yet among all the acquaint
ances of the slain woman there has
I not been found one who has recog
nized that she had any unusual oc
cult power or claimed to have. As i
a unit they declare her to have been |
! a kindly, serious-minded woman
whose chief apparent interest was
in cats.
As the last rites were performed
over the mutilated form of Mrs.
Etta Fairchilds and her battered
and beaten old body was laid to rest
beside that of her husband in Riv
erside cemetery, the Burgesses
calmly remarked:
"The rest of the people of Kala
mazoo are safe now because Mrs.
Fairchilds can’t bewitch them.”
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Beach Roads Fine
Unless Rain Falls
Roads to Point Isabel and Boca
Chica are in fine condition and rec
ord throngs are expected to line
beaches at both places over Sunday
unless—
Showers of rain fall.
The weather will be partly cloudy
to unsettled Sunday, according to
the prediction of W. J. Schnur
busch, meteorologist of the local
weather bureau.
Large numbers of persons were
reported bound for both beach re
sorts Saturday afternoon and the
water was reported to be slightly
rough but clear. »
Fishermen have been enjoying
unusually good luck during the past
week, according to reports from
Point Isabel.
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Cornish Village
Folk Will Enact
Arthurian Legend
TINTAGEL. Eng., July 27.—(/P)—
A farmer of North Cornwall will be
king for a day here in August when
the townsfolk of Tintagel, a rocky
little village where stand the ruins
of King Arthur’s Castle, play "The
Romance of King Arthur," a pag
eant in nine scenes.
On the sloping lawn of the vic
arage, portions of which date from
the fourteenth century, farmers
with the Cornish accents of “Cou
sin Jack’’ will ride in splendor as
Knights of the Round Table from
Camelot to do deeds of greatness
and nobility. *
The wives of quarrymen, using
the same broad, clipped dialect, will
don the flowing silks of Guinevere
and lovely princesses in distress
waiting patiently for rescue by gal
lant Sir Launcelots.
The initial $5,000 has already
been raised by donations and sales
of various sorts. The Prince of
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Wales has contributed and Sir Ar
thur Quiller-Couch is patron of ths
pageant.
The vicar, Rev. A. Blissard
Bames, is in charge of the 120
players, and is conducting the re
hearsals. H. G. White, the 72-year
old choirmaster of Tintagel, speci
fied that he wanted a part in
which he could ride a horse.
CHICAGO.—Grace Lewis and Ed
na Toyne are accused of robbing
ten families for whom they worked
as maids.
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