Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - March 24, 1936, Galveston, Texas Lone Star Dust Is one of the richest states In the yet economists claim it Is only 15 per cent This Centennial W. L. MOODY CO. bavo daring Mir W w. terr. BANKERS om 94TH 349. MARCH 24, 1936. ESTABLISHED 1842 SENATE PASSES HUGE ARMY SUPPLY Ohio River Flood Crest Hits New Areas DESTRUCTION DUCE PREPARES FOR NEXT BIG WAR CARRIED INDUSTRIES WEST AS EAST RELIEF March 23.- standing under the WPA Sends Seven Officials for vey of tors By Associated Press The flood crest of River moved westward toward the Mississippi Monday carrying destruction and fering into new as a dozen Eastern states struggled with an immense re- habilitation Hundreds of persons were ing their homes as the Ohio in- undated large areas of lowlands in the southwestern portion of the Buckeye Dozens of villages were submerged and A recheck of the death as eastern rivers rapidly showed 172 Property age was unofficially and at more than More than persons were Deaths by The dead list by Pennsylvania 112, West Virginia 18, Ohio 4, Maryland 4, 10, New York 2, Vermont 5, Connecticut 3, New Hampshire 1, Maine 5, Virginia 4. North lina 2, Georgia 2. As thousands of national men and WPA worker started clearing away flood officials converged on ington seeking rehabilitation Gov. Earle of Gov. of Gov. Rosa of Con- and Frank director for con- ferred with their congressional delegations regarding proposed Hood relief Gov. Earle made an appeal to Harry WPA for federal He said a shadow of a of Julius abolished large private in- and Italy's chamber of deputies today in preparation for an expected European His purpose in placing large in- under direct or Indirect state he was to take the profits from The dictator put these far ing changes into effect as the tion celebrated the 17th sary of the founding of the fascist With these he told his cheering followers in Hall of the capital Julius Caesar building on Capitoline the fascist party reaches fulfillment of its A council of to be known as chamber of fascists and will be substituted for the Impotent chamber of long prepared for Us Medium and small private in- were left but 11 duce said arc going toward the in which large private industries have to labor ex- or almost for th armed forces of the II duce linked a prophesy of wa with one of better In an address to his ration council he announced a of i preparation for the European conflict He struck an optimistic note little later In addressing shirts when he does no matter that the aky is not com I tell you gooc on Page 2, Column 3) LAREDO GRAND JURY HEAR OF RE- DIES SCORES UNION MOVEMENT on Page 2, Column 7) March Charges that remarks on contempt to our flag and coun had been made at a labor meeting here attended by th Laredo Mexican were con today In a report by th Webb County grand inflammatory remark were received with applause b those present at the public meet the grand jury The last Mexican Con sul Juan E. was quoted a. saying he was present under in of his Lazaro Cardenas Fortes Gil of the Mexican agrarian have been traveling over Mexico laborers against the inroads am encroachments of Richer according tq the grand we must follow COUNTY OFFICIALS TO CON- FER WITH CITY ON JOINT BOULEVARD PLAN Bids on materials for lighting of -ast and west enda of the waH a joint were received yesterday by the county commissioners and re- Boulevard committee I yesterday by ity ferred to the with power to act at a brief tine Included on the committee to which the bids wore referred were County Auditor I. and County Engineer C. C. who will confer with E. J. superintendents of representative of the city at the Black Hardware Co. submitted the lowest total bid of three re- by the but because one of the bidders mitted a price on a different type of cable than that all were referred to the fat bid of the Home Electric Shop and that of the tric Supply A letter was received from state highway reporting an order adopted by the highway commission amending the Bolivar ferry operation agreement with County to clarify the section applying to Issuance of free parses to state and eral officials and A petition of Emll Burner and J. H. Rothwell for closing of a street at the foot of Texas avenue and First in where Im- are planned on ting wan denied upon tion of Commissioner E. who that he thought closing of the street would he contrary to public Richard Walker appeared before the court and asked an oil and gas lewe on the right of wayn of eral unused roads on the island in thn vicinity of the municipal port. A on similar land was given by county Mr. their example M- object In being here tonight is to unionize all laboring Rep. The grand jury report was made public while Rep. Dies was charging in Washington the the Mexican was organizing Mexicans Into labor unions communistic Speaking In the Dies said the unions are under jurisdiction of the Mexican government and added that he believed the state department ask for ex- planation of these want to know by what right the Mexican government can come Into this country and aid in the formation of organizations which criticise the government of the United Dies The grand jury declared that on Page 6. Column 6) CITYWIDE EVENT TO BENEFIT FLOOD SUFFERERS IS PLAN OF GROUP on Paga 2, Column 6) The Weather and Tues. partly cloudy with and fresh to strong erly to westerly er Wednesday partly cooler In extreme east Moderate to fresh south to northwest winds on tho Wont er except In portion Wednesday El Minn Shrine Band last night decided to take the lead in ing a concert for the benefit of flood The plan contemplates a com- rather than a Shrine It Is proposed to en- list the co-operation of all willing to and to In- vito local ists to appear on the A committee representing the aand will begin immediately to con- tact and It is hoped that In a few days plans for the event will be well on the way to The time and place of the con- cert will be decided upon alter the general organization is Galveston has been assigned a Red Cross quota of In Ihc tional campaign lo funds to assist the thousands made less and destitute by floods In the and Middle West St. March Howard branch director of public Information of the Red said today that of the tew In Midwestern states which on Page 12, Column 5) Continental War Outlook At a Glance By Associated Tress Borne asserting next war is chamber of deputies and large private signs accords with Austria and sends fresh peace appeal to Italy and Locarno powers await ir's answer to their program officials an- gered by British assertion carno program Is not to expected to turn down Locarno offer but in such way as to leave way clear for further ably will submit PRESIDENT GETS HONORARY DEGREE AT ROLLINS AS HE ATTACKS ENEMY CHANGES Rollins Winter Park March Roose new stressed the steadfastness of old in accepting an hon orary degree from Rollins oday and said we change I our method of Stopping off here en route t where the yacht Potomac waited t him on his annual Mr. Roosevelt also he award of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan medallion to Mrs. first he he had een his wife In cap and The president employed the con plan of study at Rolling College by Pres. Hamll on Holt to illustrate basic theories jf the new deal and his changes fearlessly in at are bearing Mr. Roosevelt act that Sume they away from some of the moorings should tartle Group as in politics and and social relationships we hold fast to the old Ideals am all we change is our method of proach to the attainment of thi After declaring thut of us are really influenced by group which It Is the on Page 2, Column 3) HIGHWAY CROUP RECEIVES BIDS ON WORK TODAY March The commission will receive ds tomorrow and Wednesday on deral emergency construction to cost bringing approximately the of work placed under con- act In Fifteen of 35 projects were on or roads nd four were railroad grade A total of 28 counties ere Houston Youth in Confession Oi Cheese Death In poi partly Modern to to to on the ing westerly March District Attorney Tom Harris naid tonight VInce 20. of had a statement he killed R. W. hani Saturday In order to rob him of Boss was charged with murder In tho Harrla said tho youth signed a statement admitting that ho knocked Albert with nn Iron then tossed him Into refrigerator compartment of robbed him and silt bin throat with n Through more than 12 bourn cf relent BOBH Hint he knew nothing killing of his he made a complete ris He waa charged with Albert's tody was found in parked truck here Saturday and officers Immediately began an intensive They ob- a description of a youth seen with him between here and They went to Bryan and learned that the youth Boss with tho that Boss was ar- rented In a hotel room hero tori Harris quoted ROBS ng saying that hfl met the 33-year-old n at with the on Page 2, Column 7) PHOBE WILL BE SECOND APPEAL IS CONSIDERED N. March John P. whose parture for Panama two months ago was termed by Gov. Harold G. agreed to submit to examination by the governor but questioned whether it would be Gov. Hoffman said he had received the telegram made public by Dr. Condon in New York and would not comment pending its re- In the Dr. Condon of- to receive at his Bronx home the whose investigation of the Bruno Richard Hauptmann case included a for of the Lindbergh ransom and Atty. Gen David T. Probe Dr. Condon have concluded because of your reported activities and of utterances attributed to you in the aublic press that you are fied from conducting an impartial examination on a fair Dr. Condon public the tele- gram shortly after Assemblyman John M. Kerner of Union County announced he had prepared for in- in the legislature a for a complete lon of the Lindbergh ng the activities of Gov. and the New Jersey state a supporter of man's withheld in- tonight because he said he felt it might be Interpreted as giving the grounds for a new The governor said on Page 9, Column 6) RAMIREZ GETS TERM OF FIVE FAINTS AS TRIAL ENDS LEAGUE AWAITS THEIR ANSWERS The league of nations Monday awaited with some to proposals offered most Adolf Germany and Hitler Is expected to answer proposals of the four Locarno powers and Mussolini has been asked to state basic demands for halting the war In Tress League Group Awaits Replies Hitler on Two Major Peace Objectives March apprehension of nations council awaited word tonight from two Adolf Hitler and Der fuehrer's answer to proposals of the four Locarno powers was still un- sighted late It was linked closely by league circles vith an expected message from the Italian dictator stating his usic demands for halting the war in The committee of 13 which is the council without Italy dispatched a new plea for peace directly to Italy and Ethiopia after resuming consideration the war The African shed had been temporarily ten in the stress of the crisis caused by Hitler's scrapping oJ the Locarno Problems Joachim von Hitler's special said dispatches from may fly to London tomorrow bringing Germany's scheme for solution of the first part of the dilemma con- fronting the Rhineland aERMAN SEEN AS WITHHOLDING REPLY ELECTION Trial of a 26-year-old dish for the killing of Juan reached a dramatic cli in the 56th district court lasi night when one of the jurors sud enly collapsed to the floor of in a faint just before the of the jury's verdict which ound Ramirez guilty and sen him to the penitentiary for five-year J. L. Flynn was the juror who hrew the courtroom into a turmol f excitement when he The jurors had just filed nto the courtroom with their and Deputy District Clerk Villiam Worst was calling the rol Flynn groaned and collapsed o the His fellow jurors around lifted him to he table in the courtroom where were resorted to in an to bring him Dr ess A. county health was hastily but by he time he arrived had re- from his An hour of vigorous argument ent the case to the and the 2 jurors filed out of the oom to begin their deliberations ith a dramatic demand for life Continued on Page 5. Column 45 POSTPONES MEDICAL DINNER The dinner which was scheduled ir Tuesday March 31, in to the medical of the University of Texas nd to the as been indefinitely of the death of Miss Betty Mayor Adrian F. of the committee on The event sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce appreciation of jc as a medical Dr. nrd a brother-in-law of ins ia chairman of the committee of tho mith Foundation and a the board of Tic is also of the board of the John March Locarno f the four former world war us whipped into shape tonight ant was officially announced von Adolf Hit would airry it to London Its exact contents were although Hitler has piven strong general indications that h would not accept the proposals as originally His first it was believed would be a on the present basis of Locarno thus leaving the door open but making it difficult to negotiate until after It was learned that Sir the British ambassador who is credited with having much in fluence with personally pealed to the German government accept the program of the carno includes the bringing in of British and Italian troops to patrol a frontier strip ol the Rhineland until peace tions have been As n. result of made last night to von German foreign it was Hitler may modify his intended reply to the Nazis are trying harder than on Column 5) TRIPLE PACT EXPECTED TO AID GERMANY Austria and Hungary signed new accords and have It was learned on good Lhat they would not tions upon Germany regardless of what action other European ers This point of the agreement will not be A communique Issued the conclusion of the tions of the last few which were held In n spirit of great and reciprocal the chief of the Italian the chancellor of Austria and the premier of Hungary today In the Palazzo an additional act to the Rome of 17, 1034. This net be made and the con- It was can not easily or effectively be settled without some agreement ing the it is on Page 2, Column 4) RAINS STRIKE TEXAS By Associated Press High winds howled over most of Texas Sunday night and Monday bringing clouds and sorely needed rain to the northern and eastern portions of the stirring dust in the and con- damage in central and western Residents at Pampa and rillo fought through swirling dust clouds with visibility limited to several hundred Wheat was reported blown out in A windstorm struck Brown wood and damaged ten buildings to the extent of A railroad freight house and a mill were leveled and two ice plant cooling towers crashed down on adjoining in warnings were posted on the gulf coast from Louisiana to the Mexican Second Effort for Florida Ship Canal Fund Meets Defeat Decisive Vote for Measure Registered Despite Cries of and Means March cries of and means the senate today boomed out a 53 to 12 vote to pass a record-breaking peacetime army supply of The measure was sent to ence with the house for action on senate changes adding of to the after a vote of 36 to 35 had defeated attempt include funds to work on the Florida ship Opponents of 200-mile which of PWA already has been the ect was The war department carries to maintain an army of 000 enlisted men In the next fiscal rear compared with the lowed by the Rivera and A total of was jy the senate for rivers and ha bors bringing th for work on scores i hese projects all over the counti Another s included for flood Of the total is for strictly military pu and This compares with a current a of of is for military purpose The senate total exceeds budget e by The 12 senators voting against th till were Black of Burlo if South Byrd of Clark of Kinp of Utal of Murphy of of Idaho and Wheeler of Mon Capper of Kani and of North i and of Wis Mr. Frazler attacked the meas as allowing expenditure o than a million dollars a da ror military purposes think these preparations .fo mean he Sen. King deplored the appropriE to other na Sen. we are going into the appropriation is to mall and if not going in he military business it is to Sen. Copeland N. i barge of the said the 165.00C strength was the minimum for He cite L- post-war defense board as con were Most of the senate additions wer on Page 9, Column 7 GALVESTONIAN IN AFFAIRS OF CITY IS TAKEN BY DEATH Last rites for Miss Betty Bal one of the founders of thi Daughters of the Republic of nd member of a family with affairs of Texas since pioneer will be held at 11 o'clock this at the residence of her Mrs. Andrew G. 2428 C Dr. H. L. Fickett will officiate nd burial will be in Evergreen under direction of J Bro. Miss daughter of the ate Judge and Mrs. William Pitt died at 5 o'clock ay morning at the residence of er Mrs. after an 111- ess of two weeks at the age of 82 he was born in Galveston on Feb 3, 1854, and during her lifetime ere was active in numerous civic nd patriotic Surviving are two Mrs. Mills and Mrs. Edward three Randall Jr. of and W. of two Mrs. W. Marsteller of and Emil Crusoe of Highland and several and Among Miss Ballinger's fore- ears was a great James illustrious revolutionary who carried the Mecklenberg of independence from N. the intal congress In and er grandfather was the late am H. noted Texas patriot Continued on Page 2, Column 6) State Seeks Ways and Means To Cut Highway Death Tolls by the growing death public officials and private citizens today sought ways and means of curbing fatal accidents on Texas Attention was focused on the by the death of Mrs. W. B. Stokes sister of Gov. James V. in an ruck collision near The driver of the held In was sleepy from long hours of L. G. chief of the ment of public said ho ex- major when nf the aw begins April 1, and stringent penalties against flagrant violators of highway Atty. Gen. William ex- pressed the opinion the legislature would be receptive to new tory while citizens of planned a mass meeting to demand restrictions for truck The railroad which supervises motor transportation in explained that drivers of trucks operated for hire may not work longer than 14 hours without at least eight hours off but trucks were not 'The problem is made complex on Page 27Column 8) THREE POWER PACT REVISED New Accord To Be Signed day at London March conference delegates today in a final technical sion revising the new treaty to signed by three powers With the their technical they substituted 65 minor sions for those in the 14th draft the The States delegates proposed 24 of 'the last More than of the final draft is devoted to clauses which the signatory tions may from the eral provisions of the treaty in event of unforeseen developments in political and Further The general tenor of the it was will forward to further naval limitation and the for a new conference in 3940. The the United States and France have be sent to the of nations offices at Geneva other nations may join in the provisions later if they who bolted the conference when her demands for equality were has indicated at least in interest in the by East African war declined flatly to consider affixing her signature while tha aggressor penalties The Continued on Page 5, Column 5) CHANGE MADE IN TION FOR GRANT FOR CAL COLLEGE March University of Texas regents acted oday to speed plans for the centennial exposition from une 1 to Dec. 1. A PWA application for to finance construction at the Galveston Medical chool to house animals and an experimentation laboratory re- ised to eliminate a request for 1000 agreed to ish that Mrs Martha C. formerly f was appointed or of Brackenridge dormitories nd resident manager of a central She has been director of dormitory on the campus or several Invitations were forwarded to Roosevelt and Vice arner to be honor guests at the was planned round developments of a Regents allotted for an education exhibit In the ex- to be housed in the ry gymnasium on of a permanent museum E- A contract awarded of N. Continued on Page 2, Column 8) Maid for Princesses Dies in Long Plunge March aria the 23-year-old maid the Grecian Irene id committed suicide day In a 250-foot Jump from 0-year-old tower constructed by e old In her plunge she carried her Despite Stola's employment a maid to the sisters King eorge of she had helm Ining a reputation as a the DIM
