Big Spring Daily Herald (Newspaper) - October 10, 1939, Big Spring, Texas COMPLETE All Wire Ail The HOOK Ne ONLY Oi tUm THE BIG SPRING DAILY HERALD VOL 12 NO 103 Eight Pages Today BIG SPRING TEXAS TUESDAY OCTOBER 101939 Full AP Leased Wirt Cents WEATHER TO NIGHT WEDNESDAY FAIK FT WORTH CHOSEN FOR NEXT MEETING OF IOOF GROUPS Grand Encampment And LAPM Aux Elect Officers As State Convention Nears A Close Here Delegates to the 86th IOOF grand encampment and the 43rd department council of the Patriarch Militant of Texas and state as sociation of Its auxiliary Tuesday put finishing touches on annual con vention business after electing officers and choosing Fort Worth as the 1940 convention site Registration for the three day convention which concludes v h a dance affair In the Crawford hotel ballroom at 9 p m were reported at well beyond the 300 mark A L Honeycutt Levelland was named grand patriarch of the grand encampment succeeding Conde B Hoskins Austin W B Francis Fort Worth continued for another year as department com mander of the Patriarch Militant and Mrs Mattie Waterfield Hous ton was elected president of the Auxiliary Patriarch Mill Irate N Orleans Citizens Work For Recall Of District Attorney a spread between the knees of four and inches attained by choking the of a horse John C And New Mexico cowhand won the title of worlds most bowlegged cowboy at the Eastern New Mex ico State fair AFL Rejects Endorsement Of New Deal Ladies tant Fort Worth was successful in its bid for the convention over Corpus Christi i In Golden Rule degree contest work the Dallas team was ad judged winner over the Fort Worth team at the I O O F hall Monday evening More than 300 persons joined in an old fashioned western barbecue at the city park Mon day evening It was the first time some of the delegates from all parts of the state had ever participated in a real barbecue affair At noon Tuesday the department council P M had not concluded its business session but the work was due to be completed early in the afternoon The encampment had concluded its convention work At noon the Crawford hotel ball room was crowded with delegates attending the L A P M luncheon Annual inspection was held by Maj J R Bast Fort Worth de inspector and Capt Gris som Fort Worth Installation of officers was held in connection with this event In addition to elevating Mrs Waterfield to the presidency of the state association in its fourth annual session the L A P M elected Mrs Elizabeth geon San Antonio vice president Mrs Louise Houston treasurer and Mrs Elizabeth Bunch Fort Worth representa tive Mrs Nora Gulley Big Spring retiring president was in charge of the business sessions Tylers L A P M team con ferred the degree on Mrs Mattie Mays Big Spring and enrolled Mrs Willie Spangler Dy transfer at a colorful meeting Monday eve ning In addition the Tyler team put on a colorful exhibition Encampment officers other than Honeycutt included Sam J Knight Fort Worth grand high priest Earl Orebaugh Tyler Heavy Rains On Scattered Texas Areas Grain Crops And Pas tures Greatly Aided By Moisture By Ths Associated Press Rains ranging up to 435 inches were reported today from widely scattered Texas points The downpours were of great benefit to grain crops and pastures and in nearly all instances were fol lowed by cool pleasant weather 435 Inches At McKinney Sherman had 22 inches of rain yesterday and Laredo had two and onehalf inches early today Additional showers were forecast tonight for Southeast Texas but to morrow was expected to be gener ally fair Rainfall yesterday or early to day included McKinney 435 inches aiding the fall planting of oats Navarro county 122 inches first general rain there since July 1 San Antonio traces Austin 14 inch Fort Worth 55 inch bringing considerably cooler Beauchamp Appointed Criminal Court CINCINNATI Oct 10 The American Federation of Labor con vention voted nonconcurrence to day with a resolution calling for endorsement of President Roosevelt and the New Deal Without debate on the tumult that attended previous discussion of the Roosevelt administration the convention upheld a resolu tions committee finding that the federation could not give the blanket endorsement called for in the resolution submitted by the Connecticut State Federation of Labor The committee pointed out the Connecticut proposal drew no dis tinction between congressional and administrative action in its plea for a New Deal endorsement It also voiced opposition to the con servatives of both parties John J Egan the Connecticut Federation of Labor delegate was the only speaker in behalf of the resolution He told the conven tion he regretted some action was not taken on the proposal to give credit where credit was due No one has done more for or labor than President Roosevelt he said Labor in Connecticut is serving notice on the republicans and demo crats that we are not going to stand for reactionaries on either side grand senior warden O M Shaw Houston grand junior warden W R Francis Fort Worth grand scribe T B Quayle Fort Worth grand treasurer H J Emmins Dallas and W R San Antonio grand representatives and Dr B R Busby Denison grand junior warden elect Department council officers elected for three year terms have another year of service They are W R Francis Fort Worth depart ment commander John A Kee Fort Worth adjutant J R Bast Fort Worth department inspector and C M McLaughlin Tyler chief of staff Many of the dele gates told Nick Brenner Jones Lamar and L A Eubanks mem bers of the arrangements commit tee that the Big Spring convention was the smoothest they had ever attended weather Paris 119 inches first rain since August 26 Tyler 84 inch first appreciable rain in month and a boon to roses and garden crops Kerrville 218 inches breaking severe drouth Ellis county onehalf inch Houston reported unseasonably hot weather with yesterdays maxi mum 89 of an inch of rain however had fallen over a period Farmers and stockmen over wide area smiled as they recounted the benefits from soaking raini that broke a damaging drouth The rains spread over the up per half of the state with a fall of more than two inches visiting Had appreciable precipitation since last April General rains amounting to twi inches were reported in West Texas places Wheat farmers in the and of West Texas sail the moisture would enable them t begin planting their 1940 crop Th moisture came too late to be o much value to feed crops and cot ton Among good rains were those a Paducah measuring 228 inches Gainesville 11 inches and 91 o an inch at Stamford Rains varying from of an inch to two and a half inche fell on the South Plains all aroun Lubbock Two Taken Off Grand Jury After They Seek Removal Of Official NEW ORLEANS Oct 10 mass meeting of five thousand angry citizens which booed the name of Governor Earl K Long for nore than a minute broke up without disorder at district court building here today after hearing speeches denouncing District Attorney Charles A Byrne and launching a movement for his recall Meanwhile Byrne was busy inside the building arranging the hear ng in his own defense against charges filed by seven members of the Orleans parish grand jury yesterday demanding he be removed as their counselor T Hale Boggs chairman of the Peoples League which called the meeting launched the petitions asking Governor Long to call an elec tion to recall Byrne from office Twenty five per cent of the ed voters signatures are needing on the petitions Boggs predicted these would be forthcoming by tomorrow night Long would be forced o act and Byrne would be unseated Long boos hisses and yells penetrated the courtroom as eye wit nesses to yesterdays turmoil described what took place then Byrne announced Conrad Meyer his assistant would conduct the hearing after Attorney General David M Ellison did not appear Meanwhile scores of policemen swarmed through the building and outside Keeping the public from entering the courtroom and seek ing to prevent disorder Two details of uniformed police guarded the See NEW ORLEANS Pg 5 Col 2 Negotiations Are Watched Northern Neutral States Concerned Over Soviet Moves STOCKHOLM Oct 10 AP Europes northern neutrals anxiously watched he approaching showdown Soviet Russia and Finland today for a further sign of the new order in the Baltic region Confronted by To Secretary Of State Succeeds W C Morrow AUSTIN Oct 10 W Lee ODaniel today appointed Sec of State Tom L Beauchamp L judge of the court of criminal to succeed W C Morrow resigned The appointment was for the re mainder of Morrows term ending Jan 1 1941 Morrow presiding udge of the court for many years and 80 years old retired Beauchamps appointment will be effective immediately Other judges of the court are F L Hawkins and Harry N Graves It had been rumored for some time that Beauchamp was in line another appointment and he was promptly mentioned for the vacancy on the court of criminal appeals down Speculation when stepped developed immedi ately as to whom ODaniel would name secretary of One hanie of Lawson the governors secretary If Lawson should be appointed Governor ODaniel would be follow ing a precedent set by Gov James V Allred who promoted his secre tary Edward Clark to the post FRENCH WILL FIGHT UNTIL WORLD HAS CERTAIN PEACE Thats Premier Reply To Hitler Says Fuehrers Plan Is One Of Rase And Violence PARIS Oct Via In a radio speech broadcast to the French nation tonight accused Adolf Hitler ot repeatedly breaking promises and said the French would not lay down their amis until the world had certain peace The premier said man schemes of German propaganda had to nothing Under the circumstances he added we once more call upon French people to make efforts to surmount their common dangers The speech was described In advance as an answer to Hit lers peace proposals The French Daladier said were willing to make sacrifices lor the safety of western civilization Neither France nor Great Britain has embarked on any war of Russias quest or supremacy in that part of Eur ope the northern countries which HELSINKI Oct 10 civilians who can go were urged to make immediate preparations to leave the environs of Helsinki and Viipuri in a broadcast to night by Minister of the Interior Urho Kekkonen He said the measure was purely precaution ary but the sooner carried out the better TOM L Salary of the secretary of state is a year while that of secre tary to the governor is take the oath as judge within a few days Beauchamp formerly was county judge of Lamar county for four years He long practiced law in Paris and Tyler Lewis With FD On Neutrality SAN FRANCISCO Oct 10 John L Lewis supported President neutrality program in remarks at the opening of the sec REA SignUp To Be Completed Oct 20 Directors of the county Rural Electrification Au Monday fixed Oct he date for completion i sign up campaign for electric serv ce in the agricultural areas of the wo counties Riggs Sheppard Courtney co ordinator of the project announced that 287 persons in the two coun ties had signed membership agree convention of the Weather WEST Fair cooler in slightly warmer in extreme worth portion tonight Wednesday fair warmer in north and east cen tral portions EAST in north cloudy in south portion showers in southeast portion cooler except in extreme northwest portion tonight Wednesday generally fair except cloudy near the lower coast cooler near upper coast warmer in north west portion TEMPERATURES Mon Tues pm am 75 1 2 3 I 5 6 t 8 n 10 n 32 77 78 79 78 75 68 CS 61 fil flt 61 59 57 M 52 51 49 51 55 on 60 6 Industrial Organiza 20 as of the ond annual Congress of lions here today The presidents program upon neutrality should be supported by the congress and by the people said Lewis president of the CIO The wording of the neutrality act the classification of commodi ies and lethal weapons and the of credit or noncredit to are questions which to the issue of peace or var are of secondary importance War for America will come as he result of developing circum stances which convince the Amer can people that there is no other alternative Lewis added Labor has a major stake in this problem In war labor must See LEWIS Page 5 Col 7 ments and had posted their deposits It was indicated that upwards to another 75 patrons were in pros before the deadline date At the expiration of the date the engineer will be authorized to proceed with a survey and to make formal application for the line I was predicted that the tentative route for the power lines migh have to be revised to correspond with interest shown in the survey Airport Lease Deal Approved City Manager E was Tuesday by O M Red Moser of American Airlines that a 10year lease agree ment between the airlines and the ity would be approved The contract was the one sub mitted by AA and approved by the city commission here Sept 13 with minor revisions In effect the airlines accepted the devi sions according to Moser in a telephone conversa tion from New York Outstanding terms of the con tract are the 10year tenure and the increasing of the monthly rental from to For this he city will maintain the termina in every respect except furnish power for the airlines radio trans mitter and will provide for one complete schedule a day a fligh n each Fund Suit Argued SURRENDERS DALLAS Oct 10 Gallogly fugitive wealthy Atlanta Ga surrendered to Sheriff Smoot Schmid here this afternoon POSTMASTER WASHINGTON Oct 10 postoffice department announced appointment of Anna Lee Pearce as acting postmaster at Sterling City Texas schedules will go at and 2J per month Any planes in excess o 25000 pounds gross standard weigh would draw per month per 100 pounds excess EXECUTIONER DIES NEW YORK Oct 10 G Elliott 65 official executione for five eastern states died at his home in Queens The cause of death was given a coronary embolism Among the persons he put t death were Bruno Richard Haupt mann kidnaper of the Lindberg baby and Sacco and Vanzetti con in Massachusetts of and the central figures in a worl wide protest AUSTIN Oct 10 Judge Ralph W Yarborough to day denied a temporary tion against repayment of loans by the old age assistance admin and ordered trial of the suit on its merits October 30 AUSTIN Oct 10 maze of legal argument today oped the suit of Senator Joe Hill of Henderson seeking to enjoin payment of loans by the old age assistance administration and prevent a slash in October pen sions By agreement of attorneys and District Judge Ralph Yarborough payment of plus 16700 interest authorized by th as of today was moved from 12 noon until 2 p m Loan warrants issued by the state wil be paid unless an injunction i granted at the offices of the stat treasurer Hill sought to prevent liquida tion of part of a total of borrowed from a Dallas bank by the pension ad ministration to keep grants at a level required by statutes His petition asserted and denial of full gratis to re was illegal and tional because the legislature wa not permitted to create a deb against the state in excess of 000 Meanwhile no announcement wa forthcoming from the office o Governor W Lee ODaniel on th statute of a poll he said he wa conducting to determine sentimen among legislators as to the poss bility of a special session to con sider taxation for financing pen sions adequately ADMITS SLAYINGS COLORADO SPRINGS Colo Oct 10 Sam Deal said Martin Sukle 35 confessed shoot ing his wife to death at Point Sub a lookout point ou a scenic highway near here said Sukle who walk ed 44 miles from Pueblo to surren der late yesterday aiso calmly ad mitted fatally shooting Jack Rus sell 87yearold carpenter whom be had warned to leave Mrs Sukle alone Chapter One THE MISSING MAN Although the woman in black seemed as cairn and composed as ever she had chosen the chair standing with its back to the light The Police Commissioner eyed her thoughtfully as she spoke You have then no further ot my husband None I am sorry to say The tall handsome young man with the sullen eyes threw his hat down on the with an angry gesture Why did you send ior us then he It was th member of the group wh by Frances Shelley Wets Commissioner Davics looked up the arm of her chair at him I wanted to discuss the third matter with you Mr Murchison he replied AH of you have im pressed upon me the fact that you do not want any publicity in con with the Professors with your brothers disappearance Frankly we have to the end of our resources and in my opinion j jt is time to make use of the press I feel sure that a judiciously word ed account of th affair would bring results answered We have our positio in regard to the matter of pu many times Davies he said gently Sure with an efficient police force an matters as they are itis not wiry Mrs Murchison leaned My cousin is she sail quickly The Commissioner turned to the Duncan Murchison scowled His tapped with those shining long linger nails on had not already signed on the So viet dotted line wondered how Fin land would make out Finland Sweden Denmark and Norway were drawn er at Helsinki in a discussion of how to sidestep the war and car ry on their vital commerce in the Baltic and North seas Sweden aside from Finland the most immediately concerned in the expansion of Soviet power strengthened her defense forces and hastened construction of air raid shelters Finland herself practiced air de nse while a delegation headed by r Juho Kusti Paasikivi minis r to entrained last ight for Moscow in response to he Kremlins Fin ish officials put exchange pinions about political and eco problems The problems ere not The Finnish party was expected o reach Moscow tomorrow morn ng Never shall our land bow be fore the foreign tyrant sang the crowd at Helsinkis station last night as the delegation set out It was part of the national anthem of a people ed until 1917 The premier was asked for com ment Its hard to say anything at uch moments as this But we Finns hope that Americans will ch our coming negotiations losely The sympathy and moral sup iort of America has never gone un and we trust that now oo America will watch what hap ens and judge the results accord ng to civilized standards of jus ice TO RATIFY PACT COPENHAGEN Oct 10 dispatch from Kaunas by DKS of German news agency said oday the Lithuanian government See RUSSIAN Page 5 Col 2 conquest They accepted that war because Germany wanted to im pose domination of Europe Austria was one of the first mile stones in conquest x x x the peace that Germany offers now is one of ruse and violence There will however be a real peace in the future After Austria Hitler said he had no more territorial demands xxx after that came vakia and Chancellor Hitler an he had no more terri demands xxx and then came Poland We have taken up arms agains aggression and we will not lay them down again until the world has cer tain peace Every six months Germany makes new territorial demands and then says she is satisfied Far from bringing about a re duction of armament this system makes other nations increase their armament In order to bring about lasting peace x x x we must fight against the abuses of force A security of nations can come about only by mutual un devoid of all sur prises The time has passed when a ter conquest brings happiness to people gain Wars bring about bread cards and food cards and our eating is limited France holds in horror such servitude I affirm again solemnly that we are fighting and still continue to fight until we obtain a guar antee of peace If we demobilize now again in six months we might have to face another aggression If we called for peace now and then in six months sent our men back to the lines under the bom of German planes Frenchman would pardon us The German soldiers in the trenches must be saying to them selves perhaps our government op posed Versailles x x x but our gov has also taken Austria Czechoslovakia and Poland The cause which the French sol See FRENCH Page 5 Col 3 Hitler Aj Puts Blame For War On Allies By LOUIS P LOCHNER BERLIN Oct 10 Hit ler today declared that Germany was determined to fight the war to the bitter end it necessary and once more laid the responsibility for continuing the struggle on the Reichs adversaries In a 21minute speech opening the Nazi winter relief campaign the reichsfuehrer said he had expressed his readi ness for peace but that if this were declined by the western al lies the fight would go on The winter relief work he de manded must attain results never achieved not only because tasks He ahead created by he war but also because the world must be shown he said that rum ors of disunion within the Reich are unfounded Germans must make common cause the fuehrer said in battle n victory and finally in peace Germany must once and for all convince the world that it must be allowed to live ed within its own living space Let no one henceforth think of the greatness of his sacrifice but of the sacrifices of those who gave their all he said to their sacrifices those at arr nothing This years relief must exceed everything hitherto achieved he added We want to show peoples abroad that silly attempts to find evidence of a lack of unanimity among us are want to make them respect our constitu tion R D Stephens Dies At Residence Here Robert Daniel Stephens 32 died at his home at 209 N W 3rd street Monday afternoon following a pro illness A carpenter Stephens had come to Big Spring 11 years ago was born in the Indian Territory in Oklahoma in 1907 Services were set for p m from the chapel with Rev Homer Sheats and the Assembly of God choir in charge Burial was to be in the new city cemetery Surviving are his widow Mrs Lois Stephens one son Floyd 11 his parents Mr and Mrs H J Stephens and one brother C C Stephens all or Big Spring Pallbearers were Jim Bruton Eo Randolph Joe Phillips Ollie Hux Herman and THREE KILLED AND 31 INJURED IN N YORK BLAST NEW YORK Oct 10 Three persons were killed and 31 others injured today when an wrecked a dry cleaning plant and tore through the wall of a picture theater housing 75 spec lators The ded included Sylvia cleaning shop manager Police Commissioner siid 19 persons including pedestrians hit by flying wnre Io A others were treated at the scene Valentine snid two or three more bodies light be buried iii th missing mann your feeling too on Is hat expressed belief t blast wnB caused by cleaning fln We want to bring evidence or what we can endure and accom the fuehrer declared and then added sarcastically It is to be hoped that others can do as well The decision of peace or war See HITLER Page 5 Col 6 Asks Division Of Neutrality WASHINGTON Oct 10 Administration forces in the somite defeated today a motion to separate shipping provisions of the neutrality from the arms embargo repeal issue WASHINGTON Oct 10 W Senator Tobey RNH urged the senate today to divide the admin neutrality into two one repealing the existing arms embargo and the other im posing restrictions on American shipping and travel to belligerent tones asked that the shipping and travel section be voted on at once to safeguard Americans He contended that procedure would not forestall early action on re pealing the arms embargo a move recommended by President Roosevelt Leaders in the senate and the country have agreed that the causes which drew us into the last Euro pean conflict were the seizure and sinking of American merchant ves sels carrying cargoes to belliger ents Tobey asserted There are subtle unseen forces working constantly to draw us into this European war No ac tion that we can take will be more discouraging to such forces than the action which Is con templated in my motion take our ships out oi the war zones immediately thereby eliminating a of the causes which drew us into the World war democratic members of the senate foreign relations com said they meet soon to consider relaxation of the re strictions on shipping in the neutrality measure Singer For Concert Here Douglas Beattie will be presented at 8 oclock tonight at the city auditorium as the artist of the opening concert of the Civic association Mr Beattie with his accompan ist Rex Uhl of Berkeley Calif DOUGLAS BEATTIE will present a concert in five pars This is the first visit io Big Spring although he has sung in other Texas cities He is en route to Chicago where he will appear on the 2Sth of See CONCERT 3 Col 1 CRASH KILLS NINE THIRD CHRYSLER PLANT IS CLOSED DETROIT Oct 10 A dispute between tbo Chysler corporation and United Automobile Workers which closed two am more thir 18000 em ployes idle spread to i third unit j today SilOO workers Nine ten homo from the tvo Oct 10 V persons including children which supplies bodie 1 were when s of the Kur Pacific flier struck a crowded automobile on a crossing went of The tiain demol a civ by Mrs Grown The of bly lino and
