Abilene Morning Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - January 3, 1937, Abilene, Texas ABILENE MORNING VOLUME 11 ABILENE TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES IN THREE SECTIONS PRICE 5 CENTS NUMBER 18 Incidents At Sea Dim Efforts To Keep War Within Spain Precinct Officers Of County Placed On Fee Pay Basis Precinct officers In Taylor county will be through the fee system Jn 1837 rather than by salary as the commissioners cour Friday In Its first 1037 slon As required by state law county officers will continue to draw lated salaries set by commissioners court Friday All will draw the minimum allowed under the stale law with few changes made from last year's schedule Increase in salaries ol deputies was made In the sheriff's office as the only Important raise in pay Sheriff Sid McAdams will receive the minimum allowed Chief Deputy Ruck will draw monthly two other deputies and n fourth will draw on o time basis being used and paid only when needed Under the 1936 sit-up Burl Wheeler drew the as McAdams but three deputies made 1120 and Forces Reduced Belle Wellborn district clerk continue to receive per year with two deputies receiving as formerly A third deputy working part time will not be used in 1937 as in 1936 Tax Pat terson will receive the lowest sible under the state law One deputy will make per month one until April 15 and thereafter one one two and one will work part time at when working One less deputy will be on the roll than in 1936 County Clerk Vivian Fryer will Ive the law's minimum per year with one deputy making per month one one one one and one thc latter only temporarily employed Salaries of county clerk's deputies are smaller than provided in the 1936 schedule County judge John Camp will re- the minimum with a clerk to earn a See SALARIES 10 Col j Court Order Obtained on Eve of Conference by Union Upon Its Future Course By The The first reprisal in strikes which closed 12 plants of the General tors corporation and affiliates came Saturday In n court order for In strikes to vacate two Fisher body plants at Flint Mich One hundred and seventy-five of- who had been held In ness to enforce the order were de- mobilized tonight however when plans to eject the strikers from the plant were while ties and company officials ed legal procedure Tile court action initiated by General Motors officials came on the eve of n conference which may determine the future course of scattered labor difficulties ening to involve most or the auto- mobile industry General Motors with workers Idle In a fifth of Us plants has been most affected Unionists Meet Representatives of the United Workers union a tee on Industrial organization filiate from 10 cities In five states will meet at Flint today with Homer Martin union Martin warned that we pate the spread of the present strikes unless General Motors agreed to negotiate In the manner demanded by the union Elsewhere In the Industrial world he strike situation was moderately quiet A move was reported underway for settlement of the three months old strike at the Pittsburgh Plate company Refuses lo Laid In New York union longshoremen to load whose operators had reached an ment with striking seamen and the owners said the vessels would sail empty The first report of violence in he maritime strike on the west coast came when three men said they had been beaten at ian Francisco A meeting See STRIKES Pace 10 Col 2 A discussion of events and In the news world and national by a group at earless Informed newspaper men ol Washington and New York will be published ai D news feature nre those o to tip column should nnt tie nn the ol Ibis BY RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON Jan Presiden himself the ex- publicity barrage against the New Jersey airplane exporter who insisted on having his pound of flesh Even to Insiders It was an amazing ple of statecraft and stagecraft It was FDR's personal order cretary Hull being absent that the state department publicized the plication violating its own well precedents and well kept secrets There was haste for the need for cannot be shipped for several months iant Secretory Moore ordinarily an undemonstrative Virginian ed a on Mammon from Paradise Lost to express his In- Mr Roosevelt climaxed the ncf by exhibiting deeper emotion than at any time since he entered the White House Press and public responded to this draft on his Purpose was threefold with the underlying reason hidden It was de- See WHIRLIGIG 6 Col 4 The Weather AMI nnd WEST In Mo ruin fair In port Inn Monday f fair In Mi thr H rinse In mid NHW Kurd ny nnd Mr r M nf AT nnd sz 41 i Offers Treasure ANDREW W MELLON By The WASHINGTON Jan 2 White House said tonight that An drew W Mellon secretary ol the treasury in the Hoover tion had offered his Sr collection to the government and that President Roosevelt would that congress accept It Correspondence between the ident and the Pittsburgh millionaire disclosed that Mellon also had of- to build at his own expense PRESIDENT'S MOVE TO HAVE FARM PROBLEM Large Attendance Assured For First Regional Tenancy Hearing in Dallas on Monday STUDIED AT SOURCE STRONG RESPONSE DALLAS Jan P Trent regional Resettlement tion director said today the move of President Roosevelt to have farm problems studied at their source before launching a long range problem lor agricultural re- forms appears certain to receive hearty support when it Is rated here Monday The director said responses were received In such numbers to cate a large attendance at a ing before the recently appointed farm tenancy committee Dr W W RA administrator will be In charge of the meeting Sharecroppers tenants land owners and farmers wives have been invited to the Those attending have been asked to present their answers to various questions In writing so committee members can have the Information for study after leaving Dallas The meeting Is the first of live to be held In various sections It Is the hope of the government the hearings will throw light on Alexander of Washington I ferent farm problems existing In the different sections By The Pnn MEMPHIS Tenn Jan L Mitchell secretary of the southern tenant farmers union said today the union would send tives to public hearing of President Roosevelt's farm tenancy sion Mitchell said Odis L Sweeden state secretary of the union In Oklahoma Fred Mathews union representative in West Texas and others will attend the session at Dallas Monday Sw MELLON Page 10 Col 2 Young Film Actor Is Found Dead of Shot By Thf HOLLYWOOD Calif Jan Alexander TE NOTE Originally Intended For Snatch of Another Boy Says Paper By The SEATTLE Jan The tonight published under copyright what it termed the ransom note left a week ago tomorrow night by the kidnaper oJ Charles Mattson 10 in Tacoma The asserted text Get eighteen thousand dollars five and ten dollar old bills bers not to run consecutively Get ten thousand In fifty dollar old bills numbers not to run con- This amount will double each week The boy Is safe When you are ready Insert In a personal column of the Seattle Times Mabel what is your ad- dress Ann Disregard any notes received by pou unless this type and Mils color ng Is used and signed Tim Use an old Ford car Tim dated Tacoma The story dated Tacoma and a she believed he committed suicide here and there an More Tenants Without Farms Here This Year Declare Landlords Bankers Tractor Use Seen As Chief Reason Tenant farmers themselves agree that about the most sorrowful plight they can Imagine Is that of being a tenant without a farm yet cations are that there will be more tenants Jn Taylor county this winter than in 1936 or any pre- vious year Landlords interviewed in Abilene yesterday said that they were ng more for their larms than in recent years One re- marked that he was considering posting my place against tive tenants because they were be- coming so numerous Others while of the opinion that there were more farmer tenants without farms this winter than usual declared that ihere was no spectacular Increase In their number and that there was nothing to become alarmed over Two landlords were encountered who were going to rent out their tenants not because of any comings on the part of the tenants but because they tho landlords were going to buy tractors In the spring and farm all their land themselves These were not large landholders however and only three tenants were Involved in the two cases However no tenant farmers were found on the streets who were out farms or to their knowledge be put off their places tills year She was too hysterical to coherently But a maid said talk Be- tween and tonight Mr Alexander took his and went out to the barn He said he was going to kill a duok We heard a shot And then he did not come back Negro Arraigned On Murder Count Bay Mays Merkel negro clis sed with murder was remanded 10 the Taylor county jail here Saturday following arraignment before James Gray Bledsoe Justice of the peace The complaint signed by D H Vaughn Merkel marshal charged Mays with the Satal shooting Alberta Henry Merkel negress on December 26 The woman died In Sendrick Memorial hospital here a few hours after the shooting DROP FOOD TO INDIANS lly The Tress GALLUP N M Jan R Fryer superintendent of the Navajo Indian reservation returned from c trip Lite today with tion that shorn 20 Indians Dound In wild country of here bKn found and food dropped lo buu more remained to be was penned in and it was punctuated In Ink of a peculiar color The paper said it would not dis- close the color of the ink nor the style of type The newspaper asserted it had discovered that the note was KIDNAPING Page 10 Col 2 Jones County Has 3 New Officials ANSON Jan new county officials began serving FIND MAN DEAD AFTER HOLDUP Taken As 85 In Store Are Robbed By Thc NEW YORK Jan 2 A man identified by police as Fred Dunn 29 was found shot to death In wesb street apartment a short time after nine men a spectacular holdup of employe and customers In a clothing store Police said Dunn apparently hac jeen slain In a dispute over division of the They said 30 envelopes containing checks Identified as part the loot taken from the clothing tore were found In the apartment The robbers armed with pistols and submachine guns escaped with in cash and several nds more In cash and jewelry taken rom the employes and customers hey herded into the rear of the tore Boy Just Misses Being First Baby He was a few hours behind time but Baby Green just missed being a New baby Son of Mr and Mrs J C Green 1110 Butternut the child was born at a m Saturday Birth of Catherine Ann at i p m Friday was reported to tlie Friday she is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond T Bynum Gifts from various Abilene firms will constitute a welcome conducted U S Constitution Changes To Guard Wages Supported By Treat WASHINGTON Jan idea ol amending the constitution leaped suddenly to the forefront of congressional ics tonight when Senator Robinson democratic leader said that it Wiis the best method t o handle thc wage and hour problem h e Arkansas senator back for the Tuesday dictated t o reporters a declaration that supreme court decisions holding that neither the federal nor state governments had power to pre- scribe maximum hours and mini- mum wages had created a very unsatisfactory condition Alternately lingering and puffing a cigar he asserted the power should be given to the states or con- gress and predicted that the issue would be settled at this session He was careful however not to close the door to attempts to meet the hour and wage problem through legislation Recommended STANFORD C STILES By Tbe WASHINGTON Jan Morris Sheppard and Tom ly of Texas announced today they had recommended appointment ol H nf tho appointment 01 SE Father of Abilene Man Death Victim WICHITA PALLS Jan W Robertson Sr 75 father of W W Robertson Jr ol Abilene died here that there were many more cations this winter for rentable farms belonging to the bank than ever before Scores upon scores of men have come Into this bank and applied for farms Similarly in the first part ot 1936 there were more calls for farms than previously but at the present time ex- ceed anything I havs ever Scott said I attribute the large Increase to landlords purchasing tractors and farming land he continued Paul Jones vice-president of the Farmers and Merchants National bank aLSu said applications for ant farms at his bank were on the increase Of a different frame of mind was See TENANTS Page 10 Col 4 as United States marshal for the eastern district of Texas He would succeed Ed L Taylor temporary marshal since the death of J E Ponder at Texarkana In August Stills previously was a de- in the Paris division of the eastern district REACHES HERE Mercury 28 as Wave Arrives The delayed cold wave finally ar- rived here Saturday night the thermometer showing 28 degrees at 11 p m a drop of two degrees from 10 o'clock The low for Saturday morning was 39 degrees Lawmakers Revive Plans To Control Capital During Strife By Thp WASHINGTON Jan Congressional talk strengthened neutrality legislation some members of the house military committee began reviving plans today to out- By The Prm A cold wave brought temperatures to the Texas Pan- handle and moved slowly southward Saturday night losing much of Its sting as It spread toward the gulf The norther Irom the Rockies caused the temperature to tumble o minimum of 16 at Saturday however It rose to a maximum of 38 Continued cold and fair weather was forecast for that section Sunday At Wichita Falls a cold wind sent temperature down to a of 28 After warming up to 38 it grew colder again after law war proflteering In event ol shortly alter 8 o'clock tonight of The skies were partly cloudy I a their first term here Friday They by thc under pre- were Howled Dunwody tax A 1937 commissioner of precinct 4 und Frank Powell treasurer and In- so has a new constable dependent Ice sio on t 1937 ders who takes the place of S W drug toilet Lenders laundry laundry Dunwody has under Waldrop Furniture a vin Sosebee the retiring official lor crib or on another piece of an extended illness resulting from a heart Funeral services will be held at the family home here at 4 p m Sunday with Dr H T Wood tor of the First Christian church officiating Burial will be In a local cemetery Thc widow is the only other Im- mediate survivor Mr Robertson reported a minimum 31 and a maximum of sources said Hill high ranking member of the military committee would introduce a bin io take the profits out of strife Strong tee support waa predicted A somewhat similar measure passed the house in 1935 but after being drastically revised by senate committees failed to reach the statute books Mobilization of labor and capital in wartime was advocated by Wilcox a member of the committee as one of the most practical methods of ing war unpopular If industry knew its plants would be taken over upon the outbreak of wsr and operated for the good of the country Wilcox said you would find the heat being turned on congress to prevent war being declared Too many people stand to profit from war the way things are now I The Florida man said he favored paying all agricultural and The temperature at Dallas was around 40 with B forecast of from 21 to 27 degrees for early Sunday reported Heavy snow retiring !n 1919 of an Ice plant H rom co-ownership the past two terms Powell takes office vacated bv Luther Westmorland who has served for the past wo terms Hampton takes the post vacated by J S Touchstone who has served as commissioner for the two terms AH of the old officials retired LESS PERSONALITIES SEEN FOR NEW SESSION OF LEGISLATURE nursery furniture photograph of the baby Mead's Bakery a loaf of bread containing in currency T Grant one dozen diapers Banner creamery 30 milk J C Penney woolen sacque Sun tric on a washing ine Elliott's funeral home free bulance service for mother and baby Jack Drug hot water bottle and B B talcum and soap so W C Fisher Jewelry gold and diamond baby ring Grandson of Trent Couple Is Killed W W Jr went to Wichita Falls Thursday and was at the bedside of his father when he died The younger man Is chief of radio stations Paris and Big He had been his father at frequent Intervals for several months Hj Th AUSTIN Jan 2 Members of 45111 legislature arriving In ever numbers predicted today conferred without arousing cv d to a c o a c I genera session 10 days or i nee would be without ihc hls Bnd m n f T d i be conclaves in the past tne thc Rep Bob of first Reps Homer Leonard of TRENT Jan Mr and Mrs B F of Trent have Been of the of their Bustor 18 In Arizona Thc youth who formerly lived here died In nn Arizona pital after being carried therr by a The body was sent to the home of his mother Mrs Alice In Gulf Maritime Strike Is Settled PORT ARTHUR Jan J Gamier publicity chairman of the Port Arthur maritime strike committee announced 7.000 hart ended their strike the major phase of thc walkout Gamier said strike committees at Houston New Orleans Charles and Mobile concurred In resolutions to return work If prevailing raised TORM were maintained He asserted mm would be through rank and halls Spokesmen emphasized thc strike against cargo vessels had not ended and that It would be supported by to work mi ers CHICAGO Jan frigid wave followed a blizzard's cold trail Into the midwest today One death was ranging to more than a foot in depth fell in the Dakotas Iowa Minnesota Kansas Nebraska and Wisconsin Readings under the zero mark were reported Throughout North Blizzards reminiscent of last January's paralyzing storms over a wide expanse of prairie land from Kansas to Minnesota Near Hoxle Kan the body of Dr L H McCartney 60 was found trial workers the same wages as soldiers Social Security Bar Study Thirty-one members of the lor County Bar association were present Saturday lor the January luncheon meeting at the Hilton hotel J R Black was master of ceremonies Social security legislation was died Ellis discussing the national act and Bryan Bradbury state representative from Taylor county explaining the state Present were Judge W R man J M Wagstaff R M Wag- siaff James P Stinson E T Basque Government Says Its Ships to Fire Upon Any Vessel Attacking Merchantmen By The Threats and counter-threats In the wake of German retaliation for seizure of a German freighter by Spanish socialists Saturday night dimmed European efforts to keep the Spanish civil war confined to Spain Germany announced the pocket battleship Graf spee had seized the Spanish freighter Aragon and ed It into an unnamed Spanish In- surgent port and the cruiser had driven the freighter Soton around on the Basque coast To Be Continued These measures retaliation for the recent seizure of the German freighter Palos by the Spanish que regime at Bilbao would be continued a German official said until satisfaction had been given Germany over the Palos incident The autonomous Basque ment ordered boats in the Bay of Biscay area to fire on any vessel of any nation attacking Spanish merchantmen The Valencia Socialist ment declared it was prepared to reply in fitting to the shelling or the Soton and the attack an act of war The Palos itself was freed day but the Basques detained go which they sain was contra- band and a Spanish passenger they said waa a Fascist German Demand A German spokesman said We want as It cargo intact and all her passengers concern was aroused In French official quarters as the Spanish Incidents were followed by the shelling of a French vessel by three Spanish trawlers The French merchant vessel der ana foreign office reports was shelled off the northern of Spain but escaped without age Diplomatic sources In Paris said See EUROPE 10 Col 2 Little Miss McRee Trent's 37 Baby TRENT Jan New Year baby is Caroline McRee daughter of Mr and Mrs Hale Bee She was born at 3 o'clock on he mooing of January 1 The baby is a granddaughter or Mrs R B McRee a pioneer of Trent and Mrs Ebb McGowan ot abandoned in the snow h's ne Brooks Roy Duke W W Walter Pope Judge John L Camp D M Jr Ellis K John Alvis Dallas borough Davis Scarborough bury Frank Smith Tom E Eplen Wiley Cafrey Laurel Dunn Jot Childers A K Doss E W Tire Dealer Goes To New Location E N Compere dealer here In General Tires has announced re- moval of his business from 1441 South First street to che Guitar building at South First and more streets Harry Tom F M R M Wagstaff Black members Sid H McAdams Taylor county sheriff Walter Pope Jr of Anson and Hudson Smart PLANES READY FOR SHIPMENT Ships Destined for Spanish Loyalist Use Br NEW YORK Jan At least 20 crated second-hand American planes are at North Beach Long Island tonight f said ready for RETURNS TO ARKANSAS R of Hock Houston showed I lie greatest will leave after for lar issued bounding permits of several candidates for the Morse of nnd of the lower chamber bert of withdrew o set up said the out- Supporters said thc b tier however Worth funeral ook for a constructive session was were still very much In thr held Saturday I WS Shields oil op- after a week fort Worth both felt the Y 1 i u overwhelming victory of Governor of Oklahoma Ills parents Mr nnd of A that the honor of In Fort Worth to lie Mrs I R of Abilene dm ing brn lions and more than doubled presiding over the home might be LEGISLATURE 10 Ol 3 funeral Christmas holidays I their building I BUILDING PERMITS IN 21 TEXAS CITIES DOUBLE TOTAL B The Lubbock tlir DALLAS Ian percental caln permits Harping n 1036 vs measured by permits rom 1935 10 in sued in 21 of the came within a few dollars of doubling 1935 Permits for 1936 totaled 385 compared to construction of by the cities In 1035 isc of more than 500 cent and reported building permits slightly under 1935 In addition to total for Immediate shipment to Spain and more are expected They were described at the port of the order of 60 planes bought by Robert Cuse of Jersey City N j which government leaders hoped to prevent leaving the United States Speedy action Is planned after con- gress convenes next week to bar shipment to the Spanish government ac Valencia the purchaser Another group of four plants a Floyd Bennett Field Long Island airport attaches there said will tc flown to Mexico a Spanish liner already has Loaded a ot similar machines These planes belonged to American Air Lines which has vald 13 machines of tne same to the Compagnia de Transposes Aeros Del I Mexican air line under a stipulation J that they were merrial use iu Mexico Pan or of that order already been flown to Several planes have been dis- mantled and loaded aboard tho Spanish freighter at Cruz December Rainfall Far Below Normal Precipitation in Abilene only 77 Inch during December a normal of 1.34 In city proper I meteorological summary of officials estimated j cal weather bureau 1 Of thLs 59 inch fell in a 24-hour from Uj R nil lime r cord Beaumont period December l and Lesser fallen in -I of thp last 52 ihc report Mean average temperatures I fnr thr month SO BUILDING rite 10 Col 3 I degrees above the normal of
