Morning Avalanche (Newspaper) - May 18, 1937, Lubbock, Texas LETS BOOST BASEBALL IN LUBBOCK CLOTHIERS 1009 Broadway FIFTEENTH YEAR NO 141 II PAGES TEXAS TUESDAY MAT HEAKS ASSOCIATE Spanish Government Forms New Cabinet To Win War Conflict Is In Its 11th Month Of Fighting Sixth Ministry Of The War Is Formed Monday Labor Unionists Are Left Out By The Spanish civil war entered Its A eleventh month today with new cabinet guiding the govern ments destiny Dr Juan 48 short stocky physician and socialist Monday night succeeded in forming the sixth ministry of the war It replaces the cabinet of Fran Largo Caballero which re signed Saturday Left Out The new ministers were drawn from the popular front political par ties Anarchist labor unionists who had four posts in the last cabinet were left out The specific task of the new it to win the War activity continued to center the Basque seaport of Bil bao Drive Hard Insurgent the kinks out o their front pointed to ward the seaport and drove hard upon the triple Hue or trenches which form part of its last ring of defense fortifications Southeast of Bilbao they pushed to within 500 yards of Amorebieta 10 miles away from their ob and took positions to sain a truck highway connecting the two places Northwest of there they straigh tened their line which lies east of the Basque capital In Bilbao Itself President Juan Antonio appealed to Luis Catalan president for a quick offensive on the Catalan front In an effort to divert the insurgents from the north The Basque leader asked for such action within eight Com hi a published reply said the general staff of the eastern arm drafting plans to meet the re quest Government Bans Flight Mother Charged In Death Of Child Wounding Another By ThB WASHINGTON May 17 The United States government has Mocked a New York to air jrace organized by France to com the anniversary of A historic night Disclosing this today the state department issued the following explanation The government of thr United States deeply appreciative ot the generous and friendly motives which prompted the French gov to organize an air race from New York to Paris In com memoration of the tenth anni of Colonel crossing of the north Atlantic nt first agreed to assist in the arrange ments from such a rare Upon further study however the competent technical authorities In the United States considering the practical difficulties involved rame to the conclusion that the race would be of a hazardous na ture risk of needless loss of life and consequently might have an adverse effect on public con Turn to Page 9 Column 4 Please Condition Of Hal Grady Said About Same Early Today Condition of Hal B Grady Lub bock theater executive 111 in a local hospital was described early today as about the but with his attending physician still hopeful of his Grady manager of the Palace Lindsey and Texan theaters fell ill ten days ago when an infection followed an operation for the re moval of his tonsils Later a form of pneumonia set in and for the five days his condition has been called extremely The showman spent an easy Sun day night nnd Monday morning fairl his physician but Monday if his temperature suddenly mounted Last night however the temperature was reduced and he began easier By Press i i BROOKHAVEN N May Police found a solution to the picnic slaying of Helen Tiernan and the brutal assault on her brother Jimmy today in the tragic choice of their mother between love for her chil dren and infatuation for a suitor Twentyfour hours after the chil dren were found in a wooded area near this Long Island village Mew York police reported Mrs Helen Tiernan 28 an attractive blonde widow confessed to kill them both because the apartment in which they lived was too small to share with the man she loved Deputy Chief Inspector Francis K Kear who announced the confession said the mother at first asserted she and the children were attacked by HER LOVER VEST 11 In chirtt the Manhattan homicide that Mrs Tier nan tikt her In thr of her ttr Helen an the of her In thicket on Thin made at Kill after Mr nan bnn far ten wnn had held a Material with the woman whn et with made a fall denial a as they munched a box lunch in the woodlands 95 miles from New York City Then she told me she committed the acts because she was in love with a man but couldnt accomodate both him and the children in the small flat the family lived the inspector said After Manhattan police and Mrs Tiernan spent more than an hour in a visit of inspection to her West street apartment she was re turned to the police station and there was formally charged with homicide As 25 Years In an almost inaudible voice she gave her age as 25 years and said she was a dress machine operator The charge read that she committed homicide in that she stabbed her with an ax in the head then stabbing her in the neck with a knife and a pair of scissors inflicting wounds causing her death Several hundred neighbors gath ered around the building in which Mrs Tiernan lived during the visit here As detectives marie a path throush the crowd prisoner huddled her head deeper into the lapels of a blue coat and buried her face in her hands At Day Nursery Mrs Tiernan was seized as she went to a day nursery to report she had left her children with her brother in N J A short time later while Mrs Tiernan reciting her confession at the West street police station near where she lived police brought a man into the station Thr said he was George Christie and Harvey Morris of tlw Suffolk county district attorneys office said he admitted being the womans boy A Brookhaven High school pirl through the woods to her home stumbled over the dead girls body she ran for aid and scorching officers found Jimmy iTurn to Page 9 Column a Please Dean Shelby Dr Dan Moody And Mired Listed For Texas U Job fly The AUSTIN May of a permanent successor to Dr H V Benedict whose service as president of the University of Texas was by death last week may require many months Leo Haynes secretary said the board of regents would meet at May 31 at which time it was likely an acting president would be chosen Among those mentioned as possi ble successors were Dean T H Shelby Dr W B Bizzell president of the University of Oklahoma Dan Moody former governor and even Governor James V Allred NORMAN May 17 W B Bizzell president of the University of Oklahoma was re ported today to be under considera tion for the presidency of the Uni versity of Texas Austin E P Ledbetter Oklahoma City member of the O U board of regents said he had heard the pos of an appointment men but it was just talk so Dr declined to comment concerning the report Dr Bizzell regarded as an out standing scholar served as dent of the Texas A and M college before coming to Oklahoma and is a native Texan Pecos Man Drowned In Rescue Attempt PECOS May 17 today recovered body of Walter Slover 40 Pecos garage owner who drowned yesterday at lake while going to the rescue of his 12 yearold Slover ran a quarter of a mile rhed his clothing nnd jumped into the water his daughter called lor help while shr was from R sinking raft As ho reached the girl he yelled he had been with The childs mother and some boys who were fishing nearby res cued the girl tail Carriers Granted Relief rom LongShort Haul Ruling WASHINGTON May 17 interstate Commerce commission granted rail carriers relief today rom the long and short haul pro vision of the interstate commerce act by authorizing thr establish ment nf modified freight rates on rake and meal and cot hulls from Texas eulf ports o points in southwestern north central westcentral and mountain regions more than 150 miles rom Houston Tex ELEVEN SELECTED BRADY May 17 UP Eleven had been selected recess nf court today in the trial of Fred charged with murder in the death of his wife May Betty Parker former teacher CIO Prepares For Conflict With AFOL In Continuation Of Nations Labor Battle j By The Associated Press The Committee for Industrial Or prepared for contests in three great labor centers Monday The John L Lewis forces started their campaign among an estimated workers in the New York metropolitan with the pros of locking horns with the American of Labor At Pittsburgh the Workers Organizing commit tee rallied strength for an im portant election to determine whether it would be the sole bar paining agency for all the Jones and Lauphlin Steel corporations employes Regarded As Key To Plan The election set for Thursday under supervision of thr National Labor Relations board was regard ed ns the key to the plan of action against other large independent steel producers five of whom have been marked for early demands that the union be given contracts Another CIO group the fast grow ing United Automobile Workers of America prepared in Detroit to shift into high pear in its drive to enroll enough Ford Motor company em ployes to bring Henry Ford into the list of automobile makers who have recognized the union Consider Filing Rural education in Lubbock county The committee directing under the guiding hand of Superi the task mot last night to consider Joseph R Griggs took whether charges of intimidation another step forward last night when Ford would be filed with program formally dedicated thei the board because of cards bearing Fords ideas on labor unions which were distributed to employes yesterday Violence broke out in Hollywood when 30 members of two of the 11 striking movie craftsmen unions re turned to work An automobile was overturned fists flew and workers Peculiar Mishap Puts Man In Hospital ELMIRA N May 17 w George Billing took a peek at something behind him yester day and his head got stuck He walked for two blocks look ing backwards then bounded into the Sayre police station for help The astonished cops took him to a hospital Hospital physicians twisted his head back to normal and tapped it there They said a vertebrae had slipped Billings an auto transport driver of Buffalo is still in the hospital He did not say what he WHS looking at IIMIIIIIIIMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIItlllll School Units Dedicated a two new structures making up the Consolidated High school Located at Wolfforth community 9 miles southwest of Lubbock trie new high school is similar in style SAILS TAX speaking at at when the new plant for tilth school formally B Wil prominent com munity farmer a member of Ilir hU lo work or a small tat In he moner to be school or upkeep of and r rounds nil to poor In hU Williamson pointed out that a tax brint support or trom people who not pav school taxes He nol sfl out hf tai or lake the flare of them and construction to institutions opened iast fall at New Deal near Roosevelt in Acuff east of Lubbock has a student body of 145 and a faculty of five tinder thp supervision of E R Haskins who also oversees the grade schools in the districts making up thf consolidation They are Wolf forth Foster where there is no grade school at present and Carlisle Superintendent of in Parmer county and who is completing his second year in his present past master of cere monies which were in the Turn to Page a 8 cars were damaged Union leaders said workers who struck April 30 still were Members of the Progressive Min ers of America which grew from a to Page 9 Column Louisiana Chain Store Tax Law Is Held Valid Supreme Court Upholds Tex On Bigness Monday No Decision On Social Security w By The Associated Press May Supreme court upheld a tax on bigness today impressing its seal of constitutionality on a much disputed law of Huey Long period By decision it sustained that states tax on chain stores a graduated levy under which the larger chains pay a greater tax on each individual store than do thei less farflung competitors Security Case The verdict was one of nine an at todays session To the disappointment of a packed court room these did not include how ever a decision on the of the taxes imposed by the Social Security act for the support of its unemployment insurance and old age pension provisions Last of the important New Deal cases in the keeping of the court at this term these cases will be de either next Monday or on Tuesday June 1 the only remain ing opinion days before the court rises for the summer recess Upholds Tax Measure In the days only decision affect ing laws of the Roosevelt adminis tration the court divided g to 1 to uphold a provision of last years tax establishing procedure for persons seeking refunds of process ing paid under the old agri cultural adjustment act which was held unconstitutional in January 1936 Associate Justices Van Devanter and Stone for unannounced rea sons took no part m Uie chain store tax decision Of the seven who did Chief Justice Hughes and Associate Justices Brandeis Roberts and Cardozo voted that the law was valid while Associate Justices McReynolds Sutherland and Butler dissented Repeatedly denounced as a on bigness because the basis of the levy was the number of store units operated not only in Louisiana but throughout the country the to Page 9 Column 3 Texas Labor Is High Are To Spend Day At Buffalo Springs Approximately 200 Lubbock ichool seniors leave tlu it 8 oclock for Buffalo Springs on he annual Senior Taking their thr prepared itself to spend the day playing games mri in the recently West Texas pleasure resort Sponsors accompany ins R T C C K Witt Mrs Wright Ker M1 Lomax and Arkansas Is Awarded Crime Tourist ALBANY N May 17 Arkansas won tonight a battle lor the privilege of trying Lester Brockelhurst midwestern for murder New Yorks Governor Lehman announced following a conference in authorities from Illinois Texa mid Arkansas that he would sign extradition papers sending the youth to the latter state There Brockelhurst will face ma oi thr slaying of Victor Gates wealthy Lonoke county plantation owner Bernice 18 tirl fnend arrested with the youth wul no tried for being an accessory to the murder a crime fully as serious Mrs J A Cockrell Dies Here Monday After Weeks Illness Mrs J A 66 resident of i Lubbock 30 years died at her home at 606 Fourth street at oclock Monday afternoon after weeks illness Last rites will be read at 3 oclock afternoon at thr Cockrell resi with Liff Sanders Church of Christ elder officiating Burial wiil be in a Lubbock cemetery with San ders Funeral home in charge Besides her husband she is sur vived by five sons Willium Guy Herbert Lester and Jinnie all of and a daughter Mrs Fred Norton of By The TYLER May to the state federation of labors annual convention here today stood up In a body and took an oath of allegiance to the American Federa tion of Labor President W B Arnold of San Antonio who had announced that sympathizers would be un dated administered the oath There ivas no demonstration as the work arose and held their hands high n the air Oil Worker Unseated H D Scruggs a Henderson oil teld worker was the only dissent er He was unseated as a delegate of the Henderson central labor council and W M Matthews was seated in his stead More delegates were expected arrive tomorrow but Arnold said he did not believe any more supporters would attend Attorney General William Mc Cmv commented 011 the recent Wagner act decision of the Supreme court with these words When the old men unpacked themselves recently they did a good days He said labor had a to be pleased at their recent good adding that persons who opposed organized labor were Candidacies of A S McBride Turn to Page 9 Column 3 Mrs Jay W Moore Of Wilson Dies In Abilene Last Night Mrs Jay W Moore 27 of Wilson died unexpectedly oi a heart attack a oclock Monday night a tourist camp in Abilene according to Associated Press dispatches She had been R patient at a for About a month Her body is sent to Lubbock IM irain and is scheduled to arrive here about oclock this morn mc Sanders Funeral home Announcement of funeral arranse is pending arrival of her hus banri who indicated last night he would reach Lubbock early today Besides her husband she sur vived bv an Moore formerly Edith kfi about two years ago was a at the Lubbock tanum Lead Players In Worlds Greatest Romance The wedding dale was as his picture of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Warfield was taken in thr old world m Monts Wedding details were controversy on the other side of the channel course of Iroe love never dirt run Wedding Date Of Duke And The Woman I Love To Be Announced Today Duke And Wally To Be Wed In Dallas Show DALLAS May 17 ward of Windsor and Wallis Warfield are going to be mar ried for the benefit of visitors to the Pan American exposition fair officials announced today R L Vollman director of the dramatic spectacle Cavalcade of Uie said he had cast a couple in the production whose similarity in appearance to the Duke and his intended was In the resemblance was Almost he To enact the part of Mrs Vollman has engaged Mrs J T Johnson 01 Pampa Vollman said he was struck by the womans likeness to Mrs Warfield hp saw her walk ing down a Dallas street one day He introduced himself on the spot he reported and conferences she agreed to play the roll of the Dukes fiancee Joe Palmer member of thf Cavalcade cast will piny Edward Hes been tn the a year and we have wanted TO put him in a wedding scene but until ho saw Mrs Johnson we couldnt find a suitable Vollman said Death Strikes Three Times In Home Monday May 17 Death struck three rimes in the H T Burk home here tiday takine Siamese twin at birth and their mother some time later The twins were together at the chest hospital attaches said The attending physician said a Caesarian operation was necessary The mother the former Nel lie V Muckleroy was a sister of Mayor O of and a graduate of Stephen F Austin college here By Tht MONTS France May 17 The Duke of Windsor is ready to an tomorrow the date of his marriage to Wallis Herman L Rogers of New York spokesman for the exkine and Mrs said today The long awaited announcement will be made at p m a m It was expected thai Rogers also would where the wedding will be held and whether members of the British royal family will at tend perhaps the Dukes and Mrs plans for their honey moon His wish to have hi youngest brother the Duke of Kent a best man was said to have irked the ot Prime Minister Stan ley Baldwin which contended the royal family should not be repre sented at the wedding Kinc George VI is believed to be supporting nis brother viewpoint but from the London Express came a prediction that the monarch would no extend official recognition of the marriage because ot lural The London Sunday had I declared would make public j announcement of the Rain kepi the worlds most public couple within the Chateau cie Cancie today and the Duke post a polt match Committee Is To Vote Today On Proposal No Compromise Edict Of Administration Answered With Challenge Monday WASHINGTON May Senate foes of the Roosevelt court reorganization responded to the administrations no compromise edict with an answering challenge today Fourteen Democratic opponents of the held the first sizeable caucus of the con agreed that they too would oppose all amendments and fight the battle out on the lines laid down by the president Centered On Two Additions The would authorize the pre sident to appoint six new members to the Supreme court Compromise offers spurned by him generally have centered upon an increase of two A fifteenth senator who partici pated in todays Hatch of New Mexico himself the author of a compromise said as he left that while he would vote for his own amendment his ballot would be cast all others McCarran To Withdraw Among the fourteen others how ever feeling ran so strongly as the result of the announcement of the presidents attitude that Sen ator McCarran of Nevada an he would withdraw a com promise amendment that he had been urging for a month am not going to offer he faid Farley has said there will be no compromise and so there will be no Three of the senators who at tended the Moore of New Jersey Maloney of Connecticut and Bulow of South never have expressed themselves publicly against the They made no secret of their working with the opposition however In Doubt Not counting them 38 senators have announced themselves in op position while 30 have said publicly they would support the measure Twentyeight of Che senates 96 members have yet to announce their positions Todays meeting called by Sen ator Wheeler came on lic evn of the senate judiciary com vote on the a rote which observers agreed would send the to the senate with a re commendation that it be rejected Ten of the committees 18 mem bers are on record in opposition to the as it stands How many votes have you eot the in the senate itself Wheeler was asked following trie caucus At least so who stick with you and so down the line against i increase he answered Passes In Senate WASHINGTON May 17 4 The approved today the Bank to distribute amoni holders of participa ioti trust certificates in the liqui iRted cotton pool Thr sum profit of the loots operation Under rh the ot would dis burse thr money now n the treas iry dividing u equally among those cooperated in formation and of thr The measure now goes to the house Certificate holders of record May 1 would be paid ai rhe of a tale No payments would be per mitted after January 31 1938 Houston Mother And Baby Are Burned To Death In Home HOUSTON May 17 moth er and her baby Mrs Henry Get and Doris burned to death today when they were trapped by the flames which destroyed the Henry Gothic husband and fath er was at work it a grocery store where he is employee Plainview Child Is Crushed To Death Under A Heavy Gate PLAINVIEW May 17 Don Belk of J R Belk was found crushed to death beneath a heavy cate The stock pen apparently cave ile the child on a farm two miles north of here was at play near it Wea WEST TEXAS Partly cloud Tuesday and Wednesday NEW MEXICO Fair south un north portion Tuesday and Wednesday littie change in tem Airport fifi in 1 IS maximum dr ny minimum rr r 12 MAY 2 9 re j 10 n 11 s 12 19 13 20 ff I V 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