Abilene Morning Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - September 27, 1936, Abilene, Texas ABILENE MORNING VOLUME 11 ABILENE TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 27 THIRTY-SIX PAGES IN THREE SECTIONS PRICE 5 CENTS NUMBER 4 WATCH WEST TEXAS STREAMS mw U S Quickly Meets Soviet Currency Move French Prepare to Crack Down on Disturbances Following Revision of Franc Rescue Of Toledo Fascists Reported By The Associated Press AMSTERDAM The Sept ment of The Netherlands which with France and erland clung to the gold ard after other major powers had quit it announced tonight it could no longer maintain ita present monetary policy The decision of France and Switzerland to devalue their tary units caused a change In the Dutch government's position official statement said Earlier the government had announced the Netherlands would not change its monetary policy despite the French action Copyright Dy The PARIS Sept French government tonight prepared to crack down at the first signs of public disorder growing out of the plan to devalue the franc Plans for extra precautions against any street disturbances throughout the nation were drawn by Minister of Defense Ste DUTCH Pg 12 Col Z 1 B f READ IT EVERY DAY A discussion uf events and in the news IT or Id and national by a group of Fearless and newspaper men of Washington and New Tork trill be u feature expressed are ol the writers contributing In be column and should nnl be U teller ol I hit By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON Sept Wallace is the most stubborn ber of the cabinet despite his super- shyness this Is an unhappy trait In a presidential aide but his persistency enabled him to romp through the farm belt as a campaign Paul Revere For several years the Secretary of Agriculture has tried to sell the Idea of crop insurance to FDR The President listened patiently but ways shied off because of the sure of other business Mr Wallace tucked a crop Insurance plank into his grip hopped a train for adelphia and badgered practical until they were bored Finally reluctantly Platform man Wagner agreed to lay the position before the President by telephone Mr Roosevelt's reply was mat he more actuarial statistics be- making a specific pledge and plank was included But the Iowa continued his collection of data When the White House sent out an SOS call a few days be- fore the Landon farm speech which strangely enough approved a hedge against the weather drouth See WHIRLIGIG PS B Col 3 BULLET KILLS YOUNG WOMAN San Angelo Party Member Wounded at Hotel By Thr POET WORTH Sept 26 Mrs Doris Webb Hanson 25 divorcee died In a hospital here today froi a pistol wound she claimed was ac Inflicted yesterday In he hotel room here Mrs Hanson was placed In oxygen tent 15 minutes before sh died and she had been given blood transfusion in an effort t save her life A sister Mrs Erm Balch of Big Spring arrived in th city about an hour after Mrs Han son died With a group of friends Mrs Hanson came to Fort Worth Prl day to attend the Frontier Centen These friends explained tha she shot herself accidently while cleaning her small caliber pistol In her room at the Blackstone hotel In the party of San Angelo were Joe Sanger M 0 Dale and Miss Willie Mae Haley Denver Area Feels Winter's Arrival By The DENVER Sept rode into the Rocky mountain area on snow rain dust and wind storm which caused two deaths in Denver last night Charles E Sheeley 34 shielding his eyes with his arm walked Into the side of a moving automobile and died from Injuries within time Harry lineman fell to his death from an arc light pole where he was working during a mile an hour wind Snow blanketed a large portion of Wyoming today ranging in depth from one inch at Hock Springs to even Inches at Casper The east section of the state escaped he first winter fall Snow fell throughout most of northeastern but melted rapidly The Weather LEASE DEAL CLOSED Albany Men Sell Lease in West Shackelford ALBANY Sent of the oil sales in this section in the five years was completed here this week A V Jones and H R Slasney Albany geological firm and the Re- liance Oil and Royalty corporation Fold their interest in 187 acres in the southwest quarter of ISO East railway lands in the southwest part of the Bluff creek pool of western leford county to W E Butler Dallas oil man It sold for a consideration of The property included five ducing wells with a daily allowable of 226 barrels and a dally potential of barrels All the wells ducing from Bluff Creek sand at have been drilled since the first of the year Government Warships Move At Top Speed for Norih Ports By The LISBON Portugal Sept 27 Portuguese Radio club announced early today it had received information a Spanish cist column had entered and cued the insurgents and their ilies in tlie old Alcazar fortress The Alcazar defenders had held out against government ment and assaults for nearly ten weeks Even dynamite blasts had not forced them out but their ber originally estimated at was reported reduced to about 600 By The Associated BILBAO Spain Sept The first naval battle of the Spanish civil war appeared im- minent today as five government warships were reported steaming under full speed to northern ports blockaded by fascist vessels Naval authorities in this besieged by fascist airplanes all day yesterday for the second time In 24 a foreign warship had sighted a government fleet off the Portuguese coast ing toward Spain's northern Bay ol Biscay shore The five ships were reported to be the battleship Jaime I thi cruisers Cervates and LIbertad and two destroyers Three government submarines and one gunboat already were based at Bilbao With the arrival of the main fleet they were expected to try to the insurgent blockade here and at fiCT SUPPORTS Principals In Bank Robbery Attempt Clifford V Jones assistant cashier right upper picture entered the rirst National bank at Baird Friday morning to be confronted by H L Heyers center lower picture who ordered Jones to stick em iip As Clifford Jones killed time at the vault door his brother K F Jones lead bookkeeper left lower picture entered Meyers whirled and fired at him When R F fell to escape the bullet Clifford thinking his brother was killed snatched from a drawer the pistol he holds in the picture and Five Millions of Nation's Stabilization Fund at Work to Meet Buying Order in Farm Income Cited By Texan for Maryland Folk MARLBORO Md Sept 26 Terming the campaign a contest liberalism and a financial and political di- archy Senator Tom Connaly Tex today urged a continuation f Roosevelt progress in an ad- before a Democratic rally here He asserted that farm income hod 141 per cent and had fallen 27 percent since 933 Only foolish and ungrateful of corporations will Roosevelt administration he aid because the value of storks Jed on the New York have more than n the last three years Colonel Frank Knox Republican Ice presidential candidate was by Connally as an shadow of Mr ho is now Irvine to ihc Governor Landon out of le picture and grab the spotlight or himself This is a campaign between accomplishments and on negation Connally said We re in the midst of a contest to con- nue along the road of restoration nd rejuvenation or a return ki the and palsied business industrial panic of 1933 VICINITY Cloudy j northerly winds ABILENE ANH io day S partly cloudy rising WEST Mostly nln -In portion Sunday wanner In north EAST Cloudy lain In rant and colder In H Sunday by Monday purity lin- ing In portion mlf northerly to easterly on the Cloudy by rail In rnn And sonth Sunday NEW Sunday north nnd rant north lder portion Monday generally Ron A M of 10 11 10 1C nnd In p ni 14 nil no dull ngo n Hit tan nnlr'i'l for it fl p H into By The Associated Press WASHINGTON Sept Serving blunt notice the United States would go the limit to protect its monetary agreement with Britain and France tary today swung into action America's huge stabilization fund to block what he said was a Russian effort to depress the British pound First Public Move His action was the first public move to enforce the agreement announced last night by Prance Great Britain and the United States looking toward of their currencies Informed that Russia had ed the sale early today of pounds of sterling at any Morgenthau told a special press conference he tered with an order to buy using from the stabilization fund The Russian move was al but unexplained The agreement reached by the three great powers last night was for cooperation in devaluation ol the franc It provided that they should use appropriate available resources to prevent disturbance ol International exchange which might result from the understanding that Britain and the United would not wage a monetary war with France Acts Swiftly Morgenthau in a specially called press conference announced he had moved swiftly to throw the fund behind the pound when he learned of the offer to sell by the Russian state bank He was Informed of the offering he said shortly after exchange dealings started In New York this morning The French and English exchanges were closed The treasury chief said the sian selling knocked the pound from to When the treasury emptied it at Meyers who returned the fire as he tried a padlocked side door escaped by a rear door and got in a slolen car Larmer Henry with a In his car fired at the fleeing bandit chasing him up a blind lane where he surrendered shortly afterward With Meyers in the lower picture arc left Sheriff John Holland of ford county and right Deputy Clarence Nordyke af Callahan county at the Baird jail door TO ACT ON PENSION REVENUE See U S BUYS Ff 12 Col 3 Four Persons Hurt In Terrell Crash Dv Thr TERRELL Sept sons wore badly hurt in an bile collision four miles east of here last night The accident red during a heavy rain The Walter Eaton Kilgore cut about the head N II sister of also of Kilgove broken right ami and rib Also bruised and cut C F tured skull broken ribs and bruised chest His condition was reported serious James Sanger broken lefl leg Eaton and his sister were driving east and met the party's car on hill and the occurred when the latter car stopped skidding on the pery pavement Passersby brought the injured to a Terrell hospital DEPART FOR WASHINGTON Family Closes 28 Years Residence in Abilene To Practice Law Congressman Thos L 28 years of residence in Abilene came to an end Friday night with his departure for Washington D C where after his term expires this year-end he will enter the private of law with his two sons Matt and Dill Blanfon Friday was ns busy a day as the congressman has had In years even during his recent unsuccessful for He was moving his household goods from Jie home nt 3425 South Seventh street which the family had pied for many years to a freight cur on the Texas it Pacific tracks At both places home car of many years were Bee BLANTON Pj 12 CoL i THOMAS U BLANTON Bonds Set For Baird Bandit Hy Tlir BAIRD Officers ed H L Meyers furloughed Texas convict with assault to murder and assault to rob In the attempted bery yesterday of the First National bank here Bail of was set ir each Mother Swims to Safety After Waters Hit Automobile By ITASCA Sept Guthrie 28 Waco filling station operator was rescued late tonight from a tree where he had been marooned in a flooded stream near here Unemployment Insurance Also Submitted By Governor Allred Assistant Cashier C V Jones drove Meyers from the bank In a pun battle and Larmar Henry chased the robber into B blind lane where he surrendered to ol fleers Meyers Is on furlough from the Texas penitentiary where he was serving a five-year sentence from for robbery by POSTPONE GAME Yesterday's scheduled football name between nnd nrd rained out It has been postponed Indefinitely It was an- By ITASCA Sept Guthrie of Waco was marooned tonight in a creek bottom near here tonight and a party of rescuers was preparing to make a rescue attempt swept into the flood after his iwo boys six and eight years old from their bile which stalled In the er After carrying the two children to safety Guthrie returned to the car to remove his wife The rising ers of the creek sweeping over the highway brushed the car into the stream and Mrs Guthrie swam to safety on the south shore of ihc Guthrie was swept downstream and it was at first feared tint he drowned a rescue party heard ilm calling nnd located him In a tree in the midst of the flood The Itasca fire deportment was called and a party was organized late tonight to attempt the rescue A raft was hurriedly knocked gether and the rescuers hoped to float a rope to the marooned man While the water was still rising rescuers said he apparently was in no immediate danger because had found refuge in a substantial tree The two children were brought here and cared for at the fire station Mrs Guthrie was taken o Hillsboro Hundreds of yards of highways north nnd south of here were un- der water tills town was com- cut off Streams between here Alvarndo were out of banks The heavy rain con- tonight By Thu Associated Prm AUSTIN Sept ture will tackle Monday the dual problem of raising new revenue for old age pensions and setting up an employment compensation system under the federal social security imh As members arrived for a special session Governor James V Allred announced he would submit the subject of unemployment sation Previously he had assigned them the task of providing tional money old age assistance There will be no other subjects at the outset and possibly none the governor said We have a big Job and members have told me they were set to get clone Not General He said submission of ment compensation would not open the general topic of social security legislation including revision of the pension law The governor also said he would See LEGISLATORS Pg 12 Ccl 3 Towns Take Precautions Lake Abilene Gets 4-Foot Rise West Texas anxiously ed streams last night as con- rains caused many creeks to run but no repetition of last week's dis- floods had developed Mulberry creek rising in the Mulberry canyon 20 miles southwest of Merkel wher more than five inches of rain fell Friday and early Saturday carried a full load which by nightfall had covered for half a mile north o Abilene Relax Ban Angelo apprehensive Satur day morning as the Conchos agai went on a rise relaxed last nigh as the peaks of both rivers wer passed Concho reach ed Its crest about 3 o'clock whll the South branch started to fa about 6 p m Upstream at Christo val the water had been steadily for several hours Only small portion of the areas was again under water whll the business district was compara lively safe The Colorado river at had only touched 16 to the level of 30 last last night But It was expected go higher as waters were reported on a rampage In Oak and Maverick creeks which feed the Colorado Mexicans and negroes living In thi lowlands were warned to be on thi lookout for probably a good rise bs morning Stop Traffic Here State highway patrolmen whel the expected flood at Ballinger ed to materialize yesterday ed to Abilene to take care of the Mulberry creek situation Trafft was stopped at Ambler and Pine streets at 6 p m yesterday when the creek began going over thi highway at a point six miles of Abilene At 11 p m the water was still rising The Wichita Valley cancelled its 11 o'clock passenger train as more than 400 feet of track and a bridge were under water Buses routed by way of Albany replaced the train service Clear Fork of the Brazos several miles north of Mulberry was re- ported not threatening dangerously At Merkel water rose Into several houses In the low areas Saturday morning Fcr more than 200 yards at the western edge of the business section highway 1 was under water for several hours but traffic was never halted Waters of Mulberry creek touched the timbers of the SM FLOODS ff 12 Col 1 Jap Destroyers Sent to Shanghai Thn SHANGHAI Japanese destroyers loaded hai today Outwardly the residents of the international metropolis were calm but In official circles apprehension was heightened over possible rence of Incl dents In the ment SAN ANGELO GIVEN SCARE North Concho Rises Above 35 Feet Little Damage By The PresB SAN Sept seeing that lightning can strike twice In the same place San An- were resting easier tonight as the North Concho river rapidly subsided from the 35 to 37 foot el It reached In and the torrent of water flowing through the floodgates at Lake Nasworthy held steady after rising all day The South Concho river In San Angelo stopped about three and one half feet of the high water mark of Thursday Sept 17 Its height today was about 25 feet Reports Trom Mertzon early night advised hat the Middle Con- cho and Spring creek which had been on the biggest rises for years throughout the day had fallen from two to three feet Much the same report came from where the South Concho river heads Aside from livestock losses and the washing away of railway bridge approaches and dumps and high bridge approaches the flood today was only a fraction as aging as those of Tuesday Sept 15 and the following Thursday The flood waters of the North Concho this time lacked a few in- ches of flowing over the north proach to tile Chadboume street bridge but was high over the other city bridges and the Lona Wolf bridge leading to Glenmore Place Transport Pilot Victim of Illness m- DALLAS Sept 25 Mac 41 former holder of the world's speed record for land airplanes died today at a local pital after a brief illness broke the world's record In 1928 by traveling 235 miles an hour at the national air races at Cleveland In a mystery ship was until re- cently an American Airlines pilot STORM RUINS TEXAS HOMES Five Injured One Badly As Blow Hits Near Cooper Tlr COOPER persons ere Injured one seriously and bree houses were blown down near iere tonight In a severe torm Mrs M J Anslin 70 was badly about the head when the ouse In which she was living col- Mr and Mrs Murf Holdren live in the same house were ess seriously hurr as were Mr nd Mrs Jim Cauthon whs lived sarby The storm struck the tore community five miles east of ere about 7 p m after a heavy Un The wind appeared to be a straight blow from the southwest Inaugural Program Of Scheduled Thursday 6 P Station will present for which clear weather West Texas finest vocal musical opening program on the air Thurs day evening at 6 o'clock That was the plan last night The only thing that will prevent the opening of Ihc scheduled date will be constant bari weather which will It Impossible for the technical and West as Utilities company nnd Sun tric company electricians to put finishing touches to the transmitter and tower at Ambler nue nnd cottonwood street Witty Texas representative of Radio Corporation of America manufacturer of transmitter and control room equipment arrived Saturday to assist W W Robertson Jr chief engineer inui his staff of operators in testing the equipment nnd setting H in perfect condition Erection of the steel tower WBS Friday by C S Gates Hid Company contractors The must lie painted In col- ors stipulated by he department of and two-day I necessary power lines com- Friday night to within a short nee of the transmitter Building halted there by rain Open House at Station will observe open this tween two and 6 o'clock Not only do we cordially In- vite the public to visit our studios on the Hilton roof we urge said Howard Barrett station manager The press of Ulen on day will make It cUble for us to accommodate many visitors at that time for that reason we urge nn Inspec- tion of the studios today Electrically transcribed music will bo presented throughout the open period today and dramatic talent his been for the opening program which will be continuous out Thursday night and Friday will be sprinkled throughout one of these a two-hour jamboree scheduled to begin at 11 o'clock TWO popular and well-known will be on hand for the opening find to play dances during the night All the way from bock will Ned Bradley and his orchestra tn piny a ute program during the evening and to play for a dance beginning In the ballroom at 9 o'clock ley and his musicians have been very popular here In previous Immediately following this dance beginning at 1 a Buy Maddox and his orchestra will provide music fcr a german Charge for the dance will be per couple Ux See Pff 12 CoL V
