Morning Avalanche (Newspaper) - March 11, 1937, Lubbock, Texas WILL FIND EVERYTHING A MAN WEARS AT CLOTHIERS looa LUBBOCK MORNING AVALANCHE FIFTEENTH YEAR NO 13 12 PAGES LUBBOCK TEXAS THURSDAY MARCH 11 1937 MEANS ASSOCIATED Price Advances Lift World Markets Race Repeal Given Setback In Senate Action Reversal Hard Blow Is Given Pension Liberalization To Repeal Racing Sent Back To Committee By Vote Of 15 To 14 Hotue Delays Pension Consideration Recommend Bills Licensing Of Real Estate Men Spreading Tax Payments To 10 Months And Registering Of Lobbyists By The Associated AUSTIN March Texas senate revived hopes of friends horse by returning to committee 15 to 14 a to re peal the law permit ting race track betting At the same time the house dealt a hard blow to old age pension liberalization with a 6866 vote to postpone further consideration of a liberalization until April 6 Claim Proper The senate last week by a vote of 20 to 8 attached a racing repeal amendment to a minor house regulating track employes When the came up for final considera tion opponents of repeal argued track operators and breeders were entitled to a hearing before properties were destroyed Postponement o the pension liberalization scrap was considered highly important because the ses sion was almost half over ents admitted the would have rough sledding in the senate if it ever reached that body and Gov ernor James V Allred Indicated he would veto it Bills Recommended The house state affairs committee recommended bills to license real estate dealers permit installment payment of delinquent taxes over a period require regis tration of lobbyists and remit one third of the ad valorem taxes to 14 counties in the water conservation district The house recommitted a to prohibit courts from granting in junctions In labor disputes without a hearing It was sent to the judi ciary committee The labor com previously had recommended it A resolution proposing an inter state agreement on oil and other natural resources taxes was in the house in such form it Turn to Page 11 Column 4 Please Texas Sheriff Fatally Shot Slayer Fires Into Back Of Sheriff Alex Brown Of Jefferson As He Un dressed In Bedroom By ihr March soft footed slayer slipped to the bedroom window ol Sheriff Alex Brown early today and killed him with a shot in the back The death ol the popular officer methods made him prominent throughout East Texas aroused a citizenry which launched an intensive hunt for the fied Admittedly however the prospect of trapping the killer was slim Of reported no clues The trail of the slayer lobl a block from the scene of the crime No motive was advanced For Bed Brown was undressing for bed about a in when a single charge of buckshot struck him He Turn to Page 11 Column 3 Please Wichita Falls Club Calves Top Kansas City Market For Week KANSAS CITY March 10 Twelve calves of the Wichita Falls club brought the top for the day and week here today when they sold for and averaged 875 pounds Two others brought averaged 885 pounds They were bought by the Wither Commission company for Wilson and company pHu Death Fulfills His Hope God May Strike Me Dead Before I Get To My Cell If I Am Man Had Said By The Associated Preis SAN QUENTIN March heart attack at the threshold of prison today fore stalled a life sentence for Sam uel Whittaker who said he hop ed God may strike me dead before I get to my cell if I am guilty of wife murder He never reached the San cell that awaited him He died In hospital days after commitment Whittaker 62 a Los Angeles theater organist was convict ed of killing his wife in a faked holdup for her double indemnity life insurance He had appealed but was taken to prison pending final decision on his case Prison Physician Leo L Stanley said Whittaker was in poor condition when he reach ed San Quentin last Saturday he was assigned to the hospital Turn to Page 11 Column 2 Please Chrysler Turns To Court For Action No Trace Of Bookkeeper Is Reported Here Federal Bareau Of tion Men Come To To Probe Missing From Lubbock Bank Behind a welter of rumors sur rounding the disappearance of ft handsome bookkeeper of Lubbock National bank and the announce ment in currency was miss WORTH It Burnt Liib wa not held by Fort Worth to Fort Worth Thr department through thr night laid however C E rlty recorder of the depart ment In Fort Worth and hill left the at 11 oclock for an unannounced place ing from that institution no tangi ble clue hud reared itself at mid night to solve the apparent ty of investigators To the corps of investigators had been added that day two members of the federal bureau of tion Sifted from the maze of rumors and held up for some credence was n report of a man he had seen Burns the bookkeeper ot Amarillo Monday morning mately 20 hours after the Lubbock man reportedly had last been seen here That statement if true would indicate a report had taken a train Sunday night from to the west coast was erroneous A man answering his had bought a ticket to Los Angeles said a railway employe and had boarded the train It would have arrived nt Los Angeles at 7 oclock Tuesday morning Police and other investigators were told by an informant he hnd seen and had visited briefly with him He said they Into a coffee shop and ordered coffee are you doing in he quoted himself as and said he was answered in substance Im on vacation and plan run ning down to the Pat Stock The informant said lu asked Turn to Page 11 Column 6 Please Restricting Degrees Is Killed AUSTIN March 10 The house education committee today killed a to restrict graduate work in colleges to the University of Texas A fc M college and Texas Technological college The proposal was the subject of a lengthy hearing recently and B sub committee to which it was referred recommended adversely Virtually all higher institutions expressed op position However there remained on the committee calendar for hearing next Thursday a similar proposal which would permit graduate instruction in the three schools the College of Arts and Industries nnd one teachers col lege to be named by the board of regents The committee approved a to permit payment of stale apportion ment to school districts delinquent in their obligations to the perma nent school fund providing they show they have everything legally possible to service the debt GAINESVILLE ATTORNEY DIKS GAINESVILLE March 10 James Ralph Bell 54 attorney who died last night of pneumonia will be buried tomorrow afternoon Bell was prominent in the state fraternal Same Mistake As General Motors By The Associated Press THE Chrysler wage earners idle turned to the courts Wednesday while nego continued A circuit judge ordered strikers to answer Saturday to the corpora tions plea for an injunction to oust the from nine De troit plants Homer Martin president of the United Automobile Workers said the company was making the same mistake that other corpora tions have of oring to institute law by The action was similar to that taken by General Motors at Flint where strikers held plants in defiance of injunctions and ci for contempt of court Almost at the same time it was announced that final agreement on issues which remained after re sumption of work following the General Motors strike was tenta reached and probably would be formally announced today Strike Is Ended A sitdown strike of six hours duration ended at the St Louis General Motors Body plants when workers ed an agreement reached by plant managers nnd union leaders A new sitdown strike however threw employes into idleness at the Reo Motor Car plant at Lansing Mich Most of the workers remained in the plant and Lester Washburn president of the Lansing U A W A local said the strike was called because 15 men had been discharged for union ac and because of a general pay The steel watched im Turn to Page 11 Column 5 Mistaken Identity Hinted For B Bidenkap Nabbed Here Chances for clearing Bernhoff Bidenkap of charges of armed rob bery at Galveston Feb 12 were in early today when the Morn ing Avalanche advised by Po lice Chief Tony Messina of Galves ton the sailors detention and charge probably a casr of mistaken John G Churchill had sup ported the sailors contention he was in Lubbock when n seamens union hart been robbed of He showed documentary evi dence The Morning Avalanche in repeated messages over Associated Press facilities supported ihr sailors assertions after Mir evidence and Tuesday one of the witnesses to the robbery who had identified by fin and by photograph as the man might was not the suspected felon The man who had been removed from Lubbock Sunday wilt go before an examining body today A crowd ed docket his arraign ment Wednesday wurt Chief Mes sina Market Event Opens Today 43 Firms Here Merchants From West Texas And Eastern New Mexico To Gather Here This WeekEnd For Spring Buying Style Show Friday Three Floors Of Lubbock Hotel Are Packed With Merchan dise Merchants Ball Set For Friday Night Also FORTYTHREE wholesale mer chants representing manufac turing centers in Texas California Kansas Illinois Missouri and New York will display ladies wear millinery hosiery mens cloth ing and other general lines on the second third and fourth floors of the Lubbock hotel Doors to display rooms will be open to retail dealers of Lubbock and West Texas New Mexico at 8 oclock this morn ing As part of the Wholesale Clothing Market associa tions 14th semiannual market event to be held today through Sunday a style revue will be held in the east ballroom of the Lubbock hotel at 8 oclock the revue and numbers of a stags show to be presented between showings of merchandise will be a merchants ball Style Show Friday Night Two hundred and twenty reserva tions have been made by town retail merchants and their par ties for the style event Friday night Lubbock retailers and their buyers were invited by special messengers yesterday according to J H Brock director of the event Seating capac ity will be 350 Latest fashions in all departments of men and womens clothing will be on display for merchants and orders from retail merchants will be taken and delivered at the hotel during the next four days The event will give merchants of this section op to complete their prc buying To Model In the event Friday night selected and specially trained mannequins will model the fashions They have been given special instructions and have had several rehearsals with the assistance of Miss Marie Tyson pro model makeup artist and Turn to Page 11 Column 8 Please Alabama Goes Wet In Voting State Sweeps Its Bone Dry Statutes Aside In Election Wednesday On County Option System i By The BIRMINGHAM March Alabama swept its bone dry statutes aside today as its larger cities gave majorities for re peal in a county option election Twentyone of the states 67 coun ties gave repeal majorities in tabulations of the option elec tions Prohibition trailed in several others in which the vote was close Jefferson i Birmingham Mobile and Montgomery gave smashing re peal margins Votr To Tho statewide vote of boxes reported and every coun ty heard from stood For repeal 588 against Counties voting wet will have state stores for the legal sale of liquor thus became the 43rd state with legal liquor The states Turn to Page 11 Column 8 Please Court Reform To Prevent Constitutions Torture Is Urged By Attorney General May Be Freed TOM MOONEY Pardon For Mooney Voted In California Assembly Passes Resolution To Free Man It Pre Day But Senate May Kill It iBy The Associated Press SACRAMENTO March 10 Amid gallery cheers the California assembly today voted to pardon Thomas J Mooney convicted San Francisco Preparedness day parade bomber The resolution challenged in quarters as to its legality now goes to the predominantly Republi can senate where it apparently awaits a cooler reception than it received in the Democratic assemb ly Mrs Rena Mooney wife ot the aging labor leader who has served the past 20 years in San Quentin on a life sentence for murder was in the gallery which cheered Assem blyman Ritchie and T A Ma loney as they urged fellow members to vote the pardoning resolution Only Gardner Johnson of Berke and E V Lathan Alhambra voiced opposition both declared Ritchies proposal unconstitutional and quoted from opinions of Attor ney General Webb and Legislative Counsel Fred B wood stating the legislature did not possess the power to grant pardons Amelia Earhart Hopes To Take Off Monday On World Flight OAKLAND March 10 Amelia Earhart flew here to the starting point of her projected equa world flight today and said she hoped to set away on the adventure Monday Miss Earhart her Flying Laboratory here from Los Angeles for the planes second trip over that route today CUDDLES HER 21st JAMESTOWN N March 10 Mrs Bertha Cox Johnson cuddled her 21st baby today and remarked People ought to pay more atten tion to raising and not so much to making Mrs Johnson who was married when she was 17 is the wife of David Johnson an Akeley farmer She gave birth to her 21st a six pound girl in a hospital here yesterday Rural Electrification Program For Lubbock County Proposed In Session RURAL program which would supply and power and would appliances and allow better on the farm night was broached to a gath ering of the National chapter and repre of live oilier ha 558 ap had been contacted and that an eventual KOS of was envisioned The assemblage was informed preliminary looking toward a countywide program vo in at least 30 miles of line had got under way Wednesday after conferences with Ralph W Moore state Grange master and member of President national council With Moore were Harold W Gaulrapp organizer of the National Grange and Guy Travis of The three mm conferred day with A H of the division of agriculture at Texas Technological college and other members Dr Bradford Knapp Tech president H L Al len general manager of Texas Uti lities company Homer E Thomp son assistant county agent and with City Manager W U Rodgers Others in the conference included R L Burdette vocational ture teacher at Senior High school and Harry N Roberts an engineer A survey of the immediate ter around Lubbock haci been made it was announced showing approximately 800 within six or eight miles of Lubbock The plan Is for the high line and connections to be financed through federal funds from the rural elec administration The city and Texas Utilities company said they wished to cooperate Turn to Pan 11 Column Wheeler And Landis Debate Court Reform Two Men Famous As Liberals Take Opposite Views Last Night In Chicago Senator Flings Challenge To FDR The Associated Press CHICAGO March men famous as liberals Senator Wheeler DMont and James M Landis chairman of the Federal Securities commission hotly de bated President court legislation before the fourth annual Woman Congress here tonight Wheeler accused the president of preaching haste and hate to has ten the forging of a weapon which he said might be used by another fo extinguish 2 Issues Challenge He challenged Mr Roosevelt to submit instead any reasonable constitution pledging that members of congress would submerge their individual views and quickly approve it If the adminis tration wishes Wheeler added ratification by the states could be completed within a matter of months Landis contended that the pres ent Supreme court has set itself up as a standing athwart the path of social progress Only Constitutional Way The presidents proposal to name six new justices is the only consti way to meet the problem short of a constitutional amend ment he said Declaring that the child labor amendment has been kept out of the Constitution for years and that another amendment might face equal delay Landis de clared We dare not repeat the mistake of let the nation as he did after the Dred Scott de falter and fumble too long for its destiny We must if we can find a way to do Wheeler averted he would sac rifice party loyalty If necessary to Turn to Page 11 Column 5 Please Italians And Nazis Landing New Contingents Of Troops To Spain Are Reported Sent By Two Governments Germany Supplying Armaments iBy The Associated GIBRALTAR March 10 Three mystery steamers a reliable source said today landed new con of Italian troops at Cadiz Spain Saturday and Sunday The steamers this source said displayed neither names nor flag The Informant said more than soldiers landed from the ships From Algeciras came an firmed report that the German ship Deutschland landed a cargo there believed to include guns and ammu The German Graf Spec the warship Admiral Algeciras sta ted arrived there during t he after noon and joined the Deutschland and the German oiler Max Al brecht British naval authorities here said they were unable to obtain confir mation of another report that six Soviet submarines had arrived at Barcelona Tingley Asks For Ratification Of Extension Of River Compact SANTA FE N March 10 Governor Clyde Tingley in a special message to the legislature today asked ratification of an extension of the Rio Grande compact between Colorado Texas and New Mexico with the reservation the extension be contingent upon Texas dismissing or holding in abeyance its Supreme court action New Mexico over waters of that river RICHARDS ENTERS RACE LOCKHART March 10 Former Senator C F Richards an today he would seek the tenth congressional district teat left vacant at the death of James Buchanan recently P Swift Developments In Reform Battle Are Followed Senator Borah By The Associated Press WASHINGTON March 10 At torney General Cummings urg ed the Roosevelt court upon the senate judiciary committee to day as a means of preventing the constitution from being No sooner had Cummings spoken than there was a series of swift de From the ranks of his awn party from a senator still uncommitted on the court issue OMahoney of Wyoming came a posI that the Constitution be amended to re quire a t w o thirds vote of the Supreme court to date sr act of congress an op ponent of the administration pro posal to place six new justices on the Supreme court quickly assert ed that the Roosevelt taken in technical conjunction with statutes now in effect would come pretty near to abolishing the Has Senator Pittman ex pressed a view that the member ship of the court might well be increased to eleven and possibly fifteen to increase its effi ciency Senator Austin of Vermont member of the regular Republican faction of the opposition descend ed upon the attorney general with a series of belligerent questions that quickly produced a sharp spoken exchange And from several members of the committee came the contention that the possibility of 87 decisions by a Supreme court of 15 members suggested that the would leave us where we are That Happen That might Cummings replied if those men who were ap pointed as liberals turned out to be conservatives but I wouldnt ex any such The caucus room was jammed with spectators A score o senators in addition to committee members were present Cummings lolled in the witness chair chewing rum while a battery of camera bulbs fired away First he read a prepared state ment supporting and explaining the presidents proposal to appoint an judge for each judge over 70 who will not retire with a maximum increase f six m the Supreme court His argu ment followed closely that to Page 11 Column 6 Please Death Sentences Court AUSTIN March 10 court of criminal appeals upheld today four death sentences assessed in lower courts in three murder cases and a criminal assault conviction Luke Trammel of Brazoria county lost his final appeal when the court overruled his motion for rehearing in the shotgun slaying of Felix Smith Retrieve prison farm guard in an escape June 19 1936 It overruled a similar motion by Elmer Pruitt of Henderson county given death in the killing of Martha Jane German Sept 15 1934 who was slain in her home and her body after kerosene was poured on it Affirmed were death penalties as sessed C Matura upon conviction in Stonewall county for beating to death Rebecca Coursey of Haskell county May 6 1936 with a piece of harness and Earnest McCarty of Tarrant county for criminal upon Mrs Irma Grain March 10 1936 Bullet In Pipe Explodes But Youth Escapes Serious Injury PARIS March 10 sun powder in a smokers pipe is a hoary A 22 calibre bullet accidentally was fed into the pipe of Roy Mc Fadden 16 along with tobacco and the explosion came when he lit it The pipe was knocked to one side thumb ear and face were cut but not Buying Boosts Stocks Cotton Grain Upward Shares Take To Jump New York While Cotton Pots On Nearly A Bale Wheat Rises Limit In Chicago Widest In Years Prices Sent Upward To New Peaks As World Developments Create Broad Buying Range By Associated W YORK March wide buying on an intensive scale lifted a broad range of com prices to new peaks today in one of the widest advances in recent years In unison shares of companies expected to benefit from price ad vances shot up from SI to or more a share in a buying rush that carried forward other divisions of the stock market as well Cotton Leads Surge Cotton with a net advance in some futures of as much as 95 cents bale lead the upward surge with grains nonferrous metals rubber SEES GREATER CO HOtSTON March In W t Clarion of company thr worlds No 1 roller world will more colton in thin ettr be forr This It appears as tf consumption may he as much as Mr Clayton said to day his first day back In his office after a two months tour of America The cotton year Is 1 to July il he In consumption In the year of C world consumption climbed which then was an to Mr Clayton years later the consumption to The consumption figures are the spots in the world picture according to Mr coffee silk hides and cotton seed pil futures following sharply Silk sales set a new record on the New York commodity exchange with bales changing hands against the previous best figure of While prices have recently pointed upward the extensive movement of todays markets came as a to traders They said worldwide in recovery the armaments race the inflationary tendencies fol lowing currency depreciation abroad and speculative buying all hid played their part in the advance In all world markets grains soared to new highs for the season Europes Heavy Purchases Cause Wheat To Jump Up CHICAGO March 10 heavy purchases in the worlds markets and the possibility that United States may soon return to its traditional role as an nation caused R Turn to Page 11 Column 4 Search For Boy Is Ended Body Found GAINESVILLE March 10 Search for Frank Dew ey Story missing from home for 24 hours ended today with the finding of his body in Elm Creek three miles from here The lads father John Story found the body The father traced footprints along the streams banks and discovered the body caught in a drift Funeral services will be held to morrow The Story family came here re cently from Wichita Falls where the boys mother died recently t 11 i T Weather WEST TEXAS Generally fair cooler in the north portion Thurs day Friday generally fair cooler in north and east portion NEW MEXICO Fair Thursday and Friday little change in tem By Municipal Airport v i HT degrees NW 4 mph Clear visibility 14 de Day s minimum de MARCHl 7 9 JO 11 s ti 9
