Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - April 28, 1931, Galveston, Texas In addition to Joe and several other notables who furm every Sunday for News comic readers a wonderful new incident involving Turzan will be presented weekly Again The for UK readers In obtaining a new and modern novel Mad now appearing daily Don't miss an in- stallment 18 OLDEST GALVESTON TEXAS TUESDAY APRIL 28 1931 ESTABLISHED 1842 WOLL RALLIES LABOR ON WET PROGRAM Resolution to Abolish Tax on Homesteads Adopted OFFERED BY STEVENSON TO SET LIMIT FOR TRAILERS Drury May Queen Width and Weight Would Be Fixed by Proposed Law of Victoria Man Austin April Both nf iii taxation The adopted a resolution to submit t 10 all homesteads nj to from stair taxation The {n thr value T The Honale i evolution by Senator Hardin of while Bryant of Memphis was the tax in the house Amendment adopting the lution the senate refused to adopt n amendment by Senator fif to reduce the to 52.000 The vote in senate wan 11 to 4 and in the house JIO to 11 The between the two wilt be worked out in free conference committee If proved by the the amendments would be submitted In November 1932 The house exempted all taxation ex- ept for confederate pensions The resolution would the state tax for nil The argument between the lature and the city nf was merged today and did not pear during Another tiuck i pollution Martha Adams freshman at Drury College Springfield Mo will be of the May n the s annual Pope Warns Fascists to Obey Church LETTER SENT TO CARDINAL DIRECT REPLY TO GIURIATI Events of Hoover Administration Are Presented With Exaggeration of Caricature at Annual Gridiron Dinner Washington April stormy found a ship rolling heavily and saw stoutly the a mini resembling W the law en- forcement commission lit seemed to have distinguished company on the deck were figures which looked like ators of Arkansas and of Ohio among others Another excited member of the group who walked and talked like of New York rushed tu the helmsman Ancient Mariner cried tills is the worst cal storm I ever saw Looks like democratic weather How are we going to pet out of this If you'll rend the report of my answered the an- you'll find I haven't Uie idea The scone was the selling for a Gridiron Chili skit tonight at its unit mil spring dinner The iron Club IK of ington newspaper men was one of I he which at the portrayal of the eighteenth amendment trying to harbor in with the ancient mariner IV at the wheel President Hoover was ent to sefl of his tration presented with the of by wit as privileged OR of favorite court jesters The barbs were scattered among democrats and and in one sketch the club satirized one of Its own re- The chief executive was given an opportunity to present his See GRIDIRON FETE Pase 2 TESTIFIES IN OF TIL OF EX- MANY CROWD INTO ROOM AS CLAUDE POND BEGINS NIGHT SESSION HELD Interference as Reply Is Written See LEGISLATURE Page 2 GREER STILL ANXIOUS TO PUT MANSFIELD AND BRIGGS SAME DISTRICT Tex April for five nrw with only thief for- Texas la problem facing the committee coi ding Senator Julian Grenr of A man of the tin Rent tif the who jl br by one iff if Stonr of mid J J of Columbus me in the same My Ri and four new without one unfilled No the riot ing held Monday but tho hope ibat k would be resumed in of he lone nml ihitt the shuffling if the count leu will begin this It wnn admitted by the task Is discouraging and Hint it probably be near the of the the com- nn He nld bf believed il ly will woik nut a but that it Ims i1 rent job of il Want tn five new i nre in the following The Panhandle the nren the around Sun nnd thr AuMIn 01 The Weather Kor and Iv cloudy to cloudy nnd warr light to easterly t Cloudy in Houlh and cloudy tn fresh Cf to ftn the i West Cloudy scattered j in cant nnd north t cloudy In fhr lr I ot Hilda mother of a baby for bourn as to her relations with Claude Pond In district court Monday night as the taking of testimony in tbe of the got way after an entire dny devoted to the of tbe 12 jurors She testified Mrs R worn tin who now dend en- her with tbp in tin effort to net money from him Tbe Juror WHK accepted at o'clock and the took the after Antonio city registrar of vital and Dr A Flautt were questioned about tlie ngp of thp gill and also the date of the baby's birth J Tlie Anp girl came Into with the baby in her arms She was dieted in a gray coat a black hnt u sweater and n ird skill was nhc took the Witness stand L M Kenyon went up and whispered something to the court whereupon Judge Charles The will have to leave the baby Then Special out of the courtroom cries could be beard first pint of her testimony j Tells of The Asp girl said that she met Pond on tbi beach front after he hnd tn bouse hpr to him She that they I rode the bobby corno and then ate In n restaurant After thin had occurred on evening said they went into a concession bull where Ihr tions took Shr that See TRIAL Page 7.1 Cily April Pius XI in ii Inter I he church ils head it it wishes tu be writing to Cardinal of Milan in reply to nn by of fascist party in Milan last Tuesday pontiff Reply tu it in and Lo be Catholic Now in der to be not in name only but in deed aUo in order to be true not ICK of false name and Catholics who in the great family of the church wound heart of mother church by their manner of speaking and acting nnd give a bad pic to drive others away there only one indispensable to obey tbe church and It a bead and to think with the church and its head Tlie pope said he felt called upon tu in Si K mir because tbe latter referred to those who bad cited the lean concordat In order to Justify cally tbe a church with f thousands of Italian members Defend He was among the first to defend the organization charges of political activity in that manner he but he had emphasized It was nn spiritual nnd not cal work in line with the treaty Answering ment that the Cattolica was Sop POPE PIUS Page 2 Ordered to Conduct Inquiry of Gang After Jack Diamond Ambushed Second Time Electric Firm Asked to Submit New Rate Offer PLEA MADE AT CONFERENCE OF GROUP FOR MODIFICATION Prohibition Becoming Major Labor Question Report Submitted DEFECT LT FERRARA COMMANDER OF REBEL ARMY IN HONDURAS DRIVEN FROM POSITION 21 uf tbe main body of the i army thr learned night was from his posit inn on the nf San Prdm Sula [not night after a attack hy troops under thn menl commander Cen of the buttle at Ran Pedro arrived at the rimn the executive delegate in tlin field It predicted n de- buttle would he with at San Pedro in which tbe government hoped HO to cripple the rebels nn to the back of tbe revolutionary movement When fieri two larce bodies of troops however the rebels it nnd their which was In occupied hy the troops mill n small 20 from San Pedro wid the were he In those and lonns m money The governor nt reported n the mull in that damage mi n hn of i lumps Ilir In fler and Her T j OWNER OF NEW ORLEANS STATES AND OTHER ANA PAPERS DIES ROOSEVELT SUPERSEDES DIS- ATTORNEY AS SKILL CITIZENS LODGE PROTEST 11 j -ir ack Legs Diamond in L hospital from gunshot wounds bin feared would cause hla Albany N Y Jack a phy dent h the state moved to conduct an investigation of Dia- mond and hits followers in Greene County where the leader was Diamond was shot down shortly after midnight as he stepped out of the Inu onto a brightly lighted porch The Is near Catskill not far from the country home of Diamond Afraid Governor Roosevelt superseded District Attorney Harrison I ner and instructed Attorney John J Bennett Jr to direct the Greene County inquiry Mr Bennett hurried to lowed by a detachment of troopers who will aid the attorney general and provide protection for those who will be summoned before a grand jury The governor's de- to displace Gardner followed upon complaints of citizens that any Inquiry Into the Diamond gang was nullified because were afraid to testify Diamond was In juil in last week accused of an attack upon Grover Parks n truckman who claimed to have been tortured and beaten because he would not tell to whom he was delivering a load of elder The gangster was re- leased on bond After an examination of X-ray pictures of Diamond's wounds Dr See JACK DIAMOND 2 iNcw Oilcans La April 21 Col Robert publisher of the New and three other Louisiana newspapers and cratic national from Louisiana died tonight of Col was years old Heat h camr just before 8 p in at his wherr he had been attended for past few days by a physician and a nurse The had spent much lately nt his summer homo at Pass Christian Miss recuperating from an of several years I To hnd just here from York City where he attended of tho American Association nnd the ciated PITHS Col was publisher of thr the Times the See KWING DEATH Page NO DECISION YET IN OF BIG JIM April reserved decision today in the habeas corpus plea of James Clark alias Wilcox alias Big Jim Clark is said to be wanted at Corpus Tex In connection with the seizure near there of a liquor consignment The Canadian department of im- migration Is seeking to deport him on the ground he was convicted in the United States of a crime in- moral and fore entered Canada illegally Ho is fighting the deportation at- tempt FORMER CZARIST OFFICER LOCATES WIFE MEXICO AFTER LONG HUNT Mexico City April 12 years Vladimir Cornier n captain In the army of the czar nnd of the white army of has dreamed of the dny when hr would he reunited with pretty Annn whom be married in fore setting out on a tlie Yesterday hn found Anna iiin along the principal street of Mexico City hut with man whom when she thought Cornier lend In battle she married The former officer at the bought of losing her NO of hopeless tn shoo Mirm h unless mine hack tn him hul Annn a moment's Id wMh Hz nnd called the police to protect i them Horn foi nici husband They nil to innit today Hull Mmy In who for Anna's and It z's safety Anna recounted how when Cornier left for his 1919 It wna only to be taken oner nnd in to Irkutsk Siberia She settled down at Moscow to awall her husband's return but after a year that the entire hnd been out by typhus the government n bulletin confirming hiE death In 1923 she married nnd they came to Mexico to make their home Cornier explained he hud escaped from t ho prison cam p short ly be- fore the typhus epidemic broke out and forbidden to re-enter hud sen re tli tough ti IPS for the wife whom some of hi vaid bad Mie iiy lie not know however Hint sbo wai in it was a complete when he met her no solving ils I'alt tion nt end of n than il was at the public held to discuss the the Houston Lighting and Power to the properties exclusive of its street railway S K Jr president of the Houston Lighting and Power Com- pany again told members of the board of city com mission era in executive session Monday that the company could not promise equal industrial rates with Houston for tbe next three years Is Secret While Mayor Jack E refused to permit a News reporter to attend the secret conference held by members of the board It war learned that the Houston company was given until Thursday to present a new posal incorporating the same In- commercial and domestic an now prevail in Houston The proposal was submitted by the Houston Lighting and Power Company two weeks ago asking permission of the board of city commissioners to the light and power business and erties qf the Galveston Electric Company Under tbe proposal the Houston company would give veston the same residential tric rate but declined to give the same Industrial and commercial rates as Houston enjoys for the next three years It is thought probable that some definite action will taken by the board on though tbe majority of the board hub noL ao yet committed to a stand on the electric question Jacob Singer commissioner of nance and revenue has publicly stated thut he is averse to any schedule docs not on a parity with Houston In all elapses of power and light It is understood that Mr Singer declined the proposal at the conference Monday afternoon With the exception of A D rf er man street commissioner who was out of the city all members of the board and Bryan F See ELECTRIC FIRM Page 2 SEVERAL RUMORED TO BE IN LINE FOR POSITION That applications for pointment to the office of county tax collector to fill the vacancy created bv the recent death of Capt William O will be received by the commissioners at its meeting this week was indicated by rumors current at the Monday County E E Holman memoers nf the court out of re- spect to Capi refused to discuss or consider any applications before Tuesday afternoon The meeting of the commissioners court for Tuesday was but will be held cither or Members declined to sny whether any action would be taken at that time to fill tbe vacancy Present statutes require that the office be i filled hy Among those who wort mentioned about tbe courthouse as probable for the post John K chief deputy tinder Capt nnd possibly one other of the collector's staff These other deputies nre John H 1C J John K M J M Mrs L And Mrs R O Wilson It WHS i n mot eel Mrs will apply for the ment and would br even ahi Conoid Three at Once on Grounds of Insanity Ky April Divorce from three wives nt once was sought in circuit court here today by Alexander yon an Inmate of the Atlanta federal penitentiary Kunyon was acquitted of a murder charge last February but was Rent to Atlanta for five years on an old charge of auto- mobile theft Runyon sought divorce on the ground he was insane at the time of the marriage monies and was of unsound mind from 1918 when shell shocked in the world war until 1930 He charges nil wives with GENERAL ATTACK ON REBELS PLAN OF WAR COUNCIL Lisbon Portugal April i A attack on tbt rebels In Madeira was decided upon for morrow morning at a war council of superior officers of he guese government's expeditionary force The war council followed upon the first engagement between rebels and the expeditionary force which took place tuday at where the troops went ashore faced a group of rebels armed with machine guns and dismantled the Han Lourenco station The federal troops captured 17 prisoners Their own casualties were 16 wounded The rebel artillery fired on tbe transport Carvalho A ran jo undei cover of whose Runs the landing party went ashore The rebel teries were silenced however by accurate return fire from the ship supported by airplanes The attack on the San Lourenco wireless station followed upon a series of fruitless efforts hy the government to Induce the rebels to Tbe rebels hnd been using the wireless station to cast news Tlie fray of very short tion The rebels broke scurrying in all directions When the warships da Gania Carvalho Arauo Ibo and Zaire appeared off day panic seized the Inhabitants Those living on the their homes and fled to tbe UNFOLDING OP SECRETS OF FAR-REACHING IMPORTANCE IN RELATION TO TURE TAXATION London April deep throated shouting God Save the land to the people a nc from an old English political song sounded the keynote of the British national budget which Chancellor Philip Snowden in parliament Pale and wan from his recent Illness and operation but a tired smile 011 his face Mr den received tumultuous cheers from all parties as he hobbled Into the house of commons The unfolding of the budget's secrets in the incisive manner proved to he in the nature of an anticlimax as far as new taxation was concerned but were of far reaching Importance hi tion to the future taxation on Brit- ish land values One Increase Imposed Chancellor Snowden budgeted for the financial year an mated expenditure of about and lated the revenue at labout He imposed only one increase in taxation on the additional two pence a on making a total tax of six pence a gallon and bringing the retail price to a gallon The chancellor resorted to two financial transactions not j Pii April Wull dent of American finn of upon all laboring men to unite in efforts fo modify the Woll made his plea it a con- ference of labors ill o the act A report sub- mitted to the conference declared a survey showed modification of the Volstead act possible in 3032 Heads Committee The report prepared under di- rection of Woll who is bend of the committee nnd I M Ornburn president nf the Cigar In- Union Our vey indicates that victory is in sight If those who hove voluntarily enlisted in this case will make their known to the senators and congressmen from their Woll said today is becoming nn Important question in labor phases Congress bos regarded facts and baa been lowing whims and fancier which lend nowhere It is taking the ding from organized minorities not from the opinion of ils con- Too Much Luw There Is too much law and der today It IB unfair I want to sec the shackles of Injunction broken If not by awful methods their through physical resentment I am strongly opposed to milk and water methods of voicing proval Labor IB against the saloon but God suve us from the speakeasy I am to bul if congress in justified in ing the conducts and habits of thf nation then it Is also justified in property Dr Goldstein rabbi of congregation Jeshurun New Sec LABOR MEETING Page 2 BURKE SENT TO JAIL FOR LIFE Maximum Penalty Given Killer of Officer See BUDGET REPORT Page 7 CAREER OF OKLAHOMA GANG BELIEVED ENDED BY AR- REST OF MAN bills The rebel authorities carded thr island with posters r urging the population to stand fast tyranny Oklahoma City Ok April Confident they wore about to bring to a close tlie of the of outlaws Oklahoma peace officers turned wmd Henderson Tex Paul sought as the last member is held Superintendent C A Burns of the state of criminal cation awaited the arrival of iff Jim of County before for Texas with p warrant charging Martin with r slaying at Beggs Oh n hank Burns the at a Henderson imp last also was See 7.1 St Joseph Mich April Pleading guilty to the slaying of Patrolman Charles Skelly of St soph Fred Burke was sentenced life imprisonment at hard labor in the Michigan brmich prison at quette by Circuit Judge Charles K today Burke who has been called the most dangerous man the maximum penalty under the Michigan law with Judge sentenced second degree murder holding thai there was evidence that Burko had been intoxicated when he shot UIP Patrolman and bad not been able to premeditate the act Early tomorrow morning will start for under heavy guard Patrolman Skelly was slain when ho attempted to question about a collision between his caT and one driven by Forest Kool a farmer Before sentenced was passed today Judge White heard routine testimony from Kool and Dr Clayton Emery who attended Patrolman just before lif died Burkr was brought to Michigan March after n nationwide search had with his arrest in a souri The slaying of Patrolman from St Joseph whore ho had posing as Frederick Dane laid baro trail which had been ered for several months T r n Impeachment of Mellon to stanb Be Sought by Texas Solon MAD Tex Wright Patman from charged Mr Mellon holding office in violation of the he wni in irv T T I T f T the impeachment of Andrew tnp business tif trade or jjj I V j I j j Mellon veteran of the and was a part owner t I f j I treasury at the next session of i onp tpr i J JU congress which convenes in aw cember serving Patman stated impeachment r would br tbe only way to oust Mr i Mellon because Hoover would refuse to submit his name to the for President Hoover cited dent to Mi Mellon enn con- Id she not flip a to hold I i I mation person fron secretary of Hie j ikes him to im- said Mr has admitted bis that h nnd hi ol hern own the Oil Com- Aluminum Company the Start this CW StOty Of by Douglas FOX TODAY Sec I
