Abilene Morning Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - August 30, 1936, Abilene, Texas ABILENE MORNING Volume 10 Mrs Kaufman Perturbed With Hubby Very much perturbed Mrs George Kaufman b shown u she wis greeted at New York on her return from Europe by Her playwright husband whose name figured prominently In the Mary Astir case Her only comment The Blory Is dead please forget II Associated Press Photo ABILENE TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 30 PAGES IN THREE SECTIONS PRICE 5 CENTS NUMBER 51 SCORES WOUNDED AS OMB MADRID FROM PLANE Oppose Abandonment Butler Extortion Suspect Denies Crime In Interview 01 HIT ITSELF IS Courtmartialed Lieut A Moffett Jr an at the Washington naval station and son of be late Rear Admiral William A Moffett was Courtmartialed by the nary charged with losing confidential documents from the files Associated Press Photo Business Leaders Here And in Other Points Served By Hail Decision NEGRO CLEARS ASSAULT CASE FORT WORTH Aug year old negro arrested In Temple confessed today officers said that he attacked and stabbed Mrs Desky Poster 60 near Ten-Mile bridge here Thursday afternoon The youth Sherman Derrick Jr charged in Hal Hughes c Jrt here He was Identified by Mrs Poster City Detective C D Bush and Deputy Sheriff E C Watson of city arrested the youth at the of an uncle in Temple about 3 p m today and started back to Port Worth with him Immediately The officers said the negro told them he tried to kill Mrs Poster but the knife was too and then tried to gouge her eyes out They said he related In detail how he bound her and attacked her five times in a ravine near her tent home in the of Mile bridge He said he had been BAf READ IT EVERY DAY A discussion of and in the news world and national by a group of fearless and informed newspaper men of Washington and New York will be published ni a news Opinions arc of tie writers to the and should not be the editorial at in Trinity river near the spot Mrs Foster Is in the ty hospital in a serious condition from shock and the stab wounds She was slashed on the neck shoulder and face and her were badly Another suspect arrested Friday night by Sheriff A B Carter is being held m an unannounced jail The was arrested on In- formation here by City Detectives Joe Defee and Bush They said they learned a negro woman and her sons had been fishing in the vicinity of the Foster tent home and that one of the boys had been ab- sent from the fishing party for a time Thursday afternoon Upon the strength of this In- formation Bush and Deputy Sheriff Watson drove to Temple and the aid of Bell county of- By NEW YORK Aug odds in New York shifted abruptly last week from 8 to 5 on Roosevelt to 2 to 1 The shift reflects ly a change in the sentiment of Deal chiefs Pour factors combined to account for their den surge of pessimism 1 The striking victories of New Pat Harrison and Jim Byrnes in Mississippi and South Carolina primaries The un- expectedly sweeping nature of these triumphs implied an emphatic en- of the administration in states where substantial disaffection at the polk had been forecast This indication of a hidden vote for Roosevelt is most disturbing 2 Carter Glass forceful tlon that he Is for Roosevelt and his contemptuous denial of reports that Virginia would go Republican leaders had counted on Glass discontent with the New Deal to make him at least a passive and valuable ally 3 Reports that FDR is planning peace chats with the big shots of the world If because the gesture means anything but because it affords renewed and discouraging evidence that Mr Roosevelt has a keen sense of See WHIRLIGIG Pj T Col 5 Find Body Marked Ry Question Mark Railroads Balk Efforts For Lower Rates on Feed and Stock TOPEKA new effort to obtain Joint railroad freight reductions for parched Kansas acres was charted by Gov Alt M Lan don today as time neared for his drouth conference with President Roosevelt The republican candidate told newsmen western railroads have turned us down on re- quests that emergency freight cuts on feed and cattle shipments In the drouth area be made is effective on shipments moving over more than one line The nominee said he advised formally today in a telegram from Marvin Mclntyre secretary to Mr Roosevelt of a two-day delay In the Des Moines drouth conference called by his presidential opponent Be- cause of the death of Secretary Dern the meeting was moved for- ward from September 1 to ber 3 Governors of Kansas Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Oklahoma were Invited to the meeting and Landon has said he would attend Landon explained to reporters that while the various carriers had made effective emergency freight rates for drouth shipments there was no Joint schedule so that Uie cut rates would apply to feed ments moving over two roads Landon said that on the the Kansas drouth situation was better than In 1934 Abandonment of its line be- tween Abilene and Hamlin via Anson sought by the Abilene and Southern Texas Pacific Railway company in an cation filed last spring will be denied by the interstate com- merce commission if of its examiner is followed Report Washington said the ex- aminer Saturday recommended that the A S be denied permission to abandon 17.4 miles of line between Hamlin and Anson and also mended the line be denied sion to abandon operation under trackage rights over the Abilene and Northern railway between An- son and Abilene a total of 246 miles The decision was re- with much relief and faction by business men of Hamlin Anson and Abilene chamber of commerce joined the two neighboring towns in opposing the railroad's move In the ICC hearing conducted by H R in the federal room here May 1 and 2 this year T N local C of C manager said upon learning of the report that he felt the efforts of the attorneys for the including County Judge Omar Burleson of Jones county Assistant Attorney General Sam Lane and of E R Tanner El Paso manager for the West Texas Chamber of Commerce was largely responsible for this victory In the first stage of the case Joe T ham Port Worth appeared in op- position as representative of the four Railroad Brotherhoods Attorneys for the railroad are G O Bateman and M E Clinton Bases The towns affected directly op- posed the application upon two principal that operation should be continued from the broad standpoint of public convenience and necessity and that to abandon the line would greatly increase Dy The CISCO Aug MaJian with attempted extortion from Butler wealthy oil man and brother of Gen Smedley Butler in an Interview tonight de- nied any knowledge of the crime Mahan an was by federal agents at Abilene of attempting to extort from Butler by threatening to harm hif children Interviewed in his cell at the Cis- co Jail Mahan asserted he was a victim of I wonder how I came to get charged with what they have me charged I guess I will some day I have done lots of things to get in Jail for but I did not do what they have me for this time First Clue Meanwhile the Cisco Dally Press said It had learned of the first clue which led to Mahan's arrest The Dally Press said J C King Missouri Kansas Texas railway agent told how a man he fied as Mahan refused medical aid August 8 the day after the tion attempt after being brought to him by an engine crew King said the man told him he wag In- jured when a train struck the gate of a cattle pen hurting his leg while he slept on a platform King said the man signed a ment absolving the company from further claim and added that his suspicions were aroused when it curred to him the wounds seemed older than the man said He said he recalled the man who fled from a trap set by federal and state of- at the scene of the attempted extortion had run Into a fence tonight admitted that he had been hurt In a railroad accident and said he had riven a false name He blamed his arrest on those Somewhere I have heard It said that truth will come he said If that Is true not have thing to worry about I would hate SM SUSPECT Tf 10 7 Widow of Breck Seeks on Note Pren FORT WORTH Aug A 000 suit for debt was filed here day against Ernest O Thompson state railroad commissioner by Mrs Alice widow of Breck Walker Breckenridge cat and financier She claims that on June 15 1926 Thompson executed and promissory note for her late husband due In two year at 10 per cent Interest A clause in the note provided set out the petition that if placed in the hands for collection 10 cent of the principal was to be ded for collection fees The petition states that or July 12 1932 an agreement was reached between Thompson am Mrs Walker acting as executrix for her late husband's estate ex- tending the time of payment until Sept 1 of that year Mrs Walker claims that the note is still unpaid for paid on Oct 9 1926 She is the to cover principal interest and ney fees the petition states It was filed In sixty-seventh district court Elderly Men Face Attack Complaints See fg 10 Col 6 Vet Faces Drunk Driving Complaint Hv Thr Aug 29 The traffic death Thursday of T L Thompson 65 at Big Sandy brought charges of driving while Intoxicated today against Thomas D Hilbert New Orleans disabled war veteran County Attorney M G Mell paid he would take the case before the grand jury Sept 14 and If Hilbert was indicted would pursue the prosecution further In Thompson's death Justice LJ G Baird wt bond at 51.500 Mell alleged Hubert's car jumped a curb and crushed Thompson gainst a church wall fatal injuries Dem Chiefs Plan For State Parley Ilr AUSTIN Aug 29 leaders today laid plans to give the National party campaign a rousing at the state convention in Fort Worth Sept 8 While others worked on the con- vention program expected to extend over two days Roy Miller of Corpus Christi director of organization and finance called a meeting of the Texas campaign committee for the same date said the committee would consider means Texas quota of for the national democratic Maybe The Is Thick But Thi Yarn Sounds Thi ny Thf ESTES PARK Colo 29 Iho lady in riding togs lo the cowboy at the livery Have you a nice gentle Yes ma'am and what kind of a saddle would you lish or the The western saddle has honi on it A Well If the traffic Is BO bad around these tains that I need a horn on my saddle I won't go Pioneer Business Ma And Civic Leader to Be Buried Today GLADEWATER MAN KILLED Bv The MINEOLA Aug Hill Parker of was in- stantly killed near here late this afternoon when the car in which he was driving swerved from the road and HOPKINS CUTS WPA ESTIMATE SHARPLY LOWER AFTER RAINS Average Daily Increase of Applicants in Drouth Sector Drops From to 2.500 Director Reveals Firm MEMPHIS AUff body or nn attractive s taken to Wichita Pulls and Jailed They are L D Law 13 cafe er J M Darter 62 a smith Earlier this week officers charged nn automobile stop near the shed curly today The car driven away niter ft live minute Interval they reported rhc body In s pink Ince dress found on an old mattress George 60 n WPA worker with assault on a girl CHICAGO A u B 29 Recent widespread rains in drouth Works Progress trator Harry L Hopkins reported as high us a nickel ft have cut squarely In two tlie de- mand for relief Jobs His headquarters here announced today that a total of drouth farmers were on WPA Jobs but took nn optimistic view of the ture Ten days Hopkins said In n statement released by the WPA office 5.000 drouth victims ft day were added to WPA payrolls taxing Iho organization's Job ing machinery to capacity Today the average dally Increase had dropped to less than for the entire area Twelve middle western and western and Kentucky are embraced III the territory While most of the farmers In the region now being aided will have to be taken care of over the Hopkins if able weather conditions continue It Is highly probable that not wrc to additional formers will need aid This would mean a substantial reduction from original estimates made when drouth destitution mounting such dizzy pact Mack L Wyatt retired Abilen business man civic leader an churchman died last night at a cal hospital where he had bee under treatment for seven He would have been 70 years ol on December 30 Mr Wyatt had been in ill or more than two years and har spent much of the time In the hos On August 12 he and two weeks later com arose Since that ils condition had been critical Tile funeral service will be heh rom the First Baptist church this at 5 o'clock The pastor Dr M A Jenkens will be assisted y the Rev Willis P Gerhart opal rector Dr T S Knox OT of the First Presbyterian church nd the Rev Ira Parrack pastor of he Baptist church at The body will be at Laughter eral home from 3 to 5 o'clock this and may be viewed there by friends The casket will remain unopened at the church Bom In Alabama Mr Wyatt was born December 30 1866 In Marion a son of L A and Mary Ann Wyatt He was married to Hudson Oct- ober 30 1890 in Alabama The couple moved to Belton Texas in 1891 Mr Wyatt then being a eling salesman for a wholesale cery company a few years residence in Texas Mr and Mrs Wyatt ed to Alabama and Mrs Wyatt died at Birmingham In January 1901 Returning to Texas in 1908 Mr Wyatt became one of the founders of the Bell Thompson and Wyatt company at San Angelo where he lived until 1912 In that year the San firm was merged with the H O cer company and Mr came to Abilene as a partner In the en company Selling his Interests in this firm In 1019 he became dent of the Texas Mill Elevator company p which he held until IM health forced his ment For several years he served as art active deacon of he First tist church a member of Uie board of trustees of uni- versity and a trustee of Die Memorial Second marriage of Mr Wyatt occurred December 22 1917 to Miss Herring In Dallas She died Sta DEATH Ff S CoL i F M MRS W Former Reiterates Need To Spend Money to Save Money By The Associated PIERRE 6 D- Aug a quick look at government lief projects and surrounding farm land scorched brown by arid weeks President Roosevelt ended here day the second phase of his sonal survey of drouth damage in the midwest In conferences aboard Ills special train he talked over drouth con- ditions and drouth relief with ernors Berry of South Dakota and Miller of Wyoming then continued westward for a leisurely Sunday at Rapid City and In South Dakota's Black hills The objective of the conferences the president said was to Insure continued federal-state cooperation in the long-range approach to the drouth problem Again in an extemporaneous talk here to a cheering crowd around the rear platform of his train Mr Roosevelt reiterated the necessity for cooperation in solving drouth bles and for spending money to save money if need be The president repeated that on he long range program the Dal thing Is better land use Then stressing need for cooperation between local county state and eral governments he Unless we do It we may lose a very large Investment not only of money but human beings If It costs to save I think it Is worthwhile Attacking Plane Speed Away as Ships Zoom Aloft t Battle West Texan Killed In Road Mishap WICHITA FALLS Aug er G Jones an employe of a ry here was Injured shortly tier 5 this afternoon when Is car overturned three times BS e was traveling from Wichita Falls Henrietta The about five miles east of here He died of a skull about ne hour after the wreck Officers said Lhp rnr after it hud swerved to IP right nnd in the on DISCOUNT SEARCH THEORY PARIS Aug officers might discounted a theory that apcd convicts stole a from a grocer here last night r The car was found near hur Springs By The Associated Press MADRID Aug lay wounded In Madrid tonig after a rebel airplane ha bombed the city proper for t first time The number of casualties tt night still was unestimated b government officials who physical damage to the city ha been only slight Windows Smashed Hundreds of windows one in the Associated Press burea shattered as the detonation several Important buildings The rebel airmen had raids in the vicinity of Madri three times previously but today bombardment was the first in had actually exploded on streets Another rebel plane flew firs over the city at a height then poised and dived It flattened out of Its power when but a few hundred feet u and loosed its cargo of projectiles Strollers on streets fie in confusion for shelter as the bombs exploded Ir the garden of the war ministry Gaping holes were ripped in th ground and windows In the ban of Spain the and othe buildings were shattered Government planes soared up to challenge the attack Ing plane which sped to safety Loyalists Target The government planes as if ex peeling another air raid circled th city In wide arcs tonight on lookout for aerial enemies Several excited citizens mistook the government planes lor rebels and potted away at them with rifles until told of their mistake As comparative calm returned to the streets the firs Soviet ambassador to Spain pre- sented his credentials at the Palace Speeches were made stressing desires for closer relations between the Liberal governments ol the two nations Government officials announced additional victories throughout the day In the province of Cordoba they said 300 peasants armed with only six rifles and a few shotguns had driven off a force of 400 rebels Rebel forces near Montilla it was announced broke and scattered when government planes roared overhead The rebels the ment said were carting off their dead In truckloads after this en- counter Government Guns Shell Rebel Force at Irun IKUN Spain Aug ment artillery opened a new of rebel positions tonight as the battle for possession of this city reached a critical stage Port Guadalupe cannon and other loyalist artillery shelled the gents vanguard at the foot of Mount Can Marcial Ammunition running low See REVOLT Pg 10 Col 6 Expulsion of Trotzky Is Demand to Norway In Formal Note MOSCOW Aug Soviet demanding the sion of Leon Trotzky from way started tonight to clean Its own house of aries Director Tabakoff of the in Chelyabinsk was arrested and thrown out or the party His former assistant E was one of those executed as an anti- communist plotter Manager of the State Dramatic theater resigned He with he playwright and the ormer editor Gronsky of the newspaper In Moscow resila were recently accused of ng known the schemes ol B nother of those executed without them was once the manager of the theater one of the est known In Moscow The Writers union also Is under suspicion because it did ot throw out until alter the began Arrests have been made of some f the staff of the Pedagogical In- at Leningrad and some em- loyes of the department of ation The teachers college was aid to have been a hotbed of activities Russia's petition to Norway to one-time ar of war in the Soviet charged e had engaged in terroristic ties against the Beer Rejected in Peacock Precinct PEACOCK Aug 29 nct 5 of Stonewall county today ted to retain its dry status re- cting in a special election a isal to legalize sale of beer The acock box voted 147 to 43 against er The other box Wright's hapel unreported here tonight uld not change the result with its 73 votes The Weather ANO and Monday TKX Partly In II lo Mind ay and In KAST uid In LAST VERY LONG PREDICT REBEL COMMANDERS Fascist Army to Make Final Decision on Restoration of Monarchy General Cabanellas Tells Correspondent as I mid trt mirt Sunday and Monday nnd Monday raM portion Sunday of K Horn 7.1 I P M 91 ii in nnd in and 72 ncn 811 US w Sj B Parker Jr of the of the has with the rebel high In the Ihn outset nl s he In- On Mola Grn on plans for Spain By ROBERT B PARKER JR Copyright 18.16 Bj Thr WITH REBEL ARMY BURGOS SPAIN Aug generals of trie rebel high day told this correspondent the war wouldn't very and ihen when it was the would be placed under a unified central ment Do you intend to restore the Qen waa You may be sure that the armies of the Spanish patriots which will have reconquered Spain maka the final decision We foresee Q How do you thing the war will A by Gen Mole Not very long It has only lasted RS long as It has because a largo port of the population Jn government territory }s of the rebel situation Q What plans you for Iho new Spanish A will be governed In A fashion which will Sec SPAIN Pf W CfcL X
