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‘Devil Slaying9 Victim’s Mother Firm Believer of Divine Healing Power
COY OAKLEY
TRIAL NEARS
FMUTAGE
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Sept. 21.
UP)—The sensational trial of Coy
Oakley, religious zealot accused of
murder for the “devil” slaying of
Bernice Clayton, 3-year-ol'd crip
ple. reached the argument stage
today.
The defense rested after calling
as a witness Mrs. Mozelle Clayton,
mother of the child, who said she
belonged to a cult which believed
In divine healing power.
'Had Special Power*
Mrs. Clayton said Coy Oakley
and his brother, Paul Oakley, self
styled “faith healer,” were her
first cousins and had come to the
Clayton cabin in the pine woods of
northeast Texas several days before
the death of Bernice, which oc
curred December 19, 1932.
She testified that God had en
dowed Paul Oakley with power to
heal by “laying on of the hands.”
and that he had tried to cure
Bernice, crippled by an attack of
infantile paralysis.
It was while Paul Oakley was
performing weird rites over the
child that she was choked to death,
according to Mrs. Clayton. Paul
Oakley purportedly was trying to
“drive out a devil” he believed to
be responsible for her ailment.
Mrs. Clayton said she and her
husband. Sherman Clayton, with
Coy Oakley, were praying while
the strange ceremonies were going
on. 8he claimed Coy Oakley “had
no more to do with the death of
Bernice than any of the others.”
Thought T’nder Power’
Paul Oakley was quoted by Mrs.
Clayton as having said he alone was
responsible for the child's death.
Last May at Paul Oakley’s murder
trial in Linden he was found guilty
of slaying the child and sentenced
to 50 years Imprisonment.
Mrs. Clayton related how after
Bernice lost consciousness she was
laid on a pallet in the cabin. Mrs.
Clayton sadl she thought the child
was “under the power,” and did
not realize until the body became
cold that death had occurred.
Asserting her faith in divine
power to heal. Mrs. Clayton told
now Paul Oakley while at the
cabin had cured Coy Oakley, ill
with Influenza, by praying. She
also said Bernice at one time had
been cured of pneumonia through
prayer.
} WEATHER
East Texas (east of 100th meri
dian): Fair Thursday night; Friday
partly cloudy; warmer in northeast
portion.
Light to moderate easterly to
southerly winds on the coast.
RIVER BULLETIN
The river will remain stationary
from about San Benito down, fall
slowly from Hidalgo to Mercedes,
and probably rise somewhat from
Laredo to Rio Grande City during
the next 24 to 36 hours.
mood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr
Stage Stage Chang. Rain
Laredo 27 4.5 +1.4 .08
Hio Grande 21 15.6 +1.0 .04
Hidalgo 22 19.2 -2.8 .52
Mercedes 20 21.6 -0.1 .63
Brownsville 18 18.3 0.0 .06
TIDE TABLE
High and low tide at Port Isabel
Friday, under normal meteor
ological conditions:
High . 4:08 a. m. 6:27 p. m.
Low.10:54 a. m. 11:47 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS DATA
Sunset today . 6:28
Sunrise tomorrow . 6:19
WEATHER SUMMARY
Barometric pressure was relative
ly high over the middle Pacific
states and over the middle and
southern Mississippi Valley this
morning, and moderately low ovtr
the northern Rocky Mountain and
northern plains states, and also
over the extreme northeastern
states. Light to moderate rains oc
curred in extreme south Texas, and
local showers on the Gulf coast
and at widely scattered places in
some of the interior states. Tem
peratures fell in the south-central
states, and rose over a large area
in the northwest.
BULLETIN
(First figures, lowest temperature
last night; second highest yester
day; third, wind velocity at 8 a. in.;
fourth, precipitation In last 24 hrs.)
. Abilene . 72 90 — 0
Amarillo . 62 84 10 o
Atlanta . 56 84 12 0
Austin . 74 98 — 0
BROWNSVILLE .. 75 86 — .06
Brownsville Airport 75 88 — .02
Chicago . 50 70 10 0
Cleveland . 52 66 32 .14
Corpus Christi .... 76 86 — .22
Dallas . 70 90 12 0
Del Rio . 74 94 — 0
Denver .. 62 84 — o
El Paso ........... 68 90 — 0
Fort Smith . 50 86 — Q
Houston . 74 94 — 0
Huron . 56 74 16 0
Jacksonville . 76 94 — o
Kansas City . 62 80 — 0
Los Angeles . 54 74 — 0
Louisville . 58 78 12 0
Memphis . 60 78 — 0
Miami . 76 86 — 1.25
Minneapolis ..48 68 12 0
New Orleans ...... 72 96 10 .04
North Platte . 56 90 — 0
Oklahoma City .... 62 84 10 0
Palestine . 68 96 — .02
Pensacola . 66 90 14 0
phoenix .......... 70 100 — .04
St. Louis . 60 80 — 0
Salt Lake City .... 58 90 14 0
San Antonio . 74 96 — 0
Santa Pe . 58 74 — 0
Sheridan ......... 44 92 — 0
Shreveport .. 62 88 — 0
Tampa . 76 92 — 0
Vicksburg . 60 86 — 0
Washington . 62 86 10 0
Willis ton . 46 76 — 0
Wilmington . 66 00 — 0
Winnemucca . 40 80 — 0
SAN BENITO—Red Cross head -
quarters have been moved from
the chamber of commerce offices
to space next door in the Stonewall
Jackson Hotel at N. Reagan Ave,
and Stenger St
WHAT AN AUDIENCE!
The fact that James Dunn has an audience of one means nothing to
that star as long as that audience is Boots Mallory. The scene is from
“Handle With Care,’’ the Fox romance in which they have the prin
cipal roles. Showing Thursday and Friday at the Queen, Brownsville.
Federation Charged
With Attempting To
Get Labor Control
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—(>P)—
The American Federation of Labor
today was charged by an industrial
leader with efforts to secure con
trol of labor which ‘‘already” were
having the effect of destroying the
NRA program.
Robert L. Lund, president of the
RELIEF FUND
GIFTS SLOW
("Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Sept. 21. — The
$50,000 appropriated altogether by
national headquarters of the Amer
ican Red Cross is all being spent
for relief work, salaries of 30 staff
workers in the Valley coming from
other funds, it was stated by Al
bert Evans, director of disaster re
lief.
Donations from the public In
other parts of the state are still
far from matching the Red Cross
appropriation, it was said, and ef
forts are being made to stimulate
giving by Texans. The apparent
indifference is caused by the fact
that government agencies are be
lieved taking care of the situation
when as a matter of fact the Red
Cross is doing work the federal
government cannot do, particularly
rebuilding of homes.
A summary or thf work done up
to 8unday shows 4.094 families given
food orders by the Red Cross. 979
given emergency medical treat
ment, 319 hospitalized, 2.951 fam
ilies given clothing, 1,035 families
given bedding and 1,030 given build
ing materials.
Some of these figures have in
creased materially since Sunday,
particularly number of homes re
habilitated.
GROWERS MILL WHEAT
THREE FORKS, Mont. UPy—
Wheat growers of this region have
turned millers and are converting
much of their grain into flour for
home use. Thus they escape the fed
eral wheat processing tax, which is
added to the retail price of four.
The German Nazis have abol
ished vivisection throughout the
land. Probably just a device of
Herr Hitler to protect that Chaplin
mustache.
""
National Association of Manufac
turers, made the assertion in reply
to a statement by William Green,
federation president, assailing some
employers for forming company
unions.
This employer-labor interchange
accentuated anew the differences
which have prevailed between cap
ital and organized workers under
the NR A. It coincided with a fur
ther demand from the boot and
shoe industry for a merit clause
permitting employers to handle
labor on an efficiency rather than
union affiliation basis.
Hugh S. Johnson, busy studying
retail price control proposals, was
silent on these latest labor develop
ments, but Pres. Roosevelt has re
jected definitely any code inter
pretation of the recovery law’s
collective bargaining provision.
Lund’s statement said labor con
ditions in plants objected to by
Green “are the best in the coun
try.”
Johnson’s decision on the price
control sections of the retail trades
and drug codes was not expected
for several days.
SAN BENITO—E. C. Breedlove,
Fw. B. Sublett and C. S. Pugsley
will represent the chamber of
commerce in all conferences with
the Texas Relief and Rehabilita
tion commission in regard to seed
grants to destitute farmers
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R COGNITION
OF RUSSIA BY
1934JS SEEN
NEW YORK, Sept. 21. (^Indi
cations that the United States
would recognize Soviet Russia be
fore the year’s end went hand in
hand today with talk of vast busi
ness deals in the offing.
Sources in New York considered
trustworthy represented President
Roosevelt as having decided to ex
tend the hand of recognition to
Russia, ignored by Americr since
the communists took command.
At Washington the president de
signated Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
governor of the Farm Credit Ad
ministration, to direct and coordin
ate negotiations of vast scope for
disposal of American goods to
Russia.
A large part of the farm admin
istration’s effort to raise commo
dity prices may depend, observers
believed, on success in carrying
the Russo-American deals through.
The R. F. C. has been dickering
with Amtorg, Russia’s trade agency,
about the sale of 500,000 bales of
cotton and other products.
If an agreeable market can be
obtained Russia is regarded as a
probable market fot 1,500,000 more
bales of cotton, and a vast quan
tity of other goods, including but
ter and meat products and mach
inery.
The Soviet union, however, has
taken the position that heavy trade
with America must depend on the
establishment of normal relations
—diplomatic and business.
CAMERON RECORDS
Civil District Court
Piled: Southwest Bitulithic com
pany vs. Nabor M. Torres, et al,
foreclosure paving lien (three
cases).
Friday settings: Nelson Loan Co.
vs. Mrs. Flora Greenwood; John
O’Keege vs. W. F. Brown, et al,
(bill of interpleader).
Criminal District Court
Grand Jury in session. Jury
trials to get under way Sept. 26.
County Court at Law
Filed: Clemente Munoz, selling
beer as retail dealer without a
license; H. L. Evans, selling beer
as retail dealer without a license.
Probate Court
Filed: Case in lunacy.
Marriage license issued: Gustavo
Flores and Olivia Rios.
News Shorts
Of Cameron
County
SAN BENITO— When the Kl
wanis Club meets at the Stonewall
Jackson Hotel Wednesday it will
be the first service club meeting
since the storm in San Benito.
SAN BENITO— Henry Murphy,
71, seriously injured last week when
he fell from a ladder, is now able
to take nourishment after having
been partially paralyzed. He is at
the home of a son, Pat Murphy.
SAN BENITO— Dodson Bros.,
pioneer grocers, will re-open soon
with fresh stock as soon as storm
damage to the building, owned by
Miss Nettie G. King, is repaired.
Stock on hand was sold out.
HARLINGEN.—R. B. Bull’s auto,
stolen several days ago, has been
found south of the city stripped of
tires.
HARLINGEN.—C. E. Banfield,
who lives on the San Benito high
way, reported theft of a black 1927
Chevrolet coach No. 155-350.
HARLINGEN. — Prank Sykes.*
eight, whose mother, Mrs. Vesta B
Sykes, lives at Arroyo Courts on
the San Benito highway, was
brought to the Valley Baptist hos
pital suffering gasoline bums.
SAN BENITO.—Beeville’s quota j
of $200 for Valley storm relief was 1
raised in one day, it was learned !
here. Some of the larger cities i
have been lagging far behind.
A set of false teeth, carved from
ivory, used by George Washington,
had such a complicated mechanism |
of springs that they were liable to
stick open and refuse to close.
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FARM STRIKE
MEAT HEARD
FROM IOWANS
DES MOINES, la., Sept. 21. (/P)—
A threat of a farm strike, coupled
with a demand for the “immediate
resignation" of Sec. of Agri. Henry
A. Wallace, was heard as members
of the Iowa farmers union met in
annual convention.
The threat was voiced by the or
ganization’s state president, Glenn
B. Miller, who told the convention
in his address that unless currency
inflation and other methods of farm
relief are forthcoming soon, there
would be a farm strike that would
“overshadow anything ever seen in
this country.”
Petitions demanding Sec. Wal
lace’s resignation were circulated
and Miller both in his annual re
port and address as president assail
ed the secretary, as well as the state
and federal administrations and the
method of crop and livestock reduc
tion now being used under the ag
ricultural adjustment act.
GNATS MAKE APPEARANCE
Complaint of a new aftermath of
the storm is being made now.
Many people declare that small,
gnats are making their appearance,
and are causing much more trouble
than mosquitoes since screens mean
nothing to them.
The gnats are said to be about a
fourth the size of an ordinary gnat.
The colonade of Doric columns
which surround the large enclosed
hall of the Lincoln Memorial In
Washington, represent the states
of the union.
We Unloaded Today Another Carload of
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RED CEDAR
SHINGLES
Two Mere Carloads on the Way!
Our stocks of lumber and all build
ing materials complete.
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Frontier Lumber Co.
BACK FROM FAIR
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Welch of Har
lingen have returned from a thro*
weeds’ trip to the World Fair In
Chicago. Mr. Welch won the trip to
the fair for making the largest sale
of Chevrolet® In this territory. They
visaed numerous places en route
hone.
Eating is a game
FOR THEM
Children love to hear
vellogg's Rice Krispiea
rackle in milk or cream.
And Rice Krispies are
ne for children because
hey are nourishing and
easy to digest. Particularly
good for the evening meal.
Made by KeHogg in Battle
Creek.
Listen! —
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