Beatrice Daily Sun (Newspaper) - March 11, 1938, Beatrice, Nebraska THE TEMPERATURES 50 29 Yesterdays high Low year ago today 23 BEATRICE DAILY SUN THE WEATHER Nebraska and Kansas fair and continued If You Didnt See It In The SUN It Didnt Happen Member Of The Associated Press VOLUME XXXVI FRIDAY MARCH 1938 210 Roosevelt Scores TVA Directors for Public Quarreling o Three Claim Loyalty to TVA Purpose DEALER GETS GOP IS DEMO MEMBER Reply Affirmatively to Question on bility of NONE 11 President Roosevelt told the quar reling TVA directors today he had been convinced reluctantly their work was impeded and real issues of public policy obscured by per sonal The president made a long state ment to the three members of the Tennessee valley board after they sat down for judgment by the president on charges that Chairman Morgan on one hand and Directors David Lil and Morgan on the other have made against each oth Chairman Morgan has accused his two associates of bad re sponsibility for illegal expenditures and other Morgan and Lillenthal have charged that the chairman was determined to rule or ruin It is Intolerable to the people of the United the presi dent told the directors in his state that Issues of fundamental public policy should be confused with issues of personal integrity and Investigates Dishonesty I called this he to investigate charges of dis bad faith and This is not an Inquiry to ine a national power a na tional conservation a na tional flood or any other straight matter of It Is an Inquiry into charges and official misconduct After asking the three directors i few questions concerning their faith in that TVA project and making his statement to the president recessed the hearing un I til after When the directors Stephen a presidential said Chairman Morgan had read an opening statement following the presidents Early Chairman Morgan refused to give any facts as the president electing to stand on his statement Xo Comment None of the three directors would comment as they filed The according to sten accounts of the set forth the charges and counter charges made by the three officials I and asserted the success of TVA demanded that personal recrimin All three directors said they be in the feasibility and wis dom of the act which created the mge federal power and flood con trol The president then asserted there are persona and powerful in this country that pro ess to disbelieve in the feasibility and wisdom of the Cites Enemies There are persons and power ful he that are quick to seize on the simplest act or slightest word of members of the board to discredit the ad of the Dissension and personal re crimination among members of the TVA have unfortunately reached a point where the successful ad ministration of the act is imperil No one who professes a belief n the feasibility and wisdom of the act can view such a situation with out the gravest Demands for an exhaustive con gressional investigation of the Tennessee valley authority increas ed coincident with President showdown conference With the three squab Sling Several democratic and lican senators expressed the belief congress should make its own in regardless of the outcome of personal Investiga March 11 MPt This is a little yarn about a Ne braska deal democrat who achieved office in a lican party organization while still a registered The story became public today after Ella Wagener of Lin coln disclosed she was elected senior vice president of the Founders day while regis tered on democratic party She was reared in a Missouri democratic she explained and sees no good reason to change her registration Im a lot better republican than some wno have registered so all their she Farm Bureau Is Reopened Closed Six Weeks for Lack of Funds Reed Announces Budget The county Farm Bureau closed six weeks for lack of was Kenneth acting agricultur al said the membership drive nearing completion would subscribe the The amount raised was not re but a goal of two thousand dollars was fixed bv President Walter Erickson of Virginia pre liminary to the All of the bureaus many ser vices are again available at the courthouse The bureaus executive commit tee will meet in the near future to name a county Welfare Group Needs Clothes for Children Needy School Students Face Dim Hope of Aid If More Funds Not REPORTS Subcommittee Arnolds Appointment March 11 A senate judiciary approved today the nomination of Thurman Arnold to be assist attorney general in charge of Ellis farm underwent a serious operation at the Mennonite hospital Thurs day He is a son of and Carl Linsenmeyer of the Blue Springs the justice departments antitrust There were no votes against Ar but Senators Borah rIda ho and Burke refrained from Senators Norris Neely Va and OMahoney voted in fav or of the Borah and Burke said they were their votes to consider the nomination They will be entitled to vote again when the nomination is considered by the full judiciary the next step toward Arnolds confirmation by the Fairbury Mirny Supreme Court Denies Dis crimination Against Be atrice Electric March 11 city may charge higher rates for cur rent from Its municipal power plant where the element of resale is involved on the part of the pur Scraping the bottom of its treas ury and facing empty childrens shoe shelves and clothes Welfare association said today it would be impossible to keep in school the many children depend ant on the society for clothing un less aid comes There are still several months wet school is and our funds and stores are almost completely secretary of the said Our great need is for childrens The remaking grownups clothes that come to the has furnished us with a good supply of dresses for girls of the preschool But we have practically nothing for children of school and they are the ones who need warm clothing Milk Fund Low showed the report er the shelf reserved for childrens In one lonely corner of the otherwise empty shelf were eight battered pieces of four pairs of shoes where several years ago there would have been hun On the rack for little boys over alls were nothing but empty wire The last overall had been given away several days In the clothing treasury is ex In the ner endowed milk fund is It is The need is particularly great to help borderline those families who have some little source of income and are trying desperately to keep off They are not eligible for commodity issues and other gov and must get what ever help they can from ent Pitiful Cases And there are the problem re lief of eight ten living in box cars and shanties on a pittance from the govern These who stretch of imagination could be blamed for their should not have to go to school ed and said the secre Money may be sent to the Wel fare Harden at the Beatrice State Those who would contribute shoes or clothing may caJ the Welfare and the articles will be col Corporations Surtax Again Is Voted Down Permanent Defeat Greets Move to Tax FamilyOwned NEW REVENUE SOUGHT BULLETIN March 11 house passed the tax and sent It to the senate today after declining to reinsert a spe cial surtax on family owned and closely beld March 11 The house killed today an attempt to put back in the tax revision an administration proposal for a special surtax on family owned and closely held Speaker Bankhead announced the roll call vote was 233 to The action paved for a vote on final passage of the hefty revenue Republicans and rebelling demo crats refused for a second and fin al time to include the Ib surtax on closely held companies in the They have contended it would subject legitimate business enter prises to a punitive tax in an at empt to reach a few firms that might be used for tax avoidance Backers of the surtax said it was a means of equity in taxation and wiping the tax advantages which they said closely held firms have over those with wide stock owner Hitlers Troops Enter Austria No Resistance Elect Teachers Wymore School Board of Education Reelects Entire Staff Brooks Seek New Revenue The house had agreed by a ISO to 124 on day to strike the Ib tax from the Todays ballot merely ratified that Meanwhile a dispute over the amount of potential revenue in the new tax developed among house seeking to retrieve funds lost by deletion of the levy on Robertson dVa persuad ed the house yesterday to vote an increase of 25 cents a gallon in the liquor which he said would produce 35 million Thompson dIll ed in tacking on an amendment to imported pork and pork pro about five million Doughton dNC Italy Refuses to Join Move Against Nazis French Envoy Announces Failure to Reach Accord Vigorous Action EUROPE IS ALARMED March 11 of of the foreign office declar ed today that Italy had refused tr join France and Britain in any action whatsoever to defend Aus trian The officials said Jules French charge daffaires at conferred with the Italian govern ment on instructions from Paris and then telegraphed the dOrsay that such faint sanction was deemed Impossible by A spokesman for Foreign Min ister Yvon Delbos said even without France was ined to act in a most vigorous providing Britain sup ported He ruled out protests as worse than The spokesman added that Count Johannes German to whom Del bos had called in had told the foreign minister flatly that Germany will rot make the slightest concession in regard to White Water Flows Over Dam photo Schuschnigg Resigns Post Nazis Control Plebiscite Set for Sunday Is Cancelled Coup Wins Power for ULTIMATUM POSTED Britain Warns Against Force March 11 Spring thaws and rains usual ly make the Black Mill dam at Court street spout dark brown like a coffee But the snow this month melted so slowly and this weeks rain fell so water bubbled over the dam crystal Water above the dam was light bluegreen in stead of the usual cho colate Workmen on the bridge in the background were laying the last of some ten thousand pieces of steel intricately fit ting them in a pattern as precise as fine basket But though the steel work was expected to be completed this authori ties said pouring of concrete would wait until there is no pos sible chance of a cold Whitney Faces Criminal Count tain today gave a carefully phrased warning to Germany against military interference in Austrias Sunday plebiscite on in Official British sources said re ports had been received of cer tain movements of troops in Bav aria and that Britain had ex pressed to Germany the hope that the purpose of such movements wasto on theAus Officials declined to say speci to whom this view was ex but it was believed that it i the treasury figured the Presented unmistakably added liquor tax would vield only to Von Ger w a M w M I A 19 million But Mc Cormack dMass contended on the basis of figures issued by Sec the loss from rejection of the Ib tax on closely held corporations would be no more than 19 million supreme the Nebraska court ruled The ruling came in the tribun als reversal and dismissal of the Jefferson county district courts finding that the City of discriminated against the Corn husker Electric of Be by charging rates higher than those in effect within the The which distributes electricity to villages and farms in the vicinity of also con tended the rates were higher than those assessed by the city against the Fairchild Clay Products com which operates a gravel pit Justice Day held there is no discrimination in this connec tion because the two firms are not customers in the same buys current for resale while the other for power in Its own Masqueraded as Boy Hopes Shell Like Being Girl SAN March 11 Katharine Vines ended today what she said was a lifelong masquerade as a boy and donned feminine 1 I hope Ill like being a she Darkhaired known to her friends as said she became a boy because her Stella al ready had two girls and wanted a She was christened as a girl in 1921 in but grew up wearing boys clothing and played with boys when the family moved to Two months Chicago school nurses caused her to ap pear for a physical Her sex became To avoid Nicholas Vines brought his daughter here to live with rela The Own Service March teach ers in the Wymore schools were reelected at the regular meeting of the board of education this The list of Instructors Harland high school principal Emanuel ath Hic director Margaret so cial science Elizabeth Eng lish and dramatics Ruth Latin Paul orches tra and glee club Bruce science Gerald commer cial Denzel mathematics Marjory art and science Beulah mathematics Rose social science Tillot Gladys Gwendolyn Dorothy Lee Gladys Margaret Verneil Hazel Phyllis Anne Nancy Brooks is LEWIS DIES AT BLUE SPRINGS HOME old resident of Blue passed away at his home there He is sur vived by his widow and two Orville and William Funeral services will be at oclock Sunday afternoon from the Evangelical church at that in Blue Springs ceme Two Votes Keep Mooney in San Quentin Prison March 11 dramatic fight before the state assembly to win a legislative pardon failed to A unique to free Mooney from San Quentin where he is serving a life term for the 1916 San Francisco day bombing which killed 10 and injured 40 the same fate as every attempt in his 21 year fight for After hearing Mooney himself repeat his story that he was the assembly voted 39 to 35 to free him but that was two votes short of the necessary majority of 80 Since two assemblymen have died there actually are only 78 members but the speaker ruled 41 was necessary for a man foreign by Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax and Prime Minister Neville Chamber Von Ribbentrop on whose two day visit to London hopes of better understanding had been ended his round of functions here with such tinder standing further off than ever and Europes peace Watchful detachments of mount ed and foot police stood by as the top hatted Ribbentrop drove through the gates of Buckingham palace in a swastika mo tor car for his farewell audience with King It was this Ribbentrop Is the retiring nazi ambassador to Lon was the ostensible rea son for his There were no repetitions of yesterdays hostile demonstrations against the German outside the foreign when crowds get Ribbentrop Thomas Dewey Starts Action Against Former Stock Ex change NEW March 11 The immediate rearrest of Rich ard five times presi dent of the New York stock ex on a new Charge grantT larceny Was ordered day by State Attorney General John Kansans Face Robbery Charges in Nebraska aMrch 11 JP Frontier County Attorney Frank Morrison filed complaints charging abduction and child stealing against Weath erly and Forrest Follis The men have not yet been ar Morrison said he wished to confer with Kansas officers first The charges are similar to those filed earlier this week against Paul who pleaded The complaints assert the men brought Barbara Jane a high school senior from Pawnee to where they allegedly held up a filling station and kidnaped the attend Carl Cortland Youth Among Graduates March 11 The Nebraska agricultural college awarded certificates of graduation last night to 28 farm youths who attended a farm operators short course for periods dur ing the past two Speaking at the commencement Chancellor Burnett said agriculture undoubtedly will continue to be a successful oc despite recent drouth The graduates included Leo Aurora Robert Wilcox Wesley North Platte Paul Walter Thurs ton Joe Oakland Roy Cozad Kenneth Dakota City Frederick Coleridge Lovell Lexington and Leland NEW March 11 An indictment charging Richard Whit former president of the New York stock with the theft of 100 thousand dollars in se today transformed the col lapse of the brokerage firm he headed into a case for the criminal The returned by a New York county grand jury yes in a lightning action by Thomas district attorn accused Whitney of first de gree grand larceny in the misap propriation of the securities from a trust fund of which he was ex and The grave five times president of the ex change and Wall street leader thru the critical years of the depression was charged with appropriating securities of an aggregate value of about 105 thousand dollars for personal from a fund estab by his the late George leaving in the fund only a single share of Beth lehem Steel company stock with a market value of While Whitney silently went through the police routine of being booked and and posted inquiries into the col lapse of Richard Whitney and com pany went ahead on five other with at least two of them holding a possibility of additional criminal Job Need Seen by Roosevelt President Opens National Community Chest Cam With Plea for March 11 President opening the nations annual community chest declared today only in jobs and more at good shall we find national stability and individual Addressing a meeting of mo for human needs in the east room of the White the president appealed for a united front in making the 1938 private charity program a He pointed out that direct re provided by the community was aimed at many prob lems of human misfortune ad justing maladjusted tak ing care of the tiding over crises in family Work a federal task to which he said he was definitely is provide jobs for normal people who can give useful work to the city has turned into the city treasury in attorneys fees allow ed from proceeds of the citys tax lien foreclosure Poker Losses Not Deductible from Income Tax March 11 telling everybody else what can be deducted from income tax but nobody seems to be saying anything about what you can not For you cant ex empt Money paid for traffic viola even if received the parking ticket while cooling your heels In a collectors office making an adjustment on last years even if youre paying your former spouse a neat little sum to live alone be cause you couldnt endure the cracks she was always making about tax The cost of a wedding pres even if it was for the Weekly allowances to not if you found he was squandering it on lollypops tor the little girl next turned out the daughter otl an Internal revenue Allowances to your for household Wen if she cooks the best biscuits in Car fare spent looking for a even if the job is the one on which is now about to tax Poker matter if your opponent made good every inside draw to a straight Contributions to political cam even if you backed tha Cost of a baseball if youre a ball player and they wont let you play without a Attorney fees for a breach of promise matter if you were promiser or And sure your bank balance is before you send the government a check for the Officials have to send back every year and it them sore as all get Ora Burket Dies at Home Here Ora Ellen who had been ill for a few died today at noon at her 430 North Eighth She was the wife of Gage pio She was born March in Lee and had resided in Gage county thirty years or besides her are four Hazel Beatrice Neva Kram Blue Lulu Day and Bess Nickle of Funeral services will be Sunday at oclock from the First Christian Fouts Interment in Evergreen Home v The which is at the Har will lie in state at the church from 2 to and seeking adjustment of a mal adjusted society rather than of maladjusted A Third Youths The importance of these em ployable millions may be more ful ly Roose velt when it is realized that approximately onethird of them are under 25 years of age and will be either assets or liabilities for many years to depending upon public policies toward If we do not give them a chance at something like normal it is inevitable that they will be come millions of individual prob For these ablebodied unem I am definitely committed to the giving of jobs instead of re The president said it was true the national economy day permit the federal government to give useful work to all the em ployable needy but the federal government is doing so in the great majority of File Heatons Name for Attorney General March 11 A filing fee was received at the county here today to enter Heaton of Sid Cheyenne county as a candidate for the democratic nomination as attorney The fee was f rom Joseph attorney at South Sioux Heaton refused to other than to express said probably will receive ad Information in a few Reports have been current for some time Heatons friends were attempting to place him in the The filing was the first tangible evidence of an organized March 11 With German troops reported marching into Aus trian the Austrian government was being reor in a closely guarded chancellery tonight while na zi throngs virtually took pos session of The swastika emblem of nazi was raised over the seat of the Austrian The government bureau an German troops crossed the frontier at Pas 140 miles west of Two German regiments were reported to have crossed the border at burg and It was reported they met Avith no resistance and vere greeted with Resignation Follows March 11 The Austrian govern ment piess bureau announced tonight that German troops crossed the Austrian border at Austrian troops were ord back re A high official said the resignation o f Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg The official declared that the next Austrian govern ment would be completely satisfactory to He added it was possible Schus would be retained in some Schuschnigg announced by radio Germany presented an ultimatum with a time limit demanding the reorganization of the Austrian said had yielded to demands and the object is to prevent the spill ing of German Says Goodbye The chancellor said the um had been presented to Presi dent Wilhelm and that the president thereupon had conferred with army At the end of his short announce ment said I say goodbye with the wish that God protect It was not known immediately whether the meant his Arthur the Hit minister of the inter in a radio broadcast asked that there be no resistance to the German troops coming He urg ed Austrian nazis to maintain strict At the chancellery it was said said the government was being re organized and that a new cabinet list would be announced Continued on Page 2 YOUTH WILL FACE MANSLAUGHTER COUNT March 11 uty County Attorney Farley Young filed a manslaughter complaint to day against Gerald who testified at a coroners late yesterday he drove the truck which struck and killed Agnes of day Young said Booth probably would be arraigned late The coroners jury held the accident was Plan Memorial Rites for George Holdrege March 11 91st anniversary of the birth of the late George for 36 years general manager of the Burlington railroad lines will be commemorated by veteran Bur lington employes at a banquet here March will include L President Ralph Budd of the Burlington and Madden of system presi dent of the Burlington Veterans Holdrege died in retired in 1912 and Powder Puff Loses Fight Tax March 11MB doesnt stand a congresswomen agreed when it runs up against a seventeen million tax Male of the house howled down yesterday every suggestion of the powder puff bloc that the 10 percent cosme tics tax repealed or at least The women members were vo They had their dander up and their hair dont you be sporting pleaded Alary Norton d Give the women said Rogers r The men of the house Very came back I propose 5 And thus did realism need the said men
